Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZY, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much to call a cold Tuesday night
Speaker 2: here in New England. But what else do you expect?
Speaker 2: It is January twenty eighth, believe it or not. By
Speaker 2: week's end, we will already be in the month of February.
Speaker 2: And that warms my heart a little bit because with
Speaker 2: February comes spring training, and you know how I feel
Speaker 2: about baseball. Rob Brooks is back in the control room tonight.
Speaker 2: He's all set to take your phone calls beginning in
Speaker 2: the nine o'clock hour. We will talk in the nine
Speaker 2: o'clock hour about four mayors, including our own mayor WU
Speaker 2: here in Boston, being called to Washington as mayors of
Speaker 2: sanctuary cities to talk about what is going on in Boston,
Speaker 2: New York, Chicago, and Denver. And then we're going to
Speaker 2: talk at ten o'clock tonight about I hope an executive
Speaker 2: order by President trumpet all of us can agree upon,
Speaker 2: and that is to open up the files dealing with
Speaker 2: the assassinations of President Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and
Speaker 2: doctor Martin Luther King A long time coming. What has
Speaker 2: taken so long, let's hope we can finally all come
Speaker 2: to an agreement and an understanding of what happened. But
Speaker 2: before we do that, we have four very interesting guests
Speaker 2: to deal with tonight, and we're going to start talking
Speaker 2: about Arts Emerson's Winter Spring twenty twenty five film programming.
Speaker 2: Everyone knows Emerson College in Boston, very creative group of
Speaker 2: students with us as Susan Jinsen, the creative producer for
Speaker 2: Arts Emerson in charge of this film series. Susan, I'm
Speaker 2: not sure if you're a professor at the school. If
Speaker 2: you are, I certainly want to be able to use
Speaker 2: the appellation. Professor. How are you this evening?
Speaker 3: I am very well then, really excited to be here.
Speaker 3: I no, no, I don't have the accolade of getting
Speaker 3: to be called a professor.
Speaker 2: Well, that's fine, I'll think of you as one. So
Speaker 2: tell us generally the winter Spring film season, it sounds
Speaker 2: to me like an annual event at Emerson College. Yeah.
Speaker 3: For the past few years, coming out of COVID, we've
Speaker 3: been trying to present a series of films for folks
Speaker 3: to attend, usually starting in February that runs through May.
Speaker 2: And this year it looks like quite a list of films.
Speaker 2: Tell us the number and the scope, and then we
Speaker 2: can get into some of them that you'd like to highlight.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we have two sort of main strands of a series.
Speaker 3: One is called Projecting Connections, and that comes a lot
Speaker 3: of out of my background. I had previously been the
Speaker 3: managing director of the Chinese Historical Society of New England
Speaker 3: here in Boston, and had also founded the Boston Asian
Speaker 3: American Film Festival. So sort of taking all of those things,
Speaker 3: finding a way to continue to connect with the residents
Speaker 3: and communities that connect with Boston's Chinatown, which is neighboring
Speaker 3: right next to Emerson College. And the second brand is
Speaker 3: called Shared Stories, and it's a collaboration between the Boston
Speaker 3: Asian American Film Festival, Cinefest Latino, and Roxbury International Film Festival.
Speaker 3: But where are the three of us really in that
Speaker 3: idea of like shared stories. It's like not just filmmakers
Speaker 3: sharing stories, but the shared stories between our three communities
Speaker 3: wanting to sort of talk about and uplift shared experiences
Speaker 3: that way.
Speaker 2: So the films describe are they documentary type films? Are
Speaker 2: what's the normal length? Can you go one night and
Speaker 2: watch two or three, you know, in a in a
Speaker 2: single setting. Set it up for me so that we
Speaker 2: better understand, you know, people might be interested, what to anticipate.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we're there for anybody who either is
Speaker 3: looking for something on a more regular basis. Each of
Speaker 3: the series has one screening a month, and you can
Speaker 3: either choose to go to just you know one based
Speaker 3: on the content interest, or you can also I think
Speaker 3: this is the first SHOAR we've got actually came up
Speaker 3: with a bundle package where you can actually just pay
Speaker 3: like one fee, very inexpensive, and you can get to
Speaker 3: go to all of them. Some of them do have
Speaker 3: paid admission and some of a handful of them are free,
Speaker 3: but the majority of them are predominantly documentary films probably
Speaker 3: run about like anywhere from an hour to ninety minutes.
Speaker 3: We often have the filmmakers join us for conversations. That's
Speaker 3: a big part of I think all of our film
Speaker 3: presentations is that we're really looking to find ways to
Speaker 3: bring people together. You know, this idea of how art
Speaker 3: can bring people together, change minds and hearts and really
Speaker 3: connect and given how this country and how communities and
Speaker 3: neighbors even are, you know, we're really looking to try
Speaker 3: and find ways for people to be able to talk
Speaker 3: to one another and looking at film to do that,
Speaker 3: and on the opportunity to engage with the filmmakers that
Speaker 3: come is really a wonderful way to really find out how,
Speaker 3: you know, what the intention of those artists are with
Speaker 3: their work.
Speaker 2: Talking to each others are a very good idea. That's
Speaker 2: sort of the basis of my program here Nights that
Speaker 2: with Dan. Right, So, it looks to me you have
Speaker 2: twelve films, if I'm correct here as I count about
Speaker 2: a dozen films, correct.
Speaker 4: I believe?
Speaker 3: So, yeah, you probably have in front of you more
Speaker 3: than I do. But that sounds about right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do. But I assume that you know a
Speaker 2: heckup a lot more about this than I do. So
Speaker 2: that's why I'm asking. So the filmmakers, the people who
Speaker 2: put the films together. Some of them might be students,
Speaker 2: some of them might be folks from the neighboring communities.
Speaker 2: Is what I think I'm picking up from you? Is
Speaker 2: that correct? Well?
Speaker 3: Actually, these ones are for the most part, they're all
Speaker 3: you know, documentary filmmakers or filmmakers who have been established professionals.
Speaker 3: Art Summerson is part of the arm of Emerson College,
Speaker 3: which is in charge of presenting public facing theater and
Speaker 3: now film, so it's pretty much professional, you know, international
Speaker 3: to national stories and filmmakers. Many of these stories actually
Speaker 3: come out from outside of the New England Boston area.
Speaker 3: Think actually, of the film that we're presenting, Nine Man
Speaker 3: by Ursula Yang is the only one who has connections.
Speaker 3: She came out of Newton, Massachusetts. But the rest of them,
Speaker 3: a number of them have been featured like at fun Dance,
Speaker 3: and then some of them are actually world premieres from
Speaker 3: an artist from San Francisco.
Speaker 2: Tell us about nine Man, then if that's the one
Speaker 2: that's local, we're always interested. Came out of Newton, Massachusetts.
Speaker 2: Can you give us a quick synopsis?
Speaker 3: Yes, this one is actually probably one of the older ones,
Speaker 3: but it's actually probably one of my favorites. It talks
Speaker 3: about a not a little known uh sport called nine Man,
Speaker 3: and for those people who play volleyball might look a
Speaker 3: little bit familiar to them, but the fact is that
Speaker 3: it's is born out of for the most part, North
Speaker 3: American chinatowns. There's actually nine players on the court. Looks
Speaker 3: kind of like volleyball, but has some crazy moves. First, La,
Speaker 3: you know, recognize that she was watching you know, friends
Speaker 3: and her brother play and how sort of like aggressive
Speaker 3: and mass in that these guys looked and seeing that
Speaker 3: media didn't really portray them equally on you know, what
Speaker 3: she was seeing on television. She'd been working for ESPN,
Speaker 3: I think at that point wanted to make and let
Speaker 3: people see what the side of Chinatown look like China.
Speaker 3: This uh captures one particular tournament that is a tournament
Speaker 3: that happens every Labor Day weekend where teams from across
Speaker 3: North America come together to compete. And this one particular
Speaker 3: year that they covered actually was shot predominantly a mess
Speaker 3: in Boston's Chinatown and.
Speaker 2: So and so the tournament was in Boston, and so
Speaker 2: people will be able to recognize the surroundings and some
Speaker 2: of the backdrop of the film. So okay, that's.
Speaker 3: One that's somebody that they know.
Speaker 2: Yep, oh, absolutely, that's it, because there's that there's that connection. Okay, Well,
Speaker 2: so then the real question is how do people find
Speaker 2: there must be a website. Is it simply arts and
Speaker 2: Emerson dot org slash events?
Speaker 3: I believe that would be a bit even if you
Speaker 3: just only got to the Arts Emmerson dot org. There's like,
Speaker 3: you know, four kind of pictures that rotate, and one
Speaker 3: of them is like the film program that people can
Speaker 3: cook on.
Speaker 2: That's I just want people who are interesting and listening.
Speaker 2: And sometimes people are driving in cars and they don't
Speaker 2: have the ability, uh yeah, to write down, but if
Speaker 2: you give them something simple is arts Emerson dot org,
Speaker 2: they'll remember that. Well. Thank you very much, Susan. Very
Speaker 2: interesting conversation. Thanks so much, Thank you.
Speaker 3: I really appreciate this opportunity. I've I've been a listener
Speaker 3: of years for a while now, so this is a
Speaker 3: pleasure and a real wonderful, thank you opportunity.
Speaker 2: You very welcome. Susan Chan of Arts Emerson. Thanks thanks again, Susan.
Speaker 2: When we get back, we're going to talk about Valentine's Day.
Speaker 2: That's kind of around the corners. Not next week. We
Speaker 2: still have to get through four more days, well three
Speaker 2: more days of January and then the weekend. But it's
Speaker 2: going to be in a Friday night, second from February,
Speaker 2: and we have someone coming up next hour who's going
Speaker 2: to keep you some tips on maybe some of the places,
Speaker 2: some of the cool places you might want to take
Speaker 2: your special squeeze on Valentine's Day evening or maybe even
Speaker 2: before or after. Mattie McCarthy will join us right after
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Speaker 2: Now back to Dan Ray line from the Window World
Speaker 2: night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio. Valentine's Day about
Speaker 2: two and a half weeks away, you got to do
Speaker 2: a little bit of planning and to help you with
Speaker 2: that process is Maddie McCarthy. She is a publicist, a
Speaker 2: brand representative, a social media consultant, and a lifestyle expert
Speaker 2: on all things Boston. Well that's quite a business card there, Maddie.
Speaker 2: You got a full full menu. Pardon the pun.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Hi, Dan, how are you? Thank you for having me?
Speaker 2: You very welcome. You're very welcome here, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: So you have all sorts of information about what folks
Speaker 2: can do on Valentine's Day. It is a day during
Speaker 2: the year when couples, whether they've been married for fifty
Speaker 2: years or dating for five weeks or maybe five days,
Speaker 2: try to maybe have a special evening out. This year,
Speaker 2: Valentine's Day is an Friday, so it kind of works perfectly,
Speaker 2: I guess. And you already have presented us with all
Speaker 2: sorts of all sorts of dining options. How do you
Speaker 2: develop this? Do you have to go around to all
Speaker 2: these restaurants and sample the whares and so so tell
Speaker 2: us what's good and maybe what's what's the best? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Well, all the all the restaurants that I'm going to
Speaker 4: talk about I have eaten out before, so they are
Speaker 4: all great. They're all unique in different ways. And just
Speaker 4: with my time at IUC Boston and working with so
Speaker 4: many different kinds of clients from you know, fashion, entertainment,
Speaker 4: health and wellness, so many culinary I've been looking enough
Speaker 4: to become, you know, a little bit of an expert
Speaker 4: when it comes to like what to do, where to go,
Speaker 4: and definitely where to eat around.
Speaker 2: How did you get a job like that? I mean,
Speaker 2: you didn't go to college. I don't know where you
Speaker 2: went to school, but you didn't get a college in
Speaker 2: like a master's in dining out. That must be behind
Speaker 2: how you ended up in this position that a lot
Speaker 2: of people would be envy yourself.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, No, I'm definitely lucky. Definitely something that some
Speaker 4: friends and family are jealous of. But no, I actually
Speaker 4: I did get a degree in PR and marketing, and
Speaker 4: then I actually worked all through college at a restaurant
Speaker 4: where I served and bartended. So I was lucky enough
Speaker 4: to kind of find this career path where I could
Speaker 4: kind of marry my schooling in PR and marketing also
Speaker 4: then with you know, my background in restaurants and working
Speaker 4: with people on the culinary side, so a marriage.
Speaker 2: I love your enthusiasm that's very important. So let's let's
Speaker 2: talk about since we're in Boston here, we'll start off
Speaker 2: with You've got three great locations you're suggesting in Boston
Speaker 2: South End, and so why don't you hit us with
Speaker 2: these and emphasize the difference between each of them. We
Speaker 2: can't spend a lot of time because there's a whole
Speaker 2: bunch you have here. We want to we want to
Speaker 2: sort of hit it quickly. You got the Beehive, Spybar,
Speaker 2: and Cosmica. I've never heard of any of those three,
Speaker 2: so I'm all ears really.
Speaker 4: Okay, Yes, so I'll start with the Beehive. So the
Speaker 4: Beehive is really a Boston stable, So I'm surprised Dan
Speaker 4: you haven't. You haven't checked it out before. You definitely
Speaker 4: got to go. But yeah, So they are known for
Speaker 4: live music of romantic date night. They have really creative
Speaker 4: flare when it comes to their menu, and definitely a
Speaker 4: place that you want to check out for Valentine's Day.
Speaker 4: They're doing multiple days of Valentine's Day specials. Actually all
Speaker 4: three of these venues are which is great. Spy Bar
Speaker 4: also jumping in there if you're looking for something a
Speaker 4: little bit newer, Spy Bar is great. It is a
Speaker 4: listening lounge and cocktail bar, one of the newer, newer
Speaker 4: ones in Boston, and they have amazing cocktails almost too
Speaker 4: beautiful to drink, but they also have or nerves and they.
Speaker 2: Are doing I could how beautiful the cocktail is.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, So they're also offering multiple specials throughout the
Speaker 4: week two so like twelfth to the fifteenth, a lot
Speaker 4: of we're seeing a lot of venues do uh. And
Speaker 4: then left but not least in the South end is Cosmica.
Speaker 4: So if you're looking for a Mexican cuisine, they just
Speaker 4: got a new chef in super authentic, super flavorful dishes
Speaker 4: and on Valentine's Day you can expect mariachi music, Margarita's
Speaker 4: and all that. So it definitely would be a good time.
Speaker 2: Wow. So now all these three restaurants are they all
Speaker 2: reasonably priced? Because I don't want my listeners going out
Speaker 2: and making reservations at something that's gonna, you know, set
Speaker 2: them back up with a month's paycheck. These are these
Speaker 2: are all relatively reasonably priced locations.
Speaker 1: I hope they are. They are?
Speaker 3: Yes, I would definitely say so, okay, okay.
Speaker 2: So then we're we we slide over to Cambridge. A
Speaker 2: couple of spots in Cambridge you suggest, go ahead?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, so both award winning restaurants. Actually I'm going
Speaker 4: to start with Urban Harris and Cambridge, and that is
Speaker 4: the restaurant of chef Aaron Miller, who was actually she
Speaker 4: was just announced a James Beard finalist for twenty twenty five,
Speaker 4: which is a huge deal and we're super happy for
Speaker 4: her and what they're all.
Speaker 2: It's not like getting selected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2: I'm unfamiliar with that award, so it's it's.
Speaker 4: Pretty much like that. Yeah, No, it's it's pretty much
Speaker 4: like that. So yeah, they select finalists from every region nationally, and.
Speaker 2: So I was all excited about the Baseball Hall of
Speaker 2: Fame each year old getting in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2: And yeah, and Sabbathia and I'm not sure if we
Speaker 2: probably wouldn't have your garment with the chef there. But
Speaker 2: what's the other one. The other one is Muna.
Speaker 4: Muna, Yeah, so that is more Eastern Mediterranean style h
Speaker 4: And they are offering a prefee menu for just sixty
Speaker 4: nine dollars for Valentine's Day and if you haven't checked
Speaker 4: out Muona. It really is great.
Speaker 2: So that's sixty nine a piece. Now, I just want
Speaker 2: to make sure my audience knows what we're getting them into.
Speaker 2: That's sixty nine at.
Speaker 3: Piece, right, it is, it is?
Speaker 4: But yeah, it really Yeah.
Speaker 2: Okay, I see that the Burbs and beyond. You give
Speaker 2: a big shout out to Burton's Grill and Bar of
Speaker 2: Eating at Burton's. Familiar with Burtons because it's out in
Speaker 2: the suburbs. Seven locations. I think most people know about that.
Speaker 2: You've got a couple here just north of Boston and
Speaker 2: none of these, I mean Salt and Stone, I don't know, uh, Sogno,
Speaker 2: Settler and Bernadette. Yeah, I'm not a north of Boston guys,
Speaker 2: so I'm totally in the dark. Hair give us some
Speaker 2: recommendation amongst those four.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: So Salt and Stone is in Summerville, super charming, cozy,
Speaker 4: modern American food. They actually just launched their ski Chalet experience.
Speaker 4: So we're looking for some cozy dining, a little something different,
Speaker 4: really cool there. Sonia is just north of Boston as well.
Speaker 4: It's on the Wooburn Winchester line, and it actually is
Speaker 4: like one.
Speaker 2: Of my we're getting out into the burbs. Now, Okay,
Speaker 2: that's yeah, a little bit Leinchester. I'm hearing it.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, yeah, but no, trust me when I say,
Speaker 4: I mean, if you're in the area, I'm sure you've
Speaker 4: heard of it. If you're not, it is absolutely worth
Speaker 4: a drive. It's really one of my favorite Italian restaurants.
Speaker 4: And I live in the North End, so I guess
Speaker 4: that's saying something. And yeah, they are doing some really
Speaker 4: great Valentine's Day specials, but of course they'll always have
Speaker 4: you know, the classics patas pizzas that everyone's looking for.
Speaker 2: That's my sort of place. Okay, Settler, we got Settler
Speaker 2: in Salem, perfect, Salem's been around a long time. Tough
Speaker 2: to park in Salem, by the way, Yeah, aware of that,
Speaker 2: and it's easy to get to. But that's okay. You
Speaker 2: like Settler, I assume, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I was just gonna say easy on the
Speaker 4: train for Salem, I will say, coming out of the city.
Speaker 4: But yeah, Settler and Bernadette are actually both owned by
Speaker 4: SHANEA and Aaron Chambers, which are like an amazing team.
Speaker 4: Aaron is the chef and they've had Settler and then
Speaker 4: they're just opened Bernadette recently, and yeah, both of them
Speaker 4: are really amazing. They have a pre fee menus as
Speaker 4: well for Valentine's Day, but even if you can't get in,
Speaker 4: then definitely recommend if you're in Salem them out.
Speaker 2: Okay, then we got Barrel More, not Paramore. We're talking about.
Speaker 2: Go ahead real quick. Yeah on Midnight Morning.
Speaker 5: Yeah of course.
Speaker 4: So yeah, so Barromore and Midnight Morning. Barmore's a Newton
Speaker 4: So if you're looking for something a little more casual
Speaker 4: or even if you're not celebrating Valentine's Day, you know
Speaker 4: traditionally with like a date night, here's going out with friends.
Speaker 4: Barmore is great. And then yeah, Midnight Morning is in
Speaker 4: Roslindale and they are great for everything from your coffee
Speaker 4: in the morning to a cocktail at night. They're open
Speaker 4: all day and definitely would recommend them for any coffee
Speaker 4: lovers in your life for Valentine's Day. But they also
Speaker 4: have Valentine's Day specials for the weekend of as well.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 2: I hope people took notes and if they didn't, they
Speaker 2: can listen tomorrow anytime during the day to this, which
Speaker 2: is a really great rundown. You're very good at getting
Speaker 2: a lot in in a relatively brief period of time.
Speaker 2: They on night side on demand during the day, they
Speaker 2: can put it on in their car tomorrow morning, listen
Speaker 2: to the eight o'clock hour, and they can figure out
Speaker 2: with gonna go on Valentine's Day. I want to wish
Speaker 2: you a very happy Valentine's Day. Mattie McCarthy, we might
Speaker 2: be related. My mother's last name was McCarthy, so.
Speaker 5: You never know that way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely true, Absolutely true. Great great name. Thanks Maddy,
Speaker 2: appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Very much, Thanks so much.
Speaker 3: Dan.
Speaker 2: All Right, we get back. We're going to talk about
Speaker 2: a tougher issue. We're going to talk about you get
Speaker 2: a good college degree and then you get out and
Speaker 2: having a tough time finding a job. That's happening to
Speaker 2: a lot of people. We're not talking about just the
Speaker 2: people with, you know, ancient archaeology degrees. I guess there's
Speaker 2: a lot of folks out there in the business world
Speaker 2: looking for jobs and try and not having as much
Speaker 2: success as they would like to think. We're going to
Speaker 2: talk with an expert try to get your back on
Speaker 2: track right after the news at the bottom of the era.
Speaker 2: My name is Dan Ray. This is Nightside. We will
Speaker 2: be right back after the news.
Speaker 4: You're on Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: All right, let's let's keep rolling here. You know, the
Speaker 2: the job market, it seems really always tough. Whenever I
Speaker 2: talk to young people and they're they're out trying to
Speaker 2: get their first job, it's a tough situation. And some
Speaker 2: of them have degrees in hand, but jobs in many
Speaker 2: cases right now seem to be out of reach. We're
Speaker 2: going to talk with Brenda Siri. He's a workplace expert,
Speaker 2: president and CEO of Corporate Connections. But I believe you
Speaker 2: also teach in college as well. Tell us about it.
Speaker 5: Professor, I am. I'm actually a professor at the University
Speaker 5: of Texas here in Dallas. International.
Speaker 2: Oh, the university, going to say, the University of Texas,
Speaker 2: University of Dallas. That's a great school.
Speaker 5: I had a No, it's actually the University of Texas,
Speaker 5: but it's the Dallas campus, so I can still.
Speaker 2: I then can still say, hookum ones.
Speaker 1: Okay, you can, you can.
Speaker 5: And I have the pleasure of teaching international master's degree
Speaker 5: students who have come to the US to get their
Speaker 5: master's degree in STEM degrees So I deal with students
Speaker 5: all the time who are concerned about getting internships or
Speaker 5: permanent positions. But my students have a caveat in that
Speaker 5: they are international students, so they need to go to
Speaker 5: work for a company who will sponsor them. So they
Speaker 5: have a little more difficult road ahead of them than
Speaker 5: just you know, domestic students who are looking for jobs
Speaker 5: coming out of undergraduate and graduate degrees.
Speaker 2: Okay, so is our focused and I always sometimes my producer,
Speaker 2: I want to make sure I understand is our focus
Speaker 2: tonight to talk on international students the difficulties that they
Speaker 2: have jobs us?
Speaker 5: No, Yeah, it's on us students. Actually, you know, there
Speaker 5: was a recent article that came out on CNN talking
Speaker 5: about the fact that companies have a fear of hiring
Speaker 5: undergraduate students who are coming out with their college degree.
Speaker 5: So a lot of the gen zs that are coming
Speaker 5: out with their first, you know, four year degree, why.
Speaker 2: Is that why they have a field? I've been at situations.
Speaker 2: We sometimes have done this radio show on the road.
Speaker 2: We go out and we do nightside on the road,
Speaker 2: and I oftentimes will be approached by students and they'll
Speaker 2: tell me I have it a tough time, and I remember
Speaker 2: talking to one woman in New Hampshire several years ago
Speaker 2: and so, what's your what's your major archaeology? It was like, well, wow,
Speaker 2: archaeology is you know, it's not a stem. I mean
Speaker 2: there's probably stem elements in archaeology, but there's not a
Speaker 2: lot of jobs in it. What why a gen z
Speaker 2: is being looked at as scance here by potential employers?
Speaker 2: I think I know the answer, but I'd love to
Speaker 2: hear it from you.
Speaker 5: Sure, you know, I think there's a variety of reasons. Right,
Speaker 5: This Particularler survey that was done, the feedback that they
Speaker 5: got was that gen Zer's lack motivation. They have a
Speaker 5: very difficult time communicating. They struggle getting feedback if they
Speaker 5: aren't performing to their expected potential. And really part of
Speaker 5: it revolves around a lack of work experience, right, And
Speaker 5: in what I teach the master's degree, students typically have
Speaker 5: gotten their four year degree, they've gone out and worked,
Speaker 5: and then they're going back to school to get that
Speaker 5: master's degree. Where a lot of your students who are
Speaker 5: getting undergraduate degrees their work experience if they didn't go
Speaker 5: out and fight for internships, which is a fight believe me,
Speaker 5: during getting their bachelor's degree, maybe their work experiences in
Speaker 5: retail or restaurant work and they're getting a degree in engineering,
Speaker 5: or they getting a technology degree, and they don't have
Speaker 5: applicable work experience, which is really important to employers when
Speaker 5: they're looking at hiring very new, you know, potential employees.
Speaker 2: You know. One of the things I think, and I'm
Speaker 2: kind of old school, I'm not going to tell you
Speaker 2: how all day, but I've been in television for thirty
Speaker 2: one years and now we've been in radio on air,
Speaker 2: in both TV and radio. And one of the worst
Speaker 2: jobs I ever had while I was in college was
Speaker 2: one summer I cleaned toilets. Oh goodness, basically a janitor, okay,
Speaker 2: And I learned a lot from that job. I learned humility,
Speaker 2: that there's a lot of people out there who don't
Speaker 2: have the fortune of having It was a good experience,
Speaker 2: I guess in retrospect, sure, I kind of felt like
Speaker 2: Bill Murray and Caddyshack as I Caddyshack even hadn't been
Speaker 2: made as a movie at that void. But do we
Speaker 2: undervalue those types of work experiences for students? Not everybody
Speaker 2: can get an interest it isn't a work experience. Any
Speaker 2: work experience potentially beneficial.
Speaker 5: It can be if if it is displayed properly on
Speaker 5: their resume, right, So if they put their soft skills
Speaker 5: as well as their hard skills right, so thought skills, accountability, communication, collaboration,
Speaker 5: able to handle pressure, able to multitask. If they can
Speaker 5: show that they have those soft skills, even if they
Speaker 5: learned them working in retail, working in a restaurant, working
Speaker 5: as a janitor, you know, that says a lot to
Speaker 5: hiring manager.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's vastly you know, underestimated. And I
Speaker 2: mean back when when I was in school, you went
Speaker 2: to school full time and then in the summer you
Speaker 2: scrambled and you tried to make a few bucks. I
Speaker 2: don't know if that model still exists anymore, or if
Speaker 2: does that exist. Do kids, you know, be in school
Speaker 2: from September to May and then they try to, you know,
Speaker 2: get a job, whether it's you know, I don't know,
Speaker 2: working as a lifeguard. I'm trying to think of the
Speaker 2: traditional jobs that we're concerning, the primo jobs when I
Speaker 2: was in that area.
Speaker 5: You know, we live in a very competitive job market,
Speaker 5: and you know, with with so much technology flying at us, right.
Speaker 5: I mean, I have students who are getting degrees and
Speaker 5: generitive AI. So you know, it really is a different
Speaker 5: world today than it was twenty thirty years ago. And
Speaker 5: so really what students are scrambling for today are those
Speaker 5: jobs that are going to really give them those those
Speaker 5: skills that are going to help them be more attractive
Speaker 5: to employers when they do graduate. However, I will say
Speaker 5: to those employers, I think it's important to uh, you know,
Speaker 5: focus on behavioral interview questions that could help them get
Speaker 5: to the bottom of Okay, I had Candidate A who
Speaker 5: only worked at a restaurant this summer, and I have
Speaker 5: candidate B who worked at Goldman Sacks. But did the
Speaker 5: one that worked at the restaurant learn the value of
Speaker 5: the qualifications that I'm looking for in a candidate. And
Speaker 5: some of those questions can be, you know, something as
Speaker 5: simple as you know, what type of constructive criticism have
Speaker 5: you received and how did you deal with it? Or
Speaker 5: are you used to juggling multiple assignments and how did
Speaker 5: you manage a workload? You know you have to juggle man,
Speaker 5: you know a lot of assignments when you work in
Speaker 5: a restaurant and manage a workload. And while it may
Speaker 5: not sound as attractive as a Goldman sax, maybe they
Speaker 5: learned something intuitively that somebody else didn't.
Speaker 2: I think that's good advice. So do you work both
Speaker 2: with students. And again, your group is called Corporate Connections LLC,
Speaker 2: who can avail themselves of your services employers or aspiring employees.
Speaker 5: So really I am essentially what is known as a headhunter,
Speaker 5: so I get hired by companies to find the best
Speaker 5: talent for their open position. However, I am also a
Speaker 5: very caring person and because of my role as a professor,
Speaker 5: I certainly work hard, you know, with students to try
Speaker 5: and teach them how to go about getting a job,
Speaker 5: whether that's interviewing skills or the right things to put
Speaker 5: on your resume, because it really can make a difference.
Speaker 2: Absolutely. Well, look very nice to make your equaintance. If
Speaker 2: folks want to get in touch with you, there must
Speaker 2: be a website.
Speaker 5: Yes, my website is Corporate Connections LLC dot com. I'm
Speaker 5: also on LinkedIn as Brenda sr and Corporate Connections LLC
Speaker 5: has a business page on LinkedIn as well.
Speaker 2: All right, well, pleasure to meet you. Now I've finally
Speaker 2: met the person who you say, talk to Siri and
Speaker 2: tell us what's going on. That's not you, right on
Speaker 2: the holy kidd, not me, all right.
Speaker 5: Fortunately I wasn't smart enough to copyright my last name.
Speaker 2: But yeah, now that is that's a woman who certainly
Speaker 2: knows how to multitask. I don't know how she does it. Thanks, thanks, Brendany.
Speaker 2: I do appreciate it, professor, Thanks very much. We get
Speaker 2: back in to talk a little Super Bowl sports with
Speaker 2: Chris Price. He's been here before, Boston Globe sports reporter,
Speaker 2: and we'll figure out who's.
Speaker 1: Going to win.
Speaker 2: The Chiefs of the Eagles in the Super Bowl two weeks,
Speaker 2: well a week from this Sunday, So we're talking about
Speaker 2: what eleven days. It's cut right around the corner, coming
Speaker 2: back on night Side. Now, back to Dan Ray live
Speaker 2: from the Window World night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio. Well,
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl is set, and of course with us
Speaker 2: is Chris Price from the Boston Globe. Chris, the only
Speaker 2: question I have is the Patriots still in it?
Speaker 1: I know what, Dan, we could actually trace that back
Speaker 1: to I think maybe it was like mid November or
Speaker 1: so when they were officially eliminated from playoffs contention. But
Speaker 1: the good news, if you want some good news, if.
Speaker 2: You're a Patriots fan, the fourth round, you have choice.
Speaker 1: They have the fourth overall pick, they have roughly one
Speaker 1: hundred million dollars under the salary cap, and they have
Speaker 1: four pick in the top eighty or so this year.
Speaker 1: So you know, this is a good year for team
Speaker 1: building if you're the pick. Put it that way.
Speaker 2: So you're telling me there's still a chance. No, we
Speaker 2: know who the super Bowl. Look, I felt so sorry
Speaker 2: for Jim Kelly the other day. Oh my god, he
Speaker 2: was almost crying. Did you see that postgame news conference?
Speaker 1: I did I did that the Bills. I'll say this, Dan,
Speaker 1: every time I've been up to Buffalo, you've probably been
Speaker 1: up there as well. That they love the builds so much.
Speaker 1: It's such a great fan base. They've they've suffered so
Speaker 1: much over the years, and for them to keep kind
Speaker 1: of banging their head on the ceiling there against the Chiefs,
Speaker 1: it looks like they're just you know, it's there's something
Speaker 1: to be said for timing when it comes to winning
Speaker 1: a championship. That if you are if you have a
Speaker 1: great team that's standing in your way, you can only
Speaker 1: do so much. I just I'd love the Bills. I
Speaker 1: love I love you know, the way that Josh Allen
Speaker 1: performed this year. It just the Chiefs remind me so
Speaker 1: much of those old Patriots teams. They just find a
Speaker 1: way to get it done. The biggest moments.
Speaker 2: Kim Kaid still could have caught that pass at.
Speaker 1: The end, Yeah, he could have.
Speaker 2: Really know, there's a lot of you know, a lot
Speaker 2: of you know luck. It was a little bit, it
Speaker 2: was a little bit behind him and all that, But
Speaker 2: if you pulled that in then it would have been
Speaker 2: maybe a different I think they have to go find
Speaker 2: Mark Levy Levy and bring him back as coach. I
Speaker 2: forget that these guys lost four super Bowls, yeah in
Speaker 2: the early nineties. I mean they would have.
Speaker 1: Not just not just for Super Bowls. I mean there
Speaker 1: are other teams that have lost, but like the Broncos
Speaker 1: have lost, for the Vikings have lost war Row just
Speaker 1: it's it's next level kind of stuff, it really is.
Speaker 2: And now they've lost Kansas City really three in a row.
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean when you think about it, I
Speaker 2: mean they had they had a chance this year that
Speaker 2: they lost last year in Buffalo. I guess this is
Speaker 2: only the second time they've lost directly to Kansas City.
Speaker 2: But yeah, so so now we look at the Eagles.
Speaker 2: I kind of like the Eagles. What's your thought on
Speaker 2: this game?
Speaker 1: I I do. I I love the Eagles, And you know,
Speaker 1: you want some irony here that New England fans are
Speaker 1: rooting for the Philadelphia Eagles, as you know after what
Speaker 1: happened a few years ago in the Super Bowl, that
Speaker 1: the Eagles are the team that stands in the way
Speaker 1: of the Chiefs and pulling off a three piecher. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I love the Eagles. They're a smart, tough, physical team.
Speaker 1: Taekwon Barkley has had a dynamite year. You know, Jalen
Speaker 1: Hurts is playing great. Their offensive line is a bunch
Speaker 1: of maulers. If there's a team that can get it done.
Speaker 1: The big secret here, really, Dan, when you come right
Speaker 1: down to it, the best way to beat the Chiefs
Speaker 1: is to keep Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelcey in that offense.
Speaker 1: Also feel as long as possible. So if I'm the Eagles,
Speaker 1: I want to just grind them down. I want to
Speaker 1: put together some seven eight nine minute drives. I want
Speaker 1: to control the game. I want to control the Temple,
Speaker 1: and I want to keep Patrick Mahomes on the sidelines
Speaker 1: as long as I can.
Speaker 2: You got you got the you got the running back
Speaker 2: that can do it. Many is unbelievable. I forgot that
Speaker 2: he when he broke in with the Giants, Joe Judge
Speaker 2: was there. IM. Joe's a great guy. I don't know
Speaker 2: if you know Judge or.
Speaker 1: Not, but Joe a little bit, yeah, a little bit.
Speaker 2: Great guy and hasts a young and a young guy.
Speaker 2: He's got to get another shot.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, It's going to be interesting to see how
Speaker 1: much baggage he's going to carry into whatever next job
Speaker 1: that he might have. I was a little bit surprised,
Speaker 1: honestly that Bill Belichick didn't take him down to North
Speaker 1: Carolina with him. You know, he still may find his
Speaker 1: way down to to the ECC to be to be
Speaker 1: an assistant coach under Bill. But but yeah, he's he's
Speaker 1: gonna he's gonna get a job somewhere in the National
Speaker 1: Football League sooner red later.
Speaker 2: I yeah, I was kind of surprised that maybe Vrabel
Speaker 2: wasn't going to bring him back to New England because
Speaker 2: I think that, uh my understanding is that Belichick had
Speaker 2: the job in Atlanta. It was a done deal and
Speaker 2: that that he was going to get the band back
Speaker 2: together in Atlanta. No serious and Blank went into the
Speaker 2: hospital for some surgery, and at that point the GM
Speaker 2: decided to go in a different direction. You know that.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, they were in reverse on you there.
Speaker 1: They were in re reverse on you there. I will
Speaker 1: say this that the one thing when you look at Mike,
Speaker 1: Rables and Ustaff here in New England, you can kind
Speaker 1: of draw most of them, not all of them quite yet,
Speaker 1: but there was a previous working relationship there with all
Speaker 1: of that, whether it's even as a you know, as
Speaker 1: a player and a coach. Between Josh McDaniels and him,
Speaker 1: he's plucked a lot of guys that he used to
Speaker 1: work with in Tennessee. And I don't think, off the
Speaker 1: top of my head, I don't think he had a
Speaker 1: previous relationship with Joe Judge, so maybe that kind of
Speaker 1: disqualified him there. But yeah, I'd like, I don't want
Speaker 1: to go off on another team gent here, but I
Speaker 1: really like the staff that Rabel is assembling here in
Speaker 1: New England. I think it's a bit of a one
Speaker 1: to eighty from what we saw last year. Where there
Speaker 1: were a lot of relatively younger coaches this year. Moving forward,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of there's a lot of experience on
Speaker 1: that coaching staff. It's going to be interesting how that
Speaker 1: manifests itself over the course of the year.
Speaker 2: Did Belichick's second son stay with the Patriots or I
Speaker 2: know the first guy went out to Washington and now
Speaker 2: he's going to be with the dad down at UNC.
Speaker 2: What about the second.
Speaker 1: Guy who was Yet the other son is leaving as well,
Speaker 1: it was revealed today. So there will be no more
Speaker 1: Belichicks in Foxboro. We don't know yet, although I wouldn't
Speaker 1: be surprised if he showed up in North Carolina.
Speaker 2: That would not stun me, that is for sure. Okay,
Speaker 2: so what's the spread on this game? I'm assuming the
Speaker 2: Chiefs will come out as the favorite. The betting favorite
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 1: Philadelphia is a narrow The last time I checked, I'll
Speaker 1: say this this afternoon, the early line was Philadelphia, I
Speaker 1: think by two or three. It was very It's very
Speaker 1: very narrow. So I think part of it, though, Dan,
Speaker 1: is that the Chiefs have played so many close games
Speaker 1: this year. They played I think they played more one
Speaker 1: score games than anyone else in the NFL. So look,
Speaker 1: either way, one way or another, it's gonna come down.
Speaker 1: This is gonna come down to a one score game regardless.
Speaker 1: And so I I you know what, I'll say this,
Speaker 1: I've lost a lot of money over the years betting
Speaker 1: against the Chiefs. One of those things. You know, what
Speaker 1: does the heart say?
Speaker 2: Theoretical money. I know that you're not actually betting cash
Speaker 2: American dollars, but it's figurative theoretical money. I know what
Speaker 2: you mean. I know what you mean exactly 's hurt?
Speaker 2: Its knee? What's what's the line on that that that's
Speaker 2: gotta be?
Speaker 1: He's yeah, he's he's as far as we know right now,
Speaker 1: he's okay. What are the big questions really for me?
Speaker 1: Is going to be that offensive line. If they're healthy,
Speaker 1: like we said before, they're ballers. It's a great offensive line.
Speaker 1: But that center position. Jurgen does a little bit banged up.
Speaker 1: He had a back thing, Dickerson has had some health
Speaker 1: issues as well. If they're healthy, they should be okay.
Speaker 1: But if they're not healthy, hey, as we all know,
Speaker 1: or a good offensive line can make a bad quarterback
Speaker 1: good and a good quarterback great. I think that's what
Speaker 1: the Eagles are counting on come Sunday.
Speaker 2: I'll say I think it'd be good. Hopefully it's going
Speaker 2: to be a good game, simple as that old line
Speaker 2: NFL team against you know, a great club. And everyone
Speaker 2: in New England needs to be rooting for Philadelphia on
Speaker 2: this one because I'm also rooting against Taylor Swift. I'm
Speaker 2: tired of Taylor Swift. I don't know about you, but
Speaker 2: I've seen enough of Taylor Swift.
Speaker 1: Well, there's also too I think, Dan, you know, you
Speaker 1: get right down to it. I think that I don't
Speaker 1: want to see Philadelphi and boss to their sister cities.
Speaker 1: But you can understand that there's the same level of
Speaker 1: East Coast sporting fanaticism, yeah, that Boston shares with Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: It's the same kind of vibe, the same kind of
Speaker 1: energy when you go to an Eagles game or a
Speaker 1: Phillies game. But I'm not just saying that because my
Speaker 1: sister in law is an Eagles fan passion.
Speaker 2: I al wish that the mayor of Philadelphia knew how
Speaker 2: to spell the name of the Eagles. Did you see
Speaker 2: that video?
Speaker 1: Have you seen that? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Okay, hey, that's always so I so enjoy our conversations, Chris,
Speaker 2: I know we veer off the half a little bit,
Speaker 2: but we brought it back to the end, and uh,
Speaker 2: we'll see what happens. Maybe we can talk once right
Speaker 2: before the game and we can we can put a
Speaker 2: little side bet on a cup of coffee or something
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 1: But I love it. I love it.
Speaker 2: I'm going to be the Eagles no matter who I
Speaker 2: bet on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm right, I'm right there with you, my friend.
Speaker 1: I look forward to it.
Speaker 2: Thanks, Chris, Talk soon, Okay, take care. When we get back,
Speaker 2: we're going to talk about a federal investigation into sanctuary cities,
Speaker 2: including one that most of you are familiar with, Boston, Massachusetts.
Speaker 2: Back on Nightside, right after the nine o'clock news,