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It's been a full week night Side, that is for sure.
Let me just briefly tell you what we're gonna do tonight,
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You know, politics effects everything. So anyway, Monday night, the
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in Boston and also had reaction in the eleven o'clock
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Hurricane Helene. So what are we going to do now?
It's the twentieth hour. Twentieth hour. For those of you
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on nightside every week, Monday night. We start at eight o'clock.
We finished at midnight on Friday night, four hours on
Monday night. Five nights. It's twenty hours, and this is
the twentieth hour. We always try to end the twentieth
the week, put all the controversy aside, all the yellings,
and we don't do much yelling and screaming, but we
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put it all aside and we try to find a subject.
This one has been suggested this is not my idea.
This is Lady Lightning's idea, or Marita as you know her,
the producer of the program. Rob is the nighttime producer
and Marita is the producer who works during the daytime.
And so she has challenged me, and therefore I have
to challenge you to find out from you. Is there
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is there a skill? And that word skill covers a
variety of skills. I mean a foreign language skill, a
mechanical aptitude skill, a sports skill, and artistic skill. Is
there a skill that you would like to develop as
you grow olders which means young people who are listening,
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tell me what you would like to do. Marita said
today should like to learn a second language. She's young,
she's in her early thirties. I think language comprehension is
best done at it a very early age. I think
that's what some of the educational scientists will tell us.
But I know I wish that I had learned to
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play a musical instrument like a piano. I just think
that I watch people play pianos, and people who play
pianos who do it well do it with such a
plom with such ease, and I think I would get
a lot of joy out of that. I was never
musically inclined, but I have to assume that I could
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learn to play, even if it was just chopsticks a piano.
So I'm going to ask all of you to put
your thinking cap on and tell me, tell my audience,
what did you never learn to do? Maybe you still
have time. I mean, there's a lot of things I
wish I had learned how to cook better. Reasons for that,
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but I eat too much. I have learned because of
Awaken one eighty to cook better, but I really wish
I could cook well. There's a difference between cooking better
and cooking well. Other than that, I'm kind of happy.
If I could cook better and play a piano with
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whatever skills limited, however they are, that I have amassed
in my life, I'd be very very happy. So that's
that's where I am. And uh, I don't know how
many of you are willing to admit again, it's a skill.
Oftentimes you say what would you like to do? What's
on your bucket list? I want to travel there, I
want to go here. I want to see the Seven
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Wonders of the world. Now, this is what was something
that maybe in school that you wish you had studied harder,
or maybe a hobby that you could have developed. So
so the the it is a wide open playing field
six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty six one seven, nine,
three one ten thirty. I'm going to start it right
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off with Christian in peavity. Christian, what skill do you
wish you had developed and maybe you still wish to develop?
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Go right ahead, Christian, Hey, Hi, how are you? This
is Christian? Yes? Hi, right, I wish I had And
I'm now really having to fast forward on it because
I need to know. It's discretion.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Oh, discretion, Well that's an interesting.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
That's that's your skill. That is it's so encompassing of
everything else to do.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Yeah, okay, So when you say discretion, give me an example,
because I think the word is sufficiently broad that some
people might not give me an example where you could
have used discretion and you didn't, or or give me
a set of circumstances.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
So we can tell one of my joys of giving
and my trust very easily. And because of my giving,
I ended up pretty much not having anything because I
gave everything away. We enjoyed giving to anyone. But the
thing is that if I had used discretion on a
personal level, with relationships, on a level with my giving
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and my trust, because I just my nature is to
trust and to give. So the discuss would have been
huge if I look back over my ears, it would
have been huge. And at the same time it's something
I need to learn. I'm doing much better at now.
I have a long way Togo. I'm in the right
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direction because this is really.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
This is a very for me, a very interesting call. Okay,
So I'm going to ask you just a few questions
to try to not pin you down, but to understand
that are you somebody who who feels now in retrospect
that that people took advantage of you, meaning you know people,
buddies head, you know, can I can I borrow a
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hundred bucks?
Speaker 4 (10:42):
That sort of stuff My friends have younger years were
around me because of my giving, not because of me
and that discretion. Once I gained that part and recognize
that front face front an walk away.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Other than other than maybe being a little more circumspect
about who you gave money to. Is there another example?
Have you ever, for example, taken a job that you
didn't do enough due diligence on and you found yourself
in a job that you really didn't like, and it
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was I know that's not discretion, but it's sort of
an impulsive behavior. I mean in the.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Sense that when it comes to my work, anything I've
ever done, I give whole heart and all passion into it,
and I've always loved whatever I've done. I've got seven
trades because of that. So that has not been the
issue that it's been outside of the Jaw Force. In
the Jaw Force, my di question has always been very good.
It's on the personal.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
That's interesting. That is interesting. Why do you think you
didn't develop that early just because you're a decent human
being and you've got a big heart.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Well that's part of it. But the thing is, I
could never understand. I never agreed. So for me, if
I had somebody else needed, I would give, even on
my worst times, because I have a great joy in giving.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Okay something, I guess what I understand. But and it's
too bad that people took advantage of you. But I
still believe that you're going to be a very generous
person and maybe you'll just be a little more discreet. Yeah, okay,
a little more discreet on who you decide to help simple.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
As exactly you need to. I need to now I
have to make myself recognize that so person you can
help it if the need is real, if it's something
that's not.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Yeah, I tend to pass by the guy who's standing
outside your car window with a sign. And because my
sense is I see the same guys at the same
intersections every day and and they look, you know, fairly healthy.
Now they may have a condition that I'm unaware of.
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And it's like if you spend the amount of time
that you're doing in effect panhandling, uh.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
In that retrospect, Yes, I have actually had conversation. I'll
offer you a sandwich something.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Right, all right? And then you're you're breaking up on
us a little bit here your line was better.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Before, so somebody from the military stude.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
All right, Christian, thank you again. It's can appreciate you
taking the time. Have a great night.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
And have you.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Called the show before?
Speaker 6 (13:52):
No?
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Is this your first time?
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Absolutely, it's just keep calling.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Is a very good call. Thank you very much, appreciate
We'll take a break. Six one, seven, two, five, four
ten thirty six one seven nine three one ten thirty
what skill and again it could be you know I mean,
it could be square dancing. I mean, I don't know anything.
It could be bowling, it could be learning how to
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take short I mean, what skill do you wish you
had developed, either in school during your life? Christian said,
a better discretion. That's that's a skill. It is to
be able to be generous and yet not be taken
advantage of. We've got open lines here. Let's keep it going,
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coming back on Night's side.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Now, back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
All right, let's keep rolling. You're going to go to
my friend Theodore in Baltimore. Theodore, You're going to be
real interesting this. What what skill would you like to have
developed that you've never had the opportunity to develop?
Speaker 7 (15:08):
Well, let me put it this way as real personally, drums.
But the things that would have made me the greatest
success in life that I lacked, discipline, focus, goal, and
greater parental guidance, those things could have taken me. Really really,
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I think up there looking at how I was born,
where I was born, in the advantages I had.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
But parental guidance would be a skill that that you
said you were not provided. That's not a skill that
you could develop. You know, you could help your children
with becoming better at being a parent. It sounds to
me like you didn't get as much parental guidance as
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you wished you had.
Speaker 7 (16:00):
And just a little, just a little note, my mom
went blind three years before she had me. She'd never
seen me, so she did. She did the best she could.
But just to give you a small example.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
I bet you there, I bet you your mom loved you. Nonetheless.
Speaker 7 (16:18):
Oh she was the best. She was the best, and
I will admit I was not the best son. Without
great details, but just the brief.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
We'll let that well, let that slide.
Speaker 7 (16:29):
I wanted to do what you did. But before I
got there. The first day of high school, junior senior,
high school, the coach said, come back because we did out.
Uh We went out for him, and he liked the
way me and my buddy, uh rent I was receiving
my body was a quarterback. He said, come back tomorrow,
but without the focus, we'll be deleting the We didn't
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come back, but we came back the next week. He said,
because you didn't follow orders, you can't play out for
the team. And that guy would have been an end,
I might have been good enough.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Up.
Speaker 7 (17:00):
His name was George Young. He's now deceased. Later he
became the director of player personnel for the New.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
York Giants, New York Giants. I know, I know exactly
who you mean. Yes, yeah he was.
Speaker 7 (17:11):
He was a knife guy and in the army they
said sign this and you had you can go to
offer the school. But not being adventterest, all I thought
was five years. Five years. I just was used to
being home and and and I know mom had situations,
so you know, it's just so many opportunities. I had
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that without focus, without discipline. And I'm gonna tell you,
I got.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
A question for you. What was George Young? The coach who.
Speaker 7 (17:43):
Did college City College of Baltimore. I went there from
sixty four through sixty eight and it was all boys
at that time.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Yeah, oh way, okay, So he was a coach. He
was a football coach, and of course went on to
again be the director of play development for the Giants.
Speaker 7 (18:00):
Very well, and I hit my head. I say, man,
if I had played, I had an end, maybe to
get a scholarship to go to a college. And maybe
because he knew me, there was another end. If I
was good enough to go even further. But you know,
I always ask people through my life, older life, now
my heart charging days are over, what are three things
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you could change if you could. Most women say I
wouldn't have my kids when I did. I went into
it to the army. I wouldn't have gotten married when
I did. And I've only talked to one person who
says I would not change one thing in my life.
And I really admired Tiger Woods because his father disciplined him.
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He accepted it, and he told the line that's what
made him so great because he had focus. So the
focus and the discipline if they had been there because
of the opportunities I had, you know, it's what under
the bridge, but it.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Really Tiger's dad was a military veteran in Vietnam.
Speaker 7 (19:08):
No Green Beret. Yes, And they have discipline. They have
great discipline. And one of the things that I learned
from you is you're discipline. You're very disciplined the way
you present your topics. And you know, one more thing,
over a thousand people died doing Hurricane Katrina.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Yeah. Thanks, I didn't have that number and I could
have looked it up, and he didn't have it, but
that does put it in some perspective.
Speaker 7 (19:36):
It's a terrible storm, terrible storm. The Red of course
is a good place to donate to, but you know,
you just have to pray for those people to recover.
And I think looking at the exdus of our people,
I think it's going to be somewhat of an exodus
of people from them from the South coming up here
because because it's just a horrible way to live with
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tornadoes and storms and there's no way to change it.
And I just I feel for the people who who
lost loved ones, and you just hope they can recover.
You pray the Lord comforts those who lost who whose
semi members were lost, and you know, it's just it's just.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Well, it's times that it's times like this theatre that
test people's faith faith in absolutely Why does why does
God allow you know, such bad things to happen?
Speaker 7 (20:27):
But you let me go. Let me ask you, Dan, Yeah,
what are three things you would change if you had
to go back? You just graduated from high school? What
are three things you would change if you could go
back that far?
Speaker 3 (20:39):
I don't know. I mean I was on a college
track and and I really wanted a place for I
wanted to play sports. Uh, And I went to a
school where I had that opportunity.
Speaker 8 (20:51):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
But I might have shot a little higher academically. That
would be That would be one thing. You have friends,
ships that that you wished you kept. I think friendships,
lifelong friendships are important. There were a lot of friends
of mine, you know, who I went to high school with,
who you lose contact with a lot of kids you
grow up with, who you lose contact. I wish I
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maintained some of some of those you know, and I
you know they were I remember when I first was
making a little bit of money and I thought I
knew everything about, you know, the stock market and things
like that. I wish I had sat with a financial
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advisor earlier in my life. I'm now taking care of that, okay,
But I remember there was one guy who I met
and he said, the key is to invest in futures. Okay.
I had no idea what the hell I was investing in.
And uh, I mean I think I had accumulated at
that point, Theodore, and I'm being very much, very honest
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with you. I think I had am I had accumulated
like five thousand dollars, which was a lot of money,
I thought. And uh, I mean within about three days
that that sucker was down to twenty one thousand dollars. Oh,
get get me out of here. I didn't lose it all, okay,
but it was an expensive It was an expensive lesson,
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nonetheless for a guy that stills picked, who picks up
pennies off the street. If you get my drift, I
mean I was, and I still how the hell I
got got myself in that, but I'll tell you it
was it was worth it because it kept me from
doing other stupid investments.
Speaker 7 (22:32):
And you learned the lesson.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
You learned the lesson you paid. You paid the price
and learned the lesson.
Speaker 6 (22:37):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Hey Theodore, you have a great weekend, okay, and you
your mom had to be pretty special.
Speaker 7 (22:43):
That's she was ill miss it to this day. I
always will.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
We always was up with all her again, but that's
you know, you and I disagree a lot of things,
but that's one thing we both agree on. All dogs,
all cats, all pets go to heaven, and of course.
Speaker 6 (22:58):
Yep, we do.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
We do too if we if we live a decent life.
Speaker 7 (23:02):
And I don't think we have a great I don't think.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
I don't think that there's one religion to get you there.
I think that you know, if you treat people well,
you'll be treated well in the afterlife. That's what I believe.
Speaker 7 (23:15):
Now, that's that's truly open on the candonworms that we
won't go into that night.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
I won't go there tonight. We'll pick that up next time. Okay,
thanks Theodore, Doctor you sorrighty, Well, take a quick break.
I got Laurie from Idaho, one of my favorite callers
coming up, Mike and Everett, Craig and Ohio. The question
is what skill do you wish you had developed? So
Theodore says, discipline, focus, Christian said, better discretion. I must
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be the simple thon in the group here tonight. Those
are two high level conversations that I didn't initiate. I said,
I wish I learned to play the piano. I don't know.
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Speaker 11 (28:22):
I'm al Griffith.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 3 (28:31):
Here we go, Let's go to Laurie and Idaho. Laurie,
I'm dying to know what skill you had wanted to
develop that you haven't developed yet.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
Well, so.
Speaker 12 (28:42):
Whatever Theatre thinks he lacked for his life, you sure
had a great heart. So he's gonna he's gotta check
that great guy.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
We still have some pitch. I used to have some
pitch battles with Theodore over politics, and he and I
think are both kind of mellowed in our old age.
Speaker 12 (28:58):
There's hope for the world.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Yeah, yes, Well.
Speaker 12 (29:01):
I always wanted to ride a horse, and so I
did take lessons when I was younger. But since I
was a kid, I've been so allergic to them. And
so you know, I tried lessons and I wasn't even
on the beast fifteen minutes, and I'd be wheezing and sneezing,
and my eyes would be watering and itching out of
my head, and so I gave up on that. But
and then actually there's a pardon.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
You would have been an equestrian.
Speaker 12 (29:25):
I don't know about that. I just want to and
I don't want to. I didn't want to do English
room that.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
I just want to learn how to ride west.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
No, yeah, I guess I meant the old horse. I
remember when my daughter loved horses. She was about seven
or eight, uh, and we paid to have her go
and she would spend for an hour lesson you'd spay
whatever it was. And so she would spend about thirty
minutes cleaning out the stable and she'd ride for like
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five minutes and then she had to like you know,
work on the horse and make sure. Yeah, it was
like it was a total rip off.
Speaker 12 (29:58):
And one day it was she they want slave labor,
those teachers, they do, they do.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
So she had her little helmet on and I was
so cute as anything in her riding pants, and the
horse stepped on her foot and yeah, and so I
literally threw my shoulder into the horse to get him
off her foot, and she got mad at me from
being mean to the horse. That's why did you do that?
(30:27):
Because it was stepping on your foot, Katie.
Speaker 12 (30:32):
So anyway, So I would love to learn how to paint.
And I don't mean the side of the house.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
I can already do that.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Yeah, I understand that. Yeah, well that's a skill that
we can develop at any age.
Speaker 12 (30:43):
I mean, that's what I might retirement product or something.
Speaker 15 (30:46):
I don't know.
Speaker 12 (30:46):
I dabbled in, you know, I dabbled and't w We
went to school in art and I kind of got
interested in it. But I'm I'm not very good at it.
But I'd love to do acrylics their watercolor. So that's
something I hope to develop in the future.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Well that those are good ones. Those are good ones.
As they said, I'm never.
Speaker 12 (31:01):
Gonna in the musical realm.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Yeah no, I will never learn to play the piano.
But I've watched people play the piano, and I'm not
talking about the professionals that people who.
Speaker 12 (31:12):
Are No, it's fun to just clink around, but at
least know where your fingers are on the key.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Yeah, that's it, And I think you have to develop
I would want to develop an ear for it so
I would know what to do. And yep, but hey,
you can't do it all right, that's what you'll in life.
I can't do it all, Laurie. You have a great weekend.
We got a great weekend coming up here in New England.
It's gonna be nice weather, little spot of rain tomorrow
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and then great Saturday and Sunday at New England early
fall weekend. I hope this is nice and Ida hope
for you.
Speaker 12 (31:46):
No, it's gonna be cool. Well, it's gonna be warm.
It is now, but it's it's gonna be seventies well
actually know and now it's back to sixty five. So
and it's still lead at night, thirties at night.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Yeah, well that's good sleeping weather. They got to look
at it like that. Okay, yeah, okay, positive, okay, all right, thanks,
thank you, all right, thanks so much. All right, let's
keep rolling here where we're going to go next again
a skill that and again we've had some very interesting
better discretion, says Christian Theaterous has discipline and focus, Laurie,
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ride horses or paint? What would you like to do
that you don't know how to do now? And if
you had only started earlier, you could be twenty in
call and tell me that that you should have done
something at fifteen, or you can be eighty five and
tell me that you're still going to try to do something.
Let's go to Michael in Effett, Michael and Everett. What
sort of a skill do you wish you had developed?
Speaker 16 (32:42):
Cooking?
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Well, yeah, that's one of the ones that I'd like
to do it better too. I mean, do you feel
it you just don't have time to do it? To
do that or no.
Speaker 16 (32:54):
Well It's funny is in high school I took Colin
Area as a tree and I used to come home
make homemade soup. And now it's like I fear even
like I'll go I can go to the store.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
And buy groceries.
Speaker 16 (33:03):
I don't know what to do with it, but I'm
really into Like the past three I've been really into like,
you know, I want to take a calmery course when
I learn how to cook well and you know, nutrition wise,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Yeah, absolutely, you know, one of the one of the
things that I'm good at. When I want to splurge
at breakfast, it's like chocolate chip pancakes. I eat this
cocoa cereal virtually every day from awake in one eighty,
which is a fabulous cereal. They I hope they never
sell it on the market. It's unbelievably delicious and it's
low in calories. It's you throw some fruit on top
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of it. It's a perfect breakfast. But when I wake
up on a cold morning, and you know, late October,
November or whatever, just when I feel like it, I
go for the chocolate chip pancakes. I'm good at that.
I can figure that out how much all of that,
But anything more complicated than that, it gets tough, you know,
But that's because you're not used to it. And it's like, Okay,
(33:57):
I'm going to buy a yeah, a piece of fish
at the supermarket. I got to come home. I got
to soak it in something. I got to put what
you know, breadcrumbs on it. I got to cook it
at the right time.
Speaker 6 (34:08):
And then I got.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Yeah, Like tonight, for example, I had a great dinner tonight,
at least by my standards. I basically threw a salad
together real quickly. I picked up some cold cuts at
the store. Now that's not cooking, don't get me wrong.
But I had, you know, turkey and ham and cheese,
and I had a great salad and it was it
was just perfect. It was perfect. But to be able
to yeah, but to be able to cook and to
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really I used to. I I did learn some things
with the waken one avy when I first started about
cooking with vegetables and you know all of that and
chicken which was really good. And I'm not doing that
as much as I did before. But you got to
have the discipline. My schedule is still crazy, but I
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and I I should just say to myself, you know what,
the prep for the show is over at five o'clock
and you got two hours to do your own thing.
That's I have to develop. That's a little discipline that
the theater that I need. The theater talked about I
got at the discipline to say, I'm not going to
my phone calls are over for the day. I'm not
not calling somebody about an interview tomorrow. I just have
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to have to get better discipline.
Speaker 16 (35:21):
Yeah, well what I do like sometimes like oh you know, yeah,
I get that food, like with the meat or the
chicken or marinate or when or whatever.
Speaker 4 (35:27):
Then I got the George.
Speaker 16 (35:28):
Foreman grow So are you men have some peppers and onions?
But no, this is pretty good. So you have baffl
like a couple of days, you know, and then you
know you make another you know, prep something else.
Speaker 6 (35:37):
You know.
Speaker 16 (35:37):
I've been doing that, but my schedule is like in
a late afternoon, only afternoon, so it's like I never
have time in the morning or not because I get
get out of work aut at eleven.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
Yeah, well a way to do well. I'm midnight and
I know I'm not crazy enough to eat at midnight
because that food is just going to sit in your stomach.
So yeah, I'm with you. Yeah, Michael, Greg, I think
that we were separated at birth because I connected with
you a lot here in terms of what I really
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would wish I could do. Thanks for the call, My
friend will talk again.
Speaker 4 (36:10):
Okay, okay, thank you, We thank you.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
We'll take very quick break. The only line open right now,
six one seven ninety Craig, Tim and Glenn. You are
all set if you haven't called showing the conversation. Come on,
what skill? What skill would you like to have that
you never took the time to develop. Oh, maybe you're
just totally happy with yourself. Maybe there's nothing that you've
that you have left to do in life. Call me
(36:35):
and tell me that so I can make fun of you.
We'll be back on that side.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
Now back to Dan Ray Live from the Window World
Nice Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
By the way, next week we will be giving out
some tickets to a Tina Turner tribute which is going
to be at the Hanover Theater in Worcester. And we're
also going to be giving out some night side t
shirts in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. So be
thinking about that as you plan your week. Next week
(37:11):
we'll have some tickets for you. Haven't done that in
a while. Craig is in Ohio. Craig, what would you
like to do that you? What scale would your like
to develop that you haven't developed?
Speaker 6 (37:21):
Well, you'll love this. I was outdoor contributor to the
local newspaper for about twelve years and I love them.
Learning to type better. Didn't typing in high school. And
I'm the two finger guy.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
Yeah, I'm kind of the same way. But I'm pretty
quick at it. I've gotten very quick. And of course computers,
those of us who learned on typewriters, computers are much easier.
It's a much lighter exactly. Yeah, and so I'm fast
on computers. I've never timed myself though. How many words
a minute. But the problem is with computers you make mistakes.
(38:01):
In the old days, you really had that the discipline
of correcting the paper with white out. Don't have to
worry about that on a computer. Just delete backspace and
do it again, right.
Speaker 6 (38:15):
You know, just when I was in high school, typing
was something a guy didn't pay you know. It's like, yeah,
you know that the class girls you know took.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
You know, it would have been a great class to take.
If you really think about it, you could meet up.
You could have met all the girls in high school exactly.
But the guys weren't thinking about the Yeah they the
the the guys were it would have tried to what
are you doing, Craig and any girls class? Well, you know,
(38:47):
Craig's about this guy in the room and the school. Uh,
you know, getting all the girls' names and getting to
know them a little bit better. So I don't know. Typing, Okay,
I got you down for typing. That's a good one.
You know. You can you can develop your skill on that.
I wonder if there's some sort of a course you
can take on a computer.
Speaker 16 (39:07):
I'll bet there is.
Speaker 6 (39:09):
I'm sure there is. But the problem is now my
my left hands kind of messed up. Okay, uh from
a working accident. But it you know, it's uh, I
get by well.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
You know, just you always give it a shot. You
just get a little bit better, a little quicker.
Speaker 6 (39:29):
You never know.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
See what you can find on a on a computer
if you google, uh type you know, typing. Course, I'll
bet you there's like some little secrets that I've never
even learned that you know, you spread your fingers or whatever.
I'm like you, I'm kind of hunting peck, but this,
I'll bet you could you could you? You still have
the possibility of doing that, my friend. I want to
encourage you to do it as well.
Speaker 6 (39:50):
I'll give it a try.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
Let me know what happens. Thanks, Greg, Let me keep rolling.
You're going to go to Tim and Winthrop. Tim, what
skill would you like to develop that you never developed
when you were younger?
Speaker 15 (40:03):
Well, I'm doing it now. Remember when we went to Arizona.
Speaker 3 (40:06):
Yeah, remember that your photography.
Speaker 15 (40:08):
Value you got the pictures. Yeah, it's photography. I went
to mask Call of Yvade for one course I took,
and they showed me, like John Houston has to say,
keep the horizon at the top and bottom and a
lot of the other tricks they showed me how to do.
And you saw my pictures.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
They're really really good, right absolutely?
Speaker 15 (40:27):
And I take them to Newbery Street. You could sell those, Yeah,
I got three under them. And I take them in
Ubery Street where it needs some money, and I put
them on the table and how much you're gonna give
me for them? Sometimes they give me forty bucks a
picture and I come out of there with three hundred bucks.
I go to three or four places. But what I
want to do is take another course at mask call
of Javade and learn how to develop them and learn
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more about it, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (40:50):
But you know that's a skill, that's a lost skill,
developing pictures photographs.
Speaker 15 (40:56):
Yeah, yeah, I like to do that because it's interesting.
Speaker 3 (41:00):
Thing is you you have to build a dark room
in your house, right.
Speaker 15 (41:03):
Yeah, I got a closet. But I don't know we're
going to do that. But I'm interested in that. But
you saw my pictures. They told me to chop in
the bottom and I go to I want to go
to the hotels. Is a certain I can make some
more money at the hotels by bringing a whole bunch
of pictures because they need the building. All the hotels
in Boston they need pictures for the rooms, and they'll
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pay a good at least fifty bucks a picture. And
then I'm looking at that. And the other thing I
want to do is imitations, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (41:33):
Who do you think you can imitate.
Speaker 15 (41:35):
Chrispher Lloyd on Back of the Future. I got him down,
pat one here, Well that's great, Yeah, go ahead, good
Mordy eighteen dozen you're going, well, well, we'll go back
to Ronald Reagan the Worlds of MOUs.
Speaker 3 (41:50):
Dude. That's a good one.
Speaker 1 (41:51):
That's a good one.
Speaker 3 (41:53):
No, I got two other calls I got to take,
but I can't tell you a favor. Some night, we'll
do something on that, and we'll give you a try
out here. I mean, you know, if you could develop
like ten or twelve really good imitations like that, I'm working.
Speaker 15 (42:07):
On two more right now. But how do you like
that one? That's pretty good?
Speaker 3 (42:11):
That was a very good one for the future.
Speaker 15 (42:13):
Then we gotta go back to Ronald Reagan some most.
Speaker 3 (42:16):
All right, all right, Tim, thanks much, good night, good night,
good night, good night. All right, let me get Paula
in here real quickly. Paula, you were next on nice
I go.
Speaker 17 (42:27):
Ahead thight, Dan, Thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 3 (42:32):
Hi, Paula, what's uh? What do you want to develop?
What skills did.
Speaker 17 (42:40):
I've always wanted. I've always wanted, like another caller, that
you had to have an artistic skill. I do a
lot in theater arts, which is artistics, but I've always
wanted to be able to paint or draw. I tried,
and I just it just doesn't work. I'm just not
talented in that area, even even in.
Speaker 6 (42:59):
The big.
Speaker 17 (43:01):
And I did actually get find an interest in photography.
So I'm taking a course at the Worcester Art Museum
of all places. But I'm taking a photography course and
I don't want to do it, you know, as a
profession or to make money, but I just want to
take some you know, to improve my picture an advocation.
Speaker 4 (43:23):
Yeh.
Speaker 3 (43:23):
I'm so glad you called because I forgot to give
I forgot to give out a night side T shirt tonight,
which I want to and I want you to get
a night side T shirt because of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
The T shirts are being printed now. They're pink Nightside
t shirts. Please stay in the line. Gives your information
(43:43):
to Rob and whatever size you want. Okay, you're a
loyal listener and I want to see I want to
see you. We're in a nightside T shirt, okay.
Speaker 17 (43:53):
Okay, and I have three friends who are survivors of
breast cancer and doing very well. So proud to I'm
proud to wear it in to apvertise your show.
Speaker 3 (44:04):
Well, Paula, thank you very much. You hold on. Rob
will get the information and they're they're going to print
these in the next week or so. We'll get them
out to people in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
And I am so glad you called tonight. Rob will
take care of that. Okay, let me get one final call, Glenn,
you were just under the wire here. What skill would
you like to have developed that you didn't develop earlier?
Speaker 1 (44:28):
Our carpenter, Jesus was a carpenter. Also, I'd love to
make speaker cabinets. Also, I remember when I was a kid,
the way I don't know if it still works today,
but the way a man would impress a woman would
be the builder a cedar chest.
Speaker 3 (44:45):
Yeah, well that's those are great skills. I mean, I'm
telling you those those are absolute great skills. I'm telling
you you are are are are the Knightside blind piano tuner.
I heard you you left me avoid smelled that said
that you had a good session. We have folks down
in Quincy. Did that work out?
Speaker 1 (45:04):
Well, yeah I did. But what I was gonna say
is yeah I did. But I was gonna say, I'm
told in Israel they have a blind carpenter. His power
tools have plexic last cards, you know, safety cards. Really yeah,
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (45:20):
I don't know that I would want to be. I
don't like to play with power tools anyway. I once, hey, well,
I once bought Okay, I went to I went to
like a home depot. I was living in the suburbs,
and I went and got myself some sort of a
power saw. It was a Haskavanna. Bought it, brought it
to the car, put in the trunk, went to sit
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down in the front seat, turned around, opened the trunk,
and returned it within about five minutes. Because I said,
I will end up like cutting my leg off or something. Glenn,
I'm flat out of time. I gotta I gotta let
you go. We will talk soon, my friend. Okay, be well,
be well. We got thirty seconds left. Rob Nice job, Maria,
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very very nice job today. Great week everybody. Thank you
so much for listening. Thank you so much, particularly to
the callers. I'll be on Nightside with Dan Ray on Facebook.
In just a moment we'll do our postgame show. Have
a great weekend. All dogs, all cats, all pets go
to heaven. That's where my pal Charlie Ray is, who
passed fourteen years ago in February. That's where all your
(46:22):
pets are who have passed. They loved you and you
loved them, and I do believe you'll see them again.
Hope to see again on Monday. Have a great early
October weekend everyone, Dan Ray for Nightside
It's nice eyes.
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All Right, we have reached the twentieth hour of the week.
It's been a full week night Side, that is for sure.
Let me just briefly tell you what we're gonna do tonight,
and then let me recap the variety of subjects that
we have talked about this week and again what we
try to do on night Side. And I really mean this.
There's a lot of talk shows around the country that
(00:28):
hit the same drum, They beat the same drum every night,
night after night after night. That's not what we're all about.
We do our share of politics. We do a lot
of current events. We do our share of topics that
people might be interested in. We try to find some
some stories that maybe you haven't heard of. It is
a polpery of topics, but that's that's what we do,
(00:51):
and I hope that it's it's basically a satisfactory to
you if you're looking for a show that does just politics.
You know, politics effects everything. So anyway, Monday night, the
thirtieth of September, we talked with Captain Jeremy Makabee of
the Salvation Army about the devastation in Florida. We talked
(01:15):
with a professor from the University of New Hampshire about
New Hampshire Foliage. We talked with Mike Kelly of the
MSPCA about the opportunity to adopt animals. At nine o'clock,
we talked with a Greg Maynard of the Boston Policy
Institute about Mayor Wu's tax plan, her proposal to increase
(01:35):
commercial tax rates in Boston. We talked about cannabis cafes
in Massachusetts they are now legal or will be soon
legal in California. And talked about the latest NBC News poll.
At eleven o'clock on Tuesday night was a relatively easy
show because we previewed the vice presidential debate. We listened
to the debate between nine and ten thirty, and then
(01:57):
at ten thirty we began getting listener reaction to the
debate and did that for the rest of the evening. Actually,
the debate might have gone a little longer than ten
thirty now that I think about it. Wednesday night, we
talked to a fellow named Gary Summers, who has wrote, written,
and produced a play called The Beasties, which is going
to be in Arlington next week. We talked with a
British odds maker, Leon Blackman, about the odds on the
(02:21):
presidential race or how it's being looked at overseas. We
talked with Jim Levell, who had to fight sore muscles
and fatigue, and talk with Carry Thompson about who should
be playing quarterback for the New England Patriots, and we
have a bit of a quarterback controversy going Jacoby Pressett
(02:41):
or Drake may So a little bit of sports in there.
Talk with State Senator Peter Durant at nine o'clock about
Governor Heay's emergency preamble to make sure that a very
tough gun control piece of gun control legislation takes effect
before it was scheduled to take effect. That's what an
emergency preamble does. There is a there's a petition drive
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underway too. If the governor had not done anything and
they had gotten the adequate amount of petition signatures, they
could have suspended the implicate the implementation of that statue,
but that is not the case. We talked with Reverend
Kevin Peterson about reparations for members of the black community
in Boston and also had reaction in the eleven o'clock
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to that hour. Last night we talked to Joe wrote
a Mire about some offbeat World series stories. Talk with
Dan Carmony about the big Gallay coming up for Cathedral
High School here in Massachusetts. Talk with a woman from
Caitlin Fink from the Jimmy Fund. There's a big Jimmy
Fund Walk this Sunday. You can still participate in that.
Joe Castiglio, the Hall of Fame broadcaster who just retired
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after forty two years as the radio voice of the
Boston Red Sox, a delightful conversation. Talked with Jeff Robbins
last night as we approached the October the anniversary of
that horrific day in Israel a year ago October seventh,
when terrorists went in and slaughtered innocent men, women and children,
and we talked about threats to campus unrest coming up
(04:09):
in the days ahead. And then tonight we talked about
a postcard event out at Weston College on Saturday with
Kathy Albert. You can listen to any of these to
get information by that. We've talked with Laura Frombach about
domestic violence. I'm doctor Fami Farah about super fit young people,
some of them are actually getting heart attacks. We don't
(04:31):
quite know why, but some people are. They're in great shape,
but they're stressing their hard talk with Cindy Bray about
the about National Energy Awareness Month. She had some tips
about how you can save on energy. Nine o'clock. Talked
with a labor expert, Vinnie Vernuccio about the long showman's strike,
which at least for now has been suspended. And we
(04:54):
talked last hour with a public information officer of the
Massachusetts Task Force One, Tom Gazooas about their response to
Hurricane Helene. So what are we going to do now?
It's the twentieth hour. Twentieth hour. For those of you
who've never listened to us before, we do twenty hours
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on nightside every week, Monday night. We start at eight o'clock.
We finished at midnight on Friday night, four hours on
Monday night. Five nights. It's twenty hours, and this is
the twentieth hour. We always try to end the twentieth
the week, put all the controversy aside, all the yellings,
and we don't do much yelling and screaming, but we
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put it all aside and we try to find a subject.
This one has been suggested this is not my idea.
This is Lady Lightning's idea, or Marita as you know her,
the producer of the program. Rob is the nighttime producer
and Marita is the producer who works during the daytime.
And so she has challenged me, and therefore I have
to challenge you to find out from you. Is there
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is there a skill? And that word skill covers a
variety of skills. I mean a foreign language skill, a
mechanical aptitude skill, a sports skill, and artistic skill. Is
there a skill that you would like to develop as
you grow olders which means young people who are listening,
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tell me what you would like to do. Marita said
today should like to learn a second language. She's young,
she's in her early thirties. I think language comprehension is
best done at it a very early age. I think
that's what some of the educational scientists will tell us.
But I know I wish that I had learned to
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play a musical instrument like a piano. I just think
that I watch people play pianos, and people who play
pianos who do it well do it with such a
plom with such ease, and I think I would get
a lot of joy out of that. I was never
musically inclined, but I have to assume that I could
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learn to play, even if it was just chopsticks a piano.
So I'm going to ask all of you to put
your thinking cap on and tell me, tell my audience,
what did you never learn to do? Maybe you still
have time. I mean, there's a lot of things I
wish I had learned how to cook better. Reasons for that,
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but I eat too much. I have learned because of
Awaken one eighty to cook better, but I really wish
I could cook well. There's a difference between cooking better
and cooking well. Other than that, I'm kind of happy.
If I could cook better and play a piano with
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whatever skills limited, however they are, that I have amassed
in my life, I'd be very very happy. So that's
that's where I am. And uh, I don't know how
many of you are willing to admit again, it's a skill.
Oftentimes you say what would you like to do? What's
on your bucket list? I want to travel there, I
want to go here. I want to see the Seven
(08:21):
Wonders of the world. Now, this is what was something
that maybe in school that you wish you had studied harder,
or maybe a hobby that you could have developed. So
so the the it is a wide open playing field
six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty six one seven, nine,
three one ten thirty. I'm going to start it right
(08:41):
off with Christian in peavity. Christian, what skill do you
wish you had developed and maybe you still wish to develop?
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Go right ahead, Christian, Hey, Hi, how are you? This
is Christian? Yes? Hi, right, I wish I had And
I'm now really having to fast forward on it because
I need to know. It's discretion.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Oh, discretion, Well that's an interesting.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
That's that's your skill. That is it's so encompassing of
everything else to do.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Yeah, okay, So when you say discretion, give me an example,
because I think the word is sufficiently broad that some
people might not give me an example where you could
have used discretion and you didn't, or or give me
a set of circumstances.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
So we can tell one of my joys of giving
and my trust very easily. And because of my giving,
I ended up pretty much not having anything because I
gave everything away. We enjoyed giving to anyone. But the
thing is that if I had used discretion on a
personal level, with relationships, on a level with my giving
(09:53):
and my trust, because I just my nature is to
trust and to give. So the discuss would have been
huge if I look back over my ears, it would
have been huge. And at the same time it's something
I need to learn. I'm doing much better at now.
I have a long way Togo. I'm in the right
(10:14):
direction because this is really.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
This is a very for me, a very interesting call. Okay,
So I'm going to ask you just a few questions
to try to not pin you down, but to understand
that are you somebody who who feels now in retrospect
that that people took advantage of you, meaning you know people,
buddies head, you know, can I can I borrow a
(10:41):
hundred bucks?
Speaker 4 (10:42):
That sort of stuff My friends have younger years were
around me because of my giving, not because of me
and that discretion. Once I gained that part and recognize
that front face front an walk away.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Other than other than maybe being a little more circumspect
about who you gave money to. Is there another example?
Have you ever, for example, taken a job that you
didn't do enough due diligence on and you found yourself
in a job that you really didn't like, and it
(11:20):
was I know that's not discretion, but it's sort of
an impulsive behavior. I mean in the.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Sense that when it comes to my work, anything I've
ever done, I give whole heart and all passion into it,
and I've always loved whatever I've done. I've got seven
trades because of that. So that has not been the
issue that it's been outside of the Jaw Force. In
the Jaw Force, my di question has always been very good.
It's on the personal.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
That's interesting. That is interesting. Why do you think you
didn't develop that early just because you're a decent human
being and you've got a big heart.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Well that's part of it. But the thing is, I
could never understand. I never agreed. So for me, if
I had somebody else needed, I would give, even on
my worst times, because I have a great joy in giving.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Okay something, I guess what I understand. But and it's
too bad that people took advantage of you. But I
still believe that you're going to be a very generous
person and maybe you'll just be a little more discreet. Yeah, okay,
a little more discreet on who you decide to help simple.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
As exactly you need to. I need to now I
have to make myself recognize that so person you can
help it if the need is real, if it's something
that's not.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Yeah, I tend to pass by the guy who's standing
outside your car window with a sign. And because my
sense is I see the same guys at the same
intersections every day and and they look, you know, fairly healthy.
Now they may have a condition that I'm unaware of.
(13:13):
And it's like if you spend the amount of time
that you're doing in effect panhandling, uh.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
In that retrospect, Yes, I have actually had conversation. I'll
offer you a sandwich something.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Right, all right? And then you're you're breaking up on
us a little bit here your line was better.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Before, so somebody from the military stude.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
All right, Christian, thank you again. It's can appreciate you
taking the time. Have a great night.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
And have you.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Called the show before?
Speaker 6 (13:52):
No?
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Is this your first time?
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Absolutely, it's just keep calling.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Is a very good call. Thank you very much, appreciate
We'll take a break. Six one, seven, two, five, four
ten thirty six one seven nine three one ten thirty
what skill and again it could be you know I mean,
it could be square dancing. I mean, I don't know anything.
It could be bowling, it could be learning how to
(14:20):
take short I mean, what skill do you wish you
had developed, either in school during your life? Christian said,
a better discretion. That's that's a skill. It is to
be able to be generous and yet not be taken
advantage of. We've got open lines here. Let's keep it going,
(14:44):
coming back on Night's side.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Now, back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
All right, let's keep rolling. You're going to go to
my friend Theodore in Baltimore. Theodore, You're going to be
real interesting this. What what skill would you like to have
developed that you've never had the opportunity to develop?
Speaker 7 (15:08):
Well, let me put it this way as real personally, drums.
But the things that would have made me the greatest
success in life that I lacked, discipline, focus, goal, and
greater parental guidance, those things could have taken me. Really really,
(15:30):
I think up there looking at how I was born,
where I was born, in the advantages I had.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
But parental guidance would be a skill that that you
said you were not provided. That's not a skill that
you could develop. You know, you could help your children
with becoming better at being a parent. It sounds to
me like you didn't get as much parental guidance as
(15:58):
you wished you had.
Speaker 7 (16:00):
And just a little, just a little note, my mom
went blind three years before she had me. She'd never
seen me, so she did. She did the best she could.
But just to give you a small example.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
I bet you there, I bet you your mom loved you. Nonetheless.
Speaker 7 (16:18):
Oh she was the best. She was the best, and
I will admit I was not the best son. Without
great details, but just the brief.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
We'll let that well, let that slide.
Speaker 7 (16:29):
I wanted to do what you did. But before I
got there. The first day of high school, junior senior,
high school, the coach said, come back because we did out.
Uh We went out for him, and he liked the
way me and my buddy, uh rent I was receiving
my body was a quarterback. He said, come back tomorrow,
but without the focus, we'll be deleting the We didn't
(16:49):
come back, but we came back the next week. He said,
because you didn't follow orders, you can't play out for
the team. And that guy would have been an end,
I might have been good enough.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Up.
Speaker 7 (17:00):
His name was George Young. He's now deceased. Later he
became the director of player personnel for the New.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
York Giants, New York Giants. I know, I know exactly
who you mean. Yes, yeah he was.
Speaker 7 (17:11):
He was a knife guy and in the army they
said sign this and you had you can go to
offer the school. But not being adventterest, all I thought
was five years. Five years. I just was used to
being home and and and I know mom had situations,
so you know, it's just so many opportunities. I had
(17:34):
that without focus, without discipline. And I'm gonna tell you,
I got.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
A question for you. What was George Young? The coach who.
Speaker 7 (17:43):
Did college City College of Baltimore. I went there from
sixty four through sixty eight and it was all boys
at that time.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Yeah, oh way, okay, So he was a coach. He
was a football coach, and of course went on to
again be the director of play development for the Giants.
Speaker 7 (18:00):
Very well, and I hit my head. I say, man,
if I had played, I had an end, maybe to
get a scholarship to go to a college. And maybe
because he knew me, there was another end. If I
was good enough to go even further. But you know,
I always ask people through my life, older life, now
my heart charging days are over, what are three things
(18:22):
you could change if you could. Most women say I
wouldn't have my kids when I did. I went into
it to the army. I wouldn't have gotten married when
I did. And I've only talked to one person who
says I would not change one thing in my life.
And I really admired Tiger Woods because his father disciplined him.
(18:43):
He accepted it, and he told the line that's what
made him so great because he had focus. So the
focus and the discipline if they had been there because
of the opportunities I had, you know, it's what under
the bridge, but it.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Really Tiger's dad was a military veteran in Vietnam.
Speaker 7 (19:08):
No Green Beret. Yes, And they have discipline. They have
great discipline. And one of the things that I learned
from you is you're discipline. You're very disciplined the way
you present your topics. And you know, one more thing,
over a thousand people died doing Hurricane Katrina.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Yeah. Thanks, I didn't have that number and I could
have looked it up, and he didn't have it, but
that does put it in some perspective.
Speaker 7 (19:36):
It's a terrible storm, terrible storm. The Red of course
is a good place to donate to, but you know,
you just have to pray for those people to recover.
And I think looking at the exdus of our people,
I think it's going to be somewhat of an exodus
of people from them from the South coming up here
because because it's just a horrible way to live with
(19:58):
tornadoes and storms and there's no way to change it.
And I just I feel for the people who who
lost loved ones, and you just hope they can recover.
You pray the Lord comforts those who lost who whose
semi members were lost, and you know, it's just it's just.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
Well, it's times that it's times like this theatre that
test people's faith faith in absolutely Why does why does
God allow you know, such bad things to happen?
Speaker 7 (20:27):
But you let me go. Let me ask you, Dan, Yeah,
what are three things you would change if you had
to go back? You just graduated from high school? What
are three things you would change if you could go
back that far?
Speaker 3 (20:39):
I don't know. I mean I was on a college
track and and I really wanted a place for I
wanted to play sports. Uh, And I went to a
school where I had that opportunity.
Speaker 8 (20:51):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
But I might have shot a little higher academically. That
would be That would be one thing. You have friends,
ships that that you wished you kept. I think friendships,
lifelong friendships are important. There were a lot of friends
of mine, you know, who I went to high school with,
who you lose contact with a lot of kids you
grow up with, who you lose contact. I wish I
(21:12):
maintained some of some of those you know, and I
you know they were I remember when I first was
making a little bit of money and I thought I
knew everything about, you know, the stock market and things
like that. I wish I had sat with a financial
(21:34):
advisor earlier in my life. I'm now taking care of that, okay,
But I remember there was one guy who I met
and he said, the key is to invest in futures. Okay.
I had no idea what the hell I was investing in.
And uh, I mean I think I had accumulated at
that point, Theodore, and I'm being very much, very honest
(21:55):
with you. I think I had am I had accumulated
like five thousand dollars, which was a lot of money,
I thought. And uh, I mean within about three days
that that sucker was down to twenty one thousand dollars. Oh,
get get me out of here. I didn't lose it all, okay,
but it was an expensive It was an expensive lesson,
(22:16):
nonetheless for a guy that stills picked, who picks up
pennies off the street. If you get my drift, I
mean I was, and I still how the hell I
got got myself in that, but I'll tell you it
was it was worth it because it kept me from
doing other stupid investments.
Speaker 7 (22:32):
And you learned the lesson.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
You learned the lesson you paid. You paid the price
and learned the lesson.
Speaker 6 (22:37):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Hey Theodore, you have a great weekend, okay, and you
your mom had to be pretty special.
Speaker 7 (22:43):
That's she was ill miss it to this day. I
always will.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
We always was up with all her again, but that's
you know, you and I disagree a lot of things,
but that's one thing we both agree on. All dogs,
all cats, all pets go to heaven, and of course.
Speaker 6 (22:58):
Yep, we do.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
We do too if we if we live a decent life.
Speaker 7 (23:02):
And I don't think we have a great I don't think.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
I don't think that there's one religion to get you there.
I think that you know, if you treat people well,
you'll be treated well in the afterlife. That's what I believe.
Speaker 7 (23:15):
Now, that's that's truly open on the candonworms that we
won't go into that night.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
I won't go there tonight. We'll pick that up next time. Okay,
thanks Theodore, Doctor you sorrighty, Well, take a quick break.
I got Laurie from Idaho, one of my favorite callers
coming up, Mike and Everett, Craig and Ohio. The question
is what skill do you wish you had developed? So
Theodore says, discipline, focus, Christian said, better discretion. I must
(23:42):
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are two high level conversations that I didn't initiate. I said,
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Here we go, Let's go to Laurie and Idaho. Laurie,
I'm dying to know what skill you had wanted to
develop that you haven't developed yet.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
Well, so.
Speaker 12 (28:42):
Whatever Theatre thinks he lacked for his life, you sure
had a great heart. So he's gonna he's gotta check
that great guy.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
We still have some pitch. I used to have some
pitch battles with Theodore over politics, and he and I
think are both kind of mellowed in our old age.
Speaker 12 (28:58):
There's hope for the world.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Yeah, yes, Well.
Speaker 12 (29:01):
I always wanted to ride a horse, and so I
did take lessons when I was younger. But since I
was a kid, I've been so allergic to them. And
so you know, I tried lessons and I wasn't even
on the beast fifteen minutes, and I'd be wheezing and sneezing,
and my eyes would be watering and itching out of
my head, and so I gave up on that. But
and then actually there's a pardon.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
You would have been an equestrian.
Speaker 12 (29:25):
I don't know about that. I just want to and
I don't want to. I didn't want to do English
room that.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
I just want to learn how to ride west.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
No, yeah, I guess I meant the old horse. I
remember when my daughter loved horses. She was about seven
or eight, uh, and we paid to have her go
and she would spend for an hour lesson you'd spay
whatever it was. And so she would spend about thirty
minutes cleaning out the stable and she'd ride for like
(29:51):
five minutes and then she had to like you know,
work on the horse and make sure. Yeah, it was
like it was a total rip off.
Speaker 12 (29:58):
And one day it was she they want slave labor,
those teachers, they do, they do.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
So she had her little helmet on and I was
so cute as anything in her riding pants, and the
horse stepped on her foot and yeah, and so I
literally threw my shoulder into the horse to get him
off her foot, and she got mad at me from
being mean to the horse. That's why did you do that?
(30:27):
Because it was stepping on your foot, Katie.
Speaker 12 (30:32):
So anyway, So I would love to learn how to paint.
And I don't mean the side of the house.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
I can already do that.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Yeah, I understand that. Yeah, well that's a skill that
we can develop at any age.
Speaker 12 (30:43):
I mean, that's what I might retirement product or something.
Speaker 15 (30:46):
I don't know.
Speaker 12 (30:46):
I dabbled in, you know, I dabbled and't w We
went to school in art and I kind of got
interested in it. But I'm I'm not very good at it.
But I'd love to do acrylics their watercolor. So that's
something I hope to develop in the future.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Well that those are good ones. Those are good ones.
As they said, I'm never.
Speaker 12 (31:01):
Gonna in the musical realm.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Yeah no, I will never learn to play the piano.
But I've watched people play the piano, and I'm not
talking about the professionals that people who.
Speaker 12 (31:12):
Are No, it's fun to just clink around, but at
least know where your fingers are on the key.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Yeah, that's it, And I think you have to develop
I would want to develop an ear for it so
I would know what to do. And yep, but hey,
you can't do it all right, that's what you'll in life.
I can't do it all, Laurie. You have a great weekend.
We got a great weekend coming up here in New England.
It's gonna be nice weather, little spot of rain tomorrow
(31:39):
and then great Saturday and Sunday at New England early
fall weekend. I hope this is nice and Ida hope
for you.
Speaker 12 (31:46):
No, it's gonna be cool. Well, it's gonna be warm.
It is now, but it's it's gonna be seventies well
actually know and now it's back to sixty five. So
and it's still lead at night, thirties at night.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Yeah, well that's good sleeping weather. They got to look
at it like that. Okay, yeah, okay, positive, okay, all right, thanks,
thank you, all right, thanks so much. All right, let's
keep rolling here where we're going to go next again
a skill that and again we've had some very interesting
better discretion, says Christian Theaterous has discipline and focus, Laurie,
(32:19):
ride horses or paint? What would you like to do
that you don't know how to do now? And if
you had only started earlier, you could be twenty in
call and tell me that that you should have done
something at fifteen, or you can be eighty five and
tell me that you're still going to try to do something.
Let's go to Michael in Effett, Michael and Everett. What
sort of a skill do you wish you had developed?
Speaker 16 (32:42):
Cooking?
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Well, yeah, that's one of the ones that I'd like
to do it better too. I mean, do you feel
it you just don't have time to do it? To
do that or no.
Speaker 16 (32:54):
Well It's funny is in high school I took Colin
Area as a tree and I used to come home
make homemade soup. And now it's like I fear even
like I'll go I can go to the store.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
And buy groceries.
Speaker 16 (33:03):
I don't know what to do with it, but I'm
really into Like the past three I've been really into like,
you know, I want to take a calmery course when
I learn how to cook well and you know, nutrition wise,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Yeah, absolutely, you know, one of the one of the
things that I'm good at. When I want to splurge
at breakfast, it's like chocolate chip pancakes. I eat this
cocoa cereal virtually every day from awake in one eighty,
which is a fabulous cereal. They I hope they never
sell it on the market. It's unbelievably delicious and it's
low in calories. It's you throw some fruit on top
(33:36):
of it. It's a perfect breakfast. But when I wake
up on a cold morning, and you know, late October,
November or whatever, just when I feel like it, I
go for the chocolate chip pancakes. I'm good at that.
I can figure that out how much all of that,
But anything more complicated than that, it gets tough, you know,
But that's because you're not used to it. And it's like, Okay,
(33:57):
I'm going to buy a yeah, a piece of fish
at the supermarket. I got to come home. I got
to soak it in something. I got to put what
you know, breadcrumbs on it. I got to cook it
at the right time.
Speaker 6 (34:08):
And then I got.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Yeah, Like tonight, for example, I had a great dinner tonight,
at least by my standards. I basically threw a salad
together real quickly. I picked up some cold cuts at
the store. Now that's not cooking, don't get me wrong.
But I had, you know, turkey and ham and cheese,
and I had a great salad and it was it
was just perfect. It was perfect. But to be able
to yeah, but to be able to cook and to
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really I used to. I I did learn some things
with the waken one avy when I first started about
cooking with vegetables and you know all of that and
chicken which was really good. And I'm not doing that
as much as I did before. But you got to
have the discipline. My schedule is still crazy, but I
(34:57):
and I I should just say to myself, you know what,
the prep for the show is over at five o'clock
and you got two hours to do your own thing.
That's I have to develop. That's a little discipline that
the theater that I need. The theater talked about I
got at the discipline to say, I'm not going to
my phone calls are over for the day. I'm not
not calling somebody about an interview tomorrow. I just have
(35:18):
to have to get better discipline.
Speaker 16 (35:21):
Yeah, well what I do like sometimes like oh you know, yeah,
I get that food, like with the meat or the
chicken or marinate or when or whatever.
Speaker 4 (35:27):
Then I got the George.
Speaker 16 (35:28):
Foreman grow So are you men have some peppers and onions?
But no, this is pretty good. So you have baffl
like a couple of days, you know, and then you
know you make another you know, prep something else.
Speaker 6 (35:37):
You know.
Speaker 16 (35:37):
I've been doing that, but my schedule is like in
a late afternoon, only afternoon, so it's like I never
have time in the morning or not because I get
get out of work aut at eleven.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
Yeah, well a way to do well. I'm midnight and
I know I'm not crazy enough to eat at midnight
because that food is just going to sit in your stomach.
So yeah, I'm with you. Yeah, Michael, Greg, I think
that we were separated at birth because I connected with
you a lot here in terms of what I really
(36:07):
would wish I could do. Thanks for the call, My
friend will talk again.
Speaker 4 (36:10):
Okay, okay, thank you, We thank you.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
We'll take very quick break. The only line open right now,
six one seven ninety Craig, Tim and Glenn. You are
all set if you haven't called showing the conversation. Come on,
what skill? What skill would you like to have that
you never took the time to develop. Oh, maybe you're
just totally happy with yourself. Maybe there's nothing that you've
that you have left to do in life. Call me
(36:35):
and tell me that so I can make fun of you.
We'll be back on that side.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
Now back to Dan Ray Live from the Window World
Nice Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
By the way, next week we will be giving out
some tickets to a Tina Turner tribute which is going
to be at the Hanover Theater in Worcester. And we're
also going to be giving out some night side t
shirts in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. So be
thinking about that as you plan your week. Next week
(37:11):
we'll have some tickets for you. Haven't done that in
a while. Craig is in Ohio. Craig, what would you
like to do that you? What scale would your like
to develop that you haven't developed?
Speaker 6 (37:21):
Well, you'll love this. I was outdoor contributor to the
local newspaper for about twelve years and I love them.
Learning to type better. Didn't typing in high school. And
I'm the two finger guy.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
Yeah, I'm kind of the same way. But I'm pretty
quick at it. I've gotten very quick. And of course computers,
those of us who learned on typewriters, computers are much easier.
It's a much lighter exactly. Yeah, and so I'm fast
on computers. I've never timed myself though. How many words
a minute. But the problem is with computers you make mistakes.
(38:01):
In the old days, you really had that the discipline
of correcting the paper with white out. Don't have to
worry about that on a computer. Just delete backspace and
do it again, right.
Speaker 6 (38:15):
You know, just when I was in high school, typing
was something a guy didn't pay you know. It's like, yeah,
you know that the class girls you know took.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
You know, it would have been a great class to take.
If you really think about it, you could meet up.
You could have met all the girls in high school exactly.
But the guys weren't thinking about the Yeah they the
the the guys were it would have tried to what
are you doing, Craig and any girls class? Well, you know,
(38:47):
Craig's about this guy in the room and the school. Uh,
you know, getting all the girls' names and getting to
know them a little bit better. So I don't know. Typing, Okay,
I got you down for typing. That's a good one.
You know. You can you can develop your skill on that.
I wonder if there's some sort of a course you
can take on a computer.
Speaker 16 (39:07):
I'll bet there is.
Speaker 6 (39:09):
I'm sure there is. But the problem is now my
my left hands kind of messed up. Okay, uh from
a working accident. But it you know, it's uh, I
get by well.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
You know, just you always give it a shot. You
just get a little bit better, a little quicker.
Speaker 6 (39:29):
You never know.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
See what you can find on a on a computer
if you google, uh type you know, typing. Course, I'll
bet you there's like some little secrets that I've never
even learned that you know, you spread your fingers or whatever.
I'm like you, I'm kind of hunting peck, but this,
I'll bet you could you could you? You still have
the possibility of doing that, my friend. I want to
encourage you to do it as well.
Speaker 6 (39:50):
I'll give it a try.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
Let me know what happens. Thanks, Greg, Let me keep rolling.
You're going to go to Tim and Winthrop. Tim, what
skill would you like to develop that you never developed
when you were younger?
Speaker 15 (40:03):
Well, I'm doing it now. Remember when we went to Arizona.
Speaker 3 (40:06):
Yeah, remember that your photography.
Speaker 15 (40:08):
Value you got the pictures. Yeah, it's photography. I went
to mask Call of Yvade for one course I took,
and they showed me, like John Houston has to say,
keep the horizon at the top and bottom and a
lot of the other tricks they showed me how to do.
And you saw my pictures.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
They're really really good, right absolutely?
Speaker 15 (40:27):
And I take them to Newbery Street. You could sell those, Yeah,
I got three under them. And I take them in
Ubery Street where it needs some money, and I put
them on the table and how much you're gonna give
me for them? Sometimes they give me forty bucks a
picture and I come out of there with three hundred bucks.
I go to three or four places. But what I
want to do is take another course at mask call
of Javade and learn how to develop them and learn
(40:48):
more about it, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (40:50):
But you know that's a skill, that's a lost skill,
developing pictures photographs.
Speaker 15 (40:56):
Yeah, yeah, I like to do that because it's interesting.
Speaker 3 (41:00):
Thing is you you have to build a dark room
in your house, right.
Speaker 15 (41:03):
Yeah, I got a closet. But I don't know we're
going to do that. But I'm interested in that. But
you saw my pictures. They told me to chop in
the bottom and I go to I want to go
to the hotels. Is a certain I can make some
more money at the hotels by bringing a whole bunch
of pictures because they need the building. All the hotels
in Boston they need pictures for the rooms, and they'll
(41:24):
pay a good at least fifty bucks a picture. And
then I'm looking at that. And the other thing I
want to do is imitations, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (41:33):
Who do you think you can imitate.
Speaker 15 (41:35):
Chrispher Lloyd on Back of the Future. I got him down,
pat one here, Well that's great, Yeah, go ahead, good
Mordy eighteen dozen you're going, well, well, we'll go back
to Ronald Reagan the Worlds of MOUs.
Speaker 3 (41:50):
Dude. That's a good one.
Speaker 1 (41:51):
That's a good one.
Speaker 3 (41:53):
No, I got two other calls I got to take,
but I can't tell you a favor. Some night, we'll
do something on that, and we'll give you a try
out here. I mean, you know, if you could develop
like ten or twelve really good imitations like that, I'm working.
Speaker 15 (42:07):
On two more right now. But how do you like
that one? That's pretty good?
Speaker 3 (42:11):
That was a very good one for the future.
Speaker 15 (42:13):
Then we gotta go back to Ronald Reagan some most.
Speaker 3 (42:16):
All right, all right, Tim, thanks much, good night, good night,
good night, good night. All right, let me get Paula
in here real quickly. Paula, you were next on nice
I go.
Speaker 17 (42:27):
Ahead thight, Dan, Thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 3 (42:32):
Hi, Paula, what's uh? What do you want to develop?
What skills did.
Speaker 17 (42:40):
I've always wanted. I've always wanted, like another caller, that
you had to have an artistic skill. I do a
lot in theater arts, which is artistics, but I've always
wanted to be able to paint or draw. I tried,
and I just it just doesn't work. I'm just not
talented in that area, even even in.
Speaker 6 (42:59):
The big.
Speaker 17 (43:01):
And I did actually get find an interest in photography.
So I'm taking a course at the Worcester Art Museum
of all places. But I'm taking a photography course and
I don't want to do it, you know, as a
profession or to make money, but I just want to
take some you know, to improve my picture an advocation.
Speaker 4 (43:23):
Yeh.
Speaker 3 (43:23):
I'm so glad you called because I forgot to give
I forgot to give out a night side T shirt tonight,
which I want to and I want you to get
a night side T shirt because of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
The T shirts are being printed now. They're pink Nightside
t shirts. Please stay in the line. Gives your information
(43:43):
to Rob and whatever size you want. Okay, you're a
loyal listener and I want to see I want to
see you. We're in a nightside T shirt, okay.
Speaker 17 (43:53):
Okay, and I have three friends who are survivors of
breast cancer and doing very well. So proud to I'm
proud to wear it in to apvertise your show.
Speaker 3 (44:04):
Well, Paula, thank you very much. You hold on. Rob
will get the information and they're they're going to print
these in the next week or so. We'll get them
out to people in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
And I am so glad you called tonight. Rob will
take care of that. Okay, let me get one final call, Glenn,
you were just under the wire here. What skill would
you like to have developed that you didn't develop earlier?
Speaker 1 (44:28):
Our carpenter, Jesus was a carpenter. Also, I'd love to
make speaker cabinets. Also, I remember when I was a kid,
the way I don't know if it still works today,
but the way a man would impress a woman would
be the builder a cedar chest.
Speaker 3 (44:45):
Yeah, well that's those are great skills. I mean, I'm
telling you those those are absolute great skills. I'm telling
you you are are are are the Knightside blind piano tuner.
I heard you you left me avoid smelled that said
that you had a good session. We have folks down
in Quincy. Did that work out?
Speaker 1 (45:04):
Well, yeah I did. But what I was gonna say
is yeah I did. But I was gonna say, I'm
told in Israel they have a blind carpenter. His power
tools have plexic last cards, you know, safety cards. Really yeah,
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (45:20):
I don't know that I would want to be. I
don't like to play with power tools anyway. I once, hey, well,
I once bought Okay, I went to I went to
like a home depot. I was living in the suburbs,
and I went and got myself some sort of a
power saw. It was a Haskavanna. Bought it, brought it
to the car, put in the trunk, went to sit
(45:40):
down in the front seat, turned around, opened the trunk,
and returned it within about five minutes. Because I said,
I will end up like cutting my leg off or something. Glenn,
I'm flat out of time. I gotta I gotta let
you go. We will talk soon, my friend. Okay, be well,
be well. We got thirty seconds left. Rob Nice job, Maria,
(46:01):
very very nice job today. Great week everybody. Thank you
so much for listening. Thank you so much, particularly to
the callers. I'll be on Nightside with Dan Ray on Facebook.
In just a moment we'll do our postgame show. Have
a great weekend. All dogs, all cats, all pets go
to heaven. That's where my pal Charlie Ray is, who
passed fourteen years ago in February. That's where all your
(46:22):
pets are who have passed. They loved you and you
loved them, and I do believe you'll see them again.
Hope to see again on Monday. Have a great early
October weekend everyone, Dan Ray for Nightside
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