October 4, 2024 • 38 mins
We kicked off the program with four news stories and different guests on the stories we think you need to know about!
Kathy Alpert says the New England Postcard Club next meeting is Sunday, October 6th from 10-3pm!
Domestic Violence Awareness Month: Empowering Message for Survivors. With our guest Laura Frombach – Technologist & Domestic Violence Survivor – also co-author of book: Street Smart Safety: Your Guide to Defensive Living.
Dr. Fahmi Farah – Cardiologist with an Alarming rise of 'super-fit' slim young people suffering heart attacks as experts reveal theories for the surge.
Cyndi Bray – Energy Expert & Inventor of Wad Free – a product used to protect your bed sheets and blankets from detangling in the wash or dryer talks about National Energy Awareness Month - Easy ways viewers can reduce their energy usage to have less of an environmental impact and save money on energy bills.
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Kathy Alpert says the New England Postcard Club next meeting is Sunday, October 6th from 10-3pm!
Domestic Violence Awareness Month: Empowering Message for Survivors. With our guest Laura Frombach – Technologist & Domestic Violence Survivor – also co-author of book: Street Smart Safety: Your Guide to Defensive Living.
Dr. Fahmi Farah – Cardiologist with an Alarming rise of 'super-fit' slim young people suffering heart attacks as experts reveal theories for the surge.
Cyndi Bray – Energy Expert & Inventor of Wad Free – a product used to protect your bed sheets and blankets from detangling in the wash or dryer talks about National Energy Awareness Month - Easy ways viewers can reduce their energy usage to have less of an environmental impact and save money on energy bills.
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about that, and we'll also talk tonight about the impact
of Hurricane Helene. And I don't know how many of
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We're going to talk with the representative of a group
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We'll get to all of that as the evening goes
on again. My name's Dan Ram, the host of the show.
I get to sit here every Monday through Friday night
from eight until midnighte and we get to talk with
interesting people. We're going to start off with a very
interesting person who I kind of discovered, I think last
earlier this year, Kathy Albert. I don't hope you're not
offended by that, Kathy, but Kathy is the president of
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the New England Postcard Club. Welcome back, Kathy.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
How are you all fine? Thanks Dan, Thanks for having me.
It's great to be here.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yeah. I think this is this your third or fourth
time with us here And I forget how we met,
whether you sent an email to me or something. But
I never realized the number of people in New England
who were interested in collecting trading postcards. Postcards from hundreds,
not hundreds of years ago, but postcards from decade wild.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Yeah, yeah it is, and you have under there.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Well let's see, Well postcards were around in what the
eighteen nineties, Well.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
They started in Europe in the late nineteenth century, but
then they came over to the United States and it
only cost a penny to send a postcard and they had.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Really but you couldn't put them in an envelope, right,
You had to write your little note in the back. Yeah,
I have postcards from that era, and I know you
make postcards.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
When they first came out, you couldn't write, You couldn't
write a message on the back of the postcard. The
one side of the postcard was for the address and
the other side just to the picture. So people started
scrawling a little messages on the bottom of the picture,
and they eventually realized they're going to have to create
a divided postcard and have the message on one side
of the the blank side and the dress on the other,
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so the picture was remained intact and didn't have writing
all over it.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Yeah, you represent a group of people who are very
diverse in terms of their collection. Some people collect postcards generally.
Some people have sort of sub specialties. They only want
train postcards, or they want postcards about the state of
Massachusetts or a town in Massachusetts. Explain how that works.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Well, Actually, the most popular kind of postcard I think
for the people that I'm working with right now are
they call them view postcards, and they have them for
every town. Like, for example, there's one fellow in our
group who lives in Newton and he collects Newton postcards
and he has a huge collection of Newton postcards. And
he still hasn't gotten over to the what's the name
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of historical society there in Newton where they've got they've
got a huge postcard collection over there, I guess.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
But now and I know that there were people who
collect baseball park postcards, which is.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Yeah, baseball player, Yeah. I mean, it's just whatever your interest,
there's a postcard for that. But like I said, these
you postcards, people come in and there's a box this
is Massachusetts on it, and you can just slip through
it and you can look for your town and you
can find, you know, library at high school the way
it looked a hundred years ago. It's really cool.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
The other thing that I think is interesting is that
this seem there is still postcards sold, uh in circulation.
You go into certain stores and you can find postcards.
I don't know that hotels and motels still make postcards available,
but I can remember traveling young when I was younger,
there was always a stack of you know, five or
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six postcards in the draw of the death hotel, of
the motel, and you could send that you could use
that and have to put a stamp on it. Obviously,
has has that lost some of its popularity with with
with not only people who are travelers, but people who
provide them lodging and inns and bed and breakfasts and
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hotels and hotels.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
I mean, I think that one of the one of
the things I collect are hotels and motels and restaurants,
and I have a lot of a lot of those
from New York City, for example. But yeah, I mean
there are people people collect postcards of hotels the way
they looked one hundred years ago or fifty years ago,
and you know, the interior, or some of them have
beautiful murals. There's just there's so many different kinds of postcards,
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just mind boggling.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I hope you find someone who collects postcards of Boston
television personalities. I had a lot of postcards that I
nailed serious. Oh oh yeah, we still have them, by
the way, I do.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
I have entertainers and I do have I have you know,
old things from like w W was it w NAC
or was that a TV station?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Well that was a TV it was also a radio
station that would have been sort of in the in
the circuit time of circuit nineteen forties and nineteen fifties.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
I was, yeah, those are using that.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
But.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
A lot of people will. So let's talk about this. Sunday,
October sixth, two days from now, you're having another big
postcard meeting. Is this an annual event or semi annual?
How are you describing this event on Sunday?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Well, this is actually sort of a more of a
of a club meeting. We're going to have a meeting
where we'll tell people sort of what we're all about.
People can sign up and join, and you know, well.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
You've done a couple, You've done a couple of these
type you've done a couple of these meetings. I went
over to one which which was a year.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Last super was first one that was in March, and
that was a show and we had thanks to you
and the Globe, we had three hundred people there. It
was wild. But this one I expect to be smaller.
We're going to have a meeting and then we'll have
you know, half a dozen postcard dealers selling selling stuff.
After the meeting, people can go down and buy things.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
Great people, and.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
We're about tell us where, tell us where, and tell
us how they can, and well, obviously if they know
where it's it's from ten to three on Sunday. So
people have.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
The Fellman Museum of Jampson Postal History. It's on the
campus of the Regis College in Western It's really easy
to get to. It's right off with thirty, which is
right off the s Pike.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
It's a great.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Yeah, you were great to tell me about Ron Potosi
who is also a postcard person, and he listened Wisconsin
and he's joined our facebook page. We have we have
one hundred and fifty people now on our Facebook page,
the New England Postcard Club Facebook page.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Right listener out in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, So hopefully he's listening tonight.
So this is Sunday people. You don't have to register,
there's no cost. You just show up right and you're
going to auction off absolutely postcards. You're going to auction
off that box. How many postcards are going to be
in that box?
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Oh, I don't know, about five hundred. It's hard to tell.
But you know we're gonna somebody somebody. A lot of
people donate postcards to us, so we're going to be
selling those really inexpensively. But then somebody else who is
liquiding your condition her not condition her collection. Yeah, she's
liquidating in that and she gave us a box of
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postcards to auction off and she'll get the money.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Kathy, thank you very much. Is there there is a
website on Facebook, the New England Postcard Club that's easy
to find as well.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Yes, it's a Facebook group. It's a Facebook group. We
don't have a website yet. We're hoping to set one up, but.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Go on Facebook and you went to New England Postcard
Club in.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
The in the search bar and action in the group section.
But we're going to have another one of these meetings
in December and then we'll have our annual show again
in March.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
All right, Well, this is an ongoing activity and I'd
like to think that I was one of the founding
fathers of this group, because.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
You absolutely were. You made it happen man. Thank you
so much.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Then please say hi to everybody. I will not be
there on Sunday, but I'll probably be able to stop
buy in March. Okay, we'll talk again. Thanks.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Oh, that would be great. We'll look forward to that.
Thanks so much. Have a great weekend. Dan, Thank you
very welcome.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Thank you. When we get back, we are going to
talk about a very serious issue. Postcards are fun. We're
going to talk about domestic Violence Awareness Month and an
empowering message for survivors of domestic violence. We'll be speaking
with Laura Frombach. She's a technologist and domestic violence survivors.
She's also a co author a book called Street Smart Safety,
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Your Guide to Defensive Living. Stay with us a great
guest coming up back on nights Side. This is Boston's
news Radio. My name is Dan Ray, host of nights
I'd heard every Monday through Friday night right here on
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Speaker 1 (10:49):
Now back to Dan Ray, live from the Window World
night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
October is domestic Violence Awareness Month, and there are a
lot of causes that are highlighted in various months. It's
not as if it's the only cause. However, I can't
think of one that's more important, particularly for anyone who
has a daughter, or a niece, or a mom or
an aunt. Empowering message for survivors Laura Frombach. Laura, you
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are a domestic violence survivor yourself, and it says that
you're a technologist. I understand what a domestic violence survivor is.
What is a technologist.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
A technologist is somebody who is in love with technology,
and I've worked in technology all my career over thirty
years with large company small companies.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Okay, okay, I knew that, but I was wondering if
your work as a technologist had any relationship to the
subject at hand. So you could have said that you
were a lawyer and a domestic violence survivor or whatever.
So now I just wanted to clear that up. You're
also the co author of a book called Street Smart Safety,
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Your Guide to Defensive Living. Now is that book related
to domestic violence or is it? Is it a basically
a book that provides broader recommendations how people, men and
women can remain safe.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
It does both, Dan. It provides those recommendations that you
just talked about, but we also talk about domestic violence
and more importantly, how to recognize the patterns of domestic
violence earlier in the relationship, because it doesn't happen in
a vacuum. There are signs that people everyone can look
for if they know what they're looking for while they're dating.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Let's talk about some of those signs. What are the
signs that I guess men and women, but primarily women.
I mean, there are men who suffer from domestic violence
that I don't want to downplay that, you know that problem,
but most men, most victims of domestic violence in our
society are women. I believe these statistics would support that.
(13:06):
So let's talk about it from the point of view
of women. You begin into a dating relationship, what are
some of the warning signs that people should begin to say?
Speaker 4 (13:14):
On the first date, even you can start to see
some of those signs because domestic violence and abuse is
all about power and control. So if somebody starts to
order for you, if you want to leave, and they say,
well just one more, I mean, how many of us
haven't heard that those are actually signs not only that
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somebody might be interested in you, but that they're trying
to control you. And when you say oh, okay, you're
showing them that you can actually be controlled.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Okay, So let me play Devil's advocate for a second.
Let's assume a couple of years in a great time,
they really have hit it off. It's a blind date,
first date, they got up through they got set up
to a dating system with through some friends and the
you know, one of them has to work the next morning.
I'm really work early. There they got to They're on
the call at six am in the morning, and the
other person doesn't realize that, Well, let's just have one more.
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You know, we're having a good time. Can you distinguish
between that sort of g I'm really enjoying your company,
it's only you know, nine thirty. Do we have to
leave that early? Maybe not knowing that the other person
really does, you know, have to be at work at
six am? How do you distinguish that? Right?
Speaker 4 (14:29):
You can distinguish it by the fact that one to establish, Hey,
you know what, I am having a great time and
I would stay, but I really have to go. Does
that other person respect that and say, you know what,
I respect that. We can do it again?
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Makes a lot of sense, makes a lot of sense.
Some other signs should like to share with our audience.
I feel free, go right ahead.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
I'm sorry, could you repeat that place I said?
Speaker 2 (14:58):
I said other than someone and maybe on the first
daid being I mean, obviously, if someone tries to order
for you in the first aid, if they take you
to a restaurant, and they say, look, believe it or not,
this place has the best fill in the blank. Have
you been here before. That's a different approach as opposed
to go to a restaurant and say, Okay, I'm going
to order for you. We're you're gonna have a burger
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and fries, or you're gonna have spaghetti and meatballs. You know,
that's a different, different thing. But if you're somewhere at
a restaurant that the person is trying to be polite.
Give us some other signs that women should see early
on in relationships or even later on in relationships that
maybe people don't pick up on as quickly as they should.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Well. The other identifying factor in domestic abuse and violence
is isolation. So does that person try to get you
away from your family and friends to constantly criticize your
family and friends and say, oh, that person's telling you
this or this person doesn't want you to do that,
and try to get you so that they have you
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all to themselves, because domestic violence is a situation of isolation,
so that that person is the only person that in
your orbit, really and another sign is financial control. Do
they try to get you to move in with them
and do they try to gain control of your finances
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slowly but surely, because sometimes it's quickly, but other times
it's very slowly, so that the woman might not even
recognize that it's happening. But you know, in those cases,
your friends and family can be very very helpful to
you and say, you know what, this person, this guy boy,
I hardly ever see you anymore. And you know, in relationships,
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it's natural that people want to be together. But when
you want to go out for you know, girls' night
out and he doesn't want you to go out and
you know, threatened you even or or gives you the
silent treatment when you get back, you know, those are
all red flags.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Well, it's interesting because it's so tough when you're you know,
developing in relationships with someone who who you might be
attracted be attracted to, and sometimes it's tough for anyone.
You know, just just figuring out compatibility is uh is difficult.
It is difficult alone. And then when you have on
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top of it, what percentage And I'm sure there's not
a percentage that you can pick out of the air
for us, but what percentage of and we're talking young
men here, people we could be talking out of others,
But you know, men who are active on the dating scene,
what percentage of them do you think are people who
have the potential to inflict or engage in domestic violence?
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I mean, amongst the people who I know, I can't
think of anyone who who I would have identified as
someone who is like that. A wide variety of personage.
But is there is there a sentges that we can
put on this or no.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
I would say first of all that domestic violence and abuse,
first of all, women considered very shameful. If they've been
a victim, I will tell you. And that's interesting that
you just said that, because I know every woman that
I know has been a victim at some point in
their life, and so it's interesting that so many women
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know victims. But none of us, myself included, except for
my family, would classify anyone, any guy I know, as
an abuser. So you know, it's a situation that goes
on behind closed doors, and we never really know, you know,
what's behind a happy facade.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Yeah, no, I understand that that is true. No one
knows what goes on inside a marriage. Laura, thanks very
much again the book that you wrote, which is interesting
and should be available. The book book. The book the
name of it is street Smart Safety. Is that's been
out for a while.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
I suspect yes, Street Smart Safety for Women, Your Guide
to Defensive Living is available on Amazon. It's available in
books and Noble, Barnes, and I'm sorry Barnes and Noble
and wherever books are sold.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
And I would suspect that it wouldn't be a bad
book for men to buy buy as well, even though
it is entire absolutely smart safety for women. Okay, fair enough,
Laura appreciates you taking the time. And again, I hope
that people realize that there's no reason to bully someone
and never any reason to strike for men to strike
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a woman, because I think that any guy that is
actually going to strike a woman is at his core
an absolute coward. And I believe that I'm a kind
of old fashioned, but that's what I believe. Thanks, Laura
appreciates your call.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Thanks so much. Dan, having great weekend.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
All right, you two, Well we get up. We're going
to talk about a very interesting trend that is going
to surprise you about people who are in great shape,
particularly young people who suffer heart attacks. We're going to
talk with a cardiologist about the some of the theories behind this.
And I don't know much about this, but I just
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wonder if maybe some people are carrying the ability to
stay in shape and get super fit to the point
that they're actually abusing their heart. We'll talk with doctor
Fammi Fara right after the break and after the news
at the bottom of the air. My name is Dan Ray.
It's a Friday night or nightside. We're heading a Saturday morning.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
All right, let's get right back at it. I'm delighted
to be doing joined by cardiologists doctor Fammi Fara. I
hope I've pronounced your name correctly, Doctor Fara.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
It's Sarah.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Okay. If I wasn't close, let me get it right.
What is how's the pronunciation?
Speaker 5 (21:02):
It's sector Fammi Farah, Fammi.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Farah okay, fine, okay, I made it a soft a.
It's a fair farah. Okay. You're a cardiologist and a
board certified invasive cardiologist, and there's an alarming rate rise
of super fit swim young people suffering heart attacks as
experts prevail theories for the surge. So the question is
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When you think about people having heart attacks, as a rule,
you think about older people, and you think about maybe
older people who are carrying around a few too many pounds,
maybe in over people who are obviously overweight. The opposite
of that, you would think, is this group who are
young and and in great shape. What's going on.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
I think it's a result of multiple different things. I
know that data that come out recently shows that over
the course of the last five years the rate of
heart attack has gone up by almost forty one percent
between that age group, a young population between twenty five
to forty three age and the reasons it could beat
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the COVID virus it self that had caused some damage
to the vascular system. I think there's more than one reason,
though I do believe stress is a factor. More and
more people are stressed out for various reasons. Job related
schedule is not as great, people not sleeping well. Sleep
is now considered a major risk factor by the American heresitiation. Also,
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a lot of people who are fit and Jim Gores
may be taking exogenists, you know, storage such as disosterone shots,
which are very common and very popular. Right now. They
have Distoston shots as centers. I don't know how well
regulated these are, but the reason they bring this up
is because there is an inherent risk of increased cardiovascular
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events as a result of disosterone shots, so that could
be playing a role as well.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Well. Why would I assume you're talking to young men
in that situation. If I'm wrong, please correct me. But
why would a young man who is working out and
who is in obviously good physical condition, why would they
even think about testosterone shots. I mean, I understand that
there are people who have certain medical conditions later in
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life and they may need to have a testosterone shot,
But if you're a twenty five year old guy who's
in a gym and you're in good shape, I would
think you got all the testosterone that you need. Educate
me if you will.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
You're absolutely correct. It's mind boggling to think that a
young male would take testosteron shots. But believe it or not,
I am talking about the young population, and yes, testostian
shots have become very popular among young groups, not because
they're low on testosterone, but because it's a very popular
item to use for jim doors. For example, a lot
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of you know, personal trainers, they encourage them because it
helps build muscle, so it is an exogynous steroid. It
is something that helps people who are trying to build muscle,
and you know, like it beats things up, and so
it has become a very popular thing to you among
young young folks.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Okay, so if you use testosterone shots to build up
your your muscle fiber so you can you can press
or lift a little more than you could. You're going
to have to keep doing that or that testosteroe. You
just kind of like take the shots. Once you start
taking them and relying them, you've got to stick with them,
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I assume if you want to maintain where.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
You are correct, that is correct.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
And it also has many side effects. You know, one
of the most feared one of course, is the increased
risk of cardiovascular disease and events like heart attack. And
but also you're right, like when you're giving something that
you don't need, it does mess with their entire hormone system.
The access that creates natural hormone kind of gets messed
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up a little bit, like it doesn't have that natural
feedback system anymore, and so you can't really abruptly stop it,
and when you do, it can have a lot of
detrimental impact, and of course taking it will have the
same effect. It can affect all organ systems, including your
cardiovascular you know, your urological system, so it can have
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a wide impact on your whole body.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
At what point should people who really want to take
care of their heart. I know that cancer and heart
disease are the two primary killers in this country. Cancer Obviously,
you no can do blood screening tests for cancer. I'm
sure you're familiar with those, and obviously going to your
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personal care physician, your PCP, they can do all sorts
of tests and they can spot heart problems. Are we
getting to the point where people who have the time
and the financial support that people at a certain age men,
maybe at one point women and another should incorporate a
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cardiologist into their annual medical tests and routine.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
Absolutely, I totally agree with that, and I'm a big
proponent of preventative medicine. As you know, Yes, cardiovascent disease
is the number one killer for both men and women
here in the United States, but it is also a
very preventable disease. Eighty percent of it is preventable if
you come seek help on time. So yes, for those
who have risk factors such as high blood pressure, hig cholesterol, diabetes,
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you know, people who smoke, people who have a family
history of cart disease. They are encouraged to seek help
early on, at least get an evaluation by cardiologists. Just
make sure that everything's are paying.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Is there a you know what I'm saying, is is
there a time frame when people hit you know, we
talk about cancer screening, and we talk about prostate exams,
we talk about breast breast examinations, mimographies for women. Is there,
in your experience a period of time in regular people's lives.
You know, if someone gets identified as having a problem
(27:32):
in an annual physical when they're thirty five or forty, obviously,
but is there a point in time when people of
a certain age, men and women should not only be
talking to their doctors about, you know, cardiac health, but
should actually push to have you know, have a car
cardiology special cardiologist check on them every two or three
(27:57):
or four years. What what's the what is the best theory?
It sounds like someone's beeping a hornets you're here, you okay,
I'm good?
Speaker 5 (28:06):
Yes, yeah, you know when it comes to you. You
brought up a very good point actually, like for example,
for cancer, like you know, there are certain age groups
where we have specific time, like you know you get
your mammogram for kolonoscopy at certain age you go get
your screening klonoscopy, and that can prevent that thing. Unfortunately,
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there's not a defined age group for cardiovascular screening that's
defined for all age group that, yes, at this age
you're going to go and get your heart checked.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
That doesn't exist.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
In my opinion, it should. We do have things where
we screen for risk factors during certain age groups, like
you know, for example, your lab work early lab work
where we're getting your cholesterol checked of course every time
you go to the doctor's office blood pressure is being checked,
and diabetes. But aside from those like actual true cardiovascular
(28:58):
screening and specific parti at testing, No, there's not a
defined age group that regardless of where you're at this age,
you're going to go and get your heart check. Unfortunately,
that doesn't exist, and that is something that we need.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
To work on.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Well, maybe we can start a conversation. Thank you so
much for your time tonight on a Friday night, doctor Farah,
and love to have you back periodically. Just to emphasize
to people what clearly should be obvious, and that is
the importance of their heart health. Thank you so much
for your time this evening.
Speaker 5 (29:32):
Thank you, it's my pleasure.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Okay, when we get back, we have one more eight
o'clock guest for this week for you. And this is
besides being Domestic Violence Awareness Month, amongst others, there's also
National Energy Awareness Month, and we have some easy ways
that my listeners can reduce their energy uses. If you've
(29:55):
looked at your energy bills lately, I hope you're sitting down.
They're all going up, and they're going up at rates
that are much faster, in my opinion, than inflation. And
we're going to talk with an expert and energy expert
and inventor of what's called wand free. I'll explain, uh,
well that's unrelated to energy, but that's okay. We'll talk
(30:17):
to you about that as well. We'll be back on
Nightside right after this.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
night Side Studios. I'm Dumbs News Radio.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
All I want to welcome Cindy Bray. Cindy's an energy
expert and this is the National Energy Awareness Month. Cindy,
I guess you've got to be able to tell us
why our bills are so high and maybe what we
can do to reduce them. I keep a good record
of how much I pay every month year to year,
(30:49):
and also how much my killowatt hour my energy usage is,
and no matter how hard I try, the numbers keep
going up. And what's going on? Going on?
Speaker 6 (31:01):
What is going on?
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Right?
Speaker 6 (31:03):
We all have that question, and I think in Massachusetts
you are well over the national average for your energy rates.
I commend you on tracking your your usage, but yep,
there's a lot going on, and our energy bills just
keep rising.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Well, Cindy, we have here in Massachusetts something that I
have found to be very helpful, and that is you
could go in there's a site that is actually run
by I think by the call Off of Massachusetts in
which will tell you that if you you're what the
various energy deals that are being offered. And that is
a way in which I've been able to really keep
my energy bill more under control. Now you got to
(31:43):
do it every two or three months just to see
where the with the per you know, therm or poer kill,
what our prices have gone up. Which is a wonderful tool.
It was actually it's been around here in Massachusetts about
a thirty for about thirty years at guess one. The
state of Massachusetts, including the Attorney General's Office here, which
(32:04):
is normally a big advocate for things like this, they're
trying to pull it down, pull that website down. Are
you where that?
Speaker 4 (32:11):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (32:13):
No, I wasn't. But I can give you some really
easy tips on how you can pull down your energy
bill when you're doing your laundry. Right, So we're going
to focus in the laundry room because about ten percent
of your energy bill goes to doing laundry, which is
(32:33):
a lot, right, Okay, sure, and we've all got to
do our laundry. It's never ending as we're going into.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
The weekends of that. Yeah, right, So what do we do?
Speaker 2 (32:44):
What do we do?
Speaker 6 (32:46):
Yeah? So the first thing I'm going to have you
do is go to your washing machine and turn the
temperature of the water down to cold. The washing machine
itself is a pretty efficient appliance. Most of the energy
that you use when you're using the washing machine is
actually going to heat the water. So turn the temperature
(33:06):
down to cold, and don't worry that your clothes aren't
coming out clean because a lot of the detergent on
the market these days is actually formulated to work best
in cold water. And here's another bonus. All your clothes
and your sheets, everything is going to last a lot
longer if you wash it in cold water.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Well that I did not realize when I think about it.
You know, native populations all around the world have always
washed clothes in river water, and has ever been better
be warmed up. I always noticed on my machine that
if you wash whites, you know, they have different whites
or colors, And I do know how to run a
washing machine. If you wash whites, the default level is
(33:51):
much warmer than if you were washing colors. And I
always thought about that was what you want to get
the whites a little cleaner. You don't want the colors
to run with with overly hot water. So it's more
than that what you're telling me.
Speaker 6 (34:07):
Here's what I try it. Use cold water. If you're
worried about your whites, put in a little bit of oxy,
a little oxy bleach, oxy clean, and with your whites
cold water.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
It's good enough for most loads.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (34:23):
And when you use cold water, you don't have to
sort as much either, So that's another bonus.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Okay, and what about the drying elements. You know, I
try to, like during the nice weather, I will open
up doors and hang things on doors to try to
let them. You know, in the old days, when I
was a kid, my mother had had there was, you know,
a laundry line and clothes pins. Because I have no
(34:49):
idea what clothes pins are. And I'm serious, I mean,
let let mother know.
Speaker 6 (34:56):
Yeah, and it's almost most efficient.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Yeah, but it's almost it's like shameful now that if
you don't have a wash and a dryer. And I
think a lot of people feel or they don't want
to hang their laundry, even like things like towels. What's
you know, I could see when maybe people don't want
to hang their underwear out in the line. I get that, okay,
but but what's wrong with hanging your towels? Having a
clothes line and hanging towels. Has that just fallen out
(35:21):
of vogue here in New England or is that around
the country.
Speaker 6 (35:25):
I think a lot of people don't even have access
to a clothes line. Or perhaps it's rainy, or it's cold,
or wildfires, allergens in the air, all of those things
get in your in your clothes and some of the
some of the neighborhoods actually have a covenant that you
can't have a clothes line outside.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
Oh yeah, because those are your fancies, fancy neighborhoods. And
it seems to me, if it's your land and it's
your property, uh, and you want to put up a
clothes line, I don't know, it's it's uh.
Speaker 6 (35:55):
I'm with you because well it's something that I grew
up with.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
And now we didn't in the richest part of town,
trust me on that. And the lots were small, they
were like, you know, eighth of the eighth of an
acre watt, but everybody had a clothesline. And I mean,
well it got a couple of more tips here. We
got about a minute left.
Speaker 6 (36:20):
Yeah, So my biggest tip for you is going to
be when you are doing your sheets.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (36:27):
You know how they twist and they tangle and they
ball up. So when that happens in the washing machine,
they don't come out very clean. They can send a
washer off balance, and then when they ball up in
the dryer. In Massachusetts, you are paying on average a
dollar fifteen per hour in energy costs alone just to
run the average dryer. So when your sheets ball up
(36:50):
and don't come out dry and you have to run
the dryer again and again, it's really annoying. But it's
also really wasteful. And that's why I invent into the solution.
It's called wad Free for bed sheets, and it prevents
your sheets from wadding up in the washing.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
Machine real and the dry here, real quickly. Here is
that a liquid that you that you pour in during
the wash or no, no, no no, you throw into
the dryer when you put the sheets.
Speaker 6 (37:19):
No no, no, no, no, neither one. It is a
reusable made in the US, a laundry gadget that attaches
to each sheet in the load that comes to in
a package. So it's enough for both a flat and
a fitted sheet. Okay, it goes. It attaches to the
four corners. It keeps the sheets separate so they come
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out cleaner and they drive sweat.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
Out of time. Thirty seconds goes very quickly. How can
people find that? What's what's the website?
Speaker 6 (37:49):
Wadfree dot com is the best place order from that
small business.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
That's I got it. I got a locomotive train coming
at me. It's called the nine o'clock News I don't
mean to be rude.
Speaker 4 (37:59):
Goys.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
Wadfree Cindy Bray, thanks and Amazon much. All right, thanks,
you got that in. Thanks Cindy, I appreciate it. Talk soon. Okay,
here comes to nine o'clock news on night side. We're
going to be talking about the long shoreman's strike, which
is no longer a strike. I don't even know what
it is. I think it's like a suspended work stoppage
which could resume on January fifteenth. We'll work it out,
(38:20):
work it all out for you. On the other side
of the nine o'clock News
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Is that near Buffalo? It doesn't ring a bell man.
I understand the NBA wants to expand worldwide, but to
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And this month being breast cancer Awareness Monk, we will
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(01:13):
cancer in the forefront of their minds. But that's for
later on. Now we're going to do our nightside news update.
Rob Brooks is back in the control room. No phone
calls until nine o'clock, everybody, I think you know the rule,
by all the rules. By now we will talk with
an expert about the long shoreman's strike. I hope it's
okay still to say the International long Showman's Association, because
(01:34):
that is indeed what they are called. Apparently has reached
an agreement, but I think the agreement is much more
of like, let's suspend it until June fifteenth. We'll talk
about that, and we'll also talk tonight about the impact
of Hurricane Helene. And I don't know how many of
you are listening right now who are down there in
that neck of the woods, if there's even any power.
We're going to talk with the representative of a group
(01:55):
called the Massachusetts Task Force One. We have people from
mass who sits on the ground urban Search and Rescue team.
Over two hundred and twenty people have died as a
result of this storm, and most of those were not
in Florida, but they were in places like Georgia and
North Carolina and some of the communities that were devastated.
(02:15):
We'll get to all of that as the evening goes
on again. My name's Dan Ram, the host of the show.
I get to sit here every Monday through Friday night
from eight until midnighte and we get to talk with
interesting people. We're going to start off with a very
interesting person who I kind of discovered, I think last
earlier this year, Kathy Albert. I don't hope you're not
offended by that, Kathy, but Kathy is the president of
(02:37):
the New England Postcard Club. Welcome back, Kathy.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
How are you all fine? Thanks Dan, Thanks for having me.
It's great to be here.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yeah. I think this is this your third or fourth
time with us here And I forget how we met,
whether you sent an email to me or something. But
I never realized the number of people in New England
who were interested in collecting trading postcards. Postcards from hundreds,
not hundreds of years ago, but postcards from decade wild.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Yeah, yeah it is, and you have under there.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Well let's see, Well postcards were around in what the
eighteen nineties, Well.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
They started in Europe in the late nineteenth century, but
then they came over to the United States and it
only cost a penny to send a postcard and they had.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Really but you couldn't put them in an envelope, right,
You had to write your little note in the back. Yeah,
I have postcards from that era, and I know you
make postcards.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
When they first came out, you couldn't write, You couldn't
write a message on the back of the postcard. The
one side of the postcard was for the address and
the other side just to the picture. So people started
scrawling a little messages on the bottom of the picture,
and they eventually realized they're going to have to create
a divided postcard and have the message on one side
of the the blank side and the dress on the other,
(04:03):
so the picture was remained intact and didn't have writing
all over it.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Yeah, you represent a group of people who are very
diverse in terms of their collection. Some people collect postcards generally.
Some people have sort of sub specialties. They only want
train postcards, or they want postcards about the state of
Massachusetts or a town in Massachusetts. Explain how that works.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Well, Actually, the most popular kind of postcard I think
for the people that I'm working with right now are
they call them view postcards, and they have them for
every town. Like, for example, there's one fellow in our
group who lives in Newton and he collects Newton postcards
and he has a huge collection of Newton postcards. And
he still hasn't gotten over to the what's the name
(04:49):
of historical society there in Newton where they've got they've
got a huge postcard collection over there, I guess.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
But now and I know that there were people who
collect baseball park postcards, which is.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Yeah, baseball player, Yeah. I mean, it's just whatever your interest,
there's a postcard for that. But like I said, these
you postcards, people come in and there's a box this
is Massachusetts on it, and you can just slip through
it and you can look for your town and you
can find, you know, library at high school the way
it looked a hundred years ago. It's really cool.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
The other thing that I think is interesting is that
this seem there is still postcards sold, uh in circulation.
You go into certain stores and you can find postcards.
I don't know that hotels and motels still make postcards available,
but I can remember traveling young when I was younger,
there was always a stack of you know, five or
(05:44):
six postcards in the draw of the death hotel, of
the motel, and you could send that you could use
that and have to put a stamp on it. Obviously,
has has that lost some of its popularity with with
with not only people who are travelers, but people who
provide them lodging and inns and bed and breakfasts and
(06:04):
hotels and hotels.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
I mean, I think that one of the one of
the things I collect are hotels and motels and restaurants,
and I have a lot of a lot of those
from New York City, for example. But yeah, I mean
there are people people collect postcards of hotels the way
they looked one hundred years ago or fifty years ago,
and you know, the interior, or some of them have
beautiful murals. There's just there's so many different kinds of postcards,
(06:30):
just mind boggling.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I hope you find someone who collects postcards of Boston
television personalities. I had a lot of postcards that I
nailed serious. Oh oh yeah, we still have them, by
the way, I do.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
I have entertainers and I do have I have you know,
old things from like w W was it w NAC
or was that a TV station?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Well that was a TV it was also a radio
station that would have been sort of in the in
the circuit time of circuit nineteen forties and nineteen fifties.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
I was, yeah, those are using that.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
But.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
A lot of people will. So let's talk about this. Sunday,
October sixth, two days from now, you're having another big
postcard meeting. Is this an annual event or semi annual?
How are you describing this event on Sunday?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Well, this is actually sort of a more of a
of a club meeting. We're going to have a meeting
where we'll tell people sort of what we're all about.
People can sign up and join, and you know, well.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
You've done a couple, You've done a couple of these
type you've done a couple of these meetings. I went
over to one which which was a year.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Last super was first one that was in March, and
that was a show and we had thanks to you
and the Globe, we had three hundred people there. It
was wild. But this one I expect to be smaller.
We're going to have a meeting and then we'll have
you know, half a dozen postcard dealers selling selling stuff.
After the meeting, people can go down and buy things.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
Great people, and.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
We're about tell us where, tell us where, and tell
us how they can, and well, obviously if they know
where it's it's from ten to three on Sunday. So
people have.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
The Fellman Museum of Jampson Postal History. It's on the
campus of the Regis College in Western It's really easy
to get to. It's right off with thirty, which is
right off the s Pike.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
It's a great.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Yeah, you were great to tell me about Ron Potosi
who is also a postcard person, and he listened Wisconsin
and he's joined our facebook page. We have we have
one hundred and fifty people now on our Facebook page,
the New England Postcard Club Facebook page.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Right listener out in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, So hopefully he's listening tonight.
So this is Sunday people. You don't have to register,
there's no cost. You just show up right and you're
going to auction off absolutely postcards. You're going to auction
off that box. How many postcards are going to be
in that box?
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Oh, I don't know, about five hundred. It's hard to tell.
But you know we're gonna somebody somebody. A lot of
people donate postcards to us, so we're going to be
selling those really inexpensively. But then somebody else who is
liquiding your condition her not condition her collection. Yeah, she's
liquidating in that and she gave us a box of
(09:17):
postcards to auction off and she'll get the money.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Kathy, thank you very much. Is there there is a
website on Facebook, the New England Postcard Club that's easy
to find as well.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Yes, it's a Facebook group. It's a Facebook group. We
don't have a website yet. We're hoping to set one up, but.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Go on Facebook and you went to New England Postcard
Club in.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
The in the search bar and action in the group section.
But we're going to have another one of these meetings
in December and then we'll have our annual show again
in March.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
All right, Well, this is an ongoing activity and I'd
like to think that I was one of the founding
fathers of this group, because.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
You absolutely were. You made it happen man. Thank you
so much.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Then please say hi to everybody. I will not be
there on Sunday, but I'll probably be able to stop
buy in March. Okay, we'll talk again. Thanks.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Oh, that would be great. We'll look forward to that.
Thanks so much. Have a great weekend. Dan, Thank you
very welcome.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Thank you. When we get back, we are going to
talk about a very serious issue. Postcards are fun. We're
going to talk about domestic Violence Awareness Month and an
empowering message for survivors of domestic violence. We'll be speaking
with Laura Frombach. She's a technologist and domestic violence survivors.
She's also a co author a book called Street Smart Safety,
(10:34):
Your Guide to Defensive Living. Stay with us a great
guest coming up back on nights Side. This is Boston's
news Radio. My name is Dan Ray, host of nights
I'd heard every Monday through Friday night right here on
WBZ ten thirty the Am Dial Boston.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Now back to Dan Ray, live from the Window World
night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
October is domestic Violence Awareness Month, and there are a
lot of causes that are highlighted in various months. It's
not as if it's the only cause. However, I can't
think of one that's more important, particularly for anyone who
has a daughter, or a niece, or a mom or
an aunt. Empowering message for survivors Laura Frombach. Laura, you
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are a domestic violence survivor yourself, and it says that
you're a technologist. I understand what a domestic violence survivor is.
What is a technologist.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
A technologist is somebody who is in love with technology,
and I've worked in technology all my career over thirty
years with large company small companies.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Okay, okay, I knew that, but I was wondering if
your work as a technologist had any relationship to the
subject at hand. So you could have said that you
were a lawyer and a domestic violence survivor or whatever.
So now I just wanted to clear that up. You're
also the co author of a book called Street Smart Safety,
(12:05):
Your Guide to Defensive Living. Now is that book related
to domestic violence or is it? Is it a basically
a book that provides broader recommendations how people, men and
women can remain safe.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
It does both, Dan. It provides those recommendations that you
just talked about, but we also talk about domestic violence
and more importantly, how to recognize the patterns of domestic
violence earlier in the relationship, because it doesn't happen in
a vacuum. There are signs that people everyone can look
for if they know what they're looking for while they're dating.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Let's talk about some of those signs. What are the
signs that I guess men and women, but primarily women.
I mean, there are men who suffer from domestic violence
that I don't want to downplay that, you know that problem,
but most men, most victims of domestic violence in our
society are women. I believe these statistics would support that.
(13:06):
So let's talk about it from the point of view
of women. You begin into a dating relationship, what are
some of the warning signs that people should begin to say?
Speaker 4 (13:14):
On the first date, even you can start to see
some of those signs because domestic violence and abuse is
all about power and control. So if somebody starts to
order for you, if you want to leave, and they say,
well just one more, I mean, how many of us
haven't heard that those are actually signs not only that
(13:37):
somebody might be interested in you, but that they're trying
to control you. And when you say oh, okay, you're
showing them that you can actually be controlled.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Okay, So let me play Devil's advocate for a second.
Let's assume a couple of years in a great time,
they really have hit it off. It's a blind date,
first date, they got up through they got set up
to a dating system with through some friends and the
you know, one of them has to work the next morning.
I'm really work early. There they got to They're on
the call at six am in the morning, and the
other person doesn't realize that, Well, let's just have one more.
(14:09):
You know, we're having a good time. Can you distinguish
between that sort of g I'm really enjoying your company,
it's only you know, nine thirty. Do we have to
leave that early? Maybe not knowing that the other person
really does, you know, have to be at work at
six am? How do you distinguish that? Right?
Speaker 4 (14:29):
You can distinguish it by the fact that one to establish, Hey,
you know what, I am having a great time and
I would stay, but I really have to go. Does
that other person respect that and say, you know what,
I respect that. We can do it again?
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Makes a lot of sense, makes a lot of sense.
Some other signs should like to share with our audience.
I feel free, go right ahead.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
I'm sorry, could you repeat that place I said?
Speaker 2 (14:58):
I said other than someone and maybe on the first
daid being I mean, obviously, if someone tries to order
for you in the first aid, if they take you
to a restaurant, and they say, look, believe it or not,
this place has the best fill in the blank. Have
you been here before. That's a different approach as opposed
to go to a restaurant and say, Okay, I'm going
to order for you. We're you're gonna have a burger
(15:19):
and fries, or you're gonna have spaghetti and meatballs. You know,
that's a different, different thing. But if you're somewhere at
a restaurant that the person is trying to be polite.
Give us some other signs that women should see early
on in relationships or even later on in relationships that
maybe people don't pick up on as quickly as they should.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Well. The other identifying factor in domestic abuse and violence
is isolation. So does that person try to get you
away from your family and friends to constantly criticize your
family and friends and say, oh, that person's telling you
this or this person doesn't want you to do that,
and try to get you so that they have you
(16:02):
all to themselves, because domestic violence is a situation of isolation,
so that that person is the only person that in
your orbit, really and another sign is financial control. Do
they try to get you to move in with them
and do they try to gain control of your finances
(16:23):
slowly but surely, because sometimes it's quickly, but other times
it's very slowly, so that the woman might not even
recognize that it's happening. But you know, in those cases,
your friends and family can be very very helpful to
you and say, you know what, this person, this guy boy,
I hardly ever see you anymore. And you know, in relationships,
(16:46):
it's natural that people want to be together. But when
you want to go out for you know, girls' night
out and he doesn't want you to go out and
you know, threatened you even or or gives you the
silent treatment when you get back, you know, those are
all red flags.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
Well, it's interesting because it's so tough when you're you know,
developing in relationships with someone who who you might be
attracted be attracted to, and sometimes it's tough for anyone.
You know, just just figuring out compatibility is uh is difficult.
It is difficult alone. And then when you have on
(17:25):
top of it, what percentage And I'm sure there's not
a percentage that you can pick out of the air
for us, but what percentage of and we're talking young
men here, people we could be talking out of others,
But you know, men who are active on the dating scene,
what percentage of them do you think are people who
have the potential to inflict or engage in domestic violence?
(17:48):
I mean, amongst the people who I know, I can't
think of anyone who who I would have identified as
someone who is like that. A wide variety of personage.
But is there is there a sentges that we can
put on this or no.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
I would say first of all that domestic violence and abuse,
first of all, women considered very shameful. If they've been
a victim, I will tell you. And that's interesting that
you just said that, because I know every woman that
I know has been a victim at some point in
their life, and so it's interesting that so many women
(18:25):
know victims. But none of us, myself included, except for
my family, would classify anyone, any guy I know, as
an abuser. So you know, it's a situation that goes
on behind closed doors, and we never really know, you know,
what's behind a happy facade.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Yeah, no, I understand that that is true. No one
knows what goes on inside a marriage. Laura, thanks very
much again the book that you wrote, which is interesting
and should be available. The book book. The book the
name of it is street Smart Safety. Is that's been
out for a while.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
I suspect yes, Street Smart Safety for Women, Your Guide
to Defensive Living is available on Amazon. It's available in
books and Noble, Barnes, and I'm sorry Barnes and Noble
and wherever books are sold.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
And I would suspect that it wouldn't be a bad
book for men to buy buy as well, even though
it is entire absolutely smart safety for women. Okay, fair enough,
Laura appreciates you taking the time. And again, I hope
that people realize that there's no reason to bully someone
and never any reason to strike for men to strike
(19:40):
a woman, because I think that any guy that is
actually going to strike a woman is at his core
an absolute coward. And I believe that I'm a kind
of old fashioned, but that's what I believe. Thanks, Laura
appreciates your call.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Thanks so much. Dan, having great weekend.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
All right, you two, Well we get up. We're going
to talk about a very interesting trend that is going
to surprise you about people who are in great shape,
particularly young people who suffer heart attacks. We're going to
talk with a cardiologist about the some of the theories behind this.
And I don't know much about this, but I just
(20:18):
wonder if maybe some people are carrying the ability to
stay in shape and get super fit to the point
that they're actually abusing their heart. We'll talk with doctor
Fammi Fara right after the break and after the news
at the bottom of the air. My name is Dan Ray.
It's a Friday night or nightside. We're heading a Saturday morning.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
All right, let's get right back at it. I'm delighted
to be doing joined by cardiologists doctor Fammi Fara. I
hope I've pronounced your name correctly, Doctor Fara.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
It's Sarah.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Okay. If I wasn't close, let me get it right.
What is how's the pronunciation?
Speaker 5 (21:02):
It's sector Fammi Farah, Fammi.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Farah okay, fine, okay, I made it a soft a.
It's a fair farah. Okay. You're a cardiologist and a
board certified invasive cardiologist, and there's an alarming rate rise
of super fit swim young people suffering heart attacks as
experts prevail theories for the surge. So the question is
(21:25):
When you think about people having heart attacks, as a rule,
you think about older people, and you think about maybe
older people who are carrying around a few too many pounds,
maybe in over people who are obviously overweight. The opposite
of that, you would think, is this group who are
young and and in great shape. What's going on.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
I think it's a result of multiple different things. I
know that data that come out recently shows that over
the course of the last five years the rate of
heart attack has gone up by almost forty one percent
between that age group, a young population between twenty five
to forty three age and the reasons it could beat
(22:06):
the COVID virus it self that had caused some damage
to the vascular system. I think there's more than one reason,
though I do believe stress is a factor. More and
more people are stressed out for various reasons. Job related
schedule is not as great, people not sleeping well. Sleep
is now considered a major risk factor by the American heresitiation. Also,
(22:31):
a lot of people who are fit and Jim Gores
may be taking exogenists, you know, storage such as disosterone shots,
which are very common and very popular. Right now. They
have Distoston shots as centers. I don't know how well
regulated these are, but the reason they bring this up
is because there is an inherent risk of increased cardiovascular
(22:52):
events as a result of disosterone shots, so that could
be playing a role as well.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Well. Why would I assume you're talking to young men
in that situation. If I'm wrong, please correct me. But
why would a young man who is working out and
who is in obviously good physical condition, why would they
even think about testosterone shots. I mean, I understand that
there are people who have certain medical conditions later in
(23:21):
life and they may need to have a testosterone shot,
But if you're a twenty five year old guy who's
in a gym and you're in good shape, I would
think you got all the testosterone that you need. Educate
me if you will.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
You're absolutely correct. It's mind boggling to think that a
young male would take testosteron shots. But believe it or not,
I am talking about the young population, and yes, testostian
shots have become very popular among young groups, not because
they're low on testosterone, but because it's a very popular
item to use for jim doors. For example, a lot
(24:01):
of you know, personal trainers, they encourage them because it
helps build muscle, so it is an exogynous steroid. It
is something that helps people who are trying to build muscle,
and you know, like it beats things up, and so
it has become a very popular thing to you among
young young folks.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Okay, so if you use testosterone shots to build up
your your muscle fiber so you can you can press
or lift a little more than you could. You're going
to have to keep doing that or that testosteroe. You
just kind of like take the shots. Once you start
taking them and relying them, you've got to stick with them,
(24:45):
I assume if you want to maintain where.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
You are correct, that is correct.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
And it also has many side effects. You know, one
of the most feared one of course, is the increased
risk of cardiovascular disease and events like heart attack. And
but also you're right, like when you're giving something that
you don't need, it does mess with their entire hormone system.
The access that creates natural hormone kind of gets messed
(25:13):
up a little bit, like it doesn't have that natural
feedback system anymore, and so you can't really abruptly stop it,
and when you do, it can have a lot of
detrimental impact, and of course taking it will have the
same effect. It can affect all organ systems, including your
cardiovascular you know, your urological system, so it can have
(25:37):
a wide impact on your whole body.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
At what point should people who really want to take
care of their heart. I know that cancer and heart
disease are the two primary killers in this country. Cancer Obviously,
you no can do blood screening tests for cancer. I'm
sure you're familiar with those, and obviously going to your
(26:07):
personal care physician, your PCP, they can do all sorts
of tests and they can spot heart problems. Are we
getting to the point where people who have the time
and the financial support that people at a certain age men,
maybe at one point women and another should incorporate a
(26:28):
cardiologist into their annual medical tests and routine.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
Absolutely, I totally agree with that, and I'm a big
proponent of preventative medicine. As you know, Yes, cardiovascent disease
is the number one killer for both men and women
here in the United States, but it is also a
very preventable disease. Eighty percent of it is preventable if
you come seek help on time. So yes, for those
who have risk factors such as high blood pressure, hig cholesterol, diabetes,
(26:58):
you know, people who smoke, people who have a family
history of cart disease. They are encouraged to seek help
early on, at least get an evaluation by cardiologists. Just
make sure that everything's are paying.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Is there a you know what I'm saying, is is
there a time frame when people hit you know, we
talk about cancer screening, and we talk about prostate exams,
we talk about breast breast examinations, mimographies for women. Is there,
in your experience a period of time in regular people's lives.
You know, if someone gets identified as having a problem
(27:32):
in an annual physical when they're thirty five or forty, obviously,
but is there a point in time when people of
a certain age, men and women should not only be
talking to their doctors about, you know, cardiac health, but
should actually push to have you know, have a car
cardiology special cardiologist check on them every two or three
(27:57):
or four years. What what's the what is the best theory?
It sounds like someone's beeping a hornets you're here, you okay,
I'm good?
Speaker 5 (28:06):
Yes, yeah, you know when it comes to you. You
brought up a very good point actually, like for example,
for cancer, like you know, there are certain age groups
where we have specific time, like you know you get
your mammogram for kolonoscopy at certain age you go get
your screening klonoscopy, and that can prevent that thing. Unfortunately,
(28:27):
there's not a defined age group for cardiovascular screening that's
defined for all age group that, yes, at this age
you're going to go and get your heart checked.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
That doesn't exist.
Speaker 5 (28:37):
In my opinion, it should. We do have things where
we screen for risk factors during certain age groups, like
you know, for example, your lab work early lab work
where we're getting your cholesterol checked of course every time
you go to the doctor's office blood pressure is being checked,
and diabetes. But aside from those like actual true cardiovascular
(28:58):
screening and specific parti at testing, No, there's not a
defined age group that regardless of where you're at this age,
you're going to go and get your heart check. Unfortunately,
that doesn't exist, and that is something that we need.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
To work on.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Well, maybe we can start a conversation. Thank you so
much for your time tonight on a Friday night, doctor Farah,
and love to have you back periodically. Just to emphasize
to people what clearly should be obvious, and that is
the importance of their heart health. Thank you so much
for your time this evening.
Speaker 5 (29:32):
Thank you, it's my pleasure.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Okay, when we get back, we have one more eight
o'clock guest for this week for you. And this is
besides being Domestic Violence Awareness Month, amongst others, there's also
National Energy Awareness Month, and we have some easy ways
that my listeners can reduce their energy uses. If you've
(29:55):
looked at your energy bills lately, I hope you're sitting down.
They're all going up, and they're going up at rates
that are much faster, in my opinion, than inflation. And
we're going to talk with an expert and energy expert
and inventor of what's called wand free. I'll explain, uh,
well that's unrelated to energy, but that's okay. We'll talk
(30:17):
to you about that as well. We'll be back on
Nightside right after this.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
night Side Studios. I'm Dumbs News Radio.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
All I want to welcome Cindy Bray. Cindy's an energy
expert and this is the National Energy Awareness Month. Cindy,
I guess you've got to be able to tell us
why our bills are so high and maybe what we
can do to reduce them. I keep a good record
of how much I pay every month year to year,
(30:49):
and also how much my killowatt hour my energy usage is,
and no matter how hard I try, the numbers keep
going up. And what's going on? Going on?
Speaker 6 (31:01):
What is going on?
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Right?
Speaker 6 (31:03):
We all have that question, and I think in Massachusetts
you are well over the national average for your energy rates.
I commend you on tracking your your usage, but yep,
there's a lot going on, and our energy bills just
keep rising.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Well, Cindy, we have here in Massachusetts something that I
have found to be very helpful, and that is you
could go in there's a site that is actually run
by I think by the call Off of Massachusetts in
which will tell you that if you you're what the
various energy deals that are being offered. And that is
a way in which I've been able to really keep
my energy bill more under control. Now you got to
(31:43):
do it every two or three months just to see
where the with the per you know, therm or poer kill,
what our prices have gone up. Which is a wonderful tool.
It was actually it's been around here in Massachusetts about
a thirty for about thirty years at guess one. The
state of Massachusetts, including the Attorney General's Office here, which
(32:04):
is normally a big advocate for things like this, they're
trying to pull it down, pull that website down. Are
you where that?
Speaker 4 (32:11):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (32:13):
No, I wasn't. But I can give you some really
easy tips on how you can pull down your energy
bill when you're doing your laundry. Right, So we're going
to focus in the laundry room because about ten percent
of your energy bill goes to doing laundry, which is
(32:33):
a lot, right, Okay, sure, and we've all got to
do our laundry. It's never ending as we're going into.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
The weekends of that. Yeah, right, So what do we do?
Speaker 2 (32:44):
What do we do?
Speaker 6 (32:46):
Yeah? So the first thing I'm going to have you
do is go to your washing machine and turn the
temperature of the water down to cold. The washing machine
itself is a pretty efficient appliance. Most of the energy
that you use when you're using the washing machine is
actually going to heat the water. So turn the temperature
(33:06):
down to cold, and don't worry that your clothes aren't
coming out clean because a lot of the detergent on
the market these days is actually formulated to work best
in cold water. And here's another bonus. All your clothes
and your sheets, everything is going to last a lot
longer if you wash it in cold water.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Well that I did not realize when I think about it.
You know, native populations all around the world have always
washed clothes in river water, and has ever been better
be warmed up. I always noticed on my machine that
if you wash whites, you know, they have different whites
or colors, And I do know how to run a
washing machine. If you wash whites, the default level is
(33:51):
much warmer than if you were washing colors. And I
always thought about that was what you want to get
the whites a little cleaner. You don't want the colors
to run with with overly hot water. So it's more
than that what you're telling me.
Speaker 6 (34:07):
Here's what I try it. Use cold water. If you're
worried about your whites, put in a little bit of oxy,
a little oxy bleach, oxy clean, and with your whites
cold water.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
It's good enough for most loads.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (34:23):
And when you use cold water, you don't have to
sort as much either, So that's another bonus.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Okay, and what about the drying elements. You know, I
try to, like during the nice weather, I will open
up doors and hang things on doors to try to
let them. You know, in the old days, when I
was a kid, my mother had had there was, you know,
a laundry line and clothes pins. Because I have no
(34:49):
idea what clothes pins are. And I'm serious, I mean,
let let mother know.
Speaker 6 (34:56):
Yeah, and it's almost most efficient.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Yeah, but it's almost it's like shameful now that if
you don't have a wash and a dryer. And I
think a lot of people feel or they don't want
to hang their laundry, even like things like towels. What's
you know, I could see when maybe people don't want
to hang their underwear out in the line. I get that, okay,
but but what's wrong with hanging your towels? Having a
clothes line and hanging towels. Has that just fallen out
(35:21):
of vogue here in New England or is that around
the country.
Speaker 6 (35:25):
I think a lot of people don't even have access
to a clothes line. Or perhaps it's rainy, or it's cold,
or wildfires, allergens in the air, all of those things
get in your in your clothes and some of the
some of the neighborhoods actually have a covenant that you
can't have a clothes line outside.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
Oh yeah, because those are your fancies, fancy neighborhoods. And
it seems to me, if it's your land and it's
your property, uh, and you want to put up a
clothes line, I don't know, it's it's uh.
Speaker 6 (35:55):
I'm with you because well it's something that I grew
up with.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
And now we didn't in the richest part of town,
trust me on that. And the lots were small, they
were like, you know, eighth of the eighth of an
acre watt, but everybody had a clothesline. And I mean,
well it got a couple of more tips here. We
got about a minute left.
Speaker 6 (36:20):
Yeah, So my biggest tip for you is going to
be when you are doing your sheets.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (36:27):
You know how they twist and they tangle and they
ball up. So when that happens in the washing machine,
they don't come out very clean. They can send a
washer off balance, and then when they ball up in
the dryer. In Massachusetts, you are paying on average a
dollar fifteen per hour in energy costs alone just to
run the average dryer. So when your sheets ball up
(36:50):
and don't come out dry and you have to run
the dryer again and again, it's really annoying. But it's
also really wasteful. And that's why I invent into the solution.
It's called wad Free for bed sheets, and it prevents
your sheets from wadding up in the washing.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
Machine real and the dry here, real quickly. Here is
that a liquid that you that you pour in during
the wash or no, no, no no, you throw into
the dryer when you put the sheets.
Speaker 6 (37:19):
No no, no, no, no, neither one. It is a
reusable made in the US, a laundry gadget that attaches
to each sheet in the load that comes to in
a package. So it's enough for both a flat and
a fitted sheet. Okay, it goes. It attaches to the
four corners. It keeps the sheets separate so they come
(37:39):
out cleaner and they drive sweat.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
Out of time. Thirty seconds goes very quickly. How can
people find that? What's what's the website?
Speaker 6 (37:49):
Wadfree dot com is the best place order from that
small business.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
That's I got it. I got a locomotive train coming
at me. It's called the nine o'clock News I don't
mean to be rude.
Speaker 4 (37:59):
Goys.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
Wadfree Cindy Bray, thanks and Amazon much. All right, thanks,
you got that in. Thanks Cindy, I appreciate it. Talk soon. Okay,
here comes to nine o'clock news on night side. We're
going to be talking about the long shoreman's strike, which
is no longer a strike. I don't even know what
it is. I think it's like a suspended work stoppage
which could resume on January fifteenth. We'll work it out,
(38:20):
work it all out for you. On the other side
of the nine o'clock News
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