Speaker 1: It's night Side with Dan Ray on WBS Boston's Radio.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Nicole. Good to know the Bruins are winning
Speaker 2: and they're ahead of the Capitals. Let's get those duck
Speaker 2: boats ready for a Stanley Cup parade. We're always optimistic
Speaker 2: here in New England. Good evening, everybody, and welcome on
Speaker 2: into a Tuesday night edition of Nightside. My name is
Speaker 2: Dan Ray, and three months from this night we'll be
Speaker 2: celebrating Christmas Eve. I hate to remind you of that,
Speaker 2: but it's three months left to do your holiday shopping
Speaker 2: and uh just you'll get the warning every once in
Speaker 2: a while, every every month, that's a matter of fact.
Speaker 2: My name is Dan Ray. I'm delighted to be here
Speaker 2: as always, and I'm sure you're delighted to be wherever
Speaker 2: you are, that is for sure. And Rob Brooks, I know,
Speaker 2: is absolutely delighted to be back in the control room
Speaker 2: in the broadcast center of the world as I Rob
Speaker 2: you there. I'm telling you right now, everything is on
Speaker 2: your shoulders. I don't want to put any pressure on you,
Speaker 2: but you got to keep everything rolling tonight, okay, you
Speaker 2: Betty said, all right, I like that. All right, this
Speaker 2: is our first hour which is the night side News Update,
Speaker 2: and we have four special guests lined up for you,
Speaker 2: and then later on tonight we'll get some topics that
Speaker 2: may be somewhat controversial. We're going to start off with
Speaker 2: Joeanne Simon. She's the president and CEO of Northeast ARC.
Speaker 2: Joanne Simon's I'm very familiar with the work of ARC,
Speaker 2: not only your ARC, but all sorts of arcs around
Speaker 2: the New England area. How are you.
Speaker 3: Tonight, I'm great, Dan, Thanks for having me and letting
Speaker 3: me talk a little bit about our work.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're here to celebrate construction of a home for
Speaker 2: people with developmental disabilities and complex medical issues, which of
Speaker 2: course is the core of the mission of the ARC,
Speaker 2: not only the Northeast ARC. Tell us about this home
Speaker 2: and who's it going to and everything you'd like to
Speaker 2: like to share with us tonight so we make people
Speaker 2: understand what a great, a wonderful, wonderful organization the Northeast
Speaker 2: ARK is.
Speaker 3: Thanks Dan, and I'm glad you mentioned that there are
Speaker 3: other arcs, because there are a number of arcs around
Speaker 3: the state and we all do phenomenal work and supporting
Speaker 3: people with developmental and intellectual disabilities. And autism and their families.
Speaker 3: But I want to talk a little bit about this
Speaker 3: really special home that we opened in top Fill just
Speaker 3: a few weeks ago. This home will ultimately support four individuals.
Speaker 3: Right now there are three, and you mentioned complex medical needs,
Speaker 3: and these are among the most complex medical needs that
Speaker 3: you can imagine.
Speaker 4: The three individuals that are.
Speaker 3: Living there now all rely on ventilators and they have traits,
Speaker 3: and this means that we are able to support them
Speaker 3: in the community. And what's really remard remarkable about these
Speaker 3: three individuals who require twenty four hour nursing care is
Speaker 3: that they were all living with their families before. They
Speaker 3: now are living in their own home, in a beautiful
Speaker 3: home where we've been welcomed in top Field. And so
Speaker 3: the heroes of this story are really the families who
Speaker 3: provided extraordinary care and now they trust us, the Northeast Doc,
Speaker 3: to take care of their most pressured, precious loved ones.
Speaker 3: And we do that with we have direct support professionals,
Speaker 3: and we have registered nurses and licensed practical nurses, and
Speaker 3: they're receiving the same level of care as many people
Speaker 3: in hospitals or nursing homes require but weren't able to
Speaker 3: do it in the community and provide them the opportunity
Speaker 3: to live their best life. And just a couple of
Speaker 3: weeks ago, I've just.
Speaker 2: Looked a picture here, and obviously we're radio and not television,
Speaker 2: but what a wonderful picture with the ribbon cutting ceremony.
Speaker 2: Just boy, I'll tell you, yeah, if everyone could see
Speaker 2: this picture, I'm sure everybody would be supporting all the
Speaker 2: programs that are go ahead. I didn't need to interrupt
Speaker 2: you with.
Speaker 3: No, And you know, I'm glad you talked about the
Speaker 3: picture because you know, we had at the opening our
Speaker 3: elected officials, you know are state representatives and state senators,
Speaker 3: the town officials from the town of top Field, you know,
Speaker 3: as well as you know, members of the Northeast OARC
Speaker 3: family and our state partners and the Executive Office of
Speaker 3: Health and Human Services and the Department of Developmental Disabilities.
Speaker 3: And there were times when people talk about and you know,
Speaker 3: make comments about, you know, the work of the state.
Speaker 3: They don't really understand that the partnerships that we enjoy
Speaker 3: really allow people with some of the most complex needs
Speaker 3: to really have wonderful lives. And that's because government and
Speaker 3: private organizations like the Northeast do OC nonprofit organizations that
Speaker 3: we are you know, work together to create these opportunities
Speaker 3: for people. And we are grateful for those kinds of
Speaker 3: partnerships from our state and local elected officials and our
Speaker 3: funding sources which are state agencies, and you know, obviously
Speaker 3: the legislature which year after year has really been able
Speaker 3: to identify the needs of people with developmental intellectual disabilities
Speaker 3: and autism of being of highest priority and have provided
Speaker 3: us the needed funds to do the work.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you most people, including myself, don't mind our
Speaker 2: tax dollars and other funds that we may choose to
Speaker 2: contribute to go to a great organization, like any of
Speaker 2: the arcs that that is for sure. Was this a
Speaker 2: new house. I was having trouble getting into the story for.
Speaker 3: A brand new house, brand new house we had, you know,
Speaker 3: and like everyone else's tried to enter the housing market,
Speaker 3: you know how difficult it is. So one is we
Speaker 3: needed to find land. We needed to you know, do
Speaker 3: the improvements to be able to make the landropriate to
Speaker 3: actually build the house. And you know that means architecture.
Speaker 3: Architects are architects contractors, you know, it means, you know,
Speaker 3: furnishing the house. It means, you know, making sure that
Speaker 3: the gas and the electric is is put into it.
Speaker 3: And you know, with the supply chain that we've had
Speaker 3: and that you know, demands and housing, it's very expensive
Speaker 3: to build new construction in this state. And that's really
Speaker 3: one of the challenges that all of us in the
Speaker 3: nonprofit world and the arcs you know, are facing of
Speaker 3: the same face, same challenges that homeowners are people renters
Speaker 3: who want to become homeowners are facing. Is that the
Speaker 3: incredible costs of you know, acquiring and finding suitable homes.
Speaker 2: Looking again at the picture, you realize the level of
Speaker 2: disabilities that these folks are dealing with. Uh, they obviously
Speaker 2: need a lot of care. How many other people, Uh,
Speaker 2: these folks are in a difficult set of circumstances. I'm
Speaker 2: looking at at an older woman and a younger man.
Speaker 2: These must be very rare conditions. But but there must
Speaker 2: be others out there who are not fortunate.
Speaker 3: It is rare, you know, and we often get to
Speaker 3: you know, I get to talk to you and others
Speaker 3: about and we can celebrate the incredible achievements of people
Speaker 3: with disabilities, you know, who are working competitively and living
Speaker 3: independently and and you know, have families and doing wonderful
Speaker 3: things and achieving great success. But we also want to
Speaker 3: make sure that those folks who have these kinds of
Speaker 3: complex needs, like the people in the picture that you're
Speaker 3: referring to, also have those opportunities. So it is there
Speaker 3: there are fewer people with these kinds of significant medical issues,
Speaker 3: and they're caused by a number of different different Sometimes
Speaker 3: it's a birth injury and sometimes it's an injury acquired
Speaker 3: later in life, regardless of their the severity of the disability,
Speaker 3: and you can see in the pictures that these are
Speaker 3: people with a lot of equipment around them and a
Speaker 3: lot of need for hands hands on assistance. These are
Speaker 3: people who you know, aren't able to communicate in the
Speaker 3: way that we communicate verbally or even with an eye gazer.
Speaker 3: But these are folks that you really subtle ways of
Speaker 3: communicating their likes or dislikes, or they're discomforts. But in
Speaker 3: spite of all these challenges, I'm really proud that our
Speaker 3: team members are really able to get these folks into
Speaker 3: the community. And just a few weeks ago they enjoyed
Speaker 3: a great family festival that we had at the Market
Speaker 3: Street in Winfield, and they're out in the community living
Speaker 3: the best life that they can live alongside you know,
Speaker 3: our runners who were at the same event being able
Speaker 3: to run a five k.
Speaker 2: So you folks are the people who deserve help. They
Speaker 2: should be at the front of the line, and ARC
Speaker 2: is helping them get to the front of the line.
Speaker 2: I just think it's incredible work that you have done.
Speaker 2: You know, over many, many years. I've been familiar with
Speaker 2: the over fifty years. To be really honest with you,
Speaker 2: I go back to doctor Harold Turner from Newton, Massachusetts,
Speaker 2: who was honored one year as the man it was
Speaker 2: then called Man of the Year, Person of the Year.
Speaker 2: He was a dentist, pediatric dentist for children with disabilities.
Speaker 2: So he he introduced me to the ARC many many
Speaker 2: years ago. And I know that there have been a
Speaker 2: lot of other folks who have been great with with
Speaker 2: the ARC. How can folks get in touch if they'd
Speaker 2: like to help get more information? What's your best home?
Speaker 3: Well, you know, obviously it's great the website, which is
Speaker 3: any hyphen AARC dot organ. I'm glad you talked about
Speaker 3: doctor Traynor because people like him who life his name.
Speaker 2: Let me correct that his name is Harold Turner. To
Speaker 2: you are any.
Speaker 3: And those are really the heroes, people who you know,
Speaker 3: identified these special populations, you know, decades before it became
Speaker 3: more fashionable too. And my son, who has down cinem
Speaker 3: is forty five years old, and he's the reason that
Speaker 3: I do the work that I do because the world
Speaker 3: that I envisioned for him didn't exist. And even I
Speaker 3: can't probably could have predicted the incredible gains that people
Speaker 3: with intellectual disabilities have made in the last four and
Speaker 3: a half decades that I've witnessed this growth and opportunity.
Speaker 2: Joey, thank you, Thank you for what you do for
Speaker 2: your son, but also thank you for what you do
Speaker 2: for the community. Again, that website is any all lowercase
Speaker 2: any hyphen arc dot org archie.
Speaker 4: Thanks Joe and you can sign me there.
Speaker 3: And thank you Dan for amplifying our voices.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much. My pleasure, my pleasure, my honor.
Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, at eight fifteen, we're a
Speaker 2: little bit after eight to fifteen, but we're going to
Speaker 2: be talking with Bob Scanel Presidency, you know, the Boys
Speaker 2: and Girls Club of Dorchester celebrating the their fiftieth anniversary
Speaker 2: as well as talking about Rodman's ride. So we got
Speaker 2: a very very uplifting segment coming up. The first segment
Speaker 2: uplifting in a different sort of way, was uplifting and
Speaker 2: showing what should be done for those who were amongst
Speaker 2: us have the greatest battles to fight, but the Boys
Speaker 2: and Girls Club they do a great job. And we'll
Speaker 2: talk with Bob Scannel right after this break on Nightside.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: All right, as we mentioned, we're going to be talking
Speaker 2: and we are talking right now with Bob Scanel, President
Speaker 2: and CEO of the Boys and Girls Club of Dorchester.
Speaker 2: You folks have been doing this for fifty years in Dorchester.
Speaker 2: Congratulations Bob, to you and everyone involved with the Boys
Speaker 2: and Girls Clubs of Dorchester.
Speaker 4: Well, thank you so much. I really appreciate that. And yeah,
Speaker 4: we've been out it for a while now, and you know,
Speaker 4: we're blessed to have a lot of friends in our corner,
Speaker 4: as you know, supporting us the whole way. So we're
Speaker 4: obviously very excited to be celebrating this big year and
Speaker 4: we've got a lot of great things going on, as
Speaker 4: we do every year.
Speaker 2: I know my pal Jack Dougherty of College Hype is
Speaker 2: a huge friend and supporter of the Boys and Girls
Speaker 2: Club of Dorchester. And we also want to talk about
Speaker 2: last weekend. You guys were very much involved in the
Speaker 2: Robin Ride for Kids. They held their thirty fourth annual
Speaker 2: event last weekend. That the event is in the past tense,
Speaker 2: but it was a big success, as I understand it.
Speaker 4: It was a great success. It was this past weekend.
Speaker 4: And yes, Jack Dougherty, he's a legend, he's the best.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I talk with him this afternoon. He's had
Speaker 2: to say hello, by the way.
Speaker 4: You're a wonderful man. And in fact, you and Jack
Speaker 4: and Bill Brett were kind of to do a fundraiser
Speaker 4: for us for one of our many projects. So you
Speaker 4: guys are a great team. But Jack, Jack's awesome.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a deep captain. Bock go ahead.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, it always says anyway, but believe it at
Speaker 4: that he is. So this past weekend was the thirty
Speaker 4: fourth year of the Rodman Ride for Kids, and we've
Speaker 4: been fortunate. We go way back with the late, great
Speaker 4: and wonderful Darn Rodman, who was the absolute best. He
Speaker 4: founded the ride in nineteen ninety one, and I know,
Speaker 4: like after this weekends it's up over one hundred and
Speaker 4: fifty million dollars raised among the thirty forty five organizations
Speaker 4: that partner with the ride. So obviously in the norm
Speaker 4: enormous success and for us over all those years, it's
Speaker 4: been a lifesaver for us to thicken fan to a
Speaker 4: lot of the tough years. We're able to have our
Speaker 4: friends rally and forward us and ride and sponsor and
Speaker 4: make sure that we have funds we need to operate
Speaker 4: every year. And you know, none better honestly than the
Speaker 4: Myer Company team and the my family who for all
Speaker 4: thirty four years have been there with us, not only
Speaker 4: with the Rodman Ride, but all fifty years as a
Speaker 4: founding family of our boys and Girls clubs. So it's
Speaker 4: so amazing to them. They wound up a great team,
Speaker 4: Dan Masters as a team captain, and you know, they
Speaker 4: have a nice group of riders. They go out, they
Speaker 4: take their fundraising serious, they have a fun day and
Speaker 4: raising important funds for us. So it's pretty exceptional that
Speaker 4: we have friends like that that have been with us
Speaker 4: for fifty years. And in addition to that, all thirty
Speaker 4: four years of the Rodman Ride. So it's quite an event.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Now've done fifty years, so what's the next fifty
Speaker 2: looking like? I mean, it's going to be bigger and better,
Speaker 2: I assume correct.
Speaker 4: That's always the way, and that's the way we think here.
Speaker 4: And you know, we're blessed to have great teams here
Speaker 4: with interance of our staff and board and the community
Speaker 4: and our funders. So we currently operate three clubhouses in Dorchester.
Speaker 4: But the really big news is that what a great
Speaker 4: way to celebrate our fiftieth. We're working very hard the
Speaker 4: raise the funds we need to build our fourth clubhouse,
Speaker 4: which will be in partnership with our amazing friends at
Speaker 4: the Martin Richard Foundation. So our two organizations have come
Speaker 4: together and we've been at it for about six years
Speaker 4: now with planning and designing a seventy five thousand square
Speaker 4: foot facility. But it's so neat in the community and
Speaker 4: I just commend our teams here and my hat goes
Speaker 4: off to Bill Richard and Denise who work so hard
Speaker 4: with us alongside us as great volunteers to make this happen.
Speaker 4: And so together we designed this amazing facility. Its spectacular.
Speaker 4: We can't wait to get it open. And you know,
Speaker 4: we do very well. We're well along in the fundraising.
Speaker 4: It's a seventy million dollar campaign and we've passed. Oh yeah,
Speaker 4: we took on a lot. To your point, get yeah,
Speaker 4: we're gonta. We're got a lot going on this coming year.
Speaker 2: I knew that's what you're going to talk about. And again,
Speaker 2: this is a this is a big project, a big,
Speaker 2: big project, and Jack dolready has kept me abreast of that.
Speaker 2: And of course working with the mountin Richards Foundation that
Speaker 2: is just an incredible group of people and it's a
Speaker 2: family and uh is the is the fundraising? Uh? Where
Speaker 2: you need to be at this point? I use seventy
Speaker 2: million dollars. That's that's a lot of money. I know.
Speaker 4: Once in a while over the past several years, Bill,
Speaker 4: Bill Rich and I we looked at each other and
Speaker 4: just say, wow, we took on a lot.
Speaker 2: Huh.
Speaker 4: I'm like, yeah, yeah, let's just keep working and and
Speaker 4: we're working very hot. And you know, we've we've we've
Speaker 4: gone over the forty million dollars raised, so that that
Speaker 4: that is amazing, that is really great. So so, but
Speaker 4: we've we've got we've still got you know, We've still
Speaker 4: got a Hilda climb. We make no bones about that.
Speaker 2: So if you've raised forty and you're trying to get
Speaker 2: to seventy, you're like fifty six percent of the way there.
Speaker 2: So UH, if anyone's out there listening tonight who has
Speaker 2: some extra money in their paycheck and they'd like to
Speaker 2: help a great cause, how can they get in touch
Speaker 2: with you?
Speaker 4: Well they can. The best way is to go right
Speaker 4: directly to our website. And you know, I feel like
Speaker 4: I could give you those addresses, so yeah, I can look.
Speaker 2: I'm looking at it right now, So go ahead and
Speaker 2: make the make the pitch BGC go BGC Doorchester dot org.
Speaker 4: Right, that's correct, yep. And when and when you go
Speaker 4: to that site, you can look at, you know, all
Speaker 4: our programs and opportunities to donate. You can also click
Speaker 4: on a link to the uh the Fieldhouse, it's called
Speaker 4: the Fieldhouse Plus that we're building and uh and that's
Speaker 4: on our site under event So please take a look
Speaker 4: at that. Love for for your audience to take a
Speaker 4: look at that and see, you know, just what we're
Speaker 4: talking about here and this is this is transformational for
Speaker 4: children and families in Dorchester into out all of Boston.
Speaker 4: So we couldn't be more excited. And and and again
Speaker 4: we feel we feel great where we are. But we've
Speaker 4: got we've got a ways to go. Uh you know,
Speaker 4: we've got a site set on uh you know, the
Speaker 4: next few large donations to get us moving forward with
Speaker 4: the project, and we're quite confident that. But yeah, we
Speaker 4: should do. We need all the friends we can get
Speaker 4: for something like this. This is this is massive and
Speaker 4: it's just very very important for the city of Boston.
Speaker 2: All right, BGC for Boys and Girls Club BGC, Dorchester
Speaker 2: dot org. Bob Scannel, thanks so much for joining us
Speaker 2: tonight and uh, I'll see over Dorchester. Thank you so much.
Speaker 4: My friend sounds great. Thanks very much, Dan, take care
Speaker 4: of it.
Speaker 2: We come back right after the news at the bottom
Speaker 2: of the hour. We're going to talk about an auction
Speaker 2: that is coming up this Saturday. It's called the Remarkable
Speaker 2: Rarities Auction, and there are some remarkable opportunities. It's at
Speaker 2: the Royal Sinesta Hotel in Boston. We're gonna be talking
Speaker 2: with the executive vice president of our auction, Bobby Livingston.
Speaker 2: So if you're into rare items, some of which you
Speaker 2: might be able to get at less of a cost
Speaker 2: than you might realize. You stick with us here on
Speaker 2: WBZ Nightside with Dan Ray on WBZ ten thirty and
Speaker 2: your AM dial.
Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Dan Ray on w b Z,
Speaker 1: Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: You want to welcome Bobby Livingston. He's the executive vice
Speaker 2: president of a company called Remarkable Rarities Auction and they
Speaker 2: are having a live auction. Can people participate in this,
Speaker 2: Bob remotely? Do they have to physically be at the
Speaker 2: Royal Sinesta Hotel in Boston on Saturday, September twenty eighth.
Speaker 4: Dan, They can register to bid online and watch the
Speaker 4: auction stream at bit online, set up phone calls and
Speaker 4: bid or hopefully show up because it's always an exciting
Speaker 4: event at the Royal Semester. We do it once a year.
Speaker 4: We're proudly Boston Auction House.
Speaker 2: Okay, So I noticed a couple of things that I
Speaker 2: want to ask about. One is the never before seen
Speaker 2: where eight milimeters color film of the JFK Motorcade on
Speaker 2: that faithful day in November twenty second, nineteen sixty three.
Speaker 2: Where's this? Where's this film? Who shot the film? What
Speaker 2: can you tell us about it?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 4: There was a truck driver in Dallas named Dale Carpenter,
Speaker 4: and he started filming on Lemon Avenue, which was about
Speaker 4: a mile from Daley Plaza. And if you watch the film,
Speaker 4: he just misses the President's car. The film starts, you
Speaker 4: can see the Secret Service car just pulling out a frame.
Speaker 4: So he shoots about forty seconds. But because he was
Speaker 4: a truck driver, he knew exactly where the President was
Speaker 4: going to head to the Trademark, So it goes up
Speaker 4: on the Stemens Freeway. So it's right after the President
Speaker 4: is assassinated in Dealey Plaza. And if you remember the
Speaker 4: the Bruter film, you know, Missus Kennedy tries to get
Speaker 4: out of the car and Clint Hill, the Secret Service agent,
Speaker 4: jumps on, pushes her back in the car, and they
Speaker 4: speed off into this tunnel. Well, the film we have
Speaker 4: is like just maybe half a mile after they come
Speaker 4: out of the out of the tunnel, so you can
Speaker 4: clearly see Agent Hill still on the car. You can
Speaker 4: see Missus Kennedy's pink pink suit, and they's speeding by
Speaker 4: at eighty miles an hour. It's incredible, it's incredible footage.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and she actually as I understand that from the
Speaker 2: reports that I have read, and I talked many times
Speaker 2: with Dave Powers, who was in the in the follow car.
Speaker 2: Dave was President Kennedy's closest legislative or administrative aid for
Speaker 2: his entire career in Congress, both in the House, in
Speaker 2: the Senate and at the White House day Powers of Charlestown.
Speaker 2: I believe that Missus Kennedy actually was Trase trying to
Speaker 2: get on the back of the car, because I don't
Speaker 2: know how else to say this, that part of the
Speaker 2: President's brain had had landed on the back of on
Speaker 2: the back of that car, and that's why she was
Speaker 2: not trying to get away. She was trying to basically
Speaker 2: do what she could to try to save his life.
Speaker 2: Obviously in that moment, I kind of imagine what could
Speaker 2: have gone through her mind. You also have, in addition
Speaker 2: to that, you got a lot of documents and letters
Speaker 2: signed by famous, I mean famous people from all the
Speaker 2: way from the Revolutionary War through all of the nineteenth century.
Speaker 2: The autographs of presidents which are which you know back
Speaker 2: in the Andrew Jackson, John Tyler era of the eighteen
Speaker 2: thirties and the eighteen forties. It's amazing when I looked
Speaker 2: at everything that you have, and then there's one item
Speaker 2: which I didn't quite understand until I read it in
Speaker 2: that was the the King Gillette razor. I guess the
Speaker 2: guy that founded Gillette had a special type razor created.
Speaker 4: Well you know he he he was an amazing person
Speaker 4: because he wanted to invent a replaceable item to have
Speaker 4: consistent income. So he invents the razor blade and then
Speaker 4: he gets Tiffany to make him a shaver to put
Speaker 4: the safety razor into. So it's, uh, it's a pretty
Speaker 4: incredible artifact. It's got Casey G. H. Engraved on it,
Speaker 4: which is King camp Gillette. Did you know King King
Speaker 4: Camp Gillette is such a great a great name. And
Speaker 4: uh this is the prototype uh of the of the
Speaker 4: razor holder. So uh, it's it's a it's a pretty
Speaker 4: amazing item. It was never mass produced in uh. Uh
Speaker 4: this is this, this is a this is a prototype.
Speaker 4: So it's a pretty incredible artifact that comes right from uh,
Speaker 4: the Gillette family.
Speaker 2: How do you get all of these items? I mean
Speaker 2: you're talking about manuscripts and letters which are stunning in
Speaker 2: you realize that we're not something that's talking about things
Speaker 2: that go back to the twentieth century. We're talking about
Speaker 2: things go back to the nineteenth century and even before that.
Speaker 4: How do you We have a letter from Mozart with
Speaker 4: an envelope right in this auction right, it's incredible, a
Speaker 4: letter from Beethoven where he writes out a musical score.
Speaker 4: I mean, We've got incredible documents going all the way
Speaker 4: back to Henry the eighth, so we get them. We've
Speaker 4: been in Boston since nineteen seventy six and we put
Speaker 4: out a monthly catalog since nineteen eighty, so we're internationally
Speaker 4: known as an auction house that self manuscripts. We've sold
Speaker 4: letters for millions of dollars. We sold one letter that
Speaker 4: Einstein wrote to a colleague who had criticized him, and
Speaker 4: he basically said in German, look, use equals mc square
Speaker 4: any idio it can do that, you know, it's what
Speaker 4: you wrote. That that's sold from one point I think
Speaker 4: three million a couple of years ago. So once you
Speaker 4: start selling objects for that kind of money, people start
Speaker 4: sending them to you to auction for them. So that's
Speaker 4: where we we get. We get items from all over
Speaker 4: including I don't know if you saw it, but we
Speaker 4: have items from Edwin Booth family, you know John Wilkes boost.
Speaker 2: Brother, they have they There was also a poster, a
Speaker 2: wanted poster for the YEA for the linked assassination. That
Speaker 2: would that's pretty pricey. I guess they're on too many
Speaker 2: of those around.
Speaker 4: No, you know, uh, anything printed you know prior, you know,
Speaker 4: while they were still hunting Booth, it's worth a lot
Speaker 4: of money. This is the fourth printing and it kind
Speaker 4: of mentioned it mentions that you had shaved this mustache
Speaker 4: they suspected. Uh. And so it's so bold, you know,
Speaker 4: I encourage anybody to go look at it at our
Speaker 4: auction dot com because it's like want it for murder?
Speaker 4: And there, you know, it's uh what you know, the
Speaker 4: most egregious murder of the nineteenth century obviously. Uh. And
Speaker 4: they were offering fifty thousand dollars for Booth's head, so
Speaker 4: uh that that was.
Speaker 2: Real money in those days, real money, really real money
Speaker 2: in those days. So what is the website? There must
Speaker 2: be a website where people can view this, because you
Speaker 2: have all of these items available for viewing. I just
Speaker 2: was on the website about an hour ago. Was fascinated
Speaker 2: by the variety of items you have, tell us what
Speaker 2: the website is.
Speaker 4: It's our our auction dot com, you know which is
Speaker 4: rare remarkable auction dot com or our auction dot com. Uh.
Speaker 4: And yeah, there's some really cool things we've got, like
Speaker 4: some George Washington and Martha Washington hair locks. Just it's
Speaker 4: some kinds of fascinating something like that.
Speaker 2: You provide them with with a letter of authenticity, obviously.
Speaker 4: I assume that's correct. But even more important, it's what
Speaker 4: we would call provenans. You know, the chain of custody
Speaker 4: from where this hair of Washington came from. It was
Speaker 4: actually presented to the family of Oliver Walcott, the signer
Speaker 4: of the Declaration of Independence, So that you know where
Speaker 4: the thing has been is really important. And including the
Speaker 4: Lincoln poster, we know what auction has sold in in
Speaker 4: nineteen oh three, so it just doesn't, you know, it
Speaker 4: just doesn't appear, you know, out of nowhere. So they
Speaker 4: get the assurance.
Speaker 2: What did the Lincoln poster in nineteen oh three would
Speaker 2: have been about forty years after the assassination? A little
Speaker 2: short ford, right, what did it sell for in those days?
Speaker 2: Break my heart and tell me how long?
Speaker 4: I think it was about thirteen dollars, which was a
Speaker 4: lot of which was real money back then.
Speaker 2: Wow, and then some family held it for a long time.
Speaker 2: I assume, yeah, yes, sir.
Speaker 4: No, It's interesting where this particular poster came from a
Speaker 4: family who owned a document manuscript sales store in Washington,
Speaker 4: d c. And began selling documents around that time. And
Speaker 4: I think the descendant passed away in the thirty So
Speaker 4: this is this is one of those items that's been
Speaker 4: in a family for almost one hundred years.
Speaker 2: Boy, I'll tell you fascinating stuff. This is type of
Speaker 2: stuff that that should be of interest to everyone. The
Speaker 2: event itself is this Saturday. What time do you start?
Speaker 4: It's at one pm at the Royal Sinesta. The public
Speaker 4: is invited. That's in Cambridge. The public's invited to attend
Speaker 4: and we'll have some of the artifacts there for you
Speaker 4: to inspect in person.
Speaker 2: And I assume the public can get in before one
Speaker 2: before one pm so they can view some offs. Or
Speaker 2: does the auction start a little later.
Speaker 4: Now the public can begin showing up around twelve thirty?
Speaker 2: Wow? Okay the Sinesta? Is that the Sinista that's over
Speaker 2: on the other side of the river or is that
Speaker 2: in Dumb Yeah?
Speaker 4: By the Fiance Museum because it.
Speaker 2: Says when it said Royal Sentence the hotel in Boston,
Speaker 2: I'm thinking of myself. Royal Sentence. The hotel, as far
Speaker 2: as I know, is in Cambridge, but it's in the
Speaker 2: Cambridge right by that, right on the other side of
Speaker 2: the Charles River. Bobby, I really did appreciate it. Bobby Livingston,
Speaker 2: the executive vice president at R in R Auction. I
Speaker 2: think I have a fascinating job because of the people
Speaker 2: I get a chance to talk to. You have a
Speaker 2: fascinating job because of the items that you get a
Speaker 2: chance to handle and look at a day to day basis.
Speaker 4: You bet, Dan, I have to learn something every day,
Speaker 4: like just like you do. That's great. Thank you for
Speaker 4: having me.
Speaker 2: That's the best part of the job. That's the best
Speaker 2: part of the job. Really, thanks, thanks very much, Bob. Again,
Speaker 2: this is Saturday, September twenty eighth, This Saturday. The Royal
Speaker 2: Sinasta Hotel in Boston, which is really the Royal Sinesta
Speaker 2: Hotel right across the river in Cambridge. Everybody knows where
Speaker 2: it is. It's very close, just kind of a kitty
Speaker 2: corner to the Science Museum. When we get back We're
Speaker 2: going to talk about a really serious subject. One in
Speaker 2: three form NFL players believe they have CTE, and today
Speaker 2: it was happened to be watching. Of course, we saw
Speaker 2: the quarterback for the Miami Dolphins suffer historic concussion and
Speaker 2: may may actually impact his future in the NFL. But
Speaker 2: today there was some terrible news about Brett Farrev, the
Speaker 2: Hall of Fame quarterback for the Green Bay Packers and
Speaker 2: later in his career for the New York Jets, that
Speaker 2: he's dealing with Parkinson's disease at the age of fifty four,
Speaker 2: which he believes very well maybe related to the something
Speaker 2: that he took as an NFL quarterback all those years
Speaker 2: when we enjoyed watching him on television. He took quite
Speaker 2: a beating. We'll be back and we're going to be
Speaker 2: talking with doctor Eric Nepute about the consequences of repeated
Speaker 2: blows to your head, whether or not you're wearing a
Speaker 2: football helmet or not. We'll be back on night Side.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: I want to welcome doctor Eric Nepute. We're going to
Speaker 2: talk about CTE. That is something that one in three
Speaker 2: former NFL players believe they have. There are also of
Speaker 2: studies dealing on this CTE. I'm going to try to
Speaker 2: pronounce it, doctor, you'll probably do a better job. Chronic
Speaker 2: traumatic and silvilopathy. I don't know how badly I butchered that,
Speaker 2: but let's call it CTE for the balance of the interview.
Speaker 4: How are you the sivening, I'm doing well. Thanks for
Speaker 4: having me, and you did well. It's chronic traumatic encephalopathy,
Speaker 4: so ct it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I don't know if you saw the story about
Speaker 2: Brett Farv today. It was announced watching one of the
Speaker 2: nightly newscasts was on ABC that he, at the age
Speaker 2: of fifty four, apparently is dealing with the Parkinson's diagnosis.
Speaker 2: Are you aware of that?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I am, actually in fact, I you know, look,
Speaker 4: I practice functional neurology in my private practices, amongst a
Speaker 4: few other things. And not only have did I work
Speaker 4: with the Saint Louis Rams when they were, you know,
Speaker 4: still here in Saint Louis, where my practice is, but
Speaker 4: I've also been a retired NFL Players Association physician for
Speaker 4: over twelve years, and I'm intimately familiar with Brett Favre situation,
Speaker 4: as well as unfortunately hundreds of other NFL athletes that
Speaker 4: are unfortunately in a similar situation because of CTE.
Speaker 2: So let's talk. Let's talk about it. These guys have
Speaker 2: the best equipment, but the impact that they suffer, you know,
Speaker 2: particularly in some cases, you know, quarterbacks who are always
Speaker 2: being thrown to the ground when they're sacked. Sometimes receivers
Speaker 2: when uh uh when when when they are trying to
Speaker 2: catch a pass and they're they're wide open, uh and
Speaker 2: and they're they're they're just there for for the hitting.
Speaker 2: I think it's receivers and and qbs that that suffer
Speaker 2: more than even some of the interior alignment. What what's
Speaker 2: what do we what do we? What have we discovered
Speaker 2: in terms of what positions are the most dangerous?
Speaker 4: First of all, yeah, well, first of all, a lot
Speaker 4: of people don't realize that even soccer has more head
Speaker 4: injuries than than a American football. Does you think about
Speaker 4: that for just a minute. Yeah, hitting the ball, the.
Speaker 2: Ball, That's what's going on there. They study this stuff
Speaker 2: at Boston University, as you know, So tell us, I mean,
Speaker 2: why is it I'm assuming that in prior years when
Speaker 2: they had leather helmets in the thirties and George Hallis
Speaker 2: was coaching the Chicago Bears, that there probably was more
Speaker 2: impact and more damage, but it just never was understood
Speaker 2: to be CTE or my way off.
Speaker 4: There no, not at all. You're one hundred percent right.
Speaker 4: I mean, I will tell you a couple of things.
Speaker 4: Look in my twenty two years of private practice working
Speaker 4: with athletes all over the globe, I'll tell you that
Speaker 4: there were these problems in the twenties, thirties, forties, and
Speaker 4: to this day. But I don't know if you know this.
Speaker 4: Have you seen what football players today can do versus
Speaker 4: what they could do twenty years ago. I mean the
Speaker 4: guys twenty years ago that were offensive linemen, the three
Speaker 4: hundred pound you know, gentlemen that were on the field.
Speaker 4: I mean, now we've got running backs that are two
Speaker 4: hundred and fifty pounds. I mean, it's insane how large
Speaker 4: these humans are, how athletic, and how powerful they are.
Speaker 4: And I'll tell you this, the statistically proven who has
Speaker 4: a whiplash and CTE injuries more than anyone are the
Speaker 4: offensive lineman and defensive linemen. They have almost every single
Speaker 4: play ahead to head collision. And what a lot of
Speaker 4: people don't understand is they think that it's the big
Speaker 4: head on injury that knocks somebody out that causes the
Speaker 4: concussions and the CTE. The reality of it is is
Speaker 4: that we know that little micro traumas can build up
Speaker 4: over months, years, and decades that really leads to these
Speaker 4: amyloid plaquing or scarring of the brain that unfortunately causes
Speaker 4: the brain not to work to Demiel and eight and
Speaker 4: can lead to all kinds of symptoms. I mean, Alzheimer's
Speaker 4: is definitely one of them. So is Parkinson's Huntington's disease.
Speaker 4: I mean, there are other symptoms that blow people's mind
Speaker 4: that they don't realize are related to them, like sleep, apneam,
Speaker 4: low testosterone, and blood pressure issues. So there's so many
Speaker 4: variables that play with this. It's really wild if you
Speaker 4: think about it. So, yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 2: Well, I remember as a kid growing up, and I
Speaker 2: remember the first three hundred pound player was a guy
Speaker 2: named Big Daddy Lipscomb played with the Colts, and I
Speaker 2: think also maybe a little bit of time with the Steelers,
Speaker 2: and he was like three hundred pounds. But those three
Speaker 2: hundred pounds in those days compared to the lineman today
Speaker 2: who weigh three hundred. These guys are all cut at
Speaker 2: three hundred pounds. I mean they spend the entire year
Speaker 2: off season in the gym lifting and the impact. I've
Speaker 2: been on the sidelines for well a couple of NFL
Speaker 2: games and the impact of the collisions is just incredible.
Speaker 2: It's amazing that more of them aren't badly injured during
Speaker 2: the course of season. We have seen some players pretty
Speaker 2: badly injured. And we're talking about the Miami me quotaback
Speaker 2: now too, whose career might be over.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, Look, you know I played high school and
Speaker 4: college football as well, so I'm personally familiar with concussions.
Speaker 4: I mean, remember when we were kids, we didn't even
Speaker 4: call them concussions. We called it getting your bell round, right,
Speaker 4: I Mean, that's what it was. And they basically told you, ah,
Speaker 4: you'll be fine, put some dirt on it, and get
Speaker 4: back in there. That's what it was. And now we're
Speaker 4: more acutely aware of the short term and long term
Speaker 4: repercussions of these injuries. And here's what we know. What
Speaker 4: we know is that the earlier you start playing contact sports,
Speaker 4: the more the risk of you having these little micro
Speaker 4: traumas that build up, like I said, over months, years
Speaker 4: and decades, and you know it really is. It's amazing
Speaker 4: because the technology that we have today. I mean, even
Speaker 4: with all the amazing helmets and the amazing shoulder pads
Speaker 4: and the new rules that are in contact sports, you
Speaker 4: got to think about this. Your brain is just it's spun.
Speaker 4: It's like a it's like a soft little sponge and
Speaker 4: when that body gets hit, that soft sponge hits up
Speaker 4: against the hard bone inside your skull and and it
Speaker 4: literally rattles. So like if you get hit from the front,
Speaker 4: you know that that's that the brain is going to
Speaker 4: hit the front of the skull and it's going to
Speaker 4: rebound and hit the backside of it. So you have
Speaker 4: that happen five, six, eight times a game, and you
Speaker 4: do that for you know, a career. These things build up,
Speaker 4: and that's why we're seeing more of these, you know,
Speaker 4: unfortunate issues. I don't know if you saw the the
Speaker 4: Hall of Fame game uh this year, but I forget
Speaker 4: the gentleman's first name, McMichael from the Bears who was
Speaker 4: inducted into the Hall of Fame this year, defensive lineman,
Speaker 4: and you know he has als right now, and we
Speaker 4: now are seeing correlative relations to that. So it's it's
Speaker 4: it really is quite interesting what's happening. But the good
Speaker 4: news is we now have early testing. There's there's affordable,
Speaker 4: convenient and effective testing that can be done for kids
Speaker 4: when they start playing sports. I mean, think about how
Speaker 4: powerful it would be if you had a baseline of
Speaker 4: the health of your child's brain and the balance and
Speaker 4: coordination of the brain and how it works, and then
Speaker 4: every year you were able to measure that. It's kind
Speaker 4: of like measuring your blood pressure. You know, we have
Speaker 4: access to these.
Speaker 2: Things now, no, no question. You were referring to Steve McMichael,
Speaker 2: and we remember here, Michael, Yes, yeah, in the eighty
Speaker 2: six game when the Bears cleaned the clocks of the Patriots,
Speaker 2: we got to run here. Doctor Eric Nepudie, thank you
Speaker 2: so much for your time. You're all good information. I
Speaker 2: appreciate it so much.
Speaker 4: I have a blessed it. Bye bye, back catch you.
Speaker 2: We will take a quick break and when we come back,
Speaker 2: we're going to get into the well controversial part of
Speaker 2: the night side right after the nine