March 14, 2025 • 42 mins
Monday is Saint Patrick’s Day so Dan did a special St. Patrick’s Day themed 20th Hour topic!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's nice eye Dan Raye, Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
All right, a little bit after the eleven o'clock hour,
my name is Dan ray We have reached the twentieth
hour of the week, as we do at this time
every week, and just we always like to look back
quickly at the variety of topics that we have talked about,
either in the eight o'clock hour we call the nightside
(00:29):
News Update or in the more full discussion with listeners.
So we started off on Monday night talking with an
expert about the fact that sleep gets tougher as you age.
We talked about the Bruins fire sale, which for a
couple of days a couple of games, looked like it
had worked out pretty well for the Bruins. We talked
(00:50):
about the death of Gene Hackman and his wife. She
died Betsy Arakawa died of hanta virus, a very rare disease.
We talked about army recruiting, talked with Chris Anderson in
the nine o'clock hour and Monday night, the founder of
the Massachusetts Opportunity Alliance. And of course on Monday was
really the first day where the stock market took a
(01:12):
big hit, and we talked about the stock market tanking
on Monday, and a lot of that was the result
of Donald Trump's answer to a question about the possibility
of a recession. On Tuesday night, we talked about the
best cars for twenty twenty five, particularly the best cars
for families. Talked about a scholarship fund that's being run
(01:34):
by the Ford Corporation for Auto technicians. Talked about the
dangers and the need for colo colon rectal cancer checks.
Not pleasant subject but one that we had to remind
people of. And we talked about fentanyl laced drugs. It
(01:55):
is spring break, and it is that time of year
when a lot of your children and your grandchildren are
heading to faraway places for spring break from college. And
drugs were around, sadly, and many of them are laced
with fentan'l talk with David Urban, newest member of the
EMK Institute, News director of the EMK Institute for the
(02:18):
US Senate. That's a wonderful facility over at Columbia Point
and Urban is now a CNN contributor, And we talked
about high energy bills here in Massachusetts and who's to
blame and I put it squarely on the Department of
Public Utilities commissioners, three people who dropped the ball in
November in my opinion. On Wednesday night, we talked about
(02:41):
the Democratic Party searching for a message in the wake
of the Trump victory. The victory by President Trump last week.
Talked about the Patriots free awning, free agent signings with
Chris Price from the Boston Globe. Talked about New England
slang with Stacy Milbauer of a website called Granite News,
and talked about hospital bed shortage around the country with
(03:04):
a doctor from UCLA. Talked with Julie Sullivan about long
COVID recovering from long COVID. Shees with Brigham and Women's
Hospital MGH Brigham and Women's Hospital. And we talked at
ten o'clock about the decision by Jean Shaheen, Senator Democrat
from New Hampshire, not to seek reelection. And we talked
about Mahoud Khalil, the Palestinian student at Columbia who is
(03:30):
now facing deportation. Last night, talked with an expert about
the push for people to return to the office. Talked
about the Twitter outage with an expert the Twitter or
ex outage. We talked with a gentleman about how tariffs
are going to hurt farmers, and we talked about young
(03:51):
kids as young as seven being concerned about their body image.
With Kelly's Shoup, we will have her on at some
point in the next week or two to take phone calls.
And then we talked last night, we did two hours
on the various type of boycotts that have gone on
in this country in recent years, and we focused a
little bit on the Tesla boy clot some of the
physical damage that has been done against private and public property,
(04:13):
commercial property, and talked about that compared to the bud
Light and also the January sixth protest. Obviously January sixth
was a very different type of protest, but the bud
Light was a protest and economic protest which was in
effective boycott very effective in that regard. And then talked
(04:34):
about the FEDS not shutting government down. Senator Schumer blinked,
which I think is pretty accurate. Tonight, we talked about
a new movie any day now about the Gardner Heist
with Eric Aronson, and talked about speaking circles international getting
past the fear of public speaking, and talked about pinnipeds
(04:55):
and penguins with Christian McMahon of the beautiful full location
downtown that all of us go the the arbor where
where we go and see all the the the the
fish and everything at New England, at the New England Aquarium.
(05:16):
We're so blessed to have that facility in our community.
Talk with Mark Jarman about the company called Futurian a
one b ai being used for security. Talk with doctor
Edward Christino, president of the Animal Rescue League of Boston,
about their efforts to get some legislation passed which will
help older folks and folks with disabilities be able to
(05:38):
keep their their animals. And last hour we talked about
the federal judge rejecting the Karen Reid case the double
jeopardy claim and with us now is the Senator from
South Boston other places as well, Nick Collins Nick Saint
Patrick's Day weekend is upon us. Welcome to the show.
How are you tonight?
Speaker 3 (05:59):
I'm great, Dan, thanks for having me on. Happy Saint Patrick, Stan,
happy you have had delationis day right.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Back at you. You have a big responsibility. The breakfast,
the annual Saint Patrick's Day Breakfast is on Sunday and
I'm just wondering, which of the the politicians are you
going to have for breakfast on Sunday?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
If you get my drift, Yes, everyone is on the
menu for the roast.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Yes, spread who is signed up? Sometimes we get surprised
by sometimes guests from far away places. Any chance that
President Trump is going to make a remote appearance.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Well, we're never too sure. We can break last minute,
and we're gonna We're gonna leave that up to the
audience to find out on Sunday morning. But we have
a great lineup that's already committed from federal, state, and
local elected leaders, and we have some foreign leaders that
are joining us from the Irish government, So it should
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be an exciting day. We have a great parade planned
as well, with a lot of preparation that has been
made over the last year. And you know, it's a
great time of year. It breaks away from winter, and
we turned into a town from thirty five thousand to
a million people overnight, and we're celebrating great history in
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our city and our state and really in our country
with March seventeen, seventeen seventy six being both Saint Patrick's
Day and the first victory in the American Revolution here
in Boston and known as Evacuation Day. But I think
the most fun part of the day for sure for
me is the Saint Pat's Day breakfast where we get
to have some fun with a roast that's been around
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for over one hundred years.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Yeah, so let me ask let me ask you this
nick minderstanding. Have they moved the parade up? I know
they're concerned about rain later in the day. The breakfast
is normally what nine o'clock? That the breakfast starts early.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Yeah, the breakfast is normally at ten clock, and it's
when we bumped it up an hour early to accommodate
the earlier start for the parade. So you can watch
it on TV on nesson the Women's Sports Network, the
womand cable News NYCN along with BNN if you live
in Boston. I'd also be streamed live on Cottonsulty dot com.
(08:18):
But it's a it's just an adjustment that was necessary
to accommodate a better safety plan for the parade led
by the South Boston Now I had World Westerns Council.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Okay, so the parade will will step off at what
eleven o'clock? Is that? What I'm eleven thirty, okay, and
they hope.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Will give nine to eleven and the parade will kick
off at eleven.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Thirty, okay. And my understanding is that they're looking at
some heavy or rain later in the day and that's
why they're moving things up. The weather forecast, what time
will the parade wrap up? What time can people expect
to be starting to.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
The parade should wrap up around two two thirty. It's
a combination of well, I think this year really was
about the storm that was on the streets of South
Boston last year with respect to the the out of
control revee. And there's a there's a notion that bumping
it up an hour early would allow people to get
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in earlier and out earlier. And also, you know, it
does help us mitigate any weather issues that we expect
to have later on the day. It's you know, the
weather report is changing ever so slightly, but it looks
like the rain will be a little bit later in
the afternoon, if not early evening, so we'll miss most
(09:36):
of that for the parade. But it also get people
a reason to you know, pack up and go when
the party's over.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Absolutely well, Nick, thanks very much. I know you got
a lot of work and a lot of preparation to do,
and again, have your way with whatever one of those
politicians are brave enough to venture into South Boston for
the breakfast. They know what they're gonna get. They're going
to be served up as well as they'll be served breakfast,
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and a great day for everyone in South Boston, whether
they're Irish or not. And of course on Sunday, everyone
in South Boston is going to claim they're Irish. Nick Colins,
State Senator, Thanks so much, Nick for joining us tonight,
and we will we'll talk soon.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Okay, Thanks Jam, welcome right.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Back at you, Nick Collins, thank you so much. Okay,
here's what I want to do. This is the twentieth hour.
I want to hear from as many of you as possible.
I'd love to hear from you if you're Irish or
if you're not Irish. If you're Irish, I'd love to
hear from you. If you have taken the step to
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get your dual citizenship. If you're not Irish, I'd love
to hear from you, if you've taken your step to
get dual citizenship. If some of you would like to
if any of you would like to call in and
join us and tell you tell us what Saint Patrick's
Day means to you. For me, it's like one of
the first harbingers of spring, because even though we can
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still get snowstorms April first, nineteen ninety seven, I'll put
on the table as evidence of that. I think it
really does finally tell us that we've broken the back
of winter. So there's a lot to be happy about.
If any of you have been to Ireland, I'd love
to hear a story if you've ever gone back and
met some of the family who's still in Ireland. Let's
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turn this into a nice positive finish for the week.
All comments and questions related to Ireland or to your
heritage or welcome and who knows, if I hear a
good story or two, maybe we can get you an
Irish T shirt from our great friends at college Hype
dot com. They have a wonderful website, my city Gear.
(11:52):
Wherever you live in Boston, you can find some great
sweatshirts and T shirts and hats at my city Gear.
That's the website mycitygear dot com. Our friend jack Darty
and I'll also mention, by the way, Jackson been such
a great friend of our program for so many years.
His daughter is finishing her hockey career. She plays for
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Hingham the Hingham Harbormen, and they're in the state finals
on Sunday at Boston Garden at eleven o'clock. So our
best wish is to all the girls' hockey teams who
have made it, who have played this winter, but particularly
we wish best of luck to the girls' hockey teams
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that will play. Have the thrill of playing on the
home ice of the Boston Bruins throughout most of Sunday,
so that's one of the great thrills and I hope
all the parents enjoy it as well. I so miss
the hockey games that my kids played in in high school.
You think they'll never end sometimes, but they do, and
when they end, you're very sad as a parent. Trust
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me on that. Okay, go to open up the phone lines.
Let's talk all things Irish six one seven, and you know,
if you want to bring your your heritage into the conversation,
what's wrong with that. Us Irish are very open minded.
We love everyone Irish. The Irish don't get involved in wars.
Uh for the most part, uh, and we we love people.
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Six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty six one seven, nine, three,
one ten thirty. How are you going to celebrate Saint
Patrick's Day? Let us know. I know one of the
things I will do is I will watch the stream
of students from Boston College head to the MBTA here
in Newton, and they will be going into South Boston,
many of them for the first time. And uh, it's
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it's quite it's quite an experience. Let's put it like that.
We'll be back at Nightside right after this.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Now back to Dan Ray Mine from the Window World
Nightside Studios on WBZ.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
The news radio. All right, we're looking Uh, this is
Saint Patrick's Day weekend, let's get it going here. Six
one seven, two, five, four ten thirty six one seven, nine, three,
one ten thirty. If you're Irish, come on, give us
a call. If you're not Irish, the only two types
of people that can call tonight are eligibill call. Either
have to be Irish or anything other than Irish. It's
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as simple as that. We'll get right to the calls.
Let me go to uh, Steven Weymouth, Steve, welcome first
this hour on Night Side tonight. Well, we dropped off.
We dropped him off. Look at that now, I actually
rob hit the coreer. He he must have dropped himself
off because I did hit the right green button. Let
me go to Dave's David in wear him. David has
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his radio track. That's very good. Let's put David on
hold and see if you can work with these folks
here tonight. Oh my goodness, Oh my goodness. So it's
gonna be one of those nights. Huh. I hope not.
Six one seven, two five four ten thirty. Got an
open line there and six one seven nine three one
ten thirty. That was the line that Steve was on.
(15:03):
And what happened was Steve had us on speakerphone and speak.
Steve hit speakerphone and disconnected himself. Steve called back, you
would love to hear from you. Let me go. Let's
try David and wear him. David, do you have you
radio turned down?
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Radio is bound?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Sir boy. I'll tell you before it sounded like it
was blasting. How are you welcome to Night Side?
Speaker 4 (15:25):
It's because I love your show, that's why.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Yeah, Well that's good. I'll tell you better check your
hearing in the morning. Because having a radio that loud
could be a problem.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Go right ahead, Well I'm not Irish, but that's okay.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Said as I said, the only two groups of people
that could call on St Patrick's Day Friday night, you
got to be Irish or not Irish. That's that's your
eligible ahead.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Yeah, I'm in that category. But I do love quanbe
for cabbage.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Oh god, it's I think it's the worst meal in America.
I've never I've never. Do you actually like it or no?
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Of course I do, and and I have a I
have to. I want to bring something up about that though.
Of course that was the kind.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Of meat that was cheap in them days.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Yes, yes, right, that's why they used it, you know, affordability.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Correct.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Have you noticed the price is now corn.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Well, particularly this week, I assume, yeah, I particularly this week.
It's it's much sought after. Yeah. I have never been
a fan of corn beef and cabbagy. The only time
that I've liked corn beef if I can slather it
with mustard, then I'm okay with that. But now I'm
not not at when I was a kid, that was
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always on the table, and that was the one meal
that I never was a fan of And I don't
know why I'm at Jessin Never. I'm sure people are
going to disagree with me, but that's you that maybe
you dude, maybe you are Irish after all if you
like gorned beef the gabbage, Dave, I don't.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Know you're Iris, so you're supposed to.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
I'm Irish, but yeah, we look. I'll tell you this,
the Irish cuisine. I first went to Ireland I think
it was nineteen eighty two as a TV reporter, and
the food was horrible. It was hot, it was in edible,
it was inedible. But Irish cuisine over the last forty
years has improved dramatically, dramatically. I can remember being in
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Ireland in eighty two and there was They had nothing
like Dunkin Donuts. I said to myself that I would
I would. I would start a dunkin Donut franchise and
retire to Ireland. I should have. I would have been
a multi millionaire by now. All you would have would
be a pub. You go into the pub at ten
o'clock in the morning and they would give you a
white bread sandwich with one slice of flat slice of ham,
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and that was considered a lovely morning snack. Not great,
not great, but but Virius cuisine has got better. It
has gotten better over time. Trust me on that.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Okay, yeah, well I don't cook it.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
I know all these restaurants that have it right now.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Well, probably the restaurants do better than than it was
when I growing up in my family. Some members of
my family liked it. It was not my favorite. David.
Great to hear your voice. This is your first time
calling the show, baby Chancell know.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Oh yeah, but I'd listened all the time.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
I got to give you a ride of applause. Is
the first tight caller, David. That's you know, that's part
of your reduction into the order of nightside go ahead.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
But what I'm really doing is I'm I'm one of
those old fashioned guys that if you can't sleep, you
go for a ride out by the water or something.
You know what, bag you know, I couldn't, you know,
I get restless and and I put you on and
listen to you, and well, you know what I'm doing.
I'm waiting for the stroke of midnight.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
You know why, I have no clue.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
The stroke of midnight is the IDEs of botch.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
You're right, You're right, so make.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Sure you keep keep you.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Keep your back to the wall. At two, brote you too.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
We have to.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Well. Happy birthday, Happy birthday. I'm gonna ask you how old,
but happy birthday. Get it another round up from wear him.
Here you get two rounds of floss. First time caller,
and on your birthday, David.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Congratulations, I'll tell you after a few hot operations, I'm
turning seventy. Thank you lord.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Wow, good for you. Good for you, a big one,
a big one. Enjoy the day and do something special.
Thanks David. Touch you soon, all right, good back, good night,
all right, cad. I let me go back on to
try Steve and uh in wayman, Steve, I have no
idea what happened. I was afraid your house blew up.
Go right ahead. We lost?
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Yeah, oh Dan, this is Steve from North Weymouth, Massachusetts.
And uh yeah, I'm the truck driver.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Come on, how you doing?
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Yeah yeah, that's where I used.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
To live, Dan, I thought, I told Rob. I said,
let's throw Dan off.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
A little bit.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
Tell him I'm from North Weymouth, Massachusetts, where I live
for two decades.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
Oh yeah, I got.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
You, soasa, how you did get me? How far are
you from the tappan Zee Bridge, because every time you come,
you're either going over it, Teddy heading to Pennsylvania. See,
I know you're route or you're coming down.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
How you do?
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Yeah, I'm about twenty minutes from the bridge.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
At the bridge for you is not the Sagamore or
the board.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
For you, it's the no no, even though I've been
over both of those bridges many times on the truck.
But no, I'm I didn't get to see the lunar
clips in the morning because it was really thick cloud
cover in New York. Yeah, I could see it partially
in Massachusetts Connecticut border, but the clouds were getting thicker
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and I couldn't see it. But I have a friend
in Homer, Pennsylvania, and they said.
Speaker 6 (21:15):
That they saw it was clears, guys.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
And of course the minute I drove into Pennsylvania it
was clear skuys. But it was too late by then.
But I'm sorry I missed it because I really get
into that.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Well, great if they had held it off for a
couple of hours for you, I.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
Don't know what funny you were funny with Bob to
call the too about a reference to seems like somebody's
already taken the bar something old like that.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Yeah, yeah, I think Bob knew what I was saying.
But oh yeah, he got about it, that's for sure.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
So in between his books, Yeah he understood what you
were saying.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
No, no, you get classy callers here. Don't worry. So look,
I know, when when do you When does your day
or when does your ride in? You got what four
hours left? Maybe?
Speaker 5 (22:07):
Uh, probably seven six and a half. I got to
take my half an hour break. So I'm direct. I'm
a direct flight from York, Pennsylvania our terminal, to Leiston, Maine,
to our other terminal. That's my home base. So it
takes two hours, like I said, from York, Pennsylvania to
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the Pennsylvania New Jersey border. Then from there it's real long,
you know, ninety five through Connecticut.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
But I love to drive, so it's not long to me.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
Plus you entertain me. I get to hear you all
the time.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
So well, if you if you watch the evening news tonight,
there was a lot of wind out in the Midwest
and Texas and some of the big eighteen wheelers were
literally being blown over, So please be careful.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
Okay, Yeah, it doesn't take much even if you're fuller
empty your trailer. That win. You know, it's amazing how
powerful it can be. I mean, I've been down the
road and forty mile prowl a fifty mile per hour gusta.
My tractor will want to go into all lane. So
it's good to have two hands on the.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Up. We just lost him, Steve. We lost you. You
weren't cut off. We lost you. You cut cut off
in mid sentence. Be well, Steve. Have a great weekend,
Happy Saint Patrick's Day. We're ready to break for the
news at the bottom of the hour, coming right back
on nightside. My name's Dan Ray. Feel free to join us.
We're getting you started on the Saint Patrick's Day weekend.
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And if you're out there and you want to, you know,
open a beer or have a glass of wine tonight
to toast Saint Patrick, one of the great saints, drove
the snakes out of Ireland. I'm not sure there were
snakes in Ireland, but as legend has it, he drove
them out. And you want to give a toast to
Saint Patrick, you can. I have to wait until after midnight,
which I will coming back on nightside. After this.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
All right, let's keep rolling here. We're gonna go next
to We got Gregory in Dorchester. Gregory will get you in.
Then I got Laurie and Idaho, Jennifer and Yarmouth Port,
Karen and Rhode Island, and Doreen and Chelsea, although not
necessarily in that order. Gregory, how are you going to
be at the Mary and Brett food pantry?
Speaker 7 (24:26):
I don't think so. Sorry, I'll be there.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
I'll be there representing you.
Speaker 7 (24:30):
Okay, Yeah. Do you see Bill Breath around the tall?
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Of course I do. Bill, absolutely, I'll tell him you
said hello, I.
Speaker 7 (24:40):
Haven't down a corner.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
He's there tomorrow. He's there, Bill Brett is there, Jim
Brett is there, Harry Brett is there, all the breads
are there. And I'm the MC tomorrow and we'll raise
some money for the Mary.
Speaker 7 (24:55):
Brett food I'll make it next year, hope. So I'm
still live.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
In Happy St. Patrick's day. To you, I can tell
whether the little I know that you're one hundred percent Irish?
What what town? What Cork? What? What? What county? Did
you eminate?
Speaker 7 (25:10):
I was born in Dingle County Kerry Dingles most I
know you read the Globe stage it's an article with
an Ireland on.
Speaker 6 (25:23):
It and set.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Beautiful, yeah, beautiful.
Speaker 7 (25:30):
Language for from we speak all Irish Gaelic. Have you
been back, Oh, I've been quite back back quite often. Yeah,
not lately because my parents have passed away, and I
still have a sister and none know their sister a
retired school teacher, a brother home and the home place
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and another sister and.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Beautiful.
Speaker 7 (25:57):
I used to go. I used to go a lot,
but not as that just happen as they used to.
You know, I used to go once a year one time,
and you know, I was married with a couple of kids,
and it wasn't that easy. The one time you go back.
Then then this you go back, and you go for
six weeks or something. Now they're going back and forth
like every other day.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Greg, what year did you come here?
Speaker 7 (26:20):
Nineteen fifty nine, sixty nine, fifty.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Nine, fifty nine.
Speaker 7 (26:27):
How tough over the twenty second I'll never forget it,
nineteen fifty nine.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
How tough was it to get into the country back
in those days?
Speaker 7 (26:34):
It wasn't tough for me because we did the right thing.
You know what, My mother was an American citizen and
she worked in Cambridge, and when things for Badge, they
tell me all about America and Boston, and she was
telling me how proud the Irish were that they wouldn't
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even go on the breadline or something. And she was
a house keep her a cook or something in Camerage
for some rich family over there, and she was cooking
Irish bread, sticking it out the window at night. They
used to come around just to give them something to eat,
but they were too proud to go going to the
front and the soup line or whatever they called it.
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You know, they set up. They weren't set up in
hotels and giving vouchers or anything. That's It wasn't tough
for meat all it was. It was easy.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
I'm good here and and you're you're an American by choice, Greg,
I got to run, I got packed lines, happy, very proud.
Speaker 7 (27:38):
I love this country and it's the best cook in
the world. And if anybody who knocks today, I ate it.
I love it. There's no country like it in the world.
I got one thing in common with you. I never
heard the carn beef and cabbage in Ireland til I
come out here.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Now now I feel better. I feel better, Greg, I
got a run, I got packed right, So.
Speaker 7 (28:00):
Wish and make sure.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
I'll tell them all. I'll tell them all. I promise you, Greg,
talk to you. Thank you, good night. Let me go.
Laurie is in Idaho. Laurie, welcome. How are you?
Speaker 8 (28:14):
I'm well.
Speaker 9 (28:16):
My refrigerator died tonight?
Speaker 2 (28:17):
So will there be some services that we could attend if? Oh,
my goodness, good fridge.
Speaker 9 (28:28):
But it's just I didn't it's running, but obviously the
condenser must have pooped out because it's not keeping anything cold,
which is not what I need to discover at eight
o'clock at night.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
But no, I know, can you put it out on
a porch or something and that at least is closed
in so the animals don't get it?
Speaker 9 (28:43):
Or no, it's cold enough. I don't. I don't know
what kind of critters can crawl back and forth, but
I mean something stuff. Maybe I'm just going to go.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 9 (28:53):
I'm gonna get to get a little one tomorrow and
then see what we want to do about I don't
know if it can be serviced. I mean, do they
fix refrigerators anymore? Did they just bury them and any one.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Probably not. They hold a lovely service and they take
it to the well.
Speaker 9 (29:07):
Moving on. Happy Saint Patrick's Day weekend right to you
as well.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
I'm looking forward to it. It's it's a it's a
nice way stop during the year kind of to me
says winter is finally over. You know. We can talk
about Groundhog's Day Valentine's Day on March first, but Saint
Patrick's Day, that's.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
That's my holiday.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Yeah, you're going to celebrate it tomorrow, tomorrow and all
out in Idaho. There's no parades in Idaho, I'm sure
for Saint Patrick's.
Speaker 9 (29:37):
Day, right, Probably not, but I wouldn't go to one anyway,
So no, I you know, I I kind of like
leave amateur Hour to the amateur hours now. But I
love friends and I we did we did. We did
the the Hodge to the Black Rose for many many
years on Saint Patrick's Day and it was it was
always fund to stay a life for a while.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
But it's it's a it's that's a bit of a
religious experience, I'm told, probably when you're.
Speaker 9 (30:04):
In twenties, yes, but it was great, didn't you didn't
eat I like the gray corn beef. I do not
like the red stuff. So I kind of cook my
guy corn, my own brisket, and I have my own
corn beef, and I love the music.
Speaker 6 (30:16):
And how much cherry?
Speaker 2 (30:19):
How much Irish blood do you have in you? You
are you thorough?
Speaker 4 (30:22):
No?
Speaker 9 (30:22):
No exactly. I mean, I know my mother's grandmother was
a Kelly. My mother's mother was a Kelly, and so
they had that. There's a little bit of Scotch in
there somewhere, and we also have a lot of English.
So that must have been a fun family reunion way
back when.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, no, you know, hey, they buried
the hatchet and they they they now yet it was yeah,
well they have. But back in those days, I think
that there still was good feelings amongst families. That's all.
We might be related. I had some relatives who were Kelly's,
so who knows, you know, we're we're all in some
form of fashion related. Anyway, Have you got I want
(31:00):
to give away a night side T shirt? Have you
got a night side T shirt out there to wear
now that spring is about to spring to spring to
spring past its Yeah, no, it's not. Unfortunately it's gray.
It's great. So you can take you can take it
or leave it your choice. You let us know here. Okay,
is it?
Speaker 9 (31:18):
Is it an Irish steam or is it a night
side T shirt?
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Nice side T shirt? Night side T shirt? I can
get you an Irish I can get you an Irish
T shirt if you want. Would you like an Irish
T shirt?
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Well?
Speaker 9 (31:28):
I do have a gray one, but green is my
favorite color.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Okay, yeah, I don't have any green knightside T shirts.
But I'll get your green T shirt from our friends
of college Hype. That'll be That'll be a nice, uh
spring addition to your wardrobe.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Okay, that makes my night much better?
Speaker 2 (31:44):
All right, excellent, excellent, that's coming to you from our
friends at college Hype. And you just leave the all
the information, size, et cetera address and we'll get it
in the mail in the next couple of days for sure. Okay.
Speaker 9 (31:57):
I appreciate that, and thank you and happy things have
to pay that got them the other guy.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
I know, Yeah, but I don't think you've been drinking.
Thanks Lloyd. We'll talk soon. Don't hang up. Get that
information a rob Okay, what are we gonna do here? Well,
we got four more calls. We're gonna get everybody in
we're gonna be a little quicker. We're gonna take a
break and we'll be right back on Nightside.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
All right, let's keep rolling. You're going to go to
Jennifer in you aremo boy, Hey Jennifer, welcome back. Happy
Saint Patrick's Day. How are you?
Speaker 8 (32:33):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (32:34):
Good Dan? Thank you? Yes, the same to you. What
I do for Saint Patrick's Day being and I do
home healthcare. I make a millions of share More cookies
and bring them to a lot of the nursing homes
in the area residents to enjoy. That's very kind of you,
and that's my gift for Saint Patrick's Day.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
That's an annual tradition. Know what, because you've been so general,
I'm going to send you. I'd like to send you
a night side T shirt.
Speaker 10 (33:04):
Oh thank you, that's so nice. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Okay, what you got to do is you got to
give your name and address and your phone number. Remember,
get the phone numbers, Rob and whatever size you want.
The biggest they go up to is two X. I'm
sure that you're no two X, but whatever you need,
you let us know. It's kind of a great night
side T shirt and you can wear it. Summer is
(33:27):
right around the corner. You can show your pride in
Nightside and show it off in Yarmouthport this year.
Speaker 10 (33:33):
Okay, yes, And if you ever get the inkling to
come down here, I'd love to have you as a
guest to my home.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Well, you never know, you never know. I do spend
some time on the cape in the summertime, and I'd
be more than happy to give your call and stop
buy and say hello. So you just leave all of
that information. And when did you start this cookie tradition,
because that's pretty nice.
Speaker 10 (33:56):
Oh gosh, probably twenty five years ago.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
Good you you've gotta be a good person to do that.
That's great. Well, Jen, you hold on and we'll get
you that Nightside T shirt in the mail in no
later than Monday.
Speaker 10 (34:09):
Okay, okay, that's great. Thank you Dan very much.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
You're very welcome. Rob will take all that for you. Okay.
Let me go next to Doreen and Chelsea. Doreen, you
were next on Nightside. Welcome.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
How are you doing.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
I'm doing great?
Speaker 6 (34:21):
Toy san patties to everybody out there.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
I'm with you.
Speaker 8 (34:26):
Them well and good luck.
Speaker 6 (34:29):
I remember what they say when Irish eyes are smiling,
the whole world smiles with you.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Now, I'm guessing that you must have a little bit
of Irish blood in you. Yes, I do.
Speaker 7 (34:43):
I do for you, and I love the dinner.
Speaker 9 (34:46):
I love the dinner, especially the cabbage, curly cabbage.
Speaker 6 (34:49):
Are you too, Yeah, I've.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Never developed a taste for it. It's funny people.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
I love it.
Speaker 8 (34:55):
It's good for your blood.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
Good for your blood.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Yeah, that's the that is good to know, Dorian. Yeah, well,
I you know what I'm I'm going to send you
a nightside T shirt too. How's that? Okay?
Speaker 6 (35:09):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Show it off well, I would appreciate that. Summertime's coming
and very very comfortable. They're gray with I think it's
blue lettering. So you leave your information with Rob and
we'll take care of you. Okay.
Speaker 6 (35:24):
You hanging there, and thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
My pleasure, Derry. Thanks for being such a loyal Nightside listener.
Let's go to Karen in Rhode Island. Karen and going
to get you in here and a couple more. Karen,
You're next on Nightside.
Speaker 11 (35:37):
Hi Dan, Happy Saint Patrick's Day.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Right back at you. A happy weekend. The weekend is
about to start for all of us. Tgi F it's Friday,
that's for sure, Yes it is.
Speaker 11 (35:51):
This is the first time I can honestly say I
am pot Irish because I recently did my DNA and
I came back twelve percent Irish.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
Wow, oh wow? What what are the other? What's the other?
Eighty eight percent? Is it?
Speaker 11 (36:10):
Well, big surprise?
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Are you? Are you a mutt like many people?
Speaker 11 (36:15):
If you know what I'm saying, I'm my mother on
my mother's side, both her mother and father have English ancestry.
On my father's side, his father came from Sweden, his mother,
the ancestry was English. So I knew all I knew
(36:37):
was English that I could actually trace back to a person.
So I finally decided to do my DNA and find
out if I could find like connections over there, to
do more, do more research because it's hot with records
over here, to get records over there. And yeah, I'm
twelve percent Irish and I'm twelve percent and twenty eight
(37:02):
Swedish and the rest of it is English.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
That's a good combination. Good combination there, that's for sure. Hey,
that's great. That's great, Karen. Let me. We're just giving
away night side T shirts here, so let's give one
more to you. You have you don't have one yet. No,
well we're gonna get you one. But you're gonna do
the same thing. Leave all your information with rob name,
(37:25):
phone number, and whatever size you want. Okay. The biggest
we go was two X, but I'm sure that you're
less than.
Speaker 7 (37:33):
Two X I am.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
Okay. Well, we'll get your good gray T shirt and
it'll work for you. And they're pretty warm, by the way,
they're really good quality T shirts. Okay, thank you.
Speaker 11 (37:43):
Thank you, Dan, and have a nice week again.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
Don't hang up, don't hang up. All right, let's keep
rolling here. I got Tim and Woolber and Tim. A
little Irish blood.
Speaker 6 (37:51):
Here, a lot of Irish blood. How much my mother
was My mother was a rooney from Cork. My father McMahon, right,
a hundred percent Irish.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
Well, you got it all, You got it all whereabouts
in County Cork. My four meres are from Mala, which is.
Speaker 6 (38:12):
That I not I'm not. I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
You got to do the research on that. You got
to do the research and then at some point have
you ever been back over?
Speaker 6 (38:22):
No, no, my mother has been over there. We sent
my mother over. She passed away, but we sent our
mother over the years ago. She loved it.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
Well, you should see if she left you some notes
of relatives. It's it's a it's something everyone should do.
We should talk about it sometime.
Speaker 6 (38:37):
Okay, could I ask you? Are you Italian?
Speaker 2 (38:42):
Nope? Nope, Irish with the A on the end, right, AE,
I owe you were the vowel.
Speaker 6 (38:49):
I thought you might have been.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
Anyhow do you know any people who have the last
name of Shay s h g A. You kind of
get more Irish than Shay.
Speaker 6 (38:58):
So yeah, it's right, yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyhow, let me
tell you a quick story years ago, right, I came home.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
You gotta be quick on this, tim You gotta be
quick on this one, because they got one more behind you.
Speaker 3 (39:10):
Go ahead, okay, tell you what.
Speaker 6 (39:12):
Anyhow, I'd love a night side T shirt. I wear
it to the function at Namoli.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
Okay, you know what, why not? Go ahead? Well you
stay right there, We'll get you a night side T shirt. Okay, Okay,
thanks you hanging there? Okay, on one boy here, let
me go to j L in Boston. J L welcome,
How are you hi?
Speaker 8 (39:35):
There?
Speaker 2 (39:37):
Hi? JL.
Speaker 8 (39:39):
I wanted to call because I just recently learned this
past week that my maternal grandmother has been recognized in
the Boston Women's Heritage Trail.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
Excellent, how about that?
Speaker 8 (39:54):
That's yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
What was she recognized for, j L?
Speaker 8 (40:00):
Well, she was a lost resident of the old West
End at three seventy nine Charles Street, all right, all right,
and fought the taking of the West End.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
Yeah. A lot of people thought that that was terrible
for that community. But yeah, unfortunately, there's a lot of
communities that get themselves gentrified. There's no question about that.
Have you called before? I never had a JL call
this show. I have not. No, We've got to give
you a run of applause. JL, thank you so much
(40:36):
for our digital studio audience. JL. I gotta let you run.
I've had five T shirts to give away. If I
had one more, I would give it to you. So
I'm going to get you maybe next time when you call. Okay, Okay,
thanks JL, appreciating congratulations on your grandmother. That's quite an honor.
That's wonderful.
Speaker 8 (40:56):
Thank you, Thank you, Thanks, JL.
Speaker 2 (40:58):
Have a great weekend.
Speaker 8 (40:59):
Oh she was one hundred percent Irish.
Speaker 2 (41:02):
Well then you've got to be at least I'm guessing
fifty percent. So happy Saint Patrick's n you as well.
Speaker 8 (41:07):
Thank you. That's the whole reason for my calling.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
Okay, great, thanks, Thanks Jay, I'll talk to you soon.
We had done for the week. We're done for the night.
Rob Brooks, great job, Maria, great job. Happy Saint Patrick's
Day to everyone. There are people who are still calling,
but I can't get you in because we're run out
of time. I will be on Facebook again. I would
remind you if you want to join us for a
brunch on April twenty seventh. Uh, make a reservation seven
(41:35):
eight one three seven five two five nine four. Oh
call me at WBZ and I'll give you all the specifics.
Done for the week, I'm going to be on Facebook.
Just go to Facebook night Side with Dan Ray and
I'll talk to you in the next couple of minutes.
Have a great weekend. Everyone on dogs, all cats, all
pets go to heaven. That's my Pelle, Charlie ray Is,
who passed fifteen years ago in February. That's where all
(41:55):
your pets are. Where past they loved you, You love them.
I do believe you'll see them again. We'll see again
on Monday night everyone, and of course you can listen
to Best of night Side at Sunday Night at eleven.
Have a great weekend, everyone,
It's nice eye Dan Raye, Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
All right, a little bit after the eleven o'clock hour,
my name is Dan ray We have reached the twentieth
hour of the week, as we do at this time
every week, and just we always like to look back
quickly at the variety of topics that we have talked about,
either in the eight o'clock hour we call the nightside
(00:29):
News Update or in the more full discussion with listeners.
So we started off on Monday night talking with an
expert about the fact that sleep gets tougher as you age.
We talked about the Bruins fire sale, which for a
couple of days a couple of games, looked like it
had worked out pretty well for the Bruins. We talked
(00:50):
about the death of Gene Hackman and his wife. She
died Betsy Arakawa died of hanta virus, a very rare disease.
We talked about army recruiting, talked with Chris Anderson in
the nine o'clock hour and Monday night, the founder of
the Massachusetts Opportunity Alliance. And of course on Monday was
really the first day where the stock market took a
(01:12):
big hit, and we talked about the stock market tanking
on Monday, and a lot of that was the result
of Donald Trump's answer to a question about the possibility
of a recession. On Tuesday night, we talked about the
best cars for twenty twenty five, particularly the best cars
for families. Talked about a scholarship fund that's being run
(01:34):
by the Ford Corporation for Auto technicians. Talked about the
dangers and the need for colo colon rectal cancer checks.
Not pleasant subject but one that we had to remind
people of. And we talked about fentanyl laced drugs. It
(01:55):
is spring break, and it is that time of year
when a lot of your children and your grandchildren are
heading to faraway places for spring break from college. And
drugs were around, sadly, and many of them are laced
with fentan'l talk with David Urban, newest member of the
EMK Institute, News director of the EMK Institute for the
(02:18):
US Senate. That's a wonderful facility over at Columbia Point
and Urban is now a CNN contributor, And we talked
about high energy bills here in Massachusetts and who's to
blame and I put it squarely on the Department of
Public Utilities commissioners, three people who dropped the ball in
November in my opinion. On Wednesday night, we talked about
(02:41):
the Democratic Party searching for a message in the wake
of the Trump victory. The victory by President Trump last week.
Talked about the Patriots free awning, free agent signings with
Chris Price from the Boston Globe. Talked about New England
slang with Stacy Milbauer of a website called Granite News,
and talked about hospital bed shortage around the country with
(03:04):
a doctor from UCLA. Talked with Julie Sullivan about long
COVID recovering from long COVID. Shees with Brigham and Women's
Hospital MGH Brigham and Women's Hospital. And we talked at
ten o'clock about the decision by Jean Shaheen, Senator Democrat
from New Hampshire, not to seek reelection. And we talked
about Mahoud Khalil, the Palestinian student at Columbia who is
(03:30):
now facing deportation. Last night, talked with an expert about
the push for people to return to the office. Talked
about the Twitter outage with an expert the Twitter or
ex outage. We talked with a gentleman about how tariffs
are going to hurt farmers, and we talked about young
(03:51):
kids as young as seven being concerned about their body image.
With Kelly's Shoup, we will have her on at some
point in the next week or two to take phone calls.
And then we talked last night, we did two hours
on the various type of boycotts that have gone on
in this country in recent years, and we focused a
little bit on the Tesla boy clot some of the
physical damage that has been done against private and public property,
(04:13):
commercial property, and talked about that compared to the bud
Light and also the January sixth protest. Obviously January sixth
was a very different type of protest, but the bud
Light was a protest and economic protest which was in
effective boycott very effective in that regard. And then talked
(04:34):
about the FEDS not shutting government down. Senator Schumer blinked,
which I think is pretty accurate. Tonight, we talked about
a new movie any day now about the Gardner Heist
with Eric Aronson, and talked about speaking circles international getting
past the fear of public speaking, and talked about pinnipeds
(04:55):
and penguins with Christian McMahon of the beautiful full location
downtown that all of us go the the arbor where
where we go and see all the the the the
fish and everything at New England, at the New England Aquarium.
(05:16):
We're so blessed to have that facility in our community.
Talk with Mark Jarman about the company called Futurian a
one b ai being used for security. Talk with doctor
Edward Christino, president of the Animal Rescue League of Boston,
about their efforts to get some legislation passed which will
help older folks and folks with disabilities be able to
(05:38):
keep their their animals. And last hour we talked about
the federal judge rejecting the Karen Reid case the double
jeopardy claim and with us now is the Senator from
South Boston other places as well, Nick Collins Nick Saint
Patrick's Day weekend is upon us. Welcome to the show.
How are you tonight?
Speaker 3 (05:59):
I'm great, Dan, thanks for having me on. Happy Saint Patrick, Stan,
happy you have had delationis day right.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Back at you. You have a big responsibility. The breakfast,
the annual Saint Patrick's Day Breakfast is on Sunday and
I'm just wondering, which of the the politicians are you
going to have for breakfast on Sunday?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
If you get my drift, Yes, everyone is on the
menu for the roast.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Yes, spread who is signed up? Sometimes we get surprised
by sometimes guests from far away places. Any chance that
President Trump is going to make a remote appearance.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Well, we're never too sure. We can break last minute,
and we're gonna We're gonna leave that up to the
audience to find out on Sunday morning. But we have
a great lineup that's already committed from federal, state, and
local elected leaders, and we have some foreign leaders that
are joining us from the Irish government, So it should
(07:00):
be an exciting day. We have a great parade planned
as well, with a lot of preparation that has been
made over the last year. And you know, it's a
great time of year. It breaks away from winter, and
we turned into a town from thirty five thousand to
a million people overnight, and we're celebrating great history in
(07:21):
our city and our state and really in our country
with March seventeen, seventeen seventy six being both Saint Patrick's
Day and the first victory in the American Revolution here
in Boston and known as Evacuation Day. But I think
the most fun part of the day for sure for
me is the Saint Pat's Day breakfast where we get
to have some fun with a roast that's been around
(07:43):
for over one hundred years.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Yeah, so let me ask let me ask you this
nick minderstanding. Have they moved the parade up? I know
they're concerned about rain later in the day. The breakfast
is normally what nine o'clock? That the breakfast starts early.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Yeah, the breakfast is normally at ten clock, and it's
when we bumped it up an hour early to accommodate
the earlier start for the parade. So you can watch
it on TV on nesson the Women's Sports Network, the
womand cable News NYCN along with BNN if you live
in Boston. I'd also be streamed live on Cottonsulty dot com.
(08:18):
But it's a it's just an adjustment that was necessary
to accommodate a better safety plan for the parade led
by the South Boston Now I had World Westerns Council.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Okay, so the parade will will step off at what
eleven o'clock? Is that? What I'm eleven thirty, okay, and
they hope.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Will give nine to eleven and the parade will kick
off at eleven.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Thirty, okay. And my understanding is that they're looking at
some heavy or rain later in the day and that's
why they're moving things up. The weather forecast, what time
will the parade wrap up? What time can people expect
to be starting to.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
The parade should wrap up around two two thirty. It's
a combination of well, I think this year really was
about the storm that was on the streets of South
Boston last year with respect to the the out of
control revee. And there's a there's a notion that bumping
it up an hour early would allow people to get
(09:16):
in earlier and out earlier. And also, you know, it
does help us mitigate any weather issues that we expect
to have later on the day. It's you know, the
weather report is changing ever so slightly, but it looks
like the rain will be a little bit later in
the afternoon, if not early evening, so we'll miss most
(09:36):
of that for the parade. But it also get people
a reason to you know, pack up and go when
the party's over.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Absolutely well, Nick, thanks very much. I know you got
a lot of work and a lot of preparation to do,
and again, have your way with whatever one of those
politicians are brave enough to venture into South Boston for
the breakfast. They know what they're gonna get. They're going
to be served up as well as they'll be served breakfast,
(10:04):
and a great day for everyone in South Boston, whether
they're Irish or not. And of course on Sunday, everyone
in South Boston is going to claim they're Irish. Nick Colins,
State Senator, Thanks so much, Nick for joining us tonight,
and we will we'll talk soon.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Okay, Thanks Jam, welcome right.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Back at you, Nick Collins, thank you so much. Okay,
here's what I want to do. This is the twentieth hour.
I want to hear from as many of you as possible.
I'd love to hear from you if you're Irish or
if you're not Irish. If you're Irish, I'd love to
hear from you. If you have taken the step to
(10:43):
get your dual citizenship. If you're not Irish, I'd love
to hear from you, if you've taken your step to
get dual citizenship. If some of you would like to
if any of you would like to call in and
join us and tell you tell us what Saint Patrick's
Day means to you. For me, it's like one of
the first harbingers of spring, because even though we can
(11:06):
still get snowstorms April first, nineteen ninety seven, I'll put
on the table as evidence of that. I think it
really does finally tell us that we've broken the back
of winter. So there's a lot to be happy about.
If any of you have been to Ireland, I'd love
to hear a story if you've ever gone back and
met some of the family who's still in Ireland. Let's
(11:29):
turn this into a nice positive finish for the week.
All comments and questions related to Ireland or to your
heritage or welcome and who knows, if I hear a
good story or two, maybe we can get you an
Irish T shirt from our great friends at college Hype
dot com. They have a wonderful website, my city Gear.
(11:52):
Wherever you live in Boston, you can find some great
sweatshirts and T shirts and hats at my city Gear.
That's the website mycitygear dot com. Our friend jack Darty
and I'll also mention, by the way, Jackson been such
a great friend of our program for so many years.
His daughter is finishing her hockey career. She plays for
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Hingham the Hingham Harbormen, and they're in the state finals
on Sunday at Boston Garden at eleven o'clock. So our
best wish is to all the girls' hockey teams who
have made it, who have played this winter, but particularly
we wish best of luck to the girls' hockey teams
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that will play. Have the thrill of playing on the
home ice of the Boston Bruins throughout most of Sunday,
so that's one of the great thrills and I hope
all the parents enjoy it as well. I so miss
the hockey games that my kids played in in high school.
You think they'll never end sometimes, but they do, and
when they end, you're very sad as a parent. Trust
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me on that. Okay, go to open up the phone lines.
Let's talk all things Irish six one seven, and you know,
if you want to bring your your heritage into the conversation,
what's wrong with that. Us Irish are very open minded.
We love everyone Irish. The Irish don't get involved in wars.
Uh for the most part, uh, and we we love people.
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Six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty six one seven, nine, three,
one ten thirty. How are you going to celebrate Saint
Patrick's Day? Let us know. I know one of the
things I will do is I will watch the stream
of students from Boston College head to the MBTA here
in Newton, and they will be going into South Boston,
many of them for the first time. And uh, it's
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it's quite it's quite an experience. Let's put it like that.
We'll be back at Nightside right after this.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Now back to Dan Ray Mine from the Window World
Nightside Studios on WBZ.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
The news radio. All right, we're looking Uh, this is
Saint Patrick's Day weekend, let's get it going here. Six
one seven, two, five, four ten thirty six one seven, nine, three,
one ten thirty. If you're Irish, come on, give us
a call. If you're not Irish, the only two types
of people that can call tonight are eligibill call. Either
have to be Irish or anything other than Irish. It's
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as simple as that. We'll get right to the calls.
Let me go to uh, Steven Weymouth, Steve, welcome first
this hour on Night Side tonight. Well, we dropped off.
We dropped him off. Look at that now, I actually
rob hit the coreer. He he must have dropped himself
off because I did hit the right green button. Let
me go to Dave's David in wear him. David has
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his radio track. That's very good. Let's put David on
hold and see if you can work with these folks
here tonight. Oh my goodness, Oh my goodness. So it's
gonna be one of those nights. Huh. I hope not.
Six one seven, two five four ten thirty. Got an
open line there and six one seven nine three one
ten thirty. That was the line that Steve was on.
(15:03):
And what happened was Steve had us on speakerphone and speak.
Steve hit speakerphone and disconnected himself. Steve called back, you
would love to hear from you. Let me go. Let's
try David and wear him. David, do you have you
radio turned down?
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Radio is bound?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Sir boy. I'll tell you before it sounded like it
was blasting. How are you welcome to Night Side?
Speaker 4 (15:25):
It's because I love your show, that's why.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Yeah, Well that's good. I'll tell you better check your
hearing in the morning. Because having a radio that loud
could be a problem.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Go right ahead, Well I'm not Irish, but that's okay.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Said as I said, the only two groups of people
that could call on St Patrick's Day Friday night, you
got to be Irish or not Irish. That's that's your
eligible ahead.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Yeah, I'm in that category. But I do love quanbe
for cabbage.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Oh god, it's I think it's the worst meal in America.
I've never I've never. Do you actually like it or no?
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Of course I do, and and I have a I
have to. I want to bring something up about that though.
Of course that was the kind.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Of meat that was cheap in them days.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Yes, yes, right, that's why they used it, you know, affordability.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Correct.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Have you noticed the price is now corn.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Well, particularly this week, I assume, yeah, I particularly this week.
It's it's much sought after. Yeah. I have never been
a fan of corn beef and cabbagy. The only time
that I've liked corn beef if I can slather it
with mustard, then I'm okay with that. But now I'm
not not at when I was a kid, that was
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always on the table, and that was the one meal
that I never was a fan of And I don't
know why I'm at Jessin Never. I'm sure people are
going to disagree with me, but that's you that maybe
you dude, maybe you are Irish after all if you
like gorned beef the gabbage, Dave, I don't.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Know you're Iris, so you're supposed to.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
I'm Irish, but yeah, we look. I'll tell you this,
the Irish cuisine. I first went to Ireland I think
it was nineteen eighty two as a TV reporter, and
the food was horrible. It was hot, it was in edible,
it was inedible. But Irish cuisine over the last forty
years has improved dramatically, dramatically. I can remember being in
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Ireland in eighty two and there was They had nothing
like Dunkin Donuts. I said to myself that I would
I would. I would start a dunkin Donut franchise and
retire to Ireland. I should have. I would have been
a multi millionaire by now. All you would have would
be a pub. You go into the pub at ten
o'clock in the morning and they would give you a
white bread sandwich with one slice of flat slice of ham,
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and that was considered a lovely morning snack. Not great,
not great, but but Virius cuisine has got better. It
has gotten better over time. Trust me on that.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Okay, yeah, well I don't cook it.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
I know all these restaurants that have it right now.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Well, probably the restaurants do better than than it was
when I growing up in my family. Some members of
my family liked it. It was not my favorite. David.
Great to hear your voice. This is your first time
calling the show, baby Chancell know.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Oh yeah, but I'd listened all the time.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
I got to give you a ride of applause. Is
the first tight caller, David. That's you know, that's part
of your reduction into the order of nightside go ahead.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
But what I'm really doing is I'm I'm one of
those old fashioned guys that if you can't sleep, you
go for a ride out by the water or something.
You know what, bag you know, I couldn't, you know,
I get restless and and I put you on and
listen to you, and well, you know what I'm doing.
I'm waiting for the stroke of midnight.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
You know why, I have no clue.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
The stroke of midnight is the IDEs of botch.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
You're right, You're right, so make.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Sure you keep keep you.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Keep your back to the wall. At two, brote you too.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
We have to.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Well. Happy birthday, Happy birthday. I'm gonna ask you how old,
but happy birthday. Get it another round up from wear him.
Here you get two rounds of floss. First time caller,
and on your birthday, David.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Congratulations, I'll tell you after a few hot operations, I'm
turning seventy. Thank you lord.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Wow, good for you. Good for you, a big one,
a big one. Enjoy the day and do something special.
Thanks David. Touch you soon, all right, good back, good night,
all right, cad. I let me go back on to
try Steve and uh in wayman, Steve, I have no
idea what happened. I was afraid your house blew up.
Go right ahead. We lost?
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Yeah, oh Dan, this is Steve from North Weymouth, Massachusetts.
And uh yeah, I'm the truck driver.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Come on, how you doing?
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Yeah yeah, that's where I used.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
To live, Dan, I thought, I told Rob. I said,
let's throw Dan off.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
A little bit.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
Tell him I'm from North Weymouth, Massachusetts, where I live
for two decades.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
Oh yeah, I got.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
You, soasa, how you did get me? How far are
you from the tappan Zee Bridge, because every time you come,
you're either going over it, Teddy heading to Pennsylvania. See,
I know you're route or you're coming down.
Speaker 4 (20:37):
How you do?
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Yeah, I'm about twenty minutes from the bridge.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
At the bridge for you is not the Sagamore or
the board.
Speaker 5 (20:46):
For you, it's the no no, even though I've been
over both of those bridges many times on the truck.
But no, I'm I didn't get to see the lunar
clips in the morning because it was really thick cloud
cover in New York. Yeah, I could see it partially
in Massachusetts Connecticut border, but the clouds were getting thicker
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and I couldn't see it. But I have a friend
in Homer, Pennsylvania, and they said.
Speaker 6 (21:15):
That they saw it was clears, guys.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
And of course the minute I drove into Pennsylvania it
was clear skuys. But it was too late by then.
But I'm sorry I missed it because I really get
into that.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Well, great if they had held it off for a
couple of hours for you, I.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
Don't know what funny you were funny with Bob to
call the too about a reference to seems like somebody's
already taken the bar something old like that.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Yeah, yeah, I think Bob knew what I was saying.
But oh yeah, he got about it, that's for sure.
Speaker 5 (21:50):
So in between his books, Yeah he understood what you
were saying.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
No, no, you get classy callers here. Don't worry. So look,
I know, when when do you When does your day
or when does your ride in? You got what four
hours left? Maybe?
Speaker 5 (22:07):
Uh, probably seven six and a half. I got to
take my half an hour break. So I'm direct. I'm
a direct flight from York, Pennsylvania our terminal, to Leiston, Maine,
to our other terminal. That's my home base. So it
takes two hours, like I said, from York, Pennsylvania to
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the Pennsylvania New Jersey border. Then from there it's real long,
you know, ninety five through Connecticut.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
But I love to drive, so it's not long to me.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
Plus you entertain me. I get to hear you all
the time.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
So well, if you if you watch the evening news tonight,
there was a lot of wind out in the Midwest
and Texas and some of the big eighteen wheelers were
literally being blown over, So please be careful.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
Okay, Yeah, it doesn't take much even if you're fuller
empty your trailer. That win. You know, it's amazing how
powerful it can be. I mean, I've been down the
road and forty mile prowl a fifty mile per hour gusta.
My tractor will want to go into all lane. So
it's good to have two hands on the.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Up. We just lost him, Steve. We lost you. You
weren't cut off. We lost you. You cut cut off
in mid sentence. Be well, Steve. Have a great weekend,
Happy Saint Patrick's Day. We're ready to break for the
news at the bottom of the hour, coming right back
on nightside. My name's Dan Ray. Feel free to join us.
We're getting you started on the Saint Patrick's Day weekend.
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And if you're out there and you want to, you know,
open a beer or have a glass of wine tonight
to toast Saint Patrick, one of the great saints, drove
the snakes out of Ireland. I'm not sure there were
snakes in Ireland, but as legend has it, he drove
them out. And you want to give a toast to
Saint Patrick, you can. I have to wait until after midnight,
which I will coming back on nightside. After this.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
All right, let's keep rolling here. We're gonna go next
to We got Gregory in Dorchester. Gregory will get you in.
Then I got Laurie and Idaho, Jennifer and Yarmouth Port,
Karen and Rhode Island, and Doreen and Chelsea, although not
necessarily in that order. Gregory, how are you going to
be at the Mary and Brett food pantry?
Speaker 7 (24:26):
I don't think so. Sorry, I'll be there.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
I'll be there representing you.
Speaker 7 (24:30):
Okay, Yeah. Do you see Bill Breath around the tall?
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Of course I do. Bill, absolutely, I'll tell him you
said hello, I.
Speaker 7 (24:40):
Haven't down a corner.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
He's there tomorrow. He's there, Bill Brett is there, Jim
Brett is there, Harry Brett is there, all the breads
are there. And I'm the MC tomorrow and we'll raise
some money for the Mary.
Speaker 7 (24:55):
Brett food I'll make it next year, hope. So I'm
still live.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
In Happy St. Patrick's day. To you, I can tell
whether the little I know that you're one hundred percent Irish?
What what town? What Cork? What? What? What county? Did
you eminate?
Speaker 7 (25:10):
I was born in Dingle County Kerry Dingles most I
know you read the Globe stage it's an article with
an Ireland on.
Speaker 6 (25:23):
It and set.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Beautiful, yeah, beautiful.
Speaker 7 (25:30):
Language for from we speak all Irish Gaelic. Have you
been back, Oh, I've been quite back back quite often. Yeah,
not lately because my parents have passed away, and I
still have a sister and none know their sister a
retired school teacher, a brother home and the home place
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and another sister and.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Beautiful.
Speaker 7 (25:57):
I used to go. I used to go a lot,
but not as that just happen as they used to.
You know, I used to go once a year one time,
and you know, I was married with a couple of kids,
and it wasn't that easy. The one time you go back.
Then then this you go back, and you go for
six weeks or something. Now they're going back and forth
like every other day.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Greg, what year did you come here?
Speaker 7 (26:20):
Nineteen fifty nine, sixty nine, fifty.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Nine, fifty nine.
Speaker 7 (26:27):
How tough over the twenty second I'll never forget it,
nineteen fifty nine.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
How tough was it to get into the country back
in those days?
Speaker 7 (26:34):
It wasn't tough for me because we did the right thing.
You know what, My mother was an American citizen and
she worked in Cambridge, and when things for Badge, they
tell me all about America and Boston, and she was
telling me how proud the Irish were that they wouldn't
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even go on the breadline or something. And she was
a house keep her a cook or something in Camerage
for some rich family over there, and she was cooking
Irish bread, sticking it out the window at night. They
used to come around just to give them something to eat,
but they were too proud to go going to the
front and the soup line or whatever they called it.
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You know, they set up. They weren't set up in
hotels and giving vouchers or anything. That's It wasn't tough
for meat all it was. It was easy.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
I'm good here and and you're you're an American by choice, Greg,
I got to run, I got packed lines, happy, very proud.
Speaker 7 (27:38):
I love this country and it's the best cook in
the world. And if anybody who knocks today, I ate it.
I love it. There's no country like it in the world.
I got one thing in common with you. I never
heard the carn beef and cabbage in Ireland til I
come out here.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Now now I feel better. I feel better, Greg, I
got a run, I got packed right, So.
Speaker 7 (28:00):
Wish and make sure.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
I'll tell them all. I'll tell them all. I promise you, Greg,
talk to you. Thank you, good night. Let me go.
Laurie is in Idaho. Laurie, welcome. How are you?
Speaker 8 (28:14):
I'm well.
Speaker 9 (28:16):
My refrigerator died tonight?
Speaker 2 (28:17):
So will there be some services that we could attend if? Oh,
my goodness, good fridge.
Speaker 9 (28:28):
But it's just I didn't it's running, but obviously the
condenser must have pooped out because it's not keeping anything cold,
which is not what I need to discover at eight
o'clock at night.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
But no, I know, can you put it out on
a porch or something and that at least is closed
in so the animals don't get it?
Speaker 9 (28:43):
Or no, it's cold enough. I don't. I don't know
what kind of critters can crawl back and forth, but
I mean something stuff. Maybe I'm just going to go.
Speaker 3 (28:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 9 (28:53):
I'm gonna get to get a little one tomorrow and
then see what we want to do about I don't
know if it can be serviced. I mean, do they
fix refrigerators anymore? Did they just bury them and any one.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Probably not. They hold a lovely service and they take
it to the well.
Speaker 9 (29:07):
Moving on. Happy Saint Patrick's Day weekend right to you
as well.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
I'm looking forward to it. It's it's a it's a
nice way stop during the year kind of to me
says winter is finally over. You know. We can talk
about Groundhog's Day Valentine's Day on March first, but Saint
Patrick's Day, that's.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
That's my holiday.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Yeah, you're going to celebrate it tomorrow, tomorrow and all
out in Idaho. There's no parades in Idaho, I'm sure
for Saint Patrick's.
Speaker 9 (29:37):
Day, right, Probably not, but I wouldn't go to one anyway,
So no, I you know, I I kind of like
leave amateur Hour to the amateur hours now. But I
love friends and I we did we did. We did
the the Hodge to the Black Rose for many many
years on Saint Patrick's Day and it was it was
always fund to stay a life for a while.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
But it's it's a it's that's a bit of a
religious experience, I'm told, probably when you're.
Speaker 9 (30:04):
In twenties, yes, but it was great, didn't you didn't
eat I like the gray corn beef. I do not
like the red stuff. So I kind of cook my
guy corn, my own brisket, and I have my own
corn beef, and I love the music.
Speaker 6 (30:16):
And how much cherry?
Speaker 2 (30:19):
How much Irish blood do you have in you? You
are you thorough?
Speaker 4 (30:22):
No?
Speaker 9 (30:22):
No exactly. I mean, I know my mother's grandmother was
a Kelly. My mother's mother was a Kelly, and so
they had that. There's a little bit of Scotch in
there somewhere, and we also have a lot of English.
So that must have been a fun family reunion way
back when.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, no, you know, hey, they buried
the hatchet and they they they now yet it was yeah,
well they have. But back in those days, I think
that there still was good feelings amongst families. That's all.
We might be related. I had some relatives who were Kelly's,
so who knows, you know, we're we're all in some
form of fashion related. Anyway, Have you got I want
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to give away a night side T shirt? Have you
got a night side T shirt out there to wear
now that spring is about to spring to spring to
spring past its Yeah, no, it's not. Unfortunately it's gray.
It's great. So you can take you can take it
or leave it your choice. You let us know here. Okay,
is it?
Speaker 9 (31:18):
Is it an Irish steam or is it a night
side T shirt?
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Nice side T shirt? Night side T shirt? I can
get you an Irish I can get you an Irish
T shirt if you want. Would you like an Irish
T shirt?
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Well?
Speaker 9 (31:28):
I do have a gray one, but green is my
favorite color.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Okay, yeah, I don't have any green knightside T shirts.
But I'll get your green T shirt from our friends
of college Hype. That'll be That'll be a nice, uh
spring addition to your wardrobe.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Okay, that makes my night much better?
Speaker 2 (31:44):
All right, excellent, excellent, that's coming to you from our
friends at college Hype. And you just leave the all
the information, size, et cetera address and we'll get it
in the mail in the next couple of days for sure. Okay.
Speaker 9 (31:57):
I appreciate that, and thank you and happy things have
to pay that got them the other guy.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
I know, Yeah, but I don't think you've been drinking.
Thanks Lloyd. We'll talk soon. Don't hang up. Get that
information a rob Okay, what are we gonna do here? Well,
we got four more calls. We're gonna get everybody in
we're gonna be a little quicker. We're gonna take a
break and we'll be right back on Nightside.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
All right, let's keep rolling. You're going to go to
Jennifer in you aremo boy, Hey Jennifer, welcome back. Happy
Saint Patrick's Day. How are you?
Speaker 8 (32:33):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (32:34):
Good Dan? Thank you? Yes, the same to you. What
I do for Saint Patrick's Day being and I do
home healthcare. I make a millions of share More cookies
and bring them to a lot of the nursing homes
in the area residents to enjoy. That's very kind of you,
and that's my gift for Saint Patrick's Day.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
That's an annual tradition. Know what, because you've been so general,
I'm going to send you. I'd like to send you
a night side T shirt.
Speaker 10 (33:04):
Oh thank you, that's so nice. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Okay, what you got to do is you got to
give your name and address and your phone number. Remember,
get the phone numbers, Rob and whatever size you want.
The biggest they go up to is two X. I'm
sure that you're no two X, but whatever you need,
you let us know. It's kind of a great night
side T shirt and you can wear it. Summer is
(33:27):
right around the corner. You can show your pride in
Nightside and show it off in Yarmouthport this year.
Speaker 10 (33:33):
Okay, yes, And if you ever get the inkling to
come down here, I'd love to have you as a
guest to my home.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Well, you never know, you never know. I do spend
some time on the cape in the summertime, and I'd
be more than happy to give your call and stop
buy and say hello. So you just leave all of
that information. And when did you start this cookie tradition,
because that's pretty nice.
Speaker 10 (33:56):
Oh gosh, probably twenty five years ago.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
Good you you've gotta be a good person to do that.
That's great. Well, Jen, you hold on and we'll get
you that Nightside T shirt in the mail in no
later than Monday.
Speaker 10 (34:09):
Okay, okay, that's great. Thank you Dan very much.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
You're very welcome. Rob will take all that for you. Okay.
Let me go next to Doreen and Chelsea. Doreen, you
were next on Nightside. Welcome.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
How are you doing.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
I'm doing great?
Speaker 6 (34:21):
Toy san patties to everybody out there.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
I'm with you.
Speaker 8 (34:26):
Them well and good luck.
Speaker 6 (34:29):
I remember what they say when Irish eyes are smiling,
the whole world smiles with you.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Now, I'm guessing that you must have a little bit
of Irish blood in you. Yes, I do.
Speaker 7 (34:43):
I do for you, and I love the dinner.
Speaker 9 (34:46):
I love the dinner, especially the cabbage, curly cabbage.
Speaker 6 (34:49):
Are you too, Yeah, I've.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Never developed a taste for it. It's funny people.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
I love it.
Speaker 8 (34:55):
It's good for your blood.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
Good for your blood.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Yeah, that's the that is good to know, Dorian. Yeah, well,
I you know what I'm I'm going to send you
a nightside T shirt too. How's that? Okay?
Speaker 6 (35:09):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
Show it off well, I would appreciate that. Summertime's coming
and very very comfortable. They're gray with I think it's
blue lettering. So you leave your information with Rob and
we'll take care of you. Okay.
Speaker 6 (35:24):
You hanging there, and thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
My pleasure, Derry. Thanks for being such a loyal Nightside listener.
Let's go to Karen in Rhode Island. Karen and going
to get you in here and a couple more. Karen,
You're next on Nightside.
Speaker 11 (35:37):
Hi Dan, Happy Saint Patrick's Day.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Right back at you. A happy weekend. The weekend is
about to start for all of us. Tgi F it's Friday,
that's for sure, Yes it is.
Speaker 11 (35:51):
This is the first time I can honestly say I
am pot Irish because I recently did my DNA and
I came back twelve percent Irish.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
Wow, oh wow? What what are the other? What's the other?
Eighty eight percent? Is it?
Speaker 11 (36:10):
Well, big surprise?
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Are you? Are you a mutt like many people?
Speaker 11 (36:15):
If you know what I'm saying, I'm my mother on
my mother's side, both her mother and father have English ancestry.
On my father's side, his father came from Sweden, his mother,
the ancestry was English. So I knew all I knew
(36:37):
was English that I could actually trace back to a person.
So I finally decided to do my DNA and find
out if I could find like connections over there, to
do more, do more research because it's hot with records
over here, to get records over there. And yeah, I'm
twelve percent Irish and I'm twelve percent and twenty eight
(37:02):
Swedish and the rest of it is English.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
That's a good combination. Good combination there, that's for sure. Hey,
that's great. That's great, Karen. Let me. We're just giving
away night side T shirts here, so let's give one
more to you. You have you don't have one yet. No,
well we're gonna get you one. But you're gonna do
the same thing. Leave all your information with rob name,
(37:25):
phone number, and whatever size you want. Okay. The biggest
we go was two X, but I'm sure that you're
less than.
Speaker 7 (37:33):
Two X I am.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
Okay. Well, we'll get your good gray T shirt and
it'll work for you. And they're pretty warm, by the way,
they're really good quality T shirts. Okay, thank you.
Speaker 11 (37:43):
Thank you, Dan, and have a nice week again.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
Don't hang up, don't hang up. All right, let's keep
rolling here. I got Tim and Woolber and Tim. A
little Irish blood.
Speaker 6 (37:51):
Here, a lot of Irish blood. How much my mother
was My mother was a rooney from Cork. My father McMahon, right,
a hundred percent Irish.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
Well, you got it all, You got it all whereabouts
in County Cork. My four meres are from Mala, which is.
Speaker 6 (38:12):
That I not I'm not. I'm not sure.
Speaker 2 (38:16):
You got to do the research on that. You got
to do the research and then at some point have
you ever been back over?
Speaker 6 (38:22):
No, no, my mother has been over there. We sent
my mother over. She passed away, but we sent our
mother over the years ago. She loved it.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
Well, you should see if she left you some notes
of relatives. It's it's a it's something everyone should do.
We should talk about it sometime.
Speaker 6 (38:37):
Okay, could I ask you? Are you Italian?
Speaker 2 (38:42):
Nope? Nope, Irish with the A on the end, right, AE,
I owe you were the vowel.
Speaker 6 (38:49):
I thought you might have been.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
Anyhow do you know any people who have the last
name of Shay s h g A. You kind of
get more Irish than Shay.
Speaker 6 (38:58):
So yeah, it's right, yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyhow, let me
tell you a quick story years ago, right, I came home.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
You gotta be quick on this, tim You gotta be
quick on this one, because they got one more behind you.
Speaker 3 (39:10):
Go ahead, okay, tell you what.
Speaker 6 (39:12):
Anyhow, I'd love a night side T shirt. I wear
it to the function at Namoli.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
Okay, you know what, why not? Go ahead? Well you
stay right there, We'll get you a night side T shirt. Okay, Okay,
thanks you hanging there? Okay, on one boy here, let
me go to j L in Boston. J L welcome,
How are you hi?
Speaker 8 (39:35):
There?
Speaker 2 (39:37):
Hi? JL.
Speaker 8 (39:39):
I wanted to call because I just recently learned this
past week that my maternal grandmother has been recognized in
the Boston Women's Heritage Trail.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
Excellent, how about that?
Speaker 8 (39:54):
That's yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
What was she recognized for, j L?
Speaker 8 (40:00):
Well, she was a lost resident of the old West
End at three seventy nine Charles Street, all right, all right,
and fought the taking of the West End.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
Yeah. A lot of people thought that that was terrible
for that community. But yeah, unfortunately, there's a lot of
communities that get themselves gentrified. There's no question about that.
Have you called before? I never had a JL call
this show. I have not. No, We've got to give
you a run of applause. JL, thank you so much
(40:36):
for our digital studio audience. JL. I gotta let you run.
I've had five T shirts to give away. If I
had one more, I would give it to you. So
I'm going to get you maybe next time when you call. Okay, Okay,
thanks JL, appreciating congratulations on your grandmother. That's quite an honor.
That's wonderful.
Speaker 8 (40:56):
Thank you, Thank you, Thanks, JL.
Speaker 2 (40:58):
Have a great weekend.
Speaker 8 (40:59):
Oh she was one hundred percent Irish.
Speaker 2 (41:02):
Well then you've got to be at least I'm guessing
fifty percent. So happy Saint Patrick's n you as well.
Speaker 8 (41:07):
Thank you. That's the whole reason for my calling.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
Okay, great, thanks, Thanks Jay, I'll talk to you soon.
We had done for the week. We're done for the night.
Rob Brooks, great job, Maria, great job. Happy Saint Patrick's
Day to everyone. There are people who are still calling,
but I can't get you in because we're run out
of time. I will be on Facebook again. I would
remind you if you want to join us for a
brunch on April twenty seventh. Uh, make a reservation seven
(41:35):
eight one three seven five two five nine four. Oh
call me at WBZ and I'll give you all the specifics.
Done for the week, I'm going to be on Facebook.
Just go to Facebook night Side with Dan Ray and
I'll talk to you in the next couple of minutes.
Have a great weekend. Everyone on dogs, all cats, all
pets go to heaven. That's my Pelle, Charlie ray Is,
who passed fifteen years ago in February. That's where all
(41:55):
your pets are. Where past they loved you, You love them.
I do believe you'll see them again. We'll see again
on Monday night everyone, and of course you can listen
to Best of night Side at Sunday Night at eleven.
Have a great weekend, everyone,
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