WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.360 --> 00:00:07.160 It's Nightside with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's news radio. 2 00:00:07.599 --> 00:00:10.640 Thanks Nicole. My name is Dan Ray, the host of Nightside. 3 00:00:10.759 --> 00:00:13.800 We are here every Monday through Friday night and Rob 4 00:00:13.800 --> 00:00:17.480 Brooks and I well, Rob is back at Broadcast Central 5 00:00:17.839 --> 00:00:23.519 in Medford in the actually in headquarters. I'm broadcasting remotely, 6 00:00:23.559 --> 00:00:27.480 but we will both be here at our appointed locations 7 00:00:27.559 --> 00:00:31.199 every day, every evening this week, and we have a 8 00:00:31.320 --> 00:00:35.079 very interesting program set up for you this week. We 9 00:00:35.119 --> 00:00:37.560 will I just want to mention to have the will 10 00:00:37.600 --> 00:00:41.200 carry the address of President Trump to Congress tomorrow. Hopefully 11 00:00:41.200 --> 00:00:44.520 we can talk about that stock market doubiculet. Today we 12 00:00:44.920 --> 00:00:48.799 will be talking with CPA Nightside, CPA Mark Misselback about 13 00:00:48.840 --> 00:00:52.759 your tax returns. And then on Thursday night at nine o'clock, 14 00:00:52.759 --> 00:00:56.560 we're talking with Diana Desaglia, the state auditor, about her 15 00:00:56.920 --> 00:00:59.679 quest to audit the state legislature. And at nine tonight 16 00:00:59.719 --> 00:01:02.399 we will talk with a member of the Boston Globe 17 00:01:02.479 --> 00:01:07.599 Editorial Board, Correine Hajah, and I think that's going to 18 00:01:07.640 --> 00:01:11.519 be a really interesting conversation. I'm convinced of it. As 19 00:01:11.560 --> 00:01:15.599 a matter of fact. A fascinating young woman from Milton, Massachusetts, 20 00:01:15.840 --> 00:01:19.000 Harvard graduate who in her young life, you're graduate from 21 00:01:19.040 --> 00:01:21.560 Harvid in the twenty twenty one, has accomplished so much 22 00:01:21.599 --> 00:01:25.599 and now is on the editorial board the Boston Globe 23 00:01:25.959 --> 00:01:30.200 as a conservative perspective, somewhat certainly a more conservative perspective. 24 00:01:30.200 --> 00:01:32.159 We'll get to all of that, but first we're going 25 00:01:32.200 --> 00:01:35.480 to start off with a renaissance man, if you will. 26 00:01:35.599 --> 00:01:39.680 Charles Farrell is my guest. Charles, Welcome to Nightside. Sir. 27 00:01:39.719 --> 00:01:40.120 How are you? 28 00:01:41.480 --> 00:01:43.640 I'm doing well, Dan, thank you for inviting me. 29 00:01:44.239 --> 00:01:47.319 I call you a renaissance man because I guess you 30 00:01:47.439 --> 00:01:52.239 are a professional piano player. You were a manager of boxers, 31 00:01:53.239 --> 00:01:57.879 including Mitch Green, who's a pretty well known heavyweight, and 32 00:01:58.719 --> 00:02:03.239 you were a former fighter for the MOB. I don't 33 00:02:03.239 --> 00:02:05.920 know what that means. And I guess you also did 34 00:02:05.920 --> 00:02:08.800 a little bit of time on the lamb, as we 35 00:02:08.840 --> 00:02:12.280 would say in Puerto Rico. You've done a little bit 36 00:02:12.319 --> 00:02:14.439 of everything. Charles, how are you to I welcome. 37 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:19.680 I'm doing very well, thank you, much much more stable 38 00:02:19.759 --> 00:02:22.280 than the conditions that you've just described. 39 00:02:22.879 --> 00:02:28.400 Okay, so you have sort of experienced a great many 40 00:02:28.520 --> 00:02:32.319 aspects of life, I would imagine, So let's talk about 41 00:02:33.000 --> 00:02:38.520 your status. Now you're a jazz pianist and you're going 42 00:02:38.599 --> 00:02:42.879 to appear locally, I believe a couple of times in 43 00:02:43.240 --> 00:02:45.800 the next uh in the not too distant future. Let's 44 00:02:45.879 --> 00:02:49.199 let's talk about those appearances. Then I want to ask 45 00:02:49.240 --> 00:02:50.840 you some questions about the book. 46 00:02:51.039 --> 00:02:56.039 Go right ahead, great, Well, We my friend Russ Lawson, 47 00:02:56.120 --> 00:02:59.240 who's a fellow pianist, and I are playing a duet 48 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:06.120 in March eighth at the Portland Conservatory of Music. Starts 49 00:03:06.159 --> 00:03:09.919 at seven o'clock I'm sorry, seven point thirty, and it's 50 00:03:09.960 --> 00:03:14.840 a totally improvised program. And the next evening, next afternoon, 51 00:03:14.879 --> 00:03:21.000 actually Sunday, March ninth, we're playing another concert with guests 52 00:03:21.680 --> 00:03:26.680 Jenny Tang, who is a magnificent classical pianist, the writer 53 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:31.759 James Parker, and a drummer named David Moore, fine drummer 54 00:03:31.960 --> 00:03:36.960 at the Fraser Performance Studio at three o'clock on Sunday 55 00:03:37.000 --> 00:03:40.560 than ninth. And that's a much more ambitious program. We're 56 00:03:40.599 --> 00:03:43.919 doing fairly indescribable music. 57 00:03:44.680 --> 00:03:46.759 Okay, well we won't try to describe it that if 58 00:03:46.800 --> 00:03:49.159 it's indescribable. And you got a book signing event coming 59 00:03:49.240 --> 00:03:52.319 up also as well, we can talk about that in 60 00:03:52.360 --> 00:03:56.879 a moment. So how did you become a world class pianist? 61 00:03:57.599 --> 00:03:59.919 It sounds to me like your prior career is involved 62 00:04:00.479 --> 00:04:04.000 working for the mob and as a boxing manager. Those 63 00:04:04.840 --> 00:04:09.879 You wouldn't assume people would necessarily become pianists with a 64 00:04:09.960 --> 00:04:10.759 background like that. 65 00:04:12.280 --> 00:04:17.000 Well, it's actually the reverse of that. Playing piano was 66 00:04:17.079 --> 00:04:21.480 something I've done since I was three, so seventy years now, 67 00:04:22.439 --> 00:04:27.319 and it's inherited. My mother was a professional vocalist, her 68 00:04:27.360 --> 00:04:30.720 father was a professional pianist, his father was a professional 69 00:04:30.759 --> 00:04:35.240 vocust etc. So it was handed to me. So I 70 00:04:35.279 --> 00:04:37.759 started doing that for a living when I was about twelve, 71 00:04:40.120 --> 00:04:43.680 and it was an interesting way to make a living, 72 00:04:44.120 --> 00:04:50.199 but it wound up connecting me strangely enough to the mob, 73 00:04:51.079 --> 00:04:55.240 because you could play jazz for a living and not 74 00:04:55.639 --> 00:04:58.720 make very much money, or you could play mob clubs 75 00:04:58.920 --> 00:05:02.399 and make a lot of money. And I opted to 76 00:05:02.399 --> 00:05:05.639 make the money. So I wondered, that's how I that's 77 00:05:05.639 --> 00:05:06.600 how I got started. 78 00:05:06.759 --> 00:05:09.399 What were some of the clubs that you could assuming 79 00:05:09.680 --> 00:05:11.480 What were some of the clubs that you played at 80 00:05:11.519 --> 00:05:13.040 that you made some decent money. 81 00:05:14.600 --> 00:05:17.720 Well, the best one actually was a very very legitimate club. 82 00:05:18.120 --> 00:05:24.160 I was the musical director of the Charles Playhouse in Boston. Yeah, 83 00:05:24.439 --> 00:05:26.839 which was a wonderful job. I got to, you know, 84 00:05:26.959 --> 00:05:30.079 work with people who would just drop in, which was 85 00:05:30.079 --> 00:05:33.879 a great experience. You know. Zero Mostelle, for example, used 86 00:05:33.920 --> 00:05:38.519 to come by all the time, right, and you'd never 87 00:05:38.680 --> 00:05:40.439 know what he would do, so you had to be 88 00:05:40.480 --> 00:05:45.279 on your toes. But I played clubs like the English 89 00:05:45.279 --> 00:05:49.680 Social Room in Lawrence and Paula's Lounge and Peabody and 90 00:05:49.720 --> 00:05:54.800 the Firebarn and Chelsea and these are all these were 91 00:05:54.839 --> 00:05:55.720 all mobbed. 92 00:05:55.439 --> 00:05:58.319 Up clubs and so so I assume they're all out 93 00:05:58.360 --> 00:05:59.079 of business at. 94 00:05:58.959 --> 00:06:03.480 This point, I hope. So what I just said was 95 00:06:03.920 --> 00:06:07.040 an an imprudent thing to do. Yeah, I figure all 96 00:06:07.079 --> 00:06:07.399 out of this. 97 00:06:07.879 --> 00:06:09.959 Yeah, no, I understand that. And that would have been 98 00:06:09.959 --> 00:06:13.079 what seventies, eighties, what's the timeframe on. 99 00:06:13.040 --> 00:06:18.399 The That would have started actually in the sixties, in 100 00:06:18.439 --> 00:06:20.879 the mid I started working in the mid sixties and 101 00:06:20.959 --> 00:06:26.759 I stopped playing in nineteen seventy nine. I was doing 102 00:06:26.800 --> 00:06:30.079 a regular gig at a club in Boston called Lulu's 103 00:06:30.519 --> 00:06:31.199 Lulu Whites. 104 00:06:31.800 --> 00:06:33.519 Yeah, heard of that. 105 00:06:33.959 --> 00:06:34.160 Great. 106 00:06:34.600 --> 00:06:36.680 So then how'd you get how'd you get into boxing? 107 00:06:36.720 --> 00:06:39.160 Because I've got a couple of minutes left and I 108 00:06:39.439 --> 00:06:43.600 want to touch upon your book about Mitch Blood Green. 109 00:06:43.680 --> 00:06:45.800 I mean, he was he's a heavyweight contender. 110 00:06:47.079 --> 00:06:51.199 He was a heavyweight contender, very interesting guy. You know, 111 00:06:51.240 --> 00:06:53.879 he fought Mike Tyson. He's the first person to go 112 00:06:54.279 --> 00:06:57.079 the distance with Tyson without being off as his feet, 113 00:06:57.720 --> 00:07:00.839 and he was. He was a very very complex guy. 114 00:07:00.839 --> 00:07:05.680 He was a gang leader as a kid, and a 115 00:07:05.879 --> 00:07:12.279 very tough guy and a weirdly principled guy where at 116 00:07:12.279 --> 00:07:18.879 one point, in a really roundabout way, I was offered 117 00:07:19.480 --> 00:07:22.439 a million dollars for him to fight Mike Tyson again, 118 00:07:23.680 --> 00:07:26.560 and he wouldn't take the fight. I couldn't convince him 119 00:07:26.800 --> 00:07:28.879 to take the fight because. 120 00:07:28.560 --> 00:07:30.639 Because he was afraid, not because he was afraid. 121 00:07:30.720 --> 00:07:31.199 I saw him. 122 00:07:31.240 --> 00:07:34.160 Was a principal guy. Yeah. 123 00:07:34.439 --> 00:07:37.480 He The question he asked me is how much is 124 00:07:37.560 --> 00:07:40.800 Mike making? And I said, well, you know, I said 125 00:07:40.839 --> 00:07:43.399 the thing that the thing you should say, which is 126 00:07:43.480 --> 00:07:48.040 I don't know. And he more than more than me, 127 00:07:48.480 --> 00:07:50.519 well a little more than you know. Of course, heisen 128 00:07:50.600 --> 00:07:54.120 was making about twenty four million dollars. But there was 129 00:07:54.240 --> 00:07:57.120 nothing I could do to induce Mitch Green to take 130 00:07:57.160 --> 00:08:00.160 that fight because, as he put it, he didn't want 131 00:08:00.199 --> 00:08:03.920 to do anything to build up Tyson's reputation. 132 00:08:05.120 --> 00:08:10.439 Interesting. Interesting, Okay, let's is Mitch Green still alive? 133 00:08:11.720 --> 00:08:14.759 Mits Green is coming to the book signing on excellent? 134 00:08:14.800 --> 00:08:16.800 Well, that's what I thought. I wanted to make sure 135 00:08:16.839 --> 00:08:19.439 of that. So the book signing gets us exactly where 136 00:08:19.480 --> 00:08:21.079 we want to be. We're at the finish line here. 137 00:08:21.240 --> 00:08:24.680 The book signing is in Brookline at the Brookline booksmith 138 00:08:24.720 --> 00:08:25.240 When is that? 139 00:08:26.560 --> 00:08:29.759 That was on March thirtieth at seven pm. 140 00:08:30.160 --> 00:08:33.399 Okay, Well that's the one we want people to mark 141 00:08:33.440 --> 00:08:37.200 on their calendar. They can come meet you, buy a book, 142 00:08:37.240 --> 00:08:40.279 I assume, get an autographed by you and maybe Mitch Green, 143 00:08:40.360 --> 00:08:42.440 and that would be That would be the sort of 144 00:08:42.440 --> 00:08:44.799 thing I would be really interested in, to be honest 145 00:08:44.840 --> 00:08:48.200 with you, because that's a fascinating aspect of your life 146 00:08:48.240 --> 00:08:51.200 that I want to learn more about. Charles. I really 147 00:08:51.240 --> 00:08:58.320 appreciate you taking the time. We talked about the musical background, 148 00:08:58.960 --> 00:09:02.039 and we touched stone working with the Mob, But I 149 00:09:02.039 --> 00:09:03.720 think that's as far as we're going to go on 150 00:09:03.759 --> 00:09:09.120 that one. Okay, at least for tonight's Thanks Charles. 151 00:09:09.639 --> 00:09:11.759 Yeah, thanks so much. I really appreciate it. 152 00:09:12.320 --> 00:09:15.279 My pleasure, my pleasure, Thank you very much. Charles Farrell 153 00:09:15.360 --> 00:09:18.879 at the Brookline Booksmith coming soon. Check it out. Should 154 00:09:18.879 --> 00:09:21.039 be fun. When we come back, we're going to go 155 00:09:21.159 --> 00:09:26.639 from boxing and mob activity and classic piano. We're going 156 00:09:26.679 --> 00:09:29.759 to talk about the second annual Postcard Show coming up 157 00:09:29.759 --> 00:09:33.399 this weekend at the Spell Museum of Stamps and Postal History, 158 00:09:33.759 --> 00:09:36.000 and we'll be talking with Kathy Albert. She's the founder 159 00:09:36.000 --> 00:09:39.799 of the New England Postcard Club. Right after this. By 160 00:09:39.840 --> 00:09:43.080 the way, if you haven't gotten your new and improved 161 00:09:43.200 --> 00:09:47.639 iHeart app, do it. I've had it for some time 162 00:09:48.440 --> 00:09:52.480 and today it was so easy to make WBZ my presets. 163 00:09:52.480 --> 00:09:54.159 So every time I go to that app, I'm going 164 00:09:54.240 --> 00:09:57.080 to be listening to WBZ Radio. Now. Of course I 165 00:09:57.080 --> 00:09:59.159 can't listen to it while I'm doing Night's Ide, but 166 00:09:59.240 --> 00:10:02.039 you folks ken so get the iHeart app and put 167 00:10:02.080 --> 00:10:05.840 it in on WBZ and you can listen on your 168 00:10:05.919 --> 00:10:09.559 wherever you are in the car, at home, whatever. It's 169 00:10:09.559 --> 00:10:12.960 it's great, it's easy, and it's it's fun. You're keeping 170 00:10:12.960 --> 00:10:15.399 in contact with WVZ three hundred and sixty five days 171 00:10:15.440 --> 00:10:17.799 a year, twenty four to seven. My name is Dan Ray. 172 00:10:17.840 --> 00:10:19.919 We'll be right back here on Nightside to talk with 173 00:10:20.039 --> 00:10:22.519 Kathy Albert about postcards. 174 00:10:23.559 --> 00:10:26.759 Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World 175 00:10:26.840 --> 00:10:31.440 Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio. 176 00:10:32.000 --> 00:10:36.240 We have had my next guest, Kathy Albert, on a 177 00:10:36.360 --> 00:10:39.600 couple of times here on Nightside, and we generally do 178 00:10:39.720 --> 00:10:44.000 it around their annual Postcard Show, which is this Sunday, 179 00:10:44.159 --> 00:10:50.000 March ninth, out at the Spellman Museum of Stamps and 180 00:10:50.080 --> 00:10:54.240 Postal History, which is a beautiful facility on the campus 181 00:10:54.279 --> 00:10:58.519 of Regis College, which I think is technically in Weston. Kathy, 182 00:10:58.600 --> 00:11:00.120 welcome back to Nightside. 183 00:11:00.960 --> 00:11:03.320 Well, thanks for having me. Dan, great to be here. 184 00:11:03.679 --> 00:11:05.879 Yeah, we're going to talk a little bit about postcards. 185 00:11:06.559 --> 00:11:09.600 I was intrigued by this about a year or so 186 00:11:10.039 --> 00:11:13.759 when we first met one another. I actually went out 187 00:11:13.759 --> 00:11:17.600 there and met you. There's a lot of people here 188 00:11:17.600 --> 00:11:23.360 in New England who love collecting and trading and I 189 00:11:23.399 --> 00:11:27.720 guess in some cases selling or buying postcards. I never 190 00:11:27.799 --> 00:11:31.720 realized the extent of the interest in this hobby. 191 00:11:32.679 --> 00:11:37.000 It's pretty wide ranging. So many different kinds of people 192 00:11:37.039 --> 00:11:40.240 collect postcards and for so many different reasons. When I 193 00:11:40.279 --> 00:11:43.120 started collecting them, they were just because they were beautiful 194 00:11:43.159 --> 00:11:45.840 or unusual. But over the years I discovered they have 195 00:11:46.039 --> 00:11:50.559 historic values, and that's why I'm interested in them now. 196 00:11:50.919 --> 00:11:52.799 But there are plenty of people that just like to 197 00:11:52.840 --> 00:11:55.960 collect pictures of their high school or the main street 198 00:11:56.320 --> 00:11:59.360 home down when they were growing up, or they're interested 199 00:11:59.399 --> 00:12:02.879 in ships or classic cars, or you know, certain type 200 00:12:02.879 --> 00:12:05.320 of animals that they care about. 201 00:12:05.480 --> 00:12:10.600 You know. Well, well, postcards are a relatively you know phenomenon. 202 00:12:10.720 --> 00:12:14.759 I mean, they haven't been around since a twelve hundred. 203 00:12:15.200 --> 00:12:21.600 They sort of arrived sometime, if I recall correctly, sometime 204 00:12:21.679 --> 00:12:25.320 in the late eighteen eighties. Is that when they sort 205 00:12:25.320 --> 00:12:27.559 of began to bubble up in different places. 206 00:12:27.679 --> 00:12:30.759 Yes, in Europe they did, but in the United States, 207 00:12:30.799 --> 00:12:33.679 it wasn't possible to send a postcard with a picture 208 00:12:33.720 --> 00:12:36.000 on the back of it through the mail until nineteen 209 00:12:36.000 --> 00:12:38.200 oh one. And at that point you could take the 210 00:12:38.279 --> 00:12:41.039 penny postcard. It all post It only cost a penny. 211 00:12:41.120 --> 00:12:45.720 Oh yeah, I remember. I think there wasn't much more 212 00:12:45.759 --> 00:12:48.360 than that when I was a kid, which was well 213 00:12:48.360 --> 00:12:58.240 after nineteen oh one. I mean, what, you're still there, Kathy, 214 00:12:58.720 --> 00:13:02.240 I'm here, good, okay. So my question to you is, 215 00:13:02.960 --> 00:13:05.799 we're baby boomers. I think we would both agree. So 216 00:13:06.000 --> 00:13:09.399 when we were kids, what it cost two cents to 217 00:13:09.399 --> 00:13:10.200 mail a postcard? 218 00:13:11.759 --> 00:13:14.200 I remember those purple stamps. I think they were two 219 00:13:14.240 --> 00:13:16.120 or three cents. Yeah, a long time ago. 220 00:13:16.879 --> 00:13:21.919 And so some people have kept postcards, some people had 221 00:13:21.960 --> 00:13:27.759 discarded them. Is there a financial aspect to postcards like 222 00:13:27.799 --> 00:13:31.399 there are to your baseball card collection? Or is more? 223 00:13:31.799 --> 00:13:36.559 Is postcards almost more of a pure hobby in that? Yeah, 224 00:13:36.559 --> 00:13:38.960 there may be some value to postcards, but it's much 225 00:13:38.960 --> 00:13:43.000 more the intrinsic value the photograph of the town where 226 00:13:43.039 --> 00:13:45.320 you grew up or the high school that you graduated from, 227 00:13:45.360 --> 00:13:48.279 which is long now been knocked down. Tell us it's 228 00:13:48.320 --> 00:13:51.320 the intrinsic It's not like they're trading postcards for one 229 00:13:51.320 --> 00:13:52.440 thousand dollars apiece. 230 00:13:52.559 --> 00:13:56.039 Right, Well, there are postcards that have a lot of value. 231 00:13:56.039 --> 00:13:59.360 You could find a postcard. In fact, I found a 232 00:13:59.480 --> 00:14:06.320 Christmas Chris postcard that Roddy McDowell went to Patrician Neil 233 00:14:06.559 --> 00:14:12.639 and her husband her name, he was anyway, somebody famous, 234 00:14:12.919 --> 00:14:15.000 and it was a very cute card, had a picture 235 00:14:15.000 --> 00:14:17.960 of him with a rabbit on the back. And that 236 00:14:17.960 --> 00:14:19.919 that's got to be worth money. I mean, anything that 237 00:14:19.960 --> 00:14:21.799 had How did you. 238 00:14:21.720 --> 00:14:25.519 Come across a postcard that Ruddy McDowell had sent to 239 00:14:25.840 --> 00:14:28.440 Patrician Neil and her husband, I mean, was that they 240 00:14:28.480 --> 00:14:31.799 must have someone's estate, must have been sold or so 241 00:14:31.879 --> 00:14:34.879 about how is that postcard that's a real personal postcard. 242 00:14:35.720 --> 00:14:37.799 I went to postcard Stars in New York City, and 243 00:14:37.840 --> 00:14:39.919 New York City you tend to find a lot more 244 00:14:40.080 --> 00:14:43.000 really wild stuff like that, because you know, people send 245 00:14:43.159 --> 00:14:45.600 that they lived there, and they sent postcards back and forth. 246 00:14:45.960 --> 00:14:49.480 And yeah, I mean I found a postcard that was 247 00:14:49.480 --> 00:14:51.759 sent by Paul McCarty to a Ringo Start. Not that 248 00:14:51.840 --> 00:14:53.840 I didn't find the actual postcard, but I found a 249 00:14:53.879 --> 00:14:57.120 scan of it online. So famous people were sending each 250 00:14:57.120 --> 00:15:00.200 other postcards. It's a matter of signing them. 251 00:15:00.360 --> 00:15:03.840 Okay, So let's assume you had the Paul McCartney to 252 00:15:03.879 --> 00:15:08.679 Ringo Star a postcard. Realistically, if you had it physically 253 00:15:08.720 --> 00:15:11.039 in your hand, what do you think that would be worth? 254 00:15:11.080 --> 00:15:12.720 That would be worth quite a bit. 255 00:15:12.600 --> 00:15:16.360 Of money, I would ask. Julian's Auction, which is an 256 00:15:16.399 --> 00:15:20.240 auction house on LA that handles all kind of celebrity 257 00:15:20.279 --> 00:15:23.159 related items. I don't know, but I do think the 258 00:15:23.240 --> 00:15:25.919 other thing that's worth a lot of money. Is if 259 00:15:25.960 --> 00:15:32.080 you had, say something by Alphonse Muka or Apasso or 260 00:15:32.639 --> 00:15:36.639 some famous artist the loose Wook Trek. If you found 261 00:15:36.639 --> 00:15:39.799 they've all done postcards. If you could find one of 262 00:15:39.840 --> 00:15:42.080 their postcards, that would probably be worth a lot of money. 263 00:15:42.240 --> 00:15:47.000 I mean the postcards that they would have sent to someone, 264 00:15:47.360 --> 00:15:50.960 or postcards on which was an art, a piece of 265 00:15:51.120 --> 00:15:55.679 art that they created that was replicated on the postcard. 266 00:15:56.600 --> 00:15:57.159 That's correct. 267 00:15:57.360 --> 00:16:00.440 Yes, let okay, I would bet you the And I 268 00:16:00.559 --> 00:16:03.039 know nothing about the value postcards, but I would bet 269 00:16:03.039 --> 00:16:07.039 you that if there really is the postcard, if you 270 00:16:07.120 --> 00:16:10.480 had the postcard, I would bet you a McCarthy Paul 271 00:16:10.559 --> 00:16:15.120 McCartney to Ringo Starr postcard. I mean, not knowing at 272 00:16:15.159 --> 00:16:17.679 all what was on it or what was involved in it. 273 00:16:17.759 --> 00:16:20.320 If it was, hey, we're going to meet for you know, 274 00:16:21.240 --> 00:16:26.120 you know, a rehearsal next Saturday. Be there, that that 275 00:16:26.320 --> 00:16:30.759 postcard would be worth I'm guessing fifty sixty eighty one 276 00:16:30.799 --> 00:16:34.320 hundred thousand dollars. How do you quantify the value of that. 277 00:16:34.320 --> 00:16:38.039 That would be the message on that postcard, like you 278 00:16:38.200 --> 00:16:40.480 are the greatest drummer in the world. That was the 279 00:16:40.519 --> 00:16:41.720 message on the postcard. 280 00:16:42.159 --> 00:16:44.919 Well guess what, then the price just went up Because 281 00:16:44.919 --> 00:16:47.120 if you got Paul McCartney call him Ringo Star, the 282 00:16:47.120 --> 00:16:50.720 greatest rummer in the world, on a postcard, it's authenticated 283 00:16:50.759 --> 00:16:54.759 and all of that. I think it's priceless in many respects. Okay, 284 00:16:54.799 --> 00:16:57.519 let's talk about let us talk real quickly. You have 285 00:16:57.720 --> 00:17:00.679 a club meeting on Wednesday. Tell us where that is? 286 00:17:00.679 --> 00:17:02.759 If is that open to the public or no? Is 287 00:17:02.759 --> 00:17:04.480 that your your leadership meeting? 288 00:17:05.480 --> 00:17:08.000 That has nothing to do with the postcard show. That 289 00:17:08.119 --> 00:17:10.599 is the West End Museum has invited me to give 290 00:17:11.000 --> 00:17:14.839 a presentation on postcards of the West End, you know 291 00:17:14.880 --> 00:17:15.920 before it was demolished. 292 00:17:16.039 --> 00:17:18.279 I have a lot of sore where you're giving. That's 293 00:17:18.279 --> 00:17:20.759 a March fifth at six o'clock? Where is it? Because 294 00:17:20.799 --> 00:17:22.519 I want to get that in and I then want 295 00:17:22.559 --> 00:17:26.519 to plug the event on Sunday. Where's the March fifth? Uh, 296 00:17:26.559 --> 00:17:28.839 you know meeting in the in the west End or whereabouts. 297 00:17:29.000 --> 00:17:32.519 That's o'clock on at the West End Museum at one 298 00:17:32.599 --> 00:17:36.880 fifty Stanford Street. 299 00:17:35.599 --> 00:17:39.079 Stanford, Yep, standffd's a good size street, very well easy 300 00:17:39.079 --> 00:17:44.000 to find. And then the event on Sunday, which again 301 00:17:44.119 --> 00:17:47.799 is out at the Spellman Museum of Stamps and Postal History. 302 00:17:48.160 --> 00:17:51.119 Lot of parking, easy to get to, right off of 303 00:17:51.160 --> 00:17:54.160 one eight on the campus of Regis College. Tell us 304 00:17:55.039 --> 00:17:58.640 exactly where that that? What time is that on Sunday? 305 00:18:00.119 --> 00:18:03.039 Up to ten o'clock and we've got we've got nineteen 306 00:18:03.079 --> 00:18:06.839 postcard dealers coming from every New England state and New York. 307 00:18:06.920 --> 00:18:08.960 Weld on with Cathy, hold up once again, how much time? 308 00:18:09.039 --> 00:18:13.039 Rob Okay, perfect, We got less than a minute left. 309 00:18:13.039 --> 00:18:13.799 You go right ahead. 310 00:18:15.440 --> 00:18:18.799 Just really it's really exciting and fun, and come in 311 00:18:18.880 --> 00:18:21.440 and bring your postcards. If you have postcards you have 312 00:18:21.519 --> 00:18:24.359 questions about, You'll be happy to answer them. We're just 313 00:18:24.400 --> 00:18:28.160 really excited to bring postcards into the limelight where they 314 00:18:28.200 --> 00:18:30.359 belong like they were in the Golden Asia postcards one 315 00:18:30.400 --> 00:18:31.160 hundred years ago. 316 00:18:31.559 --> 00:18:34.920 Okay, Now, in case they missed that, I mentioned again, 317 00:18:35.000 --> 00:18:36.359 what time is it on Sunday? 318 00:18:37.519 --> 00:18:39.839 It starts at ten and it goes until three o'clock. 319 00:18:40.319 --> 00:18:45.000 Okay, ten to three at the Spellman Museum, the Spellman 320 00:18:45.519 --> 00:18:49.079 Museum on the campus of Reaches College, and they can 321 00:18:49.119 --> 00:18:51.720 get that information. Do you have a website we can 322 00:18:51.759 --> 00:18:52.880 mention real quickly. 323 00:18:53.720 --> 00:18:56.640 We have a Facebook page. The New England Postcard Club 324 00:18:56.720 --> 00:18:58.079 has its own Facebook group. 325 00:18:58.160 --> 00:19:01.119 Now, okay, Kathy, that's it because we got to get 326 00:19:01.119 --> 00:19:04.640 a CBS special news special worker. You're very welcome, Kathy. 327 00:19:04.680 --> 00:19:07.759 Have fun on Sunday and good luck on Wednesday. Here 328 00:19:07.799 --> 00:19:10.759 comes a special CBS News report. 329 00:19:11.720 --> 00:19:17.079 Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm Boston's news Radio. 330 00:19:17.880 --> 00:19:20.359 Will let anyone who's been to a store lately knows 331 00:19:20.359 --> 00:19:25.240 that the price of eggs are on the They're kind 332 00:19:25.240 --> 00:19:27.559 of going through the roof in some places. They're pretty expenser. 333 00:19:27.640 --> 00:19:32.279 Around here with us is Brian Templeton. Brian is an 334 00:19:32.319 --> 00:19:40.039 actual farmer and co owner of Templeton Family or Gaunt Organics. Brian, 335 00:19:40.160 --> 00:19:41.519 Welcome to Nightside. How are you. 336 00:19:43.319 --> 00:19:46.480 I'm doing just great, Thanks for having me welcome. 337 00:19:46.559 --> 00:19:49.720 You have a program called Rent a Chicken program or 338 00:19:49.799 --> 00:19:53.559 Rent the Chicken program. How I think I got an 339 00:19:53.559 --> 00:19:56.160 idea what this is, but I want to know when 340 00:19:56.200 --> 00:19:58.279 did you start this program? How long ago? 341 00:20:00.119 --> 00:20:02.920 Well, first of all, I have to clarify, it's definitely 342 00:20:02.960 --> 00:20:04.359 rent the chicken. 343 00:20:04.839 --> 00:20:08.000 Rent the chicken. Okay, well, thank you very much. Rent 344 00:20:08.079 --> 00:20:11.279 the chicken. What's the difference between rent the chicken or 345 00:20:11.319 --> 00:20:12.279 rent the chicken? 346 00:20:13.599 --> 00:20:15.880 Well, I don't know what rented chicken is, but rent 347 00:20:15.880 --> 00:20:17.759 the Chicken dot Com is where you want to go 348 00:20:17.799 --> 00:20:19.599 if you want to rent birds from us. 349 00:20:19.799 --> 00:20:23.200 Okay, well that's fine. I always like to be accurate, 350 00:20:23.319 --> 00:20:28.119 that's for sure. But you're renting the chicken. How do 351 00:20:28.200 --> 00:20:30.039 you rent the chicken? Bryan? 352 00:20:31.240 --> 00:20:36.640 So we started off in twenty sixteen. We got a 353 00:20:36.640 --> 00:20:39.240 little farm up here in gost Town, New Hampshire, and 354 00:20:41.079 --> 00:20:44.519 basically how it works is we have a small coop. 355 00:20:44.599 --> 00:20:48.559 It's kind of shaped like a barn, and you can 356 00:20:48.599 --> 00:20:51.359 rent it with either two or four chickens in it. 357 00:20:52.200 --> 00:20:55.079 I throw my coops up on a flatbed truck and 358 00:20:55.119 --> 00:20:57.359 I drive around in the spring and I drop off 359 00:20:57.400 --> 00:21:03.519 the coops. We fried enough to last from say, early 360 00:21:03.640 --> 00:21:09.400 May to late October, and I drop off the birds 361 00:21:09.400 --> 00:21:12.440 the coop, the feeds, some little treats and some other 362 00:21:12.519 --> 00:21:15.039 little things that go along with it. And people just 363 00:21:15.200 --> 00:21:18.680 enjoy having the experience of having chickens in their backyard. 364 00:21:19.359 --> 00:21:21.920 And of course, yeah, you get some eggs with a bonus. 365 00:21:22.400 --> 00:21:25.480 Yeah. So let me ask you this. What I assumed 366 00:21:25.599 --> 00:21:29.240 that that if somebody wanted you you could rent. Is 367 00:21:29.279 --> 00:21:31.880 it a minimum of four or is it? What was 368 00:21:31.920 --> 00:21:33.240 the number of chickens you could. 369 00:21:33.039 --> 00:21:37.000 Rent it was either two or four. 370 00:21:37.519 --> 00:21:40.160 Okay, that way that chickens have some companionship. 371 00:21:41.559 --> 00:21:43.599 Yes, yeah, you are going to have at least two. 372 00:21:44.480 --> 00:21:47.920 Yeah, gotcha. Now do you have to make sure when 373 00:21:47.920 --> 00:21:50.680 you drop your chickens off? And I'm gonna ask some 374 00:21:50.759 --> 00:21:53.000 dumb questions here, but I get paid money to ask 375 00:21:53.079 --> 00:21:55.119 dumb questions, so, you know, just like you get paid 376 00:21:55.160 --> 00:21:59.640 money to rent the chickens. My question is, do you 377 00:21:59.720 --> 00:22:02.400 give these people some instructions as to how to care 378 00:22:02.440 --> 00:22:04.440 for the chickens to make sure that they're not let 379 00:22:04.440 --> 00:22:07.559 out in the hot sun all day or or or 380 00:22:07.720 --> 00:22:11.240 let out in circumstances where they could be endangered. I hope. 381 00:22:12.799 --> 00:22:15.240 Well, yeah, I mean there's a video that they watch 382 00:22:15.359 --> 00:22:19.839 and they're very and uh and we we informed them 383 00:22:20.000 --> 00:22:23.440 very well. But you know, the truth of the matter 384 00:22:23.519 --> 00:22:25.720 is is that the hot sun doesn't really bother them, 385 00:22:25.720 --> 00:22:30.079 but they can go inside the coops and you know, 386 00:22:30.200 --> 00:22:32.640 as far as you know them being in danger, well, 387 00:22:32.720 --> 00:22:35.720 you know, nature is nature, so we don't. We haven't 388 00:22:35.759 --> 00:22:39.119 had too many experiences where people's birds have been killed 389 00:22:39.119 --> 00:22:42.440 by predators. But yeah, what do you really I can 390 00:22:42.480 --> 00:22:43.160 do about. 391 00:22:42.960 --> 00:22:46.359 You know, understand, do you have to have your yard 392 00:22:46.720 --> 00:22:49.319 or I assume that that you have to have an 393 00:22:49.319 --> 00:22:55.160 outdoor space. You can't have a condominium and rent chickens, 394 00:22:55.240 --> 00:22:58.119 I assume, right, Yeah, I haven't. 395 00:22:58.440 --> 00:22:59.960 I don't think I've dropped off any car. 396 00:23:00.519 --> 00:23:03.200 But yeah, okay, not just make it clear because I 397 00:23:03.240 --> 00:23:04.960 don't want you to end up getting you know, a 398 00:23:05.039 --> 00:23:09.519 call tomorrow. So you need it outdoor space though, correct? 399 00:23:10.440 --> 00:23:13.359 Yeah? Yeah, I mean a good sized yard and preferly 400 00:23:13.400 --> 00:23:15.599 fenced in is great. But I mean we've had people 401 00:23:15.680 --> 00:23:19.279