Speaker 1: It's Night's Size Undoing Razy Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: All right, welcome back, everybody. We call this on Nightside,
Speaker 2: the twentieth hour of the week. I know that every
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Speaker 2: for those of you who might be interested in this
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Speaker 2: of twenty twenty four, several outstanding ratings books. We are
Speaker 2: continuing to grow this audience. The take it from me.
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Speaker 2: who take the time to listen to Nightside, from the
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Speaker 2: very much for your loyalty. For those of you who
Speaker 2: are new, and what we try to do on the
Speaker 2: last hour of the week. Because we're on five nights
Speaker 2: a week from Monday through Friday, from eight to midnight,
Speaker 2: that amounts to twenty hours of broadcast radio every week,
Speaker 2: five nights times four hours a night through the math
Speaker 2: twenty hours. So in the twenty hour we always try
Speaker 2: to go a little late, and tonight we'll be no
Speaker 2: exception and so we're going to end this week. And
Speaker 2: for me, this was a relatively short week because there
Speaker 2: only worked Wednesday, Thursday and tonight. Morgan White covered the
Speaker 2: first two nights of the week because I was on
Speaker 2: vacation on the thirtieth and thirty first, So I treat
Speaker 2: this as the twentieth hour nonetheless, and therefore I want
Speaker 2: to find out from you. Did you make a New
Speaker 2: Year's resolution this year? If you did, what was it.
Speaker 2: If you did, have you kept it, is it's still
Speaker 2: in force? And how long do you think you'll be
Speaker 2: able to go If you didn't make a New Year's resolution?
Speaker 2: I would like to know have you in the past
Speaker 2: or are you like my producer Rob Brooks, whose New
Speaker 2: Year's resolution every year is the same. He refuses to
Speaker 2: make resolutions. That's his resolution, so it's a little bit
Speaker 2: of fun. I tend not to make New Year's resolutions.
Speaker 2: I've told you in the past that I made one
Speaker 2: year that I wanted to get through dry January, which
Speaker 2: I did, went through dry February and into March and
Speaker 2: ended up with some kidney stones. It's got to be
Speaker 2: all twenty years ago, and it was not pleasant for
Speaker 2: those of you who have had kidney stones, and I've
Speaker 2: never had them since, but I've never had that resolution sense.
Speaker 2: And I did it almost as a discipline, not because
Speaker 2: I felt it was a problem, but as I think
Speaker 2: i've acknowledged all of you. I'm a light beer drinker
Speaker 2: and a red wine guy. Simple as that glass of
Speaker 2: red wine with dinner lovely, and maybe a light beer
Speaker 2: course like before dinner would be lovely. But I have
Speaker 2: tended away to stay away from resolutions. So I'd love
Speaker 2: to know from you if you've made him, what are
Speaker 2: they and have they worked? Maybe you did a resolution
Speaker 2: at some point in the past which changed your life.
Speaker 2: We talked last night with a couple of guests about
Speaker 2: the concept of New Year's resolutions. You might have heard
Speaker 2: during the eight o'clock hour on Thursday night professor John
Speaker 2: Kelly from Endicott College talking about the psychology behind New
Speaker 2: Year's resolutions, and doctor Mark Popso about He's from Boston College,
Speaker 2: about New Year's resolutions and what you need to make
Speaker 2: them work. So this is more on a personal level.
Speaker 2: Let's have a little bit of fun with it, and
Speaker 2: we're going to start it right off with Neil in Watertown.
Speaker 2: Neil haven't heard you from a while, but it's always
Speaker 2: great to know you're out there listening. Thanks for calling in, Neil.
Speaker 2: How'd your New Year's resolutions go? Or did you make one?
Speaker 3: Well? I'm gonna ask for a little latitude because I
Speaker 3: didn't make I don't make them, but I have one
Speaker 3: that from literary history, I can describe it briefly. Is
Speaker 3: that all right?
Speaker 2: Go ahead?
Speaker 3: So on January first, eighteen fifty two, Robert Browning, he's
Speaker 3: a famous poet, made a resolution to write something every day.
Speaker 3: So he said it just came to him in a dream,
Speaker 3: and his opening instruction to the poem. The poem is
Speaker 3: entitled Child Rolling to the Dark Tower came and his
Speaker 3: opening instructions see is ce Edgar's song and lare just
Speaker 3: to recapped briefly. Edgar is the son of Gloucester who
Speaker 3: has been framed by his brother to make it seem
Speaker 3: as if Edgar wants to kill his father, so he's
Speaker 3: on the run. So to escape detection, he pretends he's
Speaker 3: a madman and he's babbling all the time. And the song,
Speaker 3: well it's really like a babbling at the end of
Speaker 3: a free singe fours Child Roll into the dark Tara Kane.
Speaker 3: His word was still five fore and found I smelled
Speaker 3: the blood of a British man, So I guess child Rowland.
Speaker 3: Rowland is the hero of the just Beefly is the
Speaker 3: hero of the Charlemagne legend, and Shakespeare puts his words
Speaker 3: and gives him the words of Jack the Beanstalk. But anyway,
Speaker 3: so on this day he wrote the poems thirty four stanzas.
Speaker 2: Yeah, please don't read the thirty four stances.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, I've planned this South Dan. I'm not
Speaker 3: going to no.
Speaker 2: Understand, but but my patience is running thin here because
Speaker 2: it's a little away from what I wanted to talk about.
Speaker 2: And again, I.
Speaker 3: Just wanted to tell somebody about it. That's and.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, well, thank you very much. I appreciate it. Neil,
Speaker 2: thanks for the call. Okay, folks, look, uh, Neil has
Speaker 2: called before and often he's a little misdirected. But you know,
Speaker 2: I try to be flexible. But at the same time,
Speaker 2: if you want to recite poetry, tell me about it,
Speaker 2: and maybe we will. We'll have a night where people
Speaker 2: can recite their favorite poetry. But when we stake out
Speaker 2: a topic, we like to try to stay with the
Speaker 2: topic a little bit. Let me go to Joe and Lynn. Joe,
Speaker 2: do you make a New Year's resolution today this year?
Speaker 4: Well, Dan, yes, I did, and I just want to
Speaker 4: say I agree with Glenn. We don't need any law
Speaker 4: like that. But that's another issue. I wish I could
Speaker 4: have gotten the earlier. I have mixed feelings, but that's okay.
Speaker 4: My resolutions try and get better from miscancer if I can.
Speaker 4: I'd like to see if I can help other people
Speaker 4: who need help if possible. I can't do much because
Speaker 4: I'm in a bad way, but that's my resolution. I
Speaker 4: normally don't make resolutions, but may I made one this time?
Speaker 2: And what are you going to try to do about it?
Speaker 4: Well, I'm doing the best I can. I'm doing some research,
Speaker 4: talking to different doctors about the pros and cons of radiation,
Speaker 4: and I'm trying to look into alternative therapy if I
Speaker 4: can possibly get that. It's very hard to some insurance
Speaker 4: won insurances won't take it. I'm trying to save some money.
Speaker 4: I'm doing the best I can to see what I
Speaker 4: can get done.
Speaker 2: Well, I wish you're best of luck with it, Joe. Again,
Speaker 2: I hope and pray that everything works out for you.
Speaker 2: And I think I think a lot of fighting some
Speaker 2: of these horrific uh you know, diseases can be mental
Speaker 2: as well, and I think that if a lot of
Speaker 2: people pray with you and pray for you, and I
Speaker 2: know in my audience they will, that's going to help.
Speaker 2: But I also think that your mental your mental attitude
Speaker 2: to keep it strong and stay strong.
Speaker 4: Okay, I try to. I appreciate, and I just want
Speaker 4: to say I mixed feelings on that long I agree
Speaker 4: with kind of with Glenn, but all right, thank you much.
Speaker 2: That was last hour, Joe, so please Yeah, I wish
Speaker 2: I could I tried. Yeah, well again, you know, the
Speaker 2: lines were open pretty early, Joe, and like anything else,
Speaker 2: when people try late, we run out of time. There
Speaker 2: were people who were hanging on the phone line last hour.
Speaker 2: But one of my New Year's resolutions is I'm trying
Speaker 2: not to force people. At the end, they'll call in
Speaker 2: it ten fifty five. And I've tended to a people
Speaker 2: and so I try to. My attitude is most people
Speaker 2: listen to the show, understand we do. We try to
Speaker 2: do our segments, h and I agree if people want
Speaker 2: to sit there and listen to what and some people
Speaker 2: actually calling intentionally to try to be the last point
Speaker 2: on the subject. And I'm not going to play that
Speaker 2: game anymore.
Speaker 1: That's what I don't do.
Speaker 5: This.
Speaker 4: I had forgotten I was doing something else. But all right,
Speaker 4: thank you very.
Speaker 2: Much, Thanks Joe, appreciate it. Happy New Year. All right.
Speaker 2: Let me re re establish the theme here. The theme
Speaker 2: is New Year's resolutions, and if you have a resolution,
Speaker 2: I'd love to know what it was. And I'll bet
Speaker 2: you some have advance, some of you have made really
Speaker 2: good resolutions. Please. This is not a poetry jam, slam,
Speaker 2: whatever they call it. This is a talk show. And
Speaker 2: whatever your New Year's resolutions are, have you made them
Speaker 2: in the past? Have you ever made one that changed
Speaker 2: your life? Six one, seven, five, four thirty, six seven, nine, three, one,
Speaker 2: ten thirty. It is New Year's week, ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 2: it is Friday night. Feel free to join the conversation.
Speaker 2: We'll be back on Nightside right after this.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan ray Line from the Window World
Speaker 1: night Side Studios on WBZ, the news radio.
Speaker 2: All Right, have you made a New Year's resolution this year?
Speaker 2: And more importantly, is it still intact? I'd love to
Speaker 2: know what it is? Feel free. Have you made New
Speaker 2: Year's resolutions in the past. I mean, there was a
Speaker 2: time in this country when I think most people made
Speaker 2: New Year's resolutions, but I think they've fallen out of favor.
Speaker 2: And if you're not, make you a New Year's resolution,
Speaker 2: tell me why. Six one, seven, two, five, four to
Speaker 2: ten thirty six one, seven, nine three one ten thirty.
Speaker 2: I gave Glenn permission. Everybody, by the way, has permission
Speaker 2: to make in the twentieth hour, we give people. We
Speaker 2: ask people during the week to call in only once
Speaker 2: to allow more people and more voices to be heard.
Speaker 2: But in the twentieth hour, we give people the what
Speaker 2: we call a hall pass, and you can call in
Speaker 2: even if you called in Monday night and talked to Morgan,
Speaker 2: or called in Wednesday night and talked to me. Let's
Speaker 2: go to Glenn and Bright and Glenn. New Year's resolution.
Speaker 2: Did you make one?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 6: In nineteen seventy three, when I was twenty, I made
Speaker 6: and I broke it. On January fourth, I made a
Speaker 6: resolution to stop swearing. I told this to Rob.
Speaker 2: That's the tough one. By the way, that's a tough one.
Speaker 2: I sometimes try to have made that resolution. That's a
Speaker 2: tough one day to be successful. I'm surprised you made
Speaker 2: it the January fourth, go.
Speaker 6: Ahead January with some woman stepped on my foot and
Speaker 6: I dropped the f bob. I'm like, oh this, yeah, that's.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so that's my last resolution.
Speaker 6: Well, I had just cut my toenails, and that's why
Speaker 6: I hurt when Please don't.
Speaker 2: Tell us about your toenails joke, right, job, that's that please? Well?
Speaker 2: Uh I know, yeah, so so so you. Therefore, I
Speaker 2: have never made another New Year's resolution.
Speaker 6: Nope, because I can keep the one I don't make
Speaker 6: by not making. BROB and I had a nice discussion
Speaker 6: off the air about this.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you did. I hope you didn't leave your
Speaker 2: a game off air. As I mentioned, Rob has said
Speaker 2: that his New Year's resolution is the same every year.
Speaker 2: I resolved me to make New Year's resolutions.
Speaker 6: But that's that's fine me too. And people nagged me,
Speaker 6: woll you're going to have and I'm like, where is
Speaker 6: that written in the constitution.
Speaker 2: I've got to have one. Nope, absolutely, it's it's uh,
Speaker 2: it's a free country. It's a freak.
Speaker 6: You can make it.
Speaker 2: I'm hoping that there might be some people out there
Speaker 2: tonight who are going to tell me that they did
Speaker 2: make a resolution at some point in the past and
Speaker 2: it really had helped save their life or change their life.
Speaker 2: Their life, meaning maybe someone said I'm going to give
Speaker 2: up this or I'm going to give up that and
Speaker 2: actually work.
Speaker 6: I know people. I know people that have made resolutions
Speaker 6: for quit drinking and smoking and they did it, or
Speaker 6: lose weight and they did it, or save money and
Speaker 6: they did it. I mean, I know people.
Speaker 2: Those are good resolutions if you have if you have
Speaker 2: the ability, even if you if you say to yourself, look,
Speaker 2: I'm going to put ten dollars a week into into
Speaker 2: a a piggy bank, hypothetically, and at the end of
Speaker 2: the year, I'll open up that piggy bank and I'll
Speaker 2: have five hundred dollars and I'll be able to splurge
Speaker 2: on presents or I'll be able to splurge in myself.
Speaker 2: That's a new Year's resolution actually could potentially work when
Speaker 2: you think about it.
Speaker 6: And one more quick thing I grew up around. I'm
Speaker 6: not a Catholic, but I grew up around a lot
Speaker 6: of Catholics, and rather than make a New Year's resolution
Speaker 6: during Lent they'd give something up, and that he came there.
Speaker 6: It's like a New Year's resolution a month and a
Speaker 6: half later.
Speaker 2: Oh no, no, no, you're absolutely correct on that. There
Speaker 2: were many Catholics who for many years would say, Okay,
Speaker 2: for Lent, I'm gonna give up candy, and they did
Speaker 2: that as a sacrifice, even though they like that. You
Speaker 2: got to give up. You can't say I'm going to
Speaker 2: give up let's say broccoli or something you don't particularly like.
Speaker 2: They have to give up something you like it because
Speaker 2: it has to be a sacrifice for forty days and
Speaker 2: forty nights.
Speaker 6: And if you like gambling, you have to give up gambling.
Speaker 6: Oh I'm just husing at us.
Speaker 2: No, I use that as a great as. I use
Speaker 2: that as a great example. I couldn't I couldn't have
Speaker 2: worked you more on that, Glenn. I appreciate your your
Speaker 2: participation tonight, and thank you very much for have enjoyed us.
Speaker 2: As always, we'll talk.
Speaker 6: To you, my friend, and I want to say up,
Speaker 6: I knew you to Christine and datum.
Speaker 2: Okay, well that's fine. If anything I can do to
Speaker 2: help out your social life is you're more than welcome. Okay,
Speaker 2: Happy New Year, Happy New Year. Hope twenty twenty five
Speaker 2: is a good one for you. Thank you have a
Speaker 2: great yea, all right? Six one, triple eight, nine, nine, ten,
Speaker 2: thirty your New Year's resolutions. We're off to a slow
Speaker 2: start here, but that's okay. I have confidence in my audience.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Manny in Boston. Manny, go right ahead.
Speaker 2: How are you tonight, Manny?
Speaker 7: I'm well? How are you, Dan? Happy night?
Speaker 2: I'm doing great. Appreciate to hear your voice. Thanks for
Speaker 2: calling in New Year's resolution. Yes or no?
Speaker 7: Absolutely make some years I've failed, I admit it. Okay,
Speaker 7: two years ago I made a resolution to lose weight.
Speaker 7: I got on ozempic, I lost the weight, I kept
Speaker 7: it off, got off of the ozempic after six months,
Speaker 7: and pretty much have kept the weight off for the
Speaker 7: last year and a half.
Speaker 2: Okay, so that was.
Speaker 7: One thing, but there I think that I made other
Speaker 7: financial goals that I've pretty much achieved as well.
Speaker 8: But I think New.
Speaker 7: Year's resolutions are aspiration. People need to have something to
Speaker 7: go for.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 7: Maybe that's just me, maybe I'm being naive, but oh look,
Speaker 7: I think it's.
Speaker 2: I think it. I think at the end of the year,
Speaker 2: most of us say okay, what's going right, what's going
Speaker 2: wrong in my life? And you can make it, make
Speaker 2: a very simple resolution, and if it works, it's great.
Speaker 2: You had made a significant resolution. I was afraid you're
Speaker 2: going to say to me. I was on ozempic for
Speaker 2: six months and I lost my weight. I got off
Speaker 2: it and came back on how much weight did you lose?
Speaker 2: If I could ask, forty eight pounds and have you
Speaker 2: kept them all off?
Speaker 7: I actually went on a wake in one eighty and
Speaker 7: dropped another nine pounds, but I kind of splid and
Speaker 7: I'm back to my one ninety five weight, which is
Speaker 7: my target weight when I was on the ozempic. So okay,
Speaker 7: I'm going to lose the other nine pounds to get
Speaker 7: back to where I was. That's what I'm going to
Speaker 7: do in the next month or so.
Speaker 2: Can I make a suggestion to you? Can I make
Speaker 2: a suggestion to you? And I know a little bit
Speaker 2: about the awake in one eighty program. Sure you know
Speaker 2: that once you're on it, you can take advantage of it.
Speaker 2: Like you understand that, right?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 9: Absolutely, And I'll tell you something.
Speaker 2: I go in once, I go in once a month,
Speaker 2: and every time I goin, you sit with one of
Speaker 2: the the coaches. Most of them are young women, and
Speaker 2: they're really smart and they give me tips and ideas.
Speaker 2: I've kept my I only lost thirty five pounds, maybe
Speaker 2: thirty eight, but I have kept it off for nine years.
Speaker 2: And the key for me is every month I need
Speaker 2: to go in there and and just sit and go over.
Speaker 2: If you were part of the program, don't give up
Speaker 2: on the program because it's it's free of charge. It's
Speaker 2: for the rest of your life. So you know, if
Speaker 2: you have a if you have a month where you've
Speaker 2: picked up a few pounds, go back in and they
Speaker 2: can help you out. You know, you go through the
Speaker 2: thing where they you get on that scale and you
Speaker 2: find out what what what's your your body fat has,
Speaker 2: what's gone up, what's your muscle fat. There's a lot
Speaker 2: of great information, you know what I'm talking about. So
Speaker 2: please you pay for take advantage of it.
Speaker 7: I shall dan, thank you. I really be back there
Speaker 7: probably and no, no, no, I'd going on a trip
Speaker 7: out of the kind trade in about a week and
Speaker 7: a half as soon as I get back, and I
Speaker 7: am going to watch what I eat eat while I'm away. Yep,
Speaker 7: I will be going back there.
Speaker 2: Great.
Speaker 7: The problem was I didn't stick with the program seriously enough.
Speaker 7: Did I lose weight? Yeah? I needed another pound to
Speaker 7: really hit my charget, which was one eighty five. I
Speaker 7: got to one eighty six and change six seven. I
Speaker 7: think I weigh myself almost every day. That is that
Speaker 7: is a key factor myself under control.
Speaker 9: Yeah, let me tell you. Let me tell you.
Speaker 2: I do the same thing. When I get up in
Speaker 2: the morning, I want to make sure that I am
Speaker 2: three or four pounds under one seventy because once you
Speaker 2: put your clothes on, now you've added a couple of pounds,
Speaker 2: three pounds or whatever. Oh yeah, wait, I weigh myself
Speaker 2: in the morning and I weigh myself at ninety. You
Speaker 2: know what that does? That teaches me what did I
Speaker 2: eat yesterday that all of a sudden my weight has
Speaker 2: gone up? Or what did I eat yesterday so my
Speaker 2: weight has stayed where it is. You learn, you learn
Speaker 2: by That's the way you learn what works with your body.
Speaker 2: That's all. Look, I had some chocolate cookies after dinner tonight, okay, uh,
Speaker 2: And I'm I may have a glass of red wine
Speaker 2: after the after the program tonight. So people think, oh,
Speaker 2: you gotta you gotta go cold turkey, and you can't
Speaker 2: know that's the beauty of a Waken one eighties. So
Speaker 2: please get back to it and do me a favor.
Speaker 2: Call me back and let me know how you're doing
Speaker 2: a couple of months.
Speaker 7: From now, Okay, I shall Dan.
Speaker 6: Thanks Shenny.
Speaker 2: I believe in this program and everyone who I have
Speaker 2: talked to about it has been a success. And it's
Speaker 2: amazing that you were able to take the weight off
Speaker 2: with the ozempic and keep it off. I was concerned.
Speaker 2: And now let's let's finish off with a waken one
Speaker 2: eight because again it's free of charge at this point.
Speaker 2: You know that, Okay.
Speaker 7: I'll say one thing about the Dan, Yeah, yes, gold.
Speaker 7: The one thing about the ozempic is you have to
Speaker 7: change how you eat, okay. And that's what it did
Speaker 7: for me. I lost a lot of the cravings that
Speaker 7: I had before to cheat and have.
Speaker 3: This and that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and I get off of it. I didn't need it,
Speaker 7: and I wanted to see if I could do it
Speaker 7: just on my own without the ozepic. I know people
Speaker 7: that are still on it. They've lost the weight, but
Speaker 7: they stay on it. I think you really need to
Speaker 7: test yourself.
Speaker 2: But you know what made you can do it with
Speaker 2: awake in one eighty because thousands of people have done it.
Speaker 2: It's not that hard. Okay, And I'm begging you call
Speaker 2: me back in a couple of months and you'll be
Speaker 2: done in one eighty.
Speaker 7: Okay, fair enough, Thanks Manny.
Speaker 2: Happy new You appreciate your coak care. Let's keep well. No,
Speaker 2: we got to slow down here because we got we're
Speaker 2: close to the eleven thirty newscast. Uh I got some
Speaker 2: open lines. There were all at six one. I got
Speaker 2: G and miliss I got Laurie coming up as well.
Speaker 2: Did you make a New Year's resolution? Did it work?
Speaker 2: Have you broken it? Have you made New Year's resolutions
Speaker 2: in the past that have worked for you? That's what
Speaker 2: we're talking about. Many had made one and had worked
Speaker 2: for him. Love to hear from you. Six one, seven, two, four, ten, thirties.
Speaker 2: That's the only lines that are open right now. Light
Speaker 2: him up. Back after this.
Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Dan Ray on w b Z,
Speaker 1: Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: All right, back to the phones. We were talking about
Speaker 2: New Year's resolutions. Love to hear from you. Let's go
Speaker 2: to G in Millis g welcome. How are you.
Speaker 10: I'm doing just fine.
Speaker 2: What is it's It's simply gee? Is that it like urs.
Speaker 7: Something like that.
Speaker 2: So what's your New Year's resolution?
Speaker 4: Ge?
Speaker 2: Have you made one? Yes?
Speaker 10: I am looking forward to a year that is lottery free.
Speaker 2: So you're a lottery player and you want to kick
Speaker 2: the habit.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I want to just direct my money into a
Speaker 10: different situation and kind of just be free from that.
Speaker 10: And in my previous resolutions as a young person, I
Speaker 10: learned how to smoke and a smoking household, so I
Speaker 10: quit smoking along with my mother, who I learned from
Speaker 10: through a TBS program that was on TV from Thanksgiving
Speaker 10: until New Year's and they had you stop on New
Speaker 10: Year's Eve, was your last cigarette? So I've been, you know,
Speaker 10: smoke free since my early twenties. And one of the
Speaker 10: other resolutions I made a few years ago was to
Speaker 10: become a better listener. And what I found out by
Speaker 10: being a better listener over more than a year's time,
Speaker 10: because it was it just rolled into the rest of
Speaker 10: my life that I became a better friend.
Speaker 2: That's interesting. I think that there's a lot of wisdom
Speaker 2: in that. By the way, you sound like you're probably
Speaker 2: no older than twenty five. By the way, you have
Speaker 2: a very young son. Dan.
Speaker 10: You've always got a lot of stars for me. And
Speaker 10: by the way, I'm a first time caller. I've been
Speaker 10: listening from the time you started.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. Well, I love first time callers, and
Speaker 2: I love first time callers who become second time callers.
Speaker 2: But thank you so much. Look, how tough was it
Speaker 2: to give up the cigarettes? You said it was a
Speaker 2: PBS program that did you put this?
Speaker 10: Yeah, it really helped. They just it was three basic
Speaker 10: things that you had to tell yourself. You had to
Speaker 10: choose not to smoke. You understood that cigarette smoking was
Speaker 10: not good for your health. And then you had to
Speaker 10: put in uh something that you also affirmed, so that
Speaker 10: every time you wanted, you know, you had that desire,
Speaker 10: you know, the nicotine six or whatever it had evolved to. Uh,
Speaker 10: it just uh you just plugged in those three statements.
Speaker 10: You told yourself that, and you know it didn't really
Speaker 10: go away. Uh the desire was there for many years.
Speaker 10: But I just kept using, uh what I learned in
Speaker 10: the program, and I just never went back, never even once.
Speaker 2: Good for you, so that.
Speaker 10: It's tough for people, but we can do it. You know,
Speaker 10: it takes some determination and discipline and you know, a
Speaker 10: true authentic willingness, and and I feel like you gained
Speaker 10: mastery when you set yourself up to do something, say
Speaker 10: you're in competitive sports or something and you want to
Speaker 10: excel at it. It seems like if you put everything
Speaker 10: that you have into it, you can accomplish things. But
Speaker 10: it takes a lot of focus. And I say, people
Speaker 10: have it if they give it to themselves, if they
Speaker 10: want something.
Speaker 2: You know, when I was a kid, my father was
Speaker 2: a two packa day, unfiltered camel smoker, and he I've
Speaker 2: been a veteran of World War two, spent two and
Speaker 2: a half years in China, Burman, India, and in those days,
Speaker 2: the cigarette companies provided cigarettes to the troops and it
Speaker 2: was the old you know, smoke them if you got him.
Speaker 2: So he came back hooked on and I hated. I
Speaker 2: hated a cigarette smoke. I mean I hated the smell
Speaker 2: of it, and I grew up with it. I grew
Speaker 2: up with it. Yes, as a consequence, I've never smoked
Speaker 2: a cigarette life. I can't. When Bill Clinton said he
Speaker 2: did not Inhale, I knew exactly what he meant. I
Speaker 2: can remember trying to one time smoke a cigarette to
Speaker 2: show a girl I was dating is how ugly it looked.
Speaker 2: And I didn't. I couldn't. I literally did no ability
Speaker 2: to inhale the smoke. But my father quit cold Turkey.
Speaker 2: He went from two packs a day, stopped when the
Speaker 2: Surgeon General's report came out and said smoking you know
Speaker 2: nineteen this is nineteen sixty four, right, And he just
Speaker 2: went cold Turkey. He's a very you know, tough guy, okay,
Speaker 2: but I was amazed that he went cold Turkey. I
Speaker 2: can remember as a kid he would give us a
Speaker 2: quarter go up and get a pack of cigarettes for him,
Speaker 2: and he was either smoking Lucky Strikes or camels. And
Speaker 2: I can remember smelling the packages and the tobacco smell
Speaker 2: wasn't bad, but that smell of the smoke, I hated it.
Speaker 7: Well.
Speaker 10: I can remember one thing about smoking the nicotine attaching
Speaker 10: to your skins of the fingers that held the cigarette.
Speaker 10: That was pretty gross.
Speaker 2: Yep, yep. Well, congratulations, this is your first time calling.
Speaker 2: I love the fact that you have finally called, and
Speaker 2: I hope you become a regular caller and tell your
Speaker 2: friends about Nightside. And by the way, just I know
Speaker 2: you probably know this, but we run a one hour
Speaker 2: show on Sunday nights. It's on tape, The Best Off,
Speaker 2: and we had a great guest. We had a couple
Speaker 2: of great guests this week, but one was last night
Speaker 2: at ten o'clock. I don't know if you heard Robert Charles,
Speaker 2: the former Assistant Secretary of State. It was an outstanding hour.
Speaker 2: And he has written a book called Cherish America. Stories
Speaker 2: of Americans famous and not so famous and why We've
Speaker 2: got the greatest country in the world. And so many
Speaker 2: people today called me and told me how they were
Speaker 2: inspired and they bought this guy's book as a result.
Speaker 2: On Sunday night, if you do nothing, flip on WBZ
Speaker 2: at eleven o'clock. It's a great hour.
Speaker 10: Can you repeat the title of the book please?
Speaker 2: Sure. The book was Cherish America, Cherish like you know
Speaker 2: you cherish something cherish. And his name was Robert Charles.
Speaker 2: He's a guy who grew up in Maine, became an
Speaker 2: Assistant Secretary of State under Secretary of State Colon Powell,
Speaker 2: and you know, worked in the powers of Washington internationally.
Speaker 2: He was an amazing guest and it's an amazing book.
Speaker 2: And just listen to it on Sunday night. I think
Speaker 2: you'll enjoy it a whole lot. And if people want
Speaker 2: to listen to it over the weekend, they can just
Speaker 2: go to Nightside on Demand dot com and listen to
Speaker 2: any of our hours on the program.
Speaker 10: This Sunday at ten pm eleven eleven eleven pm. That's
Speaker 10: late on a Sunday night anyway, if I can't tune
Speaker 10: in and in the meanwhile, it sounds like a great read.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, and if you if you don't hear it
Speaker 2: on Sunday night, you can listen. Just go to our
Speaker 2: website which is Nightside and Demand, and there's that. You
Speaker 2: can listen to it anytime you want. All of our
Speaker 2: programs you could. You could tomorrow you could listen to
Speaker 2: our conversation this will be this hour will be posted
Speaker 2: tonight by rob By probably two am in the morning.
Speaker 2: When you get up in the morning you can listen
Speaker 2: to you.
Speaker 10: But I'm kind of a be here and now person,
Speaker 10: I mean, once.
Speaker 9: Once and done, all right, Well do me a favorite
Speaker 9: come back soon.
Speaker 2: Okay, thanks so much, appreciate.
Speaker 10: Takeod care.
Speaker 8: Happy New Year to you, Happy New Year to.
Speaker 2: You as well. Thanks G. I are gonna go next
Speaker 2: to one of my favorite callers, Laurie. Laurie, how are
Speaker 2: you tonight? I suspect that you might have been a
Speaker 2: New Year's resolution person.
Speaker 8: Now I'm firmly in Rob's camp, and now I can
Speaker 8: actually next year actually make a resolution. But I think
Speaker 8: I probably have to send him royalties.
Speaker 2: Really, so you don't make that No, never really, Okay.
Speaker 8: I said someone the other day, accuse me kind of jerkingly.
Speaker 8: So obviously you you have no issues to resolve. I
Speaker 8: think some as I go. If there's something that needs
Speaker 8: changing me, I don't wait till the year turns over.
Speaker 8: I take care of it.
Speaker 2: You know something that's not a bad idea, But there
Speaker 2: is a moment I think psychologically where you wash the
Speaker 2: slate clean and you say, okay, twenty twenty four. I
Speaker 2: mean that is so much in my rear view mirror
Speaker 2: right now. I'm on to twenty twenty five.
Speaker 8: Now I move on to the next year. I just
Speaker 8: don't take the baggage with me.
Speaker 9: I embrace my perfection.
Speaker 2: Well, you know something, maybe that's that's that's a subconscious
Speaker 2: resolution when you think about it.
Speaker 8: Yes, yeah, they are behind me, but I don't I
Speaker 8: don't sit there and go, oh my gosh, what do
Speaker 8: I have to change this year? I don't it just
Speaker 8: because I I think a lot of it probably wouldn't happen.
Speaker 2: No, but I think a lot of people when when
Speaker 2: the year changes, if they've had a bad year, they
Speaker 2: feel great. Uh, you know that the stress of twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four hypothetically is gone. And if it was a
Speaker 2: great year, you know, it was the year that that
Speaker 2: your first child was born, or you got married, or
Speaker 2: you fell in love. Uh, you don't want that year
Speaker 2: to end. It's like, you know, wait a second, but
Speaker 2: all it is is just another sunrise when you think
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 9: Oh, exactly, yeah, time move on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I'm totally I'm totally with you in that regard.
Speaker 2: So you've never made a resolution, huh? Never made a
Speaker 2: New Year's restirace?
Speaker 8: You know, maybe when we were kids and it was
Speaker 8: like either wouldn't said a second, Grady fight something, So
Speaker 8: everyone told me had to make a resolution. So he said, fine,
Speaker 8: there's like resolution. I mean maybe one of your kids,
Speaker 8: but it wouldn't probably have been anything serious. And again,
Speaker 8: now I just don't if they work out it at
Speaker 8: the time.
Speaker 2: A quick question here because I always want to talk
Speaker 2: to you, particularly on a Friday night. I like to
Speaker 2: figure out what's the weather in Idahoka. Is what you're
Speaker 2: having today? We probably will get sometime next week.
Speaker 8: I real before we're having today is the storm they're
Speaker 8: talking about that's going to slide south of you.
Speaker 2: Guys.
Speaker 8: It has snowed all day. It hasn't been a huge accumulation,
Speaker 8: but we've we've had just so much rain and wet
Speaker 8: snow for the last two months.
Speaker 1: So we had a little.
Speaker 8: Sunshine this morning for about an hour and then it
Speaker 8: started snowing. It started rain and then it turned to snow.
Speaker 8: So it's snowing, but it's not super cold. It's right
Speaker 8: around freezing.
Speaker 2: So man, we got with and I've had incredible winds
Speaker 2: for Massachusetts. Oh really, fifty miles sixty mile an hour winds. Yeah,
Speaker 2: a lot of a lot of problems with tree down,
Speaker 2: trees down, all that.
Speaker 8: And what are your temperatures? What's the windshill?
Speaker 2: Tough? Tough, single digits, single digits. I was out, it
Speaker 2: was out today walking Willie the dog a couple of times,
Speaker 2: and it's like you just want to oh, let me
Speaker 2: tell you. Oh yeah, buttoned up, trust me with the hoodie,
Speaker 2: the hoodies up, the hood the hoodies up looking like
Speaker 2: Bill Belichick except U No, yeah, now I'm cold. No, no,
Speaker 2: there's no sleeves, trust me, not even for sleeves underneath.
Speaker 2: And I got a heavy, heavy coat, heavy coat that
Speaker 2: I wear.
Speaker 8: W B.
Speaker 2: It's a w very subtle WBZ on the side, which
Speaker 2: is great, and it's it's very warm. It's very warm
Speaker 2: and willy even you know Willie who loves to sit
Speaker 2: outside and just admire, uh that, listen to birds and
Speaker 2: and chase he had no he is Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 2: used him a couple of times this week. It's my
Speaker 2: it's my colleague on my uh my four point thirty
Speaker 2: pregame shows on Facebook, and we got a lot of
Speaker 2: good reaction to Willie. As a matter of fact, I asked,
Speaker 2: but read it today, if I could do have will
Speaker 2: if I could do her on Friday. She generally does Monday,
Speaker 2: Wednesday and Friday. And I said, can I do it today?
Speaker 2: And she said yeah. So there were a couple of
Speaker 2: people who work for another another shot will He's a
Speaker 2: showy w W. Yeah, you got it. He's a great
Speaker 2: little guy, great little guy.
Speaker 3: Lawya.
Speaker 2: I hope the weather clears up for you. But I
Speaker 2: think we're we're in the midst of winter now and
Speaker 2: there's no turning back.
Speaker 8: No, but you know what I'll take because last last
Speaker 8: winter it kind of did its minor thing and then
Speaker 8: all of a sudden we get three ft snow.
Speaker 6: Dumped on us.
Speaker 8: So I'll take this over, you know, a foot of
Speaker 8: snow every day.
Speaker 2: So yeah. Well, the problem is that when it gets
Speaker 2: as you know, being a New Englander, when it gets
Speaker 2: really cold in New England for a number of days,
Speaker 2: you know that something's cooking up there and is a storm.
Speaker 8: So uh yeah, and it might it might spy south
Speaker 8: of you guys, but it's coming east, I can guarantee.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, that's that's what they're saying. They're saying that
Speaker 2: the mid Atlantic States. You know, remember when we got
Speaker 2: killed back in twenty four twenty fifteen, the year before
Speaker 2: the mid Atlantic States took the front of it. So
Speaker 2: this might be a repeat of twenty fourteen for the
Speaker 2: mid Atlantic States. We'll see what happened. Yeah, Laura, I
Speaker 2: love you calls, you know that. Thanks so much for
Speaker 2: being there every night. Appreciate it so much.
Speaker 8: Okay, Yeah, nice to talk to you. Happy New Year
Speaker 8: in tonight, Happy.
Speaker 2: New Year to you, and good night as well. Goodness
Speaker 2: by all right, go take a quick break, a couple
Speaker 2: of calls, but I got a couple of lines open
Speaker 2: if you like. Two lines at six one, seven, two, five,
Speaker 2: four ten thirty. One line at six one seven, nine
Speaker 2: three one ten thirty. The New Year's Resolution has not
Speaker 2: been a great hit, but that's okay. We've had some
Speaker 2: interesting calls. Thrilled that she made her first call, and
Speaker 2: thrilled at Laurie checked in from Idaho. There is no
Speaker 2: more loyal listener than Laurie and Idaho. I gotta tell
Speaker 2: you we'll be back on night's side. Feel free join
Speaker 2: the conversation.
Speaker 1: Coming right back now, back to Dan Ray live from
Speaker 1: the Window World night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: By the way, the Window World night Side studios are
Speaker 2: very comfortable, nice and warm because of the night, because
Speaker 2: of the Window World windows which are just so tight.
Speaker 2: They're great windows. Let's go next to Tom down on
Speaker 2: Cape cot. I'll bet it's a little chilly on the
Speaker 2: Cape tonight. Hey Tom, how are you good?
Speaker 7: How are you?
Speaker 9: I'm on the beach with the dogs.
Speaker 2: Are you really literally, yes, I am. Oh my god,
Speaker 2: how cold is it?
Speaker 9: It is twenty nine degrees.
Speaker 2: What's the windshill factor though there's no wind at all? Wow, boy,
Speaker 2: that's great. That's not bad. That is not bad. Want
Speaker 2: to tell me what beach you're on?
Speaker 9: Maybe I know that beach, West Tennis Beach.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's a great beach. Great beach.
Speaker 9: I'm way at the end, all the way down to
Speaker 9: the end. Letting the dogs run free.
Speaker 2: Uh, I understand. I love it when people call and
Speaker 2: they tell me where you know that they're in that
Speaker 2: situation a situation. Thank you for calling. How's how's you
Speaker 2: knew your resolution working out?
Speaker 9: Well?
Speaker 5: I have it.
Speaker 9: It's not working out, but I just made it tonight.
Speaker 9: My New Years resolution is to stop listening to for
Speaker 9: dealing with negative people.
Speaker 2: That's not bad. How do you do that?
Speaker 9: I'll tell you. It's the people I'm surrounded with. It's
Speaker 9: not easy.
Speaker 2: Okay. Uh try being a talk show host.
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, well, you do a very good job. I
Speaker 9: can't say that about some of the people you have. Well,
Speaker 9: one guy at particular, I won't mention them that you
Speaker 9: have to fell in for you, but but you do it.
Speaker 9: An excellent job. You've always been You've always been a
Speaker 9: good guy. I remember you when you're on your days
Speaker 9: in wv Z.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm still a w B is he just a
Speaker 2: little different part of the business, that's all. I went
Speaker 2: from TV to radio, so but I got to tell
Speaker 2: you what I love about radio. What I really love
Speaker 2: about this job is the number of people who I
Speaker 2: get to know. I mean, many people who haven't met,
Speaker 2: but I really get to know people when they become
Speaker 2: regular callers. I really mean that. And I some times, yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, I recognize your name, and I recognize your voice,
Speaker 2: and I hope at some point next summer when I'm
Speaker 2: down the cape, we bump into each other and.
Speaker 9: We'll go coffee. At one point in time, you and
Speaker 9: I in Brookline Village ran right into each other right
Speaker 9: where the Brookline Brookline Savings Bank is, where the pot
Speaker 9: shop is now, We literally ran into each other. We
Speaker 9: look quite a bit of a we look quite a
Speaker 9: bit alike at that time. Now I'm I'm a little
Speaker 9: spots in the follicle area.
Speaker 2: That's okay, there's nothing wrong with that. There's nothing wrong
Speaker 2: with that. Hey, Tom, I loved you call man. Take
Speaker 2: care of those dogs. I got my son's dog. I'm
Speaker 2: dog sitting this week, Willie the Wonder Dog. So we
Speaker 2: love dogs.
Speaker 9: Nothing nothing like the dog.
Speaker 2: I'll see it at the Celtic Kitchens. Celtic Kitchen some morning. Okay, Oh,
Speaker 2: there you go.
Speaker 9: My treat.
Speaker 2: If if I run into you, well we can. We'll
Speaker 2: set it up, trust me. I always like to meet
Speaker 2: some of the listeners. I really do. Tom, thanks so much.
Speaker 2: Happy New Year to you and yours same to you.
Speaker 2: Right back at you. Okay, thanks, all right, let me
Speaker 2: get a couple in here real quickly. Christine and Debthim. Hi, Christine,
Speaker 2: how are you tonight?
Speaker 11: I'm good? How you Dan?
Speaker 2: I'm doing just great. Did you make a New Year's resolution?
Speaker 10: I did.
Speaker 11: I'm trying to strap on lestening my anxiety and not
Speaker 11: worry so much.
Speaker 9: That's everything that happens.
Speaker 2: That's a great resolution.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 11: And I'm also rocking on my house. I had a
Speaker 11: gasd by past sleep last April, and I'm doing well.
Speaker 11: I'm almost ninety six pounds right now.
Speaker 2: I'm down wow goody well please please please please, uh
Speaker 2: you know, try to try to take it off and
Speaker 2: if you get a chance, there's there's a few tricks
Speaker 2: to the trade. You know, keep drinking water, knock off
Speaker 2: you know the foods that that you got to knock off,
Speaker 2: knock them off, and weigh yourself every morning and every night,
Speaker 2: and you will learn.
Speaker 11: I used to do the wait last morning. I loved it,
Speaker 11: but I got so expensive and they moved. I was
Speaker 11: the one in Newton. Yeah, I enjoyed that program.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, here's the thing. Here's the thing, as
Speaker 2: I told Manny earlier in the in the hour, once
Speaker 2: you're in it, you're in it for life. And it
Speaker 2: doesn't cost any additional money. So if you want to
Speaker 2: go back just for the fun of it and and
Speaker 2: renew the relationship, you let me know and we'll make
Speaker 2: it happen. Okay, but everyone has a right to do it.
Speaker 2: I'm serious. You know you can go back, get the
Speaker 2: way in and everything will work out great.
Speaker 11: Okay, Okay, how's Billy doing by you will?
Speaker 2: He's doing fine. He's sleeping. I'll be sleeping soon. Thanks Christine.
Speaker 2: I got a run. I go one more. Happy New Year,
Speaker 2: Happy New Year, my friend. All right, thanks thanks Christin.
Speaker 2: All Right, we're gonna get Kevin up and lowell. Kevin.
Speaker 2: Last call of the week.
Speaker 5: Go right ahead, Kevin, Hey, how's it going?
Speaker 1: Dan?
Speaker 9: First time caller?
Speaker 2: Another first time caller? All right, little rotter A falls
Speaker 2: to Kevin and for g gee, I I got about
Speaker 2: a minute for you. Tell me what your new year's resolution.
Speaker 5: Is or my newest resolution is to a branch out
Speaker 5: in my radio career. I'm trying to get more into radio.
Speaker 5: I have a small show, but I want to I
Speaker 5: want to build up.
Speaker 2: Nothing wrong with that. We're always looking for talent and radio.
Speaker 2: Do you do that professionally or is that kind of
Speaker 2: a side a side gig?
Speaker 5: I guess it would be considered professionally. It pays a
Speaker 5: little bit, though, but good for you. It's a fun job.
Speaker 5: It's good for my body, good for you.
Speaker 2: Well, you know what, let Rob, you get my direct line.
Speaker 2: From Rob, give me a call and I'll be happy
Speaker 2: to consult with you and talk about how he can
Speaker 2: break into the business.
Speaker 5: Okay, oh man, I really appreciate that.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Do me a favorite. Rob, give Kevin my direct line.
Speaker 2: You call me and I will call you back. I
Speaker 2: guarantee it.
Speaker 5: Okay, all right, thank you man. I really appreciate that.
Speaker 2: You got a good set of pipes. So you do well.
Speaker 2: All right, We're done for the week. Happy New Year
Speaker 2: to everybody. Back on Monday night. Got a full week
Speaker 2: next week. Gonna work me hard next week, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: I want to thank Rob, want to thank Marina, want
Speaker 2: to thank all of you. Remind you that Nightside on
Speaker 2: demand is available all weekend, any hour you missed this week,
Speaker 2: including the Robert Charles our feel Free Cherish America. We
Speaker 2: will see you Monday night. I'll be on Facebook Live.
Speaker 2: I've at nights Side with Dan Ray in about two minutes.
Speaker 2: All dogs, all cats, all pets go to heaven. That's
Speaker 2: why Pal Charlie ray Is, who passed fourteen years ago
Speaker 2: in February. That's why your pets are are passed. They
Speaker 2: loved you and you love them. I do believe you'll
Speaker 2: see them again. We'll see you again on Monday night, everyone,
Speaker 2: and I'll see you on Facebook Nights Time with Dan
Speaker 2: Ray in about two minutes. Join us. Thanks everyone, have
Speaker 2: a great weekend. Stay warm,