April 6, 2024 • 39 mins
Study: Over 70% of employees blame work stress on breakups and divorces. We discussed it with Renee Marino, a Communication Coach.
In the Round: 20th Century Cape Ann Sculpture Exhibition Will Celebrate the Sculptors of Cape Ann. With Oliver Barker, the Director of the Cape Ann Museum.
Matt Brown’s Upcoming Fundraiser and Participation in the Boston Marathon.
And, Dr. Fahmi Farah, cardiologist joined Dan to discuss hospitals that are not excited about eclipse mania, Hospitals are on high alert for increased traffic accidents, the potential for mass casualty events and, of course, eye damage.
In the Round: 20th Century Cape Ann Sculpture Exhibition Will Celebrate the Sculptors of Cape Ann. With Oliver Barker, the Director of the Cape Ann Museum.
Matt Brown’s Upcoming Fundraiser and Participation in the Boston Marathon.
And, Dr. Fahmi Farah, cardiologist joined Dan to discuss hospitals that are not excited about eclipse mania, Hospitals are on high alert for increased traffic accidents, the potential for mass casualty events and, of course, eye damage.
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It's nice, Dan Ray. I'mgoing easy Boston's news Radio. Thank you
very much, Nicole. Want towelcome you to the weekend as far as
I'm concerned. I know my weekenddoesn't start at the laughter my show,
but you've got to be pretty gettingpretty close to the weekend, so tgif
have a good one, Nicole,you deserve it, that's for sure.
My name is Dan Ray, asmy friend Nicole always references, and this
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is Nightside. I'm here every Mondaythrough Friday night from eight until midnight,
twenty hours a week. We havelots to cover Tonight. I guarantee you
we will have some interesting topics andhave some fun in the eleven o'clock hour,
So stick with us all the way. We're going to start off tonight.
And by the way, Rob Brooksis back in the control room.
And I want to thank Gary Tangwayfor sitting in for me last night.
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They gave me an opportunity to celebratephilanthropic philanthropy. I should say it's easy
for me to say at you massBoston, and want to congratulate the ninth
Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts BarBoston, a major research university. The
City of Boston's only research university andthe Chancellor, Marcelo Souarez Orosco, did
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a great job last night, andI know they had a great ceremony over
there today now, So again,congratulations to both you and missus Orosco as
well. Chancellor. You guys area wonderful couple and you've had four years
of leadership. Derek and I can'twait to see what happens in the next
four and beyond. Now we havefour guests here in the eight o'clock hour,
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and I'm really excited to meet thefirst guest for the first time they
ever had a chance to talk withRenee Marino. She's a communications coach and
also has a stage background and aHollywood background. Start in a movie that
many of you may have seen,and that was the movie about Jersey Boys.
I guess it was Clint Eastwood wasthe director of this movie. Renee,
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how are you hi, Dan,I'm doing great. I feel like
I'm dealing here with Hollywood royalty rightnow. We don't often do that here.
Night's side. So you played FrankieValley's wife in the movie Jersey Boys.
I'm sure lots of my listeners watchedyour performance. I have not seen
the movie, although I'll be watchingit this weekend. I guarantee you that.
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But it's a great story. Isaw Jersey Boys on stage last summer
in Summer Theater down the Cape,so this is going to be pretty exciting.
And hopefully this is not your lastperformance. I know that you've been
on stage in the movies. Beforewe get to what you do in full
time, what's cooking on the backburner? Oh? Well, Dan,
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First, I just want to sayplaying Frankie Valley's wife in the film and
on Broadway was one of the greatest, greatest honors of my life. And
actually it's the ten year anniversary inJune of the film coming out. You
know, I work nights and soI miss a lot and I'm watching this
one tomorrow night. Trust me onthat. Yes, then you're gonna have
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to call me back so we couldchat about it. Absolutely, absolutely,
Well let's talk. Let's talk about, as we would say, the full
time job. You are someone whois a communications coach. I guess is
what the title is. But Iread a lot about your background here and
I got to tell you we're wemust we must have some relatives back in
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the in the distant days, becauseit's very impressive presentation that I've seen you
make. And you know, wealways say what the world needs love now
is love more love. What theworld reads now is communication in everything,
in relationships and your work relationships,your personal relationships. Tell us what can
you do for people as a communicationcoach? For nae Yes, I like
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to say that I'm a connection expertto explain it even more clearly, because
because at the end of the day, it comes down to the communication of
connection, being able to communicate inan effective and clear way, so you
create those genuine connections with people thatlead to opportunity. And it has been
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my greatest, greatest gift in mylife to be able to communicate in an
effective way, which I believe iswhat has led me to reach the hype
that I have as a professional actressfor years on Broadway, in film,
and now as a speaker speaking allover the world and a best selling author
as well. So how did youcome to this, because not many young
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girls will say when you grow upnot being an actress being on Broadway.
I get that, but to findthis other I guess true passion. I
almost would say vocation in your lifeto help people learn how to communicate.
We all have that ability, butI don't know that many of us have
a great intellectual capacity. All ofus talk about you know IQ, and
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well, what does IQ means?Einstein had a big IQ. We get
that. And then there are peoplewho have technical IQ's, and people who
have athletic IQs, and people havemechanical IQs. But a lot of people
don't have a communication IQ. Howcan you develop that communication that? In
Communication intelligence quota, the first stepis to gain the awareness about the importance
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of communication and to understand if thisis an area that maybe you do struggle
in. See, we are inthe day and age of digital technology,
DAN, where we have more outletsto communicate than ever before. Yet we're
communicating but not truly connecting because hereI am behind a phone and we're communicating,
and I can also just text youif I don't even want to verbalize.
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But if we want to be reallyeffective communicators and what I call master
communicators, we have to know theright time in place to communicate through digital
means versus the right time in placeto put those devices aside and have a
direct conversation. And that first stepis the communication with self gaining awareness around
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Am I a good communicator? HaveI faced problems in my relationships at work
because of ineffective communication? And that'sthe first question to ask yourself. No,
Renee, I've spent my entire lifein the communications world. I'm trained
as a lawyer, law school graduateand a member of the bar. But
I've worked for thirty one years asan on air television reporter here in Boston
for CBS. I've done a talkshow now for seventeen years. But I
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remember being a sophomore in college andhaving to speak in front of a speech
class and just being terrified. Iremember I thought, oh my god,
well I freeze it, and Ireally do. But somehow I was got
over that and now I can't stopcommunicating. Way. But this is the
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truth. I spent my entire daycommunicating with people, whether they're potential guests,
whether or not they're people who arelooking to put someone on the show,
whether I'm talking to my producer,talking to my kids. You got
to communicate. That's I mean,that's the most important skill I think anyone
can have. Oh you know,if you're seven foot three and you could
hit a three point shot. You'regonna be okay whether you have to communicate
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or not. If you're Tom Bradyand you can throw football with that precision.
But all of us have the abilityto communicate. How do people get
in touch with you, particularly ifthey're like you know, CEOs of major
companies who are terrified of being infront of a television camera or being on
a radio program. Yes, comefind me, reach out to me on
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my website, Reneemarino dot com,R E N E E M A R
I N O dot com. Andknow this, this can be learned,
but just like anything that's worth itin our lives, we must put in
the practice. And Dan, youjust decribe that you were so afraid,
you were so terrified that then youkept doing it from what I teached,
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this power of imperfect action, takingaction even when you're afraid, even when
it's outside your comfort zone. Becausethe more you do in spite of the
fear, you develop a little nuggetof self confidence. And the more you
do it, more nuggets of selfconfidence are developed, and then it turns
into an armor of self belief.And before you know it, you're just
like you, Dan, You're like, I do this all the time,
and I'm great. I'm a greatcommunicator. It's so worth it because everything
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in our lives starts with communication,and when you learn to master this skill,
you become limitless. Yeah. Imean, I don't think I'm a
great communicative, but I've made mylife by being able to communicate both on
television for year, for years,and I was in one movie Reversal of
Fortune. Didn't have a role asprominent as yours, but I have my
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IMBD database, IMDb reference and ifyou had told me when I was a
sophomore in college that's I'd be ina real movie, I mean a big
screen movie or Reversal of Fortune inthe clubs from Buelau story work in television.
If I can do that, Renee, anyone can do it. And
I know so many CEOs who couldbenefit from from spending some time in person
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or on the phone with you,and they would be so much better for
it. So what's the website?There's got to be a website. I
know it's all website. How didthey get to you? My personal website?
You can reach out to me onthere, Reneemarino dot com and we
can set up a one on onecall to get clear on what your needs
are and let's get you turning intoa master communicator because remember this, especially
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as CEOs, I work with alot of business owners entrepreneurs. You can
have the best systems, tools,processes, but if you don't know how
to connect with people on a reallevel and communicate effectively, none of those
other things matter. Couldn't agree withyou more. Tell you, I really
appreciate you taking the time. Isuspected some one of our some of our
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smart CEOs and people who want tobe CEOs will communicate with you. And
I'll be watching the movie this weekend, Jersey Boys, starring Rene Marino.
I'm so looking forward. I heardyou did a great job in the role
from several people who I talked totoday, and maybe some others will be
will be picking up on the flickas well. So Renee, appreciate it
very much. It was a pleasureto talk with you, and I'm I
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got to tell you your ability tocommunicate is incredible. In your ability to
share that skill is really breathtaking,and I think a lot of people should
be smart enough to take advantage ofit. Renee, thanks again, pleasure
you too, and thank you forbeing a great communicator. Well, I
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should call again some lessons to bea little bit better, but it's kind
of late in the career at thispoint. What I'm saying, do the
math renee, I don't know.I think you're doing pretty darn good,
my friend. All Right, we'reable to talk to you. Thank you
so much, appreciate it very much. All Right, when we get back,
we're going to talk about maybe adifferent type of communication. Going to
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talk with Oliver Barker. He iswith Cape up well, he's involved in
kpe I in he's a he's someonewho's been in KPN for for several years
and he's involved with the KPN Museum. I he's the director of the KPN
Museum as a matter of fact,up in the North Shore, and they
are having a at the KPN Museumand I think I've talked to Oliver once
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before. They are having a greatevent this weekend celebrating the sculptors of Cape
kpe An. So stick with us. We're going to be talking with Matt
Brown, who is a friend ofmine, a young man who suffered a
tough hockey injury at the age offifteen and now relies upon chair but nothing
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is going to keep Matt Brown fromparticipating and communicating. It will be once
again in the Boston Marathon this year, and then later on we're going to
talk about the problems that hospitals areanticipating in advance of the eclipse. That's
going to be real interesting as well. Back on Nightside, my name is
Dan Ray, communicating with you herein w BZ, Boston's news radio ten
thirty in the AM dial in Boston, Massachusetts, the greatest city in the
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world. Side, Dan Ray,I'm WBZ Boston's News Radio. All right,
Welcome back, everybody. Let usgo now to the North Shore up
to the KPN Museum. We havewith us the director of the KPN Museum,
Oliver Barker. High Oliver, Ithink this is not your first time
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with us, Correct, it isnot. I had the pleasure of speaking
with you and WBZ Nightside last yearand I'm delighted to join you again.
Thank you again for that chance.Welcome back, Welcome back. So you're
going to be celebrating the sculpectives ofCape ann Now sculpture work or sculpting,
I guess would be the word todescribe it. There aren't a lot of
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people who engage in that. Isthat popular up on the North Trill.
I guess there's quite a history toit. Good to it, and it's
interesting. With your earlier presenter tonight, you're talking about communication and sculpture is
all about communicating in three dimensions.And the very exciting thing that people will
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have the opportunity to explore with themuseum over the next couple of months in
the Round exhibition is to go ona journey investigating the real history and its
deep connections to Cape Ann, thereal history of sculpture and its deep connections
to Cape Ann as a medium.It all begins here with artists by the
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name of Charles Grafly, who wasa sculptor. He taught at the Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Arts and later atthe Boston Museum fin Arce School, and
his presence here really provided instruction fora long list of very talented sculptors who
then followed Walker Hancock, Katherine LaneWiens, George Demetrius, and Paul Manship.
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I mentioned Manship because many of yourlisteners might be familiar with the Prometheus
sculpture which is at the lower Plazaof Rockefeller Center that was by created by
Paul Manship. It's an icon interms of American sculpture, and Paul Manship
was a cape An resident and hiswork, along with some of those artists
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I mentioned, a heavily featured inour exhibitions here. Now many, if
I'm not mistaken, many different meansor mechanisms can be used in sculpture.
It's not all when we think about, you know, sculpting something at a
pottery wheel or something like that.How many different sort of sculpting methods will
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you be displaying this this weekend.Well, that's a great question. And
I'm just trying to think as Iwalk through the gallery, this new thing
I'm trying to Yeah, I'm tryingto put I'm trying to put everything together.
I will say for your listeners,there are works in clay, in
plaster cast, works in bronze,you know, wonderful reliefs that have been
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made, carvings in stone. Therethere is really no end. We have
kinetic works of sculpture too. Theseare works that respond to even the slightest
breeze and will move. Uh andand really, as I say, explore
three dimensions in wonderful ways. Sothere are many different techniques at play,
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and I think if for anyone comingto visit, it's a wonderful opportunity to
learn more about artists who work inthree dimensions. I will say that one
of the important factors in the exhibitionis that we live in this wonderful,
inspiring city, this city of Gloucesterhere on Cape An, and the museum
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starting this week is going to beoffering tours of the exhibition every first day
at two o'clock, and we're alsoinviting this is the season of course,
spring is fast approaching for people toget outdoors and join us in public sculpture
strolls, because one of the excitingthings about this singular, unique place of
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Cape Anne is that there are manyitems of public sculpture out on our city
streets, memorials in our parks,and it's a wonderful opportunity. We hope
for people to join us in beingoutdoors and exploring this new narrative in relation
to Cape An art. So thisis not constricted to the museum. It
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is not constricted to the museum.We An institution are very committed to trying
to open up our doors and makethe museum as accessible as as possible.
We live in this incredibly beautiful place, and as I say, it's a
place that has been graced with somany wonderful natural but also man made works
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of art. And so with thisexhibition there's that real invitation to explore the
surrounds of this city with the museum. Now, how long is the exhibition
going to be fully in place?Is there something that's going to be available
and on display? Obviously there mustbe tickets to get inside the museum,
but just to visit. Is thisgoing to be something that will dot the
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landscape of Cape Ann in Gloucester fora longer period of time this spring the
TOUB Yes, the public art installationsare there year round, will be activating
them through the exhibition, of course, which runs through the twenty third of
June. So there's time for peopleto come here and really take it all
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in. And then in terms ofthe museum, because I do believe that
that tickets are required for that,how long is the museum? Is this
an open ended or is there someis part of this ending at some point
because they don't want people to missit. Oh, of course, So
the in the Round exhibition, theexhibition that is featuring twentieth and twenty first
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century sculptors of Cape Ann will beon you through June the twenty third.
If the museum are open Tuesdays throughSunday and so there hopefully will be plenty
of opportunities for people to come visit. Yeah. I'm looking at the ticket
prices and they seem very reasonable.It's a great whether you're in the up
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on the north Shore or coming froma further distance, it's reasonable and I
suspect you could probably spend the entireday. I know that, for example,
tomorrow, would you're open from tenam until five PM's at the normal
hours. There are normal hours onSundays we'll open between one and four,
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but otherwise it's Tuesday through Saturday tento five. I will say that in
addition to coming to see the sculptureshow, tomorrow will be inaugurating an exhibition
of student work. The museum hasbeen actively working with second, third and
eighth grade students from all across CapeAn, and so anyone who visits over
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these next few months will have thechance to see the work, of course
of twentieth and twenty first century sculptors, but they'll have the chance actually also
to see over six hundred and fiftymuch younger artists who are contributing to the
narrative here of KPE and so there'sa lot to enjoy and to see when
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you're visiting this area. Ours,gardisadas and arts for everyone. Oliver Barker,
Director of the KPN Museum, thankyou so much for your bringing your
enthusiasm to us tonight and hopefully someof our listeners will take advantage of hopefully
your breaking the weather this weekend andget up and say hello. I look
forward to that. Thanks again,Dan for showing the interest and come to
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this soon. All right, I'lltry. Thank you so much, Olive,
appreciate you have a great weekend anda lot of success. When we
get back, we're going to talkto a young man that I've grown to
admire. Fifteen years of age.He's paralyzed in a freak hockey accident playing
for Norwood High School hockey team,but he has not let that get him
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down. And we're going to talkabout his upcoming fundraiser and what the good
that his foundation, the Matt BrownFoundation, is doing, and also his
participation now in his tenth Boston Marathon. We have it all coming up for
you right after the break news atthe bottom of the error on w Z
Boston's news radio. My name's DanRay. This is Nightside. Night Side
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is Dan Ray on w BZ,Boston's news radio. Well, I want
to welcome back to Nightside. MattBrown. Just an outstanding young man who
is stepping away from his what numbertonight birthday party? Matt Okay, hard
to believe, but number thirty thirty, Well, you know that's that's a
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big one for those who do notknow Matt Brown, and I think all
of you should know this young man. He had to suffered a tough injury
playing high school hockey for nor whathigh school? You were fifteen years of
age. You have a sophomore inhigh school. You've lived your life in
a wheelchair, and that would havebroken a lot of people, lesser people
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than Matt Brown. You're You're,I guess you're. The words you live
by are never quit, overcome,forever Forward. That's the Matt Brown Foundation.
I am always, always rather whetherwhen I see you talk to you,
I come away realizing what an incrediblehuman being are. You have a
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foundation. It's a five O oneC three nonprofit organization whose mission is to
support and assist groups, individuals andfamilies living with or recovering from illness or
injury, with a particular emphasis andparalysis. Matt, how is it possible
for you, in your set ofcircumstances to look beyond yourself and help other
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people? Yeah, yeah, Ithink that's a good question. Ann.
What I always come away with isthat I was dealt this, and I
talked about how I was. Iwas dealt the cards that I think that
I, you know, never wanted, But it was my job to kind
of come away with the best handthat I can make. And I've been
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so lucky with the support that I'vegotten from my family and from my friends
that you know, once it wastime that we were kind of established,
that it was time for us togive back. And I think the biggest
thing is that, you know,there's a lot of individuals and families out
there struggling with his prols. Ifwe can make, you know, each
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day just a little bit better thanthe one before, you know, that's
where we want to come and helpas many folks and individuals as much as
we can. Well, you know, I was connected to you through a
great mutual friend, Jack Dugherty ofcollege Hype, who also has a tremendous
sense of generosity and and reaches outto people give people an idea about some
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of the help that you that yourfoundation has given to others who find themselves
in you know, the difficult setof circumstances. I'm not going to pull
any punches. It's a forgot setus circumstances to for sure, and and
and you know, we launched thefoundation right the right in the middle of
twenty twenty, right in the middleof the pandemic, and it was challenging
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at first. But in the yearsthat have followed, through our golf tournament,
through the marathon, and through theFountain Road Race, we've been able
to you know, finally really startto have an impact. H and through
you know, twenty twenty one twentytwenty three, were able to do twenty
five thousand dollars to a couple ofindividuals. Twenty twenty two we did seventy
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seventy thousand dollars, and last yearwe did seventy five thousand dollars in grants.
Uh And this year already we've we'vealready approached that number and we should
be able to pass last year's numberin the first half of this year alone,
which through bathroom renovations, helping individualsget accessible vans, UH and pieces
of home equipment. You know,it's it's it's been awesome to see us
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really to have that impact that wesay out to do, you know so
many years ago, Well you're you'reaccomplishing it on a day to day basis.
Let's talk about the marathon. Youhave been involved in ten This will
be your tenth marathon in Boston marathon, correct, and four of them have
been to benefit the foundation, whichwas founded again and you know, I
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believe you said twenty twenty correct,correct. And so when Luke and I
set out back in twenty twelve torun the marathon, you know we were
able to do it for some unbelievablegroups. We ran for the Travis Roy
Foundation, Boston Bruins Foundation, butalways in the back of our mind we
had the envision and hope to oneday run for a foundation of our own,
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and you know, Mary Kay Calvinwas able to do it in twenty
twenty one, Jess Rooney helped usout in twenty twenty two, and last
year Bernan Green helped us out intwenty twenty three, and this year we
have a Shannon Brown, who's ourcousin, running her first marathon for the
found Nation. And you know,I always we're able to do the New
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York City Marathon, the Hyenas Marathon, but there's really nothing that beats the
Boston Marathon. You know, runningHeartbreak Hill and seeing Wellesley College and hearing
those individuals charras on it's it's reallyit's really something special that you know that
we get to take on Boston andthis year do it for the Foundation on
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our own. It's it's uh,it's it's it's super special and I cannot
wait to be able to do Bostonagain for the Foundation this year. Matt,
tell me a little bit about Luke. He has pushed you, uh
literally and figuratively for this will bethe fourth time, correct, uh so
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this will be our tenth with himkind of pushing me in the Foundation.
So ten years he's been with youevery marathon, yeas, And yeah,
I owe so much to him foryou know, one to run a marathon
kind of as an individual is anaccomplish on his own, but for him
to you know, really you know, the dedication and the sacrifice, you
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know, to push someone else.It's it's it's truly an accomplishment in accomplishment
in and of itself. And forhim to, you know, be able
to get behind me and put onefor one foot in front of the other.
Uh And and to do this,I owe so much to him.
So tell us tell us about Lukeas he had he run marathons before.
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Just give us a little quick thumbnailon him. How did how did you
and he connect? Initially? Soit's a funny story. I was in
the second grade when I watched Luketake take down a fifty foot hemlock tree
with his company, Pathfinder Tree Business. And you know, Luke Luke Luke
joined the military, uh, anarmy ranger. UH. And when he
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got out, you wanted to stayactive. And he came to us and
said, you know, would Matthave any interest in maybe one day running
the marit doing the marathon? AndI and I said yes, before I
even knew how how it would bedone. And you know, we got
we got fitted for a chair,you know, a racing chair that he
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you know, he trains in.And it's it's just it's it's it's it's
it's one of the best days ofthe year. Uh. And and to
be able to do it, youknow, in front of you know,
the Massachusetts and all those that comeout to support us, And uh,
it really never gets old. Man. You're you never get old too.
And you're an inspiration to me andto so many of my listeners. Your
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your book is still in print.I believe we talked about that a couple
of years ago. Where can peopleget your life story so on? On
Amazon? It's available, It's calledline Change. And you know, I
think when we set out and createdit, we had every intent to giving
it to kids going through middle school, high school, and college facing the
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everyday adversities that come their way.But we've received messages from all ages and
all walks of life that individual individualswere able to take you know, to
read the messages in there about neverquit. And we've had an an unbelievable
and unbelievable response from those that areLike we had a group up on the
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up on the North Shore in Essex, Aggie that the entire school read it
as part of their some reading.You know, I was able to go
up, you know, talk tothe talk to the student body there just
about dealing with. You know,when adversity comes their way. You know,
the biggest thing that you know toremember is that attitude overcomes adversity.
You know that that you know,bad things happen, changes that changes out
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of our control. But when yourealize that, you know that everyone's face
battles. You know, at atat every turn that you know, if
you if you can stay positive,find a good support system, you know,
you can get through anything that mightcome there, anything that might come
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their way, you are an inspiration. The book is Line Change, And
for those of you who are notfamiliar with hockey, line changes occurred on
the fly in the hockey game,during a hockey game, and in a
high school hockey game. Uh.Matt suffered an injury that uh that basically
consigned him onto a to a wheelchair. But he hasn't been consigned to that
wheelchair very much. Written a book, you know, has helped so many
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other people. If you want aninspiration, go to Matt's website, Matt
Brownfoundation dot org. Uh that's thecorrect nomenclature, right, It's it's a
dot org Matt correct. And youknow, if if anyone could take inspiration
or you know, can connect withyou know, the message messages that are
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in there, uh, and theyfeel inspired to help others. You know,
we we still are fundraising for thefor our marathon. We're on give
and Gain. You can check itout on our Facebook page. Map Around
Foundation on Facebook. I think we'reMatt B Foundation on Instagram. Uh.
And one of the things that thatkeep us afloat in helping others is it's
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all through uh donations from you know, individuals that are inspired and want to
help others. Uh. And youknow, we're still fundraising for the for
the Foundation marathon team. And youknow it's it's through the generosity of so
many in the area that allow usto help others. You know, like
I said, it's this year hasbeen our biggest year. But you know,
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we can't do it without the helpof others. So if anyone's inspired,
I suspect the best is yet tocome. Man, And who knows
what the future as hold for you. I hope it's only good things.
Maybe there'll be some medical advances.When I think about the amount of money
that our government spends on programs andhow inefficient it is, I know,
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how efficient your charity and a lotof small charities are and that's why we
support the Matt Brown Foundation. Wesupport the Shadow Fund and other small charities.
I think of yours, I thinkof you know, the Tunnel to
Towers Foundation. These are great foundationsand they're just Americans who themselves have dealt
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with adversity, like you, helpingothers deal with adversity going forward. So
folks, folks jump on board andmake a donation. Go to Matt Brown
Foundation dot org. I just wantto make sure that that is the correct
Matt Brown all one word, bR O W N Foundation dot org.
Make a donation. So when youwatch the marathon on Monday, whether you
see it in person or you watchit on television, you'll know that you
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have you have some skin in thegame, and that skin embodies a great
young man, Matt Brown. Mattis always thanks very much. Please say
hyu we' pel Jack Darty when youtalk to him. I was remiss.
I should have called Jack today andtold him exactly what time you're going to
be on. But he'll be ableto listen to it. Yeah, you
have done. Nor would your familyand this comwealth of Massachusetts so proudly,
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so proud. I just know,well, Dan, Dan, I I
can't beg you not for having meon and you know, being such a
major supporter for the Matt Brown Foundation. It's it's folks at you that keep
us afloat and being able to makea difference in this world. Thank you,
my friend. We will talk soon, okay, and hope we'll tee
each other before the summer is over. Okay, Dan, have a great
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night. And again to all yourlisteners, you know, thank you in
advance, and without them, youknow we're not able to do what we
do. Well. You keep onkeeping on. Thanks Matt. I appreciate
it, never quit, overcome foreverfull with the Matt Brown Foundation dot org.
When we get back, we're goingto change topics and talk about something
that's coming at us on Monday,the solar eclipse, and also the possibility
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that a lot of hospitals might bea little busier than usual this Monday afternoon.
Back on Nightside right after this,It's Nightside with Dan Ray on w
Boston's news radio. Well, theBig Clips happens on Monday with us as
doctor Fami Farha, a cardiologist,and I guess doctor Farha, a lot
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of hospitals are kind of on highalert for all sorts of potential problems.
What's the story. Yes, thereare some concerns surrounding their clips just because
of how hyped up it isn't howmany people are going to be traveling,
and you know, driving basically torural areas. The concern is multiple,
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Like one is the car accidents,of course when they're like large crowds,
crowd controller the big deal. Socar accidents, you know, we can
see a lot of your visits asa results of that. But also people
just like you know, being outthere in the in the heat and just
in large crowds, people having heartattacks or injuries and things like that that
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can't spike up the r visits,especially in rural areas where they may not
be as equipped. Doctor Farr,I know you're a cardiologist, board certified,
an invasive cardiologist. Hopefully no onewill have heart attacks. But is
there a track record here for thisis not the first solar eclipse that we've
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had in this country, and therehave been solar eclipses in other countries.
Are we look in at a trackrecord? You can you can see that
you can have more people in anarea we are we based our concern upon
uh track record of problems or arewe just saying this this might be unique
because of these the areas where theeclipse will maximum, and that's where people
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will want to go too. Ithink much of the concern is speculation,
not necessarily based on track records,just because of the path of the clips.
And you know, even though you'reright, it's another first Stiller clips,
but it's been hyped up so much, and it's supposed to be been
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told that one of the rare onesthat we're not going to see for another
hundred years, and so I thinkpeople just kind of went crazy because there
will be like, you know,thousands of people crowding in certain areas that
are like, for example, inTexas. I'm actually from Texas, and
I know that people will be headingin an area that's pre rural within Texas,
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and I think that is a concern. Well, we have the same
thing in New England. Of course, it cuts the line through the country
sort of diagonally almost, and itends up here in New England. We're
based in New England, but webroadcast over half the country, but a
lot of folks upstate New York,which is not densely populated parts of northern
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Vermont northern New Hampshire in Maine.The governor of New Hampshire tonight was on
television, Chris Sununu saying that peoplelook come to New Hampshire, enjoy yourselves,
but you know realize that they innorthern New Hampshire, they don't have
a lot of major highways. Soyou know people are going to are going
to It may take them a longtime to get there, but it's going
to take them longer to go homewhen everybody's trying to go home. How
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do we instill patients in people?And when I say patients, I'm not
talking about the people you see inyour office. I'm talking about that great
quality and virtue of patients. OhI know, yes, And I think
that is a major concern. It'sthat crowd control. And you know when
there are like thousands of people blockingin an area, you know the city
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that there will be going to me. I'll be equipped to handle that kind
of traffic. And so if somebody, for example, I hope nobody has
a heart attack, but if thereis such an emergency and somebody's trapped in
an area, that could be ofconcern. And of course the main I
think one of the biggest concerns thaters have at this moment is correct.
Yeah, the other concern, andI know that you're not an ophthalmologist,
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you're a cardiologist. People have tobe very concerned about not looking at the
eclipse without adequate and appropriate protection.I want to say something about that,
just as a reminder for people.Absolutely, it's a great reminder. I
hope that anybody who is planning onobserving the clips absolutely must protect their eyes
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with the appropriate glasses. Otherwise,the ev you need the UV protection.
You could really damage your vision andyour eyes if not well. Look,
I thank you so much for havingjoined us somenight. I'd love to have
you back and talk about your specialtyobviously, which is cardiology. But your
words tonight may may implant in theminds of a lot of people the idea
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of patience and enjoy the event andplan appropriately and if you have to stay
over in the rural area, havea nice dinner and a glass of wine
and drive in the morning. Letme put it like that. Okay,
thank you, doctor, appreciate itso much. Thank you for having me.
Have a great night. Good night, doctor, Fami Farha, cardiologist,
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Words to the wise. Back onNight's side, we're going to talk
about what's going on in New Englandhere and going to talk about some real
interesting, no big contracts that somebusinesses in Massachusetts have benefited from the influx
of migrants into our state. We'llexplain coming back right after the Night
It's nice, Dan Ray. I'mgoing easy Boston's news Radio. Thank you
very much, Nicole. Want towelcome you to the weekend as far as
I'm concerned. I know my weekenddoesn't start at the laughter my show,
but you've got to be pretty gettingpretty close to the weekend, so tgif
have a good one, Nicole,you deserve it, that's for sure.
My name is Dan Ray, asmy friend Nicole always references, and this
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is Nightside. I'm here every Mondaythrough Friday night from eight until midnight,
twenty hours a week. We havelots to cover Tonight. I guarantee you
we will have some interesting topics andhave some fun in the eleven o'clock hour,
So stick with us all the way. We're going to start off tonight.
And by the way, Rob Brooksis back in the control room.
And I want to thank Gary Tangwayfor sitting in for me last night.
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They gave me an opportunity to celebratephilanthropic philanthropy. I should say it's easy
for me to say at you massBoston, and want to congratulate the ninth
Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts BarBoston, a major research university. The
City of Boston's only research university andthe Chancellor, Marcelo Souarez Orosco, did
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a great job last night, andI know they had a great ceremony over
there today now, So again,congratulations to both you and missus Orosco as
well. Chancellor. You guys area wonderful couple and you've had four years
of leadership. Derek and I can'twait to see what happens in the next
four and beyond. Now we havefour guests here in the eight o'clock hour,
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and I'm really excited to meet thefirst guest for the first time they
ever had a chance to talk withRenee Marino. She's a communications coach and
also has a stage background and aHollywood background. Start in a movie that
many of you may have seen,and that was the movie about Jersey Boys.
I guess it was Clint Eastwood wasthe director of this movie. Renee,
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how are you hi, Dan,I'm doing great. I feel like
I'm dealing here with Hollywood royalty rightnow. We don't often do that here.
Night's side. So you played FrankieValley's wife in the movie Jersey Boys.
I'm sure lots of my listeners watchedyour performance. I have not seen
the movie, although I'll be watchingit this weekend. I guarantee you that.
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But it's a great story. Isaw Jersey Boys on stage last summer
in Summer Theater down the Cape,so this is going to be pretty exciting.
And hopefully this is not your lastperformance. I know that you've been
on stage in the movies. Beforewe get to what you do in full
time, what's cooking on the backburner? Oh? Well, Dan,
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First, I just want to sayplaying Frankie Valley's wife in the film and
on Broadway was one of the greatest, greatest honors of my life. And
actually it's the ten year anniversary inJune of the film coming out. You
know, I work nights and soI miss a lot and I'm watching this
one tomorrow night. Trust me onthat. Yes, then you're gonna have
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to call me back so we couldchat about it. Absolutely, absolutely,
Well let's talk. Let's talk about, as we would say, the full
time job. You are someone whois a communications coach. I guess is
what the title is. But Iread a lot about your background here and
I got to tell you we're wemust we must have some relatives back in
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the in the distant days, becauseit's very impressive presentation that I've seen you
make. And you know, wealways say what the world needs love now
is love more love. What theworld reads now is communication in everything,
in relationships and your work relationships,your personal relationships. Tell us what can
you do for people as a communicationcoach? For nae Yes, I like
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to say that I'm a connection expertto explain it even more clearly, because
because at the end of the day, it comes down to the communication of
connection, being able to communicate inan effective and clear way, so you
create those genuine connections with people thatlead to opportunity. And it has been
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my greatest, greatest gift in mylife to be able to communicate in an
effective way, which I believe iswhat has led me to reach the hype
that I have as a professional actressfor years on Broadway, in film,
and now as a speaker speaking allover the world and a best selling author
as well. So how did youcome to this, because not many young
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girls will say when you grow upnot being an actress being on Broadway.
I get that, but to findthis other I guess true passion. I
almost would say vocation in your lifeto help people learn how to communicate.
We all have that ability, butI don't know that many of us have
a great intellectual capacity. All ofus talk about you know IQ, and
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well, what does IQ means?Einstein had a big IQ. We get
that. And then there are peoplewho have technical IQ's, and people who
have athletic IQs, and people havemechanical IQs. But a lot of people
don't have a communication IQ. Howcan you develop that communication that? In
Communication intelligence quota, the first stepis to gain the awareness about the importance
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of communication and to understand if thisis an area that maybe you do struggle
in. See, we are inthe day and age of digital technology,
DAN, where we have more outletsto communicate than ever before. Yet we're
communicating but not truly connecting because hereI am behind a phone and we're communicating,
and I can also just text youif I don't even want to verbalize.
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But if we want to be reallyeffective communicators and what I call master
communicators, we have to know theright time in place to communicate through digital
means versus the right time in placeto put those devices aside and have a
direct conversation. And that first stepis the communication with self gaining awareness around
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Am I a good communicator? HaveI faced problems in my relationships at work
because of ineffective communication? And that'sthe first question to ask yourself. No,
Renee, I've spent my entire lifein the communications world. I'm trained
as a lawyer, law school graduateand a member of the bar. But
I've worked for thirty one years asan on air television reporter here in Boston
for CBS. I've done a talkshow now for seventeen years. But I
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remember being a sophomore in college andhaving to speak in front of a speech
class and just being terrified. Iremember I thought, oh my god,
well I freeze it, and Ireally do. But somehow I was got
over that and now I can't stopcommunicating. Way. But this is the
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truth. I spent my entire daycommunicating with people, whether they're potential guests,
whether or not they're people who arelooking to put someone on the show,
whether I'm talking to my producer,talking to my kids. You got
to communicate. That's I mean,that's the most important skill I think anyone
can have. Oh you know,if you're seven foot three and you could
hit a three point shot. You'regonna be okay whether you have to communicate
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or not. If you're Tom Bradyand you can throw football with that precision.
But all of us have the abilityto communicate. How do people get
in touch with you, particularly ifthey're like you know, CEOs of major
companies who are terrified of being infront of a television camera or being on
a radio program. Yes, comefind me, reach out to me on
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my website, Reneemarino dot com,R E N E E M A R
I N O dot com. Andknow this, this can be learned,
but just like anything that's worth itin our lives, we must put in
the practice. And Dan, youjust decribe that you were so afraid,
you were so terrified that then youkept doing it from what I teached,
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this power of imperfect action, takingaction even when you're afraid, even when
it's outside your comfort zone. Becausethe more you do in spite of the
fear, you develop a little nuggetof self confidence. And the more you
do it, more nuggets of selfconfidence are developed, and then it turns
into an armor of self belief.And before you know it, you're just
like you, Dan, You're like, I do this all the time,
and I'm great. I'm a greatcommunicator. It's so worth it because everything
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in our lives starts with communication,and when you learn to master this skill,
you become limitless. Yeah. Imean, I don't think I'm a
great communicative, but I've made mylife by being able to communicate both on
television for year, for years,and I was in one movie Reversal of
Fortune. Didn't have a role asprominent as yours, but I have my
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IMBD database, IMDb reference and ifyou had told me when I was a
sophomore in college that's I'd be ina real movie, I mean a big
screen movie or Reversal of Fortune inthe clubs from Buelau story work in television.
If I can do that, Renee, anyone can do it. And
I know so many CEOs who couldbenefit from from spending some time in person
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or on the phone with you,and they would be so much better for
it. So what's the website?There's got to be a website. I
know it's all website. How didthey get to you? My personal website?
You can reach out to me onthere, Reneemarino dot com and we
can set up a one on onecall to get clear on what your needs
are and let's get you turning intoa master communicator because remember this, especially
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as CEOs, I work with alot of business owners entrepreneurs. You can
have the best systems, tools,processes, but if you don't know how
to connect with people on a reallevel and communicate effectively, none of those
other things matter. Couldn't agree withyou more. Tell you, I really
appreciate you taking the time. Isuspected some one of our some of our
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smart CEOs and people who want tobe CEOs will communicate with you. And
I'll be watching the movie this weekend, Jersey Boys, starring Rene Marino.
I'm so looking forward. I heardyou did a great job in the role
from several people who I talked totoday, and maybe some others will be
will be picking up on the flickas well. So Renee, appreciate it
very much. It was a pleasureto talk with you, and I'm I
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got to tell you your ability tocommunicate is incredible. In your ability to
share that skill is really breathtaking,and I think a lot of people should
be smart enough to take advantage ofit. Renee, thanks again, pleasure
you too, and thank you forbeing a great communicator. Well, I
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should call again some lessons to bea little bit better, but it's kind
of late in the career at thispoint. What I'm saying, do the
math renee, I don't know.I think you're doing pretty darn good,
my friend. All Right, we'reable to talk to you. Thank you
so much, appreciate it very much. All Right, when we get back,
we're going to talk about maybe adifferent type of communication. Going to
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talk with Oliver Barker. He iswith Cape up well, he's involved in
kpe I in he's a he's someonewho's been in KPN for for several years
and he's involved with the KPN Museum. I he's the director of the KPN
Museum as a matter of fact,up in the North Shore, and they
are having a at the KPN Museumand I think I've talked to Oliver once
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before. They are having a greatevent this weekend celebrating the sculptors of Cape
kpe An. So stick with us. We're going to be talking with Matt
Brown, who is a friend ofmine, a young man who suffered a
tough hockey injury at the age offifteen and now relies upon chair but nothing
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is going to keep Matt Brown fromparticipating and communicating. It will be once
again in the Boston Marathon this year, and then later on we're going to
talk about the problems that hospitals areanticipating in advance of the eclipse. That's
going to be real interesting as well. Back on Nightside, my name is
Dan Ray, communicating with you herein w BZ, Boston's news radio ten
thirty in the AM dial in Boston, Massachusetts, the greatest city in the
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world. Side, Dan Ray,I'm WBZ Boston's News Radio. All right,
Welcome back, everybody. Let usgo now to the North Shore up
to the KPN Museum. We havewith us the director of the KPN Museum,
Oliver Barker. High Oliver, Ithink this is not your first time
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with us, Correct, it isnot. I had the pleasure of speaking
with you and WBZ Nightside last yearand I'm delighted to join you again.
Thank you again for that chance.Welcome back, Welcome back. So you're
going to be celebrating the sculpectives ofCape ann Now sculpture work or sculpting,
I guess would be the word todescribe it. There aren't a lot of
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people who engage in that. Isthat popular up on the North Trill.
I guess there's quite a history toit. Good to it, and it's
interesting. With your earlier presenter tonight, you're talking about communication and sculpture is
all about communicating in three dimensions.And the very exciting thing that people will
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have the opportunity to explore with themuseum over the next couple of months in
the Round exhibition is to go ona journey investigating the real history and its
deep connections to Cape Ann, thereal history of sculpture and its deep connections
to Cape Ann as a medium.It all begins here with artists by the
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name of Charles Grafly, who wasa sculptor. He taught at the Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Arts and later atthe Boston Museum fin Arce School, and
his presence here really provided instruction fora long list of very talented sculptors who
then followed Walker Hancock, Katherine LaneWiens, George Demetrius, and Paul Manship.
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I mentioned Manship because many of yourlisteners might be familiar with the Prometheus
sculpture which is at the lower Plazaof Rockefeller Center that was by created by
Paul Manship. It's an icon interms of American sculpture, and Paul Manship
was a cape An resident and hiswork, along with some of those artists
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I mentioned, a heavily featured inour exhibitions here. Now many, if
I'm not mistaken, many different meansor mechanisms can be used in sculpture.
It's not all when we think about, you know, sculpting something at a
pottery wheel or something like that.How many different sort of sculpting methods will
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you be displaying this this weekend.Well, that's a great question. And
I'm just trying to think as Iwalk through the gallery, this new thing
I'm trying to Yeah, I'm tryingto put I'm trying to put everything together.
I will say for your listeners,there are works in clay, in
plaster cast, works in bronze,you know, wonderful reliefs that have been
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made, carvings in stone. Therethere is really no end. We have
kinetic works of sculpture too. Theseare works that respond to even the slightest
breeze and will move. Uh andand really, as I say, explore
three dimensions in wonderful ways. Sothere are many different techniques at play,
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and I think if for anyone comingto visit, it's a wonderful opportunity to
learn more about artists who work inthree dimensions. I will say that one
of the important factors in the exhibitionis that we live in this wonderful,
inspiring city, this city of Gloucesterhere on Cape An, and the museum
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starting this week is going to beoffering tours of the exhibition every first day
at two o'clock, and we're alsoinviting this is the season of course,
spring is fast approaching for people toget outdoors and join us in public sculpture
strolls, because one of the excitingthings about this singular, unique place of
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Cape Anne is that there are manyitems of public sculpture out on our city
streets, memorials in our parks,and it's a wonderful opportunity. We hope
for people to join us in beingoutdoors and exploring this new narrative in relation
to Cape An art. So thisis not constricted to the museum. It
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is not constricted to the museum.We An institution are very committed to trying
to open up our doors and makethe museum as accessible as as possible.
We live in this incredibly beautiful place, and as I say, it's a
place that has been graced with somany wonderful natural but also man made works
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of art. And so with thisexhibition there's that real invitation to explore the
surrounds of this city with the museum. Now, how long is the exhibition
going to be fully in place?Is there something that's going to be available
and on display? Obviously there mustbe tickets to get inside the museum,
but just to visit. Is thisgoing to be something that will dot the
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landscape of Cape Ann in Gloucester fora longer period of time this spring the
TOUB Yes, the public art installationsare there year round, will be activating
them through the exhibition, of course, which runs through the twenty third of
June. So there's time for peopleto come here and really take it all
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in. And then in terms ofthe museum, because I do believe that
that tickets are required for that,how long is the museum? Is this
an open ended or is there someis part of this ending at some point
because they don't want people to missit. Oh, of course, So
the in the Round exhibition, theexhibition that is featuring twentieth and twenty first
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century sculptors of Cape Ann will beon you through June the twenty third.
If the museum are open Tuesdays throughSunday and so there hopefully will be plenty
of opportunities for people to come visit. Yeah. I'm looking at the ticket
prices and they seem very reasonable.It's a great whether you're in the up
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on the north Shore or coming froma further distance, it's reasonable and I
suspect you could probably spend the entireday. I know that, for example,
tomorrow, would you're open from tenam until five PM's at the normal
hours. There are normal hours onSundays we'll open between one and four,
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but otherwise it's Tuesday through Saturday tento five. I will say that in
addition to coming to see the sculptureshow, tomorrow will be inaugurating an exhibition
of student work. The museum hasbeen actively working with second, third and
eighth grade students from all across CapeAn, and so anyone who visits over
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these next few months will have thechance to see the work, of course
of twentieth and twenty first century sculptors, but they'll have the chance actually also
to see over six hundred and fiftymuch younger artists who are contributing to the
narrative here of KPE and so there'sa lot to enjoy and to see when
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you're visiting this area. Ours,gardisadas and arts for everyone. Oliver Barker,
Director of the KPN Museum, thankyou so much for your bringing your
enthusiasm to us tonight and hopefully someof our listeners will take advantage of hopefully
your breaking the weather this weekend andget up and say hello. I look
forward to that. Thanks again,Dan for showing the interest and come to
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this soon. All right, I'lltry. Thank you so much, Olive,
appreciate you have a great weekend anda lot of success. When we
get back, we're going to talkto a young man that I've grown to
admire. Fifteen years of age.He's paralyzed in a freak hockey accident playing
for Norwood High School hockey team,but he has not let that get him
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down. And we're going to talkabout his upcoming fundraiser and what the good
that his foundation, the Matt BrownFoundation, is doing, and also his
participation now in his tenth Boston Marathon. We have it all coming up for
you right after the break news atthe bottom of the error on w Z
Boston's news radio. My name's DanRay. This is Nightside. Night Side
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is Dan Ray on w BZ,Boston's news radio. Well, I want
to welcome back to Nightside. MattBrown. Just an outstanding young man who
is stepping away from his what numbertonight birthday party? Matt Okay, hard
to believe, but number thirty thirty, Well, you know that's that's a
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big one for those who do notknow Matt Brown, and I think all
of you should know this young man. He had to suffered a tough injury
playing high school hockey for nor whathigh school? You were fifteen years of
age. You have a sophomore inhigh school. You've lived your life in
a wheelchair, and that would havebroken a lot of people, lesser people
(21:52):
than Matt Brown. You're You're,I guess you're. The words you live
by are never quit, overcome,forever Forward. That's the Matt Brown Foundation.
I am always, always rather whetherwhen I see you talk to you,
I come away realizing what an incrediblehuman being are. You have a
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foundation. It's a five O oneC three nonprofit organization whose mission is to
support and assist groups, individuals andfamilies living with or recovering from illness or
injury, with a particular emphasis andparalysis. Matt, how is it possible
for you, in your set ofcircumstances to look beyond yourself and help other
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people? Yeah, yeah, Ithink that's a good question. Ann.
What I always come away with isthat I was dealt this, and I
talked about how I was. Iwas dealt the cards that I think that
I, you know, never wanted, But it was my job to kind
of come away with the best handthat I can make. And I've been
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so lucky with the support that I'vegotten from my family and from my friends
that you know, once it wastime that we were kind of established,
that it was time for us togive back. And I think the biggest
thing is that, you know,there's a lot of individuals and families out
there struggling with his prols. Ifwe can make, you know, each
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day just a little bit better thanthe one before, you know, that's
where we want to come and helpas many folks and individuals as much as
we can. Well, you know, I was connected to you through a
great mutual friend, Jack Dugherty ofcollege Hype, who also has a tremendous
sense of generosity and and reaches outto people give people an idea about some
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of the help that you that yourfoundation has given to others who find themselves
in you know, the difficult setof circumstances. I'm not going to pull
any punches. It's a forgot setus circumstances to for sure, and and
and you know, we launched thefoundation right the right in the middle of
twenty twenty, right in the middleof the pandemic, and it was challenging
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at first. But in the yearsthat have followed, through our golf tournament,
through the marathon, and through theFountain Road Race, we've been able
to you know, finally really startto have an impact. H and through
you know, twenty twenty one twentytwenty three, were able to do twenty
five thousand dollars to a couple ofindividuals. Twenty twenty two we did seventy
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seventy thousand dollars, and last yearwe did seventy five thousand dollars in grants.
Uh And this year already we've we'vealready approached that number and we should
be able to pass last year's numberin the first half of this year alone,
which through bathroom renovations, helping individualsget accessible vans, UH and pieces
of home equipment. You know,it's it's it's been awesome to see us
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really to have that impact that wesay out to do, you know so
many years ago, Well you're you'reaccomplishing it on a day to day basis.
Let's talk about the marathon. Youhave been involved in ten This will
be your tenth marathon in Boston marathon, correct, and four of them have
been to benefit the foundation, whichwas founded again and you know, I
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believe you said twenty twenty correct,correct. And so when Luke and I
set out back in twenty twelve torun the marathon, you know we were
able to do it for some unbelievablegroups. We ran for the Travis Roy
Foundation, Boston Bruins Foundation, butalways in the back of our mind we
had the envision and hope to oneday run for a foundation of our own,
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and you know, Mary Kay Calvinwas able to do it in twenty
twenty one, Jess Rooney helped usout in twenty twenty two, and last
year Bernan Green helped us out intwenty twenty three, and this year we
have a Shannon Brown, who's ourcousin, running her first marathon for the
found Nation. And you know,I always we're able to do the New
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York City Marathon, the Hyenas Marathon, but there's really nothing that beats the
Boston Marathon. You know, runningHeartbreak Hill and seeing Wellesley College and hearing
those individuals charras on it's it's reallyit's really something special that you know that
we get to take on Boston andthis year do it for the Foundation on
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our own. It's it's uh,it's it's it's super special and I cannot
wait to be able to do Bostonagain for the Foundation this year. Matt,
tell me a little bit about Luke. He has pushed you, uh
literally and figuratively for this will bethe fourth time, correct, uh so
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this will be our tenth with himkind of pushing me in the Foundation.
So ten years he's been with youevery marathon, yeas, And yeah,
I owe so much to him foryou know, one to run a marathon
kind of as an individual is anaccomplish on his own, but for him
to you know, really you know, the dedication and the sacrifice, you
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know, to push someone else.It's it's it's truly an accomplishment in accomplishment
in and of itself. And forhim to, you know, be able
to get behind me and put onefor one foot in front of the other.
Uh And and to do this,I owe so much to him.
So tell us tell us about Lukeas he had he run marathons before.
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Just give us a little quick thumbnailon him. How did how did you
and he connect? Initially? Soit's a funny story. I was in
the second grade when I watched Luketake take down a fifty foot hemlock tree
with his company, Pathfinder Tree Business. And you know, Luke Luke Luke
joined the military, uh, anarmy ranger. UH. And when he
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got out, you wanted to stayactive. And he came to us and
said, you know, would Matthave any interest in maybe one day running
the marit doing the marathon? AndI and I said yes, before I
even knew how how it would bedone. And you know, we got
we got fitted for a chair,you know, a racing chair that he
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you know, he trains in.And it's it's just it's it's it's it's
it's one of the best days ofthe year. Uh. And and to
be able to do it, youknow, in front of you know,
the Massachusetts and all those that comeout to support us, And uh,
it really never gets old. Man. You're you never get old too.
And you're an inspiration to me andto so many of my listeners. Your
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your book is still in print.I believe we talked about that a couple
of years ago. Where can peopleget your life story so on? On
Amazon? It's available, It's calledline Change. And you know, I
think when we set out and createdit, we had every intent to giving
it to kids going through middle school, high school, and college facing the
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everyday adversities that come their way.But we've received messages from all ages and
all walks of life that individual individualswere able to take you know, to
read the messages in there about neverquit. And we've had an an unbelievable
and unbelievable response from those that areLike we had a group up on the
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up on the North Shore in Essex, Aggie that the entire school read it
as part of their some reading.You know, I was able to go
up, you know, talk tothe talk to the student body there just
about dealing with. You know,when adversity comes their way. You know,
the biggest thing that you know toremember is that attitude overcomes adversity.
You know that that you know,bad things happen, changes that changes out
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of our control. But when yourealize that, you know that everyone's face
battles. You know, at atat every turn that you know, if
you if you can stay positive,find a good support system, you know,
you can get through anything that mightcome there, anything that might come
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their way, you are an inspiration. The book is Line Change, And
for those of you who are notfamiliar with hockey, line changes occurred on
the fly in the hockey game,during a hockey game, and in a
high school hockey game. Uh.Matt suffered an injury that uh that basically
consigned him onto a to a wheelchair. But he hasn't been consigned to that
wheelchair very much. Written a book, you know, has helped so many
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other people. If you want aninspiration, go to Matt's website, Matt
Brownfoundation dot org. Uh that's thecorrect nomenclature, right, It's it's a
dot org Matt correct. And youknow, if if anyone could take inspiration
or you know, can connect withyou know, the message messages that are
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in there, uh, and theyfeel inspired to help others. You know,
we we still are fundraising for thefor our marathon. We're on give
and Gain. You can check itout on our Facebook page. Map Around
Foundation on Facebook. I think we'reMatt B Foundation on Instagram. Uh.
And one of the things that thatkeep us afloat in helping others is it's
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all through uh donations from you know, individuals that are inspired and want to
help others. Uh. And youknow, we're still fundraising for the for
the Foundation marathon team. And youknow it's it's through the generosity of so
many in the area that allow usto help others. You know, like
I said, it's this year hasbeen our biggest year. But you know,
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we can't do it without the helpof others. So if anyone's inspired,
I suspect the best is yet tocome. Man, And who knows
what the future as hold for you. I hope it's only good things.
Maybe there'll be some medical advances.When I think about the amount of money
that our government spends on programs andhow inefficient it is, I know,
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how efficient your charity and a lotof small charities are and that's why we
support the Matt Brown Foundation. Wesupport the Shadow Fund and other small charities.
I think of yours, I thinkof you know, the Tunnel to
Towers Foundation. These are great foundationsand they're just Americans who themselves have dealt
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with adversity, like you, helpingothers deal with adversity going forward. So
folks, folks jump on board andmake a donation. Go to Matt Brown
Foundation dot org. I just wantto make sure that that is the correct
Matt Brown all one word, bR O W N Foundation dot org.
Make a donation. So when youwatch the marathon on Monday, whether you
see it in person or you watchit on television, you'll know that you
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have you have some skin in thegame, and that skin embodies a great
young man, Matt Brown. Mattis always thanks very much. Please say
hyu we' pel Jack Darty when youtalk to him. I was remiss.
I should have called Jack today andtold him exactly what time you're going to
be on. But he'll be ableto listen to it. Yeah, you
have done. Nor would your familyand this comwealth of Massachusetts so proudly,
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so proud. I just know,well, Dan, Dan, I I
can't beg you not for having meon and you know, being such a
major supporter for the Matt Brown Foundation. It's it's folks at you that keep
us afloat and being able to makea difference in this world. Thank you,
my friend. We will talk soon, okay, and hope we'll tee
each other before the summer is over. Okay, Dan, have a great
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night. And again to all yourlisteners, you know, thank you in
advance, and without them, youknow we're not able to do what we
do. Well. You keep onkeeping on. Thanks Matt. I appreciate
it, never quit, overcome foreverfull with the Matt Brown Foundation dot org.
When we get back, we're goingto change topics and talk about something
that's coming at us on Monday,the solar eclipse, and also the possibility
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that a lot of hospitals might bea little busier than usual this Monday afternoon.
Back on Nightside right after this,It's Nightside with Dan Ray on w
Boston's news radio. Well, theBig Clips happens on Monday with us as
doctor Fami Farha, a cardiologist,and I guess doctor Farha, a lot
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of hospitals are kind of on highalert for all sorts of potential problems.
What's the story. Yes, thereare some concerns surrounding their clips just because
of how hyped up it isn't howmany people are going to be traveling,
and you know, driving basically torural areas. The concern is multiple,
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Like one is the car accidents,of course when they're like large crowds,
crowd controller the big deal. Socar accidents, you know, we can
see a lot of your visits asa results of that. But also people
just like you know, being outthere in the in the heat and just
in large crowds, people having heartattacks or injuries and things like that that
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can't spike up the r visits,especially in rural areas where they may not
be as equipped. Doctor Farr,I know you're a cardiologist, board certified,
an invasive cardiologist. Hopefully no onewill have heart attacks. But is
there a track record here for thisis not the first solar eclipse that we've
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had in this country, and therehave been solar eclipses in other countries.
Are we look in at a trackrecord? You can you can see that
you can have more people in anarea we are we based our concern upon
uh track record of problems or arewe just saying this this might be unique
because of these the areas where theeclipse will maximum, and that's where people
(36:00):
will want to go too. Ithink much of the concern is speculation,
not necessarily based on track records,just because of the path of the clips.
And you know, even though you'reright, it's another first Stiller clips,
but it's been hyped up so much, and it's supposed to be been
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told that one of the rare onesthat we're not going to see for another
hundred years, and so I thinkpeople just kind of went crazy because there
will be like, you know,thousands of people crowding in certain areas that
are like, for example, inTexas. I'm actually from Texas, and
I know that people will be headingin an area that's pre rural within Texas,
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and I think that is a concern. Well, we have the same
thing in New England. Of course, it cuts the line through the country
sort of diagonally almost, and itends up here in New England. We're
based in New England, but webroadcast over half the country, but a
lot of folks upstate New York,which is not densely populated parts of northern
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Vermont northern New Hampshire in Maine.The governor of New Hampshire tonight was on
television, Chris Sununu saying that peoplelook come to New Hampshire, enjoy yourselves,
but you know realize that they innorthern New Hampshire, they don't have
a lot of major highways. Soyou know people are going to are going
to It may take them a longtime to get there, but it's going
to take them longer to go homewhen everybody's trying to go home. How
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do we instill patients in people?And when I say patients, I'm not
talking about the people you see inyour office. I'm talking about that great
quality and virtue of patients. OhI know, yes, And I think
that is a major concern. It'sthat crowd control. And you know when
there are like thousands of people blockingin an area, you know the city
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that there will be going to me. I'll be equipped to handle that kind
of traffic. And so if somebody, for example, I hope nobody has
a heart attack, but if thereis such an emergency and somebody's trapped in
an area, that could be ofconcern. And of course the main I
think one of the biggest concerns thaters have at this moment is correct.
Yeah, the other concern, andI know that you're not an ophthalmologist,
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you're a cardiologist. People have tobe very concerned about not looking at the
eclipse without adequate and appropriate protection.I want to say something about that,
just as a reminder for people.Absolutely, it's a great reminder. I
hope that anybody who is planning onobserving the clips absolutely must protect their eyes
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with the appropriate glasses. Otherwise,the ev you need the UV protection.
You could really damage your vision andyour eyes if not well. Look,
I thank you so much for havingjoined us somenight. I'd love to have
you back and talk about your specialtyobviously, which is cardiology. But your
words tonight may may implant in theminds of a lot of people the idea
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of patience and enjoy the event andplan appropriately and if you have to stay
over in the rural area, havea nice dinner and a glass of wine
and drive in the morning. Letme put it like that. Okay,
thank you, doctor, appreciate itso much. Thank you for having me.
Have a great night. Good night, doctor, Fami Farha, cardiologist,
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Words to the wise. Back onNight's side, we're going to talk
about what's going on in New Englandhere and going to talk about some real
interesting, no big contracts that somebusinesses in Massachusetts have benefited from the influx
of migrants into our state. We'llexplain coming back right after the Night
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