December 19, 2025 • 41 mins
After a heavy news week, Dan ended NightSide’s last hour of the week on more of a positive note. This week, Dan asked what positive thing are you looking forward to?
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's nice with Dan Ray. I'm Boston's Lee Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Thank you Ale Griffin. As we head into our twentieth
hour of the week, it is our last hour of
this week. It is also our last twentieth hour of
twenty twenty six. So I'm going to give you a
simple assignment right now.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
We've had a tough, tough few weeks, a few days,
particularly going back to last Saturday. We've survived in many
respects were reminded of the dark days of April of
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twenty thirteen in the wake of the marathon bombing, and
the uncertainty that was going on back then was not
on the scale of the marathon bombing, but for the
families who have been adversely impacted and who've lost love ones,
the same as the marathon bombing.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
So I want to when we want to turn the page,
not turning the page, but I want to look in
a different direction, and I want you to join me,
and I want you to tell me, very simply something
that you are now looking forward to. We've talked for
two hours about what has happened in the last seven days,
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the loss of life, the MIT professor, the two students
at Brown University, the students who are wounded, badly wounded,
who suffered critical injuries, and will have a long time
to recover. But for the moment, I want to turn
our vision in a different direction. And I'm asking each
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of you to tell me one thing, one thing that
you're looking forward to. It can be something as simple
as the holiday you celebrate in the next are celebrating now,
if it's Hanukkah or Christmas or Kwansa or whatever. It
is being home with loved ones, or perhaps having loved
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ones come back to your home. Maybe you're looking forward
to something in twenty twenty six, which is now less
than two weeks away. Maybe there's a trip that's been planned.
I would like to talk about life, and I'd like
to talk about how good it is for all of
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us to have life, and to experience life, and to
appreciate life. I don't want to sound like I'm naive.
All of us deal with different difficult decisions every year.
No one knows for sure what problem might exist a month,
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two months, five months, six months, a year from now.
But as we sit here tonight, I want to finish
this week in a positive note. And for those of
you who maybe don't feel you have something specifically to
look forward to. Maybe one of my callers, one of
our callers, will inspire you in the meantime as we
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set the lines up, and I would ask you to
dial in early at six one seven, two five four
ten thirty or six one seven nine three one ten
thirty and realize that everyone has a hall passed this hour,
So even if you've called already this week, you have
every right to call back in this hour, and no
one is going to prevent you from call from calling
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uh IT during this hour. Something you're looking forward to,
I am looking forward, and I will tell you what
I'm looking forward to. I'm looking forward to spending time
with my family and particularly with my my grandchildren. We've
been blessed with two grandchildren. I am three and a
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half year old boy, young boy Benjamin, who can be
a challenge, but I think most young boys can be
challenged because they are They're full of energy, and sometimes
that energy spills over. And we're also blessed by a
granddaughter lost Aril April twenty seventh, Caroline, Caroline, Ruth and
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Benjamin and Caroline will spend time with this this holiday season,
Christmas season, Hanukah. We're a blended family in that regard,
and we celebrate both both of those great traditions. And
I want to know maybe there's something a little further
out that you're looking forward to. In the meantime, let
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me just recap the week very quickly, very quickly. We
began on Monday night talking about tariffs with Nicholas Colin
k colon Tuneo to Know. Talk with Mark Bracken about
the Big billion Dollar, continuing the billion Dollar Jackpot, Talk
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about Valerie Sokolowski about some of the worst Christmas gifts
this year, primarily self help books. Talk with Paula Fleming,
BBD's BBB Boston Better Business Bureaus, twelve scams of the Holidays.
Talk with Bill Stewart, a hockey legend here in Massachusetts.
And that hour will be our eleventh hour this Sunday,
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the Best of Nightside at eleven o'clock on Sunday, talk
with Bill for an hour and some special guests that
he had lined up for us. Then we talked with
Attorney Phil Tracy about the Brian Walsh verdict which was
rendered on Monday. We talked about the weekend of violence, Australia,
Rhode Island, and of course the Walsh case. At that
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point when we were talking about this, we did not
know that the murder of the MIT professor had occurred
earlier that evening. On Tuesday night, talked about our free
speech on campus with Robert Shibley. Talk with Harvard women's
basketball coach coach Carrie Moore. Talk with Patrick Arnsen about
pilots trying to hide their mental health. People want to
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fly commercially beyond sixty five. Talk with Brian Thompson of
ACU Weather Meteorologists about the cold weather was coming. Talk
with Andrew mccoola Pioneer Institute about starter homes, and talked
with Amas Tanuma about the suffering economy of customer services.
Book is entitled Hold, Hold and the Revolt That's Long Overdue,
And talked about customer service Wednesday night. Talked about with
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Dwayne Decent about the challenges of twenty twenty six. Talk
with Boston Herald reporter Colleen Cronin about the Brown shooting
the shooting down at Brown, Talk with Professor Julia Minson
of the Kennedy School about the politics and holidays mixed,
and talk with Coree Thompson about the Patriots loss to
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the Buffalo Bills. At nine o'clock we heard President Trump's speech.
We then got your reaction to it. For two hours
from ten to twelve on Wednesday night. Last night, we
talked with Emily Sweeney, the Boston Globe Cold Case file
about what was going on up in New Hampshire even
as we spoke. Spoke with Professor Misty Hegnes of the
University of Kansas about swifty economics. Talk with doctor Evan
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Harris about protecting your vascular your veins, particularly with long
travel ed Davis from a Boston police commissioner, talked about
what was going on in New Hampshire last night. Talked
with William Martin, the great author who has written so
many great books, particularly New England books, Cape cod Back Bay,
Lincoln Letter, The Lost Constitution, his new book December forty one.
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We will have him back because we had to cut
the interview short to pick up the news conference that
brought news that the suspect in the Rhode Island and
the Brookline shootings had killed himself in New Hampshire. And
we talked about in the last hour about public cameras
versus personal privacy. I think we need more public cameras
to be honest with you. Then I talked with Louisa
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Pianski about Cape Cod Bridges. Talk with Chris pace Price,
I should say of the Boston Globe about the Patriots
chances for the playoffs, in the game this Sunday night
against the Baltimore Ravens. Talk with doctor Anahita Dua about
aggressive flu problems and get your flu shot. Talk with
Jacob's Cool. Jacob's Cool, Jacob Cool about miles from the military.
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And we talked the least to us about this crazy
week in New England. Tonight, We're going to talk about
something positive. We go through lots of things here on Nightside.
We try to put good shows together. I just hope
that you will continue to respond as you do as
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right after the show. So sometimes if you talk, if
you'll call in it in the eleven o'clock news, Rob
will have that post at probably sometime by two am
in the morning. Okay, quick break, this is the very
quick break. We're going right back to the calls. We're
gonna start off with Dennis, Florence, Bill Carroll and Mike
were full lines. I'm so appreciative of that. Let's get
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positive here. We cannot change the past, but we can
get positive coming back on nightside.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
If you're on night Side with Dan Ray on wz
Boston's news radio, All right.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Let's shut it off. We got Dennis and Lowell. Hey Dennis,
welcome back.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Well, thank you very much. Dan. That's my life's philosophy.
When I coach, I always told the kids think positive.
You'll accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Yes sir, yes, sir. What are you looking forward to
that's positive in the in the weeks of the months ahead.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Well, basically, I got a couple of good grandkids. Did
have pretty good athletes. One of them was a global
scholastic and lacrosse. This his team Barricka won the state tournament,
and uh, you know, decent player.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
It sounds like more than decent to me, Dennis, but
I'm not surprised.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Well, we go game by you know, game by game,
pitch by pitch. Got it always the next one. But
what I called about was when are you going to
have the ausome mister Martin on again.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
He will be on again with us sometime probably in
the uh well the first or second full week of January,
and I will let people get in advance. So you're
looking forward to Bill Martin coming back.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Absolutely everything he was talking about it just says I
love history and stuff, and I loved his book, The
Last Constitution. Believe me, it's a great book.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
They're all great, They're all great. No, it's great. I was.
Let me tell you, I thought last night, with the
story breaking as it was, that there would be nobody
listening or calling and the lines lit up, so we
would get Bill Martin on quickly. I owe him. I
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owe him a rain check to carry the sports metaphor
a little bit.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Okay, Oh, I'll just tell you that that book, The
Last Constitution, the last chapter ends up in some way park.
Of course, you know, I just finished. I just finish up.
I also remember the game Reggie Jackson has a little dispute.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Oh yeah, we threw that out there last night. Absolutely,
he's a huge sports fan. By the way, he's a
huge Red Sox fan. And I don't know if you
heard him tell the story last night. We were talking
about how that a lot of his books, it's uh,
it's regular people who rise to the occasion, and uh
he was. He was recalling his first game at Fenway Park,
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which was running one on a three run homer, not
by Ted Williams, not by you know. He told of
Pete Daily.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Back up Pete, Yeah, yeah, hey, back up, back up
to Sammy White. You know how I go back with
all of them. O.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
You bet youa pal, Thank you much. Great call to
start off. What are you looking forward to? Something you're
looking forward to? It can be a reunion, it can
be U a specific day, it can be Christmas Day.
Who's not who doesn't look forward to Christmas Day? Florence
and grovelin Florence. What are you looking forward to?
Speaker 5 (12:52):
Good evening, Dan, high flying. I'm looking forward to being
with nice family. Uh that's most important to me. Okay,
their number one and also I'm hoping looking forward to
the new year. I want to hear about a lot
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of good things happening in the new year. Don't we
need we need it now at this point, there's been
so much agony out there. I think twenty twenty five
has been overwhelming for a lot of people, and we
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need a good year, one that we could talk about
for a long time and say, wasn't that twenty twenty
sixth grade?
Speaker 2 (13:47):
You're you're, you're, you were the area. Okay, your words
to go.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
I'm talking about yeah, and talking about positive thinking. I've
always been a positive thinker since very young, very very young,
you know, maybe elementary school and yeah, And I find
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that that is the best way to be because it
helped you open a lot of hurdles, you know, no question, no.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Question, Florence. Let's stay positive in twenty twenty six and
maybe a year from now, we'll talk. We'll talk about
that you gave this prediction that was going to be
a good year.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
We'll brag about it. And I wish you a nice
Christmas with your family. Enjoy have a lot of fun
with those little ones.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
I'll try, I'll try.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
They grow pretty.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Quick, Oh, I know that, but they could be challenging,
that's for sure.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Absolutely. I've been there. I know what it's like.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Florence, very Christmas, Chris, good night. Let's go next to
Bill in Pennsylvania. Bill, what are you looking forward to?
Something positive? We got to get positive tonight.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
I got a lot of positive things in my life, Dan,
all given to me by the heavenly Father. And so
tomorrow night we're taking both the girls nine and five
on a train ride. And you go out on the train,
the train stops and Santa Claus gets on board, and uh,
and Sunday, the oldest granddaughter has got a doubleheader basketball game.
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And then, uh, I'm gonna be looking forward to the
end of March. I'm going to I haven't been there
in a while, but I'm going to Italy and uh
there is some some old ski buddies over there and
uh mostly around Uh, well, up and up. Well, you know,
Dan are having the Olympics in Bormeo, up and up
and uh the northern the Italian Alps. Yeah, well that'll
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winter Olympics will be there and then.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
They technically in Milan, which obviously is in northern Italy.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
Is it is now the most of the yeah, most
of the ski events, Dan, are going to be in Bormeo. Sure,
you over the Dolomites.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
You've got to have mountains and the snow. We were
in Italy last summer, not last summer, but the summer
of twenty twenty four, and you're going at a great
time of the year. You're going to see some of
the events. Will you have access to any of the
Olympic events?
Speaker 6 (16:38):
No, No, I'll be going. I booked myself and at
the end of actually twenty second of March, Dan, I leave.
That'll be after the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Oh yeah, right right picture in February.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
Yeah, okay, we're going up to up to Bormeo. I
skied there in the past, and uh, you know, it's
it's the most treacherous downhill in the in the whole
all the ski events is there in Bormeo. That's where
up Kaboo Street took her very bed uh spill there
a few years back.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
I remember that. I do remember that. It's a it's
a tough sports. I've never skied. I was playing sports
in college at the time that Jim Lonboy heard his
leg skiing, and our coaches said no one's gonna go skiing.
You go skiing, you're not going to be playing baseball,
so and.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
Then and then, of course, of course I'll be looking
forward to the new year. And here and here in
your show, Uh, you keep us going down here in Pennsylvania.
But anyways, Merry Christmas to you and your family, Dan.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Bill, Merry Christmas to you, and uh, we'll expect a
full report. Maybe you can give us a call some
night from Italy and uh and let us know what's
going on. We had a call tonight earlier from Dan
McDonald in the North Atlantic Ocean.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
I'll tell you how many pounds I gained.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Dan, Well, yeah, I'm sure with if you get if
you're going to do some skiing, you probably come back
a little lighter than than when you leave. But be well.
Merry Christmas. Bill. I'm thank you, buddy. We're going to
get Carol in here. Here we go, Carol. We're moving
people along pretty well, Carol from rand office. Next on
night's side, Carol, what are you looking forward to?
Speaker 7 (18:13):
Oh Dan, I'm looking forward to thank you all your
listeners that pray for my husband. He's getting better and crazy.
What I'm looking forward to is I'm doing a promotional
thing for the company I work for. Twenty twenty twenty six.
The tall ships coming into Boston.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Oh, my lot about that. I forgot about that. Thank
you for reminding me.
Speaker 7 (18:40):
This is going to be huge.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Yeah. Are they here for the Are they here for
the fourth of July?
Speaker 8 (18:48):
No?
Speaker 7 (18:48):
They come in I think on July fourteenth and leave
July seventeenth. Okay, but it's the twenty fifty anniversary. It
is going to be huge. And yeah, I sound like Trump.
It's going to be huge, but no, it's going to
be grave.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Well I remember, I remember nineteen seventy six. I was
a young television reporter, a very young television back in
those days. Yeah, and it's amazing to think that fifty
years later, I still have access to a microphone. Gaes.
Speaker 7 (19:24):
I mean for the city of Boston. For I mean,
I know they got the World Cup going down at Foxborough,
but the tall ships coming in. People have to start
talking about this.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
I am very unhappy that they're calling Jillette Stadium Boston Stadium.
It's not Boston Stadium.
Speaker 7 (19:41):
No, it's Jealous yeah yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Or it's a shafer, it's the razor.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Well, yeah, a little just just moved a few couple
of hundred yards. But I remember I was I used
to sat and sit on those cold aluminum sat Shaeffer
Stadium who no back with no backing by the way,
you know.
Speaker 7 (20:07):
But I was, Oh, I was there when I was pregnant,
and I was like, my husband took me and I
was like, this is torture. I never want to go
back there.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Well, the team was torture too, by the way.
Speaker 7 (20:21):
No, but the toll ships coming into Boston in July,
this is going to be amazing for the city.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Well that was the important one I had. I had
let that slip my mind, and you have. You have
won the prize of the best suggestion. People are going
to go to their calendars tomorrow and start to mark
it off because you called in.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Okay, Oh I hope. So.
Speaker 7 (20:46):
I mean, it's so beautiful and the place to be
in Boston on July fourteenth through seventeenth is right in
downtown Boston.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Well, I'll tell you. I'm ask Rob give Carol my
direct private number so that she can get in touch
with me if she's so inclined.
Speaker 8 (21:07):
Okay, thanks Carol, and you have an invitation.
Speaker 7 (21:10):
You're coming.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
We'll try to work. God willing, we're both they got
alive and well and all of that. That's all we
can hold.
Speaker 7 (21:20):
Yes, I know, but Christmas, you've been a lifeline to me,
and thanks again.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Be best husband. Please please give him a hug from
all of us. And I guarantee you that I'll toast
you and him at Christmas dinner, I promise.
Speaker 7 (21:36):
Okay, Oh, thank you, Dan, Thanks, thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Soon.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Thanks, don't hang up. Get my direct number from rob Okay,
we will take a break. Here comes the newscast back
right after that. Something good that you're looking forward to,
whether it's this week, next month, or next year. Something positive.
That's what we want to talk about tonight, coming back
on Night Side.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
You're on nights Side with Dan Ray on w BZ,
Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
All right, we're talking about something positive, something that you're
looking forward to, and we're always looking for new callers,
so feel free. The only line open right now is
six one, seven, nine, three, one, ten thirty. We're gonna
go next to Mike and Plymouth. Hey, Mike, welcome back.
How are you sir? Good?
Speaker 9 (22:26):
Dan, how are you tonight?
Speaker 2 (22:27):
I'm great? Tell me something you're looking forward to either
in the short term or the long term.
Speaker 9 (22:33):
All right, I got one of each for you, Okay.
Short term, I'm looking forward to you having William Martin back.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
On the other set, you were the second one who's
looking for the return of William Martin. It will be
in early January, I promise.
Speaker 9 (22:48):
I'm a fellow Catholic Memorial Night and I was on
hold last night waiting.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
To talk to him.
Speaker 9 (22:53):
When the news will make sure we get you those
things happen. Yeah, we'll get over that one. I'm sure
you'll have him back. But long term, my big look
forward to in twenty twenty six is I'm going to
be retiring from the Boston Fire Department after almost thirty.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Years, So you for that service.
Speaker 9 (23:13):
Wow, Holiday Carol kind of stole my thunder a little bit.
I'm going to be retiring in July and the semi
quintennial Boston Celebration or the two hundred and fiftieth I guess, yeah,
I just learned that word the other day. Is going
to be in Boston, and that'll be my last major event.
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I'll be working for the Fire Department, and I'm actually
looking very much looking forward to sailing off into the
sunset in more ways than one. In July of twenty six, Mike.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Do me a favorite when we put you on with
Bill Martin. Please let him know one that you're a
fellow Catholic Memorial Night number one and number two. Let
him know where your life work has taken you. I
just got to ask you questions. So you spent thirty
did you ever keep track? And you probably didn't, But
did you ever keep track of all the fires that
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you responded to?
Speaker 9 (24:09):
You know, as far as documenting them day fives and stuff? No, no,
I I didn't actually write them all down. I worked
in the in the Dorchester neighborhood and a single engine
house Engine sixteen for many, many years, and we had
a lot of one in two room fires that didn't
make the news in but it was so to be
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honest with you, I mean, I have too many to count.
There were a couple of tough ones that stick with me.
One in particular was the Friday after Thanksgiving after I
was only two or three years on the job, and
we lost an eight and a ten year old boy,
two young kids in a three deca because they were
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on the third they were on the living room. They
were on the first floor in the living room, and
the parents had jumped out of the second floor windows
and and the neighbors told us that the kids were upstairs,
so we tried to get upstairs to locate them and
find them up there, And turns out they had fallen
asleep on the couch and the parents never bothered to
bring them upstairs and wake them up because they fell
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asleep watching TV. So that was a tough one, that one.
I remember it almost like it was yesterday. That one's
going to stay with me for a long time. But
I was supposed to be talking about positive things.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
You got it knowing, Yeah, But I just wanted to
take congratulations, thank you for the work you did on
behalf of firefighters, police officers and EMTs. They truly are
the public servants. I never want to hear any politician
refer to themselves as a public servant. The public servants
are firefighters, police officers, and EMTs.
Speaker 9 (25:45):
In my opinion, well, it's my privilege to serve the
citizens of Boston for almost thirty years, and like we
all say don at Florin Hall, it's the greatest job
in the world. And I don't regret a minute of it.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
It's such a critical job. And I've been to Florian
home many times, and hopefully at some point I'll see
you down there and I'll buy you a beer. Mike,
thank you so much for your time telling and thanks
for your.
Speaker 9 (26:07):
Loyalty to Night Harry the rest of your listeners.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Absolutely thanks Mike. Thanks, that's a great call. Great call.
All right, We're gonna keep going here with great calls.
Six one, seven, Now the only two, five, four, ten thirty.
They're packed. Okay, three calls? Are there? Two lines open?
There should not be any lines open on this one.
Six one, seven, nine, three, ten thirty. Joe and Belmont. Joe,
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what are you looking forward?
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Two?
Speaker 2 (26:33):
That's positive.
Speaker 10 (26:34):
I'm looking forward to the college football playoffs. I'm picking
Mississippi as my Cinderella team to win the whole thing?
Are they given? Georgia? Are Alabama? Close games? And I
think they might be able to do it. I love
the UH school spirit and the pageantry better in college
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than I do in pros. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
I know one of the assistant coaches that Mississippi team,
Joe Judge, who used to be the head coach of
the Giants. Great guy, great, great football guy. How have
you followed tonight Alabama Oklahoma.
Speaker 10 (27:14):
Or no, it's I got this the volume turned down.
It's thirty four to twenty four with twelve seconds left.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Well, I think we put that one in the win
calling for Alabama. If you recall, Oklahoma jumped out to
a seventeen nothing lead. So Alabama has come on like gangbusters.
Speaker 10 (27:35):
They'll be playing Indiana in the Rose Bowl January first.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Wow, that's a good one. So you're looking forward to
the college football playoffs. I like that, Joe. I like
that a lot.
Speaker 10 (27:47):
Something positive, Dan.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
It is very positive. And as they say, for Mississippi,
check out their roster. Joe Judge, great guy, good friend,
and a smart guy and a good football guy. He'll
be a head coach again someday.
Speaker 10 (28:02):
Dan, for the tenth time. Merry Christmas to you and
your work one.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
You can't say that enough to me, Joe, and I
say it right back to you. Merry Christmas, Joe, to
you and yours. Talk to you soon. Thank you, thank you, buddy,
thank you very much. All right, let's keep rolling that
open up one line at six one, seven thirty, going
to go to John and rent them. John, you were
next on night side. What are you looking forward to
We're getting very positive here tonight and I like this,
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go right ahead, John.
Speaker 8 (28:29):
Hi, Dan.
Speaker 11 (28:30):
I think one thing like like positive is the saying
thanks to all our first responders. Pure talk. Christ are
led into this, said give thanks, and I ad to
our first responders. I'm a position here and rent them
sitting in the doctors that's reading the newspaper the globe
about our first responders and nick one who chipped into
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help out, and that included the ear nurses that werelin
the hospital, the trauma surgeons, and if we wind up
in the ear, please say thanks you for your service.
They have a tough job. We found in the last
you know, twenty years, people have been angry coming into
the er, somewhat disrespectful, and I think we'll all take
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a deep breat sit back and say thank you for
your service. It's gonna be a better world all around.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Oh that's great, doctor John. First of all, I'm honored
that you would be calling me, and I mean that seriously.
Have you called before? Is this your first time?
Speaker 11 (29:27):
It's been a few times. It's been a number of
years since I chirped ender.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Well, that's great and I hope you'll be more more frequent.
But do you work in an er in a hospital
setting or are you in provatas.
Speaker 11 (29:40):
Yeah, I just retired last week as a'm a physician,
but I worked. You know, there's some EA service when
saying Elizabeth, you know we all do we throughout rotations.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Sure.
Speaker 11 (29:53):
I spent time at City Hospital and the trauma surgeon there,
doctor Hirsch was certainly one of the great mentors. He
was a Vietnam that's trauma surgeon and he went through
some great stories and he helped to save my month's
life from the medical illness. And but that first responders,
(30:13):
you know, Mike's from uh worked at Dorchester. He might
have been at my family's home that was in intiment
Dorchester about ten years ago. So thank them all for
the service.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Wow, that's great. What type of you said you were
a physician, But I missed the first word.
Speaker 11 (30:30):
What type of primary care doc?
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Primary here? PCP?
Speaker 11 (30:35):
Correct? Correct?
Speaker 2 (30:36):
I was just.
Speaker 11 (30:38):
A breath that needs to be replenished.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Well, no, it is so hard, It is so hard.
I had a great primary care doc for many years.
His name was Alan Cole, doctor Allan Cole. He I
I'm just was so happy with him and when COVID occurred.
It was kind of I think the moment in his
time where he was of a certain age where he
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decided that it was time that he was going to retire.
And there's not a shortage of primary care doctors. We've
talked about that on the show. Matter of fact, we
had the dean of the University of Michigan Medical Medical
School on well this is going to be five or
six months ago, talking about the number of primary care
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physicians who have left here in America and we're training
all these good kids at offshore medical institutions. We need
to have more medical schools in America. We have an
over abundance of law schools and we don't have enough
medical schools. What's wrong with that picture?
Speaker 11 (31:43):
Well, it definitely is wrong.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Dan.
Speaker 11 (31:44):
You know, when I was private care was just becoming
a hot issue back thirty years ago, and I was
in the first program to say Elizabeth, which was a
primary care program, and out of I think sixteen slots
for physicians, they were for primary care. So that was
the first onset to get more people involved with primary care.
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But then after that, over the next you know, five
ten years, it just fell by the wayside. And here
we are there twenty more years later that you know,
with this quite a crisis in terms of the shortage.
Fortunately we thank the rest practitioners are stepping up and
helping out. But overall there's gonna be you know, physicians
who oversee the rest practitioners and helping the overall pere
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and more of a team effort.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Doctor John, thank you so much for calling. I hope
you'll call back more often.
Speaker 11 (32:38):
Okay, Okay, have a great Christmas in you and your family.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Merry Christmas to you and yours doctor. Thank you very much. Okay,
gotta take a quick break. Everybody gets in Gene, Karen
and Linda, you're all set. Stay right there if you
want to try. There's one line folks at six one
seven and one line at six one seven. We might
be able to get even more than the three who
are already on the line. Coming back on night Side.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
All right, I'm going to try to get everybody in here.
Let me go to Karen in Wisconsin. Karen, what are
you looking forward to, either in the short term or
the long term.
Speaker 12 (33:19):
Well, it seems Carol, she didn't steal my thunder, but
she gave me thunder.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
I heard.
Speaker 12 (33:27):
I'm looking forward. I heard yesterday on my news starting
in June, June eighteenth, and tickets go on sale Monday
for a direct flight from Madson to Boston WHOA on
American Airlines WHOA. And now with the called ships coming,
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I am, you know, not going going to look on
bright side and and mine as a positive. It may
not happen, but I would sure love to look forward
to buying a ticket and coming to Boston and watching
the tall ships and meeting everybody. And I don't want
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to give up hope. No, I have to hope. So
there you go. That's what I look forward to.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Oh that's great, Karen. I got to get two more
in here. But that's a wonderful.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
Well.
Speaker 12 (34:35):
I'll have to go. Happy Merry Christmas.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Merry Christmas to you. I hope that I hope that
you've got some nice weather out there. I know you've
been having bad weather.
Speaker 12 (34:45):
It's all going to be green by Christmas. Keep it going.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
You're dreaming of the green Christmas. I'm with you. Thanks, Jaren,
we will appreciate all right, good night, let me go
to Linda and Weymouth Linda, you are next on night side.
What are you looking forward to?
Speaker 13 (35:04):
Well, I'm looking forward to two things. One of course,
celebrating Christmas with my family. But most of all, jan
I have a very strong feeling that next year, twenty
twenty six, is going to be an amazing year filled
with a spiritual awakening of positiveness and expressing our faith
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and our love of God. And I really believe that
that's going to happen, and I'm looking forward to that because.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
We need it.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
Linda, I agree with you. I think we do need it,
and I do hope so for all of our sake.
Because I'm not the most religious person in the world.
But the church that I go to is a Catholic church,
and there are two really young, very passionate priests who
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are what priests should be. They were blessed to have
them in the parish, and I know one of them
fairly well, and I just am amazed that young men,
you know, these are men probably in their thirties, have
given their life to a vocation, and they have decided
not to have families and not to not to get married.
(36:28):
But these two priests are really priests that are great
role models. I'm not going to embarrass them by mentioning
their name or even the church. But they are unbelievable
a priest, and you realize that they have, you know,
forty or more years of the priesthood ahead of them
before they would have to retire, and because of the youth,
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and they are just what the Catholic Church does need.
Speaker 13 (36:55):
Yeah, yeah, I too have a beautiful cat Tricks that
I go to and for the same reason.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Good yep, Yeah, Well, Linda, I hope you have a
great Christmas, and I hope the twenty twenty six is
better than that does have that spiritual awakening.
Speaker 4 (37:13):
I enjoy you in that.
Speaker 13 (37:15):
Threat yep, thank you, Dan and Merry Christmas to you
and and your family.
Speaker 6 (37:21):
God bless you.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Right back at you. All right, it looks like we're
going to wrap it up with Gene and Brookline. Gene,
what are you looking forward to in the short run
of the long run, It doesn't matter, Go right ahead, Gane.
Speaker 8 (37:33):
I was diagnosed with one cancer in September. I had
radiation treatments. Yes, at the Danis Fober. I didn't want
surgery because they take out pot of I want, so
we did radiation. I got the all Claire. This week
I had my follow up treatments. I had prestigious you know,
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they did cat scans and stuff like that to see
what happened and it's rank and they were very pleased
with that. So now I can plan to go see
my sister in Australia. I've been seeing her in two
I have been see her in two years because the
flights horrible. But I asked him, I said, can I
(38:19):
go to Australia you like for six to eight weeks?
You're like sure? For us, you look good. I'm like
you because I was quite nervous.
Speaker 4 (38:29):
It was going to be, Yeah, when are you going?
Speaker 2 (38:32):
When are you going to Australia?
Speaker 8 (38:33):
If you figured out what time day January, it sounds
like the probably the beginning of February. And in tont
you can say eight weeks. That's all you can do
on your visa is an eight week you know visit.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
So yeah, and so you need a visit to go
to Australia.
Speaker 8 (38:54):
A visa, yeah, vis visa visa.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
So you cannot just go there as a tourist, even
as an American. You need to have.
Speaker 6 (39:05):
A visa.
Speaker 8 (39:06):
Yeah. So I've got to get that organized because I
was supposed to go last year on my seventieth birthday. However,
I had the big surgery on both my well my
left leg because of the circulation problems. So I spent
my seventieth birthday at the Brigham and Brigham and I
(39:29):
worked the Brigham for thirty years as a nurse. Yeah,
so yeah, So when I saw the doctor on Thursdyes, no,
it looks really good, and I'm like, going, can I
go Australia. She's like, sure, no problem.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
Problem, Gene. Congratulations to you. I was unaware that you
had to have a visa, but it sounds like you're
all set and it's going to be this summer season.
You'll be down there and what is like the summer
early all season. Oh, I'm so happy for me. You
gotta call us some night. You gotta call us some
night from Australia. Okay, I can do that, Yeah, absolutely,
(40:09):
I can. I am flat up against it here, so
I gotta let you go out. We will talk between
now and then. But with the time change it's about
a twelve hour difference. You can call us some morning
at nine o'clock, ten o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 8 (40:22):
It'll be perfect okay, oh yeah, definitely. It's fourteen hours
right now. All right, thanks, thank you so much, Mary, Christmas.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
Merry Christmas to you as well. Wow, some very positive stories,
exactly as I wanted to end the week. I'll be
back on Monday night and we'll be here with the
charity Combine over the weekend, rather on Tuesday night, over
the weekend, on Sunday Night, best of Nightside with the
reflections on the the passing of the Boston Arena with
(40:52):
Bill Stewart and others. My name's Dan Ray. This is Nightside,
Rob Brooks. Great job, I'll read a great job. I'll
ender's always all dogs, all cats, all pets go to heaven.
My pale Charlie Rays, who passed fifteen years ago in February.
That's why your pets are who passed. They loved you
and you love them. I do believe you'll see them again.
Hope to see again on Monday night. I have a
great weekend. Everyone go Patriots and just enjoy each other.
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Life is short.
It's nice with Dan Ray. I'm Boston's Lee Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Thank you Ale Griffin. As we head into our twentieth
hour of the week, it is our last hour of
this week. It is also our last twentieth hour of
twenty twenty six. So I'm going to give you a
simple assignment right now.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
We've had a tough, tough few weeks, a few days,
particularly going back to last Saturday. We've survived in many
respects were reminded of the dark days of April of
(00:46):
twenty thirteen in the wake of the marathon bombing, and
the uncertainty that was going on back then was not
on the scale of the marathon bombing, but for the
families who have been adversely impacted and who've lost love ones,
the same as the marathon bombing.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
So I want to when we want to turn the page,
not turning the page, but I want to look in
a different direction, and I want you to join me,
and I want you to tell me, very simply something
that you are now looking forward to. We've talked for
two hours about what has happened in the last seven days,
(01:25):
the loss of life, the MIT professor, the two students
at Brown University, the students who are wounded, badly wounded,
who suffered critical injuries, and will have a long time
to recover. But for the moment, I want to turn
our vision in a different direction. And I'm asking each
(01:46):
of you to tell me one thing, one thing that
you're looking forward to. It can be something as simple
as the holiday you celebrate in the next are celebrating now,
if it's Hanukkah or Christmas or Kwansa or whatever. It
is being home with loved ones, or perhaps having loved
(02:09):
ones come back to your home. Maybe you're looking forward
to something in twenty twenty six, which is now less
than two weeks away. Maybe there's a trip that's been planned.
I would like to talk about life, and I'd like
to talk about how good it is for all of
(02:29):
us to have life, and to experience life, and to
appreciate life. I don't want to sound like I'm naive.
All of us deal with different difficult decisions every year.
No one knows for sure what problem might exist a month,
(02:52):
two months, five months, six months, a year from now.
But as we sit here tonight, I want to finish
this week in a positive note. And for those of
you who maybe don't feel you have something specifically to
look forward to. Maybe one of my callers, one of
our callers, will inspire you in the meantime as we
(03:12):
set the lines up, and I would ask you to
dial in early at six one seven, two five four
ten thirty or six one seven nine three one ten
thirty and realize that everyone has a hall passed this hour,
So even if you've called already this week, you have
every right to call back in this hour, and no
one is going to prevent you from call from calling
(03:33):
uh IT during this hour. Something you're looking forward to,
I am looking forward, and I will tell you what
I'm looking forward to. I'm looking forward to spending time
with my family and particularly with my my grandchildren. We've
been blessed with two grandchildren. I am three and a
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half year old boy, young boy Benjamin, who can be
a challenge, but I think most young boys can be
challenged because they are They're full of energy, and sometimes
that energy spills over. And we're also blessed by a
granddaughter lost Aril April twenty seventh, Caroline, Caroline, Ruth and
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Benjamin and Caroline will spend time with this this holiday season,
Christmas season, Hanukah. We're a blended family in that regard,
and we celebrate both both of those great traditions. And
I want to know maybe there's something a little further
out that you're looking forward to. In the meantime, let
(04:36):
me just recap the week very quickly, very quickly. We
began on Monday night talking about tariffs with Nicholas Colin
k colon Tuneo to Know. Talk with Mark Bracken about
the Big billion Dollar, continuing the billion Dollar Jackpot, Talk
(04:56):
about Valerie Sokolowski about some of the worst Christmas gifts
this year, primarily self help books. Talk with Paula Fleming,
BBD's BBB Boston Better Business Bureaus, twelve scams of the Holidays.
Talk with Bill Stewart, a hockey legend here in Massachusetts.
And that hour will be our eleventh hour this Sunday,
(05:20):
the Best of Nightside at eleven o'clock on Sunday, talk
with Bill for an hour and some special guests that
he had lined up for us. Then we talked with
Attorney Phil Tracy about the Brian Walsh verdict which was
rendered on Monday. We talked about the weekend of violence, Australia,
Rhode Island, and of course the Walsh case. At that
(05:42):
point when we were talking about this, we did not
know that the murder of the MIT professor had occurred
earlier that evening. On Tuesday night, talked about our free
speech on campus with Robert Shibley. Talk with Harvard women's
basketball coach coach Carrie Moore. Talk with Patrick Arnsen about
pilots trying to hide their mental health. People want to
(06:03):
fly commercially beyond sixty five. Talk with Brian Thompson of
ACU Weather Meteorologists about the cold weather was coming. Talk
with Andrew mccoola Pioneer Institute about starter homes, and talked
with Amas Tanuma about the suffering economy of customer services.
Book is entitled Hold, Hold and the Revolt That's Long Overdue,
And talked about customer service Wednesday night. Talked about with
(06:26):
Dwayne Decent about the challenges of twenty twenty six. Talk
with Boston Herald reporter Colleen Cronin about the Brown shooting
the shooting down at Brown, Talk with Professor Julia Minson
of the Kennedy School about the politics and holidays mixed,
and talk with Coree Thompson about the Patriots loss to
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the Buffalo Bills. At nine o'clock we heard President Trump's speech.
We then got your reaction to it. For two hours
from ten to twelve on Wednesday night. Last night, we
talked with Emily Sweeney, the Boston Globe Cold Case file
about what was going on up in New Hampshire even
as we spoke. Spoke with Professor Misty Hegnes of the
University of Kansas about swifty economics. Talk with doctor Evan
(07:10):
Harris about protecting your vascular your veins, particularly with long
travel ed Davis from a Boston police commissioner, talked about
what was going on in New Hampshire last night. Talked
with William Martin, the great author who has written so
many great books, particularly New England books, Cape cod Back Bay,
Lincoln Letter, The Lost Constitution, his new book December forty one.
(07:31):
We will have him back because we had to cut
the interview short to pick up the news conference that
brought news that the suspect in the Rhode Island and
the Brookline shootings had killed himself in New Hampshire. And
we talked about in the last hour about public cameras
versus personal privacy. I think we need more public cameras
to be honest with you. Then I talked with Louisa
(07:53):
Pianski about Cape Cod Bridges. Talk with Chris pace Price,
I should say of the Boston Globe about the Patriots
chances for the playoffs, in the game this Sunday night
against the Baltimore Ravens. Talk with doctor Anahita Dua about
aggressive flu problems and get your flu shot. Talk with
Jacob's Cool. Jacob's Cool, Jacob Cool about miles from the military.
(08:16):
And we talked the least to us about this crazy
week in New England. Tonight, We're going to talk about
something positive. We go through lots of things here on Nightside.
We try to put good shows together. I just hope
that you will continue to respond as you do as
callers and listeners. Please tell your friends about Nightside. You
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(08:37):
You can follow me on Twitter, you can jump on
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(09:01):
right after the show. So sometimes if you talk, if
you'll call in it in the eleven o'clock news, Rob
will have that post at probably sometime by two am
in the morning. Okay, quick break, this is the very
quick break. We're going right back to the calls. We're
gonna start off with Dennis, Florence, Bill Carroll and Mike
were full lines. I'm so appreciative of that. Let's get
(09:22):
positive here. We cannot change the past, but we can
get positive coming back on nightside.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
If you're on night Side with Dan Ray on wz
Boston's news radio, All right.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Let's shut it off. We got Dennis and Lowell. Hey Dennis,
welcome back.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Well, thank you very much. Dan. That's my life's philosophy.
When I coach, I always told the kids think positive.
You'll accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Yes sir, yes, sir. What are you looking forward to
that's positive in the in the weeks of the months ahead.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Well, basically, I got a couple of good grandkids. Did
have pretty good athletes. One of them was a global
scholastic and lacrosse. This his team Barricka won the state tournament,
and uh, you know, decent player.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
It sounds like more than decent to me, Dennis, but
I'm not surprised.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Well, we go game by you know, game by game,
pitch by pitch. Got it always the next one. But
what I called about was when are you going to
have the ausome mister Martin on again.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
He will be on again with us sometime probably in
the uh well the first or second full week of January,
and I will let people get in advance. So you're
looking forward to Bill Martin coming back.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Absolutely everything he was talking about it just says I
love history and stuff, and I loved his book, The
Last Constitution. Believe me, it's a great book.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
They're all great, They're all great. No, it's great. I was.
Let me tell you, I thought last night, with the
story breaking as it was, that there would be nobody
listening or calling and the lines lit up, so we
would get Bill Martin on quickly. I owe him. I
(11:24):
owe him a rain check to carry the sports metaphor
a little bit.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Okay, Oh, I'll just tell you that that book, The
Last Constitution, the last chapter ends up in some way park.
Of course, you know, I just finished. I just finish up.
I also remember the game Reggie Jackson has a little dispute.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Oh yeah, we threw that out there last night. Absolutely,
he's a huge sports fan. By the way, he's a
huge Red Sox fan. And I don't know if you
heard him tell the story last night. We were talking
about how that a lot of his books, it's uh,
it's regular people who rise to the occasion, and uh
he was. He was recalling his first game at Fenway Park,
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which was running one on a three run homer, not
by Ted Williams, not by you know. He told of
Pete Daily.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Back up Pete, Yeah, yeah, hey, back up, back up
to Sammy White. You know how I go back with
all of them. O.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
You bet youa pal, Thank you much. Great call to
start off. What are you looking forward to? Something you're
looking forward to? It can be a reunion, it can
be U a specific day, it can be Christmas Day.
Who's not who doesn't look forward to Christmas Day? Florence
and grovelin Florence. What are you looking forward to?
Speaker 5 (12:52):
Good evening, Dan, high flying. I'm looking forward to being
with nice family. Uh that's most important to me. Okay,
their number one and also I'm hoping looking forward to
the new year. I want to hear about a lot
(13:15):
of good things happening in the new year. Don't we
need we need it now at this point, there's been
so much agony out there. I think twenty twenty five
has been overwhelming for a lot of people, and we
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need a good year, one that we could talk about
for a long time and say, wasn't that twenty twenty
sixth grade?
Speaker 2 (13:47):
You're you're, you're, you were the area. Okay, your words
to go.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
I'm talking about yeah, and talking about positive thinking. I've
always been a positive thinker since very young, very very young,
you know, maybe elementary school and yeah, And I find
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that that is the best way to be because it
helped you open a lot of hurdles, you know, no question, no.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Question, Florence. Let's stay positive in twenty twenty six and
maybe a year from now, we'll talk. We'll talk about
that you gave this prediction that was going to be
a good year.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
We'll brag about it. And I wish you a nice
Christmas with your family. Enjoy have a lot of fun
with those little ones.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
I'll try, I'll try.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
They grow pretty.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Quick, Oh, I know that, but they could be challenging,
that's for sure.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Absolutely. I've been there. I know what it's like.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Florence, very Christmas, Chris, good night. Let's go next to
Bill in Pennsylvania. Bill, what are you looking forward to?
Something positive? We got to get positive tonight.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
I got a lot of positive things in my life, Dan,
all given to me by the heavenly Father. And so
tomorrow night we're taking both the girls nine and five
on a train ride. And you go out on the train,
the train stops and Santa Claus gets on board, and uh,
and Sunday, the oldest granddaughter has got a doubleheader basketball game.
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And then, uh, I'm gonna be looking forward to the
end of March. I'm going to I haven't been there
in a while, but I'm going to Italy and uh
there is some some old ski buddies over there and
uh mostly around Uh, well, up and up. Well, you know,
Dan are having the Olympics in Bormeo, up and up
and uh the northern the Italian Alps. Yeah, well that'll
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winter Olympics will be there and then.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
They technically in Milan, which obviously is in northern Italy.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
Is it is now the most of the yeah, most
of the ski events, Dan, are going to be in Bormeo. Sure,
you over the Dolomites.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
You've got to have mountains and the snow. We were
in Italy last summer, not last summer, but the summer
of twenty twenty four, and you're going at a great
time of the year. You're going to see some of
the events. Will you have access to any of the
Olympic events?
Speaker 6 (16:38):
No, No, I'll be going. I booked myself and at
the end of actually twenty second of March, Dan, I leave.
That'll be after the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Oh yeah, right right picture in February.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
Yeah, okay, we're going up to up to Bormeo. I
skied there in the past, and uh, you know, it's
it's the most treacherous downhill in the in the whole
all the ski events is there in Bormeo. That's where
up Kaboo Street took her very bed uh spill there
a few years back.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
I remember that. I do remember that. It's a it's
a tough sports. I've never skied. I was playing sports
in college at the time that Jim Lonboy heard his
leg skiing, and our coaches said no one's gonna go skiing.
You go skiing, you're not going to be playing baseball,
so and.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
Then and then, of course, of course I'll be looking
forward to the new year. And here and here in
your show, Uh, you keep us going down here in Pennsylvania.
But anyways, Merry Christmas to you and your family, Dan.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Bill, Merry Christmas to you, and uh, we'll expect a
full report. Maybe you can give us a call some
night from Italy and uh and let us know what's
going on. We had a call tonight earlier from Dan
McDonald in the North Atlantic Ocean.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
I'll tell you how many pounds I gained.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Dan, Well, yeah, I'm sure with if you get if
you're going to do some skiing, you probably come back
a little lighter than than when you leave. But be well.
Merry Christmas. Bill. I'm thank you, buddy. We're going to
get Carol in here. Here we go, Carol. We're moving
people along pretty well, Carol from rand office. Next on
night's side, Carol, what are you looking forward to?
Speaker 7 (18:13):
Oh Dan, I'm looking forward to thank you all your
listeners that pray for my husband. He's getting better and crazy.
What I'm looking forward to is I'm doing a promotional
thing for the company I work for. Twenty twenty twenty six.
The tall ships coming into Boston.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Oh, my lot about that. I forgot about that. Thank
you for reminding me.
Speaker 7 (18:40):
This is going to be huge.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Yeah. Are they here for the Are they here for
the fourth of July?
Speaker 8 (18:48):
No?
Speaker 7 (18:48):
They come in I think on July fourteenth and leave
July seventeenth. Okay, but it's the twenty fifty anniversary. It
is going to be huge. And yeah, I sound like Trump.
It's going to be huge, but no, it's going to
be grave.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Well I remember, I remember nineteen seventy six. I was
a young television reporter, a very young television back in
those days. Yeah, and it's amazing to think that fifty
years later, I still have access to a microphone. Gaes.
Speaker 7 (19:24):
I mean for the city of Boston. For I mean,
I know they got the World Cup going down at Foxborough,
but the tall ships coming in. People have to start
talking about this.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
I am very unhappy that they're calling Jillette Stadium Boston Stadium.
It's not Boston Stadium.
Speaker 7 (19:41):
No, it's Jealous yeah yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Or it's a shafer, it's the razor.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Well, yeah, a little just just moved a few couple
of hundred yards. But I remember I was I used
to sat and sit on those cold aluminum sat Shaeffer
Stadium who no back with no backing by the way,
you know.
Speaker 7 (20:07):
But I was, Oh, I was there when I was pregnant,
and I was like, my husband took me and I
was like, this is torture. I never want to go
back there.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Well, the team was torture too, by the way.
Speaker 7 (20:21):
No, but the toll ships coming into Boston in July,
this is going to be amazing for the city.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Well that was the important one I had. I had
let that slip my mind, and you have. You have
won the prize of the best suggestion. People are going
to go to their calendars tomorrow and start to mark
it off because you called in.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Okay, Oh I hope. So.
Speaker 7 (20:46):
I mean, it's so beautiful and the place to be
in Boston on July fourteenth through seventeenth is right in
downtown Boston.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Well, I'll tell you. I'm ask Rob give Carol my
direct private number so that she can get in touch
with me if she's so inclined.
Speaker 8 (21:07):
Okay, thanks Carol, and you have an invitation.
Speaker 7 (21:10):
You're coming.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
We'll try to work. God willing, we're both they got
alive and well and all of that. That's all we
can hold.
Speaker 7 (21:20):
Yes, I know, but Christmas, you've been a lifeline to me,
and thanks again.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Be best husband. Please please give him a hug from
all of us. And I guarantee you that I'll toast
you and him at Christmas dinner, I promise.
Speaker 7 (21:36):
Okay, Oh, thank you, Dan, Thanks, thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Soon.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Thanks, don't hang up. Get my direct number from rob Okay,
we will take a break. Here comes the newscast back
right after that. Something good that you're looking forward to,
whether it's this week, next month, or next year. Something positive.
That's what we want to talk about tonight, coming back
on Night Side.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
You're on nights Side with Dan Ray on w BZ,
Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
All right, we're talking about something positive, something that you're
looking forward to, and we're always looking for new callers,
so feel free. The only line open right now is
six one, seven, nine, three, one, ten thirty. We're gonna
go next to Mike and Plymouth. Hey, Mike, welcome back.
How are you sir? Good?
Speaker 9 (22:26):
Dan, how are you tonight?
Speaker 2 (22:27):
I'm great? Tell me something you're looking forward to either
in the short term or the long term.
Speaker 9 (22:33):
All right, I got one of each for you, Okay.
Short term, I'm looking forward to you having William Martin back.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
On the other set, you were the second one who's
looking for the return of William Martin. It will be
in early January, I promise.
Speaker 9 (22:48):
I'm a fellow Catholic Memorial Night and I was on
hold last night waiting.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
To talk to him.
Speaker 9 (22:53):
When the news will make sure we get you those
things happen. Yeah, we'll get over that one. I'm sure
you'll have him back. But long term, my big look
forward to in twenty twenty six is I'm going to
be retiring from the Boston Fire Department after almost thirty.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Years, So you for that service.
Speaker 9 (23:13):
Wow, Holiday Carol kind of stole my thunder a little bit.
I'm going to be retiring in July and the semi
quintennial Boston Celebration or the two hundred and fiftieth I guess, yeah,
I just learned that word the other day. Is going
to be in Boston, and that'll be my last major event.
(23:33):
I'll be working for the Fire Department, and I'm actually
looking very much looking forward to sailing off into the
sunset in more ways than one. In July of twenty six, Mike.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Do me a favorite when we put you on with
Bill Martin. Please let him know one that you're a
fellow Catholic Memorial Night number one and number two. Let
him know where your life work has taken you. I
just got to ask you questions. So you spent thirty
did you ever keep track? And you probably didn't, But
did you ever keep track of all the fires that
(24:06):
you responded to?
Speaker 9 (24:09):
You know, as far as documenting them day fives and stuff? No, no,
I I didn't actually write them all down. I worked
in the in the Dorchester neighborhood and a single engine
house Engine sixteen for many, many years, and we had
a lot of one in two room fires that didn't
make the news in but it was so to be
(24:31):
honest with you, I mean, I have too many to count.
There were a couple of tough ones that stick with me.
One in particular was the Friday after Thanksgiving after I
was only two or three years on the job, and
we lost an eight and a ten year old boy,
two young kids in a three deca because they were
(24:52):
on the third they were on the living room. They
were on the first floor in the living room, and
the parents had jumped out of the second floor windows
and and the neighbors told us that the kids were upstairs,
so we tried to get upstairs to locate them and
find them up there, And turns out they had fallen
asleep on the couch and the parents never bothered to
bring them upstairs and wake them up because they fell
(25:12):
asleep watching TV. So that was a tough one, that one.
I remember it almost like it was yesterday. That one's
going to stay with me for a long time. But
I was supposed to be talking about positive things.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
You got it knowing, Yeah, But I just wanted to
take congratulations, thank you for the work you did on
behalf of firefighters, police officers and EMTs. They truly are
the public servants. I never want to hear any politician
refer to themselves as a public servant. The public servants
are firefighters, police officers, and EMTs.
Speaker 9 (25:45):
In my opinion, well, it's my privilege to serve the
citizens of Boston for almost thirty years, and like we
all say don at Florin Hall, it's the greatest job
in the world. And I don't regret a minute of it.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
It's such a critical job. And I've been to Florian
home many times, and hopefully at some point I'll see
you down there and I'll buy you a beer. Mike,
thank you so much for your time telling and thanks
for your.
Speaker 9 (26:07):
Loyalty to Night Harry the rest of your listeners.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Absolutely thanks Mike. Thanks, that's a great call. Great call.
All right, We're gonna keep going here with great calls.
Six one, seven, Now the only two, five, four, ten thirty.
They're packed. Okay, three calls? Are there? Two lines open?
There should not be any lines open on this one.
Six one, seven, nine, three, ten thirty. Joe and Belmont. Joe,
(26:31):
what are you looking forward?
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Two?
Speaker 2 (26:33):
That's positive.
Speaker 10 (26:34):
I'm looking forward to the college football playoffs. I'm picking
Mississippi as my Cinderella team to win the whole thing?
Are they given? Georgia? Are Alabama? Close games? And I
think they might be able to do it. I love
the UH school spirit and the pageantry better in college
(26:56):
than I do in pros. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
I know one of the assistant coaches that Mississippi team,
Joe Judge, who used to be the head coach of
the Giants. Great guy, great, great football guy. How have
you followed tonight Alabama Oklahoma.
Speaker 10 (27:14):
Or no, it's I got this the volume turned down.
It's thirty four to twenty four with twelve seconds left.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Well, I think we put that one in the win
calling for Alabama. If you recall, Oklahoma jumped out to
a seventeen nothing lead. So Alabama has come on like gangbusters.
Speaker 10 (27:35):
They'll be playing Indiana in the Rose Bowl January first.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Wow, that's a good one. So you're looking forward to
the college football playoffs. I like that, Joe. I like
that a lot.
Speaker 10 (27:47):
Something positive, Dan.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
It is very positive. And as they say, for Mississippi,
check out their roster. Joe Judge, great guy, good friend,
and a smart guy and a good football guy. He'll
be a head coach again someday.
Speaker 10 (28:02):
Dan, for the tenth time. Merry Christmas to you and
your work one.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
You can't say that enough to me, Joe, and I
say it right back to you. Merry Christmas, Joe, to
you and yours. Talk to you soon. Thank you, thank you, buddy,
thank you very much. All right, let's keep rolling that
open up one line at six one, seven thirty, going
to go to John and rent them. John, you were
next on night side. What are you looking forward to
We're getting very positive here tonight and I like this,
(28:26):
go right ahead, John.
Speaker 8 (28:29):
Hi, Dan.
Speaker 11 (28:30):
I think one thing like like positive is the saying
thanks to all our first responders. Pure talk. Christ are
led into this, said give thanks, and I ad to
our first responders. I'm a position here and rent them
sitting in the doctors that's reading the newspaper the globe
about our first responders and nick one who chipped into
(28:51):
help out, and that included the ear nurses that werelin
the hospital, the trauma surgeons, and if we wind up
in the ear, please say thanks you for your service.
They have a tough job. We found in the last
you know, twenty years, people have been angry coming into
the er, somewhat disrespectful, and I think we'll all take
(29:12):
a deep breat sit back and say thank you for
your service. It's gonna be a better world all around.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Oh that's great, doctor John. First of all, I'm honored
that you would be calling me, and I mean that seriously.
Have you called before? Is this your first time?
Speaker 11 (29:27):
It's been a few times. It's been a number of
years since I chirped ender.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Well, that's great and I hope you'll be more more frequent.
But do you work in an er in a hospital
setting or are you in provatas.
Speaker 11 (29:40):
Yeah, I just retired last week as a'm a physician,
but I worked. You know, there's some EA service when
saying Elizabeth, you know we all do we throughout rotations.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Sure.
Speaker 11 (29:53):
I spent time at City Hospital and the trauma surgeon there,
doctor Hirsch was certainly one of the great mentors. He
was a Vietnam that's trauma surgeon and he went through
some great stories and he helped to save my month's
life from the medical illness. And but that first responders,
(30:13):
you know, Mike's from uh worked at Dorchester. He might
have been at my family's home that was in intiment
Dorchester about ten years ago. So thank them all for
the service.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Wow, that's great. What type of you said you were
a physician, But I missed the first word.
Speaker 11 (30:30):
What type of primary care doc?
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Primary here? PCP?
Speaker 11 (30:35):
Correct? Correct?
Speaker 2 (30:36):
I was just.
Speaker 11 (30:38):
A breath that needs to be replenished.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Well, no, it is so hard, It is so hard.
I had a great primary care doc for many years.
His name was Alan Cole, doctor Allan Cole. He I
I'm just was so happy with him and when COVID occurred.
It was kind of I think the moment in his
time where he was of a certain age where he
(31:02):
decided that it was time that he was going to retire.
And there's not a shortage of primary care doctors. We've
talked about that on the show. Matter of fact, we
had the dean of the University of Michigan Medical Medical
School on well this is going to be five or
six months ago, talking about the number of primary care
(31:25):
physicians who have left here in America and we're training
all these good kids at offshore medical institutions. We need
to have more medical schools in America. We have an
over abundance of law schools and we don't have enough
medical schools. What's wrong with that picture?
Speaker 11 (31:43):
Well, it definitely is wrong.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Dan.
Speaker 11 (31:44):
You know, when I was private care was just becoming
a hot issue back thirty years ago, and I was
in the first program to say Elizabeth, which was a
primary care program, and out of I think sixteen slots
for physicians, they were for primary care. So that was
the first onset to get more people involved with primary care.
(32:08):
But then after that, over the next you know, five
ten years, it just fell by the wayside. And here
we are there twenty more years later that you know,
with this quite a crisis in terms of the shortage.
Fortunately we thank the rest practitioners are stepping up and
helping out. But overall there's gonna be you know, physicians
who oversee the rest practitioners and helping the overall pere
(32:32):
and more of a team effort.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
Doctor John, thank you so much for calling. I hope
you'll call back more often.
Speaker 11 (32:38):
Okay, Okay, have a great Christmas in you and your family.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Merry Christmas to you and yours doctor. Thank you very much. Okay,
gotta take a quick break. Everybody gets in Gene, Karen
and Linda, you're all set. Stay right there if you
want to try. There's one line folks at six one
seven and one line at six one seven. We might
be able to get even more than the three who
are already on the line. Coming back on night Side.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
All right, I'm going to try to get everybody in here.
Let me go to Karen in Wisconsin. Karen, what are
you looking forward to, either in the short term or
the long term.
Speaker 12 (33:19):
Well, it seems Carol, she didn't steal my thunder, but
she gave me thunder.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
I heard.
Speaker 12 (33:27):
I'm looking forward. I heard yesterday on my news starting
in June, June eighteenth, and tickets go on sale Monday
for a direct flight from Madson to Boston WHOA on
American Airlines WHOA. And now with the called ships coming,
(33:57):
I am, you know, not going going to look on
bright side and and mine as a positive. It may
not happen, but I would sure love to look forward
to buying a ticket and coming to Boston and watching
the tall ships and meeting everybody. And I don't want
(34:18):
to give up hope. No, I have to hope. So
there you go. That's what I look forward to.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Oh that's great, Karen. I got to get two more
in here. But that's a wonderful.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
Well.
Speaker 12 (34:35):
I'll have to go. Happy Merry Christmas.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Merry Christmas to you. I hope that I hope that
you've got some nice weather out there. I know you've
been having bad weather.
Speaker 12 (34:45):
It's all going to be green by Christmas. Keep it going.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
You're dreaming of the green Christmas. I'm with you. Thanks, Jaren,
we will appreciate all right, good night, let me go
to Linda and Weymouth Linda, you are next on night side.
What are you looking forward to?
Speaker 13 (35:04):
Well, I'm looking forward to two things. One of course,
celebrating Christmas with my family. But most of all, jan
I have a very strong feeling that next year, twenty
twenty six, is going to be an amazing year filled
with a spiritual awakening of positiveness and expressing our faith
(35:30):
and our love of God. And I really believe that
that's going to happen, and I'm looking forward to that because.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
We need it.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
Linda, I agree with you. I think we do need it,
and I do hope so for all of our sake.
Because I'm not the most religious person in the world.
But the church that I go to is a Catholic church,
and there are two really young, very passionate priests who
(36:03):
are what priests should be. They were blessed to have
them in the parish, and I know one of them
fairly well, and I just am amazed that young men,
you know, these are men probably in their thirties, have
given their life to a vocation, and they have decided
not to have families and not to not to get married.
(36:28):
But these two priests are really priests that are great
role models. I'm not going to embarrass them by mentioning
their name or even the church. But they are unbelievable
a priest, and you realize that they have, you know,
forty or more years of the priesthood ahead of them
before they would have to retire, and because of the youth,
(36:52):
and they are just what the Catholic Church does need.
Speaker 13 (36:55):
Yeah, yeah, I too have a beautiful cat Tricks that
I go to and for the same reason.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Good yep, Yeah, Well, Linda, I hope you have a
great Christmas, and I hope the twenty twenty six is
better than that does have that spiritual awakening.
Speaker 4 (37:13):
I enjoy you in that.
Speaker 13 (37:15):
Threat yep, thank you, Dan and Merry Christmas to you
and and your family.
Speaker 6 (37:21):
God bless you.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Right back at you. All right, it looks like we're
going to wrap it up with Gene and Brookline. Gene,
what are you looking forward to in the short run
of the long run, It doesn't matter, Go right ahead, Gane.
Speaker 8 (37:33):
I was diagnosed with one cancer in September. I had
radiation treatments. Yes, at the Danis Fober. I didn't want
surgery because they take out pot of I want, so
we did radiation. I got the all Claire. This week
I had my follow up treatments. I had prestigious you know,
(37:56):
they did cat scans and stuff like that to see
what happened and it's rank and they were very pleased
with that. So now I can plan to go see
my sister in Australia. I've been seeing her in two
I have been see her in two years because the
flights horrible. But I asked him, I said, can I
(38:19):
go to Australia you like for six to eight weeks?
You're like sure? For us, you look good. I'm like
you because I was quite nervous.
Speaker 4 (38:29):
It was going to be, Yeah, when are you going?
Speaker 2 (38:32):
When are you going to Australia?
Speaker 8 (38:33):
If you figured out what time day January, it sounds
like the probably the beginning of February. And in tont
you can say eight weeks. That's all you can do
on your visa is an eight week you know visit.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
So yeah, and so you need a visit to go
to Australia.
Speaker 8 (38:54):
A visa, yeah, vis visa visa.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
So you cannot just go there as a tourist, even
as an American. You need to have.
Speaker 6 (39:05):
A visa.
Speaker 8 (39:06):
Yeah. So I've got to get that organized because I
was supposed to go last year on my seventieth birthday. However,
I had the big surgery on both my well my
left leg because of the circulation problems. So I spent
my seventieth birthday at the Brigham and Brigham and I
(39:29):
worked the Brigham for thirty years as a nurse. Yeah,
so yeah, So when I saw the doctor on Thursdyes, no,
it looks really good, and I'm like, going, can I
go Australia. She's like, sure, no problem.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
Problem, Gene. Congratulations to you. I was unaware that you
had to have a visa, but it sounds like you're
all set and it's going to be this summer season.
You'll be down there and what is like the summer
early all season. Oh, I'm so happy for me. You
gotta call us some night. You gotta call us some
night from Australia. Okay, I can do that, Yeah, absolutely,
(40:09):
I can. I am flat up against it here, so
I gotta let you go out. We will talk between
now and then. But with the time change it's about
a twelve hour difference. You can call us some morning
at nine o'clock, ten o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 8 (40:22):
It'll be perfect okay, oh yeah, definitely. It's fourteen hours
right now. All right, thanks, thank you so much, Mary, Christmas.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
Merry Christmas to you as well. Wow, some very positive stories,
exactly as I wanted to end the week. I'll be
back on Monday night and we'll be here with the
charity Combine over the weekend, rather on Tuesday night, over
the weekend, on Sunday Night, best of Nightside with the
reflections on the the passing of the Boston Arena with
(40:52):
Bill Stewart and others. My name's Dan Ray. This is Nightside,
Rob Brooks. Great job, I'll read a great job. I'll
ender's always all dogs, all cats, all pets go to heaven.
My pale Charlie Rays, who passed fifteen years ago in February.
That's why your pets are who passed. They loved you
and you love them. I do believe you'll see them again.
Hope to see again on Monday night. I have a
great weekend. Everyone go Patriots and just enjoy each other.
(41:14):
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