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

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Speaker 2: All right, we are ready for a super weekend, we

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Speaker 2: hope here in New England. My name is Dan Ray

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Speaker 2: and we're wrapping up a pretty good week here on Nightside.

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Speaker 2: Has some very interesting guests and interesting comments and calls,

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Speaker 2: and that's what the show is all about. It is

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Speaker 2: not as we say, Dan Ray show. It is Nightside

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Speaker 2: with Dan Ray, and callers and guests represent Nightside, so

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Speaker 2: that's what we try to emphasize the people. You are

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Speaker 2: always welcome to call and express your opinion with guests

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Speaker 2: you can always listen to any past hours of Nightside

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Speaker 2: at Nightside on Demand anytime throughout this weekend. If there's

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Speaker 2: on demand dot com. Starting off tonight, we're going to

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Speaker 2: begin with an old friend, Jean Hartigan. He's a friend

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Speaker 2: of many years. He's the chairman of the Afrey Med

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Speaker 2: Network Incorporated and chair of the US West Africa Development Group.

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Speaker 2: Geene Hartigan, Welcome to Nightside. How are you, Sir Dahn?

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Speaker 3: Always a pleasure to go to chat with you.

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Speaker 2: Jean worked in a part of his career in radio

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Speaker 2: at one of our competitive stations. We're not going to

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Speaker 2: current venture with another friend of many years, the great

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Speaker 2: Rod Fritz, who worked at WBZ for many years, both

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Speaker 2: as a reporter and primarily as the afternoon anchor. But

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Speaker 2: right now your focus is not on Boston or on

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Speaker 2: New England. Your focus is on a small little country

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Speaker 2: called Cote d'uvois the Ivory Coast in West Africa, a

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Speaker 2: How did you get involved in this? I know how

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Speaker 2: you got involved in it. You founded this program. What

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Speaker 2: prompted you to get involved? You and Rod to get involved?

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Speaker 4: Well, somebody I met through one of our friends, Peter Foreman,

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Speaker 4: said you need to come over and see what's going

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Speaker 4: we have. I went over saw wrote a protocol shared

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Speaker 4: with people here, and you know, we founded Afromed Network

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Speaker 4: seven years ago and it's working. And if you look

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Speaker 4: at the Boston Globe this past week, Dan, they had

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Speaker 4: stories about communicable diseases coming to our shores and the

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Speaker 4: numbers are growing because there's a lot of travel between

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Speaker 4: an idea, you know, the Ivory Coast Kotiwa is the

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Speaker 4: world's largest producer of cashew nuts, the world's number one

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Speaker 4: coffee beans. And these people need to be healthy, sanitary

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Speaker 4: because they're handling our food for the future. And it's

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Speaker 4: something we just felt we had to do. And with

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Speaker 4: the help of Rod and a couple of other Vietnam veterans,

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Speaker 4: we started the company, we started the nonprofit and we've

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Speaker 2: My understanding is that through the seven years of organization

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Speaker 2: this is really a program that you folks have have

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we've gone into the tune of probably a quarter

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Speaker 4: million dollars out of pocket. But you know, this is

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Speaker 4: the future. This is people think Africa is just one

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Speaker 4: Africa is a growing economic engine that many American companies

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Speaker 4: in medical, bio et cetera can go into that part

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Speaker 4: and we create a healthy society. And that's really what

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Speaker 4: we need to do more of since USAID would shut

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Speaker 4: down and most of Africa became very apoplectic about that.

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Speaker 2: Okay. Now, the Afromid Network, which is the name of

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Speaker 2: your group, your organization, it's a five oh one C

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Speaker 2: Rod and another gentleman. You're the founder and CEO. You're

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we're registered with them. They recognize us. And what's

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Speaker 4: help them develop more commercial work. They need sixty thousand

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Speaker 4: in addition to what they already have. The growth is there.

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Speaker 4: It's becoming the place to go. Since the gold has

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Speaker 4: good investment. You know, we're just trying to do what

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Speaker 4: we can do. And we have a website afromednetwork dot org.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to give you that We're going to get

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Speaker 2: to all of that in a second. But what I

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Speaker 2: want to know one question. I think that people who

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Speaker 2: your company. How stable a government is the government of

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Speaker 2: Ivory Coast. I mean, there are fifty four nations in

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Speaker 4: It's a republic form of government similar to the United States.

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Speaker 3: Their leadership has.

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Speaker 4: Been there since twenty eleven. They've both major parties joined

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Speaker 4: But the people in Africa love America. They love what

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Speaker 4: to do more of it. And we're just We're just

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Speaker 4: by people, and there are others who could come as

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Speaker 2: Last question, and then then we'll go to how folks

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Speaker 4: Is primarily Christian? Primarily Christian, a strong Catholic base. There

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Speaker 4: part from the fact that France was the daddy that

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Speaker 4: And now, of course France has moved on, but a

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a it was a French colony. I'm

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Speaker 2: sure it's at all right. Gee, So what is the

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Speaker 2: best way folks can get in touch with you. Let's

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Speaker 2: get the website out. I think that's the easiest way.

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Speaker 2: Go ahead.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's afromed network, a f r ied network

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Speaker 4: dot org. Aframednetwork dot org.

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Speaker 2: Okay, And it doesn't matter if that's lowercase or uppercase.

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Speaker 2: It's not case.

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Speaker 4: It doesn't matter if they go to the website they'll

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Speaker 4: see how to contribute. And the only other thing would

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Speaker 4: not computer literate. We're at one Wood Road and brain

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Speaker 2: All right, that's pretty easy as well. And Rob can

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Speaker 2: always provide people with that information if they want to.

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Speaker 2: I'd like to send the check. Rob. It's one forty

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Speaker 2: five Would Road in Braintree, Massachusetts. Do you know the

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Speaker 2: Thanks for doing that. Gee, thank you, Best of luck,

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Speaker 2: keep us posted.

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Speaker 3: Okay, always a pleasure, Dan, Take care, Stay.

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Speaker 2: Safe YouTube YouTube. Okay, when we get back, we're going

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Speaker 2: to talk something a little closer to home, and that

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Speaker 2: is Valentine's Day. Guess the cost of Valentine's Day has

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Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Dan ray one you bz

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Speaker 2: Well, Valentine's Day is a week from tomorrow, the fourteenth

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Speaker 2: an effort and also a little bit of money to

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Speaker 2: show this special someone how important they are. Back in

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Speaker 2: twenty sixteen, say ten years ago, Americans on average spent

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Speaker 2: five hundred and twelve dollars on the holiday. This year,

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Speaker 2: Sam Borge, He's a senior analyst at Investors Observer. Sam,

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Speaker 2: that's a big jump over ten years, even though we

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Speaker 3: Well thanks having me, Dan, I mean, I think if

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Speaker 3: your partner likes sentimental gifts, that might help you know

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Speaker 3: if you want to go the sentimental road. Because across

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Speaker 3: Was you know at dinner for two, you know, taking

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Speaker 3: for dinner. It costs eighty bucks back in twenty sixteen,

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Speaker 3: it's now two hundred and nine dollars on a pretty

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Speaker 3: saw across the board, we're seeing a huge jump and

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Speaker 3: just making Valentine's Day reality. So there's really not much

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Speaker 3: you can do other than maybe not do the whole

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Speaker 3: for the box of chocolates, ear rings, a dozen roses,

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Speaker 3: maybe even off for one or two of those things,

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Speaker 3: and you can need to go out for dinner.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, but you guys did it was not cheap.

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Speaker 2: Explain what you guys did. What you did was you

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Speaker 2: took a Valentine's Day celebration which included a box of chocolate,

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Speaker 2: a dozen roses, a bottle of champagne, dinner for two.

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Speaker 2: What are the other ear rings? Right? It was a

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Speaker 2: very nice weekend celebration. And you have replicated that now

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Speaker 2: items increased by fifty one. Thank you, Joe Biden, I

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Speaker 2: think in the large part, I saw that box of

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Speaker 2: Well, Sam, Happy Valentine's Day. Hope you get everything that

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Speaker 2: My guest is doctor Ivan Young. He's a clinical behavioral psychologist.

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Speaker 2: Doctor Young, welcome to Nightside.

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Speaker 5: You. It's wonderful to be with you. Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 2: You're very welcome. So you've written a new book called

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Speaker 2: wasting time. I'm like, what am I doing here? I've

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Speaker 2: watched ten of these and they're all kind of the same.

435
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Speaker 2: Something happens, somebody hits the fly ball on the ball

436
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Speaker 2: hits the heavier on the head, and I have to

437
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Speaker 2: and I think all of us have to develop the

438
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Speaker 2: intelligence just to say that's it. Man, I'm not looking

439
00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:36,080
Speaker 2: at one more real I'm not looking at one more video.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, because the gate keepers aren't keeping the gate anymore.

441
00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:46,720
Speaker 5: The things that were part of America's institutions to make

442
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Speaker 5: sure that we had safe food seat or we had

443
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Speaker 5: safe cars to drive, or that you know, there was

444
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Speaker 5: some type of regulation what a child might see on

445
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Speaker 5: TV or hearing their music, all of that stuff is

446
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Speaker 5: been basically sold to the highest bidder. So the thing

447
00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:07,080
Speaker 5: that we have to do now is really have some

448
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Speaker 5: self policing and self parenting. And it doesn't start with kids.

449
00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:16,320
Speaker 5: It starts with ourselves. When we find ourselves feeling angry

450
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Speaker 5: because we looked at a few things on our phone. Oh,

451
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Speaker 5: we are compulsively buying stuff thinking well, if I just

452
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Speaker 5: get one more thing, I'm going to feel better. We

453
00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:30,480
Speaker 5: must ask ourselves why am I getting my dopamine one

454
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Speaker 5: click at a time rather than doing something more meaningful

455
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Speaker 5: with my time and my life, Like you said, something

456
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Speaker 5: more meaningful with my time, rather than being manipulated by

457
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Speaker 5: an algorithm.

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Speaker 2: Did they make it so easy? It's like, and then

459
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Speaker 2: there's a lot of people who end up with porn

460
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Speaker 2: and I mean get some real serious problems at that point.

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Speaker 2: And it's I just wonder if if I could turn

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Speaker 2: the clock back, I mean I make I'm a broadcaster

463
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Speaker 2: and as a talk show host. At the end of

464
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Speaker 2: the day, I count up the number of phone calls

465
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Speaker 2: that I make. I make like seventy of the phone

466
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Speaker 2: calls today, either I receive them or I make them.

467
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Speaker 2: And I look back and I think to myself, how

468
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Speaker 2: many of those could have I good, avoid.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, or better yet? How many people could we

470
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Speaker 5: actually talk to in person rather than on the phone

471
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Speaker 5: or a better yet text? We have lost contact with

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Speaker 5: the part of us, the best part of us, and

473
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Speaker 5: that's the part of us that's human. What we don't

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Speaker 5: realize is all of this stuff is really a mind

475
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Speaker 5: versus the brain thing. Your brain is hardwired for connection.

476
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Speaker 5: When we laugh together, when we embrace each other, give

477
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Speaker 5: each other a hug or a pat on the back.

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Speaker 5: There's a chemical called oxytocin that is nature's own version

479
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Speaker 5: of a high for us without the addiction. Another thing

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Speaker 5: is when we smile of other people, there's something called

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Speaker 5: a mirror neuron. So the more smiles we give, the

482
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Speaker 5: more smiles we get. At the same token. When you've

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Speaker 5: got two people coming together and they are both and

484
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Speaker 5: limbic hijack a migdala hijack mode and fight or flight,

485
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Speaker 5: that is the equivalent of me saying, let the security

486
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Speaker 5: guard run everything, because he's going to take the CEO,

487
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Speaker 5: lock him into the safe room. Nothing can get to him. Well,

488
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Speaker 5: here's the problem. The security guard hasn't been trained how

489
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Speaker 5: to think, how to forecast, how to create it and improvise.

490
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Speaker 5: All it knows how to do is react. And the

491
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Speaker 5: problem with many of us is we're walking around reacting

492
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Speaker 5: and being reactive as opposed to doing something wonderful and

493
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Speaker 5: being intentional and proactive.

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Speaker 2: You know, you are a brilliant guy. You expressed it

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Speaker 2: very well. I wish that you can get on network

496
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Speaker 2: news and talk about this very serious. When I say that,

497
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Speaker 2: by the way, I know that there's such a competition

498
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Speaker 2: for those you know, the cable news channels as well

499
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Speaker 2: as you know the conversation programs on ABC, NBC and CBS. ABC,

500
00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:15,360
Speaker 2: NBC and CBS have been losing viewership, and most of

501
00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:21,920
Speaker 2: that viewership is going away towards the Internet and podcasts.

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00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:29,040
Speaker 2: I think that you have an invaluable perspective and a

503
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Speaker 2: real ability to express it in language that is understandable.

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Speaker 2: So I hope to have you back. I hope that

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Speaker 2: you continue, and I hope this book is a success.

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Speaker 2: Leading from the Heart, The Essential Guide to Sympathy and

507
00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:47,240
Speaker 2: Self Self Empathy and Self Compassion. I'm assume it's it's

508
00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:51,200
Speaker 2: already out and available on Amazon and bookstores. Would that

509
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Speaker 2: be the easiest way?

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Speaker 5: Well, I just got noticed Simon and Schuster and post

511
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Speaker 5: Heill Press will have the book available. It's available for

512
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Speaker 5: order right now because they're anticipating a very high demand

513
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Speaker 5: for it. But to my understanding, it's going to be

514
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Speaker 5: available in stores all around the globe, especially in the

515
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Speaker 5: United States, in or around the fourth week in March.

516
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Speaker 5: I had definitely a boy the first week in April.

517
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Speaker 5: But you know, let's change the world, let's make it

518
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Speaker 5: better for ourselves. The people we love and the people

519
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Speaker 5: that love us, one intentional moment at a time, as

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Speaker 5: we lead from the heart rather than from the head.

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Speaker 2: Well, you've given all of my listeners of an early

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Speaker 2: Valentine's Day gift with that message, and I appreciate it,

523
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Speaker 2: Doctor Ivan Young. The book Leading from the Heart, The

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Speaker 2: Essential Guide to Self Empathy and Self Compassion. You can

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Speaker 2: pre order it now. Thank you very much, doctor Young.

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Speaker 2: Happy Valentine's Day. And I hope wherever you are it's

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Speaker 2: a little warmer than it is here in New England.

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Speaker 5: And thank you. I look forward to Minha in person. Dan,

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Speaker 5: thank you for having me.

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Speaker 2: You're very welcome. Thank you for joining us. We'll talk again.

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Speaker 2: I hope when we get back we're going to talk

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Speaker 2: with that. Thank you. Weather meteorologist Brian Thompson about you

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Speaker 2: know what a snowstorm. We got a snowstorm coming in

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Speaker 2: and I watched the evening news tonight, which is kind

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Speaker 2: of part of my job to make sure the evening

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Speaker 2: news folks, the weather folks were suggesting that maybe this storm,

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Speaker 2: unlike last week which never developed, this one might get

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Speaker 2: a little stronger than we originally had expected. And then

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Speaker 2: after that, we're going to get hit with a blast,

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Speaker 2: a blast of almost unprecedented arduct air. We will have

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Speaker 2: all of that information for you, whether you like it

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Speaker 2: or not. From Brian Thompson of ACU Weather right after

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Speaker 2: this quick.

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

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Speaker 2: All right, let's welcome friend of this program for many

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Speaker 2: years now. So Brian Thompson, Brian, would you just fake

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Speaker 2: it for a second and tell us that this weekend

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Speaker 2: it's going to be like in the mid seventies, and

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Speaker 2: just so that people can can remember what it sounded

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Speaker 2: like maybe last September. Is that possible or is that

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Speaker 2: like against the ethical rules of broadcasters.

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Speaker 6: Probably against the ethical rule. It'll be seventy somewhere in

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Speaker 6: this country.

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Speaker 2: Yes, well I'm not so sure about that. I'm looking

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Speaker 2: at what's going on in Florida. Maybe there'll be seventy

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Speaker 2: somewhere in the world.

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Speaker 6: How all the warmth has been out west, That's why

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Speaker 6: a lot of times, you know, it's either cold in

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Speaker 6: one side of the country, it's warm on the other. Yeah,

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Speaker 6: and there's been a lot of problems out west to

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Speaker 6: the big ski resorts in Colorado. Just's not been a

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Speaker 6: lot of snow out West has been quite warm, and

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Speaker 6: in California at times has been in the eighties over

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Speaker 6: the last week or so, so that's where all the

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Speaker 6: warmth has been. We'll see if we can get any

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Speaker 6: of that over here that I'm.

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Speaker 2: Sure that Hawaii is probably pretty warm too. But what's

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Speaker 2: going on here? All of a sudden, I'm watching the

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Speaker 2: local TV news tonight and I'm looking at the weather

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Speaker 2: people and I'm thinking, these guys are hedging their bets

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Speaker 2: on the storm a little bit. What's going on.

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Speaker 6: It's a very tricky setup. We have a storm system

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Speaker 6: that is going to be off the coast as we

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Speaker 6: get into tomorrow, and what's called an inverted trough is

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Speaker 6: going to sell.

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Speaker 2: I hate inverted trot man. The only thing I hate

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Speaker 2: worse than an inverted troth is a bombo genesis.

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Speaker 6: Inverted troughs are a pain to forecast, and they're there.

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Speaker 6: They are semi common across New England. We come across

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Speaker 6: them every now and then. What happens is there's going

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Speaker 6: to be a There's going to be probably a general

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Speaker 6: one to three inches of snow across much of the

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Speaker 6: area from late tonight into tomorrow. But where this trough

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Speaker 6: sets up, there's going to be a heavier band of

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Speaker 6: snow that it's probably going to prove at least three

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Speaker 6: to six inches of snow, and someplaces could pick up

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Speaker 6: eight or nine inches. Again, this will be very localized.

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Speaker 6: It won't be a large area, but it looks like

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Speaker 6: now the best chance for that probably extends from maybe

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Speaker 6: as far north as the New Hampshire Sea Coast, down

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Speaker 6: through the North Shore, maybe into parts of the city

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Speaker 6: of Boston, but toward the South Shore, maybe toward the

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Speaker 6: South Coast in the upper Upper Cape. Probably they were

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Speaker 6: the highest risk is for that three to six area,

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Speaker 6: with perhaps some locally higher amounts.

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Speaker 2: I tell you, I can tell you where the inverted

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Speaker 2: troth is going to really hit my backyard, in my driveway.

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Speaker 2: So then what happens. The good news is the storm

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Speaker 2: is over, and then it's Sunday. And of course when

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Speaker 2: you think about Sunday, you think about the sun and

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Speaker 2: you think about warmth. But that's not gonna happen either.

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Speaker 2: Go ahead, go ahead, Ryan, break our hearts.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, so things are actually gonna start to change even

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Speaker 6: late tomorrow Tomorrow night, as the snow is winding down,

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Speaker 6: the wind is really going to pick up behind the storm,

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Speaker 6: it's going to strengthen. So I know we've had rounds

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Speaker 6: of wind with the cold recently in the last couple

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Speaker 6: of weeks. This is kind of the next level of that.

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Speaker 6: I want to say, this is a more intense, more

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Speaker 6: intense blast of art to gear. But it's not going

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Speaker 6: to last as long as the lasts one.

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Speaker 2: That's the good I think you can use the word worse.

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Speaker 2: Yes it is.

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Speaker 6: It's gonna be worse, and I can say with probably

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Speaker 6: a good amount of certainty, this will be the coldest

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Speaker 6: weather we experienced this winter, because as we get in

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Speaker 6: the next couple of weeks, it gets harder and harder

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Speaker 6: as we get deeper into February to get the Arctic

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Speaker 6: air in here at least this cold. So we're looking

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Speaker 6: at tempatures that are going to drop. We'll be near

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Speaker 6: thirty much of tomorrow, maybe into the twenties, and then

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Speaker 6: we'll drop down to about six degrees in downtown Boston.

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Speaker 6: I think most of the suburbs will be closer to zero,

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Speaker 6: and then the ACU Weather real field temperatures probably somewhere

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Speaker 6: between twenty and thirty below zero. Because we're talking about

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Speaker 6: winds that are going to gust forty to fifty miles

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Speaker 6: per hour, So it's not going to be very pleasant

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Speaker 6: to be outside Tomorrow night and probably most of Sunday

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Speaker 6: real fields are probably still going to be well below zer.

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Speaker 6: I won't be surprised if the winds start to ease

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Speaker 6: up a little bit on Sunday, but high tempatures will

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Speaker 6: only be in the teens. So just a really bitter

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Speaker 6: cold stretch from Tomorrow night into Sunday.

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Speaker 2: Rob, Rob Brooks, how did we book Bryant? I told

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Speaker 2: you going to tell us the truth? Oh man, this

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00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:07,399
Speaker 2: is uh, this is gonna be brutal. Let me ask

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Speaker 2: you this, Brian. I just it seems to me like

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Speaker 2: since Christmas it's been miserable around here, and I know

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Speaker 2: that's not true. When did this cold move into New England?

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Speaker 2: How when we look back in this winter, when did

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Speaker 2: it really start? Was there a date certain where all

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Speaker 2: of a sudden the temperature went from like the thirties

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Speaker 2: and forties into the twenties and hasn't been above thirty

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Speaker 2: two cents?

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Speaker 6: Not? There's not one specific date looking back if you remember,

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Speaker 6: and I know it seems like ages ago. Yeah, we

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Speaker 6: had that, we had that stretch in the second week

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Speaker 6: of January where it was between about forty five and

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Speaker 6: fifty five every day for about a week, because actually,

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Speaker 6: if you look back at the month of January and Boston,

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Speaker 6: it was two degrees below average, which is not that much,

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Speaker 6: and it was because of that week where we had

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Speaker 6: temperatures that were way above average. But after that we

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Speaker 6: started to see a turncolder. It snuck up to forty

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Speaker 6: six on the twenty second and then after that it

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Speaker 6: was pretty much that's where the bottom started to fall off,

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Speaker 6: fallout because the snowstorm was of course a couple of

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Speaker 6: days later, and we were in the twenties and teens

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Speaker 6: pretty much since then, and we've seen that we've seen

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Speaker 6: temperatures at least get near or a little above freezing

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Speaker 6: this week, but we're still waiting for that next level

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Speaker 6: of warmth, which is coming in the next week or two.

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Speaker 6: I think we will get it maybe a day into

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Speaker 6: the upper thirties this coming week, so there are some

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Speaker 6: signs we'll get out of this. And again it's going

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Speaker 6: to be a fairly brief round of Arctic care focus

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Speaker 6: late tomorrow and to Sunday. By Monday, we're back in

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Speaker 6: the twenties. I think we're back in the thirties again

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Speaker 6: by Tuesday, so it's not going to be that prolonged

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Speaker 6: stretch like we had at the end of January where

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Speaker 6: it was over a week where we were staying below

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Speaker 6: thirty degrees.

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Speaker 2: Bright. I want to finish on a positive note. Besides

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Speaker 2: the fact that I hope you think that the Patriots

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Speaker 2: will win. All of us are rooting for the Patriots.

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Speaker 2: Long term, long term forecast by July, will the temperatures

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Speaker 2: at least get back to the seventies.

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Speaker 6: Yes, I can guarantee it.

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Speaker 2: It gives us something to hope for. Brian, that was inspirational.

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Speaker 2: You didn't say what it say with a great deal

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Speaker 2: of a commitment. But yeah, it'll get We will see

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Speaker 2: the seventies again here in New England.

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Speaker 6: As I said, we are now moving in the right direction.

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Speaker 6: We're into February. By the end of the month the

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Speaker 6: advertise forty two, so it's going to get harder and

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Speaker 6: harder for the cold to this level to come back.

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Speaker 2: Just never forget the April fool snowstorm of.

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Speaker 6: Yes, oh there can be cell storms a d April.

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Speaker 2: The cold is usually not bad. Thanks Brian. You're you're

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Speaker 2: a good sport. We're trying. I'm trying to have some

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Speaker 2: fun with it tonight. Thanks so much. Thanks Dan. All Right,

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Speaker 2: when we get back, we're going to talk about another

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Speaker 2: tough issue, and that is taxes. We are now officially

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Speaker 2: in tax season and we will have the benefit of

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Speaker 2: an extraordinary CPA, Mark missile Back. Mark's been doing this

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Speaker 2: for us for several years. He's been in the business

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Speaker 2: for fifty years, and he can answer all of your

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Speaker 2: questions about the changes in the tax code, what you

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Speaker 2: need to do for your twenty twenty six tax preps.

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Speaker 2: We'll break it down for you whatever you want to ask.

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Speaker 2: Do not fear the irs is not listening. We'll be

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Speaker 2: back right not that we would tell you anything illegal anyway.

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Speaker 2: We'll be back right after the nine o'clock news