Speaker 1: It's Nightside with Dan Ray. I'm telling you easy Boston.
Speaker 2: Radio, baw yass up the duck boats. That could be
Speaker 2: the turning point of the season tonight. You just never know.
Speaker 2: We'll look back and say it all started on May thirtieth.
Speaker 2: We'll see, We'll see. Okay, everybody, we have reached the
Speaker 2: end of another week of Nightside. I was off two
Speaker 2: nights this week, Wednesday and Thursday. I want to thank
Speaker 2: again Gary Tangway for sitting in and allowing me to
Speaker 2: go to an event in Canada in Montreal on Wednesday.
Speaker 2: Night with that was a good friend of mine, Chris
Speaker 2: Nylan presenting a one man show that was just an
Speaker 2: amazing presentation. It will be posted, I'm sure at some
Speaker 2: point it will receive, you know, a lot of reviews.
Speaker 2: Chris basically told his life story. I had negotiated the
Speaker 2: contract that gave him the option of doing this show
Speaker 2: on terms that were I thought very favorable to him.
Speaker 2: And I sat with my wife and with his wife
Speaker 2: and a crowd of about six hundred people at a
Speaker 2: fabulous venue in Montreal. And that's where I was for
Speaker 2: two nights. So it was very important that I could
Speaker 2: be there to watch this presentation take place. You may
Speaker 2: see it at some point in the not too distant
Speaker 2: future on I don't know one of the the the
Speaker 2: channels on television. There. Again, I don't want to change anything,
Speaker 2: but I think it certainly merits that there was a
Speaker 2: very clear and strong message from Chris Nyland just to
Speaker 2: see delivered strong messages on the isis and remember the
Speaker 2: Watrial Canadians, other New York Rangers, the Boston Bruins, and
Speaker 2: again the Montreal Canadians. He did a great job. He
Speaker 2: held nothing back, which was his role as a player.
Speaker 2: Just it was. It was quite a presentation. Anyway, This
Speaker 2: was my third night, but this is our twentieth hour
Speaker 2: of the week, so I'm kind of Gary Gary Tangways
Speaker 2: four hours on Wednesday and four hours on Thursday. I
Speaker 2: kind of addressed what that Gary talked about. But we've
Speaker 2: had a week that started with a gentleman who climbed
Speaker 2: Mount Everest. We talked with a sleep expert from Mass
Speaker 2: General Brigham. We talked with the CEO of Scouting Boston.
Speaker 2: We talked with a doctor about unhealthy air here on
Speaker 2: the East Coast. We had a tribute to Memorial Day
Speaker 2: on Monday night, at nine o'clock the meaning of Memorial Day.
Speaker 2: Later on, and then at eleven o'clock we talked about
Speaker 2: Kermit the Frog's commencement speech at the University of Maryland.
Speaker 2: That will be our best of nightside on Sunday night.
Speaker 2: It may not have been the best hour of the week,
Speaker 2: but it was an interesting hour and it's one that
Speaker 2: I think people who when they listen on Sunday night
Speaker 2: will see that that we deal with a wide range
Speaker 2: range of topics here on Nightside. On Tuesday night, we
Speaker 2: talked with Mike Dean of Axios about the cost of
Speaker 2: renting in Boston. Talked with the owner of a new
Speaker 2: facility in Brockton. Talked with Kevin Paul DuPont, Boston Globe
Speaker 2: writer and a columnist and Great Hockey analyst about what
Speaker 2: needs to be done to fix the Bruins next season
Speaker 2: beginning in October. Talked about waiters and others perhaps in
Speaker 2: the new tax bill no longer having to pay taxes
Speaker 2: on tips or workers who work overtime, and then we
Speaker 2: talked about out two hours on Tuesday night, Donald Trump
Speaker 2: really seems to have his focus on Harvard, and I
Speaker 2: think he's wasting a lot of legitimate political capital on that.
Speaker 2: We'll talk more about that, I'm sure next week. I
Speaker 2: think that that for some reason he's not willing to
Speaker 2: accept concessions that have been made by the administration at Harvard,
Speaker 2: which I think is a mistake. And we talked about
Speaker 2: empathy with an author, Jill Robin Payne at eleven o'clock
Speaker 2: on Tuesday night. Earlier tonight, we talked with Zach Dole
Speaker 2: of US News and World Report about the safest cars
Speaker 2: that are out there for young people. Talk with Jerry Greenfield,
Speaker 2: co owner of Ben and Jerry's, the Jerry of Ben
Speaker 2: and Jerry's about the scuper Bowl next week here in Boston.
Speaker 2: Talk with Jack Daugherty, the CEO of College Hype about
Speaker 2: Dorchesterday this weekend and that was an integral day many
Speaker 2: years ago that got Colledge hype off the ground. And
Speaker 2: talk with Jonathan Oliver. If you're on the mass Turnpike
Speaker 2: around one twenty eighth tonight, that construction work now has
Speaker 2: been going on for about two hours and thirteen minutes.
Speaker 2: I would love to hear a report from someone out
Speaker 2: there who could tell me what the traffic situation is.
Speaker 2: Rob you might if you would mind checking in with
Speaker 2: our traffic people. I'd love to know if this is
Speaker 2: going smoothly or if people did not pay attention to
Speaker 2: the advisories that we talked about a couple of weeks
Speaker 2: ago and talked about earlier tonight to avoid the Massachusetts
Speaker 2: Turnpike Route one twenty eight area as they work the
Speaker 2: Massachusets Department of Transportation works on the bridge on the
Speaker 2: Newton West so called Newton Weston Bridge. Weston is in
Speaker 2: the town of Western. We talked for an hour at
Speaker 2: nine o'clock about the Market Basket family feud renewed and
Speaker 2: the RDT the hero of Market Basket twenty fourteen has
Speaker 2: been fired. And last hour with Kevin Soirelli, a futurist,
Speaker 2: talking about Meet the Future, his group, his website Meet
Speaker 2: the Future MTF dot tv, but talked about the future
Speaker 2: of medicine. I thought it was a really good hour
Speaker 2: last hour, So I'm going to open this up now.
Speaker 2: Never done this before. I'm related an hour at ten
Speaker 2: o'clock on a Friday night to the eleven o'clock hour.
Speaker 2: Normally we go very light in the eleven o'clock hour,
Speaker 2: and if we have to, we will, but I would
Speaker 2: prefer to kind of spin off the eleven o'clock hour.
Speaker 2: And as medicine improves, and as diagnostic medicine gets better,
Speaker 2: my question is, would you want to know if indeed
Speaker 2: there is a relatively simple tests for Alzheimer's or if
Speaker 2: there's a simple test for any condition, neurologic condition, physical condition.
Speaker 2: All of us as we age know that our bodies
Speaker 2: are not, depending upon our age, are not as supple,
Speaker 2: they're not as strong as they want they once were,
Speaker 2: and that all of us as we get older feel
Speaker 2: these aches and pains, and whether it's arthritis or rheumatism
Speaker 2: or something more serious such as Alzheimer's. If there were tests,
Speaker 2: would you want to know? And it could be tests
Speaker 2: for more than Alzheimer's. Frankly there could be. There are
Speaker 2: still they're a test right now for blood tests, which
Speaker 2: I think are going to only get better. Where you
Speaker 2: pay for these, These are not covered by insuring urrance.
Speaker 2: They're not prohibitively expensive, but they certainly are expensive. They
Speaker 2: are a few hundred dollars where you can have a
Speaker 2: blood draw taken. And they believe that cancer cells that
Speaker 2: are developing within your body, basically the cancer cells like
Speaker 2: any cell flakes off, and that these blood tests have
Speaker 2: the capacity to figure out if you have some cancer
Speaker 2: cells that are beginning to develop. And the idea is
Speaker 2: that with the blood tests, if they do detect cancer
Speaker 2: cells that are flaking off and the presence of cancer cells,
Speaker 2: it is much better to be diagnosed with cancer stage
Speaker 2: one as opposed to cancer stage four, irrespective of what's
Speaker 2: the cancer might be now. And again, I don't want
Speaker 2: to end as a downer here at the end of
Speaker 2: the week, okay, but I just I'd like to know,
Speaker 2: And we don't have to do this if you don't
Speaker 2: want to. My audience always decides what we want to do.
Speaker 2: Think about this and think about whatever. Whether you want
Speaker 2: to talk about a blood screen for cancer, or whether
Speaker 2: you want to talk about a blood screen for Alzheimer's,
Speaker 2: which apparently the FDA has now approved, I say the FDA,
Speaker 2: not apparently the FDA has approved. How quickly that will
Speaker 2: become available? Would you want to know at what age
Speaker 2: would you begin to worry about it? Would you want
Speaker 2: to know in your thirties that you had the propensity
Speaker 2: to develop some disease? In your sixties, seventies, or eighties,
Speaker 2: would that hang over you like a cloud. I certainly
Speaker 2: wouldn't want to know at an early age. At the
Speaker 2: same time, the advantage of knowing that is that you
Speaker 2: could prepare a treatment plan or a treatment program for
Speaker 2: something like that. I think there's some pretty good arguments
Speaker 2: on both sides of this question that I'm asking. It
Speaker 2: is a genuine a general, excuse me, a general Would
Speaker 2: you want to know? It's as simple as that. Some
Speaker 2: people may say, yes, I'd like to know so I
Speaker 2: can anticipate it and treat it, plan for it, and
Speaker 2: deal with it. And others may say, no, I don't
Speaker 2: want to know. I would rather deal with whatever comes
Speaker 2: along in my life when it comes along in my life,
Speaker 2: and hopefully rely upon medicine. Obviously, if you were taking
Speaker 2: an Alzheimer's test now at the age of let's say forty,
Speaker 2: and it said yes, you have a predisposition thirty years
Speaker 2: from now, again, assuming that it could be diagnosed, they
Speaker 2: may come up with a cure for that disease in
Speaker 2: that period of time. So I'm going to open the
Speaker 2: lines up six months, two, five, four to ten thirty six, one, seven, nine, three, one,
Speaker 2: ten thirty would you want to know? Uh, science is
Speaker 2: wonderful advances in medicine are wonderful. Would you want to know?
Speaker 2: Would you want to know how long you were going
Speaker 2: to live? Maybe there'll be a test someday that will
Speaker 2: say to you, Okay, you're now X number. You have
Speaker 2: so many years left? I don't know. Would you want
Speaker 2: to know? We'll take a quick break. It is a
Speaker 2: very quick break, So dial now or forever hold your thoughts. Normally,
Speaker 2: this is a different sort to question. You know, on
Speaker 2: the eleven o'clock hour, everybody has a hall pass. So
Speaker 2: if you called earlier this week, this is the hour
Speaker 2: in which you can have a second call and not
Speaker 2: be penalized for it. Coming back on nine side six one, seven, two, five,
Speaker 2: four to ten thirty six one seven, nine three one
Speaker 2: ten thirty, I simply throw the topics out if if
Speaker 2: you respond adequately. If not, I'll figure something else out
Speaker 2: for the final forty minutes of the week. Back on Nightside.
Speaker 1: Right after this, It's night Side with Dan Ray on
Speaker 1: ws Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Okay, now, all you folks out there who are sitting
Speaker 2: and saying, I gotta wait to see what other people say.
Speaker 2: Got a couple of folks who want to get this
Speaker 2: going we'll either get it going or we won't. Six one, seven, five,
Speaker 2: four dead thirty is the only line. Let me go
Speaker 2: to a very brave Claudean in Beverly. Hi, Claude Dean,
Speaker 2: Welcome to nightside. How are you?
Speaker 3: Thank you?
Speaker 4: Dan?
Speaker 3: I'm wonderful. How are you doing tonight?
Speaker 2: I'm doing great. Great to hear your voice, and thanks
Speaker 2: for calling in. I don't know if you've called in before,
Speaker 2: but god, I needed your call in tonight to get
Speaker 2: this conversation going. Oh are you thank you?
Speaker 3: I'm good. I know, I'm surprised I'm calling in. Okay,
Speaker 3: first I talked fast, so and I'm growth stuff down
Speaker 3: so I don't get all jumbled. But anyway, would you
Speaker 3: like me to start with the Alzheimer's or.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, before you do, I got to ask you.
Speaker 2: Have you call before it's your first time?
Speaker 3: No, I called them. Let's see, I called them that time.
Speaker 3: I don't know how many years ago. It was maybe
Speaker 3: like seven or eight years ago.
Speaker 2: Okay, don't don't make it seven and eight years before
Speaker 2: the next call. It might not be here.
Speaker 3: So hey, you know you never know, all right? Sure,
Speaker 3: absolutely right? Oh you're funny. Okay, So, so you're saying
Speaker 3: about like, you know, cancer cells, would you like to
Speaker 3: have a blood test? Blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: You know that don't exists, by the way, that right,
Speaker 2: I know that, yeah today.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, I know. Yeah. But I mean, if you're
Speaker 3: like ten twelve, you know, we probably all deep in
Speaker 3: somewhere in our tissues, even as kids have like some
Speaker 3: sort of cancer cellf I mean, I'm making this up.
Speaker 3: I have no idea it is medically true, but it
Speaker 3: sounds right. I think it's first right, So do you
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying, Like we have cancer cells because
Speaker 3: shells are dying all the time, and they might not
Speaker 3: affect you, right, So some people can have cancer and
Speaker 3: it doesn't do any you know, it doesn't them in
Speaker 3: the way that you would think. So but but yeah, so,
Speaker 3: And I also clearly answered these questions because you know
Speaker 3: what I mean, like, I'm the answer I am. Now.
Speaker 3: I can't say, well, if I was when I was thirty,
Speaker 3: if I found out, I was gonna have to mention,
Speaker 3: you know, because that's it can only answer for how
Speaker 3: I feel about right now of course, And I'm you know,
Speaker 3: I'm how old I am? I half a century old?
Speaker 3: So but so my life is like going towards the end.
Speaker 3: So you know, and if I I'm sorry, I'm okay.
Speaker 3: Oh okay.
Speaker 2: So I think what you're saying, I'm sorry, Hold just
Speaker 2: take a deep breath. I think what you're saying is
Speaker 2: that at different points in your life you.
Speaker 1: May feel differently, right.
Speaker 2: I remember when I was in my twenties, you feel
Speaker 2: like not I'm never going to have a problem with anything.
Speaker 2: But what happens, Yeah, there you do develop problems and
Speaker 2: hopefully you deal with them and you and you move
Speaker 2: on the the the idea of the blood test with
Speaker 2: with cancer off is that if you do have a
Speaker 2: positive test, that you would find out about stage one
Speaker 2: as opposed to stage four. But so go ahead tell you.
Speaker 3: Absolutely thank you for doing that. Yes that it was
Speaker 3: very helpful. I'm very okay. So but I was saying,
Speaker 3: oh god, I forgot right. Yes, it's faking off. If
Speaker 3: you want to know, oh well right now, I mean
Speaker 3: like if I if I'm sonto had dementia, then you
Speaker 3: can probably you know, you can the cancer self. There
Speaker 3: either one I personally, I think it depends on like
Speaker 3: if you want to have you know, treatments and you
Speaker 3: know radiation. But I can't say I'd ever want to
Speaker 3: go through that, even if it was stage one. I
Speaker 3: mean so, I mean stage one is that, you know what,
Speaker 3: they just do a simple procedure.
Speaker 2: And I said, well, you know, well, I think when
Speaker 2: I think when we talked about stage one, in stage four,
Speaker 2: when you hear someone is diagnosed with a serious cancer, okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's almost like they're going to say to you, look,
Speaker 2: this is stage four. This is going to be difficult.
Speaker 2: We're going to have to be much more invasive and
Speaker 2: and you're gonna have to do whatever. Whereas if if,
Speaker 2: if your your chances of actually beating any of those
Speaker 2: horrific diseases are increased the earlier you find out. In
Speaker 2: Joe Biden's case, I'm just using that as an example.
Speaker 2: Apparently doing prostate tests, they didn't even do the simple
Speaker 2: PSA blood test on him, and from what I've read,
Speaker 2: uh he's now eighty two, that if they had just
Speaker 2: simply done the PSA tests on him, they would have
Speaker 2: seen a spike in his PSA and that would have
Speaker 2: said to them, this needs to be investigated.
Speaker 3: But that's that's shameful, and he's a you know, present,
Speaker 3: you a private doctor it.
Speaker 2: Is, I mean, because that's yeah, that that isn't that
Speaker 2: is insane. So come back to you to our situation
Speaker 2: and your situation. Would you would you want to know?
Speaker 2: Would you rather let nature run its course? Because that's
Speaker 2: really the alternative. If you say I don't want to know,
Speaker 2: then what you're saying is leave my I'll leave my
Speaker 2: faith to nature or God or whatever you might believe in.
Speaker 3: Right, Well, I would want to know, but it's it's
Speaker 3: I don't know. I mean, you could set up for
Speaker 3: assist suicide. I guess at the end of it. It's
Speaker 3: really bad. I know that's kind of morbid, you know.
Speaker 2: What I mean.
Speaker 3: I mean like I wouldn't want to. I think that's fearful.
Speaker 3: If you have nine, you get Alzheimer's my name, I
Speaker 3: have it, I have people in my family. It's it's
Speaker 3: a horrible disease. But it's I don't I think if
Speaker 3: I got to a point and be like, okay, just
Speaker 3: put it a little over my head, like you know,
Speaker 3: rep apart with everybody, or if I'm really really sick
Speaker 3: and it cancers my curable, I don't know, it's good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, these are these are tough questions there are. There
Speaker 2: are countries around the world. I have a good friend
Speaker 2: of mine who a few months ago told me that
Speaker 2: he was going to travel to Switzerland to end it
Speaker 2: his life legally. And I said to him, look, I
Speaker 2: just let's let's go to breakfast and we can talk
Speaker 2: about it. He says, I know, you talk me out
Speaker 2: of it, and he's still uh still here uh and
Speaker 2: and I am going to reach out to him and
Speaker 2: just say, hey, you know, let's let's go to breakfast
Speaker 2: and let's let's talk about it. I don't know exactly
Speaker 2: what his condition is and all of that.
Speaker 3: So, yeah, you have to go through two years, like
Speaker 3: two years psychiatry thing or something like that.
Speaker 2: Before they I think it in Switzerland it's a little easier,
Speaker 2: but I'm I'm not. But you know, I think it's
Speaker 2: all almost Maybe it's it's almost become. You know how
Speaker 2: a lot of women from China come here to have
Speaker 2: their children so that the child can be a US citizen.
Speaker 2: The reverse is kind of true with some of these
Speaker 2: other countries where you can go and you can end
Speaker 2: your life. I guess yes, with a lot less red
Speaker 2: tape and regulation. But again, I don't want to I
Speaker 2: don't want to depress so many people here.
Speaker 3: No no, no, no, no, no, no, not at all.
Speaker 2: So you sound to me like you're you're on defence.
Speaker 2: You're on defense.
Speaker 3: No, well no, I mean I can say for myself again,
Speaker 3: I get I'm really a non compliant patient when you know,
Speaker 3: like when I go to my doctor, I'm like, I
Speaker 3: don't feel like I'm a physical I just I'm like
Speaker 3: saying them, but I show up to the appointment because
Speaker 3: I don't want to, you know, cancel the last minute,
Speaker 3: and so I just you know, so for them, you know,
Speaker 3: for them to you know, because you're a simple bloodcess.
Speaker 3: That's fine. As I get older, though, I've noticed they're
Speaker 3: finding more and more, you know what I'm saying like this,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, what the hell. I'm like, you know,
Speaker 3: itchs and change is one thing, but like you know,
Speaker 3: when you're looking inside my body and finding stuff, I
Speaker 3: really don't you know, I'm like, oh, but here is
Speaker 3: the same thing for benedive, Like they give you like diabetes,
Speaker 3: Like if you New York diabetes, would you take the
Speaker 3: necessary measures? It's kind of the same that you are
Speaker 3: too horrible, Like don't wish them anyway. Things I can
Speaker 3: answer dementia.
Speaker 2: That's why these are these are difficult things. Just these
Speaker 2: a difficult question. Just you are. You're a perfect caller
Speaker 2: right now because you're struggling on air with it, and
Speaker 2: there were people out there who are struggling on uh
Speaker 2: not on air. But there's the answer. Isn't as quick
Speaker 2: and easy as people would think.
Speaker 3: Answer right away?
Speaker 2: No, no, no, I did great. You did great. And
Speaker 2: I'll tell you you You've said the phone lines of
Speaker 2: lit up for me, which I really right.
Speaker 3: Yes, you know.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you very much. You have helped us out
Speaker 2: here tonight. And do me a favor be a more
Speaker 2: frequent caller. Okay, don't wait too many years, Thanks Claudie.
Speaker 3: I appreciate it. Thank you.
Speaker 2: I have relatives, and I have relatives in Beverly, So yeah,
Speaker 2: you do, Yes, I do.
Speaker 3: Where I can't. I can't, that's right, you can't tell
Speaker 3: me oh my god, hello, But I know your regular words.
Speaker 2: It's a beautiful it's a beautiful town. It is a
Speaker 2: nice yeah there. And I'm very familiar with Endicott College
Speaker 2: up there as well. It's one of the most most
Speaker 2: beautiful college campuses I've ever been on.
Speaker 5: So yeah, it's beautiful.
Speaker 3: I actually I actually went to school there for a
Speaker 3: little while, but yeahs beautiful. Yeah, look by Lynch President.
Speaker 2: President Wiley built that school and.
Speaker 4: Uhe such a great guy.
Speaker 2: Oh I knew him well, knew him well, had him
Speaker 2: on the show many times. I actually delivered a commencement
Speaker 2: speech at Endicott College in two thousand and eight. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Wow, that's amazing. That's that's stables while.
Speaker 2: They their Their commencement speaker this year was Captain Sully,
Speaker 2: the fellow who flew the plane at landed today. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I like that, great commencement speaker. Go goals, go goals.
Speaker 3: So yeah, but you con meant anyway. So you have
Speaker 3: a wonderful night, and we're both still here.
Speaker 2: It's important. Thanks Funny, and we'll talk again.
Speaker 3: Thankank youkay, good bye, bye bye.
Speaker 2: All right, we gotta we got news to the bodily hour.
Speaker 2: People have risen the occasion. The only line that's open
Speaker 2: in six one seven, be back on night Side right after.
Speaker 1: This side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Thank you our grip, and let me go to Laurie
Speaker 2: you know and Idaho. Laurie. You were next on Nightside.
Speaker 6: Welcome well, thank you and welcome back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, haven't gone too long, but missed my aud yet.
Speaker 2: So what you take would you want to know?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 6: Yeah, and if it's something, if it's a cancer or
Speaker 6: something that you know, stage one, it's something that has
Speaker 6: a true path to recovery or or being in you know,
Speaker 6: whatever for a long time. But Alzheimer's now, because right now,
Speaker 6: I mean obviously my mother had it, so right now
Speaker 6: I have a hope that it never happens. If I
Speaker 6: find a gene that says, yeah, it's going to happen,
Speaker 6: then your hope is hinged on every single stupid tast experiment, success,
Speaker 6: whatever the g and it's constantly you know, it's just
Speaker 6: such it for constant disappointment, disappointment. I'm just gonna just
Speaker 6: hope it never happens.
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, I'm kind of where you are on that.
Speaker 2: You got to kind of put your faith and and
Speaker 2: live life, and I think you try to do you
Speaker 2: best you can to. I don't know the member of
Speaker 2: your family that had it, did they have a set lifestyle?
Speaker 2: You know? If I don't think your lifestyle is sedative,
Speaker 2: it sounds to.
Speaker 6: Me like you're, well, my mother didn't either. I mean,
Speaker 6: it was my mom and she didn't either have long
Speaker 6: where it came from. But but no, I don't. And
Speaker 6: so I'm just gonna, you know, go with the body
Speaker 6: God gave me.
Speaker 2: And yeah, yeah, I still think there are things that
Speaker 2: you can do intellectually and physically. I think by being active,
Speaker 2: that's that's a plus.
Speaker 6: Well that is my lifestyle anyway.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, No, I know that living in Idaho, I
Speaker 2: know that you're you're getting out in the fresh air
Speaker 2: and all that and uh and I and I know
Speaker 2: from our phone conversations that you're a very bright person
Speaker 2: who has a lot of interest. And yeah, I mean
Speaker 2: I think that's helpful. Uh again, you know, if if
Speaker 2: we're all going to draw one bad card from the deck,
Speaker 2: that's for sure nobody gets right. So I hate to
Speaker 2: sound like a fatalist, but.
Speaker 6: No, you're right, No one lives forever. Yeah, I can
Speaker 6: make it to seventy five eighty eighty one, that would
Speaker 6: be cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think you'll make it well beyond that. Okay, Hey,
Speaker 2: thanks Laurie, as always appreciates you your loyalty into this program.
Speaker 6: Okay, well, it's an interesting an interesting segue to night
Speaker 6: interesting topic so yeah, but and I have friends who
Speaker 6: are like, oh no, no, I want to find out
Speaker 6: everything and I have to have it, you know, life
Speaker 6: stating that all this other stuff, like the stress that
Speaker 6: would stress me out more than anything.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I think stress skills. I think I'm somebody
Speaker 2: who gets stressed a lot, both in terms of my
Speaker 2: job and and that's the probably the only aspect of
Speaker 2: my job that I don't like, because I feel that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, you'll hear a perfectionist. You need to perform.
Speaker 2: Well, there is that, and there's there's also you just
Speaker 2: want to If I don't get butterflies before the show,
Speaker 2: then I don't think I've prepped enough for it. You know,
Speaker 2: I have aught about everything what's going on. I just
Speaker 2: my nightmare as you open up the phone and and
Speaker 2: that's the night that there's some news story that that
Speaker 2: you just have no knowledge of or you haven't even
Speaker 2: heard about, and someone did you know that whatever fill
Speaker 2: in the blanket is no, that really happened. I'm I
Speaker 2: have that that need. I want to be not an
Speaker 2: ego thing, is I just want to be ahead of
Speaker 2: the curb so that anything that we're going to talk about,
Speaker 2: And that's why. I really enjoyed Kevin Sarelli, the futurist.
Speaker 2: I mean there was stuff I learned. Yo. Yeah. He
Speaker 2: he's a young guy too, by the way. He's only,
Speaker 2: like i'm guess now, thirty thirty two years old, but
Speaker 2: very smart. And I've learned a lot from him the
Speaker 2: two times we've had him on the show, and we'll
Speaker 2: have him on again, that's for sure. Thanks, Lurie, talks soon.
Speaker 2: We'll talk soon. Good night. All right, let me keep
Speaker 2: broly here. I got I got Steve in New Jersey.
Speaker 2: He's Steve. Welcome back. How are you are you? Heading south?
Speaker 7: He headon north and north. We got ourselves our canvoy.
Speaker 2: Do you really?
Speaker 4: That's when I get well, when I.
Speaker 7: Get to New York City, probably back to back traffic,
Speaker 7: you know, bump and a bump of four lanes were
Speaker 7: then four feet of each other. I mean it would
Speaker 7: make a regular person in my past seats very nervous.
Speaker 2: Well, but you can handle it now. Remember they're starting
Speaker 2: the work on the mass Turnpike in one twenty eight.
Speaker 2: You got to avoid that.
Speaker 7: Oh, I don't even go down there. I'm four ninety
Speaker 7: five all the way.
Speaker 2: No, okay, I figured you would be chance. No, no,
Speaker 2: this heard me. This is the way I gotta give.
Speaker 2: And again, if there's anybody out there who's who finds
Speaker 2: themselves now stuck in that traffic, give us a call. So, Steve,
Speaker 2: would you want to know or know?
Speaker 8: What do you think?
Speaker 4: You know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Well, what do you think? I think You're gonna let
Speaker 2: me think for a second here. I think you will say, no.
Speaker 7: Oh, I'm sorry, you don't win the million dollar prize,
Speaker 7: mister Dan.
Speaker 2: You would want to know.
Speaker 7: I would want to know. In the advancement of medicine,
Speaker 7: if I knew I had something, and you know, early prevention, Okay,
Speaker 7: I'd like to attack it, you know.
Speaker 2: And okay, well sometimes about that's assuming that everything that
Speaker 2: you would find out would have a cure.
Speaker 7: I still would want to know.
Speaker 2: Okay, so you're a yes, okay, all right?
Speaker 7: Yeah, Hey, just want to let you know that it's
Speaker 7: been pouring crazy going down to Philadelphia and Baltimore and
Speaker 7: coming back is literally raining coyotes and deer.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you. I looked at the I looked
Speaker 2: at the ABC Nightly News tonight and they were they
Speaker 2: had some video on there of the stuff that's been
Speaker 2: going on down and in the you know, in the
Speaker 2: in this the plane States, and on up through the Carolinas,
Speaker 2: and we're supposed to get it tomorrow. But the good
Speaker 2: news is they're saying it's going to blow in late tonight.
Speaker 2: It hasn't started here yet and it'll be done by noontime.
Speaker 2: That's one more.
Speaker 7: Oh sorry, I'll always rush you because I feel like
Speaker 7: I'm right, But I just want to tell you a
Speaker 7: really loving story. Driving down two nights ago around Auburn, Maine,
Speaker 7: I looked over to the right and there was a
Speaker 7: little bamby over there and he it wasn't raining, but
Speaker 7: he had his head down and it was like missing
Speaker 7: his mommy. So I prayed to God instantly that God
Speaker 7: would protect that little baby and not let a wolf
Speaker 7: for Kyo he get him. He was so cute, but
Speaker 7: he was he was so sad.
Speaker 2: So it was there was no mama dear around huh.
Speaker 7: I didn't see you on she she was coming up
Speaker 7: toward the road on the grassy pot beside the road,
Speaker 7: but she was so cute to the little banby. I
Speaker 7: never see bambyes. I always see deer. But anyways, it
Speaker 7: was just a I just wanted to get out of
Speaker 7: the truck and go pick her up and take her
Speaker 7: home and see her milk.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, today I saw someone who had there was a
Speaker 2: snapping turtle by my gym, and they were relocating the
Speaker 2: snapping turtle. The snapping turtle was right near the driveway
Speaker 2: and it looked as if the snapping turtle was trying
Speaker 2: to I'm assuming it was a female getting ready to
Speaker 2: lay some eggs. And they moved the snapping turtle safely
Speaker 2: to a better location.
Speaker 7: So the person that moved the turtle has eight fingers.
Speaker 2: No, he's the guy that runs the club. And he
Speaker 2: was very careful. He was very careful. You gotta be
Speaker 2: careful too, Okay, well, Steve talk soon be well. They said,
Speaker 2: good night. All right, let's keep rolling. He I got
Speaker 2: Bill and Danvers. Bill you next on nightside. Would you
Speaker 2: want to know?
Speaker 8: Absolutely, I wouldn't have a problem with that. I would
Speaker 8: prefer a Canta diagnosis rather than Alzheimer's. But I'd want
Speaker 8: to know, and dependent on you know, the situations. You know,
Speaker 8: I always check it what the lawyer is and make
Speaker 8: sure everything he's organized and stuff, and even you know,
Speaker 8: I'm a very organized guy. And and and if it
Speaker 8: was a cancer, that was real crazy. And you know
Speaker 8: they said, well you maybe get seventy percent chance and stuff.
Speaker 8: I've just seen enough of my life where the individual
Speaker 8: they say, well to getting the treatments and he maybe
Speaker 8: got six or eight months more or a year or
Speaker 8: whatever they say, which who knows even if that's accurate,
Speaker 8: and their quality of life for that last year or
Speaker 8: two was a horror show. So I would deny treatments
Speaker 8: and h that's it. I mean, you know, I take
Speaker 8: a trip every year and I have a bucket list,
Speaker 8: and hopefully I've accomplished most of it. That unfortunate situation arises.
Speaker 8: It's not like I have anyone here I have to
Speaker 8: worry about or that.
Speaker 2: So you've got to figure it out, you know.
Speaker 8: I mean, it's medicine. You know that, you know when
Speaker 8: you know? So it depending on how it plays out,
Speaker 8: you know what I mean. So I ask him at
Speaker 8: the gym right now. I just got to love the
Speaker 8: mind in so really, I keep a good yeah, yeah,
Speaker 8: I'm almost done a plan of fitness, and uh, you know,
Speaker 8: I do the stairs and I do the weights. I
Speaker 8: do one hundred and something push ups.
Speaker 4: A day and stuff.
Speaker 2: So uh, good for you.
Speaker 8: Not bad for a guy that's fifty.
Speaker 2: You know. So you you're a young man. Come on,
Speaker 2: you got you got decades, buddy, you got decades.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 8: I mean, well, the government better hope day decide because
Speaker 8: you know, I keep paying. You know they're gonna need
Speaker 8: guys like me.
Speaker 2: Because but you know, hopefully there'll be money there for
Speaker 2: you to collect. Okay, that's the other thing too, that's
Speaker 2: the other end I cry.
Speaker 8: I mean, you know, I was with my financial advice
Speaker 8: earlier this week. You know they're running the numbers. They
Speaker 8: you know, they make it sound good. But I don't
Speaker 8: know if we'll get there, but we'll say. Who knows,
Speaker 8: you know.
Speaker 2: Bill appreciate, Have a good night, have a good weekend,
Speaker 2: Stay dry. Thanks Bill, Touch you soon. All right, I
Speaker 2: got four left. We're gonna get them all in. Uh,
Speaker 2: Christine and Geo and Melinda and John h only one
Speaker 2: line and if you get in up, got to get
Speaker 2: you in as well. Six one, seven thirty quick break,
Speaker 2: very quick break, and we're coming back Melinda and then Geo,
Speaker 2: uh and then John and then Christine. That's the bat
Speaker 2: and order. We'll be back on night side.
Speaker 1: Right after this, you're on night Side with Dan Ray
Speaker 1: on WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: All right, let's get everybody in. Next up, Melinda and Quincy. Melinda,
Speaker 2: you are an extra Nightside, Go.
Speaker 9: Right ahead, Hi, Dan, Yeah, Hi, I called, and I
Speaker 9: did I know it's Friday night. It would be a
Speaker 9: certain topic. What exactly is the exact topic?
Speaker 2: Well, we we had an eleven o'clock at ten o'clock
Speaker 2: hour with a fellow who talked about the future of
Speaker 2: medicine and some of the great strides that have been
Speaker 2: made where they can tell you in advance. The FDA
Speaker 2: has just approved a blood test. It's not available, but
Speaker 2: it will be available soon in which people will be
Speaker 2: able to be diagnosed apparently and told whether or not
Speaker 2: they would eventually get Also the other way, there are
Speaker 2: other disease There are other tests out there, blood tests
Speaker 2: that tell you if you have cancer cells percolating, better
Speaker 2: to find out it's stage one than stage four. And
Speaker 2: so the question is would you want to know?
Speaker 9: Oh? Wow, okay, I thought the question is going to
Speaker 9: be would you want to know? All right, I was
Speaker 9: going to say I'd want to know. I would definitely
Speaker 9: want to know that I had something. But now that
Speaker 9: it's this bit of a taking the test and that
Speaker 9: I'm kind of thinking, I don't I don't know.
Speaker 2: Well we're talking about simple tests, blood.
Speaker 9: Test, a regular blood test, regular blood test, and they
Speaker 9: were going to tell me something. Yeah, all right, okay
Speaker 9: then yeah, yeah, then I want to know, definitely, because
Speaker 9: then you can plan, you can plan how much time
Speaker 9: you have left and get everything in order. And my
Speaker 9: dog and I'd want to know who's going to everything.
Speaker 9: You're going to find out some day. Some days that's
Speaker 9: going to hit you that you could get something. So
Speaker 9: I'd rather know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think anyone dies in this li but
Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty anymore, you know, maybe.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, but it's it's I'm going to ask you
Speaker 9: a quick question you mentioned in Asia a minute a
Speaker 9: little while ago. I was wonder if one night you
Speaker 9: could that could be a question. How many people would
Speaker 9: take that? How many people would like that in a
Speaker 9: choice or not?
Speaker 6: Like?
Speaker 2: Okay, so you're talking when you're talking about ethan Asian,
Speaker 2: you're talking about asistant suicide.
Speaker 9: Yes, yeah, okay, well I would really like I would,
Speaker 9: And I just want to say that man who loved
Speaker 9: the little bandy there. Thank you for being that kind
Speaker 9: of guy, because yeah, Steve's.
Speaker 2: A great guy. Steve's one of our regular listeners.
Speaker 9: Become animals and that's nice.
Speaker 2: Call more often. Okay, thanks, thank you, love for you boys.
Speaker 2: Let me go to Geo and Endo. But Geo got
Speaker 2: your email the other day. Meant to respond to it.
Speaker 2: Sorry about that. Would you want to know?
Speaker 4: Uh? Yes, As a matter of fact, years ago, I
Speaker 4: had a diagnosis at a major boar at a major
Speaker 4: north shore hospital that goes all the way down to
Speaker 4: Burlington of something and they said, oh, you definitely have it.
Speaker 4: And I said, you know, I did some research and
Speaker 4: pcr is. I used to sell laboratory equipment to data
Speaker 4: Farma to do DNA sequencing and stuff, so I'm very
Speaker 4: into research and clinical testing. I said. The specialty in
Speaker 4: the country is the Mayo Clinic. I would request that
Speaker 4: you send a sample there. It came back and they said, yeah,
Speaker 4: you definitely have it. I said, can I see the report?
Speaker 4: Can I see the paperwork? They showed me the paperwork
Speaker 4: and it said in the report, this test is indicative
Speaker 4: of but not a proof of a diagnosis. The diagnosis
Speaker 4: will need to be done using this as a guide
Speaker 4: and a rationalization to observe and do further testing and
Speaker 4: observation and trial cures and treatments, etc. Etc. So you
Speaker 4: have to understand what the context is when you're looking
Speaker 4: at something very serious beyond that. By the way, I
Speaker 4: grew up in Beverly and I had a car and
Speaker 4: the girls on the campus in nineteen sixty five said,
Speaker 4: you and your friends have an impoler with wire wheels.
Speaker 4: We want to be driven around in it. So there's
Speaker 4: a house on campus. We know that you can rent it,
Speaker 4: and so we did. But more to the point, actually
Speaker 4: I had not intended to call you about this. But
Speaker 4: years ago I spoke to Diana Desauglio. And the day
Speaker 4: Seth Moulten got elected, he and I stand in that
Speaker 4: stood in the dark, waving at each other as he
Speaker 4: waited for you to talk to me, and you cut
Speaker 4: from me to him directly. So today, today, today I
Speaker 4: was a small world. I happened to be in reading.
Speaker 4: I happened to turn into the side of a stopping
Speaker 4: shop and six cameras were there. And I do videography
Speaker 4: of baseball, football basketball at a high school level. And
Speaker 4: I bowed my window down and the reporter with the
Speaker 4: blonde hair and the red dress was standing there and
Speaker 4: I asked her to come over to the car. What
Speaker 4: is this about? And she said, we're doing a thing
Speaker 4: on market Basket. I said, oh, I know a lot
Speaker 4: of people at market Basket. There's a Telemarchus Demula's laboratory
Speaker 4: wing in the mass General Hospital. So we went back
Speaker 4: and forth, and another person started talking to me and
Speaker 4: I said, so, what is happening. Who is the gentleman
Speaker 4: over there in the suit. She said, he's on the air.
Speaker 4: So you saw him every time you looked at the news.
Speaker 4: Today he came over and he spoke to me, and
Speaker 4: I asked him three questions and he said, you know,
Speaker 4: Ray Geo, I can't answer them here, but if you
Speaker 4: call my office, I will talk to you on Monday.
Speaker 4: We're not open this afternoon and no one will be
Speaker 4: back in the office.
Speaker 2: And Jill fast, fascinating story, but I got four other people.
Speaker 2: I want to give my half a second.
Speaker 4: Bore you do? Would you want to interview him Monday
Speaker 4: or Tuesday?
Speaker 2: No? No, no, okay, have a good weekend. I gotta run. Wait,
Speaker 2: have a good weekend, Jill, I gotta run. I gotta run.
Speaker 2: I'll answer your email. Okay, I promise, thanks much. Let's
Speaker 2: go next to John and Maine. Johnny gotta be quick
Speaker 2: for me.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, John, I'll try to be quick. Dan. The
Speaker 4: answer is yes, I would want to know. Okay, I'm
Speaker 4: sort of I'm going through it right now and eight old.
Speaker 4: You know, they keep looking, they keep finding things.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: That's that's the deal, that's the problem.
Speaker 4: That's the way. But it really shows the importance of
Speaker 4: your primary. People really need to have a very good
Speaker 4: relationship with their primary because there's a lot to discuss.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of them out there, you know. Just
Speaker 4: one of the last thing, Dan, there's something called the
Speaker 4: Depth Cafe which is taking place internationally and it's it's
Speaker 4: just a meeting of people just sort of facing up
Speaker 4: to the fact that we're not, you know, immortal. Yeah so,
Speaker 4: but it's a I think it's very interesting thing. I'm
Speaker 4: going to go to the one at the York Library,
Speaker 4: Drew to keep us.
Speaker 2: Postal, keep us postally, maybe do something some night, Okay.
Speaker 4: Yes, worth looking into Hey, thanks for the show as.
Speaker 2: Always, job, appreciate very much. Christine. We got to be quick.
Speaker 2: Would you want to know Christine.
Speaker 10: Yes, because my dad died from all timers in Parkinson's disease,
Speaker 10: and now my mom had some dementia in the nothing home.
Speaker 10: So I would like to know just to see what
Speaker 10: you know, what's the plan.
Speaker 4: And the future.
Speaker 2: And most of my callers feel the same way. Christine,
Speaker 2: you have joined a group of virtus. All my calls
Speaker 2: tonight have said yes. I think there's one or two no's,
Speaker 2: but most of them have said.
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, Yes.
Speaker 10: The weekend D two.
Speaker 2: Stage stage dry Christine, Thanks much, have a great one.
Speaker 2: Let me go, bucking bluster Buck. You gotta be quick
Speaker 2: for me here and we're running out of town.
Speaker 7: I can be quick, and it's yes.
Speaker 1: And you are fantastic.
Speaker 8: You make every week great.
Speaker 2: That's it, Thanks buddy, That's that's that's I should end
Speaker 2: the show on that, but I get one more. Thanks,
Speaker 2: bunket pal, be good, be good, be good. All right,
Speaker 2: have a great week of Stage drive, Last of the week,
Speaker 2: Last of the week, tim go right ahead, Tim, would
Speaker 2: you want to know?
Speaker 5: I want to just tell you I got some wounded
Speaker 5: Wyriott project. I got a blanket from it, says the
Speaker 5: United States of America Wounded Wyyre Project. I got away
Speaker 5: from wald Ept Lieutenant General Us. I'MI retired chief executive officer. Anyhow,
Speaker 5: I'm a wounded Wayer person.
Speaker 2: All right, Tim, thank you, thank you for that service.
Speaker 2: Appreciate it very much. All Right, we are done for
Speaker 2: the week and I am done for the night. Rob,
Speaker 2: thank you very much. We had a little bit of
Speaker 2: rough start tonight, but I think we settle the ship
Speaker 2: of state. We're good. I'm back next week all next week,
Speaker 2: Monday through Friday, no substitutes, just me. You got to
Speaker 2: deal with me Monday through Friday, eight to midnight. Thank
Speaker 2: you so much, everybody, are so appreciate your loyalty to
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Speaker 2: who passed fifteen years ago in February. That's where all
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Speaker 2: you love them, and I do believe you're going to
Speaker 2: see them again. Hope to see you again on Monday Night.
Speaker 2: Have a great weekend, stay dry again. Thanks to Rob,
Speaker 2: thanks to Marita, and most importantly, thanks to all the listeners,
Speaker 2: and even most importantly thanks to all the callers. I
Speaker 2: will be on Facebook on night Side with Dan Ray
Speaker 2: in just a couple of minutes. Have a great weekend everyone,