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Bradley Jay fills in on NightSide with Dan Rea:

 

Bradley spoke with the listeners about many things, including Noah's Ark and helpful tools for the visually impaired. 

 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's Nightside with Dan Ray. I'm telling you Boston's.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Now Radio WBZ News Radio ten thirty and we have
open lines tonight for an hour. I got to say
that the last guest, the most recent guest, was just fantastic.
I am a firm believer in hypnosis, and I know
there are a lot of questions that you had for him.
I'm not hypnotists, but I've been hypnotized a number of times,

(00:28):
going way back to when I was in my early twenties,
and it's always been successful. And if you have any
questions for me on that, that's something I'd be happy
to talk about. Have you ever been hypnotized? What was
your experience? Or you may have a question for my experience.
Are you worried about it? Also, another very interesting thing

(00:52):
was we had Rick who had OCD and he was
a hoarder, and I'm really curious about that. The any
of you suffer from OCD, I'd love to hear about it.
How does it manifest itself? I myself had some mild
OCD and I kind of dealt with it. It kind
of went away, and I'm glad about that. I like

(01:13):
to think that geniuses have OCD. But of course I would.
And as I mentioned anything, excuse me, anything else that
you'd like to talk about, I'd be happy to do that.
As six one, seven, two five four T thirty. Haven't
heard from some folks in a long time, Glenn. We
did hear from Melinda, who else?

Speaker 3 (01:35):
You know, the usuals, Joe Anne.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
I'm still kind of missing missing on Joe Anne. I
do have little bitty topics, mini topics. I need a name,
by the way, for little topics that really don't have
the legs for an hour.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
That I would like to just share.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
I go through the day and I think, I wonder
what the BZ folks who think about this. I wonder
what the WBZ listeners think about that. So the first
thing I come to is a little story, not a
big story. I went to a restaurant. I like, there's
a Japanese restaurant. I go to and I get thing
called hamachi kama, which is yellowtail neck, and I got

(02:16):
some other food. I did not get a beer. I
was very proud. But my waiter wore a mask and
I and I get it. I get the science completely,
get the science of wearing a mask, but it kind
of detracts from the dining experience, I think, and I

(02:38):
know it's a touchy, touchy subject, but we do have
a flu season. There is COVID, there's a flu which
is a brutal flu.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
On the other hand, I wish my servant didn't wear
a mask, and I guess it just takes away the
personal aspect of it.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
I just assume have a robot or I even wish
my doctor didn't wear a mask, to tell you the truth,
but I don't think I've seen my last two doctor's
face ever.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
I don't know what they look like, no idea.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
I see their hair, I don't know what they look like.
There's not a human down in. There's a human under there,
but the human connection is gone. And again I certainly
get it. Some people go overboard with masks, like some
people wear a mask when they're driving in the car alone.
So there's that level of a mask wearing. And some

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people just refuse no matter what, thinking that it doesn't work.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
You can still get it, You can still get it
even wearing a mask. So I'm not wearing a mask. Yeah, yes,
but it does do two things three things.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
It reduces the chance you'll get it. It Also, what
can reduce the viral load you get somebody sneezes or
coughs you don't get. You may not get one million germs.
You may get ten thousand germs, enough to make you sick,
but maybe not as sick, and maybe your body will

(04:17):
notice that and start generating antibodies and deal with it
better than if I got a million germs.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
And of course the other.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
Factor is I'll wear a mask to protect others, And
I honestly don't believe anyone does that. And I don't
even would you really, I mean, if you were sick, yes,
but if you weren't sick, even in a time like this,
no pandemic but a lot of flu, would your wear
a mask just to protect others, just in case you

(04:48):
have the flu? I would admit I wouldn't. If I
do get sick, I stay home. And I know my
doctor has to wear a mask.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
I get it.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
But it does diminish the the experience in the doctor's office.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
It's a little it's creepy. So there's that.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
How do you do you wish that your service in
the restaurant, unless there's a pandemic and unless they're sick,
would not wear a mask And in general, How do
you feel about thet We haven't covered this kind of
thing for a long time as far as I know,
because COVID, the main epidemic, has gone away. But where

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are you on the whole masking thing? And how many
times did you get COVID? And how bad was it?
I got it twice once. It was awful, but it
wasn't I didn't have to go to the hospital or anything.
And I thought I was going to escape the sore
throat run. So I hold up in my bedroom. My partner,

(05:57):
you know, would stick super souper, not under the door,
but just poke her arm in and give.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
Me the food and all.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
And I watched endless episodes of Larry David on an
iPad for three days. It's kind of weird how life
changes when you're sick. And three days I was spent
in that room and it didn't seem that long. Then
I thought I was going to escape the sore throat,
and then towards the end, I coughed and it's like

(06:29):
the whole back of my throat fell off. It was
so bad, so horrible, it was serious business.

Speaker 3 (06:38):
And my temperature got high.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
I called my doctor and there was this stuff. I
can't remember what it was that some people take to
reduce symptoms.

Speaker 4 (06:49):
But.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
If you do, it was made it more likely that
it would return. So they don't like to give it
to you unless you really need it. But that's a
today's observation. Not thrilled about having my waiters wear a mask.
Maybe if you want to be a waiter. No, I
can't tell you can't have that job. It's just not

(07:11):
as much fun. There you go. I always wish that
somebody else had waited on me. Another thing I wanted
about is And I don't like to talk about politics,
personal politics, politics involving people like do you like this politician?
Do you like that politician? Are you a lefty or

(07:32):
a righty? I don't like talking about that, but I
am curious how you feel about tariffs, Just about the
policy and do you understand it? And I would think
you wouldn't. And they talk about how it's a it's
just the economy stupid, and and we talk about inflation

(07:59):
and that's that makes stuff cost more money, like a
lot more tariffs work like this you probably I'm hoping.

Speaker 3 (08:11):
You know this.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
In the most simplest terms, this country decides what we're
doing is we're deciding that US importers of stuff, certain
stuff have to pay money, and that goes to an agency.
And where do you suppose that money goes? What agency
that money goes to, that goes into the general fund?

(08:34):
And what gets done with that? Does that help you
at all? Have you noticed that the money you earn
from tariffs helping you at all? Did you get a check?
Did it reduce the cost of anything of yours?

Speaker 3 (08:47):
No?

Speaker 2 (08:48):
It made stuff cost way more when you go to
the supermarket or depending on what has has tariff's on
it that week, you're paying more for stuff. And I
could deal with it if I thought, well, it's going
back to my community, it's going back to the highway system.

(09:09):
But it simply goes as it goes to pay for
tax breaks for the rich. So I don't understand how
you know how you're not a little more upset about that.
Maybe you are. How do you feel about the tariffs?

(09:30):
It's a tax on you. It's like an additional tax.
You end up paying the tax importer pays, importer passes
it on.

Speaker 3 (09:40):
You pay more. Money goes into.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
An initial to an initial organization, which gets passed on
to the general fund for them to do what they want.

Speaker 3 (09:55):
It's a tax. Now.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
I don't mind paying taxes if I if I knew
if the stuff, if the tax money went to stuff
I want. But I don't see that. I see it
funding taxes for ultra rich people. And this is this
statement I'm giving you. It is not something that comes
from a lefty or a righty. This is just, hey,

(10:21):
this, this costs too much. That's all I care about. I'm
not an idealogue at all. Don't care. We have Doug
in Air coming up. I find out what he wants
to chat about next on WBZ.

Speaker 1 (10:40):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on wb Boston's news radio.

Speaker 3 (10:46):
So let's go right to Doug in Air. What it is,
Doug is the Cosmos loves you so much that we
didn't They didn't want you you to wait. So, Doug,
how are you?

Speaker 5 (10:54):
Brother?

Speaker 6 (10:55):
Wow? No, break, that's pretty good. How are you, Brad?
I'm I'm doing all right, good.

Speaker 3 (11:00):
Good here from you. I was wondering if you're going
to give us a shout. Doug is a a haller
of well gasoline.

Speaker 7 (11:08):
You drive a gas truck, right, I do.

Speaker 6 (11:11):
I'm I'm actually have to wait till midnight to load.
So I got a real good opportunity. I just sit
here and quiet chat.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
So where are you loading somewhere? And like I'm over
by the airport?

Speaker 6 (11:25):
Yep, I'm in the East boss, And that's exactly where
I'm at. I'm an East boss and under a wreck,
just waiting for waiting from midnight for it to open up.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
What's so, what's the hardest part of your job? You
you have to go to gas stations. You load up,
and then you go to gas stations and you lift
these heavy hoses and pick up these heavy gas tank
tops and then you stick the hose in the ground
and you turn on the machine.

Speaker 3 (11:49):
Is that how it goes?

Speaker 6 (11:51):
Well, it's yeah, there's little plates when you go to
a gas station. It's those little plates where you pick
it up and uh, pop the pop the cat and
you put your elbow on, hook up a four inch
hose to it, and make sure you're hooked up to
the right one before you pull the level because if
you don't, you you running six hundred gallons a minute
into the you know, into the tanks.

Speaker 3 (12:14):
Yeah, what are some of the mistakes you can make? Uh?

Speaker 6 (12:20):
You can you can put diesel in gas. You can
put gas in diesel. You can not have something hooked
upright and have a big spill. Uh. Yeah, there's all
kinds of stuff, Like any little mistake is real costly
in this business. So you don't want.

Speaker 2 (12:37):
To And isn't there some danger of explosions because you
there must be gas like vapors coming out of the
hole that you're pumping into.

Speaker 6 (12:47):
Yeah, when you run little gas, you have to have
vapor recovery. There's like a host a little three inch
hoes that comes out of the tank and it goes
into your tank. So it's like an exchange. When you're
putting gas in. The vapors are coming out and going
back and filling up where the gas came from and
your tank. So there's no there's no smell of gas,

(13:09):
or there shouldn't be. You know, if you're on little
diesel or oil won't matter you just you can just
let it fly and it doesn't there's no vapors for that, right.

Speaker 3 (13:18):
I do want to ask you about traffic.

Speaker 2 (13:20):
Have you noticed in your long and celebrated gas truck
driving career an increase in traffic or a difference in
behavior of drivers?

Speaker 6 (13:31):
Yes, it's it's the traffic is it doesn't matter. We
used to come out here early to get you know,
to get a bite on it, but now it doesn't
matter when you come out here. It's it's like Monday morning,
it you know, eleven thirty at night. It's it's the
traffic's just horrendous. And you're right, there's people just cutting

(13:51):
and out of stuff like you know, like a demolition
derby almost just it doesn't matter where you go. You're
an East, have a Chelsea or on the highway. Yeah,
it's it seems.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
Like people know that there's much less enforcement and they're
starting to take advantage of that now they know that
nothing's going to happen to them.

Speaker 3 (14:12):
Now, does it seem that way to you?

Speaker 6 (14:15):
Yeah, yeah, it's just yeah, there's no fear. I guess
that you called that. You know, they did just drive. However,
they want.

Speaker 3 (14:22):
No respect, no respect, no respect at all, no respect.

Speaker 6 (14:29):
Okay, had no respect and whatever you call.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
Well, actually, the last time you call, we talked about
Noah's ark and I had to admit, you're right. I'm
going to run through that again because after you told
me what you told me, I thought maybe he's right.
And there's one wrinkle that I did want to get through.

(14:53):
So the ongoing thing with Doug me is that I
didn't believe in no Doug's very religious. He's a what
version of religion do you call yourself?

Speaker 6 (15:07):
Just evangelical Christian?

Speaker 4 (15:09):
Right?

Speaker 7 (15:10):
Really no denomination, okay, But the earth started like I
don't know, what is it, eight eight or so thousand
years ago Old Testament, Moses time, the dinosaurs, didn't you know,
there wasn't a billion, There wasn't a billion years ago and.

Speaker 3 (15:26):
Stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (15:27):
Right, it's just right, like there was the Garden of Eden.
It happened like maybe six thousand people years and all
those fossils and stuff don't impress you. You don't believe
in those. But that's okay, it's not what we're talking
about now. And this is this is about Noah's Ark.

(15:48):
And I thought it was ridiculous that Noah's Ark people
would think that is real, because there's no way you
could fit all these millions of animals on the arc.
And so you had, of course, like a flat Earth
person has. There are certain answers that you if you
believe that you've studied up on you, there's certain good

(16:10):
answers to people. Certain comebacks that you have, and I
wanted to have you go through those again. First, I said,
of course, hey, there's no way it'll fit on the OCA.

Speaker 3 (16:23):
How many of her cubits it is? It's not that big.

Speaker 2 (16:25):
It's like as big as a big barn or two
like two barns strapped together or something.

Speaker 3 (16:29):
It's only that big.

Speaker 6 (16:32):
Yes, it's one point five one eight seven fifty like,
it's one point five million cubes stubid feet.

Speaker 2 (16:41):
I don't know what that is though, you know it's
like a big warehouse, right, a giant giant wear.

Speaker 6 (16:46):
Yes, it's a little more than that. It's like it's uh,
probably I don't know how many how you measure that
football fields? But it is well, probably football field and
a half is four hundred and fifty feet long, seventy
five feet wide, forty five feet I shid three tacks
and in the cubic the cubic feet is, like I said,
one point five eight millions. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (17:07):
First of all, Noah built this like with like, yes,
with what how do you you know it didn't even
have hammers then? Right?

Speaker 6 (17:15):
No, it took them one hundred and twenty years to
build it.

Speaker 3 (17:18):
Okay, well, noether what a big project.

Speaker 2 (17:21):
I don't know if I would have had the patience
for a project like that.

Speaker 6 (17:25):
Okay, I wouldn't have.

Speaker 3 (17:28):
So I'm still saying.

Speaker 2 (17:29):
I was still saying that, hey, there are millions of
species of animals in the world, and you had some
answers for that.

Speaker 3 (17:36):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (17:37):
They never fit all those animals on. So number one
was that the ones that the fish, the seaborn creatures,
they uh, they don't need.

Speaker 3 (17:48):
To be in the arc because they can swim right
fair enough. And then.

Speaker 2 (17:55):
You your crucial point was a tricky one, and it
was can you can you make it again? You can
make it better than I can.

Speaker 6 (18:03):
The kind it's like, not species, but kinds. And then
the last time we talked, you said to me to
look up to see how many kinds it were. And
I was curious myself, so I did. I looked it up,
and they kind of gave the same answer I did,
They said, I look, I googled it and I said
that this is between thirteen hundred and ninety eight and

(18:26):
fifteen hundred different broader kinds.

Speaker 3 (18:30):
What do you mean by times.

Speaker 6 (18:33):
Like you take two dogs? And then over time they
would evolve into like wolves, huskis you know. Uh, Josh
sends this like they would evolve within the kind like
you only need too.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
Okay, so and you can you But then I thought,
that's not long enough for evolution to happen.

Speaker 6 (18:55):
That seems a little of a stretch too. But apparently,
and who knows, like maybe he had maybe because we
don't know exactly what was on there, maybe there was
two or three different species of that kind. Like I
got to thinking about that.

Speaker 3 (19:12):
I'm like, because I'm say, there's a hundred dog species.
But for you to get around that, you just God said,
any dog, that's all. I don't care any dog.

Speaker 6 (19:24):
Right, And then it was young ones. The Google things
said that too, Like I made the point that you
could have young ones that would take up less room
like obviously a baby elephant would take up And they
even said that when I googled it. I'm like, wow,
they even even.

Speaker 3 (19:40):
About it a long time. So back to the kinds.
I mean, so you're saying, back at the time of
the arc, there was only one dog. There weren't other
kinds of dogs. There was just a one kind.

Speaker 6 (19:51):
Right dog, That's all he would have needed.

Speaker 3 (19:53):
Yeah, dog there's a dog does a cat? Only one kind? Okay, now,
but what about It's tough to.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
Deny all these dinosaur bones and the millions of years that.

Speaker 3 (20:07):
Would take.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
For dinosaurs to evolve into and they would have had
to be on the ARC too, right.

Speaker 6 (20:16):
Well, dinosaurs. What was the thing about dinosaurs? I wish
I kept dead in my brain. There was dinosaurs, but
they uh, they somehow went extinct. But yeah, there were
there is evidence for dinosaurs.

Speaker 3 (20:32):
So because you had were on the arc, you have well, yeah, you.

Speaker 2 (20:35):
Have such a short span of time six thousand years
that you would have to have humans and dinosaurs existing
at the same time, and so the obviously the dinosaurs
didn't make it onto the.

Speaker 6 (20:48):
ARC, I don't think so. I wish I did more
research on that. I don't know if they went before
the before all the animals went on or not. I
think they might have. They might have been extinct before that.
I can't remember exactly about that.

Speaker 3 (21:04):
There was nothing.

Speaker 2 (21:07):
There was nothing before that though, because didn't the Earth
get created, as you say.

Speaker 3 (21:12):
Six years ago? Yes, so then the dinosaurs couldn't have
been created before that.

Speaker 6 (21:21):
Well, they might have wanted to went extinct before the
arc I'm not sure about.

Speaker 3 (21:25):
They couldn't have.

Speaker 2 (21:25):
Even existed before the you know, because there was not
was not enough time. The when did the arc happen?
How long after the world began?

Speaker 8 (21:36):
I think it was.

Speaker 6 (21:37):
I think it was fourteen hundred years something. I think
it was fourteen hundred years after after the God all right,
so talking about like thirty six hundred years of after
the arc, like where the postilation started with eight people,
so you're talking about like thirty thirty six hundred years
ago with human puppy humans started over again, which would

(21:58):
the animal the animal king.

Speaker 3 (22:00):
So that's a problem.

Speaker 2 (22:01):
Plus if the if the dinosaurs did make it to
the ark, they would have taken up lots of room because.

Speaker 6 (22:07):
They would have taken up a lots of room unless
you're you know, like I said, unless you're a baby one.

Speaker 2 (22:12):
So believe that, you know, to believe that the Earth
started according to your timeline, Earth created year zero, fourteen
hundred years later, there's the arc, and the dinosaurs had
to be created and go extinct with only fourteen hundred years.
That's a stretch, as even you admitted.

Speaker 3 (22:32):
So what else is.

Speaker 2 (22:35):
I don't want to just talk about the arc all
the time. What else is key and controversial in.

Speaker 3 (22:41):
What you believe?

Speaker 6 (22:43):
Uh, the resurrection of Obviously people don't believe that Jesus
Christ rise rose from the dead, which a lot of
people believe.

Speaker 3 (22:52):
A lot of people believe that.

Speaker 6 (22:55):
I touched. Yeah, well anyway the witnesses. Yeah, So.

Speaker 2 (23:02):
Anything else I suppose we did a nice talk, is
anything you want to chat about?

Speaker 6 (23:07):
It was one thing I wanted to ask your opinion about.
Kind of unrelated to that. Do you think that having
an inboard camera in your truck is too invasive in
your privacy?

Speaker 2 (23:25):
Your employer wants you to have a camera looking at you.

Speaker 3 (23:29):
Yes, Oh, what a good question.

Speaker 6 (23:34):
And it's not just a camera, it's ai because like
you're gonna laugh at me. But I got a pair
of ski goggles that I wear over my glasses that
are not shaded too much, but they look like mirrors.
I don't want that thing study in my eyepattern. It
tells you where you look at, it tells them where
you look in it like if we get these reports

(23:56):
it's just so and so was drowsy, Like it watches
your eyes. I'm like, that's just creepy to me.

Speaker 2 (24:03):
Yeah, kind of thing and right now, don't you bosses?
Uh have a problem with you wearing mirror ski goggles?

Speaker 6 (24:12):
Well, as long as I can see. Yeah, but they
haven't said anything to me yet.

Speaker 3 (24:16):
They want to see your eye movements and they can't.

Speaker 6 (24:19):
They're not gonna. I'll I'll get this Social Security office. Okay,
but you know what, like like right now I got
when I landed a terminal, I put my hat over it.
I just put my hat over the over the camera.
It doesn't need to see what I'm doing while I'm
in a terminal or in unloading in the gas station.

(24:40):
It doesn't need to see me drinking my coffee, eating anything.
It doesn't need to see me doing paperwork. All all
you know, quote unquote get concerned about is the way
I'm driving, right, that they conned about.

Speaker 2 (24:54):
So obviously they have a little black box in your
truck to know how you're driving. They don't need the camera.
They want to see if you're drowsy. Maybe they want
to see if you're drinking or something, or right.

Speaker 6 (25:03):
You're not even supposed to drink the coffee or anything anymore,
you know, while you're driving, because it's called distractive driving
and all that stuff. There's all kinds of you know,
little things to it, but I just wanted to see what, Yeah,
what your opinion was. Do you think it's too invasive,
you know, to have an inbook camera watching watching you
instead of watching what's going on outside.

Speaker 2 (25:23):
Well, let me say that if I were you, I
would hate it and anyway and I would I guess
I would try to get do what you do is
I get around it as much as I could tell
he couldn't take it anymore. And then uh hit the
so scary line as you say, you do you get

(25:46):
more money if they fire you than if you quit?
Like do you do you get a package or something
if they fire you?

Speaker 6 (25:54):
Don't? I'm not sure about that. I don't think I've
ever been fired from the job, but I know, uh,
like I'm I'm done a like working one or two
days a week, and then if it's real busy, I'll
feel until like three or four. So the way they
got that set up, if I even work one day
a week, they're making it so if I killect, I

(26:15):
got to give some back. I'm not giving that back anything.

Speaker 2 (26:19):
Hey I have right now, Doug, it's so cool to
hear your voice. I really appreciate it.

Speaker 6 (26:23):
Yeah, I just wanted to check it.

Speaker 3 (26:24):
Well.

Speaker 6 (26:24):
I had an opportunity.

Speaker 3 (26:26):
It's WBZ News Radio ten thirty.

Speaker 1 (26:30):
Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's news radio.

Speaker 2 (26:36):
We continue here a WBZ with that side badly Jay
for Dan love to hear from here. We have Joseph
and Lynn calling in. Thanks for calling us at six
one seven two.

Speaker 5 (26:46):
Hey Hey Bradley, how you doing. I enjoyed hearing, sorry,
hearing Doug from air and say hi to my friend
Glenn in Brighton. And I enjoy hearing you on the air.
You're a little different. I don't buy him, though, I wish.
Some people takes a lot to hypnotize them. They have
to use sedation. They had a program on the Discovery

(27:07):
Channel and it was on one of the late night
coach shows and Dan Ray's had a few guests and
there was a doctor I knew years ago. As unfortunately
we aren't in contact. He was going to adopt me,
but I lost his phone number. I have no family.
He used hypnosis in the operating room and I think
it's marvelous. More people should learn it because some people

(27:28):
can't take anesthesia. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (27:32):
Yes, I do. Have you been hypnotizer, No.

Speaker 5 (27:35):
I haven't, but I'd love to try it someday. It's
hard to relax because I'm a very tense person, have
a lot of anxiety, been through a lot, as you
know some of us, plus the cancer, plus other things.
But I'm fascinated by hypnosis. Some people don't believe in
I do. And Dan Ray had a guest one a
long time ago who talked about hypnosis. We should do more,

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more program.

Speaker 3 (28:00):
I'm living proof you can trust me. Like I don't know.
I don't know if all hypnos therapists are good or not.
I don't.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
I bet they're not all equal. I bet that some
are good and some are bad. Some have a better
cass right, and some don't. I was lucky that the
guy that hypnotized me to quit smoking was really good
and I quit smoking. I'm living proof that it's worked
and it works.

Speaker 5 (28:25):
Is he's still around you, maybe you'll have him on it.
Sometimes it takes a few sessions.

Speaker 3 (28:29):
I tried to track him down. No, he's done, he's
out of the business.

Speaker 5 (28:34):
Oh it's too bad you are.

Speaker 3 (28:36):
I'd like to get hypnotized for a whole bunch of stuff.

Speaker 5 (28:40):
I don't blame you. Takes a few go.

Speaker 3 (28:42):
Every week and and I'd think, what do I want
to fix today? I'd try to fix everything is insurance.

Speaker 5 (28:49):
Jay won't pay for it, just like they won't pay
for me to travel. But we're trying to get it.
And I'll talk about that next time you're on about
the It's not that explent.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
I mean it's some of them have sliding scales for
one thing and another thing. If it's a priority for you,
then it's.

Speaker 5 (29:07):
For what hip hypnosis?

Speaker 3 (29:09):
Yeah, yeah, some some sliding scales.

Speaker 2 (29:11):
Sometimes you know what area do you live and you
live in Land, So look at Google, Google hypno therapy,
and n google it.

Speaker 5 (29:23):
I will help have someone try it. I'm not good
at googling. I'm not good online. I'm not too good.

Speaker 3 (29:29):
You know. I used to work in right in Central Square.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
Really, oh yes, I would take the bus late night
and go out and do a radio show at Central Square.

Speaker 3 (29:39):
It used to be fn X. I mean before that
it was l y N and I used to take
the boss.

Speaker 5 (29:43):
I wish I had met you that I've never met you,
but you know, when you can't see I didn't know
you were there. I used to go down the central
skirre a lot. It's changed now, it's not as it
used to be. Cha, it's really changed.

Speaker 3 (29:54):
So you can't see, meaning that you are visually impaired.

Speaker 5 (29:58):
Visually impaired, I use a kne I don't have a
dog at either king.

Speaker 3 (30:01):
Yet, so you can't see anything.

Speaker 5 (30:04):
Nope, my light perceptions disappeared years ago. I used to
have light perception disappeared.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
What would you like people to know about that that
they don't seem to know or how to treat you,
to help you, or what to do or not to do.

Speaker 5 (30:19):
They don't understand how to help blind people. Sometimes they
grab it. We have a sided guide technique, like I
take a person's arm and stay slightly behind them. They
put their arm behind so I can tell when you're
going to turn and you know, go up and down
the steps. Some people don't know what they'll grab you
by the waist shoulder. We really need a lot of
education under ADA and teaching people how to work with

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blind people. I think that's where we fall short. We
really need a lot of that. State agencies don't do it.
They think we can do it, but sometimes they don't
listen to us. Also, when you go into a street.

Speaker 2 (30:52):
You know, since I've since I've talked to Glenn so much,
a lot of times when I come to a crosswalk,
I think, how could anyone ever cross the street blind?
I don't think I could do it. I would be
scared out.

Speaker 5 (31:07):
You have to know the way the streets are laid out,
and you have to be talked by a cane travel
listen to the cars that are going parallel to you.
And it's hard, Jay, believe me. You have to do it, buddy.

Speaker 3 (31:20):
Oh my god. And here's another thing.

Speaker 2 (31:23):
You know, you come to a crosswalk, you push the
little button because you want to get the walk signal,
and it makes a noise. It makes a noise for
you for it visually impaired, But you how do you
know which intersection it's has gone got the walk signal?
How do you know if it's the one straight ahead
or the one beside you?

Speaker 5 (31:41):
You know, I don't remember that. It's been such a
long Maybe they have separate buttons. I don't know, but
we never use them that much. We had to pay
attention to the cars and some of them would stop
and say, go buddy, bay beep, and my cane travel
teacher would say no, just let them go up, and
we would practice listening to the cars. The ones go
in front, you don't cross. But now they got the
red on light on right, And I don't like that.

Speaker 3 (32:04):
Jay.

Speaker 5 (32:04):
That's between you and me and anybody in the goat goos.

Speaker 3 (32:07):
What's something else that you have to deal with it?
We don't know that. We don't know about.

Speaker 5 (32:12):
Yeah, d dropping things on the floor and you can't
always find them because they roll. And learning how to cook.
It's tricky, but there are blind people that are excellent cooks.
But you need specialized equipment, and you need screen meters
for computers and stuff like that. A lot of people
don't know about this, and the screen meters have to
be updated, and it costs tons of money because sometime

(32:33):
you know how Microsoft is. I keep updating and it
doesn't work, and then the oh Gord, don't get me started.
I don't like that stuff. It's a pain. I just
do an email and that's it. I'm not a Google
or I'm not good at it. I've tried it. Maybe
if I was taught and had the right type of
computer and the money. But it's it's expensive, Jay, and
stuff's expensive. Braille printers are six thousand bucks and people

(32:59):
have no idea what we go through. I hope you
never lose your sight. You'll you'll be at the Carrol
Center twenty four hours a day learning. And it's a
tough world. But people don't understand.

Speaker 3 (33:09):
Yeah, I could cook blind. I know I could across
the street.

Speaker 4 (33:14):
Yeah you have.

Speaker 3 (33:15):
I don't think I could do it.

Speaker 5 (33:17):
I would have to practice with the game travel teacher
practice barely cross.

Speaker 3 (33:22):
I can barely cross the street now with scooters running
red lights.

Speaker 5 (33:26):
And yeah, and the scooters here I don't like terrible. Yeah,
all right, you say one thing you could you could
learn to cook with special equipment this, but all that
stuff's expensive. But one the touch base. If you wish
me luck in my cancer and good luck with hypnosis,
I'll tell you more about it next week or next time.
You're I'm having a heck of a time with insurance.

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All right, God bless my friend. Thanks, take care due.

Speaker 3 (33:49):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (33:51):
And I think I have a quick quick, I have
time for Paul in Pennsylvania.

Speaker 4 (33:58):
Hi, Paul, Yeah, real quick. Bradley, jay h. I've listened
to you for years.

Speaker 9 (34:05):
I remember when you had your good old overnight show
and so sad.

Speaker 4 (34:10):
When you know you left. So I'm so glad that
you're filling in again. And it's very good to hear you.
I've always wanted to ask you. Do you know a
talk show host named Lionel No?

Speaker 9 (34:25):
Okay, he's out of New York City overnights now, and
you and him have the same voice, and you and
him have a pretty much the same kind of personality.
So he's like a replacement for you. Now, No, that's true.

Speaker 4 (34:46):
They should put you on overnights again. We don't need
to hear the same five nights.

Speaker 3 (34:53):
I'm very happy with my situation, tremendously happy. I do it.
I appreciate you, concern, love you, thank you, thank you.
Anything else you wanted to chat about.

Speaker 4 (35:01):
No, I'm surprised you don't know him though. Look him
up sometime, Okay and listen to his voice. It sounds
just I.

Speaker 3 (35:08):
Will do that. Thank you, Thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (35:12):
Oh, it's eleven forty almost forty five, and we'll take
a break and get to John in Brookline.

Speaker 1 (35:18):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray on WBZY, Boston's news.

Speaker 2 (35:23):
Radio Open Lines on Nice Side tonight. Bratley j for
Dan we have about twelve minutes or so, and I
love to hear from you. Now we have John in Brookline.
How you doing, my brother, John? What's going on?

Speaker 10 (35:37):
By nice to talk to you. Wanted to take a
mid to talk about our taxes and what you said
about you know, it goes to where we don't agree
for it.

Speaker 2 (35:49):
To go, and well, okay, let me know I'm going
to have to reset that so everyone knows what you're
talking about.

Speaker 3 (35:55):
I just talked about.

Speaker 2 (35:56):
I don't like talking about politicians, but policies that are
mind talking about, and I would I was just saying,
I would think people would be more upset about tariffs
because it's you know, US importers pay this tariff and
then they pass it on to us. Money goes they

(36:19):
passed the expense on the West, but the money goes
to an organization, an agency. Then from that agency it
goes to the general Fund, and then Congress decides what
to do with it. But it I don't see the
benefits of it, and I feel like it's just going
to support tax breaks for the rich, and so I'd

(36:41):
rather not pay more for my tomatoes, so that you know,
billionaires could pay less in.

Speaker 11 (36:49):
Taxes but just to add to that for you know,
that's a special tariff that you're talking about in general
are taxes when we our taxes are going to for
education and healthcare in other countries.

Speaker 8 (37:07):
That that's like, And then we're sitting here worrying about
our you know, our own medical and health issues, and right,
it just drives me nuts to see we give billions
and billions and dollars to strangers.

Speaker 10 (37:23):
And we let our own people suffer like this. That
makes sense that I'm a great weekend.

Speaker 3 (37:29):
Thank you. You make a lot of sense there. That
makes it's quite sensible.

Speaker 2 (37:33):
Yeah, uh yeah, six months seven two five it is
WBZ And let's see that's open lines. I did want
to talk a little bit more about hypnosis and things
that you may not even believe. I had to, and

(37:56):
I know that if the if our guests had said this,
you probably wouldn't have believed it. I had a skin
condition on my hand. I don't even know what it was.
It was back in the eighties and it just wouldn't
go away. We put stuff on it, it wouldn't go away.
And then the doctor said, you know, I think you

(38:17):
should see a hypnotist. And I did, and I thought
that's crazy, but I did what the doctor said and
it worked. It went away.

Speaker 3 (38:27):
One thing that does bother me. I do want to see.

Speaker 2 (38:30):
Hypnotists a hypnotist therapist for various stuff because it's very
pleasant for me. It's better than a massage. If the
stuff I worry about, I'd like to go see the
hypnotist hypnotherapist to not worry about it, because they can
do that. If you have excessive worry over something, they

(38:52):
can help you with that. Reportedly, they can help you
with the even fear of flying. So I wish that
there were more of them that just did the one
or two sessions. But as I was scouting around in
my neighborhood, you know where I could get to, No,

(39:12):
i'd call them up and then say, oh, no, we
don't do that. You're got to come in for more
than a whole bunch of sessions and talk a bunch.
I don't want to talk. I'm a little more aligned
to the mad Russian. By the way, in the hypnosis hour,
you heard the words mad Russian, and many of you

(39:32):
may want to know what that's about. Should have explained
to them, but didn't really have a chance for the
longest time, the longest time. I don't know where he
was based. It might have been Brookline. There was a
hypnotherapist called the mad Russian and they had the most
unique method. It wasn't standard, It wasn't folks as far

(39:57):
as I know. It wasn't focused on a point and
relax and we're going to take you down. You know,
imagine this and imagine that he did some sort of
just clicking his finger, ye kind of thing. Just it
was just just an immediate quick snap of the fingers
or some.

Speaker 3 (40:17):
Some little hocus pocus that he did.

Speaker 2 (40:21):
And any time any anyone mentioned hypnosis, everybody would say,
was it the mad Russian? So what if you decide
to become a hypnotherapist, you gotta get a good name
like the mad Russian. What a great, great marketing name

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that was? It really really worked?

Speaker 3 (40:44):
Six seven. Now it's Michael in Portsmouth. How do you do? Michael?

Speaker 10 (40:49):
Hi?

Speaker 12 (40:50):
How you doing? I just wanted to chime in real
quick about your caller who was blind. Yes, there's an
app that I used in the app Store and it's
called beam My Eyes and it allows blind people to
connect with people who download this app. So, like if
a blind person's at the store and they're like, I

(41:12):
have two sweaters in front of me, which one's the
blue one? They can hit this button and it will
call and link somebody who's on this app, and you
can answer these questions and phone calls randomly throughout you
know something. You might get one call a month or
a couple of week. But it's a really neat app.
And I didn't know if he knew about that, or

(41:32):
if your callers knew about it either. Probably I just
wouldn't recommend that.

Speaker 3 (41:35):
Yeah, probably not. Let me ask you a little more
about it.

Speaker 2 (41:38):
So are there volunteers on the other end of the
of the line that will do the visualizing?

Speaker 12 (41:46):
Some No, because it's it's I don't know exactly how
it works, like visually impaired wise, like if you're totally
blind or not, but maybe it could be color impaired,
but it's it's for people who are visually impaired, and
it's for themselves. They have it on their phone when
nobody else is around, they can get a set of eyes.

Speaker 3 (42:07):
So who's telling them the sweater's blue? AI? And AI
voice or a human? No?

Speaker 11 (42:11):
No?

Speaker 12 (42:12):
Like you would download this app on your phone right
and then you sign up, and then a blind person
that needs help would use the app, and people there's
thousands of people that use the app, but it can
connect to you and you can help them at that point,
and you could choose the answer to the call or not,
you know.

Speaker 4 (42:29):
What I mean.

Speaker 3 (42:30):
So you're a volunteer kind of Yeah, it's just.

Speaker 12 (42:33):
It's a whole community of people helping blind people. I
just thought it would be really useful for him if
you didn't know about that, and your callers to help
out too.

Speaker 3 (42:41):
Yeah, I think that's genius. How did you know about it?

Speaker 12 (42:46):
I just came across it.

Speaker 4 (42:47):
I don't know.

Speaker 12 (42:48):
I've been using it for years. I just saw it,
and I just thought it was a really genius idea.
And I try and pass that along to other people.
It's a really great app. Do you go e my eye?

Speaker 3 (43:00):
Are you one of the volunteers?

Speaker 12 (43:03):
Yeah? No, I signed up for it. I answered a
couple of phone calls. It's it's it's more like, uh,
it's an Apple. It's a community of people, you know
what I mean. You might not ever get a phone call,
but you most likely will.

Speaker 3 (43:17):
That's tremendous. I'm so glad you brought that up. It's
called be my Eyes. Yes, perfect, Thank you Michael. We
all appreciate that. That's so cool. And it's Sky in California,
High Sky.

Speaker 13 (43:31):
Tell you there, how are you doing today?

Speaker 3 (43:33):
Thank you?

Speaker 13 (43:35):
I want to echo that. But it's a different app.
I'm also blind and I use this app called Seeing Ai.
So you don't It doesn't connect with any other people
or third party or anything. It basically integrates your camera
that you got on your phone, and we literally just
read everything that it sees. So like if there's something,
you know, I even use this if I go to

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Trader Joe's, I'll put my phone on CIAI and I'll
just kind of put it in a popular or something
and so then it will read literally everything that's on
the shelf next. But if I want to focus in
a little closer, then I will take the phone out
and you know, put it on zoom or something. But
I use Seeing Ai. I use it probably every day.
I use it for reading my mail, my birrels, all

(44:17):
kinds of stuff.

Speaker 3 (44:19):
Wow, and it works well. What a great use of
technology that is.

Speaker 13 (44:23):
Oh, it's absolutely wonderful.

Speaker 11 (44:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (44:24):
And then when I was on the phone with someone
from a communications to like AT and T. They gave you,
like this sixteen digit passcode I needed to use so
that I use one of my either Axes or Ziggy
or computer or Amazon to actually take a note. So
you just have to kind of be, you know, constructive
and creative in different methods of doing things. And I

(44:44):
find it extremely useful.

Speaker 3 (44:46):
And give me the name one more time.

Speaker 13 (44:48):
See Ai, And it's a free app. You just download
it and then like I said, it integrates with your
camera on your phone and it will literally just be
your eyes like the one that a gentleman referring to
my eyes, which is also a great one. But sometimes
you don't know who you're gonna get and I don't know.
But seeing AI, you could use it twenty four to

(45:09):
seven all day, every day, wherever you go. And it's
absolutely good free app. And I also went to the
Caro Center for a couple of years to its excellent excellent,
Thank you Rebuiltation Company.

Speaker 2 (45:20):
Thanks for that Sky and thanks for calling in again.
I really appreciate it.

Speaker 13 (45:24):
No problem, I have a wonderful weekend.

Speaker 2 (45:26):
Okay, wow, Now many folks don't want to get involved
with technology. It's it's something you really should do.

Speaker 3 (45:37):
Don't.

Speaker 2 (45:37):
You're just going to be an outcast if you don't
get involved with technology.

Speaker 3 (45:41):
I'm fortunate.

Speaker 2 (45:42):
A while ago I really wanted to learn how to
make videos, so I learned how to use Final Cut
Pro and that was really the beginning of me embracing
technology and getting used to figuring it out, figuring stuff
out on my own. The days of being able to
call someone and find out how to do that stuff
is over. It's go to YouTube, learn how to use

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it if you can. If you don't adopt technology, you're
not going to be able to use things like this,
the uh Seeing AI or be my Eyes apps. It's
it's worth taking the time to learn this stuff. Brenda
and Winchester, you're going to wrap it up. You get
a couple of minutes here, Hi.

Speaker 5 (46:20):
Hi, care?

Speaker 14 (46:23):
I use be my Eyes good And it's so it's
it's really easy. And this volunteers all over the United States.
You don't know who you're going to get, and all
of them are terrific.

Speaker 3 (46:38):
Can you do this?

Speaker 14 (46:39):
I can't. I can't tell colors anymore. Okay, So when
I'm when I want to get dressed to go out,
if I can't manage, I just say, be my eyes.
They can you can open your refrigerator, they can tell
you what it's where and what it is your cabinets.

Speaker 3 (46:59):
Brenda, that's fantastic.

Speaker 2 (47:01):
We are all out of time now, but I really
appreciate you calling in excellent. So two for being my eyes,
one for seeing Ai. Thank you, Jay, and thanks to
all our guests, Chris Dempsey and Jane and Glenn and
Glenn wonderful night has always got another night tomorrow and
I hope we have some more fun.

Speaker 3 (47:21):
It's all about the.

Speaker 2 (47:21):
Fun, it's all about the community, and I really like this.
This is the finish here when we're talking about those
apps that help folks who are visually impaired. Well, just
a few hours we'll be chatting again here on WBZ
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