August 30, 2024 • 45 mins
In this Nightside News Update we chatted with:
Jim McBride – Boston Globe Sportswriter: Brought us the story of Olympic medalist Xiyu Lin who hopes to shine in Boston’s LPGA event in her adopted home area.
Larry Edelman – Boston Globe Columnist: Discussed the influx of job hunters pushing Massachusetts unemployment to its highest level in four years.
Taxi To America - A Greek Orphan’s Adoption Journey with Stella Nahatis – Author.
Local Pianist Mark Davis has 35 years of experience and turned his life around during COVID. Now does live piano streams & plays gigs full time.
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Jim McBride – Boston Globe Sportswriter: Brought us the story of Olympic medalist Xiyu Lin who hopes to shine in Boston’s LPGA event in her adopted home area.
Larry Edelman – Boston Globe Columnist: Discussed the influx of job hunters pushing Massachusetts unemployment to its highest level in four years.
Taxi To America - A Greek Orphan’s Adoption Journey with Stella Nahatis – Author.
Local Pianist Mark Davis has 35 years of experience and turned his life around during COVID. Now does live piano streams & plays gigs full time.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on doubling Busy Boston's
new radio.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Thanks very much, Nicole. It is a Friday night, the
last Friday, the thirtieth of August. Only have one more
day in August. It's amazing to think that this weekend
will bring us September, but that's what the calendar tells me,
and the calendar does in line. My name is Dan Ray.
Rob Brooks, the producer of the program, is back in
the control room at Broadcast Central. He'll set you up
(00:28):
with telephone calls right after nine o'clock. At nine, we'll
talk about that horrific double tragedy down in New Jersey
late yesterday which two young brothers, one in NHL Superstar
and the other guy who was still honing his talents
and played for the Worcester rail Riders for a while,
(00:49):
the Gudreaux brothers hitting killed a Leslie by drunk driver.
We'll talk about that at nine. It's going to be
a tough hour, but I think some of you may
have some stories that will in the mood. Just a
horrible story later on tonight. No big problems at Somerville
Central Library, where the teenagers have been acting up we
(01:11):
will talk with the Somerville City councilor about what can
be done. I've got a few ideas as to what
could be done. And then in the twentieth hour, we
will have, as we do every eleventh hour, on the
last Friday of the month, which is the last Friday
of the month, obviously being August thirtieth, there's only two
more days, one more day left in the month, we
will do a real snap presidential poll and the I
(01:36):
think the presidential contenders serious presidential contenders are down to
two at this point. I think I know who we're
talking about. But before we get to all of that,
we're going to start off our first guest tonight. I'm
not sure if Jim McBride has joined us before, but
I enjoy his writing in the Boston Globe. As I've
told others, Jim, when I get my Globe in the morning,
first thing I go to is the sports page, and
(01:58):
you get to write for the Boston of sports page
and the best sport page, best sports page in the country.
In my opinion, how are you tonight?
Speaker 3 (02:06):
I'm doing great And I couldn't agree more on that assessment.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Yes, I'll bet you would. I bet you would agree
with me. So, so you're following an Olympic bronze medalist.
You did a piece which I read online yesterday. I
assume it's in the print version today about an Olympic medalist,
bronze medalist from China, and I did not realize she
now has Boston as an adoptive home. She's playing this
(02:31):
week at the LPGA event. Tell us about how she
did in the Olympics, which obviously was really good, how
she's doing this weekend, and how is it that a
gold medal, bronze medals from China, how is it that
she has come and has picked Boston as her adoptive home. Well,
(02:54):
we're thrilled to have her here. But I just it's
a great story, Go right ahead.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Yeah, So, her fiance is a Bostonian, Barney Wang is
his name, and uh where they met I'm not quite sure,
but uh, you know, once they developed that relationship, she
kind of adopted Boston as her as her American base
because he lives here. And uh so she was really
excited to get the chance to play in an LPGA
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tournament near her adopted home.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
She's coming off, you know, a very busy month she
she she represented China and the Olympics and and was
kind of a surprise bronze winner. You know, she hasn't
she doesn't want a ton on on on either tour,
on the China on China's LPGA tour or the American tour,
but she kind of came out of nowhere and and
won that bronze medal, and it's probably the biggest uh
you know, feather hunder captive to this point.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Now, how tough is it for a woman who's a
professional professional golfer to get access out of China to
be able to you know, fulfill her career ambitions, not
only in the Olympics, but on the LBGA Tour LPGA
tour here in America.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Yeah, I'm not sure the politics behind it and and
how that that happened, whether she went to college in
America or not, I'm not really sure. We didn't have
a we didn't get to spend a ton of time
with her on Tuesday, but she did have some some
interesting stories about you know, being uh, you know in
(04:24):
this country and and now playing on this tour. And
you know, she's uh, you know, obviously bilingual, and she
speaks really well and I think that she's, you know,
she's kind of an up and coming star on on
this tour. She even has an English name. She goes
by Janet now, which is you know, unusual.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Yeah, give me the correct pronunciation. I didn't dare try.
The last name is Lynn, so that's similar to the
to the kid that played for the New York Next
no relation.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
I assume, yeah that was that was Jeremy. Her pronunciation
is you Julie you jun uh?
Speaker 5 (05:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
She uh she she goes by. She even has jan
on her bag now. She has you Janet Lynn on
her on a golf bag, so easily recognizable. She also
has a Celtics putter cover because she loves the Celtics.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Yeah. Uh, your your piece talked about. I guess she
was at Red Sox game last night and she's really
beginning to become accustomed to the city. And if, if,
if Boston is her hometown, then she will be our
adoptive favorite on the l B G G A. That's
that is for sure. How is the tour the l
(05:38):
p G A tour going. All of us are familiar
with the w n B A uh and of course
the w n B A is a fraction of the
money that is involved in the.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
N b A.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
N b A is the l p g A making
some inroads you know on the on the women's women's tour.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Yeah. So this is the inaugural f M Championship at
EPC Boston, which for years hosted the men in the
on the PGA tour. In the FedEx Cup was the
deutsch Bank. It was the Dell Technologies and it was
a Northern trust. Always had Tiger Woods as one of
their main draws and he was a you know, a
chairman of the deutsch Bank. So uh, that ended a
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couple of years ago when the FedEx Cup went from
four tournaments to three. They they ended up chopping off
the Boston leg of the tour, unfortunately. But this has
been an opportunity for you know, a great course, TPC
Boston in Norton to host another world class event. And
you know, the crowds were a little sparse, I have
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to be honest on Thursday and Friday, but I think
that you know, Saturday and Sunday's crowds will be will
be much bigger. And there are some local draws other
than than Janet, there's Megan Kaye who's from Rockland. Uh,
she's she's an up and comer on the LPGA tour.
You know. Alex Pano is another girl from Stoughton. Uh,
she's on the tour now. So I think the crosse
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this weekend will be will be much bigger.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Well, you know, it's interesting. It's always great to see
there have been there have been a few New Englanders,
you know. Uh o Keegan Bradley comes to mind on
on the PGA tour. But it New England is not
a fertile ground for golfers because obviously the golf season
except on Cape Cod is pretty limited, uh, you know
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to what they can do in other other parts of
the country.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
And so it's great to see either some uh some
some native born Bostonians or some adoptive Bostonians begin to
make some inroads in golf. Because of all the sports. Uh,
I wish that I had learned a golf really well
when I was young, or tennis. The carryover sports. Everybody
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in my generation to play baseball, hockey, football, if you're
big enough, basketball, but there's not a lot of carryover
benefit both in terms of social interaction but also business interaction.
So the song may you know, Mama, don't let your
sons to grow up to be cowboys, but Mama, let
your sons and daughters grow up to be pro golfers
or pro tennis players.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Absolutely, it's a sport you can play your whole life, right, you.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Bet you, You bet you that. And cornhole, which is
now that's what anyone could play, hey, Jim McBrien, Yeah, oh,
I know that's the thing. Yeah, they're actually broadcasting cornhole
tournaments and it's like it's a fun game. Don't get
me wrong, But in terms of the amount of preps
you need to get good at that compared to professional
(08:33):
golf for professional tennis, significant difference. Jim, thanks so much,
love to have you back. I always love stories in
sports that that take us into the sport through the minds,
through the eyes, and the experience of particularly someone in
the in the field that we can start to root for.
So great, great piece today, Thanks so much.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Well, Thanks Dan, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Enjoy your weekend. By the way. That's that's a good
gig you got going there, right.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Yeah, it's not fair. I never take that for granted,
and I'm watching sports for a living.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Thanks Jim, Thank you so much. Oh, so we'll go
from sports with a Globe Rider. We're going to talk
next with Larry Edelman, Boston Globe Financial columnis and he's
talking about the fact that the Massachusetts unemployment rate has
gone up to its highest level in four years, but
it's because people are getting off the sidelines and they're
looking for jobs. We'll talk to Larry Edelman right after
(09:28):
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We'll be back on Night's Side right after this. Now
back to Dan ray Line from the Window World Studios
on w b Z Teams Radio. We all are affected
by the economy, obviously, and the economy is always affected
by the employment and the unemployment rate, and the unemployment
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rate here in Massachusetts has just jumped up a little
bit with us. Is Larry Edelman, Boston Globe columnist. He
is I think, along with John Cesto, just two of
the best writers that they can explain what's going on
in the marketplace. Larry Edelman, welcome, Welcome back to Night's Side.
All of a sudden, we got a little bit of
(10:34):
a bump here in our unemployment number, highest level in
four years. But I guess there's a reason for this.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
There is, Dan. You got to keep in mind that
the unemployment rate is based on what they call the
labor force, and so it's the percentage of the labor
force that doesn't have a job. So it's not only
layoffs that create unemployed people. It's when people come off
the sidelines when they haven't been working, when they didn't
(11:05):
even want a job. But when they come back to
the job market, they are counted as unemployed too. So
what we've been seeing.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
What's happened then in the last couple of months. I mean,
I would assume if someone was unemployed a year ago,
or lost their job a year and a half ago,
that they would have immediately tried to figure out what's
next in their career. So people stayed on the sidelines,
didn't even look for work. Did they have great severance
(11:38):
packages or were there some government programs which would kind
of you know, tied to them, over tied to them
over What caused that phenomenon.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
Well, there were people who had, you know, the government
stimulus checks that came out following the pandemic. And the
economists that I talked to out at mass Benchmarks at
UMass Stami Hue Institute, they believe that part of the
increase in the labor force is people who are coming
back and starting to look for work because they've run
(12:09):
out of those savings that they had from the pandemic,
so they need to go to they need to go
back to work. They also think that there are some
people who are coming back to Massachusetts after having left
during the pandemic to work from home, you know, maybe
their parents' house, or just to work in a cheaper place.
(12:29):
So there are a couple of things going on there
that are driving up the number of people looking for
work and therefore the number of people counted as unemployed.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Okay, so what you're saying is some folks who left
the Commonwealth and who were not looking for a job
in the Commonwealth that that pushed that quotion to whatever
that number down. And now because they're coming back and
actively looking that is contributed to the number four point
(13:02):
six percent. At what point does that number start to
really get worriesome? Because reading your piece today, it sounded
as if, okay, this is kind of part of the
the ebb and flow of the workforce. Four point six
is in bad We always learned that, you know, four
percent back in the day was considered you know, a
theoretical full employment, but maybe not.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
Yeah, I would say that we would not want to
see the unemployment rate in Massachusetts go much higher, you know,
certainly no more than five percent, and I think even
that would be a lot and not a good sign.
You know. The Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell said last
week that, you know, he thought that the job market
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had cooled and that it was now healthy but not overheated.
And at the same time, he said he wouldn't like
to see any more substantial cooling. So what you've got
to hope for is that all these workers that are
coming in to the job market are you know, gradually
absorbed by employers, and that keeps the unemployment rate from
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rising much further. That's the positive scenario.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
I looked at the interesting chart that you had associated
with your story today that back when the pandemic began,
we had about three point seven three point eight million
people working in Massachusetts March of twenty twenty wis just
when it really hit. Yeah, and the lowest point was
(14:40):
about three point five in April of twenty twenty, about
a year later. So about three hundred thousand people washed
out of the economy during that period of time, not
quite ten percent, but getting pretty close. And now it's
come back. The jobs have come back, and the back
fairly quickly. I mean, you hit bottom in April, and
(15:06):
you weren't back all the way for a long time,
but you were back. We were back like eighty percent
of the way in June of twenty twenty, and now
it is only really since February this year started to
spike up. It's an interesting graph when you look at
it and you think about, Okay, you know we were
in the pits here in terms of employment only for
(15:28):
about two months, which is which.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
Yeah, it was spiz me. Yeah, it was, you know,
an unprecedented type of recession and loss of jobs very quick.
When the business is closed when the health land dates
went out. But then the rebound was like nothing we'd
ever seen before either. The thing that had happened is
that once as you identified, Massachusetts got back up to
(15:54):
eighty ninety percent, it took a long time for the
rest of that gap get filled up, for those years,
for the labor force. Yeah, for the labor force to
come back fully, you know what I mean. So that
was why, Yeah, that is why. Always when you talk
to employers, their number one issue was finding enough workers,
(16:17):
you know, and that was up and down the economy,
from restaurants you know, and hotels to you know it,
you know, all kinds of white collar jobs. So there
was a real labor shortage. And the good news about
this increase in the unemployment rate is that because it's
(16:38):
being driven by an increasing labor force, there are more
people out there looking for work, and hopefully employers will
be able to get some relief in terms of hiring.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Your article identified that the increases. It shows increases among
both men and women coming back into the workforce prime
major workers twenty five to fifty four, as well as
old the work is fifty five and above. We've all
read the stories about people unretiring because of you know,
the pressures of you know, eight nine percent inflation over
(17:12):
the over the last years. Where do you think we're
headed in the next the next six months, I mean,
once once the new year turns, we turned the corner
and we're into twenty twenty five. What's your best guess?
Speaker 5 (17:26):
Well, my best guess is just what I hear from
the economists that I talk to. And at this point,
nobody dan is forecasting a recession next year. That's the
good news. The economy is clearly slowing down. But even
in the most recent quarter of that, you know, the
second quarter, we just got a revised GDP number of
(17:49):
three percent, which is awful good. So even if things
slow down, it shouldn't be too bad. So what we're
hoping for, and I what I think the best case
scenario is this kind of gradual landing, you know, where
we settle into the two two and a half percent
growth rate for the economy. That at least is what
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the consensus is among economists and forecasters.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Okay, so this is a question that's out of I'm
not sure if it's left field or right field. How
do you reconcile all of these numbers and all of
these percentages with that report that came out a couple
of weeks ago that somehow someway the US Labor Department
had overestimated by eight more than eight hundred thousand the
jobs that have come back. That has to ripple somewhere.
(18:38):
What do you make of that?
Speaker 5 (18:39):
Well, well, they do that every year. Those revisions happen.
Sometimes they're big, like.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
They do it, they do it every month, they do it.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
They do it every month. But then they have the
big one you know that they do, and they do
the initial revision this time of year, and then they
make it official I believe in January or so. And look, yes,
the economy did not grow as quickly, or employment did
not go as quickly grow as quickly as we've thought,
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but in the grand scheme of things, it was just
a minor detour, not anything big to worry about.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
So that's that's still eight hundred and eighteen thousand jobs
that theoretically, you know, aren't there. I guess you're putting
that up against the theoretical number of fifteen million jobs.
Is the idea that this is maybe a twelve percent.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
Differential, No, it's or because you're talking about one hundred
and almost one hundred and sixty million jobs in this country.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
No, but I'm saying no, no, I get that. But
they we're talking about fifty million. The Biden administration is
saying we created fifteen million jobs. So you're saying we
should use we should use one hundred and sixty million
job figure as So it's one out, it's.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
One yeah, and and yes. And we're at record employment
right now. I mean, there's never been as many people
employed in this country, is there?
Speaker 2 (20:10):
You know, as many people in this country right right?
Speaker 5 (20:14):
Like you know in Massachusetts, it's happening without a lot
of population growth down, which is an interesting twist. You know,
you would have thought my first my first thought when this, uh,
when I saw the labor force numbers was well, this
must reflect immigration. But it doesn't because when you break
down the numbers, it is almost all in white workers.
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And you know, there hasn't been a big increase for
Latino workers. So if you're thinking about people coming over this,
you know, the Mexico border and getting work in the
United States, at least so far, that hasn't affected our
labor force numbers here so far.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Now, what about black, black employment. Is that bouncing back
as well, or.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
Or is that you know, the black unemployment rate got
to about it, Lois, It's been in a long long time,
but in the beginning of this year it started to
change direction and go up again. And I'm not quite
sure what's going on there, you know, but at one
point everybody was crowing about the record employment rate among
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Black Americans, and that has weakened a bit over the
past six eight months.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
All right, Larry, you follow this stuff like I follow
baseball box scores. I love the perspective and the insight
that you I'm serious, I really mean that, and I
followed baseball box scores pretty closely. Larry Edelman, Boston Globe columnist.
Larry has always really enjoyed you whenever you come on,
Come on back soon.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Okay, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Down, thanks much. When we get back on to talk
with an author who wrote a book about her journey
to America. It's called Taxi to America, a Greek Orphans
adoption Journey. We'll be back right after the news the
bottom of the Era. My name is Dan Ray. A
Friday night on Nightside, coming right back.
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Speaker 2 (22:26):
Thanks to call. My next guest has a very interesting
life experience. Her name is Stella Nahadis. She lives up
on Boston's North North Shore. She's a proud Greek American.
Her story began in Greece. Uh. She is a Greek
orphan uh. And her story starts with a taxi cab
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bran uh. And that's the name of her book, Taxi
to America, a Greek Orphans Adoption Journey. Stella Nahadis welcome
to Nightside. Uh.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Thank you, Dan, Thank thank you.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Very much for being with us. Tell us how your
life started. You were often in Greece.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
I was in Greece. The journey started when I was
ten years old. My sister and I were orphaned and
we were separated. Did you in Greece.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
I haven't read the book, but did you lose your
parents or how or were you given up for adoption.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
I'll just say, well, our parents were killed, but I
won't go into the details. It would be a spoiler.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Okay, Okay, so we were, but I'm assuming that's I'm
assuming that's in the book.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
It's in the book.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Okay. So, so at ten years of age, you and
your sister you left Greece.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
She did not correct. She was adopted by a couple
in Greece. I was adopted by a Greek couple who
lived in Boston and was brought to Boston. I grew
up in the Brighton section.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
How was it that a little girl, a ten year
old girl from Greece would be adopted by an American family.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
Well, it happened. Uh they were They were Greek. I
will say they were Greek Americans. They went to Greece,
uh To. They were childless, and they went to Greece
to adopt a child. They wanted a daughter, and I
happened to be available, Yes, and they brought me here.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
And you start off the story about leaving in a taxi.
How long was your trip? Interesting to know how long
your trip was from from Greece until you finally got
here to Barlto.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Well, the taxi ride actually took me to from Thessaloniki
uh At, the second largest city in Greece up north
the taxi ride took me from there to a village
about forty eighty kilometers away from.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Forty eight miles Okay, I did the man forty eight miles.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
From there. Biological mother's brother was in charge to take
care to do something with us.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Sure, I'll say.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
So, he found a couple to adopt my sister right away,
and he did find a couple for me also locally nearby. However,
because of my I have to say, at a very
young age, at ten years old, something very strong and
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an inner guidance took over me, and I was not
adopted at first the first choice that my uncle had.
And again the details.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Of that read the book. That's not a problem.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
That's with the details of that.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Well, no, no, no need to go there. So how
did you get to America?
Speaker 4 (26:01):
So the couple from America came and adopted me by
that time, By that time, I was eleven years old,
and they brought me to Boston.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
How much of a culture shock was that? Approximately, because
you never asked a woman her age, or you never
asked them a trick question that might give up their age.
How much of a culture shock? What was going on
in the Boston area that that that you can recall,
you know, when you came here? What what? What surprised you?
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Dan? The first of all the language I was. I
didn't speak any English. I flew all myself over here
and I did not speak any English. The shock was
going to going to sixth grade and not understanding anything
that was going on. So what hit me was that
I was strange. I wanted to go back to Greece.
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I didn't know the people that adopted me. They were Greeks,
so that was comfortable that I could communicate with them
in their immediate environment their friends. However, I felt isolated.
I just cried every day and wanted to go back.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
How long was it before you began to feel comfortable
here as someone coming here as an eleven year old
girl from Greece.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Once they took me out of the sixth grade and
sent me to an SL class at the Christopher Columbus
High School in Boston, and I began to learn English,
So I would say three months, I was conversational and
I began to not cry every day. Sure I remember that.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
That's the classic example. That's the classic example of the
first steps to assimilation, to learn the language. Yes, absolutely,
I'm a big believer. I suspect you are as well.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
An immersion. I learned it three months, I could converse
and I felt more comfortable. Six months, I was fluent,
and that fall I went to seventh grade and I
did well, and that's when I began to feel comfortable.
By eighth grade, I was I had friends. I was
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really assimulating, and I had already decided during my Christopher
Columbus gig that I would assimilate and become an American girl.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Okay, so who was your favorite rock star in those days?
Tell me a little bit about what it was like this.
I'm trying to picture the culture shop going from Greece.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
To culture Shop. I had to. It didn't happen because
something else happened between during my eighth grade where I
was again pulled out of the States and sent back
to Greece again. I will not go into the DA.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Yeah, well don't because we only had about two minutes
left here.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
So but I came back and went back to eighth
grade in high school, bright in high school, and then
you know the Beatles were happening.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Yes, so.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
I assimulated in participating in clubs. I had a wonderful teacher,
and a shout out to the teachers who are mentors
and make a difference in children's lives who encouraged me
to join clubs when I get to high school too,
and that also helped me to really become part of
the American culture. And at the same when I was
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pulled both ways.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
So when when was the break? At what point did
you reach the fork in the row where you said, okay,
going back, staying back, returning degreees was maybe go back
for visits, but to go back and live was not
the option. I'm now a Greek American, I'm now an American,
and I'm on that path of America. When was that moment?
Speaker 4 (29:51):
That moment was in sophomore year in high school, I
would have to say. And also at that time, my
adoptive mother died. I was sixteen, and at nineteen I
was definitely the American girl who was staying in the States.
My father died also, so I was on my own
at nineteen, so I was not going back to Greece
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to live, and I was left to carve my own
American dream, which I feel I did.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
I know.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
I'm sure that you, I believe that you eventually married.
Did you have children here?
Speaker 4 (30:29):
I have done that. Yes, I had a first marriage,
I had a child, and I did that. And I
have to say that by nineteen I had acquired the
traits that I needed to find that inner power I
had all along well, and that's what the book is about. Resilience, strength, perseverance, persistence,
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and the belief in myself. That's what carried me through
because for all those years between ten and nineteen, I
was in repair mode, always a challenge that I needed
to get through, and I would stay focused, Okay, I
got to do this, and I would do it, and
then things would be really smooth and something else would happen.
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I said, oh, I got to do it, and that
helped me through life. And those are the trades I
still rely on.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Well, I think that I'm hoping that folks who purchased
the book Taxi to America a Greek orphans adoption journey.
You don't have to be Greek to identify with that
type of journey, whether it's a journey coming here as
someone who's an immigrant or coming here in the pursuit
of the American dream. You certainly have lived that life
(31:50):
and I would hope that not only would Greek Americans
be interested in the book Taxi to America, a Greek
Orphans adoption Journey. I assume it's available at Amazon and
all those regular bookstore.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
Loki Es, Bars and Noble, and my local stores here
at the bookshop in Beverly Farms, the bookstore in Gloucester,
and if anyone would like a signed copy in the
contiguous USA, I will be happy. They can contact me
through my website and I will be happy to ship one.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Okay, what's your website? Give us the website? We only
got about twenty seconds left, Stellar, what's the web?
Speaker 4 (32:25):
Stellnahattas dot com? Perfect elenahattas dot com.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Stell is easy, s D E L l A nahtas
is a little tougher na h A t I S.
You got it? You got okay, Stella, thanks very much.
I'm sure a lot of people we dined the book
for you.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
Okay, Hey, hello to our mutual and Rob.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Say hello to our mutual friend, the great Paul Price.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
Okay, well, thank you.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Very much, and the entire Price family.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
Okay, okay, got it, thank you.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
All right, we get back. We're going to talk about
a really inspirational story. You know, a lot of people
uh the world changed and didn't change for the better
during COVID. A lot of families lost members of their family.
But we have a story with you of a local
pianist with thirty five years of experience turned his life
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around during COVID and he now does live piano streams
and plays gigs full time. And these piano streams that
Mark Davis plays are available for anyone to enjoy on
Saturday nights. So if you tomorrow night are interested in
getting together with Mark Davis remotely kind of a zoom deal,
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I believe we'll explain it all on the other side
of the break. But he's an interesting guy. He's made
the most of COVID, and he's there literally for your
dining and dancing pleasure every Saturday night. As I understand
that at seven thirty we'll get this all ironed out
on the other side of the break. We want to
give you something to do from the comfort of your
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home this Labor Day weekend back on Nightside right after this.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
I want to introduce you to a very interesting gentleman
by the name of Mark Davis. He's a professional pianist.
Mark Davis, Welcome to Nightside. Thanks for joining us tonight.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Thanks for having me on. Dan. How are you.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
We're doing great. We're doing great, so good. How long
have you been a professional pianist? How long have you
played the piano professionally? Oh?
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Since probably or high school. I mean high school. You know,
I've been playing in bands since then. I'm playing wedding
bands and doing all kinds of function work and playing
on my own.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
But now you also during this time, I assume you
had a nine to five job too, right, as I
understand what I did, What did you do for what
we call the day job?
Speaker 1 (34:59):
I worked like accounting and accounts payable at Harvard Business
School publishing for about twenty one and a half years. Interesting, Yeah,
and it was. I was just thrilled about the weekends
because I was working every weekend.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
I was good. Yeah. What I was going to ask
you what did you love more working in accounting or
playing the piano?
Speaker 5 (35:15):
And I guess I know the playing the piano obviously.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
That's okay. We won't tell anyone at Harvard Business School.
Speaker 5 (35:21):
No, that's okay. So yeah, yeah, so left there.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
I'm retired from there, so you know that's fine.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
So COVID comes along, and up until this time you
would play, you know, weekend gigs, right, give me an
idea about the sort of weekend gigs that that you
would have picked up pre COVID.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
I do weddings like a cocktail hour beneath eas in Dorchester,
and I was playing like at the hitching Post in
the Hansom, which was like right up the street from
my house. I was doing that on Friday nights for
the dinner crowd.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
So they playing basically what I'm using the wrong term here,
Mark correct me. You're playing background music in the piano,
right exactly, Yeah, which is good, you know, but you're
not at this point, Elton John. But you making a
few bucks on the side with the side hustle. So
COVID hits and all of that probably starts to go away, right.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
It all went away? Yeah, yeah, and it was pretty horrible.
It's like I had nothing to do, and you know,
I was not working anymore. So that was one good thing,
you know, So I didn't have to go into Boston anymore.
But I had to find some things.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
So there was, So there was kind of a ying
and a yang and up and down. You say, there's
some gas money going into work, although you probably had
to work from home, but on the weekends times hanging
heavy on your hands.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Right, it was yeah, yeah, And I felt bad because
of a lot of people that used to come and
hear me on the weekends, especially in the restaurant. They
couldn't hear me anymore. So I was thinking, and I
was talking to my son about it. He's like thirty
one now, and I said, I really would like to
get on Facebook, but I don't know the first thing
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about doing it. So he helped me get Facebook going,
and I started doing a live stream on Facebook on
Saturdays and people started listening to me. I had had
a huge following during the pandemic because nobody else was
doing anything at the time.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Okay, so essentially, let's let's let's paint a picture here
so we know we're talking about So you're on Facebook
and on Saturday nights at seven thirty, I think you
told me yest of the time, that's right, You'd open
up your zoom channel and your zoom feed, and.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
All of a sudden, Facebook, Facebook Feed.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Facebook excuse me. Facebook. You're on Facebook, not Zoom. Okay,
all right, okay on Facebook? Yeah, okay, so you're on Facebook.
All they got to do is find you on the
Facebook page kind of like what we do. We do
Facebook Nightside pregame at four thirty and nightside postgame after
the show most.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
Nights, Yeah, which I watch all the time.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
I know that that's one of the threas here because
we get to know each other on this Okay, right, perfect,
So good all that.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Watches you all the time too, all the time, my son, Oh.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
Scott, good demographics there. Let me tell you. Okay, yeah,
so you have a Facebook page and you have the
cameras on you, and you put on a show for
an hour. You tell me every Saturday night.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
I do, and ever since the pandemic people still watching me.
And so I just continued to do that. And I
have people from England and Ireland all over the United
States watching me every Saturday night.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
And we have to say I can identify you because
we do nightside Facebook a pregame at four point thirty
and then postgame at midnight to critique the show. We
have folks from Mexico, GA. I was down in Mexico,
when we have many people up in Canada and we've
had people at different countries all over the world, it's pretty.
Speaker 5 (39:07):
Right, so great.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
So this is my thank you to you because I
want to plug your performances.
Speaker 5 (39:16):
So every I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
No, no, no, my pleasure. So every Saturday night you
play and people have an opportunity should they so desire
to sit and maybe have coffee and dessert or whatever,
sitting in front of their computer. And if they're longtime
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fians who used to be at restaurants where you play,
they can kind of recreate that experience without ever leaving home.
And if they're Morpians and they'd like to experience it,
how do they find you? So here we go. This
is this is the PI.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
They're going to find me. Yeah, they're going to find
me on you do it. Go to Google and Google search.
It's Mark Davis Piano Music and that's where you'll find me.
And you'll find all my links right there.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
So you go to piano music.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
Piano music on Google. Yeah, just no, just go to
Google search, Google Google Search, and it will tell you
about the Facebook, it'll tell you about YouTube, all of
my links and my website is Mark Davispiano music dot
com and that has all the information on it too.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
Okay, so now do you take requests? What do you
how interact? I do?
Speaker 1 (40:30):
Yeah, I you know, I say, I'm doing a show
Saturday night. If you have any requests, let me know.
And I wanted to know if there's anything you'd like
to hear, if you like, if you are going to
sit in with me on a Saturday night is your
Do you have a favorite song?
Speaker 2 (40:44):
Well, for me, it's always Danny Boy.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
That's a great song. Yeah, I do that on a
number of occasions.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
I'm sure. Yeah. Now I will let you know when
I'm sitting out there. I'm not going to force you
to play Danny Boy unless I'm going to be there
and I can enjoy it. Okay, I think it's it's
gonna be great fun. I mean, you know, maybe folks.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
Have a great time.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
Yeah. Well, I'll say maybe folks aren't going to bring
their computer into the kitchen or the dining room, but
they certainly if they have a computer and and they're
able to find you, they can sit. They can sit
in front of their computer. You literally open up the
feed at seven.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
Thirty, right, and I like myself no longer.
Speaker 2 (41:30):
NI like myself and Marita, who sometimes are a couple
of minutes late. Yeah, it's really seven thirty and during
the hour on an average Saturday night. How many songs
do you play?
Speaker 1 (41:43):
Oh, well, that's fun to say. Yeah, thirty forty songs,
you know. Anyway, how long do you want?
Speaker 2 (41:50):
How how long do you want for?
Speaker 1 (41:52):
I'm on for an hour, on for an hour. But
I you know, I try and play everything everybody wants
to hear, so I've done other times. I've played for Thanksgiving.
I like sometimes pre record a showy Thanksgiving so people
can listen to it while they're eating Thanksgiving dinner. And
they've really enjoyed that too, and oh it's wonderful. I
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love doing it. And I also play nurse and homes
and it's just living places, and that's where I really
love to do. I love playing for those people because they,
you know, they brighten right up when I go into
the room. They're all looking for me, and you know,
I play all the songs you'd like to hear. I
play like Frank Sinatra or Tony Bennett, the Beatles, a
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little bit of everything, and they'll come up to me afterwards.
I loved everything you were doing, so it really makes
me feel good. I always end every show, always end
the show with a song by Carol Burnette. You know
what the song that was?
Speaker 2 (42:53):
No, I don't.
Speaker 1 (42:55):
I'm so glad we had this time together.
Speaker 2 (42:57):
Oh great, Okay, Yeah, I mean, I love music, but
I'm not someone who remembers songs and remembers music. If
you want to ask me about middle infielders with the
Cincinnati Reds in the nineteen I'll tell him Johnny Temple
and Roy McMillan, and people will understand that, right, at
least people from that era. But yeah, you know, but
but yeah, so look, this is great. Give us the
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Facebook page again.
Speaker 1 (43:21):
Sure, it's if you go it's if you go to Google,
it's Mark Davis Piano Music. If you look it up
on the Google Google and it'll show all the links.
It will show you how to get to Facebook. The
Facebook one is Mark Davis Piano Music twenty three.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
If someone wants to email you, okay, or it's the
easiest way for someone. If someone says, hey, I want
to bring Mark here. We're going to generate some business
with you, what's the easiest way for them? To get
get in touch with you directly. It would be anything
you want.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
Sure, it'd be Mark Davis Piano Music at gmail dot com.
Speaker 2 (43:57):
Perfect perfect, Mark David Panel Music at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1 (44:02):
Mark Davis, I think I think that's up with the
links to with the Google on the Google.
Speaker 2 (44:08):
I want to know someday next week. Did you get
a bump in your in your listening audience this Saturday night?
Speaker 1 (44:14):
Already? I have already, thank you very much. I've been,
you know, saying I was going to be on here
today and a lot of people were interested, So thank
you so much for having me on.
Speaker 2 (44:24):
Really well, maybe I've got some some new listeners in
the in the process, Mark appreciated.
Speaker 1 (44:28):
I'd love to talk to you again sometime soon.
Speaker 2 (44:31):
We can make that happen, my friend, We can make
that happen. You can talk to me tonight, by the way,
at midnight, right after the show nights on Facebook night
Side with Dan Ray.
Speaker 1 (44:39):
You know that that sounds good? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (44:41):
All right?
Speaker 1 (44:42):
And if you have won me, did you happen to
see any of the videos?
Speaker 2 (44:47):
I have not as yet? And I and I got
to run because my producer yelling in my ear and
we got a we got another hour, another three hours
to do. We'll get in touch tonight. Okay, thanks Mark.
Speaker 1 (44:56):
We're talking great Labor day, thank you too.
Speaker 2 (44:58):
Great weekend and I'm off week thanks Palm. Here comes
to nine o'clock news. After the nine o'clock news is
going to talk about a real tough story, and that
is the death of two young hockey players, including one guy.
Both of them played at Boston College, Boston's b season
morning tonight. We'll be back right after this
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on doubling Busy Boston's
new radio.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Thanks very much, Nicole. It is a Friday night, the
last Friday, the thirtieth of August. Only have one more
day in August. It's amazing to think that this weekend
will bring us September, but that's what the calendar tells me,
and the calendar does in line. My name is Dan Ray.
Rob Brooks, the producer of the program, is back in
the control room at Broadcast Central. He'll set you up
(00:28):
with telephone calls right after nine o'clock. At nine, we'll
talk about that horrific double tragedy down in New Jersey
late yesterday which two young brothers, one in NHL Superstar
and the other guy who was still honing his talents
and played for the Worcester rail Riders for a while,
(00:49):
the Gudreaux brothers hitting killed a Leslie by drunk driver.
We'll talk about that at nine. It's going to be
a tough hour, but I think some of you may
have some stories that will in the mood. Just a
horrible story later on tonight. No big problems at Somerville
Central Library, where the teenagers have been acting up we
(01:11):
will talk with the Somerville City councilor about what can
be done. I've got a few ideas as to what
could be done. And then in the twentieth hour, we
will have, as we do every eleventh hour, on the
last Friday of the month, which is the last Friday
of the month, obviously being August thirtieth, there's only two
more days, one more day left in the month, we
will do a real snap presidential poll and the I
(01:36):
think the presidential contenders serious presidential contenders are down to
two at this point. I think I know who we're
talking about. But before we get to all of that,
we're going to start off our first guest tonight. I'm
not sure if Jim McBride has joined us before, but
I enjoy his writing in the Boston Globe. As I've
told others, Jim, when I get my Globe in the morning,
first thing I go to is the sports page, and
(01:58):
you get to write for the Boston of sports page
and the best sport page, best sports page in the country.
In my opinion, how are you tonight?
Speaker 3 (02:06):
I'm doing great And I couldn't agree more on that assessment.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Yes, I'll bet you would. I bet you would agree
with me. So, so you're following an Olympic bronze medalist.
You did a piece which I read online yesterday. I
assume it's in the print version today about an Olympic medalist,
bronze medalist from China, and I did not realize she
now has Boston as an adoptive home. She's playing this
(02:31):
week at the LPGA event. Tell us about how she
did in the Olympics, which obviously was really good, how
she's doing this weekend, and how is it that a
gold medal, bronze medals from China, how is it that
she has come and has picked Boston as her adoptive home. Well,
(02:54):
we're thrilled to have her here. But I just it's
a great story, Go right ahead.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Yeah, So, her fiance is a Bostonian, Barney Wang is
his name, and uh where they met I'm not quite sure,
but uh, you know, once they developed that relationship, she
kind of adopted Boston as her as her American base
because he lives here. And uh so she was really
excited to get the chance to play in an LPGA
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tournament near her adopted home.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
She's coming off, you know, a very busy month she
she she represented China and the Olympics and and was
kind of a surprise bronze winner. You know, she hasn't
she doesn't want a ton on on on either tour,
on the China on China's LPGA tour or the American tour,
but she kind of came out of nowhere and and
won that bronze medal, and it's probably the biggest uh
you know, feather hunder captive to this point.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Now, how tough is it for a woman who's a
professional professional golfer to get access out of China to
be able to you know, fulfill her career ambitions, not
only in the Olympics, but on the LBGA Tour LPGA
tour here in America.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Yeah, I'm not sure the politics behind it and and
how that that happened, whether she went to college in
America or not, I'm not really sure. We didn't have
a we didn't get to spend a ton of time
with her on Tuesday, but she did have some some
interesting stories about you know, being uh, you know in
(04:24):
this country and and now playing on this tour. And
you know, she's uh, you know, obviously bilingual, and she
speaks really well and I think that she's, you know,
she's kind of an up and coming star on on
this tour. She even has an English name. She goes
by Janet now, which is you know, unusual.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Yeah, give me the correct pronunciation. I didn't dare try.
The last name is Lynn, so that's similar to the
to the kid that played for the New York Next
no relation.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
I assume, yeah that was that was Jeremy. Her pronunciation
is you Julie you jun uh?
Speaker 5 (05:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
She uh she she goes by. She even has jan
on her bag now. She has you Janet Lynn on
her on a golf bag, so easily recognizable. She also
has a Celtics putter cover because she loves the Celtics.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Yeah. Uh, your your piece talked about. I guess she
was at Red Sox game last night and she's really
beginning to become accustomed to the city. And if, if,
if Boston is her hometown, then she will be our
adoptive favorite on the l B G G A. That's
that is for sure. How is the tour the l
(05:38):
p G A tour going. All of us are familiar
with the w n B A uh and of course
the w n B A is a fraction of the
money that is involved in the.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
N b A.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
N b A is the l p g A making
some inroads you know on the on the women's women's tour.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Yeah. So this is the inaugural f M Championship at
EPC Boston, which for years hosted the men in the
on the PGA tour. In the FedEx Cup was the
deutsch Bank. It was the Dell Technologies and it was
a Northern trust. Always had Tiger Woods as one of
their main draws and he was a you know, a
chairman of the deutsch Bank. So uh, that ended a
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couple of years ago when the FedEx Cup went from
four tournaments to three. They they ended up chopping off
the Boston leg of the tour, unfortunately. But this has
been an opportunity for you know, a great course, TPC
Boston in Norton to host another world class event. And
you know, the crowds were a little sparse, I have
(06:39):
to be honest on Thursday and Friday, but I think
that you know, Saturday and Sunday's crowds will be will
be much bigger. And there are some local draws other
than than Janet, there's Megan Kaye who's from Rockland. Uh,
she's she's an up and comer on the LPGA tour.
You know. Alex Pano is another girl from Stoughton. Uh,
she's on the tour now. So I think the crosse
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this weekend will be will be much bigger.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Well, you know, it's interesting. It's always great to see
there have been there have been a few New Englanders,
you know. Uh o Keegan Bradley comes to mind on
on the PGA tour. But it New England is not
a fertile ground for golfers because obviously the golf season
except on Cape Cod is pretty limited, uh, you know
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to what they can do in other other parts of
the country.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
And so it's great to see either some uh some
some native born Bostonians or some adoptive Bostonians begin to
make some inroads in golf. Because of all the sports. Uh,
I wish that I had learned a golf really well
when I was young, or tennis. The carryover sports. Everybody
(07:47):
in my generation to play baseball, hockey, football, if you're
big enough, basketball, but there's not a lot of carryover
benefit both in terms of social interaction but also business interaction.
So the song may you know, Mama, don't let your
sons to grow up to be cowboys, but Mama, let
your sons and daughters grow up to be pro golfers
or pro tennis players.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Absolutely, it's a sport you can play your whole life, right, you.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Bet you, You bet you that. And cornhole, which is
now that's what anyone could play, hey, Jim McBrien, Yeah, oh,
I know that's the thing. Yeah, they're actually broadcasting cornhole
tournaments and it's like it's a fun game. Don't get
me wrong, But in terms of the amount of preps
you need to get good at that compared to professional
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golf for professional tennis, significant difference. Jim, thanks so much,
love to have you back. I always love stories in
sports that that take us into the sport through the minds,
through the eyes, and the experience of particularly someone in
the in the field that we can start to root for.
So great, great piece today, Thanks so much.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Well, Thanks Dan, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Enjoy your weekend. By the way. That's that's a good
gig you got going there, right.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Yeah, it's not fair. I never take that for granted,
and I'm watching sports for a living.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Thanks Jim, Thank you so much. Oh, so we'll go
from sports with a Globe Rider. We're going to talk
next with Larry Edelman, Boston Globe Financial columnis and he's
talking about the fact that the Massachusetts unemployment rate has
gone up to its highest level in four years, but
it's because people are getting off the sidelines and they're
looking for jobs. We'll talk to Larry Edelman right after
(09:28):
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(09:49):
and dining pleasure and also your informational in news stories.
We'll be back on Night's Side right after this. Now
back to Dan ray Line from the Window World Studios
on w b Z Teams Radio. We all are affected
by the economy, obviously, and the economy is always affected
by the employment and the unemployment rate, and the unemployment
(10:14):
rate here in Massachusetts has just jumped up a little
bit with us. Is Larry Edelman, Boston Globe columnist. He
is I think, along with John Cesto, just two of
the best writers that they can explain what's going on
in the marketplace. Larry Edelman, welcome, Welcome back to Night's Side.
All of a sudden, we got a little bit of
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a bump here in our unemployment number, highest level in
four years. But I guess there's a reason for this.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
There is, Dan. You got to keep in mind that
the unemployment rate is based on what they call the
labor force, and so it's the percentage of the labor
force that doesn't have a job. So it's not only
layoffs that create unemployed people. It's when people come off
the sidelines when they haven't been working, when they didn't
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even want a job. But when they come back to
the job market, they are counted as unemployed too. So
what we've been seeing.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
What's happened then in the last couple of months. I mean,
I would assume if someone was unemployed a year ago,
or lost their job a year and a half ago,
that they would have immediately tried to figure out what's
next in their career. So people stayed on the sidelines,
didn't even look for work. Did they have great severance
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packages or were there some government programs which would kind
of you know, tied to them, over tied to them
over What caused that phenomenon.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
Well, there were people who had, you know, the government
stimulus checks that came out following the pandemic. And the
economists that I talked to out at mass Benchmarks at
UMass Stami Hue Institute, they believe that part of the
increase in the labor force is people who are coming
back and starting to look for work because they've run
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out of those savings that they had from the pandemic,
so they need to go to they need to go
back to work. They also think that there are some
people who are coming back to Massachusetts after having left
during the pandemic to work from home, you know, maybe
their parents' house, or just to work in a cheaper place.
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So there are a couple of things going on there
that are driving up the number of people looking for
work and therefore the number of people counted as unemployed.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Okay, so what you're saying is some folks who left
the Commonwealth and who were not looking for a job
in the Commonwealth that that pushed that quotion to whatever
that number down. And now because they're coming back and
actively looking that is contributed to the number four point
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six percent. At what point does that number start to
really get worriesome? Because reading your piece today, it sounded
as if, okay, this is kind of part of the
the ebb and flow of the workforce. Four point six
is in bad We always learned that, you know, four
percent back in the day was considered you know, a
theoretical full employment, but maybe not.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
Yeah, I would say that we would not want to
see the unemployment rate in Massachusetts go much higher, you know,
certainly no more than five percent, and I think even
that would be a lot and not a good sign.
You know. The Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell said last
week that, you know, he thought that the job market
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had cooled and that it was now healthy but not overheated.
And at the same time, he said he wouldn't like
to see any more substantial cooling. So what you've got
to hope for is that all these workers that are
coming in to the job market are you know, gradually
absorbed by employers, and that keeps the unemployment rate from
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rising much further. That's the positive scenario.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
I looked at the interesting chart that you had associated
with your story today that back when the pandemic began,
we had about three point seven three point eight million
people working in Massachusetts March of twenty twenty wis just
when it really hit. Yeah, and the lowest point was
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about three point five in April of twenty twenty, about
a year later. So about three hundred thousand people washed
out of the economy during that period of time, not
quite ten percent, but getting pretty close. And now it's
come back. The jobs have come back, and the back
fairly quickly. I mean, you hit bottom in April, and
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you weren't back all the way for a long time,
but you were back. We were back like eighty percent
of the way in June of twenty twenty, and now
it is only really since February this year started to
spike up. It's an interesting graph when you look at
it and you think about, Okay, you know we were
in the pits here in terms of employment only for
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about two months, which is which.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
Yeah, it was spiz me. Yeah, it was, you know,
an unprecedented type of recession and loss of jobs very quick.
When the business is closed when the health land dates
went out. But then the rebound was like nothing we'd
ever seen before either. The thing that had happened is
that once as you identified, Massachusetts got back up to
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eighty ninety percent, it took a long time for the
rest of that gap get filled up, for those years,
for the labor force. Yeah, for the labor force to
come back fully, you know what I mean. So that
was why, Yeah, that is why. Always when you talk
to employers, their number one issue was finding enough workers,
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you know, and that was up and down the economy,
from restaurants you know, and hotels to you know it,
you know, all kinds of white collar jobs. So there
was a real labor shortage. And the good news about
this increase in the unemployment rate is that because it's
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being driven by an increasing labor force, there are more
people out there looking for work, and hopefully employers will
be able to get some relief in terms of hiring.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Your article identified that the increases. It shows increases among
both men and women coming back into the workforce prime
major workers twenty five to fifty four, as well as
old the work is fifty five and above. We've all
read the stories about people unretiring because of you know,
the pressures of you know, eight nine percent inflation over
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the over the last years. Where do you think we're
headed in the next the next six months, I mean,
once once the new year turns, we turned the corner
and we're into twenty twenty five. What's your best guess?
Speaker 5 (17:26):
Well, my best guess is just what I hear from
the economists that I talk to. And at this point,
nobody dan is forecasting a recession next year. That's the
good news. The economy is clearly slowing down. But even
in the most recent quarter of that, you know, the
second quarter, we just got a revised GDP number of
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three percent, which is awful good. So even if things
slow down, it shouldn't be too bad. So what we're
hoping for, and I what I think the best case
scenario is this kind of gradual landing, you know, where
we settle into the two two and a half percent
growth rate for the economy. That at least is what
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the consensus is among economists and forecasters.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Okay, so this is a question that's out of I'm
not sure if it's left field or right field. How
do you reconcile all of these numbers and all of
these percentages with that report that came out a couple
of weeks ago that somehow someway the US Labor Department
had overestimated by eight more than eight hundred thousand the
jobs that have come back. That has to ripple somewhere.
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What do you make of that?
Speaker 5 (18:39):
Well, well, they do that every year. Those revisions happen.
Sometimes they're big, like.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
They do it, they do it every month, they do it.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
They do it every month. But then they have the
big one you know that they do, and they do
the initial revision this time of year, and then they
make it official I believe in January or so. And look, yes,
the economy did not grow as quickly, or employment did
not go as quickly grow as quickly as we've thought,
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but in the grand scheme of things, it was just
a minor detour, not anything big to worry about.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
So that's that's still eight hundred and eighteen thousand jobs
that theoretically, you know, aren't there. I guess you're putting
that up against the theoretical number of fifteen million jobs.
Is the idea that this is maybe a twelve percent.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
Differential, No, it's or because you're talking about one hundred
and almost one hundred and sixty million jobs in this country.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
No, but I'm saying no, no, I get that. But
they we're talking about fifty million. The Biden administration is
saying we created fifteen million jobs. So you're saying we
should use we should use one hundred and sixty million
job figure as So it's one out, it's.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
One yeah, and and yes. And we're at record employment
right now. I mean, there's never been as many people
employed in this country, is there?
Speaker 2 (20:10):
You know, as many people in this country right right?
Speaker 5 (20:14):
Like you know in Massachusetts, it's happening without a lot
of population growth down, which is an interesting twist. You know,
you would have thought my first my first thought when this, uh,
when I saw the labor force numbers was well, this
must reflect immigration. But it doesn't because when you break
down the numbers, it is almost all in white workers.
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And you know, there hasn't been a big increase for
Latino workers. So if you're thinking about people coming over this,
you know, the Mexico border and getting work in the
United States, at least so far, that hasn't affected our
labor force numbers here so far.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Now, what about black, black employment. Is that bouncing back
as well, or.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
Or is that you know, the black unemployment rate got
to about it, Lois, It's been in a long long time,
but in the beginning of this year it started to
change direction and go up again. And I'm not quite
sure what's going on there, you know, but at one
point everybody was crowing about the record employment rate among
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Black Americans, and that has weakened a bit over the
past six eight months.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
All right, Larry, you follow this stuff like I follow
baseball box scores. I love the perspective and the insight
that you I'm serious, I really mean that, and I
followed baseball box scores pretty closely. Larry Edelman, Boston Globe columnist.
Larry has always really enjoyed you whenever you come on,
Come on back soon.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Okay, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Down, thanks much. When we get back on to talk
with an author who wrote a book about her journey
to America. It's called Taxi to America, a Greek Orphans
adoption Journey. We'll be back right after the news the
bottom of the Era. My name is Dan Ray. A
Friday night on Nightside, coming right back.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
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Speaker 1 (22:21):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Thanks to call. My next guest has a very interesting
life experience. Her name is Stella Nahadis. She lives up
on Boston's North North Shore. She's a proud Greek American.
Her story began in Greece. Uh. She is a Greek
orphan uh. And her story starts with a taxi cab
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bran uh. And that's the name of her book, Taxi
to America, a Greek Orphans Adoption Journey. Stella Nahadis welcome
to Nightside. Uh.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Thank you, Dan, Thank thank you.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Very much for being with us. Tell us how your
life started. You were often in Greece.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
I was in Greece. The journey started when I was
ten years old. My sister and I were orphaned and
we were separated. Did you in Greece.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
I haven't read the book, but did you lose your
parents or how or were you given up for adoption.
Speaker 4 (23:25):
I'll just say, well, our parents were killed, but I
won't go into the details. It would be a spoiler.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Okay, Okay, so we were, but I'm assuming that's I'm
assuming that's in the book.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
It's in the book.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Okay. So, so at ten years of age, you and
your sister you left Greece.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
She did not correct. She was adopted by a couple
in Greece. I was adopted by a Greek couple who
lived in Boston and was brought to Boston. I grew
up in the Brighton section.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
How was it that a little girl, a ten year
old girl from Greece would be adopted by an American family.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
Well, it happened. Uh they were They were Greek. I
will say they were Greek Americans. They went to Greece,
uh To. They were childless, and they went to Greece
to adopt a child. They wanted a daughter, and I
happened to be available, Yes, and they brought me here.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
And you start off the story about leaving in a taxi.
How long was your trip? Interesting to know how long
your trip was from from Greece until you finally got
here to Barlto.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Well, the taxi ride actually took me to from Thessaloniki
uh At, the second largest city in Greece up north
the taxi ride took me from there to a village
about forty eighty kilometers away from.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Forty eight miles Okay, I did the man forty eight miles.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
From there. Biological mother's brother was in charge to take
care to do something with us.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Sure, I'll say.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
So, he found a couple to adopt my sister right away,
and he did find a couple for me also locally nearby. However,
because of my I have to say, at a very
young age, at ten years old, something very strong and
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an inner guidance took over me, and I was not
adopted at first the first choice that my uncle had.
And again the details.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Of that read the book. That's not a problem.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
That's with the details of that.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Well, no, no, no need to go there. So how
did you get to America?
Speaker 4 (26:01):
So the couple from America came and adopted me by
that time, By that time, I was eleven years old,
and they brought me to Boston.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
How much of a culture shock was that? Approximately, because
you never asked a woman her age, or you never
asked them a trick question that might give up their age.
How much of a culture shock? What was going on
in the Boston area that that that you can recall,
you know, when you came here? What what? What surprised you?
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Dan? The first of all the language I was. I
didn't speak any English. I flew all myself over here
and I did not speak any English. The shock was
going to going to sixth grade and not understanding anything
that was going on. So what hit me was that
I was strange. I wanted to go back to Greece.
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I didn't know the people that adopted me. They were Greeks,
so that was comfortable that I could communicate with them
in their immediate environment their friends. However, I felt isolated.
I just cried every day and wanted to go back.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
How long was it before you began to feel comfortable
here as someone coming here as an eleven year old
girl from Greece.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Once they took me out of the sixth grade and
sent me to an SL class at the Christopher Columbus
High School in Boston, and I began to learn English,
So I would say three months, I was conversational and
I began to not cry every day. Sure I remember that.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
That's the classic example. That's the classic example of the
first steps to assimilation, to learn the language. Yes, absolutely,
I'm a big believer. I suspect you are as well.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
An immersion. I learned it three months, I could converse
and I felt more comfortable. Six months, I was fluent,
and that fall I went to seventh grade and I
did well, and that's when I began to feel comfortable.
By eighth grade, I was I had friends. I was
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really assimulating, and I had already decided during my Christopher
Columbus gig that I would assimilate and become an American girl.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Okay, so who was your favorite rock star in those days?
Tell me a little bit about what it was like this.
I'm trying to picture the culture shop going from Greece.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
To culture Shop. I had to. It didn't happen because
something else happened between during my eighth grade where I
was again pulled out of the States and sent back
to Greece again. I will not go into the DA.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Yeah, well don't because we only had about two minutes
left here.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
So but I came back and went back to eighth
grade in high school, bright in high school, and then
you know the Beatles were happening.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Yes, so.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
I assimulated in participating in clubs. I had a wonderful teacher,
and a shout out to the teachers who are mentors
and make a difference in children's lives who encouraged me
to join clubs when I get to high school too,
and that also helped me to really become part of
the American culture. And at the same when I was
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pulled both ways.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
So when when was the break? At what point did
you reach the fork in the row where you said, okay,
going back, staying back, returning degreees was maybe go back
for visits, but to go back and live was not
the option. I'm now a Greek American, I'm now an American,
and I'm on that path of America. When was that moment?
Speaker 4 (29:51):
That moment was in sophomore year in high school, I
would have to say. And also at that time, my
adoptive mother died. I was sixteen, and at nineteen I
was definitely the American girl who was staying in the States.
My father died also, so I was on my own
at nineteen, so I was not going back to Greece
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to live, and I was left to carve my own
American dream, which I feel I did.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
I know.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
I'm sure that you, I believe that you eventually married.
Did you have children here?
Speaker 4 (30:29):
I have done that. Yes, I had a first marriage,
I had a child, and I did that. And I
have to say that by nineteen I had acquired the
traits that I needed to find that inner power I
had all along well, and that's what the book is about. Resilience, strength, perseverance, persistence,
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and the belief in myself. That's what carried me through
because for all those years between ten and nineteen, I
was in repair mode, always a challenge that I needed
to get through, and I would stay focused, Okay, I
got to do this, and I would do it, and
then things would be really smooth and something else would happen.
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I said, oh, I got to do it, and that
helped me through life. And those are the trades I
still rely on.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Well, I think that I'm hoping that folks who purchased
the book Taxi to America a Greek orphans adoption journey.
You don't have to be Greek to identify with that
type of journey, whether it's a journey coming here as
someone who's an immigrant or coming here in the pursuit
of the American dream. You certainly have lived that life
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and I would hope that not only would Greek Americans
be interested in the book Taxi to America, a Greek
Orphans adoption Journey. I assume it's available at Amazon and
all those regular bookstore.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
Loki Es, Bars and Noble, and my local stores here
at the bookshop in Beverly Farms, the bookstore in Gloucester,
and if anyone would like a signed copy in the
contiguous USA, I will be happy. They can contact me
through my website and I will be happy to ship one.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Okay, what's your website? Give us the website? We only
got about twenty seconds left, Stellar, what's the web?
Speaker 4 (32:25):
Stellnahattas dot com? Perfect elenahattas dot com.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Stell is easy, s D E L l A nahtas
is a little tougher na h A t I S.
You got it? You got okay, Stella, thanks very much.
I'm sure a lot of people we dined the book
for you.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
Okay, Hey, hello to our mutual and Rob.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Say hello to our mutual friend, the great Paul Price.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
Okay, well, thank you.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Very much, and the entire Price family.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
Okay, okay, got it, thank you.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
All right, we get back. We're going to talk about
a really inspirational story. You know, a lot of people
uh the world changed and didn't change for the better
during COVID. A lot of families lost members of their family.
But we have a story with you of a local
pianist with thirty five years of experience turned his life
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around during COVID and he now does live piano streams
and plays gigs full time. And these piano streams that
Mark Davis plays are available for anyone to enjoy on
Saturday nights. So if you tomorrow night are interested in
getting together with Mark Davis remotely kind of a zoom deal,
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I believe we'll explain it all on the other side
of the break. But he's an interesting guy. He's made
the most of COVID, and he's there literally for your
dining and dancing pleasure every Saturday night. As I understand
that at seven thirty we'll get this all ironed out
on the other side of the break. We want to
give you something to do from the comfort of your
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home this Labor Day weekend back on Nightside right after this.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
I want to introduce you to a very interesting gentleman
by the name of Mark Davis. He's a professional pianist.
Mark Davis, Welcome to Nightside. Thanks for joining us tonight.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Thanks for having me on. Dan. How are you.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
We're doing great. We're doing great, so good. How long
have you been a professional pianist? How long have you
played the piano professionally? Oh?
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Since probably or high school. I mean high school. You know,
I've been playing in bands since then. I'm playing wedding
bands and doing all kinds of function work and playing
on my own.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
But now you also during this time, I assume you
had a nine to five job too, right, as I
understand what I did, What did you do for what
we call the day job?
Speaker 1 (34:59):
I worked like accounting and accounts payable at Harvard Business
School publishing for about twenty one and a half years. Interesting, Yeah,
and it was. I was just thrilled about the weekends
because I was working every weekend.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
I was good. Yeah. What I was going to ask
you what did you love more working in accounting or
playing the piano?
Speaker 5 (35:15):
And I guess I know the playing the piano obviously.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
That's okay. We won't tell anyone at Harvard Business School.
Speaker 5 (35:21):
No, that's okay. So yeah, yeah, so left there.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
I'm retired from there, so you know that's fine.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
So COVID comes along, and up until this time you
would play, you know, weekend gigs, right, give me an
idea about the sort of weekend gigs that that you
would have picked up pre COVID.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
I do weddings like a cocktail hour beneath eas in Dorchester,
and I was playing like at the hitching Post in
the Hansom, which was like right up the street from
my house. I was doing that on Friday nights for
the dinner crowd.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
So they playing basically what I'm using the wrong term here,
Mark correct me. You're playing background music in the piano,
right exactly, Yeah, which is good, you know, but you're
not at this point, Elton John. But you making a
few bucks on the side with the side hustle. So
COVID hits and all of that probably starts to go away, right.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
It all went away? Yeah, yeah, and it was pretty horrible.
It's like I had nothing to do, and you know,
I was not working anymore. So that was one good thing,
you know, So I didn't have to go into Boston anymore.
But I had to find some things.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
So there was, So there was kind of a ying
and a yang and up and down. You say, there's
some gas money going into work, although you probably had
to work from home, but on the weekends times hanging
heavy on your hands.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Right, it was yeah, yeah, And I felt bad because
of a lot of people that used to come and
hear me on the weekends, especially in the restaurant. They
couldn't hear me anymore. So I was thinking, and I
was talking to my son about it. He's like thirty
one now, and I said, I really would like to
get on Facebook, but I don't know the first thing
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about doing it. So he helped me get Facebook going,
and I started doing a live stream on Facebook on
Saturdays and people started listening to me. I had had
a huge following during the pandemic because nobody else was
doing anything at the time.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Okay, so essentially, let's let's let's paint a picture here
so we know we're talking about So you're on Facebook
and on Saturday nights at seven thirty, I think you
told me yest of the time, that's right, You'd open
up your zoom channel and your zoom feed, and.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
All of a sudden, Facebook, Facebook Feed.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Facebook excuse me. Facebook. You're on Facebook, not Zoom. Okay,
all right, okay on Facebook? Yeah, okay, so you're on Facebook.
All they got to do is find you on the
Facebook page kind of like what we do. We do
Facebook Nightside pregame at four thirty and nightside postgame after
the show most.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
Nights, Yeah, which I watch all the time.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
I know that that's one of the threas here because
we get to know each other on this Okay, right, perfect,
So good all that.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Watches you all the time too, all the time, my son, Oh.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
Scott, good demographics there. Let me tell you. Okay, yeah,
so you have a Facebook page and you have the
cameras on you, and you put on a show for
an hour. You tell me every Saturday night.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
I do, and ever since the pandemic people still watching me.
And so I just continued to do that. And I
have people from England and Ireland all over the United
States watching me every Saturday night.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
And we have to say I can identify you because
we do nightside Facebook a pregame at four point thirty
and then postgame at midnight to critique the show. We
have folks from Mexico, GA. I was down in Mexico,
when we have many people up in Canada and we've
had people at different countries all over the world, it's pretty.
Speaker 5 (39:07):
Right, so great.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
So this is my thank you to you because I
want to plug your performances.
Speaker 5 (39:16):
So every I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
No, no, no, my pleasure. So every Saturday night you
play and people have an opportunity should they so desire
to sit and maybe have coffee and dessert or whatever,
sitting in front of their computer. And if they're longtime
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fians who used to be at restaurants where you play,
they can kind of recreate that experience without ever leaving home.
And if they're Morpians and they'd like to experience it,
how do they find you? So here we go. This
is this is the PI.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
They're going to find me. Yeah, they're going to find
me on you do it. Go to Google and Google search.
It's Mark Davis Piano Music and that's where you'll find me.
And you'll find all my links right there.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
So you go to piano music.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
Piano music on Google. Yeah, just no, just go to
Google search, Google Google Search, and it will tell you
about the Facebook, it'll tell you about YouTube, all of
my links and my website is Mark Davispiano music dot
com and that has all the information on it too.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
Okay, so now do you take requests? What do you
how interact? I do?
Speaker 1 (40:30):
Yeah, I you know, I say, I'm doing a show
Saturday night. If you have any requests, let me know.
And I wanted to know if there's anything you'd like
to hear, if you like, if you are going to
sit in with me on a Saturday night is your
Do you have a favorite song?
Speaker 2 (40:44):
Well, for me, it's always Danny Boy.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
That's a great song. Yeah, I do that on a
number of occasions.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
I'm sure. Yeah. Now I will let you know when
I'm sitting out there. I'm not going to force you
to play Danny Boy unless I'm going to be there
and I can enjoy it. Okay, I think it's it's
gonna be great fun. I mean, you know, maybe folks.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
Have a great time.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
Yeah. Well, I'll say maybe folks aren't going to bring
their computer into the kitchen or the dining room, but
they certainly if they have a computer and and they're
able to find you, they can sit. They can sit
in front of their computer. You literally open up the
feed at seven.
Speaker 1 (41:25):
Thirty, right, and I like myself no longer.
Speaker 2 (41:30):
NI like myself and Marita, who sometimes are a couple
of minutes late. Yeah, it's really seven thirty and during
the hour on an average Saturday night. How many songs
do you play?
Speaker 1 (41:43):
Oh, well, that's fun to say. Yeah, thirty forty songs,
you know. Anyway, how long do you want?
Speaker 2 (41:50):
How how long do you want for?
Speaker 1 (41:52):
I'm on for an hour, on for an hour. But
I you know, I try and play everything everybody wants
to hear, so I've done other times. I've played for Thanksgiving.
I like sometimes pre record a showy Thanksgiving so people
can listen to it while they're eating Thanksgiving dinner. And
they've really enjoyed that too, and oh it's wonderful. I
(42:15):
love doing it. And I also play nurse and homes
and it's just living places, and that's where I really
love to do. I love playing for those people because they,
you know, they brighten right up when I go into
the room. They're all looking for me, and you know,
I play all the songs you'd like to hear. I
play like Frank Sinatra or Tony Bennett, the Beatles, a
(42:37):
little bit of everything, and they'll come up to me afterwards.
I loved everything you were doing, so it really makes
me feel good. I always end every show, always end
the show with a song by Carol Burnette. You know
what the song that was?
Speaker 2 (42:53):
No, I don't.
Speaker 1 (42:55):
I'm so glad we had this time together.
Speaker 2 (42:57):
Oh great, Okay, Yeah, I mean, I love music, but
I'm not someone who remembers songs and remembers music. If
you want to ask me about middle infielders with the
Cincinnati Reds in the nineteen I'll tell him Johnny Temple
and Roy McMillan, and people will understand that, right, at
least people from that era. But yeah, you know, but
but yeah, so look, this is great. Give us the
(43:19):
Facebook page again.
Speaker 1 (43:21):
Sure, it's if you go it's if you go to Google,
it's Mark Davis Piano Music. If you look it up
on the Google Google and it'll show all the links.
It will show you how to get to Facebook. The
Facebook one is Mark Davis Piano Music twenty three.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
If someone wants to email you, okay, or it's the
easiest way for someone. If someone says, hey, I want
to bring Mark here. We're going to generate some business
with you, what's the easiest way for them? To get
get in touch with you directly. It would be anything
you want.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
Sure, it'd be Mark Davis Piano Music at gmail dot com.
Speaker 2 (43:57):
Perfect perfect, Mark David Panel Music at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1 (44:02):
Mark Davis, I think I think that's up with the
links to with the Google on the Google.
Speaker 2 (44:08):
I want to know someday next week. Did you get
a bump in your in your listening audience this Saturday night?
Speaker 1 (44:14):
Already? I have already, thank you very much. I've been,
you know, saying I was going to be on here
today and a lot of people were interested, So thank
you so much for having me on.
Speaker 2 (44:24):
Really well, maybe I've got some some new listeners in
the in the process, Mark appreciated.
Speaker 1 (44:28):
I'd love to talk to you again sometime soon.
Speaker 2 (44:31):
We can make that happen, my friend, We can make
that happen. You can talk to me tonight, by the way,
at midnight, right after the show nights on Facebook night
Side with Dan Ray.
Speaker 1 (44:39):
You know that that sounds good? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (44:41):
All right?
Speaker 1 (44:42):
And if you have won me, did you happen to
see any of the videos?
Speaker 2 (44:47):
I have not as yet? And I and I got
to run because my producer yelling in my ear and
we got a we got another hour, another three hours
to do. We'll get in touch tonight. Okay, thanks Mark.
Speaker 1 (44:56):
We're talking great Labor day, thank you too.
Speaker 2 (44:58):
Great weekend and I'm off week thanks Palm. Here comes
to nine o'clock news. After the nine o'clock news is
going to talk about a real tough story, and that
is the death of two young hockey players, including one guy.
Both of them played at Boston College, Boston's b season
morning tonight. We'll be back right after this
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