Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray on WBS, Boston's new radio,
Speaker 1: and it.
Speaker 2: Is a chilly Wednesday night. Indeed, Riches arriving a little early,
Speaker 2: good evening. Everybody. Hope you're nice and toasty warm wherever
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Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Nicole. As we head towards the
Speaker 2: midnight hour, Rob Brooks is back in the control room
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Speaker 2: this hour, we'll be talking with four guests on various
Speaker 2: and sundry topics. I think you'll be interested in all
Speaker 2: four of them, that's for sure. We're going to cover
Speaker 2: topics from from Gibs get his stout, I guess, to
Speaker 2: a problem with certain fragrances and a giving card up
Speaker 2: in New Hampshire. That's is going to benefit the Animal
Speaker 2: Rescue League, as well as going to talk about a
Speaker 2: dancer and the choreographers. We have lots to do this hour,
Speaker 2: but before we get to all of that, let me
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Speaker 2: let us return to the festivities of the eight o'clock
Speaker 2: hour this evening, and I want to welcome back. I
Speaker 2: think it's his second time here. Jay correct me if
Speaker 2: I'm wrong. Jay will Let a return appearance here on
Speaker 2: the night Side News Update. Am I right or wrong
Speaker 2: on that? Jay?
Speaker 3: You're completely correct.
Speaker 2: Dan.
Speaker 3: It's great to be here, great to chat again. Thanks
Speaker 3: for having me.
Speaker 2: You're very welcome. Well, I must tell you we're going
Speaker 2: to talk about Guinness. I don't know if there are
Speaker 2: any Irish roots in the will Let family tree, but
Speaker 2: there's a lot of Irish roots in the Ray family tree.
Speaker 2: But I'm not a fan of Guinness. Do you like Guinness? Oh? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: tell us tell us about this story. Because I had
Speaker 2: never heard of this. I must tell you I had
Speaker 2: a Guinness a little over fifteen months ago at the
Speaker 2: Guinness factory in Dublin, and I asked for a Guinness
Speaker 2: light and they actually have a Guinness light that you
Speaker 2: can drink now, so I didn't have to like molasses
Speaker 2: to me a Guinness. But that's okay. Tell us about
Speaker 2: splitting the G. We're not talking about splitting the atom here.
Speaker 2: This is not This is not heavy lift. Everyone will
Speaker 2: be able to understand this.
Speaker 3: From Yeah, yeah, exactly. Not rocket science. It's pretty straightforward,
Speaker 3: you know, pretty self explanatory. Splitting the G the G
Speaker 3: in this case referring to the Guinness the letter in
Speaker 3: the branding Guinness. So essentially to play this game you
Speaker 3: need to at least two people, but this can be
Speaker 3: played in a group setting as well, but you really
Speaker 3: need that that Guinness pine glass, the one with the
Speaker 3: harp and the Guinness printed right there on the glass.
Speaker 3: And the objective of the game, uh is to get
Speaker 3: the closest that you can with a full pint of
Speaker 3: Glennis of Guinness to the middle of the g there
Speaker 3: and whoever gets kind of the closest meniscus of foam
Speaker 3: to that horizontal line wins the whole thing.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: It's purely just used for pre games stuff like that,
Speaker 3: just a fun game to play a night out with friends.
Speaker 3: And it's funny you uh, you say you were in
Speaker 3: Dublin because I actually lived in Dublin for a time
Speaker 3: and I lived right across the streets from the storehouse,
Speaker 3: So I did. I did, and so that was kind
Speaker 3: of my way of knowing I was near home is
Speaker 3: you can smell the hops in the air. So it's
Speaker 3: just such a fond memory that you what were.
Speaker 2: You doing in Dublin, I assume, assuming it's legal and
Speaker 2: everything that you can talk about when we go to
Speaker 2: school there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, definitely legal. I was studying abroad. I went
Speaker 3: to Providence College and that was part of my study
Speaker 3: abroad program. I chose Dublin. I do have family roots
Speaker 3: in Galway. To answer your first question.
Speaker 2: So be there many times?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 2: Well that's great. So so you're a Guinness guy, which
Speaker 2: is great. So you you were assigned the story or
Speaker 2: maybe you came up with it yourself a reporter.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, a little bit of both.
Speaker 2: All Right, is this a difficult feat to accomplish? They
Speaker 2: have to take a huge gulp of guinness, as I
Speaker 2: understand that, and some are suggesting that's really not the
Speaker 2: way to drink guinness, particularly if you like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean definitely not maybe the Connis Sewers game,
Speaker 3: but it is kind of kind of what I think
Speaker 3: the part the part of the reason why I think
Speaker 3: it's become so popular and and that's kind of the
Speaker 3: point I want to get at too, is that this
Speaker 3: game has is definitely blown up. I mean I didn't
Speaker 3: first hear about this until a couple of years ago,
Speaker 3: and since then it's just been like I've seen people
Speaker 3: doing it at bars left and right, so definitely becoming
Speaker 3: kind of a household name. And I think what makes
Speaker 3: it so popular is because even though it is a
Speaker 3: big chug of beer, it's not demanding a full chug
Speaker 3: of beer. And I think that's a little less intimidating,
Speaker 3: you know, than than typical competitions that people hear about.
Speaker 2: You know, Yeah, I'll stick with my cores lights. To
Speaker 2: be honest with you, I'm about on any sort of
Speaker 2: beer spectrum. I'm about as far away from Guinness with
Speaker 2: with with my Core's lights anybody could be. But you
Speaker 2: could be heavy, Yeah, absolutely, Cad. Well, well, look that's
Speaker 2: a great story. I'm glad that as you've explained that,
Speaker 2: you explain it really well. Splitting the g's it's not
Speaker 2: rocket science, but it's a lot of fun. I assume. Also,
Speaker 2: like a certain card game of solitaire, you could you
Speaker 2: could try to split the g by yourself, maybe get
Speaker 2: some practice. Not you I'm talking about, but someone at home,
Speaker 2: you know, just on their own, could could work on
Speaker 2: splitting the G and I don't know, maybe go out
Speaker 2: and challenge your friends and maybe win a few bar
Speaker 2: bets as well, who knows. I mean, the possibilities are endless.
Speaker 3: J They truly are. It'd crack.
Speaker 2: Well. Congratulations on your time in Dublin. That's a. That's
Speaker 2: a great city to be and that that is for sure.
Speaker 2: It's a. It's so much fun and particularly when you're young,
Speaker 2: and if you're willing to try to split the g
Speaker 2: that's great. I went to how far did you live from?
Speaker 2: We went to the factory, which is the big factory,
Speaker 2: right you have.
Speaker 3: The storehouse I imagine, yeah, yeah, yeah, And.
Speaker 2: You paid for the tour and you got to you
Speaker 2: got a free Guinness when you went upstairs, and I
Speaker 2: just said, do you have a Guinness light? And they said, yes,
Speaker 2: we do and it was very good. It was very good. Okay,
Speaker 2: we'll lat WBZ news radio reporter, an international guy and
Speaker 2: a connoisseur of Guinness. I'll never listen to your stories
Speaker 2: in the same frame of mind again, mister Willett. Thank
Speaker 2: you so much.
Speaker 3: All right, sounds good.
Speaker 2: Talk to you soon. Thanks, Jay, appreciate it. Well you
Speaker 2: get back. I when to talk about another form of
Speaker 2: entertainment at the Back Center Schubert Theater December sixth through
Speaker 2: the eighth. I hope I'm going to pronounce this correctly,
Speaker 2: the Circu Dreams Holidays. We'll talk with Aubrey Willis, who's
Speaker 2: a dancer and choreographer. If you're looking for a little
Speaker 2: early Christmas or holiday entertainment, this just might be it.
Speaker 2: Back on night Side, my name is Dan Ray. This
Speaker 2: is WBZ Boston's News Radio ten thirty and your AM dial.
Speaker 2: Feel free to get ready to call in. We're gonna
Speaker 2: have some interesting guests later on tonight. We're gonna talk
Speaker 2: about the out migration of people, particularly younger and wealthier
Speaker 2: people leaving Massachusetts, Yes, for greener pastures and they're not
Speaker 2: going to Ireland to drink guinness. We'll also talk later
Speaker 2: on about I guess you'd call it a threat by
Speaker 2: President Trump, President elect Trump, he had a message for
Speaker 2: Hamas and basically release the hostages, Release the hostages, or
Speaker 2: I'm gonna release the hounds. We will break that down
Speaker 2: a little bit later tonight as well, back on Nightside.
Speaker 2: Right after this, now back to Dan Ray live from
Speaker 2: the Window World Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio. Well,
Speaker 2: all of a sudden cold weather ian the holidays or
Speaker 2: upon us with us is Aubrey Willis. Aubrey Willis, you
Speaker 2: are a dancer and a choreographer. Welcome to nightside.
Speaker 1: Hi, Hi, thank you for having me.
Speaker 2: Very welcome. So you were with circ Dreams Holidays, which
Speaker 2: is uh? Is it a part of Cirk Disilay or
Speaker 2: an offshoot? How would you describe it?
Speaker 1: So, Cirk Dreams Holidays is part of the v Star
Speaker 1: Entertainment Group, which became of a subsidiary of Cirk Dissila
Speaker 1: Entertainment Group a few years ago.
Speaker 2: Easy for you to say, Okay, good So you get
Speaker 2: you folks, and you're the you're a dancer and a choreographer.
Speaker 2: You will be at the back center Schubert Theater. Uh.
Speaker 2: This weekend, it looks like Friday, Yes.
Speaker 1: Friday, Saturday and Sunday which six shows?
Speaker 2: Six shows? Yes, you gotta so we have?
Speaker 1: So we have on Friday the sixth, we have a
Speaker 1: seven thirty pm show, Saturday we have an eleven A,
Speaker 1: a three pm and a seven thirty pm show. And
Speaker 1: Sunday we have a one pm and five pm show.
Speaker 2: Wow. So Saturday you got a triple header and on
Speaker 2: Sunday a doubleheader. I'll tell you that's going to be.
Speaker 2: That's going to be a rough weekend. Tell us a
Speaker 2: little bit how long has Cirked Dreams Holidays been a production?
Speaker 2: I hope I'm using the correct term.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, it is a production. It's a Broadway style
Speaker 1: holiday production that incorporates the serch acts as long as
Speaker 1: amazing aerial acts, hangharing, artists, acrobatics, skippers and jugglers just
Speaker 1: to name a feel. We are celebrating this year the
Speaker 1: fifteenth season. So yeah, so fifteen years now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Bill.
Speaker 2: These folks are tremendous athletes. They may be dancers and
Speaker 2: you're a dancer and a choreographer, but they have to
Speaker 2: be in fabulous condition to do what they do. How
Speaker 2: do you find people who have the athletic ability to
Speaker 2: perform some of these amazing feats?
Speaker 1: Just all around the world? Really, everybody and their talents
Speaker 1: come from every continent of the world. And within our
Speaker 1: states we have some Australians, we have some Hungarians, people
Speaker 1: from Argentina and Brazil, you know, and we just go
Speaker 1: down the line.
Speaker 2: Are these are these people who have formally trained as
Speaker 2: I use the word acrobats, that's probably not the proper term,
Speaker 2: but what they do is acrobatic. Are they formally trained?
Speaker 2: You just don't like pick people up off the street.
Speaker 1: Obviously, the majority of everybody has train.
Speaker 2: They aspire to to be involved in circusole or or subsidiaries.
Speaker 2: And are there schools where these folks learned to do
Speaker 2: this amazing aerial gymnastics.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so most of it is.
Speaker 4: There's there's a lot of.
Speaker 1: Components into all these acts besides acrobatic elements. But majority
Speaker 1: of the cast has all been trained for each and
Speaker 1: each and every individual act.
Speaker 4: That they have that they are partaking in our shows.
Speaker 2: I'm assuming that this is this is this is not
Speaker 2: work for the faint of hearted, for the faint of
Speaker 2: heart or for people who were probably like me, on
Speaker 2: the wrong side of fifty. What's the average age for
Speaker 2: the performers in the in in this circu Dreams Holidays?
Speaker 5: What's there our show?
Speaker 1: We have all ages, all ages. I would say the
Speaker 1: oldest is around forty two.
Speaker 2: Yea in their fifty sixty, seventies or eighties. And if
Speaker 2: they were I wanted to meet them. But how big
Speaker 2: is the troupe? How many people will be performed in
Speaker 2: the troop at these shows?
Speaker 1: In our cast we have about roughly thirty individuals. There
Speaker 1: are six dancers, we have two duo components, which are
Speaker 1: One of them is a duo erless act and another
Speaker 1: is a duo roller skating act, and then everybody else
Speaker 1: has their singular acts as well.
Speaker 2: And your performance season. Obviously, you're in Boston this weekend.
Speaker 2: Where were you last weekend? I assume that you move
Speaker 2: around the world, certainly at least across North America.
Speaker 1: Yes, so just yesterday we were in Reading, Pennsylvania. Tomorrow
Speaker 1: will be in Albany, New York, and then this Friday
Speaker 1: will be in Boston. So we were traveling throughout sixty
Speaker 1: cities in six weeks.
Speaker 2: So sixty cities in six weeks. When does the tour end?
Speaker 2: When can any of your performers take a deep breath
Speaker 2: and say, I'm relax. When does this sixty day tour end?
Speaker 3: Our?
Speaker 1: Tour ends January third, and we will be ending in Miami.
Speaker 2: Well, that's a nice city to end in, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: We have a big radio station here that is heard
Speaker 2: all up and down the East Coast. So if you
Speaker 2: want to mention a few of the other cities that
Speaker 2: you'll be performing in after Boston, maybe we'll be able
Speaker 2: to help you out, not only here in Boston, but
Speaker 2: where do you can it yes, where do you go
Speaker 2: from here?
Speaker 1: So after Boston, we will be in Manchester, New Hampshire,
Speaker 1: all right, on December tenth at seven thirty. From there,
Speaker 1: the next day we'll be in Bangor, Maine at seven thirty.
Speaker 1: So the December eleventh, Wednesday, the next day, Thursday, December twelfth,
Speaker 1: will be in Portland, Maine, our shows at seven thirty
Speaker 1: as well, and then we'll be trailing back down the
Speaker 1: coast to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania December thirteenth and fourteenth.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, that that'll get the word out in
Speaker 2: advance of some of your performances, and of course here
Speaker 2: in Boston here at the Box Center Schubert Theater, and
Speaker 2: I'm sure that if anyone wants, and many people are
Speaker 2: going to want, Box Center is a great location. As
Speaker 2: a matter of fact that I heard Erdie Bok, who's
Speaker 2: the namesake for that center, on the show the other night.
Speaker 2: It's a fabulous venue. I don't know if you've been
Speaker 2: there before, but it's great for the audience and it's
Speaker 2: great for the performers. So Aubrey, thank you very much.
Speaker 2: Where are you from? Roubrey? Originally? Are you? You're not annoying?
Speaker 1: I'm from San Antonio, Texas.
Speaker 2: I have listeners in San Antonio, Texas. Believe it or not.
Speaker 2: So yes, it is a small world. Walt Disney had
Speaker 2: his head it right. It is a small world after all.
Speaker 2: Aubrey willis answering choreographer of Shirt Dreams Holidays December sixth
Speaker 2: through the eighth Friday Night, a triple header on Saturday,
Speaker 2: at a doubleheader on Sunday. Six shows in three days
Speaker 2: at the Box Center Schubert Theater. You will not be disappointed.
Speaker 2: Thanks so much, Aubrey for stopping by tonight. And maybe
Speaker 2: we'll catch you the next time you're floating through Boston.
Speaker 4: Yes, for sure. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Dan, You're very welcome, Aubrey. Have safe travels. When we
Speaker 2: get back, we're going to talk about fragrances. Fragrances, Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, people give a lot of fragrances at this
Speaker 2: time of year. Fragrances at first may seem harmless, but
Speaker 2: there's some research that is raising some alarm. Or We're
Speaker 2: going to talk with doctor Tricia Pasrica. She's been a
Speaker 2: guest before. She's the Ask a Doctor columnist for the
Speaker 2: Washington Post. She's also Boston based. By the way, so
Speaker 2: we'll talk with doctor Pashrika past Rika right after this
Speaker 2: break news break at the bottom of the hour. It's Nightside,
Speaker 2: Boston's news Radio one, and welcome back one of my
Speaker 2: favorite guests, doctor Tricia Pashrika. She's the Ask a Doctor
Speaker 2: columnist for the Washington Post. Doctor Pashrika, welcome back to Nightside.
Speaker 4: So glad to be back, Dan, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2: So my notes say that fragrances may seem harmless. I
Speaker 2: assume they're harmless. But you wrote a piece for the
Speaker 2: Post that suggests that there's some research that is at
Speaker 2: least raising alarms. And there's a word that I wouldn't
Speaker 2: even try to pronounce pH th a la tes. What's
Speaker 2: the correct pronunciation of that.
Speaker 4: That's a good question to start with. It's salates. So
Speaker 4: the first thh is a silent one. But you're right
Speaker 4: that it feels very esoteric.
Speaker 2: Pharmacy. I always thought pharmacy was faim until I was
Speaker 2: about ten years old. I figured out, Okay, that's the
Speaker 2: pH so thaltes. Okay, tell us what the problem with
Speaker 2: thalites are and how the heck did they get into
Speaker 2: our fragrances.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think this is data that you know You're
Speaker 4: probably not alone and having not really heard about this
Speaker 4: so much until recently. The data has really come to
Speaker 4: light in the last five to ten years. But saltes
Speaker 4: are a classic chemical that has been called by scientists
Speaker 4: of endocrine disrupting chemicals or eedcs, and these types of
Speaker 4: chemicals are everywhere, and all of these products we use
Speaker 4: every day, and they basically interfere with our endocrine system.
Speaker 4: And our endocrine system is composed of multiple glands. Our
Speaker 4: thyroid glands are pituitary glands that regulate hormones. And people
Speaker 4: might have heard of another was you know is so
Speaker 4: called endercritidropt chemical pea fast. They've they've gotten a lot
Speaker 4: of attention lately. But dalates and parabins they're commonly found
Speaker 4: in a lot of personal care products like soaps, shampoos, fragrances,
Speaker 4: and other beauty products, but there are in plenty of
Speaker 4: other spaces. Honestly, they've been found even in our food
Speaker 4: so they're pretty ubiquitous in our environments.
Speaker 2: So how does stuff like that get past the FDA?
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not a label reader. I know what
Speaker 2: food I want, and I know what food's good for
Speaker 2: me and what food's not good for me, and I
Speaker 2: try to stay away from the stuff that's not good
Speaker 2: for me. But I'm not somebody who's going to look
Speaker 2: at every package of everything that I buy. And even
Speaker 2: if you do, it's that small print that unless the
Speaker 2: lighting is good and your eyes are perfect, you may
Speaker 2: you may miss it anyway. That's what the FDA was
Speaker 2: supposed to.
Speaker 4: Do for us, right, hyah, You're absolutely right. I mean
Speaker 4: other countries, European Union, for example, they've cracked down a
Speaker 4: lot harder on some of these chemicals than we have
Speaker 4: here in the US. And why there's not sort of
Speaker 4: more regulatory bands on some of these chemicals is like
Speaker 4: a much larger topic. I think the thing that I've
Speaker 4: discovered in reporting this piece that I found maybe most
Speaker 4: concerning is that you know, just like you, I think
Speaker 4: you know a lot of people don't stillly have time
Speaker 4: to read the label so closely. We think we're picking
Speaker 4: clean products for these types of chemicals. Stalates in particular,
Speaker 4: companies don't actually have to write the word thalate as
Speaker 4: one of the ingredients. You might read it and you
Speaker 4: might not see that word and say, okay, fine, I'm
Speaker 4: in the clear. But actually, as long as the word
Speaker 4: fragrance is contained in the ingredients of some of these
Speaker 4: products that actually sort of implies that it has a
Speaker 4: salate in it in the US. And so when I
Speaker 4: sort of internalized that message, I kind of went through
Speaker 4: some of my own household products, took a lot of
Speaker 4: the ingredients, and I was really surprised. I mean, the
Speaker 4: word fragrance and added fragrance is in so much of
Speaker 4: our daily products, our household cleaners, the stuff we put
Speaker 4: on our skin and our faces, in our hair every day,
Speaker 4: and so it's really something that you, as a consumer,
Speaker 4: I have to kind of go that extra step to say, Okay,
Speaker 4: I'm not just looking for Dallas, I'm really looking for
Speaker 4: any added fragrance because that sort of implies that a
Speaker 4: salade is present.
Speaker 2: So when you're talking about a fragrance, I just want
Speaker 2: to make sure clear. Are we talking about, you know,
Speaker 2: after shave and perfumes that men or women might use,
Speaker 2: or are we talking about some additional fragrance that is
Speaker 2: in our liquid soap or our dishwasher detergent that that
Speaker 2: kind of reinforces that it's that smells good. Yeah, both
Speaker 2: you and this is all the above question.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's you know, it's unfortunately it's kind of all
Speaker 4: of the above. So we're definitely talking about personal fragrances,
Speaker 4: perfumes and colognes. We're also talking about personal care products
Speaker 4: like the kinds of soaps and shampoos and conditioners that
Speaker 4: are that are there all of these If you look
Speaker 4: at the you know, unless it's a very specific company
Speaker 4: that's really trying to do something healthy and clean, and
Speaker 4: there are a few that do this, most of them
Speaker 4: you will just see the word fragrance. And if that
Speaker 4: word fragrance is there, it means it's this chemical added
Speaker 4: fragrance that you know, as opposed to a natural fragrance
Speaker 4: like lavender, lemon, that kind of thing that you have
Speaker 4: to be wary of. These salts or these and other
Speaker 4: endocrine disrupting chemicals, they've been linked to numerous health outcomes
Speaker 4: that are not good for us. They increased insulin resistance,
Speaker 4: cardiovascular disease, and other issues with neurodevelopment that are really
Speaker 4: raising the alarm amongst scientists.
Speaker 2: How long have we, meaning the people who are supposed
Speaker 2: to regulate these things, how long have they been aware
Speaker 2: of the existence of these? Again, maybe can I use
Speaker 2: the word chemicals or is that inappropriate.
Speaker 4: You can use the word chemisticals you know, own about
Speaker 4: it for some time. In fact, the concerns about childhood
Speaker 4: ex socire tistalets are high enough in the United States
Speaker 4: that certain types of those chemicals have been banded children's
Speaker 4: toys and items like pacifiers and baby bottles for several years.
Speaker 4: But for whatever reason, and this is again like a
Speaker 4: bigger issue in how things are regulated, that those bands
Speaker 4: haven't extended to other personal care products which are certainly
Speaker 4: being used by adolescents. I mean that between the adolescent
Speaker 4: skin care market is thriving. Adolescents are very into using
Speaker 4: perfumes and lotions and a twenty step skincare routine. Those
Speaker 4: products have not been have not been regulated as tightly
Speaker 4: as things like pacifiers and baby bottles, but we're all
Speaker 4: getting exposed to them every day.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you this is a frightening story. And
Speaker 2: it's a frightening story because it's it's sort of like
Speaker 2: it almost comes back to the chemicals that were outlawed,
Speaker 2: you know, as a result of you know, some of
Speaker 2: the investigative reporting that happened in the nineteen fifties and sixties.
Speaker 2: And but you have you have these companies who have
Speaker 2: their lobbyists on K Street in Washington, d C. I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm thinking of Rachel carson Silent Spring right now as
Speaker 2: I talk to you, And is this the next chapter
Speaker 2: in Rachel Carson's Silent Spring or or is this the
Speaker 2: is this something that is as I mean, potentially as
Speaker 2: dangerous as what we thought was out of our out
Speaker 2: of the products supply that we that we so cavalierly
Speaker 2: buy at you know, at health stores or maybe not
Speaker 2: health stores, but at pharmacies, at CVS and Walgreen's and
Speaker 2: all these other different stores that we go into and
Speaker 2: we assume the stuff that s on the shelf is
Speaker 2: safe and good for us.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you're right that I think that level
Speaker 4: of awareness is really becoming heightened the last couple of years.
Speaker 4: And you know what I tell my patients is that,
Speaker 4: you know, in the end, it's about the impact of
Speaker 4: a habit of using these products, not so much. You know,
Speaker 4: people will say that it's just a tiny sprits of perfume,
Speaker 4: like that's not going to kill me, right, And I
Speaker 4: talk to a toxicologist and during this reporting, and she
Speaker 4: really advises everyone to avoid products with added fragrances, especially
Speaker 4: parents of young children, adolescents. But you know, you know,
Speaker 4: I consider this is like any other health decision you
Speaker 4: might make, right, like one cigarette, one glass of wine.
Speaker 4: We're not gonna be able to pin a bad outcome
Speaker 4: on that one moment. But if you smoke just one
Speaker 4: cigarette every single day for sixty years, then the story
Speaker 4: starts to change. And that's what I think about when
Speaker 4: you think about all of the personal care products you
Speaker 4: use on a daily basis. I mean I use at
Speaker 4: least five or six if I really think about it,
Speaker 4: multiply that by three sixty five, maybe forty more years
Speaker 4: of my life, and suddenly that one sprits you're using
Speaker 4: every day is not so minutes ago after all.
Speaker 2: Wow, Well, this is this is stuff that I hope
Speaker 2: some of the other newspapers and investigative television and reports
Speaker 2: pick up on because this is a frightening story. Truly
Speaker 2: frightening story for me, because you like to think that, Okay,
Speaker 2: we're in America and someone's out looking out for what
Speaker 2: we're ingesting and what we're applying to ourselves. So doctor
Speaker 2: Tricia Pashrika, you've again provide us with a great story.
Speaker 2: One more time and look forward to our next conversation.
Speaker 4: My pleasure. Good to talk.
Speaker 2: Great to talk with you as well when we get back,
Speaker 2: when we talk about a really good story. This one
Speaker 2: comes out of New Hampshire. A Salem, New Hampshire woman
Speaker 2: has created a giving card to give back to her community.
Speaker 2: This is interesting. Donations are going to go to the
Speaker 2: Salem Animal Rescue League and you'll this is a real
Speaker 2: feel good story. Coming back right after the break here
Speaker 2: on a Wednesday night edition of Nightside. Now back to
Speaker 2: Dan Ray live from the Window World Nightside Studios on
Speaker 2: WBZ News Radio. Well, our next story comes to us
Speaker 2: VI via the Ego Tribune and reported Jamie Costa, who
Speaker 2: originally reported this story and we're following up on it tonight.
Speaker 2: So we do want to credit the Ego Tribune and
Speaker 2: Jamie Costa, the reporter involved who has introduced us. And
Speaker 2: now we will introduce to you a Rebecca Webster. Rebecca
Speaker 2: is a local Salem, New Hampshire resident who has come
Speaker 2: up with a pretty creative idea at a lot of levels. Rebecca,
Speaker 2: Welcome to Night's Side. How are you this evening?
Speaker 4: I'm good? How are you good?
Speaker 2: So you came up with this idea to basically to
Speaker 2: give back to your community, which is really interesting. But
Speaker 2: you're going to do it in a way in which
Speaker 2: it's kind of an honor system, I guess. And all
Speaker 2: the donations that are contributed to this to your effort
Speaker 2: is actually going to go to a great cause, and
Speaker 2: that is the Salem, New Hampshire and Rescue League. So
Speaker 2: tell us how this works and how the genesis of
Speaker 2: the idea.
Speaker 5: So I've always seen the little libraries around different towns,
Speaker 5: and I thought they're a really neat idea, and you know,
Speaker 5: I just wanted to do something a little bit different.
Speaker 5: So my spin on that was, you know, I've got
Speaker 5: a lot of goods and a lot of things, and
Speaker 5: I decided to ask my husband to build me, uh
Speaker 5: a little table that I could have some good than
Speaker 5: goods and things on. And I call it Grantite Goodies
Speaker 5: because we live on Granted app and in the Granite State. Yes, yes, exactly.
Speaker 5: And he built me this beautiful cart and I have
Speaker 5: just different items in there that I might not be
Speaker 5: using much in my house. And I'm trying to have
Speaker 5: different themes, you know, like Halloween, Halloween things, and you know,
Speaker 5: some holiday things coming up and just trying to give
Speaker 5: back to the community. And people can take things for
Speaker 5: free and that's perfectly fine, or they can leave a
Speaker 5: small donation for the same animal rescue league. And yeah,
Speaker 5: it's working out really great.
Speaker 4: Communities are coming together.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when you talk about the little libraries, I know
Speaker 2: exactly what you mean, and many people really do as well.
Speaker 2: But for those who don't, there are these little sort
Speaker 2: of like bookstands in certain communities where people can contribute
Speaker 2: a book if they want, or just borrow a book
Speaker 2: if they want to read the book and then return
Speaker 2: the book. It's it's a great way for people to
Speaker 2: maybe get some books off the bookshelves at home and
Speaker 2: tidy up the bookshelves. What you do is give us
Speaker 2: an example of some of the items that you just
Speaker 2: have said, Hey, I don't need this anymore, but someone
Speaker 2: else might need it. Let me put it out in
Speaker 2: the car and in this by the way, was the
Speaker 2: car sitting on your front lawn or where is it?
Speaker 2: Just paint the picture for us.
Speaker 5: It's on it's on the front lawn. It's it's on
Speaker 5: the edge of the front of our yard, by our
Speaker 5: our fence in the corner and yeah, it's it's made
Speaker 5: from reused palettes. And so I mean, right now, there
Speaker 5: are a couple of plates out there. There's a couple
Speaker 5: of different mugs. There's been some you know, picture frames
Speaker 5: that I'm not using. There's been a pair of roller
Speaker 5: blades that were pretty much brand new that have now
Speaker 5: come and gone. But there's all different thing.
Speaker 2: You're telling me that you have a teenager or two
Speaker 2: who has moved into the working world and they don't
Speaker 2: have as much use for the roller blades these days.
Speaker 5: Exactly, yes, exactly.
Speaker 2: Okay, And again it's the honor system. So you don't
Speaker 2: put a price, and you don't say, oh, we recommend
Speaker 2: for the roller blades a ten dollars donation. You basically
Speaker 2: everything is there for the asking honor system, and people
Speaker 2: can contribute how much or how little they might like
Speaker 2: to contribute.
Speaker 5: Correct, Correct, it's the honor system. There's actually a notebook
Speaker 5: also in there that there's a little note on it
Speaker 5: that you know, just says, please leave this notebook here
Speaker 5: and leave a note if you'd like. And lots of
Speaker 5: community members have left me a note and like what
Speaker 5: they've donated or maybe thanking me, or I took this
Speaker 5: and this is just perfect for my own so it's
Speaker 5: nice for me to read some of the notes that
Speaker 5: the community members are leaving.
Speaker 2: Just a few more of the items that you brought
Speaker 2: from your home. Now, obviously you have have in effect
Speaker 2: started to declutter your home when you take items that
Speaker 2: are no longer of value to you or of use
Speaker 2: to you or your family and move them out. I
Speaker 2: mean a great example is the roller blades. Unless you're
Speaker 2: going to take up a carreras a rollerblade or in
Speaker 2: the roller derby, you didn't have any need for them.
Speaker 2: But give us a few other examples of just everyday
Speaker 2: items that you put out there and that people have taken.
Speaker 5: I've had some some kitchen you know, containers and things
Speaker 5: that I'm not using that we're pretty brand new, so
Speaker 5: I put those out there. During Halloween, I put out
Speaker 5: some Halloween greeting cards, so if anybody wanted to send
Speaker 5: somebody else a greeting card, I've put those out there.
Speaker 5: Now I'm going to move into some holidaypping items and
Speaker 5: some gifts for many ages. I've had a camera donators.
Speaker 2: I'll bet you probably have some Christmas decorations stored somewhere
Speaker 2: in a spare room or an attic that maybe have
Speaker 2: the light of day, or haven't seen a Christmas tree
Speaker 2: in a number of years. I'm bet I'm guessing because
Speaker 2: most of us have that.
Speaker 5: Yes, Yes, that's coming up next. Yes, and hopefully hopefully
Speaker 5: the community likes the ones I pick.
Speaker 2: Okay, so how about this. Let me do this, if
Speaker 2: you don't mind, I do want to give the address
Speaker 2: so people who live in the in the Sale of
Speaker 2: New Hampshire area will will know where to find you.
Speaker 2: Said it's on Granite Street. I have no idea if
Speaker 2: Granted Street is a big broad boulevard or if it's
Speaker 2: a little side road in Salem, New Hampshire. I don't
Speaker 2: want to put you in a situation where people are
Speaker 2: breaking into your home or anything like that. You tell
Speaker 2: me what works best for you.
Speaker 5: Sure it's thirty four Granted Ave in Salem, New Hampshire.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Well I think it's a fabulous idea and
Speaker 2: as I say it, it gives you a little extra
Speaker 2: space in your home. And when I'm actually thinking about it,
Speaker 2: you had a husband who was great and a craftsman
Speaker 2: who could build you a card in a display case.
Speaker 2: Do you lead the stuff overnight or do you bring
Speaker 2: in every evening.
Speaker 5: I leave it overnight. I usually check it in the morning,
Speaker 5: and I check it at night. And if things like
Speaker 5: tonight it's supposed to you know, there's going to be
Speaker 5: some weather, so I took anything in that might be
Speaker 5: you know, ruined by the weather. But yeah, I'm hoping
Speaker 5: I can keep it up for all, you know, throughout
Speaker 5: the winter and people will stop by and keep taking
Speaker 5: items and bringing some gently used items over because the
Speaker 5: community seems to be bringing a couple things over, which
Speaker 5: is nice too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so other people can declutter a little bit, but
Speaker 2: they don't want to overwhelm. They don't want to bring
Speaker 2: over the trunkload of things and leave them on your
Speaker 2: front lawn. So let's hope everybody respects and appreciates what
Speaker 2: you do and treat your front lawn and your neighborhood
Speaker 2: very very nicely. And I think it's a great idea.
Speaker 2: You know, Later this month we do the night Side.
Speaker 2: We do this every year, We've done it now this
Speaker 2: will be our twelfth year Nightside Charity Combine where we
Speaker 2: basically highlight great charity ideas and if you're interested in
Speaker 2: joining us, it's a brief interview like three or four
Speaker 2: minutes on the night of December twentieth, which was my
Speaker 2: last night of my broadcast year. That's my last night
Speaker 2: of the year this year. We'd love to have you
Speaker 2: join us. So do you have the number of my
Speaker 2: producer Marita, who you spoke with or who texted you
Speaker 2: today or emailed you or whatever the act she did? Oh? Yes,
Speaker 2: I do. Yeah, if you're interested, keep them read.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that would be wonderful.
Speaker 2: We could incorporate you in this. It's on Friday night,
Speaker 2: December twentieth. It's about only a three or four minute interview.
Speaker 2: We do the same thing. We just would condense what
Speaker 2: we've done now in just a few minutes, and it
Speaker 2: would be a way in which we could kind of
Speaker 2: check back with you and see how you're doing. Okay, great,
Speaker 2: sounds great. Thanks for backa congratulations, a great idea, and
Speaker 2: I'll bet you there'll be some people who will be
Speaker 2: initiating programs like the one you've described in their own communities.
Speaker 2: You're a community hero. Thank you so much.
Speaker 5: Mary Christmas, thank you, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 2: All right, we'll be back right after the nine o'clock news,
Speaker 2: and we're going to talk about what's called Massachusetts out migration.
Speaker 2: There are more people leaving Massachusetts than are coming into
Speaker 2: the state. And the ones that are leaving are people
Speaker 2: that we need to keep here because they tend to
Speaker 2: be younger, and they tend to be employed, very highly employed,
Speaker 2: and highly compensated. We are losing a lot of very
Speaker 2: important individuals, and we will explain it all in its
Speaker 2: entirety coming up with a research associate at the Pioneer
Speaker 2: Institute's name is Aiden Enwright. Will I can't say you're
Speaker 2: going to enjoy this conversation, but it's going to certainly
Speaker 2: open up a lot of people's eyes. Back on nightside
Speaker 2: right after this