Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray on w BZY, Boston's
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Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Nicall. We start off our journey
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Speaker 2: to about eleven fifty eight, but so I'll get you
Speaker 2: really close to midnight. If you'll stick with us for
Speaker 2: the next four hours, we have an interesting show coming up.
Speaker 2: We have four interesting guests hearing here in the first
Speaker 2: hour at the eight o'clock hour, no phone calls this hour.
Speaker 2: Then at nine o'clock I going to be talking with
Speaker 2: Boston attorney Phil Tracy about that State Supreme Court case
Speaker 2: that was heard yesterday regarding Karen Reid and whether or
Speaker 2: not there needs to be a change in what happened
Speaker 2: at the end of that case. I think most people
Speaker 2: are aware of that, but we will spell it out
Speaker 2: for you after nine o'clock, and then at ten o'clock
Speaker 2: tonight we will play for you some of the comments
Speaker 2: made by President Biden today. He has invited President to
Speaker 2: elect former President Trump to the White House for a
Speaker 2: transition meeting of sorts, traditional meeting that Donald Trump did
Speaker 2: not offer to Joe Biden four years ago because of
Speaker 2: the craziness that was going on at that point. But
Speaker 2: President Biden, I thought, made a very generous and also
Speaker 2: a very thorough speech. I guess you call it really
Speaker 2: more of remarks. It really wasn't a speech. It was
Speaker 2: remarks about the need for a smooth transition. We'll get
Speaker 2: to all of that as the evening goes on, so
Speaker 2: do stay with us. We have watched to talk about.
Speaker 2: Rob Brooks is back in the control room tonight. You
Speaker 2: don't have to call Rob until after nine o'clock, so
Speaker 2: don't worry about that. And I'm going to start off
Speaker 2: with a conversation with Chris Price. He's a Boston Globe
Speaker 2: sports reporter, and I think that he is often on
Speaker 2: the Patriots beat, and wrote a piece recently about the
Speaker 2: struggle of Patriots wide receivers. Although they have, my opinion,
Speaker 2: a couple of pretty good quarterbacks, both Drake May and
Speaker 2: the Jacoby Brissett. I'd love to know what Chris thinks.
Speaker 2: He probably has a much more up close and personal
Speaker 2: view than I do. Chris Price, Welcome to Nightside. How
Speaker 2: are you.
Speaker 3: I'm doing well, Dan, how are you? It's my pleasure
Speaker 3: to join you tonight.
Speaker 2: Well, right back at you, I mean, I go back
Speaker 2: to the days of when Gino Cappelletti was a receiver.
Speaker 2: Ardie Graham, I go back a long way, and of
Speaker 2: course they've had some great receivers along the way. Russ
Speaker 2: Francis you think of, And they've got a pretty good
Speaker 2: little receiving core right now, and they've got a quarterback
Speaker 2: in May who's throwing the ball a lot more than
Speaker 2: Jacoby Pressent. Did I read your piece and you did
Speaker 2: a really nice analysis of all these receivers. What do
Speaker 2: you think of them as a group, and then we
Speaker 2: can break them down individually if you like.
Speaker 3: Well, I think that we can start with the fact
Speaker 3: that they're very young. They're you know, the the great
Speaker 3: majority of them, do Mario Douglas, Keishawn Booty, Taekwon Thornton,
Speaker 3: Jalen polk On Baker. They're all in there first or
Speaker 3: most of them in their first or second year in
Speaker 3: the league, and so you're gonna have some growing pains
Speaker 3: with the group, you know, like that. I'm sorry Techwon
Speaker 3: Thornton isn't his third year in the league. I apologize
Speaker 3: for that, but it's a young group and they are
Speaker 3: kind of growing together. Kendrick Bourne is probably the oldest
Speaker 3: of that group. He is a guy who's been around
Speaker 3: the league a few years and I think does a
Speaker 3: very good job when it comes to offering some leadership.
Speaker 3: But yeah, it's been a rough start for them for
Speaker 3: a few reasons. Not the least the wish. Like I
Speaker 3: said before, they're young. But there's also when you touched
Speaker 3: on the quarterback situation. I'm glad you did, Dan, because
Speaker 3: it calls to mind the story from twenty sixteen where
Speaker 3: the Patriots that summer we're trying to prepare for the season.
Speaker 3: If you remember twenty sixteen, that's the year where Tom
Speaker 3: Brady was suspended for four games right off the bat,
Speaker 3: and they had Jimmy Garoppolo, and so they were using
Speaker 3: two different quarterbacks that summer an awful lot. And I
Speaker 3: remember asking Markel's be it was the tight end on
Speaker 3: that team. I said, what's it like trying to develop
Speaker 3: relationship chemistry, whatever you want to call it with two
Speaker 3: different quarterbacks at the same time. And he looked at
Speaker 3: me and he kind of waited a beat and said, well,
Speaker 3: you know, I've dated two women at the same time before,
Speaker 3: so it's you know, it's a little bit like that.
Speaker 3: There were you know, with a little bit more PG.
Speaker 3: Thirteen and maybe are rated than that, but I'll kind
Speaker 3: of clean it up for the radio. So I think
Speaker 3: that some of their issues can kind of be traced
Speaker 3: back to the fact that there was some uncertain the
Speaker 3: quarterback position. Over the course this summer, Jakobybersett was the
Speaker 3: number one. He's since been supplanted by the youngster in
Speaker 3: Drake May. So it can be difficult to go from
Speaker 3: one quarterback to another. There's a lot of variables there.
Speaker 3: Quarterbacks like certain things. You know, they like their receivers
Speaker 3: to be in certain places, and you know, running certain roots,
Speaker 3: and so I think not just the transition from college
Speaker 3: to the pros, but being able to work with two
Speaker 3: different quarters backs at the same time, I think there
Speaker 3: are some challenges there. That being said, moving forward, I'm
Speaker 3: optimistic about this group in the passing game because I
Speaker 3: think Breake May has showed an awful lot over the
Speaker 3: course of.
Speaker 2: I haven't seen. I haven't seen. I went to one
Speaker 2: Patriots game earlier this year, but I haven't on TV
Speaker 2: of course watch them all. I haven't seen a lot
Speaker 2: of broken roots routes. I saw Aaron Rodgers was flabbergasted
Speaker 2: frustrated by his receivers in the Jets game, particularly the
Speaker 2: one at Gillette, but I love to catch that. Douglas
Speaker 2: made the one handed catch.
Speaker 3: Great.
Speaker 2: Great, Yeah, I mean those are those our fabulous places.
Speaker 2: But I think the roots, the routes they are running
Speaker 2: are pretty good. And look May's throwing the ball. He's
Speaker 2: got a pass percentage completion rating of what seventy percent.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's an extraordinary figure for anyone, particularly a
Speaker 2: quarterback that doesn't have the greatest offensive line in front
Speaker 2: of him.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, there you go. And that's part of it too, Dan,
Speaker 3: And I'm glad you bring that up. That an offensive line,
Speaker 3: and you can remember the days of Johnahannah and Leon
Speaker 3: Gray and Pete Brock and all the way up through
Speaker 3: Matt Lte and Nate Solder. An offensive line to make
Speaker 3: an average quarterback good and a good quarterback great. And
Speaker 3: I think that's one of the issues that they've had
Speaker 3: on the offense as a whole, and not just the
Speaker 3: passing game and the receivers. But they've had through nine games,
Speaker 3: they've had eight different combinations up starting combinations up front,
Speaker 3: and so you know as well as I do, that
Speaker 3: it takes a while you know, we talked about chemistry
Speaker 3: between the wide receivers and the quarterback. It takes a
Speaker 3: while to be able to build chemistry and continuity and
Speaker 3: consistency when you're doing so much shuffling along the offensive line.
Speaker 3: And so I think that they've kind of found a
Speaker 3: combination that works for them right now, but you can
Speaker 3: still I think they're going to continue to tinker with
Speaker 3: this group moving forward because part of it they're young.
Speaker 3: Part of it they're young. They're leaning on a couple
Speaker 3: of young guys. They've had some injury too. With David Andrews,
Speaker 3: who's been so consistent, so good for such a long time.
Speaker 3: That was really Yeah, that was that was really tough
Speaker 3: for them, especially when you're working with the young centers,
Speaker 3: working with a young quarterback and Drake may So they've
Speaker 3: had some breakdowns, they've had some ineffective play, they've had
Speaker 3: some some some injury issues, and honestly, part of it too,
Speaker 3: dam Like we said before, the wide receivers, a lot
Speaker 3: of his youth, and there's new faces, there's new offensive coordinator,
Speaker 3: new offensive line coach, and so everyone even nine ten
Speaker 3: games in now, everyone is still kind of trying to
Speaker 3: get to know one another a little bit because there's
Speaker 3: been so little consistency, so little continuity all across the
Speaker 3: border on the offensive side of the ball, and.
Speaker 2: At this point they're not going to make the playoffs.
Speaker 2: You know, make your mistakes, learn from your mistakes, and
Speaker 2: offensive line they have to almost intuitively know, Okay, if
Speaker 2: that guy splits in, who's picking him up, who's helping
Speaker 2: me out? You know with my I'm responsibility because I
Speaker 2: got to be looking at this guy who's blitzing from
Speaker 2: the left. Just a yeah. It's the sort of stuff
Speaker 2: that as they as I think Rick Patino once said,
Speaker 2: John Hannah and Leon Gray aren't walking through that door
Speaker 2: anytime soon.
Speaker 3: Very Well said, very well, really, yeah, I really appreciate.
Speaker 2: And I'll be following you a little bit more closely
Speaker 2: on the pages of the Boston Globe. You know, as
Speaker 2: I tell everybody from the Globe, the sports page of
Speaker 2: the Boston Globe, I never disagree with them on anything.
Speaker 2: The editorial page kind of a different story, Chris, But
Speaker 2: I love the sports page showing to see the whole
Speaker 2: group of you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm lucky to be a part of that group.
Speaker 3: I really am. It didn honor to be to be
Speaker 3: in their company. So yeah, it is. It should be
Speaker 3: a good rest of the year, and it should be
Speaker 3: an interesting rest of the year because right now they're
Speaker 3: they're in line to have the first overall pick in.
Speaker 2: So we'll say I'd rather finish last than about sixth
Speaker 2: from last in the middle of the Thanks, thanks so much, Chris.
Speaker 2: We'll have you again if you'd be so kind. Appreciate
Speaker 2: it very much.
Speaker 3: Have a great night. Take care all right.
Speaker 2: So we're going to go from football to a special
Speaker 2: Olympics bowling. Going to be talking with Mark ericson of
Speaker 2: the Special Olympics in New Hampshire, and a little bit
Speaker 2: later on tonight we're going to talk about getting past
Speaker 2: what happened this week with family and friends, you know
Speaker 2: what I'm talking about. We're also going to talk about
Speaker 2: the severe drought that now is affecting Massachusetts football in
Speaker 2: the evening news and you see all sorts of grass
Speaker 2: fires everywhere. Back on Nightside, my name is Dan Ray.
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Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Line from the Window World Nightside
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Speaker 2: All right, we're going to talk about a big event
Speaker 2: coming up this weekend, actually a series of events. Mark
Speaker 2: Erickson of the New Hampshire Special Olympics joins us. We've
Speaker 2: had Mark with us before, and this competition is all
Speaker 2: about bowling, ten pin bowling, bubbera bowling, all sorts of
Speaker 2: bowling activity. I think the only thing I don't see
Speaker 2: are duck pins. Mark, Welcome to NIGHTSI welcome back.
Speaker 4: Good evening, Dan, thanks for having us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let me tell you. I'll tell us about it.
Speaker 2: First of all, how many people you have? Is it
Speaker 2: five or six locations this this Saturday?
Speaker 4: Well, we're looking at seven locations on Saturday and one
Speaker 4: location on Sunday. It's the State Bowling Competition, and it's
Speaker 4: kind of the inverse of our regular state competitions for
Speaker 4: our state Summer Games. Everybody comes from all over the
Speaker 4: state and converges on the campus of u n H
Speaker 4: and Durham for our State Winter Games. Everybody comes from
Speaker 4: all over the state and converges in Waterville Valley. This
Speaker 4: time we go everywhere all over the state. We are
Speaker 4: out this Saturday in Berlin, Clairemont, Exeter, Keene, Laconia, and
Speaker 4: two venues in Manchester. And then on Sunday we are
Speaker 4: in Nashua for bowling competition.
Speaker 2: So is there a competition on Saturday or do you
Speaker 2: pick the best bowlers? How does this or does it?
Speaker 2: Does it all? Explain to us how it works? How
Speaker 2: is Saturday different from Sunday? Other than obviously six.
Speaker 4: Lanes to one lane, every competition is specific to its
Speaker 4: individual area. And to be completely honest about it, the
Speaker 4: scheduling this year was simply a league conflict in Nashua
Speaker 4: and we had to be bumped from Saturday to Sunday.
Speaker 4: Most years we do everything on the Saturday, but again
Speaker 4: it's all specific to each geographical area. This particular year
Speaker 4: Sunday we had to be bumped in national sports meeting.
Speaker 2: That's fair, okay. So overall, with all the locations on
Speaker 2: Saturday and Sunday, how many Special Olympians will be participating?
Speaker 4: We are looking at more than six hundred Special Olympics
Speaker 4: athletes competing this coming weekend. Last number I saw, I
Speaker 4: think there was about six hundred and twenty athletes total
Speaker 4: will be competing this weekend all over the state.
Speaker 2: The reason that I like bowling, it's a wonderful sport.
Speaker 2: You do not have to have any great physical size.
Speaker 2: You know, if you want to play basketball, it's always
Speaker 2: better if you're seven feet tall for the most part,
Speaker 2: or if you're going to be a football player, whatever.
Speaker 2: But I mean, everybody can participate in bowling and a
Speaker 2: lot of it is just a lot of fun. So
Speaker 2: I'm sure that this is an event and annual event
Speaker 2: that the Special Olympians up in New Hampshire must really enjoy.
Speaker 2: First of all, your indoors, you don't have to worry
Speaker 2: about the weather, there's refreshments nearby. I mean, it's a
Speaker 2: perfect it's a perfect way to spend a weekend day.
Speaker 4: Plos, you mentioned it at the very top of the interview.
Speaker 4: It is bowling. There is buffer bowling involved in some instances,
Speaker 4: and there is adaptive bowling involved in some instances as well,
Speaker 4: depending upon each individual athlete and their specific needs. I'll
Speaker 4: tell you a quick story during the pandemic when we
Speaker 4: were locked down all special Olympics programs all over the
Speaker 4: country New Hampshire, Massachusetts. Everybody was doing our very best
Speaker 4: to stay connected to our athlete community by reaching out
Speaker 4: to them online with various incentives, various games, and some
Speaker 4: surveys as well. One of the surveys we did during
Speaker 4: the pandemic was when it's time to come back, what
Speaker 4: is the first thing everyone wanted to do? And the
Speaker 4: answer was bowling And we all kind of sat around
Speaker 4: on a zoom call trying to figure it all out,
Speaker 4: and then we realized it's not so much in that
Speaker 4: particular instance, the competition, although that's important to all of
Speaker 4: our athletes, but it was the social component to being
Speaker 4: in the bowling alley, to talking to other athletes from
Speaker 4: other parts of the state and pizza and soft drinks
Speaker 4: and having a great social time.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you the last time I was in a
Speaker 2: bowling alley that I can remember in New Hampshire was
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty four. And the reason I remember it, I
Speaker 2: was covering John Glenn's very brief senator from Ohio presidential campaign.
Speaker 2: Now Here you have John Glenn, the guy that he
Speaker 2: was a fighter pilot, he circled the world, he was
Speaker 2: one of the original astronauts, and they put him in
Speaker 2: a bowling alley. We were doing a story for Channel four.
Speaker 2: Of course, he bowls the obligatory bowling ball down the
Speaker 2: lane and when you know it, about halfway down the lane,
Speaker 2: the ball is in the gutter. Was kind of it
Speaker 2: sort of was a metaphor for his presidential campaign. But
Speaker 2: I thought to myself, here's a guy who's was a
Speaker 2: great athlete, obviously had wonderful eye hand coordination being a
Speaker 2: fighter pilot, and then an astronaut circle the earth, I mean,
Speaker 2: just and you know he had the misfortune he's not
Speaker 2: a bowler, so I suspect that and I did it.
Speaker 2: I basically, of course, used the video of the ball
Speaker 2: going in the gutter. And his campaign wasn't going anywhere
Speaker 2: for president, great senator, but he That was the year
Speaker 2: that I think Walter Mondale and Gary Hart fought it
Speaker 2: out and Mondale was the nominee and he lost anyway.
Speaker 2: But the point is I got some criticism for some people.
Speaker 2: They said, how could you put a picture of the
Speaker 2: great astronaut John Glenn bowling a ball down a bowling
Speaker 2: alley in New Hampshire into the gutter? I said, look,
Speaker 2: you know, don't take things so seriously here. So I
Speaker 2: hope that everybody. I know your olympians are going to
Speaker 2: take it very seriously. But if any of them get discouraged,
Speaker 2: just let them know that John Glenn has thrown a
Speaker 2: gutter ball too. And if John Glenn could throw a
Speaker 2: gutter ball, I think every one of them. So that's
Speaker 2: the last time I was in a bowling alley in
Speaker 2: New Hampshire and that story has stuck with me all
Speaker 2: of these years.
Speaker 4: One if an American hero like John Glenn can throw
Speaker 4: a gunner ball, there's hope for all the rest of us.
Speaker 2: I would think so, I would think so. So if
Speaker 2: folks need any information, what can they do between now
Speaker 2: and Saturday. If they're not signed up, they're still openings.
Speaker 2: Can people go by and just participate in support? Give
Speaker 2: us the best way people can get more information.
Speaker 4: The athletes are set. They've actually been training for ten
Speaker 4: weeks and some of them even a little bit more
Speaker 4: than ten weeks stage of the game, so the athlete
Speaker 4: cards are all set. However, we will love it when
Speaker 4: spectators come out and cheer our athletes on. And if
Speaker 4: you want any information about our schedules and events. So
Speaker 4: O NH dot org is in Special Olympics New Hampshire
Speaker 4: s O NH dot org. Click on the calendar. You've
Speaker 4: got the schedule. It has the dates and times and
Speaker 4: the addresses for all of the bowling venues this weekend.
Speaker 4: It's our Special Olympics New Hampshire State Bowling tournament statewide again.
Speaker 4: We're in Berlin, Claremont, Exeter, Keen, Laconia. Two venues in Manchester,
Speaker 4: one candlepin, one tenpin, and on Sunday we are in
Speaker 4: Nashua as well, and we would love to have you
Speaker 4: cheering on our athletes.
Speaker 2: All right, and the website again is s Special Olympics
Speaker 2: NH dot org. So so O NH dot org. Great Mark,
Speaker 2: best of luck with it, okay, and I'm sure it's
Speaker 2: going to be a great day successful for again Special
Speaker 2: Olympics in New Hampshire. Appreciate you joining us as always.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Dan, have a great YouTube, Mark.
Speaker 2: Okay, we get back. We're going to talk about the election,
Speaker 2: big election two nights ago. Maybe some of you heard that,
Speaker 2: how it turned out. We're going to be talking with
Speaker 2: an expert about how you deal with this, maybe with
Speaker 2: your friends maybe with family members. I mean, you just
Speaker 2: don't want to lose friendships over this. And we're going
Speaker 2: to talk with doctor Laura Gabion, she's a physician and
Speaker 2: a researcher how to move forward post election with family
Speaker 2: and friends. We'll be right back on Night Side.
Speaker 1: You're on Night Side with Dan Ray on w b Z,
Speaker 1: Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Well, there was an election on Tuesday night. Maybe some
Speaker 2: of you followed it. A lot of you probably followed it,
Speaker 2: and I know that there's a lot of families who
Speaker 2: had people on both sides of the election with us.
Speaker 2: Now is an author who's also a physician and a researcher,
Speaker 2: Doctor Laura Gabion, Uh, doctor aka doctor G. Welcome, Welcome
Speaker 2: tonight's side. The question is how to move forward post
Speaker 2: election with family and friends. I don't know about your family,
Speaker 2: doctor G, but there's a lot of disagreement within my
Speaker 2: immediate in my extended family over this election. Will I
Speaker 2: will be happy to tell you that. Are you tonight?
Speaker 5: Well, thank you for having me, and I agree. I
Speaker 5: think there are a lot of emotions with dollars. So
Speaker 5: my suggestion is, first, don't talk about politics, and the second,
Speaker 5: I have other thoughts, but I can tell you, oh yeah, no, I.
Speaker 2: Want to hear your other thoughts here. First, First of all,
Speaker 2: there's always going to be someone who wants to talk
Speaker 2: about politics. So yeah, if people don't talk about politics,
Speaker 2: that I guess is one way to make sure. But
Speaker 2: I think it does come up, and it will come up,
Speaker 2: particularly if the families are getting together and maybe someone's
Speaker 2: had a beer or a glass of wine, as often
Speaker 2: happens if someone in the family wants to bring it up.
Speaker 2: Now we've been through three of these. When you think
Speaker 2: about it, twenty sixteen, the feelings were strong and high,
Speaker 2: twenty twenty and now twenty twenty four. So how do
Speaker 2: you diffuse the situations? I should says? What's that?
Speaker 5: I think the best is to focus on calmonalgies and
Speaker 5: to realize that you guys are more like than you
Speaker 5: are different and behind. And in my book I found
Speaker 5: eight elements of wisdom in my book Comridism, and four
Speaker 5: of them are elements that will help you connect with others,
Speaker 5: and kindness is one of them. So being humble, tolerant, turtious,
Speaker 5: and kind are really important. So when you talk with people,
Speaker 5: realize that you're not going to agree, and in my opinion,
Speaker 5: don't talk about it because bannard and has made emotions
Speaker 5: even higher than they need to be, and people are
Speaker 5: just they judge, they assume they politics has become like
Speaker 5: a sign of your intelligence. It just has become so
Speaker 5: many other things. So my thoughts are, if no one
Speaker 5: brings it up, look at them and say, look, I
Speaker 5: like you a lot more than I do. These issues
Speaker 5: you mean more to me, and my relationship with you
Speaker 5: is a lot more important, and I just remind them
Speaker 5: that No, I think it's right.
Speaker 2: I remember when twenty sixteen, after that election between Donald
Speaker 2: Trump and Hillary Clinton, I suggested to my listeners. I said, look,
Speaker 2: you're going to have to talk about politics. I said,
Speaker 2: when you go to family dinner at Thanksgiving, because obviously
Speaker 2: Thanksgiving is always a couple of weeks after the November
Speaker 2: early November elections, I said, you know, were your mega
Speaker 2: had or were your Hillary Clinton's son bonnet? A lot
Speaker 2: of women were wearing Hillary supporters, I should say, were
Speaker 2: wearing kind of that that that Martha's Vineyard type wide
Speaker 2: brimmed hats at the time. Uh, and it was I
Speaker 2: guess it was. It did work out and in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: I I told people, don't even talk about it, and
Speaker 2: so I don't know what I'm going to tell them
Speaker 2: to do. I guess I'll follow your lead. Tell us
Speaker 2: about the book. The book is titled give Me the
Speaker 2: Proper Title of.
Speaker 5: Common Common, And the reason is because it's tossed at
Speaker 5: the eight common elements that these wise individuals had in common.
Speaker 5: And there were sixty wise adults across North America and
Speaker 5: they they and let me tell you about the eight elements. Resilians, Yeah,
Speaker 5: go ahead, looking forward, Yeah, pogitivity, spirituality, humility, tolerance, creativity,
Speaker 5: and curiosity. And these are all elements that they had
Speaker 5: in common. And it was it was me being the
Speaker 5: scientist and the researcher wanting to break down wisdom. We
Speaker 5: really did not know what it was. And it was
Speaker 5: kind of more of, oh, I know it when I
Speaker 5: see it, And I really wanted to break it down
Speaker 5: to eight elements or so whatever elements I found, I
Speaker 5: was not repressing eight. And I found these eight and
Speaker 5: I and and it kind of makes it so that
Speaker 5: if someone reads the book, they look at it and think, well,
Speaker 5: I'm really good at this, and I'm not good at that.
Speaker 2: You the elements really real. I just want to touch
Speaker 2: upon them again because I think you got seven there,
Speaker 2: but I got the eighth, which I think is so important. Resilience, kindness, positivity, spirituality,
Speaker 2: however that is defined, whether it's formal religion or just spirituality, tolerance, humility, creativity.
Speaker 2: And the one that I think is the best sign
Speaker 2: of intelligence is curiosity.
Speaker 5: I c the foundation of album.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think Einstein at one point said something how
Speaker 2: that he wasn't all that intelligent, but he was extremely curious.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: And I know I'm not all that intelligent, but I
Speaker 2: know that I am pretty curious. And if you and
Speaker 2: I sat on a plane together it was any longer
Speaker 2: than an our flight, I would if you were willing,
Speaker 2: I'd have a conversation. And I learned a lot about
Speaker 2: you and find out that you were an author. And
Speaker 2: I love the phrase common wisdom. It's kind of similar
Speaker 2: to the phrase of common sense. And for a long
Speaker 2: time people that phrase. They depreciated the value of that phrase.
Speaker 2: And I think that that there's a lot of value
Speaker 2: in common sense, and I'm sure there's a lot of
Speaker 2: value in common wisdom. How was it that you began
Speaker 2: to research this area? Is that your area of expertise
Speaker 2: or is this an area? No?
Speaker 5: No, So I'm no. I'm a researcher and I am
Speaker 5: used to doing research. I had no idea what wisdom was.
Speaker 5: And then twenty thirteen I noticed that I developed a
Speaker 5: lot of weakness and you can tell for my speech,
Speaker 5: so my muscles are weaker than expected. And then I
Speaker 5: realized the medical establishment, which I was a part of,
Speaker 5: was so into labeling me and putting me in the box.
Speaker 5: So then I thought, well, who thought outside the box?
Speaker 5: And it was the wise And that's when I kind
Speaker 5: of went down that track of learning more about wisdom
Speaker 5: and I did the study about with and I talked
Speaker 5: to sixty wives individuals.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you, I think it's it's a great idea.
Speaker 2: And again the book Common Wisdom, I assume it's available,
Speaker 2: if not bookstores, every bookstore. Everybody gets their books through
Speaker 2: Amazon these days. I I hope that it has been
Speaker 2: circulated well and uh and then and it's been that
Speaker 2: has been sold a lot of How long this has
Speaker 2: been out is a question I always ask.
Speaker 5: I came out in March, March, Yeah, it's a new book.
Speaker 5: And then it is on Amazon. People can get it
Speaker 5: off of my website, Lauragobine dot com or the original
Speaker 5: website where I found I mean, my sixty would go
Speaker 5: to to kind of make sure that this is a
Speaker 5: legitimate program. Was the Wisdom Research Project dot com and okay,
Speaker 5: both linked to Amazon, and Amazon is a great place
Speaker 5: to get it.
Speaker 2: Okay, so let me I'm just gonna again. I want
Speaker 2: to spell your name for people. It's common Wisdom. Okay,
Speaker 2: that's eight scientific element elements of a meaningful life is
Speaker 2: the subtitle by doctor Laura l A U r A
Speaker 2: gabion g A b A y A. N uh So
Speaker 2: that's the easiest way through. Again, your website, I assume
Speaker 2: is your website, doctor Laura Gabyon dot com.
Speaker 5: No, no, it's Laura dot com. Okay, Amazon if you
Speaker 5: put in common Wisdom or Amazon come on too, perfect
Speaker 5: perfect perfect.
Speaker 2: That's great. Well, look, thanks very much. I enjoyed our conversation.
Speaker 2: And uh I perhaps we will have you back when
Speaker 2: you write your next book. Thanks very much, doctor ga.
Speaker 5: Okay, take care.
Speaker 2: All right, good night, Okay, we get back. We're going
Speaker 2: to talk about this severe drought that I think all
Speaker 2: of us have seen firsthand here in Massachusetts. If we
Speaker 2: have not experience that up close and personal. We have
Speaker 2: seen some of these brushfires that with a little with
Speaker 2: a lot of dryness and some wind, really have threatened.
Speaker 2: We see what goes on in California all the time,
Speaker 2: but we're getting a taste of it here in Massachusetts.
Speaker 2: And we will talk with a meteorologist right after the
Speaker 2: break here on Nightside. Stay with us.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: Well, you do not have to be a close observer
Speaker 2: of the news to realize that we have some fire
Speaker 2: issues here in Massachusetts. And of course there are fire
Speaker 2: issues out in California the likes of which we have
Speaker 2: never seen. But even here in Massachusetts, we're in the
Speaker 2: midst of a drought. The grass, the leaves, i should
Speaker 2: say particularly, are just tinder dry, and we've seen a
Speaker 2: bunch of these fires that have started, oftentimes from a
Speaker 2: spark from a lawnmower or just someone out with the
Speaker 2: lawnmower and the engine gets so hot and ignites. Leaves.
Speaker 2: With us to talk about our weather and the drought
Speaker 2: that we've now really fully experiencing is Hayden Frank. He's
Speaker 2: with the National Weather Service out in Norton. Also they're
Speaker 2: located in Boston as well. Hayden, Frank, Welcome to Night
Speaker 2: sid How are you?
Speaker 3: Oh good? How are you?
Speaker 2: I'm just great, Thank you for joining us tonight. So
Speaker 2: we have not had a lot of rain this summer
Speaker 2: or this spring, and certainly not this fall. How severe
Speaker 2: a drought is it that we're experiencing.
Speaker 6: Well over much of the state, Dan, it's a moderate
Speaker 6: to severe drought right now. For example, Boston itself sins
Speaker 6: September first has had two point twenty four inches of rainfall.
Speaker 6: The normal from September first to now should be eight
Speaker 6: point four to two inches, So that's six point one
Speaker 6: eight inches the below normal. That's a big, big departure.
Speaker 2: We had a bunch of rain in certain areas in August.
Speaker 2: I remember some very intense rainstorms in August. But then
Speaker 2: it's been really quiet, and of course, with the weather
Speaker 2: being a little warmer, the nights have been a little
Speaker 2: bit warmer. When is this gonna break for us? So
Speaker 2: when is this going to turn? I watched the nightly
Speaker 2: newscasts and the weather forecasts every night, and I think
Speaker 2: there was some suggestion there might be a little bit
Speaker 2: of rain coming in over the weekend. Late over the
Speaker 2: weekend Monday. What are you folks seeing at the National
Speaker 2: Weather Service?
Speaker 6: Yeah, so, what's happened, Dan, We've been in this area
Speaker 6: where high pressure has just blocked everything to our south.
Speaker 6: It does look like we're gonna see a light amount
Speaker 6: of rainfall like Sunday night into early Monday, but not
Speaker 6: a lot and unfortunately the first part of that week
Speaker 6: looks dry. Can tell you that there is some hope
Speaker 6: on the horizon, although it's a long way off. Uh,
Speaker 6: sometime late next week or next weekend. Some of the
Speaker 6: model guidance we're looking at does show that we may
Speaker 6: get so much needed rainfall, but it's too far out
Speaker 6: to say for sure. But that's the first time we've
Speaker 6: had anything really show up in our models for quite
Speaker 6: some time.
Speaker 2: Where is where is that coming from? I know that
Speaker 2: there's there's a storm brewing down in the Caribbean. Is
Speaker 2: is that coming from up from the south or is
Speaker 2: that coming in from Canada? What's what's the source of
Speaker 2: that or the potential source?
Speaker 6: Yeah, so the potential source is actual actually would be
Speaker 6: coming from the southwest and then kind of developing off
Speaker 6: the coast if it were to happen, and yeah, that
Speaker 6: would be a setup for much needed rainfall. It looks
Speaker 6: like if it does happen sometime in the you know,
Speaker 6: Thursday of next week into the weekend that following weekend.
Speaker 6: But again, you know this, it's still over a week out,
Speaker 6: so a lot of uncertainty. It's not a guarantee that
Speaker 6: it's going to happen. It just depends on the track there.
Speaker 2: Now, we had a lot of wet weather I believe,
Speaker 2: in January and then again in March, so we were
Speaker 2: doing pretty well in terms of precipitation. How odd is
Speaker 2: it that here in New England where we always associate
Speaker 2: the fall days with some heavy rainstorms. Me and even
Speaker 2: as kids going back to school, you knew that you
Speaker 2: were had to put on those galoshes back in the
Speaker 2: day and buckle up and go through some puddles. I
Speaker 2: don't know if you're a native of New England or
Speaker 2: but I am, and I remember those days often you
Speaker 2: could always count on rain in the fall. How often
Speaker 2: if we had a stretch like this at this time
Speaker 2: of year, meaning you know, literally late spring, throughout most
Speaker 2: of the summer and now into November.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's it's pretty unusual, but it's not unprecedented. You know,
Speaker 6: you get a setup like this maybe every five, ten,
Speaker 6: fifteen years where you do go even in the Northeast.
Speaker 6: I'm from Philadelphia, so it's kind of similar. There's not
Speaker 6: really a dry, dry season. It's you know, always seems
Speaker 6: to be you know, rain every several every few days.
Speaker 6: So it is unusual to get prolonged dryness that we've seen,
Speaker 6: but it's not unprecedented and it does happen from time
Speaker 6: to time.
Speaker 2: I think some of the weather forecasters tonight was saying
Speaker 2: that in the next day or so, the temperatures are
Speaker 2: going to get more fall like, meaning a little colder
Speaker 2: than what we've had. I mean, I think you know
Speaker 2: where I am has been in the seventies most of
Speaker 2: the week here in New England. Is your sense that
Speaker 2: that it's going to get a little colder this particular weekend.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's not going to be in the twenties.
Speaker 2: We know that. Will that help the drought at all?
Speaker 2: Will that generates some ground moisture, some dew, whether whether
Speaker 2: it's frost or not, but at least some dew in
Speaker 2: the pumpkin?
Speaker 6: What actually actually it kind of works the opposite way,
Speaker 6: because we are getting a shot of chilly air later
Speaker 6: tomorrow and especially tomorrow night. We're still looking highs in
Speaker 6: the sixties tomorrow, which our normal high for this time
Speaker 6: of year is actually fifty five degrees. I mean, we
Speaker 6: were seventy two today. In the day before we were
Speaker 6: eighty two, which was the latest eight time Boston had
Speaker 6: recorded to eighty degrees so late in the season.
Speaker 2: But it does a little cold snap here you're telling me,
Speaker 2: is not only not going to help us, but it's
Speaker 2: probably going to dry things out even more.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean yeah, So like tomorrow afternoon and into
Speaker 6: tomorrow evening, the probably going to see some wing us
Speaker 6: of twenty five to thirty five miles per hour, maybe
Speaker 6: a few gous up to forty. So we do have
Speaker 6: red flag warnings out again for tomorrow because of the
Speaker 6: wind and the dryness. We're actually going to be lowering
Speaker 6: our due points with that cooler air mast coming in,
Speaker 6: so that's going to add to lower relative humidities.
Speaker 2: So the best we can hope for, it sounds to
Speaker 2: me like, is maybe about a week from today we
Speaker 2: might get a real rainstorm for the which would be
Speaker 2: the first one since what late August?
Speaker 6: I guess it's been Yeah, it's been a while. You know,
Speaker 6: the Cape had a good rainstorm at the end of
Speaker 6: summer there, but yeah, it's been extremely dry and we
Speaker 6: do need the rain. We are going to get a
Speaker 6: little Sunday night, but not much. So it looks like
Speaker 6: we're going to have to wait till late next week
Speaker 6: or next weekend, and we'll have to see how that unfolds. Again,
Speaker 6: it's more than a week out, but for the first
Speaker 6: time in a while, there are signs pointing to a
Speaker 6: potential period of much needed rainfall, hopefully a soaking rainfall.
Speaker 2: Well that's great. Look, I really appreciate Hayden jumping on
Speaker 2: with us tonight. You're down with the National Weather Service
Speaker 2: and how long have how long have you been working
Speaker 2: up in this neck of the woods. I know you
Speaker 2: said you grew up in Philly.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so I've been well working for the Weather Service
Speaker 6: here for about twenty years. Hard to believe time flies, Yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Mean you can. That's almost being a native.
Speaker 6: I guess, yeah, exactly, I feel like it right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, I'll tell you the one thing about weather forecasting.
Speaker 2: I'm not a meteorologist. But I have a lot of
Speaker 2: friends who are and they say that it's challenging here
Speaker 2: in New England. There are place but places around the
Speaker 2: country like San Diego where every day it like it's like,
Speaker 2: you know, rinse and repeat, you know, be a seventy
Speaker 2: five degrees in sunny, you know, three hundred yeah here, yeah, no,
Speaker 2: you get what was real quick question? And this is
Speaker 2: just this is a total off the wall question. So
Speaker 2: if you haven't thought about this one, what are they
Speaker 2: talking about for snow this winter? We've had a pretty
Speaker 2: mild last winters the last couple of years. Any long
Speaker 2: range thoughts about how much snow we might have might
Speaker 2: not get this winter here in New England.
Speaker 6: So long range forecasts are obviously quite difficult once you
Speaker 6: get beyond a week out in the future. You know,
Speaker 6: right now the forecast favors temperatures to average a bit
Speaker 6: above normal, But in terms of snowfall, that's much harder
Speaker 6: to assess, because you know, for example, Boston itself averages
Speaker 6: forty five to fifty inches a year, not nothing close
Speaker 6: to that the last two years. But if you get
Speaker 6: you know, two or three big storms that could you know,
Speaker 6: take you eighty percent of the way there. So even
Speaker 6: if the winner ends up being you know, above normal,
Speaker 6: you can actually still have above normal snowfall. So that's
Speaker 6: really difficult to Well, well we'll.
Speaker 2: Talk, we'll talk. I didn't mean to spring that one
Speaker 2: on you, but we'll talk about that maybe some other time. Okay, Hey,
Speaker 2: thank you so much. I'll let you I'll let you
Speaker 2: go and get back to the to the weather dial.
Speaker 2: Thanks man, appreciate it. Hey, Frank, and you're very very
Speaker 2: hit welcome and thank you for joining us for the
Speaker 2: National Weather Service. We get back, we're going to talk
Speaker 2: about the Karen Reid trial and some arguments in front
Speaker 2: of the State Supreme Court yesterday which could be pretty significant.
Speaker 2: Back right after the nine o'clock news here on Night Side,