1 00:00:01,040 --> 00:00:04,280 Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm telling you BZ 2 00:00:04,760 --> 00:00:05,760 Speaker 1: Boston's nich. 3 00:00:05,760 --> 00:00:09,200 Speaker 2: Radio crating everybody, walk on in and is on Wednesday night. 4 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:11,400 Speaker 2: We are, of course, this mark's half of the week 5 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:14,560 Speaker 2: gone and will be around ten o'clock. My name's Dan Ray, 6 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:18,479 Speaker 2: host of Night's Side, heard every year, every week, every 7 00:00:18,520 --> 00:00:21,560 Speaker 2: weeknight from eight to midnight right here in WBZ Boston's 8 00:00:21,600 --> 00:00:24,120 Speaker 2: news radio ten thirty on your AM dial. And if 9 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:26,520 Speaker 2: you're driving around anywhere in the eastern half of the 10 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:30,600 Speaker 2: United States and flip your car radio on. Hopefully everyone 11 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:33,040 Speaker 2: still has a car radio and you're listening to me 12 00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:36,120 Speaker 2: right now, Walk us in. We're WBZ in Boston, been 13 00:00:36,120 --> 00:00:38,560 Speaker 2: around a long time, all the way back to nineteen 14 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:40,800 Speaker 2: twenty one, and I was not working at this radio 15 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:43,519 Speaker 2: station when I went on the air back in nineteen 16 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:46,920 Speaker 2: twenty one. Rob Brooks wasn't either. But Rob is back 17 00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:50,040 Speaker 2: in the control room in the studio tonight. He'll begin 18 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:54,120 Speaker 2: to take your calls. After President Trump's speech to the 19 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:56,840 Speaker 2: Nation at nine o'clock. We will cover that in its 20 00:00:56,960 --> 00:00:59,640 Speaker 2: entirety for you from start to finish through ABC News 21 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:02,320 Speaker 2: and then we'll talk about it, probably talk about it 22 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:05,000 Speaker 2: for the rest of the night. I'm sure that many 23 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:07,920 Speaker 2: of you are hopeful, many of you are concerned, some 24 00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:11,160 Speaker 2: of you are skeptical. All your points of view are 25 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:13,560 Speaker 2: going to be very important to us once the speech 26 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:16,919 Speaker 2: is concluded. But before that, we have four interesting guests 27 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:19,800 Speaker 2: this hour, and we're going to start off with Jennifer Payer. 28 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:25,000 Speaker 2: Jennifer is a certified National health practitioner an author of 29 00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:29,400 Speaker 2: a new book which we'll mention ancient ancient plant wisdom, 30 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:33,000 Speaker 2: how to improve and maintain your health using concentrated plant 31 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:36,080 Speaker 2: stem cell remedies. We'll get to that a little bit later. 32 00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:38,840 Speaker 2: But there's a new study being published by the Journal 33 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:42,839 Speaker 2: of Hazardous Materials which discovered that there could be hidden 34 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:46,399 Speaker 2: toxins right in your own kitchen. Ooh, doesn't that good news? 35 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:50,280 Speaker 2: Every day utensils and cook we're made of silicone. I 36 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:52,680 Speaker 2: don't know how you can tell what's made of silicone, 37 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:57,240 Speaker 2: because you throw everything out when you buy the new 38 00:01:57,280 --> 00:01:59,880 Speaker 2: material for the kitchen. They could, but they could be 39 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:03,040 Speaker 2: transferring toxins into your food. So I guess Jenna, for 40 00:02:03,160 --> 00:02:06,480 Speaker 2: first of all, welcome TONIGHT'SI thanks for joining us. 41 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:08,799 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's wonderful to be here. Thank you. 42 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:12,760 Speaker 2: So how do I figure out I'm not a chemist, 43 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:16,240 Speaker 2: how do I figure out if there's silicone in my 44 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:21,200 Speaker 2: kitchen utensils or in my kitchen cookware or anywhere in 45 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:23,000 Speaker 2: my kitchen? What do you got to do here? 46 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:28,040 Speaker 3: Yeah, when when you purchase something, the label will tell you. 47 00:02:28,160 --> 00:02:31,800 Speaker 3: So I'm a huge fan of reading labels, and you 48 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:36,160 Speaker 3: can tell what is in your kitchen items by reading 49 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:36,760 Speaker 3: the labels. 50 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:39,000 Speaker 2: Me not so much. And I will tell you that 51 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:42,480 Speaker 2: over the years, we have assembled all sorts of pots 52 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:46,080 Speaker 2: and pans and utensils, and some of them even were 53 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:51,840 Speaker 2: gifts from other people. But those in those labels are 54 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:56,120 Speaker 2: long gone. So is this so serious that we should 55 00:02:56,160 --> 00:02:59,040 Speaker 2: consider throwing everything out and starting from scratch. 56 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:02,360 Speaker 3: Well, that's a little drastic. I don't know that you 57 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:07,480 Speaker 3: have to throw everything out and expensive, but you know, 58 00:03:07,639 --> 00:03:11,040 Speaker 3: we are living in a time. There's a term called 59 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:14,799 Speaker 3: toxic load, and our bodies were not meant to hold 60 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:17,360 Speaker 3: the number of chemicals that were holding in our bodies. 61 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:20,160 Speaker 3: And it's an accumulation, right. It's not just the pots 62 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:24,760 Speaker 3: and pans, it's the body lotions, the shampoos, everything that 63 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:28,160 Speaker 3: we're putting on our body and in our body is 64 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:32,400 Speaker 3: having an accumulative effect. At this point, this. 65 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:34,520 Speaker 2: Is getting a little scary. Now. So you're telling me 66 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:36,200 Speaker 2: that when I get up in the morning, take a 67 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:40,040 Speaker 2: shower and shampoo, a wash up, go downstairs, have breakfast, 68 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:46,800 Speaker 2: I could be poisoning myself in the shower in the kitchen. Well, yeah, 69 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:49,320 Speaker 2: we go back to living in caves. I think. I 70 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:53,000 Speaker 2: don't know. I thought all of this stuff was approved 71 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:56,880 Speaker 2: by the government, the Food and Drug Administration, and everything 72 00:03:56,920 --> 00:04:00,400 Speaker 2: had to be tested that. I guess they told me 73 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:03,560 Speaker 2: that about the Easter Bunny too, And I'm beginning to 74 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:05,240 Speaker 2: think that the Easter Bunny might not be real. 75 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:10,360 Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, the FDA does test, but it's spot testing, 76 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:13,720 Speaker 3: and so we don't have really a robust program that 77 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:18,080 Speaker 3: is testing the amount of toxicity that we're getting. Now, 78 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:20,080 Speaker 3: you can go do a blood test and you can 79 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:23,760 Speaker 3: see how the different, you know, items that you're using 80 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:26,680 Speaker 3: in your life are impacting you, and you can start 81 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:30,440 Speaker 3: to see that toxic burden. It's one of the reasons 82 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:32,080 Speaker 3: we have such go ahead. 83 00:04:32,080 --> 00:04:36,680 Speaker 2: Actually, I had a medical blood test today just in 84 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:40,039 Speaker 2: the course of you know, the typical annual physical and 85 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:42,520 Speaker 2: all of that. So if I go to my doc 86 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:45,440 Speaker 2: and I say Hey, doc, I'm worried about toxins in 87 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:47,839 Speaker 2: my body. Is he going to do a blood test 88 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:49,800 Speaker 2: that's going to come back with toxin? Tell me what 89 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:51,480 Speaker 2: toxins are in my body? 90 00:04:52,520 --> 00:04:55,080 Speaker 3: Yeah. There are certain blood tests that you can request 91 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:57,400 Speaker 3: that will look at the toxic load in your body. 92 00:04:57,600 --> 00:04:59,080 Speaker 2: Okay, So, and you can look at. 93 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:02,280 Speaker 3: Liver enzyme and kidney impacts, et cetera. 94 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:07,400 Speaker 2: Okay, well, actually I had I had some of those 95 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:11,080 Speaker 2: tested today, not for toxins. So let's assume that it 96 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:13,039 Speaker 2: comes back and it says, you know, you got a 97 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:16,480 Speaker 2: toxicity level here, and there's all sorts of tests and 98 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:19,000 Speaker 2: you can't figure out what the test You're like, I 99 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:22,720 Speaker 2: guess what I'm saying. Are we basically captive a captive 100 00:05:22,839 --> 00:05:26,720 Speaker 2: audience to all you know, you read the stuff at 101 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:29,919 Speaker 2: the store and buy this pan. It's been tested, it 102 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:35,560 Speaker 2: will never easy wash and all of that. There's almost 103 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:38,719 Speaker 2: too much to contemplate. Even if I found out I 104 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:41,560 Speaker 2: had some toxins in my body, how do I do 105 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:44,400 Speaker 2: these blood tests? How do I figure out where I 106 00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:46,640 Speaker 2: got them? And how do I how do I figure 107 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:48,000 Speaker 2: out how to get rid of them? 108 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:52,240 Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean a big piece is you know, is education, 109 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:55,600 Speaker 3: educating yourself. So when my kids were young, I started 110 00:05:55,640 --> 00:05:57,640 Speaker 3: asking them to read labels, and I said, if you 111 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:01,240 Speaker 3: can't pronounce the word, it's probably not real food. So 112 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:04,560 Speaker 3: we will find something that has you know ingredients that 113 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:08,679 Speaker 3: you can pronounce. So that's that's step one is really 114 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:11,000 Speaker 3: you know, reading labels. Yes, it takes some time, but 115 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:12,960 Speaker 3: you get you get the hang of it pretty quickly. 116 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:18,000 Speaker 3: And you know, in educating yourself, I think today the 117 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:21,360 Speaker 3: statistic is that we consume about the size of a 118 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:23,719 Speaker 3: credit card of nanoplastics every week. 119 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:27,360 Speaker 2: Sounds good, tasty. 120 00:06:27,080 --> 00:06:30,720 Speaker 3: Sounds great, right, yummy. 121 00:06:29,760 --> 00:06:33,080 Speaker 2: But here's here's the problem that I have. I'm sitting 122 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:36,520 Speaker 2: here as the communicator and I'm trying to, you know, 123 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:39,000 Speaker 2: help our audience, and you're trying to help our audience. 124 00:06:39,640 --> 00:06:42,320 Speaker 2: You have a book which I want to mention and 125 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:46,960 Speaker 2: maybe people should think about this book, Ancient Plant Wisdom, 126 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:52,440 Speaker 2: how to improve and maintain your health using concentrated plant 127 00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:57,240 Speaker 2: stem cell remedies. And you're the founder of a website 128 00:06:57,320 --> 00:07:03,680 Speaker 2: called Nature Provides. Obviously we can't reduce that book into 129 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:07,120 Speaker 2: you know, a minute or two in a commentary, but 130 00:07:07,839 --> 00:07:10,320 Speaker 2: what could people learn from that book? And it was 131 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:14,400 Speaker 2: it seems to me they were all working so fast 132 00:07:14,640 --> 00:07:18,840 Speaker 2: and running so hard to work to get the kids 133 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:21,800 Speaker 2: to school, to pay our taxes, to go to the 134 00:07:21,840 --> 00:07:24,760 Speaker 2: school board meetings and the PTA meetings and all of 135 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:28,960 Speaker 2: that stuff. And then you go to the store. You 136 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:30,840 Speaker 2: want to get in and get out as fast as 137 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:33,560 Speaker 2: you can. I feel like that, you know that that 138 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:36,960 Speaker 2: little mouse or whatever on the treadmill, and it's not 139 00:07:37,080 --> 00:07:37,480 Speaker 2: a good. 140 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:41,600 Speaker 3: Feeling right now. I mean, that's that's part of the issue. 141 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:44,400 Speaker 3: Right We're so distracted by life, and we're so busy, 142 00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:47,320 Speaker 3: busier than we've ever been. And a big part of 143 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:50,320 Speaker 3: what I write about in my book is that nature 144 00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:53,160 Speaker 3: has been providing solutions for as long as humans have 145 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:55,040 Speaker 3: been on this planet. And you go back to our 146 00:07:55,080 --> 00:07:57,680 Speaker 3: ancestors who woke up with the sun, They went to 147 00:07:57,720 --> 00:08:01,240 Speaker 3: bed when it was dark. You know, they didn't eat 148 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:04,880 Speaker 3: and snack all day long. They weren't under these incredible 149 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:06,080 Speaker 3: amounts of stress. 150 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:09,320 Speaker 2: They also had to go out kill and kill buffalos 151 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:15,040 Speaker 2: and worry about being by coyotes, and live in and 152 00:08:15,080 --> 00:08:18,480 Speaker 2: live in tens or caves. I mean, I kind of 153 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:22,000 Speaker 2: like this the comfort situation I have, But realistically, what 154 00:08:22,160 --> 00:08:24,680 Speaker 2: could you know someone like me do I I get 155 00:08:24,720 --> 00:08:26,800 Speaker 2: up in the morning work to put this show together. 156 00:08:26,880 --> 00:08:28,720 Speaker 2: I'm on from eight to midnight. I gotta be honest 157 00:08:28,760 --> 00:08:31,240 Speaker 2: with you, this is a five day cycle. I'm spending 158 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:34,000 Speaker 2: the entire and other people. Look, are the people work 159 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:37,720 Speaker 2: on assembly lines? Are the people work as automobile mechanics? Uh? 160 00:08:37,800 --> 00:08:41,160 Speaker 2: And and you know women are working more in jobs. 161 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:45,920 Speaker 2: There's more two income families, is there? They should buy 162 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:49,880 Speaker 2: your book I Get That Ancient Plant Wisdom by Jennifer 163 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:52,240 Speaker 2: Peyer p A Y E U R. 164 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:58,240 Speaker 3: But so the secret in that book is something that 165 00:08:58,280 --> 00:09:01,640 Speaker 3: most people have probably never heard of, and it's called 166 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:07,040 Speaker 3: plant stem cells. The medical term is gemotherapy. They've been 167 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:10,360 Speaker 3: around for a long time. They're pretty well known in Europe. 168 00:09:10,760 --> 00:09:13,120 Speaker 3: But one of the things that plant stem cells do, 169 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:15,199 Speaker 3: and they come from the new growth on the plant 170 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:18,040 Speaker 3: in the springtime, So in Boston where you are all 171 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:20,040 Speaker 3: of the little buds on the trees, that's what we're 172 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:24,360 Speaker 3: talking about. And they are undifferentiated parts of the plant. 173 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:28,320 Speaker 3: And their superpower is that they clean up the toxic 174 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:31,640 Speaker 3: burden in the cells, in the organs and the tissue 175 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:32,320 Speaker 3: of the body. 176 00:09:32,520 --> 00:09:35,480 Speaker 2: So, and do you pick those little plant things and 177 00:09:35,520 --> 00:09:37,720 Speaker 2: boil them and drink them. What's what's the deal? 178 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:42,040 Speaker 3: Yes, well they all come from the Italian Alps, and 179 00:09:42,040 --> 00:09:47,440 Speaker 3: and most of them are like that, Hey, the best 180 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:51,160 Speaker 3: place ever. But no, they come and tinc sures. So 181 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:55,079 Speaker 3: they are in a combination of alcohol and glycerine, and 182 00:09:55,160 --> 00:09:58,120 Speaker 3: that's what extracts the active principles out of those plants. 183 00:09:58,240 --> 00:10:00,680 Speaker 2: So if I drink their alcohol, be healthier. 184 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:05,079 Speaker 3: No, if you drink the plant buds, you will be healthier. 185 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:08,120 Speaker 2: Oh okay, okay, Well, we're going to have to get 186 00:10:08,160 --> 00:10:10,920 Speaker 2: your book, and as long as the information is in 187 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:13,920 Speaker 2: your book, we'll have you back and maybe we'll talk 188 00:10:13,920 --> 00:10:16,640 Speaker 2: about this and take phone calls from listeners and do 189 00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:20,720 Speaker 2: a longer segment, because this eight minute segment doesn't do 190 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:24,360 Speaker 2: I think enough for what you need to tell us. 191 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:27,160 Speaker 2: So I'll have my producer get back in touch with you. 192 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:30,719 Speaker 2: Maybe we'll do something and take some phone calls from 193 00:10:30,720 --> 00:10:34,280 Speaker 2: people who are following this lifestyle back here. But for now, 194 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:38,040 Speaker 2: I just got to encourage people. The book Ancient Plant Wisdom, 195 00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:41,560 Speaker 2: How to Improve and Maintain your Health using concentrated plant 196 00:10:41,760 --> 00:10:45,040 Speaker 2: stem cell Reminders. By the way, when you talk about Europe, 197 00:10:45,480 --> 00:10:48,160 Speaker 2: I think Europe is the most unhealthy continent in the 198 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:51,960 Speaker 2: world because everybody in Europe is smoking cigarettes. We'd at 199 00:10:52,040 --> 00:10:54,640 Speaker 2: least stop smoking cigarettes, so we need credit for that 200 00:10:54,800 --> 00:10:55,840 Speaker 2: at least. 201 00:10:56,559 --> 00:10:57,200 Speaker 3: Yes we do. 202 00:10:57,559 --> 00:11:03,199 Speaker 2: Okay, yes we do. Thanks Jennifer. I really appreciate the information, 203 00:11:03,280 --> 00:11:04,840 Speaker 2: and I'd love to have you back some night and 204 00:11:04,880 --> 00:11:06,880 Speaker 2: take phone calls from people and give you a little 205 00:11:06,880 --> 00:11:08,960 Speaker 2: bit more time to explain. 206 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:11,640 Speaker 3: That would be wonderful. Okay, thanks je It would be wonderful. 207 00:11:11,880 --> 00:11:13,360 Speaker 3: Thank you very much. 208 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:15,760 Speaker 2: When we get back, we're going to talk about gateway 209 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:20,920 Speaker 2: related funding which has gone to non qualifying municipalities. Your 210 00:11:20,960 --> 00:11:25,640 Speaker 2: tax dollars at work going for what the government thinks 211 00:11:25,679 --> 00:11:28,760 Speaker 2: they should go for. But we have State Senator Driscoll, 212 00:11:28,800 --> 00:11:32,280 Speaker 2: Bill Driscoll Junior, who has actually been a watchdog on this. 213 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:35,160 Speaker 2: I've got to know this gentleman pretty well, and he 214 00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:38,760 Speaker 2: is a good guy in the State Senate. I can't 215 00:11:38,800 --> 00:11:40,760 Speaker 2: say it about everybody in the State Senate, but I 216 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:44,480 Speaker 2: will say it about Senator Bill Driskell, a Democrat. Coming 217 00:11:44,559 --> 00:11:45,480 Speaker 2: back on Night Side. 218 00:11:46,280 --> 00:11:51,200 Speaker 1: You're on Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm Boston's News Radio. 219 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:54,439 Speaker 2: Welcome back everyone. I would like to also welcome back 220 00:11:54,520 --> 00:11:58,640 Speaker 2: Massachusetts State Senator Bill Driscoll, Junior Senator Driscoll and I 221 00:11:58,720 --> 00:12:02,040 Speaker 2: were both together at the Brett, Mary and Brett Food 222 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:05,240 Speaker 2: Pantry fundraiser in the middle of March. Good to see 223 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:07,960 Speaker 2: you that morning. I'm a very busy morning Bill that 224 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:11,160 Speaker 2: day that day. How are you doing great? 225 00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:12,360 Speaker 4: Dan, Good to be back with you. 226 00:12:12,679 --> 00:12:17,080 Speaker 2: Absolutely. We spent an hour a little earlier this year 227 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:22,600 Speaker 2: talking about these gateway funded cities, and apparently you've been 228 00:12:22,640 --> 00:12:24,560 Speaker 2: looking at this issue. I don't know if anyone else 229 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:27,240 Speaker 2: is looking at it with you, but some of the 230 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:32,280 Speaker 2: funds that were intended to go to gateway cities have 231 00:12:32,440 --> 00:12:34,760 Speaker 2: not gone to gateway cities, and they've gone to cities 232 00:12:34,760 --> 00:12:38,520 Speaker 2: that are not gateway cities. So, first, for those who 233 00:12:38,520 --> 00:12:42,160 Speaker 2: are just learning of this, an explanation, if you would 234 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:45,800 Speaker 2: be so kind, Senator, what is the whole purpose of 235 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:48,440 Speaker 2: getting money to gateway cities? And give us an idea 236 00:12:48,480 --> 00:12:50,040 Speaker 2: about what is a gateway city? 237 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:53,440 Speaker 4: Yeah? Sure, so, I think there's two ways to explain it, 238 00:12:53,520 --> 00:12:58,280 Speaker 4: Dan to the audience. The conversation started back in two 239 00:12:58,280 --> 00:13:05,959 Speaker 4: thousand and seven Massing producer report around investing in former milltowns, 240 00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:10,040 Speaker 4: and they listed eleven former miltown so we're talking about 241 00:13:10,040 --> 00:13:14,680 Speaker 4: places like Brockton and Paul Rever, New Bedford, and the 242 00:13:14,760 --> 00:13:20,200 Speaker 4: legislature started looking at how we could invest economic development dollars, 243 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:22,840 Speaker 4: tax credits and things to bring jobs back to those 244 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:26,560 Speaker 4: areas and you know, have some more investment and more 245 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:29,360 Speaker 4: hustle and bustle, you know, essentially outside of the city 246 00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:34,520 Speaker 4: of Boston. And so legislature came up with a formula 247 00:13:35,040 --> 00:13:37,640 Speaker 4: and so that list of eleven grew to twenty four 248 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:42,120 Speaker 4: when when legislation was signed into a law that said 249 00:13:42,720 --> 00:13:46,640 Speaker 4: a city of population between thirty five thousand in two 250 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:51,360 Speaker 4: hundred and fifty thousand, that's the first qualifier, and then 251 00:13:51,480 --> 00:13:55,280 Speaker 4: your median household income needs to be below the state average. 252 00:13:56,120 --> 00:13:59,880 Speaker 4: And the third qualifier was a rate of educational and 253 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:03,199 Speaker 4: so this is like a bachelor's degree or above in 254 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:07,200 Speaker 4: terms of who lives in town. That attainment level needs 255 00:14:07,240 --> 00:14:10,160 Speaker 4: to be below the state average. 256 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:12,640 Speaker 5: Yeah, so you hit all three of those, you. 257 00:14:12,480 --> 00:14:15,839 Speaker 4: Were considered or are considered a gateway. 258 00:14:15,640 --> 00:14:20,240 Speaker 2: So cities that had a poorer population, they were of 259 00:14:20,520 --> 00:14:23,520 Speaker 2: a certain size. So it wasn't as if you could 260 00:14:23,560 --> 00:14:27,400 Speaker 2: take some small little town, but it would help a 261 00:14:27,440 --> 00:14:31,040 Speaker 2: lot of people. Wonderful idea. But what has happened is, 262 00:14:31,080 --> 00:14:35,720 Speaker 2: over time, I guess a lot of cities that should 263 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:40,960 Speaker 2: not have qualified, or over time their qualifications put them out, 264 00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:44,120 Speaker 2: they're still getting Gateway City money. And I think at 265 00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:47,120 Speaker 2: least one of them is a city in your own 266 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:48,520 Speaker 2: district correct. 267 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:53,040 Speaker 4: Well close by Budding Quincy is one of them. And 268 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:55,120 Speaker 4: I think part of what's happened to you, I don't 269 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:58,240 Speaker 4: think there's been anything the fairy as the sinister, so 270 00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:03,600 Speaker 4: to speak. But basically, you know, it's based on census 271 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:08,760 Speaker 4: available census data for Massachusetts, and it appears to me, 272 00:15:08,800 --> 00:15:14,560 Speaker 4: as we've looked into this, that the lists changed since 273 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:19,040 Speaker 4: twenty thirteen when two additional cities were added totally you know, 274 00:15:19,080 --> 00:15:22,000 Speaker 4: twenty six and so as we know year to year 275 00:15:22,040 --> 00:15:24,880 Speaker 4: and have been certainly every ten years as a federal 276 00:15:24,920 --> 00:15:28,240 Speaker 4: census is done, the demographic data does change. But what 277 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:32,000 Speaker 4: kind of peaked our interests a few years ago was 278 00:15:32,040 --> 00:15:34,960 Speaker 4: the list stayed at twenty six and kind of asked 279 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:37,440 Speaker 4: the question, how can that be? We've now gone through 280 00:15:38,240 --> 00:15:43,200 Speaker 4: a couple of these ten year census exercises since the 281 00:15:43,280 --> 00:15:47,800 Speaker 4: Gateway Cities Statute was first put into lawback around twenty ten, 282 00:15:48,760 --> 00:15:51,640 Speaker 4: and So it turns out, as we dug into this, 283 00:15:51,920 --> 00:15:58,240 Speaker 4: we've found that there's actually three three municipalities that should 284 00:15:58,280 --> 00:16:01,320 Speaker 4: be on the list and have never been looted, and 285 00:16:01,720 --> 00:16:04,640 Speaker 4: three or four others that are still currently listed today 286 00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:09,240 Speaker 4: but fell out some time ago or have toggled, you know, 287 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:11,440 Speaker 4: in for a couple of years though for. 288 00:16:11,440 --> 00:16:19,840 Speaker 2: Another Okay, so should it be that this qualifications these 289 00:16:19,920 --> 00:16:24,480 Speaker 2: qualifications are determined, you know, by the city, by the 290 00:16:25,120 --> 00:16:30,280 Speaker 2: federal census. Clearly the size of the cities. You have 291 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:33,720 Speaker 2: a standard which pretty clear now when you get into 292 00:16:33,840 --> 00:16:39,280 Speaker 2: the percentage of the population who have bachelor degrees. Obviously, 293 00:16:39,720 --> 00:16:43,360 Speaker 2: we've had a lot of immigration coming into the state 294 00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:46,200 Speaker 2: in the last few years, and I assume a lot 295 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:48,440 Speaker 2: of those folks who come in and now populate some 296 00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:52,760 Speaker 2: of those gateway cities don't have bachelor degrees. They may 297 00:16:52,800 --> 00:16:57,040 Speaker 2: not have high school diplomas. So that might push some 298 00:16:57,560 --> 00:17:03,680 Speaker 2: cities into the qualified. It's it's kind of a moving target, 299 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:08,320 Speaker 2: is there. You know, what has to be done? Basically, 300 00:17:08,359 --> 00:17:11,239 Speaker 2: there's only so much money I guess in the in 301 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:15,280 Speaker 2: the pool of funds. Are you suggesting that the cities 302 00:17:15,320 --> 00:17:21,080 Speaker 2: that were poor and are still poor are being hurt 303 00:17:21,160 --> 00:17:24,399 Speaker 2: because the pool of money is being split up to 304 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:28,480 Speaker 2: include some cities that really are not technically qualified. 305 00:17:29,560 --> 00:17:32,400 Speaker 4: Well, yeah, I think a couple of things are at 306 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:34,640 Speaker 4: stake here and things that we I think we need 307 00:17:34,640 --> 00:17:38,800 Speaker 4: to address sooner rather than later. So I guess I 308 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:42,399 Speaker 4: would start with since we last spoke and did that 309 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:47,000 Speaker 4: our discussion when I was on with you, then the 310 00:17:47,080 --> 00:17:50,760 Speaker 4: total number of dollars that we identified as being sent 311 00:17:50,840 --> 00:17:55,800 Speaker 4: to no longer qualifying municipalities was around twenty five million. 312 00:17:56,520 --> 00:17:59,439 Speaker 4: And since then, since we last spoke, we've continued to 313 00:17:59,480 --> 00:18:02,439 Speaker 4: dig into the records and now we're up past sixty 314 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:06,359 Speaker 4: one million dollars identified. And partly we think why this 315 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:10,880 Speaker 4: has occurred is the list has not been managed since 316 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:13,399 Speaker 4: twenty thirteen, so no one's been added to subtract it 317 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:16,040 Speaker 4: from the qualifying list. And what I'd like to do 318 00:18:17,080 --> 00:18:21,200 Speaker 4: to get to your question is explicitly give the Economic 319 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:25,440 Speaker 4: Development Secretary for the Commonwealth the ability to add and 320 00:18:25,520 --> 00:18:28,479 Speaker 4: subtraction this list over time and that and that may 321 00:18:28,560 --> 00:18:31,720 Speaker 4: end up being every couple of years. I think we 322 00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:35,399 Speaker 4: talked about before is that it's probably not fear to 323 00:18:35,480 --> 00:18:38,480 Speaker 4: be on the list one year and then off the next. 324 00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:41,639 Speaker 4: From a planning perspective for a local budget, you know, 325 00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:45,040 Speaker 4: budget writer in a municipality. So I do think there 326 00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:47,199 Speaker 4: should be a grace period if you are trending on 327 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:50,280 Speaker 4: or off the list, you have some time to plan 328 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:54,760 Speaker 4: as you're making grant applications or you know, seeing one 329 00:18:54,840 --> 00:18:57,600 Speaker 4: through if you've got a two year or three year grant. 330 00:18:57,720 --> 00:19:01,159 Speaker 4: I think that's more appropriate. But right now now we 331 00:19:01,240 --> 00:19:04,840 Speaker 4: have communities, and that's as one of them. Marlborough is 332 00:19:04,840 --> 00:19:09,080 Speaker 4: one of them that have essentially qualified for the last 333 00:19:09,160 --> 00:19:12,000 Speaker 4: couple of years but never been given the opportunity to 334 00:19:12,040 --> 00:19:15,080 Speaker 4: apply to some of these tax cardits or grant programs, 335 00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:16,239 Speaker 4: and I think we need to correct that. 336 00:19:16,440 --> 00:19:18,359 Speaker 2: Well, it sounds to me like you actually have come 337 00:19:18,440 --> 00:19:20,800 Speaker 2: up with a plane. Not only did you identify the problem, 338 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:23,119 Speaker 2: but you have a solution to the problem, which I 339 00:19:23,160 --> 00:19:28,160 Speaker 2: think is to pass that legislation, make some secretary, obviously 340 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:31,840 Speaker 2: Economic Development being the most likely candidate of the person 341 00:19:31,880 --> 00:19:34,520 Speaker 2: who would sort of be the overseer of the program. 342 00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:37,880 Speaker 2: And once the city qualifies, I would say, you give 343 00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:41,479 Speaker 2: them five years, which is more than enough time. And 344 00:19:41,520 --> 00:19:44,959 Speaker 2: if they after five years have improved with you know, 345 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:50,520 Speaker 2: all of those you know, moving equations, and formulae. Great, 346 00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:53,480 Speaker 2: that's been a success. And if they haven't, they can 347 00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:55,359 Speaker 2: they stay in the list and they continue to be 348 00:19:55,400 --> 00:19:59,200 Speaker 2: supported center. You know amount of time here because they've 349 00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:00,760 Speaker 2: got the news of the bottom they are. But thanks 350 00:20:00,760 --> 00:20:02,440 Speaker 2: for bringing us up to date. The thing that's good 351 00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:04,359 Speaker 2: about this is you really explain it. I think so 352 00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:07,400 Speaker 2: most of my listeners can understand. And the purpose here 353 00:20:07,440 --> 00:20:09,919 Speaker 2: is not to penalize people, but the purpose is to 354 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:13,239 Speaker 2: your purpose is to make sure that the funding is 355 00:20:13,280 --> 00:20:17,159 Speaker 2: going to the right cities on a continuing basis, and 356 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:21,840 Speaker 2: when it's necessary, get new cities on there. So I 357 00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:23,840 Speaker 2: thank you for doing this. This is hard work, it's 358 00:20:23,880 --> 00:20:26,560 Speaker 2: not glamorous, but I really do appreciate it. On behalf 359 00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:30,800 Speaker 2: of the taxpayers of Massachusetts. This is if my tax 360 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:32,520 Speaker 2: money is going to go to help somebody, I want 361 00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:34,080 Speaker 2: to make sure it's helping the right people. And I 362 00:20:34,119 --> 00:20:37,760 Speaker 2: thank you so much for its Senator Bill Driscoll, Thanks Jed. 363 00:20:38,119 --> 00:20:41,159 Speaker 2: We'll talk again. Let's keep us posted. Okay, Well we 364 00:20:41,160 --> 00:20:43,640 Speaker 2: get back. We got some good news for veterans tomorrow. 365 00:20:43,760 --> 00:20:49,400 Speaker 2: Service members, veterans, Guard reserve, military spouses, employers actively hiring 366 00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:52,119 Speaker 2: stick with us. There's a big job for tomorrow to 367 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:55,320 Speaker 2: place everyone knows, particularly if you have some connection with 368 00:20:55,359 --> 00:20:58,439 Speaker 2: the military. We're going to talk with Chris Stevens, US 369 00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:02,280 Speaker 2: Air Force veteran and vice president with Recruit Military. Coming 370 00:21:02,280 --> 00:21:03,040 Speaker 2: back on Nightside. 371 00:21:03,359 --> 00:21:08,320 Speaker 1: You're on Nightside with Dan Ray on WBS Boston's news Radio. 372 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:12,760 Speaker 2: Delighted to be joined by Chris Stevens. Chris is a 373 00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:15,520 Speaker 2: US Air Force veteran and senior vice president with a 374 00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:18,320 Speaker 2: company called Recruit Military. It's going to give us some 375 00:21:18,359 --> 00:21:21,520 Speaker 2: information on a job fair for vets and service family 376 00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:26,880 Speaker 2: members tomorrow, April second, out of Jillette Stadium. Chris Stevens. 377 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:28,240 Speaker 2: Welcome to Nightside. How are you, sir. 378 00:21:29,320 --> 00:21:31,280 Speaker 5: I'm doing well. I'm doing well. Dan, Thanks for having 379 00:21:31,359 --> 00:21:31,960 Speaker 5: me this evening. 380 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:34,679 Speaker 2: Tell us about Recruit Military. How long has it been 381 00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:39,080 Speaker 2: around exactly? Obviously, I think the name of the organization 382 00:21:39,280 --> 00:21:41,520 Speaker 2: suggests to us what it does. But tell us a 383 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:43,000 Speaker 2: little bit about Recruit Military. 384 00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:46,560 Speaker 5: Yeah, Recruit Military. We've been in existence now for about 385 00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:49,400 Speaker 5: thirty two years. And what we do is we help 386 00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:55,040 Speaker 5: transitioning military members, their spouses and of course veterans, maybe 387 00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:57,399 Speaker 5: people that got out two, three, four, five years ago 388 00:21:57,640 --> 00:21:59,960 Speaker 5: and looking for different employment and we help them find 389 00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:04,000 Speaker 5: meaningful unemployment. And one of the ways among others, but 390 00:22:04,119 --> 00:22:05,800 Speaker 5: one of the way is we do about one hundred 391 00:22:05,840 --> 00:22:09,600 Speaker 5: and twenty of these job fairs all around the country. 392 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:14,560 Speaker 5: As you stated, we're doing one tomorrow, April second, at 393 00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:19,159 Speaker 5: Gillette from eleven to three, free parking. I'm coming in 394 00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:22,080 Speaker 5: W two over near the water Tower gate right there. 395 00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:25,400 Speaker 5: You'll see a big sign outside there. You know, we're 396 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:26,360 Speaker 5: also doing one tomorrow. 397 00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:26,760 Speaker 4: I know what. 398 00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:29,200 Speaker 5: It doesn't affect people here, but we're at Soldier Field 399 00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:31,280 Speaker 5: in Chicago. So yeah, we do about one hundred and 400 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:32,440 Speaker 5: twenty of these events. 401 00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:35,000 Speaker 2: Well, believe it or not, we have listeners in Chicago 402 00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:38,840 Speaker 2: tonight and this there you go. So yeah, we'll focus 403 00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:44,760 Speaker 2: on Gillette. How many companies? So you have representatives of 404 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:48,000 Speaker 2: companies there. I assume that's correct. 405 00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:51,960 Speaker 5: We're gonna have fifty one different companies attending tomorrow. You know, 406 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:56,679 Speaker 5: our corporate sponsor is dav disabled American veterans. They'll be 407 00:22:56,680 --> 00:22:59,719 Speaker 5: there talking to veterans, helping them with their benefits and 408 00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:02,680 Speaker 5: woyment opportunities. But you know, we have every sector in 409 00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:04,040 Speaker 5: a market that are going to be there. You know, 410 00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:07,280 Speaker 5: we have medical, we have police, we have finance, we 411 00:23:07,359 --> 00:23:11,439 Speaker 5: have high tech manufacturer and government contract, police departments, you 412 00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:12,520 Speaker 5: name it, will have them there. 413 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:16,240 Speaker 2: Dan, Okay, So now, and I assume again this is 414 00:23:16,280 --> 00:23:21,600 Speaker 2: a similar event out in Chicago with Soldiers Field. Is 415 00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:24,520 Speaker 2: at the same time out in Chicago. I assume it is. 416 00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:27,239 Speaker 5: Local time out there, exactly. Yeah, eleven to three right 417 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:28,280 Speaker 5: out there at Soldier Field. 418 00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:30,320 Speaker 2: Fair enough, Okay, And people, we're going to give a 419 00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:33,120 Speaker 2: good website where people who might be listening in Chicago. 420 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:35,159 Speaker 2: Obviously we have a lot more listeners in New England 421 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:37,840 Speaker 2: than we do in Chicago. But no sense if we 422 00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:43,119 Speaker 2: can get a veteran, some veterans in Chicago a job, 423 00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:45,720 Speaker 2: or you can get them the job. So let's talk. 424 00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:50,560 Speaker 2: So what should this is late because obviously not a 425 00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:54,360 Speaker 2: lot of time here. If the veterans have some resumes 426 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:58,320 Speaker 2: or some biographical material, whether it is in a resume 427 00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:00,919 Speaker 2: form or not, should they bring that with them? Do 428 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:05,199 Speaker 2: they have to bring any IDs, you know, any discharge. 429 00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:10,560 Speaker 5: Forms with them, No, Dan, no idea required. Just come 430 00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:13,639 Speaker 5: dress for success. We can get them registered. The easier 431 00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:15,920 Speaker 5: way to do it is register for the event at 432 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:19,920 Speaker 5: Recruit Military one word recruit Military dot com. It'll take 433 00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:24,040 Speaker 5: them less than sixty seconds to register. But or we 434 00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:26,320 Speaker 5: can just when they walk into the event tomorrow, we 435 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:29,640 Speaker 5: can register them there. When they do that, Dan, it's 436 00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:32,159 Speaker 5: a picture of their recruit military profile. So they're going 437 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:34,720 Speaker 5: to walk around with a QR code and a company's 438 00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:37,080 Speaker 5: going to scan it and it's a picture of their 439 00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:39,880 Speaker 5: recruit military profile as I mentioned, So it has all 440 00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:43,280 Speaker 5: their demographics, including their resume, so they don't need to 441 00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:45,760 Speaker 5: carry hard copies at their resume. It's all going to 442 00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:49,760 Speaker 5: be in the folder in that client's phone right there. 443 00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:55,560 Speaker 2: So how does how does that work? I I'm kind 444 00:24:55,560 --> 00:25:00,320 Speaker 2: of curious. Do you folks put together, you know, a 445 00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:02,879 Speaker 2: bit of a bio for these men and women. 446 00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:06,240 Speaker 5: Yeah, so when these men and women, let's just say 447 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:09,000 Speaker 5: they walk into the event, we do an on site registration. Yeah, 448 00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:12,200 Speaker 5: they'll spend you know, sixty seconds filling in what they 449 00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:15,720 Speaker 5: did in the military, their address, their resume, perfect, where 450 00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:17,960 Speaker 5: they want to move to, the money they want, that 451 00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:21,000 Speaker 5: kind of stuff, right, And then companies take a picture 452 00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:23,720 Speaker 5: of that QR code and it goes into the profile. 453 00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:26,040 Speaker 5: Then they can call the candides in the coming days 454 00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:29,600 Speaker 5: and talk to them about some opportunities and hiring them. 455 00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:33,800 Speaker 2: Okay, but they also can meet recruiters for the company 456 00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:38,399 Speaker 2: for these fifty one companies face to face one that's 457 00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:39,120 Speaker 2: why they're there. 458 00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:42,639 Speaker 5: Sure, this is a free service for military people, the 459 00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:45,480 Speaker 5: ones I mentioned earlier. But companies pay to be there, 460 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:48,080 Speaker 5: so they're motivated. They pay us to be there. You know, 461 00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:51,480 Speaker 5: we paid to be over at Gillette, right. We pay 462 00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:54,040 Speaker 5: for these stadiums, So companies pay to be the US 463 00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:56,880 Speaker 5: that are definitely motivated to hire in these military veterans. 464 00:25:56,960 --> 00:25:59,119 Speaker 2: Well, I would hope you let might give you a 465 00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:02,440 Speaker 2: break on that, you know what I'm saying, because it's 466 00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:03,399 Speaker 2: such a great cause. 467 00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:05,479 Speaker 5: We've been coming here for years. 468 00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:08,000 Speaker 2: Really, Okay, Well, that's good to know, and I'm glad 469 00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:09,800 Speaker 2: that we have a chance to publicize that. I wish 470 00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:11,800 Speaker 2: we could have done this. I wish we had known 471 00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:14,400 Speaker 2: it about a little earlier and we could have done 472 00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:17,199 Speaker 2: it a couple of weeks out. But it sounds like 473 00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:23,440 Speaker 2: a great event. What percentage realistically, and this will induce 474 00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:25,680 Speaker 2: a lot of people when whatever number you're going to 475 00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:29,239 Speaker 2: give us, either give us a percentage of people who 476 00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:34,000 Speaker 2: you think might find gainful employment ex Military or military 477 00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:38,439 Speaker 2: family members, spouses and things like that. Either by a 478 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:43,800 Speaker 2: hard number tomorrow or a percentage of the folks who participate. 479 00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:45,720 Speaker 2: I'm not trying to put you on the spot. I'm 480 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:49,359 Speaker 2: trying to induce people to say, Hey, I got a 481 00:26:49,359 --> 00:26:50,520 Speaker 2: real shot here, go ahead. 482 00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:54,680 Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a great, great question, and you're not put 483 00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:57,879 Speaker 5: me on the spot. I'm retired military and I've been 484 00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:00,800 Speaker 5: with the company now for twenty seven years as a 485 00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:03,959 Speaker 5: senior vice president and one of my jobs is I 486 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:06,439 Speaker 5: handle all the people that run and do these events, right, 487 00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:08,600 Speaker 5: So I've been doing them. We've been doing the job 488 00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:11,280 Speaker 5: fairs now for over fifteen years, and I can tell 489 00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:13,320 Speaker 5: you that with the amount of companies that are going 490 00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:16,840 Speaker 5: to be there, fifty one and right about three hundred 491 00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:21,120 Speaker 5: and eighty pre registered veterans. So with that number historically, 492 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:24,439 Speaker 5: then we're going to probably walk away with about one 493 00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:27,280 Speaker 5: hundred and thirty seven one hundred and thirty eight job 494 00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:29,760 Speaker 5: office will come from out of that event. It doesn't 495 00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:32,600 Speaker 5: mean that they'll be hired tomorrow. Traditionally, it just means 496 00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:35,800 Speaker 5: that they're going to have site visits. Companies and the candidate, 497 00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:38,160 Speaker 5: we'll get to know each other tomorrow and then they'll 498 00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:39,960 Speaker 5: bring them out for a site visit out to the 499 00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:42,719 Speaker 5: facility within a week or so and then go from 500 00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:44,440 Speaker 5: there and make it them office. But with that, that's 501 00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:47,320 Speaker 5: about the number we're going to have specifically just when 502 00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:49,840 Speaker 5: tomorrow's event. So it's an awesome, awesome day. 503 00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:53,600 Speaker 2: Well, that is a fabulous number when you think about it, 504 00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:58,240 Speaker 2: and when you think about the number of veterans. These 505 00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:02,000 Speaker 2: don't necessarily have to be per people who just got 506 00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:05,040 Speaker 2: out and are looking for their first job out. You 507 00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:07,439 Speaker 2: can be a veteran or again, it looks to me 508 00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:13,320 Speaker 2: like a spouse of a veteran God Reserve. As long 509 00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:15,800 Speaker 2: as you put the uniform on, it sounds to me 510 00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:20,640 Speaker 2: like you're eligible and you may have a job now, 511 00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:24,520 Speaker 2: but that job maybe one that you you feel you've 512 00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:26,159 Speaker 2: done everything you can do, and you may and you 513 00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:29,480 Speaker 2: may be looking for a better job. Take advantage of 514 00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:32,320 Speaker 2: this tomorrow. It's free at jill Let's Stadium. Everybody knows 515 00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:34,560 Speaker 2: where jill Let Stadium is the home of the Patriots. 516 00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:38,640 Speaker 2: This is a fabulous program, Chris, and I'm delighted that 517 00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:41,880 Speaker 2: we tonight and I'm delighted that we had a chance 518 00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:46,880 Speaker 2: to maybe uh induce some some veterans to get out 519 00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:50,400 Speaker 2: there and and just you know, just just change their 520 00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:53,720 Speaker 2: life a little bit and in a positive direction. Life 521 00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:55,640 Speaker 2: is all a bunch of forks in the road. What 522 00:28:55,760 --> 00:28:56,520 Speaker 2: fork do you take? 523 00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:56,800 Speaker 3: Then? 524 00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:00,719 Speaker 2: What fork do you take next time a fork approaches? You? 525 00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:04,680 Speaker 2: Approach a fork, Chris, next year, give us a call 526 00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:07,160 Speaker 2: ahead of time or anytime when you do anything like 527 00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:09,280 Speaker 2: this in the Greater Boston area. 528 00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:13,080 Speaker 5: Well, we'll make sure I'll have my PR people Shelby 529 00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:15,520 Speaker 5: reach back out. We'll be back out here in September 530 00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:17,400 Speaker 5: right at the same place. I'll make sure she reads 531 00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:18,480 Speaker 5: out to you love to and. 532 00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:20,200 Speaker 2: If you want some night, we could even do a 533 00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:22,840 Speaker 2: longer version. These are sort of like short eight nine 534 00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:27,240 Speaker 2: minute interviews, which are kind of a pulppery of positive events. 535 00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:30,320 Speaker 2: I also do three more hours from nine to midnight, 536 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:33,160 Speaker 2: and we could do an hour some night, same deal 537 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:35,560 Speaker 2: on the phone, and you could talk to veterans who 538 00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:36,520 Speaker 2: may have some questions. 539 00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:39,280 Speaker 5: They have questions, and we could do it any time. 540 00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:41,280 Speaker 5: We do that a lot around the country. It doesn't 541 00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:43,400 Speaker 5: have to be leading up to an event. That might 542 00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:45,760 Speaker 5: just be something that you know, maybe they have questions 543 00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:47,880 Speaker 5: about resumes or interviews or anything like that. 544 00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:50,040 Speaker 2: That's what we do I will have I'll have my 545 00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:52,760 Speaker 2: producer get in touch with Shelby. I see Shelby's number 546 00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:58,520 Speaker 2: right here, Chris Stevens. The website is Recruit all one 547 00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:02,920 Speaker 2: word Recruit Military. So that is great. 548 00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:07,840 Speaker 5: That is tomorrow April second, eleven to three at Gillette Stadium. 549 00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:11,360 Speaker 2: Sounds great. Appreciate it a lot, I really do, Chris. 550 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:18,120 Speaker 2: Thanks very much for absolutely carry on. Now, next coming up, 551 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:21,080 Speaker 2: have you ever lost a bag a bag? Have you 552 00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:25,760 Speaker 2: ever lost baggage? Well, you're flying somewhere and you get 553 00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:28,680 Speaker 2: to the carousel and it's not there. Everybody walks away 554 00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:32,000 Speaker 2: and where's where's your bag? Well, I can't help find 555 00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:33,720 Speaker 2: your bag, but I can tell you where your bag 556 00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:35,720 Speaker 2: ends up. We're gonna be talking with Matt Owens. He's 557 00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:39,960 Speaker 2: a senior VP of a company called Commercial Strategy of 558 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:43,880 Speaker 2: the Unclaimed Baggage Center. Uh, it's in Alabama. We're going 559 00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:46,160 Speaker 2: to talk to Matt in a moment, and I think 560 00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:49,440 Speaker 2: you'll be fascinated by this interview. And then at nine 561 00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:51,840 Speaker 2: o'clock a minute or so after night, we'll listen to 562 00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:55,120 Speaker 2: the President talk about what's coming up on the Iran war, 563 00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:58,760 Speaker 2: and hopefully it'll be good news. All around. We'll see, 564 00:30:58,960 --> 00:30:59,920 Speaker 2: we'll see. Coming back on. 565 00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:07,800 Speaker 1: Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news Radio. 566 00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:13,400 Speaker 2: All right, welcome back. I must tell you that I'm 567 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:16,040 Speaker 2: going to jinx myself. Now. I've been fortunate. I've never 568 00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:20,719 Speaker 2: lost luggage on an airplane flight, but I know lots 569 00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:24,480 Speaker 2: of you have. So where does your luggage go? It disappears? Oh, 570 00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:27,240 Speaker 2: sometimes you get it back, but sometimes you don't. The 571 00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:31,040 Speaker 2: luggage that you don't get back ends up in all probability. 572 00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:36,000 Speaker 2: In Alabama, we have Matt Owens with us as a 573 00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:39,840 Speaker 2: senior vice president of Commercial Strategy of the Unclaimed Baggage Center. 574 00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:43,400 Speaker 2: He's the son of the CEO and president, Brian Owens 575 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:46,320 Speaker 2: and the grandson of the founder, Doyle Owens. Matt Owens, 576 00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:47,479 Speaker 2: how are you tonight? Welcome? 577 00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:49,040 Speaker 5: Hi, Dan? 578 00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:49,640 Speaker 4: Doing well? 579 00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:54,280 Speaker 2: How are you boy? You're working in a real interesting business, 580 00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:55,160 Speaker 2: that's for sure. 581 00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:58,120 Speaker 6: From the time, it is unusual. 582 00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:01,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's okay. I mean, first of all, it's 583 00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:06,200 Speaker 2: I suspect it's it's very interesting and challenging when you 584 00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:08,880 Speaker 2: guys down and you're in whereabouts in. 585 00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:12,560 Speaker 6: Alabama, Scottsboro, Alabama. 586 00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:17,000 Speaker 2: Scottsboro, Alabama. Okay, So when a piece of luggage arrives. 587 00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:20,360 Speaker 2: I assume every day you get luggage, right, I mean 588 00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:27,080 Speaker 2: this is this is a problem around the country every day, tsure. Okay, 589 00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:32,000 Speaker 2: So on average, how many pieces of lost luggage roughly? 590 00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:34,240 Speaker 2: Just I'm just trying to put it in some perspective here. 591 00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:35,680 Speaker 2: What do you get fifty bags a day? 592 00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:41,400 Speaker 6: I mean we get tractor trailer loads, uh, each and 593 00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:42,760 Speaker 6: every week? 594 00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:46,000 Speaker 2: Really okay, so they come in every week, not not 595 00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:47,720 Speaker 2: on a daily basis. 596 00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:49,920 Speaker 6: Yeah, something like that. 597 00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:53,560 Speaker 2: Okay, I'm not cross examining you here, buddy, I'm just 598 00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:56,600 Speaker 2: trying to try to understand it. So you get the 599 00:32:56,680 --> 00:33:00,320 Speaker 2: bag you have been I assume the right to open 600 00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:04,120 Speaker 2: the bag. Maybe someone has left their name an address 601 00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:06,560 Speaker 2: inside the bag. Is that the first step? 602 00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:08,840 Speaker 5: Yeah? 603 00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:13,160 Speaker 6: Unlikely they would have personable, identifiable information by that point, 604 00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:15,800 Speaker 6: because the airline has gone through an extensive ninety day 605 00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:18,360 Speaker 6: search process and most of the time, you know, if 606 00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:20,600 Speaker 6: it has anything identifiable, they're able to get it back. 607 00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:24,840 Speaker 6: So by the time it gets to us quite a mystery. 608 00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:29,000 Speaker 6: You know, each bag is unique and uh sometimes find 609 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:30,040 Speaker 6: some unusual stuff. 610 00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:30,280 Speaker 5: You know. 611 00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:32,240 Speaker 6: We say that if bags to talk, they would have 612 00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:33,240 Speaker 6: quite the story to tell. 613 00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:35,880 Speaker 2: Y what so let me ask, let me guess this man. 614 00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:38,960 Speaker 2: So you get whatever it is, all of a sudden, 615 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:42,280 Speaker 2: you've got a hundred more bags in your warehouse. You're 616 00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:46,760 Speaker 2: pretty convinced that those bags are orphans of their airlines, 617 00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:51,520 Speaker 2: meaning that the airline has tried to you know, get 618 00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:55,280 Speaker 2: the information, get the bag back to the to the 619 00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:59,520 Speaker 2: to the customer. And you're kind of like the the 620 00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:02,520 Speaker 2: stop last resort. Would that be one way to describe 621 00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:03,480 Speaker 2: it for the bags. 622 00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:07,360 Speaker 6: Yeah, we're kind of the party of last resort. So 623 00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:09,000 Speaker 6: you know, if a bag doesn't show up on the 624 00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:11,920 Speaker 6: carousel for whatever reason, or maybe it does and it's 625 00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:14,279 Speaker 6: not claimed, most of the time, the airline is able 626 00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:15,759 Speaker 6: to get it back to you, you know, within twenty 627 00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:17,480 Speaker 6: four or forty eight hours. Most of the time it's 628 00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:21,560 Speaker 6: just delayed. If it doesn't, the airline will go through 629 00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:26,040 Speaker 6: a more extensive search process at least ninety days. Again, 630 00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:27,560 Speaker 6: most time they're able to get it back to you. 631 00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:29,880 Speaker 6: But but after that, you know, there's still going to 632 00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:32,560 Speaker 6: be things, inevitably that are left over, and that's when 633 00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:35,120 Speaker 6: we come in. So yeah, that's we're kind of the 634 00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:37,200 Speaker 6: the solution of last resort. And you know, by the 635 00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:39,759 Speaker 6: time it gets to us. Our goal is to try 636 00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:42,080 Speaker 6: to give you know, the bags and their contents kind 637 00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:43,680 Speaker 6: of a new life so that they don't end up 638 00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:45,440 Speaker 6: in a landfill, but you know, it can go to 639 00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:46,400 Speaker 6: a new purpose. 640 00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:50,439 Speaker 2: Okay, So so give us an idea. You've you've got 641 00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:54,720 Speaker 2: the bags that arrived yesterday or last week. What's the process. 642 00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:58,000 Speaker 2: I assume you open them and you go through it. 643 00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:00,400 Speaker 2: A lot of stuff. I'm sure it is it'll end 644 00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:06,800 Speaker 2: up in a landfill. Any item you know that is opened, toothpaste, shampoo, 645 00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:09,279 Speaker 2: the sort of stuff that people put in bags, if 646 00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:11,640 Speaker 2: it's brand new, if it's still in the box, I 647 00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:14,719 Speaker 2: assume you can do something with that and donate that 648 00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:17,239 Speaker 2: to a charity. What what Where does most of this 649 00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:19,719 Speaker 2: stuff end up? You know what? Most people have got 650 00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:22,880 Speaker 2: some clothes, they got underwear, they got socks, who knows what. 651 00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:25,120 Speaker 2: They may have some weird stuff in there too, you 652 00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:28,720 Speaker 2: never know. But for the normal stuff in the bag, 653 00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:30,000 Speaker 2: where does it end up? 654 00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:34,120 Speaker 6: Yeah, so we're not selling people's dirty underwear, but yeah, 655 00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:39,040 Speaker 6: it's if it's new or usable, then it will go 656 00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:41,000 Speaker 6: to one of our two channels. So we have an 657 00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:43,600 Speaker 6: online store where you can shot at Unclean baggage dot 658 00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:47,840 Speaker 6: Com or in that same location in Alabama where we 659 00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:50,760 Speaker 6: process everything. We have a destination retail store. 660 00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:52,160 Speaker 5: It's Qurte. 661 00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:55,360 Speaker 6: The experience covers a full city block and we have 662 00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:58,120 Speaker 6: people from all all fifty states in like more than 663 00:35:58,160 --> 00:35:59,080 Speaker 6: forty four in countries. 664 00:35:59,120 --> 00:35:59,520 Speaker 5: Each year. 665 00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:04,640 Speaker 6: The in the shop that so resell is one path. 666 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:08,719 Speaker 6: Donation is another that we donate over a million items 667 00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:12,000 Speaker 6: every year. Have a number of great charities that we 668 00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:14,239 Speaker 6: partner with to find kind of the highest and best 669 00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:17,360 Speaker 6: use toast that we can go to, you know, somebody 670 00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:20,400 Speaker 6: who who needs it, and then anything else. You know, 671 00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:23,440 Speaker 6: we try our best to recycle anything that we can. 672 00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:26,719 Speaker 2: Okay, So a couple of questions. If you can answer them, great, 673 00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:29,560 Speaker 2: If you can't, I can't understand that. Okay, what is 674 00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:33,720 Speaker 2: the single one or two great items that you found 675 00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:36,440 Speaker 2: that you said, WHOA, I'm going to keep this. You 676 00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:39,000 Speaker 2: got like a story about anything that you found in 677 00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:40,840 Speaker 2: one of these bags that it just turned out to 678 00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:43,440 Speaker 2: be a great item. 679 00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:45,680 Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean even in the past year we found 680 00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:50,880 Speaker 6: some six years, you would think that there wouldn't be 681 00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:53,879 Speaker 6: any surprises left, but I'm reminded each and every year 682 00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:57,720 Speaker 6: that there's still weirder and wilder things. 683 00:36:57,560 --> 00:37:01,440 Speaker 2: That give me. Give me a couple of examples if you. So. 684 00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:06,840 Speaker 6: This past year we got some gold diamond encrusted grill 685 00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:12,000 Speaker 6: that was an interesting one. A bionic knee that I 686 00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:14,040 Speaker 6: was a little worried fell off of somebody on an 687 00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:16,520 Speaker 6: airplane or something. We did a little bit more research 688 00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:19,160 Speaker 6: found out that it was still in kind of early 689 00:37:19,239 --> 00:37:22,000 Speaker 6: stage trials and development, so that was a little bit 690 00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:28,600 Speaker 6: more reassuring. But man, a five hundred year old meteorite. 691 00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:33,120 Speaker 6: A bee keeping suit found some crazy expensive stuff to 692 00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:36,920 Speaker 6: everything from like a thirty five thousand dollars Rolex watch, 693 00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:40,640 Speaker 6: forty three thousand dollars diamond studded ear rings, and. 694 00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:44,279 Speaker 2: Can you can you keep that stuff? I assume. 695 00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:50,960 Speaker 6: Yeah, by the time the airline's gone through their their 696 00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:55,080 Speaker 6: search process, anything that they can't get back to the owner. 697 00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:57,440 Speaker 6: You know, if the owner submits a claim, there's a 698 00:37:57,440 --> 00:38:00,560 Speaker 6: whole claims process so that the owner would be compensated 699 00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:02,600 Speaker 6: for what they've lost. At that point, you know, it's 700 00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:04,160 Speaker 6: the property of the airlines and then we just buy 701 00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:06,000 Speaker 6: all those things from them. 702 00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:09,719 Speaker 2: So what about this, Okay, what about it? Have you 703 00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:12,799 Speaker 2: ever found something? Let us say, oh, I don't know. 704 00:38:13,239 --> 00:38:17,960 Speaker 2: You know, a an old Honess Wagner baseball card that 705 00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:21,600 Speaker 2: was worth ten thousand dollars or fifty thousand or more. 706 00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:24,040 Speaker 2: Have you ever found anything like that? 707 00:38:25,719 --> 00:38:29,920 Speaker 6: Yeah, we had a Michael Michael Jordan's signed basketball that 708 00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:33,680 Speaker 6: is displayed in our museum in the store. So we 709 00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:36,440 Speaker 6: just released our annual Found Report that details of all 710 00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:38,319 Speaker 6: the craziest things we found for the past year. 711 00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:42,160 Speaker 2: Well, look, I'm going to send people. I'm we're getting 712 00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:44,040 Speaker 2: ready for the President's speech here, so I got to 713 00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:47,880 Speaker 2: wrap it up. But it's unclaimed baggage dot Com and 714 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:50,480 Speaker 2: folks can go there. I'd love to have you back 715 00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:52,320 Speaker 2: some night, and we're doing a longer version. 716 00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:54,359 Speaker 5: Okay, Yeah, let's do it. 717 00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:58,120 Speaker 2: Thank you, Matt, appreciate it very much. Now we are 718 00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:01,040 Speaker 2: standing by you go, we're gonna be joined. We are 719 00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:04,800 Speaker 2: going to join ABC News their coverage, their anchor coverage 720 00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:07,480 Speaker 2: of the President's speech. He will be speaking from the 721 00:39:07,520 --> 00:39:10,279 Speaker 2: White House, I assume from the Oval Office, the Resolute Desk. 722 00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:13,080 Speaker 2: I haven't seen it. We'll see what happens. Let us 723 00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:16,120 Speaker 2: join now with ABC News coverage. We'll be back right 724 00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:18,320 Speaker 2: after the President's speech with your calls.