April 11, 2025 • 41 mins
It’s a NightSide favorite 20th Hour topic…brushes with celebrities! Dan asked listeners where you unexpectedly ran into a celebrity out in the “wild”!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's nice size. We did Ray and Undoing and Mazy
Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Thanks very much, Al Griffin. Yet five areas ever, is
tough to win a game. Tough tough to win a game.
But hey, tomorrow's another day. It's still early. It's as
simple as that. It's still early. Okay, we have reached
the twentieth hour, and I think everybody who listens to
Night's I knows it. In the twentieth hour, we try
to lighten things up a little bit, get you to
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the weekend with some positive phone calls, and so we
will do brushes with celebrity tonight. Haven't done it in
about three months. It happens to be my favorite topic.
I came up with the topic many many years ago.
I'm quite proud of it, and I'm quite proud of
some of the callers that we have who have met
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some very interesting people under different circumstances. Sometimes that met
him outside of baseball park, sometimes that met him on
the streets, sometimes they've been on an airplane. I want
to know the most interesting person and the most interesting
celebrity that you have met, and also whether or not
they treated you well. So we call that the good
the bad and the ugly. I mean, if someone who
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had some celebrity was gracious and kind, that's great. If
they were a jerk, you could tell us they were
a jerk, simple as that. So suffice it to say,
we will open up the phone lines as always six
one seven, two, five, four ten thirty, six one seven
(01:30):
nine three one ten thirty. And by the way, the
celebrity that you met doesn't have to be the Queen
of England. I mean all of us in our lives
have bumped into someone who was a celebrity. It might
be a local athlete, it might be an actor, it
could be a singer. Sometimes it's a politician. And what
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was your experience? That's the it's it's just I think
it's a great topic. We have two lines six one seven, two, five,
four ten thirty and six one seven nine three one
ten thirty. As we line up our phone calls. What
I would like to do, as I often do, is
there's one to kind of review the week a little
bit as quickly as I can. Here we started off
(02:13):
on Monday night at eight o'clock talking with Matt Brown,
a young guy from Nowood, Massachusetts who was paralyzed in
a hockey accident back when he was only fifteen years old.
He's written a book called Line Change, which is a
great book for any young person to read. Matt Brown
now runs the Matt Brown Foundation and it is a
wonderful foundation. He will be in the marathon. He'll have
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a team in the marathon. I think he's now been
involved in five marathons, so feel free to check out
that book, Line Change. We talked about workplace bullying. We
talked with Bob Monroe, the chair of the Conquered two
hundred and fifty Executive Committee. Big two hundred and fiftieth
anniversary coming up on this April twenty April April nineteenth.
(03:01):
The day will be celebrated on the twenty first, but
the actual two hundred and fiftieth anniversary is on April nineteenth.
The Battle of Concord and then Lexington. We talked about
workplace in civility. We spent an hour on Monday night
talking about the disclosures from Red Sox Center Field, Red
Sox left Field to Jared Durant, who had admitted in
(03:23):
a documentary that he had contemplated suicide. Spent a couple
of hours talking about Big Drop of the market on Monday.
We spent two hours doing that. On Tuesday night, talked
about the TikTok deadline being extended, a book by Jonathan
Horn about the fate of the Generals, Douglas MacArthur and
Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright. Very interesting. Talk with doctor Martin Dibbs
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about a surgical robot assisting in a liver transplant. And
talked with Michael Arkush about the Golf one hundred. I
had a lot of fun with that. If you're a golfer,
that's a book you might want to think about. Nine
NPM on Tuesday night, we talked about a story that
was in the Globe today. Beth Ttell talked about checking
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in with people on the Karen Read case, people who
had strong feelings a year or so ago when that
decision came down, and whether or not people had changed
their minds in their thoughts on that case. Talk with
Jason Kelly about the bankruptcy of the site twenty three
in Me and how you can get all of your
(04:27):
information back from twenty three in Me as it goes
into bankruptcy. That is a a company that people sent
their DNA voluntarily to find out their Ancestry non ancestry
dot com twenty three in me. The market was down
on Tuesday, so we had another hour about the market
being down big on Tuesday at eleven on Wednesday night,
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talked about tariffs and cars with John Vincent of US
News and World Report. Talked with a Globe correspondent Adelaide
Parker about Boston's first pod hotel. Talk with sale the
Mayor Dominic Pengalo about Salem four hundred and talked with
Doug Canter about credit card costs they're going up. Talk
with Ed Flynn he wants more ethics amongst the Boston
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City Council. That of the day that it was announced
that Tanya Fernandez Anderson has been indicted for a federal
corruption charges. Talk with Jared Dillion about President Trump's decision
at Delay Tactics. That was the day the stock market
went up. We talked about that at eleven o'clock last night.
Talked with Cheryl Lang about the Stepping Strong Center, which
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came out of the tragedy of the Boston Marathon. Talk
with l Ellis Les I should say ls Nazemy about
the foundation to be named later. Talked with Ed Grokowski
about take a child, the work day and beyond coming
up later this month. And talked about with Dennis Holland
about the Great Detachment. We may talk to him again.
(05:53):
Talked about that Canton train truck collision. That will be
the story that we will highlight on Sunday night at
eleven o'clock and we run the best of nights. There
were a lot of great calls in that hour. Talked
last night with Tatsu Ikeda about his newsletter which is
on substack, and we had his take on the market
and he was a really great guest. And we talked
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last night at eleven about the reaction to the stock
market drop on Thursday. So there were three days that
dropped and then two days including today that it bounced
back up. Early this evening. Talked with the dean of
the medical School at the University of Michigan, doctor Marshall Unki.
We will have him back. Talk with Colt Stevens about
that Monster Jam going on tomorrow at Chillette Stadium you
(06:40):
can check it out. And talk with Chris Porter about
Lowellstown and City Festival that's coming up not this weekend
but next weekend. And talk with doctor Farmi Faua about
Skippy Meals. She's a cardiologist can make people more susceptible
to heart attacks. And talked for an hour with Chris Muse.
I'm a Superior Court judge who was the lawyer who,
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along with his dad, Bob Muse, freed It took a
herculean effort to free Bobby joe Leister. Also former Springfield
mayor Mike Albano who was on the Governor's Council who
voted the commutation for Bobby joe Leister. Justice under God.
That's a great book if you're a lawyer, if you
ever thought about being a lawyer, or if you just
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want to understand how Bobby joe Leister was unjustly incarcerated
for fifteen years for murder he didn't commit, and how
he then came out and spent thirty years helping people
in the inner city. It was a great article. And
talked last hour with Mark Filman about from Charlie Allen
Renovations of Cambridge. He's a design build contractor. So that's
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been the week. Hope you've enjoyed it as much as
I have. Now we're going to go to brushes with
celebrity and we're going to start it off with Joe
and Belmont. Joe, you did get to call back? Everybody
gets a hall pa here in the eleven o'clock hour
on Friday night. Who's your Brushwood celebrity?
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Joe Danzi Man. If he can't do it, no one can.
The Irish singer, uh, Brendan Boyer was called Island's Elvis Presley.
He bought me drink? He did? He bought you a
drink at the Statust Hotel in Las Vegas.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Well, good for you, Joe. That sounds like a great
experience and he treated you well. Now is he a singer?
Is he? The Irish singer that I know is John McCormick,
who's a great Irish tenor. Is that what this guy
is as well?
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Well, he was one of Ireland's famous rock and roll singers.
I guess he did a lot of Elvis stuff in
Irish songs.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Well, I'll tell you Irish songs that l elve is
near to my heart. And his last name is Boyer.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Did you say he is Brendan Boyer? B O y
e R b o y e A right.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
It's like the Great Baseball family. Ken and Cleet Boyard,
a couple of third Basement, one with the Cardinals, one
with the Yankees. Joe, you got us off to a
nice strong start. Thank you much as always appreciated, Joe.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
Talk soon, my pleasure.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Dan, right back at you, Joe. We'll take a quick break.
Coming right back on Nightside. More brushes with Celebrity. The
only line is six, one, seven, two, ten thirty. I
want to hear who you met during your life doesn't
have to be recent. It could be twenty years ago,
it could be thirty years ago, or it could be yesterday.
Your brush with celebrity and how did they treat you?
(09:29):
We call it the good, the bad, and the ugly. Obviously,
Joe had a nice meeting with an Irish singer, Brendan
Boyer in Vegas. That sounds like fun. Back on Nightside.
Right after this, it's night Side with.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Let's go to Greg in Ontario. Hey, Greg, welcome back.
Who's your brush with celebrity? Greg?
Speaker 6 (09:54):
Yeah? I had a handful of them, but the most
the ones that stand out in my mind are Dicky
Betts and Dan Toller of the album Brothers Band.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I haven't realize Yeah right, yeah, they were huge.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Yeah, my brother lives down in Florida, and he became
friends with Kim Betts, which is Dicky Dicky's daughter. And
in twenty fourteen, I got a phone call from my
brother and I got my huge Alvin Brother's fan and
so it was my brother and he said, you got
to get down her, bro because I've been invited to
Dickie's annual friends and family barbecue. Yeah, Spirit Ranch down
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in Sarasota, Florida. So so I get down there and
go and I bring my guitar and we go there.
He put a great spread on was all for charity.
And the beautiful thing about this Dan it was I
lived my dream. After Dicky Betts and his band played,
which is great Southern, you can get up on stage
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and anybody who played an instrument you could jam out.
So I got on stage with Dickey Bats and we
were just jamming up with a couple other guys that
were you know, we're guests as well, and it was
unbelievable to saw my guitars and showed me how to
play my favorite song, which is Jessica by the Olmn Brothers.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Right, I'm telling you, Greg, that sounds like a great time.
How long ago was this did you say what year
was this?
Speaker 6 (11:22):
This is a back twenty fourteen.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Well, I'll say that's a memory, memory of a lifetime.
I'm jealous. I'm not a musical guy, but I know
who the Allman Brothers are were and great, great, great band,
No doubt Greg is always I thank you much. I
figured you're going to tell me a hockey player living
up in Ontario.
Speaker 6 (11:44):
Well, actually I played with Timmy Kerr in the seventies.
He was my friend, childhood friend. He played for the
Philly Flyers for about I get to about ten eleven
years and so yeah, I guess I played minor hockey
with him up here, Triple A Hawk, and then he
got drafted, Uh you know, way back in late seventies,
early eighties.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
So he had eleven years with the fly He had
eleven years with the Flyers.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
Yeah, he had three fifty goal seasons and he almost
broke h He almost went ahead of Gretzky one year
for goals.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
I think it was give me his give me his
name again.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
What's the name names Tim Kerr t I M K
E r R.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
All right, Well you know that one I missed. Flyers
were a tough team. Uh, boy, I had to be
honest with you. I ripped hockey players, but he was.
Yeah he's right there, right there. Uh, pretty pretty good
sized guy six three and a winger, and yeah, you
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got him right here. He had a good career. He
was the eighties and wrapped up with the Rangers and
the Whalers. That's three hundred How many goals you get here?
Am I reading this right? Three hundred and seventy goals?
Not bad? Whoa good one?
Speaker 7 (13:05):
That's ignition.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
But you know, I remember back in the day we
were playing actually we were playing for the Old MAHA
championship here in Ontario. I'm going back to nineteen seventy six,
and he was our ringer on our team. I mean
in Mitchell hockey. The guy would score from the redline.
I kid you not. And so like, right in the
middle of the Old maj playoffs, like we're on the road
to win the championship. We ended up pointing it. But
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the Kingston Canadians, which is the Ohl club up here
at Junior Club, they came and shouted him and they
took him from us that year. And I'm like, oh
my god, you guys can't do that. You're killing us here.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
But tell you what he had. He had four fifty
plus goal seasons from eighty three and eighty four through
the eighty six eighty seven season. Fifty four, fifty four,
fifty eight, and fifty eight. That's pretty consistent. Whoa a
good player? Yeah, good player, Hey, Greg, thank you much.
(13:59):
That's a great and thank you so much. Two of them,
two of them. Doctor you soon keep rolling. He You're
going to go to Kenon Leminster Kenyon next on Night's side,
you're Brushwood celebrity.
Speaker 8 (14:09):
Dan, you got to give me about three minutes to
set up this thing, because what happened and the way
it happened is just as good as who I met. Okay,
December third, nineteen seventy two. The only time I've seen
a Patriots game, I was eleven years old. It was
it back to the old Shafer Stadium.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Oh yeah, when the luminum seats, Yeah, luminum seats, I
remember those, Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 8 (14:32):
They're just this leechers and I'm eleven years old. It's
the Dolphins undefeated season, and of course the Patriots lost
to the Dolphins that day necessarily, but if you remember
the old Shaffer Stadium with the parking too, oh yes,
my Dad, me and my cousin David, and we can't
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find a parking area. We down Route was it root one?
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Root one always was, always is always shall be.
Speaker 9 (15:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (15:02):
So we're down like a mile and a half down
Route one, praying for a parking space. There's this little
gas station, a Texico station on the left. It says
Rico Petrocelli Texaco, and so we now baseball dan to
me back when I was eleven, that was that was
the be all and end all. I played shortstop in
Little league. And so we pull in there, and you know,
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I got to go to the bathroom so bad that
I says, guys, can I just go into the bathroom
real quick? And my father jokes, he says, maybe you'll
meet Rico Petrocelli because it's Rico petrocell tex obviously owns it.
So I go in there and who is standing there
and a three piece suit looking over the books? But
(15:47):
Rico Petrocelli, now dummy, and me right, I'm so starstruck
that I go to the bathroom with my mouth slack jawed,
and I go in, I come out. I'm like a zombie.
I wandered back to the car and my dad jokes.
He says, was Rico in there?
Speaker 2 (16:07):
And I says he was?
Speaker 8 (16:09):
And of course they thought I was kidding. I said, no,
he was.
Speaker 7 (16:11):
He says, did you talk to him?
Speaker 8 (16:12):
He got his autograph? And I says no. My mon says,
you idiot. We all get out of the car and
we go in there and my father introduces me to
Rico Petrocelli and I shake it. Rico didn't say a word,
he just smiled.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Yeah, good guy though. Rico's great, great.
Speaker 8 (16:29):
Guy, and like my dad's like he plays short stuff too.
You know you're his hero, YadA, yeah, yaha.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
And so you know how many how many kids have
told how many dads have told Rico Petrocelli the kid
played shortstop? Absolutely number six.
Speaker 8 (16:45):
Rico just takes out a piece of paper out of
the death he signs, He signs his autograph, hands it
to me, smiles, shakes my hand again, and off to
the game.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
We went.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Great, great, great story, great story. Ken. You did it
in about two minutes and fifty three seconds, perfect perfect timing.
Thanks Beal, we'll talk sooner. Great one. Uh, next time
I see Rego, I'm going to mention this story to
him and see if you remember show. Okay, I promise,
good ahead, Okay, goodbye. Let's keep rolling here, Let's keep
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rolling six one, seven, two, five four ten thirty six
one seven, nine three ten thirty George in Westbridgewater. George,
you're brush with celebrity. Who would that be? George?
Speaker 10 (17:26):
Well, the time of my life was. I spent sixty
years as a professional clown and magician. And I traveled
to New York City to buy magic one day and
the owner of the magic studio says, boy, am I
glad to see you. He says, I got somebody in
the other room that you've got to come in and
teach him to do some magic. Yeah, the bests in
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New England, he says, come on in. So I walked
into this room totally blind to who is going to
be there, and the guy goes, hey, camp. I brought
in the best clown magician I could find, the teacher
to do some magic, and he turned around his muhammad
a lead.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Wow.
Speaker 10 (18:09):
He shook hands and his hands swallowed mine.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (18:13):
Yeah, he had the hand like you wouldn't believe. I said, boy,
with hands like that, we can disappear anything. And we
spent I spent six hours going over children's magic with him.
Not many people mill it, but he was a great philanthropist.
He used to take kids from Hollam to his training
camp and he'd give them a free summer of camping, food, clothing, everything,
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and he would go there about once a week or
once a month or whenever he could and do magic
for them.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Wow.
Speaker 10 (18:44):
And so that's why he wanted to learn magic. And
when he got through, when he got through doing the
magic and so forth, he said, what do you want
picked anything in the store of yours And I said no,
I said, the only thing I want is an autograph.
So he signed to one of the magic catalogs for me,
and on the front of the catalog was a picture
(19:05):
of zig Freed and Roy. And the next year I
was in Vegas and I took that with me and
I asked the girl to take it out to zig
Freed and Roy and asked them if did signed the
autograph on the other side of the page, and she'd
come back and she gave me back the money, and
she says, you can't do that, and I said, oh,
they wouldn't take it. No, No, you got to come backstage,
(19:26):
and they want you to come and tell them how
you got uh Muhammad Ali's autograph on the other page.
Whoa I got to sit in the dressing room with
zig Freed and Roy and one of the big cats
and explain how I gave me who whoa.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa. Were you saying
one of the big cats were in the dressing room
with you?
Speaker 10 (19:46):
Yes, yes they had. One of the cats was their pet,
and it was de Claude.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
He was would give claud Did it have any teeth? Oh? Yes,
But oh, George, George, you're a brave man. I would
have gone in there unless they had Muhammad Ali with
me as a bodyguard.
Speaker 10 (20:09):
When you got the time, I'll tell you the story
about the Unpaided Lion Act that I used to perform with.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Okay, George, next time, that's a good one. I met
Ali in an elevator in New Orleans during the nineteen
eighty eight Republican Convention. He went there. He was a
friend of believe it or not, Utah Senator Frank Hatch.
Got on the elevator, I was holding my year and
a half old son in my arms. It was just Muhammed,
you know, the champ myself and my son for a
(20:36):
few floors, and of course I knew exactly who he was.
Introduced myself and he was getting on in his you know,
he would have been dealing, slowing down a little bit.
I did a little shadow boxing with Daniel, my son Daniel,
and you know, of course he's very gentle and you
know he's jabbing away a little bit. Really nice guy.
(20:59):
So every time I tell my son, do you remember
when you shadow box with Muhammad Ali? He looks at
me like I'm crazy. A lot of people do that
to me. George. We'll talk soon, buddy, have a great weekend.
That fabulous story, fabulous story. We'll be back on Night's Side.
Only line is six one, seven nine.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
And you're on night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ,
Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Okay, we're gonna pick up the pace a little bit.
Your brush with celebrity Diane is in Berricka. Diane. Who
was it that you met and what were the circumstances?
Speaker 9 (21:34):
Oh boy, I could be on this show for four
hours with all the people I met.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Oh I know who this is. You have done nothing
but meet celebrities. Give me your give me your top
three in the last year. Okay, let's let's narrow it down.
Speaker 9 (21:48):
Diane, go ahead, Okay, Bob crafts Okay. Golf and Mike Tyson.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Where you meet Tyson?
Speaker 9 (22:00):
He was at the Patriots game in Miami with a son.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Mike Tyson. How did Tyson treat you?
Speaker 4 (22:10):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (22:10):
He was nice.
Speaker 9 (22:11):
It's like he stops the pitches and you know he
you know, he was going through the tunnel to get in.
You know, because I was on the field, I get
to go to the warm up in Miami, so he,
you know, wanted to get in the tunnel. I think,
you know, to go talk to the players because they
it was like towards the end. But the funny thing
(22:31):
that happened this year, I took my eight year old grandson.
So he's obsessed with Tyreek Hill. So because we were
there with the Patriots, I told him, please don't put
on the jersey until, you know, maybe the game starts. Well,
an hour after being on the field, he put on
the Tyreek jersey. Well, just as he did that, bought
(22:53):
Craft comes out and I don't know why he thinks
he knows me, but he comes over, gives me a hug,
and then he fist bumped like a lot of people
that were there. So then my grandson was standing in
there with his fist up and so I said to him, oh,
this is my grandson Payton. And he looked them up
and down and he kept walking, and so my grandson
(23:16):
yelled to him and he goes, you're gonna read me
hanging Bob, and everybody started laughing. He because he was
living a Dolphin jersey. He wouldn't pay absolutely.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
You know, it's like you got to come dressed properly.
Speaker 9 (23:29):
Yeah, eight years old, and he knows he had the
Brady jersey on before, you know, like.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
You, Bob Kraft is the Patriots older he I'm sure
he felt a little disrespected. Well, Scott Zolac is a
good guy too. Zolac is one of the real good
guys in the business.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
So uh oh.
Speaker 9 (23:49):
I met Mike Tyson in the hotel and he turns
around to me and he goes, aren't you Diane. And
my grandson's like, how do you know football players.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Do what you tell him? What you tell him?
Speaker 9 (24:03):
I said, well, you know, I've been working there for
twenty five years, so of course I know them.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
You bet you, you bet you great.
Speaker 9 (24:10):
I loved David ninety four. You know he got like
eleven autographs, like all the players were so nice.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Dam But you know, Diane, you and I could do
brushes with celebrity every night for the next year and
you could come up with it.
Speaker 9 (24:23):
But people don't know my friend Diane.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
By Diane has worked a lot of the events around
the country. That is how she makes her living, moving
from rock concerts to two big events of all all
types and sizes. Diane, I got packed lines, so I
got to let get go.
Speaker 9 (24:40):
But now I know that I thought you would like that,
and I wanted to say.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Hi absolutely and say hi to Peyton for us. Okay,
thanks so much. I will talk to you soon. Let's
keep rowling here. Going to David in Watertown. David, you
were next on Nightside. I always good to hear from Watertown.
Who's your brush with celebrity? David?
Speaker 12 (24:57):
Oh, Dan, I'm a long time, first time caller.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
This is your first time when we got at the studio,
audience and stop giving you a standing ovation.
Speaker 12 (25:06):
I've been listening to you since you started, and I
just wanted to tell you that my family met you
around nineteen ninety five when you were reporting for Bus
there was a hurricane coming in in Falm at the
Tides Motel and we were staying there. Yeah, and you
(25:30):
interviewed my daughter at the time. She was eleven years old,
and I just wanted to tell you she is now
a sister with Malarauga.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
No, I know, Mother Olga. I know you do.
Speaker 12 (25:44):
That's why I called you.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Oh what a great story. So she's down at the
convent and I assumed the confident in Quinsy.
Speaker 12 (25:51):
They're in Quincy now, yeah, oh, I know, well, and
it was ironic that you met her when she was eleven,
and I know that you know Mologa very well.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Has she told Mother Olga? Has she told Mother Olga
that she and I are old friends?
Speaker 12 (26:07):
She probably did, I'm not sure, but he is Sister
Elizabeth Francis.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Well, please say hello to Sister elizabeths Francis from me.
Where did she go to school? Because I'm so impressed.
Speaker 12 (26:21):
With Fount Alpernia in Newton, and then she went to
Sacred Heart in Connecticut.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Great great colleges.
Speaker 12 (26:30):
She graduated with her master's from Boston College and before
she she just became a nun. She's been there about
eleven years. But she just made her final vows two
or three years ago.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Well, let me just take a quick story, David, so
you know, and maybe you can pass this on. As
you know, there was a period of time where their
rectory was next door to our home.
Speaker 12 (26:57):
I know that when she was there, yes.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Yeah, and and and when they would go away on
retreat in the summertime, Mother Olga drafted me to be
sort of their caretaker, to make sure that no one
bothered the house right. And and then she would say
that when you know, when you go in every day
to check things around, you would say, you know, please
please sit in the chapel and send some some time
(27:22):
meditating with Jesus. And I did that every day, oh yeah,
and it was well worth it. And Mother Olga was
a special person in all of her nuns, the daughters
of Mary of Nazareth. They're all very accomplished young women
from great colleges. They're intelligent, and they're so dedicated to her.
(27:45):
And of course the story Mother Ogre is an extraordinary story.
That is amazing, David, that is amazing. I actually remember
that story. And I'll tell you why I remember that story.
One of the portions of that story, if it's the
same story. I found a baseball game going on that
on that night in advance of that storm, and there
(28:06):
was a baseball team, an amateur baseball team from Australia
that was playing on the cape, playing a local, you know,
amateur team down in Folmouth. And I remember interviewing some
of the Australian players as well as your daughter. So yeah,
that probably was the same story, David. That is a
great story. Please say how to your daughter for me.
Speaker 12 (28:28):
I'll do that, Dan, please send it A nice talking
to you and you do a great job there, and
I really enjoy you every unit I listened to you well, David.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Thank you so much. I really hope to meet you someday.
I often head over to Watertown to a gym over there,
so maybe sometime I'll see you.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
There's a dunkin Donuts right by the gym, and oftentimes
as a reward, I stop in there. So if you
haven't said yes, I do, yes, I do. You gotta
have a reward. Okay, that's right, that's right. Thanks David.
What's a wonderful story. I'm happy Happy Easter to you
(29:08):
as well, okay, and the blessed Easter. Thank you very much.
Speaker 12 (29:10):
Thank you bye, good night.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
All right. That's it's amazing the people that I have
met along the way. Eleven year old girl who now
twenty years later she's a Catholic nun. Paul and Nashville,
New Hampshire. Paul, you're next on nightside.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
Welcome, Okay. Nineteen sixty eight, when Nixon was armed for president,
went down to Rivera College and met him and his
wife and his daughter and the press people out there.
I went to sea. I don't think an autography said
get lost, So I headed to amends room and I
walked bumped into Mike Wallace. He got his autograph.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Mike Wallace was a friend. He and I did a
piece on sixty Minutes together on the Salvati case. I
really got to know Mike during that story. Wonderful guy.
So they wouldn't let you get Nixon's autograph?
Speaker 4 (29:56):
Was that that said get lost?
Speaker 2 (30:00):
You said, Who's whose autograph were you looking for? You
missed it?
Speaker 4 (30:04):
Chet Huntley?
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Oh, chet Huntley? Oh so Hutley Hutley blew you off?
But Wallace was was nice. Well, isn't that interesting? Okay?
Speaker 4 (30:14):
So the second one was I saw America up in
Manchester in nineteen eighty eight and I bumped into Dewey Banal.
He's part of America, got his autograph.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Good for you, Paul, these are good ones. You know,
when you guys in New Hampshire, you get to see
all the presidential contacts. That's one of the great things
about seeing most. Most people could say, oh yeah, I've
had President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama. You know at
my kitchen table. That's that's retail politics at its best.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
In nineteen seventy four, I was servant most in Alaska
and I came up and fifty feet of Harry Reasoner.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
You got, well, you got I think all three networks.
Reason was an ABC, Hotly I think was NBC, and
Wallace was CBS three, the three big covered. Paul, great,
great stories. Thank you so much. Talk to you soon.
A great weekend. Let me get one more in here
before the break if I can. I'm gonna get Sharon
in debt him. Sharon, who's your celebrity you'd like to
(31:15):
talk about?
Speaker 9 (31:16):
Hi?
Speaker 6 (31:16):
How are you Dan?
Speaker 2 (31:18):
I'm great, Sharon, Thanks for calling in.
Speaker 13 (31:20):
I'm acres from Stone.
Speaker 9 (31:22):
But do you know.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
My man, let me just say this, My pal Rob
wrote dead him, So I gotta throw Rob under the
bus here, Sharon from Stonehem. It's a little different side
of the city.
Speaker 13 (31:34):
Rob Okay, Hey, if I mentioned the name Ray Mercer,
do you know.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
Who that is?
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Ray Mercer? If you mentioned Robbie Mercer, I would have
said the New York Yankees, But I should Ray Mercer.
Speaker 13 (31:50):
Give me a Ray Mercer was a boxer and he
was in the Olympics and he did phenomenal for us
in the Olympics. How about so I'm at him a
number of times. How about Mickey Ward?
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Mickey Ward, of course from Lowell. He was a boxer
and Lowell great boxer pound for pound absolutely, So you're
a boxing So.
Speaker 13 (32:13):
No, I am a national anthem singer and I have
sung and they've both been at events that I have
sung at. And Mickey Ward actually now when he sees me,
he goes, oh, you're the national anthem singer. He won't
know my name, but he knows that. But more importantly,
more precious to my heart, was I met Michael J.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Fox. Yeah, Wow, that's a great one one.
Speaker 13 (32:39):
And I met him on the vineyard years ago. Yeah,
my daughter's actually connected a number of times. My parents
had a place on the vineyard but my daughter was
a gymnastics coach and his daughter was during the camp
and he's there and Tracy was there, and I was
(33:01):
all of a sudden starstruck and I'm like, I'm my god,
there's Tracy and.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Michael is Michael Fox's what Michael j Fox's what?
Speaker 13 (33:10):
Yep yep. And I was like, don't do it, don't
do it. Because so they were videoing. Michael was videoing
the gymnastics event and his friend was like, hey, Michael,
the you know, the shaky thing isn't working, and he
took the camera from him and Michael went out into
the open area and I followed him. I'm like, don't
do it, Sharon, don't do it. And I did and
(33:31):
I went out and I'm like, Hi, I just want
to tell you I'm so impressed with everything you've done.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
And he said.
Speaker 13 (33:39):
Ye, sorry, and he goes he goes, Hi, I'm Michael,
and he just put out his hand and I shook
his hand and I said Hi, I'm Sharon. And he
just puts everything at ease, and he was the most
he is the most wonderful man going through the most
(34:00):
horrible disease.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Yeah, yeah, oh that's great. You know you know something, Sharon.
That's a great Those are three great stories that just
looked up Brady Mercer nineteen eighty eight Summer Summer Olympics. Yeah, excellent, Sharon,
I got it. Ron, I took you quickly there. I'm
sorry about the confusion and Sharon rather stone him and
get him. But it's Sharon from Stoneham. Great stories. Thanks
(34:23):
so much, Sharon, Thank you great, you too, have a
good weekend. Okay, we're gonna take quick break. I got
Ron and Weymouth, Christina, Denim and Ron and Newton, and
we're gonna get them all in. I promise. Right after this.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Break, you're on Night Side with Dan Ray on WZ
Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Okay, we're gonna try to wrap it up here. We're
gonna go for we have four callers. Let's get them
all in, Ron and Newton. Ron. Who's your celebrity this week? Oh,
I got to hit the right button. That's my mistake.
Speaker 5 (34:59):
Ron, you were next on I SI Hi, Dan, a
great topic. My celebrity is Jim Lovell from Apaulo thirteen.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Wow. Boy, that's out of this world.
Speaker 9 (35:13):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (35:16):
I have a book right in front of me. He signed.
It happened to be at a disaster response conference for
a week one conference and a buddy of mine from
San Diego said, one morning, Hey, I've got tickets to
the annual Hall of Fame induction for the astronauts, and
(35:39):
you want to go? I said sure. So we had
a breakfast and add some you know, some discussions, they
had some some lectures, and then they had a book
signing and terrific. Show my hand. I've got his book
Apollo thirteen right in front of me.
Speaker 4 (36:00):
It.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Now, wow, that's that's that's one for. That's one for.
That's one for the family lineage. I'll tell you that's
that's got to stay in the family library.
Speaker 5 (36:09):
Okay, Dan, I still get the boarding pass for that flight.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
That's great. I'm like, I'm like you. You you keep
it all together. You go back and say that was
the plane, that was the book. That's perfect. And maybe
you got the ticket to the breakfast as well.
Speaker 5 (36:27):
I probably do.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
Alright, Ron, I gotta run here, I gotta get three
more in, buddy. That's a great one. Jim lovel Wow,
thanks buddy. Talk soon. Let's go to Christine and Dead
and Christine, who's your celebrity this week. I have cool
Oh go ahead, gotta be quick, okay, sure the best yep, okay,
(36:56):
that's that's the that's from the Willnda family, the high
Wire yep.
Speaker 9 (37:00):
Okay, yes, yes, mister Rogers.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
Mister Rogers, okay, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 9 (37:08):
And Joey McIntyre.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
That's that's getting local. How'd you meet mister Rogers?
Speaker 14 (37:14):
My t TD Teeker was his brother. He came to
his house one time. We were at by teacher's house
and he said he had brother was going to combine
and surprise us.
Speaker 5 (37:25):
And it was Fred Rogers And was his brother living
den him was Frock Storry.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
Wow, didn't know that that you can't. That's a tough
one to beat. That's a tough one to beat. Christine,
thank you very much. That of all. Look Bobby yours
the best, no question, will lend up mister Rogers though,
that's tough to top. Okay, thanks, thanks Christine. Well I
makes up Ron and Weymouth rom again you and at
least one more Go ahead.
Speaker 7 (37:51):
Ron, Okay, Mine is more like I met a VAP
by telephone. As strange as it seems, that was a
cap on his help. After I get out of the
Air Force. I worked in North Hollywood. I was ripping
out Ero Flynn's old house was up an Appian Way.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
I believe it was h and uh Ern.
Speaker 7 (38:13):
Yeah, Ero Flynn, Ero Flynn's house. And the guy who
bought it was the writer Sterling Silopon. So I was
working as a coppertain's helper then, and he said they
all went out and they said hey. Sterling said to me,
if someone calls, just take the message from him because
I got to go. So I'm the only one there.
So the phone rings, I answered it and he says hello.
(38:33):
I said hello. I said hello. He said hello. He says,
I hear ancho.
Speaker 6 (38:37):
Who's this?
Speaker 7 (38:38):
He says this the butler. I said no, this is
the competent.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Who's this?
Speaker 7 (38:40):
He says, this is mister Mayor. This is mister Mayor.
Speaker 5 (38:43):
Is Sterling there? I said no. He had to go out.
Speaker 7 (38:45):
He said take the message. He said tell him mister
Mayor called about the sixty six job. And I said okay.
So Sterling came back in a very nice guy chills
and he said any calls. I says, yeah, I'm mister
Mayor called about the sixty sixth job or something like that.
He says, oh, you mean the route sixty sixth I'm writing,
Oh yeah, I'll call him right away. And she said,
(39:06):
next time your boss goes down and get some pots
down in the downtown. He says, just take one of
the jags where the jaguar. So I was able to
get a ride in stealing green, beautiful, green light, green Jaguar.
I'll never forget that. Talk about a vip ron.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
That's that's the day to remember, buddy. That's a good one.
Thank you man. I have a great weekend.
Speaker 7 (39:29):
I never forget that, never forget so funny. You're so gracious,
mister mayor MGM.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
Thanks man, talk to you soon. Next up, final one
of the night Wolf in Boston. Wolf. Have I ever
had your called before? Is this the first time for Wolf?
Speaker 11 (39:46):
This is my first time?
Speaker 2 (39:48):
Got a round of appla for Wolf? Who would it be? Wolf?
Speaker 11 (39:54):
Mentally eighties my treance at the time. She's working at
al Touredos Route one in Norwood. Remember the place I've.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
Heard of it? Yes, I don't think I've ever been there,
but I know where you mean.
Speaker 11 (40:05):
Go ahead, so anyway you should pickle up round one,
she caused me. At eleven, She says, you're not going
to believe this. Peter Chris is there from Kiss, right,
so I grew up with Kiss. You know, I think
i've seen him at twelve years old. Anyway, I go
there and people getting autographs. It's not too busy. So
when I go up there, he's signed an autograph from
me and he points to the goal with him. He said,
(40:27):
this is my wife, Lydia. I think he said Lydia.
So he signed my autograph and he asked me for
my address. But I looked back at Lydia and I
said Beth, and she nodded her head to get the reference.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
No, I don't.
Speaker 11 (40:43):
Know, Chiss man, I'm Beth the only number one son
Peter Chris Wild. It doesn't matter. But out of twee.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
Oh, I got it, I got it, I got it,
I got it all right, all right?
Speaker 11 (40:52):
Well, anyway, he left my girlfriend a real good tip
that Christmas. We got a Christmas card from Peter christ.
Speaker 2 (40:59):
Wow. That's a great one, welf. Thanks man. I'm flat
out a time. The show's over, but thank you so much.
It was a strong one to end on. Talk soon Okay,
thanks very much, have a great one. We are done
for the night. Done, for the week. I want to
thank all the callers, all the listeners want to thank
Rob and Marita. Karen helped out this week as well.
(41:20):
I will end as always, all dogs, all cats, all
pets go to heaven. That's my pell Charlie ray Is
who passed fifteen years ago in February. That's where your
pets are who are pasted. They loved you when you
loved them. I do believe you'll see them again. I
will be on Facebook night Side with Dan Ray in
about two minutes. Join me. There have a little special
information for some of my special callers. We will see
you Monday night of great weekend. Everyone,
It's nice size. We did Ray and Undoing and Mazy
Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Thanks very much, Al Griffin. Yet five areas ever, is
tough to win a game. Tough tough to win a game.
But hey, tomorrow's another day. It's still early. It's as
simple as that. It's still early. Okay, we have reached
the twentieth hour, and I think everybody who listens to
Night's I knows it. In the twentieth hour, we try
to lighten things up a little bit, get you to
(00:28):
the weekend with some positive phone calls, and so we
will do brushes with celebrity tonight. Haven't done it in
about three months. It happens to be my favorite topic.
I came up with the topic many many years ago.
I'm quite proud of it, and I'm quite proud of
some of the callers that we have who have met
(00:48):
some very interesting people under different circumstances. Sometimes that met
him outside of baseball park, sometimes that met him on
the streets, sometimes they've been on an airplane. I want
to know the most interesting person and the most interesting
celebrity that you have met, and also whether or not
they treated you well. So we call that the good
the bad and the ugly. I mean, if someone who
(01:10):
had some celebrity was gracious and kind, that's great. If
they were a jerk, you could tell us they were
a jerk, simple as that. So suffice it to say,
we will open up the phone lines as always six
one seven, two, five, four ten thirty, six one seven
(01:30):
nine three one ten thirty. And by the way, the
celebrity that you met doesn't have to be the Queen
of England. I mean all of us in our lives
have bumped into someone who was a celebrity. It might
be a local athlete, it might be an actor, it
could be a singer. Sometimes it's a politician. And what
(01:51):
was your experience? That's the it's it's just I think
it's a great topic. We have two lines six one seven, two, five,
four ten thirty and six one seven nine three one
ten thirty. As we line up our phone calls. What
I would like to do, as I often do, is
there's one to kind of review the week a little
bit as quickly as I can. Here we started off
(02:13):
on Monday night at eight o'clock talking with Matt Brown,
a young guy from Nowood, Massachusetts who was paralyzed in
a hockey accident back when he was only fifteen years old.
He's written a book called Line Change, which is a
great book for any young person to read. Matt Brown
now runs the Matt Brown Foundation and it is a
wonderful foundation. He will be in the marathon. He'll have
(02:36):
a team in the marathon. I think he's now been
involved in five marathons, so feel free to check out
that book, Line Change. We talked about workplace bullying. We
talked with Bob Monroe, the chair of the Conquered two
hundred and fifty Executive Committee. Big two hundred and fiftieth
anniversary coming up on this April twenty April April nineteenth.
(03:01):
The day will be celebrated on the twenty first, but
the actual two hundred and fiftieth anniversary is on April nineteenth.
The Battle of Concord and then Lexington. We talked about
workplace in civility. We spent an hour on Monday night
talking about the disclosures from Red Sox Center Field, Red
Sox left Field to Jared Durant, who had admitted in
(03:23):
a documentary that he had contemplated suicide. Spent a couple
of hours talking about Big Drop of the market on Monday.
We spent two hours doing that. On Tuesday night, talked
about the TikTok deadline being extended, a book by Jonathan
Horn about the fate of the Generals, Douglas MacArthur and
Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright. Very interesting. Talk with doctor Martin Dibbs
(03:45):
about a surgical robot assisting in a liver transplant. And
talked with Michael Arkush about the Golf one hundred. I
had a lot of fun with that. If you're a golfer,
that's a book you might want to think about. Nine
NPM on Tuesday night, we talked about a story that
was in the Globe today. Beth Ttell talked about checking
(04:06):
in with people on the Karen Read case, people who
had strong feelings a year or so ago when that
decision came down, and whether or not people had changed
their minds in their thoughts on that case. Talk with
Jason Kelly about the bankruptcy of the site twenty three
in Me and how you can get all of your
(04:27):
information back from twenty three in Me as it goes
into bankruptcy. That is a a company that people sent
their DNA voluntarily to find out their Ancestry non ancestry
dot com twenty three in me. The market was down
on Tuesday, so we had another hour about the market
being down big on Tuesday at eleven on Wednesday night,
(04:50):
talked about tariffs and cars with John Vincent of US
News and World Report. Talked with a Globe correspondent Adelaide
Parker about Boston's first pod hotel. Talk with sale the
Mayor Dominic Pengalo about Salem four hundred and talked with
Doug Canter about credit card costs they're going up. Talk
with Ed Flynn he wants more ethics amongst the Boston
(05:11):
City Council. That of the day that it was announced
that Tanya Fernandez Anderson has been indicted for a federal
corruption charges. Talk with Jared Dillion about President Trump's decision
at Delay Tactics. That was the day the stock market
went up. We talked about that at eleven o'clock last night.
Talked with Cheryl Lang about the Stepping Strong Center, which
(05:32):
came out of the tragedy of the Boston Marathon. Talk
with l Ellis Les I should say ls Nazemy about
the foundation to be named later. Talked with Ed Grokowski
about take a child, the work day and beyond coming
up later this month. And talked about with Dennis Holland
about the Great Detachment. We may talk to him again.
(05:53):
Talked about that Canton train truck collision. That will be
the story that we will highlight on Sunday night at
eleven o'clock and we run the best of nights. There
were a lot of great calls in that hour. Talked
last night with Tatsu Ikeda about his newsletter which is
on substack, and we had his take on the market
and he was a really great guest. And we talked
(06:17):
last night at eleven about the reaction to the stock
market drop on Thursday. So there were three days that
dropped and then two days including today that it bounced
back up. Early this evening. Talked with the dean of
the medical School at the University of Michigan, doctor Marshall Unki.
We will have him back. Talk with Colt Stevens about
that Monster Jam going on tomorrow at Chillette Stadium you
(06:40):
can check it out. And talk with Chris Porter about
Lowellstown and City Festival that's coming up not this weekend
but next weekend. And talk with doctor Farmi Faua about
Skippy Meals. She's a cardiologist can make people more susceptible
to heart attacks. And talked for an hour with Chris Muse.
I'm a Superior Court judge who was the lawyer who,
(07:02):
along with his dad, Bob Muse, freed It took a
herculean effort to free Bobby joe Leister. Also former Springfield
mayor Mike Albano who was on the Governor's Council who
voted the commutation for Bobby joe Leister. Justice under God.
That's a great book if you're a lawyer, if you
ever thought about being a lawyer, or if you just
(07:24):
want to understand how Bobby joe Leister was unjustly incarcerated
for fifteen years for murder he didn't commit, and how
he then came out and spent thirty years helping people
in the inner city. It was a great article. And
talked last hour with Mark Filman about from Charlie Allen
Renovations of Cambridge. He's a design build contractor. So that's
(07:46):
been the week. Hope you've enjoyed it as much as
I have. Now we're going to go to brushes with
celebrity and we're going to start it off with Joe
and Belmont. Joe, you did get to call back? Everybody
gets a hall pa here in the eleven o'clock hour
on Friday night. Who's your Brushwood celebrity?
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Joe Danzi Man. If he can't do it, no one can.
The Irish singer, uh, Brendan Boyer was called Island's Elvis Presley.
He bought me drink? He did? He bought you a
drink at the Statust Hotel in Las Vegas.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Well, good for you, Joe. That sounds like a great
experience and he treated you well. Now is he a singer?
Is he? The Irish singer that I know is John McCormick,
who's a great Irish tenor. Is that what this guy
is as well?
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Well, he was one of Ireland's famous rock and roll singers.
I guess he did a lot of Elvis stuff in
Irish songs.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Well, I'll tell you Irish songs that l elve is
near to my heart. And his last name is Boyer.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Did you say he is Brendan Boyer? B O y
e R b o y e A right.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
It's like the Great Baseball family. Ken and Cleet Boyard,
a couple of third Basement, one with the Cardinals, one
with the Yankees. Joe, you got us off to a
nice strong start. Thank you much as always appreciated, Joe.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
Talk soon, my pleasure.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Dan, right back at you, Joe. We'll take a quick break.
Coming right back on Nightside. More brushes with Celebrity. The
only line is six, one, seven, two, ten thirty. I
want to hear who you met during your life doesn't
have to be recent. It could be twenty years ago,
it could be thirty years ago, or it could be yesterday.
Your brush with celebrity and how did they treat you?
(09:29):
We call it the good, the bad, and the ugly. Obviously,
Joe had a nice meeting with an Irish singer, Brendan
Boyer in Vegas. That sounds like fun. Back on Nightside.
Right after this, it's night Side with.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Let's go to Greg in Ontario. Hey, Greg, welcome back.
Who's your brush with celebrity? Greg?
Speaker 6 (09:54):
Yeah? I had a handful of them, but the most
the ones that stand out in my mind are Dicky
Betts and Dan Toller of the album Brothers Band.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
I haven't realize Yeah right, yeah, they were huge.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Yeah, my brother lives down in Florida, and he became
friends with Kim Betts, which is Dicky Dicky's daughter. And
in twenty fourteen, I got a phone call from my
brother and I got my huge Alvin Brother's fan and
so it was my brother and he said, you got
to get down her, bro because I've been invited to
Dickie's annual friends and family barbecue. Yeah, Spirit Ranch down
(10:34):
in Sarasota, Florida. So so I get down there and
go and I bring my guitar and we go there.
He put a great spread on was all for charity.
And the beautiful thing about this Dan it was I
lived my dream. After Dicky Betts and his band played,
which is great Southern, you can get up on stage
(10:55):
and anybody who played an instrument you could jam out.
So I got on stage with Dickey Bats and we
were just jamming up with a couple other guys that
were you know, we're guests as well, and it was
unbelievable to saw my guitars and showed me how to
play my favorite song, which is Jessica by the Olmn Brothers.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Right, I'm telling you, Greg, that sounds like a great time.
How long ago was this did you say what year
was this?
Speaker 6 (11:22):
This is a back twenty fourteen.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Well, I'll say that's a memory, memory of a lifetime.
I'm jealous. I'm not a musical guy, but I know
who the Allman Brothers are were and great, great, great band,
No doubt Greg is always I thank you much. I
figured you're going to tell me a hockey player living
up in Ontario.
Speaker 6 (11:44):
Well, actually I played with Timmy Kerr in the seventies.
He was my friend, childhood friend. He played for the
Philly Flyers for about I get to about ten eleven
years and so yeah, I guess I played minor hockey
with him up here, Triple A Hawk, and then he
got drafted, Uh you know, way back in late seventies,
early eighties.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
So he had eleven years with the fly He had
eleven years with the Flyers.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
Yeah, he had three fifty goal seasons and he almost
broke h He almost went ahead of Gretzky one year
for goals.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
I think it was give me his give me his
name again.
Speaker 6 (12:17):
What's the name names Tim Kerr t I M K
E r R.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
All right, Well you know that one I missed. Flyers
were a tough team. Uh, boy, I had to be
honest with you. I ripped hockey players, but he was.
Yeah he's right there, right there. Uh, pretty pretty good
sized guy six three and a winger, and yeah, you
(12:46):
got him right here. He had a good career. He
was the eighties and wrapped up with the Rangers and
the Whalers. That's three hundred How many goals you get here?
Am I reading this right? Three hundred and seventy goals?
Not bad? Whoa good one?
Speaker 7 (13:05):
That's ignition.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
But you know, I remember back in the day we
were playing actually we were playing for the Old MAHA
championship here in Ontario. I'm going back to nineteen seventy six,
and he was our ringer on our team. I mean
in Mitchell hockey. The guy would score from the redline.
I kid you not. And so like, right in the
middle of the Old maj playoffs, like we're on the road
to win the championship. We ended up pointing it. But
(13:28):
the Kingston Canadians, which is the Ohl club up here
at Junior Club, they came and shouted him and they
took him from us that year. And I'm like, oh
my god, you guys can't do that. You're killing us here.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
But tell you what he had. He had four fifty
plus goal seasons from eighty three and eighty four through
the eighty six eighty seven season. Fifty four, fifty four,
fifty eight, and fifty eight. That's pretty consistent. Whoa a
good player? Yeah, good player, Hey, Greg, thank you much.
(13:59):
That's a great and thank you so much. Two of them,
two of them. Doctor you soon keep rolling. He You're
going to go to Kenon Leminster Kenyon next on Night's side,
you're Brushwood celebrity.
Speaker 8 (14:09):
Dan, you got to give me about three minutes to
set up this thing, because what happened and the way
it happened is just as good as who I met. Okay,
December third, nineteen seventy two. The only time I've seen
a Patriots game, I was eleven years old. It was
it back to the old Shafer Stadium.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Oh yeah, when the luminum seats, Yeah, luminum seats, I
remember those, Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 8 (14:32):
They're just this leechers and I'm eleven years old. It's
the Dolphins undefeated season, and of course the Patriots lost
to the Dolphins that day necessarily, but if you remember
the old Shaffer Stadium with the parking too, oh yes,
my Dad, me and my cousin David, and we can't
(14:53):
find a parking area. We down Route was it root one?
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Root one always was, always is always shall be.
Speaker 9 (15:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (15:02):
So we're down like a mile and a half down
Route one, praying for a parking space. There's this little
gas station, a Texico station on the left. It says
Rico Petrocelli Texaco, and so we now baseball dan to
me back when I was eleven, that was that was
the be all and end all. I played shortstop in
Little league. And so we pull in there, and you know,
(15:26):
I got to go to the bathroom so bad that
I says, guys, can I just go into the bathroom
real quick? And my father jokes, he says, maybe you'll
meet Rico Petrocelli because it's Rico petrocell tex obviously owns it.
So I go in there and who is standing there
and a three piece suit looking over the books? But
(15:47):
Rico Petrocelli, now dummy, and me right, I'm so starstruck
that I go to the bathroom with my mouth slack jawed,
and I go in, I come out. I'm like a zombie.
I wandered back to the car and my dad jokes.
He says, was Rico in there?
Speaker 2 (16:07):
And I says he was?
Speaker 8 (16:09):
And of course they thought I was kidding. I said, no,
he was.
Speaker 7 (16:11):
He says, did you talk to him?
Speaker 8 (16:12):
He got his autograph? And I says no. My mon says,
you idiot. We all get out of the car and
we go in there and my father introduces me to
Rico Petrocelli and I shake it. Rico didn't say a word,
he just smiled.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Yeah, good guy though. Rico's great, great.
Speaker 8 (16:29):
Guy, and like my dad's like he plays short stuff too.
You know you're his hero, YadA, yeah, yaha.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
And so you know how many how many kids have
told how many dads have told Rico Petrocelli the kid
played shortstop? Absolutely number six.
Speaker 8 (16:45):
Rico just takes out a piece of paper out of
the death he signs, He signs his autograph, hands it
to me, smiles, shakes my hand again, and off to
the game.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
We went.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Great, great, great story, great story. Ken. You did it
in about two minutes and fifty three seconds, perfect perfect timing.
Thanks Beal, we'll talk sooner. Great one. Uh, next time
I see Rego, I'm going to mention this story to
him and see if you remember show. Okay, I promise,
good ahead, Okay, goodbye. Let's keep rolling here, Let's keep
(17:16):
rolling six one, seven, two, five four ten thirty six
one seven, nine three ten thirty George in Westbridgewater. George,
you're brush with celebrity. Who would that be? George?
Speaker 10 (17:26):
Well, the time of my life was. I spent sixty
years as a professional clown and magician. And I traveled
to New York City to buy magic one day and
the owner of the magic studio says, boy, am I
glad to see you. He says, I got somebody in
the other room that you've got to come in and
teach him to do some magic. Yeah, the bests in
(17:47):
New England, he says, come on in. So I walked
into this room totally blind to who is going to
be there, and the guy goes, hey, camp. I brought
in the best clown magician I could find, the teacher
to do some magic, and he turned around his muhammad
a lead.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Wow.
Speaker 10 (18:09):
He shook hands and his hands swallowed mine.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (18:13):
Yeah, he had the hand like you wouldn't believe. I said, boy,
with hands like that, we can disappear anything. And we
spent I spent six hours going over children's magic with him.
Not many people mill it, but he was a great philanthropist.
He used to take kids from Hollam to his training
camp and he'd give them a free summer of camping, food, clothing, everything,
(18:37):
and he would go there about once a week or
once a month or whenever he could and do magic
for them.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Wow.
Speaker 10 (18:44):
And so that's why he wanted to learn magic. And
when he got through, when he got through doing the
magic and so forth, he said, what do you want
picked anything in the store of yours And I said no,
I said, the only thing I want is an autograph.
So he signed to one of the magic catalogs for me,
and on the front of the catalog was a picture
(19:05):
of zig Freed and Roy. And the next year I
was in Vegas and I took that with me and
I asked the girl to take it out to zig
Freed and Roy and asked them if did signed the
autograph on the other side of the page, and she'd
come back and she gave me back the money, and
she says, you can't do that, and I said, oh,
they wouldn't take it. No, No, you got to come backstage,
(19:26):
and they want you to come and tell them how
you got uh Muhammad Ali's autograph on the other page.
Whoa I got to sit in the dressing room with
zig Freed and Roy and one of the big cats
and explain how I gave me who whoa.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa. Were you saying
one of the big cats were in the dressing room
with you?
Speaker 10 (19:46):
Yes, yes they had. One of the cats was their pet,
and it was de Claude.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
He was would give claud Did it have any teeth? Oh? Yes,
But oh, George, George, you're a brave man. I would
have gone in there unless they had Muhammad Ali with
me as a bodyguard.
Speaker 10 (20:09):
When you got the time, I'll tell you the story
about the Unpaided Lion Act that I used to perform with.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Okay, George, next time, that's a good one. I met
Ali in an elevator in New Orleans during the nineteen
eighty eight Republican Convention. He went there. He was a
friend of believe it or not, Utah Senator Frank Hatch.
Got on the elevator, I was holding my year and
a half old son in my arms. It was just Muhammed,
you know, the champ myself and my son for a
(20:36):
few floors, and of course I knew exactly who he was.
Introduced myself and he was getting on in his you know,
he would have been dealing, slowing down a little bit.
I did a little shadow boxing with Daniel, my son Daniel,
and you know, of course he's very gentle and you
know he's jabbing away a little bit. Really nice guy.
(20:59):
So every time I tell my son, do you remember
when you shadow box with Muhammad Ali? He looks at
me like I'm crazy. A lot of people do that
to me. George. We'll talk soon, buddy, have a great weekend.
That fabulous story, fabulous story. We'll be back on Night's Side.
Only line is six one, seven nine.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
And you're on night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ,
Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Okay, we're gonna pick up the pace a little bit.
Your brush with celebrity Diane is in Berricka. Diane. Who
was it that you met and what were the circumstances?
Speaker 9 (21:34):
Oh boy, I could be on this show for four
hours with all the people I met.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Oh I know who this is. You have done nothing
but meet celebrities. Give me your give me your top
three in the last year. Okay, let's let's narrow it down.
Speaker 9 (21:48):
Diane, go ahead, Okay, Bob crafts Okay. Golf and Mike Tyson.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Where you meet Tyson?
Speaker 9 (22:00):
He was at the Patriots game in Miami with a son.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Mike Tyson. How did Tyson treat you?
Speaker 4 (22:10):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (22:10):
He was nice.
Speaker 9 (22:11):
It's like he stops the pitches and you know he
you know, he was going through the tunnel to get in.
You know, because I was on the field, I get
to go to the warm up in Miami, so he,
you know, wanted to get in the tunnel. I think,
you know, to go talk to the players because they
it was like towards the end. But the funny thing
(22:31):
that happened this year, I took my eight year old grandson.
So he's obsessed with Tyreek Hill. So because we were
there with the Patriots, I told him, please don't put
on the jersey until, you know, maybe the game starts. Well,
an hour after being on the field, he put on
the Tyreek jersey. Well, just as he did that, bought
(22:53):
Craft comes out and I don't know why he thinks
he knows me, but he comes over, gives me a hug,
and then he fist bumped like a lot of people
that were there. So then my grandson was standing in
there with his fist up and so I said to him, oh,
this is my grandson Payton. And he looked them up
and down and he kept walking, and so my grandson
(23:16):
yelled to him and he goes, you're gonna read me
hanging Bob, and everybody started laughing. He because he was
living a Dolphin jersey. He wouldn't pay absolutely.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
You know, it's like you got to come dressed properly.
Speaker 9 (23:29):
Yeah, eight years old, and he knows he had the
Brady jersey on before, you know, like.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
You, Bob Kraft is the Patriots older he I'm sure
he felt a little disrespected. Well, Scott Zolac is a
good guy too. Zolac is one of the real good
guys in the business.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
So uh oh.
Speaker 9 (23:49):
I met Mike Tyson in the hotel and he turns
around to me and he goes, aren't you Diane. And
my grandson's like, how do you know football players.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Do what you tell him? What you tell him?
Speaker 9 (24:03):
I said, well, you know, I've been working there for
twenty five years, so of course I know them.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
You bet you, you bet you great.
Speaker 9 (24:10):
I loved David ninety four. You know he got like
eleven autographs, like all the players were so nice.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Dam But you know, Diane, you and I could do
brushes with celebrity every night for the next year and
you could come up with it.
Speaker 9 (24:23):
But people don't know my friend Diane.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
By Diane has worked a lot of the events around
the country. That is how she makes her living, moving
from rock concerts to two big events of all all
types and sizes. Diane, I got packed lines, so I
got to let get go.
Speaker 9 (24:40):
But now I know that I thought you would like that,
and I wanted to say.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Hi absolutely and say hi to Peyton for us. Okay,
thanks so much. I will talk to you soon. Let's
keep rowling here. Going to David in Watertown. David, you
were next on Nightside. I always good to hear from Watertown.
Who's your brush with celebrity? David?
Speaker 12 (24:57):
Oh, Dan, I'm a long time, first time caller.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
This is your first time when we got at the studio,
audience and stop giving you a standing ovation.
Speaker 12 (25:06):
I've been listening to you since you started, and I
just wanted to tell you that my family met you
around nineteen ninety five when you were reporting for Bus
there was a hurricane coming in in Falm at the
Tides Motel and we were staying there. Yeah, and you
(25:30):
interviewed my daughter at the time. She was eleven years old,
and I just wanted to tell you she is now
a sister with Malarauga.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
No, I know, Mother Olga. I know you do.
Speaker 12 (25:44):
That's why I called you.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Oh what a great story. So she's down at the
convent and I assumed the confident in Quinsy.
Speaker 12 (25:51):
They're in Quincy now, yeah, oh, I know, well, and
it was ironic that you met her when she was eleven,
and I know that you know Mologa very well.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Has she told Mother Olga? Has she told Mother Olga
that she and I are old friends?
Speaker 12 (26:07):
She probably did, I'm not sure, but he is Sister
Elizabeth Francis.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Well, please say hello to Sister elizabeths Francis from me.
Where did she go to school? Because I'm so impressed.
Speaker 12 (26:21):
With Fount Alpernia in Newton, and then she went to
Sacred Heart in Connecticut.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Great great colleges.
Speaker 12 (26:30):
She graduated with her master's from Boston College and before
she she just became a nun. She's been there about
eleven years. But she just made her final vows two
or three years ago.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Well, let me just take a quick story, David, so
you know, and maybe you can pass this on. As
you know, there was a period of time where their
rectory was next door to our home.
Speaker 12 (26:57):
I know that when she was there, yes.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Yeah, and and and when they would go away on
retreat in the summertime, Mother Olga drafted me to be
sort of their caretaker, to make sure that no one
bothered the house right. And and then she would say
that when you know, when you go in every day
to check things around, you would say, you know, please
please sit in the chapel and send some some time
(27:22):
meditating with Jesus. And I did that every day, oh yeah,
and it was well worth it. And Mother Olga was
a special person in all of her nuns, the daughters
of Mary of Nazareth. They're all very accomplished young women
from great colleges. They're intelligent, and they're so dedicated to her.
(27:45):
And of course the story Mother Ogre is an extraordinary story.
That is amazing, David, that is amazing. I actually remember
that story. And I'll tell you why I remember that story.
One of the portions of that story, if it's the
same story. I found a baseball game going on that
on that night in advance of that storm, and there
(28:06):
was a baseball team, an amateur baseball team from Australia
that was playing on the cape, playing a local, you know,
amateur team down in Folmouth. And I remember interviewing some
of the Australian players as well as your daughter. So yeah,
that probably was the same story, David. That is a
great story. Please say how to your daughter for me.
Speaker 12 (28:28):
I'll do that, Dan, please send it A nice talking
to you and you do a great job there, and
I really enjoy you every unit I listened to you well, David.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Thank you so much. I really hope to meet you someday.
I often head over to Watertown to a gym over there,
so maybe sometime I'll see you.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
There's a dunkin Donuts right by the gym, and oftentimes
as a reward, I stop in there. So if you
haven't said yes, I do, yes, I do. You gotta
have a reward. Okay, that's right, that's right. Thanks David.
What's a wonderful story. I'm happy Happy Easter to you
(29:08):
as well, okay, and the blessed Easter. Thank you very much.
Speaker 12 (29:10):
Thank you bye, good night.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
All right. That's it's amazing the people that I have
met along the way. Eleven year old girl who now
twenty years later she's a Catholic nun. Paul and Nashville,
New Hampshire. Paul, you're next on nightside.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
Welcome, Okay. Nineteen sixty eight, when Nixon was armed for president,
went down to Rivera College and met him and his
wife and his daughter and the press people out there.
I went to sea. I don't think an autography said
get lost, So I headed to amends room and I
walked bumped into Mike Wallace. He got his autograph.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Mike Wallace was a friend. He and I did a
piece on sixty Minutes together on the Salvati case. I
really got to know Mike during that story. Wonderful guy.
So they wouldn't let you get Nixon's autograph?
Speaker 4 (29:56):
Was that that said get lost?
Speaker 2 (30:00):
You said, Who's whose autograph were you looking for? You
missed it?
Speaker 4 (30:04):
Chet Huntley?
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Oh, chet Huntley? Oh so Hutley Hutley blew you off?
But Wallace was was nice. Well, isn't that interesting? Okay?
Speaker 4 (30:14):
So the second one was I saw America up in
Manchester in nineteen eighty eight and I bumped into Dewey Banal.
He's part of America, got his autograph.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Good for you, Paul, these are good ones. You know,
when you guys in New Hampshire, you get to see
all the presidential contacts. That's one of the great things
about seeing most. Most people could say, oh yeah, I've
had President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama. You know at
my kitchen table. That's that's retail politics at its best.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
In nineteen seventy four, I was servant most in Alaska
and I came up and fifty feet of Harry Reasoner.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
You got, well, you got I think all three networks.
Reason was an ABC, Hotly I think was NBC, and
Wallace was CBS three, the three big covered. Paul, great,
great stories. Thank you so much. Talk to you soon.
A great weekend. Let me get one more in here
before the break if I can. I'm gonna get Sharon
in debt him. Sharon, who's your celebrity you'd like to
(31:15):
talk about?
Speaker 9 (31:16):
Hi?
Speaker 6 (31:16):
How are you Dan?
Speaker 2 (31:18):
I'm great, Sharon, Thanks for calling in.
Speaker 13 (31:20):
I'm acres from Stone.
Speaker 9 (31:22):
But do you know.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
My man, let me just say this, My pal Rob
wrote dead him, So I gotta throw Rob under the
bus here, Sharon from Stonehem. It's a little different side
of the city.
Speaker 13 (31:34):
Rob Okay, Hey, if I mentioned the name Ray Mercer,
do you know.
Speaker 4 (31:43):
Who that is?
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Ray Mercer? If you mentioned Robbie Mercer, I would have
said the New York Yankees, But I should Ray Mercer.
Speaker 13 (31:50):
Give me a Ray Mercer was a boxer and he
was in the Olympics and he did phenomenal for us
in the Olympics. How about so I'm at him a
number of times. How about Mickey Ward?
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Mickey Ward, of course from Lowell. He was a boxer
and Lowell great boxer pound for pound absolutely, So you're
a boxing So.
Speaker 13 (32:13):
No, I am a national anthem singer and I have
sung and they've both been at events that I have
sung at. And Mickey Ward actually now when he sees me,
he goes, oh, you're the national anthem singer. He won't
know my name, but he knows that. But more importantly,
more precious to my heart, was I met Michael J.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Fox. Yeah, Wow, that's a great one one.
Speaker 13 (32:39):
And I met him on the vineyard years ago. Yeah,
my daughter's actually connected a number of times. My parents
had a place on the vineyard but my daughter was
a gymnastics coach and his daughter was during the camp
and he's there and Tracy was there, and I was
(33:01):
all of a sudden starstruck and I'm like, I'm my god,
there's Tracy and.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Michael is Michael Fox's what Michael j Fox's what?
Speaker 13 (33:10):
Yep yep. And I was like, don't do it, don't
do it. Because so they were videoing. Michael was videoing
the gymnastics event and his friend was like, hey, Michael,
the you know, the shaky thing isn't working, and he
took the camera from him and Michael went out into
the open area and I followed him. I'm like, don't
do it, Sharon, don't do it. And I did and
(33:31):
I went out and I'm like, Hi, I just want
to tell you I'm so impressed with everything you've done.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
And he said.
Speaker 13 (33:39):
Ye, sorry, and he goes he goes, Hi, I'm Michael,
and he just put out his hand and I shook
his hand and I said Hi, I'm Sharon. And he
just puts everything at ease, and he was the most
he is the most wonderful man going through the most
(34:00):
horrible disease.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Yeah, yeah, oh that's great. You know you know something, Sharon.
That's a great Those are three great stories that just
looked up Brady Mercer nineteen eighty eight Summer Summer Olympics. Yeah, excellent, Sharon,
I got it. Ron, I took you quickly there. I'm
sorry about the confusion and Sharon rather stone him and
get him. But it's Sharon from Stoneham. Great stories. Thanks
(34:23):
so much, Sharon, Thank you great, you too, have a
good weekend. Okay, we're gonna take quick break. I got
Ron and Weymouth, Christina, Denim and Ron and Newton, and
we're gonna get them all in. I promise. Right after this.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Break, you're on Night Side with Dan Ray on WZ
Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Okay, we're gonna try to wrap it up here. We're
gonna go for we have four callers. Let's get them
all in, Ron and Newton. Ron. Who's your celebrity this week? Oh,
I got to hit the right button. That's my mistake.
Speaker 5 (34:59):
Ron, you were next on I SI Hi, Dan, a
great topic. My celebrity is Jim Lovell from Apaulo thirteen.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Wow. Boy, that's out of this world.
Speaker 9 (35:13):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (35:16):
I have a book right in front of me. He signed.
It happened to be at a disaster response conference for
a week one conference and a buddy of mine from
San Diego said, one morning, Hey, I've got tickets to
the annual Hall of Fame induction for the astronauts, and
(35:39):
you want to go? I said sure. So we had
a breakfast and add some you know, some discussions, they
had some some lectures, and then they had a book
signing and terrific. Show my hand. I've got his book
Apollo thirteen right in front of me.
Speaker 4 (36:00):
It.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Now, wow, that's that's that's one for. That's one for.
That's one for the family lineage. I'll tell you that's
that's got to stay in the family library.
Speaker 5 (36:09):
Okay, Dan, I still get the boarding pass for that flight.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
That's great. I'm like, I'm like you. You you keep
it all together. You go back and say that was
the plane, that was the book. That's perfect. And maybe
you got the ticket to the breakfast as well.
Speaker 5 (36:27):
I probably do.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
Alright, Ron, I gotta run here, I gotta get three
more in, buddy. That's a great one. Jim lovel Wow,
thanks buddy. Talk soon. Let's go to Christine and Dead
and Christine, who's your celebrity this week. I have cool
Oh go ahead, gotta be quick, okay, sure the best yep, okay,
(36:56):
that's that's the that's from the Willnda family, the high
Wire yep.
Speaker 9 (37:00):
Okay, yes, yes, mister Rogers.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
Mister Rogers, okay, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 9 (37:08):
And Joey McIntyre.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
That's that's getting local. How'd you meet mister Rogers?
Speaker 14 (37:14):
My t TD Teeker was his brother. He came to
his house one time. We were at by teacher's house
and he said he had brother was going to combine
and surprise us.
Speaker 5 (37:25):
And it was Fred Rogers And was his brother living
den him was Frock Storry.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
Wow, didn't know that that you can't. That's a tough
one to beat. That's a tough one to beat. Christine,
thank you very much. That of all. Look Bobby yours
the best, no question, will lend up mister Rogers though,
that's tough to top. Okay, thanks, thanks Christine. Well I
makes up Ron and Weymouth rom again you and at
least one more Go ahead.
Speaker 7 (37:51):
Ron, Okay, Mine is more like I met a VAP
by telephone. As strange as it seems, that was a
cap on his help. After I get out of the
Air Force. I worked in North Hollywood. I was ripping
out Ero Flynn's old house was up an Appian Way.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
I believe it was h and uh Ern.
Speaker 7 (38:13):
Yeah, Ero Flynn, Ero Flynn's house. And the guy who
bought it was the writer Sterling Silopon. So I was
working as a coppertain's helper then, and he said they
all went out and they said hey. Sterling said to me,
if someone calls, just take the message from him because
I got to go. So I'm the only one there.
So the phone rings, I answered it and he says hello.
(38:33):
I said hello. I said hello. He said hello. He says,
I hear ancho.
Speaker 6 (38:37):
Who's this?
Speaker 7 (38:38):
He says this the butler. I said no, this is
the competent.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Who's this?
Speaker 7 (38:40):
He says, this is mister Mayor. This is mister Mayor.
Speaker 5 (38:43):
Is Sterling there? I said no. He had to go out.
Speaker 7 (38:45):
He said take the message. He said tell him mister
Mayor called about the sixty six job. And I said okay.
So Sterling came back in a very nice guy chills
and he said any calls. I says, yeah, I'm mister
Mayor called about the sixty sixth job or something like that.
He says, oh, you mean the route sixty sixth I'm writing,
Oh yeah, I'll call him right away. And she said,
(39:06):
next time your boss goes down and get some pots
down in the downtown. He says, just take one of
the jags where the jaguar. So I was able to
get a ride in stealing green, beautiful, green light, green Jaguar.
I'll never forget that. Talk about a vip ron.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
That's that's the day to remember, buddy. That's a good one.
Thank you man. I have a great weekend.
Speaker 7 (39:29):
I never forget that, never forget so funny. You're so gracious,
mister mayor MGM.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
Thanks man, talk to you soon. Next up, final one
of the night Wolf in Boston. Wolf. Have I ever
had your called before? Is this the first time for Wolf?
Speaker 11 (39:46):
This is my first time?
Speaker 2 (39:48):
Got a round of appla for Wolf? Who would it be? Wolf?
Speaker 11 (39:54):
Mentally eighties my treance at the time. She's working at
al Touredos Route one in Norwood. Remember the place I've.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
Heard of it? Yes, I don't think I've ever been there,
but I know where you mean.
Speaker 11 (40:05):
Go ahead, so anyway you should pickle up round one,
she caused me. At eleven, She says, you're not going
to believe this. Peter Chris is there from Kiss, right,
so I grew up with Kiss. You know, I think
i've seen him at twelve years old. Anyway, I go
there and people getting autographs. It's not too busy. So
when I go up there, he's signed an autograph from
me and he points to the goal with him. He said,
(40:27):
this is my wife, Lydia. I think he said Lydia.
So he signed my autograph and he asked me for
my address. But I looked back at Lydia and I
said Beth, and she nodded her head to get the reference.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
No, I don't.
Speaker 11 (40:43):
Know, Chiss man, I'm Beth the only number one son
Peter Chris Wild. It doesn't matter. But out of twee.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
Oh, I got it, I got it, I got it,
I got it all right, all right?
Speaker 11 (40:52):
Well, anyway, he left my girlfriend a real good tip
that Christmas. We got a Christmas card from Peter christ.
Speaker 2 (40:59):
Wow. That's a great one, welf. Thanks man. I'm flat
out a time. The show's over, but thank you so much.
It was a strong one to end on. Talk soon Okay,
thanks very much, have a great one. We are done
for the night. Done, for the week. I want to
thank all the callers, all the listeners want to thank
Rob and Marita. Karen helped out this week as well.
(41:20):
I will end as always, all dogs, all cats, all
pets go to heaven. That's my pell Charlie ray Is
who passed fifteen years ago in February. That's where your
pets are who are pasted. They loved you when you
loved them. I do believe you'll see them again. I
will be on Facebook night Side with Dan Ray in
about two minutes. Join me. There have a little special
information for some of my special callers. We will see
you Monday night of great weekend. Everyone,
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