Speaker 1: It's Nightside with Dan Ray on WBS Boston Radio.
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Speaker 2: This hour, we have four interesting guests and four different topics.
Speaker 2: We're going to talk about Valentine's Day scams, the scamsters
Speaker 2: are out there, going to talk about minting pennies or
Speaker 2: not minting pennies, going to talk about Boston's most romantic spots,
Speaker 2: this being Valentine's Week. And also we're going to learn
Speaker 2: about energy healing. Sounds interesting. We are going to talk
Speaker 2: with an energy worker and healer. And during the program
Speaker 2: tonight at nine o'clock, we're going to talk with a
Speaker 2: principal of a local high school, Westwood High School, the principal,
Speaker 2: Amy Davenport, and a financial literacy teacher, Breon Mahegan. They teach.
Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, it's a requirement for graduation
Speaker 2: to pass a financial literacy course at Westwood High School,
Speaker 2: so good for them. They also teach civics there. Then
Speaker 2: at ten o'clock tonight, we'll talk about this whirlwind twenty
Speaker 2: four hours for President Trump. He is certainly squarely back
Speaker 2: on the international stage. Watts to talk about today. Lotts
Speaker 2: has accomplished all of its seeming for the good, and
Speaker 2: we'll talk about that tonight beginning at ten o'clock. But
Speaker 2: first I want to welcome back PAULA Fleming, the chief
Speaker 2: marketing and sales officer for the Better Business Bureau of Boston,
Speaker 2: of the Boston Better Business Bureau. That's another way to
Speaker 2: prove to say it. And paulin welcome. You're going to
Speaker 2: talk to us tonight about Valentine's Day scams? What's going
Speaker 2: on here?
Speaker 3: Good evening, Yes, we are going to talk about that. Well,
Speaker 3: we want to make sure that scammers don't end up
Speaker 3: breaking your heart or your bank account this Valentine's Day week.
Speaker 3: So we want your listeners to be aware of some
Speaker 3: scams that are happening surrounding Valentine's Day and finding love.
Speaker 2: So who's who? Are they who? The scams just focusing
Speaker 2: on all of us or are they laser focused on
Speaker 2: one group of people?
Speaker 3: No, no, it is actually all of us. And we're
Speaker 3: talking about everything from romance scams to fake florist scams.
Speaker 3: So it does really touch upon potentially anyone, whether you're
Speaker 3: purchasing flowers for someone you love or you're seeking to
Speaker 3: find love of It really can touch anyone and it's sad.
Speaker 3: But with a staggering twenty seven point five billion dollars
Speaker 3: projected to be spent by the National Retail Federation this
Speaker 3: Valentine's Day season, we want people to make sure they're
Speaker 3: spending it wisely.
Speaker 2: Okay, so how does it work and others? Are you
Speaker 2: going to get a phone call, You're going to get
Speaker 2: an email? I guess they probably are coming at you
Speaker 2: in a lot of different directions.
Speaker 3: They are exactly yes, well one of them is an
Speaker 3: imposter website. So scammers are creating fake websites that actually
Speaker 3: mimic legitimate businesses. So for example, jewelry stores, dating sites.
Speaker 3: What they're doing is stealing logos, photos and even real,
Speaker 3: real sale promotions that appear to be authentic to the eye.
Speaker 3: But these sites, unfortunately are offering they are scams. They
Speaker 3: are offering incredibly low prices, and that's a red flow
Speaker 3: that we want people to be aware of.
Speaker 2: Okay, so you open up your email or you open
Speaker 2: up your teas message and there's some florist that you've
Speaker 2: never heard of, or some jewelry store that you've never
Speaker 2: heard of. Uh, they tried to do they try to
Speaker 2: Are they imitated? I mean how sophisticated are they? Meaning
Speaker 2: if we live in the in the New England area
Speaker 2: and you get an email from some florist that seems
Speaker 2: to be local, they use a local address Boston or Providence,
Speaker 2: I guess that makes it a little more credible. At
Speaker 2: the same time, a sophisticated person could double check and
Speaker 2: see if that, uh that that a store, that that
Speaker 2: company actually exists or is it kind of one of
Speaker 2: these order flowers from one eight hundred, which you know
Speaker 2: are more generic.
Speaker 3: No, you know it's actually they're even using legitimate business name,
Speaker 3: so it's really hard to tell. But what I can
Speaker 3: say is you should be wary of requests for payment
Speaker 3: through cash transfer apps or cryptocurrency. Always check the customer
Speaker 3: service contact information, so if it's missing, or if you
Speaker 3: dial the phone number there's no answer, you obviously want
Speaker 3: to steer clear. We obviously want people to enjoy Valentine's Day,
Speaker 3: and if you're purchasing jewelry or uh, you know, flowers,
Speaker 3: we want to make sure they get to the person
Speaker 3: you're trying to order for the fake for it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the rule of the would be use a florist
Speaker 2: that you have used before. Or if you're going to
Speaker 2: buy jewelry for someone, go to a jewelry so legitimate
Speaker 2: supposed Yeah, I mean literally a store that you would know,
Speaker 2: so you can see the see the jewelry, uh and
Speaker 2: you know, and purchase it. Obviously, if they say to
Speaker 2: you you can, we could get you a you know,
Speaker 2: a diamond ring for twenty five dollars. As your mother
Speaker 2: used to say, if it sounds too good to be true,
Speaker 2: it obviously.
Speaker 3: Is exactly Well, yeah, ask for a credit.
Speaker 2: Card, because I assume a credit card is just as
Speaker 2: dangerous as you know, asking you know, for crypto or
Speaker 2: some other more.
Speaker 3: Well, I always, I always encourage people to use a
Speaker 3: credit card when making a purchase because it is an
Speaker 3: extra layer of protection. Then what I mean by that is,
Speaker 3: oftentimes you if you are stammed or if you are
Speaker 3: not happy with the product purchased or the service, and
Speaker 3: you use a credit card, then you can actually dispute
Speaker 3: the charge through the credit card company, and you're much
Speaker 3: more likely to recoup your funds. And should you say,
Speaker 3: use a debit card and automatically withdraws from your bank,
Speaker 3: it's very difficult to recoup the funds in regardless.
Speaker 2: To if you use a credit card, then they got
Speaker 2: a lot of information. They got your credit card number
Speaker 2: because they can. Yeah, but I'll tell you so. The
Speaker 2: bottom line is, I think literally anything that comes to
Speaker 2: you over your telephone, comes to you over your internet connections, Uh,
Speaker 2: in any way, shape or form, ignore it. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's that's you need to.
Speaker 3: Be extremely cautious.
Speaker 2: Yes, I would say just ignore it. What I mean,
Speaker 2: particularly for older folks who you know, who maybe aren't
Speaker 2: as Again, I know there are a lot of older
Speaker 2: people who are great, very computer literate, but I just
Speaker 2: think that this it has just gone so far beyond
Speaker 2: unless you're dealing I'm not the Beta Business Bureau, but
Speaker 2: Dan's advice is unless you're dealing with a company you
Speaker 2: know or that's legitimate, and there are legitimate companies, don't
Speaker 2: fall for anything. If you think it's a good deal,
Speaker 2: you're probably going to end up regretting it.
Speaker 3: Well, you did say Dan's advice is good advice, So
Speaker 3: what you already mentioned, be wary of deals that are
Speaker 3: good too good to be true. Research before you buy,
Speaker 3: so go to BBB dot org check out those reviews
Speaker 3: and complaints. Never ever give personal information to strangers or
Speaker 3: your credit card information if you're not one hundred percent
Speaker 3: sure on who is on the other end, don't rush
Speaker 3: into relationships what I mean by that, take your time
Speaker 3: getting to know someone online, and never send money to
Speaker 3: someone you haven't met in person. Obviously, these scammers prey
Speaker 3: on emotions, targeting people who are vulnerable due to a
Speaker 3: recent breakup or a hardship, so they want to build
Speaker 3: relationships quickly, gain trust, and fabricate a SOB story to
Speaker 3: ask for money. So you're trying to find love and
Speaker 3: they're trying to bamboozle you for some funds, so we
Speaker 3: want people to be cautious there. And as I mentioned,
Speaker 3: secure payment methods are important. Avoid using cash transfer apps.
Speaker 3: Please don't venmo or pay how anyone any type of
Speaker 3: funds for online purchases. Or if you think that you
Speaker 3: found the love of your life and you're trying to
Speaker 3: help them out of a jam.
Speaker 2: Oh, those are the ones that are so sad. I mean,
Speaker 2: those are the ones you have no idea who you're
Speaker 2: dealing with unless you've met that person at a minimum.
Speaker 2: That's what doctor Dan's advice is for the love on
Speaker 2: It's easy to be lovela and keep your money in
Speaker 2: your own bank account that it is to send it
Speaker 2: off to some scamster in out of Bulgaria or something
Speaker 2: like that. Paula Lovely as a guest, you know that,
Speaker 2: and I love the advice.
Speaker 3: I appreciate that.
Speaker 2: People are listening tonight. Paula Fleming of the Boston Beta
Speaker 2: Business Bureau and Paula, if folks want to get in
Speaker 2: touch game or information, give us the website one more time.
Speaker 3: BBB dot org, BBB dot org couldn't be easier.
Speaker 2: BBG, BBB, BBB dot org. As always Paul Valentine's.
Speaker 3: Day, same to you. Thank you.
Speaker 2: All right, when we get back, we're going to talk
Speaker 2: about something that actually makes sense that the government is doing.
Speaker 2: The US mint mince pennies. It cost them two cents
Speaker 2: to mint a penny. Maybe it's time for the pennies
Speaker 2: to go the way of the horse and buggy. We'll
Speaker 2: talk with Bill Dendy, CPA and financial strategist with Raymond
Speaker 2: James right after this break. My name is Dan ray.
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Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray Line from the Window World.
Speaker 4: Nightside Studios on WBZ the news radio.
Speaker 2: All right with me is Bill Dandy. Bill is a
Speaker 2: CPA and financial strategist with Raymond James. Everybody knows about
Speaker 2: Raymond James Stadium down in Tampa, Florida. But tonight we're
Speaker 2: going to talk about pennies for a long time. Bill.
Speaker 2: First of all, welcome Bill, Welcome back to Nightside.
Speaker 4: How are you man?
Speaker 1: I'm great, and it's good to be with you. And
Speaker 1: it's kind of funny. I've been corrected several times. The
Speaker 1: United States, we don't literally have a penny. That's the
Speaker 1: UK term. We have a one cent piece, but it's
Speaker 1: a penny to the rest of us. So, yes, we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about pennies. I hope.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well yeah, they call it over the don't they
Speaker 2: call it a pence or something like that. I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, we know, so you've confused me here. We
Speaker 2: have pennies, we call them pennies. Flip a penny and
Speaker 2: you know I found a penny on the sidewalks. So
Speaker 2: who's who's tried to who's tried to divest you with
Speaker 2: that term pennies.
Speaker 1: A lot of people have said on the penny, we
Speaker 1: don't say it's a penny, it's a one cent piece.
Speaker 1: Because I early on we got many pennies, we said
Speaker 1: pennies was a UK term and we rejected pence and
Speaker 1: pennies that went with it. But we all still call
Speaker 1: them pennies.
Speaker 4: And what these people need to do.
Speaker 2: Those people need to get a life bill.
Speaker 1: They'll argue about the number of angels on the pen
Speaker 1: head of a needle, but we know.
Speaker 2: It's seven, right, No big deal. Okay, let's talk about pennies.
Speaker 2: It's costing two cents to make a penny and it
Speaker 2: has cost more than a penny to make a penny
Speaker 2: for a long time. And apparently Donald Trump has signed
Speaker 2: an executive order to stop producing pennies.
Speaker 1: And that's kind of funny problem They say it's actually
Speaker 1: like three point seven to four cents per penny. Donald
Speaker 1: Trump underestimated the cost by about half. But I'm kind
Speaker 1: of interested. That's the excuse that he says, no more pennies.
Speaker 1: We're not gonna make them going forward. And that's got
Speaker 1: a lot of people unhinged because we like our pennies.
Speaker 2: Well, they weigh you down in your pocket. I still
Speaker 2: keep pennies, and you know, I don't throw pennies away.
Speaker 2: A lot of people throw them away, but hey, they're
Speaker 2: they've Let's assume they stop making pennies today. Any idea
Speaker 2: how many pennies are in circulation in America at this point?
Speaker 2: There must come on of pennies.
Speaker 1: Last year we made over a billion. Already there are
Speaker 1: billions of pennies. But what's funny, as soon as we
Speaker 1: tell the world that we're not going to make anymore,
Speaker 1: the average American is going to start hoarting pennies. They
Speaker 1: already are. They've got penny jars they've got drawers of pennies.
Speaker 1: They're changed, they're weighs and down, so they throw it
Speaker 1: on a dower and they never go cast those things in.
Speaker 1: But if you know they're not going to make any
Speaker 1: more new pennies, you're not going to spend your old penny.
Speaker 1: And so that's going to cause a shortage of pennies,
Speaker 1: which will probably cause a lot of retailers to say,
Speaker 1: when we're doing with cash, we're going to round up
Speaker 1: to the nearest nickel because we don't have the pennies
Speaker 1: to make change with, because they just aren't enough of
Speaker 1: them in circulation, which is going to have an interesting impact.
Speaker 2: Okay, so I got a history question for you. During
Speaker 2: World War two, I think it was in nineteen forty two,
Speaker 2: we made pennies of another. They weren't made of whatever
Speaker 2: pennies are made of, copper or whatever it is. They
Speaker 2: made inexpensive pennies because I guess that was more important.
Speaker 2: They were kind of gray collared. Do you remember those?
Speaker 2: You have seen any of those in circulation.
Speaker 1: You know what's kind of interesting is we quit making pennies.
Speaker 1: They're no longer copper pennies. There's two point five percent copper.
Speaker 1: The other ninety seven and a half percent is now zinc,
Speaker 1: and so they had done entirely. I think it was
Speaker 1: zinc pennies at the time. Now they're copper plated zinc pennies.
Speaker 1: And the nickel is no longer made mostly of nickel.
Speaker 1: It's made mostly of copper with a nickel plating. So
Speaker 1: we kind of downgraded our currencies. And a really weird
Speaker 1: thing that's probably gonna happen is if we round up
Speaker 1: to the nearest nickel, we're not gonna have enough nickels
Speaker 1: in circulations. So we're gonna have to p and make
Speaker 1: more nickels. And if we meant more nickels, they cost
Speaker 1: like fourteen cents each to make, and so that's gonna
Speaker 1: be even more expensive than pennies. But it kind of
Speaker 1: makes sense to get rid of a unit of currency
Speaker 1: that is so small that people won't even bend over
Speaker 1: in the street to pick them up. People throw away
Speaker 1: their pennies.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, I.
Speaker 2: Still pick up pennies. Let me tell you, I'm I
Speaker 2: look at it not only as a penny, but it's
Speaker 2: also I look at it as my lucky day. You know,
Speaker 2: it's gonna it's an home.
Speaker 4: Of a good shoe.
Speaker 1: It is turned the right side, it means something. My
Speaker 1: twenty two year old son gave me grief for picking
Speaker 1: up a quarter and he's like, man, we got to
Speaker 1: pick up quarters off the street. It could have cooties
Speaker 1: on it. I'm my son, I'll pick up a penny
Speaker 1: off the streets. I said you you wouldn't pick up
Speaker 1: money if you found it, And we had to get
Speaker 1: up to one hundred dollars bill before he had chase
Speaker 1: it down and he wouldn't go very fast, very far.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you welcome to the world. Don kid. Look,
Speaker 2: My kids laugh at me on things I do too,
Speaker 2: so don't feel badly about that. So this executive order,
Speaker 2: are they shutting it down? Is there any way that
Speaker 2: Congress is going to turn this around or is this
Speaker 2: a done deal?
Speaker 1: No, Congress is supposed to have the right to do
Speaker 1: our currency and the Treasury is supposed to mint our
Speaker 1: coins as needed for circulation. But if Trump says no more,
Speaker 1: it'll probably stand up to judicial to lawsuits that we haven't.
Speaker 1: So it's probably going to happen as they push it.
Speaker 1: And don't worry, It's already happened in other countries. Canada
Speaker 1: got rid of theirs.
Speaker 4: I mean, it didn't.
Speaker 1: Cause the country to spiral into hyperinflation, it didn't cause
Speaker 1: things to melt down. It does cause people to quit
Speaker 1: spending their pennies and hoard them, but then they're going
Speaker 1: to realize later that they're nies don't have a real
Speaker 1: value other than metal value, which is probably two or
Speaker 1: three cents instead of one penny. So maybe that's where
Speaker 1: these pennies all end up down the road. But it's
Speaker 1: not going to ruin our lives. However, for those who
Speaker 1: pay in cash, who have lower incomes, if we round
Speaker 1: up to the nearest nickel, it might more adversely affect
Speaker 1: them than those who deal with larger denominations.
Speaker 2: Well, I think the simple solution in the short run
Speaker 2: is anything that's you know, ninety nine cents just becomes
Speaker 2: a dollar, simple as that. I mean, that's you know,
Speaker 2: that's that's the easiest deal way to deal with it. Bill.
Speaker 2: I love your passion, Love love having you on as
Speaker 2: a guest. How can folks get in touch with you
Speaker 2: if they're looking? You know, everybody comes on and there's
Speaker 2: always got a website or got a new book coming out?
Speaker 2: What what? How can folks get in touch?
Speaker 1: Well, website is kind of a weird one. I name
Speaker 1: my own the firm based on my eleven year old
Speaker 1: daughter's recommendation, and I I'm probably positioned just fine for
Speaker 1: those eleven year olds when they grow up. But it's
Speaker 1: Alicorn al I c O r N.
Speaker 4: Do you know?
Speaker 1: Do you even know what the alcorn is?
Speaker 2: I have no clue, to be honest with you. I
Speaker 2: think there was a defensive back for the Steelers back
Speaker 2: in No no, no.
Speaker 1: No, no, no Aliorn. See that's the problem in the world
Speaker 1: of a question. Yeah, my little pony, the unicorn is special.
Speaker 1: All horses are special, but the unicorn is very special.
Speaker 1: A pegasus is very special. But the most special of
Speaker 1: all is the flying unicorn, a peggancorn or an alicorn,
Speaker 1: and that is Alicorn Investment Management Aliicorn ali c r
Speaker 1: N Alicorn Investmentmanagement dot com. And hopefully people will understand
Speaker 1: that someday that a person that does tax, legal, insurance
Speaker 1: and investments all in one is kind of an Aliicorn
Speaker 1: out there. And that's what we try to do.
Speaker 2: I learned something every night on this show, no matter
Speaker 2: what Bill Dendy, thank you so much, we'll talk to
Speaker 2: one that's a great one.
Speaker 1: Always a pleasure, care about you.
Speaker 2: Coming up at right after the eight thirty newscast, we're
Speaker 2: going to show you or tell you about Boston's most
Speaker 2: romantic Spot's going to talk with Mike Dean, he's an
Speaker 2: Axios Boston reporter. And then later on tonight we'll talk
Speaker 2: about energy healing, exactly what energy healing is. And then
Speaker 2: later on this evening, we're going to talk about financial
Speaker 2: literacy as a requirement for high school graduation in Westwood.
Speaker 2: And we're going to talk about a very active day
Speaker 2: by President Trump and the Trump White House. Tomorrow night,
Speaker 2: by the way, at nine o'clock, we will have a
Speaker 2: longtime frint of this program, CPA Mark Misselbeck talking about
Speaker 2: your taxes. I hate to remind you about this, but
Speaker 2: April fifteenth is just around the corner. It's like two
Speaker 2: months from now. Folks got to pull that taxit. Materials
Speaker 2: together will help you to start the process. Tomorrow night
Speaker 2: at nine o'clock. My name's Dan Ray. This is Nightside.
Speaker 1: It's night Side, Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2: Well following along on our Valentine's Day theme interviews this week,
Speaker 2: we're going to talk with Mike Dian. Mike is an
Speaker 2: Axios Boston reporter and they have been running a poll
Speaker 2: on Boston's most romantic spots. First of all, Mike, some
Speaker 2: folks might not be familiar with Axios, which is a
Speaker 2: new news website. Give us a little bit of information.
Speaker 2: You guys have opened an office here in Boston. I
Speaker 2: think you've been here, what six or eight months at
Speaker 2: this point.
Speaker 4: No, only three years in June. Actually we've been five
Speaker 4: fly I know, I know, it's since twenty twenty two.
Speaker 4: And thank you for asking Dan, and it's yeah, it's
Speaker 4: good Actos. It's a national news organization. You've probably seen
Speaker 4: some of our reporters on cable TV or gotten some
Speaker 4: of the national AM and TM newsletters as they're known,
Speaker 4: and the Boston newsletter that I write is part of
Speaker 4: the national network. We're in thirty two thirty five cities
Speaker 4: right now, kind of trying to take some of the
Speaker 4: methods and formats that's worked force nationally and apply them
Speaker 4: to local news. And you can find it at xios
Speaker 4: dot com slash Boston. It's Axios and thank you for
Speaker 4: bringing it up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, by the way, just perspective you are a digital
Speaker 2: news side. It's not as if you're producing a newspaper.
Speaker 2: And I assume you have digital content as well as
Speaker 2: some visual and audio content as well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, not so much on the audio. It's definitely the
Speaker 4: newsletter that you'll get. You know, it's an email newsletter,
Speaker 4: I should be clear, is kind of a mini publication
Speaker 4: in and of itself, if I kind of think of
Speaker 4: it as almost the front page of a newspaper as
Speaker 4: far as the selection of stories you're going to see
Speaker 4: in the kind of diversity of news, lighter, fair, harder news,
Speaker 4: that kind of a thing.
Speaker 2: And I will ask you at the end, but in
Speaker 2: case I forget, can people subscribe? What can we generate
Speaker 2: a little business for you here?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Please do. Yeah, it's free three for everybody. Axios
Speaker 4: dot com slash Boston or if you just google Axios Boston,
Speaker 4: it's the first thing that comes up. Yes, putting your
Speaker 4: email address and you'll start getting it.
Speaker 2: Okay, So this is going to be a real good question.
Speaker 2: How do you monetize this If it's.
Speaker 4: Free advertising in the old fashioned way, that's great.
Speaker 2: That's great. That's great. Okay, So let's talk. So you
Speaker 2: have been running a poll for a while about Boston's
Speaker 2: most romantic spot. Okay, for me, Boston's most romantic spot
Speaker 2: is obviously Fenway Park, and that get knocked out by
Speaker 2: the swan Boats early on.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, easy to understand that one. But you know,
Speaker 4: I think a lot of Fenway diehards might feel the
Speaker 4: other way. But yeah, that was that was sixty five
Speaker 4: percent in favor of the swan Boats.
Speaker 2: It was so tough he for the Red Sox and
Speaker 2: that So, so where do you stand at this point?
Speaker 2: And and when is the final Is the voting still open?
Speaker 4: Yeah? We actually were going into the championship round. We're
Speaker 4: down to our final two. That's going to be in
Speaker 4: tomorrow's newsletter and voting actually, voting is open now. And
Speaker 4: I can tell you that's going to be between our
Speaker 4: top two finishers, where the Public Garden Bridge and the
Speaker 4: Arnold Arboretum, which I think are two pretty romantic spots.
Speaker 4: I don't think two people will be too surprised by
Speaker 4: those two as the finishers. The Public Garden Bridge beat
Speaker 4: out the Charles River in a boat I wanted to
Speaker 4: specify failing on the Charles River, and uh, they it was.
Speaker 4: They got to the final four and the Arboretum beat
Speaker 4: out the Esplanade.
Speaker 2: You had some other competitors in here. You had Boston Common,
Speaker 2: which I thought had possibility, Rose Wharf, Childs River in
Speaker 2: a boat. As you said, I don't know what Pammies is.
Speaker 2: That was one of the entrants. What is Pammies. I've
Speaker 2: lived in Boston a long time. I've never heard of Pammies.
Speaker 4: Pam Yes, it's a restaurant. It's a restaurant in Cambridge.
Speaker 4: It may have been one of the restaurants we talked
Speaker 4: about the last time I was on your show. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's a popular restaurant Cambridge. I think a lot of
Speaker 4: people may have had first dates there or you know,
Speaker 4: maybe some proposals. It's a cozy little spot. It definitely
Speaker 4: ranks as far as one of the more romantic restaurants
Speaker 4: on the list. While we asked our readers to make suggestions,
Speaker 4: it's how we came up with the sixteen places that
Speaker 4: you made up the tournament bracket to begin with. Pammies
Speaker 4: was the only one that got multiple votes as far
Speaker 4: as being a restaurant. So there aren't that many spots
Speaker 4: other than I think that the top of the hub
Speaker 4: slash who what's now known as a View Boston was
Speaker 4: the only other restaurant on the list there, but pretty
Speaker 4: much the other ones were all kind of natural or
Speaker 4: park type of well, you know, you go back here.
Speaker 2: The Public Garden edged out the top of the Hub,
Speaker 2: edged out the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum, uh, and edged
Speaker 2: out Charles River in a boat as you said, uh,
Speaker 2: And Arnold Arboretum edged out Park Street Station. They talked
Speaker 2: about the MBTA station is being a romantic place.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think they're.
Speaker 2: Talking above ground. I hope.
Speaker 4: I think a lot of romantic moments happened when a
Speaker 4: couple may be waiting for the train, or especially on
Speaker 4: that Redline platform where you might have one train going
Speaker 4: one way and the other going the other way. I
Speaker 4: can tell you yeah, sometimes that puts a little pressure
Speaker 4: and can lead to some moments. So I see what
Speaker 4: people need.
Speaker 2: Okay. So but so the Public Garden says, we're trying
Speaker 2: to give that. We gave who the Public Guard beat
Speaker 2: out just to give him sense of Arnold Aboretum, uh,
Speaker 2: beat out the Esplanade, beat out the Swan boats, and
Speaker 2: beat out Park Street Station. So it's it's interesting and
Speaker 2: this will when will the results be announced I assume
Speaker 2: to be announced on Valentine's Day.
Speaker 4: Well, it's going to be on Friday. I think that's
Speaker 4: the last time we publish. Oh, you're right, it is
Speaker 4: right the fourth. I was thinking it was Saturday. The Yeah,
Speaker 4: so on Valentine's Day, our lead story in the newsletter
Speaker 4: is going to be who the winner is either the
Speaker 4: public garden bridge or the Arboretum.
Speaker 2: That's good. Well have you done this before? Is this
Speaker 2: the first time? I mean it's it's it's it's the
Speaker 2: sort of thing that will generate some reader interest, which
Speaker 2: is good. Or is this the first week you've done this.
Speaker 4: It's the first time we've done this romantic spots thing.
Speaker 4: But we've done other brackets in the past, some of
Speaker 4: substance and some quite silly. I think some of the
Speaker 4: other popul ones. We did Best Local Athlete. I think
Speaker 4: Bill Russell ended up winning that one. In the end,
Speaker 4: we've done best coffee shop. We've done I think Best
Speaker 4: Boston Movie. I think Goodwill Hunting won that one. You know,
Speaker 4: it's kind of local flavor, just things that are on
Speaker 4: people's minds.
Speaker 2: Sure, best best coffee job has to be Duncan.
Speaker 4: Right, probably, Yeah, I know well it was. That's that's
Speaker 4: my volume. Yes, I think that that's undeniable. But yeah,
Speaker 4: it was one of the ones downtown on Tremont Street.
Speaker 2: But so so yeah, you couldn't have put Duncan in
Speaker 2: there against these local coffee shops because that would be
Speaker 2: a little unfair. I assume always Duncan in there. Did
Speaker 2: Duncan get beat out by some coffee shop?
Speaker 4: I think it well. I think Duncan was in there
Speaker 4: and got beat out when it got to more of
Speaker 4: the premium barista type places. We were going for, you know,
Speaker 4: best kind of cafe atmosphere. It wasn't exactly h Duncan
Speaker 4: would have been best at but you know, they were
Speaker 4: very well represented and we definitely had you know, we
Speaker 4: had a lot of entries about it. But I think
Speaker 4: most people when they submitted some comments, they were like,
Speaker 4: of course I love Duncans, but if you're asking about
Speaker 4: actually best coffee shop, it's going to be something else.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, I'm Duncan's all. I'm Duncan
Speaker 2: all the way. It's as simple as that. When you
Speaker 2: go in there for a long time, you feel you
Speaker 2: what you were Duncan here.
Speaker 4: I was a honeydew man for a long time.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, well now they have lay sticks. That's
Speaker 2: the best. Yeah, they had play sticks much better than honeydews.
Speaker 2: It's more subtle. But no, to go to an in duncan.
Speaker 2: You can sit in there and there's there's people in
Speaker 2: you know, in business suits, and there's there's a blue
Speaker 2: collar guys, and there's MBTA workers. I mean, it gives
Speaker 2: you a sense of the city, uh, as opposed to
Speaker 2: some of the places where you know, if you're not
Speaker 2: dressed to the nines, they really don't encourage you to stay.
Speaker 2: Let me put it like that. That happens to me
Speaker 2: a lot thrown out. Why haven't been thrown out of
Speaker 2: a duncan? And which is why I have an affinity
Speaker 2: for it.
Speaker 4: I hear you, Mike.
Speaker 2: I appreciate you a Boston guy originally. All right, well,
Speaker 2: that's great. It's great to know that that the journalists
Speaker 2: working for Axios are actually folks who know the city.
Speaker 2: And thank you for being with us tonight. We'll have
Speaker 2: you back.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he should have said Mary Lose And now I
Speaker 4: think about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Mary Lou's was good for a while. It's funny.
Speaker 2: What was the other one, the one that came in
Speaker 2: those those those Duncans that came in, not the Duncans
Speaker 2: with the donut chops that came in from the South
Speaker 2: a few years ago. They were just like sugar highs
Speaker 2: Frisby Creme.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, Yeah, that was something else.
Speaker 2: Two or three of those, and you know they put
Speaker 2: you on a resuscitator and put you in handulets.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, thanks Mike, Hey, thank you to We'll get back.
Speaker 2: We will explain what energy healing is and and how
Speaker 2: it might help you. We're gonna talk about the gentleman
Speaker 2: by named Timothy Sprigs. He's an actual energy worker slash
Speaker 2: healer back on night Side right after this.
Speaker 4: Now im back to Dan.
Speaker 2: We're live from the Window World Nightside Studios on WBZ
Speaker 2: News Radio. All right now, my question is what is
Speaker 2: energy healing? And I can't think of anyone better capable
Speaker 2: of answering this this burning question and my guest Timothy Spriggs. Timothy,
Speaker 2: welcome to Nightside. What is energy healing?
Speaker 5: Thank you? Dan. Yeah, I'm excited to be here to
Speaker 5: kind of describe some things here.
Speaker 2: And Timothy, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna bet you
Speaker 2: here I bet you on a speakerphone, right.
Speaker 5: Oh I can okay, hang on.
Speaker 2: Not good for that because it sounds it sounds like
Speaker 2: you're down the end of uh you know, a tunnel
Speaker 2: or something like that. So we want to know, we
Speaker 2: want to hear what you got here, So go right ahead. Okay,
Speaker 2: so much better, Timmy. There's a rundo applause for Timothy here.
Speaker 2: That's that's excellent. That is, when you listen to this
Speaker 2: tomorrow on night Side and Demand, you'll be able to
Speaker 2: listen to the interview that will be on and you
Speaker 2: will see how much better you sound. Right now, go
Speaker 2: right ahead. I'm sorry to have interrupted. Okay, you'll say, okay, go.
Speaker 5: Ahead, okay. So, energy healing is a it's a form
Speaker 5: of alternative medicine that aims to restore balance and prove
Speaker 5: well being by manipulating the body's energy. And it's based
Speaker 5: on the belief that the vital force or energy flows
Speaker 5: through the body and can be affected by you know, physical, emotional,
Speaker 5: and spiritual factors.
Speaker 4: And one of the.
Speaker 5: I don't know, there's a quote from Albert Einstein and
Speaker 5: he says that everything, absolutely everything has energy, So the walls,
Speaker 5: the floor, the people, everything is energy is just going
Speaker 5: at different frequencies. So that's I think partly why people
Speaker 5: start exploring some of this.
Speaker 2: And I have an Einstein quote for you. Einstein is
Speaker 2: said to have is reported to have said, I have
Speaker 2: no special talent. I'm only passionately curious. That's me. I'm
Speaker 2: I'm really curious about this, uh, this energy healing. So
Speaker 2: let's it's funny that you mentioned Einstein because I ask
Speaker 2: questions of people all the time and I learned I
Speaker 2: have when I said what is it? I I have
Speaker 2: an idea what it might be, but I have no expertise.
Speaker 2: So who who benefits from energy healing? You're not a doctor, obviously,
Speaker 2: but you are an energy worker and an energy healer.
Speaker 2: How do you become an energy healer? Have to take
Speaker 2: some courses? Or do you learn from from other energy healers?
Speaker 5: No? There are well in at least the modality that
Speaker 5: I use I use both for reiki as well as
Speaker 5: belief code, body code and emotion code, and all those
Speaker 5: require certifications, is.
Speaker 2: Like almost a kind of not a massage, but like
Speaker 2: a light massage touching. Correct if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 5: Well, Ranky's actually you might have some light touching, but
Speaker 5: it's usually pretty you're pretty close, they're not usually touching,
Speaker 5: and it's more than I'm channelling channeling energy basically from
Speaker 5: the universe to the person. And then I'm the hard
Speaker 5: part is I'm not supposed to have any kind of agenda.
Speaker 5: I'm supposed to say as neutral as possible, and then
Speaker 5: the energy kind of knows where to go and what
Speaker 5: to do for that person. And so it's it's a
Speaker 5: little nebulous yus and it is a very suddle kind
Speaker 5: of energy work. And once I found this other modality
Speaker 5: about the you know, emotion code, body code and belief code,
Speaker 5: I that's what I've been looking for for so long
Speaker 5: because it actually allows you to go in and be
Speaker 5: very specific and remove lockages because just like acupuncturists, they
Speaker 5: believe that, you know, if you get the energy flowing properly,
Speaker 5: then your body knows how to heal itself. And that's
Speaker 5: pretty much the same concept here, except I'm not using
Speaker 5: needles or anything. I go in. There's a template that
Speaker 5: I use, and I use muscle testing, and I'm sure
Speaker 5: if everyone's familiar that with that or not, but it muscle.
Speaker 2: Testing the only time I do muscle testing is at
Speaker 2: the gym, so I'm not exactly. Let me come to
Speaker 2: what you got here, motion code, body code, and belief code.
Speaker 2: First of all, this is not something that you do remotely.
Speaker 2: So if any of my listeners I'm not sure where
Speaker 2: you are, I don't think you're in the New England area? Correct?
Speaker 2: Where are you're from?
Speaker 5: Actually I can do it remotely. I actually do it remotely.
Speaker 2: Is it a zoom call or is it a phone call?
Speaker 5: It can be either, and I can even do like
Speaker 5: if someone sends an email or a text, I can
Speaker 5: do it without even talking to the person.
Speaker 2: Fair enough, Okay, I'm going to give you a chance
Speaker 2: to give some good contact information in a couple of minutes.
Speaker 2: But I want to give you just a couple more
Speaker 2: minutes to explain this. So when someone contacts you, whether
Speaker 2: it's in person zoom or over the phone or whatever
Speaker 2: or through email, what did they do tell you something
Speaker 2: about themselves which then allows you to channel energy to them,
Speaker 2: which allows them to release things that are giving them problems,
Speaker 2: that are trapped in either their physical or emotional sphere.
Speaker 2: Is that I'm trying to make sure I understand if
Speaker 2: from the money is to understand it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so yeah, I asked them to come up with
Speaker 5: three to five items that they're having issues with, and
Speaker 5: it actually is a really broad range. You have, you know,
Speaker 5: physical pain, emotional issues, relationship issues, even goals that seem
Speaker 5: elusive to the person. Okay, if they don't.
Speaker 2: Have let's do a hypothetically. Let's assume someone says, you
Speaker 2: know what, I've got a pain in my lower back.
Speaker 2: You know, I can't get rid of it. I went
Speaker 2: to chiroproactor, acupuncture, whatever. What do you do to them?
Speaker 2: What do you do with them to help them get
Speaker 2: rid of that pain?
Speaker 5: All right? So I basically I use bustle testing to
Speaker 5: connect with them, and I ask yes or no questions
Speaker 5: basically to find out what's causing that pain. And there's
Speaker 5: usually a good sized group, usually like thirty to fifty
Speaker 5: items that are attributing to that issue. And then I
Speaker 5: have to identify each and every one. So I can't
Speaker 5: just say, okay, I have this blanket and I get
Speaker 5: rid of the whole thing at once. I have to
Speaker 5: go through one at a time. And there's things called
Speaker 5: trapped emotions. That's one thing, one kind of blockage, and
Speaker 5: that's when you know throughout life, you have you know,
Speaker 5: everyone has emotions. Well, sometimes you have several in and
Speaker 5: some you put on the back burner and you never
Speaker 5: get back to, so they don't actually get normally processed,
Speaker 5: so they get actually trapped in your body somewhere, and
Speaker 5: then that can start causing issues down the road, because.
Speaker 2: That could be that emotion, could be the loss of
Speaker 2: a job, loss of a loved one, a relationship that
Speaker 2: went south, something like that.
Speaker 1: I assume, yes, yes, okay, okay.
Speaker 5: So usually usually.
Speaker 1: It's a pretty good idea.
Speaker 2: I think you've given us, in short order, pretty good
Speaker 2: idea about what you do. How can folks get in
Speaker 2: touch with you if they if they would like to
Speaker 2: avail themselves of themselves of your services.
Speaker 5: The best way is to go to my website which
Speaker 5: is Wellness Revival dot net, so not dot com but
Speaker 5: dot net.
Speaker 2: Perfect, okay, And.
Speaker 5: I do have a free discuss call, yes, wellnessurvival dot net,
Speaker 5: and I have a pre discovery call, so if they
Speaker 5: want to schedule appointments, fifteen minutes and we can talk
Speaker 5: all about it and have any questions they have and
Speaker 5: then we can go from there.
Speaker 2: Okay, sounds great, Timothy. I appreciate you taking the time tonight.
Speaker 2: You've explained to me and I understand now this concept
Speaker 2: which I had no concept, no idea of, and I
Speaker 2: wish you best of luck and preps. We'll have you back.
Speaker 5: Okay, thank you very much, great, Thank you so much. Dan.
Speaker 2: You're welcome. You're welcome. We got the nine o'clock news
Speaker 2: coming at us, and as soon as that is over,
Speaker 2: I shall return and we're going to be talking with
Speaker 2: the principal of Westwood High School and also a financial
Speaker 2: literacy slash math teacher. There a really innovative program that
Speaker 2: if you have kids in high school, your high school
Speaker 2: should have this program as well. In my humble opinion,
Speaker 2: back on Night's side, right after the nine