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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's Nightside with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio. Thank
you well, it is Nightside with Dan Ray. I'm Bradley
Jay And for Dan, I want to thank Rob for
working the wheel and master control. Also I need to
remember to thank executive producer of Nightside, Marita. She does
such a fantastic job and is excellent to work with.
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It's all part of what makes Nightside so great. Of course,
Dan Ray is the man also when it comes to Nightside,
Hi Dan, if you're out there, I hope you're well.
All the best of you. Now we're revisiting the Halloween thing.
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One thing I noticed it's interesting is even though the
stuff you buy for each holiday seems to come really early,
now it's kind of coming all at once. In the
stores you can see Hello stuff, and in some stories
you can even see Christmas decorations. And at some point
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maybe you'll just get decorations that are combo for all
three so you don't have to buy three kinds. Right,
And what would that be like like a turkey a
turkey skeleton tree? I don't know, a turkey skeleton you
put on the top of a Christmas tree. It's crazy, right,
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Halloween we have Jane and Shrewsbury talking about maybe a
favorite Halloween movie. And by the way, ISAs is Jaws
a horror movie or not? We haven't really that's kind
of a debate here. It's just a horror movie. And
other experiences you might have had Halloween wise, including something
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you know, any weird experiences when you go up to
somebody's house. And by the way, what is the age
for the cut off age for tricker trading? When is
it just creepy when you do?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Well?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
How old you have to be before it's creepy to
go trick or treating? I guess is the way to
phrase that question. Ten? Eighth grade's too old?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Right?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Sixth grade? Maybe let's talk to Jane. Thanks, thanks for
being coming back Jane. And by the way, Wayne, you
were on hold before we changed topics for a little while,
you know, welcome to callback. Hi Jane.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Hello, You've talked on a bunch of topics tonight that
are interesting. And you just mentioned what I was going
to say about Halloween about what age?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Oh good, So what do you think?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Okay? I was kind of tall kid and I went
trigger treating in Worcester with a friend and we decided
to go to the really fancy neighborhood, which was a
big mistake because the houses were way for their apart
and people weren't home or they weren't answering. And at
one of those houses someone said to me, aren't you
a little old for this? And we were twelve, and
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my friend was probably like a foot shorterer than me
or something. And that was the last year we went
trigg or treating, but we used to think of twelve
as kind of the last year. And now I understand
like high school kids go. And I've heard of older
people who say, like if they're in the busy neighborhoods,
like I don't know someone in Lexington and she said
she had hundreds of kids coming and was kind of
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freaked out about it in the cost and everything. So
at any rate, I got in trouble for being age
twelve because I looked maybe a tiny bit older.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Okay, so when you're what grade are you went at
age twelve? Uh?
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Maybe seventh, yeah, or sixth even it wasn't very old
r twelve and sixth grade?
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Ye?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Why did you go to the rich neighborhood You figured
they would be better candy?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Oh yeah, I mean just like guessing, like kind of
thinking there might be better. Yeah, and we were kind
of roaming around a lot of like a slightly closer
and then spread out to that more fancy spot. But
that was a real dud.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Now, did you go with your parents? Are alone?
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
No, just with a friend, just another twelve year old
nobody with my parents. As you know, once I was
not little anymore.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Now, no parents would ever let their kids go alone anymore, right,
I don't know. I think they would be chastised by
their peers as being neglectful parents.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
I think teenagers still go by themselves.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
In group teenagers, Okay.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Can I go to music for a second though, sure, whatever,
let's have fun. So I don't really listen to music
that often, even though I do love music. And I
was thinking, I don't know why I'm really into audiobooks.
I told you before in reading. But when you asked,
what was the last song you played on BCN, I
think I remember you saying this on a show. It
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was a David Bowie song. No, no, okay, I remember
the song you.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Know this is. I might as well tell folks now
because I promised to do it, and if I don't
know it now I might forget, and I'll tell you
the thought process. So the first song ever played on WBC,
and I don't mind talking about WBC, and because so
many of you reference it, it seems to be part
of your culture, so I don't mind talking about it.
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The first one was I Feel Free by Cream. That's
when it went rock. And the next to last one,
and by the way, I was allowed to do the
last show and allowed to pick the last song myself,
and no one influenced me at all, so it was
a big, big weight upon me to not mess that up.
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So I had to go through this thought, what do
I do do I people would expect me to play
a Bowie song, but that would be that would be
that wouldn't be right, you know, that's a me thing.
I needed to pick something it would please everyone, that
would have a gravitas and maybe be thematically appropriate. And
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so the next to last song was I Feel Free
by Cream, which was the first song which some people
expected to me play again. But sometime before that night,
I was riding in the car with a friend and
I it struck me that it had to be a
Pink Floyd song. And then in about ten seconds I
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realized it had to be shine on You Crazy Diamond
by Pink Fluid because it did have a certain gravitas
and it did span the ages. That song was valid
and fresh and as good as the day it was baked,
even on that last day, and the message was shine
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on you Crazy Diamond, the Crazy Diamond being WBCN, and
I had completely confidence that it would be well received
and it was. I'm lucky. I'm so lucky I did
not choose a dumb song because it would have been
catastrophic for my legacy. I'm very happy with that shine
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on You Crazy Diamonds. And then as the the final
strands from that faded out, I believe there was maybe
a recorded thing after that, and then it went to
static and that was pretty intense after forty years, I
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think of twenty four hours a day the rock of
Boston static. People cried. It was a big deal anyway, Jane,
anything else.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
So as far as David Boi goes, sorry, I thought
you said it was boy, But now that you say that,
I think you. I do remember you saying about the
Pink Floyd song a long time ago, what albums of
David Bowie are the best ones? For someone who's not
super super familiar with his music.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
You know, I would go with a compilation called Changes
One Bowie. It's a good mix of accessible stuff. There's
a lot of good There are a lot of good
YouTube videos as well.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Okay, and can I ask you have you been to
You've been to the Netherlands, right, Yes. I once was
visiting a cousin who was in grad school there and
I started to step off the curb into the street
and he grabbed me back and he said, okay, here's
the rules. This was a college type town and there
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was a million bicycles way before you bikes and everything.
And he said, the bikes are number one, then the buses,
then the cars, and last is the pedestrian.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Yeah, I know that you're hokeming back to the first
hour of the topic in that.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Sorry, that's all right. It was the travel thing. It
was travel, so.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Yeah, yeah, that's true. You know in the Netherlands, as
you say, in say Amsterdam, they don't just have bike lanes,
they have entire streets dedicated to the bikes. You can
have ten bikes across going in the underpass and everything.
It's an entirely different thing.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
And and did you see the traffic lights. They had
traffic lights with the little bicycle symbol, like they had
their own traffic lights.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Well, you know what, in my town of Brookline, they
have those. They must have paid a lot of money
for them, unless they were federally available, but no one
pays attention to them. They put them up at somebody's expense.
No one pays attention to them. There's a little red
bicycle when you're not supposed to go, and they are
completely ignored, which is part of the problem. Jane, thank
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you so much.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Thanks a lot. Bradley, of course.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
I we'll go to Gary in New Jersey, Hello, New
Jersey right after THISBS. It's Night Side with the Dan
Boston's News Radio. That's right, It's Boston's News Radio. We
have a I don't know, five minutes. It's sort of
loose Lucy goosey. You're talking Halloween ish kind of thing,
seasonal stuff, almost open lines for the next five minutes,
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and then I have something new for you at the
top of the hour. Let's quickly go to Gary in
New Jersey. Hello Gary.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Hey, Bradley, I still miss your show on midnight. It
was a great show, but you were talking about Halloween.
And I was never a trick or treader. I didn't
think the work was worth the reward.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
But that's a good point.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
I just didn't. But what we used to do is
I grew up in New York and there was a
guy on TV called Zachary and kind of like ghoulish, okay,
d And during the Halloween time he always played this
movie Hold That Ghost with Abbot and Costello, and it
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was just one of the greatest shows I remember, And
it really was entertaining Hold That Ghost.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
And I'm sure the Three Stooges must have a Halloween
one too.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Right, I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
I have to talk to a three expert on that.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Yeah, I'm definitely not. But I remember that he used
to have the show on. He had someone that was
like dead in a laundry basket, amper, that he talked
to and then shut it and it was just a
great time. It was just a great time.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Have you ever seen a ghost?
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Never? Okay never?
Speaker 1 (11:43):
By the way, what about an alien?
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Never? The only way I believe in aliens if I
see one in the Walmart parking lot land.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Other than that, one final question, what is your state slogan?
You have a state slogan. I'm just curious.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Yeah, the garden.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Some day I'm gonna do that, right.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
There ain't many gardens left though. Well, where I live,
it's real rural. It's not like the New Jersey people
see from the turnpike. So yeah, we have a lot
of gardens here, but it's North Jersey is definitely not rural.
But you know, it was just the greatest time. I
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remember me and my friends used to get together to
watch that and yeah, yeah, yeah, Hold that Goes had
a lot of at the time, big stars in it
and everything like that, you know, from the forties.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Yeah, thanks for checking in. I gotta talk to John
before the top, So thank you so much. Liked. Good
to hear you too. Someday I do the topic the
dumbest state slogan garden. State's fine, but there are some
dumb state slogans out there. I got a quick, you know,
a minute, John, what's going on. I just want to
get to you.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Hey, hey, Ron, I just want to give a shout
out to your BCN reference and your your thoughts around it.
I was born on the same day that PCN went
on the air. Mons fifteen, nineteen sixty seven. So I
would call up the radio station every birthday for me
and where's them a Happy birthday? And a couple of
years they would send me like go to I got
like two or three T shirts they sent me over
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the years, just as I could birthday give kind of
a thing. But man, it was a great station.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Thanks so much, John, I appreciate it, So J brother. Okay,
I went to a ballgame and some very irritated happened.
They do things. They do this thing now with the
ballgame that I can't stand, which brings me to the topic.
What are things that happen at certain events that ruin
the event for you? And that includes weddings, movies, concerts,
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et cetera. I'll tell you what bothered me about what
they do at ballgames, and that's after the sun Beaty