October 29, 2025 • 40 mins
We continued our conversation on wild animals you've seen in your yard and or property and discussed President Trump's recent meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea, where they talked trade.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's nice with Dan Ray, I'm telling you Boston's Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Sorry, well, I want to thank Marita for joining us
for an hour.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Marita has an early call tomorrow, so but it was
I thought a story that was fun. If if any
of you would like to tell me about what critter
you might have dealt with in your home, whether it
be an urban critter of some sort a suburban critter
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as Marita had dealt with, or for that matter, a
rural critter would love We're all ears. I'm trying to
sort of be a little late tonight. There's a there's
a big story happening halfway around the world even as
we sit here. If you'd like to comment on that,
I'm going to give you a couple of options here,
and then at some point we will we'll focus in
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a little bit more the meeting between According to CNN,
the meeting between President Trump and Chinese President E is
already under the Chinese leader z uh is underway. This
is a meeting that is expected to produce some positive results.
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As you know, there's there are a lot of issues
between these two two leaders. A meeting at an air
force and an air base UH near where this UH
this this meeting with Korean officials, and uh, there are
all sorts of uh uh different agendas at play here apparently, uh,
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you know, just some of the issues, according to CNN,
that we could talk about. The thorny issues include the
tariffs uh that had been opposed by President Trump, trade
imballance China, sweeping export controls on rare earth minerals, US
restrictions on Chinese access to American high tech. Also Chinese
role in the illicit fentanyl trade. This is, according to CNN,
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Chinese purchases of Americans beans that is a big part
of it for American farmers, the future of the US
of the popular Chinese owned social media app TikTok. I
believe that deal is done. I believe that the President
wants to lean on Xi to in turn lean on
Putin on Ukraine and get that situation settled down. And
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of course Taiwan remains always an interesting question of controversy.
China would love to regain control of Taiwan. We have
a one China policy where we recognize China and we
don't recognize Taiwan, but we do have diplomatic relations with Taiwan.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
So there's a.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Lot to talk about there, if you want to talk
about that, I would say that Donald Trump has had
a very I think, despite all.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Of the controversies that swirl around him.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
And I know there are many of you who really
cannot President Trump, but when you look at the successes
that he's had, whether it's on the southern border, which
has been well for all intents and purposes, closed the
northern border as well, his success a bold strike against Iran,
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which seems to have taken Iran off the field as
a nuclear player at any time in the future. That
is a complete contravention of what our previous policies had
been with Iran under President Obama. And under Obama it
was negotiate, negotiate, negotiate, and reward, reward, reward. Joe Biden
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didn't pay much attention to Iran, at least publicly, but
the president. The stock market is doing very well. Now
there's a second interest cut. No promises for December, but
there's there's been two quarter point cuts. Everything at the
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moment is going well. I think I don't know that
Donald Trump could be any happier again.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
He has these.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Other issues where there have been some indictments of his
political opponents and even the indictments of people who worked
in his first administration look at John Bolton. No president
can keep the pace I think that Donald Trump has
and the successes that he's had. He has been very
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much involved in some peace negotiations around the world, certainly
India and Pakistan as one. There's there, there have been others,
and certainly he's making an effort in the Middle East,
which we all, I hope would think is is valuable.
So I'm willing to entertain that talks are going right now,
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I'm looking at the screen. This is just a pos picture,
if you will, of the President with Michael Rubio to
his right and with his delegation across the table from
President Trump. And if he comes out of their Treasury secretary,
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if he comes out of there successfully, he will have
had a couple of weeks here or a couple of
months when you go back to the to the release
of the the Israeli hostages from Hamas, He's had a
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string of successes. I don't know if that has changed
anyone's mind on Donald Trump, because I think that there
are enough things going on back here which have upset people,
including the government shutdown, which continues. So I'm just going
to throw open all of those topics. If you want
to talk on any of those topics, that's great. If
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you want to either give him credit or or or
fault him for things he has done or things that
he has failed to do. Uh, that's what we're about
here at night side six one seven, two five forward
ten thirty six one seven, nine three one ten thirty.
I I feel that this is an opportunity for you
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to take a little bit of control of the agenda.
I would like to drive it in the direction of
your thoughts about Donald Trump's He has had a series
of successes that would be difficult to top in terms
of other presidents, and particularly if you consider this really
the equivalent of he's wrapping up his first year. He
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has now said, by the way, after having trolled Democrats
over a third term, he's been very clear today that
he's not going to run for a third term. In
one of his conversations along Air Force one, what they
call a media gaggle, So gonna take a quick break
one seven, two, five four to ten thirty six one seven,
nine three one ten thirty your perspective. You don't have
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to share my point of view or my perspective on Nightside.
As a matter of fact, I prefer to hear from you.
If you disagree, let me know what you're thinking. Uh,
as you can. You could be talking to me as
Donald Trump is talking to Premiere ZiU of the Chinese
Communist Party, the the head you want to talk about
(07:26):
an authoritarian that's what we're talking about.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
There.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Makes Donald Trump Trump look like a kindergarten teacher. We'll
be back on Nightside and not and that is not
a good thing, by the way. Six one, seven, five,
four ten thirty six one seven nine three one ten thirty.
We'll have at it right after this very quick break
here on Nightside.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
It's night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Okay, let's go to the phone. It's gonna go first
off to Matt and Brighton. Matt, welcome back. How are
you sir? In Brighton? Matt, are you able to hear me? Matt,
you're on the air. Go right ahead, Matt, welcome back.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
I could hear you perfectly. Now I could not hear
you before, Matt, you were on the air. We're thirty
seconds into a foell and what brings you to the
show tonight.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
What's on your mind?
Speaker 6 (08:21):
No, absolutely, I didn't expect to be put through it
as quickly as I could.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
But you know, for in this instance, you know I would.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Say that I'm stunned.
Speaker 6 (08:40):
I'm stunned that the what's being pushed forward is just.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
That you're going here to give me the subject you'd
like to talk about and we can start to talk
about it.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Go right ahead. You're stunned over what, don't know what?
Speaker 7 (09:00):
What what?
Speaker 6 (09:01):
What I'm saying for what was being for is being
eaten enough. And I'm very just shocked by and I'm
hot street forward. And I don't think.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Quite, sir, that that you've told me you shocked and
you're stunned. I'm not sure what you're shocked and stunned over.
Tell me what what the issue is we're going to talk.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
About for the last thing that you said, and uh,
I will I will give the credit that I was
cut off card on the.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Uh okay, Matt, next time, Next time, just be a
little better prepared and we'll we'll have a better conversation,
a great one.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Matt.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Let me go to uh Meg, Maggie and Margie in
the catskills.
Speaker 8 (09:52):
Go ahead, Margie, Yes, Hi, I'm sorry. My radio reception
was not good tonight, so I missed a lot of
the program. But I live on the edge of a
fifty acre forest. Sixty nine percent of my town is forest,
and I've had many bear encounters, animal encounters.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
How close had you gotten to a bear physically?
Speaker 8 (10:17):
I will tell you the closest. I had two little
miniature doctions and they're very, very yappy, and I was downstairs.
We have sliding glass doors to the outside, and I
was very intent on watching a TV program. So I
went to the sliding glass door. The dogs are barking,
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and I put my hand on the handle slide the
door open. And I looked down and I said, why
is my husband wearing these silly looking slippers? And slowly
I looked up, very hairy legs. There was a bear
exactly my height, a young bear. He was red e
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gold against the glass door, and he was about four
inches from my face. Whoa, whoa, I let out a scream.
Bear did a tuble backflip, and my husband came running down.
He said, I thought you were murdered. I scared the
bear more than he scared me.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Yeah, I'll tell you the only time I've ever been
close to a bear. I was at a zoo here
in the Boston area called the Stone Zoo, and I
was in an area that normally the public didn't get
to go to. I was getting a tour and I
walked out a very thin corridor, I mean a very
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thin carter. You couldn't have it was as wide as
I was. If someone was coming the other way, you
would have had to have turned sideways to let the
person go by. And there was a point in time
where it almost like you were almost de prison because
they were just one foot by one foot openings with
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steel bars. And at one point I turned as I
was going by one of these, and there was a
beer about my height just.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Looking at me.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
He was I mean, the steel bars would be tee
between us and a steel door. He wasn't going to
get me, but I mean I could. I could look
him literally in the eye, and I thought to myself,
thank God for the steel bars, Thank God for the
steel door. He wasn't you know, he was nonplus, he
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wasn't reacting or anything. I assumed he thought I might
have been somebody coming by to bring him food or
something like that, because I assume they put the food
in through the steel bars. But it was a moment
in time where it's like whoa, whoa, Thank goodness, I'm
glad that I didn't meet mister beer as you did.
What do you think the beer wanted to do?
Speaker 8 (12:56):
Do you think the beer was just I think he
was just looking in the door. I will also tell
of the bears. Most of the bears I encounter are yearlings.
Their mothers toss them out, the young male bears, so
they are kind of out on their own and they're
causing all kinds of problems. But I'll tell you the
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cutest things. Since you've been close to a bear cub.
There is no cuter animal in the world. And bear cubs.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Oh, I know, I held the bear cub I did.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
I remember doing a stand up clothes end of the report,
and this little guy was the you want to take
him home, But obviously there was going to be one day,
not too distant future where he was going to wake
up and he's no longer to be be a bear,
be a bear cub, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Have you if.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
You're the catskills with all of that, those animals around
you yes, I'm assuming that you take great precaution to
make sure that your trash barrels are covered or your trash.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Barrels are in.
Speaker 8 (13:58):
Just a good thing, because before I have one more
bear story. But oh before I forget, I heard you
mentioned fishers. Did you see them?
Speaker 3 (14:08):
I did see a fisher cat up close and personal.
A woman who lived next door to me about twenty
years ago, was trying to trap a coyote and she
hired a trapper who brought a big trap, and I
went over there the next morning to see if she
had been successful. She did not capture a coyote, but
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she captured a fisher cat, and I was terrified the
fisher cats inside the cage. He's running up the cage,
across the roof down the other side. This thing just
was a whirling dervish and making all sorts of noises.
I would have been more comfortable with a coyote than
I would have been with a fisher cat. I have
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no idea what they did, but she said that the
trapper she paid the guy to trap a coyote a
fisher cat.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Good luck with that.
Speaker 8 (15:02):
I'll tell you they are incredible predators, and years ago
they were hunted to extinction for their pelts. A fisher
coat was a real big deal in the nineteen twenties.
And if you look at their coats, they're exceedingly beautiful.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Well, this guy wasn't This guy or gal, whichever type
this particular fisher cat was, wasn't cute, wasn't beautiful. And
I just when I saw him, it was like, I
just want to get away. I just thank you very much,
great to see you. Hope the trapper comes by. Don't
let this thing out of cage.
Speaker 8 (15:39):
One thing to remember about them. They are the only
animal that can eat a porcupine.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Well that says a lot. That says a lot about
the digestive system as well.
Speaker 8 (15:53):
They can kill a porcupine. I want to tell you
about safety precautions. Our bear population has like tripled in
the last three years. We went through like thirty years
we didn't see any and now they're all over. When
I step out of my house every day, I have
a necklace around my neck with a big loud whistle
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at the end. The only way to avoid them really
safely is they hate loud noises, so carry a whistle.
Some people carrying the air horn. Even the barking of
a dog right in some But the number one thing
to do is do not leave your smelly garbage outside.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Oh my god, yeah, where you live, that would be suicidal.
The only thing I would mention to you is, I
don't know how much time you spend on the internet,
but I now notice that there are a lot of
ads on the internet, and I'm not sure the legality
of these ads where they're advertising the devices that the
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police are authorized to use in which they immobilize someone
with an electric shock, and it's showing uh, you know,
regular civilians using them. If I lived where you were,
I would probably get one of those and keep it,
keep it near at hand, because if you see some
of these ads, they show you know, you know, a
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bear or whatever gets this shock and they and they're
out of there.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
It's understandable.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
It's you know, it's it's the it's what the the
tasers that police use, but it's some version of it.
I I maybe they're not as strong. But if you're
ever going to be in a situation where you're confronted
by a bear.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Let me I might hold on on you. I might
be giving you wrong advice.
Speaker 8 (17:47):
Now that that's a good advice. But they hate loud noises.
So even if you have no defense, just by screaming
and kneeling and wearing waving your arms, I've noticed they'll leave,
except when there's a mother and her cut.
Speaker 7 (18:02):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Yes, we've talked about that, Maggie. It's great. Great to
hear your voice. We will talk soon.
Speaker 8 (18:07):
Okay, thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Bye, and thanks for listening. After we'll try to get
our signal up to you a little bit better. Okay,
thank you much. Good night, we'll take a well, no, no,
I'm gonna we don't need to take a break. I'm
gonna go to John in New York. Hey, John, welcome
next on Night Side.
Speaker 9 (18:23):
Yeah, I did uh turning the critits. I had a
bat in the basement once.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Oh yeahs bats are easy. I'm well, they're not easy.
You got to get you got to get a professional
bat guy to uh to take care of him. What
did you deal with it? Or did you bring someone in?
Speaker 9 (18:41):
I bought somebody in His name was Batman.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Yeah, I think that if I was.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
If I was a bat, I know I we had
a bat in my house. It was actually in late
it was in late March, and it had to have
been like ten or fifteen years ago, and it was
such nice weather that somehow someone in my family and
it wasn't me because I wasn't home, left the door
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ajar and so all of a sudden I got a
pan a call from my wife that there was a
bat flying around in the house, so could I come home.
I was doing a radio show. I said, well, why
don't you you secrete yourself in a room. And our
daughter was with my wife upstairs. They were safe and sound.
I came home. I put on a baseball hat, I
grabbed the tennis record and I thought to myself, I'll
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get the bat. And as I was moving through the house,
that thing flew by me and flew into a room.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
I slammed the door.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Shut in the room, and I thought to myself, you're
nuts trying to do this. So I actually had the
number of a guy. This is one o'clock in the morning.
He came over, which was great. He came over and
it cost me money, don't get me wrong, but he said,
where's the bat.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
I said, he's in this room.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
He put on these gloves, these heavy duty gloves, almost
like something that was somebody who was a falcon would use.
Walked into the room, he said, I'll be right out.
I closed the door behind him quickly. The room was dark.
He didn't put any lights on.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
He came out about thirty seconds later. He had the
bat and the glove. Apparently the glove had some sort
of a scent where the bat flew into the glove.
He came out, snapped the bat's neck, and he said
that he was going to take it to the there's
like a public health facility in Jamaica plane where they
see if the bat had rabies or something like that.
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But this guy was good. He walked into that that
dark room, and he just said, I said, how'd you get?
He says, I just stood there and they fly to
the gloves, and once I feel them, I grab him
and uh, that was it.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
That was it.
Speaker 9 (20:47):
When I first went down, the basement was kind of dark.
That got actually flew over my head and he brushed
my hair.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Oh yeah, I mean, well, first of all, the you
know you've heard the phrase blind as a bat. They
supposedly can't see and they use uh they send out sonar,
uh so they don't fly.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
At the walls and stuff.
Speaker 9 (21:06):
But nasty, nasty, stuff that did charge me one hundred
bucks by the way to get the bad let.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Me tell you something that was probably the best hundred
bucks you spent that month, John, because you wouldn't have
slept that night. I guarantee you you wouldn't have slept
that night.
Speaker 7 (21:23):
Hey.
Speaker 9 (21:24):
Yeah, one other thing, and I'm going to say good night,
is that. Uh, Donald Trump, I'm satisfied with it. He's accomplishing.
I think he's doing all right.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
I think you'd have to give him at least in
the last couple of months. I mean se it's like
he's like a sports team. You know, the Patriots are
now winning the one sixth straight. No one expected that.
I think he's he's on a winning streak. And if
this meeting with ggos as well as it's been suggested,
I think you'll you'll you'll see more victories. I think
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you start to win, and winning begets winning. And uh,
I don't think as during the campaign you'll get so
tired of winning. I don't think anyone's going to get
tired of winning, particularly when Steve Yeah, you know, when I.
Speaker 9 (22:07):
Was a kid in school, the social studies teacher used
to tell us that our country needs a businessman for president,
not a lawyer.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Well, as a lawyer, I would probably agree with that,
although ab Blncoln a Blncoln was Although remember this, John
Abe Lincoln was a country lawyer who's a pretty good president.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
He was the right guy for the job at the time.
Speaker 9 (22:31):
But yes, that's right. But the thing is, you know,
lawyers in the Congress and Senate making laws and rules. Yes,
that's where they belonged.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Oh yeah, sure enough.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Okay, Well we'll let that one go. We'll let that
one go. You know, President Kennedy wasn't a lawyer, Lyndon
Johnson wasn't a lawyer. Nixon was a lawyer. Reagan wasn't
a lawyer, and nor was Franklin Roosevelt. So when you
think about it from a historic point of view, the
greatest presidents of the twentieth century, and I would argue
would be Reagan and Roosevelt. Uh and Teddy Roosevelt as well.
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None of those three were lawyers. So I'm back, I'm
back in your argument up for you, John, all right,
And I'm a lawyer, begs many dutschallawyer are.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
A damn a damn good one, John.
Speaker 9 (23:17):
Okay, okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Thanks mank you lends. All right, have a great one.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Here comes the news at the bottom of the hour.
We're talking about your experiences, your moments in nature where
you either were confronted by or stumbled upon a critter
that made you uncomfortable. I suspect there's a few stories
out there that you'd like to share. Six one, seven, two, five,
four ten thirty six one seven, nine three one ten thirty.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
We also can talk about Donald Trump, who seems to
be on a roll things.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
A lot of trade deals in Asia this week, following
upon the success that he's had in the Middle East,
which I think is undeniable at this point. That's not
to say that the Middle East is solved, but it
certainly has gone down a better road with him than
it hasn't with any president, at least in my lifetime,
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and it's a pretty long lifetime. Joined the conversation a
couple of lines at six one, seven, two, five, four
to ten thirty and one available at six one, seven, nine, three,
one ten thirty.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
My name is Dan Ray. Let's get it going. We're
heading to midnight.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
It's nice side with Dan Ray on.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
All right, let's keep rolling here. We got Tim and
Woober and hey Tim, welcome back. Next on Nightside.
Speaker 10 (24:39):
Hi Dan, how are you doing?
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Couldn't be better? Tim? If I was any better, I
think it would be illegal.
Speaker 10 (24:44):
Go ahead, you'll know guess who I was today.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Let me take a guess. Anchorage, Alaska.
Speaker 10 (24:52):
I should be there. I was in Westwood.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
That's good.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Yeah, absolutely so, just up by the New Orlean have
grab a burger or something.
Speaker 10 (25:03):
I didn't have time. I did a set of a
small set of brickstairs. Oh guy I played football with
moved out there and he called me up, canceled the
house and I need to set of stairs.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
So you were able to put together. By the way,
those of you don't know, Tim is a great mason.
You were able to do a set of stairs in
one day. That's amazing.
Speaker 10 (25:25):
You know what he said to me, No, I don't,
he said, McMahon, when you get old, you stop to
look like your dog.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Well that's what they say. Well, that's what that that's
what they like.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
That's what they say about people that that a lot
of people either pick dogs, that that beer of resemblance
to them. That is that is a that's a belief
some people swear by that Tim.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
I gotta tell.
Speaker 10 (25:52):
You, for ten years he's been lost, of fifteen, I
wish I met him. I got milk bowed dog.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
This is I give the people out of He would
have loved him, He would have loved him. Well, he's he.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
He walked over, as we we, those of us who
believe that that we'll meet our pets later on.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
He walked over. What's called the Rainbow Bridge is a
great poem.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Anyone who loses a pet should always google rainbow that.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Yeah, it's a it's a good one. It's a good
I say.
Speaker 10 (26:20):
One thing about Abraham Mindeon and John F. Kennedy, go
right ahead. What happened to him? Robert Frost at one time?
It's something to be good in.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
The bad world.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
But what happened to them, that's true.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Robert Frost, of course, was the American poet laureate who
spoke at the Kennedy inauguration on January twentieth, nineteen sixty one.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
And it was such a cold, weeky day that the
poem that Frost had prepared for the president, the papers
blew away, and he had to try to recite the
poem as best he could, and he did a good job.
I'm told I watched that vie.
Speaker 10 (26:57):
You know the guy you said to you asked you
what kind of law? You said, what kind of loie?
I is that a good one.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
That's exactly what That's exactly how I feel. I did
a lot.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Thank you.
Speaker 10 (27:08):
I'm gonna leave you with this. God bless God, Bless
the that's God, bless the Massachusetts State Police.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
I'm with you all the way on all of those.
Thanks Tim, we'll talk soon. Have a great one.
Speaker 10 (27:19):
Good night, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
You bet you let me go to Nancy Induxbury. Hey, Nancy,
you were next one night SA and welcome back.
Speaker 11 (27:26):
Oh thank you. How are you? Ben Dan?
Speaker 2 (27:29):
I've been busy. It's been a kind of a whirlwind.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
I had a little bit of time off this summer,
but since September a Labor day, I've been pretty much
here most every night, and I've I've had some really
interesting shows. We had, We had some great guests. Earlier
tonight we did a show about Medford, which was great.
(27:54):
Last night, we talked about a lot about why Governor
Healy seems adamant in not using our eight point eight
billion dollar Rainy Day fund to take care of some
of the folks who are snap recipients who may lose
their food benefits as early as Saturday.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
So yeah, we've we've had a really good week.
Speaker 11 (28:15):
Well, I would say that Governor Healing needs to wake
up smell Akosi.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Well, I don't know what she's doing.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
I think what she's doing is playing to a national
audience that she's falling the governors and they they they
don't like Trump, which is fine, but as opposed to
criticizing the administration, which I get. I guess get your
points with Gavin Newsoon Newsom and whomever else is I
(28:42):
don't even.
Speaker 11 (28:42):
Know who, idiot anyway.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Yeah, absolutely, let's do something positive for people here in Massachusetts.
Speaker 11 (28:50):
I would agree, you know, I mean, get more Republicans
or independents elected, That's what I say.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Well, I think we need some balance at the legislature,
and I think a lot of question to look at
it and say, hey, you know, we have we have
too many sheep at the state House who whatever the
speaker or the Senate President.
Speaker 11 (29:08):
Says unbelievable, they simply say believable.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
How high?
Speaker 3 (29:11):
When they say jumped, they simply say how high? I know,
you know, it's it's not it's not a good look
and it certainly isn't good for for Massachusetts.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
So we'll see.
Speaker 11 (29:23):
Uh is it is not too much overreach? They've been
pulling that too much of that.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
But I just think that here's an example where everybody
would have rallied behind the governor. Look, I'm a conservative,
I think you're a conservative. I'm not in favor of
giving away stuff to people, but I do want my
tax money used to help people who need help exactly.
Speaker 11 (29:44):
That's what it should be for.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Yeah. Absolutely, and we have we have.
Speaker 11 (29:48):
A improve the infrastructure and to take care of the people.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Right, but we have eight point eight billion with a
B billion dollars.
Speaker 11 (29:57):
That's insane, that's absolutely insane, and.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Let's use it to help people and maybe give some
of it back to the taxpayers as well, by the way, But.
Speaker 11 (30:06):
That's why I would agree with that.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
So what I.
Speaker 11 (30:12):
Well, I was going to ask for a little latitude.
I was going to tell you a couple of stories
about animals, but nothing in the wild. Just in my
own backyard.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Your backyard could be wild, as as Lady Lightning Maria
found out last weekend.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Go ahead, and you got the microphone, you got, you
got the mic. Go ahead, Nancy.
Speaker 11 (30:31):
Well, let me tell you. I looked out my back
door one day because I heard this minor ruckus in
the backyard, and I see a coyote. Now, mind you,
this is in the daytime and the sun is shining,
and there is a coyote chasing a deer in my backyard.
Whoa boys, So I opened up the door and I said,
(30:56):
cut it out. Coyote looked me and took off. The
deer turned around and got on her hind legs and
pawed the air, bleeded and took off.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Yeah, well I think she was. She was.
Speaker 11 (31:11):
It was quite amusing. Really, well, we have a lot
of deer in this area anyway, but that was classic.
And then I'll tell you another quick story we had
one day. I looked out in my backyard again and
I saw this creature. Now it wasn't a coyote, and
it wasn't a.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Dog, and it wasn't.
Speaker 11 (31:35):
But amusingly, this was a very unique animal. And I've
come to find out that there are uh such creatures
in our area on the south Shore. It was a
cross between a coyote and we believe a wolf. And
I'll tell you why it had the striations on its nose.
(31:58):
It was not the narrow face of a coyote. When
it moved, it didn't waggle sideways. Coyotes have an interesting move.
They kind of waggle sideways. And it was that's what
I do.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
That's what I do on the dance floor, so I
can I O.
Speaker 11 (32:17):
It was just standing there in my backyard staring at
the house, and my husband said, it's doing a standoff
with a with a a turkey in the backyard.
Speaker 7 (32:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
The put my money on the wolf and the coyote,
and I know it was.
Speaker 11 (32:34):
Crazy, but what I wanted to say was this was
the most beautiful creature it she he, I don't know, beautiful,
long fluffy, gray fur, gorgeous animal, and coyotes are smaller.
This is larger than a coyote, so it was definitely
more on the wolf side. But it was very unique, very.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Amazing story.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
I love the story about about the deer on the
hind legs paring it and saying thank you.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
I love that as well.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
I'm into my commercial break here, so Nancy, I love
your call.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
You got to call more often. Thank you so much.
Speaker 11 (33:13):
I will audio my friend and I'm a pro Trump person,
So that's fine.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
We we have a big tent here on Nightside pro Trump.
Speaker 11 (33:22):
I know, I'm very very pleased with what he's doing,
very brilliant.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
I am pleased with the I've criticized him, but I
will credit him, and I think he's on I'm with.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
You totally right.
Speaker 11 (33:33):
I would agree he's not perfect, but none of us are.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
You know, no, no, no, and believe me, I can
identify with that.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Thanks Nancy, talk to you soon, can Okay, all, I
gotta take a quick break. I'm going to try to
get everybody in.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Julian in the road, Bernie in New Hampshire, Brian and
Plymouth and James and Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Stay right there,
we're coming back on Nightside.
Speaker 4 (33:54):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Were getting everybody in.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Let's go, Brian, I play with Hey Brian, welcome next
on Nightside, Briani.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Move on, yes, sorry, go ahead. I was on my
way home from the Herbie Hancock concert at the Wang
Theater and the traffic was terrible heading to the Cell Shore,
so I put on Busy and when I put it on,
I heard you talking about the fisher cat that you
had an encounter with in a cage. Yes, I had
(34:32):
an experience about ten years ago, maybe a little less,
where I got home from a gig. I'm a musician,
bass player, and I it was probably three in the morning,
and I opened the hatchback of my car and I
had an electric base in the in the back. I
brought in my amp. It was heavy. I came back
(34:56):
out to get my base and I was about to
grab it, and I heard footsteps that I've never heard before,
like running a lot of them, And within seconds I
turned around. In about five to ten yards away from
me at the end of.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
My driveway, a fisher cat stopped dead in its tracks
and stared right at me and.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Like it didn't like it just hissed at me. And
it was petrifying. Like you said, it wasn't beautiful. Oh,
it wasn't pretty. And as soon as it did, it
only took a second, but it did. It looked me
right in the eye and hissed at me. And immediately,
instead of running straight down the street towards the ocean,
(35:52):
took out u turn and ran right across the street
into my neighbor's yard. And then and it was out
of sight. But within two to three seconds after that,
a Koi wolf that was so big did the stopped
in the exact same place and turned its head at me.
Speaker 5 (36:17):
And I'm talking.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
It wasn't ten years. It was close to the five
and I was horrified, and it just stood frozen. And
it was no coyote. It was one hundred thousand percent
of koi wolf and it was huge. And at that
point I I picked up my base.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
By the neck with the body up top, and just
prepared for battle.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
And as soon as I raised it above my head,
it walked away, but it was looking at me like
you just ruined my meal.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
Now I'm pretty sure it.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
Was chasing that that fisher cat. I think I'm pretty
sure it was about to I.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
Would I would have let them hat at it, and
I would have gone into the house and pulled myself
the stiffest drink I could simple that. Oh my god, Brian,
I hate to do this year. I got four calls
behind you. There was a great story. Thank you for sharing.
I appreciate it much. We'll talk again, okay, Peece, thank
you great, Thanks very much.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Bernie, Can you be quick for me? I got three
behind you buddy.
Speaker 7 (37:21):
Absolutely, Dan, damn good one. I loved that. I was great,
but uh, twenty thirteen, I was working down on woodbine jarge,
a capital lampfill and in the end of the day
I was working with these guys from Louisiana. And the
end of the day, the guys says, hey, jump in
the water truck and do some dust control. I said,
all right, I throw a trash pump and there's a
little pond. And as soon as I threw the trash
(37:43):
bond up, an alligator jumped up at me.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Nice ran up.
Speaker 7 (37:47):
I was on top of the truck in three seconds.
Speaker 5 (37:50):
Down I'm laying at it.
Speaker 7 (37:52):
But I was standing and they're just standing there a
lout and they're like, Bernie, what are you doing on
top of that water truck over there?
Speaker 10 (37:59):
Yeah, this is an alligator in that he said, he's
a baby.
Speaker 7 (38:02):
That's not pet It was alligator. Yet.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
Oh let me tell you, Ernie, that's a great story.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
Every once in a while you see some poor guy
out on a golf course who meets up with an alligator.
Not a good idea. They can move pretty quickly. I
bet you we moved more quickly than they did. Bernie,
let me run here, we'll talk again.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
I gotta thank you much. Great story, well told. Julie
on the road, Julia, next time Nightsiger, Run ahead, Julie.
Speaker 12 (38:31):
Hi, Dan, it was a pleasure to meet you just
before Father's Day this year. And thank you for all dogs,
all cats, all pets.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
Well you're very welcome. What's what's I were a little
tight on time, but I'm so glad you.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Called go right ahead.
Speaker 12 (38:45):
I had a wonderful little encounter with a gray tree
frog in my house. I woke up one morning and
heard a strange rattling in the other room. And it
turned out that somehow this little frog had gotten into
a dry cleaning bag. They had fallen down behind the couch,
and it was traveling around and it came in on
a plant. But it was a very sweet and very cute.
(39:08):
And maybe i'll play this. Let's see if this will work.
The sound of the male's mating call here.
Speaker 11 (39:16):
Oh well, it's not.
Speaker 12 (39:21):
It's not doing it.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
Do be a favor. We'll do it again sometime. Okay,
I'm flat.
Speaker 10 (39:27):
Thanks Julie.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
All right, thank you, m doctor. Good night. I'm going
to give real quick. Paul. I got like fifteen seconds.
You want to say something, go right ahead.
Speaker 5 (39:37):
All we had a pregnant skunk underneath our front porch
and the smell was so bad that it affected the
entire basement. We the sea would not remove it because
it was mating seasons. So we put our ammonia soaked
rags underneath, and they disappeared and the problem was resolved.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
Sounds great, Paul. I gotta let you run on flat
out of time.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
To the callers of the line, I wish you guys
had called earlier.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
We might do this again. I gotta say thanks to Shane.
Speaker 3 (40:08):
I gotta thanks thanks to Marita for producing and also
being here at ten.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
Hope you'll listen to us on Nightside on demand dot com.
My name is Dan Ray.
Speaker 3 (40:16):
All dogs, all cats, all pets go to Heaven. That's
my pelle, Charlie Ray is who passed fifteen years ago
in February. That's where all your pets are who would passed.
They loved you and you love them. I do believe
you'll see them again. I will be on Nightside with
Dan Ray on Facebook in about two minutes. Join me there.
It's Dorothy so I couldn't get you in
It's nice with Dan Ray, I'm telling you Boston's Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Sorry, well, I want to thank Marita for joining us
for an hour.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Marita has an early call tomorrow, so but it was
I thought a story that was fun. If if any
of you would like to tell me about what critter
you might have dealt with in your home, whether it
be an urban critter of some sort a suburban critter
(00:30):
as Marita had dealt with, or for that matter, a
rural critter would love We're all ears. I'm trying to
sort of be a little late tonight. There's a there's
a big story happening halfway around the world even as
we sit here. If you'd like to comment on that,
I'm going to give you a couple of options here,
and then at some point we will we'll focus in
(00:51):
a little bit more the meeting between According to CNN,
the meeting between President Trump and Chinese President E is
already under the Chinese leader z uh is underway. This
is a meeting that is expected to produce some positive results.
(01:11):
As you know, there's there are a lot of issues
between these two two leaders. A meeting at an air
force and an air base UH near where this UH
this this meeting with Korean officials, and uh, there are
all sorts of uh uh different agendas at play here apparently, uh,
(01:33):
you know, just some of the issues, according to CNN,
that we could talk about. The thorny issues include the
tariffs uh that had been opposed by President Trump, trade
imballance China, sweeping export controls on rare earth minerals, US
restrictions on Chinese access to American high tech. Also Chinese
role in the illicit fentanyl trade. This is, according to CNN,
(01:58):
Chinese purchases of Americans beans that is a big part
of it for American farmers, the future of the US
of the popular Chinese owned social media app TikTok. I
believe that deal is done. I believe that the President
wants to lean on Xi to in turn lean on
Putin on Ukraine and get that situation settled down. And
(02:21):
of course Taiwan remains always an interesting question of controversy.
China would love to regain control of Taiwan. We have
a one China policy where we recognize China and we
don't recognize Taiwan, but we do have diplomatic relations with Taiwan.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
So there's a.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Lot to talk about there, if you want to talk
about that, I would say that Donald Trump has had
a very I think, despite all.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Of the controversies that swirl around him.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
And I know there are many of you who really
cannot President Trump, but when you look at the successes
that he's had, whether it's on the southern border, which
has been well for all intents and purposes, closed the
northern border as well, his success a bold strike against Iran,
(03:20):
which seems to have taken Iran off the field as
a nuclear player at any time in the future. That
is a complete contravention of what our previous policies had
been with Iran under President Obama. And under Obama it
was negotiate, negotiate, negotiate, and reward, reward, reward. Joe Biden
(03:41):
didn't pay much attention to Iran, at least publicly, but
the president. The stock market is doing very well. Now
there's a second interest cut. No promises for December, but
there's there's been two quarter point cuts. Everything at the
(04:01):
moment is going well. I think I don't know that
Donald Trump could be any happier again.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
He has these.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Other issues where there have been some indictments of his
political opponents and even the indictments of people who worked
in his first administration look at John Bolton. No president
can keep the pace I think that Donald Trump has
and the successes that he's had. He has been very
(04:31):
much involved in some peace negotiations around the world, certainly
India and Pakistan as one. There's there, there have been others,
and certainly he's making an effort in the Middle East,
which we all, I hope would think is is valuable.
So I'm willing to entertain that talks are going right now,
(04:54):
I'm looking at the screen. This is just a pos picture,
if you will, of the President with Michael Rubio to
his right and with his delegation across the table from
President Trump. And if he comes out of their Treasury secretary,
(05:16):
if he comes out of there successfully, he will have
had a couple of weeks here or a couple of
months when you go back to the to the release
of the the Israeli hostages from Hamas, He's had a
(05:36):
string of successes. I don't know if that has changed
anyone's mind on Donald Trump, because I think that there
are enough things going on back here which have upset people,
including the government shutdown, which continues. So I'm just going
to throw open all of those topics. If you want
to talk on any of those topics, that's great. If
(05:57):
you want to either give him credit or or or
fault him for things he has done or things that
he has failed to do. Uh, that's what we're about
here at night side six one seven, two five forward
ten thirty six one seven, nine three one ten thirty.
I I feel that this is an opportunity for you
(06:20):
to take a little bit of control of the agenda.
I would like to drive it in the direction of
your thoughts about Donald Trump's He has had a series
of successes that would be difficult to top in terms
of other presidents, and particularly if you consider this really
the equivalent of he's wrapping up his first year. He
(06:43):
has now said, by the way, after having trolled Democrats
over a third term, he's been very clear today that
he's not going to run for a third term. In
one of his conversations along Air Force one, what they
call a media gaggle, So gonna take a quick break
one seven, two, five four to ten thirty six one seven,
nine three one ten thirty your perspective. You don't have
(07:05):
to share my point of view or my perspective on Nightside.
As a matter of fact, I prefer to hear from you.
If you disagree, let me know what you're thinking. Uh,
as you can. You could be talking to me as
Donald Trump is talking to Premiere ZiU of the Chinese
Communist Party, the the head you want to talk about
(07:26):
an authoritarian that's what we're talking about.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
There.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Makes Donald Trump Trump look like a kindergarten teacher. We'll
be back on Nightside and not and that is not
a good thing, by the way. Six one, seven, five,
four ten thirty six one seven nine three one ten thirty.
We'll have at it right after this very quick break
here on Nightside.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
It's night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Okay, let's go to the phone. It's gonna go first
off to Matt and Brighton. Matt, welcome back. How are
you sir? In Brighton? Matt, are you able to hear me? Matt,
you're on the air. Go right ahead, Matt, welcome back.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
I could hear you perfectly. Now I could not hear
you before, Matt, you were on the air. We're thirty
seconds into a foell and what brings you to the
show tonight.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
What's on your mind?
Speaker 6 (08:21):
No, absolutely, I didn't expect to be put through it
as quickly as I could.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
But you know, for in this instance, you know I would.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Say that I'm stunned.
Speaker 6 (08:40):
I'm stunned that the what's being pushed forward is just.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
That you're going here to give me the subject you'd
like to talk about and we can start to talk
about it.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Go right ahead. You're stunned over what, don't know what?
Speaker 7 (09:00):
What what?
Speaker 6 (09:01):
What I'm saying for what was being for is being
eaten enough. And I'm very just shocked by and I'm
hot street forward. And I don't think.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Quite, sir, that that you've told me you shocked and
you're stunned. I'm not sure what you're shocked and stunned over.
Tell me what what the issue is we're going to talk.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
About for the last thing that you said, and uh,
I will I will give the credit that I was
cut off card on the.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Uh okay, Matt, next time, Next time, just be a
little better prepared and we'll we'll have a better conversation,
a great one.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Matt.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Let me go to uh Meg, Maggie and Margie in
the catskills.
Speaker 8 (09:52):
Go ahead, Margie, Yes, Hi, I'm sorry. My radio reception
was not good tonight, so I missed a lot of
the program. But I live on the edge of a
fifty acre forest. Sixty nine percent of my town is forest,
and I've had many bear encounters, animal encounters.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
How close had you gotten to a bear physically?
Speaker 8 (10:17):
I will tell you the closest. I had two little
miniature doctions and they're very, very yappy, and I was downstairs.
We have sliding glass doors to the outside, and I
was very intent on watching a TV program. So I
went to the sliding glass door. The dogs are barking,
(10:38):
and I put my hand on the handle slide the
door open. And I looked down and I said, why
is my husband wearing these silly looking slippers? And slowly
I looked up, very hairy legs. There was a bear
exactly my height, a young bear. He was red e
(11:00):
gold against the glass door, and he was about four
inches from my face. Whoa, whoa, I let out a scream.
Bear did a tuble backflip, and my husband came running down.
He said, I thought you were murdered. I scared the
bear more than he scared me.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Yeah, I'll tell you the only time I've ever been
close to a bear. I was at a zoo here
in the Boston area called the Stone Zoo, and I
was in an area that normally the public didn't get
to go to. I was getting a tour and I
walked out a very thin corridor, I mean a very
(11:45):
thin carter. You couldn't have it was as wide as
I was. If someone was coming the other way, you
would have had to have turned sideways to let the
person go by. And there was a point in time
where it almost like you were almost de prison because
they were just one foot by one foot openings with
(12:06):
steel bars. And at one point I turned as I
was going by one of these, and there was a
beer about my height just.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Looking at me.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
He was I mean, the steel bars would be tee
between us and a steel door. He wasn't going to
get me, but I mean I could. I could look
him literally in the eye, and I thought to myself,
thank God for the steel bars, Thank God for the
steel door. He wasn't you know, he was nonplus, he
(12:38):
wasn't reacting or anything. I assumed he thought I might
have been somebody coming by to bring him food or
something like that, because I assume they put the food
in through the steel bars. But it was a moment
in time where it's like whoa, whoa, Thank goodness, I'm
glad that I didn't meet mister beer as you did.
What do you think the beer wanted to do?
Speaker 8 (12:56):
Do you think the beer was just I think he
was just looking in the door. I will also tell
of the bears. Most of the bears I encounter are yearlings.
Their mothers toss them out, the young male bears, so
they are kind of out on their own and they're
causing all kinds of problems. But I'll tell you the
(13:17):
cutest things. Since you've been close to a bear cub.
There is no cuter animal in the world. And bear cubs.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Oh, I know, I held the bear cub I did.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
I remember doing a stand up clothes end of the report,
and this little guy was the you want to take
him home, But obviously there was going to be one day,
not too distant future where he was going to wake
up and he's no longer to be be a bear,
be a bear cub, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Have you if.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
You're the catskills with all of that, those animals around
you yes, I'm assuming that you take great precaution to
make sure that your trash barrels are covered or your trash.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Barrels are in.
Speaker 8 (13:58):
Just a good thing, because before I have one more
bear story. But oh before I forget, I heard you
mentioned fishers. Did you see them?
Speaker 3 (14:08):
I did see a fisher cat up close and personal.
A woman who lived next door to me about twenty
years ago, was trying to trap a coyote and she
hired a trapper who brought a big trap, and I
went over there the next morning to see if she
had been successful. She did not capture a coyote, but
(14:31):
she captured a fisher cat, and I was terrified the
fisher cats inside the cage. He's running up the cage,
across the roof down the other side. This thing just
was a whirling dervish and making all sorts of noises.
I would have been more comfortable with a coyote than
I would have been with a fisher cat. I have
(14:53):
no idea what they did, but she said that the
trapper she paid the guy to trap a coyote a
fisher cat.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Good luck with that.
Speaker 8 (15:02):
I'll tell you they are incredible predators, and years ago
they were hunted to extinction for their pelts. A fisher
coat was a real big deal in the nineteen twenties.
And if you look at their coats, they're exceedingly beautiful.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Well, this guy wasn't This guy or gal, whichever type
this particular fisher cat was, wasn't cute, wasn't beautiful. And
I just when I saw him, it was like, I
just want to get away. I just thank you very much,
great to see you. Hope the trapper comes by. Don't
let this thing out of cage.
Speaker 8 (15:39):
One thing to remember about them. They are the only
animal that can eat a porcupine.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Well that says a lot. That says a lot about
the digestive system as well.
Speaker 8 (15:53):
They can kill a porcupine. I want to tell you
about safety precautions. Our bear population has like tripled in
the last three years. We went through like thirty years
we didn't see any and now they're all over. When
I step out of my house every day, I have
a necklace around my neck with a big loud whistle
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at the end. The only way to avoid them really
safely is they hate loud noises, so carry a whistle.
Some people carrying the air horn. Even the barking of
a dog right in some But the number one thing
to do is do not leave your smelly garbage outside.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Oh my god, yeah, where you live, that would be suicidal.
The only thing I would mention to you is, I
don't know how much time you spend on the internet,
but I now notice that there are a lot of
ads on the internet, and I'm not sure the legality
of these ads where they're advertising the devices that the
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police are authorized to use in which they immobilize someone
with an electric shock, and it's showing uh, you know,
regular civilians using them. If I lived where you were,
I would probably get one of those and keep it,
keep it near at hand, because if you see some
of these ads, they show you know, you know, a
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bear or whatever gets this shock and they and they're
out of there.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
It's understandable.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
It's you know, it's it's the it's what the the
tasers that police use, but it's some version of it.
I I maybe they're not as strong. But if you're
ever going to be in a situation where you're confronted
by a bear.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Let me I might hold on on you. I might
be giving you wrong advice.
Speaker 8 (17:47):
Now that that's a good advice. But they hate loud noises.
So even if you have no defense, just by screaming
and kneeling and wearing waving your arms, I've noticed they'll leave,
except when there's a mother and her cut.
Speaker 7 (18:02):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Yes, we've talked about that, Maggie. It's great. Great to
hear your voice. We will talk soon.
Speaker 8 (18:07):
Okay, thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Bye, and thanks for listening. After we'll try to get
our signal up to you a little bit better. Okay,
thank you much. Good night, we'll take a well, no, no,
I'm gonna we don't need to take a break. I'm
gonna go to John in New York. Hey, John, welcome
next on Night Side.
Speaker 9 (18:23):
Yeah, I did uh turning the critits. I had a
bat in the basement once.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Oh yeahs bats are easy. I'm well, they're not easy.
You got to get you got to get a professional
bat guy to uh to take care of him. What
did you deal with it? Or did you bring someone in?
Speaker 9 (18:41):
I bought somebody in His name was Batman.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Yeah, I think that if I was.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
If I was a bat, I know I we had
a bat in my house. It was actually in late
it was in late March, and it had to have
been like ten or fifteen years ago, and it was
such nice weather that somehow someone in my family and
it wasn't me because I wasn't home, left the door
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ajar and so all of a sudden I got a
pan a call from my wife that there was a
bat flying around in the house, so could I come home.
I was doing a radio show. I said, well, why
don't you you secrete yourself in a room. And our
daughter was with my wife upstairs. They were safe and sound.
I came home. I put on a baseball hat, I
grabbed the tennis record and I thought to myself, I'll
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get the bat. And as I was moving through the house,
that thing flew by me and flew into a room.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
I slammed the door.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Shut in the room, and I thought to myself, you're
nuts trying to do this. So I actually had the
number of a guy. This is one o'clock in the morning.
He came over, which was great. He came over and
it cost me money, don't get me wrong, but he said,
where's the bat.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
I said, he's in this room.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
He put on these gloves, these heavy duty gloves, almost
like something that was somebody who was a falcon would use.
Walked into the room, he said, I'll be right out.
I closed the door behind him quickly. The room was dark.
He didn't put any lights on.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
He came out about thirty seconds later. He had the
bat and the glove. Apparently the glove had some sort
of a scent where the bat flew into the glove.
He came out, snapped the bat's neck, and he said
that he was going to take it to the there's
like a public health facility in Jamaica plane where they
see if the bat had rabies or something like that.
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But this guy was good. He walked into that that
dark room, and he just said, I said, how'd you get?
He says, I just stood there and they fly to
the gloves, and once I feel them, I grab him
and uh, that was it.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
That was it.
Speaker 9 (20:47):
When I first went down, the basement was kind of dark.
That got actually flew over my head and he brushed
my hair.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Oh yeah, I mean, well, first of all, the you
know you've heard the phrase blind as a bat. They
supposedly can't see and they use uh they send out sonar,
uh so they don't fly.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
At the walls and stuff.
Speaker 9 (21:06):
But nasty, nasty, stuff that did charge me one hundred
bucks by the way to get the bad let.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Me tell you something that was probably the best hundred
bucks you spent that month, John, because you wouldn't have
slept that night. I guarantee you you wouldn't have slept
that night.
Speaker 7 (21:23):
Hey.
Speaker 9 (21:24):
Yeah, one other thing, and I'm going to say good night,
is that. Uh, Donald Trump, I'm satisfied with it. He's accomplishing.
I think he's doing all right.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
I think you'd have to give him at least in
the last couple of months. I mean se it's like
he's like a sports team. You know, the Patriots are
now winning the one sixth straight. No one expected that.
I think he's he's on a winning streak. And if
this meeting with ggos as well as it's been suggested,
I think you'll you'll you'll see more victories. I think
(21:55):
you start to win, and winning begets winning. And uh,
I don't think as during the campaign you'll get so
tired of winning. I don't think anyone's going to get
tired of winning, particularly when Steve Yeah, you know, when I.
Speaker 9 (22:07):
Was a kid in school, the social studies teacher used
to tell us that our country needs a businessman for president,
not a lawyer.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Well, as a lawyer, I would probably agree with that,
although ab Blncoln a Blncoln was Although remember this, John
Abe Lincoln was a country lawyer who's a pretty good president.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
He was the right guy for the job at the time.
Speaker 9 (22:31):
But yes, that's right. But the thing is, you know,
lawyers in the Congress and Senate making laws and rules. Yes,
that's where they belonged.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Oh yeah, sure enough.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Okay, Well we'll let that one go. We'll let that
one go. You know, President Kennedy wasn't a lawyer, Lyndon
Johnson wasn't a lawyer. Nixon was a lawyer. Reagan wasn't
a lawyer, and nor was Franklin Roosevelt. So when you
think about it from a historic point of view, the
greatest presidents of the twentieth century, and I would argue
would be Reagan and Roosevelt. Uh and Teddy Roosevelt as well.
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None of those three were lawyers. So I'm back, I'm
back in your argument up for you, John, all right,
And I'm a lawyer, begs many dutschallawyer are.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
A damn a damn good one, John.
Speaker 9 (23:17):
Okay, okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Thanks mank you lends. All right, have a great one.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Here comes the news at the bottom of the hour.
We're talking about your experiences, your moments in nature where
you either were confronted by or stumbled upon a critter
that made you uncomfortable. I suspect there's a few stories
out there that you'd like to share. Six one, seven, two, five,
four ten thirty six one seven, nine three one ten thirty.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
We also can talk about Donald Trump, who seems to
be on a roll things.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
A lot of trade deals in Asia this week, following
upon the success that he's had in the Middle East,
which I think is undeniable at this point. That's not
to say that the Middle East is solved, but it
certainly has gone down a better road with him than
it hasn't with any president, at least in my lifetime,
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and it's a pretty long lifetime. Joined the conversation a
couple of lines at six one, seven, two, five, four
to ten thirty and one available at six one, seven, nine, three,
one ten thirty.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
My name is Dan Ray. Let's get it going. We're
heading to midnight.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
It's nice side with Dan Ray on.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
All right, let's keep rolling here. We got Tim and
Woober and hey Tim, welcome back. Next on Nightside.
Speaker 10 (24:39):
Hi Dan, how are you doing?
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Couldn't be better? Tim? If I was any better, I
think it would be illegal.
Speaker 10 (24:44):
Go ahead, you'll know guess who I was today.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Let me take a guess. Anchorage, Alaska.
Speaker 10 (24:52):
I should be there. I was in Westwood.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
That's good.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Yeah, absolutely so, just up by the New Orlean have
grab a burger or something.
Speaker 10 (25:03):
I didn't have time. I did a set of a
small set of brickstairs. Oh guy I played football with
moved out there and he called me up, canceled the
house and I need to set of stairs.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
So you were able to put together. By the way,
those of you don't know, Tim is a great mason.
You were able to do a set of stairs in
one day. That's amazing.
Speaker 10 (25:25):
You know what he said to me, No, I don't,
he said, McMahon, when you get old, you stop to
look like your dog.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
Well that's what they say. Well, that's what that that's
what they like.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
That's what they say about people that that a lot
of people either pick dogs, that that beer of resemblance
to them. That is that is a that's a belief
some people swear by that Tim.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
I gotta tell.
Speaker 10 (25:52):
You, for ten years he's been lost, of fifteen, I
wish I met him. I got milk bowed dog.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
This is I give the people out of He would
have loved him, He would have loved him. Well, he's he.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
He walked over, as we we, those of us who
believe that that we'll meet our pets later on.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
He walked over. What's called the Rainbow Bridge is a
great poem.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Anyone who loses a pet should always google rainbow that.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Yeah, it's a it's a good one. It's a good
I say.
Speaker 10 (26:20):
One thing about Abraham Mindeon and John F. Kennedy, go
right ahead. What happened to him? Robert Frost at one time?
It's something to be good in.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
The bad world.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
But what happened to them, that's true.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Robert Frost, of course, was the American poet laureate who
spoke at the Kennedy inauguration on January twentieth, nineteen sixty one.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
And it was such a cold, weeky day that the
poem that Frost had prepared for the president, the papers
blew away, and he had to try to recite the
poem as best he could, and he did a good job.
I'm told I watched that vie.
Speaker 10 (26:57):
You know the guy you said to you asked you
what kind of law? You said, what kind of loie?
I is that a good one.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
That's exactly what That's exactly how I feel. I did
a lot.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Thank you.
Speaker 10 (27:08):
I'm gonna leave you with this. God bless God, Bless
the that's God, bless the Massachusetts State Police.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
I'm with you all the way on all of those.
Thanks Tim, we'll talk soon. Have a great one.
Speaker 10 (27:19):
Good night, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
You bet you let me go to Nancy Induxbury. Hey, Nancy,
you were next one night SA and welcome back.
Speaker 11 (27:26):
Oh thank you. How are you? Ben Dan?
Speaker 2 (27:29):
I've been busy. It's been a kind of a whirlwind.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
I had a little bit of time off this summer,
but since September a Labor day, I've been pretty much
here most every night, and I've I've had some really
interesting shows. We had, We had some great guests. Earlier
tonight we did a show about Medford, which was great.
(27:54):
Last night, we talked about a lot about why Governor
Healy seems adamant in not using our eight point eight
billion dollar Rainy Day fund to take care of some
of the folks who are snap recipients who may lose
their food benefits as early as Saturday.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
So yeah, we've we've had a really good week.
Speaker 11 (28:15):
Well, I would say that Governor Healing needs to wake
up smell Akosi.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Well, I don't know what she's doing.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
I think what she's doing is playing to a national
audience that she's falling the governors and they they they
don't like Trump, which is fine, but as opposed to
criticizing the administration, which I get. I guess get your
points with Gavin Newsoon Newsom and whomever else is I
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don't even.
Speaker 11 (28:42):
Know who, idiot anyway.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
Yeah, absolutely, let's do something positive for people here in Massachusetts.
Speaker 11 (28:50):
I would agree, you know, I mean, get more Republicans
or independents elected, That's what I say.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Well, I think we need some balance at the legislature,
and I think a lot of question to look at
it and say, hey, you know, we have we have
too many sheep at the state House who whatever the
speaker or the Senate President.
Speaker 11 (29:08):
Says unbelievable, they simply say believable.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
How high?
Speaker 3 (29:11):
When they say jumped, they simply say how high? I know,
you know, it's it's not it's not a good look
and it certainly isn't good for for Massachusetts.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
So we'll see.
Speaker 11 (29:23):
Uh is it is not too much overreach? They've been
pulling that too much of that.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
But I just think that here's an example where everybody
would have rallied behind the governor. Look, I'm a conservative,
I think you're a conservative. I'm not in favor of
giving away stuff to people, but I do want my
tax money used to help people who need help exactly.
Speaker 11 (29:44):
That's what it should be for.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Yeah. Absolutely, and we have we have.
Speaker 11 (29:48):
A improve the infrastructure and to take care of the people.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Right, but we have eight point eight billion with a
B billion dollars.
Speaker 11 (29:57):
That's insane, that's absolutely insane, and.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Let's use it to help people and maybe give some
of it back to the taxpayers as well, by the way, But.
Speaker 11 (30:06):
That's why I would agree with that.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
So what I.
Speaker 11 (30:12):
Well, I was going to ask for a little latitude.
I was going to tell you a couple of stories
about animals, but nothing in the wild. Just in my
own backyard.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
Your backyard could be wild, as as Lady Lightning Maria
found out last weekend.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Go ahead, and you got the microphone, you got, you
got the mic. Go ahead, Nancy.
Speaker 11 (30:31):
Well, let me tell you. I looked out my back
door one day because I heard this minor ruckus in
the backyard, and I see a coyote. Now, mind you,
this is in the daytime and the sun is shining,
and there is a coyote chasing a deer in my backyard.
Whoa boys, So I opened up the door and I said,
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cut it out. Coyote looked me and took off. The
deer turned around and got on her hind legs and
pawed the air, bleeded and took off.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Yeah, well I think she was. She was.
Speaker 11 (31:11):
It was quite amusing. Really, well, we have a lot
of deer in this area anyway, but that was classic.
And then I'll tell you another quick story we had
one day. I looked out in my backyard again and
I saw this creature. Now it wasn't a coyote, and
it wasn't a.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Dog, and it wasn't.
Speaker 11 (31:35):
But amusingly, this was a very unique animal. And I've
come to find out that there are uh such creatures
in our area on the south Shore. It was a
cross between a coyote and we believe a wolf. And
I'll tell you why it had the striations on its nose.
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It was not the narrow face of a coyote. When
it moved, it didn't waggle sideways. Coyotes have an interesting move.
They kind of waggle sideways. And it was that's what
I do.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
That's what I do on the dance floor, so I
can I O.
Speaker 11 (32:17):
It was just standing there in my backyard staring at
the house, and my husband said, it's doing a standoff
with a with a a turkey in the backyard.
Speaker 7 (32:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
The put my money on the wolf and the coyote,
and I know it was.
Speaker 11 (32:34):
Crazy, but what I wanted to say was this was
the most beautiful creature it she he, I don't know, beautiful,
long fluffy, gray fur, gorgeous animal, and coyotes are smaller.
This is larger than a coyote, so it was definitely
more on the wolf side. But it was very unique, very.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Amazing story.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
I love the story about about the deer on the
hind legs paring it and saying thank you.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
I love that as well.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
I'm into my commercial break here, so Nancy, I love
your call.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
You got to call more often. Thank you so much.
Speaker 11 (33:13):
I will audio my friend and I'm a pro Trump person,
So that's fine.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
We we have a big tent here on Nightside pro Trump.
Speaker 11 (33:22):
I know, I'm very very pleased with what he's doing,
very brilliant.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
I am pleased with the I've criticized him, but I
will credit him, and I think he's on I'm with.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
You totally right.
Speaker 11 (33:33):
I would agree he's not perfect, but none of us are.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
You know, no, no, no, and believe me, I can
identify with that.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Thanks Nancy, talk to you soon, can Okay, all, I
gotta take a quick break. I'm going to try to
get everybody in.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
Julian in the road, Bernie in New Hampshire, Brian and
Plymouth and James and Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Stay right there,
we're coming back on Nightside.
Speaker 4 (33:54):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Were getting everybody in.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Let's go, Brian, I play with Hey Brian, welcome next
on Nightside, Briani.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Move on, yes, sorry, go ahead. I was on my
way home from the Herbie Hancock concert at the Wang
Theater and the traffic was terrible heading to the Cell Shore,
so I put on Busy and when I put it on,
I heard you talking about the fisher cat that you
had an encounter with in a cage. Yes, I had
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an experience about ten years ago, maybe a little less,
where I got home from a gig. I'm a musician,
bass player, and I it was probably three in the morning,
and I opened the hatchback of my car and I
had an electric base in the in the back. I
brought in my amp. It was heavy. I came back
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out to get my base and I was about to
grab it, and I heard footsteps that I've never heard before,
like running a lot of them, And within seconds I
turned around. In about five to ten yards away from
me at the end of.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
My driveway, a fisher cat stopped dead in its tracks
and stared right at me and.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Like it didn't like it just hissed at me. And
it was petrifying. Like you said, it wasn't beautiful. Oh,
it wasn't pretty. And as soon as it did, it
only took a second, but it did. It looked me
right in the eye and hissed at me. And immediately,
instead of running straight down the street towards the ocean,
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took out u turn and ran right across the street
into my neighbor's yard. And then and it was out
of sight. But within two to three seconds after that,
a Koi wolf that was so big did the stopped
in the exact same place and turned its head at me.
Speaker 5 (36:17):
And I'm talking.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
It wasn't ten years. It was close to the five
and I was horrified, and it just stood frozen. And
it was no coyote. It was one hundred thousand percent
of koi wolf and it was huge. And at that
point I I picked up my base.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
By the neck with the body up top, and just
prepared for battle.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
And as soon as I raised it above my head,
it walked away, but it was looking at me like
you just ruined my meal.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
Now I'm pretty sure it.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
Was chasing that that fisher cat. I think I'm pretty
sure it was about to I.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
Would I would have let them hat at it, and
I would have gone into the house and pulled myself
the stiffest drink I could simple that. Oh my god, Brian,
I hate to do this year. I got four calls
behind you. There was a great story. Thank you for sharing.
I appreciate it much. We'll talk again, okay, Peece, thank
you great, Thanks very much.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Bernie, Can you be quick for me? I got three
behind you buddy.
Speaker 7 (37:21):
Absolutely, Dan, damn good one. I loved that. I was great,
but uh, twenty thirteen, I was working down on woodbine jarge,
a capital lampfill and in the end of the day
I was working with these guys from Louisiana. And the
end of the day, the guys says, hey, jump in
the water truck and do some dust control. I said,
all right, I throw a trash pump and there's a
little pond. And as soon as I threw the trash
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bond up, an alligator jumped up at me.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Nice ran up.
Speaker 7 (37:47):
I was on top of the truck in three seconds.
Speaker 5 (37:50):
Down I'm laying at it.
Speaker 7 (37:52):
But I was standing and they're just standing there a
lout and they're like, Bernie, what are you doing on
top of that water truck over there?
Speaker 10 (37:59):
Yeah, this is an alligator in that he said, he's
a baby.
Speaker 7 (38:02):
That's not pet It was alligator. Yet.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
Oh let me tell you, Ernie, that's a great story.
Speaker 3 (38:08):
Every once in a while you see some poor guy
out on a golf course who meets up with an alligator.
Not a good idea. They can move pretty quickly. I
bet you we moved more quickly than they did. Bernie,
let me run here, we'll talk again.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
I gotta thank you much. Great story, well told. Julie
on the road, Julia, next time Nightsiger, Run ahead, Julie.
Speaker 12 (38:31):
Hi, Dan, it was a pleasure to meet you just
before Father's Day this year. And thank you for all dogs,
all cats, all pets.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
Well you're very welcome. What's what's I were a little
tight on time, but I'm so glad you.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Called go right ahead.
Speaker 12 (38:45):
I had a wonderful little encounter with a gray tree
frog in my house. I woke up one morning and
heard a strange rattling in the other room. And it
turned out that somehow this little frog had gotten into
a dry cleaning bag. They had fallen down behind the couch,
and it was traveling around and it came in on
a plant. But it was a very sweet and very cute.
(39:08):
And maybe i'll play this. Let's see if this will work.
The sound of the male's mating call here.
Speaker 11 (39:16):
Oh well, it's not.
Speaker 12 (39:21):
It's not doing it.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
Do be a favor. We'll do it again sometime. Okay,
I'm flat.
Speaker 10 (39:27):
Thanks Julie.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
All right, thank you, m doctor. Good night. I'm going
to give real quick. Paul. I got like fifteen seconds.
You want to say something, go right ahead.
Speaker 5 (39:37):
All we had a pregnant skunk underneath our front porch
and the smell was so bad that it affected the
entire basement. We the sea would not remove it because
it was mating seasons. So we put our ammonia soaked
rags underneath, and they disappeared and the problem was resolved.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
Sounds great, Paul. I gotta let you run on flat
out of time.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
To the callers of the line, I wish you guys
had called earlier.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
We might do this again. I gotta say thanks to Shane.
Speaker 3 (40:08):
I gotta thanks thanks to Marita for producing and also
being here at ten.
Speaker 2 (40:12):
Hope you'll listen to us on Nightside on demand dot com.
My name is Dan Ray.
Speaker 3 (40:16):
All dogs, all cats, all pets go to Heaven. That's
my pelle, Charlie Ray is who passed fifteen years ago
in February. That's where all your pets are who would passed.
They loved you and you love them. I do believe
you'll see them again. I will be on Nightside with
Dan Ray on Facebook in about two minutes. Join me there.
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