WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.320 --> 00:00:06.320 It's Nightside with Dan Ray on WBZY, Boston's news radio. 2 00:00:07.320 --> 00:00:10.279 All right, welcome on and everybody, thank you Nicole very much, 3 00:00:10.400 --> 00:00:13.599 as we start a Wednesday night edition four hours. Will 4 00:00:13.599 --> 00:00:16.359 take you all the way until midnight, keep you up 5 00:00:16.399 --> 00:00:19.079 to date on a whole bunch of different items. And 6 00:00:19.480 --> 00:00:21.760 I thank you all for listening, and I thank all 7 00:00:21.760 --> 00:00:23.600 of you, particularly those of you who take the time 8 00:00:23.640 --> 00:00:26.480 to call. My name is Dan Reyes Nicole indicated on 9 00:00:26.559 --> 00:00:29.519 the host of Nightside, heard every Monday through Friday night 10 00:00:29.559 --> 00:00:32.920 from eight till midnight right here on w BZ, Boston's 11 00:00:32.920 --> 00:00:37.399 news radio. So let's get right to our Nightside News 12 00:00:37.560 --> 00:00:41.719 Update hour. And I am delighted to welcome the program 13 00:00:41.799 --> 00:00:45.920 director of Film Programming and Education at the Coolidge Corner Theater, 14 00:00:46.000 --> 00:00:49.920 which of course is a jewel in the great Boston area, 15 00:00:49.920 --> 00:00:55.320 actually in Brookline, Mark Anastasio. Mark Anastasio, Welcome to Nightside. 16 00:00:56.240 --> 00:00:56.840 Thank you Dan. 17 00:00:57.520 --> 00:01:01.920 You know Mark, you folks. We have a program upcoming 18 00:01:02.079 --> 00:01:06.680 or ongoing entitled Cinema in seventy millimeter. I worked in 19 00:01:06.719 --> 00:01:09.280 television a long time and I know what thirty five 20 00:01:09.359 --> 00:01:12.079 millimeter is, So you're going to have to educate me 21 00:01:12.159 --> 00:01:15.560 on I'm assuming seventy milimeters twice twice as good. 22 00:01:17.319 --> 00:01:22.120 That's absolutely right. Seventy millimeter film is physically twice as 23 00:01:22.200 --> 00:01:25.599 large as a thirty five millimeter print, So you're starting 24 00:01:25.640 --> 00:01:28.760 with that much larger of an image that's passing through 25 00:01:29.280 --> 00:01:32.760 the projector gate and in front of that beam of light, 26 00:01:33.359 --> 00:01:36.599 which makes for a much more high resolution image hitting 27 00:01:36.599 --> 00:01:41.079 the screen. So colors and textures are that much bolder 28 00:01:41.079 --> 00:01:43.640 and brighter from a seventy milimeter print. And we've put 29 00:01:43.680 --> 00:01:48.519 together an entire month of seventy milimeter films throughout September 30 00:01:48.560 --> 00:01:49.439 for our audiences. 31 00:01:50.040 --> 00:01:53.079 Yeah, I'm looking at this list of films which I 32 00:01:53.120 --> 00:01:57.439 want to get to. But you start off with a 33 00:01:59.719 --> 00:02:04.000 film I don't know when it was shot, but it's 34 00:02:04.040 --> 00:02:08.159 Paul Thomas Anderson's striking portrait of Drifters and Seekers in 35 00:02:08.240 --> 00:02:12.240 post World War Two in America screening in seventy millimeter? 36 00:02:13.759 --> 00:02:16.280 Is the name of the film, the master in seventy 37 00:02:16.319 --> 00:02:18.199 millimeter or is that just a character? 38 00:02:18.319 --> 00:02:18.599 No? 39 00:02:18.319 --> 00:02:22.400 No, that's yeah, that's just we added the extra in 40 00:02:22.479 --> 00:02:26.280 seventy millimeters just to let folks know the format it 41 00:02:26.319 --> 00:02:26.680 was swinging. 42 00:02:26.800 --> 00:02:29.919 But when was this film? This starts Friday Night. When 43 00:02:30.080 --> 00:02:32.400 was this film shot? Was this shot in the wake 44 00:02:32.479 --> 00:02:33.319 of World War Two? 45 00:02:33.439 --> 00:02:37.159 Or is it a no, The Masters a newer film, 46 00:02:37.240 --> 00:02:39.800 Dan it was. It's all about in the last ten 47 00:02:39.919 --> 00:02:41.800 years that that film came out. So this is a 48 00:02:42.199 --> 00:02:44.520 this is a modern film that was shot in the 49 00:02:44.560 --> 00:02:49.319 seventy millimeter format by director Paul Thomas Anderson. So that's 50 00:02:49.360 --> 00:02:52.560 and that's the beauty of this program in that we're 51 00:02:52.599 --> 00:02:57.280 showcasing films, you know, from from fifty years ago and 52 00:02:57.439 --> 00:03:00.919 more that were shot when seventy millimeter was sort of 53 00:03:00.919 --> 00:03:04.000 at the height of its popularity, with films like Lawrence 54 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:07.960 of Arabia and Spartacus. But then we're showing films from 55 00:03:08.120 --> 00:03:11.479 you know, the the twenty tens, like like The Master, 56 00:03:12.199 --> 00:03:15.039 that are more modern films, and you have these au 57 00:03:15.120 --> 00:03:20.759 tour directors like Paul Thomas Anderson and Quentin Tarantino and 58 00:03:20.879 --> 00:03:24.800 Christopher Nolan who have shot movies in this format in 59 00:03:24.840 --> 00:03:28.479 the modern age, and those films were released in seventy 60 00:03:28.520 --> 00:03:31.800 milimeter in first run theatrically, so we were we were 61 00:03:31.840 --> 00:03:34.120 fortunate to play The Master when it when it first 62 00:03:34.120 --> 00:03:36.599 came out. You notice that I'm avoiding the question of 63 00:03:36.680 --> 00:03:39.240 what you're exactly that was because I. 64 00:03:39.840 --> 00:03:44.159 Remember what I'm saying is the title of the film 65 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:50.520 is The Masters. Okay, correct, that's now now that that's clarified, 66 00:03:50.599 --> 00:03:55.280 So that is a film. Again, my my deep knowledge 67 00:03:55.319 --> 00:04:00.960 of film doesn't go much past I don't know a 68 00:04:01.039 --> 00:04:01.960 league of their own. 69 00:04:02.199 --> 00:04:06.400 And that's great. I mean, well you then you'll have 70 00:04:06.479 --> 00:04:08.360 to you'll have to come out to see The Master 71 00:04:08.479 --> 00:04:11.719 in this format. It's it's a gorgeous it's a gorgeous film. 72 00:04:11.719 --> 00:04:16.120 It starts Joaquin Phoenix and the late great Philip Seymour Hoffman. 73 00:04:16.639 --> 00:04:19.839 This is the film that was sort of this is 74 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:23.079 this is sort of the l Ron Hubbard story. 75 00:04:24.199 --> 00:04:24.399 Uh. 76 00:04:24.439 --> 00:04:27.879 It's the story of a of a man. And maybe 77 00:04:27.879 --> 00:04:30.360 I shouldn't actually say that, Maybe there's legal reasons why 78 00:04:30.399 --> 00:04:33.079 I shouldn't make that comparison, but uh, but this is 79 00:04:33.120 --> 00:04:35.040 the story of a man who sort of has a 80 00:04:35.079 --> 00:04:38.519 cult that gets built up around him and he develops 81 00:04:38.560 --> 00:04:42.800 this following and uh Joaquin Phoenix plays one of Philip 82 00:04:42.879 --> 00:04:47.439 Seymour Hoffman's followers, a lost individual following the war who 83 00:04:47.439 --> 00:04:50.560 gets brought into this flock. And it's it's quite an 84 00:04:50.600 --> 00:04:54.120 amazing story with some fine performances. Yeah, and it looks amazing. 85 00:04:54.160 --> 00:04:56.879 I just I'm just looking at the one sentence. I'd 86 00:04:56.920 --> 00:04:59.040 never heard of this particular film, but there's a lot 87 00:04:59.040 --> 00:05:01.240 of films I even heard of. It's at Paul Thomas 88 00:05:01.240 --> 00:05:04.079 Anderson's striking portrait a Drifters and Seekers in post World 89 00:05:04.120 --> 00:05:07.199 War two America. Really interesting. Now some of the other 90 00:05:07.240 --> 00:05:13.040 films that's beginning this Friday through Tuesday. You have from 91 00:05:13.519 --> 00:05:14.199 Saturday the. 92 00:05:14.319 --> 00:05:18.759 First, yeah, right, the first Friday in September. 93 00:05:18.360 --> 00:05:21.639 Right, right, And then you have two thousand and one 94 00:05:21.800 --> 00:05:24.360 Space Odyssey, which I think most people are aware of, 95 00:05:24.439 --> 00:05:28.319 and that's from Saturday the seventh. So you have some 96 00:05:28.360 --> 00:05:31.800 films that are playing at the same time, meaning in 97 00:05:31.839 --> 00:05:33.720 other words, I assume at one time during the day, 98 00:05:33.759 --> 00:05:36.160 and this one is kind of overlapping with the master 99 00:05:36.720 --> 00:05:41.680 You also have those who like to Laugh Airport on Sunday, 100 00:05:42.560 --> 00:05:50.240 eight September, Vertigo, which was at Alfred Hitchcock Masterpiece nine 101 00:05:50.240 --> 00:05:54.160 to thirteen to nine seventeen. Once upon a Time in Hollywood. 102 00:05:54.240 --> 00:05:59.639 That's a very popular films. Quentin Tarantino September fourteenth through 103 00:05:59.720 --> 00:06:01.600 the eighteenth. So it looks like most of these play 104 00:06:01.680 --> 00:06:03.439 for four or five days. But then you have the 105 00:06:03.480 --> 00:06:07.000 Lawrence of Arabia that is only available on Sunday the fifteenth, 106 00:06:07.519 --> 00:06:08.040 sparing this. 107 00:06:08.360 --> 00:06:13.680 That's right, You're go ahead, no the screen. There are 108 00:06:13.720 --> 00:06:16.839 some screenings that are just sort of booked as Sunday matinees, 109 00:06:16.920 --> 00:06:20.600 and Lawrence of Arabia is one of them. I mean, 110 00:06:20.920 --> 00:06:22.959 due to the sheer length of that film that kind 111 00:06:22.959 --> 00:06:25.040 of benefits it to start it earlier. 112 00:06:24.720 --> 00:06:25.160 In the day. 113 00:06:25.439 --> 00:06:29.360 I think Airport is also playing once on the Sunday afternoon. 114 00:06:30.160 --> 00:06:33.639 And then we've got this really rare archival print of 115 00:06:33.680 --> 00:06:35.959 The Sound of Music, which will also be one of 116 00:06:36.000 --> 00:06:39.920 the Sunday screenings, which is going to be absolutely gorgeous 117 00:06:40.040 --> 00:06:43.680 on the large main screen at the Coolidge in seventy milimeter. 118 00:06:44.360 --> 00:06:47.600 So have you folks ever done anything like this before? 119 00:06:47.800 --> 00:06:49.879 Is this a first? You know, I'm sure you've shown 120 00:06:49.959 --> 00:06:52.680 seventy milimeters films before, but this is going to be 121 00:06:52.720 --> 00:06:59.000 a pretty intense month of September. A tradition or what 122 00:06:59.079 --> 00:06:59.800 tell me about it? 123 00:07:00.800 --> 00:07:04.839 I hope it becomes one. We've we've sporadically run seventy 124 00:07:04.839 --> 00:07:08.920 millimeter films in first run over the years, but this 125 00:07:08.959 --> 00:07:12.040 is the first time we've had a focused effort, at 126 00:07:12.160 --> 00:07:15.399 least in my time there, which has been seventeen years now, 127 00:07:16.199 --> 00:07:20.639 where we've yeah, where we've had we've booked. So the 128 00:07:20.680 --> 00:07:23.240 way we've booked this is we have three different seventy 129 00:07:23.240 --> 00:07:27.279 milimeter prints playing each week those first three weeks of September, 130 00:07:27.319 --> 00:07:30.759 for a total of nine films that you can see 131 00:07:31.199 --> 00:07:35.240 in this astonishing format. And yeah, we've never we've never 132 00:07:35.240 --> 00:07:37.959 done it this way before, but if it's if it's successful, 133 00:07:38.800 --> 00:07:40.800 I can see it becoming an annual thing. 134 00:07:41.160 --> 00:07:44.240 Okay, so two questions now, most important. I see that 135 00:07:44.279 --> 00:07:48.839 the prices are available on your website, which is simply 136 00:07:48.920 --> 00:07:54.560 Coolidge dot org. And that's why the capacity is four 137 00:07:54.680 --> 00:07:59.120 hundred and forty seats. So therefore, correct, I guess ticket 138 00:07:59.160 --> 00:08:02.279 reservations for some of these films, or perhaps all of 139 00:08:02.319 --> 00:08:04.199 them is advised. 140 00:08:04.240 --> 00:08:07.639 Correct, Oh, very much advised. Yeah, And and the pre 141 00:08:07.759 --> 00:08:11.240 sales for this program are considerable, so they've they've been 142 00:08:11.639 --> 00:08:14.519 they've been selling very well. So I would suggest that 143 00:08:14.519 --> 00:08:17.920 folks grab tickets in advance to ensure that they have 144 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:19.079 a seat at these stones. 145 00:08:19.240 --> 00:08:22.199 Okay, so the easiest way for them is simply to 146 00:08:22.240 --> 00:08:25.600 go to the website Coolidge dot org. And they'll see 147 00:08:25.600 --> 00:08:28.399 it over there. They can become a member, need to 148 00:08:28.399 --> 00:08:30.560 get a little bit of a break of the ticket price. 149 00:08:30.600 --> 00:08:33.679 But I got to tell you it's it's great September. 150 00:08:34.120 --> 00:08:38.200 A lot of people there, they're finished with summer, they're 151 00:08:38.240 --> 00:08:40.720 back home. The timing couldn't be better, and they're looking 152 00:08:40.720 --> 00:08:43.159 for some special entertainment. And this sounds like it's going 153 00:08:43.200 --> 00:08:47.879 to be precisely that. Mark Nisteyska. I really enjoyed our conversation, 154 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:50.600 learned a lot more about a film. And as I say, 155 00:08:51.480 --> 00:08:54.799 you know, I was on a plane recently and I 156 00:08:54.879 --> 00:08:57.279 watched for the i think the second time, the movie 157 00:08:57.360 --> 00:08:59.559 Forrest Gump, and it was amazing. I got much more 158 00:08:59.600 --> 00:09:02.200 out of it the second time, maybe because I wasn't 159 00:09:02.240 --> 00:09:05.279 sitting there with a couple of beers. But all of 160 00:09:05.320 --> 00:09:08.240 these films, even though people have seen them before, to 161 00:09:08.399 --> 00:09:11.279 go to the Coolidge and see them in seventy millimeters format, 162 00:09:11.480 --> 00:09:13.440 I think is going to be extraordinary. Thank you so 163 00:09:13.559 --> 00:09:16.799 much for checking us out on this and always keep 164 00:09:16.879 --> 00:09:19.240 us in mind when you're looking to get the word 165 00:09:19.240 --> 00:09:19.600 out there. 166 00:09:19.639 --> 00:09:23.279 Okay, we will. Thank you, Dan, I appreciate it very much. 167 00:09:23.279 --> 00:09:24.120 Thank you for having me. 168 00:09:24.320 --> 00:09:26.720 You are more than welcome when we get back here. 169 00:09:26.799 --> 00:09:30.320 On nights side, we're going to talk about a more 170 00:09:30.399 --> 00:09:34.639 serious subject. We are going to talk about mental health, 171 00:09:35.440 --> 00:09:41.840 particularly as it deals with adolescent teens they are struggling, 172 00:09:42.679 --> 00:09:47.360 and we'll talk with doctor Gregory Zan's I hope I 173 00:09:47.440 --> 00:09:50.960 pronounced his name correctly. And also there's a free trauma 174 00:09:51.000 --> 00:09:54.000 test which we'll be able to direct you to, which 175 00:09:54.320 --> 00:09:56.600 our guests will promote. We'll explain all of that later 176 00:09:56.679 --> 00:09:59.360 on tonight, talking to the rising cancer rates and millennials 177 00:09:59.360 --> 00:10:03.799 and gen and also a group called the Split Second Foundation, 178 00:10:04.000 --> 00:10:08.559 which discusses accessible travel tips and tricks for those living 179 00:10:08.559 --> 00:10:12.000 with the disability or medical condition how to find hotels, 180 00:10:12.120 --> 00:10:15.679 activities and transportation that are accessible. So we got some 181 00:10:15.720 --> 00:10:19.399 good information coming up. And then later on tonight we're 182 00:10:19.399 --> 00:10:22.879 going to talk about the ban on cell phones in classrooms. 183 00:10:23.480 --> 00:10:26.200 And also we're going to talk with Scott alan Curly, 184 00:10:26.799 --> 00:10:30.759 an ex convict who I had on a week or 185 00:10:30.799 --> 00:10:33.039 so ago and I was really impressed, and I feel 186 00:10:33.240 --> 00:10:34.759 that many of you might like to talk to him 187 00:10:34.799 --> 00:10:37.399 tonight as well. So we got a full full deck tonight, 188 00:10:37.440 --> 00:10:41.360 and I hope you're ready to join the conversation after 189 00:10:41.399 --> 00:10:45.120 the nine o'clock news, Moving back with doctor Gregory Zan's 190 00:10:45.240 --> 00:10:45.879 right after this. 191 00:10:46.919 --> 00:10:49.919 Now back to Dan ray Line from the Window World 192 00:10:50.039 --> 00:10:53.159 Night Side Studios on WBZ the News Radio. 193 00:10:53.960 --> 00:10:57.600 All Right, my guest is doctor Gregory Jans, Doctor Jans. 194 00:10:57.679 --> 00:10:59.720 I'm hoping I pronounced that last name correctly. 195 00:11:00.799 --> 00:11:01.759 You got me, Jans? 196 00:11:02.200 --> 00:11:06.120 Gents, all right, perfect, all right, no problem. So research 197 00:11:06.120 --> 00:11:10.600 from Harvard University Graduate School of Education has found that 198 00:11:10.720 --> 00:11:14.000 it's not adolescent teams that are struggling most with their 199 00:11:14.120 --> 00:11:19.919 mental health, but college age young adults. I don't know 200 00:11:19.960 --> 00:11:23.919 which if that surprises me a lot or not? Am 201 00:11:23.919 --> 00:11:25.360 I should I be surprised by that? 202 00:11:27.279 --> 00:11:32.200 Probably not. It's almost predictable. We came through this pandemic 203 00:11:32.240 --> 00:11:36.039 of sorts and our kids in this age range. 204 00:11:36.759 --> 00:11:39.679 It was a big, doctor Jens, it was a big, 205 00:11:39.879 --> 00:11:41.600 big pandemic. I think. 206 00:11:43.000 --> 00:11:49.159 That LEDs exactly. And we are seeing now really and 207 00:11:49.480 --> 00:11:53.440 we're not We're in a mental health epidemic. And this 208 00:11:53.639 --> 00:12:00.279 eighteen to twenty five plus age they are suffering. New 209 00:12:00.360 --> 00:12:05.159 term that has kind of described this is a foreshortened future. 210 00:12:05.759 --> 00:12:09.720 They don't see hope for their future. Nothing's getting better. 211 00:12:10.279 --> 00:12:14.879 The apathy in this age group's never been higher. They're apathetic, 212 00:12:15.360 --> 00:12:19.720 and if they're apathetic, we're seeing record levels of depression 213 00:12:20.519 --> 00:12:21.759 and anxiety. 214 00:12:22.240 --> 00:12:25.960 That's a pretty dystopian formula that you've just talked to. 215 00:12:26.279 --> 00:12:31.879 Yes, yeah, wow now, And if you look even financially, 216 00:12:32.559 --> 00:12:35.000 it's like the quite school worth at college worth it 217 00:12:35.600 --> 00:12:39.480 and and everything that's been going on. This age group 218 00:12:39.600 --> 00:12:42.200 is also going I don't know who to trust, I 219 00:12:42.200 --> 00:12:46.039 don't know who to believe, who to trust, and my 220 00:12:46.120 --> 00:12:52.360 future doesn't really matter, and there's a diminished value on life, 221 00:12:52.440 --> 00:12:57.200 a diminished value on their future. They don't really I'm 222 00:12:57.200 --> 00:13:01.080 making some general statements, but dreaming about to their future 223 00:13:01.480 --> 00:13:02.399 is not positive. 224 00:13:03.480 --> 00:13:09.360 So these are young people who probably I'm guessing are 225 00:13:09.480 --> 00:13:14.200 gen Zers. They would have been born I'm guessing in 226 00:13:14.360 --> 00:13:20.960 the mid nineties, and now are you know, in their 227 00:13:21.000 --> 00:13:24.240 mid twenties as you've described them. I guess gen Zs 228 00:13:24.279 --> 00:13:28.159 are technically ninety seven in twenty twelve. So obviously some 229 00:13:28.200 --> 00:13:30.919 of the gen zs are still you know, they haven't 230 00:13:30.919 --> 00:13:36.639 reached teenagers yet, but you have who are twenty seven maybe, 231 00:13:37.279 --> 00:13:40.320 and that's kind of the sweet spot here. And is 232 00:13:40.320 --> 00:13:42.360 it all to do with the pandemic? 233 00:13:43.600 --> 00:13:46.159 Not all to do. But we could say it's a 234 00:13:46.200 --> 00:13:50.320 perfect storm. It pushed many over the edge. If you 235 00:13:50.399 --> 00:13:53.519 were already struggling. Let's say that you had social anxiety 236 00:13:53.559 --> 00:13:57.440 and you're already struggling because mental health issues were beginning 237 00:13:57.480 --> 00:14:00.639 to emerge in this age group, and you're already struggling. 238 00:14:01.000 --> 00:14:04.960 You come through the pandemic. It tilted you all the 239 00:14:05.000 --> 00:14:07.720 way over. It was it was too much. 240 00:14:08.360 --> 00:14:08.759 And so. 241 00:14:10.519 --> 00:14:13.759 The word that we're hearing more and more now we 242 00:14:13.840 --> 00:14:16.960 work with folks from all over the country who come 243 00:14:17.000 --> 00:14:20.480 in for help, and the word that's being used is 244 00:14:20.519 --> 00:14:24.679 the word trauma. I've had enough of this. I've been traumatized. Now, 245 00:14:24.759 --> 00:14:27.519 trauma can mean a lot of different things to people, 246 00:14:27.799 --> 00:14:29.720 but they're saying, I've been traumatized. 247 00:14:30.879 --> 00:14:32.879 It's enough. I've had a devil's advocate. 248 00:14:33.000 --> 00:14:33.639 Just for a second. 249 00:14:33.919 --> 00:14:36.120 Yeah, course, I know you're going to be able to 250 00:14:36.120 --> 00:14:39.600 handle any question I'm asking. But when I think of 251 00:14:39.960 --> 00:14:44.799 this group and I think of what they went through 252 00:14:44.879 --> 00:14:50.679 as all of us went through the pandemic years, there 253 00:14:50.720 --> 00:14:54.399 were a group of people my age, baby Boomers, who 254 00:14:54.840 --> 00:15:01.919 went through Vietnam War pretty pretty tough time. There were 255 00:15:01.960 --> 00:15:05.519 parents the greatest generation. They dealt with the depression followed 256 00:15:05.519 --> 00:15:10.399 by World War Two, there have been some economic crashes. 257 00:15:11.279 --> 00:15:15.360 It would seem to me, maybe I'm way off base here, 258 00:15:15.600 --> 00:15:17.639 but it would seem to me of some of those 259 00:15:18.159 --> 00:15:24.440 traumas Vietnam, World War two, Korea, Great Depression, the Great 260 00:15:24.440 --> 00:15:29.000 Recession of eighty seven, that it would seem to me 261 00:15:29.080 --> 00:15:36.519 that that this epidemic COVID that we went through, it 262 00:15:36.639 --> 00:15:40.519 was probably not as tough as the other ones. Am 263 00:15:40.600 --> 00:15:41.200 I way off? 264 00:15:42.720 --> 00:15:44.600 I don't think you're way off based? But I think 265 00:15:44.639 --> 00:15:47.639 what's happened is, you know, and we've seen so much 266 00:15:47.840 --> 00:15:50.919 post traumatic stress disorder and I have to tell you, 267 00:15:51.000 --> 00:15:56.279 as a treating provider, that's very real. And if you've 268 00:15:56.279 --> 00:16:00.120 been traumatized, that is that's something that you certainly it 269 00:16:00.120 --> 00:16:05.440 could be suffering from. It's real. Now, we also have 270 00:16:05.720 --> 00:16:09.639 a generation that really they don't have good coping skills 271 00:16:10.080 --> 00:16:15.960 and they've turned to social media. Social media. Instagram used 272 00:16:16.000 --> 00:16:20.360 to be. YouTube was their source of information. They don't Google, 273 00:16:20.679 --> 00:16:25.000 They would go to YouTube and you know, now all 274 00:16:25.120 --> 00:16:29.639 their information and it's not good. If you're already suffering 275 00:16:29.679 --> 00:16:32.919 from depression and you just spent six hours on social media, 276 00:16:33.240 --> 00:16:34.120 are you going to feel better? 277 00:16:34.200 --> 00:16:34.480 Or worse. 278 00:16:34.480 --> 00:16:35.559 You're gonna feel worse. 279 00:16:35.519 --> 00:16:38.600 Sure, and I will aways want to make I was 280 00:16:38.679 --> 00:16:40.600 driving at that point because it seems to me that 281 00:16:40.600 --> 00:16:43.039 that is the element. And they were forced because of 282 00:16:43.080 --> 00:16:46.320 the pandemic, because of COVID, the closing of schools. They 283 00:16:46.360 --> 00:16:49.919 spent a lot more time at home on social media 284 00:16:50.000 --> 00:16:53.159 than even the generation right before them or the generation 285 00:16:53.279 --> 00:16:55.159 that today is coming of age. 286 00:16:55.200 --> 00:16:59.000 Absolutely, and then another thing happened. So we got deep 287 00:16:59.000 --> 00:17:03.200 into social media, and so we have digital relationships. We 288 00:17:03.279 --> 00:17:06.720 kind of kind of digitize the brain in a sense, 289 00:17:07.240 --> 00:17:09.920 and so we don't know how to have real relationships. 290 00:17:10.240 --> 00:17:14.920 And then something called ghosting emerges. I'm done with you. 291 00:17:14.319 --> 00:17:15.920 But I don't have to respond to you anymore. 292 00:17:16.559 --> 00:17:21.240 And so then so the relationship skills that are healthy 293 00:17:21.480 --> 00:17:23.200 we don't learn that in social media. 294 00:17:23.400 --> 00:17:25.640 I wish I had known about ghosting when I was young, 295 00:17:25.680 --> 00:17:28.119 because my girlfriends would dump me, wouldn't call me back. 296 00:17:28.119 --> 00:17:29.759 And now at least I could say I was being 297 00:17:29.799 --> 00:17:34.319 ghosted only kidding. Yes, Okay, so quick quick question here. 298 00:17:34.359 --> 00:17:40.200 You actually have a trauma test that people of any 299 00:17:41.160 --> 00:17:44.000 and they can go to a place of hope dot 300 00:17:44.039 --> 00:17:49.079 com slash Trauma hyphen test I may take that test 301 00:17:49.119 --> 00:17:50.519 tomorrow just for the fun of it. 302 00:17:53.240 --> 00:17:55.359 You know, the trauma test is good. It's a good 303 00:17:55.400 --> 00:17:58.839 beginning place, and really simply go to a place of hope. 304 00:17:59.039 --> 00:18:02.880 You'll see some different tests. Take the trauma test, uh, 305 00:18:03.039 --> 00:18:07.279 and we're going it's totally confidential, and but we're going 306 00:18:07.319 --> 00:18:09.920 to send you some information to help you look at 307 00:18:10.000 --> 00:18:12.920 it a little deeper, deeper, because we really do believe 308 00:18:13.559 --> 00:18:17.519 too many people are suffering too long. 309 00:18:19.599 --> 00:18:21.640 I couldn't agree with you more this also, by the way, 310 00:18:21.720 --> 00:18:24.759 a lot of people who are dealing in a factual 311 00:18:25.720 --> 00:18:29.720 point of view with long COVID. By the way, one 312 00:18:29.759 --> 00:18:33.119 of the things absolutely out of this is complicated because 313 00:18:33.160 --> 00:18:35.640 I have friends of mine who are still suffering consequences 314 00:18:35.680 --> 00:18:39.160 of COVID after they foll Yeah, doctor Jens, I really 315 00:18:39.240 --> 00:18:42.559 enjoyed this conversation. You're a good sport. I hit you 316 00:18:42.599 --> 00:18:44.920 with a couple of tough questions and you handle them perfectly. 317 00:18:45.000 --> 00:18:47.319 I'm going to go take the trauma test tomorrow and 318 00:18:48.000 --> 00:18:49.559 see if I'm okay, okay. 319 00:18:49.799 --> 00:18:51.960 Hey, good to be with you tonight. You know who 320 00:18:52.000 --> 00:18:53.400 to call if you have any concerns. 321 00:18:53.720 --> 00:18:57.599 Absolutely absolutely, I'll call my bookie and see if I 322 00:18:57.599 --> 00:18:59.480 can get a hot tip for the weekend and only 323 00:18:59.559 --> 00:19:04.519 getting bags, that always makes me feel better. Thanks doctor Jens, 324 00:19:04.559 --> 00:19:07.240 thank you. Well. We get back when we talk to 325 00:19:07.440 --> 00:19:11.599 even a more serious problem with doctor Rob Fraser. He 326 00:19:11.799 --> 00:19:16.240 is a president of a group called Molecular Molecular you 327 00:19:16.279 --> 00:19:19.599 tackling the rising cancer rates in millennials and Gen xers, 328 00:19:19.720 --> 00:19:22.359 and that's something or really to worry about, not to 329 00:19:22.400 --> 00:19:25.160 diminish the trauma. Trust me, I loved that guest, and 330 00:19:25.200 --> 00:19:27.559 I loved the fact that I can take this trauma test. 331 00:19:27.599 --> 00:19:30.240 I hope everyone will uh again. I'll give that to 332 00:19:30.279 --> 00:19:32.240 you one more time so you can find to just 333 00:19:32.279 --> 00:19:36.519 go to a place of hope dot com. All one word, 334 00:19:36.519 --> 00:19:40.039 a place of hope dot com slash trauma, slash a 335 00:19:40.200 --> 00:19:43.599 hyphen test. My name is Dan Ray. We have good 336 00:19:43.640 --> 00:19:46.279 guests coming up all night long. Stay with us right 337 00:19:46.279 --> 00:19:48.400 here on night Side, and of course you always can 338 00:19:48.680 --> 00:19:50.720 if you can, if you know the radio signals a 339 00:19:50.759 --> 00:19:55.119 little week or whatever, download the iHeartRadio app. You can 340 00:19:55.119 --> 00:20:01.640 get us anytime any place. Iheartrate. It is a great, 341 00:20:01.920 --> 00:20:04.000 great resource. Coming back on night side. 342 00:20:05.240 --> 00:20:09.880 It's Night Side with Boston's news Radio. 343 00:20:12.000 --> 00:20:17.839 Okay, we are continuing along here on a Wednesday night, 344 00:20:18.480 --> 00:20:21.319 and we're going to talk about a really serious problem here, 345 00:20:21.359 --> 00:20:25.400 and that is the rising cancer rates amongst millennials and 346 00:20:25.519 --> 00:20:28.960 gen xers, with us as doctor Rob Fraser, he is 347 00:20:29.039 --> 00:20:33.680 the CSO. I'm not sure what a CSO means, doctor Fraser, 348 00:20:33.680 --> 00:20:37.680 but you're the CSO and president of Molecular U. I 349 00:20:37.720 --> 00:20:41.319 mean it's chief something officer. What CSO means, sir? 350 00:20:42.079 --> 00:20:45.480 Oh, it's the most important role. It's the scientific side 351 00:20:45.480 --> 00:20:45.680 of it. 352 00:20:45.759 --> 00:20:47.759 Sum Yeah, that's. 353 00:20:47.559 --> 00:20:52.680 Good, that's great. Okay, So, millennials and gen xers, and 354 00:20:52.720 --> 00:20:56.000 when we talk millennials, we're talking about people who could 355 00:20:56.039 --> 00:20:58.880 be as old as fifty, well not quite fifty, they 356 00:20:58.920 --> 00:21:03.000 would be forty five to as young as thirty or so. 357 00:21:03.519 --> 00:21:06.400 They were born from nineteen eighty one to nineteen ninety six. 358 00:21:06.839 --> 00:21:09.559 Excuse me, strike that gen xers sixty five to eighty 359 00:21:09.640 --> 00:21:12.920 My mistake, sixty five to eighty. So we are talking 360 00:21:12.920 --> 00:21:15.519 about people who could be fifty anywhere, fifty five to 361 00:21:16.039 --> 00:21:20.759 maybe forty four. Millennials a little later, they're the next 362 00:21:20.759 --> 00:21:24.880 group nineteen eighty one to nineteen ninety six and gen 363 00:21:25.000 --> 00:21:27.920 Z or later than that. So what's going on with 364 00:21:27.960 --> 00:21:29.880 this group that all of a sudden they're facing the 365 00:21:30.000 --> 00:21:34.960 risk of a higher risk of these seventeen cancers than 366 00:21:35.000 --> 00:21:37.279 boomers my generation. 367 00:21:37.400 --> 00:21:38.279 Who are older. 368 00:21:39.000 --> 00:21:40.799 You would think that we would be getting hit with 369 00:21:40.839 --> 00:21:45.200 some of these cancers more more frequently than millennials and 370 00:21:45.240 --> 00:21:46.240 gen xers. 371 00:21:46.480 --> 00:21:47.000 What's going on? 372 00:21:47.079 --> 00:21:50.039 Yeah, And you'd be right to think that, because most 373 00:21:50.079 --> 00:21:53.880 cancers are really associated with an aging population, and so 374 00:21:53.920 --> 00:21:57.480 this is a very alarming trend, and I don't think 375 00:21:58.240 --> 00:22:01.200 we know why yet. I think that what we do 376 00:22:01.279 --> 00:22:04.039 know about cancers is that most of it's not inherited, 377 00:22:04.119 --> 00:22:07.440 like very few cancers are inherit. Only about five percent 378 00:22:07.480 --> 00:22:11.880 of cancers are directly genetic. And then beyond that it's 379 00:22:11.880 --> 00:22:16.000 all environmental. And so getting to the causes, those carcinogens 380 00:22:16.039 --> 00:22:18.359 as we call them, that are driving the cancers at 381 00:22:18.359 --> 00:22:22.799 the early stages that make those changes in the host genetics, 382 00:22:22.960 --> 00:22:27.319 our own genetics can be all kinds of respactors. What's 383 00:22:27.359 --> 00:22:31.119 interesting about this particular birth cohort, I think is that 384 00:22:31.240 --> 00:22:35.640 there does seem to be increased trend in things like obesity, 385 00:22:35.680 --> 00:22:39.319 and a number of the cancers that are going up 386 00:22:39.400 --> 00:22:45.000 had been associated with obesity. You know, In general, I 387 00:22:45.000 --> 00:22:49.240 think tobacco usage has gone down, but a lot of 388 00:22:49.240 --> 00:22:53.720 these individuals seem to be associated tobacco alcohol use. And 389 00:22:53.759 --> 00:22:57.240 then we've got arising issues with air pollutants, and so 390 00:22:57.279 --> 00:23:00.880 those could also be other factors. And the only other 391 00:23:00.920 --> 00:23:03.880 one that I think that that is actually interestingly and 392 00:23:03.960 --> 00:23:07.480 on the rise is some what we call the microbial dyspiosis. 393 00:23:07.519 --> 00:23:11.559 And this is the microbes that live in our in 394 00:23:11.599 --> 00:23:16.960 our systems, primarily in our guts, and they generate various 395 00:23:17.160 --> 00:23:23.440 metabolites and other factors that get that enter into our bloodstream, 396 00:23:23.599 --> 00:23:26.599 and they can heighten our oxidative stress, they can be 397 00:23:26.680 --> 00:23:29.599 toxic in their own right, and they can drive inflammation. 398 00:23:29.720 --> 00:23:33.079 And those those factors are known to promote those those 399 00:23:33.119 --> 00:23:38.960 alternation alterations pardon me, that can interact and cause mutations 400 00:23:39.119 --> 00:23:42.200 or or change the way genes are silenced and can 401 00:23:42.319 --> 00:23:46.599