Speaker 1: It's night Side, Dan Ray, Undonian Mazy, Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2: All right, we have reached the end of a full
Speaker 2: week here on Nightside. We have been together five nights
Speaker 2: this week. And for those of you who are keeping score,
Speaker 2: and I don't think probably too many of you are
Speaker 2: keeping score, this is my three thousandth nine hundred and
Speaker 2: ninety ninth show on Nightside. We started in two thousand
Speaker 2: and seven. We officially named the show of Nightside on
Speaker 2: October first, two thousand and seven. That was a Monday.
Speaker 2: We had done some shows during that previous summer of
Speaker 2: two thousand and seven, but it was not titled Nightside.
Speaker 2: But counting those shows, we will hit show number four
Speaker 2: thousand next week. That's a lot of shows, eighteen plus,
Speaker 2: well seventeen plus years. We do about two hundred and
Speaker 2: twenty five shows a year. Anyway, Having said all of that,
Speaker 2: I want to thank you all of you who have
Speaker 2: been so loyal to this program over such a long
Speaker 2: period of time. Let me if I can just quickly
Speaker 2: recap this week. We started off on Monday talking about
Speaker 2: that earthquake up off the coast of Maine with Professor
Speaker 2: John Ebel of Boston College. The Western Observatory. We talked
Speaker 2: about simplifying your home. I guess making it more livable. Monday,
Speaker 2: during the eight o'clock hour, we had a little bit
Speaker 2: of a weather forecast because we had a snow coming
Speaker 2: in the next day. Didn't quite mount to too much.
Speaker 2: Then we talked with Debbie Colton about Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Speaker 2: We talked with State Senator Julian Seer of the Cape
Speaker 2: and the Islands about a banning cell phone usage in schools,
Speaker 2: which I think is a good idea. We talked about
Speaker 2: the Columbian president caving to Donald Trump over the acceptance
Speaker 2: of Colombian migrants who are in this country illegally, and
Speaker 2: also talked about the Trump administration needs for transparency to
Speaker 2: let people see what's going on, simple as that over
Speaker 2: the weekend. I didn't think they were particularly transparent last
Speaker 2: weekend about the initial raids. They seem to be getting
Speaker 2: a little bit better, but they need to get even better.
Speaker 2: The next night, we talked about some programs at Arts
Speaker 2: Emerson with Susan Chinsen. Talked with Matty McCarthy about a
Speaker 2: Valentine's Day roundup lots of different restaurants for next Friday, night,
Speaker 2: if you're interested. Brenda Siri talked with her about the
Speaker 2: frustration of people having college degrees but no jobs available,
Speaker 2: and to talk with Chris Price as of the Boston
Speaker 2: Well sort of a Super Bowl preview. May White mayor
Speaker 2: wo excuse me, that's the last mayor with a W.
Speaker 2: Kevin White Mayor WU has been called to testify about
Speaker 2: sanctuary cities and cooperation with federal government in Washington. We
Speaker 2: talked about that on Tuesday night. We also gave President
Speaker 2: Trump a lot of credit for the executive order which
Speaker 2: will open up the assassination files dealing with President Kennedy,
Speaker 2: Senator Robert Kennedy, and the Reverend doctor Martin Luther King.
Speaker 2: We need to know exactly what happened there. Then we
Speaker 2: talked with a character whose name is Phyllis Watt Wheatley
Speaker 2: about the Freedom Trail the African American Patriots Tour, which
Speaker 2: are now available. Talk with Deborah Graham about the psychic connection,
Speaker 2: Lee Holden about Chi gong a way to relieve stress
Speaker 2: and it actually does work. Talked about the future of robotics,
Speaker 2: talked spent an hour with Professor John Ebel of Boston College.
Speaker 2: Because we not only had the earthquake on Monday, but
Speaker 2: we had an aftershock on Wednesday, and then we spent
Speaker 2: a couple of hours talking about the Robert F. Kennedy
Speaker 2: at hearing, and that was interrupted sadly by that DC
Speaker 2: plane crash. And of course last night we talked about
Speaker 2: the DC plane crash and its impact as we found
Speaker 2: out on people from the New England area. Early in
Speaker 2: the show last night, we talked about the best cars
Speaker 2: of twenty twenty five with John Vincent of US World
Speaker 2: and News Reports. We will hope to have him back
Speaker 2: and take some calls from you. Talk with Caleb Thome
Speaker 2: about LEGO sixty seventh birthday. Talked with a writer from
Speaker 2: USA Today, Kathleen Long, about Americans tens of thousands of
Speaker 2: Americans retiring around the world. I was stunned by. I
Speaker 2: talked with William Forschen about EMT attacks electromagnetic pulses. We
Speaker 2: also talked last night with Don Grant, who's a mental
Speaker 2: health expert. By the way, the interview with Professor at
Speaker 2: the nine o'clock interview on Wednesday night with Professor John
Speaker 2: Ebel of Boston College and Western Observatory will be replayed
Speaker 2: as the best of nightside this coming Sunday night, so
Speaker 2: I hope you get a chance to listen to that
Speaker 2: on Sunday night. We always take one hour during the
Speaker 2: week and play it in the following Sunday night. And
Speaker 2: then last night we talked about keeping your New Year's
Speaker 2: goals with a vain artery specialist, doctor Bob Anderson, talked
Speaker 2: with Joel jeff Zeff about National Have Fun at Work Today,
Speaker 2: which was kind of interesting, talk with an attorney Dawn
Speaker 2: Fountain about Amazon now being responsible for products that they
Speaker 2: send that are not that cause damage, and talk with
Speaker 2: doctor Jennifer Curtis about a new school opening in Weymouth
Speaker 2: for children who are dyslexic. The nine o'clock hour talk
Speaker 2: with Gayla Crowley, Boston Herald reporter about the White Stadium controversy,
Speaker 2: and also longtime activist City Boston activist Lewis As joined us.
Speaker 2: And then last hour we talked with the couple's therapist,
Speaker 2: Carolyn Sharp. Now I mentioned this those of you who
Speaker 2: do not normally hear us, I mention it by telling
Speaker 2: you that we cover lots of stuff. We really do
Speaker 2: cover lots of stuff, and if you miss it, you
Speaker 2: can always listen to an hour. You missed a night'side
Speaker 2: into Vietnam. Here's what I want to do tonight, my
Speaker 2: least favorite month of the year, has about forty five
Speaker 2: minutes left. This is Friday Night. We always do twenty thousand.
Speaker 2: We try to pick a subject that everybody can participate in.
Speaker 2: Everybody gets what we call a hall pass, meaning even
Speaker 2: if you're called earlier this week, you can call them
Speaker 2: this hour and express yourself. The question tonight is I
Speaker 2: am thrilled whenever January ends. I look at the calendar
Speaker 2: as what's six months from tonight? Six months from Dynay's
Speaker 2: July twenty is July thirty first. And I don't like
Speaker 2: when we're partially through the summer, because half the summer's gone.
Speaker 2: But I do like when we're halfway through the winter.
Speaker 2: I don't like the month of January. I will give
Speaker 2: you my reasons for it, but I am happy. January
Speaker 2: is about to slide off and on into oblivion, and
Speaker 2: we will be in February in about an hour. I
Speaker 2: want to hear from you. Are you happy? I'm particularly happy.
Speaker 2: There's no month that I like to see off the
Speaker 2: calendar more than January. I'll give you some of my reasons,
Speaker 2: but I want to hear yours. If you love January,
Speaker 2: I mean, if you are somebody who goes skiing every
Speaker 2: day in January here in New England. You can tell
Speaker 2: me that I'm an idiot. That's fine, no problem, okay,
Speaker 2: But I am thrilled that January is gone. I'll give
Speaker 2: you some reasons I want to hear from you. Do
Speaker 2: you agree with me that this is a happy night
Speaker 2: because tomorrow will be February and we are another month
Speaker 2: closer to spring and summer. Uh and February has lots
Speaker 2: of good stuff in it and January has very little
Speaker 2: good stuff in it. I will explain I hope to
Speaker 2: hear from you. Join the conversation. You can call now
Speaker 2: even before you hear what my reasons are, which is
Speaker 2: even better. Six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty
Speaker 2: six one seven, nine, three one ten thirty triple eight
Speaker 2: nine to nine, ten thirty. Coming right back on the nightside.
Speaker 1: Now, back to Dan ray Line from the Window World
Speaker 1: night Side Studios on w WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: All right, so I can give you a thousand reasons
Speaker 2: why I do not like January. You probably can give
Speaker 2: me reasons why you don't like it as well, and
Speaker 2: if you can six one, seven, two, five, four to
Speaker 2: ten thirty six one seven, nine, three one ten thirty.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna start it off with Laurie in Idaho, one
Speaker 2: of my favorite callers. I've never met Laurie, but someday
Speaker 2: we'll have a chance to meet, maybe in Idaho, maybe here.
Speaker 2: Who knows, Laurie, welcome back to night, said, how are you?
Speaker 2: Thank you?
Speaker 3: I'm I'm with you. I'm so done, like bye bye January.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, what is it about January that that troubles you?
Speaker 3: Winter? And this especially this winter it's been we just
Speaker 3: had basically we've had so little sun since October. It's
Speaker 3: just overtask and wet rain and it's what it's cold
Speaker 3: rain or whatever. But in general, so we really do
Speaker 3: have more daylight technically in January when the sun comes
Speaker 3: out than December. But you think about it, December is
Speaker 3: kind of bookmarked or book ended by holidays. You get
Speaker 3: the holidays before the holidays, during the holidays.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I like this Thanksgiving in January, Thanksgiving Christmas. No.
Speaker 2: I mean, first of all, look, I know that there's
Speaker 2: MLK Day in January, which kind of breaks the month
Speaker 2: up a little bit. But other than that, what does
Speaker 2: January have to offer? I know they offer football playoffs,
Speaker 2: but we know it's a always going to be the
Speaker 2: Kansas City Chiefs in the super Bowl. I mean that's what. Well,
Speaker 2: it was the Patriots, now it's the chief You know,
Speaker 2: that might be part of my problem.
Speaker 4: Patriots.
Speaker 2: The Patriots are done there, they're they're done. So there's
Speaker 2: no football, there's no baseball. Uh, the the Celtics have
Speaker 2: been in the swoon and the Bruins are have really
Speaker 2: not together. They they haven't put much together yet and
Speaker 2: they're in.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they.
Speaker 2: Might miss the playoffs. I'm telling you right now, they
Speaker 2: might miss the playoffs. Yeah, which would be which would
Speaker 2: be stunning as far as inatruction. But then you look
Speaker 2: at feal. What else does January have? Long days, cold, nothing,
Speaker 2: that's it nothing. You know, after New Year's it's all over,
Speaker 2: and and New Year's Eve is over before January starts.
Speaker 3: Think a true and I don't like the ski so
Speaker 3: that there there's no carrot for me there and I.
Speaker 2: And the besides bills in January, they're no, they're no
Speaker 2: more Christmas cards, that's over, no notes or anything. The only
Speaker 2: thing you get in the mail. Are your regular bills?
Speaker 2: You know you have no money left, so they want
Speaker 2: you to buy stuff January sales if I get about it,
Speaker 2: or or you get stuff that you have to put
Speaker 2: in your file in prepping for taxes, you get.
Speaker 3: All that stuff to step it.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, you got to keep this file and
Speaker 2: you got to you gotta. If you lose something, God
Speaker 2: forbid February. You've got Groundhog's Day is going to be
Speaker 2: on Sunday? Wow? Right, isn't in February? Second Valentine's Day,
Speaker 2: there's always hope in Valentine's Spring training baseball in Florida.
Speaker 2: The truck leaves from Fenway Park. Ye, Lincoln's birthday, George
Speaker 2: Washington's birthday are too, arguably greatest presence my birthday born
Speaker 2: in February, and I think Ronald Reagan was born in February.
Speaker 2: And your birthday when is your birthday?
Speaker 3: Nineteenth?
Speaker 2: Nineteenth?
Speaker 3: Wow, we'll all Washington.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll have to sing Laurie Happy birthday.
Speaker 3: That's okay. But yeah, this is going and it just
Speaker 3: it gets it's it's getting towards spring, and it's just January,
Speaker 3: and of course January has to be thirty one days. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it'll be the thirty you know.
Speaker 2: Right, No, I hear you, I totally hear you. So
Speaker 2: those those are my reasons. And uh, and there's probably
Speaker 2: a few more. The other thing too, in all honesty
Speaker 2: is I kind of feel like winter's half over now.
Speaker 2: I mean I know that in New England it doesn't
Speaker 2: get great until May. I get it. I get it.
Speaker 2: So we still got to go through February, March, and April.
Speaker 6: Oh.
Speaker 3: I know we'll get black somewhere along the line.
Speaker 2: Right right, But but we've we've gone through October, November,
Speaker 2: December and January. So we got four of the big,
Speaker 2: you know, big months out of the way. February will
Speaker 2: go by quickly, March will be there. We got Saint
Speaker 2: Patrick's Day? Who does and love Saint Patrick's Day? And
Speaker 2: then yes, absolutely, you got January is really getting the
Speaker 2: short shrift here, that's all they try.
Speaker 3: It doesn't make me want to be there any less,
Speaker 3: just because I feel sorry for it.
Speaker 2: Only if you graduated from Ohio State or Notre Dame,
Speaker 2: did you really care about who won that football game
Speaker 2: the national Championship? There was nothing to that. It was.
Speaker 2: It was not like the sweets, you know, the March madness.
Speaker 2: March madness gets people.
Speaker 3: I've well, I've always rooted for Nerding no matter what,
Speaker 3: I was really hoping for them. But now March madness
Speaker 3: is just they made such a big thing of it.
Speaker 3: It's so much fun now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh absolutely, absolutely Well, Laurie, thank you very much.
Speaker 2: You got us go in here, and hopefully we'll hear
Speaker 2: from some other people. I think I think that this
Speaker 2: is an argument that there really isn't much of an
Speaker 2: argument in favorite January.
Speaker 3: I mean no, it's more just a chance to chance
Speaker 3: to rant a little bit.
Speaker 2: And well, they used to have correct me if I'm wrong,
Speaker 2: but didn't they used to have long time ago in January.
Speaker 2: White sales.
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Remember those were you could get like sheets and pillowcases all.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Can you imagine them having a white sale now? I
Speaker 2: mean they would be so inappropriate.
Speaker 3: Even Black Friday. Nobody has a color left in them.
Speaker 2: That's exactly it, you know. So anyway, Laurie, you are
Speaker 2: the best, You were the best. I wish you a
Speaker 2: very happy month of February and we will talk many times.
Speaker 3: Okay, thank you you as well. Thank you for letting
Speaker 3: me get it off my chest.
Speaker 2: Thanks for getting it going. Okay, thank you all right.
Speaker 2: I want to hear from some more of you. Six one, seven, two, five,
Speaker 2: four tenth. Now everybody says to me, well, you only
Speaker 2: do brushes with celebrity. You don't do Look, we do
Speaker 2: like grinds your gears, we do that. I try to
Speaker 2: come up with some things that are different. Okay, that's today.
Speaker 2: It struck me. I said, it's January thirty first, it's
Speaker 2: the month. It's almost over. It's we've done nineteen shows
Speaker 2: here in January, and I had how many days did
Speaker 2: I have off? I had a bunch of days off
Speaker 2: this month. I mean I would have done it. I
Speaker 2: would have had to have done like twenty three or
Speaker 2: twenty four shows this month. So feel free. You got
Speaker 2: the number six one, seven, two, five, four, ten, thirty
Speaker 2: six one seven, nine three one ten thirty. I'm loving
Speaker 2: the fact that January will be in our view rearview
Speaker 2: mirror in about thirty five minutes. Let me see what
Speaker 2: Christine and Dedam says. Christine, welcome, How are you.
Speaker 7: I'm good, how are you?
Speaker 2: I'm feeling it, very happy that February is upon us.
Speaker 3: Me too, me too.
Speaker 8: I don't like January because it's a Christmas. It's such
Speaker 8: a letdown and it's so cold you can't walk outside.
Speaker 8: But I love go to is see what the groundhop
Speaker 8: says in February.
Speaker 2: Allan, but by the way, you know the groundhog's not legitimate, right,
Speaker 2: I don't even think that's a real groundhog. No, Well,
Speaker 2: they always think bring about the poor thing, and it
Speaker 2: doesn't make sense. They'll say, if he sees his shadow,
Speaker 2: that means winter's over. If he doesn't see his shadow
Speaker 2: and it's sunny, then we're gonna have six more weeks
Speaker 2: of winteret That doesn't make any to me. I've never
Speaker 2: figured out.
Speaker 7: I know that's true. This was the last chaf for
Speaker 7: the groundhops.
Speaker 2: What what is the best part about February? What do
Speaker 2: you like about February.
Speaker 7: I like that you it'll it'll start warming up in
Speaker 7: red soft team will becoming spring training, Valentine coming and
Speaker 7: then not pay cackers and then Easter. I love like
Speaker 7: the spring Easter.
Speaker 3: I love that it's everything flower.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like we have gone we have gone through
Speaker 2: the worst of it. I mean, it's winter's not over,
Speaker 2: but we've been pretty lucky with a big snorm storm.
Speaker 2: Some I read I listened to the one of the
Speaker 2: weather people today said that we actually have had more snow.
Speaker 2: I don't believe this, by the way, but they said
Speaker 2: we've had more snow this winter than the last two winters.
Speaker 2: I guess we didn't get any snow the last two winters.
Speaker 7: January, you gain your game your game weight because you
Speaker 7: can't get out and walk out. It's terrible.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's a that's another thing. Yeah, or or you
Speaker 2: have to. I don't go to a gym and pay money.
Speaker 2: Once April comes, you get out and and and walk however,
Speaker 2: however far you're able, however you want, that's for sure. Well, Christine,
Speaker 2: so far as you it's you, me and Laurie against January.
Speaker 2: And I like it. I like those odds.
Speaker 3: Me too, me.
Speaker 2: So hey, have a great rest of January. It'll be
Speaker 2: over in thirty three minutes and we'll be we'll be
Speaker 2: halfway this summer, simple as that, right.
Speaker 6: Day.
Speaker 3: Well you allright, I'll see you next week.
Speaker 2: I'll be back next week. I gotta take a couple
Speaker 2: of days on personal business. Thanks Christine, doctor you soon.
Speaker 2: Thanks good night. Florence is in Groveland, Hi, Florence.
Speaker 4: How are you tonight, Oh?
Speaker 6: Great, Hi, Dan. Then I find that January it's always
Speaker 6: very boring, really, and I look forward to February because
Speaker 6: all three of us, myself and my two children were
Speaker 6: all February birthdays. Really, yes, we have nine. My daughter
Speaker 6: me the sixteenth, and my son is the twenty eighth.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 6: And then my son always remembers me on Valentine Day
Speaker 6: as well, with a card and little gift, and he's
Speaker 6: been doing that for years.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's great, that's great, you know, and he shall
Speaker 2: always be his Valentines.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, And so February and extrastential because all three of
Speaker 6: us being in the same month, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I'll tell you. So that's a pretty good trifecta. Okay,
Speaker 2: But I got even another trifector for you. In my opinion,
Speaker 2: three great presidents, arguably close to the three greatest presidents,
Speaker 2: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Ronald Reagan February all February.
Speaker 2: Reagan was on February sixth, Lincoln February twelfth, and Washington
Speaker 2: was February twenty second. So I just think, and there's
Speaker 2: probably a couple of more presidents there when you think
Speaker 2: about it. I mean, we've only had you know, forty
Speaker 2: seven presidents, but really we've only had forty five because
Speaker 2: you've got to count. I mean, you know, Trump is
Speaker 2: forty five and forty seven, and then you had Grover Cleveland,
Speaker 2: who is counted twice. So we've only had forty five presidents.
Speaker 2: And there's only you know, thirty days. In most months,
Speaker 2: thirty days has September, April, June, and November all the
Speaker 2: rest of thirty one except February. We know that from
Speaker 2: our grade school. But to have Reagan, Lincoln and Washington
Speaker 2: and Florence and two of her children in February, that's
Speaker 2: a pretty special month. Florence.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so I look forward to it.
Speaker 2: You're in good company. You're in very good company. Florence.
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you for calling in.
Speaker 2: And I'm gonna I forgot to tell everybody tonight Happy
Speaker 2: New Year, because I have a rule that as long
Speaker 2: as it's January, I can still say Happy New Year.
Speaker 2: Once it's February, the happy New Year greeting goes away
Speaker 2: for another year. So let me be the last to
Speaker 2: wish you happy New Year, okay.
Speaker 6: And happy New Year to you and your family, great.
Speaker 2: Thanks Florence, we'll talk soon. Okay, thank you much, good night. Okay,
Speaker 2: so so far we have unanimity. Laurie, Christine and Florence
Speaker 2: agree with me that January is a horrible month. I mean,
Speaker 2: it just is no fun. It's a no fun month. Oh,
Speaker 2: it's the month when you stop drinking, It's the month
Speaker 2: when you stop eating stuff you like. I mean, it's
Speaker 2: New Year's resolutions are good, don't get me wrong. But
Speaker 2: still it calls for sacrifice and denial. So I want
Speaker 2: to hear from you if if you really see some
Speaker 2: value to January. Okay, I mean, it's it's fun. It's
Speaker 2: fun when you say, wow, it's a new year, twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five. But that that kind of weirs off pretty
Speaker 2: quickly when you think about it. Okay, Now we have
Speaker 2: another plane crash tonight. This one in Philadelphia. Doesn't sound good.
Speaker 2: It's smaller, but certainly it was I guess it was
Speaker 2: a medical flight on its way to Springfield, Missouri. Here's
Speaker 2: the CBS News special report on the question.
Speaker 1: Now you're on Night Side with Dan Ray on w BEAZ,
Speaker 1: Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: All Right, we're talking about the end of January. I
Speaker 2: am very happy that January is over. Love to know
Speaker 2: what you think. We are taking phone calls. Let us
Speaker 2: go next to Gary and Woolburn. I don't have no
Speaker 2: idea what Gary's going to say, but it's going to
Speaker 2: be interesting. Gary, you happy January is over?
Speaker 3: And no, no, it's not going to be interesting at all. Dan, January,
Speaker 3: February and March is absolutely miserable. I hate everything about it.
Speaker 2: So you don't like So how do you? How do
Speaker 2: you like January?
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 3: Even when I was a kid, I didn't like winter,
Speaker 3: even though I went out to boggaining and ice hockey
Speaker 3: and so forth. But it's just miserable. It's cold, and
Speaker 3: at sixty one years of age, it's just just brings
Speaker 3: you down. I'm talking to you from a McDonald's in
Speaker 3: Woven right now because as you got off the road,
Speaker 3: because I was working and uh claiming offices and uh
Speaker 3: for the past hour. I'm just drinking my diet coke
Speaker 3: and about to go home and I'm enjoying myself. A
Speaker 3: couple of things I want to bring to your attention
Speaker 3: out there before I leave is I went to the
Speaker 3: store today again. I had no idea. I have a
Speaker 3: bad habit of eating a certain breakfast of breakfast sausage
Speaker 3: and home fried potatoes where I live again. I didn't
Speaker 3: know a dozen eggs and six dollars.
Speaker 2: Yeah, where it was the last time you bought eggs? Uh?
Speaker 3: Months and months and months. H. I go to a
Speaker 3: buddy's house and I eat breakfast there and uh, and
Speaker 3: he serves eggs and so forth. But I had no idea.
Speaker 3: I'm very oblivious and stupid to this. I mean, can
Speaker 3: you explain what's going on? I know there's a bird flu.
Speaker 2: Right, Well, there's the bird flu, there's there's there's there's
Speaker 2: some complications there. Obviously, prices have gone up. Even before
Speaker 2: bird flew, prices were getting expensive, and it's got to
Speaker 2: work its way through the system. I guess it's you know,
Speaker 2: there are people who just rely upon eggs, and I
Speaker 2: eat eggs like everybody else. But guess what, when they
Speaker 2: become too expensive, I can pass on them. You know,
Speaker 2: I don't look at them as something that is critical
Speaker 2: to my to my existence. I mean some people from
Speaker 2: for me, it's I I every morning I eat my
Speaker 2: packet of Awaken one eighty cocoa cereal. That's you know
Speaker 2: that ever goes out, I'm gonna be in big trouble.
Speaker 2: But others are different. People are different. Gary, you got
Speaker 2: to learn. I guess to say, hey, okay, maybe take
Speaker 2: a break from eggs.
Speaker 3: And by the way, you had a show I believe
Speaker 3: it was last night. You had two different guests. I
Speaker 3: forget what it was about. My mind's a plank because
Speaker 3: I'm getting so old. If you can remind me, because
Speaker 3: it was one of the best. Oh, you had an hour.
Speaker 3: I gotta tell you again. You know I hate political talk, right,
Speaker 3: you had an hour on OH with the woman from
Speaker 3: the USA Today newspaper, and it was so outstanding. Every
Speaker 3: time you never talk about politics, you talk about other issues.
Speaker 3: Your show is number one because everybody doesn't have guests,
Speaker 3: Like is it your production team that picks up all
Speaker 3: these guests for you?
Speaker 2: Well, I'm very happy to hear that. We also had
Speaker 2: a great guest last night, a mental health expert from
Speaker 2: Los Angeles, doctor Don Grant. We had a couple of
Speaker 2: good guests tonight. We talked about the Yeah, we try
Speaker 2: to we try to have different topics. Gary's that's we
Speaker 2: don't do the same show every night. It takes a
Speaker 2: lot of work to put a show like this together.
Speaker 2: And by the way, we do our four thousand night
Speaker 2: side show next week. Tonight is three thy nine ninety nine.
Speaker 3: Well, Dan, this is why you're number one in the radio.
Speaker 3: And I'm glad you take days off because after all,
Speaker 3: you're like atting any younger and so forth is.
Speaker 2: Just find me someone who's getting younger. Gary, if they
Speaker 2: found the fountain of youth, that would be great. Gary.
Speaker 2: I gotta keep rolling here, enjoy your pepsi, and get
Speaker 2: home safely if they. I know it's rained a lot tonight,
Speaker 2: but I think the temperature is going to drop, so
Speaker 2: make sure you get home before the roads the roads freeze. Okay, thanks,
Speaker 2: thanks a mat, I appreciate it. Thank you much. David
Speaker 2: in San Francisco. David, do you like January? And if so,
Speaker 2: why so?
Speaker 5: January is very boring. I guess it's because of the
Speaker 5: excitement of the holidays and everything, and there's really nothing
Speaker 5: going on. It's easily cold and dark. But anyhow, I
Speaker 5: really like February though, because it's, first of all, it's
Speaker 5: President's months. Yeah, and it's also Black History months.
Speaker 2: We got Black History, you got President's Month, you got
Speaker 2: Valentine's day, you got Groundhog Day, you got the Super Bowl. Yep,
Speaker 2: you got a lot.
Speaker 5: Well, a president, let me ask you a well trivia
Speaker 5: shout out to your audience. Two great men were born
Speaker 5: on the very same day, February twelfth, eighteen oh line?
Speaker 5: Do you usually are?
Speaker 2: Well? I know that Lincoln was born on February twelfth.
Speaker 2: In the other one, I don't know who. Who would
Speaker 2: that be?
Speaker 5: Charles Darwin?
Speaker 2: Okay, that's that's that's a great piece of trivia.
Speaker 5: I think you're both born on the very same day,
Speaker 5: February twelfth. Line.
Speaker 2: Yep. Well, everybody, when you think about it, you can
Speaker 2: look up in your horoscope and you can find people
Speaker 2: who were born on your exact day. I don't know
Speaker 2: when I looked up to find out someone who was
Speaker 2: born not only in my birthday, but on my birth year.
Speaker 2: There was a children singer who was born in Alexandria, Egypt,
Speaker 2: who became very famous in the nineties. He used to
Speaker 2: do concerts, children's concerts. His name was Raffie r Affi,
Speaker 2: and I met him, actually went to one of his
Speaker 2: concerts and went backstage and explained he was born in Alexandria, Virginia.
Speaker 2: I was born in Boston on the exact same day.
Speaker 2: By the way, I'll give you three presidents in February
Speaker 2: Lincoln obviously, George Washington another twenty second, and my favorite,
Speaker 2: Ronald Reagan on February sixth. Yep, David is always great
Speaker 2: to hear your voice. Is it a nice day in
Speaker 2: San Francisco today? I hope?
Speaker 5: Pardon?
Speaker 2: How is the weather in San Francisco today? My daughter
Speaker 2: lives in soo.
Speaker 5: Oh, actually had some rain. It was evercast all day.
Speaker 5: But it's cold. It's such somebody once said the coldest
Speaker 5: winter they ever thought. It was the summer and a Francisco.
Speaker 2: I've heard that. I've heard that I had earlier. One
Speaker 2: of my favorite Italian restaurants, uh is on on Fillmore Street,
Speaker 2: Via Venudo. If you if you like Italian food, try it.
Speaker 2: Do you know what that is?
Speaker 5: Did you really a restaurant called called Frisco?
Speaker 2: Yeah? The fellow who owns Via Venudu is an older
Speaker 2: gentleman and he's great. If you ever get in tell him,
Speaker 2: tell him you're a listener to Night Side, okay, and
Speaker 2: he'll give you a break. I'm sure.
Speaker 5: Okay, before I go quick say out, yeah, we give.
Speaker 2: You a happy New Year because it's it's the thirty first.
Speaker 2: We can't say it any any That's it. I stopped
Speaker 2: saying Happy New Year once we turned to February. Thanks David,
Speaker 2: appreciate your.
Speaker 5: A quick joke. Dan. Okay, what happens when you don't
Speaker 5: pay your exorcist?
Speaker 2: I have no idea what happens when you don't pay
Speaker 2: your exorcist?
Speaker 5: He get repossessed.
Speaker 2: I like that. That's a good one. That's a good one.
Speaker 2: I heard a joke today and I'm going to tell
Speaker 2: the joke because it's Friday night and it's my show.
Speaker 2: Friend of mine told me a joke today. So this
Speaker 2: husband and wife married a long time and they finally
Speaker 2: the marriage dissolves and they both get divorced, and it
Speaker 2: wasn't good. So the day that she dies, she dies.
Speaker 2: First she goes to heaven. She meets Saint Peter at
Speaker 2: the gate and Saint Peter says, have you been good?
Speaker 2: And she said, I've been very good. He says, Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm going to give you a word. If you can
Speaker 2: spell it right, you come to heaven, You get into heaven,
Speaker 2: and you'll be happy for a trinity. If you don't
Speaker 2: you're going to go the other way. She's a little nervous,
Speaker 2: but she says, okay, what's the word? He says love?
Speaker 2: She says, oh, that's an easy one, l ov no problem.
Speaker 2: So she's up in heaven for a few months and
Speaker 2: one day Saint Peter comes over to it says, hey,
Speaker 2: do me a favor. Well, I have a couple of
Speaker 2: appointments today. Would you mind manning the front door heaven?
Speaker 2: And uh, you know what the drill is? You got
Speaker 2: to give people a word to spell. She says, sure,
Speaker 2: first person up when you know it. Former husband, who
Speaker 2: she wasn't particularly happy with, So she said to him,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm gonna treat you like I treat everyone else.
Speaker 2: You got to spell a word to get into heaven.
Speaker 2: And the husband was a little apprehensive, but he says, okay,
Speaker 2: which what is it? She said, Czechoslovakia? All right, thanks, David,
Speaker 2: gotta go. We'll talk soon. All right, let's keep rolling
Speaker 2: here six months, seven two, five, four, ten thirty six
Speaker 2: one seven, nine, three, one ten thirty. Any of you
Speaker 2: who say to me, well, I don't like brushes with celebrity,
Speaker 2: I'm always gonna say to you, no matter when I
Speaker 2: try to do something different. You guys don't like to play.
Speaker 2: I want to know, are you happy that January is
Speaker 2: about to end? At least for a year eleven months.
Speaker 2: It'll come back around, but you're gonna have three hundred
Speaker 2: and thirty or so days of non January. This is great.
Speaker 2: Back on Night's Side right after this.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: We're talking about the end of January. It's imminent. Ten
Speaker 2: minutes from now, we'll be in February. Let's see what
Speaker 2: people think about January. No one out there seems to
Speaker 2: like January. Let me go to Karen in Wisconsin. Karen,
Speaker 2: I assume you hate January because it has to be
Speaker 2: really cold in Wisconsin.
Speaker 9: Well, how did you know?
Speaker 2: Because I studied geography and I used to watch Green
Speaker 2: Bay Packer games on the frozen tundra.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I kind of quit. I mean, I'm still a
Speaker 9: red sex. I'm not used to having to travel to
Speaker 9: go to a sports game, you know, And now I'm
Speaker 9: in Milwaukee, so I'm staying miss just but uh, I
Speaker 9: don't like January. I hate August really because I don't
Speaker 9: like keep humidity and I also don't do well with
Speaker 9: the change of seasons. So here we are in January,
Speaker 9: and I you know, I'm just most people are waiting
Speaker 9: for it to get light.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 9: I can watch it get light out a little by little,
Speaker 9: and I don't. I mean, I adjust, but it's difficult.
Speaker 2: So no, I hear you, I hear you. But it
Speaker 2: is getting lighter. I'm telling you. Every day it's a
Speaker 2: couple of minutes. And then sometimes Arch we'll jump ahead
Speaker 2: spring forth an hour and we'll feel as if spring
Speaker 2: has arrived, and won't that be a great feeling.
Speaker 9: I only want to say that last year, in about
Speaker 9: a week from two weeks from now, we had for
Speaker 9: the first time, all of a sudden, our enormous tornado
Speaker 9: is sitting down ten miles away from me.
Speaker 2: Oh that's not good.
Speaker 9: February, that's weird. No, that's weird. That is not right.
Speaker 9: And it happened again. So so you know, I do
Speaker 9: not like any month.
Speaker 2: You don't like June, you don't like June, you don't
Speaker 2: like September. Those are the great months. I know, July
Speaker 2: and August the great, don't get me wrong, but I
Speaker 2: think my favorites are June, and uh and September, Karen,
Speaker 2: I got to run. I got a couple more.
Speaker 9: I gotta get you.
Speaker 2: Wait to hear your voice. Since it's still January, Happy.
Speaker 9: New Year, okay, Dan, And I'm an hour behind you,
Speaker 9: so I don't think you can figure it out. Okay,
Speaker 9: good bye and thanks blood.
Speaker 2: Okay, great weekend, good night. Let's go to Glenn. Glenn's
Speaker 2: a bit of a curmudgeon. I suspect he's going to
Speaker 2: agree with me.
Speaker 4: Hey, Glenn, how are you pretty good? Well? I gotta
Speaker 4: ask you if you know what a Unitarian's favorite Christmas
Speaker 4: movie was.
Speaker 2: I have no clue.
Speaker 4: What is that coincidence on thirty fourth Street? I like that?
Speaker 2: Okay, I like it.
Speaker 4: I like that.
Speaker 2: I get I get that joke. I do, I dood
Speaker 2: So what about January? Come on?
Speaker 4: Let's yeah. I want to join I want to join
Speaker 4: you when you pick pile against January, even on my
Speaker 4: birthdays in January January twenty third.
Speaker 2: Well, congratulations of belated happy birthday, Glenn.
Speaker 4: I'm now seventy two. But John, I want to join
Speaker 4: you and Laurie and Christine and your anti January. I
Speaker 4: love February because of the Daytona five hundred on President's
Speaker 4: Day weekend.
Speaker 2: That's a good one. I never even thought of that,
Speaker 2: but you're right. That's a log. That's a great race,
Speaker 2: and it kind of kicks off the racing season. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I like that one. That's another good reason for February's
Speaker 2: a lot of reasons for February.
Speaker 4: The Red Red Sox are going to go to winter Haven, Florida.
Speaker 2: Not winter Haven. They know they haven't been in winter
Speaker 2: Haven in about thirty years. Club Fort Myers.
Speaker 4: Oh, well, I can't. It's in Florida, that's all.
Speaker 2: You're definitely you have the right state. But winter Haven.
Speaker 2: They they left winter Haven I think sometime in the
Speaker 2: mid nineties and they have relocated to Florida, Florida. But
Speaker 2: that's okay. It's good that you knew winter Haven. I
Speaker 2: metter of fact. I went to a couple of Red
Speaker 2: Sox games in winter Haven. I think I was there
Speaker 2: for the last Red Sox exhibition game in winter Haven
Speaker 2: before they left. Winter Haven was pretty depressing. It sounds lovely,
Speaker 2: you know, winter Haven, right, but it wasn't a really
Speaker 2: lovely place. Club Yeah, it was. It was depressing. It
Speaker 2: was really depressing. So we got you on our side. Glen,
Speaker 2: and I'm very happy about that. You join us, you
Speaker 2: join Laurie and Christine and myself and everybody else. Florence, Gary, Yeah, everybody.
Speaker 2: I'm glad I picked this one. And guess what it
Speaker 2: was the best of my callers will call tonight. That's
Speaker 2: that's always great, and you're one of them. New Year,
Speaker 2: Happy New Year. I'm gonna be the last to wish
Speaker 2: you happy New Year because after January you can't bople
Speaker 2: happy New Year. That's a rule.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, I know, I don't wish that was Steve
Speaker 4: always rule too. After February first, no more happy New Year.
Speaker 2: I'm after January first. I don't want to wish anyone
Speaker 2: happy New Year in February because they the year is
Speaker 2: already when you think about it, it's quite old. It's
Speaker 2: already a month old.
Speaker 4: Thanks Glenn, thank you too.
Speaker 2: Have a good one. Let me go next. Finally to
Speaker 2: Jamie and Worcester. Jamie, everybody agrees they hate January. What
Speaker 2: say you?
Speaker 10: I actually like January because it's my birthday and my
Speaker 10: father's birthday. Number one, okay, number two, number two. It's
Speaker 10: a whole month is playoff football, and then you have
Speaker 10: the college championship game too.
Speaker 2: Ask him, was there there was no anticipation, no excitement
Speaker 2: to me, at least Ohio State and Notre Dame.
Speaker 10: I mean that was that was a disappointment. I didn't
Speaker 10: like that game at all. But nine times I don't
Speaker 10: even know. Well, I don't want to get off topic,
Speaker 10: but it's the playoff format something that maybe if you
Speaker 10: want to discuss I don't know you have discussed sports
Speaker 10: like that, but that playoff forman what people think of it.
Speaker 10: I don't know about that.
Speaker 2: You know, yeah, no they did, They haven't. They haven't
Speaker 2: been able to replicate. We talk about sports sometimes, Jamie.
Speaker 2: They have not been able to replicate what college basketball
Speaker 2: has done with the AA March Madness Tournament. You know,
Speaker 2: it used to be the n I T was the
Speaker 2: big tournament, and the NCAA has eclipsed it incredibly well,
Speaker 2: and that they really have done an absolutely great job
Speaker 2: on it. Playoff football this year was kind of disappointing too.
Speaker 10: I mean the first playoff games, where is it? You know,
Speaker 10: it has great maybe the maybe the in the City
Speaker 10: game that.
Speaker 2: Was a good one, Yeah, that was a good game.
Speaker 2: But I mean the last weekend the Philadelphia Washington blowout.
Speaker 2: I didn't think Philadelphia was that good a team. Obviously,
Speaker 2: Barkley is a great running back, and I'd love to
Speaker 2: see Philadelphia beat the Chiefs. I don't know.
Speaker 10: It's funny because my boss tells me all the time.
Speaker 10: He goes everybody in the store goes, oh, I didn't
Speaker 10: want to see Kansas City again, And my boss goes, see,
Speaker 10: everybody doesn't a stand. This is what probably everybody else
Speaker 10: in the country felt when the Patriots.
Speaker 3: Were like this.
Speaker 2: You're absolutely correct, But you know what, I'm kind of
Speaker 2: done with Taylor Swift. You know, marry the guy, get
Speaker 2: it over with, get it married with him, have some kids,
Speaker 2: and go retire. All right, Hey, Jamie, I gotta let
Speaker 2: you run him flat out of time.
Speaker 1: I know I do that.
Speaker 10: I could believe you got me in.
Speaker 4: So thanks.
Speaker 2: Happy New Year. That's my last Happy New Year, Jamie,
Speaker 2: you got it. Thanks Rob, Happy New Year to you
Speaker 2: as well. Thank you, Mariita, Thank you very much. We've
Speaker 2: had a great month. We'll continue. Gary Tanger, been a
Speaker 2: couple of nights for me. Next week, All dogs, all cats,
Speaker 2: all pets go to heaven. This's Mike Pelle. Charlie ray
Speaker 2: Is who passed fifteen years ago in February. That's where
Speaker 2: all your pets are who have passed. They loved you
Speaker 2: and you love them. I do believe you'll see them again.
Speaker 2: I'll see you again on nights Side with Dan Ray
Speaker 2: on Facebook at about two minutes. Have a great weekend everyone,
Speaker 2: stay safe, stay well. We'll talk to you next week.