January 20, 2025 • 42 mins
Morgan White Jr. Fills In On NightSide with Dan Rea:
Monday was Inauguration Day! We welcomed our 47th president into office, and what better way to celebrate than to chat about America's most patriotic national parks! Morgan talked with National Park Ranger Richard “Dixie” Tourangeau about places like Mount Rushmore, Federal Hall National Memorial, Jimmy Carter National Historical Park, Theodore Roosevelt National Park, and more!
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Monday was Inauguration Day! We welcomed our 47th president into office, and what better way to celebrate than to chat about America's most patriotic national parks! Morgan talked with National Park Ranger Richard “Dixie” Tourangeau about places like Mount Rushmore, Federal Hall National Memorial, Jimmy Carter National Historical Park, Theodore Roosevelt National Park, and more!
Ask Alexa to play WBZ NewsRadio on #iHeartRadio and listen to NightSide with Dan Rea Weeknights From 8PM-12AM!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's with Dan Ray Untell you Mazy Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Dan, We'll be back on Wednesday, I promise you. I'm Morgan.
I'm filling in for the rest of the show tonight,
which only has fifty three or so minutes left to it,
and I'll be here tomorrow from eight until midnight. Dixie
is here and I usually bring in Dixie on one
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of two subjects, baseball. He's the most knowledgeable person I
know when it comes to baseball, both current and old school.
And he used to be a park ranger for over
thirty some odd years, so his experience about the National
Park Service is exemplary. So Dixie is there. I know
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you researched a lot of information because you were going
to be on tonight. Is there anything we've yet to
touch upon. No.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
I think we've glanced on several things, the most important
of which is the number of people who visit parks
in this day and age, which is over three hundred million,
anywhere from two ninety to three hundred and ten million,
depending on the year, depending on the weather.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Only one for every American almost it is almost three
hundred and fifty something on million people.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
And the backlog and the backlog of things that the
National Park needs to fix to welcome those three hundred
million people in the fashion that they should be welcomed.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
All right, Now, this is normally where I make you
bring up the subject of the Castle Young. Yes, but
you don't bring it up that often because you aren't
volunteering on it anymore.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
No, and at this time of year it is closed.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
But briefly tell people about the castle and Young.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Well, for those of you who live in the Boston
area or close enough by that you would drive into
Boston for a historical tour of sorts. The Boston National
Historical Park is at the Charlestown Navy Yard where all
iron sides is all iron sides. The USS Constitution is not,
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I repeat, not part of the National Park Service. It
is Department of Defense. It is a flagship of the
entire United States Navy. It's the most fabulous ship afloat,
But it is not part of the National Park Service.
It is docked in a national park, that is true,
but it is not part of the Park Service. The
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park rangers who work at Boston National Historical Park protect it,
they talk about it, they do several things with it,
but they do not have any let's see what is
the word. They do not have any instrumental thoughts or
ideas about the ship. The ship is run by the Navy.
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But aside from the ship, about one hundred yards away
is the US is Cast and Young, which is part
of the National Park Service. It is a World War
two Fletcher class destroyer that served in the Pacific. During
World War two, twenty three soldiers sailors sorry sailors were
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killed on board and two Kamikazi attacks. And that ship
is available for you to walk on in season and
to take tours on in season.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
What is the beginning and end of quote unquote the season?
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Well, you know, the weather is strange. Sometimes it is.
You can get on it in March through October or
even November if the weather stays good in November, and
sometimes if there are on a weekend, if the volunteers
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are there and they and they feel that there are
enough visitors that day to open the ship, they will
open it. But it's something you have to call for
before May. Usually the ship is opened by mid May.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Okay, and I am assuming a November closing, either the
first or the thirtieth.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Well, except for veterans day. Yes, bye bye bye by
the first except veterans state. He try and keep it
open until then obviously for that reason.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Right, And why is it parked here?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Well, uh, there are There are a couple of different reasons,
the most important being that in the Charlestown Navy are
during World War Two, fourteen of the exact replicas of
that ship were built Fletcher class destroyer. They were built
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all over the country because there were one hundred and
seventy God I haven't done the tour in so long,
I forget, but one hundred and seventy five Fletcher class
destroyers were built around the country, and fourteen of them
were in fact built in Charlestown. So even though the
cast in Young, which was built in California, was not
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built there, there were fourteen ships exactly like it built there,
and it just so happened that it became available. The
park back in nineteen seventy eight was looking for a
drawing card cass and Young became available because the Navy
was going to scrap it, and the Park Service said,
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wait a minute, hold on a second, we'd like to
have your ship, and so it was brought up here
in tow by from Philadelphia and it's been here ever since.
It opened up to the public after three years' worth
of work on it so that we could invite people.
It was open to the public in nineteen eighty one.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Hold on there, we need that chip up here.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Okay, where do you get all this knowledge? I mean
you're not reading this. Oh you know how well?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
If you know this stuff, if you do it long
enough and say it enough times, you do remember it. Morgan,
how do you remember all this stuff that you do
in your club shows. Yeah, it's the same thing, and
it's much less. It's much less work. If you talk
about a ship every single day for fifteen years, you
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should remember what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
And I am able to instantly regurgitate. And I'm sticking
to that word information about Dobie Gillis because I watched it.
I loved that show that used to be on five
days a week, and I watched it when it was
still in network viewing. It used to be It's ironic
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and I just pulled that example out of thin air.
But I'm gonna give this point. Dobie Gillis was a
show that was able to say one of its contributing
actors had that show and the next show on CBS.
(07:43):
It was The CBS Show. It was on from eight
thirty to nine on Wednesday nights. The next show that
was on from nine to nine thirty, The Beverly Hillbillies,
had this same actor. So he could see himself if
he were home on a Wednesday once playing the dean
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at Spter Pryor Junior College, Raymond Bailey, and then see
himself playing the banker Melbourne Drivesdale on the Beverly Hillbillies. Now,
all that just proves I have a mind for minutia.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Nobody cares about any of those details, nobody, but I
remember those details. And that's just the way I do
what I do. And now I'm going to take a break.
When we come back, we've got a phone call from Michigan.
So I've got a lot of things to accomplish. And
let me accomplish the first part by saying time and
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temperature here on night Side eleven fifteen nineteen degrees.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Now back to Dan Ray Window World, Nightside Studios on
w b Z News Radio.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
All right, let's go to Michigan and speak to Jeff. Jeff,
thank you for calling, good evening and welcome to night's side.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
Yeah, you were talking about national parks, yes, and who
are the persons that contributed, especially presidents, Supreme Court.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
Justices, etc.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
Fdr Not surprisingly because if you look at his Wikipedia
page it goes on for pages. He began the CCC,
the Civilian Conservation Corps. We're in during the Great Depression,
so many families had nobody working that the federal government
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had a program called the CCC, which still exists in Michigan,
where if you do not have a male working in
a family, and you have males that are over eighteen
years of age, that the government hired one of the
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males who were over eighteen, if there were more than one,
would hire at least one, and those people would be
put on detail in our national parks. If you go
into a national park, you'll find all kinds of trails
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that it would have stairs and so forth, their railings, bridges,
et cetera. That's what the CCC did. And he has
part of an anti poverty program. So he killed two
birds with one stone by hiring those people.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Dixie. Were you aware of the CCC, Oh.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Yes, very much.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
So it's called the CCC. You can look it up
Civilian Conservation Corps. It's probably it may be the most
impactful of all the contributions with any president to the
National park system. And we shouldn't be surprised because, as
I say, if you go to Wikipedia and look up
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what FDR accomplished. As people said at the time, but
if you elected as long as he lives and that's what.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Happened, that all of that is true. And not only
is all of that true, but some of the things
that those people built back in the thirties and early
forties they still exist, and that's right, they still exist,
but they're a little rundown and they need to be
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replaced in some places. So that's some of the backlog
work that needs to be done. We really should, after
this amount of time and that amount of youth, is
to rebuild some of the stuff that the CCC did.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Absolutely, Jeff, I have a question, wait, don't hang up yet.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Yeah, about your.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Family affected by the CCC. Did an uncle or father
or grandfather get work because.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Of the.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
Well, I don't recall that, but I just urge people
because see I grew up in Republican neighborhoods. FDR was
never mentioned. FDR was never mentioned. They didn't want to
bring him up.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Well, he was a Democrat, and.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
That's right, and so they didn't want to hear about
him because if you got as I say, look, he
created social security. That's Medicare is is modeled on social Security.
The money that you contribute to social Security is not
just a piece of paper, it's a T bond. And
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that's why these people on Wall Street I call them
the criminals of Raw Street. The investment bankers, the equity funds,
the hedge funders, they all want that money and they
can't get it as long as it's in T bonds.
So they're going to convince us all so you're not
going to get anything, So you'll get you'll you'll give
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up everything to get something right. And so I'm just
suggesting that people review the history of FDR because it
goes on.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
For pages as well.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
It should and that's why he would and it should,
and that's why he was elected as long as he lived,
and it wasn't the wealthy that elected him.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
He was the last president to serve. After he was
elected four times, he just didn't serve, that's right.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
The fourth term, No, I think he worked himself to death.
To tell you the truth, he was working on the
UN when he died. He was in Warren Springs, Georgia,
and at that time he was down there for his
polio treatment and he was sitting working on the United Nations,
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the only institution that we have to end all wars.
And that was occurring at the end of the Second
World War, when we could have beat our chest and
said anybody else, and instead he was working on an
institution hoping to end all war, not to make more war.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
That was way off base. That was April twelfth, nineteen
forty five. And the reason I know that speaking of
the Cast and Young is because on that date the
Cast and Young was hit by a Japanese kamakazi and
one of the sailors was killed. On that date, the
day that Roosevelt died.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
Wow, that's interesting. And boy, I tell you, if you
go and look at the film of his case on
coming back from Warren Springs, Georgia, it's so moving because
there are people black and white crying on the tracks
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all the way.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Well, as I said, he was elected four times, did
not finish out his fourth term. And let's let's pick
a number, let's say, thirteen years, thirteen plus years. Under
his watch, he had a depression and a World war
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that is enough.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
To gray any film.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
And the fact that ye, he survived both the depression
and within a couple of weeks the end.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Of World War two, and and he suffered from polio.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
And he suffered from polio. That lot on his plate,
a lot on his plate.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Well at Hyde Park, you see his wife. People asked
why his FDR so different from the way he appeared
when he went to Harvard with people that were classmates.
They said didn't recognize him, not physically, but because of
his behavior and his wife. His wife and a guy
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named Rexford Tugwell who was in his cabinet, his first cabinet,
they both thought that the reason that he had changed
so much was because of the polio and when because
they didn't know what it was when it first hit,
and for years they didn't know. And he was urged
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to get exercise with when his legs didn't work. So
he used to be in uh in bed and hide
Hyde Park and get on his crutches and go all
the way down the road, just their road, to that
house and back on his crutches.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
When work.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
And he was an avid swimmer.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
That's right, he was.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
He was constantly and obviously his legs didn't function as
they should have, but his upper body strains.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Well.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
Yeah, he became quite quite other.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Than the average because he had to do most of
the work of swimming with his arms.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
If I might, I'll just add one more thing that's
I think is amazing. Ok Uh, there's a converse. Yeah,
there's a conversation. I think it might have been Tugwell
who brought this up. He wrote a wrote a very
good book on Roosevelt called The Democratic.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Wrote that.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
Democratic Roosevelt as opposed to his cousin Teddy. And he
said that at one time, while he was meeting with
Roosevelt in the Oval office, Franklin had shown him how
he used to get a book from the bookshelf across
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across the room, and he got down off his chair
and crawled to the bookshelf and put the book in
his teeth and crawled back.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Necessity is the mother of invention, as the old saying goes,
you find a way, but.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
He humiliates a man. And you see, so his wife
and tug Will both said they thought that Polio had
changed him. Yes, well, thank you very much for allowing
me that. Because I didn't know much about Roosevelt, I
had to I read several books on him many and
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because I was so amazed we ever had a president
like this, I couldn't It's hard to fathom because, in
my opinion, there are very few presidents that have more
than one or two things to recall about them. And
we are still living with Social Security, which is one
of the two best programs in this country. The other
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one is Medicare, and Medicare is being destroyed by Medicare
advantage because every Medicare advantage program must be subsidized by
real Medicare and your private insurers. If you get into
those programs or you're one of the members, you may
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get silver sneakers, but you won't get your basic services
because you have to go through a primary party to
get approval for your and that always takes months. It
takes weeks and months to get that approval, and then
you have to sign up with whoever it is in
the group that allows you that service, and that will
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take you weeks or months.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
And so.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
This is working the wrong way because now Medicare advantage
because of their advertising and because they use the word
medicare in their name. They shouldn't be they shouldn't have
been allowed to do that.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
But I've got news.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Thank you, Thank you for your call.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
Excellent program, Thank you, goodbye.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
All right, if you want to call in, maybe not
take as much time as Jeff did just then ten thirty.
Well he started on topic.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Yeah he didn't. He didn't quite get there.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Eight eight, nine to nine, ten thirty. We're talking about
the National park system. Now I could switch to baseball
right now is the reason I'll switch to baseball because
of tomorrow. But I'm not going to switch to baseball.
Damn the torpedoes full speed over there you go. So
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I'm about to take my break. This time it will
it will not be adjacent to ABC News. We did
all that earlier in the eighth hour and the nine
hour and then the ten hour. Right now at eleven thirty,
I'm just going to say time here on night Side again.
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Eleven thirty, temperature nineteen.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Degrees, It's night Side with Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
You know what, Dixie, this is the first time I've
had you on talking about National parks where someone didn't
call in and say they're planning a trip in a day,
a week, a month or so, and can well give
them details on this National park.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Well, we have a half an hour left. Let's see
what happens. But first of all, let me say hello
to Jennie and Lawrence and Susan in Brookline.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
You're on your computer talking to these people while you're
on the air with me, aren't you.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
No, I'm looking at the National Park Service thing here online, Okay,
so that I don't forget to say a couple of
things I wanted to say, and that is at the
National Park Service. We have discussed how there are four
one hundred and thirty three parks, but they take up
eighty five million acres of land, which if you squished
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it all into one place to be a state, it
would be the fifth largest state after Alaska, Montana, California,
and Texas. It would be number.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Five, bigger than Texas.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Yes, no, less than Texas because the next the next
state is New Mexico, and the National Park Service is
a few million acres larger than New Mexico, so it
would be number five.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Now, speaking of New Mexico, I heard this today, Donald
Trump wants to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf
of America. Yes, and I forget the woman who was
President of Mexico said, then what we should do is
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rename those places that were hours to begin with back
in the eighteen hundreds, and that would include New Mexico, Texas, Arizona,
and call them whatever names those territories had back then. Now,
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I think this is politicians licking their finger, holding it
up in the air to see which way the wind blows.
But I doubt any of that is going to happen.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Well I doubted too, But let me give you a prediction. Okay,
prediction I get fifty bucks that says, if you're correct
about El Trumpo wanting to rename Denali as mout McKinley,
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that is not what's really behind this. What's really behind
this is for him to find some political hack senator
or maybe his new Secretary of the Interior to say,
why don't we name this mountain after El Trumpo? It's
the biggest in North America. Why wouldn't we name it
El Trumpo.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
I don't think he is that egotistical.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
You're wrong. You are wrong, Morgan. I'm sorry, but you're
wrong on this part.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
I don't think he would name a mountain after himself.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
No, he'll get someone else to do it and say, oh, yeah,
it's about time we did that.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Nancy has tapping me on my hand with a look
of disbelief that I let these words come out of
my mouth.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
And she is correct also.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Because she reminded me he wanted his face added to
Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
That's correct. So just remember everything that happens. And by
the way, by the way, I am going to give
out a grand round of applause that at the Mercenary
Minor League football season has now ended and we can
go on with our lives.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Oh you meaning are the fact that Notre Dame lost tonight.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Ah, well, that's too bad, what a shame.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
All I heard was scoring updates and it sounds like
they acquitted themselves as well as they could.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Well they were. They were being beaten senseless for a
first three quarters, so.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
So uh, Oklahoma let their foot off the accelerator in
the last quarter.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Well, my my, my distaste for Ohio State is only
beaten by my distaste for Notre Dame. So I don't care.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
What about your distaste for the New York Yankees.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Oh that goes without saying.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Yeah, but which is number one in Dixie?
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Distaste the Yankees for sure. The New York frauds. You
got the name wrong, New York Frauds.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
As you can tell people, we have no calls. So
if you want to end this silliness. Well, he didn't
call about medicare I think.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
He might have the question. The question I wanted to
ask him was has he ever had the opportunity to
visit Hyde Park in New York and visit the Roosevelt House.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Well, he was from Michigan, so flip a coin on
that one.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
And also the Eleanor Roosevelt House, which is down the
road a piece from the Franklin or Roosevelt family house.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
They have a separate house for respect paid to Eleanor
versus respect paid to Franklin.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Yeah, well that the Hyde Park the family residence is
the is the Hyde Park one that the Roosevelt family
was along with Eleanor. But she later had her own
house down the road for various relationship purposes and for
recreation purposes as a pool and everything. And I was
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actually at the opening of it back in the eighties. Okay,
it's very nice very small, but it is another house
in that area that you can visit as part of
the National Park Service.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Where do you see the National Park Service going? I'm
not looking at the next four years. I'm going to
say all inclusive, at least a decade from now, what
can we expect?
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Morgan, that's like asking me how the Red Sox are
going to do. I don't know who's on the team.
I don't know what the budget's going to be. I
don't know who's who they're going to get, who they're
going to lose. It's impossible to tell what's going to happen.
All I know is we cannot allow the continuing demise
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of the properties which we are now allowing.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
He was mentioning he the previous call was mentioning all
the things that were done. You know CCC related there
in Michigan, as far as the Roosevelt National Park and
your point that you've heard of that you knew all
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about that, and there again it's proven that disrepair has
the need of being addressed across the National park system.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
Well, we're still walking on bridges that the CCC created,
and you can't do that after fifty sixty years. You
just you have to replace them, especially with the crowds,
the use that they get by the two hundred and
seventy five to three hundred and ten million people that
visit these parks every year, they get worn out.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
And once again, I'm going to have you repeat something
I made you tell me last hour. Tell me these
three things again that people can do everyday. Citizens. Right
now I'm being heard in thirty eight states and parts
of Canada. Let's just stay with the thirty eight states.
Canada worry about their own national.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
They have a wonderful national park system of their own,
so yes, they should tend to it.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Is there national park system better run than hours in Canada?
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Well, I don't know that for sure, but I know
that they have fewer parks, so it is a little
bit easier to handle fewer parts.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Okay, well we've got four hundred and twenty four hundred
and thirty three. Yes, what can Joe and Jane citizen?
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Do?
Speaker 2 (31:04):
You gave us an answer? And what the same three
examples for anybody who didn't hear what you said last hour?
Repeat that now please.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Well, you can keep on visiting the parks that you
like or the parks that you're near try every once
in a while ago to a park that's not near you.
You can volunteer to help out the park in some way,
and you can join organizations like the National Parks and Foundation,
the National Parks and Conservation Association because they are they
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back up the parks as best they can. And you
can also donate money to them and in turn, they
help parks out.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
And a donation can be a couple of bucks. Yeah,
it doesn't have to be one hundred dollars bill in
an ovelo. It can be a couple of bucks because
all donations will add up.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
And when you when you go to any national park,
there is usually some kind of fee box, not a
feed box. Well, some parts have fees, most of them don't,
so there are donation boxes and you just drop a
dollar or five dollars in and that's fine.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Okay. I'm going to take a break on this point.
If somebody wants to call in with the last ten
minutes of show, you can, or just keep listening. Dixie
and I will try to be entertaining for the end
of this Monday version of night Side time and temperature
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eleven nineteen degrees.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
Now back to Dan Ray Live from the Window World
Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Dixie, guess what we got a call? Yes we do,
and it's a person you've spoken to before. David and
San Francisco, welcome to night Side.
Speaker 6 (33:12):
Hello Morgan, Hello Dixie, Hello Nancy, Hello Gray, Elo, Toni
in Ohio and Glenn and Brighton and Martin's Exchange's birthday
to everybody, it's same to you. And my question is
this is to Morgan and Dixie. Why do they call
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the twenty one gun salute?
Speaker 2 (33:38):
You know, Dixie? Do you know?
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Not off hand?
Speaker 2 (33:43):
No? I do?
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Good God, this is the kind of thing that you
would know.
Speaker 6 (33:49):
Yeah, Morgan would know. Okay, Morgan, what is it?
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Because seventeen seventy six the Elaga Jacky of the birth
of the United States dates. Add those numbers together, one
plus seven plus seven plus six equals twenty one. I
don't know why it's it's three volleys of seven. I
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don't know.
Speaker 6 (34:17):
Yeah, well, it's a patriotic gesture.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Okay, is what it is.
Speaker 6 (34:22):
And more you're so good.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Well, and Charlie Brown's father was a barber, because Schultz's
father was a barber. Yeah, that was the last question there.
Speaker 6 (34:36):
Yeah, and one more just on why Luther Kange's birthdays.
He was actually born of Michael King Jr.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
I know that, yes, you know that.
Speaker 6 (34:48):
And why how do you get the name Martin Luther?
Speaker 2 (34:53):
I know his father decided to not that change.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
But what was it?
Speaker 6 (35:00):
Well, when Martin, when junior was a child, his father
went to Germany to actually enhance because he was a
pastor too, and he went there to actually enhance his
abilities as a pastor, and he ran into the teachings
and uh and uh of readings of Martin Luther and
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was very enhanced and decided to take his name. Okay,
to change his name because Martin Luther was a radical,
actually yes he was. Yeah, Actually the pope was going
to have him summoned to Rome and to burn at
the stake is a heretic, but you know.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
If you know, that's why the pope wants to see
you don't go.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (35:47):
Well, Luther was actually excommunicated and because he reallysed it
up against what was called indulgences, which where you had
to pay for your sins. I was making all the
priests and the bishop's rich, and he didn't like that.
So that's what happened.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
But it is topical because today we celebrated Martin Luther
King's birthday. Now, do you want to talk about national
parks on any level?
Speaker 6 (36:21):
No, I had my question for you about seventeen seventy six.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
That was.
Speaker 6 (36:28):
I thought Pixie might know because they do do to
anyone gun salutes off of ships and stuff, and he
might have known that. So thank you, Morrian.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Well, that's kind of what I've built my career upon,
stupid facts.
Speaker 6 (36:46):
Yeah, you are the ringtail Rounder.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 6 (36:51):
Where does that line come from?
Speaker 3 (36:53):
Then?
Speaker 2 (36:53):
I don't know where'd that line come from?
Speaker 6 (36:56):
House of Games?
Speaker 3 (36:58):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (36:58):
Yes, remember that one we talked about that movie.
Speaker 6 (37:03):
Mike, you are the ringtail router. There you go, the
hesitated maunt of line. Okay, well, thanks for taking my call, buddy.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
And uh please please, there may have another. That's what
he said. Was that was why he said that, just
to be a smart ass to the end.
Speaker 6 (37:23):
No, he was in the Marines, remember.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
I remember that. But somebody has just shot you and
out of your last dying breath, do you give a
smart bet answer like police? There may have another?
Speaker 6 (37:39):
Yeah, that that's a line that you give when you're
in the Marines, after you have you Uh, you are
either shot or you have to do too many push ups? Please, sir,
may I have another?
Speaker 2 (37:51):
Then? I didn't know? Well, thank you.
Speaker 6 (37:53):
Yes, remember Mike was in the Marines.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
Yes, his character was anyway.
Speaker 6 (37:58):
Well the character you remember he had when he was
at the union, uh, the telegraph station. He ran into
the William Macy character and he said, here, take my money,
you must take my money.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
Yeah, and he did that just to show Louise Fletcher's
character that he was a car artist and he could
get this guy to give him money.
Speaker 6 (38:21):
Yes, he was showing off to uh, to bargain.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
Yeah, there you go, very.
Speaker 6 (38:26):
Good, right, very good? All right, David, take care okay, Saturday, okay, buddy,
you do that.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
Okay, And Dixie, we have no callers left, so let's
kill four minutes. Shall we go?
Speaker 3 (38:43):
Right ahead? What do you got?
Speaker 2 (38:46):
Well again, you never really answered. You answered by saying,
you don't know what. Ten years down the road the
national parks would look like. I'm gonna pick one. Now
to the park Yellowstone.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
Okay, you must have the King of the Mountain, the King.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
Of the Mountain. You must have an opinion about Yellowstone
and what the government will do for it, or is
the super duper volcano going to happen within the next decade.
I'm probably They say it could happen within the next
five to ten years, or it could be one hundred.
Speaker 3 (39:28):
Years, but more like a thousand years.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
And it's coming, it's coming.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
Well, I don't know if they're that sure that it's coming.
We're not going to be around what it does, true,
because it does, we won't be around anyway.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
I plan on being in Vegas. That might be a
bit too close, yes, a bit a bit. Now, do
you have a website with people who can communicate with you?
Speaker 3 (40:03):
Just my personal one? I don't think I give that out,
all right, I.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
Didn't know if you wanted to give it out. Nope, no,
all right, We'll fine.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
They can they could, They could contact you somehow and
you could give it out.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
No no, no, no, no no no no. And that
reminds me just to do my own personal plug. People,
you want to come see me do trivia not tomorrow
but any other Tuesday, two sixty nine Washington Street, the
Midway Restaurant. I'm there from six to seven point thirty.
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And I want to thank Dan for filling in for
Rob for tonight. Hooray for Dan Jacob, whycoth Gary King
and you, sir, and I see Christian the cape is
called back, but not enough time to take him. And
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he already came on once tonight, So Dan, you can
tell him he won't make it tonight. We apologize. I
want to thank Nanty, Nancy and Gray sitting next to
me and the listeners.
Speaker 3 (41:15):
And remember, if someone doesn't call in tomorrow, I'm available
to talk Baseball Hall of Fame inductees.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
A subjected, A subjected, possible subject if if one of
my other guests don't show. I don't think that's going
to happen.
Speaker 3 (41:37):
Yes, but in the past it has oh done.
Speaker 2 (41:41):
I've I've had guests not show up where they were confirmed.
But what are you going to do? But as I
was about to say, for all the people who listen
tonight and as well called in, thank you. We do
radio for you, and I appreciate your participation. And that's
basically about it. So it's time for these two words
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that I use is my personal salutation by Boston
It's with Dan Ray Untell you Mazy Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Dan, We'll be back on Wednesday, I promise you. I'm Morgan.
I'm filling in for the rest of the show tonight,
which only has fifty three or so minutes left to it,
and I'll be here tomorrow from eight until midnight. Dixie
is here and I usually bring in Dixie on one
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of two subjects, baseball. He's the most knowledgeable person I
know when it comes to baseball, both current and old school.
And he used to be a park ranger for over
thirty some odd years, so his experience about the National
Park Service is exemplary. So Dixie is there. I know
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you researched a lot of information because you were going
to be on tonight. Is there anything we've yet to
touch upon. No.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
I think we've glanced on several things, the most important
of which is the number of people who visit parks
in this day and age, which is over three hundred million,
anywhere from two ninety to three hundred and ten million,
depending on the year, depending on the weather.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Only one for every American almost it is almost three
hundred and fifty something on million people.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
And the backlog and the backlog of things that the
National Park needs to fix to welcome those three hundred
million people in the fashion that they should be welcomed.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
All right, Now, this is normally where I make you
bring up the subject of the Castle Young. Yes, but
you don't bring it up that often because you aren't
volunteering on it anymore.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
No, and at this time of year it is closed.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
But briefly tell people about the castle and Young.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Well, for those of you who live in the Boston
area or close enough by that you would drive into
Boston for a historical tour of sorts. The Boston National
Historical Park is at the Charlestown Navy Yard where all
iron sides is all iron sides. The USS Constitution is not,
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I repeat, not part of the National Park Service. It
is Department of Defense. It is a flagship of the
entire United States Navy. It's the most fabulous ship afloat,
But it is not part of the National Park Service.
It is docked in a national park, that is true,
but it is not part of the Park Service. The
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park rangers who work at Boston National Historical Park protect it,
they talk about it, they do several things with it,
but they do not have any let's see what is
the word. They do not have any instrumental thoughts or
ideas about the ship. The ship is run by the Navy.
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But aside from the ship, about one hundred yards away
is the US is Cast and Young, which is part
of the National Park Service. It is a World War
two Fletcher class destroyer that served in the Pacific. During
World War two, twenty three soldiers sailors sorry sailors were
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killed on board and two Kamikazi attacks. And that ship
is available for you to walk on in season and
to take tours on in season.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
What is the beginning and end of quote unquote the season?
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Well, you know, the weather is strange. Sometimes it is.
You can get on it in March through October or
even November if the weather stays good in November, and
sometimes if there are on a weekend, if the volunteers
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are there and they and they feel that there are
enough visitors that day to open the ship, they will
open it. But it's something you have to call for
before May. Usually the ship is opened by mid May.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Okay, and I am assuming a November closing, either the
first or the thirtieth.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Well, except for veterans day. Yes, bye bye bye by
the first except veterans state. He try and keep it
open until then obviously for that reason.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Right, And why is it parked here?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Well, uh, there are There are a couple of different reasons,
the most important being that in the Charlestown Navy are
during World War Two, fourteen of the exact replicas of
that ship were built Fletcher class destroyer. They were built
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all over the country because there were one hundred and
seventy God I haven't done the tour in so long,
I forget, but one hundred and seventy five Fletcher class
destroyers were built around the country, and fourteen of them
were in fact built in Charlestown. So even though the
cast in Young, which was built in California, was not
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built there, there were fourteen ships exactly like it built there,
and it just so happened that it became available. The
park back in nineteen seventy eight was looking for a
drawing card cass and Young became available because the Navy
was going to scrap it, and the Park Service said,
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wait a minute, hold on a second, we'd like to
have your ship, and so it was brought up here
in tow by from Philadelphia and it's been here ever since.
It opened up to the public after three years' worth
of work on it so that we could invite people.
It was open to the public in nineteen eighty one.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Hold on there, we need that chip up here.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Okay, where do you get all this knowledge? I mean
you're not reading this. Oh you know how well?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
If you know this stuff, if you do it long
enough and say it enough times, you do remember it. Morgan,
how do you remember all this stuff that you do
in your club shows. Yeah, it's the same thing, and
it's much less. It's much less work. If you talk
about a ship every single day for fifteen years, you
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should remember what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
And I am able to instantly regurgitate. And I'm sticking
to that word information about Dobie Gillis because I watched it.
I loved that show that used to be on five
days a week, and I watched it when it was
still in network viewing. It used to be It's ironic
(07:21):
and I just pulled that example out of thin air.
But I'm gonna give this point. Dobie Gillis was a
show that was able to say one of its contributing
actors had that show and the next show on CBS.
(07:43):
It was The CBS Show. It was on from eight
thirty to nine on Wednesday nights. The next show that
was on from nine to nine thirty, The Beverly Hillbillies,
had this same actor. So he could see himself if
he were home on a Wednesday once playing the dean
(08:09):
at Spter Pryor Junior College, Raymond Bailey, and then see
himself playing the banker Melbourne Drivesdale on the Beverly Hillbillies. Now,
all that just proves I have a mind for minutia.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Nobody cares about any of those details, nobody, but I
remember those details. And that's just the way I do
what I do. And now I'm going to take a break.
When we come back, we've got a phone call from Michigan.
So I've got a lot of things to accomplish. And
let me accomplish the first part by saying time and
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temperature here on night Side eleven fifteen nineteen degrees.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Now back to Dan Ray Window World, Nightside Studios on
w b Z News Radio.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
All right, let's go to Michigan and speak to Jeff. Jeff,
thank you for calling, good evening and welcome to night's side.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
Yeah, you were talking about national parks, yes, and who
are the persons that contributed, especially presidents, Supreme Court.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
Justices, etc.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
Fdr Not surprisingly because if you look at his Wikipedia
page it goes on for pages. He began the CCC,
the Civilian Conservation Corps. We're in during the Great Depression,
so many families had nobody working that the federal government
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had a program called the CCC, which still exists in Michigan,
where if you do not have a male working in
a family, and you have males that are over eighteen
years of age, that the government hired one of the
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males who were over eighteen, if there were more than one,
would hire at least one, and those people would be
put on detail in our national parks. If you go
into a national park, you'll find all kinds of trails
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that it would have stairs and so forth, their railings, bridges,
et cetera. That's what the CCC did. And he has
part of an anti poverty program. So he killed two
birds with one stone by hiring those people.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Dixie. Were you aware of the CCC, Oh.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Yes, very much.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
So it's called the CCC. You can look it up
Civilian Conservation Corps. It's probably it may be the most
impactful of all the contributions with any president to the
National park system. And we shouldn't be surprised because, as
I say, if you go to Wikipedia and look up
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what FDR accomplished. As people said at the time, but
if you elected as long as he lives and that's what.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Happened, that all of that is true. And not only
is all of that true, but some of the things
that those people built back in the thirties and early
forties they still exist, and that's right, they still exist,
but they're a little rundown and they need to be
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replaced in some places. So that's some of the backlog
work that needs to be done. We really should, after
this amount of time and that amount of youth, is
to rebuild some of the stuff that the CCC did.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Absolutely, Jeff, I have a question, wait, don't hang up yet.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Yeah, about your.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Family affected by the CCC. Did an uncle or father
or grandfather get work because.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Of the.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
Well, I don't recall that, but I just urge people
because see I grew up in Republican neighborhoods. FDR was
never mentioned. FDR was never mentioned. They didn't want to
bring him up.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Well, he was a Democrat, and.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
That's right, and so they didn't want to hear about
him because if you got as I say, look, he
created social security. That's Medicare is is modeled on social Security.
The money that you contribute to social Security is not
just a piece of paper, it's a T bond. And
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that's why these people on Wall Street I call them
the criminals of Raw Street. The investment bankers, the equity funds,
the hedge funders, they all want that money and they
can't get it as long as it's in T bonds.
So they're going to convince us all so you're not
going to get anything, So you'll get you'll you'll give
(13:31):
up everything to get something right. And so I'm just
suggesting that people review the history of FDR because it
goes on.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
For pages as well.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
It should and that's why he would and it should,
and that's why he was elected as long as he lived,
and it wasn't the wealthy that elected him.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
He was the last president to serve. After he was
elected four times, he just didn't serve, that's right.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
The fourth term, No, I think he worked himself to death.
To tell you the truth, he was working on the
UN when he died. He was in Warren Springs, Georgia,
and at that time he was down there for his
polio treatment and he was sitting working on the United Nations,
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the only institution that we have to end all wars.
And that was occurring at the end of the Second
World War, when we could have beat our chest and
said anybody else, and instead he was working on an
institution hoping to end all war, not to make more war.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
That was way off base. That was April twelfth, nineteen
forty five. And the reason I know that speaking of
the Cast and Young is because on that date the
Cast and Young was hit by a Japanese kamakazi and
one of the sailors was killed. On that date, the
day that Roosevelt died.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
Wow, that's interesting. And boy, I tell you, if you
go and look at the film of his case on
coming back from Warren Springs, Georgia, it's so moving because
there are people black and white crying on the tracks
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all the way.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Well, as I said, he was elected four times, did
not finish out his fourth term. And let's let's pick
a number, let's say, thirteen years, thirteen plus years. Under
his watch, he had a depression and a World war
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that is enough.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
To gray any film.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
And the fact that ye, he survived both the depression
and within a couple of weeks the end.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Of World War two, and and he suffered from polio.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
And he suffered from polio. That lot on his plate,
a lot on his plate.
Speaker 5 (16:24):
Well at Hyde Park, you see his wife. People asked
why his FDR so different from the way he appeared
when he went to Harvard with people that were classmates.
They said didn't recognize him, not physically, but because of
his behavior and his wife. His wife and a guy
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named Rexford Tugwell who was in his cabinet, his first cabinet,
they both thought that the reason that he had changed
so much was because of the polio and when because
they didn't know what it was when it first hit,
and for years they didn't know. And he was urged
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to get exercise with when his legs didn't work. So
he used to be in uh in bed and hide
Hyde Park and get on his crutches and go all
the way down the road, just their road, to that
house and back on his crutches.
Speaker 6 (17:34):
When work.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
And he was an avid swimmer.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
That's right, he was.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
He was constantly and obviously his legs didn't function as
they should have, but his upper body strains.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Well.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
Yeah, he became quite quite other.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Than the average because he had to do most of
the work of swimming with his arms.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
If I might, I'll just add one more thing that's
I think is amazing. Ok Uh, there's a converse. Yeah,
there's a conversation. I think it might have been Tugwell
who brought this up. He wrote a wrote a very
good book on Roosevelt called The Democratic.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Wrote that.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
Democratic Roosevelt as opposed to his cousin Teddy. And he
said that at one time, while he was meeting with
Roosevelt in the Oval office, Franklin had shown him how
he used to get a book from the bookshelf across
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across the room, and he got down off his chair
and crawled to the bookshelf and put the book in
his teeth and crawled back.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Necessity is the mother of invention, as the old saying goes,
you find a way, but.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
He humiliates a man. And you see, so his wife
and tug Will both said they thought that Polio had
changed him. Yes, well, thank you very much for allowing
me that. Because I didn't know much about Roosevelt, I
had to I read several books on him many and
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because I was so amazed we ever had a president
like this, I couldn't It's hard to fathom because, in
my opinion, there are very few presidents that have more
than one or two things to recall about them. And
we are still living with Social Security, which is one
of the two best programs in this country. The other
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one is Medicare, and Medicare is being destroyed by Medicare
advantage because every Medicare advantage program must be subsidized by
real Medicare and your private insurers. If you get into
those programs or you're one of the members, you may
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get silver sneakers, but you won't get your basic services
because you have to go through a primary party to
get approval for your and that always takes months. It
takes weeks and months to get that approval, and then
you have to sign up with whoever it is in
the group that allows you that service, and that will
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take you weeks or months.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
And so.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
This is working the wrong way because now Medicare advantage
because of their advertising and because they use the word
medicare in their name. They shouldn't be they shouldn't have
been allowed to do that.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
But I've got news.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Thank you, Thank you for your call.
Speaker 5 (20:57):
Excellent program, Thank you, goodbye.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
All right, if you want to call in, maybe not
take as much time as Jeff did just then ten thirty.
Well he started on topic.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Yeah he didn't. He didn't quite get there.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Eight eight, nine to nine, ten thirty. We're talking about
the National park system. Now I could switch to baseball
right now is the reason I'll switch to baseball because
of tomorrow. But I'm not going to switch to baseball.
Damn the torpedoes full speed over there you go. So
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I'm about to take my break. This time it will
it will not be adjacent to ABC News. We did
all that earlier in the eighth hour and the nine
hour and then the ten hour. Right now at eleven thirty,
I'm just going to say time here on night Side again.
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Eleven thirty, temperature nineteen.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Degrees, It's night Side with Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
You know what, Dixie, this is the first time I've
had you on talking about National parks where someone didn't
call in and say they're planning a trip in a day,
a week, a month or so, and can well give
them details on this National park.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Well, we have a half an hour left. Let's see
what happens. But first of all, let me say hello
to Jennie and Lawrence and Susan in Brookline.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
You're on your computer talking to these people while you're
on the air with me, aren't you.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
No, I'm looking at the National Park Service thing here online, Okay,
so that I don't forget to say a couple of
things I wanted to say, and that is at the
National Park Service. We have discussed how there are four
one hundred and thirty three parks, but they take up
eighty five million acres of land, which if you squished
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it all into one place to be a state, it
would be the fifth largest state after Alaska, Montana, California,
and Texas. It would be number.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Five, bigger than Texas.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Yes, no, less than Texas because the next the next
state is New Mexico, and the National Park Service is
a few million acres larger than New Mexico, so it
would be number five.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Now, speaking of New Mexico, I heard this today, Donald
Trump wants to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf
of America. Yes, and I forget the woman who was
President of Mexico said, then what we should do is
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rename those places that were hours to begin with back
in the eighteen hundreds, and that would include New Mexico, Texas, Arizona,
and call them whatever names those territories had back then. Now,
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I think this is politicians licking their finger, holding it
up in the air to see which way the wind blows.
But I doubt any of that is going to happen.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Well I doubted too, But let me give you a prediction. Okay,
prediction I get fifty bucks that says, if you're correct
about El Trumpo wanting to rename Denali as mout McKinley,
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that is not what's really behind this. What's really behind
this is for him to find some political hack senator
or maybe his new Secretary of the Interior to say,
why don't we name this mountain after El Trumpo? It's
the biggest in North America. Why wouldn't we name it
El Trumpo.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
I don't think he is that egotistical.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
You're wrong. You are wrong, Morgan. I'm sorry, but you're
wrong on this part.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
I don't think he would name a mountain after himself.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
No, he'll get someone else to do it and say, oh, yeah,
it's about time we did that.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Nancy has tapping me on my hand with a look
of disbelief that I let these words come out of
my mouth.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
And she is correct also.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Because she reminded me he wanted his face added to
Mount Rushmore.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
That's correct. So just remember everything that happens. And by
the way, by the way, I am going to give
out a grand round of applause that at the Mercenary
Minor League football season has now ended and we can
go on with our lives.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Oh you meaning are the fact that Notre Dame lost tonight.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Ah, well, that's too bad, what a shame.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
All I heard was scoring updates and it sounds like
they acquitted themselves as well as they could.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Well they were. They were being beaten senseless for a
first three quarters, so.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
So uh, Oklahoma let their foot off the accelerator in
the last quarter.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Well, my my, my distaste for Ohio State is only
beaten by my distaste for Notre Dame. So I don't care.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
What about your distaste for the New York Yankees.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Oh that goes without saying.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
Yeah, but which is number one in Dixie?
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Distaste the Yankees for sure. The New York frauds. You
got the name wrong, New York Frauds.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
As you can tell people, we have no calls. So
if you want to end this silliness. Well, he didn't
call about medicare I think.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
He might have the question. The question I wanted to
ask him was has he ever had the opportunity to
visit Hyde Park in New York and visit the Roosevelt House.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Well, he was from Michigan, so flip a coin on
that one.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
And also the Eleanor Roosevelt House, which is down the
road a piece from the Franklin or Roosevelt family house.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
They have a separate house for respect paid to Eleanor
versus respect paid to Franklin.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Yeah, well that the Hyde Park the family residence is
the is the Hyde Park one that the Roosevelt family
was along with Eleanor. But she later had her own
house down the road for various relationship purposes and for
recreation purposes as a pool and everything. And I was
(28:14):
actually at the opening of it back in the eighties. Okay,
it's very nice very small, but it is another house
in that area that you can visit as part of
the National Park Service.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Where do you see the National Park Service going? I'm
not looking at the next four years. I'm going to
say all inclusive, at least a decade from now, what
can we expect?
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Morgan, that's like asking me how the Red Sox are
going to do. I don't know who's on the team.
I don't know what the budget's going to be. I
don't know who's who they're going to get, who they're
going to lose. It's impossible to tell what's going to happen.
All I know is we cannot allow the continuing demise
(29:05):
of the properties which we are now allowing.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
He was mentioning he the previous call was mentioning all
the things that were done. You know CCC related there
in Michigan, as far as the Roosevelt National Park and
your point that you've heard of that you knew all
(29:30):
about that, and there again it's proven that disrepair has
the need of being addressed across the National park system.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
Well, we're still walking on bridges that the CCC created,
and you can't do that after fifty sixty years. You
just you have to replace them, especially with the crowds,
the use that they get by the two hundred and
seventy five to three hundred and ten million people that
visit these parks every year, they get worn out.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
And once again, I'm going to have you repeat something
I made you tell me last hour. Tell me these
three things again that people can do everyday. Citizens. Right
now I'm being heard in thirty eight states and parts
of Canada. Let's just stay with the thirty eight states.
Canada worry about their own national.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
They have a wonderful national park system of their own,
so yes, they should tend to it.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Is there national park system better run than hours in Canada?
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Well, I don't know that for sure, but I know
that they have fewer parks, so it is a little
bit easier to handle fewer parts.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Okay, well we've got four hundred and twenty four hundred
and thirty three. Yes, what can Joe and Jane citizen?
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Do?
Speaker 2 (31:04):
You gave us an answer? And what the same three
examples for anybody who didn't hear what you said last hour?
Repeat that now please.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Well, you can keep on visiting the parks that you
like or the parks that you're near try every once
in a while ago to a park that's not near you.
You can volunteer to help out the park in some way,
and you can join organizations like the National Parks and Foundation,
the National Parks and Conservation Association because they are they
(31:39):
back up the parks as best they can. And you
can also donate money to them and in turn, they
help parks out.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
And a donation can be a couple of bucks. Yeah,
it doesn't have to be one hundred dollars bill in
an ovelo. It can be a couple of bucks because
all donations will add up.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
And when you when you go to any national park,
there is usually some kind of fee box, not a
feed box. Well, some parts have fees, most of them don't,
so there are donation boxes and you just drop a
dollar or five dollars in and that's fine.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Okay. I'm going to take a break on this point.
If somebody wants to call in with the last ten
minutes of show, you can, or just keep listening. Dixie
and I will try to be entertaining for the end
of this Monday version of night Side time and temperature
(32:45):
eleven nineteen degrees.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
Now back to Dan Ray Live from the Window World
Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Dixie, guess what we got a call? Yes we do,
and it's a person you've spoken to before. David and
San Francisco, welcome to night Side.
Speaker 6 (33:12):
Hello Morgan, Hello Dixie, Hello Nancy, Hello Gray, Elo, Toni
in Ohio and Glenn and Brighton and Martin's Exchange's birthday
to everybody, it's same to you. And my question is
this is to Morgan and Dixie. Why do they call
(33:35):
the twenty one gun salute?
Speaker 2 (33:38):
You know, Dixie? Do you know?
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Not off hand?
Speaker 2 (33:43):
No? I do?
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Good God, this is the kind of thing that you
would know.
Speaker 6 (33:49):
Yeah, Morgan would know. Okay, Morgan, what is it?
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Because seventeen seventy six the Elaga Jacky of the birth
of the United States dates. Add those numbers together, one
plus seven plus seven plus six equals twenty one. I
don't know why it's it's three volleys of seven. I
(34:17):
don't know.
Speaker 6 (34:17):
Yeah, well, it's a patriotic gesture.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Okay, is what it is.
Speaker 6 (34:22):
And more you're so good.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Well, and Charlie Brown's father was a barber, because Schultz's
father was a barber. Yeah, that was the last question there.
Speaker 6 (34:36):
Yeah, and one more just on why Luther Kange's birthdays.
He was actually born of Michael King Jr.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
I know that, yes, you know that.
Speaker 6 (34:48):
And why how do you get the name Martin Luther?
Speaker 2 (34:53):
I know his father decided to not that change.
Speaker 3 (34:58):
But what was it?
Speaker 6 (35:00):
Well, when Martin, when junior was a child, his father
went to Germany to actually enhance because he was a
pastor too, and he went there to actually enhance his
abilities as a pastor, and he ran into the teachings
and uh and uh of readings of Martin Luther and
(35:21):
was very enhanced and decided to take his name. Okay,
to change his name because Martin Luther was a radical,
actually yes he was. Yeah, Actually the pope was going
to have him summoned to Rome and to burn at
the stake is a heretic, but you know.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
If you know, that's why the pope wants to see
you don't go.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (35:47):
Well, Luther was actually excommunicated and because he reallysed it
up against what was called indulgences, which where you had
to pay for your sins. I was making all the
priests and the bishop's rich, and he didn't like that.
So that's what happened.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
But it is topical because today we celebrated Martin Luther
King's birthday. Now, do you want to talk about national
parks on any level?
Speaker 6 (36:21):
No, I had my question for you about seventeen seventy six.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
That was.
Speaker 6 (36:28):
I thought Pixie might know because they do do to
anyone gun salutes off of ships and stuff, and he
might have known that. So thank you, Morrian.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Well, that's kind of what I've built my career upon,
stupid facts.
Speaker 6 (36:46):
Yeah, you are the ringtail Rounder.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 6 (36:51):
Where does that line come from?
Speaker 3 (36:53):
Then?
Speaker 2 (36:53):
I don't know where'd that line come from?
Speaker 6 (36:56):
House of Games?
Speaker 3 (36:58):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (36:58):
Yes, remember that one we talked about that movie.
Speaker 6 (37:03):
Mike, you are the ringtail router. There you go, the
hesitated maunt of line. Okay, well, thanks for taking my call, buddy.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
And uh please please, there may have another. That's what
he said. Was that was why he said that, just
to be a smart ass to the end.
Speaker 6 (37:23):
No, he was in the Marines, remember.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
I remember that. But somebody has just shot you and
out of your last dying breath, do you give a
smart bet answer like police? There may have another?
Speaker 6 (37:39):
Yeah, that that's a line that you give when you're
in the Marines, after you have you Uh, you are
either shot or you have to do too many push ups? Please, sir,
may I have another?
Speaker 2 (37:51):
Then? I didn't know? Well, thank you.
Speaker 6 (37:53):
Yes, remember Mike was in the Marines.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
Yes, his character was anyway.
Speaker 6 (37:58):
Well the character you remember he had when he was
at the union, uh, the telegraph station. He ran into
the William Macy character and he said, here, take my money,
you must take my money.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
Yeah, and he did that just to show Louise Fletcher's
character that he was a car artist and he could
get this guy to give him money.
Speaker 6 (38:21):
Yes, he was showing off to uh, to bargain.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
Yeah, there you go, very.
Speaker 6 (38:26):
Good, right, very good? All right, David, take care okay, Saturday, okay, buddy,
you do that.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
Okay, And Dixie, we have no callers left, so let's
kill four minutes. Shall we go?
Speaker 3 (38:43):
Right ahead? What do you got?
Speaker 2 (38:46):
Well again, you never really answered. You answered by saying,
you don't know what. Ten years down the road the
national parks would look like. I'm gonna pick one. Now
to the park Yellowstone.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
Okay, you must have the King of the Mountain, the King.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
Of the Mountain. You must have an opinion about Yellowstone
and what the government will do for it, or is
the super duper volcano going to happen within the next decade.
I'm probably They say it could happen within the next
five to ten years, or it could be one hundred.
Speaker 3 (39:28):
Years, but more like a thousand years.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
And it's coming, it's coming.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
Well, I don't know if they're that sure that it's coming.
We're not going to be around what it does, true,
because it does, we won't be around anyway.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
I plan on being in Vegas. That might be a
bit too close, yes, a bit a bit. Now, do
you have a website with people who can communicate with you?
Speaker 3 (40:03):
Just my personal one? I don't think I give that out,
all right, I.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
Didn't know if you wanted to give it out. Nope, no,
all right, We'll fine.
Speaker 3 (40:13):
They can they could, They could contact you somehow and
you could give it out.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
No no, no, no, no no no no. And that
reminds me just to do my own personal plug. People,
you want to come see me do trivia not tomorrow
but any other Tuesday, two sixty nine Washington Street, the
Midway Restaurant. I'm there from six to seven point thirty.
(40:40):
And I want to thank Dan for filling in for
Rob for tonight. Hooray for Dan Jacob, whycoth Gary King
and you, sir, and I see Christian the cape is
called back, but not enough time to take him. And
(41:00):
he already came on once tonight, So Dan, you can
tell him he won't make it tonight. We apologize. I
want to thank Nanty, Nancy and Gray sitting next to
me and the listeners.
Speaker 3 (41:15):
And remember, if someone doesn't call in tomorrow, I'm available
to talk Baseball Hall of Fame inductees.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
A subjected, A subjected, possible subject if if one of
my other guests don't show. I don't think that's going
to happen.
Speaker 3 (41:37):
Yes, but in the past it has oh done.
Speaker 2 (41:41):
I've I've had guests not show up where they were confirmed.
But what are you going to do? But as I
was about to say, for all the people who listen
tonight and as well called in, thank you. We do
radio for you, and I appreciate your participation. And that's
basically about it. So it's time for these two words
(42:01):
that I use is my personal salutation by Boston
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