October 1, 2025 • 37 mins
We kick off the program with four news stories and different guests on the stories we think you need to know about!
Uncle John’s Know It All Bathroom Reader is back with its 38th annual edition! A collection of short articles for trips to the “Throne Room”.
Guest: Brian Boone – One of the writers/contributors – spokesperson for the Uncle John’s series.
Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) cases are expected to rise — posing serious risks to infants whose immune systems are still developing. Guidance and practical tips for protecting infants as well as yourself from RSV this season.
Guest: Dr. Juanita Mora - immunologist with the American Lung Association
While we are in the World Series playoffs, we check back in with baseball author Jeff Rodimer about Memorable and Offbeat World Series Stories
Guest: Jeff Rodimer – Author
National Menopause for All Educational Program Comes to Boston – A free event open to the public about a medical transition that happens to all women at some point in their lives. Guest: Claire Gill - CEO/Founder of the National Menopause Foundation (NMF)
Uncle John’s Know It All Bathroom Reader is back with its 38th annual edition! A collection of short articles for trips to the “Throne Room”.
Guest: Brian Boone – One of the writers/contributors – spokesperson for the Uncle John’s series.
Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) cases are expected to rise — posing serious risks to infants whose immune systems are still developing. Guidance and practical tips for protecting infants as well as yourself from RSV this season.
Guest: Dr. Juanita Mora - immunologist with the American Lung Association
While we are in the World Series playoffs, we check back in with baseball author Jeff Rodimer about Memorable and Offbeat World Series Stories
Guest: Jeff Rodimer – Author
National Menopause for All Educational Program Comes to Boston – A free event open to the public about a medical transition that happens to all women at some point in their lives. Guest: Claire Gill - CEO/Founder of the National Menopause Foundation (NMF)
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
I'm going razy Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
We will definitely have a good night here on Nightside.
My name is Dan Ray, I'm the host, and it's
a particularly good night for us because tonight I start
our nineteenth year, nineteen years as the Knightside with Dan Ray.
Rob Brooks has been alongside for I'm guessing at least
probably fourteen or fifteen of those years. Rob and Marita
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relative newcomers, probably only five or six years, but we
and many of you have been with us from day one.
So first of all, thank all, I thank all of
you for your great loyalty to this program. And again
tonight we have great topics, we have some great guests
and ad callers, stir and mix's. That's the formula on
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nights Side. It's sort of pretty simple and it has
worked for eighteen years and we start now year nineteen.
So congratulations to all, my thanks to all of you,
and let us begin a new as. We have four
guests this hour, and we're going to start off on
a bit of a lighter note, going to talk with
Brian Boom. He is one of the writers and contributors
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and he's also a spokesperson for Uncle John's Know It
All Bathroom Reader, thirty eighth annual edition, a collection of
short articles for trips to the bathroom. Brian Boone, how
are you.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
I'm great.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Thanks for having me on. It's a thrill to be
on your anniversary ship.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yeah, you start off the ninety year. Whatever you do,
don't mess it up. So tell us about I have
never seen a copy of Uncle John's Know It All
Bathroom Reader, but I can figure out what it's all about.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
I think, sure, sure, absolutely. Well, you know, we've been
kicking a long time, and we tell us to know
it All bathroom raders this year because I think every
note it all in his life? Who just knows all
those fun facts and quirky little facts like Cliff Clayvin
on cheers. I think they're getting them all from our books,
because we've been going for a long time and just
pumping out these big, thick books full of fun facts
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and interesting stories.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
So the Bathroom Reader, I like to say that I
know a lot about a lot of things. I'm sort
of a jack of all trades, master of none, but
I feel like on certain things I have a compendium
of knowledge, useless information give us. Give us some of
the items that someone might find in this year's edition
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of The Bathroom Reader, or if you want to give
us something that someone might find in last year's edition
of The Bathroom Reader.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Well, well, you know, we like to have a little
something for everyone. You figured you can open it up
and find foot any random page and you'll you'll find
something that interests you, whether it's history, science, sports, trivia,
fun facts, movie TV. We have a little thing in
here about how certain cities in the US were almost
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named something else. Portland, Oregon, was actually almost named Boston
when they settled it after establishing the Oregon Trail, they
cleared out a six hundred and forty acre piece of land.
They got rid of all the valuable timber, and founders
Asa Lovejoy and Franchis Peddi Grove called it the clearing.
But what I wanted to call it a city? They
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flipped a coin. Lovejoy was from Boston and so he
wanted to name it Boston, and Peddy Grove was from Portland, Maine,
and he wanted to name it after hinis hometown. So
had Asa won the coin, post, we've had a west
coast Boston.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Well that's good. That's good to know, because I've often
wondered that Portland, what's the derivation? Yeah, give me a
sports one because I love sports. Maybe i'll know it.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Oh okay, let's see, well we've got I'm sorry you
have you? Have you known that mud wrestling goes back
to ancient times?
Speaker 1 (04:05):
It doesn't surprise me, but I did not know that.
I mean, look, the folks back in the ancient times
they did not have ESPN, they did not have television,
and they had to do something with their time.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
You would you would think that mud wrestling would be recent,
you know, like you said, to fill time on ESTN
when that before they had any other good sports. But no,
they expect to twenty five hundred DC. The Greek, the
ancient Greeks called it palais and then they called it Kushti,
which means Theoic sport. And it kind of spread throughout
the ancient world, and it was especially popular in India,
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Pakistan and Arad where it's still quite popular. And it
didn't take off in America until nineteen thirty eight in Akron, Ohio.
And that was when they had had women do it,
So that was the that was literally.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Oh yeah, yeah, I do understand. I can. I can
figure it out. Okay, give me a couple more. I
don't want to put you in the spot with categories.
Give me, give me a couple of more. Maybe that
that people, those are two good ones. Give us, give
us a couple more, and then we'll let folks know
how they can get a copy of the dis year's edition.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Sure, well, we have a page about Antarctica slang. I
love subcultures, and every subculture has its own, its own language,
its own slang, terms of vernacula. Even an antarcticat where
it's the most remote part of the world and nobody
really stays there.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
For most it's mostly penguins.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Right, it's mostly penguins. Yeah, but they they leave, they
leave things called turnstickles on the ground. That's that's antarctica
slang for frozen animal.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Dum oh.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
If you get sunburned down there, which is a distinct
possibility with all that that ice glaring back, that chair,
that's called that's called bronze e. It is a seal,
a whale is a is called the wolf of the sea.
And then young ice because they have a lot of
different words for ice. The thin ice at six less
than six inches thick. They call that young ice. So
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we're interesting stuff in here.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Well, I don't know that I'll never get to Antarctica,
but that that might come in handy. And let's have
a couple more and then we'll give you a chance
to plug this edition.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Sure. The thing that strikes to me is I found
out that there was a cable news channel before CNN.
CNN has always tittered as the first cable channel that
was news all the time, But two years before they
were united, Press International came out with a channel called
UPI news Time in nineteen seventy eight, and they would
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just pan across black and white photos of like of
news photos, and then they would just play the radio
news feed and they'd just repeat it every fifteen minutes,
and then every four hours they'd get a new chunk
of news.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
But I'm stun I'm stunned that that wasn't smashing. I'm
stunned that that wasn't a smashing success. I'm sure there
were some consultants who told them this, this is going
to work. It got this. Most of the consultants who
worked with worked when I was working in television for
three decades. They always had great ideas and it they
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very rarely worked. One more final one, that's an interesting one.
I did not know that. That's and I should have.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Well, we got we We covered WBZ in this book.
One of your colleagues there called out a dog DNA
testing company. This isn't our article on weird Canada. A
Canadian company called DNA My Dog offered two hundred dollars
and they would tell you what breed your dog was.
So what of your colleagues there at WBZ took a
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swab of her own cheek, paid the fee, and then
they sent it to three different Canadian animal genetic testing firms,
and DNA my Dog determined that this human woman who
was forty percent Alaskan mal mute, thirty five percent sharpey,
and twenty five percent laboratory.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Well, those are nice dogs. What was that's name? Because
I probably worked with that reporter I was there for
a long time.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Christina Hager, Oh.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Yeah, absolutely. Christina is now working in public relations. Her
dad was Bob Hagar, who for many many years was
a reporter for CBS News based in Washington. Yeah, she
has great had great reportorial and journalistic genes. This was
a lot of fun. Let's give a website that people
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can get to. And I'm sure this is a wonderful
birth a birthday present, Father's Day gift, I don't really
want to give this. Well, maybe a Mother's Day gift
as well. Apso all it is twenty twenty five. How
do they how do they get a fit an official
copy of the book?
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Anybody, anybody who likes this book, anybody who likes trevia.
It's a great gift. We're at portablepress dot com and
you can find all of our back catalog there portablepress
dot com. You can buy the new book there, or
you can link out to get it at any number
of retailers, or you can find it in your local
bookstore under the trivia or a humor section.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Well, I tell you, Brian, I talked to a lot
of folks who were giving us information about a product
or a book or whatever. But you did a great job.
They should give you a raise at Uncle John's Know
it All Bathroom Reader because your passion was evident and
it's going to convince a lot of people. I'm sure
to spend a few dollars and have one handy because
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those that that's great stuff. Brian, I thank you for
much so much. You were a really fine guest and
I talked to twenty guests in this eight o'clock hour
every week, four night, five nights a week. You did
a great job. Thanks, thanks, thanks much, you bet you.
Maybe we'll have you on later some night this fall,
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and maybe what we could do is run some of
these stories by people and they could call and we
could have it. We'll come up with something. We'll do
something more with you hard. You're too good not to
utilize in one of our full hours with call.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Okay, thanks Brian, anytime, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
You bet you. We're going to talk about a respiratory
disease that is posing serious risks to infants whose immune
systems are still still developing. Guidance and practical tips for
protecting infants as well as yourself from RSV. This season,
we'll talk with doctor Winita Moore. She's an immunologist with
the American Lung Association. You're on Nightside with Dan Ray
(10:28):
on WBZ Boston's news radio. All right, I am delighted
to welcome excuse me, doctor Wineda Moore. She's an immunologist
at the American Lung Association, and we're going to talk
about respiratory sinsidio virus. I don't know if I know
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I pronounced respiratory right. I'm not sure if I got
sinsidial right, but that is what they call RSV. Welcome
Dr More to Nightside. How are you.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Great?
Speaker 5 (11:02):
And thank you for having me to discuss such an
important topic.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Give me the correct pronunciation if I did not pronounce
it correctly.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
It's a respiratory sinsicial.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Virus since scial, so it's a soft y okay, fine,
that's fair. And we've heard RSV in Layman's terms. In
Layman's terms, what are we talking about? The classic upper
respiratory the classic uri that a lot of people get
during the winter season.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
Well, RSV is a highly contagious respiratory virus that goes
from the month of October, which is why we're definitely
talking about it now all the way through March. And
it tends to affect two age groups in a hard
way because it's a respiratory virus and hits the lungs.
So one are the less than five years of age
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because their lungs are still developing, and then also the
greater than sixty five years of age, because it's especially
those with underlying chronic medical conditions. And when we look
at RSV as the whole, it's the number one cause
of infant hospitalization and less than one year old. It
cosses two point one million outpatient visits and kits less
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than five years of age per year, and eighty thousand
hospitalizations and kits less than five years of age per
year as well too. So it does a lot of damage,
which is why we want to protect these babies.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Is this an infection.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
It is.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
It is a viral infection and it's in the same
basically it comes out at the same time as flu
and COVID nineteen and RSB is one of the respiratory.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Okay, the reason I say that is I'm just looking
for clarification. I've only heard of IRSV in the last
few years, maybe the last two or three years. But
at times I remember in the military when you had
a chess cold, you've got a RII upper respiratory infection.
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Are they in effect the same circumstance or is there
something that distinguishes one from the other.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Well, definitely, we have those respiratory viruses that hit the lungs,
and we have these viruses that just do upper respiratory symptoms, right,
so they're like the common cold, and often RSV or
even covid or even flu percent as just normal upper
cold symptoms. And so they drop into the chest and
then we figure out, hey, it's one of the respiratory
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virus because kids starts wheezing, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Yeah, okay, is there when you mentioned wheezing is one
of the symptoms. When you breathe in you you hear
this stuff kicking around in your lungs. Is that part
of it? I mean, what are the symptoms so someone's
other than you know, just if I assume a cough,
what are the symptoms so people can sort of figure
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out if they have this malady and what to do
about it.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Of course, so RSV when it hits, it initially begins
like a common cold, so it might be a little
bit of nasal congestion posed nasal drip fever. But once
it gets into the lungs, especially in the little ones,
it can basically predispose them or put them at risk
for RSV pneumonia or RSV bronchiolitis, which is basically an
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inflammation of the airways, so then they start having a
hacking cough, they start having trouble breathing, especially the babies
where their chest starts moving up and down. They use
their little neck muscles as well too, And basically that's
one of the signs and symptoms that I teach parents
when they should go to the emergency department with this virus.
The other one it can cause dehydration as well too,
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because sick baby doesn't want to eat, So we need
to monitor the number of what diapers in these babies
and make sure that they're eating well or drinking their formula,
because a lot of them will just sleep and be fatigued.
And that's also scientist dehydration, which is the other reason
to go to the emergency departments.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
And then other than keeping an eye on your child
or or folks in your home who maybe are in
that age category, does this make people more likely or
is it advised that people get a regular flu shot
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or what can be done to prevent this if anything?
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Great question, Love. This is the second year where we
actually have a preventive's treatment for this, So one is
by having mommy vaccinated through our pregnancy for RSV in
the thirty two to thirty six weeks, the pregnancy mommies
can get the actual RSV vaccination and pass all that
protection onto their babies. The other one is by giving
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the babies a shot between zero and as soon as
they're born all the way to eight months where they
get this shot which is a monoclonal antibody, which is
basically giving them that protective layer against RSB right away.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
They so go ahead. I mean I thought you would finish,
go and finish up.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
I'm sorry, No, that's okay.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
You know what we know though, because it's the second
year that we have the treatment, is that it decreases
hospitalizations in these babies by fifty percent, so it works.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Okay, great, Thank you, doctor Wunita Morow. I do appreciate
all of that information, and I particularly hope people have
paid attention to it. It can be confusing because there's
so much stuff out there that that's not good, and
for some reason, it always seems to circulate back every
every year around this time in the fall, late middle
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of the falling on into the winter. Wish you and
you as a very healthy winter season, and thank you
very much for taking the time to be with us. Tonight.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
Oh, you're welcome, and people can go to lung dot
org our website to learn more about rsz flue covid
so we can get all the family protected.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Sounds great. Appreciate it very much, Doctor Nita.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Moore, thank you. Have a beautiful day, you too.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Or thanks doctor Uh. It is now time for the
news at the bottom of the hour, and when we
get back, we're going to talk. Of course, we're in
the MLB playoff season. We're going to talk with an
author named Jeff Rodimer about memorable and offbeat world series stories.
We'll be back on Nightside right after this. It's Night
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Side with Ray on.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
All right, well, the World Series is right around the
corner of the playoffs run away and with us is
Jeff Rodimer. Jeff, I hope and I got that name correctly.
If I didn't, feel free to feel free to correct
me on it.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Go ahead, it's it's rod Diimer.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
It's good to be on Rode Diimer. Okay, I see
where the uh where the I see it? Roe Diimer?
Thank you. And you have written a book called Shadows
of Glory, Memorable and offbeat World Series Stories. Uh, let's
I'm a big baseball guy. I'll be honest with you,
and I'm not gonna jump in here, but I'd love
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to know some of a few of the stories that
this book would share with listeners, and I may, I
may remember some of them. So go ahead, let's let's
hear a couple.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Well, I'm guessing that you will, and again, thanks for
having me on. And the theme of the book was
that my partner Dave and I want to look at
stories that took place during the World Series that were
lesser known, not not Carlton Fist hitting a home running
Game six and seventy five, people that yeah, exactly, they've
been covered to death. There's nothing that we could add there.
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But we found a number of stories that were either
odd or interesting, maybe a little bit weird or offbeat,
or maybe just simply underreported to the point that you know,
people had forgotten about him, or maybe he didn't even
know that they had taken place, and so it covered.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Can I throw one name at you, I'm just gonna
throw a name at you. I will bet you you
will know the story about this guy. Okay, I'm not
gonna and if you don't, it should be in the
book anyway.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Nippy Jones, well, Nippy Jones absolutely, and you know that
was a name that I did not really know, but
my partner Dave had found a story about him. In
the World Series, it was the Braves against the Yankees,
and in fifty seven and so in a key game
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early pretty early in the series. It was it was
Game four. You know, it's a back and forth game.
The Braves were down after Elston Howard had It was
actually Elson Howard had three run homer to tie the
game in the ninth and then in the bottom of
the Nippy Jones goes up as a pinch hitter for
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Warren Spahn and he gets hit by the pitch, but
the umpire calls him back to home plate and says,
you weren't hit. Stay in there, and the manager came
out with the ball, showed the umpire the shoe polish
on the ball, and they send Nippy Jones down to
first base. He gets replaced by a pinch runner and
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Felix Mantilla hits a double that ties the game, and
then Eddie Matthews hits a two run walk off homer
and it was the key game in this series. I
guess you could say Game seven was, but this was
the game that saved the World Series for the Braves.
And then, interestingly enough, in the very same chapter, we
talk about a very similar situation that took place in
Game five of the sixty nine series with the Mets
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in the Orioles and the Mets were up at that
point three games to one, but they were losing in
Game six, and Cleon Jones is up for the Mets
in the same the same thing happens, and the ball
kicks a and Gil Hodges is in the dugout. He's
got the ball, or so they say. He goes out
to the plate, shows the umpire. They award cleon first base.
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Don Clendenna comes up right behind him. It's a two
run omer to close the gap to one run, and
the Mets overtake the Oriols in the seventh and eighth
and they win the series. And the six named Jones
you met.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
The miracle Mets in nineteen sixty nine. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Absolutely, And for younger fans they might not remember the
days before insur replay. Umpires never changed their minds, ye
back then, and there was no insur replay.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
So you give us a number one. Let's let's have
a couple of your favorites too.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Go ahead, Well, I'll give you a quick one that
I was just rereading the other day because so many
different things happened to This guy was a guy that
was pitching for Brooklyn and nineteen twenty they get to
the World Series against the Cleveland Indians, and they're in
Cleveland for game and this guy is Rube Marquart, who
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eventually gets to the Hall of Fame and at one
point had the Major League record for most consecutive wins.
In any case, it's his birthday and he's in the
lobby of this hotel and he's got four box seats
that he's going to give to his brother. But while
he's waiting for his brother's show up, somebody approaches him
and asks him if he's got tickets to sell. And
he's been here and the lobby's very busy. He's been
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hearing people throw money around, like you know, these things
are really expensive, and so he just, according to him jokingly,
says yeah, I got four seats for four hundred bucks,
and the guy walks away from him says that's too much,
and then a couple of minutes later he comes back.
He says, you still want to sell those seats, and
he said, yeah, but it's four hundred bucks, and they
arrest him. It's an undercover car.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
So it's his birthday and he's now in jail, and
so they release him on his own recognizance and he
gets to the ballpark. He actually pitches that afternoon, but
the manager is so ticked off at him for all
this unwonted publicity to the team, especially in the wake
of the nineteen nineteen black Socks scandal, anything that smacks
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of corruption or anything like that, nobody wants anything to
do with benches him pretty much for the rest of
the World Series. And so even though he did pitch
that day and pitch pretty well, he doesn't pitch again.
And then the owner of the team says, this guy's
never going to play for Brooklyn again. And at the
end of the season he does trade him away. But
a couple of days after the World Series is over,
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his wife filed for divorced. So he got arrested, he
got benched, and his wife filed for divorce, all within
a week.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
That's a tough World series. That's a tough world.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Tough one.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
What was the first World series you remember.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
You know, I'm a Yankee fan, But the first World
Series that I really really remember was the Red Sox
and the Cardinals in sixty seven. And I was rooting
because my great aunt was a huge Red Sox fan
and had stilled this love of Red Sox baseball and
Carlsky was all about Carlastremsky, and so I was rooting
hard for them to beat Saint Louis. And that's the
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one I remember seeing most of the series, not every game,
because they were all on the on you know, the
afternoon games.
Speaker 6 (24:16):
Well, in those days, those days, if you were a
Red Sox fan, I think, uh, if you always rooted
for for the league, because of those days, it would
be American League, National League, and so therefore your loyalty
stuck with the with the with the American League team
if you were a Red Sox fan a Yankee fan.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
But but if you were a Yankee fan, the Cardinals
had a right fielder who had played for the Yankees
in that series named Roger Marris, and so there probably
were a lot of Yankee fans who were rooting for
Roger Maris uh in that World Series. Uh. And from
our perspective, unfortunately. I remember that World Series very well,
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and uh Jim lawn Bow, Jose Santiago with a great
Red Sox pitchers who I think between the two of
them started five games, and I remember game six, Game six,
a young guy pitcher out of Connecticut, Gary was Lusky
was sort of the surprise starter.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
And that's right, that didn't go that well.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Give me one more story here and then we'll wrap
it up. Love all right, Well, baseball.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Another one with a little bit of a New England flavor,
because I know Red Sox fans remember Mike Andrews and
they remember him off.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Oakland, Oakland.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Yeah, go ahead, right, So Charlie fins on that sixty
seven Red Sox teams. But you fast forward to nineteen
seventy three and the A's pick them up in mid season.
They get to the World Series against the Mets. Charlie
Philly doesn't want Mike Andrews on the team, but he's
stuck with him. And Andrews has a bad arm and
he's been making errors, so they pretty much use him
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as a pinch hitter and pinch runner and they don't
really want to use him in the field. Game two,
he gets into the game as a replacement late innings.
It's a back and forth game, goes into extra innings,
and with the game tied, Andrews makes two errors in
one inning. The floodgates open, the Mets break open the game,
and they end up winning the game, and afterwards, Finley
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is so irate that he gets Andrews into the stadium
to the doctor's office and makes Andrews sign a letter
saying that he is injured and cannot play. He didn't
injure himself during the game, but he made Andrews sign this.
And Andrews was so upset by this that he left
the team and flew back to Massachusetts. While the team
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flew back to New York, the team on the flight
realizes that Andrews is not on the plane, and by
the time they get back to New York they figured
out what's going on. They said that they're going to
protest and maybe even boycott Game three. They're on the
field on their off day, working out in uniforms with
an armband with Mike Andrews's number on it. The New
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York Press gets a hold of this. It blows up
and so Charlie Finley is forced by the Commissioner of
Baseball to reinstate Mike Andrews. And Andrews shows up in
Game four as a pinch hitter and the Shay Stadium
fans and there's Philly just sitting there like an idiot,
waving his little A's pennant and remember getting all the
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love from the Mets fans.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Remember the the a's manager was Dick Williams, who had
managed Andrews, and so that's Yes, there are a lot
of personalities involved there. Hey, I really love this. How
can how can folks get this information? It's available at
Amazon Shadows of Glory Memorable and Offbeat World Series Stories, yep.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
And you can also go to our website which is
Shadows of glorybook dot Com. Tells you a little bit
about the writing of the book, how he came to
these chapters, and the evolution of the of the book
as well, and has a link that will take you
through to Amazon as well. When you're done.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Okay, now I'm going to hit you with the trivia question.
You said you're a Yankee fan. Trivia question from me.
There's one major league pitcher Yankees form a Yankee pitcher
who through the final pitch in two World Series seventh
games during the nineteen sixties. Who was it? Got to
be Ralph Terry, you bet you nineteen sixty and sixty two.
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You got it. Good for you.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
He redeemed himself in sixty two after being the goat
of all goats in nineteen sixty.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Well, they had had him up in the bullpen four
times in that game. Case that was a ten to
nine game, and Casey had him up four times in
the game, and he left everything in the bullpen and
just through a bad slider towards That was Casey's last game.
Casey the next day had his news conference and said
that he made a huge mistake. He turned fifty eight
years of age and he's never going to do that again.
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Of course.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
And Ralph was a wonderful guy too, and one of.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
My closest friends, one of my closest friends in the world,
and a great man. A great man, yes, in many
many ways that people don't know about. Went on the
senior golf Tour. Great you know, two sport athletes, so great.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Now anyway, yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Jeff, we'll talk soon, Okay. I enjoyed the conversation so much.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Thank you very much, all right, Dan, Thanks again for
having us on.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
You're welcome. You're welcome. We'll have you back when we
come back. We're going to change topics. We're going to
talk about National Menopause for All educational program. It's coming
to Boston, free event, open to the public, about a
medical transition that happens to all women at some point
in their lives. And if you're a woman of a
certain age, you know exactly what I'm talking about. And
(29:30):
I know I may know a lot about sports trivia,
baseball trivia, but menopause is not something I'm going to
learn when we talk with Claire Gill coming up. She's
the founder of the National Menopause Foundation. It's Night Side
with Ray.
Speaker 5 (29:45):
Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
This is an interesting topic for everyone, although it's a
it's a condition that only affects women. With me is
Claire Gill. She's the CEO, founder of the National Menopause
Foundation and MF. Welcome to Night Sec Claire. How are
you this evening.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
I'm doing great. Thank you so much for inviting me on.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
You are welcome. So you have a website, if I'm
not mistaken, which provides information to men and women about
the passage of menopause. Is that correct?
Speaker 2 (30:24):
That's correct. So we're a national educational organization and our
website is Nationalmenopause Foundation dot org and we have great
information to help people understand what happens during menopaus.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
So, as a male, this is a subject that I
know little about, and I'm going to sit back and
listen carefully. You were having a free event that is
open to the public about this medical transition that happens
to all women at some point in their lives. Is
that event here in Boston?
Speaker 2 (30:56):
It is. It's at the Codmans Health Center in Dorchester
tomorrow Thursday from five point thirty to eight thirty pm.
We've got fantastic menopause experts available to speak, as you
said women, obviously, we want as many women as possible
to turn out, but bring your spouses and let them
learn about it too. And so this is a free
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event open to the public. Thanks to our wonderful sponsors
at Geha and Perry and the National Menopause Foundation, they're
an online community have teamed up to bring these events
for free to communities, so everyone has access to the
information they need about, as you said, this natural stage
of life, but it can have really disruptive symptoms, and
(31:43):
so women need to learn what to expect and how
to manage them.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Does this obviously it affects every woman of a certain age.
I get that. Does it have a different impact on
different women? Meaning do some women get through it, you know,
like fine, and others really have a tough time? That's
what I'm got. I'm trying to look at the big here, go.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Ahead, Yeah, that's exactly it. Every woman experiences it differently.
So I've heard from lots of women who said, oh,
I just breezed through. I didn't even notice, And I
think they probably didn't have hot splashes, right, the most
common symptom, And so women think, oh, well then I didn't.
I am just it was easy. But they might forget
that they had brain fog. We call it right when
you walk into a room and you can't remember why
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you're there, or you can't pull the word. It's right
at the tip of your tongue, but you cannot remember it.
That starts happening during the lead up to menopause as well,
and so there's about thirty four symptoms associated with menopae.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Now does that gold does that brain fog and the
ability to pull the word out of your mind. Does
does that go away after menopause or or is it
a condition?
Speaker 2 (32:54):
Then most women? Yeah, for most women it does. Okay, Okay, again.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
We're talking for a second. I was thinking that I
must have permanent menopause because I go through that every night.
I do four hours of radio, and believe me, there's
moments of brain faught every night.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Some of these things do come with age, but for women,
the menopausal journey starts sometimes as early as you're early
to mid forties, and so that's not when you expect
to be forgetting things, or expect to be having anxiety
that you never had in your life, or, as we
joked about earlier, arguing with your partner to the point
(33:33):
that you really can't like the communications breaks down. And
also again which we don't talk about, but it also
impacts sexual health. So it really matters that couples and
people talk about this and that women feel comfortable talking
with their healthcare practitioner about it.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
I just thought that was a function of being married,
that's all it.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Right. Well, again, if the relationship has always been difficult,
well then that's another story. If your spouse suddenly can't
stand everything that you're doing, take a deep breath and realize, Wow,
we're probably on this journey together.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
This too show pass. You have to as the mail,
you have to this to show pass. So so the
event tomorrow night, it's it is free, it's open to
the public, and let's do it two ways. Give us
the information where people who cannot be at the event
with give us your website one more time so people
(34:34):
can get information. Is this I assume that there video
of this event will be posted, uh, you know, on
your web page, so even if someone cannot be there
in person, they'll be able to catch it up. We'll
catch up with it over the weekend. I'm assuming, Am
I correct on that? No?
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Actually no, the events themselves are not recorded because it's
an opportunity for women to be really honest and have
conversations with the clinicians. However, there are, as you said,
tons of information on our website. So the website again
is Nationalmenopause Foundation dot org. Perfect and great information. There's
like on demand webinars and courses that people can take
(35:14):
or they can just read. We have a podcast, we
have a newsletter, so plenty of information if you cannot
make it to the event. But I really think people
will love to hear directly from these experts and have
a chance to sit and talk with them about what
they're experiencing and how do they manage and thrive.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Okay, and what I want you to do is give
us the time and the address and Rob please copy
this down because there may be some women who do
not have a piece of paper and a pencil in
front of them. Give it us to give it to
us slowly. Where is it going to be? Yeah, what's
the address?
Speaker 2 (35:45):
It's going to be at the Codmans Square House Center
in Dorchester, easy to find Tomorrow October second, from five
point thirty to eight thirty pm. It's going to be
in the Great Hall. And again just google Cottman sent
Square if you come to that center. We'll have signage
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up and directing people to exactly where they need to
be and we look forward to seeing as many of
the local community as possible.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Sounds great, Claire. Thank you very much. A sensitive subject,
you handle it with charm and I really I enjoyed
our conversation. It was one that I was saying, oh,
how am I going to get through this one? But
thank you very much for educating me.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
I really appreciate you. I really appreciate you doing it, Dan,
and you did great and I hope everyone learns a lot.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
And just to make this is not going to affect
me individually personally, it's just for women only. But I'm
joking with you when I say that, because obviously if
you are living with a woman, you get affected by it.
There's no doubt autmatically, but in a whole bunch of
other ways. Thank you so much, Claire.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
That's thanks so much.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
Bye, all right, thank you very much. When we get back,
we going to talk with a really interesting guest, his
doctor Michael Collins. He's the chancellor of the U Mass
Medical School out in Worcester, and he is very much concerned,
and I think rightfully so, about cutbacks in research funding
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to not only you Mass Medical but to other very
important medical research centers around the country. And we will
talk with doctor Collins during the nine o'clock hour back
after this nine o'clock newscast
It's Night Side with Dan Ray.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
I'm going razy Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
We will definitely have a good night here on Nightside.
My name is Dan Ray, I'm the host, and it's
a particularly good night for us because tonight I start
our nineteenth year, nineteen years as the Knightside with Dan Ray.
Rob Brooks has been alongside for I'm guessing at least
probably fourteen or fifteen of those years. Rob and Marita
(00:29):
relative newcomers, probably only five or six years, but we
and many of you have been with us from day one.
So first of all, thank all, I thank all of
you for your great loyalty to this program. And again
tonight we have great topics, we have some great guests
and ad callers, stir and mix's. That's the formula on
(00:53):
nights Side. It's sort of pretty simple and it has
worked for eighteen years and we start now year nineteen.
So congratulations to all, my thanks to all of you,
and let us begin a new as. We have four
guests this hour, and we're going to start off on
a bit of a lighter note, going to talk with
Brian Boom. He is one of the writers and contributors
(01:16):
and he's also a spokesperson for Uncle John's Know It
All Bathroom Reader, thirty eighth annual edition, a collection of
short articles for trips to the bathroom. Brian Boone, how
are you.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
I'm great.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Thanks for having me on. It's a thrill to be
on your anniversary ship.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yeah, you start off the ninety year. Whatever you do,
don't mess it up. So tell us about I have
never seen a copy of Uncle John's Know It All
Bathroom Reader, but I can figure out what it's all about.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
I think, sure, sure, absolutely. Well, you know, we've been
kicking a long time, and we tell us to know
it All bathroom raders this year because I think every
note it all in his life? Who just knows all
those fun facts and quirky little facts like Cliff Clayvin
on cheers. I think they're getting them all from our books,
because we've been going for a long time and just
pumping out these big, thick books full of fun facts
(02:14):
and interesting stories.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
So the Bathroom Reader, I like to say that I
know a lot about a lot of things. I'm sort
of a jack of all trades, master of none, but
I feel like on certain things I have a compendium
of knowledge, useless information give us. Give us some of
the items that someone might find in this year's edition
(02:41):
of The Bathroom Reader, or if you want to give
us something that someone might find in last year's edition
of The Bathroom Reader.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Well, well, you know, we like to have a little
something for everyone. You figured you can open it up
and find foot any random page and you'll you'll find
something that interests you, whether it's history, science, sports, trivia,
fun facts, movie TV. We have a little thing in
here about how certain cities in the US were almost
(03:08):
named something else. Portland, Oregon, was actually almost named Boston
when they settled it after establishing the Oregon Trail, they
cleared out a six hundred and forty acre piece of land.
They got rid of all the valuable timber, and founders
Asa Lovejoy and Franchis Peddi Grove called it the clearing.
But what I wanted to call it a city? They
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flipped a coin. Lovejoy was from Boston and so he
wanted to name it Boston, and Peddy Grove was from Portland, Maine,
and he wanted to name it after hinis hometown. So
had Asa won the coin, post, we've had a west
coast Boston.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Well that's good. That's good to know, because I've often
wondered that Portland, what's the derivation? Yeah, give me a
sports one because I love sports. Maybe i'll know it.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Oh okay, let's see, well we've got I'm sorry you
have you? Have you known that mud wrestling goes back
to ancient times?
Speaker 1 (04:05):
It doesn't surprise me, but I did not know that.
I mean, look, the folks back in the ancient times
they did not have ESPN, they did not have television,
and they had to do something with their time.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
You would you would think that mud wrestling would be recent,
you know, like you said, to fill time on ESTN
when that before they had any other good sports. But no,
they expect to twenty five hundred DC. The Greek, the
ancient Greeks called it palais and then they called it Kushti,
which means Theoic sport. And it kind of spread throughout
the ancient world, and it was especially popular in India,
(04:42):
Pakistan and Arad where it's still quite popular. And it
didn't take off in America until nineteen thirty eight in Akron, Ohio.
And that was when they had had women do it,
So that was the that was literally.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Oh yeah, yeah, I do understand. I can. I can
figure it out. Okay, give me a couple more. I
don't want to put you in the spot with categories.
Give me, give me a couple of more. Maybe that
that people, those are two good ones. Give us, give
us a couple more, and then we'll let folks know
how they can get a copy of the dis year's edition.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Sure, well, we have a page about Antarctica slang. I
love subcultures, and every subculture has its own, its own language,
its own slang, terms of vernacula. Even an antarcticat where
it's the most remote part of the world and nobody
really stays there.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
For most it's mostly penguins.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Right, it's mostly penguins. Yeah, but they they leave, they
leave things called turnstickles on the ground. That's that's antarctica
slang for frozen animal.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Dum oh.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
If you get sunburned down there, which is a distinct
possibility with all that that ice glaring back, that chair,
that's called that's called bronze e. It is a seal,
a whale is a is called the wolf of the sea.
And then young ice because they have a lot of
different words for ice. The thin ice at six less
than six inches thick. They call that young ice. So
(06:05):
we're interesting stuff in here.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Well, I don't know that I'll never get to Antarctica,
but that that might come in handy. And let's have
a couple more and then we'll give you a chance
to plug this edition.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Sure. The thing that strikes to me is I found
out that there was a cable news channel before CNN.
CNN has always tittered as the first cable channel that
was news all the time, But two years before they
were united, Press International came out with a channel called
UPI news Time in nineteen seventy eight, and they would
(06:41):
just pan across black and white photos of like of
news photos, and then they would just play the radio
news feed and they'd just repeat it every fifteen minutes,
and then every four hours they'd get a new chunk
of news.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
But I'm stun I'm stunned that that wasn't smashing. I'm
stunned that that wasn't a smashing success. I'm sure there
were some consultants who told them this, this is going
to work. It got this. Most of the consultants who
worked with worked when I was working in television for
three decades. They always had great ideas and it they
(07:14):
very rarely worked. One more final one, that's an interesting one.
I did not know that. That's and I should have.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Well, we got we We covered WBZ in this book.
One of your colleagues there called out a dog DNA
testing company. This isn't our article on weird Canada. A
Canadian company called DNA My Dog offered two hundred dollars
and they would tell you what breed your dog was.
So what of your colleagues there at WBZ took a
(07:41):
swab of her own cheek, paid the fee, and then
they sent it to three different Canadian animal genetic testing firms,
and DNA my Dog determined that this human woman who
was forty percent Alaskan mal mute, thirty five percent sharpey,
and twenty five percent laboratory.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Well, those are nice dogs. What was that's name? Because
I probably worked with that reporter I was there for
a long time.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
Christina Hager, Oh.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Yeah, absolutely. Christina is now working in public relations. Her
dad was Bob Hagar, who for many many years was
a reporter for CBS News based in Washington. Yeah, she
has great had great reportorial and journalistic genes. This was
a lot of fun. Let's give a website that people
(08:26):
can get to. And I'm sure this is a wonderful
birth a birthday present, Father's Day gift, I don't really
want to give this. Well, maybe a Mother's Day gift
as well. Apso all it is twenty twenty five. How
do they how do they get a fit an official
copy of the book?
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Anybody, anybody who likes this book, anybody who likes trevia.
It's a great gift. We're at portablepress dot com and
you can find all of our back catalog there portablepress
dot com. You can buy the new book there, or
you can link out to get it at any number
of retailers, or you can find it in your local
bookstore under the trivia or a humor section.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Well, I tell you, Brian, I talked to a lot
of folks who were giving us information about a product
or a book or whatever. But you did a great job.
They should give you a raise at Uncle John's Know
it All Bathroom Reader because your passion was evident and
it's going to convince a lot of people. I'm sure
to spend a few dollars and have one handy because
(09:26):
those that that's great stuff. Brian, I thank you for
much so much. You were a really fine guest and
I talked to twenty guests in this eight o'clock hour
every week, four night, five nights a week. You did
a great job. Thanks, thanks, thanks much, you bet you.
Maybe we'll have you on later some night this fall,
(09:47):
and maybe what we could do is run some of
these stories by people and they could call and we
could have it. We'll come up with something. We'll do
something more with you hard. You're too good not to
utilize in one of our full hours with call.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Okay, thanks Brian, anytime, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
You bet you. We're going to talk about a respiratory
disease that is posing serious risks to infants whose immune
systems are still still developing. Guidance and practical tips for
protecting infants as well as yourself from RSV. This season,
we'll talk with doctor Winita Moore. She's an immunologist with
the American Lung Association. You're on Nightside with Dan Ray
(10:28):
on WBZ Boston's news radio. All right, I am delighted
to welcome excuse me, doctor Wineda Moore. She's an immunologist
at the American Lung Association, and we're going to talk
about respiratory sinsidio virus. I don't know if I know
(10:50):
I pronounced respiratory right. I'm not sure if I got
sinsidial right, but that is what they call RSV. Welcome
Dr More to Nightside. How are you.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Great?
Speaker 5 (11:02):
And thank you for having me to discuss such an
important topic.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Give me the correct pronunciation if I did not pronounce
it correctly.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
It's a respiratory sinsicial.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Virus since scial, so it's a soft y okay, fine,
that's fair. And we've heard RSV in Layman's terms. In
Layman's terms, what are we talking about? The classic upper
respiratory the classic uri that a lot of people get
during the winter season.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
Well, RSV is a highly contagious respiratory virus that goes
from the month of October, which is why we're definitely
talking about it now all the way through March. And
it tends to affect two age groups in a hard
way because it's a respiratory virus and hits the lungs.
So one are the less than five years of age
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because their lungs are still developing, and then also the
greater than sixty five years of age, because it's especially
those with underlying chronic medical conditions. And when we look
at RSV as the whole, it's the number one cause
of infant hospitalization and less than one year old. It
cosses two point one million outpatient visits and kits less
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than five years of age per year, and eighty thousand
hospitalizations and kits less than five years of age per
year as well too. So it does a lot of damage,
which is why we want to protect these babies.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Is this an infection.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
It is.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
It is a viral infection and it's in the same
basically it comes out at the same time as flu
and COVID nineteen and RSB is one of the respiratory.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Okay, the reason I say that is I'm just looking
for clarification. I've only heard of IRSV in the last
few years, maybe the last two or three years. But
at times I remember in the military when you had
a chess cold, you've got a RII upper respiratory infection.
(13:03):
Are they in effect the same circumstance or is there
something that distinguishes one from the other.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Well, definitely, we have those respiratory viruses that hit the lungs,
and we have these viruses that just do upper respiratory symptoms, right,
so they're like the common cold, and often RSV or
even covid or even flu percent as just normal upper
cold symptoms. And so they drop into the chest and
then we figure out, hey, it's one of the respiratory
(13:34):
virus because kids starts wheezing, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Yeah, okay, is there when you mentioned wheezing is one
of the symptoms. When you breathe in you you hear
this stuff kicking around in your lungs. Is that part
of it? I mean, what are the symptoms so someone's
other than you know, just if I assume a cough,
what are the symptoms so people can sort of figure
(13:58):
out if they have this malady and what to do
about it.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Of course, so RSV when it hits, it initially begins
like a common cold, so it might be a little
bit of nasal congestion posed nasal drip fever. But once
it gets into the lungs, especially in the little ones,
it can basically predispose them or put them at risk
for RSV pneumonia or RSV bronchiolitis, which is basically an
(14:26):
inflammation of the airways, so then they start having a
hacking cough, they start having trouble breathing, especially the babies
where their chest starts moving up and down. They use
their little neck muscles as well too, And basically that's
one of the signs and symptoms that I teach parents
when they should go to the emergency department with this virus.
The other one it can cause dehydration as well too,
(14:49):
because sick baby doesn't want to eat, So we need
to monitor the number of what diapers in these babies
and make sure that they're eating well or drinking their formula,
because a lot of them will just sleep and be fatigued.
And that's also scientist dehydration, which is the other reason
to go to the emergency departments.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
And then other than keeping an eye on your child
or or folks in your home who maybe are in
that age category, does this make people more likely or
is it advised that people get a regular flu shot
(15:29):
or what can be done to prevent this if anything?
Speaker 5 (15:34):
Great question, Love. This is the second year where we
actually have a preventive's treatment for this, So one is
by having mommy vaccinated through our pregnancy for RSV in
the thirty two to thirty six weeks, the pregnancy mommies
can get the actual RSV vaccination and pass all that
protection onto their babies. The other one is by giving
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the babies a shot between zero and as soon as
they're born all the way to eight months where they
get this shot which is a monoclonal antibody, which is
basically giving them that protective layer against RSB right away.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
They so go ahead. I mean I thought you would finish,
go and finish up.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
I'm sorry, No, that's okay.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
You know what we know though, because it's the second
year that we have the treatment, is that it decreases
hospitalizations in these babies by fifty percent, so it works.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Okay, great, Thank you, doctor Wunita Morow. I do appreciate
all of that information, and I particularly hope people have
paid attention to it. It can be confusing because there's
so much stuff out there that that's not good, and
for some reason, it always seems to circulate back every
every year around this time in the fall, late middle
(16:51):
of the falling on into the winter. Wish you and
you as a very healthy winter season, and thank you
very much for taking the time to be with us. Tonight.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
Oh, you're welcome, and people can go to lung dot
org our website to learn more about rsz flue covid
so we can get all the family protected.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Sounds great. Appreciate it very much, Doctor Nita.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Moore, thank you. Have a beautiful day, you too.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Or thanks doctor Uh. It is now time for the
news at the bottom of the hour, and when we
get back, we're going to talk. Of course, we're in
the MLB playoff season. We're going to talk with an
author named Jeff Rodimer about memorable and offbeat world series stories.
We'll be back on Nightside right after this. It's Night
(17:36):
Side with Ray on.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
All right, well, the World Series is right around the
corner of the playoffs run away and with us is
Jeff Rodimer. Jeff, I hope and I got that name correctly.
If I didn't, feel free to feel free to correct
me on it.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Go ahead, it's it's rod Diimer.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
It's good to be on Rode Diimer. Okay, I see
where the uh where the I see it? Roe Diimer?
Thank you. And you have written a book called Shadows
of Glory, Memorable and offbeat World Series Stories. Uh, let's
I'm a big baseball guy. I'll be honest with you,
and I'm not gonna jump in here, but I'd love
(18:17):
to know some of a few of the stories that
this book would share with listeners, and I may, I
may remember some of them. So go ahead, let's let's
hear a couple.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Well, I'm guessing that you will, and again, thanks for
having me on. And the theme of the book was
that my partner Dave and I want to look at
stories that took place during the World Series that were
lesser known, not not Carlton Fist hitting a home running
Game six and seventy five, people that yeah, exactly, they've
been covered to death. There's nothing that we could add there.
(18:49):
But we found a number of stories that were either
odd or interesting, maybe a little bit weird or offbeat,
or maybe just simply underreported to the point that you know,
people had forgotten about him, or maybe he didn't even
know that they had taken place, and so it covered.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Can I throw one name at you, I'm just gonna
throw a name at you. I will bet you you
will know the story about this guy. Okay, I'm not
gonna and if you don't, it should be in the
book anyway.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Nippy Jones, well, Nippy Jones absolutely, and you know that
was a name that I did not really know, but
my partner Dave had found a story about him. In
the World Series, it was the Braves against the Yankees,
and in fifty seven and so in a key game
(19:39):
early pretty early in the series. It was it was
Game four. You know, it's a back and forth game.
The Braves were down after Elston Howard had It was
actually Elson Howard had three run homer to tie the
game in the ninth and then in the bottom of
the Nippy Jones goes up as a pinch hitter for
(20:04):
Warren Spahn and he gets hit by the pitch, but
the umpire calls him back to home plate and says,
you weren't hit. Stay in there, and the manager came
out with the ball, showed the umpire the shoe polish
on the ball, and they send Nippy Jones down to
first base. He gets replaced by a pinch runner and
(20:26):
Felix Mantilla hits a double that ties the game, and
then Eddie Matthews hits a two run walk off homer
and it was the key game in this series. I
guess you could say Game seven was, but this was
the game that saved the World Series for the Braves.
And then, interestingly enough, in the very same chapter, we
talk about a very similar situation that took place in
Game five of the sixty nine series with the Mets
(20:48):
in the Orioles and the Mets were up at that
point three games to one, but they were losing in
Game six, and Cleon Jones is up for the Mets
in the same the same thing happens, and the ball
kicks a and Gil Hodges is in the dugout. He's
got the ball, or so they say. He goes out
to the plate, shows the umpire. They award cleon first base.
(21:09):
Don Clendenna comes up right behind him. It's a two
run omer to close the gap to one run, and
the Mets overtake the Oriols in the seventh and eighth
and they win the series. And the six named Jones
you met.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
The miracle Mets in nineteen sixty nine. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Absolutely, And for younger fans they might not remember the
days before insur replay. Umpires never changed their minds, ye
back then, and there was no insur replay.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
So you give us a number one. Let's let's have
a couple of your favorites too.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Go ahead, Well, I'll give you a quick one that
I was just rereading the other day because so many
different things happened to This guy was a guy that
was pitching for Brooklyn and nineteen twenty they get to
the World Series against the Cleveland Indians, and they're in
Cleveland for game and this guy is Rube Marquart, who
(22:03):
eventually gets to the Hall of Fame and at one
point had the Major League record for most consecutive wins.
In any case, it's his birthday and he's in the
lobby of this hotel and he's got four box seats
that he's going to give to his brother. But while
he's waiting for his brother's show up, somebody approaches him
and asks him if he's got tickets to sell. And
he's been here and the lobby's very busy. He's been
(22:24):
hearing people throw money around, like you know, these things
are really expensive, and so he just, according to him jokingly,
says yeah, I got four seats for four hundred bucks,
and the guy walks away from him says that's too much,
and then a couple of minutes later he comes back.
He says, you still want to sell those seats, and
he said, yeah, but it's four hundred bucks, and they
arrest him. It's an undercover car.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
So it's his birthday and he's now in jail, and
so they release him on his own recognizance and he
gets to the ballpark. He actually pitches that afternoon, but
the manager is so ticked off at him for all
this unwonted publicity to the team, especially in the wake
of the nineteen nineteen black Socks scandal, anything that smacks
(23:07):
of corruption or anything like that, nobody wants anything to
do with benches him pretty much for the rest of
the World Series. And so even though he did pitch
that day and pitch pretty well, he doesn't pitch again.
And then the owner of the team says, this guy's
never going to play for Brooklyn again. And at the
end of the season he does trade him away. But
a couple of days after the World Series is over,
(23:29):
his wife filed for divorced. So he got arrested, he
got benched, and his wife filed for divorce, all within
a week.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
That's a tough World series. That's a tough world.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Tough one.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
What was the first World series you remember.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
You know, I'm a Yankee fan, But the first World
Series that I really really remember was the Red Sox
and the Cardinals in sixty seven. And I was rooting
because my great aunt was a huge Red Sox fan
and had stilled this love of Red Sox baseball and
Carlsky was all about Carlastremsky, and so I was rooting
hard for them to beat Saint Louis. And that's the
(24:08):
one I remember seeing most of the series, not every game,
because they were all on the on you know, the
afternoon games.
Speaker 6 (24:16):
Well, in those days, those days, if you were a
Red Sox fan, I think, uh, if you always rooted
for for the league, because of those days, it would
be American League, National League, and so therefore your loyalty
stuck with the with the with the American League team
if you were a Red Sox fan a Yankee fan.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
But but if you were a Yankee fan, the Cardinals
had a right fielder who had played for the Yankees
in that series named Roger Marris, and so there probably
were a lot of Yankee fans who were rooting for
Roger Maris uh in that World Series. Uh. And from
our perspective, unfortunately. I remember that World Series very well,
(24:58):
and uh Jim lawn Bow, Jose Santiago with a great
Red Sox pitchers who I think between the two of
them started five games, and I remember game six, Game six,
a young guy pitcher out of Connecticut, Gary was Lusky
was sort of the surprise starter.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
And that's right, that didn't go that well.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Give me one more story here and then we'll wrap
it up. Love all right, Well, baseball.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Another one with a little bit of a New England flavor,
because I know Red Sox fans remember Mike Andrews and
they remember him off.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Oakland, Oakland.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Yeah, go ahead, right, So Charlie fins on that sixty
seven Red Sox teams. But you fast forward to nineteen
seventy three and the A's pick them up in mid season.
They get to the World Series against the Mets. Charlie
Philly doesn't want Mike Andrews on the team, but he's
stuck with him. And Andrews has a bad arm and
he's been making errors, so they pretty much use him
(25:50):
as a pinch hitter and pinch runner and they don't
really want to use him in the field. Game two,
he gets into the game as a replacement late innings.
It's a back and forth game, goes into extra innings,
and with the game tied, Andrews makes two errors in
one inning. The floodgates open, the Mets break open the game,
and they end up winning the game, and afterwards, Finley
(26:11):
is so irate that he gets Andrews into the stadium
to the doctor's office and makes Andrews sign a letter
saying that he is injured and cannot play. He didn't
injure himself during the game, but he made Andrews sign this.
And Andrews was so upset by this that he left
the team and flew back to Massachusetts. While the team
(26:32):
flew back to New York, the team on the flight
realizes that Andrews is not on the plane, and by
the time they get back to New York they figured
out what's going on. They said that they're going to
protest and maybe even boycott Game three. They're on the
field on their off day, working out in uniforms with
an armband with Mike Andrews's number on it. The New
(26:52):
York Press gets a hold of this. It blows up
and so Charlie Finley is forced by the Commissioner of
Baseball to reinstate Mike Andrews. And Andrews shows up in
Game four as a pinch hitter and the Shay Stadium
fans and there's Philly just sitting there like an idiot,
waving his little A's pennant and remember getting all the
(27:15):
love from the Mets fans.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Remember the the a's manager was Dick Williams, who had
managed Andrews, and so that's Yes, there are a lot
of personalities involved there. Hey, I really love this. How
can how can folks get this information? It's available at
Amazon Shadows of Glory Memorable and Offbeat World Series Stories, yep.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
And you can also go to our website which is
Shadows of glorybook dot Com. Tells you a little bit
about the writing of the book, how he came to
these chapters, and the evolution of the of the book
as well, and has a link that will take you
through to Amazon as well. When you're done.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Okay, now I'm going to hit you with the trivia question.
You said you're a Yankee fan. Trivia question from me.
There's one major league pitcher Yankees form a Yankee pitcher
who through the final pitch in two World Series seventh
games during the nineteen sixties. Who was it? Got to
be Ralph Terry, you bet you nineteen sixty and sixty two.
(28:15):
You got it. Good for you.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
He redeemed himself in sixty two after being the goat
of all goats in nineteen sixty.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Well, they had had him up in the bullpen four
times in that game. Case that was a ten to
nine game, and Casey had him up four times in
the game, and he left everything in the bullpen and
just through a bad slider towards That was Casey's last game.
Casey the next day had his news conference and said
that he made a huge mistake. He turned fifty eight
years of age and he's never going to do that again.
(28:44):
Of course.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
And Ralph was a wonderful guy too, and one of.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
My closest friends, one of my closest friends in the world,
and a great man. A great man, yes, in many
many ways that people don't know about. Went on the
senior golf Tour. Great you know, two sport athletes, so great.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Now anyway, yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Jeff, we'll talk soon, Okay. I enjoyed the conversation so much.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Thank you very much, all right, Dan, Thanks again for
having us on.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
You're welcome. You're welcome. We'll have you back when we
come back. We're going to change topics. We're going to
talk about National Menopause for All educational program. It's coming
to Boston, free event, open to the public, about a
medical transition that happens to all women at some point
in their lives. And if you're a woman of a
certain age, you know exactly what I'm talking about. And
(29:30):
I know I may know a lot about sports trivia,
baseball trivia, but menopause is not something I'm going to
learn when we talk with Claire Gill coming up. She's
the founder of the National Menopause Foundation. It's Night Side
with Ray.
Speaker 5 (29:45):
Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
This is an interesting topic for everyone, although it's a
it's a condition that only affects women. With me is
Claire Gill. She's the CEO, founder of the National Menopause
Foundation and MF. Welcome to Night Sec Claire. How are
you this evening.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
I'm doing great. Thank you so much for inviting me on.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
You are welcome. So you have a website, if I'm
not mistaken, which provides information to men and women about
the passage of menopause. Is that correct?
Speaker 2 (30:24):
That's correct. So we're a national educational organization and our
website is Nationalmenopause Foundation dot org and we have great
information to help people understand what happens during menopaus.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
So, as a male, this is a subject that I
know little about, and I'm going to sit back and
listen carefully. You were having a free event that is
open to the public about this medical transition that happens
to all women at some point in their lives. Is
that event here in Boston?
Speaker 2 (30:56):
It is. It's at the Codmans Health Center in Dorchester
tomorrow Thursday from five point thirty to eight thirty pm.
We've got fantastic menopause experts available to speak, as you
said women, obviously, we want as many women as possible
to turn out, but bring your spouses and let them
learn about it too. And so this is a free
(31:19):
event open to the public. Thanks to our wonderful sponsors
at Geha and Perry and the National Menopause Foundation, they're
an online community have teamed up to bring these events
for free to communities, so everyone has access to the
information they need about, as you said, this natural stage
of life, but it can have really disruptive symptoms, and
(31:43):
so women need to learn what to expect and how
to manage them.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Does this obviously it affects every woman of a certain age.
I get that. Does it have a different impact on
different women? Meaning do some women get through it, you know,
like fine, and others really have a tough time? That's
what I'm got. I'm trying to look at the big here, go.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Ahead, Yeah, that's exactly it. Every woman experiences it differently.
So I've heard from lots of women who said, oh,
I just breezed through. I didn't even notice, And I
think they probably didn't have hot splashes, right, the most
common symptom, And so women think, oh, well then I didn't.
I am just it was easy. But they might forget
that they had brain fog. We call it right when
you walk into a room and you can't remember why
(32:30):
you're there, or you can't pull the word. It's right
at the tip of your tongue, but you cannot remember it.
That starts happening during the lead up to menopause as well,
and so there's about thirty four symptoms associated with menopae.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Now does that gold does that brain fog and the
ability to pull the word out of your mind. Does
does that go away after menopause or or is it
a condition?
Speaker 2 (32:54):
Then most women? Yeah, for most women it does. Okay, Okay, again.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
We're talking for a second. I was thinking that I
must have permanent menopause because I go through that every night.
I do four hours of radio, and believe me, there's
moments of brain faught every night.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Some of these things do come with age, but for women,
the menopausal journey starts sometimes as early as you're early
to mid forties, and so that's not when you expect
to be forgetting things, or expect to be having anxiety
that you never had in your life, or, as we
joked about earlier, arguing with your partner to the point
(33:33):
that you really can't like the communications breaks down. And
also again which we don't talk about, but it also
impacts sexual health. So it really matters that couples and
people talk about this and that women feel comfortable talking
with their healthcare practitioner about it.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
I just thought that was a function of being married,
that's all it.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Right. Well, again, if the relationship has always been difficult,
well then that's another story. If your spouse suddenly can't
stand everything that you're doing, take a deep breath and realize, Wow,
we're probably on this journey together.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
This too show pass. You have to as the mail,
you have to this to show pass. So so the
event tomorrow night, it's it is free, it's open to
the public, and let's do it two ways. Give us
the information where people who cannot be at the event
with give us your website one more time so people
(34:34):
can get information. Is this I assume that there video
of this event will be posted, uh, you know, on
your web page, so even if someone cannot be there
in person, they'll be able to catch it up. We'll
catch up with it over the weekend. I'm assuming, Am
I correct on that? No?
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Actually no, the events themselves are not recorded because it's
an opportunity for women to be really honest and have
conversations with the clinicians. However, there are, as you said,
tons of information on our website. So the website again
is Nationalmenopause Foundation dot org. Perfect and great information. There's
like on demand webinars and courses that people can take
(35:14):
or they can just read. We have a podcast, we
have a newsletter, so plenty of information if you cannot
make it to the event. But I really think people
will love to hear directly from these experts and have
a chance to sit and talk with them about what
they're experiencing and how do they manage and thrive.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Okay, and what I want you to do is give
us the time and the address and Rob please copy
this down because there may be some women who do
not have a piece of paper and a pencil in
front of them. Give it us to give it to
us slowly. Where is it going to be? Yeah, what's
the address?
Speaker 2 (35:45):
It's going to be at the Codmans Square House Center
in Dorchester, easy to find Tomorrow October second, from five
point thirty to eight thirty pm. It's going to be
in the Great Hall. And again just google Cottman sent
Square if you come to that center. We'll have signage
(36:06):
up and directing people to exactly where they need to
be and we look forward to seeing as many of
the local community as possible.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Sounds great, Claire. Thank you very much. A sensitive subject,
you handle it with charm and I really I enjoyed
our conversation. It was one that I was saying, oh,
how am I going to get through this one? But
thank you very much for educating me.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
I really appreciate you. I really appreciate you doing it, Dan,
and you did great and I hope everyone learns a lot.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
And just to make this is not going to affect
me individually personally, it's just for women only. But I'm
joking with you when I say that, because obviously if
you are living with a woman, you get affected by it.
There's no doubt autmatically, but in a whole bunch of
other ways. Thank you so much, Claire.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
That's thanks so much.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
Bye, all right, thank you very much. When we get back,
we going to talk with a really interesting guest, his
doctor Michael Collins. He's the chancellor of the U Mass
Medical School out in Worcester, and he is very much concerned,
and I think rightfully so, about cutbacks in research funding
(37:16):
to not only you Mass Medical but to other very
important medical research centers around the country. And we will
talk with doctor Collins during the nine o'clock hour back
after this nine o'clock newscast
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