November 26, 2025 • 41 mins
Do politics come up at your Thanksgiving dinner table? The topic of politics can be a divisive one for many families, so how does your family tackle it? Do you try to avoid politics all together or openly engage in political debate during your feast? The listeners chimed in!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's Nightside with Dan Ray. I'm telling you by Boston's
Knees Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Welcome back, everybody. We are about to start our final
hour tonight on Thanksgiving Eve, and we are talking about
how your Thanksgiving dinner will hunt Fuld tomorrow. By the way,
I just want to get it on the record that
I will, at some point tomorrow at the table that
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I've been fortunate enough to be invited to, I will
toast all of you Nightside listeners for a happy and
healthy holiday season and I hope and a very successful
twenty twenty six. I hope you might do the same
to other Nightside listeners. And if you want to mention me,
that's okay too. I know that there are people all
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over the country. We track this stuff. There are people
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and over the weekend. If you missed anything this week,
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feel free to participate what we're doing tonight as we're
just basically talking about tomorrow and we've had some interesting
calls from our callers in the first hour Matthew, Nick, William,
and Dave. Matthew from Danvers, Nick from Saugust, William from Boston,
and Dave from New Hampshire. I'd love to have you
join us. I am here this This is not a
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taped program. This is not Best Off. Best Off is
on Sunday night at eleven o'clock on WBC. I'm live
right now, sitting in my studio on Thanksgiving Eve. You
are wherever you are. Maybe some of you are driving
somewhere and you're listening to us in a car radio,
or you're sitting at home. You've reached your wherever you're
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going to be for tomorrow. I hope you've had a
safe trip. If you're driving, please stay safe. I know
you might be running into some weather problems in other
parts of the country. Today was a pretty calm day
in New England after the rain left. Tomorrow is supposed
to be a fairly decent day, supposed to get colder
on Friday. I want to go right to the calls.
The only lines we have open right now is six
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one seven ten thirty. Please feel free to join this conversation.
I'm here for you. I hope you're here for me.
If you're not here, don't call. But if you are,
you're invited to call six one seven four ten thirty.
What will you do tomorrow at Thanksgiving dinner? If politics
is brought up on the menu. That's all I'm asking.
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Let's go too, George, Not George. Let me go to
Chuck in Georgia. Hey, Chuck, how are you well?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
To you?
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Hey Chucky?
Speaker 2 (03:15):
We got the audio pumped up. Go right ahead, I Chuck.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Yeah. Did you hear me?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
I did not. There was there was a pregnant plot,
and I was worried you weren't there. Go right ahead,
John No.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
I said, Happy Thanksgiving to you, your family and everybody
that listens to you. Thank you for across the world.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Well, I appreciate that, and I love I love you
down there in Georgia, that's for sure.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
So I would like to tell you that, you know,
we have family. You know, I'm down here, a brother
mine is down here. He has a couple of kids.
We all get together. We have lots of friends here.
I'll have about eighteen people at my house tomorrow. Whoa
And at the end or before we sit down to eat,
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we will use FaceTime on our iPads to talk to
our other siblings and families, have a little you know,
salute and say hi, Happy Thanksgiving. We'll sit down to eat.
No religion, no politics. We don't even think about it.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Okay, so it's a it's a politic free zone.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Absolutely good for you. Were arguing, no nothing, just eating
and be casual and you know, be nice.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Now, what what about if someone inadvertently or advertly speaks
up and says, you know, I think that Trump is
doing a and fills in the blank either a great
job or allows you job. Does everyone turn and say no,
we're not going there or does that spark a conversation?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Well, I know the girls will you know we're not
doing that here. That's another time, another place, but not now.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
That's perfect. That's perfect. Focus on family and focus on
food and football and friends and fun. That's what it
really should all come down to.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
That's right. It's a family occasion and that's what it's for.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Well, I hope you'll, I hope you'll send it toasted
nightside listeners, and maybe some of your friends will become
nightside listeners down there in Georgia.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Well a few, I've converted a few.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Yeah, I so appreciate that. Let me tell you are
a Georgia ambassador, that's for sure. I love your calls.
Thank you much, my friend, and wish you all the
best of your family.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
And also for a really good holiday Christmas season. I
think you celebrate Christmas, Christmas holiday season, uh, and a
great New Year. I mean, this is a time when
all of us should be thinking, uh, what's what's what's
in store for us? And hopefully it's only good things,
simple as that.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Yeah, most of us down here don't drink, the people
that I know, so, but we have a good time anyway.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
That's okay. You know, if you need alcohol to have
a better time, fine, but keep it, you know, keep
it within reason. Okay, simple as that. I don't don't
want to lose any listeners, that's for sure. No, no thanks, Jock,
we'll talk again, all right. Thank you Dan, my pleasure,
Thank you so much. Good night, six one seven, two
ten thirty. Those lines are full. We have one line
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that Chuck just left at six one seven nine. Let
me go to Eileen. Hi, Eileen, welcome, Thanks for calling in.
How are you tonight?
Speaker 6 (06:31):
Well, I'm fine, and I'm calling mainly to say hello
and wish you a wonderful holiday dinner.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Well, right back at you. You're going to be in
Cambridge tomorrow, right.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
I'm I moved exactly one year ago, just the day
before Thanksgiving assisted living in k How are you enjoying that?
I from me, It's wonderful because I was living. I
had been living all alone in a beautiful, beautiful place
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all on Nantasket Beach, but other people were there mainly
over the summer, and I was just so alone. And
I called my son and asked him if, I said
to him McDonald's is closed on Thanksgiving, could I have
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Thanksgiving with you? So he said to me, you have
to go back to Ville House. I had lived here
for four years with my husband when he became disabled.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
So let me ask him, what will what will Thanksgiving
be like for you tomorrow you'ville House. Is there an
event at you will you Ville House that everyone gets
invited to?
Speaker 7 (07:58):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Good?
Speaker 6 (08:00):
And I don't. For me, I'm just grateful to be
living with other people. And whatever the conversation, no matter
what the topic, I really don't care. I'm just glad
to be with other people.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Well, I'll tell you that's worse. That's a blessing in
of itself. I mean, and I know you are a
people person. I know you and and I'm delighted to
know that you're happy where you are. I know you've
been in Cambridge for a while, and I think it's
exactly it fits you. It fits you, Eileen, and that's
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what's most important. And enjoy your day tomorrow, and believe
it or not, there be a lot of our listeners
who know your voice, who know who you are. You'll
be thought of by a lot of people around the
country tomorrow. And I appreciate you calling in tonight. I
really do.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
Thank Thank you Dan.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
All Right, Allan, we'll talk soon, Okay, Thank you so much.
Have a great day tomorrow. Enjoy the day. Thanks that Lean.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
Thanks Thanks Dan, toodnight talk soon.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Okay. We're gonna take a quick break here different stories
from different people. That's what Nightside is all about. Feel free.
We will have more conversation coming up on the other
side of the break. This is the quick break, so
stay right with us. If you're on the line, we're
gonna get to you soon. I got Joe, Linda and
Dan down in Tampa, Florida. We've been to Georgia, we've
been to New Hampshire, and now we're gonna be in
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Florida in a couple of moments. If you're listening in
a far away place, feel free to join us. Were
heard all over the country on radio and of course
on the internet, and all over the world on the internet,
so feel free to join us. We're just trying to
ease into Thanksgiving here. We're not looking for big controversies.
We can talk a little politics, and if you want
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to talk politics, little politics, we we can do that
respectfully and in a civil fashion. And I hope if
you do engage in that tomorrow as a side dish,
did you keep it respectable and keep it civil? Six
one seven, two, five, four ten thirty one line. Just
drop there and Eileen just vacated six one seven ninety.
We're coming right back on night Side.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on WBS, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Back to the phones, we go, let me go to
We're gonna go next. Here, Who's Who's Oh, here's Joe
and Belmont. Hey Joe, welcome back. How are you, Joe?
Speaker 8 (10:29):
Dan, I'm gonna tell you what topic I'm gonna talk
about on Thanksgiving Day.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
You got ready.
Speaker 8 (10:35):
It's gonna be uh that Trump shouldn't seek retribution against
his enemies because uh, he's just gonna get no other trouble.
He should be more saintly. And I'll tell you why
he shouldn't seek correctribution because in the Far East religion comma,
what goes around comes around, and in the Christian Bible,
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as you measure it out, it'll be measured back to you.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Well, I don't know if that's going to bother Donald Trump,
but you certainly have every right to have expressed yourself tonight,
and I, as always thank you for doing so. Joe.
It's a very thoughtful comment.
Speaker 8 (11:16):
I want to wish you and your loved once a
happy Thanksgiving, Dan, and you are the best.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Right back at you, Joe, Thank you much, my friend.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours talk to you soon.
Speaker 8 (11:26):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
All right, good not let's keep rolling here. We're going
to get as many people in as we can. Let
me go to Linda in Weymouth. Linda, you're next on
NIGHTSI go right ahead.
Speaker 9 (11:35):
Hi Dan, good evening, Thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
You're very welcome.
Speaker 9 (11:38):
I couldn't left this evening go bye without wishing you
and your family and all on night's side, listener is
a very blessed happy Thanksgiving tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Well, thank you very much, and right back at you,
right back at you.
Speaker 9 (11:54):
Thank you, thank you tomorrow. It's the first time now
be eighty years old, next here, first time I've ever
not cooked for dinner or been with the family for
dinner in a home. My daughter and my son in
Laura and I because of health reasons and other reasons.
We're going out to eat tomorrow and we're going to
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Granted Links and Quinsey.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Oh that's a great that's I have been there, that
you're going to have a great meal there.
Speaker 9 (12:22):
Oh good, We've we've never been, so we're we're we're
looking forward to it.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
It's a great. It's up. You're gonna have some great
views from the dining room. I haven't been there a lot,
but it's a beautiful it's a beautiful country club. So
it's going to be you, your daughter and her husband.
Speaker 9 (12:38):
Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, we have a four fifteen seating table.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
You're going to love it. You're going to love it.
And and there's going to be no preps and no cleanup,
which is going to be even better. What do you
think about it? Because even when you're invited, even when
you're invited to someone's house, I always feel compelled to
help out. And it's not that I'm a great guy,
but I would want them to help out with whether
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at my house.
Speaker 9 (13:08):
Me too, Me too. I did cook myself a small
turkey boneless turkey breast tonight that I bought at Pravetti's.
It was very pricey. It was thirty four dollars and
it was only three and a half pounds. But I
did get a taste of it and it was the
best turkey breast I've ever had.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Well, it should be that does sound a little expensive,
that that sounds like that's ten dollars ten dollars a pound.
Speaker 9 (13:33):
Yeah, yeah, it was very expensive boneless.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
It was maybe you know, maybe maybe you pay more
because it's a boneless and you're not pre paying for
the But there were a lot of turkeys. I saw
that the prices, well the turkeys were actually down and
there was some there was a little bit of a
turkey war going on with a lot of the supermarkets.
Whereas if you bought a whole bird, they would they
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might give you a break on the bird, but they
were charging a little extra on the vegetables. It was
kind of like the bird was what they call a
lost leader in the in the industry. Well there, you're
a good shape for tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (14:11):
I didn't want to hold turkey, and the stores around
me there were all out of turkey breasts. So I said,
I want a little turkey breast for myself for over
the weekend.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
So exactly, I can, I can. I can see it now,
sandridgees on on Saturday, and maybe a turkey stew on Sunday.
Speaker 9 (14:30):
You have it.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
You got it, that's right. Yeah, thank you very much.
I so appreciate that, and I will do the same
back at all the listeners in yourself included. Thank you
so much.
Speaker 9 (14:44):
Okay, thank you Dan, yep, connect.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Great, have a great night. Let me keep rolling here.
We're going to get Dan from Tampa, Florida. One of
my favorite people that I've met through nightside over the years.
Dan a former police officer in Tampa, Florida. Hey, Dan, welcome,
How are you to night?
Speaker 10 (15:01):
Yeah, I'm doing pretty good. Just looking forward to going
this one of my retired co workers and his wife
tomorrow down to the southwest Florida. About a one hundred
miles for me, So I'll be heading on the road
tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
So how in Florida? I've been in Florida. But if
you're going to southwest, you're you're in I guess we'd
call either Northwest or Central West. So you're just going
straight down the coast. You don't have to kind of
cross Alligator Alley or anything like that, right.
Speaker 10 (15:33):
Yeah, no, correct, Yeah, that's just kind of about halfway
and I'm just going to rite down Ice seventy five
down to them where just south of Sarasota, north of
Fort Myers before you make the turn Alligator Alley.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
So what were you going to Fort Pierce or something?
Speaker 10 (15:53):
What time are you going to It's actually the town
is not many people heard of. Its pretty small. It's
called Rotunda West.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
I have never met and.
Speaker 10 (16:04):
Yeah, it's pretty small. It's maybe you drive by, you'll
you'll miss it. But it's right near Englewood and just
north of Fort Mayas, so it's about one hundred miles
south of Tampa.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
How's the price of gas in Florida these days? Dan,
I'm I'd love to know. Up here we can get
it as if you know where to go, we can
still get it under three dollars a gallon. On Sundays,
I go out to a place on Route nine, not
far from where I live, and I've got last Sunday,
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I think it was two eighty three a gallon. How
expensive or or or inexpensive is it is? Is it
in Florida at this time?
Speaker 10 (16:47):
Yeah, it's a little better. I think last time I
got gas, which was last week, think it is about
two point nine a gallon here.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Whoa, that's a lot better. Please my friend, that's like
twelve percent better. That's you guys are doing great down there.
What do they attribute that to? Why? Why are you
so much better than we are? You just closer to
the refineries?
Speaker 10 (17:11):
Yes, we actually have because there's there's a lot of them.
Fuel deliveries here to the Port of Tampa day and
so we and so we had a lot of deliveries
here from that have been refined on the Gulf coast,
so so we're close to the sauce. And also we've
got more of a a I guess, a friendlier a
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tech situation here.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Yeah. Well I'm sure. I'm sure it's a little bit better. Uh.
And Florida keeps growing. Everybody keeps heading to Florida. So
when when I'm when I get when I decided to
go south, I'm calling you. I want you to know that. Okay,
so you better have something.
Speaker 10 (17:53):
You're always welcome here. Zero zero chances of snow for
the rest of the here and there. It's about we're
suffering from the mid seventies right now.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Oh that's gotta be chilly. Put a sweater on tonight,
that's for sure. Hey Dan, great to hear your voice.
Where's your next big trip? Dan is one of our
adventurers here on Nightside. He often will call me from
a distant port. He's the only person who's ever called Nightside.
I've bet people call from Africa, people call from Asia,
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and people call from Australia, from certainly from Europe, Canada, Mexico.
No problem at all, I've bet people actually call from Russia,
but this Dan is the only guy who ever made
a call from Antarctica to Nightside. So we've covered all
the continents because of Dan, including Antarctica. Where's your next
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big trip coming up?
Speaker 10 (18:49):
And it's in a couple of weeks. I'm going back
to England. I've got one of the big milestone birthdays
and actually sixty well in December, so where I'm not
the flying England, spending London a couple of nights and
with some friends of mine about northeast of London, and
then I'll be sailing back on an ocean minor, so
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I actually might. Absolutely I'll tune in and give you
a call from the middle of North Atlantic.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Love to love to have you do that. Absolutely well,
We'll take continents and oceans. It's as simple as that. Well, Dan,
congratulations on the big six to Oh you're a young man.
You have many years of good health and enjoyment in
front of you. I'm envious. I'm absolutely envious. Thanks buddy,
We'll talk soon. Okay, Happy, Thanks you.
Speaker 10 (19:37):
Great and happy thanksgiving to everyone.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
All right, thanks to you. Appreciate the call. We got
great callers here, got great people one night side. That's
what this program is all about. Let me go next
to uh Michelle in Mintsfield, Massachusetts. Hey, Michelle, I'm going
to get you in here before the news part of
the hour. Hi Michelle, Hi there.
Speaker 11 (19:56):
What are you doing.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
I'm doing just great, all the better that you would
have called. Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Uh.
Speaker 11 (20:02):
I feel like calling you mister Ray because you are
such an icon and I'm an off and on AM listener,
but i was just scrolling the dial and I'm like,
oh my gosh, You're just so positive and you have
a great gift of helping everyone that's listening just bring
it up a level. So thank you for that.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
For real, Michelle, I appreciate, by the way, I'm old,
but I'm not that old.
Speaker 11 (20:24):
Please call me Okay, Okay, I'm old too. So so
you asked what people were going to talk about dinner,
and I'm having a nice small dinner with my sister,
my parents, but they all know. I just wanted to
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share that I've had my you know, I wear my
heart on my sleeve and I care about people. So
I've been very emotional about the government this, you know
time or a few times ago too. But I've always
tried to still listen to others, and I don't think
it's worth losing friends over. So I really do try to,
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you know, be like open. But I realized that social
media was not helping me do that, and I was
becoming more one sided because I was realizing, you know,
the algorithm, the algorithms feeding me more of the emotional,
you know, inspirational get you all fired at you.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
You're absolutely right. I mean, all of us end up
in that echo chamber or that political silo, and we
forget that there's a lot of people out there in
this country who are really good people who disagree with us,
and we have to have conversations. That's what we try
to do one night side and we've tried to do
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that from day one. We called it America's back Porch.
And I don't know what your politics are. I could
care less. I just want you to feel free to
call this program and express your point of view, whatever
it is, because, as a guy who's seen it and
the other day said, all of us believe deeply. You know,
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there are some but most of us abhor violence, and
particularly political violence, and we all favor the First Amendment
because if I don't favor the First Amendment for you?
How can I favor the First Amendment for myself? Right?
Speaker 11 (22:21):
And the other day I heard on another WBT show
Marjorie Egan and what's your name?
Speaker 2 (22:28):
The show's that's a lot of that's all one of
our competitors. I don't know.
Speaker 11 (22:33):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Okay, that's okay, that's okay. They're friends of mine, but.
Speaker 11 (22:38):
That's okay, So okay. So they had on Yo Yo
Ma and they were interviewing him, and he said, you know,
if we could all just we don't have to blame anybody,
but if we could just all accept that humans have
the choice to either be creative or destructive, and we
all have. It's a human trait.
Speaker 9 (22:57):
We all have.
Speaker 11 (22:58):
So if we could just all start there, we can
all work together to focus on the positive and the creative.
And like I said, that's what you're doing with your show.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Well, I'm trying. But I also understand that we have
a great tradition in this country. Occasionally presidents have come
along and members of political leaders have come along, Democrats
and Republicans and anybody who doesn't recognize there have been
great Republican presidents and great democratic presidents. You don't have
to like this president, or you can like this president.
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As far as I'm concerned, I will criticize him for
what I disagree with, and I'll support him for things
that I agree with. But if you look back in
the twentieth century, I am a firm believer that an
integral president was Franklin Roosevelt let us out of the depression.
Some would argue maybe that led us into the depression,
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but he let us out of the depression and through
World War Two, and in the second half, Ronald Reagan,
in my opinion, pulled the country together after some really
tough years, the Nition Years, the Card of Years, and
broke the back of the Soviet Union and freed millions
of people in Eastern Europe. So one Republican, one Democrat.
Speaker 11 (24:12):
Yeah, it's not parties. And like I said at the beginning,
I think the communication channels that we've been ingesting and
by the way, I'm in communications that I know the
intent is advertising. I know how it works. But to
get swept away and actually go, I can't believe I've
been letting it just you know, feed, just change my brain,
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close my brain be opinionated, being negative, be stressed. It's
really a bad right. It's what you take in is
what you experience. Yep, and it's just not positive. So
I do still keep trying. I want to wish every
one of your listeners equally, all of us, everyone around
the world, just a happy day and no matter what
you celebrate this season.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
So Schelle, please continue to listen to my show when
you have an opportunity and partition, because we need to
hear more voices like yours. I really believe that we're
not enemies. We're we belong to the same country. All
of us were very lucky to be born here.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
We only represent six percent of the world's population. So
the chances are that you and I would be born
in America. We're six percent uh more likely we would
we should have been. We could have been born in
China from a mathematical point of view, or and we
would have been born into in many of those countries,
into abject poverty. No matter what you were born into
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into America, you do have the opportunity to work and
to and to get educated.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
And a lot of that doesn't work in other parts
of the country. I mean, we have indoor plumbing we
have electricity, we have I mean, we got a lot
of stuff that the people that we take for granted.
So I'm just looking be thankful, be thankful. You're an American, Michelle.
I love your calls. Please back more often.
Speaker 11 (26:01):
Okay, Okay, thank you so much, Dan.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Thank you, Thanks Michelle, talk soon.
Speaker 6 (26:06):
Okay, a great night.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
That was one great call. We'll take a break. The
only line that's open is six one seven nine ten thirty.
We're on a roll. We've had excellent calls. Let's keep
it going. Uh that one line six one seven nine
three one is the only one dial in right now.
We'll get you on. I guarantee you that's for sure.
Coming back on night Side right after this.
Speaker 12 (26:30):
It's Night Side with Dy.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Boston's news radio.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
The Boston Globe is reporting tonight that the two National
Guard members shot in that ambush. I want to make
sure this this is not correct, that this is correct. No,
I think it's I think the Globe has a bad
headline right now. I'm not even going to share it
with you. It just cleared a moment ago, and hopefully
(27:01):
the Globe can clean it up. Anyway, let us continue.
You know why that headline is there. That's I believe
that's an old story. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
The latest we have is the two National Guard members
who were shot at, a male and a female, are
still are in critical condition. I'll keep you posted. Let
me go next to Frankie in New Bedford. Frankie, welcome back.
All are Frankie? Well, we lost Frankie. Frankie called back, Willy,
we lost you there, my friend. He probably had us
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on speakerphone, and that sometimes happens. Frank Feel free to
call back. We'll get you back to the head of
the line, I promise, John. Let me go, Mike and Quincy.
Mike next on nightside, Go right ahead, Mike, Hey, can
you hear me here? Perfectly? Go right ahead.
Speaker 12 (28:02):
So, like, let's say a couple of things. So obviously
I don't want to talk religion or politics at Thanksgiving,
but i'd like to say, like, like i'd like to
give thanks to people on Thanksgiving. I have a gentleman
that I was fifteen when I met him, and he
was homeless at the time, and I was just my
first job and now he's eighty years old. Women friends,
(28:25):
I'm forty seven of friends for like twenty three years
or whatever, and I, you know, take care of him,
take care of the movies, take them shopping, and you know,
I invite him over for Thanksgiving dinner, and I you know,
he has no family and he's by himself. I worked
at a senior assistant living facility when I was fifteen
to eighteen, and I would see people by themselves, and
(28:46):
I think it's just so nice just to like take
care of people that are good people that have nobody
on a holiday, you know, to have them over and
to give them that. I just think that's like to me,
it's that Thanksgiving is giving back people.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
How old is that, gentleman?
Speaker 12 (29:02):
Did you say he just turned eighty? Just it was
forty seven when I met him, and he was a
recovering alcoholic. I never met him when he was an alcoholic.
He has a wife and a child and they just
don't talk to him anymore. So I take him to
the movies, I take him out to you know, go shop,
food shopping and whatever. And Thanksgiving I'll have him over, Christmas,
(29:25):
will bring him over leftovers or whatever. And it's just
really nice to like give back and like like say
thank you and just like be great, like be grateful
to someone that you really, I actually love this guy. Yeah,
And he's actually my phone is uncle Roger. You know,
his name is Roger, and he's the same age as
my dad, he's a year older. And I just think,
like Thanksgiving, like like, why don't we look at like,
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you know, we talk about politics and this and that,
why don't we look at it like giving back to
people that we love.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Well, that's a great example that that is a great example.
And I'm big a table do you you have tomorrow?
How many people will be there with this gentleman about
ten of us? Ten of us? And and what was
his reaction? When was this the first year that you
you have invited him to Thanksgiving?
Speaker 12 (30:13):
Or no, this is the this is the fourth year.
So what was his reaction?
Speaker 2 (30:19):
What was his reaction the first year when you sort
of said then hey.
Speaker 12 (30:23):
He laughed out loud. He was so happy because normally
we would just bring him like leftovers, like hey, Roger,
I'm gonna come over. I'm going to bring a leftovers
and oh, thank you, thank you, And I'm like, hey,
why don't you come over this year? Once you come over?
And he was just so grateful and and like when
I first met him, he was working at this place,
the River Big Club, but it's a it used to
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be a senior place. It's a different name now in Quincy.
And I was a plot washer and I got him
a job at stopping shop and I used to work
there as a form manager. And he got an increased
you know wage, he got benefits, he got vacations, everything else.
And he was and that father Bill is the homeless
shelter across the street. And I'm like, let's get you
(31:03):
out of here. And I got him a full time job.
And I've been friends with them ever since.
Speaker 9 (31:07):
We go the move.
Speaker 12 (31:08):
We've seen the best movies, you know, like No Country
for Old Men. We've seen Oh.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Sure, that's that's a terrifying movie. That is a terrifying movie.
Speaker 11 (31:18):
Yeah, oh man, like awesome movies.
Speaker 12 (31:20):
And we do we take him out, We take them
off for his birthday. His birthday was in November fifty
to eighty, went to the Fours in Quincy. You know,
he loves the Fours, the Turkey Tips, and we had
a great time. And I've been friends with them since
I was fifty. I'm forty seven. I've been friends of them.
So I was fifteen and we invite him over Thanksgiving,
and he's so happy, he's so grateful. And I think
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Thanksgivings about like saying thank you and giving to people.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
I'm with you totally. Hopefully you've inspired some folks who
maybe might have one more seat at their table tomorrow
for someone.
Speaker 12 (31:55):
Help you, because it's all about Thanksgiving is about giving
to people. I think, you know, we talk about politics,
we talk about this, what about like bringing someone at
your table that might be alone tomorrow, Like bring them
to your table, like think about that.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
You you have you have laid it out, uh that
no one is going to not understand. It sounds to
me like you get more of a kick out of
this than he does.
Speaker 12 (32:23):
And I know he loves it.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
He's no.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Absolutely, Oh, I'm sure that I could just imagine if
I was alone.
Speaker 12 (32:31):
But yeah, yeah. And the feeling of bringing someone in
that would be alone tomorrow and having them embrace your
family and enjoy the food like that is like the
best feeling in the world.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Absolutely, Absolutely, Mike, thank you so much for for doing that.
And I'll be thinking about you and Roger and the
rest of your family and a lot of people will
pass through my mind tomorrow. Thank you, Mike, you being
so loyal to Night's Side as well. Thank you so much.
Speaker 12 (33:03):
And yeah, Khan, thank you so much again. I don't
want to, you know, read a ray, but you're an
awesome host. I love your show. Thank you so much.
Speaker 8 (33:09):
Well.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
I thank you for saying that. I don't get at
all upset because it's a it's a job that I
really enjoy and I'm hoping that I can make a
difference and make some people think a little outside the box.
Speaker 12 (33:24):
That's all I'm trying to I think I think you
absolutely do well with that. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Thanks man, Happy, happy Thanksgiving, good night night. That's a
great call. That is just a great call. Okay, pause,
We'll be right back. I got frank in New Bedford,
we got John in New York, and Lola in San Diego.
Got room for you if you want to try six one, seven, two,
four thirty, six one seven, nine, three, one ten thirty
coming right back on Night Side.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
You're on Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
We got Frankie back in New Bedford telling him back.
Hey Frankie, we lost you there for a moment.
Speaker 7 (33:58):
Go right ahead, frank Hey Dan, how are you doing sorry,
I apologize for that. Uh mcgless connected. I will hold
you up for long, I know, almost midnight and you're
going to be off a couple of days. I just
wanted to call in and wish you and your family
and uh all the night side nice said listeners are
happy Thanksgiving and talk quickly about the National Guard via
(34:21):
the two people that got you know shot. It hits
home to My wife used to be a she went
to the you know, National Guard, she was an MP.
Uh and now my son just signed up. He'll be
living in next year in March, so he'll be shipped
over to Missouri for training. So hit home when you know.
When I heard the story and I you know, MAHA
goes out to their families and into the whole nation
(34:43):
right now.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
So what is he being shipped to? Leonard Foot, leonar.
Speaker 7 (34:46):
Wood Foot, lenardould you yep, that's what I figured.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Yeah, okay, yeah, I've been through that stuff myself, so
I know what you I know what you mean. And
he'll is he how old is he is? He just
out of school?
Speaker 5 (34:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (34:58):
I just graduate high school, just turned he justly just
turned nineteen, so he you know, getting ready, started getting
started to run and stuff like getting in shape.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
So yeah, that's the one thing I would suggest because
one of the things they do is have you run
quite a bit in the morning before breakfast. Oh yeah, yeah,
he'll be.
Speaker 7 (35:14):
I gave him the rundown. Get up at four o'clock
in the morning. There's that's what you're gonna do over there, because.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
They'll wake you up. They'll wake you up. There's no
there's no sleeping in. Tell them, okay, no, oh man,
Well congratulate him and hopefully we'll be he'll be. He'll
he'll be home a year from now on Thanksgiving leave
and he'll he'll be he'll he will be a young
man a year for Oh.
Speaker 7 (35:40):
Yes, absolutely, but uh yeah, very uh he'll you know,
he's a good kid. You know I have I have
four kids and they're all good kids and you know,
like great, good grades. And so I'm a proud that.
Speaker 6 (35:50):
So it was.
Speaker 7 (35:51):
It was amazing, you know.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
Frank, thank thank you for calling, Thanks for calling back,
and happy Thanksgiving tomorrow and enjoy you Soun's company tomorrow
and uh uh it'll be it'll be a magical day
for you. Thank you.
Speaker 7 (36:05):
So I'll have a glass on one in your name man,
I'm gonna have one in your name too.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Okay, thanks Greg, all right, thanks man, talk to you
so good night. Okay. We've gotta get John in New
York and then we're gonna we got Lola. We'll finish
probably with Lowell.
Speaker 13 (36:20):
Go ahead, John, Yes, and happy Thanksgiving to you, your
family and the staff.
Speaker 8 (36:27):
Ad w b Z.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Well, thank you, sir. We've got another statement. Got in
with that New Hampshire, Georgia, Florida. Uh and now we
got New York and we've gotta get California in a moment.
Tell us what you're gonna be doing tomorrow. What's up?
What's up in your day tomorrow?
Speaker 13 (36:44):
It's it's just me and my son and his girlfriend,
three of us for dinner. You know, it's very simple.
We're doing it butter ball turkey brush this year rather
than doing that big twenty pound turkey.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
You know, just good it will.
Speaker 13 (37:01):
And by the way, I just want to mention this
is the time we should be thankful for something. And
I am very thankful for what for you being the
greatest radio talk show her house that ever existed in
the world. And I want to tell you.
Speaker 14 (37:16):
One thing that thanks to you, I am so grateful.
I'll tell you why, because prior to listening to your program,
you know, I drive between eleven PM to twelve on
the way home, right yep, and then the pass. Prior
to listening to your show, I used to have a
problem fighting to stay awake, dre and ever since, I.
Speaker 13 (37:38):
Swear you are a safety factor and you might not
be aware of it. It might be other people that
listen at this hour that you have the hold on
your attention to stay awake.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
Wow, that is a high honor to be told that.
I have never been told that before. But I really
mean that. I can't thank you enough for something.
Speaker 13 (38:02):
You're welcome. I mean, I realized this is a result
of listening to your program for months that I don't
I don't anymore.
Speaker 10 (38:11):
That was a.
Speaker 13 (38:11):
Serious, a bad thing I had going on, and you.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
John, you made my night. You've made my night. I'm
gonna talk about this call with some friends of mine tomorrow. Seriously.
I used to work mornings in television, and when I'd
be driving home at one o'clock in the afternoon, particularly
after we've been somewhere fifty miles out of Boston, there
were times when I know I nodded off in the car.
(38:37):
You know those days in April when the sun was
really starting to get a little bit warmer. So I
know exactly what you're talking about. John, Thank you, Honor.
Speaker 13 (38:46):
You're quite welcome, Honor, my friend.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
Good night talk somebody be well, stay well, say how
do your family will? Good night? Lola, You're gonna wrap
it up for us, Lola, go right ahead, big finish, Lola,
go ahead.
Speaker 9 (39:00):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
So I want to say a shout out to Glenn
Lauren Eileen Dan from Florida because I met him when
we went to see the Wu Socks. Yes, happy Thanksgiving
you and your family.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
Yes, thank you.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
I was so this is tomorrow, I'm meeting some friends.
We're going to take a walk on the beach, and
I was going to go to the National Cemetery and
just be there with all the souls that have left us.
But tonight a coyote was near the mall and bit
(39:36):
two children. So we got all these canyons around here,
and the cemetery is full of these canyons, and now
I'm like, I might just go over there and sit
in the car because I don't want to get a
chest my coyo no.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
No, no, no, I don't want to lose you as
a listener either as a friend. Be careful, be careful,
take the walk on the beach. Make it a longer
walk in the beach, and you'll be just fine.
Speaker 6 (40:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
So it's gonna be seventy four tomorrow, sixty six degrees
cooler than today.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
That's okay, you're brubbing us in here. It's gonna it's
gonna be really cold here in New England over the weekend, so.
Speaker 3 (40:17):
You'll be able to come on out, come on out
for a visit. You know, it's not San Francisco. It's
cold up there.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
I hear you. I totally hear you, Lola. I love you,
you know that. Thank you so much for calling in
finishing the evening off. We were live tonight, everybody, those
of you who thought were on tape, No, this is
a live show. It is thanks live. Yep, thanks Lola,
you're live too.
Speaker 3 (40:42):
I'm glad too, Dan, I'm not gone yet.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
Careful, have a good one, Thanks so much.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
Do you see you next week? Okay, bye bye bye
to all.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
The nice side listeners. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving tomorrow with
your family and friends wherever you are. I will toast
you at our table, and I hope you'll toast everyone
who's involved in nightside listeners callers alike. My name is
Dan Ray. I want to thank Rob Brooks. I'll toast
Rob and Marita. I hope you do as well. I
(41:11):
will end as always here on Thanksgiving Eve. All dogs,
all cats, all pets go to heaven. That's what my
pal Charlie Ray is, who passed fifteen years ago in February.
That's where all your pets are who have passed. They
loved you and you love them. I do believe you'll
see them again. We'll see you again on Monday night.
Be good to Bradley Jay Tomorrow night and Friday night.
Happy Thanksgiving Giving everyone, Dan Ray in Boston
It's Nightside with Dan Ray. I'm telling you by Boston's
Knees Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Welcome back, everybody. We are about to start our final
hour tonight on Thanksgiving Eve, and we are talking about
how your Thanksgiving dinner will hunt Fuld tomorrow. By the way,
I just want to get it on the record that
I will, at some point tomorrow at the table that
(00:37):
I've been fortunate enough to be invited to, I will
toast all of you Nightside listeners for a happy and
healthy holiday season and I hope and a very successful
twenty twenty six. I hope you might do the same
to other Nightside listeners. And if you want to mention me,
that's okay too. I know that there are people all
(00:59):
over the country. We track this stuff. There are people
literally in every state who listen to Nightside, people in
fifty countries around the world who will listen to us.
If you don't believe me, go to Nightside on demand.
And actually you probably can't see the statistics I see,
but they track this stuff now. And there are people
(01:19):
in countries that most of us have never heard of
who listens to Nightside. So when you speak on Nightside,
you reach a lot of people immediately, and you also
reach a lot of people because our shows are posted
in podcast form at nightside, on demand, nightside undermand dot com,
and over the weekend. If you missed anything this week,
(01:39):
feel free to participate what we're doing tonight as we're
just basically talking about tomorrow and we've had some interesting
calls from our callers in the first hour Matthew, Nick, William,
and Dave. Matthew from Danvers, Nick from Saugust, William from Boston,
and Dave from New Hampshire. I'd love to have you
join us. I am here this This is not a
(02:01):
taped program. This is not Best Off. Best Off is
on Sunday night at eleven o'clock on WBC. I'm live
right now, sitting in my studio on Thanksgiving Eve. You
are wherever you are. Maybe some of you are driving
somewhere and you're listening to us in a car radio,
or you're sitting at home. You've reached your wherever you're
(02:22):
going to be for tomorrow. I hope you've had a
safe trip. If you're driving, please stay safe. I know
you might be running into some weather problems in other
parts of the country. Today was a pretty calm day
in New England after the rain left. Tomorrow is supposed
to be a fairly decent day, supposed to get colder
on Friday. I want to go right to the calls.
The only lines we have open right now is six
(02:42):
one seven ten thirty. Please feel free to join this conversation.
I'm here for you. I hope you're here for me.
If you're not here, don't call. But if you are,
you're invited to call six one seven four ten thirty.
What will you do tomorrow at Thanksgiving dinner? If politics
is brought up on the menu. That's all I'm asking.
(03:03):
Let's go too, George, Not George. Let me go to
Chuck in Georgia. Hey, Chuck, how are you well?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
To you?
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Hey Chucky?
Speaker 2 (03:15):
We got the audio pumped up. Go right ahead, I Chuck.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
Yeah. Did you hear me?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
I did not. There was there was a pregnant plot,
and I was worried you weren't there. Go right ahead,
John No.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
I said, Happy Thanksgiving to you, your family and everybody
that listens to you. Thank you for across the world.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Well, I appreciate that, and I love I love you
down there in Georgia, that's for sure.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
So I would like to tell you that, you know,
we have family. You know, I'm down here, a brother
mine is down here. He has a couple of kids.
We all get together. We have lots of friends here.
I'll have about eighteen people at my house tomorrow. Whoa
And at the end or before we sit down to eat,
(04:00):
we will use FaceTime on our iPads to talk to
our other siblings and families, have a little you know,
salute and say hi, Happy Thanksgiving. We'll sit down to eat.
No religion, no politics. We don't even think about it.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Okay, so it's a it's a politic free zone.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Absolutely good for you. Were arguing, no nothing, just eating
and be casual and you know, be nice.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Now, what what about if someone inadvertently or advertly speaks
up and says, you know, I think that Trump is
doing a and fills in the blank either a great
job or allows you job. Does everyone turn and say no,
we're not going there or does that spark a conversation?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Well, I know the girls will you know we're not
doing that here. That's another time, another place, but not now.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
That's perfect. That's perfect. Focus on family and focus on
food and football and friends and fun. That's what it
really should all come down to.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
That's right. It's a family occasion and that's what it's for.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Well, I hope you'll, I hope you'll send it toasted
nightside listeners, and maybe some of your friends will become
nightside listeners down there in Georgia.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Well a few, I've converted a few.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Yeah, I so appreciate that. Let me tell you are
a Georgia ambassador, that's for sure. I love your calls.
Thank you much, my friend, and wish you all the
best of your family.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
And also for a really good holiday Christmas season. I
think you celebrate Christmas, Christmas holiday season, uh, and a
great New Year. I mean, this is a time when
all of us should be thinking, uh, what's what's what's
in store for us? And hopefully it's only good things,
simple as that.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Yeah, most of us down here don't drink, the people
that I know, so, but we have a good time anyway.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
That's okay. You know, if you need alcohol to have
a better time, fine, but keep it, you know, keep
it within reason. Okay, simple as that. I don't don't
want to lose any listeners, that's for sure. No, no thanks, Jock,
we'll talk again, all right. Thank you Dan, my pleasure,
Thank you so much. Good night, six one seven, two
ten thirty. Those lines are full. We have one line
(06:22):
that Chuck just left at six one seven nine. Let
me go to Eileen. Hi, Eileen, welcome, Thanks for calling in.
How are you tonight?
Speaker 6 (06:31):
Well, I'm fine, and I'm calling mainly to say hello
and wish you a wonderful holiday dinner.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Well, right back at you. You're going to be in
Cambridge tomorrow, right.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
I'm I moved exactly one year ago, just the day
before Thanksgiving assisted living in k How are you enjoying that?
I from me, It's wonderful because I was living. I
had been living all alone in a beautiful, beautiful place
(07:11):
all on Nantasket Beach, but other people were there mainly
over the summer, and I was just so alone. And
I called my son and asked him if, I said
to him McDonald's is closed on Thanksgiving, could I have
(07:34):
Thanksgiving with you? So he said to me, you have
to go back to Ville House. I had lived here
for four years with my husband when he became disabled.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
So let me ask him, what will what will Thanksgiving
be like for you tomorrow you'ville House. Is there an
event at you will you Ville House that everyone gets
invited to?
Speaker 7 (07:58):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Good?
Speaker 6 (08:00):
And I don't. For me, I'm just grateful to be
living with other people. And whatever the conversation, no matter
what the topic, I really don't care. I'm just glad
to be with other people.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Well, I'll tell you that's worse. That's a blessing in
of itself. I mean, and I know you are a
people person. I know you and and I'm delighted to
know that you're happy where you are. I know you've
been in Cambridge for a while, and I think it's
exactly it fits you. It fits you, Eileen, and that's
(08:42):
what's most important. And enjoy your day tomorrow, and believe
it or not, there be a lot of our listeners
who know your voice, who know who you are. You'll
be thought of by a lot of people around the
country tomorrow. And I appreciate you calling in tonight. I
really do.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
Thank Thank you Dan.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
All Right, Allan, we'll talk soon, Okay, Thank you so much.
Have a great day tomorrow. Enjoy the day. Thanks that Lean.
Speaker 6 (09:07):
Thanks Thanks Dan, toodnight talk soon.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Okay. We're gonna take a quick break here different stories
from different people. That's what Nightside is all about. Feel free.
We will have more conversation coming up on the other
side of the break. This is the quick break, so
stay right with us. If you're on the line, we're
gonna get to you soon. I got Joe, Linda and
Dan down in Tampa, Florida. We've been to Georgia, we've
been to New Hampshire, and now we're gonna be in
(09:32):
Florida in a couple of moments. If you're listening in
a far away place, feel free to join us. Were
heard all over the country on radio and of course
on the internet, and all over the world on the internet,
so feel free to join us. We're just trying to
ease into Thanksgiving here. We're not looking for big controversies.
We can talk a little politics, and if you want
(09:52):
to talk politics, little politics, we we can do that
respectfully and in a civil fashion. And I hope if
you do engage in that tomorrow as a side dish,
did you keep it respectable and keep it civil? Six
one seven, two, five, four ten thirty one line. Just
drop there and Eileen just vacated six one seven ninety.
We're coming right back on night Side.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on WBS, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Back to the phones, we go, let me go to
We're gonna go next. Here, Who's Who's Oh, here's Joe
and Belmont. Hey Joe, welcome back. How are you, Joe?
Speaker 8 (10:29):
Dan, I'm gonna tell you what topic I'm gonna talk
about on Thanksgiving Day.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
You got ready.
Speaker 8 (10:35):
It's gonna be uh that Trump shouldn't seek retribution against
his enemies because uh, he's just gonna get no other trouble.
He should be more saintly. And I'll tell you why
he shouldn't seek correctribution because in the Far East religion comma,
what goes around comes around, and in the Christian Bible,
(10:58):
as you measure it out, it'll be measured back to you.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Well, I don't know if that's going to bother Donald Trump,
but you certainly have every right to have expressed yourself tonight,
and I, as always thank you for doing so. Joe.
It's a very thoughtful comment.
Speaker 8 (11:16):
I want to wish you and your loved once a
happy Thanksgiving, Dan, and you are the best.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Right back at you, Joe, Thank you much, my friend.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours talk to you soon.
Speaker 8 (11:26):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
All right, good not let's keep rolling here. We're going
to get as many people in as we can. Let
me go to Linda in Weymouth. Linda, you're next on
NIGHTSI go right ahead.
Speaker 9 (11:35):
Hi Dan, good evening, Thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
You're very welcome.
Speaker 9 (11:38):
I couldn't left this evening go bye without wishing you
and your family and all on night's side, listener is
a very blessed happy Thanksgiving tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Well, thank you very much, and right back at you,
right back at you.
Speaker 9 (11:54):
Thank you, thank you tomorrow. It's the first time now
be eighty years old, next here, first time I've ever
not cooked for dinner or been with the family for
dinner in a home. My daughter and my son in
Laura and I because of health reasons and other reasons.
We're going out to eat tomorrow and we're going to
(12:14):
Granted Links and Quinsey.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Oh that's a great that's I have been there, that
you're going to have a great meal there.
Speaker 9 (12:22):
Oh good, We've we've never been, so we're we're we're
looking forward to it.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
It's a great. It's up. You're gonna have some great
views from the dining room. I haven't been there a lot,
but it's a beautiful it's a beautiful country club. So
it's going to be you, your daughter and her husband.
Speaker 9 (12:38):
Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, we have a four fifteen seating table.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
You're going to love it. You're going to love it.
And and there's going to be no preps and no cleanup,
which is going to be even better. What do you
think about it? Because even when you're invited, even when
you're invited to someone's house, I always feel compelled to
help out. And it's not that I'm a great guy,
but I would want them to help out with whether
(13:06):
at my house.
Speaker 9 (13:08):
Me too, Me too. I did cook myself a small
turkey boneless turkey breast tonight that I bought at Pravetti's.
It was very pricey. It was thirty four dollars and
it was only three and a half pounds. But I
did get a taste of it and it was the
best turkey breast I've ever had.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Well, it should be that does sound a little expensive,
that that sounds like that's ten dollars ten dollars a pound.
Speaker 9 (13:33):
Yeah, yeah, it was very expensive boneless.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
It was maybe you know, maybe maybe you pay more
because it's a boneless and you're not pre paying for
the But there were a lot of turkeys. I saw
that the prices, well the turkeys were actually down and
there was some there was a little bit of a
turkey war going on with a lot of the supermarkets.
Whereas if you bought a whole bird, they would they
(13:58):
might give you a break on the bird, but they
were charging a little extra on the vegetables. It was
kind of like the bird was what they call a
lost leader in the in the industry. Well there, you're
a good shape for tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (14:11):
I didn't want to hold turkey, and the stores around
me there were all out of turkey breasts. So I said,
I want a little turkey breast for myself for over
the weekend.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
So exactly, I can, I can. I can see it now,
sandridgees on on Saturday, and maybe a turkey stew on Sunday.
Speaker 9 (14:30):
You have it.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
You got it, that's right. Yeah, thank you very much.
I so appreciate that, and I will do the same
back at all the listeners in yourself included. Thank you
so much.
Speaker 9 (14:44):
Okay, thank you Dan, yep, connect.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Great, have a great night. Let me keep rolling here.
We're going to get Dan from Tampa, Florida. One of
my favorite people that I've met through nightside over the years.
Dan a former police officer in Tampa, Florida. Hey, Dan, welcome,
How are you to night?
Speaker 10 (15:01):
Yeah, I'm doing pretty good. Just looking forward to going
this one of my retired co workers and his wife
tomorrow down to the southwest Florida. About a one hundred
miles for me, So I'll be heading on the road
tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
So how in Florida? I've been in Florida. But if
you're going to southwest, you're you're in I guess we'd
call either Northwest or Central West. So you're just going
straight down the coast. You don't have to kind of
cross Alligator Alley or anything like that, right.
Speaker 10 (15:33):
Yeah, no, correct, Yeah, that's just kind of about halfway
and I'm just going to rite down Ice seventy five
down to them where just south of Sarasota, north of
Fort Myers before you make the turn Alligator Alley.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
So what were you going to Fort Pierce or something?
Speaker 10 (15:53):
What time are you going to It's actually the town
is not many people heard of. Its pretty small. It's
called Rotunda West.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
I have never met and.
Speaker 10 (16:04):
Yeah, it's pretty small. It's maybe you drive by, you'll
you'll miss it. But it's right near Englewood and just
north of Fort Mayas, so it's about one hundred miles
south of Tampa.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
How's the price of gas in Florida these days? Dan,
I'm I'd love to know. Up here we can get
it as if you know where to go, we can
still get it under three dollars a gallon. On Sundays,
I go out to a place on Route nine, not
far from where I live, and I've got last Sunday,
(16:37):
I think it was two eighty three a gallon. How
expensive or or or inexpensive is it is? Is it
in Florida at this time?
Speaker 10 (16:47):
Yeah, it's a little better. I think last time I
got gas, which was last week, think it is about
two point nine a gallon here.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Whoa, that's a lot better. Please my friend, that's like
twelve percent better. That's you guys are doing great down there.
What do they attribute that to? Why? Why are you
so much better than we are? You just closer to
the refineries?
Speaker 10 (17:11):
Yes, we actually have because there's there's a lot of them.
Fuel deliveries here to the Port of Tampa day and
so we and so we had a lot of deliveries
here from that have been refined on the Gulf coast,
so so we're close to the sauce. And also we've
got more of a a I guess, a friendlier a
(17:35):
tech situation here.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Yeah. Well I'm sure. I'm sure it's a little bit better. Uh.
And Florida keeps growing. Everybody keeps heading to Florida. So
when when I'm when I get when I decided to
go south, I'm calling you. I want you to know that. Okay,
so you better have something.
Speaker 10 (17:53):
You're always welcome here. Zero zero chances of snow for
the rest of the here and there. It's about we're
suffering from the mid seventies right now.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Oh that's gotta be chilly. Put a sweater on tonight,
that's for sure. Hey Dan, great to hear your voice.
Where's your next big trip? Dan is one of our
adventurers here on Nightside. He often will call me from
a distant port. He's the only person who's ever called Nightside.
I've bet people call from Africa, people call from Asia,
(18:26):
and people call from Australia, from certainly from Europe, Canada, Mexico.
No problem at all, I've bet people actually call from Russia,
but this Dan is the only guy who ever made
a call from Antarctica to Nightside. So we've covered all
the continents because of Dan, including Antarctica. Where's your next
(18:46):
big trip coming up?
Speaker 10 (18:49):
And it's in a couple of weeks. I'm going back
to England. I've got one of the big milestone birthdays
and actually sixty well in December, so where I'm not
the flying England, spending London a couple of nights and
with some friends of mine about northeast of London, and
then I'll be sailing back on an ocean minor, so
(19:11):
I actually might. Absolutely I'll tune in and give you
a call from the middle of North Atlantic.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Love to love to have you do that. Absolutely well,
We'll take continents and oceans. It's as simple as that. Well, Dan,
congratulations on the big six to Oh you're a young man.
You have many years of good health and enjoyment in
front of you. I'm envious. I'm absolutely envious. Thanks buddy,
We'll talk soon. Okay, Happy, Thanks you.
Speaker 10 (19:37):
Great and happy thanksgiving to everyone.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
All right, thanks to you. Appreciate the call. We got
great callers here, got great people one night side. That's
what this program is all about. Let me go next
to uh Michelle in Mintsfield, Massachusetts. Hey, Michelle, I'm going
to get you in here before the news part of
the hour. Hi Michelle, Hi there.
Speaker 11 (19:56):
What are you doing.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
I'm doing just great, all the better that you would
have called. Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Uh.
Speaker 11 (20:02):
I feel like calling you mister Ray because you are
such an icon and I'm an off and on AM listener,
but i was just scrolling the dial and I'm like,
oh my gosh, You're just so positive and you have
a great gift of helping everyone that's listening just bring
it up a level. So thank you for that.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
For real, Michelle, I appreciate, by the way, I'm old,
but I'm not that old.
Speaker 11 (20:24):
Please call me Okay, Okay, I'm old too. So so
you asked what people were going to talk about dinner,
and I'm having a nice small dinner with my sister,
my parents, but they all know. I just wanted to
(20:44):
share that I've had my you know, I wear my
heart on my sleeve and I care about people. So
I've been very emotional about the government this, you know
time or a few times ago too. But I've always
tried to still listen to others, and I don't think
it's worth losing friends over. So I really do try to,
(21:04):
you know, be like open. But I realized that social
media was not helping me do that, and I was
becoming more one sided because I was realizing, you know,
the algorithm, the algorithms feeding me more of the emotional,
you know, inspirational get you all fired at you.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
You're absolutely right. I mean, all of us end up
in that echo chamber or that political silo, and we
forget that there's a lot of people out there in
this country who are really good people who disagree with us,
and we have to have conversations. That's what we try
to do one night side and we've tried to do
(21:44):
that from day one. We called it America's back Porch.
And I don't know what your politics are. I could
care less. I just want you to feel free to
call this program and express your point of view, whatever
it is, because, as a guy who's seen it and
the other day said, all of us believe deeply. You know,
(22:04):
there are some but most of us abhor violence, and
particularly political violence, and we all favor the First Amendment
because if I don't favor the First Amendment for you?
How can I favor the First Amendment for myself? Right?
Speaker 11 (22:21):
And the other day I heard on another WBT show
Marjorie Egan and what's your name?
Speaker 2 (22:28):
The show's that's a lot of that's all one of
our competitors. I don't know.
Speaker 11 (22:33):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Okay, that's okay, that's okay. They're friends of mine, but.
Speaker 11 (22:38):
That's okay, So okay. So they had on Yo Yo
Ma and they were interviewing him, and he said, you know,
if we could all just we don't have to blame anybody,
but if we could just all accept that humans have
the choice to either be creative or destructive, and we
all have. It's a human trait.
Speaker 9 (22:57):
We all have.
Speaker 11 (22:58):
So if we could just all start there, we can
all work together to focus on the positive and the creative.
And like I said, that's what you're doing with your show.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Well, I'm trying. But I also understand that we have
a great tradition in this country. Occasionally presidents have come
along and members of political leaders have come along, Democrats
and Republicans and anybody who doesn't recognize there have been
great Republican presidents and great democratic presidents. You don't have
to like this president, or you can like this president.
(23:30):
As far as I'm concerned, I will criticize him for
what I disagree with, and I'll support him for things
that I agree with. But if you look back in
the twentieth century, I am a firm believer that an
integral president was Franklin Roosevelt let us out of the depression.
Some would argue maybe that led us into the depression,
(23:50):
but he let us out of the depression and through
World War Two, and in the second half, Ronald Reagan,
in my opinion, pulled the country together after some really
tough years, the Nition Years, the Card of Years, and
broke the back of the Soviet Union and freed millions
of people in Eastern Europe. So one Republican, one Democrat.
Speaker 11 (24:12):
Yeah, it's not parties. And like I said at the beginning,
I think the communication channels that we've been ingesting and
by the way, I'm in communications that I know the
intent is advertising. I know how it works. But to
get swept away and actually go, I can't believe I've
been letting it just you know, feed, just change my brain,
(24:33):
close my brain be opinionated, being negative, be stressed. It's
really a bad right. It's what you take in is
what you experience. Yep, and it's just not positive. So
I do still keep trying. I want to wish every
one of your listeners equally, all of us, everyone around
the world, just a happy day and no matter what
you celebrate this season.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
So Schelle, please continue to listen to my show when
you have an opportunity and partition, because we need to
hear more voices like yours. I really believe that we're
not enemies. We're we belong to the same country. All
of us were very lucky to be born here.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
We only represent six percent of the world's population. So
the chances are that you and I would be born
in America. We're six percent uh more likely we would
we should have been. We could have been born in
China from a mathematical point of view, or and we
would have been born into in many of those countries,
into abject poverty. No matter what you were born into
(25:36):
into America, you do have the opportunity to work and
to and to get educated.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
And a lot of that doesn't work in other parts
of the country. I mean, we have indoor plumbing we
have electricity, we have I mean, we got a lot
of stuff that the people that we take for granted.
So I'm just looking be thankful, be thankful. You're an American, Michelle.
I love your calls. Please back more often.
Speaker 11 (26:01):
Okay, Okay, thank you so much, Dan.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Thank you, Thanks Michelle, talk soon.
Speaker 6 (26:06):
Okay, a great night.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
That was one great call. We'll take a break. The
only line that's open is six one seven nine ten thirty.
We're on a roll. We've had excellent calls. Let's keep
it going. Uh that one line six one seven nine
three one is the only one dial in right now.
We'll get you on. I guarantee you that's for sure.
Coming back on night Side right after this.
Speaker 12 (26:30):
It's Night Side with Dy.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Boston's news radio.
Speaker 5 (26:39):
The Boston Globe is reporting tonight that the two National
Guard members shot in that ambush. I want to make
sure this this is not correct, that this is correct. No,
I think it's I think the Globe has a bad
headline right now. I'm not even going to share it
with you. It just cleared a moment ago, and hopefully
(27:01):
the Globe can clean it up. Anyway, let us continue.
You know why that headline is there. That's I believe
that's an old story. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
The latest we have is the two National Guard members
who were shot at, a male and a female, are
still are in critical condition. I'll keep you posted. Let
me go next to Frankie in New Bedford. Frankie, welcome back.
All are Frankie? Well, we lost Frankie. Frankie called back, Willy,
we lost you there, my friend. He probably had us
(27:45):
on speakerphone, and that sometimes happens. Frank Feel free to
call back. We'll get you back to the head of
the line, I promise, John. Let me go, Mike and Quincy.
Mike next on nightside, Go right ahead, Mike, Hey, can
you hear me here? Perfectly? Go right ahead.
Speaker 12 (28:02):
So, like, let's say a couple of things. So obviously
I don't want to talk religion or politics at Thanksgiving,
but i'd like to say, like, like i'd like to
give thanks to people on Thanksgiving. I have a gentleman
that I was fifteen when I met him, and he
was homeless at the time, and I was just my
first job and now he's eighty years old. Women friends,
(28:25):
I'm forty seven of friends for like twenty three years
or whatever, and I, you know, take care of him,
take care of the movies, take them shopping, and you know,
I invite him over for Thanksgiving dinner, and I you know,
he has no family and he's by himself. I worked
at a senior assistant living facility when I was fifteen
to eighteen, and I would see people by themselves, and
(28:46):
I think it's just so nice just to like take
care of people that are good people that have nobody
on a holiday, you know, to have them over and
to give them that. I just think that's like to me,
it's that Thanksgiving is giving back people.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
How old is that, gentleman?
Speaker 12 (29:02):
Did you say he just turned eighty? Just it was
forty seven when I met him, and he was a
recovering alcoholic. I never met him when he was an alcoholic.
He has a wife and a child and they just
don't talk to him anymore. So I take him to
the movies, I take him out to you know, go shop,
food shopping and whatever. And Thanksgiving I'll have him over, Christmas,
(29:25):
will bring him over leftovers or whatever. And it's just
really nice to like give back and like like say
thank you and just like be great, like be grateful
to someone that you really, I actually love this guy. Yeah,
And he's actually my phone is uncle Roger. You know,
his name is Roger, and he's the same age as
my dad, he's a year older. And I just think,
like Thanksgiving, like like, why don't we look at like,
(29:47):
you know, we talk about politics and this and that,
why don't we look at it like giving back to
people that we love.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Well, that's a great example that that is a great example.
And I'm big a table do you you have tomorrow?
How many people will be there with this gentleman about
ten of us? Ten of us? And and what was
his reaction? When was this the first year that you
you have invited him to Thanksgiving?
Speaker 12 (30:13):
Or no, this is the this is the fourth year.
So what was his reaction?
Speaker 2 (30:19):
What was his reaction the first year when you sort
of said then hey.
Speaker 12 (30:23):
He laughed out loud. He was so happy because normally
we would just bring him like leftovers, like hey, Roger,
I'm gonna come over. I'm going to bring a leftovers
and oh, thank you, thank you, And I'm like, hey,
why don't you come over this year? Once you come over?
And he was just so grateful and and like when
I first met him, he was working at this place,
the River Big Club, but it's a it used to
(30:43):
be a senior place. It's a different name now in Quincy.
And I was a plot washer and I got him
a job at stopping shop and I used to work
there as a form manager. And he got an increased
you know wage, he got benefits, he got vacations, everything else.
And he was and that father Bill is the homeless
shelter across the street. And I'm like, let's get you
(31:03):
out of here. And I got him a full time job.
And I've been friends with them ever since.
Speaker 9 (31:07):
We go the move.
Speaker 12 (31:08):
We've seen the best movies, you know, like No Country
for Old Men. We've seen Oh.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Sure, that's that's a terrifying movie. That is a terrifying movie.
Speaker 11 (31:18):
Yeah, oh man, like awesome movies.
Speaker 12 (31:20):
And we do we take him out, We take them
off for his birthday. His birthday was in November fifty
to eighty, went to the Fours in Quincy. You know,
he loves the Fours, the Turkey Tips, and we had
a great time. And I've been friends with them since
I was fifty. I'm forty seven. I've been friends of them.
So I was fifteen and we invite him over Thanksgiving,
and he's so happy, he's so grateful. And I think
(31:41):
Thanksgivings about like saying thank you and giving to people.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
I'm with you totally. Hopefully you've inspired some folks who
maybe might have one more seat at their table tomorrow
for someone.
Speaker 12 (31:55):
Help you, because it's all about Thanksgiving is about giving
to people. I think, you know, we talk about politics,
we talk about this, what about like bringing someone at
your table that might be alone tomorrow, Like bring them
to your table, like think about that.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
You you have you have laid it out, uh that
no one is going to not understand. It sounds to
me like you get more of a kick out of
this than he does.
Speaker 12 (32:23):
And I know he loves it.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
He's no.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Absolutely, Oh, I'm sure that I could just imagine if
I was alone.
Speaker 12 (32:31):
But yeah, yeah. And the feeling of bringing someone in
that would be alone tomorrow and having them embrace your
family and enjoy the food like that is like the
best feeling in the world.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Absolutely, Absolutely, Mike, thank you so much for for doing that.
And I'll be thinking about you and Roger and the
rest of your family and a lot of people will
pass through my mind tomorrow. Thank you, Mike, you being
so loyal to Night's Side as well. Thank you so much.
Speaker 12 (33:03):
And yeah, Khan, thank you so much again. I don't
want to, you know, read a ray, but you're an
awesome host. I love your show. Thank you so much.
Speaker 8 (33:09):
Well.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
I thank you for saying that. I don't get at
all upset because it's a it's a job that I
really enjoy and I'm hoping that I can make a
difference and make some people think a little outside the box.
Speaker 12 (33:24):
That's all I'm trying to I think I think you
absolutely do well with that. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Thanks man, Happy, happy Thanksgiving, good night night. That's a
great call. That is just a great call. Okay, pause,
We'll be right back. I got frank in New Bedford,
we got John in New York, and Lola in San Diego.
Got room for you if you want to try six one, seven, two,
four thirty, six one seven, nine, three, one ten thirty
coming right back on Night Side.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
You're on Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
We got Frankie back in New Bedford telling him back.
Hey Frankie, we lost you there for a moment.
Speaker 7 (33:58):
Go right ahead, frank Hey Dan, how are you doing sorry,
I apologize for that. Uh mcgless connected. I will hold
you up for long, I know, almost midnight and you're
going to be off a couple of days. I just
wanted to call in and wish you and your family
and uh all the night side nice said listeners are
happy Thanksgiving and talk quickly about the National Guard via
(34:21):
the two people that got you know shot. It hits
home to My wife used to be a she went
to the you know, National Guard, she was an MP.
Uh and now my son just signed up. He'll be
living in next year in March, so he'll be shipped
over to Missouri for training. So hit home when you know.
When I heard the story and I you know, MAHA
goes out to their families and into the whole nation
(34:43):
right now.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
So what is he being shipped to? Leonard Foot, leonar.
Speaker 7 (34:46):
Wood Foot, lenardould you yep, that's what I figured.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Yeah, okay, yeah, I've been through that stuff myself, so
I know what you I know what you mean. And
he'll is he how old is he is? He just
out of school?
Speaker 5 (34:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (34:58):
I just graduate high school, just turned he justly just
turned nineteen, so he you know, getting ready, started getting
started to run and stuff like getting in shape.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
So yeah, that's the one thing I would suggest because
one of the things they do is have you run
quite a bit in the morning before breakfast. Oh yeah, yeah,
he'll be.
Speaker 7 (35:14):
I gave him the rundown. Get up at four o'clock
in the morning. There's that's what you're gonna do over there, because.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
They'll wake you up. They'll wake you up. There's no
there's no sleeping in. Tell them, okay, no, oh man,
Well congratulate him and hopefully we'll be he'll be. He'll
he'll be home a year from now on Thanksgiving leave
and he'll he'll be he'll he will be a young
man a year for Oh.
Speaker 7 (35:40):
Yes, absolutely, but uh yeah, very uh he'll you know,
he's a good kid. You know I have I have
four kids and they're all good kids and you know,
like great, good grades. And so I'm a proud that.
Speaker 6 (35:50):
So it was.
Speaker 7 (35:51):
It was amazing, you know.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
Frank, thank thank you for calling, Thanks for calling back,
and happy Thanksgiving tomorrow and enjoy you Soun's company tomorrow
and uh uh it'll be it'll be a magical day
for you. Thank you.
Speaker 7 (36:05):
So I'll have a glass on one in your name man,
I'm gonna have one in your name too.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Okay, thanks Greg, all right, thanks man, talk to you
so good night. Okay. We've gotta get John in New
York and then we're gonna we got Lola. We'll finish
probably with Lowell.
Speaker 13 (36:20):
Go ahead, John, Yes, and happy Thanksgiving to you, your
family and the staff.
Speaker 8 (36:27):
Ad w b Z.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Well, thank you, sir. We've got another statement. Got in
with that New Hampshire, Georgia, Florida. Uh and now we
got New York and we've gotta get California in a moment.
Tell us what you're gonna be doing tomorrow. What's up?
What's up in your day tomorrow?
Speaker 13 (36:44):
It's it's just me and my son and his girlfriend,
three of us for dinner. You know, it's very simple.
We're doing it butter ball turkey brush this year rather
than doing that big twenty pound turkey.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
You know, just good it will.
Speaker 13 (37:01):
And by the way, I just want to mention this
is the time we should be thankful for something. And
I am very thankful for what for you being the
greatest radio talk show her house that ever existed in
the world. And I want to tell you.
Speaker 14 (37:16):
One thing that thanks to you, I am so grateful.
I'll tell you why, because prior to listening to your program,
you know, I drive between eleven PM to twelve on
the way home, right yep, and then the pass. Prior
to listening to your show, I used to have a
problem fighting to stay awake, dre and ever since, I.
Speaker 13 (37:38):
Swear you are a safety factor and you might not
be aware of it. It might be other people that
listen at this hour that you have the hold on
your attention to stay awake.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
Wow, that is a high honor to be told that.
I have never been told that before. But I really
mean that. I can't thank you enough for something.
Speaker 13 (38:02):
You're welcome. I mean, I realized this is a result
of listening to your program for months that I don't
I don't anymore.
Speaker 10 (38:11):
That was a.
Speaker 13 (38:11):
Serious, a bad thing I had going on, and you.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
John, you made my night. You've made my night. I'm
gonna talk about this call with some friends of mine tomorrow. Seriously.
I used to work mornings in television, and when I'd
be driving home at one o'clock in the afternoon, particularly
after we've been somewhere fifty miles out of Boston, there
were times when I know I nodded off in the car.
(38:37):
You know those days in April when the sun was
really starting to get a little bit warmer. So I
know exactly what you're talking about. John, Thank you, Honor.
Speaker 13 (38:46):
You're quite welcome, Honor, my friend.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
Good night talk somebody be well, stay well, say how
do your family will? Good night? Lola, You're gonna wrap
it up for us, Lola, go right ahead, big finish, Lola,
go ahead.
Speaker 9 (39:00):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
So I want to say a shout out to Glenn
Lauren Eileen Dan from Florida because I met him when
we went to see the Wu Socks. Yes, happy Thanksgiving
you and your family.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
Yes, thank you.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
I was so this is tomorrow, I'm meeting some friends.
We're going to take a walk on the beach, and
I was going to go to the National Cemetery and
just be there with all the souls that have left us.
But tonight a coyote was near the mall and bit
(39:36):
two children. So we got all these canyons around here,
and the cemetery is full of these canyons, and now
I'm like, I might just go over there and sit
in the car because I don't want to get a
chest my coyo no.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
No, no, no, I don't want to lose you as
a listener either as a friend. Be careful, be careful,
take the walk on the beach. Make it a longer
walk in the beach, and you'll be just fine.
Speaker 6 (40:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
So it's gonna be seventy four tomorrow, sixty six degrees
cooler than today.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
That's okay, you're brubbing us in here. It's gonna it's
gonna be really cold here in New England over the weekend, so.
Speaker 3 (40:17):
You'll be able to come on out, come on out
for a visit. You know, it's not San Francisco. It's
cold up there.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
I hear you. I totally hear you, Lola. I love you,
you know that. Thank you so much for calling in
finishing the evening off. We were live tonight, everybody, those
of you who thought were on tape, No, this is
a live show. It is thanks live. Yep, thanks Lola,
you're live too.
Speaker 3 (40:42):
I'm glad too, Dan, I'm not gone yet.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
Careful, have a good one, Thanks so much.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
Do you see you next week? Okay, bye bye bye
to all.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
The nice side listeners. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving tomorrow with
your family and friends wherever you are. I will toast
you at our table, and I hope you'll toast everyone
who's involved in nightside listeners callers alike. My name is
Dan Ray. I want to thank Rob Brooks. I'll toast
Rob and Marita. I hope you do as well. I
(41:11):
will end as always here on Thanksgiving Eve. All dogs,
all cats, all pets go to heaven. That's what my
pal Charlie Ray is, who passed fifteen years ago in February.
That's where all your pets are who have passed. They
loved you and you love them. I do believe you'll
see them again. We'll see you again on Monday night.
Be good to Bradley Jay Tomorrow night and Friday night.
Happy Thanksgiving Giving everyone, Dan Ray in Boston
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