December 5, 2025 • 43 mins
Record low cold temperatures hit many places across New England, Friday, making it the coldest Dec. 5th morning in nearly a century for some spots as the region woke up to frigid temperatures about 20 to 30 degrees below normal. We discussed cold weather trends and Friday's record lows as well as ask listeners how they're faring and adjusting to the cold.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray ONBS Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Well, thank you very much. Al Griffin. Wow, I don't
know about you, but I was out today and it
really hit me today that we're in New England and
winter has begun. Now. I know that winter doesn't start
until around December twenty first, and that has to do
with when the sun crosses the equator, I guess. I
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understand all of that. Okay, the winter equinox or whatever,
or the winter solstice, I guess, and then it's the
vernal and the autumnal equinox, and they will come a
point in time in the next few days, believe it
or not before the twenty first, where the days will
become incrementally longer. We have gotten to the point, and
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I'm not sure what the date is. Someone probably knows where.
We will have the shortest day of the year around
I don't know, December fifteenth, and then the next day
it'll be one minute of sunlight longer in another minute,
and then eventually we will get back to the summertime.
But pretty clear that we are now on the cusp
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of winter here in New England, and it's nasty. It
is nasty. I talked with a friend of mine today
out west and I don't know you know, the question is,
here's my question. When you woke up today or when
you went out today, and if you worked outside today,
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God love you. I would love to know what type
of work you did outside today. It had to be brutal,
it had to be brutal. I know that there are
people who have to work outside, and I suspect that
as cold as today was, no company said, okay, we'll
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take the day off because it's too cold. Obviously in
the summer there are those days when it is just
brutally hot. My question is with winter now here, first
question is do you love it or do you hate it?
Because I suspect that there's no middle ground here. I
tend not to like winter. There are aspects of winter
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I like, but I would much prefer to be in
a more temperate climate. Although I am in New Englander
through and through, and there's a few questions I'd like
to deal with, and I'd love to hear your wisdom
on it. When you're born here as a New Englander,
as I was, and as probably a lot of you were,
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do you look at yourself at some point in the
miror and say, why am I still living in New
England in the winter. Now. I know there are a
lot of people who have the means and they're retired
and they go to South for six months, so they
go south for six weeks. So they go south a
couple of weeks just to break up the winter. But
I want to hear from as many of you as
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possible this hour. Do you love it or do you
hate it? I know there are friends of mine who
are skiers and this is the best time of the
year because the entire ski season is in front of them.
So I want to talk about that. I see that
we have my friend Craig from Ohio. He's gonna tell
us what the weather's like in Ohio. I think it's
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been just as brutal in Ohio. But obviously we're looking
at it from the perspective of New England now. Today,
all the WBZ reporters we're out and about and that's
one of the things that reporters have to do. So
Drew maul Holland was out with someone who was jumping
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in the water today. I cannot imagine going to the
beach today, even if you're in the water for five seconds.
But there are people who do it every day. This
is a cut number twenty three quick report from Drew
mall Holland about a guy who was I guess taking
a little dip in the ocean today, Cut twenty three.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Rub I think I'll pass on this one. But my
man Chucky Rosa in Seabrook, New Hampshire, jumps in the
ocean every single day for many years now, paying tribute
to those his family included, who have been lost to
drug overdoses. Chucky Rosa doesn't let any weather stop him.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Keep side of the Hampton Bridge.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Real feel is two degrees.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
And the waters forwenty.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Seven reason, for a reason.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
You can feel that wind from here too, can't you,
Chucky Rosa. Chucky's fight, you can go read about it.
He does a great job jumping in the ocean. Yeah,
in this weather, Drew maholland WBZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Why would anyone in their right mind, anyone in their
right mind jump in the water if it's two degrees Now,
I suspect it was two degrees with the windshill factor,
But in a lot of places today it didn't get
on the thermometer anywhere over to James Rojas. He had
a report from WBC Radio a wrap on some food
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delivery people. Well, I don't know today how you keep
food warm? Uh? I mean you you're on that little
scooter or your bike and they're there and they're driving
food to you, and it has to be cold by
time to get it there. Cut twenty four, Rob.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
But that means every time he's picking up and dropping
off orders, he's getting hit by this arctic blast.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
It's cold, bro. It's like it says it's ten degrees
right now, but it's like negative two, negative three with
the with the wind hidden, especially around here.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
And around here is at South Street Diner where Jamal
is on host and to go order duty, which means
he's right by the door. I mean I'd be going
in and out for takeout, so I'd be having to
go outside, which is why he's well layered out. Frank
and Jamal's recommendations for the day.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Some suits just stay hold, they even go to work.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
None of that at South Street Diner, James Rojas, WBZ
Boston Snooze Radio.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
But there are people who have to go to work,
and that's what I want I want to hear from
you if you want to. If you had to go
to work today, I want to hear if you stayed home,
if you just said, guess what, I'm staying home. Love
to hear from you. Look, we'll have days like this
in January, and we'll have maybe even a couple of
days like this in February when the thermometer will be
down to ten degrees or whatever it is. However, this
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was the first blast of winter, and this is early.
It is not supposed to be this weather the first
week of December, and that's where we are. We're still
three weeks almost three weeks from Christmas. This this could
be a tough winter. This is this. I watched that
tree lighting last night on the Common and it looked miserable. Miserable.
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I want to hear from you six one, seven, two, five,
four ten thirty six one seven, nine three one ten thirty.
Gonna go to phone calls right after this quick break
on nightside if do you love it or do you
hate it? I hated it today. I gotta tell you.
I put long John's on and I got a turtleneck on.
I haven't had long John's on or a turtleneck on
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since probably last February. I rifled through a closet. I
found that there were the long Johns. They were clean,
the turtle neck was clean, and I was as warm
as I could be, as warm as I could be
under the circumstances. Join the conversation. Let's have a little
fun with it. We're hardy New Englanders, Okay, Come on.
The question is why do we stay here. It's not
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because of the politics, it's not because of the weather,
and it's certainly not because of the economics, the tax
system and all of that. But we somehow stay. I
don't know why. We'll be back on Nightside after this.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Night Side with Dan Ray. I'MBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Rob just corrected me. Thank you, Rob. The shortest and
longest night of the years on almost here. The winter
solstice marks the first day of winter, ushering in the
colder weather in holiday season. Oh tell me about that.
Colder weather is here already. But daylight saving isn't to blamed.
The Earth's tilt is when the clock falls back each fall.
We get more daylight in the winter mornings, but it
also means nighttime arrives more quickly. The sun sets earlier
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each day into December, culminating in the shortest day of
the year, the winter solstice. According to the National Weather Service,
the winter solstice occurs when the sun is directly over
the Tropic of Capricorn, which is located at twenty three
point five degrees south of the equator and runs through Australia, Chile,
southern Brazil and northern South Africa. In twenty twenty five.
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This month the winter solstice in the northern Hemisphere. That's
where you folks are right now. We'll be on Sunday,
December twenty first, at ten three a m. Eastern Standard time. Okay,
so that is the shortest day of the year. I
thought I had read somewhere that the actual shortest day
of the year can occur a couple days before that.
But I was wrong. Rober is right. What else is doing?
(09:01):
Let's go back to the phone. So let's start at
the phone. It's going to go to Alan. Havebril al
beautiful day out there today. You get out to the
beach at all. I think I've stunned Al with that question.
Put Al on hold. We'll come back to All in
a moment. I think he fainted, is he there? Rob Okay,
(09:22):
let's go to Craig in Ohio. Hi, Craig, how are you?
Speaker 5 (09:25):
I can't complain at all?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
You can't complain, then what are you doing? Call it?
I want you to complain. Go ahead, Craig.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
The weather here is a little bit warmer than what
you're experiencing right now. But what I wanted to come
man on you. I'm a cradle Catholic and I couldn't
imagine being the ice officer and showing up for masks
and seeing that at the Nativity scene.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Well, we're going to talk about that at ten o'clock. Actually,
the arch disk a let that go No, no, no, no.
The Archdiocese of Boston released a statement today basically telling
the priest that that sign should come down, and basically,
so I you listened to our show last night, I
assume right, yes, yeah, we talked about it last night
for a couple of hours, and we're going to talk
(10:14):
about it again tonight beginning at ten o'clock. But the
archdiocese reached released a statement today and that that's gonna
come down. And you know, the priest has a right
to think whatever he wants, but the archdiocese, I'll deal
with it at ten and I think you'll you'll appreciate
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it because I think I know where you're where you're
coming from. Craig, So, I thought it was really cold
in Ohio. I thought you got some of that polar
vortex weather earlier this week. What's the coldest that's been.
What day was the coldest in Ohio?
Speaker 5 (10:49):
Well, on Tuesday we had a lot of snow. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
I saw all the video trucks, trucks flying all over
the world, cars crashing in it looked like Massachusetts drivers
had invaded Ohio.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
That was northern Ohio. I live in southeast Ohio, Okay,
I'm closer to West Virginia. We got snow and it's
been cold. I mean, I don't know. Maybe it's just
growing up in it, but maybe my memory slipped into something,
But it seems I remember as a kid, if you
didn't have snow by Thanksgiving, you was bumming out.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
You know.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
No, I agree things have changed a little bit. I
will tell you this. We had a very bad winter
up here in the winter of twenty fourteen and twenty fifteen.
And in twenty fifteen that was the winter. That January,
it hadn't snown all winter, and it started snowing about
January twentieth and it never stopped. But the year before,
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twenty thirteen to twenty fourteen, I remember all the storms,
big snowstorms went through the mid Atlantic States, went through Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio,
Virgini in your Maryland, and all the storms that year
were to ourselves. So I hope that you're not looking
at that a repeat of the winter of twenty thirteen
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and twenty fourteen in your neck of the woods.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Well, I'll tell you this. Two years ago I bought
an eight hundred dollars snow blower has reversed three speed,
whole shooting mat.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Yeah, how much? How's your how how's the mileage on
that thing? How many miles I'm getting.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
That?
Speaker 5 (12:32):
I only got to use it twice. Yeah, my neighbor said, hey,
buy another one of those that don't snow. When you do,
I hear you, I hear you.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Hey, Craig, I haven't heard from you in a while.
Thanks for calling back. I think about a lot of
my regular callers, and when I don't hear from them
for you know, two or three months, I get worried.
So everything's good in your life.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
I hope, Yes, I strictly listen on my now because
I try to get you on the radio. You know,
you're getting ready for that Boston b Z. You're you know, nice,
you know, play the Boston Baked Beans, and then it
don't come in. It's like you're getting lined cold line
of beans on a paper plate.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
I hear you, I hear you. Well, I don't know
why that is. I don't know if they're atmospherics there.
But you also can get us on your If not
on your phone, you're also can get us on on
the internet. If you have a computer at home. You know,
just put up w BZ Boston and it comes in
nice and clearly.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
Sure does be great.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Thanks man, Merry Christmas. I hope we talked before Christmas,
but merry Christmas.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
Okay, I'm sure we will. Merry Christmas.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Bye, bye, Let's keep rolling here, gonna go next to
I got Buck in Gloucester. Hey Buck, how are you?
Thanks for calling back? Calling in?
Speaker 7 (13:54):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (13:55):
No, good Dan.
Speaker 7 (13:58):
We always learn from you every way.
Speaker 9 (14:01):
I know that's a lot of fun.
Speaker 7 (14:04):
You never know what you'll learn. Your IQ will always
go up. But you know what I don't like deserve.
I don't like this cold at all. Yeah, And I
was thinking back growing up in Baltimore, we would be
out letting on a particular hill, totally impervious to any
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snow or ice or coal.
Speaker 10 (14:31):
You know.
Speaker 7 (14:32):
But my wife and I lived eighty nine to ninety
four in la and I'm from Maryland, she's from Connecticut.
We're used to the eastern snows and winters.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
It was.
Speaker 7 (14:47):
It was very novel and enjoyable the first year, but
then after that we missed the change of seasons.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Well there's something about that. But the problem is that
with when it's great, when the leaves come out and
the flowers arrive in May, and then in the fall
when we get the beautiful foliage. But it's the it's
the snow that gets me. You know. You were talking
about when you were a kid sledding. Remember in those days,
your mother would dress you. You'd have like a snowsuit on,
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you'd have a stocking cap, you'd have boots, you'd have gloves,
and you couldn't get cold, and because you would. But
now you when you're in your twenties and your thirties,
you're beginning your career. And I can remember as a
TV reporter, we wore jackets and ties and suits, and
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they were days when I was out and was like
what am I doing here? Why? Where? Why? And then
then you get a little older, you say, well, I'm
going to put on a pair of long drawns today.
And as you get a little older, you wouldn't wear
them in your twenties, but you got to. You said
to yourself, you kind of gave it up and said, no,
I'm not going to be a slave to fashion. I've
never been accused of being a slave to fashion. But
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it was cold today. What did you do today? Were
you out and about today?
Speaker 7 (16:10):
Yeah, I'd go into people's homes and help them with
a medical things and you know, equipment and just going
in and out of the car. It was terrible and
you want to turn up the heat as soon as
you get in the car and get it going, you know.
But it was good old New England right.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
Well.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
It hit us, It hit us hard, smacked us in
the face. I can remember there was a year I
was a young reporter, early eighties, and I remember standing
with there was a reporter of Channel seven who was
our competition. But she's a really nice person, paulas On.
You might remember her and we were both standing somewhere
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on something at the common and it was so cold.
It was just so cold. I mean, it was like
a daily today on early early December day. And I
don't know. I'd love to have one of our meteorological
people go back. You know they talk about if if
the caterpillars are come out early or leave early, or
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the squirrels have a bushy tail. That tells you what
I would love to know if somebody could go back,
or somebody has already gone back. And when you get
this weather, this cold, this early in December, is there
a correlation between a tough winter or could it ironically
be an easy winter. I don't know the answer to that.
(17:35):
But someone, Yeah, between now at ten o'clock is going
to either give us good news or bad news. I'm sure.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
Okay, stay tuned.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Hey, Buck is always merry Christmas.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
Okay, thanks buddy, YouTube, Well, thank you.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
I have a great one. Thanks for checking in. Six one, seven, two, five,
four ten thirty, six one seven, ninth, three, one, ten thirty.
We're at nine thirty. We got the news. I got
Gail and situate, I got Geena and Everett and and
I have a truck or calling in here. I have
no idea from where not, don't have a name on
the truck. But that's good too. If you've been out
there today, what was it like? And if you had
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a nasty job, if you really had a bad job today,
let me know, okay, because you deserve to be saluted.
We will talk about the Nativity scene at the Dedham
Church at ten o'clock and then at eleven tonight we
will do our twentieth hour. And I'm not sure what
I'm going to I think I'm settling on what we
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want to do in the twentieth hour our question. At
the end of the week we'll get to all of that,
I promise and more calls at six one seven, two
thirty six, one seven nine on a very cold December
fifth edition of Nightside. Coming back at you right after this.
I hope if you're listening, you're a very warm wherever
you are.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
If you're on night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ,
Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Let me go next to Gay Insituate. Hey, Gail, welcome back.
How are you.
Speaker 11 (19:03):
I'm fine, Dan, I'm a little I'm not under the weather.
I'm just I've been coughing so you'll have to excuse me,
and I'm a little stuffed up.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
I'm the same way. So do not fear. Do not fear.
I've missed you. I haven't talked to you in a while.
So what did you do today? Were you out there
or nore we out in the midst of this nasty cold?
Speaker 10 (19:22):
I was?
Speaker 11 (19:23):
I was because of my job. I was, Yeah, I had.
I had to deal with the weather. You know that
there's cold and there's bone chilling cold, and today was
bone chilling cold. It's funny because I before I turned
on WBZ, I was driving and before I went to
your show. I'm not kidding. I was thinking to myself,
(19:44):
how we have our weather in the summer and the
winter extreme. You know, we have really hot, humid summers
that are are unbearable.
Speaker 9 (19:53):
July last July was just awful.
Speaker 11 (19:56):
Yeah, and in our winters our brutally cold. I'm thinking
we don't have it easy. We have an extreme on
both ends and that makes you think about whether or
not you want to stay in Massachusetts. And it's not new,
It's been going on for decades. But to answer your question,
your question is why do people stay here?
Speaker 6 (20:15):
Right?
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Is that one of my questions, Yeah, why do you stay?
Why do we stay?
Speaker 11 (20:21):
I think it might be possibly because we're rooted here
and we've got friends of family. It's more of a
personal thing. Oh and when you got that support, you
got that support system, When that circle of support of
friends of family, it's really hard to leave.
Speaker 7 (20:34):
And then you just put up with them.
Speaker 9 (20:36):
You just put up with the weather.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Yeah, you know, when I think about moving, and obviously
all of us had that possibility to think that, when
you're done with your career and your family is here,
that's a magnetic pull. But I also think, where would
I go? You know, when I go to Florida, when
I go to Arizona, I mean, everything I know is here.
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I know how to get to where I want to
get to here, I know the roads, and I certainly
if it was up to the politics, it was up
to the tax system, if it was up to so
many things, you'd leave. But you want to go to Florida,
and I don't know, you know, it's hot in the
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summer there, and it's really hot. I just think that
we're New Englanders, we were born into it, and probably
we're resigned to it. Maybe that's the answer. We just
we're not smart enough to figure out how to go
somewhere else. There's other parts of the country that are lovely,
absolutely lovely. Where would you go? Seriously, where would you
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go if you said to yourself, I'm going to leave.
Would you be like Florida, Arizona, Tennessee?
Speaker 10 (21:50):
Where would you go?
Speaker 11 (21:52):
Well, I this may sound like so shocking, but I'm
generally I'm a cool weather person. I cannot take the hot,
humid weather, Okay, So if I if I had, if
I could, I would move to England where they're they're
not as cold as certain parts of it are not
as cold as what we have, uh, and there's summers
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they're actually need to a lot of humidity. But I
was there last a month. I was in London a
month ago and it wasn't as I would move to
another country. And I had this talk with a man
from Ireland in July because it was unbearably hot in July,
and he said, it's not as hot there in Ireland
as it is here. And I said to him, I said, well,
(22:35):
that's where I need to be if I could, if
I could change my you know, if I could switch
my job over to either Ireland and England. Uh you know,
and dey'll you know, get cooler summers. I would do that.
But today, yeah, today is just brutal. Today, this is
just too much. And the crazy part is it's not.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Even winter yet, which I know, well, yeah, it's the
meteorological winter which starts on December first. The meteorological winter
is January February. By the way, I'm an Irish citizen.
I have a dual citizenship. I've been to Ireland many times.
I could easily see myself living in Ireland because I
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like it. Oh yeah, oh yeah. I mean that's where
my forebears came from, and they're in beautiful towns over there.
And with computers and the ability to talk to people,
to do FaceTime, it's very different than it was ten
years ago, or certainly thirty or forty years ago, where
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the best you could do would be write a letter.
Now you can jump up on the internet and do
a zoom call and be talking to your grandchildren or
to your children almost immediately. So it's a possibility. And
there are some great cities and towns. Dublin's a great city.
Galway is a really good city and it has everything
(23:51):
that you would need so there's different parts of the
world out there. And by the way, Hawaii wouldn't be
bad either.
Speaker 11 (24:00):
I hear why it is very expensive. Although between England
and Ireland, h Dan, I hear the taxes and loose
in Ireland. What's what's in Ireland the taxes compared to
England and Ireland the taxes are less in Ireland compared
to England.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Yeah, oh yeah, that will be a fact or two,
but they're pretty high over there as well. There are
all social estates in Europe. That's where that's where they're headed,
and they're trying to drag us in that direction. Hey, Gail,
thank you so much. Always great to you your voice.
If we don't talk between now and Christmas or Honkah,
have great Christmas, great Honicah, whatever you and your family celebrate.
Speaker 9 (24:37):
Okay, I'm Catholic.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
I'm so Catholic.
Speaker 11 (24:40):
Were we do we do?
Speaker 7 (24:42):
Christmas?
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Good? Well, Marry Christmas. And by the way, next hour
you'll be really interested in the story. Next hour, we
did a little bit of this story about this Deadham Church,
Catholic Church that basically put up an anti ice sign
and they and they they were calling a test today
by the Archdiocese of Boston, and good for a uh,
(25:06):
you'll enjoy the next hour as well. Gayla is always
thank you so much. Don't be a stranger. Okay, talk
to you soon. Okay, let me go to Jean and Evergeene,
you're next night's side. Go right ahead, Jean, Dan.
Speaker 12 (25:18):
Hi, good evening. Yeah. So so for the weather, Okay,
I hate the cold. I have renoids renoid syndrome. You know,
it goes with arthritis and your feet turned white and
purple and freeze and your hands turn white and purple.
And that's a lot ever heard it.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
I never heard of that.
Speaker 12 (25:38):
Very painful. It's called anoids syndrome from arthritis. Yeah, and
so that I bundle up like crazy. I wear a
nut cut, you know, the nutcover and all that. I
wear my fleece vest under my warm jacket. I'm just
covered all the time. Winter is freezing for me. And
the other thing is I mean I have to it
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two pairs of socks all the time because my feet
turned white and purple and the freezing. It's a disease.
But anyway, yeah, it's a lot of fun. Last night
with the wind and the freezing cold, I had two
yard barrels out with leaves and two bags fill of leaves,
and the wind was blowing like I was in Alaska.
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So they ended up out on the street three times,
three times because they were laid on the pickup, and
it wasn't until seven o'clock that they came.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Curse, I did you have to go out and get them?
Did you have to go out and get three times?
Speaker 12 (26:35):
Three times? And while I was out there, I did
something nice. I picked up my neighbors Amazon packages that
had blown into the street also and delivered them to them.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
You're Jean, You're a good neighbors.
Speaker 12 (26:51):
So cold, it was so cold, But no, I hate winter,
I'm not, and I don't like the high heat of summer.
So Florida wouldn't be good for me. But don't think.
I don't always think of where would I go? But
right now a good place could turn into a bad
place in a matter of months, soul or during political times.
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So I'm not going anywhere right now because hung.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Down, hunker down. We'll be okay.
Speaker 12 (27:19):
Yeah, we'll survive it somehow. Wait, do we get the bill? Though,
in the heat, it's not going to.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Be fun, not at all, not at all. But our
politicians will take care of that, won't they.
Speaker 12 (27:28):
I need no windows too, By the way, I'm going
to have to look into that at some point.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
I'll tell you. I'm telling you the truth. Talk to
Window World. They're the best company, they're the most company.
Speaker 12 (27:39):
And they have a showroom though around here I don't
even know where the showrooms.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
There's a showroom they have in Wolbern. Call them up,
tell them you're a night side listener, and if you
have problems getting through to the owner, I'll get you
to the owner. They will do a great job for you,
they really will. I mean, no one wants to spend money,
but it will save you some money and I stand
firmly with But I'm proud to be a Window World
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customer and an advertiser.
Speaker 12 (28:10):
You wouldn't do them in the winter though, I mean
they'd have to wait till the spring.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Well, they can do them in the winter, but again
they're pretty busy. Sometimes you got to get to them
earlies and line it up for the for the spring.
But again, if you're run into trouble, let me know.
You can always call me and I can talk to
you privately off the air.
Speaker 12 (28:28):
Okay, all right, thank you? Have a good night everyone,
stay warm.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Okay, thanks very much. Let me go next to JR.
In Waltham. Jr. In Waltham, Welcome to night side.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
How are you, hey, don How you doing?
Speaker 9 (28:42):
I'm good.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
I know who this is? I think, Yeah, hey JR?
What's going on?
Speaker 5 (28:47):
All right?
Speaker 9 (28:48):
I don't know if you know. This is my second
time calling?
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Yes, I remember your first called. Yes, sir, yes, sir.
Speaker 9 (28:55):
All right. So I'm a trucker. I'm all over the place,
and yeah, I was out this morning, I was out
last night. I'm out tonight.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
How big are you driving an eighteen wheeler?
Speaker 9 (29:09):
What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Getting something? I watch you guys move those eighteen wheelers
through parking lots and I am amazed at what you
can do in really limited How long you have You
had your CDL.
Speaker 9 (29:24):
Since twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Good for you, Good for you. You sound like a
young guy. Can I ask how old you are?
Speaker 9 (29:31):
I'm fishing one years young.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Well, that's fine, that's okay. So trucking was not your
first career, obviously. If you got your CDL in nineteen,
that's six years ago.
Speaker 9 (29:42):
What did you do before you drove truck so into
their marketing for Lexus of Watertown in Watertown.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Oh okay, okay, my wife has bought cars from Lexus
and Watertown, so I yeah, I'm very familiar with Lexus
and Watertown, trust me.
Speaker 8 (30:01):
Yes, yeah.
Speaker 9 (30:02):
So you know, the plandemic happened, and then I always
wanted to be a trucker, and I took advantage of
the government sending everybody home and you know, shutting down
the whole country. And there was a company out there
that would sponsor me because I didn't have ten thousand
(30:25):
dollars for the driver's license, and I left Massachusetts to
go to Wisconsin and give my license. Long story short,
I'm driving a truck.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Now, good for you. How far do you do you go?
I know, do you go cross country? Do you go
out of New England? How far does your work take you?
Speaker 9 (30:46):
So for the first two years, I was all over
the country, most states, but I spent a lot of
time on I eighty Wisconsin, Nebraska, uh uh utah.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
So you deal with you then if you're out in
that neck of the woods, you deal with some pretty
nasty winter weather out there.
Speaker 5 (31:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (31:14):
They shut me down for five days on I eighty
and in uh in Wyoming, uh. Two winters ago because
of the weather was pretty brutal.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Now, were you a Massachusetts guy who decided to become
a trucker and now you're seeing, if not the world,
you're seeing the United States. I've never been to Wyoming,
I've never been to Utah. I've traveled quite a bit,
but I'm a little envious of the places that you
get to see.
Speaker 9 (31:41):
I tell you, I tell you, this country is beautiful,
It's amazing. I love this country. I'm not originally from
the United States. I'm from a Salvador Oh Okay, and
I love this country. I love to Massachusetts and that's
the reason why I don't live in Massachusetts. We have,
you know, we have four seasons, enjoyable four seasons. You know,
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you don't get bored.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
How tough was it jar for you to get in
and get obviously I'm assuming you're legal if you're driving
truck and have a CDL. How how difficult was it
for you to get into this country.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
I waited.
Speaker 9 (32:20):
I waited almost ten years to get.
Speaker 5 (32:22):
In the country.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
So you did it right because of the because of.
Speaker 9 (32:26):
The process I had to wait. They uh so they
had a vetting system in Osavador. I don't know if
it's on the part of the US or on the
part of the Salvador. I had to get all my
shots done, I had to do a psychology test, I
had to do a bunch of stuff.
Speaker 8 (32:45):
And just wait and wait and wait and wait and.
Speaker 9 (32:48):
Wait till you know it was time, and and I
made it into the United States.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Well, I am so delighted that you're here. I'm so
delighted that you're listening to Night's Side and any night
when you're out on the road. I don't know if
you can pick us up when you're out in Wisconsin
or Utah, you know, get us on.
Speaker 9 (33:06):
But actually I'm always I got you online. I have
an app on my on my on my phone. That's
why I get nice height anywhere excellent. But now now
I'm I'm on the say, my local route, so I
don't do cross country anymore. I do Boston to upstate
New York, Upstate New York to Boston.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Okay, Well, that's good. You've settled in. You've got some seniority.
That's what it's all about, JR. I'm telling you, man,
I'm proud of you. I think this country needs people
like you who will come in and come in the
right way and become an asset to the country. And
as a truck driver, it's you, guys and gals that
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make the country run because everything that I buy in
a store has been transported there on a truck by
a trucker, simple as that.
Speaker 9 (33:54):
Yeah, welcome, Dan, you got to do a show about trucking.
There's so much stuff going on in trucking in regards
of the illegal immigration and drivers licenses, people driving illegally yep,
with our papers.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
I'm aware. I am aware of that. And there have
been some guys who get I know that they can
get the CDL licenses in the state of Washington and California,
and some of those guys have ended up in some
horrific accidents that have taken the lives.
Speaker 9 (34:24):
About two hundred thousand licenses. They said, it's gonna be
they're gonna be revoking. Wow, because that's how many. They
call them non domicile licenses, and and most of those
non demosile licenses they already have expired work authorizations, and
but the licenses are not expired. So it's like it's
(34:46):
it's a whole mess on this industry.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Well, let me tell you James, somenight, I will do that.
Please keep listening to Night's Side Call more often. I
need listeners like you, and this country needs people like
you who are coming here for the right reasons and
doing it the right way. I'm proud of you. Thank
you very much. I'm proud to call you a fellow American.
Speaker 9 (35:05):
Thank you, sir.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
You have a great night, Dan, you too, and I
assume you celebrate Christmas. I hope you have a great
Christmas with.
Speaker 9 (35:11):
You and your Yes, yes indeed.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Thanks Pal talk So thanks j Allright, love that call.
Love that call back on night Side right after this
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It's night Tide with Dan Ray Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
Are you gonna get both Jimmy and Sandy in here? Jimmy?
Do you love it? And do you hate it? Welcome?
Speaker 5 (39:08):
Jim I gotta be honest with you.
Speaker 8 (39:11):
I love it really, Okay, I do.
Speaker 5 (39:16):
I mean it doesn't bother me, buddy, Let me put
it that way. I love Massachusetts and I love where
I live.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
But did you get out and do what? Did you
get out and do something? Were you working today or
did you have them?
Speaker 8 (39:29):
I'm heading it to work right now.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
Really, do you work indoors or outdoors?
Speaker 8 (39:35):
I work on power Lance.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
You're exactly the guy I wanted to talk to. How
miserable is it tonight at like about two o'clock in
the morning when you're working? Let me stay warm.
Speaker 8 (39:47):
If it if it's wendy gets rough because you can't say,
you can't use the phrase, but it's warmer in the sun.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (39:57):
But for my entire life, I've dressed than laves, just
like my mother used to address me.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
Well, you know, they you. They'll sometimes say, well, it's cold,
but it's a dry cold. I don't believe that it's cold. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (40:11):
I mean I'm older now, so I find that I
you know, I fly out a couple of times a yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
Sure, break it up.
Speaker 8 (40:20):
I just got back from Costa Rica, so.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
Oh, it's gonna feel a little chilly tonight compared to.
Speaker 8 (40:28):
I gotta let my blood chicking up.
Speaker 5 (40:29):
But that's why I am.
Speaker 8 (40:30):
That's why I'm working tonight.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
But Jim, do me, do me a favor. Thank you
for whatever you're doing out there tonight. We'll be thinking
about you. But I appreciate your calling, and I really do.
And you it's one of the callers I was hoping
to hear from you guys who are out keeping keeping
the lights on and keeping the heat going. Thank you
for what you do.
Speaker 8 (40:48):
Yeah, I love your last call, by the way, that
was Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
Let me tell you that's that's what America needs. Donald
Trump should bring him to the White House and welcome
him to the to the Oval Office. He did it
the right way. He waited ten years, and he's contributing
to this country. I'm proud to call him an American
and I'm proud, uh and I feel exactly the same
way I think you and I have Simpataco. All right, man,
(41:14):
talk to you soon, Okay. Merry Christmas, Jim, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 8 (41:18):
Merry Christmas to you.
Speaker 2 (41:19):
All right, good night. Let me go to Sandy and Midfield. Sandy,
I'm gonna get you and you got the final comment
of the hour. Go ahead, Sandy. Hey, Hey, Sandy.
Speaker 6 (41:29):
I was in my car when I called. But I'm
actually from town that you.
Speaker 5 (41:35):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (41:36):
I'm from the DS school system. I think you were
in the as.
Speaker 2 (41:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (41:42):
Yeah, we lived.
Speaker 2 (41:43):
We lived in Shirt. We lived in Sherman for twenty years.
It was a fun town. Yes, it was there.
Speaker 5 (41:48):
You go.
Speaker 6 (41:48):
And I'm from Dover.
Speaker 10 (41:50):
Okay, So so my comment was going to be.
Speaker 6 (41:55):
Lived in Dover since nineteen sixty two.
Speaker 10 (41:58):
Whoa, okay, wow, when I was a young boy, channing pond,
which is right there.
Speaker 6 (42:09):
Coming down to make one of the main roads in Dover. Yep,
we skated. We skated from before Christmas natural ice at
a pond.
Speaker 2 (42:20):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (42:21):
We skated from mid late December to late February.
Speaker 10 (42:29):
We cleated.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
Oh yeah, absolutely zero zero. Yeah, no, I know that,
and I don't know why I think hopefully you'll freeze
over and hopefully there'll be some ice skating this year
at Chading Pond. I know exactly where it is.
Speaker 5 (42:45):
So last year there was eight days.
Speaker 6 (42:50):
The two years before that there was one.
Speaker 9 (42:54):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (42:55):
Yeah, well let's hold it.
Speaker 6 (42:58):
You can talk about New England weather and the changes
and people calling it over sixty years now fifty sixty.
The length of our winters is just memorably shorter.
Speaker 2 (43:20):
All right, fair enough, Sandy. Unfortunately I am flat out
of time. You got to call another night and we can,
we can, we can chat longer. I got you in,
but I got to get out of the way for
the newscast. So thank you much. Have a great holiday season.
I assume you.
Speaker 5 (43:34):
Hello.
Speaker 2 (43:34):
Celebrate christ Merry Christmas, me too, Merry Christmas. Andy. We'll
talk soon. Okay, thanks Bell. Here comes the news. Sorry
about that, everybody. We're going to talk about the Deadham
Church on the other side. Light it up if you'd like.
It's Night Side with Dan Ray ONBS Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Well, thank you very much. Al Griffin. Wow, I don't
know about you, but I was out today and it
really hit me today that we're in New England and
winter has begun. Now. I know that winter doesn't start
until around December twenty first, and that has to do
with when the sun crosses the equator, I guess. I
(00:28):
understand all of that. Okay, the winter equinox or whatever,
or the winter solstice, I guess, and then it's the
vernal and the autumnal equinox, and they will come a
point in time in the next few days, believe it
or not before the twenty first, where the days will
become incrementally longer. We have gotten to the point, and
(00:50):
I'm not sure what the date is. Someone probably knows where.
We will have the shortest day of the year around
I don't know, December fifteenth, and then the next day
it'll be one minute of sunlight longer in another minute,
and then eventually we will get back to the summertime.
But pretty clear that we are now on the cusp
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of winter here in New England, and it's nasty. It
is nasty. I talked with a friend of mine today
out west and I don't know you know, the question is,
here's my question. When you woke up today or when
you went out today, and if you worked outside today,
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God love you. I would love to know what type
of work you did outside today. It had to be brutal,
it had to be brutal. I know that there are
people who have to work outside, and I suspect that
as cold as today was, no company said, okay, we'll
(01:59):
take the day off because it's too cold. Obviously in
the summer there are those days when it is just
brutally hot. My question is with winter now here, first
question is do you love it or do you hate it?
Because I suspect that there's no middle ground here. I
tend not to like winter. There are aspects of winter
(02:23):
I like, but I would much prefer to be in
a more temperate climate. Although I am in New Englander
through and through, and there's a few questions I'd like
to deal with, and I'd love to hear your wisdom
on it. When you're born here as a New Englander,
as I was, and as probably a lot of you were,
(02:44):
do you look at yourself at some point in the
miror and say, why am I still living in New
England in the winter. Now. I know there are a
lot of people who have the means and they're retired
and they go to South for six months, so they
go south for six weeks. So they go south a
couple of weeks just to break up the winter. But
I want to hear from as many of you as
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possible this hour. Do you love it or do you
hate it? I know there are friends of mine who
are skiers and this is the best time of the
year because the entire ski season is in front of them.
So I want to talk about that. I see that
we have my friend Craig from Ohio. He's gonna tell
us what the weather's like in Ohio. I think it's
(03:25):
been just as brutal in Ohio. But obviously we're looking
at it from the perspective of New England now. Today,
all the WBZ reporters we're out and about and that's
one of the things that reporters have to do. So
Drew maul Holland was out with someone who was jumping
(03:45):
in the water today. I cannot imagine going to the
beach today, even if you're in the water for five seconds.
But there are people who do it every day. This
is a cut number twenty three quick report from Drew
mall Holland about a guy who was I guess taking
a little dip in the ocean today, Cut twenty three.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Rub I think I'll pass on this one. But my
man Chucky Rosa in Seabrook, New Hampshire, jumps in the
ocean every single day for many years now, paying tribute
to those his family included, who have been lost to
drug overdoses. Chucky Rosa doesn't let any weather stop him.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Keep side of the Hampton Bridge.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Real feel is two degrees.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
And the waters forwenty.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Seven reason, for a reason.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
You can feel that wind from here too, can't you,
Chucky Rosa. Chucky's fight, you can go read about it.
He does a great job jumping in the ocean. Yeah,
in this weather, Drew maholland WBZ Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Why would anyone in their right mind, anyone in their
right mind jump in the water if it's two degrees Now,
I suspect it was two degrees with the windshill factor,
But in a lot of places today it didn't get
on the thermometer anywhere over to James Rojas. He had
a report from WBC Radio a wrap on some food
(05:09):
delivery people. Well, I don't know today how you keep
food warm? Uh? I mean you you're on that little
scooter or your bike and they're there and they're driving
food to you, and it has to be cold by
time to get it there. Cut twenty four, Rob.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
But that means every time he's picking up and dropping
off orders, he's getting hit by this arctic blast.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
It's cold, bro. It's like it says it's ten degrees
right now, but it's like negative two, negative three with
the with the wind hidden, especially around here.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
And around here is at South Street Diner where Jamal
is on host and to go order duty, which means
he's right by the door. I mean I'd be going
in and out for takeout, so I'd be having to
go outside, which is why he's well layered out. Frank
and Jamal's recommendations for the day.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Some suits just stay hold, they even go to work.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
None of that at South Street Diner, James Rojas, WBZ
Boston Snooze Radio.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
But there are people who have to go to work,
and that's what I want I want to hear from
you if you want to. If you had to go
to work today, I want to hear if you stayed home,
if you just said, guess what, I'm staying home. Love
to hear from you. Look, we'll have days like this
in January, and we'll have maybe even a couple of
days like this in February when the thermometer will be
down to ten degrees or whatever it is. However, this
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was the first blast of winter, and this is early.
It is not supposed to be this weather the first
week of December, and that's where we are. We're still
three weeks almost three weeks from Christmas. This this could
be a tough winter. This is this. I watched that
tree lighting last night on the Common and it looked miserable. Miserable.
(06:51):
I want to hear from you six one, seven, two, five,
four ten thirty six one seven, nine three one ten thirty.
Gonna go to phone calls right after this quick break
on nightside if do you love it or do you
hate it? I hated it today. I gotta tell you.
I put long John's on and I got a turtleneck on.
I haven't had long John's on or a turtleneck on
(07:13):
since probably last February. I rifled through a closet. I
found that there were the long Johns. They were clean,
the turtle neck was clean, and I was as warm
as I could be, as warm as I could be
under the circumstances. Join the conversation. Let's have a little
fun with it. We're hardy New Englanders, Okay, Come on.
The question is why do we stay here. It's not
(07:35):
because of the politics, it's not because of the weather,
and it's certainly not because of the economics, the tax
system and all of that. But we somehow stay. I
don't know why. We'll be back on Nightside after this.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Night Side with Dan Ray. I'MBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Rob just corrected me. Thank you, Rob. The shortest and
longest night of the years on almost here. The winter
solstice marks the first day of winter, ushering in the
colder weather in holiday season. Oh tell me about that.
Colder weather is here already. But daylight saving isn't to blamed.
The Earth's tilt is when the clock falls back each fall.
We get more daylight in the winter mornings, but it
also means nighttime arrives more quickly. The sun sets earlier
(08:19):
each day into December, culminating in the shortest day of
the year, the winter solstice. According to the National Weather Service,
the winter solstice occurs when the sun is directly over
the Tropic of Capricorn, which is located at twenty three
point five degrees south of the equator and runs through Australia, Chile,
southern Brazil and northern South Africa. In twenty twenty five.
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This month the winter solstice in the northern Hemisphere. That's
where you folks are right now. We'll be on Sunday,
December twenty first, at ten three a m. Eastern Standard time. Okay,
so that is the shortest day of the year. I
thought I had read somewhere that the actual shortest day
of the year can occur a couple days before that.
But I was wrong. Rober is right. What else is doing?
(09:01):
Let's go back to the phone. So let's start at
the phone. It's going to go to Alan. Havebril al
beautiful day out there today. You get out to the
beach at all. I think I've stunned Al with that question.
Put Al on hold. We'll come back to All in
a moment. I think he fainted, is he there? Rob Okay,
(09:22):
let's go to Craig in Ohio. Hi, Craig, how are you?
Speaker 5 (09:25):
I can't complain at all?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
You can't complain, then what are you doing? Call it?
I want you to complain. Go ahead, Craig.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
The weather here is a little bit warmer than what
you're experiencing right now. But what I wanted to come
man on you. I'm a cradle Catholic and I couldn't
imagine being the ice officer and showing up for masks
and seeing that at the Nativity scene.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Well, we're going to talk about that at ten o'clock. Actually,
the arch disk a let that go No, no, no, no.
The Archdiocese of Boston released a statement today basically telling
the priest that that sign should come down, and basically,
so I you listened to our show last night, I
assume right, yes, yeah, we talked about it last night
for a couple of hours, and we're going to talk
(10:14):
about it again tonight beginning at ten o'clock. But the
archdiocese reached released a statement today and that that's gonna
come down. And you know, the priest has a right
to think whatever he wants, but the archdiocese, I'll deal
with it at ten and I think you'll you'll appreciate
(10:34):
it because I think I know where you're where you're
coming from. Craig, So, I thought it was really cold
in Ohio. I thought you got some of that polar
vortex weather earlier this week. What's the coldest that's been.
What day was the coldest in Ohio?
Speaker 5 (10:49):
Well, on Tuesday we had a lot of snow. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
I saw all the video trucks, trucks flying all over
the world, cars crashing in it looked like Massachusetts drivers
had invaded Ohio.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
That was northern Ohio. I live in southeast Ohio, Okay,
I'm closer to West Virginia. We got snow and it's
been cold. I mean, I don't know. Maybe it's just
growing up in it, but maybe my memory slipped into something,
But it seems I remember as a kid, if you
didn't have snow by Thanksgiving, you was bumming out.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
You know.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
No, I agree things have changed a little bit. I
will tell you this. We had a very bad winter
up here in the winter of twenty fourteen and twenty fifteen.
And in twenty fifteen that was the winter. That January,
it hadn't snown all winter, and it started snowing about
January twentieth and it never stopped. But the year before,
(11:48):
twenty thirteen to twenty fourteen, I remember all the storms,
big snowstorms went through the mid Atlantic States, went through Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio,
Virgini in your Maryland, and all the storms that year
were to ourselves. So I hope that you're not looking
at that a repeat of the winter of twenty thirteen
(12:11):
and twenty fourteen in your neck of the woods.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
Well, I'll tell you this. Two years ago I bought
an eight hundred dollars snow blower has reversed three speed,
whole shooting mat.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Yeah, how much? How's your how how's the mileage on
that thing? How many miles I'm getting.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
That?
Speaker 5 (12:32):
I only got to use it twice. Yeah, my neighbor said, hey,
buy another one of those that don't snow. When you do,
I hear you, I hear you.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Hey, Craig, I haven't heard from you in a while.
Thanks for calling back. I think about a lot of
my regular callers, and when I don't hear from them
for you know, two or three months, I get worried.
So everything's good in your life.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
I hope, Yes, I strictly listen on my now because
I try to get you on the radio. You know,
you're getting ready for that Boston b Z. You're you know, nice,
you know, play the Boston Baked Beans, and then it
don't come in. It's like you're getting lined cold line
of beans on a paper plate.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
I hear you, I hear you. Well, I don't know
why that is. I don't know if they're atmospherics there.
But you also can get us on your If not
on your phone, you're also can get us on on
the internet. If you have a computer at home. You know,
just put up w BZ Boston and it comes in
nice and clearly.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
Sure does be great.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Thanks man, Merry Christmas. I hope we talked before Christmas,
but merry Christmas.
Speaker 5 (13:42):
Okay, I'm sure we will. Merry Christmas.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Bye, bye, Let's keep rolling here, gonna go next to
I got Buck in Gloucester. Hey Buck, how are you?
Thanks for calling back? Calling in?
Speaker 7 (13:54):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (13:55):
No, good Dan.
Speaker 7 (13:58):
We always learn from you every way.
Speaker 9 (14:01):
I know that's a lot of fun.
Speaker 7 (14:04):
You never know what you'll learn. Your IQ will always
go up. But you know what I don't like deserve.
I don't like this cold at all. Yeah, And I
was thinking back growing up in Baltimore, we would be
out letting on a particular hill, totally impervious to any
(14:29):
snow or ice or coal.
Speaker 10 (14:31):
You know.
Speaker 7 (14:32):
But my wife and I lived eighty nine to ninety
four in la and I'm from Maryland, she's from Connecticut.
We're used to the eastern snows and winters.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
It was.
Speaker 7 (14:47):
It was very novel and enjoyable the first year, but
then after that we missed the change of seasons.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Well there's something about that. But the problem is that
with when it's great, when the leaves come out and
the flowers arrive in May, and then in the fall
when we get the beautiful foliage. But it's the it's
the snow that gets me. You know. You were talking
about when you were a kid sledding. Remember in those days,
your mother would dress you. You'd have like a snowsuit on,
(15:19):
you'd have a stocking cap, you'd have boots, you'd have gloves,
and you couldn't get cold, and because you would. But
now you when you're in your twenties and your thirties,
you're beginning your career. And I can remember as a
TV reporter, we wore jackets and ties and suits, and
(15:41):
they were days when I was out and was like
what am I doing here? Why? Where? Why? And then
then you get a little older, you say, well, I'm
going to put on a pair of long drawns today.
And as you get a little older, you wouldn't wear
them in your twenties, but you got to. You said
to yourself, you kind of gave it up and said, no,
I'm not going to be a slave to fashion. I've
never been accused of being a slave to fashion. But
(16:05):
it was cold today. What did you do today? Were
you out and about today?
Speaker 7 (16:10):
Yeah, I'd go into people's homes and help them with
a medical things and you know, equipment and just going
in and out of the car. It was terrible and
you want to turn up the heat as soon as
you get in the car and get it going, you know.
But it was good old New England right.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
Well.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
It hit us, It hit us hard, smacked us in
the face. I can remember there was a year I
was a young reporter, early eighties, and I remember standing
with there was a reporter of Channel seven who was
our competition. But she's a really nice person, paulas On.
You might remember her and we were both standing somewhere
(16:53):
on something at the common and it was so cold.
It was just so cold. I mean, it was like
a daily today on early early December day. And I
don't know. I'd love to have one of our meteorological
people go back. You know they talk about if if
the caterpillars are come out early or leave early, or
(17:15):
the squirrels have a bushy tail. That tells you what
I would love to know if somebody could go back,
or somebody has already gone back. And when you get
this weather, this cold, this early in December, is there
a correlation between a tough winter or could it ironically
be an easy winter. I don't know the answer to that.
(17:35):
But someone, Yeah, between now at ten o'clock is going
to either give us good news or bad news. I'm sure.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
Okay, stay tuned.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Hey, Buck is always merry Christmas.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
Okay, thanks buddy, YouTube, Well, thank you.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
I have a great one. Thanks for checking in. Six one, seven, two, five,
four ten thirty, six one seven, ninth, three, one, ten thirty.
We're at nine thirty. We got the news. I got
Gail and situate, I got Geena and Everett and and
I have a truck or calling in here. I have
no idea from where not, don't have a name on
the truck. But that's good too. If you've been out
there today, what was it like? And if you had
(18:10):
a nasty job, if you really had a bad job today,
let me know, okay, because you deserve to be saluted.
We will talk about the Nativity scene at the Dedham
Church at ten o'clock and then at eleven tonight we
will do our twentieth hour. And I'm not sure what
I'm going to I think I'm settling on what we
(18:30):
want to do in the twentieth hour our question. At
the end of the week we'll get to all of that,
I promise and more calls at six one seven, two
thirty six, one seven nine on a very cold December
fifth edition of Nightside. Coming back at you right after this.
I hope if you're listening, you're a very warm wherever
you are.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
If you're on night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ,
Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Let me go next to Gay Insituate. Hey, Gail, welcome back.
How are you.
Speaker 11 (19:03):
I'm fine, Dan, I'm a little I'm not under the weather.
I'm just I've been coughing so you'll have to excuse me,
and I'm a little stuffed up.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
I'm the same way. So do not fear. Do not fear.
I've missed you. I haven't talked to you in a while.
So what did you do today? Were you out there
or nore we out in the midst of this nasty cold?
Speaker 10 (19:22):
I was?
Speaker 11 (19:23):
I was because of my job. I was, Yeah, I had.
I had to deal with the weather. You know that
there's cold and there's bone chilling cold, and today was
bone chilling cold. It's funny because I before I turned
on WBZ, I was driving and before I went to
your show. I'm not kidding. I was thinking to myself,
(19:44):
how we have our weather in the summer and the
winter extreme. You know, we have really hot, humid summers
that are are unbearable.
Speaker 9 (19:53):
July last July was just awful.
Speaker 11 (19:56):
Yeah, and in our winters our brutally cold. I'm thinking
we don't have it easy. We have an extreme on
both ends and that makes you think about whether or
not you want to stay in Massachusetts. And it's not new,
It's been going on for decades. But to answer your question,
your question is why do people stay here?
Speaker 6 (20:15):
Right?
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Is that one of my questions, Yeah, why do you stay?
Why do we stay?
Speaker 11 (20:21):
I think it might be possibly because we're rooted here
and we've got friends of family. It's more of a
personal thing. Oh and when you got that support, you
got that support system, When that circle of support of
friends of family, it's really hard to leave.
Speaker 7 (20:34):
And then you just put up with them.
Speaker 9 (20:36):
You just put up with the weather.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
Yeah, you know, when I think about moving, and obviously
all of us had that possibility to think that, when
you're done with your career and your family is here,
that's a magnetic pull. But I also think, where would
I go? You know, when I go to Florida, when
I go to Arizona, I mean, everything I know is here.
(20:59):
I know how to get to where I want to
get to here, I know the roads, and I certainly
if it was up to the politics, it was up
to the tax system, if it was up to so
many things, you'd leave. But you want to go to Florida,
and I don't know, you know, it's hot in the
(21:22):
summer there, and it's really hot. I just think that
we're New Englanders, we were born into it, and probably
we're resigned to it. Maybe that's the answer. We just
we're not smart enough to figure out how to go
somewhere else. There's other parts of the country that are lovely,
absolutely lovely. Where would you go? Seriously, where would you
(21:44):
go if you said to yourself, I'm going to leave.
Would you be like Florida, Arizona, Tennessee?
Speaker 10 (21:50):
Where would you go?
Speaker 11 (21:52):
Well, I this may sound like so shocking, but I'm
generally I'm a cool weather person. I cannot take the hot,
humid weather, Okay, So if I if I had, if
I could, I would move to England where they're they're
not as cold as certain parts of it are not
as cold as what we have, uh, and there's summers
(22:14):
they're actually need to a lot of humidity. But I
was there last a month. I was in London a
month ago and it wasn't as I would move to
another country. And I had this talk with a man
from Ireland in July because it was unbearably hot in July,
and he said, it's not as hot there in Ireland
as it is here. And I said to him, I said, well,
(22:35):
that's where I need to be if I could, if
I could change my you know, if I could switch
my job over to either Ireland and England. Uh you know,
and dey'll you know, get cooler summers. I would do that.
But today, yeah, today is just brutal. Today, this is
just too much. And the crazy part is it's not.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Even winter yet, which I know, well, yeah, it's the
meteorological winter which starts on December first. The meteorological winter
is January February. By the way, I'm an Irish citizen.
I have a dual citizenship. I've been to Ireland many times.
I could easily see myself living in Ireland because I
(23:10):
like it. Oh yeah, oh yeah. I mean that's where
my forebears came from, and they're in beautiful towns over there.
And with computers and the ability to talk to people,
to do FaceTime, it's very different than it was ten
years ago, or certainly thirty or forty years ago, where
(23:31):
the best you could do would be write a letter.
Now you can jump up on the internet and do
a zoom call and be talking to your grandchildren or
to your children almost immediately. So it's a possibility. And
there are some great cities and towns. Dublin's a great city.
Galway is a really good city and it has everything
(23:51):
that you would need so there's different parts of the
world out there. And by the way, Hawaii wouldn't be
bad either.
Speaker 11 (24:00):
I hear why it is very expensive. Although between England
and Ireland, h Dan, I hear the taxes and loose
in Ireland. What's what's in Ireland the taxes compared to
England and Ireland the taxes are less in Ireland compared
to England.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Yeah, oh yeah, that will be a fact or two,
but they're pretty high over there as well. There are
all social estates in Europe. That's where that's where they're headed,
and they're trying to drag us in that direction. Hey, Gail,
thank you so much. Always great to you your voice.
If we don't talk between now and Christmas or Honkah,
have great Christmas, great Honicah, whatever you and your family celebrate.
Speaker 9 (24:37):
Okay, I'm Catholic.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
I'm so Catholic.
Speaker 11 (24:40):
Were we do we do?
Speaker 7 (24:42):
Christmas?
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Good? Well, Marry Christmas. And by the way, next hour
you'll be really interested in the story. Next hour, we
did a little bit of this story about this Deadham Church,
Catholic Church that basically put up an anti ice sign
and they and they they were calling a test today
by the Archdiocese of Boston, and good for a uh,
(25:06):
you'll enjoy the next hour as well. Gayla is always
thank you so much. Don't be a stranger. Okay, talk
to you soon. Okay, let me go to Jean and Evergeene,
you're next night's side. Go right ahead, Jean, Dan.
Speaker 12 (25:18):
Hi, good evening. Yeah. So so for the weather, Okay,
I hate the cold. I have renoids renoid syndrome. You know,
it goes with arthritis and your feet turned white and
purple and freeze and your hands turn white and purple.
And that's a lot ever heard it.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
I never heard of that.
Speaker 12 (25:38):
Very painful. It's called anoids syndrome from arthritis. Yeah, and
so that I bundle up like crazy. I wear a
nut cut, you know, the nutcover and all that. I
wear my fleece vest under my warm jacket. I'm just
covered all the time. Winter is freezing for me. And
the other thing is I mean I have to it
(26:00):
two pairs of socks all the time because my feet
turned white and purple and the freezing. It's a disease.
But anyway, yeah, it's a lot of fun. Last night
with the wind and the freezing cold, I had two
yard barrels out with leaves and two bags fill of leaves,
and the wind was blowing like I was in Alaska.
(26:22):
So they ended up out on the street three times,
three times because they were laid on the pickup, and
it wasn't until seven o'clock that they came.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Curse, I did you have to go out and get them?
Did you have to go out and get three times?
Speaker 12 (26:35):
Three times? And while I was out there, I did
something nice. I picked up my neighbors Amazon packages that
had blown into the street also and delivered them to them.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
You're Jean, You're a good neighbors.
Speaker 12 (26:51):
So cold, it was so cold, But no, I hate winter,
I'm not, and I don't like the high heat of summer.
So Florida wouldn't be good for me. But don't think.
I don't always think of where would I go? But
right now a good place could turn into a bad
place in a matter of months, soul or during political times.
(27:12):
So I'm not going anywhere right now because hung.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Down, hunker down. We'll be okay.
Speaker 12 (27:19):
Yeah, we'll survive it somehow. Wait, do we get the bill? Though,
in the heat, it's not going to.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Be fun, not at all, not at all. But our
politicians will take care of that, won't they.
Speaker 12 (27:28):
I need no windows too, By the way, I'm going
to have to look into that at some point.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
I'll tell you. I'm telling you the truth. Talk to
Window World. They're the best company, they're the most company.
Speaker 12 (27:39):
And they have a showroom though around here I don't
even know where the showrooms.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
There's a showroom they have in Wolbern. Call them up,
tell them you're a night side listener, and if you
have problems getting through to the owner, I'll get you
to the owner. They will do a great job for you,
they really will. I mean, no one wants to spend money,
but it will save you some money and I stand
firmly with But I'm proud to be a Window World
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customer and an advertiser.
Speaker 12 (28:10):
You wouldn't do them in the winter though, I mean
they'd have to wait till the spring.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Well, they can do them in the winter, but again
they're pretty busy. Sometimes you got to get to them
earlies and line it up for the for the spring.
But again, if you're run into trouble, let me know.
You can always call me and I can talk to
you privately off the air.
Speaker 12 (28:28):
Okay, all right, thank you? Have a good night everyone,
stay warm.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Okay, thanks very much. Let me go next to JR.
In Waltham. Jr. In Waltham, Welcome to night side.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
How are you, hey, don How you doing?
Speaker 9 (28:42):
I'm good.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
I know who this is? I think, Yeah, hey JR?
What's going on?
Speaker 5 (28:47):
All right?
Speaker 9 (28:48):
I don't know if you know. This is my second
time calling?
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Yes, I remember your first called. Yes, sir, yes, sir.
Speaker 9 (28:55):
All right. So I'm a trucker. I'm all over the place,
and yeah, I was out this morning, I was out
last night. I'm out tonight.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
How big are you driving an eighteen wheeler?
Speaker 9 (29:09):
What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Getting something? I watch you guys move those eighteen wheelers
through parking lots and I am amazed at what you
can do in really limited How long you have You
had your CDL.
Speaker 9 (29:24):
Since twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Good for you, Good for you. You sound like a
young guy. Can I ask how old you are?
Speaker 9 (29:31):
I'm fishing one years young.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Well, that's fine, that's okay. So trucking was not your
first career, obviously. If you got your CDL in nineteen,
that's six years ago.
Speaker 9 (29:42):
What did you do before you drove truck so into
their marketing for Lexus of Watertown in Watertown.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Oh okay, okay, my wife has bought cars from Lexus
and Watertown, so I yeah, I'm very familiar with Lexus
and Watertown, trust me.
Speaker 8 (30:01):
Yes, yeah.
Speaker 9 (30:02):
So you know, the plandemic happened, and then I always
wanted to be a trucker, and I took advantage of
the government sending everybody home and you know, shutting down
the whole country. And there was a company out there
that would sponsor me because I didn't have ten thousand
(30:25):
dollars for the driver's license, and I left Massachusetts to
go to Wisconsin and give my license. Long story short,
I'm driving a truck.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Now, good for you. How far do you do you go?
I know, do you go cross country? Do you go
out of New England? How far does your work take you?
Speaker 9 (30:46):
So for the first two years, I was all over
the country, most states, but I spent a lot of
time on I eighty Wisconsin, Nebraska, uh uh utah.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
So you deal with you then if you're out in
that neck of the woods, you deal with some pretty
nasty winter weather out there.
Speaker 5 (31:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (31:14):
They shut me down for five days on I eighty
and in uh in Wyoming, uh. Two winters ago because
of the weather was pretty brutal.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Now, were you a Massachusetts guy who decided to become
a trucker and now you're seeing, if not the world,
you're seeing the United States. I've never been to Wyoming,
I've never been to Utah. I've traveled quite a bit,
but I'm a little envious of the places that you
get to see.
Speaker 9 (31:41):
I tell you, I tell you, this country is beautiful,
It's amazing. I love this country. I'm not originally from
the United States. I'm from a Salvador Oh Okay, and
I love this country. I love to Massachusetts and that's
the reason why I don't live in Massachusetts. We have,
you know, we have four seasons, enjoyable four seasons. You know,
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you don't get bored.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
How tough was it jar for you to get in
and get obviously I'm assuming you're legal if you're driving
truck and have a CDL. How how difficult was it
for you to get into this country.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
I waited.
Speaker 9 (32:20):
I waited almost ten years to get.
Speaker 5 (32:22):
In the country.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
So you did it right because of the because of.
Speaker 9 (32:26):
The process I had to wait. They uh so they
had a vetting system in Osavador. I don't know if
it's on the part of the US or on the
part of the Salvador. I had to get all my
shots done, I had to do a psychology test, I
had to do a bunch of stuff.
Speaker 8 (32:45):
And just wait and wait and wait and wait and.
Speaker 9 (32:48):
Wait till you know it was time, and and I
made it into the United States.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Well, I am so delighted that you're here. I'm so
delighted that you're listening to Night's Side and any night
when you're out on the road. I don't know if
you can pick us up when you're out in Wisconsin
or Utah, you know, get us on.
Speaker 9 (33:06):
But actually I'm always I got you online. I have
an app on my on my on my phone. That's
why I get nice height anywhere excellent. But now now
I'm I'm on the say, my local route, so I
don't do cross country anymore. I do Boston to upstate
New York, Upstate New York to Boston.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Okay, Well, that's good. You've settled in. You've got some seniority.
That's what it's all about, JR. I'm telling you, man,
I'm proud of you. I think this country needs people
like you who will come in and come in the
right way and become an asset to the country. And
as a truck driver, it's you, guys and gals that
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make the country run because everything that I buy in
a store has been transported there on a truck by
a trucker, simple as that.
Speaker 9 (33:54):
Yeah, welcome, Dan, you got to do a show about trucking.
There's so much stuff going on in trucking in regards
of the illegal immigration and drivers licenses, people driving illegally yep,
with our papers.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
I'm aware. I am aware of that. And there have
been some guys who get I know that they can
get the CDL licenses in the state of Washington and California,
and some of those guys have ended up in some
horrific accidents that have taken the lives.
Speaker 9 (34:24):
About two hundred thousand licenses. They said, it's gonna be
they're gonna be revoking. Wow, because that's how many. They
call them non domicile licenses, and and most of those
non demosile licenses they already have expired work authorizations, and
but the licenses are not expired. So it's like it's
(34:46):
it's a whole mess on this industry.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Well, let me tell you James, somenight, I will do that.
Please keep listening to Night's Side Call more often. I
need listeners like you, and this country needs people like
you who are coming here for the right reasons and
doing it the right way. I'm proud of you. Thank
you very much. I'm proud to call you a fellow American.
Speaker 9 (35:05):
Thank you, sir.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
You have a great night, Dan, you too, and I
assume you celebrate Christmas. I hope you have a great
Christmas with.
Speaker 9 (35:11):
You and your Yes, yes indeed.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Thanks Pal talk So thanks j Allright, love that call.
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At Ocean State Joblot. We're always paying attention to the
season and it's definitely getting colder. Snowshovels, I smell scrapers
and windshiel wash coats, hats, gloves, sweatshirts, boots and slippers,
strove blankets, comforters, flannel sheets and drag blockers from heaters
and body warmers to blackout shades, driveway markers and boot trees.
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reading cards, ornaments and gift bags, all ready to shop.
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Let me explain. Many houses around here were built a
hundred years ago and still have the original wiring. The
wires would heat up, so they ran him around little
knobs and through tiny tubes.
Speaker 4 (37:33):
Ain't called it noob and tube.
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But insurance companies call it a stinking fire hazard, and
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and if you don't have it, sorry we wasted your time.
But thanks to your sacrifice, you've helped your knob and
tube neighbor. Can I get a tissue?
Speaker 2 (37:54):
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Speaker 1 (37:56):
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It's night Tide with Dan Ray Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
Are you gonna get both Jimmy and Sandy in here? Jimmy?
Do you love it? And do you hate it? Welcome?
Speaker 5 (39:08):
Jim I gotta be honest with you.
Speaker 8 (39:11):
I love it really, Okay, I do.
Speaker 5 (39:16):
I mean it doesn't bother me, buddy, Let me put
it that way. I love Massachusetts and I love where
I live.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
But did you get out and do what? Did you
get out and do something? Were you working today or
did you have them?
Speaker 8 (39:29):
I'm heading it to work right now.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
Really, do you work indoors or outdoors?
Speaker 8 (39:35):
I work on power Lance.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
You're exactly the guy I wanted to talk to. How
miserable is it tonight at like about two o'clock in
the morning when you're working? Let me stay warm.
Speaker 8 (39:47):
If it if it's wendy gets rough because you can't say,
you can't use the phrase, but it's warmer in the sun.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (39:57):
But for my entire life, I've dressed than laves, just
like my mother used to address me.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
Well, you know, they you. They'll sometimes say, well, it's cold,
but it's a dry cold. I don't believe that it's cold. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (40:11):
I mean I'm older now, so I find that I
you know, I fly out a couple of times a yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
Sure, break it up.
Speaker 8 (40:20):
I just got back from Costa Rica, so.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
Oh, it's gonna feel a little chilly tonight compared to.
Speaker 8 (40:28):
I gotta let my blood chicking up.
Speaker 5 (40:29):
But that's why I am.
Speaker 8 (40:30):
That's why I'm working tonight.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
But Jim, do me, do me a favor. Thank you
for whatever you're doing out there tonight. We'll be thinking
about you. But I appreciate your calling, and I really do.
And you it's one of the callers I was hoping
to hear from you guys who are out keeping keeping
the lights on and keeping the heat going. Thank you
for what you do.
Speaker 8 (40:48):
Yeah, I love your last call, by the way, that
was Yeah.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
Let me tell you that's that's what America needs. Donald
Trump should bring him to the White House and welcome
him to the to the Oval Office. He did it
the right way. He waited ten years, and he's contributing
to this country. I'm proud to call him an American
and I'm proud, uh and I feel exactly the same
way I think you and I have Simpataco. All right, man,
(41:14):
talk to you soon, Okay. Merry Christmas, Jim, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 8 (41:18):
Merry Christmas to you.
Speaker 2 (41:19):
All right, good night. Let me go to Sandy and Midfield. Sandy,
I'm gonna get you and you got the final comment
of the hour. Go ahead, Sandy. Hey, Hey, Sandy.
Speaker 6 (41:29):
I was in my car when I called. But I'm
actually from town that you.
Speaker 5 (41:35):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (41:36):
I'm from the DS school system. I think you were
in the as.
Speaker 2 (41:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (41:42):
Yeah, we lived.
Speaker 2 (41:43):
We lived in Shirt. We lived in Sherman for twenty years.
It was a fun town. Yes, it was there.
Speaker 5 (41:48):
You go.
Speaker 6 (41:48):
And I'm from Dover.
Speaker 10 (41:50):
Okay, So so my comment was going to be.
Speaker 6 (41:55):
Lived in Dover since nineteen sixty two.
Speaker 10 (41:58):
Whoa, okay, wow, when I was a young boy, channing pond,
which is right there.
Speaker 6 (42:09):
Coming down to make one of the main roads in Dover. Yep,
we skated. We skated from before Christmas natural ice at
a pond.
Speaker 2 (42:20):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (42:21):
We skated from mid late December to late February.
Speaker 10 (42:29):
We cleated.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
Oh yeah, absolutely zero zero. Yeah, no, I know that,
and I don't know why I think hopefully you'll freeze
over and hopefully there'll be some ice skating this year
at Chading Pond. I know exactly where it is.
Speaker 5 (42:45):
So last year there was eight days.
Speaker 6 (42:50):
The two years before that there was one.
Speaker 9 (42:54):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (42:55):
Yeah, well let's hold it.
Speaker 6 (42:58):
You can talk about New England weather and the changes
and people calling it over sixty years now fifty sixty.
The length of our winters is just memorably shorter.
Speaker 2 (43:20):
All right, fair enough, Sandy. Unfortunately I am flat out
of time. You got to call another night and we can,
we can, we can chat longer. I got you in,
but I got to get out of the way for
the newscast. So thank you much. Have a great holiday season.
I assume you.
Speaker 5 (43:34):
Hello.
Speaker 2 (43:34):
Celebrate christ Merry Christmas, me too, Merry Christmas. Andy. We'll
talk soon. Okay, thanks Bell. Here comes the news. Sorry
about that, everybody. We're going to talk about the Deadham
Church on the other side. Light it up if you'd like.
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