Speaker 1: It's Nightside with Dan Ray on WBSY, Boston's news radio Cool.
Speaker 2: I agree with you completely. Why would anyone watch a
Speaker 2: meaningless football game and not listening to Nightside? Thank you
Speaker 2: very much. It is Thursday night, September twenty sixth. My
Speaker 2: name is Dan Ray, the host of Nightside. Rob Brooks
Speaker 2: is back at Broadcast Central. We're all set to interview
Speaker 2: four guests on four different topics this hour. There will
Speaker 2: be no phone calls in the eight o'clock hour, however,
Speaker 2: we will get to phone calls later on tonight. There's
Speaker 2: some criticism that has come up, and I think it's
Speaker 2: legitimate criticism. We'll talk about at nine o'clock about the
Speaker 2: magistrate judge that released Ryan Wesley Routs insane letter. We'll
Speaker 2: talk about that to the public. We have a great
Speaker 2: guest at ten o'clock tonight who has written and authorized
Speaker 2: yet unauthorized biography of Alan Durschwitz. It's really an incredible
Speaker 2: book and called Legal Gladiator. I think you're going to
Speaker 2: really enjoy it. We also might talk about the indictment
Speaker 2: today of New York City Mayor Eric Adams a little
Speaker 2: bit later on tonight. So we got lots on the
Speaker 2: calendar for this evening, but first batting leadoff is Joyce Sodopolis.
Speaker 2: She's the co founder of Mass Robotics, and this weekend
Speaker 2: is the seventh robot Block Party and the second robot Parade. Joyce,
Speaker 2: I am all ears. I am not a robotic sort
Speaker 2: of guy, except I think sometimes in my relationships with
Speaker 2: other people.
Speaker 3: But you be a robotic Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, that's my wife will tell you. Anyway, My
Speaker 2: question is you guys actually have a robotics block party?
Speaker 2: What's that all about? And tell about the parade?
Speaker 3: Okay, so it's super fun. It's it's basically a pavilion
Speaker 3: style open house robotics festival where we have a couple
Speaker 3: of life tents and the support, and then we have
Speaker 3: robots from academia, so things that are being done in research,
Speaker 3: we have robots from industry, which is.
Speaker 2: How from academia. I mean some of my old college prosts.
Speaker 3: Will be there, Yes they will.
Speaker 2: I'm over, don't take so yeah, a lot of a lot.
Speaker 3: Of yes, yes, a lot of schools will come and
Speaker 3: kind of showcase what what their students are working on
Speaker 3: and what their professors are working on. Really very futuristic,
Speaker 3: but then we have a lot of industry out there
Speaker 3: who are bringing in robots that are being used in
Speaker 3: the real world, so manufacturing and high precision gripping and
Speaker 3: that kind of thing. We have Like Skanska will be there.
Speaker 3: They're a construction company, but they're going to show what
Speaker 3: they use for robotics to kind of help them in
Speaker 3: the construction industry. So a lot of you'll see a
Speaker 3: lot of robots that are being used in the real
Speaker 3: world today and kind of showcase the positive impact that
Speaker 3: that robots are going to have in the future. We
Speaker 3: also have a lot of student teams, so high school teams,
Speaker 3: and they all have some kind of mock competitions going on,
Speaker 3: so that's that's also very fun. But the parade we
Speaker 3: just started last year and we just kind of it
Speaker 3: was a win when we said, hey, how many robots
Speaker 3: roll a walk, fly, like, how can we put them
Speaker 3: all in a in a grand showcase leading up to
Speaker 3: the start of the of the block party. So we
Speaker 3: kind of come down the sidewalk on Seaport Boulevard to
Speaker 3: a ribbon cutting and then we open, you know, we
Speaker 3: have a ribbon cutting and then the festival is open.
Speaker 2: So how big a crowd have you drawn in the past.
Speaker 2: I'm hoping you draw a big crowd.
Speaker 3: On Saturday, thousands, thousands, it's not, luckily, it's it's over
Speaker 3: the span of many hours, so it's never you know,
Speaker 3: like you can't move or walk around.
Speaker 2: It's open as the public, so it's free and open
Speaker 2: to the public, so people can drop in, stay a while,
Speaker 2: hang around.
Speaker 3: Nope, it's completely free. You walk through, you take you
Speaker 3: can take time, and you can and you can see
Speaker 3: a robot playing chess. We have bionic bees that will
Speaker 3: be flying in one corner. They can people can actually
Speaker 3: drive the robot dogs that will be there. We'll have
Speaker 3: a drone optical course that people can fly in. We
Speaker 3: even have a big water tank. Then we have underwater
Speaker 3: robots that people can kind of drive the robots. So
Speaker 3: we have a pretty wide variety of robots that will
Speaker 3: be there.
Speaker 2: Now, what do you say, There were people out there,
Speaker 2: and I know that there are people in my audience
Speaker 2: that who are saying, all these robots they're going to
Speaker 2: take people these jobs. I think that there's a robot
Speaker 2: that is in I think one of the local supermarkets.
Speaker 2: And my grandson is who's two years old, is fascinated
Speaker 2: by guy. I think you call it dry. Are we
Speaker 2: putting ourselves out of business here? Or is this just
Speaker 2: I guess, the progress of history and none of us
Speaker 2: can stand in the way.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, anytime there's progress, their their displacement. But
Speaker 3: it's not I mean, think about all of the horse
Speaker 3: and buggy drivers in New York City. They lost their
Speaker 3: jobs when automobile automobiles became a thing.
Speaker 2: Right, is a passing fad joys you know, as what
Speaker 2: a was I do? That's not going to last? Right?
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, okay, here's the thing when we when we
Speaker 3: talk about yes, I know, I know, listen, robots are
Speaker 3: really good at tasks. They're not good at higher order thinking.
Speaker 3: So if you think about all these little things that
Speaker 3: that people don't either don't want to do, like cleaning
Speaker 3: toilets or washing windows or you know, there's robots for
Speaker 3: hospitals where the robot will actually go to the pharmacy
Speaker 3: and bring back the medication for the patient so that
Speaker 3: the nurse can actually spend more quality time with the patient,
Speaker 3: which is a nice thing for nurses to do. So really,
Speaker 3: the way we look at robots is enhanced capability. It
Speaker 3: is helping you do your job better. It's giving you
Speaker 3: more time to spend doing the things that you like
Speaker 3: rather than the mundane, dull tasks. So I like to
Speaker 3: use the example of a window washer. It's dangerous to
Speaker 3: be hanging from those those ropes on you right washing
Speaker 3: washing the windows. Now, if there was a robot doing that,
Speaker 3: you would still need a person to deploy the robot.
Speaker 3: A person would still have to clean and inspect and
Speaker 3: repair the robot. Somebody had to actually build the robot.
Speaker 3: So there's a manufacturer someone that building these robots. Someone
Speaker 3: had to design it, someone has to sell it. So
Speaker 3: basically you've created ten jobs right there, instead of having
Speaker 3: three guys hanging from ropes washing windows that are dangerous.
Speaker 2: You know, that is a great example. I would be
Speaker 2: all from robots doing that. I don't want a robot
Speaker 2: taking my job as a talk show host. That's the
Speaker 2: concern that we have.
Speaker 3: But you know what, I don't know if they'll ever
Speaker 3: be as winny as you dre well.
Speaker 2: I don't about that. I'm sure that you could program
Speaker 2: them pretty easily. The one robot that I would like
Speaker 2: to see was if we could develop a pitcher, a
Speaker 2: baseball pitcher for the Red Sox who could throw the
Speaker 2: ball maybe about one hundred and twenty five miles an hour,
Speaker 2: never missed a strike zone. Is that with it? Is
Speaker 2: that possible do you think?
Speaker 3: I mean, it is possible to make a robot to
Speaker 3: do that, But then what from would that be? Watching
Speaker 3: the robot would be perfect every time?
Speaker 2: Well, but watching watching a Red Sox the robot pitcher
Speaker 2: strike out twenty seven Yankees?
Speaker 3: That might that might be fun to watch. Absolutely I
Speaker 3: don't see, yeah, I don't see people really wanting to
Speaker 3: pay to watch that. I mean, okay, all right, right,
Speaker 3: but you know.
Speaker 2: All all of my all of my ideas that anyway, Look,
Speaker 2: this is on Saturday the twenty eighth years, two days
Speaker 2: from now, and it's down in the seaport. Easy to find.
Speaker 2: The Seaport's kind of a big place.
Speaker 3: Super you define Seaport Boulevard and you cannot miss it.
Speaker 3: So if you come down, if you come across the
Speaker 3: bridge from Boston down Seaport Boulevard, you'll see it on
Speaker 3: the on the left. It's big tents.
Speaker 4: You guys see all the area.
Speaker 2: Where are you all the way at the end, you know,
Speaker 2: past everything? Or are you halfway down.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, no, it's in the it's it's actually
Speaker 3: in the middle. It's in there's two big parking lots
Speaker 3: in the center of the seaport off right off the
Speaker 3: Seaport Boulevard. One is the Cisco pop up and the
Speaker 3: other generally a parking lot, but they've been hosting ws
Speaker 3: Development kind of owns this whole area, and they've been
Speaker 3: hosting movies in the summer. They also host the you know,
Speaker 3: the winter festival there'.
Speaker 2: That'll help a lot. That's going to help a lot
Speaker 2: of people. Just loky because the seaport is still new
Speaker 2: and people do not need tickets.
Speaker 3: Correct, No, you just can walk right in. I mean,
Speaker 3: of course we'd love you to register, but you walk in.
Speaker 3: The parade starts at ten forty five. It'll come down
Speaker 3: Seaport Boulevard to eighty eight, so that the number is
Speaker 3: eighty eight Seaport Boulevard. Perfect if you wanted to put
Speaker 3: that in, you know, absolutely, I want to.
Speaker 2: Let my robot put that in my GPS and we'll
Speaker 2: be joyce, thank you very much.
Speaker 3: Yeah, once it's open open to the public, you walk through,
Speaker 3: you take your time, you know, drive the robots talk
Speaker 3: to the vendors, talks to students and hopefully be inspired,
Speaker 3: you know, students get inspired to go into these fields.
Speaker 2: Sounds great, sounds great. Joyce Sodopolis, the co founder of
Speaker 2: Mass Robotics. Thanks again, Joyce. I enjoyed the conversation, although
Speaker 2: I think sometimes you weren't sure if I was joking.
Speaker 4: But that's thank you.
Speaker 3: For having me.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Joyce, appreciate it. We get back. We're going
Speaker 2: to talk about a serious subject and that is a
Speaker 2: subject every man should be concerned about. That is a
Speaker 2: prostate cancer. This is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month and a
Speaker 2: moment we'll be talking with doctor Timothy O'Rourke. He's a
Speaker 2: urologist with Cape cod Healthcare. Coming back on night Side.
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Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: Night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: As I mentioned, it's prostate cancer Awareness month. September is
Speaker 2: the month that we are in right now. With me
Speaker 2: is doctor Timothy o' O'Rourke. He's a urologist with Cape
Speaker 2: cod Healthcare. We've talked about prostate cancer before on Doctor
Speaker 2: O'Rourke and welcome to Night's Side, by the way.
Speaker 5: But for having me on, You're very welcome.
Speaker 2: How tough is it to get the message out to
Speaker 2: guys that hey, this is something that can be really
Speaker 2: serious and if you can catch it early, it's going
Speaker 2: to make a huge difference.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, to your point, it is sometimes difficult
Speaker 5: because it's the last thing that are necessarily thinking about
Speaker 5: on a daily basis with all the stressors of life,
Speaker 5: et cetera. But you know, prostate cancer is one of
Speaker 5: those things that if diagnosed early, you know you can
Speaker 5: treat it and cure it. The challenge is prostate cancer
Speaker 5: doesn't typically cause symptoms at early stages, and so the
Speaker 5: way you you know, identify prostate cancer at an early
Speaker 5: stage is through screening.
Speaker 2: And that's that's a simple blood test.
Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, So the PSA blood it's a simple blood test.
Speaker 5: So if you're going into your primary care provider physician,
Speaker 5: you know, it's you know, it's one of the things
Speaker 5: you should discuss because it is a simple blood test
Speaker 5: psa prostate specific antigen. It's been around since the early
Speaker 5: nineteen nineties and it is still the primary screening modality
Speaker 5: that's utilized that and oftentimes that's paired with a prostate
Speaker 5: examination or a digital rectal examination to where your doctor
Speaker 5: or a provider will actually examine the prostate to feel
Speaker 5: for any areas that might be nodular or hard or
Speaker 5: firm overall suspicious.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's where I think a lot of people will
Speaker 2: guys because women don't have prostate those magic words of
Speaker 2: rect examination a lot. Let me say, well, you know,
Speaker 2: maybe next time that's sort of think, yeah, what is
Speaker 2: the function of the prostate.
Speaker 5: It's a gland, right, Yeah, it's the prostate is it's
Speaker 5: a gland. Basically, it contributes part of the ejaculate and
Speaker 5: men some of the nutrients ands in for the sperm cells.
Speaker 5: But once you're past through reproductive years, you know, I
Speaker 5: typically tell men that it becomes more of a liability
Speaker 5: than anything, because after that, really it serves limited purpose.
Speaker 5: You know, you have to urinate through the prostate clan
Speaker 5: to get the urine to come out, and as you
Speaker 5: get older, the prostate is going to unlaw urge and
Speaker 5: oftentimes make it more difficult to urinate and can cause
Speaker 5: a number of urinary symptoms, which you know, the urinary
Speaker 5: symptoms that you experience, they certainly aren't associated with prostate
Speaker 5: cancer per se. They can be, but in many cases,
Speaker 5: the signs of an enlarged prostate mimic the signs of
Speaker 5: prostate cancer.
Speaker 2: So what would those some of those symptoms be for
Speaker 2: people who are out there listening the problem.
Speaker 5: Yeah, sometimes it's sometimes it's difficulty passing urine as the
Speaker 5: prostate enlarge is just think of any plumbing situation. You know,
Speaker 5: if the channel gets more narrow then you might have
Speaker 5: to strain more to urinate, or it comes out in
Speaker 5: a weaker stream, or urinary urgency or frequency not completely
Speaker 5: emptying the bladder, waking up a lot at night. Again,
Speaker 5: these are these are non specific symptoms that they're not
Speaker 5: always they're not a sign of cancer per se, but
Speaker 5: can can be and you know, are are a sign
Speaker 5: of potential having an enlarged prostate.
Speaker 2: Okay, So look, let's assume hypothetically, someone goes to sleep,
Speaker 2: you know whatever, midnight, they listen at night side and
Speaker 2: they turn off for ready with dignight, and normally they
Speaker 2: wake up at seven o'clock in the morning and they
Speaker 2: wake up at three point thirty and they have to
Speaker 2: relieve themselves. How is that a sign that people should
Speaker 2: be worried about or is that just fairly part of
Speaker 2: the life cycle. And if you have drank a lot
Speaker 2: of liquid before you went to bed, the chances are
Speaker 2: you sleeping through the night maybe diminished.
Speaker 5: So now you're absolutely right, So I don't think you
Speaker 5: should consider that a warning sign for prostate answer. Specifically,
Speaker 5: it's a non specific symptom, but it often does happen.
Speaker 5: Then it can be associated with actually a number of
Speaker 5: health conditions, prostate issues being one of them, bladder issue
Speaker 5: being another. Believe it or not, obstructive sleep apnea, people
Speaker 5: who have to wear a cepat mask, you know, those
Speaker 5: people tend to wake up at night as well. So
Speaker 5: it's certainly not specific to the prostate and shouldn't in isolation,
Speaker 5: be a warning sign. But if you are having that
Speaker 5: issue and you know you're thinking about prostate cancer, it's
Speaker 5: important to bring it up to your primary care provider
Speaker 5: to get the blood test, to get screened.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then worst case scenario, let's assume they detected early.
Speaker 2: The earlier the better. Like with any form of cancer,
Speaker 2: I assume treatments to deal with it. Some can be surgical,
Speaker 2: some can be just you know, medical intervention.
Speaker 5: Yes, so there's a there's a big spectrum as far
Speaker 5: as prostate cancer is concerned. When I, you know, talk
Speaker 5: with my patients about it and counsel them, whether they're
Speaker 5: here for you know, seeing me for an elevated p
Speaker 5: s A or newly diagnosed with prostate cancer. You know,
Speaker 5: we talk about that spectrum and the risk kind of
Speaker 5: you know, you're stratified into a risk classification when you're
Speaker 5: diagnosed with prostate cancer, and based on that risk, there
Speaker 5: are several options, and believe it or not, some of
Speaker 5: the early stage prostate cancers low risk prostate cancers. For
Speaker 5: most men, the recommendation is a protocol called surveillance, active surveillance,
Speaker 5: where we monitor the disease basically because sometimes the risks
Speaker 5: and side effects of treatment actually cannot weigh the risk
Speaker 5: of monitoring. So but some of the other treatment modalities
Speaker 5: for patients with prostate cancer that require treatment, you know,
Speaker 5: or things like surgery radical prostatectomy, which is a surgery
Speaker 5: we do minimally invasive robotic approach by enlarge the predominant
Speaker 5: way that the surgery is done. We have very quick recovery,
Speaker 5: most men going home next day or even in some cases,
Speaker 5: same day as their surgery. Another option is radiation, which
Speaker 5: is sometimes paired with treatments to block testosterone, because day
Speaker 5: cancers actually fueled by testosterone. But there's a big spectrum,
Speaker 5: and as you've alluded to, you know, in some cases, unfortunately,
Speaker 5: if the cancer is diagnosed late, then the systemic treatments
Speaker 5: are required.
Speaker 2: So what I've also heard is that as men get older,
Speaker 2: and I don't know what age we're talking about here,
Speaker 2: I'm not sure if we're talking about the seventies or eighties,
Speaker 2: even if they're diagnosed with prostate cancer, the likelihood is
Speaker 2: that the prostate cancer at that point in their lives
Speaker 2: is fairly slow in many cases, and they will pass
Speaker 2: away of something unrelated to prostate cancer. Is there a
Speaker 2: point in time that men can start to kind of
Speaker 2: say I don't have to worry about this or is
Speaker 2: it something that they have to be worried about whether
Speaker 2: they're thirty nine or ninety nine.
Speaker 5: Well, that's a great question, and you know, men, you're
Speaker 5: going to be at risk for prostate cancer throughout your life.
Speaker 5: But to your point, most prostate cancer is slow growing
Speaker 5: type of cancer and a lot of men dine with
Speaker 5: rather than from prostate cancer. The guidelines basically away guidelines.
Speaker 5: American Neurological Association has a very clear set of guidelines
Speaker 5: that go over this topic and discuss discuss that very point,
Speaker 5: you know, as does men get older, particularly when life
Speaker 5: expectancy is maybe less than ten years, or if they're
Speaker 5: a conversation with your doctor about whether or not you
Speaker 5: would want to continue testing. You know, after age seventy
Speaker 5: to seventy five, you might consider not checking the PSA
Speaker 5: test any longer. That being said, you know you are
Speaker 5: at risk for prostate cancer, and every case is different
Speaker 5: depending on your personal risk threshold and what you kind
Speaker 5: of how you want to kind of manage your health.
Speaker 5: But it requires a conversation and what we call shared
Speaker 5: decision making. They're perfectly healthy. You know, people in their
Speaker 5: seventies who want to continue screening for prostate cancer, and
Speaker 5: I you know, I discussed that with my patients and
Speaker 5: I think that's that's perfectly reasonable in cases. So there's
Speaker 5: really no strict cut date, but I think it's a
Speaker 5: very personalized decision and worth discussing.
Speaker 2: You know. I appreciate your time, very thoughtful responses, as
Speaker 2: I would expect from doctor Timothy O'Rourke. He's a urologist
Speaker 2: with Cape called Healthcare. Again, the lesson here is as
Speaker 2: best you can keep an eye on it. It's as
Speaker 2: simple error. Uh, doctor O'Rourke, I really appreciate you taking
Speaker 2: your time. You're a great communicator, doctor, and I mean
Speaker 2: that's you know, I have a lot of doctors on
Speaker 2: and sometimes they I don't know, they're either not able
Speaker 2: or unwilling to entertain the questions. And I really thank
Speaker 2: you for what you did tonight.
Speaker 5: And take the people, Doctor Timothy O'Rourke, thanks so much
Speaker 5: for having.
Speaker 2: On much pleasure and absolute pleasure. Thank you very much. Well,
Speaker 2: we get back when we talk with another doctor, doctor
Speaker 2: Macy Smith, who's a gerontologist with some advice and help
Speaker 2: for dementia caregivers, not people who are dealing with dementia themselves,
Speaker 2: but for those who are the caregivers of people who
Speaker 2: are dealing with dementia will explain the difference, and we'll
Speaker 2: talk to doctor Macy Smith right after this break here
Speaker 2: on Nightside. It is a Thursday night, the weekend now,
Speaker 2: I'm telling it's only about you know, twenty six, twenty
Speaker 2: eight hours away. Well maybe a little warrant than that,
Speaker 2: I should say twenty seven and a half hours away.
Speaker 2: We're we're moving in on Friday and next thing, you know,
Speaker 2: to be Saturday. So we'll get we'll get you through
Speaker 2: this week here on Nightside. Coming right back right after.
Speaker 1: This, You're on Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ,
Speaker 1: Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: All right, I suspect that everyone in this audience understands
Speaker 2: what cognition is and what dementia is. We're talking with
Speaker 2: someone who really understands what this is, and that's doctor
Speaker 2: Macy Smith. She's a gerontologist, Doctor Smith. How are you tonight?
Speaker 4: I'm doing well. How you doing?
Speaker 3: Dan?
Speaker 2: I think I'm doing just fine. You're a gerontologist. Why
Speaker 2: don't you explain to my audience? I think I know
Speaker 2: what that means. But give give my audience for anyone
Speaker 2: out there who just might not quite understand what a
Speaker 2: gerontologist is. What is it?
Speaker 4: So speaking to my gen xers and my baby boomers
Speaker 4: and prior to when you think of Jareditah, what do
Speaker 4: you think.
Speaker 2: Of old people?
Speaker 4: Yeah, you think of that tonic? Are that medication or
Speaker 4: treatment that the older peoples would take? People would take
Speaker 4: for every and anything? And so I tell my younger
Speaker 4: folks then they're like, I don't think of anything, right,
Speaker 4: So it is that I specialize in the care understanding
Speaker 4: the care and challenges of those over the age of
Speaker 4: sixty five and their family caregivers, which anand the average
Speaker 4: caregiver is aged forty nine to fifty years of age.
Speaker 4: So understanding their challenges and understanding the systems and support
Speaker 4: that can be developed and put in place to address
Speaker 4: those challenges.
Speaker 2: What this is one of these questions I always ask questions.
Speaker 2: None of my questions are scripted. So if I've asked
Speaker 2: you a question here that's unfair. Tell me what percentage
Speaker 2: of American families at this point do you think have
Speaker 2: someone living within the family home who's dealing with dementia?
Speaker 2: And what percentage of American families are touched by dementia,
Speaker 2: meaning a parent or a grandparent has passed, or a
Speaker 2: parent or grandparent is now living in a center where
Speaker 2: they're getting full, full care.
Speaker 4: Well, I will tell you that nearly seven million Americans
Speaker 4: are living with Alzheimer's disease, are some form of dementia.
Speaker 4: And so although a very small percentage of that population
Speaker 4: may not have any family because they never had any children,
Speaker 4: didn't have any siblings, the majority belonged to some type
Speaker 4: of family system. We know about one in ten, so
Speaker 4: about ten percent of the population over the age of
Speaker 4: sixty five is dealing with some form of dementia. Doesn't
Speaker 4: mean that once you reach the age of sixty five
Speaker 4: and beyond that you're going to get Alzheimer's or dementia,
Speaker 4: because you don't necessarily have to get it. It's not
Speaker 4: a normal part of aging. Although age is the number
Speaker 4: one risk factor, what's more of a risk factor outside
Speaker 4: of age is lifestyle.
Speaker 2: And what lifestyle should people avoid if they'd like to
Speaker 2: avoid Alzheimer's. What can we do proactively to avoid that condition?
Speaker 2: And then what I want to talk about is what
Speaker 2: help you can provide for the caregivers. What if someone
Speaker 2: is approaching their sixty fifth birthday, what everyone's life is different.
Speaker 2: Give us some key key ingredients to some not to dos?
Speaker 2: Are some two dos?
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I appreciate you asking that question. And I'll
Speaker 4: say this, These tips that I'm getting ready to share
Speaker 4: should be started as soon as you hear me share them, right.
Speaker 4: You don't need to wait until you are sixty four
Speaker 4: a sixty four and a half. You want to start
Speaker 4: making healthy lifestyle changes once you know better. And so
Speaker 4: what we know about the disease process, approximately forty percent
Speaker 4: of the different types of dementia that we see, because
Speaker 4: all Zheimer's is only one type, can possibly be prevented,
Speaker 4: are significantly reduced. Your chances are reduced by eating well.
Speaker 4: And when I say eating well, I'm not saying go vegan.
Speaker 4: Are a vegetarian, although vegetarian is a healthier diet if
Speaker 4: you ensure that you have the right food food groups
Speaker 4: to ensure that you have all your proper nutrients, but
Speaker 4: a low salt, low fat diet reducing inflammation in your body.
Speaker 4: You want to be sure that you're staying active and
Speaker 4: exercise and making sure that heart rate is up at
Speaker 4: least thirty minutes every day. You want to be sure
Speaker 4: that you say socially engaged. Dan, you know, don't isolate
Speaker 4: yourself or be by yourself because your brain is not
Speaker 4: mentally stimulated. So you want to be with people you
Speaker 4: enjoy being around. You want to ensure that you get sunlight.
Speaker 4: You know, when the sun is out, you need to
Speaker 4: be out right, as long as you don't get overheated
Speaker 4: or anything like that, because it's giving you the serotonin
Speaker 4: that you need to feel good, and when you feel good,
Speaker 4: you do good. You want to be sure that you
Speaker 4: get an adequate amount of sleep. Adults should get anywhere
Speaker 4: from seven to nine hours of sleep every night. And
Speaker 4: I'm not talking about that fake sleep, Dan, you know,
Speaker 4: like you're linking your eyes and you act and like
Speaker 4: you t sleep. No, I mean like that deep rim sleep,
Speaker 4: because what that does is your brain repairs the superficial
Speaker 4: damage from the day, from the day of you learning
Speaker 4: and growing and engaging, and so when you're asleep, your
Speaker 4: brain can regroup, recalibrate, reorganize. And then you want to
Speaker 4: be sure that you know you're staying away from smoking
Speaker 4: and drinking all the oh red wine does have respiratrail
Speaker 4: in it and resitral there's some research to support that
Speaker 4: it is a brain enhancing nutrient, but you know you
Speaker 4: can't drink too much of it. You don't want to
Speaker 4: get inebriated. And so when we talk about those lifestyle habits,
Speaker 4: these are things that we do. Everything that's good for
Speaker 4: our heart. Whatever is good for your heart is good
Speaker 4: for your brain. You want to ensure that you're managing
Speaker 4: those cool morbid conditions and those chronic illnesses such as
Speaker 4: high blood pressure and diabetes. When you reduce your risk
Speaker 4: of those elements, you reduce your risk of developing progressive
Speaker 4: types of dementia.
Speaker 2: Well that's a great answer, and it was clear and
Speaker 2: precise and concise, really really good. One of the things
Speaker 2: that I try to do. I'm a talk show host.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to tell you how old I am,
Speaker 2: but I'll tell you I'm over sixty five.
Speaker 4: Oh wow, Oh yeah, don't sound like that all.
Speaker 2: I've worked in television for thirty one years and I've
Speaker 2: been doing this show. Next week we'll start year eighteen
Speaker 2: on the show What the Do at Night? After my
Speaker 2: show at midnight, I'm on Monday through Friday eight to midnight.
Speaker 2: And I really want to know if I should recommend
Speaker 2: this to people before I go to bed, I'll open
Speaker 2: up the newspaper and I'll try to complete the crossword
Speaker 2: puzzle for that day.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, many times.
Speaker 2: Many times I'm like half asleep and I just put
Speaker 2: it away, shut the light out, and go right off
Speaker 2: to sleep. But I find that a great way to
Speaker 2: end the day. Now, call me crazy, but I'd love
Speaker 2: to know what you think.
Speaker 4: Well, so I will say that we all have to
Speaker 4: be lifelong learners. When you're learning you information, you're firing
Speaker 4: off those neurons, You're building up a cognitive reserve. And
Speaker 4: so if you were in line to get Alzheimer's disease,
Speaker 4: because it's really you know, no one hundred conclusive way
Speaker 4: to prevent it, but if you're in line to get it,
Speaker 4: if you built up a cognitive reserve because you were
Speaker 4: a lifelong learner, learning new information, doing exciting things, then
Speaker 4: you could delay your delay onset of dementia, which are
Speaker 4: the symptoms that you see confusion, the memory less, and forgetfulness.
Speaker 4: And so, while I won't say that it's ideal to.
Speaker 3: Do crossword puzzles before you go to bed, because.
Speaker 4: If you're somebody like me, I might it might keep
Speaker 4: me up because I couldn't figure out.
Speaker 3: This last question, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: But doing crossword puzzles in general are ideal. Now, I
Speaker 4: will say, though, you know how people do the word
Speaker 4: sign books that don't do too much for your cognitive
Speaker 4: ability because you're just circling the words, you see, you're
Speaker 4: not thinking about anything. Yeah, those crossword puzzles, you're thinking
Speaker 4: about what the answer might be. And so whenever you're thinking,
Speaker 4: you're exercising your brain and you're building a cognitive reserve.
Speaker 4: And so you want to read new books, you want
Speaker 4: to watch new movies, you want to go new places,
Speaker 4: you want to learn a new language. Then if you're
Speaker 4: right hand to start writing.
Speaker 6: With your left hand.
Speaker 4: Sometimes this is going to cause you to what think
Speaker 4: about it, and that's what you want to do.
Speaker 2: I wish I as a kid I had learned to
Speaker 2: play the piano. I really mean that. At the older
Speaker 2: I get, the more impressed I am that people.
Speaker 4: Who are you can start now.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I.
Speaker 4: Think you listeners would would love to hear hear that
Speaker 4: story in that journey.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it probably be pretty pretty ugly. But look, I
Speaker 2: really liked our conversation, doctor Smith. You selling my sort
Speaker 2: of doctor. Thanks so much for being as clear as
Speaker 2: as you are. And I'd love to have you back.
Speaker 4: I really I'd love to be back.
Speaker 2: Maybe even bring you back and do an hour and
Speaker 2: talk to some listeners because this.
Speaker 4: Hour, oh that idea perfect perfect.
Speaker 2: We'll do that. Okay, we'll do that. I'll let my
Speaker 2: producer get back in touch and we'll do something on that.
Speaker 4: Okay, thank you so much, and you have a good.
Speaker 2: Night, you two. Doctor Macy Smith, the gerontologist. Uh and uh.
Speaker 2: She has a book called and if I'm correct here
Speaker 2: help me out, doctor Smith, a dementia a dementia caregiver
Speaker 2: called to Action The Journe Dementia Caregivers Guide Books by
Speaker 2: doctor Macy Smith. She won't even know that we promoted
Speaker 2: the book, but how could I not after having her
Speaker 2: been such a nice person. We'll be back and we're
Speaker 2: going to talk about something that's scared the heck of
Speaker 2: a lot of people in Boston. It's a giant Joe
Speaker 2: ro Spider. Let me tell you this is a great story.
Speaker 2: We're going to talk with a emeritus professor of entomology
Speaker 2: from the University of Maryland Turp, Maryland Terp, doctor Michael Roup.
Speaker 2: Right after this.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan ray Line from the Window World
Speaker 1: Nice six Studios on w b Z to news radio.
Speaker 2: And all my career here in Boston and television and radio,
Speaker 2: I've never seen a story as big as the story
Speaker 2: has been about such a little insect. It's called the
Speaker 2: giant juro spider. With us is doctor Michael Ropp. He's
Speaker 2: an emeritus professor of entomology at the University of Maryland,
Speaker 2: so he's a terp, but he knows a lot about
Speaker 2: juro spiders. Professor. How are you tonight?
Speaker 6: Hey, Dan, how you doing? I'm doing great? And boy,
Speaker 6: it's it's in Beacon Hill. I heard, Yes, sir, that's
Speaker 6: pretty wicked.
Speaker 2: Yeah, less, we would say up here. The only time
Speaker 2: we say wicked, we say we're wicked spot. But we
Speaker 2: know that professors like yourself putting up my boss that
Speaker 2: accent there about this. So this we've never had one
Speaker 2: up here. How did this this spider get up here?
Speaker 2: Do you think?
Speaker 6: Well, that's a real puzzle, I have to say, Dan.
Speaker 6: The normal way that these things will disperse. It's just
Speaker 6: like in Charlotte's Web. Remember Charlotte laid those eggs, and
Speaker 6: the eggs hatched, and the little spiderlings, they produce a
Speaker 6: little bit of silk, they get caught on an updraft,
Speaker 6: and then they can travel great distances colonized new area.
Speaker 6: But I got a hunch that maybe this one actually
Speaker 6: traveled up perhaps either possibly somebody down in the Carolinas, Georgia,
Speaker 6: where these things are very common. Maybe as a small
Speaker 6: spider it's snuck into a vehicle, or maybe as an
Speaker 6: adult it's not in it was trans supported perhaps twenty people,
Speaker 6: lawn furniture, something like this. It jumped out and boom,
Speaker 6: there it is and beacon tell.
Speaker 2: So those how will can this thing survive the winter
Speaker 2: up here? Or they will?
Speaker 6: That is the million dollar question. I'll give you a
Speaker 6: little insight into this. In twenty twenty two here in Maryland,
Speaker 6: we had two sightings of jarro spiders in the county
Speaker 6: I live in.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 6: I did not bring them it, So let's get rid
Speaker 6: of that right away.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, I would never suspect you of that.
Speaker 6: By twenty twenty three, now we've got eighteen sightings here.
Speaker 6: In twenty twenty four, eight additional sightings. So this tells
Speaker 6: us that probably the northern climates, as a group of
Speaker 6: scientists wrote about earlier, this year, they said, hey, you know,
Speaker 6: this particular spider where it's from in Asia probably will
Speaker 6: be able to expand its range into more northern areas.
Speaker 6: And by golly, it sure looks like it's going to
Speaker 6: do it. It certainly has done it in here in Maryland.
Speaker 6: You know, I got to be honest with you. I
Speaker 6: think the Boston, you know, not that different in Maryland.
Speaker 6: Climatically you get a little bit colder, but you know,
Speaker 6: with global warming and these mild winters, I think this
Speaker 6: thing has a reasonable chance of being able to survive,
Speaker 6: surely as Farnos, maybe even Boston.
Speaker 2: So will some group or individual try to capture this
Speaker 2: and then keep them inside in a cage? And that
Speaker 2: is that inadvisable?
Speaker 6: I think anything can happen here. Look the jarro spider
Speaker 6: in and of itself. This is a very timid spider.
Speaker 6: It does have things, It does have venoms, but the
Speaker 6: experts tell me those things are small, so small they're
Speaker 6: probably not going to be able to pierce the human skin.
Speaker 6: I've seen lots of pictures of people handling jar spiders
Speaker 6: with no ill effects. So let's let's rate that. If
Speaker 6: it's not going to be a threat to human or pets.
Speaker 6: The real concern here that we might have is we
Speaker 6: have several indigenous large orb weaving spiders, the black and
Speaker 6: yellow garden spider, the marbled orb weaver, the spotted orb weaver.
Speaker 6: These are all very large spiders like the jarrow. Not
Speaker 6: as big as the jarrow. This is ruling the roost
Speaker 6: right now sidewise, but they build big webs. So the
Speaker 6: question we have as ecologists is will this new spider,
Speaker 6: this big orb weaver, potentially compete with our indigenous spiders.
Speaker 6: We don't have information on that yet. What I have
Speaker 6: been told is in the Southern States, once jarrow becomes established,
Speaker 6: it does become the dominant spider in an area. In
Speaker 6: other words, there'll be lots and lots of these webs.
Speaker 6: But HENK, guess what this spider is going to kill
Speaker 6: pass It's going to catch things like brown marmorate at
Speaker 6: stinking bogs. It's going to catch things like spotted lantern flies.
Speaker 6: So this will be part of what I call Mother
Speaker 6: Nature's hit squad that will help you do some of
Speaker 6: these other invasive pests. And guess what a lot of
Speaker 6: these things are coming from Asia. So this jarro spader,
Speaker 6: shall we say knows these things from an ancient association
Speaker 6: with these particular pests back in Asia, and it's going
Speaker 6: to be just like Hannibal Lecter having an old friend
Speaker 6: over for lunch.
Speaker 2: But absolutely I love the metaphor, Doctor Rolph. I wish
Speaker 2: I had more time here. We will love to have
Speaker 2: you back. I want to put you on our regular list.
Speaker 2: You're really good. I mean that seriously. You've explained science
Speaker 2: to me. I never did really well in science in
Speaker 2: school either. Well no, no, no, no, I'm sure you did.
Speaker 2: You did great. That chemistry thing was always tough. When
Speaker 2: I saw that periodic table, I said, how the hell
Speaker 2: I'm gonna memorize this?
Speaker 6: But yeah, organic, what's the struggle.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you. I'd love to have you back. I
Speaker 2: really mean that the time. But thank you very very much.
Speaker 2: You know you could listen to our show down there
Speaker 2: by the way. We boom into Maryland. We're ten thirty
Speaker 2: the AM dial. We're w j Z was our old
Speaker 2: sister station on Baltimore. We were on the old Wesley
Speaker 2: House television and radio station.
Speaker 6: So yeah, I work with jay Z quite a bit,
Speaker 6: so I'll look into that and I'll be happy to
Speaker 6: have a chance to pick you guys up on the
Speaker 6: night side. Listen to the broadcast and this was wicked,
Speaker 6: good fun.
Speaker 2: I have to say you got the wicket in there.
Speaker 2: That's for sure. A great job, doctor Michael Will Okay,
Speaker 2: thanks again. We'll be back right after the nine o'clock news.
Speaker 2: We're going to talk about the release of the would
Speaker 2: be Assassin's Letter. I got some problems with this and
Speaker 2: I want to know if you agree or disagree. We'll
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