1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:06,000 Speaker 1: It's night side with Dan Ray. I'm WBZ Coostin's new radio. Well, 2 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:10,280 Speaker 1: it's Friday, Friday. How about that. Here we are, I mean, 3 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:14,200 Speaker 1: just so you can picture where I am, because that's helpful. 4 00:00:15,440 --> 00:00:22,040 Speaker 1: It's the uh the iHeart headquarters here in Medford High High. 5 00:00:22,079 --> 00:00:25,279 Speaker 1: It's off the building and looking out over through the glass, 6 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:29,080 Speaker 1: I keep the lights way down low. On my right, 7 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:32,000 Speaker 1: I see a bank of TVs. This up very high 8 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:35,800 Speaker 1: tech new place designed specially for this, and so on 9 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:38,519 Speaker 1: my right a bank of TVs, which of course have 10 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:42,720 Speaker 1: the sound down and it's kind of weird, four different 11 00:00:42,720 --> 00:00:46,800 Speaker 1: TVs flashing four different programs all the time, but it 12 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:50,640 Speaker 1: keeps the place lit with this nice glow. Directly ahead 13 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:56,680 Speaker 1: of me on the right is another studio, and then 14 00:00:56,720 --> 00:01:00,240 Speaker 1: of course the very important the clock. In my job, 15 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:04,840 Speaker 1: the clock is very important, it says on air, and 16 00:01:04,880 --> 00:01:07,880 Speaker 1: there's a regular clock with a big hand and a 17 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:12,759 Speaker 1: little hand, and then this additional clock, which is really 18 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:18,240 Speaker 1: important because sometimes I need to end exactly at a 19 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:21,600 Speaker 1: certain time and I can see to the second, like 20 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:24,160 Speaker 1: we have to take some report from somewhere that's dead 21 00:01:24,160 --> 00:01:26,560 Speaker 1: Ahead of me on the to the right of that 22 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:31,160 Speaker 1: clock is another glass window that I can see Master 23 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:35,959 Speaker 1: control operator Rob Brooks working the wheel. And Rob Brooks 24 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:40,000 Speaker 1: is extremely good at his job. There's a lot that 25 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:42,160 Speaker 1: I take that I take for granted, and I don't 26 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:47,720 Speaker 1: even know he does. But you know, if he didn't 27 00:01:47,720 --> 00:01:51,560 Speaker 1: do it, they'd be big problems. Then. Past Rob, I 28 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:54,880 Speaker 1: see through more glass, I see the w b Z 29 00:01:55,160 --> 00:02:02,800 Speaker 1: news studios where where the news gatherers gather. And there 30 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:04,400 Speaker 1: are more of them in the day than at night, 31 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:07,960 Speaker 1: you know. So I see the new studio where the 32 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:11,960 Speaker 1: news anchor will stand and work his or her magic. 33 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:14,440 Speaker 1: And that's what I see. Behind me is the hallway. 34 00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:19,639 Speaker 1: It's all glassed in. It's really it's a really cool environment. 35 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:22,920 Speaker 1: It's a real studio and I love being in it. 36 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:27,040 Speaker 1: I feel like I'm really on the radio. So here 37 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:29,840 Speaker 1: we are and it's not quite open lines. But this 38 00:02:29,919 --> 00:02:33,600 Speaker 1: is this topic is going to be for everyone once again, 39 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:38,920 Speaker 1: just like the first hour, no opinion necessary. This is 40 00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:43,360 Speaker 1: just kind of experiential and these are experiences that everyone had. 41 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:47,000 Speaker 1: I'll share mine. I'm going to be quite frank with you, 42 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:50,600 Speaker 1: and I don't know, I hope I'm not going to overshare. 43 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:54,200 Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about my parents, and things that 44 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:59,080 Speaker 1: maybe they didn't teach me or pass on to me 45 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:02,399 Speaker 1: that they should have that were harmful. And also school, 46 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:07,520 Speaker 1: what school didn't teach me that they should have. That's 47 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:10,880 Speaker 1: been a kind of a crippling thing. And of course 48 00:03:10,919 --> 00:03:14,240 Speaker 1: there will be stories, and I'd like you to share 49 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:17,799 Speaker 1: the same thing if you can. Maybe you know something 50 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:19,680 Speaker 1: you didn't learn in school or from your parents that 51 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:22,520 Speaker 1: you've found out later, and you think, why didn't they 52 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:26,240 Speaker 1: tell me that? I wish I hadn't known that I 53 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:29,360 Speaker 1: made some mistakes because I didn't know that. And how 54 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:33,040 Speaker 1: about the flip side of that coin, is stuff that 55 00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:36,040 Speaker 1: people drilled into you that you didn't need to know 56 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:39,120 Speaker 1: at all? What did you learn in school? You didn't 57 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:44,120 Speaker 1: need to know at all? So I'll go first, because 58 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:46,560 Speaker 1: if I didn't, you know, it'd probably be too quiet. 59 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:49,800 Speaker 1: The number six, one, seven, two, five, four, ten, thirty. 60 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:55,880 Speaker 1: What did your parents not convey to you they should have? 61 00:03:55,920 --> 00:04:01,480 Speaker 1: And you might feel bad about talking negative of lee 62 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:05,120 Speaker 1: about your parents, you know, that's that's not a problem. 63 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:10,240 Speaker 1: It's if they did anything they did was probably because 64 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:13,839 Speaker 1: that's what people did at the time. It's not and 65 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:16,120 Speaker 1: and people have to be judged in the context of 66 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:21,360 Speaker 1: the time they were alive. So here we go. The 67 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:28,200 Speaker 1: number couple of main things for me that my parents 68 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:31,719 Speaker 1: didn't let me know was, I guess the biggest one 69 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:36,440 Speaker 1: was they didn't let me know the possibilities. They didn't 70 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:40,560 Speaker 1: I never had a full palllette of stuff I could 71 00:04:40,600 --> 00:04:44,039 Speaker 1: be when I grow up. I didn't know. They didn't. 72 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:46,920 Speaker 1: They didn't say you can. They didn't say you can 73 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:49,040 Speaker 1: be anything you want. They didn't say you could be 74 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:54,560 Speaker 1: an astronaut or or anything like that. And actually, my 75 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:56,320 Speaker 1: mother was not real keen on me being on the 76 00:04:56,440 --> 00:05:01,520 Speaker 1: radio because I was at at a rock station, which 77 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:05,960 Speaker 1: she found to be offensive because it was that was 78 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:09,159 Speaker 1: the joy, not offensive, but you know, it was rock 79 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:13,279 Speaker 1: and it was rock and roll and that didn't really 80 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:18,280 Speaker 1: mix with who she was, so she wasn't really proud 81 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:22,960 Speaker 1: of that. But even before that, they didn't make me 82 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:27,120 Speaker 1: know the possibilities, and they want to know a secret. 83 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:29,560 Speaker 1: They did not even encourage me to go to college, 84 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:33,440 Speaker 1: and I hope I don't know. I'm not trying to 85 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:35,479 Speaker 1: get revenge or anything. I'm just telling you the truth 86 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:37,960 Speaker 1: of how it was, because I think it's cool that 87 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:39,279 Speaker 1: you get to know me. If I'm going to be 88 00:05:39,279 --> 00:05:45,159 Speaker 1: talking to you so much. They didn't even encourage me 89 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:49,480 Speaker 1: to go to college. And my father once said, what 90 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:51,760 Speaker 1: do you need to go to college for? And he 91 00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:56,760 Speaker 1: was kind of pushing me towards going in the service. 92 00:05:58,320 --> 00:06:00,880 Speaker 1: Of course, that wasn't gonna happen, because it was Vietnam 93 00:06:00,920 --> 00:06:04,400 Speaker 1: War had just gotten over, and we grew up in 94 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:08,040 Speaker 1: our you know, very single digit years and the year 95 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:14,480 Speaker 1: ten eleven twelve fearing going to Vietnam. So they didn't 96 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:18,760 Speaker 1: encourage me to go to college. And that I'll continue 97 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:21,560 Speaker 1: and let you know how that worked affected me. But 98 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:24,400 Speaker 1: first we have Sarah and Middleborough and I rage anybody 99 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:27,520 Speaker 1: else to talk about this kind of thing and how 100 00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:32,560 Speaker 1: a lack of guidance or a lack of instruction or 101 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:34,719 Speaker 1: a lack of something from your parents or your school 102 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:38,320 Speaker 1: has affected you. And on the other hand, stuff you 103 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:42,279 Speaker 1: learned that really was either wrong or unhelpful or unnecessary 104 00:06:42,279 --> 00:06:46,200 Speaker 1: in a waste of time. Oh Sarah, how are you well? 105 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:46,760 Speaker 2: How are you. 106 00:06:48,760 --> 00:06:49,120 Speaker 3: Okay? 107 00:06:49,279 --> 00:06:51,479 Speaker 2: I just wanted to make a point that you know 108 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:53,800 Speaker 2: how your parents would tell you do the right thing 109 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:56,760 Speaker 2: and things will work out for you as long as 110 00:06:56,760 --> 00:06:59,560 Speaker 2: you work hard. I wish they had told me that 111 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:03,039 Speaker 2: in life there are times that no matter what you 112 00:07:03,200 --> 00:07:06,279 Speaker 2: do or how hard you try, they just won't work. 113 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:10,600 Speaker 1: Well, that's true, and so they made you, they made 114 00:07:10,640 --> 00:07:13,920 Speaker 1: you feel like since they said that that you must 115 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:15,880 Speaker 1: not be working hard enough or something like that, that 116 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:16,760 Speaker 1: is your fault. 117 00:07:17,760 --> 00:07:17,800 Speaker 4: No. 118 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:20,600 Speaker 2: I think I was just disappointing that you work so 119 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:23,680 Speaker 2: hard and that things didn't go the way that you wanted, 120 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:26,440 Speaker 2: even though you were told that if you did all this, 121 00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:29,040 Speaker 2: things will fall your way. You know. 122 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:32,280 Speaker 1: One thing. One thing that's interesting is I think maybe 123 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:34,920 Speaker 1: that used to be the case more now. It used 124 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:37,080 Speaker 1: to be you work hard, you show up to work, 125 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:40,600 Speaker 1: you'd be honest, it'd be good, and things will go 126 00:07:40,640 --> 00:07:43,160 Speaker 1: your way. But honesty is not so much of a 127 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:45,800 Speaker 1: thing now. Hard work's not so much of a thing now, 128 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:50,720 Speaker 1: and those those qualities don't seem to be valued as 129 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:52,280 Speaker 1: much anymore. It may not get you a where you 130 00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:55,680 Speaker 1: need to be. It seems to me that it's the 131 00:07:55,760 --> 00:07:59,760 Speaker 1: dishonest people that get ahead these days. I mean, is 132 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:05,160 Speaker 1: it possible to even be an honest politician? Can you 133 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:08,840 Speaker 1: get elected being honest? I'm not so sure you can. 134 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:11,080 Speaker 2: No, I don't think so. 135 00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:18,000 Speaker 1: No, And So what was it that you you endeavored 136 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:22,600 Speaker 1: that didn't pan out even though you worked hard, like 137 00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:25,800 Speaker 1: your parents told you. What was it that didn't work out? 138 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:26,600 Speaker 3: Oh? 139 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:28,560 Speaker 2: There was a number of things, you know, but it 140 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:31,520 Speaker 2: was just it was the point of being so disappointed 141 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:35,080 Speaker 2: that it didn't work out and you tried so hard 142 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:37,040 Speaker 2: and it still did not work. 143 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:43,520 Speaker 1: Okay. Was there anything that you learned in school? Your 144 00:08:43,559 --> 00:08:47,280 Speaker 1: parents maybe, but in school that you just didn't need 145 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:47,640 Speaker 1: to know. 146 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:50,960 Speaker 2: I think algebra. 147 00:08:51,160 --> 00:08:54,239 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I think that's going to come up a lot. Algebra. 148 00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:56,920 Speaker 1: I was so bad at algebra that I cried. I 149 00:08:56,960 --> 00:09:00,640 Speaker 1: think I couldn't. No, I didn't cry. I couldn't get it. 150 00:09:00,679 --> 00:09:02,480 Speaker 1: But when I was in fourth grade, I couldn't get 151 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:06,000 Speaker 1: even the basic rudimentary math. And I did cry in 152 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:10,520 Speaker 1: the fourth grade. But when I got to high school, 153 00:09:10,760 --> 00:09:13,920 Speaker 1: I don't think I ever got one problem right. Ever, Ever, 154 00:09:14,559 --> 00:09:17,600 Speaker 1: I couldn't understand how anyone would get a problem right. 155 00:09:18,320 --> 00:09:23,760 Speaker 1: It's the there's so many ways it can go south. Well, oh, no, 156 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:26,280 Speaker 1: you're supposed to add those two together because they're they're 157 00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:33,040 Speaker 1: in a parentheses. Oh whatever. Yeah, So it becomes useful 158 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:36,520 Speaker 1: later kind of when you you get into logic and 159 00:09:36,559 --> 00:09:40,480 Speaker 1: debating because if agal be and begle see, then acle 160 00:09:40,559 --> 00:09:45,240 Speaker 1: see and and that that kind of thing is good 161 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:48,120 Speaker 1: for debating and arguing. But that's, you know, not real 162 00:09:48,280 --> 00:09:52,360 Speaker 1: algebra solved for X. No, thank you can't do it. 163 00:09:53,240 --> 00:09:54,160 Speaker 1: And I took. 164 00:09:55,720 --> 00:09:55,800 Speaker 2: In. 165 00:09:57,040 --> 00:10:01,840 Speaker 1: I had to take h that in high school. But 166 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:04,160 Speaker 1: I had to take it again in college, I think, 167 00:10:04,679 --> 00:10:08,840 Speaker 1: and again I took the lowest level possible and it 168 00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:14,319 Speaker 1: was a terrible, terrible struggle, and only through class participation 169 00:10:14,440 --> 00:10:18,960 Speaker 1: of something did I scrape by. I have a sense 170 00:10:19,040 --> 00:10:22,760 Speaker 1: that people in the broadcast industry are terrible in math. 171 00:10:23,160 --> 00:10:26,560 Speaker 1: I think I don't have I can't prove it, but 172 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:31,280 Speaker 1: I just feel it's true, and I've heard anecdotal evidence 173 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:36,160 Speaker 1: that that's true. In general. There are probably exceptions to 174 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:40,280 Speaker 1: the rule, but I've heard that broadcasters are bad. 175 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:45,440 Speaker 2: That if you're good in math, you're horrible in English, 176 00:10:45,760 --> 00:10:48,160 Speaker 2: or if you're good in English, you're not good in math. 177 00:10:49,080 --> 00:10:49,600 Speaker 1: It could be. 178 00:10:49,679 --> 00:10:50,120 Speaker 3: I think. 179 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:54,960 Speaker 1: There are different kinds of intelligence, okay, And the intelligence 180 00:10:54,960 --> 00:11:00,080 Speaker 1: I always liked was wit. I thought wit was the 181 00:11:00,160 --> 00:11:03,520 Speaker 1: most valuable thing. I had a friend, Michael Kelly in college, 182 00:11:03,559 --> 00:11:07,720 Speaker 1: who was the wittiest guy he knew so much, but man, 183 00:11:07,720 --> 00:11:11,559 Speaker 1: could he make you laugh in a super intelligent, dry way. 184 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:15,840 Speaker 1: And that was the kind of intelligence I valued. And 185 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:18,400 Speaker 1: I think Peter, I bet you anything, he was terrible 186 00:11:18,440 --> 00:11:21,080 Speaker 1: at math too. He went on to become He went 187 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:24,360 Speaker 1: on to become a big deal journalist that he was 188 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:28,800 Speaker 1: the actually the boss at the Atlantic Monthly. And he 189 00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:32,920 Speaker 1: also was the first journalist killed in the Second Gulf War. 190 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:38,720 Speaker 1: So that I can't not bring that up. I really 191 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:41,000 Speaker 1: appreciate the call. Is there anything else you want to share? 192 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:42,880 Speaker 1: Because it's all about the sharing. 193 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:46,600 Speaker 2: Oh No, I had a teacher that I think teachers 194 00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:51,320 Speaker 2: were the best. They instill so much into you and 195 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:54,440 Speaker 2: make you be the person you are, because I mean, 196 00:11:54,520 --> 00:11:59,000 Speaker 2: they're generally with you as much, if not more, than 197 00:11:59,040 --> 00:11:59,880 Speaker 2: your own parents. 198 00:12:00,160 --> 00:12:06,319 Speaker 1: Right, And another good thing about teachers is hopefully your 199 00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:09,840 Speaker 1: parents are going to instill prejudices in you one way 200 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:12,360 Speaker 1: or the other. You know that they feel one way, 201 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:14,680 Speaker 1: and they're going to teach you to feel that way, 202 00:12:14,760 --> 00:12:17,400 Speaker 1: and it's really important to get another look at things, 203 00:12:17,720 --> 00:12:24,560 Speaker 1: and hopefully hopefully from a more neutral source. Unfortunately, teachers 204 00:12:24,559 --> 00:12:28,520 Speaker 1: are also biased and may either pile on to what 205 00:12:28,559 --> 00:12:32,760 Speaker 1: your parents said or refute what your parents say. There's 206 00:12:32,800 --> 00:12:36,080 Speaker 1: nobody when you're a kid that's telling you to, you know, 207 00:12:36,480 --> 00:12:41,480 Speaker 1: be a skeptic. Really, and you need to be a skeptic. 208 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:45,000 Speaker 1: You're not really allowed to be a skeptic because you 209 00:12:45,040 --> 00:12:46,720 Speaker 1: get in college and then they really make a big 210 00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:48,600 Speaker 1: deal out of it. Hey, it's so great to talk 211 00:12:48,640 --> 00:12:49,200 Speaker 1: to you, Sarah. 212 00:12:49,240 --> 00:12:51,240 Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you. 213 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:52,200 Speaker 2: Have a great night. 214 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:56,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a very pleasant night here in the briskly 215 00:12:56,679 --> 00:12:59,920 Speaker 1: called studios at w b Z the number six ones 216 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:03,760 Speaker 1: seven two five ft. I'm really enjoying speaking with you all, 217 00:13:04,040 --> 00:13:06,200 Speaker 1: and I hope, uh someone else will step up and 218 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:10,880 Speaker 1: we can chat and share. Next on WBZ, you're on 219 00:13:11,080 --> 00:13:15,480 Speaker 1: Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's news radio 220 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:18,840 Speaker 1: Brother Jay for Dan. On this Friday, and it's a 221 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:22,080 Speaker 1: Friday feeling. It's a very Friday feeling. Friday. For some reason, 222 00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:27,040 Speaker 1: I feel like Friday. We're talking about things that maybe 223 00:13:27,120 --> 00:13:30,199 Speaker 1: your parents didn't teach you they should have, or maybe 224 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:32,959 Speaker 1: they tried to get you to do that they shouldn't have. 225 00:13:33,040 --> 00:13:35,640 Speaker 1: And also foods they tried to get you to eat 226 00:13:35,679 --> 00:13:38,200 Speaker 1: that you just couldn't do it. And because they tried 227 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:41,240 Speaker 1: to force you, you hated that food and you still hate it. 228 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:45,960 Speaker 1: You can't stomach. It's because of what your parents did. 229 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:48,800 Speaker 1: And also we look, we talk about school, what is 230 00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:52,640 Speaker 1: schools teachy? Hey, you didn't need to know? And in 231 00:13:52,679 --> 00:13:55,960 Speaker 1: my case, what in my school not teach? That was 232 00:13:56,559 --> 00:14:00,360 Speaker 1: crippling to me. I'll talk about all that go to 233 00:14:00,440 --> 00:14:05,520 Speaker 1: Neil and Marjorie in a moment. But our previous color 234 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:09,480 Speaker 1: talked about and I think a lot of people will say, boy, 235 00:14:09,520 --> 00:14:13,480 Speaker 1: I really didn't need to know algebra or geometry even more. 236 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:21,080 Speaker 1: But I do want to say this that, speaking of math, 237 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:25,560 Speaker 1: that the Roman numeral system was just the dumbest thing, 238 00:14:26,040 --> 00:14:28,680 Speaker 1: so dumb, so clunky, And you think the Romans were 239 00:14:28,760 --> 00:14:33,520 Speaker 1: kind of smart, they could have invented a better number system. 240 00:14:33,680 --> 00:14:36,120 Speaker 1: Like do you know who invented the number system we 241 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:43,240 Speaker 1: have now? It's an Arabic thing, Hindu Arabic thing. Actually 242 00:14:43,280 --> 00:14:45,280 Speaker 1: it's a guy named and I didn't remember this name. 243 00:14:45,320 --> 00:14:47,560 Speaker 1: I knew the group, but I didn't know the name. 244 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:52,040 Speaker 1: Brahmagupta introduced the zero around the seventh century, and that 245 00:14:52,080 --> 00:14:56,800 Speaker 1: was a game changer. The Romans didn't have a zero, 246 00:14:56,880 --> 00:15:00,720 Speaker 1: and that's right there, why their numbers look so cumbersome. 247 00:15:01,520 --> 00:15:04,560 Speaker 1: And not only that, Europe didn't get the zero till 248 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:10,840 Speaker 1: around the twelve hundreds, so all that time they're muddling 249 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:17,440 Speaker 1: around without a zero. Okay, let's go to Neil first, 250 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:18,880 Speaker 1: Neil and Watertown. 251 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:25,040 Speaker 4: Good evening, Bradley, Good evening, Neil. I was just thinking, 252 00:15:26,320 --> 00:15:30,280 Speaker 4: I'm glad the multiplication table was drummed into my head 253 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:33,400 Speaker 4: and a vague memory of it, maybe in elementary school, 254 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:35,320 Speaker 4: I guess sixty four. 255 00:15:35,520 --> 00:15:37,720 Speaker 1: And you know, and you see people now that can't 256 00:15:37,760 --> 00:15:40,400 Speaker 1: do it at all. People can't even make change. 257 00:15:40,840 --> 00:15:41,080 Speaker 3: Have you? 258 00:15:41,160 --> 00:15:43,640 Speaker 1: Have you had tried to make change in cash these days? 259 00:15:44,320 --> 00:15:46,560 Speaker 4: Yeah? I used to do when I was a teenage, 260 00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:50,120 Speaker 4: well in my twenties or whatever, and now we got spoiled. 261 00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:56,360 Speaker 4: But I was thinking. My twelfth grade English teacher was 262 00:15:56,480 --> 00:15:58,840 Speaker 4: very fussy. But he said, if you get down to 263 00:15:58,880 --> 00:16:02,080 Speaker 4: the last letter of your turn paper, the last page, 264 00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:05,000 Speaker 4: you make a mistake. He said, don't erase, type the 265 00:16:05,040 --> 00:16:07,280 Speaker 4: whole thing over again. Now. But I liked him very much, 266 00:16:07,320 --> 00:16:09,480 Speaker 4: and it is something I disagreed, because he worked just 267 00:16:09,480 --> 00:16:12,400 Speaker 4: as hard, and he worked just as hard as he 268 00:16:12,440 --> 00:16:14,520 Speaker 4: wanted us to work with and we didn't work as hard. 269 00:16:14,560 --> 00:16:17,640 Speaker 1: But boy, One thing that was a bummer speaking of 270 00:16:17,640 --> 00:16:19,720 Speaker 1: a turn paper. One thing that was a bummer back 271 00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:22,320 Speaker 1: then is you had to type it. And anytime he 272 00:16:22,400 --> 00:16:26,440 Speaker 1: made a mistake, he had to use that that correct 273 00:16:26,520 --> 00:16:31,240 Speaker 1: e white out and it got Oh, that was horrible. 274 00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:34,400 Speaker 1: I hated that. I'm so glad when computers came and 275 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:40,240 Speaker 1: word processing came. So in real car copies, you remember reading, Wow, 276 00:16:40,280 --> 00:16:43,360 Speaker 1: I don't remember that. I remember a real I don't 277 00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:46,920 Speaker 1: want to turn this into an old person session. However, 278 00:16:47,880 --> 00:16:50,520 Speaker 1: there's a word that only people of a certain age no, 279 00:16:50,640 --> 00:16:54,160 Speaker 1: and that is do you know it? Mimeograph? 280 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:56,840 Speaker 4: Yes, I remember those mimeograph. 281 00:16:56,880 --> 00:17:00,200 Speaker 1: I'm gonna go mimeograph some of these. My mother was 282 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:03,320 Speaker 1: a teacher, and I remember her mimeographing lots of stuff. 283 00:17:04,200 --> 00:17:08,560 Speaker 4: Okay, So my twelfth grade teacher, he did say he was, 284 00:17:08,720 --> 00:17:10,800 Speaker 4: I think, getting his master's degree, and he said, I 285 00:17:10,800 --> 00:17:15,399 Speaker 4: wrote a fifty page paper comparing ulysses from ancient times 286 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:18,240 Speaker 4: with James Joyce's ulysses. So it didn't mean anything to me, 287 00:17:18,359 --> 00:17:22,440 Speaker 4: but it stuck in my head. And I had eleventh 288 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:25,800 Speaker 4: grade teacher who was just tremendous. He would just get 289 00:17:25,840 --> 00:17:28,239 Speaker 4: up in front of the class and talk and there 290 00:17:28,280 --> 00:17:30,720 Speaker 4: was no discipline problem because he knew the material so 291 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:32,560 Speaker 4: well and it was interesting and. 292 00:17:34,760 --> 00:17:36,639 Speaker 1: It's got to be a good teacher. How about your parents? 293 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:39,159 Speaker 1: Are your parents? And I may be putting you on 294 00:17:39,160 --> 00:17:41,800 Speaker 1: the spot. Were they were they lacking anyway? Is there 295 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:43,760 Speaker 1: something they should have tied that you found out. 296 00:17:43,560 --> 00:17:48,240 Speaker 4: That God was My failures are because of me. My 297 00:17:48,640 --> 00:17:53,160 Speaker 4: parents saved my life. So how so, Uh, it's kind 298 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:57,760 Speaker 4: of delicate, you know, But but I regret that I 299 00:17:57,840 --> 00:17:58,920 Speaker 4: wasn't grateful. 300 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:01,480 Speaker 1: Oh wow, so you have. 301 00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:05,000 Speaker 4: Not, But I live. I mean, I still I'm not. 302 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:09,880 Speaker 4: George Elliott called it Amelia rist. She was. She thought 303 00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:13,840 Speaker 4: she coined the word. And just just you try to derive, 304 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:16,439 Speaker 4: you know, Frank Sinatra, when if you can survive to 305 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:18,560 Speaker 4: one hundred and five, look at all you'll derive out 306 00:18:18,560 --> 00:18:22,399 Speaker 4: of being alive. And yeah, just try to live in 307 00:18:22,520 --> 00:18:23,879 Speaker 4: that because you're alive. 308 00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:26,920 Speaker 1: That's you can't let that word to me. 309 00:18:27,240 --> 00:18:31,560 Speaker 3: I'm me say it again, ameliar rate. 310 00:18:32,600 --> 00:18:36,800 Speaker 1: You use the word Amelia wist and Amelia amelior eate, 311 00:18:36,840 --> 00:18:38,639 Speaker 1: which is to kind of mitigate a situation to make 312 00:18:38,680 --> 00:18:40,359 Speaker 1: it look be a little better, right. 313 00:18:40,760 --> 00:18:44,480 Speaker 4: Yeah, to be to be a little better and I'm 314 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:51,080 Speaker 4: trying to think of in in uh in this in linguistics, 315 00:18:51,080 --> 00:18:54,000 Speaker 4: it's ameliarate. You make it better. To pegerate, you make 316 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:54,440 Speaker 4: it worse. 317 00:18:54,840 --> 00:18:57,399 Speaker 1: Okay, so you you did have some guilt because you 318 00:18:57,440 --> 00:19:00,400 Speaker 1: weren't thankful enough for your fans gave you. But you're 319 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:03,040 Speaker 1: you're working to ameliorate that situation. 320 00:19:03,880 --> 00:19:07,280 Speaker 4: No, just to really ameliorate my own just life in general. 321 00:19:07,359 --> 00:19:11,040 Speaker 4: And I appreciate that you're well, just no matter what, 322 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:13,840 Speaker 4: whether you're religious or not, just appreciate that you're here 323 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:17,000 Speaker 4: and try to ameliorate the present situation as much as 324 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:20,720 Speaker 4: you can, because if if anything, life should be interesting. 325 00:19:22,119 --> 00:19:23,160 Speaker 4: That's a fact. 326 00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:27,400 Speaker 1: Absolutely, Neil, thank you for sharing. I realize it's kind 327 00:19:27,440 --> 00:19:30,920 Speaker 1: of a personal This is personal stuff, and I really 328 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:34,560 Speaker 1: appreciate it. Thank you. And as an aside, I think 329 00:19:34,560 --> 00:19:38,040 Speaker 1: we probably should be in the give US Book of 330 00:19:38,080 --> 00:19:42,760 Speaker 1: Records for having said the word ameliorate or some form 331 00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:45,680 Speaker 1: of it more times in the shortest time than anywhere 332 00:19:46,040 --> 00:19:49,920 Speaker 1: in history of the world. So there's that. Let's continue 333 00:19:49,920 --> 00:19:56,760 Speaker 1: with Margi after this on Bezy It's Night Side with 334 00:19:57,200 --> 00:20:02,040 Speaker 1: Ray Boston's new radio. Thank you all for that time. 335 00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:05,000 Speaker 1: Bradley J. For Dan right, and this is night Side, 336 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:08,800 Speaker 1: and we're kind of taking a look back at maybe 337 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:11,960 Speaker 1: what our parents could have taught us and didn't or 338 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:17,000 Speaker 1: instilled in us, or maybe maybe taught us that was unnecessary. 339 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:20,240 Speaker 1: The same with schools. Were your schools lacking or maybe 340 00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:22,639 Speaker 1: they taught you something you didn't need? And I'm always 341 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:27,280 Speaker 1: interested in when we're talking about childhood and parents, what 342 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:30,240 Speaker 1: did your parents try to get you to eat that 343 00:20:30,359 --> 00:20:33,840 Speaker 1: you just couldn't do it. I have a couple of 344 00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:37,000 Speaker 1: things I'll share, and I know everyone does, so when 345 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:39,639 Speaker 1: when you call six one seven, two, five four ten thirty, 346 00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:42,840 Speaker 1: I'll ask you that too. I hope it's not too personal. 347 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:47,280 Speaker 1: So it's Margie now and Challengeford. Thank you for calling 348 00:20:47,359 --> 00:20:50,240 Speaker 1: six one seven two, five four ten thirty. I'm Margie. 349 00:20:50,960 --> 00:20:51,840 Speaker 3: Hey, how you doing. 350 00:20:52,520 --> 00:20:55,240 Speaker 1: I'm rolling along, Margie, rolling along. 351 00:20:55,880 --> 00:20:58,200 Speaker 3: I've been listening good. 352 00:20:58,920 --> 00:21:00,600 Speaker 1: So what do you think? 353 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:04,200 Speaker 3: Well? The things that I wish my parents had taught 354 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:08,280 Speaker 3: me more is one how important the Bible was to read? 355 00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:08,960 Speaker 1: Okay? 356 00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:13,240 Speaker 3: And two how to do checks, you know, to balance 357 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:16,640 Speaker 3: a check book and all that because they didn't teach 358 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:20,560 Speaker 3: it in school. My parents, my parents did it. They 359 00:21:20,640 --> 00:21:24,280 Speaker 3: still have the book that shows when I was born 360 00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:28,159 Speaker 3: seventy years ago. They paid thirty five cents for a 361 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:33,080 Speaker 3: pair of rubber pants. But they never taught it to us, 362 00:21:33,560 --> 00:21:36,760 Speaker 3: so it wasn't something we knew about. 363 00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:40,760 Speaker 1: Well, okay, so let's let's hit the Bible first. So 364 00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:43,880 Speaker 1: they were not They were not very really just didn't 365 00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:46,840 Speaker 1: go to church much and you had a learned they. 366 00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:50,920 Speaker 3: Did, but they the Bible wasn't as important as. 367 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:52,639 Speaker 1: You know. 368 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:55,199 Speaker 3: There are a lot of places that the Bible was 369 00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:58,679 Speaker 3: kind of something cute to put on the bookshelf, and 370 00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:03,720 Speaker 3: they go to church and everything. But so I did that. 371 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:06,800 Speaker 1: When I go, tell me what the Bible means to you? 372 00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:09,560 Speaker 1: How does it help you get through the tough times 373 00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:10,840 Speaker 1: and in everyday life? 374 00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:18,560 Speaker 3: Because I trust God's you know, I don't always like it, 375 00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:24,440 Speaker 3: but my well, we know that God works all things 376 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:26,960 Speaker 3: to the good of those who love Him and are 377 00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:30,479 Speaker 3: calls according to His purpose. And they believe that was 378 00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:31,200 Speaker 3: my whole heart. 379 00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:34,679 Speaker 1: Does God have a plan for Is everything part of 380 00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:35,240 Speaker 1: God's plan? 381 00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:40,680 Speaker 3: I think you can work stuff that isn't. I don't 382 00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:43,320 Speaker 3: think he wants all of us hurting everything that wasn't 383 00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:45,520 Speaker 3: part of his plan, but it can be used to 384 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:47,320 Speaker 3: make us better. 385 00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:48,800 Speaker 1: Okay, so maybe. 386 00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:51,280 Speaker 3: Hear more about other people all. 387 00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:54,159 Speaker 1: So maybe God set things up and gave us our 388 00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:59,280 Speaker 1: free will and is sad? Sad said about the bad 389 00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:02,320 Speaker 1: stuff we do? And what was the other thing that 390 00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:05,159 Speaker 1: you wish that you'd parents had taught you more of? 391 00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:09,200 Speaker 3: Check book balancing money? 392 00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:11,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I never really got that down. And 393 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:14,560 Speaker 1: it was boy involved some math, and I was so 394 00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:17,960 Speaker 1: bad at math as most people in broadcasting, I think are. 395 00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:22,479 Speaker 1: That's painting with quite a broad brush. If that's not 396 00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:23,840 Speaker 1: true in anybody. 397 00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:25,520 Speaker 3: At least there's one person who is. 398 00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:28,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right. So I don't think I can't even 399 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:32,040 Speaker 1: add like a column of numbers and you have it 400 00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:34,720 Speaker 1: come out right. I just had the ballparking. If it 401 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:37,200 Speaker 1: was just close, i'd say, okay. But yeah, I did 402 00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:39,800 Speaker 1: learn how to do that, and that's important. But you know, 403 00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:42,800 Speaker 1: it's a lot of people don't even bother to do it, 404 00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:46,000 Speaker 1: so they don't know, they don't know if they're out 405 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:46,760 Speaker 1: of whack or not. 406 00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:51,120 Speaker 3: Yeah, and there's a lot of people in trouble. 407 00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:54,720 Speaker 1: I mean, I don't write checks anymore. By the way, 408 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:59,239 Speaker 1: it's nice to not writing checks is a there's a 409 00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:01,680 Speaker 1: hassle for me and then doing what you're talking about 410 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:04,360 Speaker 1: balancing and also a hassle. And you know, the bank 411 00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:08,400 Speaker 1: could be wrong, but in all my life the bank 412 00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:11,919 Speaker 1: was only once but for five hundred bucks. And you know, 413 00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:16,080 Speaker 1: I loosely go over my statements and go, I just 414 00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:21,080 Speaker 1: kind of see if is there anything weird there? Sometimes 415 00:24:21,119 --> 00:24:25,240 Speaker 1: there is and I think, oh boy, that charges me 416 00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:30,960 Speaker 1: for something I didn't buy. But invariably I go, oh, yeah, 417 00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:36,560 Speaker 1: I remember now. So now it's the incidence of them 418 00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:38,920 Speaker 1: being correct is so high that I don't I don't 419 00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:41,680 Speaker 1: bother anymore. But that's a good one. But balancing a 420 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:44,159 Speaker 1: check book, at least for the longest time. There's a 421 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:46,480 Speaker 1: real life skill that should be taught in school, and 422 00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:49,359 Speaker 1: there are all kinds of them they don't They don't 423 00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:53,080 Speaker 1: teach in school. Maybe there should be some course in 424 00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:56,320 Speaker 1: I don't know what they would call it, but just 425 00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:58,400 Speaker 1: getting through the day kind of stuff. 426 00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:02,960 Speaker 3: Your egg, how to make sure you don't start to death? 427 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:06,800 Speaker 3: How do I mean? There were people that are forty 428 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:09,239 Speaker 3: years old and don't know how to do anything? But 429 00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:13,120 Speaker 3: can you eat TV? Generous? Like come on right? 430 00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:19,199 Speaker 1: How to use a cutting board a knife without cutting yourself? Stuff? 431 00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:19,560 Speaker 1: Like that. 432 00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:21,480 Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a lot of things. 433 00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:26,440 Speaker 1: Well, it's good to talk to you. Now, what about foods? 434 00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:29,000 Speaker 1: Was there any any foods as a kid that your 435 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:30,520 Speaker 1: parents try to get you to eat and then you. 436 00:25:30,680 --> 00:25:32,399 Speaker 3: Just tomato aspect? 437 00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:36,480 Speaker 1: Wow, that's interesting, So remind me what it is. I 438 00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:37,840 Speaker 1: know what it looks like, but how do you make it. 439 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:42,040 Speaker 3: Like it's a jello but you put tomato. It was 440 00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:44,360 Speaker 3: just so gross and disgusting. And I was a little 441 00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:46,560 Speaker 3: kid and now. 442 00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:50,200 Speaker 1: And I'm kind of amazed that people actually made that. 443 00:25:51,040 --> 00:25:52,040 Speaker 1: It's so weird. 444 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:55,119 Speaker 3: It's not a very I mean, I can eat Japanese food, 445 00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:58,360 Speaker 3: I can eat raw fish. I can't you know, all 446 00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:00,920 Speaker 3: over the world, but that is one thing I will 447 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:01,400 Speaker 3: not eat. 448 00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:06,200 Speaker 1: Now. Did they try to force you? 449 00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:09,000 Speaker 3: No? She just made it and we were hungry, so 450 00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:09,800 Speaker 3: you try it. 451 00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:13,760 Speaker 1: And did you have to pretend that you ate it 452 00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:15,439 Speaker 1: and sneak it to the dog or something. 453 00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:19,239 Speaker 3: No. I didn't need it. I told her that I 454 00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:20,280 Speaker 3: was going to throw up. 455 00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:25,080 Speaker 1: I see. Well, okay, well, thanks Marjorie. I appreciate it, 456 00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:26,600 Speaker 1: and that's good that you checking out. 457 00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:30,280 Speaker 3: You said one more thing, okay, one more what they 458 00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:33,520 Speaker 3: didn't teach in school, and that I really wish they 459 00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:42,240 Speaker 3: had was about ADHD and I now know that I 460 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:45,320 Speaker 3: had it, And that's why I stayed up all through 461 00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:48,679 Speaker 3: high school till three o'clock in the morning, studying and 462 00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:53,760 Speaker 3: all this other stuff. And they didn't, you know, teach 463 00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:55,040 Speaker 3: any about or anything. 464 00:26:55,600 --> 00:27:05,040 Speaker 1: I wonderful they said I was stupid. Maybe they didn't known. 465 00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:06,920 Speaker 3: Ability very very it would have been very hopeful. I mean, 466 00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:10,080 Speaker 3: I did well and all that, but I had to 467 00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:11,159 Speaker 3: work so hard. 468 00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:14,919 Speaker 1: So did the other kids make funny of me for 469 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:18,200 Speaker 1: being stupid? Like you, that was your word, not mine. 470 00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:21,720 Speaker 3: The teacher told my parents I was stupid. 471 00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:23,560 Speaker 1: Should they use the word stupid? 472 00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:25,040 Speaker 3: They think? 473 00:27:25,160 --> 00:27:29,720 Speaker 1: So, how did that affect you throughout life? 474 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:35,560 Speaker 3: Well, I worked harder and I did better, and I 475 00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:39,760 Speaker 3: did really well in school and in the military and 476 00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:42,399 Speaker 3: every police office I went to. But it took a 477 00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:43,040 Speaker 3: lot of work. 478 00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:45,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, it must have been kind of a setback when 479 00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:49,600 Speaker 1: it comes to self esteem and confidence. When when the parents, 480 00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:54,240 Speaker 1: when the teacher says you're stupid, I can't imagine you 481 00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:59,320 Speaker 1: work harder, right, like I can't imagine. Let's let's kind 482 00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:02,399 Speaker 1: of roll play us out. Maybe it's a pta. I mean, 483 00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:05,720 Speaker 1: a parent, teacher of conference, and your parents go and 484 00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:10,120 Speaker 1: talk to the teacher and say, well, how you doing, 485 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:14,080 Speaker 1: Sit down and have a seat. You know, I just 486 00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:18,120 Speaker 1: got to tell you, mister and missus Margie. Margie is stupid. 487 00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:20,800 Speaker 1: Can I don't think that would. 488 00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:29,359 Speaker 3: Really you know? And yeah, well, I guess there are 489 00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:32,200 Speaker 3: some teachers that aren't to talk of their class. 490 00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:35,240 Speaker 1: I guess so. So some people would have been debilitated 491 00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:39,400 Speaker 1: by that. But you buckled down and that made you 492 00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:43,000 Speaker 1: work harder and you excelled because of it. Good for you. 493 00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:44,760 Speaker 1: Could have gone either way, but good for you. 494 00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:49,880 Speaker 3: Right, so, thank you for those good questions. 495 00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:51,000 Speaker 1: Thank you. 496 00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:53,360 Speaker 3: And the thing that didn't do any good thing good 497 00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:54,680 Speaker 3: for me is calculus. 498 00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:56,160 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I think we're going to hear a lot 499 00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:59,200 Speaker 1: of that, and you can go I never even took calculus. 500 00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:02,440 Speaker 1: I don't even know what calculus is. There, I said it, 501 00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:08,240 Speaker 1: I don't. I will admit right now because I'm accompassed broadcaster, 502 00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:10,880 Speaker 1: and it's known that no broadcaster is good at math. 503 00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:14,440 Speaker 1: We don't have to be good at math. I can 504 00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:19,239 Speaker 1: go ahead and say, without fear of you know, I 505 00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:21,920 Speaker 1: don't even know what calculus is. Maybe somebody can call 506 00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:25,560 Speaker 1: and tell me what is it. I know what geometry is, 507 00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:29,880 Speaker 1: and that is not useful. I get geometry and I 508 00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:33,120 Speaker 1: can it's definitely. Geometry is definitely useful because you can 509 00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:35,920 Speaker 1: you can figure stuff out like how far away is 510 00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:39,160 Speaker 1: the moon and how to build a building. And I'm 511 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:43,120 Speaker 1: sure calculus is important too, but I don't know someone 512 00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:47,560 Speaker 1: will why so someone help out Margie and Bradley j 513 00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:51,920 Speaker 1: and telling them what calculus is. Okay, okay, thank you 514 00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:55,760 Speaker 1: very much. That's so great. Ten forty five and it's 515 00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:58,160 Speaker 1: a good time to break and now I'll share my 516 00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:00,120 Speaker 1: answer is some of these problems. But I'm looking for 517 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:02,560 Speaker 1: years as well at six one, seven, two, five thirty 518 00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:04,440 Speaker 1: and it's just a good chance to have a fun chat. 519 00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:08,800 Speaker 1: What are some of the things something your parents didn't 520 00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:14,520 Speaker 1: teach you, uh or something your parents did spend a 521 00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:16,560 Speaker 1: lot of time drilling into your head. They that was 522 00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:18,960 Speaker 1: a waste of time. Same with the school. What did 523 00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:21,320 Speaker 1: they not teach you? And what did they teach you 524 00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:24,760 Speaker 1: that was unnecessary? And do you concur on the whole 525 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:29,160 Speaker 1: you're bad at math thing? And of course I'm particularly 526 00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:31,800 Speaker 1: interested in the food because there were a couple of 527 00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:33,680 Speaker 1: foods and I have stories to go with it that 528 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:38,800 Speaker 1: were one major one that was a real problem and 529 00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:43,320 Speaker 1: I still can't eat it. And I'll share that story. 530 00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:47,640 Speaker 1: But I bet you have a story too. It's WBZ. 531 00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:53,240 Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio. 532 00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:58,680 Speaker 1: We're sharing uh kind of personal tonight, but hopefully it's 533 00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:01,120 Speaker 1: done in the casual enough wayte you don't mind participating. 534 00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:05,600 Speaker 1: And I'm sharing too. I'm not just asking you. I'm 535 00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:07,920 Speaker 1: walking the walk and not just talking to talk. The 536 00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:13,680 Speaker 1: question is questions are what are some things they lay 537 00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:17,920 Speaker 1: your school, maybe neglected to teach you that left you 538 00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:23,400 Speaker 1: kind of in a lurch in real life? And what 539 00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:26,000 Speaker 1: are some things maybe they tell you didn't need to know. 540 00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:33,400 Speaker 1: Same with your parents. As you have become a little 541 00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:37,120 Speaker 1: older or a lot older, in some cases, you look back, 542 00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:39,400 Speaker 1: what do you wish your parents had had let you 543 00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:43,640 Speaker 1: know about that they didn't and vice versa. Did they 544 00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:47,880 Speaker 1: teach something that was just you know, wrong? And of 545 00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:52,280 Speaker 1: course the food thing, A lot of folks have food 546 00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:57,440 Speaker 1: their parents made them just were determined to have you 547 00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:01,600 Speaker 1: eat because they forced it on you. You've you've been 548 00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:04,360 Speaker 1: unable to stomach it for your entire life. So I'll 549 00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:07,440 Speaker 1: tell my story in the meantime, give me a shout 550 00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:11,040 Speaker 1: six one, seven, two, five, four ten thirty. I know 551 00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:14,240 Speaker 1: it's nerve racking to call the radio station, but I 552 00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:19,440 Speaker 1: promise that it would be pretty painless, and I will 553 00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:22,080 Speaker 1: make it as as painless as it can possibly be. 554 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:25,280 Speaker 1: It'll be fun. And if you've never called and you 555 00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:27,440 Speaker 1: have a good experience, then you've probably become a regular, 556 00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:29,000 Speaker 1: and you'll have kind of a new hobby, a new 557 00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:36,120 Speaker 1: thing to do. So here's the food situation. You know, 558 00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:39,800 Speaker 1: as a young I don't know how old's probably younger 559 00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:44,360 Speaker 1: than seven six six five, maybe my parents were big 560 00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:48,040 Speaker 1: on oatmeal. And I know that doesn't seem strange to 561 00:32:48,280 --> 00:32:51,080 Speaker 1: many of you because you like oatmeal too. And I 562 00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:56,560 Speaker 1: and now I like, I'll take like the what do 563 00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:59,880 Speaker 1: you call them rolled oats and put them in a 564 00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:03,200 Speaker 1: should eat him like cereal. But that's because it doesn't 565 00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:08,560 Speaker 1: have that mushy consistency. And and when I was a kid, 566 00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:16,600 Speaker 1: my parents ate that stuff, cream of wheat. I've never 567 00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:19,640 Speaker 1: had cream of wheat, that's that's really the bottom or 568 00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:26,440 Speaker 1: just oatmeal, the mushy oatmeal. And they thought that I 569 00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:30,560 Speaker 1: was being stubborn. They didn't know I was physically unable 570 00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:35,800 Speaker 1: to put it anywhere near my face. And my brother 571 00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:39,600 Speaker 1: said the same affliction. And they thought that I had 572 00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:43,320 Speaker 1: taught them that, or that they had learned it through 573 00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:46,479 Speaker 1: some observing me not being able to do it. So, 574 00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:51,960 Speaker 1: you know, this is another time. Remember this wouldn't fly now. 575 00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:55,680 Speaker 1: They'd probably go to jail for what I'm about to 576 00:33:55,720 --> 00:34:00,440 Speaker 1: tell you. Back then, no big deal. So they thought 577 00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:05,920 Speaker 1: that I was being stubborn, and they said, okay, look 578 00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:10,200 Speaker 1: you got it. You can't just do that. You gotta 579 00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:13,560 Speaker 1: eat this. We eat it. They couldn't grasp. But it 580 00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:18,480 Speaker 1: was repulsive to me. They liked it. It's I guess 581 00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:22,759 Speaker 1: it's as if I had a kid and said here's 582 00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:26,560 Speaker 1: a kid cat bar and the kid was repulsed by 583 00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:28,239 Speaker 1: a kit cat bar. And I wouldn't get it because 584 00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:31,040 Speaker 1: I love kit cat bars. Come on, eat it. What's 585 00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:33,680 Speaker 1: wrong with you? What are you doing this to me for? 586 00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:37,680 Speaker 1: You're just you're just being cantankerous, You're being contrarian. So 587 00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:43,040 Speaker 1: that was the way they saw it in small town, Gothic, 588 00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:48,680 Speaker 1: rural New Hampshire farm community. So at some point they said, 589 00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:52,680 Speaker 1: all right, look, we're not going to give you anything 590 00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:57,120 Speaker 1: to eat. Excuse me and tell you eat this bowl 591 00:34:57,160 --> 00:35:03,400 Speaker 1: of oh or cream of wheat or something. Remember that 592 00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:08,160 Speaker 1: this is this is an old person thing. Remember this commercial. 593 00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:15,560 Speaker 1: I want my mapo mapo. I can't believe. I haven't 594 00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:18,520 Speaker 1: thought of that word for a long time. This was 595 00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:21,800 Speaker 1: like a commercial that came on with kids happily eating 596 00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:29,920 Speaker 1: this mushy, gooey god stuff and we didn't need it. 597 00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:31,920 Speaker 1: I couldn't eat it. It was not possible. It was not 598 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:34,839 Speaker 1: physically possible for me to do that. They didn't get it, 599 00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:40,400 Speaker 1: couldn't do it. It was starving was a happy alternative 600 00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:43,880 Speaker 1: to eating that stuff. So we just didn't eat. My 601 00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:50,160 Speaker 1: brother and I did not eat. And then after I don't know, 602 00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:56,560 Speaker 1: maybe a day, they started to get concerned, like, hmm, 603 00:35:57,120 --> 00:35:59,279 Speaker 1: this gets more stubborn than we thought. So then it 604 00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:02,680 Speaker 1: was like, okay, just eat one spoonful of this. One 605 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:07,799 Speaker 1: spoonful here it is here, goes to the airplane. One spoonful, 606 00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:12,439 Speaker 1: Come on. Can't do it, physically, can't do it, can't 607 00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:19,120 Speaker 1: even get it near my face. Then was the next stage. Okay, 608 00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:24,200 Speaker 1: if you eat one spoonful of this mushy gooey stuff 609 00:36:24,239 --> 00:36:31,240 Speaker 1: that we like, we'll give you hostess twinkies. Still nothing, 610 00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:38,759 Speaker 1: And finally, I don't know, you know, time doze the 611 00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:42,319 Speaker 1: memory on this, but it was a long time and 612 00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:45,160 Speaker 1: they just had they just said to cave in. And never, ever, ever, 613 00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:48,200 Speaker 1: ever have I been able to eat the mushy version 614 00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:56,560 Speaker 1: of oatmeal, cream of wheat, whatever mapo was. I do 615 00:36:56,719 --> 00:37:00,200 Speaker 1: like the taste of rolled oats, either dry or or 616 00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:03,319 Speaker 1: with just milk like cereal, but not mushy, and did 617 00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:10,240 Speaker 1: related mushy mushy news of course creamed corn uh huh. 618 00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:14,160 Speaker 1: Couldn't do it, but it wasn't as horrific as the oatmeal. 619 00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:17,520 Speaker 1: And just like many of you, I hope you know, 620 00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:19,719 Speaker 1: sometimes I talk about things that I think everybody did, 621 00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:23,640 Speaker 1: and then people are amazed at what a bad seed 622 00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:28,920 Speaker 1: I was? You did that? Oh my god? Well, you know, 623 00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:31,799 Speaker 1: I guess most people fed the dog. You know, you're 624 00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:33,960 Speaker 1: kind of when your mother's not looking, you take the 625 00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:36,799 Speaker 1: cream corn and put it in a napkin and feed 626 00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:41,920 Speaker 1: the dog. But cream corn was anything mushy. Can't do it, 627 00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:46,560 Speaker 1: how about you? Now? I could change a lot of 628 00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:49,239 Speaker 1: things have changed. Like I used to not like lou 629 00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:53,160 Speaker 1: Diamond Phillips. Now I think he's a great actor. There 630 00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:56,279 Speaker 1: are other foods that I that I didn't like and 631 00:37:56,320 --> 00:38:02,120 Speaker 1: now I do, so who knows, but so far that 632 00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:06,000 Speaker 1: is anathema to me, the mushy stuff. How about you? 633 00:38:06,719 --> 00:38:12,640 Speaker 1: How about tripe? Well after this, uh, Pat Patrick, We're 634 00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:15,000 Speaker 1: going to get to you after this break anybody else. 635 00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:18,839 Speaker 1: Things you parents didn't tell you, you wish they did, 636 00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:21,120 Speaker 1: and vice versa, and things the school didn't teach you 637 00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:25,040 Speaker 1: you wish they did, and stuff you never used in school. 638 00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:28,000 Speaker 1: And the food, the food that they tried to get 639 00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:32,040 Speaker 1: you to eat, and you just hated it for your 640 00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:39,279 Speaker 1: whole life. Six on this chilly Chilli Friday here at 641 00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:42,680 Speaker 1: WBZ yep it's news Radio ten thirty