Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray on WBSY, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Nicole, thank you very much. As always, this chili weather continues.
Speaker 2: I got to tell you something, all this chilly weather,
Speaker 2: we may have a storm coming. I don't know it's
Speaker 2: going to be necessarily this weekend, but just as someone
Speaker 2: has been around New England for a while, it concerns me.
Speaker 2: It concerns me. We will spend us some time later
Speaker 2: on tonight talking about, well, we're going to deal with
Speaker 2: Harvey Silverglade is going to join us, the great Civil
Speaker 2: Liberties Union lawyer, great friend, a friend of the First Amendment,
Speaker 2: and we're going to talk tonight with Harvey Silverglate about
Speaker 2: whether or not the government should be able to do
Speaker 2: more to monitor some of the extremist websites out there.
Speaker 2: And I don't care whether it's an ISIS website or
Speaker 2: a Kitty Pown website or ku klux Klan website. I
Speaker 2: think that if people go to those locations to move,
Speaker 2: for our law enforcement people to try to figure out
Speaker 2: they're becoming radicalized. And then later on we will talk
Speaker 2: about the funeral today in the passing of Jimmy Carter,
Speaker 2: a president who I got to know fairly well. And
Speaker 2: I have some Jimmy Carter stories, and I hope some
Speaker 2: of you have some Jimmy Carter stories as well. That's
Speaker 2: what's on the agenda for the night. We might get
Speaker 2: also to a breaking news story here there. And we
Speaker 2: have a four very interesting guests coming up, and we're
Speaker 2: going to start off with Paula Sebastiani. She's a doctorate.
Speaker 2: She has a doctorate. She's the director of the Center
Speaker 2: for Quantitative Methods and Data Science at Toughts Medical Center.
Speaker 2: So it's actually doctor Sebastiani, and we're going to talk
Speaker 2: about why Celery, doc Chell, what Celery, dark Chocolate and
Speaker 2: Parsley may have in common. And I'm going to tell you,
Speaker 2: doctor Sebastiani, I love Celery and salad and I love
Speaker 2: doc Chocolate, and as I understand it, those are good
Speaker 2: things for you. Tell us about it. May you're going
Speaker 2: to be able to maybe give us the secrets of
Speaker 2: a longer life. Welcome to Night Side.
Speaker 3: Thank you very much for inviting me. And yes, I
Speaker 3: hope to trigger some curiosity about this. So the story
Speaker 3: about behind the Dark Chocolate and Parsley and Celery is
Speaker 3: that we study centenarians. And we have a study centenarians
Speaker 3: for many years. We have collected many, many days about them,
Speaker 3: including blood, and we'll measure some we call them biomarkers,
Speaker 3: some biomarkers in blood that show what these people have,
Speaker 3: these different compared to younger individuals. And then we founded
Speaker 3: in many centenarians there are markers that suggest they have
Speaker 3: nutrition that is healthy and in particular includes products from
Speaker 3: salary party and dark chocolate. And the level of nutrition
Speaker 3: is comparable to young people. So the ipolies this is
Speaker 3: not still evidence, but the ipologies that maybe these nutrients
Speaker 3: can help people age. Well, yeah, you'll like chocolate.
Speaker 2: Oh, I loved I loved dark chocolate, love all sorts
Speaker 2: of chocolate. But there's also you know, you know, people
Speaker 2: have heard about the Mediterranean diet and and I know
Speaker 2: that we always get conflict the information. So a couple
Speaker 2: of weeks ago, the Surgeon General's warning us that too much,
Speaker 2: well alcohol, any amounts of alcohol are bad for you.
Speaker 2: And yet I've always thought that a lot of folks
Speaker 2: in your field and in the medical community as a whole,
Speaker 2: will tell you that things like red wine actually are
Speaker 2: not bad for you. No, obviously we're not talking about
Speaker 2: ten glasses of red wine at night. But you know,
Speaker 2: sometimes the food charts and the food pyramids get inverted.
Speaker 2: It seems in one year of this saying drink this
Speaker 2: to eat that, and the next year they're changing their minds.
Speaker 2: How long has celery, dark chocolate, and parsley been considered positives?
Speaker 2: Is this a new development?
Speaker 3: We knew something about dark chocolate, but the salary and
Speaker 3: partly this is evidence that is coming out now. But
Speaker 3: the difference between the study that I have done in
Speaker 3: collaboration with many people, it's not just me collaboration with
Speaker 3: many people, is that it's based on markets that you
Speaker 3: have in the blood. It's not based on what you
Speaker 3: report that you are eating. And markets in the blood
Speaker 3: don't lie. So it's pretty strong evidence, but of course
Speaker 3: it has to be validated. And we're not saying, oh,
Speaker 3: you have to eat a lot of dark chocolate or
Speaker 3: eat a lot of calories every day. We have to
Speaker 3: also understand what is a good balance in your diet.
Speaker 2: So do you have thoughts on red wine? Because I
Speaker 2: know a lot of people who are listening. We don't
Speaker 2: get a chance to talk to folks with your background
Speaker 2: and your knowledge often and I'm just wondering because we
Speaker 2: have the surge in general earlier earlier, well, I guess
Speaker 2: it was late last week saying you know, any use
Speaker 2: of alcohol and wine is a negative, and that's kind
Speaker 2: of a change in what the government's position has been. Obviously.
Speaker 3: Well, I was kind of yeah, I was kind of
Speaker 3: disappointed to hear the news. But the evidence that has
Speaker 3: been in the field for a long time is that
Speaker 3: there is a substance in red wine that is actually
Speaker 3: someone that enhanced your longevity. The question is how much
Speaker 3: of the substance you have to drink to use every day.
Speaker 3: But I would be careful with this conclusions set are
Speaker 3: not based on really biomaster in the in the in
Speaker 3: the body, and that this is veratrol is the substance
Speaker 3: in the red the red wine is actually one of
Speaker 3: these chemicals have dis tested. There are many studies looking
Speaker 3: at the effects of these medicals on extending lifepun and longevity.
Speaker 3: So I will still drink a glass of red wine
Speaker 3: a day.
Speaker 2: That's encouraging, And I suspect there's probably some folks out
Speaker 2: there tonight who are listening and who are willing to
Speaker 2: drink a glass of red wine. Well, look, thank you
Speaker 2: very much for this so dark chocolate. I must tell
Speaker 2: you that a doctor who I highly respect, one of
Speaker 2: my doctors, actually on his own, recommended to me dark chocolate,
Speaker 2: and I after every dinner at night, have a couple
Speaker 2: of little pieces of dark.
Speaker 3: Chocolate, and I do the same.
Speaker 4: I do the same.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, well I ever have you over for dinner.
Speaker 2: Maybe we'll have some red wine and some dark chocolate.
Speaker 3: Okay, that sounds like a good fun Thank you.
Speaker 2: Very much, doctor Paula Sebastiani, Director of the Center for
Speaker 2: Quantitative Methods and Data Science and Tough Medical Center, Thanks
Speaker 2: so much for joining us tonight. I really enjoyed our
Speaker 2: conversation and I feel better having talked to you tonight
Speaker 2: actually about these subjects, and I think a lot of
Speaker 2: people feel better as well. Thank you so much, doctor Sebastian.
Speaker 2: I've got to hear that.
Speaker 3: Bye bye, good night.
Speaker 2: Bye bye, Happy New Year. All right, we get back.
Speaker 2: We're going to talk about how can people who are
Speaker 2: addicted to Facebook, and there are lots of people addicted
Speaker 2: to Facebook, how can they, if not beat the addiction,
Speaker 2: at least cut down on the screen time. I'm going
Speaker 2: to talk with doctor Donald Grant, National Advisor on Healthy
Speaker 2: Device Management at Newport Healthcare. Back on night Side. You're
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Speaker 2: Dan Ray live from the Window World night Side Studios
Speaker 2: on WBZ News Radio. With us is doctor Donald Grant.
Speaker 2: He's a national advisor on healthy device management and Newport Healthcare,
Speaker 2: and he's going to talk to us how people can
Speaker 2: cut down on screen time. Doctor Grant. I gotta tell you,
Speaker 2: I think everybody I know has some level of addiction
Speaker 2: to the Internet and to screen time. All those stupid
Speaker 2: funny videos thirty seconds long, people you know, jumping off
Speaker 2: of cliffs into the water and ending up and paled
Speaker 2: on tree branches. You just got to keep watching them,
Speaker 2: and they are addictive. How are you tonight?
Speaker 5: I'm all right, Dan, Thanks so much for having me.
Speaker 5: And yes, yes, and yes, it's a real problem all
Speaker 5: my work.
Speaker 2: No, it's a real problem. You know. I'm a big
Speaker 2: sports guy, and so if I see something that pops up,
Speaker 2: you know, the twenty stupidest plays in baseball, you know,
Speaker 2: I start to want to say, yeah, I remember that player.
Speaker 2: I never remember that, And you know it's innocent. We're
Speaker 2: not talking about porn here, but we're talking about you know,
Speaker 2: there's that there are some comedians now who are funny.
Speaker 2: There's that you that you listen and you know, I
Speaker 2: just wish, to some extent we could just get rid
Speaker 2: of it. I mean physically get rid of it. Do
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. I mean, I hear you.
Speaker 5: I hear this a lot. But I've got some news
Speaker 5: that you know, it's not going anywhere. And as you've seen,
Speaker 5: and those of us who you know, we're maybe the
Speaker 5: I'm a digital immigrant. I'm one of the last generations
Speaker 5: of digital immigrants. Stand I'm a gen x er, so
Speaker 5: this all came, you know, at some point in my life.
Speaker 5: But I'm the father of the first generations of digital natives.
Speaker 5: So I watched this, and you know, I work with
Speaker 5: kids and young adults, and you know, I see the impact.
Speaker 5: It's only going to increase. And I think even if
Speaker 5: we look over the last several years, my refrigerator now
Speaker 5: can have a screen, which I don't know that that's
Speaker 5: a great idea, but this but they're winning because what
Speaker 5: we're now learning and those of us who do what
Speaker 5: I do, Dad, we've known this. This is I've been
Speaker 5: doing about fourteen fifteen years looking at this and investigating
Speaker 5: and researching it across all of the you know, the
Speaker 5: silos that digital engagement can occur. And now we're learning
Speaker 5: and the public is learning what those of us who
Speaker 5: do what I do have known for a long time
Speaker 5: have been trying to tell you all. The game is
Speaker 5: gamed against us. You know, the creators and the producers
Speaker 5: of these things have used psychology and some you know
Speaker 5: flaws in something in our Olympics system to keep us,
Speaker 5: you know, as you said, addicted. We can't really call
Speaker 5: it addicted yet because it's not really the rest of
Speaker 5: the world has. There's some some you know, gaming and
Speaker 5: certain things in the other in the rest of the
Speaker 5: world has been identified and classified as addiction. But we
Speaker 5: all know what it is. And I just want to
Speaker 5: be clear. I am not anti devices. I am not
Speaker 5: anti information and entertainment that's digitally driven, and I'm not
Speaker 5: anti social media. And even if I were, I'm an
Speaker 5: i'd be an endangered But it's really, like I said,
Speaker 5: I teach healthy device management and the practice of got
Speaker 5: digital citizenship. It's all about balance.
Speaker 2: But here's my question. Okay, I got two questions. One sure,
Speaker 2: I'm a talk show host, so I have on Facebook
Speaker 2: side I'm on an X, which used to be Twitter.
Speaker 2: I'm on Instagram. People can find me. I want people
Speaker 2: to follow me. I want to be able to get
Speaker 2: information out about my show.
Speaker 4: Of course.
Speaker 2: And when you when all of a sudden you're looking
Speaker 2: at you know, well, the hockey fights. It takes something
Speaker 2: that's simple. There's no advertising with it. It's just people
Speaker 2: are throwing up these reels of twenty minutes of hockey fights,
Speaker 2: and it's the sort of stuff you just or car crashes.
Speaker 2: You know, we all can't. You have to watch the
Speaker 2: car crashes. How are they making money on it because
Speaker 2: there's no advertising, they're just throwing stuff up there.
Speaker 5: Well, okay, so this is where I talk about this
Speaker 5: a lot. It's a great point. There's two things you said,
Speaker 5: and the first time'm going to address is for just
Speaker 5: about everyone. I'm just going to let everyone know. If
Speaker 5: it's free, you're the product. So when you say there's
Speaker 5: no advertising, there actually is. And it depends on the platform.
Speaker 5: But these producers and these creators and meta and X
Speaker 5: and they're not just providing a public service, so there
Speaker 5: are always that they monetize it. And these have to
Speaker 5: do with algorithms and pushing products and pushing ads. So
Speaker 5: none of it is just free. And that's what people
Speaker 5: don't understand because they think that, oh gosh, it's just there.
Speaker 5: But here's what I also want to share with you,
Speaker 5: because certainly your role and your career and your job
Speaker 5: requires you to be a consumer of information. So in
Speaker 5: your case, yes, you do need to know what's going on.
Speaker 5: You need to no code events, and that is not
Speaker 5: including your outside interest in your personal life. And there's
Speaker 5: a lot of people and I'm one of them. I mean,
Speaker 5: I have to spend a lot of time every day
Speaker 5: keeping up with everything digital, whether it's the late trends
Speaker 5: on TikTok, whether it's you know, current events, legislation. So
Speaker 5: that's where it kind of gets tricky for someone like you.
Speaker 5: But here's who might help you and your listeners. I
Speaker 5: came up with these. These are mine. I came up
Speaker 5: with a really, you know, kind of simple self assessment
Speaker 5: and your listeners and no one has to tell anyone,
Speaker 5: but just be regulously honest with yourself. If you're starting
Speaker 5: to feel like maybe you're a little too drawn in,
Speaker 5: and once you by the way, once you get lowered in,
Speaker 5: you're we're all done. I mean, it's it's they get
Speaker 5: us in there. And then there's all the clickbaits and
Speaker 5: all the things you're talking about in the auto play.
Speaker 5: We'll talk about that maybe in a minute. But here's
Speaker 5: just a little self assessment. And it's from the old school.
Speaker 5: Remember the old five w's is in an h Remember
Speaker 5: that from school?
Speaker 2: They all thought dubs, who, what? When?
Speaker 4: Where?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 5: So here's what I came up with. So I suggest
Speaker 5: and ask people and invite them just go through these
Speaker 5: in your mind. When you're engaged with any devices, go
Speaker 5: through these questions. Why are you engaging? What are you
Speaker 5: doing on the device? Sure, where are you using the device?
Speaker 5: When are you engaging with the device? Who are you
Speaker 5: engaging with through the device? And how are you engaging
Speaker 5: or not? And when I say device is I'm really
Speaker 5: looking at, you know, anything that can deliver Internet driven
Speaker 5: content or social media or news or the videos you're
Speaker 5: talking about. So that's just a little self assessment that
Speaker 5: I say, you know, just go through it. And if
Speaker 5: you find that the answers might be a little bit
Speaker 5: maybe that's not healthy, that's problematic, that's interfering or subjugating
Speaker 5: some other things I need to do. Then you might
Speaker 5: want to look at maybe making some even small changes.
Speaker 2: Yeah. What I'm talking about is, look, I know a
Speaker 2: lot of people get drawn in to this stuff, and
Speaker 2: there's a lot of stuff that's dangerous on the internet.
Speaker 5: Okay, but I'm for the kids.
Speaker 2: I'm talking about absolutely, But I'm talking about the senseless stuff.
Speaker 2: Meaning again, I'll look at a reel and you know,
Speaker 2: say that you know the ten greatest hockey fights. So
Speaker 2: I was a hockey player, uh, and you know I
Speaker 2: know most of many of these guys who are in
Speaker 2: the league, and you know, I wanted to go to
Speaker 2: include one from this guy or that guy, or you know,
Speaker 2: the ten goofiest plays in baseball whatever. I mean. There's
Speaker 2: there's I'm not talking about weird stuff. I'm talking about
Speaker 2: very normal stuff. There's there's a couple of comedians who
Speaker 2: when I see it, I'll click on them because they're funny.
Speaker 2: They're just funny comedians. And you need you need the
Speaker 2: discipline to say, okay, I'm out, I'm out. And I
Speaker 2: just think it's a real problem. And I think it's
Speaker 2: a real problem for a lot more people than realize it.
Speaker 2: And so I thank you for what you do. Doctor
Speaker 2: grant and I'd love to have you back, and maybe
Speaker 2: we'll have you on some night for an hour and
Speaker 2: take some phone call from listeners.
Speaker 5: I would love I would love to do that, and
Speaker 5: I just want to also just at the end, and
Speaker 5: there's nothing wrong with what you're talking about, because that's entertainment.
Speaker 5: That's you know, people sit down at night and watch
Speaker 5: four hours and sitcoms. It's about what you said, it's
Speaker 5: about the balance, and it's about once you're in it,
Speaker 5: are they auto suggesting and can you get out of it?
Speaker 5: Or are you finding four hours later you've watched fifty
Speaker 5: thousand you know sports flaws and you don't remember any
Speaker 5: of them?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Absolutely, no question, no question. We'll get in touch with
Speaker 2: your folks. By the way, you're with a group called
Speaker 2: Newport Healthcare.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm the national advisor.
Speaker 4: Sorry.
Speaker 2: If people have problems or feel they're truly addicted to
Speaker 2: this stuff, does Newport Healthcare provide any help or tell
Speaker 2: us about very quickly because I'm running out of time.
Speaker 2: Sure what what can people avail themselves off through Newport Healthcare? Well?
Speaker 5: Newport Healthcare is a national healthcare program that really provides
Speaker 5: mental health treatment for adolescence and young adults. But there
Speaker 5: are a lot of resources. In fact, I was just
Speaker 5: putting one together. There's some resources on our website. I've
Speaker 5: been able to work on some great projects, so there's
Speaker 5: resources that can be provided. It's not necessarily you know,
Speaker 5: if you call and you say, I have an individual problem,
Speaker 5: but if they contact Newport, then either me or someone
Speaker 5: else can maybe either help or guide them to the
Speaker 5: correct recess because there's a lot of people doing great
Speaker 5: work in this area and everybody's digital issues are different.
Speaker 2: Sounds great, sounds great. My producer will get back to
Speaker 2: your folks and we'll do an hour something that because
Speaker 2: I think this is Oh.
Speaker 5: That would love that, that would be really good. We
Speaker 5: could get and we could take some calls and that'd
Speaker 5: be great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, these segments that we do here in the eight
Speaker 2: o'clock out is for them. So they're all about seven, eight,
Speaker 2: nine minutes long, and it's great for an interview and
Speaker 2: it gives me a great idea to a sense as
Speaker 2: to who might be a really good guest for an
Speaker 2: hour show with callers. And I think you fit that criteria,
Speaker 2: so we'll be there.
Speaker 5: Oh I appreciate that. Yeah, let's try to help some
Speaker 5: people who may be struggling and maybe getting caught up
Speaker 5: in some doom scrolling. And then four o'clock in the morning,
Speaker 5: like I said, they don't remember what they watched and
Speaker 5: they've got to be up for work in two hours.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you got it. Well, that takes us to our
Speaker 2: next topic. On the other side of the news, We're
Speaker 2: going to talk about zombie employees. So those could be
Speaker 2: some of the.
Speaker 4: Maybe this is the reason why some of them are.
Speaker 2: It's a perfect segue, as we say, of the business.
Speaker 2: You're welcome, Jactor Grant, Thank you very much, Don Grant,
Speaker 2: thank you them here great, thank you very much of
Speaker 2: Newport Healthcare. Coming right back. When a little long with him,
Speaker 2: but I think it's going to be worth it when
Speaker 2: we have him on for an hour. Coming back on Nightside,
Speaker 2: you are you a zombie employee? I don't want anyone
Speaker 2: ever think I'm a zombie employee because I am anything
Speaker 2: but that. We'll be back on Nightside right after this.
Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Dan Ray on WBS Boston's
Speaker 1: news radio.
Speaker 2: Well, here's a depressing subject. Zombie employees. Just one in
Speaker 2: five workers thriving at work with us as David Allcott.
Speaker 2: He's a workplace expert CEO of Samurai Success at international Executive,
Speaker 2: organizational and personal coaching firm headquarters in Denver, Colorado. Got
Speaker 2: me snow out there yet, David Allcott? How are you going?
Speaker 1: I'm doing well, Dan, Thanks so much for having me
Speaker 1: on the show. And yes, we're having some pretty good
Speaker 1: snow going on here.
Speaker 2: Are you really literally as we're.
Speaker 1: Speaking, Yes, we're speaking.
Speaker 2: Well, we're freezing back here, but so far we haven't
Speaker 2: seen much of the white stuff, although we periodically get
Speaker 2: big storms back here in New England, maybe not as
Speaker 2: consistently as you good folks do out in Colorado. So
Speaker 2: tell us, how do you figure out first of all,
Speaker 2: this what is a zombie employee? That's a very descriptive phrase.
Speaker 1: I agree with you. As a matter of fact, a
Speaker 1: lot of our folks that are watching, you know, the
Speaker 1: new generation coming into their businesses. We grew up in
Speaker 1: a time where business was so competitive and we're are
Speaker 1: so well educated to be able to, you know, compete
Speaker 1: against other people who are looking for the same job.
Speaker 1: And today that's a very different idea for a lot
Speaker 1: of the new generation. They don't want to work that
Speaker 1: hard and so we've you know, people are just saying, well,
Speaker 1: they're lazy, they're this and then that, and they're zombies.
Speaker 1: And the truth is it's a lot deeper than that,
Speaker 1: is that they just want something very different. They want
Speaker 1: the experience of life, and a lot of that doesn't
Speaker 1: have anything to do with business.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so basically, don't work and maybe the government can
Speaker 2: support you for your entire life.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the unfortunate truth.
Speaker 2: Yes, it is an unfortunate truth. And you know, we
Speaker 2: live in you know, America, you know, the the Home
Speaker 2: of the Free, the Land of the brave, and all
Speaker 2: of that. And and and someone said, you know, you
Speaker 2: know you have to earn. Stuff is not given to
Speaker 2: you in in our system. Is it is the problem
Speaker 2: that we live in a capitalist stick society. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's the best in the world in my opinion. Why
Speaker 2: are people in their twenties saying, I'm just going to
Speaker 2: put in the minimum. They're never gonna go anywhere. They're
Speaker 2: gonna turn out, they're gonna be zombie employees. If you're
Speaker 2: a zombie employee in your twenties, man, I feel badly
Speaker 2: for you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we've got to go back to how they
Speaker 1: were raised. And I don't mean to blame anybody about this.
Speaker 1: This is just what's happening. And we grew up in
Speaker 1: a very competitive place where wanting to work are parentsly
Speaker 1: focused on. You know, you've got to earn the right
Speaker 1: to be able to do these things. And the new
Speaker 1: generation has been given so much as they grew up.
Speaker 1: That's their expectation, that's what we've taught them to believe.
Speaker 1: And so a lot of it has to do with
Speaker 1: our socialization of our kids and then then they're bring
Speaker 1: by into the real world and it just does the
Speaker 1: theory doesn't go into application.
Speaker 2: So how do we turn this around? I mean, the
Speaker 2: school systems obviously have been failing kids for a long
Speaker 2: time in my opinion. You know, you go to most
Speaker 2: kids today and you say, you know, name three members,
Speaker 2: three founding fathers. You know, they have no idea if
Speaker 2: you if you say, yes, you know, give us the
Speaker 2: name of the second president. They might be able to
Speaker 2: name Washington Bush Adams place.
Speaker 1: And they'll probably mention he's a slave owner and those
Speaker 1: kind of things. And that's so that's the whole distribute.
Speaker 4: Where are they.
Speaker 1: Getting that information from? Yeah, where it's a long term process,
Speaker 1: because unfortunately, the kids that have gone through the school
Speaker 1: system and have learned this from our teachers are going
Speaker 1: to carry that for a long period of time. So
Speaker 1: what's the solution is not to think about how do
Speaker 1: we change those kids or that generation, is what do
Speaker 1: we need to do as business owners entrepreneurs to really
Speaker 1: take advantage of that situation and say, Okay, here's how
Speaker 1: these guys are going to come in. These guys are
Speaker 1: going to come in and they want to be here
Speaker 1: at eight oh five because they're going to be late,
Speaker 1: and then you know they want to leave it a
Speaker 1: quarter or two before they take off. So how do
Speaker 1: you manage that into your business? And that's where we
Speaker 1: really work with our clients at Semurai Success with It says, okay,
Speaker 1: there is a solution because here's the facts.
Speaker 5: How do we deal with that.
Speaker 1: So the thing is that we have to provide structure
Speaker 1: for our businesses more so than we've ever done so before,
Speaker 1: because if you only have a short period of time
Speaker 1: that employee is going to be working for you, you've
Speaker 1: got to maximize the quality control and profitability with that employee.
Speaker 1: At the same time, with a shorter period of time
Speaker 1: and the structure to be able to do that is processes,
Speaker 1: and each one of these folks processes the.
Speaker 2: Other thing too. If I could just add, if if
Speaker 2: these young young people and I want to sell like
Speaker 2: an old guy, I am an along side of fifty.
Speaker 2: But if these young people are coming into work to
Speaker 2: work without a work ethic and look at it as
Speaker 2: if somehow they're doing the company a favor. No, the
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Speaker 2: sports is the way in which people should understand how
Speaker 2: competition works. It's the same model should be in the office,
Speaker 2: and someone who hustles and works a little bit more,
Speaker 2: that person should be compensated accordingly.
Speaker 1: And I couldn't agree with you more about that, because
Speaker 1: that's exactly how our society is currently structured. To be
Speaker 1: able to do that with a capitalist market, you should
Speaker 1: be based upon your performance, and that's the missing element
Speaker 1: that a lot of our kids are I'm not connecting
Speaker 1: to is. You know, you get paid upon your performance,
Speaker 1: and if you really believe you can move the company,
Speaker 1: and the company believes you can move them forward, they're
Speaker 1: going to pay well to be able to do that.
Speaker 1: But in the meantime, until we get that belief system
Speaker 1: back in our society, what do we do with these
Speaker 1: this whole generation of folks that are in employees right
Speaker 1: now and deal with that And the real solution that
Speaker 1: we're finding is to be able to really provide the
Speaker 1: structure so when they are there for that short period
Speaker 1: of time during that day, you really maximize the efforts.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I have a couple of friends of mine who
Speaker 2: own small businesses, small private businesses, and I hear exactly
Speaker 2: what you're talking about from yes, and they're good people.
Speaker 2: They employ people irrespective of their background. There's no age discrimination.
Speaker 2: All they want to find are people who can who
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Speaker 1: And sure as more fact, COVID if there was any
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Speaker 2: So Zoom calls excellent. Yes, sir, Well look I really
Speaker 2: enjoyed it, David. I think that we view the world
Speaker 2: very similarly. I wasn't sure where we were taking this topic.
Speaker 2: I am not an employer. I've been an employee my
Speaker 2: entire life. But I'll tell you the people that make
Speaker 2: this country go are small businesses. It's not the big businesses.
Speaker 2: It's the smalls at the bottom of the pyramids. So
Speaker 2: I feel we kind of see the world in a
Speaker 2: similar way. David allcought workplace expert with Samurai Success Samurai
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Speaker 2: you got to if you've got some employees out there,
Speaker 2: you got to light a fire under I think this
Speaker 2: guy's got the matches that will work. Thanks so much,
Speaker 2: very very much to meet you, David.
Speaker 1: Thanks Dad so much for being on your show.
Speaker 2: You bet you, you bet you. We'll do it again.
Speaker 2: We get back. We're to talk about something very important
Speaker 2: with Mike Defina. He's the media relations manager for the
Speaker 2: Animal Rescue League. Six tips to keep your pets safe
Speaker 2: in the cold. This is a tough time of year
Speaker 2: for pets, and I think about the faro cats that
Speaker 2: are out there at night. I have no idea how
Speaker 2: they survive. But listen carefully to Mike Defina, because if
Speaker 2: you have a pet, you got to take care of
Speaker 2: your pet, particularly at this point. You don't want to
Speaker 2: leave a door open and have that pet find out
Speaker 2: find out they ran out back at mid and you
Speaker 2: have no idea where they are. Well, we'll explain it
Speaker 2: all with Mike Defina on Nightside right after this very
Speaker 2: quick break. Now back to Dan ray Line from the
Speaker 2: Window World night Side Studios on WBZ. The News Radio. Well,
Speaker 2: if you haven't noticed, it's very cold, very cold here
Speaker 2: in New England, and for those of you who have pets,
Speaker 2: this is a particularly dangerous time of year. This is January.
Speaker 2: With us is Mike Defina, media relations manager of the
Speaker 2: Animal Rescue League, great organization. You know how we feel
Speaker 2: about pets Here at Nightside, he has some tips. I'm
Speaker 2: keeping your pets safe, Mike, Welcome back to Nightside.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Dan. Always a pleasure to be here in
Speaker 4: A Happy New Year to you and here I think.
Speaker 2: We could you can wish people happy New Year all
Speaker 2: the way through the end of December, so that's perfectly.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 4: And I think you hit the nail right on the head. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean, cold temperatures have really settled in. You know,
Speaker 4: we're we're looking you know, last week or so and
Speaker 4: for the foreseeable future we're seeing blow freezing temperatures. There
Speaker 4: are no windshills in the single digits. So yeah, I
Speaker 4: mean it's time to you know, as we take extra
Speaker 4: steps for ourselves to protect ourselves from the cold, it's
Speaker 4: definitely that time of year to do the same for
Speaker 4: our pets.
Speaker 2: Okay, give us a couple of things that maybe people
Speaker 2: aren't thinking of. I was talking with Rob Our producer,
Speaker 2: and when I babysit or dog sit for my son
Speaker 2: or daughter's dogs, a quirky named Mustard and a shorty
Speaker 2: part ships who in part yu Oki will be the
Speaker 2: wonder dog for my son and I need to take
Speaker 2: them out at night. They are not off the leash
Speaker 2: in the worter time at night under any circumstances. Is
Speaker 2: am I be some overly protective.
Speaker 4: No, no, not at all. I mean when we talk
Speaker 4: about you know, wildlife, it's certainly concerned right now. You know,
Speaker 4: coyotes are always on head ower's minds, and you know
Speaker 4: we are kind of getting into their mating season. So yeah,
Speaker 4: whenever you go outside at night with your pets, you
Speaker 4: really want to keep them on leash for sure. But
Speaker 4: you know it's really just kind of taking some simple
Speaker 4: steps to to just better equip them for the coal.
Speaker 4: I mean we wear you know, jackets, scarves, hats, gloves,
Speaker 4: et cetera. I mean, if you have a longer coat dog,
Speaker 4: you want to let let their coat grow out a
Speaker 4: little bit, but of course still keep it brushed and
Speaker 4: nicely groomed. You know, shorter coat dogs, they're going to
Speaker 4: get the chill a little faster. So things like sweaters, coats,
Speaker 4: and booties. Booties are a great way to protect dogs
Speaker 4: as well, not just from the cold, but when we
Speaker 4: talk about all these snow melting salts and chemicals that
Speaker 4: are put on the sidewalks and any paved surfaces, you know,
Speaker 4: we really want to make sure even you know, even
Speaker 4: if you know your neighbors or someone in the neighborhood
Speaker 4: has the has the pet friendly variety of these chemicals,
Speaker 4: they're not. You know, pet friendly chemicals are not everywhere.
Speaker 4: So whenever you get your dog back inside from a walk,
Speaker 4: you want to just make sure that you clean off
Speaker 4: their paws and wipe their stomach. You just the camicals
Speaker 4: can irritate their their paws and burn their paws, and
Speaker 4: we don't want them licking their paws when they get
Speaker 4: back inside and it can be chemicals and ingesting them.
Speaker 4: So we definitely want to keep that in mind as well.
Speaker 4: And you know, I think simple as best. So I mean,
Speaker 4: if it's too cold for you to be out there,
Speaker 4: it's definitely too cold for your pets to be outside.
Speaker 4: And I think one of the interesting things about winter
Speaker 4: is it just it really mirrors a lot of what
Speaker 4: we talk about during the summer, the summertime months, there
Speaker 4: are many things in place in the state of Massachusetts
Speaker 4: that protect animals during hot weather. So it's illegal to
Speaker 4: keep your your pet confined in a vehicle during the
Speaker 4: during the hot summer months. That law actually applies during
Speaker 4: extreme cold too, so that's something to keep in mind,
Speaker 4: so you never want to keep your animal confined to
Speaker 4: a cold vehicle. And then tethering laws as well. You
Speaker 4: know a lot of folks they're keep their pups tied
Speaker 4: up outside when we you know, when we have any
Speaker 4: sort of weather advisary or warning or watch as could
Speaker 4: be a heat, cold, wind, rain, snow, any sort of warning,
Speaker 4: your dog's not allowed to be tethered for more than
Speaker 4: fifteen minutes. So that's that's another thing to keep in
Speaker 4: mind as well. And you know, just like us, you know,
Speaker 4: pets are they're susceptible the frostbite and hypothermia.
Speaker 2: So I can't imagine why, I really can't imagine why
Speaker 2: anyone on a night light tonight, or even in daylight today,
Speaker 2: would you know, put their dog on some sort of
Speaker 2: a run outside. I mean it's just because look very
Speaker 2: most of us me included the phone rings, your answer
Speaker 2: to the phone, and the next thing, the doorbell rings
Speaker 2: as there's a ups to arrive or there or something
Speaker 2: like that, and you say to yourself, oh my god,
Speaker 2: dog dog's been outside for not for ten minutes, but
Speaker 2: for an hour and a half. I mean, it's just
Speaker 2: it's just the little nature. You forget that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2: So why even put them in that situation? That's you know,
Speaker 2: these are animals that are family members. Would you put
Speaker 2: would you put your mother in law? You know, well
Speaker 2: maybe the mother in law be an exception only kidding.
Speaker 2: I shouldn't have even said that. No, but you know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying, You know exactly you're crazy. Uncle Harry
Speaker 2: upstairs in the attic may give him, but you would
Speaker 2: you don't want to do it with I mean dogs,
Speaker 2: dogs are just special as far as I'm concerned. I
Speaker 2: keep telling people, remember you spell dog dog backwards, it's
Speaker 2: g O D And I really, I just they are
Speaker 2: such loyal, loyal companions and not to you know, to
Speaker 2: go overboard, but you gotta protect them, particularly at this
Speaker 2: time of the year. And as you mentioned with with
Speaker 2: the the how do the farewell cats survive. That's I
Speaker 2: feel so sorry for you.
Speaker 4: Know, they're they're amazing, amazing creatures. They are extremely resilient.
Speaker 4: They just have a knack of finding a safe, warm,
Speaker 4: place to sleep and to eat. But you know, that
Speaker 4: brings up another point that one of those places we
Speaker 4: see it, I mean we see it throughout the year
Speaker 4: from time to time, but definitely in the winter time.
Speaker 4: Something to keep in mind, under the hood of your
Speaker 4: car for outdoor cats, community cats, that's a perfect place
Speaker 4: for them to coose the up. It's nice, it's nice
Speaker 4: and snug, protected from the wind, safe from predators. But
Speaker 4: of course, when we go out to start our car
Speaker 4: in the morning, and if we don't know that an
Speaker 4: animal's under the hood, you know, unfortunately extreme injuries can happen.
Speaker 4: So when you go out in the morning to start
Speaker 4: your car, just give your hood, you know, just bang
Speaker 4: on it a couple of times, quick visual check to
Speaker 4: make sure there's no animals in or around your vehicle
Speaker 4: before you set off for the day. But yeah, I mean,
Speaker 4: you know, we we help these community cats throughout the year,
Speaker 4: take in as many as we can. But you know,
Speaker 4: they're they're they're in the hundreds of thousands throughout the
Speaker 4: state of Massachusetts.
Speaker 2: So I have actually I've seen in my neighborhood occasionally
Speaker 2: what I know is a feral cat, and I've literally
Speaker 2: tried to, you know, sit down so that the cat
Speaker 2: and try to talk to them and see if they
Speaker 2: would come over. Even sometimes go inside and bring out
Speaker 2: a little dish of milk and leave it there, but
Speaker 2: they just have no interest in any interaction.
Speaker 5: And they will, yeah, some don't.
Speaker 4: But yeah, there's the survivors. They can absolutely you know
Speaker 4: there their instincts kick in and and you know, they
Speaker 4: do what they do to survive. But yeah, they're they're
Speaker 4: they're they're really really resilient. But you know, another point
Speaker 4: being that we are cold now, but we you know,
Speaker 4: the mild temperatures kind of stay a little longer, so
Speaker 4: we're still actually seeing kittens being born outdoors. And the kittens,
Speaker 4: of course, are very very susceptible to these types of uh,
Speaker 4: these types of temperatures. So I mean, if you do
Speaker 4: see a mom and kittens out there in the neighborhood,
Speaker 4: in your yard, anywhere where they might hold up for
Speaker 4: some warmth and some safety, you know, you definitely want
Speaker 4: to give the animal rescu League of Boston a call,
Speaker 4: because we can certainly come out, bring them in, get
Speaker 4: everybody spade new their vaccinated and uh andry home.
Speaker 2: So that's great.
Speaker 4: That's always great to keep an eye out for them,
Speaker 4: for sure.
Speaker 2: Is that's so great, Mike Defina, thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Animal Rescue League, easy to contact. Everybody knows how to
Speaker 2: get in contact with it. And if you do see
Speaker 2: some little kittens somewhere in the yard or somewhere like that,
Speaker 2: please take action. Okay, thanks Mike. Let's do this in
Speaker 2: a month or so, just to remind people because on
Speaker 2: different nights during the week, and would love to have
Speaker 2: you back.
Speaker 4: Okay, well, of course anytime.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Thanks Mike, Mike Defeina of the Animal Rescue
Speaker 2: League of Boston. Well, we get back on to talk
Speaker 2: with the great Harvey Silverglade and we're going to reflect
Speaker 2: back on what happened in New Orleans kind of in
Speaker 2: our rearview mirror. But there's a lot of this stuff
Speaker 2: going on. People are getting radicalized as some of these
Speaker 2: sites of the dark Web. We're going to talk to
Speaker 2: Harvey about what he thinks, as a civil libertarian the
Speaker 2: government should be able to do to try to neutralize
Speaker 2: some of this activity. We may agree or disagree. I
Speaker 2: don't know. We haven't discussed it. It should be fun.
Speaker 2: Love to have you participate in the conversation as well.