July 23, 2025 • 38 mins
We kicked off the program with four news stories and different guests on the stories we think you need to know about!
Head and Neck Cancers that are not as well known… Dr. Scharukh Jalisi - Chief of Otolaryngology (ENT)/Head and Neck Surgery at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center checked in.
“Dirty Soda”, the latest viral drink craze! What is it? Kyle Bray – WBZ NewsRadio Reporter explained it to Dan.
13th annual Swim Across America Nantucket open water swim is Saturday, July 26, at Jetties Beach on Nantucket! Natalie Thompson – Swimmer/participant - a schoolteacher whose wife was diagnosed with ocular melanoma in 2019 stopped by.
Temps Raise in Greater Boston again hitting 90s as we get closer to the weekend. AccuWeather Meteorologist Brian Thompson had the details.
Head and Neck Cancers that are not as well known… Dr. Scharukh Jalisi - Chief of Otolaryngology (ENT)/Head and Neck Surgery at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center checked in.
“Dirty Soda”, the latest viral drink craze! What is it? Kyle Bray – WBZ NewsRadio Reporter explained it to Dan.
13th annual Swim Across America Nantucket open water swim is Saturday, July 26, at Jetties Beach on Nantucket! Natalie Thompson – Swimmer/participant - a schoolteacher whose wife was diagnosed with ocular melanoma in 2019 stopped by.
Temps Raise in Greater Boston again hitting 90s as we get closer to the weekend. AccuWeather Meteorologist Brian Thompson had the details.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's nice with Dan Ray. I'm doing Mazy Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Hey Madison. Indeed, the stock market did have a good
day today and the Red Sox are not having a
great night tonight. But we're gonna have a great show
tonight on Nightside. My name is Dan Ray. Rob Brooks
is back in the control room. We're gonna be talking
at nine o'clock with Boston Merriw candidate Josh Kraft, and
then a little bit later on tonight we talk about
those two longtime executives at Market Basket who were terminated.
(00:29):
I think wrongfully, but that's just my opinion. We have
four really interesting guests, and none of more interesting than
my first guest tonight. He is with the Department of
Auto laryon Gulogy at Brigham Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
His name is doctor Sharruk Jalisi, Doctor Jalasy. I am
(00:53):
honored to have you on our program tonight. Thank you, sir.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Thank you Dan for having me on and for talking
to me. Really appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Well. You have helped so many people, and I guess
the easiest way for me to begin into this is
a lot of people think about cancers like lung cancer
and you know, breast cancer, and they think about heart disease,
but very rarely do they think of cancers of the
head and neck. And these are the cancers that you
(01:21):
and your team deal with. These are much more prevalent
than people understand or realize. Correct Doctor Chilisi.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Correct, Yeah, I mean heading net cancers is a big
range of cancers all the way from skin cancers like
melanoma and scoilt cell cancer the skin, all the way
into throat cancer, sinus cancer, voice box cancer, tongue cancer.
So it's a very big area that needs more focus
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and attention for the patients.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
So I assume this is also an area that young
people need to be concerned about. We all need to
be concerned about it, but young people who are out
and about. My suspicion is that there are a lot
of young people who you see as patients.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Yes, we do actually head and a cancer for the
young patient for our group focuses on skin cancers obviously.
I mean, we have a population that loves to go
out in the sun without sun protection, so skin cancers
become a big problem. And when you get sunburns early
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on in your life, as teenagers that has become a
high risk for skin cancers and on the head and neck.
Actually I said high risks, so they behave more aggressively.
So I think proper skincare is very important, which we
can talk about, but separately, we also have what we
call throat cancer in the young person, usually in the
thirties and forties now which typically historically this cancer used
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to hit people in the sixth and seven decade of life.
The human papaloma virus, which is the same virus that
causes cervical cancer and women, is now afflicting both men
and women young at age in the throat and causing
console cancer and back of the tongue cancer. So it's
becoming pretty much an epidemic with this human papaloma virus.
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These are cancers that are not traditional risk factors of
smoking an alcohol. It's a virally mediated cancer that's very treatable,
but patients need to check their symptoms and come in
for assessment at the right time.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
So what is it other than people, you know, in
terms of skin cancer, making sure that they have enough
lotion on to prevent you know, bad sunburns and all
of that. But what is it that that will tip
someone off there's something. Is it a bleed? Is it?
(03:55):
Is it a pain? I mean most of us, you know,
we go through our days and sometimes you get a
little headache, you get a little neck ache, and you
don't pay attention to it. But at the same time,
you can't be running into the doctor's office every other week.
How do you figure out what's serious and what isn't,
(04:17):
particularly in your area of expertise.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Yeah, so I think the important thing is change in
or having some kind of lesion on your skin that's
changing or a new lesion. So you know, for example,
melanoma comes in different varieties and colors. If someone has
a mold, for example, and that's changing in shape or color,
that's of concern suddenly. You know, we live in New
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England where you know, when the sun comes out, a
lot of people go out in the sun or go
down south to get the cat's sun, and people get
sun spots. If you have that kind of skin, usually
a very fair skin individual, they should be getting a
dermatology consort or at least having a self checked out
by a dermatology at least once a year, maybe every
six months. But any kind of skin discoloration that you
(05:05):
see should be checked out, just to make sure it's
not cancer. Do they need a BOPXI or not? Is
it just sun damage? So I think these are just
good principles. But wearing sunscreen is very essential, wearing a
hat when it's really sunning out, and a hat with
a rim on it to protect your ears as well.
And a lot of people forget the years we wear
baseball caps which don't protect your ear, don't protect the
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back of your neck. And sometimes these things are picked
up by your hairstylist. You know, they'll be checking your
hair out and there are cancers and a scalp that
otherwise not evident, or a loved one may figure it
out and say, you know what, this wasn't there a
month ago, and now you have this. So I think
it's good to hear from your loved ones that if
they're noting a change on your skin, so that you
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can get appropriate care At the right hand.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
How what sort of a rate of success? I mean, obviously,
like any cancer, the earlier you've detected the greatest chance
of success. But these tumors and cancers that you deal
with again, I think you said to me at one
point anything above the collarbone. Are we doing better? And
when I say we, I mean doctors your profession, you know,
(06:16):
the cancer surgeons who deal with head and neck cancers.
Are things getting better or are they getting worse?
Speaker 1 (06:24):
No.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
I think with early detection, obviously the lower the stage,
earlier you find it, you have a really good outcome.
I think surgical techniques have improved just I've been doing
this for thretty years now. I'm at Beth Israel and
soon we'll be having a great collaboration with Dana Farber,
and we have really the brightest minds helping you out.
I think from a surgical perspective, we have improved the
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way we take cancers out but also put you back together.
The reconstruction part that the head and X surgery team
team does just to put you back in life, because
you know, your face is your business card and we
want to make sure it looks good. People get scared
that we're am I going to look like? But you
know those things in the past. I think with the
technical advances we can do a lot. I think most surgery,
(07:06):
which is microscopic surgery done by dermatologists, that allows us
to save a lot of lining and minimize the amount
of tissue loss that you would have. And then now
with the medications out there, there's a new class of
medications that are medical oncologists give which is called immunotherapy,
for example for melanoma, which is really prolonging life. So
(07:29):
I think skin cancer is something that you don't run
away from anymore. You get treated with the survival is there,
so but with adequate treatment. Obviously, the biggest concern we
have is someone has a diagnosis, they ignore it or
deny it, and then when they come back things are
so bad that there's not much we can do. So
(07:50):
I think recognizing the symptoms and getting early treatment is
very important. And things are way different now than they
were even ten years ago, so it's a different world.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Very very very encouraging. Doctor julesy honored to have you
with us tonight. You have dispensed an immense amount of
information and if people pay attention to this, they should
have their loved ones if they missed this interview tomorrow
replay it at nightside on demand, and I'd like to
have you come back maybe at some point of the
(08:21):
next a week or two and take some phone calls
from people. Tonight was intended information, and you were a
plus in terms of being very clear and making people
aware of the seriousness of some of these little things
that you might pick up. And I can't thank you
enough for taking the time. I know it's a busy day.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
No I appreciate it, Dan for you inviting me, and
I'm happy to come back on the show and take
calls and talk to be able to talk to your listeners.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Sounds great, sounds great. I will get back in touch
with you. We'll make that happen sooner rather than later.
I mean within the next week or so. My guest
again great. Thanks to my guest, Sharuk Jalisi, Associate Professor
of Auto Laryngology, Headed Next Surgery, Harvard Medical School, in
chief of Auto Lauryngology, Head and Next Surgery at Beth
(09:16):
Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Talk to jaliusy until we talk again.
Be well.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Thank you so much. You have a good day, a
good night to your viewers.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Thank you so much. Doctor. When we get back, we're
going to change topics a little bit. We'll light it
up for you. I promise. That was a really good
opportunity to talk to someone who's at the top of
his game and how he can help us just with
some words of advice. Stay safer. That's what it comes
down to. The Other thing that I want to emphasize
(09:53):
is that we have some great guests coming up tonight,
including Josh Kraft. He will be joining us in the
night one o'clock hour and taking your phone calls, which
I think is very very important for anyone running for
office to do. And we will also talk with two
of the high level executives and leaders at the Demoulis Market,
(10:20):
which who were terminated today in some part because they
did an interview on this program a week ago Monday.
I feel horrible about that, but they're coming back tonight.
There's not a lot of quit in these gentlemen. Back
on nights that we're going to be talking what's called
dirty soda. You've heard of dirty water. We're gonna explain
to you what dirty soda is. Coming back with w
(10:40):
BZ reporter Kyle Bray right after this.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Break, You're on night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ
Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
All right, We're delighted to welcome Kyle Bray, WBZ news
radio reporter who did a report I'm not sure Kyle
Iff was today or a day or so ago from Clinton,
Massachusetts on dirty soda. All of us know what dirty
water is, the Charles River dirty soda. I'd never heard
of it until I read your report. It's the latest
(11:11):
vible drink craze. I feel that we're going to learn
something very new here. Cargo right ahead.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Yeah, Hey, I mean I did a lot of learning today, Dan,
thanks for having me on. Yeh, No, dirty soda. It's
this new it's this new fangled thing that you know,
is kind of catching on across the country. It's essentially
it could just be bogged down to your t It's
you're taking soda and you're mixing it with coffee creamer
and then like you know, like the like the sugars
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that you'll like, the different syrups you'll put in coffee.
Oh yeah, like you know, like vanilla and stuff. It's
basically just it's basically like you're taking your normal coffee
and instead of it being coffee, it's with soda and
that's what makes it. I was was out in Clinton
at the Fountain. Got to talk with Lauren there. She
was great. She's the founder and owner of that place,
and she was kind of saying she didn't know where
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the whole dirty war term came from. She's like, I
guess sometimes you put the creamer in. If it's in
like you know, like a coke or a doctor pepper,
it looks sort of like it's getting dirty. But yeah, no,
it's a it's this new trend that's been really catching
on it. Actually, it's funny enough. It started out in Utah.
There's this company called Swig that is uh they have
like these literal like drive through places where you can
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get these fancy sodas. And it started as an alternative
because you know, there's a large Mormon population out there
and they can't drink caffee. They can't drink coffee, and
they can't drink alcohol, so they drink fancy soda dirty.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
You know, a red Bull or anything like caffeine.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Yeah, they used to have when I was younger, which
I was younger a lot, Brian, when you were younger,
they used to have this thing called cream soda, which
I didn't like at all.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
I mean it was that was it was. It was
like PEPSI uh, doctor pepper what ever? And then cream soda.
And then they used to have like root beer floats.
I'm sure you've heard of a root beer float.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Oh, I do love a root beer float.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Well, you know, I'm not a big root beer guy.
But he throwed a bunch of a big glop of
vanilla ice cream on top. And does that qualify as
a dirty soda?
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Well, it's funny you say that, because part of the
description that Lauren gave to me was it almost tastes
like you're drinking a float. Like it has the taste
of a float. You almost expect there to be ice
cream in there, but there is it. It's just because
they're using specifically, like you know, coconut creamer. So when
I first tried the first one that she had me try,
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it was it was called the Founder Flavor, and it
was Doctor Pepper with vanilla syrup and the creamer, and
it made it sort of tasted almost like I was
having a Doctor Pepper float of sorts, but not but
without you know, like like chumps of ice cream in it.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
So, how many dirties sodas did you get a chance
to try today as you were working?
Speaker 4 (14:03):
You know, I only tried to because I was worried
a little bit about the sugar. I tried that one,
and then I tried the These were both recommended to me.
I tried the orange creamsicle, which she said is you know,
one of the flavors she'll normally recommend to people trying
it out for the first time, and that one was
that was my favorite. That one was great. I mean,
I'm a I'm a sucker for a creamsicle, so that's
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what it tastes it just like.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
So so if if a creams an orange creamsicle essentially
is a melted down orange creamsicle, orange flavor and some cream,
I guess that's pretty straightforward people can understand that one.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Yeah, And the thing that I really liked that she
talked about was that, you know, she's starting to work
at like events, like she'll like people will hire her
to come to events to to like, you know, serve
the drinks because it's sort of a good like non
alcoholic middle ground where people can you know, you still
have a drink in your hand. You know, the kids
like it, the older folks like it. It's kind of
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like because you know, it kind of throws it back
to the to the days of you know, having a
soda fountain that your your pharmacy you know, which is
part of the reason why I think it's catching on.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Look, I can remember soda fountains. They've gone the way
of so many things. I'll look forward to seeing some
of this combat Kyle, Is it justin Clinton? Are this
other communities where this stuff is available? Or does everyone
have to make you know, some some sort of a
pilgrimage to Clinton.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Well, it's funny you say that pilgrimage to Clinton, because
when I was there, she was basically saying, like, you know,
Clinton's not exactly like you know, it's not one of
the pop spots people normally hit when they're in Massachusetts.
But she's had people that have like driven out of
the way because they've schoogled saying, you know, dirty soda
near me, And that's the place that pops up first
because they were one of the first sort of like
early adopters of it. There are some like ice cream
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places in and around Boston and like Brookline that I'd
see that also do it as well. I forget the
name of the place, but it's it's like the New
Zealand style ice cream. I know that they have dirty
soda available.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Well, our audiences pretty adaptable, though, they will be able
to figure it out. By the way, you're not the
first famous person who went to Clinton. Did you know
that Jimmy Carter spent a night in Clinton in March
of nineteen seventy seven, shortly after he was elected president
of these United States.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
That's very interesting and I covered.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
That event and interviewed him in the driveway of Gunnard
Thompson's home home in Clinton, Massachusetts.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
That's really cool.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
As the host for Jimmy Carter in March of nineteen
seventy seven, it was a different It's nice.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
It's a nice little town. They've got a nice little
downtown that the store is located on. Was really nice.
And then I drove over when I was done working
for the day, I drove over to the you know,
the Watchhusett Dam and check that out of the Qubatle town.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
This is all good stuff. Kyle Bray, thank you so much.
Got to have you on more off and a great,
great piece, great report.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Thank you, Awesee, thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Dan.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Have a good night.
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Annual Swim Across America. This is an inspiring story. I
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Speaker 1 (18:43):
It's Night Side with Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Welcome back everyone this weekend, this Saturday at Jenny's Beach
on Nantucket will be the thirteenth in and you will
swim across America Nantucket Open Water Swim with Us. Is
Natalie Thompson. She is a swimmer participant. She's also a
school teacher whose wife was diagnosed with ocular melanoma in
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twenty nineteen. Natalie, Welcome to Night's Side. This sounds like
a great a great cause and a great event. Is
this always just in Nantucket or is this part of
a series of swims across America?
Speaker 7 (19:35):
So this is part of a series of swim that
happened across all over the United States. I can't tell
you for sure how many there are but Nantucket came
back thirteen years ago. Originally it started with guys Trends
swim from Hyannas to Nantucket. There was a little bit
of a break and then the swim came back to
us thirteen years ago. And you know, so we're going
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strong with that here and helping out all of our
cancer here on Nantucket.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
So how many folks are going to jump in the water.
I assume it's Saturday morning.
Speaker 7 (20:06):
Saturday morning, Yep, it's a great morning, realistically, probably one
of the best mornings on Nantucket. There will be kids
that come in, do the Kids splash, there's a quarter
mile swim, there's a half mile swim, a full mile swim,
and then there's a group of individuals that will do
a four mile swim and a two by two relay.
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There's roughly probably about two hundred and fifty participants. I
think we usually average between like two fifty and three hundred.
So hoping for a good turnout this year.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
And this is a fundraiser as well. It's it's intended
to raise some funds tell us for what.
Speaker 7 (20:44):
Absolutely it raises funds for cancer care here on Nantucket.
So individuals that are getting treatment here are able to
now receive services on Nantucket. You know Nantucket obviously being
an island, we're a unique situation. So often people always
have to go off to go up to Boston for
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appointments and treatment. And fortunately through our swim here, we
have now been able to treat patients here. We also
have our pass On group that is our pallut of
care group, and that supports individuals as they go through
their whole entire cancer treatment and then even if they're
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also having to enter hospice.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Now, since you've been doing this since twenty thirteen, and
the media information I see says that this event has
raised over five and a half million dollars for your
beneficiaries Nantucket Costs, Kindage Hospital you mentioned, Palliative and Supportive
Care of Nantucket, and mass General Cancer Center Research five
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point five million dollars. You're trying to raise a million
dollars this Saturday. It looks to me, if I'm reading
this correctly, is that true?
Speaker 4 (22:04):
You are?
Speaker 7 (22:05):
You are reading that correctly. One of our director or
co directors, Jim Pignado, is always pushing that number, and
it's one of those things that we say why not,
why why not put up a challenge, you know, so
let's go big or go home.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Well, hopefully no one's going to go home. Tell us
about the folks who will come to participate? What what
the you said?
Speaker 4 (22:27):
Two?
Speaker 2 (22:28):
I think you said somewhere around two hundred and fifty
participants in one form of fashion. Are they all from Nantucket?
Do you get people I assume at a vacation locale
like Nantucket. Do you have some folks who are down
there for a couple of weeks and probably time there's
some a vacation to participate in this event.
Speaker 7 (22:48):
Absolutely, we have obviously locals that are that are participating here.
We have people that are here just simply on vacation.
We have groups that literally just come for the event.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
You know, the.
Speaker 7 (23:01):
Swimming community is huge on Nantucket, and between kind of
connections of people, connections of cancer, we we end up
grabbing people. I used to work at our pool here
and swimmers would come and be like, oh, what's this event?
Oh I'm here this weekend. Great, it's a great cause.
I'll put down that money to that. So we pull
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a wide variety of people. Sometimes it's it's teammates of
swimmers that we already have here. So It's great because
it's not just your kind of one size fits all
of here's your typical swimmer. We have a wide variety
of abilities. We have people that have literally learned to
swim through our adult swim program and now we're swimming
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the quarter mile or the half mile swim like I
used to angel swim, and I've swam next to people
that are like, I don't know if I'm going to
make it through this, and I'm like, we're going.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
To make it through this.
Speaker 7 (23:52):
So it's great. It's it's a it's a full access event.
It's awesome. We have the kids splash and you know,
sometimes we're we're bopping to the water with kids the
whole time, but you know they're sometimes they're doing it
for their grandparents or somebody that they know, and so
it's great. It's a it's a full family, full community event.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
And at this time of year, I mean every once
in a while you read about roop tides and things
like that, which obviously might discover some people for jumping
in the area where you do the swim. Is it
an area that that that is safe? Do you do
you have people out there patrolling boats to make sure
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if anybody gets in a little bit of trouble there,
they're going to be okay.
Speaker 7 (24:35):
Yeah, absolutely we are. We swim on the north shore,
right on the west side of the jetties, and so
that is probably one of the biggest safety safety parts
to it, is making sure everybody's safe. The course is
very well marked out, so even if you haven't been
an open water swimmer before, you can easily access it.
It's one of these swims that sometimes, depending on the tide,
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you could almost stand up and walk a good chunk
of it and you know, it's it's a full again.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
That's that's that's my race. Yeah. Last question two, your
family has been touched by cancer, and I know that's
a big motivation. Did you I believe your dad passed away.
Speaker 7 (25:18):
Yeah, My dad passed away last June, and he had
had He was diagnosed with a stage four renal cancer
in March of twenty twenty, and Jill and Jim were
literally the first text that I sent out saying I
need I need help, you know, and so we got
an extra four years with him because originally his prognosis
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wasn't stellar, and you know, it was huge that he
was able to get all of his care here on
Nantucket because thirteen years ago that wouldn't have happened. You know,
he would have been having to travel off a lot more.
And you know, realistically, I think that brought us a
lot of time with him, you know, saving the travel,
being able to be home, have the treatment here, and
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being able to be surrounded by his loved ones, no question.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
And your immediate family has also been HiT's what's going
on there? Is your wife still doing well?
Speaker 7 (26:14):
Yeah, my wife, My wife is doing well. It was
a kind of a very much a surprise that came
to us in twenty nineteen, and that's when I made
the jump from kind of the one mile slash Angel
Swimmer to the four mile swim. She was diagnosed with
ocular melanoma and so she unfortunately can't receive treatment here
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on Nantucket. She went through a clinical trial and so
now fortunately her her tumor is stable and so we
just kind of keep monitoring that she travels up to
mass I in air, but is able to receive support
and services from pass On here, which is great, you know,
so we have that full support. So it's great.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
You know.
Speaker 7 (26:56):
Part of the safety thing for the four mile swimmers
is we all have to have a kayaker, and so
she's my kayaker. So we you know, we've been dubbed
Team Thompson. So it's great to be able to do
that with her, you know, swimming for her and have
our kids do that too.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
So and her prognosis is good.
Speaker 7 (27:13):
I hope, yes, you know, it's as stable tumor is
a great tumor for her. So we're going to We're
going to keep that there absolutely.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
So how can folks at this late date this is Saturday,
obviously it's Wednesday night. We're talking about really less than
seventy two hours away. Are there's still room for people
to participate.
Speaker 7 (27:33):
There's always room for people to still participate. So you're
able to sign up, and you're able to sign up.
I can't remember. I think online registration maybe closes technically
Thursday night, but you can still do day of sign ups.
So you could show up to Jetty's Beach Saturday morning
between six thirty and seven thirty and say, hey, I
want to swim and you can be an in swimming.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Well that's great, Well this is this is wonderful, Natalie.
It sounds like a huge event. If you get anyone
close to a million dollars, never mind get over the
million dollars. Will that be the first year that you
will have broken that barrier?
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Absolutely?
Speaker 7 (28:11):
This was a This was a big, big push from
Jim this year, which I think is great. Last year
we were eight seventy five or right around there, and
so it was a lofty goal and we're going to
keep keep our heads down, keep pushing all the way
through and see where we can get to.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Natalie Thompson, thanks very much. I wish you great weather.
I think you will have great weather on Saturday, if
the weather prognosticators are anywhere close to it. And I
wish your calm seas and the wind that you're back
the back of everyone and just just go out and
nail it. It's as simple as that. It's a great cause,
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it's a great event in a great location. Thank you
Natalie for your time tonight.
Speaker 7 (28:56):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Very welcome. All right, that's inspiration to think that people
will be spending part of Saturday, this coming Saturday out
on the water in Nantucket. On Nantucket. Doesn't get much
better than that, folks. There's no doubt we get back
when to talk about weather, We're gonna talk with Brian Thompson,
who's going to bring us up to date as to
what the weather is likely to hold not only for
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Nantucket but for the rest of the New England this weekend.
Back on Nightside right after.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
This, It's Nightside with Dan Ray Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
All Right, we do know that it is still July.
Today's July twenty third, so we still have a full
week left in July, and we're gonna get some warm
weather coming in this weekend. And who better to tell
us about the warm weather and maybe if there are
a couple of cool spots that people can escape to
then Brian Thompson. Brian, welcome, Welcome back to Nightside. Thanks
(29:52):
so much for joining us tonight. It's I watched all
the forecast tonight and I don't think there's any snow
coming this weekend for sure. Well, you're with aki weather
and it's going to be hot, hot, hot hot. What's
going on? What's going on? It's let me know how
bad it's going to be. I guess is what I'm asking.
(30:13):
How are you tonight?
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Yeah, I'm doing fine.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
Dan.
Speaker 8 (30:15):
Yeah, we're getting ready for the heats. And now this
is going to be a relatively brief round of heat.
That's the good news. Tomorrow, we're going to be seeing
things warming up. I think many spots up near ninety tomorrow.
The humidity is going to be higher than it's been
over the last few days. We've been kind of spoiled
here in the first half of the week has been
pretty nice. But again, tepters will be up near ninety tomorrow.
Friday is the day that is really going to be hot.
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We're going to see tempatures up into the mid nineties.
I would not be surprised at some places west of
Boston get up around one hundred degrees and with the
high humidity over talking about ACI, with the real field
scepter is probably running at least one hundred to one
hundred and five degrees during the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Okay, that is not unprecedented. I mean it's the last
We're kind of in the last week of July, not
technically the last week of July. We'll kind of getting there.
Isn't this the week during the summer that is traditionally
the hottest of the year.
Speaker 8 (31:09):
Yeah, pretty much. I mean, if you look at the
average high temperatures in Boston, the hottest stretch climatologically speaking,
is from July sixteenth through the twenty second to where
the average highs eighty three. Today, the average high actually
ticked down to eighty two, So we're heading in the
right direction if you're not a fan of the heats,
or at least starting to go in the right direction
as we head into August. Of course, it's a very
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slow fall for those average temperatures at first before we
get into the fall. But again, the hottest climatologically speaking,
has basically been over the last week or so, so
we're at least looking at the averages heading in the
right direction.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Well, I remember last year. I remember distinctly that last
year there was a heat wave, and I thought to myself, well,
what do you expect? I mean, you expect the blizzard
in the last week of January, you expect the heat
wave in the last week of July here in Massachusetts?
Is that you know? That's what I expect, you guys
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the professionals. Am I being too glib when I say that? No?
Speaker 8 (32:12):
I mean this is if there's a time of year
we're most likely to get a heat wave, this part
of July certainly is more likely. It was more unusual.
When we had that extreme heat wave last month at
the end of June, that was a little on the
early side, especially for temperatures and the triple digits, but
certainly this time in July, it's not a common roll
to get ninety degree days and to string two ninety
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degree days in a row, which is likely what we'll
do tomorrow and Friday.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Now, in order to have a heatwave, you got to
have three days in the nineties, correct, yes, correct, Okay,
And does it when you break that down, I know
they're always talking about what the weather is and did
we hit ninety at Logan Airport? Does Logan Airport determine
for the entire region if we have a heat wave?
Or can you have a heat wave in Worcester? What
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but not have it in Boston. That's always confused me.
Speaker 8 (33:05):
You can have a heat wave in Boston, Boston and
Worcester and even some of the western suburbs of of course,
observing sites all across all across Massachusetts, so you can
have heat waves in individual places. It doesn't have to
necessarily be in the in kind of the main city
to be considered a heat wave for the entire region.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Okay, So so we normally, normally do we have a
couple of heat What's what's the normal number of three
day heat waves we should expect in most of New England.
I'm sure northern New England doesn't have the same level
of heat wave activity that we do have down here
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in the south right.
Speaker 8 (33:44):
Generally, generally not, although there are parts of New Hampshire
and that can do pretty well in the King of
pretty hot some of the valley spots. I don't know
the exact number off hand, I would I would I
would estimate probably one to two heat waves a year
across southern New England. Is is pretty bunch par for
the course.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Okay, so we've already had one, this might are we
Are we looking at one this weekend in your opinion?
Speaker 8 (34:07):
Or actually it looks like looks like we've had two.
We had one early this month from the sixth to
the eighth. That one was didn't have as much fanfare
as the one last month.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
But so, yeah, we.
Speaker 8 (34:19):
Doesn't look like we'll get one this time either. I
think we're gonna come up one day short, even if
we get to ninety tomorrow and into the nineties Friday,
we did not get we were nowhere near ninety today
and Saturday will be quite a bit cooler. The wind
will be out of the east. There's going to be
some cooler air coming down from the north and east,
so we will get some relief pretty quickly as we
head into at least the start of the weekend.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
And then long term, how fuck can you take us out?
Since I got you, I have to ask in next
week what again? I think it's amazing that you can
actually figure out the weather two days in advanced, of
by two weeks in advance. What's the long term looking one?
Speaker 8 (34:57):
It is amazing, given how complicated the atmosphere as that
we can predict the so far out of five seven days,
even longer than that. Sometimes Now now, I don't see
any extended rounds of heat coming our way. As we
head into the early part of next week, there's going
to be a large area of heat over the central
part of the country, and at times it's going to
drift into parts of the mid Atlantic, but I think
we're going to be on the edge of that for
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the most part, so I don't think we'll really ever
get back into the heat. Through the first half of
next week. It'll be humid, at times, and temperatures will
be into the bid to upper eighties, but I don't
anticipate hies to be in the nineties. If you're looking
ahead to the weekend, Saturday looks to be the better
of the two weekend days right now. That's a day
we'll have lower humidity. It looks really nice actually, with
some sun. Highs will be pretty close to eighty. Sunday
(35:38):
is the day we'll probably be dealing with some thunderstorms.
We're watching some storms coming in from the west. Might
be a little more humid. I don't think it's an
uncomfortable day, but again, the main concern Sunday is going
to be the rain threat, the thunderstorm threat as the
day goes on.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
All Right, last question that I've never had a chance
to ask any of you weather guys. How did you
become a weather guy? Did you go to school for
it or did you Always says kid, have a fascination
with it, and you were inextricably drawn to do this
sort of business.
Speaker 8 (36:07):
Always always had a fascination with it. People always ask what,
and a lot of us have specific weather events that
drew us to this. I grew up originally in southeast Pennsylvania,
around the Philadelphia area, and I grew up with the
Blizzard of ninety six, of course, which in the Philadelphia
area produced twenty five to thirty inches of snow. I'm
(36:27):
a big winter lover, so that I think that was.
If there was a storm that got me really interested
in the weather, that was probably it. And that continued
through middle school, high school, and then I ultimately went
to school for it. So it was kind of a
It was an interest of mine all throughout and wound
up pursuing it as a career.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
I grew up around here. It was a different it
was a different time, but it seemed that back in
those days, the fifties and sixties, that the winters were
more problematical, that there were more storms than we've had
in recent years. But of course for everyone in New England,
it's the Blizzard of seventy eight. That's the touchstone that
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we all go by. And then the April fools Day
storm of nineteen ninety seven. I don't know if you
got that down in Philadelphia, but we got it on
April Fools. No one predicted it, and it was about
thirty inches of snow in the Greater Boston area. It
was gone in a couple of days because it was late,
but it was Yeah, it was some.
Speaker 8 (37:27):
Of those Some of those April storms are the hardest
because you don't know just how much of that snow
is going to stick because the ground's getting warmer.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
Yeah. Absolutely, Hey, Brian, appreciate it very much, Brian Thompson
Vaki weather giving you as a catharo or rundown as
you're going to get as to what's coming up for
the next weekend. It's very important last weekend in July.
It pains me to say that, Brian, thanks so much
for your time tonight.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
Have a good weekend.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Dan, you too. You've helped me have a good weekend
and plan for a good weekend coming up. Right after
that night, I'm going to talk with Boston candidate for
mayor Candy from Mayor here in Boston, Josh Kraft. I'm
in with a very interesting background having worked with boys
and girls clubs and big poll came out this week.
We have lots to talk about with Josh Kraft, and
(38:14):
he will also make himself available for phone calls. You
know the numbers, We'll give them to you. On the
other side of the nine o'clock news. My name is
Dan Ray and this is Nightside
It's nice with Dan Ray. I'm doing Mazy Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Hey Madison. Indeed, the stock market did have a good
day today and the Red Sox are not having a
great night tonight. But we're gonna have a great show
tonight on Nightside. My name is Dan Ray. Rob Brooks
is back in the control room. We're gonna be talking
at nine o'clock with Boston Merriw candidate Josh Kraft, and
then a little bit later on tonight we talk about
those two longtime executives at Market Basket who were terminated.
(00:29):
I think wrongfully, but that's just my opinion. We have
four really interesting guests, and none of more interesting than
my first guest tonight. He is with the Department of
Auto laryon Gulogy at Brigham Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
His name is doctor Sharruk Jalisi, Doctor Jalasy. I am
(00:53):
honored to have you on our program tonight. Thank you, sir.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Thank you Dan for having me on and for talking
to me. Really appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Well. You have helped so many people, and I guess
the easiest way for me to begin into this is
a lot of people think about cancers like lung cancer
and you know, breast cancer, and they think about heart disease,
but very rarely do they think of cancers of the
head and neck. And these are the cancers that you
(01:21):
and your team deal with. These are much more prevalent
than people understand or realize. Correct Doctor Chilisi.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Correct, Yeah, I mean heading net cancers is a big
range of cancers all the way from skin cancers like
melanoma and scoilt cell cancer the skin, all the way
into throat cancer, sinus cancer, voice box cancer, tongue cancer.
So it's a very big area that needs more focus
(01:49):
and attention for the patients.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
So I assume this is also an area that young
people need to be concerned about. We all need to
be concerned about it, but young people who are out
and about. My suspicion is that there are a lot
of young people who you see as patients.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Yes, we do actually head and a cancer for the
young patient for our group focuses on skin cancers obviously.
I mean, we have a population that loves to go
out in the sun without sun protection, so skin cancers
become a big problem. And when you get sunburns early
(02:32):
on in your life, as teenagers that has become a
high risk for skin cancers and on the head and neck.
Actually I said high risks, so they behave more aggressively.
So I think proper skincare is very important, which we
can talk about, but separately, we also have what we
call throat cancer in the young person, usually in the
thirties and forties now which typically historically this cancer used
(02:56):
to hit people in the sixth and seven decade of life.
The human papaloma virus, which is the same virus that
causes cervical cancer and women, is now afflicting both men
and women young at age in the throat and causing
console cancer and back of the tongue cancer. So it's
becoming pretty much an epidemic with this human papaloma virus.
(03:21):
These are cancers that are not traditional risk factors of
smoking an alcohol. It's a virally mediated cancer that's very treatable,
but patients need to check their symptoms and come in
for assessment at the right time.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
So what is it other than people, you know, in
terms of skin cancer, making sure that they have enough
lotion on to prevent you know, bad sunburns and all
of that. But what is it that that will tip
someone off there's something. Is it a bleed? Is it?
(03:55):
Is it a pain? I mean most of us, you know,
we go through our days and sometimes you get a
little headache, you get a little neck ache, and you
don't pay attention to it. But at the same time,
you can't be running into the doctor's office every other week.
How do you figure out what's serious and what isn't,
(04:17):
particularly in your area of expertise.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Yeah, so I think the important thing is change in
or having some kind of lesion on your skin that's
changing or a new lesion. So you know, for example,
melanoma comes in different varieties and colors. If someone has
a mold, for example, and that's changing in shape or color,
that's of concern suddenly. You know, we live in New
(04:42):
England where you know, when the sun comes out, a
lot of people go out in the sun or go
down south to get the cat's sun, and people get
sun spots. If you have that kind of skin, usually
a very fair skin individual, they should be getting a
dermatology consort or at least having a self checked out
by a dermatology at least once a year, maybe every
six months. But any kind of skin discoloration that you
(05:05):
see should be checked out, just to make sure it's
not cancer. Do they need a BOPXI or not? Is
it just sun damage? So I think these are just
good principles. But wearing sunscreen is very essential, wearing a
hat when it's really sunning out, and a hat with
a rim on it to protect your ears as well.
And a lot of people forget the years we wear
baseball caps which don't protect your ear, don't protect the
(05:27):
back of your neck. And sometimes these things are picked
up by your hairstylist. You know, they'll be checking your
hair out and there are cancers and a scalp that
otherwise not evident, or a loved one may figure it
out and say, you know what, this wasn't there a
month ago, and now you have this. So I think
it's good to hear from your loved ones that if
they're noting a change on your skin, so that you
(05:50):
can get appropriate care At the right hand.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
How what sort of a rate of success? I mean, obviously,
like any cancer, the earlier you've detected the greatest chance
of success. But these tumors and cancers that you deal
with again, I think you said to me at one
point anything above the collarbone. Are we doing better? And
when I say we, I mean doctors your profession, you know,
(06:16):
the cancer surgeons who deal with head and neck cancers.
Are things getting better or are they getting worse?
Speaker 1 (06:24):
No.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
I think with early detection, obviously the lower the stage,
earlier you find it, you have a really good outcome.
I think surgical techniques have improved just I've been doing
this for thretty years now. I'm at Beth Israel and
soon we'll be having a great collaboration with Dana Farber,
and we have really the brightest minds helping you out.
I think from a surgical perspective, we have improved the
(06:46):
way we take cancers out but also put you back together.
The reconstruction part that the head and X surgery team
team does just to put you back in life, because
you know, your face is your business card and we
want to make sure it looks good. People get scared
that we're am I going to look like? But you
know those things in the past. I think with the
technical advances we can do a lot. I think most surgery,
(07:06):
which is microscopic surgery done by dermatologists, that allows us
to save a lot of lining and minimize the amount
of tissue loss that you would have. And then now
with the medications out there, there's a new class of
medications that are medical oncologists give which is called immunotherapy,
for example for melanoma, which is really prolonging life. So
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I think skin cancer is something that you don't run
away from anymore. You get treated with the survival is there,
so but with adequate treatment. Obviously, the biggest concern we
have is someone has a diagnosis, they ignore it or
deny it, and then when they come back things are
so bad that there's not much we can do. So
(07:50):
I think recognizing the symptoms and getting early treatment is
very important. And things are way different now than they
were even ten years ago, so it's a different world.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Very very very encouraging. Doctor julesy honored to have you
with us tonight. You have dispensed an immense amount of
information and if people pay attention to this, they should
have their loved ones if they missed this interview tomorrow
replay it at nightside on demand, and I'd like to
have you come back maybe at some point of the
(08:21):
next a week or two and take some phone calls
from people. Tonight was intended information, and you were a
plus in terms of being very clear and making people
aware of the seriousness of some of these little things
that you might pick up. And I can't thank you
enough for taking the time. I know it's a busy day.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
No I appreciate it, Dan for you inviting me, and
I'm happy to come back on the show and take
calls and talk to be able to talk to your listeners.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Sounds great, sounds great. I will get back in touch
with you. We'll make that happen sooner rather than later.
I mean within the next week or so. My guest
again great. Thanks to my guest, Sharuk Jalisi, Associate Professor
of Auto Laryngology, Headed Next Surgery, Harvard Medical School, in
chief of Auto Lauryngology, Head and Next Surgery at Beth
(09:16):
Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Talk to jaliusy until we talk again.
Be well.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Thank you so much. You have a good day, a
good night to your viewers.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Thank you so much. Doctor. When we get back, we're
going to change topics a little bit. We'll light it
up for you. I promise. That was a really good
opportunity to talk to someone who's at the top of
his game and how he can help us just with
some words of advice. Stay safer. That's what it comes
down to. The Other thing that I want to emphasize
(09:53):
is that we have some great guests coming up tonight,
including Josh Kraft. He will be joining us in the
night one o'clock hour and taking your phone calls, which
I think is very very important for anyone running for
office to do. And we will also talk with two
of the high level executives and leaders at the Demoulis Market,
(10:20):
which who were terminated today in some part because they
did an interview on this program a week ago Monday.
I feel horrible about that, but they're coming back tonight.
There's not a lot of quit in these gentlemen. Back
on nights that we're going to be talking what's called
dirty soda. You've heard of dirty water. We're gonna explain
to you what dirty soda is. Coming back with w
(10:40):
BZ reporter Kyle Bray right after this.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Break, You're on night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ
Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
All right, We're delighted to welcome Kyle Bray, WBZ news
radio reporter who did a report I'm not sure Kyle
Iff was today or a day or so ago from Clinton,
Massachusetts on dirty soda. All of us know what dirty
water is, the Charles River dirty soda. I'd never heard
of it until I read your report. It's the latest
(11:11):
vible drink craze. I feel that we're going to learn
something very new here. Cargo right ahead.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Yeah, Hey, I mean I did a lot of learning today, Dan,
thanks for having me on. Yeh, No, dirty soda. It's
this new it's this new fangled thing that you know,
is kind of catching on across the country. It's essentially
it could just be bogged down to your t It's
you're taking soda and you're mixing it with coffee creamer
and then like you know, like the like the sugars
(11:40):
that you'll like, the different syrups you'll put in coffee.
Oh yeah, like you know, like vanilla and stuff. It's
basically just it's basically like you're taking your normal coffee
and instead of it being coffee, it's with soda and
that's what makes it. I was was out in Clinton
at the Fountain. Got to talk with Lauren there. She
was great. She's the founder and owner of that place,
and she was kind of saying she didn't know where
(12:00):
the whole dirty war term came from. She's like, I
guess sometimes you put the creamer in. If it's in
like you know, like a coke or a doctor pepper,
it looks sort of like it's getting dirty. But yeah, no,
it's a it's this new trend that's been really catching
on it. Actually, it's funny enough. It started out in Utah.
There's this company called Swig that is uh they have
like these literal like drive through places where you can
(12:22):
get these fancy sodas. And it started as an alternative
because you know, there's a large Mormon population out there
and they can't drink caffee. They can't drink coffee, and
they can't drink alcohol, so they drink fancy soda dirty.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
You know, a red Bull or anything like caffeine.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Yeah, they used to have when I was younger, which
I was younger a lot, Brian, when you were younger,
they used to have this thing called cream soda, which
I didn't like at all.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
I mean it was that was it was. It was
like PEPSI uh, doctor pepper what ever? And then cream soda.
And then they used to have like root beer floats.
I'm sure you've heard of a root beer float.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Oh, I do love a root beer float.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Well, you know, I'm not a big root beer guy.
But he throwed a bunch of a big glop of
vanilla ice cream on top. And does that qualify as
a dirty soda?
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Well, it's funny you say that, because part of the
description that Lauren gave to me was it almost tastes
like you're drinking a float. Like it has the taste
of a float. You almost expect there to be ice
cream in there, but there is it. It's just because
they're using specifically, like you know, coconut creamer. So when
I first tried the first one that she had me try,
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it was it was called the Founder Flavor, and it
was Doctor Pepper with vanilla syrup and the creamer, and
it made it sort of tasted almost like I was
having a Doctor Pepper float of sorts, but not but
without you know, like like chumps of ice cream in it.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
So, how many dirties sodas did you get a chance
to try today as you were working?
Speaker 4 (14:03):
You know, I only tried to because I was worried
a little bit about the sugar. I tried that one,
and then I tried the These were both recommended to me.
I tried the orange creamsicle, which she said is you know,
one of the flavors she'll normally recommend to people trying
it out for the first time, and that one was
that was my favorite. That one was great. I mean,
I'm a I'm a sucker for a creamsicle, so that's
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what it tastes it just like.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
So so if if a creams an orange creamsicle essentially
is a melted down orange creamsicle, orange flavor and some cream,
I guess that's pretty straightforward people can understand that one.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Yeah, And the thing that I really liked that she
talked about was that, you know, she's starting to work
at like events, like she'll like people will hire her
to come to events to to like, you know, serve
the drinks because it's sort of a good like non
alcoholic middle ground where people can you know, you still
have a drink in your hand. You know, the kids
like it, the older folks like it. It's kind of
(15:05):
like because you know, it kind of throws it back
to the to the days of you know, having a
soda fountain that your your pharmacy you know, which is
part of the reason why I think it's catching on.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Look, I can remember soda fountains. They've gone the way
of so many things. I'll look forward to seeing some
of this combat Kyle, Is it justin Clinton? Are this
other communities where this stuff is available? Or does everyone
have to make you know, some some sort of a
pilgrimage to Clinton.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Well, it's funny you say that pilgrimage to Clinton, because
when I was there, she was basically saying, like, you know,
Clinton's not exactly like you know, it's not one of
the pop spots people normally hit when they're in Massachusetts.
But she's had people that have like driven out of
the way because they've schoogled saying, you know, dirty soda
near me, And that's the place that pops up first
because they were one of the first sort of like
early adopters of it. There are some like ice cream
(15:57):
places in and around Boston and like Brookline that I'd
see that also do it as well. I forget the
name of the place, but it's it's like the New
Zealand style ice cream. I know that they have dirty
soda available.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Well, our audiences pretty adaptable, though, they will be able
to figure it out. By the way, you're not the
first famous person who went to Clinton. Did you know
that Jimmy Carter spent a night in Clinton in March
of nineteen seventy seven, shortly after he was elected president
of these United States.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
That's very interesting and I covered.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
That event and interviewed him in the driveway of Gunnard
Thompson's home home in Clinton, Massachusetts.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
That's really cool.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
As the host for Jimmy Carter in March of nineteen
seventy seven, it was a different It's nice.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
It's a nice little town. They've got a nice little
downtown that the store is located on. Was really nice.
And then I drove over when I was done working
for the day, I drove over to the you know,
the Watchhusett Dam and check that out of the Qubatle town.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
This is all good stuff. Kyle Bray, thank you so much.
Got to have you on more off and a great,
great piece, great report.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Thank you, Awesee, thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
Dan.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Have a good night.
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We will introduce you to Natalie Thompson and the thirteenth
Annual Swim Across America. This is an inspiring story. I
think you'll like it. We'll be back after the news
at the bottom of the eight thirty hour.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
It's Night Side with Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Welcome back everyone this weekend, this Saturday at Jenny's Beach
on Nantucket will be the thirteenth in and you will
swim across America Nantucket Open Water Swim with Us. Is
Natalie Thompson. She is a swimmer participant. She's also a
school teacher whose wife was diagnosed with ocular melanoma in
(19:15):
twenty nineteen. Natalie, Welcome to Night's Side. This sounds like
a great a great cause and a great event. Is
this always just in Nantucket or is this part of
a series of swims across America?
Speaker 7 (19:35):
So this is part of a series of swim that
happened across all over the United States. I can't tell
you for sure how many there are but Nantucket came
back thirteen years ago. Originally it started with guys Trends
swim from Hyannas to Nantucket. There was a little bit
of a break and then the swim came back to
us thirteen years ago. And you know, so we're going
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strong with that here and helping out all of our
cancer here on Nantucket.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
So how many folks are going to jump in the water.
I assume it's Saturday morning.
Speaker 7 (20:06):
Saturday morning, Yep, it's a great morning, realistically, probably one
of the best mornings on Nantucket. There will be kids
that come in, do the Kids splash, there's a quarter
mile swim, there's a half mile swim, a full mile swim,
and then there's a group of individuals that will do
a four mile swim and a two by two relay.
(20:27):
There's roughly probably about two hundred and fifty participants. I
think we usually average between like two fifty and three hundred.
So hoping for a good turnout this year.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
And this is a fundraiser as well. It's it's intended
to raise some funds tell us for what.
Speaker 7 (20:44):
Absolutely it raises funds for cancer care here on Nantucket.
So individuals that are getting treatment here are able to
now receive services on Nantucket. You know Nantucket obviously being
an island, we're a unique situation. So often people always
have to go off to go up to Boston for
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appointments and treatment. And fortunately through our swim here, we
have now been able to treat patients here. We also
have our pass On group that is our pallut of
care group, and that supports individuals as they go through
their whole entire cancer treatment and then even if they're
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also having to enter hospice.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Now, since you've been doing this since twenty thirteen, and
the media information I see says that this event has
raised over five and a half million dollars for your
beneficiaries Nantucket Costs, Kindage Hospital you mentioned, Palliative and Supportive
Care of Nantucket, and mass General Cancer Center Research five
(21:56):
point five million dollars. You're trying to raise a million
dollars this Saturday. It looks to me, if I'm reading
this correctly, is that true?
Speaker 4 (22:04):
You are?
Speaker 7 (22:05):
You are reading that correctly. One of our director or
co directors, Jim Pignado, is always pushing that number, and
it's one of those things that we say why not,
why why not put up a challenge, you know, so
let's go big or go home.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Well, hopefully no one's going to go home. Tell us
about the folks who will come to participate? What what
the you said?
Speaker 4 (22:27):
Two?
Speaker 2 (22:28):
I think you said somewhere around two hundred and fifty
participants in one form of fashion. Are they all from Nantucket?
Do you get people I assume at a vacation locale
like Nantucket. Do you have some folks who are down
there for a couple of weeks and probably time there's
some a vacation to participate in this event.
Speaker 7 (22:48):
Absolutely, we have obviously locals that are that are participating here.
We have people that are here just simply on vacation.
We have groups that literally just come for the event.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
You know, the.
Speaker 7 (23:01):
Swimming community is huge on Nantucket, and between kind of
connections of people, connections of cancer, we we end up
grabbing people. I used to work at our pool here
and swimmers would come and be like, oh, what's this event?
Oh I'm here this weekend. Great, it's a great cause.
I'll put down that money to that. So we pull
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a wide variety of people. Sometimes it's it's teammates of
swimmers that we already have here. So It's great because
it's not just your kind of one size fits all
of here's your typical swimmer. We have a wide variety
of abilities. We have people that have literally learned to
swim through our adult swim program and now we're swimming
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the quarter mile or the half mile swim like I
used to angel swim, and I've swam next to people
that are like, I don't know if I'm going to
make it through this, and I'm like, we're going.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
To make it through this.
Speaker 7 (23:52):
So it's great. It's it's a it's a full access event.
It's awesome. We have the kids splash and you know,
sometimes we're we're bopping to the water with kids the
whole time, but you know they're sometimes they're doing it
for their grandparents or somebody that they know, and so
it's great. It's a it's a full family, full community event.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
And at this time of year, I mean every once
in a while you read about roop tides and things
like that, which obviously might discover some people for jumping
in the area where you do the swim. Is it
an area that that that is safe? Do you do
you have people out there patrolling boats to make sure
(24:30):
if anybody gets in a little bit of trouble there,
they're going to be okay.
Speaker 7 (24:35):
Yeah, absolutely we are. We swim on the north shore,
right on the west side of the jetties, and so
that is probably one of the biggest safety safety parts
to it, is making sure everybody's safe. The course is
very well marked out, so even if you haven't been
an open water swimmer before, you can easily access it.
It's one of these swims that sometimes, depending on the tide,
(24:56):
you could almost stand up and walk a good chunk
of it and you know, it's it's a full again.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
That's that's that's my race. Yeah. Last question two, your
family has been touched by cancer, and I know that's
a big motivation. Did you I believe your dad passed away.
Speaker 7 (25:18):
Yeah, My dad passed away last June, and he had
had He was diagnosed with a stage four renal cancer
in March of twenty twenty, and Jill and Jim were
literally the first text that I sent out saying I
need I need help, you know, and so we got
an extra four years with him because originally his prognosis
(25:40):
wasn't stellar, and you know, it was huge that he
was able to get all of his care here on
Nantucket because thirteen years ago that wouldn't have happened. You know,
he would have been having to travel off a lot more.
And you know, realistically, I think that brought us a
lot of time with him, you know, saving the travel,
being able to be home, have the treatment here, and
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being able to be surrounded by his loved ones, no question.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
And your immediate family has also been HiT's what's going
on there? Is your wife still doing well?
Speaker 7 (26:14):
Yeah, my wife, My wife is doing well. It was
a kind of a very much a surprise that came
to us in twenty nineteen, and that's when I made
the jump from kind of the one mile slash Angel
Swimmer to the four mile swim. She was diagnosed with
ocular melanoma and so she unfortunately can't receive treatment here
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on Nantucket. She went through a clinical trial and so
now fortunately her her tumor is stable and so we
just kind of keep monitoring that she travels up to
mass I in air, but is able to receive support
and services from pass On here, which is great, you know,
so we have that full support. So it's great.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
You know.
Speaker 7 (26:56):
Part of the safety thing for the four mile swimmers
is we all have to have a kayaker, and so
she's my kayaker. So we you know, we've been dubbed
Team Thompson. So it's great to be able to do
that with her, you know, swimming for her and have
our kids do that too.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
So and her prognosis is good.
Speaker 7 (27:13):
I hope, yes, you know, it's as stable tumor is
a great tumor for her. So we're going to We're
going to keep that there absolutely.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
So how can folks at this late date this is Saturday,
obviously it's Wednesday night. We're talking about really less than
seventy two hours away. Are there's still room for people
to participate.
Speaker 7 (27:33):
There's always room for people to still participate. So you're
able to sign up, and you're able to sign up.
I can't remember. I think online registration maybe closes technically
Thursday night, but you can still do day of sign ups.
So you could show up to Jetty's Beach Saturday morning
between six thirty and seven thirty and say, hey, I
want to swim and you can be an in swimming.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Well that's great, Well this is this is wonderful, Natalie.
It sounds like a huge event. If you get anyone
close to a million dollars, never mind get over the
million dollars. Will that be the first year that you
will have broken that barrier?
Speaker 3 (28:10):
Absolutely?
Speaker 7 (28:11):
This was a This was a big, big push from
Jim this year, which I think is great. Last year
we were eight seventy five or right around there, and
so it was a lofty goal and we're going to
keep keep our heads down, keep pushing all the way
through and see where we can get to.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Natalie Thompson, thanks very much. I wish you great weather.
I think you will have great weather on Saturday, if
the weather prognosticators are anywhere close to it. And I
wish your calm seas and the wind that you're back
the back of everyone and just just go out and
nail it. It's as simple as that. It's a great cause,
(28:51):
it's a great event in a great location. Thank you
Natalie for your time tonight.
Speaker 7 (28:56):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Very welcome. All right, that's inspiration to think that people
will be spending part of Saturday, this coming Saturday out
on the water in Nantucket. On Nantucket. Doesn't get much
better than that, folks. There's no doubt we get back
when to talk about weather, We're gonna talk with Brian Thompson,
who's going to bring us up to date as to
what the weather is likely to hold not only for
(29:18):
Nantucket but for the rest of the New England this weekend.
Back on Nightside right after.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
This, It's Nightside with Dan Ray Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
All Right, we do know that it is still July.
Today's July twenty third, so we still have a full
week left in July, and we're gonna get some warm
weather coming in this weekend. And who better to tell
us about the warm weather and maybe if there are
a couple of cool spots that people can escape to
then Brian Thompson. Brian, welcome, Welcome back to Nightside. Thanks
(29:52):
so much for joining us tonight. It's I watched all
the forecast tonight and I don't think there's any snow
coming this weekend for sure. Well, you're with aki weather
and it's going to be hot, hot, hot hot. What's
going on? What's going on? It's let me know how
bad it's going to be. I guess is what I'm asking.
(30:13):
How are you tonight?
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Yeah, I'm doing fine.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
Dan.
Speaker 8 (30:15):
Yeah, we're getting ready for the heats. And now this
is going to be a relatively brief round of heat.
That's the good news. Tomorrow, we're going to be seeing
things warming up. I think many spots up near ninety tomorrow.
The humidity is going to be higher than it's been
over the last few days. We've been kind of spoiled
here in the first half of the week has been
pretty nice. But again, tepters will be up near ninety tomorrow.
Friday is the day that is really going to be hot.
(30:37):
We're going to see tempatures up into the mid nineties.
I would not be surprised at some places west of
Boston get up around one hundred degrees and with the
high humidity over talking about ACI, with the real field
scepter is probably running at least one hundred to one
hundred and five degrees during the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Okay, that is not unprecedented. I mean it's the last
We're kind of in the last week of July, not
technically the last week of July. We'll kind of getting there.
Isn't this the week during the summer that is traditionally
the hottest of the year.
Speaker 8 (31:09):
Yeah, pretty much. I mean, if you look at the
average high temperatures in Boston, the hottest stretch climatologically speaking,
is from July sixteenth through the twenty second to where
the average highs eighty three. Today, the average high actually
ticked down to eighty two, So we're heading in the
right direction if you're not a fan of the heats,
or at least starting to go in the right direction
as we head into August. Of course, it's a very
(31:30):
slow fall for those average temperatures at first before we
get into the fall. But again, the hottest climatologically speaking,
has basically been over the last week or so, so
we're at least looking at the averages heading in the
right direction.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Well, I remember last year. I remember distinctly that last
year there was a heat wave, and I thought to myself, well,
what do you expect? I mean, you expect the blizzard
in the last week of January, you expect the heat
wave in the last week of July here in Massachusetts?
Is that you know? That's what I expect, you guys
(32:06):
the professionals. Am I being too glib when I say that? No?
Speaker 8 (32:12):
I mean this is if there's a time of year
we're most likely to get a heat wave, this part
of July certainly is more likely. It was more unusual.
When we had that extreme heat wave last month at
the end of June, that was a little on the
early side, especially for temperatures and the triple digits, but
certainly this time in July, it's not a common roll
to get ninety degree days and to string two ninety
(32:35):
degree days in a row, which is likely what we'll
do tomorrow and Friday.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Now, in order to have a heatwave, you got to
have three days in the nineties, correct, yes, correct, Okay,
And does it when you break that down, I know
they're always talking about what the weather is and did
we hit ninety at Logan Airport? Does Logan Airport determine
for the entire region if we have a heat wave?
Or can you have a heat wave in Worcester? What
(33:02):
but not have it in Boston. That's always confused me.
Speaker 8 (33:05):
You can have a heat wave in Boston, Boston and
Worcester and even some of the western suburbs of of course,
observing sites all across all across Massachusetts, so you can
have heat waves in individual places. It doesn't have to
necessarily be in the in kind of the main city
to be considered a heat wave for the entire region.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Okay, So so we normally, normally do we have a
couple of heat What's what's the normal number of three
day heat waves we should expect in most of New England.
I'm sure northern New England doesn't have the same level
of heat wave activity that we do have down here
(33:43):
in the south right.
Speaker 8 (33:44):
Generally, generally not, although there are parts of New Hampshire
and that can do pretty well in the King of
pretty hot some of the valley spots. I don't know
the exact number off hand, I would I would I
would estimate probably one to two heat waves a year
across southern New England. Is is pretty bunch par for
the course.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Okay, so we've already had one, this might are we
Are we looking at one this weekend in your opinion?
Speaker 8 (34:07):
Or actually it looks like looks like we've had two.
We had one early this month from the sixth to
the eighth. That one was didn't have as much fanfare
as the one last month.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
But so, yeah, we.
Speaker 8 (34:19):
Doesn't look like we'll get one this time either. I
think we're gonna come up one day short, even if
we get to ninety tomorrow and into the nineties Friday,
we did not get we were nowhere near ninety today
and Saturday will be quite a bit cooler. The wind
will be out of the east. There's going to be
some cooler air coming down from the north and east,
so we will get some relief pretty quickly as we
head into at least the start of the weekend.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
And then long term, how fuck can you take us out?
Since I got you, I have to ask in next
week what again? I think it's amazing that you can
actually figure out the weather two days in advanced, of
by two weeks in advance. What's the long term looking one?
Speaker 8 (34:57):
It is amazing, given how complicated the atmosphere as that
we can predict the so far out of five seven days,
even longer than that. Sometimes Now now, I don't see
any extended rounds of heat coming our way. As we
head into the early part of next week, there's going
to be a large area of heat over the central
part of the country, and at times it's going to
drift into parts of the mid Atlantic, but I think
we're going to be on the edge of that for
(35:17):
the most part, so I don't think we'll really ever
get back into the heat. Through the first half of
next week. It'll be humid, at times, and temperatures will
be into the bid to upper eighties, but I don't
anticipate hies to be in the nineties. If you're looking
ahead to the weekend, Saturday looks to be the better
of the two weekend days right now. That's a day
we'll have lower humidity. It looks really nice actually, with
some sun. Highs will be pretty close to eighty. Sunday
(35:38):
is the day we'll probably be dealing with some thunderstorms.
We're watching some storms coming in from the west. Might
be a little more humid. I don't think it's an
uncomfortable day, but again, the main concern Sunday is going
to be the rain threat, the thunderstorm threat as the
day goes on.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
All Right, last question that I've never had a chance
to ask any of you weather guys. How did you
become a weather guy? Did you go to school for
it or did you Always says kid, have a fascination
with it, and you were inextricably drawn to do this
sort of business.
Speaker 8 (36:07):
Always always had a fascination with it. People always ask what,
and a lot of us have specific weather events that
drew us to this. I grew up originally in southeast Pennsylvania,
around the Philadelphia area, and I grew up with the
Blizzard of ninety six, of course, which in the Philadelphia
area produced twenty five to thirty inches of snow. I'm
(36:27):
a big winter lover, so that I think that was.
If there was a storm that got me really interested
in the weather, that was probably it. And that continued
through middle school, high school, and then I ultimately went
to school for it. So it was kind of a
It was an interest of mine all throughout and wound
up pursuing it as a career.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
I grew up around here. It was a different it
was a different time, but it seemed that back in
those days, the fifties and sixties, that the winters were
more problematical, that there were more storms than we've had
in recent years. But of course for everyone in New England,
it's the Blizzard of seventy eight. That's the touchstone that
(37:08):
we all go by. And then the April fools Day
storm of nineteen ninety seven. I don't know if you
got that down in Philadelphia, but we got it on
April Fools. No one predicted it, and it was about
thirty inches of snow in the Greater Boston area. It
was gone in a couple of days because it was late,
but it was Yeah, it was some.
Speaker 8 (37:27):
Of those Some of those April storms are the hardest
because you don't know just how much of that snow
is going to stick because the ground's getting warmer.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
Yeah. Absolutely, Hey, Brian, appreciate it very much, Brian Thompson
Vaki weather giving you as a catharo or rundown as
you're going to get as to what's coming up for
the next weekend. It's very important last weekend in July.
It pains me to say that, Brian, thanks so much
for your time tonight.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
Have a good weekend.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Dan, you too. You've helped me have a good weekend
and plan for a good weekend coming up. Right after
that night, I'm going to talk with Boston candidate for
mayor Candy from Mayor here in Boston, Josh Kraft. I'm
in with a very interesting background having worked with boys
and girls clubs and big poll came out this week.
We have lots to talk about with Josh Kraft, and
(38:14):
he will also make himself available for phone calls. You
know the numbers, We'll give them to you. On the
other side of the nine o'clock news. My name is
Dan Ray and this is Nightside
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