Speaker 1: It's Nightside, Dan Ray. I'm DOINGBSY Boston's Radio.
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Speaker 2: they cannot take the all time hit record away from him.
Speaker 2: I don't think there'll be any other Major League Baseball
Speaker 2: player who will ever equal or exceed that record. That's
Speaker 2: it's an astonishing record, over four thousand hits. Anyway, all right,
Speaker 2: p rest in peace, Pete Rose. Now, my name's Dan Ray.
Speaker 2: I am still the host of Nightside. Rob Brooks is
Speaker 2: still the producer back in the broadcast central, and we
Speaker 2: are starting another week of Nightside. I will take you
Speaker 2: all the way, I promise you, if you stick, if
Speaker 2: you don't turn your radio off tonight, I will get
Speaker 2: you just to the cusp of October, which will mean
Speaker 2: that the year is seventy five percent over. Where does
Speaker 2: the time go? I don't know. It's amazing. It is
Speaker 2: just amazing how time seems to fly. Time waits for
Speaker 2: no one. There's no doubt we have some interesting topics
Speaker 2: to talk about tonight. I'm going to talk about Boston's
Speaker 2: budget woes. Going to talk about the opening of cannabis
Speaker 2: cafes in California. You have a cannabis cafe in Boston
Speaker 2: or Massachusetts soon. I suspect we really will. I'm not
Speaker 2: necessarily thrilled at that prospect, by the way, but we'll
Speaker 2: leave that for a conversation at ten o'clock. And then
Speaker 2: very close election. But in my opinion, my opinion, looking
Speaker 2: at a poll that I saw today, I will explain
Speaker 2: why very thorough looking at the internals of the poll
Speaker 2: at the election we're hell today. Say hello to President
Speaker 2: Harris in my opinion. We'll talk about that at eleven,
Speaker 2: But we have four guests we'd like to talk about.
Speaker 2: We're going to start off with Salvation Army Captain Jeremy maccaby.
Speaker 2: He's the incident commander for the Salvation Army response in
Speaker 2: Florida and he is in Perry, Florida tonight. Captain maccaby,
Speaker 2: Welcome to Night's side. How are you, sir, Dan.
Speaker 3: I'm doing great. I hope you're doing all right this evening.
Speaker 2: Well, we're all doing better probably than a lot of
Speaker 2: the people who you're dealing with. Tell us what it's
Speaker 2: like on the ground there. I'm not exactly sure where Perry, Florida,
Speaker 2: Florida is. Is it up in the area of what
Speaker 2: they call the bend that really got hit by this
Speaker 2: storm the.
Speaker 3: Hardest, exactly, Dan, That's exactly where we're at. We're really
Speaker 3: right in that kind of bend where Florida comes up
Speaker 3: into the Panhandle. And unfortunately, Dan, this is about the
Speaker 3: third storm in thirteen months that these communities have had
Speaker 3: to deal with, and to say that this place is
Speaker 3: devastated would be just an absolute understatement, and in more
Speaker 3: than one way unfortunately. I mean yes, physically and that's
Speaker 3: that's difficult, but emotionally and spiritually it's it's really has
Speaker 3: taken its toll UH on this community. But what's what's
Speaker 3: so ingreat, what's so incredible through the difficult part of this,
Speaker 3: If there's any silver lining, what's so encouraging to see Uh?
Speaker 3: Even as a Salvation Army responder here UH is? Yes,
Speaker 3: Uh Helene is a storm, but it's more a test
Speaker 3: on humanity. And every storm I've ever been on, and
Speaker 3: I've served on many storm one thing remains the same,
Speaker 3: and it's people will come together, regardless of their backgrounds.
Speaker 3: People come together to help one another. Out to encourage
Speaker 3: one another. Uh. And and and that certainly is the
Speaker 3: case here uh in in Florida, that uh, that we're
Speaker 3: dealing with the people who have just again been devastated
Speaker 3: by this storm.
Speaker 2: Now, my understanding is that you have Salvation Army personnel
Speaker 2: from the greater Boston area, the Lynn team, the New
Speaker 2: Bedford team, the newbury Point team. Uh and this an
Speaker 2: appall team.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: They're all in Florida, except the Boston Lynn team is
Speaker 2: in Georgia. Yeah. How first of all, how many folks
Speaker 2: do you have on the ground from Massachusetts? And how
Speaker 2: difficult was it even to get close to where the
Speaker 2: devastation is?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is. That is a that's a huge task
Speaker 3: for a stand I mean obviously, Uh, with the more
Speaker 3: inland you go, certainly you you you have some devastation,
Speaker 3: a lot of power outages. Uh, certainly some trees down,
Speaker 3: and some difficulty. But obviously as you move closer into
Speaker 3: the coast, it gets to a point where uh it's impassable.
Speaker 3: And and what we're finding out, uh, and what we're
Speaker 3: going to find out over the next several days, are
Speaker 3: there there are communities, There are these little pockets if
Speaker 3: you will, that people are still trying to get to
Speaker 3: uh in the Salvation Army is hard at work with
Speaker 3: our community partners UH to to try to get to
Speaker 3: those people to meet those needs. So what we're finding
Speaker 3: is some of those roads and some of those avenues
Speaker 3: are getting open, uh slowly but consistently so that we
Speaker 3: can meet the need of those people in the community.
Speaker 3: But the devastation, again near the coast, is so difficult
Speaker 3: to respond to. But again, the Savage Army is hard
Speaker 3: at work. And yes, getting people down from your area
Speaker 3: is incredibly helpful and they just are eager to serve
Speaker 3: and the people in Flora On Florida, the Floridians are
Speaker 3: just here with their arms wide open, ready to receive
Speaker 3: and gracious for the help that they are giving.
Speaker 2: So you folks are all from Massachusetts who are down there.
Speaker 2: So when you say your area, you meet our area.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well yeah, well we're down right. Yeah. I'm from Lakeland, Florida.
Speaker 3: So the Savage Army will will deploy. Uh, It's all okay.
Speaker 2: So do you do you know how many Salvation Army
Speaker 2: members from Massachusetts. I have the names of some. I'm
Speaker 2: not sure if there's a larger group from Massachusetts than
Speaker 2: is represented.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure the I know there are things Massachusetts, but.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure the precise number is fine. And I
Speaker 2: also I assumed you were from Massachusetts, so I apologize
Speaker 2: for that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, no worry, no worries. Well, that's the thing
Speaker 3: about this Batist and Army is we're all one big,
Speaker 3: happy family, and and we do encourage one another. And
Speaker 3: certainly the Floridians have participated in in uh uh the conversations.
Speaker 2: You know, if you know, Jeremy, how are the folks
Speaker 2: from Massachusetts. We're a Boston radio station. Yeah, correct, right
Speaker 2: over the country. How are the folks from Massachusetts doing?
Speaker 2: Your folks from mass have you? Have you met any
Speaker 2: of them yet?
Speaker 3: Yes? I have. They are doing well, they we One
Speaker 3: of the first things we want to make sure is
Speaker 3: that those folks get settled, that they understand their role,
Speaker 3: the capacity in which they are being asked to serve
Speaker 3: in uh. And some of that is physical labor, and
Speaker 3: some of that is what we call emotional and spiritual care.
Speaker 3: To come alongside people who are in a difficult situation.
Speaker 2: It's devastating. I mean, I've seen the pictures. I've seen
Speaker 2: the pictures in Georgia's seen the pictures in North Carolina
Speaker 2: and some of the remote areas that we're now beginning
Speaker 2: to see the amount of the devastation and people who
Speaker 2: literally lost everything everything, And yeah, again, you folks truly
Speaker 2: are doing God's work. We appreciate the Salvation Army. What
Speaker 2: can people do who are listening tonight, who would like
Speaker 2: to help you? I assume the best thing is a.
Speaker 3: Donation, Yeah, absolutely, And that's what's great about the Salvation
Speaker 3: Army is Yes, obviously a monetary gift is always helpful,
Speaker 3: but if that's not possible, you know, a case of
Speaker 3: what we're going to do the most good with whatever
Speaker 3: is forwarded to us. Anything that people can do certainly
Speaker 3: is helpful for the Salvation Army and whatever that may be.
Speaker 3: But we are always looking for donations so that we
Speaker 3: can help those people in need.
Speaker 2: Okay, and so the as I understand, if they want
Speaker 2: to donate by phone, they can call one eight hundred
Speaker 2: sal for Salvation Army ar M Y one eight hundred
Speaker 2: SA l ar M Y. If they'd like to donate
Speaker 2: by mail, they can send a check to the Salvation
Speaker 2: Army Post Office Box nineteen fifty nine, UH in Atlanta,
Speaker 2: Georgia three zero three zero one, and I guess designate
Speaker 2: disaster relief Hurricane Helene on any of the checks. Again,
Speaker 2: the eight hundred number is one eight hundred s al
Speaker 2: hyphen ar m y. Numerically that's one eight hundred seven
Speaker 2: two five two seven six nine. I repeat that, one
Speaker 2: eight hundred seven two five two seven sixty nine. Or
Speaker 2: if they want to send a check by mail, simply
Speaker 2: make it out to the Salvation Army. Designate Disaster relief
Speaker 2: or Hurricane Helene on any checks Peelbox nineteen fifty nine,
Speaker 2: nineteen fifty nine, Atlanta, Georgia, GA three oh three oh one. Uh.
Speaker 2: Captain maccabee, thank you very much for your time tonight.
Speaker 2: Hopefully we've spread the word for you a little bit
Speaker 2: and there'll be some more help on the way from
Speaker 2: some of my listeners.
Speaker 3: Dan, thank you so much. And just one more avenue,
Speaker 3: it's help Salvation Army dot org. Help Salvation Army dot org.
Speaker 3: That's another way that they can give online if they
Speaker 3: search you. Dan. Yeah, yeah, thank you so much. Dan,
Speaker 3: I really appreciate the opportunity you welcome.
Speaker 2: Jeremy, thank you very much. When we get back, we're
Speaker 2: going to talk about fall foliage with a state specialist
Speaker 2: in forestry, a professor of natural resources up at the
Speaker 2: University of New Hampshire. This is a I think it's
Speaker 2: going to be interesting because you want to get up
Speaker 2: to New Hampshire and when the foliage is peak, and
Speaker 2: we'll get some I got a lot of questions, believe me.
Speaker 2: We'll talk with Professor Robers. I hope I pronounce his name.
Speaker 2: Stephen Roberge will figure that pronunciation out right after this.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray Mine from the Window World
Speaker 1: night Side Studios on w b Z, the news radio.
Speaker 2: I want to welcome Professor Stephen Roberge. He's a professor
Speaker 2: of Natural Resources at the University of New Hampshire, Hoping Durham.
Speaker 2: I iso, professor, how are you tonight? Oh?
Speaker 5: Well, how good to be here.
Speaker 4: Thanks.
Speaker 2: How's everything in Durham tonight? I hope it's nice up
Speaker 2: there as we end the month of September.
Speaker 5: Oh, beautiful, beautiful September night.
Speaker 4: Indeed.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Now you are also a State Specialist in forestry, forestry
Speaker 2: for the University's extension program, so we're about deer enter
Speaker 2: the fall foliage season. I think most people understand why
Speaker 2: leaves turn color. But for those who don't, let's have it,
Speaker 2: why the leaves turn color?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Sure, So you know what we're seeing with fall foliage,
Speaker 5: is it really the trees shutting now for the season.
Speaker 5: And so most of our broad leaf trees deciduous are
Speaker 5: hardwood as are sometimes called, are trees that will grow
Speaker 5: leaves in the spring, do their work, produce sugars and
Speaker 5: store up all the all those carbohydrates that they have
Speaker 5: and grow during the growing season, and then in the
Speaker 5: fall they shed those leaves in a way just to
Speaker 5: get rid of them and in a strategy not to
Speaker 5: store or try to preserve or actually hold on to
Speaker 5: those those structures throughout the winter. And so when the
Speaker 5: longer nights come and the cooler temperatures come to New
Speaker 5: England and the northeast, that triggers the trees to essentially
Speaker 5: stop producing chlorophyll, which is that green pigment that we
Speaker 5: see out there in the summer time. And chlorophylls slowly
Speaker 5: is produced less and less, and then all of a
Speaker 5: sudden not at all, and behind that chlorophyll masks underneath
Speaker 5: that chlorophyll are some of the fall pigments that we
Speaker 5: see that are in the leaf throughout the whole growing season,
Speaker 5: but they're just covered up by that chlorophyll, so we
Speaker 5: see that changing of color. It's really the changing of
Speaker 5: chlorophyll production that we're seeing in the unveiling of those
Speaker 5: other pigments.
Speaker 2: That the colors, brilliant colors, the reds, the oranges, and
Speaker 2: all of those brilliant colors that we see in the fall,
Speaker 2: they've been there since maybe May or June, but it's
Speaker 2: the chlorophylls covered them up definitely.
Speaker 5: Part yeah, for the most part. So when we think
Speaker 5: of the yellows, oranges, and browns of fall, those are
Speaker 5: made by carotenoids, and those are those are the same
Speaker 5: pigments that we'd find in carrots or corn and daffodils,
Speaker 5: for example. Carotenoids are always there, They're always in the leaf,
Speaker 5: and again they're being covered up. When we think about
Speaker 5: those really brilliant oranges or really brilliant reds, or even
Speaker 5: purples we see purples and fall sometimes too, those are
Speaker 5: those are anthocyanins, which are actually produced during the fall season,
Speaker 5: and it's these really bright sunny days and then cool
Speaker 5: fall nights that actually produces that anti cyan and pigment
Speaker 5: that that rears its head in the in the fall season.
Speaker 5: So in some cases the pigments are always there. Uh,
Speaker 5: in some cases the weather during the fall season produces
Speaker 5: that pigment.
Speaker 2: Okay, so half and half. So of course, all of
Speaker 2: us who watched the local weather forecasts, all of us
Speaker 2: know that the foliage has already started to reach peak
Speaker 2: up in northern New England. I assume that it's probably
Speaker 2: past peak in southern Canada. Or does Cannon have its
Speaker 2: own deal going on up there?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I tried. I tried to pay attention across the border.
Speaker 5: But but yeah, certainly Canada. Yeah, the past peak. When
Speaker 5: I think of kind of peak in northern New England,
Speaker 5: it's yeah, I would say it's the end of It
Speaker 5: would be like the last week September into the first
Speaker 5: week of October.
Speaker 2: Well, it makes sense because those crazy Canadians they celebrate
Speaker 2: Thanksgiving in October.
Speaker 5: There was there always one step ahead of us, I
Speaker 5: guess a DC.
Speaker 2: To be anyway. So now the question, of course, the
Speaker 2: ultimate question, and I hesitate to ask this of a
Speaker 2: un age professor, but who has better fall foliage? The
Speaker 2: great state of New Hampshire, which I love by the way,
Speaker 2: I love New Hampshire or Massachusetts where a lot of
Speaker 2: my audience lives, and so is there a substantial difference
Speaker 2: other than that, I mean our advantages we have the
Speaker 2: foliage later in the year, I guess as it moves south.
Speaker 5: But is there any.
Speaker 2: Difference in the brilliance of the leaves in New Hampshire
Speaker 2: leaves versus Massachusetts leaves.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I'm contractually obligated to say New Hampshire is.
Speaker 2: Better, but no, Christina will be really upset about both
Speaker 2: you and to be go ahead.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but the reality of the foliage season is that
Speaker 5: it's probably a two month long season, regardless of what
Speaker 5: state you're in. If you're in Connecutt or northern Maine,
Speaker 5: that can last, you know, four to eight weeks in length.
Speaker 5: And it really begins with the red maples in the
Speaker 5: swamps or low lying areas that tend to turn red
Speaker 5: in August, and I know in central New Hampshire we'll
Speaker 5: see that that color coming early to mid August, and
Speaker 5: then we have the foliage developing throughout from then on
Speaker 5: and then into late October, some of the oak species
Speaker 5: will start to turn that brilliant russet or even bright
Speaker 5: yellow color, and in some cases some of these oaks
Speaker 5: will go into a purple type of color and as well,
Speaker 5: so you get from mid August to late October where
Speaker 5: there's some sort of brilliant folio that's happening. And that's
Speaker 5: kind of a neat thing about foliage season is it
Speaker 5: doesn't happen, you know, all in one day. There's no
Speaker 5: such thing as like one peak day. It really depends
Speaker 5: upon where you are, the type of forest that you're
Speaker 5: looking at, and in what the weather has been. And
Speaker 5: the cool thing about in Hampshire is that we start
Speaker 5: at the sea coast and go all way up to
Speaker 5: Mount Washington or the tree line just above the peak
Speaker 5: of Mount Washington, and that foliage will turn at different
Speaker 5: times of the the season. And in between the sea
Speaker 5: coast and the White Mountains are a mosaic of forest
Speaker 5: types that exist too. Those forest types all react and
Speaker 5: displayed differently throughout the season as well. The same thing
Speaker 5: goes with Massachusetts, and I would kind of think about
Speaker 5: going from say the Boston area over to the Berkshires,
Speaker 5: so kind of cruising up I ninety across by ninety
Speaker 5: where you would actually, you know, see different forest types,
Speaker 5: you get, you're in different elevations, and with that is
Speaker 5: going to be different foliage experiences as well.
Speaker 2: So okay, let me ask you this is this is
Speaker 2: not a loaded question, but it's an obvious question. Are
Speaker 2: the you know, the old days Many of us would say, oh,
Speaker 2: when the snowstorms were when I was a kid, the
Speaker 2: snowstorms are like six feet high because they when you
Speaker 2: were a kid, you're only about four feet high. So
Speaker 2: it only looks has foliage, either the timing or the
Speaker 2: brilliance of the foliage changed over the last few years.
Speaker 2: We hear a lot of talk about climate change and
Speaker 2: whether you're climate change person or I don't hope no
Speaker 2: one's a denial but someone who's skeptical and maybe still
Speaker 2: trying to figure it out. Has that been a factor?
Speaker 2: Is there any evidence that we can look at and say, hey,
Speaker 2: these trees are turning brilliant colors earlier or later? Are
Speaker 2: they pretty much on nature's timetable?
Speaker 5: It's yeah, it's tough to tell. A lot of a
Speaker 5: lot of foliage is dictated. Well, it's dictated by weather
Speaker 5: that's happened right at the season, and weather is so variable.
Speaker 5: But obviously when we talk about climate, that's a collection
Speaker 5: of historic weather over a very long time. But the
Speaker 5: follies that we see today or like you know, during
Speaker 5: like this week, is the impact of the weather that's
Speaker 5: happening right now. And so so the weather can impact
Speaker 5: fall foliage in a couple of ways. One and the
Speaker 5: biggest driver is is the cold temperatures at night. And
Speaker 5: so the cooler it is at night, the more brilliant
Speaker 5: of reds and and those purples and oranges that we
Speaker 5: can see. And that's that's the development of the mental
Speaker 5: cyan and pigments that again are related to the weather conditions.
Speaker 5: So bright sunny days is just like today followed by
Speaker 5: a nice, cool, crisp night, that's going to develop those
Speaker 5: red colors pretty pretty quickly in that setting. So if
Speaker 5: we have very warm nights stretch of weather that is
Speaker 5: you know, it's above sixty at night for a very
Speaker 5: long time, you may not get that brilliant red developing
Speaker 5: across the landscape. That can happen this year, it can
Speaker 5: happen twenty years from now, probably happened twenty years ago,
Speaker 5: and so those things, you know, that weather is very
Speaker 5: variable in that setting kind of thing too. That puts
Speaker 5: a huge role in the foliage experience too. Is just
Speaker 5: is rain rain can you know, you know, we don't
Speaker 5: have the sun, it doesn't look as brilliant, But it
Speaker 5: also knocks the leaves off a lot earlier too, So
Speaker 5: that can really reduce or contract the length of this season.
Speaker 5: The thing that we can't change and what really cues
Speaker 5: the fall foliage season is the length of the day.
Speaker 5: And I'm sure if you remember, you know, two months
Speaker 5: from now when we're doing the show, at this time,
Speaker 5: the sun, you know, the sun may be just setting.
Speaker 2: But yeah, if anybody didn't realize that, they're not paying attention.
Speaker 5: Yeah, right, exactly, so, and the trees, the trees certainly
Speaker 5: do pay attention to that, and that that is one
Speaker 5: of the first things that triggers uh fall foliage response
Speaker 5: is the shortening of day of day time or day
Speaker 5: sunlight essentially, and that is queuing the trees to say,
Speaker 5: winter is coming, we need to stop producing more chlorophyll,
Speaker 5: and we need to you know, essentially sucking all those
Speaker 5: materials from the leaf back to the tree. So that's
Speaker 5: something you know, regardless of climate change or you know,
Speaker 5: any any any shifting, what we're seeing across the landscape.
Speaker 5: You know we're still seeing the same pattern in daylights,
Speaker 5: and that that is a que that the trees are
Speaker 5: paying attention to.
Speaker 2: Professor a great, great explainer, which means you're probably great
Speaker 2: in the classroom. I thank you so much. Love to
Speaker 2: have you back, Professor Stephen or Berges, Professor of Natural
Speaker 2: Resources at you and H and Durham, New Hampshire. Thank
Speaker 2: you very much, professor.
Speaker 5: Great looking forward to seeing the after this fall. Take care,
Speaker 5: I'll be there.
Speaker 2: I'll be there at some point, that's for sure. Thanks
Speaker 2: very much. When we get back, we're go to talk
Speaker 2: with the CEO of a very interesting website called Fetch.
Speaker 2: I think I know what fetches, and he's going to
Speaker 2: talk about a program of young entrepreneurial competition. We'll explain
Speaker 2: it all right after the news at the bottom of
Speaker 2: the hour.
Speaker 1: Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: All right, delighted to be joined by Wes Scroll. I'm
Speaker 2: hope I'm pronouncing that right.
Speaker 4: Stroll, you got it?
Speaker 2: Okay, got it all Shroll, you're the CEO of Fetch. Now.
Speaker 2: I have on my phone an app from Fetch which
Speaker 2: I use when I'm in the gym, and and I
Speaker 2: want to listen to the audio on the TV sets.
Speaker 2: Is that the same fetch that we're talking.
Speaker 4: About, different fetch?
Speaker 2: So that okay? So you guys, so okay, So I've
Speaker 2: cleared that up. So you are gonna tell us about
Speaker 2: the winners of an inaugural Boston Young Entrepreneur competition entitled
Speaker 2: Defeat the Odds Pitch Competition. And they these three students
Speaker 2: from Acting Boxboro Regional High School. And excuse me, strike
Speaker 2: that you're a graduate of Acting Boxboro Regional High School.
Speaker 4: Correct and believe it or not, the winners after we're
Speaker 4: after they won, I found out we're also going to
Speaker 4: school at Acting Boxboro.
Speaker 2: Oh now, wait a second, hold on, wait a second.
Speaker 4: The competition.
Speaker 2: I'm throwing the flag here. Well, in addition, my son
Speaker 2: in law, who's a brilliant young guy, uh is a
Speaker 2: graduate of act in Voxburg Regional High School. You guys,
Speaker 2: I don't know what's in the water up there, but
Speaker 2: you got some smart, smart people. So this group, this
Speaker 2: group of students, Vannie if I thought scroll scroll was hard,
Speaker 2: Vinnie Mittal, Sareda Coopana and deepiuk Bashois, three sixteen year
Speaker 2: old high school students from Sharon Mass I thought they
Speaker 2: were from Acting. I'm confused now, totally confused.
Speaker 4: Two of them went to school at acton the other
Speaker 4: one from Sharon.
Speaker 2: Okay, well the press release, fine, okay, good enough. They
Speaker 2: designed something called telepark, which is an app that transforms
Speaker 2: urban driving. Can you explain it in a way in
Speaker 2: which I will understand?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Absolutely, I'm sure you have experienced, as with many,
Speaker 4: when you go downtown for dinner, to go shopping, whatever
Speaker 4: the case is, and you're driving around the block over
Speaker 4: and over again, trying to file a metered spot for
Speaker 4: our hours.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, you eventually drive to McDonald's and think you had
Speaker 2: dinner downtown.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, I'm sorry, Yeah, exactly, and it still counts.
Speaker 4: But somehow or another, these three sixteen year olds were
Speaker 4: able to talk with the City of Boston and get
Speaker 4: access to real time data of the parking monitors or
Speaker 4: of each of those different spots, so that they can
Speaker 4: tell which ones are open. So when you open the app,
Speaker 4: you plug in where you're going and it will show
Speaker 4: you multiple nearby spots that are open and available for you.
Speaker 2: Very cool, very cool, And this app is now available.
Speaker 4: They do have a live prototype that is out there
Speaker 4: actually working, and they're working on finishing and putting on
Speaker 4: the finishing touches before they make it public to everyone.
Speaker 2: Okay, so will they make it, Will they be a
Speaker 2: charge associated with this or no?
Speaker 4: So it is just like you'd have to pay for
Speaker 4: the meter. It's three dollars per hour, and it's that's
Speaker 4: all it is for you to be able to get
Speaker 4: it and reserve it ahead of time.
Speaker 2: And so they must make a little money on this,
Speaker 2: which I have no problem with. If the meter prices
Speaker 2: have gone up. If you if you fire quarters into
Speaker 2: a parking meter in Boston, do you don't how many
Speaker 2: minutes you get for a quarter? Now? Oh?
Speaker 4: I don't even know it? Is it three?
Speaker 2: Four? Four minutes?
Speaker 3: Four?
Speaker 2: If you got a load like I don't know what
Speaker 2: that would be, you know, fifteen quarters into a meter
Speaker 2: and me you might drop a couple and they have
Speaker 2: to pick it up. By time you hit sixty, you've
Speaker 2: already used one quarter. It's ridiculous. It's totally ridiculous. But
Speaker 2: that's not a beef with your with your students. So
Speaker 2: they have come up with this. Tell me about the company,
Speaker 2: your company which sponsors this of this program because I
Speaker 2: you explained it so efficiently. What do Fetch for Business?
Speaker 2: That's your company, Fetch for Business, Greg.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So I'm the founder and CEO of Fetch, and
Speaker 4: we launched the business about eleven years ago, actually back
Speaker 4: in twenty thirteen, and we run an app that is
Speaker 4: totally free for you to be able to download, and
Speaker 4: you earn points by taking pictures of receipts or shopping
Speaker 4: through the app, and then you can redeem those points
Speaker 4: for gift cards like a Visa gift card or a
Speaker 4: Starbucks gift card. So the company is now about nine
Speaker 4: hundred people and about one in ten households in the
Speaker 4: US use it every single month.
Speaker 2: Okay, so way six, we're going to help you out here.
Speaker 2: So if I go, doesn't matter where I go, whether
Speaker 2: I go to grocery store, sporting goods store, restaurant, everything.
Speaker 2: Wherever I use a credit card.
Speaker 4: You can do cash, You can do anything anywhere you
Speaker 4: get a receipt work.
Speaker 2: Okay, So I get a receipt and I take a
Speaker 2: picture of it with my phone and I download it
Speaker 2: to my account. I got to have an account with this.
Speaker 4: Yep, So you've already downloaded Fetch totally free, create an account,
Speaker 4: and then you can start taking pictures of any of
Speaker 4: your receipts and you'll earn points. Really simple.
Speaker 2: That almost sounds too good to be true, Wes, but
Speaker 2: I'm sure it's true. So you don't have to use
Speaker 2: a credit card. You could use cash obviously I would
Speaker 2: understand it for credit card. And you said that one
Speaker 2: out of ten households in America are now using this
Speaker 2: was that the.
Speaker 4: Figure every single month? Yeah, that is where.
Speaker 2: Ten households in America, So they have to be like,
Speaker 2: I'm guessing what eighty one hundred, one hundred million households.
Speaker 2: What's the number of households in America?
Speaker 4: About one hundred and twenty and we have twelve million
Speaker 4: of them.
Speaker 2: Wow. Wow, I'm going to check this out, Wes. This
Speaker 2: is very cool. And so you've done this to help entrepreneurs.
Speaker 2: You're an entrepreneur, right, I assume, Well, obviously, which I am.
Speaker 4: You go to business school, so this is why we're actually,
Speaker 4: you know, hosting this competition nowadays. I was going to
Speaker 4: school at University of Wisconsin, Madison, and in between my
Speaker 4: freshmen and sophomore year, came up with the idea for
Speaker 4: Fetch and I didn't know how to get started. So
Speaker 4: I actually found that my school was hosting a business
Speaker 4: plan competition. But I called friends from high school and
Speaker 4: found out that their schools were also hosting business plan competition.
Speaker 4: So I flew around the country. Boston College, University Massachusetts,
Speaker 4: sam Hurst University Wisconsin competed in those one one hundred
Speaker 4: and eighty thousand dollars, and I started the company and
Speaker 4: dropped out with that money. So business plank competitions are
Speaker 4: close to my heart.
Speaker 2: So so you didn't you never went to business school.
Speaker 4: Per se, I didn't finish it. I made it through
Speaker 4: my sophomore year and then I stopped.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's okay. At you were a badger at the
Speaker 2: University Wisconsin. This is really interesting. It just shows how
Speaker 2: great a system economic system we have that if someone
Speaker 2: has an idea, you can not only help yourself, but
Speaker 2: you can employ other people and in your case, you
Speaker 2: can inspire young people to follow in your footsteps. This
Speaker 2: is a tremendous, tremendous program that you're running. And I'll
Speaker 2: tell you it's capitalism in the best form because it's ideas.
Speaker 2: It's filling spaces that people need some help. How can
Speaker 2: people follow your company a little bit, because I'm sure
Speaker 2: that this will not be the only great idea you're
Speaker 2: going to come up with.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so you can check us out at fetch dot
Speaker 4: com and you can learn all about the app that
Speaker 4: we have there. You can learn more about the company,
Speaker 4: my journey, all of those good things if you have
Speaker 4: any interest. And then we're going to continue hosting the
Speaker 4: Defeat the Odds Pitch competition, which is what the folks
Speaker 4: over at Telepark one next year, and we're going to
Speaker 4: expand it to five cities, but Boston will have a
Speaker 4: chance to come out strong again, higher prize dollars and everything.
Speaker 4: We love doing it this year and we're gonna we're
Speaker 4: gonna run it back next year.
Speaker 2: It's unbelievable and I truly mean this. There are very
Speaker 2: few countries around the world that basically, and thank god
Speaker 2: we live in America where people can come up with ideas,
Speaker 2: and maybe through this great invention of these three sixteen
Speaker 2: year old high school students, I'll be able to find
Speaker 2: a parking space the next time I try to count
Speaker 2: to Boston.
Speaker 4: This absolutely what a world to be living in. I
Speaker 4: love it.
Speaker 2: I hate to put it on such a personal level.
Speaker 2: But that's wild, that's wild, Wes. I really enjoyed this conversation.
Speaker 2: And there is a company called Fetch. Are you familiar
Speaker 2: with them? I use their app. It's just Fetch when
Speaker 2: you're in the gym and you're working out and you.
Speaker 4: I've heard of it. Now, now you plug it.
Speaker 2: I can't have used that though, No, no, no, but I'm saying,
Speaker 2: you plug into your phone. Okay, you know, dude, there's
Speaker 2: a bank of you know, twelve uh, you know twelve
Speaker 2: or twenty TVs up there, and you can, you know,
Speaker 2: you pick up the audio, which I guess is Wi
Speaker 2: Fi into your phone of whatever you want to watch.
Speaker 2: If you want to watch a basketball game or a
Speaker 2: hockey game, or a movie or whatever's up on the screen,
Speaker 2: and it's it's this. It's called Fetch f E t H.
Speaker 4: So hey, so if you want to save money, download
Speaker 4: my fetch and if you want to be able to
Speaker 4: you know, hear the TV. That sounds like another great company.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they they're great companies. They So your company is,
Speaker 2: how do how do we download your company? Give it?
Speaker 2: Give it to the website one more time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, go to fetch dot com or search on the
Speaker 4: App Store just for Fetch. You'll see Thatch or Fetch
Speaker 4: Awards and you'll be able to download it right from there.
Speaker 2: Very cool, very cool. Uh really enjoyed the conversation. Weskroll,
Speaker 2: thanks for having me effetched, Thank you much, Thank you much.
Speaker 2: When we get back, we're going to talk about a
Speaker 2: real need with all the problems that are going down South,
Speaker 2: is going to be probably a lot of adoptions available.
Speaker 2: We're also going to talk about something called black cat
Speaker 2: adoptions and the myths surrounding Halloween and all of that.
Speaker 2: We got a great guest coming up, Mike Kelly, VP,
Speaker 2: Vice President of MSPCA Vice Mike Kylie, I'm sorry, thank you, Rob.
Speaker 2: Mike Kyleie, I got to read what's in front of me,
Speaker 2: VP of MSPCA Angels Animal Protection Division. We'll be back
Speaker 2: with Mike Kylie right after this.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: Wan to welcome Mike Collie, VP of MSPCA Angels Animal
Speaker 2: Protection Division. And you got a big special It's called
Speaker 2: per Normal Credativity, a special cat adoption event coming up
Speaker 2: in anticipation of not only Halloween, Mike, but also as
Speaker 2: a consequence of what has happened down south in the
Speaker 2: last few days, a lot of animal is going to
Speaker 2: be coming up north here. Tell us about it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's been a really devastating storm, as you know,
Speaker 6: and it's really impacted areas that we didn't anticipate being hit,
Speaker 6: like Asheville, North Carolina. So you know, right now there's
Speaker 6: just finally rescue workers getting to some of the areas
Speaker 6: that have been inaccessible because of road closures and you know,
Speaker 6: other issues. So luckily we're starting to get some information
Speaker 6: from the ground, and unfortunately the devastation is quite bad,
Speaker 6: and we're really hopeful that the event that we had
Speaker 6: already had planned this week for cat adoptions will go
Speaker 6: off well so that we can welcome as many animals
Speaker 6: that need to get out of the disaster area into
Speaker 6: our adoption centers and eventually into new homes.
Speaker 2: I was talking to my daughter tonight. She actually is
Speaker 2: out in San Francisco and she's a big animal lover.
Speaker 2: As matter of fact, she took a beautiful Corki dog
Speaker 2: called Mustard from the Situate Animal shelter. So she's a
Speaker 2: big advocate of adoption She told me that she saw
Speaker 2: a statistic that said if six percent of the people
Speaker 2: who purchase animals from breeders, six percent chose to adopt animals,
Speaker 2: there would be no need for any more shelters. That's
Speaker 2: kind of an amazing figure when you think about it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, I mean, I think we are always encouraging people
Speaker 6: to consider adopting rather than supporting inhumane type of breeding
Speaker 6: situations like puppy mills. And you know, we're one of
Speaker 6: the only businesses out there that says we're the business
Speaker 6: that's trying to put ourselves out of business. So she's
Speaker 6: absolutely right. People are able to adopt all the homeless animals.
Speaker 6: It would be great if there is one day in
Speaker 6: our future home where an animal never has to enter
Speaker 6: and animal shelter.
Speaker 2: Well as Elvis Presley saying, we can only dream. So
Speaker 2: tell me about the event. Where will it be held
Speaker 2: this weekend? It's you're going to be all four of
Speaker 2: your adoption centers from tomorrow, October first through this Friday.
Speaker 2: Again specific emphasis on black cats because there were so
Speaker 2: many misconceptions about black cats, particularly in relation to Halloween.
Speaker 2: Black cats can be a lot of fun and cute
Speaker 2: and playful and wonderful. So where can people go? How
Speaker 2: can they get more information if they want to participate
Speaker 2: or at least stop buying and meet some of the animals.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, certainly people can go right to our website
Speaker 6: at MSPCA dot org, backslash adopt a cat if you're
Speaker 6: looking for cats, or you can just look around and
Speaker 6: see all that there are various different things that we
Speaker 6: have on our website and animals available for adoption and
Speaker 6: coming during our normal adoption hours at any one of
Speaker 6: our locations. You can also check out which cats on
Speaker 6: our website that are going to be fee waved for
Speaker 6: this weekend. And we're focusing on cats that are being overlooked,
Speaker 6: and we've seen a number of cats coming through our
Speaker 6: doors that need special homes. Many of these are coming
Speaker 6: from large surrender situations. In one situation that many of
Speaker 6: our cats are from was forty five cats living in
Speaker 6: one home. So they need a special person that's going
Speaker 6: to turn their life into something wonderful. And ever since
Speaker 6: we emerged with Northeast Animal Shelter in Salem, Mass I've
Speaker 6: always wanted to focus on busting the myths of black
Speaker 6: cats that so many people in animal welfare think that
Speaker 6: bad people come in and adopt black cats during Halloween,
Speaker 6: and we're here to say that if you can, If
Speaker 6: we can wave fees during an adoption event in Salem, Massachusetts,
Speaker 6: then anyone can and this myth has to go.
Speaker 2: So again you have the head quotas did you make
Speaker 2: a plane in Boston, Methuin, Yes, Salem and also down
Speaker 2: on the Cape Centerville in exact, the easiest wave of
Speaker 2: people to get specific information. You said it was weekend,
Speaker 2: but I'm reading the press release says Tuesday through Friday.
Speaker 2: Is it extending through the weekend as well?
Speaker 6: I'm sorry if I said weekend, I meant weekday. So yes,
Speaker 6: it's going to be the weekday and then.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow through Friday through Friday, October fourth. So they just
Speaker 2: go to MSPCA dot org and all the information is
Speaker 2: there on adopting a black cat or maybe a different
Speaker 2: animal of their choice.
Speaker 6: Absolutely really right now with this devastating hurricane, any animal
Speaker 6: that we can get into a permanent home or a
Speaker 6: foster home means that we're going to free up a
Speaker 6: kennel for another animal that needs to be relocated to Massachusetts.
Speaker 6: And really important to note here that when we do
Speaker 6: relocation from disaster zones, we never take animals that are
Speaker 6: displaced during the storm. It's always animals that were already
Speaker 6: in animal shelters that we're looking for homes that we
Speaker 6: move so they can clear space than those shelters. We
Speaker 6: never want to take someone's pet away from where they
Speaker 6: could reclaim them from.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, Ye of the MSPCA, remember this, Mike, All dogs,
Speaker 2: all cats, all pets go to heaven. That's how I
Speaker 2: end my show every night, and I'll mention it in
Speaker 2: the context of our interview. And you're doing God's work
Speaker 2: for us here. So thank you very much.
Speaker 4: Well, thanks so much for having me. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Really welcome, good night, good night. When we get back,
Speaker 2: we're going to talk about Boston's budget woes with the
Speaker 2: executive director of a new group, the Boston Policy Institute.
Speaker 2: We'll be back on Nightside right after the nine o'clock
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