July 18, 2025 • 40 mins
We kicked off the program with four news stories and different guests on the stories we think you need to know about!
From Lobster Rolls to Cheap Eats, The Boston Globe Unveils 2025 Best of the Best List Highlighting best places to eat, things to do, etc. With Annalisa Quinn - Globe Magazine interim editor.
The largest piece of Mars was found in the Sahara Desert and sold at auction for $5.3 million! How does it end up in the Sahara desert? Talia Sepersky - Program Manager and Planetarium Educator at the Museum of Science Center for Space Sciences explained.
Top funeral trends in 2025 – Traditions are changing and the ways people are handling death now… Paul Fried - expert on end of life planning – founder of I Made The Arrangements a website that helps people plan their own funerals joined Dan.
A New Medicare Dementia Program Now Available in Massachusetts – Called The GUIDE program that offers new, no-cost support to dementia caregivers. Rosaleen Doherty – Owner of Right at Home Boston (a company that provides in Home Care and Assistance) checked in.
From Lobster Rolls to Cheap Eats, The Boston Globe Unveils 2025 Best of the Best List Highlighting best places to eat, things to do, etc. With Annalisa Quinn - Globe Magazine interim editor.
The largest piece of Mars was found in the Sahara Desert and sold at auction for $5.3 million! How does it end up in the Sahara desert? Talia Sepersky - Program Manager and Planetarium Educator at the Museum of Science Center for Space Sciences explained.
Top funeral trends in 2025 – Traditions are changing and the ways people are handling death now… Paul Fried - expert on end of life planning – founder of I Made The Arrangements a website that helps people plan their own funerals joined Dan.
A New Medicare Dementia Program Now Available in Massachusetts – Called The GUIDE program that offers new, no-cost support to dementia caregivers. Rosaleen Doherty – Owner of Right at Home Boston (a company that provides in Home Care and Assistance) checked in.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's nice eyes with Dan Ray.
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Thanks very much, Madison. Hope you have a great weekend.
Hope everybody listening to us is embarking on a wonderful
middle of July summer of twenty twenty five weekend. My
name is, as Madison indicated, Dan Ray. Rob Brooks, our producer,
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four interesting guests coming Up'm going to start off right
now with Anna Lisa Quinn. She is a Globe magazine
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editor and the Globe has indicated that they have a
list a list of the best of the best in
food and things to do well. This is perfect timing
for the weekend. And Alisa, welcome to night'sat.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
How are you thank you so much for having me? Well,
nobody told me I couldn't use bad words.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
So well you can't, but because because we do have
a ten second delay.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
But I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
So the people who leave messages sometimes people are not
all that happy with well me the hoast or a guest,
and they're gonna love you because you're gonna give them
some great tips here highlighting the best places to eat
and the best things to do around Boston. Was this
in the Wednesday, July ninth edition of The Boston Globe?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
This is actually in the July thirteenth issue of the
Sunday magazine.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yeah, so it was the magazine that was this past Sunday.
I thought it was, but I saw something on the
on the email that said July ninth, and I was saying,
how did I miss it on July ninth? But that's okay.
So the first question is before we there are how
many categories? Are we happy? This is like two hundred
and fifty categories?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Right, three hundred winners on this list. There are twenty
eight categories. So this is actually our second annual best
of the Best list. So last year we had twenty one,
and we added seven additional categories things like sandwiches, bakeries,
cocktail bars, neighborhood restaurants, and so now we have a
total twenty eight list.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Now I'm sure I won the Best talk show host award. Correct,
We can just go right by.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
That that's it.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Uh huh, and a least can't lie. She doesn't get
my sense of humor. Okay, let's talk. I'm going to
throw some items at you. Best bakery is it the
Bova Vakery in the North End?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Okay, So I actually have really strong feelings about this one.
So I love Boba's no shade. But I live in
the North End and sometimes when I'm walking home from work,
I passed a long line snaking around the corner from Bova's,
and it's blocked the entryway to my favorite little bakery,
which is called Persiali's. We actually have them on our
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pizza list because I love their pizza. But I sometimes
I want to sort of shake people in line and
say you got to try this place, But since that
would be weird, I did it in a magazine instead,
so I would say modern is definitely up there, Big China, Bova's.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I love Bolbert because it was opened like at three o'clock.
It was open at three o'clock in the morning, and.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
When I was working for over twenty four hours.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Well that's what I'm saying. When I would get off
the eleven o'clock news on Channel four back in the
day when you were in kindergarten back in the eighties
and nineties, I would swing by Bovin and get something
for breakfast and bring it home, and it was sitting there,
believe it or not, just uneaten on my table the
next morning. Okay, so give us a couple of your favorites.
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We would love to do all the two hundred and
whatever number or three hundred number of winners, but what
we want to do is give me, I don't know,
give me a couple of your favor rits. So just
the people wet people's appetite to go back and find
their Sunday magazine or maybe go on the Boston Globe
web website and find all of this information.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Yeah, so you can. You can go to Globe dot com,
slash best is where you'll find all twenty eight lists.
But I'll give you some of my favorites. So I'll
tell you some of the ones that the entries that
I actually wrote. So, like I said, I live in
the North End, and I'm a huge fan of Sunny Girl,
and it's a breakfast sandwich place. And you know how
like English muffins are usually just so sad and dusty
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and drab while they like make their own English muffins
and they're a total revelation. So big fan of Sunny Girl.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
I also we got to get out of the North
End here and a Lisa because this is this is
a big radio station. You're you're talking to people all
around New England, and I know north the North End
is important. I love the North End. Give me, give
me a couple of things that maybe spread it around
a little bit geographically if you get my.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Drift, sure thing, Sure thing. So I'm a big fan
of De Luxe Cafe that's in the South End. That's
on our New Neighborhood Restaurants list, and it's really cool
and kitschy inside Christmas lights in July, Elvis paraphernalia, but
the food is just killer. So that would be a
great place. What I mean, tell me, tell me about
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what kind of categories you're interested in.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Well, let me ask you one. Okay, I have a favorite,
a couple of favorite luncheonets. When's Johnny's Luncheonet in Newton Center?
Has that made the list? Doesn't sound but it's made
the list? Well.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
So, Actually our area is Boston, Cambridge, Somerville and Brookline,
but you know, we'd love to hear from your listeners
because we're thinking of expanding geographically and getting out a
little further.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
So if you lives the globe, the best of my knowledge,
the globe actually can be can be per just as
far away as like Worcester in the West and Providence
in Manchester. So let me ask you, how do you
pick this? This is not like a reader's vote, right,
this is not something where you put up people. I
assume that if you're the editor here, you're asking some
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of what I would call we can call we're amongst
friends here annals the globees. So people are giving you suggestions,
I assume, right.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Yeah, Well, so we start out. One of the great
things about this list is it's really a labor of
love from the newsroom. So these are a lot of
people whose whole job it is to go out and
get to know the city. And so we start out
by just tapping the expertise of the newsroom. You know,
what's this great sandwich shops? You know that you came
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across covering some case, or you know we're in your neighborhood,
do you really love? And we start there and then
we try to fill in the gaps. Okay, so maybe
we have fewer places in this neighborhood. Of some research,
we're gonna find out what looks good and then we're
going to send people to test it. So I think
this is.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Really Oh go ahead, well here's one for you. Okay,
give me. I'm a Dunkin Donuts guy, and there's there's
a Dunkin Donuts on every corner, so I can always
find a Dunkin Donuts. But is there some killer donut shop,
uh that that you'd like to direct the people to.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
I mean, I think Union Square Donuts is pretty great,
and they have a one of them.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Look the one in Brighton, Austin.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
They might have one there, but they have them in Summerville.
Ok Yeah, And I think what's cool about that is
just like really creative flavors, Like they have a Vietnamese
coffee donut. Actually, when we put out this list, I
brought a bunch of them in to sort of celebrate,
and everybody loved them. So definitely recommend them.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Okay, let me look at one here that Okay, bookstores, bookstores,
There's no question that I agree with you. The Brattle
Bookshop is the best bookstore in Boston, so you have
my support on that.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Yeah. The Bookstort List, it's it's really popular, which is great.
It's one of our most popular lists. And so that
was a category that we had last year, but we
revamped it for this year. So we added a couple
of new entries. So Lovestruck Books in Harvard Square is
this wonderful new romance bookstore. It has a cottee shop
during the day, tend into a wine bar at night.
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Just beautifully put together store, great readings. So it's been
really cool to add some of the sort of new businesses.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
The Brattle Bookshop and Ken Gloss. It's been around forever
here and people think it's in Cambridge because it's called
Brattle Street, but it's it's to Boston. All right, let
me get one more here, best ice cream. Let's have
the best ice cream.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Ooh, that's a really tough one.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
There's no bad ice cream. I get you, I get you.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
I mean so our lists aren't actually ranked, so every
every item is a winner. But I'm gonna put my
personal vote for Honeycomb because of the homemade waffle cone.
They're just really like sweet and buttery and delicious.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Yeah, which is what's the name of the place. Do
we lose her? Here? Come on, we haven't lost you,
have we Anna Lisa?
Speaker 4 (10:25):
All right?
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (10:27):
We can now we lost you there at the moment.
We're you going to tell us about your favorite ice
cream shop? Which one is it? Hi?
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Can you hear me? It's Honeycomb. Honeycomb is my favorite.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Where's that located?
Speaker 3 (10:39):
So that's that's in Cambridge?
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Actually?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Okay? You you are a North End, Cambridge Somerville person.
That's so good.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Hey, listens all over the place. We've got lots of
great places in Brookline and you know that's why it's great.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Oh you've bridged out. You're gonna go Cambridge, Somerville, North
End and Brookline. Whoa wait a second? Now hold on, okay, Hey, look,
you're a great sport Dale Yep, yep, you're a great
sport Analisa Quinn, the best of the best. Let me
know when you run that talk show hosting okay, because I.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Want to be a.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Yeah, that's all I ask, and I'll put you back
on the show anyway. Hey, I have a great weekend,
and I hope that people go and check it out
because there's so many great categories. And there really are
comedy clubs, you know, restaurants, a million things to do,
that's for sure, theaters, everything, and look, Boston is we
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have the best of just about everything. So thanks Ana, Lisa,
appreciate your time tonight, and you have a great weekend.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Okay, thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
You too, You're more than welcome.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
The best Boston globes, best of the best, burgers, cheap eats, lobsters,
rode breweries and tap rooms, things to do in Boston,
it's all there, all there for your dining and dancing pleasure.
All Right, we're gonna we will come back, and when
we get back, we're going to talk I think about
the most fascinating story of the week. Oh you're gonna say,
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what is that? Dan, Well, you got to stay tuned
to find out. This is, in my opinion, the most
fascinating story of this week. It involves a rock or
whatever you want to call it from Mars. Yeah, that's
why it's the most fascinating story of the week. We'll
be back on Nightside right after this.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
It's Night Side with Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
All right, welcome back. I'm delighted to be joined by
Talia Siperski. I'm hoping I got both those names correctly.
On Tellia, how are you?
Speaker 5 (12:45):
I'm doing great?
Speaker 2 (12:46):
How's my pronunciation? Talia Siperski spot On spot On? I
love it all right. You are the program manager and
planetarium educator at the Museum of Science Center for Space Sciences.
Everyone knows the Museum of Science one of my favorite
places in the world. And I heard a story the
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other day which blew my mind, and I said to
my producer, Marita aka Lightning, we got to find an
expert called the Museum of Science. The largest piece of Mars.
I don't know if you call it a rock, however
you categorize it, ever, to arrive on Earth, as far
as we know, sold for nearly five point three million
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dollars at auction. That wasn't what interested me. What interested
in me was how the heck does a piece of
Mars end up in the Sahara Desert.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
I mean, essentially the same way any meteorite winds up
on Earth, usually a large parent object. So in this case,
the planet Mars gets hit by something really hard and
that impact, you know, forms a crater and can send
pieces of rock flying really high in the sky, and
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if they get flung high enough and far enough, they
will actually get launched out into space. So it is
possible for an impact, a big enough impact, to actually
send pieces of rock flying out into space.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Okay, So I got a bunch of questions because that's
what I do for a living here, and so I
believe there's no such thing as a dumb question. So
if I ask a dumb question, you can tell me.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
And I also agree with that.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
So this is the largest piece of Mars ever found
on Earth, as I understand the story, sold for Austen
five point three million dollars. How many other piece of
Mars terrain, Mars landscape, Mars rocks? Have there been other
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pieces of other objects from Mars that have landed here previously?
Speaker 5 (14:54):
Absolutely, there's not a lot of it. But like I've
actually held a piece of Mars in my hand before.
It was very a very small piece. It was, you know,
less than half an inch big, and most of the
pieces are not that big. You know, how can you
take a lot of First.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Of all, who figures it? You know, if I'm walking
along the street and I see a five dollar bill,
I'm picking that baby up. But if I'm walking down
the street and I see a piece of rock, how
am I going to know? Wow? That might be from Mars?
Are these are the people out there looking for this stuff?
Speaker 5 (15:29):
Absolutely? There are people who work as meteorite hunters, and
they go to places like the Sahara or honestly, a
lot of times they like to go to Antarctica if
they can, places where rocks that obviously don't belong are
easy to spot.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Really so they even I assumed Antarctica is covered in
ice and snow.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
It is, which is why if you find a dark
rock with a fusion cross on it from passing through
the atmosphere sitting on top of the snow, it's going
to stick out really Oh okay, really easy to see.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
I asked what some might have thought it was a
dumb question, and you explained it very well. Yeah. Okay,
So so how infrequent do you are these little shards
of Mars and small, tiny, when I say tiny metia
rites in order to get through the atmosphere and not
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burn up? This this piece, this this rock which sold
for and can I call it a rock?
Speaker 5 (16:30):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Okay, this rock which was discovered? Was it discovered? If
you know by someone who was out there looking for it,
or was there some shepherd in the desert who said, whoa,
this looks different.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
I believe I read that this one was found by
a meteorite hunter.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
So this is somebody who knew what they were looking for, okay,
and didn't know that what they had found was a
piece of Mars, but knew that it was a rock.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
From right, fair enough, so a rock out of place.
This was about twelve or eighteen inches in diameter or
in length. That this was a substantial object.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
Right, Yes, yes, it was quite big.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Okay, and it came through the atmosphere. Do all of
these things burn up? So if this landed, and would
it weigh ten pounds or something? I mean, I'm just
trying to if you know, and if you don't, don't,
you don't have to guess. But from the description of it,
I'm thinking it weighs like ten pounds or something. How much?
Speaker 5 (17:32):
I mean, go ahead, I would guess that it would
weigh more than that, just because you know it's it's
mostly volcanic rock. Mars's surface is largely cool volcanic rock.
I would guess it would weigh more than that. But
that's a guess. I don't know what this rock weighed,
and it's probably only a piece of the thing that
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entered the atmosphere.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
That's what I'm trying to say. What percentage of this
would likely burn up before it got through it landed
on Earth. Not one hundred percent, obviously fifty.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
Seventy Well, in that, it depends how fast it's moving,
it depends what angle it comes in, and it depends
entirely what it's made of, because you know, for instance,
a lot of times, if you have a rock coming
into the atmosphere and it's got air pockets in it,
you know, if it's got if it's not solid solid rock,
it's got gas pockets in it. Those things can get
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superheated by entry through the atmosphere and the thing will explode.
That's essentially what happened over Cheliabinsk in twenty thirteen.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Do you have over weird? I'm going too fast in
my next.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
Question, right, the rock, the rock that blew up over
Cheliabinsk Grosca, Russia in twenty thirteen.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Don't remember that one.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
It was twenty thirteen, yeah, okay, And was it a
big deal at that time? It was because they caught it.
You know, there was a bunch of people who caught
it on the dashboard cams and it was big enough
that it rattled window like it broke windows. And that
wasn't the impact. That was the rock blowing up in
the atmosphere because air pockets in it got superheated, and
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it meant that bits of it got scattered. Little bits
of it got scattered.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
So now here's here's the ability that you had can
plug the Science Museum. Are there rocks at the Science
Museum that people can see? I would hope you would
have them under glass or something from others.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
No, you can touch it. Really, we have a meteorite
in the planetarium lobby that you can touch from where
it is a piece of So there's actually a fairly
famous crater in Arizona, Barringer Crater, often just sometimes called
meteor Crater. It's a fairly young impact because it's only
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fifty thousand years old. And what we have is a
piece of the thing that made that.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Okay, did that thing come from?
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Do we know that one?
Speaker 5 (20:03):
We don't know that one. We have at bactrace to
a specific parent body. We've only been able to do
that in a few cases. Okay, you know, but you
know it came.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
From another place. It came from Uh, it did not
come from our planet? Is that what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
No, it didn't come from our planet. It didn't come
from any planet. That one was a broken off piece
of an asteroid. Probably.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Okay, So now let me ask you this. Do you
have anything there from Mars or from you know, I'm
assuming that Mars would be a place any you know,
anything that came from another planet. I'm just asking. I
asked these questions. I'm sorry. I mean, I know the
museum science is great, but if you sit to me, oh,
we got three pieces of rocks from Mars, that might
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incent some people to say, let's get over there tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
Unfortunately, we do not have a Mars meter, right, we
used to. I think it's wound up in collection somewhere.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
I'm not quite sure.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
Where it is at the moment. But we do have
a nice big meata right that, like you can just.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Perfect tell you again. I so enjoyed the conversation. I
know we don't script these conversations that I know some
of my questions are a little bit up from left field.
I apologize for that. But you've provided a lot of
information and if people want to get to the Science Museum,
they know where it is. If they want to visit
it on your website, is it is it MLS dot
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org or something? What's the what's the website?
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Yep, that's it MLS dot org.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
How about that. I actually do know a few things.
I don't know how I know them, but I know. Hey, Tal,
you're great sport. Love to have you back, Okay, I
I've been there many times. Uh and uh. We we're
big supporters of the Museum of the Museum of Science.
Thank you for what you're doing. Thank you joining Yes tonight,
I have a great night. Tallis Sperski, the program manager
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and planetarium educator at the Museum of Science Center for
Space Sciences. It is a treasure, the entire location. We'll
be back on Night's We're going to talk about something
a little eerie, and that is the top funeral trends
in twenty twenty five. Way do you hear a couple
of them? Interesting? Let me put it like that. Interesting.
Back on night Side right after the News at the
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bottom of the hour.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
It's night Side with Dan Ray on w Boston's news.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Radio well, welcome back, everybody. And we've gone from talking
about a big rock that landed in the Sahara Desert
that came our way from the planet Mars, and we're
not going to talk to something that's a little more
close to home, and that is ten funeral trends in
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twenty twenty five. As I have said, my guest is
Paul Freed. He's an expert on end of life planning,
founder of the Made the Arrangements. I Made the Arrangements,
a website that helps people plan their own funerals. Paul,
I've often said to people that none of us got
out of this place alive, so all of us have
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to at some point think about that, except for the
Lord Jesus, who in my religion we believe died and
rose from the dead. But everyone else has to think
about how how they want to spend eternity. And there
are ten funeral trends in twenty twenty five, some of
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which I had never heard of. Want to hit a
couple of them. The green burial is one that I
think most people understand. Tell us how that works.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
So you know, people are of course ecologically minded, and
so there are they're never of friends within. You know,
the green you can you know, the course can be
turned into a pod and turned into into a tree.
You can be planted. You know, that's just one of many.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
The ways that you can be turned into a tree.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
You could.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
And you know you're you're buried in burlap with seedlings.
And so you know, it's interesting because look, historically, right,
this has been a very taboo subject, right, and people
avoid talking about this as if it were contagious. But
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you know, at the end of the day, right, this
is a life cycle event. You know what we what
we see now is you've got the gen xers and
the millennials that are really changing that narrative. If you
look at some of the podcasts that are out there,
some of these end of life influencers and the followings
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that they have, it's really amazing. You know. We we
set out to develop a website that tried to lighten
up this very dark topic. But today people are leaning
more towards the celebration, right, so you know, kind of
focusing on that life as opposed to mourning the loss.
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So you're seeing a lot of themed memorials. You know,
you've seen costume requests, right, people are dressing up in
Hawaiian shirts, superhero gear, and so you know, people are
starting to kind of have some fun with it. Untraditional venues,
you know, things you can see before, certainly with premation
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being quite favorable. These days, you can take an urn
and you can go anywhere. And people are steering away
from kind of the sterile funeral home, and they're going
to the beaches, They're going to the parks, they're going
to restaurants, the breweries. People are people are spending time
planning this right, to bring together playlists and really personalizing it.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Well, here's one that and again, I know we got
ten to talk about here, so I'm going to try
to get to a couple of specific people can be
cremated and turned into jewelry.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
A diamond pretty interesting. So yes, people are opting for that,
and and there are a lot of vendors out there
that are providing these services. You may have seen. You
can take your ashes, you can get packed into fireworks,
and you can put off fireworks display. There's there's actually
(26:30):
a company in in Alabama, of course, where they'll pack
your ashes into shotgun shells.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
It's so uh, I was I was thinking to myself
if I was cremated, I would want my uh, some
of my ashes to be spread around the infield at
Fenway Park. A little got always be close to the
red sox. Uh. There was one here that that that
that struck me, uh and I'm trying to get uh.
(27:01):
There was one where people could be turned into soil
and and literally soil, and you could you know, dust
to dust, I guess, but dirt to dirt.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Yeah, you know, I know, you know, I know a
fella in in New Jersey who uh you know, he
has the business where they'll they'll take your ashes and
you know, dump them out at sea. And it was
a little side hustle that he started just to offset
the cost of his boat. And you know, it's turned
into big business now and you know, they get ashes
(27:39):
from all over the world and you know, they'll go
out and they'll go plot it and they'll send a
h a certificate with you know, the Greek coordinates of
exactly where the ashes were buried. So it's it's almost
endless now, it's uh, and it's really it's encouraging. Listen.
(27:59):
You know you're your funeral is the last impression you're
going to make on your loved ones. You know what,
why not personalize this a bit?
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Well, well, just just coming back to this one. The diamond. Normally,
in order to make a diamond, and I don't know
a lot about diamonds, it takes a long time for
I guess, a piece of coal to become a diamond.
How it's a long and expensive process, it says, taking
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about a year from start to finish. However, the result
is a genuine diamond for you that you can keep
as a memorial piece forever. Are they people who are
actually doing this or is this still in the theoretical stage.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
No, there are. There are a lot of people doing
it and if you if you google a topic, you'll
find you'll find jewelers, you know, throughout the land that
are providing services. It's it's become a thing for sure.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Wow. Is part of the reason for this, is part
of the reason for this that we're starting to run
out of cemetery space.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
You know, I don't know and can't speak to that.
I think that people are aware of this, and you know,
one of the reasons that you know, cremation is is
becoming much more popular. People are are are very much
aware of uh, you know, the land that cemeteries are
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taking up. But but people want, you know, they want
the ashes at home. They want to keep that memory
around as long as they can. You know, people aren't
going out to visit cemeteries anymore. It's you know, it's
it's a difficult thing. So uh, you know you've seen,
you know, the reefs that they're building, right, you can
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turn your ashes into into rocks and you know, you
can bury them and see and they're building these reefs
now out of these rocks that are made out of
people's ashes.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
I can tell you this. I have the ashes of
my dog Charlie, who died fifteen years ago, sitting in
the room that I'm broadcasting from a nice mahogany urn
or whatever, a container with this picture on the front
of it. So, yeah, you know, I'm.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
There with you, encouraging any respects. Yeah, you know, I
find encouraging, encouraging. I mean, it shouldn't this shouldn't be
a you know, a dark topic. Really this is you know,
this should be humanized. And I'm encouraged by a lot
of the things that we're seeing.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
All right, Paul, your website is I made the arrangements,
Is that the website.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
That is imadearrangements dot Com and it's Yeah, it's a
comprehensive site where you can go in and take care
all your end of life planning. Yeah, we can.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
You work and you work with you work with the
people who who get in contact with you. Absolutely, Paul,
appreciate taking you taking the time tonight and talking about
a subject which is not the most comfortable subject to
talk about. I'd rather be talking about rocks coming through
the atmosphere from Mars. But hey, maybe at some point
in the future. No, but I'm sure that in the
(31:20):
future they'll they'll be able to encapsulate people and send
them maybe in rocket ships to Mars or to the
Moon and spend it on the lunar surface. I'm sure.
I'm sure. Paul. Thank you very much. Appreciate it very much.
We'll talk to you. Thank you all right. Will we
get back when we talk about a tough program, but
(31:41):
a solution for a tough program. Going to talk with
Rosaline Doherty, owner of Right at Home Boston, a company
provides home care and assistance very much needed as many
people living longer lives from an actuarial basis. We'll talk
with Rosaline right after the break here on Nightside. You're
(32:01):
on Nightside with Dan Ray on WAZ Boston's news radio'd
like to welcome Rosaline Dougherty. Rosaline, welcome to Nightside. How
are you?
Speaker 4 (32:12):
I'm very well, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
You're the owner of a company called Right at Home Boston.
First of all, I know it's a company that provides
home care and assistance. But does it have a subspecialty.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
Our specialty is with dementia and clients with Alzheimer's at
you know, at some point that's when families really really
need help because it's a twenty four hour job when
you're taking care of someone with Alzheimer's and dementia.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
So what exactly does your company do to help a
family dealing with that set of circumstances.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
Sure, we go into the home and we talk to
them and see how we can relieve the caregiver or
what care is needed in the home. And it could
be anything from twenty four hour care to shorter amount
of care. But we can help with personal care, which
means like showering and that kind of thing, or a homemaking,
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preparing meals, really anything to keep that loved one in
their home. I mean that's the goal of many families.
And you know there is a care continuum when somebody
is aging and maybe they're getting more disability. So we
are definitely part of that care continuum to keep somebody
(33:32):
in their home as long as possible, because I mean, Dan,
I want to stay at home. Most people want to
stay home until you can't, So we're the piece that
helps you stay longer.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
Now is this supported by Medicare at all or no?
Speaker 4 (33:47):
So, well, in what we're going to talk about, Medicare
does not, till this moment, cover anything that they call
custodial care. Medicare only covers you to get better. So
we are covered by private care long term care insurance,
but then Medicaid covers what we have. So somebody then
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Medicaid Resistant or the Veterans Association. So there is a
lot of different ways to get this paid. And in
Massachusetts especially, they are very generous as far as trying
to keep seniors in their home rather than them going
to any type of facility. So there is help for
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families to pay for this.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
So I assume it deals on a family by family.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
Basis one one hundred percent and when they college.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
And I'm assuming it doesn't very based upon the type
of care that's needed. It probably is. It varies upon
the financial resources and the circumstances of the family that
needs the assistance.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
You got it about one hundred percent. We want everyone
to be taken care care of, but we really need
to work with them to see what their situations are.
And every family, just like what you said, every family
is different, So we really have to take a lot
of time up front to see how we can help them.
And if we can't help them, we can We've been
(35:17):
doing this for so long. We can get them to
a state resource or something like that, somebody who can
help them.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Give us a little history of the company. How long
have you been around and how many families have you helped?
Just give us a little concept of how many people
have you've helped. And also what is your service area?
Is it just eastern Massachusetts? Is it less? Is it more?
Go right ahead?
Speaker 4 (35:41):
Sure, So we have been doing this. This is a
family owned agency for twenty four years. Our service area
is the city of Boston and everything on the coast
straight up to New Hampshire, and then we also have
southern southern Maine. So the Portland main area as well.
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So that's all of our families right at homes and
we have a bunch of offices in that territory.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
Do you just do this? I want to make sure
people understand. You said that you do the city of
Boston and communities on the coast. Do you just do
communities that are on the Atlantic Ocean? Do you get
into No.
Speaker 4 (36:25):
The best way to say it is all of Essex County. Yeah,
all the North Shore, all the Merrimack Valley on you know,
on the east side of ninety three.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
So maybe from ninety three to the to the Atlantic Ocean.
Speaker 4 (36:44):
That's it exactly, through.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
New Hampshire into Maine and the city of Boston. But
nothing on the South Shore and nothing Metro West.
Speaker 4 (36:52):
However, we have other affiliated agencies that we can get
people to if they need help.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
But for us in particular, we said, you've been around
for twenty four years.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
That takes you back, I guess to two thousand and one.
Any rough idea is to how many either families or
people you've cared for them? Just woah, some structure here
so that people will know what type of company we're
dealing with.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
So let me put it this way, and then I'm
going to throw out a number because I don't know
the total number. We take care of about twelve hundred
people a week from the city of Boston, throughout Massachusetts
and Maine, so we tens and tens of thousands of
people we've helped in different families over the twenty four years.
(37:41):
But yeah, we have a like I said, we have
a number of offices, so we have a good sized staff.
But again, you know, it's family, it's really we keep
it tight so that people still have a small experience.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
Okay, And the people who you employ or the people
who work for you, when they are assigned to a family,
is there some continuity of service or could there could
there be really an adequate number of people to to
(38:16):
provide the service. People kind of be expected to work
seven days a week, but do you try to keep
some continuity of service?
Speaker 4 (38:24):
Ind yes, absolutely, continuity of service is you know what
we go for for every client. Of course, when you
think about everyone who works for us, like, not everybody
is going to be available to a particular client schedule.
But what we do is we work it out to
have as few people as possible because for that client,
(38:45):
it's better but also having a number of people, like
more than one person on a case is better too.
Somebody sick if you know so, then we can make changes.
But the good news is is working with an agency.
You know, people are working with us because they need help,
and we're not just dependent on one worker. Like if
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somebody called out stick or there's an emergency, we can
help them.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Still got it? Rosaline Doherty owner Right at Home Boston,
give us the website. I assume it has to be
something like right at Home Boston and give us the website.
Speaker 4 (39:22):
Yes, it's www dot, right at home mass m A
s s dot net.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
Okay, and just going forwards. You don't need the www anymore,
just right at home mass dot. Thank you very much.
Thank you for what you do. It's a very very
important needed service. Thanks Roseline the Art.
Speaker 4 (39:47):
You're welcome.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
Have great night and a great weekend, and thank you
for what you do. When we get back right out
of the after the nine o'clock news, we are going
to revisit the Saint Mary of car In Society Annual Festival.
It is underway tonight. Tonight is the third night. The
festival continues on Saturday and Sunday, and we will be
(40:10):
talking with the vice president of the group that sponsors this,
Carl pasquald Pasquorosa, and want to find out what's been
going on. Mindus Standing has been a huge success. If
you've been there, lineup, Kel tellas what you what you've done.
Would love to talk about this for a lot of reasons.
I'll explain right after the nine o'clock news
It's nice eyes with Dan Ray.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
I'm telling you.
Speaker 1 (00:03):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Thanks very much, Madison. Hope you have a great weekend.
Hope everybody listening to us is embarking on a wonderful
middle of July summer of twenty twenty five weekend. My
name is, as Madison indicated, Dan Ray. Rob Brooks, our producer,
is back in the control room. He will get us
going here tonight, particularly after nine o'clock when we start
(00:28):
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You can pull that new and improved app down. Go
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You could put it on your laptop, you can put
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That way, we are only a fingertip away, finger touch
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and you can leave us a message of thirty seconds
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it will probably get played during the broadcast. So if
you have the app and you have that capacity and
would like to leave us either a message, happy weekend message,
or are something more substantive that works. Anyway, we have
four interesting guests coming Up'm going to start off right
now with Anna Lisa Quinn. She is a Globe magazine
(01:54):
editor and the Globe has indicated that they have a
list a list of the best of the best in
food and things to do well. This is perfect timing
for the weekend. And Alisa, welcome to night'sat.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
How are you thank you so much for having me? Well,
nobody told me I couldn't use bad words.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
So well you can't, but because because we do have
a ten second delay.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
But I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
So the people who leave messages sometimes people are not
all that happy with well me the hoast or a guest,
and they're gonna love you because you're gonna give them
some great tips here highlighting the best places to eat
and the best things to do around Boston. Was this
in the Wednesday, July ninth edition of The Boston Globe?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
This is actually in the July thirteenth issue of the
Sunday magazine.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yeah, so it was the magazine that was this past Sunday.
I thought it was, but I saw something on the
on the email that said July ninth, and I was saying,
how did I miss it on July ninth? But that's okay.
So the first question is before we there are how
many categories? Are we happy? This is like two hundred
and fifty categories?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Right, three hundred winners on this list. There are twenty
eight categories. So this is actually our second annual best
of the Best list. So last year we had twenty one,
and we added seven additional categories things like sandwiches, bakeries,
cocktail bars, neighborhood restaurants, and so now we have a
total twenty eight list.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Now I'm sure I won the Best talk show host award. Correct,
We can just go right by.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
That that's it.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Uh huh, and a least can't lie. She doesn't get
my sense of humor. Okay, let's talk. I'm going to
throw some items at you. Best bakery is it the
Bova Vakery in the North End?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Okay, So I actually have really strong feelings about this one.
So I love Boba's no shade. But I live in
the North End and sometimes when I'm walking home from work,
I passed a long line snaking around the corner from Bova's,
and it's blocked the entryway to my favorite little bakery,
which is called Persiali's. We actually have them on our
(04:05):
pizza list because I love their pizza. But I sometimes
I want to sort of shake people in line and
say you got to try this place, But since that
would be weird, I did it in a magazine instead,
so I would say modern is definitely up there, Big China, Bova's.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
I love Bolbert because it was opened like at three o'clock.
It was open at three o'clock in the morning, and.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
When I was working for over twenty four hours.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Well that's what I'm saying. When I would get off
the eleven o'clock news on Channel four back in the
day when you were in kindergarten back in the eighties
and nineties, I would swing by Bovin and get something
for breakfast and bring it home, and it was sitting there,
believe it or not, just uneaten on my table the
next morning. Okay, so give us a couple of your favorites.
(04:49):
We would love to do all the two hundred and
whatever number or three hundred number of winners, but what
we want to do is give me, I don't know,
give me a couple of your favor rits. So just
the people wet people's appetite to go back and find
their Sunday magazine or maybe go on the Boston Globe
web website and find all of this information.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Yeah, so you can. You can go to Globe dot com,
slash best is where you'll find all twenty eight lists.
But I'll give you some of my favorites. So I'll
tell you some of the ones that the entries that
I actually wrote. So, like I said, I live in
the North End, and I'm a huge fan of Sunny Girl,
and it's a breakfast sandwich place. And you know how
like English muffins are usually just so sad and dusty
(05:34):
and drab while they like make their own English muffins
and they're a total revelation. So big fan of Sunny Girl.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
I also we got to get out of the North
End here and a Lisa because this is this is
a big radio station. You're you're talking to people all
around New England, and I know north the North End
is important. I love the North End. Give me, give
me a couple of things that maybe spread it around
a little bit geographically if you get my.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Drift, sure thing, Sure thing. So I'm a big fan
of De Luxe Cafe that's in the South End. That's
on our New Neighborhood Restaurants list, and it's really cool
and kitschy inside Christmas lights in July, Elvis paraphernalia, but
the food is just killer. So that would be a
great place. What I mean, tell me, tell me about
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what kind of categories you're interested in.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Well, let me ask you one. Okay, I have a favorite,
a couple of favorite luncheonets. When's Johnny's Luncheonet in Newton Center?
Has that made the list? Doesn't sound but it's made
the list? Well.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
So, Actually our area is Boston, Cambridge, Somerville and Brookline,
but you know, we'd love to hear from your listeners
because we're thinking of expanding geographically and getting out a
little further.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
So if you lives the globe, the best of my knowledge,
the globe actually can be can be per just as
far away as like Worcester in the West and Providence
in Manchester. So let me ask you, how do you
pick this? This is not like a reader's vote, right,
this is not something where you put up people. I
assume that if you're the editor here, you're asking some
(07:17):
of what I would call we can call we're amongst
friends here annals the globees. So people are giving you suggestions,
I assume, right.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Yeah, Well, so we start out. One of the great
things about this list is it's really a labor of
love from the newsroom. So these are a lot of
people whose whole job it is to go out and
get to know the city. And so we start out
by just tapping the expertise of the newsroom. You know,
what's this great sandwich shops? You know that you came
(07:48):
across covering some case, or you know we're in your neighborhood,
do you really love? And we start there and then
we try to fill in the gaps. Okay, so maybe
we have fewer places in this neighborhood. Of some research,
we're gonna find out what looks good and then we're
going to send people to test it. So I think
this is.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Really Oh go ahead, well here's one for you. Okay,
give me. I'm a Dunkin Donuts guy, and there's there's
a Dunkin Donuts on every corner, so I can always
find a Dunkin Donuts. But is there some killer donut shop,
uh that that you'd like to direct the people to.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
I mean, I think Union Square Donuts is pretty great,
and they have a one of them.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Look the one in Brighton, Austin.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
They might have one there, but they have them in Summerville.
Ok Yeah, And I think what's cool about that is
just like really creative flavors, Like they have a Vietnamese
coffee donut. Actually, when we put out this list, I
brought a bunch of them in to sort of celebrate,
and everybody loved them. So definitely recommend them.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Okay, let me look at one here that Okay, bookstores, bookstores,
There's no question that I agree with you. The Brattle
Bookshop is the best bookstore in Boston, so you have
my support on that.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Yeah. The Bookstort List, it's it's really popular, which is great.
It's one of our most popular lists. And so that
was a category that we had last year, but we
revamped it for this year. So we added a couple
of new entries. So Lovestruck Books in Harvard Square is
this wonderful new romance bookstore. It has a cottee shop
during the day, tend into a wine bar at night.
(09:28):
Just beautifully put together store, great readings. So it's been
really cool to add some of the sort of new businesses.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
The Brattle Bookshop and Ken Gloss. It's been around forever
here and people think it's in Cambridge because it's called
Brattle Street, but it's it's to Boston. All right, let
me get one more here, best ice cream. Let's have
the best ice cream.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
Ooh, that's a really tough one.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
There's no bad ice cream. I get you, I get you.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
I mean so our lists aren't actually ranked, so every
every item is a winner. But I'm gonna put my
personal vote for Honeycomb because of the homemade waffle cone.
They're just really like sweet and buttery and delicious.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Yeah, which is what's the name of the place. Do
we lose her? Here? Come on, we haven't lost you,
have we Anna Lisa?
Speaker 4 (10:25):
All right?
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (10:27):
We can now we lost you there at the moment.
We're you going to tell us about your favorite ice
cream shop? Which one is it? Hi?
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Can you hear me? It's Honeycomb. Honeycomb is my favorite.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Where's that located?
Speaker 3 (10:39):
So that's that's in Cambridge?
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Actually?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Okay? You you are a North End, Cambridge Somerville person.
That's so good.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Hey, listens all over the place. We've got lots of
great places in Brookline and you know that's why it's great.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Oh you've bridged out. You're gonna go Cambridge, Somerville, North
End and Brookline. Whoa wait a second? Now hold on, okay, Hey, look,
you're a great sport Dale Yep, yep, you're a great
sport Analisa Quinn, the best of the best. Let me
know when you run that talk show hosting okay, because I.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Want to be a.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Yeah, that's all I ask, and I'll put you back
on the show anyway. Hey, I have a great weekend,
and I hope that people go and check it out
because there's so many great categories. And there really are
comedy clubs, you know, restaurants, a million things to do,
that's for sure, theaters, everything, and look, Boston is we
(11:39):
have the best of just about everything. So thanks Ana, Lisa,
appreciate your time tonight, and you have a great weekend.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Okay, thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
You too, You're more than welcome.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
The best Boston globes, best of the best, burgers, cheap eats, lobsters,
rode breweries and tap rooms, things to do in Boston,
it's all there, all there for your dining and dancing pleasure.
All Right, we're gonna we will come back, and when
we get back, we're going to talk I think about
the most fascinating story of the week. Oh you're gonna say,
(12:09):
what is that? Dan, Well, you got to stay tuned
to find out. This is, in my opinion, the most
fascinating story of this week. It involves a rock or
whatever you want to call it from Mars. Yeah, that's
why it's the most fascinating story of the week. We'll
be back on Nightside right after this.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
It's Night Side with Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
All right, welcome back. I'm delighted to be joined by
Talia Siperski. I'm hoping I got both those names correctly.
On Tellia, how are you?
Speaker 5 (12:45):
I'm doing great?
Speaker 2 (12:46):
How's my pronunciation? Talia Siperski spot On spot On? I
love it all right. You are the program manager and
planetarium educator at the Museum of Science Center for Space Sciences.
Everyone knows the Museum of Science one of my favorite
places in the world. And I heard a story the
(13:07):
other day which blew my mind, and I said to
my producer, Marita aka Lightning, we got to find an
expert called the Museum of Science. The largest piece of Mars.
I don't know if you call it a rock, however
you categorize it, ever, to arrive on Earth, as far
as we know, sold for nearly five point three million
(13:31):
dollars at auction. That wasn't what interested me. What interested
in me was how the heck does a piece of
Mars end up in the Sahara Desert.
Speaker 5 (13:43):
I mean, essentially the same way any meteorite winds up
on Earth, usually a large parent object. So in this case,
the planet Mars gets hit by something really hard and
that impact, you know, forms a crater and can send
pieces of rock flying really high in the sky, and
(14:03):
if they get flung high enough and far enough, they
will actually get launched out into space. So it is
possible for an impact, a big enough impact, to actually
send pieces of rock flying out into space.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Okay, So I got a bunch of questions because that's
what I do for a living here, and so I
believe there's no such thing as a dumb question. So
if I ask a dumb question, you can tell me.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
And I also agree with that.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
So this is the largest piece of Mars ever found
on Earth, as I understand the story, sold for Austen
five point three million dollars. How many other piece of
Mars terrain, Mars landscape, Mars rocks? Have there been other
(14:48):
pieces of other objects from Mars that have landed here previously?
Speaker 5 (14:54):
Absolutely, there's not a lot of it. But like I've
actually held a piece of Mars in my hand before.
It was very a very small piece. It was, you know,
less than half an inch big, and most of the
pieces are not that big. You know, how can you
take a lot of First.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Of all, who figures it? You know, if I'm walking
along the street and I see a five dollar bill,
I'm picking that baby up. But if I'm walking down
the street and I see a piece of rock, how
am I going to know? Wow? That might be from Mars?
Are these are the people out there looking for this stuff?
Speaker 5 (15:29):
Absolutely? There are people who work as meteorite hunters, and
they go to places like the Sahara or honestly, a
lot of times they like to go to Antarctica if
they can, places where rocks that obviously don't belong are
easy to spot.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Really so they even I assumed Antarctica is covered in
ice and snow.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
It is, which is why if you find a dark
rock with a fusion cross on it from passing through
the atmosphere sitting on top of the snow, it's going
to stick out really Oh okay, really easy to see.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
I asked what some might have thought it was a
dumb question, and you explained it very well. Yeah. Okay,
So so how infrequent do you are these little shards
of Mars and small, tiny, when I say tiny metia
rites in order to get through the atmosphere and not
(16:24):
burn up? This this piece, this this rock which sold
for and can I call it a rock?
Speaker 5 (16:30):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Okay, this rock which was discovered? Was it discovered? If
you know by someone who was out there looking for it,
or was there some shepherd in the desert who said, whoa,
this looks different.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
I believe I read that this one was found by
a meteorite hunter.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
So this is somebody who knew what they were looking for, okay,
and didn't know that what they had found was a
piece of Mars, but knew that it was a rock.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
From right, fair enough, so a rock out of place.
This was about twelve or eighteen inches in diameter or
in length. That this was a substantial object.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
Right, Yes, yes, it was quite big.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Okay, and it came through the atmosphere. Do all of
these things burn up? So if this landed, and would
it weigh ten pounds or something? I mean, I'm just
trying to if you know, and if you don't, don't,
you don't have to guess. But from the description of it,
I'm thinking it weighs like ten pounds or something. How much?
Speaker 5 (17:32):
I mean, go ahead, I would guess that it would
weigh more than that, just because you know it's it's
mostly volcanic rock. Mars's surface is largely cool volcanic rock.
I would guess it would weigh more than that. But
that's a guess. I don't know what this rock weighed,
and it's probably only a piece of the thing that
(17:54):
entered the atmosphere.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
That's what I'm trying to say. What percentage of this
would likely burn up before it got through it landed
on Earth. Not one hundred percent, obviously fifty.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
Seventy Well, in that, it depends how fast it's moving,
it depends what angle it comes in, and it depends
entirely what it's made of, because you know, for instance,
a lot of times, if you have a rock coming
into the atmosphere and it's got air pockets in it,
you know, if it's got if it's not solid solid rock,
it's got gas pockets in it. Those things can get
(18:27):
superheated by entry through the atmosphere and the thing will explode.
That's essentially what happened over Cheliabinsk in twenty thirteen.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Do you have over weird? I'm going too fast in
my next.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
Question, right, the rock, the rock that blew up over
Cheliabinsk Grosca, Russia in twenty thirteen.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Don't remember that one.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
It was twenty thirteen, yeah, okay, And was it a
big deal at that time? It was because they caught it.
You know, there was a bunch of people who caught
it on the dashboard cams and it was big enough
that it rattled window like it broke windows. And that
wasn't the impact. That was the rock blowing up in
the atmosphere because air pockets in it got superheated, and
(19:13):
it meant that bits of it got scattered. Little bits
of it got scattered.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
So now here's here's the ability that you had can
plug the Science Museum. Are there rocks at the Science
Museum that people can see? I would hope you would
have them under glass or something from others.
Speaker 5 (19:30):
No, you can touch it. Really, we have a meteorite
in the planetarium lobby that you can touch from where
it is a piece of So there's actually a fairly
famous crater in Arizona, Barringer Crater, often just sometimes called
meteor Crater. It's a fairly young impact because it's only
(19:52):
fifty thousand years old. And what we have is a
piece of the thing that made that.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Okay, did that thing come from?
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Do we know that one?
Speaker 5 (20:03):
We don't know that one. We have at bactrace to
a specific parent body. We've only been able to do
that in a few cases. Okay, you know, but you
know it came.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
From another place. It came from Uh, it did not
come from our planet? Is that what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
No, it didn't come from our planet. It didn't come
from any planet. That one was a broken off piece
of an asteroid. Probably.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Okay, So now let me ask you this. Do you
have anything there from Mars or from you know, I'm
assuming that Mars would be a place any you know,
anything that came from another planet. I'm just asking. I
asked these questions. I'm sorry. I mean, I know the
museum science is great, but if you sit to me, oh,
we got three pieces of rocks from Mars, that might
(20:45):
incent some people to say, let's get over there tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
Unfortunately, we do not have a Mars meter, right, we
used to. I think it's wound up in collection somewhere.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
I'm not quite sure.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
Where it is at the moment. But we do have
a nice big meata right that, like you can just.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Perfect tell you again. I so enjoyed the conversation. I
know we don't script these conversations that I know some
of my questions are a little bit up from left field.
I apologize for that. But you've provided a lot of
information and if people want to get to the Science Museum,
they know where it is. If they want to visit
it on your website, is it is it MLS dot
(21:23):
org or something? What's the what's the website?
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Yep, that's it MLS dot org.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
How about that. I actually do know a few things.
I don't know how I know them, but I know. Hey, Tal,
you're great sport. Love to have you back, Okay, I
I've been there many times. Uh and uh. We we're
big supporters of the Museum of the Museum of Science.
Thank you for what you're doing. Thank you joining Yes tonight,
I have a great night. Tallis Sperski, the program manager
(21:51):
and planetarium educator at the Museum of Science Center for
Space Sciences. It is a treasure, the entire location. We'll
be back on Night's We're going to talk about something
a little eerie, and that is the top funeral trends
in twenty twenty five. Way do you hear a couple
of them? Interesting? Let me put it like that. Interesting.
Back on night Side right after the News at the
(22:12):
bottom of the hour.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
It's night Side with Dan Ray on w Boston's news.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Radio well, welcome back, everybody. And we've gone from talking
about a big rock that landed in the Sahara Desert
that came our way from the planet Mars, and we're
not going to talk to something that's a little more
close to home, and that is ten funeral trends in
(22:41):
twenty twenty five. As I have said, my guest is
Paul Freed. He's an expert on end of life planning,
founder of the Made the Arrangements. I Made the Arrangements,
a website that helps people plan their own funerals. Paul,
I've often said to people that none of us got
out of this place alive, so all of us have
(23:02):
to at some point think about that, except for the
Lord Jesus, who in my religion we believe died and
rose from the dead. But everyone else has to think
about how how they want to spend eternity. And there
are ten funeral trends in twenty twenty five, some of
(23:23):
which I had never heard of. Want to hit a
couple of them. The green burial is one that I
think most people understand. Tell us how that works.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
So you know, people are of course ecologically minded, and
so there are they're never of friends within. You know,
the green you can you know, the course can be
turned into a pod and turned into into a tree.
You can be planted. You know, that's just one of many.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
The ways that you can be turned into a tree.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
You could.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
And you know you're you're buried in burlap with seedlings.
And so you know, it's interesting because look, historically, right,
this has been a very taboo subject, right, and people
avoid talking about this as if it were contagious. But
(24:27):
you know, at the end of the day, right, this
is a life cycle event. You know what we what
we see now is you've got the gen xers and
the millennials that are really changing that narrative. If you
look at some of the podcasts that are out there,
some of these end of life influencers and the followings
(24:49):
that they have, it's really amazing. You know. We we
set out to develop a website that tried to lighten
up this very dark topic. But today people are leaning
more towards the celebration, right, so you know, kind of
focusing on that life as opposed to mourning the loss.
(25:10):
So you're seeing a lot of themed memorials. You know,
you've seen costume requests, right, people are dressing up in
Hawaiian shirts, superhero gear, and so you know, people are
starting to kind of have some fun with it. Untraditional venues,
you know, things you can see before, certainly with premation
(25:32):
being quite favorable. These days, you can take an urn
and you can go anywhere. And people are steering away
from kind of the sterile funeral home, and they're going
to the beaches, They're going to the parks, they're going
to restaurants, the breweries. People are people are spending time
planning this right, to bring together playlists and really personalizing it.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Well, here's one that and again, I know we got
ten to talk about here, so I'm going to try
to get to a couple of specific people can be
cremated and turned into jewelry.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
A diamond pretty interesting. So yes, people are opting for that,
and and there are a lot of vendors out there
that are providing these services. You may have seen. You
can take your ashes, you can get packed into fireworks,
and you can put off fireworks display. There's there's actually
(26:30):
a company in in Alabama, of course, where they'll pack
your ashes into shotgun shells.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
It's so uh, I was I was thinking to myself
if I was cremated, I would want my uh, some
of my ashes to be spread around the infield at
Fenway Park. A little got always be close to the
red sox. Uh. There was one here that that that
that struck me, uh and I'm trying to get uh.
(27:01):
There was one where people could be turned into soil
and and literally soil, and you could you know, dust
to dust, I guess, but dirt to dirt.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Yeah, you know, I know, you know, I know a
fella in in New Jersey who uh you know, he
has the business where they'll they'll take your ashes and
you know, dump them out at sea. And it was
a little side hustle that he started just to offset
the cost of his boat. And you know, it's turned
into big business now and you know, they get ashes
(27:39):
from all over the world and you know, they'll go
out and they'll go plot it and they'll send a
h a certificate with you know, the Greek coordinates of
exactly where the ashes were buried. So it's it's almost
endless now, it's uh, and it's really it's encouraging. Listen.
(27:59):
You know you're your funeral is the last impression you're
going to make on your loved ones. You know what,
why not personalize this a bit?
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Well, well, just just coming back to this one. The diamond. Normally,
in order to make a diamond, and I don't know
a lot about diamonds, it takes a long time for
I guess, a piece of coal to become a diamond.
How it's a long and expensive process, it says, taking
(28:29):
about a year from start to finish. However, the result
is a genuine diamond for you that you can keep
as a memorial piece forever. Are they people who are
actually doing this or is this still in the theoretical stage.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
No, there are. There are a lot of people doing
it and if you if you google a topic, you'll
find you'll find jewelers, you know, throughout the land that
are providing services. It's it's become a thing for sure.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Wow. Is part of the reason for this, is part
of the reason for this that we're starting to run
out of cemetery space.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
You know, I don't know and can't speak to that.
I think that people are aware of this, and you know,
one of the reasons that you know, cremation is is
becoming much more popular. People are are are very much
aware of uh, you know, the land that cemeteries are
(29:34):
taking up. But but people want, you know, they want
the ashes at home. They want to keep that memory
around as long as they can. You know, people aren't
going out to visit cemeteries anymore. It's you know, it's
it's a difficult thing. So uh, you know you've seen,
you know, the reefs that they're building, right, you can
(29:55):
turn your ashes into into rocks and you know, you
can bury them and see and they're building these reefs
now out of these rocks that are made out of
people's ashes.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
I can tell you this. I have the ashes of
my dog Charlie, who died fifteen years ago, sitting in
the room that I'm broadcasting from a nice mahogany urn
or whatever, a container with this picture on the front
of it. So, yeah, you know, I'm.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
There with you, encouraging any respects. Yeah, you know, I
find encouraging, encouraging. I mean, it shouldn't this shouldn't be
a you know, a dark topic. Really this is you know,
this should be humanized. And I'm encouraged by a lot
of the things that we're seeing.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
All right, Paul, your website is I made the arrangements,
Is that the website.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
That is imadearrangements dot Com and it's Yeah, it's a
comprehensive site where you can go in and take care
all your end of life planning. Yeah, we can.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
You work and you work with you work with the
people who who get in contact with you. Absolutely, Paul,
appreciate taking you taking the time tonight and talking about
a subject which is not the most comfortable subject to
talk about. I'd rather be talking about rocks coming through
the atmosphere from Mars. But hey, maybe at some point
in the future. No, but I'm sure that in the
(31:20):
future they'll they'll be able to encapsulate people and send
them maybe in rocket ships to Mars or to the
Moon and spend it on the lunar surface. I'm sure.
I'm sure. Paul. Thank you very much. Appreciate it very much.
We'll talk to you. Thank you all right. Will we
get back when we talk about a tough program, but
(31:41):
a solution for a tough program. Going to talk with
Rosaline Doherty, owner of Right at Home Boston, a company
provides home care and assistance very much needed as many
people living longer lives from an actuarial basis. We'll talk
with Rosaline right after the break here on Nightside. You're
(32:01):
on Nightside with Dan Ray on WAZ Boston's news radio'd
like to welcome Rosaline Dougherty. Rosaline, welcome to Nightside. How
are you?
Speaker 4 (32:12):
I'm very well, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
You're the owner of a company called Right at Home Boston.
First of all, I know it's a company that provides
home care and assistance. But does it have a subspecialty.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
Our specialty is with dementia and clients with Alzheimer's at
you know, at some point that's when families really really
need help because it's a twenty four hour job when
you're taking care of someone with Alzheimer's and dementia.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
So what exactly does your company do to help a
family dealing with that set of circumstances.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
Sure, we go into the home and we talk to
them and see how we can relieve the caregiver or
what care is needed in the home. And it could
be anything from twenty four hour care to shorter amount
of care. But we can help with personal care, which
means like showering and that kind of thing, or a homemaking,
(33:10):
preparing meals, really anything to keep that loved one in
their home. I mean that's the goal of many families.
And you know there is a care continuum when somebody
is aging and maybe they're getting more disability. So we
are definitely part of that care continuum to keep somebody
(33:32):
in their home as long as possible, because I mean, Dan,
I want to stay at home. Most people want to
stay home until you can't, So we're the piece that
helps you stay longer.
Speaker 2 (33:43):
Now is this supported by Medicare at all or no?
Speaker 4 (33:47):
So, well, in what we're going to talk about, Medicare
does not, till this moment, cover anything that they call
custodial care. Medicare only covers you to get better. So
we are covered by private care long term care insurance,
but then Medicaid covers what we have. So somebody then
(34:07):
Medicaid Resistant or the Veterans Association. So there is a
lot of different ways to get this paid. And in
Massachusetts especially, they are very generous as far as trying
to keep seniors in their home rather than them going
to any type of facility. So there is help for
(34:28):
families to pay for this.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
So I assume it deals on a family by family.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
Basis one one hundred percent and when they college.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
And I'm assuming it doesn't very based upon the type
of care that's needed. It probably is. It varies upon
the financial resources and the circumstances of the family that
needs the assistance.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
You got it about one hundred percent. We want everyone
to be taken care care of, but we really need
to work with them to see what their situations are.
And every family, just like what you said, every family
is different, So we really have to take a lot
of time up front to see how we can help them.
And if we can't help them, we can We've been
(35:17):
doing this for so long. We can get them to
a state resource or something like that, somebody who can
help them.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Give us a little history of the company. How long
have you been around and how many families have you helped?
Just give us a little concept of how many people
have you've helped. And also what is your service area?
Is it just eastern Massachusetts? Is it less? Is it more?
Go right ahead?
Speaker 4 (35:41):
Sure, So we have been doing this. This is a
family owned agency for twenty four years. Our service area
is the city of Boston and everything on the coast
straight up to New Hampshire, and then we also have
southern southern Maine. So the Portland main area as well.
(36:03):
So that's all of our families right at homes and
we have a bunch of offices in that territory.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
Do you just do this? I want to make sure
people understand. You said that you do the city of
Boston and communities on the coast. Do you just do
communities that are on the Atlantic Ocean? Do you get
into No.
Speaker 4 (36:25):
The best way to say it is all of Essex County. Yeah,
all the North Shore, all the Merrimack Valley on you know,
on the east side of ninety three.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
So maybe from ninety three to the to the Atlantic Ocean.
Speaker 4 (36:44):
That's it exactly, through.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
New Hampshire into Maine and the city of Boston. But
nothing on the South Shore and nothing Metro West.
Speaker 4 (36:52):
However, we have other affiliated agencies that we can get
people to if they need help.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
But for us in particular, we said, you've been around
for twenty four years.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
That takes you back, I guess to two thousand and one.
Any rough idea is to how many either families or
people you've cared for them? Just woah, some structure here
so that people will know what type of company we're
dealing with.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
So let me put it this way, and then I'm
going to throw out a number because I don't know
the total number. We take care of about twelve hundred
people a week from the city of Boston, throughout Massachusetts
and Maine, so we tens and tens of thousands of
people we've helped in different families over the twenty four years.
(37:41):
But yeah, we have a like I said, we have
a number of offices, so we have a good sized staff.
But again, you know, it's family, it's really we keep
it tight so that people still have a small experience.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
Okay, And the people who you employ or the people
who work for you, when they are assigned to a family,
is there some continuity of service or could there could
there be really an adequate number of people to to
(38:16):
provide the service. People kind of be expected to work
seven days a week, but do you try to keep
some continuity of service?
Speaker 4 (38:24):
Ind yes, absolutely, continuity of service is you know what
we go for for every client. Of course, when you
think about everyone who works for us, like, not everybody
is going to be available to a particular client schedule.
But what we do is we work it out to
have as few people as possible because for that client,
(38:45):
it's better but also having a number of people, like
more than one person on a case is better too.
Somebody sick if you know so, then we can make changes.
But the good news is is working with an agency.
You know, people are working with us because they need help,
and we're not just dependent on one worker. Like if
(39:07):
somebody called out stick or there's an emergency, we can
help them.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Still got it? Rosaline Doherty owner Right at Home Boston,
give us the website. I assume it has to be
something like right at Home Boston and give us the website.
Speaker 4 (39:22):
Yes, it's www dot, right at home mass m A
s s dot net.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
Okay, and just going forwards. You don't need the www anymore,
just right at home mass dot. Thank you very much.
Thank you for what you do. It's a very very
important needed service. Thanks Roseline the Art.
Speaker 4 (39:47):
You're welcome.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
Have great night and a great weekend, and thank you
for what you do. When we get back right out
of the after the nine o'clock news, we are going
to revisit the Saint Mary of car In Society Annual Festival.
It is underway tonight. Tonight is the third night. The
festival continues on Saturday and Sunday, and we will be
(40:10):
talking with the vice president of the group that sponsors this,
Carl pasquald Pasquorosa, and want to find out what's been
going on. Mindus Standing has been a huge success. If
you've been there, lineup, Kel tellas what you what you've done.
Would love to talk about this for a lot of reasons.
I'll explain right after the nine o'clock news
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