Speaker 1: It's Nightside with Dan Ray on WBS Boston Radio.
Speaker 2: Thanks very much to Coleboy. That is a loser matchup
Speaker 2: tonight in Texas. Neither of those two teams have any
Speaker 2: threat to go to the super Bowl, but hey, we
Speaker 2: have all sorts of threats here tonight on Nightside. We
Speaker 2: will first of all talk about full great topics during
Speaker 2: this hour, and then at nine o'clock when I talk
Speaker 2: about memory loss issues for people of all ages, including
Speaker 2: the young, by the way, and then speaking about memory
Speaker 2: loss issues, we will be talking at ten o'clock tonight
Speaker 2: about the decision by the Biden administration to finally allow
Speaker 2: Ukraine some long range missiles. What reaction will that elicit
Speaker 2: from Vladimir Putin. I actually have a theory that I'm
Speaker 2: going to run by you at ten o'clock. I don't
Speaker 2: think it's outrageous, but it's one that some of you
Speaker 2: probably are going to be very skeptical of. I'm wondering
Speaker 2: if we we got a kind of a bad cop
Speaker 2: good cop going thing here with Vladimir potent, and maybe
Speaker 2: maybe Joe Biden and Donald Trump are coordinating on this.
Speaker 2: I'll explain, But first of all, I have to introduce myself.
Speaker 2: I'm Dan Rayam the host of Nights out here every
Speaker 2: Monday through Friday night from eight until midnight. As the
Speaker 2: Great Nicole Davis just indicated, Rob Brooks, our great producer,
Speaker 2: is back in the control room in Broadcast Central headquarters,
Speaker 2: and we're ready to talk a little baseball. We're going
Speaker 2: to introduce you to David Hunt. He's the president of
Speaker 2: Hunt Auctions. David Hunt, you're talking to a big baseball fan. Welcome,
Speaker 2: How are you tonight?
Speaker 3: I'm great, very very pleased to be here.
Speaker 2: Where are you guys located? I don't recognize the area code. Yeah.
Speaker 3: We are based in Philadelphia. Outside of Philadelphia, and then
Speaker 3: we traveled to do different events across the country, just
Speaker 3: like the Louisville.
Speaker 2: Event that just occurred. Oh gotcha. Okay, so you have
Speaker 2: now the Ted Williams auction. You also have a Super
Speaker 2: Bowl auction coming up. We'll talk talk about that. But
Speaker 2: obviously we're in Boston. We're based in Boston, and I
Speaker 2: saw Ted Williams play. I wasn't there for his final
Speaker 2: game on September twenty eighth, nineteen sixty, but I know
Speaker 2: who he hit his final home run off. I'm sure
Speaker 2: you do as well.
Speaker 3: Right, well, I mean you think about that iconic ass
Speaker 3: at that it just sums up really ted as a person,
Speaker 3: you know, not just as a baseball player, Like everything
Speaker 3: had to be excellence everything, whether it's tying a fishing fly,
Speaker 3: serving in two wars, you name it. It just he
Speaker 3: just always had to be the best. And quite frankly,
Speaker 3: many people think he was.
Speaker 2: All hit and hitting four h six one year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely along the way.
Speaker 2: So you have been able to procure i believe from
Speaker 2: his daughter who passed away at a much too young age. Yeah,
Speaker 2: a lot of the memorabilia he's nineteen forty six. Marke
Speaker 2: League had a player award, the fifty eight Silver Slugger.
Speaker 2: First of all, how tough is it? And you know,
Speaker 2: I'd just sort of like to get a little look
Speaker 2: behind the scenes here. How tough is it to go
Speaker 2: to a family or to even get access to a
Speaker 2: family of a famous ballplayer baseball player, football player, hockey whatever,
Speaker 2: and say, hey, do you have Is that how it works?
Speaker 2: Do you basically just call them up and see what
Speaker 2: you what you can do? Or is it a little
Speaker 2: more sophisticated than that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a little it's a little different. You know,
Speaker 3: this is our thirty fifth year in business, and we've
Speaker 3: been really honored to work with hundreds of players, players, families, institutions,
Speaker 3: you know, you name it. We've been with working with
Speaker 3: Major League Baseball for twenty five years, the NFL for
Speaker 3: twenty years. And I'd be great fortune in the early
Speaker 3: two thousands to meet Claudia. She had actually come to
Speaker 3: us for some help on just some general you know,
Speaker 3: appraisal work and things of that sort. And you know,
Speaker 3: I've learned with players families we do not really cold call,
Speaker 3: if you will, or approach or do anything of that sort.
Speaker 3: We just sort of treat them as if they are
Speaker 3: our family, and if they need some assistance, they need
Speaker 3: another valuations, and most importantly, if they need a source
Speaker 3: that can be trusted to give them sound advice and
Speaker 3: what's in their best interest. And that's really the key,
Speaker 3: is that last part. We all have things from our
Speaker 3: family members, whether they are a baseball player, a plumber,
Speaker 3: or a radio announcer. And we don't keep every single
Speaker 3: thing that our families hand down to us. But famous
Speaker 3: athletes and entertainers of that sort I sort of help
Speaker 3: to interestingly and maybe not fairly frankly a different standard.
Speaker 3: So our goal is always to do it the way
Speaker 3: that's in the best interest of them and most importantly
Speaker 3: the legacy of the player. So when we were approached,
Speaker 3: you know, way back when it had nothing to do
Speaker 3: with selling anything. It was just being assistive to them,
Speaker 3: and we became dear friends, and also with her husband
Speaker 3: Eric and you know, conducted a really historic auction in
Speaker 3: twenty twelve at Fenway Park with the Jordy Ted Things
Speaker 3: partially benefiting the Jimmy Fund. It's just a wildly successful
Speaker 3: event and Claudia kept a lot of things or some
Speaker 3: things i should say, that were meaningful to her just
Speaker 3: for holding down the road. And as you mentioned, really
Speaker 3: just stunningly. Claudia passed away last year, just really tough,
Speaker 3: really tough situation at the age of fifty two, way
Speaker 3: too young. And so when we approached it was a
Speaker 3: little difficult, you know, because of the situation. But again
Speaker 3: with a portion of the things when Ted Williams Foundation
Speaker 3: and knowing that she would want these things out there
Speaker 3: for people to enjoy ment a lot to us and
Speaker 3: it means lots of the people that purchased them as well.
Speaker 2: And of course, when you have someone you know from
Speaker 2: the immediate family and you know what the awards are.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's right. You don't have to authenticate an
Speaker 2: autograph on baseball. That sometimes can be a little dicey.
Speaker 2: So with all of this, I assume there's a letter
Speaker 2: of authentical.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, that's a big, big help.
Speaker 2: When does when does this Ted Williams auction end? So?
Speaker 2: What when can people get a bid in some of
Speaker 2: these items? Not too many people are going to be
Speaker 2: able to bid on some of them, but there may
Speaker 2: be some things that people have a chance to bid on.
Speaker 2: When when's the auditor and when does it start? I
Speaker 2: don't know, maybe he hasn't even started yet.
Speaker 3: Well, there's a there's a couple of things that, you know,
Speaker 3: the main grouping of them were sold this past weekend
Speaker 3: either Louisville Slugger auction event, including the MVP award that
Speaker 3: set a record a world record for any baseball v
Speaker 3: MVP at five hundred and twenty eight thousand, the Silver
Speaker 3: bath Brook two hundred and seventy thousand, and then there
Speaker 3: were a lot of just sort of interesting and fun
Speaker 3: things for for people to bid on. Whether it's Ted
Speaker 3: Williams sign piece or a photograph or what have you.
Speaker 3: But you know, there, you are correct. There are other
Speaker 3: things and other objects from Ted's collection that will be
Speaker 3: sold over the period of the next I would say,
Speaker 3: you know, two or three months within within different auctions,
Speaker 3: so it will certainly take a bit of time. It
Speaker 3: was not all going to be in one auction, okay.
Speaker 2: And so if folks want to, we're going to talk
Speaker 2: about the super Bowl and say, if they wanted to
Speaker 2: find your website, give us the website.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you had to hunt auctions dot com right
Speaker 3: now you can see the results of the one from
Speaker 3: this past weekend with the couple of Marquee pieces, and
Speaker 3: then the future things post it will obviously of course
Speaker 3: be notified on there as well.
Speaker 2: Hunt auctions dot com. You know, one of my prize
Speaker 2: possession as a baseball that I had Ted Williams signed
Speaker 2: for me. I've got to be thirty years ago, so
Speaker 2: he signed it in my presence. What is the ball
Speaker 2: like that worth today? I'm guessing four or five hundred dollars.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's about right. And you know, I think that
Speaker 3: what you just mentioned is exactly why people are drawn
Speaker 3: to collect these items we get that question a lot,
Speaker 3: like why would somebody want this Roberts, somebody want that?
Speaker 3: You know, none of us or most of us, I
Speaker 3: should say, we're not privileged to be on that field
Speaker 3: playing between the diamonds there between the grid iron, you know, posts,
Speaker 3: and and so that attachment that we can get h
Speaker 3: to our athletes and to our heroes for all these
Speaker 3: generational pieces. And it could be something where your father
Speaker 3: or grandfather or grandmother or mother took you to a
Speaker 3: game and there's something you remember and then you wanted
Speaker 3: to meet that player down the road. So values value
Speaker 3: is very subjective. It's really worth what it's meant or
Speaker 3: what it means to someone. So when these pieces are sold,
Speaker 3: an awful lot of the time it's driven by emotion
Speaker 3: and what that particular item means to one person, and
Speaker 3: hopefully it's the auctioneer to more than one person, and
Speaker 3: that's how those prices get driven up and sometimes to
Speaker 3: record prices.
Speaker 2: So let's talk about the Super Bowl. I guess you
Speaker 2: have the Super Bowl auction coming up? Is that before, during, after,
Speaker 2: or all three of the Super Bowl?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it sure feels like all three. Yeah, it's a
Speaker 3: wonderful event to start twenty first year doing it with
Speaker 3: the NFL and NFL auction program, of which they give
Speaker 3: us pieces. One hundred percent of those persons go to
Speaker 3: NFL auction charities across the league, and then even the
Speaker 3: vintage items, it's sort of a program we started way
Speaker 3: back when. So if a player or just vnted items
Speaker 3: come in and are sold, a portion of those proceeds
Speaker 3: still go to unfauction charities. But we are down on site.
Speaker 3: This year will be in New Orleans, and we're there
Speaker 3: for almost two weeks setting up and preparing, and the
Speaker 3: event opens at the convention center that's related to the city.
Speaker 3: This year in New Orleans, where all the items are
Speaker 3: on preview and you know, hundreds of thousands of people
Speaker 3: come through of course at being the Super Bowl, and
Speaker 3: then it culminates with the live auction the day before
Speaker 3: the game actually Super Bowl Saturday, down in the city.
Speaker 3: So it's always an exciting event. It is certainly a
Speaker 3: very exhausting events, but it.
Speaker 2: Is I think most football fans remember that Butt Starr,
Speaker 2: I believe is the MVP of the first two Super Bowls,
Speaker 2: certainly quarterback. A Butt Star memorabilia that is going to
Speaker 2: be part since that's the first two Super Bowls.
Speaker 3: Funny you ask, Yeah, we actually have a very significant collection.
Speaker 3: A noted Midwestern collector passed away a couple of years ago,
Speaker 3: and he is He actually worked as an usher at
Speaker 3: Lambeau for Lambofield and Green Bay for a number of years,
Speaker 3: so he's got one of the most significant green Bay
Speaker 3: Packers questions has ever come up to auction pennance from
Speaker 3: the nineteen thirties. You know, there are Super Bowl programs
Speaker 3: signed by Bart Starr, both one and two, lots of
Speaker 3: game use pieces. So and you get into these iconic franchises, packers,
Speaker 3: you know, Chicago Bears and Atriots into their era, and
Speaker 3: it really is what's so fascinating and interesting about the NFL.
Speaker 3: There's such a wide reach there, both internationally and Nashally.
Speaker 3: When we go to the Super Bowl each year for
Speaker 3: this event, a lot of clients are flying from all
Speaker 3: over the world and they actually end up getting on
Speaker 3: things from US football team. So it's always interesting to
Speaker 3: see where the objects will go.
Speaker 2: Well. The NFL obviously has a great international footprint at
Speaker 2: this point, certainly in Europe, Mexico, last year in South America.
Speaker 2: David Hunt I really enjoyed our conversation and I may
Speaker 2: be in touch with you at some point. Thank you.
Speaker 2: I'm going to check out your website, that is for sure,
Speaker 2: and maybe I'll make a bid on something. Thank you
Speaker 2: so much for your time. Again, it's Hunt auctions dot com.
Speaker 2: Hunt like Hunt's name, but no relation. I'm sure Hunt
Speaker 2: auctions dot Com. Thanks David, thank you, good night, very welcome.
Speaker 2: When we get back, we are going to again have
Speaker 2: a very interesting guest, the founder of the Grand Kiev
Speaker 2: Ballet which is coming the Grand Kiev Ballet which is
Speaker 2: coming to Boston later this month. We'll be back on
Speaker 2: Nightside right after this.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: Joining us now on Nightside. Great honor to have the
Speaker 2: founder and one of the principal dancers of the Grand
Speaker 2: Kiev Ballet, Alex Stoyanov. Alex I hope I came close
Speaker 2: on that pronunciation.
Speaker 4: Yes you did, right, Alexander, Alex Tenov, Yes.
Speaker 2: Alex Stoynoff, Yes, Okay, so it all comes together, okay
Speaker 2: for a Stoynoff. Okay, So tell us you coming to
Speaker 2: Boston and I've looked at the website and it looks
Speaker 2: as if it's a couple of shows later this month
Speaker 2: at the Emerson Colonial Theater.
Speaker 4: Is that correct, Yes, it's correct. Last time when it
Speaker 4: was in Boston, we showed Ballet Gazelle and we did
Speaker 4: sold out maybe three weeks before before the show. That's
Speaker 4: why this time we bring we bring your bringing for
Speaker 4: the Boston two different productions. One it's a Nutcracker and
Speaker 4: one it's Snow Queen. Snow Queen. It's the World Ballet
Speaker 4: premier and it's with new heirography, with new costumes, new decorations.
Speaker 4: It's something new for everybody. It's special for the United States.
Speaker 2: Wow, how how much does the Grand Kiev Ballet. Are
Speaker 2: you on the road all the time or do you
Speaker 2: spend back? Are you still at all performing? I can't
Speaker 2: imagine the circumstances that it must be like at home.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, we are we are artists and we
Speaker 4: have artists life. We every time or in the hotel
Speaker 4: or on the road, and every time we live in uh,
Speaker 4: live in movement every time because on the stage and everywhere,
Speaker 4: because artists life it's too short. You know, our ballet
Speaker 4: dancers have a short stage life. Just till thirty eight
Speaker 4: years maybe. Uh, And that's why we every time try
Speaker 4: to live for like for full for not for full life.
Speaker 4: I think you understand me.
Speaker 2: How how big is the the entourage that that you
Speaker 2: travel with between dancers and and support staff. How how
Speaker 2: how large a group is we?
Speaker 4: Suprise?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: You know for now we have different groups and who
Speaker 4: dancing in different countries the same time in the same time.
Speaker 4: In the United States we have two groups. Two groups.
Speaker 4: It's thirty dancers and five people of five people from
Speaker 4: the technical stuff. And totally we have for now one
Speaker 4: hundred twenty dancers on different tours all around the world.
Speaker 2: Wow, now you're the founder of the Grand Keep Ballet.
Speaker 2: What what year did you You're you're still dancing, as
Speaker 2: I understand.
Speaker 4: That I'm still dancing, but I for now I am
Speaker 4: a little bit starts preparing to retirement because I am
Speaker 4: thirty seven. I think I have one more year for
Speaker 4: dancing on the stage. But you know, I need to
Speaker 4: work now more like in an administrative work with my computer,
Speaker 4: because it's really difficult to do all these you know,
Speaker 4: like schedules. It's really I'm waking up in the morning
Speaker 4: and I try to remember where is my team now?
Speaker 4: In which city and which country? And you know, it's
Speaker 4: a lot of questions now and it's difficult. So you know,
Speaker 4: I then danced a lot. I danced more than three
Speaker 4: hundred performances per year, and my body also a little
Speaker 4: bit tired.
Speaker 2: And it's it's you're not only your artists, but your
Speaker 2: your athletic artists as well. I mean you're in fine
Speaker 2: shape and condition. I could never have done what you
Speaker 2: have done. So tell me, do do the artists do
Speaker 2: you get a break during the year? Are they able
Speaker 2: to go home and see their family? Are you at
Speaker 2: this point out of the country until this horrific war ends?
Speaker 4: You know, afterwards started a lot of our dancers, a
Speaker 4: lot of took their family from Ukraine and now they're
Speaker 4: living in safety place like in Poland, in the United States,
Speaker 4: in other different countries because a lot of artists have children,
Speaker 4: and this is very important for us now have safety
Speaker 4: plays for the children and also for our artists. Our
Speaker 4: ballet students and the ballet artists have already fined some
Speaker 4: places for new work in the United States. In Europe,
Speaker 4: a lot of dancers who dancing with us here in
Speaker 4: the with the Grand q Ballet. They have families in Ukraine,
Speaker 4: but they try to support them. They every time send
Speaker 4: send them money. And you know a lot of our yeah,
Speaker 4: a lot of parents from our artists. It's this is
Speaker 4: not young people, and they don't don't want to don't
Speaker 4: want to move from Ukraine to another country. I think
Speaker 4: you understand. It's difficult another language. Friends. For young people,
Speaker 4: it's okay. For artists, it's good, but not for old people.
Speaker 2: Okay, So let me just focus on Boston. It's at
Speaker 2: the Emerson Colonial Theater and there are two shows, the
Speaker 2: Nutcracker and the Snow Queen. Uh, and I believe it's
Speaker 2: let me make sure I had the dates here correctly.
Speaker 2: It's it's November twenty ninth and November thirtieth, so it's
Speaker 2: it's two show and that's it. Friday night the Nutcracker
Speaker 2: November twenty ninth, and then Saturday the Snow Queen, and
Speaker 2: that's it's it's not a long run where you're here
Speaker 2: for two weeks. So if they want to see the
Speaker 2: Grand Kiev Ballet, those are the two nights. Am I
Speaker 2: reading it properly? Correctly?
Speaker 4: Correct? Everything correct?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Okay, and they can get their tickets through the Emerson
Speaker 2: Colonial Theater box office, and we wish you a great
Speaker 2: success here in Boston. I'm sure you'll be welcomed warmly
Speaker 2: and hopefully we can get this war over with so
Speaker 2: that your people and some people in Russia who are
Speaker 2: supporting you can stop suffering. So Alex stan I have
Speaker 2: a pleasure to have met you tonight over the radio.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much. Thank you. I hope everybody will
Speaker 4: enjoy and enjoy our show.
Speaker 2: I'm sure they'll love them. I'm sure they'll love them.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Alex. Safe home, Okay, thank thank you.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: All right, when we get back, we're going to talk
Speaker 2: about something that most of us will be participating in
Speaker 2: in some form of fashion, of Thanksgiving dinner. I'm going
Speaker 2: to talk with Bill Dendy, who knows a lot about prices.
Speaker 2: The price for a traditional Thanksgiving dinner from last year
Speaker 2: to this is up nineteen percent. That's a huge increase.
Speaker 2: Hopefully it will not prevent any family from gathering around
Speaker 2: the table. We'll talk to Bill Dendy maybe about what
Speaker 2: can be done a little bit, and then we're going
Speaker 2: to follow on the food theme talking with doctor Shira
Speaker 2: Dorone about that call e Coli outbreak that believe at
Speaker 2: this point the scientists belief started from some organic carrots.
Speaker 2: We'll get to all of that, and then we will
Speaker 2: move on and talk about memory issues for people of
Speaker 2: all ages with doctor Andrew Budson, neurologists of Boston University.
Speaker 2: And then from ten to midnight, I'd like to talk
Speaker 2: about the latest development in Ukraine, which is at US
Speaker 2: now has authorized Ukraine to use long range missiles in
Speaker 2: their battle with Vladimir Putin and the Russian military. Back
Speaker 2: on Nightside right after.
Speaker 1: This Night Side with Dan Ray ONBZ Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Well about what's it ten days from now? I think,
Speaker 2: if I'm not mistaken yet, ten days from now, hopefully
Speaker 2: all of us will gather with friends and family for
Speaker 2: Thanksgiving dinner. This year, it's going to be more expensive
Speaker 2: with us, is Bill Dandy? Bill has been a guest before.
Speaker 2: He's someone who keeps an eye on the bottom line,
Speaker 2: that is for sure, and inflation has impacted. The average
Speaker 2: cost of food, drinks, to court, etc. For Thanksgiving has
Speaker 2: now gone up nineteen percent this year. Is that just
Speaker 2: from last year?
Speaker 6: Bill, that's a year over year increase, and that is
Speaker 6: a survey for lending Tree, and you will find various
Speaker 6: surveys out there showing that, you know, over the past
Speaker 6: five years, it's definitely more expensive. But we thought inflation
Speaker 6: was just about done. But for some parts of that
Speaker 6: things Giving feast, we haven't seen the low inflation rates
Speaker 6: of two and three percent. We're seen like eighteen and
Speaker 6: twenty percent. And for a lot of folks who were
Speaker 6: finan it difficult already to get by paycheck to paycheck,
Speaker 6: and cost of things have gone up twenty and twenty
Speaker 6: five percent over the past three years. This extra holiday
Speaker 6: of Thanksgiving can be a challenge for them to budget
Speaker 6: in because you know, we had the holiday of Thanksgiving,
Speaker 6: then we have the Christmas and Honka season where people
Speaker 6: want to do more for the people they care about,
Speaker 6: and a lot of folks find this to be one
Speaker 6: of the most financially stressful times of the year. And
Speaker 6: we're getting ready to get hit hard, as you say,
Speaker 6: in ten days as we start preparing for that Thanksgiving Peace.
Speaker 2: Now, Bill your financial strategy. It is just with Raymond James.
Speaker 2: We've had you on before. H what is it about
Speaker 2: Thanksgiving that is bumping up? I mean, I'm assuming that turkey.
Speaker 2: You know, even if you're cooking a turkey for six
Speaker 2: or eight people or who knows even more, has the
Speaker 2: that's the main dish. Well, I know some people have
Speaker 2: other main dishes, but turkey is what we what we
Speaker 2: mostly associate with Thanksgiving. Has the price of turkey gone up?
Speaker 6: Turkey has actually come down. Some turkey is a blessed
Speaker 6: but I remember turkey was really high price. You might
Speaker 6: recall a few years ago we had some shortages and
Speaker 6: supplies and some problems with what was the Avian flu,
Speaker 6: and turkey's broad as abundant, and so with the with
Speaker 6: the reproduction of the turkeys over the last few years,
Speaker 6: they have come down in price. Fresh turkeys down about
Speaker 6: sixty cents a pound, which is great. But the other
Speaker 6: things that we put on that table have not gone down.
Speaker 6: Things like our vegetables and our side dishes and our
Speaker 6: cranberries and decorations are up about twenty to twenty five
Speaker 6: percent from where they were a year ago, and more
Speaker 6: people are doing more decorations and other things when they
Speaker 6: throw a Thanksgiving party. In fact, for those making over
Speaker 6: six make it over one hundred thousand years six figure incomes,
Speaker 6: they're spending about five hundred dollars to put on a
Speaker 6: Thanksgiving dinner, and for some they're thinking that's just a
Speaker 6: little more than they want to do this year, so
Speaker 6: they're trying to find ways to cut the cost and
Speaker 6: to maybe go back to more of the basics.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I would think that in a situation
Speaker 2: like that, where people are really finding difficult, then obviously
Speaker 2: it can. It can affect a lot of people, which
Speaker 2: we just saw in the election that a lot of
Speaker 2: people who normally would have voted for a Democratic candidate
Speaker 2: seems to have at least temporarily switched party affiliation. Assume
Speaker 2: that on the decorations, you can cut back a little
Speaker 2: bit and maybe use some of the decorations that are
Speaker 2: still around from a year ago. Because when I talk
Speaker 2: about Thanksgiving, I talk about, you know, I think the
Speaker 2: fiveps and see if I can get them, you know, food, family, fun, football, festivities.
Speaker 2: It's it's all about family and about having friends over.
Speaker 2: It's it's I think it should be the least stressful
Speaker 2: of all the holidays Christmas and Hanukkah and New Year's.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of stress involved in that because you've
Speaker 2: got to make sure you think of everybody Thanksgiving, you
Speaker 2: just say, Okay, who's coming over. Maybe someone will bring
Speaker 2: a bottle of wine or whatever, and you know, I
Speaker 2: don't know if people can can maybe take some of
Speaker 2: the pressure off of those some of the techniques people
Speaker 2: can use to sort of take some of the pressure
Speaker 2: off the people the people who are in.
Speaker 6: There, and that's exactly the party. You're right on target.
Speaker 6: I think that as guests we should be more in
Speaker 6: climb than ever before to show up with something, bring
Speaker 6: that bubble of wine, ask if you can do the
Speaker 6: sweet potato casse role or something else they may not
Speaker 6: have on the menu. Especially if you do something well,
Speaker 6: it's kind of fun to do the pop luck and
Speaker 6: to take some burden off the hostess. I think for
Speaker 6: a lot of families, mom always does it every single
Speaker 6: year and she's got it down. But to bring a
Speaker 6: combination of the desserts of the pies to the party
Speaker 6: is the way a lot of people are coping with it,
Speaker 6: and it actually makes it more like the original Thanksgiving,
Speaker 6: where you show up with what she can and make
Speaker 6: a feast out of what was already abundant around you.
Speaker 6: So I think you really actually get back into the heart.
Speaker 2: Of the.
Speaker 6: Spirit of being thankful and sharing and having that togetherness
Speaker 6: that you speak of. It does not have to break
Speaker 6: the budget. It should not be the beginnings of a
Speaker 6: stressful season. Thanksgiving should be the easier. One price of
Speaker 6: turkey is down, that's the main dish on the plate.
Speaker 6: We don't have to have four different types of sounds
Speaker 6: and ten different pies. It's possible to do Thanksgiving very elogantly,
Speaker 6: very fulfillingly by sharing the burden and doing it on
Speaker 6: a budget. And I think that's why a lot of
Speaker 6: people just are forced to do now that maybe we
Speaker 6: didn't have to do a few years ago, and that's
Speaker 6: been more responsible for the dollars we're spending. We want
Speaker 6: to get maximum use of those dollars. We know that
Speaker 6: things are costing more, and so I think it's just
Speaker 6: tying up and developing better habits, and Thanksgiving is one
Speaker 6: of those times we can certainly do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, if you think, as a guest, and
Speaker 2: we will be guests, what it would cost for you
Speaker 2: and your significant other, your spouse, your wife, your husband,
Speaker 2: and maybe a couple of kids to go to a
Speaker 2: restaurant you're talking about at a minimum. I think of
Speaker 2: like a couple hundred bucks, so bring a couple of
Speaker 2: extra pies or bring two bottles of wine.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, you'll be a pre shared by the host is
Speaker 6: even if they don't expect it. I said, let's not
Speaker 6: show up into handed this year. That's a big I mean,
Speaker 6: there's a clue to the world. And I think that's
Speaker 6: one of the things that is part of being a
Speaker 6: good guess. And I know a lot of our listeners
Speaker 6: are going to say, well, I never show up at
Speaker 6: the handed, I bring the flowers or something always, and
Speaker 6: others are going to say, what you're supposed to bring something?
Speaker 6: And I think it's that awareness that is important, and
Speaker 6: that's part of sharing the lave of Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2: Absolutely good advice, Bill good financial advice. What's the market
Speaker 2: doing the last few days? It seems to be, you know,
Speaker 2: fluttering and uh, what what's causing the the the the
Speaker 2: negative returns in the last In the last week or so,
Speaker 2: I mean, the market took off. It seems to have.
Speaker 6: Why after the election results came out and they were
Speaker 6: so positively republican. Uh, the market loved it. The market
Speaker 6: was up a thousand points first day. Another found it
Speaker 6: was a good time because it looked like all the
Speaker 6: deregulation and the tax cuts that Trump had wanted to
Speaker 6: do will probably come to pass. The problem is over
Speaker 6: the past few days. In fact, in Dallas this week,
Speaker 6: I mean sorry, the end of last week, our FED
Speaker 6: chairman spoke and said, well, you know, all these things
Speaker 6: are inflationary in nature. If companies take more profit to
Speaker 6: the bottom line, to the tax cuts and our deregulation,
Speaker 6: this may prohibit the FED from lowering rates. Now, the
Speaker 6: Fed is said for twenty four months they're going to
Speaker 6: start lowering rates as soon as inflation looks like it's
Speaker 6: cooled off, and they lowered rates fifty basis points than
Speaker 6: in November, another twenty five basis points with the statement
Speaker 6: that they're probably going to keep lowering. But after the
Speaker 6: election things have changed. They're saying that the tax cuts
Speaker 6: and the deregulations are so and the tariffs are so
Speaker 6: inflationary in nature that they may not be able to
Speaker 6: continue to cut weights. So you had a market that
Speaker 6: originally had priced in the FED continuing to follow the
Speaker 6: path that they said that they were going to follow,
Speaker 6: and the reduction and taxes and the tariffs and the deregulation,
Speaker 6: and they felt party on this is a big positive
Speaker 6: time for the stock market. But then to get the
Speaker 6: comments that, oh, well, maybe we're not going to get
Speaker 6: the lower en of interest rates. Maybe rates are going
Speaker 6: to pause here and maybe go back up, and we
Speaker 6: may see inflation that was suddenly negative. And so it's
Speaker 6: kind of like watching the tide change and the wind
Speaker 6: is blowing from the opposite direction. The tide will usually win,
Speaker 6: but it sure has a lot of turmoil as to
Speaker 6: get that tide changing, and that's what's happening right now
Speaker 6: in the market in my opinion.
Speaker 2: Well, Bill Denny, we've got to too for out of you.
Speaker 2: We got Thanksgiving and also an overview of the market situation.
Speaker 2: The market was okay today, so hopefully it'll be better tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Bill Dendy, financial strategist at Raymond James, Thank you so much,
Speaker 2: my friend.
Speaker 6: God bless you.
Speaker 2: Right back at you, Bill, we come up. We're going
Speaker 2: to talk about another problem, and that's an E Coli outbreak.
Speaker 2: On a talk with doctor Shirah Doerome. She's the chief
Speaker 2: Infection Control Officer for Tuft's Medicine and hospital epidemiologist at
Speaker 2: Tuft's Medical Center. This supposed is related to organic carrots.
Speaker 2: We'll explain, or doctor Derome will explain. Will we come
Speaker 2: back on Nightside.
Speaker 1: Now, Back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: Tony is Now. Doctor Shira Doerne apologized for the mis
Speaker 2: pronunciation in the first the first name, doctor Deron. How
Speaker 2: are you tonight?
Speaker 5: Good?
Speaker 2: How are you? I'm doing all the better that I
Speaker 2: haven't had organic carrots in a long time. I don't
Speaker 2: think I've ever had organic carrots. But what's the deal here?
Speaker 2: Any idea where is this limited to? I hope it's
Speaker 2: not in New England?
Speaker 5: Yeah, No, I'm looking at a recent map here and
Speaker 5: it looks like there has been one at least one
Speaker 5: case found in Massachusetts, and of course New York is
Speaker 5: sort of the most one of the most concentrated states now,
Speaker 5: so you know, I think we may find that there
Speaker 5: are some cases here in our area, and that is
Speaker 5: you know, that is how these things go. Once we
Speaker 5: realize that there is an outbreak, it can take some
Speaker 5: time to figure out how extensive it is.
Speaker 2: Okay, so E Coli is one of those outbreaks that
Speaker 2: no one wants to be involved with. Obviously, it's going
Speaker 2: to cause at a minimum, some gastro intestinal problems.
Speaker 6: Correct, that's right.
Speaker 5: You can have nausea, vomiting, diarrhea. The diarrhea can be bloody.
Speaker 5: You might have fever, body aches, and insevere cases. You
Speaker 5: could need hospitalization due to dehydration, kidney problems, and some
Speaker 5: other sort of blood and vascular related problems. And that
Speaker 5: they are reporting that there appears to have been one
Speaker 5: death so far from this outbreak.
Speaker 2: How is it with all the controls that we have,
Speaker 2: you know, with the FDA and all of that, how
Speaker 2: is it that periodically that just was that that event
Speaker 2: with I think McDonald's about a month and a half ago,
Speaker 2: or with some of the onions and on some of
Speaker 2: the big mac burgers. How does this occur? You know,
Speaker 2: particularly in in in a root vegetable like a carrot,
Speaker 2: which I assume they simply pull out of the ground,
Speaker 2: wash and ship them off. How does that get started?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean there are so many different ways. Right
Speaker 5: When when we talk about a vegetable like this that
Speaker 5: is grown in the soil, the soil itself can become contaminated.
Speaker 5: So E Coli lives in the gut of humans and animals,
Speaker 5: and so if the soil gets contaminated with water runoff
Speaker 5: that has animals be seas in it. For example, you
Speaker 5: know all of the parents could be contaminated. It can
Speaker 5: also happen at any stage along the distribution and you
Speaker 5: know the packaging and and and distribution chain, and you know,
Speaker 5: a small contamination can really affect a large number of items.
Speaker 2: Now do we do they feel at this point they
Speaker 2: have some idea of the extent or is this something
Speaker 2: that they're going to have to watch now for a
Speaker 2: couple of weeks because more than there may be more
Speaker 2: people impacted. Are they able to are they able to
Speaker 2: tell when when there is an outbreak, how how many
Speaker 2: people report it, say in the first few days, which
Speaker 2: will give them an idea about with this out with
Speaker 2: this outbreak will ultimately end up? Or is it just
Speaker 2: they got to wait and see when the when the
Speaker 2: infections come in.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, you know, it is a testament to
Speaker 5: our food borne illness surveillance system that we even know
Speaker 5: that this is all coming from a carrots. You know,
Speaker 5: that's pretty amazing if you think about it, because people
Speaker 5: are coming into urging cares and doctor's offices and hospitals
Speaker 5: with GI symptoms. All the time, and in this case,
Speaker 5: somebody you know, started to put two and two together
Speaker 5: and say, I think we might have a common source here,
Speaker 5: and they do this case control studies, what did people
Speaker 5: eat who are sick? What did people eat who aren't sick,
Speaker 5: and they realized that carrots were implicated. They're looking at
Speaker 5: carrots back to expiration dates of or fell by dates
Speaker 5: of September, you know. So this may have been going
Speaker 5: on for quite some time, but the key is now
Speaker 5: that all of the different brands that received carrots from
Speaker 5: the same you know company that grew them, they've been identified.
Speaker 5: And now those carrots are being pulled off of the
Speaker 5: shelves supermarkets, restaurants know not to use them anymore. People
Speaker 5: are being told to pick them out of their freezers
Speaker 5: and throw them out. Clean, clean your refrigerator, freezer where
Speaker 5: those carrots were, and that should lead to the end
Speaker 5: of the outbreak.
Speaker 2: Okay, So if if we can't be you know, prospective perspective,
Speaker 2: can we be retrospective. You said that some of these
Speaker 2: carrots were sell by dates in September. It's November, So
Speaker 2: did people lead these in the refrigerator or buy them,
Speaker 2: you know, in early September and they just started to
Speaker 2: eat them sometime.
Speaker 5: I mean it's probably probably, Yeah, we probably missed a
Speaker 5: lot of cases. And that's normal with an outbreak like this,
Speaker 5: because most people are going to have relatively mild infection
Speaker 5: and they're never even going to be tested for E. Coli.
Speaker 4: They're going to.
Speaker 5: Stay home feeling miserable for a few days and get better.
Speaker 5: And so it's only those really severe cases that even
Speaker 5: get tested and then and so it can take weeks
Speaker 5: to months to even notice that there's a contamination issue.
Speaker 2: In it, Okay, And so that's that's where you kind
Speaker 2: of cross reference and figure the commonality of a potential source. Here,
Speaker 2: you're asking people, what did you have in the last three,
Speaker 2: four or five days. I assume that's I'm not a scientist,
Speaker 2: but I assume that's what that's. And they plot, plot
Speaker 2: and shot that in a an ex axis and a
Speaker 2: y access and all of a sudden they say, Okay,
Speaker 2: here's here's what we have. Thankfully, this these sorts of
Speaker 2: outbreaks are not common. How fortunate are we in America
Speaker 2: compared to other countries? Do we just have a better
Speaker 2: reporting system and so therefore we know about them? And
Speaker 2: other countries, this stuff is going on more because they
Speaker 2: don't have a reporting system.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's right. It's two things. We have a great
Speaker 5: reporting system. So this particular kind of ecoli, when somebody
Speaker 5: in a doctor's office or a hospital test positive, the
Speaker 5: lab is required to notify the Public House Department, and
Speaker 5: so our public health department has these lab results coming
Speaker 5: in all the time, and then they can contact the
Speaker 5: people who have those infections and get on top of
Speaker 5: it very quickly. So that's our surveillance system that helps
Speaker 5: us get on top of outbreaks and stop them so
Speaker 5: that they don't keep going. On the other side of things,
Speaker 5: we do have very clean water here in the United
Speaker 5: States compared to many countries. We have water that is
Speaker 5: tested regularly and is generally not contaminated with fecal bacteria
Speaker 5: like E. Coli. And so, you know, both of those
Speaker 5: things make it so that that these types of outbreaks
Speaker 5: are uncommon and that they're squelched quickly when they do stuff.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you, it's it's scary to think that
Speaker 2: just by eating you know, you think about organic anything,
Speaker 2: you pay a little more in the supermarket, but you
Speaker 2: just had that confidence factor that well, this I know
Speaker 2: if it's organic is going to be completely safe. And
Speaker 2: obviously we find out in this case this is not
Speaker 2: just regular carrots, it's organic carrots. So a word to
Speaker 2: the a word to the wise. And there's nothing that
Speaker 2: they when they ingested these carrots that these people would
Speaker 2: have known there wouldn't have a weird smell, any sort
Speaker 2: of a mold, or no physical presentation that maybe in
Speaker 2: retrospect people saying, why did I eat that carrot? I
Speaker 2: know it was midnight and I was hungry, and it
Speaker 2: didn't taste right, none of that right.
Speaker 5: That's a good point. You know, my husband's always smelling
Speaker 5: the food and then eating it, but in reality you
Speaker 5: cannot tell based on look, texture or smell when something
Speaker 5: is contaminated with these types of bacteria. The symptoms starts
Speaker 5: re afforded after eating it too. So a lot of
Speaker 5: times people will say assume that it's the last thing
Speaker 5: they ate or the thing they ate last night, when
Speaker 5: in fact you have to go back days to try
Speaker 5: to figure out what it was that made you sick.
Speaker 2: Wow, Like to Sira Jerome, thank you so much. The
Speaker 2: Chief Infection Control Officer for Tough Medicine and Hospital epidemiologists
Speaker 2: that Toughts Medical Center always enjoy revenue on It's been
Speaker 2: too long since we last talked. Thank you so much
Speaker 2: for your time tonight, and thank.
Speaker 4: You for much.
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you so much. We'll talk again. Thanks
Speaker 2: when we get back. We're going to talk about another
Speaker 2: type of doctor. This is a neurologist. This doctor is
Speaker 2: an expert in memory loss. Now again, memory loss can
Speaker 2: be for young or old. Doctor Andrew Budson at Boston University,
Speaker 2: neurologist with all sorts of information on memory issues, this
Speaker 2: is one you want to pay attention to closely, whatever
Speaker 2: your age back on night side after this