October 29, 2025 • 39 mins
This week Producer Lightning (Marita) had an unexpected guest pop by her house…a black bear! The fairly large sized bear was seen roaming around her suburban neighborhood in Southern NH. What's the wildest thing you've seen in your yard, on your property, or came across unexpectedly? Lightning joined us on NightSide to share her story and take calls!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
He's night Side with Dan Ray WBS costs video S.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Welcome back everyone, as we want to thank everybody who
called in last hour. That was a really good hour
on a local topic that could affect the community where
you live at some point. And it's important that these
these stories are told in advance of elections so constituencies
have a better idea of exactly what might or might
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not be at stake. Anyway, we're going to break our
format here. We've never done this before, but earlier this week,
my our producer, the Nightside producer. I shouldn't say my producer,
our producer, because she's the producer for Nightside with Dan Ray,
Marita Marita, who also goes by the name of Lady Lightning.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
She has.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Been with me here on Nightside for well over two
years now, and she's never been shared the microphone with
me at night because she works a day shift and
I obviously work a shift that takes me from eight
until midnight and work a little bit during the day
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as well. But Marita showed me a photograph earlier this
week that was taken by a.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Neighbor of Marita's.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
She lives in a I'm not sure if she even
wants to tell us the name of the city that's
going to be her judgment. She lives in southern New
Hampshire in one of the cities, the city that most
of you know by name.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
It's not a rural area.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
But Marita, you had a special visitor to your was
it your backyard or your sideyard?
Speaker 5 (01:44):
He was like sprityard Dan And it was quite the
unexpected guest that showed up at my almost door.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Yeah, and we're not talking about somebody who was looking
to pave your driveway or to teld you that you
needed a new roof. And it wasn't the mailman. Who
exactly was this I can't say person here, but who
decided to drop by? What were the circumstances and what
time of the evening was it?
Speaker 5 (02:14):
Yes, all set it up for you. I I was
leaving my house sometime around I don't know, six six
point thirty on Sunday evening, and like a lot of
people going on the weekend, to the grocery store. So
I went to the grocery store a little bit later
in the day than usual and left my house. Didn't
see anything, got to the grocery store in about I
would say five. Ten minutes after I got to the store,
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I received a text message from a friend of mine
and then it contained a picture from a neighbor that
took a photo that showed a black bear in front
of my house.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
You not Yogi bear, but an actual Dennison of the
north Woods of New Hampshire from mind. Oh yeah, I
decided to stop by your home. Well, that was pretty
nice of him.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
I know, right, I don't know if it was I
think it'd be a little bit more startled if it
was a female bear that had like babies nearby, because
they be more aggressive, as you know, so.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
You never want to get between a mom.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Yeah, exactly. And I people who might follow me online
or listeners of the show know that I have a
dog who's named little Bear. Well, this was not my
dog little Bear. This was a big bear. Let me
just tell you. It was something that was from the picture.
And even though it was far away, and people can
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see this because I put it on our socials as well. Uh,
it looked like a fairly large sized bear even from
the distance that it was taken.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
So so let me ask you this.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
Okay, yeah, you have everybody knows that Marita is a
proud graduate of Curry College and grew up in Quinsy,
so we think it so. But when you and your
husband got married, you guys decided to live in southern
New Hampshire.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Again, I'm not unless you want to give out the town.
It's a it's a city, uh in in southern New Hampshire,
and that that lower tier of the state.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
It's not like you live north of Concord.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
No close.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
How close could you tell from the photograph And it's
always difficult to describe on radio how close was that beer?
Speaker 4 (04:35):
It was on your property?
Speaker 5 (04:37):
I assume right, it was directly across the street from
my house. So basically, if I went a lot of houses,
it doesn't have to be in a Hampshire. But mailbox
is across the street from my house. So it's like
this little patch across the actual street from my house.
So if I went to the mailbox, which is not
that far just in front of my property, just across
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the little road, that's almost as close as where the
bear pretty much was. So it was like right in
front of my house, like hello here I am.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Now did the police or did anyone report this? I'm
just curious or if it has gone technically unnoticed. I
would think that someone at some point would have called
the local police department and said, hey, there's a bear
cruise in the neighborhood.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
This was six thirty on a Sunday night.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
I mean the bear should have been somewhere watching NFL
games because the games were still on.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
I mean the fact that I know, right, yeah, I know, right, No,
it a commercial break and this was not a.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Member of the Chicago Bears. This was a real live
bear I could see in a zoo.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Yeah, this wasn't yeah, no, this was a real bear.
And from what I understand, it's made the community rounds,
like on some of these social pages on Facebook and
you know how you know, there's next door apps and
things like that and among different community text groups and stuff.
I never saw like a local media outlet pick it
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up or I haven't seen the police warning people about sightings,
but I have heard just through the grapevine, and I've
seen some other photos from some of these community groups
that there have been other another bear sighting a couple
pounds away, also in southern New Hampshire. I mean, I
don't mind sharing. I live in Salem, Hampshire, so uh,
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I you know, this wasn't like I'm living in the
White Mountains of the Hampshire.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
You know, thinks.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
The closest to the Massachusetts, like on the border of Massachusetts.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
I'm not a bear expert, but you would think that
mister and missus Bear might prowl through an area, but
they would prefer to stay in a rural area and
not in what I would call us is the suburban community.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Is what it is?
Speaker 5 (06:52):
Yeah, okay, exactly, I mean it's it's more suburban. I mean, granted,
I grew up in Guin's as you mentioned, so I'm
kind of a city girl maybe at heart. But I
would say that this was quite a surprise to me
and welcome to the Hampshire. But at the same time,
I didn't think I was going to be experiencing Bear.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Well.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
You know, it's interesting.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I suspect that probably this is not the sort of
publicity that the local Chamber of Commerce would want to have.
But no, either way, I know at this time of
the year, bears do forage. You set up a lot
of my interviews. I set up most of my interviews
in the eight o'clock hour, and we've had individuals on
talking about you know different times of the year, bears
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are getting ready to hibernate, and they like to eat
heavily because by Thanksgiving they want to be hibernata all
of that.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
But yeah, this would have it would have frightened the
heck out of me.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
You did tell me, I think that your dog, little Bear,
the aptly named Little.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Beer, did not get much time in the yard that evening.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
Yeah, yeah, so I definitely was more cautious putting my
animals out. I have two dogs, one of which little
Bear loved to be outside, but I did not let
her linger outside that evening. Certainly went out and checked
the yard because I don't know, I've seen photos of
a bear wanted to get into something. That fence is
not going to stop a bear, right And even my cat,
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who likes to frequently go in and out, she was
very upset at me. I wouldn't let her out that night.
I don't know if it's going to eat I hear it.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
On the night side pregame today. The cat not only
was upset, but the cat, I guess, went up and
rampation in one of your rooms and.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
Oh my god, yeah, yeah, that's the mess.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Let's let's do this, Marita, we got a break here.
I'd like to hold you to at least ten thirty.
And I'm going to invite our callers if, first of all,
if they'd like to call you and ask you any
question about nightside. This is a this is a rare
opportunity which they you'll try to field questions and the answers.
But more importantly, I'd love to hear from folks as
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to what type of I don't know? And then have
you seen in your backyard recently? I don't think too
many people out there can top a bear in your yard,
but there may be others who have experienced similar circumstances
and they can compare notes or they can tell us
what they've seen. It looks as if we're going to
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see more and more of these visits, have more and
more of these visitors in our communities. And I think
that at some point people are going to have to
figure out when they live in certain areas that we
all know skunks and raccoons and all of that which
are problematical. And I think we're going to have to
get better keeping our trash barrels covered and secure. I
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think that's going to be part of it because that's
what attracts any of these animals.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
But you can have in southern New Hampshire.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
You can have coyotes, you can have bears, you can
have a variety.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Of animals that you really don't want to meet.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Uh in the in the in the afternoon, the afternoon
of the early evening hours. The number six one seven,
two ten thirty, six one seven, nine three one ten
thirty open open lines, questions from Marita. Share your experience
with Marita.
Speaker 7 (10:29):
Uh And.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
If I don't think anyone's going to top this, we're
not looking at top it.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
We just love to give her an opportunity to hear.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
From some of you. You can ask her questions about
nights side. As a matter of fact, this would be
a great opportunity. Coming right back, we've got a quick
break six one, seven, two, five four ten thirty or
six one seven, nine three one ten thirty. The Dodgers
continue to melt down now they uh. This game is
slowly but surely slipping away from the Dodgers. So you're
missing nothing. We'll keep you posted on the Dodger blue
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Jays game. Looks like the Blue Jays are going to
go home with a three to two lead with the
last two games six and are Necessary seven being played
in Toronto. But we're focused on Marita aka Lady Lightning,
the producer of the executive producer of Nightside, back on
Nightside right after this.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
It's Nightside with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
My very special guest this hour is the executive producer
of Nightside, Marita aka Lady Lightning. You watch her three
days a week on the Nightside pregame, which we broadcast
at four point thirty on Facebook. Night Side with Dan Ray,
I do the postgames right after the show, and we're
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going to go to calls. You can ask any questions
you want to Marita about her position with Nightside, or
you can compare notes about some critter. I don't know
many of you are going to have bears in your backyard,
but that's what Marita had this past sun and we
have a picture to prove it. Let's go up to
Maine to Freeport to Steve, our favorite eighteen wheel truck
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across country truck or Hey Steve, how are you?
Speaker 7 (12:10):
Hello?
Speaker 8 (12:11):
You too, Marito buddy.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Hello, nice to hear from you. I recognize the title
and where you call him from. As one of our
premium viewers.
Speaker 8 (12:22):
Yeah, that's what you have never heard my manly voice.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Oh no, of course not No.
Speaker 8 (12:28):
Well, anyways, I just want to know I have two
quick stories.
Speaker 7 (12:32):
Fine.
Speaker 8 (12:32):
First of all, Shane is a fine gent so he's
a great replacement this week.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
But Shane's Shane is doing a great Yeah.
Speaker 8 (12:42):
Absolutely, yeah he is.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
I agree.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (12:45):
In the early eighties, my aunt Brenda, I was down
at her house. We're on our backstairs and she was
shoeing off this cat with her broom, a regular cat.
I said that, Brenda, that's a that's a bobcat. She
was pushing it off of the room and the cat
just took off. But she didn't even know. The point
is nothing like that. I just thought it was a
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regular cat. But it's too big to be a regular
the best. But Rita, I want to ask you what
time you normally go in. You don't have to answer
that it might be too personal. But what you do
when you first come in? How do you prepare for
the show? And I know you do a lot of work,
and you too, are fabulous on your pregame show.
Speaker 9 (13:30):
We love to have you.
Speaker 8 (13:31):
We got quite the radio family, I'll say that. Yeah,
what your day consists of? You welcome what your day
consists of? Mostly what what do you do on a
regular routine?
Speaker 5 (13:44):
Yeah, Well, consist first and foremost a lot of talking
and a lot of coordinating with Dan. We appreciate by
the way we talk a lot. We do talk a
lot of I worked, as band mentions, I work different hours,
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so I work about I get at about ten am,
but I don't really finish until about between five thirty
and six. So that's usually my schedule. But I would
say I'm starting even before ten, because sometimes I'm talking
to Dan on the phone a little bit before that,
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or I'm checking my emails already or thinking about the
night show. So I'm kind of always thinking about, Okay,
what's going on in the news, what could we possibly
cover and talk about tonight. So I'm already thinking before
I physically get in work what we're going to maybe
cover that night. So I'm thinking about it when I
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get up in the morning, when I watch the news,
when I listen to the radio, so I'm kind of
already brainstorming about what we might talk about. And then
really in the actual studio wherever, you know, one day
starts tend to do what a lot of those people
do when they go to work if they have some
sort of office or desk type job. I check my
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emails make sure I'm not missing anything, you know, I
do that. I do a lot of best booking, so
I'm working with a lot of potential guests who I'm
figuring out if they would be a good fit for
night Side. So doing that to audio as well, listening
to different press conferences and keeping up to date on
what's coming coming out of all that stuff, whether it's
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the White House, et cetera. Again, talking a lot with
Dan about what he's seeing, what he's thinking, and we're
just really analyzing and thinking about what is going on currently.
Is there any breaking news? You know, we don't want
to miss anything, But also what would be of great
interest to the audience overall? You know, what are the
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night Side listeners looking to hear and stay up to
date on, but also find entertainment and compelling as well.
There's a little bit of a taste of my day
to day and there's more, but I won't you know.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
A lot of stuff too, by the way, which happens
during the day which might be an interesting story, but
it doesn't work for a talk show. So you have,
you know, a fire, big fire that affects the community.
Unless it's huge, it might affect two or three houses,
and it's devastating to those folks, But it doesn't work
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for a talk show.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
There was an accident last week where a crane crashed
I think it was an Everett and unfortunately pressed away
guys went to work that morning. If you you can
take that subject and sort of broaden it and talk
about the dangerous jobs, but it's kind of inappropriate in
the wake of somebody who's lost their life to use
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that event as you know, fodder for a talk show.
So it's a lot of factors in consideration. It's not
as easy as people realize to do what Marita does.
She also puts four guests in the eight o'clock hour.
I have some input on that, but she's doing the
booking of those guests, uh, and the research, so she
stays busy during the day. I'm pretty busy during the day,
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and I think a lot of people if we do
a show like for example, the Last Hour was a
really successful hour. We had a whole bunch of callers
from from Medford. I wanted to focus on Medford because
I felt that was an important story in Medford and
it was a story that could impact elsewhere. It takes
time to set that up. You have to talk to
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the people who you're going to have as a guest.
Make sure you understand what they want to say. They
understand what the purpose is. Uh, you know, it's it's it's, it's, it's.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
It's not just.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Uh, it's not nuclear physics. Don't get me wrong. It's
not quantum physics. But there some elements to it that
you got to look at and evaluate and wait during
the day.
Speaker 8 (18:03):
Else I understand, and uh, in sake of the other
call is thank you Marita for the explanation. And I'm
sorry I missed you two and Denim at the get
together and hopefully next year.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
It was in.
Speaker 8 (18:22):
We'll make some work and I couldn't make it, but
I'll get there some some year, hopefully the next visit.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
So sounds great.
Speaker 8 (18:30):
We'll get to meet y'all. But thank you for everything.
And you two are very professional and you work great
together and we love your show and we're your radio family.
Good to hear from you.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
By the way.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
The only thing Marina in New Hampshire that I would
not want to see in my backyard. Obviously, a bear
I don't want to see, but I could probably handle
a bear, meaning I'll stay inside. But I don't know.
If you ever seen a fisher cat.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
Oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah, I have seen. I feel like, yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Would you prefer to be in the backyard with your
dog with a bear or a fisher cat?
Speaker 9 (19:13):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (19:14):
You know, that's a tough one. I want to say
maybe the bear, because I feel like the bear. I mean,
I don't want to get in front of a bear either,
but maybe it's a little bit clumsier and the dogs
are smaller you can kind of get out of its way,
and I mean, I think it's kind of all up
here now at this point, with the exception of a moose,
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I have not seen a moose in my backyard. That's
the next one on the list, because when I see
a moose, then I'm gonna be like, okay, oh no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
I think it'll be a while before you see a
moose if you don't have to go too far north.
We got some more callers from Marita aka Lady Lightning,
the executive producer of Nightside. This is a real good
opportunity for you to ask Marita a question or actually
tell her what a great job she does, because I
probably don't tell her what a great job she does often.
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Enough to five four ten thirty, six, one seven nine three,
one ten thirty, we'll be right back on night Side.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm bes Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
All right, we are joined tonight. But I think this
is the first time we've done this. I know this
is the first time we've done this by our executive producer,
Marita aka Lady Lightning.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
For those of you who do not know, Marita is
the executive producer of this program has worked. We've worked
together now for getting pretty close to three years, and
I think that's about right, Marit.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
I think it has been like five years. I think
actually I had times lives when you're having fun, right, Yes,
I think it was after COVID. I think I think
it was right around the time that you started broadcasting
from a remote look.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
I guess well, I also think about you. You took
a little time off to present the world with the
beautiful Stella who. Yeah, I tried to get you to
nickname your daughter Stella Daniella, but you wouldn't go for
so I understand, but you know, yeah, uh and uh.
We're talking to Marina about an event that she experienced
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last Sunday night when there was a bear, a big
black bear in her neighborhood in Salem, Massachusetts. We were
just comparing notes. I think I'd be more afraid of us, Yes,
I say Massachusetts.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Yeah, well, I was thinking.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
She is a native of Massachusetts, having gone to high
school and uh graduated in uh, communications and art.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
I think that was what was your major in college
at Kerry College?
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Was it communications than a minor in dance? But I
did focus in radio broadcasting and.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
She's, uh, yeah, she and I worked very closely, and uh,
most it works smoothly, and then there are some days
when we we disagree on something. And the thing that
I hope Marita understands and appreciates is I'm always gonna
be honest with her.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
If I disagree with a story idea, yeah, I guess
you know. You get used to my style and.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
You disagree with me, You'll say, no, I don't think
that's a good idea, and which is fine. Let's get
back to the call. It's gonna go to Michael in Kingston, Massachusetts.
Hey Michael, this is Dan Ray along with Lady Lightning
a ka Marina.
Speaker 7 (22:34):
Hey Dan, great to be on the show. Marita, you're
you do a great job. You you help Dan look
so good. You know all the good posts have a
great person behind him, and you have done a great job.
Speaker 9 (22:51):
Very Danny.
Speaker 7 (22:52):
You get you get the great guests. And on one
other thing, there was a bear last summer on the
South Shore. I live in Kingston and one morning I
went out and my bird feeder was bent down to
about two feet off the grounds. Oh yeah, And I
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couldn't and I couldn't figure it out. And when when
I heard the beer was they had seen it in
the neighborhood, I said, okay, well the beer was in
the backyard and bent that down.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
And Dan, Dan, you are right.
Speaker 7 (23:29):
The fisher cats, you know, I would rather deal with
a bear than a fisher cat.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
So nasty animals that the Toronto Blue Jays minor league
team in Manchester called the Yeats.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Yes that's right.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
Now, don't they correct me if I'm wrong? But don't
they make this really like gut wrenching sound to it
almost sounds like maybe I'm thinking of a different animal.
But it almost sounds like a baby whaling or something.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Right, it's a nasty asked the animal. I don't know
why created fisher cats. I gotta tell you fisher cats
or mosquitoes. I don't understand their real function.
Speaker 7 (24:09):
You're so correct, because there's a there's a river in
Kingston called Jones River, and my neighborhood is down towards
the end of my neighborhood is down towards the river,
and you can sometimes you can hear the fisher cats
at night, and I'm going, oh my god, yeah, it's
it's it's far away, but it's it's it's scared the
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hell out of you.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Not good.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Since both of you are telling stories about beer bears.
Mariita knows this story. A few years ago, actually more
than a few years ago, there was a beer that
came from Western Massachusetts and they caught him on the cape.
They euthanized them, put him back in Western Massachusetts, and
would you know, a.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
Couple of weeks later, he was back within one twenty
eight uh.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
And I.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
I paid attention to the story but didn't think much
of it.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
And when I got home that night, I parked my
car in the garage and I have about a here's
a thirty foot walk to my backboard door, and all
of a sudden, here in the back of my head,
I could feel it, and I just said, something's wrong here.
I don't know if I heard something, smelled something, but
I screwed it in the house, got inside, felt safe,
no problem. Woke up the next morning and they found
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the beer in a tree about a quarter of a mile.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
From where I lived.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
I to myself, Man, that would have been quite you know,
because at that time I was getting home about one
o'clock in the you know, twelve thirty one. Well, yeah,
I get work till mid I was more like one o'clock.
But there was something intuitively that said to me, let's
get in the house.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
Got in the house.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
So I know how Marita probably felt when she was
coming home from the grocery store.
Speaker 5 (25:45):
I wasn't looking forward to that chip back. I was
on like high alert.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
I know who told me you had a garage, so
you were able to get in the garage and closed
the garash door for you had to get out of
get out of the car.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
Thank God, the beer hadn't secreted himself. So we're in
the garage door.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
I don't even know what I agree with myself. Can
you imagine get stuck in the garage with the black bear?
I mean that would be a call my husband would
not be like they're here.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
But your husband could have I think, take a care
of knowing.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
Uh yeah, probably. But it wouldn't have been a happy call,
that's for sure.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
But it would have been right there, you know it
would would. There would have been some convenience steward, that's
for sure. And I got a beer here. Can you
come down maybe and help help me out here? Anthony?
Speaker 5 (26:30):
Not our dog. Yeah, it's a different bear, all right.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Hey Michael, A little bit.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
Yeah, exactly, A big one, not this one, y'all.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Man, thanks for calling in, and thanks for checking in
and keep listening to night Side and calling any night.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Okay, thanks up.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
The free work, we sure will, Thanks so much. Thanks
for your comings.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
All right, six one, seven thirty.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
We got one line there, and I got a couple
of lines available at six one seven nine.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
Uh, let me go.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
I don't want to short change anyone, so let me
take a break here. I'm gonna break just a minute
or so early, Marita, when we'll get all the way
I'll let you go by eleven. You got to get
up early tomorrow. Tomorrow's an early day, so we'll get you. Uh,
we'll get you off the clock at eleven o'clock. I
help you here, but I know you don't.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
It's okay.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
We'll be back six one, seven thirty or six one, seven, nine,
ten thirty. Uh, feel free to call and talk with
Marita uh aka Lady Lightning. You see her at four
thirty in the afternoon on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for pregame.
Speaker 6 (27:40):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Marita will be off on Friday, so you're gonna have
to deal with me tomorrow afternoon at four thirty and
also on Friday afternoon because Marina has a very big
night trick of treating with Stella. Stella has yet she's
not three yet.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
Right or she has to No, she's too She turned
to this past yun.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
Okay, Well, this will.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
Be your first time trick of treating for real, her
second time where she could probably go like longer. Last year,
we just kind of tried.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
It out, you know.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Okay, Well, I'm sure I'm sure she's gonna be kids
of button and I'm sure she get a lot of
candy back on Nightside. Feel free to join the conversation
back right after that, I got Bill in Brookline, David
san Antonio coming up. I got a little room for
you if you'd like coming back on Nightside.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray on you Bes
Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
Okay, back to the phones we go.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
I have yet to hear anyone try to top your
story of a beer in your backyard.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
We'll see what Bill in Brookline has to say. Hey, Bill,
how are you tonight? Welcome?
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Oh, I'm great.
Speaker 9 (28:42):
I think this is a fun segment, and I'll tell
you a couple of credit stories. But let's talk about
the show first for a minute.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
By the way, those who do not know this is
mister Bill Winaker.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Bill and Bowl Winnaker, two great musicians, fabulous musicians, the
best best banded ball and also a Bill is a
very as is BA, a very loyal listener to the program.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
Go right ahead, Bill, say had a Marita?
Speaker 9 (29:08):
Oh Marita Rita, you're great. How are you today?
Speaker 5 (29:11):
I'm doing well. It's nice to have here from you,
and I thanks for calling in. I appreciate it.
Speaker 9 (29:16):
Oh, You're welcome. That's a fascinating story. I've got a
bear story too. But wow, let's talk about the show
for a minute. Sure, whose idea was it to come
up with? See the first segment changing it to four
different guests for ten or fifteen minutes each.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
That was a decision that was made by management. They
wanted to have sort of a segue going from the
all news radio portion of the day, which starts when
we end at midnight. It's all news all the way
until eight pm. For many years we did four hours
of talk and this is I was not thrilled about
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the idea initially, but it has kind of worked out.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
We have a we get more quick.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Interviews in with people, and sometimes some of those quick
interviews result in a full hour with callers calling in.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
So do you like it or do you not like it? Though?
Speaker 9 (30:13):
Well, at first I didn't like it at all, but
I was you just said what I was going to say.
I didn't like it at first, But but Marita, you've
come up with a lot of fascinating guests from all
kinds of different professions and different idioms and dan so
(30:33):
this has showed me another side of you, because no
matter who that guest is, you're great at interviewing them.
Even if you don't know anything about the subject at all,
you're a great interviewer. So they've been fascinating. And the
point I was going to make you already made. Some
of these people have come back for full hour segments.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Yeah, there may be all of them. One of them
tonight that I invited back. As a matter of fact,
I heard that who was talking about, you know, seasonal disorder,
seasonal effective disorder.
Speaker 9 (31:04):
Well exactly, Yeah, I heard that interview, and now I
like it. I like the first hour and uh, and
I like the way you guys trade off and promoting
the show at night. You both have entirely different styles,
but I love you both the way you both do it.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
She's much better looking than I am, too, Bill.
Speaker 9 (31:26):
You're Marina is very attractive. But you're a fine looking man,
So there's no problem there.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
It wasn't a long time ago. You got a question
from I think you got it. You said you had
a question from a reader, Go right ahead.
Speaker 9 (31:41):
Oh no, no more questions. But I've got a story.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
You got you got any animal story. This wasn't someone
who attended one of your concerts, by the way, I'm hoping.
Speaker 9 (31:53):
Ah, well, no, no, but so we grew up on
a farm reader in Millis, Massachusetts. The little town there
was five thousand people, and we were on this large
poultry farm and there's a lot of woods that would
go deep almost to the next almost to medfield. They'd
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go deep and far away, and the Charles River went
through the property. So one night before but when I
were playing, we were just little kids, my father comes
home from a gig because he had his own band
before we started playing, and he gets out of the
car and a bear started chasing up right around the yard.
Speaker 5 (32:37):
Oh my goodness, Wow, that's probably just my story because
I didn't get chased by a bear, luckily.
Speaker 9 (32:45):
No, this bear was a wild bear. So we have
a huge barn right next to where my father would
park the car. There's a huge barn. So he jumped
right into the barn, closed the door, and they had
a flashlight there and one time was right he dashed
for the house, which is at least twenty yards away.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
So wow, well I didn't see that, lucky.
Speaker 9 (33:09):
We all heard about the bad story and yeah, wow, Well,
so Dan, you have a summer house on the cape,
and we have one in in Naples. Main Marina goes
up there too.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
I know that.
Speaker 5 (33:24):
Yeah, my family has no place in the next counter
so away from you. So yeah, I'm very familiar with
the area.
Speaker 9 (33:32):
Yeah, you were in Harrison, or Bridge and Harrison.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Okay, well, Bill, so thanks thanks for joining. I want
to get at least one more in here before the
segment is up. But as always, we're big fans of
of the Winnakers. And as you know, and I'd never
heard that story about your dad, but he had to
be pretty agile to us.
Speaker 9 (33:54):
Oh he was a great athlete, Dan, he was a
star athlete.
Speaker 5 (33:58):
But eat off that night.
Speaker 9 (34:02):
Yeah, so listen the best selected both of you will
love you both and love the show.
Speaker 5 (34:08):
Thanks so much, appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
Okay for us, let me go next to Dave in
San Antonio, Texas. Dave, welcome back. How are you sir?
Speaker 10 (34:21):
Yeah, Dan, I got a couple of them before you.
When I was living up in northern Michigan. My wife,
My wife was a bottle for the petique clothing manufacturer.
Clothing manufacturers, I forget which one was, but she modeled
for clothing. She was so beautiful and gentle looking that
when we would walk through the woods to go catfishing
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and the deer would come up to her.
Speaker 5 (34:44):
They just come up to her, either I mean deer
did or bar I didn't hear.
Speaker 9 (34:51):
What's going to.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
One, I'll just come up to my one. And well,
that's one story, but the scary one is mine. I
was at the top. I was at the top of
a steep downhill and I bicy put to work and everything.
I didn't drive a car. I never drove a car.
And I used to ride on my bicycle everywhere and
I was good at it, and luckily, and I was
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at the top of a hill and I aggravated this
elk feeding at the side of the road with spring grass,
and he let me know how mad he was because
I started to go down that hill and he came
after me, and all I heard all the way down
the hill was his thunderous hooks, real close. And I'm
praying to the Dear Lord. I'm praying to the dear Lord.
(35:37):
He poops out before I hit the downhill and have
to go uphill, and thank God he did poop out.
Speaker 4 (35:44):
Well, you know, money, you're you're out there in the
you know, in the wilds of Texas. I've heard these stories.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
About people who go out to you know, the wyoming
and stuff, and they try to get a picture.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
They try to do a cell phone with a bison. Bison.
Speaker 5 (36:02):
Yeah, that's that's a big problem nowadays, Dan, and.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
There have been people who have been really badly hurt.
They will they call over to the bison and you
know the old days, you'd use the camera and take
a shot from fifty feet or one hundred feet away.
But they're going over there and it's like they're doing
a selfie with some old.
Speaker 5 (36:21):
Friend, you know, coming from the Graham. You know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
They all.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Dan having an help with the great big cords.
Speaker 5 (36:32):
Oh you you interrupted his breakfast, you know, like you
a nice peace morning, so you came along.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Well, I'm glad I'd rather you that you had sufficient
alacrity to escape the.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
Thank God.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
You know.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
You know what, northern Michigan, it's not too uncommon to
see a Mama baroner comes going through the high grink.
Speaker 4 (36:57):
Do not want to get between a Mama baron.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
Remember, no, no, no, no, no, no, don't you dare.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
A story.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
There was a a beer, a baby beer, when I
was a very young reporter in Princeton, Massachusetts. It's up
on northwest of Boston, and they had this baby beer
who was u I guess was found and wash.
Speaker 4 (37:22):
It was an orphan.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
There was no mother around. And his name was Bruno.
And I remember going up to do the story and
I actually did his stand up clothes with the baby beer.
Speaker 4 (37:32):
In my arms.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
It was it felt like a you know, a ten
pound dog or something, but it was cute. It didn't
do it didn't hurt me or anything like that. And
they had a nurse right there with the baby beer
and they had given it, you know, give feeded a
bottle and everything. It was. He was very happy and
I thought to myself that eventually they were going to
put that beer in the woods. I'm glad I met
him when he was you know, when he was that young.
(37:55):
And I did meet him a few years later in
the world. You got it, You got it, hey, David George.
I'll always remember your Elk story here, Dave.
Speaker 4 (38:06):
That was a good one. Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
Okay, bye bye, talk to you soon.
Speaker 4 (38:11):
Mariita.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
I'll let you get some sleep. You got an early
call in the morning, and I thank you for doing
this tonight. And uh we'll we'll move on and you
can you can catch up with with some some sleep
and I hope that Stella sleeps to the night, especially.
Speaker 4 (38:25):
Tonight for you.
Speaker 5 (38:26):
Okay, oh yeah, thank you. Yeah, my pleasure and type
to come on.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
But do you need me, absolutely absolutely, thanks so much.
We'll talk to you at some point relatively early in
the morning. We're working on Actually, we got Thursday pretty
much down here, so yeah, we are in good shape
for Thursday, even for Friday at this point. So uh,
we'll we're always ready for changes if if news news happens,
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we change, we change our format, that's for sure.
Speaker 4 (38:54):
Thank you so much. We'll see you in the morning.
Speaker 5 (38:56):
Talk to you in the morning, all ranks, Thanks everyone.
Speaker 4 (38:59):
Thanks, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
Marita aka Lightning coming back here on Nightside right after
the eleven o'clock news for a fourth and final hour
here on Nightside.
He's night Side with Dan Ray WBS costs video S.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Welcome back everyone, as we want to thank everybody who
called in last hour. That was a really good hour
on a local topic that could affect the community where
you live at some point. And it's important that these
these stories are told in advance of elections so constituencies
have a better idea of exactly what might or might
(00:26):
not be at stake. Anyway, we're going to break our
format here. We've never done this before, but earlier this week,
my our producer, the Nightside producer. I shouldn't say my producer,
our producer, because she's the producer for Nightside with Dan Ray,
Marita Marita, who also goes by the name of Lady Lightning.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
She has.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Been with me here on Nightside for well over two
years now, and she's never been shared the microphone with
me at night because she works a day shift and
I obviously work a shift that takes me from eight
until midnight and work a little bit during the day
(01:13):
as well. But Marita showed me a photograph earlier this
week that was taken by a.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Neighbor of Marita's.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
She lives in a I'm not sure if she even
wants to tell us the name of the city that's
going to be her judgment. She lives in southern New
Hampshire in one of the cities, the city that most
of you know by name.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
It's not a rural area.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
But Marita, you had a special visitor to your was
it your backyard or your sideyard?
Speaker 5 (01:44):
He was like sprityard Dan And it was quite the
unexpected guest that showed up at my almost door.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Yeah, and we're not talking about somebody who was looking
to pave your driveway or to teld you that you
needed a new roof. And it wasn't the mailman. Who
exactly was this I can't say person here, but who
decided to drop by? What were the circumstances and what
time of the evening was it?
Speaker 5 (02:14):
Yes, all set it up for you. I I was
leaving my house sometime around I don't know, six six
point thirty on Sunday evening, and like a lot of
people going on the weekend, to the grocery store. So
I went to the grocery store a little bit later
in the day than usual and left my house. Didn't
see anything, got to the grocery store in about I
would say five. Ten minutes after I got to the store,
(02:37):
I received a text message from a friend of mine
and then it contained a picture from a neighbor that
took a photo that showed a black bear in front
of my house.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
You not Yogi bear, but an actual Dennison of the
north Woods of New Hampshire from mind. Oh yeah, I
decided to stop by your home. Well, that was pretty
nice of him.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
I know, right, I don't know if it was I
think it'd be a little bit more startled if it
was a female bear that had like babies nearby, because
they be more aggressive, as you know, so.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
You never want to get between a mom.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Yeah, exactly. And I people who might follow me online
or listeners of the show know that I have a
dog who's named little Bear. Well, this was not my
dog little Bear. This was a big bear. Let me
just tell you. It was something that was from the picture.
And even though it was far away, and people can
(03:43):
see this because I put it on our socials as well. Uh,
it looked like a fairly large sized bear even from
the distance that it was taken.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
So so let me ask you this.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
Okay, yeah, you have everybody knows that Marita is a
proud graduate of Curry College and grew up in Quinsy,
so we think it so. But when you and your
husband got married, you guys decided to live in southern
New Hampshire.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Again, I'm not unless you want to give out the town.
It's a it's a city, uh in in southern New Hampshire,
and that that lower tier of the state.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
It's not like you live north of Concord.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
No close.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
How close could you tell from the photograph And it's
always difficult to describe on radio how close was that beer?
Speaker 4 (04:35):
It was on your property?
Speaker 5 (04:37):
I assume right, it was directly across the street from
my house. So basically, if I went a lot of houses,
it doesn't have to be in a Hampshire. But mailbox
is across the street from my house. So it's like
this little patch across the actual street from my house.
So if I went to the mailbox, which is not
that far just in front of my property, just across
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the little road, that's almost as close as where the
bear pretty much was. So it was like right in
front of my house, like hello here I am.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Now did the police or did anyone report this? I'm
just curious or if it has gone technically unnoticed. I
would think that someone at some point would have called
the local police department and said, hey, there's a bear
cruise in the neighborhood.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
This was six thirty on a Sunday night.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
I mean the bear should have been somewhere watching NFL
games because the games were still on.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
I mean the fact that I know, right, yeah, I know, right, No,
it a commercial break and this was not a.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Member of the Chicago Bears. This was a real live
bear I could see in a zoo.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
Yeah, this wasn't yeah, no, this was a real bear.
And from what I understand, it's made the community rounds,
like on some of these social pages on Facebook and
you know how you know, there's next door apps and
things like that and among different community text groups and stuff.
I never saw like a local media outlet pick it
(06:04):
up or I haven't seen the police warning people about sightings,
but I have heard just through the grapevine, and I've
seen some other photos from some of these community groups
that there have been other another bear sighting a couple
pounds away, also in southern New Hampshire. I mean, I
don't mind sharing. I live in Salem, Hampshire, so uh,
(06:27):
I you know, this wasn't like I'm living in the
White Mountains of the Hampshire.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
You know, thinks.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
The closest to the Massachusetts, like on the border of Massachusetts.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
I'm not a bear expert, but you would think that
mister and missus Bear might prowl through an area, but
they would prefer to stay in a rural area and
not in what I would call us is the suburban community.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Is what it is?
Speaker 5 (06:52):
Yeah, okay, exactly, I mean it's it's more suburban. I mean, granted,
I grew up in Guin's as you mentioned, so I'm
kind of a city girl maybe at heart. But I
would say that this was quite a surprise to me
and welcome to the Hampshire. But at the same time,
I didn't think I was going to be experiencing Bear.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Well.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
You know, it's interesting.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I suspect that probably this is not the sort of
publicity that the local Chamber of Commerce would want to have.
But no, either way, I know at this time of
the year, bears do forage. You set up a lot
of my interviews. I set up most of my interviews
in the eight o'clock hour, and we've had individuals on
talking about you know different times of the year, bears
(07:36):
are getting ready to hibernate, and they like to eat
heavily because by Thanksgiving they want to be hibernata all
of that.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
But yeah, this would have it would have frightened the
heck out of me.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
You did tell me, I think that your dog, little Bear,
the aptly named Little.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
Beer, did not get much time in the yard that evening.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
Yeah, yeah, so I definitely was more cautious putting my
animals out. I have two dogs, one of which little
Bear loved to be outside, but I did not let
her linger outside that evening. Certainly went out and checked
the yard because I don't know, I've seen photos of
a bear wanted to get into something. That fence is
not going to stop a bear, right And even my cat,
(08:22):
who likes to frequently go in and out, she was
very upset at me. I wouldn't let her out that night.
I don't know if it's going to eat I hear it.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
On the night side pregame today. The cat not only
was upset, but the cat, I guess, went up and
rampation in one of your rooms and.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
Oh my god, yeah, yeah, that's the mess.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Let's let's do this, Marita, we got a break here.
I'd like to hold you to at least ten thirty.
And I'm going to invite our callers if, first of all,
if they'd like to call you and ask you any
question about nightside. This is a this is a rare
opportunity which they you'll try to field questions and the answers.
But more importantly, I'd love to hear from folks as
(09:08):
to what type of I don't know? And then have
you seen in your backyard recently? I don't think too
many people out there can top a bear in your yard,
but there may be others who have experienced similar circumstances
and they can compare notes or they can tell us
what they've seen. It looks as if we're going to
(09:33):
see more and more of these visits, have more and
more of these visitors in our communities. And I think
that at some point people are going to have to
figure out when they live in certain areas that we
all know skunks and raccoons and all of that which
are problematical. And I think we're going to have to
get better keeping our trash barrels covered and secure. I
(09:56):
think that's going to be part of it because that's
what attracts any of these animals.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
But you can have in southern New Hampshire.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
You can have coyotes, you can have bears, you can
have a variety.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Of animals that you really don't want to meet.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Uh in the in the in the afternoon, the afternoon
of the early evening hours. The number six one seven,
two ten thirty, six one seven, nine three one ten
thirty open open lines, questions from Marita. Share your experience
with Marita.
Speaker 7 (10:29):
Uh And.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
If I don't think anyone's going to top this, we're
not looking at top it.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
We just love to give her an opportunity to hear.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
From some of you. You can ask her questions about
nights side. As a matter of fact, this would be
a great opportunity. Coming right back, we've got a quick
break six one, seven, two, five four ten thirty or
six one seven, nine three one ten thirty. The Dodgers
continue to melt down now they uh. This game is
slowly but surely slipping away from the Dodgers. So you're
missing nothing. We'll keep you posted on the Dodger blue
(11:00):
Jays game. Looks like the Blue Jays are going to
go home with a three to two lead with the
last two games six and are Necessary seven being played
in Toronto. But we're focused on Marita aka Lady Lightning,
the producer of the executive producer of Nightside, back on
Nightside right after this.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
It's Nightside with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
My very special guest this hour is the executive producer
of Nightside, Marita aka Lady Lightning. You watch her three
days a week on the Nightside pregame, which we broadcast
at four point thirty on Facebook. Night Side with Dan Ray,
I do the postgames right after the show, and we're
(11:45):
going to go to calls. You can ask any questions
you want to Marita about her position with Nightside, or
you can compare notes about some critter. I don't know
many of you are going to have bears in your backyard,
but that's what Marita had this past sun and we
have a picture to prove it. Let's go up to
Maine to Freeport to Steve, our favorite eighteen wheel truck
(12:07):
across country truck or Hey Steve, how are you?
Speaker 7 (12:10):
Hello?
Speaker 8 (12:11):
You too, Marito buddy.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Hello, nice to hear from you. I recognize the title
and where you call him from. As one of our
premium viewers.
Speaker 8 (12:22):
Yeah, that's what you have never heard my manly voice.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Oh no, of course not No.
Speaker 8 (12:28):
Well, anyways, I just want to know I have two
quick stories.
Speaker 7 (12:32):
Fine.
Speaker 8 (12:32):
First of all, Shane is a fine gent so he's
a great replacement this week.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
But Shane's Shane is doing a great Yeah.
Speaker 8 (12:42):
Absolutely, yeah he is.
Speaker 5 (12:44):
I agree.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (12:45):
In the early eighties, my aunt Brenda, I was down
at her house. We're on our backstairs and she was
shoeing off this cat with her broom, a regular cat.
I said that, Brenda, that's a that's a bobcat. She
was pushing it off of the room and the cat
just took off. But she didn't even know. The point
is nothing like that. I just thought it was a
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regular cat. But it's too big to be a regular
the best. But Rita, I want to ask you what
time you normally go in. You don't have to answer
that it might be too personal. But what you do
when you first come in? How do you prepare for
the show? And I know you do a lot of work,
and you too, are fabulous on your pregame show.
Speaker 9 (13:30):
We love to have you.
Speaker 8 (13:31):
We got quite the radio family, I'll say that. Yeah,
what your day consists of? You welcome what your day
consists of? Mostly what what do you do on a
regular routine?
Speaker 5 (13:44):
Yeah, Well, consist first and foremost a lot of talking
and a lot of coordinating with Dan. We appreciate by
the way we talk a lot. We do talk a
lot of I worked, as band mentions, I work different hours,
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so I work about I get at about ten am,
but I don't really finish until about between five thirty
and six. So that's usually my schedule. But I would
say I'm starting even before ten, because sometimes I'm talking
to Dan on the phone a little bit before that,
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or I'm checking my emails already or thinking about the
night show. So I'm kind of always thinking about, Okay,
what's going on in the news, what could we possibly
cover and talk about tonight. So I'm already thinking before
I physically get in work what we're going to maybe
cover that night. So I'm thinking about it when I
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get up in the morning, when I watch the news,
when I listen to the radio, so I'm kind of
already brainstorming about what we might talk about. And then
really in the actual studio wherever, you know, one day
starts tend to do what a lot of those people
do when they go to work if they have some
sort of office or desk type job. I check my
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emails make sure I'm not missing anything, you know, I
do that. I do a lot of best booking, so
I'm working with a lot of potential guests who I'm
figuring out if they would be a good fit for
night Side. So doing that to audio as well, listening
to different press conferences and keeping up to date on
what's coming coming out of all that stuff, whether it's
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the White House, et cetera. Again, talking a lot with
Dan about what he's seeing, what he's thinking, and we're
just really analyzing and thinking about what is going on currently.
Is there any breaking news? You know, we don't want
to miss anything, But also what would be of great
interest to the audience overall? You know, what are the
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night Side listeners looking to hear and stay up to
date on, but also find entertainment and compelling as well.
There's a little bit of a taste of my day
to day and there's more, but I won't you know.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
A lot of stuff too, by the way, which happens
during the day which might be an interesting story, but
it doesn't work for a talk show. So you have,
you know, a fire, big fire that affects the community.
Unless it's huge, it might affect two or three houses,
and it's devastating to those folks, But it doesn't work
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for a talk show.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
There was an accident last week where a crane crashed
I think it was an Everett and unfortunately pressed away
guys went to work that morning. If you you can
take that subject and sort of broaden it and talk
about the dangerous jobs, but it's kind of inappropriate in
the wake of somebody who's lost their life to use
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that event as you know, fodder for a talk show.
So it's a lot of factors in consideration. It's not
as easy as people realize to do what Marita does.
She also puts four guests in the eight o'clock hour.
I have some input on that, but she's doing the
booking of those guests, uh, and the research, so she
stays busy during the day. I'm pretty busy during the day,
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and I think a lot of people if we do
a show like for example, the Last Hour was a
really successful hour. We had a whole bunch of callers
from from Medford. I wanted to focus on Medford because
I felt that was an important story in Medford and
it was a story that could impact elsewhere. It takes
time to set that up. You have to talk to
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the people who you're going to have as a guest.
Make sure you understand what they want to say. They
understand what the purpose is. Uh, you know, it's it's it's, it's, it's.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
It's not just.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Uh, it's not nuclear physics. Don't get me wrong. It's
not quantum physics. But there some elements to it that
you got to look at and evaluate and wait during
the day.
Speaker 8 (18:03):
Else I understand, and uh, in sake of the other
call is thank you Marita for the explanation. And I'm
sorry I missed you two and Denim at the get
together and hopefully next year.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
It was in.
Speaker 8 (18:22):
We'll make some work and I couldn't make it, but
I'll get there some some year, hopefully the next visit.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
So sounds great.
Speaker 8 (18:30):
We'll get to meet y'all. But thank you for everything.
And you two are very professional and you work great
together and we love your show and we're your radio family.
Good to hear from you.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
By the way.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
The only thing Marina in New Hampshire that I would
not want to see in my backyard. Obviously, a bear
I don't want to see, but I could probably handle
a bear, meaning I'll stay inside. But I don't know.
If you ever seen a fisher cat.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
Oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah, I have seen. I feel like, yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Would you prefer to be in the backyard with your
dog with a bear or a fisher cat?
Speaker 9 (19:13):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (19:14):
You know, that's a tough one. I want to say
maybe the bear, because I feel like the bear. I mean,
I don't want to get in front of a bear either,
but maybe it's a little bit clumsier and the dogs
are smaller you can kind of get out of its way,
and I mean, I think it's kind of all up
here now at this point, with the exception of a moose,
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I have not seen a moose in my backyard. That's
the next one on the list, because when I see
a moose, then I'm gonna be like, okay, oh no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
I think it'll be a while before you see a
moose if you don't have to go too far north.
We got some more callers from Marita aka Lady Lightning,
the executive producer of Nightside. This is a real good
opportunity for you to ask Marita a question or actually
tell her what a great job she does, because I
probably don't tell her what a great job she does often.
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Enough to five four ten thirty, six, one seven nine three,
one ten thirty, we'll be right back on night Side.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm bes Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
All right, we are joined tonight. But I think this
is the first time we've done this. I know this
is the first time we've done this by our executive producer,
Marita aka Lady Lightning.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
For those of you who do not know, Marita is
the executive producer of this program has worked. We've worked
together now for getting pretty close to three years, and
I think that's about right, Marit.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
I think it has been like five years. I think
actually I had times lives when you're having fun, right, Yes,
I think it was after COVID. I think I think
it was right around the time that you started broadcasting
from a remote look.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
I guess well, I also think about you. You took
a little time off to present the world with the
beautiful Stella who. Yeah, I tried to get you to
nickname your daughter Stella Daniella, but you wouldn't go for
so I understand, but you know, yeah, uh and uh.
We're talking to Marina about an event that she experienced
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last Sunday night when there was a bear, a big
black bear in her neighborhood in Salem, Massachusetts. We were
just comparing notes. I think I'd be more afraid of us, Yes,
I say Massachusetts.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Yeah, well, I was thinking.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
She is a native of Massachusetts, having gone to high
school and uh graduated in uh, communications and art.
Speaker 4 (21:44):
I think that was what was your major in college
at Kerry College?
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Was it communications than a minor in dance? But I
did focus in radio broadcasting and.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
She's, uh, yeah, she and I worked very closely, and uh,
most it works smoothly, and then there are some days
when we we disagree on something. And the thing that
I hope Marita understands and appreciates is I'm always gonna
be honest with her.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
If I disagree with a story idea, yeah, I guess
you know. You get used to my style and.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
You disagree with me, You'll say, no, I don't think
that's a good idea, and which is fine. Let's get
back to the call. It's gonna go to Michael in Kingston, Massachusetts.
Hey Michael, this is Dan Ray along with Lady Lightning
a ka Marina.
Speaker 7 (22:34):
Hey Dan, great to be on the show. Marita, you're
you do a great job. You you help Dan look
so good. You know all the good posts have a
great person behind him, and you have done a great job.
Speaker 9 (22:51):
Very Danny.
Speaker 7 (22:52):
You get you get the great guests. And on one
other thing, there was a bear last summer on the
South Shore. I live in Kingston and one morning I
went out and my bird feeder was bent down to
about two feet off the grounds. Oh yeah, And I
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couldn't and I couldn't figure it out. And when when
I heard the beer was they had seen it in
the neighborhood, I said, okay, well the beer was in
the backyard and bent that down.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
And Dan, Dan, you are right.
Speaker 7 (23:29):
The fisher cats, you know, I would rather deal with
a bear than a fisher cat.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
So nasty animals that the Toronto Blue Jays minor league
team in Manchester called the Yeats.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Yes that's right.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
Now, don't they correct me if I'm wrong? But don't
they make this really like gut wrenching sound to it
almost sounds like maybe I'm thinking of a different animal.
But it almost sounds like a baby whaling or something.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Right, it's a nasty asked the animal. I don't know
why created fisher cats. I gotta tell you fisher cats
or mosquitoes. I don't understand their real function.
Speaker 7 (24:09):
You're so correct, because there's a there's a river in
Kingston called Jones River, and my neighborhood is down towards
the end of my neighborhood is down towards the river,
and you can sometimes you can hear the fisher cats
at night, and I'm going, oh my god, yeah, it's
it's it's far away, but it's it's it's scared the
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hell out of you.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Not good.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Since both of you are telling stories about beer bears.
Mariita knows this story. A few years ago, actually more
than a few years ago, there was a beer that
came from Western Massachusetts and they caught him on the cape.
They euthanized them, put him back in Western Massachusetts, and
would you know, a.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
Couple of weeks later, he was back within one twenty
eight uh.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
And I.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
I paid attention to the story but didn't think much
of it.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
And when I got home that night, I parked my
car in the garage and I have about a here's
a thirty foot walk to my backboard door, and all
of a sudden, here in the back of my head,
I could feel it, and I just said, something's wrong here.
I don't know if I heard something, smelled something, but
I screwed it in the house, got inside, felt safe,
no problem. Woke up the next morning and they found
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the beer in a tree about a quarter of a mile.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
From where I lived.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
I to myself, Man, that would have been quite you know,
because at that time I was getting home about one
o'clock in the you know, twelve thirty one. Well, yeah,
I get work till mid I was more like one o'clock.
But there was something intuitively that said to me, let's
get in the house.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
Got in the house.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
So I know how Marita probably felt when she was
coming home from the grocery store.
Speaker 5 (25:45):
I wasn't looking forward to that chip back. I was
on like high alert.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
I know who told me you had a garage, so
you were able to get in the garage and closed
the garash door for you had to get out of
get out of the car.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
Thank God, the beer hadn't secreted himself. So we're in
the garage door.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
I don't even know what I agree with myself. Can
you imagine get stuck in the garage with the black bear?
I mean that would be a call my husband would
not be like they're here.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
But your husband could have I think, take a care
of knowing.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
Uh yeah, probably. But it wouldn't have been a happy call,
that's for sure.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
But it would have been right there, you know it
would would. There would have been some convenience steward, that's
for sure. And I got a beer here. Can you
come down maybe and help help me out here? Anthony?
Speaker 5 (26:30):
Not our dog. Yeah, it's a different bear, all right.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Hey Michael, A little bit.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
Yeah, exactly, A big one, not this one, y'all.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
Man, thanks for calling in, and thanks for checking in
and keep listening to night Side and calling any night.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Okay, thanks up.
Speaker 5 (26:49):
The free work, we sure will, Thanks so much. Thanks
for your comings.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
All right, six one, seven thirty.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
We got one line there, and I got a couple
of lines available at six one seven nine.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
Uh, let me go.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
I don't want to short change anyone, so let me
take a break here. I'm gonna break just a minute
or so early, Marita, when we'll get all the way
I'll let you go by eleven. You got to get
up early tomorrow. Tomorrow's an early day, so we'll get you. Uh,
we'll get you off the clock at eleven o'clock. I
help you here, but I know you don't.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
It's okay.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
We'll be back six one, seven thirty or six one, seven, nine,
ten thirty. Uh, feel free to call and talk with
Marita uh aka Lady Lightning. You see her at four
thirty in the afternoon on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for pregame.
Speaker 6 (27:40):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Marita will be off on Friday, so you're gonna have
to deal with me tomorrow afternoon at four thirty and
also on Friday afternoon because Marina has a very big
night trick of treating with Stella. Stella has yet she's
not three yet.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
Right or she has to No, she's too She turned
to this past yun.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
Okay, Well, this will.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
Be your first time trick of treating for real, her
second time where she could probably go like longer. Last year,
we just kind of tried.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
It out, you know.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Okay, Well, I'm sure I'm sure she's gonna be kids
of button and I'm sure she get a lot of
candy back on Nightside. Feel free to join the conversation
back right after that, I got Bill in Brookline, David
san Antonio coming up. I got a little room for
you if you'd like coming back on Nightside.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray on you Bes
Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
Okay, back to the phones we go.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
I have yet to hear anyone try to top your
story of a beer in your backyard.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
We'll see what Bill in Brookline has to say. Hey, Bill,
how are you tonight? Welcome?
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Oh, I'm great.
Speaker 9 (28:42):
I think this is a fun segment, and I'll tell
you a couple of credit stories. But let's talk about
the show first for a minute.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
By the way, those who do not know this is
mister Bill Winaker.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Bill and Bowl Winnaker, two great musicians, fabulous musicians, the
best best banded ball and also a Bill is a
very as is BA, a very loyal listener to the program.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
Go right ahead, Bill, say had a Marita?
Speaker 9 (29:08):
Oh Marita Rita, you're great. How are you today?
Speaker 5 (29:11):
I'm doing well. It's nice to have here from you,
and I thanks for calling in. I appreciate it.
Speaker 9 (29:16):
Oh, You're welcome. That's a fascinating story. I've got a
bear story too. But wow, let's talk about the show
for a minute. Sure, whose idea was it to come
up with? See the first segment changing it to four
different guests for ten or fifteen minutes each.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
That was a decision that was made by management. They
wanted to have sort of a segue going from the
all news radio portion of the day, which starts when
we end at midnight. It's all news all the way
until eight pm. For many years we did four hours
of talk and this is I was not thrilled about
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the idea initially, but it has kind of worked out.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
We have a we get more quick.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
Interviews in with people, and sometimes some of those quick
interviews result in a full hour with callers calling in.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
So do you like it or do you not like it? Though?
Speaker 9 (30:13):
Well, at first I didn't like it at all, but
I was you just said what I was going to say.
I didn't like it at first, But but Marita, you've
come up with a lot of fascinating guests from all
kinds of different professions and different idioms and dan so
(30:33):
this has showed me another side of you, because no
matter who that guest is, you're great at interviewing them.
Even if you don't know anything about the subject at all,
you're a great interviewer. So they've been fascinating. And the
point I was going to make you already made. Some
of these people have come back for full hour segments.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Yeah, there may be all of them. One of them
tonight that I invited back. As a matter of fact,
I heard that who was talking about, you know, seasonal disorder,
seasonal effective disorder.
Speaker 9 (31:04):
Well exactly, Yeah, I heard that interview, and now I
like it. I like the first hour and uh, and
I like the way you guys trade off and promoting
the show at night. You both have entirely different styles,
but I love you both the way you both do it.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
She's much better looking than I am, too, Bill.
Speaker 9 (31:26):
You're Marina is very attractive. But you're a fine looking man,
So there's no problem there.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
It wasn't a long time ago. You got a question
from I think you got it. You said you had
a question from a reader, Go right ahead.
Speaker 9 (31:41):
Oh no, no more questions. But I've got a story.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
You got you got any animal story. This wasn't someone
who attended one of your concerts, by the way, I'm hoping.
Speaker 9 (31:53):
Ah, well, no, no, but so we grew up on
a farm reader in Millis, Massachusetts. The little town there
was five thousand people, and we were on this large
poultry farm and there's a lot of woods that would
go deep almost to the next almost to medfield. They'd
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go deep and far away, and the Charles River went
through the property. So one night before but when I
were playing, we were just little kids, my father comes
home from a gig because he had his own band
before we started playing, and he gets out of the
car and a bear started chasing up right around the yard.
Speaker 5 (32:37):
Oh my goodness, Wow, that's probably just my story because
I didn't get chased by a bear, luckily.
Speaker 9 (32:45):
No, this bear was a wild bear. So we have
a huge barn right next to where my father would
park the car. There's a huge barn. So he jumped
right into the barn, closed the door, and they had
a flashlight there and one time was right he dashed
for the house, which is at least twenty yards away.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
So wow, well I didn't see that, lucky.
Speaker 9 (33:09):
We all heard about the bad story and yeah, wow, Well,
so Dan, you have a summer house on the cape,
and we have one in in Naples. Main Marina goes
up there too.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
I know that.
Speaker 5 (33:24):
Yeah, my family has no place in the next counter
so away from you. So yeah, I'm very familiar with
the area.
Speaker 9 (33:32):
Yeah, you were in Harrison, or Bridge and Harrison.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Okay, well, Bill, so thanks thanks for joining. I want
to get at least one more in here before the
segment is up. But as always, we're big fans of
of the Winnakers. And as you know, and I'd never
heard that story about your dad, but he had to
be pretty agile to us.
Speaker 9 (33:54):
Oh he was a great athlete, Dan, he was a
star athlete.
Speaker 5 (33:58):
But eat off that night.
Speaker 9 (34:02):
Yeah, so listen the best selected both of you will
love you both and love the show.
Speaker 5 (34:08):
Thanks so much, appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (34:11):
Okay for us, let me go next to Dave in
San Antonio, Texas. Dave, welcome back. How are you sir?
Speaker 10 (34:21):
Yeah, Dan, I got a couple of them before you.
When I was living up in northern Michigan. My wife,
My wife was a bottle for the petique clothing manufacturer.
Clothing manufacturers, I forget which one was, but she modeled
for clothing. She was so beautiful and gentle looking that
when we would walk through the woods to go catfishing
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and the deer would come up to her.
Speaker 5 (34:44):
They just come up to her, either I mean deer
did or bar I didn't hear.
Speaker 9 (34:51):
What's going to.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
One, I'll just come up to my one. And well,
that's one story, but the scary one is mine. I
was at the top. I was at the top of
a steep downhill and I bicy put to work and everything.
I didn't drive a car. I never drove a car.
And I used to ride on my bicycle everywhere and
I was good at it, and luckily, and I was
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at the top of a hill and I aggravated this
elk feeding at the side of the road with spring grass,
and he let me know how mad he was because
I started to go down that hill and he came
after me, and all I heard all the way down
the hill was his thunderous hooks, real close. And I'm
praying to the Dear Lord. I'm praying to the dear Lord.
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He poops out before I hit the downhill and have
to go uphill, and thank God he did poop out.
Speaker 4 (35:44):
Well, you know, money, you're you're out there in the
you know, in the wilds of Texas. I've heard these stories.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
About people who go out to you know, the wyoming
and stuff, and they try to get a picture.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
They try to do a cell phone with a bison. Bison.
Speaker 5 (36:02):
Yeah, that's that's a big problem nowadays, Dan, and.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
There have been people who have been really badly hurt.
They will they call over to the bison and you
know the old days, you'd use the camera and take
a shot from fifty feet or one hundred feet away.
But they're going over there and it's like they're doing
a selfie with some old.
Speaker 5 (36:21):
Friend, you know, coming from the Graham. You know what
I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
They all.
Speaker 3 (36:28):
Dan having an help with the great big cords.
Speaker 5 (36:32):
Oh you you interrupted his breakfast, you know, like you
a nice peace morning, so you came along.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Well, I'm glad I'd rather you that you had sufficient
alacrity to escape the.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
Thank God.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
You know.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
You know what, northern Michigan, it's not too uncommon to
see a Mama baroner comes going through the high grink.
Speaker 4 (36:57):
Do not want to get between a Mama baron.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
Remember, no, no, no, no, no, no, don't you dare.
Speaker 4 (37:04):
A story.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
There was a a beer, a baby beer, when I
was a very young reporter in Princeton, Massachusetts. It's up
on northwest of Boston, and they had this baby beer
who was u I guess was found and wash.
Speaker 4 (37:22):
It was an orphan.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
There was no mother around. And his name was Bruno.
And I remember going up to do the story and
I actually did his stand up clothes with the baby beer.
Speaker 4 (37:32):
In my arms.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
It was it felt like a you know, a ten
pound dog or something, but it was cute. It didn't
do it didn't hurt me or anything like that. And
they had a nurse right there with the baby beer
and they had given it, you know, give feeded a
bottle and everything. It was. He was very happy and
I thought to myself that eventually they were going to
put that beer in the woods. I'm glad I met
him when he was you know, when he was that young.
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And I did meet him a few years later in
the world. You got it, You got it, hey, David George.
I'll always remember your Elk story here, Dave.
Speaker 4 (38:06):
That was a good one. Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
Okay, bye bye, talk to you soon.
Speaker 4 (38:11):
Mariita.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
I'll let you get some sleep. You got an early
call in the morning, and I thank you for doing
this tonight. And uh we'll we'll move on and you
can you can catch up with with some some sleep
and I hope that Stella sleeps to the night, especially.
Speaker 4 (38:25):
Tonight for you.
Speaker 5 (38:26):
Okay, oh yeah, thank you. Yeah, my pleasure and type
to come on.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
But do you need me, absolutely absolutely, thanks so much.
We'll talk to you at some point relatively early in
the morning. We're working on Actually, we got Thursday pretty
much down here, so yeah, we are in good shape
for Thursday, even for Friday at this point. So uh,
we'll we're always ready for changes if if news news happens,
(38:51):
we change, we change our format, that's for sure.
Speaker 4 (38:54):
Thank you so much. We'll see you in the morning.
Speaker 5 (38:56):
Talk to you in the morning, all ranks, Thanks everyone.
Speaker 4 (38:59):
Thanks, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
Marita aka Lightning coming back here on Nightside right after
the eleven o'clock news for a fourth and final hour
here on Nightside.
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