September 5, 2025 • 41 mins
NightSide’s last hour of the week we like to keep it light and fun. This week Dan asked what have you wanted to do or go during the summer, but haven't yet.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's night Side with Dan Ray. I'm telling you Boston's
Lee video.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Thank you very much, Al Griffin. As we move into
the twentieth hour of the week, and let me just
say that normally at this time I like to run
over all the different topics we've talked about this week,
but I'm going to pass on that tonight because i
just want to get to as many of you as possible.
We did have a lot of interesting topics and if
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you missed any of Nightside, check out Nightside on demand
dot com. I would highly recommend that you listen to
the ten o'clock hour on It was Wednesday night, the
Superior the Supreme Court justice from New Hampshire, John Broderick,
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along with Jeffrey Levin, a therapist and life coach, talked
about mental illness amongst students, not only preteens, but teenagers
as well. Also mon Tuesday night at nine o'clock, the
first interview with the new head of the Massachusetts State Police,
Colonel Jeffrey Noble, that is available. He took phone calls.
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You can get both sides of the conversation. Dealing with
the turnpike service Plaza contract. Eric Slifka of Global partners.
And then earlier tonight we were joined by a representative
of the company that won the contract, Apple Green Diana
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Prosato Prosoto, and those two very different viewpoints here. And
then last night at nine o'clock Josh Craft Craft candidate
for mayor in Boston. So just go and spend some
time at Nightside and demand this weekend. Now, what I'd
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like to do this hour is always you know, on
the eleven o'clock hour on Friday night. We call it
the twentieth hour because although I was off on Monday
night and Morgan whitesat in for me, and I want
to thank Morgan for doing that. This is my fourth
show of the week, So it's the twentieth hour of
night Side. Because we do five shows a week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
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Friday and four hours per night. That's twenty hours. And
this is the one where we like to get you
to the weekend. We'll be we'll have you on Saturday
within about fifty minutes.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Here.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
This is take some of the serious conversation during the
week and you can re listen to that over the weekend.
Just want to get you your head into the weekend.
So I try to pick subjects that are topical and interesting.
Now again, I can always do dumb topics. Well, I'll
never do dumb topics, but like, what's your favorite caller?
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You know, you know, what's your favorite that sort of stuff. No,
I don't. I don't do that. I try to make
you think a little bit. So my question is Labor
Day traditionally is the end of summer. Now, I realized
that the month of September is beautiful in summer on
the calendar doesn't end until generally twenty first of September,
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so we still have a good two weeks of actual
summer left before the autumnal equinomics. However, if summer ends
on Labor Day, ear let me take you back to
Memorial Day. Was there something that you intended to do
this summer? A place you wanted to visit, an activity
you wanted to try, a beach you wanted to stop by, whatever,
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a restaurant you would hope to visit, and you haven't
done it. But now what I want to do is
help you focus on what you wanted to do, but
you haven't done. One of the things that I wanted
to do earlier this summer, which I didn't get around
to doing. There's a couple of trains that that basically
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do a little ride around the cape that go out
of hyenas actual trains, and I would this summer, I said,
I'm going to try one of those that they actually
serve you a meal while you're on the train, either
a lunch or a dinner, depending about what time of day.
If you've done that train, I'd love to hear from
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you on that one. But more importantly from you, I
want to know what did you What did you want
to do this summer that you haven't done? Okay, and
you still have time to do. I mean, the beaches
are better in September, I think than they are in
May or June. The water is warmer. Maybe there's some
activity that you were going to try for the first
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time the summer, kayaking or paddle boarding, but you didn't
get around to it. So that's what I'm asking you
to do. It costs, I'm challenging you think a little bit,
and maybe your ideas will prompt someone else to think
as well. Six one, seven, two, five, four to ten
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thirty six one seven, nine, three one ten thirty. Maybe
you wanted to go somewhere on a trip. Maybe you
wanted to go to the New York. Maybe you wanted
to go and it just your summer get interrupted. You
can still do it, let me go. The the phones
are not lit up, so we you were easy. You
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were invited to call six one, seven, two, five, four
to ten thirty six one seven, nine, three one ten
thirty Darryl up in Canada. Darryl, thanks for holding on here.
What did you plan to do this summer that maybe
didn't quite occur and do you think you'll be able
to do it in the next few weeks?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Well? Hopefully, uh Dan, great topics by the way, thank you.
I had hopefully, I hopefully had my patty where you
had done so I could actually have a barbecue because
I've got some Jack Daniels, I bought where all the
tariffs wreent. So and listening to your topics this week
with the people referenced, you know, assisting the children and whatnot,
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and even the older gentleman tonight joining the police forces
as a cadet.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
How about that seventy eight year old rookie police officer.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
That's inspiration. And so what I'm gonna do is tonight
I'm going to finish this puppy up because I always
listen to you when I'm working here, because it's cooler
at night, and I'm going to actually open up that
bottle with Jack Daniels. I got two cases, by the way,
so I'm good for some more celebrations later.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Okay, But was there something that you wanted to do
this summer that you didn't get around to. It was
the patio, you said.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Right, just finishing the patio so you can just enjoy
stuff with all the trouble going on, right, okay, just
to relax and put my dog D Day. He normally
gets it bone steak on his birthday every year on
February fourteen.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Valentine didn't get one there, Okay, he didn't.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Yeah, and he didn't get one this year. So tomorrow
and it we're both going to be having t bone steaks.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Okay, So you didn't get to do that.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Well, he's all right, Jack.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
I'm happy for D Day, that's for sure. As always
as always, now you bring a very interesting perspective from
from New Brunswick.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
But what I'm saying is I'm going to be toasting
to your guests. That was the new cadet oasting tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Well, well if I if I happen to talk to him,
and I don't think I will, he'll, he'll, he'll sense it. Nonetheless,
has the weather turned a little cooler up in New Brunswick.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
It's warm right now, but it's supposed to get down
to about zero coming up on Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Well, zero for you is thirty two degrees for us.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Correct in thirty two thirty four. And that's why I
finishing my patty area. I can actually bring my portable
plants in and they won't die.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
From all right, Darrel, appreciate your callers. All We have
a great weekend. Thanks Daryl, talk to you soon. Good night.
All right, So the question is Daryl didn't quite you know,
he started us off here, but I think we have
some others out there who may have had a specific
project in mind. Maybe you were gonna get in the
car and go visit someone. Maybe you were gonna go
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somewhere six one, seven, two five four ten thirty six
one seven nine three, one ten thirty. Normally on a
Friday night, we'll do brushes with celebrity, will do what
grinds your gears, but we try to you know, change
it up, and that's what I'm doing right now. So
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don't fail me, folks. I want to know what did
you plan to do this summer that, for whatever reason,
you just never got around to it. Maybe unfortunately you
you didn't have the opportunity to do what you wanted
to do. Okay, hey, there's still some nice weather left
six one, seven, two, five, four ten thirty six one seven,
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nine three one ten thirty. Coming back on Nightside.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray one Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Well, I am delighted to realize that every one of
my Nightside listeners completed every aspirational hope they had this summer.
I asked the question, which again I thought was a
pretty interesting question, what did you think about doing? What
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did you plan to do? What did you try to
do this summer that you just never got around to? Uh?
And I guess everybody in my audience did everything, accomplished
everything that they that they had set out to do.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I don't believe that, but that's fine. Normally, when we
do the twentieth Hour at night, everybody wants to jump
on board and have a piece of the action. So
I'm going to give you another maybe thirty seconds or
so to rise to the bait, and it is rising
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to the bait. To be honest with you. My job
is to come up with a thought or an idea
where maybe maybe you'll say, gee, I wanted to learn this.
I wanted to take up meditation, but I just never
got around to it, or I was too busy to
meditate whatever. Or I had planned to go visit my
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children who are living I haven't seen them for two
years and something happened. That's the sort of idea. Or
I was going to go. I was gonna go out
to the Berkshires and listen to the Boston Pops and
the Berkshires. I've never done that before, but I didn't.
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Maybe too late for this summer, but maybe next summer. Actually,
what I'm trying to convince you to do is to
realize that just because the Labor Day has occurred and
people are telling you summer is over, Summer's really not
over until September twenty first. And as a matter of fact,
as far as I'm concerned, I don't think that the
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good part of the year ends. In my opinion, the
good part of the year does not end until the
first of November, Halloween and even into and there were
good things about November. We'll talk about that, but tonight
I'm looking to know what did you want to do,
if anything, and you weren't able to do it. Let
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me go to Lola, who we know from San Diego,
but she's been back in our neck of the woods
dealing with some family issues. Lola, you had very busy summer,
I know that, but a very successful.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Summer I did, Dan. I got here June twentieth, so
summer started the next day, and I got to.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
The beach.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Twice. I think I went to Revia Beach twice.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Well, of course when you get back, when you get
back home to San Diego, you go to the beach
probably every day of the year out there.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Right, Yes, so that's like that was my biggest dilemma,
was not being able to go to my beach walks,
and you know, not being able to see you was
my second dilemma.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
So well, you'll get that straightened away, don't worry.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Dads, weren't look, the stars weren't lined up, and just
remember tomorrow night is a full moon in Pisces and
we're having an eclipse. Even though we can't see it.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Where is the where is the eclipse of viewable? What
part of the world?
Speaker 4 (12:59):
I think think South America, Central and South America.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Well, there's two.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Eclipses, so we're going to have another one in two
weeks with the sun.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Yeah, it does.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
By the way, I'm not an astrological person, as you know,
and I have never figured out how it works that
it just so happens that the solar eclipse or whatever,
or the lunar eclipse or whatever the type of eclipse
it is, can be seen only in certain parts of
the world. I know that every once in a while
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we get one up here. I want to ask you
a question. How far do you live from the beach
in San Diego.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
I know that you're here technically, technically from my front
door down the hill to Pacific Beach is six miles,
six miles right to the to the coastline. So I
am up on a mesa, which is like a you know,
so I'm not.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Going to know what that is. So when you want
to go to the beach, do you have parking rights?
I mean, you're not walking six miles to the beach.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
I don't, No, no, I'm not walking. So what I
really do, though, is I go twelve miles and I
go to Delma, which is where the race track is. Okay,
So that community is that community is like Wellesley or Weston,
very uppity. So there's less crime and less young people there.
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It's more family orientated and so that you know, there's
not a lot of people drinking, and it's just a
different atmosphere.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
So the beach where most of the few days that
you have left, and you'll be back.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
I know that you know I'll be back. No, I
will be back. So tomorrow I'm going to get a
two hour massage with this massage therapist that I've met
and she is fantastic. I have one on the east,
on the West coast, but everybody's getting That's something.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Did you say you accomplished now, isn't That's a good thing? Right? Okay?
Speaker 4 (15:09):
And that and the horse is the equine therapy. I'm
going again Sunday for two hours. It's tea, coffee and
horses in Bedford at that Mango Bay Equestrian facility.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
All right, Okay, ull a lot of information here, and
I do appreciate your calling. I really do you know
that we'll talk?
Speaker 4 (15:30):
Yeah, Well, I heard. I heard you, and I'm like, okay, Dan,
I'll call in because that was, you know, unpacking. And
but I went to my first Friday Night under the
lights football game with Watertown. I think they played Harol,
and that Harol team is huge in weight and in
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population in Watertown. I mean they played a good game.
They lost, but they played a really good game.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Well, well, that that's you. You've had a very active
time here in Massachusetts, Lola. I got a run, I.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Got full line.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Thank you, Dan, have a great day, you too, thanks much.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Let me keep going here, gonna get one more in
Uh I'm this name says, is this Winny in Pennsylvania? Win? Okay?
I have no idea how that's Okay, Okay, win, Okay,
Winny win win win win Okay, whin let me. Let's
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hope you have a winner of a story for us.
Go right ahead.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
Well, it's not exactly a story. I was answering your
question that you said.
Speaker 7 (16:41):
Hey, y, yeah, who's out there to take debate?
Speaker 6 (16:44):
Nobody's calling in on this question, And I was thinking,
by the way, I'm pulling you in on a conventional
car radio just outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, so good for
w b Z and their night pattern, which is obviously
pretty amazing.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Let me ask you this, when you have you listened
to us before? Is this your first time calling the show?
Speaker 6 (17:06):
I have listened to you off and on in all candor,
I'm listening for radio signals that travel more at night.
So I'm tuning into ten thirty because I know I
can grab BZ. Sometimes I'm grabbing Katie Ka out of Pittsburgh. Sure,
other times I can't remember. It was like eleven twenty.
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And do you remember Art Bell?
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Oh sure, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
Right, well Art Bell. I used to pull him in
from I'm going to say, Ohio, and I haven't been
able to find him in recent years. So I like,
I have an interest in radio.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Well, obviously you do. Where we're an iHeartRadio station. We
used to be CBS, and before that we were Westinghouse Broadcasting,
and we were one of the five Westinghouse Broadcasting stations
around the country w G in balt in Baltimore, KDKA
and Pittsburgh KYW and Philadelphia WBZ, and there was one
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station out in San Francisco. I think it was kg
O O KA. You know it was KPIX excuse me,
and those were the stations we all went on the
air around nineteen twenty, nineteen twenty one, so you can
pick up our station has been picked up literally on
radio on this show. I had a guy one night
in a truck in Idaho. I thought he was sitting
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there with his computer. He said, no, it's on the
truck radio. And a guy who was up in Winnipeg,
Canada who listens to us formally from Eastern Canada, and
he was in Winnipeg, Manitoba, listening to us on his
ten transistor radio. So thanks for finding us. Tell us
some if you want something you weren't able to do
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this summer that you're intended ondoing in the next week.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
I was answering the secondary question, is I wonder why
people aren't calling in, And what I was going to
say was, I think with all of the absolutely unprecedented
political activities, there may be two reasons why people aren't
calling in to answer your question directly. Number one, there's
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so much else going on. And number two, if you
really didn't get to do something that you really really
wanted to do, it's sad, so they don't want to
relive it. So they're not calling.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Well, let me just tell you first of all, our
lines right now are full. Okay, okay. Sometimes my experience,
and I've been doing this for eighteen years, is that
you need a couple of people to get it going,
and sometimes people can be a little shy. We try
every Friday night at eleven o'clock. My show was on
Monday through Friday from eight until midnight in WBZ, and
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since we started this program, we do what we call
the twentieth hour of the week because it's the last
hour of our programming five nights, four hours a night,
pretty simple. Four times five, that's twenty and we pick
a number of topics. I have some regular topics that
I do in this hour, and the intention is to
do sort of a lighter hour. We do a lot
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of politics, a lot of serious topics during the week,
but we try to pick a lighter hour to get
people to the weekend. And one of the subjects we
do very often is what grinds your gears, and people
are always anxious to tell us what upsets them, what
bothers them. We do another standard show, which is your
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Brushes with Celebrity, and the lines go nuts. Everybody has
met a celebrity, and there's a whole bunch of others
that we have done that are very successful. But I
also like to every once in a while reach deep
into the recesses of my mind and come up with
an idea, which is the idea tonight. And I will
bet you if you stick with us until midnight, you're
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going to hear some really interesting stories about people who
early in the summer were intent on doing X, Y
or Z and they haven't done X Y or Z,
and I'm just encouraging them not to put those plans
on ice for a whole year. We still have great
weather in Pennsylvania and here in New England.
Speaker 6 (21:16):
Absolutely not only that you're to that wonderful overarching point.
I was in the film footage of what I'm about
to tell you, and you know, your cameras date stamp
your work, whether you like it or not. I was
in the Atlantic Ocean outside of Longport, New Jersey, November three,
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twenty seventeen, and the ocean was warm, so there's still
plenty of summer left.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Ay, well, with thanks very much. Have you you've never
listened to my show before, so therefore I'm assuming you're
a first time caller.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
I am definitely a first time caller. But again I've
heard I'm going to call it snippets of your show.
Good as I'm as I'm dialing around looking to see
who all I'm pulling in.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Well, first of all, we first of all is a
first time call. We want to give you a round
of applause for my digital studio audience. Okay, number one
and number two. I hope that you will become a
more frequent listener because and we also have, by the way,
a website that you may want to look at over
the weekend if you like, really like radio called Nightside
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and Demanded. It's all of our past hours of this week,
and you might be very impressed by the number of
guests and the number of topics that we covered in
just this past week.
Speaker 6 (22:37):
You know, I am going to do that. I obviously
obviously because of this evening's contact and also it's a
it's a very interesting uh format and show that you
outlined for me, and I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Well, thank you very much. What do you do in Pennsylvania?
I assume Pennsylvania is your home.
Speaker 6 (22:59):
Yes, I'm I'm very very pleased to be a Pennsylvanian. Well,
I'll say it. If you were to google Win Alexander,
you'll see investigative journalist, filmmaker, author stuff.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Well I'm going if you'll google Nights out of Demand,
I will google Win Alexander. And you sounding very inherent
The reason I asked the question is you sound to me.
I was a television reporter for thirty one years here
in Boston on WBZ, and now I'm have sort of
a bit of a second career eighteen years doing a
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talk show. And I am always inherently interested in people
who I talked to, and my sense is pretty good.
I remember one night many years ago, I had a
guy on calling in from Virginia and I said what
sort of work do you do? And he said, I'm
in the Navy. I said, really, you know, I thought
I was talking to you know, somebody who you know
was in I said, what do you do? He said,
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I'm a commander of a new submarine. Wow. Nice. So
we get a variety of people. Remember I won woman
one night call in from Washington, d C. She was
a player in the WNBA a few years ago. So
we get we get some really interesting callers on this
program and I hope you'll continue to stay with us.
Speaker 6 (24:19):
Okay, I absolutely will you.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
More than one more than me will be googling when
Alexander believe me.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
Well, you know, I thought about that and I said,
I don't know when are we going there? Yeah, go ahead,
give it to him.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
I like it. I like it when thank you so
much for your call, appreciate it.
Speaker 7 (24:40):
It's a pleasure, and thank you right back at you.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Well, I think we just picked up another caller, which
I think another listener, which is I think pretty cool.
What did you plan to do this summer that you
just never got around to. Maybe there was some play
that you wanted to get to or something, or some
destination that you just thought you ran out of time. No,
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you haven't run out of time. The summer might. The
summer is still going on. It doesn't end until the
twenty first. Let us know. Six one, seven, two, five,
four ten thirty one line there and six one seven,
nine three, one ten thirty coming right back on Nightside.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray on WAZ Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Okay, we're gonna get everybody in here. Let me go
to Richard and Quincy. Richard, you're next on nightside.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
Good evening, Dan, Hey.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Good evening, Richard. You gotta turn that radio down. I
know Rob tells you to turn the radio down, but
you got to turn it down. Go right ahead.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
I don't have it on night Can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (25:46):
I can hear you? Fine, Now I heard feedback.
Speaker 5 (25:49):
Go ahead, So long time listened to the first time calling?
Speaker 2 (25:53):
All right, first time call it Richard. Let's give Richard
around of the clause from now Jesus to study audience.
Thank you, sir, go right ahead.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
Finally I was talking about you today and now I'm calling.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
Well, just I used to run Henry's diner. You know
where Henry's was to practice club and oh.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Yeah, absolutely over on Western Avenue right right.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
So I ran out for three four years and I
used to make the corn chatter and used to get
it to go and you want to get stones and
all those guys.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
And it was very very sad to see Henry's goal
was a great diner, was right right out back from
WBZ when WBZ was situated on both radio and TV
were situated on Soldiers Field Road. What are you doing now, Richard?
Speaker 5 (26:39):
Oh then I've been Uh, that doesn't matter I've been
really stick. I'm in the hospital right now, but that
doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Oh, I'm st sorry to hear that.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
No, that's okay, it's okay.
Speaker 6 (26:47):
It's okay.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
So there's like a many things that I wanted to
do this summer. Yeah, and I didn't get to do
any of them, really, right. Did get to go to
a w w NBA game in Boston?
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Well when when the when the Connecticut sun came up here?
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (27:05):
And yeah, yeah, my cousin with my cousin Kim, And
I'm telling you, I can only last three quarters, but
it was the greatest time I ever had in my life.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Really.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
Yeah. I wish I could have done a lot more,
like a million things I wanted to do this summer.
I spent one hundred and three days in the hospital
since November. I'm sorry, Yeah, don't be it's fine, I'm
gonna be fine.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Well, that's what that's that's what I want to hear.
Just tell me that that with the good medical services
that we all have access to here, most of us have. Yeah, okay,
that's that is that's great. How did my name come
up in conversation with you?
Speaker 5 (27:45):
With you to ask about the court somebody asked about
the corn chorta they wanted the recipe was cornha And
we were talking about all the people that used to
come there. Wow, you know gil Gil was such a
nice guy to Oh my god, he such a big guy.
And you know, Dan, you used to do there a
lot for lunch and sandwich and yeah, Tom him.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Sure, no, no, I I yeah. As a matter of fact,
every once in a while I would go in there
with take friends of mine in there. And as a
matter of fact, I know that there was a kid
who was pitching for the Red Sox. I don't know
what years you were there, but there was a kid
who pitched for the Red Sox, for Rick Porcello who
used to go in there quite a bit. Uh. He
pitched for the Tigers and then came over for the
(28:29):
Red Sox. Yeah, and there were days when you couldn't
get in there because the line was out the door.
Speaker 7 (28:35):
That was good, good day, just all those Yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
But after fifty years of cooking, forty years of cooking,
you know, yeah, that Dinad was probably my best learning
experience ever.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Let me take the parking. Parking was pretty you're parking
out back, parking on the street, I remember it very well.
Rich do me a favorite. Keep in touch, and I
hope that whatever malady you're dealing with gets resolved and
gets resolved quick every night. All right, pl you keep
in touch. I'm looking forward to your next call. Okay,
(29:14):
thank you, Thanks Richard, have a great night. Let's keep
rolling here. I'm going to go to Carol, who is
in Ontario. Carol in Ontario, You're next one nights. I
go ahead, Carol.
Speaker 8 (29:27):
Oh hi, Dan, can you hear me?
Speaker 4 (29:29):
Okay, I can hear you?
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Find you. You actually are probably one of the best.
I don't know what phone you're using, but you're clearer
than just about anybody else's call tonight, go right out.
Speaker 8 (29:39):
Wow, okay, kind of sound it kind of sounds funny
on my end. But anyway, first of all, I wanted
to mention that I don't understand what John and Nubrundhuks
talking about as far as the temperature goes, because I
look at the Weather Network and it's going down to
about eleven between eleven and seventeen at night.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Okay, So if it's eleven, break me if I'm wrong.
If it's eleven in terms of us temperature of fahrenheit
you're talking about that's like the low fifties.
Speaker 8 (30:09):
Yeah, low fifties to seventeen, which is low sixties.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Yeah, Darryl said zero. Daryl said zero. I was wondering.
Speaker 8 (30:21):
Yeah, no, that's that's like more like December. Yeah anyway, yeah, yeah,
well that's like overnight temperatures.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
Right.
Speaker 8 (30:31):
But anyway, I am. Yeah, I had to work so
much this summer. I don't get time off unless I
well I do. I can get it like a week off,
but I have I don't get paid, like, I don't
have a kind of job where I get you know,
paid for time off. So I had to work a
lot because I just I just need the money. But
I wanted to go up north in Ontario, about four
(30:54):
hours north, and I wanted to go explore some of
the waterways up there. I like, I love kayaking, oh yeah,
and yeah yeah, and I live on Lake Erie and
I do kayak quite often on there. There's some beautiful
spots to see there. But you know, it did up
up north a northern Ontario. It's amazing that that the
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waterways there's there's thousands of lakes up there, and I've
been up there many times. But it's been a while
and I just wanted to get up there, but I
think I might try to go in the end of September.
And and uh, you know, colors, colors.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
How are the roads? You know, I've never been in Ontario,
never been north of Ontario. When you leave Ontario, you said,
it's four hours. Are you talking about your own highways?
Are you on more country scenic roads?
Speaker 7 (31:44):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (31:44):
Well, I'm I'm talking about four hours north of where
I live. And that's we call that kind of like
the near North, like it's it's kind of it's not
northern northern Ontario, but it's kind of middle North, right yea,
And oh yeah, oh my god, yeah no, trust me,
Like six hours north up to Sudbury, like up to
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thunder Bay, it's all major highways. But yeah, oh to
get up there, it's it's major highways, but they're and.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
There, you know.
Speaker 8 (32:16):
But when to get through Toronto's terrible. That's that's that's
one of the that's one of the things that holds
me back from going up there. I never have to
go that way and and you have to kind of
go through Toronto area to get up north there. But anyway,
I think I might go in there in September, and
you know, will the water still be.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Warm up there? And I mean the water where I am,
you know, in southern Massachusetts will be warm well into October?
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (32:45):
Probably, Yeah, you know, I've actually swam there in October
before I have. And it really depends on the year, right,
Every year is different. I would say, I would say,
you know, it's probably you know, I mean it's warm.
It'd probably be warm, very warm right now as far
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as the water goes. Got a bunch of lakes, right
and you know they're not like like smaller lakes, right yea,
but and a bunch of waterways up there, like rivers
and creeks, and it's just like, I mean, if if
you can here, I want to google that area, Like
have you heard of Algonquin Park?
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Nope?
Speaker 4 (33:23):
Have not.
Speaker 8 (33:24):
It's a very stammeous provincial park up there. Anyway, it's
a beautiful place. But that's kind of the area I go,
not quite there, But if you Algonquin, if you google that,
you will just see like if you look at through
a satellite map, you'll just see thousands of lakes. It's
just absolutely incredible. It's so fun to explore.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
Well, I'll tell you you have. You have done a
good advertisement for the Chamber of Commerce, that's for sure, Carol.
I know that you listen a lot. I know you've
called before. I just wish you'd call more often because
you always provided.
Speaker 8 (33:56):
I do think about it. But to tell you the truth,
a lot of times when I'm called, when I'm I
actually just finished work right now, A lot of times
when I'm listening to you and listen to that work.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
So what sort of work do you do? You told
me before, you don't get paid when you're not working.
What do you do? I'm assuming you might work.
Speaker 8 (34:11):
As a well, I'm a work Yeah, I work as
a server. Yeah, I'm waitress at a restaurant. And then
I also do photography on the side, but that is uh,
you know that's on my own time, right yeah, no, absolutely,
well the.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
Good for good yeah yeah, just.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Yeah, please keep in touch, Okay. I'd like hearing from
folks in other parts of the the of North America.
I love I love my American listeners, but I also
love my Canadian listeners. Thank you so much.
Speaker 8 (34:39):
Yeah, a no problem, thank you, love your show.
Speaker 5 (34:42):
All right, thank you all right?
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Thanks six one seven four ten thirty six, one, seven, nine, three, one,
ten thirty. I got Larry and Dennisport. He's coming up.
I'm I got an idea about what he might have
been doing, but we'll see, we'll see. I've also got
Alex and I get room for a couple of more calls.
Or six months seven two, five, four ten thirty, six
months seven nine thirty What activity this summer had you
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thought about or even maybe planned and you just never
got to I'm trying to encourage you to realize that
even though summer might be over in terms of the
calendar and then definitely be over in the twenty first,
you still got some time to accomplish your your list
of things to do for the summer of twenty twenty five.
Back on Nightside, right after.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
This Night Side with Dan Ray, I'm Youbzy Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Back to the phones we go trying to figure out
what did you want to do this summer? What had
you planned to do this summer that you weren't able
to accomplish. There could be a lot of reasons you
might have just run out of time. Let me go
to Larry down to Dennisport. Hey, Larry, welcome back, how
are you.
Speaker 7 (35:52):
I'm well, Dan, So here's my challenge. By the way,
I've been swimming every day in the water and it's
still seventy degrees was.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Seventy is still too cold for me. But I'll tell
you the For guys like you who are out there inactive,
it's the best part of the year, isn't it.
Speaker 7 (36:08):
Yep, I love it. But actually may flow a beach
today and it was pretty busy. So anyway, I fish
in the spring and the fall for stripers in Bass
River out of a kayak, and unfortunately this summer was
kind of tough. You know, I'm still dealing with my
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long COVID symptoms, but I'm gradually getting better. And my
challenge will be by Columbus Day to get up my
kayak and pitch some stripers. That's my challenge.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Now, I have never fished out of a kayak, but
my question is can you maintain your balance?
Speaker 7 (36:49):
Well, I have to sit on top designs for fishing.
But when you catch, when you hook onto a nice keeper,
they call it a Nantucket sleigh ride.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
So they give you a fight. They give you a.
Speaker 7 (37:03):
Fight, absolutely absolutely. But I just want to tell you
this one other thing. The reason why I go into
water every day. I started in May. The water was
only in the low fifties. It's called cold water therapy.
Actually yeah, and it actually made me feel much better.
But as the water gets warm, I changed it and
I call it saltwater therapy. Last year I made it
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till November seventh, So that'll be a challenge. See how
late into the season.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
I think that is a challenge.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
That's great. Yeah, I like a pool when it's about
you know, eighty five to eighty eight degrees. That's that's
my entry level, not for me. Have a good night,
DN very Everything well with your daughter? I hope I
saw the big over there the other day. She impacted
(37:54):
by that.
Speaker 7 (37:55):
Her building shook, but everything is okay. She's tore hundred
miles from the epty Center. Okay, please, yeah, thanks.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
For all right. Let me go to Alex in Millis Alex,
what you try to do this summer that you haven't
gotten around to yet? Oh?
Speaker 3 (38:13):
Before I do that, I'll tell you what we did
this summer, which was awesome with the Jamaica trip all inclusive.
We went off horseback riding in the water, learned how
to scuba dive, and snorkeling, and we went on a
rodeo on a bull, a mechanical bull, and the other
thing I wanted to do, but I've never done it,
(38:36):
and I'm going to do with his skydiving.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Yeah, that's that's that's something that would intimidate me. That's
for sure.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
I'm not afraid of heights, but you know that, I
don't know. When you get up that high, I guess
it changes things.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
I guess you're right on that, I guess. So as
a matter of fact, you told me you were going
to do that trip. I think we talked about that
at one point.
Speaker 3 (39:01):
Yes, it was phenomenal.
Speaker 2 (39:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
The only thing in with that trip was it wasn't
a relaxing vacation because every day, whether you were at
the pool or at the buffet, you know, it's an
all inclusive, you know resort. They had so many things
going on. They had magic shows, they had a circus,
they had uh, you know, water activities. As I said, mechanicals.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
Well, it sounds to be like you had you had
a full summer and however long you were away there,
what was it that you didn't do that you still
want to do? Oh over there, no anything, anything, was
there another trip you didn't get a chance to take, or.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
Another I'd say whitewater rafting. I'd like to do that
at some point, now.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
Okay, all right, Well that's that's something to look forward
to next summer, I guess. But there was nothing else
on your list to do this summer that you never
got around to. It sounds like to me you had
a plan and you executed the plan.
Speaker 3 (39:59):
Actually, no, some projects around the house, so I'll try
to get, you know, paint my house, and I'll think
I'll do that.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
Well, you can do that all the time. That's not
a problem. That's all right.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
Thanks Alex, Thanks, good night.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
All right? What do I got here? Twenty seconds? Thirty seconds? Okay,
Rob Brooks, great job, appreciate it very much. I want
to thank all the callers, want to thank all of
the listeners. And we'll be back Monday night. I'm going
to do a night side post game. I'll get there
as quickly as I can. I missed it. I messed
it up last night. I will not mess it up tonight.
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I'll end. There's always all dogs, all cats, all pets
go to heaven. That's why Pal Charlie Rays who passed
fifteen years ago in February. That's all your pets are
who have passed. They loved you. When you love that,
I do believe you'll see the begin to see again more.
We'll see it again on Monday night on Nightside. Have
a great weekend, enjoy the weekend. Go Patriots, Red Sarks
are losing in Arizona. Coming back on Monday night. We'll
(40:58):
see you then,
It's night Side with Dan Ray. I'm telling you Boston's
Lee video.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Thank you very much, Al Griffin. As we move into
the twentieth hour of the week, and let me just
say that normally at this time I like to run
over all the different topics we've talked about this week,
but I'm going to pass on that tonight because i
just want to get to as many of you as possible.
We did have a lot of interesting topics and if
(00:27):
you missed any of Nightside, check out Nightside on demand
dot com. I would highly recommend that you listen to
the ten o'clock hour on It was Wednesday night, the
Superior the Supreme Court justice from New Hampshire, John Broderick,
(00:47):
along with Jeffrey Levin, a therapist and life coach, talked
about mental illness amongst students, not only preteens, but teenagers
as well. Also mon Tuesday night at nine o'clock, the
first interview with the new head of the Massachusetts State Police,
Colonel Jeffrey Noble, that is available. He took phone calls.
(01:12):
You can get both sides of the conversation. Dealing with
the turnpike service Plaza contract. Eric Slifka of Global partners.
And then earlier tonight we were joined by a representative
of the company that won the contract, Apple Green Diana
(01:35):
Prosato Prosoto, and those two very different viewpoints here. And
then last night at nine o'clock Josh Craft Craft candidate
for mayor in Boston. So just go and spend some
time at Nightside and demand this weekend. Now, what I'd
(01:56):
like to do this hour is always you know, on
the eleven o'clock hour on Friday night. We call it
the twentieth hour because although I was off on Monday
night and Morgan whitesat in for me, and I want
to thank Morgan for doing that. This is my fourth
show of the week, So it's the twentieth hour of
night Side. Because we do five shows a week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
(02:16):
Friday and four hours per night. That's twenty hours. And
this is the one where we like to get you
to the weekend. We'll be we'll have you on Saturday
within about fifty minutes.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Here.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
This is take some of the serious conversation during the
week and you can re listen to that over the weekend.
Just want to get you your head into the weekend.
So I try to pick subjects that are topical and interesting.
Now again, I can always do dumb topics. Well, I'll
never do dumb topics, but like, what's your favorite caller?
(02:50):
You know, you know, what's your favorite that sort of stuff. No,
I don't. I don't do that. I try to make
you think a little bit. So my question is Labor
Day traditionally is the end of summer. Now, I realized
that the month of September is beautiful in summer on
the calendar doesn't end until generally twenty first of September,
(03:12):
so we still have a good two weeks of actual
summer left before the autumnal equinomics. However, if summer ends
on Labor Day, ear let me take you back to
Memorial Day. Was there something that you intended to do
this summer? A place you wanted to visit, an activity
you wanted to try, a beach you wanted to stop by, whatever,
(03:37):
a restaurant you would hope to visit, and you haven't
done it. But now what I want to do is
help you focus on what you wanted to do, but
you haven't done. One of the things that I wanted
to do earlier this summer, which I didn't get around
to doing. There's a couple of trains that that basically
(04:02):
do a little ride around the cape that go out
of hyenas actual trains, and I would this summer, I said,
I'm going to try one of those that they actually
serve you a meal while you're on the train, either
a lunch or a dinner, depending about what time of day.
If you've done that train, I'd love to hear from
(04:24):
you on that one. But more importantly from you, I
want to know what did you What did you want
to do this summer that you haven't done? Okay, and
you still have time to do. I mean, the beaches
are better in September, I think than they are in
May or June. The water is warmer. Maybe there's some
activity that you were going to try for the first
(04:45):
time the summer, kayaking or paddle boarding, but you didn't
get around to it. So that's what I'm asking you
to do. It costs, I'm challenging you think a little bit,
and maybe your ideas will prompt someone else to think
as well. Six one, seven, two, five, four to ten
(05:07):
thirty six one seven, nine, three one ten thirty. Maybe
you wanted to go somewhere on a trip. Maybe you
wanted to go to the New York. Maybe you wanted
to go and it just your summer get interrupted. You
can still do it, let me go. The the phones
are not lit up, so we you were easy. You
(05:30):
were invited to call six one, seven, two, five, four
to ten thirty six one seven, nine, three one ten
thirty Darryl up in Canada. Darryl, thanks for holding on here.
What did you plan to do this summer that maybe
didn't quite occur and do you think you'll be able
to do it in the next few weeks?
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Well? Hopefully, uh Dan, great topics by the way, thank you.
I had hopefully, I hopefully had my patty where you
had done so I could actually have a barbecue because
I've got some Jack Daniels, I bought where all the
tariffs wreent. So and listening to your topics this week
with the people referenced, you know, assisting the children and whatnot,
(06:11):
and even the older gentleman tonight joining the police forces
as a cadet.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
How about that seventy eight year old rookie police officer.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
That's inspiration. And so what I'm gonna do is tonight
I'm going to finish this puppy up because I always
listen to you when I'm working here, because it's cooler
at night, and I'm going to actually open up that
bottle with Jack Daniels. I got two cases, by the way,
so I'm good for some more celebrations later.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Okay, But was there something that you wanted to do
this summer that you didn't get around to. It was
the patio, you said.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Right, just finishing the patio so you can just enjoy
stuff with all the trouble going on, right, okay, just
to relax and put my dog D Day. He normally
gets it bone steak on his birthday every year on
February fourteen.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Valentine didn't get one there, Okay, he didn't.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Yeah, and he didn't get one this year. So tomorrow
and it we're both going to be having t bone steaks.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Okay, So you didn't get to do that.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Well, he's all right, Jack.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
I'm happy for D Day, that's for sure. As always
as always, now you bring a very interesting perspective from
from New Brunswick.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
But what I'm saying is I'm going to be toasting
to your guests. That was the new cadet oasting tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Well, well if I if I happen to talk to him,
and I don't think I will, he'll, he'll, he'll sense it. Nonetheless,
has the weather turned a little cooler up in New Brunswick.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
It's warm right now, but it's supposed to get down
to about zero coming up on Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Well, zero for you is thirty two degrees for us.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Correct in thirty two thirty four. And that's why I
finishing my patty area. I can actually bring my portable
plants in and they won't die.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
From all right, Darrel, appreciate your callers. All We have
a great weekend. Thanks Daryl, talk to you soon. Good night.
All right, So the question is Daryl didn't quite you know,
he started us off here, but I think we have
some others out there who may have had a specific
project in mind. Maybe you were gonna get in the
car and go visit someone. Maybe you were gonna go
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somewhere six one, seven, two five four ten thirty six
one seven nine three, one ten thirty. Normally on a
Friday night, we'll do brushes with celebrity, will do what
grinds your gears, but we try to you know, change
it up, and that's what I'm doing right now. So
(08:43):
don't fail me, folks. I want to know what did
you plan to do this summer that, for whatever reason,
you just never got around to it. Maybe unfortunately you
you didn't have the opportunity to do what you wanted
to do. Okay, hey, there's still some nice weather left
six one, seven, two, five, four ten thirty six one seven,
(09:05):
nine three one ten thirty. Coming back on Nightside.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray one Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Well, I am delighted to realize that every one of
my Nightside listeners completed every aspirational hope they had this summer.
I asked the question, which again I thought was a
pretty interesting question, what did you think about doing? What
(09:39):
did you plan to do? What did you try to
do this summer that you just never got around to? Uh?
And I guess everybody in my audience did everything, accomplished
everything that they that they had set out to do.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
I don't believe that, but that's fine. Normally, when we
do the twentieth Hour at night, everybody wants to jump
on board and have a piece of the action. So
I'm going to give you another maybe thirty seconds or
so to rise to the bait, and it is rising
(10:20):
to the bait. To be honest with you. My job
is to come up with a thought or an idea
where maybe maybe you'll say, gee, I wanted to learn this.
I wanted to take up meditation, but I just never
got around to it, or I was too busy to
meditate whatever. Or I had planned to go visit my
(10:46):
children who are living I haven't seen them for two
years and something happened. That's the sort of idea. Or
I was going to go. I was gonna go out
to the Berkshires and listen to the Boston Pops and
the Berkshires. I've never done that before, but I didn't.
(11:06):
Maybe too late for this summer, but maybe next summer. Actually,
what I'm trying to convince you to do is to
realize that just because the Labor Day has occurred and
people are telling you summer is over, Summer's really not
over until September twenty first. And as a matter of fact,
as far as I'm concerned, I don't think that the
(11:28):
good part of the year ends. In my opinion, the
good part of the year does not end until the
first of November, Halloween and even into and there were
good things about November. We'll talk about that, but tonight
I'm looking to know what did you want to do,
if anything, and you weren't able to do it. Let
(11:51):
me go to Lola, who we know from San Diego,
but she's been back in our neck of the woods
dealing with some family issues. Lola, you had very busy summer,
I know that, but a very successful.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Summer I did, Dan. I got here June twentieth, so
summer started the next day, and I got to.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
The beach.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Twice. I think I went to Revia Beach twice.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Well, of course when you get back, when you get
back home to San Diego, you go to the beach
probably every day of the year out there.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Right, Yes, so that's like that was my biggest dilemma,
was not being able to go to my beach walks,
and you know, not being able to see you was
my second dilemma.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
So well, you'll get that straightened away, don't worry.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Dads, weren't look, the stars weren't lined up, and just
remember tomorrow night is a full moon in Pisces and
we're having an eclipse. Even though we can't see it.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Where is the where is the eclipse of viewable? What
part of the world?
Speaker 4 (12:59):
I think think South America, Central and South America.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Well, there's two.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Eclipses, so we're going to have another one in two
weeks with the sun.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Yeah, it does.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
By the way, I'm not an astrological person, as you know,
and I have never figured out how it works that
it just so happens that the solar eclipse or whatever,
or the lunar eclipse or whatever the type of eclipse
it is, can be seen only in certain parts of
the world. I know that every once in a while
(13:35):
we get one up here. I want to ask you
a question. How far do you live from the beach
in San Diego.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
I know that you're here technically, technically from my front
door down the hill to Pacific Beach is six miles,
six miles right to the to the coastline. So I
am up on a mesa, which is like a you know,
so I'm not.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Going to know what that is. So when you want
to go to the beach, do you have parking rights?
I mean, you're not walking six miles to the beach.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
I don't, No, no, I'm not walking. So what I
really do, though, is I go twelve miles and I
go to Delma, which is where the race track is. Okay,
So that community is that community is like Wellesley or Weston,
very uppity. So there's less crime and less young people there.
(14:30):
It's more family orientated and so that you know, there's
not a lot of people drinking, and it's just a
different atmosphere.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
So the beach where most of the few days that
you have left, and you'll be back.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
I know that you know I'll be back. No, I
will be back. So tomorrow I'm going to get a
two hour massage with this massage therapist that I've met
and she is fantastic. I have one on the east,
on the West coast, but everybody's getting That's something.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Did you say you accomplished now, isn't That's a good thing? Right? Okay?
Speaker 4 (15:09):
And that and the horse is the equine therapy. I'm
going again Sunday for two hours. It's tea, coffee and
horses in Bedford at that Mango Bay Equestrian facility.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
All right, Okay, ull a lot of information here, and
I do appreciate your calling. I really do you know
that we'll talk?
Speaker 4 (15:30):
Yeah, Well, I heard. I heard you, and I'm like, okay, Dan,
I'll call in because that was, you know, unpacking. And
but I went to my first Friday Night under the
lights football game with Watertown. I think they played Harol,
and that Harol team is huge in weight and in
(15:51):
population in Watertown. I mean they played a good game.
They lost, but they played a really good game.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Well, well, that that's you. You've had a very active
time here in Massachusetts, Lola. I got a run, I.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Got full line.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Thank you, Dan, have a great day, you too, thanks much.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Let me keep going here, gonna get one more in
Uh I'm this name says, is this Winny in Pennsylvania? Win? Okay?
I have no idea how that's Okay, Okay, win, Okay,
Winny win win win win Okay, whin let me. Let's
(16:33):
hope you have a winner of a story for us.
Go right ahead.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
Well, it's not exactly a story. I was answering your
question that you said.
Speaker 7 (16:41):
Hey, y, yeah, who's out there to take debate?
Speaker 6 (16:44):
Nobody's calling in on this question, And I was thinking,
by the way, I'm pulling you in on a conventional
car radio just outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, so good for
w b Z and their night pattern, which is obviously
pretty amazing.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Let me ask you this, when you have you listened
to us before? Is this your first time calling the show?
Speaker 6 (17:06):
I have listened to you off and on in all candor,
I'm listening for radio signals that travel more at night.
So I'm tuning into ten thirty because I know I
can grab BZ. Sometimes I'm grabbing Katie Ka out of Pittsburgh. Sure,
other times I can't remember. It was like eleven twenty.
(17:30):
And do you remember Art Bell?
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Oh sure, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
Right, well Art Bell. I used to pull him in
from I'm going to say, Ohio, and I haven't been
able to find him in recent years. So I like,
I have an interest in radio.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Well, obviously you do. Where we're an iHeartRadio station. We
used to be CBS, and before that we were Westinghouse Broadcasting,
and we were one of the five Westinghouse Broadcasting stations
around the country w G in balt in Baltimore, KDKA
and Pittsburgh KYW and Philadelphia WBZ, and there was one
(18:09):
station out in San Francisco. I think it was kg
O O KA. You know it was KPIX excuse me,
and those were the stations we all went on the
air around nineteen twenty, nineteen twenty one, so you can
pick up our station has been picked up literally on
radio on this show. I had a guy one night
in a truck in Idaho. I thought he was sitting
(18:31):
there with his computer. He said, no, it's on the
truck radio. And a guy who was up in Winnipeg,
Canada who listens to us formally from Eastern Canada, and
he was in Winnipeg, Manitoba, listening to us on his
ten transistor radio. So thanks for finding us. Tell us
some if you want something you weren't able to do
(18:51):
this summer that you're intended ondoing in the next week.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
I was answering the secondary question, is I wonder why
people aren't calling in, And what I was going to
say was, I think with all of the absolutely unprecedented
political activities, there may be two reasons why people aren't
calling in to answer your question directly. Number one, there's
(19:17):
so much else going on. And number two, if you
really didn't get to do something that you really really
wanted to do, it's sad, so they don't want to
relive it. So they're not calling.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Well, let me just tell you first of all, our
lines right now are full. Okay, okay. Sometimes my experience,
and I've been doing this for eighteen years, is that
you need a couple of people to get it going,
and sometimes people can be a little shy. We try
every Friday night at eleven o'clock. My show was on
Monday through Friday from eight until midnight in WBZ, and
(19:51):
since we started this program, we do what we call
the twentieth hour of the week because it's the last
hour of our programming five nights, four hours a night,
pretty simple. Four times five, that's twenty and we pick
a number of topics. I have some regular topics that
I do in this hour, and the intention is to
do sort of a lighter hour. We do a lot
(20:12):
of politics, a lot of serious topics during the week,
but we try to pick a lighter hour to get
people to the weekend. And one of the subjects we
do very often is what grinds your gears, and people
are always anxious to tell us what upsets them, what
bothers them. We do another standard show, which is your
(20:36):
Brushes with Celebrity, and the lines go nuts. Everybody has
met a celebrity, and there's a whole bunch of others
that we have done that are very successful. But I
also like to every once in a while reach deep
into the recesses of my mind and come up with
an idea, which is the idea tonight. And I will
bet you if you stick with us until midnight, you're
(20:57):
going to hear some really interesting stories about people who
early in the summer were intent on doing X, Y
or Z and they haven't done X Y or Z,
and I'm just encouraging them not to put those plans
on ice for a whole year. We still have great
weather in Pennsylvania and here in New England.
Speaker 6 (21:16):
Absolutely not only that you're to that wonderful overarching point.
I was in the film footage of what I'm about
to tell you, and you know, your cameras date stamp
your work, whether you like it or not. I was
in the Atlantic Ocean outside of Longport, New Jersey, November three,
(21:39):
twenty seventeen, and the ocean was warm, so there's still
plenty of summer left.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Ay, well, with thanks very much. Have you you've never
listened to my show before, so therefore I'm assuming you're
a first time caller.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
I am definitely a first time caller. But again I've
heard I'm going to call it snippets of your show.
Good as I'm as I'm dialing around looking to see
who all I'm pulling in.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Well, first of all, we first of all is a
first time call. We want to give you a round
of applause for my digital studio audience. Okay, number one
and number two. I hope that you will become a
more frequent listener because and we also have, by the way,
a website that you may want to look at over
the weekend if you like, really like radio called Nightside
(22:28):
and Demanded. It's all of our past hours of this week,
and you might be very impressed by the number of
guests and the number of topics that we covered in
just this past week.
Speaker 6 (22:37):
You know, I am going to do that. I obviously
obviously because of this evening's contact and also it's a
it's a very interesting uh format and show that you
outlined for me, and I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Well, thank you very much. What do you do in Pennsylvania?
I assume Pennsylvania is your home.
Speaker 6 (22:59):
Yes, I'm I'm very very pleased to be a Pennsylvanian. Well,
I'll say it. If you were to google Win Alexander,
you'll see investigative journalist, filmmaker, author stuff.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Well I'm going if you'll google Nights out of Demand,
I will google Win Alexander. And you sounding very inherent
The reason I asked the question is you sound to me.
I was a television reporter for thirty one years here
in Boston on WBZ, and now I'm have sort of
a bit of a second career eighteen years doing a
(23:37):
talk show. And I am always inherently interested in people
who I talked to, and my sense is pretty good.
I remember one night many years ago, I had a
guy on calling in from Virginia and I said what
sort of work do you do? And he said, I'm
in the Navy. I said, really, you know, I thought
I was talking to you know, somebody who you know
was in I said, what do you do? He said,
(23:59):
I'm a commander of a new submarine. Wow. Nice. So
we get a variety of people. Remember I won woman
one night call in from Washington, d C. She was
a player in the WNBA a few years ago. So
we get we get some really interesting callers on this
program and I hope you'll continue to stay with us.
Speaker 6 (24:19):
Okay, I absolutely will you.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
More than one more than me will be googling when
Alexander believe me.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
Well, you know, I thought about that and I said,
I don't know when are we going there? Yeah, go ahead,
give it to him.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
I like it. I like it when thank you so
much for your call, appreciate it.
Speaker 7 (24:40):
It's a pleasure, and thank you right back at you.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Well, I think we just picked up another caller, which
I think another listener, which is I think pretty cool.
What did you plan to do this summer that you
just never got around to. Maybe there was some play
that you wanted to get to or something, or some
destination that you just thought you ran out of time. No,
(25:05):
you haven't run out of time. The summer might. The
summer is still going on. It doesn't end until the
twenty first. Let us know. Six one, seven, two, five,
four ten thirty one line there and six one seven,
nine three, one ten thirty coming right back on Nightside.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray on WAZ Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Okay, we're gonna get everybody in here. Let me go
to Richard and Quincy. Richard, you're next on nightside.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
Good evening, Dan, Hey.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Good evening, Richard. You gotta turn that radio down. I
know Rob tells you to turn the radio down, but
you got to turn it down. Go right ahead.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
I don't have it on night Can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (25:46):
I can hear you? Fine, Now I heard feedback.
Speaker 5 (25:49):
Go ahead, So long time listened to the first time calling?
Speaker 2 (25:53):
All right, first time call it Richard. Let's give Richard
around of the clause from now Jesus to study audience.
Thank you, sir, go right ahead.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
Finally I was talking about you today and now I'm calling.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
Well, just I used to run Henry's diner. You know
where Henry's was to practice club and oh.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Yeah, absolutely over on Western Avenue right right.
Speaker 5 (26:14):
So I ran out for three four years and I
used to make the corn chatter and used to get
it to go and you want to get stones and
all those guys.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
And it was very very sad to see Henry's goal
was a great diner, was right right out back from
WBZ when WBZ was situated on both radio and TV
were situated on Soldiers Field Road. What are you doing now, Richard?
Speaker 5 (26:39):
Oh then I've been Uh, that doesn't matter I've been
really stick. I'm in the hospital right now, but that
doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Oh, I'm st sorry to hear that.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
No, that's okay, it's okay.
Speaker 6 (26:47):
It's okay.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
So there's like a many things that I wanted to
do this summer. Yeah, and I didn't get to do
any of them, really, right. Did get to go to
a w w NBA game in Boston?
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Well when when the when the Connecticut sun came up here?
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (27:05):
And yeah, yeah, my cousin with my cousin Kim, And
I'm telling you, I can only last three quarters, but
it was the greatest time I ever had in my life.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Really.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
Yeah. I wish I could have done a lot more,
like a million things I wanted to do this summer.
I spent one hundred and three days in the hospital
since November. I'm sorry, Yeah, don't be it's fine, I'm
gonna be fine.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Well, that's what that's that's what I want to hear.
Just tell me that that with the good medical services
that we all have access to here, most of us have. Yeah, okay,
that's that is that's great. How did my name come
up in conversation with you?
Speaker 5 (27:45):
With you to ask about the court somebody asked about
the corn chorta they wanted the recipe was cornha And
we were talking about all the people that used to
come there. Wow, you know gil Gil was such a
nice guy to Oh my god, he such a big guy.
And you know, Dan, you used to do there a
lot for lunch and sandwich and yeah, Tom him.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Sure, no, no, I I yeah. As a matter of fact,
every once in a while I would go in there
with take friends of mine in there. And as a
matter of fact, I know that there was a kid
who was pitching for the Red Sox. I don't know
what years you were there, but there was a kid
who pitched for the Red Sox, for Rick Porcello who
used to go in there quite a bit. Uh. He
pitched for the Tigers and then came over for the
(28:29):
Red Sox. Yeah, and there were days when you couldn't
get in there because the line was out the door.
Speaker 7 (28:35):
That was good, good day, just all those Yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
But after fifty years of cooking, forty years of cooking,
you know, yeah, that Dinad was probably my best learning
experience ever.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Let me take the parking. Parking was pretty you're parking
out back, parking on the street, I remember it very well.
Rich do me a favorite. Keep in touch, and I
hope that whatever malady you're dealing with gets resolved and
gets resolved quick every night. All right, pl you keep
in touch. I'm looking forward to your next call. Okay,
(29:14):
thank you, Thanks Richard, have a great night. Let's keep
rolling here. I'm going to go to Carol, who is
in Ontario. Carol in Ontario, You're next one nights. I
go ahead, Carol.
Speaker 8 (29:27):
Oh hi, Dan, can you hear me?
Speaker 4 (29:29):
Okay, I can hear you?
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Find you. You actually are probably one of the best.
I don't know what phone you're using, but you're clearer
than just about anybody else's call tonight, go right out.
Speaker 8 (29:39):
Wow, okay, kind of sound it kind of sounds funny
on my end. But anyway, first of all, I wanted
to mention that I don't understand what John and Nubrundhuks
talking about as far as the temperature goes, because I
look at the Weather Network and it's going down to
about eleven between eleven and seventeen at night.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Okay, So if it's eleven, break me if I'm wrong.
If it's eleven in terms of us temperature of fahrenheit
you're talking about that's like the low fifties.
Speaker 8 (30:09):
Yeah, low fifties to seventeen, which is low sixties.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Yeah, Darryl said zero. Daryl said zero. I was wondering.
Speaker 8 (30:21):
Yeah, no, that's that's like more like December. Yeah anyway, yeah, yeah,
well that's like overnight temperatures.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
Right.
Speaker 8 (30:31):
But anyway, I am. Yeah, I had to work so
much this summer. I don't get time off unless I
well I do. I can get it like a week off,
but I have I don't get paid, like, I don't
have a kind of job where I get you know,
paid for time off. So I had to work a
lot because I just I just need the money. But
I wanted to go up north in Ontario, about four
(30:54):
hours north, and I wanted to go explore some of
the waterways up there. I like, I love kayaking, oh yeah,
and yeah yeah, and I live on Lake Erie and
I do kayak quite often on there. There's some beautiful
spots to see there. But you know, it did up
up north a northern Ontario. It's amazing that that the
(31:14):
waterways there's there's thousands of lakes up there, and I've
been up there many times. But it's been a while
and I just wanted to get up there, but I
think I might try to go in the end of September.
And and uh, you know, colors, colors.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
How are the roads? You know, I've never been in Ontario,
never been north of Ontario. When you leave Ontario, you said,
it's four hours. Are you talking about your own highways?
Are you on more country scenic roads?
Speaker 7 (31:44):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (31:44):
Well, I'm I'm talking about four hours north of where
I live. And that's we call that kind of like
the near North, like it's it's kind of it's not
northern northern Ontario, but it's kind of middle North, right yea,
And oh yeah, oh my god, yeah no, trust me,
Like six hours north up to Sudbury, like up to
(32:06):
thunder Bay, it's all major highways. But yeah, oh to
get up there, it's it's major highways, but they're and.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
There, you know.
Speaker 8 (32:16):
But when to get through Toronto's terrible. That's that's that's
one of the that's one of the things that holds
me back from going up there. I never have to
go that way and and you have to kind of
go through Toronto area to get up north there. But anyway,
I think I might go in there in September, and
you know, will the water still be.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Warm up there? And I mean the water where I am,
you know, in southern Massachusetts will be warm well into October?
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (32:45):
Probably, Yeah, you know, I've actually swam there in October
before I have. And it really depends on the year, right,
Every year is different. I would say, I would say,
you know, it's probably you know, I mean it's warm.
It'd probably be warm, very warm right now as far
(33:05):
as the water goes. Got a bunch of lakes, right
and you know they're not like like smaller lakes, right yea,
but and a bunch of waterways up there, like rivers
and creeks, and it's just like, I mean, if if
you can here, I want to google that area, Like
have you heard of Algonquin Park?
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Nope?
Speaker 4 (33:23):
Have not.
Speaker 8 (33:24):
It's a very stammeous provincial park up there. Anyway, it's
a beautiful place. But that's kind of the area I go,
not quite there, But if you Algonquin, if you google that,
you will just see like if you look at through
a satellite map, you'll just see thousands of lakes. It's
just absolutely incredible. It's so fun to explore.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
Well, I'll tell you you have. You have done a
good advertisement for the Chamber of Commerce, that's for sure, Carol.
I know that you listen a lot. I know you've
called before. I just wish you'd call more often because
you always provided.
Speaker 8 (33:56):
I do think about it. But to tell you the truth,
a lot of times when I'm called, when I'm I
actually just finished work right now, A lot of times
when I'm listening to you and listen to that work.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
So what sort of work do you do? You told
me before, you don't get paid when you're not working.
What do you do? I'm assuming you might work.
Speaker 8 (34:11):
As a well, I'm a work Yeah, I work as
a server. Yeah, I'm waitress at a restaurant. And then
I also do photography on the side, but that is uh,
you know that's on my own time, right yeah, no, absolutely,
well the.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
Good for good yeah yeah, just.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Yeah, please keep in touch, Okay. I'd like hearing from
folks in other parts of the the of North America.
I love I love my American listeners, but I also
love my Canadian listeners. Thank you so much.
Speaker 8 (34:39):
Yeah, a no problem, thank you, love your show.
Speaker 5 (34:42):
All right, thank you all right?
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Thanks six one seven four ten thirty six, one, seven, nine, three, one,
ten thirty. I got Larry and Dennisport. He's coming up.
I'm I got an idea about what he might have
been doing, but we'll see, we'll see. I've also got
Alex and I get room for a couple of more calls.
Or six months seven two, five, four ten thirty, six
months seven nine thirty What activity this summer had you
(35:07):
thought about or even maybe planned and you just never
got to I'm trying to encourage you to realize that
even though summer might be over in terms of the
calendar and then definitely be over in the twenty first,
you still got some time to accomplish your your list
of things to do for the summer of twenty twenty five.
Back on Nightside, right after.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
This Night Side with Dan Ray, I'm Youbzy Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Back to the phones we go trying to figure out
what did you want to do this summer? What had
you planned to do this summer that you weren't able
to accomplish. There could be a lot of reasons you
might have just run out of time. Let me go
to Larry down to Dennisport. Hey, Larry, welcome back, how
are you.
Speaker 7 (35:52):
I'm well, Dan, So here's my challenge. By the way,
I've been swimming every day in the water and it's
still seventy degrees was.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Seventy is still too cold for me. But I'll tell
you the For guys like you who are out there inactive,
it's the best part of the year, isn't it.
Speaker 7 (36:08):
Yep, I love it. But actually may flow a beach
today and it was pretty busy. So anyway, I fish
in the spring and the fall for stripers in Bass
River out of a kayak, and unfortunately this summer was
kind of tough. You know, I'm still dealing with my
(36:29):
long COVID symptoms, but I'm gradually getting better. And my
challenge will be by Columbus Day to get up my
kayak and pitch some stripers. That's my challenge.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Now, I have never fished out of a kayak, but
my question is can you maintain your balance?
Speaker 7 (36:49):
Well, I have to sit on top designs for fishing.
But when you catch, when you hook onto a nice keeper,
they call it a Nantucket sleigh ride.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
So they give you a fight. They give you a.
Speaker 7 (37:03):
Fight, absolutely absolutely. But I just want to tell you
this one other thing. The reason why I go into
water every day. I started in May. The water was
only in the low fifties. It's called cold water therapy.
Actually yeah, and it actually made me feel much better.
But as the water gets warm, I changed it and
I call it saltwater therapy. Last year I made it
(37:24):
till November seventh, So that'll be a challenge. See how
late into the season.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
I think that is a challenge.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
That's great. Yeah, I like a pool when it's about
you know, eighty five to eighty eight degrees. That's that's
my entry level, not for me. Have a good night,
DN very Everything well with your daughter? I hope I
saw the big over there the other day. She impacted
(37:54):
by that.
Speaker 7 (37:55):
Her building shook, but everything is okay. She's tore hundred
miles from the epty Center. Okay, please, yeah, thanks.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
For all right. Let me go to Alex in Millis Alex,
what you try to do this summer that you haven't
gotten around to yet? Oh?
Speaker 3 (38:13):
Before I do that, I'll tell you what we did
this summer, which was awesome with the Jamaica trip all inclusive.
We went off horseback riding in the water, learned how
to scuba dive, and snorkeling, and we went on a
rodeo on a bull, a mechanical bull, and the other
thing I wanted to do, but I've never done it,
(38:36):
and I'm going to do with his skydiving.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Yeah, that's that's that's something that would intimidate me. That's
for sure.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
I'm not afraid of heights, but you know that, I
don't know. When you get up that high, I guess
it changes things.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
I guess you're right on that, I guess. So as
a matter of fact, you told me you were going
to do that trip. I think we talked about that
at one point.
Speaker 3 (39:01):
Yes, it was phenomenal.
Speaker 2 (39:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
The only thing in with that trip was it wasn't
a relaxing vacation because every day, whether you were at
the pool or at the buffet, you know, it's an
all inclusive, you know resort. They had so many things
going on. They had magic shows, they had a circus,
they had uh, you know, water activities. As I said, mechanicals.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
Well, it sounds to be like you had you had
a full summer and however long you were away there,
what was it that you didn't do that you still
want to do? Oh over there, no anything, anything, was
there another trip you didn't get a chance to take, or.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
Another I'd say whitewater rafting. I'd like to do that
at some point, now.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
Okay, all right, Well that's that's something to look forward
to next summer, I guess. But there was nothing else
on your list to do this summer that you never
got around to. It sounds like to me you had
a plan and you executed the plan.
Speaker 3 (39:59):
Actually, no, some projects around the house, so I'll try
to get, you know, paint my house, and I'll think
I'll do that.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
Well, you can do that all the time. That's not
a problem. That's all right.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
Thanks Alex, Thanks, good night.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
All right? What do I got here? Twenty seconds? Thirty seconds? Okay,
Rob Brooks, great job, appreciate it very much. I want
to thank all the callers, want to thank all of
the listeners. And we'll be back Monday night. I'm going
to do a night side post game. I'll get there
as quickly as I can. I missed it. I messed
it up last night. I will not mess it up tonight.
(40:36):
I'll end. There's always all dogs, all cats, all pets
go to heaven. That's why Pal Charlie Rays who passed
fifteen years ago in February. That's all your pets are
who have passed. They loved you. When you love that,
I do believe you'll see the begin to see again more.
We'll see it again on Monday night on Nightside. Have
a great weekend, enjoy the weekend. Go Patriots, Red Sarks
are losing in Arizona. Coming back on Monday night. We'll
(40:58):
see you then,
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