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Speaker 2: Good evening, everybody, and that is good advice. It is

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Speaker 2: going to be very cold. It has been very cold

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Speaker 2: have four guests lined up in this first hour. We're

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Speaker 3: At nine o'clock, we're going to talk about cape cod

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Speaker 3: potato chips. Yeah, the company has decided to leave Massachusetts.

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Speaker 2: In a while. What grinds your gears? So, without any

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Speaker 2: further Ado, let us get to our first topics of

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Speaker 2: the evening, and we're going to talk with Axio's Boston

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Speaker 2: reporter Steph sollis about cash mobs, and I must tell you, Seth,

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Speaker 2: I know nothing about cash mobs, so I hope to

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Speaker 2: learn a lot from this interview. I've heard of flash mobs,

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Speaker 2: but cash mobs, I'm clueless tell us about them.

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Speaker 4: So it's actually really simple, despite the name sounding somewhat vague.

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Speaker 4: The idea is that a bunch of people gather, they

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Speaker 4: flood into a retail store, restaurant, and they spend money

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Speaker 4: to support a particular business, often a small business.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so how frequently these cash mobs making appearances? I

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Speaker 2: assume that every small business in America would love to

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Speaker 2: have a cash mob two or three stop by any

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Speaker 2: day or particularly I guess over the weekend. Is this

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Speaker 2: a new phenomenon or where did it? Where did it start?

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Speaker 2: Where might it end?

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Speaker 4: So it has existed for several years. If anything, it's

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Speaker 4: a good especially in the twenty per century on social media.

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Speaker 4: It's a good recession indicator or warning sign. But it's

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Speaker 4: not you know only that it has been used over

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Speaker 4: the years as one off campaigns to drum up support

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Speaker 4: for local businesses, sometimes particular communities such as black or

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Speaker 4: Latin or Asian entrepreneurs will try to drum up support

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Speaker 4: for a fellow struggling business owner, and in a case

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Speaker 4: like this in Boston, it's popping up now to support

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Speaker 4: small businesses in Boston neighborhoods. There was one in Dorchester

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Speaker 4: in December supporting Dak thrift Shop on Dudley Street, and

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Speaker 4: the next one is supporting Mom Mitch, a Caribbean restaurant

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Speaker 4: on boat In Street on February twenty first. And so

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Speaker 4: this is a new coordinated effort from a handful of

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Speaker 4: entrepreneurs in the Boston area.

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Speaker 2: So do you have to be kind of in with

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Speaker 2: the in group or something to know? I'm assuming that

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Speaker 2: the flash mob or the cash mob. I pardon me

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Speaker 2: for mistaking a cash mob for a flash mob. A

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Speaker 2: cash mob obviously is a big economic boost. How did

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Speaker 2: these folks form up? I mean, is it put together

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Speaker 2: by the business that wants to benefit or by supporters

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Speaker 2: or friends of the business. Does the business have to

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Speaker 2: have had some you know, unfortunate incident, you know, whether

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Speaker 4: Oh, it absolutely varies. So usually it's not the business

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Speaker 4: themselves or the business owners themselves organizing it. Usually it's

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Speaker 4: a benevolent friend or neighbor who might see the business

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Speaker 4: struggling to get more business or maybe experiencing a downturn,

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Speaker 4: and oftentimes it will circulate on social media. So there

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Speaker 4: have been several examples of this. If you look on

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Speaker 4: the organization mob the block, they've organized some and so

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Speaker 4: these have appeared over the years, but especially post COVID

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Speaker 4: but oftentimes not exclusively. It's usually either after a downturn

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Speaker 4: In the case of Mum Mitch, they had a break

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Speaker 4: in i believe on January fourteenth, earlier this month, and

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Speaker 4: they were frustrated, and this was sort.

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Speaker 4: Organizer's way of showing support to this restaurant.

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Speaker 2: So there have been some incidents of this in the

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Speaker 4: Yes, the first one from this coordinated effort led by

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Speaker 4: the creator of a platform called the Hustle List. The

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Speaker 4: first one was last month. It was organized I believe

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Speaker 4: mainly on social media, solely on Instagram and TikTok, and

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Speaker 4: the beneficiary was a thrift shop on Dudley Street near

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Speaker 4: Upham's Corner. And so the owner of that thrift shop

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Speaker 4: said that she had continued to receive business and visitors

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Speaker 4: weeks after the first cash mob or the cash mob

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Speaker 4: that one may have had at least dozens maybe you

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Speaker 4: know a number more, but so it could be smaller

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Speaker 4: compared to others around the country, but she said it

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Speaker 4: made a difference for her business. And so it really

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Speaker 4: does depend on what the business is experiencing, the type

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Speaker 4: of person organizing this. While you might have heard of

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Speaker 4: Keith Lee, while he does not use the term cash mob,

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Speaker 4: he's gone viral for going to restaurants all over the

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Speaker 4: feed other people for free, and that's sort of the

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Speaker 4: same concept. And so there are are examples of people

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Speaker 4: supporting businesses like this all over the country that have

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Speaker 4: definitely become more popular as social media becomes more dominant.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll tell you I've missed it up until now,

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Speaker 2: and so I'll keep an eye. I'll keep a sharp

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Speaker 2: eye out for it. If I ever find myself in

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Speaker 2: the midst of a cash mob, we'll figure it out.

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Speaker 2: Anything to help small business. I'm a huge supporter of

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Speaker 2: small businesses. I think the more small businesses we have,

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Speaker 2: the better the economy will be. And hopefully some of

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Speaker 2: the tax benefits that are going to be available through

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Speaker 2: the big beautiful bill that the President and Congress passed

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Speaker 2: last year will help a lot of these small businesses

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Speaker 2: because it's tough to compete with the big guys on

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Speaker 2: the block, and small business is the backbone of America. Steph,

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Speaker 2: thank you very much for making us a little more

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Speaker 2: aware about a new phenomenon called cash mobs. Appreciate your

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Speaker 2: time and stay warm this weekend.

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Speaker 5: Anytime, have a nice weekend.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna be talking with Steve Cotton. Steve is a

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Speaker 2: a financial strategist and a policy expert, President of Cotton

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Speaker 2: Wealth Management Associates. We're gonna talk about the thread of

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Speaker 2: there was concerns it might be bigger, and actually apparently

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Speaker 1: You're on Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm w Boston's

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Speaker 2: All right, I want to welcome Steve Cotton. He's a

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Speaker 2: financial strategist and a policy expert. President of Cotton Wealth

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Speaker 2: Management Associate. Steve Cotton, Welcome to Nightside.

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Speaker 5: How are you, sir, Well, I'm just great. Thanks for

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Speaker 5: having me.

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Speaker 2: You're very welcome. So we had a big government shutdown

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Speaker 2: back in October and November, which had tremendous political ramifications,

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Speaker 2: and I think that the Democrats regretted the shutdown once

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Speaker 2: it was over. So we get kind of a mini

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Speaker 2: shutdown this weekend. The government tends not to really function

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Speaker 2: on weekends, and as I understand it. There had been

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Speaker 2: What's going on there will be technically a shutdown of

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Speaker 5: Well, basically, what's happened is the Senate has agreed to

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Speaker 5: and has in fact passed five appropriation bills funding five

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Speaker 5: I think in this case, President Trump took a page

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Speaker 5: these appropriations bills passed from these other agencies to try

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Speaker 5: to limit any kind of a shutdown. Now, technically the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, from my perspective, and I'm a political

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Speaker 2: it looks like all kabuki theater, meaning the Democrats are

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Speaker 5: Well, no, I don't think you're being cynical at all.

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Speaker 5: I think you're being a realist. And both parties do

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Speaker 5: last government shut down won and lost. They won in

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Speaker 5: that it galvanized their supporters in Virginia and New Jersey

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Speaker 5: See what happened one of the things that go ahead, Steve.

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Speaker 2: I hate to do this year, but I'm into my

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Speaker 2: Sure, yeah, I remember High Tower. Yeah. Did you ever

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Speaker 1: Nic Side with Dan Ray, I'm telling you Austin's News Radio.

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Speaker 2: My next guest is an author, Peter Reynolds, New York

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Speaker 2: Welcome to Night Side. Is this the book? This is

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Speaker 2: not the book that you wrote in conjunction with Pope Francis.

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Speaker 2: The book that you're going to reading from. Is something

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Speaker 6: Well, it's great to be back with you, Dan and

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Speaker 6: the yeah, the yeah. A bunch of new book projects,

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Speaker 2: And what I'm trying to get at is, so your

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Speaker 2: I'm always wondering how people get together. I mean, I'm

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Speaker 6: And I'm fascinated, right, It's interesting. Well, I also own

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Speaker 6: And but he, you know, they no pope had ever

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Speaker 2: This is a totally dumb question. Did you ever get

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Speaker 2: Okay, so let's talk about the book you're going to

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Speaker 6: Peter, Yeah, I like that right in the book that

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Speaker 6: something and five nights, four hours a night exactly. And

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Speaker 6: you know, we all have different ways to say saying something.

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Speaker 6: You happen to be really really good with a microphone

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Speaker 6: and fifty thousand wants of power, and but you know

439
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Speaker 6: there are other people who, you know, music might be

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Speaker 6: their way to say something, or might be the way

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Speaker 6: to say something, or creating an organization might be a

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Speaker 6: way to say something. We all have different ways of

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Speaker 6: doing it, and so this book encourages us. You know,

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Speaker 6: no matter what age you are, you know, you know,

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Speaker 6: if you believe something, get out there and and say it.

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Speaker 2: Say something, Peter, I'm assuming you must have grown up

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Speaker 2: in Canada.

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Speaker 6: I started three years of my life was was in Canada.

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Speaker 2: Tell me why, organization.

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Speaker 6: Oh you're good, you're good, You're you picked that up?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 6: My parents my dad actually was born in Argentina. My

454
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Speaker 6: mother was born in England. My twin brother Paul and

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Speaker 6: I were born in Canada.

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Speaker 2: That's a Canadian thing. Harry Sindon used to always say

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Speaker 2: when it was the GM of the Bruins organization. Organization.

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Speaker 2: I think of Harry Sinden and I think of Canada.

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Speaker 2: So okay, let's let's wrap up here. It's it's at

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Speaker 2: the Schubert Center, which is part of the Box Center,

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Speaker 2: the Schubert Theater part of the Box Center. It's by invitation,

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Speaker 2: so I assume this is it's a sold out. It's

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Speaker 2: not open to the public, but.

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Speaker 1: Well you could be seen.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it sold out, but you can. If you're a teacher,

466
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Speaker 6: especially if you're an educator teacher, you can tune in.

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Speaker 6: If you go to the Box Center website, you can

468
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Speaker 6: find the information on the events section. You can if

469
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Speaker 6: you can register your your school, your classroom, you can

470
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Speaker 6: tune in for free and I will be reading to

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Speaker 6: the kids in the audience, but kids around the world

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Speaker 6: will be able to hear this, hear the story say

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Speaker 6: something which is published by Scholastic. I always like to

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Speaker 6: say thanks you to Scholastic Problem A Problem for publishing it,

475
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Speaker 6: and Dan, thank you for all you do to inspire people,

476
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Speaker 6: because every single night you're asking people, you know, call

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Speaker 6: in say something right, Oh absolutely, yeah.

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Speaker 1: No.

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Speaker 2: It's like I said, of people, I don't care what

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Speaker 2: you think. I just want you to.

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Speaker 6: Think right, And I I.

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Speaker 2: Do care what they think, but but I want them

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Speaker 2: to think and express themselves because so many people they

484
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Speaker 2: will send me an email and they will either say,

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Speaker 2: oh I love the show, or I hate the show,

486
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Speaker 2: or I think you're crazy or what or I didn't

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Speaker 2: like that person. And it's like, call and express yourself.

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Speaker 2: We have the First Amendment. As we you know, we

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Speaker 2: get older and all that, we need to appreciate that,

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Speaker 2: embrace it, utilize it.

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Speaker 6: I like how you say, right, it's America's back porch.

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Speaker 2: You're calling both America's back porches. That that's the metaphor

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Speaker 2: people basically like got a big back porch. People step

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Speaker 2: up from halfway alcross the country and sometimes even around

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Speaker 2: the world. So Peter is always for being with us.

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Speaker 6: And uh my next book Dan might be called the

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Speaker 6: back Porch.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Alan dor So you.

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Speaker 6: How about this you could write in I will illustrate it.

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Speaker 2: Well, we should do something together, Peter. That might be fun,

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Speaker 2: talk about it. Thank you, Thank you.

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Speaker 6: You are doing amazing work. Thank you for what you do.

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Speaker 5: I really appreciate it.

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00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:26,560
Speaker 2: Right back at you. You're doing amazing work with kids

505
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Speaker 2: and inspiring them. And thanks. That's important. Thank you very much, Peter.

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Speaker 2: We'll talk again, all right, take care damn all right,

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Speaker 2: all right, we get back. We talk about the weather.

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Speaker 2: Everybody loves to talk about the weather, particularly when it's

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Speaker 2: going to get a little nasty, and it will get

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Speaker 2: a little nasty in parts of New England this weekend

511
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Speaker 2: with this storm coming up the coast, and we'll be

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Speaker 2: talking with an ACCU weather meteorologist. I believe it will

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Speaker 2: be Melissa Constanza, but don't hold me that so if

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Speaker 2: if it is, I had I'm working on good information.

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Speaker 2: If if there's a they're pretty busy group of people.

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Speaker 2: We'll talk with Melissa Costanza on the other side of

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Speaker 2: this break on Nightside.

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

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Speaker 2: Well, in case any of you have been under a

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Speaker 2: rock for the last seven to ten days or maybe

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Speaker 2: even longer, it's been very cold here in New England,

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Speaker 2: and last weekend it was very snowy here in virtually

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Speaker 2: all of New England. And this weekend it's going to

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Speaker 2: remain very cold. I mean single digits and parts of

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Speaker 2: New England are going to have another snowfall. Visit this weekend.

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Speaker 2: We are in the throws, the deep throws of winter,

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Speaker 2: and to explain to us how this happens every year,

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Speaker 2: to explain to us what's going to happen every winter.

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Speaker 2: It is late January. Is Melissa Constanza of AKI Weather.

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Speaker 2: Hi Melissa. I don't think you've ever joined me before,

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Speaker 2: but welcome to Nightside on WBZ. How are you tonight?

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Speaker 7: I'm good, Dan, How are you?

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Speaker 2: I've been cold? I've been cold, trust me. We had

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Speaker 2: lost our power last night and I ended up trekking

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Speaker 2: into the studio and which was very nice and toasty,

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Speaker 2: warm and comfortable, and then we were I got back

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Speaker 2: home and it was about forty two degrees. It's been

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Speaker 2: really cold. I mean, the weather just goes right through

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Speaker 2: the house. We have a pretty solidly built home, and

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Speaker 2: I know a lot of people have solidly built homes.

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Speaker 2: But we're looking at more bad weather and cold weather

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Speaker 2: in the next few days. But the cape looks, the

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Speaker 2: cape of the islands look like they're going to get

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Speaker 2: brushed by this big storm that's rolling up the coast.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, that's going to be the worst of it really,

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Speaker 7: So again Boston itself. I mean, we're talking to coding

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Speaker 7: to an engine that could end up being closer to

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Speaker 7: the coating side. Depends on how much wind we get

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Speaker 7: really coming in off the water and iff any of

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Speaker 7: that can be almost of a ocean effect kind of

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Speaker 7: set up for snow. But the capeon islands set to

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Speaker 7: get close to three to six inches of snow, and

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Speaker 7: because of that too, they'll also have some of those

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Speaker 7: very strong winds and that's going to be kind of

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Speaker 7: the dual factor for them, as it often is. This

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Speaker 7: is a true nor'easter by the way down, but it's

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Speaker 7: just going to be so far out to see that.

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Speaker 7: A lot of the big East Coast cities like Washington,

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Speaker 7: d C. Philadelphia, New York, and even here in Boston.

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Speaker 7: We miss out on the snow.

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Speaker 4: Again.

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Speaker 7: The Cape and Islands does get some of that snow,

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Speaker 7: but we all get the winds. Those are going to

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Speaker 7: go to more than forty miles per hour as we

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Speaker 7: head into Sunday, so it is going to be a

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Speaker 7: blistering time even right through Sunday night here, Dan Well.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how familiar you are with New England,

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Speaker 2: but the Cape and the Islands tend to be the

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Speaker 2: best place to hunker down for the winter because they

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Speaker 2: have the impact of the effect of the Gulf Stream,

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Speaker 2: and temperatures down there for the most part tend to

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Speaker 2: be a little kinder than they are further north or

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Speaker 2: further west for that matter. And the Cape for many

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Speaker 2: many years was known as a place where you could

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Speaker 2: play winter golf. A lot of retirees on the Cape.

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Speaker 2: There's not much winter golf down there this year. This

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Speaker 2: is this is this is the toughest year for the

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Speaker 2: Cape that I can remember since the winter of twenty

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Speaker 2: fourteen and twenty fifteen. And I'm sure you you may

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Speaker 2: have been too young to experience it.

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Speaker 7: That, you know, winter, It's funny I've done. I was

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Speaker 7: actually in Mobile, Alabama, yea it wasn't.

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Speaker 2: Bad at mobile that year. As a matter of facturs

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Speaker 2: I love better got a year.

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Speaker 7: Interestingly, I think I started that winter in Rhineland or Wisconsin,

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Speaker 7: so I've dealt with it. And their hard winter in

587
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Speaker 7: the Upper Midwest was thirteen fourteen, so I did experience

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Speaker 7: that one, which was you know, days below zero, and

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Speaker 7: well that was.

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Speaker 2: The winter that that that went from the Upper Midwest

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Speaker 2: to the mid Atlantic States and the mid Atlantic States

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Speaker 2: all of that winter were hitting with a lot of storms.

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Speaker 2: And then the year later, the winter of fourteen and fifteen,

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Speaker 2: it did. It hardly snowed here until maybe the middle

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Speaker 2: of January, and then it didn't stop. We got like

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Speaker 2: about one hundred and ten inches of snow in the

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Speaker 2: about a six week period, which is an incredible amount

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Speaker 2: of snow. And I was fearful that some sort of

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Speaker 2: weather pattern pattern had had set up similar to that

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Speaker 2: this year. But so we're going to miss this, although

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Speaker 2: the cape and the islands will take a hit. What

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Speaker 2: are we looking for when we leave frigid January and

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Speaker 2: turn into February, which for all of us who are

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Speaker 2: baseball fans, when those pictures of baseball from Florida start

605
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Speaker 2: to filter up here. We think that summer is right

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Speaker 2: around the corner, but what's the long range? If I know,

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Speaker 2: I shouldn't ask you this question because they didn't tell

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Speaker 2: you how to ask it.

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Speaker 7: You may not like the answer if you ask it,

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Speaker 7: So that to.

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Speaker 2: Ask it, I'm braced myself. I'm sitting down. Go ahead, Melissa, Okay. Good.

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Speaker 7: Unfortunately, it is going to be trending at least colder

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Speaker 7: for us, likely through the middle of February, so Valentine's Day.

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Speaker 7: I think we're still below historical averages here, which does

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Speaker 7: make it chilly. And then of course I've looked ahead

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Speaker 7: to the spring forecast, which is March April May, as

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Speaker 7: we define it by meteorological standards, and with that it

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Speaker 7: does look like we'll be kind of on the borderline

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Speaker 7: of normal to even below normal temperature. So we're kind

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Speaker 7: of getting back into a semblance of maybe where we

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Speaker 7: should be. But there's not going to be any big

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Speaker 7: sharp turns, of course, though, as you know, Dan, the

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Speaker 7: good thing is that as we get through February, the

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Speaker 7: difference between daylight at the beginning of the month and

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Speaker 7: the end of the month is quite a difference. And

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Speaker 7: even as we go into March even more so, so,

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Speaker 7: so all of a sudden, the angle starts making the

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Speaker 7: difference Mother Nature. No matter how much the Arctic might

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Speaker 7: want to shove cold air over us, Mother Nature generally

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Speaker 7: has to give up. I will tell you that as

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Speaker 7: we go through early February, what will likely happen is

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Speaker 7: we have this cold dome of air that's obviously usually

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Speaker 7: over the Arctic, and looks like this will kind of

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Speaker 7: split in two, so we will expect one over Canada.

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Speaker 7: The question is it over Western Canada or Eastern Canada.

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Speaker 7: Still looking like it's probably Eastern Canada, which has impacts

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Speaker 7: for more cold for us through the first half of February.

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Speaker 7: The other half will go over towards Asia.

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Speaker 2: So I know that. I know that as a meteorologist

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Speaker 2: and me as somebody who grew up here and has

641
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Speaker 2: lived here all my life. For the most part, we

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Speaker 2: all remember February sixth, seventh, and eighth of nineteen seventy eight,

643
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Speaker 2: the Blizzard of seventy eight. So whenever we approach that week,

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Speaker 2: I sort of get the shakes. And I was a

645
00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:01,239
Speaker 2: young TV reporter at the time, and I'm telling you

646
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Speaker 2: that's the storm by which everything is measured, it's and

647
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Speaker 2: so let's hope we get at least past February sixth, seventh,

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Speaker 2: and eighth without another blizzard of that magnitude.

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Speaker 7: Okay, that's fair enough. I think everybody has that snowstorm

650
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Speaker 7: in their memory, right, Like, depending on what your age is,

651
00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:24,200
Speaker 7: you've got that storm. It might be twenty fifteen for you,

652
00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:28,279
Speaker 7: just the winter of or specific storm. But everyone's got that.

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Speaker 2: Oh yes, yeah there. I know that there were storms

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Speaker 2: in other years, and I remember as I was growing up,

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Speaker 2: some of the older folks were saying, well, back in

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Speaker 2: the winter and they were talking about like nineteen oh

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Speaker 2: seven or nineteen oh eight of they called it ought

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Speaker 2: seven or Ought eight. We never did that anyway, Bliss.

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Speaker 2: I've really enjoyed our conversation. Thank you so much. Everybody

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Speaker 2: down in the cape and the islands are unnoticed to uh,

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Speaker 2: you know, stay stay into us if you can tomorrow

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Speaker 2: and look out the window and enjoy the landscape. Look

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Speaker 2: forward to talking with you again. Thank you very much

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Speaker 2: for joining us tonight.

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Speaker 7: No problem, Dan, have good night.

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Speaker 2: Melissa Constanza of ACI Weather telling us what well that

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Speaker 2: we're going to be kind of lucky here in the

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Speaker 2: in Greater Boston if unless you were looking for another storm, Okay,

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Speaker 2: we come back. I'll tell you who's not lucky. Cape

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Speaker 2: Cod Potato Chips are leaving Massachusetts. To me, I read

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Speaker 2: that story in both the Globe and the Herald this morning,

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Speaker 2: and it struck at my heart and I want to

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Speaker 2: talk with it. What does it say about Massachusetts and

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Speaker 2: what does it say about the company that owns Cape

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Speaker 2: Cod Potato Chips. I have a lot to say about it.

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Speaker 2: I hope you do as well. Coming back right after

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Speaker 2: the news at nine o'clock,