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December 19, 2024 39 mins
Comic Joey Voices checked in with Dan Rea to discuss his upcoming show.


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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's Nightside with Dan Ray. I'm WBZY Costs Radio.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
It's all right nine o'clock here on a Thursday night,
and again my thanks to Morgan White. Last night I
was dealing with a horrific I don't know what it was,
head cold, bronchitis, I have no idea, but I'm I'm
not at one hundred percent, but I'm back tonight and
coming up at ten o'clock. We'll be talking with the
WBZ car guys. Larry and Scott answered all well, they'll

(00:29):
be answering all of your questions, any automotive questions you
might have. And delighted to be joined now by a
guest hasn't been on the show in a while. He's
known professional professionally as Joey Voices. Also is a real name,
Joey Noon, Joey Voices, Welcome back to Nightside. How are you, sir?

Speaker 3 (00:48):
Good damn?

Speaker 4 (00:48):
How are you?

Speaker 5 (00:49):
Thank you for having me?

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Well, you're very very welcome. You know, I think most
people in the night Side audience know who you are,
and many people in the night Side audience have seen
you performed. How did you develop this ability where you
basically do voices of the famous singers that all of

(01:11):
us know and love, and you move from one to
the other. How did you develop that? Are you a
guy that sang in the shower a lot?

Speaker 3 (01:19):
Another kids?

Speaker 5 (01:20):
I grew up in a big family. My father was
a quarterback from all my high school nineteen fifty five.
He was a stude then when eight and two my
brothers and sisters. I'm the youngest of eight kids, four boys,
four girls. I'm the only one they planned, and I
was an afterthought in my family. My brothers and sisters
were all stellar all star athletes MVPs in their sports,

(01:41):
and I was this little kid who had all this
to live up to. I was living in the shadow
of my father and my brothers and sisters, so I
didn't know who the heck I was.

Speaker 4 (01:54):
But God gave me a talent to be able to sing.
For some reason.

Speaker 5 (01:57):
Out of one hundred people in my family, including all
the great grandkids and grandkids, I'm the only one with
any musical talent. I don't know how the heck that happened,
but I just think God said, you know what, I
got to give this kid something because he's he's lost
in his family, and so he gave me that and
my brothers and sister's not playing sports anymore. But guess what,
I'm still singing and I'm still making a career out

(02:19):
of it nationwide for the last twenty one years, and
I'm grateful every day. So mimic in the radio is
really how I developed my talent to be able to
sound like singers, because the average person who has their
own vibrato and now the word vibrato means the bounce
of your voice and it bounces at a certain frequency.
Well over time, me trying to sound like the radio,

(02:43):
I actually cross trained my voice to be able to
change the vibrato of my voice, which is not very common,
but that's common amongst impressionists. And there's a lot of
impressions around the country that you know, you know a handful,
but that are very good at it. And I have
my very very deeply and we're wire.

Speaker 4 (03:02):
There's not a lot of us.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
Yeah, there's a sciens to this. So you've been doing
this for twenty three years, is that what you said?

Speaker 5 (03:09):
Twenty twelve? Twenty one years, twenty one plus years professionally
as Joey Voices. But I started my show in two thousand,
actually two thousands when I started with the Joey and
Maria's comedy wedding singing in front of audiences around the
country with the show, and then I started Joey Voices
really in the three But when I start Danny ganzelp

(03:29):
Vegas One, I said, Man, this guy is doing what
I'm just doing. My car and I said, I went
back to Boston and I started my own show, and
it's the rest has really been just a success story
because it's put so many smiles in thousands and thousands
of people's hearts to help them forget about their cares
for a while. And they when they you know, at

(03:50):
the end of their work week, you know, And I'm
grateful to have been a part of that. And they
have the fan base that I have and the love
and adoration I have from people because I love people.
And what better line of work to be in for
someone like me grew up in a big family where
my dad was a trial lawyer and a charismatic guy.

(04:10):
What better line of work for someone like me to
be in than entertainment.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
Well that's true. Now let me ask you, how many
days a year or months a year are you out
on the road as opposed to you know, working more locally.

Speaker 5 (04:26):
So it was a lot before COVID. Then COVID kind
of took it away. COVID kind of stole my business
from me, and so they didn't have an audience anymore.
So I had to, you know, I just just to
stay busy. I took a job working for the housing authority,
and I was I learned how to rewire things and
change out comage disposals and you know, and just kind

(04:49):
of just do meaning a label work. And then when
everything started to open back up, my business started to
open back up. And once I got a phone call
from the TV show Chronicle on CHAIRL five back in August.
They wanted to do a story on my career, and
I said, wow, that's what a great opportunity. So they

(05:09):
called me and they came out and they interviewed me,
and they took about ninety minutes worth of footage and
they cut it down to two minutes and twenty eight seconds,
and I said, you know, one of most and the
most powerful two minutes and twenty eight seconds I could
have ever imagined out of ninety minutes of footage, you know.
And so my phone hasn't stopped ringing since.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
That that's a fabulous story and I know that. Yeah,
you've got to be up with our friend Paul Solano
this weekend at the Pro Street station in mald In,
your hometown. Bit of a bit of a homecoming. Why
don't we do this, Joe, Why don't we just take
a little bit of a break here. You got to
take a commercial break. And there are folks out there

(05:51):
who have come to you, gone to one of your shows,
or maybe gone to more than one of your shows,
and they'd like to chat with you for a second.
That's fine. Uh, maybe we can get a couple of
requested Maybe there's a couple of people out there who's
favorite singer. You can you can be in a situation.
I don't want to put you on the spot, but
maybe we get a few bars bars of Frank Sinatra

(06:12):
or Elvis or whoever else other people might want you
love fair enough, So my guess, Joey voices. Last time
we did this was pre COVID, and I remember we
were in studio. We had a lot of fun. Uh,
broadcasting remotely. Joe is I'm not sure where he is,
but he's he's We're not in the same studio However,

(06:34):
if you'd like to join the conversation and talk to
Joey and ask him about the career, it's a I
guess it would be called a very parapatetic career, meaning
you move from here to there and uh uh. And
at its best it's probably really busy. And obviously when
COVID occurred and a lot of restaurants closed up for
a while, it probably slowed down. But it's picking back
up and that's good for Joey and it's good for

(06:55):
for people want to get out. And if you're around
this Saturday night before the before Christmas, the Pearl Street
Station on Summer Street, seven o'clock show and the doors
open at six thirty. Paul Salana's great friend and a
great guy up there, and where you got a guy
like Joey voices, I'm sure they'll they'll pack the place
and you'll have a lot of fun. We'll take a

(07:16):
quick break back on nightside. If you like to join
the conversation and maybe suggest a quick few notes, a
few bars. We can get Joey to give you a
little a little one on one example of his work.
Six thirty six, seven, nine, three, one, ten thirty don't
want to put anyone on the spot, but feel free
give a call. Coming back on Nightside.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
night Side Studios. I'm dumb and bzy news Radio.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
My guess is Joey voices Joey. Everybody is I think
out Christmas shopping or something, and they don't want to
a call. So I'm going to ask you who is
the I'm assuming Sinatra has to be the uh, the
male singer the you most asked to imitate.

Speaker 6 (08:03):
So Sinatra.

Speaker 5 (08:04):
Sinatra is one of the older ones. A lot of
the older folks like the Sinatra, but you know the
gen xers they like like Michael McDonald from the Doobie Brothers,
you know, al Green boss guy, so you go, good
Michael McDonald. But I want them to come and see
the Sinatra because it's really good. I do Bobby Garren,
Tony Bennett, uh, you know, Uh Ray, Charles, I do

(08:27):
a lot of the old time crooners, and I put
some you know, good comedy spin on it. But I
don't want to give rid of it with any of
the comedy away tonight because I want people to come
and see it live, because that you know, you don't
want to take away from the luster of it. But
do you want to hear Michael McDonald, I'll do a
good Michael McDonald.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
Yeah, let's go forget it. Go ahead.

Speaker 5 (08:46):
So Michael McDonald from the Doobie Brothers. Uh, he's he's
actually a wonderful uh uh vocalist. He's very soulful, and
when he joined the Doobie Brothers it kind of transform
the band.

Speaker 2 (09:01):
A lot of.

Speaker 5 (09:02):
Doobie Brothers loyalists weren't very happy when he joined because
of what he brought to the table, but anybody who's
musically inclined understands all that did was just kind of
help records sell and it just kind of made the
band even better. Now I'm of that younger generation, Michael
McDonald's was probably my favorite vocalist male vocalists of all

(09:23):
time as a singer and a singer impressionist. And here's
my Michael McDonald impression.

Speaker 4 (09:29):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (09:29):
He sings a member the song I Keep forgetting. Sure
he just forgotten, We're not in love it and all? Okay, forgotten,
never never be the same again. Okay forgotten?

Speaker 4 (09:44):
Oh you man, that's a.

Speaker 3 (09:48):
Look.

Speaker 5 (09:51):
That's the people. But but I do a really good
comedy bit on that, on all the whole sway on
Michael McDonald. The people will see the nights they come.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
Yeah, we'll say that, we'll say that.

Speaker 5 (10:01):
How about little Bosscats? You like Boss Skaggs. Boss Skaggs
was really big in the jazz world, and Boss Skaggs
is something you hear impression is too a lot. But
he's a voice that I do because I used to
love him when I was a kid, because I used
to play his.

Speaker 4 (10:14):
Record over and over.

Speaker 5 (10:16):
Boscats had a funny sounding voice and he used to
sing the song dirty load. Remember the song dirty lowdown?

Speaker 2 (10:23):
Not feel that one. Sure when you're singing, I'm gonna
remember it.

Speaker 4 (10:26):
I'm here we go, Are you ready?

Speaker 5 (10:28):
Here?

Speaker 4 (10:29):
Bangers and running around and went the crowd. But y'all
bess in the stream talking about now, saying about and
asked that how much you understand and swam and musbling.
It wasstand down buzzgags, bozzcats.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
A very that's a very different and unique sound. Obviously,
did you ever run into any of these guys uh
out on the road who you're you know, who you
do the impression of? And I mean some of these.

Speaker 5 (10:59):
Guys actually listen to you. I wish that I could
like say this in a colorful way to kind of
impress your listeners. I wish I could say that I have,
but I haven't. I haven't met any of them, and
you know, I wish that I had, but you know,
not to say that I won't, but I just haven't.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
Well, you know, there's a lot of these guys now
who are uh they're they're not at the end of
their careers, but but they're not selling out the Gillette stadiums.
They're not the uh you know, the Taylor Swifts of the.

Speaker 5 (11:35):
World, not the premier performers anymore.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
Yeah, but these guys and women who have great followings nonetheless.
And I had Engelbert hupper digg on but about a
year ago and I lost him. Delightful. He took all
sorts of phone calls from people, and of course a
lot of the people were just thrilled to talk with them.

Speaker 5 (11:57):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (11:57):
Yeah, I believe that he was in Medford at the
Chevalier Theater was a great theater. I would be at
some point along the way, you're going to meet some
of some of these guys. Obviously, the ones like Sinatra
et Centa who have passed on. You're not going to
meet him in this life. But who knows what?

Speaker 3 (12:16):
You know?

Speaker 5 (12:17):
What is the fad Tom Jones Tom Jones bit, Oh yeah, oh,
and my show is a riot. I do this funny
Tom Jones bit. I'm not going to give it away
right now, but I want people to come to the
shot see it. It's really comical.

Speaker 2 (12:31):
And shot the Chateau de Ville in framing him. I
don't remember that.

Speaker 3 (12:37):
He could not know.

Speaker 5 (12:38):
That's before my time.

Speaker 4 (12:40):
I'm fifty two.

Speaker 5 (12:41):
So what year you talking about?

Speaker 2 (12:42):
Oh, I'm talking sixties, late sixties and early seventies.

Speaker 3 (12:46):
Yeah, before I.

Speaker 2 (12:47):
Sell it out. And he was the guy where women
would literally throw their underway up on stage.

Speaker 5 (12:54):
Yeah for the room keys at him. I saw him
perform in nineteen ninety five and the Bank Boston Pavilion,
you remember that place on the water the air in
the harbor, and and I took my parents for their
anniversary and he, let me tell you, that guy had
to change his shirt about seven times throughout his performance

(13:14):
because he swept so bad. But he was such a
hairy guy. But girls, women, they just loved him. They
just you know, his his his sex appeal was like
Elvis Presley, but just a little different in a different way.
Oh that guy could move.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
He's a guy, if I'm not mistaken. He's from Wales,
so yeah, he had sort of that foreign element to him.
And yeah, I remember seeing him back in the day.
And yeah, there were some of these guys that were
just just fabulous. I mean Jimmy Buffett, who of course
is now no longer with us.

Speaker 5 (13:48):
I know, I know, Yeah, he was great. I don't
do Jimmy Buffett, not that they couldn't. I just never
really thought to do it. But that might be something
Michael Worker, now that you've mentioned it. But Jimmy Buffetts,
you know, he's great and he shouldn't be that hot
to do me.

Speaker 2 (14:02):
The Tom give me a little Tom Jones here.

Speaker 4 (14:04):
So Tom Jones, uh my, my my, your a god.

Speaker 5 (14:15):
So they gotta So when they people come to the show,
you gotta hear it with the music. But when you
the show, you got you gotta hear the comedy bit
that I wrote, the comedy bit that it's it's great,
it's funny, very funny to do.

Speaker 2 (14:26):
This what this is called a cappella what it's you
without me?

Speaker 5 (14:31):
So it's not it's not as appealing without the music.
When you hear the music and you come to the show,
you're gonna get the full effect of like here, like as.

Speaker 4 (14:40):
If you're at the concert, you hear the music, you're.

Speaker 5 (14:42):
In the voice, You're gonna feel all of it when
you're there. I'm only giving you kind of shadow are
looking through, you know, a grimy screen if you will,
like you're getting kind of just a little bit of
a visual of it. You gotta experiences.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
I'll tell you Saturday night. So it's two nights from now,
seven o'clock up at the Pro Street station in Malden.
Paul Solano is your host up there. Tickets are available
again if people are looking for somewhere to go. Uh. Great,
the great location, a great event. He's got a little
bit of he's got a he's got a stage there,

(15:21):
which I did not realize. Yeah, I wasn't sure.

Speaker 5 (15:23):
It's a really good room.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
Good room.

Speaker 5 (15:25):
Okay, you're welcome the comedy time again. I mean no,
everybody there knows. Yeah. Com many time you go up
on the stage and kind of address the audience if
you want to before the show. You're always welcome my show.

Speaker 2 (15:38):
So many times, no I appreciate. I'll tell you this.
I've been dealing with some I think it's bronchitis, and
it's been it's been kind of wild. Here. Let me
get one phone call in here for you. I'm assuming
that Eric from Wakefield would like to talk with Joey Voices. Correct, Rob,

(15:59):
I think I've lost hold on. Let me let me
bring him up. Rob. I don't know where you went,
but I'm bringing Rob up. Hey, Hi, I'm bringing Eric up. Eric,
Eric with Joey's voices.

Speaker 7 (16:09):
Go ahead, Joey, Joey, it's Eric the Birdman from Wakefield calling.
You're in. I'm gonna try to make it up to
your show Saturday night. Everybody out there should get up
there and see this guy. I'm a big am radio fan.
I'm a big Joey Voices fan. I'm hoping to get
up there with my daughter Saturday night. Joey. I'd like
to hear a little baby a little I'd like to
hear baby a little Rod Stewart, Neil Diamond and you

(16:31):
gotta do the de Niro, Rodney.

Speaker 4 (16:32):
James, so little Ronnie James Fields.

Speaker 1 (16:34):
I love it.

Speaker 5 (16:37):
Hey, I'll tell you it's me Ron and I got
no respect. I'll tell you, yeah, I'll tell you my
wife and I we were happy for twenty years. Yeah,
then we met. I'll tell your name easy.

Speaker 7 (16:49):
I love it. I hope to see you Saturday night.

Speaker 4 (16:51):
But I'm gonna I'm gonna hang out the best.

Speaker 7 (16:54):
Thanks Dan, but uh yeah, dude, Jude, give him a
little de Niro, give him a little Neil Diamond.

Speaker 4 (16:59):
We'll give it a happy I'm gonna.

Speaker 1 (17:02):
Give it all man.

Speaker 5 (17:02):
He comes out here to get the whole comment. You
know you got it, Thank you, thank you for calling
God bless your brother.

Speaker 2 (17:10):
All right, all right, I will let me get one
more in here for you before I got to let
you go here. Florence in New Groveland, Florence, you're next
on nice side with Joey voices, Go right ahead. What
would you like to hear Florence?

Speaker 5 (17:23):
Yeah, Joey purty here, you let me hear you do.
Rachel Rachel you want to hear me to read Chiles?

Speaker 3 (17:33):
Okay, he is your favorite.

Speaker 4 (17:37):
I love rachels Rich Arles is great. This is America, sweet.
You know America. God does set his race on d
theyre bron You know her brother who from she to
shot and see thank you very much. I love you

(18:00):
beautiful all right.

Speaker 2 (18:02):
Florence, thanks very much, Rachel Kelly, Thanks Florence, Bye bye,
Joey again Saturday night. This Saturday night, the twenty first,
up in at the Pearl Streets in Malden. I hope,
I said, Maldon before fifty three Summer Street and Malden.
Easy to park, easy parking around there, easy to get

(18:23):
to on the tee seven seven o'clock show, doors open
at six thirty. Joey has always we'll see you soon.

Speaker 7 (18:29):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (18:30):
You don't want me in that audience because I want to.
I have no idea what I'm dealing with here, but
I want to get myself back healthy. I slept sixteen
hours yesterday. I've never slept that long in my life.

Speaker 5 (18:40):
Oh geez, you must be beautiful beauty sleep.

Speaker 2 (18:44):
No, no, no, let me tell you I was. I
was a hurting poppy. I'm still a hurting poppy. Actually,
thanks joe we'll talk soon.

Speaker 5 (18:50):
Chant think you much to go bless the Murk Christmas
by by you're right back.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
At you, Okay, will we get back. I'm gonna open
the phone lines up. I think we just got we're
waiting for the car guys. The car guys are coming
into and anything you want to talk about in the
next half hour your choice, coming back on Nightside. Open
up the phone lines, rob let them come and let
them bring up whatever topic you want back on Nightside
right after the news at the bottom of the hour.

Speaker 1 (19:14):
It's night Side with Boston's News Radio.

Speaker 2 (19:20):
All right, we got about a I don't know twenty
five minutes between now on ten o'clock and right after
the ten o'clock news. We'll be joined by Scott Larry
Scott Larry Rubinstein, the the WBZ Nights, our car guys,
So whatever questions you might have about and that's automotive

(19:41):
Tomorrow night, amongst other things. We will spend the last
two hours of our broadcast year on our twelfth annual
Night Side Charity Combine, and we will talk with representatives
of upwards of twenty different charities. It's all always a labor,

(20:02):
but a labor of love to put that program together.
We'll talk to a variety of people from different parts
of Massachusetts and New Hampshire and what they are doing
to help their communities, and maybe some of you will
decide that you'd like to support some of these charities.
They run the gamut of just about everything you could imagine,

(20:23):
from lemonade stands up to the South Sudanese in Richmond
for families, program entrepreneurs. There's all sorts of materials in
which you could help. Of course, our favorite the Shadow Fund,
Ian Fidrick, the Fidrich Foundation named after the great tiger

(20:46):
picture Mark Fidrich who left us much too soon. Adopt
a platoon southeas style, which is a great charity. The
Fisher House in Boston, handy capable above the clouds, benings
with a mission, partakers, companion, and but just a whole
group of great subjects. Tomorrow night from ten until midnight,
and it's there will be no phone calls, just be

(21:10):
an opportunity for each of these great charities to talk
about their mission, what they do, what group of people
they try to help, and what they need, whether they
need volunteers. There's a lot of volunteer opportunities if you
have if you have some time, and time is the
greatest I think quality, any quality anyone can have at

(21:32):
this point, if you have time or if you at
the end of the year, a loorek going to make
a donation to support a charity that is doing something
that you can identify with. That's a great opportunity to
do that before the end of the year. Now, within
the twenty or so minutes twenty three minutes we have left,
I just want to open up the phone lines. We
have done that a couple of times in the last month.

(21:52):
Just whatever you want to talk about. If there's a
subject that you feel we have ignored, feel free to
make the suggestion. If there's an issue that you feel
you disagree with me strongly on, that's okay. There's an
issue feel that you agree with me strongly on, that's okay.
If you have gone through what I've been going through

(22:14):
the last seventy two hours, which started out as a
kind of a head cold and worked into a chess cold.
I'm told there's a lot of stuff going around. COVID
is still going around. The Globe still releases every Thursday statistics,
and I think for last week there were some thirteen

(22:35):
hundred cases of COVID that were diagnosed in Massachusetts and
nine people expired off COVID. Yeah, thirteen seventy six confirmed COVID,
nineteen cases, nine deaths last week. This again has it
hasn't gone away. I guess we came to understand that
it wasn't going to go away. That's going to be

(22:56):
something that we're going to live with, just like the flu.
I mean, I'm assuming and I talk with my doctor today.
He thinks it's bronchitis from the symptoms that I have
described to him. Did a chest X ray yesterday, and
you know, whenever you do a chest X ray, you're
thinking they want to eliminate pneumonia, and apparently that worked out.

(23:19):
I tested myself for COVID came back negative. But that's
how badly I felt and for me to be off
last night, and again thanks to my good friend Morgan
White for sitting in for me. That would give you
some indication. I tend not to want to miss work
once I started a Monday night. I like the pace

(23:39):
of the five day week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday,
because what happens is sometimes on Monday and Wednesday, something
will Monday or Tuesday something will transpire and you don't
get around to it, and then you end up doing
that on Wednesday or Thursday or Friday. So sort of
the pace of the week is important. And when I

(24:00):
called in sick yesterday. It's the first time I've done that,
I think in five years. I'm trying to I want
to go back and figure out when was the last
time I had a sick day. I've been blessed with
great good health and with through all my doctor's appointments.
Last month, you know, I was down the Cape for
the summer and I kind of stacked up all my
doctor's appointments, and all of a sudden, it was like, WHOA,

(24:23):
this hit me like a ton of bricks. So if
you'd like to commiserate, that would be great. Love to
know what you did to get rid of it. I'm
hoping by no later than tomorrow that I will be
back feeling. I'm not one hundred percent. I know that
I'm probably sixty sixty five percent of how I feel,
and I want to make sure that it's that it
keeps going in that direction. Six one, seven, two, five,

(24:43):
four ten thirty. Got one line at six one, seven,
nine three one ten thirty. Then we'll go to Larry
down in the Cape. Hey, Larry, welcome, Welcome back to
night'sat Larry. How are you.

Speaker 8 (24:52):
I'm doing okay?

Speaker 5 (24:54):
Dan?

Speaker 4 (24:54):
How about you?

Speaker 8 (24:55):
It sound a little bit.

Speaker 2 (24:56):
Well, I hope you're doing better than me. But when
you say you're doing okay, are you dealing something.

Speaker 4 (25:00):
As well well?

Speaker 8 (25:02):
As you well know, I'm vaccine injured from the Maderna vaccine. Yeah,
three years now, and yeah at twenty twenty one. Then
I got long COVID so in twenty twenty three. So
you just struck a nerve though with me when you
talked about nobody seems to be talking about it. So

(25:22):
in the support group that I'm in, I sent you
an email on this. In US, in the support group
that I'm in at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, they
invited a news investigator from one of the major local channels.
I don't know if I can mention, sure, yeah, go ahead, yeah,
go ahead, Okay. Mike Boudette from Channel five, Okay, yeah,

(25:45):
was invited into our support group and we had an
hour of people about forty of us talking about all
of their struggles about not being able to get unemployment,
not being able to get any kind of help from
the government, and it's been very, very frustrating, and it's

(26:05):
kind of not in the public eye anymore. And this
is what's interesting. I met some neighbors that I hadn't
seen in a while. So they asked her how I'm doing,
and I said, you know, I'm much better and actually
seeing a natural path and taking a whole bunch of
Chinese Arabs. And so I said, have you ever had COVID.

(26:28):
You won't believe his answer. He goes no. I said, really,
he goes no. I just have a test. I said,
Oh my god, this is why it's spread so much.
So many people think it's nothing.

Speaker 2 (26:39):
Yeah, well, I think we have been loveled into I
think we have been loaded into a sense of security.
When you look at these stats from Massachusetts that I
just read to you. You know, there was a time
when there were tens of thousands of people contracting COVID
every week. Now, yes, now, last week thirteen hundred ninety six,
fourteen hundred people in nine deaths.

Speaker 8 (26:59):
Yeah, and I think you're right. Most people kind of
consider it like a cold or a flu. As As
a matter of fact, my wife and I had to
drive up to Wallfam today are we'd go to eye
specialists over in Wallfam. I had some eye surgery back
a while back. Anyway, I noticed the doctors they're not
even wearing masks. Anymore, and it's a very casual environment.

(27:21):
But I want to mention one thing last night. You
were talking about the poor drivers in Massachusetts.

Speaker 2 (27:27):
That wasn't last night, that was two nights ago because
I wasn't radio last night. Bogin White was here last night.
That I can tell you for sure.

Speaker 8 (27:34):
Go ahead see the brain fog is still there. And
you were focusing on the green light situation, which I
cannot totally understand that. Here is one thing that bugs
me to no end. You're on a four lane highway
like one twenty eight and I usually drive in the
second length from the right, but you always get plenty
of notice with signs and everything that your exit is

(27:55):
coming up. Why does everybody have to go from the
left lane all the way over to get off to
the exit with like one hundred feet before the exit.
It is so frustrating.

Speaker 2 (28:07):
Well, people don't think in a dance. It's they don't anticipate,
you know, it's like that.

Speaker 8 (28:11):
I think it's more like it's all about me.

Speaker 2 (28:14):
Well that's what I'm saying. It is all about them.

Speaker 3 (28:17):
Wow, And they.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
And the idea is that they're the most important person
on the road. Uh yeah, they like you they have
to catch you off. It's the same way. It's the
same symptom. When I talked the other night about people
who are sitting at green lights, sitting in red lights,
waiting there the first in line. The light turns and
it takes them twenty seconds to step in the accelerator.

Speaker 3 (28:40):
What are they doing?

Speaker 2 (28:41):
I mean red light. I assume you're watching the red
light to see when it turns, because if you're not
watching the red light, then you shouldn't be in a car.
But again, it's whatever they're doing, somebody's called them on
the phone, or they got to make a phone call,
or they got to check something. They got to check
to see if they've had an important email or something.
It's all, yeah, it's about them, Larry Simple.

Speaker 8 (29:03):
Well, your next segment is gonna be very interesting.

Speaker 4 (29:06):
You know.

Speaker 8 (29:06):
Back when I was working, I owned the automotive spring
shop in Chelsea, like forty forty Oddeas So Larry and Scott,
I'm sure at some point I know they were and
I sold us to the springtum at one point and
I know them. Oh it'll be a nice Yeah.

Speaker 2 (29:22):
They're good, Larry. I appreciate it. Hope you hope you
feel better, that's for sure. And uh thanks, Yeah, I
know you're a Festivus guy, so I got to wish
you a happy Festivus. You know, when you start celebrating
quads and let me know, I wish you happy Quads
of Christmas, Honicle, whatever you celebrate, I'm gonna I'm gonna
wish you happy.

Speaker 8 (29:41):
Okay, And you're sticking with Festivus holiday for the rest
of us.

Speaker 2 (29:45):
Yeah, no problem. Do you have a big group down
there in the cable celebrates Festivus?

Speaker 8 (29:50):
Everybody as soon as they see me. That's the first
thing that I say. Larry, do you have your Festivus poll?

Speaker 2 (29:56):
Yeah? Good? Six months seven two, five four to ten thirty.
Six months seven nine, three one ten thirty. I think
you're all ready for Scott and Larry. They'll be here
right after the ten o'clock news. In the meantime, you
got me for fifteen more minutes. Anything you'd like to
talk about. It's open lines. We don't do it often,
done it a couple of times in the last month.

(30:16):
Take advantage of it. If you wait until like five
minutes of ten, probably not going to get on. Give
us a call. Six month seven two, five four to
ten thirty six months, seven nineth three, one ten thirty.
Whatever's on your mind? Coming back on night Side.

Speaker 1 (30:29):
Now, back to Dan ray Line from the Window World
night Side Studios on WBZ the news Radio.

Speaker 2 (30:37):
Well, let's see if folks want to talk about Ron
up in Salisbury. I see they're doing ran a lot
of work on Salisbury Beach. Are you close to that?

Speaker 6 (30:45):
Hey, hey Dan? Yeah, just probably about five or ten
blocks is Ron Tony Giadmo from Salisbury Beach.

Speaker 4 (30:52):
I used to talk to you when you first.

Speaker 6 (30:54):
Came on during the afternoons, uh, for your highlights. I
just wanted to take a minute to wish you and
your family a very merry Christmas and a happy and
healthy New Year and twenty twenty five. I've been listening
to you for a long long time, and I want
to wish you and your family nothing but the best.

Speaker 2 (31:11):
My friendly Well, I really do appreciate that. Ron. That's
really very kind of you.

Speaker 3 (31:16):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (31:16):
It picks my spirits up tonight because I'm sort of
a hurt and puppy here, if you know what I'm saying.
And uh, yeah, I'm looking looking forward to the uh
to the car guys. But that's great so that that beach. Uh,
I've followed that story. I know that Bruce har has
been very much involved in that. And that's a beautiful
beach up there, and it's it'd be hard beach.

Speaker 6 (31:38):
Bruce has been very good. He's our new senator for
the district in Salisbury and before that we had our representative,
which was kill course, but uh, you know, he's brought
money in, you know, to I think it was a
million dollars. Uh, you know, to stop you know, backfilling
in this area because we we almost lost a couple
of houses there, that's how close it was. And uh sure,

(32:00):
I don't know if it's gonna wash away again, but
you know, we're gonna keep our fingers crossed because Salisbury
Beach is a beautiful place to be, especially those who
live on the water. And I'm only one block over
from the water, so it's uh, it's.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
Very if you don't even if you don't live in
the water at the proximity of the beach, the fact
that you can get out there and take a walk
anytime of the year and smell that salt water. That's
what what's living in Salisbury is all about. So as
well as the bars date Marsha got.

Speaker 6 (32:28):
Up there exactly exactly. Thanks a lot, Dan, take care
of yourself, my friend.

Speaker 2 (32:33):
Run very Merry Christmas to you and your family as well.
Thanks so much for being such a loyal listener these
these many years. Appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (32:39):
That a great night.

Speaker 2 (32:41):
Let me go to George in Westwood. Hey George, how
are you tonight?

Speaker 4 (32:45):
Hey? Dan, First and foremost, I hope you get better fast,
especially before next Wednesday.

Speaker 3 (32:52):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 4 (32:53):
The only thing, the only view that I can recommend
right now because I am a big vitamin freak. You
can call me. See Vitamin D and selenium. Okay, So
it's a selenium you m at the end. It's a
it's a big anti oxidant. Okay, you don't want to
take too much of it, but you know, one dose,

(33:16):
let's say, you know, in the morning and one night
before you go to bed. It really really helps Dand
it's underrated.

Speaker 2 (33:21):
Let's just say that. And it's s A L E
N I U M.

Speaker 4 (33:26):
I assume S E L E N I U M celen. Okay,
And what do you get that you can pick him
about any c v S or anything. Envitamin D. Yeah, absolutely,
Vitamin D is also good for the cold. Okay, Vitamin
D is basically when we get through that.

Speaker 2 (33:43):
I do vitamin D every day. I do C I
do a multi vitamin. I do fish oil, I do
magnesium oxide. Yeah, I'm a big vitamin guy. Uh and,
and I've been very lucky. Every once in a while,
I get hit with a nasty situation like I'm dealing with.
But again, it's just been in my head and in

(34:03):
my chest. So it's I think we're starting to get
ahead of it. I get what they call a Z
pack from my dog today, he said, he set that in.
I got some some codeine which will help me sleep
a little bit better tonight. We'll get up. We'll be fine.
But have you have you avoided this this fall? I
took all my shots. I took my flu shot a
year ago, I got my RSV shot, I got my

(34:25):
updated COVID shots, So I figured I was all set.
I was healthy as a horse the entire year. Only
the last two days it's it's just been miserable.

Speaker 4 (34:35):
Well, I have to admit I did not take any
COVID shots. None of my family did, my wife, nor
my daughter, and actually my wife had to. My wife
had to retire from Harvard Business School because she refused
to take the shot.

Speaker 2 (34:47):
Well, that's not fair. By the way, my daughter graduates.

Speaker 4 (34:50):
Let's just say, we're not gonna sue them. We're not
going to sue them. He was either get either take
the shot or get fired, they said. But because she
had you know, she had completed her quarters or whatever
they call it. You know, she was vested whatever they
call it. She basically she completed them a few weeks
before the deadline. So she went to hr HR said,

(35:11):
you know what, you can retire and you can have
the the insurance a health insurance package as a retiree
that covers me as well. It costs me four hundred
bucks a month then, and I got the best insurance
in the world. Either. It's all good, exactly, and you
know what, wait, we're happy. The other thing I wanted

(35:31):
to say is lattery from the cape. A true festivus guy.
He called in with his grievance, A true festivous guy. Okay,
I'm the guy who I got it wrong. I'm the
guy who called up and I said that maybe terrorist
activity before the elections, we may not have elections. We

(35:54):
had elections. My man one Okay, I'm still worried between
now and generally twenty if that's all I wanted to say.

Speaker 2 (36:01):
I think it's very smoothly. I think people are going
to be very happy. Uh. And again, he won the election,
he won the popular vote, he won the electoral college vote.
I am surprised that he was able to the greatest
political comeback in the history of the country. I hope
he has a better second term than he's in a
fourth term that he had it.

Speaker 4 (36:22):
Well, he's picking his own people now, he's not trusting
the back established. He's picking his own people. That's a
good thing about him.

Speaker 2 (36:30):
All Right, Thank you, George, you got it. That's my home.
You too, you too. Let me go next to Glenn
and Brighton. Hey Glenn, welcome. How are you tonight?

Speaker 4 (36:40):
Well, I'm in now.

Speaker 3 (36:42):
I'm in a good move because you're doing open lies,
which is my favorite thing. Because I had to do errands,
I missed KRISTINUNU did anybody mention he did something I
disagree with and I he banned Russian made Rodka because
of Ukraine and I just for those of us like me,
I'm an isolationist, as you know. I don't think U

(37:02):
greens our flight. I just you know, I don't buy
Russian madevot and number one it's too expensive. Number two,
I hit I don't get you to New Hampshire anymore
because my driver passed away four years ago, but he
lived in New Hampshire. But having said that, as someone
who was born and raised in the freest country in
the world, I'd like to make my own decision as

(37:23):
an adult, what kind of outcome I want to buy.
I don't like that.

Speaker 2 (37:27):
I suspect it probably probably you could buy Russian vodka
somewhere other than New Hampshire.

Speaker 4 (37:34):
I know.

Speaker 3 (37:34):
So it's just the idea. And they hadn't live free
or dnasty. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (37:38):
Oh, I get it.

Speaker 2 (37:38):
I get it. Well, you know what I wish you
called in. No one did raise the issue with Chris,
but he had a great hour with him, and I
hope you can listen to it at the nine o'clock
hour and Tuesday night night side.

Speaker 3 (37:48):
Of the bed to mean you're going to rerun it?

Speaker 2 (37:53):
No, no, no, it's good. We're gonna rerun it. I
think on Sunday night at eleven when we do the
best off this coming Sunday night. Oh, I believe that
was the hour we picked for this Sunday night. But
you also have Nightside on demand on the computer I
don't have on the internet. You can always listen to
prior broadcast.

Speaker 3 (38:13):
We take everything now.

Speaker 2 (38:15):
I don't have cast form. No, I get it. I understand.
I understand Dyke and a proud troglodyte as well, if
I'm not mistaken.

Speaker 3 (38:24):
That's why my friends call me troggy pooh. But I
just wanted to give a shout out to my favorite
coll Christine and Denim. She's a mega too, She's my
favorite core.

Speaker 2 (38:35):
Okay, well, I'm sure she's to hear that right now.
Glad I got to run because I'm up against it.
I'm glad you got it.

Speaker 3 (38:41):
In Okay, Thank you much, Thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (38:43):
Thanks thanks to Let me uh, let me see if
I get Sean and havel Sean. Are you waiting for
the car guys or do you want to say something quickly?

Speaker 9 (38:51):
No, I just want to say something quickly. I hope
you get well soon, my friend and I actually real quickly.
I actually started listening to you when my wife and
I were living in Wilmington before twenty twenty and we
just bought our first home in December of twenty twenty
in Abril, and I'm listening ever since. And I love

(39:14):
your show and I want to wish you and your
family of very merry Christmas and very happy twenty twenty
five and beyond, and as well as to all the
listeners out there or Festivus or Honka, whatever you celebrate.

Speaker 2 (39:30):
Thank you so much. That's great. Yes, that's what That's
what Night Side is all about. Whatever you celebrate, we'll congrass.

Speaker 3 (39:37):
Thank you on.

Speaker 2 (39:38):
I'm a Christmas guy and I think you are as well.
I'm going to wish you in yours.

Speaker 7 (39:41):
I definitely am.

Speaker 9 (39:42):
God bless you my friend.

Speaker 2 (39:44):
Thanks Seawan. We'll talk soon, Okay.

Speaker 5 (39:46):
Definitely on the other Okay, good night on the other
side of the ten.

Speaker 2 (39:49):
Here come the car guys, get your questions, get in line.
We'll be back right after the ten
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