Saturday, May 23, 2026
Boston
On Thursday night, my phone rang a little after 9 pm. It was Dan Rea, who has a call-in show at night on WBZ, a giant 50,000-watt AM station in Boston that has a directional antennae that sends the signal westward-- I remember being able to pick it up sometimes at night on my little Radio Shack radio as a kid, lying in bed and amazed that I could hear people so far away. Rea wanted to talk about the sentencing of Amie Bock here in Minneapolis (he had read something I had said to CNN that day), and I jumped at the chance-- I love that radio station.
My favorite thing about that station generally is the callers-- the accents are amazing, and from different parts of New England. Which kind of makes this clip appropriate:
