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Speaker 2: of Hurricane Helene. And I don't know how many of
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Speaker 2: that neck of the woods, if there's even any power.
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Speaker 2: We'll get to all of that as the evening goes
Speaker 2: on again. My name's Dan Ram, the host of the show.
Speaker 2: I get to sit here every Monday through Friday night
Speaker 2: from eight until midnighte and we get to talk with
Speaker 2: interesting people. We're going to start off with a very
Speaker 2: interesting person who I kind of discovered, I think last
Speaker 2: earlier this year, Kathy Albert. I don't hope you're not
Speaker 2: offended by that, Kathy, but Kathy is the president of
Speaker 2: the New England Postcard Club. Welcome back, Kathy.
Speaker 3: How are you all fine? Thanks Dan, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 3: It's great to be here.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think this is this your third or fourth
Speaker 2: time with us here And I forget how we met,
Speaker 2: whether you sent an email to me or something. But
Speaker 2: I never realized the number of people in New England
Speaker 2: who were interested in collecting trading postcards. Postcards from hundreds,
Speaker 2: not hundreds of years ago, but postcards from decade wild.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah it is, and you have under there.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: Well let's see, Well postcards were around in what the
Speaker 2: eighteen nineties, Well.
Speaker 3: They started in Europe in the late nineteenth century, but
Speaker 3: then they came over to the United States and it
Speaker 3: only cost a penny to send a postcard and they had.
Speaker 2: Really but you couldn't put them in an envelope, right,
Speaker 2: You had to write your little note in the back. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I have postcards from that era, and I know you
Speaker 2: make postcards.
Speaker 3: When they first came out, you couldn't write, You couldn't
Speaker 3: write a message on the back of the postcard. The
Speaker 3: one side of the postcard was for the address and
Speaker 3: the other side just to the picture. So people started
Speaker 3: scrawling a little messages on the bottom of the picture,
Speaker 3: and they eventually realized they're going to have to create
Speaker 3: a divided postcard and have the message on one side
Speaker 3: of the the blank side and the dress on the other,
Speaker 3: so the picture was remained intact and didn't have writing
Speaker 3: all over it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you represent a group of people who are very
Speaker 2: diverse in terms of their collection. Some people collect postcards generally.
Speaker 2: Some people have sort of sub specialties. They only want
Speaker 2: train postcards, or they want postcards about the state of
Speaker 2: Massachusetts or a town in Massachusetts. Explain how that works.
Speaker 3: Well, Actually, the most popular kind of postcard I think
Speaker 3: for the people that I'm working with right now are
Speaker 3: they call them view postcards, and they have them for
Speaker 3: every town. Like, for example, there's one fellow in our
Speaker 3: group who lives in Newton and he collects Newton postcards
Speaker 3: and he has a huge collection of Newton postcards. And
Speaker 3: he still hasn't gotten over to the what's the name
Speaker 3: of historical society there in Newton where they've got they've
Speaker 3: got a huge postcard collection over there, I guess.
Speaker 2: But now and I know that there were people who
Speaker 2: collect baseball park postcards, which is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, baseball player, Yeah. I mean, it's just whatever your interest,
Speaker 3: there's a postcard for that. But like I said, these
Speaker 3: you postcards, people come in and there's a box this
Speaker 3: is Massachusetts on it, and you can just slip through
Speaker 3: it and you can look for your town and you
Speaker 3: can find, you know, library at high school the way
Speaker 3: it looked a hundred years ago. It's really cool.
Speaker 2: The other thing that I think is interesting is that
Speaker 2: this seem there is still postcards sold, uh in circulation.
Speaker 2: You go into certain stores and you can find postcards.
Speaker 2: I don't know that hotels and motels still make postcards available,
Speaker 2: but I can remember traveling young when I was younger,
Speaker 2: there was always a stack of you know, five or
Speaker 2: six postcards in the draw of the death hotel, of
Speaker 2: the motel, and you could send that you could use
Speaker 2: that and have to put a stamp on it. Obviously,
Speaker 2: has has that lost some of its popularity with with
Speaker 2: with not only people who are travelers, but people who
Speaker 2: provide them lodging and inns and bed and breakfasts and
Speaker 2: hotels and hotels.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think that one of the one of
Speaker 3: the things I collect are hotels and motels and restaurants,
Speaker 3: and I have a lot of a lot of those
Speaker 3: from New York City, for example. But yeah, I mean
Speaker 3: there are people people collect postcards of hotels the way
Speaker 3: they looked one hundred years ago or fifty years ago,
Speaker 3: and you know, the interior, or some of them have
Speaker 3: beautiful murals. There's just there's so many different kinds of postcards,
Speaker 3: just mind boggling.
Speaker 2: I hope you find someone who collects postcards of Boston
Speaker 2: television personalities. I had a lot of postcards that I
Speaker 2: nailed serious. Oh oh yeah, we still have them, by
Speaker 2: the way, I do.
Speaker 3: I have entertainers and I do have I have you know,
Speaker 3: old things from like w W was it w NAC
Speaker 3: or was that a TV station?
Speaker 2: Well that was a TV it was also a radio
Speaker 2: station that would have been sort of in the in
Speaker 2: the circuit time of circuit nineteen forties and nineteen fifties.
Speaker 5: I was, yeah, those are using that.
Speaker 4: But.
Speaker 2: A lot of people will. So let's talk about this. Sunday,
Speaker 2: October sixth, two days from now, you're having another big
Speaker 2: postcard meeting. Is this an annual event or semi annual?
Speaker 2: How are you describing this event on Sunday?
Speaker 3: Well, this is actually sort of a more of a
Speaker 3: of a club meeting. We're going to have a meeting
Speaker 3: where we'll tell people sort of what we're all about.
Speaker 3: People can sign up and join, and you know, well.
Speaker 2: You've done a couple, You've done a couple of these
Speaker 2: type you've done a couple of these meetings. I went
Speaker 2: over to one which which was a year.
Speaker 3: Last super was first one that was in March, and
Speaker 3: that was a show and we had thanks to you
Speaker 3: and the Globe, we had three hundred people there. It
Speaker 3: was wild. But this one I expect to be smaller.
Speaker 3: We're going to have a meeting and then we'll have
Speaker 3: you know, half a dozen postcard dealers selling selling stuff.
Speaker 3: After the meeting, people can go down and buy things.
Speaker 6: Great people, and.
Speaker 2: We're about tell us where, tell us where, and tell
Speaker 2: us how they can, and well, obviously if they know
Speaker 2: where it's it's from ten to three on Sunday. So
Speaker 2: people have.
Speaker 3: The Fellman Museum of Jampson Postal History. It's on the
Speaker 3: campus of the Regis College in Western It's really easy
Speaker 3: to get to. It's right off with thirty, which is
Speaker 3: right off the s Pike.
Speaker 2: It's a great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you were great to tell me about Ron Potosi
Speaker 3: who is also a postcard person, and he listened Wisconsin
Speaker 3: and he's joined our facebook page. We have we have
Speaker 3: one hundred and fifty people now on our Facebook page,
Speaker 3: the New England Postcard Club Facebook page.
Speaker 2: Right listener out in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, So hopefully he's listening tonight.
Speaker 2: So this is Sunday people. You don't have to register,
Speaker 2: there's no cost. You just show up right and you're
Speaker 2: going to auction off absolutely postcards. You're going to auction
Speaker 2: off that box. How many postcards are going to be
Speaker 2: in that box?
Speaker 3: Oh, I don't know, about five hundred. It's hard to tell.
Speaker 3: But you know we're gonna somebody somebody. A lot of
Speaker 3: people donate postcards to us, so we're going to be
Speaker 3: selling those really inexpensively. But then somebody else who is
Speaker 3: liquiding your condition her not condition her collection. Yeah, she's
Speaker 3: liquidating in that and she gave us a box of
Speaker 3: postcards to auction off and she'll get the money.
Speaker 2: Kathy, thank you very much. Is there there is a
Speaker 2: website on Facebook, the New England Postcard Club that's easy
Speaker 2: to find as well.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's a Facebook group. It's a Facebook group. We
Speaker 3: don't have a website yet. We're hoping to set one up, but.
Speaker 2: Go on Facebook and you went to New England Postcard
Speaker 2: Club in.
Speaker 3: The in the search bar and action in the group section.
Speaker 3: But we're going to have another one of these meetings
Speaker 3: in December and then we'll have our annual show again
Speaker 3: in March.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, this is an ongoing activity and I'd
Speaker 2: like to think that I was one of the founding
Speaker 2: fathers of this group, because.
Speaker 3: You absolutely were. You made it happen man. Thank you
Speaker 3: so much.
Speaker 2: Then please say hi to everybody. I will not be
Speaker 2: there on Sunday, but I'll probably be able to stop
Speaker 2: buy in March. Okay, we'll talk again. Thanks.
Speaker 3: Oh, that would be great. We'll look forward to that.
Speaker 3: Thanks so much. Have a great weekend. Dan, Thank you
Speaker 3: very welcome.
Speaker 2: Thank you. When we get back, we are going to
Speaker 2: talk about a very serious issue. Postcards are fun. We're
Speaker 2: going to talk about domestic Violence Awareness Month and an
Speaker 2: empowering message for survivors of domestic violence. We'll be speaking
Speaker 2: with Laura Frombach. She's a technologist and domestic violence survivors.
Speaker 2: She's also a co author a book called Street Smart Safety,
Speaker 2: Your Guide to Defensive Living. Stay with us a great
Speaker 2: guest coming up back on nights Side. This is Boston's
Speaker 2: news Radio. My name is Dan Ray, host of nights
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Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray, live from the Window World
Speaker 1: night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: October is domestic Violence Awareness Month, and there are a
Speaker 2: lot of causes that are highlighted in various months. It's
Speaker 2: not as if it's the only cause. However, I can't
Speaker 2: think of one that's more important, particularly for anyone who
Speaker 2: has a daughter, or a niece, or a mom or
Speaker 2: an aunt. Empowering message for survivors Laura Frombach. Laura, you
Speaker 2: are a domestic violence survivor yourself, and it says that
Speaker 2: you're a technologist. I understand what a domestic violence survivor is.
Speaker 2: What is a technologist.
Speaker 4: A technologist is somebody who is in love with technology,
Speaker 4: and I've worked in technology all my career over thirty
Speaker 4: years with large company small companies.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, I knew that, but I was wondering if
Speaker 2: your work as a technologist had any relationship to the
Speaker 2: subject at hand. So you could have said that you
Speaker 2: were a lawyer and a domestic violence survivor or whatever.
Speaker 2: So now I just wanted to clear that up. You're
Speaker 2: also the co author of a book called Street Smart Safety,
Speaker 2: Your Guide to Defensive Living. Now is that book related
Speaker 2: to domestic violence or is it? Is it a basically
Speaker 2: a book that provides broader recommendations how people, men and
Speaker 2: women can remain safe.
Speaker 4: It does both, Dan. It provides those recommendations that you
Speaker 4: just talked about, but we also talk about domestic violence
Speaker 4: and more importantly, how to recognize the patterns of domestic
Speaker 4: violence earlier in the relationship, because it doesn't happen in
Speaker 4: a vacuum. There are signs that people everyone can look
Speaker 4: for if they know what they're looking for while they're dating.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about some of those signs. What are the
Speaker 2: signs that I guess men and women, but primarily women.
Speaker 2: I mean, there are men who suffer from domestic violence
Speaker 2: that I don't want to downplay that, you know that problem,
Speaker 2: but most men, most victims of domestic violence in our
Speaker 2: society are women. I believe these statistics would support that.
Speaker 2: So let's talk about it from the point of view
Speaker 2: of women. You begin into a dating relationship, what are
Speaker 2: some of the warning signs that people should begin to say?
Speaker 4: On the first date, even you can start to see
Speaker 4: some of those signs because domestic violence and abuse is
Speaker 4: all about power and control. So if somebody starts to
Speaker 4: order for you, if you want to leave, and they say,
Speaker 4: well just one more, I mean, how many of us
Speaker 4: haven't heard that those are actually signs not only that
Speaker 4: somebody might be interested in you, but that they're trying
Speaker 4: to control you. And when you say oh, okay, you're
Speaker 4: showing them that you can actually be controlled.
Speaker 2: Okay, So let me play Devil's advocate for a second.
Speaker 2: Let's assume a couple of years in a great time,
Speaker 2: they really have hit it off. It's a blind date,
Speaker 2: first date, they got up through they got set up
Speaker 2: to a dating system with through some friends and the
Speaker 2: you know, one of them has to work the next morning.
Speaker 2: I'm really work early. There they got to They're on
Speaker 2: the call at six am in the morning, and the
Speaker 2: other person doesn't realize that, Well, let's just have one more.
Speaker 2: You know, we're having a good time. Can you distinguish
Speaker 2: between that sort of g I'm really enjoying your company,
Speaker 2: it's only you know, nine thirty. Do we have to
Speaker 2: leave that early? Maybe not knowing that the other person
Speaker 2: really does, you know, have to be at work at
Speaker 2: six am? How do you distinguish that? Right?
Speaker 4: You can distinguish it by the fact that one to establish, Hey,
Speaker 4: you know what, I am having a great time and
Speaker 4: I would stay, but I really have to go. Does
Speaker 4: that other person respect that and say, you know what,
Speaker 4: I respect that. We can do it again?
Speaker 2: Makes a lot of sense, makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 2: Some other signs should like to share with our audience.
Speaker 2: I feel free, go right ahead.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, could you repeat that place I said?
Speaker 2: I said other than someone and maybe on the first
Speaker 2: daid being I mean, obviously, if someone tries to order
Speaker 2: for you in the first aid, if they take you
Speaker 2: to a restaurant, and they say, look, believe it or not,
Speaker 2: this place has the best fill in the blank. Have
Speaker 2: you been here before. That's a different approach as opposed
Speaker 2: to go to a restaurant and say, Okay, I'm going
Speaker 2: to order for you. We're you're gonna have a burger
Speaker 2: and fries, or you're gonna have spaghetti and meatballs. You know,
Speaker 2: that's a different, different thing. But if you're somewhere at
Speaker 2: a restaurant that the person is trying to be polite.
Speaker 2: Give us some other signs that women should see early
Speaker 2: on in relationships or even later on in relationships that
Speaker 2: maybe people don't pick up on as quickly as they should.
Speaker 4: Well. The other identifying factor in domestic abuse and violence
Speaker 4: is isolation. So does that person try to get you
Speaker 4: away from your family and friends to constantly criticize your
Speaker 4: family and friends and say, oh, that person's telling you
Speaker 4: this or this person doesn't want you to do that,
Speaker 4: and try to get you so that they have you
Speaker 4: all to themselves, because domestic violence is a situation of isolation,
Speaker 4: so that that person is the only person that in
Speaker 4: your orbit, really and another sign is financial control. Do
Speaker 4: they try to get you to move in with them
Speaker 4: and do they try to gain control of your finances
Speaker 4: slowly but surely, because sometimes it's quickly, but other times
Speaker 4: it's very slowly, so that the woman might not even
Speaker 4: recognize that it's happening. But you know, in those cases,
Speaker 4: your friends and family can be very very helpful to
Speaker 4: you and say, you know what, this person, this guy boy,
Speaker 4: I hardly ever see you anymore. And you know, in relationships,
Speaker 4: it's natural that people want to be together. But when
Speaker 4: you want to go out for you know, girls' night
Speaker 4: out and he doesn't want you to go out and
Speaker 4: you know, threatened you even or or gives you the
Speaker 4: silent treatment when you get back, you know, those are
Speaker 4: all red flags.
Speaker 2: Well, it's interesting because it's so tough when you're you know,
Speaker 2: developing in relationships with someone who who you might be
Speaker 2: attracted be attracted to, and sometimes it's tough for anyone.
Speaker 2: You know, just just figuring out compatibility is uh is difficult.
Speaker 2: It is difficult alone. And then when you have on
Speaker 2: top of it, what percentage And I'm sure there's not
Speaker 2: a percentage that you can pick out of the air
Speaker 2: for us, but what percentage of and we're talking young
Speaker 2: men here, people we could be talking out of others,
Speaker 2: But you know, men who are active on the dating scene,
Speaker 2: what percentage of them do you think are people who
Speaker 2: have the potential to inflict or engage in domestic violence?
Speaker 2: I mean, amongst the people who I know, I can't
Speaker 2: think of anyone who who I would have identified as
Speaker 2: someone who is like that. A wide variety of personage.
Speaker 2: But is there is there a sentges that we can
Speaker 2: put on this or no.
Speaker 4: I would say first of all that domestic violence and abuse,
Speaker 4: first of all, women considered very shameful. If they've been
Speaker 4: a victim, I will tell you. And that's interesting that
Speaker 4: you just said that, because I know every woman that
Speaker 4: I know has been a victim at some point in
Speaker 4: their life, and so it's interesting that so many women
Speaker 4: know victims. But none of us, myself included, except for
Speaker 4: my family, would classify anyone, any guy I know, as
Speaker 4: an abuser. So you know, it's a situation that goes
Speaker 4: on behind closed doors, and we never really know, you know,
Speaker 4: what's behind a happy facade.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I understand that that is true. No one
Speaker 2: knows what goes on inside a marriage. Laura, thanks very
Speaker 2: much again the book that you wrote, which is interesting
Speaker 2: and should be available. The book book. The book the
Speaker 2: name of it is street Smart Safety. Is that's been
Speaker 2: out for a while.
Speaker 4: I suspect yes, Street Smart Safety for Women, Your Guide
Speaker 4: to Defensive Living is available on Amazon. It's available in
Speaker 4: books and Noble, Barnes, and I'm sorry Barnes and Noble
Speaker 4: and wherever books are sold.
Speaker 2: And I would suspect that it wouldn't be a bad
Speaker 2: book for men to buy buy as well, even though
Speaker 2: it is entire absolutely smart safety for women. Okay, fair enough,
Speaker 2: Laura appreciates you taking the time. And again, I hope
Speaker 2: that people realize that there's no reason to bully someone
Speaker 2: and never any reason to strike for men to strike
Speaker 2: a woman, because I think that any guy that is
Speaker 2: actually going to strike a woman is at his core
Speaker 2: an absolute coward. And I believe that I'm a kind
Speaker 2: of old fashioned, but that's what I believe. Thanks, Laura
Speaker 2: appreciates your call.
Speaker 4: Thanks so much. Dan, having great weekend.
Speaker 2: All right, you two, Well we get up. We're going
Speaker 2: to talk about a very interesting trend that is going
Speaker 2: to surprise you about people who are in great shape,
Speaker 2: particularly young people who suffer heart attacks. We're going to
Speaker 2: talk with a cardiologist about the some of the theories behind this.
Speaker 2: And I don't know much about this, but I just
Speaker 2: wonder if maybe some people are carrying the ability to
Speaker 2: stay in shape and get super fit to the point
Speaker 2: that they're actually abusing their heart. We'll talk with doctor
Speaker 2: Fammi Fara right after the break and after the news
Speaker 2: at the bottom of the air. My name is Dan Ray.
Speaker 2: It's a Friday night or nightside. We're heading a Saturday morning.
Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: All right, let's get right back at it. I'm delighted
Speaker 2: to be doing joined by cardiologists doctor Fammi Fara. I
Speaker 2: hope I've pronounced your name correctly, Doctor Fara.
Speaker 3: It's Sarah.
Speaker 2: Okay. If I wasn't close, let me get it right.
Speaker 2: What is how's the pronunciation?
Speaker 5: It's sector Fammi Farah, Fammi.
Speaker 2: Farah okay, fine, okay, I made it a soft a.
Speaker 2: It's a fair farah. Okay. You're a cardiologist and a
Speaker 2: board certified invasive cardiologist, and there's an alarming rate rise
Speaker 2: of super fit swim young people suffering heart attacks as
Speaker 2: experts prevail theories for the surge. So the question is
Speaker 2: When you think about people having heart attacks, as a rule,
Speaker 2: you think about older people, and you think about maybe
Speaker 2: older people who are carrying around a few too many pounds,
Speaker 2: maybe in over people who are obviously overweight. The opposite
Speaker 2: of that, you would think, is this group who are
Speaker 2: young and and in great shape. What's going on.
Speaker 5: I think it's a result of multiple different things. I
Speaker 5: know that data that come out recently shows that over
Speaker 5: the course of the last five years the rate of
Speaker 5: heart attack has gone up by almost forty one percent
Speaker 5: between that age group, a young population between twenty five
Speaker 5: to forty three age and the reasons it could beat
Speaker 5: the COVID virus it self that had caused some damage
Speaker 5: to the vascular system. I think there's more than one reason,
Speaker 5: though I do believe stress is a factor. More and
Speaker 5: more people are stressed out for various reasons. Job related
Speaker 5: schedule is not as great, people not sleeping well. Sleep
Speaker 5: is now considered a major risk factor by the American heresitiation. Also,
Speaker 5: a lot of people who are fit and Jim Gores
Speaker 5: may be taking exogenists, you know, storage such as disosterone shots,
Speaker 5: which are very common and very popular. Right now. They
Speaker 5: have Distoston shots as centers. I don't know how well
Speaker 5: regulated these are, but the reason they bring this up
Speaker 5: is because there is an inherent risk of increased cardiovascular
Speaker 5: events as a result of disosterone shots, so that could
Speaker 5: be playing a role as well.
Speaker 2: Well. Why would I assume you're talking to young men
Speaker 2: in that situation. If I'm wrong, please correct me. But
Speaker 2: why would a young man who is working out and
Speaker 2: who is in obviously good physical condition, why would they
Speaker 2: even think about testosterone shots. I mean, I understand that
Speaker 2: there are people who have certain medical conditions later in
Speaker 2: life and they may need to have a testosterone shot,
Speaker 2: But if you're a twenty five year old guy who's
Speaker 2: in a gym and you're in good shape, I would
Speaker 2: think you got all the testosterone that you need. Educate
Speaker 2: me if you will.
Speaker 5: You're absolutely correct. It's mind boggling to think that a
Speaker 5: young male would take testosteron shots. But believe it or not,
Speaker 5: I am talking about the young population, and yes, testostian
Speaker 5: shots have become very popular among young groups, not because
Speaker 5: they're low on testosterone, but because it's a very popular
Speaker 5: item to use for jim doors. For example, a lot
Speaker 5: of you know, personal trainers, they encourage them because it
Speaker 5: helps build muscle, so it is an exogynous steroid. It
Speaker 5: is something that helps people who are trying to build muscle,
Speaker 5: and you know, like it beats things up, and so
Speaker 5: it has become a very popular thing to you among
Speaker 5: young young folks.
Speaker 2: Okay, so if you use testosterone shots to build up
Speaker 2: your your muscle fiber so you can you can press
Speaker 2: or lift a little more than you could. You're going
Speaker 2: to have to keep doing that or that testosteroe. You
Speaker 2: just kind of like take the shots. Once you start
Speaker 2: taking them and relying them, you've got to stick with them,
Speaker 2: I assume if you want to maintain where.
Speaker 3: You are correct, that is correct.
Speaker 5: And it also has many side effects. You know, one
Speaker 5: of the most feared one of course, is the increased
Speaker 5: risk of cardiovascular disease and events like heart attack. And
Speaker 5: but also you're right, like when you're giving something that
Speaker 5: you don't need, it does mess with their entire hormone system.
Speaker 5: The access that creates natural hormone kind of gets messed
Speaker 5: up a little bit, like it doesn't have that natural
Speaker 5: feedback system anymore, and so you can't really abruptly stop it,
Speaker 5: and when you do, it can have a lot of
Speaker 5: detrimental impact, and of course taking it will have the
Speaker 5: same effect. It can affect all organ systems, including your
Speaker 5: cardiovascular you know, your urological system, so it can have
Speaker 5: a wide impact on your whole body.
Speaker 2: At what point should people who really want to take
Speaker 2: care of their heart. I know that cancer and heart
Speaker 2: disease are the two primary killers in this country. Cancer Obviously,
Speaker 2: you no can do blood screening tests for cancer. I'm
Speaker 2: sure you're familiar with those, and obviously going to your
Speaker 2: personal care physician, your PCP, they can do all sorts
Speaker 2: of tests and they can spot heart problems. Are we
Speaker 2: getting to the point where people who have the time
Speaker 2: and the financial support that people at a certain age men,
Speaker 2: maybe at one point women and another should incorporate a
Speaker 2: cardiologist into their annual medical tests and routine.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, I totally agree with that, and I'm a big
Speaker 5: proponent of preventative medicine. As you know, Yes, cardiovascent disease
Speaker 5: is the number one killer for both men and women
Speaker 5: here in the United States, but it is also a
Speaker 5: very preventable disease. Eighty percent of it is preventable if
Speaker 5: you come seek help on time. So yes, for those
Speaker 5: who have risk factors such as high blood pressure, hig cholesterol, diabetes,
Speaker 5: you know, people who smoke, people who have a family
Speaker 5: history of cart disease. They are encouraged to seek help
Speaker 5: early on, at least get an evaluation by cardiologists. Just
Speaker 5: make sure that everything's are paying.
Speaker 2: Is there a you know what I'm saying, is is
Speaker 2: there a time frame when people hit you know, we
Speaker 2: talk about cancer screening, and we talk about prostate exams,
Speaker 2: we talk about breast breast examinations, mimographies for women. Is there,
Speaker 2: in your experience a period of time in regular people's lives.
Speaker 2: You know, if someone gets identified as having a problem
Speaker 2: in an annual physical when they're thirty five or forty, obviously,
Speaker 2: but is there a point in time when people of
Speaker 2: a certain age, men and women should not only be
Speaker 2: talking to their doctors about, you know, cardiac health, but
Speaker 2: should actually push to have you know, have a car
Speaker 2: cardiology special cardiologist check on them every two or three
Speaker 2: or four years. What what's the what is the best theory?
Speaker 2: It sounds like someone's beeping a hornets you're here, you okay,
Speaker 2: I'm good?
Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, you know when it comes to you. You
Speaker 5: brought up a very good point actually, like for example,
Speaker 5: for cancer, like you know, there are certain age groups
Speaker 5: where we have specific time, like you know you get
Speaker 5: your mammogram for kolonoscopy at certain age you go get
Speaker 5: your screening klonoscopy, and that can prevent that thing. Unfortunately,
Speaker 5: there's not a defined age group for cardiovascular screening that's
Speaker 5: defined for all age group that, yes, at this age
Speaker 5: you're going to go and get your heart checked.
Speaker 4: That doesn't exist.
Speaker 5: In my opinion, it should. We do have things where
Speaker 5: we screen for risk factors during certain age groups, like
Speaker 5: you know, for example, your lab work early lab work
Speaker 5: where we're getting your cholesterol checked of course every time
Speaker 5: you go to the doctor's office blood pressure is being checked,
Speaker 5: and diabetes. But aside from those like actual true cardiovascular
Speaker 5: screening and specific parti at testing, No, there's not a
Speaker 5: defined age group that regardless of where you're at this age,
Speaker 5: you're going to go and get your heart check. Unfortunately,
Speaker 5: that doesn't exist, and that is something that we need.
Speaker 3: To work on.
Speaker 2: Well, maybe we can start a conversation. Thank you so
Speaker 2: much for your time tonight on a Friday night, doctor Farah,
Speaker 2: and love to have you back periodically. Just to emphasize
Speaker 2: to people what clearly should be obvious, and that is
Speaker 2: the importance of their heart health. Thank you so much
Speaker 2: for your time this evening.
Speaker 5: Thank you, it's my pleasure.
Speaker 2: Okay, when we get back, we have one more eight
Speaker 2: o'clock guest for this week for you. And this is
Speaker 2: besides being Domestic Violence Awareness Month, amongst others, there's also
Speaker 2: National Energy Awareness Month, and we have some easy ways
Speaker 2: that my listeners can reduce their energy uses. If you've
Speaker 2: looked at your energy bills lately, I hope you're sitting down.
Speaker 2: They're all going up, and they're going up at rates
Speaker 2: that are much faster, in my opinion, than inflation. And
Speaker 2: we're going to talk with an expert and energy expert
Speaker 2: and inventor of what's called wand free. I'll explain, uh,
Speaker 2: well that's unrelated to energy, but that's okay. We'll talk
Speaker 2: to you about that as well. 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: night Side Studios. I'm Dumbs News Radio.
Speaker 2: All I want to welcome Cindy Bray. Cindy's an energy
Speaker 2: expert and this is the National Energy Awareness Month. Cindy,
Speaker 2: I guess you've got to be able to tell us
Speaker 2: why our bills are so high and maybe what we
Speaker 2: can do to reduce them. I keep a good record
Speaker 2: of how much I pay every month year to year,
Speaker 2: and also how much my killowatt hour my energy usage is,
Speaker 2: and no matter how hard I try, the numbers keep
Speaker 2: going up. And what's going on? Going on?
Speaker 6: What is going on?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 6: We all have that question, and I think in Massachusetts
Speaker 6: you are well over the national average for your energy rates.
Speaker 6: I commend you on tracking your your usage, but yep,
Speaker 6: there's a lot going on, and our energy bills just
Speaker 6: keep rising.
Speaker 2: Well, Cindy, we have here in Massachusetts something that I
Speaker 2: have found to be very helpful, and that is you
Speaker 2: could go in there's a site that is actually run
Speaker 2: by I think by the call Off of Massachusetts in
Speaker 2: which will tell you that if you you're what the
Speaker 2: various energy deals that are being offered. And that is
Speaker 2: a way in which I've been able to really keep
Speaker 2: my energy bill more under control. Now you got to
Speaker 2: do it every two or three months just to see
Speaker 2: where the with the per you know, therm or poer kill,
Speaker 2: what our prices have gone up. Which is a wonderful tool.
Speaker 2: It was actually it's been around here in Massachusetts about
Speaker 2: a thirty for about thirty years at guess one. The
Speaker 2: state of Massachusetts, including the Attorney General's Office here, which
Speaker 2: is normally a big advocate for things like this, they're
Speaker 2: trying to pull it down, pull that website down. Are
Speaker 2: you where that?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 6: No, I wasn't. But I can give you some really
Speaker 6: easy tips on how you can pull down your energy
Speaker 6: bill when you're doing your laundry. Right, So we're going
Speaker 6: to focus in the laundry room because about ten percent
Speaker 6: of your energy bill goes to doing laundry, which is
Speaker 6: a lot, right, Okay, sure, and we've all got to
Speaker 6: do our laundry. It's never ending as we're going into.
Speaker 4: The weekends of that. Yeah, right, So what do we do?
Speaker 2: What do we do?
Speaker 6: Yeah? So the first thing I'm going to have you
Speaker 6: do is go to your washing machine and turn the
Speaker 6: temperature of the water down to cold. The washing machine
Speaker 6: itself is a pretty efficient appliance. Most of the energy
Speaker 6: that you use when you're using the washing machine is
Speaker 6: actually going to heat the water. So turn the temperature
Speaker 6: down to cold, and don't worry that your clothes aren't
Speaker 6: coming out clean because a lot of the detergent on
Speaker 6: the market these days is actually formulated to work best
Speaker 6: in cold water. And here's another bonus. All your clothes
Speaker 6: and your sheets, everything is going to last a lot
Speaker 6: longer if you wash it in cold water.
Speaker 2: Well that I did not realize when I think about it.
Speaker 2: You know, native populations all around the world have always
Speaker 2: washed clothes in river water, and has ever been better
Speaker 2: be warmed up. I always noticed on my machine that
Speaker 2: if you wash whites, you know, they have different whites
Speaker 2: or colors, And I do know how to run a
Speaker 2: washing machine. If you wash whites, the default level is
Speaker 2: much warmer than if you were washing colors. And I
Speaker 2: always thought about that was what you want to get
Speaker 2: the whites a little cleaner. You don't want the colors
Speaker 2: to run with with overly hot water. So it's more
Speaker 2: than that what you're telling me.
Speaker 6: Here's what I try it. Use cold water. If you're
Speaker 6: worried about your whites, put in a little bit of oxy,
Speaker 6: a little oxy bleach, oxy clean, and with your whites
Speaker 6: cold water.
Speaker 4: It's good enough for most loads.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 6: And when you use cold water, you don't have to
Speaker 6: sort as much either, So that's another bonus.
Speaker 2: Okay, and what about the drying elements. You know, I
Speaker 2: try to, like during the nice weather, I will open
Speaker 2: up doors and hang things on doors to try to
Speaker 2: let them. You know, in the old days, when I
Speaker 2: was a kid, my mother had had there was, you know,
Speaker 2: a laundry line and clothes pins. Because I have no
Speaker 2: idea what clothes pins are. And I'm serious, I mean,
Speaker 2: let let mother know.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and it's almost most efficient.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's almost it's like shameful now that if
Speaker 2: you don't have a wash and a dryer. And I
Speaker 2: think a lot of people feel or they don't want
Speaker 2: to hang their laundry, even like things like towels. What's
Speaker 2: you know, I could see when maybe people don't want
Speaker 2: to hang their underwear out in the line. I get that, okay,
Speaker 2: but but what's wrong with hanging your towels? Having a
Speaker 2: clothes line and hanging towels. Has that just fallen out
Speaker 2: of vogue here in New England or is that around
Speaker 2: the country.
Speaker 6: I think a lot of people don't even have access
Speaker 6: to a clothes line. Or perhaps it's rainy, or it's cold,
Speaker 6: or wildfires, allergens in the air, all of those things
Speaker 6: get in your in your clothes and some of the
Speaker 6: some of the neighborhoods actually have a covenant that you
Speaker 6: can't have a clothes line outside.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, because those are your fancies, fancy neighborhoods. And
Speaker 2: it seems to me, if it's your land and it's
Speaker 2: your property, uh, and you want to put up a
Speaker 2: clothes line, I don't know, it's it's uh.
Speaker 6: I'm with you because well it's something that I grew
Speaker 6: up with.
Speaker 2: And now we didn't in the richest part of town,
Speaker 2: trust me on that. And the lots were small, they
Speaker 2: were like, you know, eighth of the eighth of an
Speaker 2: acre watt, but everybody had a clothesline. And I mean,
Speaker 2: well it got a couple of more tips here. We
Speaker 2: got about a minute left.
Speaker 6: Yeah, So my biggest tip for you is going to
Speaker 6: be when you are doing your sheets.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 6: You know how they twist and they tangle and they
Speaker 6: ball up. So when that happens in the washing machine,
Speaker 6: they don't come out very clean. They can send a
Speaker 6: washer off balance, and then when they ball up in
Speaker 6: the dryer. In Massachusetts, you are paying on average a
Speaker 6: dollar fifteen per hour in energy costs alone just to
Speaker 6: run the average dryer. So when your sheets ball up
Speaker 6: and don't come out dry and you have to run
Speaker 6: the dryer again and again, it's really annoying. But it's
Speaker 6: also really wasteful. And that's why I invent into the solution.
Speaker 6: It's called wad Free for bed sheets, and it prevents
Speaker 6: your sheets from wadding up in the washing.
Speaker 2: Machine real and the dry here, real quickly. Here is
Speaker 2: that a liquid that you that you pour in during
Speaker 2: the wash or no, no, no no, you throw into
Speaker 2: the dryer when you put the sheets.
Speaker 6: No no, no, no, no, neither one. It is a
Speaker 6: reusable made in the US, a laundry gadget that attaches
Speaker 6: to each sheet in the load that comes to in
Speaker 6: a package. So it's enough for both a flat and
Speaker 6: a fitted sheet. Okay, it goes. It attaches to the
Speaker 6: four corners. It keeps the sheets separate so they come
Speaker 6: out cleaner and they drive sweat.
Speaker 2: Out of time. Thirty seconds goes very quickly. How can
Speaker 2: people find that? What's what's the website?
Speaker 6: Wadfree dot com is the best place order from that
Speaker 6: small business.
Speaker 2: That's I got it. I got a locomotive train coming
Speaker 2: at me. It's called the nine o'clock News I don't
Speaker 2: mean to be rude.
Speaker 4: Goys.
Speaker 2: Wadfree Cindy Bray, thanks and Amazon much. All right, thanks,
Speaker 2: you got that in. Thanks Cindy, I appreciate it. Talk soon. Okay,
Speaker 2: here comes to nine o'clock news on night side. We're
Speaker 2: going to be talking about the long shoreman's strike, which
Speaker 2: is no longer a strike. I don't even know what
Speaker 2: it is. I think it's like a suspended work stoppage
Speaker 2: which could resume on January fifteenth. We'll work it out,
Speaker 2: work it all out for you. On the other side
Speaker 2: of the nine o'clock News