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Speaker 1: It's Night's Eyes with Dan Ray. I'm going you easy

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Speaker 2: Good eving everyone, welcome on into a Wednesday night edition

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Speaker 2: of Nightside. Thank goodness it's not Sunday night, because Sunday

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Speaker 2: they suggest we'll be a big snowstorm here in New England.

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Speaker 2: We will keep you up to date on that here

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Speaker 2: on WBZ throughout the balance of the week and into Sunday,

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Speaker 2: and I may join you Sunday night from nine to twelve,

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Speaker 2: depending upon the severity of the storm. Normally I am

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Speaker 2: here on Nightside with Dan Ray from mid from eight

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Speaker 2: to midnight Monday through Friday. Rob Brooks, the producer of

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Speaker 2: this program, is back in the studio. We're going to

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Speaker 2: get to our guests. We have a very interesting quartet

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Speaker 2: of topics and guests tonight. I am delighted to introduce

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Speaker 2: former Congressman from Kansas, also Secretary of Agriculture under Bill Clinton,

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Speaker 2: Dian Glickman, who is now actually teaching at Tufts University

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Speaker 2: here locally. So this is a man of men any talents,

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Speaker 2: and I'd like to welcome you, mister Secretary in Nightside.

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Speaker 3: Thank you Dan.

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Speaker 2: Great to be with you, well, wonderful to talk with you.

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Speaker 2: We want to talk about the new US dietary Guidelines

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Speaker 2: for Americans, which I guess will be in place for

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Speaker 2: five years. A lot of this has changed under the

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Speaker 2: leadership of the Health and Human Secretary RFK Robert F.

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Speaker 2: Kennedy Junior. I'm just curious from the thirty thousand foot

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Speaker 2: view that if you could take a quick look overall,

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Speaker 2: do you think in terms of the dietary guidelines, do

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Speaker 2: you think we're going in a good direction or a

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Speaker 2: bad direction. I know there's a whole bunch of conversations

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Speaker 2: about vaccines which we can put aside at least for

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Speaker 2: the moment.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I'd give it a B on a

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Speaker 4: scale of eighty D, so to speak. I think they've

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Speaker 4: done some good things in these guidelines. Mind you, these

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Speaker 4: are voluntary guidelines that are there to educate the public about,

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Speaker 4: you know, what they should eat, shouldn't need in order

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Speaker 4: to maintain their health and prevent disease and live a

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Speaker 4: long time. So, you know, the good things are that

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Speaker 4: they are encouraging fruits and vegetables. They discourage processed foods

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Speaker 4: to these packaged foods like cookies and crackers and that

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Speaker 4: kind of thing. And so I think, you know that

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Speaker 4: part of it is quite good. I think the thing

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Speaker 4: that concerns me a bit is that they basically have

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Speaker 4: opened the door to more saturated fats, which are you know,

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Speaker 4: not necessarily healthy for a human being that beating a

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Speaker 4: lot of fat. And they that's in terms of whole

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Speaker 4: fat dairy as well as a lot of fat meat

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Speaker 4: of this is that to try to help people live

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Speaker 4: a healthier life and eat the right thing. So there's

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Speaker 4: some good things in there, and there's things that I

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Speaker 4: don't think are so great either.

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Speaker 2: What about the turnaround on whole milk. I'm someone who

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Speaker 2: grew up drinking whole milk. I'm sure you did as well.

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Speaker 2: We're kind of a similar, similar vintage, if you will.

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Speaker 2: But as I've gotten older, I've slipped back to one

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Speaker 2: percent milk, and that was what I was told by

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Speaker 2: a sudden they're saying that maybe there's some real benefits

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Speaker 2: based upon some studies that have done on whole milk.

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Speaker 2: You come from a farming state, and I'm sure know

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Speaker 2: a lot more about this than most of us. What's

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Speaker 2: your sense of whole milk. Are you convinced that ourfk

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Speaker 2: has has sort of brought back the past? Or is

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Speaker 2: he making a mistake.

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Speaker 4: Well, first of all, berry is good for you, and

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Speaker 4: I think that so people should consume adequate amounts of

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Speaker 4: dairy and that's both milk and cheese and yogurt and

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Speaker 4: all the other factors. What we found in the school program,

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Speaker 4: you know, in the school meals program, is kids don't

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Speaker 4: like low fat milk, and therefore there's been studies that

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Speaker 4: I think offering whole milk in the schools is a

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Speaker 4: good thing because I'd rather have them drinking that than

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Speaker 4: no milk at all. I still drink one percent or

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Speaker 4: two percent milk, you know, for weight reasons and because

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Speaker 4: the higher fat milk is it's got more calories in it.

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Speaker 4: And so I don't think the studies are absolutely clear yet,

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Speaker 4: determine what's best for you. Because whole milk may be

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Speaker 4: great for some adults, and maybe low fat milk may

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, it's funny. It took me a while

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Speaker 4: I don't like skim milk either. It's very high. It's

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Speaker 4: like it's like there's no taste to it. Almost feels

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Speaker 4: like you're not drinking milk at all. That's my own.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so very quickly, if I could and a couple

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Speaker 2: of other topics. As a former member of Congress, I

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Speaker 2: to be talking at nine o'clock tonight with our former

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Speaker 2: US Ambassador to Denmark, Allen Lebenthal. Obviously, he was on

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Speaker 2: of concern about some of the statements that President Trump

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Speaker 2: had made about potential action towards Greenland. Today. I watched

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Speaker 2: of the speech. He obviously I think has been influenced

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Speaker 2: that has changed his position. Is that situation salvageable in

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Speaker 2: your opinion? Again, I know you're still living in Washington,

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Speaker 2: you're no longer in Congress, but I'm sure you talk

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, And I was horrified by the whole thing.

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Speaker 4: I mean, the way he took on all of our allies,

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Speaker 4: the way he took on Denmark. Great thing that they

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Speaker 4: weren't grateful enough to us. Well, I think he meant

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Speaker 4: it grateful to him personally, because all these issues are

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Speaker 4: they're psychological to him. I think he thinks of himself first,

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Speaker 4: I don't know. He's stuck on Greenland. Maybe for national

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Speaker 4: I don't know. You know, Trump is the kind of

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Speaker 4: guy that comes out like a bully and then retreats

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Speaker 4: and then says he's made a deal. So maybe he's

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Speaker 4: got some sort of a deal with on Greenland. But

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Speaker 4: the Danes are our allies. You know, they contributed a

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Speaker 4: lot of effort in Afghanistan with us. They lost percentage

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Speaker 4: were you know, we should be grateful to the Dame,

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Speaker 4: I don't know, this is just the Trumpian world is

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Speaker 4: just so chaotic. Every day. We don't know what's going

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Speaker 4: to come out of his mouth. I watched that speech too,

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Speaker 4: of deal he actually did, because I don't think we've

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Speaker 4: got a full deal yet. I think we've got a

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Speaker 2: Yeah. No, there they're referring it to as a framework.

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Speaker 2: And it seems to me that at his core he's

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Speaker 4: He but you know, that doesn't excuse the threatn of

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Speaker 4: military action against them.

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Speaker 2: At all.

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Speaker 4: No, No, I know you're not. It's just it's just

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Speaker 4: it's so disconcerting because you know, I was in the

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Speaker 4: Congress even back when Ronald Reagan was president. Reagan was

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Speaker 4: a tough guy and used to used to have at

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Speaker 4: times Bellicoast language, but he was always respectful of our

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Speaker 4: He knew that America could be a force in the

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Speaker 4: world only if we had partners, and you cannot go

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Speaker 4: it alone. And that looks to me like maybe the

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Speaker 4: president doesn't care. Maybe he needs to give no interest

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Speaker 4: to alliances around the world. But we can't be strong

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Speaker 4: not a fan of his the way he conducts foreign

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Speaker 4: criticizes and bullies almost anybody who doesn't agree with him.

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Speaker 4: But let's see what this framework produces. That's all I

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Speaker 2: Yea, as they say. And in twenty four hours, what

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Speaker 2: I was focusing on was the change of tone.

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Speaker 4: Well, he saw a stock market that went down yesterday

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Speaker 4: in the stock market. And then he's seeing some dissipation

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Speaker 4: of support from his own Republicans in Congress who do

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Speaker 4: not have any interest in wanting to be in getting

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Speaker 4: into a military conflict in Greenland. And I don't think

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Speaker 4: Greenland that he does. Anyway, so I think those two things,

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Speaker 2: Well, mister Secretary, I appreciate very much. Dan Glickman has

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Speaker 2: been my guest former Secretary of Agriculture under President Bill Clinton,

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Speaker 2: representing the fourth Congressional District in Kansas for about eighteen years.

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Speaker 2: He's a Democrat from the heartland of America. And there

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Speaker 4: Still in not too many, but there might be more

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Speaker 2: At all, well, I think that I think that they

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Speaker 2: need more Dan Glickman's in the Democratic Party than Elon Omars.

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Speaker 2: If you don't mind my comment.

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Speaker 4: I'll take you. I'll take your support whatever I run for.

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Speaker 2: Well, whatever you I'll support you or your opponent, whichever

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Speaker 2: helps you more. But I just think the Democratic Party

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Speaker 2: needs to pull in that flank and and and and

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Speaker 2: speak more to people in in the in the heartland,

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Speaker 2: including your old district. Thank you so much. And by

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Speaker 2: the way, teaching at Toughs, I'm sure the students and

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Speaker 4: This well, Tufts is a great school and they got

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Speaker 4: the leading school of nutrition in the United States, so

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Speaker 4: you're lucky to have it there.

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Speaker 2: And a great veterinary school by the way, as well

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Speaker 2: at the postgraduate level. A lot of friends of mine

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Speaker 2: graduated from the from the veterinary school as well, and

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Speaker 2: I do have some undergraduate friends over the years there

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Speaker 2: as well, and it's an impressive group. Mister secretary, thank

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Speaker 2: you so much for your time.

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Speaker 4: To thanks an Okay, appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Bye bye, very welcome. Well we get back. Going to

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Speaker 2: get a little more local, going to talk with State

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Speaker 2: Senator Bill Driscoll Junior. He's uncovered more than two he's

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Speaker 2: a Democrat as well, he's discovered more than two point

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Speaker 2: four million dollars in counting in I don't know if

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Speaker 2: you want to call it fraud. We'll let him define it.

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Speaker 2: But this was funding that was intended for what we

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Speaker 2: call gateway cities in Massachusetts, and apparently they're being provided

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Speaker 2: to be considered a gateway municipality. We'll talk with Massachusetts

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Speaker 2: State Senator Bill Driscoll right after the break here on

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Speaker 2: I think you're gonna like tomorrow sunny, a little warmer. Boy,

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Speaker 2: to welcome to Knightside Senator Massachusetts State Senator Bill Driscoll,

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Speaker 2: Junior Senator Driscoll, Welcome to Nightside. I'm not sure if

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Speaker 2: you have, welcome back, if you haven't, to welcome for

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Speaker 1: How are you this evening, Dan, I'm doing great And

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Speaker 1: as they say, long time, first time, Well, got to.

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Speaker 2: Give you an applause as the first guest, where that

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Speaker 2: we normally reserve that for first time callers. So whenever

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Speaker 2: like to ask you to sort of sketch your district

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I really appreciate that. So I've been in the

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Speaker 1: the cities and towns of Braintree, Milton, Randolph, Stoughton, Easton

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Speaker 2: Of south shore communities there. So you have been looking

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Speaker 2: Then we'll get into the what you've uncovered. How does

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Speaker 2: I don't know what are the gateway cities?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 1: So the Mass General Law, which is important to this conversation,

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Speaker 2: So cities that have some obstacles and some obstacles to

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Speaker 3: Yeah? I think right now, if you did a Google starch,

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Speaker 1: That there's twenty six Gateway municipalities. But you know, of course,

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Speaker 2: Get right to that, because you've uncovered I guess more

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Speaker 1: So we started to learn about various grant opportunities. There's

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Speaker 1: And what's what's really kind of unfortunate is that those

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Speaker 2: And yeah, so, so are you now advocating affirmatively to

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Speaker 2: if you want to identify them, great, if you want

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Speaker 1: Your Yeah, So there's there's a couple that, as I mentioned,

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Speaker 1: It's just to expand upon a little bit more comes

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Speaker 2: That's what I mentioned when I mentioned Lawrence and Lowell,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they are, And that's kind of the spirit of

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Speaker 2: Senator, let me let me ask you this in a

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Speaker 2: Where do we go from here? And would be certainly

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Speaker 2: that would be a great segue to your next appearance.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so the conversations, I'm clear, you know we need

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Speaker 1: we're up to, believe it or not. I've identified twenty

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Speaker 2: Yeah, have your staff keep us in contact on it,

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Speaker 2: and maybe we do something even a little little longer

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Speaker 2: and I appreciate you looking at this this sort of problem.

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Speaker 2: I hope it's not an abuse, but it's something that obviously,

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I think that it's been going on for

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Speaker 2: Senator Bill Driscoll, representing seven communities in the South. Sure,

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Speaker 2: it's nice to know that there are members of the

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Speaker 2: Thank you for what you've done and keep us posting.

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Speaker 2: I'd love to have you back.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much.

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Speaker 3: Talk to you, so very.

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Speaker 2: the bottom of that, how we're going to talk about

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Speaker 2: and host of a YouTube show called The Veterans Impact Show.

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Speaker 3: It's nice.

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Speaker 1: Boston's news radio.

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Speaker 2: There you very much, Ben Parker, Welcome to Night Side,

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Speaker 2: Jim Blythe, Jim Hope. We got that last name pretty

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Speaker 3: You you did great, and hello Boston, how are you guys?

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Speaker 2: We're doing great. But it's more than Boston, and it's

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Speaker 2: able to pick up WBZ, which is an iconic radio station. Jim,

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Speaker 2: you're concerned about right now is that there are not

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Speaker 3: Well, you got some people of military age who can't

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Speaker 3: You know how the Air Force is, they don't have

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Speaker 2: Over thirty thousand feet one way or the other, well, in

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Speaker 2: other ways, what's going on here? Is it a problem

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Speaker 3: Well, I think whoever wrote the article is mistaken. Then

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Speaker 3: benefits that are offered. There's all kinds of financial benefits,

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Speaker 3: now educational benefits. You know something. I believe a lot

436
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Speaker 3: of this for that generation. If they lacked structure, structure

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Speaker 3: in school and structure in the home, they go into

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Speaker 3: the military and it's all about structure. It's all about

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Speaker 3: discipline and self discipline. And let me tell you some

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Speaker 3: a lot of employers today want to hire veterans because

441
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Speaker 3: they've got that structure. They've got that self discipline, and

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Speaker 3: so I think this is a good thing for the nation.

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Speaker 3: I think it's a great thing. These kids are coming

444
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Speaker 3: into the military and they're rising way above where they

445
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Speaker 3: were before. I ain't no bad deal, is it.

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Speaker 2: No. I agree with you. There was a period of time,

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Speaker 2: the last two or three years, maybe even the last

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Speaker 2: four or five years after COVID and all of that,

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Speaker 2: particularly on college campuses, there were a lot of students

450
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Speaker 2: who would be upset if they had a professor who

451
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Speaker 2: said something to them that they didn't like, and they

452
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Speaker 2: were looking for safe spaces or a comfort animal of

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Speaker 2: some sword. And I often when I read those stories,

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Speaker 2: I thought about the eighteen year olds on some of

455
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Speaker 2: the elite universities who are having trouble dealing with I

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Speaker 2: don't know, something that never been say, exposed to philosophically before.

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Speaker 2: And I like to compare those folks to the eighteen

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Speaker 2: year olds in nineteen forty four who were storming the

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Speaker 2: beaches at Normandy, the so called greatest the greatest generation

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Speaker 2: in my opinion. And it's nice to hear that recruitment

461
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Speaker 2: is up and that that that the military is trying

462
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Speaker 2: to get people in there who actually can get through

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Speaker 2: boot camp and get through a I T if they're

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Speaker 2: in the army and uh uh and and actually uh

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Speaker 2: get some discipline in their life. And uh I think

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Speaker 2: any employer, if they have a choice between someone who's

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Speaker 2: got a military background and someone who went to an

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Speaker 2: Ivy League college, take the guy with the guy the

469
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Speaker 2: gal with the military background every time, because they're going

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Speaker 2: to be more reliable, uh and and than than any

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Speaker 2: other employee that you have.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I got to tell you, we got several

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Speaker 3: national problems, one of which is absit obesity, one of

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Speaker 3: which I think is a furthering of the distance in

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Speaker 3: terms of education, a few that are the elite and

476
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Speaker 3: many that have not gotten the kind of education they deserve.

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Speaker 3: So I think it's great what the military is doing

478
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Speaker 3: is to lift all people up. You know, one of

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Speaker 3: the mottos of the United States Marine Corps is nobody

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Speaker 3: gets left behind, right. I think that's important. And I

481
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Speaker 3: think basically we ought to be working to come together,

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Speaker 3: working to solve problems, working to create opportunities. Man, I

483
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Speaker 3: gotta tell you, we've got a long way to go

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Speaker 3: in this country. But it's all about working together, not

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Speaker 3: fighting each other.

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Speaker 2: No question about that, Jim. If folks want to listen

487
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Speaker 2: to your podcast then to hear more about issues like this,

488
00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:48,840
Speaker 2: what's the easiest. It's called the Veterans Impact Show. So

489
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Speaker 2: for those in my audience who I think would like

490
00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:54,320
Speaker 2: to hear from you and hear more from you, give us,

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Speaker 2: give us. We give you a plug.

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Speaker 3: You go right ahead, Okay, all right, buddy, Well you

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Speaker 3: go to YouTube Veterans Impact Show. You can go to

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Speaker 3: Veterans Impactshow dot com. Now here's what you can also do.

495
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Speaker 3: We are carried right now on DBTV network, on Spotify, Roku, Smart, Apple, TVs,

496
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Speaker 3: Smart TVs, all of those we're being carried on. We're

497
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Speaker 3: on Saturdays, I think at eleven o'clock and on Tuesday evenings.

498
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Speaker 3: We are also working with some other networks to help

499
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Speaker 3: us to get out there and really tell the veterans story.

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Speaker 3: Our job is all about help, hope, and healing, and

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Speaker 3: we're showing the nation what veterans can really do. One

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Speaker 3: of my calls to action for veterans is be a mentor,

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Speaker 3: Be a mentor to the father list, be a grandfather

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Speaker 3: to the grandfather. This show what you know and be

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Speaker 3: special for somebody else.

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Speaker 2: That's a great call to way, uh and I know

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Speaker 2: that a lot of veterans will will respond that way.

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Speaker 2: Jim blythe enjoyed the conversation. Continue keep on keeping on.

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Speaker 3: Hey, buddy, I'm going to be getting up there probably

510
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Speaker 3: this year, and I hope you get a chance to

511
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Speaker 3: come by and see you. I can't wait. I've never

512
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Speaker 3: been to Boston, but it's time to go.

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Speaker 2: It's a great year to be in Boston. The two

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Speaker 2: hundred and fiftieth anniversary, big time, big get your hotel

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Speaker 2: rooms in advance, because it's it's all happening in Boston

516
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Speaker 2: this summer. It's it's a great time to be here,

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Speaker 2: and hopefully it will instill a little bit more patriotism

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Speaker 2: and some people who have might maybe have lost some

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Speaker 2: of that patriotism along the way for some reason. If

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Speaker 2: you get my jo own, okay, all right, much you

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Speaker 2: appreciate your time. When we get back, we're going to

522
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Speaker 2: talk about a winter storm, and you know what that means.

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00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:58,040
Speaker 2: In New England, that means snow. Maybe in northeaster will

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Speaker 2: figure it out. We're going to be talk talking with

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Speaker 2: Chad Merrill of Aki Weather right after the break about

526
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Speaker 2: this storm that's gonna be coming in about the time

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Speaker 2: you're watching the Patriots beat the Broncos, and I guess

528
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Speaker 2: it will be good that the game is in Denver.

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Speaker 2: Back on Nightside right after this break.

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Speaker 1: It's night Side with Boston's News Radio.

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Speaker 2: Well, about a week ago, I was outside and I

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Speaker 2: thought to myself, I'm smelling snow in the air, and

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Speaker 2: I really mean that. Okay, we had a little taste

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Speaker 2: of it over the weekend Sunday into Monday. Looks like

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Speaker 2: we're gonna get quite a taste of it. At least

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Speaker 2: the long range forecasts are suggesting quite a taste of

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Speaker 2: it beginning sometime of the middle of the day on

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Speaker 2: Sunday into Monday. With us now from ACI Weather to

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Speaker 2: confirm or deny the possibility of a big storm coming

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Speaker 2: our way. From ACI Weather is Chad Merrill. Chad, welcome

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Speaker 2: to Nightside. I think you're a first time guest on

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Speaker 2: the program, So if you are, let us know. I

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Speaker 2: want to give you a round of applause and appreciation.

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Speaker 5: I am the first time guest.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, will we get another round of the claws studio audience,

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Speaker 2: they're all standing up right now. We a bunch of

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Speaker 2: robots who fill in the studio audience for us. So

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Speaker 2: what are we looking at here? This sounds like the

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Speaker 2: first real snowstorm. I think it was Mike Wancam of

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Speaker 2: Channel five I was watching tonight the first real snowstorm

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Speaker 2: in about four years.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it'll be a very large storm system that picks

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Speaker 5: up most of the country east of the Rockies. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: for the Northeast and the mid Atlantic, the bullseye for

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Speaker 5: this heavy snow accumulation will be basically the Interstate eighty

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Speaker 5: one corridor in the mid Atlantic. In the northeast. Boston

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Speaker 5: will see three to six inches of snow from this.

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Speaker 5: Because Boston's going to be on the far northern part

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Speaker 5: of this storm, It's going to be a very ryan,

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Speaker 5: powdery snow when it begins Sunday and then ends early Monday.

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Speaker 5: But we're talking a widespread three to six inches all

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Speaker 5: across the state of Massachusetts, so pretty widespread storm. It's

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Speaker 5: not going to be the biggest storm of all time

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Speaker 5: in Boston, but it is going to cause problems because

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Speaker 5: the snow is going to accumulate on the roads and

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Speaker 5: it's going to be a very big deal though overall.

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Speaker 2: Well, Chad I know that you guys have all of

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Speaker 2: these these these forecast models. You got the European model.

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Speaker 2: I think you got the Canadian model, you got the Warwick,

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Speaker 2: Rhode Island model, the Portland main model. You got a

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Speaker 2: million models. Okay, you got more models than a Parish

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Speaker 2: Paris fashion show. Is it possible that that these models

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Speaker 2: could slide a little north and that three to six

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Speaker 2: could go up board? Are you pretty confident? Again, it's

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Speaker 2: unfair to ask you this question because it's Wednesday and

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Speaker 2: we're talking about that it will be going on what

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Speaker 2: forty eight out ninety six hours from now, four days

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Speaker 2: from now.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Now that's a very good question because this storm

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Speaker 5: has trended northward over the past twenty four hours because

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Speaker 5: of the large scale pattern all the way from Asia

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Speaker 5: into North America, and there could be a couple of

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Speaker 5: more tweaks where this storm could actually progress a little

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Speaker 5: bit further north. So it could be possible that the

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Speaker 5: Boston area ends up on the higher end of our

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Speaker 5: range closer to six inches or maybe seven inches of

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Speaker 5: snow because of that northward progression. So, yeah, there is

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Speaker 5: some possibility that the snowfall mountas will be on the

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Speaker 5: higher side of our three to six inch range.

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Speaker 2: Yes, so you said something interesting, which I've always believed,

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Speaker 2: but I've never heard of weather forecasts say so the origin,

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Speaker 2: the genesis of this weather system was actually to the

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Speaker 2: west of California. This is not something that came down

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Speaker 2: from is coming down from Canada. We're in Asia? Did that?

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Speaker 2: What was it? Was it a typhoon or something what

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Speaker 2: they have whatever they call it over there.

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Speaker 5: Well, there can be instances where typhoons in the West

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Speaker 5: Pacific trigger the jet stream to dip south, but typically

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Speaker 5: that happens in the later part of the fall season.

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Speaker 5: What we're dealing with is an upper level trough that

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Speaker 5: was over Asia that's coming into North America. And it's

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Speaker 5: the timing of that trough, which has very cold air

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Speaker 5: and called a short wave, a little area of low

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Speaker 5: pressure with it, the timing of that with a low

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Speaker 5: pressure that is right now off the coast of southern California,

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Speaker 5: So Los Angeles over the next twenty four hours will

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Speaker 5: get a couple of showers from this low. And this

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Speaker 5: low has moisture deep into the East Pacific, so it's

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Speaker 5: going to take that moisture bring it across northern Mexico.

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Speaker 5: In parts of the Southwest, and then it's going to

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Speaker 5: finally link up with moisture from the Gulf of Mexico.

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Speaker 5: We have not had a winter storm this season that

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Speaker 5: has produced moisture from both the Pacific and the Gulf

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Speaker 5: of Mexico. The Golf of Mexico, as we've been saying,

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Speaker 5: has been shut off. We haven't had any supply of

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Speaker 5: moisture except for the storm I guess it was last

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Speaker 5: weekend or two weekends ago brought some rain to the

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Speaker 5: mid Atlantic and Northeast that did have some connection to

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Speaker 5: the Gulf. But this is the first winter storm of

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Speaker 5: the season tapping into the cold air from that trough

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Speaker 5: I mentioned that's coming over across Asia into North America,

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Speaker 5: and it's the timing of that trough to the north

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Speaker 5: and this upper level low that's coming into California, and

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Speaker 5: it's how the two interact and where they go once

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Speaker 5: they move into the northeast. So it appeared yesterday that

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Speaker 5: the storm would be suppressed far enough south that the

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Speaker 5: northern edge would be about the New York City area,

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Speaker 5: and now the northern edge is going to be up

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Speaker 5: towards Boston, your area in southern parts of New Hampshire,

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Speaker 5: so it has trended a bit farther north. We'll see

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Speaker 5: what happens overnight. I don't expect too many large changes

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Speaker 5: in the forecast, but it's going to be a very

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Speaker 5: widespread event all across, you know, least southern New England

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Speaker 5: into the northeast.

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Speaker 2: Do we have a term all of us here in

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Speaker 2: the Northeast have become familiar with in recent years. Do

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Speaker 2: we have a polar vortex element coming down from Canada

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Speaker 2: and colliding with this which is gonna be a problematic.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, there's two different polar vartexes. There's one in the troposphere,

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Speaker 5: which is where the weather occurs, and there's one in

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Speaker 5: the stratosphere. So the one in the stratosphere got really

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00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:37,319
Speaker 5: weak right around Thanksgiving and that triggered the cold air

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Speaker 5: that came in to the east around that time, and

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Speaker 5: we had a cold December because of it. Now, the

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Speaker 5: tropospheric polar or the stratosphere polar wartex I should say,

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Speaker 5: is strong. But the tropospheric polar vortex is moving south

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Speaker 5: and that's what's going to bring an Arctic air mass

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Speaker 5: all the way down to the Gulf Coast into the

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Speaker 5: East and temperature's next week fifteen to thirty degrees below average.

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Speaker 5: We are talking in record cold temperatures behind this storm.

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Speaker 5: It's going to drag that trumpospheric polar vortex farther south.

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Speaker 5: So we are going to see many problems develop from That.

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Speaker 2: Had been one of the questions. There's some term that

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Speaker 2: the weather guys here, the weather guys in gelsis here.

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Speaker 2: It's like bomb benista or something.

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Speaker 5: Like bombo genesis.

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Speaker 2: Bombo genesis. Right, I thought bombo genesis was a relief

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Speaker 2: pitcher for the Red Legs in the National League, but

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Speaker 2: it is. I guess it is a confluence of I'll

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Speaker 2: use a technical term, weather stuff which kind of explodes

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Speaker 2: over the unlucky area. We couldn't get hit with a

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Speaker 2: Bombo genesis, could we.

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Speaker 6: No, this storm is not going to bomb out. However,

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Speaker 6: the storm, the storm that moved through and I know

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Speaker 6: this New Year's I think it was rightter on New

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Speaker 6: Year's Eve. Yeah, it brought all that wind, yes to

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Speaker 6: the northeast. That was almost a bomb cyclone. In order

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Speaker 6: to have a bomb cyclone, and bombo genesis is basically

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Speaker 6: a low pressure that develops rapidly over the course of time. Yeah,

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Speaker 6: you need the pressure to drop twenty four melobars in

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Speaker 6: twenty four hours for it to be considered a bomb cyclone. Okay,

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Speaker 6: The genesis is the deepening of the low pressure. So

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Speaker 6: there was a near bomb cyclone around New Year's Day.

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Speaker 6: This storm is not going to be a bomb cyclone.

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Speaker 6: It's not going to deepen that fast. It just has

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Speaker 6: a lot of moisture with it, and that's why it's

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Speaker 6: going to be such a widespread event that.

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Speaker 2: It's gonna be a big New England snowstorm, is what

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Speaker 2: it sounds like to me, kind of like from days

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Speaker 2: of yore. Hey, Chad Merrill, you were great, Thanks very much.

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Speaker 2: I'd love to have fun with you guys, because I

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Speaker 2: get dangerous because I know just a couple of terms

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Speaker 2: and I can throw them out. I've always loved that

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Speaker 2: term bombo genesis.

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Speaker 5: It's like, yes, sometimes sometimes nor'easters can be bomb cyclones

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Speaker 5: if they rapidly deepen. You need a real strong low

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Speaker 5: and usually it deepens around, you know, right off the

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Speaker 5: New England coast, and that's when that's when the Northeast

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Speaker 5: just gets pummeled with one to two feet of snow

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Speaker 5: and blizzard conditions.

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Speaker 2: So Bombo Genesis has nothing to do with the relief

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Speaker 2: pitcher in the Cincinnati Reds organization. I just want to

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Speaker 2: make that clear. I thought that's what you guys have

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Speaker 2: been talking about. Heh chat. Thanks for the time. You

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Speaker 2: were great. I enjoyed the conversation. Let's do it again.

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Speaker 5: Okay, sounds great.

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Speaker 2: Have a good night. All right, we're gonna switch from

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Speaker 2: the eight o'clock hour to the nine o'clock our. Right

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Speaker 2: after the news, we're gonna be talking with our guests

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Speaker 2: from last night who joined us last night, the former

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Speaker 2: US Ambassador to Denmark, Alan Leveenthal. He was very dystopian

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Speaker 2: in terms of his thoughts last night of what President

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Speaker 2: Trump perhaps was getting us into. I'm wondering if the

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Speaker 2: difference in tone today may give him some hope, or

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Speaker 2: or if he is as equally concerned as he was

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Speaker 2: last night. And of course, then we're going to open

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Speaker 2: up phone calls. We're going to talk a lot about Greenland.

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Speaker 2: We had two great hours on it last night. We're

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Speaker 2: going to have maybe even even more time on it tonight.

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Speaker 2: So your points of view are very welcome. Coming back

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Speaker 2: right after the nine