Speaker 1: It's nice time with Unrazy Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Well, those of you who perhaps don't have the hockey game,
Speaker 2: there is a hockey game tonight which we're going up against,
Speaker 2: and that is the the Ford Nation Finale at Boston Garden.
Speaker 2: The game is now tied at two to two after
Speaker 2: three periods of play, so the teams are entering the
Speaker 2: overtime segment, which will be a twenty minute period or whoever,
Speaker 2: it's a sudden death typical the old school NHL. None
Speaker 2: of this three on three staff or shootouts. This is
Speaker 2: twenty minutes of hockey. If nobody scores, another twenty minutes
Speaker 2: of hockey until someone scores. The two goals for the
Speaker 2: US have been scored by Brady Kochuk and Jacob Sanderson.
Speaker 2: The Canadian goals by Nathan McKinnon and Sam Bennett. And
Speaker 2: as someone has just written, which I'm reading, there will
Speaker 2: be one more goal scorer in this game, and that
Speaker 2: play will instantly become a national hero. So that's what's
Speaker 2: going on. Will keep you posted. If you're watching the game,
Speaker 2: you can keep the audio down and participate. Listen to
Speaker 2: nights Side and even maybe participate. We talked a couple
Speaker 2: of hours about this situation in Somerville, which really troubles me.
Speaker 2: I don't like to see communities taking advantage of their residents,
Speaker 2: and I think that that's what's going on in Summerville.
Speaker 2: This is an extraordinary snowstorm or a series of snowstorms.
Speaker 2: But we're going to put that on ice part in
Speaker 2: the pun, because that's what. Pretty much all the sidewalks
Speaker 2: in Somerville are on ice, so they can go around
Speaker 2: and find everybody. I'd like to go to a different
Speaker 2: sort of controversy, and this is one that the airlines
Speaker 2: I think are responsible for. We have had several at
Speaker 2: least one major, well two major crashes, one up in
Speaker 2: Toronto a couple of days ago, in which no one
Speaker 2: was killed. Miraculously, how that ever happened. It's incredible that
Speaker 2: all of the passenger and crew got off that plane
Speaker 2: and apparently none of them have suffered Some were injured,
Speaker 2: but none of them have suffered life threatening issues, which
Speaker 2: is great. And of course we had the horrific crash
Speaker 2: the flight into Washington National Airport in which a US
Speaker 2: military helicopter collided with that plane on final approach and
Speaker 2: all I think it was sixty seven people, sixty three
Speaker 2: on the plane, sixty four on the plane, and three
Speaker 2: members of the military crew died. And then we've had
Speaker 2: a couple of other crashes that all of a sudden
Speaker 2: people are saying, well, what's going on with their safety?
Speaker 2: I think it's I don't think it's anything going on
Speaker 2: with their safety. These crashes began before Donald Trump started
Speaker 2: the leap people off in government, including the FAA. However, however,
Speaker 2: I wanted to use the opportunity tonight to talk about
Speaker 2: I've flown recently a few times, and I think all
Speaker 2: of us know on passenger planes the seats are getting smaller.
Speaker 2: It's not that we're getting bigger, the seats are getting smaller.
Speaker 2: I don't think there's any question about that. But more importantly,
Speaker 2: what I have noticed, and i'd love to get your
Speaker 2: reaction to it. If you're someone who travels for a
Speaker 2: long long time, it used to be that you could
Speaker 2: check a bag no charge, and some, if not all,
Speaker 2: the airlines that I haven't flown on all the airlines,
Speaker 2: so I can't speak to all the airlines, but a
Speaker 2: lot of the airlines, if not all the airlines, have
Speaker 2: said okay, it's going to cost you twenty five bucks
Speaker 2: to check a bag or whatever. So what did that
Speaker 2: prompt people to do? Prompt and want people to say, Well,
Speaker 2: I'm going to get a smaller bag or two and
Speaker 2: I'm going to carry them on. I won't have to
Speaker 2: wait at the carousel once the plane lands wherever I'm going,
Speaker 2: so I can I can just beat feet once I
Speaker 2: get off the plane and head to the to the
Speaker 2: cab line or to the uber line and get my
Speaker 2: trip underway. What that then necessitates is because the smaller
Speaker 2: seats you don't have a whole lot of ligorroom, you
Speaker 2: have to put those bags that you bring on. And
Speaker 2: I carry on a small case which is within the
Speaker 2: limits that the airlines point out how wide it can be,
Speaker 2: how long it can be, how high it can be,
Speaker 2: so it fits in the overhead bed. And I also
Speaker 2: will carry you know, kind of a computer's shoulder bag,
Speaker 2: and whether I bring my computer with me or not,
Speaker 2: that I also have some stuff in that bag and
Speaker 2: you put it up above. Now, one thing that is
Speaker 2: always interesting to me is that the airlines, if you notice,
Speaker 2: they always load people at the front of the plane.
Speaker 2: Now I understand that people who are buying first class
Speaker 2: or business class tickets. They want a little priority. Fine,
Speaker 2: but then they own most of the planes I've been on.
Speaker 2: They load from the front. They continue to load from
Speaker 2: the front, so the last people on are the people
Speaker 2: at the back of the plane. And I think what
Speaker 2: happens is, as you know, group two loads on and
Speaker 2: group three, group four takes longer to load the plane
Speaker 2: because it should be let the people who are going
Speaker 2: to be at the back, let them go first. If
Speaker 2: it's group five in the back, put group five in
Speaker 2: the back. But everybody worries about overhead space because you
Speaker 2: don't want to find out that, sort of like a
Speaker 2: game of musical chairs, you don't In musical chairs, you
Speaker 2: lose because you don't have a place to sit. In
Speaker 2: the game of musical baggage bind, if all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: all the space in the in the in the bins
Speaker 2: above the seats are taken, there's nowhere to put your
Speaker 2: your bag under the seat in front of you. Don't
Speaker 2: worry about that if you have a normal sized bag,
Speaker 2: even a normal sized bag which fits into the airline limitations.
Speaker 2: And so the flight crew will say, well, we'll hold
Speaker 2: the bag up front, and will hold the bag up back.
Speaker 2: And then you have bag anxiety. Well, am I gonna
Speaker 2: get my bag back? Is will it be there when
Speaker 2: I get off the plane? And of course compounding that,
Speaker 2: compounding that, if you've noticed recently, and I have always
Speaker 2: noticed this, no matter where I sit on the plane,
Speaker 2: and I'm like in the middle of the plane, back
Speaker 2: of the plane, That's why I tend to end up
Speaker 2: and the plane comes to the gate, everybody jumps up,
Speaker 2: or the people jump up, and the people can't move
Speaker 2: because they could maybe one person can move into the aisle,
Speaker 2: but they're immediately trying to pull their bag it. They're
Speaker 2: they're bagged down from which now is heavy. These are
Speaker 2: heavy bags. They're now weighing forty fifty pounds, and a
Speaker 2: lot of people, older people, people who aren't as strong,
Speaker 2: they're they're pulling the bag down and running the risk
Speaker 2: of hitting someone off the head. And it's just it.
Speaker 2: It makes the whole process of air travel more miserable.
Speaker 2: It just forget the additional anxiety of you look at
Speaker 2: that plane in Toronto the other day. Those people on
Speaker 2: that plane, I'm sure as they were coming in for
Speaker 2: that final approach, they'll they're saying, this is beautiful we've landed,
Speaker 2: they're they're on a nice flight platter, they're they're they're
Speaker 2: coming in, looks for a very smooth landing, and then boom.
Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe maybe one of the wheels collapsed,
Speaker 2: maybe it hit too hard hard, But next thing you know,
Speaker 2: the plane flips over, the right wing collapses, fire breaks out,
Speaker 2: the plane inverts. People are hanging from their seats from
Speaker 2: what used to be their seats now is the top
Speaker 2: of the plane. I mean, it's time for the airlines
Speaker 2: to smarten up, and I want to make some suggestions,
Speaker 2: and I'm hoping you'll make some suggestions. What can the
Speaker 2: airlines do to make air travel a little nicer, a
Speaker 2: little less anxious, and obviously safer. Not only safer in
Speaker 2: terms of landing the planes, they've done a pretty good
Speaker 2: job at that, with some exceptions, but also safer. So
Speaker 2: when you're standing there, or you're in your seat waiting
Speaker 2: to get up the plane, is that they gate, people
Speaker 2: are starting to get off. You don't want some knucklehead
Speaker 2: taking his or her fifty pound bag down and dropping
Speaker 2: it on your head. That's what nice sense is. And
Speaker 2: I think I think that all of this is causing
Speaker 2: unnecessary anxiety, unnecessary angst. So if you had a recent
Speaker 2: experience on a plane that has not been a good
Speaker 2: experience either because the seats were too crowded, no food
Speaker 2: is served, You're lucky if they offer you a pepsi
Speaker 2: or coke or chine rail or bag of peanuts, bag
Speaker 2: of cookies. That's it. Airline travel used to be glamorous.
Speaker 2: People used to look forward. It was something special. I'm
Speaker 2: going to get on an airplane and I'm gonna fly
Speaker 2: to Washington, or I'm gonna fly to Miami, or are
Speaker 2: I'm going to apply to Chicago or New York and
Speaker 2: it's gonna be it's going to be something special. It's
Speaker 2: not special anymore. Your airline experience is six one, seven, two, five, four,
Speaker 2: ten thirty six one seven nine three one ten thirty
Speaker 2: Those are the two big numbers that can get you
Speaker 2: through right now. And if you're out there listening the
Speaker 2: first second two hours tonight from nine to eleven, we
Speaker 2: were talking really about something local up here in Boston
Speaker 2: with the or in New England with these storms. This
Speaker 2: is something everyone can relate to. Feel free, Light it up.
Speaker 2: Six one, seven, two, five, four ten thirty six one
Speaker 2: seven nine, three, ten thirty. My name's Dan Ray. This
Speaker 2: is Nightside. You're listening to WBZ in Boston. Give us
Speaker 2: a call. Let's get it going here, talking about what plane,
Speaker 2: what airline travel has devolved to. It's it's not fun anymore.
Speaker 2: It is just not fun. Recently at a couple of airports,
Speaker 2: big huge airports. It is just I think I'm I'm
Speaker 2: gonna become in my old age. I'm gonna become a
Speaker 2: trained guy. Coming back on Nightside 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: Baggage, Ben Battles, That's what I'm calling this hour. Let's
Speaker 2: go to the Phone's gonna go to Jason and Waltham. Hey, Jason,
Speaker 2: welcome back.
Speaker 3: I'm good. How are you uh? With everything that's going
Speaker 3: on with his airplanes at the airport, Man, I'm scared
Speaker 3: of flying man too much. I feel bad, and I
Speaker 3: feel bad for all the people and the families, all
Speaker 3: the lost the lost lives were lost. But something gotta
Speaker 3: be done. As far as about the experience is, I
Speaker 3: was coming back from I saw that last month, and
Speaker 3: I missed my Jet Blue flight and I had to
Speaker 3: get on a Frontier flight. That was the worst experience
Speaker 3: ever had. Frontier in spirit, those are the worst two
Speaker 3: airlines ever. I will never fly on like rather.
Speaker 2: Okay, what was wrong? I've never Jason, I've never flown Frontier.
Speaker 2: Give me your your experience. What was it like?
Speaker 1: So?
Speaker 3: I had a I had to make one of those
Speaker 3: men's breastcast that you carry and I only had a
Speaker 3: two pairs of jeans and a laptop and a couple
Speaker 3: of files in it. And they made me check it
Speaker 3: in and pay for it because they will not fit
Speaker 3: into their cognates and they had room. So when you're
Speaker 3: going to Frontier, they measure your carry on. If your
Speaker 3: carry on that doesn't fit in that little small box,
Speaker 3: it won't take it.
Speaker 2: It won't of course. So what did they do?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 2: How much did they charge you for the for the
Speaker 2: carry on that they should have allowed on?
Speaker 3: Fifty dollars fifty Yeah, a lot of It's not a
Speaker 3: lot of money, by just just ridiculous.
Speaker 2: I think it's a hey, Jason, I think it's a
Speaker 2: lot of money. I mean, you know, it's fifty fifty dollars.
Speaker 2: You got to probably make seventy five in order to
Speaker 2: spend fifty right, I mean that's a few bucks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but that's crazy. Please Frontier and Spirit airlines never please,
Speaker 3: people don't use those airlines.
Speaker 2: Thank you well, Jason. You you giving him fifty dollars
Speaker 2: worth of had publicity so so so they made a
Speaker 2: mistaken They should have said, okay, Jason, you're all set.
Speaker 2: Hey Jason, thanks man, Thank you. Back to you soon,
Speaker 2: have a great night. Can I let me go next
Speaker 2: to Bobby Is in Sagas, Massachusetts. Bobby you next on nightside?
Speaker 2: Your hairline stories are experienced.
Speaker 5: Bo I'm on my way up to Boxford, just landed,
Speaker 5: but I want to say something else first. I'm a
Speaker 5: I'm a car wash guy, and I was on with
Speaker 5: your car guys. People were asking me questions what do
Speaker 5: you do when you get salt on the cars? And
Speaker 5: we had a mutual friend, bless his soul, Neil Price.
Speaker 2: Oh god, Leo was one of my closest friends. What
Speaker 2: a great guy.
Speaker 5: I know that, and I gotta tell you Neil was
Speaker 5: a great, great guy. Uh So let me get to it.
Speaker 5: I just flew in from from Fort Myers. The seat
Speaker 5: that I had was way in the back in the
Speaker 5: in the whend know, and I can't sit there, so
Speaker 5: I got a seat up front. I paid one hundred
Speaker 5: and twenty dollars to get on that seat. And there's
Speaker 5: no room to put your bags. You've got to put
Speaker 5: your bag up top, and when you land and take off,
Speaker 5: you've got to put your little your briefcase type bag
Speaker 5: up top as well, And there's just no room. The
Speaker 5: seats are smaller. And I got to tell you, you
Speaker 5: hit the nail on the head when you said why
Speaker 5: though they load people in the back first, and I
Speaker 5: get it, I paid extra per seat, but I would
Speaker 5: have rather had other people go back in an orderly
Speaker 5: fashion and make it a lot more comfortable for travels.
Speaker 5: That's what I have to say, first of all.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I'm with you, and I don't understand that
Speaker 2: at all. I mean, it just seems to me to
Speaker 2: be silly that the way they do it. Did you
Speaker 2: get on this On this flight coming back, everything went okay,
Speaker 2: you know, not a lot of turbulence, hopefully, you know, softly.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I love to say it was uneventful.
Speaker 2: That's good. That's a good thing to get me. How
Speaker 2: many begs? How many bags of peenis did they give you?
Speaker 5: They get they didn't have anything. They gave you a cookie.
Speaker 2: Airline flights, airline, flying on an airplane. It's just not
Speaker 2: the same anymore, is it. Huh?
Speaker 5: Not the same, not the same. But anyways, the first time, pleasure,
Speaker 5: pleasure talking with you, and that at some point when
Speaker 5: when you do the car guys, maybe they'll want me
Speaker 5: to come on. We'll answer them how to take care
Speaker 5: of your car in the winner.
Speaker 2: Well, Bob, that's that would be great. You know, don't
Speaker 2: send me a note because I no longer physically am
Speaker 2: at the station, But why don't you stay on and
Speaker 2: Rob will give you my direct line. You give me
Speaker 2: a call and I'll give you a call back, and
Speaker 2: maybe we can do something with you, even separately. You
Speaker 2: know Larry and Scott Do you know those are guys?
Speaker 2: Those guys know Neil too. I assume you know Larry
Speaker 2: and Scott.
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, my one of my stores is right in Peabody,
Speaker 5: right down the street, so I knew Larry and Scott
Speaker 5: very well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, do me a favorite. Rob will give
Speaker 2: you my direct line, and you know, someday when you
Speaker 2: get a moment, give me a call. If I don't
Speaker 2: pick up, I'll call you back and we'll connect. And
Speaker 2: then the next time Larry and and Scott are on,
Speaker 2: maybe we'll bring you on as a special guest. We'll
Speaker 2: figure it out. We'll work something out here. You know,
Speaker 2: any friend of Neil Price is a friend of mine,
Speaker 2: that's for sure.
Speaker 5: Neil and Paula I spoke. I spoke to Paul the
Speaker 5: day before I left, and uh, just great. And I
Speaker 5: gotta tell you I missed Neil. What a guy.
Speaker 2: I missed him. Yeah, we had a lot of fun
Speaker 2: over the years. Trust me, I worked with I worked
Speaker 2: in conjunction with him. I got to meet him through
Speaker 2: a lawyer who was a mentor of mine when I
Speaker 2: was young and out of law school, a fellow named
Speaker 2: John Ducas. And it's just funny the way you connect
Speaker 2: with people during your life, and the people who are
Speaker 2: the good, people who are the good, honest, hard working people,
Speaker 2: you meet him and you never forget them. And I'll
Speaker 2: never forget Neil Price. So thanks, Bob, appreciate you call.
Speaker 2: Don't hang up, Robi, give you my direg line. Okay, thanks,
Speaker 2: Let's keep talking about your airline traffic experiences, the good,
Speaker 2: the bad, and the ugly. And it's pretty ugly out there,
Speaker 2: to be honest with you. Arthur in Boston, Arthur next
Speaker 2: on nightside.
Speaker 4: Welcome, Hi Dan, thanks listening. I met you in the
Speaker 4: lounge a couple of saturdays ago.
Speaker 2: My wife. Oh, absolutely, absolutely yeah, we were flying south.
Speaker 2: Thanks Arthur, Thanks for calling. You were really a gentleman
Speaker 2: and I loved meeting you and your wife. It was
Speaker 2: a lot of fun.
Speaker 4: Thank you. You enjoyed meeting your wife, and of course
Speaker 4: you and I had met before, and I hope you
Speaker 4: had a good flight down south as we did, and
Speaker 4: it was great. But this is a subject that's near
Speaker 4: and dear as to our hearts, this airline boarding and whatever.
Speaker 4: I thought the airlines have it backwards. I think that
Speaker 4: they ought to have check baggage for free, and if
Speaker 4: you want to bring your bags on the plane, because
Speaker 4: it takes time, it delays everybody, It causes all sorts
Speaker 4: of congestion in the aisle. Judge your fifty dollars to
Speaker 4: put something in the overhead rack.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and look, people do that because you know as
Speaker 2: well as I do that they're looking to save the money.
Speaker 2: That's why they're doing it. And then they also think, well,
Speaker 2: i'll put my bag and I'll just grab my bag
Speaker 2: and I'll head. I don't have to go to the
Speaker 2: baggage carousel. I don't have to wait for my bag.
Speaker 2: I'm in the cab before the bags come up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, sure, go on jet Blue. You check your bag.
Speaker 4: Of course, if you have the Jet Blue credit card,
Speaker 4: the check bag is free. But then on the other
Speaker 4: end there comes up problem. The problem is it takes
Speaker 4: forever for the luggage to come out, and of course
Speaker 4: they take you forever to get out of the plane
Speaker 4: because everybody's taking the bag from the overhead rack. If
Speaker 4: they did it the other way.
Speaker 2: We came back from Yeah, we came back from a
Speaker 2: trip from Italy last summer, and I think we waited.
Speaker 2: It had to be like an hour and a half
Speaker 2: for the bags to come up off an international flight.
Speaker 2: It was seriously and everybody it wasn't like, you know,
Speaker 2: your bag or my bag were the last ones coming up.
Speaker 2: We're just sitting there and watching this thing go around
Speaker 2: and round and round, and we have been. We had
Speaker 2: been a long fighters, like nine hours. Everybody just wanted
Speaker 2: to get out, get home and get out of there. Sure, unbelievable,
Speaker 2: but you guys had a good trip. Do me a favor.
Speaker 2: Leave you a number for me with with Rob when
Speaker 2: when you hang up, I'd love to be in touch
Speaker 2: with you. Rob will give you my direct line as well.
Speaker 2: How long were you away? We were only away for
Speaker 2: about five days.
Speaker 4: Totally exactly what we did. We went to Orlando, as
Speaker 4: I told you, and uh yeah, I had had a
Speaker 4: great time in Disney. And we're going again in a
Speaker 4: couple of weeks. You're going back, Mickey was waiting for us.
Speaker 4: Key was waiting back.
Speaker 2: You're going back to Florida, going back to Disney.
Speaker 4: Well, i'll tell you what. We're going to Nashville next
Speaker 4: trip and uh uh. Then a little later on we're
Speaker 4: going to Hawaii, so we'll see.
Speaker 2: Man. Good for you. Are you still working?
Speaker 4: I am a retired professor from Are you ready for this?
Speaker 4: From two places you Mass Boston and Northeastern And so yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm I'm almost your age.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I had we were kind of I like to
Speaker 2: say this, we're of the same vintage Arthur.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there you go, Yes, yes we are.
Speaker 2: It sounds more classical by the way that By the way,
Speaker 2: the Canadians have just beaten the US. Let me let
Speaker 2: me be the first to break that news here. The
Speaker 2: game is over. The Canadians have won three to two,
Speaker 2: so they will Wow, they win the tournament. I'll figure
Speaker 2: out who the who the big score is, who who
Speaker 2: won the game here? Wow?
Speaker 4: Uikes?
Speaker 2: Yeah whatever, that game's over, so we're back to the
Speaker 2: regular NHL season. Arthur, leave your number with Rob and
Speaker 2: he'll give you my direct line so we can be
Speaker 2: in touch.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'll do that. Dan always the pleasure to say
Speaker 4: regards the game and we'll talk to him.
Speaker 2: Appreciate it, thanks, Arthur. Okay, we're going to take a break.
Speaker 2: It's eleven thirty and yeah, I just flipped just looked
Speaker 2: up and the Canadians are celebrating. They have they have
Speaker 2: won the tournament three to one. I'll try to figure
Speaker 2: out who who scored the game winner here, but it
Speaker 2: will be some one of the Canadian players. Uh and yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm just scheduling it here. I've had a little bit
Speaker 2: of a TV problem. Sidney Crosby scored in overtime to
Speaker 2: beat the US in the gold medal game. Oh no, no, no,
Speaker 2: scored in the gold medal game of the Winter Olymics.
Speaker 2: Uh no, I still don't have that with that is
Speaker 2: not not Crosby here that that scored the winner. We'll
Speaker 2: figure it out. We will figure it out. But the
Speaker 2: Canadians have won it. And that's say maybe I got
Speaker 2: it here, hold on, we might have it right here. Nope, nope,
Speaker 2: I'll get it for you. Maybe someone who's watched the
Speaker 2: game will have it for us. We're back on night Side.
Speaker 2: Right after this.
Speaker 1: Night Side with Dan Ray on w B Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Connor McDavid, uh the Edmundton oiler superstar these sort of
Speaker 2: the new Sydney. Rosby scored the game winner for Canada
Speaker 2: three to two in overtime over the US. Now we're
Speaker 2: back to everyone should be listening to night Side. The
Speaker 2: game is over. We are talking about airline travel and
Speaker 2: what it's been like and has it been good for you.
Speaker 2: I think it's been tough, I really do. I'd love
Speaker 2: to hear from you your point of view on any
Speaker 2: of this. What you feel the airlines could do to
Speaker 2: make it more consumer friendly. I think that's something that
Speaker 2: the airlines have to start to think about because at
Speaker 2: some point, yeah, the business travelers will always be there,
Speaker 2: but eventually people will kind of tired up, tire of it,
Speaker 2: let me go next to Nathan and Quincy. Nathan, you're
Speaker 2: next to nice Ide. Welcome.
Speaker 5: Hello.
Speaker 6: So I was I have experience in the airline industry.
Speaker 6: It used to be a ramp agent for Jump Blue
Speaker 6: and for Spirit so as far as like baggage, like
Speaker 6: sometimes like with customs, so it takes a long time
Speaker 6: clearing the luggage for national flights. But but like we
Speaker 6: for Jet Blue, they do it based on your status
Speaker 6: and everybody they change it back in September where everybody
Speaker 6: gets a carry on, but once they fill up in space,
Speaker 6: it either gets gate checked where you get back right
Speaker 6: outside you get off the plane, or or it goes
Speaker 6: into ben.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know, a lot a lot of people
Speaker 2: have bag anxiety. I mean a lot of people have
Speaker 2: their medications, or they have their contact lens cases or
Speaker 2: solutions or the contact lenses or whatever, and we all
Speaker 2: you know, once you're separated from that dag, it's like
Speaker 2: being separated from your.
Speaker 7: Child, like you Yeah, So so if you tell, at
Speaker 7: least for Jeff Blue, if you tell them you have
Speaker 7: medications or or valuable stuff in there, they'll tag it
Speaker 7: with a P tag and then you'll get it back
Speaker 7: at the gate or right outside the boarding door to
Speaker 7: the plane instead of it going to the carousel.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, that's good to know. It just can be.
Speaker 2: It just is so crazy. You know, you do you
Speaker 2: fly much? Now? Are you still working for for job?
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 6: I don't work for Jet Blue. I mean i've I've flew.
Speaker 6: I haven't flown for any of the airlines so I
Speaker 6: used to work for But the as far as Jet Blue, like,
Speaker 6: they're retiring their E one nineties and replacing them with
Speaker 6: the two twenties. So that's gonna give a lot more space,
Speaker 6: a lot more bags, new overhead bins, so and more seats.
Speaker 2: Well that's a good that's a good thing then, But
Speaker 2: it's just no fun, not fun anymore. I mean, I
Speaker 2: know I'm probably older than you, but I can remember
Speaker 2: flying to New York or flying to Washington in the
Speaker 2: morning and you get a breakfast. It was a pretty
Speaker 2: decent breakfast. It was prepared, but it was hot, scrambled eggs, sausage, whatever,
Speaker 2: some home fries, and there was coffee. It just seemed
Speaker 2: that it was more elegant back a few years more
Speaker 2: than a few years ago. But I'm talking I'm not
Speaker 2: talking about flying business. I'm talking about flying just in
Speaker 2: coach and it was just more fun. It was more elegant,
Speaker 2: it was more special. People were more dressed up, you know,
Speaker 2: we were we had to fly suit and ties because
Speaker 2: we were working in television at the time. But it
Speaker 2: just it's like bus travel now, it's like what bus
Speaker 2: travel used to be. I don't know. Yeah, anyway, have
Speaker 2: you got my shirt before? Nathan? Is this your first time?
Speaker 8: Now?
Speaker 6: No, this is my first time.
Speaker 2: Okay. We had a bunch of first time callers tonight,
Speaker 2: which is great, which is great by doing a little
Speaker 2: bit of a different topic. So do you still work
Speaker 2: for the airline or no?
Speaker 6: Are you I'm applying for flying for two other airlines,
Speaker 6: but I've worked at the airport for three years now.
Speaker 6: So all in the ramps, so it's it's a it's
Speaker 6: a hard it's a hard position, very physical lifting all
Speaker 6: the bags in the bind like like for like places
Speaker 6: going to sant Her Domingo for for a Jet Blue
Speaker 6: you have over three hundred bags or about in the
Speaker 6: band in the back end the front and all the
Speaker 6: bags get loaded back. They get loaded front to back,
Speaker 6: but when you offload, all the bags get loaded back
Speaker 6: to front. So the bags that come out and last
Speaker 6: are usually at the bottom of the car so that's
Speaker 6: why they come out last in the carousel.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you this, if you're working what you're
Speaker 2: you're working a real physical job. You don't have to
Speaker 2: worry about going to the gym and working out, Nathan,
Speaker 2: because you get your work out now. Oh the job.
Speaker 2: Hey man, I appreciate how old are you you still
Speaker 2: hopefully you're a young guy.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm twenty six.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well that's the that's the point. You know, when
Speaker 2: you're when you're fifty six, it's probably gonna be a
Speaker 2: tougher job. But stay in shape, man, Okay, all right.
Speaker 2: I appreciate what you guys do out there. I mean
Speaker 2: that seriously. And you're out there and in all sorts
Speaker 2: of weather, you know, I mean those of us who
Speaker 2: you pull up right to the gate you get off
Speaker 2: the plane. You never have to worry about the cold
Speaker 2: or the rain of the wind. You guys are out
Speaker 2: in the middle of it at all times. So thank
Speaker 2: you for what you do, and I hope you keep
Speaker 2: calling my program.
Speaker 6: Thanks Nathan, all right, thank you.
Speaker 2: Talk to you soon. We're gonna go from A Nathan
Speaker 2: in Quincy, Massachusetts. Let's go out west. We haven't talked
Speaker 2: to Laurie all week. I was missing Laurie. Hey, Laurie,
Speaker 2: welcome back. How are you.
Speaker 6: I'm doing well? Thank you? Well, no, not so well.
Speaker 6: I'm a little depressed with the hockey game results.
Speaker 9: But oh well, so.
Speaker 2: Did you watch the game?
Speaker 6: I did, I'd multitask, I had it on and I
Speaker 6: was listening to Easy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but yeah I didn't.
Speaker 6: I didn't. I did have it. It was it was
Speaker 6: a busy game. It wasn't a horrible game.
Speaker 2: But were there many were there many fights?
Speaker 10: Or no?
Speaker 2: Did they did they go? Did they? No? Okay no?
Speaker 6: Not during Yeah they didn't. Well, and they didn't. They
Speaker 6: didn't during a national anthem. I mean there were some
Speaker 6: fifty coughs and they kind of made it more. They
Speaker 6: were getting into each other into which of those spaces
Speaker 6: before the right before the goal. So but there were
Speaker 6: no no brawls like.
Speaker 2: The last the other night. Well, you know, it's funny.
Speaker 2: I watched the opening. The opening ceremony was right at
Speaker 2: eight o'clock during the newscast, or during at eight fifteen,
Speaker 2: so I was able to watch it for a couple
Speaker 2: of minutes, and it appeared that both national anthems were
Speaker 2: presented beautifully and there was no disrespect from either country
Speaker 2: towards the other.
Speaker 6: Yee during which was nice. There were actually there was
Speaker 6: a lot of cheering. I mean, I know a lot
Speaker 6: of Canadians were there. There was a lot of cheering
Speaker 6: during the Canadians.
Speaker 2: But it was good. I mean, the the the Americans
Speaker 2: respected the Canadian national anthem. The Canadians obviously loved that presentation,
Speaker 2: and that woman did a great job. And the lever
Speaker 2: was the singer of the US nationals. She did a
Speaker 2: great job. And the Canadian fans behaved themselves as guests,
Speaker 2: so it was good. It worked out great. I thought
Speaker 2: they were going to use the guy the Bruins, guy
Speaker 2: Angelini I think is his name, who's a great national
Speaker 2: anthem singer, but he it was that I.
Speaker 6: Had some woman was like a part of an orchestra
Speaker 6: behind her, which I heard it was the Boston City Orchestra.
Speaker 2: It was the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely, Well you know that that probably has to
Speaker 6: be something who works with here? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah. What was the last time you were on a
Speaker 2: plane and did you enjoy the experience?
Speaker 6: Oh, I have enjoyed the experience for twenty years, but
Speaker 6: it was it was before my hip surgery, so it's
Speaker 6: been a little while, but I flew a lot before then,
Speaker 6: and the bins are the things that drive me. When
Speaker 6: I first introduced them, we thought okay. But when I
Speaker 6: got on a plane and I looked at and I thought, well,
Speaker 6: they've got, you know, a bin for so many seats,
Speaker 6: and basically people in those roads should be should fit
Speaker 6: into that bin. And I've always checked the bag. I
Speaker 6: always bring a carry on. I just checked the suitcase
Speaker 6: because it's just less hassle, and you know, if I've
Speaker 6: got shampoos and stuff anything like that, I just, you know,
Speaker 6: want to deal with all the so.
Speaker 7: I just check it.
Speaker 6: And I've only once gotten to an airport where it
Speaker 6: wasn't there when they wanted it. So I take the
Speaker 6: carry on. But I can't tell you how many times.
Speaker 6: First of all, when you get onto the plane, you
Speaker 6: think you can put your thing in your overhead bed
Speaker 6: of your seat in and you've got to go all
Speaker 6: the way back to the end of the plane because
Speaker 6: all these people have been stuffing them up with other
Speaker 6: suitcases before you even got so you might have found it,
Speaker 6: you might have found a gripe here. But and so,
Speaker 6: and I can't tell you because I always take an
Speaker 6: aisle seat because I'm claustrophobic, and so I can't tell
Speaker 6: you the number of times I've been hitten in the
Speaker 6: head with people. Stupid luggage.
Speaker 2: I hate it. It's not it's not fun. And what
Speaker 2: they say, oh gee, did I hit you?
Speaker 6: Now?
Speaker 2: You hit me now?
Speaker 6: They don't even know it because they don't have to
Speaker 6: control their own stupid luggage. Yeah, so that that is.
Speaker 2: And it's like they don't realize how heavy it is
Speaker 2: at a bad angle and.
Speaker 6: Boom exactly, Well, I know it's going to come hit me.
Speaker 6: I mean, the bin does not extend beyond where my
Speaker 6: head is, see whatever, and so and then they got
Speaker 6: all this crud they're clogging up the aisles with instead
Speaker 6: of just something you can swing over your shoulder, and
Speaker 6: that that is my biggest pet peeve. Right now, I'm.
Speaker 2: With you totally.
Speaker 5: I'm with you totally.
Speaker 2: And Laurie as always think I'm at my break. I
Speaker 2: got you in before the break. But I'm glad you
Speaker 2: multitasked tonight in Idaho. Yeah, I thought about you yesterday.
Speaker 2: I was watching one of the cases, and I thought
Speaker 2: to myself, there was the story about the guy that
Speaker 2: allegedly killed the four students down it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, they are a little bit new on that.
Speaker 2: And well, I guess they got some blood splatter or
Speaker 2: something like that, and it was like bad news for
Speaker 2: the defendant. They were knock that out. They were I
Speaker 2: would say that if that's a match, that's that is
Speaker 2: bad news for the.
Speaker 6: Well, I think what they were questioning is how they
Speaker 6: got after the DNA. Well, yeah, maybe I don't know.
Speaker 6: Some news came out, but where they did not get
Speaker 6: to do was throw out the way they got the
Speaker 6: DNA from the parents house. So yeah, so anyway, anyway,
Speaker 6: you nedy.
Speaker 2: Case than I did. But I just I thought to myself,
Speaker 2: you have bad news. If if you're guilty of killing
Speaker 2: four people, that's got to be bad.
Speaker 7: Yeah it is.
Speaker 6: It's it's not looking good. So that's why they're the other,
Speaker 6: you know, grasping as Charles jolt their stuff. Anyway, now
Speaker 6: we wait till August.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I know it's going to take a while, Laurie,
Speaker 2: talk to you. Okay, thanks you much appreciate it, so
Speaker 2: thank you, good night, quick break, coming right back. I
Speaker 2: got Matt and Christine and Charlie and carl And I'm
Speaker 2: going to get them all in. We'll be back after this.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan ray Mine from the Window World
Speaker 1: night Side Studios on w b Z the news radio.
Speaker 2: Okay, we're trying to get everybody in here. Let me
Speaker 2: go real quickly to Christine. Christine next on NIGHTSID, go right.
Speaker 11: Ahead, Hi, Dan, how are you.
Speaker 2: I'm doing great, Christine. A little disappointed with the result
Speaker 2: so the hockey game tonight, but we've had a really
Speaker 2: good show here on Nightside. Yeah.
Speaker 11: I was watching and lessen earn at the same time
Speaker 11: I was multitasking.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so air play travel. Has it been good to
Speaker 2: bad for you lately?
Speaker 6: With the YAsO used to be great.
Speaker 11: I remember when, like they would hand out the wings
Speaker 11: and like you have a nice mail like you said,
Speaker 11: you know, and there was they were nice such to you,
Speaker 11: like the like nowadays said just rude. The line rockets
Speaker 11: and you know, Harry, it's just it's it's not good.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. I saw a funny thing online yesterday. It
Speaker 2: was someone I'm sure have seen it. There was like
Speaker 2: a guy who played the role of a TSA agent
Speaker 2: and uh, it was very funny. I mean, most of
Speaker 2: the TSA Asians are pretty reasonable, but but the role
Speaker 2: that this guy play was sort of like, come on,
Speaker 2: let's go, let's go, hurry up, hurry up. You know
Speaker 2: it was it was good humor, because that's sometimes what
Speaker 2: it's like.
Speaker 11: Sometimes it's you know, what's the easiest. It's the easiest
Speaker 11: airport to go in and out of is TF Green.
Speaker 2: I love TF Green. I really do a little a
Speaker 2: little bit of a hike to get there, but it's
Speaker 2: well worth it. It's we've talked about that many times,
Speaker 2: many times, and yeah, yeah, I would take TF Green
Speaker 2: off and over Logan. Although Logan's been okay the last
Speaker 2: couple of times, it's it's been the it's been the
Speaker 2: it's been the flights that have been less than pleasant.
Speaker 11: You still got to see and now used to go
Speaker 11: down they would take my luggage from me. So I
Speaker 11: would go out of t F. Green by trying to
Speaker 11: get back to Tampa going home. They were awful. So
Speaker 11: I started going Sarasota Brandonson the airport. It was so
Speaker 11: much easier too.
Speaker 2: Maybe Tampa got too big, Maybe got Tampa, Tampa got
Speaker 2: too big, Christine, I got to keep rolling because we've
Speaker 2: got three more, so you're gonna let you run for now.
Speaker 2: Thanks for calling us always. We talk soon, okay, thanks
Speaker 2: so much. Thanks nothing all right, thanks real quickly. Got
Speaker 2: Charlie and Lynn. Charlie next on nights. I go right ahead.
Speaker 8: Hey Dan, how's it going tonight?
Speaker 2: Uh? Doing great? You would get a little tight on
Speaker 2: time your your airline travel experience is good, bad or ugly?
Speaker 8: I wear you one hundred and fifty pounds. I bring
Speaker 8: fifty one pounds a luggage with me. I have to
Speaker 8: pay extra money. The guy that's sitting beside me brought
Speaker 8: fifty pounds worth of luggage. He weighs two hundred and
Speaker 8: ninety five pounds.
Speaker 2: You didn't have.
Speaker 8: How come I got? I mean, how come I get
Speaker 8: short changed? One hundred and forty five pounds. We both
Speaker 8: paid the same price.
Speaker 5: They should make the price.
Speaker 2: With the pounds. The reason is that you're, you know,
Speaker 2: relatively normal size, and somebody who is that heavy, they
Speaker 2: would file a lawsuit and say that there was some
Speaker 2: sort of discrimination against them because they were being charged
Speaker 2: for their.
Speaker 5: Weight as they should have supposed to just paid like that.
Speaker 8: The more it weighs, the more you pay.
Speaker 2: Come on, then something in court. I don't think you're
Speaker 2: the way that one to court, Charlie, is what I'm saying.
Speaker 8: Well, that's my complain about the trouble anyway.
Speaker 2: All right, Maybe with with Trump in there, it's gonna change.
Speaker 2: But we'll have to wait and see on that one. Okay,
Speaker 2: he has he hasn't signed an executive order on the
Speaker 2: weight of airline passengers yet. Okay, you all thought that
Speaker 2: could be coming kind.
Speaker 6: Of heavy himself.
Speaker 8: He's not.
Speaker 9: He's not a lightweight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but he's got his own plane so he doesn't
Speaker 2: have to weigh in. He gets he gets priority. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I thanks you too, good night. All right. Then we
Speaker 2: go to Carl in New York. Hey, Carl, welcome back.
Speaker 5: How are you very well?
Speaker 1: Dan?
Speaker 4: How you doing doing great?
Speaker 2: Title time here because you're late, but I got a
Speaker 2: good minute and a halfway go ahead.
Speaker 4: Uh yeah.
Speaker 9: I haven't been playing much legally because of the hassle
Speaker 9: with ts A. And I'm a big guy. I'm six
Speaker 9: two and two eighty, so okay, the seating has gotten ridiculous.
Speaker 9: I've been taking the train a lot more room for Luggy.
Speaker 9: It's a lot more leg room, you know, I mean
Speaker 9: it takes me longer, but it's it's less than taking
Speaker 9: a flight.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, if you gotta if you gotta fly,
Speaker 2: you're in New York. If you gotta fly to the
Speaker 2: West coast, I don't think you want to take a train.
Speaker 2: But if you're going Boston, Washington, you're nicely located. You know,
Speaker 2: you're good, You're good.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's it's it's definitely.
Speaker 6: Can I can I.
Speaker 5: Tell you a quick train plane story, if you could
Speaker 5: be quick. I was in the I was in the Navy.
Speaker 9: We were down at Orlando Navy Naval Training Center. We
Speaker 9: were flying back to Albany. Our train had our plane
Speaker 9: got delayed by like four hours. So of course we're
Speaker 9: we're young. We're in the bars for the four hours
Speaker 9: before we get on the train on the plane, no plane.
Speaker 9: So we're all sitting in the back together. There's like
Speaker 9: ten of us, and the lady's posting the drink cart.
Speaker 9: The student's pushing the drink cart down the aisle. We
Speaker 9: hit some turbulence and she fell on her butt. We
Speaker 9: thought that was the funniest thing in the world. We
Speaker 9: started cracking up. She got up, looked at us. See
Speaker 9: that door over there, I'll open it up and you
Speaker 9: can get out.
Speaker 8: Now.
Speaker 2: That's a good one. That's a good one.
Speaker 9: Needless to say, she would not serve us anymore drinks
Speaker 9: on the.
Speaker 2: Part I and I think she probably was doing the
Speaker 2: right thing in retrospect. Thanks. Thanks, all right, Dan, have
Speaker 2: a good night. Thanks, thanks for your service as well.
Speaker 2: Have a great one. Good night, all right. How much
Speaker 2: time we got here? Wrong? Give me time? Okay, I
Speaker 2: got a minute then from Matt. Matt, I'm gonna sneak
Speaker 2: you in here. You're late, go right.
Speaker 12: Ahead, all right. I can just tell you air travel
Speaker 12: has been nothing but a disaster lately. Tsay is very
Speaker 12: difficult to deal with, especially be I always go through the.
Speaker 10: Pat down and they always seem like I'm trying to
Speaker 10: give them a half. So that's the airline i't phone
Speaker 10: to reach the is ell all going to Israel. It
Speaker 10: really is just night and day different. You get a meal,
Speaker 10: you get retreated with somewhat respect.
Speaker 12: You know. TSA has a job to do. But it's
Speaker 12: like pulling teeth and it's for a healthy reason. I'm
Speaker 12: not gonna tell.
Speaker 10: The radio why, but yeah, for pat down and it's
Speaker 10: like you know you're yeah, So it's not a lot
Speaker 10: of fun at it.
Speaker 2: Not a lot of fun, no doubt about that. If
Speaker 2: you if you can find the TSA guy, there's a
Speaker 2: funny reel with a guy playing a TSA guy that
Speaker 2: involved pat downs and other things. You'd laugh at it.
Speaker 2: Matt gonna let you run buddy, talk to you soon.
Speaker 5: Have a good alright, all right, thank you, thanks So.
Speaker 2: We had a very successful night here on Nightside. To
Speaker 2: all the calls, I want to say, thank you very much.
Speaker 2: It's tough going up against the game of the magnitude
Speaker 2: of the Canadians versus the US and hockey at Boston Garden.
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