November 14, 2025 • 41 mins
In typical Bradley fashion, he has a question for the audience that he wants your thoughts on. What were you taught in school that you think was a total waste of time, or what do you wish your parents or teachers taught you that could have been immensely helpful for you?
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's night Side with Dan Ray. I'm telling you easy
Boston's Beak Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Thank you, l G, thank you very much. Thank you
Rob Brooks for working a wheel and master Control. Robs
the person reason you speak to when you called six one, seven, two, five, four,
ten thirty. And I'm going to call this open lines now,
but please continue with what we were talking about unless
there's something else you want to pop up. It's a
(00:27):
very easy going hour, so the last hour of the week.
So here we go. Just a reminder in case you
just joined us during the news and I'll get to
your Patrick conference in just a second. I was talking
with the producer of Marita today and we're just happened
to come upon this conversation about I mentioned the things
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that my parents and my school didn't let me know
about that were that caused me problems and some of
the things that might have been taught to me by
the school that I didn't need to know, and we
started getting into the it kind of related stuff our
parents made us eat that that poisoned that whole food
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group for the rest of our lives. I know, I
know a guy who can't eat any fish at all,
can't even be in the in the same room with
any any sort of fish, anything resembling a fish. No lobsters,
no shrimp, no nothing out of the water, no fish.
And I think, wow, that is kind of debilitating I myself.
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I'm more fortunate the only thing not on that I
just can't handle his oatmeal. I won't. I won't share
what the producer said because I don't. I don't know
if that she would want me to. But it was
a good conversation, and we're having the same conversation with you.
So first we go to Florence in Groveland hike for Lawrence.
(01:59):
What's going on?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I thought, Well, I thought I would call because I
hear you talking about oatmeal, and I wanted to call
and give you a little tip about oat meal, perhaps
in future years if you needed to try it.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I would love I would love to like it. It would
enhance my life. It would give me another good option
in the morning, So go for it.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Well, oatmeal is good for your blood pressure, all right,
If for anyone who has a condition with high blood pressure.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Eating.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
A little bowl of oat meal will bring down your
blood pressure.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Does that work for you?
Speaker 3 (02:55):
And yes, it's a true fact. I have have it
and have had it for a number of years. Nothing,
you know, draft stick. But at any time, if it
goes up and doesn't come down too quickly, you have
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a bowl of oatmeal and maybe after an hour or
so check your blood pressure. You'll find it brings it down.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
That's fantastic. Maybe they should keep an emergency pack of
oatmeal and ambulances and stuff. Yeah, IV oatmeal, I could
do IV oatmeal, all right, Florend, check it out. I
got the science here while you were speaking, I looked
this up. How oatmeal helps lower blood pressure. Okay, you
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want to know the source of this again? This is
go is.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Oh well that's even better than this. This is just
for the source. This is Google AI overview, which is
not always right. It's right a lot, though. To take
this for what it's worth, ignore it if you want pow.
Oatmeal helps lower the blood blood pressure. Rich in beta glucon,
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this soluble fiber slows the absorption of sugar, which can
lead to a more stable blood sugar levels and may
improve insulin resistance, a factor linked to high blood pressure.
Lowers cholesterol low. It's low in sodium, contains other beneficial
compounds which we don't need to know antioxidants blah blah blah,
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and so I guess it's basically the stuff beta glue
can Well, I am so very thankful now if anybody
can give me a recipe for oatmeal so that it
is not mushy. There must be a way to make
it just not mushy. Okay, well, cookie and reverse engineering
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half half.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
I happened to like oat meal, Bradley for me that
I do.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
You know what brand?
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Uh, the Quaker And how do you cook it? Well,
you know when you were younger, your parents or parents
would cook oat meal, you know, from scratch, like cook
it up and kind of block. But you could put
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some fruit in it, all right, and now would help
with the taste of it. But for me, now I
buy the Quaker instant with the little packets. They come
like ten packets in a box and you can get
your flavored apple and cinnamon, peaches and cream and it
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tastes very good, no problem, all right, Well, you.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Know what you've inspired me because I want to I
do want to be healthy, and I don't have many
options in the morning. You know what do I have
for breakfast? What is there really an egg cheerios. I'm
a cheerio a nanattic. If I have one taste of
cheerios and milk, I cannot stop. I'm am an addict
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for cheerios.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
But because you can't do that all the time, I
eat cheerios. I like the honey nut cheerios. Okay, that's
my favorite.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Okay, good to know.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
And it's very good. And sometimes I'll leave and slice
up a banana and put some banana in the bowl
with it.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
That sounds like a plan. Look, thank you very much,
Florence for inspiring me to move into an area that
I've been uncomfortable with, the oatmeal area. As just a
serial mention aside. I you know, I watch a lot
of news, but when I get too cranked up from
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the news, I need to relax. And you know what,
I watch Seinfeld. And you know what they have in
Seinfeld in the back of his apartment in the cupboard,
as you know, it's all these rows. This box is
of cereal, and I always try to just figure out
what the brands of cereal are in the Seinfeld cupboard.
I'll even pause it to look kind of see if
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I can see what's there. Usually I can make out
Captain crunch and maybe uh sugar sugar smacks or something.
I know something like that. I can see the cap'n crunch,
but I'm always, for some reason fascinated and I need
to know what does box a cereal? I'm sure they're
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different all the time. Moving along real quickly to Patrick,
because you've been on the on the hole there for
a long time. Patrick and Charles down Hey, Patrick.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
Burnt bacon. Burnt bacon is the answer. So that's the
food that my father used to He used to burn bacon.
I don't know why he loved it burnt and uh,
I could never think of breakfast with my dad without
thinking of burnt bacon.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
And so now you can't eat burn bacon, or you
have to eat burn bacon.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
I can't eat bart well, I'm not. I would have
to have the reason to eat that burnt bacon unless
I was at a restaurant someone served me burnt bacon,
because I'm certainly not going to burn the bacon. But
but he loved burnt bacon. I'll never understand. Then I
ended up finding out lots of people love burnt bacon
for some reason, and that I learned other people think
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burn bacon is good for a hangover, but carbon or
something I don't know, but uh, no.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
How burned. I'll just how burnt black?
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Burnt black? Yeah, black, almost like almost.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Like forest fire. Burnt. Are you there? Are you going?
Speaker 5 (09:14):
They would crunch when you'd fight it, and you'd look
so forward a breakfast and everything else would be great,
and you'd be like, oh my god, it's burnt. You'd
have to talk to him every time because he loves
cooking breakfast and.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Then burnt bacon.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
It's awful. Rest of it was good, but it gives
me good memories.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Now, So is that the only thing? Is there? Anything else?
Like fish or anything else.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
That that was? That was pretty much it from for
food from my family. But uh, the one thing in
terms of what my family taught me. And I wonder
if this is common amongst people of my generation, which
a generation acts. But uh, my parents told me to
tell truth and they believed it. They believed it to
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their core, like they were innocent human beings who told
can taught their children to tell the truth, to do
the right thing. The world's a good place. Always always
always tell the truth. And then I grew older and
I learned that you should almost never ever tell the
truth in the workplace or in college. Lady, it's the
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exact opposite, though I don't know if our world has
changed to the last.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Of course it's changed. I mean, yes, absolutely, you had
honest abe who maybe wasn't totally honest, but at least
it was kind of a priority. And now the truth
is not a thing at all. You know, it's changed
because it used to be if some candidate was caught
in a lie, it was a big deal. Now a
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dozen everyone, dozens of lies. No one cares, and almost
like telling the truth, as you seem to allude to,
is a liability and you're a sucker if you tell
the truth.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
Now you are, so your only option is to keep
your mouth shut, yes to or there's three options. You
can engage in a lie. You can keep your mouth shut,
or you can manage it. And that requires delicate skills
that I wasn't brought up with.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
I feel you, man, and I actually have started to
practice lying, because I it's a skill now that you
need to get your need to get through. And boomers
and axes, a lot of them never were taught the
skill of lying, and so i'm they should actually have
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clinics that you can go that that older seekers that
believe in the truth can go to learn how to lie.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
Are in the workplace, learn learn how to not lie
and not not not till not say what the obvious
truth is. That's gonna get you in trouble. But to
be able to somehow say nothing while saying words yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Makes them think you're agreeing, but you're not lying. Here's
a shocking example about lying. If you go to your
doctor and they say do you smoke, you say now
or yes, whatever. Have to lie about that one because
they can smell it and hear it. But then they say,
and you know what I'm gonna say, so, how much
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do you drink a week? You know? So whatever you
whatever you say, they gonna double it. So if you
tell them the truth, they're gonna think you drink twice
as much as you really do. So I'm not recommending
this to anyone else, but you know, I'm thinking of
curtailing if I have If I have a beer every day,
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I might say, you know, bear every couple of days,
because they're gonna double it because they know they know
everyone lies about how much drink. How much they drink.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
So yeah, how much red mead do we eat or
whatever it might be.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
No, just I need to disclaimer here the preceding comment
about lying about how much a drinking is not recommended,
that this was a comedy, a comedy segment and meant
only for humor and not as intended at all as
a behavior for you to adopt. There you go, and
I'm serious about that. Patrick, you sound very interesting. Have
I talked to you before? I don't.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
Yeah, we've talked to I've been listening to you since
I was in my Red Mustang in the nineteen eighties
on Rever beach Man and so good to hear you
on the radio. Man, it really is.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Okay, Okay, we hear you more.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
I hope we hear you more.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Man. Okay, mister burn Bacon, we'll talk later. Okay, take
care of good guy. Actually, you've all been wonderful. Let
us uh quickly, uh do this. I'm not going anywhere.
I'm right here and we'll talk to Ohio and Beverly
Mass on WBZ.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
You're on Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
That is correct. Bradley J. For Dan Ray on night Side,
Patrick and Charles Charlestown did mention that he he regrets
that his parents did not imbue him with the skill
of lying. And there are key things lying, and so
in a little while I'm going to give you those
key things. And I'm not suggesting you do them. I'm
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just suggesting that I can give you the sort of
some tips on how people lie and get away with it.
I myself, I couldn't really really couldn't do it, because
you know what people are going to find out. And
I think that usually being caught in a lie for me,
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it doesn't seem to bother politicians, but for me, being
busted in a lie would be wor worse than the
truth most of the time, because when you get busted,
then they know the truth and they know you're a liar.
And being caught as a liar is fantastically embarrassing to me.
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Why it doesn't seem to bother people in high places,
I don't get. It does almost seem to me it's
tough to get rich without lying. But that's a debate
for another day. Now we have Joelene in Beverly, Massachusetts. Hello,
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Joan Lene H.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Bradleace. I know a great way for you to get
more crunching your oatmeal.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Okay, good, because I don't like a mushy taste.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
This will unmush everything you put it on. It's called
textured vegetable protein or t v P.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
What's your what's it made out of?
Speaker 4 (16:01):
So it made out of textured vegetable protein. And I'm
holding a bag of Bob's Red Mill Rest in Peace
Bob protein and it has only eighty talories in one
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fourth cup and protein is let me see here, get
my magnifying glass out, and it has twelve grams of protein.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
Okay, does it?
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Does it say sodium? Let's see, I bet it has
a lot of sodium.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
Probably not, because this is one of the healthiest foods
I know of.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Okay. And TVP is a I looked it up. TVP
is a protein made from soy flour byproduct known as
text vegetable protein. Yeah, so it's so. It is a
meat like texture when rehydrated in a neutral flavor.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Well, see, most of the time I don't hydrate it
because it comes crunchy like I'll take creamy peanut butter
and I'll throw TVP in it, and it turns into
crunchy tin peanut butter because I don't hydrate it.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
You only live long days. I've never heard of TVP.
This is a new one for me, and.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Oh my, I can't live without it. Every time my
husband goes to Ocean Steak jawb locks, I tell them
bring me back two bags of protein again, Biggs.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Big bags like Purina chow bags like that, like twenty
pound bags.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Oh no, no, I'm looking at a twelve ounce bag.
It's about two dollars.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
What else do you put it in?
Speaker 4 (17:52):
Goodbye? Oh my gosh. I put it in everything. I'll
put it in with uh well, if I spread peanut
butter on toast, I'll always put tv T in that.
I'll mix TVP with coconut oil and I'll just eat that.
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That way. I'll put it with popcorn and it just
goes in anything. You can mix it with hamburg and
put less hamburg a in and a little bit of
grease in. It will moisten the TVP. It won't be
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crunchy hamburg. It'll just be healthier hamburg. I'm telling you,
once you get used to using this and see how
healthy it is, you'll you'll be eating it for the
rest of your life.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Where do you get it, do you already? I know, Oh,
stay job. But if it's not on the if it's
not on the don't, I don't go.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
So it's it's everywhere. Oh my gosh, this stuff is
very very popular. Okay, And you don't have to go
to a health food store, just go to Shaw's Market,
Bosquez any place.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Way, TVP, Hey, thanks so much. This is a really
that's big, big, big, big, thank you so much. Take care.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
You're welcome.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
I did mention the m bt A and you know,
on the way, and today I vowed that I would
thank the MBTA. And I know people complain about the
MBTA in its management, but just for a moment, let
me shower the employees, the the motormen, the bus drivers,
the the inspectors, and the people on the ground and
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in the tunnels and on the buses for the job
they do. It is a brutal job. I hope they
get paid a lot, even on the train just it
seems like it'd be fun to be on the train
driving the train, but man, it is a stressful job.
You have to deal with people a lot of times
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at a lot of people are horrible and they're vulnerable
to those people, nasty people, sometimes dangerous people, drunk people,
people on drugs, people in a bad mood, people who
are have a chip on their shoulder about the tea. Also,
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they have to make sure nobody runs into them. They
have to make sure nobody they don't run into anyone.
They have to watch out for pedestrians, they have to
watch out for cars. They have to watch out for
e bikes cutting in front of them. And motor scooter now,
which really must be hell delivery motor scooters, you know
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the you know the ones, and not only that, that's
from below. Then they have high pressure. I have to
know this because I'm tight with tea people. They have
high pressure from above. They're in the tunnel. If they
go any over the speed limit, it's recorded. And if
they god forbid, should have any sort of accident and
they're like one mile an hour over the over the
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speed limit, it's hell to pay. So they have pressure
from down below the people, and then the pressure from above,
including the FEDS. The FEDS that make a lot of stringent,
picky rules. It's a very tough job, saying with the
bus driver, imagine doing that all day, driving in traffic
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all day, having people get on and off and and
oh so there you go. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
MBTA with you all your awards, I love you and
for all my time in Boston, you have You've been
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my life blood. You've been You've allowed me to go
to shows, have a beer and come home without drinking
and driving. You allowed me to come home late at night.
You allowed me to get to work, You allow me
to go shopping for a few. It's a song by
a band called Urban Verbs Subway, and it's kind of
cool because you know, they point out in the song,
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then a handful of change takes you away from it all,
And that's true. When I get snugged in my my
subway seat, I don't even want to get off. I
wanted to keep going because I'm listening to my music,
checking the news, reading the globe, and it's so so comfortable.
A handful of chains took me away from it all.
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And another thing. It kinda it's like a shared experience
because you're all going. Everyone in that thing is going
the same direction and the same speed as the song says.
That's I just love it. Thank you very much. M
bt A. If you heard this, if you're if you
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work for the d Please let the T know that
Bradley J. Thinks you're awesome. After the break, we'll go
to Ohio. See what's up with Paul on w b Z.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
You're on the night's side with Dan Ray on w
b Z Boston's News.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Here we are w b Z and it's Bradley J.
And for Dan we go to Paul in Ohio. I'm
having a blast interacting with you folks tonight. Paul. What's
going on?
Speaker 5 (23:33):
Hi?
Speaker 7 (23:34):
Bradley?
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Hi?
Speaker 7 (23:37):
Your I was my Friday nights. I play cards and
if I get knocked out of my tournament, I put
on w b Z because there comes Unclaire out here
in northeastern Ohio. What has I heard a voice I
hadn't heard in a long time, and it sounds just
so great. I'm so happy to hear you. I was right, listener.
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I used to live in Lynn. I'd call you, not often,
but you know what, every couple of months, and we
had some good conversations. And when they got rid of
the Overnight Show, it didn't make me happy at all.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Here, I am glad.
Speaker 7 (24:14):
That you're still still in the business. No, I'm not
in the len. I left Lynn almost five years ago.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Wow, and so why did you leave?
Speaker 7 (24:25):
Well, my daughter had gone to school in Ohio and
I visiting her out here. I just loved it. It
was sort of like, sort of like the East Massachusetts
about sixty years ago. Well, we have dairy Queen's and
we have a and w Roupiersteans. It's it's in across
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the livings, about sixty seventy of Boston. The house I
bought costs about two hundred thousand. I couldn't touch for
eight to nine hundred thousand back back East. Come awake
in the land.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
I guess, you know, maybe Ohio is a new place
to go and.
Speaker 7 (25:13):
Retire full barn and another outbuilding. It's no, it's I've
living a good life. I really love it out here.
I work from home. I still work for a company
in Peabody. But uh, I'm just so tickled think that
I moved out here and my naghbors are great. All
the people bless you every time they see you. It's
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a lot different from Massachusetts. But I'm just tickled pink
to hear that you're still on the air sometimes. Is
there ready place you can hear you regularly?
Speaker 2 (25:45):
No? Not really. You can listen to these podcasts over
and over though. So h, but what what town are
you in?
Speaker 7 (25:56):
I live in a town called Beloit. It's a little village.
It's has about nine hundred people, about halfway between Youngstown
and Canton, so southeast Ohio, about an hour from Pittsburgh,
about an hour from Wheeling, West Virginia, about an hour
from Cleveland.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
And are the people really from Are the people different?
Are the people real different? Well?
Speaker 7 (26:24):
They are so nice, so friendly. They if you are
in line at the Walmart for more than five minutes,
people are showing you a pictures of their dogs or
the deer they shot last week, or their kids, or
you're just having conversations and everybody is wide wide open. Uh.
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Made so many friends, you know, just just being in
lying places. Like you said, every all the all the
trades people out here are wonderful. I've had a plumber,
I had a carpenter I had and they do a
great job and tear prices. There's some good trampsomen out
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in Massachusetts too. But people out here are you know,
it's it's it's night and day. It's so different.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (27:20):
But my sister lives in Plymouth and she comes out
to visit every year, and she loves it. And she's
see that you're older than I am.
Speaker 5 (27:33):
Shee.
Speaker 7 (27:34):
I just hadn't lived in Massachusetts for about seventy years
before I moved out here, and it took me about
five minutes to get used to it.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Well, Paul, thank you. That's something to consider. I need
to get to some folks. But I'm really glad you
checked in. And I'm so glad you're so happy. You
don't usually get to hear people that happy. I wonder,
I wonder if it'd be worth going to visit there,
because honestly, I have not spent any time in that
area of the country. And if you're looking play it
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for a place to retire, boy, I tell you, Paul
thinks that it's big time good. Dolly and Quinsy was
going on a long time. The folks haven't heard you
in a long time. Dolly and Quinsy.
Speaker 8 (28:17):
Oh my goodness, so good to hear your boys, My
dear Bradley, Well good.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
To hear yours too. I have go ahead.
Speaker 8 (28:25):
I was eating Would you believe that I was eating
supper while I was listening to you, And guess what
I had?
Speaker 9 (28:30):
Delicious matloads stuff clams delicious. I got them at stopping shop,
mattloads m A T l Ow. I'm giving them a
you know, letting.
Speaker 8 (28:40):
People know that delicious, you know, with lemon juice. You know,
Bradley so good to hear your voice. You know, how
many places have you traveled to since I spoke with
you last I'm kind.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Of slowed down a little bit, prob since you spoke
with me last time, maybe four or where had?
Speaker 8 (29:01):
Where did you were?
Speaker 2 (29:02):
They?
Speaker 8 (29:02):
All places you've never been before.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
No, So my my wife I call her that because
it's simpler, has just recently come able to travel. And
so we're going to the checking the big boxes Rome, Rome, Ireland, Paris.
Speaker 8 (29:21):
Paris.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
And those kind of places. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (29:27):
And to Sicily, Yes, I want to.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Catania. Sicily. Is that where you're from?
Speaker 7 (29:35):
No?
Speaker 8 (29:35):
No, we're from near Naples, near Naples, I believe.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Yeah. Well, you know, if you can get someone to
show you how to use the computer, you can go
to the the Bradley J Travel, the Bradley J Travel,
I mean Bradley J.
Speaker 8 (29:47):
I need Bradley J. To come over and show me
how to use I have to get a computer to
begin with. Well, I don't know just an old fashioned girl,
just a simple life.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
You know.
Speaker 8 (29:57):
You know I miss the m bt A, I really do. Uh, yeah,
you know, I met so many interesting people, you know,
I walk with a walker. Now I don't get into
Boston like I used to, and I loved you know,
the bus drivers are usually very pleasant, you know. And yeah,
you meet nice people, don't you. On the m b
t A.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
You do meet nice people, you know, but you also
meet Yeah, you meet them. They're all there, the grace
and the ingrades, they're all on the mbt A. Life
happens on Life happens on the sixty six bus, you know.
Speaker 8 (30:33):
Oh really, By the way, you never bump into poor Charlie, though,
do you still beneath its Charlie?
Speaker 2 (30:41):
He never returned, you know, he never returned. His name
is still unlearned. Do you know who did that song?
Speaker 8 (30:48):
Well, let me see, not Peter, Paul and Mary. Let
me see. There were three three fellow singers.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
I believe TikTok Dolly who did it? The Kingston Trio?
Speaker 8 (30:59):
Oh naturally, yes, the Kingston Trio. Wonder who wrote that song?
Was it from Boston?
Speaker 2 (31:03):
I wonder?
Speaker 7 (31:03):
I don't know the story.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
I don't know the story on that. I'm going to
sign that to you. You can give us that. You
can give us the lowdown on that next time we call.
Speaker 8 (31:12):
I just want to ask you, Brad We I want
to ask you. Have we ever tried Matt loose stuff?
Do you like stuffed clams?
Speaker 2 (31:19):
No, I've never never tried Matt loose stuffed l o W.
Speaker 8 (31:24):
I get them at Stuff and Shove.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
So there's stuff stuffed clams like on a shell or
stuffed fried, Yes.
Speaker 9 (31:31):
On a shell, on a shell, and it's very generous
and very tasty.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
You know.
Speaker 8 (31:36):
I used to love going into Fanuel Hall marketplace there
and buying you know, the stuff shells there. They were
always good to you know, get a little flight from
lemon and everything. Well, those were the gates. Those were
the days, my friends, we thought they'd never end. We
live in dance forever. In the game, remember that.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Yeah, who did that song stumped?
Speaker 8 (31:56):
I don't know what her name was, but I heard
that Paul McCartney had something to do with the making
of debt.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Oh yeah, somebody's gonna somebody's gonna have that answer, Dolie,
I gonna go. It's so great to hear your your
control your upbeat voice and everything.
Speaker 8 (32:13):
Nice to hear your up people. It's place two and
safe traveling, Keep on traveling, take.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Care Okay, that's what Rick Steve says. Next up is
fan favorite Doug in Air on WBZ.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Boy, this has been a great night. I just really
enjoyed speaking with you all. We have a few more
minutes here when we have Doug in Air. Long time
Doug in Air. How do you do sir?
Speaker 6 (32:43):
Hey, bruh, how's it going?
Speaker 2 (32:45):
It's going great? Are you still a truck driver?
Speaker 6 (32:48):
I am. I just pulled into the turned out perfect.
I just pulled into the rest area on the pike
so I could chat with you.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Oh good and still hauling? Uh gasoline home?
Speaker 6 (33:00):
Kathleene heading out demanding with some.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
How many gallons in your truck?
Speaker 6 (33:05):
Oh eleven five hundred?
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Wow? Man, you've been doing.
Speaker 6 (33:09):
That a long time.
Speaker 5 (33:10):
Huh.
Speaker 6 (33:11):
I've been at this company for twenty seven years. Coming
up on twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Driving rain, sleet, snow, ice. It's kind of dangerous, is
this really?
Speaker 5 (33:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (33:23):
Everything, you don't think about it anymore, but you really should.
You know, you get too spoiled, Like I really think
about what's behind me.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
You know, why don't you retire?
Speaker 6 (33:34):
My brother retired three years ago. He keeps bugging me
about it. I just can't. I'm just I don't know
if I got work in me. I got to keep going.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
So do you need the money or do you do
it because you know of momentum?
Speaker 6 (33:47):
Yeah, I just I don't need the money. I my
house is paid off and paid off of fifteen years.
I don't have any credit cond debt, I got no
vehicle payments. I just got to keep working, you know,
I don't know. I just as long as I can
do something. My wife's not in that half years younger
than me. I I have a hard time watching her
go out the door to go to work and I'm
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just sitting around. I gotta I gotta work too. Not
a tot time though.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
You know, funny people, a lot of people that wouldn't bother,
a lot of people you can probably know. You can
probably get used to it. How about this, though, is
there anything you want to do before you're you know,
unable to do stuff.
Speaker 6 (34:26):
I can't really think of anything. We we don't really
go anywhere. I just kind of you know sort of,
you know, do stuff around the house, do yacht work,
got wood stuff like that, you know, play with the dog.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Oh you got a nice you got a dog? What
kind of puff you're getting?
Speaker 6 (34:45):
She's kind of They said it's it's a Carolina Carolina mix,
but I don't think so. She's got chow in her.
There's a lot of child because she's kinda she kind
of plays games with me. She when I go to
take her for a walk and I go to put
the caller on show like run, you know, kind of
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come come and get me kind of things. She's kind
of a rebel.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
But I'm guessing. I'm guessing you love your dog, because
everybody does. Would you did you hear my question earlier
in the evening about would you clone your dog?
Speaker 6 (35:18):
I would absolutely not, absolutely not call my dog.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
No.
Speaker 6 (35:23):
She's one of a kind, all all my passion. One
of a kind. You know. They might be able to create,
you know, a body, but they can't create a soul.
You know what I'm saying. They just can't. There you go,
I gotta I got a question for you that I'm ready.
If if everything you wanted your parents, if everything you
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thought your parents should have taught you didn't. My question
to you is, if they did, would you have taken
their advice?
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Okay, well I didn't really completely get around to everything,
but uh, what I wish they'd done more was to
make me understand the possibilities for life. They didn't make
me know. I never felt I could be a doctor.
(36:15):
I didn't think that was in my grasp, but it was.
You know, I never thought I could go to Harvard,
but I probably could have. You know, if they if
they said, you know what, you buckle down, you could
probably go to the school where if you get into
that school, you got it made for the rest of
your life. I didn't even and they didn't even encourage
me to go to college. On the other hand, I
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will say this that at the end of the well
so far, let me rephrase the net of of what
has happened. I'd like who I am. I like me,
and I liked me better than I used to because
I learned and didn't get better. And if anything had
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happened differently, like if I had go to Heart, I
might not be the person that I am and I
might not like myself so much if I'd go to Harvard.
There's no way I would have been on the radio,
because there was a certain sense, a group of circumstances
that happened. They gave me this career that I loved
so much. I might have ended up being a doctor
and hated it. I might have been a terrible doctor.
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I might have been some financial guy. So I really
don't want to complain about it too much, but I
do kind of wish that that they made me know
the possibilities because a lot of what I did I
did myself in spite of it.
Speaker 7 (37:36):
And right there you.
Speaker 6 (37:37):
Go, you still got a little taste of it because
you work, you know, in the operating room, so you
got a little taste of it, and then you you
did what you did best. But a point that I
want to make it most people don't really understand is
all parents are amateurs, so we can't expect them to
be professionals. Like twenty something year olds having a baby
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have no idea what's going on. So they're all amates.
And I think my parents did pretty good with me
as the amates, you know, teaching me everything that did go.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
To In all fairness to my parents, if you're looking
down listening, I mean they first of all this was
a different time and they were exactly like the other parents,
and they didn't do anything bad at all. They never
did anything bad.
Speaker 10 (38:23):
And there's one circumstance that accidentally made me made me
really independent, and that was most parents these days, and
I don't think they need to, but they go to
every sports game.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
But not only did my parents, they didn't go to well,
they didn't give me a ride back from stuff I
did at high school because high school was ten miles away.
So if I wanted to go to the high school
football game or the high school dance, I had a
hitchhike home in high school in the night, in the winter,
et cetera. And a lot of people would think that
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was be mean parenting. However, as a result, I just
don't depend on people to do stuff for me. I
just gotta It never occurs to me to ask for
a ride anywhere else walk places. Now. I'd even still hitchhike,
believe it or not. In some places that I don't,
I'll if nobody else will go, I'll go by myself.
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And that's always been probably real helpful to me. And
it's probably an accidental result of my parents not wanting
to get them, put their shoes on and drive ten
miles to Rochester and ten miles back to pick me
up at the game. So at the time it was
a bummer, but it was one of those if it
doesn't kill you, it makes you stronger kind of things.
(39:45):
And now you grow up. Yeah, and I think there's
a happy medium somewhere. And I feel like I'm not
an expert, I'm not a parent, but parents now feel
like if they don't go and view every one of
every child's sporting events, that they're somehow negligent parents. And
I don't think you need to do that, parents, because
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your kids. The purpose of those sports is not for
your kids to be well to please you. The purpose
of that so that your kids can get along in
the world and compete with people that are old their
own age and with strangers, not so that they can
look over and see mommy and daddy looking and clapping away.
(40:29):
So in my non expert advice to parents is, especially
if they could all do it at the same time,
is just say no to go into every one of
those games. Man, Because you've got three kids and they're
in two sports each, that's a lot of games. And
I think parents deserve a life. There I said it,
(40:52):
But of course again, in the context of the times,
you'd probably get a note from your you know, the school,
why aren't you coming to Junior's games. I love talking
to you, Doug. He as you can tell. The time's up,
I gotta say goodbye. Let me tell you, folks, I
love coming in here and I love talking to you.
It's a great community. Dan has a great community here,
(41:16):
and I'm only too happy to be a very small
part of it. I'll be back around Thanksgiving, and then
a big chunk of time towards the end of December
and in the early January. So I hope to be
speaking with you soon. I hope you'll call when I'm
on It's WBZ.
It's night Side with Dan Ray. I'm telling you easy
Boston's Beak Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Thank you, l G, thank you very much. Thank you
Rob Brooks for working a wheel and master Control. Robs
the person reason you speak to when you called six one, seven, two, five, four,
ten thirty. And I'm going to call this open lines now,
but please continue with what we were talking about unless
there's something else you want to pop up. It's a
(00:27):
very easy going hour, so the last hour of the week.
So here we go. Just a reminder in case you
just joined us during the news and I'll get to
your Patrick conference in just a second. I was talking
with the producer of Marita today and we're just happened
to come upon this conversation about I mentioned the things
(00:48):
that my parents and my school didn't let me know
about that were that caused me problems and some of
the things that might have been taught to me by
the school that I didn't need to know, and we
started getting into the it kind of related stuff our
parents made us eat that that poisoned that whole food
(01:12):
group for the rest of our lives. I know, I
know a guy who can't eat any fish at all,
can't even be in the in the same room with
any any sort of fish, anything resembling a fish. No lobsters,
no shrimp, no nothing out of the water, no fish.
And I think, wow, that is kind of debilitating I myself.
(01:35):
I'm more fortunate the only thing not on that I
just can't handle his oatmeal. I won't. I won't share
what the producer said because I don't. I don't know
if that she would want me to. But it was
a good conversation, and we're having the same conversation with you.
So first we go to Florence in Groveland hike for Lawrence.
(01:59):
What's going on?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I thought, Well, I thought I would call because I
hear you talking about oatmeal, and I wanted to call
and give you a little tip about oat meal, perhaps
in future years if you needed to try it.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I would love I would love to like it. It would
enhance my life. It would give me another good option
in the morning, So go for it.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Well, oatmeal is good for your blood pressure, all right,
If for anyone who has a condition with high blood pressure.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Eating.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
A little bowl of oat meal will bring down your
blood pressure.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Does that work for you?
Speaker 3 (02:55):
And yes, it's a true fact. I have have it
and have had it for a number of years. Nothing,
you know, draft stick. But at any time, if it
goes up and doesn't come down too quickly, you have
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a bowl of oatmeal and maybe after an hour or
so check your blood pressure. You'll find it brings it down.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
That's fantastic. Maybe they should keep an emergency pack of
oatmeal and ambulances and stuff. Yeah, IV oatmeal, I could
do IV oatmeal, all right, Florend, check it out. I
got the science here while you were speaking, I looked
this up. How oatmeal helps lower blood pressure. Okay, you
(03:53):
want to know the source of this again? This is
go is.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Oh well that's even better than this. This is just
for the source. This is Google AI overview, which is
not always right. It's right a lot, though. To take
this for what it's worth, ignore it if you want pow.
Oatmeal helps lower the blood blood pressure. Rich in beta glucon,
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this soluble fiber slows the absorption of sugar, which can
lead to a more stable blood sugar levels and may
improve insulin resistance, a factor linked to high blood pressure.
Lowers cholesterol low. It's low in sodium, contains other beneficial
compounds which we don't need to know antioxidants blah blah blah,
(04:44):
and so I guess it's basically the stuff beta glue
can Well, I am so very thankful now if anybody
can give me a recipe for oatmeal so that it
is not mushy. There must be a way to make
it just not mushy. Okay, well, cookie and reverse engineering
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half half.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
I happened to like oat meal, Bradley for me that
I do.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
You know what brand?
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Uh, the Quaker And how do you cook it? Well,
you know when you were younger, your parents or parents
would cook oat meal, you know, from scratch, like cook
it up and kind of block. But you could put
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some fruit in it, all right, and now would help
with the taste of it. But for me, now I
buy the Quaker instant with the little packets. They come
like ten packets in a box and you can get
your flavored apple and cinnamon, peaches and cream and it
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tastes very good, no problem, all right, Well, you.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Know what you've inspired me because I want to I
do want to be healthy, and I don't have many
options in the morning. You know what do I have
for breakfast? What is there really an egg cheerios. I'm
a cheerio a nanattic. If I have one taste of
cheerios and milk, I cannot stop. I'm am an addict
(06:32):
for cheerios.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
But because you can't do that all the time, I
eat cheerios. I like the honey nut cheerios. Okay, that's
my favorite.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Okay, good to know.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
And it's very good. And sometimes I'll leave and slice
up a banana and put some banana in the bowl
with it.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
That sounds like a plan. Look, thank you very much,
Florence for inspiring me to move into an area that
I've been uncomfortable with, the oatmeal area. As just a
serial mention aside. I you know, I watch a lot
of news, but when I get too cranked up from
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the news, I need to relax. And you know what,
I watch Seinfeld. And you know what they have in
Seinfeld in the back of his apartment in the cupboard,
as you know, it's all these rows. This box is
of cereal, and I always try to just figure out
what the brands of cereal are in the Seinfeld cupboard.
I'll even pause it to look kind of see if
(07:39):
I can see what's there. Usually I can make out
Captain crunch and maybe uh sugar sugar smacks or something.
I know something like that. I can see the cap'n crunch,
but I'm always, for some reason fascinated and I need
to know what does box a cereal? I'm sure they're
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different all the time. Moving along real quickly to Patrick,
because you've been on the on the hole there for
a long time. Patrick and Charles down Hey, Patrick.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
Burnt bacon. Burnt bacon is the answer. So that's the
food that my father used to He used to burn bacon.
I don't know why he loved it burnt and uh,
I could never think of breakfast with my dad without
thinking of burnt bacon.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
And so now you can't eat burn bacon, or you
have to eat burn bacon.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
I can't eat bart well, I'm not. I would have
to have the reason to eat that burnt bacon unless
I was at a restaurant someone served me burnt bacon,
because I'm certainly not going to burn the bacon. But
but he loved burnt bacon. I'll never understand. Then I
ended up finding out lots of people love burnt bacon
for some reason, and that I learned other people think
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burn bacon is good for a hangover, but carbon or
something I don't know, but uh, no.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
How burned. I'll just how burnt black?
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Burnt black? Yeah, black, almost like almost.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Like forest fire. Burnt. Are you there? Are you going?
Speaker 5 (09:14):
They would crunch when you'd fight it, and you'd look
so forward a breakfast and everything else would be great,
and you'd be like, oh my god, it's burnt. You'd
have to talk to him every time because he loves
cooking breakfast and.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Then burnt bacon.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
It's awful. Rest of it was good, but it gives
me good memories.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Now, So is that the only thing? Is there? Anything else?
Like fish or anything else.
Speaker 5 (09:43):
That that was? That was pretty much it from for
food from my family. But uh, the one thing in
terms of what my family taught me. And I wonder
if this is common amongst people of my generation, which
a generation acts. But uh, my parents told me to
tell truth and they believed it. They believed it to
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their core, like they were innocent human beings who told
can taught their children to tell the truth, to do
the right thing. The world's a good place. Always always
always tell the truth. And then I grew older and
I learned that you should almost never ever tell the
truth in the workplace or in college. Lady, it's the
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exact opposite, though I don't know if our world has
changed to the last.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Of course it's changed. I mean, yes, absolutely, you had
honest abe who maybe wasn't totally honest, but at least
it was kind of a priority. And now the truth
is not a thing at all. You know, it's changed
because it used to be if some candidate was caught
in a lie, it was a big deal. Now a
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dozen everyone, dozens of lies. No one cares, and almost
like telling the truth, as you seem to allude to,
is a liability and you're a sucker if you tell
the truth.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
Now you are, so your only option is to keep
your mouth shut, yes to or there's three options. You
can engage in a lie. You can keep your mouth shut,
or you can manage it. And that requires delicate skills
that I wasn't brought up with.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
I feel you, man, and I actually have started to
practice lying, because I it's a skill now that you
need to get your need to get through. And boomers
and axes, a lot of them never were taught the
skill of lying, and so i'm they should actually have
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clinics that you can go that that older seekers that
believe in the truth can go to learn how to lie.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
Are in the workplace, learn learn how to not lie
and not not not till not say what the obvious
truth is. That's gonna get you in trouble. But to
be able to somehow say nothing while saying words yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Makes them think you're agreeing, but you're not lying. Here's
a shocking example about lying. If you go to your
doctor and they say do you smoke, you say now
or yes, whatever. Have to lie about that one because
they can smell it and hear it. But then they say,
and you know what I'm gonna say, so, how much
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do you drink a week? You know? So whatever you
whatever you say, they gonna double it. So if you
tell them the truth, they're gonna think you drink twice
as much as you really do. So I'm not recommending
this to anyone else, but you know, I'm thinking of
curtailing if I have If I have a beer every day,
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I might say, you know, bear every couple of days,
because they're gonna double it because they know they know
everyone lies about how much drink. How much they drink.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
So yeah, how much red mead do we eat or
whatever it might be.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
No, just I need to disclaimer here the preceding comment
about lying about how much a drinking is not recommended,
that this was a comedy, a comedy segment and meant
only for humor and not as intended at all as
a behavior for you to adopt. There you go, and
I'm serious about that. Patrick, you sound very interesting. Have
I talked to you before? I don't.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
Yeah, we've talked to I've been listening to you since
I was in my Red Mustang in the nineteen eighties
on Rever beach Man and so good to hear you
on the radio. Man, it really is.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Okay, Okay, we hear you more.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
I hope we hear you more.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Man. Okay, mister burn Bacon, we'll talk later. Okay, take
care of good guy. Actually, you've all been wonderful. Let
us uh quickly, uh do this. I'm not going anywhere.
I'm right here and we'll talk to Ohio and Beverly
Mass on WBZ.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
You're on Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
That is correct. Bradley J. For Dan Ray on night Side,
Patrick and Charles Charlestown did mention that he he regrets
that his parents did not imbue him with the skill
of lying. And there are key things lying, and so
in a little while I'm going to give you those
key things. And I'm not suggesting you do them. I'm
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just suggesting that I can give you the sort of
some tips on how people lie and get away with it.
I myself, I couldn't really really couldn't do it, because
you know what people are going to find out. And
I think that usually being caught in a lie for me,
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it doesn't seem to bother politicians, but for me, being
busted in a lie would be wor worse than the
truth most of the time, because when you get busted,
then they know the truth and they know you're a liar.
And being caught as a liar is fantastically embarrassing to me.
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Why it doesn't seem to bother people in high places,
I don't get. It does almost seem to me it's
tough to get rich without lying. But that's a debate
for another day. Now we have Joelene in Beverly, Massachusetts. Hello,
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Joan Lene H.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Bradleace. I know a great way for you to get
more crunching your oatmeal.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Okay, good, because I don't like a mushy taste.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
This will unmush everything you put it on. It's called
textured vegetable protein or t v P.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
What's your what's it made out of?
Speaker 4 (16:01):
So it made out of textured vegetable protein. And I'm
holding a bag of Bob's Red Mill Rest in Peace
Bob protein and it has only eighty talories in one
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fourth cup and protein is let me see here, get
my magnifying glass out, and it has twelve grams of protein.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
Okay, does it?
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Does it say sodium? Let's see, I bet it has
a lot of sodium.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
Probably not, because this is one of the healthiest foods
I know of.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Okay. And TVP is a I looked it up. TVP
is a protein made from soy flour byproduct known as
text vegetable protein. Yeah, so it's so. It is a
meat like texture when rehydrated in a neutral flavor.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Well, see, most of the time I don't hydrate it
because it comes crunchy like I'll take creamy peanut butter
and I'll throw TVP in it, and it turns into
crunchy tin peanut butter because I don't hydrate it.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
You only live long days. I've never heard of TVP.
This is a new one for me, and.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Oh my, I can't live without it. Every time my
husband goes to Ocean Steak jawb locks, I tell them
bring me back two bags of protein again, Biggs.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Big bags like Purina chow bags like that, like twenty
pound bags.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Oh no, no, I'm looking at a twelve ounce bag.
It's about two dollars.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
What else do you put it in?
Speaker 4 (17:52):
Goodbye? Oh my gosh. I put it in everything. I'll
put it in with uh well, if I spread peanut
butter on toast, I'll always put tv T in that.
I'll mix TVP with coconut oil and I'll just eat that.
(18:15):
That way. I'll put it with popcorn and it just
goes in anything. You can mix it with hamburg and
put less hamburg a in and a little bit of
grease in. It will moisten the TVP. It won't be
(18:37):
crunchy hamburg. It'll just be healthier hamburg. I'm telling you,
once you get used to using this and see how
healthy it is, you'll you'll be eating it for the
rest of your life.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Where do you get it, do you already? I know, Oh,
stay job. But if it's not on the if it's
not on the don't, I don't go.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
So it's it's everywhere. Oh my gosh, this stuff is
very very popular. Okay, And you don't have to go
to a health food store, just go to Shaw's Market,
Bosquez any place.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Way, TVP, Hey, thanks so much. This is a really
that's big, big, big, big, thank you so much. Take care.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
You're welcome.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
I did mention the m bt A and you know,
on the way, and today I vowed that I would
thank the MBTA. And I know people complain about the
MBTA in its management, but just for a moment, let
me shower the employees, the the motormen, the bus drivers,
the the inspectors, and the people on the ground and
(19:51):
in the tunnels and on the buses for the job
they do. It is a brutal job. I hope they
get paid a lot, even on the train just it
seems like it'd be fun to be on the train
driving the train, but man, it is a stressful job.
You have to deal with people a lot of times
(20:11):
at a lot of people are horrible and they're vulnerable
to those people, nasty people, sometimes dangerous people, drunk people,
people on drugs, people in a bad mood, people who
are have a chip on their shoulder about the tea. Also,
(20:32):
they have to make sure nobody runs into them. They
have to make sure nobody they don't run into anyone.
They have to watch out for pedestrians, they have to
watch out for cars. They have to watch out for
e bikes cutting in front of them. And motor scooter now,
which really must be hell delivery motor scooters, you know
(20:55):
the you know the ones, and not only that, that's
from below. Then they have high pressure. I have to
know this because I'm tight with tea people. They have
high pressure from above. They're in the tunnel. If they
go any over the speed limit, it's recorded. And if
they god forbid, should have any sort of accident and
they're like one mile an hour over the over the
(21:16):
speed limit, it's hell to pay. So they have pressure
from down below the people, and then the pressure from above,
including the FEDS. The FEDS that make a lot of stringent,
picky rules. It's a very tough job, saying with the
bus driver, imagine doing that all day, driving in traffic
(21:37):
all day, having people get on and off and and
oh so there you go. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
MBTA with you all your awards, I love you and
for all my time in Boston, you have You've been
(21:59):
my life blood. You've been You've allowed me to go
to shows, have a beer and come home without drinking
and driving. You allowed me to come home late at night.
You allowed me to get to work, You allow me
to go shopping for a few. It's a song by
a band called Urban Verbs Subway, and it's kind of
cool because you know, they point out in the song,
(22:21):
then a handful of change takes you away from it all,
And that's true. When I get snugged in my my
subway seat, I don't even want to get off. I
wanted to keep going because I'm listening to my music,
checking the news, reading the globe, and it's so so comfortable.
A handful of chains took me away from it all.
(22:42):
And another thing. It kinda it's like a shared experience
because you're all going. Everyone in that thing is going
the same direction and the same speed as the song says.
That's I just love it. Thank you very much. M
bt A. If you heard this, if you're if you
(23:03):
work for the d Please let the T know that
Bradley J. Thinks you're awesome. After the break, we'll go
to Ohio. See what's up with Paul on w b Z.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
You're on the night's side with Dan Ray on w
b Z Boston's News.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Here we are w b Z and it's Bradley J.
And for Dan we go to Paul in Ohio. I'm
having a blast interacting with you folks tonight. Paul. What's
going on?
Speaker 5 (23:33):
Hi?
Speaker 7 (23:34):
Bradley?
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Hi?
Speaker 7 (23:37):
Your I was my Friday nights. I play cards and
if I get knocked out of my tournament, I put
on w b Z because there comes Unclaire out here
in northeastern Ohio. What has I heard a voice I
hadn't heard in a long time, and it sounds just
so great. I'm so happy to hear you. I was right, listener.
(24:00):
I used to live in Lynn. I'd call you, not often,
but you know what, every couple of months, and we
had some good conversations. And when they got rid of
the Overnight Show, it didn't make me happy at all.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Here, I am glad.
Speaker 7 (24:14):
That you're still still in the business. No, I'm not
in the len. I left Lynn almost five years ago.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Wow, and so why did you leave?
Speaker 7 (24:25):
Well, my daughter had gone to school in Ohio and
I visiting her out here. I just loved it. It
was sort of like, sort of like the East Massachusetts
about sixty years ago. Well, we have dairy Queen's and
we have a and w Roupiersteans. It's it's in across
(24:49):
the livings, about sixty seventy of Boston. The house I
bought costs about two hundred thousand. I couldn't touch for
eight to nine hundred thousand back back East. Come awake
in the land.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
I guess, you know, maybe Ohio is a new place
to go and.
Speaker 7 (25:13):
Retire full barn and another outbuilding. It's no, it's I've
living a good life. I really love it out here.
I work from home. I still work for a company
in Peabody. But uh, I'm just so tickled think that
I moved out here and my naghbors are great. All
the people bless you every time they see you. It's
(25:35):
a lot different from Massachusetts. But I'm just tickled pink
to hear that you're still on the air sometimes. Is
there ready place you can hear you regularly?
Speaker 2 (25:45):
No? Not really. You can listen to these podcasts over
and over though. So h, but what what town are
you in?
Speaker 7 (25:56):
I live in a town called Beloit. It's a little village.
It's has about nine hundred people, about halfway between Youngstown
and Canton, so southeast Ohio, about an hour from Pittsburgh,
about an hour from Wheeling, West Virginia, about an hour
from Cleveland.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
And are the people really from Are the people different?
Are the people real different? Well?
Speaker 7 (26:24):
They are so nice, so friendly. They if you are
in line at the Walmart for more than five minutes,
people are showing you a pictures of their dogs or
the deer they shot last week, or their kids, or
you're just having conversations and everybody is wide wide open. Uh.
(26:48):
Made so many friends, you know, just just being in
lying places. Like you said, every all the all the
trades people out here are wonderful. I've had a plumber,
I had a carpenter I had and they do a
great job and tear prices. There's some good trampsomen out
(27:09):
in Massachusetts too. But people out here are you know,
it's it's it's night and day. It's so different.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (27:20):
But my sister lives in Plymouth and she comes out
to visit every year, and she loves it. And she's
see that you're older than I am.
Speaker 5 (27:33):
Shee.
Speaker 7 (27:34):
I just hadn't lived in Massachusetts for about seventy years
before I moved out here, and it took me about
five minutes to get used to it.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Well, Paul, thank you. That's something to consider. I need
to get to some folks. But I'm really glad you
checked in. And I'm so glad you're so happy. You
don't usually get to hear people that happy. I wonder,
I wonder if it'd be worth going to visit there,
because honestly, I have not spent any time in that
area of the country. And if you're looking play it
(28:03):
for a place to retire, boy, I tell you, Paul
thinks that it's big time good. Dolly and Quinsy was
going on a long time. The folks haven't heard you
in a long time. Dolly and Quinsy.
Speaker 8 (28:17):
Oh my goodness, so good to hear your boys, My
dear Bradley, Well good.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
To hear yours too. I have go ahead.
Speaker 8 (28:25):
I was eating Would you believe that I was eating
supper while I was listening to you, And guess what
I had?
Speaker 9 (28:30):
Delicious matloads stuff clams delicious. I got them at stopping shop,
mattloads m A T l Ow. I'm giving them a
you know, letting.
Speaker 8 (28:40):
People know that delicious, you know, with lemon juice. You know,
Bradley so good to hear your voice. You know, how
many places have you traveled to since I spoke with
you last I'm kind.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Of slowed down a little bit, prob since you spoke
with me last time, maybe four or where had?
Speaker 8 (29:01):
Where did you were?
Speaker 2 (29:02):
They?
Speaker 8 (29:02):
All places you've never been before.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
No, So my my wife I call her that because
it's simpler, has just recently come able to travel. And
so we're going to the checking the big boxes Rome, Rome, Ireland, Paris.
Speaker 8 (29:21):
Paris.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
And those kind of places. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (29:27):
And to Sicily, Yes, I want to.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Catania. Sicily. Is that where you're from?
Speaker 7 (29:35):
No?
Speaker 8 (29:35):
No, we're from near Naples, near Naples, I believe.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Yeah. Well, you know, if you can get someone to
show you how to use the computer, you can go
to the the Bradley J Travel, the Bradley J Travel,
I mean Bradley J.
Speaker 8 (29:47):
I need Bradley J. To come over and show me
how to use I have to get a computer to
begin with. Well, I don't know just an old fashioned girl,
just a simple life.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
You know.
Speaker 8 (29:57):
You know I miss the m bt A, I really do. Uh, yeah,
you know, I met so many interesting people, you know,
I walk with a walker. Now I don't get into
Boston like I used to, and I loved you know,
the bus drivers are usually very pleasant, you know. And yeah,
you meet nice people, don't you. On the m b
t A.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
You do meet nice people, you know, but you also
meet Yeah, you meet them. They're all there, the grace
and the ingrades, they're all on the mbt A. Life
happens on Life happens on the sixty six bus, you know.
Speaker 8 (30:33):
Oh really, By the way, you never bump into poor Charlie, though,
do you still beneath its Charlie?
Speaker 2 (30:41):
He never returned, you know, he never returned. His name
is still unlearned. Do you know who did that song?
Speaker 8 (30:48):
Well, let me see, not Peter, Paul and Mary. Let
me see. There were three three fellow singers.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
I believe TikTok Dolly who did it? The Kingston Trio?
Speaker 8 (30:59):
Oh naturally, yes, the Kingston Trio. Wonder who wrote that song?
Was it from Boston?
Speaker 2 (31:03):
I wonder?
Speaker 7 (31:03):
I don't know the story.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
I don't know the story on that. I'm going to
sign that to you. You can give us that. You
can give us the lowdown on that next time we call.
Speaker 8 (31:12):
I just want to ask you, Brad We I want
to ask you. Have we ever tried Matt loose stuff?
Do you like stuffed clams?
Speaker 2 (31:19):
No, I've never never tried Matt loose stuffed l o W.
Speaker 8 (31:24):
I get them at Stuff and Shove.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
So there's stuff stuffed clams like on a shell or
stuffed fried, Yes.
Speaker 9 (31:31):
On a shell, on a shell, and it's very generous
and very tasty.
Speaker 4 (31:36):
You know.
Speaker 8 (31:36):
I used to love going into Fanuel Hall marketplace there
and buying you know, the stuff shells there. They were
always good to you know, get a little flight from
lemon and everything. Well, those were the gates. Those were
the days, my friends, we thought they'd never end. We
live in dance forever. In the game, remember that.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
Yeah, who did that song stumped?
Speaker 8 (31:56):
I don't know what her name was, but I heard
that Paul McCartney had something to do with the making
of debt.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Oh yeah, somebody's gonna somebody's gonna have that answer, Dolie,
I gonna go. It's so great to hear your your
control your upbeat voice and everything.
Speaker 8 (32:13):
Nice to hear your up people. It's place two and
safe traveling, Keep on traveling, take.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Care Okay, that's what Rick Steve says. Next up is
fan favorite Doug in Air on WBZ.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Boy, this has been a great night. I just really
enjoyed speaking with you all. We have a few more
minutes here when we have Doug in Air. Long time
Doug in Air. How do you do sir?
Speaker 6 (32:43):
Hey, bruh, how's it going?
Speaker 2 (32:45):
It's going great? Are you still a truck driver?
Speaker 6 (32:48):
I am. I just pulled into the turned out perfect.
I just pulled into the rest area on the pike
so I could chat with you.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Oh good and still hauling? Uh gasoline home?
Speaker 6 (33:00):
Kathleene heading out demanding with some.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
How many gallons in your truck?
Speaker 6 (33:05):
Oh eleven five hundred?
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Wow? Man, you've been doing.
Speaker 6 (33:09):
That a long time.
Speaker 5 (33:10):
Huh.
Speaker 6 (33:11):
I've been at this company for twenty seven years. Coming
up on twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
Driving rain, sleet, snow, ice. It's kind of dangerous, is
this really?
Speaker 5 (33:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (33:23):
Everything, you don't think about it anymore, but you really should.
You know, you get too spoiled, Like I really think
about what's behind me.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
You know, why don't you retire?
Speaker 6 (33:34):
My brother retired three years ago. He keeps bugging me
about it. I just can't. I'm just I don't know
if I got work in me. I got to keep going.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
So do you need the money or do you do
it because you know of momentum?
Speaker 6 (33:47):
Yeah, I just I don't need the money. I my
house is paid off and paid off of fifteen years.
I don't have any credit cond debt, I got no
vehicle payments. I just got to keep working, you know,
I don't know. I just as long as I can
do something. My wife's not in that half years younger
than me. I I have a hard time watching her
go out the door to go to work and I'm
(34:07):
just sitting around. I gotta I gotta work too. Not
a tot time though.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
You know, funny people, a lot of people that wouldn't bother,
a lot of people you can probably know. You can
probably get used to it. How about this, though, is
there anything you want to do before you're you know,
unable to do stuff.
Speaker 6 (34:26):
I can't really think of anything. We we don't really
go anywhere. I just kind of you know sort of,
you know, do stuff around the house, do yacht work,
got wood stuff like that, you know, play with the dog.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Oh you got a nice you got a dog? What
kind of puff you're getting?
Speaker 6 (34:45):
She's kind of They said it's it's a Carolina Carolina mix,
but I don't think so. She's got chow in her.
There's a lot of child because she's kinda she kind
of plays games with me. She when I go to
take her for a walk and I go to put
the caller on show like run, you know, kind of
(35:05):
come come and get me kind of things. She's kind
of a rebel.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
But I'm guessing. I'm guessing you love your dog, because
everybody does. Would you did you hear my question earlier
in the evening about would you clone your dog?
Speaker 6 (35:18):
I would absolutely not, absolutely not call my dog.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
No.
Speaker 6 (35:23):
She's one of a kind, all all my passion. One
of a kind. You know. They might be able to create,
you know, a body, but they can't create a soul.
You know what I'm saying. They just can't. There you go,
I gotta I got a question for you that I'm ready.
If if everything you wanted your parents, if everything you
(35:44):
thought your parents should have taught you didn't. My question
to you is, if they did, would you have taken
their advice?
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Okay, well I didn't really completely get around to everything,
but uh, what I wish they'd done more was to
make me understand the possibilities for life. They didn't make
me know. I never felt I could be a doctor.
(36:15):
I didn't think that was in my grasp, but it was.
You know, I never thought I could go to Harvard,
but I probably could have. You know, if they if
they said, you know what, you buckle down, you could
probably go to the school where if you get into
that school, you got it made for the rest of
your life. I didn't even and they didn't even encourage
me to go to college. On the other hand, I
(36:36):
will say this that at the end of the well
so far, let me rephrase the net of of what
has happened. I'd like who I am. I like me,
and I liked me better than I used to because
I learned and didn't get better. And if anything had
(36:57):
happened differently, like if I had go to Heart, I
might not be the person that I am and I
might not like myself so much if I'd go to Harvard.
There's no way I would have been on the radio,
because there was a certain sense, a group of circumstances
that happened. They gave me this career that I loved
so much. I might have ended up being a doctor
and hated it. I might have been a terrible doctor.
(37:19):
I might have been some financial guy. So I really
don't want to complain about it too much, but I
do kind of wish that that they made me know
the possibilities because a lot of what I did I
did myself in spite of it.
Speaker 7 (37:36):
And right there you.
Speaker 6 (37:37):
Go, you still got a little taste of it because
you work, you know, in the operating room, so you
got a little taste of it, and then you you
did what you did best. But a point that I
want to make it most people don't really understand is
all parents are amateurs, so we can't expect them to
be professionals. Like twenty something year olds having a baby
(37:59):
have no idea what's going on. So they're all amates.
And I think my parents did pretty good with me
as the amates, you know, teaching me everything that did go.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
To In all fairness to my parents, if you're looking
down listening, I mean they first of all this was
a different time and they were exactly like the other parents,
and they didn't do anything bad at all. They never
did anything bad.
Speaker 10 (38:23):
And there's one circumstance that accidentally made me made me
really independent, and that was most parents these days, and
I don't think they need to, but they go to
every sports game.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
But not only did my parents, they didn't go to well,
they didn't give me a ride back from stuff I
did at high school because high school was ten miles away.
So if I wanted to go to the high school
football game or the high school dance, I had a
hitchhike home in high school in the night, in the winter,
et cetera. And a lot of people would think that
(38:59):
was be mean parenting. However, as a result, I just
don't depend on people to do stuff for me. I
just gotta It never occurs to me to ask for
a ride anywhere else walk places. Now. I'd even still hitchhike,
believe it or not. In some places that I don't,
I'll if nobody else will go, I'll go by myself.
(39:22):
And that's always been probably real helpful to me. And
it's probably an accidental result of my parents not wanting
to get them, put their shoes on and drive ten
miles to Rochester and ten miles back to pick me
up at the game. So at the time it was
a bummer, but it was one of those if it
doesn't kill you, it makes you stronger kind of things.
(39:45):
And now you grow up. Yeah, and I think there's
a happy medium somewhere. And I feel like I'm not
an expert, I'm not a parent, but parents now feel
like if they don't go and view every one of
every child's sporting events, that they're somehow negligent parents. And
I don't think you need to do that, parents, because
(40:07):
your kids. The purpose of those sports is not for
your kids to be well to please you. The purpose
of that so that your kids can get along in
the world and compete with people that are old their
own age and with strangers, not so that they can
look over and see mommy and daddy looking and clapping away.
(40:29):
So in my non expert advice to parents is, especially
if they could all do it at the same time,
is just say no to go into every one of
those games. Man, Because you've got three kids and they're
in two sports each, that's a lot of games. And
I think parents deserve a life. There I said it,
(40:52):
But of course again, in the context of the times,
you'd probably get a note from your you know, the school,
why aren't you coming to Junior's games. I love talking
to you, Doug. He as you can tell. The time's up,
I gotta say goodbye. Let me tell you, folks, I
love coming in here and I love talking to you.
It's a great community. Dan has a great community here,
(41:16):
and I'm only too happy to be a very small
part of it. I'll be back around Thanksgiving, and then
a big chunk of time towards the end of December
and in the early January. So I hope to be
speaking with you soon. I hope you'll call when I'm
on It's WBZ.
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