1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:04,880 Speaker 1: It's Nice Eyes with Dan Ray. I'mbelling you Mazy Boston's 2 00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:06,160 Speaker 1: news Radio. 3 00:00:06,760 --> 00:00:09,080 Speaker 2: That is correct. It is night Side with Dan Ray. 4 00:00:09,119 --> 00:00:12,440 Speaker 2: I'm Bradley Jay and for Dan tonight, and welcome to 5 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:16,800 Speaker 2: Christmas open House. You know, usually we come out of 6 00:00:16,840 --> 00:00:21,079 Speaker 2: the gate here with some intense guests or some very 7 00:00:21,120 --> 00:00:24,880 Speaker 2: relevant guests, and it's all very tight and organized. Not tonight. 8 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:28,760 Speaker 2: It's a Christmas open house. I'm very happy to have 9 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:32,800 Speaker 2: it be a relaxed opportunity for you to just check 10 00:00:32,880 --> 00:00:36,199 Speaker 2: in and not have to give your opinion on anything 11 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:41,280 Speaker 2: or you have any particular story that you have to tell. 12 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:48,760 Speaker 2: All the Christmas story are always welcome here. And you 13 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:52,080 Speaker 2: know most I don't know actually the ratio of people 14 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:55,320 Speaker 2: who have families to those who don't. But it occurs 15 00:00:55,320 --> 00:00:59,640 Speaker 2: to me that a lot of Christmas talk is about family. 16 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:04,399 Speaker 2: But it also occurs to me that there are many, many, 17 00:01:04,480 --> 00:01:07,760 Speaker 2: many people without any families who are listening to my 18 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:11,720 Speaker 2: voice on Christmas Eve alone. And you are also invited 19 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:17,960 Speaker 2: to the uh WBZ Night Side Christmas open House just 20 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:21,600 Speaker 2: to hang out, share some verbal wastle, if you will. 21 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:24,920 Speaker 2: The number to do that is six, one, seven, two, five, 22 00:01:24,959 --> 00:01:30,760 Speaker 2: four ten thirty and I don't know about you, but 23 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:33,600 Speaker 2: the first order of business, there's no real order of business, 24 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:37,560 Speaker 2: as I just said, but I would like to delve 25 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:40,720 Speaker 2: into a little bit the Christmas spirit. There is such 26 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:45,320 Speaker 2: a thing as the Christmas spirit, and it's harder and 27 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:47,880 Speaker 2: harder for me to find. And I don't mean to 28 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:50,280 Speaker 2: pooh pooh Christmas or spirit at all, but you know 29 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:53,000 Speaker 2: that magic that you had when you're a kid, and 30 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:57,080 Speaker 2: it would pop back time to time from time to 31 00:01:57,160 --> 00:02:02,880 Speaker 2: time when you're an adult. I haven't felt that. I 32 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:04,960 Speaker 2: had a flash of it a little bit in a 33 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:11,080 Speaker 2: hotel lobby that was well decorated. So I am curious 34 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:14,480 Speaker 2: about if you happen to have a handle on the 35 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:16,720 Speaker 2: things that will pop you into the Christmas spirit. What 36 00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:22,239 Speaker 2: do you need to see you here to think? Ah, 37 00:02:22,280 --> 00:02:26,040 Speaker 2: there it is. And I'd also like you to describe 38 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:30,280 Speaker 2: the Christmas spirit? What is the Christmas Spirit? I have 39 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:32,760 Speaker 2: a theory which I will change I will share with 40 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:39,160 Speaker 2: you later. And one thing, uh, one way to kind 41 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:42,600 Speaker 2: of to jumpstart this is for me to tell a 42 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:47,400 Speaker 2: story or two about back in the day when I 43 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:51,119 Speaker 2: was you know, when I definitely had that kid Christmas 44 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:56,080 Speaker 2: spirit and I'll be quick a little story. First of all, 45 00:02:56,120 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 2: in the news you may have noticed were measles. Well, 46 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:03,359 Speaker 2: measles played a pretty integral part in one of my Christmases. 47 00:03:03,480 --> 00:03:07,079 Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, for three or four Christmases 48 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:10,480 Speaker 2: in a row, I was sick with this or that 49 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:13,920 Speaker 2: of momps. The people still even get the mumps, I 50 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:21,639 Speaker 2: haven't heard about months. Maybe that's because of a vaccine. Anyway, Well, 51 00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:26,160 Speaker 2: I remember, I don't know, maybe I was six. What 52 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:27,960 Speaker 2: age are you when you get do you know what 53 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:30,920 Speaker 2: a friction toy is? It's a toy. It's like a 54 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:35,360 Speaker 2: car or chalk, and you push it along the ground 55 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:38,640 Speaker 2: around a table and sparks come out and it gets 56 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:41,840 Speaker 2: a little momentum. He goes huh, And sparks come out 57 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:44,080 Speaker 2: and you let it go and it travels a little way. Well, 58 00:03:44,160 --> 00:03:47,240 Speaker 2: I was whatever age you are to get those, because 59 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:49,720 Speaker 2: it got a couple of those. But I do remember 60 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:54,440 Speaker 2: in our the house I grew up, which my father 61 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:56,800 Speaker 2: and mother built with another guy. By the way, three 62 00:03:56,840 --> 00:04:00,360 Speaker 2: people built it like with hammer and nails. You come 63 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:02,040 Speaker 2: into the kitchen, then you go into a dining room, 64 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:06,000 Speaker 2: then you go into the living room. But this one 65 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:10,520 Speaker 2: Christmas we had to be it was all dark. We 66 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:14,760 Speaker 2: had these cots set up, three three kids, three boys, 67 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:18,400 Speaker 2: and we couldn't look outdoors. We had to be completely 68 00:04:18,520 --> 00:04:21,240 Speaker 2: dark in this room. I don't know if people do 69 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:25,320 Speaker 2: that anymore for Meaesels patients, but I do remember, and 70 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:30,200 Speaker 2: it does give me a twinge of Christmas spirit playing 71 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:34,400 Speaker 2: with those friction toys and from a lot of you 72 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:39,760 Speaker 2: that will mean nothing. Those little metal cars with wheels 73 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:44,080 Speaker 2: that shot out sparks when you pushed them along. And 74 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:48,080 Speaker 2: this was like a week. We were in quarantine for 75 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:53,320 Speaker 2: a week or something crazy like that. And then I remember, 76 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:56,520 Speaker 2: like the year after that, they had to be upstairs 77 00:04:56,520 --> 00:05:00,000 Speaker 2: with some other sickness while they were having Christmas downstairs. 78 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:05,200 Speaker 2: It seemed to be a thing. What happily no sickness 79 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:09,880 Speaker 2: this year. And I'd love to have more stories too, 80 00:05:10,640 --> 00:05:12,800 Speaker 2: now share, But geez, I got to get to the calls. 81 00:05:12,839 --> 00:05:16,679 Speaker 2: The lines are full, almost full. Actually there there's one open. 82 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:20,279 Speaker 2: And this is a rewarding for me to see again. 83 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:28,720 Speaker 2: This is an easy going, non confrontational hangout. So if 84 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:31,600 Speaker 2: you just want to go, hey, hey's up Pratley j 85 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:37,960 Speaker 2: married married to the Christmas, you know, go ahead, you 86 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:40,800 Speaker 2: don't need to have an opinion on anything. I'll just 87 00:05:40,839 --> 00:05:45,480 Speaker 2: say I'll just say, hey, Bob or whomever where you're 88 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:47,760 Speaker 2: calling from, what are you doing right now, what's going 89 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:50,240 Speaker 2: on in your life? Anything you want, anything you want 90 00:05:50,240 --> 00:05:54,719 Speaker 2: to talk about. It's a Christmas open house Mosey in 91 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:58,520 Speaker 2: Mosey out here on WBZ. By the way, if you're 92 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:01,640 Speaker 2: in a car and you driving along listening to the radio, 93 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:03,720 Speaker 2: when you get out and you can't listen to the 94 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:05,760 Speaker 2: radio anymore because you don't have a radio or something, 95 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:08,800 Speaker 2: you can you can just run in the house, get 96 00:06:08,880 --> 00:06:13,760 Speaker 2: on the computer box and turn on the iHeart app. 97 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:17,720 Speaker 2: Pick up where you left off. Let's start with Mark 98 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:23,320 Speaker 2: in very in mass that's quite quite general him Mark, 99 00:06:24,760 --> 00:06:27,239 Speaker 2: to go to break. All right, I've been I received 100 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:28,920 Speaker 2: the message to go to break. But I do see 101 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:33,039 Speaker 2: you there, Mark, Lily, David and Jake in Roxbury Town 102 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:36,560 Speaker 2: and we'll see if you can sort this out. Right 103 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:37,880 Speaker 2: after this on. 104 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:44,000 Speaker 1: Wb Z, you're on night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, 105 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:45,640 Speaker 1: Boston's news radio. 106 00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:51,840 Speaker 2: Bradley j for Dan, and it's a Christmas open house 107 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:58,520 Speaker 2: on night Side. Christmas story for me, Well, there are 108 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:03,719 Speaker 2: a bunch but the this is what resonates with me. 109 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:13,640 Speaker 2: Picture this. It's a small New Hampshire town. It was 110 00:07:13,640 --> 00:07:16,040 Speaker 2: a good town back then, but now it's a nasty town. 111 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:20,800 Speaker 2: Where I grew up used to be about one hundred 112 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:23,440 Speaker 2: yards between driveways and sometimes a quarter of a mile. 113 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:27,080 Speaker 2: But for some reason, I guess, the zoning laws relaxed. 114 00:07:27,080 --> 00:07:30,160 Speaker 2: Now they just bulldoze a driveway. They just put a 115 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:32,440 Speaker 2: bulldozer in, drop a trailer there. Oh okay, so when 116 00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:34,160 Speaker 2: you driveway I used to live, it's kind of ugly. 117 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:39,560 Speaker 2: But now it used to be a pastoral farm land area. 118 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:45,000 Speaker 2: And you know that, like I only had one friend, 119 00:07:45,080 --> 00:07:47,520 Speaker 2: there were only seven hundred. There were under eight hundred 120 00:07:47,520 --> 00:07:51,520 Speaker 2: people in the town. Everybody knew everybody it. You know. 121 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:56,080 Speaker 2: The school I went to, all eight grades were in 122 00:07:56,320 --> 00:07:59,960 Speaker 2: one room for the first year. One room, not one 123 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:03,280 Speaker 2: in the school, one room. See, you'd be sitting beside 124 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:04,840 Speaker 2: if you were in the first grade, you might be 125 00:08:04,840 --> 00:08:08,480 Speaker 2: sitting beside an eighth grader. Also at race Us, the 126 00:08:08,520 --> 00:08:10,640 Speaker 2: eighth grader would be throwing the basketball at you, a 127 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:17,400 Speaker 2: first grader and knocking you down. So freezing in it. 128 00:08:17,480 --> 00:08:20,080 Speaker 2: And we had big hills out there. We had our 129 00:08:20,280 --> 00:08:23,040 Speaker 2: we had our and this is the Christmas winter season. 130 00:08:23,480 --> 00:08:26,240 Speaker 2: We had our flying sauceress, back when flying saucers were 131 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:28,480 Speaker 2: made of a lumin and remember that. So if you 132 00:08:28,480 --> 00:08:31,600 Speaker 2: got hit in the head with one, you got stitches. 133 00:08:32,040 --> 00:08:35,200 Speaker 2: If you got hitting the teeth with one, you got 134 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:39,320 Speaker 2: a tooth missing. And this was what it was like 135 00:08:39,440 --> 00:08:43,040 Speaker 2: on more than one Christmas. Even my father was an 136 00:08:43,040 --> 00:08:48,360 Speaker 2: early adopter of stereos, this music and stuff. He got 137 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:51,560 Speaker 2: one of the first stereos ever made. And this was 138 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:56,520 Speaker 2: back and I'm sure some of you remember when there 139 00:08:56,520 --> 00:09:01,240 Speaker 2: were two cabinets, two big cabinets, one to one side 140 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:02,840 Speaker 2: of the room. It was the size of I don't know, 141 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:07,679 Speaker 2: a dishwasher, a big dish washer, No, I know the 142 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:10,160 Speaker 2: size of a stove. There you go, and then the 143 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:12,920 Speaker 2: other side of the room was the other part of it, 144 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:16,520 Speaker 2: also the same size, and the speakers in him were huge. 145 00:09:16,679 --> 00:09:22,760 Speaker 2: The speakers were foot across and not everyone had these. 146 00:09:23,480 --> 00:09:27,200 Speaker 2: So on Christmas Eve, my father would lug these things 147 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:32,040 Speaker 2: out on the porch and on this these crystal dry 148 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:36,040 Speaker 2: Christmas nights where you could hear it forever, he'd play 149 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:42,560 Speaker 2: Christmas carols and the whole town like you could hear 150 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:45,800 Speaker 2: it for a mile in each direction, and the whole 151 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:50,120 Speaker 2: town would look forward to my father doing this. There 152 00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:53,760 Speaker 2: was only one sort of rub, and that is the 153 00:09:53,880 --> 00:09:59,800 Speaker 2: cold weather and stereos and stuff. Back then a lot 154 00:09:59,840 --> 00:10:03,760 Speaker 2: of non digital parts. And this was a turntable. By 155 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:08,000 Speaker 2: the way, these were records, and so there was a turntable, 156 00:10:08,040 --> 00:10:12,280 Speaker 2: and I guess the turntable had grease in the moving parts, 157 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:16,080 Speaker 2: so as it got colder, the thing would slow down. 158 00:10:17,520 --> 00:10:19,400 Speaker 2: So at first, you know, for an hour, maybe an 159 00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:22,920 Speaker 2: hour and a half Abe god rest Gee, regientle Man, 160 00:10:23,640 --> 00:10:27,839 Speaker 2: and then a couple hours later it would slow down 161 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:33,000 Speaker 2: until it got a little weird. But we liked it 162 00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:38,800 Speaker 2: so much that we slept in the attic, which was 163 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:41,680 Speaker 2: not insulated or anything, because it was closer to the stereo. 164 00:10:41,760 --> 00:10:44,120 Speaker 2: Its closer to the front. We could have slept in 165 00:10:44,160 --> 00:10:48,600 Speaker 2: the bedroom, but we slept in the attic, which had 166 00:10:48,679 --> 00:10:54,719 Speaker 2: no no heat, nothing. Now we covered up and as 167 00:10:54,920 --> 00:10:57,360 Speaker 2: one thing I do remember, I had a cough. Does 168 00:10:57,400 --> 00:11:02,400 Speaker 2: anybody remember that? Horrific save the baby cough syrup. It 169 00:11:02,520 --> 00:11:10,160 Speaker 2: was horrific. It wasn't it like the robitussin of modern days. 170 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:15,200 Speaker 2: It was awful. So that's another memory for me and 171 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:19,800 Speaker 2: That's one more, and that is I wanted skis. I 172 00:11:19,880 --> 00:11:23,959 Speaker 2: wanted to be a skier, so I got some skis. 173 00:11:24,000 --> 00:11:26,880 Speaker 2: I guess they got some use skis. It was a 174 00:11:26,920 --> 00:11:28,839 Speaker 2: long time ago. People didn't have a lot of money. 175 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:33,360 Speaker 2: My father was a laborer. A laborer. He used to 176 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:36,280 Speaker 2: drive a bulldozer, and then he worked at a tannery 177 00:11:36,800 --> 00:11:42,200 Speaker 2: doing some god awful tannery job. It was actually they'd 178 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:44,600 Speaker 2: have these big sides of leather and they'd have defects 179 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:46,480 Speaker 2: and he'd cut out the defects. That was his job. 180 00:11:46,520 --> 00:11:48,680 Speaker 2: And my mother was a school teacher. We were poor, 181 00:11:48,720 --> 00:11:51,199 Speaker 2: but we didn't have money from skis. So they got 182 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:53,360 Speaker 2: some use skis and I was all gong home to 183 00:11:53,400 --> 00:11:55,560 Speaker 2: go ski and I wanted to go to Gunstalk right away, 184 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:58,800 Speaker 2: but I've never been on skis. They said, uh yeah, 185 00:11:58,880 --> 00:12:02,520 Speaker 2: about that, Maybe we should go down to the pig farm. 186 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:08,000 Speaker 2: This is true. This is Bradley Jays where he grew up. 187 00:12:08,040 --> 00:12:09,959 Speaker 2: And I'm really happy to have the opportunity to tell 188 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:11,600 Speaker 2: you this. You think of me as a city slicker, 189 00:12:11,640 --> 00:12:16,040 Speaker 2: don't you think of me as a radio DJ Boston dude? 190 00:12:16,559 --> 00:12:19,520 Speaker 2: Deep down inside, I'm the guy who goes skiing at 191 00:12:19,559 --> 00:12:22,280 Speaker 2: the pig farm, so there was all kinds of crust. 192 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:25,760 Speaker 2: Back in the day, you'd have a crust, no crust anymore. 193 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:27,920 Speaker 2: Do you remember a cross where you could slide on 194 00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:31,200 Speaker 2: a sled on a foot of snow with an inch 195 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:33,520 Speaker 2: of crust on the top. It's back when I was crushed. 196 00:12:33,600 --> 00:12:36,160 Speaker 2: So these two the pig farm was called the pig 197 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:38,400 Speaker 2: farm because it was a pig farm. But it had 198 00:12:38,440 --> 00:12:43,719 Speaker 2: these two big hills. And my parents wisely just said, look, 199 00:12:43,720 --> 00:12:45,360 Speaker 2: why don't you get down the bottom of the hill 200 00:12:45,400 --> 00:12:48,480 Speaker 2: and mess around on those skis and see what you think? 201 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:53,440 Speaker 2: And I said, okay, and then I was like falling down. 202 00:12:53,920 --> 00:12:57,120 Speaker 2: It's pretty clear that there's no way I could get 203 00:12:57,120 --> 00:13:00,000 Speaker 2: down the hill. I feel kind of bad for them 204 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:02,079 Speaker 2: because they it would have been good if I'd had 205 00:13:02,080 --> 00:13:05,959 Speaker 2: some ski experience before I got I had them for Christmas, 206 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:08,959 Speaker 2: because then if I had, I wouldn't have wanted them 207 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:12,600 Speaker 2: for Christmas. And it was only a few years later 208 00:13:12,640 --> 00:13:17,880 Speaker 2: that I actually started skiing again. This is the the 209 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:21,440 Speaker 2: country white Christmas, ye kind of thing. This was right 210 00:13:21,520 --> 00:13:25,640 Speaker 2: after Christmas. On another year, there was another family who 211 00:13:25,679 --> 00:13:28,679 Speaker 2: had another hill and they had a rope so and 212 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:30,920 Speaker 2: they were nuts to have a rope toe. No one. 213 00:13:31,240 --> 00:13:33,040 Speaker 2: I mean, now, you would never have a rope toe 214 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:35,000 Speaker 2: because of the liability. But do you know what I 215 00:13:35,040 --> 00:13:37,760 Speaker 2: mean by a rope toe. They had a big hill 216 00:13:39,040 --> 00:13:42,440 Speaker 2: and they put a car up on blocks, took the 217 00:13:42,440 --> 00:13:44,960 Speaker 2: back tire off. One of the guys put it in 218 00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:47,960 Speaker 2: low and had this big and the wheel was used 219 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:51,720 Speaker 2: as a pulley. I'm sure it's been done before, and 220 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:57,120 Speaker 2: it would had the strength and low gear to pull 221 00:13:57,160 --> 00:14:02,040 Speaker 2: a bunch of kids up a hill, but they had 222 00:14:02,080 --> 00:14:04,240 Speaker 2: They had kind of cleared some land at the bottom, 223 00:14:04,240 --> 00:14:07,000 Speaker 2: but not enough. So I skied down and I didn't 224 00:14:07,040 --> 00:14:12,040 Speaker 2: know what I was doing and I crashed into a tree, 225 00:14:12,240 --> 00:14:16,400 Speaker 2: well a route, a stump, let's call it. And I 226 00:14:16,440 --> 00:14:22,160 Speaker 2: heard my kne go. It made a son that was terrible, terrible, 227 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:26,720 Speaker 2: and that's and that was That's the extent of my 228 00:14:27,320 --> 00:14:31,040 Speaker 2: Christmas ski story. Kind of kind of sad, but that's 229 00:14:31,080 --> 00:14:34,240 Speaker 2: how real stories go. Let me check with Master Control 230 00:14:34,280 --> 00:14:36,920 Speaker 2: and see ifties. Are we ready to take colors yet? 231 00:14:38,240 --> 00:14:40,320 Speaker 2: I know he seems to be on the phone. I'm 232 00:14:40,320 --> 00:14:42,040 Speaker 2: just gonna take a shot in the dark and see 233 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:45,600 Speaker 2: if David in San Francisco, can you can hear me, David, 234 00:14:45,600 --> 00:14:49,360 Speaker 2: are you there? That sounds like a negative? Oh okay, 235 00:14:49,960 --> 00:14:53,040 Speaker 2: Well this is good because in a way, because this 236 00:14:53,120 --> 00:14:54,720 Speaker 2: is a true test of talk show hosts. 237 00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:57,720 Speaker 3: Right, no calls, no nothing, just gotta just got a deal. 238 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:05,160 Speaker 3: That's fine. Are you okay? 239 00:15:05,240 --> 00:15:10,640 Speaker 2: We have rored from a master It sounds like master control? 240 00:15:10,760 --> 00:15:15,960 Speaker 2: Is who do we have? Since you put them on? Okay, 241 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:19,400 Speaker 2: Mark in Massachusetts? So we are. We are by hooking 242 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:22,080 Speaker 2: and by cooking it here. So Mark, what's going on? 243 00:15:23,640 --> 00:15:24,200 Speaker 4: Can you hear me? 244 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:25,600 Speaker 5: Okay, yes, I. 245 00:15:25,560 --> 00:15:28,400 Speaker 2: Can hear you. Okay. A merry Christmas to you? 246 00:15:30,080 --> 00:15:30,320 Speaker 5: Yes? 247 00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:35,120 Speaker 4: Uh. He told people to call a fear. Don't have 248 00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:38,600 Speaker 4: much of the holidays, they are rough exactly. 249 00:15:38,840 --> 00:15:41,440 Speaker 2: Yes, thank you for taking me up on that. I 250 00:15:41,480 --> 00:15:45,280 Speaker 2: appreciate that. I myself have been in your position many 251 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:48,760 Speaker 2: a time. So tell me about you or your situation 252 00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:51,600 Speaker 2: or anything you want to say, like like, are you 253 00:15:51,760 --> 00:15:54,960 Speaker 2: just in a room by yourself watching regular Oh well no, 254 00:15:55,040 --> 00:15:57,800 Speaker 2: you're actually listening to w b Z. But did you 255 00:15:57,840 --> 00:16:00,720 Speaker 2: have any family at all or any friends at all? 256 00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:02,920 Speaker 2: I mean, if and if this is a real SOB story, 257 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:05,160 Speaker 2: that's cool too. Let's bring it on. 258 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:12,680 Speaker 4: Well, my family died, my brother died. I try to 259 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:15,400 Speaker 4: contact some people I know, but some of them have died, 260 00:16:15,480 --> 00:16:18,080 Speaker 4: and I don't know what happened to many people. And 261 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:22,520 Speaker 4: I hardly get much and I'm not treated well and 262 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:28,160 Speaker 4: I am not How. 263 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:28,000 Speaker 2: Do you mean you're not treated well? 264 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:33,240 Speaker 4: Well? I have people find to I'm going to work 265 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:35,120 Speaker 4: for nothing. I don't want to get into it, and 266 00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:37,160 Speaker 4: don't get me anything, and lie to me and tell 267 00:16:37,160 --> 00:16:39,760 Speaker 4: them they're going to take me places at don't show 268 00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:43,880 Speaker 4: up and I get ripped off. I don't get much. 269 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:47,000 Speaker 4: I got Holly, I got nothing for Holly anything for all. 270 00:16:47,080 --> 00:16:49,320 Speaker 4: Nobody gets me much of anything, and I'm I'm not 271 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:50,440 Speaker 4: being a good move. 272 00:16:50,720 --> 00:16:54,080 Speaker 2: Well, you see, folks, even if folks, most of you, 273 00:16:54,120 --> 00:16:57,120 Speaker 2: if you thought you Christmas was pretty bad, here you 274 00:16:57,160 --> 00:17:00,400 Speaker 2: go take a look at mark situation, and this is 275 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:04,600 Speaker 2: pretty good compared to Mark. This stuff happened to you? 276 00:17:04,800 --> 00:17:06,080 Speaker 2: Why you do you suppose? 277 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:06,560 Speaker 5: Is it? 278 00:17:06,560 --> 00:17:09,280 Speaker 2: Why is it you that all this bad stuff happens too? 279 00:17:10,920 --> 00:17:15,760 Speaker 4: I just don't know. Some of it's not my fault 280 00:17:15,800 --> 00:17:16,840 Speaker 4: and I don't know why. 281 00:17:16,880 --> 00:17:19,160 Speaker 2: So is there anything we can take a look at, 282 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:21,040 Speaker 2: anything at all that's good? 283 00:17:21,240 --> 00:17:21,400 Speaker 5: Yes? 284 00:17:21,720 --> 00:17:24,000 Speaker 2: On this Christmas Eve? You are able to speak. Are 285 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:25,560 Speaker 2: you able to walk and talk and see? 286 00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:29,920 Speaker 4: Yes, Oh there's that, okay, because. 287 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:33,440 Speaker 2: A lot of people can't do those things. Yes, that's 288 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:38,399 Speaker 2: good and you're able to. Can you afford shelter? Do 289 00:17:38,440 --> 00:17:43,320 Speaker 2: you have a place to live? Yes, yes, okay, that's 290 00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:47,240 Speaker 2: pretty good. A lot of people don't have that. Yes, 291 00:17:47,920 --> 00:17:50,200 Speaker 2: we're trying to take a look now at the bright side. 292 00:17:50,240 --> 00:17:54,000 Speaker 2: As they say in the Monty python A movie. Let's 293 00:17:54,040 --> 00:17:57,200 Speaker 2: see food. You have food. 294 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:04,240 Speaker 4: Some somewhat years somewhat. Yes, yeah, I have food. I'm 295 00:18:04,600 --> 00:18:06,800 Speaker 4: getting a be able to live it to me tomorrow. 296 00:18:06,880 --> 00:18:08,639 Speaker 2: Oh that's good. But you have stuff in the cupboard, 297 00:18:08,840 --> 00:18:11,520 Speaker 2: craft dinner, stuff like that, soup whatever. 298 00:18:12,760 --> 00:18:14,080 Speaker 5: Yes, it's good. 299 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:18,440 Speaker 4: Anybody I've got something I'm a ball with on my laptop. 300 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:20,639 Speaker 4: But I think that was one bet of thing that 301 00:18:20,680 --> 00:18:24,240 Speaker 4: happened to me. But I have a lot of unfortunate 302 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:25,040 Speaker 4: things happened to me. 303 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:30,960 Speaker 2: Jeeze, I's like, that's true, And who am I to 304 00:18:30,960 --> 00:18:34,600 Speaker 2: to minimize your situation? But you got you do have 305 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:37,600 Speaker 2: a lot of stuff going for you. You can, like, 306 00:18:37,880 --> 00:18:40,080 Speaker 2: you're able to walk. You would be amazing at how 307 00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:42,720 Speaker 2: many people are blind, can't walk, don't have a place 308 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:46,080 Speaker 2: to live. You know, at least you're not bundled up 309 00:18:46,119 --> 00:18:50,720 Speaker 2: in some sort of packing blanket in a doorway somewhere 310 00:18:50,760 --> 00:18:51,880 Speaker 2: like a lot of people are. 311 00:18:52,760 --> 00:18:53,320 Speaker 5: So there's that. 312 00:18:53,359 --> 00:18:55,600 Speaker 2: Why don't you Why didn't you focus on that for 313 00:18:55,640 --> 00:19:00,000 Speaker 2: a while? And also you have us at w b's 314 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:03,920 Speaker 2: now you now you have friends here marking messages mark 315 00:19:03,960 --> 00:19:06,480 Speaker 2: in Massachusetts? So mart, what town is that a secret 316 00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:08,800 Speaker 2: secret town? Or you don't want us to know it? 317 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:13,240 Speaker 4: Well, it's okay. Another thing I went to work through 318 00:19:13,320 --> 00:19:15,679 Speaker 4: some place and all I got the holidays was a towel. 319 00:19:17,840 --> 00:19:18,440 Speaker 4: Get more than. 320 00:19:20,359 --> 00:19:25,639 Speaker 2: You're a complainer, So a towel. I don't have a 321 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:31,880 Speaker 2: decent towel. I would love a towel anyway, I got 322 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:34,760 Speaker 2: lots of people to get to try to focus on 323 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:38,760 Speaker 2: the good things you did. You have food, shelter, you 324 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:41,840 Speaker 2: can walk, you can see, and you have a brand 325 00:19:41,880 --> 00:19:45,320 Speaker 2: new towel. So there's that. Thank you. I appreciate that. 326 00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:47,600 Speaker 2: Let's go see if it were I guess we're doing 327 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:50,560 Speaker 2: this manually. Now we'll take a break and uh now 328 00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:51,920 Speaker 2: we'll continue after this. 329 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:58,679 Speaker 1: On WBS, It's Night Side on Boston's news radio. 330 00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:01,760 Speaker 2: Mayor Chris so here we are it's a Christmas open 331 00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:03,720 Speaker 2: house on night Side with Dan Ray. I'm Bradley j 332 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:06,920 Speaker 2: for Dan. Let's talk to Jake and Roxbury next time. 333 00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:08,200 Speaker 2: Wret you be easy, Hi Jake? 334 00:20:09,760 --> 00:20:13,080 Speaker 5: Hey Daran? Can you hear me? Okay? Yes, all right, buddy, 335 00:20:13,119 --> 00:20:14,199 Speaker 5: I'm a little piece of level, but. 336 00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:17,879 Speaker 6: I'm well put together. That's I'm sorry, Bradley Man, I 337 00:20:17,880 --> 00:20:20,560 Speaker 6: said Dan. I'm sorry, buddy, but at any rate, that's 338 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:24,360 Speaker 6: my it's my info with Dan. So talking about Christmas, 339 00:20:24,440 --> 00:20:26,640 Speaker 6: you know, I just want to talk about a real 340 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:29,680 Speaker 6: quick Last year I went to the tree lighting ceremony 341 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:32,359 Speaker 6: on the Common. That was a great experience. I didn't 342 00:20:32,359 --> 00:20:34,600 Speaker 6: go this year, but it's one of those common things 343 00:20:34,640 --> 00:20:36,800 Speaker 6: where I think there's a lot of unity and you know, 344 00:20:36,840 --> 00:20:38,280 Speaker 6: people reminiscent. 345 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:40,120 Speaker 5: And all that kind of good stuff. So that really 346 00:20:40,119 --> 00:20:40,600 Speaker 5: feels good. 347 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:45,560 Speaker 2: That's a good idea. I hadn't thought that. Yeah, very 348 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:47,000 Speaker 2: Christmas spirity, right. 349 00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:51,040 Speaker 5: Yeah, very Christmas spirit. It's the Common, you know, it's 350 00:20:51,680 --> 00:20:54,520 Speaker 5: it's unity, it's a ton of different people, it's all 351 00:20:54,560 --> 00:20:57,680 Speaker 5: that all that eclectic type stuff that goes on. There's 352 00:20:57,720 --> 00:21:00,240 Speaker 5: there's shows there and you know, they put on they 353 00:21:00,240 --> 00:21:02,640 Speaker 5: put on a great event for a Christmas tree lighting 354 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:04,800 Speaker 5: ceremony every year. I didn't get to go this year 355 00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:07,680 Speaker 5: because of work. However, speaking of work, I want to 356 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:11,040 Speaker 5: talk about someone who came to out store today and 357 00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:14,200 Speaker 5: I was talking to the customers and there were two 358 00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:18,879 Speaker 5: sisters and we got somehow talking about Christmas Carolyn. And 359 00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:21,800 Speaker 5: believe it or not, these two sisters were two sisters 360 00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:23,159 Speaker 5: that used to be in a group that used to 361 00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:29,080 Speaker 5: go Carolyn, and they started Carolyn in the store. Really yes, 362 00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:32,800 Speaker 5: and they were they were doing Grandmother's House through the 363 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:34,000 Speaker 5: Woods and all that good stuff. 364 00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:34,760 Speaker 6: It was. 365 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:37,080 Speaker 5: They sounded great. 366 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:39,600 Speaker 3: How many songs did they do too? 367 00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:44,359 Speaker 5: They did too, and it was really interesting. And they 368 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:46,960 Speaker 5: talked about how it's kind of like a dying thing 369 00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:50,199 Speaker 5: because they don't have that atmosphere of unity and you know, 370 00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:54,520 Speaker 5: neighborhoodism anymore, you know what I mean. Yes, yeah, so 371 00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:58,000 Speaker 5: that doesn't work. But but yeah, they were very good 372 00:21:58,280 --> 00:22:01,000 Speaker 5: and very very I think it lightened the whole store 373 00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:04,040 Speaker 5: and we sold a lot more fish. 374 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:06,240 Speaker 2: So you working at fish store. 375 00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:11,440 Speaker 5: Well kind of, I reckon. I always see a seafood department. 376 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:15,960 Speaker 2: Oh wow, oh yeah, the picture you're in a supermarket 377 00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:19,360 Speaker 2: right here, So. 378 00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:22,920 Speaker 5: I reckon I've worked for restaurant depot. Okay, well, I'm 379 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:24,679 Speaker 5: sure some of your customers probably have met me and 380 00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:28,880 Speaker 5: don't know who I am. But anyway, shake and so yeah, 381 00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:30,680 Speaker 5: we we brung them some eels today and we sold 382 00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:33,640 Speaker 5: out of them. I'm like, eels, live eels, and customers 383 00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:35,840 Speaker 5: weren't crazy and we sold out of them. And you know, 384 00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:36,520 Speaker 5: no time. 385 00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:41,440 Speaker 2: A big Christmas food. I'll have to try that next year. 386 00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:44,879 Speaker 5: No, you have no idea what we what we think? Uh, 387 00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:47,320 Speaker 5: you know, customs for people and all that crunch meat 388 00:22:47,359 --> 00:22:50,280 Speaker 5: and all this good stuff. But anyway, my mom used 389 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:51,760 Speaker 5: to take us to New York City when I was 390 00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:54,360 Speaker 5: a kid on the Trailways bus. If you remember where 391 00:22:54,359 --> 00:22:56,320 Speaker 5: Trailways used to be down off a lot, I think 392 00:22:56,320 --> 00:22:58,360 Speaker 5: it was Boilston Street. Used to be able to drive 393 00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:00,639 Speaker 5: through the building the old Away station. 394 00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:04,159 Speaker 2: Well, it was like near Park Park Square. 395 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:05,680 Speaker 5: Park Square exactly. 396 00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:08,520 Speaker 2: It was near the Playboy Club, Am I right? 397 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:11,040 Speaker 5: Well, I don't know much about the Playboy Club. I 398 00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:13,280 Speaker 5: just know I was a kid, and you know, you'd 399 00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:15,959 Speaker 5: go through used to drive through the middle of the building. 400 00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:19,920 Speaker 5: The trailways was underneath the building there on the left 401 00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:22,800 Speaker 5: hand side, and it was great, and. 402 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:24,560 Speaker 2: You go down to New York and have a New 403 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:25,440 Speaker 2: York person. 404 00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:29,639 Speaker 5: The Massy's Day parade. She did that about three times 405 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:32,800 Speaker 5: for us, and we were you know, dirt for but 406 00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:37,120 Speaker 5: she made it happen. So so you know, I thank 407 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:38,639 Speaker 5: her for that. And those are some things that you 408 00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:41,480 Speaker 5: just have to even for your I believe it was Mark, 409 00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:44,560 Speaker 5: your previous caller. I'm sure there are some positive things 410 00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:46,520 Speaker 5: he can look at back on his life that he 411 00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:48,720 Speaker 5: can you know, use those to step off of, because 412 00:23:48,720 --> 00:23:51,400 Speaker 5: you got to remember, tough times don't last and tough 413 00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:54,720 Speaker 5: people do. So that's that's a mantra that he can 414 00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:57,840 Speaker 5: probably you know, get a little I hope, I hope 415 00:23:57,880 --> 00:24:01,400 Speaker 5: lifts from. So you know, always look at the positive 416 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:04,040 Speaker 5: side of things. Yeah, you don't have this, however, you 417 00:24:04,119 --> 00:24:06,080 Speaker 5: got your health, you got shelter, you got you know, 418 00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:07,399 Speaker 5: there's some positive things to all. 419 00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:10,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, Jake, great, great, great call you. 420 00:24:11,359 --> 00:24:13,080 Speaker 5: Yeah, we want to brighten things up and go on 421 00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:15,000 Speaker 5: the go on the good side. Although times might be 422 00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:17,280 Speaker 5: a little tough, you know, it's gonna get better for everybody. 423 00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:19,159 Speaker 5: So let's look at it that way. And you know, 424 00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:20,720 Speaker 5: let people know, man, they got to go to that 425 00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:23,479 Speaker 5: Christmas street light and ceremony that happens on the common. 426 00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:25,000 Speaker 5: It's just a great event. 427 00:24:25,119 --> 00:24:28,200 Speaker 2: All right, Jake, Let's say goodbye to excuse me for Shane. 428 00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:30,399 Speaker 2: Let's say go by to Jake. It's a little different today. 429 00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:33,760 Speaker 2: Usually I have the capability to click on the calls 430 00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:37,200 Speaker 2: myself to say hello and goodbye, but in this case 431 00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:40,399 Speaker 2: that system is not working. So I will be saying 432 00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:45,520 Speaker 2: to Shane the master control operator, asking him what's it 433 00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:51,240 Speaker 2: to do things? So now let us go to alex 434 00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:56,520 Speaker 2: and millis he believing? Bradley, Hello, my Greek friend, how 435 00:24:56,560 --> 00:24:56,920 Speaker 2: are you? 436 00:24:57,600 --> 00:24:58,080 Speaker 5: How are you? 437 00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:03,000 Speaker 7: I can tell you many stories. I just came from 438 00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:07,280 Speaker 7: church with my son and they had a beautiful, beautiful 439 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:10,240 Speaker 7: ceremony and a lot of people. 440 00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:11,159 Speaker 8: Uh. 441 00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:16,920 Speaker 7: And on the way I would there's nobody on the road, 442 00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:20,679 Speaker 7: and it's so beautiful with all the decorations from the lights, 443 00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:24,159 Speaker 7: and you know, a couple of songs came on. I 444 00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:26,520 Speaker 7: was listening to a couple of songs. One of them 445 00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:29,080 Speaker 7: was Silent Night and how appropriate you know? 446 00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:32,000 Speaker 2: So, so I know that you're very very Greek and 447 00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:33,520 Speaker 2: very proud of being Greek. Do you go to a 448 00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:34,600 Speaker 2: Greek Orthodox church? 449 00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:38,879 Speaker 7: I do We go to two of them, two different ones. 450 00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:41,000 Speaker 7: But one is in the South End where I grew up, 451 00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:45,240 Speaker 7: and it's Saint John's and it's a beautiful church. It's 452 00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:48,440 Speaker 7: one on the historical Society. There used to be a 453 00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:52,000 Speaker 7: synagogue and then there was a Protestant church and then 454 00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:53,960 Speaker 7: they got converted to an Orthodox church. 455 00:25:55,440 --> 00:26:02,480 Speaker 2: You know, I actually went to Bethlehem and and I 456 00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:05,000 Speaker 2: and Nazareth and I think, I I mean, they told 457 00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:08,239 Speaker 2: me that they have they have the spot, this is 458 00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:14,399 Speaker 2: where Jesus actually was born right here, right on this spot. 459 00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:17,960 Speaker 2: And I believe that is that there's a Greek Orthodox 460 00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:20,800 Speaker 2: church built around that. I think you go into the church. 461 00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:22,600 Speaker 2: I could be wrong. It was a long time ago. 462 00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:27,520 Speaker 7: Oh there is, I believe. I mean, I'm not the 463 00:26:27,560 --> 00:26:30,679 Speaker 7: most religious person in the world, but I know. My 464 00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:35,120 Speaker 7: wife had a couple of medical issues. She's she's fine now, 465 00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:38,280 Speaker 7: and she went to the chapel in Brookline, which is 466 00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:44,280 Speaker 7: another where there's the theological school, and our priest did uh, 467 00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:47,199 Speaker 7: you know, a prayer for her with some relics of 468 00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:52,159 Speaker 7: a saint uh and uh and for for what, for 469 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:55,800 Speaker 7: one reason or another, her diagnosis turned to be uh, 470 00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:56,800 Speaker 7: you know positive. 471 00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:00,960 Speaker 2: Well, well, where we can get it. And that's that's fantastic. 472 00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:03,320 Speaker 2: The power of love, the power of God, the power 473 00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:07,359 Speaker 2: of of whatever else is mixed in there seem to 474 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:08,359 Speaker 2: do it to work. 475 00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:11,040 Speaker 7: Yeah, and now you said, what is the meaning of Christmas? 476 00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:15,399 Speaker 7: I would say, you know, spending time with family for 477 00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:18,600 Speaker 7: those who are fortunate to have family, h you know, 478 00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:23,280 Speaker 7: feeling a little bit more generous and normal, gift giving 479 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:27,240 Speaker 7: U you know, being kind to people. It's it's amazing 480 00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:31,200 Speaker 7: though Christmas and Easter and New Year's people are nice 481 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:34,120 Speaker 7: to each other. However, it doesn't apply for the rest 482 00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:34,640 Speaker 7: of the year. 483 00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:37,600 Speaker 2: Here's a question for everybody to think about. We tend 484 00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:41,679 Speaker 2: to be nicer to each other in person on Christmas. 485 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:47,520 Speaker 2: Do we also tend to be nicer to each other online? Hmm? 486 00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:53,040 Speaker 2: I bet you. I bet no, but I'm no, but 487 00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:56,280 Speaker 2: I could be wrong. Maybe others have noticed that people 488 00:27:56,359 --> 00:27:58,240 Speaker 2: are even friendly online. 489 00:27:58,960 --> 00:27:59,080 Speaker 5: Uh. 490 00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:02,399 Speaker 2: In the Christmas I have, you know, I have a 491 00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:04,680 Speaker 2: list of actually things. 492 00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:05,320 Speaker 5: It is. 493 00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:08,480 Speaker 7: It is a little stressful because Christmas is like a 494 00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:11,560 Speaker 7: double edged sword. You know, it's beautiful, but then again, 495 00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:14,840 Speaker 7: you know, you've got to Now tomorrow we're going to 496 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:18,280 Speaker 7: visit my brother. There's there's gonna be about twenty four 497 00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:21,440 Speaker 7: of us. We each bring something. But I can imagine, 498 00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:24,280 Speaker 7: you know, all the preparations that are required, you know, 499 00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:26,960 Speaker 7: like you have to run here, run there. So it's 500 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:30,600 Speaker 7: basically like you know, having a full time job besides 501 00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:34,480 Speaker 7: whatever else you do, you know to try to Yeah. 502 00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:36,159 Speaker 2: Well, thanks so much, Alex. I always love hearing from you. 503 00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:40,000 Speaker 2: Bye bye bye now, Alex, and we gotta we have 504 00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:43,520 Speaker 2: Linda and Weymouth and David in San Francisco six one 505 00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:46,800 Speaker 2: seven two, four thirty. I don't know who's been on 506 00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:48,920 Speaker 2: a hole longer. It's stuff to tell. I think David 507 00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:54,240 Speaker 2: in San Francisco. Right, let's go with David. How you doing, David? 508 00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:56,840 Speaker 2: Glad you could be with us a Christmas Eve? 509 00:28:57,440 --> 00:28:59,760 Speaker 9: Hey, Brad, he's so good to hear your voice. Man, 510 00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:05,320 Speaker 9: my big radio entertainment. And uh a happy Christmas Eve 511 00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:10,720 Speaker 9: to you and also related happy Festus to you and. 512 00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:14,800 Speaker 2: Uh and birthday by the way, it's too it was 513 00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:17,440 Speaker 2: Miles on my birthday a week ago. That's what I thought. 514 00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:18,760 Speaker 2: That's what you're going to say. 515 00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:25,640 Speaker 9: Yeah, but anyhow, I uh, you and Morgan are my 516 00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:30,200 Speaker 9: favorite radio show hosts and uh, I tell my friends 517 00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:33,400 Speaker 9: and I said, there's a pair of the Beats a fullhouse. 518 00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:39,080 Speaker 9: And I just uh listened to Morgan show every Saturday night, 519 00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:42,560 Speaker 9: and I'm glad when you're on Thank You? 520 00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:44,840 Speaker 2: Can I ask you? I know that you get meals 521 00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:49,000 Speaker 2: brought to you by a service like the city or something. 522 00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:52,720 Speaker 2: Do do they give you a Christmas meal when they 523 00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:56,479 Speaker 2: swing by on Christmas? Like whatever a Christmas wheel is? Goose? 524 00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:05,600 Speaker 2: I ask that again, do you get do they bring 525 00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:08,680 Speaker 2: you a special Christmas meal? Because I know you kind 526 00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:11,160 Speaker 2: of get wheat meals on wheels or something like that. 527 00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:12,200 Speaker 2: Do they bring us? 528 00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:14,920 Speaker 9: I do I get meals? As a matter of fact, 529 00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:18,200 Speaker 9: on Christmas Day, I'm having a visitor bringing me Avoka 530 00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:22,440 Speaker 9: chocolate from Little Brothers, And uh, I'm really going to 531 00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:27,080 Speaker 9: enjoy that. And let me share something with you. Uh, 532 00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:30,600 Speaker 9: there's another food service in San Francisco. It's called Meals 533 00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:38,000 Speaker 9: on Heels. Yeah, and it's a drag queen food delivery service. 534 00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:42,280 Speaker 2: Well, sign me up for that, Francisco. 535 00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:44,239 Speaker 9: It's the only place I know of it. But uh, 536 00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:47,080 Speaker 9: and let me ask you, Bradley, you know where the 537 00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:48,240 Speaker 9: word drag comes from? 538 00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:48,800 Speaker 3: Oh? 539 00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:52,720 Speaker 2: I feel like I might have used to known this, 540 00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:55,800 Speaker 2: but I have forgotten if I might have told you once, 541 00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:56,840 Speaker 2: all right, tell me again. 542 00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:03,400 Speaker 9: It came from Shakespeare, Okay. Can you bet When Shakespeare 543 00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:07,320 Speaker 9: was writing his stories, all the actors were men, and 544 00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:10,080 Speaker 9: if there was a female character in the story, he 545 00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:13,240 Speaker 9: was actually writing in the margin the word drag dressed 546 00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:13,920 Speaker 9: as girl. 547 00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:18,160 Speaker 2: That is worth its weight in gold right there? 548 00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:21,360 Speaker 9: That you know you learn is that word. And I 549 00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:22,600 Speaker 9: want to share it with that with you. 550 00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:25,960 Speaker 2: But they say you learned something every day. But I 551 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:28,560 Speaker 2: hadn't learned everything anything all week. But that made effort 552 00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:30,160 Speaker 2: right there. That was good. 553 00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:30,440 Speaker 5: Yeah. 554 00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:33,760 Speaker 9: But and you know about the origin of festiv Us, 555 00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:34,680 Speaker 9: right yeah. 556 00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:38,920 Speaker 2: Jerry Seinfeld or actually George Costanzo. 557 00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:42,160 Speaker 9: Will as a writer for Seinfeld. His name was Dan 558 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:46,560 Speaker 9: O'Keefe and his father was back in the nineteen fifties, 559 00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:51,880 Speaker 9: was so disgusted and disarmed with commercialization of Christmas. He said, 560 00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:55,920 Speaker 9: forget Christmas. He's going to start his own holiday. And 561 00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:56,880 Speaker 9: it was fest of Us. 562 00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:59,800 Speaker 2: All right, David, they're telling me I have to say goodbye, 563 00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:02,640 Speaker 2: So thank you so much for calling, and Merry Christmas 564 00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:04,520 Speaker 2: to you, David. Now this on WBZ. 565 00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:10,920 Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZZY Boston's news radio. 566 00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:14,280 Speaker 2: It's everything Christmas on Night's side. I'm Brady Jane for 567 00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:18,360 Speaker 2: Dan tonight and it's a Christmas open house. Just let 568 00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:21,960 Speaker 2: her rip six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty. 569 00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:24,040 Speaker 2: I just thought of this. By the way, do you 570 00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:31,680 Speaker 2: get your pet a Christmas present? And even more well, equally, Jermaine, 571 00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:35,800 Speaker 2: do you dress your pat up in some sort of 572 00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:40,760 Speaker 2: Christmas outfit? I think that's much more common with smaller 573 00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:44,000 Speaker 2: dogs and larger dogs. But I will confess to. 574 00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:45,320 Speaker 5: You that. 575 00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:50,000 Speaker 2: Our household, well we have it. We have Molly the 576 00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:55,000 Speaker 2: docs and does get dressed up for her Christmas photo. 577 00:32:56,160 --> 00:33:00,080 Speaker 2: This year she was a reindeer and we went to 578 00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:03,719 Speaker 2: a pancy hotel which allowed pets, had a beautiful, beautiful 579 00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:08,520 Speaker 2: Christmas tree, and we got a nice photo of Molly 580 00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:12,320 Speaker 2: the ducks and reindeer. And I will admit it's kind 581 00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:14,800 Speaker 2: of cute. I'm not a giant fan of that, but 582 00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:19,200 Speaker 2: in this case it was cute. I gave it. I 583 00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:22,680 Speaker 2: gave it the okay. I don't really get I don't 584 00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:26,480 Speaker 2: really get to give an okay or not, but I did. Anyway, 585 00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:31,040 Speaker 2: let's let's talk with Linda now in Waymouth. Thanks so much, 586 00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:32,840 Speaker 2: for calling us up. How you doing, Linda? 587 00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:37,920 Speaker 8: Pretty well? I came from a church service today and 588 00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:45,080 Speaker 8: it was beautiful, full packed church service in Hingham and music, 589 00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:51,239 Speaker 8: the Christmas carols, some scripture, a little message from the 590 00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:58,360 Speaker 8: pastor and we greeted one another and we mosied along. 591 00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:01,120 Speaker 2: You know, I have to say, of all the of 592 00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:04,200 Speaker 2: all the ways to maybe get some actual Christmas spirit, 593 00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:09,080 Speaker 2: maybe church might be the best one because because you know, 594 00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:11,120 Speaker 2: you know when it's going to be, you know everyone 595 00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:14,560 Speaker 2: there's going to be into it, and it's designed for that, 596 00:34:14,680 --> 00:34:20,600 Speaker 2: it's decorated nicely, it's all about that. And so it 597 00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:23,000 Speaker 2: seems like I actually jotted that down as one of 598 00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:27,200 Speaker 2: the places you get you get your your pharmaceutical strength 599 00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:29,560 Speaker 2: dose of Christmas spirit. And it worked for you, right. 600 00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:34,400 Speaker 8: And man, what we did this week last weekend is 601 00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:39,040 Speaker 8: first time we had miracle on Main Street and it 602 00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:46,600 Speaker 8: was a series of little shelters and we had our 603 00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:52,560 Speaker 8: Capnder and he was doing his thing, a textile person 604 00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:55,240 Speaker 8: she was doing some her thing is as you would 605 00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:58,960 Speaker 8: in the olden days by and it was and then 606 00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:06,759 Speaker 8: we had the end, big side, no vacancy, and next 607 00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:10,960 Speaker 8: to it was the stable with the manger with a 608 00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:14,400 Speaker 8: couple and a baby, and half the time it was 609 00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:18,239 Speaker 8: a real baby and we had a doggy and petting goats. 610 00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:21,120 Speaker 2: Linda, thank you for checking in. I think your idea 611 00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:22,480 Speaker 2: is perfect. 612 00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:25,680 Speaker 8: You have to get a quick question. I used to 613 00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:30,279 Speaker 8: go when I was a youngster gall of hilings basement filings, 614 00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:34,719 Speaker 8: and they had some sort of a thing on the windows, 615 00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:37,879 Speaker 8: and I was wondering if anybody else remembered that. 616 00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:40,080 Speaker 2: Oh, you need a big window. All right, let's ask. 617 00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:41,600 Speaker 2: I'm going to say go by to you, Linda, because 618 00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:44,880 Speaker 2: I have to, but maybe somebody will know that. That's 619 00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:48,400 Speaker 2: another way to get your Christmas spirit is to wander 620 00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:51,879 Speaker 2: around by Linda and wander around where they have nice 621 00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:58,160 Speaker 2: window displays and boil boy Christmas time and filings basement. 622 00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:02,200 Speaker 2: That's one thing that boomers have that young folks will 623 00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:06,040 Speaker 2: never have is the experience of filing his basement. The hustle, 624 00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:12,640 Speaker 2: the bustle, fighting over, fighting over underwear on don't sail 625 00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:16,240 Speaker 2: all right, my friends, let's continue. This is fun. It's 626 00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:21,120 Speaker 2: WBZ Night Side Christmas open House. Everybody is welcome, and 627 00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:24,520 Speaker 2: you know the number six, one, seven, two, five, four, 628 00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:26,440 Speaker 2: ten thirty on WBZ