Speaker 1: It's Nightside with Dan Ray on WBZY, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: All right, welcome on and everybody, thank you Nicole very much,
Speaker 2: as we start a Wednesday night edition four hours. Will
Speaker 2: take you all the way until midnight, keep you up
Speaker 2: to date on a whole bunch of different items. And
Speaker 2: I thank you all for listening, and I thank all
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Speaker 2: to call. My name is Dan Reyes Nicole indicated on
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Speaker 2: news radio. So let's get right to our Nightside News
Speaker 2: Update hour. And I am delighted to welcome the program
Speaker 2: director of Film Programming and Education at the Coolidge Corner Theater,
Speaker 2: which of course is a jewel in the great Boston area,
Speaker 2: actually in Brookline, Mark Anastasio. Mark Anastasio, Welcome to Nightside.
Speaker 3: Thank you Dan.
Speaker 2: You know Mark, you folks. We have a program upcoming
Speaker 2: or ongoing entitled Cinema in seventy millimeter. I worked in
Speaker 2: television a long time and I know what thirty five
Speaker 2: millimeter is, So you're going to have to educate me
Speaker 2: on I'm assuming seventy milimeters twice twice as good.
Speaker 3: That's absolutely right. Seventy millimeter film is physically twice as
Speaker 3: large as a thirty five millimeter print, So you're starting
Speaker 3: with that much larger of an image that's passing through
Speaker 3: the projector gate and in front of that beam of light,
Speaker 3: which makes for a much more high resolution image hitting
Speaker 3: the screen. So colors and textures are that much bolder
Speaker 3: and brighter from a seventy milimeter print. And we've put
Speaker 3: together an entire month of seventy milimeter films throughout September
Speaker 3: for our audiences.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm looking at this list of films which I
Speaker 2: want to get to. But you start off with a
Speaker 2: film I don't know when it was shot, but it's
Speaker 2: Paul Thomas Anderson's striking portrait of Drifters and Seekers in
Speaker 2: post World War Two in America screening in seventy millimeter?
Speaker 2: Is the name of the film, the master in seventy
Speaker 2: millimeter or is that just a character?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: No, that's yeah, that's just we added the extra in
Speaker 3: seventy millimeters just to let folks know the format it
Speaker 3: was swinging.
Speaker 2: But when was this film? This starts Friday Night. When
Speaker 2: was this film shot? Was this shot in the wake
Speaker 2: of World War Two?
Speaker 3: Or is it a no, The Masters a newer film,
Speaker 3: Dan it was. It's all about in the last ten
Speaker 3: years that that film came out. So this is a
Speaker 3: this is a modern film that was shot in the
Speaker 3: seventy millimeter format by director Paul Thomas Anderson. So that's
Speaker 3: and that's the beauty of this program in that we're
Speaker 3: showcasing films, you know, from from fifty years ago and
Speaker 3: more that were shot when seventy millimeter was sort of
Speaker 3: at the height of its popularity, with films like Lawrence
Speaker 3: of Arabia and Spartacus. But then we're showing films from
Speaker 3: you know, the the twenty tens, like like The Master,
Speaker 3: that are more modern films, and you have these au
Speaker 3: tour directors like Paul Thomas Anderson and Quentin Tarantino and
Speaker 3: Christopher Nolan who have shot movies in this format in
Speaker 3: the modern age, and those films were released in seventy
Speaker 3: milimeter in first run theatrically, so we were we were
Speaker 3: fortunate to play The Master when it when it first
Speaker 3: came out. You notice that I'm avoiding the question of
Speaker 3: what you're exactly that was because I.
Speaker 2: Remember what I'm saying is the title of the film
Speaker 2: is The Masters. Okay, correct, that's now now that that's clarified,
Speaker 2: So that is a film. Again, my my deep knowledge
Speaker 2: of film doesn't go much past I don't know a
Speaker 2: league of their own.
Speaker 3: And that's great. I mean, well you then you'll have
Speaker 3: to you'll have to come out to see The Master
Speaker 3: in this format. It's it's a gorgeous it's a gorgeous film.
Speaker 3: It starts Joaquin Phoenix and the late great Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Speaker 3: This is the film that was sort of this is
Speaker 3: this is sort of the l Ron Hubbard story.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: It's the story of a of a man. And maybe
Speaker 3: I shouldn't actually say that, Maybe there's legal reasons why
Speaker 3: I shouldn't make that comparison, but uh, but this is
Speaker 3: the story of a man who sort of has a
Speaker 3: cult that gets built up around him and he develops
Speaker 3: this following and uh Joaquin Phoenix plays one of Philip
Speaker 3: Seymour Hoffman's followers, a lost individual following the war who
Speaker 3: gets brought into this flock. And it's it's quite an
Speaker 3: amazing story with some fine performances. Yeah, and it looks amazing.
Speaker 2: I just I'm just looking at the one sentence. I'd
Speaker 2: never heard of this particular film, but there's a lot
Speaker 2: of films I even heard of. It's at Paul Thomas
Speaker 2: Anderson's striking portrait a Drifters and Seekers in post World
Speaker 2: War two America. Really interesting. Now some of the other
Speaker 2: films that's beginning this Friday through Tuesday. You have from
Speaker 2: Saturday the.
Speaker 3: First, yeah, right, the first Friday in September.
Speaker 2: Right, right, And then you have two thousand and one
Speaker 2: Space Odyssey, which I think most people are aware of,
Speaker 2: and that's from Saturday the seventh. So you have some
Speaker 2: films that are playing at the same time, meaning in
Speaker 2: other words, I assume at one time during the day,
Speaker 2: and this one is kind of overlapping with the master
Speaker 2: You also have those who like to Laugh Airport on Sunday,
Speaker 2: eight September, Vertigo, which was at Alfred Hitchcock Masterpiece nine
Speaker 2: to thirteen to nine seventeen. Once upon a Time in Hollywood.
Speaker 2: That's a very popular films. Quentin Tarantino September fourteenth through
Speaker 2: the eighteenth. So it looks like most of these play
Speaker 2: for four or five days. But then you have the
Speaker 2: Lawrence of Arabia that is only available on Sunday the fifteenth,
Speaker 2: sparing this.
Speaker 3: That's right, You're go ahead, no the screen. There are
Speaker 3: some screenings that are just sort of booked as Sunday matinees,
Speaker 3: and Lawrence of Arabia is one of them. I mean,
Speaker 3: due to the sheer length of that film that kind
Speaker 3: of benefits it to start it earlier.
Speaker 1: In the day.
Speaker 3: I think Airport is also playing once on the Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 3: And then we've got this really rare archival print of
Speaker 3: The Sound of Music, which will also be one of
Speaker 3: the Sunday screenings, which is going to be absolutely gorgeous
Speaker 3: on the large main screen at the Coolidge in seventy milimeter.
Speaker 2: So have you folks ever done anything like this before?
Speaker 2: Is this a first? You know, I'm sure you've shown
Speaker 2: seventy milimeters films before, but this is going to be
Speaker 2: a pretty intense month of September. A tradition or what
Speaker 2: tell me about it?
Speaker 3: I hope it becomes one. We've we've sporadically run seventy
Speaker 3: millimeter films in first run over the years, but this
Speaker 3: is the first time we've had a focused effort, at
Speaker 3: least in my time there, which has been seventeen years now,
Speaker 3: where we've yeah, where we've had we've booked. So the
Speaker 3: way we've booked this is we have three different seventy
Speaker 3: milimeter prints playing each week those first three weeks of September,
Speaker 3: for a total of nine films that you can see
Speaker 3: in this astonishing format. And yeah, we've never we've never
Speaker 3: done it this way before, but if it's if it's successful,
Speaker 3: I can see it becoming an annual thing.
Speaker 2: Okay, so two questions now, most important. I see that
Speaker 2: the prices are available on your website, which is simply
Speaker 2: Coolidge dot org. And that's why the capacity is four
Speaker 2: hundred and forty seats. So therefore, correct, I guess ticket
Speaker 2: reservations for some of these films, or perhaps all of
Speaker 2: them is advised.
Speaker 3: Correct, Oh, very much advised. Yeah, And and the pre
Speaker 3: sales for this program are considerable, so they've they've been
Speaker 3: they've been selling very well. So I would suggest that
Speaker 3: folks grab tickets in advance to ensure that they have
Speaker 3: a seat at these stones.
Speaker 2: Okay, so the easiest way for them is simply to
Speaker 2: go to the website Coolidge dot org. And they'll see
Speaker 2: it over there. They can become a member, need to
Speaker 2: get a little bit of a break of the ticket price.
Speaker 2: But I got to tell you it's it's great September.
Speaker 2: A lot of people there, they're finished with summer, they're
Speaker 2: back home. The timing couldn't be better, and they're looking
Speaker 2: for some special entertainment. And this sounds like it's going
Speaker 2: to be precisely that. Mark Nisteyska. I really enjoyed our conversation,
Speaker 2: learned a lot more about a film. And as I say,
Speaker 2: you know, I was on a plane recently and I
Speaker 2: watched for the i think the second time, the movie
Speaker 2: Forrest Gump, and it was amazing. I got much more
Speaker 2: out of it the second time, maybe because I wasn't
Speaker 2: sitting there with a couple of beers. But all of
Speaker 2: these films, even though people have seen them before, to
Speaker 2: go to the Coolidge and see them in seventy millimeters format,
Speaker 2: I think is going to be extraordinary. Thank you so
Speaker 2: much for checking us out on this and always keep
Speaker 2: us in mind when you're looking to get the word
Speaker 2: out there.
Speaker 3: Okay, we will. Thank you, Dan, I appreciate it very much.
Speaker 4: Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2: You are more than welcome when we get back here.
Speaker 2: On nights side, we're going to talk about a more
Speaker 2: serious subject. We are going to talk about mental health,
Speaker 2: particularly as it deals with adolescent teens they are struggling,
Speaker 2: and we'll talk with doctor Gregory Zan's I hope I
Speaker 2: pronounced his name correctly. And also there's a free trauma
Speaker 2: test which we'll be able to direct you to, which
Speaker 2: our guests will promote. We'll explain all of that later
Speaker 2: on tonight, talking to the rising cancer rates and millennials
Speaker 2: and gen and also a group called the Split Second Foundation,
Speaker 2: which discusses accessible travel tips and tricks for those living
Speaker 2: with the disability or medical condition how to find hotels,
Speaker 2: activities and transportation that are accessible. So we got some
Speaker 2: good information coming up. And then later on tonight we're
Speaker 2: going to talk about the ban on cell phones in classrooms.
Speaker 2: And also we're going to talk with Scott alan Curly,
Speaker 2: an ex convict who I had on a week or
Speaker 2: so ago and I was really impressed, and I feel
Speaker 2: that many of you might like to talk to him
Speaker 2: tonight as well. So we got a full full deck tonight,
Speaker 2: and I hope you're ready to join the conversation after
Speaker 2: the nine o'clock news, Moving back with doctor Gregory Zan's
Speaker 2: right after this.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan ray Line from the Window World
Speaker 1: Night Side Studios on WBZ the News Radio.
Speaker 2: All Right, my guest is doctor Gregory Jans, Doctor Jans.
Speaker 2: I'm hoping I pronounced that last name correctly.
Speaker 5: You got me, Jans?
Speaker 2: Gents, all right, perfect, all right, no problem. So research
Speaker 2: from Harvard University Graduate School of Education has found that
Speaker 2: it's not adolescent teams that are struggling most with their
Speaker 2: mental health, but college age young adults. I don't know
Speaker 2: which if that surprises me a lot or not? Am
Speaker 2: I should I be surprised by that?
Speaker 5: Probably not. It's almost predictable. We came through this pandemic
Speaker 5: of sorts and our kids in this age range.
Speaker 2: It was a big, doctor Jens, it was a big,
Speaker 2: big pandemic. I think.
Speaker 5: That LEDs exactly. And we are seeing now really and
Speaker 5: we're not We're in a mental health epidemic. And this
Speaker 5: eighteen to twenty five plus age they are suffering. New
Speaker 5: term that has kind of described this is a foreshortened future.
Speaker 5: They don't see hope for their future. Nothing's getting better.
Speaker 5: The apathy in this age group's never been higher. They're apathetic,
Speaker 5: and if they're apathetic, we're seeing record levels of depression
Speaker 5: and anxiety.
Speaker 2: That's a pretty dystopian formula that you've just talked to.
Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, wow now, And if you look even financially,
Speaker 5: it's like the quite school worth at college worth it
Speaker 5: and and everything that's been going on. This age group
Speaker 5: is also going I don't know who to trust, I
Speaker 5: don't know who to believe, who to trust, and my
Speaker 5: future doesn't really matter, and there's a diminished value on life,
Speaker 5: a diminished value on their future. They don't really I'm
Speaker 5: making some general statements, but dreaming about to their future
Speaker 5: is not positive.
Speaker 2: So these are young people who probably I'm guessing are
Speaker 2: gen Zers. They would have been born I'm guessing in
Speaker 2: the mid nineties, and now are you know, in their
Speaker 2: mid twenties as you've described them. I guess gen Zs
Speaker 2: are technically ninety seven in twenty twelve. So obviously some
Speaker 2: of the gen zs are still you know, they haven't
Speaker 2: reached teenagers yet, but you have who are twenty seven maybe,
Speaker 2: and that's kind of the sweet spot here. And is
Speaker 2: it all to do with the pandemic?
Speaker 5: Not all to do. But we could say it's a
Speaker 5: perfect storm. It pushed many over the edge. If you
Speaker 5: were already struggling. Let's say that you had social anxiety
Speaker 5: and you're already struggling because mental health issues were beginning
Speaker 5: to emerge in this age group, and you're already struggling.
Speaker 5: You come through the pandemic. It tilted you all the
Speaker 5: way over. It was it was too much.
Speaker 3: And so.
Speaker 5: The word that we're hearing more and more now we
Speaker 5: work with folks from all over the country who come
Speaker 5: in for help, and the word that's being used is
Speaker 5: the word trauma. I've had enough of this. I've been traumatized. Now,
Speaker 5: trauma can mean a lot of different things to people,
Speaker 5: but they're saying, I've been traumatized.
Speaker 2: It's enough. I've had a devil's advocate.
Speaker 4: Just for a second.
Speaker 2: Yeah, course, I know you're going to be able to
Speaker 2: handle any question I'm asking. But when I think of
Speaker 2: this group and I think of what they went through
Speaker 2: as all of us went through the pandemic years, there
Speaker 2: were a group of people my age, baby Boomers, who
Speaker 2: went through Vietnam War pretty pretty tough time. There were
Speaker 2: parents the greatest generation. They dealt with the depression followed
Speaker 2: by World War Two, there have been some economic crashes.
Speaker 2: It would seem to me, maybe I'm way off base here,
Speaker 2: but it would seem to me of some of those
Speaker 2: traumas Vietnam, World War two, Korea, Great Depression, the Great
Speaker 2: Recession of eighty seven, that it would seem to me
Speaker 2: that that this epidemic COVID that we went through, it
Speaker 2: was probably not as tough as the other ones. Am
Speaker 2: I way off?
Speaker 5: I don't think you're way off based? But I think
Speaker 5: what's happened is, you know, and we've seen so much
Speaker 5: post traumatic stress disorder and I have to tell you,
Speaker 5: as a treating provider, that's very real. And if you've
Speaker 5: been traumatized, that is that's something that you certainly it
Speaker 5: could be suffering from. It's real. Now, we also have
Speaker 5: a generation that really they don't have good coping skills
Speaker 5: and they've turned to social media. Social media. Instagram used
Speaker 5: to be. YouTube was their source of information. They don't Google,
Speaker 5: They would go to YouTube and you know, now all
Speaker 5: their information and it's not good. If you're already suffering
Speaker 5: from depression and you just spent six hours on social media,
Speaker 5: are you going to feel better?
Speaker 6: Or worse.
Speaker 5: You're gonna feel worse.
Speaker 2: Sure, and I will aways want to make I was
Speaker 2: driving at that point because it seems to me that
Speaker 2: that is the element. And they were forced because of
Speaker 2: the pandemic, because of COVID, the closing of schools. They
Speaker 2: spent a lot more time at home on social media
Speaker 2: than even the generation right before them or the generation
Speaker 2: that today is coming of age.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, and then another thing happened. So we got deep
Speaker 5: into social media, and so we have digital relationships. We
Speaker 5: kind of kind of digitize the brain in a sense,
Speaker 5: and so we don't know how to have real relationships.
Speaker 5: And then something called ghosting emerges. I'm done with you.
Speaker 4: But I don't have to respond to you anymore.
Speaker 5: And so then so the relationship skills that are healthy
Speaker 5: we don't learn that in social media.
Speaker 2: I wish I had known about ghosting when I was young,
Speaker 2: because my girlfriends would dump me, wouldn't call me back.
Speaker 2: And now at least I could say I was being
Speaker 2: ghosted only kidding. Yes, Okay, so quick quick question here.
Speaker 2: You actually have a trauma test that people of any
Speaker 2: and they can go to a place of hope dot
Speaker 2: com slash Trauma hyphen test I may take that test
Speaker 2: tomorrow just for the fun of it.
Speaker 5: You know, the trauma test is good. It's a good
Speaker 5: beginning place, and really simply go to a place of hope.
Speaker 5: You'll see some different tests. Take the trauma test, uh,
Speaker 5: and we're going it's totally confidential, and but we're going
Speaker 5: to send you some information to help you look at
Speaker 5: it a little deeper, deeper, because we really do believe
Speaker 5: too many people are suffering too long.
Speaker 2: I couldn't agree with you more this also, by the way,
Speaker 2: a lot of people who are dealing in a factual
Speaker 2: point of view with long COVID. By the way, one
Speaker 2: of the things absolutely out of this is complicated because
Speaker 2: I have friends of mine who are still suffering consequences
Speaker 2: of COVID after they foll Yeah, doctor Jens, I really
Speaker 2: enjoyed this conversation. You're a good sport. I hit you
Speaker 2: with a couple of tough questions and you handle them perfectly.
Speaker 2: I'm going to go take the trauma test tomorrow and
Speaker 2: see if I'm okay, okay.
Speaker 5: Hey, good to be with you tonight. You know who
Speaker 5: to call if you have any concerns.
Speaker 2: Absolutely absolutely, I'll call my bookie and see if I
Speaker 2: can get a hot tip for the weekend and only
Speaker 2: getting bags, that always makes me feel better. Thanks doctor Jens,
Speaker 2: thank you. Well. We get back when we talk to
Speaker 2: even a more serious problem with doctor Rob Fraser. He
Speaker 2: is a president of a group called Molecular Molecular you
Speaker 2: tackling the rising cancer rates in millennials and Gen xers,
Speaker 2: and that's something or really to worry about, not to
Speaker 2: diminish the trauma. Trust me, I loved that guest, and
Speaker 2: I loved the fact that I can take this trauma test.
Speaker 2: I hope everyone will uh again. I'll give that to
Speaker 2: you one more time so you can find to just
Speaker 2: go to a place of hope dot com. All one word,
Speaker 2: a place of hope dot com slash trauma, slash a
Speaker 2: hyphen test. My name is Dan Ray. We have good
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Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2: Okay, we are continuing along here on a Wednesday night,
Speaker 2: and we're going to talk about a really serious problem here,
Speaker 2: and that is the rising cancer rates amongst millennials and
Speaker 2: gen xers, with us as doctor Rob Fraser, he is
Speaker 2: the CSO. I'm not sure what a CSO means, doctor Fraser,
Speaker 2: but you're the CSO and president of Molecular U. I
Speaker 2: mean it's chief something officer. What CSO means, sir?
Speaker 6: Oh, it's the most important role. It's the scientific side
Speaker 6: of it.
Speaker 4: Sum Yeah, that's.
Speaker 2: Good, that's great. Okay, So, millennials and gen xers, and
Speaker 2: when we talk millennials, we're talking about people who could
Speaker 2: be as old as fifty, well not quite fifty, they
Speaker 2: would be forty five to as young as thirty or so.
Speaker 2: They were born from nineteen eighty one to nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 2: Excuse me, strike that gen xers sixty five to eighty
Speaker 2: My mistake, sixty five to eighty. So we are talking
Speaker 2: about people who could be fifty anywhere, fifty five to
Speaker 2: maybe forty four. Millennials a little later, they're the next
Speaker 2: group nineteen eighty one to nineteen ninety six and gen
Speaker 2: Z or later than that. So what's going on with
Speaker 2: this group that all of a sudden they're facing the
Speaker 2: risk of a higher risk of these seventeen cancers than
Speaker 2: boomers my generation.
Speaker 4: Who are older.
Speaker 2: You would think that we would be getting hit with
Speaker 2: some of these cancers more more frequently than millennials and
Speaker 2: gen xers.
Speaker 4: What's going on?
Speaker 6: Yeah, And you'd be right to think that, because most
Speaker 6: cancers are really associated with an aging population, and so
Speaker 6: this is a very alarming trend, and I don't think
Speaker 6: we know why yet. I think that what we do
Speaker 6: know about cancers is that most of it's not inherited,
Speaker 6: like very few cancers are inherit. Only about five percent
Speaker 6: of cancers are directly genetic. And then beyond that it's
Speaker 6: all environmental. And so getting to the causes, those carcinogens
Speaker 6: as we call them, that are driving the cancers at
Speaker 6: the early stages that make those changes in the host genetics,
Speaker 6: our own genetics can be all kinds of respactors. What's
Speaker 6: interesting about this particular birth cohort, I think is that
Speaker 6: there does seem to be increased trend in things like obesity,
Speaker 6: and a number of the cancers that are going up
Speaker 6: had been associated with obesity. You know, In general, I
Speaker 6: think tobacco usage has gone down, but a lot of
Speaker 6: these individuals seem to be associated tobacco alcohol use. And
Speaker 6: then we've got arising issues with air pollutants, and so
Speaker 6: those could also be other factors. And the only other
Speaker 6: one that I think that that is actually interestingly and
Speaker 6: on the rise is some what we call the microbial dyspiosis.
Speaker 6: And this is the microbes that live in our in
Speaker 6: our systems, primarily in our guts, and they generate various
Speaker 6: metabolites and other factors that get that enter into our bloodstream,
Speaker 6: and they can heighten our oxidative stress, they can be
Speaker 6: toxic in their own right, and they can drive inflammation.
Speaker 6: And those those factors are known to promote those those
Speaker 6: alternation alterations pardon me, that can interact and cause mutations
Speaker 6: or or change the way genes are silenced and can
Speaker 6: drive what's required for those first early steps in cancer.
Speaker 2: Okay, one question that seems that seems obvious to me.
Speaker 2: Is this a trend that is affecting populations in other
Speaker 2: countries around the world or in other areas of the world,
Speaker 2: or is this one at this point that is endemic
Speaker 2: to the United States.
Speaker 6: Well, this this study was done in the US, so,
Speaker 6: and I think that's where the best data is coming from.
Speaker 6: I think they've started to sample now in Europe and
Speaker 6: expand the study. But yeah, this seems to be this
Speaker 6: is generated by the ACS, so it's most of this
Speaker 6: data is coming from the US, and I think that's
Speaker 6: probably where a lot of the best data is available.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but so has there been any even I don't know,
Speaker 2: sporadic conversation and other other industrialized countries France, England, Germany
Speaker 2: with have seen a pickup amongst some of these cancers,
Speaker 2: amongst people who would be you know, have been born
Speaker 2: in the years from nineteen sixty five to nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 6: It's a great question.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 6: I haven't seen anything in the literature where they've looked
Speaker 6: at the age cohort as an increase. But I think,
Speaker 6: you know, what we're what we're seeing is is that
Speaker 6: that covert probably because of the lifestyles that we've adopted.
Speaker 6: You're much more computer you know, we work so much,
Speaker 6: so much someone our screen very exactly, and so that
Speaker 6: leads to the other issues and then a maybe I actually,
Speaker 6: you know, I was surprised by the results of you know,
Speaker 6: the smoking still being a big driver, but you know
Speaker 6: that probably still exists in other parts of the world
Speaker 6: and might even going up in certain parts of the
Speaker 6: world where we're really not curbing it back with smoking.
Speaker 2: So Asian countries particularly in that in that area.
Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely absolutely, So.
Speaker 2: What can people, in your opinion do, at whatever age,
Speaker 2: but particularly people who are in this uh, this cohort
Speaker 2: of millennials and gen xers, what can they do from
Speaker 2: the behavioral point of view to diminish the chances that
Speaker 2: they're going to become one of these one of these victims.
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, there's a few things. I mean, one of
Speaker 6: the things we can obviously do is tackle some of
Speaker 6: the sedentary behaviors and changing in diets and high highly
Speaker 6: processed foods can can contribute the the The absolute causal
Speaker 6: carcinogens have not been identified yet and so that's going
Speaker 6: to take some time to figure out. In the interim,
Speaker 6: we actually offer a pretty interesting solution where we were
Speaker 6: recently able to identify pancreatic cancer at the earliest stage
Speaker 6: in one of our clients who had been monitored over
Speaker 6: several years. So we had reperform what we call a
Speaker 6: multiomic analysis. We look at blood proteins and blood metabolites,
Speaker 6: and these proteins and metabolites are often they're they're perturbed
Speaker 6: if you like, or the values go out of range
Speaker 6: during the development of cancers because the cancers themselves, in
Speaker 6: order to the cells in order to survive, have to
Speaker 6: produce certain proteins have to change express these things they
Speaker 6: get into the blood, but they also change their metabolism,
Speaker 6: so they become exceedingly hunger hungry, and so they start
Speaker 6: to take energy from all parts of the cell that
Speaker 6: they normally wouldn't and they generate these strange metabolites that
Speaker 6: we measure, and so when we see those on the rise,
Speaker 6: we can detect cancers, many cancers at their earliest stages,
Speaker 6: and that allows for an earlier intervention, earlier detection, earlier intervention,
Speaker 6: and most often a better outcome.
Speaker 2: You mentioned I missed the adjective that you use. When
Speaker 2: I asked you what people could do. You said something
Speaker 2: about some type of foods, and I just missed the calimization.
Speaker 6: We have food to be avoided, the processed foods. Process fo. Yeah,
Speaker 6: we're part of my part of my Canadian accents, not.
Speaker 2: A probably, I haven't heard you say a yet. So
Speaker 2: I didn't know you were a Canadian, okay, or organization anyway.
Speaker 2: So processed food by that you mean a lot of
Speaker 2: the high callery, high calorie suites and things like that,
Speaker 2: I assume.
Speaker 6: But yeah, the high caloric content suite food, but all the.
Speaker 2: Stuff people like chips, pretzels and stuff like that, right, yeah, yeah, Well, look,
Speaker 2: thank you for the work you do, doctor Fraser. I
Speaker 2: truly mean that you were doing God's work here. Is
Speaker 2: there a place that you could send people to who
Speaker 2: maybe they get some more I see that that the
Speaker 2: article on millennials and gen X is facing higher risk
Speaker 2: of seventeen cancers than boomers is in Science Alert. Is
Speaker 2: that where people should best go? Or is there a
Speaker 2: website do you want to send people to?
Speaker 6: Well, they can certainly check out our website. It's like
Speaker 6: at U dot com to learn more about what we do.
Speaker 6: But we're coming down into the US and we'll be
Speaker 6: available to Americans in general in the new year. So
Speaker 6: that's our target right now. But we're yeah, we're it's
Speaker 6: a you know, something that we're operating through practitioners to
Speaker 6: begin with. We want people to have you know, cancer
Speaker 6: is not something that you typically want to learn on
Speaker 6: your own, so it's good to be there with a practitioner.
Speaker 6: We can also help with chronic diseases that can be
Speaker 6: increase the risk of serious conditions like cancer, and so
Speaker 6: we can help people manage those and avoid those early on,
Speaker 6: including serious diseases like Alzhemer's disease. So yeah, we're pretty
Speaker 6: excited by the technology and how we can use it
Speaker 6: in a more general way to prevent people from becoming
Speaker 6: sick with these very extensive and just devisitating diseases.
Speaker 2: Thank you again, doctor, I do appreciate your time and
Speaker 2: we'll look forward to having you back. Doctor Rob Fraser
Speaker 2: of Molecular You. Thanks again. Doctor. We'll talk again, I hope.
Speaker 5: Thank you. Dan Sure coming up there.
Speaker 2: There's a foundation called Split Second Foundation, and it's gonna
Speaker 2: help people who may have disabilities with medical conditions how
Speaker 2: to find hotels, activities and transportation that are accessible. We're
Speaker 2: gonna be talking with Mark Raymond Jr. A tourism expert
Speaker 2: and founder of Split Second Foundation right after this quick
Speaker 2: break on Nightside.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: All right, we are wrapping up our Nightside News Update Hour,
Speaker 2: and we're about to speak with Mark Raymond Junior. He's
Speaker 2: a tourism expert and founder of Split Second Foundation. Mark
Speaker 2: tell us about the Split Second Foundation. What do you
Speaker 2: do and who do you serve?
Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks for having me.
Speaker 7: Split Second Foundation was founded to really uplift the our
Speaker 7: aging and disabled communities by providing services like fitness and yoga,
Speaker 7: mental health, case management, and resource navigation to make sure
Speaker 7: everybody in our community is getting everything that they need.
Speaker 7: And what really came from that was a lot of
Speaker 7: conversations about how hard it is to travel and to
Speaker 7: go visit family or you know, just go anywhere.
Speaker 4: And so we really started to dig into.
Speaker 7: That work to share information and effort to make that better.
Speaker 2: And how long has the foundation been around? Is this
Speaker 2: a new development or has it been around for a while.
Speaker 4: We've been around for six years.
Speaker 7: We're now scaling into a nationwide organization. It just takes time,
Speaker 7: you know, Dan, I get to talk to amazing people
Speaker 7: like you all the way in Boston. I'm in New Orleans.
Speaker 7: How about that.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm not surprised you do not sound like your
Speaker 2: accent is from South Boston. I think it might have
Speaker 2: been a little for yourself in South Boston. But I
Speaker 2: love New Orleans. It's a great city and a really
Speaker 2: fun city. Every once in a while you get some
Speaker 2: one of those storms coming up from the golf though,
Speaker 2: and we're always concerned about that. So so give me
Speaker 2: the example of what you're able to do for someone
Speaker 2: who may have a medical condition or disability and wants
Speaker 2: to travel. And obviously it's a little more complicated for
Speaker 2: someone in this day and age, particularly at airports. Anyone
Speaker 2: who's been in recently knows exactly what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: Tell us what you're able to do to help them.
Speaker 7: So the foundation is focused on, like the advocacy work
Speaker 7: related to how people with disabilities are moving through the airport,
Speaker 7: what's TSA's training, you know, stuff like that. But in
Speaker 7: terms of direct the biggest thing is sharing information, right like,
Speaker 7: so people know what to expect. One of the things
Speaker 7: that I worked on with our destination marketing group New
Speaker 7: Orleans and Company was putting together a series of videos
Speaker 7: basically showing, you know, the people with disabilities traveling kind
Speaker 7: of what to expect when they landed, how what transportation
Speaker 7: looked like, how they can get around, things that they
Speaker 7: can do and really enjoy all the way down to
Speaker 7: like hotels that are just really doing it well. And
Speaker 7: that's something that I.
Speaker 4: Think we want to also scale and bring nationwide. And
Speaker 4: there's a lot of groups that are kind of focusing on,
Speaker 4: like the disabled tourists and figuring out how we can
Speaker 4: capture that customer. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I just came back from Italy with a group of
Speaker 2: listeners to my program, some of whom were a little older,
Speaker 2: and it was really warm all over their ninety degrees
Speaker 2: every day and a couple of days over one hundred.
Speaker 2: But everybody did really well. We stayed together as a group,
Speaker 2: we sort of moved as a group and didn't lose
Speaker 2: anybody along the way. But the idea of traveling and
Speaker 2: people who are either older or disabled, it's tough. It's
Speaker 2: tough to travel these days because no matter what airport
Speaker 2: you fly in into or out of, the gates are
Speaker 2: never close. You get off at gate E one and
Speaker 2: you have to go to another terminal and get a
Speaker 2: thirty five. It can take an hour, I mean sometimes,
Speaker 2: which is and I don't know that the airlines, particularly
Speaker 2: the bigger airports, have taken that in consideration for any traveler,
Speaker 2: never mind a travel who might be dealing with a
Speaker 2: bit of a disability. Are there airlines or airports that
Speaker 2: you folks have information on which help people with, you know,
Speaker 2: with their travel, you know, particularly some of the huge airports.
Speaker 2: I think of O'Hare and I think of Atlanta, which
Speaker 2: they're tough to navigate just because of their size. Is there, right,
Speaker 2: do you have recommendations for people as to maybe what
Speaker 2: if are their airlines that are more sensitive and more
Speaker 2: helpful or can you not even do that?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 7: So, actually, what my recommendation for everybody is when you
Speaker 7: book your ticket, especially if you have like a physical disability.
Speaker 7: So for me, I have a power wheelchair and that's
Speaker 7: how I get around.
Speaker 4: I'm always calling.
Speaker 7: The airline to tell them I have that and to
Speaker 7: tell them I need the eighty eight guide to get
Speaker 7: me through TSA and get me all the way.
Speaker 4: To the gate.
Speaker 7: Now let's just say, yeah, let's just say with someone elderly,
Speaker 7: you know, maybe they could still walk, but they can't
Speaker 7: walk to your point across O'Hare's airport, they can also
Speaker 7: let the airline know and they'll get the same ADA
Speaker 7: service and guide them all the way through the airport.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I see, I see the little carts that drive
Speaker 2: the drive with the little lights and the beef and
Speaker 2: the beefing horns, and so so where can people get
Speaker 2: that in from? I'm assuming they can go to the
Speaker 2: Split Second Foundation website? Is that? Am I making them? So?
Speaker 7: For that specific information that's actually on at whatever airline
Speaker 7: there are, you can go to split Second Foundation.
Speaker 4: Dot org go to a re page. We do have
Speaker 4: some information related to travel good. I don't know that
Speaker 4: it's that in depth yet, but certainly something to aspire
Speaker 4: to have.
Speaker 2: Well, it would be great if all of that could
Speaker 2: be phone numbers of airlines and if there are special numbers,
Speaker 2: if you guys could develop that. I have a lot
Speaker 2: of just throwing something, right, is that you?
Speaker 5: Mark?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 4: Well, you know I'm one to listen to good ideas
Speaker 4: when I hear them, and I'm gonna tell my team
Speaker 4: we got a new project to take on.
Speaker 2: All right, Mark, thanks, thank you so much as the
Speaker 2: Split Second Foundation dot org appreciate it very much. We'll
Speaker 2: have you back. We'll check in every once in a while.
Speaker 4: Fair enough, Yeah, please, and thank you so much for
Speaker 4: having me.
Speaker 2: You're welcome, Thanks so much. All right, we get back.
Speaker 2: We're going to talk about a couple of the important issues.
Speaker 2: The first one is the presence of cell phones, the
Speaker 2: omnipresence of cell phones in classrooms. And we're going to
Speaker 2: talk with a professor from Johns Hopkins, Dr Marty Mockery
Speaker 2: Mockery about what should or should not be done. He
Speaker 2: says they must be banned in schools, and I tend
Speaker 2: to agree with them, but we'll see what you have
Speaker 2: to say as well. Back on Night's side after the
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