BOCR Morning Show 5.3.24

·1 hr 16 min·5 clips

Pete McKenzie explains how he lost his balance and fell backwards into a swamp while trying to retrieve a golf ball.

The episode opens with the hosts Kenny Young, Pete McKenzie, and Heather Ford engaging in casual banter about urinal dividers and personal space in public restrooms. They transition to discussing local traffic, specifically a 'Storrowed' truck incident where a vehicle got stuck under a low bridge. The show includes multiple advertisements for products like Windows 11 Pro, Sunday lawn care, and Yasso frozen yogurt. A significant segment features an interview with Jessica Paquette, a former Suffolk Downs executive and now the first female track announcer at Parks Racetrack in Pennsylvania. She provides insights into the 150th Kentucky Derby, noting the purse has increased from $2 million to $5 million, and discusses horses like Dornach, who is a full brother to last year's winner Mage and owned by former MLB player Jason Werth. Paquette offers betting tips, including her trifecta picks of Forever Young, Society Man, and Sierra Leone. Later, Pete McKenzie recounts a personal anecdote about losing his balance and falling into a swamp while trying to retrieve a golf ball at Wayland Country Club, humorously detailing the aftermath. The hosts also talk about a mysterious underground concrete room discovered by a Florida realtor during a home listing, speculating it might be a 'sex dungeon' or something sinister. Sports coverage includes the Bruins' playoff performance, with coach Jim Montgomery calling out star players like David Pastrnak, and news of a melted highway bridge on I-95 in Norwalk, Connecticut, after a tanker truck fire. The episode concludes with lighter segments, including a 'Feel-Good Friday' story about Boston police officers singing happy birthday during a wellness check and a discussion about the reliability of eyewitness testimony in the Karen Read trial.

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A stubborn 47-degree forecast sparks a loose, funny detour toward Antarctic volcanoes.

Boston's classic-rock morning show turns a bare-bones weather hit into the joke itself. The 6:52 read is almost impressively unhelpful: current temperature, low, and high all sitting at 47.

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