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April 4, 2025 41 mins
For this 20th hour, with so much gloom around these days, Dan wanted his callers to bring up something good that happened to them this past week.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's nice eye yelling Boston's news radio.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
All right, welcome back in everybody. We are at the
twentieth hour of the week here on Nightside. And for
those of you, and by the way, I hope Davies listening, Davy.
I meant that if you know you're getting back to
Boston anytime soon, give me a call. And you know,
I remember you as a as a as a regular
caller from Mississippi, and then when you moved to Illinois,

(00:31):
you always brought your a game. You're a very upbeat,
positive guy. I love to buy your beer next time
you get to Boston or Rob gave you my number.
If you give me, give me a call, and I'll
try to try to do whatever we can to to
say hello. That's for sure. We're friendly people up here

(00:51):
in Newland. We don't have that reputation. We have the
reputation of being kind of dour and not particularly the
warmest people in the world. I think just the opposite.
To be really honest with you, now, we're gonna get
positive here. Okay. I'm gonna have to drag maybe a
lot of you into this positivity because it has been

(01:11):
a tough week. Okay, it's a tough weeks. We're still
dealing with the the on and off winter weather. I mean,
it's spring. Spring. Spring sprung on March twenty first. That's
two weeks ago at this point. So when you think
about it, we're every every season gets thirteen weeks. So

(01:33):
if you want to get really depressed, two weeks of
spring have already gone. So we have two of the
thirteen weeks gone. We only have eleven weeks of spring left. Yeah. No,
I'm gonna make I'm gonna help. I'm gonna try and
with your help, make it positive. We do a program
on Facebook every day every afternoon and every night right

(01:56):
after the show in the afternoon. It's either myself or
producer Marita, who is doing the podcast if you will,
the live shot whatever you want to call it. On Facebook.
We have a web page called Nightside with Dan Ray.
You've got a couple of other web pages, but that's
the one that either Marita or I will be with

(02:18):
you at four thirty in the afternoon tell you them
what's coming up on the show. It's always four thirty.
Sometimes it's four thirty one, sometimes it's four twenty nine.
Sometimes it's four thirty two. But we get there okay,
and we have a good conversation, and I do a
show right after the show. We call it Nightside Postgame, Okay,
same way, it's on Nightside with Dan Ray on Facebook.

(02:39):
And I go over the show with you, and I
tell you what I think of the show, and if
I think it's like a great show, I'll tell you that.
If I think it's like a not so great show,
I'll tell you that too. And we have a loyal
group of people who join us, some in the afternoon,
some at night, some both in the afternoon and at night.
And one of the folks this week told us that

(03:01):
he had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer around Christmas time,
and he told us that he was pronounced clear of
the cancer this week. Well, I gotta tell you that
was the best news I heard for anyone all week.
And I hope, I hope that some of you have

(03:26):
had some good news this week. I had a great
piece of news today. My daughter in law sent me
pictures of our grandson Benjamin, who spent had his first
picture day. I get maybe his second picture day. He's
not even threes two and three quarters. I'm a grandfather

(03:50):
and Marita, our producer, is a mom. She has a
little girl named Stella, who I saw a picture of
Stella today wearing her Red Sox uniform with her name
on the back, cute as a button. So those are
the sort of things that were positive for me this week,
and I hope you've had some positive experiences as well.

(04:10):
So what I'm going to do is I'm just going
to open up the phone lines. My audience. Never disappoints me, okay,
and don't disappoint me tonight, because this is an important
hour for us. It's the last one until we see
you again on Monday Night. But I did want to briefly,
briefly hit some of the highlights of a week that

(04:31):
didn't have a lot of highlights. Okay. We talked earlier
in the week about the Karen Reid trial, the jury
selection starting. We talked about sort of a dystopian view
on Monday night at ate about a jobless society where
the robots would take over. I don't believe that. We
talked about an invasive species called green crabs with a

(04:52):
woman that is turning green crabs into a broth that
she says would be quite tasty, and all of that,
We talked again about the jury selection. We did two
and a half hours on social security, try to calm
people's fears and apprehensions about social Security. Social Security is
not going away, okay, but that's okay. We then talked

(05:15):
about the arrest of some of the students who are
visa holders, and I think, frankly, that's an overreaction and
it's a hymn handed reaction by the Trump administration. If
you go to arrest a student and revoke their visa,
tell me why, don't tell me that they wrote an
op ed piece in some college newspaper. The guy at Columbia,

(05:36):
that's a different story. He was a real active participant
in some of that disruption at Columbia last spring where
students were harassed and physically balked from attending classes. On
Tuesday night, we talked about Autism Awareness Month with Joanne
Simmons of Northeast ARC. We talked about We talked with

(05:57):
Eric Glass, the owner of a new rum company here
in Massachusetts, Rumson's Run. We talked about a trend amongst
young people that they are going to the bank of
mom and dad. A lot of young people are borrowing
money pretty heavily from parents, just for the for the
everyday needs, the food and rent and things like that.

(06:19):
And then we talked with a psychologist about white people
seem to be so unhappy with a great hour with
Jim Roosevelt on Social Security. Jim is the grandson of
Franklin Dell and Roosevelt, of course, who signed the Social
Security Law into effect in nineteen thirty five. And that
will be, by the way, if you miss that, that
will be our best of Nightside this Sunday night at

(06:39):
eleven o'clock. And of course you can always go back
and listen to any hours of Nightside you missed by
going to Knightside, by simply going to Nightside and demand
it anytime during the week. It's available at that website,
as of course you would expect it to be every day.
Twenty four to seven. We then talked about the death
penalty and its application of potentially with Luigi Menngioni that

(07:04):
has been requested by the Attorney General Pam Bonding, and
we spent a couple of hours on that. On Wednesday night,
we talked about alcohol awareness. We talked about the fifty
greatest athletes in Boston history. Unfortunately, the author did not
include Louis t ont In, that which I disagree immensely,
very quick a lot. Talked with the former owner and
general manager of a minor league hockey team which paved

(07:24):
the way for the NHL expansion team, the Columbus Blue Jackets.
Talked about spring allergy season. We talked with Larry Edelman
of the Boston Globe about the Trump tarriffs. This was
on Wednesday night. Okay, it was too late to sell
because of that point that the futures were not looking good,

(07:45):
and we talked for two hours about the reaction to tariffs.
Last night, we talked about students here in Massachusetts becoming
more savvy financially. We talked about this little library up
in Vermont that straddles the border between the US and Canada.
Interesting conversation. Talked with Colin Young of the State House
News Service, how a sung a song became the official

(08:08):
Massachusetts state poem. Didn't even know we had one. And
talked with Jeff Herman of Home Gnome about neighbors and
their pet peeves with fellow neighbors. We spent an hour
with Josh Kraft last night, candidate for mayor in Boston.
We talked with Professor Greg Staller of Boston University at
the Quenstrum School of Business. We had a great hour

(08:28):
really explaining tariffs, and Greg tells me today that he
had more response to that our people who listened to
it and who have asked to go back and listen
to it if you really want to get an understanding
of what how tariffs work. The word is thrown around,
but a lot of people don't understand it. Go to
the ten o'clock hour on Thursday night and then we'd

(08:49):
had a reaction hour last night of people talking about
tariffs and lad Tonight we talked about We talked with
John Decker, who's an iHeart correspondent signed to the White House,
but he's a big hockey and he was at the
game where Ovechkin scored two goals to tie tie the
all time goal scoring NHL goal scoring record of Wayne Gretzky.

(09:11):
Talked about children's services in Roxbury and a talent show
that's coming up next week. Talk with Dan Shaughnessy of
the Red Sox opening win today. Talk with Jordan rich
about Parkinson's and his group that is trying to do
something to raise funds Jordan's trail. Trail Blazers go to
his website, The Jordan Rich Show on Facebook and you
can contribute. Talk with President Greg Wiener of Assumption University,

(09:35):
who wrote a really interesting piece in the New York Times,
really interesting piece. Talk with him for an hour and
then last hour we talked about the stock market having
a bad day, a bad couple of days, and even
a worse day today than it had yesterday. So that
has been the week. I'm going to take a very
quick pause. It's not a long break. The only lines

(09:55):
that are available right now are six point seven, nine, three, one,
ten thirty. I challenge you. I challenge each and every
one in my night side audience right now. I know
it doesn't seem like a very uplifting moment in the
We're out of March, we're in April. The Red Sox
won today. There are some good things going on. I
want to know something good that happened to you this week,

(10:19):
and let's let's end the week on a positive note.
The only lines open six one, seven, nine thirty. It's
up to you to carry the ball and light these
phones up between now and midnight, and I'll talk to
you and I'll tell you exactly what I thought of
my show tonight when you join us on night Side
with Dan Ray on Facebook tonight about two minutes after midnight,

(10:40):
back on night Side, I got some positive vibes. I
hope you do too. We're coming back on night side.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
If you're on night Side with Dan Ray on wz
Boston's news radio, all right.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
We're gonna get right to the phones and want to
hear some positive vibe. It's as simple as that. Okay.
I don't care how much money you lost in the
stock market this week. I believe it'll come back and
let's get the positive vibes going. I'm gonna go first
off to Linda in Weymouth. Linda, you got to give
me something positive to get us going here, go right.

Speaker 3 (11:12):
Ahead, good evening. I first off, I received some news.
It wasn't some good news, but.

Speaker 2 (11:22):
I don't want to hear I don't want to hear
any bad news. I just want to hear good.

Speaker 3 (11:25):
I want to talk about that part of it, but
it gives me some basis for resolving some back issues.
So go forward. I was initial initially calling to because
I remember around this time of season, the season of
time Passover and Easter Easter Resurrection Day. A sermon that

(11:49):
I've heard of you number of years back. It comes
to me each periodically, even through the years. I believe
it might have been done by Tony Evans.

Speaker 2 (11:59):
I'm not sure who Tony Evans is, but go ahead.

Speaker 3 (12:04):
He from the South felled and it goes a very
short one. It goes, it's Friday. It has to do
with the Passover meal, the Lord Supper. We call it
the Lord Supper. And he goes, it's Friday, Sunday to
come in. It's Friday, and Sunday to come. It's Friday

(12:25):
and Sundays the coming.

Speaker 2 (12:27):
Thank God, it is Friday, TG, I have Friday. Thanks Linda,
I appreciate you call. That was a good one. Let's
go to George. George, you're next, You're next on Night Side.

Speaker 4 (12:35):
Hey, how you doing, Dan? I had a real good
day today. I don't really care about the soft market,
but took my dog to the doctor nine years old.
I'm worried that you know that, sure he might have problems,
and and he really has some real good results. A
nine year old Cockerpool. I mean, I can't believe the

(12:57):
unconditional love that my dog, and probably all dogs give.
Out of eight billion people in this world, I think
I don't think there's a human being capable of unconditional love,
but I know a dog is. I know you Childie
was no question. I just love it. This is my buddy.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
I was talking to my daughter tonight in San Francisco
and she adopted a shelter dog a couple of years ago,
will be two years this summer Mustard and just a
great dog, you know, who had had a prior owner
who was in a position that she had to give
up the dog. And my daughter somehow was able to

(13:38):
work it out that she got this dog. And this
guy is unbelievable. He is just he's a great He's
a great dog, simple as that, and I hope that everybody.
And my daughter tonight asked me. She said, Dad, the
shelters are full of dogs. People don't realize they And

(13:59):
you know, you don't have to go and buy a
dog to a breeder. You can you can take advantage
of there. We did something with I think it was
the Animal Rescue League a few weeks ago, or it
might have been the MSP SO I forget which in
which they were. They were they were not charging people
for everything. For the shelter dogs. People, if you want

(14:19):
to smile, go to any of the sheltered dog sites
on your computer and just look at some of these dogs.
Even if you're not going to go down and adopt
one of them, just realize that they're there. They are
going to provide absolute, total love to a human being.
In many cases, people who have never experienced really totally

(14:39):
complete love. They never second gets you nothing. They just
want to be your brow.

Speaker 4 (14:44):
Yeah, I'm serious, it's unconditional.

Speaker 5 (14:46):
You love.

Speaker 4 (14:47):
You can yell at your dog in the morning because
you made a mistake on the floor, and at five
o'clock when you come home, he's a wagger his tail.
I mean all but people that might might be lonely,
they should all on the dog. I'm not a cat person,
but maybe they're the same. But I just have a
great day with this dog. He's my you know, he's

(15:11):
half my life.

Speaker 2 (15:13):
All right, George, that's a good one. Thank you much
for getting us making us positive.

Speaker 1 (15:17):
Man.

Speaker 6 (15:18):
You're very welcome, my man, Thank you.

Speaker 2 (15:20):
Sir, George. Okay, all right, gotta keep rolling here, Florence.
Tell us something positive. You gotta be positive tonight. Go ahead, Florence.
If Florence isn't, they were gonna move on. If Florence
is not listened by the phone, we'll move on. Rob Okay,
did I always I got I missed it. I go
here you go, Florence. Rob didn't back me up on

(15:40):
that one. I missed the button to get you on
the ear. That's my fault, Florence, not yours.

Speaker 7 (15:45):
How are you good?

Speaker 2 (15:47):
And you I'm doing great. You got to turn that
radio down. Let's see, let's hear something positive, Florence.

Speaker 8 (15:52):
Go ahead, don't I don't have the radio one.

Speaker 2 (15:56):
Okay, that's good.

Speaker 8 (15:58):
I wanted to tell you he's something funny. Wednesday I
had a doctor's appointment. I had to go Liberation Day
and that morning weelness of the morning, I had a
mouse in my house, running back and pull it in

(16:20):
front of my fire place in the living room.

Speaker 2 (16:23):
Yeah, and he.

Speaker 9 (16:24):
Probably wasn't going to eat.

Speaker 2 (16:25):
He probably wasn't going to eat much. Florence.

Speaker 8 (16:30):
Yeah, he said to my son, I'm calling him, Nikki.
I hope he leaves. And when I went.

Speaker 2 (16:38):
Over, I hope it was the mouse that left, not
your son. I assume, right. I just want to make
sure I got this way, okay, good enough.

Speaker 8 (16:44):
Yeah, but when I went out the door, he left.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
He went with you.

Speaker 10 (16:50):
Good, he left.

Speaker 8 (16:52):
I didn't take him with me.

Speaker 2 (16:54):
Well, he left with you, and then he went about
his his business. Yeah, that's okay. That's a positive story.

Speaker 8 (17:02):
And I was released very happy about it. And at
the doctors he had some good news.

Speaker 2 (17:10):
Well that's good too.

Speaker 8 (17:12):
So uh, that was kind of kind of a funny
off day.

Speaker 2 (17:17):
Well, that's okay. You got rid of a mouse and
you got some good news at a doctor's office, Florence.

Speaker 8 (17:23):
Indeed, I wanted to take a minute to tell you
thank you for having do it, and on for a
short while, ye to talk to all us callers. Yes,
let us know directly how well he's doing. Sounds great
he's feeling, and how well he's doing with his condition.

(17:47):
That was very nice, Very good of you.

Speaker 2 (17:50):
To do it. Well, it's my pleasure's good of Jordan's.
And again he he is, he's been amazing. I kept
in touch with him during this you know, critical period
of time, and he's going to be just fine. He's
a he's he's a fighter. He's a fighter fighter, all right, Florence.
I gotta let you run. Thank you much, good call.
We'll talk soon. Okay, keep rolling here, everybody, let me

(18:12):
go next to come on, let's get these phones at
six one, seven, four, ten thirty is the only line
that's open. Let's go to Lola in San Diego. Hi, Lola,
how are you tonight?

Speaker 9 (18:23):
Hi? Hi? Dan? So I get some great news?

Speaker 2 (18:26):
Nah like that? Go right ahead.

Speaker 9 (18:29):
I cut my ticket to come come back to visit.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
You're coming back? All right? Are you coming back back
for the brunch?

Speaker 7 (18:39):
No?

Speaker 9 (18:40):
But I'm coming back in June, the end of June. Okay,
I leave July ninth.

Speaker 2 (18:45):
And wait, wait second, you're coming. Wait a second, You're
coming back in June, but you leave July ninth. That
that doesn't work.

Speaker 9 (18:54):
I well, I'm coming. I'm coming because I'm going to
a retreat in New York, and so I'm coming in
a few days early to get adjusted to the time.
And then and then and so that's at Saratoga Springs,
and then I'm going to come back for about ten
days to water Town.

Speaker 2 (19:15):
Excellent, excellent. How's your mom doing?

Speaker 9 (19:18):
She's still hanging in there, dance nothing believable. Worn out. Yeah,
I'm so worn out and exhausted. It's nothing has changed.

Speaker 10 (19:28):
So you know how stressed I was.

Speaker 9 (19:31):
Nothing's changed.

Speaker 2 (19:34):
But you know what, you just got to remember all
the things your mother did for you when you were young,
and yeah, she brought you off and you're a good
daughter to to not only help her, but you're helping
her from you know, three thousand miles away, which is
not easy.

Speaker 9 (19:49):
Right, So I've changed my emotional attachment to it. I've
got less, you know, exasperated over that's stressed.

Speaker 2 (19:57):
Well, that's good. That's for your mental health, all right.
I know that you were out holding some picket signs
the other day for I know we talked. You were
holding picket signs for the Karen Reid demonstrations in San Diego.

Speaker 9 (20:15):
Yes, and we had a San Diego p D guy
take a picture with us.

Speaker 2 (20:19):
Well, that's that's very nice. It's always yeah.

Speaker 9 (20:22):
Yeah, we told him the story and then we said
would you take a picture with us? And he said, yeah,
we were at the zoo so outside Diego.

Speaker 2 (20:31):
Oh. I love the San Diego Zoo. Let me tell
you what a great place that is. We're just getting positive,
that's all we're doing. We're just gonna stay positive. Hey, Lola,
I gotta grab the news at the bottom of the arm.
I'm gonna be in trouble.

Speaker 9 (20:43):
Yeah, I know, it's okay. I love you. I'll see
you soon. And tell Ron and oh Glenn, make sure
Glenn he is that I'm coming back.

Speaker 2 (20:52):
Oh, he'll be really excited, trust me, Lola, Okay, don't
get him over excited. Thanks Lola, talk to you so.
Have a great night. We gotta go here for the news.
Here comes the news. No one gets in the way
of the news. I got two one line at six
one seven two four ten thirty and one line at
six one seven nine three one ten thirty. I want
we've heard from four positive people. I want your best

(21:13):
story of the week. Something good must have happened to
you this week. Let's get positive for the weekend. It's
as simple as that. I don't want to end on
a downer note. It's been a week that's been downer,
that has been downers. I talked to you about it
all week long. We talked about the death penalty for
Luigi MENNGIONI. I mean, the donor is nothing. He's going

(21:35):
to get the death penalties up. For the death penalty.
The dow downor is what he did. We talked about
social security. We try to assuage your apprehensions about social scurity.
Social security is not going away, folks, It is not
going away. Please don't be worried about that. There's enough
to be worried about. The stock market. You can worry
about the stock market. But I think it's going to
come back. Let's get positive. You guys have never disappointed

(21:59):
me before. I don't start now only one line six, one, seven, ninth.
No one's getting a lot of time here. I want
to move a lot of people through. Coming back on
night Side.

Speaker 1 (22:11):
It's night Side with Dan on Boston's news radio.

Speaker 2 (22:16):
We're trying to close out the week on a positive note.
This is the twentieth hour of Nightside. There's been a
lot of negativity this week. Let's get positive. Where we
going next, Let's go to Richie in New York. Richie?
Whereabouts in New York you're calling from?

Speaker 5 (22:31):
Well, I'm from North Riding, but I'm going to Newburgh.
I'm on my way there. I go down there every night.
I look you on the first time.

Speaker 11 (22:38):
Parler.

Speaker 2 (22:40):
Well, let's get the who We're going to get around
of applause. So if you go to Newburgh every night.
I assume you're driving a big rig.

Speaker 5 (22:47):
Yes, I do doubles, so doubles. WHOA do it for
fifty years now? But anyway, come on back. In December
of twenty three, I thought I had pneumonia and I
went to my to my doctor and he goes, oh,
no pneumonia, but you have asthma. But because I've been
going for thirty years, he tested my PSA numbers and

(23:09):
they were I worried about like twenty four. Told PSA
is supposed to be under five.

Speaker 2 (23:14):
Yep.

Speaker 5 (23:14):
I went to Just a month later they went up
to thirty eight. Now back in June of twenty four,
they put me on this medicine. And then all of
a sudden, I said, I'm a Catholic boy, went to
Catholic school. Better start going back to church again. And
I went to church. I went every Sunday. I was
praying to God. And on March nineteenth of last year,

(23:37):
I actually was this year when I came out of
church on a Sunday, I really thought it was really
I was really talking to God. And I went and
my blood work done on a Monday. I go to
my doctor on a Wednesday. My PSA number is a
zero point zero zero one, totally undetuctable. I has state cancer.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
So you you had prostates answer, and you've you've beatn this.
You've beaten it without having to undergo surgery or any
of the big treatments.

Speaker 5 (24:10):
I take a pill a day is all. I take
one pill a day. And I got an injection to
one stone every three months. And I had the pet
Skian done, which they pupped you with radioactive stuff. You're
going that donut. It was in toughs in Boston, and
they said the good news and bad news. You don't
have any in your bones, any in your organs, but
you had it outside the prostate area, which that's what

(24:32):
they were concerned about. Stage four. So out of this medicine.
And I told my priest at church, I go and
I go to Saint Adelaie's and Pobe where General Rosa
used to go to it. I used to listen to her.

Speaker 2 (24:44):
You remember her name? Sure? Yeah, look that that Richie
is great news.

Speaker 5 (24:51):
Uh, it's unbelievable, you know it maybe my day.

Speaker 2 (24:54):
Well, this this this is one that people will carry
with them. Uh. I I think we gave you a
round of a positive not you deserve a second round
of a plausas a first from our digital studio audience.
Let me tell you that is great. I told you
about one of our listeners who had a diagnosis in
December of pancreatic cancer.

Speaker 5 (25:15):
Right, that's what made me. I'm listening to you when
I heard that it's not going to give him a call.

Speaker 2 (25:19):
You know, well, I think the deal. What's so important
about this, rich is that you know, whether it's a
miracle or you're just the luckiest son of a gun
in the world, You've given some hope because there's other
people this week who maybe got a bad diagnosis, and
so you know, you have spread the good word. And

(25:39):
I gotta tell you, I happen to believe like you do, and.

Speaker 5 (25:45):
To believe in the man upstairs. He's watching out over me.

Speaker 2 (25:48):
You know well, I'm I'm going to join you in
that belief. I do the same thing when I'm in church.
I say my prayers and look, you know, no one
can prove to me that this is it. When we
finish here and we we have the big dirt napp,
that's it. And I can't prove to them that there's
something better. But if I'm if I'm going to believe
in anything, that's what I believe in. So simple.

Speaker 5 (26:10):
I'm right on the same page again. I believe there's
something there for me. And we have a mutual friend
and doctor Al Franky. I go to him all the time.

Speaker 2 (26:18):
He's a great guy, is he He's a great He's
a wonderful guy. Well, Rich, do me a favor, keep
in touch, call more often. You your positivitis infectious. We
got another guy who's out there, you know. And I
know a lot of the the road Warriors listened to Nightside,
a lot of them don't call. There's a fellow friend
of mine, Steve, who also uh is driving. He drives

(26:40):
from from Maine, uh and ends up in in uh
York and Erie, Pennsylvania. So he's kind of but you'll
hear him as well. So you know, join us some
night on after the show. We after the radio show,
we do nights O with Dan Ray. We do a
post game every night at uh okay at midnight. So

(27:00):
he up on Facebook.

Speaker 5 (27:02):
Okay, all right, thanks Dan, I Aprey, Rich, thank you
the call.

Speaker 2 (27:06):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 5 (27:07):
What a great call.

Speaker 2 (27:08):
And in a first time called sha boot. He gets
a little extra time Darryl is up in New Brunswick.
Second call of this week from Canada. Darryl, welcome back.

Speaker 12 (27:17):
How are you hey?

Speaker 5 (27:18):
Dan? I am actually quite happy.

Speaker 7 (27:22):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (27:22):
I was collecting firewood for the fire box and the gazebo. Yeah.
Uh found a couple baked potatoes still on the barbecue
from last night for that.

Speaker 2 (27:32):
Benefits and were they still okay to eat? Were they
still okay to eat? Darryl?

Speaker 5 (27:39):
Oh, No, when you do it baked the right way, Yeah,
they're they're very well. They're almost pre seasoned.

Speaker 2 (27:46):
Great. I have no idea what that means, Jeryl, but
i'll preseason so so what you mean is my question
is simple, the baked potators you found out, did you
pitch them or did you eat them?

Speaker 9 (28:00):
Know?

Speaker 5 (28:00):
They're cooking right now in the garlic butter.

Speaker 2 (28:03):
Right, Okay, you're you're you're a chef man, that's all
you are. You're a goamet chef and you know stuff
I don't know.

Speaker 12 (28:10):
Go ahead, we haven't even cooked in the bacon bits yet, right,
but the benefit being yes for the good thing that
happened this week? Yeah yeah, listening about the tariff issues
and whatnot and calling you guys. Uh, just for you guys,
letting as Americans were still buddies.

Speaker 2 (28:31):
Absolutely absolutely did you hear him? We started the show
tonight with we had a reporter down in the Capital
Arena in Washington and we were keeping people up to
date on Ovechkin. Novekin scored two goals tonight. Now I
know he's not Canadian, but he does play in the
National Hockey League. So I assume you know who Alex

(28:51):
Ovechkin is, and he is tied and Wayne Gretzky's record tonight.

Speaker 5 (28:56):
And ironically I actually pull up next to Peter Parking
in one time and Wayne Gretzky with his wife and
his rolls Royceroval.

Speaker 12 (29:05):
And uh, it's cool because the Edmonton stuff.

Speaker 5 (29:08):
But it goes back to letting you guys know that
we're still strong.

Speaker 2 (29:13):
You got it, and he's strong and was still friends
and we'll never and it will never change no matter
what these dumb politicians try to do to us.

Speaker 5 (29:19):
Okay, And if you guys ever pull up here and
you smell baked potatoes, well that might be my I.

Speaker 2 (29:26):
Will follow they follow the scent. I will follow the scent. Hey, Darrel,
I got to run. Is always great to talk with
you have a great weekend, okay, wanna be positive? Absolutely,
let me go next to Larry on the Cape. Larry
tell us something good on the cape.

Speaker 13 (29:41):
Oh my god, wait till you hear this rapid fire.
Thursday had my second had my second shot with doctor Frankie.
My shoulders already feeling better.

Speaker 2 (29:50):
Excellent, excellent. That is doctor al Frankie of Prolo Therapy,
one of our great supporters. And I think he does
great work. And he also is honesty.

Speaker 1 (29:59):
He does.

Speaker 2 (30:00):
I think he'll help you. He'll he'll he'll tell you
that too. What else you got? Good?

Speaker 13 (30:04):
He is a character. Today I had my second appointment
with a new acupuncturist who's working on my problem.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
Yep, which yep, good yep.

Speaker 13 (30:13):
Then I met a friend of mine. I rode my
favorite trails in Harwich and Brewster in the punk Horn
park lands.

Speaker 2 (30:19):
Woo. That means which was over on the cape for me?

Speaker 13 (30:22):
That that Oh it was sixty degrees today, sixty okay.
Then I went over to Umami Pizza, the place I
told you about before, and I had my Clampie pizza. Man,
you'll live then, I yep. And then I ended the day.
I went over the Corporation Beach on the north side
and had a beautiful sunset picture. That was my day.

Speaker 2 (30:44):
Oh, that's a great day. What was that restaurant you
told me that is in Dennisport, Marsh something. It's on
the marsh. What's that name of that restaurant?

Speaker 13 (30:52):
No, no, well the Umami Pizza is next to the
marsh Side. It's on the north side. It's off of
six A.

Speaker 2 (30:59):
Yeah, the Mark.

Speaker 13 (31:00):
It's March Side, March Side. Yeah, very nice restaurant, Mars Side.

Speaker 2 (31:04):
Excellent, excellent, excellent.

Speaker 4 (31:06):
Larry.

Speaker 2 (31:07):
I've talked to your daughter a couple of times this week,
and I hope we get to make something happen for.

Speaker 13 (31:12):
Okay, appreciate everything you've done. Thank you.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
Appreciate you, Larry. You know that we'll talk soon. Have
a good one. All right. We got to take a break.
I got some more positive people calling in. I need
to hear from you. Tell me something positive. We're coming
back on Nightside right after the break.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm Boston's news Radio.

Speaker 2 (31:37):
I'm gonna finish strong, gonna get everybody in. We're looking
for something positive. That's it. That's something positive. Where we're
gonna go next. Let me go to Charlie and Lynn. Charlie,
you are next on nightside. Welcome Gretta head sir.

Speaker 7 (31:51):
Well, like an earlier call of prostate cancer, PSA's come
back zero. The best part about it, this is the
second time in my life I beat cancer.

Speaker 2 (32:02):
How long did it take? You know, our friend Richie
from New York. Uh, it sounded like a miracle. What
what's your story?

Speaker 7 (32:12):
No, I had to go through with the operation, okay,
but you beat it. Everything was removed. But I beat
it now and I beat cancer forty years ago. So
that's two for me.

Speaker 2 (32:20):
I'm good, good, Yeah, that's it. Yeah. Third time is
not a charm, so that's just leave it at down,
that's for sure. Two's plenty, Dan, Good for you, Good
for you, jolly, I'm happy for you, man, I really am.
Thank you so much for thank you. That's a positive thing,
and you know that gives hope to other people who
maybe had a similar diagnosis this week. Thanks so much.

Speaker 7 (32:42):
Okay, all right, Dan, you have a good one now.

Speaker 2 (32:45):
You two congratulations six one Okay, I got two lines,
fill them up right now and I'll get you in
six one, seven, two, five, four ten thirty six one
seven nine, three, one, ten thirty. Don't fail me now, people,
let me go to Eileen. Hi, I Leen, welcome. Tell
me something good that happen to you this week?

Speaker 6 (33:02):
Uh?

Speaker 10 (33:03):
Well, uh, today I was out in the sunshine and
it just uh felt so wonderful out there. I moved
to assisted living here in Cambridge last thank just just

(33:26):
before Thanksgiving, and I, uh today the only coat in
my closet was my overcoat. But I didn't need an overcoat,
so I I left my uh spring jacket in Hall

(33:49):
and I'll have to go back and get it. But
it's been such a terrible cold, horrible winter. It just
felt so good to be out in the sunshine.

Speaker 2 (34:00):
And the Red Sox won today too, so that was
that they started off one and four and now they're
they're back to five hundred and four and four. Eileen.
I'm happy for you. Are you going back to Hall
eventually or are you going to Oh?

Speaker 10 (34:19):
Yes, my I live right on the beach in the Hall.
But I'm so I'm I'm so glad I wasn't there
over the winter because I don't think I would have survived.
Nobody nobody's there. They all come in the summer, so
I'm also going to become a summertime person. But let

(34:42):
me just say one other good thing was hearing hearing
from Lola. I met her when she was here. We
went out to all Game and winter Yes, right, and
I I heard that she's got a ticket to come

(35:03):
back here in June, and I hope I'll get to
get together with her. She was a lot of fun.

Speaker 2 (35:10):
She was a lot of fun. Well that's great. That's great, Eileen,
and hopefully Lowe is hearing your voice tonight out out
in San Diego. Thank you so much as always, and
we'll talk soon. Thanks Eileen.

Speaker 10 (35:21):
Okay, thank you Dan, thank thanks.

Speaker 2 (35:25):
Good So we've had some positive calls. I need a
couple more. Let me go six one seven. Uh, you
got one line at six one, seven, two, five, four
to ten thirty and we need a couple at six
one seven, nine three one, ten thirty. I'll get everybody
and Joe and Lynn. Joe, let's have something positive, Joe, I.

Speaker 11 (35:42):
Have something positive. Well, I got a call from Dana
Farber Cancer Institute today and they booked me in at
the Longwood End to stay. And I had my PSA
and I'm waiting for it. I hope I don't have
to get radiation. But that was positive because we've been
trying to get in there for a week and we
had to push it. But they booked me in on
the fifteenth for almost two weeks, ten days. If I

(36:04):
do get the treatment.

Speaker 2 (36:06):
Yeah, really that is a good thing.

Speaker 11 (36:08):
Yeah, Dan, you can't travel back and forth to Lindsay.
You know the other day we went back. It took
three hours by traffic radiation.

Speaker 2 (36:17):
Yeah. Yeah. So but here's the thing. You heard the
story that Charlie from Lynn told. You heard the story.

Speaker 11 (36:24):
I heard part of it. I missed the first part.
Can you give me the first part?

Speaker 2 (36:28):
If he beat it, he beat it? Okay, you got
to go back and listen this weekend. I kind of
repeat it for batim. But then Richie from New York,
who's the long haul truck driver who beat this. So
hopefully these stories will inspire you and you'll beat it too.
It's as simple as that.

Speaker 11 (36:47):
Okay, Well, someone from the church wants to help me
in Boston. I'm going to go this Sunday. We're gonna pray.
He's going to help me out with you know, a
little bit of living in I just hope a miracle
happens because I don't want to get radiation. But I'm
booked in there now and.

Speaker 2 (37:00):
If I have, that's good. Joe. It's all positive. Thank
you much, keep it keep us posted. Okay, thanks Joe,
thank you. I have a great Now, let me go
to Christine and Denim. I know Christine has got something
that's positive. Go ahead, Christine.

Speaker 14 (37:13):
Yes, I got released from the hospital.

Speaker 10 (37:16):
I was.

Speaker 14 (37:17):
I was very lucky because I said I was the
a death. I could have died in my sleep. I said,
if I didn't get looked at.

Speaker 2 (37:24):
Now, Christine, you you are a young woman as far
as I'm concerned. Okay, Yeah, and you know that should
not have have come, have brought you so close to
death's door.

Speaker 10 (37:37):
How old are you?

Speaker 2 (37:38):
Give me how old are you?

Speaker 14 (37:40):
Fifty three?

Speaker 2 (37:41):
Fifty three?

Speaker 14 (37:43):
I just thought it was simple allogies because I have
terrible allergies, and little did I know pneumonia, the double pneumonia.

Speaker 2 (37:51):
Yeah, yeah, Well, how do you feel tonight? How do
you feel tonight?

Speaker 10 (37:56):
Better?

Speaker 14 (37:56):
I hope at the lingering cross. But I'm doing okay.

Speaker 2 (38:00):
You sound great, You sound great. Thanks Christine. We'll see
We'll see you on the twenty seventh. We'll celebrate. Okay, definitely,
all right, stay well, all right, thanks so much. All.
I got one more here, gonna get Paul from Plymouth
in Paul's tell us something good. Let's end the week
on a positive note.

Speaker 6 (38:18):
Hi, Dan, I'm nice to hear all those people were
the good news, and I just want to say it
was a beautiful day and I could hear the spring
peepers and see the daffodils out, so it's we're going
into spring and that's a positive thing.

Speaker 2 (38:33):
Oh. Absolutely, So you're hearing the peepers down there, right, absolutely.
I don't know what I know. I've heard the term
hearing the peepers. What are the peepers? Are they like
crickets or something?

Speaker 12 (38:45):
What type of I think?

Speaker 6 (38:47):
If the frogs coming out?

Speaker 5 (38:49):
Is what you know?

Speaker 6 (38:50):
New hacking the frogs?

Speaker 2 (38:51):
Oh, we've got okay.

Speaker 6 (38:54):
Yeah, Well we've got three hundred and sixty five pawns
here in Plymouth, one hundred and two square a mile,
so we've got a pond for every day of the year.

Speaker 2 (39:06):
That's great. That's great. Look, Paul, thank you so much.
That's a positive. I really appreciate it. And uh, we
ended on a real positive hope because I used to
hear the peepers when we lived in Sherborne some water
as well. So yeah, that's great to hear. It is
a sure sign of spring. I'm watching a couple of

(39:27):
plants that I have in the ground, and I'm walking
over with them every day, just looking at saying, come on,
come on, let's let's have some let's let's grow up.
Give me some leaves here. I just am dying to see,
to see the first signs of spring. I've seen some
of the crocuses coming up through the ground in the
last few days as well. Paul, thank you so much.
I appreciate your time.

Speaker 6 (39:47):
You bet good night.

Speaker 2 (39:49):
Now have a great one. Okay. So that ends the
week of night side. Well, we got about a minute left, Row,
what's the time here? One minute? Okay. Let me end
it by telling you that we are doing a nightside
brunch on April twenty seventh at the Nioli Restaurant N. E. R.
L I. That's located in Westwood on Washington Street. I

(40:10):
think it's two eighty two Washington Street. You can look
it up. There's two seatings. There's an eleven seating eleven
o'clock seating and a twelve thirty seating the Winnakers. The
Winnaker Band will join us Bow and Bill, and I
hope you will as well. Just call the restaurant, make
a reservation, tell me want to be there with the
Dan Ray event seating at eleven and seating at twelve thirty.

(40:31):
I'm going to end us always. My daughter said, if
you get a chance this weekend, check out a pet
shelter and adopt a pet, a dog, a cat, or whatever.
All dogs, all cats, all pets go to heaven. That's
Mike pel Charlie ray Is who passed fifteen years ago
in February. That's where all your pets are her past.
They loved you and you love them. I do believe
you'll see them again. Go Red Sox, Rob, Thanks Marina, Thanks,

(40:52):
have a great weekend everyone, and let's stay positive. I'll
be on night Side with Dan Ray on Facebook in
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