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Speaker 1: It's Nights with Dan Ray. I'm telling you Boston's Nach Radio.

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Speaker 2: Where we have reached the end of the week, folks.

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Speaker 2: Has been an interesting week. We're following a couple of

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Speaker 2: breaking news stories at this point. The major story is

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Speaker 2: what's going on in Iran with at least one US

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Speaker 2: A pilot. I'm not sure if he was the weapons

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Speaker 2: apparently shot down, would have been around this time, I

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Speaker 2: guess last night, or we don't have the precise time,

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Speaker 2: but anyway, we're going to follow that for you as

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Speaker 2: the evening goes on, and hopefully we'll find get some

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Speaker 2: good news quickly on that. One of the crew members,

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Speaker 2: and I think I've heard it referred to as the pilot,

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Speaker 2: but it's a little unclear, has been recovered and is

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Speaker 2: being treated for his injuries whatever. We're not sure what

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Speaker 2: those are. Obviously, the Pentagon is not giving a lot

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Speaker 2: of information at this point, as you understand, but we

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Speaker 2: have a program tonight lined up which does not deal

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Speaker 2: with that issue. Because what's that issue is, we'll hopefully

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Speaker 2: work out right. Say an extra prayer here while some

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Speaker 2: people celebrate passover and others acknowledge the the most serious

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Speaker 2: day on the Christian challendar, which is Good Friday, the

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Speaker 2: day that Christians believe that Jesus died in the cross

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Speaker 2: for all of our sins. Well, we're not going to

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Speaker 2: probably get in a lot to the to the theology

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Speaker 2: of it, but I think everyone understands that this is

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Speaker 2: a week that has really some significant religious value to

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Speaker 2: both Christians and members of the Jewish faith. So having

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Speaker 2: said all of that, whatever faith you happen to believe in,

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Speaker 2: we wish you great celebration and reflection. And if you don't,

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Speaker 2: and as I think we would say, enjoy this weekend.

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Speaker 2: Certainly the Red Sox enjoyed their home opener and about

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Speaker 2: thirty seven thousand people except for the Padre fans as well.

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Speaker 2: So let's start off as we do every night, with

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Speaker 2: our guests. We have four guests scheduled this are. I

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Speaker 2: think one of them has come up with a family emergency,

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Speaker 2: so we may be moving things around just a little bit,

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Speaker 2: but that's what Rob does and he always does it

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Speaker 2: very very well. So we're going to start off tonight

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Speaker 2: with the first guest, whose State House News reporter Katie

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Speaker 2: Castellani Katie's been with us before. I think this is

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Speaker 2: your second time with us, maybe your third, but at

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Speaker 2: least your second, Katie. Welcome back to Night's Side.

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Speaker 3: Aman.

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Speaker 4: Yes, this is my second time.

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Speaker 2: Par I was afraid you weren't there, Katie. Oh wow,

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Speaker 2: are you on a headset? I no, I'm not okay,

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Speaker 2: I don't understand the delay here. So I'm we got

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Speaker 2: a little bit of a delay. You're going to tell

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Speaker 2: us about a bill that the Massachusetts State Senate has

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Speaker 2: approved that would be in the selling of dogs, cats,

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Speaker 2: and rabbits in pet shops. Are dogs, cats, and rabbits

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Speaker 2: currently sold in pet shops? Or have the days of

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Speaker 2: the sale of dogs, cats and rabbits in pet shops

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Speaker 2: pretty much gone by the board?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Yep. The Senate passed the bill a few weeks ago

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Speaker 4: banning the sale of dogs, cats, and rabbits and pet shops,

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Speaker 4: and the bills lorder beyond just that ban of retail

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Speaker 2: You know what I'm gonna do, Katie, we got a

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Speaker 2: little problem with your phone. With phone here, I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: because we're getting every other word. Rob. I know you've

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Speaker 2: got a lot going on right now, but I think

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Speaker 2: you've got to just take over Katie's call and clean

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Speaker 2: it up up and if necessarily, replace the call, because

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Speaker 2: I do think that we got a delay and there

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Speaker 2: may be a problem with the connection. In the meantime,

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Speaker 2: I will let you know that we will talk later

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Speaker 2: tonight if you're interested in getting a free tree. You

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Speaker 2: heard me right, a free tree, believe it or not.

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Speaker 2: Ever Sauce, We'll be talking with a gentleman named Chris Gonzales.

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Speaker 2: He's the manager of vegetation Management Forever Source, and ever

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Speaker 2: Source is teaming up with the Arbor Date Foundation to

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Speaker 2: offer one thousand free trees to customers. They will deliver

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Speaker 2: hope you take that responsibility seriously, will be to plant

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Speaker 2: Let's go back to Katie. Katie, is the connection any

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Speaker 5: Hey?

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Speaker 4: I hope it's better now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I have no idea what Rob did. But he

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Speaker 2: the question that I asked you was, we know that

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Speaker 2: I know that animal rights activists have been advocating against

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Speaker 2: the commercial sale of you know what we think of

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Speaker 2: his pets. What's the status currently if you know?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: So during the Senate session where they passed this bill,

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Speaker 4: Senator Patrick O'Connor, who's one of the primary supporters of

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Speaker 4: the bill, said that there are less than ten pet

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Speaker 2: I see, okay, but there has been a real push.

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Speaker 2: So has the bill gone through the House at this

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Speaker 1: Go?

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Speaker 2: Where are we in terms of just the process of

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Speaker 4: Yep, So it will go to the House next and

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Speaker 4: then yes, we'll go to the House next before it

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Speaker 2: Okay, And is this a piece of legislation that it

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Speaker 2: doesn't If there's only ten pet shops left in the

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Speaker 2: common Wealth, I'm sure at one point. You know, I

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Speaker 2: can think of the song how much is that doggie

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Speaker 2: with the waggly tail, And how much is the doggie

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Speaker 2: in the window? I do hope that doggy is for sale.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure you've heard that song, and I wouldn't sing

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Speaker 2: it because you probably had a rough week anyway. But

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Speaker 2: the number of pet shops have gone down. I have

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Speaker 2: with sales are winding down here in Massachusetts. Will pet

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Speaker 2: as well as pet food.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so that was one of the main opponents to

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Speaker 4: up that exact concern. They said that the banning of

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Speaker 4: of states sellers and regulated market lead flies not only pets,

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Speaker 2: And I do know that there's been a real push

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Speaker 2: It saves people some money. I'm sure that that that

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Speaker 2: puppies and kittens, people can get just as much joy

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Speaker 2: out of adopting a pet for their children as they

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Speaker 2: So let's we'll continue to follow on with it. And again, Katie,

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Speaker 2: I'm going to cut it shorty a little bit, because

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Speaker 2: I think you've made it very clear. Thanks for working

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Speaker 2: with me under some difficult circumstances. And please we enjoy

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Speaker 2: you when you when you join us, and we thank

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Speaker 2: you for taking some time on a Friday night to

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Speaker 2: have a great weekend to enjoy the weekend, and we'll

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Speaker 2: talk to you soon.

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Speaker 4: Christ Yet, no, I'm sorry about the connection. I'm not

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Speaker 4: really sure what's happening there, but it was great chatting

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Speaker 4: as well, you too.

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Speaker 2: Katie Castellani of the State House News Service. When we

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Speaker 2: get back, I'm not sure we're going to talk to.

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Speaker 2: Rob's going to figure that out for me, and I'll

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Speaker 2: let you know. On the other side, we'll have somebody

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Speaker 2: with a better phone connection, I hope, and also ready

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Speaker 2: to talk about a different topic. My name's Dan Ray.

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Speaker 2: This is Night's Side again. Getting this many guests during

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Speaker 2: a week is not easy, and we will be talking

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Speaker 2: with Chris Gonzales. Actually, Rob has just said to me

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Speaker 2: in my ear from Eversaurus, who is teaming up with

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Speaker 2: the arb Arbor Day Foundation, and if you would like

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Speaker 2: a free tree to plant in your yard, get a

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Speaker 2: that information coming back on Nightside.

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

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Speaker 2: But we are back, and I am delighted to introduce

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Speaker 2: to you Chris Gonzales. Chris is the manager of vegetation

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Speaker 2: Management at Eversas. By the way, Chris, I understand what

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Speaker 2: vegetation management at eversaurce actually means. Why don't you explain?

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Speaker 2: People don't realize how much vegetation management ever Source does

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Speaker 2: around the Commonwealth. Welcome to Nightside.

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Speaker 5: Thank you so much, Dan, really great to be on

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Speaker 5: the show tonight. Sure, so, I guess just a brief

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Speaker 5: explanation of what vegetation management is is. You know, obviously

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Speaker 5: we've got overhead of wires all over the place. You know,

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Speaker 5: ever Source serves customers in New England, throughout Connecticut, New

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Speaker 5: Hampshire and Massachusetts, and New England is one of the

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Speaker 5: most heavily forested areas of the country. And so because

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Speaker 5: of that, we've got trees that are constantly growing into

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Speaker 5: And so vegetation management just like like the title says,

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Speaker 5: managing that vegetation to make sure that you know, we

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Speaker 5: can keep the paler on and prevent you know these

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Speaker 2: And the reason I ask you about that is that

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Speaker 2: most people say, wait a second, why would ever sauce?

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Speaker 2: What's the nexus for ever Source to give away a

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Speaker 2: thousand free trees to customers. Well, that's the nexus, and

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Speaker 2: you've teamed up with the Arbor Day Foundation. Everybody knows

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Speaker 2: what Arbor Day, I think means. I'm not sure if

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Speaker 2: there's a specific date for Arbor Day or if it

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Speaker 2: varies from state to state, but Arbor Day, obviously the

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Speaker 2: Arbor Day Foundation is concerned. And how do how do

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Speaker 2: any of my listeners they have to be an ever

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Speaker 2: Source customer, I assume what type of trees are available?

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Speaker 2: And how does this work?

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Speaker 5: Well, there is a specific arbor Day every year. It

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Speaker 5: is this year Friday, April twenty fourth.

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Speaker 2: Perfect. That's great, go ahead, And for.

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Speaker 5: This particular promotion that we're doing. You know, the reason

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Speaker 5: that we do it is I you know, I'm the

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Speaker 5: manager of vegetation management, but I'm also an arborist. You know,

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Speaker 5: I absolutely love trees, and like I said before, a

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Speaker 2: And so in Massachusetts, Pittsfield and what was the second community,

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Speaker 2: So you have to live, do you have to own

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Speaker 5: Well, there's actually a portal that you can go through

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Speaker 2: Okay, So so give us the portal first of all,

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Speaker 2: write that down. What's what if people live in those

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Speaker 5: The The address is called get dot arbor day dot

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Speaker 2: Okay, so get dot arbor day dot org slash ever source.

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Speaker 2: Okay, get dot arbor Day one word dot org slash

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Speaker 2: Now let's assume somebody that they have Okay, So let's

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Speaker 5: About right now, we're only offering trees in those six communities.

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Speaker 2: But what I'm what I'm trying my question is, let's

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Speaker 2: Does that website only work for the communities that you're

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Speaker 5: The website does only work for the committees that we're

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Speaker 6: But the website in the communities that you're serving Pittsfield

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Speaker 5: What was the other town, Killingly, Connecticut.

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Speaker 2: You broke up on me, Killington, killing Lee, killing Lee, Okay,

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Speaker 2: And where else in New Hampshire Merrimack. Okay, perfect. So

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Speaker 2: everybody now can go there and will that portal will

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Speaker 2: recommend the tree that should be delivered. I guess someone

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Speaker 5: Oh, yes, that's correct. And unfortunately we aren't delivering the

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Speaker 5: And for this year it's we're doing it at a

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Speaker 2: Now, don't worry about that. So there'll be a day

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Speaker 2: Uh to request the tree. A tree will be put

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Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely, you know I don't want that either, right,

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Speaker 2: Perfect, perfect, Chris, thank you very much. A little bit

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Speaker 2: As they say, the best time to plant a tree

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Speaker 5: Thank you so much. Dan, I really appreciate the time.

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Speaker 2: It's normally it's much more quick, So let's just double check.

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Speaker 2: I know. Peter Abraham the Boston Globe is going to

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Speaker 2: great day of Fenway Park in which the Red Sox

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Speaker 2: It's frightening when you see those guys walk walk out

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Speaker 2: My name's Dan Ray. This is Nightside. We'll be right

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Speaker 1: Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news Radio.

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Speaker 2: Well. I may not know a lot about pet stores,

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Speaker 2: Peter Abraham of the Boston Globe. Peter, was a beautiful

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Speaker 3: Uh, I didn't even realize that that's fine.

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Speaker 2: a strike call. You know, the fans are absolutely supporting

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Speaker 2: the Red Sox batter. And look, it's a great tradition

439
00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:42,600
Speaker 2: at baseball games to you know, you know, put on

440
00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:45,280
Speaker 2: some glasses up and you know, yeah, the answer are

441
00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:49,040
Speaker 2: always no one's rooting for the empire out there. They're

442
00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:54,399
Speaker 2: always a subject of derision, particularly if the home team

443
00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:57,359
Speaker 2: is losing. And you know, I don't think it's going

444
00:23:57,440 --> 00:23:59,680
Speaker 2: to affect umpires. I think they're just going to call balls.

445
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Speaker 2: And but it'll be interesting as the year goes on

446
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Speaker 2: to see. I'm sure someone's keeping track of all of this.

447
00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:09,199
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, there's already a website that has you know,

448
00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:12,920
Speaker 3: which teams have been successful the most and which umpires

449
00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:15,879
Speaker 3: have had the most calls overturned. And the thing that's

450
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Speaker 3: that's interesting about it is, for many years I can

451
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Speaker 3: remember Jason Vertek kept the book and it had you know,

452
00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:25,720
Speaker 3: what certain umpires called the strike and what other umpires

453
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Speaker 3: didn't call a strike. And there were individual umpires who

454
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Speaker 3: had know their own strike zone. They might have called

455
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Speaker 3: high strikes, other guys called most strikes. And what this

456
00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:37,200
Speaker 3: has done is really standardized the strike zone. It's now

457
00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:41,680
Speaker 3: the same thing for everybody. And the umpires are very

458
00:24:41,840 --> 00:24:43,720
Speaker 3: like Alex Sporer has mentioned this a number of times.

459
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Speaker 3: The umpires are very good at what they do and

460
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Speaker 3: they can adjust with how they call games anytime they want,

461
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Speaker 3: and I think the system does show how good they

462
00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:54,280
Speaker 3: are and how many calls are correct, But the ones

463
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Speaker 3: that the players challenge, it causes, you know, there's a

464
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Speaker 3: ripple in the crowd and the player really pay attention to,

465
00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:03,840
Speaker 3: like when you know, when should you call, when should

466
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Speaker 3: you challenge? When should you not? And there's a strategy

467
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Speaker 3: involved that teams are trying to figure out.

468
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Speaker 2: Also, it's it shows the batters, how with great eyes

469
00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:16,080
Speaker 2: that you know, they have such great vision in terms

470
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Speaker 2: of interception. Was it contrarasts today who challenged a strike

471
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Speaker 2: three call? And yeah, and he was right and he

472
00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:27,560
Speaker 2: just walked down and wait, he walked down was standing

473
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Speaker 2: on first base when when the decision was made. The

474
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Speaker 2: other thing, too, is that the strike zone does this.

475
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Speaker 2: This does not mean that Aaron judges strike zone is

476
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Speaker 2: the same as Altwuova's right.

477
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Speaker 3: No, what they what they did is they measured every

478
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Speaker 3: player in spring training to get their exact height, and

479
00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:49,120
Speaker 3: a lot of guys, as it turns out, guys who

480
00:25:49,119 --> 00:25:50,960
Speaker 3: said there were six two turned out to be five

481
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Speaker 3: to ten, you know, whatever it was. And they're essentially measuring,

482
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Speaker 3: you know, from the bottom of the strike zone to

483
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Speaker 3: you know, from the top of the strike zone based

484
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Speaker 3: on each player's height. Yeah, so al tub you know,

485
00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:05,239
Speaker 3: has a different strike zone than judge, but they're at

486
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Speaker 3: the same height. In terms of the plate, you know,

487
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Speaker 3: a certain number of inches up from the plate and

488
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Speaker 3: down from their shoulders. So it's it really just standardizes

489
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Speaker 3: things and the catchers, you know, have to have a

490
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Speaker 3: sense of you know, the strike how the strike zone

491
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Speaker 3: is now. And once the hitters get to know their

492
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Speaker 3: own strike zone, I think you'll see guys become more

493
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Speaker 3: comfortable in terms of challenging because the don't really know. Yeah,

494
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Speaker 3: it's only going to take a couple of weeks, but

495
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Speaker 3: they'll know what's to strike and what's not.

496
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Speaker 2: Yeah. I also thought I read an article I think

497
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Speaker 2: it was in The Times. I'm not sure that some

498
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Speaker 2: umpires as opposed to having a a strike zone that

499
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Speaker 2: was purely rectangular, which it should be, Okay, Yeah, some

500
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Speaker 2: of them had sort of like an easter egg type

501
00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:51,000
Speaker 2: strike zone where you know, pitches they were it was

502
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Speaker 2: low and away. Even if it was on the corner,

503
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Speaker 2: it wasn't getting called. But maybe if it was in

504
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Speaker 2: the middle of the plate and the couple of inches

505
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Speaker 2: off it was. It was wider in the middle and

506
00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:05,119
Speaker 2: a little compressed at the edges of this sort of

507
00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:10,200
Speaker 2: easter egg easter egg strike zone. I suspect that players

508
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Speaker 2: had that figured.

509
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Speaker 3: Out, oh sure. And the other thing that I've noticed

510
00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:17,360
Speaker 3: in just this couple of weeks, it used to be

511
00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:20,160
Speaker 3: on a three zero count if you threw a pitch

512
00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:22,719
Speaker 3: anywhere near the plate, they usually gave you a strike. Sure,

513
00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:25,480
Speaker 3: and that's gone. Now you see a lot more like

514
00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:27,840
Speaker 3: you really need to throw that strike on a threeo

515
00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:31,439
Speaker 3: count in once hitters become a customer, not they're going

516
00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:34,040
Speaker 3: to tee up on that pitch. So you know, I

517
00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:36,200
Speaker 3: think over the course of the season it's going to

518
00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:37,840
Speaker 3: raise I don't think it's going to be dramatic, but

519
00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:39,760
Speaker 3: it is going to raise the offense throughout the league.

520
00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:42,720
Speaker 2: Yeah. The other thing too, is that for people like

521
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Speaker 2: me who are traditionalists, my instinct is going to always

522
00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:48,840
Speaker 2: be I don't want it to change. I don't want

523
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Speaker 2: it to change. But I guess at the end of

524
00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:54,080
Speaker 2: the day, it makes the game better. But it's there's

525
00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:57,000
Speaker 2: still something sad about it because the game has been

526
00:27:57,040 --> 00:28:00,879
Speaker 2: played for one hundred and twenty five years or so, sure,

527
00:28:01,119 --> 00:28:03,680
Speaker 2: and and it just all this is a big change.

528
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Speaker 3: This is this is the one thing they talked about.

529
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Speaker 3: There was a point when they were talking about this

530
00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:11,760
Speaker 3: was to have full abs that that every pitch would

531
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Speaker 3: be called by the high speed cameras and the Empire

532
00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:16,560
Speaker 3: would get some sort of indication. Yeah, they said, whether

533
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Speaker 3: it was a ball or a strike.

534
00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:20,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, they said that they had some sort of ear

535
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Speaker 2: ear plug of some sort.

536
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that would be be right. And they yeah, to

537
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Speaker 3: keep at least some of the human elements and only

538
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Speaker 3: have the challenge system.

539
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Speaker 2: So yeah, oh, that would have been horrible to think

540
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Speaker 2: that someone's getting dressed up in the uniform. You're putting

541
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Speaker 2: yourself in danger, you know, because every once in a

542
00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:40,760
Speaker 2: while you take one under the chin or whatever or

543
00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:44,320
Speaker 2: somewhere or other area. Uh. To be just sitting there

544
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:47,160
Speaker 2: and when whatever the machine tells you to say, you

545
00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:50,640
Speaker 2: say strike, ball, whatever. I think that would have been

546
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Speaker 2: absolutely absurd at that point. Might even need the Empire just, you.

547
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Speaker 3: Know, just just to call safer out at the basis,

548
00:28:57,680 --> 00:28:58,520
Speaker 3: that would have been the only thing.

549
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Speaker 2: Yeah, three umpires, right, Yeah, Well, maybe they'll do that

550
00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:03,600
Speaker 2: someday too. I mean, I don't know. I hope they don't.

551
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Speaker 2: I really hope they don't. Peter, thank you very much.

552
00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:09,120
Speaker 2: It has the ship of state been righted with this

553
00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:12,440
Speaker 2: one win or we need a couple of I.

554
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Speaker 3: Think, like I wrote tomorrow that the panic has passed

555
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Speaker 3: at least for one day, so we'll see how.

556
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Speaker 5: We'll see how it looks tomorrow.

557
00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:20,640
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think that comment about it at least for

558
00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:22,400
Speaker 2: one day easily reversible.

559
00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:25,000
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, no doubt, no doubt.

560
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Speaker 2: So so tomorrow, is it it's Suarez or Bellow?

561
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Speaker 3: Tomorrow's Tomorrow's yeah, Rangers, Suarez for the Red Sox. Uh no,

562
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Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Yeah, it's Connolly Early Tomorrow.

563
00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:42,840
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Okay. And then Bellow was was number five?

564
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Speaker 2: Uh so I assume it's so they get two lefties, Yeah,

565
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Speaker 2: Connley and Suarez. That'll be interesting, It's.

566
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Speaker 3: All yeah, yeah, he's uh. You know, Connolly Early is

567
00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:55,840
Speaker 3: an interesting kid because he was originally at the US

568
00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:58,720
Speaker 3: Military academy, where you know, you don't go to play

569
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Speaker 3: professional sports, and he was so good that his coach said,

570
00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:03,720
Speaker 3: you know, you ought to think about transferring because you've

571
00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:05,240
Speaker 3: got a chance to play in the major leagues. And

572
00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:06,480
Speaker 3: sure enough he got there.

573
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and the haircut would wouldn't have worked at the well. Yeah, yeah,

574
00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:19,120
Speaker 2: you know it was funny. Ted Lepsio's grandson played a

575
00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:23,520
Speaker 2: few years ago at the at the Mill at West Point. Uh. Yeah,

576
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Speaker 2: I'll have to ask him if if he was a

577
00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:29,280
Speaker 2: teammate of this this kid, I liked him. He had

578
00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:31,320
Speaker 2: four really solid starts last September.

579
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Speaker 5: Uh he did.

580
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Speaker 3: Yeah, especially at that time they were trying to get

581
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Speaker 3: into the playoffs, and he really, you know, he really

582
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Speaker 3: helped them down the stretch.

583
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Speaker 2: I was disappointed when they were originally saying that he

584
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Speaker 2: was going to go to Worcester. I'm glad he's in

585
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Speaker 2: the starting rotation. I hope, Yeah, he last the season.

586
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Speaker 2: Peter Abraham, thank you so much. As always, you're the best.

587
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Speaker 2: Appreciate it anytime, Dan, thank you talk so all right,

588
00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:53,080
Speaker 2: when we get back, we're going to have a little

589
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Speaker 2: look at the weather with Brian Thompson, ACI Weather meteorologist.

590
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Speaker 2: The weekend. It is a little shaky, but I thought

591
00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:03,200
Speaker 2: it would be a good time to do a little

592
00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:07,560
Speaker 2: quick in depth weather and then next week we're kind

593
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Speaker 2: of moving into what I would say is early spring

594
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Speaker 2: for real, for real. Brian Thompson will explain coming back

595
00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:15,240
Speaker 2: on nights Side.

596
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Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio.

597
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Speaker 2: Well, I know that spring occurred. I guess now that's

598
00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:29,920
Speaker 2: about two weeks ago. I might might be off by

599
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:33,840
Speaker 2: a day or so, but spring will not officially or

600
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Speaker 2: unofficially arrive. It looks like until maybe next week. Brian

601
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:40,880
Speaker 2: Thompson for MACKI Weather is with us. Hey, Brian, I

602
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:44,080
Speaker 2: understand that this weekend is going to be kind of sketchy.

603
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Speaker 2: How are you tonight, good, Dan.

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Speaker 7: Hope you're doing well. Yeah, We're gonna have some bumps

605
00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:53,080
Speaker 7: in the road. Let's just say this weekend it's it's

606
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:55,800
Speaker 7: It's kind of been an interesting afternoon, especially near the coast.

607
00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:57,479
Speaker 7: You just look at Logan Airport where it was in

608
00:31:57,520 --> 00:32:00,920
Speaker 7: the low forty, low fifties up for forties late in

609
00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:03,280
Speaker 7: the afternoon and the wind there was a bit of

610
00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:04,800
Speaker 7: a sea breeze that developed today and then all of

611
00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:06,640
Speaker 7: a sudden, the wind shifted and it was in the

612
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Speaker 7: mid sixties.

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Speaker 2: Again.

614
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Speaker 7: That's kind of been how it's been for really the

615
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Speaker 7: last several weeks. We've had some significant shifts in the weather,

616
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Speaker 7: which is not unusual, certainly for March to have some

617
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Speaker 7: big swings in temperature, but as we head through the weekend,

618
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Speaker 7: we're going to see a little bit more of that.

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Speaker 7: As we head through tomorrow, we'll probably start in the

620
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Speaker 7: fifties and then tempters will drop into the forties, so

621
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Speaker 7: it's going to be kind of a backwards day. I

622
00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:30,520
Speaker 7: think we'll see more clouds tomorrow than we did today

623
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Speaker 7: as well, and then as we head through tomorrow night,

624
00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:35,440
Speaker 7: we'll start to see some drizzle as some moisture starts

625
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:38,120
Speaker 7: to get thrown into the area, and we will see

626
00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:39,760
Speaker 7: some rain. It looks like, at least for a portion

627
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Speaker 7: of Easter Sunday. I don't think the rain's all day,

628
00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:44,800
Speaker 7: but there will be a period, probably most likely late

629
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Speaker 7: in the morning into the early part of the afternoon,

630
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Speaker 7: where we have a band of some rain come through,

631
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Speaker 7: maybe some showers. I can't completely roll out a rumble

632
00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:53,840
Speaker 7: of thunder, but it looks like just mostly some rain.

633
00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:57,160
Speaker 7: Temperaures probably sneak into the sixties Sunday, but again just

634
00:32:57,240 --> 00:32:59,560
Speaker 7: not the nicest of days with some of that rain

635
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Speaker 7: coming through.

636
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Speaker 2: But then as I understand that next week, the whole

637
00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:06,880
Speaker 2: situation settles down a little bit, and I was looking

638
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:09,840
Speaker 2: at some of the long range forecast. I trust you

639
00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:11,840
Speaker 2: more than I do the weather guyst on TV. But

640
00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:15,600
Speaker 2: what's it looked like next week? Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.

641
00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:16,960
Speaker 2: Look pretty nice.

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00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:18,520
Speaker 7: It's going to be settling down. Like I said, I

643
00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:20,320
Speaker 7: think we'll get into a quieter stretch next week. It

644
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:24,400
Speaker 7: might be a system Tuesday that brings a rain shower,

645
00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:26,560
Speaker 7: maybe a few wet snowflakes. It is going to be

646
00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:29,800
Speaker 7: pretty chilly early next week. This once this cold front

647
00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:33,560
Speaker 7: goes through on Easter Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday of next week,

648
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:35,240
Speaker 7: probably on the Chili side, I think we'll have a

649
00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:38,000
Speaker 7: hard time getting out of the forties thanks to high

650
00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:40,959
Speaker 7: pressure that's building down for the Northwest. Once that starts

651
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:43,920
Speaker 7: to move out, though, usually on the back side of

652
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:46,360
Speaker 7: these high pressure systems, you start to get some warmer air.

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Speaker 7: We're also going to get help from a storm that's

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Speaker 7: going to be passing through eastern Canada. The flow around

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Speaker 7: that will also bring our flow more out of the

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Speaker 7: west and southwest, and that does usually get the temperatures

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Speaker 7: going up. So I think we'll get at least into

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Speaker 7: the fifties and probably into the sixties by later next week.

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Speaker 7: So after it chili starts to next week, we should

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Speaker 7: see things improve as it get toward toward the end.

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Speaker 2: Of the week. Okay, if my calculation is right, and

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Speaker 2: if we're spring now is two weeks old, like about fifteen,

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00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:18,520
Speaker 2: we're getting close to twenty percent of spring before we've

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Speaker 2: really had even one warm day. But as you say,

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Speaker 2: that's not unusual here in a way that we think about, oh,

666
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Speaker 2: spring is going to be beautiful, but it doesn't really get

667
00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:29,799
Speaker 2: beautiful around here until consistently until the first of May.

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Speaker 7: So, yeah, it's just so hard because of the water

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00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:38,839
Speaker 7: is still so chilly, and especially you get farther south

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Speaker 7: to get toward the south coast areas closer to the

671
00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:44,640
Speaker 7: water with south facing shores. Of course, a lot of

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Speaker 7: the warmer air we gets out of the south and southwest,

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Speaker 7: so anytime you get into that warmer air, those areas

674
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Speaker 7: really struggle to get into the warm So you almost

675
00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:56,040
Speaker 7: need a good westerly wind this time of year to

676
00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:58,680
Speaker 7: bring in that warmth because that's kind of the one

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00:34:58,719 --> 00:35:01,720
Speaker 7: direction where you're bringing some warmer era it's not encountering

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Speaker 7: any of that chillier water.

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to ask you this, but I mean,

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Speaker 2: I'm sure that there must be a day somewhere I

681
00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:13,160
Speaker 2: don't know, at early May that on average we finally

682
00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:16,960
Speaker 2: break through the first eighty degree day. That's what I'm

683
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:20,479
Speaker 2: looking for, you know. I think all of these days

684
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Speaker 2: where well we might hit sixty, I don't think of

685
00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:26,080
Speaker 2: that as spring, although obviously it is. I'm looking for

686
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Speaker 2: that first eighty degree day when you can kind of

687
00:35:29,280 --> 00:35:36,120
Speaker 2: break out, break out the summer stuff, yeah, and feel

688
00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:38,880
Speaker 2: like that summer is actually going to arrive. No prediction

689
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:40,480
Speaker 2: on that, right, Lo.

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Speaker 7: No, A lot of times that'll happen sometime in April

691
00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:47,359
Speaker 7: the you know, the planet's whole line, the windw line, right.

692
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:49,399
Speaker 7: I mean, we did get if you'll actually look back

693
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:51,760
Speaker 7: into March, we got the seventy five of March tenth.

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Speaker 7: That's a pretty impressive feat.

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Speaker 2: That was.

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Speaker 7: So usually during the month of April we do up

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Speaker 7: to about eighty degrees at least once during the month,

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Speaker 7: and then it just kind of becomes more common as

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00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:08,200
Speaker 7: we get closer to summer. But as you well know,

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Speaker 7: even as you get into May and early June, you

701
00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:13,279
Speaker 7: can always get some of those surprise days where it's

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00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:15,840
Speaker 7: in the forties and the fifties in the mid afternoon.

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Speaker 2: Well you could look this one up and if I've

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00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:19,319
Speaker 2: mentioned it to you before, I remember as a young

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00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:24,000
Speaker 2: TV reporter at WBC back in May of nineteen seventy seven,

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Speaker 2: like about May seventh, there was an actual real snowstorm,

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00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:33,080
Speaker 2: a multi inch snowstorm. I remember reporting from Natick and

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00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:37,000
Speaker 2: thinking all sorts of trees that the trees had the

709
00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:40,080
Speaker 2: leaves had come out, they were trees taking down lines.

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00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:44,040
Speaker 2: It was. It was a real midwinter type snowstorm. It

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00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:46,800
Speaker 2: didn't last once, you know, once the sun came out, obviously.

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00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:50,320
Speaker 2: But so if anybody says to you in kinds snow

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00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:55,520
Speaker 2: between now and it's always possible in New England. I

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00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:58,920
Speaker 2: learned that that May seventh, nineteen seventy seven, I.

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Speaker 7: Just I just pulled hold it up. It was twelve

716
00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:04,120
Speaker 7: point seven inches of snow and Worcester from May ninth

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00:37:04,160 --> 00:37:05,680
Speaker 7: to tenth in nineteen seventy seven.

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Speaker 2: Now, yeah, it was later than I thought that it

719
00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:09,560
Speaker 2: was later. I thought, yeah, yeah, I thought it was

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Speaker 2: around May seventh. Was yeah, but that's true. I know

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00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:15,600
Speaker 2: it was seventy seventh was first my first year as

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00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:18,640
Speaker 2: a as a as an actual TV reported they said,

723
00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:21,640
Speaker 2: this is pretty strange. This is pretty strange.

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Speaker 7: Hey, Brian, much so much has to happen for snow

725
00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:26,160
Speaker 7: to stick like that in that that late in the season,

726
00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:27,640
Speaker 7: So that's that's quite rare.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh no, it was a big storm, and maybe

728
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Speaker 2: maybe Worcester got twelve inches, but I recollect that Natick,

729
00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:36,600
Speaker 2: which is kind of halfway a little less than halfway

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00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:39,400
Speaker 2: to Worcester from Boston. It had a good seven or

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Speaker 2: eight inches on the ground and it was a real storm.

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Speaker 2: Brian has always I hope you have a great Easter

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Speaker 2: weekend and happy spring whenever it does actually arrive. Happy

734
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Speaker 2: Easter to you too. Damn Thanks Brian, Brian Thompson Aki

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Speaker 2: Weather and we are all set. That takes care of

736
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Speaker 2: our Nightside news updates for the week. When we get back,

737
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:05,120
Speaker 2: we're going to talk about I think a crazy situation

738
00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:09,080
Speaker 2: up at Tewksbury State Hospital and we're going to be

739
00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:11,640
Speaker 2: talking with a state representative up there who is quite

740
00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:17,400
Speaker 2: upset with some new security rules which basically put in

741
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:21,400
Speaker 2: my opinion, nurses and employees in danger. Where do you

742
00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:24,000
Speaker 2: hear of this story? We'll be back on Night's side

743
00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:29,839
Speaker 2: with a state representative. He's a Representative Robertson of Tewksbury

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Speaker 2: right after the break