March 27, 2025 • 40 mins
We kicked off the program with four news stories and different guests on the stories we think you need to know about!
The unsolved murder of a Marine whose story inspired ‘A Few Good Men’. Emily Sweeney – Boston Globe Reporter checked in with Dan.
Upcoming Bio-IT World 2025 Conference Showcases Technologies Poised to Accelerate Lifesaving Therapies. Cindy Crowninshield - Executive Event Directo joined dan.
So Much to Drool About: Lessons for Living Large - told from the perspective of author’s four Great Danes the book shares inspiring stories and life lessons for people of all ages. With Barbara Stone - Author and Leadership Development Coach.
Singer Pat Boone is promoting his NEW single "ONE - Voices for Tanzania" - released on Friday, March 21st - just ahead of World Water Day!
-features music all-stars Alabama, Larry Gatlin, Vince Gill, Lee Greenwood, Pam Tillis, Deborah Allen, Billy Dean and Wendy Moten - among others. Pat Boone – Singer, Actor, Songwriter & Philanthropist check in with Dan.
Listen to WBZ NewsRadio on the NEW iHeart Radio app and be sure to set WBZ NewsRadio as your #1 preset!
The unsolved murder of a Marine whose story inspired ‘A Few Good Men’. Emily Sweeney – Boston Globe Reporter checked in with Dan.
Upcoming Bio-IT World 2025 Conference Showcases Technologies Poised to Accelerate Lifesaving Therapies. Cindy Crowninshield - Executive Event Directo joined dan.
So Much to Drool About: Lessons for Living Large - told from the perspective of author’s four Great Danes the book shares inspiring stories and life lessons for people of all ages. With Barbara Stone - Author and Leadership Development Coach.
Singer Pat Boone is promoting his NEW single "ONE - Voices for Tanzania" - released on Friday, March 21st - just ahead of World Water Day!
-features music all-stars Alabama, Larry Gatlin, Vince Gill, Lee Greenwood, Pam Tillis, Deborah Allen, Billy Dean and Wendy Moten - among others. Pat Boone – Singer, Actor, Songwriter & Philanthropist check in with Dan.
Listen to WBZ NewsRadio on the NEW iHeart Radio app and be sure to set WBZ NewsRadio as your #1 preset!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on Doubsy, Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Oh, yes, the goal. I'm happy about that, but I'm
happy about a lot of things. Working with you, having
my program, all my listeners and callers and my guests,
I have lots to be happy about. Good evening everyone
and welcoming in. And as Nicole indicated, my name's Dan Ray.
I'm going to take you on a ride for the
next four hours, and we're going to talk to a
wide variety of guests at a wide variety of topics.
(00:29):
Later this I'll be talking with Pat Boone. Pat Boone,
whose voice has been heard across America probably a zillion times.
His voice will be with us tonight at about eight
forty five. Are also going to talk about an upcoming
bio it World twenty twenty five conference showcase, as well
as we're going to speak with an author about what
(00:49):
it's like to live with four Great Dane dogs. It's
so much to drool about. Listens for lessons for living large.
A little bit later on to I'm going to talk
about imaging. So many young children now are more concerned
about their looks and it's very dangerous, and we will
(01:10):
talk with a guest who we had on just a
couple of weeks ago, Kelly Shoop, who's a licensed pediatric
occupational therapist. And then we're going to have Boston Globe
tech reporter Hiawatha Braion to tell us everything we need
to know about the Yemen the Yemen signal chat story,
which at this point seems to be bedeviling the Trump administration.
(01:35):
So Rob Brooks is back in the control room. Let
us start off with one of my favorite guests. Emily Sweeney,
Boston Globe reporter, wrote a great piece yesterday, I think
it was yesterday. Theys sometimes do run together later in
the week, folks about the unsolved murder of a marine
whose story in some part he was involved at least
(01:57):
a little bit in the A few good men not clear,
but but this individual now is one of the cold
case files, a murder victim that Emily brings to our attention,
and it's it's a crazy, it's a wild story, the
unsolved murder of David V. Cox. Emily, I know you
(02:22):
can break this down for us. I loved the piece
and the Globe this week. You did your work on it,
and hopefully it's maybe gonna get some leads for for
the police here and they can bring this case and
some closure to the family. How are you.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Tonight, Emily, Oh excellent, Dan, thank you so much for
having me on the show. I'm you know, this is
a really important important topic, you know, unsolved murders, and
you know this one especially a lot of people. It's interesting,
you know, haven't really heard about it. You know, it
happened in nineteen ninety four, you know which which is
(02:58):
you know, a little ways back. But yeah, local marine
David Cox. He grew up in Needham and was living
in Natick when he suddenly disappeared one day and it
was three months later that you know about that his
body was found, uh in kind of a remote area
(03:20):
in over in the town of Medfield.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I know that I know that area very well, Nadick, Medfield.
Oh boy, that is lots of woods and I think
the area when we talked about it earlier, there's a
couple of gun clubs over there. Nothing to do with
the murder. But if you were going to uh kill
someone with a gun, another extra gunshot might go unnoticed.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
No, no, exactly that that's what investigators thought at the
time too, that it must have been somebody who knew
the area well to you know, bring David out there,
you know, between two gun clubs were you know, might
not you know, you know, nobody would hear them, or
if they did. You know, it's a very commonplace. So
(04:07):
it's a very strange case. And I'm still actually working
on it too, because I'm trying to fuck yeah, I'm
trying to find So when David was killed, he had
applied for a full time job at UPS. He was
working pot time at the Somerville facility, and his brother
told me that, you know, this is right before he died,
(04:29):
that he had seen some sketchy activity happening at this
UPS terminal in Somerville. This is nineteen ninety four, and
you know, I'm trying to find anybody who worked there
around that time, and I'm trying to talk to folks,
you know, just to find out, you know, anything I
can find out.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Okay, So if you worked, or if you have a
relative who worked at the UPS facility in Somerville circa
nineteen ninety four, Emily Sweeney would love to hear from you. Now.
This fellow, while he was in the Marines, was stationed
at Guantanamo. He was considered one of the best of
the best. I think that's the folks who are down
(05:07):
there at Guantanamo. And he was a little peripherally involved
in the movie A Few good Men. No connection there,
you think you don't think that that there was anything
that that bubbled up out of that part of his
life that could have followed him back home.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Well, you know, it's it's interesting because you know the
you know, his experience in the Marines. He was part
of this group kind of known as the ten that
got caught hazing another marine in Guantarnamo Day. And what
happened was, you know, seven of the guys you know,
pled out, and David was one of the few to
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fight it in court, a court martial and you know,
tell the Marines that no I was acting on orders
to do this hazing. And so that court martial ended
up being the basis or the inspiration for A Few
Good Men. Names were changed, you know, events were changed
in the movie. And in the movie you'll see like
(06:13):
you know, this isn't based on any real events, but
it is known that Aaron Sorkin's sista was one of
the lawyers representing one of the Marines at the time,
and he did get a transcript of the court martial,
and you know, and then obviously you know, I think
that provided the inspiration for a Few Good Men, which is.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
A great movie.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
By the way, it still holds up. I just watched
it the other day.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
God handle the truth right.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Now.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
You deal with the truth all the time, and you're
looking for the truth here, and folks can contact you
at the Globe Again, they could very well be people
listening in the audience tonight who worked at that facility
in Somerville. You said it was the UPS facility in Somerville, yep,
which would have been well a little more than thirty
(07:02):
years ago at this point. So those many people are
there could still be listening and still be alive today,
There's no doubt about that. And that love Emily would
love you to just give her a call and talk
and maybe try to help her out. Is this this
case is still it's a cold case, but it's still
being worked on, I assume by the state police.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Yeah, so it's still under investigation, you know, and anybody
with information should you know, contact the Norfolk DA's office
and if there's any leads or anything that I can
follow up on you know, please contact me because like
you said, I'd love to talk to anybody who worked
at that UPS facility. And I also want to encourage people.
(07:45):
You know, this unsolved murder is one of many that
I've working on. And the Cold Case Files is a
regular series and we put out a newsletter and if
you want to subscribe, you can just go to Globe
dot com slash Cold Case Files and they'll be put
on my news while the mailing list.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
And there's no cost to that, I will bet you right.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Right right absolutely free. It's, uh, you know, a way
to see the stories that I'm writing and working on
and and and hopefully gets some answers for some of
these cases. And you know, the poor families.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Give me that website one more time for people who
were reaching for a pen and they didn't.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Get it, one more time.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Go ahead.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Yeah, So it's Globe dot com slash Cold Case Files
and boom, you can sign up right there, and uh yeah,
so I'm going to.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Sign up tonight. I'm gonna subscribe to Thank you, Dan,
So I'm going to but it's free of charge. Emily,
best of luck in this. Always great to talk with
you and we will hopefully talk maybe sometime soon. Once again.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Yeah, thanks so much, Dan, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Thanks, Emily, talk soon. All right, we get back. We're
going to talk about an upcoming bio it World twenty
twenty five conference showcase. Showcases are technologies poised to accelerate
life saving therapies. Cindy crown In crown In Shield is
(09:18):
the executive director, and she's going to talk to us
and explain what it's all about. It's April second through
the fourth, which of course is next week. So if
you're interested in this, stick with us. If you're not,
stick with us. We're gonna be talking to Pat Boon
later on and also talk to an author who wrote
a book about living with four Great Danes. And then
we'll get to our telephone guests beginning at nine o'clock
(09:40):
tonight and our telephone conversations. We'll be back on Nightside.
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Speaker 1 (09:58):
With Dan Ray, ONELBS, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Who's a big conference coming up in Boston next week
April second through the fourth. It's the bio it World
twenty twenty five conference. It showcases technologies poised to accelerate
life saving therapies with us. Is the executive director of
this event, Cindy Crown and Shield. Cindy, that's a long
(10:26):
last name. I got three letters. You got me beat
by a lot there? If did I pronounce it correctly?
Speaker 1 (10:31):
I hope you're dead?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
All right? Welcome to nightside. How are you this evening?
Speaker 6 (10:38):
I'm doing excellent? How are you doing?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
We're doing great? So tell us about this bio it
World conference and expo coming up next week in Boston.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
And.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Who can go? And if they do go, what are
they going to learn? And tell us about it? This
sounds pretty interesting.
Speaker 6 (10:56):
So it is an interesting conference. It's actually our twenty
fourth year that we've been running it, and it's a
global gathering where science meets technology to solve some of
the toughest challenges in healthcare and accelerate the future of
precision medicine. So Boston is known as a hub for
biotech and fauma, and you would consider our event as
(11:17):
the hub for people who are using artificial intelligence, data
advanced computing to drive breakthroughs in areas like als, Alzheimer's
and cancer, for example.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
We have a history.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Let me ask you a question. When you say the
twenty fourth have the twenty fourth annual bio it World
Conference and Expo. Has it always been in Boston for
twenty four years or is this your first time or
your second or third time to Boston.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
It's always been in Boston. We launched it right here
in two thousand and two.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Oh, okay, okay, tell us about some of the I
see a whole bunch of programs here, data management, generative AI, bioformatics,
on and on and on, pharmaceuticalceutical, pharmaceutical R and d infumamatics.
Who shows up and who could best benefit from this conference?
Speaker 6 (12:14):
Well, that's an interesting question. We have over two eight
hundred people from around the world, about thirty countries. We
have people who are biotech innovators. We have artificial intelligence experts,
arma companies, technology experts, investors. We have companies like the
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top institutions like Mayo Clinic, Pfizer, Johnson and Johnson, and Vidia, Google.
We also have people from Harvard MIT, John Hopkins for example,
So about fifty percent of our attendees are from the
life science. We have twenty percent from technology and informatics.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Okay, so is this a conference whereby potential investors can
learn about some of the cutting egg, cutting edge technology
that is underway. I'm trying to understand it better because
this is not my area of expertise. Obviously, people come
(13:14):
they want to showcase what they're doing. I get that,
But who are they showcasing it to? Are they showcasing
it simply to each other or you mentioned investors. Are
people coming here and trying to learn what is available?
Some people looking for you know, you know, private equity
or venture capital money? Tell me about that.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
So we have a venture, Innovation and partner in conference
that runs part of BIOT. It's their second year that
we've been running it. So we gather people who are
senior level investors, corporate execs, entrepreneurs and startups from biotech,
BioMed research, drug discovery, healthcare. So it's an opportunity for
(13:58):
people to network and collaborate. They talk about investment trends,
what are some of the challenges, what are some of
the opportunities in BioMed research, drug discovery, healthcare technology. So
it's a very important conversation where these executives are looking
for ways to invest money, what's the hut, what's the
(14:20):
next hot thing, especially around artificial intelligence and generative AI.
So it's really important where we bring together the C
suite industry stakeholders. We have over two hundred people that
come just for this particular part of the program.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Now, is this something that people in the greater Boston
area who might have an interest in this but might
not be connected with one of these groups formerly? Is
this open to the public or is it invitation only?
I see, you know, I see all sorts of it
looks to me like different panels, data platforms and storage, infrastructure,
(15:03):
AI for oncology, precision medicine, and health. It's a wide
variety of subjects. Okay, but is it do you almost
have to have been invited? Or can people sign up
and just attend if they're so inclined.
Speaker 6 (15:20):
We are accepting registrations for people who are able to
join us, and the event really focuses on the science
and meeting technology. So people who are working on projects
or research that bridges the gaps between science and technology
(15:42):
will really benefit from learning about topics and themes that
our speakers are covering.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Okay, so this is not something I'm looking at it here.
This costs a few dollars to attend, and this is
not something that the public here in the Boston area
could just drop into. They might not even be eligible.
(16:09):
It looks to me, it looks to me like this
is almost an invitation only conference. Or am I reading
it wrong?
Speaker 5 (16:16):
Now?
Speaker 6 (16:16):
It's not an invitation only conference. We do have a
registration fee for people who want to attend the programming
and attend the content, but we also have an exhibit
hall of over one hundred and fifty companies, and we
have a spellar plinary keynote program that we offer Wednesday
Thursday Friday. So if someone is wanting to just come
(16:39):
to the event and go to the exhibit hall and
the keynotes, they're able to do that. And if they
want to upgrade their registration and attend those things plus
all the programming that we offer, then they're able to
do that at a separate price. So we offer a
price point for different sides.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
So let's just give it me straight here. What's the
minimum that if someone from Boston is just intrigued by
this because obviously we're publicizing the conference. I want you know,
what's the minimum cost that would talk it would take
someone to participate or to just attend the conference. Is
there a minimum that you could cite for me? I'm
(17:21):
looking at your website and it's a little confusing to me.
I really don't see something where it says, you know,
minimum registration. Is there a minimum you could cite or no?
Speaker 6 (17:37):
If so on the website. If our website is bio
hyphen it Worldexpo dot com, and we have a registration area.
So if someone so up in the tab on the
top right, it's register. So if you click on that
and then scroll down, it gives you standard registration. So
we offer registration for someone who's a student, that's very
(18:01):
reasonable and affordable.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
We offer her that's two hundred and ninety nine dollars
if you're a doctoral student. I'm just talking about somebody
who would like to curiosity go by this. Is there
a minimum charge for someone in my audience who's interested,
That's all I'm asking.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
There would be a minimum charge, yes, if.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
They wanted, Yeah, and how much is that minimum charge?
Speaker 6 (18:25):
It would be ninety nine dollars?
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Gotcha? Okay, that's simple. I seem like a complicated question.
Thank you very much, Cindy. I appreciate the information. It's
wonderful to publicize an event, but my audience, if they're intrigued,
I want them to know what it would cost for
them to get on the MBTA and take a ride by.
So now now we know. Thank you very much, Cindy
Crown Crown and Shield. She's the executive director of the
(18:48):
upcoming bio World twenty twenty five conference showcase technology is
poised to accelerate accelerate life saving therapies. Thanks Cindy, I
appreciate it. Thank you very much. Thank you.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
Dan.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
All right, when we come back, we're going to talk
about a new book, so much to drool about, Lessons
for Living Large, told from the perspective of an author's
for Great Danes. The booksheres inspiring stories and life lessons
for people of all ages. That's Barbara Stone and about
a forty five. Will be talking with one of America's
(19:23):
favorite singers, Pat Boone. Pat Boone, who is trying to
do something for Tanzania. Pack on nightside right after the news.
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(19:46):
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Speaker 1 (19:51):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray on w b
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Speaker 2 (19:57):
Thanks to Cale. We are going to talk about Dawn
and whenever we talk about dogs. I'm very happy our
guest is Barbara Stone, but I believe she responds to Barb.
Barb Stone, Welcome to Nightside.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
How are you well?
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Okay, Stan? Great? Thank you? Yes, it does make you
feel happy, don't they.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Oh my god, did did better than people, Barb. I mean,
I hate to put it like that, but I mean,
given a choice, I know, I know, so anyway that's
most people. Let me put it like that. Okay. So
you're an author and a leadership development coach. I know
what a third base coach is because today's opening day
of Major League Baseball, But what's the leadership development coach?
Speaker 4 (20:42):
So you know, when I had had a twenty five
year career in manufacturing, and then after that as senior leader,
I really wanted to be able to do something, to
be able to help people move along themselves, their teams,
their company, to really get in the right direction. So I,
(21:03):
during my last few years of being in manufacturer, started coaching,
got more into the development of people, the training. So
what I do now is I work with individuals or
I work with teams companies and train the teams on
what does leadership really really mean to them and how
(21:25):
do they move that forward? And then I work with
them individually as a coach, because they can't move the
team unless they can move themselves first.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
So I mean, it's interesting. I don't know if you
follow hockey, but our beloved Boston Bruins zero to six,
maybe we could get you to do some coaching for them. Hey,
they've lost it. They've lost their last six games and
coming perilously close to the seller in the NHL. So
but that's not what you're here to talk about. You're
here to talk about your book, which came out I
(21:54):
think just recently a few days.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Ago, right, Yeah, it was just out. It was released
on Amazon Kindle version, and it will on the twentieth
and it should be in prints the beginning of April.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Okay, so let's talk about it. The book is entitled
so much to drool about lessons for Living large, and
it's your perspective. You have four Great Danes? Who are
your pets?
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Yeah, not all at once. We started with one, and
then three years later we had to get a puppy.
We rescued our first one, and then when the first
one died, we replace that one. So we've always have
two because yeah, they're just because they're just amazing beings.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Well, here's the deal. Okay, I've never had a Great Dane,
but I'd love to know. I certainly know what they
look like. How much does a Great Dane weigh? Generally?
Is there a difference between the male and the female
Great Danes? First of all, just to give people a
sense if they've never seen one.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
So our our first one, that was she was a
smaller Dane and she was probably about one hundred and ten.
She was more like, I don't want to say the
American Dane, but she was just she wasn't the European Danes.
European Danes are heavier boned and much uh just funkier. Okay,
(23:22):
they can go up to about one seventy one eighty.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Okay, so what are the lessons now? Obviously there are
lessons that we learned from dogs, but since you're writing
about great Danes, I'm assuming there might be some specific
lessons that you learned from great Danes that I might
not have learned from my favorite dog of all. Well,
I have three favorite dogs. Now. Both of my kids
have dogs, so I have I'm a grand grand grand dog,
(23:50):
grandfather to Mustard the Corgi uh and really the Shorky
which is part shit super part Yorkie. Uh. And my dog,
which I bought from my daughter, Oh god, it's twenty
five years ago now, was a Cavalier King Child Spaniel
Nation Charlie. For ten years was my very best friend,
(24:12):
my both my best human and canine friend. Yeah, at
the same time. So what do you learn from great Danes?
Speaker 4 (24:21):
So we can learn a lot because one of the
things I truly truly believe is that they really aren't
a dog. They are more beings. And you know, there's
a one. It's just coincidental that the same time my
book came out, there is a movie called The Friend,
which starts stars Naomi Watts and.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Oh my gosh, Dan Murray, Bill Murray.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Bill Bill Murray, Bill Murray.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
And yeah, And one of the things I ended up
saying is, you know, these dogs just can understand what
you're talking about, and they understand stand ceilings. And it's
not like you got.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
To prompt them.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
They didn't have to prompt this dog that was in
the movie. It's our dogs. Our four great things are
beings that they really kind of understand what we're talking about.
They look at you and we just is just they
are just part of our family. It is we just
continuously are amazed and surprised. But what I did was
(25:28):
I really took a lot of the lessons that I
have learned over the years, even back when I was
in junior high, and really wanted to end up saying,
what are some of these lessons here that we can
help people understand, Give them a wisdom statement.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Give me a couple of give give me a couple
of quick lessons here. Because I have a scheduled interview
coming up on a Feminist with Pat boom As, Oh yeah,
tell us a couple of couple of your lessons that
I could do this all day. You know how to
when you spell the word the word dog back. Would
(26:08):
you know what it spells?
Speaker 5 (26:09):
Right?
Speaker 2 (26:09):
So that's the way I okay, give us, give us
an example or two.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
So one of the things I wanted to You know,
our first Dane was a rescue and she lived in
a crate for her first year. We got her about
when she was one year old. And so I do
do a story about giving us the permission to dream.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
So you have a.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Little bit of a story about her life being in
a crate for the first year, and you have a
picture of her and this crate, and then a picture
of her dreaming about her mother. You know us, my
husband and I, and so it's like giving you the
permission we have to dream about what we want in life,
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and we don't do that very much. The second story
is about her walking up the us. I walked to
our front door, and it's called grasping the netle. When
I was in junior high I learned what grasping the
netle was. It's like when you grasp this prickly plant,
it hurts, and no matter what you do in life,
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you grasp the netle. And here she's walking up to
our front door. It's scary. She's grasping the netle and
she and her life had been great when we had her.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Oh that's great again, Barb. I hate to jump off here,
but it is. The book is available everywhere, so much
to drool about lessons for living large. Thank you so much.
You certainly I'm going to try to get a copy
of that book because I think a lot of people
will benefit from it. Thank you so much for your
time tonight, Barb.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
Take care.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Dan.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
All right, You're very welcome. When we get back in
a couple of minutes, going to be talking with Pat Boone.
He needs no introduction, and he is on a cause
now which I think everyone should get behind. We'll be
back Nightside right after this.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
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Speaker 2 (28:08):
I'm delighted in an honor to introduce to all of
you here on the Nightside audience, Pat Boone. Pat Boone
needs no introduction, as far as I concerned. Pat Boone,
welcome to Nightside.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
Thank you Dan. I'm glad I don't need an introduction.
But and also I'm glad that I'm not hearing people say,
what he's still alive?
Speaker 2 (28:28):
No, no, no, no no no.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
I'll listen to that recently.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
I've listened to you on your serious radio show and great, great, great, Look,
this is a cause that is close to your heart
and it is called One Voice Is for Tanzania. Everybody
remembers we of the world of thirty years ago, but
this is very similar and that you have brought together
(28:54):
some great musicians. People should know that you also have
been very much involved in charitable organizations a charitable activity
your entire career through pat Boone World Missions. But you
focus now on Tanzania, which is a country in the
southeast of Africa. It's bordered on the north by Kenya
and Uganda, and they have a real problem with water,
(29:18):
having availability of water. So I want you to tell
us about that and what my audience can do to
help you. And I also have a record that you
folks have released that I've listened to today. I want
to play a little bit of that record at some point,
but I want to just hand the microphone to you
and tell us how you got involved in this and
(29:38):
this is such a wonderful cause. Please just let us know.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
Okay, as you said, I've been involved in a lot
of things along the way. I'm the only entertainer that
was involved in the in the creation of the ABA. Therefore,
I'm going to talk to Steph Curry sometime and say,
you owe me for that three point shot and you're
becoming such a millionaire doing it.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Anyway, I didn't know you owned.
Speaker 5 (30:05):
I owned the Oakland Oaks that won the championship the
second year. Anyway, those are things that people don't know,
nor do they need to know. But I'm just saying
I've had the blessing of being involved or helping to
start a number of things. I think this is the
most important thing of my life. And I'm now ninety
and I don't know how much longer I have, but
(30:27):
I do think that it's not just the country of Tanzania,
it's the whole country of Africa. When I first got involved,
I have not known the forty nations that may come
to the continent of Africa, and Tanzania is a very
important one. That's where when I got involved with god TV,
(30:50):
that's a long, you know, worldwide network, and they started
a campaign called Cape Town to Cairo and that the
idea is to get fresh water wells and the nations
that don't have fresh water at all, at least not
in the vast desert areas that make up so much
of Africa. Right now as we talk, a woman and
(31:14):
a child will be walking across the hot desert and
I mean it's hot there, and with a bucket or
a pail on a chest or shoulder or on top
of their head even and walking to a place to
get water so they can live. And they go to
a muddy ditch somewhere that where cattle eat and defecate
(31:36):
and where women wash clothes, and it's polluted. They fill
their vessels with water and take them back and that's
what they give their kids. The life expectancy, This is
what motive me. The life expectancy of a child born
in those countries is five. That they're not expected to
(31:56):
live past five years because mostly have none of them. Millions,
by the millions, three hundred and nineteen million people in
Sub Sahara, Africa don't have access to reliable drinking water.
And so when I found out about this, and I
felt I had to be involved, and I became involved surely,
(32:16):
my wife and I did. We spend a lot of
money and effort to bring in a five hundred foot
deep fresh water well in the middle of the Tanzanian desert,
and the government gave us two hundred acres to do
whatever we wanted to around that. So we created a
wood frame school to raise the literacy level because the
kids there had don't they live like they did three hundred,
(32:39):
three thousand years ago, and the kids have no place
to go to school, and of course they have no
fresh water, and they don't have a whole lot to eat,
to eat beans and rice, and if they can get
meat from some kind of an animal or a lizard
or a rat or whatever they can find to kill,
they'll have a little meat, but that's it. And hopefully water,
(33:01):
but the water is poisoned. So anyway, I got involved.
Surely I brought in that five hundred foot well and
a windmill now operates on solar power, and because there's
plenty of sun there for sure, and now the women
and the kids that come there have fresh water to
bring back to their villages and to their families. But
(33:24):
for most of the countries in Africa, that is just nonexistent,
and so fresh water, a life giving fresh water, it's
just not available. And I know that we've got many
other problems in the world. But when I realized that
millions of people, including little kids, are doomed to death
(33:46):
because they don't have water that they're walking over. It's
in the ground, but the wells aren't there to bring
it up. And so we got involved. And now a
company called World Serve has been putting in wells and
doing a good job at it. And they heard my
song that I had written called one four uses of
(34:07):
the number one one. I am one person. I have worth,
I have courage, I have purpose because I am one
person and there's no other like on the planet one.
When good people come together, we are one three one.
We're supposed to be a nation under God, and so
(34:30):
far right now we're pretty divided. But we're supposed to
be one nation under God. And finally, our God is one.
So using the number one four ways, I got involved
with World Served and they said, let's do a weee
of the world type thing. This is really crucial if
people are dying in droves and they just don't have
(34:51):
water to drink, and if we can create water and
let them have it, they can live.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Pat let me let me just play if if it's
okay with you, play about twenty five seconds of the
song I want them to hear because it's an inspirational song.
It includes some of the people. You have folks from Alabama,
from the music group Alabama, Larry Gatlin, Vince gil.
Speaker 5 (35:15):
Lee Greenwood, Lee Greenwood.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Yeah, Larry Gatlin was a great friend of mine for
a guy who used to pitch for the Yankees. And
sometime I'll tell you Larry Gatlin story. But let me
do this. Let me just let's rob give us about
twenty five seconds. I want pat I want people to
hear the song. Just hold with me for a second.
Speaker 5 (35:36):
Past first voice you hear is mine. So go ahead, Okay,
here we go.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
I am one like no other human being, ham one.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
In my there is meaning, there is worth, there is
a purpose like no mother.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
I am.
Speaker 5 (36:11):
That.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
That's a beautiful song. I listened to it two or
three times today. I want to give the We're in
thirty eight states, so there are people all over the
country right now who are hearing your voice, not only
through the song, but you know, through our interview. And
I want to make sure that I give the correct website.
It's simply the one, the one that I see. It
(36:33):
says one the four Tanzania.
Speaker 5 (36:40):
Yeah, that's it. One for Tanzania dot org. And when
you go there, you will immediately be given a red
button to push. And I'm hoping and praying that mothers
and daddies will bring their kids, let them see that,
and let them knowah, hear the song, know what it's about,
and then put a chord, a half dollar, a dollar bill,
(37:02):
five dollars, whatever they will the children, let them give
to help the other children their age who live longer
than five years, I mean, go up to be conductive
human beings. But if they don't get fresh water, that's
not going to happen. So I'd love to hear have
families involve their kids in bringing fresh water to other children.
(37:28):
That's really what it's about. I mean, adults, sure they
need and they'll maybe scrounge around and find some water.
But those children, they just drink whatever's given to them,
and they don't know the difference, and so they wonder
why they start to feel so terrible, and too many
of them die before they're five.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
And of course we take water for granted where we
all live, most of us in this country, we go
to the kitchen sink, or we just you know, turn
on the tap. It's a civilizen. Pat Boone, you have
done so many great things in your career, and you
such you were such a humanitarian and to get these
other artists involved, you were doing great work. Pat Boone
(38:09):
admired you for many years. I've admired you more now.
Speaker 5 (38:13):
Having had an opportunity to talk to you and.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
Hear in your voice the passion that you have for
this project.
Speaker 5 (38:19):
Thank you. Yeah, I can, I can. I leave you
one thought, not my voice, the voice of Jesus himself
and Matthew ten when children they were very attracted to
this man from Galilee and his disciples. When the kids
were gathered around, you know, said leave him alone, leave
him alone, and Jesus said, shut up. No he didn't,
(38:41):
he didn't. He didn't say shut up. The Bible says
he rebuked them. Let the children come to me. And
if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to
one of these little ones, who is my disciple, truly,
I tell you that person will certainly not lose the reward.
That's a specific word from God himself on a cup
(39:04):
of water for a child. And that's my motivation, and
I hope it will come the motivation of everybody who
hears this song and then knows they can do something
and and bring their children into it as well.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
Sounds sounds wonderful, Pat Poon. I don't have to say
God bless you, because I know God's gonna bless you.
Speaker 5 (39:24):
He does.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
Thank you. Thank you, my friend, for joining us tonight.
And I'm proud, very proud to have had you in
my program.
Speaker 5 (39:33):
I well, thank you so much. I think we're saving lives.
This is a God.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
Thing, absolutely, And guess what, I'm right there with you.
I believe it.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
I know it.
Speaker 5 (39:42):
I hear you are Yes, I believe it.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
Pat. Anytime we can get you back, stay strong, stay well,
my friend. And congratulations for doing God's work. Thank you
so much.
Speaker 5 (39:54):
Listen, give me a call. I'll be there all right.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
Thanks so much.
Speaker 5 (39:57):
Okay, thank you, Dan, You're welcome friend.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
Wow. Check it out, folks. It's one for Tanzania dot org.
Speaker 5 (40:06):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
If you want more information, you let me know. We'll
be back on nights Side and we're going to talk
about children who are more concerned about their body image
as young as the age of seven than they should
ever be. Back on Nightside after this
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on Doubsy, Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Oh, yes, the goal. I'm happy about that, but I'm
happy about a lot of things. Working with you, having
my program, all my listeners and callers and my guests,
I have lots to be happy about. Good evening everyone
and welcoming in. And as Nicole indicated, my name's Dan Ray.
I'm going to take you on a ride for the
next four hours, and we're going to talk to a
wide variety of guests at a wide variety of topics.
(00:29):
Later this I'll be talking with Pat Boone. Pat Boone,
whose voice has been heard across America probably a zillion times.
His voice will be with us tonight at about eight
forty five. Are also going to talk about an upcoming
bio it World twenty twenty five conference showcase, as well
as we're going to speak with an author about what
(00:49):
it's like to live with four Great Dane dogs. It's
so much to drool about. Listens for lessons for living large.
A little bit later on to I'm going to talk
about imaging. So many young children now are more concerned
about their looks and it's very dangerous, and we will
(01:10):
talk with a guest who we had on just a
couple of weeks ago, Kelly Shoop, who's a licensed pediatric
occupational therapist. And then we're going to have Boston Globe
tech reporter Hiawatha Braion to tell us everything we need
to know about the Yemen the Yemen signal chat story,
which at this point seems to be bedeviling the Trump administration.
(01:35):
So Rob Brooks is back in the control room. Let
us start off with one of my favorite guests. Emily Sweeney,
Boston Globe reporter, wrote a great piece yesterday, I think
it was yesterday. Theys sometimes do run together later in
the week, folks about the unsolved murder of a marine
whose story in some part he was involved at least
(01:57):
a little bit in the A few good men not clear,
but but this individual now is one of the cold
case files, a murder victim that Emily brings to our attention,
and it's it's a crazy, it's a wild story, the
unsolved murder of David V. Cox. Emily, I know you
(02:22):
can break this down for us. I loved the piece
and the Globe this week. You did your work on it,
and hopefully it's maybe gonna get some leads for for
the police here and they can bring this case and
some closure to the family. How are you.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Tonight, Emily, Oh excellent, Dan, thank you so much for
having me on the show. I'm you know, this is
a really important important topic, you know, unsolved murders, and
you know this one especially a lot of people. It's interesting,
you know, haven't really heard about it. You know, it
happened in nineteen ninety four, you know which which is
(02:58):
you know, a little ways back. But yeah, local marine
David Cox. He grew up in Needham and was living
in Natick when he suddenly disappeared one day and it
was three months later that you know about that his
body was found, uh in kind of a remote area
(03:20):
in over in the town of Medfield.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I know that I know that area very well, Nadick, Medfield.
Oh boy, that is lots of woods and I think
the area when we talked about it earlier, there's a
couple of gun clubs over there. Nothing to do with
the murder. But if you were going to uh kill
someone with a gun, another extra gunshot might go unnoticed.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
No, no, exactly that that's what investigators thought at the
time too, that it must have been somebody who knew
the area well to you know, bring David out there,
you know, between two gun clubs were you know, might
not you know, you know, nobody would hear them, or
if they did. You know, it's a very commonplace. So
(04:07):
it's a very strange case. And I'm still actually working
on it too, because I'm trying to fuck yeah, I'm
trying to find So when David was killed, he had
applied for a full time job at UPS. He was
working pot time at the Somerville facility, and his brother
told me that, you know, this is right before he died,
(04:29):
that he had seen some sketchy activity happening at this
UPS terminal in Somerville. This is nineteen ninety four, and
you know, I'm trying to find anybody who worked there
around that time, and I'm trying to talk to folks,
you know, just to find out, you know, anything I
can find out.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Okay, So if you worked, or if you have a
relative who worked at the UPS facility in Somerville circa
nineteen ninety four, Emily Sweeney would love to hear from you. Now.
This fellow, while he was in the Marines, was stationed
at Guantanamo. He was considered one of the best of
the best. I think that's the folks who are down
(05:07):
there at Guantanamo. And he was a little peripherally involved
in the movie A Few good Men. No connection there,
you think you don't think that that there was anything
that that bubbled up out of that part of his
life that could have followed him back home.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Well, you know, it's it's interesting because you know the
you know, his experience in the Marines. He was part
of this group kind of known as the ten that
got caught hazing another marine in Guantarnamo Day. And what
happened was, you know, seven of the guys you know,
pled out, and David was one of the few to
(05:51):
fight it in court, a court martial and you know,
tell the Marines that no I was acting on orders
to do this hazing. And so that court martial ended
up being the basis or the inspiration for A Few
Good Men. Names were changed, you know, events were changed
in the movie. And in the movie you'll see like
(06:13):
you know, this isn't based on any real events, but
it is known that Aaron Sorkin's sista was one of
the lawyers representing one of the Marines at the time,
and he did get a transcript of the court martial,
and you know, and then obviously you know, I think
that provided the inspiration for a Few Good Men, which is.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
A great movie.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
By the way, it still holds up. I just watched
it the other day.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
God handle the truth right.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Now.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
You deal with the truth all the time, and you're
looking for the truth here, and folks can contact you
at the Globe Again, they could very well be people
listening in the audience tonight who worked at that facility
in Somerville. You said it was the UPS facility in Somerville, yep,
which would have been well a little more than thirty
(07:02):
years ago at this point. So those many people are
there could still be listening and still be alive today,
There's no doubt about that. And that love Emily would
love you to just give her a call and talk
and maybe try to help her out. Is this this
case is still it's a cold case, but it's still
being worked on, I assume by the state police.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Yeah, so it's still under investigation, you know, and anybody
with information should you know, contact the Norfolk DA's office
and if there's any leads or anything that I can
follow up on you know, please contact me because like
you said, I'd love to talk to anybody who worked
at that UPS facility. And I also want to encourage people.
(07:45):
You know, this unsolved murder is one of many that
I've working on. And the Cold Case Files is a
regular series and we put out a newsletter and if
you want to subscribe, you can just go to Globe
dot com slash Cold Case Files and they'll be put
on my news while the mailing list.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
And there's no cost to that, I will bet you right.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Right right absolutely free. It's, uh, you know, a way
to see the stories that I'm writing and working on
and and and hopefully gets some answers for some of
these cases. And you know, the poor families.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Give me that website one more time for people who
were reaching for a pen and they didn't.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Get it, one more time.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Go ahead.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Yeah, So it's Globe dot com slash Cold Case Files
and boom, you can sign up right there, and uh yeah,
so I'm going to.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Sign up tonight. I'm gonna subscribe to Thank you, Dan,
So I'm going to but it's free of charge. Emily,
best of luck in this. Always great to talk with
you and we will hopefully talk maybe sometime soon. Once again.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Yeah, thanks so much, Dan, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Thanks, Emily, talk soon. All right, we get back. We're
going to talk about an upcoming bio it World twenty
twenty five conference showcase. Showcases are technologies poised to accelerate
life saving therapies. Cindy crown In crown In Shield is
(09:18):
the executive director, and she's going to talk to us
and explain what it's all about. It's April second through
the fourth, which of course is next week. So if
you're interested in this, stick with us. If you're not,
stick with us. We're gonna be talking to Pat Boon
later on and also talk to an author who wrote
a book about living with four Great Danes. And then
we'll get to our telephone guests beginning at nine o'clock
(09:40):
tonight and our telephone conversations. We'll be back on Nightside.
Feel free to join the join us every mondy Thurday
night right here on BZ. We're here from eight to midnight,
as I say, for your dining and dancing pleasure. We'll
be back at Nightside right after this Night Side.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
With Dan Ray, ONELBS, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Who's a big conference coming up in Boston next week
April second through the fourth. It's the bio it World
twenty twenty five conference. It showcases technologies poised to accelerate
life saving therapies with us. Is the executive director of
this event, Cindy Crown and Shield. Cindy, that's a long
(10:26):
last name. I got three letters. You got me beat
by a lot there? If did I pronounce it correctly?
Speaker 1 (10:31):
I hope you're dead?
Speaker 2 (10:34):
All right? Welcome to nightside. How are you this evening?
Speaker 6 (10:38):
I'm doing excellent? How are you doing?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
We're doing great? So tell us about this bio it
World conference and expo coming up next week in Boston.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
And.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Who can go? And if they do go, what are
they going to learn? And tell us about it? This
sounds pretty interesting.
Speaker 6 (10:56):
So it is an interesting conference. It's actually our twenty
fourth year that we've been running it, and it's a
global gathering where science meets technology to solve some of
the toughest challenges in healthcare and accelerate the future of
precision medicine. So Boston is known as a hub for
biotech and fauma, and you would consider our event as
(11:17):
the hub for people who are using artificial intelligence, data
advanced computing to drive breakthroughs in areas like als, Alzheimer's
and cancer, for example.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
We have a history.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Let me ask you a question. When you say the
twenty fourth have the twenty fourth annual bio it World
Conference and Expo. Has it always been in Boston for
twenty four years or is this your first time or
your second or third time to Boston.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
It's always been in Boston. We launched it right here
in two thousand and two.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Oh, okay, okay, tell us about some of the I
see a whole bunch of programs here, data management, generative AI, bioformatics,
on and on and on, pharmaceuticalceutical, pharmaceutical R and d infumamatics.
Who shows up and who could best benefit from this conference?
Speaker 6 (12:14):
Well, that's an interesting question. We have over two eight
hundred people from around the world, about thirty countries. We
have people who are biotech innovators. We have artificial intelligence experts,
arma companies, technology experts, investors. We have companies like the
(12:36):
top institutions like Mayo Clinic, Pfizer, Johnson and Johnson, and Vidia, Google.
We also have people from Harvard MIT, John Hopkins for example,
So about fifty percent of our attendees are from the
life science. We have twenty percent from technology and informatics.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Okay, so is this a conference whereby potential investors can
learn about some of the cutting egg, cutting edge technology
that is underway. I'm trying to understand it better because
this is not my area of expertise. Obviously, people come
(13:14):
they want to showcase what they're doing. I get that,
But who are they showcasing it to? Are they showcasing
it simply to each other or you mentioned investors. Are
people coming here and trying to learn what is available?
Some people looking for you know, you know, private equity
or venture capital money? Tell me about that.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
So we have a venture, Innovation and partner in conference
that runs part of BIOT. It's their second year that
we've been running it. So we gather people who are
senior level investors, corporate execs, entrepreneurs and startups from biotech,
BioMed research, drug discovery, healthcare. So it's an opportunity for
(13:58):
people to network and collaborate. They talk about investment trends,
what are some of the challenges, what are some of
the opportunities in BioMed research, drug discovery, healthcare technology. So
it's a very important conversation where these executives are looking
for ways to invest money, what's the hut, what's the
(14:20):
next hot thing, especially around artificial intelligence and generative AI.
So it's really important where we bring together the C
suite industry stakeholders. We have over two hundred people that
come just for this particular part of the program.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Now, is this something that people in the greater Boston
area who might have an interest in this but might
not be connected with one of these groups formerly? Is
this open to the public or is it invitation only?
I see, you know, I see all sorts of it
looks to me like different panels, data platforms and storage, infrastructure,
(15:03):
AI for oncology, precision medicine, and health. It's a wide
variety of subjects. Okay, but is it do you almost
have to have been invited? Or can people sign up
and just attend if they're so inclined.
Speaker 6 (15:20):
We are accepting registrations for people who are able to
join us, and the event really focuses on the science
and meeting technology. So people who are working on projects
or research that bridges the gaps between science and technology
(15:42):
will really benefit from learning about topics and themes that
our speakers are covering.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Okay, so this is not something I'm looking at it here.
This costs a few dollars to attend, and this is
not something that the public here in the Boston area
could just drop into. They might not even be eligible.
(16:09):
It looks to me, it looks to me like this
is almost an invitation only conference. Or am I reading
it wrong?
Speaker 5 (16:16):
Now?
Speaker 6 (16:16):
It's not an invitation only conference. We do have a
registration fee for people who want to attend the programming
and attend the content, but we also have an exhibit
hall of over one hundred and fifty companies, and we
have a spellar plinary keynote program that we offer Wednesday
Thursday Friday. So if someone is wanting to just come
(16:39):
to the event and go to the exhibit hall and
the keynotes, they're able to do that. And if they
want to upgrade their registration and attend those things plus
all the programming that we offer, then they're able to
do that at a separate price. So we offer a
price point for different sides.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
So let's just give it me straight here. What's the
minimum that if someone from Boston is just intrigued by
this because obviously we're publicizing the conference. I want you know,
what's the minimum cost that would talk it would take
someone to participate or to just attend the conference. Is
there a minimum that you could cite for me? I'm
(17:21):
looking at your website and it's a little confusing to me.
I really don't see something where it says, you know,
minimum registration. Is there a minimum you could cite or no?
Speaker 6 (17:37):
If so on the website. If our website is bio
hyphen it Worldexpo dot com, and we have a registration area.
So if someone so up in the tab on the
top right, it's register. So if you click on that
and then scroll down, it gives you standard registration. So
we offer registration for someone who's a student, that's very
(18:01):
reasonable and affordable.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
We offer her that's two hundred and ninety nine dollars
if you're a doctoral student. I'm just talking about somebody
who would like to curiosity go by this. Is there
a minimum charge for someone in my audience who's interested,
That's all I'm asking.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
There would be a minimum charge, yes, if.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
They wanted, Yeah, and how much is that minimum charge?
Speaker 6 (18:25):
It would be ninety nine dollars?
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Gotcha? Okay, that's simple. I seem like a complicated question.
Thank you very much, Cindy. I appreciate the information. It's
wonderful to publicize an event, but my audience, if they're intrigued,
I want them to know what it would cost for
them to get on the MBTA and take a ride by.
So now now we know. Thank you very much, Cindy
Crown Crown and Shield. She's the executive director of the
(18:48):
upcoming bio World twenty twenty five conference showcase technology is
poised to accelerate accelerate life saving therapies. Thanks Cindy, I
appreciate it. Thank you very much. Thank you.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
Dan.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
All right, when we come back, we're going to talk
about a new book, so much to drool about, Lessons
for Living Large, told from the perspective of an author's
for Great Danes. The booksheres inspiring stories and life lessons
for people of all ages. That's Barbara Stone and about
a forty five. Will be talking with one of America's
(19:23):
favorite singers, Pat Boone. Pat Boone, who is trying to
do something for Tanzania. Pack on nightside right after the news.
By the way, you can pull down the iHeart app
pretty easy to pull it down. Just go to your
local app store. Look it up the iHeart app New
and improved, and you can set your preset number one
preset for WBZ Boston so you can listen to us
(19:46):
anytime anywhere in the world. My name's Dan Ray. This
is the Nightside, coming back on Nightside.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
You're on night Side with Dan Ray on w b
Z Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Thanks to Cale. We are going to talk about Dawn
and whenever we talk about dogs. I'm very happy our
guest is Barbara Stone, but I believe she responds to Barb.
Barb Stone, Welcome to Nightside.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
How are you well?
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Okay, Stan? Great? Thank you? Yes, it does make you
feel happy, don't they.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Oh my god, did did better than people, Barb. I mean,
I hate to put it like that, but I mean,
given a choice, I know, I know, so anyway that's
most people. Let me put it like that. Okay. So
you're an author and a leadership development coach. I know
what a third base coach is because today's opening day
of Major League Baseball, But what's the leadership development coach?
Speaker 4 (20:42):
So you know, when I had had a twenty five
year career in manufacturing, and then after that as senior leader,
I really wanted to be able to do something, to
be able to help people move along themselves, their teams,
their company, to really get in the right direction. So I,
(21:03):
during my last few years of being in manufacturer, started coaching,
got more into the development of people, the training. So
what I do now is I work with individuals or
I work with teams companies and train the teams on
what does leadership really really mean to them and how
(21:25):
do they move that forward? And then I work with
them individually as a coach, because they can't move the
team unless they can move themselves first.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
So I mean, it's interesting. I don't know if you
follow hockey, but our beloved Boston Bruins zero to six,
maybe we could get you to do some coaching for them. Hey,
they've lost it. They've lost their last six games and
coming perilously close to the seller in the NHL. So
but that's not what you're here to talk about. You're
here to talk about your book, which came out I
(21:54):
think just recently a few days.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
Ago, right, Yeah, it was just out. It was released
on Amazon Kindle version, and it will on the twentieth
and it should be in prints the beginning of April.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Okay, so let's talk about it. The book is entitled
so much to drool about lessons for Living large, and
it's your perspective. You have four Great Danes? Who are
your pets?
Speaker 4 (22:22):
Yeah, not all at once. We started with one, and
then three years later we had to get a puppy.
We rescued our first one, and then when the first
one died, we replace that one. So we've always have
two because yeah, they're just because they're just amazing beings.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Well, here's the deal. Okay, I've never had a Great Dane,
but I'd love to know. I certainly know what they
look like. How much does a Great Dane weigh? Generally?
Is there a difference between the male and the female
Great Danes? First of all, just to give people a
sense if they've never seen one.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
So our our first one, that was she was a
smaller Dane and she was probably about one hundred and ten.
She was more like, I don't want to say the
American Dane, but she was just she wasn't the European Danes.
European Danes are heavier boned and much uh just funkier. Okay,
(23:22):
they can go up to about one seventy one eighty.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
Okay, so what are the lessons now? Obviously there are
lessons that we learned from dogs, but since you're writing
about great Danes, I'm assuming there might be some specific
lessons that you learned from great Danes that I might
not have learned from my favorite dog of all. Well,
I have three favorite dogs. Now. Both of my kids
have dogs, so I have I'm a grand grand grand dog,
(23:50):
grandfather to Mustard the Corgi uh and really the Shorky
which is part shit super part Yorkie. Uh. And my dog,
which I bought from my daughter, Oh god, it's twenty
five years ago now, was a Cavalier King Child Spaniel
Nation Charlie. For ten years was my very best friend,
(24:12):
my both my best human and canine friend. Yeah, at
the same time. So what do you learn from great Danes?
Speaker 4 (24:21):
So we can learn a lot because one of the
things I truly truly believe is that they really aren't
a dog. They are more beings. And you know, there's
a one. It's just coincidental that the same time my
book came out, there is a movie called The Friend,
which starts stars Naomi Watts and.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Oh my gosh, Dan Murray, Bill Murray.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Bill Bill Murray, Bill Murray.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
And yeah, And one of the things I ended up
saying is, you know, these dogs just can understand what
you're talking about, and they understand stand ceilings. And it's
not like you got.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
To prompt them.
Speaker 4 (25:02):
They didn't have to prompt this dog that was in
the movie. It's our dogs. Our four great things are
beings that they really kind of understand what we're talking about.
They look at you and we just is just they
are just part of our family. It is we just
continuously are amazed and surprised. But what I did was
(25:28):
I really took a lot of the lessons that I
have learned over the years, even back when I was
in junior high, and really wanted to end up saying,
what are some of these lessons here that we can
help people understand, Give them a wisdom statement.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Give me a couple of give give me a couple
of quick lessons here. Because I have a scheduled interview
coming up on a Feminist with Pat boom As, Oh yeah,
tell us a couple of couple of your lessons that
I could do this all day. You know how to
when you spell the word the word dog back. Would
(26:08):
you know what it spells?
Speaker 5 (26:09):
Right?
Speaker 2 (26:09):
So that's the way I okay, give us, give us
an example or two.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
So one of the things I wanted to You know,
our first Dane was a rescue and she lived in
a crate for her first year. We got her about
when she was one year old. And so I do
do a story about giving us the permission to dream.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
So you have a.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Little bit of a story about her life being in
a crate for the first year, and you have a
picture of her and this crate, and then a picture
of her dreaming about her mother. You know us, my
husband and I, and so it's like giving you the
permission we have to dream about what we want in life,
(26:53):
and we don't do that very much. The second story
is about her walking up the us. I walked to
our front door, and it's called grasping the netle. When
I was in junior high I learned what grasping the
netle was. It's like when you grasp this prickly plant,
it hurts, and no matter what you do in life,
(27:13):
you grasp the netle. And here she's walking up to
our front door. It's scary. She's grasping the netle and
she and her life had been great when we had her.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Oh that's great again, Barb. I hate to jump off here,
but it is. The book is available everywhere, so much
to drool about lessons for living large. Thank you so much.
You certainly I'm going to try to get a copy
of that book because I think a lot of people
will benefit from it. Thank you so much for your
time tonight, Barb.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
Take care.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
Dan.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
All right, You're very welcome. When we get back in
a couple of minutes, going to be talking with Pat Boone.
He needs no introduction, and he is on a cause
now which I think everyone should get behind. We'll be
back Nightside right after this.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
It's Nightside with Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
I'm delighted in an honor to introduce to all of
you here on the Nightside audience, Pat Boone. Pat Boone
needs no introduction, as far as I concerned. Pat Boone,
welcome to Nightside.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
Thank you Dan. I'm glad I don't need an introduction.
But and also I'm glad that I'm not hearing people say,
what he's still alive?
Speaker 2 (28:28):
No, no, no, no no no.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
I'll listen to that recently.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
I've listened to you on your serious radio show and great, great, great, Look,
this is a cause that is close to your heart
and it is called One Voice Is for Tanzania. Everybody
remembers we of the world of thirty years ago, but
this is very similar and that you have brought together
(28:54):
some great musicians. People should know that you also have
been very much involved in charitable organizations a charitable activity
your entire career through pat Boone World Missions. But you
focus now on Tanzania, which is a country in the
southeast of Africa. It's bordered on the north by Kenya
and Uganda, and they have a real problem with water,
(29:18):
having availability of water. So I want you to tell
us about that and what my audience can do to
help you. And I also have a record that you
folks have released that I've listened to today. I want
to play a little bit of that record at some point,
but I want to just hand the microphone to you
and tell us how you got involved in this and
(29:38):
this is such a wonderful cause. Please just let us know.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
Okay, as you said, I've been involved in a lot
of things along the way. I'm the only entertainer that
was involved in the in the creation of the ABA. Therefore,
I'm going to talk to Steph Curry sometime and say,
you owe me for that three point shot and you're
becoming such a millionaire doing it.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Anyway, I didn't know you owned.
Speaker 5 (30:05):
I owned the Oakland Oaks that won the championship the
second year. Anyway, those are things that people don't know,
nor do they need to know. But I'm just saying
I've had the blessing of being involved or helping to
start a number of things. I think this is the
most important thing of my life. And I'm now ninety
and I don't know how much longer I have, but
(30:27):
I do think that it's not just the country of Tanzania,
it's the whole country of Africa. When I first got involved,
I have not known the forty nations that may come
to the continent of Africa, and Tanzania is a very
important one. That's where when I got involved with god TV,
(30:50):
that's a long, you know, worldwide network, and they started
a campaign called Cape Town to Cairo and that the
idea is to get fresh water wells and the nations
that don't have fresh water at all, at least not
in the vast desert areas that make up so much
of Africa. Right now as we talk, a woman and
(31:14):
a child will be walking across the hot desert and
I mean it's hot there, and with a bucket or
a pail on a chest or shoulder or on top
of their head even and walking to a place to
get water so they can live. And they go to
a muddy ditch somewhere that where cattle eat and defecate
(31:36):
and where women wash clothes, and it's polluted. They fill
their vessels with water and take them back and that's
what they give their kids. The life expectancy, This is
what motive me. The life expectancy of a child born
in those countries is five. That they're not expected to
(31:56):
live past five years because mostly have none of them. Millions,
by the millions, three hundred and nineteen million people in
Sub Sahara, Africa don't have access to reliable drinking water.
And so when I found out about this, and I
felt I had to be involved, and I became involved surely,
(32:16):
my wife and I did. We spend a lot of
money and effort to bring in a five hundred foot
deep fresh water well in the middle of the Tanzanian desert,
and the government gave us two hundred acres to do
whatever we wanted to around that. So we created a
wood frame school to raise the literacy level because the
kids there had don't they live like they did three hundred,
(32:39):
three thousand years ago, and the kids have no place
to go to school, and of course they have no
fresh water, and they don't have a whole lot to eat,
to eat beans and rice, and if they can get
meat from some kind of an animal or a lizard
or a rat or whatever they can find to kill,
they'll have a little meat, but that's it. And hopefully water,
(33:01):
but the water is poisoned. So anyway, I got involved.
Surely I brought in that five hundred foot well and
a windmill now operates on solar power, and because there's
plenty of sun there for sure, and now the women
and the kids that come there have fresh water to
bring back to their villages and to their families. But
(33:24):
for most of the countries in Africa, that is just nonexistent,
and so fresh water, a life giving fresh water, it's
just not available. And I know that we've got many
other problems in the world. But when I realized that
millions of people, including little kids, are doomed to death
(33:46):
because they don't have water that they're walking over. It's
in the ground, but the wells aren't there to bring
it up. And so we got involved. And now a
company called World Serve has been putting in wells and
doing a good job at it. And they heard my
song that I had written called one four uses of
(34:07):
the number one one. I am one person. I have worth,
I have courage, I have purpose because I am one
person and there's no other like on the planet one.
When good people come together, we are one three one.
We're supposed to be a nation under God, and so
(34:30):
far right now we're pretty divided. But we're supposed to
be one nation under God. And finally, our God is one.
So using the number one four ways, I got involved
with World Served and they said, let's do a weee
of the world type thing. This is really crucial if
people are dying in droves and they just don't have
(34:51):
water to drink, and if we can create water and
let them have it, they can live.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Pat let me let me just play if if it's
okay with you, play about twenty five seconds of the
song I want them to hear because it's an inspirational song.
It includes some of the people. You have folks from Alabama,
from the music group Alabama, Larry Gatlin, Vince gil.
Speaker 5 (35:15):
Lee Greenwood, Lee Greenwood.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Yeah, Larry Gatlin was a great friend of mine for
a guy who used to pitch for the Yankees. And
sometime I'll tell you Larry Gatlin story. But let me
do this. Let me just let's rob give us about
twenty five seconds. I want pat I want people to
hear the song. Just hold with me for a second.
Speaker 5 (35:36):
Past first voice you hear is mine. So go ahead, Okay,
here we go.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
I am one like no other human being, ham one.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
In my there is meaning, there is worth, there is
a purpose like no mother.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
I am.
Speaker 5 (36:11):
That.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
That's a beautiful song. I listened to it two or
three times today. I want to give the We're in
thirty eight states, so there are people all over the
country right now who are hearing your voice, not only
through the song, but you know, through our interview. And
I want to make sure that I give the correct website.
It's simply the one, the one that I see. It
(36:33):
says one the four Tanzania.
Speaker 5 (36:40):
Yeah, that's it. One for Tanzania dot org. And when
you go there, you will immediately be given a red
button to push. And I'm hoping and praying that mothers
and daddies will bring their kids, let them see that,
and let them knowah, hear the song, know what it's about,
and then put a chord, a half dollar, a dollar bill,
(37:02):
five dollars, whatever they will the children, let them give
to help the other children their age who live longer
than five years, I mean, go up to be conductive
human beings. But if they don't get fresh water, that's
not going to happen. So I'd love to hear have
families involve their kids in bringing fresh water to other children.
(37:28):
That's really what it's about. I mean, adults, sure they
need and they'll maybe scrounge around and find some water.
But those children, they just drink whatever's given to them,
and they don't know the difference, and so they wonder
why they start to feel so terrible, and too many
of them die before they're five.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
And of course we take water for granted where we
all live, most of us in this country, we go
to the kitchen sink, or we just you know, turn
on the tap. It's a civilizen. Pat Boone, you have
done so many great things in your career, and you
such you were such a humanitarian and to get these
other artists involved, you were doing great work. Pat Boone
(38:09):
admired you for many years. I've admired you more now.
Speaker 5 (38:13):
Having had an opportunity to talk to you and.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
Hear in your voice the passion that you have for
this project.
Speaker 5 (38:19):
Thank you. Yeah, I can, I can. I leave you
one thought, not my voice, the voice of Jesus himself
and Matthew ten when children they were very attracted to
this man from Galilee and his disciples. When the kids
were gathered around, you know, said leave him alone, leave
him alone, and Jesus said, shut up. No he didn't,
(38:41):
he didn't. He didn't say shut up. The Bible says
he rebuked them. Let the children come to me. And
if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to
one of these little ones, who is my disciple, truly,
I tell you that person will certainly not lose the reward.
That's a specific word from God himself on a cup
(39:04):
of water for a child. And that's my motivation, and
I hope it will come the motivation of everybody who
hears this song and then knows they can do something
and and bring their children into it as well.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
Sounds sounds wonderful, Pat Poon. I don't have to say
God bless you, because I know God's gonna bless you.
Speaker 5 (39:24):
He does.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
Thank you. Thank you, my friend, for joining us tonight.
And I'm proud, very proud to have had you in
my program.
Speaker 5 (39:33):
I well, thank you so much. I think we're saving lives.
This is a God.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
Thing, absolutely, And guess what, I'm right there with you.
I believe it.
Speaker 1 (39:41):
I know it.
Speaker 5 (39:42):
I hear you are Yes, I believe it.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
Pat. Anytime we can get you back, stay strong, stay well,
my friend. And congratulations for doing God's work. Thank you
so much.
Speaker 5 (39:54):
Listen, give me a call. I'll be there all right.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
Thanks so much.
Speaker 5 (39:57):
Okay, thank you, Dan, You're welcome friend.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
Wow. Check it out, folks. It's one for Tanzania dot org.
Speaker 5 (40:06):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
If you want more information, you let me know. We'll
be back on nights Side and we're going to talk
about children who are more concerned about their body image
as young as the age of seven than they should
ever be. Back on Nightside after this
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