1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:05,520 Speaker 1: As Night Side with Dan Ray on WBS Costin's Radio. 2 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:09,360 Speaker 2: Well, Merry Christmas to you, and it's a ten oh 3 00:00:09,360 --> 00:00:14,680 Speaker 2: six and change ten o six thirty nine here on WBZ, 4 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,360 Speaker 2: and it's an open house party if you anything you want. 5 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:22,640 Speaker 2: I mean, of course it's Christmas, and so that can 6 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:25,079 Speaker 2: be the focus of stuff, but you know, if you're 7 00:00:25,079 --> 00:00:27,880 Speaker 2: in somebody's house and having a Christmas party, other stuff 8 00:00:27,880 --> 00:00:30,040 Speaker 2: comes up as well. One thing I'd like to share 9 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:31,520 Speaker 2: with you, and maybe you'd like to share with me 10 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:37,839 Speaker 2: something similar is an embarrassing Christmas. Christmas moment, though I 11 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 2: abcotually have two kind of a disaster Christmas moment which 12 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:47,600 Speaker 2: won't take long to share, and a really wildly embarrassing 13 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:52,360 Speaker 2: thing happened to me. First the mistake, and this happens. 14 00:00:52,400 --> 00:00:55,480 Speaker 2: I bet this has happened to you at some point somewhere. 15 00:00:56,120 --> 00:00:59,240 Speaker 2: It's some member of your family had something burned up 16 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:03,480 Speaker 2: that they that they like, a gift certificate or something. 17 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:08,479 Speaker 2: So we had a fireplace and growing up, which is real, 18 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:13,760 Speaker 2: really lucky, really fortunate. And I remember one Christmas they 19 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:17,759 Speaker 2: were going to barbecue outside and then eat the food 20 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:21,280 Speaker 2: inside for Christmas, but it was raining, so they tried 21 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:24,360 Speaker 2: to cook the food on the in the fireplace. This 22 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:29,839 Speaker 2: didn't go over that well because smoke and it didn't 23 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:31,880 Speaker 2: come out very well at all. It was a mistake. 24 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:37,800 Speaker 2: But that was the same year that you know, they 25 00:01:37,959 --> 00:01:40,880 Speaker 2: we wrapped the presents. Not every family wraps, by the way, 26 00:01:40,959 --> 00:01:42,720 Speaker 2: is you have family rap presence that not. We can 27 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:46,000 Speaker 2: get into that later. So there's a wrapper wrapping all 28 00:01:46,040 --> 00:01:50,280 Speaker 2: over the place, and somebody got some sort of money 29 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:53,200 Speaker 2: or gift certificate and we burned it up in the fireplace. 30 00:01:53,320 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 2: It took after the cooking the food to call the 31 00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:00,680 Speaker 2: paper from the wrapping and burned it up in the fireplace, 32 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:02,280 Speaker 2: which is a bad idea by the way, it can 33 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:05,920 Speaker 2: cause the chimney fire. But it was a big weepy 34 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:12,280 Speaker 2: situation because we couldn't could not find that check or 35 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:16,120 Speaker 2: gift certificated. This might have been actually before gift certificates. 36 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:21,760 Speaker 2: You know, there was a time before gift certificates, right 37 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:25,760 Speaker 2: when it gives a ticket. Certificates happen. I know they 38 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:30,359 Speaker 2: were here by the eighties. But anyway, whatever this non 39 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:35,160 Speaker 2: semi tangible item or very flammable item was, it got 40 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:44,160 Speaker 2: burned up. Now he's another disaster. I was in four Hs. 41 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:47,800 Speaker 2: Does anyone know what four h is? Shane? You know 42 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:52,560 Speaker 2: what four Hes? No, if you're from New Hampshire and 43 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:57,160 Speaker 2: of a certain age. It was a kind of the 44 00:02:57,200 --> 00:03:03,280 Speaker 2: Freemasons for Farming. Really, it was an organization. They had 45 00:03:03,320 --> 00:03:09,280 Speaker 2: a grange hall where we met and it was an 46 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:14,480 Speaker 2: organization for kids to get good at stuff, to learn 47 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:20,480 Speaker 2: animal husbandry or gardening or flower arranging or leather crafting. 48 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:27,120 Speaker 2: And my mother was the leader. And as part of 49 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:31,720 Speaker 2: that I had a project. Well, I was going to 50 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:35,119 Speaker 2: plant two hundred and fifty Christmas trees and then sell 51 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:39,400 Speaker 2: them when I grew up and go to college based 52 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:44,040 Speaker 2: on that money. Back then, college wasn't that expensive, so 53 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:45,880 Speaker 2: I got these big bundle it might have been actually 54 00:03:45,960 --> 00:03:48,920 Speaker 2: five hundred. It was in the spring I planted, and 55 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:53,520 Speaker 2: it was terrible. We lived on four acres, small for 56 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:57,960 Speaker 2: the area, and it was all mosquitoe and damp and horrible, 57 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:02,520 Speaker 2: and I remember being out there just hating it, thinking 58 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:05,440 Speaker 2: I got to do this because someday they're going to 59 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:08,360 Speaker 2: grow up and I'm going to sell them and make 60 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:11,800 Speaker 2: a lot of money. Five hundred Christmas trees that would 61 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:15,480 Speaker 2: have been quite a lot of money. So you know 62 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:18,560 Speaker 2: for two three years they were out there happily growing away. 63 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:21,520 Speaker 2: Look at those trees out there. I look out the window, 64 00:04:22,240 --> 00:04:27,240 Speaker 2: look at those trees. Oh yeah, all was right with 65 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:30,120 Speaker 2: the trees until one day in the country. I don't 66 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:32,560 Speaker 2: know if you know this, but in the spring they 67 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:36,320 Speaker 2: burn fields, so they do a controlled burn so they 68 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:42,680 Speaker 2: won't be an uncontrolled burn later on. Unfortunately, the control 69 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:47,920 Speaker 2: burn get out of control and all my five hundred 70 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:53,880 Speaker 2: Christmas trees burned up. That's pretty significant, right, and my 71 00:04:54,000 --> 00:05:01,080 Speaker 2: mother was devastated, I guess as you should have been. 72 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:03,680 Speaker 2: I wonder if my mother can hear me telling these 73 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:08,560 Speaker 2: stories right now, I honestly do. Well, you're forgiven, ma. 74 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:11,440 Speaker 2: I don't even know if it was her fault. This 75 00:05:11,640 --> 00:05:14,400 Speaker 2: was a man thing. The men would go out and 76 00:05:14,440 --> 00:05:17,080 Speaker 2: burn the fields and they just couldn't quite keep it 77 00:05:17,080 --> 00:05:19,880 Speaker 2: together to not burn down my Christmas trees. And that 78 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:25,080 Speaker 2: next up comes my embarrassing story. And it's so weird. 79 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:27,880 Speaker 2: It didn't have to be that embarrassing by the time 80 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:30,000 Speaker 2: this story takes place. And if you have an embarrassing 81 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:34,000 Speaker 2: Christmas story, or any Christmas story since the Christmas open lines, 82 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:39,040 Speaker 2: let me know any Christmas story, But This one's an 83 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:46,680 Speaker 2: embarrassing one. After college, I kept in touch with some 84 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:49,960 Speaker 2: of my college mates, not for long though, as an aside. 85 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:52,840 Speaker 2: I liked him in college, and then most of them 86 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:55,880 Speaker 2: I didn't like anymore. Some I did, some I didn't, 87 00:05:56,480 --> 00:05:58,680 Speaker 2: But they would hang around after college, and they kind 88 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:03,240 Speaker 2: of changed and they were irritating to me. And I'm 89 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:05,080 Speaker 2: not a person that's going to hang around with somebody 90 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:09,280 Speaker 2: that is irritating. But I was still hanging around with 91 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:14,600 Speaker 2: them by then. So one of my college friends had 92 00:06:14,640 --> 00:06:16,600 Speaker 2: a friend and she was a lawyer, had a big 93 00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:20,200 Speaker 2: deal law firm. These were grown up adults wearing black 94 00:06:20,279 --> 00:06:24,560 Speaker 2: dresses and going to Christmas parties kind of HOI POLOI 95 00:06:25,880 --> 00:06:31,960 Speaker 2: Bushwood country Club kind of people, but in the higher 96 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:37,720 Speaker 2: up in the legal profession in Boston. And we exchanged gifts. 97 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:43,200 Speaker 2: This college mate of mine and her friend, we exchanged gifts. 98 00:06:44,520 --> 00:06:46,400 Speaker 2: And I'm not going to use her real name, I'll 99 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:52,159 Speaker 2: say Jane. So I brought my gifts for Jane and 100 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:57,080 Speaker 2: Jill and my college friend opened it up. Okay, no problem, 101 00:06:57,320 --> 00:06:59,280 Speaker 2: this is the rub here, and I need to tell 102 00:06:59,279 --> 00:07:02,240 Speaker 2: you this before hand. I also had a little niece 103 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:06,680 Speaker 2: also named Jane, so I had presents for two people, 104 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:10,520 Speaker 2: and I think you know where this is going. Both 105 00:07:10,520 --> 00:07:13,320 Speaker 2: were named Jane. It said Jane on the on the box, 106 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:21,880 Speaker 2: on the wrapped present. So the lawyer high end, you know, 107 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:28,120 Speaker 2: wearing brightening watch, you know, the type opened like a 108 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:33,680 Speaker 2: little doll or something like it really like it was 109 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:36,920 Speaker 2: a shock to what what are you doing? This? This 110 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:41,680 Speaker 2: gift is so dumb. It's not it doesn't work on 111 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:45,080 Speaker 2: any level. It's not a fun, sarcastic gift. It's not 112 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:49,640 Speaker 2: even a Joe gift. It just doesn't fit in with anything. 113 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:57,000 Speaker 2: And I was I'm seldom mortified. I was more toefied. 114 00:07:57,880 --> 00:08:00,600 Speaker 2: And the thing is, and here's the souper dumb thing. 115 00:08:00,640 --> 00:08:04,679 Speaker 2: I'm not usually this dumb, dumb, dumb dumb. I could 116 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:09,679 Speaker 2: have just said, oh no, that was for my niece, 117 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:18,800 Speaker 2: but I didn't. Somehow the feeling of embarrassment was greater 118 00:08:19,640 --> 00:08:22,000 Speaker 2: to me admitting oh, I gave you there on prison. 119 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:27,600 Speaker 2: So we just shut up and from that moment till now, 120 00:08:28,640 --> 00:08:31,320 Speaker 2: unless that person is listening now and I'm probably not 121 00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:37,280 Speaker 2: believes that I gave her for some really really really 122 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:44,839 Speaker 2: weird reason, some some dull suitable for ages four to eight, 123 00:08:45,040 --> 00:08:52,319 Speaker 2: you know, I'm so so embarrassed. What was I thinking? 124 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:56,280 Speaker 2: I should have just said, oh, I've got to mix 125 00:08:56,360 --> 00:08:59,200 Speaker 2: up there. Oh oh, it would have been so easy. 126 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:01,560 Speaker 2: What was wrong with me? And I'm a kind of 127 00:09:01,559 --> 00:09:04,720 Speaker 2: a verbal guy. But I think maybe the reason was 128 00:09:04,920 --> 00:09:11,960 Speaker 2: I was always nervous around her because she was kind 129 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:16,840 Speaker 2: of upper class and I wasn't. And that might have 130 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:18,960 Speaker 2: been it if she if she was a regular person, 131 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:22,440 Speaker 2: I might have a regular person. If she was of 132 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:26,000 Speaker 2: my strata, I might have said, oh, it's a mistake. 133 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:30,800 Speaker 2: But now I didn't, And that was just That's one 134 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:33,960 Speaker 2: of those things that kind of gets me right in 135 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:36,680 Speaker 2: the chest still. And I know she's out there thinking 136 00:09:36,720 --> 00:09:38,960 Speaker 2: I'm an idiot, And wonder if she thinks that every 137 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:42,080 Speaker 2: Christmas she's getting gifts. Boy, that reminds me of that 138 00:09:42,160 --> 00:09:45,640 Speaker 2: idiot Bradley Jay. What was he? What was he thinking? 139 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:55,600 Speaker 2: I have simplified Christmas and I and basically I don't. 140 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:59,840 Speaker 2: I just walk to the neighbor's house. Now we watch movies. 141 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:05,040 Speaker 2: We get takeout and we watch movies. It's very simple. 142 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:09,360 Speaker 2: There's not a lot of driving. And I've all this week, 143 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:12,360 Speaker 2: the last two weeks, I've been watching Christmas movies. They 144 00:10:12,559 --> 00:10:17,520 Speaker 2: actually kind of get me in the Christmas spirit. Now 145 00:10:17,520 --> 00:10:21,360 Speaker 2: I don't, and I'm curious about movies, but not the 146 00:10:21,760 --> 00:10:25,240 Speaker 2: you know, not the old standbys. Of course, on Thanksgiving 147 00:10:25,280 --> 00:10:28,640 Speaker 2: it's plain strains automobiles, right, and then there were the 148 00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:33,480 Speaker 2: go to movies for Christmas. But are there any others 149 00:10:33,520 --> 00:10:38,040 Speaker 2: that you like that? Aren't you know? It's me, George, 150 00:10:38,080 --> 00:10:44,120 Speaker 2: don't you remember me? Kind of movies? ALF? Do you 151 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:48,440 Speaker 2: like ALF? If you heard the WBZ news earlier, you 152 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:50,680 Speaker 2: know that the Grinch is stole Christmas is not popular. 153 00:10:51,280 --> 00:10:54,240 Speaker 2: I didn't realize Edward Scissors Hands was a Christmas movie? 154 00:10:54,280 --> 00:11:00,400 Speaker 2: Do you watch that? There's one my wife hates I like, 155 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:05,199 Speaker 2: and that's Reindeer Games with Ben Affleck and Gary Sonise 156 00:11:05,760 --> 00:11:09,920 Speaker 2: and Charlie's their own. It's sort of Christmas. It's about 157 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:17,360 Speaker 2: robbing a casino home alone. I like that first one. 158 00:11:18,440 --> 00:11:21,440 Speaker 2: I guess elf. I'm burned down on Charlie Brown Christmas. 159 00:11:22,040 --> 00:11:24,520 Speaker 2: I just skip by it. I get it. I'm moving 160 00:11:24,559 --> 00:11:29,480 Speaker 2: on Christmas vacation. But there's a big list. Can you 161 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:31,360 Speaker 2: think of any others that the US We're gonna go 162 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:36,920 Speaker 2: to Richard after this in eastern Massachusetts. Now, this is 163 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:44,120 Speaker 2: two people who have just given vague look geolocations. Richard, 164 00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:46,719 Speaker 2: Is it okay if when we talk and I ask 165 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:50,000 Speaker 2: you where you're from? Okay? We'll talk to Richard next 166 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:50,839 Speaker 2: on WBZ. 167 00:11:52,760 --> 00:11:56,800 Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray on w b Boston's 168 00:11:56,840 --> 00:11:57,800 Speaker 1: news radio. 169 00:11:57,840 --> 00:12:02,040 Speaker 2: Yay WBZ in d Nightside with Dan Ray Bradley Jay 170 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:05,079 Speaker 2: and for Dan, I don't give out the number very much. 171 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:07,319 Speaker 2: I am remissing that and I should do it more. 172 00:12:07,640 --> 00:12:13,360 Speaker 2: How do you have it memorized? But many don't. Six one, seven, two, five, four, 173 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:17,040 Speaker 2: ten thirty. Well will get you a community. That's what 174 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:22,560 Speaker 2: this number is. Instant community. You're filling alone, Instant community. 175 00:12:22,760 --> 00:12:27,840 Speaker 2: You get treated right here, especially tonight. It's a sort 176 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:33,800 Speaker 2: of a Christmas open house. Six one, seven, five, ten thirty. 177 00:12:33,880 --> 00:12:36,760 Speaker 2: And of course you can listen on the iHeart app, 178 00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:41,079 Speaker 2: as I often do. The iHeart app is excellent. And 179 00:12:41,679 --> 00:12:45,880 Speaker 2: if you want to hear any nightside ever again or 180 00:12:45,960 --> 00:12:50,040 Speaker 2: share it, it's Nightside on demand or a night Side 181 00:12:50,040 --> 00:12:56,839 Speaker 2: on demand that is excellent too. Now, oh yes, before 182 00:12:56,840 --> 00:13:02,719 Speaker 2: I go to Richard in Eastern Massachusetts, I do want 183 00:13:02,760 --> 00:13:05,440 Speaker 2: to present you with a little bit of a Christmas dilemma. 184 00:13:05,760 --> 00:13:09,880 Speaker 2: It was always always stressful. When my boss got me 185 00:13:09,920 --> 00:13:16,080 Speaker 2: a present for Christmas. My boss at w b CN 186 00:13:16,280 --> 00:13:21,400 Speaker 2: was Oedipus and he used to get us presents like 187 00:13:21,400 --> 00:13:25,199 Speaker 2: like a passport case with your name on it and 188 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:29,040 Speaker 2: stuff like that. But then that's really generous and very 189 00:13:29,120 --> 00:13:32,000 Speaker 2: very nice. But then you ask the employee, what do 190 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:37,600 Speaker 2: you do? Do you get a gift for them, because 191 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:40,200 Speaker 2: there's no way your gift to them is going to 192 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:45,000 Speaker 2: be as good as the one you got? Are you 193 00:13:45,080 --> 00:13:47,320 Speaker 2: expected to if your boss gets you a gift, are 194 00:13:47,360 --> 00:13:50,520 Speaker 2: you expected to give one back? Is that a friend 195 00:13:51,080 --> 00:13:53,559 Speaker 2: It's hard to know. Is it a friend friend giving relationship? 196 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:57,559 Speaker 2: Is it a I'm your boss, thanks for a good job. 197 00:13:58,360 --> 00:14:02,880 Speaker 2: So you're not expected to? And then I really had 198 00:14:02,920 --> 00:14:05,920 Speaker 2: to sweat if I got him something you don't want 199 00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:08,280 Speaker 2: to get you. You don't want you to get your 200 00:14:08,320 --> 00:14:16,400 Speaker 2: boss something that's dumb. O the stress of Christmas. Now 201 00:14:16,440 --> 00:14:21,440 Speaker 2: we go to first. It's Richard in Eastern Massachusetts. 202 00:14:21,760 --> 00:14:27,520 Speaker 3: Him, Richard, Hello, how are you am? I? On? Alrighty? 203 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:30,680 Speaker 3: All right, here we go. I'm gonna pay this tribute 204 00:14:30,760 --> 00:14:35,840 Speaker 3: to you so fast. Berry J. Beerry J. Beverry j 205 00:14:36,280 --> 00:14:46,120 Speaker 3: beaj Barry J. Bey J BERRYJ and then somebody yells 206 00:14:46,120 --> 00:14:50,200 Speaker 3: out hello, Hello, and it was a remind me of 207 00:14:50,280 --> 00:14:52,880 Speaker 3: when they yelled that out of Jerry Lewis, and the 208 00:14:52,920 --> 00:14:58,080 Speaker 3: only thing that was missing was hey l Anyway, I 209 00:14:58,120 --> 00:15:01,000 Speaker 3: think when you fill in for Dan Ray, they as 210 00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:05,120 Speaker 3: a tribute to you, they should play your song because 211 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:08,680 Speaker 3: it's only it's only fair, you know. 212 00:15:08,640 --> 00:15:09,080 Speaker 4: What I mean. 213 00:15:09,280 --> 00:15:14,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, there's just one small technicality on that is the name. 214 00:15:14,520 --> 00:15:19,000 Speaker 2: My name is brad Lee and not Barry. Oh. 215 00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:22,160 Speaker 3: Did I say that by mistake? Yeah? I know your 216 00:15:22,280 --> 00:15:23,360 Speaker 3: name is Bradley. Yeah. 217 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:26,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, but actually Barry Jay sounds better. I probably will 218 00:15:26,560 --> 00:15:27,720 Speaker 2: change it. It's probably better. 219 00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:33,560 Speaker 3: No, why should you? Why should you? And I have 220 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:35,720 Speaker 3: a question, Yes, sure, go ahead, and. 221 00:15:36,280 --> 00:15:39,880 Speaker 2: You can just say never mind, I'm not telling you. 222 00:15:40,760 --> 00:15:44,040 Speaker 2: It says Richard and eastern Massachusetts, and it's I'm informed 223 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:46,120 Speaker 2: that you didn't want to give your exact town. And 224 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:49,800 Speaker 2: you're not the first one tonight other someone else did 225 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:52,160 Speaker 2: that too. They didn't want their first name given, and 226 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:58,040 Speaker 2: they didn't want their you know why, friend, the government's 227 00:15:58,080 --> 00:15:59,040 Speaker 2: listening or something. 228 00:15:59,560 --> 00:16:04,880 Speaker 3: No, no oh. When you're on the radio, especially when 229 00:16:04,920 --> 00:16:08,720 Speaker 3: I listen to different shows and a lot of these 230 00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:13,440 Speaker 3: people they sound sadly, so don don lonely. And when 231 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:18,240 Speaker 3: they're giving their a lot of their personal information, I 232 00:16:18,720 --> 00:16:21,480 Speaker 3: feel they may be harassed in some way in some 233 00:16:21,760 --> 00:16:25,120 Speaker 3: form if they recognize their voice, you know, in some 234 00:16:25,160 --> 00:16:27,800 Speaker 3: way in some form. So I don't think a lot 235 00:16:27,840 --> 00:16:32,160 Speaker 3: of people should divulge every little thing because they're going 236 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:33,800 Speaker 3: to get crapped on. I think. 237 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:37,440 Speaker 2: You're going to ruin my whole GigE. You keep talking 238 00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:42,040 Speaker 2: like that, Richard, I'm sorry. The whole interest of the 239 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:45,840 Speaker 2: whole program is the details. It's the details. 240 00:16:45,920 --> 00:16:52,680 Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't realize that. I didn't realize that. For instance, like. 241 00:16:52,080 --> 00:16:54,960 Speaker 2: Now to go back and say you were. 242 00:16:54,840 --> 00:17:00,840 Speaker 3: Wrong, Okay, all right, okay. 243 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:03,160 Speaker 2: Probably wrong. There's no way. So say let's say you're 244 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:07,600 Speaker 2: from Holebrook and right, you know, if you want to, 245 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:09,720 Speaker 2: if you want, have a fake name. I don't care. 246 00:17:09,920 --> 00:17:13,399 Speaker 2: But but at least even if you have a fake town, 247 00:17:14,040 --> 00:17:16,800 Speaker 2: I really don't care. But just make up some town. 248 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:22,720 Speaker 2: Eastern Massachusetts is you know, not much fun eastern Massachusetts? 249 00:17:23,040 --> 00:17:26,000 Speaker 2: Well how's things out there in eastern Massachusetts? 250 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:28,200 Speaker 3: You know it was great? Yeah? 251 00:17:29,160 --> 00:17:33,879 Speaker 2: Here? Now make up a town. Yeah, what town do 252 00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:35,520 Speaker 2: you want to be from? Make one up? If you 253 00:17:35,520 --> 00:17:36,320 Speaker 2: want to be protected. 254 00:17:39,240 --> 00:17:44,160 Speaker 3: Well, I guess I was going to bring up something important. 255 00:17:43,960 --> 00:17:47,320 Speaker 2: Dan he's from Danvers, but. 256 00:17:46,480 --> 00:17:50,760 Speaker 3: But yeah, haggling on the town. So I guess we 257 00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:53,919 Speaker 3: could cut it right here, by the way, can I 258 00:17:53,960 --> 00:17:58,960 Speaker 3: bring up something else different real quickly? Because I get 259 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:01,760 Speaker 3: home so late. A lot of times I get home 260 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:06,040 Speaker 3: like a little before ten, at ten and past ten, 261 00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:09,280 Speaker 3: and so a lot of times I miss a lot 262 00:18:09,320 --> 00:18:12,960 Speaker 3: of what Dan Ray said. So I didn't even know 263 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:15,320 Speaker 3: you were going to be on tonight. So, because it's 264 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:18,880 Speaker 3: Christmas Eve, I actually got home early. I got home 265 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:24,560 Speaker 3: at eight thirty, and so I started listening, and ye 266 00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:26,720 Speaker 3: are you going to be on to like tomorrow night 267 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:27,960 Speaker 3: and Saturday Night? 268 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:30,480 Speaker 2: Not Saturday Friday. 269 00:18:30,920 --> 00:18:36,040 Speaker 3: But tomorrow. Yeah. Would it be possible if I gave 270 00:18:36,240 --> 00:18:39,480 Speaker 3: like a shout out to a certain person and maybe 271 00:18:39,520 --> 00:18:42,040 Speaker 3: even two? Could you have them on your show tomorrow night? 272 00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:43,720 Speaker 3: Is there any way you could get them? 273 00:18:44,760 --> 00:18:48,240 Speaker 2: Anyone's allowed to call out as far as as far 274 00:18:48,280 --> 00:18:53,200 Speaker 2: as a guest. They have guests go through a grueling process. 275 00:18:53,280 --> 00:18:57,760 Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, So do you want me to bother shouting 276 00:18:57,760 --> 00:18:59,080 Speaker 3: out the names of forget it? 277 00:19:00,280 --> 00:19:03,399 Speaker 2: Just tell look, call the people up yourself and say Hey, 278 00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:05,399 Speaker 2: you should call the show now. You tell me you 279 00:19:05,480 --> 00:19:08,080 Speaker 2: miss sometimes the beginning of Dan Ray's show. What you 280 00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:10,280 Speaker 2: need to do. What you need to do is you 281 00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:15,080 Speaker 2: go on online to Nightside on demand and you can 282 00:19:15,119 --> 00:19:17,000 Speaker 2: hear the whole thing, including the party missed. 283 00:19:20,040 --> 00:19:21,160 Speaker 3: Well, you have a good night. 284 00:19:21,240 --> 00:19:24,880 Speaker 2: Now, okay, take care out there in eastern Massachusetts. Brother 285 00:19:26,040 --> 00:19:30,359 Speaker 2: by now here you go? Yeah, I don't see it, 286 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:34,959 Speaker 2: and I I understand what he's saying, but I disagree. 287 00:19:36,320 --> 00:19:40,080 Speaker 2: First of all, details is what makes any story interesting, 288 00:19:40,880 --> 00:19:43,680 Speaker 2: the details of I want a picture where you're from. 289 00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:47,440 Speaker 2: Somebody's from Danvers, I immediately and everybody out there wants 290 00:19:47,480 --> 00:19:50,560 Speaker 2: to say, Okay, Danvers, I wonder whe're in Danvers? 291 00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:50,760 Speaker 3: Are you? 292 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:55,720 Speaker 2: Oh? You on the corner of Smith and Hoboken Street. Yes, 293 00:19:55,880 --> 00:20:00,320 Speaker 2: right by the Sal's Pizza or whatever. That's important to 294 00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:04,280 Speaker 2: visualize because this is theater. This is theater of the mind, 295 00:20:04,760 --> 00:20:09,639 Speaker 2: and Eastern Massachusetts is kind of generic for a theater 296 00:20:09,760 --> 00:20:13,560 Speaker 2: of the mind. It's all about the specifics. So if 297 00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:15,800 Speaker 2: you're a kind of person that doesn't really want anybody 298 00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:20,560 Speaker 2: to know your real name where you're from, call me 299 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:24,120 Speaker 2: up and lie. Just make one up, because it's more 300 00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:33,080 Speaker 2: interesting than eastern Massachusetts. But no hard feelings Richard ten 301 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:36,679 Speaker 2: thirty one. We have somebody lining up to talk to me, 302 00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:41,560 Speaker 2: to us, to the community. It's good. Once again, remember 303 00:20:42,080 --> 00:20:45,840 Speaker 2: if you're alone on this Christmas Eve, when you're on WBZ, 304 00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:49,680 Speaker 2: you're not alone. You have instant community. So if you've 305 00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:52,840 Speaker 2: never called before, let me just walk you through it. 306 00:20:52,840 --> 00:20:56,040 Speaker 2: Before the break, you call six one, seven, two, four, 307 00:20:56,359 --> 00:21:00,240 Speaker 2: ten thirty. Shane will say WBZ, how can I help here? 308 00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:03,679 Speaker 2: Or what would you like to talk about? And you 309 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:06,200 Speaker 2: tell him something and he goes, okay, I'm going to 310 00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:08,119 Speaker 2: put you on hold and Bradley will talk to you 311 00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:11,040 Speaker 2: in a little bit. Then you just kind of listen along. 312 00:21:11,080 --> 00:21:13,439 Speaker 2: You can listen to what's going on, and you're going 313 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:16,000 Speaker 2: to be nervous, but don't worry. Nothing bad is going 314 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:20,920 Speaker 2: to happen. And I'll say, hey, it's for example, Florence 315 00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:23,639 Speaker 2: and Groveland is next. What's going on Florence. Just like 316 00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:26,600 Speaker 2: I would on the street. You cannot make a mistake, 317 00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:31,119 Speaker 2: you cannot be embarrassed. If you've noticed the whole show, 318 00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:37,639 Speaker 2: no risk, no embarrassment. It's just a it's it's a 319 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:44,359 Speaker 2: community that anybody can be a part of. Six, one, seven, two, five, four, 320 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:48,800 Speaker 2: ten thirty. That is the That is the key the lock. No, 321 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:53,320 Speaker 2: that's the key the unlocks your new community. Get over that, 322 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:58,480 Speaker 2: those butterflies in the beginning and a wonderful world. WBZ 323 00:21:58,600 --> 00:22:05,280 Speaker 2: awaits you night side with Dan Ray on WBZ Boston's 324 00:22:05,359 --> 00:22:07,400 Speaker 2: news radio and the Where we Go. We got three 325 00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:10,720 Speaker 2: folks ready to speak with us in our community here 326 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:14,600 Speaker 2: on this Christmas eve. Gee, Christmas is very near. A 327 00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:17,680 Speaker 2: couple quick questions, actually, just one for you to think 328 00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:20,959 Speaker 2: about and perhaps dial in to answer while I'm speaking 329 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:26,720 Speaker 2: with these folks. If you are a Seinfeld watcher, you 330 00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:32,480 Speaker 2: know that George Costanza has the prescription for how long 331 00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:36,480 Speaker 2: one should keep their greeting card, and that would include 332 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:40,400 Speaker 2: a Christmas card. I'm asking you two things. How long 333 00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:47,639 Speaker 2: do you feel you should keep a Christmas card before 334 00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:50,359 Speaker 2: you throw it out? I mean a lot of Christmas 335 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:53,120 Speaker 2: cards people do these days, take a lot of work, 336 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:59,240 Speaker 2: et cetera. So how long do you think is the 337 00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:03,200 Speaker 2: the what does etiquette say that you should what period 338 00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:07,360 Speaker 2: of time you should keep it? And what did George 339 00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:13,239 Speaker 2: Costanza say is the time? The period? The length of 340 00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:16,159 Speaker 2: time that you should keep a card? And I'm going 341 00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:18,800 Speaker 2: to include Christmas cards in that. Now, let's go to 342 00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:20,360 Speaker 2: Florence in Groveland. 343 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:27,240 Speaker 5: Hi, Florence, Hi Bradley. Bradley am a regular caller you 344 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:33,160 Speaker 5: probably remember, of course, and I am from Groveland, which 345 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:37,560 Speaker 5: is in the Rimac Valley. I'm sure you've heard that term. 346 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:42,440 Speaker 5: Of course, a lot of little towns in this community. 347 00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:48,320 Speaker 5: And have that guy's that called before? I spared laugh, 348 00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:49,120 Speaker 5: I said, I. 349 00:23:49,119 --> 00:23:52,360 Speaker 2: Get a call, and you are going to be very 350 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:55,320 Speaker 2: specific about where you live and what your community is like. 351 00:23:55,960 --> 00:24:00,399 Speaker 5: That's why I said that to you in just case 352 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:07,080 Speaker 5: you hadn't heard of growth before. Okay, okay, the very 353 00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:13,000 Speaker 5: small town. I tell people when you drive into Grove, 354 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:16,080 Speaker 5: when you drive through it, if you blink your eyes 355 00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:18,359 Speaker 5: you're going through it. It's very small. 356 00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:20,080 Speaker 2: How long you lived in Growland. 357 00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:21,879 Speaker 5: Forty five years? 358 00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:23,720 Speaker 2: And how did you happen to move to Groveland? 359 00:24:25,119 --> 00:24:27,880 Speaker 5: H Well, my husband and I bought a house here. 360 00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:30,080 Speaker 2: Oh, you bought a house. How much did the house cost? 361 00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:31,640 Speaker 3: Oh? 362 00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:37,400 Speaker 5: Gosh, I think it was in the fifties. Fifty thousand something. 363 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:40,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, forty five years ago it was fifty thousand. 364 00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:41,520 Speaker 1: Yeah. 365 00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:42,760 Speaker 2: Is it a pretty big house? 366 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:48,480 Speaker 5: Well, back then it was a ranch house spread lee. Yeah, 367 00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:56,360 Speaker 5: and since my husband has passed away, and after I retired, 368 00:24:57,119 --> 00:25:01,080 Speaker 5: I sold the house to one of my sons and 369 00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:05,960 Speaker 5: I stayed in the house. I'm on the first floor. 370 00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:08,840 Speaker 5: He had a second story put on it. 371 00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:11,639 Speaker 2: So you have been able to live in that house 372 00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:15,240 Speaker 2: for forty five years and you haven't had to move 373 00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:17,440 Speaker 2: and you still have all your stuff with you. Isn't 374 00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:18,399 Speaker 2: that wonderful? 375 00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:25,680 Speaker 5: Yeah, until my son put it's an identical floor up above. Okay, 376 00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:31,399 Speaker 5: so he's upstairs and downstairs and it works out very well. 377 00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:33,520 Speaker 2: So what about Christmas? Where do you have Christmas? Up 378 00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:35,280 Speaker 2: there or down in your house? 379 00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:40,520 Speaker 5: Either one? We move around. Plus I have another son 380 00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:43,880 Speaker 5: who lives in New Hampshire, so you can go there, 381 00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:48,480 Speaker 5: And I have a daughter who lives in hal what'd. 382 00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:49,720 Speaker 2: You get for Christmas? 383 00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:51,800 Speaker 5: What did I get? 384 00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:52,440 Speaker 2: Yes? 385 00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:55,720 Speaker 5: I don't know because oh yeah, it. 386 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:56,840 Speaker 2: Didn't happen yet. 387 00:25:56,880 --> 00:26:00,640 Speaker 3: Oh my god, I'm so sadly. 388 00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:03,040 Speaker 2: He's so dumb, really really dumb. 389 00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:03,399 Speaker 1: Sorry. 390 00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:08,919 Speaker 5: I wanted I wanted to wish you a merry Christmas. 391 00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:09,600 Speaker 2: Thank you. 392 00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:15,240 Speaker 5: And usually when I call in, I call in to 393 00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:21,520 Speaker 5: Morgan Show on Saturday, and I wish my special friend 394 00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:28,360 Speaker 5: Jack cart Happy Birthday or Merry Christmas. So I want 395 00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:33,800 Speaker 5: to wish him of Jerry, Merry Christmas. He's your traffic reporter. 396 00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:36,720 Speaker 2: Yes, oh yes, I know he's been. He's been a 397 00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:39,439 Speaker 2: traffic reporter for a long time. He's your special friend. 398 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:46,359 Speaker 5: He is wonderful. Now I will tell you about the 399 00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:47,520 Speaker 5: Christmas cards you. 400 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:50,480 Speaker 2: Meant, oh yeah, how long do you keep a Christmas card? 401 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:56,120 Speaker 5: Do you know what I do? Special ones like from 402 00:26:56,240 --> 00:27:03,280 Speaker 5: family or say you know someone very close to you. 403 00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:07,040 Speaker 5: You take them and you can put them in one 404 00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:10,199 Speaker 5: of those photo books with the plastics leaves. 405 00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:14,439 Speaker 2: Yeah, you must have a big yeah, I do. Well, 406 00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:16,879 Speaker 2: you must have a house full of foldo books. I 407 00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:20,000 Speaker 2: mean for years worth of Christmas cards. 408 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:23,439 Speaker 5: This must take up a lot of I have a 409 00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:31,520 Speaker 5: few that have extra special ones okay, that I've kept 410 00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:37,160 Speaker 5: and someone that perhaps has passed away and that is 411 00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:39,480 Speaker 5: their last card to you. 412 00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:43,800 Speaker 2: Well, yeah, you know with a. 413 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:47,280 Speaker 5: Little message inside you cut throw that away. 414 00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:48,880 Speaker 2: I know, I know. 415 00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:51,600 Speaker 5: Yeah, thank you. 416 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:55,040 Speaker 2: I do have a question for you, being a person 417 00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:59,320 Speaker 2: who puts cards in pholdo books. I have saved all 418 00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:05,119 Speaker 2: my life, you know, from my mother. I got these scrapbooks. 419 00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:10,240 Speaker 2: She's passed now, but it's packed with these cards that 420 00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:14,840 Speaker 2: she got when I was born, Congratulations to the little baby. 421 00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:16,639 Speaker 2: And there's all these little baby cards and they're very 422 00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:20,080 Speaker 2: fancy old school cards. But I don't know, you know, 423 00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:22,639 Speaker 2: there's there are probably two books of them. There were 424 00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:28,919 Speaker 2: probably fifty cards. I can't decide what to do. Do 425 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:31,240 Speaker 2: I keep them forever? And then after I'm gone, somebody 426 00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:34,199 Speaker 2: else throws them away? I never look at him. You 427 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:38,080 Speaker 2: seem like a thoughtful person, Florence. Should I keep them? 428 00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:40,640 Speaker 2: Should I keep a few of them? What should I do? Get? 429 00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:41,440 Speaker 2: Throw them away? 430 00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:50,200 Speaker 5: Like like I told you once, from special people and 431 00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:56,800 Speaker 5: with a special message inside that some people do that, okay, 432 00:28:56,960 --> 00:29:02,920 Speaker 5: right inside the card you quick pick and choose, Actually 433 00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:07,240 Speaker 5: which one you absolutely would like to say? 434 00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:09,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good idea. So because if they're from 435 00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:14,880 Speaker 2: people I know, that's one thing. And I mean family 436 00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:19,440 Speaker 2: people I knew, like neighbors like mister Bigford, mister Bickford 437 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:23,960 Speaker 2: who got stung in the tongue by a bee and almost. 438 00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:28,680 Speaker 5: How about your mom on your birthday? Any special cuts. 439 00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:33,600 Speaker 2: Well I will look for them. That's really great advice 440 00:29:33,680 --> 00:29:35,800 Speaker 2: for Florence. I'm gonna I need to get to tread 441 00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:39,880 Speaker 2: Well and other folks. But I'm so appreciative of your call. 442 00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:42,560 Speaker 2: Thank you. It's always wonderful to hear from you. By Florence, 443 00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:46,960 Speaker 2: I guess if I start talking to tread Well, I'll 444 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:49,920 Speaker 2: have to cut them short because it's quarter passed. So 445 00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:55,120 Speaker 2: tread if I may be so familiar And Marge, we'll 446 00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:57,800 Speaker 2: talk to you right after this quick break on. 447 00:29:57,800 --> 00:29:58,320 Speaker 3: W b Z. 448 00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:04,520 Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Dan Ray on WBSY, Boston's 449 00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:05,200 Speaker 1: news radio. 450 00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:09,520 Speaker 2: Well, it's great to have you with me. I have 451 00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:13,120 Speaker 2: to tell you how how deeply happy it makes me 452 00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:16,520 Speaker 2: to be able to speak with all of you. It's 453 00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:18,800 Speaker 2: a huge, huge deal to me. It makes me feel 454 00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:22,360 Speaker 2: great all the time, even when I'm not on the radio, 455 00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:25,800 Speaker 2: knowing that in the not two distant future I'll be 456 00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:30,160 Speaker 2: able to be part of this community again. So we 457 00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:37,320 Speaker 2: have margin. The catskills very well, quite specific. Marge. Hello, Hello, Marge. 458 00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:42,200 Speaker 4: How are you okay? I don't know what generation you 459 00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:45,000 Speaker 4: were a kid in, but I want to talk about 460 00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:49,760 Speaker 4: how tough my generation was, and we're going back to 461 00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:55,320 Speaker 4: the forties early fifties. Oh yeah, yeah, we were tough 462 00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:58,920 Speaker 4: little guys. I'll tell you our number one thing was 463 00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:04,080 Speaker 4: snow days, okay, And the last time I looked at 464 00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:09,560 Speaker 4: kids sleigh riding, they were on these little plastic discs 465 00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:15,280 Speaker 4: and they were just kind of sliding, spinning around little wishes. 466 00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:16,560 Speaker 4: Compared to us. 467 00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:20,440 Speaker 2: You're sliding, all right. 468 00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:26,480 Speaker 4: We all had wood and metal sleds, usually flexible flyers, 469 00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:31,040 Speaker 4: and the way you negotiated them was two ways. You 470 00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:34,520 Speaker 4: sat down. You sat upright, you put your feet on 471 00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:38,200 Speaker 4: the wooden bars, and you steered. And the reason you 472 00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:41,800 Speaker 4: usually sat up with was you usually put a little 473 00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:44,760 Speaker 4: kid sitting in front of you, and that way, if 474 00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:47,000 Speaker 4: you hit a tree or anything, the little kid was 475 00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:49,440 Speaker 4: like an airbag, so you'd see a big kid and 476 00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:52,680 Speaker 4: a little kid. But our favorite way of with the 477 00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:56,840 Speaker 4: flexible flyer sleds is to get a running start. You 478 00:31:56,960 --> 00:32:00,600 Speaker 4: hold a sled up, you run like the devil, flop 479 00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:04,160 Speaker 4: down it on your belly. Now your head is sticking 480 00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:09,200 Speaker 4: over the handlebars and you're steering like crazy. Sometimes we'd 481 00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:12,000 Speaker 4: go so fast we'd run out of the bottom of 482 00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:15,960 Speaker 4: the hill, fly off a snowbank, go across the road 483 00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:17,600 Speaker 4: and end up on the other side. 484 00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:22,080 Speaker 2: So you think you're tough, listen to this, you that's 485 00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:26,320 Speaker 2: wimpy barge. We did the exact same thing as you, 486 00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:30,400 Speaker 2: only we would have demolition derby and we would try 487 00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:33,360 Speaker 2: to wipe each other out on the way down. So 488 00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:36,080 Speaker 2: the three of us, my old brothers, we go, one, two, 489 00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:38,240 Speaker 2: three go and it would be complete ice. It was 490 00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:42,320 Speaker 2: Berness Hill's driveway and it was a big, long, huge 491 00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:45,520 Speaker 2: icy driveway. Ready, one two, three go, and then you'd 492 00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:51,960 Speaker 2: try to maneuver yourself into the behind the slid in 493 00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:54,440 Speaker 2: front of you and whip their sled around so they'd 494 00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:57,600 Speaker 2: wipe out and the slid runner would catch on a 495 00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:02,080 Speaker 2: piece of ice and flip over domultiple flipovers. So I 496 00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:03,680 Speaker 2: don't think you were that tough. 497 00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:06,800 Speaker 4: I'll tell you the other thing that I was thinking about. 498 00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:11,479 Speaker 4: You mentioned about taking each other out every year. I 499 00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:15,320 Speaker 4: remember visiting three kids one winter. You go down to 500 00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:18,360 Speaker 4: visit your little friend who was lying with a big 501 00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:22,959 Speaker 4: plaster cast on his leg, and we had broken legs 502 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:26,680 Speaker 4: all winter because what would happen is you'd take your 503 00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:29,080 Speaker 4: sled to the bottom of the hill. Then you'd have 504 00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:33,400 Speaker 4: to trudge up the hill pulling your sled. Meanwhile, the 505 00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:36,200 Speaker 4: next sled came down and ran right into your leg 506 00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:38,160 Speaker 4: and broke because it had a metal front. 507 00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:41,080 Speaker 2: So you say we had broken legs all winter, it 508 00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:41,440 Speaker 2: makes it. 509 00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:48,960 Speaker 3: Seem like the three rows of kids that all have 510 00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:49,880 Speaker 3: broken legs. 511 00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:56,400 Speaker 4: It's absolutely amazing. And transferring that to the summer, we 512 00:33:56,480 --> 00:34:02,360 Speaker 4: all had skin, knees, scabs off over concussions from the 513 00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:05,800 Speaker 4: roller skates. I mean, it's a wonder we all survived. 514 00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:09,920 Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, you think you're so tough all We also 515 00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:13,239 Speaker 2: we lived across the street from an elementary school which 516 00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:16,919 Speaker 2: had a driveway all around, and we would have ten 517 00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:21,120 Speaker 2: lap demolition derbies with the bicycles too. We would run 518 00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:23,200 Speaker 2: into each other's bike and try to wipe them out. 519 00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:27,680 Speaker 4: Oh that sounds like great fun. You had a boy bike, right, 520 00:34:28,680 --> 00:34:32,640 Speaker 4: of course, yeah, because I never liked the girls' bikes. 521 00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:35,879 Speaker 4: They were kind of wimpy. But I was thinking we 522 00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:40,120 Speaker 4: never had helmets. I remember putting my brakes on, going 523 00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:42,319 Speaker 4: over the top and getting it concussion. 524 00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:45,759 Speaker 2: I mean, you make it seem like that's good though. 525 00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:46,720 Speaker 2: Is that good? Really? 526 00:34:47,239 --> 00:34:51,240 Speaker 4: Yes? Because I was just there was a cartoon running 527 00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:55,960 Speaker 4: recently and it said snow Day and it showed people 528 00:34:56,000 --> 00:35:00,000 Speaker 4: of my generation out running around and doing sleds and everything, 529 00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:03,760 Speaker 4: and then The next shot was this generation all sitting 530 00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:05,880 Speaker 4: on the sofa playing with their phones. 531 00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:11,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, overall, you're not a big fan of this new generation. 532 00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:15,839 Speaker 4: Huhh. Yes, I am a very big fan of them 533 00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:21,640 Speaker 4: in certain areas. I think they're very brilliant, but I 534 00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:25,399 Speaker 4: also don't think they have the physical activities that they 535 00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:29,239 Speaker 4: should have, and I also think the parents are a 536 00:35:29,239 --> 00:35:32,600 Speaker 4: little too hovering over them. 537 00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:33,640 Speaker 2: Did you have any kids? 538 00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:40,680 Speaker 4: Yes? I had one, and tell you how brave she was. 539 00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:44,480 Speaker 4: We moved to Woodstock in nineteen sixty nine and I 540 00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:47,920 Speaker 4: took my kid to the Woodstock Festival and that was 541 00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:50,120 Speaker 4: one of the highlights of her life. She loved it. 542 00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:51,560 Speaker 2: How old was she? 543 00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:58,400 Speaker 4: Ken? And you know going back, how safe that was? 544 00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:02,240 Speaker 4: Half a million piece? Both the ten year old walks around. 545 00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:05,279 Speaker 4: I said, here's the tree, we're here. She goes off 546 00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:08,600 Speaker 4: for the afternoon, walks around, goes back to the tree. 547 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:12,720 Speaker 4: We never had to worry about anyone harming our kids 548 00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:15,080 Speaker 4: or anything happening it. 549 00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:18,040 Speaker 2: You didn't. You didn't worry about it. I don't know 550 00:36:18,040 --> 00:36:21,040 Speaker 2: if you had doing that, but nobody did. So here's 551 00:36:21,080 --> 00:36:23,880 Speaker 2: all right, I want to hear out. And when I 552 00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:26,640 Speaker 2: went to high school, I know everyone. I hope you're 553 00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:31,120 Speaker 2: not irritated by this toughness duel. But when I when 554 00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:32,680 Speaker 2: I went to high school, if I wanted to stay 555 00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:35,080 Speaker 2: for a dance or anything, I had a hitchhike hom 556 00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:40,280 Speaker 2: in the winter at midnight, ten miles. So there's that. 557 00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:43,320 Speaker 4: That's great. Today you wouldn't shike at all. 558 00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:46,080 Speaker 2: The only person that you're standing there with your pointy 559 00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:50,839 Speaker 2: little leather you know, beatle boots and the freezing your 560 00:36:51,719 --> 00:36:56,480 Speaker 2: tail off. At frostbite corner, this car would go by, snowing, 561 00:36:56,560 --> 00:37:00,600 Speaker 2: not crazy, maybe five cars ago by, ten cars go by, 562 00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:03,040 Speaker 2: and then finally some guy in a nineteen sixty eight 563 00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:07,080 Speaker 2: Camaro pulls up with a bottom of blue I mean 564 00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:12,000 Speaker 2: black velvet whiskey. You know, cars swerving all around. We're 565 00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:16,160 Speaker 2: going up mile Hill, clacking against the fence posts. I mean, 566 00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:21,040 Speaker 2: we say, we we boomers. I'm on the cusp, I'm 567 00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:24,279 Speaker 2: on my cusp. Yeah, we boomers think that's all great. 568 00:37:24,320 --> 00:37:31,120 Speaker 2: But there were there were two sides of that. You 569 00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:32,480 Speaker 2: could you could have easily. 570 00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:34,240 Speaker 1: Have died and doing the stuff. 571 00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:37,400 Speaker 2: On the other hand, we are independent. 572 00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:41,680 Speaker 4: Oh my god, he hit the nail right on the head. 573 00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:45,960 Speaker 2: Ask anybody to go anywhere I get there myself, and 574 00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:48,200 Speaker 2: it never even occurs to me to try to get 575 00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:51,680 Speaker 2: a ride. You know, I'll walk somewhere. So I'm very 576 00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:56,920 Speaker 2: pleased that I was independent, But the cost was pretty 577 00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:00,640 Speaker 2: high and my feet got very cold. I couldn't be 578 00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:03,200 Speaker 2: on the baseball team because I couldn't get home after 579 00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:05,960 Speaker 2: the practices because I had a hitchhack home every day. 580 00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:07,680 Speaker 2: So there were some downsides. 581 00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:12,680 Speaker 4: And you know, you lived on your bike all the march. 582 00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:17,279 Speaker 2: When the when kids listen to us, they're disgusted. They think, 583 00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:20,960 Speaker 2: oh God, listen to those old boomers say talk about 584 00:38:20,960 --> 00:38:24,640 Speaker 2: how cool they are and how and how tough they are, 585 00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:29,279 Speaker 2: and they see us as people that that made that 586 00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:37,000 Speaker 2: made housing unaffordable, that made let's see school unaffordable, that 587 00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:41,120 Speaker 2: burned down the earth basically killed killed everything and ruined everything. 588 00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:43,520 Speaker 2: That's how they see us. 589 00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:49,000 Speaker 4: Well, they not living would stop like I do. Yeah, 590 00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:53,200 Speaker 4: we certainly weren't of that ilk. We were the green people, 591 00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:56,640 Speaker 4: opposite everything. I just want to give you one memory 592 00:38:56,800 --> 00:38:59,319 Speaker 4: of the winter time. I was very fortunate we grew 593 00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:02,439 Speaker 4: up in it, and I can remember late at night, 594 00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:06,120 Speaker 4: lying in bed and hearing the cars go by with 595 00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:07,480 Speaker 4: chains on them. 596 00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:09,600 Speaker 2: What a sound that is I must say goodbye. 597 00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:10,640 Speaker 4: I loved it. 598 00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:14,600 Speaker 2: Bye. What a wonderful call, Marge. That was. That was 599 00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:18,160 Speaker 2: a space of time well used. Next, we're gonna go 600 00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:23,160 Speaker 2: to after this break, jeff In Wakefield. Jeff In Wakefield 601 00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:26,280 Speaker 2: is coming up on WBZ. This is fun. I'm loving 602 00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:27,920 Speaker 2: a little open line action.