Speaker 1: It's night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ Boston's new radio.
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Speaker 2: day better than the stock market and their day today
Speaker 2: what a blood bath. Good evening, everyone, and welcome on in.
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Speaker 2: lots coming up tonight. We're going to talk a little football,
Speaker 2: which we very rarely do here on Nightside. It's off season,
Speaker 2: but the Patriots players basically say that their team is
Speaker 2: not treating them well. We'll get into that a little bit.
Speaker 2: Very interesting article about the Globe and the Herald today
Speaker 2: and they're going to talk about self driving autonomous vehicles.
Speaker 2: I actually have been in a self driving autonomous vehicle
Speaker 2: and it was pretty cool. But I'm not sure most
Speaker 2: people are interested in being in a self driving autonomous vehicle.
Speaker 2: And we'll be talked with Mark Shield drop of Triple A.
Speaker 2: Oh sometimes late sometime later on tonight. We'll keep in
Speaker 2: suspense for that. In the meantime, we afford very interesting
Speaker 2: guests in the first hour, and we're going to start
Speaker 2: off with Nick Burns. Nick is a Google trends expert.
Speaker 2: Welcome Nick Burns tonightside. How are you.
Speaker 3: I'm great, Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 2: Now, I'm sure Nick, when you were seven or eight
Speaker 2: years old and someone said to you, Nick, what do
Speaker 2: you want to do when you grew up? Maybe you
Speaker 2: said you wanted to be a fireman, maybe a policeman,
Speaker 2: maybe a doctor, maybe a baseball player. You never said
Speaker 2: you wanted to be a Google trends expert. How'd you
Speaker 2: end up? As you know, you're expert.
Speaker 3: You're right, You're right. You know, life takes you and
Speaker 3: crazy adventures and you just got to say yes along
Speaker 3: the way.
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, yes, sir. So tell us, first of all,
Speaker 2: exactly what a Google trends expert is. I don't assume
Speaker 2: that wasn't your major in college. I'm assuming.
Speaker 3: You're you're very correct there. I was a literature major.
Speaker 3: But a Google trends expert, you know, we look at
Speaker 3: what people around the world are searching for. It gives
Speaker 3: us a lot of really interesting insight around the trends,
Speaker 3: what interests people, and it's kind of like the heartbeat
Speaker 3: of the Internet.
Speaker 2: So give us recently, I mean, give us an idea.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of folks out there who now understand
Speaker 2: Google and they understand trends, and obviously, at different points
Speaker 2: during the year, different trends take priority. But give us
Speaker 2: a sense as to maybe, let's talk February. February has
Speaker 2: just ended. I assume those numbers have been compiled at this.
Speaker 3: Point or no, we, sir, have Yeah, we have cut
Speaker 3: the numbers. And you know, February was a very busy,
Speaker 3: busy month, you know, and has everything from the Super
Speaker 3: Bowl to the SAG Awards, to Fashion Week in New York,
Speaker 3: to Black History months, and we saw all of these
Speaker 3: show up in our trends throughout February.
Speaker 2: Anything that surprised you, I mean all of those are
Speaker 2: sort of pre scheduled February events. Anything that surprised you
Speaker 2: during the month, Oh.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: I for me, I think I don't know if you
Speaker 3: follow in New York Fashion Week, But what was surprising
Speaker 3: to me is Calvin Klein was actually the top trending
Speaker 3: collection in terms of what people were searching for. And
Speaker 3: it comes down to a little known fact that this
Speaker 3: was the first time in five years that Calvin Klein
Speaker 3: has actually shown a collection at Fashion Week, and that's
Speaker 3: all due to their new creative director.
Speaker 2: This is a dumb question, but I get paid to
Speaker 2: ask dumb questions. Is Calvin Klein still alive?
Speaker 3: He is, absolutely and he was there. You're on the
Speaker 3: newest creative director.
Speaker 2: It seems to me like I'm not an expert in
Speaker 2: the world of fashion, but it seems to me like
Speaker 2: he's been around forever. I mean, how old is Calvin
Speaker 2: at this point?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 3: That is that is a very good question, and I'm
Speaker 3: sure if we asked Google, it would tell us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, we'll leave that one going. Well, I really
Speaker 2: wasn't sure really, to be really honest with you. So
Speaker 2: in sports, I've looked at a top local trend here
Speaker 2: and I'm kind of a sports guy, says the NBA
Speaker 2: All Star Game reaction. It was that the top sports
Speaker 2: a trend or am I misreading what my producer has
Speaker 2: given me as a show prep here?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you are correct.
Speaker 3: So the NBA All Star Game was one of the
Speaker 3: top trending moments in the months. If you watched it,
Speaker 3: you got to see Mac McClung when the dunking contest,
Speaker 3: and he was a top trending player from the game.
Speaker 2: And he doesn't he doesn't even play in the NBA.
Speaker 3: You know that, right, I know, but you know he
Speaker 3: keeps winning these dunk contests.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I saw it. He's an amazing athlete in that regard.
Speaker 2: I guess he's the what they call a d league player,
Speaker 2: which is the first level of minor league basketball. But
Speaker 2: he can jump, and I saw him jumping. They had
Speaker 2: a truck out on the court, so not only was
Speaker 2: he able to dunk, but in the process dunk and
Speaker 2: flew not only by the basket, but over the trump
Speaker 2: over the truck. Kind of an amazing sight, that's for sure,
Speaker 2: But that that threw more more Google hits than the
Speaker 2: super Bowl.
Speaker 3: Uh, you know, it's just I think it depends, you know,
Speaker 3: the super bowls at the very beginning of the month.
Speaker 3: I think the NBA would kind of later in the month.
Speaker 3: And so I think you see these trends kind of
Speaker 3: ebb and flow throughout the course. But you can, ye,
Speaker 3: what surprised me was the trend which compare the two.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what surprised me is with the Super Bowl, you
Speaker 2: get that two week build up, uh and uh. And
Speaker 2: there's a lot of wagering on the Super Bowl, as
Speaker 2: I'm sure you know. And of course it has the
Speaker 2: the halftime shows, which are interesting sometimes somewhat controversial. That
Speaker 2: would kind of surprise me. In in I guess science,
Speaker 2: there are a lot of people looking for sleep tips
Speaker 2: and sleep maxing. I've never heard the sleep mac the
Speaker 2: term sleep maxing. Tell us about that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right. You know, I think this is a
Speaker 3: carryover from people still trying to get those New Year's
Speaker 3: resolutions and hold to them. You know, the top trending
Speaker 3: kind of sleep related or you know, science related search
Speaker 3: was how to improve sleep, and sleep maxing is all
Speaker 3: about that. It's kind of a trend on social media
Speaker 3: which is all about trying to find ways to optimize
Speaker 3: your sleep, sleep better, sleep more, you know, soundly, get
Speaker 3: you know, feel more refreshed when you wake up, and
Speaker 3: you know, people are looking for these tools to help
Speaker 3: you track your sleep quality. Like I've got a bed
Speaker 3: wearing my pixel Watch three and it really helps me
Speaker 3: kind of understand how well I sleep with this sleep
Speaker 3: score that you wake up and it really provides some
Speaker 3: great insights.
Speaker 2: Give us, give us a sleep tip that you were seeing.
Speaker 2: So my listeners who you know, who are listening now
Speaker 2: might have a sleep tip. What do you what do
Speaker 2: you got for us?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, absolutely So people in especially in Massachusetts are
Speaker 3: actually searching for music for sleep, which we're all kind
Speaker 3: of familiar with, you know, the white noise and and
Speaker 3: you know, things like that, but music for sleep is
Speaker 3: becoming so much more popular. We were kind of surprised
Speaker 3: to see that. And what's really interesting you will find
Speaker 3: these you know, kind of sleep playlists on YouTube and
Speaker 3: there's kind of a combination of music or meditations and
Speaker 3: all of these kind of sounds to help you relax
Speaker 3: and ease into sleep.
Speaker 2: Well, it sounds to me, Nick like maybe it didn't
Speaker 2: grow up looking to become a Google trend expert, but
Speaker 2: sounds to me like you're at the top of your
Speaker 2: game and you found a position that you really like
Speaker 2: and that's and that's got to be a real fun position,
Speaker 2: a real fun spot to be in to be able
Speaker 2: to watch these trends. I appreciate you taking the time
Speaker 2: to join us tonight and keep maybe have you back, Okay,
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much for having me and I hope
Speaker 3: you have a great night you too, Nick.
Speaker 2: Help you have a nice good night sleep. You've earned
Speaker 2: it tonight, that's for sure. Thanks much, Talk soon, all right,
Speaker 2: We get back to talk with a planetary scientist. Not
Speaker 2: exactly sure what a planetary scientist is. I think I
Speaker 2: know and we'll find out for sure. We talk with
Speaker 2: doctor Sabine Stanley. Coming of Sabine. I'm not sure the
Speaker 2: correct pronunciation. Won't get that squared away, I forgot to
Speaker 2: mention earlier. Rob Brooks is back at Broadcast Central, so
Speaker 2: he is all set ready to go. Get to your
Speaker 2: phone calls after nine o'clock tonight, but we have three
Speaker 2: more interesting guests coming up. This is Nightside. It's say,
Speaker 2: Thursday night, the second last day of the month of February.
Speaker 2: We're we're kind of putting the winter calendar in our
Speaker 2: rearview mirror here. By this time tomorrow night, we'll almost
Speaker 2: be in March. Stay with us on Nightside. Come on
Speaker 2: right back after this.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan ray Line from the Window World
Speaker 1: Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: I'm delighted to welcome doctor Sabine Stanley, who is a
Speaker 2: planetary scientist. Doctor Stanley, I think I have an idea
Speaker 2: about what a planetary scientist is, But how about just
Speaker 2: a quick off the cuff explanation of what sort of
Speaker 2: science you're involved in. Obviously it's the science of the
Speaker 2: planets I get. I'd love to know what you do.
Speaker 2: Do you chart them? Do you follow them? Welcome tonight, chat.
Speaker 4: Athlin, Thank you so much for inviting me. So a
Speaker 4: planetary scientist is really interested in understanding why planets do
Speaker 4: the things they do. Right, think of Earth, why does
Speaker 4: Earth have an atmosphere? And why does life exist so
Speaker 4: happily here? But then you look at Jupiter or Venus
Speaker 4: and you say, why isn't there life there? And why
Speaker 4: is Jupiter so huge? And have these giant ring systems
Speaker 4: and all of this. Right, So, planetary scientists are really
Speaker 4: interested in understanding the physics, the chemistry, and maybe even
Speaker 4: the biology of what goes on inside planets.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, it's interesting, as I'm sure you know,
Speaker 2: at this time during the year, I believe that several
Speaker 2: of the planets kind of line up. You know much
Speaker 2: more about this than I do, obviously, and they're visible
Speaker 2: in some areas on some good nights to the naked eye.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it has anything to do with
Speaker 2: its late winter, but there has to be some reason
Speaker 2: why they all line up at this time of year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's really just chance encounters. Every planet is orbiting
Speaker 4: the Sun at a particular speed, so every planet has
Speaker 4: a different length of its year, and every once in
Speaker 4: a while they happen to all kind of be in
Speaker 4: the same area at the same time. So it's rare,
Speaker 4: and it all kind of depends on every planet's yearly
Speaker 4: time cycle around the Sun.
Speaker 2: Now, this setup right now that I've heard people talk about,
Speaker 2: is this one an unusual setup or is this fairly
Speaker 2: common over the course of two or three years.
Speaker 4: You know, it's not fairly common, but you do get
Speaker 4: alignments of the planets just happenstance every once in a while.
Speaker 4: There was one a.
Speaker 3: Few years ago.
Speaker 4: But I think you should think of it as a
Speaker 4: special event that you might only get to see and
Speaker 4: you know, certain parts of the Earth at once every
Speaker 4: few years. So take the opportunity to go out and
Speaker 4: check out that alignment of the planets.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's almost again, I don't want to bring religion
Speaker 2: into this, but it's almost as if there's some hand
Speaker 2: out there keeping everything working, like a very sophisticated Swiss clock,
Speaker 2: if you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we like to call that physics.
Speaker 4: The laws of physics are really good at keeping things
Speaker 4: in order.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is true. So now you're going to talk
Speaker 2: about something called Fierce Planets, the exhibition at the New
Speaker 2: England Quilt Museum, which is up here in the Massachusetts area,
Speaker 2: up in Lowell, as I understand it.
Speaker 5: Correct, Yep, that's right.
Speaker 4: So there is an exhibition of textile arts. It's called
Speaker 4: Fierce Planets, and it's based actually on the science that's
Speaker 4: featured in my book that's called What's Hidden inside planets.
Speaker 4: So the book really kind of explores all the fascinating
Speaker 4: things that are happening, say a thousand miles below our
Speaker 4: feet here on Earth or maybe inside other planets. And
Speaker 4: these textile art pieces were inspired by the content of
Speaker 4: that book and really brought all of that science to
Speaker 4: life and an incredible visual mechanism. So that's at the
Speaker 4: New England Museum in Lowell until May third.
Speaker 2: So your book is entitled What's Happening in or Inside Planets?
Speaker 4: It's what's hidden inside planets?
Speaker 2: Hidden inside planets?
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, so we know so much about the surface, right,
Speaker 4: but how much do we really know about the deep inside?
Speaker 4: And so that's really what the book tries to explore.
Speaker 2: How are you able to do that? And again, I
Speaker 2: don't want to take a track here, and obviously it's
Speaker 2: something that I'm sure is much more complex than you
Speaker 2: can tell us. But they still are trying to figure
Speaker 2: out what's going inside the Earth. My understanding is that
Speaker 2: the core of the Earth is shifting, and recently we
Speaker 2: had a scientist on last week who talked about that
Speaker 2: not a problem. We're not going off track or anything,
Speaker 2: but I guess it's constantly there's constantly movement inside the Earth,
Speaker 2: as there is constant movement in the atmosphere, how can
Speaker 2: you figure out what's going on in Jupiter or Mars
Speaker 2: or Saturn? How is that possible? We can't tell the
Speaker 2: weather forecast three days in advance. It sounds to me
Speaker 2: for sure, you know, not to criticize my meteorological friends
Speaker 2: there by the way, just to make sure I cover myself.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, understand, Yeah, No, it's a great question. So
Speaker 4: here's the reality. It is really hard to say, dig
Speaker 4: inside the Earth or another planet to go see it firsthand.
Speaker 4: But what we can do is kind of what like
Speaker 4: a doctor does. If you go to the doctor and
Speaker 4: you say I've got this pain in my side or
Speaker 4: something like that, you might be sent in for a scan, right,
Speaker 4: a CP scan or an MRI. So there are ways
Speaker 4: of sending waves or other fields through a planet, just
Speaker 4: like the doctor does through you when you're getting a scan,
Speaker 4: to see what's going on deep inside. So we take
Speaker 4: advantage of natural fields things gravity fields or magnetic fields
Speaker 4: or seismic waves that happen when an earthquake happens, and
Speaker 4: we actually use that to image what is going on
Speaker 4: inside a planet.
Speaker 2: Now is this imaging done through you know, satellites and
Speaker 2: all of that, or is it done through powerful telescopes
Speaker 2: here on Earth? How was this accomplished?
Speaker 4: So it's mostly done through satellites. We send spacecraft to planets,
Speaker 4: and those spacecraft have instruments that can measure the gravity
Speaker 4: field or the magnetic field, so it's mostly done that way.
Speaker 4: There are a few things you can get, say from
Speaker 4: powerful telescopes near Earth, right, but it's mostly the most
Speaker 4: detail we have are from the spacecraft that we send
Speaker 4: out to the planets.
Speaker 2: Now, I'm sure you've spent years and years and years
Speaker 2: studying this. How fast is our body of knowledge expanding
Speaker 2: in this field? I have to assume that one hundred
Speaker 2: years ago, maybe people thought about this, speculated about it.
Speaker 2: I have to believe that that the base of knowledge
Speaker 2: that you deal with today is exponentially greater than what
Speaker 2: it was ten years ago, and five years or ten
Speaker 2: years from now, it's even going to be exponentially greater
Speaker 2: than it is today.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, And the amazing thing about planetary science is the
Speaker 4: whole community really works together in trying to think about,
Speaker 4: you know, where should we send the next spacecraft? Where
Speaker 4: do we need to learn the next big thing. And
Speaker 4: so then you work for years on developing this spacecraft
Speaker 4: and you send it out to a planet. So, for example,
Speaker 4: the Juno mission got sent out to Jupiter, and as
Speaker 4: soon as that spacecraft gets there and takes new data,
Speaker 4: we basically have to rewrite the textbooks about that specific planet.
Speaker 4: So it's really amazing to see how much more we
Speaker 4: learn every time we send out a spacecraft to a
Speaker 4: planet for the first time. Right, and even you know
Speaker 4: plans we've been to Mars, for example, every time you
Speaker 4: send a spacecraft with a new mission there, it learns
Speaker 4: so much new information that we just really changed the
Speaker 4: field entirely.
Speaker 2: We never script questions on this show. So this is
Speaker 2: what comes into my head because I'm thinking, I want
Speaker 2: to think, like my audience, is there something amazing that
Speaker 2: you have learned or the scientific community has learned in
Speaker 2: the last year or five years about one of the
Speaker 2: planets that was never understood anticipated prior to just a
Speaker 2: few years ago.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, so much. Okay, I'm going to.
Speaker 5: Pick the planet that.
Speaker 4: I've been excited about recently. Let's go to Mars. Let's
Speaker 4: go to Mars. Right, so great, So there's this amazing
Speaker 4: mission called Insight, which went to Mars and landed this
Speaker 4: spacecraft on the surface of the planet. And then the
Speaker 4: spacecraft took us seismometer and stuck it onto the surface
Speaker 4: of Mars so that it could measure Mars quakes. So
Speaker 4: with this sismometer on another planet, we were able to
Speaker 4: tell that quakes, just like earthquakes you're on Earth, happened
Speaker 4: on Mars. And from those Mars quakes, we actually mapped
Speaker 4: the inside of Mars, and we now know, for example,
Speaker 4: that Mars's core, like you mentioned Earth's core earlier, Mars
Speaker 4: has a core, and that core is actually it's been
Speaker 4: completely liquid, and it's bigger than we thought it was,
Speaker 4: and it's kind of challenging what we think about how
Speaker 4: planets form.
Speaker 5: So we got to work on that.
Speaker 2: Now, well, that's that's fabulous, So let me do this.
Speaker 2: Let's let's see if I can grab real quickly. Here
Speaker 2: the event, the event Fierce Planets is on display. It's
Speaker 2: called the John Hopkins Wavelengths Global Exhibition on view January fourteenth,
Speaker 2: so it's already all the way through May third. Okay,
Speaker 2: I assume you probably have traveled up there to see it, so.
Speaker 4: I will be there on Saturday, March fifteenth. I'm going
Speaker 4: to give a talk about my work and the connection
Speaker 4: to the Fierce Planets exhibit.
Speaker 2: Yes, oh great, and that's open to the public, I assume,
Speaker 2: and I see that that the New England Quies Museum.
Speaker 2: There's a mailing list people can subscribe to, and the
Speaker 2: New England Quilt Museum is on Shattock Street in Lowell, Massachusetts.
Speaker 2: Just go to any q M which stands for you know,
Speaker 2: acronym for New England Quiltmuseum dot org slash fierce hyphen
Speaker 2: Planets and your book. Give us your book one more time.
Speaker 2: I'm sure that some people would like to get it.
Speaker 2: I'm sure they can get it through Amazon. It's What's
Speaker 2: Hidden inside Planets. Correct, that's right, Well, thank you very much.
Speaker 2: I enjoyed the conversation, doctor Stanley. I was never a
Speaker 2: great science guy in school, chemistry and physics. I understood
Speaker 2: physics better than science than chemistry. Once I saw that
Speaker 2: periodic table, I was like, I'm supposed to memorize this. No,
Speaker 2: didn't worry me too. Well, that's great. Well, that's great.
Speaker 2: I'm sure that you're way ahead in the book that
Speaker 2: I am though, that's for sure. Thank you so much
Speaker 2: for your time tonight. I enjoyed the conversation immensely.
Speaker 3: Thanks, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2: All Right, we'll take you back to earth a little bit. Here.
Speaker 2: We're going to talk with Kelly Eisner. She's the director
Speaker 2: of communications for the American Red Cross at Massachusetts. Always
Speaker 2: a good time to donate to the Red Cross. March
Speaker 2: is the blood donors month, Red Cross Month. I will
Speaker 2: talk about how you can donate, and also you can
Speaker 2: get tested for free while you donate for a one
Speaker 2: C which is an important test that everybody should take periodically.
Speaker 2: Be back with Kelly Eisner on night Side right after
Speaker 2: this break at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Dan Ray on WBS, Boston's
Speaker 1: news radio.
Speaker 2: All right, well, March is about, I don't know, twenty
Speaker 2: eight hours away or something like that. We are the
Speaker 2: cusp of March and March, as I understand, that is
Speaker 2: a very important month for the American Red Cross. It's
Speaker 2: Red Cross Month and with us as Kelly Eisner, director
Speaker 2: of Communications for the American Red Cross of Massachusetts. Kelly,
Speaker 2: is March the big month. We normally think about it
Speaker 2: as Saint Patrick's Day and the color would be green,
Speaker 2: but is this Red Cross Month coming up as well?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 6: How about this, how about we'll let it still be
Speaker 6: green in Boston but everywhere else it can be read.
Speaker 6: Does that work?
Speaker 2: That works for me? That works for me? In case
Speaker 2: I don't forget. I know Kelly and I've worked with
Speaker 2: her husband, Nate. Please sayhead in Nate for me. But
Speaker 2: having put all of that aside for a moment, I
Speaker 2: hope he's doing well. Hope you're doing well. And how
Speaker 2: important is the month of March to the Red Cross?
Speaker 2: And how are we with our blood supply right now
Speaker 2: as a state?
Speaker 6: Absolutely well? And Dan, it's always a pleasure to talk
Speaker 6: to you. I know we go way back in Nate
Speaker 6: as well when it comes to blood. Honestly, there is
Speaker 6: a constant need for blood what we do in March.
Speaker 6: And the reason March is so important is since FDR,
Speaker 6: every president has signed March has issued to assign a
Speaker 6: proclamation listing March as Red Cross Months. It's more just
Speaker 6: to build awareness, to remind people that we are out
Speaker 6: here in the community, right here in Boston, right here
Speaker 6: in Massachusetts and all over the country doing this humanitarian work.
Speaker 6: So it's just sort of a reminder when you're thinking
Speaker 6: about the Red Cross. Yes, so you know, every every
Speaker 6: year we try to build excitement around it. And one
Speaker 6: of the things that we're doing this month is a
Speaker 6: one C testing for blood owners.
Speaker 2: Very important. Tell us I know what a one C
Speaker 2: is and many of many of our in our audience
Speaker 2: know what it is, but some might not. So tell
Speaker 2: us what is the importance of a one C and
Speaker 2: you get an a one C test when you give
Speaker 2: blood this upcoming.
Speaker 6: Month, absolutely so. Hemoglobin A one C is a common
Speaker 6: blood test for diagnosing diabetes and monitoring blood sugar levels.
Speaker 6: It can also give an indication where you might be
Speaker 6: you might have pre diabetes, which is a condition that
Speaker 6: about eighty percent of the people who have don't know
Speaker 6: they are pre diabetic. And it is reversible. It indicates
Speaker 6: that your body isn't necessarily regulating your blood sugar successfully
Speaker 6: now and that could lead to type two diabetes later
Speaker 6: in life. And what's unique is that you don't need
Speaker 6: to fast for this a one SEE test, So you know,
Speaker 6: it's an easy way to just get a little bit
Speaker 6: extra information that you can then take to your doctor
Speaker 6: and you know, talk about treatment plans and just you know,
Speaker 6: any lifestyle changes that you can make now before it
Speaker 6: gets to the point of actually having to be controlled
Speaker 6: by medication.
Speaker 2: Now, this is important, And I know you're not a
Speaker 2: doctor and you're not going to play one on the radio,
Speaker 2: but I don't want people to be intimidated. So if
Speaker 2: they do donate blood and find that maybe their A
Speaker 2: one C is in getting closer to a more dangerous level,
Speaker 2: how difficult is it before you need to take medication?
Speaker 2: How significant a change in lifestyle does it take to
Speaker 2: reverse this process? I'm asking. I often say to my guests,
Speaker 2: we don't prescript questions here, but I don't want people
Speaker 2: to be afraid of getting this diagnosis. It's actually good
Speaker 2: to find out what your A one C level is,
Speaker 2: particularly for people who are not seeing doctors every every
Speaker 2: year or so with annual physicals. Does it require a
Speaker 2: huge change in your lifestyle to adjust to whatever your
Speaker 2: A one C level might be?
Speaker 6: Well, you know, I think you nailed it down that
Speaker 6: right now. You know, I've seen these statistics. Are about
Speaker 6: a third of Americans. They're lacking access to regular primary care.
Speaker 6: They're not able to go to a doctor, or they're
Speaker 6: not going to the doctor on a regular basis. So
Speaker 6: this test is a great way to just kind of
Speaker 6: bring some information to you that you can hopefully then
Speaker 6: take to a doctor and then that's the point where
Speaker 6: you can kind of figure out if this is something
Speaker 6: that can be addressed with just lifestyle changes, you know, eating.
Speaker 6: It's funny, actually a lot of you know, my father
Speaker 6: is diabetic, and a lot of the advice that his
Speaker 6: doctor gave him was kind of the same things that
Speaker 6: we'd tell blood donors. You know, you want to eat
Speaker 6: a hyprotein loaf fat diet, you want to make sure
Speaker 6: you're getting all your vegetables, but you know, in some
Speaker 6: cases there might be more that needs to be done.
Speaker 6: So really it's just a tool to help you and
Speaker 6: your doctor together kind of work towards that best health plan.
Speaker 2: So when folks go and we'll get to the locations
Speaker 2: and the times and all of that in a second,
Speaker 2: But when folks go to to give you to make
Speaker 2: the blood donation, they don't have to fast. I think
Speaker 2: you said that was not.
Speaker 6: Necessary, correct, And actually we encourage people don't test. You know,
Speaker 6: you want to make sure you eat a full meal,
Speaker 6: a healthy meal the night before you donate, and you
Speaker 6: want to get plenty of water before your donation as well,
Speaker 6: So don't test.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's fine though, That's good information. And so when
Speaker 2: you are given whatever information you are given, do you
Speaker 2: get it you know, as you as you leave the
Speaker 2: donation center that day and a piece of paper to
Speaker 2: take it with you, or is this something that is
Speaker 2: sent to you a day or so later.
Speaker 6: Through it takes about a week, I'm being told, and
Speaker 6: you know, we officially start on March first, so that
Speaker 6: week might be a little bit longer or less depending.
Speaker 6: But the where that information goes is into the account
Speaker 6: that you use to make your blood donation appointment. So
Speaker 6: most people that I talked to use the blood donor
Speaker 6: app to schedule their appointment. So there's already a profile
Speaker 6: there and the results of the AEC test would be
Speaker 6: posted there if you schedule online, if you go to
Speaker 6: a Red Cross blood dot org the scheduling appointment, you'll
Speaker 6: create a profile there and that's where that information will be.
Speaker 6: And when you check in at your blood donation appointment,
Speaker 6: they'll make sure that you have the right profile and
Speaker 6: they'll kind of walk you through how to find exactly
Speaker 6: the information that you're looking for.
Speaker 2: Perfect, Okay, Red crossblood dot org. So how many different locations?
Speaker 2: How convenient will it be the donation locations moving around
Speaker 2: during during the month of March or are they stationary
Speaker 2: in certain locations? How how that going to work?
Speaker 6: Yes, and yes, I kind.
Speaker 2: Of thought that was going to be the answer, but
Speaker 2: you go ahead and amplify on it for us.
Speaker 6: Sure, So everywhere that you can give blood with the
Speaker 6: Red Cross, you can your blood will be tested for
Speaker 6: a one see it'll have the screening in mass two sets.
Speaker 6: We're lucky. We have nine fixed site locations. These are
Speaker 6: like our brick and mortar blood donation centers. The close
Speaker 6: one probably too for your listeners, be Weymouth or detim
Speaker 6: if Dan versus Boston. We go out as far as
Speaker 6: Western Springfield or at all of the blood drives from
Speaker 6: the field because again, the blood is tested after it
Speaker 6: comes back to our lab. That's part of why it
Speaker 6: takes a little bit. There's a little bit of turnaround
Speaker 6: time for it. Sure, So anywhere you donate with well
Speaker 6: you guys, I.
Speaker 2: Know you always make it really easy. Uh, and we're
Speaker 2: talking about probably it's an hour to get there if
Speaker 2: I've recalled correctly, and by telling you blood is donated.
Speaker 2: They give you a little while to make sure that
Speaker 2: you're all set and ready to go. You're talking about
Speaker 2: you've got to kind of block out about an hour
Speaker 2: from the moment you walk in until the moment you're
Speaker 2: going to leave. Is that the turnaround time still approximately?
Speaker 6: That is exactly right?
Speaker 2: Perfect? Okay, So I think we've covered the waterfront here, Kelly.
Speaker 2: The redcrossblood dot org is the website. All the information
Speaker 2: is there, and let's hope that many of our listeners
Speaker 2: will take advantage at some point during March to participate
Speaker 2: and donate some blood. Thank you so much, Kelly. Always
Speaker 2: great to talk with you.
Speaker 6: Thank you Dan. Nice to talk to you as well.
Speaker 2: All right, and say aha to my friend Nate when
Speaker 2: you see him tonight. Okay, thanks so much, talk to
Speaker 2: you soon. Final break here on this hour of the
Speaker 2: night side News Update and we get back, we're going
Speaker 2: to talk about something all of us should be aware of.
Speaker 2: We're going to be talking about in uptick this spring,
Speaker 2: in rodents in ticks, just what we don't want to hear.
Speaker 2: But let's let's find out how we can deal with
Speaker 2: it as most effectively as possible. We have a special
Speaker 2: guest coming up right after this break. My name is
Speaker 2: Dan Ray. This is Nightside. To listen to WBZ, Boston's
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Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: All right, as mentioned earlier tonight, we're getting perilously close.
Speaker 2: Actually that's a we're delighted that February is almost over.
Speaker 2: We'll be in March by Saturday. But with March comes
Speaker 2: springtime and the return of some of those pests we
Speaker 2: don't like with us. As Galvin Murphy, he's a road
Speaker 2: and expert preventative controls qualified individual with a company called
Speaker 2: Yankee Pest Control. Now we're not talking about New York
Speaker 2: Yankees being pest We're talking your company is Yankee Pest Control,
Speaker 2: real pests. Okay, just want to make sure what we're
Speaker 2: talking about here.
Speaker 5: The two legget past our extra charge. You know, they're
Speaker 5: a little extra.
Speaker 2: No, I understand that there's not much you talk about them,
Speaker 2: that's for sure. But I think the red sox will
Speaker 2: be in better shape this year. That's my prediction. You
Speaker 2: have a prediction that we're going to see an uptick
Speaker 2: in rodents and ticks. Why would that be.
Speaker 5: The principle behind the roadman tech increase is really the
Speaker 5: weather patterns in the Boston area. We've just I think
Speaker 5: everybody has noticed the shorter winters if we're just not
Speaker 5: getting those deep freezes, which it's just not interrupting the
Speaker 5: reproductive cycle of the rats for us. So it really
Speaker 5: the winters of old seem to be gone and we're
Speaker 5: really taking a beating on the rat populations, that's for sure.
Speaker 5: Well so I think in a few weeks.
Speaker 2: But we've we've just gone through two pretty cold months here.
Speaker 5: Galvin, it is it is been. We've had a good winter.
Speaker 5: But I think the next couple of weeks, once we
Speaker 5: have a quick melt, I mean all week it's been
Speaker 5: fifty and we're already getting termite swarms. So I think
Speaker 5: a lot of these ticks will be out earlier than normal.
Speaker 5: For those folks looking out to get out hiking and
Speaker 5: walking a little earlier should have a little extra precautions
Speaker 5: with them. But with the rats, I think they'll be
Speaker 5: out in scavenging for food a lot sooner than the
Speaker 5: normal as well as you.
Speaker 2: So, now, when we think of rats, we think of
Speaker 2: downtown Boston, and I'm not talking about the city councilors, okay,
Speaker 2: I'm talking about their whole legged rats in downtown Boston
Speaker 2: and in other major cities. How far is the rat
Speaker 2: population from just the downtown area. I mean, obviously you
Speaker 2: have the outer city in Boston, you have you know,
Speaker 2: the the you know, what we think of as the
Speaker 2: nice neighborhoods. But I think sometimes the rats can be
Speaker 2: found in the nice neighborhoods. And then we get to
Speaker 2: the suburbs, the community surrounding Boston. How far do these rats.
Speaker 5: Roam typically from their area of rest or they're you know,
Speaker 5: let's call it a dumper and alleyway if we're talking
Speaker 5: the city, maybe one hundred feet at most. If they
Speaker 5: have a nice comfortable area of food, maybe fifty to
Speaker 5: one hundred feet. You know, in laboratory settings you can
Speaker 5: see them go a couple hundred feet, but in you know,
Speaker 5: you make a good it is it is in suburbia though,
Speaker 5: Like you make a great point that ninety five Belt
Speaker 5: is really active when it wasn't just say, fifteen twenty
Speaker 5: years ago. And we're hitting our communities, you know, Danvis, Islington,
Speaker 5: some of these these like interfacing cities that are really
Speaker 5: pushing on suburbia are having a beautiful problem with the
Speaker 5: rat infestation that's popping up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not sure it's a beautiful problem. It's a
Speaker 2: it's a problem. Nonetheless, Okay, it is, it is? And
Speaker 2: what do you mostly deal with commercial businesses or do
Speaker 2: you also deal with the home issues, the peak, the
Speaker 2: neighborhood issues.
Speaker 5: So that Yankee pasta profile is about fifty percent residential
Speaker 5: and about fifty percent commercial. But the commercial arena is
Speaker 5: really driven by you guess that a rat population or
Speaker 5: rodent populations feeding in dumpsters, et cetera. So we we
Speaker 5: in right down the middle of nice Staff that covers
Speaker 5: both residential you know, all the way up to Worcester,
Speaker 5: down the Cape and up to New Hampshire. But that
Speaker 5: that commercial work is really inside that ninety five belt
Speaker 5: where we have our you know, a lot of these
Speaker 5: studies are going to tell us that that dense urban
Speaker 5: sprawl is where your rats are going to thrive. And
Speaker 5: I don't think that's a secret to anybody. You know,
Speaker 5: the North Shore neighborhoods, the you know, the more compact
Speaker 5: neighborhoods of Boston proper. And even when you get down
Speaker 5: to your old neighborhood down hydepoc Readville, you'll start seeing
Speaker 5: some of that activity, even though it's a little more
Speaker 5: suburban feeling in that part of town. So that that's
Speaker 5: something we haven't seen in fifteen years, twenty years, that
Speaker 5: much activity.
Speaker 2: Why have they not been able to come up with
Speaker 2: dumpsters which do not you know, that that rats can't
Speaker 2: get into. It seems to me that they talk about
Speaker 2: in the old days, anyone who could who could invent
Speaker 2: a perfect mouse trap the world would be the patent
Speaker 2: to your door. Why is it that with all of
Speaker 2: these dumpsters. I mean, you're in Boston and you see
Speaker 2: and you see litter on the street, and you see
Speaker 2: the right pizza crusts on the street, and you just
Speaker 2: realize that if if everybody pitched in and cut off
Speaker 2: their food source, they wouldn't be able to survive as
Speaker 2: comfortably as they do.
Speaker 5: You nailed it, and you didn't even mean to it.
Speaker 5: So we have a people problem. You know, the rat
Speaker 5: problem is just benefiting off of our people problem. You know,
Speaker 5: there're are dumpsters out there. There's beautiful trash cans out
Speaker 5: there that are virtually rodent resistant, and I wouldn't call
Speaker 5: them rodent proof, but we have a people problem. The
Speaker 5: trash is around the dumpster. It doesn't get in the dumpster,
Speaker 5: you know, the trash is next to the barrel, you
Speaker 5: know on Faniel Hall park Way there, or it just
Speaker 5: doesn't make it in the barrel. So that's the ultimate
Speaker 5: correction and we need to fix it. You know, we
Speaker 5: can kill the rats. We have great tools. There's beautiful
Speaker 5: mouse traps out there. You know, you get equipment like
Speaker 5: carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide, which is new to the industry,
Speaker 5: really been impactful for stopping rat populations, but it doesn't
Speaker 5: stop the emergence of the people problems that we have
Speaker 5: and again the densely packed communities. So there are some
Speaker 5: good tools out there.
Speaker 2: The other thing which I people think don't realize is
Speaker 2: that whenever you're in a coastal city, rats can thrive
Speaker 2: because in nearby ocean waters and the wharfs and things
Speaker 2: like that. Am I am I close to the truth
Speaker 2: on that.
Speaker 5: You're warm there there is you know, let's talk to seaport.
Speaker 5: You know, how does the seaport look since ten fifteen
Speaker 5: years ago. It's a whole nother planet. In the higher
Speaker 5: end stuff that's going down there, the tolerance level of
Speaker 5: that consumer is low. You know, your pharmaceutical buildings down there,
Speaker 5: your high end apartments, the tolerance is lower. So you're
Speaker 5: seeing a little more of pressure on the pest control
Speaker 5: companies in that area to perform, even when there's densely
Speaker 5: populated neighborhoods like that on the waterfront, but it's steady.
Speaker 5: The waterfronts are old, like people consider them old millle areas,
Speaker 5: but our waterfront is probably the newest and higher end
Speaker 5: area of you know, in New England. So it's kind
Speaker 5: of a contrast for us. You know, if you make
Speaker 5: your way up the sea coast, you know, to some
Speaker 5: of the fishing plants in Gloucester and Salem, you really
Speaker 5: see the populations move.
Speaker 2: So so the seaport is pretty good. Well, look on Galvin,
Speaker 2: we learned a lot, that's for sure. What's your company's
Speaker 2: website in case anyone wants to get in touch with you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's Yankeepestcontrol dot com or Yankeepest dot com. And
Speaker 5: we're a family owned and veteran owned and operated company.
Speaker 5: So we've been in the area for about thirty five
Speaker 5: years now. So thanks to my father.
Speaker 2: Well, Galvin, thanks very much. I'm not sure if you're
Speaker 2: a Hyde Park guy or a readvill guy, but that
Speaker 2: was my stomping grounds many years.
Speaker 5: Very good, excellent, Thank you very much, mister Ray. I
Speaker 5: appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Sir, you can call me Dan. I'm not that old.
Speaker 2: Thanks Galvin, we'll talk soon. Appreciate it very much. Make
Speaker 2: you great one, all right, and we get back going
Speaker 2: to talk about the New England Patriots, their complaints about
Speaker 2: their facilities and their treatment for a team that didn't
Speaker 2: do very well this year. I think they were four
Speaker 2: and fourteen if I recall correctly, and they kind of
Speaker 2: let their coach down. They're complaining quite a bit, and
Speaker 2: I think I want to talk about it. We normally
Speaker 2: don't do sports, but if you're a football fan, if
Speaker 2: you saw this report card from the players, that I
Speaker 2: think deserves some commentary and hopefully your participation. Back on
Speaker 2: Night's side. Right after the news at nine pm,