October 3, 2025 • 41 mins
Bradley Jay fills in on NightSide
Bradley shared a story this evening of an experience he had while at a ballpark that ruined his time. We asked the audience in 20th hour style fashion, what experiences you’ve had that ruined your time at a restaurant, movie theatre, concert, etc. Whether it’s people talking in the movie theatre, an extremely loud restaurant you can’t have a conversation at, whatever it is, we want to hear from you!
Bradley shared a story this evening of an experience he had while at a ballpark that ruined his time. We asked the audience in 20th hour style fashion, what experiences you’ve had that ruined your time at a restaurant, movie theatre, concert, etc. Whether it’s people talking in the movie theatre, an extremely loud restaurant you can’t have a conversation at, whatever it is, we want to hear from you!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's night Side with Dan Ray. I'm telling you Boxton's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Brother Jay for Dan two nights. Let's have some fun.
Let's have some more fun. Actually, I've been having fun
all night. I have to tell you honestly, I deeply
enjoy the community that the Dan has created in night Side,
and I'm extremely honored to be part of that community.
All Right, I had an experience that it left me
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less than dazzled. I went to a ballgame and there
was something abou about the ball game. It was a
Red Sox game that I really did not like. And
I need to share that with you and see if
you agree with me. But further than that, it occurs
to me there are other events that have things that
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happen and then they're off putting. So I ask you,
what are something What is a something that happens at
a particular type of event that puts you off going
to that event? For example, well, ball games, of course,
that's MLB and softball games. I have separate things that
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bother me movie theaters. What happens in a movie theater
experience that it's off putting and almost makes you regret
you went. How about a birthday party? How about a concert.
What things happen at concerts that just are off putting,
make it almost seem not worth it. Even a bus ride.
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There are things about certain but well not certain busses,
all buses that bother me. Right, I'm talking about the
long distance buses, not the city buses. Same with trains. Weddings.
What happens their weddings that make you say, oh God,
oh God, let me out of here, concerts, even Christmas six, one, seven, two, five, four,
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ten thirty. Think about these things, think about your experiences
doing them, and think about, ah, the irritant things that happen,
the irritating things things like again, oh, restaurants, I didn't
include that before, restaurants, softball game, baseball game, movie, theater, birthday, concert,
bus ride, train ride, wedding, exorcism. No, that's left over
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from a previous topic. And uh, Christmas even all right,
let me tell you the story about the ballgame. I
don't go to many ball games, but enough it's nice
to go every once in a while because it's because
of the park. The park is a magical spot in
the city. The city is hot concrete, and then you
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walk up that ramp and see that green of that ballpark.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
It is.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
To be there magical. I love the park. I live
the sites of the park, the smells, and I used
to like the sounds too. So my story goes like this.
You got, folks, anybody remembered uh, oh Positive the band
Dave Hurley, he is was the guy is the guy
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that was in Oh Positive. He's got it, by the way,
He's got a new a new thing out a song
called good Trouble. It's brand new. It's really great. You
might want to search for it. But Dave Hurley, he
called me up and said, hey, I got an extra
ticket to you want to go to the ballgame? And
I said yeah, because I am last minute.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Man.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
If I know something about myself, it's I don't like commitment.
I'm all about last minute. So yes, I pride myself
on I'll be there right away. So I went to
the game, and just as I expressed to you, you
go inside, you know which way? Did? I? I got
off at Fenway, walked behind the buildings to the Lansdowne
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Street entrance and went in. And you have the hustle
and bustle of the concourse there, and then you walk
up the ramp with the high expectations of seeing that
magic green. Oh, it's fantastic. And one thing that's fantastic
about baseball is it has is the tradition. That's what
it's about. It's about the tradition. It hasn't changed much
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since the eighteen hundreds, is that, right? Do I have?
There was baseball in the eighteen hundreds?
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Right?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Yeah, it's largely the same. And I love that about it,
the routines, the the slowness of it, the baseballness of it.
Now they do something now that takes away from the
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baseballness of it for me. It takes away from the
magic of Fanaway Park for me. It takes away from
the enjoyment of the game for me. And I don't
know if it does this for you. And I'm so
glad I have a platform to tell everybody this. I'm
really pleased about it. What I cannot stand is that
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for Saint Mariason, now, anytime there's ever a gap in
any action, they're blasting music really loudly, as if as
if my brain can't take a moment's relaxation. Oh wait
a minute, the uh, I don't know, the batter stepped
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out of the box. Oh gotta have this music loud
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. I don't need that.
I don't want that. Any music I want from the
old school, John Kylie Organ, you know. I want the
old school. I want the tradition. That's why I go there.
I get plenty of loud music in my life. We
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all do. It's there on demand. I don't need that
at the ball game. It diminishes the experience of the
ballgame for me, and I know that it must be
for some of you as well. By the way, I
admire those vendors. They work so hard. How much do
you think they make? I was asking myself that what
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is your guests in tips? Now? I don't want to
know the hourly because you're gonna look it up. They
must make so much in tips, and they really work hard.
But for some reason, people are different about money. At
the ballpark, right, you paid a lot of money to
get in, You're with people who are watching you. You
order a hot dog? Can I get two dogs? Please?
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Whatever it is? That's fourteen bucks, I think, and people
will just be like, here's a twenty keep it. And
that happens a lot partly because it's a hassle to
get the change, and partly because they're with friends and
they want to not see cheap. So that transaction took
maybe thirty seconds, and they're doing at least the transaction
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a minute. There's big money there, but of course they are.
And you can tell this big money there because they're
really working hard and fast. The monetary motivation has to
be there. So anyway, that's my beef with the ballgame.
Stop with the loud music. Anytime there's five second break,
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and it's weird, even more irritating because say it's a
ten second break or a seven second break or five
second break, they'll play like ten notes of a song.
Ten notes of a song. They have nothing to do
with baseball. Ten notes of an I don't want it.
I want it to go away. And I realize I'm
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risking sounding old. So what is that a crime? The
tradition and maybe you have to be able to appreciate
a tradition, so be it, please bring it back. So
that's my problem with ball games. You know, before we
go to a break, and then I'll go to Chris
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and cape. God, there's something another thing I can't stand,
and that is it has to do with the event
of softball, a softball game. This could be just me,
but there's something magical about the traditional crack of a
ball in a baseball or a softball on a wooden bat.
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That's magical crack. There goes the balls. You know, it's
on the ground between his legs, so it's you know,
deep to right or it's out of here. The ball
on a wooden bat sound matters. And this think that
aluminum bats make is so off putting to me. It's something.
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It's wrong. It's just wrong. It sucks that any dopamine
I might have had in me sucks it right out. Doink, doink.
I'm sure there's a reason they use aluminum bats and
softball games. Whatever, the reason is not good enough. I
want wooden bats back in softball. Do we go to
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christ and Cape Cod and do you agree with me
on this baseball music thing, this Fenway Park music thing,
and maybe the aluminum bad thing, but other thing, other
situations that have that tend to have irritating things happen
that make them almost not worth going to. And that,
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as I'm saying, it includes restaurants, for example, a concert.
Two things about concerts they're way too loud now. And
I know this is saying if it's too loud year old,
that's a false saying it's just too loud. The other
thing is an eighteen dollars beer. Am I that much
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of a sucker? If I'm not mistaken? Beers are insanely
expensive just for just for bad beer in a plastic cup.
Not worth it. I'm not doing that. How about you
more on this after this on WBZY.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray. I'm WBZ Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
That's right, Brada Jay and for Dan and I just
went through a whole speech about how I can't stand
that loud music played in little teeny chunks anytime there's
a little bit of silence at Benway Park. Also, I
don't like the sound aluminum bats make in softball. Anything's
like that at any other events to bother you, weddings, restaurants, Christmas.
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I even have problems with Christmas. We'll get into all that.
Let me know. If you agree and disagree, come up
with your own. We have christ and cape cod On
Cape cod.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Hi, Chris Hi, Bradley Jay, how are you well?
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (11:14):
My biggest grievance about Fenway in the music is the
seventh inning stretch with the Neil Diamond Sweet Caroline. It
is an urban legend apparently that a lot of people
think that it's a homage or a tribute to Caroline Kennedy,
when in fact it is a miss a actually unintended
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tribute to his Neil Diamond's ex wife, Marsha, and he
needed a three syllable name to cut it into his
song about his ex wife, Marsha. It is annoying. I
know that I'm a battle against virtually every person in
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the stands, but it's just not that great a song
in my opinion, and it is I think, has become
a part of the Fenway Park experience for so many
that tune in in the seventh inning stretch to Sweet Caroline,
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when in fact they started playing it for and in
tribute to, apparently a Fenway Park employee who had just
had a daughter born by the name of Caroline. So
that's my speel on Sweet Caroline and music at Fenway
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as a long standing past season ticket holder.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Okay, here's what the Internet says, and it backs you up,
because remember, the Internet's wrong all the time. But it
is not a love song written to a child. At
the time, the song was written, as you say, for
Neil Diamond's wife, Marsha, but because the melody did not
fit the name Marsha musically, Neil chose to say that
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a picture of Caroline Kennedy inspired him. So he said that,
But it's not He just said that, like people say stuff,
it's not true. There you go, it was not written
for Caroline Kennedy. You are correct, sir, And so that
really is it the song that bothers you or the
fact that people think it's about Caroline Kennedy.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
No, I think it's one song. I just don't think
it's that greatest song. And what about the tradition?
Speaker 2 (13:43):
And I myself agree, however, having gone to the park
for tradition, I'm willing to be part of that whole thing.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
No, it's become a tradition and I respect it to
the extent that I have to endure it.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
You go to many.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Games, yeah, have gone to many games, but not recently.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Do you go the games down in the Cape in
that league?
Speaker 3 (14:10):
I don't, but it's those are the best games that
that money doesn't have to buy. Yeah, I mean, there
is the talent that is. I mean, the legendary feeding
of the of MLB from the Cape League is astonishing.
I mean, if you want a great ballgame with young,
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energetic and to be Major League stars, it is the
best event you can go to.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
If I lived down there, if I had a way
to get down there, I would go. There's two things
I would do a lot. I would go to these games,
and I would also go to all those bar pizza
places that are so famous down here down in the Cape.
I'm sure you've been to those as well, all right.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
For sure, do you have a favorite. I don't get
to those as much. I'm on the outer Cape, so
we don't have those out here. But we have Spirit
of Pizza in Provence, sand which is the best.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Okay. I love Provincetown, Chris, thank you so much for chatting.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Great to talk to you badly, Jay, keep it up.
You're very interesting.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Thank you very much, Chris on Cape Cod. I went
to Provincetown this summer. I'd love Provincetown so much. I
love taking the ferry. I wish the faerry would run,
the high speed ferry would run all year. Man, it's
so much better than driving down there for me. I
shouldn't be telling you this because you're going to go
in the ferry and it's going to drive up demand
and it's going to drive up the price, and then
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I won't be able to afford it. But it's so
good just to get on that ferry and if you
want to have a beer, open a nice beer. Ninety
minute ride. This is what we do. We go down
the first first boat, first yeah, boat, get off. I
don't know what time we get there, maybe ten, ten thirty.
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And we go to this this particular place again. If
I tell you, you're all going to go there, but I'll
tell you anyway. Is the canteen. Ya if you go
down to Promise Town, you know the canteen. I love
the canteen. Get there just as it opens, get a
table in the sand, order some stuff, a couple of frozs,
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and then we get back on the boat. The two
I think it's a two o'clock, three o'clock boat. We're
back in Boston by like four. It's fantastic. It's like
you went on a trip. And I love the spirit
down on the cape. And by the way, i'd of
Bob Allison, Professor Bob Allison from Suffolk University. Great friend
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and a great guest. He hangs out, he goes down
there with his wife all the time. Maybe I'll see
you down there sometime, Bob, let's talk to Tom in Lancaster.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
Hi, Tom, Hey, Bradley, how you doing?
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Great? Is that Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Lancaster, Massachusetts, New Hampshire.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
No, no, right here, right here in central La May.
There's no no horse and buggies.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Okay, good? What's going on?
Speaker 4 (17:14):
We have talked the past. I'm from Brooklyn, New York,
and I'm just listening to your previous caller being like
fed up with that, uh you know, the sweet Caroline
thing going on at Fenway, which I didn't even know
until they moved up here a couple of years ago.
I realized that.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
But even more, he should point out that Neil Diamond
is from my hometown. Oh, I did not know he's
a Brooklyn guy. Why can't you guys find your own
local famous artists and use that guy's theme song or
that woman's theme song for for Fenway. Wouldn't it make
more sense?
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Yeah, actually it would. I'll agree with you.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Born born in Brooklyn, New York. He's he's our guy.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
You know, that's you know, that's and that's scary news.
A lot of people are not going to like to
hear that. They're not gonna want to know.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Yeah, well, I mean very easy to look up. I mean,
you know a lot of there's a lot of famous
artists born and born in New York City. But then again,
I'm sure there's a lot of famous ones born up here.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Yeah. Let me ask everybody this. Let's say we get
rid of Sweet Caroline to replace it with a an
appropriate Boston band. What song would you would you play
cream on? I suppose you could stretch seventh inning?
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Great, that's great, that's a great idea. Let me tell
you I fell out of baseball years ago because I
couldn't afford it anymore. But when the Red Sox went
to play, you know, the Yankees this week, I said,
let me tune in and check it out support my
old favorite team because I'm from the days of Reggie Jackson.
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And I was like, wow, a local native from massachusettss
kicking their butt. I was like, that's gonna be a
little bit of sweet you know.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Yeah, boy, you make a real good point about that song.
I don't think I can live with that anymore.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
So here's the day now, and yeah, it just got
whooped by Massachusetts native pitcher. Uh, you better get rid
of Neil Diamond. And it's time to get a native,
a native local, uh, you know, famous musician and adapt
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their song.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
You know, good one man, that's fantastic. Anything else, do
you have any other events that have things take place
in them that irritate you that makes you think, Ah,
why did I go to this?
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Well, let me tell you.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Let me tell you when that Without watching baseball for
many years and switching over the soccer, I thought the
soccer things like when they make a goal and they
do all these you know, gymnastic moves on the field,
and then some of them get down on their knees
and they pray up to heaven and this and that.
I'm like, what's that all about? But the the the
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every time they had a home run in baseball now
or at the end of the game, is like they
won the World Series with all these fifth pumps and
chess chess but whatever the hell you call it them,
when did that start?
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Yeah, you know, coming old school, but I don't like that.
And also end end zone celebrations in football, yawn, give
me a break. What about the team?
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Yeah, I mean they used to win the game in baseball,
run into the dugout, shake each other's hand, high five
whatever that was it. Now they got to do all
this stuff. But some of them actually, you know, piling
on top of each other. Some of them get hurt,
like you didn't win the World Series, you just won
one game.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Yep, I will you. You're an interesting cat, Tom, and
I agree with everything you said so far.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Thank you, my friend.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Okay, take care of brother.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Always good to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Likewise, speaking of the well, did we speak of the Yankees?
We spoke in New York. Did you see, and this
is related to the Red Sox, did you see the
new Spike Lee movie. I'm not going to give it away.
I'm not going to spoil anything. It's brand new crime
thriller twenty twenty five. It's called Highest to Lowest. There
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is a scene in there where Spike Lee is absolutely
one hundred dis in the socks it takes. There's a
I don't want to give it away, but you will
see someone almost break the fourth wall and look right
in the camera inappropriate like clearly having nothing to do
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with the scenes, like a little aside looks right into
the camera and this is the socks. You will see
it when You'll know what I'm talking about when you
see it and it's it's it's kind of intense and
pretty funny. I'll go through my list of things that
happen to various events that bother me and see if
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you agree. It's WBZ.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
You're on Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Let's quickly go right to Tim in winter.
Speaker 5 (22:21):
Hi, Tim, how do when I got two points? The
first one is a weird things that happen here. When
I go to the movie theater. I sit down the
seat like I'll go in the matinee in the afternoon
where it's like ten people. You've probably done the same thing, right,
Bradley all the time.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
I never go on it's full. I only go when
it's only about ten years.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Yeah, great, it's great, Okay. I go in there, I
sit in the seat. Maybe there's a couple down the
front and there's a couple of scattered people. I always
get this person that has any seat to choose him.
He sits right next to me, and I go whoa
is that weird? Is that weird Bradley or what it is?
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Weird?
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (23:00):
It is weird. You have all the seats to choose
from you, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Yes, why would they do that?
Speaker 5 (23:06):
I don't know. They made a perverse or something. I
don't know what they are, but it bothers me.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Okay, I have a couple of questions. So it's an
empty theater. You have pretty much your choice of any seats.
What's your ultimate seat? When you get to pick any seat,
which one do you pick? You don't go?
Speaker 5 (23:21):
I tick on the aisle seats on the aisle seat,
and I put my bag, I bring my own pop gun,
I bring my own drinks. I put it in my
gym bag and put it next to me on the
next seat. And it's nice and quiet. I'm all myself.
I'm relaxing. It's beautiful. Yeah, that's nice.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Oh man. And there's nobody there. And there's nice air
conditioning in the summer. That's key.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
No no air conditioning. To help my friend, Oh, I
have to bring a sometimes that's another beat. They put
it on like you hang meeting there? You know what
I mean?
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Okay, I now have a moral question for you related
to the movies. Are you ready right? Let's say you've
just watched a movie.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
I did last night, movie number.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
One, and there's all kinds of movies. Most of there
it's a multiplex. You could probably get away. We're going
sneaking into another one. Do you have any probably.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
Can't do that anymore. They fix that. They only put
the times up so you don't do that anymore.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
So how do you mean they start them so that, no,
your movie gets when your movie gets out, the other
ones are all half done or something like that.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
No, it just says seventeen. It doesn't get the movies anymore.
On this when you're walking down the hallways. Oh see
how they get around that? But I can get around that.
I go downstairs and I look at the people, and
I have an inside information of the theater. I know
what's playing another one, but I don't see two movies.
That's too much.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
I don't see why they care because it's not costing
them any money. I'm not encouraging people to do that. However,
I will say I don't understand why they care because
it doesn't cost them any money. I mean, if you leave,
they make zero more And if you see it in
the man, they make zero more. Plus if you stick around,
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you're more likely to get hungry and buy some popcorn
or some whatever you buy.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
I don't buy anything in that. That's how I save money.
Fifty cents for two bads for the smart popcorn, real
cheaper igo seventy nine cents. I get two bags of that,
and I got an Arizona energy drink, which is good,
and I put that in there. I paint a total
of like maybe two bucks, and then go in there
and get the Mattine Special. A senior knew he meant
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the Seen you and it cost me maybe eight bucks
ten bucks. That's pretty good. But last night I didn't
want to watch The Red Sox. I get too baseball stressed,
so I went to the movie call with DiCaprio. Overheard
that new movie out. What's called a big movie. It's
called I Think One Battle after Another. It's one of
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the best movies since I Once upon a time in
Hollywood a couple of years ago. This movie is going
to be a classic. It's a real good movie. And
it starts out I'm up, I'm political a little bit,
but I put that aside. At the beginning of it,
it start of political. Then it turned out to will
be a regular movie and it got better and it
just was the human part about the movie and about
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the characters. The characters is Sean Penn, he's a bad guy.
And uh, because Dicaprios a the father of this little baby.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Don't tell me too much.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
I'll tell you what happens. But Benico de Toro, he's
a good actor. You know.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
I love all those I can't wait to see it.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
Okay, the three of them make the movie. And at
the beginning of the movie, see, I'm a conservative and
I just couldn't handle it. I was gonna walk out,
and I'll let him give it. It gave it a
chance and it turned into be a good movie, a
real great movie.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Oh and one you mentioned once upon a time in Hollywood.
That's the Brad Pitt one, right, That.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
Is how they change. It was funny how they change.
Remember at the end, do you see that?
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Yeah, it was, but we probably shouldn't give the end,
but it is kind of it's it's about the Manson
murder with an alternative ending kind of.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
Yeah, it's pretty good. It's it's a good film. We
walk out of the feeling good. You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Yep. And I love Brad Pitt. You know, I have
certain people. I always go see George Clooney. I always
go see Brad Pitt, always goes.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
See I'm not a Clooney fan at all, but I.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Do like how do you how do you not like
George George Clooney? How do you like him?
Speaker 5 (27:37):
I don't like you know, he's kind of cocky and
I just don't like the guy. But is a lot
of people do that.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
It's too bad because he always speaks very highly of you.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
He didn't know me, Tim, thanks a lot, I gotta.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
I got a scoot. Thank you. Great call once again,
another example of why the night side community is so
so great. Okay, I'm gonna run through. There's a lot
of lot of items here on my list of kind
of deal breakers for events. As I mentioned Fenery Park,
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that loud music between every little break, any five second
window where nothing is happening, blah blah blah. I don't
I don't even want to. That's a deal breaker for me.
Now let's move on two. Well, we just talked about
a movie theater. Uh, obviously, somebody talking in the movie theater.
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I can't take it because you go into the movie
theater to suspend disbelief, to get sucked into the movie.
And when there's somebody talking, it's ruined. And a sad
question is will you say would you ever say anything
to people like please be quiet?
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Sh do you shut people in the movie? Are you
afraid of getting you know what it? Getting hurt by them?
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Ah?
Speaker 2 (29:00):
I hate it. Birthday parties for me a joke gift.
I don't want a joke gift. Don't give me a
joke gift. Not cool. Bus ride all right, I go.
I go to the White Mountains a lot. Sometimes I'll
meet people and conquered and I'll take the bus up there.
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I love taking the bus. With one caveat bus companies,
please balance your tires better. The whole the notion of
the busy is to get on there and relax and
not have to worry about traffic, take a nap, snooze
a little. But when the bus is gone and it's coffee,
(29:43):
you say you have a coffee, it's spilling over the edge.
There's no need for that. I know that the tickets
are cheap, but how much does it cost to balance
your tires. I did find this though it seems to
I don't know why, but the front seems to vibrate
(30:03):
less than the back. This little tip if you feel
like I do on this and now train rides. I've
done many long distance Amtrak rides. I went from Chicago
to LA, Chicago to San Francisco. I went to Chicago
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to Seattle and then back from Seattle to Chicago. I
went from New Orleans to LA and then went from
New Orleans to Memphis. And so I've done it a lot.
Some of those are forty eight hour rides. And one thing,
one thing that's been my experience that has bothersome to
me when it happens to me. Maybe it doesn't happen
(30:46):
all the time, but when it does happen, it bothers me,
and I wish it would not happen. Is whoever gets
on the loudspeaker, we'll say sometimes I have in the past. Anyway, Okay, everybody,
we're coming in to stop. It's gonna be really crowded,
gonna be it's gonna be full, gonna be crowded. You
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don't need to remind me at every stop. You don't
need to give me that cringy. Oh god, I'm gonna
have somebody sitting beside me. What are they gonna be like?
You know, I have my own little seat, nobody beside me.
Don't keep reminding me. It's gonna be really crowded. Yep.
And to me it makes me feel a little bit
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like a head of cattle. That's just me. Weddings, all right,
And if you agree with me on any of these things,
or have a take on any of these things, let
me know. Weddings, well, some persons might not like to drunk.
You know, people get drunk and do toasts that are
(31:50):
way too long. I don't I don't mind that because
that's funny. One thing I do not like is the
destination wedding. Please do not make me get on a
plane and go somewhere how arrogant. I'm sorry. Maybe you
had a destination wedding, and I guess I'm calling you arrogon,
but you gotta understand my point of view. It takes
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so much time out of my life to go there,
It takes money to buy the tickets. It's just a
big asshole. God, Please, no, I really don't want to
go to the wedding at all. I'd rather buy you
a better gift than not go allow me to get
you a great gift and not attend. And here's another thing.
(32:35):
I don't know if it happens all the time, but
I saw a wedding where all the members of the
wedding party had to do some sort of weird dance
as they came in, like wrestling. Right, they have your
entrance music, so they have some music, and each one
of the wedding party has to be like, look at me,
(32:57):
I'm coming in and I'm dancing this weird dance. Good God,
please dispense with that business. Concerts. Two things again, it's
really too loud. There's a point where it's just too loud.
(33:18):
When you leave and you can't hear it was too loud.
And the other thing is those expensive beers at those venues.
Come on, I'm just not doing that. I've already told
you that Christmas. Oh no, he's going to attack Christmas.
(33:39):
Oh no, okay, Yankee swap, do away with it. No
Yankee swap. Please, all those joke gifts and the Yankee swap. No,
I don't know. Most people are addicted to gift giving
and receiving on Christmas. And I can certainly understand that
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it's part of the tradition. I found a superior tradition.
At least it's superior for me. There's no wondering what
to get a person. There's no pretending you like the
gift you got. There's no gift giving at all in
my Christmases. It's taken me decades to get to this point.
(34:20):
No gift giving. It's just a meal. We all take
the money we would have spent on gifts that know
that the person may or may not like, we go
up for an extravagant meal anywhere we want. Think of
the money you have to work with if you're not
buying gifts. No stress, no hassle, fancy restaurant, go crazy
(34:44):
so you know Yankee swap and conscious too, loud weddings,
frame bus ride. Yeah that's pretty much does it? Oh yeah,
that completely does it? All right, we have about ten
minutes left. I'll make it open lines call and talk
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(35:06):
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(35:52):
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the night before on that site so you'll be able
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a lot on Knightside on Demand. Just Google Nightside on
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So that's cool. All right, let's chat at the moment
on WBZ.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Bradley Jaffer, Dan, let's go whipping right over the Watertown
and sucked to Neil and Watertown.
Speaker 6 (36:29):
Hello Neil, Hello Bradley.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
Jay.
Speaker 6 (36:32):
I used to go to the movies when I was younger.
Two things stick out in my memory that I didn't
like irritated me at the time. One was a movie
called American Jigglows by Paul Schrader and Paul Schrader, And
before he became a director and screenwriter, was an academic.
He wrote his PhD thesis, Chanson Dental Style on the
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film Bayson Ozuo and Dryer wrote Everyboy's Song. He's He's
not a household named. He's one of the great directors
of the world. And in nineteen fifty nine he made Pickpocket.
And it's a long story, but the end, the protagonist,
Martin Masel, puts his finger He's in prison, he's been caught,
(37:17):
and he puts his fingers up against the bars and
America Green and he says to her, change to read you,
what an odd path I had to take. So Schrader,
when he became a director, he just pretty much copied that.
He copied it when he was a scriptwriter for a
Taxi Driver and then for an American Jiggle. And so
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I'm waiting for this. It's Richard Richard Gere and Lauren Hutton.
He's like he's about to do the same thing. And
the usher comes up and he's getting a head start
in his duty's he balks right in front of me,
and I'm sure he's a nice person.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
But.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Through what happened again, now what happened? You get to
the crucial scene and as you did.
Speaker 6 (37:56):
Something, Yeah, well I'm waiting. I'm waiting for Richard gear
and Lauren Hutton to emulate Martin masel And and America
Green from nineteen fifty nine. And the usher walked right
in front of me. He blocked the same because he
didn't well, I'm just, you know, it's ready to close up,
because it was the end of the movie. I'm I'm
(38:18):
you know, I'm a bit ideological. It's you know, it's
just it's one of the most famous movies, and this
is the most famous.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
This is the big, big point, the most famous movie.
You love the movie. Key points coming up and the
usher just blocks your view, right.
Speaker 6 (38:32):
And it's not probably not his fault because he probably
just didn't realize it was him.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
Yeah, but if you're an usher, isn't that kind of
one of the rules of being an ushers don't block
the fa Yeah.
Speaker 6 (38:43):
But then one more, just one more instant. It was
this in nineteen nineteen seventy two, I think, and John
Wayne came to the Harvard Square Theater and this movie
was mckue. Now I'm not like John Wayne, but you
know it's John Wayne and these and all in these
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like I don't know, these these guys are heckling and
heckling and heckling and one one not him. But when
the movie is on, and so my friend and I, well,
you have respectful, you have respectful, you have respect and
I got something came over me and I looked around
that one guy. I said, if you don't shut up,
we'll get you.
Speaker 5 (39:21):
Afterwards said that.
Speaker 6 (39:24):
Yeah, And then I think it was like what he
all' said in the movie.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
You don't I say that, so you.
Speaker 2 (39:30):
Seem you don't seem like a I don't know, you
don't seem like a street fighting man.
Speaker 6 (39:37):
But I just thought it was very disrespectful, and I mean,
you don't have and wow, you don't you know you
could be on the other side of the divide and
just watch the movie and you can only.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
Push from Watertown so far or he will snap.
Speaker 6 (39:53):
No, how lucky they took the blow.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
Because you don't know this about me, Neil, But I
was once an usher in a movie theater. Yep, it's true.
I think it was the Strand in Dover, New Hampshire.
I was in college and my job, Yep, I took
the I did everything. I took the tickets and uh
then I would go in during the movie and make
(40:17):
sure the kids shut up. It's like quiet when you're
an usher in a movie theater, at least that because
there was nothing to do. Really, so I saw there
were certain movies I saw, like I don't know twenty
times and this, this is the this is this is
the giveaway of that when it was it was O
to Billy Joe was one of the movies, and I
(40:41):
don't know a couple of others. Neil, I love to
hear from you. Thanks so much. I appreciate it you okay, well,
once again, such a blast, and I'm very thankful to
be part of the Nightside team and be a pinch
shater on a team. And of course the best part
is getting the interact with you you plural. Thank you
so much. Thank you Rob Brooks, and thank you Marita.
(41:03):
Thank you very much, Dan Ray And once again, if
you'd like to connect, you can connect with me like
a Facebook messenger. And the link to do that is it.
BRADLEYJ dot O r G B r A d l
E y j a U Y dot O r G.
I'm looking forward to next time, right I can talk
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to you all again and talk to the folks who
I did not talk to you Tonight Night, Rob Night.
Everybody's WBZ News Radio, ten thirty
It's night Side with Dan Ray. I'm telling you Boxton's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Brother Jay for Dan two nights. Let's have some fun.
Let's have some more fun. Actually, I've been having fun
all night. I have to tell you honestly, I deeply
enjoy the community that the Dan has created in night Side,
and I'm extremely honored to be part of that community.
All Right, I had an experience that it left me
(00:32):
less than dazzled. I went to a ballgame and there
was something abou about the ball game. It was a
Red Sox game that I really did not like. And
I need to share that with you and see if
you agree with me. But further than that, it occurs
to me there are other events that have things that
(00:53):
happen and then they're off putting. So I ask you,
what are something What is a something that happens at
a particular type of event that puts you off going
to that event? For example, well, ball games, of course,
that's MLB and softball games. I have separate things that
(01:16):
bother me movie theaters. What happens in a movie theater
experience that it's off putting and almost makes you regret
you went. How about a birthday party? How about a concert.
What things happen at concerts that just are off putting,
make it almost seem not worth it. Even a bus ride.
(01:41):
There are things about certain but well not certain busses,
all buses that bother me. Right, I'm talking about the
long distance buses, not the city buses. Same with trains. Weddings.
What happens their weddings that make you say, oh God,
oh God, let me out of here, concerts, even Christmas six, one, seven, two, five, four,
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ten thirty. Think about these things, think about your experiences
doing them, and think about, ah, the irritant things that happen,
the irritating things things like again, oh, restaurants, I didn't
include that before, restaurants, softball game, baseball game, movie, theater, birthday, concert,
bus ride, train ride, wedding, exorcism. No, that's left over
(02:33):
from a previous topic. And uh, Christmas even all right,
let me tell you the story about the ballgame. I
don't go to many ball games, but enough it's nice
to go every once in a while because it's because
of the park. The park is a magical spot in
the city. The city is hot concrete, and then you
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walk up that ramp and see that green of that ballpark.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
It is.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
To be there magical. I love the park. I live
the sites of the park, the smells, and I used
to like the sounds too. So my story goes like this.
You got, folks, anybody remembered uh, oh Positive the band
Dave Hurley, he is was the guy is the guy
(03:23):
that was in Oh Positive. He's got it, by the way,
He's got a new a new thing out a song
called good Trouble. It's brand new. It's really great. You
might want to search for it. But Dave Hurley, he
called me up and said, hey, I got an extra
ticket to you want to go to the ballgame? And
I said yeah, because I am last minute.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Man.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
If I know something about myself, it's I don't like commitment.
I'm all about last minute. So yes, I pride myself
on I'll be there right away. So I went to
the game, and just as I expressed to you, you
go inside, you know which way? Did? I? I got
off at Fenway, walked behind the buildings to the Lansdowne
(04:06):
Street entrance and went in. And you have the hustle
and bustle of the concourse there, and then you walk
up the ramp with the high expectations of seeing that
magic green. Oh, it's fantastic. And one thing that's fantastic
about baseball is it has is the tradition. That's what
it's about. It's about the tradition. It hasn't changed much
(04:29):
since the eighteen hundreds, is that, right? Do I have?
There was baseball in the eighteen hundreds?
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Right?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Yeah, it's largely the same. And I love that about it,
the routines, the the slowness of it, the baseballness of it.
Now they do something now that takes away from the
(04:57):
baseballness of it for me. It takes away from the
magic of Fanaway Park for me. It takes away from
the enjoyment of the game for me. And I don't
know if it does this for you. And I'm so
glad I have a platform to tell everybody this. I'm
really pleased about it. What I cannot stand is that
(05:17):
for Saint Mariason, now, anytime there's ever a gap in
any action, they're blasting music really loudly, as if as
if my brain can't take a moment's relaxation. Oh wait
a minute, the uh, I don't know, the batter stepped
(05:41):
out of the box. Oh gotta have this music loud
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. I don't need that.
I don't want that. Any music I want from the
old school, John Kylie Organ, you know. I want the
old school. I want the tradition. That's why I go there.
I get plenty of loud music in my life. We
(06:03):
all do. It's there on demand. I don't need that
at the ball game. It diminishes the experience of the
ballgame for me, and I know that it must be
for some of you as well. By the way, I
admire those vendors. They work so hard. How much do
you think they make? I was asking myself that what
(06:25):
is your guests in tips? Now? I don't want to
know the hourly because you're gonna look it up. They
must make so much in tips, and they really work hard.
But for some reason, people are different about money. At
the ballpark, right, you paid a lot of money to
get in, You're with people who are watching you. You
order a hot dog? Can I get two dogs? Please?
(06:46):
Whatever it is? That's fourteen bucks, I think, and people
will just be like, here's a twenty keep it. And
that happens a lot partly because it's a hassle to
get the change, and partly because they're with friends and
they want to not see cheap. So that transaction took
maybe thirty seconds, and they're doing at least the transaction
(07:07):
a minute. There's big money there, but of course they are.
And you can tell this big money there because they're
really working hard and fast. The monetary motivation has to
be there. So anyway, that's my beef with the ballgame.
Stop with the loud music. Anytime there's five second break,
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and it's weird, even more irritating because say it's a
ten second break or a seven second break or five
second break, they'll play like ten notes of a song.
Ten notes of a song. They have nothing to do
with baseball. Ten notes of an I don't want it.
I want it to go away. And I realize I'm
(07:53):
risking sounding old. So what is that a crime? The
tradition and maybe you have to be able to appreciate
a tradition, so be it, please bring it back. So
that's my problem with ball games. You know, before we
go to a break, and then I'll go to Chris
(08:14):
and cape. God, there's something another thing I can't stand,
and that is it has to do with the event
of softball, a softball game. This could be just me,
but there's something magical about the traditional crack of a
ball in a baseball or a softball on a wooden bat.
(08:39):
That's magical crack. There goes the balls. You know, it's
on the ground between his legs, so it's you know,
deep to right or it's out of here. The ball
on a wooden bat sound matters. And this think that
aluminum bats make is so off putting to me. It's something.
(09:02):
It's wrong. It's just wrong. It sucks that any dopamine
I might have had in me sucks it right out. Doink, doink.
I'm sure there's a reason they use aluminum bats and
softball games. Whatever, the reason is not good enough. I
want wooden bats back in softball. Do we go to
(09:25):
christ and Cape Cod and do you agree with me
on this baseball music thing, this Fenway Park music thing,
and maybe the aluminum bad thing, but other thing, other
situations that have that tend to have irritating things happen
that make them almost not worth going to. And that,
(09:46):
as I'm saying, it includes restaurants, for example, a concert.
Two things about concerts they're way too loud now. And
I know this is saying if it's too loud year old,
that's a false saying it's just too loud. The other
thing is an eighteen dollars beer. Am I that much
(10:09):
of a sucker? If I'm not mistaken? Beers are insanely
expensive just for just for bad beer in a plastic cup.
Not worth it. I'm not doing that. How about you
more on this after this on WBZY.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray. I'm WBZ Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
That's right, Brada Jay and for Dan and I just
went through a whole speech about how I can't stand
that loud music played in little teeny chunks anytime there's
a little bit of silence at Benway Park. Also, I
don't like the sound aluminum bats make in softball. Anything's
like that at any other events to bother you, weddings, restaurants, Christmas.
(10:59):
I even have problems with Christmas. We'll get into all that.
Let me know. If you agree and disagree, come up
with your own. We have christ and cape cod On
Cape cod.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Hi, Chris Hi, Bradley Jay, how are you well?
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (11:14):
My biggest grievance about Fenway in the music is the
seventh inning stretch with the Neil Diamond Sweet Caroline. It
is an urban legend apparently that a lot of people
think that it's a homage or a tribute to Caroline Kennedy,
when in fact it is a miss a actually unintended
(11:42):
tribute to his Neil Diamond's ex wife, Marsha, and he
needed a three syllable name to cut it into his
song about his ex wife, Marsha. It is annoying. I
know that I'm a battle against virtually every person in
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the stands, but it's just not that great a song
in my opinion, and it is I think, has become
a part of the Fenway Park experience for so many
that tune in in the seventh inning stretch to Sweet Caroline,
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when in fact they started playing it for and in
tribute to, apparently a Fenway Park employee who had just
had a daughter born by the name of Caroline. So
that's my speel on Sweet Caroline and music at Fenway
(12:45):
as a long standing past season ticket holder.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Okay, here's what the Internet says, and it backs you up,
because remember, the Internet's wrong all the time. But it
is not a love song written to a child. At
the time, the song was written, as you say, for
Neil Diamond's wife, Marsha, but because the melody did not
fit the name Marsha musically, Neil chose to say that
(13:16):
a picture of Caroline Kennedy inspired him. So he said that,
But it's not He just said that, like people say stuff,
it's not true. There you go, it was not written
for Caroline Kennedy. You are correct, sir, And so that
really is it the song that bothers you or the
fact that people think it's about Caroline Kennedy.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
No, I think it's one song. I just don't think
it's that greatest song. And what about the tradition?
Speaker 2 (13:43):
And I myself agree, however, having gone to the park
for tradition, I'm willing to be part of that whole thing.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
No, it's become a tradition and I respect it to
the extent that I have to endure it.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
You go to many.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Games, yeah, have gone to many games, but not recently.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Do you go the games down in the Cape in
that league?
Speaker 3 (14:10):
I don't, but it's those are the best games that
that money doesn't have to buy. Yeah, I mean, there
is the talent that is. I mean, the legendary feeding
of the of MLB from the Cape League is astonishing.
I mean, if you want a great ballgame with young,
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energetic and to be Major League stars, it is the
best event you can go to.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
If I lived down there, if I had a way
to get down there, I would go. There's two things
I would do a lot. I would go to these games,
and I would also go to all those bar pizza
places that are so famous down here down in the Cape.
I'm sure you've been to those as well, all right.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
For sure, do you have a favorite. I don't get
to those as much. I'm on the outer Cape, so
we don't have those out here. But we have Spirit
of Pizza in Provence, sand which is the best.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Okay. I love Provincetown, Chris, thank you so much for chatting.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Great to talk to you badly, Jay, keep it up.
You're very interesting.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Thank you very much, Chris on Cape Cod. I went
to Provincetown this summer. I'd love Provincetown so much. I
love taking the ferry. I wish the faerry would run,
the high speed ferry would run all year. Man, it's
so much better than driving down there for me. I
shouldn't be telling you this because you're going to go
in the ferry and it's going to drive up demand
and it's going to drive up the price, and then
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I won't be able to afford it. But it's so
good just to get on that ferry and if you
want to have a beer, open a nice beer. Ninety
minute ride. This is what we do. We go down
the first first boat, first yeah, boat, get off. I
don't know what time we get there, maybe ten, ten thirty.
(16:05):
And we go to this this particular place again. If
I tell you, you're all going to go there, but I'll
tell you anyway. Is the canteen. Ya if you go
down to Promise Town, you know the canteen. I love
the canteen. Get there just as it opens, get a
table in the sand, order some stuff, a couple of frozs,
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and then we get back on the boat. The two
I think it's a two o'clock, three o'clock boat. We're
back in Boston by like four. It's fantastic. It's like
you went on a trip. And I love the spirit
down on the cape. And by the way, i'd of
Bob Allison, Professor Bob Allison from Suffolk University. Great friend
(16:51):
and a great guest. He hangs out, he goes down
there with his wife all the time. Maybe I'll see
you down there sometime, Bob, let's talk to Tom in Lancaster.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
Hi, Tom, Hey, Bradley, how you doing?
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Great? Is that Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Lancaster, Massachusetts, New Hampshire.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
No, no, right here, right here in central La May.
There's no no horse and buggies.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Okay, good? What's going on?
Speaker 4 (17:14):
We have talked the past. I'm from Brooklyn, New York,
and I'm just listening to your previous caller being like
fed up with that, uh you know, the sweet Caroline
thing going on at Fenway, which I didn't even know
until they moved up here a couple of years ago.
I realized that.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
But even more, he should point out that Neil Diamond
is from my hometown. Oh, I did not know he's
a Brooklyn guy. Why can't you guys find your own
local famous artists and use that guy's theme song or
that woman's theme song for for Fenway. Wouldn't it make
more sense?
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Yeah, actually it would. I'll agree with you.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Born born in Brooklyn, New York. He's he's our guy.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
You know, that's you know, that's and that's scary news.
A lot of people are not going to like to
hear that. They're not gonna want to know.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Yeah, well, I mean very easy to look up. I mean,
you know a lot of there's a lot of famous
artists born and born in New York City. But then again,
I'm sure there's a lot of famous ones born up here.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Yeah. Let me ask everybody this. Let's say we get
rid of Sweet Caroline to replace it with a an
appropriate Boston band. What song would you would you play
cream on? I suppose you could stretch seventh inning?
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Great, that's great, that's a great idea. Let me tell
you I fell out of baseball years ago because I
couldn't afford it anymore. But when the Red Sox went
to play, you know, the Yankees this week, I said,
let me tune in and check it out support my
old favorite team because I'm from the days of Reggie Jackson.
(18:53):
And I was like, wow, a local native from massachusettss
kicking their butt. I was like, that's gonna be a
little bit of sweet you know.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Yeah, boy, you make a real good point about that song.
I don't think I can live with that anymore.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
So here's the day now, and yeah, it just got
whooped by Massachusetts native pitcher. Uh, you better get rid
of Neil Diamond. And it's time to get a native,
a native local, uh, you know, famous musician and adapt
(19:27):
their song.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
You know, good one man, that's fantastic. Anything else, do
you have any other events that have things take place
in them that irritate you that makes you think, Ah,
why did I go to this?
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Well, let me tell you.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Let me tell you when that Without watching baseball for
many years and switching over the soccer, I thought the
soccer things like when they make a goal and they
do all these you know, gymnastic moves on the field,
and then some of them get down on their knees
and they pray up to heaven and this and that.
I'm like, what's that all about? But the the the
(20:04):
every time they had a home run in baseball now
or at the end of the game, is like they
won the World Series with all these fifth pumps and
chess chess but whatever the hell you call it them,
when did that start?
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Yeah, you know, coming old school, but I don't like that.
And also end end zone celebrations in football, yawn, give
me a break. What about the team?
Speaker 4 (20:27):
Yeah, I mean they used to win the game in baseball,
run into the dugout, shake each other's hand, high five
whatever that was it. Now they got to do all
this stuff. But some of them actually, you know, piling
on top of each other. Some of them get hurt,
like you didn't win the World Series, you just won
one game.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Yep, I will you. You're an interesting cat, Tom, and
I agree with everything you said so far.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Thank you, my friend.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Okay, take care of brother.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Always good to talk to you.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Likewise, speaking of the well, did we speak of the Yankees?
We spoke in New York. Did you see, and this
is related to the Red Sox, did you see the
new Spike Lee movie. I'm not going to give it away.
I'm not going to spoil anything. It's brand new crime
thriller twenty twenty five. It's called Highest to Lowest. There
(21:21):
is a scene in there where Spike Lee is absolutely
one hundred dis in the socks it takes. There's a
I don't want to give it away, but you will
see someone almost break the fourth wall and look right
in the camera inappropriate like clearly having nothing to do
(21:45):
with the scenes, like a little aside looks right into
the camera and this is the socks. You will see
it when You'll know what I'm talking about when you
see it and it's it's it's kind of intense and
pretty funny. I'll go through my list of things that
happen to various events that bother me and see if
(22:07):
you agree. It's WBZ.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
You're on Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Let's quickly go right to Tim in winter.
Speaker 5 (22:21):
Hi, Tim, how do when I got two points? The
first one is a weird things that happen here. When
I go to the movie theater. I sit down the
seat like I'll go in the matinee in the afternoon
where it's like ten people. You've probably done the same thing, right,
Bradley all the time.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
I never go on it's full. I only go when
it's only about ten years.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Yeah, great, it's great, Okay. I go in there, I
sit in the seat. Maybe there's a couple down the
front and there's a couple of scattered people. I always
get this person that has any seat to choose him.
He sits right next to me, and I go whoa
is that weird? Is that weird Bradley or what it is?
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Weird?
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (23:00):
It is weird. You have all the seats to choose
from you, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Yes, why would they do that?
Speaker 5 (23:06):
I don't know. They made a perverse or something. I
don't know what they are, but it bothers me.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Okay, I have a couple of questions. So it's an
empty theater. You have pretty much your choice of any seats.
What's your ultimate seat? When you get to pick any seat,
which one do you pick? You don't go?
Speaker 5 (23:21):
I tick on the aisle seats on the aisle seat,
and I put my bag, I bring my own pop gun,
I bring my own drinks. I put it in my
gym bag and put it next to me on the
next seat. And it's nice and quiet. I'm all myself.
I'm relaxing. It's beautiful. Yeah, that's nice.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Oh man. And there's nobody there. And there's nice air
conditioning in the summer. That's key.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
No no air conditioning. To help my friend, Oh, I
have to bring a sometimes that's another beat. They put
it on like you hang meeting there? You know what
I mean?
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Okay, I now have a moral question for you related
to the movies. Are you ready right? Let's say you've
just watched a movie.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
I did last night, movie number.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
One, and there's all kinds of movies. Most of there
it's a multiplex. You could probably get away. We're going
sneaking into another one. Do you have any probably.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
Can't do that anymore. They fix that. They only put
the times up so you don't do that anymore.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
So how do you mean they start them so that, no,
your movie gets when your movie gets out, the other
ones are all half done or something like that.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
No, it just says seventeen. It doesn't get the movies anymore.
On this when you're walking down the hallways. Oh see
how they get around that? But I can get around that.
I go downstairs and I look at the people, and
I have an inside information of the theater. I know
what's playing another one, but I don't see two movies.
That's too much.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
I don't see why they care because it's not costing
them any money. I'm not encouraging people to do that. However,
I will say I don't understand why they care because
it doesn't cost them any money. I mean, if you leave,
they make zero more And if you see it in
the man, they make zero more. Plus if you stick around,
(25:08):
you're more likely to get hungry and buy some popcorn
or some whatever you buy.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
I don't buy anything in that. That's how I save money.
Fifty cents for two bads for the smart popcorn, real
cheaper igo seventy nine cents. I get two bags of that,
and I got an Arizona energy drink, which is good,
and I put that in there. I paint a total
of like maybe two bucks, and then go in there
and get the Mattine Special. A senior knew he meant
(25:36):
the Seen you and it cost me maybe eight bucks
ten bucks. That's pretty good. But last night I didn't
want to watch The Red Sox. I get too baseball stressed,
so I went to the movie call with DiCaprio. Overheard
that new movie out. What's called a big movie. It's
called I Think One Battle after Another. It's one of
(25:58):
the best movies since I Once upon a time in
Hollywood a couple of years ago. This movie is going
to be a classic. It's a real good movie. And
it starts out I'm up, I'm political a little bit,
but I put that aside. At the beginning of it,
it start of political. Then it turned out to will
be a regular movie and it got better and it
just was the human part about the movie and about
(26:21):
the characters. The characters is Sean Penn, he's a bad guy.
And uh, because Dicaprios a the father of this little baby.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Don't tell me too much.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
I'll tell you what happens. But Benico de Toro, he's
a good actor. You know.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
I love all those I can't wait to see it.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
Okay, the three of them make the movie. And at
the beginning of the movie, see, I'm a conservative and
I just couldn't handle it. I was gonna walk out,
and I'll let him give it. It gave it a
chance and it turned into be a good movie, a
real great movie.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Oh and one you mentioned once upon a time in Hollywood.
That's the Brad Pitt one, right, That.
Speaker 5 (27:02):
Is how they change. It was funny how they change.
Remember at the end, do you see that?
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Yeah, it was, but we probably shouldn't give the end,
but it is kind of it's it's about the Manson
murder with an alternative ending kind of.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
Yeah, it's pretty good. It's it's a good film. We
walk out of the feeling good. You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Yep. And I love Brad Pitt. You know, I have
certain people. I always go see George Clooney. I always
go see Brad Pitt, always goes.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
See I'm not a Clooney fan at all, but I.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Do like how do you how do you not like
George George Clooney? How do you like him?
Speaker 5 (27:37):
I don't like you know, he's kind of cocky and
I just don't like the guy. But is a lot
of people do that.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
It's too bad because he always speaks very highly of you.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
He didn't know me, Tim, thanks a lot, I gotta.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
I got a scoot. Thank you. Great call once again,
another example of why the night side community is so
so great. Okay, I'm gonna run through. There's a lot
of lot of items here on my list of kind
of deal breakers for events. As I mentioned Fenery Park,
(28:13):
that loud music between every little break, any five second
window where nothing is happening, blah blah blah. I don't
I don't even want to. That's a deal breaker for me.
Now let's move on two. Well, we just talked about
a movie theater. Uh, obviously, somebody talking in the movie theater.
(28:34):
I can't take it because you go into the movie
theater to suspend disbelief, to get sucked into the movie.
And when there's somebody talking, it's ruined. And a sad
question is will you say would you ever say anything
to people like please be quiet?
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Sh do you shut people in the movie? Are you
afraid of getting you know what it? Getting hurt by them?
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Ah?
Speaker 2 (29:00):
I hate it. Birthday parties for me a joke gift.
I don't want a joke gift. Don't give me a
joke gift. Not cool. Bus ride all right, I go.
I go to the White Mountains a lot. Sometimes I'll
meet people and conquered and I'll take the bus up there.
(29:22):
I love taking the bus. With one caveat bus companies,
please balance your tires better. The whole the notion of
the busy is to get on there and relax and
not have to worry about traffic, take a nap, snooze
a little. But when the bus is gone and it's coffee,
(29:43):
you say you have a coffee, it's spilling over the edge.
There's no need for that. I know that the tickets
are cheap, but how much does it cost to balance
your tires. I did find this though it seems to
I don't know why, but the front seems to vibrate
(30:03):
less than the back. This little tip if you feel
like I do on this and now train rides. I've
done many long distance Amtrak rides. I went from Chicago
to LA, Chicago to San Francisco. I went to Chicago
(30:24):
to Seattle and then back from Seattle to Chicago. I
went from New Orleans to LA and then went from
New Orleans to Memphis. And so I've done it a lot.
Some of those are forty eight hour rides. And one thing,
one thing that's been my experience that has bothersome to
me when it happens to me. Maybe it doesn't happen
(30:46):
all the time, but when it does happen, it bothers me,
and I wish it would not happen. Is whoever gets
on the loudspeaker, we'll say sometimes I have in the past. Anyway, Okay, everybody,
we're coming in to stop. It's gonna be really crowded,
gonna be it's gonna be full, gonna be crowded. You
(31:07):
don't need to remind me at every stop. You don't
need to give me that cringy. Oh god, I'm gonna
have somebody sitting beside me. What are they gonna be like?
You know, I have my own little seat, nobody beside me.
Don't keep reminding me. It's gonna be really crowded. Yep.
And to me it makes me feel a little bit
(31:28):
like a head of cattle. That's just me. Weddings, all right,
And if you agree with me on any of these things,
or have a take on any of these things, let
me know. Weddings, well, some persons might not like to drunk.
You know, people get drunk and do toasts that are
(31:50):
way too long. I don't I don't mind that because
that's funny. One thing I do not like is the
destination wedding. Please do not make me get on a
plane and go somewhere how arrogant. I'm sorry. Maybe you
had a destination wedding, and I guess I'm calling you arrogon,
but you gotta understand my point of view. It takes
(32:15):
so much time out of my life to go there,
It takes money to buy the tickets. It's just a
big asshole. God, Please, no, I really don't want to
go to the wedding at all. I'd rather buy you
a better gift than not go allow me to get
you a great gift and not attend. And here's another thing.
(32:35):
I don't know if it happens all the time, but
I saw a wedding where all the members of the
wedding party had to do some sort of weird dance
as they came in, like wrestling. Right, they have your
entrance music, so they have some music, and each one
of the wedding party has to be like, look at me,
(32:57):
I'm coming in and I'm dancing this weird dance. Good God,
please dispense with that business. Concerts. Two things again, it's
really too loud. There's a point where it's just too loud.
(33:18):
When you leave and you can't hear it was too loud.
And the other thing is those expensive beers at those venues.
Come on, I'm just not doing that. I've already told
you that Christmas. Oh no, he's going to attack Christmas.
(33:39):
Oh no, okay, Yankee swap, do away with it. No
Yankee swap. Please, all those joke gifts and the Yankee swap. No,
I don't know. Most people are addicted to gift giving
and receiving on Christmas. And I can certainly understand that
(33:59):
it's part of the tradition. I found a superior tradition.
At least it's superior for me. There's no wondering what
to get a person. There's no pretending you like the
gift you got. There's no gift giving at all in
my Christmases. It's taken me decades to get to this point.
(34:20):
No gift giving. It's just a meal. We all take
the money we would have spent on gifts that know
that the person may or may not like, we go
up for an extravagant meal anywhere we want. Think of
the money you have to work with if you're not
buying gifts. No stress, no hassle, fancy restaurant, go crazy
(34:44):
so you know Yankee swap and conscious too, loud weddings,
frame bus ride. Yeah that's pretty much does it? Oh yeah,
that completely does it? All right, we have about ten
minutes left. I'll make it open lines call and talk
about anything you like. Say hi if you like, and
(35:06):
I do have something coming up I want to tell
you about that I'm doing. I'll just catch you up
on on on what I'm doing. By the way, if
you like to know how to get in contact, how
to contact me or follow me on any of the
social media go to I should have. I should tell
you this every hour bradleyj Dot org b r A
D l E Y j A y that's Jay dot
(35:28):
O r G. And it has a link to my
original music, a link to my collaboration on Spotify, has
a link to the chat travel channel, it has a bio,
it has uh oh. And I'm going to start posting
actually the Nightside on Demand from like tomorrow. I'm in
(35:52):
the future. I will post one of the hours from
the night before on that site so you'll be able
to get there. Nightside on Demand is cool. I listened
a lot on Knightside on Demand. Just Google Nightside on
Demand and Rob Brooks he posts, he posts the hours
all up there and they're there. I think they're there forever, right, Yeah,
(36:14):
So that's cool. All right, let's chat at the moment
on WBZ.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Bradley Jaffer, Dan, let's go whipping right over the Watertown
and sucked to Neil and Watertown.
Speaker 6 (36:29):
Hello Neil, Hello Bradley.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
Jay.
Speaker 6 (36:32):
I used to go to the movies when I was younger.
Two things stick out in my memory that I didn't
like irritated me at the time. One was a movie
called American Jigglows by Paul Schrader and Paul Schrader, And
before he became a director and screenwriter, was an academic.
He wrote his PhD thesis, Chanson Dental Style on the
(36:56):
film Bayson Ozuo and Dryer wrote Everyboy's Song. He's He's
not a household named. He's one of the great directors
of the world. And in nineteen fifty nine he made Pickpocket.
And it's a long story, but the end, the protagonist,
Martin Masel, puts his finger He's in prison, he's been caught,
(37:17):
and he puts his fingers up against the bars and
America Green and he says to her, change to read you,
what an odd path I had to take. So Schrader,
when he became a director, he just pretty much copied that.
He copied it when he was a scriptwriter for a
Taxi Driver and then for an American Jiggle. And so
(37:37):
I'm waiting for this. It's Richard Richard Gere and Lauren Hutton.
He's like he's about to do the same thing. And
the usher comes up and he's getting a head start
in his duty's he balks right in front of me,
and I'm sure he's a nice person.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
But.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Through what happened again, now what happened? You get to
the crucial scene and as you did.
Speaker 6 (37:56):
Something, Yeah, well I'm waiting. I'm waiting for Richard gear
and Lauren Hutton to emulate Martin masel And and America
Green from nineteen fifty nine. And the usher walked right
in front of me. He blocked the same because he
didn't well, I'm just, you know, it's ready to close up,
because it was the end of the movie. I'm I'm
(38:18):
you know, I'm a bit ideological. It's you know, it's
just it's one of the most famous movies, and this
is the most famous.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
This is the big, big point, the most famous movie.
You love the movie. Key points coming up and the
usher just blocks your view, right.
Speaker 6 (38:32):
And it's not probably not his fault because he probably
just didn't realize it was him.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
Yeah, but if you're an usher, isn't that kind of
one of the rules of being an ushers don't block
the fa Yeah.
Speaker 6 (38:43):
But then one more, just one more instant. It was
this in nineteen nineteen seventy two, I think, and John
Wayne came to the Harvard Square Theater and this movie
was mckue. Now I'm not like John Wayne, but you
know it's John Wayne and these and all in these
(39:03):
like I don't know, these these guys are heckling and
heckling and heckling and one one not him. But when
the movie is on, and so my friend and I, well,
you have respectful, you have respectful, you have respect and
I got something came over me and I looked around
that one guy. I said, if you don't shut up,
we'll get you.
Speaker 5 (39:21):
Afterwards said that.
Speaker 6 (39:24):
Yeah, And then I think it was like what he
all' said in the movie.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
You don't I say that, so you.
Speaker 2 (39:30):
Seem you don't seem like a I don't know, you
don't seem like a street fighting man.
Speaker 6 (39:37):
But I just thought it was very disrespectful, and I mean,
you don't have and wow, you don't you know you
could be on the other side of the divide and
just watch the movie and you can only.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
Push from Watertown so far or he will snap.
Speaker 6 (39:53):
No, how lucky they took the blow.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
Because you don't know this about me, Neil, But I
was once an usher in a movie theater. Yep, it's true.
I think it was the Strand in Dover, New Hampshire.
I was in college and my job, Yep, I took
the I did everything. I took the tickets and uh
then I would go in during the movie and make
(40:17):
sure the kids shut up. It's like quiet when you're
an usher in a movie theater, at least that because
there was nothing to do. Really, so I saw there
were certain movies I saw, like I don't know twenty
times and this, this is the this is this is
the giveaway of that when it was it was O
to Billy Joe was one of the movies, and I
(40:41):
don't know a couple of others. Neil, I love to
hear from you. Thanks so much. I appreciate it you okay, well,
once again, such a blast, and I'm very thankful to
be part of the Nightside team and be a pinch
shater on a team. And of course the best part
is getting the interact with you you plural. Thank you
so much. Thank you Rob Brooks, and thank you Marita.
(41:03):
Thank you very much, Dan Ray And once again, if
you'd like to connect, you can connect with me like
a Facebook messenger. And the link to do that is it.
BRADLEYJ dot O r G B r A d l
E y j a U Y dot O r G.
I'm looking forward to next time, right I can talk
(41:24):
to you all again and talk to the folks who
I did not talk to you Tonight Night, Rob Night.
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