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It's nice size with Dan Ray. I'm going it's Ezy Boston's news radio thanks

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to Cole number one of one hundred and sixty two. The baseball season,

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the best time of the year lies in front of us. My name is

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Dan Ray, host of Nightside, and who knows. I don't know.

0:18

The Red Sox may not go undefeated, but they may have a better season

0:21

than some people suspect. We'll see what happens there, Nicole and I will

0:24

follow it all the way through the World Series in November. For you,

0:28

I promise you that. Of course, if you want to watch the Red

0:31

Sox game tonight, that's fine. Just mute the audio. You can watch

0:34

the game, see what's going on, and you can listen to Nightside.

0:37

And by the way, we will be talking with a former Red Sox pitcher

0:40

during this hour who is here to celebrate the opening day, but also to

0:45

celebrate a successful kidney transway. Before we get started, I want to do

0:49

a big shout out to someone who I met tonight who told me that he

0:52

has listened to Nightside literally from our first show. So I just would like

0:57

to say a big Nightside. And again, I kin't welcome into the show

1:02

because he's been here every night listening. Walter Walter, a pleasure to meet

1:07

you tonight. Thanks so much for saying hello and for being such a loyal

1:14

Nightside listener. And please stay dry out there tonight. Walter now talking about

1:19

staying dry. One species that never really has to worry about staying dry or

1:26

dolphins, but sometimes dolphins run into trouble. And there is now a Cape

1:32

Cod Dolphin Rescue center. That's right, a Cape Cod Dolphin Rescue Center with

1:37

us. Is the director of this marine mammal rescue Brian Sharp. Brian,

1:42

first off, welcome to Nightside, and I guess you have success. We

1:47

hope you have success with your first dolphin patient. And we're not talking about

1:51

the Miami dolphins. We're talking about the ones that swim in the water. Welcome to Nightside. Hell you Brian exactly. Yeah, good evening, Dan,

1:57

thank you for having me on. Yeah, so I was surprised that

2:02

dolphins would be this far north, particularly this time of year. What's going

2:07

on? First of all, Yeah, Well, it's something that we have in the waters around Massachusetts year round. That's one of the unique things.

2:15

What people don't realize a lot of time is that here in Massachusetts and specifically

2:20

on Cape Cod this is one of the world stranding hotspots for dolphins. More

2:25

dolphins strand more frequently here live than anywhere else in the world. Is that

2:31

because the water is cold? I mean I always associate dolphins with Florida,

2:36

and you have nice warm water even in the well warmer water, even in

2:39

the entrantime. No warmer water. Yeah, no, that's you know,

2:44

back to your Miami dolphins. Yeah, it's the bottlenews dolphins. That's what comes to most people's mind. And yeah, those are tend to be a

2:52

warmer water, more tropical. Though we do get them here occasionally, and

2:57

we've actually seen more of them in recent years. But the species we get

3:00

here are things a dolphin called the common dolphin, atlantic white sided dolphins.

3:06

So there are different species of dolphins that use the waters of the North Atlantic.

3:12

And so you the center has literally just olphened is that true. Yeah.

3:17

We opened, well, we actually became operational about two months ago,

3:22

and you know there's yeah, yeah, and it's you know, so we've

3:28

you know, a lot of preparations. Our staff are volunteer responders made up

3:31

of people of the community that train with us and our eyes and years out

3:36

there on the beach, retirees, college students, all throughout the Cape and

3:43

southeastern mass And so we've been training and training up for for exactly this,

3:49

and and the center was built to help those dolphins that we can't release right

3:55

away. There are some dolphins that strand here that there are in fairly good

4:00

shape. We can take them up. We tend to release up at Herring

4:02

Cove Beach in Provincetown because it's really good deep water access. Will transport them

4:08

in our specialized mobile Dolphin Rescue Clinic or what we call Moby's basically a dolphins

4:16

mobile dolphin hospital. But that doesn't we can't do that in all cases.

4:21

Sometimes we have animals that are borderline animals that are suffering from the shock and

4:28

stress of the trauma. The best way I can describe it to people is

4:31

when a dolphin strands. So when a dolphin feels that effect of gravity for

4:35

the first time, the waters rush out due to the tide and they're caught

4:41

half mile away from the water. It's the equivalent of us being in a

4:45

car accident. They're feeling gravity for the first time, they're stress, they

4:48

start to go into shock and that's where the medical treatment comes in, and

4:53

so our vets, our biologists assess them, start the supportive care, make

4:59

sure that the animals are safe and that we're regulating their body temperature, start

5:04

giving ivy fluids to help with stress and shock, so that that way the

5:09

animals have the best chance of survival. Yes, you came like you what

5:13

a human patient and this first one that came in has has already been returned

5:17

or is in the process of being returned. Yeah, No, we were

5:20

able to do a quick turnaround. So you know, with this storm that

5:25

came through, it gave us a very short window, but the winds changed

5:29

just enough so that we had those flat sea conditions at Herring Cove Beach so

5:34

that we could release so they have the animal and care for about twenty four

5:38

hours, which and the animal had improved remarkably from when it was brought in.

5:44

When our volunteer found it on the beach. It was being it was

5:46

in the surf, it was being tossed, rolled upside down, asperating sea

5:50

water, you know, not where a dolphin should be. And so got

5:56

them out of that situation and round the clock came so we had staff and

6:00

volunteers there throughout the night, caring for this animal, giving treatments before we

6:05

could release the next day. Well, congratulations, that's one lucky dolphin.

6:12

Actually, and I understand you're going to track the dolphin. How can folks

6:15

get more information? You have a website we can direct some people too might

6:19

want to support this effort. Yeah, absolutely, thank you for that.

6:25

Yeah, you can visit us at IFAW dot org, IFAW dot org and

6:31

you can learn about not only our program, but the other programs that i

6:35

FALL operates throughout the world. Perfect, Brian, Thanks very much. I'm

6:40

sure that as the summer goes on, we'll have more reason to check in

6:43

with you every once in a while. And thank you very much every time.

6:46

Tonight, thanks so much, Dan, have a good night you too.

6:48

When we come back, we're going to talk with the proud mom of

6:53

an Army first Lieutenant West Point graduate who has just returned from deployment in Iraq,

6:59

and she has a program called Adopted Platoon Sauthi style. You want to

7:03

talk about supporting the troops, you want to stick with us back on Nightside.

7:06

My name is Dan Ray. This is w BZ, Boston's news radio

7:12

you're on night Side with Dan Ray on w BZ, Boston's news radio.

7:18

Well, I am delighted to welcome our next guest, a friend for several

7:24

years, Kelly Conroy. Kelly, welcome to Nightside. Great to have you

7:29

on the air. Hi, Damn, thanks for having me on the show. I appreciate it. Well, you are a special person, that is

7:33

for sure. You're a mom of a West Point graduate, your son Jack

7:39

now a first lieutenant. I believe Yeah's returned from deployment to Iraq. First

7:44

of all, tell us a little bit about Jack. I kind of bonded

7:47

with you over the West Point thing, and you know, it's amazing the

7:53

moms and dads of the men and women who go to West Point, they

7:57

so throw themselves into the program as a questions, and daughters do as well.

8:05

You were very much involved in as a West Point mom, and you

8:09

continued to be involved now in a program called the Doctor Platoon, so first

8:13

adoptor Platoon SALTHI style. First of all, tell us about Jack. So,

8:18

Jack is living I guess what you call his dream. From the time

8:22

he was three years old, he announced that he would like to be in the army. So, of course, We never discouraged that, and at

8:28

around six we introduced him to that. You know, the Army has a

8:31

college and it's West Point, and from then it's just it's blossomed. I

8:37

mean every day he would come home from school and put on camouflage and be

8:43

playing. The entire neighborhood knew his face was painted. At like ten and

8:48

twelve, he was reading books about Eisenhower and Schwartz Cough. And it's just

8:54

we've done everything we can to encourage him on his route to get to West

8:58

Point Point. And you know, we were lucky enough that he was a

9:03

good student and he worked really hard and he made it happen well. West

9:07

Point. As I'm sure you know is it's harder to get into West Point

9:11

than it is to get into Harvard, Yale or Princeton, and the Academies

9:15

of Justice strenuous. And what I want to do is if people are on

9:20

Facebook right now, I'd like them to go check out on Facebook adopt a

9:24

platoon selfie style. Just go to your Facebook page. I just joined the

9:31

group, and I hope many of our listeners who are going to listen to this not only tonight, but maybe in the next few days on our podcast

9:39

Nightside on Demand dot Com. I'd like them to go there and look so

9:43

they can know what we're talking about. You decided, you as Jack's mom,

9:50

decided to adopt his platoon when they were sent overseas to Iraq. Tell

9:56

us how that happened. Yes, well, it started actually before well his

10:00

platoon. I had a couple of platoons prior to his, and I've been

10:05

doing it for a couple of years. And then when I knew it was his deployment, you know, we had a conversation. I said, well,

10:09

do you know, do you want me to adopt yours? And he

10:11

said, well, of course, you know. So it just started as

10:16

I signed up for this group and I thought I would probably get about twelve

10:20

soldiers and I'd be able to handle it. And then when they sent the

10:22

list and it was almost fifty, I just said, wow, what are

10:28

we going to do here? Like this is more than we can handle,

10:31

but I'm not saying no. So I just reached out to all my friends

10:33

and family and my community in South Boston and it just grew like I would

10:39

just come home and there'd be boxes outside my house from Amazon, and just

10:43

random people would just come up to me and hand me money or venmo me

10:48

and kids would send cads and letters and it just blossomed into this wonderful thing.

10:54

Like I say all the time, I have gotten more out of this

10:58

than I have put in because it's just wonderful how kind and good people still

11:03

are. So while Jack's platoon was uh in Iraq uh and Jack was they

11:09

were stationed at the US embassy, I assume yeah in that area. Yeah,

11:15

okay, yes exactly. You got uh, You've got the things that

11:20

sometimes the army doesn't provide them, little things and birthday cards and all of

11:24

that, and that was obviously an expense. But you have now gone on

11:30

and you've adopted another platoon. Uh yeah, Jack, no home, and

11:37

you you'd like to perhaps expand this a little bit. So, So if

11:41

anybody's on Facebook right now, uh and they go to adopt a platoon Southie

11:46

Style, they can check it out. They can join the group. It's

11:50

a great group to join. I just joined a few minutes ago. And

11:56

we also just now have a website. Oh you do, well, what's

11:58

the web? We do? Yes, it's it's Adopted Platoon Southistyle dot com.

12:03

Oh great, okay. Well, so that will also help people.

12:07

That's a new development, sure, okay, And so people one can,

12:13

uh can basically join and be with folks who are like who are like minded,

12:18

who remember and realize the gifts of freedom that we enjoy are not given

12:26

to us by, you know, any anyone other than the members of the

12:31

military who ensure those gifts. Obviously firefighters and as police officers, they're very

12:37

important as well. But sometimes when the military is deployed to far away places

12:41

like Iraq, uh, they're they're looking out for our interest as a country

12:46

and I you know, there are some people I know who would like us

12:50

to bring everybody home and some people who think that we have no right being

12:54

anywhere else. This is not a political conversation. It's just we're supporting the

13:00

the troops, and you're supporting the troops with adoptive platoon SEALFI styles. So

13:05

if people join, what can they do or if they're if they even if

13:11

they conjoin, they could send a contribution. Yes, I have VENMO all

13:16

that is on the website and the Facebook page. We every month we try

13:20

to do a different raffle and different do different fun things to try to defray

13:24

the cost of shipping. Each package is about twenty to twenty one dollars to

13:28

ship, and every soldier gets one box themselves every month. And then in

13:33

addition, if the platoon needs things like fun things, it could be games,

13:39

it could be sheets that you know, I send that in addition to

13:43

their monthly packages. So we have Amazon wishlists. And sometimes, like I

13:48

said, people will just show up and I could come home and I could have a box on my front steps that has you know, one hundred packs

13:54

of gum in it. You know, sure every little bit helps in whatever

14:01

however people want to express themselves now that that your son is back home.

14:07

And by the way, I've noticed already that you've got a few new members

14:11

hopefully listeners here. So again on Facebook it's simply adopted Platoon or you can

14:18

go Sealthy Style, Healthy Style, or you can go and I should say

14:22

that the Conrary family live in South Boston. On the website is adopted Platoon

14:30

SEALTHI Style dot com. Now what did I'm sure at some point Jack explained

14:37

to you. And by the way, you also have a great video. Are you going to post that video on the website? It is on the

14:43

website. Yes, okay, my daughter for pulling all that together, because

14:48

I couldn't do that. It's about a three and a half minute video that

14:52

that sort of chronicles this nine month period from the moment that that Jack left

14:58

to be deployed, some pictures of where he was and what he was doing,

15:03

uh and uh, and then of course his return home, which was

15:05

which was jubilant. Now Jack's been counting West Point here, how many years

15:11

has he already been in the military. He'll be out of West Point.

15:16

It'll be three years. Dismay, Okay, so I count we still have

15:22

a little bit more to go. Yeah, well I count West Point as military time too. So it seems to me that that he's been really committed.

15:30

Well he's been committed to it his whole life, but he's been in

15:33

it for real for the last seven years. He expressed to you the value

15:41

of what you were doing for the men in his platoon. There must have

15:45

been a I assume at some point of conversation in which he said, yes,

15:48

there definitely that. We definitely talked about that a few times, you

15:52

know, when we got to talk or text and he would just say all

15:56

of it. He happened to have his platoon happened to be all men,

15:58

and he just said that they loved it. It was a morale booster and

16:02

people would say, you know, come up to him and say, wow, we got another package, and I got another note from your family and

16:08

your community. And the thing they loved the most, which is the simplest

16:12

thing ever where there were the CODs from all the kids, well little students

16:18

and schools. I have solicited all my friends and family to ask teachers to

16:23

have the kids write, you know, CODs. And they were just so

16:26

sweet and innocent. It was really cute and that seemed to be their favorite

16:30

thing, the simplest thing. Well, Kelly, you started off and maybe

16:37

you have lit a prairie fire here and maybe there'll be people all over the

16:41

country who will do this. You're doing it Southeas style again. The website

16:45

is simply adopted Platoon SOUTHI style and you can find them also on Facebook there

16:52

adopted Platoon SOUTHI style, or go to the website which is now adopted Platoon

16:57

Southeast Style. Calm and where I would like to keep in touch on this

17:03

and and give you a little bit of publicity periodically. I hope that again,

17:08

your membership is going up. I hope every person who's listening to night

17:12

Side will go to Adopted Platoon Salthi Style and it's a great group of people.

17:21

You'll never feel you'll never feel alone, not only as a member of

17:25

the military in a far away place, but you'll never feel alone knowing the

17:29

connection that adoptor Platoon Salthi style will present to you and to your friends,

17:37

all part of really the cheering section, if you will, for these young

17:41

men and women who are deployed overseas. And I hope that everybody gets a

17:47

chance to look at the video that your daughter put together. It's only three

17:52

and a half minutes, but if you don't, if you don't understand the

17:56

concept of family and love Chevy watched that video, then you're never will.

18:02

So thank you for what you've done. Thank you for being such a loyal

18:06

night Side listener all these years. And I'll be in touch very soon.

18:11

An anything that we can do, you let us know and I'll try to

18:14

I'll try to do whatever you need. Okay, Well, thank you so

18:17

much for giving me the opportunity. Absolutely, and the membership role is growing

18:21

even as we speak. Adopted Platoon Southeast style or adopted Platoon southeastyle dot com.

18:29

Uh say he to Jack and the whole fan woll me and uh and

18:33

to mister Conroy and congratulations you're doing. Thank you. I hope you have

18:37

a great Easter. Happy Easter to you and the whole Conroy family as well.

18:42

Knowing this, it really is a great start to the Easter weekend to

18:47

be able to thank you. Thanks, Kelly, talk soon. Okay,

18:52

all right, that's a great story. When we get back, I got

18:55

another great story for you. And Jeff Plimpton, who pitched for the Boston

18:59

Red Sox in the night teen nineties, needed a kidney. We'll explain why.

19:03

He had a genetic predisposition and his kidneys were going to be a problem

19:07

and he's been looking for months. Actually got it pretty quickly, Jeff will

19:14

explain, and it was a home run for two hometown heroes, not only

19:22

Jeff Plimpton, but also the gentleman who has given Jeff at least twenty years

19:30

of more productive and healthy life. It's a great story. We'll be back

19:34

with Jeff Plimpton right after the break with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.

19:45

All Right, I am delighted to welcome back from a Boston Red Sox picture

19:51

Jeff Plimpton to nightside. Jeff, congratulations, how are you. I'm great,

19:56

Dan, thank you so much. Thank you for having me back.

19:59

And you know, it was just a few short months ago that we were

20:03

chatting and five months later, here I am talking to you again on Opening

20:07

Night for the Sucks. How about that, Timmy could couldn't be better,

20:10

that's for sure. Yeah, you have been dealing with a genetic problem.

20:17

Your mom had a predisposition to kidney kidney disease, so you were sworn enough

20:22

to monitor that. And what exactly were you dealing with and and what what

20:30

made you come to realize that I need to get a kidney sooner than later.

20:36

Well yeah, so yeah, it's hereditary in the family that I remember

20:41

my grandmother suffered with this terrible disease and my mom went through the same thing.

20:47

My mom received the kidney back in ninety six. And it's polycystic kidney

20:52

disease, which assists that grow on your kidney with fluid and eventually take over

20:57

the kidney. I you know, you know, big belief in my family

21:03

was you know, don't worry about it until you have to worry about it.

21:07

And unfortunately, back in two thousand and nine was I suffered a softball

21:11

injury playing softball, and I spent the week in Rhode Island hospital and they

21:17

said, hey, by the way, you have an polycistic kidney disease. And I said, well, I knew about that, and so it was

21:22

monitored over a period of time since you know, two thousand and nine to

21:27

the state here and knowing that at the age of maybe fifty eight to sixty

21:32

that I would be in need of a kidney or beyond dialysis. So to

21:40

the rescue comes a young guy, a little younger Mike Roach, who was

21:45

a high school student growing up in Plainville. And according to the story that

21:51

I'm looking at written by Mike Kirby and the Sun Chronicle, which is a great piece from earlier this week, he knew Jeff Flimpton, and he stepped

22:00

up to the plate, not to face Jeff Plimpton, but to help them

22:03

tell us that part of the story. Yeah, he sure did so.

22:07

I met Mike about three years ago. He came onto my baseball organization,

22:11

Crush Baseball, out of rent them as a coach and brought his two sons

22:15

on to join the team as well. And Mike's always been a fantastic coach

22:22

and does so many different things with baseball, also as the KP freshman coach

22:26

for my son Jeff Jr. That came yes, yeah, And so before

22:34

I came out, you know, with all the information back in October and

22:37

talking to w b Z at that time, you know, in August I

22:41

was talking to Mike, and Mike you know, looked at me one day

22:45

and said, hey, you're spending a lot of time down at the hospitals.

22:47

Anything going on. I said, well, we get this kidney problem,

22:51

then I'm going to need a kidney. And he looked at me and said, well, I'm oh negative. What are you And I said,

22:56

well, I'm oh negative, and he says, I'll give you my kidney.

23:00

I looked at him. I said, wow, that's pretty straightforward.

23:02

And but that's the type of guy Mike is and Lo and Behole. They

23:06

go through all the social media and all the different things to you know,

23:11

prepare for looking for a kidney through donation, and you know, flash forward

23:17

after the October coming out with all that, I'm talking to Mike on the

23:21

phone, just talking baseball for about a half an hour and in December and

23:26

he says, Oh, by the way, I have to go down to Rownd Hospital today, so I got to hit the road right now. And

23:30

I said, geez, Mike, keep doing this. And he's like I

23:33

told you I was, And but he's that type of guy. So I

23:36

never said too much about that. And you know, here he is at

23:40

the end of the road which is pretty extensive testing on from his side to

23:45

be ready for this, those three months of testing and just about everything,

23:49

and uh, you know we are in March. You know, we go

23:52

into surgery together. Boy what and and everything worked out. Find Mike is

23:59

feeling fine. Yeah, Mike's doing great. You sound great? Yeah,

24:04

So oh go ahead. No, I was just saying that in the article

24:10

that that Mike Kirby wrote in the soun Chronicle and we talked about today.

24:15

I guess that you and your wife and Mike and his wife Linda, and

24:21

you and Mike and Nicky have made a deal that every year on the anniversary

24:26

of March fifth, the day of the surgery, you're all going to go

24:30

out to dinner and you're not splitting the bill. In this one which I

24:34

certainly understand. Yeah, well, if you knew Mike, he's always saying

24:41

to me, you don't need to worry about anything this, this is what

24:45

I wanted to do and all that other stuff. But you know, we

24:47

came up with something pretty simple that would work. And uh yeah, Micha

24:51

will never see that bill. Yeah. Yeah, Well my advice to Mike

24:55

is, don't try to wrestle Jeff for the bill because the stuff aren't bigger

24:57

than you. Oh I don't know about that. At fifty eight years old,

25:03

I think my money would still be on Jeff. Let me tell you.

25:07

Well, look, Mike's listening to this now, so you don't don't

25:10

be setting me up. No, no, no, no. I know

25:14

that I couldn't deal with them, that's for sure. But I'm glad.

25:18

I'm glad. Congratulations, and Mike, thank you. Jeff Plimpton is a

25:22

is a very special guy. In my extension, You're a very special guy,

25:26

that is for sure. And it's just amazing that so many people have

25:30

difficulty. Normally it can take what years to get kidney Jeff, is that

25:34

what they say? Well? Absolutely so. Back in May I went on

25:38

a transplant list or started the process for that, and three months later I'm

25:42

on the transplant list and they tell you it's about six to eight years to

25:47

wait for a kidney that comes available. So there's a lot of people out

25:49

there that you know don't have maybe the opportunities or but you know they really

25:56

do. There's opportunities where you can you can put your story out there and

26:00

tell tell your life story, who you are. It's very important that you

26:04

know. It could be just as much as you know, I like to

26:07

play chess or checkers, and oh I like to play baseball or something like

26:11

that that makes people say, geez, you know I do too, and

26:14

they might look into it. And I got a great response at Rhode Island

26:17

Hospital and I realized I played for the Red Sox and all that stuff. But you know, you really have to, you know, put it out

26:23

there to the people. And you know there's guys like Mike Roach out there

26:27

that would would be willing to do something like this. Yeah, just an

26:32

amazing gift of life. And I know in the article that I read it,

26:37

it looks as if you you probably won't that you will probably now have

26:41

at least another twenty years of great health. God willing h and all in

26:48

Thart in part thanks to medical technology and uh and to a great guy named

26:52

Mike Roach. So when you talk to Mike, thank on behalf all of

26:56

us because he is a model for us to aspire to. You know,

27:00

we talk about organ donations a lot, and it's so critical, particularly when

27:06

you find yourself as you did, in need of one. And the other thing is that these sources of diseases strike even the strongest and the toughest amongst

27:14

us. You know, major League Baseball players and NFL players who you think

27:18

they're impervious to any problems, and they just like the rest of us,

27:22

you're a human being. And congratulations to you, Jeff and everyone in your

27:27

family. Certainly is a special Easter weekend for your family and also from Mike

27:33

Roach's family. And yeah, you just think Mike himself because he's listening to

27:37

you tonight, and that's a that's a great thing. But yeah, I

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also want to appreciate the fact that what you've done for me and put the

27:45

word out and if it's helping me, that's great. But if it's helping

27:48

logan donation, that's the greatest thing. Yeah, that's that's the next task.

27:53

I have the story of a young woman who I'm going to tell April

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is is kidney month, I guess, or kidney die out a month,

28:03

whatever the month is, and we're going to use that as an opportunity as

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well. So, Jeff, I look forward to seeing you around the ballpark

28:08

this this summer at some point. Can't wait to give you a big bear

28:11

hug. Okay man, congratulations, thanks so much for everything. Thank you

28:15

all right, and and congratulations to you, Mike, and thank you for

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your courage and your generosity. Jeff Plimpton, Ladies and gentlemen, fulma Boston

28:23

Red Sox pitcher. The season starts tonight. Jeff. I'm not sure if

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you're going to be ready to be activated, you know, anytime soon,

28:30

but get in shape. Well you that bullpen does look a little shaky to

28:34

me right now, okay, right now, I'm just working getting off the

28:37

coach. That's a start. It's a simple It'll be there, all right,

28:45

Thank you, talk soon, all right. Great. It's such a

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great guy. Anybody who knows Jeff Plimpton, he's uh, he's he's one

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of these guys that you know, is from our area, made it to

28:56

the big leagues, but it's still from our area. You know, didn't

29:00

didn't take off her head out of town and he's a he is a New

29:03

England guy, and so is it Mike Roach. When we get back,

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we're going to talk about another event that you might be interested in, and

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that is a tribute to the Beatles coming up at the back Wang Theater buck

29:18

Wang Center, and we will have that information. And if you like the

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Beatles, you want to stay tuned. And we have three great guests coming

29:25

up tonight, three great topics, and we open it up those phone lines

29:29

after nine o'clock back on Nightside right after this. It's Night Side with Boston's

29:37

News Radio. All right, I suspect some of you out there are fans

29:42

of the Beatles. I mean most people. Most people are. I'm delighted

29:47

to welcome Paul Cortolo. Paul, I hope I got that name fairly close.

29:52

How are you tonight? He nailed it, Dan, I'm good.

29:56

Thanks for having me. It's good to be here. And you're a member

29:59

of a group called Rain our ai n you portray Paul McCartney. Tell us

30:03

about Rain the group, who's in it? And then what you do?

30:08

And I guess you're coming to Boston pretty soon. Yeah, Yeah, I'm

30:12

looking forward to it. It's a new show this year. We're looking so

30:15

forward to sharing it with Boston. Boston is like a second home to us.

30:18

We love playing the Wing Theater and we actually have a hometown hero joining

30:23

our group. We've got a new drummer this year's name is Dylan, and

30:30

our new show is going to be really centered and focused around the Summer of

30:33

Love era, the Magical Mystery Tour era, Flower Power music of the Beatles,

30:38

that psychedelic, really really fun portion of the Beatles' career and we're calling

30:45

it the Musical Mystery Tour. So folded into our show, which goes through

30:48

the chronological you know, major milestones of the Beatles career, which you know,

30:55

seems like it it took so long, but it was only what about

30:59

seven eight years that they were abandoned. Look at what they did. So

31:02

throughout the night we start a show with with, you know, the Ed

31:07

Sullivant appearance kind of America's first impression of the Beatles and nineteen sixty three,

31:14

if I'm not mistaken, sixty four, Oh, it was sixty okay for

31:18

something that's true. It was after the Kennedy assassination. You're correct. Absolute

31:23

Well, I'm not gonna argue with you on that one, but yeah,

31:26

I mean the country was in old rooms and I was old enough to remember

31:30

it. We were thinking about the assassination of the young president from Massachusetts,

31:34

the thirty fifth President of the United States, cut down in Dallas, and

31:41

it was just only a few months earlier. And then all of a sudden,

31:45

this group Lean's the New York Is on the Ed Sullivan Show, and

31:48

the rest is history, right, It's it's really amazing. What a gift

31:52

the Beatles were out of such a tragic period in our country's history. Played

32:00

Boston, remember Sherriot. I remember, you know Gary Lapierre, one of

32:04

our great newsman, a Hall of Fame radio broadcaster. Uh. He covered

32:10

the tour and they stayed at the old Hotel Madison, which was next to

32:15

the old Boston Garden in the North Station area. It wasn't the most luxurious

32:20

hotel in Boston at the time. We had the Ritz and the Copley Plaza,

32:25

but it was it was next to the Garden, and they played the

32:30

Garden and they played Suffolk Downs. So how did you guys come together and

32:34

where's everybody from? Oh boy, We're all over the place, you know.

32:37

We we study our our Beatles from our our vinyls or our YouTube or

32:43

whatever it may be. But I'm I'm up here in Rena, Nevada,

32:46

which is northern Nevada. Are our John Steve Landis He's out in northern California.

32:55

Our guitarist George Harrison is out in Hawaii, believe it or not.

33:00

And Dylan is in Nashville now that he's from Boston, mass Really yeah,

33:06

So is this the first time the newly comprised And where does the name Rain

33:14

come from? I'm sure that some people who know more about the Beatles than

33:16

I have figured out the answer that question, But I gotta ask. Rain

33:22

is the B side track of Paperback Rider. When the rain comes, they

33:27

run, and I the heads might as well be dead when the rain comes.

33:31

So the group the group was formed in nineteen seventy five by our manager

33:37

Mark Lewis, who played keyboards at the time, and they went by Rain

33:40

spelled like Rain of the King, and they were kind of they did originals

33:45

and they would have Beatle Knights in Los Angeles and the Beatle Knights just really

33:51

grew in popularity. So by the time, you know, the early eighties

33:57

to mid eighties came along, I thought. I joined the group in nineteen

34:01

eighty three in Los Angeles and they started playing predominantly Beatles music, and by

34:07

then they were starting to delve into the look the correct instruments, the correct

34:10

tones, you know, the right beetles, and all the different eras.

34:14

So it really just took off in popularity from then. And like you said,

34:19

the rest is history, and so is the name of the group spelled

34:24

as the as the inclement weather or the time that a king when when swapping

34:34

over to a Beatle group really delving into the Beatle music, they decided,

34:37

okay, let's keep the name because of its its recognition and popularity, but

34:43

let's go with something beatle. And what really stood out was that B side

34:47

track from Paperback Rider. So you guys are going to be at the Box

34:52

Center. Let's first, first of all, let's get the dates correct,

34:54

and also it's tell us when it's April, I mean Friday April twelfth,

35:01

right, I believe it's twelve and the thirteenth. Couple back to the twelfth

35:07

to thirteenth then you get two shows in the thirteenth. You got at two o'clock and at eight o'clock. See, that's that's a hard, hard day's

35:13

night, right there. How about that? Come on? Not bad?

35:19

Okay? Yeah, so come on and I hear the Boston people and boy

35:23

we just take off. Yeah, well, that that is great. The

35:28

tickets are available through the Wing Theater. They start at thirty nine dollars,

35:34

so that they're not like off the wall expensive. But it's going to be

35:37

a great time, a great show. Are you guys on a tour coming

35:40

into Boston to do this specifically? Are there's other cities you're hitting along the

35:45

way. It's the opening week of our our spring tour, so we're going

35:50

to be out for about six weeks before launching our summer tour. So this

35:53

is the front end of our twenty twenty four spring tour circuit. Boy,

35:59

that's great. You know, well, congratulations, thanks thanks for joining us

36:04

tonight. And I assume that that when when you guys are out there on

36:08

stage, people not only going to close their eyes and listen and believe they're

36:14

listening to the Beatles, but when they open their eyes, they're going to see some guys who are going to appear very much in as the Beatles would

36:22

appear, correct, We sure hope. So, yeah, it's there's so

36:28

many things to take in from this show. You know, if if not

36:30

just staring at your favorite Beatle or listening to your favorite Beatles song, there's

36:35

a multi media experience going on around you and within you, and and uh

36:39

there's you know a whole trip through that era of time, really just through

36:46

that, through that decade, through that really really magical decade. So it's

36:52

you know, really focused around the Beatles, but there's so much more that

36:54

that just keeps enveloping throughout the night. So I hear a lot of people

36:59

say I had come back two, three times just to take it all in.

37:01

There's just so much going on. Well, I'll tell you it looks

37:07

like a great event, not only for the baby boomers, but they can

37:10

bring their grandkids to it and expose them to what it was really like when

37:16

Beatlemania ruled ruled here in America with Rain a Tribute to the Beatles at the

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Bock Center, Downtown Boston, Friday night, April twelfth and Saturday, a

37:28

matinee at two and also an eight o'clock show on Saturday night. Congratulations Paul,

37:35

welcome to Boston. A little ahead of time, but I hope that

37:37

the weather. We've had nothing but rain in the last couple of weeks here

37:40

in Boston, and I hope that the only rain we have when you're here

37:44

in Boston is what we're going to be doing on stage at the Box Center.

37:47

All right, from your mouth to God's ears. Thanks Dan, Thanks

37:52

very very much, my guest, Paul Cortolo of Rain, tribute to the

37:58

Beatles, coming to Boston. All right, we get back. We are

38:00

going to talk about the fight that is going on by with the town of

38:07

Milton, little Old Milton, and David and Goliath battle with the Commonwealth of

38:12

Massachusetts, and I frankly think that Milton Milton has a right to stand up

38:19

and defend itself. We will explain it all coming back later on tonight.

38:22

By the way, we'll talk about attention deficit hyperactivity disorder with doctor David Sits

38:31

at ten o'clock. He actually deals with this, not only dealing with patients,

38:35

but he deals with the condition himself. And then we will talk about

38:38

cryptocurrency with the crypto expert Dane Rose. Today's sentence of twenty five years.

38:45

That's a long time for Sam Bankman freed, but I think it's well deserved.

38:49

We'll get to all of that. We got a full three hours coming

38:52

up here on nightside. Please stay with us.