December 25, 2025 • 41 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's night Side with Dan Ray.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I'm telling you Pis and Boston's Beach Radio.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
After eleven hour, eleven o six and forty three seconds.
It's time flies when you're involved with night Side, either
on this side or that side.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Of the microphone, open lines. Talk about anything you.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Like and some of the things we've been mentioning we
talked about. It's a wide range of things. The competition
kind of between south Shore bar pizza and north Shore
Beats pizza, and the curious difference between north Shore and
south Shore people.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I'm north.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
I'd like to hear more about how the south Shore
folks are different. And we did hear from Boston Bob
who talked about his brush with death, and he very
elegantly told his story and it urged folks to give blood.
I used to be involved with the blood drive. I
used to work at a station called WBCN.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
We did a blood drive every year and it was
a it's a pretty big deal.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
That's one sad thing about wbcnbing gunness that blood drive.
Alex and Millis sorry first, it's James and Brockton. Didn't
mean to panic you there, James, Hi, James, Hey.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
No panic at all Merry Christmas, whatever holiday it is,
you celebrate, Happy holidays to everybody. But I was listening
on my way home and listening to your conversations, and
there was a caller that called in. You talk about
the North and South Shore people and how they don't mix,
and you know, I would say that's a pretty inaccurate
statement because I've worked in both of.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
The communities, you know, the North.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Shaw and the South Show, and you know, they're all
you know, we all get along. It's not that we
don't mix. I think maybe just maybe different mentality or
different backgrounds. What I've come to notice is that a
lot of the North people, north Shore people may have
migrated south from the you know, the Mains and the
Hampshires and Vermonts and Canada there you go that too,
(02:12):
just you know, looking for a lomer climate, and a
lot of people from the Boston area they like to
move south. I guess everybody just likes to move south.
But you know, I've worked in all those communities and
I just get along with everybody there. And you know,
I just wanted to keep this short because my dattery's
beeping at me and I'm gonna lose my connections soon.
But uh, that's my take on it.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Okay, that's great, that's that's very good. I hadn't thought
about that fact. Everybody wants to move south a notch.
So Bostonians goes south to the South Shore and the
South Coast, and people from New Hampshire just kind of
come down to the north Shore.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Everybody wins, well, everybody wins.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
It could be but you know, it's not that we
don't click. I mean I click with everybody you know,
and you know a lot of people if you just
have an open minded listen, you know, everybody get along
just fine.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Good for you. There should be more people like you.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
What do you do for a living that you work
in healthcare?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Healthcare? Good for you?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Well, yes, James, thank you so much for what you do,
and thanks for giving us a call.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
You take care, Thank you.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Good night.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Absolutely six one seven, two five, four ten thirty is
our number, and I'd love to hear from you. I'm
hearing from people that I haven't heard from before. Maybe
night side callers, uh, and talk to dam but I
haven't spoken. And it's wonderful to make these new connections.
Six one seven two five four ten thirty is the number.
(03:38):
And again, if you're driving along like many of you
are listening now coming home from Christmas, just like I
used to from New Hampshire. I used to listen to
WBZ driving home from New Hampshire and say, you're almost
getting home right then you pull in the driveway and
you want you want to listen more, but you got
to go in. Well, all is not lost because they're
(04:00):
there's the iHeart Radio app on your computer, see what
I mean, And you can listen on the computer. You
can still call in again, everybody wins. Now, let's talk
to Alex in Millis.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Hey, how you doing, Bradley, Good evening, Happy holidays to you.
And you know, it's a it's a beautiful you know,
it's a beautiful life. As they say. I was gonna
say a couple of things. I have no problem with
people from the North Shore, although I grew up in
the city and then I moved out here, which is
(04:34):
more you know, a country and a lot more bedroom
community and I sort of like it. You know, I
don't like big cities. I don't like living close to
you know, the neighbor Not that I have anything against them,
but you know, you have like a football field of
distance between the neighbors, and I think that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
You know, that's something I can't imagine that I would
I would feel strangely vulnerable.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I live in an apartment way high up. That makes
me feel feel safe. I feel if I.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Lived in a regular home like where you probably live, Yeah,
with windows on the first floor that people could break into,
I'd be I'd be nervous.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I'd be hearing sounds that I would be worried about it.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
I'm not trying to pat myself on the back, but
this town, we've left our garage door open before. You know,
sometimes you don't unlock it. Uh, you know, very rarely.
Uh there's there's very like minuscule crime. So and the
neighbors are, you know, watch out for each other. You know.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Well that's good, good, Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
And I was gonna say, uh, as far as you
know a couple of things.
Speaker 6 (05:50):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
You know they say what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Well,
in my instance, I had like three episodes, and thank god,
I'm back to normal. The first one was I had
a thing called because I had a fib but I
didn't realize that uh it, you know, and I had
to have a procedure and within a month before Thanksgiving,
(06:11):
over over a year ago, I wound up.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
You know.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
At first I got disoriented and my wife took me
to Newton Wellesley and I don't know what was going on,
and I had like a little blockage in the back
of my you know, ottery in the back of my neck.
And thank god, you know, they got me there, and
you know they I'm like, I say, one hundred percent,
(06:35):
but you know, I don't take anything for granted anymore.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
As I was telling Shane running the Mester Control here tonight,
by the way, thank you. You never know what happened
to Bob. And I don't mean to panic anybody, but
what happened to you, what happened to Bob could happen
to anyone at any time.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
So the main point.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Is the takeaway is you got something I want to do,
do it now, and really don't worry about the money.
Don't sweit the money too much. You know, it's better
to do it and try to earn the money back.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Then we have regret.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Yeah, I think I want to try sky to I mean,
I gotta just get clearance. But that's on my bucket list.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Oh man, I would never do that. My brother does it. Yeah, yeah,
and he said you should try it. Bread No way,
I know, I know my limits are. Actually I learned
a lesson one time because from my radio station WBC
and back in the.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Day, they said, do you want to do bungee.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Jumping as part of her promotion and I said, no way,
no way. But when I got to the bungee jumping place,
which was over in South Boston near the milk.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
Bottle, oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
It was a big crane. I was one hundred and
fifty foot crane.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Yep, and there was a cherry picker that tack you
up and you jump off.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
And it didn't look so bad went from the ground.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
But the minute I got up like ten feet, I
regretted it instantly, And I said to myself at that point,
never again doubt your gut when it comes to this stuff.
If it's if you don't, if you don't want to,
just if you say no initially, stick with it. And
(08:24):
so nothing's gonna nothing's going to get me to skydive.
And I get that it's much safer than crossing the street,
and it's probably much safer than crossing the street in
Boston with the way, with the way that motor scooters
are are allowed to break the law. But I'm still
not doing it.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
No way.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Even if even if I knew it was one one
hundred percent safe, I still wouldn't do it because the
sensation would be just too awful for me.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
No way.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
I mean, standing in that little doorway before you jump out,
it's got to be scary. I don't see how you
could do it, but good out.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
I'm not sure, but I'm thinking of it, so I'll hopefully,
Well let.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Me, you know, make sure you keep us posted.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Maybe you can do a live broadcast when you jump out.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
That's not that I actually did. I have bungee jump,
but not from uh it was like from eighty feet.
It was on too a uh what.
Speaker 7 (09:33):
Do you call it?
Speaker 5 (09:33):
A trampoline? You know, on a beach when I was overseas.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
You know, trampoline. Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
And I did. I did a what's called a paraglide.
It looks like it looks like a big height with
wings and you go with the instructor and we flew,
We walked off a cliff or ran off with this
thing uh, and you land on the beach, so I'd
say it was like about one hundred few feed up.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
You're a regular thrill seeker. That's I'm not going to
do that either.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
Well I'm married, so that's another thing.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
So that's a So you does that make you want
to do it more or no?
Speaker 5 (10:12):
No, I just I just enjoy I think every every moment.
You know, I say, you know, anything I see that
sounds is adventurous or you know, get your adournaline going.
I want to do it, you know. I mean, it's
just it's just how how I'm wired. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
You can take my place in line, Alex. I got
to run now.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Thanks so much, as always, so good to hear from everybody.
This is a lot of fun. Six one, seven, two, five, four, ten,
thirty is our number here at Night's Side. I'm in
uh in for Dan a few more nights and very
thankful to be doing that. Merry Christmas to Dan and
Dan's family. We'll talk to Stephen Dortchester next on WBS.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on WBS, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
We're rolling along on Nice On on WBZ. Let's talk
to Steve and Dorchester Open Lines tonight.
Speaker 7 (11:07):
Hi Bradley, how are you.
Speaker 8 (11:10):
Well.
Speaker 7 (11:11):
I think we all lost you right around when COVID
struck and you know your vanished. But I was at
a family function and I was listening to you on
the radio and I wrote down when I got home,
I wrote down things that you used to talk about.
You know you're oh our a tech in New Hampshire.
Weren't you a tech?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (11:32):
I was a pallurgical technician. I did that right out
of high school. I was seventeen and I went to
school in Conquers, New Hampshire.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
That's right, thank you, right?
Speaker 7 (11:41):
And I remember that. And then I wrote down another
thing when you when you were on BC, you used
to talk about I worked in the hospital as a
respiratory therapist and the thing is the putting things in
a refrigerator. Do you remember things? That was another topic
you did about. You know, things that we're in a
refrigerator that stayed for one hundred years and nobody knew
(12:04):
who took them out. That was one topic you did well.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
And that in the workplace, people bring stuff in there
and nobody dares to throw it out, and nobody knows
what to do, so it just collects and stinks, right.
Speaker 7 (12:20):
And then I'm riding home and I was thinking, So
when I got in my house, you were talking about pizza.
And then I wrote down Handcock Tabing in Quincy, the
Filehouse in.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Quincy, the pizza of these places, regular pizza.
Speaker 7 (12:37):
No did the bo pizza when I was writing home,
and then when I and then town Spot lynn Wood
and then now the ten Randolph. You know. So these
are all good pizzas, you know, because I've been to
all these pizzas, and I missed you after COVID happened
(12:58):
because I worked through COVID.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I'm like, oh my god, you were in the healthcare
industry during COVID.
Speaker 7 (13:04):
I was, but I was in the neonatal particle.
Speaker 9 (13:07):
But that's terrible, that's really because but they took two
of our neon natal therapist and moved them over to
the adult side, you know, so that made it a
little harder for the people on the NICKU side to
hear for the new names.
Speaker 7 (13:24):
So during that time and then new physical way, I
don't know what happened to you because I used to
work nice.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (13:31):
Well I'm here, I'm here, No, I know, So I
that's why I'm I, you know, do things on on
the radio when i'm you know, I listened to gm
A and certain things and I was coming home from
family function and I thought, oh my god, I gotta
I gotta call in and just say what do you
used to do? And you know, hope all is well?
(13:51):
You So what are you doing now? I mean, so
you know on your I do.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
I'm semi retired. Let me tell you asked. I'll tell you.
First of all, everybody wants to you really want to
know what I do.
Speaker 9 (14:03):
Go to Breda, I.
Speaker 7 (14:04):
Do I do. I think a lot of people want
to know since we found you, okay, and so go.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
To BRADLEYJ dot O, RG B r A d L
E yjy dot org. It has it all there. But
I will also tell you I run a travel channel
on YouTube. It's not monetized or anything. It's just for fun.
Where during COVID, I took all this footage I had
and made one hundred and fifty videos of travel destinations
(14:30):
and everywhere from Cairo, Egypt, to Morocco to Jordan to Russia.
And so they're all there. I narrate them. There's original
music that I made. Also, I completed an album with
a collaborator. The band is called Bridge Bender. It's on Spotify.
(14:52):
And I'm only telling you this stuff because.
Speaker 7 (14:53):
You asked, and you know what, and I think a
lot of people didn't know that. So I hope you
know that I asked the question, and you know, I
hope everybody enjoys what you just said to everybody. And
I'm glad I just called, and you know, and I
had a very merry Christmas and always enjoyed, you know,
(15:15):
listening to you at nighttime because I was in the
respiratory tarifast. I'll let you go and enjoy the rest
of your program and I'll continue to listen. All right,
good night, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Very much, beautiful. This is fun now.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
It's as you can tell, it's fun for me because
we have a community here, and again, it's it's cool
to just listen and be a passive member of the community.
But if you're somebody that's looking for more interaction, more
human connection, and you're shy about calling, get over that shyness.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Just do it.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Be a big boy or girl or whatever, and get
over the shyness and call six seven two four thirty,
because when you do, you'll have a voice, and you'll
have a brand new, very big, very cool community. Six one, seven,
two five four open lines. Don't talk about anything you want.
I did. It was fun for me to talk about
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the bar, pizza, the in the beach pizza, north Shore
versus South Shore. You know, I'm a No Shore guy,
but Boston Bob's description of north Shore beach pieza pizza
made it sound pretty lame. I guess I'm gonna have
to this this summer. I'm gonna try some of those.
(16:40):
Maybe I'll do a whole personal little tour. I will
say that the pizza culture down in the South Shore
is much more detailed and much more robust. It's a
whole thing, and it's not just about the pie. It's
about It's tribal, is what it is.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Humans. They got to be tribal, no matter what.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
If there's nothing to be tribal about and fight over,
humans will make something.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
To be tribal about. That's what sports is.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Tribalism there it is. Humans gotta be tribal. Are chipmunks
and squirrels that tribal?
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Who knows?
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Right?
Speaker 2 (17:25):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Birds seem like they might be kind of tribal, but
we know that the humans are six thirty. I have
a little bit of a personal dilemma. I might as
well unleash on you during this open line period. I
have the time now, and why not tell you a
little story and then I have to make a decision
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based on that story. I'll give you the story before
the break, and I'll ask you what I should do.
This is a genuine thing that I really don't know
what to do, and there's some significant amount of money involved.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
So here's the story back. Oh, I don't know. In
the two thousands, I guess.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
I was a DJ DJ clubs that I learned to
use this program where I could chop pieces of songs
up and make mashups. So I became really good at
making mashups. And a drummer said, hey, why don't I
play drums along with you?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
His named Steve.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Why don't I play drums along with you and we'll
go and we'll make it a performance. I said, yeah,
we did that, and then we actually hired dancers. It
was a whole and we had video and it became
a whole thing, and we got gigs at the Paradise
and the Middle East Middle East. Downstairs, we played the
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Hemphest three three times, I think, with thousands of people.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
It was cool.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
So I would do these live mashups on the computer.
I'd do them live, and then gradually we mixed in
original music, and then we got a guitar player and
it became quite a thing. We rehearsed. I was very
diligent about my rehearsal. Steve's a piano refinisher and there
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are not many left. He's probably the best in the world.
And he's a drummer. He is actually developing his own
line of snare drums made of metal with a particular
hardware arrangement. But we getting to the point here. Don't worry.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
One of my.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Bucket list items was to perform with a band in
a foreign country. So we'd performed around here and it
was great. I think I loved the Paradise and shout
out to Billy Budd, the guy was the Paradise manager forever.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
He liked us. I mean to be on stage playing
the Paradise.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
And that was actually when I learned to make video,
because couldn't get anyone to make a video of our shows.
It was like pulling teeth. It was being beholden too somebody.
It was being dependent. So I decided to learn to
make video myself. And that's why I started to choose
Apple products, because the Apple store had opened and they
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were teaching people how to make video using Final Cup Pro.
They had these free classes and everything. They were so
cool that I would take the class and they let
me work on their computers at the store and I'd
sit there four or five hours a day for like
three weeks making my first video. It was the band
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was called thunder Brothers and there is a video out
there that exists. So I made the video. We were
pretty good. And the point is I had a bucket
list desire to perform in another country.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
So Steve.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
He had connections because he toured Europe with his other bands.
He had connections. He got to say, gig in Holland.
So so this little project had grown and grown and grown,
and now we had a gig in Holland. It was
a huge deal. We rehearsed and we rehearsed a lot.
But for some reason, and I don't really remember why,
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Steve said I'll pay for the plane ticket, and I
don't know if he sent I don't know if I
was expressing nervousness about the price of the plane ticket.
I don't know how that happened to be, but he said,
I'm going to buy the plane ticket.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
I'll buy the plane.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Ticket, and I felt funny about that. I didn't feel
right about accepting that, but I did accept it.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Like shit, I could have paid it, but he offered.
I write.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Since that time, I felt kind of like I should
have said no, I should have paid for it, and
he's such a good guy.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
And now ever since that time, I felt guilty about that.
So now I'm trying to decide.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Should I pay him back now for that it's about
seven hundred bucks, it was six hundred dollars and something back.
Then should I just say, dude, I never I need
to pay you back for this, or not?
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Say am I being overly guilty? Because sometimes I get
that way.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
I feel like I need to pay for stuff that
I don't really need to pay for, Like sometimes when
I go on a birthday, well my wife takes me
on a birthday thing, I feel I need to pay
her back, which I don't.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
So I don't know what do you think.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Should I pay Steve back for that airplane ticket or not?
It's a sizeable chunk of money, and I don't want
to do it if I'm just being paranoid. So I
saw him the other day and I thought, I'm going
to do it. But just before that, I had gotten
a gift and an unrelated thing. I've gotten a gift
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for someone, and I thought, oh, they're really gonna like this.
It wasn't a Christmas gift. It was just a thoughtful gift.
And I won't say exactly what it was in case
these people are listening. I don't want them to know
that I'm telling them their story. But the reception was
kind of yah, is that kind of like oh, huh, okay, thanks?
Speaker 2 (23:36):
And I thought, wait a minute.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
I thought I was doing the right thing getting this
little gift, and I think I'm doing the right thing
maybe paying this airfare back of seven hundred bucks. I
am at a loss as to what to do. I
don't want to pay it back if I'm being just
being paranoid.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
But I don't want to have.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
To feel guilty every time I see Steve either. So
if you want to help me out, that's cool. If not,
I'll figure it out on my own. We'll take a
break now. Maybe I'll even ask Shane, the guy running
the person running the masters control thing. And I actually
might decide based on what you say, because I am
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completely in the dark on this one. Am I am
I overthinking this? Am I overworrying about it? Should I
let it go? Or should I say, dude, it's seven
hundred bucks. I've owed this to you for a long time.
I have to actually think how I will feel after.
And I suppose it depends on his reaction. And it
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shouldn't depend on his reaction. It should be me just
doing the right thing regardless, regardless of the reaction.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
And I guess it's the same with that.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Gift that I gave that I got to the other person,
for which I got kind of a lukewarm response. I'll
tell you one thing, I'm not just buying gifts for
people anymore. It wasn't worth it. I just thought it
was going to be so great. They would say, oh,
how thoughtful. That's so thoughtful, and they kind of went
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yeah after it.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
They thank me for it, of course, like polite people do.
But it didn't. It didn't hit the mark. Maybe it
was me.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Maybe it was a ham fisted, blind kind of gift.
Maybe it wasn't a great gift. I don't know which
kind of brings me to the bigger picture. Maybe I'm
a terrible gift giver, and that's kind of way I've
gotten away from giving gifts and receiving gifts.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
On Christmas.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
A long time ago, I convinced my family, let's not
do the gifts, let's pend up money on a great meal.
And things have been simpler since. But what do you
think should I pay that guy back? Six one, seven,
two four ten thirty is Deputy BS.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Night Side with Dan Ray on WBS Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
If you're just joined us during the break, I have
this quick dilemma. I'll reoutline it quickly. A long time ago,
I went with a bandmate to do a gig in
Holland he paid the airfare. I felt a little guilty
about having him pay and it's kind of bothered me
for years now, maybe like fifteen eighteen years, and I
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keep wondering if I should pay him back or would
that be weird somehow? I asked Shane Master, control operator
here he goes. He said it's been so long that
he would lean to not doing it because because of
the time that had passed. But so that's the first
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input I get. Now we have Melinda and Quincy Quinsy.
Speaker 8 (26:47):
Melinda, Hello, Hi, Hi, Hi on your question here.
Speaker 10 (26:53):
Yeah, I would say you definitely talk, just definitely take
care of it, because if it's been bothering you a
long time, then you should go ahead. And do you
ever talk to this guy?
Speaker 6 (27:06):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Yeah, I talked to him. I had coffee the other day.
Speaker 10 (27:09):
Okay, then okay, So I would say, you know what,
I really feel bad about the time that I brought up,
you know, paying for something. Oh and I mean that
he said he would pay for something and then I
went ahead with it, and it still bugs me. And
see what he says.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
I could no, No, if I if I go that fire,
then I'm going to have to pay him, so which
I kind of want to do. What about this? What
about this other scenario? I just say, oh, by the way,
here's this check. I uh, I owe you for the fight.
I never paid you fifteen years ago.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Here you go. I think that might be classier.
Speaker 10 (27:47):
Just do it, don't but I think it's class You'd
be honest. If you're saying fifteen years ago, he's going
to be He's simply going to say, dude, we already
talked about this. I took him of it him fifteen
years ago. I'd want to be honest and say, you
know what bothers me. It bothers me because I have
a situation in my life that's gone on since I
was twenty that bothered me that I didn't do.
Speaker 9 (28:09):
And that situation, it's that it's.
Speaker 10 (28:15):
It's gonna sound so stupid. Why it got to me
when you said it. What happened? Well, when I was twenty,
quickly I was dating a guy, a boyfriend. He became
became my boyfriend, and he one night came to my
house and he had put on had someone detail his
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car on my on my side of the door with
a nickname he gave me, and and his side had
his name. And so when I went out and saw it,
I thought it was great, but I didn't act the
way I should have. When I think about it today,
I say, oh my god, that was today. No one
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the never mind, no one would can go through and whatever.
That this guy was so great that he would do that.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
You should have been more. If you should, you should
have wonderful.
Speaker 10 (29:10):
Yeah, And that's how I am now. But I was
I was shyer than and I also did not want
to get married. At the time. I was only twenty
and I know he was going down that road and
I just I just a was scared of it. But
I think I just got quiet. I got well, I
didn't get quiet, but I wasn't as the way I
am now. I would jump on and go, oh my god,
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I'd be like wow, but but then I didn't. So
eventually broke up. And now to this day, I'm like,
you should. I wish I could tell him, just tell him.
No one's ever come close to the day I walked
out to that car and saw my name on that door.
That's incredible. I mean, no one's ever done anything like that.
(29:52):
And it just I'm always like, if I ever get
a shot, if I ever find him, I'm going to
say how much that meant to me. So when you
were saying what you were saying, I'm like, I've gone
how many years now, from twenty to now thinking about that,
not every day or anything, but.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
From my mind, fifty years is a long time.
Speaker 10 (30:11):
It comes along. But you got me now too old.
But anyway, A nice try, Brad, But let's see. So anyways, yeah,
I'm thinking when you said that, I'm thinking, if I
think about my thing and that bothers me, I would
want that off my chest. I would think that if
it's bugging you, what's seven hundred bucks. If it's bugging you, well,
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seven hundred bucks.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Is quite a lot. But it's probably worth it to
get that.
Speaker 10 (30:38):
It absolutely is, because if you're doing the right thing
in your mind, if you're doing if you do what
you feel, it's bugging you, and it's come on. For
the point is, it's been a long time. Wasn't a
week ago? And then again, if it was a week ago,
you'd still be you'd start thinking about it either one
way or the other.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
The other day. I think he's such a good guy, you.
Speaker 7 (30:58):
Know, Yeah, and I and.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Then you get I want to I want to get square.
I guess. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Okay, by the way, in your situation, Melinda, you could
find this guy.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
You know his name.
Speaker 10 (31:11):
I found out recently, I believe it or not. Just recently.
I found out from his sister some things where you know,
where he may.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Be, exactly where he would be, right.
Speaker 10 (31:23):
Yeah, I think I got it, and I'm going to
do it. I'm totally going to do it. I am
going to say because it's bothered me. I'm going to
say that. You know when you the day you came
by my house with that car and called me outside.
We walked out there and you had my name on
the door. That no one has going to come close
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with any guy, you know, Dayton, nobody's ever done anything
like that, just just such a you know, you know that.
I think you're like, really a great guy. You're a
lot of class, and I just think, you know, that's
hard to come by. And I want to say it,
and that's it. I just want it. I don't want
to die not saying it. So excuse me. You think
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he's local, No, he's No, he's not. I think he's out.
Speaker 7 (32:11):
Uh, I don't know.
Speaker 10 (32:13):
We went to college in New York.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Must have his phone number, I mean, you could do this.
Speaker 10 (32:18):
I don't have his phone number.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
He's married.
Speaker 10 (32:19):
I don't have his phone number. I don't want to
start any trouble. I just want to.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
It's okay, it's not going to cause trouble.
Speaker 10 (32:24):
I just want Yeah, I'm gonna leave the message. I mean,
I know, I'll do Facebook Messenger and I'll just say it.
I'll just say it because I have to say it,
and I think that with you, if this is really
bugging you, I would just say the guy, look at
I want to give you the money because it bothers
me that I have it and you paid it. Now.
He may if he if he obvious with you, like no, man, no, man,
(32:45):
it's great you want to do it, but I'm fine.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
No.
Speaker 10 (32:48):
Really, the fact that if you made him a.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Check and the check's already made out, you know so well,
it's good.
Speaker 10 (32:56):
Yeah, but you can wrap up the check.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
I'm gonna if I go that fire, I'm going all
the way. I won't let him give it.
Speaker 10 (33:01):
Then you should do it, Okay. I really really feel that, Brud.
I really do because I think that if it's bugged
you this long, you're going to feel better after you
do it. You're gonna feel so much better. It's like
you're gonna feel so good after.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
You do it.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Good. Yeah, so that's good. It's a win.
Speaker 10 (33:17):
He may, you know, he may talk you down. He
may not want you to, but.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
I'm sure we'll say, oh, don't worry about it, but
I'll say, no, got to do it, That's what I'll say. Look,
I've never felt quite right about that and this will
make me feel better. So you're doing yeah, exactly, and
then I'll say you can buy me a two hundred
dollars dinner if you want.
Speaker 10 (33:34):
That's okay, and then you'll feel guilty about it. Yeah,
then you feel guilty for asking for the two dinner.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Okay, you know, yes, thank you so much.
Speaker 10 (33:44):
I mean, I know you're probably kidding, but don't don't
say no.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
I won't say that. I won't.
Speaker 10 (33:50):
You might, Yeah, you might feel bad after.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
I would never say that would be such a tacky
thing to say.
Speaker 9 (33:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (33:56):
Well, yeah, well, sometimes in the moment someone's nerves, they
might say something stupid like that.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
I'm glad we had this conversation, so I want to
know not to say something dumb like that. And I
need you to do this thing that you need to
do and contact this person and let them know how
you really felt within.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Forty eight hours. Do it.
Speaker 10 (34:15):
Yeah, I'm gonna do it very soon because I don't
want my luck the person to leave Facebook. And then
he just actually got on and I found out from
the sister. So I'm like, you know, I gotta do
this before I know he's married. I don't that's a pathet.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Don't worry about it.
Speaker 10 (34:29):
I just want to say thank you for that. That's all.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Yeah, you know, yeah, that's gonna be big for him
because he probably felt he probably felt kind of embarrassed
by your reaction.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
And one thing I do understand that wasn't mean.
Speaker 10 (34:42):
I wasn't mean.
Speaker 6 (34:42):
I didn't.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
It was damned with faint praise.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
As they say you you didn't act excited.
Speaker 10 (34:49):
I continued to date, Brad Bradley continue to date. It
wasn't like I was mean and left or you know,
I just wasn't. Let's just say I wasn't as as
I am nowadays.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
So it's going to be thrilling for him, for you,
for him to hear that.
Speaker 10 (35:05):
I think you'll feel better, but he might feel ready.
Maybe he is less, but I'll feel better. I know
I'll feel better, all right.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Feeling better. I'll feel better when we take this break
because got to do that. But thank you so much
for calling Melon. I always love talking to Melinda. Get
to fill in Boston.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Next on BZ, You're on Night Side with Ray on
w b Z, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
I gotta tell you, it's cold. It's how cold is it?
It's uber cold? I pride myself on being tough cold
weather guy. But I think I'm taking an uber home tonight.
It's cold and it's very windy. Don't have much time,
so I want to get right to fill in Ontario
and fill in Boston. Fill in Boston's first, then we'll
head up to really cold country on I film.
Speaker 6 (35:55):
Yeah, let's first of all, because you're good, whatever the point,
I agree with you two wonderful things. The first thing
is you can't you don't know what the situation, give
the people presents. And I've experised that several times in
my life.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Before you continue, just in case somebody joined us, I
need them to know what we're talking about. A couple
of things. I gave someone to give recently, not a
Christmas gift, and I was surprised by how man they were,
and it made me think I'm not going to give
any more guests.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Then. The other thing is is.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Like fifteen eighteen years ago, my bandmate paid my airfare
to a gig and they and I think maybe I
should have paid myself, and I want to should I
pay him back?
Speaker 8 (36:44):
So go.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Ahead?
Speaker 8 (36:47):
Yeah, I gave him a person as horror story, but
I would look to get back to the second part,
which was you have to talk your talk, you can vote.
Get the guilt of this person's Steven lord of the
name is, But.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
He is talking about my feeling guilty he paid.
Speaker 6 (37:05):
Yeah yeah, but I mean you had breakfast with the
gentleman and he must know you. He's well store right now,
why don't you just give him.
Speaker 8 (37:15):
A Samara box foot fot the difference to get.
Speaker 6 (37:19):
It over with.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
Oh there you go, I think I should.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
He's not listening now he probably would have texted me
he's he's but still, you know, I just wanted to
get your opinion because I wanted to know if I
was maybe being paranoid, and and it was fine.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
I got.
Speaker 8 (37:35):
I got other things that people got. Other things are
worry about and talking about how much you owe this
guy and he's listening to you. Probably I was gonna
get one of it. Just talk to him was so
guilty of but it buy him a suitor jacket or
half the money, and just.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
Fair enough. I'm gonna write you down with given. I'm
putting you in the giving.
Speaker 8 (37:58):
Back don Yeah, sure, really I am.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
And now it's filling Ontario.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
I needed to be kind of quick with phil in Boston,
because this only have like four minutes filling Ontario.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
What's the temperature up there?
Speaker 11 (38:14):
The temperatureial up Heyer is minus seven celsius. Now I
don't have a conversion to an imperial on that, but
it's it's cold up here tonight, but not too bad.
It's not too windy, so I'm surviving up here.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
Okay, So what'd you call about?
Speaker 4 (38:29):
What I called about is I agree with the option
of writing out a check and just having topic with
him sometimes and handing them the check and just saying.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
I told you this.
Speaker 4 (38:44):
Yeah, it's not necessarily the old him, but you just
felt an obligation at the time to pay your way,
and you still feel that obligation, which which is good
of you, and it really represents your values and beliefs
that you would want to rectify that situation all these
years later. There are very few people who would take that,
(39:07):
So I commend you, and I say, just go ahead
and give him the check and if he wants to
then donate it to cherry or something like that, he
can do with it as he pleases. But I would
just didn't matter addressed.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
Yeah, I think thanks to all of you folks, I've
decided to do it, and Phil in Boston, I really
am going to do it. Phil was doubting me. Phil
in Boston, he didn't believe me. But it's almost like
every time I see him, I think, oh, man, I
should I should have paid my own way, I said
every time.
Speaker 4 (39:39):
And so, yeah, just get the matters settled and you
can get on with life.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
I'm glad we had this talk. Tell me about Ontario.
Speaker 4 (39:48):
Yeah, Ontario, Yeah, yeah. I mean I'm coming from Toronto
where easy is coming through nice and nice and clear tonight.
And it's a clear night and it's about minus seven and.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Seven celsius, which I looked up as isn't that forty
four fahrenheit.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
That's not very cold.
Speaker 4 (40:07):
No, it's blow freezing by a few degrees, so I
think it'd be like, uh, maybe twenty eight or something fahrenheit.
I have to do the conversion so rarely, so it's
a freezing fly mess.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
Control operator wheelworker Shane says, it's nineteen point four degree.
Speaker 4 (40:28):
Thank you for yeah, something like that. It's not a
good night to be out, but we're surviving up here.
And the last time we spoke was during the overnight
hours when you were doing you know, the middle of
the night. Yeah, so I kind of miscalling it. So
it's good to talk to you again.
Speaker 2 (40:47):
It's good to talk to you. What have you been
doing in between, Like, are you retired or.
Speaker 4 (40:53):
I wish it could be retired. I am still at
my job as a bus operator for the municipal transit
service up here. It's sort of like the MBTA, And
in fact, the former CEO of MBT, rick Leary, was
our CEO for a few years and moved up here.
(41:14):
And I'm enjoying my job, believe it or not. The
customers are pretty good, beautiful.
Speaker 1 (41:21):
I need to go now because the show's over, but
I hope you'll call back when we have more time
to chat. Thank you very much, Phil for sure giving
us a shout bye bye. That's cool re connecting with
old friends. Thanks for your help on this matter of conscience.
I'm gonna write a check for seven hundred bucks and say, dude,
I should have paid you. I shouldn't have let you
(41:41):
buy my airfare. I'm squaring I'm squaring it up now,
talk to you tomorrow. Looking forward to another fun night
side on WZ and remember you can listen to BZ
on the iHeartRadio app later
It's night Side with Dan Ray.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I'm telling you Pis and Boston's Beach Radio.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
After eleven hour, eleven o six and forty three seconds.
It's time flies when you're involved with night Side, either
on this side or that side.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Of the microphone, open lines. Talk about anything you.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Like and some of the things we've been mentioning we
talked about. It's a wide range of things. The competition
kind of between south Shore bar pizza and north Shore
Beats pizza, and the curious difference between north Shore and
south Shore people.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
I'm north.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
I'd like to hear more about how the south Shore
folks are different. And we did hear from Boston Bob
who talked about his brush with death, and he very
elegantly told his story and it urged folks to give blood.
I used to be involved with the blood drive. I
used to work at a station called WBCN.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
We did a blood drive every year and it was
a it's a pretty big deal.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
That's one sad thing about wbcnbing gunness that blood drive.
Alex and Millis sorry first, it's James and Brockton. Didn't
mean to panic you there, James, Hi, James, Hey.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
No panic at all Merry Christmas, whatever holiday it is,
you celebrate, Happy holidays to everybody. But I was listening
on my way home and listening to your conversations, and
there was a caller that called in. You talk about
the North and South Shore people and how they don't mix,
and you know, I would say that's a pretty inaccurate
statement because I've worked in both of.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
The communities, you know, the North.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Shaw and the South Show, and you know, they're all
you know, we all get along. It's not that we
don't mix. I think maybe just maybe different mentality or
different backgrounds. What I've come to notice is that a
lot of the North people, north Shore people may have
migrated south from the you know, the Mains and the
Hampshires and Vermonts and Canada there you go that too,
(02:12):
just you know, looking for a lomer climate, and a
lot of people from the Boston area they like to
move south. I guess everybody just likes to move south.
But you know, I've worked in all those communities and
I just get along with everybody there. And you know,
I just wanted to keep this short because my dattery's
beeping at me and I'm gonna lose my connections soon.
But uh, that's my take on it.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Okay, that's great, that's that's very good. I hadn't thought
about that fact. Everybody wants to move south a notch.
So Bostonians goes south to the South Shore and the
South Coast, and people from New Hampshire just kind of
come down to the north Shore.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Everybody wins, well, everybody wins.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
It could be but you know, it's not that we
don't click. I mean I click with everybody you know,
and you know a lot of people if you just
have an open minded listen, you know, everybody get along
just fine.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Good for you. There should be more people like you.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
What do you do for a living that you work
in healthcare?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Healthcare? Good for you?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Well, yes, James, thank you so much for what you do,
and thanks for giving us a call.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
You take care, Thank you.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Good night.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Absolutely six one seven, two five, four ten thirty is
our number, and I'd love to hear from you. I'm
hearing from people that I haven't heard from before. Maybe
night side callers, uh, and talk to dam but I
haven't spoken. And it's wonderful to make these new connections.
Six one seven two five four ten thirty is the number.
(03:38):
And again, if you're driving along like many of you
are listening now coming home from Christmas, just like I
used to from New Hampshire. I used to listen to
WBZ driving home from New Hampshire and say, you're almost
getting home right then you pull in the driveway and
you want you want to listen more, but you got
to go in. Well, all is not lost because they're
(04:00):
there's the iHeart Radio app on your computer, see what
I mean, And you can listen on the computer. You
can still call in again, everybody wins. Now, let's talk
to Alex in Millis.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Hey, how you doing, Bradley, Good evening, Happy holidays to you.
And you know, it's a it's a beautiful you know,
it's a beautiful life. As they say. I was gonna
say a couple of things. I have no problem with
people from the North Shore, although I grew up in
the city and then I moved out here, which is
(04:34):
more you know, a country and a lot more bedroom
community and I sort of like it. You know, I
don't like big cities. I don't like living close to
you know, the neighbor Not that I have anything against them,
but you know, you have like a football field of
distance between the neighbors, and I think that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
You know, that's something I can't imagine that I would
I would feel strangely vulnerable.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I live in an apartment way high up. That makes
me feel feel safe. I feel if I.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Lived in a regular home like where you probably live, Yeah,
with windows on the first floor that people could break into,
I'd be I'd be nervous.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I'd be hearing sounds that I would be worried about it.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
I'm not trying to pat myself on the back, but
this town, we've left our garage door open before. You know,
sometimes you don't unlock it. Uh, you know, very rarely.
Uh there's there's very like minuscule crime. So and the
neighbors are, you know, watch out for each other. You know.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Well that's good, good, Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
And I was gonna say, uh, as far as you
know a couple of things.
Speaker 6 (05:50):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
You know they say what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Well,
in my instance, I had like three episodes, and thank god,
I'm back to normal. The first one was I had
a thing called because I had a fib but I
didn't realize that uh it, you know, and I had
to have a procedure and within a month before Thanksgiving,
(06:11):
over over a year ago, I wound up.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
You know.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
At first I got disoriented and my wife took me
to Newton Wellesley and I don't know what was going on,
and I had like a little blockage in the back
of my you know, ottery in the back of my neck.
And thank god, you know, they got me there, and
you know they I'm like, I say, one hundred percent,
(06:35):
but you know, I don't take anything for granted anymore.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
As I was telling Shane running the Mester Control here tonight,
by the way, thank you. You never know what happened
to Bob. And I don't mean to panic anybody, but
what happened to you, what happened to Bob could happen
to anyone at any time.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
So the main point.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Is the takeaway is you got something I want to do,
do it now, and really don't worry about the money.
Don't sweit the money too much. You know, it's better
to do it and try to earn the money back.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Then we have regret.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Yeah, I think I want to try sky to I mean,
I gotta just get clearance. But that's on my bucket list.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Oh man, I would never do that. My brother does it. Yeah, yeah,
and he said you should try it. Bread No way,
I know, I know my limits are. Actually I learned
a lesson one time because from my radio station WBC
and back in the.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Day, they said, do you want to do bungee.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Jumping as part of her promotion and I said, no way,
no way. But when I got to the bungee jumping place,
which was over in South Boston near the milk.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
Bottle, oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
It was a big crane. I was one hundred and
fifty foot crane.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Yep, and there was a cherry picker that tack you
up and you jump off.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
And it didn't look so bad went from the ground.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
But the minute I got up like ten feet, I
regretted it instantly, And I said to myself at that point,
never again doubt your gut when it comes to this stuff.
If it's if you don't, if you don't want to,
just if you say no initially, stick with it. And
(08:24):
so nothing's gonna nothing's going to get me to skydive.
And I get that it's much safer than crossing the street,
and it's probably much safer than crossing the street in
Boston with the way, with the way that motor scooters
are are allowed to break the law. But I'm still
not doing it.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
No way.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Even if even if I knew it was one one
hundred percent safe, I still wouldn't do it because the
sensation would be just too awful for me.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
No way.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
I mean, standing in that little doorway before you jump out,
it's got to be scary. I don't see how you
could do it, but good out.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
I'm not sure, but I'm thinking of it, so I'll hopefully,
Well let.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Me, you know, make sure you keep us posted.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Maybe you can do a live broadcast when you jump out.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
That's not that I actually did. I have bungee jump,
but not from uh it was like from eighty feet.
It was on too a uh what.
Speaker 7 (09:33):
Do you call it?
Speaker 5 (09:33):
A trampoline? You know, on a beach when I was overseas.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
You know, trampoline. Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
And I did. I did a what's called a paraglide.
It looks like it looks like a big height with
wings and you go with the instructor and we flew,
We walked off a cliff or ran off with this
thing uh, and you land on the beach, so I'd
say it was like about one hundred few feed up.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
You're a regular thrill seeker. That's I'm not going to
do that either.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
Well I'm married, so that's another thing.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
So that's a So you does that make you want
to do it more or no?
Speaker 5 (10:12):
No, I just I just enjoy I think every every moment.
You know, I say, you know, anything I see that
sounds is adventurous or you know, get your adournaline going.
I want to do it, you know. I mean, it's
just it's just how how I'm wired. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
You can take my place in line, Alex. I got
to run now.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Thanks so much, as always, so good to hear from everybody.
This is a lot of fun. Six one, seven, two, five, four, ten,
thirty is our number here at Night's Side. I'm in
uh in for Dan a few more nights and very
thankful to be doing that. Merry Christmas to Dan and
Dan's family. We'll talk to Stephen Dortchester next on WBS.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on WBS, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
We're rolling along on Nice On on WBZ. Let's talk
to Steve and Dorchester Open Lines tonight.
Speaker 7 (11:07):
Hi Bradley, how are you.
Speaker 8 (11:10):
Well.
Speaker 7 (11:11):
I think we all lost you right around when COVID
struck and you know your vanished. But I was at
a family function and I was listening to you on
the radio and I wrote down when I got home,
I wrote down things that you used to talk about.
You know you're oh our a tech in New Hampshire.
Weren't you a tech?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (11:32):
I was a pallurgical technician. I did that right out
of high school. I was seventeen and I went to
school in Conquers, New Hampshire.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
That's right, thank you, right?
Speaker 7 (11:41):
And I remember that. And then I wrote down another
thing when you when you were on BC, you used
to talk about I worked in the hospital as a
respiratory therapist and the thing is the putting things in
a refrigerator. Do you remember things? That was another topic
you did about. You know, things that we're in a
refrigerator that stayed for one hundred years and nobody knew
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who took them out. That was one topic you did well.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
And that in the workplace, people bring stuff in there
and nobody dares to throw it out, and nobody knows
what to do, so it just collects and stinks, right.
Speaker 7 (12:20):
And then I'm riding home and I was thinking, So
when I got in my house, you were talking about pizza.
And then I wrote down Handcock Tabing in Quincy, the
Filehouse in.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Quincy, the pizza of these places, regular pizza.
Speaker 7 (12:37):
No did the bo pizza when I was writing home,
and then when I and then town Spot lynn Wood
and then now the ten Randolph. You know. So these
are all good pizzas, you know, because I've been to
all these pizzas, and I missed you after COVID happened
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because I worked through COVID.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I'm like, oh my god, you were in the healthcare
industry during COVID.
Speaker 7 (13:04):
I was, but I was in the neonatal particle.
Speaker 9 (13:07):
But that's terrible, that's really because but they took two
of our neon natal therapist and moved them over to
the adult side, you know, so that made it a
little harder for the people on the NICKU side to
hear for the new names.
Speaker 7 (13:24):
So during that time and then new physical way, I
don't know what happened to you because I used to
work nice.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (13:31):
Well I'm here, I'm here, No, I know, So I
that's why I'm I, you know, do things on on
the radio when i'm you know, I listened to gm
A and certain things and I was coming home from
family function and I thought, oh my god, I gotta
I gotta call in and just say what do you
used to do? And you know, hope all is well?
(13:51):
You So what are you doing now? I mean, so
you know on your I do.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
I'm semi retired. Let me tell you asked. I'll tell you.
First of all, everybody wants to you really want to
know what I do.
Speaker 9 (14:03):
Go to Breda, I.
Speaker 7 (14:04):
Do I do. I think a lot of people want
to know since we found you, okay, and so go.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
To BRADLEYJ dot O, RG B r A d L
E yjy dot org. It has it all there. But
I will also tell you I run a travel channel
on YouTube. It's not monetized or anything. It's just for fun.
Where during COVID, I took all this footage I had
and made one hundred and fifty videos of travel destinations
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and everywhere from Cairo, Egypt, to Morocco to Jordan to Russia.
And so they're all there. I narrate them. There's original
music that I made. Also, I completed an album with
a collaborator. The band is called Bridge Bender. It's on Spotify.
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And I'm only telling you this stuff because.
Speaker 7 (14:53):
You asked, and you know what, and I think a
lot of people didn't know that. So I hope you
know that I asked the question, and you know, I
hope everybody enjoys what you just said to everybody. And
I'm glad I just called, and you know, and I
had a very merry Christmas and always enjoyed, you know,
(15:15):
listening to you at nighttime because I was in the
respiratory tarifast. I'll let you go and enjoy the rest
of your program and I'll continue to listen. All right,
good night, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Very much, beautiful. This is fun now.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
It's as you can tell, it's fun for me because
we have a community here, and again, it's it's cool
to just listen and be a passive member of the community.
But if you're somebody that's looking for more interaction, more
human connection, and you're shy about calling, get over that shyness.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Just do it.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Be a big boy or girl or whatever, and get
over the shyness and call six seven two four thirty,
because when you do, you'll have a voice, and you'll
have a brand new, very big, very cool community. Six one, seven,
two five four open lines. Don't talk about anything you want.
I did. It was fun for me to talk about
(16:17):
the bar, pizza, the in the beach pizza, north Shore
versus South Shore. You know, I'm a No Shore guy,
but Boston Bob's description of north Shore beach pieza pizza
made it sound pretty lame. I guess I'm gonna have
to this this summer. I'm gonna try some of those.
(16:40):
Maybe I'll do a whole personal little tour. I will
say that the pizza culture down in the South Shore
is much more detailed and much more robust. It's a
whole thing, and it's not just about the pie. It's
about It's tribal, is what it is.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Humans. They got to be tribal, no matter what.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
If there's nothing to be tribal about and fight over,
humans will make something.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
To be tribal about. That's what sports is.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Tribalism there it is. Humans gotta be tribal. Are chipmunks
and squirrels that tribal?
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Who knows?
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Right?
Speaker 2 (17:25):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Birds seem like they might be kind of tribal, but
we know that the humans are six thirty. I have
a little bit of a personal dilemma. I might as
well unleash on you during this open line period. I
have the time now, and why not tell you a
little story and then I have to make a decision
(17:48):
based on that story. I'll give you the story before
the break, and I'll ask you what I should do.
This is a genuine thing that I really don't know
what to do, and there's some significant amount of money involved.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
So here's the story back. Oh, I don't know. In
the two thousands, I guess.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
I was a DJ DJ clubs that I learned to
use this program where I could chop pieces of songs
up and make mashups. So I became really good at
making mashups. And a drummer said, hey, why don't I
play drums along with you?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
His named Steve.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Why don't I play drums along with you and we'll
go and we'll make it a performance. I said, yeah,
we did that, and then we actually hired dancers. It
was a whole and we had video and it became
a whole thing, and we got gigs at the Paradise
and the Middle East Middle East. Downstairs, we played the
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Hemphest three three times, I think, with thousands of people.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
It was cool.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
So I would do these live mashups on the computer.
I'd do them live, and then gradually we mixed in
original music, and then we got a guitar player and
it became quite a thing. We rehearsed. I was very
diligent about my rehearsal. Steve's a piano refinisher and there
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are not many left. He's probably the best in the world.
And he's a drummer. He is actually developing his own
line of snare drums made of metal with a particular
hardware arrangement. But we getting to the point here. Don't worry.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
One of my.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Bucket list items was to perform with a band in
a foreign country. So we'd performed around here and it
was great. I think I loved the Paradise and shout
out to Billy Budd, the guy was the Paradise manager forever.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
He liked us. I mean to be on stage playing
the Paradise.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
And that was actually when I learned to make video,
because couldn't get anyone to make a video of our shows.
It was like pulling teeth. It was being beholden too somebody.
It was being dependent. So I decided to learn to
make video myself. And that's why I started to choose
Apple products, because the Apple store had opened and they
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were teaching people how to make video using Final Cup Pro.
They had these free classes and everything. They were so
cool that I would take the class and they let
me work on their computers at the store and I'd
sit there four or five hours a day for like
three weeks making my first video. It was the band
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was called thunder Brothers and there is a video out
there that exists. So I made the video. We were
pretty good. And the point is I had a bucket
list desire to perform in another country.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
So Steve.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
He had connections because he toured Europe with his other bands.
He had connections. He got to say, gig in Holland.
So so this little project had grown and grown and grown,
and now we had a gig in Holland. It was
a huge deal. We rehearsed and we rehearsed a lot.
But for some reason, and I don't really remember why,
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Steve said I'll pay for the plane ticket, and I
don't know if he sent I don't know if I
was expressing nervousness about the price of the plane ticket.
I don't know how that happened to be, but he said,
I'm going to buy the plane ticket.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
I'll buy the plane.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Ticket, and I felt funny about that. I didn't feel
right about accepting that, but I did accept it.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Like shit, I could have paid it, but he offered.
I write.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Since that time, I felt kind of like I should
have said no, I should have paid for it, and
he's such a good guy.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
And now ever since that time, I felt guilty about that.
So now I'm trying to decide.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Should I pay him back now for that it's about
seven hundred bucks, it was six hundred dollars and something back.
Then should I just say, dude, I never I need
to pay you back for this, or not?
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Say am I being overly guilty? Because sometimes I get
that way.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
I feel like I need to pay for stuff that
I don't really need to pay for, Like sometimes when
I go on a birthday, well my wife takes me
on a birthday thing, I feel I need to pay
her back, which I don't.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
So I don't know what do you think.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Should I pay Steve back for that airplane ticket or not?
It's a sizeable chunk of money, and I don't want
to do it if I'm just being paranoid. So I
saw him the other day and I thought, I'm going
to do it. But just before that, I had gotten
a gift and an unrelated thing. I've gotten a gift
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for someone, and I thought, oh, they're really gonna like this.
It wasn't a Christmas gift. It was just a thoughtful gift.
And I won't say exactly what it was in case
these people are listening. I don't want them to know
that I'm telling them their story. But the reception was
kind of yah, is that kind of like oh, huh, okay, thanks?
Speaker 2 (23:36):
And I thought, wait a minute.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
I thought I was doing the right thing getting this
little gift, and I think I'm doing the right thing
maybe paying this airfare back of seven hundred bucks. I
am at a loss as to what to do. I
don't want to pay it back if I'm being just
being paranoid.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
But I don't want to have.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
To feel guilty every time I see Steve either. So
if you want to help me out, that's cool. If not,
I'll figure it out on my own. We'll take a
break now. Maybe I'll even ask Shane, the guy running
the person running the masters control thing. And I actually
might decide based on what you say, because I am
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completely in the dark on this one. Am I am
I overthinking this? Am I overworrying about it? Should I
let it go? Or should I say, dude, it's seven
hundred bucks. I've owed this to you for a long time.
I have to actually think how I will feel after.
And I suppose it depends on his reaction. And it
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shouldn't depend on his reaction. It should be me just
doing the right thing regardless, regardless of the reaction.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
And I guess it's the same with that.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Gift that I gave that I got to the other person,
for which I got kind of a lukewarm response. I'll
tell you one thing, I'm not just buying gifts for
people anymore. It wasn't worth it. I just thought it
was going to be so great. They would say, oh,
how thoughtful. That's so thoughtful, and they kind of went
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yeah after it.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
They thank me for it, of course, like polite people do.
But it didn't. It didn't hit the mark. Maybe it
was me.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Maybe it was a ham fisted, blind kind of gift.
Maybe it wasn't a great gift. I don't know which
kind of brings me to the bigger picture. Maybe I'm
a terrible gift giver, and that's kind of way I've
gotten away from giving gifts and receiving gifts.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
On Christmas.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
A long time ago, I convinced my family, let's not
do the gifts, let's pend up money on a great meal.
And things have been simpler since. But what do you
think should I pay that guy back? Six one, seven,
two four ten thirty is Deputy BS.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Night Side with Dan Ray on WBS Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
If you're just joined us during the break, I have
this quick dilemma. I'll reoutline it quickly. A long time ago,
I went with a bandmate to do a gig in
Holland he paid the airfare. I felt a little guilty
about having him pay and it's kind of bothered me
for years now, maybe like fifteen eighteen years, and I
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keep wondering if I should pay him back or would
that be weird somehow? I asked Shane Master, control operator
here he goes. He said it's been so long that
he would lean to not doing it because because of
the time that had passed. But so that's the first
(26:42):
input I get. Now we have Melinda and Quincy Quinsy.
Speaker 8 (26:47):
Melinda, Hello, Hi, Hi, Hi on your question here.
Speaker 10 (26:53):
Yeah, I would say you definitely talk, just definitely take
care of it, because if it's been bothering you a
long time, then you should go ahead. And do you
ever talk to this guy?
Speaker 6 (27:06):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Yeah, I talked to him. I had coffee the other day.
Speaker 10 (27:09):
Okay, then okay, So I would say, you know what,
I really feel bad about the time that I brought up,
you know, paying for something. Oh and I mean that
he said he would pay for something and then I
went ahead with it, and it still bugs me. And
see what he says.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
I could no, No, if I if I go that fire,
then I'm going to have to pay him, so which
I kind of want to do. What about this? What
about this other scenario? I just say, oh, by the way,
here's this check. I uh, I owe you for the fight.
I never paid you fifteen years ago.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Here you go. I think that might be classier.
Speaker 10 (27:47):
Just do it, don't but I think it's class You'd
be honest. If you're saying fifteen years ago, he's going
to be He's simply going to say, dude, we already
talked about this. I took him of it him fifteen
years ago. I'd want to be honest and say, you
know what bothers me. It bothers me because I have
a situation in my life that's gone on since I
was twenty that bothered me that I didn't do.
Speaker 9 (28:09):
And that situation, it's that it's.
Speaker 10 (28:15):
It's gonna sound so stupid. Why it got to me
when you said it. What happened? Well, when I was twenty,
quickly I was dating a guy, a boyfriend. He became
became my boyfriend, and he one night came to my
house and he had put on had someone detail his
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car on my on my side of the door with
a nickname he gave me, and and his side had
his name. And so when I went out and saw it,
I thought it was great, but I didn't act the
way I should have. When I think about it today,
I say, oh my god, that was today. No one
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the never mind, no one would can go through and whatever.
That this guy was so great that he would do that.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
You should have been more. If you should, you should
have wonderful.
Speaker 10 (29:10):
Yeah, And that's how I am now. But I was
I was shyer than and I also did not want
to get married. At the time. I was only twenty
and I know he was going down that road and
I just I just a was scared of it. But
I think I just got quiet. I got well, I
didn't get quiet, but I wasn't as the way I
am now. I would jump on and go, oh my god,
(29:31):
I'd be like wow, but but then I didn't. So
eventually broke up. And now to this day, I'm like,
you should. I wish I could tell him, just tell him.
No one's ever come close to the day I walked
out to that car and saw my name on that door.
That's incredible. I mean, no one's ever done anything like that.
(29:52):
And it just I'm always like, if I ever get
a shot, if I ever find him, I'm going to
say how much that meant to me. So when you
were saying what you were saying, I'm like, I've gone
how many years now, from twenty to now thinking about that,
not every day or anything, but.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
From my mind, fifty years is a long time.
Speaker 10 (30:11):
It comes along. But you got me now too old.
But anyway, A nice try, Brad, But let's see. So anyways, yeah,
I'm thinking when you said that, I'm thinking, if I
think about my thing and that bothers me, I would
want that off my chest. I would think that if
it's bugging you, what's seven hundred bucks. If it's bugging you, well,
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seven hundred bucks.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Is quite a lot. But it's probably worth it to
get that.
Speaker 10 (30:38):
It absolutely is, because if you're doing the right thing
in your mind, if you're doing if you do what
you feel, it's bugging you, and it's come on. For
the point is, it's been a long time. Wasn't a
week ago? And then again, if it was a week ago,
you'd still be you'd start thinking about it either one
way or the other.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
The other day. I think he's such a good guy, you.
Speaker 7 (30:58):
Know, Yeah, and I and.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Then you get I want to I want to get square.
I guess. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Okay, by the way, in your situation, Melinda, you could
find this guy.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
You know his name.
Speaker 10 (31:11):
I found out recently, I believe it or not. Just recently.
I found out from his sister some things where you know,
where he may.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Be, exactly where he would be, right.
Speaker 10 (31:23):
Yeah, I think I got it, and I'm going to
do it. I'm totally going to do it. I am
going to say because it's bothered me. I'm going to
say that. You know when you the day you came
by my house with that car and called me outside.
We walked out there and you had my name on
the door. That no one has going to come close
(31:43):
with any guy, you know, Dayton, nobody's ever done anything
like that, just just such a you know, you know that.
I think you're like, really a great guy. You're a
lot of class, and I just think, you know, that's
hard to come by. And I want to say it,
and that's it. I just want it. I don't want
to die not saying it. So excuse me. You think
(32:07):
he's local, No, he's No, he's not. I think he's out.
Speaker 7 (32:11):
Uh, I don't know.
Speaker 10 (32:13):
We went to college in New York.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Must have his phone number, I mean, you could do this.
Speaker 10 (32:18):
I don't have his phone number.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
He's married.
Speaker 10 (32:19):
I don't have his phone number. I don't want to
start any trouble. I just want to.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
It's okay, it's not going to cause trouble.
Speaker 10 (32:24):
I just want Yeah, I'm gonna leave the message. I mean,
I know, I'll do Facebook Messenger and I'll just say it.
I'll just say it because I have to say it,
and I think that with you, if this is really
bugging you, I would just say the guy, look at
I want to give you the money because it bothers
me that I have it and you paid it. Now.
He may if he if he obvious with you, like no, man, no, man,
(32:45):
it's great you want to do it, but I'm fine.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
No.
Speaker 10 (32:48):
Really, the fact that if you made him a.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Check and the check's already made out, you know so well,
it's good.
Speaker 10 (32:56):
Yeah, but you can wrap up the check.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
I'm gonna if I go that fire, I'm going all
the way. I won't let him give it.
Speaker 10 (33:01):
Then you should do it, Okay. I really really feel that, Brud.
I really do because I think that if it's bugged
you this long, you're going to feel better after you
do it. You're gonna feel so much better. It's like
you're gonna feel so good after.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
You do it.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Good. Yeah, so that's good. It's a win.
Speaker 10 (33:17):
He may, you know, he may talk you down. He
may not want you to, but.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
I'm sure we'll say, oh, don't worry about it, but
I'll say, no, got to do it, That's what I'll say. Look,
I've never felt quite right about that and this will
make me feel better. So you're doing yeah, exactly, and
then I'll say you can buy me a two hundred
dollars dinner if you want.
Speaker 10 (33:34):
That's okay, and then you'll feel guilty about it. Yeah,
then you feel guilty for asking for the two dinner.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Okay, you know, yes, thank you so much.
Speaker 10 (33:44):
I mean, I know you're probably kidding, but don't don't
say no.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
I won't say that. I won't.
Speaker 10 (33:50):
You might, Yeah, you might feel bad after.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
I would never say that would be such a tacky
thing to say.
Speaker 9 (33:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (33:56):
Well, yeah, well, sometimes in the moment someone's nerves, they
might say something stupid like that.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
I'm glad we had this conversation, so I want to
know not to say something dumb like that. And I
need you to do this thing that you need to
do and contact this person and let them know how
you really felt within.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Forty eight hours. Do it.
Speaker 10 (34:15):
Yeah, I'm gonna do it very soon because I don't
want my luck the person to leave Facebook. And then
he just actually got on and I found out from
the sister. So I'm like, you know, I gotta do
this before I know he's married. I don't that's a pathet.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Don't worry about it.
Speaker 10 (34:29):
I just want to say thank you for that. That's all.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Yeah, you know, yeah, that's gonna be big for him
because he probably felt he probably felt kind of embarrassed
by your reaction.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
And one thing I do understand that wasn't mean.
Speaker 10 (34:42):
I wasn't mean.
Speaker 6 (34:42):
I didn't.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
It was damned with faint praise.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
As they say you you didn't act excited.
Speaker 10 (34:49):
I continued to date, Brad Bradley continue to date. It
wasn't like I was mean and left or you know,
I just wasn't. Let's just say I wasn't as as
I am nowadays.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
So it's going to be thrilling for him, for you,
for him to hear that.
Speaker 10 (35:05):
I think you'll feel better, but he might feel ready.
Maybe he is less, but I'll feel better. I know
I'll feel better, all right.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Feeling better. I'll feel better when we take this break
because got to do that. But thank you so much
for calling Melon. I always love talking to Melinda. Get
to fill in Boston.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Next on BZ, You're on Night Side with Ray on
w b Z, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
I gotta tell you, it's cold. It's how cold is it?
It's uber cold? I pride myself on being tough cold
weather guy. But I think I'm taking an uber home tonight.
It's cold and it's very windy. Don't have much time,
so I want to get right to fill in Ontario
and fill in Boston. Fill in Boston's first, then we'll
head up to really cold country on I film.
Speaker 6 (35:55):
Yeah, let's first of all, because you're good, whatever the point,
I agree with you two wonderful things. The first thing
is you can't you don't know what the situation, give
the people presents. And I've experised that several times in
my life.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Before you continue, just in case somebody joined us, I
need them to know what we're talking about. A couple
of things. I gave someone to give recently, not a
Christmas gift, and I was surprised by how man they were,
and it made me think I'm not going to give
any more guests.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
Then. The other thing is is.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Like fifteen eighteen years ago, my bandmate paid my airfare
to a gig and they and I think maybe I
should have paid myself, and I want to should I
pay him back?
Speaker 8 (36:44):
So go.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Ahead?
Speaker 8 (36:47):
Yeah, I gave him a person as horror story, but
I would look to get back to the second part,
which was you have to talk your talk, you can vote.
Get the guilt of this person's Steven lord of the
name is, But.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
He is talking about my feeling guilty he paid.
Speaker 6 (37:05):
Yeah yeah, but I mean you had breakfast with the
gentleman and he must know you. He's well store right now,
why don't you just give him.
Speaker 8 (37:15):
A Samara box foot fot the difference to get.
Speaker 6 (37:19):
It over with.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
Oh there you go, I think I should.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
He's not listening now he probably would have texted me
he's he's but still, you know, I just wanted to
get your opinion because I wanted to know if I
was maybe being paranoid, and and it was fine.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
I got.
Speaker 8 (37:35):
I got other things that people got. Other things are
worry about and talking about how much you owe this
guy and he's listening to you. Probably I was gonna
get one of it. Just talk to him was so
guilty of but it buy him a suitor jacket or
half the money, and just.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
Fair enough. I'm gonna write you down with given. I'm
putting you in the giving.
Speaker 8 (37:58):
Back don Yeah, sure, really I am.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
And now it's filling Ontario.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
I needed to be kind of quick with phil in Boston,
because this only have like four minutes filling Ontario.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
What's the temperature up there?
Speaker 11 (38:14):
The temperatureial up Heyer is minus seven celsius. Now I
don't have a conversion to an imperial on that, but
it's it's cold up here tonight, but not too bad.
It's not too windy, so I'm surviving up here.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
Okay, So what'd you call about?
Speaker 4 (38:29):
What I called about is I agree with the option
of writing out a check and just having topic with
him sometimes and handing them the check and just saying.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
I told you this.
Speaker 4 (38:44):
Yeah, it's not necessarily the old him, but you just
felt an obligation at the time to pay your way,
and you still feel that obligation, which which is good
of you, and it really represents your values and beliefs
that you would want to rectify that situation all these
years later. There are very few people who would take that,
(39:07):
So I commend you, and I say, just go ahead
and give him the check and if he wants to
then donate it to cherry or something like that, he
can do with it as he pleases. But I would
just didn't matter addressed.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
Yeah, I think thanks to all of you folks, I've
decided to do it, and Phil in Boston, I really
am going to do it. Phil was doubting me. Phil
in Boston, he didn't believe me. But it's almost like
every time I see him, I think, oh, man, I
should I should have paid my own way, I said
every time.
Speaker 4 (39:39):
And so, yeah, just get the matters settled and you
can get on with life.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
I'm glad we had this talk. Tell me about Ontario.
Speaker 4 (39:48):
Yeah, Ontario, Yeah, yeah. I mean I'm coming from Toronto
where easy is coming through nice and nice and clear tonight.
And it's a clear night and it's about minus seven and.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Seven celsius, which I looked up as isn't that forty
four fahrenheit.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
That's not very cold.
Speaker 4 (40:07):
No, it's blow freezing by a few degrees, so I
think it'd be like, uh, maybe twenty eight or something fahrenheit.
I have to do the conversion so rarely, so it's
a freezing fly mess.
Speaker 1 (40:22):
Control operator wheelworker Shane says, it's nineteen point four degree.
Speaker 4 (40:28):
Thank you for yeah, something like that. It's not a
good night to be out, but we're surviving up here.
And the last time we spoke was during the overnight
hours when you were doing you know, the middle of
the night. Yeah, so I kind of miscalling it. So
it's good to talk to you again.
Speaker 2 (40:47):
It's good to talk to you. What have you been
doing in between, Like, are you retired or.
Speaker 4 (40:53):
I wish it could be retired. I am still at
my job as a bus operator for the municipal transit
service up here. It's sort of like the MBTA, And
in fact, the former CEO of MBT, rick Leary, was
our CEO for a few years and moved up here.
(41:14):
And I'm enjoying my job, believe it or not. The
customers are pretty good, beautiful.
Speaker 1 (41:21):
I need to go now because the show's over, but
I hope you'll call back when we have more time
to chat. Thank you very much, Phil for sure giving
us a shout bye bye. That's cool re connecting with
old friends. Thanks for your help on this matter of conscience.
I'm gonna write a check for seven hundred bucks and say, dude,
I should have paid you. I shouldn't have let you
(41:41):
buy my airfare. I'm squaring I'm squaring it up now,
talk to you tomorrow. Looking forward to another fun night
side on WZ and remember you can listen to BZ
on the iHeartRadio app later
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