1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:03,640 Speaker 1: It's nice size with Dan Ray. I'm telling you easy 2 00:00:04,040 --> 00:00:05,240 Speaker 1: Bondon's news radio. 3 00:00:06,880 --> 00:00:10,039 Speaker 2: Well, here we go another week of Nightside. Good evening everyone, 4 00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:12,120 Speaker 2: and welcome on in. My name is Dan Ray. I'm 5 00:00:12,160 --> 00:00:15,239 Speaker 2: the host of night Side and Rob Brooks is on 6 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:18,119 Speaker 2: vacation this week. We're delighted to be joined by Shane 7 00:00:18,120 --> 00:00:21,400 Speaker 2: Stokes back in the control room, so please be kind 8 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:24,480 Speaker 2: to Shane. He's done this job before and he does 9 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:26,880 Speaker 2: a great job, and he will set you up for 10 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:29,200 Speaker 2: calls during. 11 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:29,920 Speaker 3: The nine o'clock hour. 12 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:32,440 Speaker 2: During the nine o'clock hour, we'll be talking with New 13 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:37,280 Speaker 2: Hampshire former New Hampshire Senator john Sonunhu, not to be 14 00:00:37,360 --> 00:00:40,040 Speaker 2: confused with his dad, the former governor of New Hampshire, 15 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:45,120 Speaker 2: john Sonunhu Governor SONO. I don't think we're gonna have 16 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:47,920 Speaker 2: time for phone calls, but we certainly will have time 17 00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:49,400 Speaker 2: for reaction. 18 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:49,839 Speaker 3: To his appearance. 19 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:52,280 Speaker 2: He's gonna be with us from nine until nine thirty, 20 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:56,400 Speaker 2: so you know, don't be calling at nine o'clock, but 21 00:00:56,480 --> 00:00:58,880 Speaker 2: certainly be prepared to call in after nine thirty and 22 00:00:58,920 --> 00:01:02,080 Speaker 2: you can react. We had Scott Brown on with us 23 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:05,080 Speaker 2: last week and we will cover that race and we 24 00:01:05,080 --> 00:01:08,280 Speaker 2: will eventually get the Democrat who apparently is running on 25 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:10,120 Speaker 2: a post. I have to do some work on that, 26 00:01:10,200 --> 00:01:10,840 Speaker 2: Chris Pappus. 27 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:12,119 Speaker 3: But we have four. 28 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:18,440 Speaker 2: Oh I'll also talk about a little problem I had 29 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:21,920 Speaker 2: on the internet the last week, couple of weeks or so, 30 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:25,720 Speaker 2: and I have a warning and an admonition to everyone, 31 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:28,560 Speaker 2: which we will discuss. And maybe you can tell me 32 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:33,280 Speaker 2: how to buy things on the internet more effectively, or 33 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:36,399 Speaker 2: maybe you've had the same problem or a similar problem. 34 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:37,800 Speaker 3: That I had. We'll talk about that at ten. 35 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:40,640 Speaker 2: But we have four great guests, starting off with Cara 36 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:43,640 Speaker 2: Baskin and the Boston Globe. You know, last week we 37 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:49,160 Speaker 2: sort of borrowed Kara's idea. We saw her article, we 38 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:51,960 Speaker 2: were very impressed with it, and on Friday night during 39 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:56,240 Speaker 2: our twentieth hour, we had about sixteen of you called 40 00:01:56,280 --> 00:02:00,960 Speaker 2: in to express your preference your favorite pizza players and 41 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:04,520 Speaker 2: with us now from the Boston Rode is Karen Basket. 42 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:07,200 Speaker 3: Karen, Welcome to Nightside. How are you thisce evening? 43 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:08,440 Speaker 4: Hi? 44 00:02:08,919 --> 00:02:10,919 Speaker 5: Fine? Thank you, thanks for having me. 45 00:02:10,919 --> 00:02:14,560 Speaker 3: Well, thank you very much. We had fun with your story. 46 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:18,480 Speaker 2: October is national or still is, because it's only the 47 00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:21,320 Speaker 2: twenty seventh of October National Pizza Month. 48 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:24,360 Speaker 3: How many pizza joints have you visited in the last 49 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:25,840 Speaker 3: few weeks to do this on it? 50 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:29,640 Speaker 5: This is a lifetime of experience. I have to say 51 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:32,720 Speaker 5: that went into it. I mean, in full disclosure, I 52 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:35,120 Speaker 5: haven't been to Papa Gino's in a little while, but 53 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:37,560 Speaker 5: that made the list because it's a nostalgic favorite and 54 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:39,200 Speaker 5: I grew up with it. And then there's a few 55 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:41,639 Speaker 5: that I've been to you very recently and really enjoyed. Yeah, 56 00:02:41,639 --> 00:02:42,080 Speaker 5: a little bit. 57 00:02:42,720 --> 00:02:45,080 Speaker 2: I was delighted to see Papa Gino's on the list 58 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:49,120 Speaker 2: because Papa Gino's the the Papa Ginos that I've known 59 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:52,320 Speaker 2: about mostly have closed with us. Papa Gino down at 60 00:02:52,320 --> 00:02:55,280 Speaker 2: this point? They are they down to a handful? Are 61 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:57,560 Speaker 2: they reorganizing? I'm trying to figure it out. 62 00:02:58,320 --> 00:03:00,720 Speaker 5: Great question. I kind of think of it like friendlies, 63 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:02,920 Speaker 5: you know, like they're dwindling a little bit. But we 64 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 5: I grew up right around here, as you know, I think, 65 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:08,320 Speaker 5: and there were tons of them, same as friendlies. The 66 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:11,079 Speaker 5: one that I am familiar with is in Waltham. There's 67 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:13,799 Speaker 5: another one in Bedford, but they're dying breed, which is 68 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:14,240 Speaker 5: too bad. 69 00:03:14,919 --> 00:03:17,959 Speaker 2: Oh. Absolutely, I enjoyed Papa Gino's. I thought that the 70 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:20,320 Speaker 2: pizza they served was great. I thought the meals they 71 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:23,600 Speaker 2: served was great. I thought they're satellite no highly acceptable, 72 00:03:23,639 --> 00:03:25,919 Speaker 2: I thought again for a fast food restaurant, I thought 73 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:29,119 Speaker 2: they were the best. I grew up in Reedville part 74 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:32,560 Speaker 2: of Boston, and there was the Papaginos in Clarie Square, 75 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:35,280 Speaker 2: and I have admitted this before, the first time I 76 00:03:35,320 --> 00:03:39,880 Speaker 2: actually tasted pizza was at the Papa Ginos in the 77 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:42,120 Speaker 2: center of Hyde Park in Clarie. 78 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:46,240 Speaker 5: So we'll never forget your first pizza, right, You never forget. 79 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:46,800 Speaker 3: Your first, no question. 80 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:51,960 Speaker 2: Right across from Brennan's Sportings goods store, which is unfortunately 81 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:53,480 Speaker 2: no longer there as well. 82 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:56,480 Speaker 3: So let's go through a few of these. 83 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:03,440 Speaker 2: You have a total seventeen, Well, we had about sixteen 84 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:04,560 Speaker 2: people the other night. 85 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:07,800 Speaker 5: I'm sure you did, and I heard I got so 86 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:11,600 Speaker 5: many emails angry and complimentary from the story. 87 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:13,160 Speaker 3: So you you got. 88 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:16,320 Speaker 2: You got critical emails because you didn't include their favorite 89 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:17,280 Speaker 2: pizza place. 90 00:04:17,080 --> 00:04:20,960 Speaker 5: Right, absolutely. The big thing that people were really upset 91 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:24,720 Speaker 5: that I didn't include Pizzeri Regina. That was and I 92 00:04:24,839 --> 00:04:26,520 Speaker 5: like it. I just I didn't put none the list. 93 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:29,080 Speaker 5: So people were flabbergasted about that. 94 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:31,560 Speaker 3: Yeah, don't run for public office in the North End. 95 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:33,320 Speaker 3: That we can take that. 96 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:36,679 Speaker 2: Off your own on your bucket list, Well, you listed 97 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:39,000 Speaker 2: them alphabetically, you start. 98 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:40,000 Speaker 3: Off with Amando's. 99 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:42,440 Speaker 2: We're not going to go through the whole list, but 100 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:45,159 Speaker 2: what how about if in the few minutes that we 101 00:04:45,320 --> 00:04:49,279 Speaker 2: have we highlight the ones that you'd like to talk 102 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:52,440 Speaker 2: about the ones that aren't that Yeah, that we're kind 103 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:55,960 Speaker 2: of your favorites within the favorites. Obviously, we've already touched 104 00:04:55,960 --> 00:05:00,719 Speaker 2: on Papa Gino's, which is great wherever the one wherever 105 00:05:00,839 --> 00:05:03,760 Speaker 2: we can find them now, but I also noticed you 106 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:08,240 Speaker 2: had some high Santapios is one that everybody had. They 107 00:05:08,279 --> 00:05:12,560 Speaker 2: got Santapio's got mentioned the other nine that's been around 108 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:13,160 Speaker 2: a long. 109 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:15,919 Speaker 5: Time and that's been that's sort of just like you know, 110 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:18,479 Speaker 5: you fly and part of it is pizza is very good, 111 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:20,680 Speaker 5: but also the location you fly into Logan it's in 112 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:22,720 Speaker 5: East Boston, it's right there. It's like the first thing 113 00:05:22,839 --> 00:05:27,960 Speaker 5: you see when you get into Boston. And Santarpio, So that's. 114 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:29,760 Speaker 6: Partially why I included it as well, just for the location. 115 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:32,560 Speaker 5: But pizza is great, It's a tough location. 116 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:36,159 Speaker 3: If you go into the airport, you really probably aren't stop. 117 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:38,240 Speaker 2: And it's kind of on the wrong side of the 118 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:40,159 Speaker 2: road when you're coming out of the air road. 119 00:05:40,240 --> 00:05:44,160 Speaker 5: But I guess you can if you want it badly enough. 120 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:47,560 Speaker 5: But I'll say my favorite in this list if you 121 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:50,320 Speaker 5: want to know. And I did it alphabetically because it's impossible. 122 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:52,640 Speaker 5: There's so many different styles of pizza. It's very hard 123 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:56,360 Speaker 5: to rank them, you know, best to worst or anything 124 00:05:56,440 --> 00:05:59,599 Speaker 5: like that, so it's alphabetical. I love her Nesto's. And 125 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:02,640 Speaker 5: so there's an Arnetto's in the North End, and then 126 00:06:02,680 --> 00:06:06,400 Speaker 5: there's one in Summerville, and I believe the one in Somerville. 127 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:10,599 Speaker 5: So it is the only place you can get this type. 128 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:15,000 Speaker 5: It's a cheeseburger pizza, which is not a purist pizza. 129 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:18,320 Speaker 5: It is not, you know, it's a little bit next level. 130 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:20,560 Speaker 5: But it tastes like a Big Mac on a pizza 131 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:23,880 Speaker 5: and they have chopped pickles and onions and kind of 132 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:26,920 Speaker 5: like a spicy Big Mac style sauce. And you can 133 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:29,200 Speaker 5: get it by the slice and it's a little floppy 134 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:32,400 Speaker 5: and a little greasy, and it's just I like it, 135 00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:37,440 Speaker 5: you know, And yeah, it's got pepperoni. 136 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:40,400 Speaker 3: I am not a fit pepperoni. I don't know. 137 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:42,280 Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know. 138 00:06:43,880 --> 00:06:46,240 Speaker 3: Was married to pizza. 139 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:48,960 Speaker 5: But I've always said that's a different article. 140 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:52,039 Speaker 2: Yes it is, Yes it is, but that's okay. But 141 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:57,800 Speaker 2: I always felt it was incongruous relationship. The only thing 142 00:06:57,920 --> 00:07:01,680 Speaker 2: I like on pizza besides tomato, sauce, and cheese, the 143 00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:06,920 Speaker 2: basics of pizza, it's chrisp bacon crumpled. I don't think 144 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:09,640 Speaker 2: you can take a couple of well maybe, but okay, 145 00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:11,800 Speaker 2: you know, so, I'm not like opposed to the meat 146 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:14,960 Speaker 2: thing here. But then you know, you had scamp Post. 147 00:07:15,040 --> 00:07:16,840 Speaker 2: That's kind of a high end restaurant, is it not? 148 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:21,480 Speaker 5: Absolutely yes, indeed, So I tried to go for the 149 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:24,000 Speaker 5: high end, the low end, a little bit of everything. 150 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:27,880 Speaker 5: So Scampo, which Lydia Shire, who's been you know, at 151 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:30,600 Speaker 5: the top of the bus in culinary world for decades. 152 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:36,360 Speaker 5: She's still going and she makes this lobster pizza at Scampo, 153 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:40,720 Speaker 5: which is very you know, right. So, but that's like 154 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:42,440 Speaker 5: if you want a little bit of like a high 155 00:07:42,480 --> 00:07:44,960 Speaker 5: end situation. Although they do have a deal I believe 156 00:07:44,960 --> 00:07:48,080 Speaker 5: where you can get a bottle of wine and the 157 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:54,040 Speaker 5: pizza for fifty five dollars, so you know times, yes, 158 00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:55,520 Speaker 5: you get a deal. 159 00:07:56,280 --> 00:07:57,160 Speaker 7: So yeah. 160 00:07:57,240 --> 00:07:58,880 Speaker 5: And the other really good one though, can I just 161 00:07:58,960 --> 00:07:59,640 Speaker 5: shout out I. 162 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:02,000 Speaker 3: Have yeah, I want this, Yeah, go ahead. 163 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:04,160 Speaker 5: All right, all right? So the other one. And I 164 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:06,720 Speaker 5: have some friends who are from New Jersey and they're 165 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:10,640 Speaker 5: very passionate, like New Yorkers are, about their pizza. And 166 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:13,920 Speaker 5: they love this place called Florina. It's kind of on 167 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:18,040 Speaker 5: the edge of Beacon Hill and they just make like 168 00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:24,800 Speaker 5: a crackly, kind of greasy, foldable New York New Jersey 169 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:29,240 Speaker 5: ish slice. It's great and that if you're a pizza purist, 170 00:08:29,360 --> 00:08:32,800 Speaker 5: just sauce and cheese. Nobody does it better, really really good. 171 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:33,600 Speaker 5: It's called Serena. 172 00:08:33,800 --> 00:08:37,120 Speaker 2: Was that the one that that there was like square pieces? 173 00:08:37,160 --> 00:08:38,960 Speaker 2: I'm trying to figure. I'm looking real quickly. 174 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:42,400 Speaker 5: That sounds more like a Detroit style pizza to me. 175 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:45,880 Speaker 3: Was that Florina? 176 00:08:45,920 --> 00:08:49,200 Speaker 5: Oh no, no, I don't think so. 177 00:08:49,200 --> 00:08:50,719 Speaker 3: So okay, So it's a. 178 00:08:50,679 --> 00:08:54,080 Speaker 5: Traditional avenue and in Avenue in Summerville has the Detroit 179 00:08:54,120 --> 00:08:56,040 Speaker 5: style squares that might be what you're thinking of. 180 00:08:56,760 --> 00:09:01,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, it was like ham and stuff and well, oh no, 181 00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:03,480 Speaker 2: there was one that this picture I'm looking at it's 182 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:07,439 Speaker 2: between it's either Florina or Gary's. 183 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:09,000 Speaker 3: That's the picture, but I can't tell. 184 00:09:09,280 --> 00:09:12,280 Speaker 5: Oh Gary, yeah, yeah, and that's that's probably what you're 185 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:14,280 Speaker 5: thinking of. And that's it. 186 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:18,160 Speaker 3: You do the parma pizza, right Gary, Yeah, Oh. 187 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:21,000 Speaker 5: That's look at Yeah, that's Gary's. That's in the South End. 188 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:23,600 Speaker 5: And that's another interesting one because it's a very well 189 00:09:23,640 --> 00:09:26,560 Speaker 5: known cheft Jamie Momono, who has done the Straw and 190 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:29,480 Speaker 5: MoU and Ostra and a lot of high end restaurants 191 00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:32,040 Speaker 5: in Boston, and this is his four into the world 192 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:32,560 Speaker 5: of pizza. 193 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:35,480 Speaker 3: Wow. Boy, I'll tell you this is Yeah, this is 194 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:36,280 Speaker 3: a great article. 195 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:39,480 Speaker 2: I always have to ask this question because I assume 196 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:43,120 Speaker 2: this a Boston magazine, Boston Globe magazine article. 197 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:46,480 Speaker 3: Was it in this past weekend? Because I get my 198 00:09:46,640 --> 00:09:48,160 Speaker 3: Globe magazines all mixed up. 199 00:09:48,720 --> 00:09:50,320 Speaker 5: As a matter of fact, it was in the Boston 200 00:09:50,360 --> 00:09:53,520 Speaker 5: Globe Food section, which comes out every Wednesday, So it 201 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:56,320 Speaker 5: was on Wednesday that it came out last last week, 202 00:09:56,480 --> 00:10:02,000 Speaker 5: So a week ago Wednesday, right, Pizza month ago, Pizza month. 203 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:06,720 Speaker 3: So absolutely, Kara, thank you much. It's a very informative article. 204 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:09,320 Speaker 2: Yeah, nice to have you with us and come on back. 205 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:12,800 Speaker 2: We really do enjoy I love your passion. 206 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:15,640 Speaker 3: That's what. That's what. Thank you a great writer. You're 207 00:10:15,760 --> 00:10:18,480 Speaker 3: passionate about what you do. We'll talk again. 208 00:10:19,520 --> 00:10:20,360 Speaker 5: Enjoy your pizza. 209 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:23,439 Speaker 2: I always enjoyed pizza. Matter of fact, I had pizza 210 00:10:23,640 --> 00:10:27,400 Speaker 2: on let's say, Saturday night. I had pizza from a 211 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:29,520 Speaker 2: little place where I'm where I'm close to here, and 212 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:32,120 Speaker 2: it was a small pizza and I ate it all 213 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:33,200 Speaker 2: much to my chagrin. 214 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:35,720 Speaker 3: I mean, I should have saved haf it for the 215 00:10:35,760 --> 00:10:36,120 Speaker 3: next day. 216 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:40,680 Speaker 5: But it was just good joy watching the baseball game, 217 00:10:40,720 --> 00:10:40,920 Speaker 5: you know. 218 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:42,040 Speaker 3: So that's that's what. 219 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:49,440 Speaker 2: Another exciting on the road. Thanks, Garat, appreciated so much. 220 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:53,280 Speaker 2: All right, when we get back on to talk. 221 00:10:53,160 --> 00:10:57,640 Speaker 3: With Marie Beam. She is the CEO of the Discovery Museum. 222 00:10:57,640 --> 00:10:59,720 Speaker 2: If you've never been to the Discovery Museum and you 223 00:10:59,760 --> 00:11:02,560 Speaker 2: have children or grandchildren, you want to pay attention. 224 00:11:02,640 --> 00:11:06,600 Speaker 1: Coming right back on Nightside, It's Nights Eye with Dan 225 00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:10,000 Speaker 1: Ray on Boston's news radio. 226 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:11,520 Speaker 3: Next up on Monday night. 227 00:11:11,559 --> 00:11:14,400 Speaker 2: Delighted to be welcome to welcome the CEO of the 228 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:19,400 Speaker 2: Discovery Museum in Acton, Massachusetts, Marie Beam, Marie, welcome, I 229 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:22,080 Speaker 2: have been to the Discovery Museum. It is a great 230 00:11:22,160 --> 00:11:25,720 Speaker 2: location for parents, grandparents and kids of all ages. 231 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:30,120 Speaker 4: Oh that's so fantastic, Dan, thank you so much for 232 00:11:30,160 --> 00:11:32,760 Speaker 4: having me. It's always enjoy to talk about our wonderful museum. 233 00:11:33,280 --> 00:11:37,040 Speaker 2: So how long has this? We were there last April? 234 00:11:37,080 --> 00:11:39,880 Speaker 2: I believe how long has the Discovery Museum been in 235 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:40,880 Speaker 2: its current location? 236 00:11:41,559 --> 00:11:43,160 Speaker 3: In acting? And are you? 237 00:11:43,240 --> 00:11:43,440 Speaker 2: Are you? 238 00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:46,480 Speaker 3: You want to speak a phone? Or you on? If 239 00:11:47,160 --> 00:11:49,199 Speaker 3: you sound a little off here, talk right? 240 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:54,880 Speaker 4: If you're not, I'm on, I'm on blue shoes. Give 241 00:11:54,920 --> 00:11:56,839 Speaker 4: me one second and I will stop that and get 242 00:11:56,880 --> 00:11:57,720 Speaker 4: right on the handset. 243 00:11:57,960 --> 00:12:01,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, if you can, Shane, that's ready to remind people 244 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:04,200 Speaker 2: because the quality of her presentation once she gets the 245 00:12:04,240 --> 00:12:07,240 Speaker 2: handset and talks into the mouth piece directly, is going 246 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:08,199 Speaker 2: to be so much better. 247 00:12:08,840 --> 00:12:09,640 Speaker 5: Are here we go? 248 00:12:09,679 --> 00:12:10,240 Speaker 6: I'm all said? 249 00:12:10,280 --> 00:12:11,040 Speaker 4: Is that is that better? 250 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:11,240 Speaker 1: Dan? 251 00:12:11,679 --> 00:12:14,520 Speaker 3: It is like one thousand percent better? Really? 252 00:12:15,040 --> 00:12:16,160 Speaker 6: Already you're in. 253 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:17,880 Speaker 3: The same room with me, which is what I want. 254 00:12:17,960 --> 00:12:22,000 Speaker 2: Okay, So the history of the Discovery Museum, then let's 255 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:25,640 Speaker 2: talk about what are the great attractions you have there? 256 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:29,560 Speaker 6: Wonderful? Well, so we were started back in nineteen eighty two, 257 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:32,920 Speaker 6: forty three years ago by a local teacher and a 258 00:12:32,960 --> 00:12:36,280 Speaker 6: team of volunteers out in acting as you say, just 259 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:39,960 Speaker 6: twenty miles west of Boston, and then expanded in nineteen 260 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:43,080 Speaker 6: eighty seven to meet demand, and then beginning again in 261 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:46,240 Speaker 6: twenty sixteen, we transformed our entire four and a half 262 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:49,960 Speaker 6: acre property to be fully accessible and get more families 263 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:53,760 Speaker 6: playing outside. We added a nature playscape we call Discovery 264 00:12:53,760 --> 00:12:56,880 Speaker 6: Woods that has a wheels accessible treehouse, and then a 265 00:12:56,880 --> 00:12:59,720 Speaker 6: brand new museum building two years later, again to meet 266 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:04,439 Speaker 6: the growing demand of our audience. We have a focus 267 00:13:04,520 --> 00:13:08,640 Speaker 6: on keeping educating kids through play, so all we ask 268 00:13:08,679 --> 00:13:12,520 Speaker 6: of our visitors is to bring their natural creativity and curiosity. 269 00:13:12,559 --> 00:13:14,640 Speaker 6: We want them to know that learning through play is easy, 270 00:13:14,679 --> 00:13:17,560 Speaker 6: It brings people together, It works for everyone. It's a 271 00:13:17,559 --> 00:13:20,280 Speaker 6: great way for everybody to feel successful, whether you're a 272 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:24,280 Speaker 6: kid or an adult. We have topics like light and color, sound, water, 273 00:13:24,520 --> 00:13:26,720 Speaker 6: cause and effect. And I should note that we do 274 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:30,800 Speaker 6: all of this with outscreens in a way that we 275 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:33,840 Speaker 6: believe really creates a strong sense of community and connection, 276 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:37,160 Speaker 6: people coming together, all things that we need now more 277 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:38,959 Speaker 6: than ever. Of course, Yeah, my. 278 00:13:38,920 --> 00:13:41,680 Speaker 2: Wife and I took on a grandson there in April, 279 00:13:41,760 --> 00:13:47,840 Speaker 2: and I my wife is like, she is with him wherever, 280 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:49,160 Speaker 2: and he was moving around. 281 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:51,319 Speaker 3: And I was watching some of the. 282 00:13:51,240 --> 00:13:54,320 Speaker 2: People there because I'm a people watcher, and it was 283 00:13:54,360 --> 00:13:58,280 Speaker 2: amazing to watch the interaction between parents and kids and 284 00:13:58,360 --> 00:14:02,400 Speaker 2: grandparents and kids. The kids were very respectful. They seemed 285 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:06,000 Speaker 2: to be I didn't want to say intimidated by the 286 00:14:06,080 --> 00:14:09,160 Speaker 2: variety of activities that were there, but I think they 287 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:13,400 Speaker 2: were owed in a good way by the variety of activities. 288 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:16,760 Speaker 2: I mean, there's a whole bunch of different just every 289 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:18,680 Speaker 2: kid in the world is going to find something there 290 00:14:18,760 --> 00:14:22,160 Speaker 2: that he or she will be fascinated by. It's an 291 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:27,400 Speaker 2: amazing place. And is it open. 292 00:14:27,680 --> 00:14:29,520 Speaker 3: I believe it's open year round because we were. 293 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:33,200 Speaker 6: There in April, right, Absolutely open year round. Yeah, we're 294 00:14:33,280 --> 00:14:35,560 Speaker 6: in six days a week during the school year, seven 295 00:14:35,640 --> 00:14:38,440 Speaker 6: days a week in the summer. You know, even our 296 00:14:38,480 --> 00:14:40,800 Speaker 6: treehouse is open twelve months a year. As long as 297 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:43,080 Speaker 6: it's safe to be outside. You can can explore our 298 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:47,800 Speaker 6: outdoor areas. And you know, Dan, you may not know, 299 00:14:47,920 --> 00:14:50,560 Speaker 6: but we served two hundred and fifty thousand people a 300 00:14:50,680 --> 00:14:54,560 Speaker 6: year on our four and a half acres and acting yep. 301 00:14:54,640 --> 00:14:57,760 Speaker 6: And then in thousands of school classrooms around the States. 302 00:14:59,080 --> 00:15:01,280 Speaker 2: We tell you about that because the day we were there, 303 00:15:01,760 --> 00:15:05,840 Speaker 2: it was you could move around, but it was there 304 00:15:05,920 --> 00:15:09,560 Speaker 2: was a lot of activity and the kids going in 305 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:12,720 Speaker 2: different directions and some parents are after them. 306 00:15:12,760 --> 00:15:14,520 Speaker 5: But look, everything seemed to be. 307 00:15:14,560 --> 00:15:16,520 Speaker 3: It seemed to be a very safe place to be. 308 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:22,400 Speaker 2: I'm assuming that people can go to the website and 309 00:15:22,440 --> 00:15:28,160 Speaker 2: get information on whatever the admission fee is for for 310 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:32,440 Speaker 2: your for the for kids or for their parents or grandparents, 311 00:15:33,680 --> 00:15:36,840 Speaker 2: as well as days when you're open and all of that. 312 00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:40,800 Speaker 2: So everybody should check out give us the website, because 313 00:15:40,840 --> 00:15:43,000 Speaker 2: I want people to write this down and Shane back 314 00:15:43,040 --> 00:15:45,320 Speaker 2: in the control room, if you just write this website down, 315 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:48,120 Speaker 2: because there invariably will be people who will call in 316 00:15:48,160 --> 00:15:51,480 Speaker 2: the next half hour and say I missed that website. 317 00:15:51,520 --> 00:15:54,400 Speaker 2: So what's the website that people can get all the 318 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:57,640 Speaker 2: information they need about what it might cost. 319 00:15:57,680 --> 00:16:00,040 Speaker 3: I'm sure it's very reasonable. At least that was what 320 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:01,000 Speaker 3: our experience wise. 321 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:08,040 Speaker 6: YEA, our website is Discoveryactin dot org, so Discovery Acuton 322 00:16:08,280 --> 00:16:12,720 Speaker 6: dot org. And you brought up our cost ticketic prices 323 00:16:12,760 --> 00:16:15,960 Speaker 6: and so forth. You know, thirty percent of our visitors 324 00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:18,960 Speaker 6: pay nothing or as little as a dollar for their visits, 325 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:22,960 Speaker 6: because we really do prioritize eliminating all of the barriers 326 00:16:22,960 --> 00:16:27,320 Speaker 6: that families might face in getting Discovery Museum experiences, whether 327 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:31,320 Speaker 6: they're financial, they're about physical difference, neurological difference. So our 328 00:16:31,320 --> 00:16:33,720 Speaker 6: whole property and our building and our exhibits have all 329 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:38,280 Speaker 6: been designed to be fully inclusively accessible. And if you 330 00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:42,600 Speaker 6: feel that financial challenge might keep you from a Discovery 331 00:16:42,680 --> 00:16:45,400 Speaker 6: Museum visit, and encourage you to visit our website. We 332 00:16:45,480 --> 00:16:48,360 Speaker 6: have a page called ways to Save with lots of 333 00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:52,160 Speaker 6: great programs that you can take advantage of to get 334 00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:53,640 Speaker 6: to the museum in an affordable way. 335 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:57,280 Speaker 2: I'm not surprised because it was a very friendly place 336 00:16:57,320 --> 00:16:59,840 Speaker 2: where people greeted you. How big a staff do you? 337 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:02,920 Speaker 2: I saw there was a picture on your website that 338 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:04,680 Speaker 2: I just looked at. It was a picture of a 339 00:17:04,760 --> 00:17:07,919 Speaker 2: lot of people. I'm sure that some folks of staff, 340 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:10,480 Speaker 2: some of them are volunteers. But how big is staff 341 00:17:10,480 --> 00:17:12,120 Speaker 2: do you have on site any given day? 342 00:17:13,320 --> 00:17:16,600 Speaker 6: Yeah, so while we have about seventy five employees on 343 00:17:16,720 --> 00:17:19,720 Speaker 6: site in a given day, we probably have about thirty 344 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:23,359 Speaker 6: to forty people between our administrative team. Mostly though folks 345 00:17:23,359 --> 00:17:25,800 Speaker 6: that are working on the museum floor at our admission 346 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:28,320 Speaker 6: front desk, and the people that are keeping those wheels 347 00:17:28,359 --> 00:17:32,480 Speaker 6: turning and making the experience really a joyous and fun 348 00:17:32,800 --> 00:17:35,920 Speaker 6: and enriching one for our visitors. We do, you say 349 00:17:35,880 --> 00:17:37,760 Speaker 6: I talked about volunteers. We do have a lot of 350 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:40,879 Speaker 6: volunteers that help us do what we do. In fact, 351 00:17:40,920 --> 00:17:44,320 Speaker 6: you're a grandparent. Just this month, we launched our new 352 00:17:44,359 --> 00:17:49,160 Speaker 6: Grandparent Ambassador's program. It's a really kind of neat new 353 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:52,240 Speaker 6: way that we are providing support to the parents and 354 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:55,120 Speaker 6: caregivers in our audience. That's fifty percent of our audience 355 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:58,480 Speaker 6: as those adults. So we're now bringing grandparent volunteers into 356 00:17:58,520 --> 00:18:02,439 Speaker 6: the museum to provide support and connection and affirmation for 357 00:18:02,520 --> 00:18:05,480 Speaker 6: the adults who are visiting us, because we know that 358 00:18:05,560 --> 00:18:07,879 Speaker 6: raising kids these days is hard, and we want this 359 00:18:07,960 --> 00:18:11,119 Speaker 6: to be a really joyful environment and experience both for 360 00:18:11,240 --> 00:18:12,200 Speaker 6: kids and for grown ups. 361 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:14,919 Speaker 2: The like and last question. I know that that some 362 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:17,480 Speaker 2: kids are ready for something like this a little earlier, 363 00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:20,119 Speaker 2: and some kids sort of age out at some point. 364 00:18:20,680 --> 00:18:23,760 Speaker 2: What's the sweet spot in terms of age for kids? 365 00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:26,280 Speaker 2: Forget the grandparents and the parents, they go with the. 366 00:18:26,320 --> 00:18:28,040 Speaker 3: Kids what is the. 367 00:18:30,080 --> 00:18:33,800 Speaker 2: Minimum there's no minimum age, I assume, but what you now, 368 00:18:34,359 --> 00:18:38,159 Speaker 2: what age can kids really begin to benefit from the experience, 369 00:18:38,280 --> 00:18:41,080 Speaker 2: and at what age perhaps have they aged out? 370 00:18:42,359 --> 00:18:42,600 Speaker 1: Well? 371 00:18:42,640 --> 00:18:46,600 Speaker 6: So we most of our visitors are preschoolers and up 372 00:18:46,600 --> 00:18:49,160 Speaker 6: through elementary school, but we do have a special gallery 373 00:18:49,160 --> 00:18:52,520 Speaker 6: for ages zero to three, so those pre walkers pre 374 00:18:52,640 --> 00:18:54,719 Speaker 6: crawlers as we call them, have a great time at 375 00:18:54,760 --> 00:18:57,000 Speaker 6: the museum too. And of course in all of our 376 00:18:57,040 --> 00:19:00,400 Speaker 6: school outreach programs, we're reaching sixty thousand kids the year 377 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:04,240 Speaker 6: from three K to grade eight and three thousand classrooms 378 00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:07,920 Speaker 6: around the state bringing them hands on science. So there's 379 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:11,040 Speaker 6: a lot of kids here in Massachusetts through getting Discovery 380 00:19:11,119 --> 00:19:13,240 Speaker 6: Museum every day, whether it's at our museum or in 381 00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:14,040 Speaker 6: their classrooms. 382 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:14,920 Speaker 3: Sounds great. 383 00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:17,600 Speaker 2: I really do appreciate the time you took, Marie, and 384 00:19:17,640 --> 00:19:22,160 Speaker 2: again it is Discovery actin Act on dot org. 385 00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:23,680 Speaker 3: Thank you so much for joining us. 386 00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:25,960 Speaker 2: And I'll see at the Discovery Museum at some point, 387 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:28,840 Speaker 2: I'm sure, well there'll be a return trip on our 388 00:19:28,880 --> 00:19:30,000 Speaker 2: Grandson's agenda. 389 00:19:30,320 --> 00:19:32,879 Speaker 6: Okay, thank you, very fantastic, Thanks so much, Dan. 390 00:19:33,119 --> 00:19:35,959 Speaker 3: Thanks good night. When we get back right after the news, 391 00:19:35,960 --> 00:19:37,560 Speaker 3: we're going to talk about. 392 00:19:37,320 --> 00:19:40,960 Speaker 2: Something that all of us in the Great Boston area 393 00:19:40,960 --> 00:19:44,640 Speaker 2: are very familiar with, and that is traffic congestion. Dan Mozella, 394 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:47,600 Speaker 2: operations director for the Boston Division of Total Traffic and 395 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:50,200 Speaker 2: with a network and also a traffic reporter, will join 396 00:19:50,320 --> 00:19:53,520 Speaker 2: us and we're going to learn what we know that 397 00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:56,960 Speaker 2: traffic congestion in Boston is bad, very bad. 398 00:19:57,080 --> 00:19:59,240 Speaker 3: My name's Dan Ray. This is Nightside. Here comes the 399 00:19:59,240 --> 00:19:59,960 Speaker 3: News at the Bottom of the. 400 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:06,760 Speaker 1: Houri with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio. 401 00:20:08,119 --> 00:20:12,400 Speaker 2: We're about to talk about something everybody in Massachusetts, everybody 402 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:14,600 Speaker 2: in Greater Boston it's very familiar with, and that is 403 00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:16,200 Speaker 2: traffic congestion. 404 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:17,959 Speaker 3: Dan Mozella joins us. 405 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:21,840 Speaker 2: He's the operations director for Boston Total Traffic and Weather Network. 406 00:20:22,560 --> 00:20:24,359 Speaker 3: Dan, it's not getting better. 407 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:27,919 Speaker 8: And you know what, Dan, I'm always gonna have a 408 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:28,879 Speaker 8: job because of it. 409 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:30,879 Speaker 3: Yeah what what? 410 00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:33,399 Speaker 2: Well, when they finished the big dig, I know it's 411 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:35,520 Speaker 2: going to have a positive impact on. 412 00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:39,200 Speaker 8: The course of course, you and I will well see 413 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:41,560 Speaker 8: the day that the Big dig will get finished. 414 00:20:42,840 --> 00:20:47,119 Speaker 3: How does thank God so so? How do this is 415 00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:52,280 Speaker 3: a national survey? Yeah, I don't know how. 416 00:20:52,119 --> 00:20:55,240 Speaker 2: They raided cities or whatever, but I see that they 417 00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:59,119 Speaker 2: have a big map in Boston's on the map. 418 00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:02,399 Speaker 3: How bad is it here in Boston to other cities? 419 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:04,480 Speaker 2: Please tell me there's some other cities that are worse 420 00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:05,080 Speaker 2: than Boston. 421 00:21:05,119 --> 00:21:09,920 Speaker 8: Oh, there will always be cities that are more worse 422 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:13,320 Speaker 8: off than Boston. The thing about Boston is that we 423 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:17,520 Speaker 8: have literally no room to expand or change things right now. 424 00:21:18,080 --> 00:21:23,320 Speaker 8: And that's why we have so much congestion because I 425 00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:27,720 Speaker 8: guess no one plans for population growth. No one thought 426 00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:30,919 Speaker 8: more cars would come in to play. And you know, 427 00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:34,040 Speaker 8: I guess bikes have kind of taken over a lot 428 00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:35,080 Speaker 8: of areas. 429 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:38,360 Speaker 2: And that's been good for traffic congestion. 430 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:42,879 Speaker 8: Have you ever heard the phrase snowball effect? You know, 431 00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:46,800 Speaker 8: this is this is exactly what happened with the bike lanes. 432 00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:52,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, well that was brilliant and I was an outspoken 433 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:55,120 Speaker 2: critic of the proliferation. 434 00:21:54,560 --> 00:21:57,040 Speaker 3: Of bike lanes just as a driver. 435 00:21:57,800 --> 00:22:00,640 Speaker 2: I mean, I feel like that there's a that there 436 00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:04,520 Speaker 2: was an effort, an affirmative effort to eliminate cars in Boston. 437 00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:07,399 Speaker 2: They wanted to turn Boston, and they, being the powers 438 00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:11,720 Speaker 2: that be, wanted to turn Boston into like Amsterdam or Copenhagen, 439 00:22:12,119 --> 00:22:14,200 Speaker 2: where everybody is on a bike. 440 00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:18,399 Speaker 8: And it's not going to it is no. And the 441 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:20,880 Speaker 8: thing and the thing about it is that you know, 442 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:25,440 Speaker 8: the bikes and all that stuff was first before cars 443 00:22:25,760 --> 00:22:28,560 Speaker 8: over in countries like that, because you know, cars have 444 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:31,760 Speaker 8: only been around for it's like one hundred and thirty 445 00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:38,440 Speaker 8: one hundred and fifty years or something like that, right, So, 446 00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:42,280 Speaker 8: so like in other countries, especially in Europe, I mean, 447 00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:46,040 Speaker 8: everything has just been small. You know, it was really 448 00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:50,160 Speaker 8: made for horses and just walking and and and that's 449 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:54,000 Speaker 8: the thing. So over there, yeah, they're more built for 450 00:22:54,040 --> 00:22:56,639 Speaker 8: that because that's the way it's always been. But over 451 00:22:56,680 --> 00:22:59,800 Speaker 8: here where we have the highway system, you know, it 452 00:22:59,840 --> 00:23:03,520 Speaker 8: was it was Eisenhower that came back from Europe after 453 00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:06,199 Speaker 8: World War Two and said, hey, this highway thing was 454 00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:10,400 Speaker 8: a great idea. Let's try it and put it everywhere 455 00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:13,320 Speaker 8: across the US, which you know served a purpose because 456 00:23:13,359 --> 00:23:15,680 Speaker 8: in the event you need to move the military from 457 00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:18,600 Speaker 8: one side of the country to the other. They you know, 458 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:22,240 Speaker 8: tanks can fit in the in the highway lanes and 459 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:26,199 Speaker 8: everything and get across. But at the same time, some 460 00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:29,560 Speaker 8: cities that were here before all that was thought of, 461 00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:33,640 Speaker 8: we have nowhere to expand, and Boston is that perfect 462 00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:37,800 Speaker 8: example where it's not a planned city. You can't add 463 00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:39,679 Speaker 8: to it, and if you try to add to it, 464 00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:41,320 Speaker 8: you got to sacrifice something else. 465 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:44,600 Speaker 2: It's not Phoenix, Arizona, where you can do this three 466 00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:47,000 Speaker 2: and sixty days a year. Maybe you get a couple 467 00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:49,520 Speaker 2: of really bad days with dust storms. 468 00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:52,040 Speaker 8: And you know what, that's more than true because you 469 00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:54,440 Speaker 8: know we've we've I mean, when do they do all 470 00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:57,280 Speaker 8: the paving in the summer. What happens in the summer 471 00:23:57,560 --> 00:24:00,119 Speaker 8: everyone travels well. 472 00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:02,359 Speaker 2: The other thing, too, is with the highway system, and 473 00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:05,840 Speaker 2: people forget that it was the Eisenhower administration. It's probably 474 00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:08,119 Speaker 2: one of the things besides the fact that there was 475 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:13,639 Speaker 2: kind of packs Americana. World War II was one, Korea ended, 476 00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:16,640 Speaker 2: and you had this period where America kind of took 477 00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:20,440 Speaker 2: a deep breath and they built highways, and it allowed 478 00:24:20,520 --> 00:24:24,760 Speaker 2: suburbs to develop. It allowed people to live a little 479 00:24:24,760 --> 00:24:27,480 Speaker 2: bit outside of the city. You didn't have to live 480 00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:32,840 Speaker 2: in Boston with between mass av and the North End 481 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:36,600 Speaker 2: to work in Boston. You live in Wellesley or wherever. 482 00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:39,360 Speaker 2: But then they just put flipped it on its head 483 00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:41,520 Speaker 2: and said we don't want anyone you know now we 484 00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:43,600 Speaker 2: just want to take care of bicyclists, and the only 485 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:47,400 Speaker 2: people who are driving bicyclists. You don't have many fifty 486 00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:51,680 Speaker 2: sixty year old business people who were driving riding a bicycle, 487 00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:54,760 Speaker 2: you know, carrying there at that shay case. 488 00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:57,920 Speaker 8: You know exactly. 489 00:24:58,119 --> 00:25:00,480 Speaker 2: It's for you know, college students with the back, which 490 00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:04,000 Speaker 2: is great, okay, but they basically have taken over and 491 00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:08,000 Speaker 2: it's only gonna mean worse congestion going on. I mean, 492 00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:10,600 Speaker 2: we don't need a traffics are. We have a trafficsar. 493 00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:12,679 Speaker 2: I think it was called like the King of the 494 00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:14,080 Speaker 2: Streets or something like that. 495 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:18,520 Speaker 8: And can we also throw mopeds into this as well, 496 00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:23,160 Speaker 8: because those those are everywhere nowadays and they they are 497 00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:27,440 Speaker 8: they are just as disruptive as as people on bikes 498 00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:30,000 Speaker 8: or just people just not caring about you know, the 499 00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:33,320 Speaker 8: rules of the road and other things like that. It's 500 00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:36,760 Speaker 8: there are It feels like every time they solve one problem, 501 00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:39,440 Speaker 8: something else just comes along and takes its place. It's 502 00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:40,360 Speaker 8: kind of like a crash. 503 00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:42,879 Speaker 2: Well, well, Dan, here's the dirty little secret that I've 504 00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:44,520 Speaker 2: figured out, and you probably. 505 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:46,240 Speaker 3: A fool tell me more than me, and that. 506 00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:50,200 Speaker 2: Is that the fight now is not between cars and bikes. 507 00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:54,719 Speaker 3: The fight now is between mopeds, scooters and bikes. 508 00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:59,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, the bicyclist want unfitted use of the bike lane, 509 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:03,919 Speaker 2: and they want those mopeds and those electric vehicles and 510 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:08,080 Speaker 2: those scooters. They want those people risking their lives out 511 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:12,760 Speaker 2: out in the right the ever dimension traffic lanes. 512 00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:17,000 Speaker 8: Basically, if it has a motor, it belongs with everyone else. 513 00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:19,240 Speaker 8: If it's a bike, no motor, you belong in the 514 00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:22,960 Speaker 8: bike lane. That's that's kind of where the philosophy I 515 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,320 Speaker 8: think lies right now. But you know, when I read 516 00:26:25,359 --> 00:26:28,080 Speaker 8: this study and everything it says, you know, traffic is brutal, 517 00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:32,159 Speaker 8: Traffic is insane, even on weekends. That is true. I 518 00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:35,200 Speaker 8: have noticed that there has been a big increase of 519 00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:38,440 Speaker 8: this on the weekends. But everyone else is also saying 520 00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:43,119 Speaker 8: with this study that that that it's it's it's getting 521 00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:47,119 Speaker 8: busier because you know where we're all going back to 522 00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:50,199 Speaker 8: work now, more people are getting back in the cars, 523 00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:55,119 Speaker 8: more ride shares. I also want to throw into the 524 00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:58,520 Speaker 8: mix here, it was a couple of weeks ago companies 525 00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:01,640 Speaker 8: are moving to Boston. I think has Bro just announced 526 00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:04,560 Speaker 8: that they're going to be leaving Providence in coming to Boston. 527 00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:06,920 Speaker 8: So you got to bring all their employees up here 528 00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:11,040 Speaker 8: as well. So Boston is a destination in a city 529 00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:13,960 Speaker 8: that you know, companies want to come to. So the 530 00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:20,160 Speaker 8: state just gets a population boom, not it doesn't stagger. 531 00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:23,480 Speaker 8: It just happens all at once, just like the big 532 00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:25,720 Speaker 8: dig as you and I've always talked about, Dan. It 533 00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:28,240 Speaker 8: just happens all at once and we're all just here 534 00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:28,840 Speaker 8: for the ride. 535 00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:31,679 Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you the ride's are going to get 536 00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:34,359 Speaker 2: any smoother. And by the way, when you talk about 537 00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:38,520 Speaker 2: the the you know, mopeds or the electric scooters or whatever, 538 00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:43,280 Speaker 2: I think it's dangerous to put people who have no protection, 539 00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:48,080 Speaker 2: physical protection around them out with cars. I think that 540 00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:50,239 Speaker 2: in my opinion, I could be wrong, and you might 541 00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:52,960 Speaker 2: disagree with me. I think the bike lanes have to 542 00:27:53,000 --> 00:28:01,080 Speaker 2: accommodate scooters, have to accommodate unicycles, bicycles, bicycles, mopeds, anything 543 00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:04,240 Speaker 2: like that where it's a one person vehicle should be 544 00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:07,159 Speaker 2: in the vike landes because for the bicyclist to say 545 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:10,760 Speaker 2: to the to the moped drivers or the scooter riders, 546 00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:13,159 Speaker 2: you got to go out there with the traffic and 547 00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:16,800 Speaker 2: the eighteen wheelers. That's thank them to death. 548 00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:22,560 Speaker 8: It is that that is very unfair. And you know what, 549 00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:26,680 Speaker 8: it's two different classes of vehicles, two different I mean, 550 00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:29,680 Speaker 8: I think some people have said, you'd think you don't 551 00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:33,240 Speaker 8: even need like a license for some style of mopeds 552 00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:37,119 Speaker 8: or anything like that. But yeah, it's just not fair. 553 00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:39,640 Speaker 8: It's not fair, and it's not it's not right. But 554 00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:43,160 Speaker 8: you know, this is the thing that I think we've 555 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:46,440 Speaker 8: been saying for a while. Dan, It's just Boston can't 556 00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:49,760 Speaker 8: expand its roads unless something gets sacrificed. 557 00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:55,280 Speaker 2: Why can't we like have some apartment buildings built. I 558 00:28:55,320 --> 00:28:58,920 Speaker 2: don't know, like maybe twenty miles east of the seaport. Oh, 559 00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:00,560 Speaker 2: that's right, that's the Atlanta to ocean. 560 00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:06,760 Speaker 8: Yeah, a kind of a sinking hazard, you know, Dan, if. 561 00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:08,560 Speaker 2: They put you and me in charge of everything, we 562 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:11,280 Speaker 2: could solve it in about two years. That become a 563 00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:13,280 Speaker 2: lot of unhappy people, but would solve them. 564 00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:14,760 Speaker 3: You know what. 565 00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:18,160 Speaker 8: I'm a traffic reporter. I gave up with people liking 566 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:19,120 Speaker 8: me a long time ago. 567 00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:24,959 Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm always talk I'm for half the people like him, 568 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:29,120 Speaker 2: because I know half. Thanks Dan, we'll talk to you 569 00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:31,720 Speaker 2: soon about appreciate it, all right, Dan, have a good night, 570 00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:34,840 Speaker 2: all right? Dan Mazzella my favorite not only traffic reporter, 571 00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:37,240 Speaker 2: but he's the operations director for the Boston Division of 572 00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:40,560 Speaker 2: Total Traffic and Weather Network and also a traffic reporter. 573 00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:42,840 Speaker 2: We get back. We're going to talk about something we 574 00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:48,120 Speaker 2: all can agree upon. They found a thirty to million shot, 575 00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:52,080 Speaker 2: a one in thirty million lobster. He's black and orange. Oh, 576 00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:56,920 Speaker 2: the colors of Syracuse. Feel free stay with us. We're 577 00:29:56,920 --> 00:30:00,440 Speaker 2: gonna talk with Sierra Muno's outreach program direct at the 578 00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:05,360 Speaker 2: Marine Science Center and Coastal Sustainability Institute at Northeastern University. 579 00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:08,960 Speaker 2: I'm a talk show host at WBZ. These folks must 580 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:10,960 Speaker 2: have the biggest business cards of the world. They got 581 00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:14,400 Speaker 2: such impressive titles. We'll be back with Sierra Munya's right 582 00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:15,120 Speaker 2: after the break. 583 00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:20,960 Speaker 1: You're on Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's 584 00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:21,640 Speaker 1: News Radio. 585 00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:27,640 Speaker 2: Delighted to welcome Sierra Munos. Sierra, I hope I pronounced 586 00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:28,640 Speaker 2: your last name correctly. 587 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:30,800 Speaker 3: Sierra got it just right. 588 00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:35,000 Speaker 2: Great, excellent outreach program coordinator at the Marine Science Center 589 00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:40,240 Speaker 2: and Coastal Sustainability Institute at Northeastern University. So this group 590 00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:44,800 Speaker 2: that you're the program the outreach program coordinator for is 591 00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:48,120 Speaker 2: a is part of Northeastern University. You in effect work 592 00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:48,960 Speaker 2: for Northeastern, I. 593 00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:50,840 Speaker 1: Believe correct, that's right. 594 00:30:51,400 --> 00:30:55,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, And what does reach program coordinator do? Let's let's 595 00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:58,800 Speaker 2: let's plug the location and who do you outreach to 596 00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:02,320 Speaker 2: and who can avail themselves of your programs? 597 00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:05,880 Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you for the opportunity. 598 00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:06,160 Speaker 2: Yeah. 599 00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:10,479 Speaker 4: So Northeastern has you know, campuses, you know, kind of 600 00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:13,960 Speaker 4: all over the country in the world, but not too 601 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:18,000 Speaker 4: far from Boston is the Nahant Campus and it's the 602 00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:23,360 Speaker 4: home of the marine and environmental sciences research that happens 603 00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:28,880 Speaker 4: at the university. And we have absolutely beautiful campus and 604 00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:33,880 Speaker 4: just really innovative coastal research coming out of it. And 605 00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:39,520 Speaker 4: so our team prioritizes making connections with the broader community 606 00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:43,320 Speaker 4: and really like getting the science that's happening inside the lab, 607 00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:46,400 Speaker 4: learning about marine habitats and the animals that live there 608 00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:49,120 Speaker 4: and you know, the habitats that we all depend on 609 00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:52,880 Speaker 4: getting that information outside of labs and into the hands 610 00:31:52,880 --> 00:31:55,480 Speaker 4: of the people who are living there. So we see 611 00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:59,880 Speaker 4: thousands of folks every year at the center and we 612 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:04,840 Speaker 4: connect with folks with online resources as well. It's primarily 613 00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:09,440 Speaker 4: for our program like CATA twelve students who live near 614 00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:12,160 Speaker 4: the center, but we you know, we have teachers from 615 00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:15,320 Speaker 4: all over Massachusetts, all over the country that are using 616 00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:18,360 Speaker 4: the resources the curriculum and lesson plans that we build 617 00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:22,200 Speaker 4: to kind of use these really cool marine habitats and 618 00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:26,560 Speaker 4: creatures to connect to ecology and biology and just the 619 00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:28,480 Speaker 4: sort of magic of the natural world. 620 00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:33,640 Speaker 2: How big is the facility? Are you in a huge 621 00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:34,880 Speaker 2: spot of land? 622 00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:39,400 Speaker 4: No, yeah, no, it's it's it's a pretty small space. 623 00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:45,800 Speaker 4: It's beautiful location. And actually the Marine Center is actually 624 00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:49,760 Speaker 4: housed in one of the World War era bunkers that 625 00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:52,240 Speaker 4: sort of dot up and down the New England coast. 626 00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:57,040 Speaker 4: So the the aquaria tanks that I manage in the 627 00:32:57,040 --> 00:33:00,560 Speaker 4: classroom that I use is actually inside one of these 628 00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:05,880 Speaker 4: bunkers that's been retrofitted to now have research of you know, 629 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:09,200 Speaker 4: all different kinds of environmental research and all different programs. 630 00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:10,760 Speaker 4: It's it's really unique and cool. 631 00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:12,480 Speaker 3: So you have a good you have a good view 632 00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:13,320 Speaker 3: of the Atlantic Ocean. 633 00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:18,600 Speaker 2: Okay, so recently you had a donation a what's called, 634 00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:24,760 Speaker 2: I guess a rare calico lobster. We think cats, but 635 00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:27,480 Speaker 2: we've never thought of I've never heard of a calico lobster. 636 00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:33,160 Speaker 2: But I guess they're very distinctive black and orange. 637 00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:37,280 Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right. Yeah. So, and you know Calico casts 638 00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:41,600 Speaker 4: as a comparison, it's it's it's pretty close because similarly, 639 00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:45,400 Speaker 4: they have these like patchy patterns on their shelves. 640 00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:46,200 Speaker 2: Uh. 641 00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:50,080 Speaker 4: And it's basically caused when you know, the the pigments 642 00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:54,600 Speaker 4: are telling their shell to to present and kind of 643 00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:58,520 Speaker 4: express in different colors. And it really catches the eye 644 00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:02,280 Speaker 4: because it's it has like this bright orange which is 645 00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:08,560 Speaker 4: this compound called astafanthin, and then that compound is connected 646 00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:13,799 Speaker 4: in like strange blocky ways with another pigment and makes 647 00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:17,600 Speaker 4: this really beautiful kind of halloweini orange and black lobster. 648 00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:20,760 Speaker 4: We were so so excited to get it at the aquarium. 649 00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:24,080 Speaker 2: Now, first of all, how old is this lobster and 650 00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:27,200 Speaker 2: how long how old will this lobster he or she 651 00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:30,680 Speaker 2: uh live as a calicol lobster? 652 00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:32,839 Speaker 3: Does it impact their life expectancy? 653 00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:37,240 Speaker 4: Yeah? So that that's a great question. 654 00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:38,359 Speaker 6: I love. 655 00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:40,920 Speaker 4: I love the questions this you know inspires. You know, 656 00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:45,319 Speaker 4: so we we don't really know exactly how old this 657 00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:49,640 Speaker 4: lobster is, but generally lobsters that are caught by lobster 658 00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:53,279 Speaker 4: fishermen and are you know, sized to be legally caught? 659 00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:55,920 Speaker 4: Which any of the donations that we get are you know, 660 00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:59,400 Speaker 4: legal size for catch? And we generally think of those 661 00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:01,759 Speaker 4: as being maybe like six to eight years old on 662 00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:05,800 Speaker 4: the youngest side. So we would guess that this calico 663 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:12,040 Speaker 4: we named her Jack o' lantern. Actually my kids into that. Yeah, 664 00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:14,520 Speaker 4: so we would guess that she's maybe like maybe seven 665 00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:16,720 Speaker 4: years old. She's on the smaller side certainly. 666 00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:17,279 Speaker 1: Uh. 667 00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:20,879 Speaker 4: And the question about you know, how long can she live? 668 00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:26,160 Speaker 4: Lobsters can really live a long time once they are 669 00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:30,440 Speaker 4: you know, full grown. They don't have too many natural predators. 670 00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:34,880 Speaker 4: Now you can imagine that a really like traffic cone 671 00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:39,040 Speaker 4: orange and black blotchy lobster would kind of stick out right, 672 00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:42,520 Speaker 4: And so we guess that one of the reasons that 673 00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:45,200 Speaker 4: these you know, bright blues or bright oranges are so 674 00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:48,359 Speaker 4: rare and nature is, yeah, they might they might make 675 00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:52,280 Speaker 4: easier prey when they're smaller for animals that are looking 676 00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:53,640 Speaker 4: for a meal under the water. 677 00:35:54,640 --> 00:36:00,880 Speaker 2: Wow, So was this lobster now because of the pattern 678 00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:05,600 Speaker 2: and being a one in thirty million, will this lobs 679 00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:09,080 Speaker 2: to spend the rest of his or her life under 680 00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:10,759 Speaker 2: your care at noise. 681 00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:15,360 Speaker 4: Yeah she could. Yeah, So this is a female lobster. 682 00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:18,239 Speaker 4: We have a few others in our tanks and they 683 00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:20,160 Speaker 4: all kind of have their own space because they're a 684 00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:24,440 Speaker 4: little territorial. We have a beautiful blue lobster as well. 685 00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:27,640 Speaker 4: That's a male a little bit older. We got earlier 686 00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:30,840 Speaker 4: in the summer from another lobster fisherman. And yeah, you know, 687 00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:34,600 Speaker 4: we keep animals, and we are really lucky at the 688 00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:37,800 Speaker 4: Marine since Center to have a flow through seawater system, 689 00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:41,440 Speaker 4: which means that we're able to house these animals in 690 00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:45,960 Speaker 4: you know, the same water that they would be getting 691 00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:49,240 Speaker 4: in their natural habitat. And so you know, they're really happy. 692 00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:52,360 Speaker 4: I have an awesome team of undergraduate students at Northeastern 693 00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:54,799 Speaker 4: who helps me, who helped me tend these animals, so 694 00:36:55,239 --> 00:36:57,520 Speaker 4: you know, they can live really long and happy lives. 695 00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:00,480 Speaker 4: They get, you know, several meals a week of their favorites. 696 00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:04,480 Speaker 4: They love blue, muscle and haring. You know, we we 697 00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:07,040 Speaker 4: do try to kind of cycle out the tanks. Sometimes 698 00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:10,160 Speaker 4: we will end up releasing an animal back into the 699 00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:12,400 Speaker 4: wild after a year or two, you know, just to 700 00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:16,520 Speaker 4: make room or if we you know, feel like we 701 00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:19,040 Speaker 4: want to you know, kind of change things up. But 702 00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:19,920 Speaker 4: you're not like. 703 00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:25,520 Speaker 7: You're not likely to release a lobster quote, right, No, No, 704 00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:29,840 Speaker 7: I mean this this is really unique, uh and special 705 00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:30,239 Speaker 7: to have. 706 00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:32,800 Speaker 4: And so yeah, we're we're we're gonna hold on to 707 00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:34,000 Speaker 4: her for quite a while. 708 00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:38,080 Speaker 2: And is is can the public come and see her 709 00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:43,120 Speaker 2: or is this a closed you know location that the 710 00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:46,360 Speaker 2: public is you know not you just don't have the 711 00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:48,000 Speaker 2: capacity to accommodate. 712 00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:51,239 Speaker 4: The Yeah, yeah, so yeah, thanks for the question. So 713 00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:55,719 Speaker 4: we do have kind of intermittent public tours. So we 714 00:37:55,880 --> 00:38:00,680 Speaker 4: have a website. You can google Northeastern Marine Center and 715 00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:04,680 Speaker 4: there are public tours and those are run by undergraduate 716 00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:07,719 Speaker 4: students on my team. We're trained, they're they're you know, 717 00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:10,280 Speaker 4: we we wish we would love to do them more frequently, 718 00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:11,560 Speaker 4: but it's all about. 719 00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:14,279 Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, give me the website one more time and 720 00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:16,560 Speaker 2: then I gotta let you run Marine Science Center. 721 00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:21,640 Speaker 4: Yes, so if you if you just search up Northeastern 722 00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:24,919 Speaker 4: Marine Science Center, you can find that you can find 723 00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:27,360 Speaker 4: the different programs we do and kind of ways to 724 00:38:27,719 --> 00:38:30,040 Speaker 4: you know, support and learn about the programs. 725 00:38:30,239 --> 00:38:32,680 Speaker 2: Oh that's great, Sierra, Thank you so much for your time. 726 00:38:32,719 --> 00:38:35,120 Speaker 2: I'm getting I got so interested in this subject. I 727 00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:37,839 Speaker 2: went thirty seconds longer than we should have. Thanks so 728 00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:40,600 Speaker 2: much for your time and maybe STARp Upper will see 729 00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:41,680 Speaker 2: the Calico Sunday. 730 00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:44,479 Speaker 4: Thank you so much, fantastic, Thank you so much. 731 00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:46,880 Speaker 2: Have a great night. We came back and be talking 732 00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:49,759 Speaker 2: with good Night. Good nights, Sier. We get back on 733 00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:54,480 Speaker 2: to talk with former New Hampshire Senator john Sonunu. He 734 00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:57,719 Speaker 2: is running in the Republican primary against Scott Brown. We 735 00:38:57,719 --> 00:38:59,800 Speaker 2: had Scott Brown on last week. We'll have john Sonuda 736 00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:02,480 Speaker 2: one on right after the nine o'clock news. Former US 737 00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:05,480 Speaker 2: Center from New Hampshire, Republican John Senunu coming up.