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Speaker 2: I'm going to take you on a ride for the
Speaker 2: next four hours, and we're going to talk to a
Speaker 2: wide variety of guests at a wide variety of topics.
Speaker 2: Later this I'll be talking with Pat Boone. Pat Boone,
Speaker 2: whose voice has been heard across America probably a zillion times.
Speaker 2: His voice will be with us tonight at about eight
Speaker 2: forty five. Are also going to talk about an upcoming
Speaker 2: bio it World twenty twenty five conference showcase, as well
Speaker 2: as we're going to speak with an author about what
Speaker 2: it's like to live with four Great Dane dogs. It's
Speaker 2: so much to drool about. Listens for lessons for living large.
Speaker 2: A little bit later on to I'm going to talk
Speaker 2: about imaging. So many young children now are more concerned
Speaker 2: about their looks and it's very dangerous, and we will
Speaker 2: talk with a guest who we had on just a
Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago, Kelly Shoop, who's a licensed pediatric
Speaker 2: occupational therapist. And then we're going to have Boston Globe
Speaker 2: tech reporter Hiawatha Braion to tell us everything we need
Speaker 2: to know about the Yemen the Yemen signal chat story,
Speaker 2: which at this point seems to be bedeviling the Trump administration.
Speaker 2: So Rob Brooks is back in the control room. Let
Speaker 2: us start off with one of my favorite guests. Emily Sweeney,
Speaker 2: Boston Globe reporter, wrote a great piece yesterday, I think
Speaker 2: it was yesterday. Theys sometimes do run together later in
Speaker 2: the week, folks about the unsolved murder of a marine
Speaker 2: whose story in some part he was involved at least
Speaker 2: a little bit in the A few good men not clear,
Speaker 2: but but this individual now is one of the cold
Speaker 2: case files, a murder victim that Emily brings to our attention,
Speaker 2: and it's it's a crazy, it's a wild story, the
Speaker 2: unsolved murder of David V. Cox. Emily, I know you
Speaker 2: can break this down for us. I loved the piece
Speaker 2: and the Globe this week. You did your work on it,
Speaker 2: and hopefully it's maybe gonna get some leads for for
Speaker 2: the police here and they can bring this case and
Speaker 2: some closure to the family. How are you.
Speaker 3: Tonight, Emily, Oh excellent, Dan, thank you so much for
Speaker 3: having me on the show. I'm you know, this is
Speaker 3: a really important important topic, you know, unsolved murders, and
Speaker 3: you know this one especially a lot of people. It's interesting,
Speaker 3: you know, haven't really heard about it. You know, it
Speaker 3: happened in nineteen ninety four, you know which which is
Speaker 3: you know, a little ways back. But yeah, local marine
Speaker 3: David Cox. He grew up in Needham and was living
Speaker 3: in Natick when he suddenly disappeared one day and it
Speaker 3: was three months later that you know about that his
Speaker 3: body was found, uh in kind of a remote area
Speaker 3: in over in the town of Medfield.
Speaker 2: I know that I know that area very well, Nadick, Medfield.
Speaker 2: Oh boy, that is lots of woods and I think
Speaker 2: the area when we talked about it earlier, there's a
Speaker 2: couple of gun clubs over there. Nothing to do with
Speaker 2: the murder. But if you were going to uh kill
Speaker 2: someone with a gun, another extra gunshot might go unnoticed.
Speaker 3: No, no, exactly that that's what investigators thought at the
Speaker 3: time too, that it must have been somebody who knew
Speaker 3: the area well to you know, bring David out there,
Speaker 3: you know, between two gun clubs were you know, might
Speaker 3: not you know, you know, nobody would hear them, or
Speaker 3: if they did. You know, it's a very commonplace. So
Speaker 3: it's a very strange case. And I'm still actually working
Speaker 3: on it too, because I'm trying to fuck yeah, I'm
Speaker 3: trying to find So when David was killed, he had
Speaker 3: applied for a full time job at UPS. He was
Speaker 3: working pot time at the Somerville facility, and his brother
Speaker 3: told me that, you know, this is right before he died,
Speaker 3: that he had seen some sketchy activity happening at this
Speaker 3: UPS terminal in Somerville. This is nineteen ninety four, and
Speaker 3: you know, I'm trying to find anybody who worked there
Speaker 3: around that time, and I'm trying to talk to folks,
Speaker 3: you know, just to find out, you know, anything I
Speaker 3: can find out.
Speaker 2: Okay, So if you worked, or if you have a
Speaker 2: relative who worked at the UPS facility in Somerville circa
Speaker 2: nineteen ninety four, Emily Sweeney would love to hear from you. Now.
Speaker 2: This fellow, while he was in the Marines, was stationed
Speaker 2: at Guantanamo. He was considered one of the best of
Speaker 2: the best. I think that's the folks who are down
Speaker 2: there at Guantanamo. And he was a little peripherally involved
Speaker 2: in the movie A Few good Men. No connection there,
Speaker 2: you think you don't think that that there was anything
Speaker 2: that that bubbled up out of that part of his
Speaker 2: life that could have followed him back home.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, it's it's interesting because you know the
Speaker 3: you know, his experience in the Marines. He was part
Speaker 3: of this group kind of known as the ten that
Speaker 3: got caught hazing another marine in Guantarnamo Day. And what
Speaker 3: happened was, you know, seven of the guys you know,
Speaker 3: pled out, and David was one of the few to
Speaker 3: fight it in court, a court martial and you know,
Speaker 3: tell the Marines that no I was acting on orders
Speaker 3: to do this hazing. And so that court martial ended
Speaker 3: up being the basis or the inspiration for A Few
Speaker 3: Good Men. Names were changed, you know, events were changed
Speaker 3: in the movie. And in the movie you'll see like
Speaker 3: you know, this isn't based on any real events, but
Speaker 3: it is known that Aaron Sorkin's sista was one of
Speaker 3: the lawyers representing one of the Marines at the time,
Speaker 3: and he did get a transcript of the court martial,
Speaker 3: and you know, and then obviously you know, I think
Speaker 3: that provided the inspiration for a Few Good Men, which is.
Speaker 4: A great movie.
Speaker 3: By the way, it still holds up. I just watched
Speaker 3: it the other day.
Speaker 2: God handle the truth right.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 2: You deal with the truth all the time, and you're
Speaker 2: looking for the truth here, and folks can contact you
Speaker 2: at the Globe Again, they could very well be people
Speaker 2: listening in the audience tonight who worked at that facility
Speaker 2: in Somerville. You said it was the UPS facility in Somerville, yep,
Speaker 2: which would have been well a little more than thirty
Speaker 2: years ago at this point. So those many people are
Speaker 2: there could still be listening and still be alive today,
Speaker 2: There's no doubt about that. And that love Emily would
Speaker 2: love you to just give her a call and talk
Speaker 2: and maybe try to help her out. Is this this
Speaker 2: case is still it's a cold case, but it's still
Speaker 2: being worked on, I assume by the state police.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's still under investigation, you know, and anybody
Speaker 3: with information should you know, contact the Norfolk DA's office
Speaker 3: and if there's any leads or anything that I can
Speaker 3: follow up on you know, please contact me because like
Speaker 3: you said, I'd love to talk to anybody who worked
Speaker 3: at that UPS facility. And I also want to encourage people.
Speaker 3: You know, this unsolved murder is one of many that
Speaker 3: I've working on. And the Cold Case Files is a
Speaker 3: regular series and we put out a newsletter and if
Speaker 3: you want to subscribe, you can just go to Globe
Speaker 3: dot com slash Cold Case Files and they'll be put
Speaker 3: on my news while the mailing list.
Speaker 2: And there's no cost to that, I will bet you right.
Speaker 3: Right right absolutely free. It's, uh, you know, a way
Speaker 3: to see the stories that I'm writing and working on
Speaker 3: and and and hopefully gets some answers for some of
Speaker 3: these cases. And you know, the poor families.
Speaker 2: Give me that website one more time for people who
Speaker 2: were reaching for a pen and they didn't.
Speaker 3: Get it, one more time.
Speaker 2: Go ahead.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So it's Globe dot com slash Cold Case Files
Speaker 3: and boom, you can sign up right there, and uh yeah,
Speaker 3: so I'm going to.
Speaker 2: Sign up tonight. I'm gonna subscribe to Thank you, Dan,
Speaker 2: So I'm going to but it's free of charge. Emily,
Speaker 2: best of luck in this. Always great to talk with
Speaker 2: you and we will hopefully talk maybe sometime soon. Once again.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks so much, Dan, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Thanks, Emily, talk soon. All right, we get back. We're
Speaker 2: going to talk about an upcoming bio it World twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five conference showcase. Showcases are technologies poised to accelerate
Speaker 2: life saving therapies. Cindy crown In crown In Shield is
Speaker 2: the executive director, and she's going to talk to us
Speaker 2: and explain what it's all about. It's April second through
Speaker 2: the fourth, which of course is next week. So if
Speaker 2: you're interested in this, stick with us. If you're not,
Speaker 2: stick with us. We're gonna be talking to Pat Boon
Speaker 2: later on and also talk to an author who wrote
Speaker 2: a book about living with four Great Danes. And then
Speaker 2: we'll get to our telephone guests beginning at nine o'clock
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Speaker 1: With Dan Ray, ONELBS, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Who's a big conference coming up in Boston next week
Speaker 2: April second through the fourth. It's the bio it World
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five conference. It showcases technologies poised to accelerate
Speaker 2: life saving therapies with us. Is the executive director of
Speaker 2: this event, Cindy Crown and Shield. Cindy, that's a long
Speaker 2: last name. I got three letters. You got me beat
Speaker 2: by a lot there? If did I pronounce it correctly?
Speaker 1: I hope you're dead?
Speaker 2: All right? Welcome to nightside. How are you this evening?
Speaker 6: I'm doing excellent? How are you doing?
Speaker 2: We're doing great? So tell us about this bio it
Speaker 2: World conference and expo coming up next week in Boston.
Speaker 1: And.
Speaker 2: Who can go? And if they do go, what are
Speaker 2: they going to learn? And tell us about it? This
Speaker 2: sounds pretty interesting.
Speaker 6: So it is an interesting conference. It's actually our twenty
Speaker 6: fourth year that we've been running it, and it's a
Speaker 6: global gathering where science meets technology to solve some of
Speaker 6: the toughest challenges in healthcare and accelerate the future of
Speaker 6: precision medicine. So Boston is known as a hub for
Speaker 6: biotech and fauma, and you would consider our event as
Speaker 6: the hub for people who are using artificial intelligence, data
Speaker 6: advanced computing to drive breakthroughs in areas like als, Alzheimer's
Speaker 6: and cancer, for example.
Speaker 3: We have a history.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you a question. When you say the
Speaker 2: twenty fourth have the twenty fourth annual bio it World
Speaker 2: Conference and Expo. Has it always been in Boston for
Speaker 2: twenty four years or is this your first time or
Speaker 2: your second or third time to Boston.
Speaker 6: It's always been in Boston. We launched it right here
Speaker 6: in two thousand and two.
Speaker 2: Oh, okay, okay, tell us about some of the I
Speaker 2: see a whole bunch of programs here, data management, generative AI, bioformatics,
Speaker 2: on and on and on, pharmaceuticalceutical, pharmaceutical R and d infumamatics.
Speaker 2: Who shows up and who could best benefit from this conference?
Speaker 6: Well, that's an interesting question. We have over two eight
Speaker 6: hundred people from around the world, about thirty countries. We
Speaker 6: have people who are biotech innovators. We have artificial intelligence experts,
Speaker 6: arma companies, technology experts, investors. We have companies like the
Speaker 6: top institutions like Mayo Clinic, Pfizer, Johnson and Johnson, and Vidia, Google.
Speaker 6: We also have people from Harvard MIT, John Hopkins for example,
Speaker 6: So about fifty percent of our attendees are from the
Speaker 6: life science. We have twenty percent from technology and informatics.
Speaker 2: Okay, so is this a conference whereby potential investors can
Speaker 2: learn about some of the cutting egg, cutting edge technology
Speaker 2: that is underway. I'm trying to understand it better because
Speaker 2: this is not my area of expertise. Obviously, people come
Speaker 2: they want to showcase what they're doing. I get that,
Speaker 2: But who are they showcasing it to? Are they showcasing
Speaker 2: it simply to each other or you mentioned investors. Are
Speaker 2: people coming here and trying to learn what is available?
Speaker 2: Some people looking for you know, you know, private equity
Speaker 2: or venture capital money? Tell me about that.
Speaker 6: So we have a venture, Innovation and partner in conference
Speaker 6: that runs part of BIOT. It's their second year that
Speaker 6: we've been running it. So we gather people who are
Speaker 6: senior level investors, corporate execs, entrepreneurs and startups from biotech,
Speaker 6: BioMed research, drug discovery, healthcare. So it's an opportunity for
Speaker 6: people to network and collaborate. They talk about investment trends,
Speaker 6: what are some of the challenges, what are some of
Speaker 6: the opportunities in BioMed research, drug discovery, healthcare technology. So
Speaker 6: it's a very important conversation where these executives are looking
Speaker 6: for ways to invest money, what's the hut, what's the
Speaker 6: next hot thing, especially around artificial intelligence and generative AI.
Speaker 6: So it's really important where we bring together the C
Speaker 6: suite industry stakeholders. We have over two hundred people that
Speaker 6: come just for this particular part of the program.
Speaker 2: Now, is this something that people in the greater Boston
Speaker 2: area who might have an interest in this but might
Speaker 2: not be connected with one of these groups formerly? Is
Speaker 2: this open to the public or is it invitation only?
Speaker 2: I see, you know, I see all sorts of it
Speaker 2: looks to me like different panels, data platforms and storage, infrastructure,
Speaker 2: AI for oncology, precision medicine, and health. It's a wide
Speaker 2: variety of subjects. Okay, but is it do you almost
Speaker 2: have to have been invited? Or can people sign up
Speaker 2: and just attend if they're so inclined.
Speaker 6: We are accepting registrations for people who are able to
Speaker 6: join us, and the event really focuses on the science
Speaker 6: and meeting technology. So people who are working on projects
Speaker 6: or research that bridges the gaps between science and technology
Speaker 6: will really benefit from learning about topics and themes that
Speaker 6: our speakers are covering.
Speaker 2: Okay, so this is not something I'm looking at it here.
Speaker 2: This costs a few dollars to attend, and this is
Speaker 2: not something that the public here in the Boston area
Speaker 2: could just drop into. They might not even be eligible.
Speaker 2: It looks to me, it looks to me like this
Speaker 2: is almost an invitation only conference. Or am I reading
Speaker 2: it wrong?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 6: It's not an invitation only conference. We do have a
Speaker 6: registration fee for people who want to attend the programming
Speaker 6: and attend the content, but we also have an exhibit
Speaker 6: hall of over one hundred and fifty companies, and we
Speaker 6: have a spellar plinary keynote program that we offer Wednesday
Speaker 6: Thursday Friday. So if someone is wanting to just come
Speaker 6: to the event and go to the exhibit hall and
Speaker 6: the keynotes, they're able to do that. And if they
Speaker 6: want to upgrade their registration and attend those things plus
Speaker 6: all the programming that we offer, then they're able to
Speaker 6: do that at a separate price. So we offer a
Speaker 6: price point for different sides.
Speaker 2: So let's just give it me straight here. What's the
Speaker 2: minimum that if someone from Boston is just intrigued by
Speaker 2: this because obviously we're publicizing the conference. I want you know,
Speaker 2: what's the minimum cost that would talk it would take
Speaker 2: someone to participate or to just attend the conference. Is
Speaker 2: there a minimum that you could cite for me? I'm
Speaker 2: looking at your website and it's a little confusing to me.
Speaker 2: I really don't see something where it says, you know,
Speaker 2: minimum registration. Is there a minimum you could cite or no?
Speaker 6: If so on the website. If our website is bio
Speaker 6: hyphen it Worldexpo dot com, and we have a registration area.
Speaker 6: So if someone so up in the tab on the
Speaker 6: top right, it's register. So if you click on that
Speaker 6: and then scroll down, it gives you standard registration. So
Speaker 6: we offer registration for someone who's a student, that's very
Speaker 6: reasonable and affordable.
Speaker 2: We offer her that's two hundred and ninety nine dollars
Speaker 2: if you're a doctoral student. I'm just talking about somebody
Speaker 2: who would like to curiosity go by this. Is there
Speaker 2: a minimum charge for someone in my audience who's interested,
Speaker 2: That's all I'm asking.
Speaker 6: There would be a minimum charge, yes, if.
Speaker 2: They wanted, Yeah, and how much is that minimum charge?
Speaker 6: It would be ninety nine dollars?
Speaker 2: Gotcha? Okay, that's simple. I seem like a complicated question.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Cindy. I appreciate the information. It's
Speaker 2: wonderful to publicize an event, but my audience, if they're intrigued,
Speaker 2: I want them to know what it would cost for
Speaker 2: them to get on the MBTA and take a ride by.
Speaker 2: So now now we know. Thank you very much, Cindy
Speaker 2: Crown Crown and Shield. She's the executive director of the
Speaker 2: upcoming bio World twenty twenty five conference showcase technology is
Speaker 2: poised to accelerate accelerate life saving therapies. Thanks Cindy, I
Speaker 2: appreciate it. Thank you very much. Thank you.
Speaker 6: Dan.
Speaker 2: All right, when we come back, we're going to talk
Speaker 2: about a new book, so much to drool about, Lessons
Speaker 2: for Living Large, told from the perspective of an author's
Speaker 2: for Great Danes. The booksheres inspiring stories and life lessons
Speaker 2: for people of all ages. That's Barbara Stone and about
Speaker 2: a forty five. Will be talking with one of America's
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Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Dan Ray on w b
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Speaker 2: Thanks to Cale. We are going to talk about Dawn
Speaker 2: and whenever we talk about dogs. I'm very happy our
Speaker 2: guest is Barbara Stone, but I believe she responds to Barb.
Speaker 2: Barb Stone, Welcome to Nightside.
Speaker 5: How are you well?
Speaker 4: Okay, Stan? Great? Thank you? Yes, it does make you
Speaker 4: feel happy, don't they.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, did did better than people, Barb. I mean,
Speaker 2: I hate to put it like that, but I mean,
Speaker 2: given a choice, I know, I know, so anyway that's
Speaker 2: most people. Let me put it like that. Okay. So
Speaker 2: you're an author and a leadership development coach. I know
Speaker 2: what a third base coach is because today's opening day
Speaker 2: of Major League Baseball, But what's the leadership development coach?
Speaker 4: So you know, when I had had a twenty five
Speaker 4: year career in manufacturing, and then after that as senior leader,
Speaker 4: I really wanted to be able to do something, to
Speaker 4: be able to help people move along themselves, their teams,
Speaker 4: their company, to really get in the right direction. So I,
Speaker 4: during my last few years of being in manufacturer, started coaching,
Speaker 4: got more into the development of people, the training. So
Speaker 4: what I do now is I work with individuals or
Speaker 4: I work with teams companies and train the teams on
Speaker 4: what does leadership really really mean to them and how
Speaker 4: do they move that forward? And then I work with
Speaker 4: them individually as a coach, because they can't move the
Speaker 4: team unless they can move themselves first.
Speaker 2: So I mean, it's interesting. I don't know if you
Speaker 2: follow hockey, but our beloved Boston Bruins zero to six,
Speaker 2: maybe we could get you to do some coaching for them. Hey,
Speaker 2: they've lost it. They've lost their last six games and
Speaker 2: coming perilously close to the seller in the NHL. So
Speaker 2: but that's not what you're here to talk about. You're
Speaker 2: here to talk about your book, which came out I
Speaker 2: think just recently a few days.
Speaker 4: Ago, right, Yeah, it was just out. It was released
Speaker 4: on Amazon Kindle version, and it will on the twentieth
Speaker 4: and it should be in prints the beginning of April.
Speaker 2: Okay, so let's talk about it. The book is entitled
Speaker 2: so much to drool about lessons for Living large, and
Speaker 2: it's your perspective. You have four Great Danes? Who are
Speaker 2: your pets?
Speaker 4: Yeah, not all at once. We started with one, and
Speaker 4: then three years later we had to get a puppy.
Speaker 4: We rescued our first one, and then when the first
Speaker 4: one died, we replace that one. So we've always have
Speaker 4: two because yeah, they're just because they're just amazing beings.
Speaker 2: Well, here's the deal. Okay, I've never had a Great Dane,
Speaker 2: but I'd love to know. I certainly know what they
Speaker 2: look like. How much does a Great Dane weigh? Generally?
Speaker 2: Is there a difference between the male and the female
Speaker 2: Great Danes? First of all, just to give people a
Speaker 2: sense if they've never seen one.
Speaker 4: So our our first one, that was she was a
Speaker 4: smaller Dane and she was probably about one hundred and ten.
Speaker 4: She was more like, I don't want to say the
Speaker 4: American Dane, but she was just she wasn't the European Danes.
Speaker 4: European Danes are heavier boned and much uh just funkier. Okay,
Speaker 4: they can go up to about one seventy one eighty.
Speaker 2: Okay, so what are the lessons now? Obviously there are
Speaker 2: lessons that we learned from dogs, but since you're writing
Speaker 2: about great Danes, I'm assuming there might be some specific
Speaker 2: lessons that you learned from great Danes that I might
Speaker 2: not have learned from my favorite dog of all. Well,
Speaker 2: I have three favorite dogs. Now. Both of my kids
Speaker 2: have dogs, so I have I'm a grand grand grand dog,
Speaker 2: grandfather to Mustard the Corgi uh and really the Shorky
Speaker 2: which is part shit super part Yorkie. Uh. And my dog,
Speaker 2: which I bought from my daughter, Oh god, it's twenty
Speaker 2: five years ago now, was a Cavalier King Child Spaniel
Speaker 2: Nation Charlie. For ten years was my very best friend,
Speaker 2: my both my best human and canine friend. Yeah, at
Speaker 2: the same time. So what do you learn from great Danes?
Speaker 4: So we can learn a lot because one of the
Speaker 4: things I truly truly believe is that they really aren't
Speaker 4: a dog. They are more beings. And you know, there's
Speaker 4: a one. It's just coincidental that the same time my
Speaker 4: book came out, there is a movie called The Friend,
Speaker 4: which starts stars Naomi Watts and.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, Dan Murray, Bill Murray.
Speaker 2: Bill Bill Murray, Bill Murray.
Speaker 4: And yeah, And one of the things I ended up
Speaker 4: saying is, you know, these dogs just can understand what
Speaker 4: you're talking about, and they understand stand ceilings. And it's
Speaker 4: not like you got.
Speaker 5: To prompt them.
Speaker 4: They didn't have to prompt this dog that was in
Speaker 4: the movie. It's our dogs. Our four great things are
Speaker 4: beings that they really kind of understand what we're talking about.
Speaker 4: They look at you and we just is just they
Speaker 4: are just part of our family. It is we just
Speaker 4: continuously are amazed and surprised. But what I did was
Speaker 4: I really took a lot of the lessons that I
Speaker 4: have learned over the years, even back when I was
Speaker 4: in junior high, and really wanted to end up saying,
Speaker 4: what are some of these lessons here that we can
Speaker 4: help people understand, Give them a wisdom statement.
Speaker 2: Give me a couple of give give me a couple
Speaker 2: of quick lessons here. Because I have a scheduled interview
Speaker 2: coming up on a Feminist with Pat boom As, Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: tell us a couple of couple of your lessons that
Speaker 2: I could do this all day. You know how to
Speaker 2: when you spell the word the word dog back. Would
Speaker 2: you know what it spells?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 2: So that's the way I okay, give us, give us
Speaker 2: an example or two.
Speaker 4: So one of the things I wanted to You know,
Speaker 4: our first Dane was a rescue and she lived in
Speaker 4: a crate for her first year. We got her about
Speaker 4: when she was one year old. And so I do
Speaker 4: do a story about giving us the permission to dream.
Speaker 5: So you have a.
Speaker 4: Little bit of a story about her life being in
Speaker 4: a crate for the first year, and you have a
Speaker 4: picture of her and this crate, and then a picture
Speaker 4: of her dreaming about her mother. You know us, my
Speaker 4: husband and I, and so it's like giving you the
Speaker 4: permission we have to dream about what we want in life,
Speaker 4: and we don't do that very much. The second story
Speaker 4: is about her walking up the us. I walked to
Speaker 4: our front door, and it's called grasping the netle. When
Speaker 4: I was in junior high I learned what grasping the
Speaker 4: netle was. It's like when you grasp this prickly plant,
Speaker 4: it hurts, and no matter what you do in life,
Speaker 4: you grasp the netle. And here she's walking up to
Speaker 4: our front door. It's scary. She's grasping the netle and
Speaker 4: she and her life had been great when we had her.
Speaker 2: Oh that's great again, Barb. I hate to jump off here,
Speaker 2: but it is. The book is available everywhere, so much
Speaker 2: to drool about lessons for living large. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: You certainly I'm going to try to get a copy
Speaker 2: of that book because I think a lot of people
Speaker 2: will benefit from it. Thank you so much for your
Speaker 2: time tonight, Barb.
Speaker 5: Take care.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Dan.
Speaker 2: All right, You're very welcome. When we get back in
Speaker 2: a couple of minutes, going to be talking with Pat Boone.
Speaker 2: He needs no introduction, and he is on a cause
Speaker 2: now which I think everyone should get behind. We'll be
Speaker 2: back Nightside right after this.
Speaker 1: It's Nightside with Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2: I'm delighted in an honor to introduce to all of
Speaker 2: you here on the Nightside audience, Pat Boone. Pat Boone
Speaker 2: needs no introduction, as far as I concerned. Pat Boone,
Speaker 2: welcome to Nightside.
Speaker 5: Thank you Dan. I'm glad I don't need an introduction.
Speaker 5: But and also I'm glad that I'm not hearing people say,
Speaker 5: what he's still alive?
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no no no.
Speaker 5: I'll listen to that recently.
Speaker 2: I've listened to you on your serious radio show and great, great, great, Look,
Speaker 2: this is a cause that is close to your heart
Speaker 2: and it is called One Voice Is for Tanzania. Everybody
Speaker 2: remembers we of the world of thirty years ago, but
Speaker 2: this is very similar and that you have brought together
Speaker 2: some great musicians. People should know that you also have
Speaker 2: been very much involved in charitable organizations a charitable activity
Speaker 2: your entire career through pat Boone World Missions. But you
Speaker 2: focus now on Tanzania, which is a country in the
Speaker 2: southeast of Africa. It's bordered on the north by Kenya
Speaker 2: and Uganda, and they have a real problem with water,
Speaker 2: having availability of water. So I want you to tell
Speaker 2: us about that and what my audience can do to
Speaker 2: help you. And I also have a record that you
Speaker 2: folks have released that I've listened to today. I want
Speaker 2: to play a little bit of that record at some point,
Speaker 2: but I want to just hand the microphone to you
Speaker 2: and tell us how you got involved in this and
Speaker 2: this is such a wonderful cause. Please just let us know.
Speaker 5: Okay, as you said, I've been involved in a lot
Speaker 5: of things along the way. I'm the only entertainer that
Speaker 5: was involved in the in the creation of the ABA. Therefore,
Speaker 5: I'm going to talk to Steph Curry sometime and say,
Speaker 5: you owe me for that three point shot and you're
Speaker 5: becoming such a millionaire doing it.
Speaker 2: Anyway, I didn't know you owned.
Speaker 5: I owned the Oakland Oaks that won the championship the
Speaker 5: second year. Anyway, those are things that people don't know,
Speaker 5: nor do they need to know. But I'm just saying
Speaker 5: I've had the blessing of being involved or helping to
Speaker 5: start a number of things. I think this is the
Speaker 5: most important thing of my life. And I'm now ninety
Speaker 5: and I don't know how much longer I have, but
Speaker 5: I do think that it's not just the country of Tanzania,
Speaker 5: it's the whole country of Africa. When I first got involved,
Speaker 5: I have not known the forty nations that may come
Speaker 5: to the continent of Africa, and Tanzania is a very
Speaker 5: important one. That's where when I got involved with god TV,
Speaker 5: that's a long, you know, worldwide network, and they started
Speaker 5: a campaign called Cape Town to Cairo and that the
Speaker 5: idea is to get fresh water wells and the nations
Speaker 5: that don't have fresh water at all, at least not
Speaker 5: in the vast desert areas that make up so much
Speaker 5: of Africa. Right now as we talk, a woman and
Speaker 5: a child will be walking across the hot desert and
Speaker 5: I mean it's hot there, and with a bucket or
Speaker 5: a pail on a chest or shoulder or on top
Speaker 5: of their head even and walking to a place to
Speaker 5: get water so they can live. And they go to
Speaker 5: a muddy ditch somewhere that where cattle eat and defecate
Speaker 5: and where women wash clothes, and it's polluted. They fill
Speaker 5: their vessels with water and take them back and that's
Speaker 5: what they give their kids. The life expectancy, This is
Speaker 5: what motive me. The life expectancy of a child born
Speaker 5: in those countries is five. That they're not expected to
Speaker 5: live past five years because mostly have none of them. Millions,
Speaker 5: by the millions, three hundred and nineteen million people in
Speaker 5: Sub Sahara, Africa don't have access to reliable drinking water.
Speaker 5: And so when I found out about this, and I
Speaker 5: felt I had to be involved, and I became involved surely,
Speaker 5: my wife and I did. We spend a lot of
Speaker 5: money and effort to bring in a five hundred foot
Speaker 5: deep fresh water well in the middle of the Tanzanian desert,
Speaker 5: and the government gave us two hundred acres to do
Speaker 5: whatever we wanted to around that. So we created a
Speaker 5: wood frame school to raise the literacy level because the
Speaker 5: kids there had don't they live like they did three hundred,
Speaker 5: three thousand years ago, and the kids have no place
Speaker 5: to go to school, and of course they have no
Speaker 5: fresh water, and they don't have a whole lot to eat,
Speaker 5: to eat beans and rice, and if they can get
Speaker 5: meat from some kind of an animal or a lizard
Speaker 5: or a rat or whatever they can find to kill,
Speaker 5: they'll have a little meat, but that's it. And hopefully water,
Speaker 5: but the water is poisoned. So anyway, I got involved.
Speaker 5: Surely I brought in that five hundred foot well and
Speaker 5: a windmill now operates on solar power, and because there's
Speaker 5: plenty of sun there for sure, and now the women
Speaker 5: and the kids that come there have fresh water to
Speaker 5: bring back to their villages and to their families. But
Speaker 5: for most of the countries in Africa, that is just nonexistent,
Speaker 5: and so fresh water, a life giving fresh water, it's
Speaker 5: just not available. And I know that we've got many
Speaker 5: other problems in the world. But when I realized that
Speaker 5: millions of people, including little kids, are doomed to death
Speaker 5: because they don't have water that they're walking over. It's
Speaker 5: in the ground, but the wells aren't there to bring
Speaker 5: it up. And so we got involved. And now a
Speaker 5: company called World Serve has been putting in wells and
Speaker 5: doing a good job at it. And they heard my
Speaker 5: song that I had written called one four uses of
Speaker 5: the number one one. I am one person. I have worth,
Speaker 5: I have courage, I have purpose because I am one
Speaker 5: person and there's no other like on the planet one.
Speaker 5: When good people come together, we are one three one.
Speaker 5: We're supposed to be a nation under God, and so
Speaker 5: far right now we're pretty divided. But we're supposed to
Speaker 5: be one nation under God. And finally, our God is one.
Speaker 5: So using the number one four ways, I got involved
Speaker 5: with World Served and they said, let's do a weee
Speaker 5: of the world type thing. This is really crucial if
Speaker 5: people are dying in droves and they just don't have
Speaker 5: water to drink, and if we can create water and
Speaker 5: let them have it, they can live.
Speaker 2: Pat let me let me just play if if it's
Speaker 2: okay with you, play about twenty five seconds of the
Speaker 2: song I want them to hear because it's an inspirational song.
Speaker 2: It includes some of the people. You have folks from Alabama,
Speaker 2: from the music group Alabama, Larry Gatlin, Vince gil.
Speaker 5: Lee Greenwood, Lee Greenwood.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Larry Gatlin was a great friend of mine for
Speaker 2: a guy who used to pitch for the Yankees. And
Speaker 2: sometime I'll tell you Larry Gatlin story. But let me
Speaker 2: do this. Let me just let's rob give us about
Speaker 2: twenty five seconds. I want pat I want people to
Speaker 2: hear the song. Just hold with me for a second.
Speaker 5: Past first voice you hear is mine. So go ahead, Okay,
Speaker 5: here we go.
Speaker 2: I am one like no other human being, ham one.
Speaker 4: In my there is meaning, there is worth, there is
Speaker 4: a purpose like no mother.
Speaker 3: I am.
Speaker 5: That.
Speaker 2: That's a beautiful song. I listened to it two or
Speaker 2: three times today. I want to give the We're in
Speaker 2: thirty eight states, so there are people all over the
Speaker 2: country right now who are hearing your voice, not only
Speaker 2: through the song, but you know, through our interview. And
Speaker 2: I want to make sure that I give the correct website.
Speaker 2: It's simply the one, the one that I see. It
Speaker 2: says one the four Tanzania.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's it. One for Tanzania dot org. And when
Speaker 5: you go there, you will immediately be given a red
Speaker 5: button to push. And I'm hoping and praying that mothers
Speaker 5: and daddies will bring their kids, let them see that,
Speaker 5: and let them knowah, hear the song, know what it's about,
Speaker 5: and then put a chord, a half dollar, a dollar bill,
Speaker 5: five dollars, whatever they will the children, let them give
Speaker 5: to help the other children their age who live longer
Speaker 5: than five years, I mean, go up to be conductive
Speaker 5: human beings. But if they don't get fresh water, that's
Speaker 5: not going to happen. So I'd love to hear have
Speaker 5: families involve their kids in bringing fresh water to other children.
Speaker 5: That's really what it's about. I mean, adults, sure they
Speaker 5: need and they'll maybe scrounge around and find some water.
Speaker 5: But those children, they just drink whatever's given to them,
Speaker 5: and they don't know the difference, and so they wonder
Speaker 5: why they start to feel so terrible, and too many
Speaker 5: of them die before they're five.
Speaker 2: And of course we take water for granted where we
Speaker 2: all live, most of us in this country, we go
Speaker 2: to the kitchen sink, or we just you know, turn
Speaker 2: on the tap. It's a civilizen. Pat Boone, you have
Speaker 2: done so many great things in your career, and you
Speaker 2: such you were such a humanitarian and to get these
Speaker 2: other artists involved, you were doing great work. Pat Boone
Speaker 2: admired you for many years. I've admired you more now.
Speaker 5: Having had an opportunity to talk to you and.
Speaker 2: Hear in your voice the passion that you have for
Speaker 2: this project.
Speaker 5: Thank you. Yeah, I can, I can. I leave you
Speaker 5: one thought, not my voice, the voice of Jesus himself
Speaker 5: and Matthew ten when children they were very attracted to
Speaker 5: this man from Galilee and his disciples. When the kids
Speaker 5: were gathered around, you know, said leave him alone, leave
Speaker 5: him alone, and Jesus said, shut up. No he didn't,
Speaker 5: he didn't. He didn't say shut up. The Bible says
Speaker 5: he rebuked them. Let the children come to me. And
Speaker 5: if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to
Speaker 5: one of these little ones, who is my disciple, truly,
Speaker 5: I tell you that person will certainly not lose the reward.
Speaker 5: That's a specific word from God himself on a cup
Speaker 5: of water for a child. And that's my motivation, and
Speaker 5: I hope it will come the motivation of everybody who
Speaker 5: hears this song and then knows they can do something
Speaker 5: and and bring their children into it as well.
Speaker 2: Sounds sounds wonderful, Pat Poon. I don't have to say
Speaker 2: God bless you, because I know God's gonna bless you.
Speaker 5: He does.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Thank you, my friend, for joining us tonight.
Speaker 2: And I'm proud, very proud to have had you in
Speaker 2: my program.
Speaker 5: I well, thank you so much. I think we're saving lives.
Speaker 5: This is a God.
Speaker 2: Thing, absolutely, And guess what, I'm right there with you.
Speaker 2: I believe it.
Speaker 1: I know it.
Speaker 5: I hear you are Yes, I believe it.
Speaker 2: Pat. Anytime we can get you back, stay strong, stay well,
Speaker 2: my friend. And congratulations for doing God's work. Thank you
Speaker 2: so much.
Speaker 5: Listen, give me a call. I'll be there all right.
Speaker 2: Thanks so much.
Speaker 5: Okay, thank you, Dan, You're welcome friend.
Speaker 2: Wow. Check it out, folks. It's one for Tanzania dot org.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 2: If you want more information, you let me know. We'll
Speaker 2: be back on nights Side and we're going to talk
Speaker 2: about children who are more concerned about their body image
Speaker 2: as young as the age of seven than they should
Speaker 2: ever be. Back on Nightside after this