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Speaker 1: It's night Side with Dan Ray. I'm WBZ coustans me Radio.

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Speaker 2: Well wait, welcome back on my friends. This is Nightside

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Speaker 2: for Dan Ray, Bradley j for Dan. Happy New Year

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Speaker 2: do all, including especially Dan Ray. Uh. This is open

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Speaker 2: lines now, and of course we can focus on New

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Speaker 2: Year's stuff. Don't even have to. It's you. You're celebrating

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Speaker 2: New Year's with me and vice versa. By the way,

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Speaker 2: you know who else is working tonight. Besides all the

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Speaker 2: thousands of Tea operators in the operations department tonight, Rob

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Speaker 2: Brooks is working his h New Year's Eve in the

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Speaker 2: master control working the wheel. Six one seven two five

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Speaker 2: forty excuse me, six one seven two is the number.

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Speaker 2: I always have to be careful about the number, and

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Speaker 2: sometimes I overthink it. We have Tim in Boston who's

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Speaker 2: going to give us a shout. Anything you want to

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Speaker 2: talk about is fine. I mean, get my monk's working

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Speaker 2: the There we go. Hello, Tim, how are you sir?

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Speaker 3: I'm late?

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Speaker 4: How are you?

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Speaker 2: I know?

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Speaker 4: So?

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Speaker 2: This is Tim, Tim the t inspector. Now you're like

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Speaker 2: chief inspector.

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Speaker 3: Or something, right, I'm actually instructor.

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Speaker 2: Wow. So it's good to hear from you. You heard Brian,

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Speaker 2: your phone your quality, your phone calls a little mumbley.

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Speaker 2: Is there anything you can.

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Speaker 4: Do about it?

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Speaker 3: I apologize one second?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, sure, So I know Tim, because all right, how

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Speaker 2: are we doing now? Yeah? Much better. So I met

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Speaker 2: Tim on the t and I ride the Tea so

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Speaker 2: much that I'd see him around and just came to

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Speaker 2: know him from seeing him on the tee. And Brian

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Speaker 2: Kane on the advisory board said that you are a

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Speaker 2: legend in the Tea and in Boston. Tim, Well, that's

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Speaker 2: pretty cool.

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Speaker 4: Cool.

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Speaker 2: So how did you become a legend?

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Speaker 5: Well?

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Speaker 3: I used to make the history announcements. I tell people

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Speaker 3: about the history of the Tea as I did UH

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Speaker 3: did my trips, you know I did. I was an

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Speaker 3: operator for UH. I believe I was an offer for

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Speaker 3: seven years. Then I was an inspector for four and

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Speaker 3: now I'm actually teaching people how to how to do that.

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Speaker 2: Must a good gig. All this talk about the NBT

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Speaker 2: is great on n BT, A is great on New

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Speaker 2: Year's e because it's a time to party and drink

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Speaker 2: and it's very valuable, very important to the celebrate the

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Speaker 2: city celebration. So when you were on as an operator,

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Speaker 2: you worked the Green line, right, and I think I

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Speaker 2: remember you. You didn't tell so much. You told some

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Speaker 2: about the tea, but you talked about what was above

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Speaker 2: you as you went below and the history of what.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely what I used to I tell people talk

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Speaker 3: about Hines and I used to tell people about the

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Speaker 3: history of the A line. You know, everybody knows all

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Speaker 3: the other lines of Why what happened to the A Line?

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Speaker 3: I told him about the UH used to go to

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Speaker 3: nineteen sixty nine and it was never heard from again.

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Speaker 2: So that's too bad that the tracks were there and everything,

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Speaker 2: and it would it at what's that what's that corner

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Speaker 2: the way to Watertown.

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Speaker 3: Right, yep, yep. I used to go through you know, Alston,

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Speaker 2: That's a crime that that went away. I wonder why

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Speaker 3: It is well, they weren't expecting the Riverside line to

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Speaker 3: day so they originally were planning on looping most of

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Speaker 3: needed the trains, so they temporarily spended it to put

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Speaker 2: Kind of too bad because that it took you to

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Speaker 2: pick up a bus and continue. But now there's this

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Speaker 3: Correct, correct? So I I listened, I heard the last

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Speaker 3: ten minutes. I I've been pretty busy tonight obviously, but

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Speaker 3: I heard the last like ten minutes. We were talking

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Speaker 3: about the fair enforcement, yes, and a couple of other things.

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Speaker 2: So you're standing there as as an inspector trainer and

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Speaker 2: you're seeing hundreds of people get on the t and

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Speaker 2: not pay right.

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Speaker 3: I think it was about five, maybe four or five

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Speaker 3: the exact time. But they decriminalized fair visions the massachist legislature,

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Speaker 3: so it's no longer a criminal offense, so there's no

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Speaker 3: incentive really for of someone to actually give up their ID,

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Speaker 3: but to actually take a fine.

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Speaker 2: So parking tickets aren't a criminal offense either, but people

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Speaker 2: pay them.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, most part. For the most part, people are

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Speaker 3: honest and they will pay.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, you're right, I disagree. I din'gree I disagree

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Speaker 2: with you, Tom. I see it. I can I see

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Speaker 2: them not paying most most of the people.

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Speaker 3: You know, I'm not. I'm not saying, you know, everybody

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Speaker 3: does trusting, trusting, And I heard about the UH that

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Speaker 3: you know, people are becoming normalized on the fact that

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Speaker 3: they're not paying. It's like it's like most of the

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Speaker 3: people over in Summerville, you know, with the new g

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Speaker 3: l X that was opened up, and none of the

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Speaker 3: stations have fair gates, So we have the transit of

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Speaker 3: asses out there trying to get people to pay as

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Speaker 3: they get on the train. And then they have validators

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Speaker 3: that are into the UH to the UH fair machines.

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Speaker 3: So we're having them do that. And we have all

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Speaker 3: the new fair inspectors that have been hired. How many

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Speaker 3: they will be out on jils as well? How many

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Speaker 3: I believe initially there have been sixteen hired and trained,

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Speaker 3: and I believe there are more being hired fairly soon.

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Speaker 2: So how will that work? They will be on the trains,

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Speaker 2: and how will they ask you to verify that you paid?

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Speaker 3: Well, they'll have fair validators that handheld validators that they'll

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Speaker 3: randomly walk up to a person. They'll be able to

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Speaker 3: scan their Charlie card or Charlie ticket and be able

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Speaker 3: to tell if they paid on that trip or not.

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Speaker 2: Okay, but these new fair paying devices let you pay

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Speaker 2: with your phone. How how can you make sure that

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Speaker 2: somebody that used their phone to pay actually did? How

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Speaker 2: do you verify that.

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Speaker 3: With the phone?

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Speaker 3: That that's the whole thing is that it will be

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Speaker 3: or the ticket or you know, whichever whichever route they chose.

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Speaker 3: They can they can, they can tap on that validator

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Speaker 2: Okay. How come t operators and God love them? They

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Speaker 2: work hard. They have to deal with a lot of

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Speaker 2: nice people, but a lot of mean people. Uhh. I

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Speaker 2: saw a huge fat tire basically electric motorcycle folded up

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Speaker 2: which I would think that and why is that all?

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Speaker 2: Why is that allowed.

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Speaker 3: On the green line, UH, on the heavy rol side,

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Speaker 3: the orange, red and blue lines, they're allowed to bring

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Speaker 3: have to be folded up. If they're folded up, they

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Speaker 3: are actually allowed. There's nothing I get it. There are

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Speaker 3: some folded up bikes that are extremely large, but as

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Speaker 3: long as it's UH folded up, they are allowed to

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Speaker 2: Board, even during rush hour, even though in rush off,

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Speaker 2: because that wasn't the case before. But that's that's a

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Speaker 2: terrible rule in my opinion, and that needs to change.

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Speaker 2: You want people, you want, you know, people to take

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Speaker 2: the tea and if you have to, you know, wrestle

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Speaker 2: your way around some giant and you've seen you've all

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Speaker 2: seen these massive new you know, sixty pound, forty mile

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Speaker 2: in circumference folded up in a handicapped place. That would

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Speaker 2: seem to be counterproductive. And on buses too, what's what

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Speaker 2: is the rule do you have to know the rule

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Speaker 2: about about baby carriages on buses? What's the rule there?

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I don't think there's any restrictions on baby carriages on

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Speaker 3: should be a rule that they have to be in

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Speaker 2: Okay, Well, every once in a while when I'm riding,

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Speaker 2: I'll see another inspector and say, hey, you know Tim

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Speaker 2: and I They go yeah, and I say tell him,

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Speaker 2: tell them Bradley, Jay said I, and he probably don't.

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Speaker 2: I hope to see you when that's sprawling underground place

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Speaker 2: I love called the subway. Soon. Thanks for calling in.

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Speaker 3: Gerry, talking to you as always always.

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Speaker 2: Let's take a break and we'll go to After this,

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Speaker 1: W b Z It's Night Side with Dan Ray on

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Speaker 2: Happy New Year's or just reason okay new Year's. I mean,

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Speaker 2: at some point it's like happy New Year?

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Speaker 4: All right?

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Speaker 2: What about just a nice, comfortable new Year. I'd like

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Speaker 2: to know how your twenty twenty five was. I'd like

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Speaker 2: to know what you'd like to see improve in the

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Speaker 2: world in twenty twenty six. In the world, meaning your house,

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Speaker 2: your town, your state, your country, your world. I guess

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Speaker 2: that's it. We'll stop there, and I would like to hear.

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Speaker 2: I love stories. I'd love to hear the story of

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Speaker 2: your worst New Year and or your best New Year.

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Speaker 2: Everyone has a new year they can remember that just

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Speaker 2: didn't go well, and of course you have your your

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Speaker 2: which I will tell you. I'd like to think they're interesting,

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Speaker 2: compelling stories. One's very very sad, and one involves travel.

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Speaker 2: Seven the number. Let's go to Alison in Maine. Hello, Hi.

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Speaker 6: I know you're a big animal lover, right, and this

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Speaker 6: is thought. I usually bring this up every year on

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Speaker 6: Morgan Show, but he's only down to two hours in

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Speaker 6: the weekends. He doesn't have time for things, and you know,

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Speaker 6: he's real nostalgia based, and I'm you know, I'm nostalgia

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Speaker 6: practically in my life now. But anyway, I just want

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Speaker 6: to bring something up, and I know it's just kind

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Speaker 6: of heavy, but back in twenty eleven year on the air,

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Speaker 6: when this happened in Dainsville, I'll hire some guy who

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Speaker 6: had a private menagerie of animals. He let them free,

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Speaker 6: and then he killed himself, and then the police showed

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Speaker 6: up and slaughtered many, many animals, and without even waiting

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Speaker 6: for the for the people from the zoo or you know,

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Speaker 6: tranquilizer guns or nets for anything. Eighteen tigers, seventeen lions,

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Speaker 6: eight bears and some other animals just completely slaughtered. And

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Speaker 6: most people don't even remember it, you know the way

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Speaker 6: that I think two days later Kadafi got killed or something,

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Speaker 6: so they just moved on a new cackle. And it's

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Speaker 6: been haunting me ever since. And uh, you know, and

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Speaker 6: I I try to help animals whenever I can't, I give.

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Speaker 8: Bradley, Happy New Year to you and uh everyone at

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Speaker 2: Thanks for bringing that up, David, appreciate it. Open lines,

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Speaker 2: No, I hope you have an accountable New Year, New

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Speaker 2: right up there, talk tick and I had money for coffee.

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00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:10,919
Speaker 2: I had money for donuts at all. And it was warm,

434
00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:15,600
Speaker 2: so there's that. But man, you have no idea how

435
00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:19,919
Speaker 2: long that stretch was. And then finally the sun came

436
00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:21,639
Speaker 2: up and warmed up a little bit and I didn't

437
00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:25,879
Speaker 2: manage to hit tik. So that was I guess that

438
00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:30,880
Speaker 2: was the worst one. I have three really good ones

439
00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:34,359
Speaker 2: that I'll share, but I'd really rather hear yours, And

440
00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:38,040
Speaker 2: of course, open lines, you can talk about anything as well.

441
00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:41,640
Speaker 2: I may actually pop up a couple of a couple

442
00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:45,600
Speaker 2: of items that wouldn't really justify an entire hour, but

443
00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:47,040
Speaker 2: this is a good time to bring up and you

444
00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:49,439
Speaker 2: can do that as well. Let's talk to Kneel and

445
00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:50,800
Speaker 2: Watertown on wb Z.

446
00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:55,360
Speaker 5: Hello me, Hello Bradley. I hope this isn't too much

447
00:26:55,359 --> 00:26:58,919
Speaker 5: of a stretch. But green Day, what's the name of

448
00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:03,400
Speaker 5: the lead man, lead singer, Billy Joe, Billy Joel. All right,

449
00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:07,320
Speaker 5: So the reason I know about him is because he

450
00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:14,080
Speaker 5: and Norah Jones and twenty thirteen they did a full We'll.

451
00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:16,000
Speaker 2: Stop you there and just explain why you're calling just

452
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:18,840
Speaker 2: a moment ago, I made a big deal out of

453
00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:20,600
Speaker 2: saying green Day is not a real punk fan.

454
00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:22,640
Speaker 5: Oh no, I'm not challenging that at all.

455
00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:25,240
Speaker 2: All right, but that's why you're talking about green Day.

456
00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:26,120
Speaker 2: That's how it happened.

457
00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:30,800
Speaker 5: It's just the fact that it's green Day. Okay, so

458
00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:33,960
Speaker 5: as I so, I hope this is germane. But he

459
00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:39,200
Speaker 5: and Norah Jones twenty thirteen, they did a full copy

460
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:43,640
Speaker 5: of the Everly Brothers album from nineteen fifty eight, Songs

461
00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:46,399
Speaker 5: Are Daddy Taught Us. I was very surprised at that,

462
00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:48,760
Speaker 5: and he said he just found it and he did it,

463
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:54,560
Speaker 5: and it's really that's their masterpiece album from nineteen fifty eight.

464
00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:57,920
Speaker 5: And so that's why I have a place for Billy

465
00:27:58,000 --> 00:27:58,840
Speaker 5: Joel in my mind.

466
00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:02,760
Speaker 2: So don't get me wrong, I'm not I don't dislike

467
00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:08,160
Speaker 2: them or or Billy Joe, but they just don't fit

468
00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:09,800
Speaker 2: in the bud. But that's cool, that's nice that you

469
00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:10,480
Speaker 2: called about that.

470
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:11,880
Speaker 5: Well, you said open lines.

471
00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:14,359
Speaker 2: Oh, you're totally right. You're totally right. Do you have

472
00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:19,200
Speaker 2: any recollection of a particularly good or it's particularly bad

473
00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:20,200
Speaker 2: New Year's Eve?

474
00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:22,640
Speaker 5: No, I'm sorry.

475
00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:26,040
Speaker 2: I tell you, all the hundreds of years that you've lived,

476
00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:29,920
Speaker 2: you you can't even think of one good New Year's

477
00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:31,040
Speaker 2: Eve or one bad one?

478
00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:35,840
Speaker 5: Can I tell you this? If it's if it's irrelevant,

479
00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:41,520
Speaker 5: I apologize, no problem. Give me January first, eighteen fifty two.

480
00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:45,720
Speaker 5: You know Robert Browning a great poet. He made a

481
00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:48,080
Speaker 5: New Year's resolution that he wanted to write a poem

482
00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:51,320
Speaker 5: every day. So he had to be looking at king

483
00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:55,280
Speaker 5: Lear where it's a long star. But Edgar potends he's mad,

484
00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:58,680
Speaker 5: and he says, child roll into the dark tower came.

485
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:03,280
Speaker 5: So he wrote a poem. He had that as his

486
00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:06,400
Speaker 5: last line of the poem, thirty seven stanzas, and he

487
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:08,960
Speaker 5: finished it that day. My first thought was he lied

488
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:11,400
Speaker 5: in every word that's the first line, and went on

489
00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:13,400
Speaker 5: for thirty seven stanzas, and he said he didn't really

490
00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:15,360
Speaker 5: know what it was about, but it's it's really a

491
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:20,080
Speaker 5: very interesting poeman, my master writer. So thanks for sh

492
00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:22,800
Speaker 5: Sorry it's irrelevant.

493
00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:27,040
Speaker 2: Nothing is irrelevant now open lines, and I appreciate it.

494
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:31,320
Speaker 2: Hey Bob, and Woolburn wants to chime in here. Hello Bob,

495
00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:35,960
Speaker 2: thanks for being on with me on Nightside with Us.

496
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Speaker 7: Hey Bradley, nice to talk to you. So I'm kind

497
00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:44,400
Speaker 7: of a history buff and I'm going to be at

498
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:48,520
Speaker 7: the Prospect Hill tomorrow. It's kind of a big celebration.

499
00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:54,000
Speaker 7: It's the first time the Grand Union Flag was raised

500
00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:57,880
Speaker 7: on American soil, and it's the turn in fiftieth anniversary tomorrow.

501
00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:03,080
Speaker 2: So I think guess Bob Allison was talking about that

502
00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:06,080
Speaker 2: they're raised on the flag the Prospect Till. Is that

503
00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:09,680
Speaker 2: Somerville and some of it Prospect Hill Park. Yeah, that's

504
00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:11,880
Speaker 2: a big deal. Tell us a little more about that event.

505
00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:16,160
Speaker 7: So I've been to it a couple of times, and

506
00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:19,680
Speaker 7: the idea is that they're going to have some speakers there.

507
00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:23,320
Speaker 7: There's a guy, John Coopman who kind of re enacts

508
00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:26,920
Speaker 7: George Washington. He's going to be there on his horse.

509
00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:29,040
Speaker 7: That they're going to have a little parade from City

510
00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:33,680
Speaker 7: Hall right up the Prospect Hill. And it was really

511
00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:36,520
Speaker 7: an act of defiance where they said, you know, all right,

512
00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:39,920
Speaker 7: we've got the Grand Union Flag. This was before Betsy

513
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:41,800
Speaker 7: Ross and all that kind of stuff, but they said,

514
00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:44,720
Speaker 7: you know, we want to really claim this. And it

515
00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:47,640
Speaker 7: was a big hill, so it's something when they raised

516
00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:50,160
Speaker 7: it up on this fort. There's a nice fort there

517
00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:53,840
Speaker 7: that's thirty forty feet high. You could see it really

518
00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:58,400
Speaker 7: all throughout Boston, Roxbury, Dorchester, pretty high hill back in

519
00:30:58,440 --> 00:30:58,760
Speaker 7: the day.

520
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Speaker 2: So is the fort still there?

521
00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:01,160
Speaker 4: Yeah?

522
00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:02,920
Speaker 2: Is the original fort?

523
00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:05,960
Speaker 7: No, it's probably built up a little bit. It's it's

524
00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:11,440
Speaker 7: more of tradition kind of thing, but you can climb

525
00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:13,560
Speaker 7: up it. It's it's forty feet I it's it's almost

526
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:17,160
Speaker 7: like a well, you know, made of rocks and all

527
00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:21,920
Speaker 7: that kind of stuff, and like it castle. Yeah, more

528
00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:24,320
Speaker 7: of a castle kind of thing. Yeah.

529
00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:27,200
Speaker 2: And can you talk about this Grand Union flag? What

530
00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:28,200
Speaker 2: it looked like.

531
00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:33,960
Speaker 7: Yeah, it was there's some stars on it. They had.

532
00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:37,840
Speaker 7: Let me see if I can look at a picture

533
00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:45,720
Speaker 7: of it. So it was some stripes. There was right

534
00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:49,080
Speaker 7: red and white stripes and then they had almost like

535
00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:55,440
Speaker 7: a British cross, so you know where the these stars

536
00:31:55,440 --> 00:32:02,400
Speaker 7: are nowadays. There was kind of an accent and the

537
00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:06,360
Speaker 7: tea was red and then part of it was blue

538
00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:08,160
Speaker 7: and part of it was white. So it was kind

539
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:10,560
Speaker 7: of a Grand Union flag that they had for a while.

540
00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:13,040
Speaker 7: In seventeen seventy seven, I think is when Betsy Ross's

541
00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:16,080
Speaker 7: flag came in, but they call it the Continental Union

542
00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:21,360
Speaker 7: flag or the Grand Union Flag. You'll see some pictures

543
00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:25,360
Speaker 7: of that if you look at some history in the

544
00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:29,760
Speaker 7: seventeen seventy five, seventeen seventy six. But tomorrow it's gonna

545
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Speaker 7: be the tourn in fiftieth anniversary.

546
00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:36,280
Speaker 2: So what other parts of history do you like? Just

547
00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:38,000
Speaker 2: a revolution or others.

548
00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:43,040
Speaker 7: Well, I've actually been Captain Isaac Hall in a couple

549
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:47,040
Speaker 7: events where Paul Revere gets on his horse and goes

550
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:51,240
Speaker 7: from Charlestown to Medford. So mostly it's mostly what I've

551
00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:53,960
Speaker 7: done is the Revolutionary War. I've got a chance to

552
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:55,719
Speaker 7: meet some of the guys that shoot the guns when

553
00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:59,000
Speaker 7: they score the touchdowns at the Gillette Stadium, and a

554
00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:03,200
Speaker 7: lot of those guys were that Revolutionary Patriotic militia kind

555
00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:06,240
Speaker 7: of uniform and they said, hey, when you retire, maybe

556
00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:08,360
Speaker 7: you can kind of help us out promoting it. And

557
00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:12,200
Speaker 7: so I've showed up a couple of their events and

558
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:14,760
Speaker 7: and I'll be there tomorrow. I'm not doing anything formal.

559
00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:17,120
Speaker 7: I'm just kind of there that kind of promote that

560
00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:20,400
Speaker 7: we're putting up a statue of a woman in Medford

561
00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:23,160
Speaker 7: in April, of a woman that was known as the

562
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Speaker 7: mother of the Boston Tea Party, Sarah Bradley. Sarah Bradley Fulton.

563
00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:32,200
Speaker 2: That's the mother. So explain how how she's the mother

564
00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:32,880
Speaker 2: of the tea party.

565
00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:39,240
Speaker 7: Yeah. So her brother Nathaniel, his home was right on

566
00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:42,880
Speaker 7: Griffin's Wharf. So as they were discussing whether or not

567
00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:47,320
Speaker 7: they were going to send the tea back to London

568
00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:50,080
Speaker 7: and back to England, and they decided, we're not going

569
00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:51,720
Speaker 7: to dump it back. I mean, we're not going to

570
00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:54,760
Speaker 7: ship it back. We're going to dump it. A lot

571
00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:57,480
Speaker 7: of the people that decided that, you know, Samuel Adams

572
00:33:57,480 --> 00:34:00,040
Speaker 7: and the Sons of Liberty and the Grand Mason's and

573
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:01,720
Speaker 7: all that kind of stuff, they said, well, if we

574
00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:03,680
Speaker 7: get on the boat, we're going to have to disguise

575
00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:06,360
Speaker 7: ourselves because if the British know who we are, we're

576
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:08,480
Speaker 7: going to be trouble. You know. They could tower feathers,

577
00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:10,200
Speaker 7: they could do some damage to us. They could burn

578
00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:13,879
Speaker 7: a house down. So Sarah happened to be there and said,

579
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:16,560
Speaker 7: come on over to my brother's house that's in yours house,

580
00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:18,759
Speaker 7: and I'll put some makeup on you and you won't

581
00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:20,520
Speaker 7: be able to tell who's who. I'll just put some

582
00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:23,239
Speaker 7: soyr on you and some ash on your face, and

583
00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:25,799
Speaker 7: we'll put some feathers in your and you kind of

584
00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:29,359
Speaker 7: grab some some rags and stuff and some stuff like

585
00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:32,160
Speaker 7: making you look like a mohawk Indian and just go

586
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:34,320
Speaker 7: in there. And there's about thirty of them that she

587
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:36,960
Speaker 7: dressed up, and the British didn't know what to do.

588
00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:39,000
Speaker 7: They're not going to mess with these Indians, you know.

589
00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:41,000
Speaker 7: So the next thing, you know, all these Indians they

590
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:44,400
Speaker 7: were all synchronized. They went down the bottom and you

591
00:34:44,520 --> 00:34:46,160
Speaker 7: stay in the bottom, you hook it up to me

592
00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:49,000
Speaker 7: your second floor, third floor, and they had the full

593
00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:52,759
Speaker 7: synchronized thing. They dumped three hundred and forty buckets of

594
00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:56,000
Speaker 7: tea into the Harborn just a couple hours and then

595
00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:58,720
Speaker 7: they ran into the crowd because the crowd was cheering

596
00:34:58,719 --> 00:35:01,799
Speaker 7: them the whole time, and Sarah got some soap and

597
00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:04,000
Speaker 7: washed it all off with her sisters and a few

598
00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:06,920
Speaker 7: other people, and they dispersed. And the people that were

599
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:11,840
Speaker 7: part of this Mohawk Indian disguise, they were sworn to secrecy,

600
00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:14,120
Speaker 7: and a lot of them didn't tell anyone that they

601
00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:16,719
Speaker 7: were actually on the ship until twenty thirty, forty fifty

602
00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:17,239
Speaker 7: years later.

603
00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:20,680
Speaker 2: Oh, thanks for I didn't realize that. Well, thank you

604
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:23,359
Speaker 2: very much, Bob. I got I got to go now,

605
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:26,200
Speaker 2: but thanks for the call. Appreciate it. We'll go to

606
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:30,439
Speaker 2: Ohio after this and then hand over.

607
00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:31,640
Speaker 4: I have.

608
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Speaker 2: I've told you my sad New Year's story. I have

609
00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:38,839
Speaker 2: a couple of good New Year's stories, fun, upbeat. I'd

610
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:41,520
Speaker 2: love to hear your you're not so good at New

611
00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:44,320
Speaker 2: Year and your best New Year and anything else you

612
00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:47,920
Speaker 2: want to talk about. Opening lines here on WBZ.

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Speaker 1: You're on Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZY, Boston's

614
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Speaker 1: news Radio.

615
00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:59,080
Speaker 2: Brad J for Dan tonight, Happy New Year's Eve, and

616
00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:02,920
Speaker 2: hope you have a pleasant tomorrow as well. It's interesting

617
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:10,680
Speaker 2: about celebrating New Year's It's always anticlimactic after for me.

618
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:15,399
Speaker 2: Ten nine, eight, seven, six, five four three to one.

619
00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:23,320
Speaker 2: Yay now, what you know, that was always a problem

620
00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:28,359
Speaker 2: for me, that the aftermath was a downer. That then

621
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:32,480
Speaker 2: that kind of I think that was, you know, when

622
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:36,480
Speaker 2: I realized that, that's when I stopped really partying on

623
00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:39,920
Speaker 2: New Year's as much. After that it became a more

624
00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:43,000
Speaker 2: chill event for me. Open lines. You want to talk

625
00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:46,080
Speaker 2: about your best or worst New Year's it's great. Anything

626
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:49,120
Speaker 2: else is fine. Six, one, seven, two, five, ten thirties

627
00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:52,439
Speaker 2: Craig and Ohio. Hello, Craig, how you doing.

628
00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:58,239
Speaker 4: I'm gonna chime in on punk rock music. Sure, it

629
00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:03,759
Speaker 4: was seventy eight as in Amsterdam, and it seemed to

630
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:08,319
Speaker 4: be exploding around then. I don't know for sure, but

631
00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:11,120
Speaker 4: I remember Johnny Rod and the sex Pistols was a

632
00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:14,319
Speaker 4: big thing. And then I was at a club called

633
00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:19,200
Speaker 4: the Paradisio his old church that turned into a rock

634
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:23,839
Speaker 4: and roll club, and I was kind of freaked out,

635
00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:27,719
Speaker 4: you know. I remember as Sandy Vix's girl, she had

636
00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:31,680
Speaker 4: safety pins going from her cheek to her ear lobe,

637
00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:37,160
Speaker 4: and I was partaking in things that were available there,

638
00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:42,560
Speaker 4: and uh it was I asked the girl, what's the

639
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:45,719
Speaker 4: name of the band, and she goes, She's from New

640
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:52,719
Speaker 4: York and it was Blondie. Oh yeah, I'm talking. I

641
00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:55,759
Speaker 4: was five feet from the stage, so.

642
00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:58,719
Speaker 2: You must have been impressed by Blondie. The band was

643
00:37:58,760 --> 00:37:59,319
Speaker 2: pretty good.

644
00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:03,160
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, you know it was. But I was just

645
00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:05,400
Speaker 4: kind of like, wow, what the heck is going on

646
00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:09,239
Speaker 4: around the Blondie was you know, here's this you know,

647
00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:14,160
Speaker 4: beautiful blonde girl you know on the stage is singing.

648
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Speaker 4: I couldn't tell you one song to tell you the truth,

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Speaker 4: you know, its a long time ago, but uh, I

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Speaker 4: just never you know. And that's when the guys with

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Speaker 4: the big spikes in their hair, yes, I guess girls too,

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Speaker 4: And I was asking about I said, what's that all about?

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Speaker 4: And I said, well, they go to a job interview

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00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:40,160
Speaker 4: like that. They know they're not going to get a job,

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Speaker 4: so they you know, so I guess they got more

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Speaker 4: government money or some government money or whatever. But uh so,

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Speaker 4: let me ask.

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Speaker 2: You, how did you end up there? And that, you know,

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Speaker 2: you being you? How did you end up in that environment.

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Speaker 4: You meaning Amsterdam, in Amsterdam and.

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Speaker 2: Even more particularly that particular club.

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Speaker 4: Well, I was, you know, as a young guy, I

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Speaker 4: was trying to look for, you know, some cool places

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Speaker 4: to go, and uh, you know, I was kind of

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Speaker 4: bored with everything else. And then you know, they told

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Speaker 4: me about the Paradisio and uh. As a matter of fact,

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Speaker 4: I remember one guy, I went downstairs and you've shown

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00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:28,360
Speaker 4: me posters of uh the who played there and some

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Speaker 4: other bands, proco harm and stuff like that. I was like, Wow,

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Speaker 4: must be a cool place, you.

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Speaker 2: Know, in Amsterdam.

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Speaker 4: I was in the Navy and I took a train

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Speaker 4: from Rotterdam to Amsterdam.

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Speaker 2: Wow. And there must have been some eye opening stuff

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Speaker 2: there for you in Amsterdam.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, it was definitely different, you know, as wild,

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Speaker 4: you know, but you know, walking up and down the street,

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Speaker 4: women in the windows and stuff and.

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Speaker 9: Uh.

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Speaker 4: But uh, you know, I never got the punk rock music.

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Speaker 4: I just never got it, Bradley, you know, I a

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Speaker 4: lot of.

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Speaker 2: It I didn't like either, So I liked some of it.

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Speaker 2: I love the clash And I was never a big

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Speaker 2: sex Pistols fan, to tay the truth, and I kind

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Speaker 2: of admit, don't tell anybody I was never a giant

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Speaker 2: Ramos fan either. Craig, I gotta go because I gotta

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Speaker 2: make time, make time for Harold in Hanover before the

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Speaker 2: top of Harold, what's going on?

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Speaker 9: Hey, how you doing Bradley. We're talk to him quite

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Speaker 9: a while. Yeah, I know, we used to talk quite

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Speaker 9: a bit about your love for Bowie. Yes, I love

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Speaker 9: to act. I think you know. Given he died to Lily,

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Speaker 9: he didn't live longer here. He was dabbling another types

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Speaker 9: of music before he died. He listened to his last

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Speaker 9: I think, but not quite. No one could betish greative.

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Speaker 4: You know what.

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Speaker 2: I had to let you go because your phone is

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Speaker 2: breaking up, but I do I feel bad about that

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Speaker 2: after the break. If you can get a better phone,

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Speaker 2: we can continue or a better location. But it was inaudible,

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Speaker 2: couldn't really make out what you were saying. But he

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Speaker 2: didn't talk about David Bowie and his last album, which

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Speaker 2: is called Black Star, which he made Wiley was dying

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Speaker 2: and it turns out to be a masterpiece. It's actually

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Speaker 2: a jazz album. Love to have you on board. I'm

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Speaker 2: very thankful for all you. I'm glad that you call.

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Speaker 2: It's good that you have a voice on WBZ and

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Speaker 2: the community. I know you can feel that community. I

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Speaker 2: do have a question whenever happened to Joe Anne and Walfam.

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Speaker 2: I pray that she's okay. Well, if anybody knows her.

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Speaker 2: I suppose it's late to call her up, but I

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Speaker 2: hope joe Anne's okay, and maybe if she's listening, she'll call.

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Speaker 2: Tell me about your best New Year, your worst New Year,

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Speaker 2: New Year, or anything else here on WBZ