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Speaker 2: as simple as that. Well, we have four topics of
Speaker 2: really I think really interesting. The first one is exceptionally interesting.
Speaker 2: You've heard the phrase you've turned lemons into lemonade. Well,
Speaker 2: we're not talking about lemons. We're talking about dirty diapers
Speaker 2: with Brett Stevens. He's the senior director of Reworld, a
Speaker 2: waste management company that could be helping all of us
Speaker 2: turning dirty diapers into electricity. Brett Stevens, I have no
Speaker 2: idea how you do this, but love to get a
Speaker 2: little bit more information from you. You've teamed up with
Speaker 2: a local mass daycare provider.
Speaker 3: Tell us about it.
Speaker 4: Sure, First, thank you for having me, and secondly, you
Speaker 4: are right. This is a very interesting story. Normally, parents
Speaker 4: at home, you know, they generate a lot of dirty
Speaker 4: diapers when they have babies.
Speaker 2: And the parents the babies generate the diapers. Let's make
Speaker 2: sure we're clear on that it's not the parents.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right. So babies generate a lot of dirty
Speaker 4: diapers when they are young. Parents tend to throw them
Speaker 4: in the garbage at home, and then normally your local
Speaker 4: garbage company will haul that material to a local landfill.
Speaker 4: And many people don't know this, but diapers are made
Speaker 4: of multiple different materials from adhesives to plastics to absorbents,
Speaker 4: and those materials do not break down in the landfill.
Speaker 4: So it could take five hundred years for a diaper
Speaker 4: to decompose. And we've read some statistics from the EPA
Speaker 4: to say diapers are the number three waste stream in
Speaker 4: US landfills today, so quite a bit of them sort
Speaker 4: of rotting away over time.
Speaker 2: We're talking about after you die five hundred years legacy.
Speaker 4: Wow, go ahead, Yeah, and we are, we're running out
Speaker 4: of landfill space here. We're kind of behind the times
Speaker 4: compared to Europe. And so my company, Reworld Waste operates
Speaker 4: about eighty percent of the waste to energy or thermal
Speaker 4: destruction capacity.
Speaker 5: In North America.
Speaker 4: And we partnered with one of our national customers, Kimberly Clark,
Speaker 4: which owns Huggies diapers and a local day care facility
Speaker 4: in Boston and Bright Horizons. We're doing a six location
Speaker 4: pilot program. It's been running since January of this year,
Speaker 4: so we're there.
Speaker 2: We're in a highl aer just so it's p I
Speaker 2: l O T like an airplane pilot. It's not a
Speaker 2: pilot p I L E. I just want to make
Speaker 2: sure that they would clear on that.
Speaker 6: Correct.
Speaker 4: And by pilot, I mean that this is a test
Speaker 4: program up there, stereo.
Speaker 3: I just want to pay. We're not talking about piling
Speaker 3: it up anywhere. Go ahead, go.
Speaker 4: Ahead, correct, correct. And so we've partnered with Huggies and
Speaker 4: these local Bright Horizons daycare facilities. There are six of
Speaker 4: them in the Greater Boston area that are participating, and
Speaker 4: we have a special kiosk at each of these sites
Speaker 4: to specifically put diapers in instead of the normal trash,
Speaker 4: and we use a subcontractor in the local Boston area
Speaker 4: to do milk run style pickups at those six day
Speaker 4: care facilities multiple times a week. So those diapers are collected,
Speaker 4: they are brought back to a local waste management facility
Speaker 4: where the material is sterilized in an autoclave. It's a
Speaker 4: machine that combines steam and pressure to kill bacteria, help
Speaker 4: with the smell, all the things you would want to
Speaker 4: do with a dirty diaper.
Speaker 2: Kiosks with it deposited, and then they're moved. Okay, got it, okay,
Speaker 2: fair enough?
Speaker 6: Correct?
Speaker 4: And so the diapers do not sit for more than
Speaker 4: a couple of days at the most before they are
Speaker 4: emptied out. And then those diapers end up getting sterilized
Speaker 4: at a local partner of ours in the Boston area,
Speaker 4: and then we ultimately deliver a full truckload of that
Speaker 4: material to our haveril the thermal treatment facility in the
Speaker 4: Greater Boston area, and so that material gets commingled with
Speaker 4: municipal waste, normal garbage that comes in from the municipalities,
Speaker 4: and it enters our boiler where it becomes a fuel
Speaker 4: to create electricity. And so all of those diapers, along
Speaker 4: with all the other waste that we collect, is incinerated
Speaker 4: or thermally treated, which heats up our boiler systems of water.
Speaker 4: That water becomes steam, that steam enters a turbine, and
Speaker 4: that turbine creates electricity out to the New England Tower grid.
Speaker 4: So we're actually putting the diapers and other waste materials
Speaker 4: to good use. And so far through the pilot program
Speaker 4: this year, at just those six stores, six locations, we've
Speaker 4: collected over thirty three thousand pounds of diapers. That's over
Speaker 4: sixteen tons of diapers, and those sixteen tons of diapers
Speaker 4: have created three mega loot hours of electricity. So for
Speaker 4: your listeners who don't know what a megawatt hour is
Speaker 4: or how to measure what effect that has, those three
Speaker 4: megawatt hours of electricity could power five homes for a
Speaker 4: month in the Boston area. Okay, so we're sending go ahead.
Speaker 3: No, I'm just saying that's a lot of work, okay.
Speaker 2: And in the article that I read here, there's also
Speaker 2: some families out there who are going back to the old,
Speaker 2: tried and true cloth diaper.
Speaker 3: We have a woman who calls this show who.
Speaker 2: Makes a diaper run every night, Donna the Diaper Lady. Well,
Speaker 2: that's true, that's true. Donna is one of our regular callers.
Speaker 2: She's probably listening right now. What you're doing is that
Speaker 2: people have obviously have made the switch from cloth diapers
Speaker 2: to disposable diapers, but you have highlighted a problem and
Speaker 2: you're trying to turn you know, lemons into lemonade here,
Speaker 2: you know, diapers and whatever used diapers uh into power
Speaker 2: for the grid, which is really interesting. Is this being
Speaker 2: done anywhere else in the country or are you guys,
Speaker 2: is this a breakthrough with your company?
Speaker 3: And here in New England.
Speaker 4: I would say that we may accidentally receive diapers for
Speaker 4: municipalities that send their waste to us, but this is
Speaker 4: a very this is a you know, on purpose program
Speaker 4: that we are collecting only that material from.
Speaker 5: These facilities, and.
Speaker 4: To my knowledge, we're the only company doing this in
Speaker 4: North America today and it's not happening anywhere else in
Speaker 4: the country yet. But we do hope to expand it
Speaker 4: with our partners.
Speaker 2: Well, Brett, I know I was using a couple of
Speaker 2: puns there, just to lighten the like we say lighten
Speaker 2: the load here, but I shouldn't say that the bottom
Speaker 2: line I shouldn't say that either. What I'm trying to
Speaker 2: say is this seems like a great program. Obviously, it's
Speaker 2: not like you're powering Manhattan for a month with the diapers,
Speaker 2: but it's a step in the right direction. And I
Speaker 2: hope that as this expiands or as you get some others.
Speaker 2: I would assume that there are probably some investors out
Speaker 2: there who might like to take a look at this program.
Speaker 2: Am I being too optimistic when I suggest that?
Speaker 4: Well, I don't think you're being too optimistic. I think
Speaker 4: this does have legs. But yeah, mke no, mistake. Well,
Speaker 4: what we're doing right now is an improvement over the
Speaker 4: material sitting in a landfill. But the holy grail, the
Speaker 4: holy grail would be if the diapers were not single
Speaker 4: use and disposable and made from multiple materials. I think
Speaker 4: down the line, we'll probably get to a point where
Speaker 4: these diapers can be collected and recycled in some way,
Speaker 4: where the content can be used in a variety of ways.
Speaker 4: Maybe the plastic outer part of the diaper can be recycled,
Speaker 4: whereas the inner absorbent material could be used for some
Speaker 4: other kind of traded I think we're maybe a year
Speaker 4: or two away from that, But that's the holy grail.
Speaker 2: Okay, how can folks get more information? Give us a website,
Speaker 2: how they that can get in touch with you. You
Speaker 2: never know, we can have some venture capitalists who's listening
Speaker 2: tonight and says, hey, that's a great potential investment, or
Speaker 2: people just might want to get more information.
Speaker 3: Give us a way to get in touch with you.
Speaker 2: Sure.
Speaker 4: Our company is called Reworld rw RLD and you can
Speaker 4: reach us at reworld waste dot com. You can learn
Speaker 4: a lot about our facilities where they exist. You can
Speaker 4: learn about thermal destruction of products and the benefits of that.
Speaker 4: We we of course would love to chat with anyone
Speaker 4: that wants to reach out.
Speaker 3: And how long has your company been operational.
Speaker 4: We have been operational since the eighties. Uh Oh was
Speaker 4: previously known as co previously known as Covanta. You may
Speaker 4: know the name Covanta, but we've recently rebranded earlier this
Speaker 4: year to Reworld because we've acquired a lot of companies
Speaker 4: to complement our core business and we are now a
Speaker 4: total waste solutions company.
Speaker 2: And to end, Brett, thank you very much for your time.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much for your innovation. And I hope
Speaker 2: you are on a fan that I tried to just
Speaker 2: lighten it up a little bit.
Speaker 4: And no, of course, thank you for having.
Speaker 2: A great project. Thanks, thank you, Bret. Brett Stevens of
Speaker 2: Senior director of Reworld. Thanks Brett, appreciate it very much.
Speaker 2: We'll have you back.
Speaker 4: Thank you, bye bye, have a great night, and.
Speaker 2: We come back when we talk about the new Philharmonic
Speaker 2: Harmon Excuse me, I shouldn't say phil Harmonic, the New
Speaker 2: Philharmonia Orchestra. If you are a music lover, you are
Speaker 2: going to love this next segment. Later I'm going to
Speaker 2: talk about sober comedy night and also find fall splendor
Speaker 2: at seven New England beaches from Maine to Rhode Island.
Speaker 2: And then we'll get to the talk portion of the program.
Speaker 3: For now. My name's Dan Ray. This is Nightside.
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Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
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Speaker 2: All right, we are back going to talk about a
Speaker 2: little bit of music here, actually quite a bit of
Speaker 2: music music. The new follow Philharmoniamonia Orchestra, beginning its thirtieth
Speaker 2: anniversary season with us. Is the music direction of the
Speaker 2: new Philharmonia Orchestra? Have I pronounced that correctly? Jorge Soto?
Speaker 5: Yes, perfect, new Philharmonia, Yes.
Speaker 2: Harmonia, Okay, I always think it's going to be Philharmonic.
Speaker 2: I know why did they change it? Tell us about
Speaker 2: why is it called Philharmonia as opposed to Philharmonic?
Speaker 3: Is there a reasoners there is that? Are they synonyms?
Speaker 5: No, it's just the name of it. It said, there's
Speaker 5: a it's a name. You know, you have symphony orchestras,
Speaker 5: you know, Philharmonic, you know Boston Symphony, Boston Philharmonic. You
Speaker 5: know we play with these names, but that's name, you know,
Speaker 5: I gotta get Look.
Speaker 2: I don't know why they said they spell the Red
Speaker 2: Sox s O X why they don't say Red Sox
Speaker 2: s O c K S. But that's you know. Those
Speaker 2: are the sort of the questions you have to deal
Speaker 2: with in life living here in New England. So tell
Speaker 2: us about the orchestra. This is a huge ensemble. How
Speaker 2: many members are in your orchestra? I saw some pictures.
Speaker 2: It looks like two football teams.
Speaker 5: Yes, we are around I guess sixty five members.
Speaker 3: You were saying a football team and a baseball team.
Speaker 3: Fair enough. How does someone become a member of this orchestra?
Speaker 2: I guess you actually have recitals and personal interviews. But
Speaker 2: I mean, you're all set for this year. Don't get
Speaker 2: me wrong. When in case someone you do not have to.
Speaker 5: Open you what we're always looking. We're always opening email us,
Speaker 5: have a little audition and just get in, you know,
Speaker 5: play with us, have a good time.
Speaker 2: Okay, So these are these are they're not professional musicians
Speaker 2: in the sense that you don't tour around, but everyone
Speaker 2: how far you're based in Newton, right, correct. Okay, But
Speaker 2: you don't have to live in Newton to become a member.
Speaker 5: No, no, no, it's a community orchestra.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 5: Community orchestras are mostly musicians who make a living by
Speaker 5: doing by having other professions. So we have a bunch
Speaker 5: of doctors, lawyers, you know, accountants, you name it. You know, teachers, professors,
Speaker 5: and so they have a different job. But they played
Speaker 5: instruments when you know, when growing up, and they just
Speaker 5: want to keep on playing. And a lot of them,
Speaker 5: some of them have even undergrad in music, you know.
Speaker 5: But a lot of them are very talented. So all
Speaker 5: of them are very talented. And no, we sound fantastic.
Speaker 2: And is your home base or you perform at the
Speaker 2: Grace Church in Newton center? Is that where the concerts occur?
Speaker 5: Correct? Grace Episcopal Church.
Speaker 3: Grace Episcopal Church.
Speaker 2: Okay, And I know that you have a performance coming
Speaker 2: up on November twenty third and twenty fourth.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 2: And then you have one actually at the Brown Middle
Speaker 2: School in Newton on the fifteenth of December. And then
Speaker 2: you have two concerts on March first and second, and
Speaker 2: May third and fourth. All all of these take place
Speaker 2: somewhere in Newton, am I correct?
Speaker 3: When I understand to understand.
Speaker 5: That yes, yes, this performances coming up in November, as
Speaker 5: you mentioned, are will be at Grace Episcopal Church. The
Speaker 5: March performances and the May performances will be at the
Speaker 5: same church, the Grace Episcopal Church.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: And the one session then is the one on December
Speaker 2: fifteenth at the Brown Middle School.
Speaker 5: Correct, And then we'll be doing a Cracker with the
Speaker 5: Boston Boston Ballet. It's a beautiful event for families.
Speaker 3: Yes, well, that sounds great.
Speaker 2: And these are high quality musicians. And I'm looking at
Speaker 2: the picture. It's a great tableau of men and women,
Speaker 2: all sorts of backgrounds, different ages, and it is it
Speaker 2: is clearly a very impressive looking orchestra. The amount to
Speaker 2: talent that exists within the community, sometimes it's underrated. The
Speaker 2: number of people who again are you know, have become
Speaker 2: musicians at one point in their life or have maybe
Speaker 2: always been musicians. It's it's wonderful. How much do you
Speaker 2: folks have to practice every year? Is this you know?
Speaker 2: Something that really is involves a commitment for several months
Speaker 2: every every.
Speaker 3: Fall and winter.
Speaker 5: Yes, we rehearsed. We have about seven rehearsals in preparation
Speaker 5: for every concert. So up to November third, No, we
Speaker 5: have met at least seven times, you know. And it's
Speaker 5: a lot of work. And besides that, all of us
Speaker 5: work at home during the week and prepare for these rehearsals. Yes,
Speaker 5: it takes a lot of work, but we enjoy I think,
Speaker 5: simply are We love doing this and I believe we
Speaker 5: bring a lot of joy to the town of Newton.
Speaker 2: Thirty years. This is your thirtieth anniversary. Will be a
Speaker 2: very special year. And I know that you have been
Speaker 2: with the orchestra for how many years you were the
Speaker 2: music director and you've been with them. You're now the
Speaker 2: music director, but previously you were in other positions with
Speaker 2: the orchestra.
Speaker 3: Correct.
Speaker 5: Correct? I started in two thousand and seventeen as an
Speaker 5: assistant conductor to the main conductor. Then I became the
Speaker 5: principal conductor, and as this past September, I became the
Speaker 5: music director. And yes, I've been around since twenty seventeen.
Speaker 5: And by the way, we're also it's going to be
Speaker 5: a beautiful this November concert, special concert because we are
Speaker 5: celebrating one hundred and fifty years of Newton as a
Speaker 5: city and the new to the Mayor. Mayor Foller will
Speaker 5: be joining us in one of the pieces. She will
Speaker 5: be narrating a wonderful piece by Copeland that has that
Speaker 5: the text is a compilation of Lincoln's different speeches. It's
Speaker 5: going to be it's going to be quite quite celebratory
Speaker 5: in nature.
Speaker 3: Well, poor hey, best best of luck.
Speaker 2: It sounds like a wonderful season coming up for the
Speaker 2: New phil Ammonia Orchestra beginning its thirty thirtieth season, with
Speaker 2: the two performances coming up November twenty third and twenty
Speaker 2: fourth at the Episcopal the Grace Episcopal Church in Newton Center.
Speaker 2: And I assume tickets are available. What is the website
Speaker 2: people can can go to to get some tickets.
Speaker 5: It's new feel dot org.
Speaker 2: I like that it's easier to spell new phil any
Speaker 2: w p h I L dot org. Congratulations, congratulations, thanks
Speaker 2: for being with us tonight, Hoge the music direction my pleasure,
Speaker 2: my pleasure. When we get back, we're going to talk
Speaker 2: about a different sort of celebration, a sober comedy night
Speaker 2: presented at the Hope Center coming up on November twenty first,
Speaker 2: We're going to talk with Norfolk County Sheriff Patrick McDermott,
Speaker 2: an old friend, a very funny comedian Steve Sweeney, back
Speaker 2: on Nightside. You'll get a few chuckles out of this one,
Speaker 2: for sure, and there's also a serious message to boot.
Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm delighted to welcome two guests. Very rarely do
Speaker 2: we have two guests at the same time here on Nightside.
Speaker 2: Norfolk County Sheriff Patrick McDermott and a friend of many years,
Speaker 2: one of the funniest people I know, comedian Steve Sweeney.
Speaker 3: First of all, Sheriff McDermott, welcome back. How are you tonight?
Speaker 8: I'm doing great, Dan, thanks for having me back again.
Speaker 8: Really appreciate it.
Speaker 2: You bet you' Steve. Always a pleasure to have you here.
Speaker 2: A nice sight. It's been too long. How have you
Speaker 2: been doing, buddy?
Speaker 6: Oh good? I would amend your introduction one and a
Speaker 6: half guess, one and a half guess because I'm grieving.
Speaker 6: I'm grieving. How do you like these colleges they're taking
Speaker 6: days off for grieving. You know who should be grieving
Speaker 6: is the parents that are paying for these kids.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 6: Do you have a safe room community colleges not grieving.
Speaker 2: Where's your comfort blanket? Do you have a safe room
Speaker 2: and a comfort blanket?
Speaker 3: All I can.
Speaker 6: I'm waiting for my call from Trump to be the
Speaker 6: ambassador to Aruba. Anyway, Hey, before we get started, I
Speaker 6: really want to say this, Dan. Every Friday night, I'm
Speaker 6: coming home from a gig and I listen to you
Speaker 6: and I love it, absolutely love it. And my favorite
Speaker 6: is the last hour. It was a few weeks ago,
Speaker 6: the last hour you were gonna do. Uh, you're doing
Speaker 6: meetings with famous people and that's really.
Speaker 2: Rushes, rushes with celebrity, brushes with celebrity.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, next time you do it, I'm gonna call in.
Speaker 2: Well, you have met so many celebrities in your life.
Speaker 2: I mean you'll be We could do an hour with
Speaker 2: you one brushes with celebrity, that's sure. The a absolutely
Speaker 2: as we call the good, the bad, and the ugly,
Speaker 2: simple as that. But anyway, we're gonna talk about a
Speaker 2: sober comedy night. Sheriff McDermott. Here's your headliner, Steve Sweeney.
Speaker 2: You can't do better than that. Tell us the purpose
Speaker 2: here it's presented by the Hope Center. Tell us what
Speaker 2: we're trying to accomplish here and then we'll have some fun.
Speaker 8: Tell us what we're gonna I'm truly blessed in the
Speaker 8: Norfolk Sheriff's Office.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 8: Part of my vision about being Sheriff of Norfolk County
Speaker 8: was focusing on re entry, rehabilitation and the reduction of
Speaker 8: recid rates. And we opened back in April a brand
Speaker 8: new re entry center called the Hope Center, And the
Speaker 8: Hope Center stands for Healing, Opportunity, Purpose and Engagement. And
Speaker 8: this is an opportunity for folks who are re entering
Speaker 8: society from the House of Correction to be more integrated
Speaker 8: into the community. And we focus on a holistic approach
Speaker 8: to mental health, substance use, counseling, job training, educational opportunities,
Speaker 8: job placement. The Hope Center is a one stop shop
Speaker 8: for those people coming out of the Norfolk County House
Speaker 8: of Correction, but it's also available to generally the public
Speaker 8: at large who might be falling on hard times. So
Speaker 8: the Hope Center is presenting a Sober Comedy Night with
Speaker 8: all proceeds to benefit our nonprofit and so Cares. And
Speaker 8: we're very blessed to have Steve Sweeney. You know, most
Speaker 8: people know Steve Sweeney as a very successful funny the
Speaker 8: godfather of the Boston comedy scene. But what I see
Speaker 8: is a compassionate, loving soul that wants to give back consistently.
Speaker 8: Steve is a member of the Norfolk County Sheriff's Office team.
Speaker 8: He works with our inmates. He works with the folks
Speaker 8: who are down on their luck who want to get
Speaker 8: back on their feet. Steve works in the Plymouth County
Speaker 8: Sheriff's Office as well. So while you see Steve Sweeney
Speaker 8: as a funny comedian, which he is, his heart is
Speaker 8: in the right place when it comes to taking care
Speaker 8: of people that want to better themselves. So the Hope
Speaker 8: Center is launching this Comedy Night with Steve Sweeney on
Speaker 8: November twenty first Thursday Night, seven to nine pm. If
Speaker 8: you get your tickets early, we're going to be selling
Speaker 8: this out. Two hundred tickets are only going to be sold.
Speaker 8: You got to go to NSO cares dot org. We
Speaker 8: have a heated pavilion down in Braintree at twenty fifteen
Speaker 8: Washington Street. Come one, come on, Steve Sweeney, Chase Blain
Speaker 8: and Jack Lynch are gonna light it up that night.
Speaker 3: Noaich So have you given Steve a badge and a gun?
Speaker 8: We're still working on.
Speaker 2: That, Steve, this is this is good news is.
Speaker 6: I'm that's very nice of the sheriff to say that stuff.
Speaker 6: But I do have an ulterian motive. You know. My
Speaker 6: dream when I get into this business was to play
Speaker 6: at a heated tent in Braintreet, you know, and uh, yeah,
Speaker 6: I took the Anthony Robins course and my dreams come through. Yeah,
Speaker 6: I'm badgine a gun. You're a wise guy, Dan, you
Speaker 6: know I'm from jobtown. That wouldn't be appropriate.
Speaker 3: There wouldn't be a safe bank in America at that point.
Speaker 6: Oh my god, I would.
Speaker 2: I would show up as a character witness and instead
Speaker 2: of getting life in prison, you get three consecutive life
Speaker 2: in prison. Trust me on that. Okay, Uh, what else
Speaker 2: are you doing? How much are you moving around? I
Speaker 2: mean I got to get you back on the show.
Speaker 2: We haven't had you on.
Speaker 6: Oh you know what, I'd love to come right in
Speaker 6: the middle of I love it, you know, I used to.
Speaker 6: You know you sometimes you interact with the audience and
Speaker 6: let's say, where are you from? You say Brighton. I'd say, oh,
Speaker 6: you're putting on airs. You're from Austin, but uh yeah,
Speaker 6: I'm working around and doing a little I did a
Speaker 6: fantastic movie in Thailand actually a few years ago, called
Speaker 6: the Greatest Beer Run Ever. Its great cast Russell Crowe,
Speaker 6: Bill Murray. I just did another short film Saturday, and
Speaker 6: I do the stand up and I got my own
Speaker 6: little club in Quinsy at the Fox and Hounds. So
Speaker 6: staying busy. Dan, you know, I'm pretty much happy that
Speaker 6: the election's over. I'm I just sleeping kind of. You know,
Speaker 6: that was pretty pretty much. You know, It's funny how
Speaker 6: people are about this thing. You know, I got friends
Speaker 6: that don't talk to each other and the whole thing.
Speaker 6: But you know, I'm happy. Before Dan is Tim Wall,
Speaker 6: the guy ran for VP. Yeah he went back back
Speaker 6: to the job and as hardware. Oh yeah, you bet Youah, yeah,
Speaker 6: you're looking for three Philip Head screwdriver and three penny nails.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, you bet ya. He was a yeah, he's
Speaker 6: a car.
Speaker 3: He was a character. Absolutely.
Speaker 2: I thank god he didn't shoot himself with that shotgun.
Speaker 2: That's the one thing that often I think there was blessed.
Speaker 6: And then the other guy they're raiding your dogs, Oh
Speaker 6: my god, lot of.
Speaker 2: Friends of mine, A lot of friends of mine sent
Speaker 2: me some of these great memes of pictures of their
Speaker 2: dogs watching that, and the dogs were terrified.
Speaker 3: I mean they understood what he was saying.
Speaker 2: None of them were going to Springfield, Ohio, absolutely, some
Speaker 2: of them thought he was referring to Springfield, Massachusetts, which
Speaker 2: is also another story, Steve. Great to hear you wet.
Speaker 2: You gotta get you on some night we'll get.
Speaker 6: Yeah. I'm so happy to partner with the sheriff on this.
Speaker 6: It's such a great cause.
Speaker 2: So well, a lot of people, a lot of people
Speaker 2: are going to be helped here, shaff give us that
Speaker 2: website one more time. You kind of rented by us
Speaker 2: a little quickly there, Let's get it one more time.
Speaker 8: So go to www dot n as a Nancy n
Speaker 8: s o cares dot org.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, here's the tip that www thing. You don't
Speaker 2: need that anymore, just dot com, simplest time.
Speaker 8: Fifty five years old, Dan, I'm still doing the Www.
Speaker 8: Getting used to it.
Speaker 2: I'm older than you, and I got rid of it
Speaker 2: about twenty years ago. I couldn't quite second. I felt
Speaker 2: like I was I felt like I was daffy duck.
Speaker 2: Or something saying www, something like you no, no big deal.
Speaker 3: Stay sweety.
Speaker 8: We'll get together soon.
Speaker 2: Thanks right back at you. Thanks you great, great cause,
Speaker 2: looking forward to it again. The date on that one, Sheriff,
Speaker 2: it's the what's the.
Speaker 8: Date please, Thursday, November twenty first, seven pm, twenty fifteen,
Speaker 8: Washington Street in Braintree.
Speaker 3: Perfect.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much, guys. We'll talk soon. Everybody appreciate it. Wrong,
Speaker 2: great cause, my pleasure, Steve, Thanks Jariff. When we get back,
Speaker 2: we're going to talk about fall splendor on seven New
Speaker 2: England beaches. You didn't want to be on a beach today.
Speaker 2: It was chilly out there. We're gonna be talking with
Speaker 2: Alison to Baldy. She's a contributing writer for USA Today,
Speaker 2: and I think we'll have some disagreement over them.
Speaker 3: Any beach in.
Speaker 2: New England is beautiful, you know, in in October, in November,
Speaker 2: a little tough in December. But we'll talk with Allison
Speaker 2: on the other side of the break. Always great the
Speaker 2: chat with Steve Sweeney and Sheriff Vic Deermoy coming back
Speaker 2: on Night's side right after the break.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan ray Line from the Window World
Speaker 1: night Sight Studios on w b z TO News Radio.
Speaker 2: Joining US now is Alison to Baldy. She's a contributing
Speaker 2: writer for USA Today and she's the ten best local expert. Allison,
Speaker 2: this sounds like a sweet gig you got going here.
Speaker 7: It is, Dan, I love my job.
Speaker 2: I'll bet you do.
Speaker 3: I'll bet you do.
Speaker 2: And so we're going to talk about fall splendor at
Speaker 2: seven New England Beaches.
Speaker 3: Are you from New England originally? Per chance?
Speaker 7: Or no? It looks to me like, you know, I'm
Speaker 7: not Dan. I have a lot of family in New England,
Speaker 7: So I grew up visiting grandparents and Marblehood and lots
Speaker 7: of family in New Bedford. So although I am a
Speaker 7: New Yorker, New England is in my heart.
Speaker 3: We're not going to hold that again. She trust me
Speaker 3: on that.
Speaker 2: So, so you're you're recommending seven New England Beaches. Was
Speaker 2: this a piece that is for a Boston paper or
Speaker 2: was this in USA Today?
Speaker 3: I know you're a contributed to USA Today.
Speaker 7: Yes, it's actually was in USA Today And then you know,
Speaker 7: so it really was geared to a now audience. Yeah,
Speaker 7: because I you know, I think, of course New England
Speaker 7: Beaches are world class and I think they deserve a
Speaker 7: national audience.
Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, I'm very familiar with New England beaches. I'm
Speaker 2: within probably two hundred yards of one right now.
Speaker 5: As a matter of fact, Oh good.
Speaker 3: On that beach yesterday. It's on the Nantucket Sound as
Speaker 3: a matter of fact.
Speaker 2: An interesting fact. You're a traveling food writer based in
Speaker 2: New York City. You have lived in Rome, Tuscany, Melbourne, Australia, Toronto,
Speaker 2: and Los Angeles.
Speaker 7: That is so true.
Speaker 2: Yes, and you've written and published for places like CNN,
Speaker 2: Travel Channel, HGTV. You've had really quite a career New
Speaker 2: York Emirates, Open Skies, Family Traveler, and you look like
Speaker 2: you're about twenty one. How did you get all this
Speaker 2: done at such a young age, Allison, Well.
Speaker 7: I'll tell you I am definitely not twenty one, Dan,
Speaker 7: But thank you, I'll say the compliment. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 7: I've had a good gig going and I you know,
Speaker 7: I love to travel, so it's really a great fit
Speaker 7: for me. I love to travel and I love to
Speaker 7: share share my travels with people.
Speaker 3: So let's talk about the New England beaches. I used
Speaker 3: to love to travel.
Speaker 2: I worked as a TV reporter for a long time
Speaker 2: and it was always fun to travel, but travel lately
Speaker 2: has got tough for me. But that's another story. Tell
Speaker 2: us about the seven beaches that you're recommending here, and
Speaker 2: I'm familiar with some of them, and they're all great
Speaker 2: beaches that you.
Speaker 7: Yes, well, it's well, they are all great beaches.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 7: I could have I picked seven beaches, but in truth,
Speaker 7: I think there probably would be seventy beaches in New
Speaker 7: England that would be well worth the trip. I'm a
Speaker 7: big fan of Hampton Beach in New Hampshire. I just
Speaker 7: think it's such a classic. I'm not sure if you've
Speaker 7: ever been up there.
Speaker 6: Yes, I have, Yes, I have that boardwalk.
Speaker 7: You know. I've been going there for you know, since
Speaker 7: I was a young kid. So it just has that
Speaker 7: you know, kind of old fashioned seaside vibe. And I
Speaker 7: think in the fall it's just gorgeous because it's gotta
Speaker 7: you know, it quiets down considerably so you can really,
Speaker 7: you know, take a moment and savor and appreciate the
Speaker 7: natural beauty of the beach when you have a little
Speaker 7: bit less of the you know, kind of diversions.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I mean.
Speaker 2: Old Silver Beach is very close to where I am
Speaker 2: right here, in Falmouth. That's a anabulous beach. I think
Speaker 2: most people in New England at some point have been
Speaker 2: up to a gunkqut main beach.
Speaker 3: In a gunk WoT right.
Speaker 7: Yes, I do love Algunquet. I think it's gorgeous and
Speaker 7: I mean, yeah, Falmouth, the whole cape is beautiful. One
Speaker 7: of the things I really do like in the Falmouth areas.
Speaker 7: I'm a I love to cycle, so I'm a big fan,
Speaker 7: you know of the of the bike path that they
Speaker 7: have there, the Shining Sea Bikeway. It's a very you know,
Speaker 7: it's it's perfect in autumn. I feel like, you know,
Speaker 7: in summer it can be awfly hot, but you know,
Speaker 7: autumn is really a great season to enjoy the beach
Speaker 7: and kind of beach adjacent activities too.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 2: You mentioned the one that caught my eyes when I'm
Speaker 2: very familiar with Mosh Beach. I call it Filbin Beach
Speaker 2: on Martha's Vineyard where they have the mud baths.
Speaker 3: Have you ever been.
Speaker 5: Das it's really fun.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, and it's again, I mean, it's so it's
Speaker 7: so you know, they're all so different, you know, I
Speaker 7: think those you know, the cliffs are so amazing and
Speaker 7: it just feels very remote on that side of the vineyard,
Speaker 7: you know.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, that is the they called the.
Speaker 5: Quinna Quinna exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I see here Easton's Beach in Newport, Rhode Island.
Speaker 2: I'm not familiar with that, but it looks beautiful, huh.
Speaker 8: It is.
Speaker 7: It's really beautiful.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 7: One of the things I love about Easton's Beach is
Speaker 7: you're really like right in Newport the cliff Walk. You know,
Speaker 7: you can see it right above and you know, if
Speaker 7: you kind kind of you can access the cliff walk
Speaker 7: and I think it's about a two mile trail and
Speaker 7: you can, you know, see the mansions and it's kind
Speaker 7: of you know, it's a very beautiful beach. But it
Speaker 7: really is almost an urban beach, I would say, because
Speaker 7: you're just so close to everything in Newport. So yeah,
Speaker 7: that's a favorite of mine.
Speaker 3: If you want an.
Speaker 2: Urban beach, you could have thrown Revere Beach in here,
Speaker 2: but I think you might be a little more beautiful
Speaker 2: than Revere. There's one in Madison, Connecticut, which I'm not
Speaker 2: familiar with.
Speaker 3: Tell us about that one.
Speaker 7: That one Hammond Asset is you know, it's a wonderful
Speaker 7: year round beach. But especially in fall because it's not
Speaker 7: an ocean beach. It's the Long Island Sound, so the
Speaker 7: water kind of stays a bit warmer. I mean, I
Speaker 7: was there about two weeks ago swimming. I mean, I'm
Speaker 7: a little bit of a polar bear, so I admit,
Speaker 7: you know, not everyone is going to want to take
Speaker 7: a Halloween swim, but you know, the water stays warm.
Speaker 7: It's just gorgeous. There's like wooden boardwalk trails and beautiful foliage,
Speaker 7: you know. I mean, of course, the coastal foliage is
Speaker 7: not quite like inland foliage. You know, it's not those
Speaker 7: burths of like reds and oranges.
Speaker 5: It's more of a subtle.
Speaker 7: Kind of color palette. But it's just a beautiful one.
Speaker 7: I'm a big fan of Hamon Asset, and I would
Speaker 7: say it's pretty much equidistance between New York and Boston.
Speaker 7: It's about two hours from both cities, so it's a
Speaker 7: you know, I go there in the winter. It's a
Speaker 7: great winter beach.
Speaker 5: I snowshoe.
Speaker 2: There was a sunset on the cape tonight which I've
Speaker 2: never seen. It was the most spectacular sunset.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, around five o'clock.
Speaker 2: And the last beach that since we're going to hit
Speaker 2: all of them, we'll hit them all. The number seven
Speaker 2: is out a wildlife refuse in Nantucket. Never I'm not
Speaker 2: familiar with this beach, but it looks beautiful.
Speaker 7: Yes, it's very beautiful. You know what I love about
Speaker 7: about the wildlife refuse beach is, you know, it's there's
Speaker 7: mile of beaches there, but there's also you know, dunes
Speaker 7: and tall beach grass and heather. There's a big maritime
Speaker 7: oak forest, so it almost is like a state park.
Speaker 7: I would say, you know, it's not technically, but it's
Speaker 7: just very massive and it feels really like otherworldly. It's
Speaker 7: it's just gorgeous. It's you know, and of course Nantucket
Speaker 7: in fall is just absolutely beautiful, one of my favorite places.
Speaker 3: So a little a little.
Speaker 2: Less crowded in in November than it would be in
Speaker 2: July or Auguste's for sure.
Speaker 7: Definitely.
Speaker 2: Dan really enjoyed the conversation and the more I read
Speaker 2: about your fluent in Italian, Uh, you have that.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I took some I led some listeners to Rome and
Speaker 2: the Amalfi Coast this summer and oh wow, back in
Speaker 2: Italy for a while. But it was it was a
Speaker 2: beautiful trip, little warm.
Speaker 7: Little warm hot weather. Now, well it's a pleasure. I'm
Speaker 7: a big fan of yours, Dan, so it was a
Speaker 7: pleasure speaking with you.
Speaker 3: Right back at you, Alison Tobaldi.
Speaker 2: And again, get out if you get a chance before
Speaker 2: the snowflies, and enjoy one of New England's beaches. Take
Speaker 2: a walk. That's all you have to do. Thanks so much, Alison,
Speaker 2: and I hopefully have you back with us soon. Thank
Speaker 2: you so much.
Speaker 7: Thank you, Dan. Take care the good night you too,
Speaker 7: talk to you soon.
Speaker 3: All right, go take quick break here.
Speaker 2: We're going to come back when we talk about what's
Speaker 2: going on up at the strike in three Massachusetts communities.
Speaker 2: I think you know them by now, Beverly and Gloucester
Speaker 2: and Marblehead. Nothing much has changed. No school tomorrow for
Speaker 2: any of these school systems. These strikes, these teachers remain
Speaker 2: on strike. I want to talk a little bit about this.
Speaker 2: I made some suggestions last night. I want to clarify,
Speaker 2: make sure all of you understand. I'm putting on a
Speaker 2: proposal and I want to see some members of the
Speaker 2: legislature support it. Because I came up with the idea.
Speaker 2: I think it's a core even though it was mine
Speaker 2: I don't have too many great ideas, but we will
Speaker 2: be back. This is a great topic, coming back on
Speaker 2: the other side of the nine here on Nightside