Speaker 1: It's Nightside with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Chaal, that's a terrific idea. All
Speaker 2: of you should stick around for Nightside. Rob Brooks and
Speaker 2: I am definitely going to stick around. We'll be here
Speaker 2: until just about two minutes before midnight for the next
Speaker 2: four hours, give or take a few minutes. My name
Speaker 2: is Dan Ray. I'm the host of Nightside, starting off
Speaker 2: another full week of programming here from eight to midnight
Speaker 2: every Monday through Friday night on w BZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: We have four guests coming up. Let me tell you that.
Speaker 2: Later on this evening, beginning at nine o'clock, we're going
Speaker 2: to talk with We're not gonna talk with. We're going
Speaker 2: to talk about the dismissal yesterday of New England Patriots
Speaker 2: head coach Gerard Mayo. I'm not so sure that was
Speaker 2: the right move, and I'll be in the minority on that,
Speaker 2: but we can discuss that. At ten o'clock. Going to
Speaker 2: talk about Boston traffic. It may not be the worst,
Speaker 2: but it's nearly the worst of the top twenty five
Speaker 2: most congested American cities. We will get to all of that,
Speaker 2: but first of all, we have four very important guests
Speaker 2: here coming up this how we're going to talk about
Speaker 2: eight foods that will add to your diet. In twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five, going to talk with a Syrian American doctor
Speaker 2: from Boston who is returning to Syria for the first
Speaker 2: time to help rebuild healthcare in that trouble company. And
Speaker 2: actually we'll be talking with the Boston Club sports reporter
Speaker 2: Chris Price about the firing of girod Mail. But first, first,
Speaker 2: delighted to welcome the mom of a marine as I
Speaker 2: understand that, Maureen Burne. She has started a program or
Speaker 2: she and others have started a program called Miles for
Speaker 2: the Military, bringing dozens of active duty marines home for
Speaker 2: the holidays. Maureen burn Welcome to Nightside.
Speaker 3: How are you great, Dan, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2: You're very welcome. Well, first of all, Miles for Military.
Speaker 2: How long has this this great idea been operational?
Speaker 3: Thank you you're well. We're a new nonprofit. We started
Speaker 3: up last year sending some kids home for the holidays,
Speaker 3: and this year we sent about fifty military marines, naves, sailors,
Speaker 3: soldiers home for the holidays.
Speaker 2: So this is across this is across all branches. The
Speaker 2: beneficiaries here are oh yes, a military person. Okay, fine, I.
Speaker 3: Know a junior and listen, yep.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right from one to four to one to spect four.
Speaker 2: Your son served the Marines or is he still serving?
Speaker 2: What's what's he's a.
Speaker 3: Veteran now his name is Ronan. Yes, he and his
Speaker 3: best friend Danny, they both served together. And the Marine's
Speaker 3: done in Camp June. Well, they spent some time also
Speaker 3: in Okinawa as well. But yeah, but.
Speaker 2: They now are veterans. And I assume that the finance
Speaker 2: you burden that, you know, I have lower rank members
Speaker 2: of the military. I have to get home for a
Speaker 2: holiday or a birthday, assuming they're lucky enough to get
Speaker 2: a three day pass or a four day pass. Uh,
Speaker 2: and it makes it worthwhile. Uh they're not earning all
Speaker 2: that amount of money.
Speaker 3: Uh so they're not.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, yeah, I'm familiar with that, very familiar
Speaker 2: with that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So was that what prompted the idea? And you you absolutely.
Speaker 3: That's exactly what happened. It was one Thanksgiving and I
Speaker 3: flew my son home and the ticket was astronomical to
Speaker 3: come from North Carolina to Boston, and I said, no,
Speaker 3: and how do the other kids get home like this
Speaker 3: is crazy. He said, Mom, nobody goes home. Nobody goes home.
Speaker 3: I said, why not, and he said, I thought they're
Speaker 3: going for Christmas.
Speaker 2: Hang on the name.
Speaker 3: He said, no, Mom, nobody goes home.
Speaker 4: I can't afford it.
Speaker 3: He's like a lot of kids, they actually send money
Speaker 3: home to their parents. And I really kind of really
Speaker 3: broke my heart.
Speaker 2: Back in when I was in the military, a lot
Speaker 2: of the airlines allowed you to fly stand.
Speaker 4: By for.
Speaker 3: More.
Speaker 2: So that's been taken away.
Speaker 3: Huh wow, you know I don't. Somebody said that to
Speaker 3: me a couple weeks ago. I had never heard of that,
Speaker 3: and I've been on every website of every airline thinking
Speaker 3: this can't be my I'm the only one who came
Speaker 3: up with this idea, and I've never seen it, so
Speaker 3: I don't think that's me.
Speaker 2: This This was back in the nineteen seventies, so it's
Speaker 2: a long time ago. And I think after the airlines
Speaker 2: basically were allowed to function, there were often seats available,
Speaker 2: but obviously they tried to fly full. Now so normally
Speaker 2: they're asking people to surrender their their seats and paying
Speaker 2: them to surrender the seats. So you've gotten so far
Speaker 2: about fifty members of the military. Through your great work
Speaker 2: and your use great work, you have been able to
Speaker 2: get about fifty folks home.
Speaker 5: So first of all, Christmas.
Speaker 3: Yeah, how do we spread the word? Okay, really word
Speaker 3: of mouth from the Marines. I went down to Campbell
Speaker 3: Joon area last year when we decided to have our
Speaker 3: first pilot, and since I knew the area it was,
Speaker 3: it was easy to choose there and I just sort
Speaker 3: of asked the whole bunch of nonprofit organizers to come
Speaker 3: to this little house I rented. They didn't know me,
Speaker 3: I didn't know them. They all showed up, every single
Speaker 3: one of them, and we had dinner, We talked, and
Speaker 3: then I invited the other woman who works on the
Speaker 3: marine base and she let her, you know, the E
Speaker 3: one three four that she knew in her area, know
Speaker 3: about it our little pilot, and it just took off.
Speaker 3: We had about two hundred signed up within like a
Speaker 3: couple of days. And the struggle was it was late
Speaker 3: in the season, so getting their their volunteer work done
Speaker 3: was okay.
Speaker 2: So you got fifty, You've got transportation for fifty pretty
Speaker 2: much out of Camp June, I assume, but maybe some
Speaker 2: others heard about.
Speaker 4: It last year.
Speaker 3: Yep, last year. Well there's new river as well. It's
Speaker 3: right there.
Speaker 2: Okay, so now how can people support the program? What's
Speaker 2: your website? Yes, I assume, Yeah, this is the most
Speaker 2: important part. How people could send you a few dollars?
Speaker 2: Are you a five O one C three at this
Speaker 2: point or are you still?
Speaker 3: Yes? We are? We are registered. No, we are a
Speaker 3: registered five to one C three. They can go to
Speaker 3: miles for military dot org perfect and.
Speaker 2: That dot org and then there's a donate button there
Speaker 2: and people can get involved other than financial support, which
Speaker 2: is critical. Do you need volunteers for any of the
Speaker 2: paperwork or any anything like that?
Speaker 3: No, we don't. That's some kind of you to us.
Speaker 3: We have the generous help of a friend of mine
Speaker 3: his home office, and they're amazing. I mean it's not
Speaker 3: just me, it's there's a team of us. But as
Speaker 3: we grow, I might call you back later.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, you could call us back later three four,
Speaker 2: five months from now, and we can do this again
Speaker 2: around Memorial Day for example, uh, the fourth of July.
Speaker 2: I know that people, And again the fact that it's
Speaker 2: five oh one C three donations that people make if
Speaker 2: they itemize their charitable deductions. They can take that donation
Speaker 2: as a U and which is so Mareene. So it's
Speaker 2: it's again just Milesfromilitary dot org. Best way that people
Speaker 2: to get in touch? Now, I'm going to ask you this.
Speaker 2: There are some people who listen to the radio who
Speaker 2: still do not have a computer. So is there any
Speaker 2: way and please don't give out a personal phone number,
Speaker 2: but is there any other way in which people can
Speaker 2: communicate with you?
Speaker 3: Well, they can email me, Maureene at miles from military
Speaker 3: dot org.
Speaker 2: Okay, we also have you to do that, but that's okay, Well, yeah,
Speaker 2: you're right, they can.
Speaker 3: We'll have a phone number. It's I just want to
Speaker 3: make sure I have the right number. I believe it's
Speaker 3: six zero three four five six one two eight eight,
Speaker 3: but I really need to check that.
Speaker 2: Six oh three four five six one two eight eight.
Speaker 2: Is it on your website?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Yeah, is it on your website? Because I can open
Speaker 2: up your website website right here? Yeah, in two shakes,
Speaker 2: here here's a contact. Let me see what it is. Uh, yes,
Speaker 2: six oh three four five six one two eight eight.
Speaker 2: You hit it right on the button. And there's also
Speaker 2: an address on Huntingdon Avenue, miles from the military one
Speaker 2: oh one Huntingdon Avenue, twenty fourth floor in Boston, Massachusetts,
Speaker 2: two one nine nine. Uh and Rob, if anyone wants
Speaker 2: to call Rob my producer in the next you know,
Speaker 2: half an hour, so Rob will I isolate all that
Speaker 2: information as well, worrying, best of luck. Thank you very much,
Speaker 2: it sounds.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much, very well, Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Come back and talk to us. Okay, thank you very much.
Speaker 2: Happy New Year two as well. You're doing God's work
Speaker 2: on this one where we get back while it's going
Speaker 2: to talk about a different form of God's work, and
Speaker 2: we're going to talk with a Syrian American doctor from
Speaker 2: the Syrian American Medical Society. Big changes in Syria. Maybe
Speaker 2: maybe we can help that country get back on its
Speaker 2: feet after the reign of that family for fifty years.
Speaker 2: We will talk with doctor Abdul Fatah Aisha. Coming back
Speaker 2: on WBZ, Boston's news radio. My name is Dan Ray.
Speaker 2: This is Nightside. Stay with us.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: night Side Studios i' WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: Those of us who follow the news know that there
Speaker 2: have been some big changes in Syria in the last
Speaker 2: few weeks, the Asad family no longer runs that country
Speaker 2: and with us is doctor Abdul Fatah el Shah. Remember
Speaker 2: the Syrian American Medical Society, Doctor Elshar, Welcome to night side.
Speaker 2: How are you tonight?
Speaker 5: I'm doing fine. Thank you very much for hosting me.
Speaker 2: So first of all, tell us about the Syrian American
Speaker 2: Medical Society. I think the name does kind of explain
Speaker 2: what it is, but I'd like to know a little
Speaker 2: bit about the group, and then let's talk about what
Speaker 2: your plans are.
Speaker 5: All right, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 5: The Syrian American Medical Society was established in nineteen ninety
Speaker 5: eight as a professional medical organization whereby Yian physician in
Speaker 5: the United States get together and arranged and stated, Okay,
Speaker 5: let's guys get to meet once a year, let's do
Speaker 5: a conference in Syria. And the physician from all over
Speaker 5: the United States used to go to Syria once a
Speaker 5: year and govide attend, organize a medical conference and do
Speaker 5: some medical relief and then come back to the state.
Speaker 5: So that's how it started. Then when the conflict erupted
Speaker 5: in Syria in twenty eleven, the American Medical Society activated
Speaker 5: the SAMs Foundation the American Medical Society Foundation and focusing
Speaker 5: on a medical relief work. And since then this organization
Speaker 5: has been very active. We have now about the thousand
Speaker 5: member in the United States, mainly physician, we have pharmacists
Speaker 5: and dentists, and we've been very fortunate to be able
Speaker 5: to help those in need in Syria and in the
Speaker 5: neighboring country. For example, last year this organization provided over
Speaker 5: three point five medical services to the northern part of Syria.
Speaker 5: This organization supported forty seven medical facility in Syria. Last year,
Speaker 5: this organization supported provided the salaries for staff about two thousand,
Speaker 5: three hundred staff member inside Styria and then about two
Speaker 5: hundred and fifty staff member in the region neighboring country.
Speaker 5: We have an office in Jordan, in office in Lebanon,
Speaker 5: an office in Irbil, and headquarter in Turkey, and we
Speaker 5: have an office in in Greece as well. And these
Speaker 5: offices were established to provide support for the refugees who
Speaker 5: left Syria because of the unfortunate crisis the war they
Speaker 5: faced the last fourteen years.
Speaker 6: This is just now.
Speaker 2: Once the civil war started in twenty and eleven, was
Speaker 2: it more difficult? I assume it certainly was more dangerous
Speaker 2: to physically go into Syria, to go into Damascus or
Speaker 2: anywhere else. And so therefore, has your work been outside
Speaker 2: on the periphery of the company country or are you
Speaker 2: still annually going there and holding a conference.
Speaker 5: Now since the war erupted, We were planning to go
Speaker 5: to in twenty eleven for our conference. The lost conference
Speaker 5: took a place in twenty ten, and then in twenty
Speaker 5: eleven we were planning to do a conference in Olimpo,
Speaker 5: the second largest city, but then when the war erupted,
Speaker 5: we end up doing the conference. Then since then we
Speaker 5: start doing our conferences in a neighboring country. We've done
Speaker 5: in a conference in Amman, We've done a number of
Speaker 5: them in Turkey, We've done a conference in Germany and Berlin.
Speaker 5: We've done a conference in Suraevo in Bosnia as well.
Speaker 5: So that's where we've been doing our annual conferences since
Speaker 5: the word up. It has not been saying to go
Speaker 5: ahead and do medical conferences. Now, what changes that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's my that's my next question is obviously we
Speaker 2: still really don't know. My understanding is that the fellow
Speaker 2: who is in charge of the group that forced Aside
Speaker 2: to leave or or made this aside to leave that
Speaker 2: he himself had been involved in ISIS for a while.
Speaker 2: And I assume that our intelligence agencies are still trying
Speaker 2: to figure out whether we're going to be able to
Speaker 2: deal with him. What are they telling you in terms
Speaker 2: of your ability to get back in on.
Speaker 5: The ground, well, in terms of getting back underground. I
Speaker 5: uh Syrian members, Syrian Committee members from the United States
Speaker 5: have been willing to have been traveling to Syria now
Speaker 5: since the sad regime left the country. I was fortunate
Speaker 5: to go there myself about two weeks ago. I went
Speaker 5: there for a short period of time and I'll have
Speaker 5: to tell you it was the best strep for me
Speaker 5: going back home. I was happy to see people so happy.
Speaker 5: They've never been as happy as this time, having the
Speaker 5: regime that controlled the country for over fifty years, the
Speaker 5: family and the war they've struggled with over the last
Speaker 5: fourteen years. What the Syrian community Syria has daised the
Speaker 5: last fourteen years was the worst humanitarian crisis since World
Speaker 5: War Two. So there's nothing has been witness in this
Speaker 5: on the globe and as tragic since World War Two.
Speaker 5: What happened to the Syrian people Unfortunately, the Syrian people
Speaker 5: were tragically suffered and killed by their own regime. Over
Speaker 5: half of the population were displaced, about six point seven
Speaker 5: million displays internally, about six point eight displace have to
Speaker 5: leave their countries. Over half a million people die. So
Speaker 5: you cannot really imagine, I mean, the tragic situation that
Speaker 5: the people have to go through, the mental impact on
Speaker 5: the Syrian community, it's a huge Every family, every Syrian
Speaker 5: family has been affected by this crisis. So to see
Speaker 5: the regime leading the country and to see the changes
Speaker 5: that took the place to presency, this is a big
Speaker 5: relief for Syria and for the region.
Speaker 2: You know, when you talk about six or seven million
Speaker 2: people leaving, six or seven people, six or seven million
Speaker 2: people being displaced internally, half a million people being killed.
Speaker 2: How of Syria is a big country physically, but how
Speaker 2: big is the population there? Just to put it into
Speaker 2: some context.
Speaker 5: The population about twenty four million, so they talk.
Speaker 2: About half the country was either displaced in turn or
Speaker 2: left the country. This is a huge humanitarian crisis. How
Speaker 2: optimistic are you that the mere departure of a sade
Speaker 2: is going to open the windows of a better life
Speaker 2: for this country in the next fifty years.
Speaker 5: I am very optimistic. The Syrian community is very optimistic
Speaker 5: that we are starting a new chapter in Syria, a
Speaker 5: chapter of peace, a chapter of prosperity and well being,
Speaker 5: and chapter of respect. Syrian community has suffered so much
Speaker 5: the last fifty years, but worsely the last fourteen years.
Speaker 5: As we've mentioned with the numbers that you repeat it
Speaker 5: as well when you go and look at this. Steria
Speaker 5: was faced by the war, Steria was faced with the
Speaker 5: COVID and then Syria was faced with the earthquake that
Speaker 5: hit of twenty three. So you don't find any country
Speaker 5: on the planet that had to deal with the war
Speaker 5: for fourteen years, had to deal with the COVID pandemic,
Speaker 5: and had to deal with an earthquake or about two
Speaker 5: years ago. So this is this is it's very difficult
Speaker 5: really to describe. So it's to see the regime leaving
Speaker 5: the country, to see this is the best thing that
Speaker 5: happened to Syria. I mean when I been there to
Speaker 5: see my family and to see everyone so happy, never
Speaker 5: been happy as this time. To see a regime that
Speaker 5: was really just killing his own people, was making their
Speaker 5: children suffer. I mean, imagine fourteen years what happened to
Speaker 5: the children in terms of their education. People living intent,
Speaker 5: people living intent weather in Lebanon, living intent weather in
Speaker 5: the northern part of Syria. Until today there are people
Speaker 5: live intent and those people are hopeful that they will
Speaker 5: be able to go back to their home. And a
Speaker 5: lot of people just you know, their homes are destroyed,
Speaker 5: but they will be really willing to go and rebuild
Speaker 5: their homes because you know, this surgeam is not there anymore.
Speaker 2: Well, we wish you the best of luck, you courageous
Speaker 2: man to do this, Doctor Elkshaw. Is there a way
Speaker 2: in which people can help Syria or help your organization?
Speaker 2: Is there a website you'd like to direct people to?
Speaker 5: That's correct, yes, so just one I'll get you the website,
Speaker 5: which is the Syrian American Medical Society, So one moment.
Speaker 2: Please, Well what they can probably google the Syrian American
Speaker 2: Medical Society and they can get much more information from there.
Speaker 2: And I appreciate you taking the time tonight to spend
Speaker 2: some time with us. Thank you very much, doctor Elshaw.
Speaker 5: It is my pleasure. Yes, they can go ahead and
Speaker 5: just look stamps and with Syria and then they will
Speaker 5: be able to access our website, they'll be able to
Speaker 5: learn more about the organization than they will be able
Speaker 5: to support. And this is the website. One second, it's sounds.
Speaker 2: That's okay, go ahead, you want to if you have
Speaker 2: it there quickly.
Speaker 5: Go ahead, Yes, yeah, I have it here. So the
Speaker 5: website is sound s A ms hyphen usa dot net
Speaker 5: and e T this is our website.
Speaker 2: Okay, s A ms Hyphenusa dot net. Thank you very much,
Speaker 2: doctor appreciate it very much.
Speaker 5: Thank you, thank you, and to have a good evening
Speaker 5: as well.
Speaker 2: YouTube when we get back to talk with doctor Patrick
Speaker 2: Porter about eight foods he's a pH d. He's not
Speaker 2: a medical doctor, but he's a PhD. About eight foods
Speaker 2: that can help you in your diet in twenty twenty
Speaker 2: five to be more happy. Sounds good to me. I
Speaker 2: can't wait to hear from him back right after the
Speaker 2: news at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 1: Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's news radio, We're.
Speaker 2: Going to talk about food and sleep technology with us
Speaker 2: is doctor Patrick Porter. Doctor Porter, we got about eight
Speaker 2: or nine minutes here, but I think we got a
Speaker 2: lot of things to cover.
Speaker 4: How are you, tonite, I'm doing well. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 4: It's great to be here.
Speaker 2: You're the founder of a group of an organization called
Speaker 2: brain Tap, the leader in technology enhanced meditation, and you
Speaker 2: pioneer the use of brainwave entertainment to improve clarity, sleep,
Speaker 2: and energy. You got to explain that one to me,
Speaker 2: doctor garretta Heead.
Speaker 4: Okay, Well, what we know is that the every cell
Speaker 4: of your body is interacting with its environment, and we
Speaker 4: can use light, sound, and vibration in a headset and
Speaker 4: we can change brain waves. The reason that's important is
Speaker 4: that when you're stressed out, you don't have a full
Speaker 4: spectrum brainwave, so your body doesn't create the natural mood
Speaker 4: altering neurotransmitters you need. And also redo is stress hormones.
Speaker 4: So we started off doing it for pain control, but
Speaker 4: now we use it for everything from learning disabilities to
Speaker 4: helping people with dementia, to you know, mind over menopause,
Speaker 4: to sports. You know, Tom Brady uses it within this
Speaker 4: group called tbr X, which.
Speaker 2: Is let me ask you this, do you do you
Speaker 2: think this guy Brady will be successful in football?
Speaker 4: Well, you've been successful.
Speaker 2: Holy joking with you, doctor, this is bosted. I'm only joking.
Speaker 6: With you, all right.
Speaker 2: You got it all right, Okay, you're quick on that.
Speaker 2: That's okay. Look, so how is this accessible to people
Speaker 2: even who aren't Tom Brady?
Speaker 4: Go ahead, right, Well, you can go to brain tap
Speaker 4: dot com and get some free tips, and there's free
Speaker 4: things on my YouTube channel to help your brain. But
Speaker 4: you can learn about it. It's an app first of all,
Speaker 4: so you can download it and try it. It's a
Speaker 4: it's a free app. So the number one thing it
Speaker 4: does is help you sleep. When you're talking about sleep technology,
Speaker 4: we need to downregulate them nervous system so that the
Speaker 4: stress and anxiety is trying to think of it as
Speaker 4: washing it out before you go to bed, so you
Speaker 4: can your brain can be free to move into that
Speaker 4: rest and relaxation state and recover.
Speaker 2: Now you were not a medical doctor, but you're a
Speaker 2: Are you a psychologist? As I understand it helped me
Speaker 2: out here.
Speaker 4: Yes, I'm a psychologist. Yeah, I'm a psychologist. But my
Speaker 4: undergraduates and electronics. So I've always looked at technology, but
Speaker 4: we didn't have technology like we have today when I
Speaker 4: went to school in the eighties. But I admitted to
Speaker 4: technology in eighty six and been evolving it ever since then.
Speaker 4: And now just seems to be a time when more
Speaker 4: people need it than ever because of the stress you're
Speaker 4: all under.
Speaker 2: You went to school in the eighties, when I went
Speaker 2: to the school. When I went to school in the seventies,
Speaker 2: they were developing this concept. It was a device called
Speaker 2: an avocus. So I'm a little bit behind you as well.
Speaker 2: So the app is simply brain Tap br ai n
Speaker 2: capital tap.
Speaker 4: Yep, yep. And they say the Brain Fitness Company when
Speaker 4: they do the app because some people are you know,
Speaker 4: because we're pretty big out there. We have one hundred
Speaker 4: and twenty thousand users, so people will use our name
Speaker 4: to market, you know.
Speaker 2: Okay, so they should therefore seek what brain you said,
Speaker 2: brain fitness companies that I thought you.
Speaker 4: Brain tap the Brain Fitness Company.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, fine, okay, great, okay. No, we want to
Speaker 2: make sure people get to the get to the right
Speaker 2: place now. In addition, I see a note here that
Speaker 2: there are eight foods that we can add to our
Speaker 2: diet in twenty twenty five for more happiness. Is that connected?
Speaker 2: Is that part of what you advise people to do.
Speaker 4: Yeah? Actually, I've written several books, and one of the
Speaker 4: things I say is the phase one for brain fitness
Speaker 4: is your nutrition because you cannot think a bad diet.
Speaker 4: So there's foods you can change that can change your mood.
Speaker 4: And that's what we're talking about.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, one of the things I want to go
Speaker 2: through these eight because I actually dark chocolate. I incorporate
Speaker 2: dark chocolate into my diet to be really honest with you.
Speaker 2: And bananas, I'm a big banana guy. Coconut is number three. Uh,
Speaker 2: I'm not so much coconut, But tell us what coconut
Speaker 2: does for you.
Speaker 4: Well, coconut is they say, it's a short change. Trigothrite
Speaker 4: means it's a fatty acid. And our brain is made
Speaker 4: up mostly of water and fat. But it needs the
Speaker 4: me It needs a Mega trees, not a Mega sixes
Speaker 4: and nines as much. So it's really good for your
Speaker 4: brain and it'll give you quick energy and you can
Speaker 4: cook with it. It's it's a lot more healthy than some
Speaker 4: of the passionized oils that are out there.
Speaker 2: So there, so there is a coconut cooking oil is Well,
Speaker 2: I'm not a cook.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's really what they're talking about here. There They
Speaker 4: when because not a lot of people can eat coconuts,
Speaker 4: you know, they're they're not in season all the time,
Speaker 4: but you can go to any grocery store and get
Speaker 4: coconut oil and just start substituting that. In fact, people
Speaker 4: like it so much they use it instead of butter sometimes. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 4: it has a special taste to it.
Speaker 2: I got to tell you something what I learned a
Speaker 2: long time ago, and I sort of have a compendium
Speaker 2: of useless information in my head because of what I do.
Speaker 2: I learned a long time ago, believe it or not,
Speaker 2: that there are more people killed every year around the
Speaker 2: world by coconuts than by shark attacks. Have you ever
Speaker 2: heard that statistic? It's true. It was done out of
Speaker 2: a study in Montreal about ten years ago, which is
Speaker 2: extraordinary when you think about it, because we're.
Speaker 4: All, yeah, yeah, when you know, they're pretty high up
Speaker 4: there in the tree, so I guess if they come
Speaker 4: down on your head, you're gonna And usually when like
Speaker 4: when I go to India or to one of the
Speaker 4: Asian countries and there you get the coconuts right off
Speaker 4: the tree and they give you a straw and you
Speaker 4: get to drink the coconut us. It's really deliciou just
Speaker 4: and they're standing right under the tree so I could
Speaker 4: see that maybe they would get clobbered or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so let me I want to hit these other
Speaker 2: I took you down a little bit of a side
Speaker 2: path there, But that's a true story. Is you can
Speaker 2: check it out. It was a study out of Montreal
Speaker 2: back about ten years ago. Anyway. The fourth item is coffee,
Speaker 2: and I'm a big coffee guy, which is great. H
Speaker 2: So you know, for so many years people were terrified
Speaker 2: of drinking a lot of coffee. Coffee's great. Avocado. I'm
Speaker 2: not big on avocado, but my daughter is and she
Speaker 2: swears by it. And Tom Brady swears by avocado, by
Speaker 2: the way.
Speaker 4: That's right, that's right. Yeah, So we've got a couple
Speaker 4: of things that yet. Avocados have two things that we
Speaker 4: need in abundance. One is fat, healthy fats for the brain.
Speaker 4: But it also has fiber, and fiber will absorb two
Speaker 4: hundred times its weight in toxins. So if you're eating
Speaker 4: a lot of other foods or you're stressed out, you're
Speaker 4: creating toxins in the bloodstream, and you want to have
Speaker 4: a way to clear those out. So avocado's becomes a
Speaker 4: very healthy way to do that. And you can add
Speaker 4: it to salads or you can eat it raw even
Speaker 4: you know, and it's going to have It actually aids
Speaker 4: in your nervous system function and mood regulation. They've they've
Speaker 4: had studies that prove that, and it improves blood flow
Speaker 4: to the brain most of all for those people that
Speaker 4: need a boost in their cognitive function. It's a really
Speaker 4: good way to do that. And you know, if you
Speaker 4: had a half of half of it for lunch and
Speaker 4: a half for dinner, I mean, you see magic happen
Speaker 4: in your brain. And I always recommend that when we're
Speaker 4: working with somebody with dementia because it's an easy way
Speaker 4: to get their their essential fats.
Speaker 2: Well, that's great. And then there's three more items. One
Speaker 2: that's great berries. I assume that includes blueberries, strawberries, raspberries.
Speaker 2: That's what we're talking about there, I assume, right.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, And there these are. Besides, the banana has
Speaker 4: a lot of fast acting you know, sugar. You know
Speaker 4: a lot of people will leave it for energy, but
Speaker 4: the berries will give you sustained energy. Especially the strawberries
Speaker 4: and raspberries and things like that. They're gonna they're really
Speaker 4: good for your body and they're good for your brain.
Speaker 4: Because they give you slow acting sugar. The more sugar,
Speaker 4: that's what alcohol does. You know you're drinking sugar. The
Speaker 4: buzz is really from the sugar overload to the brain,
Speaker 4: and so we want to reduce.
Speaker 2: That, okay. And then there's two more fermented foods sour kraut, kimchi,
Speaker 2: which I know is a Gilian food, keyfer yogurt. All
Speaker 2: good all good things create prot biotics, I guess correct.
Speaker 4: Yes, Well, what happens. Most people don't realize that serotonin
Speaker 4: ninety percent of it is made in your gut. So
Speaker 4: you need foods that are going to do it. If
Speaker 4: you're going to feed the good bacteria, which we need.
Speaker 4: There's a gut brain access and if your guts out
Speaker 4: of whack because you're eating a lot of foods that
Speaker 4: are high in lectins, like a lot of the bad
Speaker 4: grains and gluten and things like that, the kimchi and
Speaker 4: yogurt and sour crawt will help to buffer that and
Speaker 4: get your get you more normalized there.
Speaker 2: And then last but not least, mushrooms and these legal mushrooms.
Speaker 4: Right, that's right. Yeah, So when you think about mushrooms,
Speaker 4: they do the same thing. They're actually a modulator for serotonin,
Speaker 4: and think of serotonin as the happy hormone that in
Speaker 4: the neuro transmitters that work with it. They help you
Speaker 4: to feel good. But we need a way to modulate them.
Speaker 4: So it's not just increasing them, but how do we
Speaker 4: get the body to actually use them. And that's what
Speaker 4: mushrooms do. They have a they have the ability of
Speaker 4: the capacity to do that, which is exceptionally good for
Speaker 4: the body.
Speaker 2: Sounds great, doctor Porter. I really enjoyed the conversation. Let's
Speaker 2: go back to the way in which people can can
Speaker 2: get in touch with a brain tap. It's going to
Speaker 2: say brain tap as an app, but the brain Fitness
Speaker 2: company is that? Is that the am I corrected?
Speaker 4: Yeah, if they want to learn more about it, they
Speaker 4: go to brain tap dot com and then there's links there,
Speaker 4: or they can check out Dr Patrick border dot com.
Speaker 4: I have a lot of free advice on there and
Speaker 4: things they can start doing at home tonight if they
Speaker 4: wanted to.
Speaker 2: Sounds great, You know again, thank you for what you do.
Speaker 2: You're obviously a compendium of valuable information. I sort of
Speaker 2: am a companion of useless information. But I really appreciate
Speaker 2: the time you gave us tonight, and I'd love to
Speaker 2: have you back at some point periodically.
Speaker 4: Sure, I'd love to do that.
Speaker 6: Love to be very much.
Speaker 2: And again, as they say, I like to keep these
Speaker 2: these conversations a little light hearted. And that's why I
Speaker 2: kid a little bit. So please don't don't be offended
Speaker 2: if I try to run and sneak a joke by
Speaker 2: your here or there.
Speaker 4: Okay, that's fine. The morning shows do a lot better
Speaker 4: job at being funny, but that's all right. I mean,
Speaker 4: even on the phone, they're just just telling jokes among themselves.
Speaker 4: So it's nice to be on the evening where we
Speaker 4: actually get to have a conversation.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, we'll do it again, Doctor Patrick Porter a brain
Speaker 2: tap the Brain Fitness Company. Thanks again. When we get back,
Speaker 2: we're going to talk with Christopher Price or the Boston
Speaker 2: Globe about drawed males dismissal for the Patriots, and we're
Speaker 2: going to talk about that next hour. Give you a
Speaker 2: chance to weigh in on it. From beginning after the
Speaker 2: nine o'clock news back on Nightside right after this.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan ray Line from the Window World
Speaker 1: Nightside Studios on w b Z News Radio.
Speaker 2: We yesterday, as everyone knows, the Patriots finished a disappointed
Speaker 2: year in an upnoe beating the super Bowl bound Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 2: Much of the consternation of everybody in Jollette Stadium with
Speaker 2: us is Christopher Price. Chris Price, longtime Boston Globe sports
Speaker 2: reporter Christopher Price. Welcome to Nightside. How are you, my friend?
Speaker 6: I'm doing well, Dan. Is there something that you know
Speaker 6: that I don't know? The super Bowl bound Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 2: Oh, I think they're going to super Bowl? What do
Speaker 2: you think you don't like them? To go on?
Speaker 6: I love it, I love it. I look, Dan, I
Speaker 6: have a well known affinity for the Bills over the years.
Speaker 6: Every time I've gone up there to cover a game,
Speaker 6: it's all. He's exciting. The fan base is tremendous, and
Speaker 6: they love their football. They certainly deserve a winner. So
Speaker 6: if it's gonna happen any year, this this this year
Speaker 6: looks like a good year to do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so. But obviously we're going to talk
Speaker 2: about you, Rod Mail. I think he kind of got
Speaker 2: the short end of the stick yesterday. I know I'm
Speaker 2: in the definite minority here. I've interviewed Mayo on a
Speaker 2: totally different topic about five or six years ago and
Speaker 2: found would be a really nice guy. Nice guy, says
Speaker 2: Leod Rocha said finished last. So I guess he and
Speaker 2: Doug Peterson were the Were there any more victims of
Speaker 2: Black Monday than than Peterson had done in jackson Jacksonville?
Speaker 6: There were? Well, the thing was, there were a couple
Speaker 6: of guys who were fired during the year that maybe
Speaker 6: would have lasted, you know what, otherwise would have been
Speaker 6: fired on Black Monday. And I'll say this too. Our
Speaker 6: own Dan Shaughnessy kind of alluded to the same thing
Speaker 6: the other day that that look nice guys, finished last.
Speaker 6: This is a this is a hard league. It is
Speaker 6: a foot called league, and it can be a very
Speaker 6: cold place sometimes when you do not win. And four
Speaker 6: wins over the course of the seventeen one season is
Speaker 6: not a real formula for success. I think there were
Speaker 6: some ways he was kind of set up to I
Speaker 6: don't want to see he was set up to fail. That's
Speaker 6: maybe too harsh a turn. But look, they suffered a
Speaker 6: number of injuries this year. The offensive line was underperformed
Speaker 6: for much of, if not the entire season. They were
Speaker 6: shuffling guys in and out. The record, you'll be interested
Speaker 6: to know this one. Dan. The record for most dating
Speaker 6: back to nineteen ninety nine. The most offensive line the
Speaker 6: starting offensive linemen in a season was held by the
Speaker 6: twenty twenty two Los Angeles Rams at fourteen. The Patriots
Speaker 6: had twelve this year, which is an extraordinary total. And
Speaker 6: with that sort of instability up front in a rookie
Speaker 6: quarterback under center, that's not a recipe for success. So
Speaker 6: I do think there is something to the idea that
Speaker 6: he may have gotten a radio. But also the flip
Speaker 6: side is some of his decision making over the the
Speaker 6: year I think to me proved that he maybe was
Speaker 6: not quite ready for prime time.
Speaker 2: As they say, no, I hear you, I hear you.
Speaker 2: I think there was one offensive lineman yesterday. I think
Speaker 2: he had three penalties number seventy.
Speaker 6: And I mean, yeah, King Wallace, a rookie out of
Speaker 6: Penn State. It was not his finest hour. So yeah,
Speaker 6: I mean they had They had two rookies along the
Speaker 6: offensive line for a sizable portion of the year in
Speaker 6: King Wallace and in Leyden Robinson as well.
Speaker 2: So I mean it was they lost their center early
Speaker 2: in the season.
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, not just not just any center too. I
Speaker 6: mean David Andrews is a foundational element of this franchise,
Speaker 6: and to lose him so early in the season and
Speaker 6: then kind of have to, you know, patch it all together,
Speaker 6: I think made it very very challenging. Again for a
Speaker 6: rookie quarterback back there, you want to do everything you
Speaker 6: can do to set them up for success. And I
Speaker 6: think Drake May played very well at times. I would
Speaker 6: love to see what he can do behind a more
Speaker 6: capable offensive line moving forward.
Speaker 2: Yeah, David Andrews a good citizen and a great center.
Speaker 2: I was stunned yesterday at how well Joe Milton play.
Speaker 2: I mean, I have some friends who are a big
Speaker 2: University of Tennessee people, and they told me last August
Speaker 2: he's going to be great. He's going to be great.
Speaker 2: Obviously he had to wait until January fifth to show
Speaker 2: how great he was, but he looked like an NFL
Speaker 2: quarterback yesterday.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Almost.
Speaker 2: Obviously, Drake May is not going to be unseated by
Speaker 2: Joe Milton with what just one game. But I wonder
Speaker 2: if we have a potential quarterback controversy brewing in Jellette.
Speaker 6: I don't know if there's a quarterback controversy, but I
Speaker 6: will say this that there were questions about him coming
Speaker 6: out of college. In his consistency. We would sit up
Speaker 6: on the hill during training camp and you can watch
Speaker 6: him throw, and you can watch him kind of perform.
Speaker 6: And this was a young man who, to put it politely,
Speaker 6: was a bit raw in his accuracy specifically, And for
Speaker 6: him to come out yesterday and look, he was playing
Speaker 6: against backup, second and third teamers. I'm fairly certain the
Speaker 6: Bills were pulling people out of the stands by the
Speaker 6: end of the game. But he completed his first eleven passes,
Speaker 6: and he was able to move the football and he
Speaker 6: was able to have success. So I think ultimately the
Speaker 6: bottom line here is I think he proved himself to
Speaker 6: be worthy backup to Drake May moving forward. And I
Speaker 6: think that's all part of the conversation when you look
Speaker 6: at this team in twenty twenty five and beyond, I have.
Speaker 2: Never seen an NFL quarterback six foot five do a
Speaker 2: backflip like.
Speaker 6: I have a quick story about it. I have a
Speaker 6: quick story about Joe Milton, if you'll let me hear.
Speaker 6: I did a story on him back in July because he,
Speaker 6: for me, was the most intriguing prospect other than Drake
Speaker 6: May obviously that they drafted, and I talked to his
Speaker 6: personal quarterback coach, and his personal quarterback coach told me
Speaker 6: that when he got out of his car, when Joe
Speaker 6: Milton got out of his car and started walking toward him,
Speaker 6: he was like nineteen years old, but he was already
Speaker 6: like six five two twenty and his the guy in
Speaker 6: his head says, this kind of looks like an action
Speaker 6: figure for God's sake, So he is. He is a magnificent.
Speaker 6: He has a tantalizing talent. He's very for what it's
Speaker 6: worth too, he's very engaging, very conversational, very pleasant to
Speaker 6: talk to. And again, look, you know, you can't go
Speaker 6: wrong when you have an arm that can throw the football,
Speaker 6: you know, with eighty plus yards. So he's he came
Speaker 6: together very nicely this year.
Speaker 2: I'll say that, Well, it's very rare that you see,
Speaker 2: whether they have backup corners and safeties or first string
Speaker 2: corners and safeties who are NFL players to get beat
Speaker 2: on that forty eight yard touchdown. I mean, his guy
Speaker 2: was fifteen yards behind the nearest defender. Normally that's the
Speaker 2: sort of pass that the Patriots would drop. But told it, Yeah,
Speaker 2: he looked around, said, and there's no one between me
Speaker 2: and the goal line. Let's go.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we turned out day and that was the second
Speaker 6: longest pass play the Patriots had this season, which gives
Speaker 6: you some sort of the idea of the maybe the
Speaker 6: offensive instability that they had. Look again, he's never I
Speaker 6: don't think he's ever going to unsee Drake May. But
Speaker 6: in a sad and sorrowful season, he provided a little
Speaker 6: bit of hope moving forward.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean if if, if they ever wanted to
Speaker 2: use him. Obviously, his performance yesterday cost them the number
Speaker 2: one pick, which, in the in the best of all
Speaker 2: possible worlds, could have gotten them some some pretty good linemen,
Speaker 2: you know, in a in a package deal to some
Speaker 2: team that needed a quarterback. Do you think that Patriots
Speaker 2: would ever turn around and say, hey, to some team,
Speaker 2: would you like mister Milton and maybe give us a
Speaker 2: few more few more offensive linemen or something. Does he
Speaker 2: become trade material at this point?
Speaker 6: You know what I'll say, I think if he has
Speaker 6: a good preseason next year, and that's going to be
Speaker 6: the next time where he's really going to get significant snaps,
Speaker 6: I think you could start to have a conversation with
Speaker 6: some other teams about using him as a potential backup
Speaker 6: moving forward. I think a lot of it depends specific
Speaker 6: to the offensive line, how they're going to go about
Speaker 6: fixing it, what they might do in free agency. There
Speaker 6: are a couple of really interesting names out there in
Speaker 6: free agency. And also, look, with the fourth overall pick,
Speaker 6: you're still in line to get the best offensive lineman.
Speaker 6: I think they might trade down a little bit. But
Speaker 6: I'll give you three names, three names for people to
Speaker 6: look for. Actually, I'll say a couple of mararity eliminated.
Speaker 6: But there's the left tackle from Texas. Kelvin Banks Junior
Speaker 6: is one of the best offensive linemen in the draft
Speaker 6: this year. Is a bona fide top ten pick. The
Speaker 6: Patriots could be evolving him now, let's use Will Campbell
Speaker 6: is the other one, and then the third one is
Speaker 6: Josh Counterly from Oregon. Those are three names that Patriots
Speaker 6: fans should keep in mind when you're talking about this
Speaker 6: year's draft specific to the tackle position. Those three guys
Speaker 6: are all probably first round. I would have to imagine
Speaker 6: the New England is going to keep its eye on
Speaker 6: all three of those guys as the pre draft process
Speaker 6: really gets underway.
Speaker 2: Sounds great. Chris Price really enjoyed it. I'd love to
Speaker 2: have you back. Thank you so much. I love talking sports.
Speaker 2: Normally we don't talk sports here on Night Side, but
Speaker 2: well we will be talking sports next hour and see
Speaker 2: what the fans have to say. Thanks so much, my friend.
Speaker 2: Appreciate it.
Speaker 6: I love it. Take care. We'll talk soon, Dan, talk soon.
Speaker 2: Okay, good night. Weaking back. We are going to talk
Speaker 2: about what happened to Gerrod Mao. I got a soft
Speaker 2: spot on my heart. I think the guy's a real
Speaker 2: decent guy. I think was putting a tough spot. We'll
Speaker 2: hear from Bob Kraft and we'll hear from you six
Speaker 2: one seven four thirty six seven nine talking football right
Speaker 2: after the break.