December 24, 2025 • 42 mins
It was Christmas Eve, and Bradley wanted to know all about your traditions! Listen to him talk about everything Christmas related! From your favorite movies to your favorite dishes to prepare. Bradley also wanted to know: Are you a fan of Yankee Swaps and how do you play? Do you have a real tree or a fake one, and how long do you keep it up? Do you wrap your gifts or is it just a big toy store under the tree – do you remove the price tags? What’s in the stockings these days, and how does it differ from yesteryear? What do you do with the Christmas cards after the holiday? How far do you travel and who are you visiting – are you happy about it, or is it a drag? Bradley welcomed all to join him for some good old-fashioned WBZ family Christmas fun!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I'm telling you easy Boston News Radio. Thank you again.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Al.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
It is Nightside. I'm Brady j for Dan tonight and
it's all things Christmas. Kind of a Christmas open house
if you will come on in virtually talk about Christmas
stuff or other stuff that might pop up if you
had popped into somebody's house.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
To talk about Christmas. We have Jeff in Wakefield. Now, Hey,
how we How are you? Jeff?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I happen to know Jeff. I've known Jeff a long
long time. Jeff's the person who makes his living with
his voice, and he's been the voice of It's like
some big time games like the Grand Theft Auto and
stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Right, Jeff.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Yeah, but I'm not going to charge you for this one.
All right, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
So what's going on?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Well, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Eve.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
You triggered me when you were talking earlier about gifting,
because that's obviously a central tenant of the holiday. Yeah.
And so we have a similar background, I guess, and
that we worked at fairly big radio stations in the eighties.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
And I was, like, you know, in my early twenties,
and I got my first job and I was doing,
you know, producing commercials for the sales department, and I
was shocked at Christmas time when a pile of gifts
was on my desk from from every manager. Every single
manager gave me like a significant gift. Some of them
were worth hundreds of dollars, you know. One gave away
(01:31):
bottles of I think it was great Western champagne. And
at the time I'd only drinking Corbelle, you know, so
suddenly I was spoiled. Yeah, so I was. I was
really taken aback by it, by the generosity, and it
was exciting and thrilling, but at the same time, it
was intimidating because I do I need to reciprocate, you know.
It's like I can't afford to gift everybody else.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Back, you know, So what did you do nothing?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Right? Well? That year, I did nothing. That the following year,
I you know, I yes, I was prudent. I'd give
gifts to my friends, my colleagues, and the pressure kind
of like every year you're you're under a lot of pressure.
You have to give an appropriate gift. Will they you know,
will they like it? Is? Do they need it? Yeah?
And that's I think a rudimentary reason that the holidays
(02:16):
is considered so stressful. So my very very close dear
friends who I'm friends with to this day, even though
that was all like forty years ago. When you're really
really good friends with someone, you agree to not get
each other gifts at all.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
You give the gift of not having to give a gift.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Right, You just absolve each other. It's like, take me
off the list of don't stress out over me. I
want to stress out over you, and and and we'll
just continue being good friends all year.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
You know, you can spend that money on a meal together.
That's you know, take what you want to spend and
you can go to some fancy place.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yeah, but that also that happened. That's ongoing throughout the year, though,
isn't it. You go out with friends, it's like, yeah,
this one's on me. You know, you show your generosity.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Oh yeah, I'm glad.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
You brought that up a recent Do you do the
it's on me? Or do you split checks? What do
you do? That's this is a germane thing. Because it's Christmas,
people go out. How do you roll with that?
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Do you?
Speaker 1 (03:10):
It's case by case. I just had a dinner with
a friend mutual friend actually, and he's having a hard time.
He's not making any money right now, he's living in
low rerent situations. I covered his meal. I could afford it,
and I thought it was the right thing to do
at that day.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
But what if it's not a situation.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Like that another friend who is very wealthy, we split
it half and half.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Yeah, okay, And what about separate checks.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
I don't do that. You know, what, if I'm going
to go out to eat, I'll get cash beforehand and
then just give them the equivalent in cash. I don't
want to make it a hassle for the wait staff.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I know.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I have a friend in the business and she says
she refuses. I think that her maximum is three or four.
Like if she gets a party of six and I
say che chick actually goes Nope. She just says no,
not doing it, can't do it. I hope she probably
says it in a nice way so she gets a tip.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
But I myself, I.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Know, if it weren't for the hassle for the server,
I would get separate checks. Because some days I'm feeling thrifty,
other days I'm feeling like, wow, I want to get
that crazy thing, and I don't want to be a
burden to the others.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Yeah, I suppose.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
You know one thing that happens, it's it's strange is
the check comes and it's all one check and someone says, okay,
just figure out what did you have?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
What did you have? What did you have? Okay, Well
added up somehow there's.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
A giant deficit always like we're always thirty bucks short, and.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
I don't know how that happens.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Yeah, I figured I've had like twenty or thirty dollars
worth of stuff, and I ended up giving them like
fifty or sixty.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Well that's that's very nice.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Well, well that's how it turns out because otherwise, when
I'll be leaving them, you know, stuck, there won't be
enough money to cover the check. And we got to
go to the check.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Better to pay a little bit and be a hero
a little bit more and be a hero then sheep
out and have everybody go, oh, man, that guy, Jeff.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Yeah, I mean, I'm fortunate that I can afford to
very often just cover it for my friends and be
that guy, because other people do that for me when
I was not in this position. So I guess that's
a way of paying it forward, and I don't expect it.
I'll always be in this position. Who knows what kind
of economic turmoil lies ahead for all of us, So
you know, I'll just be generous while I can. I guess, well, I.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Appreciate your call.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Man. It's really cool that it's cool to hear you
from one part of my life be in this part
of my life too.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Well. You know, I knew you were on the air
and I was listening, and it's like you're giving the
phone numbers. I wanted to make sure. Yeah, some good
calls coming in and I try to contribute, and.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
You certainly were one our one and I hope to
hear from you again.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Thanks a lot much, Thanks Bradley, have a wonderful Christmas.
You doo you too and your listeners.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Okay, now it's yeah, we have time for Matthew and Pembroke, Massachusetts.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
How are you doing?
Speaker 5 (06:05):
Hey, Jay, I'm doing great.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
I just fifteen hours pick some buses and now here
I am driving home.
Speaker 7 (06:12):
And I'm gonna sploat on and pull over. But I
need to win the Mega millions tonight. Can I tell
you why? Okay, I am going to a stat of
vote Tech school.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
Spend about maybe four hundred, maybe four fifty, four hundred
and fifty million dollars and we're gonna build a school
with about one hundred and fifty eight is preferably in Pembroke.
We're gonna do carpentry, electrical plumbing. You can get your
class a license, you get a hoist and license all
through the school.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
How do you think, Well, I think that's great.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
It sounds like a sort of heavy lifting version of
the North Bennett School up there in the North End. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (06:55):
So this this my son couldn't go to Celshie Botech
because he's not in the loop of the towns that
are allowed to go.
Speaker 6 (07:04):
And Pembroke was supposed to pay like a half a
million dollars a long time ago and never did, And
there's no opportunity for some kids like my son. So
I mean, you can do a lot with that money.
What what am I going to do with four or
five you know, after taxes, seven hundred million dollars it's
a little much.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Well, remember I'm your friend, right, Does that help you?
I haven't I have I have an observation about this.
I don't understand that I don't understand the frenzy as
the pot approaches two billion dollars, because how much more
Let's just say you get one billion out of it.
(07:47):
How much more is one billion dollars going to change
your life? Then undred million? And I mean the point
and then but if you wait for the two billion pot,
then you have much more competition and your chances of
winning are much smaller.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
So I myself would put my money.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Into the the two two hundred million dollar pots. But
you know, I don't think I've ever gotten one number ever,
not even one number.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
Yeah. When I go home, I'm going to check my numbers.
But maybe I'll get a studio. We can have classes
and you can come teach.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
What would I do? Well, I know what I would teach.
What kind of tell me? What would I teach? The
only thing I could teach is how to be on
the on the radio.
Speaker 7 (08:35):
Yeah, we have a studio and we'd have our own
radio station.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
And you make that kind of money, dude, you need
to buy a radio station.
Speaker 7 (08:48):
I'd rather spend it help people out.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Give your son a job at the radio station.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Exactly.
Speaker 7 (08:55):
That's what I'm talking about, saying, good money.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Yeah, there you go. What about Christian What are you
doing for Christmas? Anything at all?
Speaker 7 (09:03):
I'm gonna go to my mom's with my son and
have a good, good afternoon. Yep, relax all day.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
So when you say relaxed, do you mean like pot
roast or ham and stuff like that and pie and
the whole deal.
Speaker 7 (09:15):
Yep, you got it. She's doing a roast.
Speaker 8 (09:20):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
It's the American way.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
It's the American And then you get all full, and
then somebody has to do the dishes.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Who does the dishes?
Speaker 7 (09:29):
Well, she doesn't. She likes to do them. No, no, no,
I'll take care of it. Eighty years old.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
She likes to do it. She likes it.
Speaker 7 (09:38):
Oh yeah, yep, but you cant have a call, as
I know.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
I'll let you go, all right, Matt, Thanks is Matt
and Pembrooke good guy. So Matt wants to be a
benevolent person and win the lottery and start a trade
school for people in Pembrooke because I guess people in
Pembrooke can't go to this neighboring school because they their
town didn't pony up the money.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
I guess that's what I understood.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Whah wah wah, boy, everybody's got things right everybody. Well,
let's talk about some more of those things after this.
On WBZ It's.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
I invite you to join me.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
It's Brady Jay for tonight six one, seven, two, five,
four ten thirty chat. Really, it's a Christmas open house,
open lines, and I must admit I don't. I haven't
in my past done open lines much when I was
full time, I didn't. And I got to admit I'm
liking it a lot. It seems like you feel much
(10:47):
more comfortable, or you feel perhaps more comfortable in calling
in and chatting, which is really what it's all about.
A couple more things I'd like to cover. On Christmas,
we still didn't get any definitive answer on how long
do you keep a Christmas card? What is the rule
in your house? Or what do you do or what
(11:07):
do you think the rules should be? And plus George
Costanza on Seinfeld's as he kind of issued a proclamation,
what was that? Does anyone know that? Trivia question? Six
one seven, two, five, four ten thirty. And then that
brings me to this and this is a tough one.
(11:31):
The Real Christmas Tree on the one hand, nothing says
Christmas like a real Christmas tree, the going and getting it.
I don't know if you ever wore someone that went
out in the woods and sowed it down with your
old man, or maybe you went to the lot and
(11:53):
wielded and deal with the Christmas tree man. But nothing
says Christmas like a real Christmas tree. As a whole
giant industry. It is a renewable resource.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
But on the other hand, come come New Year's you know,
maybe January two, all of a sudden, there's a bunch
of dead, sad trees outside. It's kind of the tree
the tree version of the single use plastic bag. It
(12:32):
does seem wasteful. Where are you on this? Do you think, yeah,
it's not cool to have a tree, cut it down,
living thing, could have gotten big, put it up, decorate
it and then throw it in the dumpster. Or do
(12:53):
you think, man, you gotta have Christmas. It's the American way,
or it's the Christian way. Gotta do it, gotta have
it right, gotta have a live tree.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
I'm on the fence.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Actually no, I'm not on the fence, and it's because
I don't have a tree at all.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
I have.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
My home is too small, so that takes care of
that dilemma for me, and I don't have any children again, dilemma.
Have had fake trees? They're fake. I've had real trees.
They're a hassle.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
What do you do? Where are you on that one?
Anything else? Christmasy? Let's go to Kelly Anne on Route
one twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
I can't I don't know if that's a specific or
a very vague location.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
But how you doing, Kelly Ann?
Speaker 9 (13:48):
Hi there, Merry Christmas Eve. I'm on Route one twenty
eight driving through Wealthy Am on my way back home
from New Hampshire.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Okay, you went up to the new Ham should visit
some folks. Yes, and we're in New Hampshire. I'm for
New Hampshire, you know.
Speaker 9 (14:06):
Oh bed for New Hampshire.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Oh no, I'm from up kind of near Rochester.
Speaker 9 (14:14):
Oh yeah, you know.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Whenever I say to that, people say, oh.
Speaker 9 (14:19):
Yeah, blue Job trail up that way and Rochester used
to be nice there used to be, yeah, not too
far from Dover. I used to play in a band,
so I used to play in Dover's cool now it is? Yes,
It's like a mini Portsmouth, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
It's kind of getting that way. You mentioned Farmington.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
That's this Farmington Country Club, which is just a golf course,
which is where my my father used to play golf
and I was a caddy there.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Nice.
Speaker 9 (14:49):
I used to hike Blue Job Trail.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
So blue Blue Joe Mountains. Yeah, mountain is a mountain
with a fire tower lookout. Stay on the time.
Speaker 9 (15:01):
I know I've climbed it. I would go on night
hiking with a head lamp. Lots of blueberries, but wherever
those blueberries is bear, so you have to be careful.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
So, just so you know, I grew up probably a
twelve minute drive from Blue Joe Mountain.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Nice And Yeah, so you went up.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
There, and did you have the Christmas experience? Did you
do the whole thing?
Speaker 9 (15:28):
Yeah? Well, my family, my mom was from Quebec, so
the French tradition is we would celebrate Christmas Eve with
food and gifts and going to Mass. We'd open up
our gifts at midnight, but we ended it early this
year and we'd sleep all day on Christmas Day. I've
(15:51):
never woken up in the morning to gifts on Christmas Morning.
I've always slipped the day away because I'd be up
till four in the morning.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
From Christmas Eve.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
That's the Quebec tradition.
Speaker 9 (16:02):
It is wow is that it seems to be because
everyone else I knew who was from Quebec celebrated it
the same way.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
I think. I like that and at whole thing, this
is not something new to try next year.
Speaker 9 (16:17):
Folks like, I don't know where all the French people
in the Boston area because last I checked, Quebec is
the nearest foreign speaking country. But where all the French people?
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
You mean Canada is the nearest foreign speaking country and
Quebec is, Yes, okay, this is a good question.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Where where are Where is the French enclave.
Speaker 9 (16:41):
In Well, they're in New Hampshire and Maine, as you know.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Yeah, there were a lot where I grew up, a
lot of French Canadian folks, French Canadian names. What do
you like, by the way, what do you like better
Quebec Quebec City or Montreal.
Speaker 9 (16:58):
Quebec City. It's very old fashioned. It reminds me of Europe.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Yeah, it's nice. How long does it take you to
drive up there?
Speaker 9 (17:09):
Well, it depends where I'm driving from. If I drive
from New Hampshire, Quebec City, No Montreal. I would take
eighty nine, go through Vermont, take the ferry across Lake Champlain,
get up into Canada and this Montreal.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
So that's fast. Yeah, I never knew about that. I would.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
I would always go straight up and then take a
left and that's the long but the ferry is shorter.
Speaker 9 (17:35):
Huh for me? That yeah, I would always take the
ferry and the Plattsburgh. Wow, you put your car on
the ferry and then drive up into to New York
in the Canada or some people drive through Chabro. Oh yeah,
I know where that is north Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
So before we let you go, what's the traffic like
around twenty.
Speaker 9 (17:57):
Eight it's excellent. Modes are clear. People. I get to
say it while members lean in the Hampshire go. People
are driving good. Nobody's cutting anybody off, any drunk drivers
on the road. Everyone's driving good.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Must be the Christmas spirit.
Speaker 9 (18:17):
Could be well.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Thank you, Kelly An, I appreciate it. Thanks for the call.
Speaker 9 (18:22):
Oh and I know the answer to your trivia question.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
The trivia question is how long a period of time
did George Castan to say you need to keep your
Christmas cards before throwing them out.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
What is the answer?
Speaker 9 (18:37):
I think he said one year buzzer, no, no, oh.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
But thanks for playing.
Speaker 9 (18:46):
Unfortunately, I thought that's what it was. I think obsessivest
when I wrote Seinfeld.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Well, I'll give the answer pretty soon.
Speaker 9 (18:57):
Okay, I'll listen. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
We have a time of a gene in North Reading
Hygiene Jane Bradley brad it's always nice to hear your boys.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
It brings me back to BCN in the early seventies,
and they were just good times back then. But I
always liked a tree in my house, a real tree,
real tree.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Still you have a real tree?
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Yeah? How much the real trees cross these days?
Speaker 4 (19:28):
I always get a small one. I get one that's
probably about six feet, well five between five and six feet,
but just having that smell of evergreen when you come
home for work and you know, take your shoes off.
It's like, oh, that smells so good, and it always
staves my house too long.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
How much does it cross the six foot tree? Though?
Like fifty bucks?
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Now, well mind mine's about five feet. I paid forty
eight dollars.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Yeah, okay, I as I told you, I want to
go ahead, you go ahead.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Well, they could go up to about one hundred dollars. Now,
if you want a really tall tree and pull tree,
it depends on the tree you get. You know, there's
all kinds.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Yeah, I was just trying to think how much money
I lost because my Christmas trees, my four ates Christmas trees.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
That I was growing, they burned down.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
There were five hundred if I'm not to fifty five
hundred and so five hundred if they'd all grown up
to be big ones. That's one hundred bucks to five hundred.
What is that fifty grand? That's not that much for
you know, forty years worth of work. I guess, I guess,
I know.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
I know that's sad. It is sad, But I'm seventy
and I still want to have that that smell when
I come in the house. Yeah, this year, this year,
I just put the lights on, no ornaments. I just
put the lights on it. And it's like I'm done,
you know, And then you're dealing with pine needles on
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the way out the house getting it taking it out.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Hey, do you remember the big heavy electric lights got
really hot?
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Yes, yes I do.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
They don't make They.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Don't make those anymore, do they probably not, because they
are really hot.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
I think they cause a lot of fires. Do you
have family that you visit? What? What is your family
signs routine?
Speaker 4 (21:24):
I tend to work. I'm working now. I tend to
work on Christmas, even Christmas, so the young people can
be home with their kids and they can enjoy the
and enjoy the feeling of Christmas.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
You must be a nurse.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
I work in a group home.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Okay, so I love all.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
My residents and I want to be there Christmas morning
to help them open their gifts. You know, some of
them don't get it, but some of them do, you know.
But still just just watching them be happy, that's nice.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Do you do anything really nice? Do you do anything
for you? Do you go out and get a little
dinner or something?
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Well, we get Chinese food Chinese?
Speaker 3 (22:09):
What's the best Chinese in North Reading? What's the best
Chinese in North Reading?
Speaker 4 (22:14):
The China cuisine on twenty eight is the best, it is.
The kitchen is nice and clean. I have no problems
with it. I used to do past control, so I
do know where to eat and where not to eat,
you know, just from those days of doing that. But
the guy in let me see his kitchen, and it's
(22:37):
like I'm going to get you a lot of business,
you know, and the food is just awesome.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
And so what do you use again, what are your favorites?
Speaker 4 (22:45):
Well, we usually get like a fool young we get
the poopoo platter, you know, some rice and noodles. But
you know, after all that work I do on Thanksgiving,
I'm not doing the same thing on Christmas. Just get
takeout because Thanksgiving is just crazy?
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Is it? Is it even worth it on Thanksgiving for you?
I mean takeout is so good and so easy.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
It is good. It's easy. You know, you don't have
a lot of pots and pans to clean. You know.
Thanksgiving is just a lot of prep work. I you know,
I cook my turkey at work because I'm working right
so and then I bring it home and we eat
about nine point thirty in the morning.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
So why do you do it?
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Is it because the family expects it?
Speaker 9 (23:35):
No?
Speaker 4 (23:35):
Not really, I like doing it. I choose to do it. Yeah,
you know, most of my siblings are a little younger
than me, and you know, they have their own thing.
You know, once you as you get old, everybody has
their own thing they want to do. A lot of
people don't want to get together they just want to,
you know, do their own thing.
Speaker 9 (23:55):
Yeah, well, so what bast time you traveled?
Speaker 3 (24:00):
First of all, thank you for asking me a question.
I love when people ask me questions because I'm always asking,
not only on the radio, but in real life. I'm
always asking questions, Like I'm always interviewing everybody. Even when
I'm walking along with somebody. Nobody ever asked me questions.
I'm always asking them, So thank you for asking the question.
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And that was where have I gone recently? Or where
am I going next?
Speaker 4 (24:28):
Okay, I know you're a skin point. You like to,
you know, get the best travel here, and I was
just wondering what was your travel plan? So have you
been somewhere?
Speaker 3 (24:40):
No, Well, the most recent really was Ireland and Galway,
which was real nice. But coming up is winter time
in Venice.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
There's this it's tough to beat.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
There's no there are no cars, it's not that crowded,
it's not that cold, and it's it's it doesn't get
much more beautiful than that. And so we and we
found a deal because I am as a skin flint
as you say, but I don't, I can't. I do
not go anywhere in the summer it's just a bummer.
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It's it's not only not as good, it's bad. It's
not worth going. It's hot, it's good, it's expensive. You're
fighting with If you go to Paris in the summer,
it's a whole bunch of Americans there fighting for tables.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
It's just no fun.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
If you go in the winter, it's a bunch of
people from Paris hanging out and you get to hang
with them.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
So if I have any advice is go in the
winter and wear a coat.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
I spent the winter on Nantucket one year and it's great.
You know, well, I worked, but I got to go
to the day. Had my dog. We would go to
the beach every day there and it wasn't anybody on
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the beach, not that I was swimming, but just just
being near the ocean and the and the serenity of
being near the beach without kids screaming or you know parents.
You'll get the kids and tourists from all over the place.
It was beautiful. You should go there.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
That's a good idea. Hey, I got to get a drink.
I get to get a drink of water, so I
have to say good bye.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
We get a little cough here going, so take care
of Jean. I'll talk to you right after this. I
besy It's night Side with Dan Ray on w b
Boston's news radio.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Well we get about twenty minutes eighteen minutes, and I'd
love to hear from you if you have not checked
in with us in this kind of Christmas open house
this evening on WBZ It's nice Side with Dan Ray.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
I'm Radley Jay for Dann.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
We talked about the Christmas spirits and there is something
special and we did talk about maybe where's the best
place to get this Christmas spirit. We got some ideas
and you might be surprised to hear this from me,
but it seems like church it's a good place to
get the Christmas spirit. It's kind of pharmaceutical strength Christmas spirit.
(27:23):
You can definitely get it at a tree lighting ceremony
in a way. You can get a form of it,
but not like the church. And I'm not a very
religious person, as I mentioned before. I'm extremely interested in
theology and studying it, but I'm that's different from being religious.
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But and that's it. I think church is even if
you don't go to church at another time during the year,
if you need some Christmas spirit, go to church, and
maybe that's not right, Maybe that's maybe that would be
frowned upon. Say, hey, this person blows us off the
entire year, needs some Christmas spirit, so shows up. Then
(28:12):
I guess I see that point. But I am getting
I am getting to a point here. I'm trying to
figure out what it is what you see in church
that is the Christmas spirit? What is the essence of
the Christmas Spirit? And that, having given it some thought,
(28:32):
I've decided that that is courtesy. It's genuine courtesy, like
it's more than politeness. It's a form of personal politeness.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
That even that sounds wrong.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Maybe you can think of a better word, but for now,
I'm going to use courtesy, and so extrapolating.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Upon that, I.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Try to figure out how to extend the Christmas spirit
through a longer than Christmas. It does seem as though
at Christmas, for one day and one day only, people
are courteous. They seem to care about the well being
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of others for one day, and everyone realizes that it
feels good. Everybody knows it feels good and feels right.
But after one day it's gone. There are a few
exceptions of course there are some people that are that
do this all the time. But I've noticed that the
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Christmas spirit of which I speak is harder to come by,
and so I've gone a little thinking about how it
can how it can be a little more Christmas spirit
adjacent during the year.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
And if you if you think of it as a
genuine caring.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
About how people feel, then something can be done about it.
And everyday courtesies.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Matter. There are little things that people do.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Instead of being negative and saying I hate when people
do this, I'm going to say you can extend the
Christmas spirit by doing these things. I'll frame it positively. Firstly,
and most importantly and most immediately is you could do
something starting tomorrow that would change the world for the
(30:39):
better in a big way. You could simply never speak me,
Never be mean. Just don't be mean, even if you're angry.
First of all, hopefully you've learned it took me many,
many years to learn. Never speak in anger. Don't do it.
(31:03):
It's a it's a lose lose situation. You're gonna end
up either losing your job, losing your friend, losing some money,
or having to go apologize. Just don't do it. That's
the right. There is a form of courtesy. Don't speak
in anger. If you need to get revenge later, well
(31:23):
that's another thing. It doesn't mean you have to be
stepped on. Just don't let them see you get mad.
Don't get angry. And I noticed I like words, and
I noticed that the lose one's temper. You know, if
you're a construction person, you know about hammers and that
hammers are tempered steel. And if a hammer loses its temper,
(31:46):
it loses its strength. So temper really means strength. So
when you lose your temper, you have lost your strength.
You are weak. It is a weak thing to do.
So when you feel that flash of anger, and everybody
has felt that, the little voice, it's just this time,
(32:10):
it's justified. I need to tell them what I think
they got it coming. They need to know. Nope, when
you feel that flash of hot anger, don't just count
to ten, you know, count to ten days.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Think about it.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
If it needs to be addressed, think about a constructive
way to address it. Well, get what you want and
not put you in a hole and not burn up
your your your equity. And it's not that hard to do.
You can reduce your anger, angry responses that get you
(32:49):
in trouble by easily.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
So there's that next.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
Online things to tear crated. It seems to me when
the pandemic got here. Don't know why, I guess. I mean,
maybe it was bad before that and I just can't remember.
But online you can do this. Never be mean.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Always try to be courteous, even if it's somebody that
you feel the need to argue with, maybe it's political.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Don't be mean. Don't perform an ad hominem or personal attack.
Do not attack, Do not say there you're ignorant. Don't
even say your idea is ignorant. Try as best you
can if you feel the need to, if you're a
hobbyist who feels the need to try to try that
(33:49):
thankless game of arguing politics, if you feel the need
to argue with what they say, have a better argument it.
Just do that if you feel the need, and let
it go. And in a related strategy, just block people
(34:12):
who are awful. If someone attacks you with somebody's meaning,
block them. You do not need that in your life.
It will bring you down. It kills your soul. It
kills your soul to hear that, to be involved with it.
And let me tell you something, when you're mean, even online,
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a little bit of your soul dies.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
The more the meaning you are.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
You know, a really mean person has a soul like
a raisin, a dried up raisin. Don't do it, don't
engage in it. You can feel your soul die when
you do it. If you are a person of yeah,
if you are a reasonably good person. I know good
as a a judgmental word.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
But still you know what I mean. So it's quite simple.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
Never attack online personally and never allow it to be
done to you. Just block, don't engage, block, move on,
you know what. Right after this I'll talk to backing up.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
That was a little bit of how to have a little.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
Bit more of a Christmas spirit like feeling throughout the year.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
Always act as you would on.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Christmas online and in person, and I think you'll grow
inside if you do. Next will be Lee and Weymouth
on WBZ.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
You're on Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
Better j for Dan tonight on night Side Fun Christmas
open house here and I like to say hello to
Lee in Weymouth.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Hailee, I'm sorry you have to do that. There we
go Hi, Lee, Hi.
Speaker 8 (36:12):
One difference between you know, like being a good person
and being a baseball follower is and what Christ came
for is Easter. Uh he lived a simless life.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Wait, can you back up?
Speaker 3 (36:27):
There was something that was I need to clarify Can
you give me that first sentence again? Something that's the
difference between being a something in a baseballer.
Speaker 8 (36:39):
Did you say no, I didn't say baseball.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Okay, start again, so I can understand.
Speaker 8 (36:45):
Sure. One of the differences between being a good, good
person and being a christ follower.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
Okay, is.
Speaker 8 (37:02):
And accepting Christ for what his life represented. He was
going to Easter. He was dying for us in we
can't die for our owns. We can apologize. And it's
through faith in Him that in the eternity. I'm not
(37:22):
I'm not used to saying this, in the in the
scheme of host, scheme of thing before the Lord, he
came for our sins and that's what He's Easter and
Christmas is all about. And I mean we can It
(37:43):
turns turns people around. There's people who were you know,
like alcoholics or something, and they hear the gospel and
they turn around and says, wow, really and and and
all that sin is taken away because of Christ, his
(38:04):
birth and death and resurrection. Oh my goodness. And so
I say it's books enough that they put the Bible down.
That's at just an example. I mean that always happened,
I'm sure.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
Ask you a question. Do you get a lot of
comfort from your faith? Does that give you a lot
of comfort as you go through life?
Speaker 8 (38:28):
Sometimes I find that the Lord puts in difficult times
in my life, brings me through him so that I
can walk the walk that he wants.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
Why would he put you in difficult times? What is
the reason for that?
Speaker 9 (38:50):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (38:50):
Gwar?
Speaker 4 (38:51):
Faith?
Speaker 8 (38:53):
And who he is and what he does for us
to lead us towards a more perfect life. When I
say perfect life is you know? It's the scriptures. They
have all sorts of promises and all sorts of admonitions
(39:13):
of thou shalt not I mean the ten commandments. How
many of us can live through and not do?
Speaker 2 (39:24):
How many of us obey the commandments? Is that what
you mean?
Speaker 8 (39:26):
Exactly? That's what I'm trying to say. Yes, you see,
do your day for a week?
Speaker 2 (39:33):
Do you remember what they are?
Speaker 3 (39:36):
Not?
Speaker 8 (39:36):
All of them?
Speaker 2 (39:37):
Give me a couple just so I can see if
I how I do.
Speaker 8 (39:41):
Okay, thou shalt not committed duchery lie Bass Witness, I'm
pretty good.
Speaker 3 (39:49):
I'm a terrible liar, so I don't do it. I
want to be a better liar because it seems like
cheats and liars today prosper while the just suffer.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
But you know, I'm stuck being kind of a lot
of people.
Speaker 8 (40:04):
A lot of Christians are sharing the Gospel with people
in not reached countries, and sometimes they get monitored with
the sense of that. But yet I've seen people go
back to those same people after the fact years later,
and because of that witness, because he stood up for
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his faith, they became believers and who Christ was and
what he came to accomplish here on earth.
Speaker 3 (40:36):
Well, thank you very much for sharing that. I do
appreciate that. Lee and Weymouth. What a wonderful night. It's
a joy for me to be, you know, hanging out
with you, to be part of this community community.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
I also enjoy coming into the station. I like radio stations.
They got a real microphone and a.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
Real, real producer and a real master control operator. By
the way, I'm glad I remember to say thank you
to Shane today for working the wheel. We had some
technical difficulties that Shane was masterfully able to overcome us.
We worked together as a team.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
It was great and it's uh.
Speaker 3 (41:22):
I hope you appreciate as much as I do the
fact that it's still in night Side.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
I mean, Nightside has been going a long time and
Dan Ray has.
Speaker 3 (41:32):
Been keeping that torch burning and that's a big deal
and I hope you all appreciate it. And I'm I'm
super owned that I get to to do it once
in a while and come on in and see the
folks here too. That pretty much does it. I have
twenty seconds left, so in the remaining time, I just
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Speaker 2 (41:54):
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Speaker 2 (00:03):
I'm telling you easy Boston News Radio. Thank you again.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
Al.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
It is Nightside. I'm Brady j for Dan tonight and
it's all things Christmas. Kind of a Christmas open house
if you will come on in virtually talk about Christmas
stuff or other stuff that might pop up if you
had popped into somebody's house.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
To talk about Christmas. We have Jeff in Wakefield. Now, Hey,
how we How are you? Jeff?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I happen to know Jeff. I've known Jeff a long
long time. Jeff's the person who makes his living with
his voice, and he's been the voice of It's like
some big time games like the Grand Theft Auto and
stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Right, Jeff.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Yeah, but I'm not going to charge you for this one.
All right, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
So what's going on?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Well, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Eve.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
You triggered me when you were talking earlier about gifting,
because that's obviously a central tenant of the holiday. Yeah.
And so we have a similar background, I guess, and
that we worked at fairly big radio stations in the eighties.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
And I was, like, you know, in my early twenties,
and I got my first job and I was doing,
you know, producing commercials for the sales department, and I
was shocked at Christmas time when a pile of gifts
was on my desk from from every manager. Every single
manager gave me like a significant gift. Some of them
were worth hundreds of dollars, you know. One gave away
(01:31):
bottles of I think it was great Western champagne. And
at the time I'd only drinking Corbelle, you know, so
suddenly I was spoiled. Yeah, so I was. I was
really taken aback by it, by the generosity, and it
was exciting and thrilling, but at the same time, it
was intimidating because I do I need to reciprocate, you know.
It's like I can't afford to gift everybody else.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Back, you know, So what did you do nothing?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Right? Well? That year, I did nothing. That the following year,
I you know, I yes, I was prudent. I'd give
gifts to my friends, my colleagues, and the pressure kind
of like every year you're you're under a lot of pressure.
You have to give an appropriate gift. Will they you know,
will they like it? Is? Do they need it? Yeah?
And that's I think a rudimentary reason that the holidays
(02:16):
is considered so stressful. So my very very close dear
friends who I'm friends with to this day, even though
that was all like forty years ago. When you're really
really good friends with someone, you agree to not get
each other gifts at all.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
You give the gift of not having to give a gift.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Right, You just absolve each other. It's like, take me
off the list of don't stress out over me. I
want to stress out over you, and and and we'll
just continue being good friends all year.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
You know, you can spend that money on a meal together.
That's you know, take what you want to spend and
you can go to some fancy place.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Yeah, but that also that happened. That's ongoing throughout the year, though,
isn't it. You go out with friends, it's like, yeah,
this one's on me. You know, you show your generosity.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Oh yeah, I'm glad.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
You brought that up a recent Do you do the
it's on me? Or do you split checks? What do
you do? That's this is a germane thing. Because it's Christmas,
people go out. How do you roll with that?
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Do you?
Speaker 1 (03:10):
It's case by case. I just had a dinner with
a friend mutual friend actually, and he's having a hard time.
He's not making any money right now, he's living in
low rerent situations. I covered his meal. I could afford it,
and I thought it was the right thing to do
at that day.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
But what if it's not a situation.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Like that another friend who is very wealthy, we split
it half and half.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Yeah, okay, And what about separate checks.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
I don't do that. You know, what, if I'm going
to go out to eat, I'll get cash beforehand and
then just give them the equivalent in cash. I don't
want to make it a hassle for the wait staff.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I know.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I have a friend in the business and she says
she refuses. I think that her maximum is three or four.
Like if she gets a party of six and I
say che chick actually goes Nope. She just says no,
not doing it, can't do it. I hope she probably
says it in a nice way so she gets a tip.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
But I myself, I.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Know, if it weren't for the hassle for the server,
I would get separate checks. Because some days I'm feeling thrifty,
other days I'm feeling like, wow, I want to get
that crazy thing, and I don't want to be a
burden to the others.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Yeah, I suppose.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
You know one thing that happens, it's it's strange is
the check comes and it's all one check and someone says, okay,
just figure out what did you have?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
What did you have? What did you have? Okay, Well
added up somehow there's.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
A giant deficit always like we're always thirty bucks short, and.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
I don't know how that happens.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Yeah, I figured I've had like twenty or thirty dollars
worth of stuff, and I ended up giving them like
fifty or sixty.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Well that's that's very nice.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Well, well that's how it turns out because otherwise, when
I'll be leaving them, you know, stuck, there won't be
enough money to cover the check. And we got to
go to the check.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Better to pay a little bit and be a hero
a little bit more and be a hero then sheep
out and have everybody go, oh, man, that guy, Jeff.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Yeah, I mean, I'm fortunate that I can afford to
very often just cover it for my friends and be
that guy, because other people do that for me when
I was not in this position. So I guess that's
a way of paying it forward, and I don't expect it.
I'll always be in this position. Who knows what kind
of economic turmoil lies ahead for all of us, So
you know, I'll just be generous while I can. I guess, well, I.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Appreciate your call.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Man. It's really cool that it's cool to hear you
from one part of my life be in this part
of my life too.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Well. You know, I knew you were on the air
and I was listening, and it's like you're giving the
phone numbers. I wanted to make sure. Yeah, some good
calls coming in and I try to contribute, and.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
You certainly were one our one and I hope to
hear from you again.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Thanks a lot much, Thanks Bradley, have a wonderful Christmas.
You doo you too and your listeners.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Okay, now it's yeah, we have time for Matthew and Pembroke, Massachusetts.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
How are you doing?
Speaker 5 (06:05):
Hey, Jay, I'm doing great.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
I just fifteen hours pick some buses and now here
I am driving home.
Speaker 7 (06:12):
And I'm gonna sploat on and pull over. But I
need to win the Mega millions tonight. Can I tell
you why? Okay, I am going to a stat of
vote Tech school.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
Spend about maybe four hundred, maybe four fifty, four hundred
and fifty million dollars and we're gonna build a school
with about one hundred and fifty eight is preferably in Pembroke.
We're gonna do carpentry, electrical plumbing. You can get your
class a license, you get a hoist and license all
through the school.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
How do you think, Well, I think that's great.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
It sounds like a sort of heavy lifting version of
the North Bennett School up there in the North End. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (06:55):
So this this my son couldn't go to Celshie Botech
because he's not in the loop of the towns that
are allowed to go.
Speaker 6 (07:04):
And Pembroke was supposed to pay like a half a
million dollars a long time ago and never did, And
there's no opportunity for some kids like my son. So
I mean, you can do a lot with that money.
What what am I going to do with four or
five you know, after taxes, seven hundred million dollars it's
a little much.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Well, remember I'm your friend, right, Does that help you?
I haven't I have I have an observation about this.
I don't understand that I don't understand the frenzy as
the pot approaches two billion dollars, because how much more
Let's just say you get one billion out of it.
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How much more is one billion dollars going to change
your life? Then undred million? And I mean the point
and then but if you wait for the two billion pot,
then you have much more competition and your chances of
winning are much smaller.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
So I myself would put my money.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Into the the two two hundred million dollar pots. But
you know, I don't think I've ever gotten one number ever,
not even one number.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
Yeah. When I go home, I'm going to check my numbers.
But maybe I'll get a studio. We can have classes
and you can come teach.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
What would I do? Well, I know what I would teach.
What kind of tell me? What would I teach? The
only thing I could teach is how to be on
the on the radio.
Speaker 7 (08:35):
Yeah, we have a studio and we'd have our own
radio station.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
And you make that kind of money, dude, you need
to buy a radio station.
Speaker 7 (08:48):
I'd rather spend it help people out.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Give your son a job at the radio station.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Exactly.
Speaker 7 (08:55):
That's what I'm talking about, saying, good money.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Yeah, there you go. What about Christian What are you
doing for Christmas? Anything at all?
Speaker 7 (09:03):
I'm gonna go to my mom's with my son and
have a good, good afternoon. Yep, relax all day.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
So when you say relaxed, do you mean like pot
roast or ham and stuff like that and pie and
the whole deal.
Speaker 7 (09:15):
Yep, you got it. She's doing a roast.
Speaker 8 (09:20):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
It's the American way.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
It's the American And then you get all full, and
then somebody has to do the dishes.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Who does the dishes?
Speaker 7 (09:29):
Well, she doesn't. She likes to do them. No, no, no,
I'll take care of it. Eighty years old.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
She likes to do it. She likes it.
Speaker 7 (09:38):
Oh yeah, yep, but you cant have a call, as
I know.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
I'll let you go, all right, Matt, Thanks is Matt
and Pembrooke good guy. So Matt wants to be a
benevolent person and win the lottery and start a trade
school for people in Pembrooke because I guess people in
Pembrooke can't go to this neighboring school because they their
town didn't pony up the money.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
I guess that's what I understood.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Whah wah wah, boy, everybody's got things right everybody. Well,
let's talk about some more of those things after this.
On WBZ It's.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
I invite you to join me.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
It's Brady Jay for tonight six one, seven, two, five,
four ten thirty chat. Really, it's a Christmas open house,
open lines, and I must admit I don't. I haven't
in my past done open lines much when I was
full time, I didn't. And I got to admit I'm
liking it a lot. It seems like you feel much
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more comfortable, or you feel perhaps more comfortable in calling
in and chatting, which is really what it's all about.
A couple more things I'd like to cover. On Christmas,
we still didn't get any definitive answer on how long
do you keep a Christmas card? What is the rule
in your house? Or what do you do or what
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do you think the rules should be? And plus George
Costanza on Seinfeld's as he kind of issued a proclamation,
what was that? Does anyone know that? Trivia question? Six
one seven, two, five, four ten thirty. And then that
brings me to this and this is a tough one.
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The Real Christmas Tree on the one hand, nothing says
Christmas like a real Christmas tree, the going and getting it.
I don't know if you ever wore someone that went
out in the woods and sowed it down with your
old man, or maybe you went to the lot and
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wielded and deal with the Christmas tree man. But nothing
says Christmas like a real Christmas tree. As a whole
giant industry. It is a renewable resource.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
But on the other hand, come come New Year's you know,
maybe January two, all of a sudden, there's a bunch
of dead, sad trees outside. It's kind of the tree
the tree version of the single use plastic bag. It
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does seem wasteful. Where are you on this? Do you think, yeah,
it's not cool to have a tree, cut it down,
living thing, could have gotten big, put it up, decorate
it and then throw it in the dumpster. Or do
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you think, man, you gotta have Christmas. It's the American way,
or it's the Christian way. Gotta do it, gotta have
it right, gotta have a live tree.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
I'm on the fence.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Actually no, I'm not on the fence, and it's because
I don't have a tree at all.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
I have.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
My home is too small, so that takes care of
that dilemma for me, and I don't have any children again, dilemma.
Have had fake trees? They're fake. I've had real trees.
They're a hassle.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
What do you do? Where are you on that one?
Anything else? Christmasy? Let's go to Kelly Anne on Route
one twenty eight.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
I can't I don't know if that's a specific or
a very vague location.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
But how you doing, Kelly Ann?
Speaker 9 (13:48):
Hi there, Merry Christmas Eve. I'm on Route one twenty
eight driving through Wealthy Am on my way back home
from New Hampshire.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Okay, you went up to the new Ham should visit
some folks. Yes, and we're in New Hampshire. I'm for
New Hampshire, you know.
Speaker 9 (14:06):
Oh bed for New Hampshire.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Oh no, I'm from up kind of near Rochester.
Speaker 9 (14:14):
Oh yeah, you know.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Whenever I say to that, people say, oh.
Speaker 9 (14:19):
Yeah, blue Job trail up that way and Rochester used
to be nice there used to be, yeah, not too
far from Dover. I used to play in a band,
so I used to play in Dover's cool now it is? Yes,
It's like a mini Portsmouth, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
It's kind of getting that way. You mentioned Farmington.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
That's this Farmington Country Club, which is just a golf course,
which is where my my father used to play golf
and I was a caddy there.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Nice.
Speaker 9 (14:49):
I used to hike Blue Job Trail.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
So blue Blue Joe Mountains. Yeah, mountain is a mountain
with a fire tower lookout. Stay on the time.
Speaker 9 (15:01):
I know I've climbed it. I would go on night
hiking with a head lamp. Lots of blueberries, but wherever
those blueberries is bear, so you have to be careful.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
So, just so you know, I grew up probably a
twelve minute drive from Blue Joe Mountain.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Nice And Yeah, so you went up.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
There, and did you have the Christmas experience? Did you
do the whole thing?
Speaker 9 (15:28):
Yeah? Well, my family, my mom was from Quebec, so
the French tradition is we would celebrate Christmas Eve with
food and gifts and going to Mass. We'd open up
our gifts at midnight, but we ended it early this
year and we'd sleep all day on Christmas Day. I've
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never woken up in the morning to gifts on Christmas Morning.
I've always slipped the day away because I'd be up
till four in the morning.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
From Christmas Eve.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
That's the Quebec tradition.
Speaker 9 (16:02):
It is wow is that it seems to be because
everyone else I knew who was from Quebec celebrated it
the same way.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
I think. I like that and at whole thing, this
is not something new to try next year.
Speaker 9 (16:17):
Folks like, I don't know where all the French people
in the Boston area because last I checked, Quebec is
the nearest foreign speaking country. But where all the French people?
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
You mean Canada is the nearest foreign speaking country and
Quebec is, Yes, okay, this is a good question.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Where where are Where is the French enclave.
Speaker 9 (16:41):
In Well, they're in New Hampshire and Maine, as you know.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Yeah, there were a lot where I grew up, a
lot of French Canadian folks, French Canadian names. What do
you like, by the way, what do you like better
Quebec Quebec City or Montreal.
Speaker 9 (16:58):
Quebec City. It's very old fashioned. It reminds me of Europe.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Yeah, it's nice. How long does it take you to
drive up there?
Speaker 9 (17:09):
Well, it depends where I'm driving from. If I drive
from New Hampshire, Quebec City, No Montreal. I would take
eighty nine, go through Vermont, take the ferry across Lake Champlain,
get up into Canada and this Montreal.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
So that's fast. Yeah, I never knew about that. I would.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
I would always go straight up and then take a
left and that's the long but the ferry is shorter.
Speaker 9 (17:35):
Huh for me? That yeah, I would always take the
ferry and the Plattsburgh. Wow, you put your car on
the ferry and then drive up into to New York
in the Canada or some people drive through Chabro. Oh yeah,
I know where that is north Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
So before we let you go, what's the traffic like
around twenty.
Speaker 9 (17:57):
Eight it's excellent. Modes are clear. People. I get to
say it while members lean in the Hampshire go. People
are driving good. Nobody's cutting anybody off, any drunk drivers
on the road. Everyone's driving good.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Must be the Christmas spirit.
Speaker 9 (18:17):
Could be well.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Thank you, Kelly An, I appreciate it. Thanks for the call.
Speaker 9 (18:22):
Oh and I know the answer to your trivia question.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
The trivia question is how long a period of time
did George Castan to say you need to keep your
Christmas cards before throwing them out.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
What is the answer?
Speaker 9 (18:37):
I think he said one year buzzer, no, no, oh.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
But thanks for playing.
Speaker 9 (18:46):
Unfortunately, I thought that's what it was. I think obsessivest
when I wrote Seinfeld.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Well, I'll give the answer pretty soon.
Speaker 9 (18:57):
Okay, I'll listen. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
We have a time of a gene in North Reading
Hygiene Jane Bradley brad it's always nice to hear your boys.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
It brings me back to BCN in the early seventies,
and they were just good times back then. But I
always liked a tree in my house, a real tree,
real tree.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Still you have a real tree?
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Yeah? How much the real trees cross these days?
Speaker 4 (19:28):
I always get a small one. I get one that's
probably about six feet, well five between five and six feet,
but just having that smell of evergreen when you come
home for work and you know, take your shoes off.
It's like, oh, that smells so good, and it always
staves my house too long.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
How much does it cross the six foot tree? Though?
Like fifty bucks?
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Now, well mind mine's about five feet. I paid forty
eight dollars.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Yeah, okay, I as I told you, I want to
go ahead, you go ahead.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Well, they could go up to about one hundred dollars. Now,
if you want a really tall tree and pull tree,
it depends on the tree you get. You know, there's
all kinds.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Yeah, I was just trying to think how much money
I lost because my Christmas trees, my four ates Christmas trees.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
That I was growing, they burned down.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
There were five hundred if I'm not to fifty five
hundred and so five hundred if they'd all grown up
to be big ones. That's one hundred bucks to five hundred.
What is that fifty grand? That's not that much for
you know, forty years worth of work. I guess, I guess,
I know.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
I know that's sad. It is sad, But I'm seventy
and I still want to have that that smell when
I come in the house. Yeah, this year, this year,
I just put the lights on, no ornaments. I just
put the lights on it. And it's like I'm done,
you know, And then you're dealing with pine needles on
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the way out the house getting it taking it out.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Hey, do you remember the big heavy electric lights got
really hot?
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Yes, yes I do.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
They don't make They.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Don't make those anymore, do they probably not, because they
are really hot.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
I think they cause a lot of fires. Do you
have family that you visit? What? What is your family
signs routine?
Speaker 4 (21:24):
I tend to work. I'm working now. I tend to
work on Christmas, even Christmas, so the young people can
be home with their kids and they can enjoy the
and enjoy the feeling of Christmas.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
You must be a nurse.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
I work in a group home.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Okay, so I love all.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
My residents and I want to be there Christmas morning
to help them open their gifts. You know, some of
them don't get it, but some of them do, you know.
But still just just watching them be happy, that's nice.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Do you do anything really nice? Do you do anything
for you? Do you go out and get a little
dinner or something?
Speaker 4 (22:06):
Well, we get Chinese food Chinese?
Speaker 3 (22:09):
What's the best Chinese in North Reading? What's the best
Chinese in North Reading?
Speaker 4 (22:14):
The China cuisine on twenty eight is the best, it is.
The kitchen is nice and clean. I have no problems
with it. I used to do past control, so I
do know where to eat and where not to eat,
you know, just from those days of doing that. But
the guy in let me see his kitchen, and it's
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like I'm going to get you a lot of business,
you know, and the food is just awesome.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
And so what do you use again, what are your favorites?
Speaker 4 (22:45):
Well, we usually get like a fool young we get
the poopoo platter, you know, some rice and noodles. But
you know, after all that work I do on Thanksgiving,
I'm not doing the same thing on Christmas. Just get
takeout because Thanksgiving is just crazy?
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Is it? Is it even worth it on Thanksgiving for you?
I mean takeout is so good and so easy.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
It is good. It's easy. You know, you don't have
a lot of pots and pans to clean. You know.
Thanksgiving is just a lot of prep work. I you know,
I cook my turkey at work because I'm working right
so and then I bring it home and we eat
about nine point thirty in the morning.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
So why do you do it?
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Is it because the family expects it?
Speaker 9 (23:35):
No?
Speaker 4 (23:35):
Not really, I like doing it. I choose to do it. Yeah,
you know, most of my siblings are a little younger
than me, and you know, they have their own thing.
You know, once you as you get old, everybody has
their own thing they want to do. A lot of
people don't want to get together they just want to,
you know, do their own thing.
Speaker 9 (23:55):
Yeah, well, so what bast time you traveled?
Speaker 3 (24:00):
First of all, thank you for asking me a question.
I love when people ask me questions because I'm always asking,
not only on the radio, but in real life. I'm
always asking questions, Like I'm always interviewing everybody. Even when
I'm walking along with somebody. Nobody ever asked me questions.
I'm always asking them, So thank you for asking the question.
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And that was where have I gone recently? Or where
am I going next?
Speaker 4 (24:28):
Okay, I know you're a skin point. You like to,
you know, get the best travel here, and I was
just wondering what was your travel plan? So have you
been somewhere?
Speaker 3 (24:40):
No, Well, the most recent really was Ireland and Galway,
which was real nice. But coming up is winter time
in Venice.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
There's this it's tough to beat.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
There's no there are no cars, it's not that crowded,
it's not that cold, and it's it's it doesn't get
much more beautiful than that. And so we and we
found a deal because I am as a skin flint
as you say, but I don't, I can't. I do
not go anywhere in the summer it's just a bummer.
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It's it's not only not as good, it's bad. It's
not worth going. It's hot, it's good, it's expensive. You're
fighting with If you go to Paris in the summer,
it's a whole bunch of Americans there fighting for tables.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
It's just no fun.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
If you go in the winter, it's a bunch of
people from Paris hanging out and you get to hang
with them.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
So if I have any advice is go in the
winter and wear a coat.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
I spent the winter on Nantucket one year and it's great.
You know, well, I worked, but I got to go
to the day. Had my dog. We would go to
the beach every day there and it wasn't anybody on
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the beach, not that I was swimming, but just just
being near the ocean and the and the serenity of
being near the beach without kids screaming or you know parents.
You'll get the kids and tourists from all over the place.
It was beautiful. You should go there.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
That's a good idea. Hey, I got to get a drink.
I get to get a drink of water, so I
have to say good bye.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
We get a little cough here going, so take care
of Jean. I'll talk to you right after this. I
besy It's night Side with Dan Ray on w b
Boston's news radio.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Well we get about twenty minutes eighteen minutes, and I'd
love to hear from you if you have not checked
in with us in this kind of Christmas open house
this evening on WBZ It's nice Side with Dan Ray.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
I'm Radley Jay for Dann.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
We talked about the Christmas spirits and there is something
special and we did talk about maybe where's the best
place to get this Christmas spirit. We got some ideas
and you might be surprised to hear this from me,
but it seems like church it's a good place to
get the Christmas spirit. It's kind of pharmaceutical strength Christmas spirit.
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You can definitely get it at a tree lighting ceremony
in a way. You can get a form of it,
but not like the church. And I'm not a very
religious person, as I mentioned before. I'm extremely interested in
theology and studying it, but I'm that's different from being religious.
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But and that's it. I think church is even if
you don't go to church at another time during the year,
if you need some Christmas spirit, go to church, and
maybe that's not right, Maybe that's maybe that would be
frowned upon. Say, hey, this person blows us off the
entire year, needs some Christmas spirit, so shows up. Then
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I guess I see that point. But I am getting
I am getting to a point here. I'm trying to
figure out what it is what you see in church
that is the Christmas spirit? What is the essence of
the Christmas Spirit? And that, having given it some thought,
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I've decided that that is courtesy. It's genuine courtesy, like
it's more than politeness. It's a form of personal politeness.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
That even that sounds wrong.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Maybe you can think of a better word, but for now,
I'm going to use courtesy, and so extrapolating.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Upon that, I.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Try to figure out how to extend the Christmas spirit
through a longer than Christmas. It does seem as though
at Christmas, for one day and one day only, people
are courteous. They seem to care about the well being
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of others for one day, and everyone realizes that it
feels good. Everybody knows it feels good and feels right.
But after one day it's gone. There are a few
exceptions of course there are some people that are that
do this all the time. But I've noticed that the
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Christmas spirit of which I speak is harder to come by,
and so I've gone a little thinking about how it
can how it can be a little more Christmas spirit
adjacent during the year.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
And if you if you think of it as a
genuine caring.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
About how people feel, then something can be done about it.
And everyday courtesies.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Matter. There are little things that people do.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Instead of being negative and saying I hate when people
do this, I'm going to say you can extend the
Christmas spirit by doing these things. I'll frame it positively. Firstly,
and most importantly and most immediately is you could do
something starting tomorrow that would change the world for the
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better in a big way. You could simply never speak me,
Never be mean. Just don't be mean, even if you're angry.
First of all, hopefully you've learned it took me many,
many years to learn. Never speak in anger. Don't do it.
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It's a it's a lose lose situation. You're gonna end
up either losing your job, losing your friend, losing some money,
or having to go apologize. Just don't do it. That's
the right. There is a form of courtesy. Don't speak
in anger. If you need to get revenge later, well
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that's another thing. It doesn't mean you have to be
stepped on. Just don't let them see you get mad.
Don't get angry. And I noticed I like words, and
I noticed that the lose one's temper. You know, if
you're a construction person, you know about hammers and that
hammers are tempered steel. And if a hammer loses its temper,
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it loses its strength. So temper really means strength. So
when you lose your temper, you have lost your strength.
You are weak. It is a weak thing to do.
So when you feel that flash of anger, and everybody
has felt that, the little voice, it's just this time,
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it's justified. I need to tell them what I think
they got it coming. They need to know. Nope, when
you feel that flash of hot anger, don't just count
to ten, you know, count to ten days.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Think about it.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
If it needs to be addressed, think about a constructive
way to address it. Well, get what you want and
not put you in a hole and not burn up
your your your equity. And it's not that hard to do.
You can reduce your anger, angry responses that get you
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in trouble by easily.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
So there's that next.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
Online things to tear crated. It seems to me when
the pandemic got here. Don't know why, I guess. I mean,
maybe it was bad before that and I just can't remember.
But online you can do this. Never be mean.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Always try to be courteous, even if it's somebody that
you feel the need to argue with, maybe it's political.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Don't be mean. Don't perform an ad hominem or personal attack.
Do not attack, Do not say there you're ignorant. Don't
even say your idea is ignorant. Try as best you
can if you feel the need to, if you're a
hobbyist who feels the need to try to try that
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thankless game of arguing politics, if you feel the need
to argue with what they say, have a better argument it.
Just do that if you feel the need, and let
it go. And in a related strategy, just block people
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who are awful. If someone attacks you with somebody's meaning,
block them. You do not need that in your life.
It will bring you down. It kills your soul. It
kills your soul to hear that, to be involved with it.
And let me tell you something, when you're mean, even online,
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a little bit of your soul dies.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
The more the meaning you are.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
You know, a really mean person has a soul like
a raisin, a dried up raisin. Don't do it, don't
engage in it. You can feel your soul die when
you do it. If you are a person of yeah,
if you are a reasonably good person. I know good
as a a judgmental word.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
But still you know what I mean. So it's quite simple.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
Never attack online personally and never allow it to be
done to you. Just block, don't engage, block, move on,
you know what. Right after this I'll talk to backing up.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
That was a little bit of how to have a little.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
Bit more of a Christmas spirit like feeling throughout the year.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
Always act as you would on.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Christmas online and in person, and I think you'll grow
inside if you do. Next will be Lee and Weymouth
on WBZ.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
You're on Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
Better j for Dan tonight on night Side Fun Christmas
open house here and I like to say hello to
Lee in Weymouth.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Hailee, I'm sorry you have to do that. There we
go Hi, Lee, Hi.
Speaker 8 (36:12):
One difference between you know, like being a good person
and being a baseball follower is and what Christ came
for is Easter. Uh he lived a simless life.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Wait, can you back up?
Speaker 3 (36:27):
There was something that was I need to clarify Can
you give me that first sentence again? Something that's the
difference between being a something in a baseballer.
Speaker 8 (36:39):
Did you say no, I didn't say baseball.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Okay, start again, so I can understand.
Speaker 8 (36:45):
Sure. One of the differences between being a good, good
person and being a christ follower.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
Okay, is.
Speaker 8 (37:02):
And accepting Christ for what his life represented. He was
going to Easter. He was dying for us in we
can't die for our owns. We can apologize. And it's
through faith in Him that in the eternity. I'm not
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I'm not used to saying this, in the in the
scheme of host, scheme of thing before the Lord, he
came for our sins and that's what He's Easter and
Christmas is all about. And I mean we can It
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turns turns people around. There's people who were you know,
like alcoholics or something, and they hear the gospel and
they turn around and says, wow, really and and and
all that sin is taken away because of Christ, his
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birth and death and resurrection. Oh my goodness. And so
I say it's books enough that they put the Bible down.
That's at just an example. I mean that always happened,
I'm sure.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
Ask you a question. Do you get a lot of
comfort from your faith? Does that give you a lot
of comfort as you go through life?
Speaker 8 (38:28):
Sometimes I find that the Lord puts in difficult times
in my life, brings me through him so that I
can walk the walk that he wants.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
Why would he put you in difficult times? What is
the reason for that?
Speaker 9 (38:50):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (38:50):
Gwar?
Speaker 4 (38:51):
Faith?
Speaker 8 (38:53):
And who he is and what he does for us
to lead us towards a more perfect life. When I
say perfect life is you know? It's the scriptures. They
have all sorts of promises and all sorts of admonitions
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of thou shalt not I mean the ten commandments. How
many of us can live through and not do?
Speaker 2 (39:24):
How many of us obey the commandments? Is that what
you mean?
Speaker 8 (39:26):
Exactly? That's what I'm trying to say. Yes, you see,
do your day for a week?
Speaker 2 (39:33):
Do you remember what they are?
Speaker 3 (39:36):
Not?
Speaker 8 (39:36):
All of them?
Speaker 2 (39:37):
Give me a couple just so I can see if
I how I do.
Speaker 8 (39:41):
Okay, thou shalt not committed duchery lie Bass Witness, I'm
pretty good.
Speaker 3 (39:49):
I'm a terrible liar, so I don't do it. I
want to be a better liar because it seems like
cheats and liars today prosper while the just suffer.
Speaker 2 (40:00):
But you know, I'm stuck being kind of a lot
of people.
Speaker 8 (40:04):
A lot of Christians are sharing the Gospel with people
in not reached countries, and sometimes they get monitored with
the sense of that. But yet I've seen people go
back to those same people after the fact years later,
and because of that witness, because he stood up for
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his faith, they became believers and who Christ was and
what he came to accomplish here on earth.
Speaker 3 (40:36):
Well, thank you very much for sharing that. I do
appreciate that. Lee and Weymouth. What a wonderful night. It's
a joy for me to be, you know, hanging out
with you, to be part of this community community.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
I also enjoy coming into the station. I like radio stations.
They got a real microphone and a.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
Real, real producer and a real master control operator. By
the way, I'm glad I remember to say thank you
to Shane today for working the wheel. We had some
technical difficulties that Shane was masterfully able to overcome us.
We worked together as a team.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
It was great and it's uh.
Speaker 3 (41:22):
I hope you appreciate as much as I do the
fact that it's still in night Side.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
I mean, Nightside has been going a long time and
Dan Ray has.
Speaker 3 (41:32):
Been keeping that torch burning and that's a big deal
and I hope you all appreciate it. And I'm I'm
super owned that I get to to do it once
in a while and come on in and see the
folks here too. That pretty much does it. I have
twenty seconds left, so in the remaining time, I just
(41:52):
want to say thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (41:54):
I'll be here every week, workday, week nights through the seventh.
We have a lot of things planned for you. So
if you need to hear any of the night Side
shows again, remember to go to Nightside on demand and
you can hear this show on the iHeartRadio apps. W
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