Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray on Bezy Radio.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much, very small, appreciate it. I'm always
Speaker 2: nice to hear your voice.
Speaker 3: My name is Dan Ray.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure it's always nice for you guys to
Speaker 2: hear my voice, but I love chatting with you.
Speaker 3: I love doing this program.
Speaker 2: We're here every Monday through Friday night from eight until midnight.
Speaker 2: We are now well into year eighteen, and I think
Speaker 2: that tonight we need to give away some tickets. This
Speaker 2: is I May. We have some tickets coming up, which
Speaker 2: I will explain. That'll be after nine o'clock. Also, we
Speaker 2: got some t shirts. We've got a lot going on here.
Speaker 2: We've got a lot going on here, and of course
Speaker 2: during the first hour we don't take any phone calls.
Speaker 2: We have four guests who present some pretty interesting perspectives.
Speaker 2: So let's get right to it again. Rob Brooks and
Speaker 2: Dan Cantano are in the booth tonight, two producers tonight,
Speaker 2: Aren't I lucky? Our first guest is Kelly Lynn Marquee.
Speaker 2: Kelly Lynn marquis welcome to Night Side. You're a certified
Speaker 2: life and business coach. You're nationally acclaimed dog show handler
Speaker 2: and author of a new book Behind the Scenes are
Speaker 2: best in show intimate moments with the masters, handlers and
Speaker 2: their show dogs. The question is, I think, what have
Speaker 2: you learned as a dog show handler and what can
Speaker 2: we learn from the world of dog shows.
Speaker 4: Well as a dog show handler. One of the things
Speaker 4: that I've learned is the importance of energy, and when
Speaker 4: you connect in with a dog and you're looking to
Speaker 4: work with an animal, you need to be able to
Speaker 4: connect in with their energy and meet them where they're at.
Speaker 4: And one of the beauty I'm working with animals is
Speaker 4: that they're very pure in their energy, so you don't
Speaker 4: tend to have body language that is expressing one thing
Speaker 4: and then verbal language that actually may be expressing something
Speaker 4: very different. So that's one of the beauties that I
Speaker 4: have when I'm working with an animal that I have
Speaker 4: noticed is often different when you're working with people. And
Speaker 4: that has actually translated into helping me from what I've
Speaker 4: learned with the dogs and their energy, it's also helped
Speaker 4: me when I'm reading other people and getting their words
Speaker 4: and their body language in alignment.
Speaker 3: Let's just talk for a second about dogs. I happen
Speaker 3: to love dogs.
Speaker 2: Dogs, I mean, I think that's great about dogs is
Speaker 2: they're just honest.
Speaker 3: There's no phoniness about a dog.
Speaker 2: If the dog loves you and likes you, he'll jump
Speaker 2: up on you and.
Speaker 3: He'll smother you with kisses.
Speaker 2: There's no question the dog doesn't like you, uh, he'll
Speaker 2: let you know to you know, keep your distance, keep
Speaker 2: your distance, whatever the circumstances.
Speaker 3: There's there's there's.
Speaker 2: No phoniness about dogs, or probably about cats or other
Speaker 2: animals as well.
Speaker 3: So how do you take those lessons?
Speaker 2: I mean, look, my daughter has a a Yoki, which
Speaker 2: is just a beautiful dog, mean Mustard. My son has
Speaker 2: a uh has excuse my getting it mixed up here.
Speaker 3: My son has a shortky which is named Willy.
Speaker 2: And my daughter has a dog which is a Corgi
Speaker 2: uh named named Mustard. And they're just two very different dogs.
Speaker 2: But they just love people and they express it every
Speaker 2: time they see you. So how do you take the
Speaker 2: honesty of dogs and learn from that and apply it
Speaker 2: to human beings who oftentimes are a little more complex
Speaker 2: and maybe not as straightforward as dogs.
Speaker 4: Well, I love that question, and especially when it comes
Speaker 4: to children. I know, even with my own daughter when
Speaker 4: she was younger, I knew I wanted her to have
Speaker 4: her very own dog. And I think that one of
Speaker 4: the main things we can learn about dogs is how
Speaker 4: they hold space for our emotions. And so when you
Speaker 4: have children, and I remember one time my daughter came
Speaker 4: home from school and she had had a bad day,
Speaker 4: and I wanted to talk to her about it, but
Speaker 4: yet I saw how she was with her dog, and
Speaker 4: her dog could just be with her. It's like when
Speaker 4: you're with a dog, it's like they can feel what
Speaker 4: you feel, and sometimes they know just what to do
Speaker 4: to cheer you up, or they're just always there to listen.
Speaker 4: And I just think that's one of the most beautiful things,
Speaker 4: is how pure apart and how well they really hold
Speaker 4: space for us emotionally, or we can just feel their
Speaker 4: joy when they're frolicking in the yard or chasing something
Speaker 4: or just completely consumed in the moment. And there's just
Speaker 4: so much beauty to a dog. And I think especially
Speaker 4: you know, I've thought a lot about this too, and
Speaker 4: how we connect with dogs. You know, the connection with
Speaker 4: a dog is actually different than the connection with a cat.
Speaker 4: You know, cats are more independent, and yet with dogs
Speaker 4: that often you know, they want to like crawl into
Speaker 4: our skin and just unite with us, and so I
Speaker 4: think it's I mean all.
Speaker 3: So identify with what you're saying there. I am my daughter.
Speaker 3: When she was I guess nine, she was begging for a.
Speaker 2: Dog, so we got a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel for
Speaker 2: her and within two days this dog, Charlie, he became
Speaker 2: He adopted me. He would follow me around, sit with me.
Speaker 2: He just wanted to hang. As kids got older, all
Speaker 2: they wanted to do was, you know, can we have
Speaker 2: a couple of dollars? Can I have the car keys?
Speaker 2: And my wife gave me the.
Speaker 3: To do list.
Speaker 2: All Charlie wanted to do is hang with me. I
Speaker 2: give you hate that, but how do you apply that
Speaker 2: to your relationships with others? When you see others, you
Speaker 2: can't run up to them and wag your tail and
Speaker 2: lick their face and let them know that you're really
Speaker 2: happy to see them. You're a coach, you're a trainer.
Speaker 2: If I'm not mistaken of a certified life and business coach.
Speaker 2: How do you apply those that knowledge to the people
Speaker 2: you help train to become better? I guess either business
Speaker 2: people or just better human beings.
Speaker 5: Well, one of.
Speaker 4: The biggest things is teaching people how to trust their
Speaker 4: own energy, how to trust what they're feeling, how to
Speaker 4: pay attention to someone's body language, and how to pay
Speaker 4: attention to what it is that they're feeling and practicing authenticity.
Speaker 4: You know, sometimes sometimes we're confused about something, and if
Speaker 4: you check in with your energy, you can actually feel
Speaker 4: that you have two conflicting feelings. So these are things
Speaker 4: that I've learned with the dogs. Is that I actually
Speaker 4: when I ended up making the move to going into
Speaker 4: life coaching, I was realizing that there was a dynamic
Speaker 4: with a certain person in my life, and I stepped
Speaker 4: back and thought, well, why am I feeling this way
Speaker 4: with a person When I work with my dogs. We're one,
Speaker 4: we'd just be completely slow. We're in sync. We just
Speaker 4: know how each other feels. And then I was noticing
Speaker 4: and this was the first AHA moment I had, was like, oh,
Speaker 4: the words aren't in alignment. And I started paying more
Speaker 4: attention to the signals that my body was giving me,
Speaker 4: just you know, when you're putting little feelers out about
Speaker 4: how I was feeling energetically about that person, and then
Speaker 4: I would ask myself more. I would ask those those
Speaker 4: feelings more.
Speaker 6: So.
Speaker 4: One of the things that I do do when I
Speaker 4: am working with people, is how people get more in
Speaker 4: tune to their feelings and their emotions, and because I
Speaker 4: do believe that they're here to actually help guide us
Speaker 4: to say, oh, I want more of that, or I
Speaker 4: don't like this, or this is making me uncomfortable, and
Speaker 4: that helps guide us as to how to take our
Speaker 4: next best step.
Speaker 2: All right, I appreciate insight. Kelly Lynn, Marky Marquee. I
Speaker 2: hope I'm pronouncing that correctly. The new book behind the
Speaker 2: Scenes are best in show intimate moments with the master's
Speaker 2: handleers and.
Speaker 3: Their show dogs.
Speaker 2: Has that book out already or if folks want to
Speaker 2: buy it, is it out or is it Oftentimes we
Speaker 2: get books that are coming out a week from now
Speaker 2: or a month from now.
Speaker 3: When is it out?
Speaker 4: Yes, it actually launched.
Speaker 6: It launched.
Speaker 4: Back in the spring and it's gone phenomenal and I'm
Speaker 4: so excited. Would be on your station in Boston and
Speaker 4: my local area.
Speaker 6: That's great, that's true.
Speaker 2: I see you're from New Hampshire, so or at least
Speaker 2: you're some phone numbers from New Hampshire.
Speaker 3: That's great.
Speaker 2: Weel, maybe we'll have you back some night and we
Speaker 2: can talk about dogs and get people can question you
Speaker 2: about how they can better train their dogs. I could
Speaker 2: never train Charlie, but boy, he would do what I wanted,
Speaker 2: you know, I mean, just a great dog. The dog
Speaker 2: adopts you, I think, to be honest with you, That's
Speaker 2: what happened with my dogs.
Speaker 4: They figure out a way to communicate with you too.
Speaker 4: They really do. Yeah, I would love to talk.
Speaker 1: More specifically with dog stuff because.
Speaker 4: There's so much I've learned about how even dogs learn
Speaker 4: how to communicate with us and meet us at our level.
Speaker 2: Definating and I think they'll I think they are way
Speaker 2: above us. And the other thing I want you to know,
Speaker 2: I end my show every night with this phrase, all dogs,
Speaker 2: all cats, all pets go to heaven, and I do
Speaker 2: believe that is true.
Speaker 3: Thanks, because what would heaven be without dogs?
Speaker 6: Thanks so much, Kelly, Thank you so much.
Speaker 4: I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: All Right, we're going to take you out of this world.
Speaker 2: In the next seg We're going to talk about space
Speaker 2: weather with Sean he's a space weather expert with the
Speaker 2: National Weather Service, and how do these solar storms and
Speaker 2: things like that affect some of the things that we see,
Speaker 2: like northern lights. This will be science for you scienceists
Speaker 2: out there, or for your people who for you folks who.
Speaker 3: Want to learn about science.
Speaker 2: Coming right back on night Sign after this quick break
Speaker 2: on a Tuesday night.
Speaker 6: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 6: night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 3: Now, science was never my strength in school, but.
Speaker 2: I must say this that meteorology and weather have always
Speaker 2: fascinated me. So we're going to talk with Sean Dahl.
Speaker 2: He's a space weather expert with the National Weather Service. Sean,
Speaker 2: I'm assuming that the space weather we're talking about is
Speaker 2: not the stuff that's up, you know, twenty five thirty
Speaker 2: thousand feet we're talking about why above the wild blue yonder,
Speaker 2: Am I right?
Speaker 6: That's right? Dan, Hey, nice to be on your show
Speaker 6: The night Side here, Thanks for having us. Yeah, you're right,
Speaker 6: he is taking its stuff is taking place in that
Speaker 6: giant vacuum of space ninety three million miles between the
Speaker 6: Sun and the Earth that ultimately arrives at and around
Speaker 6: our planet here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So, for example, what I want to talk about,
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 2: That Here's what I really don't understand. Our system has
Speaker 2: been around for billions of years, and we've been warmed
Speaker 2: by the Sun for billions of years. And I've asked
Speaker 2: lots of different scientists who have had on the program,
Speaker 2: you know, some really smart people. How the heck does
Speaker 2: that that sun just keep on burning and burning and burning.
Speaker 2: I know it's big. I know it's big, but can
Speaker 2: you explain to me and to my audience, why is
Speaker 2: it that the Sun hasn't burned out?
Speaker 6: It's a marvel, isn't it. It's truly quite a miraculous thing. Well,
Speaker 6: for when the Sun is so massive, you know, a
Speaker 6: million earths to fit inside of it, and it's just
Speaker 6: continually burning this giant supply of hydrogs into the has
Speaker 6: and eventually, as the Sun continues to age, you know
Speaker 6: that hydrogen is going to be converted. It's going to
Speaker 6: run out, and that won't be for fortunately, you know,
Speaker 6: there's something like another five billionaires, so not in anyone's lifetime.
Speaker 3: Who's listening to this show? I've asked questions.
Speaker 2: I don't know Brian Green from Columbia. He has written
Speaker 2: great books, he's a scientist a and these are the
Speaker 2: questions that strike me. Okay, that's a good answer. I
Speaker 2: got that one. Okay, solar storms, I know the word
Speaker 2: solar comes from the Sun. What are we talking about
Speaker 2: when we talk about solar storms.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we're talking about a wide variety. Dan They come
Speaker 6: in different forms and in almost different stages. Some are
Speaker 6: at the speed of light, so we see something like
Speaker 6: a solar flare, this blast of energy that travels at
Speaker 6: speed of light. We see it. The effect is already
Speaker 6: on the Sun the side of our atmosphere. Others are
Speaker 6: in the form of energetic particles that can go through space,
Speaker 6: so they are a tad bits slower. They can almost
Speaker 6: be speed of light stuff, but it may take them
Speaker 6: fifteen to twenty minutes to get here at their fastest,
Speaker 6: but usually it can be even as long as twenty
Speaker 6: four hours. And those penetrate things, so those get a
Speaker 6: little more potential of danger to satellites in space and
Speaker 6: astronaut health of course. And then pieces of the Sun,
Speaker 6: giant blobs of solar material and strong magnetic fields can
Speaker 6: expand out into space and giant, really impressive looking explosions
Speaker 6: called coronal mass ejections or CMEs for short, and that's
Speaker 6: what leads to those geomagnetic storms that causes the aurora
Speaker 6: that so many people want to see.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's and I guess the aura of Borealis
Speaker 2: is going to be seen.
Speaker 3: It was seen a couple of months ago in August.
Speaker 2: If I'm not missaying. It always seems to come around
Speaker 2: the middle of August. I don't know what that's all about,
Speaker 2: but I'm hearing that it's now going to be up
Speaker 2: on the northern climbs in Canada and maybe the state
Speaker 2: of Washington, not so much in New England.
Speaker 3: Is that what's going on this time?
Speaker 6: Yeah, we had another CME arrived. We were looking for
Speaker 6: one to come in potentially the beginning of the weekend,
Speaker 6: but it was a bit slower than we thought, and
Speaker 6: it finally arrived in pretty good force on Sunday evening
Speaker 6: going into Monday, and that led to a really good
Speaker 6: Northern lights display, perhaps even seen from Massachusetts. I don't know.
Speaker 6: I haven't heard, but we did get to a three
Speaker 6: on our one through five scale, and I know it
Speaker 6: was seen here in northern Colorado.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's that's below the state of Washington. If
Speaker 2: I'm not mistaken. In terms of the map, I mean,
Speaker 2: you got Washington, Oregon, then California, Colorado. You got a
Speaker 2: couple of states above you. I think Dakota's or something
Speaker 2: like that. If I'm not mistaken on Montana, I mean
Speaker 2: for you to see it in Colorado. That's that's that
Speaker 2: is central United States. You're you're in the middle of
Speaker 2: the of the country. You're about halfway between the Canadian
Speaker 2: border and the Mexican borders. So if you saw, I'm
Speaker 2: assuming a lot of people north of you, in places
Speaker 2: like Minnesota and the Dakota's in Montana and parts of
Speaker 2: Idaho saw it as well.
Speaker 6: Oh, absolutely for sure they did if the skies were
Speaker 6: clear up there, because there was a very young moon, right,
Speaker 6: so the skies nice and dark. We get longer periods
Speaker 6: of darkness this time of year. And I know my
Speaker 6: relatives in North Dakota if they were outlooking, they certainly
Speaker 6: had a really nice auroral show last night.
Speaker 2: So what does this mean to us other than beauty
Speaker 2: in the sky, which is wonderful.
Speaker 3: What are the practical aspects?
Speaker 2: Does it affect our weather on terra firma or is
Speaker 2: it just simply a beautiful sky that we can look
Speaker 2: at a few.
Speaker 3: Nights a year.
Speaker 6: Yeah, then there's more to It's you got the beautiful aurora.
Speaker 6: Of course, it really doesn't affect the norm mainstream meteorology,
Speaker 6: the weather here on our planet so much. It's really
Speaker 6: about the technology that we live and rely upon so
Speaker 6: much today, the electric power that we rely on so much,
Speaker 6: that can be dramatically impacted in the worst case in
Speaker 6: have a a multiple state power blackout. Although that's very rare,
Speaker 6: we know it can happen. Historically, there's been strengths that
Speaker 6: will allow that to happen. That's why we do what
Speaker 6: we do at the Space Weather Prediction Center, which is
Speaker 6: we contact all these key technological infrastructure operators like the
Speaker 6: power grid, aviation industries, satellite communities, space launch communication folks,
Speaker 6: emergency management officials. All of these kinds of things are
Speaker 6: what we do from the Space Weather Prediction Center. So
Speaker 6: most of society can sit back and hope to see
Speaker 6: and enjoy a Northern Lights show while everybody else does
Speaker 6: all the work to keep our systems running.
Speaker 3: Okay, my last question, Sean, is a little off via
Speaker 3: some of my questions are as you've probably figured out
Speaker 3: by now.
Speaker 2: But I broadcast remotely, so we're all into electronics. Okay,
Speaker 2: we have a broadcast tower. I don't know how well
Speaker 2: you know New England, but we have a broadcast tower
Speaker 2: down in Hull, Massachusetts, which is right out over the water.
Speaker 2: Fifty thousand am booming signal across the entry we heard
Speaker 2: in about thirty eight states at night. I have a
Speaker 2: little device what looks like the size of a transistor
Speaker 2: radio but it's what's called the com rex, and and
Speaker 2: my producer is about, I don't know, maybe one hundred
Speaker 2: miles from me back at Broadcast Central. So we're all electronics.
Speaker 2: Can this stuff affect our broadcasts? Because every once in
Speaker 2: a while we get a little glitch or something like that,
Speaker 2: we think it's a gremlin.
Speaker 3: How much how much havoc?
Speaker 2: Can can I know, we can talk about electromagnetic fields.
Speaker 2: I've had experts on about that, but just in terms
Speaker 2: of the day to day stuff that we all use.
Speaker 2: My day to day stuff is a little more complicated
Speaker 2: because it's you know, broadcasting radio show, you know, halfway
Speaker 2: across America.
Speaker 3: But people who are.
Speaker 2: Watching television at night, it's all electronics at this point.
Speaker 2: Can can our electronics be impacted adversely as well?
Speaker 6: Not really, Dan, Our personal electronics are pretty much free
Speaker 6: from most of these types of direct impacts. It's really
Speaker 6: about the high voltage transmission lines and certain communication frequency
Speaker 6: bands that can be impacted by these types of storms
Speaker 6: in their different varieties. That's not to say that some
Speaker 6: communication means like you're talking about with your broadcast, how
Speaker 6: er can't be impacted in some way. I just don't
Speaker 6: know all the frequency bands they're using, but most certainly
Speaker 6: some of these bands, satellite communication wavelengths, line of site wavelengths,
Speaker 6: and high frequency systems, they can all be impacted by
Speaker 6: these types of storms.
Speaker 2: Well, Sean, I wish I had about one one thousands
Speaker 2: of the information and knowledge in my head about this
Speaker 2: subject that you have. It's something that I wish i'd
Speaker 2: learned more about in school. Your enthusiasm and your passion
Speaker 2: is obvious. You've been a great guest. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Maybe we'll bring you back some night. In this hour,
Speaker 2: we just do four brief interviews, and then from nine
Speaker 2: to midnight we do an hour on a subject and
Speaker 2: we ansertain questions from listening. If you'd be interested, I'd
Speaker 2: love to have you back because I love your passion.
Speaker 6: Yeah, of course, Dan, happy to do so. It's nice
Speaker 6: getting out and educating and helping people understand more about
Speaker 6: this really important topic of space weather. Thanks for having
Speaker 6: us and I'm glad to come back anytime.
Speaker 2: Well, my producer will be in touch. My people will
Speaker 2: call your people. Sean Dahle, space weather expert with the
Speaker 2: National Weather Service. Fascinating stuff. Sean, thank you so much.
Speaker 2: When we get back, we're going to talk about something
Speaker 2: a little closer to home back here in Massachusetts. This
Speaker 2: is Fire Prevention Week in Massachusett, and we're going to
Speaker 2: be talking with the State Fire Marshall about some of
Speaker 2: the things you can do that can maybe prevent you
Speaker 2: from having a fire at your home, because that is
Speaker 2: a disaster when you think about it. Anyone's ever experienced
Speaker 2: anything like that? You know of what I speak. Be
Speaker 2: back with State Fire Marshall John Devine. Right after this.
Speaker 6: You're on Night Side with Dan Ray on w z
Speaker 6: Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: All right, well, this is an interesting time of year. Uh,
Speaker 2: Summer's over, as I think all of us know, Uh,
Speaker 2: it's getting a little a little cooler.
Speaker 3: It hasn't gotten really.
Speaker 2: Cold yet, but as a result, this is the week
Speaker 2: that's called fire Prevention Week in Massachusetts. And I want
Speaker 2: everyone to listen on because I don't want to lose
Speaker 2: any of you in a fire, and I don't want
Speaker 2: any of you to lose family members, possessions, or your
Speaker 2: home in a fire.
Speaker 3: This year's theme is.
Speaker 2: Smoke alarms, Make them work for you with me and
Speaker 2: stay fire marshaled, John Devine. Uh, is that the correct pronunciation?
Speaker 2: John Devin? Oh, Davin? Okay, that's easy. Okay, that's the
Speaker 2: way I would have pronounced that. I got a fanatic
Speaker 2: outp here, which they don't understand. John Davin. Hey, that's
Speaker 2: pretty simple. Come on, I'm an irishman. Do I know
Speaker 2: how to pronounce Davin? So, so tell us what's going on.
Speaker 2: Everybody needs to have smoke and carbon monoxide alarms and
Speaker 2: you need to check them, check the batteries and all
Speaker 2: of that. But just explain to us. I'm sure. Well,
Speaker 2: I know that you investigate a lot of fires, and
Speaker 2: when I was a TV reporter a long time ago,
Speaker 2: I went to more than my share of fires, and
Speaker 2: in many cases they're preventable.
Speaker 3: Tell us how.
Speaker 5: Well. So thanks, first of all, thank you for having
Speaker 5: me tonight. I really appreciate it. And again, like you said,
Speaker 5: this is Fire Prevention Week, and it's actually the longest
Speaker 5: running public health and public safety observance in the United
Speaker 5: States history. So I appreciate you allow me to speak
Speaker 5: tonight about the importance of smoke and carbon dioxide alarms.
Speaker 5: And we really have three core messages this week that
Speaker 5: we're trying to get out to the folks, and the
Speaker 5: first one is be sure you have working smoke alarms
Speaker 5: at every level of your home. They're especially important when
Speaker 5: we're sleeping, so you know it's best to have them
Speaker 5: in each bedroom and in the hallway outside of each
Speaker 5: bedroom if possible. Second, we want you to test them
Speaker 5: every month, and we do a little thing at the
Speaker 5: Department of Fires Services on our social media and start
Speaker 5: a little trend called smoke Alarm Saturday. But we test
Speaker 5: our smoke and carbon dioxide alarms on the first Saturday
Speaker 5: a month. But you know, obviously you can do it
Speaker 5: whenever it works for you or your family. And then third,
Speaker 5: you need to replace the batteries twice a year when
Speaker 5: we change the clock. So we're changing the clock's here
Speaker 5: coming up soon, so I expect everybody to change their
Speaker 5: batteries out. And you know when you do check them,
Speaker 5: check the date on your smoke alarm. They're only good
Speaker 5: for ten years, just like any other appliance in your home.
Speaker 5: They don't last forever, so check the manufacturing date it's
Speaker 5: printed on the back of the alarm, and if it's
Speaker 5: older than ten years, you need to replace it. We
Speaker 5: had I think we had thirty one fires or twenty
Speaker 5: seven thousand fires last year in the counterwelth. I mean
Speaker 5: that includes our structured fires, vehicles, outdoor fires, everything, but
Speaker 5: about half of those fires took place in people's homes
Speaker 5: and that's where almost all the fire deaths and injuries
Speaker 5: took place. So we've had twenty seven fire decks this
Speaker 5: year already. That included two children and fourteen older adults.
Speaker 5: We're down from last year. Last year total was forty
Speaker 5: five deaths, with two kids and twenty six older adults.
Speaker 5: And honestly, the leading cause of fires overall is cooking,
Speaker 5: and the leading cause of our fatal fires is smoking,
Speaker 5: So you know, it's really important that.
Speaker 3: The traditional smoking in bed.
Speaker 2: I guess, are there any statistics that anyone has as
Speaker 2: to what percentage of homes. I assume every business has
Speaker 2: smoke alarms and carpa monoxide alarms because they can be
Speaker 2: they can be inspected a lot easier.
Speaker 3: Any any idea as to what percentage of.
Speaker 2: Homes have the necessary alarms, and that doesn't even question
Speaker 2: how many of them have alarms, but they don't have
Speaker 2: batteries and them other batteries have run out. How many
Speaker 2: how many homes do you do you think it's anywhere
Speaker 2: close to one hundred percent.
Speaker 5: Well, we had thirty one people died in fires and
Speaker 5: home last year in Massachusetts and it was almost I
Speaker 5: believe it was almost half of them that it didn't
Speaker 5: have working smoke arms. You know, some some folks had
Speaker 5: you know, the batteries went dead, they never replaced them,
Speaker 5: or you know, the battery goes dead in the middle
Speaker 5: of the night, so they pulled the detector down and
Speaker 5: put it on the counter and said, oh, you know,
Speaker 5: I'll run out Saturday and get a battery and never
Speaker 5: replace it. And then some of them had no alarms
Speaker 5: at all. So you know, I don't have a number
Speaker 5: of how many people don't have them, but it's it's
Speaker 5: sad that, you know, most of these fatal fighters that
Speaker 5: we go to, you know, these folks would have had
Speaker 5: a pretty good chance to get out of that home
Speaker 5: if they had working smoke alarms.
Speaker 2: Well it is I mean, many people have never seen
Speaker 2: a home burned down I mean, you see it on television.
Speaker 2: Everyone can see it on television. There's a big fire
Speaker 2: going on somewhere. But to actually physically watch a home
Speaker 2: burned down, and as I you know, did too many
Speaker 2: times as the television television reporter back in the day,
Speaker 2: you just realize that even if everyone escapes, which you
Speaker 2: hope they do, the memories and the possessions and the
Speaker 2: pictures and all of that can never be replaced. So
Speaker 2: for not only for your own good and for the
Speaker 2: safety of your family, but just for your you know,
Speaker 2: your heritage which you hope to pass on to your
Speaker 2: children and grandchildren. It's a really inexpensive investment.
Speaker 5: No, it really is. And you're right, you know, home
Speaker 5: fires are tragic in many ways. But you know what
Speaker 5: we tell folks too is listen, we would rather have
Speaker 5: you safe and sound outside, you know, let the firefighters
Speaker 5: come in and do their work. And you know, some
Speaker 5: of your possessions, you know, obviously not your photos and
Speaker 5: all your family artifacts can't be replaced. But your home
Speaker 5: can be replaced, your furnishings can be replaced, but you're
Speaker 5: not going to replace a family member.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I totally agree, and I don't mean to
Speaker 2: minimize the loss of life. But as I say, even
Speaker 2: if you're lucky enough to escape a fire.
Speaker 5: And that's a good point because that smoke alarm gives
Speaker 5: you that early warning, so you know you can get
Speaker 5: up if it's the middle of the night, you can
Speaker 5: make that call the nine to one one and obviously
Speaker 5: you know, the quicker you get to nine to one
Speaker 5: one and get your fire department on the way, the
Speaker 5: better chance there is of you saving your home. Yeah,
Speaker 5: but if you don't have detectors, you know, it's it's
Speaker 5: very difficult, difficult fires get a good head start, and
Speaker 5: you know, the wave homes are built now and the furnishings,
Speaker 5: everything burns much faster, much hotter. They're more difficult to
Speaker 5: put out. So once that fire gets going, it's very
Speaker 5: difficult to stop it. So you know, early warning is key.
Speaker 2: And the other thing that I always like to talk
Speaker 2: about are space heaters because so many fires either are
Speaker 2: caused by space heaters or the space heaters are placed
Speaker 2: and get very hot in a place curtains or something
Speaker 2: like that. I mean, so many fires that I covered
Speaker 2: it would be the cause with.
Speaker 5: Space heaters, so now absolutely.
Speaker 2: So unnecessary just talk about space heaters for a second,
Speaker 2: because some people do want space heaters. You know, they're
Speaker 2: going to try to keep the price of fuel at
Speaker 2: this point is going up. Winter time's coming on. The
Speaker 2: bills can be prohibitive, and I can't understand why people
Speaker 2: want a space heater. To be so careful with a
Speaker 2: space heater. It's like having an open fire, I think
Speaker 2: in your house.
Speaker 5: You're right, it really is. That's a great analogy. And
Speaker 5: what we tell folks and what we push out for
Speaker 5: our message is thirty six inches in a circle around
Speaker 5: that space heater. So you don't want anything near that
Speaker 5: space heater within thirty six inches three feet. Give yourself
Speaker 5: a good three feet circle around that space heater. And
Speaker 5: if you're going to purchase a space heater, make sure
Speaker 5: that when you look at it, it's been tested by
Speaker 5: an independent lad like UL or Intertech slash ETL. You know,
Speaker 5: those are the good ones to purchase. We don't. You
Speaker 5: never want to plug space heaters into extension cord through
Speaker 5: power strips. You want to plug them directly into a
Speaker 5: wall outlet if possible. But the biggest thing is, as
Speaker 5: you said, is just keeping combustibles and stuff away from
Speaker 5: that space heater so good. Three feet that's what we
Speaker 5: tell everybody. Keep the three circle around it and you'll
Speaker 5: be good.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Even taking if you're reading a newspaper and you
Speaker 2: fall asleep in the newspaper, you know, slips off your
Speaker 2: lap onto the floor, and it's next to the space heater,
Speaker 2: that can be huge problem as well.
Speaker 5: Those things get very hot.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you. Look, I so appreciate the estate.
Speaker 2: Fire Marshal John Davin coming in tonight place. Say ahead
Speaker 2: to my friend Jake Wark who time Tell them I
Speaker 2: said hello, and it's high wall Prevention Week. Is there
Speaker 2: a website people can go to? You know, a lot
Speaker 2: of information you throw out here and maybe some of
Speaker 2: it people miss because I asked them. I didn't ask
Speaker 2: every question perfectly. There is a website you want to
Speaker 2: direct folks to fire marshals.
Speaker 5: Sure, they can go to our Department of Fire Service
Speaker 5: web page. We also have our Department Services YouTube channel,
Speaker 5: our Facebook page and our Twitter account.
Speaker 2: So it's just Department of Fire Services. Don't have to
Speaker 2: indicate Massachusetts or anything like that. Just Department of Fireservices dot.
Speaker 5: Com, MASSDFS dot com.
Speaker 2: Okay, so mass m a s s DFS dot com
Speaker 2: for Department of Fire Services. That's great, Thank you so much,
Speaker 2: appreciate it very much.
Speaker 3: Thanks very much for Frank, Thank you very much.
Speaker 5: I appreciate you having me on tonight.
Speaker 3: Absolutely. Well we get back.
Speaker 2: We're going to talk about a scandal which I think
Speaker 2: many of you remember, but maybe you haven't thought about
Speaker 2: for a while, and that is the f t X scandal,
Speaker 2: the bitcoin scandal. Remember the dude Sam Bankman Free, Well
Speaker 2: he's in the slammer for the next twenty five years
Speaker 2: unless he has a successful appeal. And now FTX has
Speaker 2: been clear to repay billions in assets to customers after
Speaker 2: a bankruptcy plan has been approved. What a mess. We're
Speaker 2: going to talk with I'm O'Brien, CEO of Bitcoin well
Speaker 2: as to how this settlement might affect your bitcoin. Back
Speaker 2: on night Side right after the break.
Speaker 6: Now back to Dan ray Line from the Window World.
Speaker 1: Night Side Studios on w b Z News Radio.
Speaker 2: Well, I think many of us remember the name sank
Speaker 2: Sam bankrupt bank drankruptcy, fraud or what Sam Bankman Freed
Speaker 2: was his real name?
Speaker 3: Actually young kid.
Speaker 2: Who made billions and is now in the slammer for
Speaker 2: twenty five years. The company was f FTX, and we're
Speaker 2: joined by Adam O'Brien, who's the CEO of Bitcoin.
Speaker 3: Well, Adam, thanks for joining us.
Speaker 6: How are you, hey, Dan?
Speaker 1: I'm great man. How are you doing.
Speaker 2: I'll bet you're glad you had nothing to do with
Speaker 2: this guy, Sam Bankman Freed.
Speaker 1: WHOA, I'm quite I am quite happy that I keep
Speaker 1: my bitcoin safely tucked away in my own personal wallet.
Speaker 6: Absolutely all right.
Speaker 2: So the FTX now has been cleared to repay billions
Speaker 2: in assets to customers after a bankruptcy plan approval.
Speaker 3: What was left? I mean, how much did this guy lose?
Speaker 2: You know, desk badly? I mean he was I don't
Speaker 2: know if this was a pyramid scheme. All I remember
Speaker 2: was this guy had this weird look about him, and
Speaker 2: I thought to myself, I wouldn't give I would loan
Speaker 2: that guy five bucks.
Speaker 3: And I'm not the smartest financial guy in.
Speaker 1: The world, but yeah, man, this is a This is
Speaker 1: a good old fashioned scam through and through. I think
Speaker 1: that it's such an interesting bankruptcy proceeding here because they're
Speaker 1: actually paying out more than what people supposedly lost. However,
Speaker 1: because they're paying it out in US dollars and not
Speaker 1: in bitcoin or the crypto assets that was hold at
Speaker 1: the time of bankruptcy. Most investors are going to be
Speaker 1: worse off, even though they're paying something like one hundred
Speaker 1: and twelve percent of the account balance. So it's so
Speaker 1: interesting where the only reason they have money. Basically, the
Speaker 1: structure here was Sam Bankman. Freed was taking the users
Speaker 1: deposits and effectively gambling them as a philanthropist and a
Speaker 1: venture capitalist, and he had one AI investment that absolutely
Speaker 1: blew up and took off, and that is almost single
Speaker 1: handedly what is funding the entirety of this bankruptcy payout.
Speaker 3: Okay, so now I'm confused.
Speaker 2: He makes a horrible investment, but at some point in
Speaker 2: time the investment started to appreciate in value.
Speaker 1: Well, he didn't make one investment. Basically, what was happening
Speaker 1: is users were depositing their money into SDX as an exchange,
Speaker 1: and he was taking the user deposits and sending them
Speaker 1: to politicians and investing in early stage startups. He made
Speaker 1: hundreds of different investments and he had and they were
Speaker 1: most of them, ninety nine percent of them were terrible investments.
Speaker 1: But one of them happened to pay off. And he's very,
Speaker 1: very lucky that it did because it actually well I'm
Speaker 1: not sure if he's lucky, but the ye, he's not
Speaker 1: lucky gave So.
Speaker 2: What you're saying, So, what you're saying is the one
Speaker 2: investment that paid off paid off big time?
Speaker 6: Uh yes, exactly when when.
Speaker 2: Did when did that investment? Did that investment he was
Speaker 2: He was convicted, I believe last March. So has the
Speaker 2: has the investment increased dramatically?
Speaker 3: This one.
Speaker 2: Good investment hasn't increased dramatically since he was he was
Speaker 2: indicted in all of that, and that then all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, Now ironically, these investors who were built, most
Speaker 2: of them are going to get their money back.
Speaker 1: So it's it's it's very interesting because they are going
Speaker 1: to get their dollars back. But however, most of them
Speaker 1: were holding bitcoin. And so imagine a world where you're
Speaker 1: holding one bitcoin in your FTX account. The court is
Speaker 1: taking the dollar equivalent in bitcoin to mark your account value.
Speaker 1: So in November one bitcoin was worth I forget exactly
Speaker 1: the number, but it was book twenty eight thousand US dollars,
Speaker 1: and so the court is going to give you back.
Speaker 5: That's exactly right.
Speaker 1: So the court's going to give you back, let's say
Speaker 1: twenty nine thousand dollars, but you're like, hang on a second,
Speaker 1: if I had just had my bitcoin, I would now
Speaker 1: have sixty thousand dollars worth of bitcoin in my possession.
Speaker 1: So even though they're getting more dollars back, ultimately the
Speaker 1: FTX investors are still, you know, going to be down
Speaker 1: fifty percent if they were holding bitcoin in their account
Speaker 1: or other crypto assets that are volatile. And I think
Speaker 1: this goes to show kind of just how dangerous holding
Speaker 1: crypto assets or bitcoin anywhere other than in your personal
Speaker 1: wallet is is going to expose you to weird random
Speaker 1: things like some kid, you know, gambling your money away
Speaker 1: and then it paying off, but then it not paying
Speaker 1: off that great.
Speaker 2: I wonder if this if this kid's going to win
Speaker 2: an appeal, or if he's going to actually spend twenty
Speaker 2: five years.
Speaker 3: In stir.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I was wondering that my does.
Speaker 3: In or in the slammer, Okay, in.
Speaker 1: The slammer, I uh yeah, US Canadian boys call it
Speaker 1: just just the bars, but I hear.
Speaker 5: What you're saying.
Speaker 1: I think that he probably does spend a significant amount
Speaker 1: of time in jail because regardless of the outcome, here,
Speaker 1: fraud is fraud, and he has admitted to substantial amounts
Speaker 1: of fraud. This is like Bernie made Off level fraud.
Speaker 1: And I think he deserves to be behind bars for
Speaker 1: a very long time, you know, and he'll come.
Speaker 2: Out and improved man, and whatever. You know, how how
Speaker 2: that starts. We have, y I wish I had more time, Adam.
Speaker 2: You're sounding a great guy, and thank you very much.
Speaker 2: Your company is called bitcoin Well, and you're on the level. Yes,
Speaker 2: people want to get to your company, they can go
Speaker 2: to bitcoin well correct.
Speaker 1: Yeah, bitcoinwell dot com. And if you're in Boston area,
Speaker 1: checkout mass Adoption. It's the oldest and biggest bitcoin meetup group.
Speaker 1: And you'll be talking about this stuff for weeks, I'm sure.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: And again, as we say in Latin, when we talk
Speaker 2: about anything like this, caveat emptor buyer beware.
Speaker 6: Thanks Adam, Thanks so much.
Speaker 2: Jan all right, we get back right after the nine
Speaker 2: o'clock news. We're going to talk about Massachusetts valid question two.
Speaker 2: That's the mcast question. We'll talk with Matt Hills, vice
Speaker 2: chair of the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education
Speaker 2: back on night side.
Speaker 3: After this