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- 0:01Speaker 1: From the birthplace of radio's greatest era, now from New York,
- 0:06Speaker 1: it's Radio Night Live with Kevin McCullough. Unlike anything else
- 0:14Speaker 1: on radio today, it's a front row seat for great
- 0:17Speaker 1: information with today's leading experts. Travel with a third generation
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- 0:35Speaker 1: superstar Imran Ansari and Christine Nicholas, the quintessential heartbeat to
- 0:40Speaker 1: New York hospitality, all joining legendary broadcast pro Kevin McCullough
- 0:45Speaker 1: on a mission unlike any other, united to bring back
- 0:49Speaker 1: New York. Now, live from Studio 111, here's Kevin McCullough.
- 0:56Speaker 2: All right, welcome in. It's Friday, and I don't know
- 0:59Speaker 2: about you, Christine, but well, you're on your college trip.
- 1:02Speaker 2: with your kiddos and stuff. But when we woke up
- 1:05Speaker 2: here in the New York tri-state this morning, um, it
- 1:07Speaker 2: still looked like nighttime outside. I mean, it was, it
- 1:10Speaker 2: was not, it's not what I wanted to see. Um,
- 1:13Speaker 2: I'm hopeful that the weather will get better through the weekend. Um,
- 1:16Speaker 2: there's supposed to be a little, uh, apple picking and
- 1:19Speaker 2: some other stuff going on that got delayed from last weekend.
- 1:22Speaker 2: Cause it was, we'll just, we'll just have to wait
- 1:24Speaker 2: and see. But there's also this big event on Sunday.
- 1:27Speaker 2: There is people to participate in, which is the.
- 1:30Speaker 3: Um, The Making Strides.
- 1:32Speaker 2: The Making Strides. Yeah.
- 1:33Speaker 3: Right.
- 1:34Speaker 2: We don't want people in the rain on that. We
- 1:35Speaker 2: want that to be sunny.
- 1:37Speaker 3: No, that is a beautiful event. It's a sea of pink.
- 1:42Speaker 3: Thousands and thousands of people will come together. Many survivors,
- 1:47Speaker 3: many family members who unfortunately died. are doing this in
- 1:52Speaker 3: memory of their loved ones, which Kevin, I know you
- 1:55Speaker 3: can relate to. Um, but it is an uplifting, happy,
- 1:59Speaker 3: fun event. There's great music. There's a lot of information
- 2:04Speaker 3: that they give you. And at the, you know, the
- 2:06Speaker 3: bottom line is they want to make sure that there,
- 2:09Speaker 3: people know that there's a community for you. It's a
- 2:13Speaker 3: supportive community, but also, uh, even if you have no, um,
- 2:18Speaker 3: breast cancer in your family hereditary you know you just
- 2:21Speaker 3: don't know go get go get tested get tested regularly
- 2:24Speaker 3: because it is a great way of detecting and once
- 2:29Speaker 3: you do get if you do get a diagnosis it's
- 2:33Speaker 3: not a death sentence there's so much information and ways
- 2:38Speaker 3: of combating this cancer Early detection.
- 2:42Speaker 2: Is the key. I've talked openly on the air about
- 2:47Speaker 2: my bride and I, and we lost our moms to
- 2:49Speaker 2: breast cancer. But in both of their cases, they had
- 2:55Speaker 2: gotten to stages that made it a lot less likely
- 2:58Speaker 2: that they were going to have success with it. Now,
- 3:01Speaker 2: in my bride's situation, her mom ended up living nearly
- 3:04Speaker 2: a decade after she was diagnosed. But she was diagnosed
- 3:09Speaker 2: at stage two. My mom was diagnosed at stage four.
- 3:12Speaker 2: She was given about six months, but she made it
- 3:15Speaker 2: for another almost four years. So there's a lot that
- 3:19Speaker 2: has to do with the will of the person. But
- 3:21Speaker 2: here's what I love about Sunday. Yeah, there's people that
- 3:25Speaker 2: we love that have been impacted by this and we
- 3:27Speaker 2: may do it in their memory or maybe someone we
- 3:29Speaker 2: know is struggling with it now. But when you involve
- 3:33Speaker 2: yourself in an activity to do something about it, you're
- 3:37Speaker 2: making a difference. And I think that that helps your
- 3:40Speaker 2: own Um, emotional makeup and other things. Cause you know,
- 3:44Speaker 2: sometimes we don't know how to deal with the stress
- 3:46Speaker 2: or the depression of, you know, someone that we know
- 3:48Speaker 2: or love going through something. If you, if you, if
- 3:51Speaker 2: you feel anxious about that, the best thing you can
- 3:54Speaker 2: do is to get up and do something about it and.
- 3:56Speaker 2: A four-mile walk, that's a pretty ambitious Sunday morning.
- 3:59Speaker 3: It seems doable. But look, even if you can't do
- 4:01Speaker 3: a four-mile walk, you should get out and go. It's
- 4:05Speaker 3: okay to be on the sidelines for this if you're
- 4:07Speaker 3: actually on the sidelines. Because just like when I go
- 4:10Speaker 3: to watch the marathoners run, you get so inspired and
- 4:16Speaker 3: you get carried away with cheering for them that you're
- 4:19Speaker 3: definitely going to be part of that community. And to me,
- 4:22Speaker 3: it's life-changing.
- 4:23Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 4:25Speaker 3: We have Linda Sumidian, who's going to be coming on
- 4:27Speaker 3: to talk about it. She will be walking, and she
- 4:30Speaker 3: has a special story to share. And then I think
- 4:36Speaker 3: later on, we've got somebody coming back who.
- 4:41Speaker 2: Well, he has bragging rights, because he called this.
- 4:43Speaker 3: He's got bragging rights. Tracy Nipparent, who is one of
- 4:48Speaker 3: our baseball Svengales now, kind of predicted from early on,
- 4:53Speaker 3: and not only... when we had him on right before
- 4:56Speaker 3: the playoffs. But this is in the beginning of the preseason.
- 5:00Speaker 3: He predicted the Brewers were going to take it very
- 5:03Speaker 3: far into the season, very far into the postseason. So
- 5:06Speaker 3: we'll have Tracy on.
- 5:07Speaker 2: And they just swept the World Series champs that had
- 5:10Speaker 2: been defending for a couple of years. So they're pretty good.
- 5:15Speaker 2: My pastor says on a regular basis that You know,
- 5:18Speaker 2: we go to a pretty large church, maybe like 2,800,
- 5:21Speaker 2: 3,000 people there on a Sunday, various services. Hard to
- 5:24Speaker 2: get to know people when there's that many people there.
- 5:27Speaker 2: And the number one way we encourage people to find
- 5:31Speaker 2: community within is to serve together. And so, again, if
- 5:36Speaker 2: you're in the breast cancer community arena emotionally or experientially,
- 5:42Speaker 2: getting people that you're doing something together with, because staying
- 5:45Speaker 2: on mission together develops that. unlike anything else. So it's,
- 5:49Speaker 2: it's a really great way to do that.
- 5:50Speaker 3: Um, but yeah, we talk about luminescence. Uh, Kevin, I
- 5:54Speaker 3: want to hear how that went.
- 5:56Speaker 2: With you guys.
- 5:57Speaker 3: Make it.
- 5:57Speaker 2: I asked you last week to tell me your thoughts
- 5:59Speaker 2: and you were like, you.
- 6:00Speaker 3: Had, this is the big thing in St. Patrick's.
- 6:03Speaker 2: This, this was incredible. And I want to say thank
- 6:07Speaker 2: you to, um, the, to Clayton and the team that
- 6:10Speaker 2: set it all up because they got us, they got
- 6:12Speaker 2: my family, some really nice tickets and we sat all
- 6:14Speaker 2: the way at the one end. So you could see
- 6:15Speaker 2: the whole thing. And I posted it. I posted some
- 6:19Speaker 2: highlights of it on Instagram. And those went viral. Like
- 6:23Speaker 2: I haven't had clips go that viral in a long time.
- 6:26Speaker 2: Beautiful experience. You were a thousand percent correct, though, in
- 6:31Speaker 2: that we're sitting there kind of tracing through the early
- 6:34Speaker 2: history of New York and how the cathedral came to be.
- 6:38Speaker 2: And then I hear something about And then it was September.
- 6:42Speaker 2: And it was like, you just got the first cardinal
- 6:46Speaker 2: named and then like something like there was nothing. And
- 6:49Speaker 2: then it was September and the rest was September 11th
- 6:51Speaker 2: in the aftermath and how it has survived since then.
- 6:56Speaker 2: Still a stunning presentation. I would recommend it to anybody.
- 7:00Speaker 2: And I don't know how they did what they did.
- 7:02Speaker 2: There's not a single micro dot in that entire ceiling
- 7:08Speaker 2: in that entire cathedral that is not used in this show.
- 7:11Speaker 2: And some of it on very precise, specific, tiny, you know,
- 7:15Speaker 2: targeted levels. It's just impossible to explain the precision. But
- 7:19Speaker 2: I know it took them a long, long time to photograph, plan,
- 7:23Speaker 2: and to strategize, and then to execute this properly. Jonathan
- 7:27Speaker 2: asked me as we were leaving, he goes, Dad, how
- 7:29Speaker 2: many times do you think they had to run that
- 7:30Speaker 2: through as a practice to get that precise?
- 7:32Speaker 3: Oh, good question.
- 7:32Speaker 2: And I'm like, oh, I have no idea.
- 7:34Speaker 4: Right.
- 7:35Speaker 5: Right.
- 7:36Speaker 3: There's one part where they make it look like there
- 7:38Speaker 3: is a sunroof or, you know, skylight. Yes.
- 7:42Speaker 2: Several times it looks like the roof opens up.
- 7:45Speaker 4: Yes.
- 7:45Speaker 3: And that the snow comes in or the light. So
- 7:47Speaker 3: it's very seasonal. You're going to go through all four seasons.
- 7:50Speaker 3: But to me, that is just so powerful.
- 7:53Speaker 2: But the best part of all of it.
- 7:54Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 7:55Speaker 2: I mean, Jonathan was a good narrator, but you got Beethoven, Bach,
- 8:00Speaker 2: Vivaldi and Gershwin all in the same room. Evening. And
- 8:06Speaker 2: the orchestra, I don't know how they put that together.
- 8:09Speaker 2: I don't know if it was just one group that
- 8:10Speaker 2: they hired in or if it's various players from around
- 8:14Speaker 2: the city that all came together. But absolutely stunning. And
- 8:17Speaker 2: there is no place in New York that probably has
- 8:19Speaker 2: the acoustics that St. Patrick's has. It was really quite
- 8:24Speaker 2: the venue to see something like that in. And it
- 8:27Speaker 2: was quite something to see.
- 8:29Speaker 3: Yeah, it really was fun. So, folks, if you want
- 8:31Speaker 3: information about that, Luminescence at St. Patrick's Cathedral. check it out.
- 8:36Speaker 3: How much longer does it run?
- 8:38Speaker 2: AB, do we know when the end date is on that?
- 8:40Speaker 3: Until the beginning of November, actually.
- 8:43Speaker 2: Oh, so you've got to go see it.
- 8:44Speaker 3: So it is a limited run.
- 8:45Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 8:47Speaker 2: And if you want the orchestra, you've got to go
- 8:48Speaker 2: on the Friday or the Saturday shows. The rest of
- 8:51Speaker 2: it's going to be good, but the live, I would
- 8:52Speaker 2: recommend the live.
- 8:55Speaker 3: Yeah, I am curious about how they do it without
- 8:56Speaker 3: the orchestra because that is such a powerful part of it.
- 8:59Speaker 2: Oh, I think that probably makes it a little bit easier.
- 9:02Speaker 2: So here's my guess from a technical standpoint. The orchestra
- 9:05Speaker 2: was playing with a click track that was synced with
- 9:08Speaker 2: the lights themselves. And when you don't use live musicians,
- 9:11Speaker 2: it becomes easier because everything is synced pre, before it plays,
- 9:16Speaker 2: and then it's never off. But if you're going to
- 9:18Speaker 2: incorporate live musicians, live vocalists, and live players, they all
- 9:22Speaker 2: had to be synced to something, and I'm guessing they
- 9:25Speaker 2: were using click tracks.
- 9:26Speaker 4: Right.
- 9:27Speaker 3: In their heads. All right.
- 9:29Speaker 2: Metronomes up there.
- 9:31Speaker 3: That's the way it works.
- 9:32Speaker 2: All right. Well, we're going to talk with Linda.
- 9:35Speaker 3: Linda Semidian is going to join us.
- 9:37Speaker 2: Yep, I know. Emmy award-winning producer, formerly of Fox 5,
- 9:41Speaker 2: but also with Cooney TV. And then we're going to
- 9:44Speaker 2: talk with Tracy D. Porn a bit later. She's Christine.
- 9:47Speaker 2: I'm Kevin. Don't go anywhere.
- 9:54Speaker 1: From New York, it's Radio Night Live with Kevin McCullough.
- 9:59Speaker 2: Welcome back. It's the fun Friday edition of Radio Night Live.
- 10:03Speaker 2: And Christine Nicholas and Kevin McCullough are glad to have
- 10:05Speaker 2: you back with us. Christine, there's a lot of things
- 10:09Speaker 2: that remind me that it's October. You know, the changing colors,
- 10:13Speaker 2: the kids getting excited about Halloween, all the stuff that's
- 10:16Speaker 2: going on. The weather starts to get cold. The NFL
- 10:19Speaker 2: players wear weird pink ties and shoes and stuff all
- 10:23Speaker 2: the time. And that reminds me that I go and
- 10:26Speaker 2: pull out my pink tie and wear it to church
- 10:29Speaker 2: a couple of Sundays during the month because this is
- 10:31Speaker 2: an important time of year for people that have been
- 10:34Speaker 2: touched by the big C word. And every time that
- 10:38Speaker 2: you hear the diagnosis, you'll never forget where you are
- 10:41Speaker 2: the first time or if someone that you were close
- 10:44Speaker 2: to has gone through it. And we have some good...
- 10:48Speaker 2: stories to tell tonight about things that can be done
- 10:51Speaker 2: for the positive. Why don't you introduce our next guest?
- 10:54Speaker 3: Sure, Kevin. And Kevin, I know this is, it's very
- 10:58Speaker 3: meaningful that we have this guest on and we have
- 11:00Speaker 3: this opportunity to talk about this because of your personal
- 11:04Speaker 3: struggles with this topic, you know, with your family, which
- 11:08Speaker 3: that's your story to tell.
- 11:10Speaker 2: Well, my bride and I both lost our mothers to
- 11:13Speaker 2: breast cancer. They were born the same year, 1947, but
- 11:15Speaker 2: they were They were about 10 years apart in terms
- 11:19Speaker 2: of their departures. And a lot of that had to
- 11:21Speaker 2: do with just research and development and, you know, the
- 11:25Speaker 2: times of their life when they got diagnosed. And a
- 11:27Speaker 2: lot of things changed along the way. But we'll get
- 11:29Speaker 2: into it.
- 11:30Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, Linda Samidian is our guest. And Linda and
- 11:34Speaker 3: I have known each other for a long time because
- 11:36Speaker 3: she's an Emmy-winning producer and reporter at CUNY TV. But
- 11:40Speaker 3: prior to that, I knew Linda from Fox News. And we.
- 11:47Speaker 3: Reconnected actually due to a Facebook post that she posted
- 11:52Speaker 3: either last year or two years ago when she was
- 11:54Speaker 3: doing the breast cancer walk for the American Cancer Society's
- 11:59Speaker 3: Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk in Central Park. And
- 12:04Speaker 3: I was so taken by her beautiful post about her
- 12:07Speaker 3: sister that it prompted me, I think one of the
- 12:12Speaker 3: things when you're dealing with cancer is don't waste time.
- 12:17Speaker 3: And Linda was such a wonderful source and positive energy
- 12:22Speaker 3: in my world from, you know, being at NYC and
- 12:27Speaker 3: Company City Hall and now at Nicholas and Lentz Communications
- 12:31Speaker 3: that I didn't want to not reach out or not support.
- 12:35Speaker 3: And that's how we got reconnected. And what I learned,
- 12:39Speaker 3: I mean, interesting fun fact is we were both born
- 12:41Speaker 3: on the same day. So think about that. So we're
- 12:45Speaker 3: twins or from another mother, right? So sisters from another mother.
- 12:49Speaker 3: But Linda Sumedian, thank you so much for joining us
- 12:52Speaker 3: here on Radio Night Live. And, you know, tell us
- 12:55Speaker 3: more about the walk, but also what inspired you and
- 12:58Speaker 3: your personal story.
- 13:00Speaker 4: Thank you.
- 13:01Speaker 6: Thank you so much for having me on, both of you.
- 13:04Speaker 5: So I walk in honor of my sister, Darlene Semidian,
- 13:07Speaker 5: who passed away from breast cancer in 2011. She was funny.
- 13:13Speaker 5: She was charming. She was sarcastic. She had the best
- 13:19Speaker 5: handwriting of anyone I've ever known. And we were the
- 13:23Speaker 5: two little girls in matching outfits. And as as adults,
- 13:27Speaker 5: we also lived and worked a block from each other.
- 13:30Speaker 6: For, for decades.
- 13:32Speaker 5: So she was, so it was quite a shock when
- 13:37Speaker 5: she was diagnosed with breast cancer and you still sort of,
- 13:41Speaker 5: you know, you don't believe it or it won't, nothing,
- 13:44Speaker 5: nothing bad will happen.
- 13:45Speaker 6: People, I'm a survivor. It'll, it'll work itself, but it,
- 13:50Speaker 6: but it didn't.
- 13:50Speaker 5: She had a very aggressive form of breast cancer and she, um,
- 13:56Speaker 5: you know, she fought, she fought the good fight, but
- 13:58Speaker 5: ultimately it, it, She passed and I sort of went
- 14:02Speaker 5: into a certainly grief, but even even more probably a
- 14:08Speaker 5: depression for a long time. And a few years ago,
- 14:12Speaker 5: I said, I need to do something. I want to
- 14:15Speaker 5: do something. And so I just decided to find this walk.
- 14:18Speaker 5: It turned out that I found it on my own,
- 14:21Speaker 5: but it turned out that CUNY also participates in it.
- 14:25Speaker 5: So I participate with with CUNY. Um, and it's wonderful.
- 14:31Speaker 5: And I decide my daughter suggested, um, you should write
- 14:35Speaker 5: something about you and, and your sister auntie. And I said,
- 14:39Speaker 5: who wants to hear my sad story? Nobody wants to
- 14:41Speaker 5: hear this, but something resonated. And so I did, I
- 14:44Speaker 5: wrote up this essay, the one page essay about my
- 14:49Speaker 5: sister was interesting from the moment I was born.
- 14:51Speaker 6: She was there.
- 14:52Speaker 5: And, um, and I, I was really taken aback by
- 14:57Speaker 5: the response to this essay of people saying, oh, I
- 15:02Speaker 5: was just like that. I'm just like that with my sister.
- 15:04Speaker 5: And also the idea of people would also sort of
- 15:08Speaker 5: walk up to me saying, oh, I lost my brother.
- 15:11Speaker 5: I lost my sister. And sibling grief, it's a thing.
- 15:17Speaker 5: If you're married, you lose your spouse.
- 15:21Speaker 6: There's a word. There's widow or widower.
- 15:24Speaker 5: There's, there's a term that people know it, but sibling grief,
- 15:28Speaker 5: these are long relationships that you've had and there is no,
- 15:31Speaker 5: there's no term for it. So I realized a lot
- 15:33Speaker 5: of people kind of came up to me very quietly sharing.
- 15:37Speaker 6: Oh, I I've lost someone too. And I'm so, you know,
- 15:40Speaker 6: I'm so sorry.
- 15:41Speaker 5: And, um, and so you sort of, it really kind
- 15:45Speaker 5: of opened my eyes to, to do something just to
- 15:51Speaker 5: do something. So, This is now the fourth year that
- 15:56Speaker 5: I've walked for Making Strides Against Breast Cancer in Central Park.
- 16:00Speaker 5: It's inspirational. It's a community of people. There's Making Strides
- 16:11Speaker 5: walks all across the country. And all you do is
- 16:15Speaker 5: you go to makingstrides.org, put in your zip code, and
- 16:19Speaker 5: it'll pop up a whole bunch of walks near you.
- 16:25Speaker 5: There's community people. There's, as I mentioned, a sea of pink,
- 16:31Speaker 5: just everyone. And it starts at eight, a rolling start time,
- 16:34Speaker 5: eight to 1030. And it's a walk. It's a leisurely,
- 16:40Speaker 5: leisurely walk. It's not a race. Wear comfortable shoes. Sunday
- 16:45Speaker 5: is supposed to be sunny, high.
- 16:48Speaker 6: 40s, low 50s. So it should be lovely walking weather.
- 16:51Speaker 3: So, so.
- 16:53Speaker 6: Come, come join.
- 16:54Speaker 3: How many miles is it?
- 16:56Speaker 5: It's a four mile walk and it's mile marker one,
- 17:00Speaker 5: mile marker two. So there's people taking photos all the time.
- 17:04Speaker 5: And in my experience, the first year that I walked,
- 17:08Speaker 5: I walked with a friend of my sister's, one of
- 17:10Speaker 5: her dear friends, Clay, and it was just the two
- 17:13Speaker 5: of us. And we, we walked both. Neither of us
- 17:17Speaker 5: had ever done it before. And the second year, a
- 17:21Speaker 5: couple of others joined Anton and Anna. They joined, it
- 17:23Speaker 5: was the four of us and it was uplifting. And
- 17:26Speaker 5: then last year, my auntie who is a, my auntie
- 17:29Speaker 5: Carol is a 27 year breast cancer survivor. And she
- 17:35Speaker 5: walks with my cousin, her daughter, Lauren and her grandkids
- 17:41Speaker 5: in Rhode Island.
- 17:42Speaker 6: And last year they drove down and.
- 17:45Speaker 5: It was just a group of, 10 of us, my
- 17:48Speaker 5: friends came clay.
- 17:49Speaker 6: It was really, it was really wonderful. So it seems
- 17:51Speaker 6: to have grown and people want to be part of it.
- 17:56Speaker 2: Well, I think there's the upside about this, Linda, and
- 18:00Speaker 2: thank you for sharing your story is that there is there's,
- 18:05Speaker 2: there's breast cancer has obviously been around for a while,
- 18:08Speaker 2: but as was the case in my own mother-in-law and
- 18:11Speaker 2: mother's story, But as technology and as developments have occurred,
- 18:16Speaker 2: that research has paid off. And the survivorship, we're seeing
- 18:21Speaker 2: spikes in lifetimes. And so there's a couple more thoughts
- 18:26Speaker 2: that we're going to have on this. So we're going
- 18:27Speaker 2: to ask you to stick around for one more segment
- 18:30Speaker 2: because we want to talk more about it. October is
- 18:33Speaker 2: Breast Cancer Awareness Month. For those of you that are
- 18:35Speaker 2: not initiated, that is why the NFL players wear the
- 18:38Speaker 2: funny little pink shoes. It may not look right, especially
- 18:41Speaker 2: if they're like a bronco orange.
- 18:42Speaker 3: And it's not just NFL, which is nice. It's really
- 18:44Speaker 3: across the board.
- 18:45Speaker 2: Has MLB picked it up? Because I don't see them
- 18:48Speaker 2: putting pink armbands on or anything yet.
- 18:50Speaker 4: Nice.
- 18:51Speaker 2: I have to get them on it. Anyway, coming right
- 18:53Speaker 2: back from New York. Don't go away.
- 18:58Speaker 1: And now, from New York, back to Radio Night Live,
- 19:02Speaker 1: here's Kevin McCullough.
- 19:04Speaker 3: Welcome back.
- 19:05Speaker 2: Glad you're with us. It's Friday night at Radio Night Live.
- 19:09Speaker 2: Breast cancer, probably not a topic that you would think
- 19:11Speaker 2: of as being a good, fun Friday type affair. But
- 19:14Speaker 2: when you can do something good about it, that's worth
- 19:17Speaker 2: talking about. And so that's why we're excited to be
- 19:20Speaker 2: able to tell you about the Making Strides Walk. Linda,
- 19:23Speaker 2: tell us again how people, if they have not signed
- 19:25Speaker 2: up yet, can they still do that? Where do they go?
- 19:27Speaker 2: Help us out there.
- 19:29Speaker 6: Yes, you can. You can register.
- 19:30Speaker 5: Go to making strides dot org and you can. They
- 19:35Speaker 5: suggest you register.
- 19:36Speaker 6: It's free. You can go there.
- 19:39Speaker 5: I when you go there, I believe there is QR
- 19:42Speaker 5: codes and they do want you to register if you're
- 19:45Speaker 5: going to be doing the walk.
- 19:46Speaker 6: But it's and.
- 19:47Speaker 5: Also when you go, it's it's very helpful information. If
- 19:52Speaker 5: you want to call the number, if that's easier for you,
- 19:54Speaker 5: people pick up it's, I found it to be a very,
- 19:57Speaker 5: a really lovely organization.
- 19:59Speaker 3: Good.
- 20:00Speaker 2: Making strides.org. I do want to talk about a little bit,
- 20:03Speaker 2: and maybe none of us are informed enough to do this,
- 20:05Speaker 2: but when I talk to, um, Because on another night
- 20:10Speaker 2: of the week, we talk about health and wellness and stuff.
- 20:12Speaker 2: And I've had several on in recent years. Everything from
- 20:16Speaker 2: the laser knife to the type of immunotherapies that they
- 20:19Speaker 2: have developed now that are working in a lot of
- 20:23Speaker 2: different types of cancers. There seems to have been a
- 20:26Speaker 2: real payoff to raising money for all this research in
- 20:30Speaker 2: recent years. And I'm just curious. Linda, as a kind
- 20:33Speaker 2: of investigative reporter mind of your own, what have you,
- 20:38Speaker 2: as you have been involved in the movement, what have
- 20:40Speaker 2: you noted and what are you most encouraged by?
- 20:43Speaker 6: Well, you're right.
- 20:44Speaker 5: There has been marked improvements in saving lives. The money
- 20:53Speaker 5: that they raised. For instance, if my sister had been
- 20:57Speaker 5: diagnosed today, she had a 24-month, window.
- 21:02Speaker 6: And she, she two years, but she, she survived for
- 21:05Speaker 6: four years. She was a fighter.
- 21:07Speaker 5: I believe now they, her triple negative cancer would have,
- 21:11Speaker 5: it's a five, I believe it's a five year, um, length.
- 21:14Speaker 5: So it, so it has, um, research is constantly, uh,
- 21:20Speaker 5: improving for making strides. I looked it up a little bit.
- 21:23Speaker 5: The money goes to breast cancer research. They invested 600
- 21:26Speaker 5: million in research grants in the past 30 years. They
- 21:30Speaker 5: funded studies that proved that mammography is the best tool
- 21:33Speaker 5: for early detection. And there's all sorts of other programs
- 21:36Speaker 5: for patients and caregivers with them.
- 21:40Speaker 2: Well, and I think that that's why it's so important
- 21:42Speaker 2: to let people know, because it's not just another fundraising mechanism.
- 21:47Speaker 2: This is going to real work and doing real things
- 21:50Speaker 2: for real people. And it's funny you say that about
- 21:54Speaker 2: your sister. I was thinking back to my mom when
- 21:56Speaker 2: she was first diagnosed. Uh, she was fourth, uh, category four,
- 22:02Speaker 2: fourth degree. What do they call it? Uh, let stage four,
- 22:04Speaker 2: stage four. Um, so she, they just gave her like
- 22:07Speaker 2: six months and she said, come hell or high water.
- 22:13Speaker 2: And so she'd like changed her nutritional habits, how she
- 22:16Speaker 2: cooked for us. Like everything in our life got turned
- 22:19Speaker 2: upside down. Um, and she lived about three and a
- 22:22Speaker 2: half more years. And one of the hospitals that she
- 22:25Speaker 2: actually went to is in, um, just in Mexico, just
- 22:28Speaker 2: over the border from San Diego. And they now lead
- 22:30Speaker 2: the world in immunotherapy advances. And that's where a lot
- 22:35Speaker 2: of this research has shown the most promise in recent years.
- 22:38Speaker 2: Stuff that's not nearly as hard on the healthy cells
- 22:40Speaker 2: in the body and really helps them, you know, attack
- 22:44Speaker 2: the dangerous ones dramatically. But I just think that you're
- 22:48Speaker 2: talking about such a good cause and we're just so
- 22:50Speaker 2: grateful to be able to amplify it.
- 22:51Speaker 3: Yes, indeed. Linda, thank you so much for sharing your
- 22:54Speaker 3: story Folks, this March walk is in Central Park. You
- 23:01Speaker 3: can get more information at cancer.org or makingstrides.org. It's 72nd Street,
- 23:09Speaker 3: right off of Fifth Avenue. In addition to walking, there's
- 23:13Speaker 3: going to be a lot of tabling. There'll be a
- 23:15Speaker 3: lot of information. And I think at the end of
- 23:18Speaker 3: the day, if you haven't gotten your mammogram, you should
- 23:21Speaker 3: make the appointment to get your mammogram because It is
- 23:24Speaker 3: the best detection. And it's not a life sentence. It's
- 23:29Speaker 3: not a death sentence, rather. If you are given a diagnosis,
- 23:33Speaker 3: as you heard from Linda and Kevin, you can live beyond.
- 23:39Speaker 3: And with the strides that they're making in cancer research,
- 23:42Speaker 3: thanks to this investment, hopefully you can be one of
- 23:47Speaker 3: the many survivors because there are now more survivors, more
- 23:51Speaker 3: and more. So congratulations. it's just such an important message.
- 23:54Speaker 3: And that's why, even though it's fun Friday, as Kevin said,
- 23:57Speaker 3: this is going to be a fun event, right? I mean,
- 24:00Speaker 3: there is a lot of like, well, we're praying.
- 24:02Speaker 2: Like mad that the weather's better than today on Sunday.
- 24:05Speaker 2: We've got to have some sunshine for this thing.
- 24:08Speaker 6: It's surprisingly uplifting the event.
- 24:10Speaker 5: I mean, I was surprised and, um, yeah, people, people
- 24:14Speaker 5: are cheering on people are people who are in that community.
- 24:17Speaker 5: They're survivors and they're family members and they're, um, They're
- 24:22Speaker 5: fighting the good fight.
- 24:23Speaker 2: Do either of you know the current statistic on the
- 24:26Speaker 2: rate of the population of women that do get a
- 24:29Speaker 2: positive diagnosis? Because I think when my mom was first diagnosed,
- 24:32Speaker 2: they thought it was going to be like one in
- 24:34Speaker 2: three at one point. That sounds high to me, but
- 24:37Speaker 2: I don't know what the current number is.
- 24:40Speaker 6: I believe it's one in eight.
- 24:41Speaker 3: Okay.
- 24:41Speaker 6: Diagnosed with breast cancer at some point in their lives.
- 24:44Speaker 2: Well, even in that, they've made strides.
- 24:47Speaker 3: Moving in the right direction. Absolutely.
- 24:50Speaker 2: All right. Thank you, Linda. God bless you.
- 24:52Speaker 6: Thank you. Thank you both for having me on.
- 24:55Speaker 2: Sure thing. Got to take another break and then more
- 24:58Speaker 2: Radio Night Live.
- 24:58Speaker 3: Stay here.
- 25:04Speaker 6: What a little moonlight can do.
- 25:06Speaker 1: It's Radio Night Live. Here's Kevin McCullough.
- 25:11Speaker 2: Welcome back. Kevin McCullough, Christine Nicholas, great to have you.
- 25:15Speaker 2: Thank you for Linda and for sharing her story. And friends, again,
- 25:19Speaker 2: Making Strides this Sunday. Go and check it out, makingstrides.org. Now, Christine,
- 25:25Speaker 2: we mentioned this in the opening, but there was a
- 25:27Speaker 2: certain Met fan who was with us. And while he
- 25:32Speaker 2: bemoaned the travails of his beloved Metropolitans, he does have
- 25:39Speaker 2: some bragging rights to wave around this week with us.
- 25:43Speaker 2: Because in the preseason edition of Being On, he said
- 25:47Speaker 2: he thought that this one team was going to do
- 25:49Speaker 2: really well. He said it again at the pre-playoff edition
- 25:53Speaker 2: of Being On the show. And now they just swept
- 25:57Speaker 2: or just knocked the World Series champs for the last
- 26:00Speaker 2: couple of years running on their backsides. So we've got
- 26:03Speaker 2: to let Tracy Nieporent come and have his bragging rights. Tracy,
- 26:07Speaker 2: congratulations on the prescience that you have shown on this
- 26:12Speaker 2: year's postseason.
- 26:14Speaker 3: Well, thank you.
- 26:15Speaker 4: You know, the brew crew. has come up big. They
- 26:18Speaker 4: reminded me very much of some of the unsung Met
- 26:21Speaker 4: teams that had players that weren't necessarily marquee players, but
- 26:25Speaker 4: came up in key situations like Ron Swoboda and Art
- 26:29Speaker 4: Shamsky and Al Weiss and people like that who helped
- 26:33Speaker 4: the Mets win a world championship.
- 26:35Speaker 2: Basically the opposite of anything the Yankees tried to have
- 26:37Speaker 2: this postseason.
- 26:39Speaker 4: The Yankees, they were just pieces of the puzzle that
- 26:42Speaker 4: were missing. I never felt confident that they were really
- 26:45Speaker 4: going to go all the way. But listen, they won
- 26:47Speaker 4: 93 games. It's pretty impressive when you consider that their
- 26:50Speaker 4: main star judge was out for a considerable period of time.
- 26:55Speaker 4: They had terrific pitching, but their lineup just didn't impress me.
- 26:59Speaker 4: It just didn't. And I think that when you get
- 27:03Speaker 4: to the postseason, these teams are on a different gear.
- 27:07Speaker 4: And their motivation is very strong. And I'm just impressed.
- 27:11Speaker 4: The Brewers have a bunch of players, you know, names
- 27:14Speaker 4: that you just don't know here in New York. Barrett
- 27:17Speaker 4: and Terang and... of course, Bowers. Yelich is a name
- 27:23Speaker 4: that's been around for a while. He's kind of on
- 27:24Speaker 4: the downside of his career, but he's an inspirational figure
- 27:27Speaker 4: for the team. And their manager, Pat Murphy, has been
- 27:30Speaker 4: manager of the year two years in a row. He's
- 27:32Speaker 4: a really good leader of men. He has a good
- 27:35Speaker 4: figure on the pulse of the game, and he doesn't
- 27:37Speaker 4: tolerate incompetence. But the players also know that he has
- 27:43Speaker 4: their back, and he's very steady. I was very impressed
- 27:46Speaker 4: with him two years ago when the Mets upset the Brewers'
- 27:49Speaker 4: in the playoffs when Pete Alonzo hit that big home
- 27:53Speaker 4: run in the post game, I'm listening to Murphy and
- 27:57Speaker 4: he's like a real man standing up there and taking
- 28:00Speaker 4: his medicine, congratulating the Mets, not making any excuses. And
- 28:04Speaker 4: I thought, wow, this guy, he gets it. He's, he's,
- 28:07Speaker 4: he's a solid guy. There's a reason why this team
- 28:10Speaker 4: is where they are. And sure enough, uh, For the
- 28:13Speaker 4: last two years, they've been knocking on the door, knocking
- 28:15Speaker 4: on the door. And I think this year they have
- 28:17Speaker 4: a very good chance of winning the championship.
- 28:19Speaker 2: Tracy, aren't they doing it for a lot less money
- 28:22Speaker 2: than the other teams that are in the playoffs?
- 28:24Speaker 4: They are. They are.
- 28:25Speaker 3: A lot less.
- 28:26Speaker 4: You know, our general manager, Stearns, came out of the
- 28:31Speaker 4: Brewer system. And they did well with him there. And
- 28:34Speaker 4: they've done well with him since he's departed. So they
- 28:37Speaker 4: obviously have a system there. And they get players who
- 28:40Speaker 4: are highly motivated, aren't necessarily making the highest amount of money,
- 28:44Speaker 4: but they perform at a very good level and they
- 28:47Speaker 4: have to retool. So players come in and out, but
- 28:49Speaker 4: they always seem to be able to replace them with
- 28:51Speaker 4: competent players as the new guys. And they're in a market.
- 28:57Speaker 4: It's a small market, but it's a very enthusiastic market.
- 28:59Speaker 4: The fans there are very passionate.
- 29:01Speaker 2: The Bucs, the NBA team there has been off and on.
- 29:04Speaker 2: They've never had an NFL team. It's always been like
- 29:07Speaker 2: a Like, the brewers were the show there. And it's
- 29:12Speaker 2: nice to see, you know, small cities can still be
- 29:14Speaker 2: competitive sometimes.
- 29:16Speaker 3: Yeah. They really haven't had a spotlight since, what, Laverne
- 29:18Speaker 3: and Shirley? I mean, wasn't that the last time the
- 29:22Speaker 3: Milwaukee was really, like, sort of?
- 29:24Speaker 4: Well, when I was a kid, when I was a child,
- 29:26Speaker 4: I mean, they had the Milwaukee Braves who had Hank
- 29:29Speaker 4: Aaron and Eddie Matthews and Warren Spahn. But that was
- 29:34Speaker 4: a long time ago. And then, of course, they moved.
- 29:36Speaker 4: and didn't have a team for a while, and the
- 29:38Speaker 4: Brewers came in. But yeah, I mean, it's a city
- 29:43Speaker 4: that it's a working class city. I think it's to Chicago,
- 29:47Speaker 4: kind of what Philadelphia is to New York. You know,
- 29:49Speaker 4: New York is the big brother. Chicago is the big brother.
- 29:52Speaker 4: Milwaukee is kind of in the shadow. But You got
- 29:55Speaker 4: to give them credit. They they plus, you know, they
- 29:57Speaker 4: have a stadium where they can enclose it for the weather.
- 30:00Speaker 3: We don't have that in New York.
- 30:02Speaker 4: So when the world's.
- 30:03Speaker 3: All of our money and all of our investments, we
- 30:05Speaker 3: still don't seem to understand the value of that. Look,
- 30:09Speaker 3: I don't even want to get involved with Buffalo because
- 30:11Speaker 3: that was the billions that didn't really do what they're
- 30:14Speaker 3: supposed to do.
- 30:15Speaker 4: But, you know, when you get into, you know, the
- 30:18Speaker 4: World Series these days plays right into November. And when
- 30:21Speaker 4: you get into November, the weather is cold. So you
- 30:24Speaker 4: need to have some cover, not just for the players
- 30:27Speaker 4: and for the quality of play, but also for the
- 30:29Speaker 4: comfort of the fans, which they should think.
- 30:30Speaker 2: About once in a while.
- 30:31Speaker 4: Not just the people who are in the luxury suites,
- 30:34Speaker 4: but people who are in the stands.
- 30:36Speaker 2: Well, it is one of the few sports that we
- 30:39Speaker 2: actually do halt because of weather. And we say, you know,
- 30:42Speaker 2: we're going to have a certain level of, you know,
- 30:46Speaker 2: conditions on the field in order to judge fans. You know,
- 30:48Speaker 2: whether we can play or not in foot in the NFL,
- 30:51Speaker 2: they just play. You just play it until it's done.
- 30:53Speaker 2: But in baseball, they're saying, no, there's an optimal setting
- 30:56Speaker 2: that we need to be at. Sure would make sense
- 30:59Speaker 2: to have roofs over everybody.
- 31:00Speaker 4: It really would. And when you think about it, they
- 31:03Speaker 4: have to warm these pitchers up. If there's a delay,
- 31:05Speaker 4: they have to sit them down. Then they have to
- 31:07Speaker 4: get them to warm up again. This is a dangerous thing.
- 31:11Speaker 4: Pictures are on a delicate mechanism. You don't want to
- 31:14Speaker 4: be doing that. That's where you get arm injuries. So
- 31:17Speaker 4: there's and there's millions of dollars at stake because a
- 31:19Speaker 4: lot of these pictures being paid very huge salaries and
- 31:22Speaker 4: the risk is high. So I don't know. I know
- 31:25Speaker 4: it's expensive to put a roof on a building. I
- 31:27Speaker 4: also know that if you can have it for 40 years.
- 31:30Speaker 4: it's going to pay back in all kinds of activities.
- 31:34Speaker 3: The rain outs, the rain, so on.
- 31:36Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 31:37Speaker 3: And then, but keep in mind, Tracy, the roof, the
- 31:41Speaker 3: roof came into play during this postseason. You got to
- 31:45Speaker 3: learn how to play it off the roof.
- 31:47Speaker 4: Yeah. Right. Well, that's an interesting series. I think that
- 31:51Speaker 4: I thought that the, the Rays would, would win that
- 31:53Speaker 4: series and they may still, but you have to give
- 31:56Speaker 4: Cleveland a lot of credit for their resilience.
- 31:59Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 32:00Speaker 4: They're they're a feisty bunch. And they're also a team
- 32:04Speaker 4: that's that's well managed. Both of those teams are and
- 32:06Speaker 4: also low, low, low, low salaried players. So when they're
- 32:11Speaker 4: going into this work stoppage now and they talk about, well,
- 32:14Speaker 4: the teams with all the money have all the advantages.
- 32:16Speaker 4: That may be true to some extent, but it isn't
- 32:19Speaker 4: showing itself to be true in these playoffs.
- 32:21Speaker 2: Well, in this year in particular, you've got the Yankees
- 32:24Speaker 2: who have spent through the roof and they couldn't get
- 32:27Speaker 2: out of the first round. And you've got the Brewers
- 32:29Speaker 2: who are coming in very economically. And it looks like
- 32:32Speaker 2: they're going to win everything. So is that your prediction?
- 32:35Speaker 2: Will the brewers take it all?
- 32:36Speaker 3: I think so.
- 32:37Speaker 4: I think they have the, they've been knocking on the
- 32:40Speaker 4: door for a few years now. And I think that
- 32:42Speaker 4: their motivation is very strong to get it done this time.
- 32:44Speaker 2: All right. There's the fork. Tracy, thank you for stopping by.
- 32:47Speaker 2: We appreciate it.
- 32:49Speaker 3: Thanks, Tracy.
- 32:50Speaker 2: Thank you. Coming back, Christine's got tips for even you
- 32:53Speaker 2: this weekend. Friend, stay there.
- 32:54Speaker 5: Right.
- 33:05Speaker 1: Once again, from New York, here's Radio Night Live and
- 33:08Speaker 1: Kevin McCullough.
- 33:10Speaker 2: Welcome back. Final few minutes, Radio Night Live. We're hoping
- 33:14Speaker 2: for better weather this weekend. And if we have nicer
- 33:17Speaker 2: weather this weekend, Christine, not that you're going to care.
- 33:19Speaker 2: You're off at big-time college football games and having fun
- 33:22Speaker 2: with your kids and doing all that kind of stuff.
- 33:23Speaker 2: But here in the tri-state. We do need things to do.
- 33:27Speaker 2: So what should we do?
- 33:28Speaker 3: Well, we should listen to Linda Simitian and thank her
- 33:31Speaker 3: for being our guest and get out there and walk.
- 33:34Speaker 3: Making Strides Walk this Sunday, October 18th. It's only four miles.
- 33:38Speaker 3: So 8 a.m. to 10.30 a.m. Just go to Central
- 33:40Speaker 3: Park and check it out. You can get more information
- 33:43Speaker 3: at cancer.org. Also, there's Open House New York. Kevin, this
- 33:47Speaker 3: is just this fabulous event once a year, 300 locations each.
- 33:52Speaker 3: in New York City that basically do these special curated
- 33:56Speaker 3: tours or they open their house. So it's, you know,
- 33:59Speaker 3: I know Cathedral St. John the Divine is doing an
- 34:02Speaker 3: open house tour, the Frick, the Brooklyn Army Terminal, but
- 34:06Speaker 3: One of the special ones is actually with Live On
- 34:09Speaker 3: New York, where they have their Sim Center, which is
- 34:12Speaker 3: really to show you what happens with organ donation. And
- 34:16Speaker 3: I think they have six or seven sessions for that,
- 34:20Speaker 3: where you'll see it on a dummy. But what happens?
- 34:24Speaker 3: And it walks you through that whole scenario. And as
- 34:27Speaker 3: we know, Live On New York has done such a
- 34:30Speaker 3: great job of getting people to register because you can
- 34:33Speaker 3: save many lives. So that information for Open House is
- 34:37Speaker 3: O-H-N-Y for Open House New York, O-H-N-Y dot O-R-G. And
- 34:43Speaker 3: that takes place today and it goes all the way
- 34:46Speaker 3: through Sunday. So hopefully you can find something to do
- 34:50Speaker 3: and something to see. And some of it will be indoors.
- 34:53Speaker 3: We also have the... the third annual AMT International Film
- 34:58Speaker 3: Festival at AMT Theater, which is 354 West 45th Street.
- 35:03Speaker 3: So that is going to be exciting. They have films
- 35:06Speaker 3: from all over, filmmakers. So you can get more information
- 35:11Speaker 3: if you want to go watch a film. That'll be
- 35:13Speaker 3: something dry and cozy.
- 35:16Speaker 2: And those seats are fairly new, so they're pretty comfortable.
- 35:20Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's small. It's a 100-seat theater, but it's... State-of-the-art,
- 35:24Speaker 3: brand new, so it'll be very exciting. Seussical, the musical,
- 35:29Speaker 3: at the 92nd Street Y. That's something fun as well.
- 35:33Speaker 3: So it's 2 p.m. every Saturday through November 14th, so
- 35:36Speaker 3: it's not just this weekend, but plan ahead to go
- 35:39Speaker 3: see Seussical, the musical. 92nd Street Y.
- 35:41Speaker 2: Your favorite character in one Seussical, the musical, would be?
- 35:45Speaker 3: Well, I believe it's your daughter, correct?
- 35:48Speaker 2: Well, she's not in this production. But yeah, she's been
- 35:52Speaker 2: in it, right? She was the she was this was
- 35:54Speaker 2: it called Sour Kanga? Yeah, she was the villain. It
- 35:57Speaker 2: was her first villain role. She was she thought she
- 36:00Speaker 2: really arrived when she when she got a villain. Like
- 36:02Speaker 2: she was like, Dad, now I'm a real actress playing.
- 36:04Speaker 3: Yeah. And then there's been a lot of talk about
- 36:08Speaker 3: scavenger hunts. These seem to be making certainly a comeback.
- 36:12Speaker 3: Central Park has a scavenger hunt going. This Saturday, 2 p.m.,
- 36:17Speaker 3: it's called The Secrets of Central Park, and it's by
- 36:22Speaker 3: Watson Adventures, which is a great organization. Just go on
- 36:26Speaker 3: their website, watsonadventures.com, and you can get a team together,
- 36:31Speaker 3: and you can.
- 36:34Speaker 3: Just have an awesome time. It's a great team building opportunity.
- 36:38Speaker 3: And you're going to learn a lot about Central Park.
- 36:40Speaker 3: So I thoroughly.
- 36:42Speaker 2: Well, and we don't want to forget thanking our other
- 36:44Speaker 2: guests tonight. Oh, yeah.
- 36:46Speaker 3: Tracy. Tracy. I mean, the guy who is normally eating
- 36:49Speaker 3: humble pie.
- 36:49Speaker 2: He was bragging. The suspenders were popping at what a
- 36:53Speaker 2: great prognosticator he was.
- 36:56Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, it's nice that a Met fan has
- 36:59Speaker 3: something to brag about.
- 37:01Speaker 2: That's right.
- 37:02Speaker 3: All right.
- 37:03Speaker 2: Well, you enjoy the rest of your time on the
- 37:04Speaker 2: college football weekend. And we will try to do our
- 37:07Speaker 2: best here in the tri-state. She's Christine.
- 37:09Speaker 4: I'm Kevin.
- 37:09Speaker 2: We'll see you next time.