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Speaker 2: The weekend looks like it might be pretty good. Certainly

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Speaker 2: Tomorrow looks like a good day, and most of Sunday.

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Speaker 2: But Sunday night, Monday, well, it's better on Sunday night

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Speaker 2: name is Dan Ray. We are here for you for

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Speaker 2: the next four hours, just about. We'll get you all

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Speaker 2: the way until technically the weekend. I'm still working and

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Speaker 2: you were still listening tonightside, Thank you very much. My

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Speaker 2: name is Dan Ray. Rob Brooks is back in the

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Speaker 2: control room. We have an interesting program tonight, as I

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Speaker 2: think we always do, but that's for you to decide

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Speaker 2: in the long run, that is for sure. We're going

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Speaker 2: to talk tonight at nine o'clock with two individuals who

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Speaker 2: are really amazing women, Wendy Roka and Kelly Conroy. Both

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Speaker 2: of them are involved in programs that send care packages

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Speaker 2: to the US troops overseas and w did you know it?

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Speaker 2: There's a United Nations agency which I had never heard of,

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Speaker 2: Americans to send these care packages. This sort of supplies toiletries,

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Speaker 2: While they're somewhere overseas, we'll talk to them, and then

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Speaker 2: we will talk tonight about the Nobel Peace Prize, which

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Speaker 2: President Donald Trump did not receive. Today we'll get into

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Speaker 2: all of that, and then later on tonight during the

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Speaker 2: twentieth hour, I'm going to ask you to tell us

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Speaker 2: what is the farthest place you have ever traveled to

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Speaker 2: that said, that kind of sets up the show for you.

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Speaker 2: Saturday morning. We have four guests tonight in the eight

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Speaker 2: o'clock hour, as we always do, we're going to talk

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Speaker 2: about the passing of former Red Sox outfielder Mike Greenwell,

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Speaker 2: going to talk about ironically a one hundred inning baseball

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Speaker 2: game which would be played this weekend in Quinsy on

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Speaker 2: Saturday and Sunday. They will get that game in and

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Speaker 2: of course we will have a ACU weather meteorologist to

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Speaker 2: really break down the weekend for you. But first we

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Speaker 2: are going to talk about the Kowloon restaurant in Saugus

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Speaker 2: and James Roja Rojas WBZ NewsRadio reporter has been covering

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Speaker 2: this story. James, welcome back to Night's Side. I guess yeah, well,

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Speaker 2: thank you for sticking around later on a Friday evening.

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Speaker 2: I suspect that you know a lot more about this

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Speaker 2: sure at some point I must have I'm not a

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Speaker 2: but I don't have a specific recall of that event.

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Speaker 2: I've only driven by it probably a thousand times in

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Speaker 2: So what's the deal? They are downsizing but also kind

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Speaker 2: of selling a lot of property off, which I guess

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Speaker 2: the the family will keep a restaurant, not the same size,

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Speaker 3: It's a bit of a bittersweet cand of scenario for sure.

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Speaker 2: Bittersweet for who, for the for the owners or for

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Speaker 3: I think a little bit for both for sure. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: were talks about the Wank family who owned the Kowloon,

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Speaker 3: bittersweet as in like it's bitter that the Kowloon as

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Speaker 3: The Kowloon has been there off of Root one, and yeah,

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Speaker 3: Right now, others say, you know what, you know, times

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Speaker 3: the plans for this big change include the construction of

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Speaker 2: Now, you know, because you've done this with me before.

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Speaker 2: We don't script questions here on Nightside. How big is

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Speaker 3: Yeah, at the top of my head, I don't know

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Speaker 3: currently they can seat around twelve hundred customers, So twelve

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Speaker 3: gonna be reduced to around two hundred customers. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's a good amount of space. And so they definitely

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Speaker 3: this seems like a logical place to put in where

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Speaker 2: The MBTA Communities Housing Act that is impacting a lot

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Speaker 2: Is there a separate developer if you know they selling

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Speaker 2: the property and just going to run a smaller restaurant

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Speaker 3: You know what, I don't know the specifics of that

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Speaker 2: Oh, I would think for generations to come that if

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Speaker 2: it's seventy five years, that takes a pretty easy map there.

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Speaker 2: It takes back to I guess nineteen fifty would have

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Speaker 2: be obviously at some point the big kowloon will come down,

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Speaker 2: and have it opened before or when the current kowloon closes.

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Speaker 3: So they say that the kowloon will remain open for

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Speaker 3: There will be a temporary space during that period where

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Speaker 3: they will remain open. And so yeah, but we're not

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Speaker 2: Well, James I'll tell you it's an interesting story. It

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Speaker 2: has been a restaurant, as you know now, it's been

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Speaker 2: to to go away. Sadly, they're even great restaurants, none

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Speaker 2: thank you so much for all you do and I

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Speaker 3: Dann, thank you very welcome.

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Speaker 2: When we come back and talk about a one hundred

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Speaker 2: He's the organizer of this event, he's author Set Ahead Umpire,

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Speaker 2: and he lives with ALS. This is a story we've

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Speaker 1: It's night Side with Dan Ray, Boston's news radio Boy.

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Speaker 2: We're here to tell you about some baseball. And we're

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Speaker 2: not talking about the Red Sox. They're done. We're not

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Speaker 2: talking about the Yankees, they're done too. But we're talking

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Speaker 2: about the twenty second annual one hundred Innings of Baseball

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Speaker 2: to raise money for ALS research to benefit the Angel

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Speaker 2: Fund with us as Walter Benston, he's the organizer of

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Speaker 2: the event. He's the head umpire. He also lives with ALS. Walter,

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Speaker 2: we've done this before. I think we've done this now.

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Speaker 2: I believe at least one year previously. This is a

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Speaker 2: great event. You go from morning through night. I mean,

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Speaker 2: this is you got a lot of baseball going on here.

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Speaker 2: Six hundred outs, one hundred innings.

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Speaker 4: Well, that's right, Dan, it's a great event. Started twenty

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Speaker 4: And for those baseball fans out there, the quivlent of

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Speaker 4: So it's a long way. But the guys that hung

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Speaker 2: Now. I know that in some of the years past

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Speaker 4: Well right now, no, but ever know there was by

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Speaker 2: That's great. Whose idea was this originally? Will you? Were you?

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Speaker 2: I know there are people listening to us right now

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Speaker 4: We do use a full scorebook for each team. They

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Speaker 4: They should they have seventy five dollars registracy and they

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Speaker 2: Okay, And most of your pitchers, they're not just lobbing

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Speaker 4: Oh, no, they are there. I would say it's equivalent

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Speaker 4: to a go to high school varsity gamers. Most of

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Speaker 2: That's great. And you start at nine o'clock on Saturday and.

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Speaker 4: For all morning at nine am, and we go straight

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Speaker 2: Probably end up I'm doing the math here, but I'm

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Speaker 4: That's correct. And the guys are and we're one of

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Speaker 2: Absolutely well, Walter, thanks very much. The people at this

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Speaker 2: your number tomorrow morning, nine o'clock at Adams Field. Thanks

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Speaker 2: very much, Walter. Best of luck with the research for ALS.

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Speaker 2: A great organization, the Angel Fund ALS research. Nothing nothing better.

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Speaker 2: This is one of those diseases that all of us

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Speaker 4: Okay, thank you so much for your time.

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Speaker 2: All right, Walter Benson, the organizer of the event, the

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Speaker 2: we'll talk a little more baseball with Tim Healey and

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Speaker 2: the Boston Globe. Former Red Sox left fielder Mike Greenwell

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Speaker 2: The Gator. It was a great outfielder for the Red Sox,

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Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray, Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 2: Well sad news in the Red Sox Baseball world. Yesterday

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Speaker 2: the passing unexpected passing of Mike Greenwell at the age

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Speaker 2: of sixty two with us as Tim Healey, Boston Globe

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Speaker 2: Sports reporter. This one came as a surprise, though. I

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Speaker 5: Tim, Yeah, he had. He had revealed in August that

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Speaker 5: certainly Mike Greenwell's right, of course, you know, people value

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Speaker 2: Well, he was a good player. I mean, he was

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Speaker 2: that I keep saying, nobody gets out of this place alive.

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Speaker 2: But you figure a guy like Mike Greenwell, he was

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Speaker 4: Eighty eight?

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Speaker 2: Do you know about that story at all?

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Speaker 5: Unfortunately, I don't. I wish I knew that story. That

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think it was a big alligator, because

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Speaker 5: Days, heard from some of them, yes, most of them.

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Speaker 5: of them are surly guys who do you know, who

435
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Speaker 5: don't necessarily have a lot of friends in the clubhouse,

436
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Speaker 5: in the locker room. But Mike Greenwell certainly was one

437
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Speaker 5: of those guys who did have a lot of friends.

438
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Speaker 5: So it seems like people enjoyed being around him. I

439
00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:30,639
Speaker 5: did not cover him, but I understand he also liked

440
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Speaker 5: to chat with the media quite a bit, which also

441
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Speaker 5: is not you know, something players bat one thousand done.

442
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Speaker 5: And it was just so interesting to, you know, hearing

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Speaker 5: people reflect on his career and all of his accomplishments.

444
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Speaker 5: You mentioned playing on good teams. He did, he you know,

445
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Speaker 5: he was starting to work his way in in eighty

446
00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:52,600
Speaker 5: six when they went to the World Series, and then

447
00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:55,439
Speaker 5: he was right in the middle of everything when they

448
00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:58,760
Speaker 5: won the Al East in eighty eight, in ninety and

449
00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:02,280
Speaker 5: in ninety five hit for the cycle and inside the

450
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Speaker 5: Park Grand Slam. I think my favorite factoid was that

451
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Speaker 5: in September of ninety six, which wound up being his

452
00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:14,800
Speaker 5: last month in the major leagues, he had a game

453
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Speaker 5: where he drove in every run in a nine to

454
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Speaker 5: eight win over the Mariners, which is pretty incredible no

455
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Speaker 5: matter the stage of the career you're at, especially so

456
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Speaker 5: if you're at the very end.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I've heard of games where, you know, three

458
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Speaker 2: to one or something like that, where some guy drove

459
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Speaker 2: in all three runs or hit a grand Slam, drove

460
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Speaker 2: in all four but a nine to eighth grade game.

461
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Speaker 2: I read that. I think it was in your uticle

462
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Speaker 2: in the Globe, and that is astonishing because you it

463
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Speaker 2: just statistically seems highly unlikely that all nine runs in

464
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Speaker 2: a nine away game would be driven in by by

465
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Speaker 2: the same guy. I saw Rich Gadam, who's a great guy,

466
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Speaker 2: interviewed I think it was on Channel four yesterday, and

467
00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:04,160
Speaker 2: you know, you just you realize that you know, these

468
00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:06,879
Speaker 2: are the guys that when you were a kid. You know,

469
00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:09,359
Speaker 2: all of us grew up at different ages. They're like

470
00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:13,080
Speaker 2: forever young. Because the image you have of Blake Greenwell

471
00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:15,919
Speaker 2: is you know, running around the bases or making a

472
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Speaker 2: pretty good defensive outfielder. And at sixty two, nobody should

473
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Speaker 2: be passing away at sixty two. I mean, you know

474
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Speaker 2: you would like them. Yeah, you'd like to think of

475
00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:29,120
Speaker 2: my understanding that he had two children and he leaves

476
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Speaker 2: his wife as well. And there was one article today

477
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Speaker 2: that seemed to suggest to me that he passed away.

478
00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:37,560
Speaker 2: And again it was an article that I read. I

479
00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:39,600
Speaker 2: think there was a release that said that he passed

480
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Speaker 2: away at one of the major hospitals here in Boston,

481
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Speaker 2: which would make sense because I'm sure he had plenty

482
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Speaker 2: of friends in the medical community and if he was really,

483
00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:53,320
Speaker 2: you know, dealing with the serious illness, you would want

484
00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:55,600
Speaker 2: to be in the best hospitals that you could find.

485
00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:59,560
Speaker 2: But again, a great career blessed with a lot of

486
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Speaker 2: athletic talent. You know, so many of us, you know,

487
00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:06,200
Speaker 2: you grew up as a kid boy, If I could

488
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:08,040
Speaker 2: only play in the major leagues, that would make your

489
00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:11,960
Speaker 2: life complete. Well, for him. His life was pretty complete

490
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Speaker 2: with a wife who I guess they were friends since

491
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Speaker 2: the eighth grade. They had two children together, and he

492
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Speaker 2: went on and was a successful businessman and in his

493
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Speaker 2: post baseball career, so lived a full life. He jammed

494
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Speaker 2: a lot into those sixty two years. And tonight we

495
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Speaker 2: remember Mike Greenwell. I really appreciate you taking the time,

496
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Speaker 2: Tim to talk with us tonight because it's something that

497
00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:44,960
Speaker 2: most of my audience, you wouldn't have to. Very few

498
00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:48,520
Speaker 2: people who were baseball fans here in Boston would not

499
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Speaker 2: know the name Mike Greenwell. And morning his passing tonight.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Timing. Thank you.

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Speaker 5: I am honored to and I know he is very

502
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Speaker 5: fondly remembered by a Sox fans and all Bostonians. So

503
00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:04,160
Speaker 5: it's uh, you know, he lived the heck of a life.

504
00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:07,000
Speaker 2: Sure did, Sure did, got a lot in those sixty

505
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Speaker 2: two years. Thanks again, Tim, we'll talk soon. Appreciate it

506
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:10,560
Speaker 2: very much.

507
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Speaker 5: Thank you.

508
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Speaker 2: Okay, the big story this weekend, towards the end of

509
00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:19,320
Speaker 2: the weekend is going to be a Boston's a nor'easter.

510
00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:23,560
Speaker 2: Now north easters we normally think of as with snow.

511
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:25,440
Speaker 2: There won't be any snow, but there's gonna be a

512
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Speaker 2: lot of weather, and we're going to talk with an

513
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Speaker 2: accurate weather meteorologist, Mike Benz, who's been a guest on

514
00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:35,520
Speaker 2: the Matt Benz, who's been on this program before, and

515
00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:39,920
Speaker 2: we will get from him an hour by hour breakdown

516
00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:43,600
Speaker 2: because this is gonna, I guess, hit the south side

517
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Speaker 2: of New England first and then move up through Connecticut,

518
00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:50,640
Speaker 2: Rhode Island, and into Massachusetts before it heads out to sea.

519
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Speaker 2: But it's gonna be with us a while. It's gonna

520
00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:55,560
Speaker 2: have an impact. We'll break it down so it won't

521
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Speaker 2: have any adverse impact on your weekend plan. Stay with

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Speaker 2: us here on Nightside.

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Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's

524
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Speaker 1: news radio.

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Speaker 2: Well, I guess a big one's coming in this weekend

526
00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:14,360
Speaker 2: in Northeastern Wind is going to blow strong wind, gust,

527
00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:19,720
Speaker 2: heavy rain for what is the last holiday weekend of

528
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Speaker 2: I guess the summer if you want to think of

529
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Speaker 2: it still as an extended summer with us as Matt

530
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Speaker 2: benzaci weather meteorologist. Matt. For some reason, there seems to

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Speaker 2: be some unanimity amongst you meteorologists that this is going

532
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Speaker 2: to be quite the storm. What's going on?

533
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Speaker 6: Oh, we were looking at this storm that is currently

534
00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:41,400
Speaker 6: trying to get itself together off the Carolina coast. And

535
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Speaker 6: what kind of makes this one unique for maybe what

536
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:46,360
Speaker 6: we see with other nor'easters is this is more tropical

537
00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:48,520
Speaker 6: in nature. I typically when we talk about a nor'easter,

538
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Speaker 6: it's something that came from Canada or something from the

539
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Speaker 6: western US. That's not quite the case in this storm's

540
00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:57,680
Speaker 6: life cycle. How we actually have some tropical energy coming

541
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Speaker 6: up from Cuba forming off the Carolina coast, almost a

542
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:04,640
Speaker 6: tropical storm, but it's not quite there. So instead we

543
00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:07,680
Speaker 6: get a tropical rainstorm that seems like a nor'easter and

544
00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:09,800
Speaker 6: kind of the same impacts as well. And that's what

545
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Speaker 6: we'll be heading our direction later this weekend and early

546
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Speaker 6: next week. So not a hurricane, Yeah, not a hurricane.

547
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Speaker 6: It's not fully we talk about. A hurricane is like

548
00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:23,800
Speaker 6: a big heat pump. It relies on thunderstorms to create

549
00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:26,480
Speaker 6: uptrafts and eventually you get the spinning motion in the

550
00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:29,680
Speaker 6: atmosphere to get that big circulation. This is just a

551
00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:31,840
Speaker 6: big area of low pressure that's going to be feeding

552
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Speaker 6: off the Gulf Stream and has a lot of tropical

553
00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:36,719
Speaker 6: moisture with it. But yeah, not quite a hurricane, not

554
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Speaker 6: truly a tropical storm. But it's certainly a large storm nonetheless.

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00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:44,080
Speaker 2: So let's break it down in terms of it's going

556
00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:47,800
Speaker 2: to hit. I assume the South coast or Rhode Island, Connecticut,

557
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:50,120
Speaker 2: and the Cape first, correct.

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00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:52,680
Speaker 6: Yeah, And that's where the at least at this point,

559
00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:55,800
Speaker 6: that's where our highest confidence is where the worst impacts

560
00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:59,200
Speaker 6: of the storm is going to occur. You hear the

561
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Speaker 6: throw on the models that we look at, the American

562
00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:05,840
Speaker 6: model versus the European model, and both of those models

563
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Speaker 6: would suggest the South coast, Cape and islands would be

564
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Speaker 6: the primary area to get hit. And then there's some

565
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Speaker 6: differences with just how far north those impacts make it

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Speaker 6: as we head into early next week.

567
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Speaker 2: Okay, so we're talking about if you want to refer

568
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Speaker 2: to it as landfall. They're pushing it back. It was

569
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Speaker 2: originally sometime on Sunday, and now they seem to be

570
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Speaker 2: saying it will be late Sunday, maybe Sunday night when

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Speaker 2: it starts blowing.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, And I think what you'll see, at least here

573
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Speaker 6: in Boston, the winds are going to pick up through

574
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Speaker 6: the day on Sunday, breezy for a good chunk of

575
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Speaker 6: the day, then turning windy late in the day, maybe

576
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Speaker 6: some rain working its way north as we had through

577
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Speaker 6: the afternoon and evening again the main impacts hitting area

578
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Speaker 6: south of town here first at South Coast Cape and Islands,

579
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Speaker 6: and then as we head into Sunday night and Monday,

580
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Speaker 6: that's when you start to see that moisture feeding Northwood,

581
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Speaker 6: and that's where modeling begins to split with the storm.

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Speaker 6: Do we get the sluga moisture and wind coming in

583
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Speaker 6: Sunday night like what the American model would be showing,

584
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Speaker 6: or the European model which would suggest more moisture coming

585
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Speaker 6: in here during the day or even late in the

586
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Speaker 6: day on Monday. So there is still some discrepancy where

587
00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:12,560
Speaker 6: that heaviest rain will push into the region and just

588
00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:14,960
Speaker 6: again how far north it will push, But it does

589
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Speaker 6: look like at least the winds will be the primary

590
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Speaker 6: concern initially, those again picking up through Sunday afternoon, really

591
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Speaker 6: starting to crank up heading into Sunday night and through

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Speaker 6: the day on Monday.

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Speaker 2: Now, is this going to hook out of here and

594
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Speaker 2: will Maine in New Hampshire and Vermont it'll just be

595
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Speaker 2: a relatively normal rainstorm, or will it continue with the

596
00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:40,360
Speaker 2: same ferocity on up into Canada but still impacting the

597
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Speaker 2: northern part of New England.

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Speaker 6: You know, it looks like this is one where it

599
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Speaker 6: and it's kind of unique from a nor'eastern standpoint, or

600
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Speaker 6: even a tropical rainstorm standpoint, wherein most storms you would

601
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Speaker 6: expect it to continue to hook northward. That's not the

602
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:57,160
Speaker 6: case with this storm, where it actually stalls out a

603
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Speaker 6: bit off the coast here for Monday, before then moving

604
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Speaker 6: basically due east. We have Tropical Storm Jerry, which is

605
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Speaker 6: down in the western Atlantic. May provide a window for

606
00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:09,200
Speaker 6: this system to move east, kind of like what we

607
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Speaker 6: saw earlier on this fall with some of the storms

608
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Speaker 6: that were moving off of the southeast coast with Gabriel

609
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Speaker 6: and Umberto and Imelda. Those are the storms that kind

610
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Speaker 6: of danced off the southeast coast before Umberto pulled Emalda out.

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Speaker 6: To see I could be a similar situation here where

612
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Speaker 6: Jerry comes up, never really makes any threat to land,

613
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Speaker 6: but actually helps to tug this storm out to sea

614
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Speaker 6: early next week.

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Speaker 2: Now, most of these storms at this time of year,

616
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Speaker 2: and I watched them fairly closely on the weather forecast.

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Speaker 2: They all sort of seemed to start off the coast,

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Speaker 2: the east coast of Africa. How long has this storm

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Speaker 2: been percolating out there? It says it take a week

620
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Speaker 2: or two to really rev up before it gets this

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Speaker 2: far north.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, if it had come out. This is actually not

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Speaker 6: a storm that came off of Africa. Jerry is a

624
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Speaker 6: good exampmple of that, where it was a tropical wave

625
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Speaker 6: that came off of Africa. And typically a storm like

626
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Speaker 6: that can take a week to week and a half

627
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Speaker 6: before you really see it fully mature and then start

628
00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:12,360
Speaker 6: to make that northward turn. This is more of a

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Speaker 6: what we call home grown. We had a stall frontel

630
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Speaker 6: boundary that was across Florida, the Florida Straits, and down

631
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Speaker 6: across Cuba. And sometimes that's enough of what helps to

632
00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:25,319
Speaker 6: create an area below pressure that generally migrates northward. And

633
00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:27,080
Speaker 6: that's what this storm is. It was kind of more

634
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Speaker 6: of a home grown type of a system as opposed

635
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Speaker 6: to those African waves that you hear of that quite

636
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Speaker 6: often this time of the year are the ones that

637
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Speaker 6: are creating hurricanes that you talk about so much.

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Speaker 2: Now I know the hurricane season technically goes from June

639
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Speaker 2: first to November thirtieth. We're now three quarters of the

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Speaker 2: way through the hurricane season. To the best of my knowledge,

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Speaker 2: we haven't had a hurricane at all here in Massachusetts.

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Speaker 2: Can we begin to breathe, even with this storm this weekend,

643
00:35:57,080 --> 00:36:01,680
Speaker 2: breathe a little more easily whatever the hurricane season starts,

644
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Speaker 2: we hear all of these forecasts of this could be

645
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Speaker 2: the worst of you know, in so many years. Can

646
00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:08,520
Speaker 2: we start to breathe a little easier at this point?

647
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Speaker 2: Are we still open and subject to the possible or

648
00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:15,120
Speaker 2: arrival of a hurricane in late October November?

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Speaker 6: You know, what I would love to see is to

650
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Speaker 6: make that more of a guarantee that we're not going

651
00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:22,160
Speaker 6: to see anything as a good cold front that pushes

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Speaker 6: out over the Atlantic and helps to cool the water

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Speaker 6: tempters down, not just locally, but we're looking at areas

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Speaker 6: just south along island, and of course the Gulf Stream,

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Speaker 6: which is still boiling hot right now, at least compared

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Speaker 6: to average, and that's what really is a fuel at

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Speaker 6: this point for these storms. So until we can get

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Speaker 6: those water tempters down just a bit more, and again

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Speaker 6: not so much off of our coastline here, but south

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Speaker 6: along Island is really the area where we need to

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Speaker 6: cool it down.

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Speaker 2: All right, so we'll keep our fingers crossed. Matt Ben's

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Speaker 2: thanks very much. It gave us a really good meteorological

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Speaker 2: lesson here and also all the information I think most

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Speaker 2: of us need to figure out where we want to

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Speaker 2: be in where we don't want to be later on

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Speaker 2: this weekend. Thanks so much, Matt. You do a great job.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Matt. Thanks for having me absolutely

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Speaker 2: of ACU weather. When we get back, we're going to

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Speaker 2: talk about two great organizations that provide care packages for

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Speaker 2: American soldiers service personnel overseas, and complications in their efforts

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Speaker 2: that are being that no one really understands where it's

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Speaker 2: coming from, but it looks like it's the United Nations

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Speaker 2: Agency in Switzerland, which is going to impact our ability

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Speaker 2: as individuals, friends, parents, etcetera, to send care packages to

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Speaker 2: American service personnel overseas. We will explain it all coming

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Speaker 2: back right after the nine o'clock news here on Night

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Speaker 2: Side