July 8, 2025 • 41 mins
Bradley Jay Fills In On NightSide with Dan Rea
Bradley wanted to know what folks thought of the idea of a device to prevent cars from being able to go above a set speed.
Bradley wanted to know what folks thought of the idea of a device to prevent cars from being able to go above a set speed.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's night time with Dan Ray. I'm telling you Busy
and Boxton's Beach Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
All right, Brandy J.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
For Dan Ray. Settle in for a nice relaxing final
hour here. I've had my Reese's Peanut butter Cup for
the home stretch. Good chance to check in if you
didn't want to get involved in any actual topic. If
you somebody that just wants to chat, that's cool. There
are a couple of topics that I will throw out there,
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but you can just chat as well. Also, I want
to tell you what I want to catch you up
on things I've been doing since we last chatted, So
I guess I'll go with that first. If you want to,
by the way, see what I've been up to, you
can go to hold on.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I have to I have to cough very much.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
If you'd like to catch up on what I've been
up to since we last chatted, there was BRADLEYJ. Dot
Org and I'll run through some of the things during
the pandemic since I talked to you last. During the pandemic,
I put together a travel channel, our YouTube travel channel,
and during the pandemic I edited and voiced over and
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made original music for about one hundred and fifty videos
and that took that almost drove me crazy because it's
a lot of tweaky using using a mouse editing video.
One hundred and fifty videos.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
But I did have a lot of footage, and there
are travel videos that I, you know, narrate. I'm in
them as well. The video I have a I had
a gimbal so I could get real smooth movement shots
and I got some wireless mics. So there are interviews
from places. Some of the destinations on there include Jerusalem.
(02:01):
I went to Jerusalem just before the war broke the
current war broke out. That happened in October, and I
think I went in July, and so I just missed that.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
It's a pretty intense place.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Actually, I would say, if there's only one place to
go in your life, if you're a history person, yeah,
sure you could go to Rome, and that's true, but
nothing beats Jerusalem for intensity, for historical intensity. I mean,
the history goes so far back and it's you know,
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the most distilled versions of three major religions there, the Christians,
the Muslims, and the Jewish quarter all on the intense side.
And these these the quarters are located right beside each other,
to the point where if there are kids playing soccer
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or kicking the ball around and one of the kids
misses it, it rolls down a little alley and boom. It's
in the Muslim quarter. But interestingly, in the in the
quarter it sounds like New Orleans in the Old City.
They really have an interest in keeping the peace because
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violence in the Old city's bad for business.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
So it's really really quite safe.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
There if you can get there safely. I mean you
used to be safe, and hopefully it will be safe again.
But imagine living there, you know, but having missiles, I
mean missiles coming and going be part of your life.
It's really something that would be my number one destination.
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Other destinations include that you can see videos of, and
these are good examples. You might want to check them
out if you're thinking about going somewhere, although I don't
recommend going anywhere ever in the summer.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Really stay home.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Cairo, Moscow, Morocco and including Marrakesh, all the Eastern European
countries except Albania and Macedonia, all the regular Old European countries.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Again, don't go.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
It's if I had one piece of travel advice. Don't
go in the summer. Go in the winter. Go in
the freezing cold winter. Just wear a coat, figure out
when the off season is and go. Then you get
a better deal on the flight, You get a way
better deal on the lodging. You don't have to wade
through crowds of American tourists in Paris or wherever.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
And the other thing is, choose a place that.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
You want to go, somewhere where it really feels different,
like you went somewhere something a little exotic. Try to
find a place where a lot of American tourists don't go.
Like may I recommend tal in Estonia and do it
before the Russians take over they get a chance they will.
And people ask me about the language difference, don't sweat that.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Just go.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Anybody's selling anything has to speak English. Basically, hotels they're
going to speak English. If you need directions, choose a
younger person. Older people are less likely to speak English
in any of these countries. I like asking directions in
person because you get to interact and there you go.
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It's a Bradley Jay travel on YouTube. That's one thing,
but it's all everything.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
That I'm doing can be found at bradleyj dot org.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
There's also singing, there's the original music and as an aside.
Little story is something I was involved in just a
bit last year while I was well, you know what,
I got involved with being a karaoke host.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I love singing and I think karaoke is underrated. I
love it. About a year ago I started going on
my own.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Trying to and I'd go weeknights when nobody's there so
I could sing a bunch of times. Loved it, loved it,
loved it, and then decided I'm going to be a
karaoke host.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Do you like karaoke?
Speaker 3 (06:16):
What's your go to karaoke song? My go to karaoke
song is the Clash London Calling. I love banging that
one out. So what I did was that City Winery.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
I do this.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I host the chachy Beatles show called Come Together. It
used to be every month, now it's every it's quarterly.
The next one is John Lennon at City Winery. I
don't know if tickets are on self of that yet,
but keep an eye open. But while I was m
seeing that, the publicity guys said no, I said to him,
do you guys have karaoke here because I'd like to
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do it. He said no, and then twenty second later
he said, would you like to host one? And I
said yes without thinking about it because I had.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
To learn the karaoke app.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
I had to learn how to hook it up, the
videos and everything. But I did get it together and
did two karaoke nights and they both sold very well.
Actually the second one sold out in advance. And the
interesting thing was generally I like keeping people compartmentalized different
parts of my life because who knows if they're going
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to get along, and I don't want to be I
have to spend time worrying about if people are getting along.
But the thing was at this rock and rural karaoke
thing at City Winery.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Everyone I know from every corner of.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
My life was there in one room. It was pretty interesting.
I wish you could have been there. But I burned
out on being a karaoke host because generally, when you
do karaoke, you get like a lot of people singing
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Taylor Swift songs and everything, and I didn't want to
do that. I want to rock and roll karaoke, Bruce
Springsteen songs and stuff like that. Cuten's clear Water Revival
songs and as I say, I did the clash, So
that's something that I I.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Did sensory last spoke. What else well, I can't really remember,
but BRADLEYJ dot org has it all.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
I actually had these business cards made up with QR code.
Let me tell you do that. Do you have a
business card? Make one with a QR code to your website.
It is so great to hand out, especially if you
go on trips. It's a real good excuse us. It's
a real good way to start a conversation because they
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can see what you do immediately. They'll look at it
right on the spot. They'll say, oh, you're a DJ. Yeah,
check this out. Boom, They'll go right to the web,
your website, if you have a website. I can't recommend
that enough. A business card with the QR code. Now,
I mentioned that there were a couple of things that
you could chat about. Have an opinion on one. You
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just heard in the news on WBZ that there's a
move afoot to ban cell phones for kids in school.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
What do you think about that.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
I haven't had time to think about it much, so
let me think about it out loud with you on
the one hand, cell phone does allow parents to keep
track of the children. I guess in case of emergency
you can call them or the kids can call you.
There is that, But of course cell phones are like
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electronic cocaine. You do get addicted to them. And there's
this so much horribleness out there, so much you know,
so much pain he both real and manufactured, and.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Stuff kids shouldn't see. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
If they make a phone that just has one number,
why can't you do that? Not a pager, but a
phone that has one number. You just hit one button
and it calls your parent or the parent it's one
button and calls the kid. Why not do that? Then
you wouldn't have to to ban it. I did note
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in this horrible flooding in Texas where those on horrible
incident where those children died. I believe I heard they
didn't have cell phones and that was part of the problem.
They weren't able to get notified that there was a problem.
So there is a there is a value to the
cell phone, but I don't think a kid needs full
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cell phone with all the features. They don't need access
to the end the big bed ugly, weird, dangerous Internet
where do you standing on that? You think that's unnecessary?
If you're you a parent, do you want your kids
to have a phone, But do you really want your
kids to have a real full phone? The other thing
is this you might want to weigh in on, though,
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we should hurry up and break but reckless driving, as
you know, as a leading cause of traffic desk across
the country, and in response, several states are moving foward
to new laws to limit how fast people can drive.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Not just telling them.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
You can only drive fifty five, Sammy Hager, but actually
putting speed limited devices on cars, a governess which won't
let your car go any faster than what it's set for.
They're talking about setting it for one hundred. Do your
car won't drive any faster than one hundred? That hardly
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seems helpful. Some people will not want the heavy hand
of the state or the Feds telling him how fast
I can drive for actually affecting how fast a car
will go.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I myself, I like it. I don't.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
I don't know about you guys, but if the speed
lim is sixty five, do you go more than eighty?
I don't. Maybe I don't, and I don't feel bad.
I wouldn't feel bad if my car wouldn't go more
than eighty I'd be kind of glad, I guess, because
I wouldn't accidentally.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Go more than eighty.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
I'd like to see it myself, because very little irks
me as much as seeing somebody in say a Corvette
or a Lambo or any car going ninety five miles
an hour weaving on a traffic really creating a hazard.
I don't I don't see the need to allow, wow,
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people to go more than eighty five miles an hour
in a sixty five or eighty and a sixty five.
Is it just, you know, a matter of the freedom thing.
I'd like to know what you think on that. I'm
going to come out in favor of putting speed limiting
devices on cars. Of course, we can debate what would
be a good speed to set it at. In addition,
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I'd also like to see, and this could be done,
automatic punishments for using your.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Texting while driving. It's easy to do it.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
It'll be easy to know when somebody is both moving
in a car and using their phone. Why don't you
automatically get a ticket in the mail? You think that's
too heavy handed, too much government control.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Yeah, not me.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
I'm going to go with I want automatic enforcement on
not using cell phones in the car, and automatic and
force on cars or not even enforcement, just cars like
bumper cars.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
They can only go so fast. What do you think?
Six one seven Its WBZ.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
That's right, Bradley Jake for Dan tonight. I'm gonna give
you some more detail on this. The rumblings that you
might have speed limited devices installed on your car. By
the way, in Europe, all new.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Cars speed limited devices.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
I know.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Maybe you're not a fan of Europe, and I know
that America's will land of the free. I get it,
but I would like to be free from the hazards
posed by people going really fast and driving recklessly in
the highway. Recklessness causes Reckless driving is the leading cause
of traffic deaths across the country, and in response to that,
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some states are moving forward with new laws to limit
how fast people can drive, not just through penalties, but
actual technology that won't let you get your car go
fast any any above the limit. Speed limited devices are
becoming a part of the conversation and road safety, and
what they do is cap vehicle stop speed using GPS
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and other systems, reducing the chances of serious crashes. Already,
they're used in commercial fleets, and there are new proposals
that want to expand the use of this to the public,
especially for repeat offenders. I think they're being way too
slack and the way they use these, I would like
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to see more.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Stringent use of them. Six seven number to call.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Do you think this is an infringement of a freedom
or or it makes good sense governors on your car
to keep it from going too fast. Some states are
taking matters into their own hands by creating bills that
would prevent high speed driving and not only going over
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the speed limit, but also distracted driving while holding a
handheld device. They do have the technology you could do that.
I think the punishments should be tough for this. You're
risking people's lives. If you want to risk your life
doing something, fine, figure out a risky behavior that won't
hurt in me or my loved ones, or my listeners
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or my friends.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
By the way, I have to go to.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
An event, a sort of celebration of life for someone
who's killed in a car accident. That's not why I'm
talking about this, but just it happens to be the case,
it's pretty sad. Virginia, as it turns out, is the
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first to approve legislation requiring intelligence speed limited assistance devices
for drivers going over I guess what the speed is?
Speaker 2 (17:11):
One hundred miles an hour? Really?
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (17:16):
I don't see that? A lot? Does it happen in Virgidia?
A lot?
Speaker 3 (17:20):
The new law gives judges the option order these devices
as part of a sentence, offering an alternative to license,
suspension or jail time.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Okay, but one hundred miles per hour? Like?
Speaker 3 (17:34):
What about fifteen over the speed limit? Am I the
only do you guys want to go faster than fifteen
miles an hour over the speed limit? And when I
say guys, I mean everybody? Am I a slow poke?
Because I don't want to do that? Georgia quickly followed
with his own bill, waiting on the governor's signature. And
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in Washington they haven't even broader plan already in the works,
and Governor bout Ferguson signed they have a house built
fifteen ninety six signed into law, the Beam Act in
Washington State House Democrats official website, you can check it out.
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Starting in the next few years, certain Washington drivers will
need to install speed limiting device a speed limiting device
to get a restricted license after suspension for reckless driving
or excessive speeding. They had a demonstration state Capital, and
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I guess they work similarly to the ignition locks used
in dui cases, but instead of checking blood alcohol levels,
they use GPS to match the car speed to posted limits.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
What about this? What about just automatically having all cars
go the speed limit? What about that? I just raised
the speed limit to where it's where it's reasonable. Right now?
Speaker 3 (19:06):
The speed limits fifty five, I guess because they expect
people will drive sixty five. How about you just put
it at sixty five and your car won't go any
faster than sixty five? How about that? Is that I
am I being too conservative here? I should or too liberal?
Speaker 2 (19:32):
There's a law.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Named after four people who were killed by a speeding
driver near Renton, A person named BOYD Buster Brown, three
other persons. The driver, who had been involved with two
speeding related crashes in the previous ten months, was sentenced
to seventeen years in prison. Ooh man, you sure can't
get in trouble with your car. Six is our number.
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We had to great guest last night and tonight, and
I'll give you a little heads up on who's coming
in tomorrow night. We have Dean Michael Coyne, a fan favorite.
Dean con is the dean of the Massachusetts School of Law.
He's coming in it eight o'clock, coming in studio. That's cool.
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I wonder if he misses coming in at midnight like
he used to. I bet eight o'clock will be easier
for him. I'm sure he's having a nice summer, a
break from being the dean of the law school. And
after that, Professor Bob Allison from Suffolk University, whom he
may know. He was a guess to mind a number
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of times. He's a historian and his specialty is the
Revolution and everything to do with the Revolution. He's involved
with a group called Rev. Two fifty and there's a
series of events that are planned around the two hundred
and fiftieth anniversary. I have the Revolution hence to fifty,
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and he's going to detail what's coming up because there
are some cool things coming up. Actually, he's gonna the
next The next event has to do with Henry Knox.
You know Henry Knox's Henry Knox is the the person
who was tasked, and he might have volunteered to go
up to Fort tay konder Roga because that had been
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taken and there was some cannon up there that they
needed down here because the British were in the harbor
and they needed to get some heavy firepower up on
Dorchester Heidstick to get the British out of here. So
they sent up Henry Knox up there to Fort tykonder Roga.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
New York.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
And lug a bunch of big, giant, heavy cannon all
the way to Boston in the winter, and when there
are no roads, he's dragging these can and through the
woods over frozen lakes, a nearly impossible task, but they
do it.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
I get them here and pronto.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
They put them up on Dorchester Heights and build these
breastworks out of bush branches, I guess, out of wood
pieces to kind of camouflage them protect them.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
And then in the morning the British wake.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Up and they they take their spyglass out and they're
looking around and they say, what up on that hill there?
How they get cannon up there? And they had to leave,
and that's why they left I think they left and
went up to Canada and then maybe down in New York.
But Professor Bob Allison, he's going to give us the
real details. He's a super speaker and superhistorian. He's going
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to have all the details on that. I love that stuff.
And the other time, I'd like to talk about the
Battle of Bunker Hill.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
I just.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
I'm so impressed by the brave of those folks who
went up there and you know, defended Bunker Hill. Let's
take a quick break here on WBZ News Radio ten thirty.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Get some news.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
That's right, this is Nightside with Dan right Bradley Jay
and for Dan tonight and tomorrow for the remainder of
the show. Here just twenty something minutes open lines. I
see someone someone's popping on there.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
That's cool.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
But I've in the meantime, I'm going to devote the
rest of the time, other than when you call and
you can call about anything, to some travel tips. Since
we last spoke, you know, the last few years I did,
I did do a lot of traveling and I I've
come up with some real tips that i'd like to
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share with you some real dues and don'ts, and some
technological things that are really helpful as well. But we
do have Robert and Wellesley first, Bob and Wellesley six
one seven, two thirty.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Love to hear from you. Hi, Bob and Wellesley. What's
going on?
Speaker 5 (24:16):
Oh, mister Bradley J. And I sympathize with your mistake
with Evander Holyfield because I think one time I called
up and instead of calling you Bradley or mister Bradley G,
I think I think I addressed you as Jay. So
I apologize for that.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
You know what, though, don't feel bad. It's weird. Lots
of people do that. I can't figure it out. Even
people I know sometimes say, oh, you know, hey Jay, Okay, yeah,
that's okay.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
What's going on?
Speaker 5 (24:48):
And I thought that last hour was great. I didn't
catch all of it, but I thought that was that
was really great, and he learned some things I didn't
know about Marvin Hagler Battle for the Championship. You mentioned
the the law banning cell phones from high school kids.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Banning high school from school, banning cell phones from school kids.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
Yeah, right, when they put the hands free law through
the the Amateur Radio Organization lobby to have an exemption,
which I think makes sense uh to have so that
amateur radio operators were uh permitted to use a mobile radio. UH,
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so they were exempt from the hands free law like
a radio. No not a not a c be a
licensed amateur radio which is which is uh, which is uh,
which is an important credential. And so they were able
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to get that exemption for for amateur radio.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Difference the amateur radio if it's not CB radio, is
it some radio in the car.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
That h Amateur radio has many different forms to it.
It has small it's actually it it's.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
It does all.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
It permits amateurs to do experimental work. And that and
the help that helped bring about the existence of the
of the cell phone. It the amateur radio operators are
responsible for a first working prototype for.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Radios amateur radio. Right, CB radio's amateur radio.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
Right, it's not licensed amateur radio, and it's a it's
a it's a radio service that doesn't require a license
and whereas amateur radio requires an exam license.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
And there and there are several levels of of of licensing.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
And just before you go, my father had CB radio.
He built himself. He started every little resistor himself. I
still remember his handle, the hand.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
There was a lot of terrific work. And it used
to be a licensed radio service also. But she may
remember the cb craze. When was that back in the
oh I can think it was seventies, seventies, eighties seventies,
I think. And and unfortunately, the solid state electronics and
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mass production of of citizens band radios, uh sort of
radios fell into the hands of of everyone practically, and
then and then the uh, the the the good control
that they head over the radio service before that sort
of was sort of lost and people weren't weren't going
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by the by the rules. But anyways, uh so, amateur
radio fortunately is a is a licensed service and it
and it does require some study in order to get
a license in their various levels of license. And one
of the things you mentioned you wondered if it was
possible to have a cell phone that has a single telephone.
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I think there's something close to that. It's a the sponsor,
one of wbs's sponsors, I think rapid rapid radio.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Oh, well, that's cool. Yeah, it'd be good for kids
to just you know, have a thing with one button
on it. And that button calls your mother.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
It's it's something like that, I believe. Okay, thank you
very much for taking my call, and I hope it
was helpful to the conversation.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Yes, of course, Robert always I do appreciate it. That
was Chipping Blackstone.
Speaker 6 (28:38):
Hello Chip, Oh Bradley, I haven't talked to you for
a real long time.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
I know same here.
Speaker 6 (28:46):
I don't know if you remember, but I used to
work in a nursing home and I used to call
you like oh on your overnight program, right and I
worked at a nursing home in Milford, but I live
in Blackstone, and I remember telling you I had a
sixty seven Gretch Nashville and appro RIrA band from the
same year, and you seem to be impressed.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Yeah, I do you still have them?
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Oh? Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
I can't play very.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
I just sold a Gibson les Paul's studio and I'm
trying to sell a bass now.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
I'm trying to I'm trying to minimize.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
I got too much stuff, so anything going on in particularly,
I just want to.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
Say hi right right now, I'm mostly playing bass guitar
in church. But I had a stroke and I'm having
trouble playing my six strength, but I'm I'm pretty functional otherwise. Yeah,
I wanted to talk about that speed limit thing.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Oh good, I'm glad somebody did. I think it's important.
What do you think?
Speaker 6 (29:44):
I totally agree with you on that. That thing on
the highway when they go nineties, zipping in and out
in that it makes I almost have a nervous breakdown
when I'm driving the highway now, I don't even want
to drive on it anymore.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Oh man, Like.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
You know, I don't know if it's if it's the
American outlaw spirit that.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
We we really want to be able to.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Go one hundred and ten on the highway and we
want cars that can go one hundred and fifty and
we want to It's kind of like the Second Amendment
of cars.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
We want to do.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
We want to have the right to to go as
fast as we want.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
I don't mind if the man governs my car and
won't let me go more than fifteen miles over the
speed limit, even that I probably shouldn't be going.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
I hate it when I'm going.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
I'm trying to not die on the highway, Okay, I'm
trying to drive along and then somebody's blasting by me
at you know, ninety five miles an hour.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
I think, man, that's I don't there's nothing I can do.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
I would really like to do something, but there's nothing
I can do. I feel helpless.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
So it's right. I totally agree.
Speaker 6 (30:55):
I mean, if I can.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Go, it would be it would be eighty five. That
would be fine by me.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
I will sacrifice my right to go one hundred and
ten in order to take me.
Speaker 6 (31:09):
I know, I'm I like to, you know, what to
steal in at sixty five. I like to set my
cruise control and just take it easy and go. But
I mean, from the inside lane, it looks like you're
toewing people, you know.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
So okay, let me ask you this question. Let me
ask everybody this.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
If the speed limit is sixty five, what do you
set your cruise control at?
Speaker 6 (31:30):
I set mine at sixty five.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Okay, I'll set mine at seventy four. And by the way,
if there are any police officers listening, please tell me
tell us all how much slack.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
You give us.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
Please.
Speaker 6 (31:46):
Seems like a nowadays because it just doesn't any enforcement
not around here in New Hampshire.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
There there does seem to be more enforcement. I want
to know when I you know, when I see us
STATEY parked in a medium strip looking at speed, what's
cool with that?
Speaker 2 (32:06):
What's cool with that STATEY nine miles.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Over the speed limit? Just let me know and I'll
put my coups control on that and leave it there.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (32:14):
Absolutely, And you know you go that fast here, you're
at night on a highway. If a deer runs out
in front of you, what are you going to do then?
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (32:23):
And it's bad enough on the you know, the smaller
roads around town. And you know, I live in a
rural area. You really got to keep your ice peeled
for those.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Yes. So you live in the Blackstone Valley? Is that
where you live?
Speaker 4 (32:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (32:36):
Well Blackstone. Yeah, Blackstone's actually right next to one socket
Rhode Island. It's like the very southern tip of Worcester County,
but they cut the Blackstone Valley.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (32:47):
That Blackstone Valley is from like Worcester to Providence, Okay,
something like that.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Yeah, well that's excellent.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
What a good car ship. I hope you'll be you know,
feel free to call whenever I'm on. I really enjoyed
your call.
Speaker 6 (33:00):
Yeah, are you on any other stations or anything. I
know you probably can't say it over the air, but
are you doing any more radio anywhere?
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Uh? You know, I probably shouldn't say.
Speaker 6 (33:11):
Okay, if I gave you, if I gave you my
phone number, could you text me and let me know.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
You know what you do? Just go this is what
you do. Go to BRADLEYJ. Dot Org. Okay, all right,
take care and we have Oh look who it is.
Glenn Brighton will be up next on.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
WBZ It's Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ Boston's
news radio Bradley J.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Dan on Night's Side.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Hello, Dan, I hope you're enjoying your VKA. We have
Glenn and Brighton. Well, what do you know, It's been
a long time since I've talked to Glenn.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
What's going on? Glenn?
Speaker 4 (33:50):
Yeah, I'm going to come uge and you can call
me that. That's all right because when you were on
the left, I'm right. I was on the left, and
now you're on the right left and I'm on the right.
So it's kind of funny we crossed like ships in
a night. I'm sorry about last night. I had to
do Erondison Cleveland Circle and I missed Peter Wolf.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Oh yeah, why did you miss Peter Wolf? How could
you do that?
Speaker 4 (34:14):
I know because I wanted to see. First of all,
I wanted to tell him that I may go bankrupt,
and I wanted his number off the air. Maybe he'd
get me some work. I don't know if he would.
You know, two new pianos he might.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
You know, so you're going bankrupts?
Speaker 4 (34:28):
I may interesting, but that's not. And I also wanted
to ask him about an album. He had a live
album in the early seventies. Who actually it was Jay Giles.
I don't know if it was on Atlantic or Capital.
It was on the same label that Yes is on.
There was a tune that I loved. Serves your right
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to suffer, serves your right to be alone, because God
put me on this earth to be picked on by women.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
So I need to explain what you talking about for
somebody who might not know. At eight o'clock hour last night,
rocker Peter Wolf was on and called in to talk
about his really great book called Waiting on the.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Moon, where he shares stories of his.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Interactions lots of folks like Bob Dylan and Hey down Away,
et cetera, and Glenn wanted to be uh, call in,
but you got jammed up and you were in Cleveland Circle.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
Did you say I was returning empty cans for money? Yes,
at the liquor store. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Where did you get the cans? Cans that you used yourself?
Or did you collect?
Speaker 4 (35:33):
Yeah, diet ginger I mean not diet. Keep it a
dry ginger ale.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
You drink a lot of ginger ale.
Speaker 4 (35:40):
Okay, Yeah, and I read I get it from the
package store in where I live, and I returned the can.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
You know, so, we've known you a long time. I
want you to do I want you to do me
a favor. Tell us something about tell me something about
you that I don't know you. But you're a man
of many, many stories. But I know some of my
favorite stories about you, like how you fell in love
(36:07):
with the waitress at the Eagle Diner, lady.
Speaker 4 (36:10):
At the Delhi Oh my god, that was torch show gold.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Yeah, that was talk shoe gold.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
But and I know that your older brother used to
buy vodka and send you out to the swing sets
to keep you busy while he went in the house
with the girls.
Speaker 4 (36:25):
I know that, right.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
Tell me another story, tell me, give me another gem
from the Glenn in Brighton playbook.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
There's got to be a million. Is there anything that
you haven't shared that it's not violent?
Speaker 4 (36:40):
I haven't. I haven't had much of a life lately.
I just you know. But I was gonna ask Peter
Wolf if he remembers a guy named Cowboy Coogan. He
was a disc jockey on WNTNAM and his last broadcast
was Friday, June twenty seventy five, the day Joe Open
(37:00):
and he signed the station off the air with a
guy flowing out of a boat screaming for help, and
he drowned. And I'm wondering whatever happened, if he got
fired or if he quit. I never heard him again.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
How do you know that? Did you live in New
York or something?
Speaker 4 (37:14):
No? No, WNTN and Newton.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
Oh sorry, why did I think new York?
Speaker 4 (37:19):
When I said Newton, you told me said Neelork.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
I don't know that. I don't know about that. That's
interesting regarding Jaws. You're talking about Jaws interestingly, and I'm
kind of dating myself.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
I went to work.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Right after, right before college, actually on Martha's Vineyard at
the Seafood Shanty, and I was a potwasher. But the
thing is that was the year that Jaws came out,
and since it was shot on Martha's vineyard and we
were on the same beaches that were in the movie,
so well, most people were sort of petrified to go
(37:58):
in the water. We were all super pets because the
scenes like where the man's leg is btten up by
the shark and falls slowly to the ocean floor, like
we would go over that same bridge every day, and
so we were all super scared.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
The people that were there the year before me, they.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
Got to play softball and stuff with the cast and crew.
That must have been kind of fun playing softball with
Richard Dreyfuss and stuff. Anyway, what about a story?
Speaker 2 (38:29):
Come on? What else?
Speaker 4 (38:31):
Well? I do well? I used to go to Watertown.
I used to I used to go to a Baptist church.
But after two and a half years they said I'm
not biblical enough and they won't give me communion anymore.
Did so I found a nice church in wallfam They
give me commune. They give commune every week.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
That's interesting. So you got banned from a church for
not being well?
Speaker 4 (38:54):
I got banned from communion, not from the church.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Oh, so you weren't what enough biblical enough.
Speaker 4 (38:59):
Yeah, apparently you know you Can't's not enough to be
a Christian. You've got to be a biblical Christian. They
called me a cultural Christian, which is probably true.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
So they want you to be like Doug in Air.
They want you to.
Speaker 4 (39:16):
Yeah all the way. Yes, they want me to be
like Doug in the air. That's a good.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
What do you call that level of Christian? It's where you.
Speaker 4 (39:26):
Believe that the evangelical they're born again, born different, that the.
Speaker 3 (39:32):
Earth, uh yeah, was created them six thousand years ago,
and that sciences create.
Speaker 4 (39:40):
You believe in the end times?
Speaker 2 (39:42):
And you and did they test you? How do they
know you didn't believe?
Speaker 4 (39:46):
Well, that's what I don't know. They ask me they
didn't they just I don't know if they just I
don't know what they base how I behave on? I don't.
That's a good. They wouldn't tell me.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
How they how they were w to get communion.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
You open your mouth waiting for the wafer, and they
said nope, no, Glenn, no, what happened?
Speaker 5 (40:09):
No?
Speaker 4 (40:09):
No. When I came in before the service, the guy goes,
how are you doing? And he never says how you
doing unless he's angry, And I said, what's up? I said.
He says, as you know, we have comedian today. And
I said, yeah, what's what about it? You're you're not
to You're not to have it?
Speaker 2 (40:29):
Oh man, that's that, Glenn. Time's up. Shows over. I
appreciate the call, brother.
Speaker 4 (40:34):
Get my callt him arow night. I know it's I
don't know.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
You're going to talk to Rob about the policy. All right,
all right, but you did get quite a lot of time.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
That was fun. This is great.
Speaker 3 (40:45):
I gotta tell you, I loved, love, loved doing this
because I love connecting with the people, with the guests
and with you. Thank you very much, Rob Brooks for
working the wheel. That's what Peter Wolf used to say.
You know, when I was a producer for Peter Wolf
got Brad la Jay working. We have Rodbrooks working a
wheel tonight. Dan will be back real soon. I have
one more night and we're gonna have fun. With Michael
(41:06):
Coin on WBZ News Radio ten thirty
It's night time with Dan Ray. I'm telling you Busy
and Boxton's Beach Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
All right, Brandy J.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
For Dan Ray. Settle in for a nice relaxing final
hour here. I've had my Reese's Peanut butter Cup for
the home stretch. Good chance to check in if you
didn't want to get involved in any actual topic. If
you somebody that just wants to chat, that's cool. There
are a couple of topics that I will throw out there,
(00:31):
but you can just chat as well. Also, I want
to tell you what I want to catch you up
on things I've been doing since we last chatted, So
I guess I'll go with that first. If you want to,
by the way, see what I've been up to, you
can go to hold on.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I have to I have to cough very much.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
If you'd like to catch up on what I've been
up to since we last chatted, there was BRADLEYJ. Dot
Org and I'll run through some of the things during
the pandemic since I talked to you last. During the pandemic,
I put together a travel channel, our YouTube travel channel,
and during the pandemic I edited and voiced over and
(01:17):
made original music for about one hundred and fifty videos
and that took that almost drove me crazy because it's
a lot of tweaky using using a mouse editing video.
One hundred and fifty videos.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
But I did have a lot of footage, and there
are travel videos that I, you know, narrate. I'm in
them as well. The video I have a I had
a gimbal so I could get real smooth movement shots
and I got some wireless mics. So there are interviews
from places. Some of the destinations on there include Jerusalem.
(02:01):
I went to Jerusalem just before the war broke the
current war broke out. That happened in October, and I
think I went in July, and so I just missed that.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
It's a pretty intense place.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Actually, I would say, if there's only one place to
go in your life, if you're a history person, yeah,
sure you could go to Rome, and that's true, but
nothing beats Jerusalem for intensity, for historical intensity. I mean,
the history goes so far back and it's you know,
(02:37):
the most distilled versions of three major religions there, the Christians,
the Muslims, and the Jewish quarter all on the intense side.
And these these the quarters are located right beside each other,
to the point where if there are kids playing soccer
(03:00):
or kicking the ball around and one of the kids
misses it, it rolls down a little alley and boom. It's
in the Muslim quarter. But interestingly, in the in the
quarter it sounds like New Orleans in the Old City.
They really have an interest in keeping the peace because
(03:20):
violence in the Old city's bad for business.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
So it's really really quite safe.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
There if you can get there safely. I mean you
used to be safe, and hopefully it will be safe again.
But imagine living there, you know, but having missiles, I
mean missiles coming and going be part of your life.
It's really something that would be my number one destination.
(03:45):
Other destinations include that you can see videos of, and
these are good examples. You might want to check them
out if you're thinking about going somewhere, although I don't
recommend going anywhere ever in the summer.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Really stay home.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Cairo, Moscow, Morocco and including Marrakesh, all the Eastern European
countries except Albania and Macedonia, all the regular Old European countries.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Again, don't go.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
It's if I had one piece of travel advice. Don't
go in the summer. Go in the winter. Go in
the freezing cold winter. Just wear a coat, figure out
when the off season is and go. Then you get
a better deal on the flight, You get a way
better deal on the lodging. You don't have to wade
through crowds of American tourists in Paris or wherever.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
And the other thing is, choose a place that.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
You want to go, somewhere where it really feels different,
like you went somewhere something a little exotic. Try to
find a place where a lot of American tourists don't go.
Like may I recommend tal in Estonia and do it
before the Russians take over they get a chance they will.
And people ask me about the language difference, don't sweat that.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Just go.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Anybody's selling anything has to speak English. Basically, hotels they're
going to speak English. If you need directions, choose a
younger person. Older people are less likely to speak English
in any of these countries. I like asking directions in
person because you get to interact and there you go.
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It's a Bradley Jay travel on YouTube. That's one thing,
but it's all everything.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
That I'm doing can be found at bradleyj dot org.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
There's also singing, there's the original music and as an aside.
Little story is something I was involved in just a
bit last year while I was well, you know what,
I got involved with being a karaoke host.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
I love singing and I think karaoke is underrated. I
love it. About a year ago I started going on
my own.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Trying to and I'd go weeknights when nobody's there so
I could sing a bunch of times. Loved it, loved it,
loved it, and then decided I'm going to be a
karaoke host.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Do you like karaoke?
Speaker 3 (06:16):
What's your go to karaoke song? My go to karaoke
song is the Clash London Calling. I love banging that
one out. So what I did was that City Winery.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
I do this.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I host the chachy Beatles show called Come Together. It
used to be every month, now it's every it's quarterly.
The next one is John Lennon at City Winery. I
don't know if tickets are on self of that yet,
but keep an eye open. But while I was m
seeing that, the publicity guys said no, I said to him,
do you guys have karaoke here because I'd like to
(06:56):
do it. He said no, and then twenty second later
he said, would you like to host one? And I
said yes without thinking about it because I had.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
To learn the karaoke app.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
I had to learn how to hook it up, the
videos and everything. But I did get it together and
did two karaoke nights and they both sold very well.
Actually the second one sold out in advance. And the
interesting thing was generally I like keeping people compartmentalized different
parts of my life because who knows if they're going
(07:29):
to get along, and I don't want to be I
have to spend time worrying about if people are getting along.
But the thing was at this rock and rural karaoke
thing at City Winery.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Everyone I know from every corner of.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
My life was there in one room. It was pretty interesting.
I wish you could have been there. But I burned
out on being a karaoke host because generally, when you
do karaoke, you get like a lot of people singing
(08:06):
Taylor Swift songs and everything, and I didn't want to
do that. I want to rock and roll karaoke, Bruce
Springsteen songs and stuff like that. Cuten's clear Water Revival
songs and as I say, I did the clash, So
that's something that I I.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Did sensory last spoke. What else well, I can't really remember,
but BRADLEYJ dot org has it all.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
I actually had these business cards made up with QR code.
Let me tell you do that. Do you have a
business card? Make one with a QR code to your website.
It is so great to hand out, especially if you
go on trips. It's a real good excuse us. It's
a real good way to start a conversation because they
(08:56):
can see what you do immediately. They'll look at it
right on the spot. They'll say, oh, you're a DJ. Yeah,
check this out. Boom, They'll go right to the web,
your website, if you have a website. I can't recommend
that enough. A business card with the QR code. Now,
I mentioned that there were a couple of things that
you could chat about. Have an opinion on one. You
(09:20):
just heard in the news on WBZ that there's a
move afoot to ban cell phones for kids in school.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
What do you think about that.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
I haven't had time to think about it much, so
let me think about it out loud with you on
the one hand, cell phone does allow parents to keep
track of the children. I guess in case of emergency
you can call them or the kids can call you.
There is that, But of course cell phones are like
(09:55):
electronic cocaine. You do get addicted to them. And there's
this so much horribleness out there, so much you know,
so much pain he both real and manufactured, and.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Stuff kids shouldn't see. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
If they make a phone that just has one number,
why can't you do that? Not a pager, but a
phone that has one number. You just hit one button
and it calls your parent or the parent it's one
button and calls the kid. Why not do that? Then
you wouldn't have to to ban it. I did note
(10:36):
in this horrible flooding in Texas where those on horrible
incident where those children died. I believe I heard they
didn't have cell phones and that was part of the problem.
They weren't able to get notified that there was a problem.
So there is a there is a value to the
cell phone, but I don't think a kid needs full
(10:58):
cell phone with all the features. They don't need access
to the end the big bed ugly, weird, dangerous Internet
where do you standing on that? You think that's unnecessary?
If you're you a parent, do you want your kids
to have a phone, But do you really want your
kids to have a real full phone? The other thing
is this you might want to weigh in on, though,
(11:21):
we should hurry up and break but reckless driving, as
you know, as a leading cause of traffic desk across
the country, and in response, several states are moving foward
to new laws to limit how fast people can drive.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Not just telling them.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
You can only drive fifty five, Sammy Hager, but actually
putting speed limited devices on cars, a governess which won't
let your car go any faster than what it's set for.
They're talking about setting it for one hundred. Do your
car won't drive any faster than one hundred? That hardly
(11:55):
seems helpful. Some people will not want the heavy hand
of the state or the Feds telling him how fast
I can drive for actually affecting how fast a car
will go.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I myself, I like it. I don't.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
I don't know about you guys, but if the speed
lim is sixty five, do you go more than eighty?
I don't. Maybe I don't, and I don't feel bad.
I wouldn't feel bad if my car wouldn't go more
than eighty I'd be kind of glad, I guess, because
I wouldn't accidentally.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Go more than eighty.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
I'd like to see it myself, because very little irks
me as much as seeing somebody in say a Corvette
or a Lambo or any car going ninety five miles
an hour weaving on a traffic really creating a hazard.
I don't I don't see the need to allow, wow,
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people to go more than eighty five miles an hour
in a sixty five or eighty and a sixty five.
Is it just, you know, a matter of the freedom thing.
I'd like to know what you think on that. I'm
going to come out in favor of putting speed limiting
devices on cars. Of course, we can debate what would
be a good speed to set it at. In addition,
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I'd also like to see, and this could be done,
automatic punishments for using your.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Texting while driving. It's easy to do it.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
It'll be easy to know when somebody is both moving
in a car and using their phone. Why don't you
automatically get a ticket in the mail? You think that's
too heavy handed, too much government control.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Yeah, not me.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
I'm going to go with I want automatic enforcement on
not using cell phones in the car, and automatic and
force on cars or not even enforcement, just cars like
bumper cars.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
They can only go so fast. What do you think?
Six one seven Its WBZ.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
That's right, Bradley Jake for Dan tonight. I'm gonna give
you some more detail on this. The rumblings that you
might have speed limited devices installed on your car. By
the way, in Europe, all new.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Cars speed limited devices.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
I know.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Maybe you're not a fan of Europe, and I know
that America's will land of the free. I get it,
but I would like to be free from the hazards
posed by people going really fast and driving recklessly in
the highway. Recklessness causes Reckless driving is the leading cause
of traffic deaths across the country, and in response to that,
(15:00):
some states are moving forward with new laws to limit
how fast people can drive, not just through penalties, but
actual technology that won't let you get your car go
fast any any above the limit. Speed limited devices are
becoming a part of the conversation and road safety, and
what they do is cap vehicle stop speed using GPS
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and other systems, reducing the chances of serious crashes. Already,
they're used in commercial fleets, and there are new proposals
that want to expand the use of this to the public,
especially for repeat offenders. I think they're being way too
slack and the way they use these, I would like
(15:42):
to see more.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Stringent use of them. Six seven number to call.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Do you think this is an infringement of a freedom
or or it makes good sense governors on your car
to keep it from going too fast. Some states are
taking matters into their own hands by creating bills that
would prevent high speed driving and not only going over
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the speed limit, but also distracted driving while holding a
handheld device. They do have the technology you could do that.
I think the punishments should be tough for this. You're
risking people's lives. If you want to risk your life
doing something, fine, figure out a risky behavior that won't
hurt in me or my loved ones, or my listeners
(16:34):
or my friends.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
By the way, I have to go to.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
An event, a sort of celebration of life for someone
who's killed in a car accident. That's not why I'm
talking about this, but just it happens to be the case,
it's pretty sad. Virginia, as it turns out, is the
(17:02):
first to approve legislation requiring intelligence speed limited assistance devices
for drivers going over I guess what the speed is?
Speaker 2 (17:11):
One hundred miles an hour? Really?
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (17:16):
I don't see that? A lot? Does it happen in Virgidia?
A lot?
Speaker 3 (17:20):
The new law gives judges the option order these devices
as part of a sentence, offering an alternative to license,
suspension or jail time.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Okay, but one hundred miles per hour? Like?
Speaker 3 (17:34):
What about fifteen over the speed limit? Am I the
only do you guys want to go faster than fifteen
miles an hour over the speed limit? And when I
say guys, I mean everybody? Am I a slow poke?
Because I don't want to do that? Georgia quickly followed
with his own bill, waiting on the governor's signature. And
(17:58):
in Washington they haven't even broader plan already in the works,
and Governor bout Ferguson signed they have a house built
fifteen ninety six signed into law, the Beam Act in
Washington State House Democrats official website, you can check it out.
(18:19):
Starting in the next few years, certain Washington drivers will
need to install speed limiting device a speed limiting device
to get a restricted license after suspension for reckless driving
or excessive speeding. They had a demonstration state Capital, and
(18:40):
I guess they work similarly to the ignition locks used
in dui cases, but instead of checking blood alcohol levels,
they use GPS to match the car speed to posted limits.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
What about this? What about just automatically having all cars
go the speed limit? What about that? I just raised
the speed limit to where it's where it's reasonable. Right now?
Speaker 3 (19:06):
The speed limits fifty five, I guess because they expect
people will drive sixty five. How about you just put
it at sixty five and your car won't go any
faster than sixty five? How about that? Is that I
am I being too conservative here? I should or too liberal?
Speaker 2 (19:32):
There's a law.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Named after four people who were killed by a speeding
driver near Renton, A person named BOYD Buster Brown, three
other persons. The driver, who had been involved with two
speeding related crashes in the previous ten months, was sentenced
to seventeen years in prison. Ooh man, you sure can't
get in trouble with your car. Six is our number.
(19:58):
We had to great guest last night and tonight, and
I'll give you a little heads up on who's coming
in tomorrow night. We have Dean Michael Coyne, a fan favorite.
Dean con is the dean of the Massachusetts School of Law.
He's coming in it eight o'clock, coming in studio. That's cool.
(20:19):
I wonder if he misses coming in at midnight like
he used to. I bet eight o'clock will be easier
for him. I'm sure he's having a nice summer, a
break from being the dean of the law school. And
after that, Professor Bob Allison from Suffolk University, whom he
may know. He was a guess to mind a number
(20:41):
of times. He's a historian and his specialty is the
Revolution and everything to do with the Revolution. He's involved
with a group called Rev. Two fifty and there's a
series of events that are planned around the two hundred
and fiftieth anniversary. I have the Revolution hence to fifty,
(21:02):
and he's going to detail what's coming up because there
are some cool things coming up. Actually, he's gonna the
next The next event has to do with Henry Knox.
You know Henry Knox's Henry Knox is the the person
who was tasked, and he might have volunteered to go
up to Fort tay konder Roga because that had been
(21:24):
taken and there was some cannon up there that they
needed down here because the British were in the harbor
and they needed to get some heavy firepower up on
Dorchester Heidstick to get the British out of here. So
they sent up Henry Knox up there to Fort tykonder Roga.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
New York.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
And lug a bunch of big, giant, heavy cannon all
the way to Boston in the winter, and when there
are no roads, he's dragging these can and through the
woods over frozen lakes, a nearly impossible task, but they
do it.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
I get them here and pronto.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
They put them up on Dorchester Heights and build these
breastworks out of bush branches, I guess, out of wood
pieces to kind of camouflage them protect them.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
And then in the morning the British wake.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Up and they they take their spyglass out and they're
looking around and they say, what up on that hill there?
How they get cannon up there? And they had to leave,
and that's why they left I think they left and
went up to Canada and then maybe down in New York.
But Professor Bob Allison, he's going to give us the
real details. He's a super speaker and superhistorian. He's going
(22:50):
to have all the details on that. I love that stuff.
And the other time, I'd like to talk about the
Battle of Bunker Hill.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
I just.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
I'm so impressed by the brave of those folks who
went up there and you know, defended Bunker Hill. Let's
take a quick break here on WBZ News Radio ten thirty.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Get some news.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
That's right, this is Nightside with Dan right Bradley Jay
and for Dan tonight and tomorrow for the remainder of
the show. Here just twenty something minutes open lines. I
see someone someone's popping on there.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
That's cool.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
But I've in the meantime, I'm going to devote the
rest of the time, other than when you call and
you can call about anything, to some travel tips. Since
we last spoke, you know, the last few years I did,
I did do a lot of traveling and I I've
come up with some real tips that i'd like to
(23:56):
share with you some real dues and don'ts, and some
technological things that are really helpful as well. But we
do have Robert and Wellesley first, Bob and Wellesley six
one seven, two thirty.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Love to hear from you. Hi, Bob and Wellesley. What's
going on?
Speaker 5 (24:16):
Oh, mister Bradley J. And I sympathize with your mistake
with Evander Holyfield because I think one time I called
up and instead of calling you Bradley or mister Bradley G,
I think I think I addressed you as Jay. So
I apologize for that.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
You know what, though, don't feel bad. It's weird. Lots
of people do that. I can't figure it out. Even
people I know sometimes say, oh, you know, hey Jay, Okay, yeah,
that's okay.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
What's going on?
Speaker 5 (24:48):
And I thought that last hour was great. I didn't
catch all of it, but I thought that was that
was really great, and he learned some things I didn't
know about Marvin Hagler Battle for the Championship. You mentioned
the the law banning cell phones from high school kids.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Banning high school from school, banning cell phones from school kids.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
Yeah, right, when they put the hands free law through
the the Amateur Radio Organization lobby to have an exemption,
which I think makes sense uh to have so that
amateur radio operators were uh permitted to use a mobile radio. UH,
(25:35):
so they were exempt from the hands free law like
a radio. No not a not a c be a
licensed amateur radio which is which is uh, which is uh,
which is an important credential. And so they were able
(25:55):
to get that exemption for for amateur radio.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Difference the amateur radio if it's not CB radio, is
it some radio in the car.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
That h Amateur radio has many different forms to it.
It has small it's actually it it's.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
It does all.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
It permits amateurs to do experimental work. And that and
the help that helped bring about the existence of the
of the cell phone. It the amateur radio operators are
responsible for a first working prototype for.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Radios amateur radio. Right, CB radio's amateur radio.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
Right, it's not licensed amateur radio, and it's a it's
a it's a radio service that doesn't require a license
and whereas amateur radio requires an exam license.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
And there and there are several levels of of of licensing.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
And just before you go, my father had CB radio.
He built himself. He started every little resistor himself. I
still remember his handle, the hand.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
There was a lot of terrific work. And it used
to be a licensed radio service also. But she may
remember the cb craze. When was that back in the
oh I can think it was seventies, seventies, eighties seventies,
I think. And and unfortunately, the solid state electronics and
(27:24):
mass production of of citizens band radios, uh sort of
radios fell into the hands of of everyone practically, and
then and then the uh, the the the good control
that they head over the radio service before that sort
of was sort of lost and people weren't weren't going
(27:46):
by the by the rules. But anyways, uh so, amateur
radio fortunately is a is a licensed service and it
and it does require some study in order to get
a license in their various levels of license. And one
of the things you mentioned you wondered if it was
possible to have a cell phone that has a single telephone.
(28:08):
I think there's something close to that. It's a the sponsor,
one of wbs's sponsors, I think rapid rapid radio.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Oh, well, that's cool. Yeah, it'd be good for kids
to just you know, have a thing with one button
on it. And that button calls your mother.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
It's it's something like that, I believe. Okay, thank you
very much for taking my call, and I hope it
was helpful to the conversation.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Yes, of course, Robert always I do appreciate it. That
was Chipping Blackstone.
Speaker 6 (28:38):
Hello Chip, Oh Bradley, I haven't talked to you for
a real long time.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
I know same here.
Speaker 6 (28:46):
I don't know if you remember, but I used to
work in a nursing home and I used to call
you like oh on your overnight program, right and I
worked at a nursing home in Milford, but I live
in Blackstone, and I remember telling you I had a
sixty seven Gretch Nashville and appro RIrA band from the
same year, and you seem to be impressed.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Yeah, I do you still have them?
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Oh? Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (29:12):
I can't play very.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
I just sold a Gibson les Paul's studio and I'm
trying to sell a bass now.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
I'm trying to I'm trying to minimize.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
I got too much stuff, so anything going on in particularly,
I just want to.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
Say hi right right now, I'm mostly playing bass guitar
in church. But I had a stroke and I'm having
trouble playing my six strength, but I'm I'm pretty functional otherwise. Yeah,
I wanted to talk about that speed limit thing.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Oh good, I'm glad somebody did. I think it's important.
What do you think?
Speaker 6 (29:44):
I totally agree with you on that. That thing on
the highway when they go nineties, zipping in and out
in that it makes I almost have a nervous breakdown
when I'm driving the highway now, I don't even want
to drive on it anymore.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Oh man, Like.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
You know, I don't know if it's if it's the
American outlaw spirit that.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
We we really want to be able to.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Go one hundred and ten on the highway and we
want cars that can go one hundred and fifty and
we want to It's kind of like the Second Amendment
of cars.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
We want to do.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
We want to have the right to to go as
fast as we want.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (30:25):
I don't mind if the man governs my car and
won't let me go more than fifteen miles over the
speed limit, even that I probably shouldn't be going.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
I hate it when I'm going.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
I'm trying to not die on the highway, Okay, I'm
trying to drive along and then somebody's blasting by me
at you know, ninety five miles an hour.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
I think, man, that's I don't there's nothing I can do.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
I would really like to do something, but there's nothing
I can do. I feel helpless.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
So it's right. I totally agree.
Speaker 6 (30:55):
I mean, if I can.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Go, it would be it would be eighty five. That
would be fine by me.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
I will sacrifice my right to go one hundred and
ten in order to take me.
Speaker 6 (31:09):
I know, I'm I like to, you know, what to
steal in at sixty five. I like to set my
cruise control and just take it easy and go. But
I mean, from the inside lane, it looks like you're
toewing people, you know.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
So okay, let me ask you this question. Let me
ask everybody this.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
If the speed limit is sixty five, what do you
set your cruise control at?
Speaker 6 (31:30):
I set mine at sixty five.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Okay, I'll set mine at seventy four. And by the way,
if there are any police officers listening, please tell me
tell us all how much slack.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
You give us.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
Please.
Speaker 6 (31:46):
Seems like a nowadays because it just doesn't any enforcement
not around here in New Hampshire.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
There there does seem to be more enforcement. I want
to know when I you know, when I see us
STATEY parked in a medium strip looking at speed, what's
cool with that?
Speaker 2 (32:06):
What's cool with that STATEY nine miles.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Over the speed limit? Just let me know and I'll
put my coups control on that and leave it there.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (32:14):
Absolutely, And you know you go that fast here, you're
at night on a highway. If a deer runs out
in front of you, what are you going to do then?
Speaker 2 (32:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (32:23):
And it's bad enough on the you know, the smaller
roads around town. And you know, I live in a
rural area. You really got to keep your ice peeled
for those.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Yes. So you live in the Blackstone Valley? Is that
where you live?
Speaker 4 (32:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (32:36):
Well Blackstone. Yeah, Blackstone's actually right next to one socket
Rhode Island. It's like the very southern tip of Worcester County,
but they cut the Blackstone Valley.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (32:47):
That Blackstone Valley is from like Worcester to Providence, Okay,
something like that.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Yeah, well that's excellent.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
What a good car ship. I hope you'll be you know,
feel free to call whenever I'm on. I really enjoyed
your call.
Speaker 6 (33:00):
Yeah, are you on any other stations or anything. I
know you probably can't say it over the air, but
are you doing any more radio anywhere?
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Uh? You know, I probably shouldn't say.
Speaker 6 (33:11):
Okay, if I gave you, if I gave you my
phone number, could you text me and let me know.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
You know what you do? Just go this is what
you do. Go to BRADLEYJ. Dot Org. Okay, all right,
take care and we have Oh look who it is.
Glenn Brighton will be up next on.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
WBZ It's Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ Boston's
news radio Bradley J.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Dan on Night's Side.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Hello, Dan, I hope you're enjoying your VKA. We have
Glenn and Brighton. Well, what do you know, It's been
a long time since I've talked to Glenn.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
What's going on? Glenn?
Speaker 4 (33:50):
Yeah, I'm going to come uge and you can call
me that. That's all right because when you were on
the left, I'm right. I was on the left, and
now you're on the right left and I'm on the right.
So it's kind of funny we crossed like ships in
a night. I'm sorry about last night. I had to
do Erondison Cleveland Circle and I missed Peter Wolf.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Oh yeah, why did you miss Peter Wolf? How could
you do that?
Speaker 4 (34:14):
I know because I wanted to see. First of all,
I wanted to tell him that I may go bankrupt,
and I wanted his number off the air. Maybe he'd
get me some work. I don't know if he would.
You know, two new pianos he might.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
You know, so you're going bankrupts?
Speaker 4 (34:28):
I may interesting, but that's not. And I also wanted
to ask him about an album. He had a live
album in the early seventies. Who actually it was Jay Giles.
I don't know if it was on Atlantic or Capital.
It was on the same label that Yes is on.
There was a tune that I loved. Serves your right
(34:50):
to suffer, serves your right to be alone, because God
put me on this earth to be picked on by women.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
So I need to explain what you talking about for
somebody who might not know. At eight o'clock hour last night,
rocker Peter Wolf was on and called in to talk
about his really great book called Waiting on the.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Moon, where he shares stories of his.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Interactions lots of folks like Bob Dylan and Hey down Away,
et cetera, and Glenn wanted to be uh, call in,
but you got jammed up and you were in Cleveland Circle.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
Did you say I was returning empty cans for money? Yes,
at the liquor store. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
Where did you get the cans? Cans that you used yourself?
Or did you collect?
Speaker 4 (35:33):
Yeah, diet ginger I mean not diet. Keep it a
dry ginger ale.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
You drink a lot of ginger ale.
Speaker 4 (35:40):
Okay, Yeah, and I read I get it from the
package store in where I live, and I returned the can.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
You know, so, we've known you a long time. I
want you to do I want you to do me
a favor. Tell us something about tell me something about
you that I don't know you. But you're a man
of many, many stories. But I know some of my
favorite stories about you, like how you fell in love
(36:07):
with the waitress at the Eagle Diner, lady.
Speaker 4 (36:10):
At the Delhi Oh my god, that was torch show gold.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Yeah, that was talk shoe gold.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
But and I know that your older brother used to
buy vodka and send you out to the swing sets
to keep you busy while he went in the house
with the girls.
Speaker 4 (36:25):
I know that, right.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
Tell me another story, tell me, give me another gem
from the Glenn in Brighton playbook.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
There's got to be a million. Is there anything that
you haven't shared that it's not violent?
Speaker 4 (36:40):
I haven't. I haven't had much of a life lately.
I just you know. But I was gonna ask Peter
Wolf if he remembers a guy named Cowboy Coogan. He
was a disc jockey on WNTNAM and his last broadcast
was Friday, June twenty seventy five, the day Joe Open
(37:00):
and he signed the station off the air with a
guy flowing out of a boat screaming for help, and
he drowned. And I'm wondering whatever happened, if he got
fired or if he quit. I never heard him again.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
How do you know that? Did you live in New
York or something?
Speaker 4 (37:14):
No? No, WNTN and Newton.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
Oh sorry, why did I think new York?
Speaker 4 (37:19):
When I said Newton, you told me said Neelork.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
I don't know that. I don't know about that. That's
interesting regarding Jaws. You're talking about Jaws interestingly, and I'm
kind of dating myself.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
I went to work.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
Right after, right before college, actually on Martha's Vineyard at
the Seafood Shanty, and I was a potwasher. But the
thing is that was the year that Jaws came out,
and since it was shot on Martha's vineyard and we
were on the same beaches that were in the movie,
so well, most people were sort of petrified to go
(37:58):
in the water. We were all super pets because the
scenes like where the man's leg is btten up by
the shark and falls slowly to the ocean floor, like
we would go over that same bridge every day, and
so we were all super scared.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
The people that were there the year before me, they.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
Got to play softball and stuff with the cast and crew.
That must have been kind of fun playing softball with
Richard Dreyfuss and stuff. Anyway, what about a story?
Speaker 2 (38:29):
Come on? What else?
Speaker 4 (38:31):
Well? I do well? I used to go to Watertown.
I used to I used to go to a Baptist church.
But after two and a half years they said I'm
not biblical enough and they won't give me communion anymore.
Did so I found a nice church in wallfam They
give me commune. They give commune every week.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
That's interesting. So you got banned from a church for
not being well?
Speaker 4 (38:54):
I got banned from communion, not from the church.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Oh, so you weren't what enough biblical enough.
Speaker 4 (38:59):
Yeah, apparently you know you Can't's not enough to be
a Christian. You've got to be a biblical Christian. They
called me a cultural Christian, which is probably true.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
So they want you to be like Doug in Air.
They want you to.
Speaker 4 (39:16):
Yeah all the way. Yes, they want me to be
like Doug in the air. That's a good.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
What do you call that level of Christian? It's where you.
Speaker 4 (39:26):
Believe that the evangelical they're born again, born different, that the.
Speaker 3 (39:32):
Earth, uh yeah, was created them six thousand years ago,
and that sciences create.
Speaker 4 (39:40):
You believe in the end times?
Speaker 2 (39:42):
And you and did they test you? How do they
know you didn't believe?
Speaker 4 (39:46):
Well, that's what I don't know. They ask me they
didn't they just I don't know if they just I
don't know what they base how I behave on? I don't.
That's a good. They wouldn't tell me.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
How they how they were w to get communion.
Speaker 3 (40:01):
You open your mouth waiting for the wafer, and they
said nope, no, Glenn, no, what happened?
Speaker 5 (40:09):
No?
Speaker 4 (40:09):
No. When I came in before the service, the guy goes,
how are you doing? And he never says how you
doing unless he's angry, And I said, what's up? I said.
He says, as you know, we have comedian today. And
I said, yeah, what's what about it? You're you're not
to You're not to have it?
Speaker 2 (40:29):
Oh man, that's that, Glenn. Time's up. Shows over. I
appreciate the call, brother.
Speaker 4 (40:34):
Get my callt him arow night. I know it's I
don't know.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
You're going to talk to Rob about the policy. All right,
all right, but you did get quite a lot of time.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
That was fun. This is great.
Speaker 3 (40:45):
I gotta tell you, I loved, love, loved doing this
because I love connecting with the people, with the guests
and with you. Thank you very much, Rob Brooks for
working the wheel. That's what Peter Wolf used to say.
You know, when I was a producer for Peter Wolf
got Brad la Jay working. We have Rodbrooks working a
wheel tonight. Dan will be back real soon. I have
one more night and we're gonna have fun. With Michael
(41:06):
Coin on WBZ News Radio ten thirty
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