November 28, 2025 • 42 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's Nightside with Dan Ray. I'm telling you Boston's Beach
Radio Nightside.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Indeed, Dan's off tonight. I believe Dan will be back Monday.
So the show zipped right along. First hour we had
Robert Cicileano talking about how to prevent you from losing
all your identity, losing your identity, your money, your credit
score through getting an act. You know. We talked about
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ways to protect yourself with cybersecurity, very valuable stuff. We
enjoyed some tips on how to maximize Black Friday and
cyber Monday and even small business Saturday. That was our
two and then what a what a fun time with jests.
Safar as a real word expert, as I said, kind
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of Michael Jordan of words along with her friend Rob.
They do a podcast a YouTube cham call Words Unraveled.
Both of them are our characters. So so I think
I had a great time, and I I hope you
did two open lines now very last kickback, I had
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my KitKat bar as you have some ridiculously unhealthy food
at home, you might want to have a bite or
two of it now and perhaps call in six one, seven,
two five, And I have a little a little bit
of a talk on calling in. I know that most
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people are nervous to call in, and you know what,
I too am nervous to call a radio talk show. Therefore,
I get it. I know how intimidating it can be.
You dial and you and you you're afraid. Maybe the
host is going to say something to embarrass you, or
you're going to embarrass yourself. Make a mistake. Don't worry
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about that. It's me. It's Bradley j It's me. I
make lots of mistakes all the time. I'm wrong all
the time. I'm not an expert in anything. I am. Uh,
you know I have opinions, but I'm wrong a lot.
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So trust me. If I can do this, you can
certainly call in. And again, I get how hard it is.
One time I called it talk twice. I think I've
called talk shows, and even though I've been on the
radio for twenty years, at the time, I was still nervous.
And the thing is, once you do it, it's you realize, Oh,
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a new frontier has opened up for me, a whole
new thing I can do. Even maybe, especially if you're alone,
You're not alone. If you call a talk show host,
you got a friend, You got a pal. Ask all
the regulars. That's why they call. They have a friend,
They have a pal somebody to chat with, and so
do you. If you could just get over that hump.
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Here's an example, and I'm gonna. I don't know. I
suppose I should not use his actual name. Let's call him.
Let's call him cliff Cliffy. I know that that's not
really your name, but you know who this is. I
saw him the other day in a restaurant slash bar
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I like to go to. Good guy said hey, Cliffy.
He said hey, and I said. He talked a little bit,
and I said, you know, why don't you call in
on night side? I'm on a couple of nights. He said, yeah, yeah,
I will probably. I said, come on, Cliffy, now get
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over this. You know, yep, yep, I'm gonna He didn't.
That's okay, a little aside about Cliffy. You know how
I met him. I was walking down on the street
one day and the guy pulls over, Hey, Bratley j
you want to ride. I looked at him. You know
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you got your your street radar working? And I look
at him, Okay, seems cool. I didn't need a ride.
I was close to home and I enjoy walking. I thought,
why not, this is kind of an adventure. So I
got in the dude gave me a ride, and we've
been pals ever since. Would you get in a car
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with somebody that knew you and you didn't know them,
I bet you wouldn't. Well I did. I rolled the dice,
and now he's my pal. So Cliffy, you know who
you are. Why don't you give us a shout? And
there's another person that I wish you'd call and tell
his story. And I don't know if he doesn't want
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to tell his story or because he's a bit shy
to talk on the radio. I don't know. I don't
think it's shyness. Someday you got to hear the story
of a person who had he got look uh, I
don't want to get wrong what his disease was, but
he had a probably fail disease, they very often failed disease.
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And he fought, he fought back. One time I called
him up and he sounded like this was his last day,
and I thought, oh my god, oh my god. Reality
struck me. It's it's this, this person, I know him,
and this is it and I you know, it sounded
like this was his last phone call he ever made,
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but he fought his way back and he had You know,
he has new vigor and looks at life differently, as
as I guess you do when that happens to you.
I would love him to tell his story about how
close he came to the white light and and where
his head's at now someday. So let's tick one call
here before we go to the break. And uh I again,
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you get your one call a week. If you haven't
used it, you're going to lose it, which would be
a crying shame. As they say up in where I'm
from in New Hampshire, it's Jane and Shrewsbury. Hello Jane, Hi.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Bradley, what's going on? I really appreciated it actually when
you said that you got nervous, because I get nervous
some of the time, and I try to like write
things down so I remember what I wanted to say
before it slips my mind entirely.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Well, that's a good plan. I could, and I could
make a crippling mistake right now anytime, all four hours
that the opportunity exists for me to completely blow it
to make a horrifying mistake, but I just have to
soldier on. And one of the things I do is
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I write stuff down. Here's an example of if't this
will make you feel good about writing stufftown. When I
introduce a band in front of a lot of people,
even if it's Arrowsmith, even if I know the band,
if I know them personally, I will write on my
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hand the name of the band, because when in moments
of stress you can forget basic stuff like the name
of the like the radio station and the name of
your guest, you get to write it down. So if
I go on stage, if you hold the microphone, you
can see the lateral side of your pointy finger and
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your thumb and I'll write it right there. So it
doesn't look like I'm looking at the name of the band.
It's looks like I'm looking at the microphone. But trust me,
I'm writing it down. So you should definitely write it
down too. Key points if you call in anyway, what's
going on?
Speaker 3 (07:46):
So when you mentioned the open lines, I immediately thought of
something that happened today at post Thanksgiving gathering, and that
was somebody started talking about like motorized bikes and bikes
and bike lanes that were shared with buses, maybe in Washington, DC,
and then like where bikes are going on sidewalks, you know,
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all the different types of bikes that are motorized or
even regular bikes. And it just brought up the topic
that you mentioned a couple of times. And I knew
someone before all these kind of bikes that when in
Boston when all the messengers were like zooming around on
their ten speeds and what have you, and it was
kind of competitive, and someone I knew who was a
pedestrian got hit and basically disabled by the accident, just
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being hit by a regular old bike.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
So well, I'm glad you brought that up. You know,
I have coined to phrase for this problem is a
war on walking. Pedestrians are under siege in this race
to micro mobility, and we're going to spend millions and
millions on mobility devices. In the meantime, people walking are
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thrown into the bus. For some reason, no one dares
to enforce motor scoot law, the traffic laws with motor scooters,
not even a hint of enforcement. I don't see it.
And even people in the community will say, oh, you
can enforce I don't want to pay money for enforcement. Yeah,
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well you pay a lot of money for dumber stuff
than that. You know, the basic human rights a human
function to walk and it's a you shouldn't have to
worry about being crippled or like the or devastatingly injured
like the woman from Horowitch who got damaged, really severe
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damage from an e bike. I would like to start
an organization in my town. There is a a sub
section of the government that deals with pedestrians, the Pedestrian
Board or something like that. Five people. But I it's
my opinion they focus too much on micromanaging this crosswalk
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and that crosswalk. You need to focus on codifying rules
so that we don't get killed. And here's three ways
to do it. One, the community needs to know the
community expectations. The community needs to write down and display
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the rules. No, you can't ride your bike on the sidewalk.
No you can't ride your scooter on the sidewalk. No
you're forty mile an hour e bike cannot go in
a bike lane, and your motor scooter needs to stop
and stop signs. It needs to be known by the
community so that at least the people who are breaking
those rules know they're breaking rules, then you need to
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have laws. You can't see a breaking the law. If
you don't have the laws, you need something with teeth.
You need a law. And then when it comes to enforcement,
you don't need to enforce everything all the time. Intermittent
enforcement will help. But I would maintain that this is
money well spent and that enforcement helps pay for itself
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because their refines involved. Every microability, micro mobility device needs
to be registered and ensured. It has to be the law,
and there you go, and that will help pay for
the enforcement. It's it's crazy, it's off the scale. And
as I found out with Craig Fitzgerald my guests last night,
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the motor scooters don't even have to be emissions tested,
and pretty soon you're going to have those. You know,
the cities that have so many scooters spewing so much
toxic exhausted that they're their air quality is terrible. Well,
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whatever happened to caring about air quality? We don't care
about that anymore. Whatever you got me going, I gave
my I gave my speech. I'm glad you agree with me,
and I guess I chewed into your I talked, I
talked during a lot of your time. But you made
me do it, Jane, you made me do it.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
That's that's okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
And thank you. I'm way late for my break. Thank you.
By w BZ.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
You're on Night Side with Dan Ray on w b Z,
Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
No, we're cruising tonight. It's w b Z Bradley j
for Dan tonight, open lines, very chill if you will.
And next up we have David in San Francisco. David,
what's going on?
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Hey, Bradley, thanks for taking my call. I want to
talk about the term okay. Now, you've done a lot
of traveling. Have you ever heard that any rls from
the world.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
The phrase okay. That's a good question. I can't say that.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
I had not all over the world, but actually originated
in uh in America, in the United States from the campaign,
the re election campaign of Martin Van Buren, and when
he was running, part of the slogan was it's okay
old Kinderhook. It is from Kinderhook, New York.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Oh good one.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
And that's where that came from. And he lost his
re election and they switched it around to okay, off
to Kinderhook, go home. You lost and that's where that
term originated, and that's where all over the world people
say it's okay and they know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Well, that is a good one, David in San Francisco.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
I want to share that with you and your audience
because I'm a trivia nut and I think that was
very fun to learn that.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Go ahead, stump me with any I'm giving you the
opportunity to stump me any question in the world, any question,
any category, anything at all. Now, of course it's likely
I'll not get it, but if I happen to, everyone
will be shocked. So go ahead, give me a give
me a give me a shot. I can take it.
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Trivia question for Bradley J I'm ready.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Who was our first president that did not speak English
as a first language?
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Who you hit me in my weak spot? Presidents. I
have a friend Mike Nikita's when we played trivia, he
always burns me down with these presidential questions. But I'm
gonna take a guess.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
Hm hm.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Oh, I will say, mm hmm, not speak English? Did
not speak English as the first language? Did you say?
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Yes? I'm me you his name already?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
I you know I'm gonna the same guy old Kinderhook.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
It was it was born down.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Yeah, same guy. No, so what this is a.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Dutch community in New York called Kinderhook. And when he
became president he spoke Dutch.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
He became president while he could. He must have spoken
English by the time he became president.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Oh yeah, yeah, but he spoke Dutch a lot. You know.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Tremendous question. Thank you very much. I appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Okay, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Of course, you take care. He's by the break before
you go. Do you listen online? Obviously? Right? Do you
listen online? Correct?
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Yeah, I have a Google Home coompan and smart speaker.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Great, all right, thank you very much. I appreciate it.
You know what, it's easy to do listen online. You
just well, I google WBC News Radio listen live.
Speaker 6 (15:53):
Pow.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
There it is. Martin Van Buren stumped me. Oh uh,
here's one. Actually, I wish I'd thought of this. What
does the sen Harry S. Truman stand for? You can
look it up. Go ahead, you can look it up
and give me a shoe out and get that. That'll
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be fun for people to hear. What does the S
and Harry S. Truman stand for? Hi? Karen in Wisconsin.
You're on WBZ.
Speaker 7 (16:22):
I oh, hi Bradley, Hey, those bikes have got to go.
I agree with you. And how about railroad how about
trains with no warning that you're even going over a
railroad track and no nothing to close let you know
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a train is coming at you. Well, come out here
and find out.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
So what do you mean there's no tooting of the
horn at the bridges.
Speaker 7 (16:54):
Yeah, you're just driving over a street and you see
a train coming at you and there's no nothing you
know the word. I'm trying to think of those warning
that comes down, things that come down so you don't
go over the tracks.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Gate that goes down, that's it.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
And there's no.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Whistle that blows that look both ways or don't go
on that street. That's interesting to me because I've taken
many long distance Amtrak trains, for example, Chicago to San Francisco, Chicago,
what is it up there? And Seattle and it's constantly
blowing its whistle?
Speaker 7 (17:38):
Is well, I hear them every night, you know, I
hear about four times they go through. But what about
when they go through during the day. And then they
got these little roadaries here, road road road reies where oh,
it's stupid.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Well, I just got to you gotta look, you gotta
pay attention at that. I wouldn't even go on that
if I were you. Just stay off that street. There's
nothing down that street you want anyway.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
You're right, Bradley. How is Molly?
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Molly the dog, Mollie the merle Dogson. She's the love
of our lives and she is so nice and everybody
loves her and she's fantastic.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (18:23):
Did you know you were you were in Chicago? I
listened to that during the day because I can't get bosted.
But did you know they have something called a Wiener circle,
And every time I hear it, I think about you
and how much you hate that word.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
You're right, You're very right. I appreciate that. Karen. Yeah.
I don't like when when people call my Doxy a
sausage dog. Come on, that's lazy, or a wiener dog.
Come on, that's insulting, doxing or Doxy will do. Thank
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you very much. And by the way, if you're listening, Molly, Hi, Molly,
that was Nick, Nick and Saugus. What's going on? Nick?
Speaker 6 (19:11):
Hi? Bradley, haven't talked to you in a while.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Well, that's true.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
We've been off being here for a while and then
he came back. Thank god.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Well thanks, yes, I feel in some time to time.
It's a perfect amount. It's just great.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
What's been going on with you.
Speaker 6 (19:30):
Lately? Not very good? But pushing through, you know. Yeah,
But you know, I just want to say hi, and
I'm happy to hear you on the RADIOA hi to.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
You, Nick and Saugus. Well, you know, I hope you're
able to push through, and I hope you're able to summon.
I hope you're able to compartmentalize enough so that you
can enjoy some parts of the day.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
Well, I turned sixty nine a couple of days ago,
so you know things are hot when you're older.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Butt, guess what, so is that it just you're old,
you're sixty nine, that's your only problem.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
Well, no, my my wonderful woman comparing of four years
passed away in the car.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I'm very sorry to hear that.
Speaker 6 (20:14):
That's good music. She she was my life. But I
didn't call to tell you that.
Speaker 8 (20:21):
I know.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
I'm just calling just to say I was happy to
hear that your die. Heard a few times over the
last month or two that I called Dan Ray was
the last night of the night before because I never
called the show, and I mentioned I never called his show,
but I used to call your show, Bradley Vernite, So
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I just wanted to say hi, and that's.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Cool, that's it. Well, it's you know what you lift
in my spirits from calling. Thank you very much.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
All right, take here, Bradley.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Do you take care too? I can only hope that time,
you know they say time heals all well, I don't
know if it can depletely does, but man, what a
devastating thing to happen for you, brother. I hope that
life becomes more tolerable soon. Oh, we have Doug and
Air coming up. Doug's going to require more time than
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thirty seconds, so i'll get to you Doug in Air
after the break. You know Doug in Air. Doug Innair
is a guy that when he goes, when he starts
to do something, he's all in one hundred percent. And
that includes diet, religion, everything. He's got some stories that
I won't make him tell again. But Doug's coming up
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next on w b Z.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Indeed, it's Bradley j for Dan tonight and Dan should
be in Monday. We're going to go to Doug in air.
Doug's an interesting cat. Let's see fucking figure out this
out there we go. How you doing, Doug, how's it going?
It's great. Welcome to Night's side.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
Thank you, sir. I just called in to say hello,
I got a couple of things for you. Say you
wanted me to try to stomp.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
You, Well.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
I did.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
I had gave one person that opportunity and they did.
So that's enough. I'll never I'll never forget now which
president was the first one to not speak English as
the first language, Martin Van Buren, and it was Dutch
was his first language. But while we were in the
President's I did ask this question, what's Harry? What's the
S and Harry S Truman stand for?
Speaker 8 (22:39):
What was what?
Speaker 2 (22:40):
What does the S in Harry S Truman stand for? Ah? Sam, No,
it doesn't, it doesn't stand for anything. It's just S.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Yeah, that's a that's a barn burner. So are you
on the road now? It sounds like you're, you know,
driving a truck or something.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
Yeah, I'm I got my head set on. But I'm
I'm I'm going to find a wide spot pull over
because I have a hard time here and with all
the noise. But I have this this this pole question
that I always thought you should use. I've been dying
to share it with you. It's a it's a musical one.
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If you're ever looking for something to use, like to
vote on, Okay.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Tell me it.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
In nineteen seventy three, there was two spectacular instrumentals. One
of them was Frankenstein by ed Edgar Winter and the
other one was Focus Focused by Focus. It would be
interesting to have a vote to see which one would win.
I mean, which is a better phenomenon?
Speaker 2 (23:52):
I mean, which is better? What we lost? We lost somebody,
We lost everybody that was interesting. Well it's everybody at once?
Am I still on testing? Testing? I guess? So, well
that's too bad, because I wanted to ask Doug. Doug,
I'll tell you what, since there was some sort of
technological problem. You can call me back, but don't call
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me back until you get to your why you know,
stop and the way you can hear me. Because I'm
kind of bummed out because I wanted to ask Doug
about I wanted to rekindle the debate we have over
Noah's Ark. Doug believes one hundred percent that Noah's Ark
is real, and I say, Doug, there's in no way
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all those millions of animals could fit on one arc.
And of course if I doubt that story, then I,
you know, I gotta for me. It puts all those
stories in doubt. So that's a tough thing. We had
this big, long argument or discussion, I should say, And
he did make one good point. He said, well, a
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lot of animals a fish, and they don't have to
get in the boat. Touchet on that one, Doug. Now
it's Charlie and Saugus here on WBZ. What's going on? Charlie? Nope? Nothing? Yes, Hello,
oh Charlie. How do you do?
Speaker 8 (25:21):
Sir? Yeah? Hi, Brad? Yeah, can't you hear me?
Speaker 2 (25:24):
All right?
Speaker 8 (25:25):
You're kind of uh well on my phone here, my
phone got the call to dropped earlier.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
So what do you what would you like to chat about?
Speaker 8 (25:37):
I just so on this Thanksgiving weekend, I just wanted
to call in about a couple of things that thankful
for it actually, and one of them is, uh, I
didn't really have any place to go on Thanksgiving this
year because my all my family members were had going
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out of state. But I did get a call from
a long time friend of mine, and when he found
out I had no plans, he invited me over to
celebrate Thanksgiving with his family and we have a really
good time and I enjoyed it a lot. And I'm
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grateful to him for doing that.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
That is really nice. That's fantastic.
Speaker 5 (26:26):
Well, so yeah, yeah, it worked out very well.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Did you have the traditional Thanksgiving dinner?
Speaker 8 (26:33):
We did turkey and everything else that's really cranberry sauce
stuff in all the six inch oll So I'm thankful
for that. And I'm also thankful for a meditation practice.
I've been practicing for a long time now. Actually originally
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got into it when I had quit smoking and I
was having a lot of withdrawal from that, all kinds
of negative thoughts rushing through my mind.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
I'm not going to what can you tell me about
the the you know, the the thing you do to
feel better?
Speaker 5 (27:17):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (27:18):
Well, what I did was I took a course at
that time which was popular, transcendental meditation. Yeah you might
have heard it, maybe not, but it was a It
took a few days to go through it, you know,
a few evenings I was put it that way, and
I got a lot out of it, and I've been
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practicing meditation since then. What it did was it took
a lot away, a lot of the anxiety I was experiencing,
a lot of the negativity that was in my mind.
Felt RESTful and relaxed. And I still engage in meditation
because well, these are kind of stressful times where between
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you know, not just all that's going on in the world,
but the holidays themselves can be stressful, right, And it's
a way of taking a little you might say vacation.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
You know. The idea is that you you empty your
mind of everything and just have a kind of a
blank slate. That's the goal. It's tough to.
Speaker 8 (28:30):
Well, they do give you what they call it a
word to meditate on, and in that particular type of meditation,
they call it a mantra. I know there are other
kinds of meditation too, and they they're probably beneficial too,
but I did find out one I'm uh very uh soothing,
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very pleasant, and and and I would feel better after
it's also you know, and that's.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Sort's something that's very healthy and very healthy and many
healthcare professionals will prescribe that folks do something like that
during times of sickness. Charlie, I'm really happy you had
a Thanksgiving, and I'm really happy you called to share.
Thank you so much, Charlie. Charlie mentioned thanks he's grateful for,
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thankful for on Thanksgiving. I hadn't planned to do it,
but since you did it, Charlie, I'm going to do
it too. Are you ready? I mean, I sat down
and thought about this. It's not an exhaustive list, but
I am thankful, truly thankful for this stuff. I'm relatively healthy.
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You know, we all have our dings. But I can walk,
and I can see, and I can hear pretty well.
And that's stuff to not take for granted. That all
is a huge deal, and people who can't do that
stuff must get really irritated by people who take it
for granted. So I do not take any of those
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things for granted. I'm thankful for those. I'm thankful that
I'm performing music live. I'm like sing I sing now
in a band in public, and I while I am
thankful for that, I kind of wish that I had
been encouraged when I was a kid to become to
sing publicly. That would have been good for me. I'm
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really thankful that my partner Shannon threw away the old
curtains we had on the porch because they were dingy
and disgusting and they were too long. I'm very thankful
they got thrown away. I'm thankful that I live in
a community that values green space. Will I live in Brookline.
They care about green space, and that's a big deal.
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I'm thankful I don't have to sleep on a sidewalk.
I see it all the time, and it's it's awful.
Then you really think about what it's like to have nothing,
to have to sleep on the sidewalk, or if you
go to a shelter you know where you can be
robbed or assaulted or get bed bugs. That's it's very
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It's it's rough, and I'm very thankful that I don't
have to do that. I'm and I'm thankful that I'm
somehow finally after all these years, paying attention to little things.
You know, you hear the cliche, the Hallmark thing, stop
and smell the roses, but you know what, it's true,
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and Charlie will will attest to that. Who we just
heard from. It is an example. The other day, I'm
walking down the Muddy River Parkway by the Longwood te Station.
First of all, all the trees are so it's such
a beautiful place, and I really pay attention to that.
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And then I see two squirrels chasing each other, having
a blast, running around the tree, up and down and up,
and they're so cute and so nice, and it is
a miracle. It is miraculous that these little creatures can
do that. And don't get me wrong, there's so much
more that's miraculous, but you can take such great comfort
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in that little, tiny miracle. And they're all over the place.
And if it is cliche to say, pay attention to
it and be mindful, but it's also tremendously true. I'm
thankful that I can speak to you on WBZ. I'm
thankful that I have a voice. I'm the great WBZ.
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I'm thankful I haven't been hit by a motor scooter.
People have and more, more and more people are and
will be because of this weird lack of will to
make motor scooters obey traffic cloths. It's insane that people
are going to be handicapped and what's the word whatever
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the word is now for handicapped, disabled, and killed. It's
too bad. I'm thankful I haven't been hit by one yet.
I'm thankful to have a solid partner, Shannon. I'm thankful
for Molly, the little tocsin. I'm thankful for the wild
turkeys in my town. I love them, and that bothers
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me when people are upset by the wild turkeys. Come on,
They're beautiful and I love in the town. Also, there's
some public art at some of the t stations outside library,
outside the library of these big, beautiful, colorful turkeys. It's
a little bit of color in a dreary fall going
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on winter a world, and I'm very thankful for that.
Things I'd like to change. I would like to see
people realize that kindness is more healthy than meanness. You
will be a healthier person if you are kind and
not mean, and that includes in government, in person, and
mostly online. When you're mean online, you shrink, you shrivel,
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A little part of you dies, not only in the
eyes of others, but within yourself. I wish people would
realize it's better and healthier to be kind. There you
go when it comes to online, be respectful or be quiet.
After this, we'll get to Doug and Air if and
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only if Douglas found a quiet spot to pull over.
It's w BZ News Radio ten.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Thirty Night Side with Dan Ray on w BZ, Boston's
news Radio.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Hi, folks, great night, Thank you so much. I'm not
gonna tell you the Open Line Hour. It was kind
of my favorite hour, even though the first three were excellent.
I do enjoy the the personal sort of angle that
the open lines provides. Okay, Doug in Air, he was
on and uh, he got he had some technological problems,
(35:11):
so we'll give him another crack here.
Speaker 5 (35:13):
Doug High, Hey, Brian, I'm over in Lexington. I stopped
at the rest area.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Okay. You know what I was talking about while you,
while you were parking, was telling people about our discussion
over whether or not Noah's Arc was real and that
story was real, and you know I would I would say, hey, Doug,
there's no way all those animals fit on that arc.
It's not that big. It's like, what is it some
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cubans by some cubans by some cubits, and there's there
were millions of animals, and and of course being who
you are. You have these ready to go arguments? What
or what were they? Again?
Speaker 5 (35:55):
You're you're right about the cubics, a massive amount of cubics.
But millions of animals, no, not so much. Think of
it this way. Let's take dogs, for example. How many
breeds of dogs are there? I don't know, probably thousands, right,
different ones? Yeah, okay, there's two two dogs, that's it,
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one of every kind. A dog is a kind. There's
plenty of evolution within a kind. There's just there's no
evolution from one kind.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
You know, even if I grant you that two dogs,
two dogs, not one, not one of every type of dog. Okay,
but you know, keep going. I mean there the whole
there seem to be too many animals that would there
were millions of kinds of animals, and they wouldn't fit
on the art even that. Give me an but give
me your next argument. I still like it.
Speaker 5 (36:50):
Well, there's not millions of kinds. I don't think there is.
I mean, when you got birds, dogs, cats, oh, one.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
Bird of any kind?
Speaker 8 (37:01):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Well, I don't know. All right, maybe I won't even
allow you to do the one dog of any kind.
So you gonna sparrow and a and a heron. You're
gonna have to choose. I gotta take one. I guess
I'll take the little one because it's a limited room. Okay,
oh man, you.
Speaker 5 (37:21):
Can just reduce the size because he couldn't have the
young ones.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
So this is good, you're okay, fair enough, fair enough,
you could have you gonna have the baby, baby, baby elephant.
Go in there.
Speaker 5 (37:36):
There you go. Now you got less room.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
All right. I'll tell you what if you do if
you honestly look up, so how you know how many
how many types of animals were there? You say it's
four thousand years ago, right or whatever? Three thousand years ago?
Look look that up. I mean, if I had my computer,
would I have to look it up down the road?
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Come me back someday and then you can tell me, well,
it was only there were only you know, five thousand
kinds of animals back then. All right, maybe then maybe
you win. That would be interesting.
Speaker 5 (38:13):
Now you got me intrigued. Now I got to see
how many kinds are?
Speaker 2 (38:17):
Yeah, you do get back to me on that. Okay,
what did you want to talk about?
Speaker 5 (38:23):
I don't know if you heard my my poll question
that I was through.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
Yes, which is a greater song, hocus Pocus by Focus
or Frankenstein's I mean Frankenstein by Edgar Winter.
Speaker 5 (38:36):
Yes, I'd vote for hocus Pocus. I thought it was
a good trivia question because there were two phenomenal musicals
not in the same year.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
I would have to say that the other one because
I would have to qualify. Hocus Pocus is kind of
a novelty song and it's got yodeling in it, right, Okay, right,
I mean, let's say, how do you define best? Well,
maybe the one you could live within the longest, live
with the longest. And I think I could probably live
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with the Edgar Winter song longer than the yodeling song.
I think the Oordling song the oldling would wear thin.
But that's a good job. Go ahead, I gotta give
you thirty seconds, brother, thirty seconds.
Speaker 5 (39:17):
I think I think Frankenstein would win. You're right. I
believe that that's more popular and I would win. But
I just happened personally. I like Focus Focus better than that,
you know, I don't know. I like Frankenstein. I just
like the other one.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
Attempted to do the odling, but no, it's I'm not
gonna it would be I'm gonna quit well in my
head on that that would would ruin my good record
for two days. So thanks for Collin.
Speaker 5 (39:42):
I have a lot of fun with those games.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (39:44):
Man.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
Drive carefully with that big giant truck full of gasoline,
all right, brother, fifty five minutes, I mean fifty five
past almost fifty six past the hour. And as as
is the case is, Dan Ray will tell you probably
folks tend to call in in the last five minutes.
Why is that? Why did you wait so long? If
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you call earlier, you'll have more time. We have gotten
Medford better late.
Speaker 9 (40:11):
No, Hi, Bradley, I am a long time listener of
Dan Ray, but I'm going to tell you I think
you are great. I'm ninety years old and I listened
to the radio at night all the time. But you're
very nice. I enjoy your topics really and I used
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to listen to you years ago when you run overnight.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
I appreciate that.
Speaker 9 (40:38):
Oh yeah, I used to listen to you then you
were a little wacky.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
Then never never ever was I ever wacky A little.
Speaker 9 (40:45):
Bit, a little bit, but anyway, Bradley wacky beholder. Well,
you're so nice. I really like listening to you. And
I think that was a great idea, Dean Head to
have you come in and take all.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
But you know, thank you, and I thank him for
that too.
Speaker 9 (41:03):
Oh yeah, but I think you're doing a great job
and I like you very much.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
Okay, thank you, thank you dot so very much for saying.
Speaker 9 (41:11):
And I also do not believe in the Noah Zach
it's a fairy tale.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
Okay, I appreciate that one for me one it's one zero. No,
actually it's it's two to one on my side. Thank you, DoD,
appreciate it. You know, there's no time for you, Tim
and Wilburn, I'm sorry to say, or Geo and reading.
And again the lesson to learn there is don't wait
till the last minute, with all all due respect and love,
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call a little earlier. Whether it's whether it's Dan or
me or whoever's whoever's running the show here. We always
want you to call a little earlier than than like this,
because we want you to have enough time. Do I
appreciate it. I'm running solo on time, thanks to everybody,
Thanks the whole WBZ family. It's just wonderful to be
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part of it. And thanks to you for being there
and talking to each other all night, I mean all evening.
That's it. I'll talk to you in December. I believe
it's WBZ News Radio ten thirty
It's Nightside with Dan Ray. I'm telling you Boston's Beach
Radio Nightside.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Indeed, Dan's off tonight. I believe Dan will be back Monday.
So the show zipped right along. First hour we had
Robert Cicileano talking about how to prevent you from losing
all your identity, losing your identity, your money, your credit
score through getting an act. You know. We talked about
(00:29):
ways to protect yourself with cybersecurity, very valuable stuff. We
enjoyed some tips on how to maximize Black Friday and
cyber Monday and even small business Saturday. That was our
two and then what a what a fun time with jests.
Safar as a real word expert, as I said, kind
(00:52):
of Michael Jordan of words along with her friend Rob.
They do a podcast a YouTube cham call Words Unraveled.
Both of them are our characters. So so I think
I had a great time, and I I hope you
did two open lines now very last kickback, I had
(01:13):
my KitKat bar as you have some ridiculously unhealthy food
at home, you might want to have a bite or
two of it now and perhaps call in six one, seven,
two five, And I have a little a little bit
of a talk on calling in. I know that most
(01:34):
people are nervous to call in, and you know what,
I too am nervous to call a radio talk show. Therefore,
I get it. I know how intimidating it can be.
You dial and you and you you're afraid. Maybe the
host is going to say something to embarrass you, or
you're going to embarrass yourself. Make a mistake. Don't worry
(01:56):
about that. It's me. It's Bradley j It's me. I
make lots of mistakes all the time. I'm wrong all
the time. I'm not an expert in anything. I am. Uh,
you know I have opinions, but I'm wrong a lot.
(02:18):
So trust me. If I can do this, you can
certainly call in. And again, I get how hard it is.
One time I called it talk twice. I think I've
called talk shows, and even though I've been on the
radio for twenty years, at the time, I was still nervous.
And the thing is, once you do it, it's you realize, Oh,
(02:40):
a new frontier has opened up for me, a whole
new thing I can do. Even maybe, especially if you're alone,
You're not alone. If you call a talk show host,
you got a friend, You got a pal. Ask all
the regulars. That's why they call. They have a friend,
They have a pal somebody to chat with, and so
do you. If you could just get over that hump.
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Here's an example, and I'm gonna. I don't know. I
suppose I should not use his actual name. Let's call him.
Let's call him cliff Cliffy. I know that that's not
really your name, but you know who this is. I
saw him the other day in a restaurant slash bar
(03:26):
I like to go to. Good guy said hey, Cliffy.
He said hey, and I said. He talked a little bit,
and I said, you know, why don't you call in
on night side? I'm on a couple of nights. He said, yeah, yeah,
I will probably. I said, come on, Cliffy, now get
(03:47):
over this. You know, yep, yep, I'm gonna He didn't.
That's okay, a little aside about Cliffy. You know how
I met him. I was walking down on the street
one day and the guy pulls over, Hey, Bratley j
you want to ride. I looked at him. You know
(04:08):
you got your your street radar working? And I look
at him, Okay, seems cool. I didn't need a ride.
I was close to home and I enjoy walking. I thought,
why not, this is kind of an adventure. So I
got in the dude gave me a ride, and we've
been pals ever since. Would you get in a car
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with somebody that knew you and you didn't know them,
I bet you wouldn't. Well I did. I rolled the dice,
and now he's my pal. So Cliffy, you know who
you are. Why don't you give us a shout? And
there's another person that I wish you'd call and tell
his story. And I don't know if he doesn't want
(04:52):
to tell his story or because he's a bit shy
to talk on the radio. I don't know. I don't
think it's shyness. Someday you got to hear the story
of a person who had he got look uh, I
don't want to get wrong what his disease was, but
he had a probably fail disease, they very often failed disease.
(05:15):
And he fought, he fought back. One time I called
him up and he sounded like this was his last day,
and I thought, oh my god, oh my god. Reality
struck me. It's it's this, this person, I know him,
and this is it and I you know, it sounded
like this was his last phone call he ever made,
(05:35):
but he fought his way back and he had You know,
he has new vigor and looks at life differently, as
as I guess you do when that happens to you.
I would love him to tell his story about how
close he came to the white light and and where
his head's at now someday. So let's tick one call
here before we go to the break. And uh I again,
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you get your one call a week. If you haven't
used it, you're going to lose it, which would be
a crying shame. As they say up in where I'm
from in New Hampshire, it's Jane and Shrewsbury. Hello Jane, Hi.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Bradley, what's going on? I really appreciated it actually when
you said that you got nervous, because I get nervous
some of the time, and I try to like write
things down so I remember what I wanted to say
before it slips my mind entirely.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Well, that's a good plan. I could, and I could
make a crippling mistake right now anytime, all four hours
that the opportunity exists for me to completely blow it
to make a horrifying mistake, but I just have to
soldier on. And one of the things I do is
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I write stuff down. Here's an example of if't this
will make you feel good about writing stufftown. When I
introduce a band in front of a lot of people,
even if it's Arrowsmith, even if I know the band,
if I know them personally, I will write on my
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hand the name of the band, because when in moments
of stress you can forget basic stuff like the name
of the like the radio station and the name of
your guest, you get to write it down. So if
I go on stage, if you hold the microphone, you
can see the lateral side of your pointy finger and
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your thumb and I'll write it right there. So it
doesn't look like I'm looking at the name of the band.
It's looks like I'm looking at the microphone. But trust me,
I'm writing it down. So you should definitely write it
down too. Key points if you call in anyway, what's
going on?
Speaker 3 (07:46):
So when you mentioned the open lines, I immediately thought of
something that happened today at post Thanksgiving gathering, and that
was somebody started talking about like motorized bikes and bikes
and bike lanes that were shared with buses, maybe in Washington, DC,
and then like where bikes are going on sidewalks, you know,
(08:08):
all the different types of bikes that are motorized or
even regular bikes. And it just brought up the topic
that you mentioned a couple of times. And I knew
someone before all these kind of bikes that when in
Boston when all the messengers were like zooming around on
their ten speeds and what have you, and it was
kind of competitive, and someone I knew who was a
pedestrian got hit and basically disabled by the accident, just
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being hit by a regular old bike.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
So well, I'm glad you brought that up. You know,
I have coined to phrase for this problem is a
war on walking. Pedestrians are under siege in this race
to micro mobility, and we're going to spend millions and
millions on mobility devices. In the meantime, people walking are
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thrown into the bus. For some reason, no one dares
to enforce motor scoot law, the traffic laws with motor scooters,
not even a hint of enforcement. I don't see it.
And even people in the community will say, oh, you
can enforce I don't want to pay money for enforcement. Yeah,
(09:14):
well you pay a lot of money for dumber stuff
than that. You know, the basic human rights a human
function to walk and it's a you shouldn't have to
worry about being crippled or like the or devastatingly injured
like the woman from Horowitch who got damaged, really severe
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damage from an e bike. I would like to start
an organization in my town. There is a a sub
section of the government that deals with pedestrians, the Pedestrian
Board or something like that. Five people. But I it's
my opinion they focus too much on micromanaging this crosswalk
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and that crosswalk. You need to focus on codifying rules
so that we don't get killed. And here's three ways
to do it. One, the community needs to know the
community expectations. The community needs to write down and display
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the rules. No, you can't ride your bike on the sidewalk.
No you can't ride your scooter on the sidewalk. No
you're forty mile an hour e bike cannot go in
a bike lane, and your motor scooter needs to stop
and stop signs. It needs to be known by the
community so that at least the people who are breaking
those rules know they're breaking rules, then you need to
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have laws. You can't see a breaking the law. If
you don't have the laws, you need something with teeth.
You need a law. And then when it comes to enforcement,
you don't need to enforce everything all the time. Intermittent
enforcement will help. But I would maintain that this is
money well spent and that enforcement helps pay for itself
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because their refines involved. Every microability, micro mobility device needs
to be registered and ensured. It has to be the law,
and there you go, and that will help pay for
the enforcement. It's it's crazy, it's off the scale. And
as I found out with Craig Fitzgerald my guests last night,
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the motor scooters don't even have to be emissions tested,
and pretty soon you're going to have those. You know,
the cities that have so many scooters spewing so much
toxic exhausted that they're their air quality is terrible. Well,
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whatever happened to caring about air quality? We don't care
about that anymore. Whatever you got me going, I gave
my I gave my speech. I'm glad you agree with me,
and I guess I chewed into your I talked, I
talked during a lot of your time. But you made
me do it, Jane, you made me do it.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
That's that's okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
And thank you. I'm way late for my break. Thank you.
By w BZ.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
You're on Night Side with Dan Ray on w b Z,
Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
No, we're cruising tonight. It's w b Z Bradley j
for Dan tonight, open lines, very chill if you will.
And next up we have David in San Francisco. David,
what's going on?
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Hey, Bradley, thanks for taking my call. I want to
talk about the term okay. Now, you've done a lot
of traveling. Have you ever heard that any rls from
the world.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
The phrase okay. That's a good question. I can't say that.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
I had not all over the world, but actually originated
in uh in America, in the United States from the campaign,
the re election campaign of Martin Van Buren, and when
he was running, part of the slogan was it's okay
old Kinderhook. It is from Kinderhook, New York.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Oh good one.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
And that's where that came from. And he lost his
re election and they switched it around to okay, off
to Kinderhook, go home. You lost and that's where that
term originated, and that's where all over the world people
say it's okay and they know what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Well, that is a good one, David in San Francisco.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
I want to share that with you and your audience
because I'm a trivia nut and I think that was
very fun to learn that.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Go ahead, stump me with any I'm giving you the
opportunity to stump me any question in the world, any question,
any category, anything at all. Now, of course it's likely
I'll not get it, but if I happen to, everyone
will be shocked. So go ahead, give me a give
me a give me a shot. I can take it.
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Trivia question for Bradley J I'm ready.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Who was our first president that did not speak English
as a first language?
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Who you hit me in my weak spot? Presidents. I
have a friend Mike Nikita's when we played trivia, he
always burns me down with these presidential questions. But I'm
gonna take a guess.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
Hm hm.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Oh, I will say, mm hmm, not speak English? Did
not speak English as the first language? Did you say?
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Yes? I'm me you his name already?
Speaker 2 (14:51):
I you know I'm gonna the same guy old Kinderhook.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
It was it was born down.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Yeah, same guy. No, so what this is a.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Dutch community in New York called Kinderhook. And when he
became president he spoke Dutch.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
He became president while he could. He must have spoken
English by the time he became president.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Oh yeah, yeah, but he spoke Dutch a lot. You know.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Tremendous question. Thank you very much. I appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Okay, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Of course, you take care. He's by the break before
you go. Do you listen online? Obviously? Right? Do you
listen online? Correct?
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Yeah, I have a Google Home coompan and smart speaker.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Great, all right, thank you very much. I appreciate it.
You know what, it's easy to do listen online. You
just well, I google WBC News Radio listen live.
Speaker 6 (15:53):
Pow.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
There it is. Martin Van Buren stumped me. Oh uh,
here's one. Actually, I wish I'd thought of this. What
does the sen Harry S. Truman stand for? You can
look it up. Go ahead, you can look it up
and give me a shoe out and get that. That'll
(16:13):
be fun for people to hear. What does the S
and Harry S. Truman stand for? Hi? Karen in Wisconsin.
You're on WBZ.
Speaker 7 (16:22):
I oh, hi Bradley, Hey, those bikes have got to go.
I agree with you. And how about railroad how about
trains with no warning that you're even going over a
railroad track and no nothing to close let you know
(16:47):
a train is coming at you. Well, come out here
and find out.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
So what do you mean there's no tooting of the
horn at the bridges.
Speaker 7 (16:54):
Yeah, you're just driving over a street and you see
a train coming at you and there's no nothing you
know the word. I'm trying to think of those warning
that comes down, things that come down so you don't
go over the tracks.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Gate that goes down, that's it.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
And there's no.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
Whistle that blows that look both ways or don't go
on that street. That's interesting to me because I've taken
many long distance Amtrak trains, for example, Chicago to San Francisco, Chicago,
what is it up there? And Seattle and it's constantly
blowing its whistle?
Speaker 7 (17:38):
Is well, I hear them every night, you know, I
hear about four times they go through. But what about
when they go through during the day. And then they
got these little roadaries here, road road road reies where oh,
it's stupid.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Well, I just got to you gotta look, you gotta
pay attention at that. I wouldn't even go on that
if I were you. Just stay off that street. There's
nothing down that street you want anyway.
Speaker 7 (18:04):
You're right, Bradley. How is Molly?
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Molly the dog, Mollie the merle Dogson. She's the love
of our lives and she is so nice and everybody
loves her and she's fantastic.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (18:23):
Did you know you were you were in Chicago? I
listened to that during the day because I can't get bosted.
But did you know they have something called a Wiener circle,
And every time I hear it, I think about you
and how much you hate that word.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
You're right, You're very right. I appreciate that. Karen. Yeah.
I don't like when when people call my Doxy a
sausage dog. Come on, that's lazy, or a wiener dog.
Come on, that's insulting, doxing or Doxy will do. Thank
(19:03):
you very much. And by the way, if you're listening, Molly, Hi, Molly,
that was Nick, Nick and Saugus. What's going on? Nick?
Speaker 6 (19:11):
Hi? Bradley, haven't talked to you in a while.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Well, that's true.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
We've been off being here for a while and then
he came back. Thank god.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Well thanks, yes, I feel in some time to time.
It's a perfect amount. It's just great.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
What's been going on with you.
Speaker 6 (19:30):
Lately? Not very good? But pushing through, you know. Yeah,
But you know, I just want to say hi, and
I'm happy to hear you on the RADIOA hi to.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
You, Nick and Saugus. Well, you know, I hope you're
able to push through, and I hope you're able to summon.
I hope you're able to compartmentalize enough so that you
can enjoy some parts of the day.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
Well, I turned sixty nine a couple of days ago,
so you know things are hot when you're older.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Butt, guess what, so is that it just you're old,
you're sixty nine, that's your only problem.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
Well, no, my my wonderful woman comparing of four years
passed away in the car.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I'm very sorry to hear that.
Speaker 6 (20:14):
That's good music. She she was my life. But I
didn't call to tell you that.
Speaker 8 (20:21):
I know.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
I'm just calling just to say I was happy to
hear that your die. Heard a few times over the
last month or two that I called Dan Ray was
the last night of the night before because I never
called the show, and I mentioned I never called his show,
but I used to call your show, Bradley Vernite, So
(20:42):
I just wanted to say hi, and that's.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Cool, that's it. Well, it's you know what you lift
in my spirits from calling. Thank you very much.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
All right, take here, Bradley.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Do you take care too? I can only hope that time,
you know they say time heals all well, I don't
know if it can depletely does, but man, what a
devastating thing to happen for you, brother. I hope that
life becomes more tolerable soon. Oh, we have Doug and
Air coming up. Doug's going to require more time than
(21:15):
thirty seconds, so i'll get to you Doug in Air
after the break. You know Doug in Air. Doug Innair
is a guy that when he goes, when he starts
to do something, he's all in one hundred percent. And
that includes diet, religion, everything. He's got some stories that
I won't make him tell again. But Doug's coming up
(21:38):
next on w b Z.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
Indeed, it's Bradley j for Dan tonight and Dan should
be in Monday. We're going to go to Doug in air.
Doug's an interesting cat. Let's see fucking figure out this
out there we go. How you doing, Doug, how's it going?
It's great. Welcome to Night's side.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
Thank you, sir. I just called in to say hello,
I got a couple of things for you. Say you
wanted me to try to stomp.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
You, Well.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
I did.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
I had gave one person that opportunity and they did.
So that's enough. I'll never I'll never forget now which
president was the first one to not speak English as
the first language, Martin Van Buren, and it was Dutch
was his first language. But while we were in the
President's I did ask this question, what's Harry? What's the
S and Harry S Truman stand for?
Speaker 8 (22:39):
What was what?
Speaker 2 (22:40):
What does the S in Harry S Truman stand for? Ah? Sam, No,
it doesn't, it doesn't stand for anything. It's just S.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Yeah, that's a that's a barn burner. So are you
on the road now? It sounds like you're, you know,
driving a truck or something.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
Yeah, I'm I got my head set on. But I'm
I'm I'm going to find a wide spot pull over
because I have a hard time here and with all
the noise. But I have this this this pole question
that I always thought you should use. I've been dying
to share it with you. It's a it's a musical one.
(23:25):
If you're ever looking for something to use, like to
vote on, Okay.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Tell me it.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
In nineteen seventy three, there was two spectacular instrumentals. One
of them was Frankenstein by ed Edgar Winter and the
other one was Focus Focused by Focus. It would be
interesting to have a vote to see which one would win.
I mean, which is a better phenomenon?
Speaker 2 (23:52):
I mean, which is better? What we lost? We lost somebody,
We lost everybody that was interesting. Well it's everybody at once?
Am I still on testing? Testing? I guess? So, well
that's too bad, because I wanted to ask Doug. Doug,
I'll tell you what, since there was some sort of
technological problem. You can call me back, but don't call
(24:15):
me back until you get to your why you know,
stop and the way you can hear me. Because I'm
kind of bummed out because I wanted to ask Doug
about I wanted to rekindle the debate we have over
Noah's Ark. Doug believes one hundred percent that Noah's Ark
is real, and I say, Doug, there's in no way
(24:37):
all those millions of animals could fit on one arc.
And of course if I doubt that story, then I,
you know, I gotta for me. It puts all those
stories in doubt. So that's a tough thing. We had
this big, long argument or discussion, I should say, And
he did make one good point. He said, well, a
(24:59):
lot of animals a fish, and they don't have to
get in the boat. Touchet on that one, Doug. Now
it's Charlie and Saugus here on WBZ. What's going on? Charlie? Nope? Nothing? Yes, Hello,
oh Charlie. How do you do?
Speaker 8 (25:21):
Sir? Yeah? Hi, Brad? Yeah, can't you hear me?
Speaker 2 (25:24):
All right?
Speaker 8 (25:25):
You're kind of uh well on my phone here, my
phone got the call to dropped earlier.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
So what do you what would you like to chat about?
Speaker 8 (25:37):
I just so on this Thanksgiving weekend, I just wanted
to call in about a couple of things that thankful
for it actually, and one of them is, uh, I
didn't really have any place to go on Thanksgiving this
year because my all my family members were had going
(25:58):
out of state. But I did get a call from
a long time friend of mine, and when he found
out I had no plans, he invited me over to
celebrate Thanksgiving with his family and we have a really
good time and I enjoyed it a lot. And I'm
(26:20):
grateful to him for doing that.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
That is really nice. That's fantastic.
Speaker 5 (26:26):
Well, so yeah, yeah, it worked out very well.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Did you have the traditional Thanksgiving dinner?
Speaker 8 (26:33):
We did turkey and everything else that's really cranberry sauce
stuff in all the six inch oll So I'm thankful
for that. And I'm also thankful for a meditation practice.
I've been practicing for a long time now. Actually originally
(26:55):
got into it when I had quit smoking and I
was having a lot of withdrawal from that, all kinds
of negative thoughts rushing through my mind.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
I'm not going to what can you tell me about
the the you know, the the thing you do to
feel better?
Speaker 5 (27:17):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (27:18):
Well, what I did was I took a course at
that time which was popular, transcendental meditation. Yeah you might
have heard it, maybe not, but it was a It
took a few days to go through it, you know,
a few evenings I was put it that way, and
I got a lot out of it, and I've been
(27:40):
practicing meditation since then. What it did was it took
a lot away, a lot of the anxiety I was experiencing,
a lot of the negativity that was in my mind.
Felt RESTful and relaxed. And I still engage in meditation
because well, these are kind of stressful times where between
(28:03):
you know, not just all that's going on in the world,
but the holidays themselves can be stressful, right, And it's
a way of taking a little you might say vacation.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
You know. The idea is that you you empty your
mind of everything and just have a kind of a
blank slate. That's the goal. It's tough to.
Speaker 8 (28:30):
Well, they do give you what they call it a
word to meditate on, and in that particular type of meditation,
they call it a mantra. I know there are other
kinds of meditation too, and they they're probably beneficial too,
but I did find out one I'm uh very uh soothing,
(28:50):
very pleasant, and and and I would feel better after
it's also you know, and that's.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Sort's something that's very healthy and very healthy and many
healthcare professionals will prescribe that folks do something like that
during times of sickness. Charlie, I'm really happy you had
a Thanksgiving, and I'm really happy you called to share.
Thank you so much, Charlie. Charlie mentioned thanks he's grateful for,
(29:20):
thankful for on Thanksgiving. I hadn't planned to do it,
but since you did it, Charlie, I'm going to do
it too. Are you ready? I mean, I sat down
and thought about this. It's not an exhaustive list, but
I am thankful, truly thankful for this stuff. I'm relatively healthy.
(29:42):
You know, we all have our dings. But I can walk,
and I can see, and I can hear pretty well.
And that's stuff to not take for granted. That all
is a huge deal, and people who can't do that
stuff must get really irritated by people who take it
for granted. So I do not take any of those
(30:04):
things for granted. I'm thankful for those. I'm thankful that
I'm performing music live. I'm like sing I sing now
in a band in public, and I while I am
thankful for that, I kind of wish that I had
been encouraged when I was a kid to become to
sing publicly. That would have been good for me. I'm
(30:27):
really thankful that my partner Shannon threw away the old
curtains we had on the porch because they were dingy
and disgusting and they were too long. I'm very thankful
they got thrown away. I'm thankful that I live in
a community that values green space. Will I live in Brookline.
They care about green space, and that's a big deal.
(30:50):
I'm thankful I don't have to sleep on a sidewalk.
I see it all the time, and it's it's awful.
Then you really think about what it's like to have nothing,
to have to sleep on the sidewalk, or if you
go to a shelter you know where you can be
robbed or assaulted or get bed bugs. That's it's very
(31:12):
It's it's rough, and I'm very thankful that I don't
have to do that. I'm and I'm thankful that I'm
somehow finally after all these years, paying attention to little things.
You know, you hear the cliche, the Hallmark thing, stop
and smell the roses, but you know what, it's true,
(31:36):
and Charlie will will attest to that. Who we just
heard from. It is an example. The other day, I'm
walking down the Muddy River Parkway by the Longwood te Station.
First of all, all the trees are so it's such
a beautiful place, and I really pay attention to that.
(31:57):
And then I see two squirrels chasing each other, having
a blast, running around the tree, up and down and up,
and they're so cute and so nice, and it is
a miracle. It is miraculous that these little creatures can
do that. And don't get me wrong, there's so much
more that's miraculous, but you can take such great comfort
(32:18):
in that little, tiny miracle. And they're all over the place.
And if it is cliche to say, pay attention to
it and be mindful, but it's also tremendously true. I'm
thankful that I can speak to you on WBZ. I'm
thankful that I have a voice. I'm the great WBZ.
(32:40):
I'm thankful I haven't been hit by a motor scooter.
People have and more, more and more people are and
will be because of this weird lack of will to
make motor scooters obey traffic cloths. It's insane that people
are going to be handicapped and what's the word whatever
(33:02):
the word is now for handicapped, disabled, and killed. It's
too bad. I'm thankful I haven't been hit by one yet.
I'm thankful to have a solid partner, Shannon. I'm thankful
for Molly, the little tocsin. I'm thankful for the wild
turkeys in my town. I love them, and that bothers
(33:25):
me when people are upset by the wild turkeys. Come on,
They're beautiful and I love in the town. Also, there's
some public art at some of the t stations outside library,
outside the library of these big, beautiful, colorful turkeys. It's
a little bit of color in a dreary fall going
(33:48):
on winter a world, and I'm very thankful for that.
Things I'd like to change. I would like to see
people realize that kindness is more healthy than meanness. You
will be a healthier person if you are kind and
not mean, and that includes in government, in person, and
mostly online. When you're mean online, you shrink, you shrivel,
(34:14):
A little part of you dies, not only in the
eyes of others, but within yourself. I wish people would
realize it's better and healthier to be kind. There you
go when it comes to online, be respectful or be quiet.
After this, we'll get to Doug and Air if and
(34:35):
only if Douglas found a quiet spot to pull over.
It's w BZ News Radio ten.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Thirty Night Side with Dan Ray on w BZ, Boston's
news Radio.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Hi, folks, great night, Thank you so much. I'm not
gonna tell you the Open Line Hour. It was kind
of my favorite hour, even though the first three were excellent.
I do enjoy the the personal sort of angle that
the open lines provides. Okay, Doug in Air, he was
on and uh, he got he had some technological problems,
(35:11):
so we'll give him another crack here.
Speaker 5 (35:13):
Doug High, Hey, Brian, I'm over in Lexington. I stopped
at the rest area.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
Okay. You know what I was talking about while you,
while you were parking, was telling people about our discussion
over whether or not Noah's Arc was real and that
story was real, and you know I would I would say, hey, Doug,
there's no way all those animals fit on that arc.
It's not that big. It's like, what is it some
(35:41):
cubans by some cubans by some cubits, and there's there
were millions of animals, and and of course being who
you are. You have these ready to go arguments? What
or what were they? Again?
Speaker 5 (35:55):
You're you're right about the cubics, a massive amount of cubics.
But millions of animals, no, not so much. Think of
it this way. Let's take dogs, for example. How many
breeds of dogs are there? I don't know, probably thousands, right,
different ones? Yeah, okay, there's two two dogs, that's it,
(36:19):
one of every kind. A dog is a kind. There's
plenty of evolution within a kind. There's just there's no
evolution from one kind.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
You know, even if I grant you that two dogs,
two dogs, not one, not one of every type of dog. Okay,
but you know, keep going. I mean there the whole
there seem to be too many animals that would there
were millions of kinds of animals, and they wouldn't fit
on the art even that. Give me an but give
me your next argument. I still like it.
Speaker 5 (36:50):
Well, there's not millions of kinds. I don't think there is.
I mean, when you got birds, dogs, cats, oh, one.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
Bird of any kind?
Speaker 8 (37:01):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (37:02):
Well, I don't know. All right, maybe I won't even
allow you to do the one dog of any kind.
So you gonna sparrow and a and a heron. You're
gonna have to choose. I gotta take one. I guess
I'll take the little one because it's a limited room. Okay,
oh man, you.
Speaker 5 (37:21):
Can just reduce the size because he couldn't have the
young ones.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
So this is good, you're okay, fair enough, fair enough,
you could have you gonna have the baby, baby, baby elephant.
Go in there.
Speaker 5 (37:36):
There you go. Now you got less room.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
All right. I'll tell you what if you do if
you honestly look up, so how you know how many
how many types of animals were there? You say it's
four thousand years ago, right or whatever? Three thousand years ago?
Look look that up. I mean, if I had my computer,
would I have to look it up down the road?
(37:59):
Come me back someday and then you can tell me, well,
it was only there were only you know, five thousand
kinds of animals back then. All right, maybe then maybe
you win. That would be interesting.
Speaker 5 (38:13):
Now you got me intrigued. Now I got to see
how many kinds are?
Speaker 2 (38:17):
Yeah, you do get back to me on that. Okay,
what did you want to talk about?
Speaker 5 (38:23):
I don't know if you heard my my poll question
that I was through.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
Yes, which is a greater song, hocus Pocus by Focus
or Frankenstein's I mean Frankenstein by Edgar Winter.
Speaker 5 (38:36):
Yes, I'd vote for hocus Pocus. I thought it was
a good trivia question because there were two phenomenal musicals
not in the same year.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
I would have to say that the other one because
I would have to qualify. Hocus Pocus is kind of
a novelty song and it's got yodeling in it, right, Okay, right,
I mean, let's say, how do you define best? Well,
maybe the one you could live within the longest, live
with the longest. And I think I could probably live
(39:05):
with the Edgar Winter song longer than the yodeling song.
I think the Oordling song the oldling would wear thin.
But that's a good job. Go ahead, I gotta give
you thirty seconds, brother, thirty seconds.
Speaker 5 (39:17):
I think I think Frankenstein would win. You're right. I
believe that that's more popular and I would win. But
I just happened personally. I like Focus Focus better than that,
you know, I don't know. I like Frankenstein. I just
like the other one.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
Attempted to do the odling, but no, it's I'm not
gonna it would be I'm gonna quit well in my
head on that that would would ruin my good record
for two days. So thanks for Collin.
Speaker 5 (39:42):
I have a lot of fun with those games.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (39:44):
Man.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
Drive carefully with that big giant truck full of gasoline,
all right, brother, fifty five minutes, I mean fifty five
past almost fifty six past the hour. And as as
is the case is, Dan Ray will tell you probably
folks tend to call in in the last five minutes.
Why is that? Why did you wait so long? If
(40:07):
you call earlier, you'll have more time. We have gotten
Medford better late.
Speaker 9 (40:11):
No, Hi, Bradley, I am a long time listener of
Dan Ray, but I'm going to tell you I think
you are great. I'm ninety years old and I listened
to the radio at night all the time. But you're
very nice. I enjoy your topics really and I used
(40:33):
to listen to you years ago when you run overnight.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
I appreciate that.
Speaker 9 (40:38):
Oh yeah, I used to listen to you then you
were a little wacky.
Speaker 2 (40:41):
Then never never ever was I ever wacky A little.
Speaker 9 (40:45):
Bit, a little bit, but anyway, Bradley wacky beholder. Well,
you're so nice. I really like listening to you. And
I think that was a great idea, Dean Head to
have you come in and take all.
Speaker 2 (41:00):
But you know, thank you, and I thank him for
that too.
Speaker 9 (41:03):
Oh yeah, but I think you're doing a great job
and I like you very much.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
Okay, thank you, thank you dot so very much for saying.
Speaker 9 (41:11):
And I also do not believe in the Noah Zach
it's a fairy tale.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
Okay, I appreciate that one for me one it's one zero. No,
actually it's it's two to one on my side. Thank you, DoD,
appreciate it. You know, there's no time for you, Tim
and Wilburn, I'm sorry to say, or Geo and reading.
And again the lesson to learn there is don't wait
till the last minute, with all all due respect and love,
(41:38):
call a little earlier. Whether it's whether it's Dan or
me or whoever's whoever's running the show here. We always
want you to call a little earlier than than like this,
because we want you to have enough time. Do I
appreciate it. I'm running solo on time, thanks to everybody,
Thanks the whole WBZ family. It's just wonderful to be
(41:58):
part of it. And thanks to you for being there
and talking to each other all night, I mean all evening.
That's it. I'll talk to you in December. I believe
it's WBZ News Radio ten thirty
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