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Speaker 2: Thanks very much, Cherry. Welcome in everybody to Thanksgiving week

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Speaker 2: I will be here Tomorrow night, tonight, Tomorrow night, and

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Speaker 2: after Thanksgiving as company holidays. So if you like to

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Speaker 2: talk about a piece you'll see in the Boston Globe tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: It's an update on that tragic accident that took the

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Speaker 2: life of little five year old Lynz Joseph in Hyde

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Speaker 2: Park back in April of this year. It was on

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Speaker 2: the cost of your Thanksgiving dinner, folks, believe it or not,

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Speaker 2: way do you hear the numbers? Uh, there's actually good

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Speaker 2: news nationally. We'll explain. We will explain, but we're going

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Speaker 2: to start off tonight to get a little bit past Thanksgiving,

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Speaker 2: and we're going to look at some new data from

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Speaker 2: the National Retail Federation which says that holiday sales this

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Speaker 2: year will surpass, not May, will surpass one trillion dollars

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Speaker 2: for the first time this year. With me is Jennifer Jones.

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Speaker 2: She is a tech expert. That's an astonishing figure. Jennifer,

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Speaker 2: one trillion dollars. Welcome to night Side. Nice to have

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Speaker 3: Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 2: One trillion dollars with a T, not with a B.

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Speaker 2: That that's a thousand billion dollars.

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Speaker 3: You know, Matt is not my strong suit, but I

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Speaker 3: think that's exactly right.

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Speaker 2: You're right. Texte's spending. Oh please, we'll strike that. You're

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Speaker 2: on a strike that for the record, of course, you're

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Speaker 4: Just having some fun for sure.

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Speaker 3: So no matter what the cost is, that it's going

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Speaker 3: to total too. You know, there are a lot of

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Speaker 3: general cost of living rise, and sixty four percent of

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Speaker 3: significantly more time looking for dills this holiday season. So

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Speaker 3: that's why those of us here at Google are stepping

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Speaker 3: in to give shoppers apprehend with some new tools to use.

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Speaker 3: The AI tools. They're designed to help you save time

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Speaker 2: Well, for the I've been around a long time, and

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Speaker 2: every Christmas season the pressure is on. I don't care

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Speaker 2: so I mean, I think there's always this pressure because frankly,

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Speaker 2: And some people have claimed that Christmas has become too commercial.

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Speaker 2: I remember those those comments many years ago. So it is.

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Speaker 2: It is a pressure filled year, and particularly this year

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Speaker 2: Is it really any different this year from from any Christmas,

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Speaker 3: You know, I want to I want to just jump

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Speaker 3: in quickly, Dan, I am not with the Retail Federation.

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Speaker 5: I'm with Google.

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Speaker 2: Correct mistake.

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Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely, go right ahead. I'm just saying, is that

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Speaker 3: So, so the statistics I shared early or just you know,

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Speaker 3: any level of AI AI savviness, I always recommend that

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Speaker 3: show you shoppable products links and listings and show you

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Speaker 3: brainstorm with how you should buy things right there in

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Speaker 2: So you're not talking to a human being, You're talking

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Speaker 2: to an AI bought and they're going to help you

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Speaker 2: with some ideas for shopping if you give them maybe

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Speaker 3: Okay, totally, Just like you would in any search situation,

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Speaker 2: Well, this is a huge advantage for young people who

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Speaker 2: are probably more savvy with all of this than I am. Yes,

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Speaker 2: it probably makes shopping easier once you know how to

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Speaker 2: use the system. How long has GEM and I been around?

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Speaker 3: Oh gosh, you know, we've been working on AI products

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Speaker 3: You know, I depend on which one you ask about.

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Speaker 3: Jim and I has launched several new iterations. We'd launched

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Speaker 2: When did you have the first AI on on Google?

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Speaker 2: Is this? How many years has Google been doing this?

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Speaker 5: Oh, we've been.

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Speaker 3: We've been doing conversations with TV and radio for about

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, on TV and radio are saying with consumers,

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Speaker 2: No, I'm asking you. How long has Google been offering

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Speaker 2: William Shakespeare. Yeah, okay, Jennifer, appreciate the information. Very nice

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Speaker 2: to meet you and we hope you have a great

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Speaker 2: When we get back, we're we talk about something I

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Speaker 2: And I'm only going to talk with one of the

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm excited to introduce to you I know a

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Speaker 2: Well, the thing that's great about you, I did my

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Speaker 6: So during a game, we have a magic Paths fans

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Speaker 4: We'll be here.

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Speaker 6: Today after Christmas two, so come on out and one

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Speaker 2: Well, Lucius, thanks for spending some time with us tonight.

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Speaker 2: You are a great ambassador for basketball and a great

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Speaker 2: We're going to talk with Ken mahon and the Boston Globe.

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Speaker 1: Mahan night Side with Dan Ray. I'm Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so you thought it was a little chili last week, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: this is scary. Ken. Whenever they talk about the polar vortex,

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Speaker 5: How are you tonight, Hey, Dan, I'm doing well. Thank

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, like out of the West coast, they talk

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Speaker 2: whoever makes up, first of all, what is a polar vortex?

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Speaker 2: And what do you think is going to happen? Oh,

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Speaker 5: Well, the polar vortex, simply put, is a band of

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Speaker 2: So it's going to be cold. How cold? What what

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Speaker 2: And is there going to be a windshiel factor? And

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Speaker 5: the first month of meteorological winter. What that means is

436
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Speaker 5: wind chills probably into the teams, all across the boards,

437
00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:44,520
Speaker 5: maybe the single digits. Some folks up north.

438
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Speaker 2: Wow, wow, boy, this is this is pretty early. You know.

439
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Speaker 2: One of the things that I look at. You're going

440
00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:53,320
Speaker 2: to think I'm a weirdo here, But one of the

441
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Speaker 2: things I look at every sidy in the newspaper is

442
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Speaker 2: the annual temperatures, the high temperatures, the cumulative temperature. And

443
00:25:02,119 --> 00:25:05,320
Speaker 2: I noticed that this year, unlike the last couple of years,

444
00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:11,040
Speaker 2: the temperatures are getting much closer to normal. So it

445
00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:14,119
Speaker 2: sounds to me if I'm reading them correctly. If I'm not,

446
00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:16,240
Speaker 2: you can tell me. It looks to me as if

447
00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:20,520
Speaker 2: the average temperature degrees over the course of this year,

448
00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:23,480
Speaker 2: it's pretty close to normal. And if we have some

449
00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:26,240
Speaker 2: really cold weather for a few days here in the

450
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Speaker 2: start of January, we might have an annualized temperature reading

451
00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:35,399
Speaker 2: both high and low pretty close to normal. If you

452
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Speaker 2: know the chart that I'm looking at, I'm sure you

453
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Speaker 2: do in the globe ones only on Sundays.

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Speaker 5: That's right, I do, And you're right then you know

455
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Speaker 5: we are looking to see November wrap up below normal

456
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Speaker 5: in terms of temperatures in December, at least the first

457
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Speaker 5: half of December run below the normal temperature there, So

458
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Speaker 5: this could potentially be the first year where the annual

459
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Speaker 5: average temperature was normal. We've seen the last handful of

460
00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:11,399
Speaker 5: years where it was, you know, pretty pretty high above average,

461
00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:14,040
Speaker 5: ranging between and pulling up the data right here between

462
00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:16,840
Speaker 5: two and six degrees depending over the last five years

463
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Speaker 5: above average. So it would be nice to have a

464
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Speaker 5: little bit of a normal year, wouldn't it.

465
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Speaker 2: It would it would again. You know, you can never

466
00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:26,600
Speaker 2: look at it just year to year. You've got to

467
00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:29,600
Speaker 2: look at it with a much you know, broader view

468
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Speaker 2: to find the sure where the pattern is taking us.

469
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Speaker 2: But yeah, it would be And I could do without

470
00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:38,040
Speaker 2: the cold weather next week, but that's okay if people

471
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Speaker 2: are traveling, they've been warned. Yeah, and Ken, I appreciate

472
00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:44,439
Speaker 2: real quick here, just since I got you, and I

473
00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:47,320
Speaker 2: may not get you for another, you know, a few weeks.

474
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Speaker 2: What is the projections? Was this cold weather? Does this

475
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Speaker 2: augur for a more a snowy winter. I know I'm

476
00:26:56,400 --> 00:26:58,560
Speaker 2: throwing that at you out of left field here, And

477
00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:01,200
Speaker 2: if you haven't done the research, and that's not a problem,

478
00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:04,600
Speaker 2: just tell me that, but just wondering. I remember a

479
00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:09,480
Speaker 2: really cold December Circon nineteen eighty one, eighty two. I

480
00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:13,320
Speaker 2: was a TV regow. Yeah, I remember being outside that

481
00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:15,399
Speaker 2: It seemed every night I was out in the cold,

482
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Speaker 2: and it was it was a matter of fact, I

483
00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:20,280
Speaker 2: think that was the year that that plane, the World

484
00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:24,280
Speaker 2: Airways plane slid off the runway at Logan And I

485
00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:26,639
Speaker 2: remember being out at the end of the air at

486
00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:29,240
Speaker 2: the end of the runway the next night, and I

487
00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:31,840
Speaker 2: was there was It wasn't tears coming down my eyes,

488
00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:33,960
Speaker 2: it was water coming down. I was so cold.

489
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Speaker 5: Oh my god.

490
00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:39,240
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, But I'm just wanted can we read

491
00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:43,600
Speaker 2: anything into this this early arrival of the polar votex.

492
00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:46,520
Speaker 2: It's going to go back. I mean, obviously it's not

493
00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:49,280
Speaker 2: going to stay cold every day, But is there everything

494
00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:51,119
Speaker 2: in the tea leaves which would say, hey, that's a

495
00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:53,800
Speaker 2: good sign or a bad sign in terms of snow

496
00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:55,080
Speaker 2: coming throughout the window.

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Speaker 5: Sure? Sure, I broke this down in an article last week.

498
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Speaker 5: So you're you're right, You're not going to see a

499
00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:05,159
Speaker 5: cold day every single day, but there's certainly going to

500
00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:07,919
Speaker 5: be more colder than average days, and Mormon than average

501
00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:10,040
Speaker 5: days to close up the year and to spill into

502
00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:12,520
Speaker 5: the first couple of months of twenty twenty six. What

503
00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:16,000
Speaker 5: I see is more snow, more snow, especially across the

504
00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:18,840
Speaker 5: interior west of I ninety five, more snow than what

505
00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:22,359
Speaker 5: we've seen over the last couple of years, and a

506
00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:25,240
Speaker 5: little bit more above average too, which we haven't seen

507
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:29,320
Speaker 5: in a while. Even Boston the last couple of winters

508
00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:32,720
Speaker 5: have been very dismal in terms of snow totals. I

509
00:28:32,800 --> 00:28:35,479
Speaker 5: do see less than average snow, but more than what

510
00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:38,920
Speaker 5: we've seen over the last two years. So there is hope.

511
00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:43,960
Speaker 2: Trending, trending back to normalcy. Okay, that's good. I like that.

512
00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:47,200
Speaker 5: We'll take it. I'll tell you anybody who likes skiing

513
00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:48,640
Speaker 5: is certainly happy. I'll tell you that much.

514
00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:51,520
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, And I have a lot of friends of mine,

515
00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:55,440
Speaker 2: including my brother and sister in law, who are avid skiers,

516
00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:58,840
Speaker 2: and they love it. I have no interest in skiing

517
00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:01,960
Speaker 2: ever since poor Jim one boy broke his leg pitching

518
00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:04,400
Speaker 2: when he was pitching for the Red Sox one winter.

519
00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:06,120
Speaker 4: Had a good idea.

520
00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:08,200
Speaker 2: Hey, Ken, I really appreciate it. You're the best. Thank

521
00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:08,840
Speaker 2: you so much.

522
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Speaker 5: See you anytime. Dan, thanks for having me.

523
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Speaker 2: Ken Mahon of the meteorologists for the Boston Globe. We

524
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:17,880
Speaker 2: get back but to talk about an important subject, but

525
00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:20,200
Speaker 2: one that we need to take reflect on, and that

526
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:23,320
Speaker 2: is navigating grief during the holidays. We've talked with Reverend

527
00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:27,760
Speaker 2: Peter Michael Prebble, pastor and teacher at the Berkeley Congregational

528
00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:32,400
Speaker 2: Church in Berkeley, Massachusetts. He's also a hospice chaplain at

529
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Speaker 2: Norwell Visiting Nurse Association, and we will at hospice and

530
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Speaker 2: we'll be back with Reverend Preble right after this quick

531
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Speaker 2: break on a Monday night edition of Nightside News Update.

532
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Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Dan Ray on w b

533
00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:50,840
Speaker 1: Boston's news radio.

534
00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:54,440
Speaker 2: Well, as we approached Christmas and the holiday season and

535
00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:58,800
Speaker 2: Honukkah and all of the other times during the year

536
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:03,800
Speaker 2: when families gather, we sometimes don't realize that some families,

537
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:07,440
Speaker 2: because the world doesn't stop, have to deal with some

538
00:30:07,520 --> 00:30:10,840
Speaker 2: form of grief, oftentimes the passing of a family member.

539
00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:14,280
Speaker 2: With us is Reverend Peter Michael Prebble, pastor, teacher at

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Speaker 2: the Berkeley Congregational Church in Berkeley, Massachusetts, hospice chaplain at

541
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Speaker 2: the Norwell Visiting Nurse Association and Hospice. Reverend Prebble, welcome,

542
00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:26,640
Speaker 2: How are you, sir?

543
00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:29,920
Speaker 4: Thank you, I'm doing well. Thanks for having me on.

544
00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:32,680
Speaker 2: For some reason, I think we have crossed paths at

545
00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:34,400
Speaker 2: some point, and for the life of me, I'm trying

546
00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:36,760
Speaker 2: to figure out when and where, and if you can remember,

547
00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:40,160
Speaker 2: that's great. If I'm misremembering something, that's okay too. But

548
00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:46,160
Speaker 2: at one point I thought I've interviewed you or whether

549
00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:48,320
Speaker 2: when I was a television reporter. I don't know how

550
00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:51,840
Speaker 2: long you've been around here, but if nothing jumps to mind,

551
00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:54,600
Speaker 2: then we'll assume this is our first meeting. How are

552
00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:55,160
Speaker 2: you this evening.

553
00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:58,000
Speaker 4: I'm doing well. I've been around for a while and

554
00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:00,720
Speaker 4: I was on your show. Was trying to think of

555
00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:02,360
Speaker 4: when it was, but it has to have been more

556
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:04,520
Speaker 4: than ten years ago. Now, well, that's okay.

557
00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:09,360
Speaker 2: I didn't misremember, you did not? You did not, so

558
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:12,200
Speaker 2: tell us about this is the time of year, no

559
00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:15,280
Speaker 2: time of year. There's no time of year which is

560
00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:20,720
Speaker 2: you know, a good time to say so long to

561
00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:24,120
Speaker 2: a family member, or for that matter, to a family pet,

562
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:31,080
Speaker 2: or to have someone diagnosed with a horrible medical diagnosis.

563
00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:35,000
Speaker 2: And certainly the holidays are no are no exception of that.

564
00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:40,040
Speaker 2: What can be done, you know, to to lessen the

565
00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:44,160
Speaker 2: pain when when you when you hear bad news. What

566
00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:47,160
Speaker 2: advice can you give my audience as to how they

567
00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:50,360
Speaker 2: can handle the situation? You as a as a member

568
00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:54,120
Speaker 2: of the cloth, I'm sure deal with this, and you're

569
00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:56,520
Speaker 2: probably pretty good at it because you have to deal

570
00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:59,440
Speaker 2: with it so often. But you know, for those of

571
00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:02,640
Speaker 2: us who are eight people, you know, someone passes and

572
00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:07,080
Speaker 2: it's awkward. It's awkward right that.

573
00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:09,160
Speaker 4: You know, as you said, there's never a good time,

574
00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:12,400
Speaker 4: and I think it's more amplified during this time of

575
00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:15,200
Speaker 4: the year, during the holidays. You know, it's a stressful

576
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:17,400
Speaker 4: time of the year to begin with, and let's add

577
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:20,120
Speaker 4: grief in on top of that, so it just amplifies everything.

578
00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:22,840
Speaker 4: And then there's all the memories that come up, and

579
00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:25,800
Speaker 4: there's all of these things. So, you know, the I

580
00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:27,560
Speaker 4: think the best piece of advice I can give, of

581
00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:29,400
Speaker 4: the first piece of advice I can give, is you

582
00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:32,680
Speaker 4: have to let yourself feel what you need to feel.

583
00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:35,840
Speaker 4: It's okay to feel these feelings. It's okay to not

584
00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:37,920
Speaker 4: feel festive if you don't want to be festive this

585
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:40,360
Speaker 4: time of year. Don't be festive this time of year.

586
00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:43,400
Speaker 4: Do what you can do, and don't expect any more

587
00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:46,120
Speaker 4: from yourself. Give yourself a break, give yourself some grace,

588
00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:51,320
Speaker 4: and you know, some reasons, some room for that grace

589
00:32:51,360 --> 00:32:53,719
Speaker 4: to work. And set boundaries. I think we're horrible at

590
00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:56,560
Speaker 4: setting boundaries in the normal course of events, but I

591
00:32:56,560 --> 00:32:59,080
Speaker 4: think at this time of the year, setting boundaries with

592
00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:02,800
Speaker 4: people and events is extremely important. And you know, you

593
00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:05,400
Speaker 4: might get an invitation to go somewhere and you really

594
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:08,240
Speaker 4: don't feel like going, so don't go. Skip it, stay home,

595
00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:11,400
Speaker 4: leave early if you need to. You know, plan ahead

596
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:14,880
Speaker 4: for something that's that might be a bad moment. Don't

597
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:17,760
Speaker 4: go alone. Take somebody with you so they can be

598
00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:19,960
Speaker 4: there for you and help you. I think these are

599
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:24,000
Speaker 4: just some practical tips that can get us through most anytime,

600
00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:26,120
Speaker 4: but especially during the holiday time.

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Speaker 2: One of the things that I tell my friends when

602
00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:34,400
Speaker 2: a family member you know passes and dies, we we

603
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:39,040
Speaker 2: sometimes we like to use those euphemism they pass. But

604
00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:41,640
Speaker 2: what I tell them is, look as bad as you're

605
00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:46,600
Speaker 2: feeling now, the worse you feel about their loss, their departure,

606
00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:52,400
Speaker 2: whatever word you want to use, that shows how close

607
00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:56,400
Speaker 2: your relationship was. With them and how close their relationship

608
00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:59,240
Speaker 2: was with you. I mean, we can scan the obituaries

609
00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:02,719
Speaker 2: and any day the globe and you can see, you know,

610
00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:06,479
Speaker 2: fifty people, none of whom you know. You look at

611
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:09,240
Speaker 2: the pictures and you realize there's a story behind every person,

612
00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:13,080
Speaker 2: but you don't feel that sort of compassion that human

613
00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:16,480
Speaker 2: You feel human compassion, but there's no connecsion. But when

614
00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:19,160
Speaker 2: it's someone who you really know well for that matter,

615
00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:23,240
Speaker 2: someone who you really love within your family, it's okay

616
00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:26,319
Speaker 2: to be sad. It's it's okay to cry, It's it's

617
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:31,640
Speaker 2: okay to feel horrible because that is in direct relationship

618
00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:35,200
Speaker 2: with how deep your love and friendship was with that person,

619
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Speaker 2: in my opinion, right.

620
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Speaker 4: But on the flip side of that, I also want

621
00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:42,200
Speaker 4: to say that it's okay to feel joy if you

622
00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:44,640
Speaker 4: find something that does bring your joy during this time,

623
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Speaker 4: these these lighthearted moments, these moments when we laugh or

624
00:34:49,200 --> 00:34:51,920
Speaker 4: we find ourselves in a joyous time. It's not a

625
00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:55,200
Speaker 4: betrayal against the person that we lost. It's not a

626
00:34:55,200 --> 00:34:59,080
Speaker 4: betrayal on their memory. It's it's where I'm going to

627
00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:01,879
Speaker 4: use the term normal life. I'm making air quotes. We're

628
00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 4: normalizing life. Your life changed at the moment you suffered

629
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Speaker 4: the loss, whatever that loss was, whether it's a loved

630
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Speaker 4: one or as you mentioned, a pet loss which is real,

631
00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:16,120
Speaker 4: or any loss that we might have. Your life changed

632
00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:18,200
Speaker 4: at that moment. It will never be the same again,

633
00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:21,839
Speaker 4: and so we get used to living in again. Here's

634
00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:25,200
Speaker 4: the catchphrase, right, the new normal. And so it's okay

635
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:28,200
Speaker 4: if you have that moment of joy during this season,

636
00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:31,400
Speaker 4: don't feel like again that it's betraying the person that

637
00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:32,000
Speaker 4: you've lost.

638
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:35,360
Speaker 2: And I also think that in versu every one of

639
00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:39,560
Speaker 2: those cases, the people who have moved on again using

640
00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 2: one of those euphemisms, they want you to be happy. Yeah,

641
00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:48,920
Speaker 2: they certainly you know wherever they are, and we hope

642
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:53,720
Speaker 2: to God that there is somewhere after this. You hope

643
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:56,480
Speaker 2: that they're happy where they are, but you know that

644
00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:59,520
Speaker 2: they love you back and that they would not want

645
00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:02,040
Speaker 2: you to be sad all the time. Feel your grief,

646
00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:04,840
Speaker 2: experience it, get it out of your system. If you will,

647
00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:09,440
Speaker 2: you'll never forget that person. The closer, the longer you'll remember,

648
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:13,839
Speaker 2: the deeper the deep of the bond. But I think

649
00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:17,000
Speaker 2: I think I'm kind of saying the same thing you are, Reverend,

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Speaker 2: but you're probably saying it better than me because you've

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Speaker 2: got an experience with this.

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Speaker 4: Well. I you know, I think everything you've said is true.

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Speaker 4: I think it's just you need to give yourself time.

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Speaker 4: No one, no two people grieve the same way. Your

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Speaker 4: grief is a sign of your deep love for the

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Speaker 4: person or whatever it is that you experienced the loss with.

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Speaker 4: And it's okay to gently move through this time of

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Speaker 4: the year, through these seasons at your own pace. Don't

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Speaker 4: feel rushed, don't feel that you're not grieving the same

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Speaker 4: way as someone else. Like I said before, everybody grieves differently.

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Speaker 4: There's no two people that grieve the same and so

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Speaker 4: you need to give yourself that time, give yourself that grief,

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Speaker 4: the gentle pace and the gentle spirit you need to

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Speaker 4: get through these times. And you're not going through it alone.

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Speaker 4: There's other people here with you.

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Speaker 2: Reverend Peter Michael Prebble, thank you so much. I assume

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Speaker 2: folks can reach out to you at the Berkeley Congregational

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Speaker 2: Church in Berkeley, Massachusetts, down there on what we now

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Speaker 2: kind of call the South Coast.

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Speaker 4: Right, that's right, Yeah, they certainly can.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Reverend Prebble, and I wish you

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Speaker 2: very merry Christmas.

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Speaker 4: Thank you you too.

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Speaker 2: All Right, we'll be back right after the nine o'clock news,

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Speaker 2: and we're going to talk about a really tragic story

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Speaker 2: and a story that is moving at much too slow

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Speaker 2: a pace as far as I'm concerned. Great Peace will

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Speaker 2: be in the Boston Globe tomorrow morning. We'll preview it

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Speaker 2: for you tonight, the tragic accident that so unnecessarily took

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Speaker 2: the life of five year old Lens Joseph in Hyde

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Speaker 2: Park last April