Speaker 1: It's Nightside with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Thanks Nicole. My name is Dan Ray, the host of Nightside.
Speaker 2: We are here every Monday through Friday night and Rob
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Speaker 2: in Medford in the actually in headquarters. I'm broadcasting remotely,
Speaker 2: but we will both be here at our appointed locations
Speaker 2: every day, every evening this week, and we have a
Speaker 2: very interesting program set up for you this week. We
Speaker 2: will I just want to mention to have the will
Speaker 2: carry the address of President Trump to Congress tomorrow. Hopefully
Speaker 2: we can talk about that stock market doubiculet. Today we
Speaker 2: will be talking with CPA Nightside, CPA Mark Misselback about
Speaker 2: your tax returns. And then on Thursday night at nine o'clock,
Speaker 2: we're talking with Diana Desaglia, the state auditor, about her
Speaker 2: quest to audit the state legislature. And at nine tonight
Speaker 2: we will talk with a member of the Boston Globe
Speaker 2: Editorial Board, Correine Hajah, and I think that's going to
Speaker 2: be a really interesting conversation. I'm convinced of it. As
Speaker 2: a matter of fact. A fascinating young woman from Milton, Massachusetts,
Speaker 2: Harvard graduate who in her young life, you're graduate from
Speaker 2: Harvid in the twenty twenty one, has accomplished so much
Speaker 2: and now is on the editorial board the Boston Globe
Speaker 2: as a conservative perspective, somewhat certainly a more conservative perspective.
Speaker 2: We'll get to all of that, but first we're going
Speaker 2: to start off with a renaissance man, if you will.
Speaker 2: Charles Farrell is my guest. Charles, Welcome to Nightside. Sir.
Speaker 2: How are you?
Speaker 3: I'm doing well, Dan, thank you for inviting me.
Speaker 2: I call you a renaissance man because I guess you
Speaker 2: are a professional piano player. You were a manager of boxers,
Speaker 2: including Mitch Green, who's a pretty well known heavyweight, and
Speaker 2: you were a former fighter for the MOB. I don't
Speaker 2: know what that means. And I guess you also did
Speaker 2: a little bit of time on the lamb, as we
Speaker 2: would say in Puerto Rico. You've done a little bit
Speaker 2: of everything. Charles, how are you to I welcome.
Speaker 3: I'm doing very well, thank you, much much more stable
Speaker 3: than the conditions that you've just described.
Speaker 2: Okay, so you have sort of experienced a great many
Speaker 2: aspects of life, I would imagine, So let's talk about
Speaker 2: your status. Now you're a jazz pianist and you're going
Speaker 2: to appear locally, I believe a couple of times in
Speaker 2: the next uh in the not too distant future. Let's
Speaker 2: let's talk about those appearances. Then I want to ask
Speaker 2: you some questions about the book.
Speaker 3: Go right ahead, great, Well, We my friend Russ Lawson,
Speaker 3: who's a fellow pianist, and I are playing a duet
Speaker 3: in March eighth at the Portland Conservatory of Music. Starts
Speaker 3: at seven o'clock I'm sorry, seven point thirty, and it's
Speaker 3: a totally improvised program. And the next evening, next afternoon,
Speaker 3: actually Sunday, March ninth, we're playing another concert with guests
Speaker 3: Jenny Tang, who is a magnificent classical pianist, the writer
Speaker 3: James Parker, and a drummer named David Moore, fine drummer
Speaker 3: at the Fraser Performance Studio at three o'clock on Sunday
Speaker 3: than ninth. And that's a much more ambitious program. We're
Speaker 3: doing fairly indescribable music.
Speaker 2: Okay, well we won't try to describe it that if
Speaker 2: it's indescribable. And you got a book signing event coming
Speaker 2: up also as well, we can talk about that in
Speaker 2: a moment. So how did you become a world class pianist?
Speaker 2: It sounds to me like your prior career is involved
Speaker 2: working for the mob and as a boxing manager. Those
Speaker 2: You wouldn't assume people would necessarily become pianists with a
Speaker 2: background like that.
Speaker 3: Well, it's actually the reverse of that. Playing piano was
Speaker 3: something I've done since I was three, so seventy years now,
Speaker 3: and it's inherited. My mother was a professional vocalist, her
Speaker 3: father was a professional pianist, his father was a professional
Speaker 3: vocust etc. So it was handed to me. So I
Speaker 3: started doing that for a living when I was about twelve,
Speaker 3: and it was an interesting way to make a living,
Speaker 3: but it wound up connecting me strangely enough to the mob,
Speaker 3: because you could play jazz for a living and not
Speaker 3: make very much money, or you could play mob clubs
Speaker 3: and make a lot of money. And I opted to
Speaker 3: make the money. So I wondered, that's how I that's
Speaker 3: how I got started.
Speaker 2: What were some of the clubs that you could assuming
Speaker 2: What were some of the clubs that you played at
Speaker 2: that you made some decent money.
Speaker 3: Well, the best one actually was a very very legitimate club.
Speaker 3: I was the musical director of the Charles Playhouse in Boston. Yeah,
Speaker 3: which was a wonderful job. I got to, you know,
Speaker 3: work with people who would just drop in, which was
Speaker 3: a great experience. You know. Zero Mostelle, for example, used
Speaker 3: to come by all the time, right, and you'd never
Speaker 3: know what he would do, so you had to be
Speaker 3: on your toes. But I played clubs like the English
Speaker 3: Social Room in Lawrence and Paula's Lounge and Peabody and
Speaker 3: the Firebarn and Chelsea and these are all these were
Speaker 3: all mobbed.
Speaker 2: Up clubs and so so I assume they're all out
Speaker 2: of business at.
Speaker 3: This point, I hope. So what I just said was
Speaker 3: an an imprudent thing to do. Yeah, I figure all
Speaker 3: out of this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I understand that. And that would have been
Speaker 2: what seventies, eighties, what's the timeframe on.
Speaker 3: The That would have started actually in the sixties, in
Speaker 3: the mid I started working in the mid sixties and
Speaker 3: I stopped playing in nineteen seventy nine. I was doing
Speaker 3: a regular gig at a club in Boston called Lulu's
Speaker 3: Lulu Whites.
Speaker 2: Yeah, heard of that.
Speaker 3: Great.
Speaker 2: So then how'd you get how'd you get into boxing?
Speaker 2: Because I've got a couple of minutes left and I
Speaker 2: want to touch upon your book about Mitch Blood Green.
Speaker 2: I mean, he was he's a heavyweight contender.
Speaker 3: He was a heavyweight contender, very interesting guy. You know,
Speaker 3: he fought Mike Tyson. He's the first person to go
Speaker 3: the distance with Tyson without being off as his feet,
Speaker 3: and he was. He was a very very complex guy.
Speaker 3: He was a gang leader as a kid, and a
Speaker 3: very tough guy and a weirdly principled guy where at
Speaker 3: one point, in a really roundabout way, I was offered
Speaker 3: a million dollars for him to fight Mike Tyson again,
Speaker 3: and he wouldn't take the fight. I couldn't convince him
Speaker 3: to take the fight because.
Speaker 2: Because he was afraid, not because he was afraid.
Speaker 3: I saw him.
Speaker 2: Was a principal guy. Yeah.
Speaker 3: He The question he asked me is how much is
Speaker 3: Mike making? And I said, well, you know, I said
Speaker 3: the thing that the thing you should say, which is
Speaker 3: I don't know. And he more than more than me,
Speaker 3: well a little more than you know. Of course, heisen
Speaker 3: was making about twenty four million dollars. But there was
Speaker 3: nothing I could do to induce Mitch Green to take
Speaker 3: that fight because, as he put it, he didn't want
Speaker 3: to do anything to build up Tyson's reputation.
Speaker 2: Interesting. Interesting, Okay, let's is Mitch Green still alive?
Speaker 3: Mits Green is coming to the book signing on excellent?
Speaker 2: Well, that's what I thought. I wanted to make sure
Speaker 2: of that. So the book signing gets us exactly where
Speaker 2: we want to be. We're at the finish line here.
Speaker 2: The book signing is in Brookline at the Brookline booksmith
Speaker 2: When is that?
Speaker 3: That was on March thirtieth at seven pm.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well that's the one we want people to mark
Speaker 2: on their calendar. They can come meet you, buy a book,
Speaker 2: I assume, get an autographed by you and maybe Mitch Green,
Speaker 2: and that would be That would be the sort of
Speaker 2: thing I would be really interested in, to be honest
Speaker 2: with you, because that's a fascinating aspect of your life
Speaker 2: that I want to learn more about. Charles. I really
Speaker 2: appreciate you taking the time. We talked about the musical background,
Speaker 2: and we touched stone working with the Mob, But I
Speaker 2: think that's as far as we're going to go on
Speaker 2: that one. Okay, at least for tonight's Thanks Charles.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks so much. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 2: My pleasure, my pleasure, Thank you very much. Charles Farrell
Speaker 2: at the Brookline Booksmith coming soon. Check it out. Should
Speaker 2: be fun. When we come back, we're going to go
Speaker 2: from boxing and mob activity and classic piano. We're going
Speaker 2: to talk about the second annual Postcard Show coming up
Speaker 2: this weekend at the Spell Museum of Stamps and Postal History,
Speaker 2: and we'll be talking with Kathy Albert. She's the founder
Speaker 2: of the New England Postcard Club. Right after this. By
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Speaker 2: We have had my next guest, Kathy Albert, on a
Speaker 2: couple of times here on Nightside, and we generally do
Speaker 2: it around their annual Postcard Show, which is this Sunday,
Speaker 2: March ninth, out at the Spellman Museum of Stamps and
Speaker 2: Postal History, which is a beautiful facility on the campus
Speaker 2: of Regis College, which I think is technically in Weston. Kathy,
Speaker 2: welcome back to Nightside.
Speaker 4: Well, thanks for having me. Dan, great to be here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're going to talk a little bit about postcards.
Speaker 2: I was intrigued by this about a year or so
Speaker 2: when we first met one another. I actually went out
Speaker 2: there and met you. There's a lot of people here
Speaker 2: in New England who love collecting and trading and I
Speaker 2: guess in some cases selling or buying postcards. I never
Speaker 2: realized the extent of the interest in this hobby.
Speaker 4: It's pretty wide ranging. So many different kinds of people
Speaker 4: collect postcards and for so many different reasons. When I
Speaker 4: started collecting them, they were just because they were beautiful
Speaker 4: or unusual. But over the years I discovered they have
Speaker 4: historic values, and that's why I'm interested in them now.
Speaker 4: But there are plenty of people that just like to
Speaker 4: collect pictures of their high school or the main street
Speaker 4: home down when they were growing up, or they're interested
Speaker 4: in ships or classic cars, or you know, certain type
Speaker 4: of animals that they care about.
Speaker 2: You know. Well, well, postcards are a relatively you know phenomenon.
Speaker 2: I mean, they haven't been around since a twelve hundred.
Speaker 2: They sort of arrived sometime, if I recall correctly, sometime
Speaker 2: in the late eighteen eighties. Is that when they sort
Speaker 2: of began to bubble up in different places.
Speaker 4: Yes, in Europe they did, but in the United States,
Speaker 4: it wasn't possible to send a postcard with a picture
Speaker 4: on the back of it through the mail until nineteen
Speaker 4: oh one. And at that point you could take the
Speaker 4: penny postcard. It all post It only cost a penny.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I remember. I think there wasn't much more
Speaker 2: than that when I was a kid, which was well
Speaker 2: after nineteen oh one. I mean, what, you're still there, Kathy,
Speaker 2: I'm here, good, okay. So my question to you is,
Speaker 2: we're baby boomers. I think we would both agree. So
Speaker 2: when we were kids, what it cost two cents to
Speaker 2: mail a postcard?
Speaker 4: I remember those purple stamps. I think they were two
Speaker 4: or three cents. Yeah, a long time ago.
Speaker 2: And so some people have kept postcards, some people had
Speaker 2: discarded them. Is there a financial aspect to postcards like
Speaker 2: there are to your baseball card collection? Or is more?
Speaker 2: Is postcards almost more of a pure hobby in that? Yeah,
Speaker 2: there may be some value to postcards, but it's much
Speaker 2: more the intrinsic value the photograph of the town where
Speaker 2: you grew up or the high school that you graduated from,
Speaker 2: which is long now been knocked down. Tell us it's
Speaker 2: the intrinsic It's not like they're trading postcards for one
Speaker 2: thousand dollars apiece.
Speaker 4: Right, Well, there are postcards that have a lot of value.
Speaker 4: You could find a postcard. In fact, I found a
Speaker 4: Christmas Chris postcard that Roddy McDowell went to Patrician Neil
Speaker 4: and her husband her name, he was anyway, somebody famous,
Speaker 4: and it was a very cute card, had a picture
Speaker 4: of him with a rabbit on the back. And that
Speaker 4: that's got to be worth money. I mean, anything that
Speaker 4: had How did you.
Speaker 2: Come across a postcard that Ruddy McDowell had sent to
Speaker 2: Patrician Neil and her husband, I mean, was that they
Speaker 2: must have someone's estate, must have been sold or so
Speaker 2: about how is that postcard that's a real personal postcard.
Speaker 4: I went to postcard Stars in New York City, and
Speaker 4: New York City you tend to find a lot more
Speaker 4: really wild stuff like that, because you know, people send
Speaker 4: that they lived there, and they sent postcards back and forth.
Speaker 4: And yeah, I mean I found a postcard that was
Speaker 4: sent by Paul McCarty to a Ringo Start. Not that
Speaker 4: I didn't find the actual postcard, but I found a
Speaker 4: scan of it online. So famous people were sending each
Speaker 4: other postcards. It's a matter of signing them.
Speaker 2: Okay, So let's assume you had the Paul McCartney to
Speaker 2: Ringo Star a postcard. Realistically, if you had it physically
Speaker 2: in your hand, what do you think that would be worth?
Speaker 2: That would be worth quite a bit.
Speaker 4: Of money, I would ask. Julian's Auction, which is an
Speaker 4: auction house on LA that handles all kind of celebrity
Speaker 4: related items. I don't know, but I do think the
Speaker 4: other thing that's worth a lot of money. Is if
Speaker 4: you had, say something by Alphonse Muka or Apasso or
Speaker 4: some famous artist the loose Wook Trek. If you found
Speaker 4: they've all done postcards. If you could find one of
Speaker 4: their postcards, that would probably be worth a lot of money.
Speaker 2: I mean the postcards that they would have sent to someone,
Speaker 2: or postcards on which was an art, a piece of
Speaker 2: art that they created that was replicated on the postcard.
Speaker 4: That's correct.
Speaker 2: Yes, let okay, I would bet you the And I
Speaker 2: know nothing about the value postcards, but I would bet
Speaker 2: you that if there really is the postcard, if you
Speaker 2: had the postcard, I would bet you a McCarthy Paul
Speaker 2: McCartney to Ringo Starr postcard. I mean, not knowing at
Speaker 2: all what was on it or what was involved in it.
Speaker 2: If it was, hey, we're going to meet for you know,
Speaker 2: you know, a rehearsal next Saturday. Be there, that that
Speaker 2: postcard would be worth I'm guessing fifty sixty eighty one
Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars. How do you quantify the value of that.
Speaker 4: That would be the message on that postcard, like you
Speaker 4: are the greatest drummer in the world. That was the
Speaker 4: message on the postcard.
Speaker 2: Well guess what, then the price just went up Because
Speaker 2: if you got Paul McCartney call him Ringo Star, the
Speaker 2: greatest rummer in the world, on a postcard, it's authenticated
Speaker 2: and all of that. I think it's priceless in many respects. Okay,
Speaker 2: let's talk about let us talk real quickly. You have
Speaker 2: a club meeting on Wednesday. Tell us where that is?
Speaker 2: If is that open to the public or no? Is
Speaker 2: that your your leadership meeting?
Speaker 4: That has nothing to do with the postcard show. That
Speaker 4: is the West End Museum has invited me to give
Speaker 4: a presentation on postcards of the West End, you know
Speaker 4: before it was demolished.
Speaker 2: I have a lot of sore where you're giving. That's
Speaker 2: a March fifth at six o'clock? Where is it? Because
Speaker 2: I want to get that in and I then want
Speaker 2: to plug the event on Sunday. Where's the March fifth? Uh,
Speaker 2: you know meeting in the in the west End or whereabouts.
Speaker 4: That's o'clock on at the West End Museum at one
Speaker 4: fifty Stanford Street.
Speaker 2: Stanford, Yep, standffd's a good size street, very well easy
Speaker 2: to find. And then the event on Sunday, which again
Speaker 2: is out at the Spellman Museum of Stamps and Postal History.
Speaker 2: Lot of parking, easy to get to, right off of
Speaker 2: one eight on the campus of Regis College. Tell us
Speaker 2: exactly where that that? What time is that on Sunday?
Speaker 4: Up to ten o'clock and we've got we've got nineteen
Speaker 4: postcard dealers coming from every New England state and New York.
Speaker 2: Weld on with Cathy, hold up once again, how much time?
Speaker 2: Rob Okay, perfect, We got less than a minute left.
Speaker 2: You go right ahead.
Speaker 4: Just really it's really exciting and fun, and come in
Speaker 4: and bring your postcards. If you have postcards you have
Speaker 4: questions about, You'll be happy to answer them. We're just
Speaker 4: really excited to bring postcards into the limelight where they
Speaker 4: belong like they were in the Golden Asia postcards one
Speaker 4: hundred years ago.
Speaker 2: Okay, Now, in case they missed that, I mentioned again,
Speaker 2: what time is it on Sunday?
Speaker 4: It starts at ten and it goes until three o'clock.
Speaker 2: Okay, ten to three at the Spellman Museum, the Spellman
Speaker 2: Museum on the campus of Reaches College, and they can
Speaker 2: get that information. Do you have a website we can
Speaker 2: mention real quickly.
Speaker 4: We have a Facebook page. The New England Postcard Club
Speaker 4: has its own Facebook group.
Speaker 2: Now, okay, Kathy, that's it because we got to get
Speaker 2: a CBS special news special worker. You're very welcome, Kathy.
Speaker 2: Have fun on Sunday and good luck on Wednesday. Here
Speaker 2: comes a special CBS News report.
Speaker 1: Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2: Will let anyone who's been to a store lately knows
Speaker 2: that the price of eggs are on the They're kind
Speaker 2: of going through the roof in some places. They're pretty expenser.
Speaker 2: Around here with us is Brian Templeton. Brian is an
Speaker 2: actual farmer and co owner of Templeton Family or Gaunt Organics. Brian,
Speaker 2: Welcome to Nightside. How are you.
Speaker 5: I'm doing just great, Thanks for having me welcome.
Speaker 2: You have a program called Rent a Chicken program or
Speaker 2: Rent the Chicken program. How I think I got an
Speaker 2: idea what this is, but I want to know when
Speaker 2: did you start this program? How long ago?
Speaker 5: Well, first of all, I have to clarify, it's definitely
Speaker 5: rent the chicken.
Speaker 2: Rent the chicken. Okay, well, thank you very much. Rent
Speaker 2: the chicken. What's the difference between rent the chicken or
Speaker 2: rent the chicken?
Speaker 5: Well, I don't know what rented chicken is, but rent
Speaker 5: the Chicken dot Com is where you want to go
Speaker 5: if you want to rent birds from us.
Speaker 2: Okay, well that's fine. I always like to be accurate,
Speaker 2: that's for sure. But you're renting the chicken. How do
Speaker 2: you rent the chicken? Bryan?
Speaker 5: So we started off in twenty sixteen. We got a
Speaker 5: little farm up here in gost Town, New Hampshire, and
Speaker 5: basically how it works is we have a small coop.
Speaker 5: It's kind of shaped like a barn, and you can
Speaker 5: rent it with either two or four chickens in it.
Speaker 5: I throw my coops up on a flatbed truck and
Speaker 5: I drive around in the spring and I drop off
Speaker 5: the coops. We fried enough to last from say, early
Speaker 5: May to late October, and I drop off the birds
Speaker 5: the coop, the feeds, some little treats and some other
Speaker 5: little things that go along with it. And people just
Speaker 5: enjoy having the experience of having chickens in their backyard.
Speaker 5: And of course, yeah, you get some eggs with a bonus.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So let me ask you this. What I assumed
Speaker 2: that that if somebody wanted you you could rent. Is
Speaker 2: it a minimum of four or is it? What was
Speaker 2: the number of chickens you could.
Speaker 5: Rent it was either two or four.
Speaker 2: Okay, that way that chickens have some companionship.
Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, you are going to have at least two.
Speaker 2: Yeah, gotcha. Now do you have to make sure when
Speaker 2: you drop your chickens off? And I'm gonna ask some
Speaker 2: dumb questions here, but I get paid money to ask
Speaker 2: dumb questions, so, you know, just like you get paid
Speaker 2: money to rent the chickens. My question is, do you
Speaker 2: give these people some instructions as to how to care
Speaker 2: for the chickens to make sure that they're not let
Speaker 2: out in the hot sun all day or or or
Speaker 2: let out in circumstances where they could be endangered. I hope.
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, I mean there's a video that they watch
Speaker 5: and they're very and uh and we we informed them
Speaker 5: very well. But you know, the truth of the matter
Speaker 5: is is that the hot sun doesn't really bother them,
Speaker 5: but they can go inside the coops and you know,
Speaker 5: as far as you know them being in danger, well,
Speaker 5: you know, nature is nature, so we don't. We haven't
Speaker 5: had too many experiences where people's birds have been killed
Speaker 5: by predators. But yeah, what do you really I can
Speaker 5: do about.
Speaker 2: You know, understand, do you have to have your yard
Speaker 2: or I assume that that you have to have an
Speaker 2: outdoor space. You can't have a condominium and rent chickens,
Speaker 2: I assume, right, Yeah, I haven't.
Speaker 5: I don't think I've dropped off any car.
Speaker 2: But yeah, okay, not just make it clear because I
Speaker 2: don't want you to end up getting you know, a
Speaker 2: call tomorrow. So you need it outdoor space though, correct?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Yeah, I mean a good sized yard and preferly
Speaker 5: fenced in is great. But I mean we've had people
Speaker 5: right inside the U in the city, you know, get up.
Speaker 2: Okay, but do they have to have being in a
Speaker 2: fenced enclosure? I assumed the coup is like a wooden
Speaker 2: house or or or described when you say you're gonna
Speaker 2: have a coop for them. Most of us may our
Speaker 2: city slickers, We might not know exactly what that entails. Brian.
Speaker 2: So is it like a little wooden house for the chickens.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's actually shaped like a barn, and it actually
Speaker 5: has wheels on one end so you can lift it
Speaker 5: and roll it around.
Speaker 2: Gotcha.
Speaker 5: Okay, but does.
Speaker 2: The does the yard or where? But you know, wherever
Speaker 2: you live, whether you live in a you know, in
Speaker 2: a more urban area or more rural area. Does does
Speaker 2: your airutside area have to be enclosed at least so
Speaker 2: that it makes it challenging for a predator to come in?
Speaker 5: No, it doesn't have to be enclosed. I mean the birds.
Speaker 5: The birds are pretty well tuned into their surroundings and
Speaker 5: they can always get right back into the coop. So
Speaker 5: if they do sense danger, they tend to run right
Speaker 5: back in there.
Speaker 2: And so can the predator not get in the coop?
Speaker 2: Is that the deal? I mean.
Speaker 5: Pretty much they can't get in?
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, fair enough, Okay, I'm concerned about you know,
Speaker 2: animals of all sorts. And then why May to October?
Speaker 2: Is that the period of time that the birds can
Speaker 2: be outdoors here in New England, you know, without being
Speaker 2: you know, sheltered in a big barn. Or is that
Speaker 2: the time of year when they are most productive in
Speaker 2: laying eggs?
Speaker 5: Well, they are more productive when there's more sunlight. But
Speaker 5: the idea of the time period is just you know,
Speaker 5: to get to get the birds the people, you know,
Speaker 5: once things dot, you know, the snow melts and things
Speaker 5: dry up, and then we come and get them before
Speaker 5: things you know get too cold. And you know, we
Speaker 5: people don't want to have to deal with wintering the birds,
Speaker 5: which is one of the reasons why they rent them.
Speaker 2: So so I want to give you a chance here
Speaker 2: to give it a good plug. I think it would
Speaker 2: be really interesting for a lot of people, not only
Speaker 2: in terms of eggs, but also in terms of teaching kids,
Speaker 2: particularly kids who might be either living in the cities
Speaker 2: or in the sub in the suburbs, a little bit
Speaker 2: about you know, farm life. How expensive is to rent
Speaker 2: the chickens in how many let's say you have two
Speaker 2: or four chickens, how many eggs do they produce on
Speaker 2: a daily basis? You might be able to split the
Speaker 2: cost with the neighbors. What I'm trying to get at here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so for two birds, it's five hundred and ninety
Speaker 5: five dollars and for four it's seven thirty five.
Speaker 2: So that's for the entire for the entire time from
Speaker 2: May to October. That's that's yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And you know a bird should you know, technically
Speaker 5: a chicken should lay one egg a day, so you know,
Speaker 5: if you have two chickens, then you should be getting
Speaker 5: about a dozen eggs a week.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, So if you you could cut it down
Speaker 2: if you split it with a neighbor, you know, instead
Speaker 2: of being each you know, five in the five hundred
Speaker 2: or so range. Okay, I just don't want people calling
Speaker 2: you figuring that you're gonna go to all of this
Speaker 2: trouble and drop drop something off for forty nine dollars
Speaker 2: and ninety five cents. I mean, this sounds like a
Speaker 2: great project. You've done this? Now, how many years? Brian?
Speaker 2: I think you started to tell me and I interrupted you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we started in twenty sixteen, so you know about
Speaker 5: nine years. This would be our ninth season.
Speaker 2: Okay, And have you noticed a real uptick this year
Speaker 2: because of the the cost of eggs?
Speaker 5: Yes, I think I think sales are up a little
Speaker 5: bit it, but I want to clarify. You know the
Speaker 5: main reason why people do this renting is because they
Speaker 5: want to have the experience of backyard chickens. You know,
Speaker 5: the eggs are a nice bonus in the deal. But
Speaker 5: you know, if you do the math, it's you know,
Speaker 5: you wouldn't want to be doing this just for the
Speaker 5: egg I.
Speaker 2: Get it, No, I get it, but but you know
Speaker 2: who knows where this this avian flu thing is going
Speaker 2: to go? You could be in a situation where you know,
Speaker 2: if you got any worse, you could have not only
Speaker 2: just an increases and prices, you could have shortages. So
Speaker 2: and then the last question, Brian, real quickly, is how
Speaker 2: far do you go geographically from from Templeton, New Hampshire
Speaker 2: or excuse me not Templeton, New Hampshire. That's your last name,
Speaker 2: from Templeton Family Organics in New Hampshire.
Speaker 5: Well, well, we pretty much cover all of New England.
Speaker 5: I mean we've we've delivered coopster, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont.
Speaker 2: Yeah good, I mean we.
Speaker 5: Next service fee outside of a certain mile limit.
Speaker 2: Okay, give me your website so people can get in
Speaker 2: touch with you.
Speaker 5: So we're at real Food NH dot com. That's that's
Speaker 5: our farm.
Speaker 2: Great, that's easy, realfood dot com.
Speaker 5: Yes, but to order the coops, you want to go
Speaker 5: to Rent the Chicken dot com.
Speaker 2: All right, we got you covered. Rent the Chicken dot com.
Speaker 2: We understand why it's important. That's Rent the Chicken dot com.
Speaker 2: Frian appreciate it very much. Thanks very much for your
Speaker 2: conversation tonight, and I wish you best of luck and
Speaker 2: all the success in the world.
Speaker 5: Well, thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Dan, all right, thanks again, appreciate it. We will be
Speaker 2: back on Nightside with our fourth and final guest of
Speaker 2: the hour this evening. Stay with us. My name is
Speaker 2: Dan Ray. This is Nightside. Rob Brooks is lining that
Speaker 2: fourth guest up right now.
Speaker 1: Now Bet to Day live from the Window World Nice
Speaker 1: Sight Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: Well as occasionally happens, unfortunately, unfortunately, our guest for the
Speaker 2: fourth and final segment tonight is not responding to his phone,
Speaker 2: and that guest will never be heard here on Night's
Speaker 2: Side either tonight or We don't do makeups, so if
Speaker 2: that particular guest, it's it's just amazing. Marina does such
Speaker 2: a great job with these lining up these eight o'clock guests,
Speaker 2: and every once in a while, you know, maybe every
Speaker 2: month or so, we lose a guest. And what happens
Speaker 2: is that we were going to talk about I'm not
Speaker 2: even going to tell you who the person was, because
Speaker 2: at this point they're dead to me. They're going to
Speaker 2: talk about the a thirteen thousand dollars ambulance bill and
Speaker 2: the raising the question of why and how why does
Speaker 2: emergency transport cost so much? This was a story about
Speaker 2: a guy, I guess who was a runner in San
Speaker 2: Francisco and he got hit by car, wasn't badly injured,
Speaker 2: but sprained an ankle and had a potential concussion. So
Speaker 2: an ambulance was dispatched and he was picked up, and
Speaker 2: when all the medical bills were finalized, it was a
Speaker 2: six mile ambulance ride, which he could have taken in
Speaker 2: a cab or in an uber if he had the
Speaker 2: wherewithal to call. But I'd like all of you right now,
Speaker 2: for the fun of it, guess what the cost of
Speaker 2: the ambulance ride was. Now, give you about ten seconds,
Speaker 2: get a figure in your own mind, and I'm sure
Speaker 2: some of you are saying five hundred dollars, thousand dollars,
Speaker 2: thirteen thousand dollars, ladies and gentlemen, thirteen thousand dollars for
Speaker 2: an ambulance ride. Now, this is not someone who has
Speaker 2: been you know, run over by a truck and has
Speaker 2: and there happens to be an ambulance there, and the
Speaker 2: ambulance takes that person to the hospital and somehow their
Speaker 2: life is saved. They would have bled out on the street. Now,
Speaker 2: this is a guy who you know, a typical accident
Speaker 2: that sadly occurs in every American city, probably several times
Speaker 2: a week, where some driver or some pedestrian or runner
Speaker 2: or whatever is not paying attention and boom, you all
Speaker 2: of a sudden have a person down, and someone calls
Speaker 2: nine to one one and they they summon an ambulance.
Speaker 2: And I guess the ambulance got there and fairly, you know,
Speaker 2: decent time. But I suspect that, and I'm not able
Speaker 2: with the guest here to discuss it. I suspect that
Speaker 2: the ambulance was not a block away, and by time
Speaker 2: the ambulance got there, the person probably physically would have
Speaker 2: hailed an uber or a taxi and got into the
Speaker 2: emergency room. Now again, fine, ambulance is there, and you're
Speaker 2: put on a stretcher and you're rolled into the back
Speaker 2: of the ambulance, and there's people who are already monitoring
Speaker 2: your your size. Now and again, this guy's got a
Speaker 2: sprained ankle, potential concussion. Thirteen thousand dollars for the ambulance ride. Now,
Speaker 2: I know that some of you are going to say, well,
Speaker 2: you know, the ambulances maybe on any given day only
Speaker 2: do a couple of rides, and they have a couple
Speaker 2: of rides thirteenth, that's twenty six thousand dollars. You talk
Speaker 2: about the level of cost that all of us are
Speaker 2: paying for medical bills, and we will be doing more
Speaker 2: on this in the days ahead, and how much of
Speaker 2: our money is spent on medical bills. And at the
Speaker 2: same time, while we're paying more and more for money,
Speaker 2: more and more doctors are retiring, particularly personal care doctors
Speaker 2: because they you know PCP primary care physicians or personal
Speaker 2: care physician, whatever you want to call it. They are
Speaker 2: on the rung of physicians at the bottom of the
Speaker 2: pay levels. They're on the first or second run and
Speaker 2: the way for doctors to be remunerated appropriately, and I
Speaker 2: think that doctors should because of the amount there's not
Speaker 2: a knock on doctors, because of the amount of work
Speaker 2: that they do to prepare themselves academically, not only while
Speaker 2: they're in high school. They take all those AP courses,
Speaker 2: the AP biology and all of that. Then they go
Speaker 2: off to college and they have to successfully take organic
Speaker 2: tech chemistry. That's where they say they really do to
Speaker 2: figure out who's the potential to become a doctor. Then
Speaker 2: they have to graduate college, have to get into some
Speaker 2: of the best medical schools, the most competitive medical schools
Speaker 2: in the country. Some of the doctors actually go offshore
Speaker 2: to medical schools in foreign countries, and several of those
Speaker 2: medical schools, which are really good medical schools, by the way,
Speaker 2: in the Caribbean, we're American doctors trained. Because there just
Speaker 2: are not enough seats in medical schools in America, which
Speaker 2: we will talk about more, and you will hear that
Speaker 2: as a theme on this program. That has to change.
Speaker 2: But it's a system whereby ambulance companies are doing really well.
Speaker 2: You know. I think many of them are privately owned.
Speaker 2: I want to do some more research on this, but
Speaker 2: I think a lot of those ambulance companies are able
Speaker 2: to charge exhorbited rates, exorbited rates such as this rate
Speaker 2: of thirteen thousand dollars in San Francisco for a guy
Speaker 2: who was out I believe jogging. I think that the
Speaker 2: facts of the story were the he was jogging and
Speaker 2: he was hit by a thirteen thousand dollars ambulance bill,
Speaker 2: which just seems to be totally out of the question.
Speaker 2: I'm looking at the piece actually here, which was out
Speaker 2: of a health news magazine, and it's a young July
Speaker 2: at twenty twenty three, hit by a car across the
Speaker 2: busy street in San Francisco. He did a flip over
Speaker 2: the vehicle and landing in the street before getting himself
Speaker 2: to the curb on lockers called an ambulance, but written
Speaker 2: instead had friends pick him up and take him to
Speaker 2: a nearby hospital. I knew the ambulances were expensive. Well,
Speaker 2: this guy was not the one who paid the thirteen
Speaker 2: thousand dollars. But the fact of the matter is at
Speaker 2: the hospital, doctors performed a thorough work up, including a
Speaker 2: cat skin, an X rays, an advisement of followup with
Speaker 2: his primary care physician and an orthopedic doctor. He was
Speaker 2: evaluated at second hospital, released without additional treatment. The final
Speaker 2: bill was thirteen thousand dollars. Crazy. I guess as I
Speaker 2: look at this story, I guess that because they called
Speaker 2: the ambulance, even though he didn't take any ambulance, he
Speaker 2: ended up being built for the ambulance. Crazy, just crazy. Anyway,
Speaker 2: we will do more on that. I apologize that our
Speaker 2: fourth and final guest was not available. When we come back,
Speaker 2: we're going to talk with a young woman, a Harvard
Speaker 2: graduate who's a conservative. I think she will admit to
Speaker 2: that she is also a member of the Boston Globe
Speaker 2: Editorial Board, and she is I think a journalistic superstar
Speaker 2: in the making. We'll be talking with Kareem Hajar after
Speaker 2: the break here on Nightside. Here comes to nine o'clock News.