August 8, 2025 • 39 mins
NightSide’s last hour of the week we like to keep it light and fun. In this 20th hour Dan asked listeners to call in and tell him about thier hobbies.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's night Side with Dan Ray. I'm telling you Boston's radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Where the duck boats are going to get a workout.
If that's for sure, Thanks very much, y'all. Good evening
or good morning, No good evening, still still leaving. We
got one hour left here, gonna get you to Saturday,
that is for sure. My name is Dan Ray, host
of Nightside. So look, here's the deal. We're on radio
five nights a week from eight until midnight, Monday through Friday.
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And we had a typical week this week on Nightside.
Always busy, always different. Part of the reasons that I
like to do the program is the different topics that
we deal with. In the eight o'clock hour every night
we deal with four guests, no phone calls, and then
nine ten eleven we deal with issues based for an
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hour or so. So, for example, on Monday night, we
talked about a TikTok a believe it or not. On
TikTok there the advising kids to get sunburns to get
rid of their acne.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I don't think. So.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
We talked with Paul Fleming of the Boston Better Business
Bureau about tax free weekends, talked about with a marathoner
at Boston College. He's a junior named James Redding from
Brighton who will be running I think his sixth marathon
in the not too distant future. He would be the
youngest person ever to complete six marathons Boston, New York, Chicago, London,
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Paris and Berlin. And talked with a woman about vacation stresses.
On Monday, talk with Mayor Greg Urger of Gloucester about
the republic trash strike. Talked with Jeff Robbins about what's
going on in the Middle East and the future of
the Middle East. Jeff former head of the ADL here
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in New England. On Tuesday night, talked with a representative
the Department of Transportation Luisa Wants about the Cape Bridges,
Sagamore and the Boorn Bridge. Talk with John Griffin about
wildlife attacks. Talked with doctor Jim Fredericks about the real
danger inherent in mosquitoes, and talked with someone from Mehman
(02:14):
named Dawn Brantley about the upcoming the Massachuset Emergency Management
Agency about the upcoming hurricane season. Talk with the head
of the union the striking Fenway Park concessionaires, Carlos Romeo.
Then we spent a couple of hours on Tuesday night,
do you want the Epstein the Jeffrey Epstein files to
be released?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Well?
Speaker 2 (02:34):
On Wednesday night, Deb Goldberg the Massachusetts Lottery. Another successful
year for the lottery, raised about a billion dollars in
profits which would be distributed to cities and towns. Talked
with a woman named Catherine Malloy about underwear insecurity for children.
I guess there's a lot of kids who don't have
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a sufficient amount of underwear and they raise money a
charity called Cocoa Tree. Then we talked with the doctor
suprit Man about teens and AI. Too many teens are
basically finding friendships on AI artificial intelligence. Talk with Captain
Scott Amadi about the capture of the water monitor. Had
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a great hour on Wednesday night at nine with State
Auditor Diana Desauglio. She wants to be able to audit
the Great in General Court and they are fighting her
tooth and nail, but she is going to try to
get that resolved. By the way, that hour will be
our best of night side this Sunday night at eleven o'clock.
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We then spent an hour reacting to the Desauglio hour.
We spent an hour talking about the controversy surrounding the
Sydney Sweeney Blue Jeans commercial on Thursday night. Talk with
a professor about the existence of the Canadian smoke in
our atmosphere. Talk with Senator Nick Collins about transportation safety.
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We may talk with Nick Collins next week a little
bit more about these mop heads and these these vehicles
that are unregulated and we've had two very bad accidents
here in the last last couple of days. Doctor doctor,
doctor Ivan Meisner about the ability to remember names. Talked
(04:22):
with Israeli Consul General Bennie Sharoni he's the really Israeli
Console General to New England about the latest developments in
the Middle East, which include the decision of the Israeli
Security Council to go uh and uh and and essentially
go in and occupy Gaza and then turn it over
(04:46):
to an Arab force. We previewed the Trump Putin meeting,
which now I guess will be next week and it
will be as I understand that in Alaska. We did
an hour of open lines last night. Talked tonight about
presidential power with doctor Frank Sorrentino. Talk with William Gagman
about a great company in Massachusetts x L. They make
(05:09):
hand dryers that you see now all over the world
in East long Medown. Talk with Nicole Corbette about moon jellyfish,
which maybe is a new type of jellyfish. They're discovering
one that can really stand here. Talk with Brian Thompson,
Aki Weather heat is on the way. Talk with Greg Vassel,
the CEO of the Great Buston Real Estate Board, on
(05:32):
rent control, the possibility that we'll have rent control in
the ballot. And at ten o'clock talked with Alan Dershwitz
about his efforts, his unsuccessful efforts, but he's standing on
principle to purchase Perogi's at a farmers market in the Cape.
There are a lot of folks not on the Cape,
on Martha's Vinyon. There are a lot of folks on
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Martha's Vinyon who really do not like Alan Derschwitz And
I don't see how you cannot like a man who
has stood for constitutional law issues his entire life. Now,
last night during the open lines, we had one caller
who called in. A bunch of callers called in and
made suggestions, and I'm taking up one of the suggestions.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
The suggestion was.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Made by Alex our caller, and he said that some
night we should talk about hobbies. So I thought that
might be a good topic for a Friday night twentieth hour.
In the twentieth hour at the end of the week
where we do twenty hours a week, five nights a
week Monday through Friday, four hours a night. Do the
math five times four twenty. This is the twentieth hour,
last hour of the week. We tried to pick a
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topic that people can relate to and can talk about.
So here's the setup. Everybody, pay attention, Pay attention. Here
we go. When you were however you want to describe it,
either a child or maybe a teenager, did you have
a hobby? Did you collect something? Some people collect items,
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other other people Uh. Though for example, they they they
develop a hobby. Whatever the hobby is, they build them ships.
I remember as a kid, it was you get these
ships and you had the had the glue. You had
to put them together and put the insyganias on the ships.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Ut that baby off, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
So did you ever have a hobby?
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Number one? Uh?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
And then the question is did you continue that hobby
into your adulthood? Some people collected stamps, some people collect
post guards. Some people have collected coins. Some people actually
had hobbies which they turned around and became their careers.
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They became interested in something and it led to a career.
So that's what we're talking about. And the lines are
going to be going to open them up right now
two lines six one seven, two, five, four ten thirty
six one seven, nine, three, one ten thirty.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
I try to do a different show. Now. There are.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Some tested, tried and tested and true favorites in this
twentieth hour. Mine is brushes with celebrity, as I think
I know, but I can't do that every Friday night.
So I can't do what grinds your gears every Friday night. No,
uh tonight. It is hobbies. What hobby did you have?
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Maybe you didn't have a hobby and you developed one
as an adult.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
I have a three year old grants on right now.
If I had to, I tell you what his hobby is.
His hobby is putting puzzles together. He's pretty good at it.
He's smart enough to know. You you find the edges,
the four square edges, and then you find.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
The pieces that fit.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
So six one seven two, five, four, ten thirty, six
one seven, nine three, one thirty. What was your hobby?
What was your hobby? Coming right back on Nightside.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Okay, as sometimes happens when I take an idea from
a listener, Uh, the initial response is not overwhelming.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
But the lines that.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Are full are six one seven, two, five, four, ten thirty.
The line that is open, the two lines that are
open six one seven, nine three one ten thirty.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Did you have a hobby? I had a hobby as
a kid.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
I liked collecting sports cards, baseball cards.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
I'm sure none of you were surprised at that.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
And uh, the valuable ones are in a are in
a safety deposit box. But I wish that I had
had been smarter and kept the cards in pristine condition.
They're in pretty good shape. I took care of my top,
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my you know, my possessions as a child. I was
not someone who was destructive. But I want to hear
from you and some of you had a hobby.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
I'm sure I used to listen.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
I gotta tell you something. I had a hobby of
listening to far away baseball games. We had a big
radio on our back porch, and I could pick up
on that radio. I don't know why. I mean it
was it was like a console radio. God only knows
if it still works. It's probably on that back porch still.
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But I could pick up games in Baltimore, in Washington,
in New York, and Philadelphia, in Detroit. Couldn't get as
far away as Chicago. But that kind of lit something
in my mind about the magic of radio that you
don't have to watch it, you can listen. And the
great announcers at that time, you know mel Allen, Kirk, Goudie,
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Chuck Thompson in Baltimore, others around the country whose names
I might forget at the moment, but they were able
to describe baseball games to me as a as a
young boy and then as a as a teenager.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
And I spent many hours listening. Let's go to the phones.
I'm more interested in what you have to say. I
can tell you stories all night, but that's not what
this show is all about. This show is all about you.
It's not the Dan Ray Show. It is the It's
Nightside with Dan Ray, and you're part of Nightside. Let's
go to Stephen and Lynn Steven, did you have a
hobby as a as a child, as a young young boy.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
Oh, yes, yes, Dan, I certainly did. Hi, Dan, you've
got a great show.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Thank you very much, Thank you. I appreciate that, Steven.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Sure, what was your What was your hobby? Well, one
of my older brothers always loved toy soldiers as a
and when I was a kid and he was in
the service over in Germany, he would come home on
leave and he would sit at a desk and he'd
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paint a toy soldier for me. That means mounting it
on a little wooden or plastic base and then using
paints and paint pressures to paint the soldier figure. And
I was fascinated by what I saw. And so he
would go back to Germany for his service, and I
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sort of fell out of the hobby and high school
growing up and stuff. And in nineteen eighty six he
took me to a toy soldier and military figure show
in New York City.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
And you would call that a convention.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
I bet you right. And I was absolutely fascinated by
what I saw. He didn't tell me that I was
seeing some of the work of some of the best
figure painters on the East coast then, and you're probably, uh,
you're probably imagining liquid metal hot lid being poured into
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a mold. And in the old days, that's how they
created the toy soldier figure. But in the early nineteen eighties,
the casting process was much more refined. They used this
thing called the centrifical casting machine where the mold spins
around and the detail that's able to be cast into
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the wax mold is a very detailed.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Now, how how tall were these toy soldiers?
Speaker 3 (13:45):
I can remember toy soldiers, which are maybe.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
The standards. Yeah, the standard size was a fifty four millimeters.
Because it's considered a European hobby, so the size of
the figure is always quoted in millimeters and so okay,
so and a half two and a quarter, two and
a half, two and a quarter, two and a half ins.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Okay, well that's that's that's pretty substantial. I remember one
smaller than that.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
Yeah, okay. But as uh uh hoobby got popular, the
figures grew in size to about one hundred millimeter one
hundred and twenty ninety milimeter and some And I was
just obsessed with what I saw at the show in
New York and they had a vendor area where vendors
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sold kits of the toy soldiers, and I bought uh
I think ten or twelve of them. And so I
came back to Boston and uh I set up a
desk and a work table, you know, and my brother
would come over and we just have tons of fun
pinning these toy soldiers, you know. And I always want
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to uh. My brother passed away last October, but I
always want to uh thank him for the rest of
my life for showing me this uh this hobby and
taking me to the that that show where we went
to another show as well in New York City later
on a couple of years later, and he told me that,
uh I was seeing you know, the work there of
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some of the best UH figure out you know in
in the hobby, and uh to this day, I I
just I fell in love with it, and I just
can't get away from it.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
I can hear the passion in your voice.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
It just it gives me hours and hours of uh
the sheer uh enjoyment uh sitting and and it's and
it sets you relaxing hobby too, Dan, you know, I
mean yeah, ayah, I escape I escaped from all the
files and tribulations of the world when I, you know,
sit at uh the work table and relax take the figure.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Well.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Wonderful, A great, a great start, that's for sure, Steven.
I thank you for sharing that with us. And that's
exactly the sort of hobby that I would not have
thought of. But that's exactly the sort of hobby that involves,
you know, you developing a skill, developing a craft. Yeah,
and also having the connection to your brother, who I'm
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sure you miss every day.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Oh, I certainly do. Hey, Dan, while you're on the line,
I heard that that guy Bradley Jay is back on WBZ,
did I hear right?
Speaker 3 (16:33):
I'm going to on vacation for a couple of weeks
later this month and he will be sitting in for me.
That's right.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
Oh oh okay, wonderful.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
All right, Steven. Nice talking with you. Thank you very much.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
You have a great Jan too, Dan. Thanks bye, You're welcome.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Six one seven four ten thirty six one seven nine.
I got Scott and Quincy coming up, Dave in Somerville,
and I got a room for you and ladies. You
young girls have hobbies as well, So again I'm hoping
that I will hear a variety of hobbies that my
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listeners fell in love with when they were children, and
maybe maybe some of those hobbies led to a career,
or maybe those hobbies are continued on into adulthood, or
maybe they're a hobby that you remember well, and unfortunately
you haven't been involved in that hobby in a while,
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and maybe this will be enough to prompt you to
to get back involved.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Join the conversation.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
The only lines right now are six, one, seven, nine,
ten thirty, and we're back on We're back, coming, coming
back right after this, and I want to see these
lines lit up.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
I just see a.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Caller that came up, Vic in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Vic. I'm looking forward to talking to you.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Scott and Quincy's next Dave in Somerville, and we're going
to get vic in during the next break as well.
Got some room, ladies, Jump on board six.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
You're on Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Let me get to everybody here real quickly, Scott and Quincy,
Scott next on Nightsager, right.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
Ahead, well, Dan. Interestingly enough, alongside roller skating, sailboat racing, kayaking,
bike riding. I do Ham Radio, Oh yeah, and I
have a radio station upstairs in the house and radios
in my car.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
And uh, where can you pick up with Ham radio?
Speaker 2 (18:42):
What's the what are the furthest countries? Are the further
furthest frequencies that you've been able to pick up? Well?
Speaker 6 (18:51):
I I spoke to Easter Island on twenty eight point
five megahearts a few months ago.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
That was Antarctic or correct, that's down in.
Speaker 6 (19:03):
The South Pacific down there. But that's that's in countries.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
It's a cold island, is it not. I mean, you're
not talking about bally Ballei. You're talking about something this
close to Antarctica, are you not?
Speaker 6 (19:19):
Yeah? And it was a group of Ham Radio people
who went to that island and set up radio station
there for the purpose of allowing other Hams to get
Easter Island in their log book and get the points
for getting Easter Island.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
So this is what when did you start this this
hobby as a kid and you've carried it on.
Speaker 6 (19:43):
Well, I started about almost twenty years ago when my
uncle passed and left me has radios and I decided
to get the license and get involved in being an
older gentleman. You know, it's a it's a great hobby.
It's kind of like the Masons for Technology.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Easter Island is in the southeastern off the southeast southeastern
Pacific Ocean. I'm mistaken a little bit. It's a beautiful island.
It looks almost tropical. I thought of it always as
as as somewhere very close to Antarctica.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
It does not look to me like.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
That very far away.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Yeah, okay, well you should have corrected me. So I
don't want to mislead people. There are people who live
on Easter Island. It says has about eight thousand residents
and attracts one hundred thousand visitors annually.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
Yeah. Actually, I spoke to Russia, Ukraine. Wow, you know
all the European countries.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
When you spoke to Russia, I assume you were speaking
English or some sort of English, not Russian, right, unless
you're a Russian linguist.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
Right.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
Radio operators internationally speak ham radio English. They know all
the words and phrases to communicate the way that you would.
And you know where you were mentioning listening to baseball games.
One of the things I do with my radio is
I have a long wire antenna in my backyard that's
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you know, seventy feet across. And when I tuned to
the AM broadcast ban, yeah, you know, I can hear
all the clear channel AM radio stations on the on
this side of the planet.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Wow, you're pretty good at that. Then, that's that's a
great hobby. That's one that I'm surprised. I know that
you ended up in the medical field, but you that's
a that's a great hobby. You could have ended up
as a radio broadcaster.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
Well, I know you have a radio broadcast license, so
you would have all the knowledge that you need along
with thirty five dollars to get a HAM radio license.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Yeah, well no, I do not have a radio broadcast license.
Maybe WBZ has a radio broadcast license, but I have
no licensure.
Speaker 6 (22:08):
Oh I thought you had no sure, no sure.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Maybe to have a HAM to be a Ham radio operator.
I'm sure you're much more skilled than I am.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Scott.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
I gotta keep rolling here and get as many folks
in as I can. I never thought i'd talk about
Ham radio tonight, but that's what it's always surprising on
nightside what my audience is interested in. Great, great job,
thank you so much. By Okay, let me, I'm gonna
go real quickly to Vic and Saint Paul, Minnesota. I
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don't want to lose Vic here. Vic, you are next
on nightside. Go right ahead.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (22:41):
Tabletop sports game simulations is my thing. Uh it's uh
uses dice and a lot of times, you know, you
use cards, charts and so forth.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Absolutely, very I am familiar with with those.
Speaker 7 (22:59):
Very the Stratamanic Game Company. I'm sure we used to
order a Stratmanic baseball from the Stratomanic Game Company and
football as well. And then I invented a hockey game
simulation called ten minute Hockey, which you can google key
n minute hockey. And I just put up a couple
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more boards the seventy one Bruins and Canadians and the
playoff series that they played, and you can use the
regular season boards which the Bruins scored a record three
hundred and ninety nine goals at that time. Yep, Bobby
Orr had his best season. He was a plus one
twenty four. As you probably recall.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
I am very familiar with the seventy one team. Although
they did not win the Stanley Cup, many thought they
were better team than the team in seventy and seventy
two that did win.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
The Stanley Cup.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
That's right, and you can replay that and have it
come out possibly a different way by using the regular
season boards, which of course the Bruins would have superiority
to the Canadians or their playoff series boards on a
fifty to fifty basis. So you use a dice which
will indicate one board or the other, and you can
use it fifty to fifty, and then it goes by
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the shooting percentages and the number of shots on goals,
say percentages. Those things are all calculated.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Remember do you remember the hockey game in which you
had you'd use a marble and there was there were
two nets and you had six figures. You could move
the defenseman up and down a little bit. You won't
move the wings up and down.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
It was sort of a.
Speaker 7 (24:44):
Different because that's a physical game. We played that, and
you know they came out with Calico and other I
used to play that all the time too. We had
a league for that too, where you move them up
and down on a grid. But that's different because what
I'm talking about with the tabletop sports games is that
you're doing mathematical calculations and using dice to processes. I
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call them percentage dice, where you use three ten sided
dice and that gets you the whatever percentage I say.
You say you've got a guy in baseball, he hit
three hundreds, and well one to three hundred on the
dice rolls out of a thousand, he might get a
base hit there. That's not really exactly how it's used,
but there are a lot of Baseball's too difficult. The
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only sport that I figured out that you could play
a game that really has no learning curve, doesn't rely
on having to buy cards from a company. It is
totally free, and I also.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
Have I have it.
Speaker 7 (25:42):
They're all on the internet under ten minute hockey, and
you could actually go and play the games yourself and
play a game within ten or fifteen minutes. And it's
all realistic, completely realistic in terms of this or.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Is this a hobby that you have developed, so.
Speaker 7 (25:59):
Hobby that I've developed. I suppose if I really wanted to,
I could try to attach some intellectual property to this,
as some people do with their game designs. I haven't
taken it that.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
Far yet, but.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
To me, it's about in some ways it's the best
game simulation that has ever been invented, I believe.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
I think at your website right now, is it forums
dot delphiforums dot.
Speaker 7 (26:29):
Com, yep, Delphi forums, and it's all on the Delphi forums.
So you can go ten minute hockey Delphi forum and
most of those threads will come up with individual playoff
series that are in question, and then they usually they
have two different boards, their regular season values and then
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their playoff values for the individual playoff series and the
playoff series. I kind of look at that as the
clutch effects. You know, there are certain teams you know
aren't going to be done justice if you just go
by what the game companies typically do, which is just
the regular season. Now that's the money season. Like the
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Florida Panthers this year. They were a great example. They
got Brad Mershan late in the season. Okay, so he
wouldn't represent that team in the regular season much hardly
at all. He only played ten games. I think you've
got him in there, and then you've got some other
money players and a veteran goaltender, and all of a sudden,
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you use the playoff boards and you mix it fifty
to fifty with the regular season, and all of a
sudden they have an edge, whereas they would have been
at a disadvantage because the teams that they played in
the postseason, the four teams typically they outscored.
Speaker 5 (27:49):
They had a.
Speaker 7 (27:49):
Better scoring value in the regular season than Florida did.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
All right, hey, I appreciate are you listening on the internet?
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Are you listening over the year radio?
Speaker 7 (28:00):
iHeartRadio app on the internet?
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Well, thy Dan much?
Speaker 2 (28:04):
How'd you find us?
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Are you Bostonian?
Speaker 7 (28:07):
Originally No, my other hobby DXing back in nineteen eighty
I used to listen to Larry Glick and Lou Marcel.
I don't know if you remember him though, he was
an overnight host on WBZ.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Yes I do.
Speaker 7 (28:22):
And then unfortunately a local station at ten thirty here
gained ground in the early eighties and started up, and
so it was blocked since then, and so I had
to wait until I got my smartphone and listen to
WBZ again.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Call us from Minnesota before and what we would call
terrestrio radio over the radio. So I'm marking you down
as a first time caller, and we're going to give
you a rout of applause because I very much appreciate
that you took the time. This is your first time
listening to Night's I don't.
Speaker 7 (28:53):
Know, no, no, no, I've listened for nine years, and
I listened almost every night. I'm very familiar with the show. Uh,
this is the third time I've called you over over
nine years. Okay, I had to call in because the
topic is so good. The favorite hobbies you know, I've
got a bunch of.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
It was recommended to me by another caller last night. Vic.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
I'm up on my break and I gotta let you go,
but do me a favorite call more often on this
or any other topics. Always. I have been in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
When I was in Saint Paul, Minnesota. You know what
I remember about Saint Paul, Minnesota, what was that the
child shields snoopy statues.
Speaker 7 (29:31):
And he ended up being a fan of the Oakland
and California Golden Seals when he moved out to the
Bay Area.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Yeah, they didn't last, Charles.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
He became a big fan of the Giants as well,
big baseball.
Speaker 7 (29:45):
Fan, right, Okay, Okay, then look up ten minute Hockey
and I hope you play. I hope you play a
game because it's nice and easy. You'll see you'll see
that if you.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Got it, I got it here.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
I'll be looking at it over the weekend. Vick, Thank
you much. You got to Oh we'll talk soon, Okay,
I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Back you great.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Yeah, boy, I'll tell you We've had three great calls here.
I got some open lines, got a couple of callers,
got to need a couple more. Six one seven, two, five,
four to ten thirty. This is not the most intense.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Twentieth hour we have ever done.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
The most intense twentieth hour is generally are brushes with
celebrity or what grinds your gears.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
They are the long standing favorites.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
But but if you like this, yeah, you know, feel
free to join the conversation back on night's side. Two
lines at six one, seven, two, five, four to ten thirty.
One line at six one, seven, nine three one ten thirty.
The question is what was your hobby or what were
your hobbies as a child. Did you carry those hobbies
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into adulthood and have they ever led you or maybe
someone in our audience to a career. You got the numbers,
let's light them up back after this.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
It's nice with Dan Ray Boston's news radio.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
All right, I'm gonna get everybody, and I promise nobody moved.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
You'll be all set. Let's go to Dave in some
of the Dave. I appreciate your patience. You're next one nights.
I go ahead, David.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
Hey, Dan, how's it going.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
It's going great. I do appreciate you holding on.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
What hobby did you have as a child and did
you carry it over into your adulthood.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
Well, as a child, I was in the baseball caud
It's actually, uh, that's that's actually why I really appreciated
your conversation with Shaunacy the other night about a week ago.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
Sure, yeah, because he was just coming back from Coopstown.
I've been to Coopstown a few times in my life,
but yeah, baseball cat. You know, it was cool, it
was interesting and whatnot.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Did you keep them and then your mother throw them out?
Speaker 5 (31:50):
No?
Speaker 4 (31:50):
I still no, I still have them. Actually I actually
want My plan was actually to go to Coopstown last
week and just trying because I have but you know,
I got Timmons bol Jackson. I mean they're top up
a deck, you know, all varieties of the manufacturers and
what not. But yes, I wanted to kind of get
up to Coopstown last weekend and see if I could
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get some of those cads signed.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
Yeah. Well, i'll tell you. Have you been to Cooperstown before?
Speaker 5 (32:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (32:19):
Twice?
Speaker 8 (32:19):
Actually, yeah, I mean it is amazing when you go
up there, particularly on All Star weekend, the number of
Hall of Famers who are around, and most of them
they'll they'll sign.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
Yeah, they're out, they're out on the boat.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
I bet right, they absolutely are. Some of them set
up and actually charge a little bit. But yeah, but
you know, again, for ten dollars or whatever the going
rate is, you get a souvenir that you can hold
on for the rest of your life, and it means something.
What was ever cards? Are you talking about sixties? Seventies?
What are you talking about? Eighties?
Speaker 5 (32:55):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (32:55):
Let's see, yeah, early eighties. I got some miles, like
I got to Tommy John Rookie cod really yeah, he's
from sixty three actually, I believe.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Yeah, yeah, came up with came up with the Cleveland Indians,
although he made uh he really you know.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
Blossoms, right, you got let's see, we got the Yankees.
The Yankees is what I remember him from some Oh yeah,
that was late in his career.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
I mean, he he ended his career with with.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
The Yankees and the Dodgers, but he was he came
up with the Indians and uh and pitched a lot
for the White Sox.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
Okay, that's cool. Oh remember those old Chicago White Sox uniforms.
I was just watching the Red Sox game. Have you
seen the new San Diego Padres.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
I've watched a little bit of it tonight.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
They look like a softball team from you know, I
don't like the uniform at all.
Speaker 4 (33:54):
Yeah, I I also, yeah, I agree with you. Actually,
I kind of as I when I saw him. I
just got a rainbow sherbet job.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Yeah, it's like, what have we got here?
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (34:08):
Yeah, not mostly absolutely yeah, absolutely. Well I guess that's
really all I got. I can't beat that last call.
And uh, Dan Ray, you're the man, and uh, I'll
be in touch with Actually this is my second time calling.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Well, thank you, David.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
And again, just for the record, Tommy John did come
up with the Indians pitch for the White Sox, the Dodgers,
the Yankees, the California Angels, and the Oakland Athletics, and
he won two and eighty eight games.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
That guy should be in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
He should, Yeah, he should, he should actually.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Be hold on to that car, all right, Dave, I
gotta let you run here. I gotta get to Thanks
on absolutely. I love the call of the calls. Thanks
good night. Go to Eileen II, Leen and Cambridge.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
Eileen, go right ahead. What was your hobby as a child.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
Well, I love to read comic books.
Speaker 9 (35:09):
And I used to get have subscriptions for a dollar
a year by mail two for these comic books.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
And I had to tell you that those comic books
today that you have from your childhood, if you kept
them there, they would be worth some money. Eileen.
Speaker 9 (35:28):
Well, I gave them away. I became as a teenager.
I became a babysitter for a child who was having
trouble learning to read. He was in the second grade,
and they were going to keep him back, and I
brought him my comic I brought a whole collection of
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my I gave him. Eventually he got all my comic books,
and he quickly learned how to sound out words because
in those speech bubbles they used to you know, it
wasn't ordinary language, but things you could sound out.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
Oh yeah, I am.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
One of the things that I learned how to read
by reading baseball cards, because that's what I was interested in.
I also learned how to do math by seeing the
back of baseball cards and figure out, yeah, batting averages.
And I wrote a piece for my column in Newsweek
magazine back in nineteen eighty nine. But the real value
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of baseball cards was not their financial value, but their
intrinsic value, all the information you could develop.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
So you did the same thing with comic books.
Speaker 7 (36:41):
Yep.
Speaker 9 (36:41):
And this was a very wealthy family, and they were
so pleased that I taught their little boy how to
read that they invited me to spend the summer with
their family at the Thousand Islands on the Saint St.
Lawrence River.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Oh that's that's a great story. I mean, I got
one more person. I got to get in here before that,
before the hour is up. So I sure wish that
I had gotten you a little earlier and we could
we could talk about the experience that summer.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
But I bed was a great summer.
Speaker 9 (37:15):
Oh, I'll talk about it some other time.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Eggs, I leen, we'll talk soon. Have a great weekend.
Let me get Dave and reading. There's a couple of
callers we have called late, but Dave's the last caller.
Go ahead, Dave, how.
Speaker 10 (37:27):
Don't you take my call?
Speaker 5 (37:29):
Dan Ry?
Speaker 10 (37:29):
Anyhow, I wasn't a hobby, but I played literally uh
pup water football, uh pup water football with the league.
But I was a boy scout, me and my brother.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
Okay, well you know, uh, you learned a lot from
me and a boy scout, and that's kind of many
people could look at that as a hobby. Not quite
the hobbies we're talking about, but I'm sure that that hall.
Speaker 10 (37:52):
Now we usually go on camping trips. I had ten
times more fighting boy scouts that I did in little league.
Pup wanner.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
Okay, well, what time? All right? Hey Dave. Always good
to hear your voice. Thank you so much.
Speaker 10 (38:07):
My older brother Ton, who was an eagle scout.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
WHOA, that's that's big time when you're an eagle scout.
That's that's very good. Thanks Dave, Thanks man, Talk to
you soon. Okay, done for the night and done for
the week. Rob Rober looking I'm looking about thirty five seconds. Great, okay,
gonna wrap it by thank you, Marita. I'm gonna thank
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Rob for a great job all week. And kind of
a crazy week. Disappointing twentieth hour tonight, so we won't
be doing that one again. But I want to thank
everybody who did call. And I'll remind you all dogs,
all cats, all pets go to heaven. That's min pal
Charlie ray Is who passed fifteen years ago in February.
That's all your pets are who have passed. They loved
you and you love them. I do believe you'll see
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them again. See again on Monday night on Night Side,
and I'll be doing Facebook tell you what I thought
of the show. All I gotta do is go to
Knights Time with Dan Ray. Have a great weekend everyone,
See you Monday night.
It's night Side with Dan Ray. I'm telling you Boston's radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Where the duck boats are going to get a workout.
If that's for sure, Thanks very much, y'all. Good evening
or good morning, No good evening, still still leaving. We
got one hour left here, gonna get you to Saturday,
that is for sure. My name is Dan Ray, host
of Nightside. So look, here's the deal. We're on radio
five nights a week from eight until midnight, Monday through Friday.
(00:29):
And we had a typical week this week on Nightside.
Always busy, always different. Part of the reasons that I
like to do the program is the different topics that
we deal with. In the eight o'clock hour every night
we deal with four guests, no phone calls, and then
nine ten eleven we deal with issues based for an
(00:50):
hour or so. So, for example, on Monday night, we
talked about a TikTok a believe it or not. On
TikTok there the advising kids to get sunburns to get
rid of their acne.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I don't think. So.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
We talked with Paul Fleming of the Boston Better Business
Bureau about tax free weekends, talked about with a marathoner
at Boston College. He's a junior named James Redding from
Brighton who will be running I think his sixth marathon
in the not too distant future. He would be the
youngest person ever to complete six marathons Boston, New York, Chicago, London,
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Paris and Berlin. And talked with a woman about vacation stresses.
On Monday, talk with Mayor Greg Urger of Gloucester about
the republic trash strike. Talked with Jeff Robbins about what's
going on in the Middle East and the future of
the Middle East. Jeff former head of the ADL here
(01:52):
in New England. On Tuesday night, talked with a representative
the Department of Transportation Luisa Wants about the Cape Bridges,
Sagamore and the Boorn Bridge. Talk with John Griffin about
wildlife attacks. Talked with doctor Jim Fredericks about the real
danger inherent in mosquitoes, and talked with someone from Mehman
(02:14):
named Dawn Brantley about the upcoming the Massachuset Emergency Management
Agency about the upcoming hurricane season. Talk with the head
of the union the striking Fenway Park concessionaires, Carlos Romeo.
Then we spent a couple of hours on Tuesday night,
do you want the Epstein the Jeffrey Epstein files to
be released?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Well?
Speaker 2 (02:34):
On Wednesday night, Deb Goldberg the Massachusetts Lottery. Another successful
year for the lottery, raised about a billion dollars in
profits which would be distributed to cities and towns. Talked
with a woman named Catherine Malloy about underwear insecurity for children.
I guess there's a lot of kids who don't have
(02:54):
a sufficient amount of underwear and they raise money a
charity called Cocoa Tree. Then we talked with the doctor
suprit Man about teens and AI. Too many teens are
basically finding friendships on AI artificial intelligence. Talk with Captain
Scott Amadi about the capture of the water monitor. Had
(03:15):
a great hour on Wednesday night at nine with State
Auditor Diana Desauglio. She wants to be able to audit
the Great in General Court and they are fighting her
tooth and nail, but she is going to try to
get that resolved. By the way, that hour will be
our best of night side this Sunday night at eleven o'clock.
(03:39):
We then spent an hour reacting to the Desauglio hour.
We spent an hour talking about the controversy surrounding the
Sydney Sweeney Blue Jeans commercial on Thursday night. Talk with
a professor about the existence of the Canadian smoke in
our atmosphere. Talk with Senator Nick Collins about transportation safety.
(04:02):
We may talk with Nick Collins next week a little
bit more about these mop heads and these these vehicles
that are unregulated and we've had two very bad accidents
here in the last last couple of days. Doctor doctor,
doctor Ivan Meisner about the ability to remember names. Talked
(04:22):
with Israeli Consul General Bennie Sharoni he's the really Israeli
Console General to New England about the latest developments in
the Middle East, which include the decision of the Israeli
Security Council to go uh and uh and and essentially
go in and occupy Gaza and then turn it over
(04:46):
to an Arab force. We previewed the Trump Putin meeting,
which now I guess will be next week and it
will be as I understand that in Alaska. We did
an hour of open lines last night. Talked tonight about
presidential power with doctor Frank Sorrentino. Talk with William Gagman
about a great company in Massachusetts x L. They make
(05:09):
hand dryers that you see now all over the world
in East long Medown. Talk with Nicole Corbette about moon jellyfish,
which maybe is a new type of jellyfish. They're discovering
one that can really stand here. Talk with Brian Thompson,
Aki Weather heat is on the way. Talk with Greg Vassel,
the CEO of the Great Buston Real Estate Board, on
(05:32):
rent control, the possibility that we'll have rent control in
the ballot. And at ten o'clock talked with Alan Dershwitz
about his efforts, his unsuccessful efforts, but he's standing on
principle to purchase Perogi's at a farmers market in the Cape.
There are a lot of folks not on the Cape,
on Martha's Vinyon. There are a lot of folks on
(05:52):
Martha's Vinyon who really do not like Alan Derschwitz And
I don't see how you cannot like a man who
has stood for constitutional law issues his entire life. Now,
last night during the open lines, we had one caller
who called in. A bunch of callers called in and
made suggestions, and I'm taking up one of the suggestions.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
The suggestion was.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Made by Alex our caller, and he said that some
night we should talk about hobbies. So I thought that
might be a good topic for a Friday night twentieth hour.
In the twentieth hour at the end of the week
where we do twenty hours a week, five nights a
week Monday through Friday, four hours a night. Do the
math five times four twenty. This is the twentieth hour,
last hour of the week. We tried to pick a
(06:38):
topic that people can relate to and can talk about.
So here's the setup. Everybody, pay attention, Pay attention. Here
we go. When you were however you want to describe it,
either a child or maybe a teenager, did you have
a hobby? Did you collect something? Some people collect items,
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other other people Uh. Though for example, they they they
develop a hobby. Whatever the hobby is, they build them ships.
I remember as a kid, it was you get these
ships and you had the had the glue. You had
to put them together and put the insyganias on the ships.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Ut that baby off, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
So did you ever have a hobby?
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Number one? Uh?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
And then the question is did you continue that hobby
into your adulthood? Some people collected stamps, some people collect
post guards. Some people have collected coins. Some people actually
had hobbies which they turned around and became their careers.
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They became interested in something and it led to a career.
So that's what we're talking about. And the lines are
going to be going to open them up right now
two lines six one seven, two, five, four ten thirty
six one seven, nine, three, one ten thirty.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
I try to do a different show. Now. There are.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Some tested, tried and tested and true favorites in this
twentieth hour. Mine is brushes with celebrity, as I think
I know, but I can't do that every Friday night.
So I can't do what grinds your gears every Friday night. No,
uh tonight. It is hobbies. What hobby did you have?
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Maybe you didn't have a hobby and you developed one
as an adult.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
I have a three year old grants on right now.
If I had to, I tell you what his hobby is.
His hobby is putting puzzles together. He's pretty good at it.
He's smart enough to know. You you find the edges,
the four square edges, and then you find.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
The pieces that fit.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
So six one seven two, five, four, ten thirty, six
one seven, nine three, one thirty. What was your hobby?
What was your hobby? Coming right back on Nightside.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Okay, as sometimes happens when I take an idea from
a listener, Uh, the initial response is not overwhelming.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
But the lines that.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Are full are six one seven, two, five, four, ten thirty.
The line that is open, the two lines that are
open six one seven, nine three one ten thirty.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Did you have a hobby? I had a hobby as
a kid.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
I liked collecting sports cards, baseball cards.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
I'm sure none of you were surprised at that.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
And uh, the valuable ones are in a are in
a safety deposit box. But I wish that I had
had been smarter and kept the cards in pristine condition.
They're in pretty good shape. I took care of my top,
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my you know, my possessions as a child. I was
not someone who was destructive. But I want to hear
from you and some of you had a hobby.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
I'm sure I used to listen.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
I gotta tell you something. I had a hobby of
listening to far away baseball games. We had a big
radio on our back porch, and I could pick up
on that radio. I don't know why. I mean it
was it was like a console radio. God only knows
if it still works. It's probably on that back porch still.
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But I could pick up games in Baltimore, in Washington,
in New York, and Philadelphia, in Detroit. Couldn't get as
far away as Chicago. But that kind of lit something
in my mind about the magic of radio that you
don't have to watch it, you can listen. And the
great announcers at that time, you know mel Allen, Kirk, Goudie,
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Chuck Thompson in Baltimore, others around the country whose names
I might forget at the moment, but they were able
to describe baseball games to me as a as a
young boy and then as a as a teenager.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
And I spent many hours listening. Let's go to the phones.
I'm more interested in what you have to say. I
can tell you stories all night, but that's not what
this show is all about. This show is all about you.
It's not the Dan Ray Show. It is the It's
Nightside with Dan Ray, and you're part of Nightside. Let's
go to Stephen and Lynn Steven, did you have a
hobby as a as a child, as a young young boy.
Speaker 5 (11:45):
Oh, yes, yes, Dan, I certainly did. Hi, Dan, you've
got a great show.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Thank you very much, Thank you. I appreciate that, Steven.
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Sure, what was your What was your hobby? Well, one
of my older brothers always loved toy soldiers as a
and when I was a kid and he was in
the service over in Germany, he would come home on
leave and he would sit at a desk and he'd
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paint a toy soldier for me. That means mounting it
on a little wooden or plastic base and then using
paints and paint pressures to paint the soldier figure. And
I was fascinated by what I saw. And so he
would go back to Germany for his service, and I
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sort of fell out of the hobby and high school
growing up and stuff. And in nineteen eighty six he
took me to a toy soldier and military figure show
in New York City.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
And you would call that a convention.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
I bet you right. And I was absolutely fascinated by
what I saw. He didn't tell me that I was
seeing some of the work of some of the best
figure painters on the East coast then, and you're probably, uh,
you're probably imagining liquid metal hot lid being poured into
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a mold. And in the old days, that's how they
created the toy soldier figure. But in the early nineteen eighties,
the casting process was much more refined. They used this
thing called the centrifical casting machine where the mold spins
around and the detail that's able to be cast into
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the wax mold is a very detailed.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Now, how how tall were these toy soldiers?
Speaker 3 (13:45):
I can remember toy soldiers, which are maybe.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
The standards. Yeah, the standard size was a fifty four millimeters.
Because it's considered a European hobby, so the size of
the figure is always quoted in millimeters and so okay,
so and a half two and a quarter, two and
a half, two and a quarter, two and a half ins.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Okay, well that's that's that's pretty substantial. I remember one
smaller than that.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
Yeah, okay. But as uh uh hoobby got popular, the
figures grew in size to about one hundred millimeter one
hundred and twenty ninety milimeter and some And I was
just obsessed with what I saw at the show in
New York and they had a vendor area where vendors
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sold kits of the toy soldiers, and I bought uh
I think ten or twelve of them. And so I
came back to Boston and uh I set up a
desk and a work table, you know, and my brother
would come over and we just have tons of fun
pinning these toy soldiers, you know. And I always want
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to uh. My brother passed away last October, but I
always want to uh thank him for the rest of
my life for showing me this uh this hobby and
taking me to the that that show where we went
to another show as well in New York City later
on a couple of years later, and he told me that,
uh I was seeing you know, the work there of
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some of the best UH figure out you know in
in the hobby, and uh to this day, I I
just I fell in love with it, and I just
can't get away from it.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
I can hear the passion in your voice.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
It just it gives me hours and hours of uh
the sheer uh enjoyment uh sitting and and it's and
it sets you relaxing hobby too, Dan, you know, I
mean yeah, ayah, I escape I escaped from all the
files and tribulations of the world when I, you know,
sit at uh the work table and relax take the figure.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Well.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Wonderful, A great, a great start, that's for sure, Steven.
I thank you for sharing that with us. And that's
exactly the sort of hobby that I would not have
thought of. But that's exactly the sort of hobby that involves,
you know, you developing a skill, developing a craft. Yeah,
and also having the connection to your brother, who I'm
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sure you miss every day.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Oh, I certainly do. Hey, Dan, while you're on the line,
I heard that that guy Bradley Jay is back on WBZ,
did I hear right?
Speaker 3 (16:33):
I'm going to on vacation for a couple of weeks
later this month and he will be sitting in for me.
That's right.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
Oh oh okay, wonderful.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
All right, Steven. Nice talking with you. Thank you very much.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
You have a great Jan too, Dan. Thanks bye, You're welcome.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Six one seven four ten thirty six one seven nine.
I got Scott and Quincy coming up, Dave in Somerville,
and I got a room for you and ladies. You
young girls have hobbies as well, So again I'm hoping
that I will hear a variety of hobbies that my
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listeners fell in love with when they were children, and
maybe maybe some of those hobbies led to a career,
or maybe those hobbies are continued on into adulthood, or
maybe they're a hobby that you remember well, and unfortunately
you haven't been involved in that hobby in a while,
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and maybe this will be enough to prompt you to
to get back involved.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Join the conversation.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
The only lines right now are six, one, seven, nine,
ten thirty, and we're back on We're back, coming, coming
back right after this, and I want to see these
lines lit up.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
I just see a.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Caller that came up, Vic in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Vic. I'm looking forward to talking to you.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Scott and Quincy's next Dave in Somerville, and we're going
to get vic in during the next break as well.
Got some room, ladies, Jump on board six.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
You're on Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Let me get to everybody here real quickly, Scott and Quincy,
Scott next on Nightsager, right.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
Ahead, well, Dan. Interestingly enough, alongside roller skating, sailboat racing, kayaking,
bike riding. I do Ham Radio, Oh yeah, and I
have a radio station upstairs in the house and radios
in my car.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
And uh, where can you pick up with Ham radio?
Speaker 2 (18:42):
What's the what are the furthest countries? Are the further
furthest frequencies that you've been able to pick up? Well?
Speaker 6 (18:51):
I I spoke to Easter Island on twenty eight point
five megahearts a few months ago.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
That was Antarctic or correct, that's down in.
Speaker 6 (19:03):
The South Pacific down there. But that's that's in countries.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
It's a cold island, is it not. I mean, you're
not talking about bally Ballei. You're talking about something this
close to Antarctica, are you not?
Speaker 6 (19:19):
Yeah? And it was a group of Ham Radio people
who went to that island and set up radio station
there for the purpose of allowing other Hams to get
Easter Island in their log book and get the points
for getting Easter Island.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
So this is what when did you start this this
hobby as a kid and you've carried it on.
Speaker 6 (19:43):
Well, I started about almost twenty years ago when my
uncle passed and left me has radios and I decided
to get the license and get involved in being an
older gentleman. You know, it's a it's a great hobby.
It's kind of like the Masons for Technology.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Easter Island is in the southeastern off the southeast southeastern
Pacific Ocean. I'm mistaken a little bit. It's a beautiful island.
It looks almost tropical. I thought of it always as
as as somewhere very close to Antarctica.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
It does not look to me like.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
That very far away.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Yeah, okay, well you should have corrected me. So I
don't want to mislead people. There are people who live
on Easter Island. It says has about eight thousand residents
and attracts one hundred thousand visitors annually.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
Yeah. Actually, I spoke to Russia, Ukraine. Wow, you know
all the European countries.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
When you spoke to Russia, I assume you were speaking
English or some sort of English, not Russian, right, unless
you're a Russian linguist.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
Right.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
Radio operators internationally speak ham radio English. They know all
the words and phrases to communicate the way that you would.
And you know where you were mentioning listening to baseball games.
One of the things I do with my radio is
I have a long wire antenna in my backyard that's
(21:21):
you know, seventy feet across. And when I tuned to
the AM broadcast ban, yeah, you know, I can hear
all the clear channel AM radio stations on the on
this side of the planet.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Wow, you're pretty good at that. Then, that's that's a
great hobby. That's one that I'm surprised. I know that
you ended up in the medical field, but you that's
a that's a great hobby. You could have ended up
as a radio broadcaster.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
Well, I know you have a radio broadcast license, so
you would have all the knowledge that you need along
with thirty five dollars to get a HAM radio license.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Yeah, well no, I do not have a radio broadcast license.
Maybe WBZ has a radio broadcast license, but I have
no licensure.
Speaker 6 (22:08):
Oh I thought you had no sure, no sure.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Maybe to have a HAM to be a Ham radio operator.
I'm sure you're much more skilled than I am.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Scott.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
I gotta keep rolling here and get as many folks
in as I can. I never thought i'd talk about
Ham radio tonight, but that's what it's always surprising on
nightside what my audience is interested in. Great, great job,
thank you so much. By Okay, let me, I'm gonna
go real quickly to Vic and Saint Paul, Minnesota. I
(22:36):
don't want to lose Vic here. Vic, you are next
on nightside. Go right ahead.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (22:41):
Tabletop sports game simulations is my thing. Uh it's uh
uses dice and a lot of times, you know, you
use cards, charts and so forth.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Absolutely, very I am familiar with with those.
Speaker 7 (22:59):
Very the Stratamanic Game Company. I'm sure we used to
order a Stratmanic baseball from the Stratomanic Game Company and
football as well. And then I invented a hockey game
simulation called ten minute Hockey, which you can google key
n minute hockey. And I just put up a couple
(23:24):
more boards the seventy one Bruins and Canadians and the
playoff series that they played, and you can use the
regular season boards which the Bruins scored a record three
hundred and ninety nine goals at that time. Yep, Bobby
Orr had his best season. He was a plus one
twenty four. As you probably recall.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
I am very familiar with the seventy one team. Although
they did not win the Stanley Cup, many thought they
were better team than the team in seventy and seventy
two that did win.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
The Stanley Cup.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
That's right, and you can replay that and have it
come out possibly a different way by using the regular
season boards, which of course the Bruins would have superiority
to the Canadians or their playoff series boards on a
fifty to fifty basis. So you use a dice which
will indicate one board or the other, and you can
use it fifty to fifty, and then it goes by
(24:17):
the shooting percentages and the number of shots on goals,
say percentages. Those things are all calculated.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Remember do you remember the hockey game in which you
had you'd use a marble and there was there were
two nets and you had six figures. You could move
the defenseman up and down a little bit. You won't
move the wings up and down.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
It was sort of a.
Speaker 7 (24:44):
Different because that's a physical game. We played that, and
you know they came out with Calico and other I
used to play that all the time too. We had
a league for that too, where you move them up
and down on a grid. But that's different because what
I'm talking about with the tabletop sports games is that
you're doing mathematical calculations and using dice to processes. I
(25:08):
call them percentage dice, where you use three ten sided
dice and that gets you the whatever percentage I say.
You say you've got a guy in baseball, he hit
three hundreds, and well one to three hundred on the
dice rolls out of a thousand, he might get a
base hit there. That's not really exactly how it's used,
but there are a lot of Baseball's too difficult. The
(25:29):
only sport that I figured out that you could play
a game that really has no learning curve, doesn't rely
on having to buy cards from a company. It is
totally free, and I also.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
Have I have it.
Speaker 7 (25:42):
They're all on the internet under ten minute hockey, and
you could actually go and play the games yourself and
play a game within ten or fifteen minutes. And it's
all realistic, completely realistic in terms of this or.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Is this a hobby that you have developed, so.
Speaker 7 (25:59):
Hobby that I've developed. I suppose if I really wanted to,
I could try to attach some intellectual property to this,
as some people do with their game designs. I haven't
taken it that.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
Far yet, but.
Speaker 7 (26:15):
To me, it's about in some ways it's the best
game simulation that has ever been invented, I believe.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
I think at your website right now, is it forums
dot delphiforums dot.
Speaker 7 (26:29):
Com, yep, Delphi forums, and it's all on the Delphi forums.
So you can go ten minute hockey Delphi forum and
most of those threads will come up with individual playoff
series that are in question, and then they usually they
have two different boards, their regular season values and then
(26:49):
their playoff values for the individual playoff series and the
playoff series. I kind of look at that as the
clutch effects. You know, there are certain teams you know
aren't going to be done justice if you just go
by what the game companies typically do, which is just
the regular season. Now that's the money season. Like the
(27:10):
Florida Panthers this year. They were a great example. They
got Brad Mershan late in the season. Okay, so he
wouldn't represent that team in the regular season much hardly
at all. He only played ten games. I think you've
got him in there, and then you've got some other
money players and a veteran goaltender, and all of a sudden,
(27:31):
you use the playoff boards and you mix it fifty
to fifty with the regular season, and all of a
sudden they have an edge, whereas they would have been
at a disadvantage because the teams that they played in
the postseason, the four teams typically they outscored.
Speaker 5 (27:49):
They had a.
Speaker 7 (27:49):
Better scoring value in the regular season than Florida did.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
All right, hey, I appreciate are you listening on the internet?
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Are you listening over the year radio?
Speaker 7 (28:00):
iHeartRadio app on the internet?
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Well, thy Dan much?
Speaker 2 (28:04):
How'd you find us?
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Are you Bostonian?
Speaker 7 (28:07):
Originally No, my other hobby DXing back in nineteen eighty
I used to listen to Larry Glick and Lou Marcel.
I don't know if you remember him though, he was
an overnight host on WBZ.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Yes I do.
Speaker 7 (28:22):
And then unfortunately a local station at ten thirty here
gained ground in the early eighties and started up, and
so it was blocked since then, and so I had
to wait until I got my smartphone and listen to
WBZ again.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Call us from Minnesota before and what we would call
terrestrio radio over the radio. So I'm marking you down
as a first time caller, and we're going to give
you a rout of applause because I very much appreciate
that you took the time. This is your first time
listening to Night's I don't.
Speaker 7 (28:53):
Know, no, no, no, I've listened for nine years, and
I listened almost every night. I'm very familiar with the show. Uh,
this is the third time I've called you over over
nine years. Okay, I had to call in because the
topic is so good. The favorite hobbies you know, I've
got a bunch of.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
It was recommended to me by another caller last night. Vic.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
I'm up on my break and I gotta let you go,
but do me a favorite call more often on this
or any other topics. Always. I have been in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
When I was in Saint Paul, Minnesota. You know what
I remember about Saint Paul, Minnesota, what was that the
child shields snoopy statues.
Speaker 7 (29:31):
And he ended up being a fan of the Oakland
and California Golden Seals when he moved out to the
Bay Area.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
Yeah, they didn't last, Charles.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
He became a big fan of the Giants as well,
big baseball.
Speaker 7 (29:45):
Fan, right, Okay, Okay, then look up ten minute Hockey
and I hope you play. I hope you play a
game because it's nice and easy. You'll see you'll see
that if you.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Got it, I got it here.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
I'll be looking at it over the weekend. Vick, Thank
you much. You got to Oh we'll talk soon, Okay,
I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
Back you great.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Yeah, boy, I'll tell you We've had three great calls here.
I got some open lines, got a couple of callers,
got to need a couple more. Six one seven, two, five,
four to ten thirty. This is not the most intense.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Twentieth hour we have ever done.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
The most intense twentieth hour is generally are brushes with
celebrity or what grinds your gears.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
They are the long standing favorites.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
But but if you like this, yeah, you know, feel
free to join the conversation back on night's side. Two
lines at six one, seven, two, five, four to ten thirty.
One line at six one, seven, nine three one ten thirty.
The question is what was your hobby or what were
your hobbies as a child. Did you carry those hobbies
(30:50):
into adulthood and have they ever led you or maybe
someone in our audience to a career. You got the numbers,
let's light them up back after this.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
It's nice with Dan Ray Boston's news radio.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
All right, I'm gonna get everybody, and I promise nobody moved.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
You'll be all set. Let's go to Dave in some
of the Dave. I appreciate your patience. You're next one nights.
I go ahead, David.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
Hey, Dan, how's it going.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
It's going great. I do appreciate you holding on.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
What hobby did you have as a child and did
you carry it over into your adulthood.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
Well, as a child, I was in the baseball caud
It's actually, uh, that's that's actually why I really appreciated
your conversation with Shaunacy the other night about a week ago.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
Sure, yeah, because he was just coming back from Coopstown.
I've been to Coopstown a few times in my life,
but yeah, baseball cat. You know, it was cool, it
was interesting and whatnot.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Did you keep them and then your mother throw them out?
Speaker 5 (31:50):
No?
Speaker 4 (31:50):
I still no, I still have them. Actually I actually
want My plan was actually to go to Coopstown last
week and just trying because I have but you know,
I got Timmons bol Jackson. I mean they're top up
a deck, you know, all varieties of the manufacturers and
what not. But yes, I wanted to kind of get
up to Coopstown last weekend and see if I could
(32:12):
get some of those cads signed.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
Yeah. Well, i'll tell you. Have you been to Cooperstown before?
Speaker 5 (32:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (32:19):
Twice?
Speaker 8 (32:19):
Actually, yeah, I mean it is amazing when you go
up there, particularly on All Star weekend, the number of
Hall of Famers who are around, and most of them
they'll they'll sign.
Speaker 4 (32:32):
Yeah, they're out, they're out on the boat.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
I bet right, they absolutely are. Some of them set
up and actually charge a little bit. But yeah, but
you know, again, for ten dollars or whatever the going
rate is, you get a souvenir that you can hold
on for the rest of your life, and it means something.
What was ever cards? Are you talking about sixties? Seventies?
What are you talking about? Eighties?
Speaker 5 (32:55):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (32:55):
Let's see, yeah, early eighties. I got some miles, like
I got to Tommy John Rookie cod really yeah, he's
from sixty three actually, I believe.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Yeah, yeah, came up with came up with the Cleveland Indians,
although he made uh he really you know.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
Blossoms, right, you got let's see, we got the Yankees.
The Yankees is what I remember him from some Oh yeah,
that was late in his career.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
I mean, he he ended his career with with.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
The Yankees and the Dodgers, but he was he came
up with the Indians and uh and pitched a lot
for the White Sox.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
Okay, that's cool. Oh remember those old Chicago White Sox uniforms.
I was just watching the Red Sox game. Have you
seen the new San Diego Padres.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
I've watched a little bit of it tonight.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
They look like a softball team from you know, I
don't like the uniform at all.
Speaker 4 (33:54):
Yeah, I I also, yeah, I agree with you. Actually,
I kind of as I when I saw him. I
just got a rainbow sherbet job.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
Yeah, it's like, what have we got here?
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (34:08):
Yeah, not mostly absolutely yeah, absolutely. Well I guess that's
really all I got. I can't beat that last call.
And uh, Dan Ray, you're the man, and uh, I'll
be in touch with Actually this is my second time calling.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Well, thank you, David.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
And again, just for the record, Tommy John did come
up with the Indians pitch for the White Sox, the Dodgers,
the Yankees, the California Angels, and the Oakland Athletics, and
he won two and eighty eight games.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
That guy should be in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
He should, Yeah, he should, he should actually.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Be hold on to that car, all right, Dave, I
gotta let you run here. I gotta get to Thanks
on absolutely. I love the call of the calls. Thanks
good night. Go to Eileen II, Leen and Cambridge.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
Eileen, go right ahead. What was your hobby as a child.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
Well, I love to read comic books.
Speaker 9 (35:09):
And I used to get have subscriptions for a dollar
a year by mail two for these comic books.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
And I had to tell you that those comic books
today that you have from your childhood, if you kept
them there, they would be worth some money. Eileen.
Speaker 9 (35:28):
Well, I gave them away. I became as a teenager.
I became a babysitter for a child who was having
trouble learning to read. He was in the second grade,
and they were going to keep him back, and I
brought him my comic I brought a whole collection of
(35:50):
my I gave him. Eventually he got all my comic books,
and he quickly learned how to sound out words because
in those speech bubbles they used to you know, it
wasn't ordinary language, but things you could sound out.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
Oh yeah, I am.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
One of the things that I learned how to read
by reading baseball cards, because that's what I was interested in.
I also learned how to do math by seeing the
back of baseball cards and figure out, yeah, batting averages.
And I wrote a piece for my column in Newsweek
magazine back in nineteen eighty nine. But the real value
(36:31):
of baseball cards was not their financial value, but their
intrinsic value, all the information you could develop.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
So you did the same thing with comic books.
Speaker 7 (36:41):
Yep.
Speaker 9 (36:41):
And this was a very wealthy family, and they were
so pleased that I taught their little boy how to
read that they invited me to spend the summer with
their family at the Thousand Islands on the Saint St.
Lawrence River.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Oh that's that's a great story. I mean, I got
one more person. I got to get in here before that,
before the hour is up. So I sure wish that
I had gotten you a little earlier and we could
we could talk about the experience that summer.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
But I bed was a great summer.
Speaker 9 (37:15):
Oh, I'll talk about it some other time.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Eggs, I leen, we'll talk soon. Have a great weekend.
Let me get Dave and reading. There's a couple of
callers we have called late, but Dave's the last caller.
Go ahead, Dave, how.
Speaker 10 (37:27):
Don't you take my call?
Speaker 5 (37:29):
Dan Ry?
Speaker 10 (37:29):
Anyhow, I wasn't a hobby, but I played literally uh
pup water football, uh pup water football with the league.
But I was a boy scout, me and my brother.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
Okay, well you know, uh, you learned a lot from
me and a boy scout, and that's kind of many
people could look at that as a hobby. Not quite
the hobbies we're talking about, but I'm sure that that hall.
Speaker 10 (37:52):
Now we usually go on camping trips. I had ten
times more fighting boy scouts that I did in little league.
Pup wanner.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
Okay, well, what time? All right? Hey Dave. Always good
to hear your voice. Thank you so much.
Speaker 10 (38:07):
My older brother Ton, who was an eagle scout.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
WHOA, that's that's big time when you're an eagle scout.
That's that's very good. Thanks Dave, Thanks man, Talk to
you soon. Okay, done for the night and done for
the week. Rob Rober looking I'm looking about thirty five seconds. Great, okay,
gonna wrap it by thank you, Marita. I'm gonna thank
(38:30):
Rob for a great job all week. And kind of
a crazy week. Disappointing twentieth hour tonight, so we won't
be doing that one again. But I want to thank
everybody who did call. And I'll remind you all dogs,
all cats, all pets go to heaven. That's min pal
Charlie ray Is who passed fifteen years ago in February.
That's all your pets are who have passed. They loved
you and you love them. I do believe you'll see
(38:51):
them again. See again on Monday night on Night Side,
and I'll be doing Facebook tell you what I thought
of the show. All I gotta do is go to
Knights Time with Dan Ray. Have a great weekend everyone,
See you Monday night.
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