February 27, 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!
Google Reveals Top Monthly Search Trends for February with Nick Burns, a Google Trends Expert.
Fierce Planets The Exhibition at the New England Quilt Museum! Dr. Sabine Stanley – Planetary Scientist checked in with Dan.
Red Cross offers free A1C testing for blood donors in March! Kelly Isenor – Director of Communications for The American Red Cross of Massachusetts explains.
Experts Predict An Uptick In Rodents, Ticks This Spring In Boston! Galvin Murphy – Rodent Expert & Preventive Controls Qualified Individual with Yankee Pest Control has the warning!
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Google Reveals Top Monthly Search Trends for February with Nick Burns, a Google Trends Expert.
Fierce Planets The Exhibition at the New England Quilt Museum! Dr. Sabine Stanley – Planetary Scientist checked in with Dan.
Red Cross offers free A1C testing for blood donors in March! Kelly Isenor – Director of Communications for The American Red Cross of Massachusetts explains.
Experts Predict An Uptick In Rodents, Ticks This Spring In Boston! Galvin Murphy – Rodent Expert & Preventive Controls Qualified Individual with Yankee Pest Control has the warning!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ Boston's new radio.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Thank you, Nicole. Let us hope the Bruins end their
day better than the stock market and their day today
what a blood bath. Good evening, everyone, and welcome on in.
I'm Dan Ray, host of Nightside, heard every Monday through
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the news during the day and entertained and informed with
some talk at night from eight to midnight. We have
lots coming up tonight. We're going to talk a little football,
which we very rarely do here on Nightside. It's off season,
(01:12):
but the Patriots players basically say that their team is
not treating them well. We'll get into that a little bit.
Very interesting article about the Globe and the Herald today
and they're going to talk about self driving autonomous vehicles.
I actually have been in a self driving autonomous vehicle
and it was pretty cool. But I'm not sure most
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people are interested in being in a self driving autonomous vehicle.
And we'll be talked with Mark Shield drop of Triple A.
Oh sometimes late sometime later on tonight. We'll keep in
suspense for that. In the meantime, we afford very interesting
guests in the first hour, and we're going to start
off with Nick Burns. Nick is a Google trends expert.
(01:55):
Welcome Nick Burns tonightside. How are you.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
I'm great, Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Now, I'm sure Nick, when you were seven or eight
years old and someone said to you, Nick, what do
you want to do when you grew up? Maybe you
said you wanted to be a fireman, maybe a policeman,
maybe a doctor, maybe a baseball player. You never said
you wanted to be a Google trends expert. How'd you
end up? As you know, you're expert.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
You're right, You're right. You know, life takes you and
crazy adventures and you just got to say yes along
the way.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Yes, sir, yes, sir. So tell us, first of all,
exactly what a Google trends expert is. I don't assume
that wasn't your major in college. I'm assuming.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
You're you're very correct there. I was a literature major.
But a Google trends expert, you know, we look at
what people around the world are searching for. It gives
us a lot of really interesting insight around the trends,
what interests people, and it's kind of like the heartbeat
of the Internet.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
So give us recently, I mean, give us an idea.
There's a lot of folks out there who now understand
Google and they understand trends, and obviously, at different points
during the year, different trends take priority. But give us
a sense as to maybe, let's talk February. February has
just ended. I assume those numbers have been compiled at this.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Point or no, we, sir, have Yeah, we have cut
the numbers. And you know, February was a very busy,
busy month, you know, and has everything from the Super
Bowl to the SAG Awards, to Fashion Week in New York,
to Black History months, and we saw all of these
show up in our trends throughout February.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Anything that surprised you, I mean all of those are
sort of pre scheduled February events. Anything that surprised you
during the month, Oh.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
You know.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
I for me, I think I don't know if you
follow in New York Fashion Week, But what was surprising
to me is Calvin Klein was actually the top trending
collection in terms of what people were searching for. And
it comes down to a little known fact that this
was the first time in five years that Calvin Klein
has actually shown a collection at Fashion Week, and that's
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all due to their new creative director.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
This is a dumb question, but I get paid to
ask dumb questions. Is Calvin Klein still alive?
Speaker 3 (04:16):
He is, absolutely and he was there. You're on the
newest creative director.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
It seems to me like I'm not an expert in
the world of fashion, but it seems to me like
he's been around forever. I mean, how old is Calvin
at this point?
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (04:35):
That is that is a very good question, and I'm
sure if we asked Google, it would tell us.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Yeah, okay, we'll leave that one going. Well, I really
wasn't sure really, to be really honest with you. So
in sports, I've looked at a top local trend here
and I'm kind of a sports guy, says the NBA
All Star Game reaction. It was that the top sports
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a trend or am I misreading what my producer has
given me as a show prep here?
Speaker 5 (05:06):
Yeah, you are correct.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
So the NBA All Star Game was one of the
top trending moments in the months. If you watched it,
you got to see Mac McClung when the dunking contest,
and he was a top trending player from the game.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
And he doesn't he doesn't even play in the NBA.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
You know that, right, I know, but you know he
keeps winning these dunk contests.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Yeah, I saw it. He's an amazing athlete in that regard.
I guess he's the what they call a d league player,
which is the first level of minor league basketball. But
he can jump, and I saw him jumping. They had
a truck out on the court, so not only was
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he able to dunk, but in the process dunk and
flew not only by the basket, but over the trump
over the truck. Kind of an amazing sight, that's for sure,
But that that threw more more Google hits than the
super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Uh, you know, it's just I think it depends, you know,
the super bowls at the very beginning of the month.
I think the NBA would kind of later in the month.
And so I think you see these trends kind of
ebb and flow throughout the course. But you can, ye,
what surprised me was the trend which compare the two.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yeah, what surprised me is with the Super Bowl, you
get that two week build up, uh and uh. And
there's a lot of wagering on the Super Bowl, as
I'm sure you know. And of course it has the
the halftime shows, which are interesting sometimes somewhat controversial. That
would kind of surprise me. In in I guess science,
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there are a lot of people looking for sleep tips
and sleep maxing. I've never heard the sleep mac the
term sleep maxing. Tell us about that.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Yeah, that's right. You know, I think this is a
carryover from people still trying to get those New Year's
resolutions and hold to them. You know, the top trending
kind of sleep related or you know, science related search
was how to improve sleep, and sleep maxing is all
about that. It's kind of a trend on social media
which is all about trying to find ways to optimize
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your sleep, sleep better, sleep more, you know, soundly, get
you know, feel more refreshed when you wake up, and
you know, people are looking for these tools to help
you track your sleep quality. Like I've got a bed
wearing my pixel Watch three and it really helps me
kind of understand how well I sleep with this sleep
score that you wake up and it really provides some
great insights.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Give us, give us a sleep tip that you were seeing.
So my listeners who you know, who are listening now
might have a sleep tip. What do you what do
you got for us?
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Oh yeah, absolutely So people in especially in Massachusetts are
actually searching for music for sleep, which we're all kind
of familiar with, you know, the white noise and and
you know, things like that, but music for sleep is
becoming so much more popular. We were kind of surprised
to see that. And what's really interesting you will find
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these you know, kind of sleep playlists on YouTube and
there's kind of a combination of music or meditations and
all of these kind of sounds to help you relax
and ease into sleep.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Well, it sounds to me, Nick like maybe it didn't
grow up looking to become a Google trend expert, but
sounds to me like you're at the top of your
game and you found a position that you really like
and that's and that's got to be a real fun position,
a real fun spot to be in to be able
to watch these trends. I appreciate you taking the time
to join us tonight and keep maybe have you back, Okay,
(08:48):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Thank you so much for having me and I hope
you have a great night you too, Nick.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Help you have a nice good night sleep. You've earned
it tonight, that's for sure. Thanks much, Talk soon, all right,
We get back to talk with a planetary scientist. Not
exactly sure what a planetary scientist is. I think I
know and we'll find out for sure. We talk with
doctor Sabine Stanley. Coming of Sabine. I'm not sure the
correct pronunciation. Won't get that squared away, I forgot to
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mention earlier. Rob Brooks is back at Broadcast Central, so
he is all set ready to go. Get to your
phone calls after nine o'clock tonight, but we have three
more interesting guests coming up. This is Nightside. It's say,
Thursday night, the second last day of the month of February.
We're we're kind of putting the winter calendar in our
rearview mirror here. By this time tomorrow night, we'll almost
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be in March. Stay with us on Nightside. Come on
right back after this.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Now back to Dan ray Line from the Window World
Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
I'm delighted to welcome doctor Sabine Stanley, who is a
planetary scientist. Doctor Stanley, I think I have an idea
about what a planetary scientist is, But how about just
a quick off the cuff explanation of what sort of
science you're involved in. Obviously it's the science of the
planets I get. I'd love to know what you do.
(10:10):
Do you chart them? Do you follow them? Welcome tonight, chat.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Athlin, Thank you so much for inviting me. So a
planetary scientist is really interested in understanding why planets do
the things they do. Right, think of Earth, why does
Earth have an atmosphere? And why does life exist so
happily here? But then you look at Jupiter or Venus
and you say, why isn't there life there? And why
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is Jupiter so huge? And have these giant ring systems
and all of this. Right, So, planetary scientists are really
interested in understanding the physics, the chemistry, and maybe even
the biology of what goes on inside planets.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Well, you know, it's interesting, as I'm sure you know,
at this time during the year, I believe that several
of the planets kind of line up. You know much
more about this than I do, obviously, and they're visible
in some areas on some good nights to the naked eye.
I don't know if it has anything to do with
its late winter, but there has to be some reason
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why they all line up at this time of year.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Yeah, it's really just chance encounters. Every planet is orbiting
the Sun at a particular speed, so every planet has
a different length of its year, and every once in
a while they happen to all kind of be in
the same area at the same time. So it's rare,
and it all kind of depends on every planet's yearly
time cycle around the Sun.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Now, this setup right now that I've heard people talk about,
is this one an unusual setup or is this fairly
common over the course of two or three years.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
You know, it's not fairly common, but you do get
alignments of the planets just happenstance every once in a while.
There was one a.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Few years ago.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
But I think you should think of it as a
special event that you might only get to see and
you know, certain parts of the Earth at once every
few years. So take the opportunity to go out and
check out that alignment of the planets.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Yeah, it's almost again, I don't want to bring religion
into this, but it's almost as if there's some hand
out there keeping everything working, like a very sophisticated Swiss clock,
if you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Yeah, we like to call that physics.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
The laws of physics are really good at keeping things
in order.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Yeah, that is true. So now you're going to talk
about something called Fierce Planets, the exhibition at the New
England Quilt Museum, which is up here in the Massachusetts area,
up in Lowell, as I understand it.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
Correct, Yep, that's right.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
So there is an exhibition of textile arts. It's called
Fierce Planets, and it's based actually on the science that's
featured in my book that's called What's Hidden inside planets.
So the book really kind of explores all the fascinating
things that are happening, say a thousand miles below our
feet here on Earth or maybe inside other planets. And
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these textile art pieces were inspired by the content of
that book and really brought all of that science to
life and an incredible visual mechanism. So that's at the
New England Museum in Lowell until May third.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
So your book is entitled What's Happening in or Inside Planets?
Speaker 4 (13:21):
It's what's hidden inside planets?
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Hidden inside planets?
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Okay, yeah, so we know so much about the surface, right,
but how much do we really know about the deep inside?
And so that's really what the book tries to explore.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
How are you able to do that? And again, I
don't want to take a track here, and obviously it's
something that I'm sure is much more complex than you
can tell us. But they still are trying to figure
out what's going inside the Earth. My understanding is that
the core of the Earth is shifting, and recently we
had a scientist on last week who talked about that
(13:57):
not a problem. We're not going off track or anything,
but I guess it's constantly there's constantly movement inside the Earth,
as there is constant movement in the atmosphere, how can
you figure out what's going on in Jupiter or Mars
or Saturn? How is that possible? We can't tell the
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weather forecast three days in advance. It sounds to me
for sure, you know, not to criticize my meteorological friends
there by the way, just to make sure I cover myself.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Go ahead, understand, Yeah, No, it's a great question. So
here's the reality. It is really hard to say, dig
inside the Earth or another planet to go see it firsthand.
But what we can do is kind of what like
a doctor does. If you go to the doctor and
you say I've got this pain in my side or
something like that, you might be sent in for a scan, right,
a CP scan or an MRI. So there are ways
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of sending waves or other fields through a planet, just
like the doctor does through you when you're getting a scan,
to see what's going on deep inside. So we take
advantage of natural fields things gravity fields or magnetic fields
or seismic waves that happen when an earthquake happens, and
we actually use that to image what is going on
inside a planet.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Now is this imaging done through you know, satellites and
all of that, or is it done through powerful telescopes
here on Earth? How was this accomplished?
Speaker 4 (15:20):
So it's mostly done through satellites. We send spacecraft to planets,
and those spacecraft have instruments that can measure the gravity
field or the magnetic field, so it's mostly done that way.
There are a few things you can get, say from
powerful telescopes near Earth, right, but it's mostly the most
detail we have are from the spacecraft that we send
out to the planets.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Now, I'm sure you've spent years and years and years
studying this. How fast is our body of knowledge expanding
in this field? I have to assume that one hundred
years ago, maybe people thought about this, speculated about it.
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I have to believe that that the base of knowledge
that you deal with today is exponentially greater than what
it was ten years ago, and five years or ten
years from now, it's even going to be exponentially greater
than it is today.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Absolutely, And the amazing thing about planetary science is the
whole community really works together in trying to think about,
you know, where should we send the next spacecraft? Where
do we need to learn the next big thing. And
so then you work for years on developing this spacecraft
and you send it out to a planet. So, for example,
the Juno mission got sent out to Jupiter, and as
soon as that spacecraft gets there and takes new data,
(16:37):
we basically have to rewrite the textbooks about that specific planet.
So it's really amazing to see how much more we
learn every time we send out a spacecraft to a
planet for the first time. Right, and even you know
plans we've been to Mars, for example, every time you
send a spacecraft with a new mission there, it learns
so much new information that we just really changed the
field entirely.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
We never script questions on this show. So this is
what comes into my head because I'm thinking, I want
to think, like my audience, is there something amazing that
you have learned or the scientific community has learned in
the last year or five years about one of the
planets that was never understood anticipated prior to just a
(17:22):
few years ago.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Oh my god, so much. Okay, I'm going to.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
Pick the planet that.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
I've been excited about recently. Let's go to Mars. Let's
go to Mars. Right, so great, So there's this amazing
mission called Insight, which went to Mars and landed this
spacecraft on the surface of the planet. And then the
spacecraft took us seismometer and stuck it onto the surface
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of Mars so that it could measure Mars quakes. So
with this sismometer on another planet, we were able to
tell that quakes, just like earthquakes you're on Earth, happened
on Mars. And from those Mars quakes, we actually mapped
the inside of Mars, and we now know, for example,
that Mars's core, like you mentioned Earth's core earlier, Mars
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has a core, and that core is actually it's been
completely liquid, and it's bigger than we thought it was,
and it's kind of challenging what we think about how
planets form.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
So we got to work on that.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Now, well, that's that's fabulous, So let me do this.
Let's let's see if I can grab real quickly. Here
the event, the event Fierce Planets is on display. It's
called the John Hopkins Wavelengths Global Exhibition on view January fourteenth,
so it's already all the way through May third. Okay,
(18:43):
I assume you probably have traveled up there to see it, so.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
I will be there on Saturday, March fifteenth. I'm going
to give a talk about my work and the connection
to the Fierce Planets exhibit.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Yes, oh great, and that's open to the public, I assume,
and I see that that the New England Quies Museum.
There's a mailing list people can subscribe to, and the
New England Quilt Museum is on Shattock Street in Lowell, Massachusetts.
Just go to any q M which stands for you know,
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acronym for New England Quiltmuseum dot org slash fierce hyphen
Planets and your book. Give us your book one more time.
I'm sure that some people would like to get it.
I'm sure they can get it through Amazon. It's What's
Hidden inside Planets. Correct, that's right, Well, thank you very much.
I enjoyed the conversation, doctor Stanley. I was never a
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great science guy in school, chemistry and physics. I understood
physics better than science than chemistry. Once I saw that
periodic table, I was like, I'm supposed to memorize this. No,
didn't worry me too. Well, that's great. Well, that's great.
I'm sure that you're way ahead in the book that
I am though, that's for sure. Thank you so much
for your time tonight. I enjoyed the conversation immensely.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Thanks, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
All Right, we'll take you back to earth a little bit. Here.
We're going to talk with Kelly Eisner. She's the director
of communications for the American Red Cross at Massachusetts. Always
a good time to donate to the Red Cross. March
is the blood donors month, Red Cross Month. I will
talk about how you can donate, and also you can
get tested for free while you donate for a one
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C which is an important test that everybody should take periodically.
Be back with Kelly Eisner on night Side right after
this break at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray on WBS, Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
All right, well, March is about, I don't know, twenty
eight hours away or something like that. We are the
cusp of March and March, as I understand, that is
a very important month for the American Red Cross. It's
Red Cross Month and with us as Kelly Eisner, director
of Communications for the American Red Cross of Massachusetts. Kelly,
is March the big month. We normally think about it
(21:01):
as Saint Patrick's Day and the color would be green,
but is this Red Cross Month coming up as well?
Speaker 5 (21:08):
Well?
Speaker 6 (21:08):
How about this, how about we'll let it still be
green in Boston but everywhere else it can be read.
Does that work?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
That works for me? That works for me? In case
I don't forget. I know Kelly and I've worked with
her husband, Nate. Please sayhead in Nate for me. But
having put all of that aside for a moment, I
hope he's doing well. Hope you're doing well. And how
important is the month of March to the Red Cross?
And how are we with our blood supply right now
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as a state?
Speaker 6 (21:38):
Absolutely well? And Dan, it's always a pleasure to talk
to you. I know we go way back in Nate
as well when it comes to blood. Honestly, there is
a constant need for blood what we do in March.
And the reason March is so important is since FDR,
every president has signed March has issued to assign a
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proclamation listing March as Red Cross Months. It's more just
to build awareness, to remind people that we are out
here in the community, right here in Boston, right here
in Massachusetts and all over the country doing this humanitarian work.
So it's just sort of a reminder when you're thinking
about the Red Cross. Yes, so you know, every every
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year we try to build excitement around it. And one
of the things that we're doing this month is a
one C testing for blood owners.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Very important. Tell us I know what a one C
is and many of many of our in our audience
know what it is, but some might not. So tell
us what is the importance of a one C and
you get an a one C test when you give
blood this upcoming.
Speaker 6 (22:48):
Month, absolutely so. Hemoglobin A one C is a common
blood test for diagnosing diabetes and monitoring blood sugar levels.
It can also give an indication where you might be
you might have pre diabetes, which is a condition that
about eighty percent of the people who have don't know
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they are pre diabetic. And it is reversible. It indicates
that your body isn't necessarily regulating your blood sugar successfully
now and that could lead to type two diabetes later
in life. And what's unique is that you don't need
to fast for this a one SEE test, So you know,
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it's an easy way to just get a little bit
extra information that you can then take to your doctor
and you know, talk about treatment plans and just you know,
any lifestyle changes that you can make now before it
gets to the point of actually having to be controlled
by medication.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Now, this is important, And I know you're not a
doctor and you're not going to play one on the radio,
but I don't want people to be intimidated. So if
they do donate blood and find that maybe their A
one C is in getting closer to a more dangerous level,
how difficult is it before you need to take medication?
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How significant a change in lifestyle does it take to
reverse this process? I'm asking. I often say to my guests,
we don't prescript questions here, but I don't want people
to be afraid of getting this diagnosis. It's actually good
to find out what your A one C level is,
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particularly for people who are not seeing doctors every every
year or so with annual physicals. Does it require a
huge change in your lifestyle to adjust to whatever your
A one C level might be?
Speaker 6 (24:48):
Well, you know, I think you nailed it down that
right now. You know, I've seen these statistics. Are about
a third of Americans. They're lacking access to regular primary care.
They're not able to go to a doctor, or they're
not going to the doctor on a regular basis. So
this test is a great way to just kind of
bring some information to you that you can hopefully then
take to a doctor and then that's the point where
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you can kind of figure out if this is something
that can be addressed with just lifestyle changes, you know, eating.
It's funny, actually a lot of you know, my father
is diabetic, and a lot of the advice that his
doctor gave him was kind of the same things that
we'd tell blood donors. You know, you want to eat
a hyprotein loaf fat diet, you want to make sure
you're getting all your vegetables, but you know, in some
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cases there might be more that needs to be done.
So really it's just a tool to help you and
your doctor together kind of work towards that best health plan.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
So when folks go and we'll get to the locations
and the times and all of that in a second,
But when folks go to to give you to make
the blood donation, they don't have to fast. I think
you said that was not.
Speaker 6 (25:58):
Necessary, correct, And actually we encourage people don't test. You know,
you want to make sure you eat a full meal,
a healthy meal the night before you donate, and you
want to get plenty of water before your donation as well,
So don't test.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Okay, that's fine though, That's good information. And so when
you are given whatever information you are given, do you
get it you know, as you as you leave the
donation center that day and a piece of paper to
take it with you, or is this something that is
sent to you a day or so later.
Speaker 6 (26:31):
Through it takes about a week, I'm being told, and
you know, we officially start on March first, so that
week might be a little bit longer or less depending.
But the where that information goes is into the account
that you use to make your blood donation appointment. So
most people that I talked to use the blood donor
app to schedule their appointment. So there's already a profile
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there and the results of the AEC test would be
posted there if you schedule online, if you go to
a Red Cross blood dot org the scheduling appointment, you'll
create a profile there and that's where that information will be.
And when you check in at your blood donation appointment,
they'll make sure that you have the right profile and
they'll kind of walk you through how to find exactly
the information that you're looking for.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Perfect, Okay, Red crossblood dot org. So how many different locations?
How convenient will it be the donation locations moving around
during during the month of March or are they stationary
in certain locations? How how that going to work?
Speaker 6 (27:30):
Yes, and yes, I kind.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Of thought that was going to be the answer, but
you go ahead and amplify on it for us.
Speaker 6 (27:38):
Sure, So everywhere that you can give blood with the
Red Cross, you can your blood will be tested for
a one see it'll have the screening in mass two sets.
We're lucky. We have nine fixed site locations. These are
like our brick and mortar blood donation centers. The close
one probably too for your listeners, be Weymouth or detim
(28:02):
if Dan versus Boston. We go out as far as
Western Springfield or at all of the blood drives from
the field because again, the blood is tested after it
comes back to our lab. That's part of why it
takes a little bit. There's a little bit of turnaround
time for it. Sure, So anywhere you donate with well
you guys, I.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Know you always make it really easy. Uh, and we're
talking about probably it's an hour to get there if
I've recalled correctly, and by telling you blood is donated.
They give you a little while to make sure that
you're all set and ready to go. You're talking about
you've got to kind of block out about an hour
from the moment you walk in until the moment you're
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going to leave. Is that the turnaround time still approximately?
Speaker 6 (28:44):
That is exactly right?
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Perfect? Okay, So I think we've covered the waterfront here, Kelly.
The redcrossblood dot org is the website. All the information
is there, and let's hope that many of our listeners
will take advantage at some point during March to participate
and donate some blood. Thank you so much, Kelly. Always
great to talk with you.
Speaker 6 (29:07):
Thank you Dan. Nice to talk to you as well.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
All right, and say aha to my friend Nate when
you see him tonight. Okay, thanks so much, talk to
you soon. Final break here on this hour of the
night side News Update and we get back, we're going
to talk about something all of us should be aware of.
We're going to be talking about in uptick this spring,
in rodents in ticks, just what we don't want to hear.
(29:31):
But let's let's find out how we can deal with
it as most effectively as possible. We have a special
guest coming up right after this break. My name is
Dan Ray. This is Nightside. To listen to WBZ, Boston's
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Speaker 1 (30:02):
Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
All right, as mentioned earlier tonight, we're getting perilously close.
Actually that's a we're delighted that February is almost over.
We'll be in March by Saturday. But with March comes
springtime and the return of some of those pests we
don't like with us. As Galvin Murphy, he's a road
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and expert preventative controls qualified individual with a company called
Yankee Pest Control. Now we're not talking about New York
Yankees being pest We're talking your company is Yankee Pest Control,
real pests. Okay, just want to make sure what we're
talking about here.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
The two legget past our extra charge. You know, they're
a little extra.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
No, I understand that there's not much you talk about them,
that's for sure. But I think the red sox will
be in better shape this year. That's my prediction. You
have a prediction that we're going to see an uptick
in rodents and ticks. Why would that be.
Speaker 5 (31:08):
The principle behind the roadman tech increase is really the
weather patterns in the Boston area. We've just I think
everybody has noticed the shorter winters if we're just not
getting those deep freezes, which it's just not interrupting the
reproductive cycle of the rats for us. So it really
the winters of old seem to be gone and we're
really taking a beating on the rat populations, that's for sure.
(31:31):
Well so I think in a few weeks.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
But we've we've just gone through two pretty cold months here.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
Galvin, it is it is been. We've had a good winter.
But I think the next couple of weeks, once we
have a quick melt, I mean all week it's been
fifty and we're already getting termite swarms. So I think
a lot of these ticks will be out earlier than normal.
For those folks looking out to get out hiking and
walking a little earlier should have a little extra precautions
with them. But with the rats, I think they'll be
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out in scavenging for food a lot sooner than the
normal as well as you.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
So, now, when we think of rats, we think of
downtown Boston, and I'm not talking about the city councilors, okay,
I'm talking about their whole legged rats in downtown Boston
and in other major cities. How far is the rat
population from just the downtown area. I mean, obviously you
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have the outer city in Boston, you have you know,
the the you know, what we think of as the
nice neighborhoods. But I think sometimes the rats can be
found in the nice neighborhoods. And then we get to
the suburbs, the community surrounding Boston. How far do these rats.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
Roam typically from their area of rest or they're you know,
let's call it a dumper and alleyway if we're talking
the city, maybe one hundred feet at most. If they
have a nice comfortable area of food, maybe fifty to
one hundred feet. You know, in laboratory settings you can
see them go a couple hundred feet, but in you know,
you make a good it is it is in suburbia though,
(33:06):
Like you make a great point that ninety five Belt
is really active when it wasn't just say, fifteen twenty
years ago. And we're hitting our communities, you know, Danvis, Islington,
some of these these like interfacing cities that are really
pushing on suburbia are having a beautiful problem with the
rat infestation that's popping up.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Yeah, I'm not sure it's a beautiful problem. It's a
it's a problem. Nonetheless, Okay, it is, it is? And
what do you mostly deal with commercial businesses or do
you also deal with the home issues, the peak, the
neighborhood issues.
Speaker 5 (33:45):
So that Yankee pasta profile is about fifty percent residential
and about fifty percent commercial. But the commercial arena is
really driven by you guess that a rat population or
rodent populations feeding in dumpsters, et cetera. So we we
in right down the middle of nice Staff that covers
both residential you know, all the way up to Worcester,
down the Cape and up to New Hampshire. But that
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that commercial work is really inside that ninety five belt
where we have our you know, a lot of these
studies are going to tell us that that dense urban
sprawl is where your rats are going to thrive. And
I don't think that's a secret to anybody. You know,
the North Shore neighborhoods, the you know, the more compact
neighborhoods of Boston proper. And even when you get down
to your old neighborhood down hydepoc Readville, you'll start seeing
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some of that activity, even though it's a little more
suburban feeling in that part of town. So that that's
something we haven't seen in fifteen years, twenty years, that
much activity.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Why have they not been able to come up with
dumpsters which do not you know, that that rats can't
get into. It seems to me that they talk about
in the old days, anyone who could who could invent
a perfect mouse trap the world would be the patent
to your door. Why is it that with all of
(35:00):
these dumpsters. I mean, you're in Boston and you see
and you see litter on the street, and you see
the right pizza crusts on the street, and you just
realize that if if everybody pitched in and cut off
their food source, they wouldn't be able to survive as
comfortably as they do.
Speaker 5 (35:20):
You nailed it, and you didn't even mean to it.
So we have a people problem. You know, the rat
problem is just benefiting off of our people problem. You know,
there're are dumpsters out there. There's beautiful trash cans out
there that are virtually rodent resistant, and I wouldn't call
them rodent proof, but we have a people problem. The
trash is around the dumpster. It doesn't get in the dumpster,
you know, the trash is next to the barrel, you
(35:42):
know on Faniel Hall park Way there, or it just
doesn't make it in the barrel. So that's the ultimate
correction and we need to fix it. You know, we
can kill the rats. We have great tools. There's beautiful
mouse traps out there. You know, you get equipment like
carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide, which is new to the industry,
really been impactful for stopping rat populations, but it doesn't
(36:04):
stop the emergence of the people problems that we have
and again the densely packed communities. So there are some
good tools out there.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
The other thing which I people think don't realize is
that whenever you're in a coastal city, rats can thrive
because in nearby ocean waters and the wharfs and things
like that. Am I am I close to the truth
on that.
Speaker 5 (36:29):
You're warm there there is you know, let's talk to seaport.
You know, how does the seaport look since ten fifteen
years ago. It's a whole nother planet. In the higher
end stuff that's going down there, the tolerance level of
that consumer is low. You know, your pharmaceutical buildings down there,
your high end apartments, the tolerance is lower. So you're
seeing a little more of pressure on the pest control
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companies in that area to perform, even when there's densely
populated neighborhoods like that on the waterfront, but it's steady.
The waterfronts are old, like people consider them old millle areas,
but our waterfront is probably the newest and higher end
area of you know, in New England. So it's kind
of a contrast for us. You know, if you make
your way up the sea coast, you know, to some
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of the fishing plants in Gloucester and Salem, you really
see the populations move.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
So so the seaport is pretty good. Well, look on Galvin,
we learned a lot, that's for sure. What's your company's
website in case anyone wants to get in touch with you.
Speaker 5 (37:27):
Yeah, it's Yankeepestcontrol dot com or Yankeepest dot com. And
we're a family owned and veteran owned and operated company.
So we've been in the area for about thirty five
years now. So thanks to my father.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
Well, Galvin, thanks very much. I'm not sure if you're
a Hyde Park guy or a readvill guy, but that
was my stomping grounds many years.
Speaker 5 (37:47):
Very good, excellent, Thank you very much, mister Ray. I
appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
Sir, you can call me Dan. I'm not that old.
Thanks Galvin, we'll talk soon. Appreciate it very much. Make
you great one, all right, and we get back going
to talk about the New England Patriots, their complaints about
their facilities and their treatment for a team that didn't
do very well this year. I think they were four
and fourteen if I recall correctly, and they kind of
let their coach down. They're complaining quite a bit, and
(38:14):
I think I want to talk about it. We normally
don't do sports, but if you're a football fan, if
you saw this report card from the players, that I
think deserves some commentary and hopefully your participation. Back on
Night's side. Right after the news at nine pm,
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Thank you, Nicole. Let us hope the Bruins end their
day better than the stock market and their day today
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(01:12):
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not treating them well. We'll get into that a little bit.
Very interesting article about the Globe and the Herald today
and they're going to talk about self driving autonomous vehicles.
I actually have been in a self driving autonomous vehicle
and it was pretty cool. But I'm not sure most
(01:34):
people are interested in being in a self driving autonomous vehicle.
And we'll be talked with Mark Shield drop of Triple A.
Oh sometimes late sometime later on tonight. We'll keep in
suspense for that. In the meantime, we afford very interesting
guests in the first hour, and we're going to start
off with Nick Burns. Nick is a Google trends expert.
(01:55):
Welcome Nick Burns tonightside. How are you.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
I'm great, Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Now, I'm sure Nick, when you were seven or eight
years old and someone said to you, Nick, what do
you want to do when you grew up? Maybe you
said you wanted to be a fireman, maybe a policeman,
maybe a doctor, maybe a baseball player. You never said
you wanted to be a Google trends expert. How'd you
end up? As you know, you're expert.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
You're right, You're right. You know, life takes you and
crazy adventures and you just got to say yes along
the way.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Yes, sir, yes, sir. So tell us, first of all,
exactly what a Google trends expert is. I don't assume
that wasn't your major in college. I'm assuming.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
You're you're very correct there. I was a literature major.
But a Google trends expert, you know, we look at
what people around the world are searching for. It gives
us a lot of really interesting insight around the trends,
what interests people, and it's kind of like the heartbeat
of the Internet.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
So give us recently, I mean, give us an idea.
There's a lot of folks out there who now understand
Google and they understand trends, and obviously, at different points
during the year, different trends take priority. But give us
a sense as to maybe, let's talk February. February has
just ended. I assume those numbers have been compiled at this.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Point or no, we, sir, have Yeah, we have cut
the numbers. And you know, February was a very busy,
busy month, you know, and has everything from the Super
Bowl to the SAG Awards, to Fashion Week in New York,
to Black History months, and we saw all of these
show up in our trends throughout February.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Anything that surprised you, I mean all of those are
sort of pre scheduled February events. Anything that surprised you
during the month, Oh.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
You know.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
I for me, I think I don't know if you
follow in New York Fashion Week, But what was surprising
to me is Calvin Klein was actually the top trending
collection in terms of what people were searching for. And
it comes down to a little known fact that this
was the first time in five years that Calvin Klein
has actually shown a collection at Fashion Week, and that's
(04:06):
all due to their new creative director.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
This is a dumb question, but I get paid to
ask dumb questions. Is Calvin Klein still alive?
Speaker 3 (04:16):
He is, absolutely and he was there. You're on the
newest creative director.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
It seems to me like I'm not an expert in
the world of fashion, but it seems to me like
he's been around forever. I mean, how old is Calvin
at this point?
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (04:35):
That is that is a very good question, and I'm
sure if we asked Google, it would tell us.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Yeah, okay, we'll leave that one going. Well, I really
wasn't sure really, to be really honest with you. So
in sports, I've looked at a top local trend here
and I'm kind of a sports guy, says the NBA
All Star Game reaction. It was that the top sports
(05:00):
a trend or am I misreading what my producer has
given me as a show prep here?
Speaker 5 (05:06):
Yeah, you are correct.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
So the NBA All Star Game was one of the
top trending moments in the months. If you watched it,
you got to see Mac McClung when the dunking contest,
and he was a top trending player from the game.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
And he doesn't he doesn't even play in the NBA.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
You know that, right, I know, but you know he
keeps winning these dunk contests.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Yeah, I saw it. He's an amazing athlete in that regard.
I guess he's the what they call a d league player,
which is the first level of minor league basketball. But
he can jump, and I saw him jumping. They had
a truck out on the court, so not only was
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he able to dunk, but in the process dunk and
flew not only by the basket, but over the trump
over the truck. Kind of an amazing sight, that's for sure,
But that that threw more more Google hits than the
super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Uh, you know, it's just I think it depends, you know,
the super bowls at the very beginning of the month.
I think the NBA would kind of later in the month.
And so I think you see these trends kind of
ebb and flow throughout the course. But you can, ye,
what surprised me was the trend which compare the two.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yeah, what surprised me is with the Super Bowl, you
get that two week build up, uh and uh. And
there's a lot of wagering on the Super Bowl, as
I'm sure you know. And of course it has the
the halftime shows, which are interesting sometimes somewhat controversial. That
would kind of surprise me. In in I guess science,
(06:47):
there are a lot of people looking for sleep tips
and sleep maxing. I've never heard the sleep mac the
term sleep maxing. Tell us about that.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Yeah, that's right. You know, I think this is a
carryover from people still trying to get those New Year's
resolutions and hold to them. You know, the top trending
kind of sleep related or you know, science related search
was how to improve sleep, and sleep maxing is all
about that. It's kind of a trend on social media
which is all about trying to find ways to optimize
(07:18):
your sleep, sleep better, sleep more, you know, soundly, get
you know, feel more refreshed when you wake up, and
you know, people are looking for these tools to help
you track your sleep quality. Like I've got a bed
wearing my pixel Watch three and it really helps me
kind of understand how well I sleep with this sleep
score that you wake up and it really provides some
great insights.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Give us, give us a sleep tip that you were seeing.
So my listeners who you know, who are listening now
might have a sleep tip. What do you what do
you got for us?
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Oh yeah, absolutely So people in especially in Massachusetts are
actually searching for music for sleep, which we're all kind
of familiar with, you know, the white noise and and
you know, things like that, but music for sleep is
becoming so much more popular. We were kind of surprised
to see that. And what's really interesting you will find
(08:10):
these you know, kind of sleep playlists on YouTube and
there's kind of a combination of music or meditations and
all of these kind of sounds to help you relax
and ease into sleep.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Well, it sounds to me, Nick like maybe it didn't
grow up looking to become a Google trend expert, but
sounds to me like you're at the top of your
game and you found a position that you really like
and that's and that's got to be a real fun position,
a real fun spot to be in to be able
to watch these trends. I appreciate you taking the time
to join us tonight and keep maybe have you back, Okay,
(08:48):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Thank you so much for having me and I hope
you have a great night you too, Nick.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Help you have a nice good night sleep. You've earned
it tonight, that's for sure. Thanks much, Talk soon, all right,
We get back to talk with a planetary scientist. Not
exactly sure what a planetary scientist is. I think I
know and we'll find out for sure. We talk with
doctor Sabine Stanley. Coming of Sabine. I'm not sure the
correct pronunciation. Won't get that squared away, I forgot to
(09:14):
mention earlier. Rob Brooks is back at Broadcast Central, so
he is all set ready to go. Get to your
phone calls after nine o'clock tonight, but we have three
more interesting guests coming up. This is Nightside. It's say,
Thursday night, the second last day of the month of February.
We're we're kind of putting the winter calendar in our
rearview mirror here. By this time tomorrow night, we'll almost
(09:37):
be in March. Stay with us on Nightside. Come on
right back after this.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Now back to Dan ray Line from the Window World
Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
I'm delighted to welcome doctor Sabine Stanley, who is a
planetary scientist. Doctor Stanley, I think I have an idea
about what a planetary scientist is, But how about just
a quick off the cuff explanation of what sort of
science you're involved in. Obviously it's the science of the
planets I get. I'd love to know what you do.
(10:10):
Do you chart them? Do you follow them? Welcome tonight, chat.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Athlin, Thank you so much for inviting me. So a
planetary scientist is really interested in understanding why planets do
the things they do. Right, think of Earth, why does
Earth have an atmosphere? And why does life exist so
happily here? But then you look at Jupiter or Venus
and you say, why isn't there life there? And why
(10:35):
is Jupiter so huge? And have these giant ring systems
and all of this. Right, So, planetary scientists are really
interested in understanding the physics, the chemistry, and maybe even
the biology of what goes on inside planets.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Well, you know, it's interesting, as I'm sure you know,
at this time during the year, I believe that several
of the planets kind of line up. You know much
more about this than I do, obviously, and they're visible
in some areas on some good nights to the naked eye.
I don't know if it has anything to do with
its late winter, but there has to be some reason
(11:11):
why they all line up at this time of year.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Yeah, it's really just chance encounters. Every planet is orbiting
the Sun at a particular speed, so every planet has
a different length of its year, and every once in
a while they happen to all kind of be in
the same area at the same time. So it's rare,
and it all kind of depends on every planet's yearly
time cycle around the Sun.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Now, this setup right now that I've heard people talk about,
is this one an unusual setup or is this fairly
common over the course of two or three years.
Speaker 4 (11:48):
You know, it's not fairly common, but you do get
alignments of the planets just happenstance every once in a while.
There was one a.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Few years ago.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
But I think you should think of it as a
special event that you might only get to see and
you know, certain parts of the Earth at once every
few years. So take the opportunity to go out and
check out that alignment of the planets.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Yeah, it's almost again, I don't want to bring religion
into this, but it's almost as if there's some hand
out there keeping everything working, like a very sophisticated Swiss clock,
if you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Yeah, we like to call that physics.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
The laws of physics are really good at keeping things
in order.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Yeah, that is true. So now you're going to talk
about something called Fierce Planets, the exhibition at the New
England Quilt Museum, which is up here in the Massachusetts area,
up in Lowell, as I understand it.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
Correct, Yep, that's right.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
So there is an exhibition of textile arts. It's called
Fierce Planets, and it's based actually on the science that's
featured in my book that's called What's Hidden inside planets.
So the book really kind of explores all the fascinating
things that are happening, say a thousand miles below our
feet here on Earth or maybe inside other planets. And
(13:03):
these textile art pieces were inspired by the content of
that book and really brought all of that science to
life and an incredible visual mechanism. So that's at the
New England Museum in Lowell until May third.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
So your book is entitled What's Happening in or Inside Planets?
Speaker 4 (13:21):
It's what's hidden inside planets?
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Hidden inside planets?
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Okay, yeah, so we know so much about the surface, right,
but how much do we really know about the deep inside?
And so that's really what the book tries to explore.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
How are you able to do that? And again, I
don't want to take a track here, and obviously it's
something that I'm sure is much more complex than you
can tell us. But they still are trying to figure
out what's going inside the Earth. My understanding is that
the core of the Earth is shifting, and recently we
had a scientist on last week who talked about that
(13:57):
not a problem. We're not going off track or anything,
but I guess it's constantly there's constantly movement inside the Earth,
as there is constant movement in the atmosphere, how can
you figure out what's going on in Jupiter or Mars
or Saturn? How is that possible? We can't tell the
(14:18):
weather forecast three days in advance. It sounds to me
for sure, you know, not to criticize my meteorological friends
there by the way, just to make sure I cover myself.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Go ahead, understand, Yeah, No, it's a great question. So
here's the reality. It is really hard to say, dig
inside the Earth or another planet to go see it firsthand.
But what we can do is kind of what like
a doctor does. If you go to the doctor and
you say I've got this pain in my side or
something like that, you might be sent in for a scan, right,
a CP scan or an MRI. So there are ways
(14:48):
of sending waves or other fields through a planet, just
like the doctor does through you when you're getting a scan,
to see what's going on deep inside. So we take
advantage of natural fields things gravity fields or magnetic fields
or seismic waves that happen when an earthquake happens, and
we actually use that to image what is going on
inside a planet.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Now is this imaging done through you know, satellites and
all of that, or is it done through powerful telescopes
here on Earth? How was this accomplished?
Speaker 4 (15:20):
So it's mostly done through satellites. We send spacecraft to planets,
and those spacecraft have instruments that can measure the gravity
field or the magnetic field, so it's mostly done that way.
There are a few things you can get, say from
powerful telescopes near Earth, right, but it's mostly the most
detail we have are from the spacecraft that we send
out to the planets.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Now, I'm sure you've spent years and years and years
studying this. How fast is our body of knowledge expanding
in this field? I have to assume that one hundred
years ago, maybe people thought about this, speculated about it.
(16:00):
I have to believe that that the base of knowledge
that you deal with today is exponentially greater than what
it was ten years ago, and five years or ten
years from now, it's even going to be exponentially greater
than it is today.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Absolutely, And the amazing thing about planetary science is the
whole community really works together in trying to think about,
you know, where should we send the next spacecraft? Where
do we need to learn the next big thing. And
so then you work for years on developing this spacecraft
and you send it out to a planet. So, for example,
the Juno mission got sent out to Jupiter, and as
soon as that spacecraft gets there and takes new data,
(16:37):
we basically have to rewrite the textbooks about that specific planet.
So it's really amazing to see how much more we
learn every time we send out a spacecraft to a
planet for the first time. Right, and even you know
plans we've been to Mars, for example, every time you
send a spacecraft with a new mission there, it learns
so much new information that we just really changed the
field entirely.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
We never script questions on this show. So this is
what comes into my head because I'm thinking, I want
to think, like my audience, is there something amazing that
you have learned or the scientific community has learned in
the last year or five years about one of the
planets that was never understood anticipated prior to just a
(17:22):
few years ago.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
Oh my god, so much. Okay, I'm going to.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
Pick the planet that.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
I've been excited about recently. Let's go to Mars. Let's
go to Mars. Right, so great, So there's this amazing
mission called Insight, which went to Mars and landed this
spacecraft on the surface of the planet. And then the
spacecraft took us seismometer and stuck it onto the surface
(17:48):
of Mars so that it could measure Mars quakes. So
with this sismometer on another planet, we were able to
tell that quakes, just like earthquakes you're on Earth, happened
on Mars. And from those Mars quakes, we actually mapped
the inside of Mars, and we now know, for example,
that Mars's core, like you mentioned Earth's core earlier, Mars
(18:11):
has a core, and that core is actually it's been
completely liquid, and it's bigger than we thought it was,
and it's kind of challenging what we think about how
planets form.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
So we got to work on that.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Now, well, that's that's fabulous, So let me do this.
Let's let's see if I can grab real quickly. Here
the event, the event Fierce Planets is on display. It's
called the John Hopkins Wavelengths Global Exhibition on view January fourteenth,
so it's already all the way through May third. Okay,
(18:43):
I assume you probably have traveled up there to see it, so.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
I will be there on Saturday, March fifteenth. I'm going
to give a talk about my work and the connection
to the Fierce Planets exhibit.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Yes, oh great, and that's open to the public, I assume,
and I see that that the New England Quies Museum.
There's a mailing list people can subscribe to, and the
New England Quilt Museum is on Shattock Street in Lowell, Massachusetts.
Just go to any q M which stands for you know,
(19:15):
acronym for New England Quiltmuseum dot org slash fierce hyphen
Planets and your book. Give us your book one more time.
I'm sure that some people would like to get it.
I'm sure they can get it through Amazon. It's What's
Hidden inside Planets. Correct, that's right, Well, thank you very much.
I enjoyed the conversation, doctor Stanley. I was never a
(19:37):
great science guy in school, chemistry and physics. I understood
physics better than science than chemistry. Once I saw that
periodic table, I was like, I'm supposed to memorize this. No,
didn't worry me too. Well, that's great. Well, that's great.
I'm sure that you're way ahead in the book that
I am though, that's for sure. Thank you so much
for your time tonight. I enjoyed the conversation immensely.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Thanks, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
All Right, we'll take you back to earth a little bit. Here.
We're going to talk with Kelly Eisner. She's the director
of communications for the American Red Cross at Massachusetts. Always
a good time to donate to the Red Cross. March
is the blood donors month, Red Cross Month. I will
talk about how you can donate, and also you can
get tested for free while you donate for a one
(20:25):
C which is an important test that everybody should take periodically.
Be back with Kelly Eisner on night Side right after
this break at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray on WBS, Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
All right, well, March is about, I don't know, twenty
eight hours away or something like that. We are the
cusp of March and March, as I understand, that is
a very important month for the American Red Cross. It's
Red Cross Month and with us as Kelly Eisner, director
of Communications for the American Red Cross of Massachusetts. Kelly,
is March the big month. We normally think about it
(21:01):
as Saint Patrick's Day and the color would be green,
but is this Red Cross Month coming up as well?
Speaker 5 (21:08):
Well?
Speaker 6 (21:08):
How about this, how about we'll let it still be
green in Boston but everywhere else it can be read.
Does that work?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
That works for me? That works for me? In case
I don't forget. I know Kelly and I've worked with
her husband, Nate. Please sayhead in Nate for me. But
having put all of that aside for a moment, I
hope he's doing well. Hope you're doing well. And how
important is the month of March to the Red Cross?
And how are we with our blood supply right now
(21:36):
as a state?
Speaker 6 (21:38):
Absolutely well? And Dan, it's always a pleasure to talk
to you. I know we go way back in Nate
as well when it comes to blood. Honestly, there is
a constant need for blood what we do in March.
And the reason March is so important is since FDR,
every president has signed March has issued to assign a
(22:00):
proclamation listing March as Red Cross Months. It's more just
to build awareness, to remind people that we are out
here in the community, right here in Boston, right here
in Massachusetts and all over the country doing this humanitarian work.
So it's just sort of a reminder when you're thinking
about the Red Cross. Yes, so you know, every every
(22:23):
year we try to build excitement around it. And one
of the things that we're doing this month is a
one C testing for blood owners.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Very important. Tell us I know what a one C
is and many of many of our in our audience
know what it is, but some might not. So tell
us what is the importance of a one C and
you get an a one C test when you give
blood this upcoming.
Speaker 6 (22:48):
Month, absolutely so. Hemoglobin A one C is a common
blood test for diagnosing diabetes and monitoring blood sugar levels.
It can also give an indication where you might be
you might have pre diabetes, which is a condition that
about eighty percent of the people who have don't know
(23:11):
they are pre diabetic. And it is reversible. It indicates
that your body isn't necessarily regulating your blood sugar successfully
now and that could lead to type two diabetes later
in life. And what's unique is that you don't need
to fast for this a one SEE test, So you know,
(23:32):
it's an easy way to just get a little bit
extra information that you can then take to your doctor
and you know, talk about treatment plans and just you know,
any lifestyle changes that you can make now before it
gets to the point of actually having to be controlled
by medication.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Now, this is important, And I know you're not a
doctor and you're not going to play one on the radio,
but I don't want people to be intimidated. So if
they do donate blood and find that maybe their A
one C is in getting closer to a more dangerous level,
how difficult is it before you need to take medication?
(24:10):
How significant a change in lifestyle does it take to
reverse this process? I'm asking. I often say to my guests,
we don't prescript questions here, but I don't want people
to be afraid of getting this diagnosis. It's actually good
to find out what your A one C level is,
(24:32):
particularly for people who are not seeing doctors every every
year or so with annual physicals. Does it require a
huge change in your lifestyle to adjust to whatever your
A one C level might be?
Speaker 6 (24:48):
Well, you know, I think you nailed it down that
right now. You know, I've seen these statistics. Are about
a third of Americans. They're lacking access to regular primary care.
They're not able to go to a doctor, or they're
not going to the doctor on a regular basis. So
this test is a great way to just kind of
bring some information to you that you can hopefully then
take to a doctor and then that's the point where
(25:11):
you can kind of figure out if this is something
that can be addressed with just lifestyle changes, you know, eating.
It's funny, actually a lot of you know, my father
is diabetic, and a lot of the advice that his
doctor gave him was kind of the same things that
we'd tell blood donors. You know, you want to eat
a hyprotein loaf fat diet, you want to make sure
you're getting all your vegetables, but you know, in some
(25:34):
cases there might be more that needs to be done.
So really it's just a tool to help you and
your doctor together kind of work towards that best health plan.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
So when folks go and we'll get to the locations
and the times and all of that in a second,
But when folks go to to give you to make
the blood donation, they don't have to fast. I think
you said that was not.
Speaker 6 (25:58):
Necessary, correct, And actually we encourage people don't test. You know,
you want to make sure you eat a full meal,
a healthy meal the night before you donate, and you
want to get plenty of water before your donation as well,
So don't test.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Okay, that's fine though, That's good information. And so when
you are given whatever information you are given, do you
get it you know, as you as you leave the
donation center that day and a piece of paper to
take it with you, or is this something that is
sent to you a day or so later.
Speaker 6 (26:31):
Through it takes about a week, I'm being told, and
you know, we officially start on March first, so that
week might be a little bit longer or less depending.
But the where that information goes is into the account
that you use to make your blood donation appointment. So
most people that I talked to use the blood donor
app to schedule their appointment. So there's already a profile
(26:54):
there and the results of the AEC test would be
posted there if you schedule online, if you go to
a Red Cross blood dot org the scheduling appointment, you'll
create a profile there and that's where that information will be.
And when you check in at your blood donation appointment,
they'll make sure that you have the right profile and
they'll kind of walk you through how to find exactly
the information that you're looking for.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Perfect, Okay, Red crossblood dot org. So how many different locations?
How convenient will it be the donation locations moving around
during during the month of March or are they stationary
in certain locations? How how that going to work?
Speaker 6 (27:30):
Yes, and yes, I kind.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Of thought that was going to be the answer, but
you go ahead and amplify on it for us.
Speaker 6 (27:38):
Sure, So everywhere that you can give blood with the
Red Cross, you can your blood will be tested for
a one see it'll have the screening in mass two sets.
We're lucky. We have nine fixed site locations. These are
like our brick and mortar blood donation centers. The close
one probably too for your listeners, be Weymouth or detim
(28:02):
if Dan versus Boston. We go out as far as
Western Springfield or at all of the blood drives from
the field because again, the blood is tested after it
comes back to our lab. That's part of why it
takes a little bit. There's a little bit of turnaround
time for it. Sure, So anywhere you donate with well
you guys, I.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Know you always make it really easy. Uh, and we're
talking about probably it's an hour to get there if
I've recalled correctly, and by telling you blood is donated.
They give you a little while to make sure that
you're all set and ready to go. You're talking about
you've got to kind of block out about an hour
from the moment you walk in until the moment you're
(28:41):
going to leave. Is that the turnaround time still approximately?
Speaker 6 (28:44):
That is exactly right?
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Perfect? Okay, So I think we've covered the waterfront here, Kelly.
The redcrossblood dot org is the website. All the information
is there, and let's hope that many of our listeners
will take advantage at some point during March to participate
and donate some blood. Thank you so much, Kelly. Always
great to talk with you.
Speaker 6 (29:07):
Thank you Dan. Nice to talk to you as well.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
All right, and say aha to my friend Nate when
you see him tonight. Okay, thanks so much, talk to
you soon. Final break here on this hour of the
night side News Update and we get back, we're going
to talk about something all of us should be aware of.
We're going to be talking about in uptick this spring,
in rodents in ticks, just what we don't want to hear.
(29:31):
But let's let's find out how we can deal with
it as most effectively as possible. We have a special
guest coming up right after this break. My name is
Dan Ray. This is Nightside. To listen to WBZ, Boston's
News Radio ten thirty and your am I. We're an
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(29:53):
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favorite radio station. Back on Nightside right after this.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
All right, as mentioned earlier tonight, we're getting perilously close.
Actually that's a we're delighted that February is almost over.
We'll be in March by Saturday. But with March comes
springtime and the return of some of those pests we
don't like with us. As Galvin Murphy, he's a road
(30:30):
and expert preventative controls qualified individual with a company called
Yankee Pest Control. Now we're not talking about New York
Yankees being pest We're talking your company is Yankee Pest Control,
real pests. Okay, just want to make sure what we're
talking about here.
Speaker 5 (30:51):
The two legget past our extra charge. You know, they're
a little extra.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
No, I understand that there's not much you talk about them,
that's for sure. But I think the red sox will
be in better shape this year. That's my prediction. You
have a prediction that we're going to see an uptick
in rodents and ticks. Why would that be.
Speaker 5 (31:08):
The principle behind the roadman tech increase is really the
weather patterns in the Boston area. We've just I think
everybody has noticed the shorter winters if we're just not
getting those deep freezes, which it's just not interrupting the
reproductive cycle of the rats for us. So it really
the winters of old seem to be gone and we're
really taking a beating on the rat populations, that's for sure.
(31:31):
Well so I think in a few weeks.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
But we've we've just gone through two pretty cold months here.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
Galvin, it is it is been. We've had a good winter.
But I think the next couple of weeks, once we
have a quick melt, I mean all week it's been
fifty and we're already getting termite swarms. So I think
a lot of these ticks will be out earlier than normal.
For those folks looking out to get out hiking and
walking a little earlier should have a little extra precautions
with them. But with the rats, I think they'll be
(31:56):
out in scavenging for food a lot sooner than the
normal as well as you.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
So, now, when we think of rats, we think of
downtown Boston, and I'm not talking about the city councilors, okay,
I'm talking about their whole legged rats in downtown Boston
and in other major cities. How far is the rat
population from just the downtown area. I mean, obviously you
(32:24):
have the outer city in Boston, you have you know,
the the you know, what we think of as the
nice neighborhoods. But I think sometimes the rats can be
found in the nice neighborhoods. And then we get to
the suburbs, the community surrounding Boston. How far do these rats.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
Roam typically from their area of rest or they're you know,
let's call it a dumper and alleyway if we're talking
the city, maybe one hundred feet at most. If they
have a nice comfortable area of food, maybe fifty to
one hundred feet. You know, in laboratory settings you can
see them go a couple hundred feet, but in you know,
you make a good it is it is in suburbia though,
(33:06):
Like you make a great point that ninety five Belt
is really active when it wasn't just say, fifteen twenty
years ago. And we're hitting our communities, you know, Danvis, Islington,
some of these these like interfacing cities that are really
pushing on suburbia are having a beautiful problem with the
rat infestation that's popping up.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Yeah, I'm not sure it's a beautiful problem. It's a
it's a problem. Nonetheless, Okay, it is, it is? And
what do you mostly deal with commercial businesses or do
you also deal with the home issues, the peak, the
neighborhood issues.
Speaker 5 (33:45):
So that Yankee pasta profile is about fifty percent residential
and about fifty percent commercial. But the commercial arena is
really driven by you guess that a rat population or
rodent populations feeding in dumpsters, et cetera. So we we
in right down the middle of nice Staff that covers
both residential you know, all the way up to Worcester,
down the Cape and up to New Hampshire. But that
(34:07):
that commercial work is really inside that ninety five belt
where we have our you know, a lot of these
studies are going to tell us that that dense urban
sprawl is where your rats are going to thrive. And
I don't think that's a secret to anybody. You know,
the North Shore neighborhoods, the you know, the more compact
neighborhoods of Boston proper. And even when you get down
to your old neighborhood down hydepoc Readville, you'll start seeing
(34:29):
some of that activity, even though it's a little more
suburban feeling in that part of town. So that that's
something we haven't seen in fifteen years, twenty years, that
much activity.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Why have they not been able to come up with
dumpsters which do not you know, that that rats can't
get into. It seems to me that they talk about
in the old days, anyone who could who could invent
a perfect mouse trap the world would be the patent
to your door. Why is it that with all of
(35:00):
these dumpsters. I mean, you're in Boston and you see
and you see litter on the street, and you see
the right pizza crusts on the street, and you just
realize that if if everybody pitched in and cut off
their food source, they wouldn't be able to survive as
comfortably as they do.
Speaker 5 (35:20):
You nailed it, and you didn't even mean to it.
So we have a people problem. You know, the rat
problem is just benefiting off of our people problem. You know,
there're are dumpsters out there. There's beautiful trash cans out
there that are virtually rodent resistant, and I wouldn't call
them rodent proof, but we have a people problem. The
trash is around the dumpster. It doesn't get in the dumpster,
you know, the trash is next to the barrel, you
(35:42):
know on Faniel Hall park Way there, or it just
doesn't make it in the barrel. So that's the ultimate
correction and we need to fix it. You know, we
can kill the rats. We have great tools. There's beautiful
mouse traps out there. You know, you get equipment like
carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide, which is new to the industry,
really been impactful for stopping rat populations, but it doesn't
(36:04):
stop the emergence of the people problems that we have
and again the densely packed communities. So there are some
good tools out there.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
The other thing which I people think don't realize is
that whenever you're in a coastal city, rats can thrive
because in nearby ocean waters and the wharfs and things
like that. Am I am I close to the truth
on that.
Speaker 5 (36:29):
You're warm there there is you know, let's talk to seaport.
You know, how does the seaport look since ten fifteen
years ago. It's a whole nother planet. In the higher
end stuff that's going down there, the tolerance level of
that consumer is low. You know, your pharmaceutical buildings down there,
your high end apartments, the tolerance is lower. So you're
seeing a little more of pressure on the pest control
(36:52):
companies in that area to perform, even when there's densely
populated neighborhoods like that on the waterfront, but it's steady.
The waterfronts are old, like people consider them old millle areas,
but our waterfront is probably the newest and higher end
area of you know, in New England. So it's kind
of a contrast for us. You know, if you make
your way up the sea coast, you know, to some
(37:13):
of the fishing plants in Gloucester and Salem, you really
see the populations move.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
So so the seaport is pretty good. Well, look on Galvin,
we learned a lot, that's for sure. What's your company's
website in case anyone wants to get in touch with you.
Speaker 5 (37:27):
Yeah, it's Yankeepestcontrol dot com or Yankeepest dot com. And
we're a family owned and veteran owned and operated company.
So we've been in the area for about thirty five
years now. So thanks to my father.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
Well, Galvin, thanks very much. I'm not sure if you're
a Hyde Park guy or a readvill guy, but that
was my stomping grounds many years.
Speaker 5 (37:47):
Very good, excellent, Thank you very much, mister Ray. I
appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
Sir, you can call me Dan. I'm not that old.
Thanks Galvin, we'll talk soon. Appreciate it very much. Make
you great one, all right, and we get back going
to talk about the New England Patriots, their complaints about
their facilities and their treatment for a team that didn't
do very well this year. I think they were four
and fourteen if I recall correctly, and they kind of
let their coach down. They're complaining quite a bit, and
(38:14):
I think I want to talk about it. We normally
don't do sports, but if you're a football fan, if
you saw this report card from the players, that I
think deserves some commentary and hopefully your participation. Back on
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