NightSide News Update 5-8-25

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Thanks, thank you, Madison appreciated on that game three.

We'll be in New York on Saturday afternoon, so I will be able to watch that game like all of you.

I don't have to do Nightside up. I guess that a Celtics game. Good evening.

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We're going to be just fine.

We will be talking tucking later on this evening, beginning at nine o'clock about the news story of the day, and that is the election of the first American pope. Pope Leo the fourteenth, formerly Cardinal Robert Privo of Chicago and also Peru, and we'll kind of work through.

All of that.

We have a couple of guests lined up who can talk about the process and his background. And it was stunning, is the I think it's the two hundred and sixty seventh pope in the history of the Catholic Church, first from the United States, and of course we've only been around two in and fifty years, so the first I don't know, first two thousand, the first couple one hundred, two hundred and forty really don't count, but anyway, well

A great NBA career, Jack Marin.

So I never went to Duke, never never been on Duke's campus, but I feel a little closeness to Duke University because of my friendship with Jack Marron. Doctor Witchstein, welcome to night Side.

How are you very good?

Thanks for having me.

Yeah, you've had some other good basketball players along the way, so yeah, they've got a few and a couple of good coaches as well. One that plays in the Celtics right now, and we'll talk about that later. May is National Arthritis Awareness Month and also National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month, And anyone who is on the wrong side of fifty, as I say, has an increased risk for arthritis in or osteoporosis. So the first question is there are a huge There has to be a huge difference

Yeah, happy to I'm always you know, I think about them as being very different, of course, but if you're not a doctor or in the medical field, it's confusing. So osteoporosis is specifically a definition of thinning of the or loss of bone density. So it's you know, how dense and how strong are your bones. Osteo Arthritis is

So what can those of us on the wrong side of fifty, even those in the right side of fifty but approaching fifty, what can they do to ward off early onset of these conditions or even worse yet, them really causing significant problems as we all age.

I think that it's easy to talk about prevention of osteoporosis. That can be sort of a lifelong preventative measure, or it could be something that you start working on even if you've already developed some osteoporosis or loss of bone density. The most important aspects of maintaining your bone density are participating in strength training programs, including resistance training like lifting weights. Participating in a little bit of jumping something that causes

What about drinking milk. I'm a big milk drinker, and I always thought that drinking milk, even into our time on the other side of fifty, on the wrong side of fifty, helps with both of those conditions or is that perhaps something that I was told when I was young that no longer was true.

So milk is an excellent source of calcium. It's very what we called bioavailable, meaning you can absorb it pretty easily. And calcium is an important nutrient to get from your diet for your bone density and your bone health. Calcium isn't particularly helpful for your joint health. One thing that we need to remember, though, is that when we're thinking of foods that nourish your bones and help you maintain bone density, calcium is just one part of the picture,

Any particular vegetables across the board, because again I'm someone who listens, and if it's all vegetables, that's great, But if there's a couple.

Yeah we should.

Those I think the best, right, the best ones to focus on in terms of plant based sources of calcium are what we call cruciferous vegetables, things like broccoli, cauliflower, things like that. And then one that people often don't think about that is a really good source of calcium is backchoy. It has a very very available calcium content. So you can get as much calcium from one cup of cooked box toy as you can from drinking one cup of milk.

Okay, so what about Okay, one of my favorite A couple of my favorite vegetables.

I love.

Leafy vegetables, but I also love beets and tomatoes.

Those are good for your joints, they.

Are Okay, Well, that's fine cover that. I don't know why I'm.

Not Russian or is my family Russian base, but I feel that somewhere in my background some one of my predecessors ancestors must have eaten a lot of borsh or something.

Whatever beats are.

In of diet is so so important as we get older, and and it's it's great that folks like yourself are willing to talk with us about these issues because a lot of us. You know, here's one that I love. And you're gonna laugh at me when I say this. As a kid, I used to watch Popeye the Sailor, So.

I actually linach, Spinach? Is that is that a good one? Who is that over sold by Popeye the Sailor?

Uh?

Yeah, Well, I have a little bit of disappointing news for you. Spinach is really not a good source of calcium because it does have a lot of calcium in it, it just has some other things in it called oxalates that make the calcium a bit hard to absorb. So, you know, spinach is good for many things in terms of you know, you get some fiber, you get some other vitamins and minerals that are are good for you. It has some you know, antioxidants in it that are

In that way.

I'm one of the few people when they when they offer you a vegetable at a restaurant, I'll see it can't have a side of spinach, And a lot of times the waiters and waitresses look at me like, really, I.

Also love spin itch, you know, saud tied with garlic or whatever, and I eat spine. It's not that I don't eat it, it's just that it shouldn't be your source of calcium. And if you're trying to utilize something else in your diet as a source of calcium, you also don't really want to pair it with the spinach because it's going to reduce the amount of calcium that you absorb.

You know, there's a lot of thought that has to go into our diets if we're really going to do effectively. Doctor I really enjoyed our conversation. Go Blue Devils, Doctor jos Jocelyn Witstein, thank you so much for joining us. Many people who come on our program have books, and you have one called The Complete Bone and Joint Health Plan Help Prevent and Treat Osteoporosis and Arthritis.

How can people get that book?

Yeah, you can find it on Amazon or on Barnes and Nobles online anywhere that you purchase your books. It's in bookstores and basically it's a guide for you to optimize your bone and joint health, including understanding anti inflammatory and bone health, diet choice, with recipes and exercises to help you optimize all those things.

Well, we have a good audience, a lot of them are very much concerned about aging and being in shape throughout their entire life. So I think that probably there's a few folks who have written that down and if for those who didn't, the Complete Bone en Joint Health Plan written by the way with a colleague doctor not a doctor, or is he Sydney is a doctor Sydney.

She's a registered dietician, so I'm an rithspeak surgeon and she's a registered dietician.

Perfect okay. And the book The Complete Bone and Joint Health Plan help prevent and treat osteoporosis and arthritis. Thanks very much, doctor Winstein with Stein Witstein, I appreciate it very much.

Thank you, Thank you for having me.

All right, bye, talk again.

Coming back, We're going to talk with the only female sheriff in the commwalth of Massachusetts, Sheriff Donna Buckley, the sheriff of Barnstable County. She's the only female, the only mother and the only grandmother sheriff. So if you get arrested in Barnstable County, you're probably gonna get a chance to enjoy the accommodations that Sheriff Buckley provides. We'll talk with her about We're gonna highlight females and corrections and

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Well tonight we're highlighting and we have been highing this month. Actually, Sheriff's from around the Commonwealth. But we're highlighting females tonight in corrections and tackling safety on Cape Cod this summer. No one was better qualified for that than Sheriff Donna Buckley. She's one of fourteen county sheriffs here in Massachusetts, the only female, the only mom, the only grandmother sheriff elected in Massachusetts. Welcome Sheriff Buckley. How are you this evening?

I'm great, Dan, Thank you so much for having me.

Well.

I think everybody knows Barnstable County is down there on the Cape, But how many communities do you represent down there?

We have fifteen towns stretching all the way from woodsholl and Falmouth to Provincetown.

Now you're a lawyer by education Suffolk University Law School. How did you end up as a sheriff? I mean not too many people wake up Sunday and say I want to become a sheriff. I mean is It's a great position, don't get me wrong, but it's not one that most people gravitate towards. How did you end up, and particularly as the first female, a female sheriff in the history of Barnstable County. I guess it's three hundred and thirty three years old, so it's about time.

You know. It was not on my bucket list, Dan, I you know, I had an opportunity in twenty eighteen to go to work at the Sheriff's Office as general counsel, and when it came time for the election, I saw an opportunity to have a really important in conversation with the people in Barnstable County about what direction our Sheriff's

No, I think that's praise worthy, laudatory and all of that. But the other side of the coin is that you've got some you've got some tough cases down there. You've had, not necessarily during your term, but there was a police officer shot and killed a few years ago as they were trying to roast a guy out of an attic. I'm sure you're familiar with more familiar with that case than I am. But there's just some horrific crimes that seem to occur in the Cape of drug and alcohol use. Uh,

That's going to be a tough situation to find yourself in.

You know what, You're right on, You're right on there. I mean, there are some horrific, horrific crimes on the Cape. We are not immune. In fact, sometimes it makes it more difficult for us to get the resources that we need to address the addiction and mental health, our homelessness, fuel, food and security, and transportation challenges that we have on

How much fanadol are you seeing down the cape?

Our share? We're seeing our share. You know, it's not talked about like it's talked about in urban communities, but we're seeing our share. You know, I've heard that in fact, we are sort of a prime place to sell to sell drugs because of the tourist nature of our community.

Well.

Later on on this hour, we're going to be talking with a national leader in the recovery movement, And like you, I stand in admiration for anyone who's able to overcome an addiction. I think of my good friend, and I'm sure of someone you know very well, a mayor, former Boston mayor, Martie Walsh, you know, who beat addiction and has gone on to do great service for Boston and also for the NHL Players Association.

So you have to stand in awe of those people. I just.

I just want you to know on behalf of people on the Cape that they appreciate whatever you can do and whatever your office can do to help keep them and their family safe, because unfortunately, so much crime occurs even on the Cape.

I read about it all the time. In a part of the state where you would.

Think of only as a good time is being had by all, you know, summertime, spring fall and all of that, and even during the winter, but that crime is everywhere.

So please continue the fight.

Yeah.

Let me you know.

Sometimes, you know, we have these conversations and there are some people who sort of look at this as a soft on crime, you know when you talk about rehabilitation and treatment. But I come from it to it from a different perspective. When you think about someone who is dealing with addiction and it is committing crimes to feed that addiction, what is more unsafe. Lock that person up, do nothing with them, let them do their time, and then put them back on the streets in a worse

Every person you can take off and convince them to get off the crime treadmill is a huge victory.

It's a huge victory. So my hat's off to you for any of that effort.

I simply am saying that that those of us who spend any time in the Cape, we want to spend it in a in a community where we can enjoy ourselves and enjoy our family safe, safely. And I was actually saying thank you for the work that you do, and thanks to the police officers who put their lives in the line every day for fellow residents and visitors to Cape call it. So please take that nothing as nothing more than a compliment for the work you do.

Okay, absolutely, And actually I I I hear you. It's it's sometimes you know other people that are listening, because I hear it a lot, you know, I hear that they look sort of in this this one school or the other. And my goal in running for sheriff, primary goal is public safety.

That's it.

That's that's got to be the primary goal. And if and again there's there's a couple of ways to approach it. And I congratulate you on your job, and I congratulate you on breaking the glass ceiling, if you will, the barriers for women and law enforcement. I have a sister in law who's a former state police officer, so I stand at admirate wow one who works in the interest of public safety. Sheriff Buckley. Sheriff Donna Buckley, thanks so

Thank you very much. Dan.

You're welcome when we come back We're going to talk about a tough subject, the Celtics Knick series with Bob Ryan and the Boston Globe. Nobody has watched more playoff games than basketball NBA playoff games than Bob Ryan. Will find out what Bob thinks about what has gone down the last couple of games here in Boston, and they're on their way to New York this weekend. Back on Night Side, right after the News at the bottom of the hour.

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All Right, basketball fans, buckle up Game three three Saturday at MSG with us is a guy who, as far as I'm concerned, has probably watched more NBA playoff games than anyone in history. Bob, who, more than you has watched NBA NBA playoff games going back through your career.

When you think.

About oh, I'm sure there's some people, but I do think locally, I was thinking about this today. I may be the only one around who's still active, at least mildly active, who goes back to the sixties.

But no, but the only what I'm.

Saying, think about it, how many how many teams during your career have had anywhere close to the number of playoff games that the that the Celtics have played in.

And I really mean that.

Yeah, I know the Celtics. Yeah, oh no, I go back. My first game I attended was as a student at Boston College nineteen sixty six, Game seventh, Red Hourbacks final game, and the first game I covered was the game five as a playoff Game five in nineteen seventy the Knicks and the Lakers. And by the way, today is the fifty fifth anniversary of the Knicks winning their first championship

So I do go.

I was there. I covered games five and seven that year. I've got some good experience, It's true.

So okay, so what are you seeing? We must not forget that the Celtics have lost two home court games by a grand total of four points, three and one. Celtics normally don't lose games that close.

Well, this group has certainly earned our faith and respect, and it's not what people were expecting. This is definitely the Knicks didn't get the script apparently that they were issued in and they were in proversational theater now. But anyway, the Celtics, this is surprising, of course the people. But I think there's so there's a few things on one is this whole issue number one topic A. Are the

Either and Houses out too right.

And Howser's out completely, and he said, you know he's in the mix. He's an important three point shooter. He's had a good year for them. He's he's he's matured, he's gotten, and he's he's a piece of the puzzle. So well, that's all going on, and that's why I have personally lowered my level of expectation. I can live with that. I understand that. To me. Historically, Dan, that is the number one variable in playoffs historically is health

Okay, So here's my here's my question going into New York. In football, we always think that the home team the home field advantage in football. Most people think of it as a six point advantage. Then you know if it's if it's a six point spread, you say, well, through pretty even teams and the home team's a six point favorite because they had the home team advantage. Home field advantage football is different than basketball. Is there a home court advantage in basketball? In your opinion?

Oh?

There was the times. I think there's no question there was a certain left. For example, the nineteen eighty five eighty six Celtics were forty and one at home, thirty seven of them in the Garden and three of them at Hartford US one game all year at home. Now this team is a very different beast. This team played better statistically and performing better on the road than it

I guess you know how healthy are the knick spot.

They are they go. They have one guy that they didn't have in the last series, Mitchell Robinson, their backup center, who's a no offensive threat except for the lob but he's a very good defender and it's a good shot blocker, and they did not have him, but they have him now. They have him now. You know, he's the terrible free throw shooter. And the Celtics played hacker Mitchell to put him on the line in the first game, and he went three for ten from the line in the second game.

Well, we'll keep our fingers crossed as to what's going to happen on Saturday afternoon. A lot of eyes from New England will be on it. This is the most win game. I don't think they can get back from a three to zero.

Deficode Well, no one has ever done it in basketball. Teams have come back from three to zero to go three to three, but no one's finished job. Celtics, you know, against Miami almost they're one one of the teams that came back from three. Oh, but you know they haven't gone all the way. No, it's it's I think it's safe to say it's the closest thing to a must capital M game that that they're going to have. If they don't pull it out, it's going to be very dire.

What's your latest book?

I'm working on a sequel with my friend and colleague and Bill Chuck, on our book that we did on my forty four years of score books. You know, I do score every game I go to. That's a fact. And and that's called in scoring position. Right, Yes, there's a sequel. Yeah, oh yeah, there's a baseball book I'm and and so that's what we're working on.

That book is so is the latest the one that's the score book? That is? Is that book? Hope? When you talk about a sequel, obviously the.

First oh yeah, came out two years ago and uh, and it's it's out there and you know, people can find it in Amazon. I'm sure, and uh, we had a lot of fun with that book. And it's it's it's it's you know, the premise very is that hidden in all all every box score and many box scores or trivial pursuit and things of interest, historical items, oddities

That's great in scoring position by Bob Ryan and you and your co author again is who Bill Chuck?

Mister Bill Chuck, and he's an amazing researcher.

And when you have the sequel out, I would love to have you come back on and let's let's spend behind him.

Be very happy to I really would.

Love to do that.

I know we missed the first one, but I want to make a I want to make a make.

Good of this one.

Okay, you got it.

Thanks Bob, Talk to you soon. So long. Got back great Bob Ryan at the Boston Globe. We'll be back on night Side and we'll finish up with a.

Gentleman who's a national leader in the recovery movement.

This will be inspirational. Back on Nightside after this.

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Wrap it up to Night's eight o'clock hour with Adam Vibe Dunton. He is a national leader in the recovery program. Adam, first of all, welcome to night Side and congratulations. You're an overdose survivor and founder of Recovered on Purpose and Behavioral Health Partners. Tell us about your your experience.

Yes, sir, thanks so much for having me welcome. Yeah, seven and a half years ago, I was homeless and a drug addict. I was one hundred and forty eight pounds kicked out of a homeless shelter, so I was super homeless. And now I'm two twenty but I work out, so it's not all tubby.

But good, Where were you homeless? If I could ask, Adam, what part.

Of the country Billings, Montana in the world.

It's a tough place to be homeless, my man.

Yeah, yeah, it was me and about nine other people that were on the streets, living in an abandoned house that didn't have electricity or running water, a trash can.

What time of the year winter? Oh yeah, how did you real? Quickly?

How did you end up in that state of despair? If I could ask? And then I want to talk more about your recovery. But how does someone get that down and out?

Well?

On September twenty eight, two thousand and eight, I've been out drinking and partying like most nights in my freshman year of college, and I woke up to my phone ringing and vibrating down by my leg at four forty seven am. It was my best friend Chucker calling me, and I remember having the conscious choice that I could answer like I always did, like Hey, what's up, Chuck? Or I could answer the way I was feeling with a hello, am I still drunk? In state? I chose

Captain high school in Colorado.

Yes, sir, Wow were you there?

If you would have been there after the shooting I saw, or maybe before it?

Yep.

I was actually the first class that came in when the freshmen that were there had graduated, So I was the first class that no one was there.

Wow.

Okay, so seven and a half years there must have been a moment in time where you said enough of this or something must have Who turned what turned your life around?

You know, I had so many of those moments. And for anyone out there that's struggling and listening to this right now, I know where you're at where you have those moments where you were you are done with it, you want to stop, and you just can't. And you know, it happened so many times to me. And what what really turned the tide for me was when I stopped trying to hold onto my plans so tightly. Because I

For me was I'm I'm you know, a I happen to be Catholic.

I was thrilled today to see an American pope picked an American pict then, but I am, I mean, im perfect Catholic. Okay, I've never had what you call a face to face meeting with Jesus. I'm interested when you say that. Were you sitting there and you thought, oh, you felt you were talking to or he was talking to you?

Well, I went into it was like a trance. I got this this text message on my phone and it was from my dope dealer and he offered me a free twenty. I had been cleaned for five days and I was trying so hard, and when I got that text message, I felt like something like took over my body. And I texted him back and said it was in like King James, who I was like, ye, shall not text me again. Thou hast texted me for the last time.

Wow.

And these experiences actually aren't that rare. I was just talking to somebody about this yesterday. But these experiences are stigmatized a lot. These have been going on since before the Big Book, since before the twelve step program.

Not going to be stigmatized by me. I want you to know, Adam, Okay, yeah, amen.

So I thank you for having the courage to express that. Thank you for having the coverage to share that. How can folks either get in touch with you or get in touch with the programs that you're involved with. You have the founder that Recovered on Purpose program and the behavioral health partners. What's the best way people could reach out?

Yeah, Recovered on Purpose dot org. I have a lot of free resources for people in recovery or trying to get in recovery, a fifty state resource guide if you have no insurance or are underinsured. And then Behavioral Health Partners we help people that want to open treatment centers. We're able to get your licensed, accredited, program development and then marketing as well.

Well.

Adam Musalik an incredible individual. You've been You've been to hell and back. I pray that you stay as strong and as safe as you are, and you are doing God's work in my opinion, and I just want to say thank you, sir. I've got a lot of who have walked the same path. They have been down and out and they able to get up and get out of it. And I can't tell you how much I admire those people. And one person is a pall of

Okay, I really appreciate that. Anyone listening, if you're struggling, you're the next one.

Great message, Adam, Vibe Gunton, Adam, thank you so much. We'll talk again. Okay, maybe I'll have you on some night for an hour and we'll take fun. I may we may well do that. Okay, thank you so.

Much, Adam, congratulating so much. Good night. Okay.

When we get back, we're going to talk about a big moment, those of you who were lucky enough today to see the white smoke come out of the chimney and then see an American come out onto the balcony as the first American pope. It was a moment in time. I've watched other popes emerge, but this is one that connected with me as an American and as a Catholic, but as an American. And we will be talking with some experts, but most importantly I want to talk with you.