Caller's Choice 6/12/24

This hour, Dan throws open the phone lines in this edition of Caller's Choice, where listeners bring up the topics!

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Episode Transcript

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Dan. I'm Boston News Radio.I want to thank my guest last hour.
Just an extraordinary life, Dougen Douglasgreen Law. I mean literally,
he happens, happens to have spentmost of his life, his business life,

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in the highest echelons of the mediabusiness in this country, after having
started out as a young boy struckby lightning at the age of thirteen,
and on the battlefield of Vietnam,having been hit by Howard's a shell that

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had been set as a booby trap, and again he believes he died on
the battlefield. Just an extraordinary story. And I would again encourage any of
you particularly I think as Father's Daygifts forged by lightning. It's it's just

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an incredible story. When you thinkmost of us live what we think as
interesting lives. No one that Iknow has lived a life that included all
of that, from boyhead boyhood tothe battlefield to the boardroom and again.

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A great Father's Day present authored byDouglas Greenlaw, former past National Command of
the Military Order of the Purple Heartand inducted into the Military Hall of Fame.
So I want to thank him.I think that's the sort of a
story that you sit back and youlisten to I didn't expect much phone traffic,

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and in light of that, Ithink what I'm going to do this
hour, at the eleven o'clock hour, is just give you an opportunity to
join the conversation. I'm going togo open lines. I think probably in
my time here at WBZ, I'veprobably done a pure open line hour maybe

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three or four five times. SoI'm just gonna open them up at six,
one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty six,
one seven, nine, three,one ten thirty. Uh, feel free
to join this conversation, start aconversation on any subject. We always get
people who will call us or say, how come you haven't done a subject,
a story on the closing of thetunnel, or how come you haven't

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done this. Everybody thinks that theyknow the story that everyone else will be
interested in. So you have achance tonight to kind of set the tone
for at least this hour. Veryrarely do I do this, but I
just thought that, having sat thereand listened to an extraordinary story of an
American life and an American hero,let's go back to the more mundane.

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What is it that you feel weshould talk about more often. What is
it that will make you pick upthe telephone and give us a call?
So let's let's start it off.I'll open the lines up right now.
Six one, seven, two,five, four ten thirty six one seven
nine, six seven nine three oneten thirty. The regular listeners know the

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number, okay, So if youare somehow listening to this program anywhere within
the sound of my voice, let'shave at it. Whatever you like to
talk about. We're going to goto Susan, who is on Sagamore Beach.
I'll bet it's a nice night onSagamore Beach. Down there, Susan,
how are you tonight? I'm great, Thank you. I really enjoyed

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that, gentleman, and I'm definitelygoing to get that buck. I tell
you that I was moved to Tairslistening to him, and I don't know
if he's listening now, but Ijust wanted to say thank you for your
service to because I just I justcan't even believe what he went through at
such a young age and just surviveto be so successful. What a great

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story. So I just wanted tosay that, well, Susan, thank
you. I will talk to Dougtomorrow, as I generally try to do,
and I'm going to let him knowspecifically that you called after he was
he's he's located in South Carolina,and he it is an amazing story.

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I spent a lot of time withhim on the phone today and I talked
with him two or three times inthe last week or so. And I
mean, and it is all there. I mean, this is a guy
that basically tells it all. Helays it out there for people to see,
which is And I'm so glad youmade you Your phone call to me

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has lifted my spirits because no,I'm serious to think that you were out
there listening and taking it all in. And by the way, for anyone
in your life that may be adad, whether it's a dad he have,
or a husband or a brother yeh, or a neighbor, this would

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be a great book. Oh.I'm going to get several copies. I
think it's a great book and onethat I know a lot of people will
enjoy reading. And just because it'sa success story in the end, although
a difficult story, you know,it just really moved me. And I'm
so glad that you had him onAnd I'm glad that I was able to
hear his story and I'm looking forwardto getting the book for myself. Well,

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you have made my night and Ithank you. Yeah, seriously,
have you ever called before since yourfirst time calling? This was my second
time I called once before. Wellno applause the second time. But I
want you to come back more oftenbecause well, you are the call of
You are the person that I'm tryingto reach, someone who is the same

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wavelength as me and can enjoy.I someone passed this story idea on to
me, and that's not what wenormally do. We don't do long,
extended interviews with authors. And Ican't tell you how many people who have
written books will approach us and andand want to be on. And you
know, I say, yeah,you know, it's a wonderful story that

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you told. But his was exceptional, his one exceptions absolutely absolutely let me
know that it It restores my faithin my audience. Susan, you you
don't know what you have done forme. I thank you. I'm glad.
Well you have a great night,and thank you for having him on.

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And I look forward to getting hisbook and to listening to all of
your other shows. So thank youso much. Thanks Susan, I appreciate
it very much. Have a greatnight. Good night, Well that made
my night right there. Six one, seven, two, five, four,
ten thirty six one seven, nine, three, one ten thirty Looking
for some feedback here in our openlines very early do we do this,

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So this is an opportunity. Ifthere's something in the back of your mind
that says I want to talk aboutthat, or I want to make this
point on Night Side to people acrosshalf of the United States and around the
world on the internet, you havethe opportunity to do that right now.
All you gonna do is, well, the lines are right full right now,
We're going to try to get toas many of you and in the
next forty five minutes we'll be backright after this on Nightside. Now back

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to Dan Ray live from the WindowWorld Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
By the way, tomorrow night atnine o'clock, we're going to have a
couple of guests who probably are prettyfamiliar with most of you in New England,
Matt and Danielle Noise. Matt wasa very successful weather forecaster here at

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a couple of the major stations inBoston. Danielle was a very successful weather
forecaster at WBZ and she's working ata couple of other stations, at least
a couple other right now, andthey have taken a huge step. There
will be an article in the BostonGlobe tomorrow morning. A Boston TV weather

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power couple jumps to the smallest screen. They have started their own personal private
company called One Degree Outside. It'sa new weather network, and we will
talk to Matt and too, Danielle. Matt and Danielle Noise, who are
now married. They fell in loveover weather and they are rolling the dice
big time. I was with bothof them in a fundraiser earlier this month

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for the Zoo New England, whichis a wonderful organization and encompasses both the
Franklin Park Zoo as well as theStone Zoo, and I sat with Danielle
and with Matt. Matt was oneof the MC's along with LaToya Edwards of

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a Boston television as well, andwe talked about it, and so I
invited them on a couple of weeksago. They will be on tomorrow and
you'll be able to read about itin the Globe to worrow. Let's get
back to the phones. I wantto get to as many people as say
can. Let me go to Michaelup in Maine. Michael, you're next
on nice. I appreciate you callingin and this and open lines opportunity.
Go ahead, Michael, Hello,Hello. I wanted to just briefly mention

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the power of hope. A lotof people are down, but I'm just
want to mention the Harvard study inthe fifties had a group of mice.
They put them in a beaker halffull of water. They browned in ten
minutes. The next day, gota handful of mice to put them in

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a beaker half full of water,to pull them out after nine minutes,
let them rest. They put themback in. Dan guess how long they
lasted. I have no idea.I've never heard of this. Go ahead
over twenty four hours. Okay,tell me what you know. It may

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be self evident, but help meout here. Tell me what the conclusion
of that study was. Hope isamazing. These first group they went in
and they just wanted to see howlong they would tread water. Okay,
so they gave up hope at somepoint they had no hope. No,
well, they put an other groupin and after nine minutes they pulled them

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out, let them rest fully,fed them, they put them back in.
They swamp over twenty four hours.They had hope. Gotcha. Okay,
you made the point. Well,yeah, that's I had never heard
of that. But obviously the pointyou make is an extraordinary one. We
all have to have hope. Ican remember as a as a young kid,

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we were taught by the nuns aboutfaith, hope, and charity,
and I don't think that we reallyunderstood that as much as the nuns tried
to tell us that. But obviouslyit's great to have faith in something.
Many people find faith in a religion, others, I guess, find faith

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in different ways. But to havesome faith, even if it's a faith
in your family, you know thatyou will always be loved by them.
Hope that you just talked about,and charity, which is not only just
helping other people when you think ofcharities, but charity also in the concept

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of love, faith, hope,and charity. I will remember this call,
Michael, believe me, and I'mgoing to probably look into that experiment,
and I'm sure you've reported it accurately, and I thank you very much
because you're giving me some hope witha really interesting phone call. And I

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think you all right, welcome,thanks for helping you on hardwood my hope
and it will all come up.Thanks much, Michael, appreciated very much.
Let's go next to Margie and theCatskills in New York. Hi,
Margie, how are you just fine? Now? I want to get very
lighthearted, and you're a very eruditeman. And I really enjoy your programs

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because they're always upbeat, no matterwhat point of view. So I have
a question for you. I knowabout Celtic studies, I know about the
women that sing, the Celtic Women, So why don't you say the Boston
Celtics. Well, I guess.I guess the word Celtic in its Gaelic

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form would be properly pronounced Celtic,and and we now know them as the
Boston Celtics. I'm sure that atsome point when the NBA was formed in
nineteen forty seven and Walter Brown inthe Brown family owned the Boston Celtics as

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one of the first few franchises andone of the longest surviving franchises in the
history of the NBA, there's stillthe Boston Celtics that have always been the
Boston Celtics. I'm sure that maybethere was no one who at that point
remembered would you remember that Celtic issort of a Gaelic word celt I c

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and they softened the sea and saidthey're the Boston Celtics. I have to
assume I don't know that answer,but I'm making I think a pretty good
guess at it. You know,if you go back to the founding of
the NBA, you had teams likethe Cincinnati Royals, and you had the
Syracuse Nationals, and I think thatif you look back you there were there

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were I think the Pistons were inFort Wayne, Indiana. You know,
all these teams that that we thinkof now as the dominant teams in the
league really didn't exist until they cameon board over time. But the Celtics
and the New York called at thattime the New York Knickerbockers, as you
know, are now the New YorkKnicks. They have all survived. If

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I go back and look at therethere are the If you go back and
look at the original NBA teams,a lot of them have moved on.
They've they've found a better places tocall home. Obviously, the Dallas Mavericks
were an expansion team. They havebeen playing the Celtics for the last few
nights. So I don't have ananswer to that, to be honest,

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I'll let you ponder it. I'lllet your audience ponder it. Thank you,
Dan, goodnight, all right,thank you very much. Always nice
to hear from you, Margie.We'll see maybe someone has an answer to
Margie's question. That's okay. Uh. I just have looked up the NBA
original teams, and I just thinkit's interesting to look back on these particular

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teams. There was the Celtics,there was the Knicks. There was a
team called the Philadelphia Warriors, whichare now relocated and are now the Oakland
Team. The Toronto Huskies, theWashington Capitals, the Providence Steamrollers, those
teams are long gone. The ChicagoStags, the Cleveland Rebels, the Detroit

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Falcons, the Pittsburgh Ironman and andthe Saint Louis Bombers. The three teams
that are still in existence Celtics,Nicobacus, and Warriors now known as the
Golden State Warriors. So I gottwo of them. It's the Celtics and
the New York Knicks that are theoriginal teams that are still kicking around.
Where we're gonna go next, letme go to my friend Marty down in

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Florida. Marty, welcome, thanksfor calling in. How are you tonight?
A pleasure as always, and Ihaven't been able to catch you,
who had mostly Boston centric topics whatever. I wanted to talk about the conviction
of Donald Trump, and I don'tmean in a political sense, but what
annoys me is the fake moralists outthere that they hear about. Well,

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Donald Trump has been convicted of afelony. Now, I just want to
tell you, first of all,famous spellon in history. Do you remember
when Martha Stewart took a fall forinsider trading some years ago? I couldn't
afford. I couldn't afford to livenext to her, and you couldn't afford
to live next to her. Secondof all, as a former policeman,

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I've known a lot. I've livednear a lot of felons. My next
door neighbor used to be a skinheadin California and he did eight years in
prison in California. He's one ofthe most honest people that you could meet,
And I says to him as wellas other fellas a note, listen,
Joe, that's not his name.You're a felon, You're not a
crook. Okay, he's one ofthe most honest people. His family has

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a house a keeneck my key tomy house to live next door. And
another guy, Mike in New York, who also is a felon for getting
arrested for criminally choking somebody. You'reyou're a felon, but you're not a
crook. Also, they had aTV judge some years ago, Judge Greg
Mathis, who was touted as aconvicted felon. But the point is that

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these marlists I did not know that, by the way, But Judge,
you're just a TV judge. I'masking that question out of genuine curiosity.
Well, he was poudered. Thatwas one of the things that they said,
that he was a felon or aformer fella and whatever. Another thing
I wanted to tell these fake moralistsout there is that, uh, this

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is how much I believe in it. About four years ago, the Republican
Party in my area or in Florida, came out with proposition for which said
we want to give felons who haven'tcommitted manslaughter, which is usually an eight
year sentence in New York, orsexual violators. We want to give them

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the right to vote again. Andmy party put out a card and says
vote no. Guess what I votedyes, because I want these people,
as my next door neighbor, tobe able to be part of the process.
I will tell you that the felons, I know, the last thing
in the world they're worried about isvoting. They're trying to make some money

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to live. But I'm just annoyedwhen there's people out there who don't know,
they don't know, they're behind froma hole in the ground or whatever,
and all they know is felon.He's a felon. And I'm saying
these are fake moralists. Also,people who are felons here get they can
request a pardon from the governor.By the way, I was just checking,

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and you're absolutely accurate. Greg Mathiswas an actual was arrested and says
seven times he was arrested several timesas a juvenile delinquent, mainly for per
snatching, breaking and entering, androbbery. Eventually be arrested and put behind
bars at age seventeen, which wouldhave been according to the year that he

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was born, would have been latenineteen seventies on a concealed weapons charge.
While he was incarcerated at Wayne CountyJail. As his mom visited him,
revealed she had colon cancer, sothe judge overhearing his case would subsequently give
him an ultimatum of a ged orjail time along with early probation. He
got out of jail, he gota law degree from the University of Detroit

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and was a judge of a districtcourt in the state of Michigan from ninety
five to ninety eight. And hewill I wanted to have a successful television
program and a producer, author andmotivational speaker. So there's an individual who
truly did turn his life around fromgoing for me, let me convicted to
being not only a judge in reallife, but a judge on television.

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Let me just also, if Icould sum it up, until Florida came
out with proposition for most places,most states, you if you were a
felon, you could run for office, but couldn't vote. And so I'm
going to say to these people outthere who automatically. Donald Trunk's been Donald
Trump's been convicted of a felon.I wanted to tell lease people, go

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get a life and stop worrying.If you want to learn the law,
go to law school. And Ijust want to tell you a secret.
Well it's not a secret. Butbefore we part, A lot of people
in my area affectionately know me ashistory boy because I remember things that nobody
else remembers. So when I tellyou something, usually it's just no,

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I look, I believe in RonaldReagan. Trust, but verify. I
trust what you tell me. ButI also find it interesting to look something
up and make sure that I know. I like you and I respect you
for that. Yeah, but it'sgood. Some people have some some people
have, you know, the memorythat you know it can can play a

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trick on them. But you wereright on the money here and that's fine.
Again, as they say, Iknow that that you are a supporter
and admirer of President Trump, Andyeah, he has of today is a
convicted felon. I'm of the beliefthat the against him will be flipped on
appeal. Yeah, I got totake my my newscast here, so save

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another thing for the next time wetalk, if that's okay, okay,
And thanks for you for everything youdo for us, and thanks for the
memories. You're welcome, You're verywelcome. Thank you. Marty. Got
a couple of lines open here,sit, We're going open lines whatever you
want six six, seven, nine, three, one, ten thirty and
always looking of course for first timecallers. If you're a first time caller,

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please let us know so we cangive you a little round of applause
from our digital studio audience. Andby that I mean it's it's it's not
a real studio audience because my studiois a studio of none. I broadcast
remotely, and I'm wearing a footballtype headset, so I couldn't have a
guest in this studio. I usedto be in a studio, but when

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COVID came, my company suggested itwould be smarter for me to broadcast remotely,
and they've accommodated me, and Iappreciate that very much. All I
need is your calls six one,seven, two, five, four ten
thirty six one seven, nine,three, one, ten thirty. This
is a rare open line opportunity foryou to tell me what you feel would
be important for us to talk aboutor for you to make your pitch on

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whatever you would like to pitch backon Night Side right after the news at
the bottom of the hour. I'mBoston's news Radio. All right, let's
keep rolling. You're going to goto Eileen and hell Hey I Leen,
thanks for checking in. How areyou tonight? Hi? I'm pretty good.

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Thank you. I just ordered thebook by Douglas Greenlaw and it's I
have it. I bought the onlineedition, which is ninety nine cents.
What you're going to enjoy it,trust me. Okay, that's great.

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I have it up on my iPhoneright now. But I just you offered
us the chance to talk about anythingwe want. Could I just bring up
something briefly. I need to havecataract surgery and I was scheduled and I
went to have it done. Bloodpressure is too high. So now I'm

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taking blood pressure pills, which makeme feel lousy. I don't maybe it's
my imagination, but I just havethe feeling that my system is going to,
you know, blow my blood pressureway up high, just out of

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anxiety. So let me tell youthis, Ilean, I have had cataract
surgery. I have counseled several friendsof mine on cataract surgery, and cataract
surgery is the easiest surgery that youwill ever have in your life. I've
become somewhat of an expert in it. I'm not a doctor, No do

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I play one on TV. ButI have a friend of mine in South
Dakota who recently had cataract surgery,and he was very anxious about it.
And I told him, I said, it is so easy. It's like
ten minutes on each eye. Andyou this it's I mean it's it will
cause you about as much discomfort asbrushing your teeth. I mean, that's

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still only way to describe it.Yeah, No, I'm totally serious.
We've had we used to have BradShingleton on from OCB Fall Consultants of Boston.
Uh, and we have had otherdoctors. UH. And I have

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told friends of mine and and thething that that is great about CATGORC surgery,
there may be others who are listeningtonight when you have the surgery,
which is again not invasive at all. I'm not going to try to play
a doctor, but you will beamazed at the colors that you will see,

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not only will you see more clearly, But the colors that you see
following the surgery will be much brighter, much clearer than you can imagine.
Now, you will say, howeverything before you have cataract surgery, the
colors have become dull. That's oneof the I think the side problems with

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cataract surgery. Knowlity isn't more difficultto see at night? You see more,
you know, lights at night sortof become blurry. All of that
all the signs of cataract surgery.You get your your blood pressure down,
because this will be a surgery thatyou will. You will call me back
a few months from now and tellme you're absolutely right. It was the

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easiest surgery. I don't even knowif they should call it surgery because it's
it's like a cataract procedure. I'lltalk to you about it privately if you
want to leave, but I'm tellingyou, and I'm telling my audience the
truth. It was the easiest medicalprocedure that I have ever gone through.
It was it. I fear ifyou said to me, I have to

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go get cataract surgery again, orgetting my teeth cleaned, I'll take cataract
surgery every day of the week.Okay, okay, good to know A
Phomic Consultants of Boston is where I'mgoing. Well, you're at the best
in my opinion, that's where Ichose. And I was talking with a

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well known I can't tell you whoit was, but someone whose name you
know. And a few years agowe were comparing notes and he said,
well, where'd you go? Isaid, you know, whe'd you go?
He said where else? O CB, what's as simple as that.
Okay, so you're in guild handsand be feel free to give me a
call and we can talk off theair. Okay, I want you to

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Okay, good about it. Okay, thank you so much, Dan.
Thanks, okay, good night,good night doctor Dan. Here let's go
too, Neil and Watertown. Neilyour next on nights, I go,
hello, good evening. Then Iwant to use a coincidence that that you're
a lawyer, and that is correct, right, yes, sir, and

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Willis Stevens, a famous modernist poetof the twentieth century, is a lawyer.
Also just going to quote one verybrief line from Thirteen Ways of Looking
at a Blackbird's I do not knowwhich to prefer the beauty of inflections,
or the beauty of innuendos, theblackbirds whistling, or just after Now,

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innuendo is a legal term, andit was inserted. It's from the Latin
nu era to nod, I meanso by nodding. And it was inserted
originally into legal text, and itkind of meant to wit or that is,
then in its semantic journey it gotbrought into any indirect suggestion, and

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then it got pegerated, you know, became a pejorative term because usually it
has a negative connotation. But inthe I don't agree with you that it's
a legal term in any sense ofthe word. I mean, I'm racking
my brain. Obviously I looked upit's Mariam Webster and online etymology dictionary,

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and plus I just know that ingeneral sense, I could be wrong.
But if I'm wrong, I'm flatout wrong about that. But yeah,
it's original meaning. It's just Ijust I'm interested. I have a it's
like a hobby of mine. Ilike to know, you know, not
if I sometimes a world will comearou you know just that the audience.
You know this, But it's anindirect or subtle usually derogatory which is a

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synonym for pejorative implication in expression andinsinuation. Now, maybe you thought about
a plaintiff's allegation existing explicating the defamatorymeaning of the publication or utterance in a
libel suit. That's a bit esoteric, but yes, yes, yes,

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And then an oblique hn't a remoteillusion of reference, usually derogatory to a
person or thing not named, aninsinuation. I might have an insinuation,
or I might suggest that, youknow, Neil has a drinking problem.
You know what I'm saying. Idon't think you do. But if if
I, if I was your friend, uh, And I said, you

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know, look, I'm not anexpert here, but you know, he
seemed a little unsteady on his feetthe other night. But did you did
you catch did you catch the poem? Just so, I mean, it's
just if I may, because Ido not know which to prefer the beauty
of infections. So that's when theblackbird is whistling? Or what's how you
feel afterwards? So I kind ofgo through life, well you know the

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moment that just happened, and welljust afterwards, how do I feel?
Yep? That's and while Stevens isa was it was a very famous poet
and a lawyer. And I don'tknow if he was thinking of that.
Well, I don't know. Idon't know either. I don't know if
he's alive, but I suspect he'snot. Okay, so we we will
have to have a seyance to getit him. I appreciate you just ask

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answer the question ceiling and is asoft sea because in English, Spanish and
French e a O and you arehard after a C. And he and
I so they probably that's probably thereason. Yeah, yeah, and I
think I think you're correct on that. Yeah, and again in Gaelic it's

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probably Celtic. But someone your callerasked the question, if anyone that's not
an explanation, but it's a guest. So yeah, well I think we
guessed the same and I suspect we'reboth right on this one. Okay.
Thanks Neil, all right, thankyou, talk to you soon. Appreciate
your call. A little esoteric,but that's good. We'll take a quick
break here on nightside. Next up, Tony is in Canada. I think
Tony might be a first time calling. Joe and Lynn, Jim and Hyde

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Park Terry on the Cape We're goingto get everybody in. We'll be back
on Nightside right after this. Nowback to Dan Way live from the window
World, Nice Side Studios. I'mWBZ News Radio. We have full lines.
I'm going to get I'm gonna domy darnedness to get everyone in.
Let me go to Tony and Canada. Tony, welcome to Nightside. How

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are you sir? Hey? Isthis me? Now? Are you talking?
Am I on? If you're Tonyin Canada? It is you?
Well, actually it's Frank. Somaybe somehow we got okay, well Rob,
I don't know how we got that, but this is Frank Canada.
Go ahead, Frank, Frank inCanada. So thanks Dan, happy to
be calling. And uh we areliving in Montreal, but we are often

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in the Black Bay area. Soyeah, well this is your first Is
this your first time calling? Firsttime calling? First time? I let
him out of the clause, disyou the studio audience, go right ahead,
Frank, longtime listener. My wifeand I enjoy listening to you,
and we enjoy that you've got apretty balanced approach to all your opinions than

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you and yeah, and I thoughtwhat would be interesting for listeners if they
were interested. You know, inCanada we have a parliamentary system versus your
Republican right and so by virtue ofthat, we find your politics way more
exciting than than ours were the lastfew elections, that's for sure. Go

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absolutely absolutely, and it's almost Hollywoodlike. But with your with your leaders,
and with all due respect to theto the office of the president,
you know, we've got uh uhthe the Our opinion anyways, mine personally

(33:45):
is I'm quite amazed at how themedia gives a pass to Joe Biden,
whereas with Trump, they're all overhim. And you know, as as
recent if you take the Hunter Bidensituation, and well before Joe became president,

(34:05):
it was well known and established whatwas going on with the Ukraine and
the Hunter being on the board andgetting a lot of money. But then
eventually it became more newsworthy, Iguess when he became president, and rightly
so. But you know, ifyou if you think of I think we're

(34:27):
just a week before Joe Biden's lateson's widow was to take the stand,
it was apparently established that late atnight Joe went to her house and who
knows what he spoke. Yeah,I saw that. I didn't deal much
in that because frankly, I didn'tknow, you know, so again I

(34:50):
try to stay away from the speculativemode to be honest with you, right,
But yeah, I was what Ithought, Dan, is if if
if you reversed it, and isDonald Trump who did that? My god,
it would be would have been handledby the mainstream media quite differently.
And I got quite differently, Ithink. And and that I think is
you know, I don't even getto vote, I just get to watch.

(35:13):
But I think it's frustrating to seehow slanted the media is. And
then I think there are a lotof Americans who believe with who believe?
Would you believe? And I thinkthat you might see a benefit to all
of this to Trump. I mean, I was stunned that that the indictments,
the poles kept going up, andnow the conviction, the polls he

(35:34):
seemed to continue to go up.It's going to be a fascinating race.
Frank, I got pack lines.Please call some other night earlier. I
would love you appreciate the opportunity.Yeah, great, Thank you so much,
Frank, Thank you. Okay,have a good night. Thanks all
right, we're going to have toreally rock and roll. Here. Let
me go to Jim and High Park. Jim, we're getting down on time.

(35:57):
You were next on Night Side.Hey, take stant I listened to
your program constantly. He had thebest in the US. I heard a
lady earlier talk about her elation.I had mine done about ten years ago,
my left eye, and it wasthe best. It was the best

(36:21):
yet, and I'm seeing a lotbetter now. My reason for Colin was,
I recall a few years back thatit was one of our presidents.
I think it was President Kennedy thatstopped the Russian shifts from good in Cuba.
I think you give us Russian blockheadabsolutely nineteen sixty two, go right

(36:46):
ahead. Yes, he told them, and they moved. He'd give them
a specific time, and they moved. Those ships. I'm wondering they basically
they stopped. They were heading toCuba and they stopped, and they and
around. Of course, you knowtoday that there was a Russian nuclear sub
which is which arrived in Havana.Uh, and it went, it went

(37:09):
in there and that was in ourhemisphere, and uh, who knows what's
going to happen. You know,I don't think they're going to fire missiles
at US. But the very presenceon the very presence on Cuba concerns me,
and I'm sure it concerns you.Yeah. I was really scared back
then, and that a lot ofpeople were scared, even with the President

(37:30):
to them to get out of it. Yeah, No, it was.
It was as close, they say, as close to nuclear war as we
ever as we ever came, that'sfor sure. Hey, Jim, you
got to call earlier because I wantto talk to you more. Have you
called before? I'm well, Ihave, not not Austin, but alone
your favor. Come on, comeon, I want I want to hear

(37:51):
you words of wisdom and your perspective. Okay, okay, thanks Jim,
I appreciate it. All right,let me get every anybody in here.
If I can't, I gotta bereally quick. Joe and Lynn Joe next
on, Nice, I go ahead. Hey Dan, I'm so glad you're
doing this. I wish I'll callcall earlier. Nick tilet me do this
on open line. Glenn and Iwere talking about this. I hope you
will do more shows on problems likewe have. You know what problems my

(38:15):
Glenn and I have restaurant lawyer problems, medical problems. I know it's hard
for you sometime. We're not tryingto knock these people. We just want
to get our grievousness aired. Andsome people, maybe some of the w
BZ family, could help us.And that's why I wanted to touch basically
do on this. Have you hadany success with what I suggested to you
yesterday on the phone. Not yet, but I may, I just possibly

(38:37):
I may have found someone that couldhelp. Maybe, But and that lady
was the eye my cousin had herglaucoma. That help. But that's worse
than actually actually had two chiefs.But I'll keep in touch, and I
can't wait for another open lines.I'll call earlier. Oh we may do
it more frequently. Thank you,Joe, Yeah, thank you. Terry
on the cape, Terry, yougotta be quick with me. Did you

(38:58):
get your busy gum nights? Imugging the mail? Yes, Dad,
I'm coming to say thank you somuch. Dan. I got my night
side mug with Dan Ray. Itis so classy, just like you and
just like your show, and thankyou so much. It's just wonderful.
And I don't win a lot ofcontests because I don't really engage in them.

(39:22):
Well you won that one, Terry. Thank you so much. Okay,
I'll see so honored to have apiece of night side inside my home.
And thank you so much, andyou have a wonderful night, and
God bless right back at you,Terry. Okay, we've got to go
to Glenn and Brighton real quick.Glenn, I got less than a minute.
Go ahead, Glenn. Yeah,I just left to miss it.

(39:43):
You guys are doing a walk fornight. It's a suicide walk, and
I'd like to be on that work, but I need someone to walk with.
So I what's a suicide walk.It's it's on. It's called the
night. Something about walk tonight.It's you guys do a bit. It's
the second of June, twenty secondsto take back the night walk. No,
I think that's something different. No, this is the walk the night.

(40:06):
It's June twenty second, from dustto dawn. It doesn't say weird.
I tell you what. Call metomorrow. I'll call you back.
We'll get more information. We'll haveto message with them. I have the
message with them. It's something yougive out. Okay. All I can
tell you is if you'll call metomorrow, I'll call it back and we'll
be able to straighten this out andI'll get the information for you fair enough.

(40:27):
All right, Thanks Lynn, appreciatethe call. All right, talk
to you Friday night during the twentiethhour. Done for the night, Rob,
great, great, great work tonight, Marita, Thank you very much.
Back tomorrow. We have Karen whosend me working the next two nights.
Marita is off. I will behere at four thirty tomorrow. I'll
be here right after the show onpostgame. I have some interesting comments to

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