January 31, 2025 • 40 mins
We made it! It’s finally the end of January, the longest, darkest month of the year that feels like an eternity! With that being said, what’s the best thing about January being over? Is it that we’re one step closer to warm weather? Maybe you participated in “dry January” and now you get to have a drink…whatever it is, Dan had listeners tell us what the best part about January being over is for them!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's night Side, Dan Ray, Undonian Mazy, Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
All right, we have reached the end of a full
week here on Nightside. We have been together five nights
this week. And for those of you who are keeping score,
and I don't think probably too many of you are
keeping score, this is my three thousandth nine hundred and
ninety ninth show on Nightside. We started in two thousand
(00:27):
and seven. We officially named the show of Nightside on
October first, two thousand and seven. That was a Monday.
We had done some shows during that previous summer of
two thousand and seven, but it was not titled Nightside.
But counting those shows, we will hit show number four
thousand next week. That's a lot of shows, eighteen plus,
(00:50):
well seventeen plus years. We do about two hundred and
twenty five shows a year. Anyway, Having said all of that,
I want to thank you all of you who have
been so loyal to this program over such a long
period of time. Let me if I can just quickly
recap this week. We started off on Monday talking about
(01:11):
that earthquake up off the coast of Maine with Professor
John Ebel of Boston College. The Western Observatory. We talked
about simplifying your home. I guess making it more livable. Monday,
during the eight o'clock hour, we had a little bit
of a weather forecast because we had a snow coming
(01:35):
in the next day. Didn't quite mount to too much.
Then we talked with Debbie Colton about Holocaust Remembrance Day.
We talked with State Senator Julian Seer of the Cape
and the Islands about a banning cell phone usage in schools,
which I think is a good idea. We talked about
(01:55):
the Columbian president caving to Donald Trump over the acceptance
of Colombian migrants who are in this country illegally, and
also talked about the Trump administration needs for transparency to
let people see what's going on, simple as that over
the weekend. I didn't think they were particularly transparent last
weekend about the initial raids. They seem to be getting
(02:19):
a little bit better, but they need to get even better.
The next night, we talked about some programs at Arts
Emerson with Susan Chinsen. Talked with Matty McCarthy about a
Valentine's Day roundup lots of different restaurants for next Friday, night,
if you're interested. Brenda Siri talked with her about the
frustration of people having college degrees but no jobs available,
(02:41):
and to talk with Chris Price as of the Boston
Well sort of a Super Bowl preview. May White mayor
wo excuse me, that's the last mayor with a W.
Kevin White Mayor WU has been called to testify about
sanctuary cities and cooperation with federal government in Washington. We
talked about that on Tuesday night. We also gave President
(03:07):
Trump a lot of credit for the executive order which
will open up the assassination files dealing with President Kennedy,
Senator Robert Kennedy, and the Reverend doctor Martin Luther King.
We need to know exactly what happened there. Then we
talked with a character whose name is Phyllis Watt Wheatley
about the Freedom Trail the African American Patriots Tour, which
(03:29):
are now available. Talk with Deborah Graham about the psychic connection,
Lee Holden about Chi gong a way to relieve stress
and it actually does work. Talked about the future of robotics,
talked spent an hour with Professor John Ebel of Boston College.
Because we not only had the earthquake on Monday, but
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we had an aftershock on Wednesday, and then we spent
a couple of hours talking about the Robert F. Kennedy
at hearing, and that was interrupted sadly by that DC
plane crash. And of course last night we talked about
the DC plane crash and its impact as we found
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out on people from the New England area. Early in
the show last night, we talked about the best cars
of twenty twenty five with John Vincent of US World
and News Reports. We will hope to have him back
and take some calls from you. Talk with Caleb Thome
about LEGO sixty seventh birthday. Talked with a writer from
USA Today, Kathleen Long, about Americans tens of thousands of
(04:35):
Americans retiring around the world. I was stunned by. I
talked with William Forschen about EMT attacks electromagnetic pulses. We
also talked last night with Don Grant, who's a mental
health expert. By the way, the interview with Professor at
the nine o'clock interview on Wednesday night with Professor John
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Ebel of Boston College and Western Observatory will be replayed
as the best of nightside this coming Sunday night, so
I hope you get a chance to listen to that
on Sunday night. We always take one hour during the
week and play it in the following Sunday night. And
then last night we talked about keeping your New Year's
goals with a vain artery specialist, doctor Bob Anderson, talked
(05:24):
with Joel jeff Zeff about National Have Fun at Work Today,
which was kind of interesting, talk with an attorney Dawn
Fountain about Amazon now being responsible for products that they
send that are not that cause damage, and talk with
doctor Jennifer Curtis about a new school opening in Weymouth
(05:47):
for children who are dyslexic. The nine o'clock hour talk
with Gayla Crowley, Boston Herald reporter about the White Stadium controversy,
and also longtime activist City Boston activist Lewis As joined us.
And then last hour we talked with the couple's therapist,
Carolyn Sharp. Now I mentioned this those of you who
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do not normally hear us, I mention it by telling
you that we cover lots of stuff. We really do
cover lots of stuff, and if you miss it, you
can always listen to an hour. You missed a night'side
into Vietnam. Here's what I want to do tonight, my
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least favorite month of the year, has about forty five
minutes left. This is Friday Night. We always do twenty thousand.
We try to pick a subject that everybody can participate in.
Everybody gets what we call a hall pass, meaning even
if you're called earlier this week, you can call them
this hour and express yourself. The question tonight is I
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am thrilled whenever January ends. I look at the calendar
as what's six months from tonight? Six months from Dynay's
July twenty is July thirty first. And I don't like
when we're partially through the summer, because half the summer's gone.
But I do like when we're halfway through the winter.
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I don't like the month of January. I will give
you my reasons for it, but I am happy. January
is about to slide off and on into oblivion, and
we will be in February in about an hour. I
want to hear from you. Are you happy? I'm particularly happy.
There's no month that I like to see off the
calendar more than January. I'll give you some of my reasons,
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but I want to hear yours. If you love January,
I mean, if you are somebody who goes skiing every
day in January here in New England. You can tell
me that I'm an idiot. That's fine, no problem, okay,
But I am thrilled that January is gone. I'll give
you some reasons I want to hear from you. Do
you agree with me that this is a happy night
because tomorrow will be February and we are another month
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closer to spring and summer. Uh and February has lots
of good stuff in it and January has very little
good stuff in it. I will explain I hope to
hear from you. Join the conversation. You can call now
even before you hear what my reasons are, which is
even better. Six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty
six one seven, nine, three one ten thirty triple eight
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nine to nine, ten thirty. Coming right back on the nightside.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Now, back to Dan ray Line from the Window World
night Side Studios on w WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
All right, so I can give you a thousand reasons
why I do not like January. You probably can give
me reasons why you don't like it as well, and
if you can six one, seven, two, five, four to
ten thirty six one seven, nine, three one ten thirty.
I'm gonna start it off with Laurie in Idaho, one
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of my favorite callers. I've never met Laurie, but someday
we'll have a chance to meet, maybe in Idaho, maybe here.
Who knows, Laurie, welcome back to night, said, how are you?
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (09:05):
I'm I'm with you. I'm so done, like bye bye January.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Yeah, yeah, what is it about January that that troubles you?
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Winter? And this especially this winter it's been we just
had basically we've had so little sun since October. It's
just overtask and wet rain and it's what it's cold
rain or whatever. But in general, so we really do
have more daylight technically in January when the sun comes
out than December. But you think about it, December is
(09:34):
kind of bookmarked or book ended by holidays. You get
the holidays before the holidays, during the holidays.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Oh yeah, I like this Thanksgiving in January, Thanksgiving Christmas. No.
I mean, first of all, look, I know that there's
MLK Day in January, which kind of breaks the month
up a little bit. But other than that, what does
January have to offer? I know they offer football playoffs,
but we know it's a always going to be the
(10:00):
Kansas City Chiefs in the super Bowl. I mean that's what. Well,
it was the Patriots, now it's the chief You know,
that might be part of my problem.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Patriots.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
The Patriots are done there, they're they're done. So there's
no football, there's no baseball. Uh, the the Celtics have
been in the swoon and the Bruins are have really
not together. They they haven't put much together yet and
they're in.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
Yeah, they.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Might miss the playoffs. I'm telling you right now, they
might miss the playoffs. Yeah, which would be which would
be stunning as far as inatruction. But then you look
at feal. What else does January have? Long days, cold, nothing,
that's it nothing. You know, after New Year's it's all over,
and and New Year's Eve is over before January starts.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Think a true and I don't like the ski so
that there there's no carrot for me there and I.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
And the besides bills in January, they're no, they're no
more Christmas cards, that's over, no notes or anything. The only
thing you get in the mail. Are your regular bills?
You know you have no money left, so they want
you to buy stuff January sales if I get about it,
or or you get stuff that you have to put
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in your file in prepping for taxes, you get.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
All that stuff to step it.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Oh my god, you got to keep this file and
you got to you gotta. If you lose something, God
forbid February. You've got Groundhog's Day is going to be
on Sunday? Wow? Right, isn't in February? Second Valentine's Day,
there's always hope in Valentine's Spring training baseball in Florida.
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The truck leaves from Fenway Park. Ye, Lincoln's birthday, George
Washington's birthday are too, arguably greatest presence my birthday born
in February, and I think Ronald Reagan was born in February.
And your birthday when is your birthday?
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Nineteenth?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Nineteenth?
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Wow, we'll all Washington.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Yeah, we'll have to sing Laurie Happy birthday.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
That's okay. But yeah, this is going and it just
it gets it's it's getting towards spring, and it's just January,
and of course January has to be thirty one days. Yeah,
it'll be the thirty you know.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Right, No, I hear you, I totally hear you. So
those those are my reasons. And uh, and there's probably
a few more. The other thing too, in all honesty
is I kind of feel like winter's half over now.
I mean I know that in New England it doesn't
get great until May. I get it. I get it.
So we still got to go through February, March, and April.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
I know we'll get black somewhere along the line.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Right right, But but we've we've gone through October, November,
December and January. So we got four of the big,
you know, big months out of the way. February will
go by quickly, March will be there. We got Saint
Patrick's Day? Who does and love Saint Patrick's Day? And
then yes, absolutely, you got January is really getting the
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short shrift here, that's all they try.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
It doesn't make me want to be there any less,
just because I feel sorry for it.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Only if you graduated from Ohio State or Notre Dame,
did you really care about who won that football game
the national Championship? There was nothing to that. It was.
It was not like the sweets, you know, the March madness.
March madness gets people.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
I've well, I've always rooted for Nerding no matter what,
I was really hoping for them. But now March madness
is just they made such a big thing of it.
It's so much fun now.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Yeah, oh absolutely, absolutely Well, Laurie, thank you very much.
You got us go in here, and hopefully we'll hear
from some other people. I think I think that this
is an argument that there really isn't much of an
argument in favorite January.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
I mean no, it's more just a chance to chance
to rant a little bit.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
And well, they used to have correct me if I'm wrong,
but didn't they used to have long time ago in January.
White sales.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Remember those were you could get like sheets and pillowcases all.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Can you imagine them having a white sale now? I
mean they would be so inappropriate.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Even Black Friday. Nobody has a color left in them.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
That's exactly it, you know. So anyway, Laurie, you are
the best, You were the best. I wish you a
very happy month of February and we will talk many times.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Okay, thank you you as well. Thank you for letting
me get it off my chest.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Thanks for getting it going. Okay, thank you all right.
I want to hear from some more of you. Six one, seven, two, five,
four tenth. Now everybody says to me, well, you only
do brushes with celebrity. You don't do Look, we do
like grinds your gears, we do that. I try to
come up with some things that are different. Okay, that's today.
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It struck me. I said, it's January thirty first, it's
the month. It's almost over. It's we've done nineteen shows
here in January, and I had how many days did
I have off? I had a bunch of days off
this month. I mean I would have done it. I
would have had to have done like twenty three or
twenty four shows this month. So feel free. You got
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the number six one, seven, two, five, four, ten, thirty
six one seven, nine three one ten thirty. I'm loving
the fact that January will be in our view rearview
mirror in about thirty five minutes. Let me see what
Christine and Dedam says. Christine, welcome, How are you.
Speaker 7 (15:40):
I'm good, how are you?
Speaker 2 (15:42):
I'm feeling it, very happy that February is upon us.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Me too, me too.
Speaker 8 (15:49):
I don't like January because it's a Christmas. It's such
a letdown and it's so cold you can't walk outside.
But I love go to is see what the groundhop
says in February.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Allan, but by the way, you know the groundhog's not legitimate, right,
I don't even think that's a real groundhog. No, Well,
they always think bring about the poor thing, and it
doesn't make sense. They'll say, if he sees his shadow,
that means winter's over. If he doesn't see his shadow
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and it's sunny, then we're gonna have six more weeks
of winteret That doesn't make any to me. I've never
figured out.
Speaker 7 (16:33):
I know that's true. This was the last chaf for
the groundhops.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
What what is the best part about February? What do
you like about February.
Speaker 7 (16:42):
I like that you it'll it'll start warming up in
red soft team will becoming spring training, Valentine coming and
then not pay cackers and then Easter. I love like
the spring Easter.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
I love that it's everything flower.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Yeah, it's like we have gone we have gone through
the worst of it. I mean, it's winter's not over,
but we've been pretty lucky with a big snorm storm.
Some I read I listened to the one of the
weather people today said that we actually have had more snow.
I don't believe this, by the way, but they said
we've had more snow this winter than the last two winters.
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I guess we didn't get any snow the last two winters.
Speaker 7 (17:24):
January, you gain your game your game weight because you
can't get out and walk out. It's terrible.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Yes, that's a that's another thing. Yeah, or or you
have to. I don't go to a gym and pay money.
Once April comes, you get out and and and walk however,
however far you're able, however you want, that's for sure. Well, Christine,
so far as you it's you, me and Laurie against January.
And I like it. I like those odds.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Me too, me.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
So hey, have a great rest of January. It'll be
over in thirty three minutes and we'll be we'll be
halfway this summer, simple as that, right.
Speaker 6 (18:03):
Day.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Well you allright, I'll see you next week.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
I'll be back next week. I gotta take a couple
of days on personal business. Thanks Christine, doctor you soon.
Thanks good night. Florence is in Groveland, Hi, Florence.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
How are you tonight, Oh?
Speaker 6 (18:18):
Great, Hi, Dan. Then I find that January it's always
very boring, really, and I look forward to February because
all three of us, myself and my two children were
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all February birthdays. Really, yes, we have nine. My daughter
me the sixteenth, and my son is the twenty eighth.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (18:54):
And then my son always remembers me on Valentine Day
as well, with a card and little gift, and he's
been doing that for years.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Okay, that's great, that's great, you know, and he shall
always be his Valentines.
Speaker 6 (19:14):
Absolutely, And so February and extrastential because all three of
us being in the same month, you know.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Yeah, well, I'll tell you. So that's a pretty good trifecta. Okay,
But I got even another trifector for you. In my opinion,
three great presidents, arguably close to the three greatest presidents,
George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Ronald Reagan February all February.
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Reagan was on February sixth, Lincoln February twelfth, and Washington
was February twenty second. So I just think, and there's
probably a couple of more presidents there when you think
about it. I mean, we've only had you know, forty
seven presidents, but really we've only had forty five because
(20:08):
you've got to count. I mean, you know, Trump is
forty five and forty seven, and then you had Grover Cleveland,
who is counted twice. So we've only had forty five presidents.
And there's only you know, thirty days. In most months,
thirty days has September, April, June, and November all the
rest of thirty one except February. We know that from
our grade school. But to have Reagan, Lincoln and Washington
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and Florence and two of her children in February, that's
a pretty special month. Florence.
Speaker 6 (20:37):
Yeah, so I look forward to it.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
You're in good company. You're in very good company. Florence.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you for calling in.
And I'm gonna I forgot to tell everybody tonight Happy
New Year, because I have a rule that as long
as it's January, I can still say Happy New Year.
Once it's February, the happy New Year greeting goes away
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for another year. So let me be the last to
wish you happy New Year, okay.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
And happy New Year to you and your family, great.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Thanks Florence, we'll talk soon. Okay, thank you much, good night. Okay,
so so far we have unanimity. Laurie, Christine and Florence
agree with me that January is a horrible month. I mean,
it just is no fun. It's a no fun month. Oh,
it's the month when you stop drinking, It's the month
when you stop eating stuff you like. I mean, it's
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New Year's resolutions are good, don't get me wrong. But
still it calls for sacrifice and denial. So I want
to hear from you if if you really see some
value to January. Okay, I mean, it's it's fun. It's
fun when you say, wow, it's a new year, twenty
twenty five. But that that kind of weirs off pretty
quickly when you think about it. Okay, Now we have
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another plane crash tonight. This one in Philadelphia. Doesn't sound good.
It's smaller, but certainly it was I guess it was
a medical flight on its way to Springfield, Missouri. Here's
the CBS News special report on the question.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Now you're on Night Side with Dan Ray on w BEAZ,
Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
All Right, we're talking about the end of January. I
am very happy that January is over. Love to know
what you think. We are taking phone calls. Let us
go next to Gary and Woolburn. I don't have no
idea what Gary's going to say, but it's going to
be interesting. Gary, you happy January is over?
Speaker 3 (22:30):
And no, no, it's not going to be interesting at all. Dan, January,
February and March is absolutely miserable. I hate everything about it.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
So you don't like So how do you? How do
you like January?
Speaker 4 (22:46):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Even when I was a kid, I didn't like winter,
even though I went out to boggaining and ice hockey
and so forth. But it's just miserable. It's cold, and
at sixty one years of age, it's just just brings
you down. I'm talking to you from a McDonald's in
Woven right now because as you got off the road,
(23:07):
because I was working and uh claiming offices and uh
for the past hour. I'm just drinking my diet coke
and about to go home and I'm enjoying myself. A
couple of things I want to bring to your attention
out there before I leave is I went to the
store today again. I had no idea. I have a
bad habit of eating a certain breakfast of breakfast sausage
and home fried potatoes where I live again. I didn't
(23:30):
know a dozen eggs and six dollars.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Yeah, where it was the last time you bought eggs? Uh?
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Months and months and months. H. I go to a
buddy's house and I eat breakfast there and uh, and
he serves eggs and so forth. But I had no idea.
I'm very oblivious and stupid to this. I mean, can
you explain what's going on? I know there's a bird flu.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Right, Well, there's the bird flu, there's there's there's there's
some complications there. Obviously, prices have gone up. Even before
bird flew, prices were getting expensive, and it's got to
work its way through the system. I guess it's you know,
there are people who just rely upon eggs, and I
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eat eggs like everybody else. But guess what, when they
become too expensive, I can pass on them. You know,
I don't look at them as something that is critical
to my to my existence. I mean some people from
for me, it's I I every morning I eat my
packet of Awaken one eighty cocoa cereal. That's you know
(24:40):
that ever goes out, I'm gonna be in big trouble.
But others are different. People are different. Gary, you got
to learn. I guess to say, hey, okay, maybe take
a break from eggs.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
And by the way, you had a show I believe
it was last night. You had two different guests. I
forget what it was about. My mind's a plank because
I'm getting so old. If you can remind me, because
it was one of the best. Oh, you had an hour.
I gotta tell you again. You know I hate political talk, right,
you had an hour on OH with the woman from
the USA Today newspaper, and it was so outstanding. Every
(25:20):
time you never talk about politics, you talk about other issues.
Your show is number one because everybody doesn't have guests,
Like is it your production team that picks up all
these guests for you?
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Well, I'm very happy to hear that. We also had
a great guest last night, a mental health expert from
Los Angeles, doctor Don Grant. We had a couple of
good guests tonight. We talked about the Yeah, we try
to we try to have different topics. Gary's that's we
don't do the same show every night. It takes a
lot of work to put a show like this together.
And by the way, we do our four thousand night
(25:55):
side show next week. Tonight is three thy nine ninety nine.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Well, Dan, this is why you're number one in the radio.
And I'm glad you take days off because after all,
you're like atting any younger and so forth is.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Just find me someone who's getting younger. Gary, if they
found the fountain of youth, that would be great. Gary.
I gotta keep rolling here, enjoy your pepsi, and get
home safely if they. I know it's rained a lot tonight,
but I think the temperature is going to drop, so
make sure you get home before the roads the roads freeze. Okay, thanks,
thanks a mat, I appreciate it. Thank you much. David
(26:30):
in San Francisco. David, do you like January? And if so,
why so?
Speaker 5 (26:37):
January is very boring. I guess it's because of the
excitement of the holidays and everything, and there's really nothing
going on. It's easily cold and dark. But anyhow, I
really like February though, because it's, first of all, it's
President's months. Yeah, and it's also Black History months.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
We got Black History, you got President's Month, you got
Valentine's day, you got Groundhog Day, you got the Super Bowl. Yep,
you got a lot.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
Well, a president, let me ask you a well trivia
shout out to your audience. Two great men were born
on the very same day, February twelfth, eighteen oh line?
Do you usually are?
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Well? I know that Lincoln was born on February twelfth.
In the other one, I don't know who. Who would
that be?
Speaker 5 (27:31):
Charles Darwin?
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Okay, that's that's that's a great piece of trivia.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
I think you're both born on the very same day,
February twelfth. Line.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Yep. Well, everybody, when you think about it, you can
look up in your horoscope and you can find people
who were born on your exact day. I don't know
when I looked up to find out someone who was
born not only in my birthday, but on my birth year.
There was a children singer who was born in Alexandria, Egypt,
(28:02):
who became very famous in the nineties. He used to
do concerts, children's concerts. His name was Raffie r Affi,
and I met him, actually went to one of his
concerts and went backstage and explained he was born in Alexandria, Virginia.
I was born in Boston on the exact same day.
(28:24):
By the way, I'll give you three presidents in February
Lincoln obviously, George Washington another twenty second, and my favorite,
Ronald Reagan on February sixth. Yep, David is always great
to hear your voice. Is it a nice day in
San Francisco today? I hope?
Speaker 5 (28:42):
Pardon?
Speaker 2 (28:43):
How is the weather in San Francisco today? My daughter
lives in soo.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
Oh, actually had some rain. It was evercast all day.
But it's cold. It's such somebody once said the coldest
winter they ever thought. It was the summer and a Francisco.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
I've heard that. I've heard that I had earlier. One
of my favorite Italian restaurants, uh is on on Fillmore Street,
Via Venudo. If you if you like Italian food, try it.
Do you know what that is?
Speaker 5 (29:20):
Did you really a restaurant called called Frisco?
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Yeah? The fellow who owns Via Venudu is an older
gentleman and he's great. If you ever get in tell him,
tell him you're a listener to Night Side, okay, and
he'll give you a break. I'm sure.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
Okay, before I go quick say out, yeah, we give.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
You a happy New Year because it's it's the thirty first.
We can't say it any any That's it. I stopped
saying Happy New Year once we turned to February. Thanks David,
appreciate your.
Speaker 5 (29:54):
A quick joke. Dan. Okay, what happens when you don't
pay your exorcist?
Speaker 2 (30:00):
I have no idea what happens when you don't pay
your exorcist?
Speaker 5 (30:05):
He get repossessed.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
I like that. That's a good one. That's a good one.
I heard a joke today and I'm going to tell
the joke because it's Friday night and it's my show.
Friend of mine told me a joke today. So this
husband and wife married a long time and they finally
the marriage dissolves and they both get divorced, and it
wasn't good. So the day that she dies, she dies.
(30:29):
First she goes to heaven. She meets Saint Peter at
the gate and Saint Peter says, have you been good?
And she said, I've been very good. He says, Okay,
I'm going to give you a word. If you can
spell it right, you come to heaven, You get into heaven,
and you'll be happy for a trinity. If you don't
you're going to go the other way. She's a little nervous,
but she says, okay, what's the word? He says love?
She says, oh, that's an easy one, l ov no problem.
(30:51):
So she's up in heaven for a few months and
one day Saint Peter comes over to it says, hey,
do me a favor. Well, I have a couple of
appointments today. Would you mind manning the front door heaven?
And uh, you know what the drill is? You got
to give people a word to spell. She says, sure,
first person up when you know it. Former husband, who
she wasn't particularly happy with, So she said to him,
(31:12):
you know, I'm gonna treat you like I treat everyone else.
You got to spell a word to get into heaven.
And the husband was a little apprehensive, but he says, okay,
which what is it? She said, Czechoslovakia? All right, thanks, David,
gotta go. We'll talk soon. All right, let's keep rolling
here six months, seven two, five, four, ten thirty six
(31:32):
one seven, nine, three, one ten thirty. Any of you
who say to me, well, I don't like brushes with celebrity,
I'm always gonna say to you, no matter when I
try to do something different. You guys don't like to play.
I want to know, are you happy that January is
about to end? At least for a year eleven months.
It'll come back around, but you're gonna have three hundred
(31:54):
and thirty or so days of non January. This is great.
Back on Night's Side right after this.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
We're talking about the end of January. It's imminent. Ten
minutes from now, we'll be in February. Let's see what
people think about January. No one out there seems to
like January. Let me go to Karen in Wisconsin. Karen,
I assume you hate January because it has to be
really cold in Wisconsin.
Speaker 9 (32:28):
Well, how did you know?
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Because I studied geography and I used to watch Green
Bay Packer games on the frozen tundra.
Speaker 9 (32:38):
Yeah, I kind of quit. I mean, I'm still a
red sex. I'm not used to having to travel to
go to a sports game, you know, And now I'm
in Milwaukee, so I'm staying miss just but uh, I
don't like January. I hate August really because I don't
(33:02):
like keep humidity and I also don't do well with
the change of seasons. So here we are in January,
and I you know, I'm just most people are waiting
for it to get light.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
You know.
Speaker 9 (33:18):
I can watch it get light out a little by little,
and I don't. I mean, I adjust, but it's difficult.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
So no, I hear you, I hear you. But it
is getting lighter. I'm telling you. Every day it's a
couple of minutes. And then sometimes Arch we'll jump ahead
spring forth an hour and we'll feel as if spring
has arrived, and won't that be a great feeling.
Speaker 9 (33:43):
I only want to say that last year, in about
a week from two weeks from now, we had for
the first time, all of a sudden, our enormous tornado
is sitting down ten miles away from me.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Oh that's not good.
Speaker 9 (34:04):
February, that's weird. No, that's weird. That is not right.
And it happened again. So so you know, I do
not like any month.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
You don't like June, you don't like June, you don't
like September. Those are the great months. I know, July
and August the great, don't get me wrong, but I
think my favorites are June, and uh and September, Karen,
I got to run. I got a couple more.
Speaker 9 (34:34):
I gotta get you.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Wait to hear your voice. Since it's still January, Happy.
Speaker 9 (34:40):
New Year, okay, Dan, And I'm an hour behind you,
so I don't think you can figure it out. Okay,
good bye and thanks blood.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Okay, great weekend, good night. Let's go to Glenn. Glenn's
a bit of a curmudgeon. I suspect he's going to
agree with me.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
Hey, Glenn, how are you pretty good? Well? I gotta
ask you if you know what a Unitarian's favorite Christmas
movie was.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
I have no clue.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
What is that coincidence on thirty fourth Street? I like that?
Speaker 2 (35:13):
Okay, I like it.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
I get I get that joke. I do, I dood
So what about January? Come on?
Speaker 4 (35:23):
Let's yeah. I want to join I want to join
you when you pick pile against January, even on my
birthdays in January January twenty third.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Well, congratulations of belated happy birthday, Glenn.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
I'm now seventy two. But John, I want to join
you and Laurie and Christine and your anti January. I
love February because of the Daytona five hundred on President's
Day weekend.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
That's a good one. I never even thought of that,
but you're right. That's a log. That's a great race,
and it kind of kicks off the racing season. Yeah.
I like that one. That's another good reason for February's
a lot of reasons for February.
Speaker 4 (35:59):
The Red Red Sox are going to go to winter Haven, Florida.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Not winter Haven. They know they haven't been in winter
Haven in about thirty years. Club Fort Myers.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
Oh, well, I can't. It's in Florida, that's all.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
You're definitely you have the right state. But winter Haven.
They they left winter Haven I think sometime in the
mid nineties and they have relocated to Florida, Florida. But
that's okay. It's good that you knew winter Haven. I
metter of fact. I went to a couple of Red
Sox games in winter Haven. I think I was there
for the last Red Sox exhibition game in winter Haven
(36:35):
before they left. Winter Haven was pretty depressing. It sounds lovely,
you know, winter Haven, right, but it wasn't a really
lovely place. Club Yeah, it was. It was depressing. It
was really depressing. So we got you on our side. Glen,
and I'm very happy about that. You join us, you
(36:57):
join Laurie and Christine and myself and everybody else. Florence, Gary, Yeah, everybody.
I'm glad I picked this one. And guess what it
was the best of my callers will call tonight. That's
that's always great, and you're one of them. New Year,
Happy New Year. I'm gonna be the last to wish
you happy New Year because after January you can't bople
(37:18):
happy New Year. That's a rule.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
Okay, yeah, I know, I don't wish that was Steve
always rule too. After February first, no more happy New Year.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
I'm after January first. I don't want to wish anyone
happy New Year in February because they the year is
already when you think about it, it's quite old. It's
already a month old.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
Thanks Glenn, thank you too.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
Have a good one. Let me go next. Finally to
Jamie and Worcester. Jamie, everybody agrees they hate January. What
say you?
Speaker 10 (37:46):
I actually like January because it's my birthday and my
father's birthday. Number one, okay, number two, number two. It's
a whole month is playoff football, and then you have
the college championship game too.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
Ask him, was there there was no anticipation, no excitement
to me, at least Ohio State and Notre Dame.
Speaker 10 (38:07):
I mean that was that was a disappointment. I didn't
like that game at all. But nine times I don't
even know. Well, I don't want to get off topic,
but it's the playoff format something that maybe if you
want to discuss I don't know you have discussed sports
like that, but that playoff forman what people think of it.
I don't know about that.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
You know, yeah, no they did, They haven't. They haven't
been able to replicate. We talk about sports sometimes, Jamie.
They have not been able to replicate what college basketball
has done with the AA March Madness Tournament. You know,
it used to be the n I T was the
big tournament, and the NCAA has eclipsed it incredibly well,
(38:46):
and that they really have done an absolutely great job
on it. Playoff football this year was kind of disappointing too.
Speaker 10 (38:52):
I mean the first playoff games, where is it? You know,
it has great maybe the maybe the in the City
game that.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
Was a good one, Yeah, that was a good game.
But I mean the last weekend the Philadelphia Washington blowout.
I didn't think Philadelphia was that good a team. Obviously,
Barkley is a great running back, and I'd love to
see Philadelphia beat the Chiefs. I don't know.
Speaker 10 (39:20):
It's funny because my boss tells me all the time.
He goes everybody in the store goes, oh, I didn't
want to see Kansas City again, And my boss goes, see,
everybody doesn't a stand. This is what probably everybody else
in the country felt when the Patriots.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
Were like this.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
You're absolutely correct, But you know what, I'm kind of
done with Taylor Swift. You know, marry the guy, get
it over with, get it married with him, have some kids,
and go retire. All right, Hey, Jamie, I gotta let
you run him flat out of time.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
I know I do that.
Speaker 10 (39:46):
I could believe you got me in.
Speaker 4 (39:48):
So thanks.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
Happy New Year. That's my last Happy New Year, Jamie,
you got it. Thanks Rob, Happy New Year to you
as well. Thank you, Mariita, Thank you very much. We've
had a great month. We'll continue. Gary Tanger, been a
couple of nights for me. Next week, All dogs, all cats,
all pets go to heaven. This's Mike Pelle. Charlie ray
Is who passed fifteen years ago in February. That's where
all your pets are who have passed. They loved you
(40:10):
and you love them. I do believe you'll see them again.
I'll see you again on nights Side with Dan Ray
on Facebook at about two minutes. Have a great weekend everyone,
stay safe, stay well. We'll talk to you next week.
It's night Side, Dan Ray, Undonian Mazy, Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
All right, we have reached the end of a full
week here on Nightside. We have been together five nights
this week. And for those of you who are keeping score,
and I don't think probably too many of you are
keeping score, this is my three thousandth nine hundred and
ninety ninth show on Nightside. We started in two thousand
(00:27):
and seven. We officially named the show of Nightside on
October first, two thousand and seven. That was a Monday.
We had done some shows during that previous summer of
two thousand and seven, but it was not titled Nightside.
But counting those shows, we will hit show number four
thousand next week. That's a lot of shows, eighteen plus,
(00:50):
well seventeen plus years. We do about two hundred and
twenty five shows a year. Anyway, Having said all of that,
I want to thank you all of you who have
been so loyal to this program over such a long
period of time. Let me if I can just quickly
recap this week. We started off on Monday talking about
(01:11):
that earthquake up off the coast of Maine with Professor
John Ebel of Boston College. The Western Observatory. We talked
about simplifying your home. I guess making it more livable. Monday,
during the eight o'clock hour, we had a little bit
of a weather forecast because we had a snow coming
(01:35):
in the next day. Didn't quite mount to too much.
Then we talked with Debbie Colton about Holocaust Remembrance Day.
We talked with State Senator Julian Seer of the Cape
and the Islands about a banning cell phone usage in schools,
which I think is a good idea. We talked about
(01:55):
the Columbian president caving to Donald Trump over the acceptance
of Colombian migrants who are in this country illegally, and
also talked about the Trump administration needs for transparency to
let people see what's going on, simple as that over
the weekend. I didn't think they were particularly transparent last
weekend about the initial raids. They seem to be getting
(02:19):
a little bit better, but they need to get even better.
The next night, we talked about some programs at Arts
Emerson with Susan Chinsen. Talked with Matty McCarthy about a
Valentine's Day roundup lots of different restaurants for next Friday, night,
if you're interested. Brenda Siri talked with her about the
frustration of people having college degrees but no jobs available,
(02:41):
and to talk with Chris Price as of the Boston
Well sort of a Super Bowl preview. May White mayor
wo excuse me, that's the last mayor with a W.
Kevin White Mayor WU has been called to testify about
sanctuary cities and cooperation with federal government in Washington. We
talked about that on Tuesday night. We also gave President
(03:07):
Trump a lot of credit for the executive order which
will open up the assassination files dealing with President Kennedy,
Senator Robert Kennedy, and the Reverend doctor Martin Luther King.
We need to know exactly what happened there. Then we
talked with a character whose name is Phyllis Watt Wheatley
about the Freedom Trail the African American Patriots Tour, which
(03:29):
are now available. Talk with Deborah Graham about the psychic connection,
Lee Holden about Chi gong a way to relieve stress
and it actually does work. Talked about the future of robotics,
talked spent an hour with Professor John Ebel of Boston College.
Because we not only had the earthquake on Monday, but
(03:50):
we had an aftershock on Wednesday, and then we spent
a couple of hours talking about the Robert F. Kennedy
at hearing, and that was interrupted sadly by that DC
plane crash. And of course last night we talked about
the DC plane crash and its impact as we found
(04:11):
out on people from the New England area. Early in
the show last night, we talked about the best cars
of twenty twenty five with John Vincent of US World
and News Reports. We will hope to have him back
and take some calls from you. Talk with Caleb Thome
about LEGO sixty seventh birthday. Talked with a writer from
USA Today, Kathleen Long, about Americans tens of thousands of
(04:35):
Americans retiring around the world. I was stunned by. I
talked with William Forschen about EMT attacks electromagnetic pulses. We
also talked last night with Don Grant, who's a mental
health expert. By the way, the interview with Professor at
the nine o'clock interview on Wednesday night with Professor John
(04:58):
Ebel of Boston College and Western Observatory will be replayed
as the best of nightside this coming Sunday night, so
I hope you get a chance to listen to that
on Sunday night. We always take one hour during the
week and play it in the following Sunday night. And
then last night we talked about keeping your New Year's
goals with a vain artery specialist, doctor Bob Anderson, talked
(05:24):
with Joel jeff Zeff about National Have Fun at Work Today,
which was kind of interesting, talk with an attorney Dawn
Fountain about Amazon now being responsible for products that they
send that are not that cause damage, and talk with
doctor Jennifer Curtis about a new school opening in Weymouth
(05:47):
for children who are dyslexic. The nine o'clock hour talk
with Gayla Crowley, Boston Herald reporter about the White Stadium controversy,
and also longtime activist City Boston activist Lewis As joined us.
And then last hour we talked with the couple's therapist,
Carolyn Sharp. Now I mentioned this those of you who
(06:08):
do not normally hear us, I mention it by telling
you that we cover lots of stuff. We really do
cover lots of stuff, and if you miss it, you
can always listen to an hour. You missed a night'side
into Vietnam. Here's what I want to do tonight, my
(06:29):
least favorite month of the year, has about forty five
minutes left. This is Friday Night. We always do twenty thousand.
We try to pick a subject that everybody can participate in.
Everybody gets what we call a hall pass, meaning even
if you're called earlier this week, you can call them
this hour and express yourself. The question tonight is I
(06:50):
am thrilled whenever January ends. I look at the calendar
as what's six months from tonight? Six months from Dynay's
July twenty is July thirty first. And I don't like
when we're partially through the summer, because half the summer's gone.
But I do like when we're halfway through the winter.
(07:12):
I don't like the month of January. I will give
you my reasons for it, but I am happy. January
is about to slide off and on into oblivion, and
we will be in February in about an hour. I
want to hear from you. Are you happy? I'm particularly happy.
There's no month that I like to see off the
calendar more than January. I'll give you some of my reasons,
(07:35):
but I want to hear yours. If you love January,
I mean, if you are somebody who goes skiing every
day in January here in New England. You can tell
me that I'm an idiot. That's fine, no problem, okay,
But I am thrilled that January is gone. I'll give
you some reasons I want to hear from you. Do
you agree with me that this is a happy night
because tomorrow will be February and we are another month
(07:59):
closer to spring and summer. Uh and February has lots
of good stuff in it and January has very little
good stuff in it. I will explain I hope to
hear from you. Join the conversation. You can call now
even before you hear what my reasons are, which is
even better. Six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty
six one seven, nine, three one ten thirty triple eight
(08:21):
nine to nine, ten thirty. Coming right back on the nightside.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Now, back to Dan ray Line from the Window World
night Side Studios on w WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
All right, so I can give you a thousand reasons
why I do not like January. You probably can give
me reasons why you don't like it as well, and
if you can six one, seven, two, five, four to
ten thirty six one seven, nine, three one ten thirty.
I'm gonna start it off with Laurie in Idaho, one
(08:54):
of my favorite callers. I've never met Laurie, but someday
we'll have a chance to meet, maybe in Idaho, maybe here.
Who knows, Laurie, welcome back to night, said, how are you?
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (09:05):
I'm I'm with you. I'm so done, like bye bye January.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Yeah, yeah, what is it about January that that troubles you?
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Winter? And this especially this winter it's been we just
had basically we've had so little sun since October. It's
just overtask and wet rain and it's what it's cold
rain or whatever. But in general, so we really do
have more daylight technically in January when the sun comes
out than December. But you think about it, December is
(09:34):
kind of bookmarked or book ended by holidays. You get
the holidays before the holidays, during the holidays.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Oh yeah, I like this Thanksgiving in January, Thanksgiving Christmas. No.
I mean, first of all, look, I know that there's
MLK Day in January, which kind of breaks the month
up a little bit. But other than that, what does
January have to offer? I know they offer football playoffs,
but we know it's a always going to be the
(10:00):
Kansas City Chiefs in the super Bowl. I mean that's what. Well,
it was the Patriots, now it's the chief You know,
that might be part of my problem.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Patriots.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
The Patriots are done there, they're they're done. So there's
no football, there's no baseball. Uh, the the Celtics have
been in the swoon and the Bruins are have really
not together. They they haven't put much together yet and
they're in.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
Yeah, they.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Might miss the playoffs. I'm telling you right now, they
might miss the playoffs. Yeah, which would be which would
be stunning as far as inatruction. But then you look
at feal. What else does January have? Long days, cold, nothing,
that's it nothing. You know, after New Year's it's all over,
and and New Year's Eve is over before January starts.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Think a true and I don't like the ski so
that there there's no carrot for me there and I.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
And the besides bills in January, they're no, they're no
more Christmas cards, that's over, no notes or anything. The only
thing you get in the mail. Are your regular bills?
You know you have no money left, so they want
you to buy stuff January sales if I get about it,
or or you get stuff that you have to put
(11:15):
in your file in prepping for taxes, you get.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
All that stuff to step it.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Oh my god, you got to keep this file and
you got to you gotta. If you lose something, God
forbid February. You've got Groundhog's Day is going to be
on Sunday? Wow? Right, isn't in February? Second Valentine's Day,
there's always hope in Valentine's Spring training baseball in Florida.
(11:42):
The truck leaves from Fenway Park. Ye, Lincoln's birthday, George
Washington's birthday are too, arguably greatest presence my birthday born
in February, and I think Ronald Reagan was born in February.
And your birthday when is your birthday?
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Nineteenth?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Nineteenth?
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Wow, we'll all Washington.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Yeah, we'll have to sing Laurie Happy birthday.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
That's okay. But yeah, this is going and it just
it gets it's it's getting towards spring, and it's just January,
and of course January has to be thirty one days. Yeah,
it'll be the thirty you know.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Right, No, I hear you, I totally hear you. So
those those are my reasons. And uh, and there's probably
a few more. The other thing too, in all honesty
is I kind of feel like winter's half over now.
I mean I know that in New England it doesn't
get great until May. I get it. I get it.
So we still got to go through February, March, and April.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
I know we'll get black somewhere along the line.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Right right, But but we've we've gone through October, November,
December and January. So we got four of the big,
you know, big months out of the way. February will
go by quickly, March will be there. We got Saint
Patrick's Day? Who does and love Saint Patrick's Day? And
then yes, absolutely, you got January is really getting the
(13:07):
short shrift here, that's all they try.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
It doesn't make me want to be there any less,
just because I feel sorry for it.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Only if you graduated from Ohio State or Notre Dame,
did you really care about who won that football game
the national Championship? There was nothing to that. It was.
It was not like the sweets, you know, the March madness.
March madness gets people.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
I've well, I've always rooted for Nerding no matter what,
I was really hoping for them. But now March madness
is just they made such a big thing of it.
It's so much fun now.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Yeah, oh absolutely, absolutely Well, Laurie, thank you very much.
You got us go in here, and hopefully we'll hear
from some other people. I think I think that this
is an argument that there really isn't much of an
argument in favorite January.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
I mean no, it's more just a chance to chance
to rant a little bit.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
And well, they used to have correct me if I'm wrong,
but didn't they used to have long time ago in January.
White sales.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Remember those were you could get like sheets and pillowcases all.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Can you imagine them having a white sale now? I
mean they would be so inappropriate.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Even Black Friday. Nobody has a color left in them.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
That's exactly it, you know. So anyway, Laurie, you are
the best, You were the best. I wish you a
very happy month of February and we will talk many times.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Okay, thank you you as well. Thank you for letting
me get it off my chest.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Thanks for getting it going. Okay, thank you all right.
I want to hear from some more of you. Six one, seven, two, five,
four tenth. Now everybody says to me, well, you only
do brushes with celebrity. You don't do Look, we do
like grinds your gears, we do that. I try to
come up with some things that are different. Okay, that's today.
(15:01):
It struck me. I said, it's January thirty first, it's
the month. It's almost over. It's we've done nineteen shows
here in January, and I had how many days did
I have off? I had a bunch of days off
this month. I mean I would have done it. I
would have had to have done like twenty three or
twenty four shows this month. So feel free. You got
(15:23):
the number six one, seven, two, five, four, ten, thirty
six one seven, nine three one ten thirty. I'm loving
the fact that January will be in our view rearview
mirror in about thirty five minutes. Let me see what
Christine and Dedam says. Christine, welcome, How are you.
Speaker 7 (15:40):
I'm good, how are you?
Speaker 2 (15:42):
I'm feeling it, very happy that February is upon us.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Me too, me too.
Speaker 8 (15:49):
I don't like January because it's a Christmas. It's such
a letdown and it's so cold you can't walk outside.
But I love go to is see what the groundhop
says in February.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Allan, but by the way, you know the groundhog's not legitimate, right,
I don't even think that's a real groundhog. No, Well,
they always think bring about the poor thing, and it
doesn't make sense. They'll say, if he sees his shadow,
that means winter's over. If he doesn't see his shadow
(16:23):
and it's sunny, then we're gonna have six more weeks
of winteret That doesn't make any to me. I've never
figured out.
Speaker 7 (16:33):
I know that's true. This was the last chaf for
the groundhops.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
What what is the best part about February? What do
you like about February.
Speaker 7 (16:42):
I like that you it'll it'll start warming up in
red soft team will becoming spring training, Valentine coming and
then not pay cackers and then Easter. I love like
the spring Easter.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
I love that it's everything flower.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Yeah, it's like we have gone we have gone through
the worst of it. I mean, it's winter's not over,
but we've been pretty lucky with a big snorm storm.
Some I read I listened to the one of the
weather people today said that we actually have had more snow.
I don't believe this, by the way, but they said
we've had more snow this winter than the last two winters.
(17:21):
I guess we didn't get any snow the last two winters.
Speaker 7 (17:24):
January, you gain your game your game weight because you
can't get out and walk out. It's terrible.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Yes, that's a that's another thing. Yeah, or or you
have to. I don't go to a gym and pay money.
Once April comes, you get out and and and walk however,
however far you're able, however you want, that's for sure. Well, Christine,
so far as you it's you, me and Laurie against January.
And I like it. I like those odds.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Me too, me.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
So hey, have a great rest of January. It'll be
over in thirty three minutes and we'll be we'll be
halfway this summer, simple as that, right.
Speaker 6 (18:03):
Day.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Well you allright, I'll see you next week.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
I'll be back next week. I gotta take a couple
of days on personal business. Thanks Christine, doctor you soon.
Thanks good night. Florence is in Groveland, Hi, Florence.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
How are you tonight, Oh?
Speaker 6 (18:18):
Great, Hi, Dan. Then I find that January it's always
very boring, really, and I look forward to February because
all three of us, myself and my two children were
(18:39):
all February birthdays. Really, yes, we have nine. My daughter
me the sixteenth, and my son is the twenty eighth.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (18:54):
And then my son always remembers me on Valentine Day
as well, with a card and little gift, and he's
been doing that for years.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Okay, that's great, that's great, you know, and he shall
always be his Valentines.
Speaker 6 (19:14):
Absolutely, And so February and extrastential because all three of
us being in the same month, you know.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Yeah, well, I'll tell you. So that's a pretty good trifecta. Okay,
But I got even another trifector for you. In my opinion,
three great presidents, arguably close to the three greatest presidents,
George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Ronald Reagan February all February.
(19:46):
Reagan was on February sixth, Lincoln February twelfth, and Washington
was February twenty second. So I just think, and there's
probably a couple of more presidents there when you think
about it. I mean, we've only had you know, forty
seven presidents, but really we've only had forty five because
(20:08):
you've got to count. I mean, you know, Trump is
forty five and forty seven, and then you had Grover Cleveland,
who is counted twice. So we've only had forty five presidents.
And there's only you know, thirty days. In most months,
thirty days has September, April, June, and November all the
rest of thirty one except February. We know that from
our grade school. But to have Reagan, Lincoln and Washington
(20:31):
and Florence and two of her children in February, that's
a pretty special month. Florence.
Speaker 6 (20:37):
Yeah, so I look forward to it.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
You're in good company. You're in very good company. Florence.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you for calling in.
And I'm gonna I forgot to tell everybody tonight Happy
New Year, because I have a rule that as long
as it's January, I can still say Happy New Year.
Once it's February, the happy New Year greeting goes away
(21:01):
for another year. So let me be the last to
wish you happy New Year, okay.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
And happy New Year to you and your family, great.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Thanks Florence, we'll talk soon. Okay, thank you much, good night. Okay,
so so far we have unanimity. Laurie, Christine and Florence
agree with me that January is a horrible month. I mean,
it just is no fun. It's a no fun month. Oh,
it's the month when you stop drinking, It's the month
when you stop eating stuff you like. I mean, it's
(21:31):
New Year's resolutions are good, don't get me wrong. But
still it calls for sacrifice and denial. So I want
to hear from you if if you really see some
value to January. Okay, I mean, it's it's fun. It's
fun when you say, wow, it's a new year, twenty
twenty five. But that that kind of weirs off pretty
quickly when you think about it. Okay, Now we have
(21:53):
another plane crash tonight. This one in Philadelphia. Doesn't sound good.
It's smaller, but certainly it was I guess it was
a medical flight on its way to Springfield, Missouri. Here's
the CBS News special report on the question.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Now you're on Night Side with Dan Ray on w BEAZ,
Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
All Right, we're talking about the end of January. I
am very happy that January is over. Love to know
what you think. We are taking phone calls. Let us
go next to Gary and Woolburn. I don't have no
idea what Gary's going to say, but it's going to
be interesting. Gary, you happy January is over?
Speaker 3 (22:30):
And no, no, it's not going to be interesting at all. Dan, January,
February and March is absolutely miserable. I hate everything about it.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
So you don't like So how do you? How do
you like January?
Speaker 4 (22:46):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Even when I was a kid, I didn't like winter,
even though I went out to boggaining and ice hockey
and so forth. But it's just miserable. It's cold, and
at sixty one years of age, it's just just brings
you down. I'm talking to you from a McDonald's in
Woven right now because as you got off the road,
(23:07):
because I was working and uh claiming offices and uh
for the past hour. I'm just drinking my diet coke
and about to go home and I'm enjoying myself. A
couple of things I want to bring to your attention
out there before I leave is I went to the
store today again. I had no idea. I have a
bad habit of eating a certain breakfast of breakfast sausage
and home fried potatoes where I live again. I didn't
(23:30):
know a dozen eggs and six dollars.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Yeah, where it was the last time you bought eggs? Uh?
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Months and months and months. H. I go to a
buddy's house and I eat breakfast there and uh, and
he serves eggs and so forth. But I had no idea.
I'm very oblivious and stupid to this. I mean, can
you explain what's going on? I know there's a bird flu.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Right, Well, there's the bird flu, there's there's there's there's
some complications there. Obviously, prices have gone up. Even before
bird flew, prices were getting expensive, and it's got to
work its way through the system. I guess it's you know,
there are people who just rely upon eggs, and I
(24:16):
eat eggs like everybody else. But guess what, when they
become too expensive, I can pass on them. You know,
I don't look at them as something that is critical
to my to my existence. I mean some people from
for me, it's I I every morning I eat my
packet of Awaken one eighty cocoa cereal. That's you know
(24:40):
that ever goes out, I'm gonna be in big trouble.
But others are different. People are different. Gary, you got
to learn. I guess to say, hey, okay, maybe take
a break from eggs.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
And by the way, you had a show I believe
it was last night. You had two different guests. I
forget what it was about. My mind's a plank because
I'm getting so old. If you can remind me, because
it was one of the best. Oh, you had an hour.
I gotta tell you again. You know I hate political talk, right,
you had an hour on OH with the woman from
the USA Today newspaper, and it was so outstanding. Every
(25:20):
time you never talk about politics, you talk about other issues.
Your show is number one because everybody doesn't have guests,
Like is it your production team that picks up all
these guests for you?
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Well, I'm very happy to hear that. We also had
a great guest last night, a mental health expert from
Los Angeles, doctor Don Grant. We had a couple of
good guests tonight. We talked about the Yeah, we try
to we try to have different topics. Gary's that's we
don't do the same show every night. It takes a
lot of work to put a show like this together.
And by the way, we do our four thousand night
(25:55):
side show next week. Tonight is three thy nine ninety nine.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
Well, Dan, this is why you're number one in the radio.
And I'm glad you take days off because after all,
you're like atting any younger and so forth is.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Just find me someone who's getting younger. Gary, if they
found the fountain of youth, that would be great. Gary.
I gotta keep rolling here, enjoy your pepsi, and get
home safely if they. I know it's rained a lot tonight,
but I think the temperature is going to drop, so
make sure you get home before the roads the roads freeze. Okay, thanks,
thanks a mat, I appreciate it. Thank you much. David
(26:30):
in San Francisco. David, do you like January? And if so,
why so?
Speaker 5 (26:37):
January is very boring. I guess it's because of the
excitement of the holidays and everything, and there's really nothing
going on. It's easily cold and dark. But anyhow, I
really like February though, because it's, first of all, it's
President's months. Yeah, and it's also Black History months.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
We got Black History, you got President's Month, you got
Valentine's day, you got Groundhog Day, you got the Super Bowl. Yep,
you got a lot.
Speaker 5 (27:07):
Well, a president, let me ask you a well trivia
shout out to your audience. Two great men were born
on the very same day, February twelfth, eighteen oh line?
Do you usually are?
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Well? I know that Lincoln was born on February twelfth.
In the other one, I don't know who. Who would
that be?
Speaker 5 (27:31):
Charles Darwin?
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Okay, that's that's that's a great piece of trivia.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
I think you're both born on the very same day,
February twelfth. Line.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Yep. Well, everybody, when you think about it, you can
look up in your horoscope and you can find people
who were born on your exact day. I don't know
when I looked up to find out someone who was
born not only in my birthday, but on my birth year.
There was a children singer who was born in Alexandria, Egypt,
(28:02):
who became very famous in the nineties. He used to
do concerts, children's concerts. His name was Raffie r Affi,
and I met him, actually went to one of his
concerts and went backstage and explained he was born in Alexandria, Virginia.
I was born in Boston on the exact same day.
(28:24):
By the way, I'll give you three presidents in February
Lincoln obviously, George Washington another twenty second, and my favorite,
Ronald Reagan on February sixth. Yep, David is always great
to hear your voice. Is it a nice day in
San Francisco today? I hope?
Speaker 5 (28:42):
Pardon?
Speaker 2 (28:43):
How is the weather in San Francisco today? My daughter
lives in soo.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
Oh, actually had some rain. It was evercast all day.
But it's cold. It's such somebody once said the coldest
winter they ever thought. It was the summer and a Francisco.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
I've heard that. I've heard that I had earlier. One
of my favorite Italian restaurants, uh is on on Fillmore Street,
Via Venudo. If you if you like Italian food, try it.
Do you know what that is?
Speaker 5 (29:20):
Did you really a restaurant called called Frisco?
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Yeah? The fellow who owns Via Venudu is an older
gentleman and he's great. If you ever get in tell him,
tell him you're a listener to Night Side, okay, and
he'll give you a break. I'm sure.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
Okay, before I go quick say out, yeah, we give.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
You a happy New Year because it's it's the thirty first.
We can't say it any any That's it. I stopped
saying Happy New Year once we turned to February. Thanks David,
appreciate your.
Speaker 5 (29:54):
A quick joke. Dan. Okay, what happens when you don't
pay your exorcist?
Speaker 2 (30:00):
I have no idea what happens when you don't pay
your exorcist?
Speaker 5 (30:05):
He get repossessed.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
I like that. That's a good one. That's a good one.
I heard a joke today and I'm going to tell
the joke because it's Friday night and it's my show.
Friend of mine told me a joke today. So this
husband and wife married a long time and they finally
the marriage dissolves and they both get divorced, and it
wasn't good. So the day that she dies, she dies.
(30:29):
First she goes to heaven. She meets Saint Peter at
the gate and Saint Peter says, have you been good?
And she said, I've been very good. He says, Okay,
I'm going to give you a word. If you can
spell it right, you come to heaven, You get into heaven,
and you'll be happy for a trinity. If you don't
you're going to go the other way. She's a little nervous,
but she says, okay, what's the word? He says love?
She says, oh, that's an easy one, l ov no problem.
(30:51):
So she's up in heaven for a few months and
one day Saint Peter comes over to it says, hey,
do me a favor. Well, I have a couple of
appointments today. Would you mind manning the front door heaven?
And uh, you know what the drill is? You got
to give people a word to spell. She says, sure,
first person up when you know it. Former husband, who
she wasn't particularly happy with, So she said to him,
(31:12):
you know, I'm gonna treat you like I treat everyone else.
You got to spell a word to get into heaven.
And the husband was a little apprehensive, but he says, okay,
which what is it? She said, Czechoslovakia? All right, thanks, David,
gotta go. We'll talk soon. All right, let's keep rolling
here six months, seven two, five, four, ten thirty six
(31:32):
one seven, nine, three, one ten thirty. Any of you
who say to me, well, I don't like brushes with celebrity,
I'm always gonna say to you, no matter when I
try to do something different. You guys don't like to play.
I want to know, are you happy that January is
about to end? At least for a year eleven months.
It'll come back around, but you're gonna have three hundred
(31:54):
and thirty or so days of non January. This is great.
Back on Night's Side right after this.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
We're talking about the end of January. It's imminent. Ten
minutes from now, we'll be in February. Let's see what
people think about January. No one out there seems to
like January. Let me go to Karen in Wisconsin. Karen,
I assume you hate January because it has to be
really cold in Wisconsin.
Speaker 9 (32:28):
Well, how did you know?
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Because I studied geography and I used to watch Green
Bay Packer games on the frozen tundra.
Speaker 9 (32:38):
Yeah, I kind of quit. I mean, I'm still a
red sex. I'm not used to having to travel to
go to a sports game, you know, And now I'm
in Milwaukee, so I'm staying miss just but uh, I
don't like January. I hate August really because I don't
(33:02):
like keep humidity and I also don't do well with
the change of seasons. So here we are in January,
and I you know, I'm just most people are waiting
for it to get light.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
You know.
Speaker 9 (33:18):
I can watch it get light out a little by little,
and I don't. I mean, I adjust, but it's difficult.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
So no, I hear you, I hear you. But it
is getting lighter. I'm telling you. Every day it's a
couple of minutes. And then sometimes Arch we'll jump ahead
spring forth an hour and we'll feel as if spring
has arrived, and won't that be a great feeling.
Speaker 9 (33:43):
I only want to say that last year, in about
a week from two weeks from now, we had for
the first time, all of a sudden, our enormous tornado
is sitting down ten miles away from me.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Oh that's not good.
Speaker 9 (34:04):
February, that's weird. No, that's weird. That is not right.
And it happened again. So so you know, I do
not like any month.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
You don't like June, you don't like June, you don't
like September. Those are the great months. I know, July
and August the great, don't get me wrong, but I
think my favorites are June, and uh and September, Karen,
I got to run. I got a couple more.
Speaker 9 (34:34):
I gotta get you.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Wait to hear your voice. Since it's still January, Happy.
Speaker 9 (34:40):
New Year, okay, Dan, And I'm an hour behind you,
so I don't think you can figure it out. Okay,
good bye and thanks blood.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Okay, great weekend, good night. Let's go to Glenn. Glenn's
a bit of a curmudgeon. I suspect he's going to
agree with me.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
Hey, Glenn, how are you pretty good? Well? I gotta
ask you if you know what a Unitarian's favorite Christmas
movie was.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
I have no clue.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
What is that coincidence on thirty fourth Street? I like that?
Speaker 2 (35:13):
Okay, I like it.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
I get I get that joke. I do, I dood
So what about January? Come on?
Speaker 4 (35:23):
Let's yeah. I want to join I want to join
you when you pick pile against January, even on my
birthdays in January January twenty third.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Well, congratulations of belated happy birthday, Glenn.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
I'm now seventy two. But John, I want to join
you and Laurie and Christine and your anti January. I
love February because of the Daytona five hundred on President's
Day weekend.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
That's a good one. I never even thought of that,
but you're right. That's a log. That's a great race,
and it kind of kicks off the racing season. Yeah.
I like that one. That's another good reason for February's
a lot of reasons for February.
Speaker 4 (35:59):
The Red Red Sox are going to go to winter Haven, Florida.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Not winter Haven. They know they haven't been in winter
Haven in about thirty years. Club Fort Myers.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
Oh, well, I can't. It's in Florida, that's all.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
You're definitely you have the right state. But winter Haven.
They they left winter Haven I think sometime in the
mid nineties and they have relocated to Florida, Florida. But
that's okay. It's good that you knew winter Haven. I
metter of fact. I went to a couple of Red
Sox games in winter Haven. I think I was there
for the last Red Sox exhibition game in winter Haven
(36:35):
before they left. Winter Haven was pretty depressing. It sounds lovely,
you know, winter Haven, right, but it wasn't a really
lovely place. Club Yeah, it was. It was depressing. It
was really depressing. So we got you on our side. Glen,
and I'm very happy about that. You join us, you
(36:57):
join Laurie and Christine and myself and everybody else. Florence, Gary, Yeah, everybody.
I'm glad I picked this one. And guess what it
was the best of my callers will call tonight. That's
that's always great, and you're one of them. New Year,
Happy New Year. I'm gonna be the last to wish
you happy New Year because after January you can't bople
(37:18):
happy New Year. That's a rule.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
Okay, yeah, I know, I don't wish that was Steve
always rule too. After February first, no more happy New Year.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
I'm after January first. I don't want to wish anyone
happy New Year in February because they the year is
already when you think about it, it's quite old. It's
already a month old.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
Thanks Glenn, thank you too.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
Have a good one. Let me go next. Finally to
Jamie and Worcester. Jamie, everybody agrees they hate January. What
say you?
Speaker 10 (37:46):
I actually like January because it's my birthday and my
father's birthday. Number one, okay, number two, number two. It's
a whole month is playoff football, and then you have
the college championship game too.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
Ask him, was there there was no anticipation, no excitement
to me, at least Ohio State and Notre Dame.
Speaker 10 (38:07):
I mean that was that was a disappointment. I didn't
like that game at all. But nine times I don't
even know. Well, I don't want to get off topic,
but it's the playoff format something that maybe if you
want to discuss I don't know you have discussed sports
like that, but that playoff forman what people think of it.
I don't know about that.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
You know, yeah, no they did, They haven't. They haven't
been able to replicate. We talk about sports sometimes, Jamie.
They have not been able to replicate what college basketball
has done with the AA March Madness Tournament. You know,
it used to be the n I T was the
big tournament, and the NCAA has eclipsed it incredibly well,
(38:46):
and that they really have done an absolutely great job
on it. Playoff football this year was kind of disappointing too.
Speaker 10 (38:52):
I mean the first playoff games, where is it? You know,
it has great maybe the maybe the in the City
game that.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
Was a good one, Yeah, that was a good game.
But I mean the last weekend the Philadelphia Washington blowout.
I didn't think Philadelphia was that good a team. Obviously,
Barkley is a great running back, and I'd love to
see Philadelphia beat the Chiefs. I don't know.
Speaker 10 (39:20):
It's funny because my boss tells me all the time.
He goes everybody in the store goes, oh, I didn't
want to see Kansas City again, And my boss goes, see,
everybody doesn't a stand. This is what probably everybody else
in the country felt when the Patriots.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
Were like this.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
You're absolutely correct, But you know what, I'm kind of
done with Taylor Swift. You know, marry the guy, get
it over with, get it married with him, have some kids,
and go retire. All right, Hey, Jamie, I gotta let
you run him flat out of time.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
I know I do that.
Speaker 10 (39:46):
I could believe you got me in.
Speaker 4 (39:48):
So thanks.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
Happy New Year. That's my last Happy New Year, Jamie,
you got it. Thanks Rob, Happy New Year to you
as well. Thank you, Mariita, Thank you very much. We've
had a great month. We'll continue. Gary Tanger, been a
couple of nights for me. Next week, All dogs, all cats,
all pets go to heaven. This's Mike Pelle. Charlie ray
Is who passed fifteen years ago in February. That's where
all your pets are who have passed. They loved you
(40:10):
and you love them. I do believe you'll see them again.
I'll see you again on nights Side with Dan Ray
on Facebook at about two minutes. Have a great weekend everyone,
stay safe, stay well. We'll talk to you next week.
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