WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.400 --> 00:00:01.199 It's a nice side. 2 00:00:01.280 --> 00:00:06.400 We've done Ray undelling you Mazy Boston's News Radio. Thanks 3 00:00:06.480 --> 00:00:09.320 very much, Madison. We are ready for a very busy 4 00:00:10.240 --> 00:00:13.599 Tuesday night here on Nightside. We have so much to cover. 5 00:00:14.199 --> 00:00:15.759 I don't know how we're gonna get it all in, 6 00:00:15.839 --> 00:00:18.519 but we will try. We will try. We have four 7 00:00:18.679 --> 00:00:22.399 very interesting guests coming up during the first hour. No 8 00:00:22.559 --> 00:00:24.120 phone calls, as I'm sure all I have you know 9 00:00:24.160 --> 00:00:27.480 by now. During the first hour at nine o'clock tonight, 10 00:00:27.519 --> 00:00:30.920 we will talk with a Boston Globe correspondent who is 11 00:00:31.039 --> 00:00:37.759 also a junior at Harvard College, Harvard University, Harvard Well 12 00:00:37.759 --> 00:00:42.079 Harvard College, the undergraduate, and she is going to talk 13 00:00:42.119 --> 00:00:45.240 with us about the return of college Republicans on that 14 00:00:45.359 --> 00:00:49.079 embattled campus right now. We'll also at some point tonight 15 00:00:49.159 --> 00:00:52.079 talk about President Trump's first one hundred days. Give you 16 00:00:52.079 --> 00:00:53.679 an opportunity to give him a grade, and some of 17 00:00:53.719 --> 00:00:56.799 the efforts that he's been engaged in, some successful, others 18 00:00:56.799 --> 00:00:59.880 perhaps not so successful. And we hope to get to 19 00:01:00.079 --> 00:01:03.159 the question of the arrest of a couple of judges, 20 00:01:03.200 --> 00:01:06.879 one in Wisconsin and one forman judge in New Mexico 21 00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:10.359 by federal authority. So we have lots to cover tonight, 22 00:01:10.439 --> 00:01:14.439 and we will start off with some information that hopefully 23 00:01:14.920 --> 00:01:18.319 all of you will listen to very carefully, because this 24 00:01:18.439 --> 00:01:21.879 is a Survive Stroke Week and we hope to educate 25 00:01:21.879 --> 00:01:24.480 Americans about the symptoms of stroke. By the way, I 26 00:01:24.560 --> 00:01:26.359 will remind you that Rob Brooks is back in the 27 00:01:26.359 --> 00:01:28.680 control room. Almost forgot about you, Rob, You're the most 28 00:01:29.280 --> 00:01:31.719 valuable player in the program, so thanks very much for 29 00:01:31.799 --> 00:01:33.359 being back there. As a matter of fact, Rob just 30 00:01:33.359 --> 00:01:36.120 told me a moment ago that we have our first guest, 31 00:01:37.120 --> 00:01:43.280 doctor vill Lisa. I knowah, doctor, I knowah. Welcome to NIGHT'SID. 32 00:01:43.319 --> 00:01:46.239 How are you good? How are you? Thank you for 33 00:01:46.280 --> 00:01:46.760 having me? 34 00:01:46.879 --> 00:01:50.200 You're right welcome. Stroke is something that is important. It's 35 00:01:50.239 --> 00:01:54.480 particularly important, I guess this year a Survived Stroke Week 36 00:01:54.519 --> 00:01:57.040 is focusing on the Hispanic community here in the US, 37 00:01:57.079 --> 00:01:59.879 where stroke ranks as the fourth leading cause for death 38 00:02:00.359 --> 00:02:06.040 for Hispanic men and the third leading cause for Hispanic women. Clearly, 39 00:02:06.439 --> 00:02:09.319 strokes can hit any one of us. Why is it 40 00:02:09.960 --> 00:02:15.719 that within the Hispanic community stroke seems to be especially dangerous? 41 00:02:15.840 --> 00:02:19.199 Not I mean cancer's dangerous heart attacks. We're all all 42 00:02:19.240 --> 00:02:22.120 of this is things that we're all concerned about. But 43 00:02:22.240 --> 00:02:25.199 this is one that there's a focus this uh this 44 00:02:25.240 --> 00:02:28.599 week on getting the world out to the Hispanic community. 45 00:02:28.639 --> 00:02:30.439 What what's going on? 46 00:02:32.719 --> 00:02:35.560 That's a very very good question. I first of all, 47 00:02:35.560 --> 00:02:37.879 I really want to say thank you for having me 48 00:02:38.240 --> 00:02:43.080 this evening. I am Dominigan, so I am Hispanic, and 49 00:02:43.400 --> 00:02:47.120 I can I can speak from heart. I mean, obviously 50 00:02:47.960 --> 00:02:51.240 there are a lot of respactors that will be more 51 00:02:51.280 --> 00:02:54.560 prevalent in the Hispanic population. And we're talking about high 52 00:02:54.560 --> 00:02:59.400 blood pressure and diabetes, obesity on healthy lifestyle, so that 53 00:02:59.479 --> 00:03:02.680 would be one factor. But I think there's something very 54 00:03:02.680 --> 00:03:07.360 important to understand, which is that the knowledge about stroke 55 00:03:07.439 --> 00:03:12.080 symptoms actually is going to be less When we interview 56 00:03:12.639 --> 00:03:18.159 Hispanic patients, they do not know how stroke would present, 57 00:03:18.840 --> 00:03:21.520 and also they do not know that stroke is a 58 00:03:21.599 --> 00:03:24.639 treatable condition, so they will not call nine one one. 59 00:03:24.800 --> 00:03:28.039 Hence they won't get to the hospitals where they're going 60 00:03:28.080 --> 00:03:31.280 to be able to get the right treatment for this condition. 61 00:03:32.080 --> 00:03:38.039 Now, look within every community, obviously there are people who 62 00:03:38.240 --> 00:03:42.039 allow their health is not their top priority. What can 63 00:03:42.080 --> 00:03:45.560 be done to make sure that the Hispanic community, not 64 00:03:45.599 --> 00:03:48.080 only here in Boston, but anywhere within the sound of 65 00:03:48.080 --> 00:03:51.280 our voice, were heard on over the air terrestrial radio 66 00:03:51.360 --> 00:03:55.199 in half of the United States. What do individuals need 67 00:03:55.280 --> 00:03:58.240 to do? Are the websites they can go to? Obviously 68 00:03:58.280 --> 00:04:01.680 they need to talk with their doctors about this as well. 69 00:04:01.879 --> 00:04:06.120 What can we do to bring this to everyone's attention 70 00:04:06.719 --> 00:04:09.919 everyone who's listening tonight, but the Hispanic or not, but 71 00:04:10.120 --> 00:04:15.080 everyone possibly? What needs to be done? 72 00:04:15.639 --> 00:04:20.839 I think what you are doing right now is absolutely important. 73 00:04:21.120 --> 00:04:24.680 Right so making sure that the message gets to keep 74 00:04:24.720 --> 00:04:28.600 all people in the community and that we create stroke 75 00:04:28.600 --> 00:04:32.800 awareness campaigns. There are multiple websites we are working with 76 00:04:32.879 --> 00:04:36.279 the get Ahead of Stroke dot org website, which has 77 00:04:36.360 --> 00:04:41.160 a lot of information not only for the English speaking community, 78 00:04:41.199 --> 00:04:46.360 but also data that has been translated into Spanish and 79 00:04:46.600 --> 00:04:51.240 creating mnemonics that are not only understood by the English 80 00:04:51.279 --> 00:04:55.800 population but also by the Hispanic population, like rapid though, 81 00:04:56.160 --> 00:04:58.560 and we can go over the mneumonic in a minute 82 00:04:58.600 --> 00:05:01.120 if you would like me too, and I can explain. 83 00:05:00.759 --> 00:05:03.639 It in Spanish. Go right ahead on all ears. 84 00:05:04.560 --> 00:05:06.519 Absolutely absolutely, thank you. 85 00:05:06.639 --> 00:05:14.120 So Rappio stands for our rosto last persona. No can 86 00:05:14.160 --> 00:05:17.040 I speak? Can I speak Spanish? Can I explain in Spanish? 87 00:05:17.360 --> 00:05:19.839 Sure? That's that's the audience that we need to reach. 88 00:05:19.879 --> 00:05:27.360 Absolutely, go right ahead, perfect, perfect rostro candola cara is 89 00:05:27.399 --> 00:05:35.279 the devil Alo la jent no pether comin bieng perlasa 90 00:05:35.519 --> 00:05:40.560 peo pierna. 91 00:05:40.680 --> 00:05:49.079 The impedimental, isel bosa the difficult that para avla la 92 00:05:49.160 --> 00:05:56.439 hin avl biengtro poso oh tenga I do the rap. 93 00:06:00.040 --> 00:06:02.920 So that's in summary in Spanish, and thank you for 94 00:06:03.000 --> 00:06:03.800 the opportunity. 95 00:06:04.199 --> 00:06:08.959 Sure. There's also a website called Let's Talk about Hispanic 96 00:06:09.040 --> 00:06:13.480 and Latino Americans and Stroke that is provided by the 97 00:06:13.480 --> 00:06:19.120 American Heart Association. People should realize that things like high 98 00:06:19.120 --> 00:06:27.000 blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, high cholesterol, smoking, stress, social determinants 99 00:06:27.040 --> 00:06:33.000 of health. All of these factors can increase the likelihood 100 00:06:33.199 --> 00:06:36.839 and increase your fist. If you want to reduce the 101 00:06:36.959 --> 00:06:39.959 likelihood of stroke or whatever your background is, you want 102 00:06:39.959 --> 00:06:42.759 to eat more fruits and vegetables, reduce salt in your diet, 103 00:06:43.160 --> 00:06:48.000 increase physical activity, quit smoking, or never start. The smallest thing. 104 00:06:48.000 --> 00:06:49.800 One of the smartest things I've did in my life 105 00:06:49.879 --> 00:06:52.560 was I've never smoked. My dad was a two packa 106 00:06:52.680 --> 00:06:56.519 day cigarette smoker. I hated the smell of cigarette smoke, 107 00:06:56.639 --> 00:06:59.879 and I have never smoked a cigarette in my life. 108 00:07:00.839 --> 00:07:05.240 Managing stress I'm not so good at. So there's things 109 00:07:04.199 --> 00:07:07.959 that all of us need to need to improve on, 110 00:07:08.240 --> 00:07:12.040 there's no doubt. But I hope that the American Heart 111 00:07:12.079 --> 00:07:16.720 Association will make all of this information available not only 112 00:07:16.720 --> 00:07:20.959 in English, but also in Spanish, so that you know 113 00:07:21.360 --> 00:07:27.759 Hispanic and Latino friends, I just as prepared to avoid 114 00:07:27.800 --> 00:07:31.279 stroke and not prepared to deal with it once their occurs. 115 00:07:32.480 --> 00:07:41.000 Absolutely absolutely prevention for stroke. Prevention is extremely important. Like 116 00:07:41.079 --> 00:07:43.600 you just mentioned, once. 117 00:07:43.399 --> 00:07:45.879 You have a stroke, and I hope that never happens 118 00:07:45.920 --> 00:07:48.920 to you, but it is fairly common, as you said, 119 00:07:50.040 --> 00:07:52.879 in the United States, it is right now the fifth 120 00:07:52.959 --> 00:07:56.399 cause of death, and one person will have a stroke 121 00:07:56.959 --> 00:08:01.000 every forty seconds. So it is likely that someone you 122 00:08:01.160 --> 00:08:04.800 know will have a stroke at some point in their lives, unfortunately, 123 00:08:05.240 --> 00:08:08.160 and that is the reality that we need to understand. 124 00:08:08.680 --> 00:08:12.560 We really need to understand and recognize the stroke symptoms, 125 00:08:13.199 --> 00:08:17.879 and again very important, we need to know that stroke 126 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:22.439 is a treatable condition and that the treatment is time dependent. 127 00:08:22.879 --> 00:08:25.600 So the sooner we get to the hospital, the sooner 128 00:08:25.639 --> 00:08:28.879 we call nine one one, the more likely we're going 129 00:08:28.920 --> 00:08:33.639 to be able to get the stroke treatment, hence hopefully 130 00:08:33.720 --> 00:08:36.840 we'll be able to reduce disability and death from stroke. 131 00:08:37.519 --> 00:08:40.000 Well, I very much appreciate you being with us. I 132 00:08:40.080 --> 00:08:42.360 was just doing the math in my head. We've talked 133 00:08:42.360 --> 00:08:45.279 about nine minutes, so that would mean that in the 134 00:08:45.360 --> 00:08:48.720 time that we've talked about a dozen people in the 135 00:08:48.879 --> 00:08:51.519 United States have suffered a stroke at some level. So 136 00:08:51.559 --> 00:08:55.960 that puts it in perspective as well. Doctor. I really 137 00:08:56.039 --> 00:08:59.519 appreciate your time tonight, and I appreciate what you're trying 138 00:08:59.559 --> 00:09:06.759 to do. Doc to Uh THEO Lisa, I know, I Knowah. 139 00:09:05.000 --> 00:09:06.840 Thank you so much for having me much. 140 00:09:06.960 --> 00:09:09.240 We will talk again. Thank you, my friend. Thank you. 141 00:09:10.399 --> 00:09:14.600 Wow when you focus on the things that can impact 142 00:09:14.639 --> 00:09:18.320 your family so dramatically, Uh, this has to be right 143 00:09:18.399 --> 00:09:23.240 up there. So take what you heard, doctor, I knowah say, 144 00:09:23.480 --> 00:09:27.720 whether you listened in Spanish, Hispanic in Spanish, or in English, 145 00:09:28.080 --> 00:09:30.600 take it to heart. We get back to talk about 146 00:09:32.039 --> 00:09:36.080 We're going to talk with a rabbi, Rabbi Rick Jacobs. 147 00:09:36.080 --> 00:09:39.480 He's the president of the Union for Reform Judaism. He 148 00:09:39.559 --> 00:09:42.759 had the pleasure of meeting Pope Francis and we'll talk 149 00:09:42.799 --> 00:09:45.600 about that meeting when we get back here. On Nightside. 150 00:09:45.879 --> 00:09:49.000 My name's Dan Worry. This is Nightside coming back after 151 00:09:49.039 --> 00:09:49.840 this quick break. 152 00:09:51.320 --> 00:09:56.000 It's Nightside with Dan Ray on Boston's news radio. 153 00:09:57.360 --> 00:09:59.600 All right, welcome back. We're going to change our lineup 154 00:09:59.639 --> 00:10:01.720 a little. We had a little bit of trouble reaching 155 00:10:01.759 --> 00:10:07.120 our eight p fifteen guest, which happens, happens, but moving 156 00:10:07.159 --> 00:10:09.960 him up from the fourth spot to the number two spot. 157 00:10:10.679 --> 00:10:14.960 He's been here before. Boston Globe meteorologist Ken Mahan. Ken, 158 00:10:15.039 --> 00:10:18.200 I'm particularly happy to hear from you tonight, and we're 159 00:10:18.200 --> 00:10:20.799 going to talk about the month of May. We're on 160 00:10:20.879 --> 00:10:25.200 the doorstep of the month of May, and after the 161 00:10:25.279 --> 00:10:29.120 winter we've had. I am looking forward to May because 162 00:10:29.279 --> 00:10:33.120 but May apparently it's more summer like now than it 163 00:10:33.240 --> 00:10:35.600 used to be spring like. I'll take a little bit 164 00:10:35.600 --> 00:10:40.000 of summer. What's going on? What's what are we expecting here? Ken? 165 00:10:40.039 --> 00:10:40.759 How are you tonight? 166 00:10:41.679 --> 00:10:41.919 Well? 167 00:10:42.000 --> 00:10:44.240 Dan, thanks again for having me on the show. It's 168 00:10:44.240 --> 00:10:47.200 been a minute. Always been a fan, and hey, you 169 00:10:47.200 --> 00:10:49.120 made me feel like a Red Sox player getting bumped 170 00:10:49.200 --> 00:10:49.960 up in the batting order. 171 00:10:50.080 --> 00:10:52.679 That's why, you know, we use that metaphor all the time. 172 00:10:52.759 --> 00:10:56.919 You know. We looked down the bench and I said, hen, 173 00:10:57.000 --> 00:10:58.960 get up here, grab a bat, let's go. 174 00:11:00.080 --> 00:11:00.240 Yeah. 175 00:11:00.240 --> 00:11:02.480 I feel like Dustin putjoya. You know this is great, 176 00:11:02.720 --> 00:11:09.080 it's too better. So it's interesting. We're coming off one 177 00:11:09.080 --> 00:11:12.399 of the coldest winters that we've seen in a while 178 00:11:12.480 --> 00:11:15.759 around you know, Boston and really all six New England states, 179 00:11:15.799 --> 00:11:19.120 and it's been interesting. You know, we've seen March become 180 00:11:19.399 --> 00:11:22.360 warmer than average, almost four degrees warmer than average, and 181 00:11:22.639 --> 00:11:25.000 the Greater Boston a couple of degrees across New England 182 00:11:25.039 --> 00:11:26.960 as a whole. And April is going to wrap up 183 00:11:27.000 --> 00:11:29.200 what tomorrow and it's going to end up with two 184 00:11:29.279 --> 00:11:32.320 to three degrees warmer than average typically compared to the 185 00:11:32.399 --> 00:11:35.080 thirty year norm. So what does that mean? 186 00:11:36.080 --> 00:11:39.840 Just January and February we're very cold? Correct? 187 00:11:40.279 --> 00:11:40.879 Yes, were? 188 00:11:41.279 --> 00:11:44.200 So how much did it all balance out? I mean, 189 00:11:44.320 --> 00:11:48.519 I read on Sundays. I always look at the the 190 00:11:49.039 --> 00:11:54.360 yearly temperature and it's always warmer it was in January. 191 00:11:54.440 --> 00:11:56.919 It was looking to me like it was warmer in January. 192 00:11:56.960 --> 00:12:01.440 And I'm saying, what planet living on? How much cold 193 00:12:01.440 --> 00:12:03.879 it was January? How much cold was February compared to 194 00:12:04.360 --> 00:12:06.799 margin April. Let's let's just deal with that for one second, 195 00:12:06.879 --> 00:12:08.639 rough numbers, give a rough idea. 196 00:12:08.759 --> 00:12:12.759 Yeah, starting yeah, I mean starting right there, you're talking 197 00:12:13.519 --> 00:12:18.080 between one to three degrees colder than average across all 198 00:12:18.120 --> 00:12:20.879 of New England as you blend in all six stakes, 199 00:12:20.919 --> 00:12:24.759 all their average temperatures from all weather reporting stations, right, 200 00:12:25.320 --> 00:12:28.360 And that was the first time in four years where 201 00:12:28.440 --> 00:12:32.279 New England as a whole was actually below the pharmatological norm. 202 00:12:32.639 --> 00:12:34.919 So it just felt that much more colder than we 203 00:12:34.960 --> 00:12:35.440 were used to. 204 00:12:35.679 --> 00:12:37.799 Well, that's January. Well that was Jane. 205 00:12:37.879 --> 00:12:41.039 That was January, and what happened in February. 206 00:12:41.919 --> 00:12:44.879 February was the repeat of the same. Not as dramatic 207 00:12:45.039 --> 00:12:49.720 as January, but it's still the pretty much half degree 208 00:12:49.759 --> 00:12:52.399 to a degree and a half colder than the typical 209 00:12:52.600 --> 00:12:56.000 month of February that we see Boston and beyond. Basically 210 00:12:56.200 --> 00:12:57.919 throw a dart at them at a map in New 211 00:12:57.960 --> 00:13:00.000 England and it was older than average in February. 212 00:13:00.200 --> 00:13:03.679 Okay, So then a long time March in April, and what. 213 00:13:03.720 --> 00:13:09.039 Happened we saw, you know, everyone has heard about El Nino, 214 00:13:09.240 --> 00:13:12.799 La Nina and the endo sort of climate pattern. We 215 00:13:12.919 --> 00:13:17.399 saw basically a dramatic shift to neutral conditions and that 216 00:13:17.480 --> 00:13:20.879 basically took us from a could of an average trend 217 00:13:21.120 --> 00:13:24.080 and put us a right smack dab to like more normalcy. 218 00:13:24.480 --> 00:13:29.039 Problem is normalcy over the past ten twenty thirty years 219 00:13:29.440 --> 00:13:33.039 is basically an increase in temperature. So we've actually seen 220 00:13:33.120 --> 00:13:36.360 a warm up in March, a warm up in April, 221 00:13:36.720 --> 00:13:40.080 and all signs points to the original question. May you know, 222 00:13:40.159 --> 00:13:42.639 the conversation is does may become a summer month? And 223 00:13:42.679 --> 00:13:45.960 it certainly seems that way if you take the sort 224 00:13:46.000 --> 00:13:48.919 of macro views of all of New England over the 225 00:13:48.960 --> 00:13:50.440 past thirty years. 226 00:13:51.039 --> 00:13:55.000 Okay, so it may becomes a summer month. I assume 227 00:13:55.320 --> 00:13:58.720 June was always we think of summer as I think. 228 00:13:58.840 --> 00:14:02.639 I think it's been schools out June, July and August, 229 00:14:03.080 --> 00:14:06.360 and I like this September is the start of fall. 230 00:14:06.480 --> 00:14:09.679 It's like the most beautiful month in New England, best 231 00:14:09.720 --> 00:14:15.039 weather except for the occasional hurricane. And then you know, 232 00:14:15.840 --> 00:14:18.679 it gets a little cooler in October and then reality 233 00:14:18.720 --> 00:14:24.120 strikes with November. So as of right now, even although 234 00:14:24.159 --> 00:14:26.639 we had a cold January and a cold a colder 235 00:14:26.799 --> 00:14:30.039 January and a colder February, that's more than been offset 236 00:14:30.080 --> 00:14:32.639 by a warmer March and a warmer April. So we're 237 00:14:32.679 --> 00:14:37.159 a little bit above where we should be in terms 238 00:14:37.159 --> 00:14:39.759 of temperature, is what I'm hearing. You said that right now. 239 00:14:40.000 --> 00:14:43.240 Yes, that's correct. Yeah, and that really is the case 240 00:14:43.279 --> 00:14:47.039 for all major cities across New England, you know, Boston certainly, 241 00:14:47.559 --> 00:14:52.559 And it looks like, you know, going into May, the outlook. 242 00:14:52.559 --> 00:14:54.519 I was just looking at the you know, eight to 243 00:14:54.559 --> 00:14:57.200 fourteen day outlook and then the monthly outlook, and it 244 00:14:57.200 --> 00:15:00.000 doesn't look like at a minimum will be at average. 245 00:15:00.159 --> 00:15:02.200 But the chances are it's just the way that things 246 00:15:02.200 --> 00:15:05.080 have been trending, will end up, you know, a degree 247 00:15:05.159 --> 00:15:06.960 or two above average once again. 248 00:15:07.360 --> 00:15:09.960 Okay, so the good news. Let's let's put a good 249 00:15:10.000 --> 00:15:13.559 news spin on this, ken. We could put the shovels away, 250 00:15:14.080 --> 00:15:19.200 and we could take the snowsteaks off the driveway, yes, yes. 251 00:15:19.080 --> 00:15:21.840 And we can reduce those heavy winter coats and put 252 00:15:21.879 --> 00:15:25.720 those away. We and in our household, we just put 253 00:15:26.440 --> 00:15:29.639 the winter gear down into the basement. So as a 254 00:15:29.639 --> 00:15:31.360 as a meteorologist, I'm home right. 255 00:15:31.360 --> 00:15:35.080 You know, and I'm sure you are. I think we're pasted. 256 00:15:36.039 --> 00:15:38.720 I do remember snowstorm. I think it was back in 257 00:15:38.799 --> 00:15:42.879 seventy seven, the first week of making a significant snowstorm 258 00:15:42.919 --> 00:15:45.840 that I covered way back as a as a as 259 00:15:45.879 --> 00:15:47.200 a rookie reporter. 260 00:15:47.720 --> 00:15:50.879 Uh yeah, you know you know that on the head. 261 00:15:50.919 --> 00:15:53.360 I had someone just email me about that this morning, 262 00:15:54.240 --> 00:15:56.120 and yeah, that was exactly right. 263 00:15:56.279 --> 00:15:59.559 Yeah remember that stuff. 264 00:16:00.519 --> 00:16:04.399 Oh my gosh, for sure, for sure. Thank yeah, I will, 265 00:16:04.440 --> 00:16:04.759 thank you. 266 00:16:04.799 --> 00:16:07.240 Good. I didn't mean to be sorry. 267 00:16:07.039 --> 00:16:08.559 Good, totally fine, I was. 268 00:16:09.000 --> 00:16:11.759 It's just really interesting we've seen for the month of May, 269 00:16:11.840 --> 00:16:14.720 just the number of seventy degree days, in the number 270 00:16:14.720 --> 00:16:18.879 of eighty degree days just increase basically all across southern 271 00:16:18.879 --> 00:16:22.840 New England. So you know, if you're Boston, Worcester, Springfield, Providence, Hartford, 272 00:16:23.159 --> 00:16:25.360 down the south and the North Shores down into the 273 00:16:25.399 --> 00:16:28.679 Cape even seeing a bump in seventy and eighty degree days, 274 00:16:28.679 --> 00:16:31.600 which is nice for those folks that love the warmth. Right, 275 00:16:31.679 --> 00:16:35.320 summer starts early, but you're right though, Dan, summer sort 276 00:16:35.320 --> 00:16:37.679 of bloating. You know, we have an earlier start and 277 00:16:37.720 --> 00:16:40.240 then like a later finished September is hot as well. 278 00:16:40.440 --> 00:16:43.080 Let's do this. Let's plan maybe in the last week 279 00:16:43.120 --> 00:16:44.879 of May or the first week of June. Let's bring 280 00:16:44.960 --> 00:16:47.639 you back and let's just see how how may turns 281 00:16:47.639 --> 00:16:49.399 are because I think it'd be fun to follow it. 282 00:16:49.480 --> 00:16:52.879 You've laid it out so beautifully for my audience to understand. Yeah, 283 00:16:53.120 --> 00:16:56.200 cooler in January, colder or cooler, whatever you want to 284 00:16:56.200 --> 00:16:59.039 call it. January February, warmed up in March and April 285 00:16:59.159 --> 00:17:00.919 just a little bit. Let's see what happens to me. 286 00:17:01.039 --> 00:17:02.720 I love w backup on a month from now, if 287 00:17:02.720 --> 00:17:03.360 that's possible. 288 00:17:03.360 --> 00:17:06.799 Okay, always happy to jump on, Dan. I appreciate it 289 00:17:07.200 --> 00:17:08.519 and looking forward to connecting again. 290 00:17:08.799 --> 00:17:11.079 All right, you're a great picture tonight. Thanks Ken. I 291 00:17:11.079 --> 00:17:11.680 appreciate it. 292 00:17:11.880 --> 00:17:14.240 Yeah, you for three with the home run. I love it. 293 00:17:14.359 --> 00:17:18.079 You've got it. Boston Globe Meteorologist Ken Mahon. Thanks Ken, 294 00:17:18.119 --> 00:17:22.000 we'll talk again. Thanks very much. Good night. Here comes 295 00:17:22.039 --> 00:17:23.799 the news at the bottom of the arm. 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This is no confusion here. 317 00:18:34.160 --> 00:18:39.720 We're delighted to welcome University of Virginia Professor Dale Copeland. 318 00:18:40.119 --> 00:18:44.039 Professor Copeland, welcome UVA. I think all of us know 319 00:18:44.240 --> 00:18:47.240 is a great school not too far down the East 320 00:18:47.279 --> 00:18:49.759 coast from us, located here in Boston. How are you tonight. 321 00:18:51.519 --> 00:18:53.440 I'm great, great to be here with you. 322 00:18:53.440 --> 00:18:56.359 You're an author and a professor of international relations with 323 00:18:56.440 --> 00:19:00.240 the Department of Politics. Right in my Wheelhouse. Here you 324 00:19:00.240 --> 00:19:03.079 have a new book, A World's Safe for Commerce, American 325 00:19:03.119 --> 00:19:05.680 foreign policy from the Revolution to the Rise of China. 326 00:19:06.880 --> 00:19:11.400 It's published by Princeton Studies and International History and Politics. 327 00:19:12.319 --> 00:19:14.759 Tell us about the book, Is this your first? I 328 00:19:14.759 --> 00:19:15.519 suspect it's not. 329 00:19:16.640 --> 00:19:16.799 No. 330 00:19:17.880 --> 00:19:21.440 No. Robert's my third book, and it's part of this 331 00:19:21.640 --> 00:19:24.920 larger project to look at how the rise and fall 332 00:19:25.000 --> 00:19:28.039 of great powers in world history tends to affect their 333 00:19:28.079 --> 00:19:31.279 foreign policies. But this time I focus solely on the 334 00:19:31.319 --> 00:19:35.000 commercial side, or at least the commercial determinants of that. 335 00:19:35.119 --> 00:19:40.440 So if a state like China, take a contemporary example, 336 00:19:40.440 --> 00:19:43.279 its state like China believes that it's not going to 337 00:19:43.319 --> 00:19:45.759 be able to get access to its markets or its 338 00:19:45.880 --> 00:19:50.440 raw materials, that negative expectation about the future can lead 339 00:19:50.480 --> 00:19:53.160 it to believe that it has to go to war 340 00:19:53.319 --> 00:19:57.119 or maybe just a militarized conflict over say Southeast Asia, 341 00:19:57.599 --> 00:20:00.680 to keep its trade routes open. And so this is 342 00:20:00.759 --> 00:20:04.160 really a struggle right now. It's a struggle between US 343 00:20:04.200 --> 00:20:08.279 and China over control of the world economy, and it's 344 00:20:08.279 --> 00:20:13.279 a struggle over smaller powers or smaller states like Malaysia, Indonesia. 345 00:20:13.400 --> 00:20:16.319 But it could also be over larger states like Japan 346 00:20:16.759 --> 00:20:20.079 or even India. So there's a lot going on right now, 347 00:20:20.119 --> 00:20:22.759 and the book addresses those kinds of questions. 348 00:20:22.839 --> 00:20:26.599 I follow this pretty closely. I believe that yesterday China 349 00:20:26.640 --> 00:20:30.079 staked out they actually unfrilled the flag on an island 350 00:20:30.240 --> 00:20:33.720 that is close to the Philippines that they want to 351 00:20:33.720 --> 00:20:38.119 claim ownership of, but it is actually an island that 352 00:20:38.200 --> 00:20:40.519 is owned by the Philippines. Are you hip to that 353 00:20:40.640 --> 00:20:41.759 story yesterday? 354 00:20:41.839 --> 00:20:44.759 I actually I was doing a presentation on the book 355 00:20:44.839 --> 00:20:47.240 yesterday and I drove all day, so I haven't been 356 00:20:47.240 --> 00:20:50.440 following the news. But it doesn't sound it sounds very familiar. 357 00:20:50.759 --> 00:20:54.839 China's been doing this for twenty five thirty years before 358 00:20:54.880 --> 00:20:58.799 even see Jingping, and it's largely a policy based around 359 00:20:58.799 --> 00:21:01.880 this idea of a nine day line that suggests that 360 00:21:01.960 --> 00:21:05.920 China controls most of the South China Sea, that area 361 00:21:06.000 --> 00:21:12.279 between say Philippines and Vietnam and Indonesia, and it's a 362 00:21:12.319 --> 00:21:16.240 way of projecting naval power into that area. A lot 363 00:21:16.279 --> 00:21:19.799 of people see it as tied to potential resources that 364 00:21:19.880 --> 00:21:23.839 are under the sea, such as oil, natural gas. I 365 00:21:23.920 --> 00:21:28.240 actually think that it's more about projecting naval and air 366 00:21:28.359 --> 00:21:32.240 power against this very narrow strait called the Malaca Strait 367 00:21:32.279 --> 00:21:36.799 between Indonesia and Malaysia. And it's essentially a way to 368 00:21:37.839 --> 00:21:41.319 tell the US and India don't mess with us, don't 369 00:21:41.319 --> 00:21:43.680 try to cut us off from oil like you did 370 00:21:43.720 --> 00:21:46.759 to Japan in nineteen forty one. So in that sense, 371 00:21:46.799 --> 00:21:48.880 it's tied to economics. 372 00:21:48.680 --> 00:21:51.079 And it's all the national power, you know, it's also 373 00:21:51.200 --> 00:21:55.319 this sense of this sense of manifest destiny and that 374 00:21:55.519 --> 00:21:59.160 you know, we have the Monroe doctrine that and we 375 00:21:59.279 --> 00:22:02.359 have backed off a lot of that. I think we 376 00:22:02.400 --> 00:22:05.319 are ruining the day that we saw we sold the 377 00:22:05.359 --> 00:22:09.640 Panama Canal for a dollar. Yeah, right, I think that 378 00:22:09.759 --> 00:22:14.559 was a huge mistake. China has its footprint not only 379 00:22:15.200 --> 00:22:18.599 all over Southeast Asia, right, and of course it's looking 380 00:22:18.640 --> 00:22:24.519 at Taiwan. They also have tremendous footprints in Central America, 381 00:22:24.799 --> 00:22:26.680 South America and in Africa. 382 00:22:26.960 --> 00:22:31.039 I mean no question about it. And in fact, the 383 00:22:31.119 --> 00:22:35.000 movement into the Caribbean is the latest of this. And 384 00:22:35.039 --> 00:22:39.720 they've basically bought the harbor of the small island of 385 00:22:39.759 --> 00:22:42.920 Antigua about one hundred thousand people, but it's an island nation, 386 00:22:43.759 --> 00:22:46.680 and they are setting up one of the largest ports, 387 00:22:46.680 --> 00:22:50.759 but also surveillance centers that they have anywhere in the world. 388 00:22:50.880 --> 00:22:53.960 And it's part of the Belt Road Belton Road initiative 389 00:22:54.000 --> 00:22:57.880 you mentioned, but it's also part of this larger strategic interest, 390 00:22:58.279 --> 00:23:02.799 very much like Alfred theyer Mahan's idea of projecting naval 391 00:23:02.880 --> 00:23:06.960 power around the world to protect their trade routes, their markets, 392 00:23:07.000 --> 00:23:10.160 their raw material supplies and so forth. And we did it, 393 00:23:10.240 --> 00:23:13.319 of course after Alfred they er Mahan clewed us in 394 00:23:13.400 --> 00:23:15.640 on it, and the Japanese did it, and the Germans 395 00:23:15.640 --> 00:23:18.200 did it. But now the Chinese are doing it. And 396 00:23:18.519 --> 00:23:21.240 while it may be very common for great powers to 397 00:23:21.319 --> 00:23:24.400 do this, it's very scary for the ones that find 398 00:23:24.440 --> 00:23:29.480 their neighborhoods suddenly not taken over, but suddenly they're no 399 00:23:29.599 --> 00:23:32.200 longer the big guy on the campus, so to speak. 400 00:23:32.279 --> 00:23:34.160 By the way, when you mentioned Antigua, I have been 401 00:23:34.200 --> 00:23:39.920