Speaker 1: It's nights Side with Dan Ray. I'm doell you easy
Speaker 1: Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Madison Rogers, I am always cool.
Speaker 2: The Red Sox, by the way, for those of you
Speaker 2: who are keeping track, are now forty and forty a
Speaker 2: five hundred baseball team. They play game number eighty one,
Speaker 2: which marks the halfway point of the twenty twenty five
Speaker 2: baseball season. Yikes, man, weirdest time go. My name's Dan Ray.
Speaker 2: I'm the host of Nightside. We're gonna take you on
Speaker 2: a quick four hour ride all the way just short
Speaker 2: of midnight tonight. We have some interesting topics also some
Speaker 2: interesting guests coming up during this hour. We'll have four
Speaker 2: guests on different topics. A couple of topics I'll give
Speaker 2: you a heads up are heat related, which is understandable
Speaker 2: in view of what happened today here, well anywhere here
Speaker 2: east of the Mississippi or east of the Rockies. It's hot,
Speaker 2: absolutely hot. So we will talk about that coming up
Speaker 2: at nine o'clock tonight. There's a very interesting development in
Speaker 2: a huge contract that the Massachusetts Department of Transportation Board
Speaker 2: of Directors has awarded to a company from Ireland. The
Speaker 2: redevelopment of eighteen highway service plazas on and around the
Speaker 2: Massachusetts Turnpike, much to the chagrin of a local company,
Speaker 2: a great local company, Global Partners, and Global Partners President
Speaker 2: and CEO Eric Slifko will join us to talk about
Speaker 2: a very strong letter that his company that he has
Speaker 2: sent to Governor Morehley. And then of course we're going
Speaker 2: to talk about the latest on what's going on in Iran.
Speaker 2: First there was a ceasefire, then there wasn't a ceasefire.
Speaker 2: Now it looks like they may be back to a ceasefire.
Speaker 2: Stock market did great today. Oil prices plunged, now that's
Speaker 2: not bad. And the Celtics are having a garage sale.
Speaker 2: It looks like or at least a bit of a salary.
Speaker 2: We'll get to all of that, I promise again. I'm
Speaker 2: Dan Ray. Rob Brooks is back in the control room.
Speaker 2: Our first guest tonight, Dan Zinibart. He's an associate scientist
Speaker 2: in applied ocean physics and engineering, and he's a Penguin
Speaker 2: researcher down at the Woods Hall Oceanographic Institution. He's going
Speaker 2: to talk about a study. He was not directly involved
Speaker 2: in this study, but he's going to talk about a
Speaker 2: study that shows emperor penguins, not the Pittsburgh penguins. Emperor
Speaker 2: penguins are showing a dramatic decline in one region in Antarctica.
Speaker 2: I didn't even realize they had more than one region
Speaker 2: down there, Dan Zinibart, how.
Speaker 1: Are you.
Speaker 3: Really good? Thanks for having me one.
Speaker 2: You are more than welcome. So what's the deal. Emperor penguins,
Speaker 2: I assume are probably at the top of the penguin
Speaker 2: food chain, hence named emperor or do they have a
Speaker 2: certain strut in style that has earned them that designation?
Speaker 3: Hm, let's clean.
Speaker 2: We're going to try to clean up that line here.
Speaker 2: It sounded like you were at the Antarctica as opposed
Speaker 2: to woods Hole. Are you back No, let's well, a
Speaker 2: little bit of a soft start tonight. Let's see if
Speaker 2: if my guest is back. All right, give it a
Speaker 2: second time. Is always a charm. By the way, Dan
Speaker 2: said of broad I don't know what you did there,
Speaker 2: but I thought you moved to the Antarctica for a second.
Speaker 3: No, No, I'm not that far away.
Speaker 2: Okay, So I've asked you this complic you get a
Speaker 2: question about the name, I can hear you just perfectly
Speaker 2: don't even move wherever you are, Okay, even if there's
Speaker 2: a flock of Emperor penguins coming in the door, just
Speaker 2: let them come in. How do they how do we
Speaker 2: get the name emperor penguins? I'm kind of curious.
Speaker 3: It's the tallest of all penguins and the heaviest of
Speaker 3: all penguins. That's why it's right all the oh, kind.
Speaker 2: Of like a basketball player. Okay, we think of the
Speaker 2: Penguins Pittsburgh, we think about hockey. Not now, I'll always
Speaker 2: think about basketball when I think about Emperor p So
Speaker 2: what's going on? They get a dramatic decline in one
Speaker 2: region of Antarctica. Is is this something obviously we should
Speaker 2: be worried about that. The question is how are you
Speaker 2: should we be about this?
Speaker 3: I mean, you can be worried, for sure, we should
Speaker 3: be worried about the indications we see so about five
Speaker 3: years back that all the big studies showing that the
Speaker 3: emperor penguin population are slightly going to be declining. And
Speaker 3: this is because the species is so dependent on the
Speaker 3: sea ice and how long, how stable the sea ice is,
Speaker 3: because they breed during the winter on the sea ice.
Speaker 3: So you can imagine if it warms up like we're
Speaker 3: having heat waves here, actually heatwaves in an Arctica as well.
Speaker 3: And if things warm up too fast, the sea ice
Speaker 3: which they breed on, where basically what they are standing
Speaker 3: on all day, breaks away, then you lose entire generations
Speaker 3: of newborn Emperor penguins. And that's of course we'll have
Speaker 3: a climb down the growth.
Speaker 2: So the baby penguins aren't yet able to swim or
Speaker 2: navigate in water. I assume.
Speaker 3: Correct if they have to lose you know, the plumb
Speaker 3: feathers and get their adult sabus and offense, which I
Speaker 3: want to prove. And if this yes breaks up before
Speaker 3: that happens, they basically trou Oh this.
Speaker 2: Is this is a bad news. Now. This is one
Speaker 2: region of Antarctica. I caught that reference again. We asked
Speaker 2: questions on this show, Dan which we don't script questions.
Speaker 2: How many regions are there in Antarctica. Is this like
Speaker 2: one area where we're having a problem, or is this
Speaker 2: a huge region that we're having a problem.
Speaker 3: It's about a quarter and one part of this region
Speaker 3: is the fastest warming region. So the region what you
Speaker 3: would expect those impacts to be first, and what we
Speaker 3: don't know yet is if this is a trend or
Speaker 3: if this is a fluctuation. One thing that really needs
Speaker 3: to be understood is we are observing now much better
Speaker 3: than we have been observing twenty years ago, so our data,
Speaker 3: the data we're getting now is way more detailed. So
Speaker 3: we see such fluctuations, we all expect it to be
Speaker 3: a trend, not just a fluctuation, but we will be
Speaker 3: keeping having it to keep looking longer to make sure
Speaker 3: of that. The true problem is while this is one
Speaker 3: species and we don't want to use any of the species,
Speaker 3: especially not such a iconic species, this can also hint
Speaker 3: to the health of the entirety of the ecosystem because
Speaker 3: the emper penguin is at the top of a food web.
Speaker 3: If a predator at the top of the food that
Speaker 3: doesn't do well, there can be many reasons for that,
Speaker 3: and one of the reasons except the sea ice, can
Speaker 3: be that its food supply is strengthing okay, and so
Speaker 3: it gives us an indication of the ecosystem of the
Speaker 3: Southern Ocean. So the emperor penguins stand is a bioindicator,
Speaker 3: and that bioindicator is doing not well. The entire ecosystem
Speaker 3: is not doing well, and if the entire ecosystem in
Speaker 3: the seven Ocean is not doing well, it really reduces
Speaker 3: the so called ecosystem services. We have to keep in
Speaker 3: mind that the Southern Ocean does a lot for us.
Speaker 3: That solves a lot of heat, that it solves a
Speaker 3: lot of CO two out of all the oceans in
Speaker 3: the world because it's so cold, and that actually helps
Speaker 3: us helps the world not too warm too fast. So
Speaker 3: while we are talking about one species and the decline
Speaker 3: of the species, the impact which this tells us is
Speaker 3: that in the future we might have to deal with
Speaker 3: even more heatwaves.
Speaker 2: I assume that the penguins in Antarctica basically are fish eaters.
Speaker 2: I'm assuming that correct.
Speaker 3: Fish and squid and krill, So.
Speaker 2: Sure the stuff that you would figure is there an
Speaker 2: indication that that food supply is diminishing or is it
Speaker 2: too early to tell.
Speaker 3: We know that with less sea ice, you have less
Speaker 3: algae growing in that sea ice, and then that will
Speaker 3: have a condition unless krill being able to grow because
Speaker 3: the krill eats on that algae. So algae stays under
Speaker 3: the sea ice and then blooms onto the CS is
Speaker 3: gone and it really needs the C. I S the
Speaker 3: specific algae, get a list there so vers an indication
Speaker 3: the system that is rather slow. So we actually that's
Speaker 3: the concerning part. We would not expect to see any
Speaker 3: signal yet all the world was okay, here's totaly another
Speaker 3: decade or two into this, reallyal lives in an Arctica.
Speaker 3: And if that signal is true and it really arives
Speaker 3: now and we already can see those massive changes as
Speaker 3: our colleagues showed, then that's concerning.
Speaker 2: Okay, Dan, our connection is not great. I don't know
Speaker 2: what sort of a phony you're You're down in woods Hall,
Speaker 2: I assume right.
Speaker 3: No, I'm excer Seattle.
Speaker 2: I know in Seattle, Washington. But that's okay. Are you
Speaker 2: on like a headset or something or just that.
Speaker 3: I just have my phone in my head, just your
Speaker 3: cell phone.
Speaker 2: How well, we didn't. We didn't luck out on the quality,
Speaker 2: but we've I think I've understood uh and my audience
Speaker 2: has understood the message, which is most important. So I
Speaker 2: thank you very much for for for sticking with us
Speaker 2: on this, because I know it was probably not a
Speaker 2: lot of I know it wasn't easy on your nd
Speaker 2: easy either. I hope that you could hear me a
Speaker 2: little more clearly than we could hear you, But thank
Speaker 2: you for having joined us, and we'll keep an eye
Speaker 2: on it, and maybe the next time we talked to you,
Speaker 2: you'll be a little closer to home and the reception
Speaker 2: will be cleaner all around. So wonderful, Thank you very much,
Speaker 2: nice to talk to you. Enjoy your time in Seattle.
Speaker 2: When we get back, we're going to go to the
Speaker 2: other end of the spectrum here. We're not going to
Speaker 2: talk about Antarctica and sea ice. We're going to talk
Speaker 2: about Boston's extreme heat and its impact on peak energy demand.
Speaker 2: Although schools are not in business, air quality on schools,
Speaker 2: there are some schools I guess that are still in operation.
Speaker 2: And also we're going to talk about urban heat islands.
Speaker 2: I'm going to talk with Sharon Rawn. She's an assistant
Speaker 2: director of public health at the Metropolitan Area Planning Council
Speaker 2: here in Massachusetts. We're going to come right back on Nightside.
Speaker 2: My name is Dan Ray, and I assure you Sharon's
Speaker 2: phone reception contact is going to be a little cleaner
Speaker 2: than Dan's was. Back on Nightside right after.
Speaker 1: This, You're on Nightside with Dan Ray. I'm w Boston's
Speaker 1: News Radio.
Speaker 2: All right, welcome back everybody again. One of our themes
Speaker 2: tonight is, of course Boston's extreme heat, a lot of
Speaker 2: heat here in New England, Ah, well, really anywhere in
Speaker 2: the eastern two thirds of the United States. And we're
Speaker 2: going to talk with Sharon Ron. Sharon is the assistant
Speaker 2: director of Public Health at the Metropolitan Area Planning Council
Speaker 2: here in Massachusetts. Welcome to nightside, Sharon. How are you.
Speaker 4: I'm good, Hi, Dan.
Speaker 2: How about explaining I certainly have heard and some of
Speaker 2: our listeners have as well, exactly what the Metropolitan Area
Speaker 2: of Planning Council does.
Speaker 4: Yes, of course, so Metropolitan Area Planning Council or MAPC,
Speaker 4: we're there, regional planning agency for the one hundred and
Speaker 4: one cities and towns in the Greater Boston area.
Speaker 2: And under that umbrella of those one hundred and one towns,
Speaker 2: what sort of planning are you involved in? I assume
Speaker 2: that part of it has to be energy consumption and
Speaker 2: energy availability.
Speaker 4: Yes, absolutely so. We have a green energy team that
Speaker 4: does a lot of work around energy consumption and green
Speaker 4: energy and energy efficiency. We also do land use planning,
Speaker 4: so thinking about housing, open space, and recreation needs. I'm
Speaker 4: on the public health team. So we're working a lot
Speaker 4: with local public health departments and doing similar sort of
Speaker 4: planning exercises for planning for the future, and also thinking
Speaker 4: through what are the policies, the programs and environmental changes
Speaker 4: that the local public health departments have under their jurisdiction
Speaker 4: that we can support them with.
Speaker 2: Okay, so all of us know that today was a
Speaker 2: miserable day unless you were inside in an air conditioned
Speaker 2: office building where you weren't paying for the electricity that
Speaker 2: was running the air conditioners. But how much of a
Speaker 2: heat load was put onto the electric and you know,
Speaker 2: energy providers here in Massachusetts, this must have been a
Speaker 2: tough day for ever Source and National Grid and those
Speaker 2: all UNITIL and all those sorts of companies.
Speaker 4: I assume, yeah, it definitely was. We have a peak
Speaker 4: demand end program where we're looking at when those utility
Speaker 4: providers are expecting the peace demanded. Today this afternoon, right
Speaker 4: now is during a projected peace demand hered And actually, Dan,
Speaker 4: I am sitting here right now, and right before you
Speaker 4: called me, I had a power outage because of the heat.
Speaker 4: So I am living it as we speak.
Speaker 2: Well, I hope that you're not near where I am
Speaker 2: because I have to be in the air for another
Speaker 2: three and a half hours. So I hate to say this,
Speaker 2: but if I had a choice between it happening to
Speaker 2: you or me, I hate to say that, but I hope,
Speaker 2: I hope you're able to get out of Are you
Speaker 2: in the are you at home or in your office building?
Speaker 4: I'm at home. Well, these urban heat islands that we're
Speaker 4: worried about.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you know, urban heat islands. I know that
Speaker 2: that became a little bit of a big issue with
Speaker 2: the the reconstruction of the new White Stadium and the
Speaker 2: new soccer team that is going to play there a
Speaker 2: couple of years from now. A lot of the tree
Speaker 2: in Franklin Park near the near White Stadium, the footprint
Speaker 2: of White Stadium we're taken down, and I know a
Speaker 2: lot of people in the community were quite upset about that.
Speaker 2: A heat island basically is a place where there's a
Speaker 2: paucity of vegetation and trees at a plethora of a
Speaker 2: cement and rose fairly accurate definition of what we're talking about.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Absolutely, And I think that the concern is not
Speaker 4: these spaces not only are becoming much hotter during the
Speaker 4: day because of all of that paved surface absorbing and
Speaker 4: radiating the sun heat. But they also don't cool off
Speaker 4: as well at night. So it's one thing if it's
Speaker 4: the park, but if it's in a neighborhood where people
Speaker 4: are living and they're not able to cool down at night,
Speaker 4: that's when we're starting to really see those negative health
Speaker 4: outcomes because your body's just getting no relief from the heat.
Speaker 2: Yeah. You know, today, for the first time in my memory,
Speaker 2: you watch the news and you hit the weather. Today.
Speaker 2: Of course was the leads to and they were talking
Speaker 2: about one hundred and one degrees and then the real
Speaker 2: feel and all of that stuff. But for the first
Speaker 2: time today I saw some of the weather forecasters talking
Speaker 2: about what the actual heat was on the pavement in
Speaker 2: various communities. I have never seen that on a Boston
Speaker 2: Weather's channel before. Maybe I've missed it, but they were
Speaker 2: saying that the pavement in and around Boston, the pavement,
Speaker 2: of course, the roadways and the sidewalks up to like
Speaker 2: one hundred and thirty six degrees. When I saw that number,
Speaker 2: I said to myself, I'm leaving my car idle today.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to put my poor car and the
Speaker 2: four tires on one hundred and thirty six degrees pavement.
Speaker 2: Had you ever seen had did you happen to see
Speaker 2: that today in any of the weather forecasts? And did
Speaker 2: I miss it?
Speaker 4: You know in the past, you know, talking about the
Speaker 4: temperature of services versus the ambient tent pissure of air
Speaker 4: is something that we certainly talked about and they're certainly linked.
Speaker 4: But when it gets really hot and relentlessly funny like
Speaker 4: it is today, the surfaces themselves become a hazard. And
Speaker 4: I think that what you're talking about, concerned about the
Speaker 4: help and safety of your car is certainly what we
Speaker 4: start worrying about is if you've cascading failures, because I mean,
Speaker 4: roads are one thing, but you have seen it with
Speaker 4: trains where the surfaces of the train mails get so
Speaker 4: hot that they start to buckle, and so it can
Speaker 4: cause in my neighborhoods the power line started to stay
Speaker 4: set on fire. And so actual surface temperature is starting
Speaker 4: to cause damage unto themselves.
Speaker 2: So I'm going to ask that question. I have never
Speaker 2: seen that before on a weather forecast on television pil
Speaker 2: they'll give you the temperature, and they'll give you what
Speaker 2: the windshield factor is or they'll give you the heat
Speaker 2: in decks or whatever all of that. But have you
Speaker 2: ever seen there was a full screen today that was saying,
Speaker 2: you know, roadways in Boston one hundred and thirty six
Speaker 2: degrees and somewhere else. I've never seen that before. Have
Speaker 2: I just been clueless or have you actually seen that
Speaker 2: in the context of a television weather forecast.
Speaker 4: I have not seen it in the context of a
Speaker 4: television in the forecast. You were one hundred percent right.
Speaker 4: I normally see it in the context of people talking
Speaker 4: about surfaces and playgrounds and where.
Speaker 2: Oh. Absolutely. But I will bet you that as this
Speaker 2: summer wears on, and if we get some more temperatures
Speaker 2: like today or even close to today, that this will
Speaker 2: become a regular feature on some of the weather forecasts.
Speaker 2: I just think that you that someone came up with it,
Speaker 2: and maybe they've been doing that in Houston and Phoenix
Speaker 2: for years, but you never would have thought you've seen
Speaker 2: it in Boston. So equality in schools most schools, I
Speaker 2: assume at this point out for the year, right, are
Speaker 2: we worried about schools at this point?
Speaker 4: Well, we're worried about schools because more and more schools
Speaker 4: are using or more and more districts are using their
Speaker 4: school this district sorry school buildings for summer programming, and
Speaker 4: so they are the same old buildings that were in
Speaker 4: session a few years ago, and they are just as
Speaker 4: ill prepared for heat when their summer sessions as they
Speaker 4: were when they were in for normal session. But you're right,
Speaker 4: I think the majority of students now are out for summer,
Speaker 4: but it doesn't remain the concern.
Speaker 2: Well, Sharon Ron, thank you very much. Sharon is the
Speaker 2: assistant director of the Public Health of Public Health at
Speaker 2: the Metropolitan Area of Planning Council in Massachusetts. Thank you
Speaker 2: for the work you do, Sharon, and thank everyone else
Speaker 2: there as well. Thank you so much for joining us tonight,
Speaker 2: and I hope you get your power back as soon
Speaker 2: as possible.
Speaker 4: Thanks Dan, have a good evening you too.
Speaker 2: We will talk about ways to protect your mind and
Speaker 2: body when heat rises at eight forty five. However, when
Speaker 2: we get back, we have some advice for parents on
Speaker 2: how to navigate the summer months while balancing work, family,
Speaker 2: and an increasingly complex world. Heather Wilson, co founder of
Speaker 2: give Segal, who's going to join us right after the
Speaker 2: news at the bottom of the hour get out of
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Speaker 1: You're on Night Side with Dan Ray on WAZ Boston's
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Speaker 2: What a welcome. Heather Wilson. She's the co founder of
Speaker 2: an organization called Give, Send and Go. She has some
Speaker 2: advice on how parents can navigate the summer months, which
Speaker 2: upon which they're just about starting while balancing work, family,
Speaker 2: and increasingly complex world. Heather, A lot to talk about here.
Speaker 2: How are you the.
Speaker 5: Saving I am doing well. How are you good?
Speaker 2: Where are you folks located?
Speaker 5: I am down on the eastern shore of Maryland, but
Speaker 5: most of our employees just work remotely all around the world.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, so tell us what does your group? Give
Speaker 2: said to go? What do you do?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: So, GIFs and Go was started about ten years ago
Speaker 5: a couple siblings and I as a place for people
Speaker 5: to fundraise easily online and that we share hope. Well,
Speaker 5: people are fundraising, so we know some of the big
Speaker 5: crowdfunding PLA forms that are out there. We are similar,
Speaker 5: but I would say a little better.
Speaker 2: Okay. So, uh so it's founded Vice Vice ad byce
Speaker 2: some folks. You know, how did people interact with it?
Speaker 2: I'm trying to understand what you what what what people
Speaker 2: can can can glean glean from your organization is the
Speaker 2: word I was looking for. Go ahead, what what? How's it?
Speaker 2: How's it? How's how can my listeners be helped by
Speaker 2: give send and go.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so if you were to go to give sendgo
Speaker 5: dot com, you would see a bunch of people raising
Speaker 5: money for all sorts of things. And so how it
Speaker 5: works is and again me and two of my siblings
Speaker 5: started this ten years ago. And how it works is
Speaker 5: that you would go on and you'd say I need
Speaker 5: to raise money. Maybe you get in a car accident
Speaker 5: and uh it was an unexpected expense, and so you
Speaker 5: go on to give send Go, You start a campaign
Speaker 5: and then you share it across social media saying I
Speaker 5: need some help. I was in this card car accident.
Speaker 5: Can you please help me? And people it's a fundraising site.
Speaker 2: Okay, So this is like go fund me.
Speaker 5: It is very similar. A couple of differences where in
Speaker 5: more countries available in more countries around the world, our
Speaker 5: payment processing fees are less, and we have a hope
Speaker 5: aspect of it, where we don't just say you're on
Speaker 5: your own, go try to raise funds we say we're
Speaker 5: going to step in and let you know that you're
Speaker 5: not alone while you're raising your funds.
Speaker 2: So what can you do to help someone. Let's assume
Speaker 2: somebody has a I don't know, they have three kids,
Speaker 2: and they want them to go to summer camp, and
Speaker 2: one wants to go to a soccer camp in this direction,
Speaker 2: another one to go to a basketball camp in that direction,
Speaker 2: and another wants to go to a music camp thirty
Speaker 2: miles in the other direction. And the mom or the dad,
Speaker 2: or maybe it's a single parent, they're they're being pulled
Speaker 2: in three different directions. And each camp starts at nine
Speaker 2: o'clock runs from nine to three, So you can't drop
Speaker 2: all of them off simultaneously. You can't afford to buy
Speaker 2: a helicopter and buy them parachutes. Is that the sort
Speaker 2: of person who can contact you and you guys will
Speaker 2: help set up a page for them to to to
Speaker 2: make an appeal. Is that the way it works. I'm
Speaker 2: trying to I'm trying to understand it as best I can,
Speaker 2: so you know it. Yeah, I'm giving you hypotheticals that
Speaker 2: I think might work. Go ahead.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So it's not necessarily that we step in and
Speaker 5: help with their every day shuffling kids around.
Speaker 2: You're in Maryland, right, I get it, you're in Maryland.
Speaker 5: Originally it would be great. I have my own children,
Speaker 5: so so.
Speaker 2: What So someone contacts you and says, gee, I got
Speaker 2: three kids are going in this direction. It's gonna I
Speaker 2: can drive one of them, but I gotta get some
Speaker 2: other parents and I got to chip in. I gotta
Speaker 2: raise some money and the tuition.
Speaker 5: For these kids to raise. Yeah, maybe you need to
Speaker 5: raise money for your summer camp, right, Like, camps are
Speaker 5: expensive if you're gonna send your kids camp, and you
Speaker 5: know that grandma would love to chip in, and maybe
Speaker 5: a couple of aunts and uncles or whoever. You have
Speaker 5: some people that you know that would be willing to
Speaker 5: help because they know you're kind of in a tough
Speaker 5: spot with these stray kids and make an ends meet.
Speaker 5: And so you come on to gifts end Go you say,
Speaker 5: I need help raising money for summer camp this year.
Speaker 5: I really think it's going to be a great opportunity
Speaker 5: for my children. And you just start a campaign on
Speaker 5: gifts end Go. You do it yourself. We have a
Speaker 5: little AI guy who helps you create your campaign and
Speaker 5: it's very very easy for people to set up and
Speaker 5: then you just start sharing it across social media saying
Speaker 5: hey grandma, hey sister, can you help me? This is
Speaker 5: where I am here. I have these three kids, they
Speaker 5: all need to go to summer camp, and you know that.
Speaker 5: You know, my husband just got laid off and things
Speaker 5: are really tight. And then your friends and family. The
Speaker 5: way it works is your friends and family and community.
Speaker 5: It gives an easy place for them to come around
Speaker 5: you and step up and help for the different needs.
Speaker 5: A lot of times we see it more in the
Speaker 5: like tragedy type of things, like something really unexpected happens,
Speaker 5: right like you get a diagnosis.
Speaker 2: Yeah no, yeah, yeah, we we all can allow our
Speaker 2: imaginations to run there. So here's my question. If you're
Speaker 2: going to basically reach out to Grandmama, you know, Auntie Rita,
Speaker 2: uncle Harry uh, and your long lost cousin in Philadelphia,
Speaker 2: why do they need give send and go? I mean,
Speaker 2: can't they? I don't. That's what I assumed. It would
Speaker 2: be one of these things where someone would put together
Speaker 2: a pitch and they would put it out there in
Speaker 2: in a in a forum, in a public forum, and
Speaker 2: someone maybe in Kansas would look at it and say, oh,
Speaker 2: I remember when I had three kids that summer twenty
Speaker 2: years ago. When they're all gone and you know, different
Speaker 2: compass points, and so that's it's more. They help you,
Speaker 2: help them develop a pitch that they can make either
Speaker 2: to their local community, to their neighborhood, or to their
Speaker 2: family and friends. That's what I'm beginning to hear, sound
Speaker 2: sound like from you?
Speaker 5: Yeah, So gift sung Goo is a fundraising site. That
Speaker 5: is what we are. We're not a community a do
Speaker 5: you have a refrigerator? Mine's gone.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm not asking that question. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: we're not on the same page. I just want to
Speaker 2: make it clear from my audience that you could start
Speaker 2: a go Fundme page and you could say, to go
Speaker 2: fund me, I need money because my kids, they're all
Speaker 2: teenagers and they want to do sports. I don't want
Speaker 2: them sitting at home. And you can go on GoFundMe.
Speaker 2: What what service?
Speaker 5: So the same thing on gifts seng Go. We have
Speaker 5: less processing fees. We have the same tools, if not more,
Speaker 5: to help you share your campaign easily effectively across social media.
Speaker 5: But really we are the same as far as what
Speaker 5: we do. We allow people to raise funds easily online
Speaker 5: from a community of people, and that we have people
Speaker 5: come on to our site looking for people to give
Speaker 5: to you, but most of the time it's going to
Speaker 5: be your friends and family because that's how fund raising works, right.
Speaker 2: And that's so you're you're different from goalfundme because whenever
Speaker 2: I've seen and we do a lot of this here
Speaker 2: uh here, and that's normally with you know, where the
Speaker 2: tragedy has occurred, uh and and all of a sudden
Speaker 2: a family's life has been turned upside down by you know,
Speaker 2: some of the most horrible circumstances. And and oftentimes you'll
Speaker 2: see a goalfundme page and someone will set a goal
Speaker 2: of raising fifty thousand dollars uh and they will exceed
Speaker 2: that in the first day, and they'll have one hundred
Speaker 2: thousand dollars and you'll find out that they, you know,
Speaker 2: they've raised a college scholarship fund or something like that.
Speaker 2: That's what I think. If it's gofund me, I guess
Speaker 2: you could do that as well. But you're you're more
Speaker 2: laser focused on people who know your clients. So when
Speaker 2: I come to you, you're going to say, well, who
Speaker 2: are your friends, who are your relatives, who are your neighbors,
Speaker 2: who can we.
Speaker 5: It's going to be the same as GoFundMe. It is
Speaker 5: going to be the same thing. We are the second
Speaker 5: largest platform undergo fundme. We are their direct competitor. Think
Speaker 5: of how you think of GoFundMe. That is who we are.
Speaker 5: We just yeah, like I said, we have less. We
Speaker 5: have a couple of things that differentiate us, but it
Speaker 5: is going to be the same sort of process. As
Speaker 5: far as what people we see a lot of those
Speaker 5: tragedies and things like that as well on gibzend go.
Speaker 5: That is how people raise ones.
Speaker 2: Yep, So you've been around how long now?
Speaker 5: We have been around ten years. This is our tenth year.
Speaker 2: Did you predate go fund me because it sounds to
Speaker 2: me like they probably came around that same time.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they were there a couple of years prior to us.
Speaker 5: We had seen seen them and thought, what a cool idea?
Speaker 5: Are there any other based type platforms like this? And
Speaker 5: we launched.
Speaker 2: Okay, uh, they got competition fair enough. Heather appreciates your
Speaker 2: call very much. Thank you so much for talking with
Speaker 2: us tonight. Have a great night, Thank you. Okay, back
Speaker 2: on Nightside right after this.
Speaker 1: Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Well as sometimes happened. Professional sports teams trade players and
Speaker 2: sometimes when guests don't show who we expect to be available,
Speaker 2: we sometimes go to the bullpen. And we're very lucky
Speaker 2: to have Dan Watkins with us, who not only is
Speaker 2: a news anchor, but he liked me, is also a
Speaker 2: sports guy, and he probably is a little stronger than
Speaker 2: I am a couple of sports. I might be a
Speaker 2: little stronger in baseball history. But Dan, let's talk about
Speaker 2: the sell picks. They're offloading. They're they're doing a little
Speaker 2: bit of what the the Red Sox did with Raffie Devers,
Speaker 2: and they're floating some of their talent so that they
Speaker 2: can uh diminish the amount of rep tax revenue they're
Speaker 2: gonna have to pay the league. What's going on?
Speaker 6: Yeah, So the Celtics, they keep reshaping this roster. Right,
Speaker 6: they've stripped away some big time pieces from the championship
Speaker 6: team last year. Drew Holliday gets traded last night to Portland,
Speaker 6: back to his old team, right for the team, to
Speaker 6: the team that the Celtics got him from a couple
Speaker 6: of years ago. Uh, And in return they get a
Speaker 6: guy in Anthony Anthony Simons.
Speaker 2: He'll know where the good news is when he gets
Speaker 2: to Portland, He'll know how to get to the arena.
Speaker 6: You would think, so, well, sure.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, they forgot maybe sublet the the wows.
Speaker 6: I liked Holiday, I did too. I thought he was
Speaker 6: everything that the Celtics need. He was that adult in
Speaker 6: the room that that they desperately needed at the time.
Speaker 6: And you know, he's gonna go down as a you know,
Speaker 6: fans are gonna I think we'll always appreciate what Drew
Speaker 6: Holliday did for this two years.
Speaker 2: One championship, right, that's not bad. Bat in five hundred.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, who's the guy.
Speaker 2: They're getting there getting a guy plus two draft choices,
Speaker 2: second round choices, which is pretty good. I assume this
Speaker 2: player is younger.
Speaker 6: Anthony Simons is his name. He's nine years younger than
Speaker 6: Drew Holliday. He's only twenty six. He's got a year
Speaker 6: left on his deal. He's making somewhere in the twenty
Speaker 6: million dollar range heading in the next year, which was
Speaker 6: a It is a salary cap relief because Holiday was
Speaker 6: scheduled to make in the thirties.
Speaker 2: But Holiday's also working on a four year deal.
Speaker 6: That's true.
Speaker 2: Yes, and so not only next year, but whoever's got
Speaker 2: him then.
Speaker 6: Has to be responsible, big time deal. Okay, so they
Speaker 6: did that. They peeled him away last night.
Speaker 2: They have you seen this this player for Portland again.
Speaker 2: We see the Trailblazers once a year. They're not right,
Speaker 2: they're not a you.
Speaker 6: Know, they're not a marquee team.
Speaker 2: But yeah, they're not the Lakers. You got a line
Speaker 2: in this guy's holiday.
Speaker 6: So he's a decent three point shooter. He's a really
Speaker 6: good offensive player. Defense though, he is definitely a massive
Speaker 6: downgrade from Drew Holliday. That is what I've read and
Speaker 6: what I've heard. And then tonight the Celtics with another trade,
Speaker 6: ESPN's Sham Shrania reporting that they're sending Kristaps Porzingis to
Speaker 6: the Atlanta Hawks and part of a three team deal
Speaker 6: where Atlanta's sending their first round pick tomorrow night to
Speaker 6: Brooklyn and the Celtics are getting George's Niang, who is
Speaker 6: from Lawrence. He's a local guy. He's in his thirties.
Speaker 6: He's another kind of a three point shooter guy.
Speaker 2: And then older player, the older Yeah, if he's in
Speaker 2: his thirties, yes, as he bounced around. I had not.
Speaker 6: He has been with He had been with Cleveland for
Speaker 6: a while. He was traded to the Hawks during the
Speaker 6: season this year, so he's been He's a little bit
Speaker 6: of a journeyman. We'll see if the Celtics hang onto
Speaker 6: these guys or not, or if they're just if this
Speaker 6: is just part of like a domino effect where they're
Speaker 6: going to move them later on. Celtics also get a
Speaker 6: couple of second round picks here in this deal too.
Speaker 6: This one felt much more like a pure salary dump.
Speaker 2: Well. Peringius also had some medical issues and short term
Speaker 2: he had some sort of a bug this up spring
Speaker 2: that limited his time in the playoffs.
Speaker 6: Right, and then he's also had you know, physical injuries
Speaker 6: as well throughout the years too. So I'm guessing with
Speaker 6: based off of the return, that there might have been
Speaker 6: something going on with the medicals as well there that
Speaker 6: Atlanta might not be totally sure what they're getting here
Speaker 6: in Porzingis, and that's why the Celtics didn't get as
Speaker 6: much back along with the salary to Porzingis, another guy
Speaker 6: that's is set to make in the thirty millions of
Speaker 6: dollars coming up next season, where Niang is only on
Speaker 6: the books for about eight million dollars.
Speaker 2: So por Singis is going to play in an international
Speaker 2: tournament this summer for his native lat FiOS. I understand
Speaker 2: it correct.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he usually does that whenever is the Foeba or
Speaker 6: the whatever those those tournaments are called. There's so many
Speaker 6: of them now, I can't keep them all away.
Speaker 2: From the Hawks. He seems to be such a fragile
Speaker 2: player for you know, for a big center guy. I
Speaker 2: don't know that I've won him playing that summer basketball.
Speaker 6: Right, Well, yeah, I would assume so I would probably
Speaker 6: feel the same way there too.
Speaker 2: But okay, now let's move. Let's move to baseball. Okay,
Speaker 2: we're going to get in territory that we're both comfortable in.
Speaker 6: Let's do it.
Speaker 2: So the Red Sox tonight, as you know, reached the
Speaker 2: halfway point of the season. Yep, forty and forty has
Speaker 2: a nice round ring to it.
Speaker 6: Perfectly perfectly balanced, Yes.
Speaker 2: Perfectly balanced. Cora went nuts last night and was ejected
Speaker 2: second straight night. Yeah, for good reason. I mean I
Speaker 2: thought he was. I think he objected correctly. New York
Speaker 2: wouldn't overturn the call, and he ended up with the umpire,
Speaker 2: which to me seemed crazy. I mean, the replay seemed
Speaker 2: to indicate that the hand was back on the bag.
Speaker 2: They got problems here. They In order to make the playoffs,
Speaker 2: I'm thinking you got to get to about ninety wins
Speaker 2: these days. So for the last eighty or so, they
Speaker 2: got to go fifty and thirty. They got to go
Speaker 2: twenty games over five hundred. Is that doable?
Speaker 6: I don't think that's doable. They are fortunate though that
Speaker 6: the American League is down this year. So if you
Speaker 6: look right now, the Red Sox are only a game
Speaker 6: and a half out of that last spot. Teams like Seattle,
Speaker 6: who the Socks have beaten this year ahead of them.
Speaker 6: They got a huge series with the Blue Jays coming
Speaker 6: up this weekend, who are a couple of games ahead
Speaker 6: of them right now too. They just need to start
Speaker 6: beating these teams that are, you know, right in their
Speaker 6: way to getting to the playoffs. And they need to
Speaker 6: stop making these little league mistakes that they're making every
Speaker 6: single night. I mean, that's the only way I can
Speaker 6: describe what they're doing on the baseball field here. Most
Speaker 6: nights you got guys dropping balls, the unearned runs. Yeah,
Speaker 6: it's it's the I don't know if you saw. I
Speaker 6: know it was the Giants.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you're talking about Duran running into eating it
Speaker 2: on that pop fly behind third base.
Speaker 6: That was over the weekend and then last night. This
Speaker 6: was while you were on the air during during night's side.
Speaker 6: But the double play that they hit themselves into, oh yeah,
Speaker 6: was absolutely.
Speaker 2: I saw the replay on that and Dan, I'll tell
Speaker 2: you a secret. Occasionally during a news break, I take
Speaker 2: a little peek at the TV set.
Speaker 6: Good for you, if you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: So Hun did Dobbins and now has a little bit
Speaker 2: of an elbow problem.
Speaker 6: Yep, they bring Fits back up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like Fits. I got to tell you something.
Speaker 2: I loved the guy last September. He didn't win a game.
Speaker 2: I think he's zero to three this year. Uh, but
Speaker 2: I just like his stuff. He looks to me like
Speaker 2: a pitcher. He's got that that that lower body strength.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't be a bit surprised if he's the best
Speaker 2: thing the Red Sox have after Crochet in the second half.
Speaker 2: Are you buying that or no?
Speaker 6: They need someone to step up here because I've had
Speaker 6: about enough of watching Walker Bueller every night. The guy's
Speaker 6: saying the right things, but man, it is not working
Speaker 6: right now. He was hurt earlier this year. Since he's
Speaker 6: come back, his e RA is over eight, which is terrible.
Speaker 6: Gilido has been you know, he's been okay. He's given
Speaker 6: them innings, his velocities up, which is huge for him.
Speaker 6: He needs that because he's really only throwing two pitches
Speaker 6: at this point with his fastball and his change up
Speaker 6: and then yeah, other than that, and I still hold
Speaker 6: out hope for Brian Bao to take that next step.
Speaker 2: Looten looked, well, thank god the Bruin, Thank god the
Speaker 2: rid Sox swept the Yankees. If they hadn't swept the Yankees,
Speaker 2: that'd be six games under. Instead of being forty and forty,
Speaker 2: they'd be thirty seven and forty three, and uh and
Speaker 2: maybe all hope would be lost. I I I last
Speaker 2: night they would have three nothing in the top of
Speaker 2: the first and by the time the Angels had finished
Speaker 2: the inning they were with the Angels were winning five
Speaker 2: to three. Peaceful. Where was that shutdown inning that Beulah
Speaker 2: had to provide them?
Speaker 6: First first pitch home run for the.
Speaker 2: Oils netto put it in the leftfield bleacher I happened
Speaker 2: to be seeing. I saw that.
Speaker 6: I think he hit a couple when they were here
Speaker 6: a few weeks.
Speaker 2: Yes he did, Yes he did. They got some. You know,
Speaker 2: he's hitting better than Trout does at this point. At
Speaker 2: this point, hey, Dan, you pinch it for me tonight, relief, pitch, whatever,
Speaker 2: whatever metaphor. We want to use you the best. Thanks man,
Speaker 2: I appreciate it, and I always.
Speaker 6: Enjoy talking with same.
Speaker 2: You really do same here back at you we get back.
Speaker 2: We're going to talk with the president, the CEO of
Speaker 2: Global Partners. This is a huge energy company here in Massachusetts,
Speaker 2: been around almost one hundred years, founded by the family
Speaker 2: of Eric slip Cup. He feels as if they have
Speaker 2: gotten the short end of the stick on a huge
Speaker 2: deal that has gone out of state and out of country.
Speaker 2: We will explain right after the nine o'clock news here
Speaker 2: at night side