Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's Radio.
Speaker 2: You know, Nicole, I could be wrong on this. Check me.
Speaker 2: I do not believe that the Utah Hockey Club is
Speaker 2: one of the NHL's original six teams.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure you're right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, probably no better than me, but I've got a
Speaker 3: I got a hankering.
Speaker 1: You're probably correct on this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean I'm not a hockey question
Speaker 3: like Eddie Andaman used to refer to hockey fans as,
Speaker 3: but I've never I never heard of the Utah Hockey Club.
Speaker 4: Frankly, until we can go five ten minutes ago, I
Speaker 4: hadn't either.
Speaker 3: You know, I mean, bring back the Quebec nor Dix
Speaker 3: or someone like that.
Speaker 2: All right, I can take the Hartford Whalers at this point.
Speaker 2: Theyucky the Whale. I loved hockey the Whale.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, absolutely, thanks thanks for clearing that up for me.
Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate that anything for you.
Speaker 3: Dan, have a good.
Speaker 2: Show, Thanks so thanks so much.
Speaker 3: My name is Dan Rayan aster Cole had mentioned the
Speaker 3: host of Nightside, and we cover as many topics as
Speaker 3: you possible, more topics than you could possibly imagine here
Speaker 3: on Nightside, But Hockey's won. I'm pretty sure they're not
Speaker 3: one of the original six Canadians maple Lea's Red Wings,
Speaker 3: black Hawks, Bruins and Rangers. Yeah, they're not the original six,
Speaker 3: although I think they won their first couple of games,
Speaker 3: so they must have been loaded up in some sort
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Speaker 3: The Brunes will handle it. We are here every night,
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Speaker 3: don't do phone calls, which is fine. You get to
Speaker 3: sit back and listen to people who have interesting information.
Speaker 2: Sometimes it involves.
Speaker 3: An activity that you might like to participate, as our
Speaker 3: first one is this weekend. Some of it might be
Speaker 3: something a little bit more in the future. We'll get
Speaker 3: through it all. We'll get through it all. And of course,
Speaker 3: once we do open up the phone lines after the
Speaker 3: nine o'clock news, then you'll be talking with Rob Brooks
Speaker 3: before you talk to me. And of course the number
Speaker 3: remains six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty. So
Speaker 3: let's get it started. I want to welcome Ashley Carrier.
Speaker 3: Ashley is the executive director here in Massachusetts for the
Speaker 3: American Lung Association, and there is a big event coming
Speaker 3: up this weekend, the Lung Force Walk Boston. Ashley, Welcome
Speaker 3: to Night's side. Tell us all about the Lung Force Walk,
Speaker 3: which will be taking place. I guess in Hopkinson, not
Speaker 3: in Boston, but certainly very close to Boston. How are
Speaker 3: you tonight?
Speaker 4: I'm great.
Speaker 5: How are you?
Speaker 3: I've kind of wound up, you know, but I normally
Speaker 3: am when I start my shows.
Speaker 4: Well, first of all, thank you for having me on
Speaker 4: this evening.
Speaker 6: I really appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So, our Lung Force Walk is taking place this Saturday.
Speaker 4: It's our ninth annual walk and it's going to be
Speaker 4: at Hopkinson State Park for the first time ever. So
Speaker 4: we're incredibly excited about that. Visitent is all about raising
Speaker 4: awareness and critical funds for lung cancer research.
Speaker 5: And other long diseases.
Speaker 4: It's it's going to be really stunning there, with a
Speaker 4: two mile walk along the waterfront and with peak foliage.
Speaker 4: It's it's going to be awesome.
Speaker 2: Yeah, supposed to be a nice weatherwise too.
Speaker 3: I'm both both on Saturday and Sunday, and you won't
Speaker 3: be walking along the Charles River and competing with the
Speaker 3: head of the child. So it will be really nice parking,
Speaker 3: pretty accessible and easy out.
Speaker 5: There, I hope very much so free parking.
Speaker 4: There's plenty of parking, so that will not be an
Speaker 4: issue we will be dealing with. And it's supposed to
Speaker 4: be in the seventies and sunny, so I can't complain
Speaker 4: about that.
Speaker 2: No, absolutely so.
Speaker 3: Look, the American Lung Association, which is a wonderful organization
Speaker 3: that's been around for a long long time. Way, did
Speaker 3: you previously used to have these walks? As this walk
Speaker 3: moved from different locations, you said, it's the ninth one
Speaker 3: here in Boston. Where where has it been you know previously.
Speaker 3: I don't need a list of all the locations, but
Speaker 3: I'm just curious in case some people say, oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: I participated in that a year ago, Now I want
Speaker 3: to get go this weekend.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So historically it had been at the Boston Common for
Speaker 4: a couple of years, and then it was at Franklin
Speaker 4: Park Zoo that we're trying to find a home for
Speaker 4: our walk, So this it made sense, and it's really
Speaker 4: just accessible to everybody and it's a beautiful location.
Speaker 2: That's the point.
Speaker 3: The point is as lovely as Boston is, it's becoming
Speaker 3: more difficult to park find a parking space. Obviously in
Speaker 3: the Zoo area that's a different story, but to try
Speaker 3: to get people into the Boston common I certainly can't
Speaker 3: understand that that's not going to work.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's a two mile walk or three mile.
Speaker 3: I wasn't sure. I thought I read three and you're
Speaker 3: telling me two.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's two miles. So we have a couple.
Speaker 5: We have two different routes.
Speaker 4: One is fully accessible, fully paved, and the other route
Speaker 4: is has a little bit of a hill and it
Speaker 4: actually goes over the dam, so it's right along the water.
Speaker 4: So people who come and participate can choose either of
Speaker 4: the two different routes, which.
Speaker 3: Is okay, this is a fundraiser. You hope people would
Speaker 3: get sponsors, I assume for their participation. And look, I
Speaker 3: have forgotten how many people die of lung related diseases.
Speaker 2: Bring us up to date on that.
Speaker 3: I was looking at some of your materials and I
Speaker 3: know you know it off the top of your head.
Speaker 3: It kind of surprised me because you think about cancer,
Speaker 3: which is horrible, and you think about heart problems, but
Speaker 3: we got to remember lungs.
Speaker 8: As well well, right, And honestly, a little known fact
Speaker 8: is that lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer
Speaker 8: deaths in both the US and right here in Massachusetts.
Speaker 4: So Massachusetts actually ranks thirtieth in the nation for new
Speaker 4: lung cancer cases, which means we have a higher rate
Speaker 4: of new cases than a NASH the average.
Speaker 3: You know, I was really hoping that that lung cancer
Speaker 3: would go away when people would end up stopping smoking
Speaker 3: and all of that. But I guess there are other
Speaker 3: ways in which you can can contract Yeah.
Speaker 4: And you know, that's something that that we Alay are
Speaker 4: working to break the stigma is that people who have
Speaker 4: lung are diagnosed with lung cancer are not necessarily smokers.
Speaker 4: There's other, you know, other causes of lung cancer aside
Speaker 4: from smoking.
Speaker 3: Okay, so let's let's get down to it. Let's assume
Speaker 3: people haven't signed up. This is a couple of days
Speaker 3: from now. This is Saturday. How early do you start
Speaker 3: on Saturday?
Speaker 4: We start at nine thirty.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's fine, that's that's not all that early some
Speaker 2: of these starts.
Speaker 5: No, no, no.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, the sunshine will have broken through the chill in
Speaker 3: the ear will have abated a little bit. So exactly
Speaker 3: can people still sign up? Is there a minimum of
Speaker 3: funding that has to be achieved? Well, Gil, give us
Speaker 3: what the particulars are and how they can get in
Speaker 3: touch with you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so it's not too late to join.
Speaker 4: People can still register online at lungforce dot org slash Boston.
Speaker 4: Or if if you don't want to commit yet, any
Speaker 4: wake up Saturday feeling like you want to join, you
Speaker 4: can come and register on site the day of the event.
Speaker 4: It's open to everyone, so if you're walking solo, you
Speaker 4: want to bring your family, your work, friends, any everyone
Speaker 4: is welcome and there's not a fundraising minimum. We do
Speaker 4: have a minimum of one hundred dollars to earn a
Speaker 4: walk t shirt.
Speaker 2: Fair enough, Okay, So again the website one more time
Speaker 2: is lung Force.
Speaker 4: It is lungforce dot org, slash Boston slash Boston.
Speaker 3: Okay, so last year you've been you've been doing this
Speaker 3: for a while. Last year, how much money did you raise?
Speaker 3: Your raised quite a bit of money last year as.
Speaker 4: I understand it, we raised around fifty thousand, and our
Speaker 4: goal this year is ninety so we're just about halfway there.
Speaker 4: We've already beat our amount from last year, which is exciting.
Speaker 4: So we're on track to get to that ninety thousand mark.
Speaker 3: Okay, just roughly for people who are thinking of getting
Speaker 3: out there, how many walkers do you how many folks
Speaker 3: do you think you will be participating in one form,
Speaker 3: one fashion or another.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so we're expecting around a few hundred people from
Speaker 4: you know, the Boston metro area and local suburbs. So
Speaker 4: it should be well attended and we're really excited for that.
Speaker 2: Ashley.
Speaker 3: Congratulations, a great cause, the American Lung Association, the Lung
Speaker 3: Forcewalk Boston, Lungforce dot org or slash Boston, keep us
Speaker 3: posting on it and anything we can do for you.
Speaker 3: The American Lung Association, longstanding, great great charity, and of
Speaker 3: course now everything's a dot org. So thanks so much
Speaker 3: for joining us tonight, Ashley. In best of luck on Saturday.
Speaker 3: I wish you a very successful day.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much. I really appreciate it. Hope you
Speaker 4: have a great night.
Speaker 3: Sure, well, I'm gonna try. We're we're gonna be gonna
Speaker 3: do just fine.
Speaker 2: Thanks again. Asty.
Speaker 3: We get back, We're going into talk to you a
Speaker 3: little bit about cyber security. It is Cybersecurity Awareness Month.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of stuff going on. There is romance scams,
Speaker 3: fishing scams, online threats are on the rise. Online safety.
Speaker 3: We're gonna touch it all, talk about it all with
Speaker 3: Kimberly Summer. She's a Google security expert. Last year, twelve
Speaker 3: point five billion dollars in online scams were reported. You
Speaker 3: do not want to be scammed. You want to keep listening.
Speaker 3: Later on we'll talk about Titanic. They have an artifact
Speaker 3: exhibition here in Boston, and also a guest from the
Speaker 3: Boston Globe. Twenty things still made in Massachusetts. Remember when
Speaker 3: the slogan was make it in Massachusetts. Well, maybe you're
Speaker 3: not making as much stuff, but there's still twenty things.
Speaker 2: We'll may we do make here in.
Speaker 3: Massachusetts, and Scott Kurzner of the Boston Global join us.
Speaker 2: My name is Dan Ray. This is Nightside. You're listening
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Speaker 1: Now back to Dan ray Line from the Window World
Speaker 1: night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 3: Well, we are in the Cybersecurity Awareness Month. I'm sure
Speaker 3: most of you did not realize that, but we are.
Speaker 3: And it's important that we are aware of cybersecurity concerns.
Speaker 3: And with us is Kimberly Samra. She's a Google security expert. Kimberly,
Speaker 3: there is so many days when I'd love to call
Speaker 3: you when I'm all messed up on Google or whatever,
Speaker 3: and I promise you I never will. But I stand
Speaker 3: than are of people like you who know what's going on.
Speaker 3: And welcome to night Side. First of all, and I'm
Speaker 3: really surprised to see last year that people like me,
Speaker 3: average Americans lost twelve point five billion dollars in online scams.
Speaker 2: This is terrifying. How are you.
Speaker 6: Tonight, I'm good. I'm good, and call me anytime.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 6: We're friends, so anytime you need help, let me.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: Oh, that could be.
Speaker 3: A mistake because I'll say, how push the on button?
Speaker 3: It doesn't light up. Do you have the computer? Do
Speaker 3: you have the laptop plugged in?
Speaker 2: Oh? No, let me plug it in anyway. No, big deal.
Speaker 3: I appreciate that. So you're a Google security expert. Do
Speaker 3: you run your own company or or what do you
Speaker 3: what do you do? How do you become a Google
Speaker 3: I'm sure when you were in elementary school and they said, Kimberly,
Speaker 3: what do you want to be when you grew up,
Speaker 3: you didn't say I want to be a Google security expert?
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 6: I have to look back at my old projects. I'm
Speaker 6: sure my mom still has them. I'll have to look back,
Speaker 6: but I don't remember that quite quite literally. But yeah,
Speaker 6: So what I do is I work with the security
Speaker 6: team here at Google to kind of get their research
Speaker 6: out there, kind of figure out how we can reach
Speaker 6: more of our users to make sure that they're better
Speaker 6: protect and understand the protections that they can take advantage
Speaker 6: here at Google and do our products. See, I work
Speaker 6: with a ton of really talented people, and my favorite
Speaker 6: part of my job is working with with everyday users
Speaker 6: like yourself, where I can kind of help folks beef
Speaker 6: up their security.
Speaker 2: Okay, so let's talk about what's going on.
Speaker 3: We got romance scams, fishing scams, online threats are on
Speaker 3: the rise. We're all getting this stuff. You know, click
Speaker 3: here when you get this free. Whatever I mean, how
Speaker 3: do you distinguish what's real?
Speaker 6: Yeah, so, as you said, we've seen Americans was a
Speaker 6: ton of money last year to these online scams, and
Speaker 6: ninety percent of data breaches actually come from something called fishing.
Speaker 6: And fishing is when somebody tries to reach out to you,
Speaker 6: pretending to somebody you know, a business, you frequent, a
Speaker 6: family member, a friend, and they're trying to pretend to
Speaker 6: get to know you or already know you to get
Speaker 6: information from you. So there's a few different things that
Speaker 6: you can do to to spot these items. Number one
Speaker 6: is consider the source. If somebody's reaching out to you
Speaker 6: and you don't know them, you want to be weary
Speaker 6: right after that, right, and that's through things like you know,
Speaker 6: saying that you have a subscription room you never you know,
Speaker 6: you never called for or weren't expecting, or somebody offering
Speaker 6: a gift card or pretending to be your bank. Is
Speaker 6: something's a little off. And that leads me to tip
Speaker 6: number two, and that's look for clues. If you see
Speaker 6: things like misspellings, grammar errors, you know, some formatting is
Speaker 6: a little bit off from something you'd usually see. Those
Speaker 6: are red flags. Also A big one that I always
Speaker 6: tell my parents is that if anybody's reaching out to
Speaker 6: you urgently, you know whatether that's called text messages, emails,
Speaker 6: that's a big red flag, especially if they want some
Speaker 6: want you to do something, click on a link, send money,
Speaker 6: you know, give personal information, your phone number, email address.
Speaker 6: Remember that any responsible business or anybody that you frequent
Speaker 6: is going to have that information. And because they have it,
Speaker 6: they're never going to ask you for that information. Google,
Speaker 6: for example, will never call you about your Google account.
Speaker 6: So look for those types of clues and never forget
Speaker 6: to verify the information of the center. If you get
Speaker 6: an email, for example, and it says it's from you know,
Speaker 6: Beyonce Knowles that you you know, hover over the email
Speaker 6: address and it's from Kimberly Samra, that's probably a big
Speaker 6: red flag, right. Or if you're going to be a
Speaker 6: phone call and it's supposed to be your local transportation
Speaker 6: company but the area code is something international or something
Speaker 6: across the country, that's a big red flag.
Speaker 3: Well, a lot of the stuff you get now which
Speaker 3: I see all the time and I don't know how
Speaker 3: how to For example.
Speaker 2: I know what my email is.
Speaker 3: It's a pretty simple email okay, and it's I'm not
Speaker 3: going to say it over here, but you know, no,
Speaker 3: I'm serious. You get this stuff, you we are going
Speaker 3: to bill you for nine and twenty seven dollars for
Speaker 3: the services that you received from fill in.
Speaker 2: The blank geek squad or whatever you get this stuff.
Speaker 3: I've never used geek squad, so I'm s wanted to
Speaker 3: look at that and say that's not me. Okay, But
Speaker 3: a lot of people will pan it because they'll say,
Speaker 3: oh my god, they're gonna build my credit card for
Speaker 3: nine hundred dollars.
Speaker 2: My question is this.
Speaker 3: That they're just throwing darts at If I'm wrong, please
Speaker 3: tell me, because I don't want to mislead people. But
Speaker 3: they just guess that. They're saying, Okay, this person's name
Speaker 3: is Bill Smith, Okay, so maybe we'll we'll send emails
Speaker 3: to Bill Smith, you know, at every at every email
Speaker 3: we can think of, and we'll I mean, they're sending
Speaker 3: out millions, hundreds of millions of emails blind. It's not
Speaker 3: like they've figured out that your name Kimberly Samra you
Speaker 3: know that you have a Verizon account or whatever? Am
Speaker 3: I right or wrong on that? They just guess it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it depends, right, if they have your
Speaker 6: information from some sort of like large scale data breach,
Speaker 6: they could have an idea that it's linked to some
Speaker 6: sort of account, right, or you know, if it is
Speaker 6: an email address that you use that's tied to a
Speaker 6: certain account, for example, Gmail, they can put two and
Speaker 6: two together and kind of say that, you know, this
Speaker 6: is somebody that we could reach out to. But yeah,
Speaker 6: for you know, all intensive persons, there might be chances
Speaker 6: that they're just reaching out to you and you know,
Speaker 6: hoping that somebody has that you know, banking account that's
Speaker 6: linked to that, and you know they're looking for the
Speaker 6: easiest term possible, right, they just want to throw it
Speaker 6: out there. That's why you're going to see some of
Speaker 6: those misspellings and those spelling errors or just exactly what
Speaker 6: you're saying right now, you know, putting together two and
Speaker 6: two that you know, I don't have that online account.
Speaker 6: Some people you know just kind of you know, you're
Speaker 6: there to trust the emails that you got and and
Speaker 6: folks will just click on them. So another thing is
Speaker 6: I tell people that even if you get an email mail,
Speaker 6: so if you had that account, for example, and you're like, well,
Speaker 6: this could be legitimate, maybe I do owe that money.
Speaker 6: Instead of clicking on that link in that email, just
Speaker 6: go to your account on your own right, type in
Speaker 6: that URL and the URL bar and go to your
Speaker 6: own account. That way, you can make sure that you're
Speaker 6: not clicking on any malicious links and that you're going
Speaker 6: right to the source. You're not talking about on the phone.
Speaker 6: You're looking at your own account in your online account information.
Speaker 6: And then also if you need to click on the
Speaker 6: link for any reason, hover over it and see where
Speaker 6: it's actually going to take you. You know, it might
Speaker 6: say that it's a link to your bank account, and
Speaker 6: then when you hover over it, the URLA has nothing
Speaker 6: to do with that bank account. So those are some
Speaker 6: really really good things to keep in mind.
Speaker 3: The other great item when you're I don't know how
Speaker 3: many people, probably the people who need the most help
Speaker 3: are having a tough time, you know, following our conversation,
Speaker 3: and you're making it very clear by the way, But
Speaker 3: people who are sophisticated probably don't need these tips.
Speaker 2: They need reminders.
Speaker 3: But one of the things I will do when I
Speaker 3: get some email from whatever, you know, the geek squad
Speaker 3: who have never used I'm just using that as an example,
Speaker 3: I have a over the account in this wonderful little
Speaker 3: thing says block contact, and you hit block contact and
Speaker 3: you will never hear. Now, maybe they'll change it at
Speaker 3: some point and next time it'll be uh I don't
Speaker 3: you know, it'll be American Airlines telling you that you
Speaker 3: owe you know, this for your for your round trip
Speaker 3: to Hawaii twenty three thousand dollars, and you know you've
Speaker 3: never been to Hawaii, so you know, click on it
Speaker 3: and block it. I mean, are you a big advocate
Speaker 3: of blocking contacts that you that you're not that you're
Speaker 3: not going to respond to anyway.
Speaker 6: Yeah. I definitely encourage folks to report spam. You know,
Speaker 6: we have really great uh spam filters on Gmail and Search,
Speaker 6: and we love when people report spam. That way, we
Speaker 6: can you know, update your filters, making sure that we're
Speaker 6: keeping that out of your box, that we know things
Speaker 6: to track for. So, you know, reporting those types of
Speaker 6: things help you and it helps us. So making sure
Speaker 6: that you report things as possible. Also, I do encourage people,
Speaker 6: you know, when you do if you ever call victims
Speaker 6: of scam, which I hope nobody does, you know, reporting
Speaker 6: that to to local authorities and using you know, the
Speaker 6: SBI makes it very easy to report just even the
Speaker 6: most basic of scams. In that way, security teams like
Speaker 6: Google and across the industry and law enforcement can do
Speaker 6: a better you know, get a better idea of campaigns.
Speaker 6: They should be keeping an eye on Kimberly.
Speaker 3: A lot of great information. We should have you back periodically.
Speaker 3: I really mean that, and so it's so important.
Speaker 2: I mean that.
Speaker 3: And these are mostly offshore companies, the scam artists. They're
Speaker 3: there anywhere from you know, Asia, Eastern Europe, wherever, I mean.
Speaker 2: Most of them.
Speaker 3: Your money's going out of the country. You have no
Speaker 3: hopes of getting it back. Kimberly, thank you, Thank you
Speaker 3: so much.
Speaker 2: Is there.
Speaker 3: I don't want to give us your website here, but
Speaker 3: I thank you very much for making yourself available and
Speaker 3: trying to help my listeners tonight. And I'd love to
Speaker 3: have you back periodically if you don't mind.
Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely love to come back. And your listeners can
Speaker 6: go to safety dot google dot com for all the
Speaker 6: latest tips and tricks.
Speaker 3: Great, okay, that's what I was hoping I get from you,
Speaker 3: Safety dot Google dot com. Great, perfect, Thanks so much,
Speaker 3: appreciate it very very much, Kim believe we'll talk again.
Speaker 6: All right, Thank you, thank.
Speaker 2: You, have a great night. We get back. We're going
Speaker 2: to talk about something that's historic and interesting.
Speaker 3: I was going to say it's interesting the Titanic, the
Speaker 3: artifact exhibition. We will talk about that right after the
Speaker 3: news at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 2: My name is Dan Ray. This is WBZ in Boston.
Speaker 2: Dan Ray. Night Side with Dan Ray.
Speaker 1: It's nice Side with Dray on WBS Boston's news radio.
Speaker 3: Boy, if you ever say the word Titanic to anybody
Speaker 3: in New England, we think about nineteen twelve and we
Speaker 3: think about the Red Sox. There's an a Titanic artifact
Speaker 3: exhibition Titanic Boston dot Us with us is Joe Gold. Joe,
Speaker 3: Welcome to Night Side. This looks like a fascinating exhibition.
Speaker 3: Tell us about it. When does it get here, what's
Speaker 3: the schedule and how can folks get tickets?
Speaker 7: Well, Dan, thanks for having me on. We're pretty excited
Speaker 7: to be speaking with you. Titanic is opening tomorrow on
Speaker 7: Friday the eighteenth, and we're at the cast Flood Park
Speaker 7: Plaza right downtown at the intersection of Columbus av in Arlington.
Speaker 7: So We're pretty excited to be in Boston. This is
Speaker 7: the first time that this exhibition has been to Boston.
Speaker 7: It's traveled all around the world and more than thirty
Speaker 7: five million people have seen it.
Speaker 2: So give me an idea.
Speaker 3: I mean, when we think of the Titanic, obviously it
Speaker 3: went down in two thousand, in nineteen twelve, and everybody's
Speaker 3: seen the movie. Everybody remembers DiCaprio and Winslet in the
Speaker 3: leads in the movie, and Boston feels very much a
Speaker 3: part of the Titanic. How many of these items I
Speaker 3: assume most of these items were salvaged from the Titanico.
Speaker 3: Davison I did what people would see.
Speaker 7: Sure. So when you come into the exhibition, the first
Speaker 7: thing you're given is a boarding pass, and that boarding
Speaker 7: pass tells you about one of the passengers, and it
Speaker 7: tells you if they're in the first class or third class,
Speaker 7: and it also gives you a little bit of their
Speaker 7: brief history. And then you come in and you see
Speaker 7: one of the artifacts that you see as the bell
Speaker 7: from the Titanic. And then you walk in and you
Speaker 7: see a recreation of the room of how it was designed.
Speaker 7: We have artifacts that from Harlan and Wolfe, the designers
Speaker 7: of Titanic. You walk down a first class cabin and
Speaker 7: then you come into an area where we have forty
Speaker 7: to seventy different artifacts. And these artifacts are anything from
Speaker 7: the personal belongings of the passengers and they include eyeglasses
Speaker 7: and wallets and currency. We have pieces of the Titanic,
Speaker 7: so we have a toilet and some of the plumbing fixtures,
Speaker 7: and there's a number of other things that you see.
Speaker 7: But what's the I think one of the best parts
Speaker 7: of this exhibition that you feel like you're on the Titanic.
Speaker 7: So we have a recreation of the grand staircase, which
Speaker 7: is absolutely magnificent, and it took our staff almost two
Speaker 7: weeks to assemble inside the inside the castle.
Speaker 3: It's very looking at that picture right now, and it's breathtaking,
Speaker 3: it really is. When did this exhibitions? You know, you
Speaker 3: said it's been to a lot of places. How long
Speaker 3: has it been around? And it just travels from city
Speaker 3: to city, mostly in the US, but I assume in
Speaker 3: different parts of the world as well.
Speaker 7: It's been all around the world. I mean, you name
Speaker 7: the city it's been there. Nineteen ninety eight, there was
Speaker 7: an exhibit of artifacts from Titanic, and it was really
Speaker 7: just artifacts under glass and you walked up and down
Speaker 7: the roads and you saw what it was, and there
Speaker 7: wasn't much of an explanation or it really didn't give
Speaker 7: context to the artifacts. This exhibition was created in about
Speaker 7: I Want to Stay two thousand and two, two thousand
Speaker 7: and three, and we worked on it ourselves. We did
Speaker 7: the marketing for it in Philadelphia and Detroit and Tampa
Speaker 7: and a number of other cities. And as I said,
Speaker 7: more than thirty five million people have seen this exhibition.
Speaker 7: It's quite quite amazing.
Speaker 2: Now all of us in Boston.
Speaker 3: And there is the linkage to the nineteen twelve baseball
Speaker 3: season and the Titanic because it left in April. Of course,
Speaker 3: it sank in April, and that was the beginning of
Speaker 3: the first Red Sox championship team. There is this linkage
Speaker 3: to Boston that people are aware of it. Why the
Speaker 3: heck did it takes a lot to Boston, I guess
Speaker 3: because I would have wanted to see this many years ago.
Speaker 2: If it's been around that long.
Speaker 7: It's sort of crazy that this is one of the
Speaker 7: only major cities, or probably the only major city in
Speaker 7: the United States and even secondary city that it hasn't
Speaker 7: been to. We looked at it, and our company has
Speaker 7: been marketing attractions and shows and collegiate sports and a
Speaker 7: number of other events, and we looked at this opportunity
Speaker 7: and we were able to make a deal with the
Speaker 7: company that produced the show. We were able to make
Speaker 7: a deal with the D. L. Saunders Company to bring
Speaker 7: it into the Castle, which is a really unique property,
Speaker 7: and we're fortunate enough to, you know, to bring it
Speaker 7: to the citizens of Boston.
Speaker 3: Now, how long will it be available and how can
Speaker 3: people get tickets? Let's let's get to the good stuff.
Speaker 3: How long is it will it be in our fine city.
Speaker 7: We're on sale right now through February second, and all
Speaker 7: people have to do is go to Titanic Boston, dot
Speaker 7: US and all the information on on the exhibition is there,
Speaker 7: how to buy tickets. You can see a lot of
Speaker 7: the different companies and organizations that we have partnerships with,
Speaker 7: from Davio's Restaurants at one point, we have a deal
Speaker 7: with Arthur Murray Dance Studios and you can take dance
Speaker 7: lessons on the Titanic. So it's really young. We have
Speaker 7: a lot of opportunities for people to get involved.
Speaker 2: Well, Davio's is great.
Speaker 3: Steve d Filippo, the owner of Davio's, is a great
Speaker 3: friend of mine and a great guy.
Speaker 2: I saw that, and I.
Speaker 3: Do know Arthur Murray Dance studios are located right there,
Speaker 3: within proximity of the castle. Only because my daughter, when
Speaker 3: she got married a couple of years ago, it made
Speaker 3: me to take some rudimentary dance lessons with her, which
Speaker 3: I'll remember for a long time. So it's a good
Speaker 3: three months. It's the balance of October, November, December, and January,
Speaker 3: and then in early February it's gone. Tickets available. Give
Speaker 3: us the website one more time because people probably missed
Speaker 3: it the first time.
Speaker 7: You go, right, Sure, the website is Titanic Boston dot Us.
Speaker 3: Couldn't be simple. It's a Titanic Boston dot Us. Joe,
Speaker 3: are you from the area or no?
Speaker 7: Actually, yeah, I live on the North I've lived here
Speaker 7: now for a little over thirty years on the North Shore.
Speaker 3: Oh, come on and so and so are you guys
Speaker 3: doing some Are you with this around everywhere it goes?
Speaker 2: Or is your company involved in the in the in
Speaker 2: the efforts here in Boston.
Speaker 7: We're involved in a number of cities. We pick Boston
Speaker 7: obviously it's it's our home base. But we do the
Speaker 7: marketing for work with the BSO, with our Summerson and
Speaker 7: a number of other attractions.
Speaker 2: Oh, what's the name of the company.
Speaker 7: The Gold Group. We're not a creative agency obviously.
Speaker 9: No, no, no, no, no, that's that's that's great. No,
Speaker 9: that sounds like very successful. You have some great clients. Well, Joe,
Speaker 9: it's a pleasure to meet you are. There's so many
Speaker 9: people in Boston that I've never had a chance to meet.
Speaker 9: I don't know if we've ever met personally, but we've
Speaker 9: at least met over the telephone, and maybe at some
Speaker 9: point we'll bump into each other at an event in
Speaker 9: Boston and please say hello and remind me of our
Speaker 9: phone conversation. I really enjoyed the conversation.
Speaker 7: I'll do that, and hopefully you can come visit our show.
Speaker 2: I intend to because it's a fascinating story. Seeing the movie.
Speaker 3: I remember seeing the movie with my kids, who are
Speaker 3: now in the thirties, and they probably were in the
Speaker 3: in the eight to twelve range. I think my son
Speaker 3: might have been twelve, and so we're talking about twenty
Speaker 3: five years ago.
Speaker 2: And remember when they came to.
Speaker 10: The to the scene of where DiCaprio is painting the
Speaker 10: scene of Kate Winslet Winslet who's topless, and my eight
Speaker 10: year old daughter threw her hens over.
Speaker 3: My twelve year old son's nice. It was like he's
Speaker 3: struggling to see. Oh, I should tell that story publicly,
Speaker 3: that both you had had me. Joe, great, great to
Speaker 3: talk with you, talk.
Speaker 7: To you too. Thank you so much for having me on.
Speaker 3: Really enjoyed it. My pleasure. We get back. We're going
Speaker 3: to talk about something even closer to home, twenty things
Speaker 3: Still Made in Massachusetts with Scott Krisner of the Boston Globe.
Speaker 3: And yes, even though well I'll explain it used to
Speaker 3: be on our license plates it said make it in
Speaker 3: Massachusetts back in the eighties. A lot of stuff we
Speaker 3: used to make it's not made anymore, but some of
Speaker 3: the good stuff is still here. We'll talk with Scott
Speaker 3: Kristner of the Boston Globe right after this.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 3: Delighted to welcome to Nightside. I don't believe Scott has
Speaker 3: been with us before. But Scott, I'm easily corrected if
Speaker 3: I'm incorrect in this. Scott Kursner is a Boston Globe contributor. Scott, welcome,
Speaker 3: how are you tonight?
Speaker 5: I'm doing great. It may be my first time, so
Speaker 5: thank you for inviting.
Speaker 3: Me on this is your Nightside debut. Okay, so I
Speaker 3: read the piece, Scott. I'm sure the you do not remember.
Speaker 3: But we used to have license plates in Massachusetts that
Speaker 3: the state slogan was make it in Massachusetts.
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh. Yeah, I've seen bumper stickers too that
Speaker 5: say make it in Massachusetts and they look really vintage.
Speaker 5: Was that like seventies, early seventies, mid seventies, Well, it
Speaker 5: was more like.
Speaker 3: Early eighties, late seventies, early eighties. Governor Ed King ran
Speaker 3: against Mike Decaccas in nineteen seventy eight. Mike was a
Speaker 3: first term governor and King upset him in the Democratic
Speaker 3: primary and he served for four years, and then Mike
Speaker 3: Tocaccus came back and made a comeback and beat King
Speaker 3: in eighty two. And yeah, Ed King was a very
Speaker 3: pro business democrat.
Speaker 2: Sort of like an old school democrat. Yeah.
Speaker 3: A great football player at Boston College and played some
Speaker 3: pro football himself a tough guy, and no one thought
Speaker 3: he was going to win, but he won that primary
Speaker 3: and upset Mike Doucaccas, who quo was on a road
Speaker 3: a little sidelined a little bit. It would be who
Speaker 3: became the Democratic presidential nominee in nineteen eighty eight. So
Speaker 3: so with, there were still things that a lot of
Speaker 3: stuff in Massachusetts, as I understand, that has gone away unfortunately,
Speaker 3: but I think we still make some golf balls and candy.
Speaker 3: It was the funny stuff that we still make in Massachusetts.
Speaker 5: Well, you know, I mean my my column for the
Speaker 5: Globe I started in two thousand and A lot of
Speaker 5: the mandate is covering tech startups and biotech startups and
Speaker 5: you know, all of the companies that helped to go
Speaker 5: public someday. But every once in a while I find
Speaker 5: an opportunity to write a piece for the Globe about
Speaker 5: good old fashioned manufacturing, you know, of tangible items.
Speaker 2: Not but stuff, remember, stuff people think they can relate to.
Speaker 3: Look with all due respect to startups and all of that,
Speaker 3: and a lot of it in the high tech industry,
Speaker 3: you kind of gloss over if you if you're not
Speaker 3: you know under you know, thirty years of age, because
Speaker 3: it's like, what are.
Speaker 2: They talking about here?
Speaker 7: All right?
Speaker 8: Right?
Speaker 3: Tell me about some company that making widgets you know
Speaker 3: that I can't understand.
Speaker 5: So yeah, well, you know, a guy reached out to me.
Speaker 5: I think I was on my summer vacation August. The
Speaker 5: guy reached out to me. He said, I run a
Speaker 5: company in fall River and we haven't really been covered
Speaker 5: much by the globe, but we've been making leather jackets
Speaker 5: in fall River for fifty years. So there's a company
Speaker 5: called Vans and Leathers and I thought like, oh, that's interesting.
Speaker 5: I definitely want to go visit them and see, you know,
Speaker 5: kind of how a pail company survives making leather jackets
Speaker 5: in Massachusetts. And that kind of led me to think about, oh, geez,
Speaker 5: what else what other things that a consumer could buy
Speaker 5: are made here? So that was my filter. I didn't
Speaker 5: really think about, you know, we have a lot of
Speaker 5: medical device companies, you know that make heart stints and
Speaker 5: things like that. Yeah, there's a lot of you know
Speaker 5: whatever compressors and pumps and things people can't relate to.
Speaker 5: So my list was going to be about like things
Speaker 5: that you could buy and maybe even give somebody as
Speaker 5: a as a gift and in addition to vans.
Speaker 2: And yeah, you see you're talking about retail.
Speaker 5: Stuff, right, detail stuff something that you could actually buy.
Speaker 5: There's a couple exceptions on my list. But it's like
Speaker 5: junior mints, you know, do you do you know that
Speaker 5: every junior mint in the world is made on the
Speaker 5: edge of Central Square in Cambridge, in the last candy
Speaker 5: factory in Cambridge.
Speaker 2: So is that the old Necro factory.
Speaker 5: That's a pretty fun fact. It's not the old Neco factory.
Speaker 5: It's like a few blocks away from it. The old
Speaker 5: Necho factory, you know, speaking of biotech, got taken over
Speaker 5: by a Swiss biopharma company called Nevarda, so they're they're
Speaker 5: making drugs there, not making Neco wafers anymore. This is
Speaker 5: a factory that a little closer to Toscanini's ice cream
Speaker 5: if you know where that is on the edge of
Speaker 5: Central Square. And it's a factor that it's been there
Speaker 5: since the I think thirties or forties making candy and
Speaker 5: they're still doing it today.
Speaker 3: Give us a few of the others that people will recognize, well.
Speaker 5: I mean Titleist golf balls are made six hundred thousand titleist.
Speaker 5: Golf balls are made every day in New Bedford. There's
Speaker 5: a Lenen's company like high end sheets. Also nearby Fall
Speaker 5: River called John Matuk and Company. They make sheets that
Speaker 5: I can't really afford. Vilgion symbols. If you're a drummer
Speaker 5: or musician, you definitely know the Zilgin brand. They make
Speaker 5: symbols down on the South Shore. And then I also
Speaker 5: found out, you know, there's two different companies making flutes
Speaker 5: in Massachusetts, one in Maynard and.
Speaker 2: One in Competition.
Speaker 5: Competition.
Speaker 3: There's a company that's down in the southeast coast.
Speaker 2: It's called Balfour b A L. F O U R.
Speaker 3: They have for a long long time made all the
Speaker 3: championship rings for baseball teams.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, they make class rings I think also.
Speaker 3: They also do you know when the Red Sox won
Speaker 3: the Words, but they made rings for the Yankees and
Speaker 3: they made it rings for the Dodgers as I understand it,
Speaker 3: and they have suppose that, I believe, a pretty nice
Speaker 3: display case.
Speaker 2: Now there. What's the best edibles that are still made in.
Speaker 5: You know, I did a little bit of food, but
Speaker 5: I didn't want to go too much into like food
Speaker 5: and beer just because hey, there's fifty companies making craft
Speaker 5: beer that aficionados know. I mean, I think after you
Speaker 5: said Sam Adams, there probably aren't a lot of other
Speaker 5: mass market beers that people could name. But I did
Speaker 5: marshmallow fluff, of course, which is still made uh you know,
Speaker 5: made in uh not Summerville anymore. I'm blocking on where
Speaker 5: the where the fluff factory is. Someone will have to
Speaker 5: email me and remind me of my produ Yeah, and
Speaker 5: it's funny I left out. I mentioned marshmallow fluff, which
Speaker 5: of course goes with peanut butter. And the thing that
Speaker 5: was most mentioned by my readers in emails this week
Speaker 5: was you forgot about Teddy Bear brand peanut butter, which
Speaker 5: is made an Everett and apparently has a lot of fans.
Speaker 3: Marshall mellow fluff also goes like with avocados when.
Speaker 7: I have a.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I like that.
Speaker 5: I don't want to I don't want to pass judgment
Speaker 5: on it. The other like the other fun thing was, uh,
Speaker 5: there's a company in wester called the David Clark Company,
Speaker 5: which you would only know this company if you're a
Speaker 5: pilot or an air traffic controller. But they make those
Speaker 5: like chunky you know, it's a light green headset that
Speaker 5: a lot of private pilots and commercial airline pilots wear.
Speaker 5: And the fun fact is they also make spacesuits. So
Speaker 5: those two astronauts who flew the Boeing Starliner to the
Speaker 5: Space station this year and got stranded there were wearing
Speaker 5: spacesuits made in western Massachusetts.
Speaker 2: They're still stranded and they're still up there.
Speaker 5: Yeah, those spacesuits probably don't smell very good right now.
Speaker 3: I'm sure that they have as they must have a
Speaker 3: laundry up there or something like that.
Speaker 2: Scott, I really enjoyed this conversation.
Speaker 3: Next time you do something on making it in Massachusetts,
Speaker 3: MI pal Jack Dougherty does college hype over in Dorchester.
Speaker 3: Employees everybody from the Boston area. They do everything from
Speaker 3: Little League T shirts to the jackets that graduates of
Speaker 3: Harvard Business School get. They love a great local company's.
Speaker 5: I'll definitely do a follow up piece at some point.
Speaker 3: Really good people, really good people. Scott Kursner, Thank you
Speaker 3: so much, appreciate it. We'll have you back. You did
Speaker 3: very well on your debut. Looking forward to your second appearance.
Speaker 5: Okay, all right, thanks Dan later, Thank.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Absolutely, catch you later. That's for sure.
Speaker 3: All right, we are going to take up the issue
Speaker 3: of Question four, Yes it is Question four on the
Speaker 3: Massachusetts ballot talking about legalizing psychedelics. Stay with us, this
Speaker 3: is going to get interesting. We have a doctor of
Speaker 3: psychiatry who's not a big fan of that, but we'll
Speaker 3: we'll deal with it, coming up right after the nine