May 3, 2025 • 39 mins
For NightSide’s final hour of the week, Dan asks his callers how they met their special someone.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm gelling you easy
Boston's Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
All right, thanks very much. Al Griffin. Boy, that's tragic.
When you think about a young player suffering a bad
knee injury like that, you just he must have just
hit it wrong.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Boy.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Talented young player too. I know that he was not
hitting as well as he would have hoped, but talented
young player. Let's hope that he'll be okay. All right,
So we have reached the end of the week twentieth hour. Here,
we're going to get you to the weekend and about
I don't know about fifty minutes or so, a couple
of things which I want to mention. We have some
(00:41):
and I think I'm going to incorporate these into the show.
Some of you have told me that you know that
you like animals. I think all of us like animals,
and we have some reports that I think we want
(01:02):
to share with you here. So one of our most
loyal listeners, I think everyone knows, Laurie in Idaho. She
reports tonight that she got baby Robin's the Mama Robin
built a nest in one of the deck lamps, and
she says, bring on Friday Night edition of Nightside. Okay, Yeah,
(01:22):
we're having a good night here on Nightside, that's for sure.
And I think Laurie is too with her Robin's better
than the yellow jackets that she has out there in Idaho.
And then we had an email here which I want
to share with you. We have listeners, as you know,
all over the country and our good friend Joan Hamilton.
(01:46):
I mentioned this at eight o'clock. She was kind enough
to send send me a picture and a video. Today
she is in Alaska, she says, Hi day, Congratulations sweet
Caroline Ruth a new granddaughter. Thank you very much for that.
Joan Jones says she was sitting outside texting her sister Rosemary,
(02:08):
who lives here in West Roxbury, as she shared pictures
of creeping Charlie. As she shared pictures of creeping Charlie
taking over her backyard, I heard an odd nay, an
odd noise, and look up to see an Alaska yard
creeper's large head staring at me about six feet away.
(02:30):
This is a moose. He looked away, and I quietly
and quickly hobbled inside an upstairs. So excited I left
my cane behind to alert the friends who owned the
house I live in. We went out to the upstairs porch.
It was successful getting him to leave. However, he came
right back to snack on fiddlehead ferns that are yummy.
The second video of my woofing was successful. So you're
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up in Alaska and you have a moose in your backyard.
It's a wonderful world. Have a blessed weekend and get
some well deserved rest. Thank you for the be my
Eyes opportunity earlier this week. That's the volunteer program that
Joan participates in. I pray that folks who need the
service will benefit Joan. Okay, so what are we going
to do here at eleven o'clock? Okay, we try to
(03:13):
do something. We do have a few themes which we
use frequently. I think all of you know what the
what grinds your gears theme? You know what is it
that just kind of gets under your skin? We did
that a couple of weeks ago. Brushes with Celebrity my
personal favorite. Okay, but since we've done sort of a
(03:36):
sports and love program theme. Tonight in the nine o'clock hour,
we talked about the Bill Belichick controversy from last weekend,
and I think that you know in that controversy. He
was being interviewed by CBS for the Sunday Morning Show
last Sunday. It was an eight minute piece talking about
(03:57):
his book, the the Belichick book that has just been released,
The Art of Winning, and there's a lot of good
information in it. But his woman, who is his girlfriend,
he calls her his creative muse. Jordan Hudson was sitting
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nearby while the filming was going on, and there was
a point where where Tony Tacoppoda Coppo, who was the
reporter normally he anchors the morning news on CBS Weekdays,
asked a question about how the seventy three year old
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Hall of Fame football coach, for all intents and purposes,
Bill Belichick met a twenty four year old Jordan Hudson.
And they're posted a whole bunch of pictures and all
of that. Robert rather Andrew, just to kind of reset
why we're doing this, if you could play a cut
number two for us that you have. We played cut
(05:03):
one in the nine o'clock hour, which just hit cut
number two. I think it's self explanatory.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
It's a topic.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Neither one of them is comfortable commenting on, though Hudson
has recently posted about it on Instagram. You join instaface.
As you put it, I love that. There's some great
pictures of you and Jordan where you're a fisherman and
she's a mermaid. It's charming, it's a different side of you.
What's the reaction been like, what's it been like to
(05:30):
have these different sort of photos. There's another one where
you're doing I know you're not into meditation or yoga
or pilates, you're balancing Jordan on your feet and she's
doing kind of the Titanic post.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Yes, so I'm I'm on some of those social media platforms, but.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
I honestly don't follow them. The couple. At that point,
I think that Belichick gets shut down. So Belichick gets
the public for the book, okay, which is what of
course they did the interview The Ought of Winning, we
talked about it at nine o'clock, and so the question
tonight on night Side when I did Nightside Pregame today
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on Facebook, which we do every afternoon at four thirty,
and we also do Nightside Postgame, which I do every
night right after midnight or close to as possible. One
of our listeners I threw it out there. I said,
what do you want to talk about tonight? And one
of our watchers at four thirty said, ask people how
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they met? Will follow along. Even though Bill Belichick didn't
answer the question, they met on an airplane, apparently an
airplane flying into West Palm Beach. So the question that
I'm going to ask all of you to participate in
is how did you meet your spouse? How did you
meet your partner? Don't have to be married, but if
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there's somebody who you have a long term relationship with, married,
I'm married or whatever, as long as it's you know
the real deal Bill Belichick. Now is I guess as
a twenty four year old girlfriend. Some people are looking
at skask at a skance at that. I'm not doing that.
(07:19):
I hope you're not. But it's raised some questions in
the minds of people. So therefore, my question to you is,
how did you meet your BFF, your best friend forever,
your spouse, your partner, whatever, whatever you want? Six one, seven, two, five, four,
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ten thirty, six one seven, nine three one ten thirty.
And since we're in a T shirt giving away mood,
I might I have no promises here? We might give
away another T shirt or two for someone who has
a particularly funny story, or interesting story, or maybe exotic story.
I don't know. There's a lot of different ways people meet.
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They now meet on the internet, they meet in grocery stores,
they meet in a variety of places. Some of the
meetings might be considered to some mundane, but they're just
a moment in time that changes a person's life. Or
maybe they met in high school and they knew from
the time they were fifteen or sixteen that that other
person was the one. You know my question, I hope
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you participate. The only line I have aben right now
is six one, seven, nine, three, ten thirty. No need
to be shy, as they said, our friends at college Hype,
Jack Doherty and Kathleen Hickey and Joe Foley, they're so
good to us. We have T shirts that we give away.
If you'd like to buy a T shirt, a Nightside monk,
a Nightside tote bag, a Nightside hooded sweatshirt, just go
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to nightside gear dot com uh and again. All proceeds
profits from those go to the Shadow Fund, which is
the favorite charity of Nightside that provides veterinary here through
the good Office of Massachusetts School of Law Assistant Dean
Diane Sullivan. She has done this now for fifteen years.
(09:10):
We've supported her along the way, and we love Diane
Sullivan and we love that charity. We'll be back on Nightside.
Got one line open six, let's get after it right
after this.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on w B Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Okay, it's time to go to the phones and let's
see what we get. I'm going to start off with
Maureen in Brockton, Maureene. Actually I met both Maureen and
her husband Jack last weekend at our nightside brunch in
Westwood at Raley's Restaurant in Donald Westwood, and Maureen made
(09:50):
the suggestion today, Maureene, it's only appropriate that you start
us off. Go right ahead.
Speaker 6 (09:55):
Thank you, and it was great to see you and
meet you. So there's probably a lot of people. I'll
make this short and sweet. So, as I mentioned on
Night Game on pregame earlier, I was in living in Brighton,
and I was on America Online and I was in
a check group that was called the thirty somethings and
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Jack was living in California and we just hit it
off and we met online and we you know, we
chatted online and then we we spoke just about every
single night on the telephone. And believe it or not,
he proposed to me. This was before meeting face to face,
(10:37):
and I accepted. Wow, And I'll tell you we're going
to celebrate our twenty fourth wedding anniversary next month on
June second.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Wow. Congratulations. We got to get a round of applause
from our studio audience from that congratulations.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
Wow, thank you.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
That is that is not a marriage made in heaven.
It's a marriaged me yes, on the internet. But you know,
it just goes to show you that's a great one. Boy.
When did you finally meet after he proposed and you agreed?
I assume he wasn't in front of you on his
knees if you had not met at that point. How
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long after did you finally you lay eyes on each other?
Speaker 6 (11:22):
Well, I actually so we started talking. It was probably
fall of nineteen ninety seven, and I flew out. It
was January of ninety eight, and you know, you know,
everything clicked on his family living in California, and gosh,
I should ask me's in the next room. But yeah,
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so he proposed and well, it turned out at the
time his sister and brother in law and two nephews
were living in Massachusetts, so it was great. And his
brother in law had a job offer, which was fantastic.
So I was all set to transfer to go to California,
but he got a job offer in Massachusetts. Souh. So
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I flew up my mother and I flew out to
California for her to meet and uh, you know, had
a wonderful you know meeting, you know, for the two
of them. Everything went well. And and then Jack and
I we packed up this truck and we drove from
California to Boston. Took about five and a half days.
Just it was the best experience to be able to
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see the country just you know, just driving a cross
cross country was wonderful.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
This is that is such a great story. And talk
about connecting you sight unseen, but obviously you would have
plenty of conversations. So I guess that you felt that, hey,
this is a guy who who I want to spend
the rest of my life with and it is.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
Worth it is really And I told my mother, I said,
you know, I said, if you know, if if it
was to crash and burns. Then it would be I
would take full responsibility. And I mean it was you know,
it's it's been. It's been a great ride and it
still is. And you know, we're just like I said,
we would, just so thrilled to meet you next last weekend,
it was it was wonderful. And when you and I
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have to give Jack the credit Dan, because he was
the one that shout out to me the suggestion, so
I was typing it as you were asking for suggestion.
Speaker 7 (13:20):
So that's we got.
Speaker 6 (13:22):
To give the credit to Jack.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
So well, okay, you know I got to send a
T shirt to Uh, I'll give I'll send a T
shirt to you or to Jack you tell me which.
Speaker 6 (13:35):
Okay, Well you know what you're you're very kind, and
we did. You did send me a tote bag, which
I love and I use frequently. So I'm going to
save the T shirt. I'm going to let somebody another list,
you know who deserves it. So but thank you for
the offer.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
But well, that's okay, that is so kind, Marian. I'm
thrilled to have met you guys on Sunday, UH, and
I look forward to the next time we get a
chance to get together and congratulate on all of us.
When is the date? The university date is June second?
Speaker 6 (14:05):
Is that June second?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (14:06):
A month from today, A month from today.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
How about that? So you've made twenty three years and
eleven months. I think this is going to work out.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
Okay, I think so, Dan, Thank you so much, and
you've got all the calls. Have a fantastic weekend, and
again are our best. Congratulations to your son, your daughter
in law and your family.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Thank you so much, Thank you so much. Glory to
congratulations to you with Jack. Well, that's a great story.
No one's going to be able to top that story.
I don't think only line six month, seven, two, five, four,
ten thirty. Let me go next to Larry. Larry, you
are availed. You are next on nightside, Larry. How did
you and your special person's fouse pardon whatever you want
(14:45):
to call it these days meet?
Speaker 8 (14:47):
Okay?
Speaker 9 (14:48):
It was nice to talk to Larry and Scott. Probably
was twenty years since I did business with them. Yeah, okay,
So we'll be celebrating our fifty fifth anniversary this summer. Yep, yep.
So back in the late sixties, I was commuting to
Boston University by subway from Mattapan Square all the way
out to you know, ken Moore Square, and I didn't
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have a you know, I was you know, didn't have
a lot of money. And back then, if you remember,
you had to pay extra if you get off the
subway if it came outside the tunnel. Do you remember that?
Speaker 2 (15:24):
I don't, but I take your word for it.
Speaker 9 (15:28):
A song Charlie the MTA.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
So oh right, right right, yeah, yeah, I know that song.
Speaker 8 (15:32):
Okay.
Speaker 9 (15:33):
So I get off at ken More Square and my
business school was way up the other end of Karmawealth Aft.
So I get up onto Kama Wealth aff stick my
thumb ogs. This kid picks me up and we start
talking to me and he says, oh, you know something.
I think you're in one of my business classes. So
we got friendly and uh. A couple of weeks later
he says to me, are you going out with anybody?
Speaker 3 (15:52):
I said no.
Speaker 9 (15:53):
He fixed me up with my now wife and within
six months later we got engaged. But here's the kick
out of the story. So at that time too, I
was working at my father's shop on the weekends, trying
to make extra money, and this guy walks in in
a military uniform, a regular customer, but he was in
the military uniform this time, and said, I didn't know
(16:15):
you're in any arm. He goes, yeah, I'm in the
National God. There's a OMRI right in Chelsea. And he says,
by the way, we were looking for auto mechanics and
it's a nice part time job to make extra money.
So I said, hey, that's not a bad idea. So
I enlisted in the National God. I think that was
like in nineteen seventy. I think I went to Fort Dix.
I went to a basic training. I got sick there,
(16:37):
ended up with morno, came home on leave, gave it
to my wife. We almost missed the wedding he got sick.
Speaker 8 (16:43):
Oh, but we made it.
Speaker 9 (16:45):
And like I said, we'll be celebrating fifty five years
this summer.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Well again, let's have a round of applause for what
is your wife's first name? Laron, Amy, Amy h Larry
and Amy Larry congratulates call us on the fifty fifth.
The weekend of the fifty fifth anniversary, Okay, I want
to be reminded of that.
Speaker 9 (17:07):
I mean, I think it's on a Saturday this year.
Speaker 8 (17:09):
I'll call you.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Friday night, Okay, Okay, good, thanks, Larry talks soon. Okay, Wow,
these are great. These are two great stories. We're going
to keep rolling here. The only line is six one, seven, nine, three, one,
ten thirty. You know, I'll get one more in here
before the news. I think I can sneak one in here.
Let me get one in real quickly. Florence is in Groveland, Florence.
(17:31):
I'm a little tight on time, but if you can
make the most of it, I'll get you. So you
want to have to wait through the news, go right ahead.
Speaker 10 (17:37):
Well I'll try it. Dan, Mine's a little different. My
husband is deceased, and so a couple of years later
in the company that I was working for, I know it, gentlemen.
He was there to help out for about six months
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in the engineering department, and he was retired from the
Navy twenty five years. He was pettended in the Navy,
and after he left my company about a year later,
I inquired about him cause I was alone, and I
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gave him a call to talk with him and found
out from the people that he worked for in my
company that his wife had passed away and I had
lost my husband. Husband was going. So we talked about
an hour or so, and then made an arrangement to
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me and go out on a date. And we were
together ten years. I didn't marry, but we're together ten years.
And he was there absolutely wonderful, close to perfect, if
you can believe it. And then he was a very
heavy cigarette smoker many years and I lost him to
(19:13):
lung cancer.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
I'm sorry to hear that, but yeah, the memory, the
memory is important. Florence told the story well, you told
the story.
Speaker 10 (19:22):
Well, and the memory. That's wonderful, Dan, And I'll never
forget him. He was her coustry special.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Florence. Thanks thanks for sharing that story. I'm sure it's
inspirational to a lot of people. There's always sometimes a
second love when someone loses their first love.
Speaker 10 (19:43):
So yeah, yeah, yeah, I know that. So thank you
very much. I thought I qualified to call in.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Thanks Florence. You qualify to call it anytime. You know that.
Have a great night. Here comes the new It was
at the bottom of the hour. If you'd like to
join us, I got one line at six one, seven, two, five,
four ten thirty and one line at six one seven,
nine three one ten thirty.
Speaker 10 (20:08):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Again, we're following on the Bill Belichick Jordan Hudson romance,
the May to December romance or December to May romance,
however you want to describe it. Uh, And how did
you meet your your partner, your spouse, your your bff,
your special squeeze, whatever you want to call. We've had
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three great stories. Let's keep going. Coming back on Nightside.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Night Side with Dan Ray on w BZY, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
All right, back we go, let's keep rolling here, gonna
go to Gary in Woburn. Gary, you were next on Nightside.
How did you meet your love of your life?
Speaker 11 (20:49):
Well?
Speaker 7 (20:49):
Believing my love of my life was about twenty years ago,
but I only went out with her for a year.
Would you like me to tell you?
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Yeah, I hope it's not a sad ending.
Speaker 7 (20:58):
Well a little bit by. Here goes right, karaoke and
I had a part time job cleaning at nighttime. I
still do after twenty three years for karaoke. Was about
to get over twelve thirty e at night. I popped
in and said, all the guys, Hey, how you know
I see some girl from high school days that I
went to high school. Well, she didn't know who I was.
I said, I know you, I said, blank Mike Black,
and she goes, who are you? And I blew away.
(21:20):
I said, come back next week, we'll wrap of all
high school days. She came back when I karaoke again
next night.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
We're dating right after right away.
Speaker 7 (21:28):
It was a romance like you wouldn't believe, and the
great party about the story. I treated like a lady.
I took her out four times a week to eat
this that. Every time she would cry in tears.
Speaker 12 (21:38):
They said, what's wrong?
Speaker 7 (21:39):
Because I never had a guy in my life treat
me the way you do. And I was married for
seventeen years to a blank milke. He was an alcoholic.
I said, well, you know, enjoy it. And it was
an experience of a lifetime with her. Every time we
went out dancing and so for well, she was like,
oh my god, you like dancing swowing fast. I go, yeah,
I do what. It's fun, isn't it? And it was.
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She had to go to Florida because you had two kids.
She signed them over to her in laws because she
couldn't take care of me. She was an alcoholic or
a drug addict. She just was a nerdy girl and
she signed over her kids to take care of him
because she couldn't. She wasn't making enough money. That's my story.
It was a love of my life though.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Interesting Gary, Interesting. Have you tried to ever get back
in touch?
Speaker 7 (22:21):
Yeah? I did in the first few months or so well,
when she was in Florida. But what happened was she says,
I gotta stay out here this that you know you
were here, welcome to Clouse yet but uh, you know,
I gotta stay with my kids and so far. I understand.
But I wasn't about to leave where I am because
I had two jobs out here and all that you know.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Got you know, I understand. Interesting story. It's just interesting. Hey,
you know, you never know, maybe there's someone else coming
down the line. Do you just never know? Thanks man, Thanks, Gary,
appreciate it. Interesting. Yeah. Uh, Sadie is in Boston. Hi, Sadie,
how are you?
Speaker 13 (22:55):
Hello?
Speaker 7 (22:55):
Dan?
Speaker 13 (22:56):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (22:57):
I'm doing great? Have I ever had the pleasure of
you on my showed before? I don't remember a Sadie.
Speaker 13 (23:02):
No, No, this is the first time because like everyone else, I.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Have a union.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Oh, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 13 (23:09):
I was driving to Montreal on a rainy, cold day.
I prayed to Lord. I said, Lord, please bring me
my soulmate, someone that you think is the best for me.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
I was yes.
Speaker 13 (23:22):
I Two days later, my brother in law my sister
said stay, don't go. I said, what do you mean
to stay? I have this rental car. I got a
return and they said, no hands, some college professors coming.
We want you to meet him. So I stayed in Montreal.
Two days later. I mean I saw him beautiful, amazing, good,
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humble person. I got engaged to him in two days,
got married to him in two months, which lasted twenty
three and a half years. He was a scientist, certified
radiologists who work in Master Around hospital for twenty three
and a half years. All of a sudden, he said,
(24:07):
this skier, this person who lived on fruits and vegetables,
all of a sudden is telling me he's not feeling well.
So he got sick at the same hospital that he's
served for twenty three years, and he had an encounter
with the Lord Jesus Christ. So I wrote a book.
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Now my mission is to tell so many people that
the glorious Lord Jesus is pouring his spirit on so
many people and is calling so many people from every
diaspora because he's living God who hears us who answers
our prayers, and he.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Did answer your prayer.
Speaker 13 (24:47):
It's tod and so many others and so many others.
My daughter just said to me, Mummy, I got the
most prestigious of school. I said, he La luis I am,
and praise the Lord. So he is a living God
and if they believe whomever believes him, he's victorious.
Speaker 7 (25:03):
Thank you so much, Dan, Sadie, thank you for the call.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
It was inspirational. Thank you, thank you much.
Speaker 13 (25:09):
I'd bless you.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Thank you appreciate it. Let me go to Steve in
the truck. Hey, Steve, how are you? I know who
this guy is?
Speaker 5 (25:19):
Hey, mister dan Hawi.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
I'm doing great. So how did you? And uh?
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (25:24):
Your my wife?
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Yea, your lovely you have friend for life or whatever
you want to call her, a partner in life whatever.
How'd you guys meet?
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Well?
Speaker 12 (25:35):
We met at her late on cole celebrational Life at
our little church in Townell, Maine, which is right next
door to where I live in Freeport or not, and.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
Married her three months later.
Speaker 8 (25:49):
And when I.
Speaker 5 (25:49):
Left the church after the service, she was out in
the front steps with her three cousins and she said
to them I'm going to marry that guy someday, And
I ended up marrying her two months later than when
we met. So we married October twenty ninth of twenty sixteen.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Isn't that amazing? Huh yeah, amazing.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
I mean funny thing Dan that she knew, but I
didn't know at that moment, at that point, you know.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Oh so, yeah, she didn't say it for you to
hear it. Oh I see, okay.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
Yeah, well I didn't. I wasn't sure as as sure
as she was. I wasn't ready. I just come out
of a divorce and I wasn't ready for another marriage
that quickly. But she won my heart and she's still
wonderful and doats on me like your wife doats on you.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Oh yeah, right right. Look up the definition of dots
in the dictionary where you may you may not misunderstand
the you may misunderstand the word. I should say, how
long have you been married, Steve? How long?
Speaker 5 (26:52):
Well it'll be nine years in October? Wow, boy, my
first Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
She has to be a saint to put up with you, Steve,
I'm kidding you.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
Oh yeah, Well, her mother was funny because downstairs at
the basement when we ate after the service, her mother,
who's been ninety one. On July tenth, she prodded the
interest to go over. There's an empty seat beside me,
and I swear Dan, she almost sat on my thigh.
She got that close to me. So we hit it off.
(27:22):
Then I drove away, and that's when she told her
cousins out in the front steps. So she knew something
I didn't know, but I, you know, quickly learned right after.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
The very intuitive.
Speaker 5 (27:35):
Well I'm glad, I'm married. I'm very thrilled and she's
a wonderful woman. So and she turned.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
We know you as a truck or were you driving tonight?
Speaker 5 (27:46):
Yeah, I'm doing the half meet with a guy, a
Baltimore driver, but I'm not too far from the Chickapee terminal.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
That's what Well, once you said it was a half people, Bob,
it was going to be Chickapee. Yeah, okay, Well.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
Then I meet him. I'll pick up some freight and
meet him, give him a trailer, and then he'll give
me a trail and I'll hug back to Chick to
be the and CHICKI be the main.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
So what time? What time? Just so people know that
the life of a truck driver is not probably the
easiest in the world. What time do you get home
tomorrow morning?
Speaker 5 (28:19):
Well, I'll probably get home around seven thirty.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
So on a seventy hour work week, Dan, I can work, well,
I drive. I don't work spot sixty eight and a
half hours out.
Speaker 8 (28:33):
Of the seventy.
Speaker 5 (28:34):
So but I love driving, as you know. It's I
know that not work. It's just I just love. It's not.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
If you love what you do, you'll never work a
day in your life.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
So yeah, yeah, great story.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
We've had another, a whole bunch of great stories, and
this was another one. Steve. I'm up my brake, so
I gotta let you run, but we will talk soon.
Speaker 11 (28:54):
Okay, all right, Dan, thank you, Thanks Dave.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
I have a great one, have a good weekend, enjoy.
We'll be back on Nightside right after these final messages
of the week and we'll wrap it up. We'll get
everybody in.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
That promise you're on Nightside with Dan Ray onn Youbzy
Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Okay, we're going to try to get everybody in. I
think we will go in next to Glenn in Brighton.
Glenn next on Nightside.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
How are you well? I told Andrew I met the
love of my wife through Jordan on his open line
program in December of twenty ten. He gave me permission
to mention my first, last name and phone number in
case somebody wanted a piano tuned. And lo and behold
this woman, Sue and Cambridge. She happened to be in
(29:41):
her kitchen listening to Beesy, drinking two buck chuck. That
was her favorite last from Trader Joe's. So anyway, she
called me. She sent me forty dollars for Christmas, and
she became my love, you know. She let me tune
her piano, and then one thing led to another and
we became love. We even had a fake wedding in
(30:01):
June of fifteen, hosted by Jordan Richie's a Justice of
the Peace in his spare time. Yeah, I couldn't have
a real wedding because I'd lose my SSI. Jordan wanted
to us to have an actual wedding, but I would
so anyway. She died of bone cancer six years ago, unfortunately,
(30:25):
on April twenty seventh, twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Yeah, I'm sorry, sorry, so sorry.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
That's why I'm glad to have a good time this
past April twenty sevenths.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Yeah, all right, buddy, I you know there's always someone
out there. Okay, there's always someone out there.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Yeah, I know. Someone told me women have like trains.
If you missed one, the next one comes along.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Yeah. I wouldn't put it like dak Glenn. But yeah,
there's another word, you know.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
I know, I'm just being cutey with you.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
No, I hear you, I hear you. I got pack
lines here, Glenn. I got to keep rolling Great Desisi
every good week. I got to go next to Eileen
and Cambridge. Eileen, I know that you had a very
special husband.
Speaker 11 (31:13):
I did, indeed, and I met him in college. I
had to take German because I was a chemistry major,
and lo and behold, everybody else in my German class
was a native speaker. This was back in the nineteen fifties,
(31:34):
and these were children of immigrant parents from Germany. But
they were taking first year German with me. But my
professor said, I know somebody who can help you, and
(31:56):
so she introduced me to the man who became my husband.
And he he started out as my German tutor. And
everything that I everything I said in German, made made
him laugh.
Speaker 6 (32:12):
I think.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Between German and chemistry that I didn't.
Speaker 11 (32:17):
Understand oh uh in in in the old days, if
you were a chemistry major, it should still be true
because so much chemical scientific uh experimentation and data was
(32:38):
published in German.
Speaker 6 (32:40):
Uh.
Speaker 11 (32:41):
It was important to be able to read these articles.
And i'm uh in fact, i've I'm very grateful that
I had to learn to read German and I learned
to speak it. I mean, I uh we uh we
lived in Germany.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
There's no better way, no better way to learn to
to to marry someone who speak Sureman, that's that's for sure,
But to immerse yourself in the language, that's a that's
a great story. And your husband was a professor.
Speaker 7 (33:13):
Yes he uh and.
Speaker 11 (33:17):
He uh uh was accepted for graduate studies at Harvard.
So we came to Harvard many many years ago in
the year nineteen sixty and he sadly passed away. Actually
(33:37):
it was five years ago today that I lost him.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Well, then, in that case, you had you had sixty
years together, Yes.
Speaker 11 (33:46):
We did, but he had he ended up getting the
coronavirus and it took him.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Yeah, so many people were impacted, so many people impacted
by that. Well, I lean you certainly that was a
providential class that you took. Let's put it like that.
Thanks so much for that story. I got a couple
more I got to get to. But again, I'm sorry
that it's on such an anniversary. Maybe that it was
meant to fall in this anniversary, if you know what
(34:14):
I'm saying. Yep, thanks Ilean, talk soon.
Speaker 11 (34:19):
Okay, thank you, Thanks Dan, Thank.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
You, Mike, Mike, and heybrow Mike. You next on nightside,
tell us about who you fell in love with in
the circumstances.
Speaker 8 (34:31):
Dan, how about I turn the tables. How about you
tell us where you hooked up.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Well, it's a long story, and I would I would
have to get permission of my wife. So it was
a very It's kind of a mundane meeting. But I'm
that's one part of my life. I like to keep
someone somewhat private. So I hope you know you want
to go ahead tell.
Speaker 8 (34:56):
Us all right, Well, no one of them mind he
tried it through Europe.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
I can tell you. I'll tell you one funny, quick,
funny story in that is one of the first dates
that we went on. I took her to I'm a
big baseball fan, as you know, took her to Fenway
Park to a rid Sox Old Times game, and they
rolled out Smoky Joe Wood, who had been the hero
of the nineteen twelve World Series. I think this was
nineteen eighty four, so he was, you know, well into
(35:22):
his nineties, and he was wheelchair bound. And they put
him about two feet in front of home plate and
put a ball in his heat which he kind of
catapulted about two feet in the air and not much
and the thirty seven thousand, these thousand people gave him
a rousing standing ovation. And my wife, who was not
a sports fan then still not much of a sports fan,
(35:44):
looked at me and said, what's what's so big? What's
the big deal? It's Smokey Joe would anyway, So what tell.
Speaker 8 (35:53):
Us your story about it? Yeah, about forty years ago,
hitchhiking through Europe while I get out of college.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Did I lose you hit your hitch hiking through Europe? Glad?
Speaker 3 (36:07):
No?
Speaker 10 (36:07):
No?
Speaker 8 (36:08):
I said, yeah, no, I hitch hiking for Europe. Ago.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
So was she was she American or was she European?
Speaker 3 (36:16):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (36:17):
She was American's just from California, San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
So so a girl from San Francisco meets a guy
from Boston in Europe whereabouts in Europe.
Speaker 8 (36:27):
In Halem, Amsterdamwood.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Wow. Wow. And how long have you to now been together?
One forty years? Wow? Wow? And uh, you just never
know if you hadn't taken that trip to Europe and
if she hadn't taken that trip to Europe. That's the
thing that's interesting about it. It's just that moment in time.
(36:53):
You know, if you were one day later, one day earlier,
may never have met Mike. Thanks much, have a great weekend. Okay,
all right, thanks be, I'll talk to you soon. Uh,
let me go to Christine. Christine, you may wrap the
hour for us. Go right ahead, Christine.
Speaker 14 (37:11):
I wanted to tell you about my parents. How they met.
They were young and they so the buses rolled into
a rest area Newton, and they were all going skin.
Speaker 7 (37:23):
But when they when they.
Speaker 14 (37:24):
Got off the bucket, they bumped into each other. And
you know, they said they were going skin, but they
didn't know where, you know, they you know, they Easter
didn't realized they were going in the same place. So
when they got up there, they were going to Poland Spring,
New hamp So they bumped into each other. Good and
headed off and that's how it all started.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
Poland Spring, New Hampshire, Poland Spring.
Speaker 7 (37:46):
Maine, Poland Spring, New hamp Sorry, you're.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
Right, yeah, yeah, because that's the Poland Spring, the water place. Yeah,
I mean yeah, we kind of get that detail, right,
that's for sure, Christine, that's right.
Speaker 6 (38:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
Isn't that great? And if they weren't skiers, or if
they hadn't met each other, you and I wouldn't be
talking tonight. How about that?
Speaker 14 (38:08):
Huh, Christine? Fifty two years this June.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
Oh, they would have been there. They both passed or
as one still my dad.
Speaker 14 (38:20):
Has passed, my mom's in the German sid.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Oh. Sure, I'm very familiar with that. I've I have
had friends who have been there. That is a great
facility anyone who has.
Speaker 14 (38:30):
The opportunity to be there.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
Christy, thank you so much. Always great to hear your
voice and hear your voice too. You have a great weekend. Okay,
thanks thanks so much for joining us last weekend. Thanks,
thanks again.
Speaker 7 (38:45):
You're welcome.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
All right, So that's been a very It's been an
interesting thematic night here on Nightside. Sometimes we try to
do themes. We started off with the Bill Belichick romance
with his new as he calls her his creative muse,
Jordan Hudson. We talked fifty greatest athletes in Boston with
(39:07):
Marty Gitlin. You can find him on Facebook and get
that book personalized, autographed and how'd you meet your spouse?
So that is it for this night and this week, everybody.
I want to thank all of you who joined us.
Want to thank Andrew did a great job tonight, busy night.
I want to thank Karen Boussemi who is our producer
today and I watched all of you a fabulous weekend.
(39:29):
My name is Dan Ray. This is Nightside. We're wrapping
up a week, going to get you to Saturday, May third,
in just about two minutes and I will be on
Facebook at Nightside with Dan Ray in about two minutes.
All dogs, all cats, all pets go to heaven. That's
why Pal Charlie Ray is, who passed fifteen years ago
in February. That's why all your pets are who have passed.
They loved you and you love them. I do believe
you'll see them again. We'll see again on Monday. Have
(39:50):
a fabulous weekend. Everyone, Stay dry between the rain droms
It's Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm gelling you easy
Boston's Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
All right, thanks very much. Al Griffin. Boy, that's tragic.
When you think about a young player suffering a bad
knee injury like that, you just he must have just
hit it wrong.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Boy.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Talented young player too. I know that he was not
hitting as well as he would have hoped, but talented
young player. Let's hope that he'll be okay. All right,
So we have reached the end of the week twentieth hour. Here,
we're going to get you to the weekend and about
I don't know about fifty minutes or so, a couple
of things which I want to mention. We have some
(00:41):
and I think I'm going to incorporate these into the show.
Some of you have told me that you know that
you like animals. I think all of us like animals,
and we have some reports that I think we want
(01:02):
to share with you here. So one of our most
loyal listeners, I think everyone knows, Laurie in Idaho. She
reports tonight that she got baby Robin's the Mama Robin
built a nest in one of the deck lamps, and
she says, bring on Friday Night edition of Nightside. Okay, Yeah,
(01:22):
we're having a good night here on Nightside, that's for sure.
And I think Laurie is too with her Robin's better
than the yellow jackets that she has out there in Idaho.
And then we had an email here which I want
to share with you. We have listeners, as you know,
all over the country and our good friend Joan Hamilton.
(01:46):
I mentioned this at eight o'clock. She was kind enough
to send send me a picture and a video. Today
she is in Alaska, she says, Hi day, Congratulations sweet
Caroline Ruth a new granddaughter. Thank you very much for that.
Joan Jones says she was sitting outside texting her sister Rosemary,
(02:08):
who lives here in West Roxbury, as she shared pictures
of creeping Charlie. As she shared pictures of creeping Charlie
taking over her backyard, I heard an odd nay, an
odd noise, and look up to see an Alaska yard
creeper's large head staring at me about six feet away.
(02:30):
This is a moose. He looked away, and I quietly
and quickly hobbled inside an upstairs. So excited I left
my cane behind to alert the friends who owned the
house I live in. We went out to the upstairs porch.
It was successful getting him to leave. However, he came
right back to snack on fiddlehead ferns that are yummy.
The second video of my woofing was successful. So you're
(02:52):
up in Alaska and you have a moose in your backyard.
It's a wonderful world. Have a blessed weekend and get
some well deserved rest. Thank you for the be my
Eyes opportunity earlier this week. That's the volunteer program that
Joan participates in. I pray that folks who need the
service will benefit Joan. Okay, so what are we going
to do here at eleven o'clock? Okay, we try to
(03:13):
do something. We do have a few themes which we
use frequently. I think all of you know what the
what grinds your gears theme? You know what is it
that just kind of gets under your skin? We did
that a couple of weeks ago. Brushes with Celebrity my
personal favorite. Okay, but since we've done sort of a
(03:36):
sports and love program theme. Tonight in the nine o'clock hour,
we talked about the Bill Belichick controversy from last weekend,
and I think that you know in that controversy. He
was being interviewed by CBS for the Sunday Morning Show
last Sunday. It was an eight minute piece talking about
(03:57):
his book, the the Belichick book that has just been released,
The Art of Winning, and there's a lot of good
information in it. But his woman, who is his girlfriend,
he calls her his creative muse. Jordan Hudson was sitting
(04:18):
nearby while the filming was going on, and there was
a point where where Tony Tacoppoda Coppo, who was the
reporter normally he anchors the morning news on CBS Weekdays,
asked a question about how the seventy three year old
(04:41):
Hall of Fame football coach, for all intents and purposes,
Bill Belichick met a twenty four year old Jordan Hudson.
And they're posted a whole bunch of pictures and all
of that. Robert rather Andrew, just to kind of reset
why we're doing this, if you could play a cut
number two for us that you have. We played cut
(05:03):
one in the nine o'clock hour, which just hit cut
number two. I think it's self explanatory.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
It's a topic.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Neither one of them is comfortable commenting on, though Hudson
has recently posted about it on Instagram. You join instaface.
As you put it, I love that. There's some great
pictures of you and Jordan where you're a fisherman and
she's a mermaid. It's charming, it's a different side of you.
What's the reaction been like, what's it been like to
(05:30):
have these different sort of photos. There's another one where
you're doing I know you're not into meditation or yoga
or pilates, you're balancing Jordan on your feet and she's
doing kind of the Titanic post.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Yes, so I'm I'm on some of those social media platforms, but.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
I honestly don't follow them. The couple. At that point,
I think that Belichick gets shut down. So Belichick gets
the public for the book, okay, which is what of
course they did the interview The Ought of Winning, we
talked about it at nine o'clock, and so the question
tonight on night Side when I did Nightside Pregame today
(06:14):
on Facebook, which we do every afternoon at four thirty,
and we also do Nightside Postgame, which I do every
night right after midnight or close to as possible. One
of our listeners I threw it out there. I said,
what do you want to talk about tonight? And one
of our watchers at four thirty said, ask people how
(06:36):
they met? Will follow along. Even though Bill Belichick didn't
answer the question, they met on an airplane, apparently an
airplane flying into West Palm Beach. So the question that
I'm going to ask all of you to participate in
is how did you meet your spouse? How did you
meet your partner? Don't have to be married, but if
(06:57):
there's somebody who you have a long term relationship with, married,
I'm married or whatever, as long as it's you know
the real deal Bill Belichick. Now is I guess as
a twenty four year old girlfriend. Some people are looking
at skask at a skance at that. I'm not doing that.
(07:19):
I hope you're not. But it's raised some questions in
the minds of people. So therefore, my question to you is,
how did you meet your BFF, your best friend forever,
your spouse, your partner, whatever, whatever you want? Six one, seven, two, five, four,
(07:40):
ten thirty, six one seven, nine three one ten thirty.
And since we're in a T shirt giving away mood,
I might I have no promises here? We might give
away another T shirt or two for someone who has
a particularly funny story, or interesting story, or maybe exotic story.
I don't know. There's a lot of different ways people meet.
(08:03):
They now meet on the internet, they meet in grocery stores,
they meet in a variety of places. Some of the
meetings might be considered to some mundane, but they're just
a moment in time that changes a person's life. Or
maybe they met in high school and they knew from
the time they were fifteen or sixteen that that other
person was the one. You know my question, I hope
(08:26):
you participate. The only line I have aben right now
is six one, seven, nine, three, ten thirty. No need
to be shy, as they said, our friends at college Hype,
Jack Doherty and Kathleen Hickey and Joe Foley, they're so
good to us. We have T shirts that we give away.
If you'd like to buy a T shirt, a Nightside monk,
a Nightside tote bag, a Nightside hooded sweatshirt, just go
(08:48):
to nightside gear dot com uh and again. All proceeds
profits from those go to the Shadow Fund, which is
the favorite charity of Nightside that provides veterinary here through
the good Office of Massachusetts School of Law Assistant Dean
Diane Sullivan. She has done this now for fifteen years.
(09:10):
We've supported her along the way, and we love Diane
Sullivan and we love that charity. We'll be back on Nightside.
Got one line open six, let's get after it right
after this.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on w B Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Okay, it's time to go to the phones and let's
see what we get. I'm going to start off with
Maureen in Brockton, Maureene. Actually I met both Maureen and
her husband Jack last weekend at our nightside brunch in
Westwood at Raley's Restaurant in Donald Westwood, and Maureen made
(09:50):
the suggestion today, Maureene, it's only appropriate that you start
us off. Go right ahead.
Speaker 6 (09:55):
Thank you, and it was great to see you and
meet you. So there's probably a lot of people. I'll
make this short and sweet. So, as I mentioned on
Night Game on pregame earlier, I was in living in Brighton,
and I was on America Online and I was in
a check group that was called the thirty somethings and
(10:17):
Jack was living in California and we just hit it
off and we met online and we you know, we
chatted online and then we we spoke just about every
single night on the telephone. And believe it or not,
he proposed to me. This was before meeting face to face,
(10:37):
and I accepted. Wow, And I'll tell you we're going
to celebrate our twenty fourth wedding anniversary next month on
June second.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Wow. Congratulations. We got to get a round of applause
from our studio audience from that congratulations.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
Wow, thank you.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
That is that is not a marriage made in heaven.
It's a marriaged me yes, on the internet. But you know,
it just goes to show you that's a great one. Boy.
When did you finally meet after he proposed and you agreed?
I assume he wasn't in front of you on his
knees if you had not met at that point. How
(11:16):
long after did you finally you lay eyes on each other?
Speaker 6 (11:22):
Well, I actually so we started talking. It was probably
fall of nineteen ninety seven, and I flew out. It
was January of ninety eight, and you know, you know,
everything clicked on his family living in California, and gosh,
I should ask me's in the next room. But yeah,
(11:44):
so he proposed and well, it turned out at the
time his sister and brother in law and two nephews
were living in Massachusetts, so it was great. And his
brother in law had a job offer, which was fantastic.
So I was all set to transfer to go to California,
but he got a job offer in Massachusetts. Souh. So
(12:05):
I flew up my mother and I flew out to
California for her to meet and uh, you know, had
a wonderful you know meeting, you know, for the two
of them. Everything went well. And and then Jack and
I we packed up this truck and we drove from
California to Boston. Took about five and a half days.
Just it was the best experience to be able to
(12:27):
see the country just you know, just driving a cross
cross country was wonderful.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
This is that is such a great story. And talk
about connecting you sight unseen, but obviously you would have
plenty of conversations. So I guess that you felt that, hey,
this is a guy who who I want to spend
the rest of my life with and it is.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
Worth it is really And I told my mother, I said,
you know, I said, if you know, if if it
was to crash and burns. Then it would be I
would take full responsibility. And I mean it was you know,
it's it's been. It's been a great ride and it
still is. And you know, we're just like I said,
we would, just so thrilled to meet you next last weekend,
it was it was wonderful. And when you and I
(13:12):
have to give Jack the credit Dan, because he was
the one that shout out to me the suggestion, so
I was typing it as you were asking for suggestion.
Speaker 7 (13:20):
So that's we got.
Speaker 6 (13:22):
To give the credit to Jack.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
So well, okay, you know I got to send a
T shirt to Uh, I'll give I'll send a T
shirt to you or to Jack you tell me which.
Speaker 6 (13:35):
Okay, Well you know what you're you're very kind, and
we did. You did send me a tote bag, which
I love and I use frequently. So I'm going to
save the T shirt. I'm going to let somebody another list,
you know who deserves it. So but thank you for
the offer.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
But well, that's okay, that is so kind, Marian. I'm
thrilled to have met you guys on Sunday, UH, and
I look forward to the next time we get a
chance to get together and congratulate on all of us.
When is the date? The university date is June second?
Speaker 6 (14:05):
Is that June second?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (14:06):
A month from today, A month from today.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
How about that? So you've made twenty three years and
eleven months. I think this is going to work out.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
Okay, I think so, Dan, Thank you so much, and
you've got all the calls. Have a fantastic weekend, and
again are our best. Congratulations to your son, your daughter
in law and your family.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Thank you so much, Thank you so much. Glory to
congratulations to you with Jack. Well, that's a great story.
No one's going to be able to top that story.
I don't think only line six month, seven, two, five, four,
ten thirty. Let me go next to Larry. Larry, you
are availed. You are next on nightside, Larry. How did
you and your special person's fouse pardon whatever you want
(14:45):
to call it these days meet?
Speaker 8 (14:47):
Okay?
Speaker 9 (14:48):
It was nice to talk to Larry and Scott. Probably
was twenty years since I did business with them. Yeah, okay,
So we'll be celebrating our fifty fifth anniversary this summer. Yep, yep.
So back in the late sixties, I was commuting to
Boston University by subway from Mattapan Square all the way
out to you know, ken Moore Square, and I didn't
(15:12):
have a you know, I was you know, didn't have
a lot of money. And back then, if you remember,
you had to pay extra if you get off the
subway if it came outside the tunnel. Do you remember that?
Speaker 2 (15:24):
I don't, but I take your word for it.
Speaker 9 (15:28):
A song Charlie the MTA.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
So oh right, right right, yeah, yeah, I know that song.
Speaker 8 (15:32):
Okay.
Speaker 9 (15:33):
So I get off at ken More Square and my
business school was way up the other end of Karmawealth Aft.
So I get up onto Kama Wealth aff stick my
thumb ogs. This kid picks me up and we start
talking to me and he says, oh, you know something.
I think you're in one of my business classes. So
we got friendly and uh. A couple of weeks later
he says to me, are you going out with anybody?
Speaker 3 (15:52):
I said no.
Speaker 9 (15:53):
He fixed me up with my now wife and within
six months later we got engaged. But here's the kick
out of the story. So at that time too, I
was working at my father's shop on the weekends, trying
to make extra money, and this guy walks in in
a military uniform, a regular customer, but he was in
the military uniform this time, and said, I didn't know
(16:15):
you're in any arm. He goes, yeah, I'm in the
National God. There's a OMRI right in Chelsea. And he says,
by the way, we were looking for auto mechanics and
it's a nice part time job to make extra money.
So I said, hey, that's not a bad idea. So
I enlisted in the National God. I think that was
like in nineteen seventy. I think I went to Fort Dix.
I went to a basic training. I got sick there,
(16:37):
ended up with morno, came home on leave, gave it
to my wife. We almost missed the wedding he got sick.
Speaker 8 (16:43):
Oh, but we made it.
Speaker 9 (16:45):
And like I said, we'll be celebrating fifty five years
this summer.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Well again, let's have a round of applause for what
is your wife's first name? Laron, Amy, Amy h Larry
and Amy Larry congratulates call us on the fifty fifth.
The weekend of the fifty fifth anniversary, Okay, I want
to be reminded of that.
Speaker 9 (17:07):
I mean, I think it's on a Saturday this year.
Speaker 8 (17:09):
I'll call you.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Friday night, Okay, Okay, good, thanks, Larry talks soon. Okay, Wow,
these are great. These are two great stories. We're going
to keep rolling here. The only line is six one, seven, nine, three, one,
ten thirty. You know, I'll get one more in here
before the news. I think I can sneak one in here.
Let me get one in real quickly. Florence is in Groveland, Florence.
(17:31):
I'm a little tight on time, but if you can
make the most of it, I'll get you. So you
want to have to wait through the news, go right ahead.
Speaker 10 (17:37):
Well I'll try it. Dan, Mine's a little different. My
husband is deceased, and so a couple of years later
in the company that I was working for, I know it, gentlemen.
He was there to help out for about six months
(18:01):
in the engineering department, and he was retired from the
Navy twenty five years. He was pettended in the Navy,
and after he left my company about a year later,
I inquired about him cause I was alone, and I
(18:26):
gave him a call to talk with him and found
out from the people that he worked for in my
company that his wife had passed away and I had
lost my husband. Husband was going. So we talked about
an hour or so, and then made an arrangement to
(18:48):
me and go out on a date. And we were
together ten years. I didn't marry, but we're together ten years.
And he was there absolutely wonderful, close to perfect, if
you can believe it. And then he was a very
heavy cigarette smoker many years and I lost him to
(19:13):
lung cancer.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
I'm sorry to hear that, but yeah, the memory, the
memory is important. Florence told the story well, you told
the story.
Speaker 10 (19:22):
Well, and the memory. That's wonderful, Dan, And I'll never
forget him. He was her coustry special.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Florence. Thanks thanks for sharing that story. I'm sure it's
inspirational to a lot of people. There's always sometimes a
second love when someone loses their first love.
Speaker 10 (19:43):
So yeah, yeah, yeah, I know that. So thank you
very much. I thought I qualified to call in.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Thanks Florence. You qualify to call it anytime. You know that.
Have a great night. Here comes the new It was
at the bottom of the hour. If you'd like to
join us, I got one line at six one, seven, two, five,
four ten thirty and one line at six one seven,
nine three one ten thirty.
Speaker 10 (20:08):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Again, we're following on the Bill Belichick Jordan Hudson romance,
the May to December romance or December to May romance,
however you want to describe it. Uh, And how did
you meet your your partner, your spouse, your your bff,
your special squeeze, whatever you want to call. We've had
(20:29):
three great stories. Let's keep going. Coming back on Nightside.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Night Side with Dan Ray on w BZY, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
All right, back we go, let's keep rolling here, gonna
go to Gary in Woburn. Gary, you were next on Nightside.
How did you meet your love of your life?
Speaker 11 (20:49):
Well?
Speaker 7 (20:49):
Believing my love of my life was about twenty years ago,
but I only went out with her for a year.
Would you like me to tell you?
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Yeah, I hope it's not a sad ending.
Speaker 7 (20:58):
Well a little bit by. Here goes right, karaoke and
I had a part time job cleaning at nighttime. I
still do after twenty three years for karaoke. Was about
to get over twelve thirty e at night. I popped
in and said, all the guys, Hey, how you know
I see some girl from high school days that I
went to high school. Well, she didn't know who I was.
I said, I know you, I said, blank Mike Black,
and she goes, who are you? And I blew away.
(21:20):
I said, come back next week, we'll wrap of all
high school days. She came back when I karaoke again
next night.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
We're dating right after right away.
Speaker 7 (21:28):
It was a romance like you wouldn't believe, and the
great party about the story. I treated like a lady.
I took her out four times a week to eat
this that. Every time she would cry in tears.
Speaker 12 (21:38):
They said, what's wrong?
Speaker 7 (21:39):
Because I never had a guy in my life treat
me the way you do. And I was married for
seventeen years to a blank milke. He was an alcoholic.
I said, well, you know, enjoy it. And it was
an experience of a lifetime with her. Every time we
went out dancing and so for well, she was like,
oh my god, you like dancing swowing fast. I go, yeah,
I do what. It's fun, isn't it? And it was.
(21:59):
She had to go to Florida because you had two kids.
She signed them over to her in laws because she
couldn't take care of me. She was an alcoholic or
a drug addict. She just was a nerdy girl and
she signed over her kids to take care of him
because she couldn't. She wasn't making enough money. That's my story.
It was a love of my life though.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Interesting Gary, Interesting. Have you tried to ever get back
in touch?
Speaker 7 (22:21):
Yeah? I did in the first few months or so well,
when she was in Florida. But what happened was she says,
I gotta stay out here this that you know you
were here, welcome to Clouse yet but uh, you know,
I gotta stay with my kids and so far. I understand.
But I wasn't about to leave where I am because
I had two jobs out here and all that you know.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Got you know, I understand. Interesting story. It's just interesting. Hey,
you know, you never know, maybe there's someone else coming
down the line. Do you just never know? Thanks man, Thanks, Gary,
appreciate it. Interesting. Yeah. Uh, Sadie is in Boston. Hi, Sadie,
how are you?
Speaker 13 (22:55):
Hello?
Speaker 7 (22:55):
Dan?
Speaker 13 (22:56):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (22:57):
I'm doing great? Have I ever had the pleasure of
you on my showed before? I don't remember a Sadie.
Speaker 13 (23:02):
No, No, this is the first time because like everyone else, I.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Have a union.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Oh, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 13 (23:09):
I was driving to Montreal on a rainy, cold day.
I prayed to Lord. I said, Lord, please bring me
my soulmate, someone that you think is the best for me.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
I was yes.
Speaker 13 (23:22):
I Two days later, my brother in law my sister
said stay, don't go. I said, what do you mean
to stay? I have this rental car. I got a
return and they said, no hands, some college professors coming.
We want you to meet him. So I stayed in Montreal.
Two days later. I mean I saw him beautiful, amazing, good,
(23:45):
humble person. I got engaged to him in two days,
got married to him in two months, which lasted twenty
three and a half years. He was a scientist, certified
radiologists who work in Master Around hospital for twenty three
and a half years. All of a sudden, he said,
(24:07):
this skier, this person who lived on fruits and vegetables,
all of a sudden is telling me he's not feeling well.
So he got sick at the same hospital that he's
served for twenty three years, and he had an encounter
with the Lord Jesus Christ. So I wrote a book.
(24:29):
Now my mission is to tell so many people that
the glorious Lord Jesus is pouring his spirit on so
many people and is calling so many people from every
diaspora because he's living God who hears us who answers
our prayers, and he.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Did answer your prayer.
Speaker 13 (24:47):
It's tod and so many others and so many others.
My daughter just said to me, Mummy, I got the
most prestigious of school. I said, he La luis I am,
and praise the Lord. So he is a living God
and if they believe whomever believes him, he's victorious.
Speaker 7 (25:03):
Thank you so much, Dan, Sadie, thank you for the call.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
It was inspirational. Thank you, thank you much.
Speaker 13 (25:09):
I'd bless you.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Thank you appreciate it. Let me go to Steve in
the truck. Hey, Steve, how are you? I know who
this guy is?
Speaker 5 (25:19):
Hey, mister dan Hawi.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
I'm doing great. So how did you? And uh?
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (25:24):
Your my wife?
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Yea, your lovely you have friend for life or whatever
you want to call her, a partner in life whatever.
How'd you guys meet?
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Well?
Speaker 12 (25:35):
We met at her late on cole celebrational Life at
our little church in Townell, Maine, which is right next
door to where I live in Freeport or not, and.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
Married her three months later.
Speaker 8 (25:49):
And when I.
Speaker 5 (25:49):
Left the church after the service, she was out in
the front steps with her three cousins and she said
to them I'm going to marry that guy someday, And
I ended up marrying her two months later than when
we met. So we married October twenty ninth of twenty sixteen.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Isn't that amazing? Huh yeah, amazing.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
I mean funny thing Dan that she knew, but I
didn't know at that moment, at that point, you know.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Oh so, yeah, she didn't say it for you to
hear it. Oh I see, okay.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
Yeah, well I didn't. I wasn't sure as as sure
as she was. I wasn't ready. I just come out
of a divorce and I wasn't ready for another marriage
that quickly. But she won my heart and she's still
wonderful and doats on me like your wife doats on you.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Oh yeah, right right. Look up the definition of dots
in the dictionary where you may you may not misunderstand
the you may misunderstand the word. I should say, how
long have you been married, Steve? How long?
Speaker 5 (26:52):
Well it'll be nine years in October? Wow, boy, my
first Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
She has to be a saint to put up with you, Steve,
I'm kidding you.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
Oh yeah, Well, her mother was funny because downstairs at
the basement when we ate after the service, her mother,
who's been ninety one. On July tenth, she prodded the
interest to go over. There's an empty seat beside me,
and I swear Dan, she almost sat on my thigh.
She got that close to me. So we hit it off.
(27:22):
Then I drove away, and that's when she told her
cousins out in the front steps. So she knew something
I didn't know, but I, you know, quickly learned right after.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
The very intuitive.
Speaker 5 (27:35):
Well I'm glad, I'm married. I'm very thrilled and she's
a wonderful woman. So and she turned.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
We know you as a truck or were you driving tonight?
Speaker 5 (27:46):
Yeah, I'm doing the half meet with a guy, a
Baltimore driver, but I'm not too far from the Chickapee terminal.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
That's what Well, once you said it was a half people, Bob,
it was going to be Chickapee. Yeah, okay, Well.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
Then I meet him. I'll pick up some freight and
meet him, give him a trailer, and then he'll give
me a trail and I'll hug back to Chick to
be the and CHICKI be the main.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
So what time? What time? Just so people know that
the life of a truck driver is not probably the
easiest in the world. What time do you get home
tomorrow morning?
Speaker 5 (28:19):
Well, I'll probably get home around seven thirty.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
So on a seventy hour work week, Dan, I can work, well,
I drive. I don't work spot sixty eight and a
half hours out.
Speaker 8 (28:33):
Of the seventy.
Speaker 5 (28:34):
So but I love driving, as you know. It's I
know that not work. It's just I just love. It's not.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
If you love what you do, you'll never work a
day in your life.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
So yeah, yeah, great story.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
We've had another, a whole bunch of great stories, and
this was another one. Steve. I'm up my brake, so
I gotta let you run, but we will talk soon.
Speaker 11 (28:54):
Okay, all right, Dan, thank you, Thanks Dave.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
I have a great one, have a good weekend, enjoy.
We'll be back on Nightside right after these final messages
of the week and we'll wrap it up. We'll get
everybody in.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
That promise you're on Nightside with Dan Ray onn Youbzy
Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Okay, we're going to try to get everybody in. I
think we will go in next to Glenn in Brighton.
Glenn next on Nightside.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
How are you well? I told Andrew I met the
love of my wife through Jordan on his open line
program in December of twenty ten. He gave me permission
to mention my first, last name and phone number in
case somebody wanted a piano tuned. And lo and behold
this woman, Sue and Cambridge. She happened to be in
(29:41):
her kitchen listening to Beesy, drinking two buck chuck. That
was her favorite last from Trader Joe's. So anyway, she
called me. She sent me forty dollars for Christmas, and
she became my love, you know. She let me tune
her piano, and then one thing led to another and
we became love. We even had a fake wedding in
(30:01):
June of fifteen, hosted by Jordan Richie's a Justice of
the Peace in his spare time. Yeah, I couldn't have
a real wedding because I'd lose my SSI. Jordan wanted
to us to have an actual wedding, but I would
so anyway. She died of bone cancer six years ago, unfortunately,
(30:25):
on April twenty seventh, twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Yeah, I'm sorry, sorry, so sorry.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
That's why I'm glad to have a good time this
past April twenty sevenths.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Yeah, all right, buddy, I you know there's always someone
out there. Okay, there's always someone out there.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Yeah, I know. Someone told me women have like trains.
If you missed one, the next one comes along.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Yeah. I wouldn't put it like dak Glenn. But yeah,
there's another word, you know.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
I know, I'm just being cutey with you.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
No, I hear you, I hear you. I got pack
lines here, Glenn. I got to keep rolling Great Desisi
every good week. I got to go next to Eileen
and Cambridge. Eileen, I know that you had a very
special husband.
Speaker 11 (31:13):
I did, indeed, and I met him in college. I
had to take German because I was a chemistry major,
and lo and behold, everybody else in my German class
was a native speaker. This was back in the nineteen fifties,
(31:34):
and these were children of immigrant parents from Germany. But
they were taking first year German with me. But my
professor said, I know somebody who can help you, and
(31:56):
so she introduced me to the man who became my husband.
And he he started out as my German tutor. And
everything that I everything I said in German, made made
him laugh.
Speaker 6 (32:12):
I think.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Between German and chemistry that I didn't.
Speaker 11 (32:17):
Understand oh uh in in in the old days, if
you were a chemistry major, it should still be true
because so much chemical scientific uh experimentation and data was
(32:38):
published in German.
Speaker 6 (32:40):
Uh.
Speaker 11 (32:41):
It was important to be able to read these articles.
And i'm uh in fact, i've I'm very grateful that
I had to learn to read German and I learned
to speak it. I mean, I uh we uh we
lived in Germany.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
There's no better way, no better way to learn to
to to marry someone who speak Sureman, that's that's for sure,
But to immerse yourself in the language, that's a that's
a great story. And your husband was a professor.
Speaker 7 (33:13):
Yes he uh and.
Speaker 11 (33:17):
He uh uh was accepted for graduate studies at Harvard.
So we came to Harvard many many years ago in
the year nineteen sixty and he sadly passed away. Actually
(33:37):
it was five years ago today that I lost him.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Well, then, in that case, you had you had sixty
years together, Yes.
Speaker 11 (33:46):
We did, but he had he ended up getting the
coronavirus and it took him.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Yeah, so many people were impacted, so many people impacted
by that. Well, I lean you certainly that was a
providential class that you took. Let's put it like that.
Thanks so much for that story. I got a couple
more I got to get to. But again, I'm sorry
that it's on such an anniversary. Maybe that it was
meant to fall in this anniversary, if you know what
(34:14):
I'm saying. Yep, thanks Ilean, talk soon.
Speaker 11 (34:19):
Okay, thank you, Thanks Dan, Thank.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
You, Mike, Mike, and heybrow Mike. You next on nightside,
tell us about who you fell in love with in
the circumstances.
Speaker 8 (34:31):
Dan, how about I turn the tables. How about you
tell us where you hooked up.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Well, it's a long story, and I would I would
have to get permission of my wife. So it was
a very It's kind of a mundane meeting. But I'm
that's one part of my life. I like to keep
someone somewhat private. So I hope you know you want
to go ahead tell.
Speaker 8 (34:56):
Us all right, Well, no one of them mind he
tried it through Europe.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
I can tell you. I'll tell you one funny, quick,
funny story in that is one of the first dates
that we went on. I took her to I'm a
big baseball fan, as you know, took her to Fenway
Park to a rid Sox Old Times game, and they
rolled out Smoky Joe Wood, who had been the hero
of the nineteen twelve World Series. I think this was
nineteen eighty four, so he was, you know, well into
(35:22):
his nineties, and he was wheelchair bound. And they put
him about two feet in front of home plate and
put a ball in his heat which he kind of
catapulted about two feet in the air and not much
and the thirty seven thousand, these thousand people gave him
a rousing standing ovation. And my wife, who was not
a sports fan then still not much of a sports fan,
(35:44):
looked at me and said, what's what's so big? What's
the big deal? It's Smokey Joe would anyway, So what tell.
Speaker 8 (35:53):
Us your story about it? Yeah, about forty years ago,
hitchhiking through Europe while I get out of college.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Did I lose you hit your hitch hiking through Europe? Glad?
Speaker 3 (36:07):
No?
Speaker 10 (36:07):
No?
Speaker 8 (36:08):
I said, yeah, no, I hitch hiking for Europe. Ago.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
So was she was she American or was she European?
Speaker 3 (36:16):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (36:17):
She was American's just from California, San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
So so a girl from San Francisco meets a guy
from Boston in Europe whereabouts in Europe.
Speaker 8 (36:27):
In Halem, Amsterdamwood.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Wow. Wow. And how long have you to now been together?
One forty years? Wow? Wow? And uh, you just never
know if you hadn't taken that trip to Europe and
if she hadn't taken that trip to Europe. That's the
thing that's interesting about it. It's just that moment in time.
(36:53):
You know, if you were one day later, one day earlier,
may never have met Mike. Thanks much, have a great weekend. Okay,
all right, thanks be, I'll talk to you soon. Uh,
let me go to Christine. Christine, you may wrap the
hour for us. Go right ahead, Christine.
Speaker 14 (37:11):
I wanted to tell you about my parents. How they met.
They were young and they so the buses rolled into
a rest area Newton, and they were all going skin.
Speaker 7 (37:23):
But when they when they.
Speaker 14 (37:24):
Got off the bucket, they bumped into each other. And
you know, they said they were going skin, but they
didn't know where, you know, they you know, they Easter
didn't realized they were going in the same place. So
when they got up there, they were going to Poland Spring,
New hamp So they bumped into each other. Good and
headed off and that's how it all started.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
Poland Spring, New Hampshire, Poland Spring.
Speaker 7 (37:46):
Maine, Poland Spring, New hamp Sorry, you're.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
Right, yeah, yeah, because that's the Poland Spring, the water place. Yeah,
I mean yeah, we kind of get that detail, right,
that's for sure, Christine, that's right.
Speaker 6 (38:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
Isn't that great? And if they weren't skiers, or if
they hadn't met each other, you and I wouldn't be
talking tonight. How about that?
Speaker 14 (38:08):
Huh, Christine? Fifty two years this June.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
Oh, they would have been there. They both passed or
as one still my dad.
Speaker 14 (38:20):
Has passed, my mom's in the German sid.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Oh. Sure, I'm very familiar with that. I've I have
had friends who have been there. That is a great
facility anyone who has.
Speaker 14 (38:30):
The opportunity to be there.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
Christy, thank you so much. Always great to hear your
voice and hear your voice too. You have a great weekend. Okay,
thanks thanks so much for joining us last weekend. Thanks,
thanks again.
Speaker 7 (38:45):
You're welcome.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
All right, So that's been a very It's been an
interesting thematic night here on Nightside. Sometimes we try to
do themes. We started off with the Bill Belichick romance
with his new as he calls her his creative muse,
Jordan Hudson. We talked fifty greatest athletes in Boston with
(39:07):
Marty Gitlin. You can find him on Facebook and get
that book personalized, autographed and how'd you meet your spouse?
So that is it for this night and this week, everybody.
I want to thank all of you who joined us.
Want to thank Andrew did a great job tonight, busy night.
I want to thank Karen Boussemi who is our producer
today and I watched all of you a fabulous weekend.
(39:29):
My name is Dan Ray. This is Nightside. We're wrapping
up a week, going to get you to Saturday, May third,
in just about two minutes and I will be on
Facebook at Nightside with Dan Ray in about two minutes.
All dogs, all cats, all pets go to heaven. That's
why Pal Charlie Ray is, who passed fifteen years ago
in February. That's why all your pets are who have passed.
They loved you and you love them. I do believe
you'll see them again. We'll see again on Monday. Have
(39:50):
a fabulous weekend. Everyone, Stay dry between the rain droms
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