Speaker 1: It's Nightside with Dan Ray on WVS Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: All Right, good evening, everyone, and welcome on into a
Speaker 2: Tuesday night edition of Nightside. Nicole, Thank you very much.
Speaker 2: As always, I've had a very busy day today. I'll
Speaker 2: tell you about that a little bit later on during
Speaker 2: this broadcast. We have some very interesting issues and topics
Speaker 2: coming up Tonight. At nine o'clock, we'll talk with Massachusetts
Speaker 2: Senator Peter Durrant. He's suggesting that he very well might
Speaker 2: be a candidate for governor. Peter Durrant always has interesting
Speaker 2: things to say. We'll talk to him at nine o'clock.
Speaker 2: Later on tonight, we'll get your take on the phone
Speaker 2: call today between President's Trump and President Prutin. Rob Brooks,
Speaker 2: our producer, is back in the control room. He is
Speaker 2: all set, and we are set for baseball. The baseball
Speaker 2: season open today of all places, Jump in with us.
Speaker 2: I'm delighted to be joined by I've always Brad go
Speaker 2: to the Boston Globe Sports page. One of my favorite
Speaker 2: writers and columnsts for the Globe, Peter Abraham. Peter, welcome
Speaker 2: Tonight's that how are you and thanks.
Speaker 3: It's a pleasure to be with you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, this Red Sox team made some moves late,
Speaker 2: you know, after New Year's which are pretty interesting. And
Speaker 2: I assume that you have been down there and on
Speaker 2: the phone with your sources, and I know the Red
Speaker 2: Sox have to go play a couple of exhibition games.
Speaker 2: Corus said was quoted on the Globe today saying double
Speaker 2: A competition in modey Mexico. Who they playing down there?
Speaker 2: Some se my pro team or yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, the MLB is put together some international games in
Speaker 3: the last few years, and they convinced the Socks to
Speaker 3: go to Mexico to play the team in mont Terray.
Speaker 3: And the Mexican League is is pretty much double A
Speaker 3: slash triple A depending on what team you play. Ye,
Speaker 3: and the Socks wanted to do something, you know, get
Speaker 3: a couple of games in before they played in Texas,
Speaker 3: and this was an opportunity to go to Mexico. It's
Speaker 3: it's a pretty quick flight to Dallas from there and
Speaker 3: then they'll start the season, so kind of a little
Speaker 3: change up rather than staying in Florida for nextra day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I get it, but it sounded like some
Speaker 2: of the regulars wouldn't even make the trip. I think.
Speaker 2: I think the Globe story said that the shortstop wouldn't
Speaker 2: even make it make the trip. I'm sure there are
Speaker 2: other considerations in terms of guys who are feeling aches
Speaker 2: and pains after a month of spring training. Let's talk
Speaker 2: about the roster. There's an interesting piece in the Globe today.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure if it was yours or or if
Speaker 2: you contributed to it. Speculating a little bit on the roster.
Speaker 2: It sounds to me like none of the three wonder
Speaker 2: kids are likely going to make the major league roster,
Speaker 2: at least for opening day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think there's a chance Christian Campbell could still
Speaker 3: make it as a second baseman. They're not quite decided
Speaker 3: yet who they're going to have at second. But in
Speaker 3: terms of the outfield and shortstop, you know, Marcelo Mayor
Speaker 3: or the young shortstop who's eventually going to be the
Speaker 3: regular guy. You know, whichever story there, You wouldn't make
Speaker 3: any sense to have him be on the major league
Speaker 3: team and come off the bench. They want him in
Speaker 3: Triple A and Rob and Anthony and Dalfielder, who I
Speaker 3: think has got a really bright future. If all three
Speaker 3: of the outfielders are healthy, the guys they had back
Speaker 3: from last year who all had pretty good seasons. You know,
Speaker 3: they don't want Anthony to come off the bench either,
Speaker 3: but both of those guys could sort of force their
Speaker 3: way into the issue during the season that there's always
Speaker 3: injuries that happen or things that happen, and eventually I
Speaker 3: think you're going to see those guys in the big leagues,
Speaker 3: but not to start the season.
Speaker 2: So second base looks like Hamilton, I guess, right, at
Speaker 2: least that's I think.
Speaker 3: So, Yeah, he's played pretty well. They like what he
Speaker 3: could do in terms of stealing bases, you know, adding
Speaker 3: something to the lineup other guys don't have. But that's
Speaker 3: still I think that's going to be something they're going
Speaker 3: to wait, you know, until the end of spring training
Speaker 3: to decide.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about pitching, very very important. They have retooled
Speaker 2: that staff. I love the pickup of the guy from
Speaker 2: the Dodgers and of course the lefty from the White Sox.
Speaker 2: I don't know how they pulled that deal off, but
Speaker 2: that was a a deal. Was that money big factor
Speaker 2: in that deal? The fact this guy was going to
Speaker 2: be a free agent and probably not going to stay
Speaker 2: with the White Sox.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, it was an interesting trade because Garrett Crochet
Speaker 3: has two years left before he becomes a free agent,
Speaker 3: so the Red Sox would certainly like to sign him
Speaker 3: to an extension, but they're not up against a real
Speaker 3: deadline in terms of that, and it's just a matter
Speaker 3: of the White Sox knowing that they're not going to
Speaker 3: be in contention anytime, trading their best player to get
Speaker 3: four good young players back. And it was a deal
Speaker 3: that the Red Sox had to be convinced made a
Speaker 3: lot of sense because they gave up a catcher who
Speaker 3: they thought was going to be their catcher of the
Speaker 3: future and an outfield to who they had a lot
Speaker 3: of high hopes for they had only in fact, he
Speaker 3: never played a major league game after he get drafted,
Speaker 3: he get traded, and so the Red Sox are taking
Speaker 3: a chance. The White Sox took a big chance. But
Speaker 3: Crochet is going to be the opening day starter. He
Speaker 3: said he wants to stay in Boston. It wouldn't surprise
Speaker 3: me if before spring training was over they were announcing extension.
Speaker 3: And he's the guy they've been missing for the last year,
Speaker 3: the real number one guy at the top of the staff.
Speaker 2: So you got it.
Speaker 1: One.
Speaker 2: BeO is hurt. Cut a Crow, It's hurt obviously, Tan
Speaker 2: and Hawk is fine. And the new guy for the Dodgers, Bueller,
Speaker 2: who I think is a really good pitcher, is number three.
Speaker 2: And now it looks like the guy they picked up
Speaker 2: from the Pirates, as well as the young guy from
Speaker 2: Middlebrough who pitched really well for the Braves for a
Speaker 2: couple of seasons, a left hander. We may have an
Speaker 2: interesting battle for the fourth and fifth spots in the rotation.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they've got two spots open and pretty much four
Speaker 3: guys buying for those four spots. And that's good because
Speaker 3: at this time last year they were really hurting for
Speaker 3: starting pitching candidates. And then they have more than you know,
Speaker 3: you never have more than you can use. But it's
Speaker 3: good that they have some decisions to make. And Richard
Speaker 3: fitz who was a guy they acquired from the Yankees
Speaker 3: and the alex Erdugo trade. He pitched very well in
Speaker 3: September last year in four games, and he's it's even
Speaker 3: better in spring training. Sean Newcomb, who's from Middleborough in
Speaker 3: the University of Hartford. He's bounced around a lot in
Speaker 3: the last few years, but he's been very good in camp.
Speaker 3: And they've got Quinn Priester who they are acquired from
Speaker 3: the Pirates, and he's been pretty good as well, although
Speaker 3: his last outing wasn't so hot. So they're gonna see
Speaker 3: at least one more game from all all three of
Speaker 3: those guys and then and they'll have a big decision
Speaker 3: to make in terms of who's on the team to
Speaker 3: start the year.
Speaker 2: If I were Craig Breslow or my guy would be fits.
Speaker 2: I thought he was tremendous last September. He was oh
Speaker 2: ended up on and one, as you know, didn't get
Speaker 2: a win, but could have easily have been four. And
Speaker 2: oh uh and you I think have reported that he's
Speaker 2: he's humped up the fastball this spring. Whatever he did
Speaker 2: over the winter. Yeah, he's picked up some speed. I
Speaker 2: guess I thought it's funny.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's been very good. He's been very good this year.
Speaker 3: And he can thank his wife for that, oddly enough,
Speaker 3: because she had an internship in Boston and that started
Speaker 3: in January, so they both went to January to Boston
Speaker 3: in January, found a place to stay, she went to work,
Speaker 3: and he went to Fenway Park and started working with
Speaker 3: the strength coaches. And the pitching coaches and everybody else
Speaker 3: who was there and was doing is throwing at Boston
Speaker 3: College's facility, which is indoors, and when he showed up
Speaker 3: at spring training he was thrown. Instead of ninety three
Speaker 3: ninety four, he was ninety six ninety seven, and that's
Speaker 3: made a big difference, and they feel like he's ready
Speaker 3: to step up.
Speaker 2: So of course we always asked the question. In the
Speaker 2: in the American League East, he has some good teams,
Speaker 2: but every team has their loss. The Yankees have tremendous
Speaker 2: injury problems right now lost Garrett Cole. I assume that
Speaker 2: the Red Sox are not going to be a five
Speaker 2: hundred team this year. How many games can the Red
Speaker 2: Sox win? Can they get over ninety with this?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 3: I think if they Yeah, I think they could. A
Speaker 3: lot of it depends on health. Of course, you know,
Speaker 3: the Trevor story hasn't been able to stay on the field.
Speaker 3: They need to, you know, to have those three guys
Speaker 3: we talked about Crochet and Bueller and Tanner, how all
Speaker 3: you know, give them good seasons because the pitching has
Speaker 3: really been the issue over the last couple of years.
Speaker 3: And I think, you know, you look at last year,
Speaker 3: they were fourth in the American League and runs scored.
Speaker 3: The issue really was pitching. So it's fair to think
Speaker 3: they're going to be another team with a you know,
Speaker 3: have a good offense again this year, and it'll come
Speaker 3: down to, you know, that them being able to back
Speaker 3: that up with the pitching, and like we were just
Speaker 3: talking about, they have a lot more depth now than
Speaker 3: they used to. But they are going to benefit from
Speaker 3: the Yankees having a lot of injuries from Toronto kind
Speaker 3: of being you know, in a bit of an uproar.
Speaker 3: Not being able to sign the big free agents that
Speaker 3: they wanted, Baltimore didn't necessarily add to their pitching staff
Speaker 3: to the degree everyone thought, so the Red Sox could
Speaker 3: be in a pretty good position going into the season.
Speaker 2: Of the of the other teams in the American League East,
Speaker 2: who do you worry about most other than.
Speaker 5: The Red Sox, I think Baltimore because they have so
Speaker 5: much good young talent and guys who could really step
Speaker 5: up and be All Stars and they could sort of,
Speaker 5: you know, out hit their problems with the offense that
Speaker 5: they have.
Speaker 3: And that's a team that's on the rise one way
Speaker 3: or another. It's just a question of what year it hits.
Speaker 3: They were in the playoffs last year. They're looking for
Speaker 3: more this year, and they've got the good guys to
Speaker 3: back it up.
Speaker 2: That's great, Peter, Thank you so much. Everything everyone needs
Speaker 2: to know about spring training has just been encapsulated by
Speaker 2: you for us in about eight and a half nine minutes.
Speaker 2: I just want to say, thanks so much, and we
Speaker 2: got to hope this year. Look, I feel they were
Speaker 2: eighty one and eighty one with a bad team last year.
Speaker 2: They've improved this team. I see them between ninety and
Speaker 2: ninety five wins. I know, people, I don't know what
Speaker 2: Vegas has them at, but that's what I'm where. I
Speaker 2: pick them between ninety and ninety five.
Speaker 3: Well, they get from eighty one to ninety that that's
Speaker 3: a pretty big step if they could do that, for.
Speaker 2: Sure, huge yet huge yet, Peter, thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Say hi to Shaunessey and the gang and Kevin. Paul
Speaker 2: DuPont got to add you he's the regular roster here
Speaker 2: for us on nightside. I really enjoyed the conversation. Thank
Speaker 2: you much, Peter.
Speaker 3: You bet anytime. Dan, Thank you.
Speaker 2: Peter. Abraham, Boston Globe Sports reporter. They get the best
Speaker 2: sports staff I think in America or maybe the world.
Speaker 2: When we come back, I'm going to tell you what
Speaker 2: I did today and with whom what I did, And
Speaker 2: we're going to introduce you to Kim Kerrigan, not that
Speaker 2: she needs any introduction coming back here on Nightside. My
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Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray, live from the Window World
Speaker 1: Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: Well, I spent a good part of my day with
Speaker 2: a friend of many years of former colleague, Kim Kerragan.
Speaker 2: Kim Kerrigan, welcome to Night's Side, just as you welcomed
Speaker 2: me to Karragan and Company. You're a fabulous podcast today.
Speaker 2: How are you?
Speaker 6: I am terrific, Thank you and thank you so much
Speaker 6: for having me on night Side. And what a treat
Speaker 6: it's been to spend so much time with you today.
Speaker 2: Well, a little cross proportion the treat's been for me,
Speaker 2: that's for sure. So tell us about you. You've worked
Speaker 2: at a number of television stations, You've done radio, you
Speaker 2: have anchored newscast, reported, done everything in the business. We
Speaker 2: talked a lot about me today. I'd love to know
Speaker 2: tell us about Kerrigan and Company. This is a podcast
Speaker 2: which really is Boston centric. I was your guest today,
Speaker 2: but other than me, you've had some real guests. Jolly Baker,
Speaker 2: Lenny Clark was your first guest. What a way to
Speaker 2: come out of the box with that, Marty Wals It's
Speaker 2: a real pope, Carie at the political people, entertainers and
Speaker 2: interesting people.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, Well, you know, Dan, this was a This was
Speaker 6: a brainchild of a good friend of mine and you
Speaker 6: met him today. He's our producer, David Thompson. And David
Speaker 6: and I had wanted to work together for a long time.
Speaker 6: David is a public relations for a moment or Shore,
Speaker 6: and we waited until I had the opportunity and it
Speaker 6: just the timing was right for him as well, And
Speaker 6: we had talked about a podcast for a long time
Speaker 6: because you know, podcasts are fun. It gives you an
Speaker 6: opportunity to step out of the box. And there's not
Speaker 6: really a formattle though ours does have a format, but
Speaker 6: you know, you have that opportunity to just sort of
Speaker 6: do your own thing, and I was sort of, you know,
Speaker 6: longing for that after being in a box for so long.
Speaker 6: So we came up with Kragan and Company. We started
Speaker 6: about a year ago. We wanted it to be Boston centric,
Speaker 6: and each week I have a different co host. You
Speaker 6: were my co hosts today, and the co host really
Speaker 6: sets sort of the tone for each one of the
Speaker 6: podcasts and that as a result, makes each week different, interesting, fun.
Speaker 6: Some are are more maybe uh sports centric, Others like
Speaker 6: us today we talked about headlines, which was great. You know,
Speaker 6: some of them might be a little more entertainment driven.
Speaker 6: So each week is a little bit different and certainly
Speaker 6: a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: So the interview which which amazed me today is the
Speaker 2: interview that we did that we did today from about
Speaker 2: noon to one thirty in beautiful studio right at North
Speaker 2: Station part of the Boston Garden Complex. Really professional, really professional.
Speaker 2: It was, it was fun, it was upbeat. The time
Speaker 2: just flew and I've watched a little bit. You've already
Speaker 2: posted You've posted our episode from today and how can
Speaker 2: people find that episode? And also and company?
Speaker 6: Absolutely, well, you can stream you know, we've I think
Speaker 6: you were episode sixty, so you can stream any of
Speaker 6: the sixty sixty yeah, sixty, oh sixty yeah. So, uh
Speaker 6: you just you know, we dropped one a week every Tuesday,
Speaker 6: and you go to Karragan and Company. You can google
Speaker 6: it and it'll pop up on YouTube because we also
Speaker 6: do it obviously with cameras. You were there today to
Speaker 6: see that. But it's also available anywhere anybody gets their podcast.
Speaker 6: So you guys, you know, are obviously part of the
Speaker 6: iHeart family. You can get it on iHeart Spotify, you know,
Speaker 6: you can listen to it anywhere that you get your podcasts,
Speaker 6: and uh, you know, we've just we've we've really had
Speaker 6: some really good luck with it. We've been really fortunate,
Speaker 6: and primarily, you know, Dan, that's been because people like
Speaker 6: you have said, yes, I'd like to come on, which
Speaker 6: makes it interesting and different. Like I said, each week.
Speaker 2: Well, it's surely makes it different. We had a lot
Speaker 2: of fun today and as a matter of fact, a
Speaker 2: friend of mine who is not the most experienced person
Speaker 2: with any technic technical uh you know stuff, okay, sort
Speaker 2: of from the flip phone generation and has a small tablet.
Speaker 2: She called me today and said, hey, I already saw it.
Speaker 2: It was on. It was posted sometime I guess around
Speaker 2: four or five o'clock, and I didn't realize. I knew
Speaker 2: you said it was going to be up that quickly.
Speaker 2: But I know what it's like to put something together.
Speaker 2: And boy, David Thompson must be doing a great job
Speaker 2: for you. You got it done.
Speaker 4: You got it up.
Speaker 2: So my listeners all over the country right now, and
Speaker 2: I'll mention it again tonight a couple of nights. They can.
Speaker 2: They can just go to Carrigan and Company C A
Speaker 2: R R I G A N. Karragan not Karragan, Karragan
Speaker 2: right company H And I feel there should be a
Speaker 2: song there of some sort. But that's okay, see a
Speaker 2: double r ig. You got it, Okay, that's what I
Speaker 2: was thinking about. But people can watch it and they
Speaker 2: can comment on it and give it a like whatever.
Speaker 2: And for those of you who listen to me in
Speaker 2: the radio and have no idea what I look like,
Speaker 2: I am a fairly normal person, a fairly normal hookey person.
Speaker 2: You can actually watch. And Kim is a former television
Speaker 2: anchor person here in Boston, a beautiful woman who is
Speaker 2: equally as smart as she is beautiful, and she's pulling
Speaker 2: off something. It is not easy to have a podcast
Speaker 2: and to make it work, but you're making it working
Speaker 2: on advertisers. A lot of people that have podcasts, but
Speaker 2: if they don't monetize it, and clearly you are making
Speaker 2: this a success not only in terms of the entertainment
Speaker 2: value but also for sponsors. So that's what well, it's
Speaker 2: just like radio TV. It's as simple.
Speaker 6: As you know what it's to do. It's the new
Speaker 6: generation of all of the broadcasting that you and I
Speaker 6: have been involved in for all of these years. This
Speaker 6: is the new generation. And that was part of what
Speaker 6: Dave and I you know, talked about so much. You
Speaker 6: either got to get on board or you're going to
Speaker 6: miss it, this digital thing. So we thought, all right,
Speaker 6: let's do it. But I will tell you Dan a
Speaker 6: very quick story. When we said we were going to
Speaker 6: do this. Between Dave and I, we have many twenty
Speaker 6: somethings in our lives. We have kids, of course, and
Speaker 6: so we turned to the twenty somethings and we said, okay, guys,
Speaker 6: we're going to do a podcast, and they're all very
Speaker 6: friendly and they all sort of looking at each other
Speaker 6: like what. So we thank our twenty somethings all the
Speaker 6: time because they held our hand and sort of guided
Speaker 6: us onto the roadway. And we very much appreciated that.
Speaker 6: And I don't know if we would have done it
Speaker 6: or done it as well as we've been able to
Speaker 6: without them. But again, they were the they were the
Speaker 6: ones behind. But you know, the whole thing saying you
Speaker 6: can do it, you can do it, and this is
Speaker 6: the new thing, so you know, let's get on board.
Speaker 6: We can all, we can all do this together. So
Speaker 6: it's it's worked out well and we're very proud of it.
Speaker 2: Well you're in the fast lane now and never stop. Okay,
Speaker 2: So kim again. People just had to google Carrigan with
Speaker 2: A CE C A, R R, I, G A and
Speaker 2: company and they can all these these previous podcasts with
Speaker 2: Governor Baker, Mayor Walsh, let Clark, lots of people, whole
Speaker 2: list of them. Uh, I love.
Speaker 6: The Patriots and yeah, you know Celtics with Gross back
Speaker 6: as a guest. I mean there's you know, if lots
Speaker 6: of folks here in Boston, they're all they're all a
Speaker 6: part of it.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna spend some time looking and checking out some
Speaker 2: of the Karrigan and Company podcast. Kim, thanks for great
Speaker 2: enjoyable day to day and thanks. We will hopefully see
Speaker 2: each other soon and we'll talk soon. Thank you so much, and.
Speaker 4: Of course absolutely you can our people.
Speaker 2: We have all that podcast stuff up there, which I
Speaker 2: don't understand as well as you do. But it is
Speaker 2: the future and we all got to get on board
Speaker 2: before the train leaves the station.
Speaker 4: Or at least.
Speaker 6: Thanks Dan, thank you, thanks so much.
Speaker 2: Say hi to David for me. I appreciate it very much.
Speaker 2: I'm doing all right, ladies and gentlemen. Again, Just go
Speaker 2: to Carrigan and Company. You can find it. You can
Speaker 2: listen to it, watch it. That's the thing. It's very
Speaker 2: it's very cool, and you can move it along. You
Speaker 2: can skip this, go back to that. I think she
Speaker 2: does a great job and I'm so happy that I
Speaker 2: did that. She called me a few months ago and
Speaker 2: I said, yeah, we'll set it up, and we set
Speaker 2: it up and we worked it and we did it
Speaker 2: today and it's up there for the world to see.
Speaker 2: When we get back. Right after the news, We're going
Speaker 2: to change topics here on a night's side. We have
Speaker 2: two more guests, so please stay with us. We're going
Speaker 2: to talk about naps. Well, the napping is good for
Speaker 2: the brain, and also AI can steal your voice and
Speaker 2: that's the truth. We're going to explain it all and
Speaker 2: then later on we'll get to your phone calls on
Speaker 2: some very interesting topics as well. That's what we do
Speaker 2: here on Nightside. It's a Tuesday night, it's eight thirty
Speaker 2: two of them a minute or so late. I apologize
Speaker 2: back on Nightside after this.
Speaker 1: You're on Nightside with Dan Ray on WBZY, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: All right, welcome back everyone, Thanks Nicole. Let us now
Speaker 2: talk about something that all of us do every day
Speaker 2: or night, and that is sleep with us as doctor
Speaker 2: Patrick Porter, Doctor Porter, welcome to Nightside. How are you.
Speaker 4: I'm doing well, Thanks for having me you very welcome.
Speaker 2: Welcome here. You're an expert in brain health and the
Speaker 2: founder of brain Tap. Is brain tap your website or
Speaker 2: what exactly is brain tap?
Speaker 4: Yeah, they can go to website brain tap dot com
Speaker 4: and theyn get some free tips on how to sleep better,
Speaker 4: perform better. We use brainwaven trainment to teach the brain
Speaker 4: we call it brain fitness, not just oleep, but to
Speaker 4: perform better during the day.
Speaker 2: Okay, great, Okay, let's talk about the subject at hand.
Speaker 2: I guess we're talking about sleep dead. All of us
Speaker 2: have had sleep dead at some point in our lives.
Speaker 2: But I have always been a good napper. I can
Speaker 2: nap in a helicopter, I can nap in a plane,
Speaker 2: I can nap just about anywhere. Is napping good or
Speaker 2: bad for the brain? Is there a definitive answer for that,
Speaker 2: or does it depend upon the individual?
Speaker 4: I think it depends on the individual. But we've done
Speaker 4: We did a study with Googlers and Microsoft top performers,
Speaker 4: and when they took their twenty minute break, they actually
Speaker 4: performed better. They got twenty six percent more work done
Speaker 4: during the day. So think about it. You take a
Speaker 4: twenty minute break, you think you're doing nothing, but you're
Speaker 4: really resetting your nervous system. You're getting out of that
Speaker 4: fight or flight, and you're really building neurotransmitters that help
Speaker 4: you to think and respond to your work environment better.
Speaker 2: I do what I call a power snooze, where I
Speaker 2: just kind of just chill, relax and kind of allow
Speaker 2: myself to relax and I might be it'd be fifteen minutes,
Speaker 2: twenty minutes max. Maybe on a good day, rapad day.
Speaker 2: However you look at it, thirty minutes. Is the concept
Speaker 2: of a power snooze what we're talking about when we
Speaker 2: talk about naps or are you talking about somebody you know,
Speaker 2: actually lying down. I can power snooze sitting up, you know,
Speaker 2: slouching or whatever. But are you talking about you got
Speaker 2: to stretch out to take a nap effectively? What I
Speaker 2: hope up descri ya power snooze effectively?
Speaker 4: Go ahead, Yeah, I think that's great. I mean, when
Speaker 4: you think of Madison, there's stories of him. He used
Speaker 4: to sit with an iron ball in his hand and
Speaker 4: when that ball, when he dropped that ball, he knew
Speaker 4: his nap was over and it would usually take between
Speaker 4: fifteen and twenty minutes. And it's just if you can
Speaker 4: just downregulate your nervousness. Universe, every cell is like a
Speaker 4: piezo engine, which means it's squeezing energy out of that cell.
Speaker 4: So the cell is either in protective mode or growth mode,
Speaker 4: and we need to get it into growth mode and
Speaker 4: that's what the nap does. So you learn how to
Speaker 4: sleep efficiently. The problem is most people can't do that
Speaker 4: if they don't get into the sleep cycle. And give
Speaker 4: you an example, we did a sleep study in Australia
Speaker 4: with coal miners. Their average night in bed was ten
Speaker 4: hours before we get to study, but they only got
Speaker 4: one minute of deep sleep, so they weren't really sleeping.
Speaker 4: So it's not really time and bed. It's how quickly
Speaker 4: can you go into that deep state. And if you
Speaker 4: can cycle that quickly in fifteen to thirty minutes, you're
Speaker 4: doing it perfectly. That's what everyone should learn to do that.
Speaker 4: We call it wake and sleep control. But you can't
Speaker 4: just you know, we teach people look at the clock
Speaker 4: before you take your power and app and say, hey,
Speaker 4: I'm going to get up in thirty minutes, and you
Speaker 4: might have to do some rapid breathing or something to
Speaker 4: get your you get psyched up a little bit because
Speaker 4: you know, the brains. If you're not used to it,
Speaker 4: the brain's going to want to take it through a
Speaker 4: deep sleep cycle and you don't want to do that
Speaker 4: in the middle of the day. It'll influ you're sleep
Speaker 4: at night. But if you can do that little para
Speaker 4: neep like you're talking about, studies show that you'll sleep
Speaker 4: better at night.
Speaker 2: Now, when we does the amount of sleep an individual
Speaker 2: needs at night, does that depend upon what his or
Speaker 2: her occupation is during the day. Does for example, a
Speaker 2: professional athlete, a football player, a tennis player, or someone
Speaker 2: who's off for that matter, of somebody who's a longshoreman, whatever,
Speaker 2: who's working hard physically, do they need more sleep than
Speaker 2: the person who's an accountant sitting in a desk all
Speaker 2: day or does it?
Speaker 4: I think it matters for the individual because it seems
Speaker 4: like the more you use your muscles, then less sleep
Speaker 4: you need. It's when you're sedendary and you've probably heard
Speaker 4: the expression my kids are too tired to sleep. Most
Speaker 4: people are too tired to sleep. Their brain doesn't have
Speaker 4: the energy. And it's not like in a candy bar
Speaker 4: that we need it. We need att which is the
Speaker 4: energy of the cell, and that comes from down regulating
Speaker 4: our nervous system and breathing. You know. That's why a
Speaker 4: lot of people do like even doing a twenty minute
Speaker 4: mindfulness exercise. You know, put some classical music out in
Speaker 4: the background for twenty minutes and just relax. You're going
Speaker 4: to find that you're going to actually gain energy by
Speaker 4: doing that.
Speaker 2: There was a period of time in my life where
Speaker 2: I work odd hours. I worked in television, worked in radio,
Speaker 2: and so I've worked the morning news shift and been
Speaker 2: done at noontime, and I've worked the sixth and the
Speaker 2: eleven o'clock news and television from you know, three to midnight.
Speaker 2: Now we work for most of the day getting ready
Speaker 2: to a show like tonight, I'm on the air until midnight,
Speaker 2: and it takes about an hour for me to kind
Speaker 2: of cycle down and get ready to go to sleep.
Speaker 2: So at different times in my life I've found different things. So,
Speaker 2: for example, there was a period of time when I
Speaker 2: liked to take a real nap in the afternoon, and
Speaker 2: then I some weight. About ten years ago, I got more,
Speaker 2: got into the gym very regularly and never took naps again,
Speaker 2: not what I say, naps real, not powers news is.
Speaker 2: I still do powers newses, but the exercise, the regiment
Speaker 2: of the exercise eliminated the necessity for the naps in
Speaker 2: the afternoon. That sounds to me like what you're saying.
Speaker 2: I just want to make sure it is what you
Speaker 2: were saying.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're exactly right. And you know, some people if
Speaker 4: they take that, if they do sleep for three to
Speaker 4: four hours. They can't sleep at night because they went
Speaker 4: through actually you could probably go through two to three
Speaker 4: sleep cycles and some people that's all they get at night.
Speaker 4: We should do eight flight cycles of sleep. So when
Speaker 4: like those coal miners are talking about, they were drinking alcohol,
Speaker 4: right is the time they went to sleep, So they weren't.
Speaker 2: We start there, and we were no, it's not good.
Speaker 4: We showed them on the we showed them on the
Speaker 4: sleep equipment we were using to measure that. They didn't
Speaker 4: even start even trying to sleep for five hours because
Speaker 4: the body had to metabolize all that sugar that was
Speaker 4: in the bloodstream. You can't just sit there. You can
Speaker 4: only have one tablespoon of circulating sugar. So that's the problem.
Speaker 4: Why you can only drink. You should only drink like
Speaker 4: one drink an hour if you're you know, if you
Speaker 4: want to entertain and have a drink, and then don't
Speaker 4: drink two hours before bedtime so that your brain can
Speaker 4: that's that's all sugar that's going to the brain, and
Speaker 4: it's it's a toxin to the brain. So the brain
Speaker 4: has to deal with all those toxins, so it's not
Speaker 4: gonna it's not going to sleep very well, just like
Speaker 4: eating a big meal before going to sleep too. You
Speaker 4: know it's not good.
Speaker 2: So last question, how can you train yourself? I know,
Speaker 2: I think the phrase is the good deep sleep is
Speaker 2: called RIM, right, Iram? Is that correct?
Speaker 4: There's yeah, Well RIM is your dreaming sleep. That's when
Speaker 4: you process your day. You need two hours of that.
Speaker 4: The deep level for sleep that I'm talking about, it
Speaker 4: only comes in microburst and that's when that part of
Speaker 4: the brain called the gli emphatic system opens up. So
Speaker 4: those only happen in very small bursts. But the RIM
Speaker 4: can last for fifteen twenty minutes. That's why we're gonna
Speaker 4: have those vivid dreams and you know, things happen to us.
Speaker 4: They're both really important. You know, if you don't get
Speaker 4: both of those really pretty much anything else. They say
Speaker 4: that the in the longevity studies six and a half hours.
Speaker 4: But you have to be an efficient sleeper, you know,
Speaker 4: So how fast can you get into that first level? Four?
Speaker 2: This is a fascinating topic. If it's okay with you,
Speaker 2: doctor Porter, we just do an interview during the eight
Speaker 2: o'clock hour. We're in the East coast here, so we're
Speaker 2: on from ad to midnight East Coast time. But I'd
Speaker 2: love to bring you back some other time and talk
Speaker 2: about sleep and allow some of my callers, some of
Speaker 2: my listeners to call in with questions. Would that work
Speaker 2: for you?
Speaker 4: Oh, that'd be great. I'd love to do that.
Speaker 2: Okay, give me the website real quickly, because I want
Speaker 2: to have some people to get to the website and
Speaker 2: learn a little bit, and we'll get you back in
Speaker 2: the next couple of weeks. I'll have my producer get
Speaker 2: in touch with your representative. It's brain tapped all one
Speaker 2: word brain tap dot com. Correct.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And there's a place time there where people can
Speaker 4: go for fourteen days and get a free trial. They
Speaker 4: don't get charged at all for the fifteenth day, so
Speaker 4: if they don't like it, they just cancel it. But
Speaker 4: it'll give them a chance to try some of our
Speaker 4: techniques out. And then there's also a lot of free
Speaker 4: things on my video Doctor Patrick Porter dot com, you know,
Speaker 4: videos where I'm talking about it and things like that
Speaker 4: that if you want to show it to some people.
Speaker 2: Here sounds great, Doctor Patrick Porter, thank you very much.
Speaker 2: I really enjoyed this segment. I learned from it which
Speaker 2: to me if I learned from it, and I'm hoping
Speaker 2: some of my listeners learned from it, and we'll learn
Speaker 2: more when they have a chance to ask your questions
Speaker 2: as well. Thank you so much for your time tonight,
Speaker 2: and we'll be back in touch. Okay, thank you very much.
Speaker 4: All Right, thank you, bye.
Speaker 2: You're welcome. You're welcome. Now when we have it. Right
Speaker 2: after the break, we're going to talk about artificial intelligence.
Speaker 2: Everybody knows what it is, but it can steal your
Speaker 2: voice and this is important and there's not much you
Speaker 2: can do about it. I'm going to talk with an expert,
Speaker 2: a technology and cybersecurity expert, about this phenomenon, artificial intelligence.
Speaker 2: All sorts of positives. This is one of the negatives.
Speaker 2: Back on night Side right after.
Speaker 1: This, back to Dan Ray live from the Window World,
Speaker 1: Nice Sighte Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: Well, all of us have heard about what's called artificial intelligence,
Speaker 2: and I think all of us are developing some level
Speaker 2: of understanding of it. But Ted Closer is a closer
Speaker 2: of Klauser. Ted, let me get the correct pronunciation.
Speaker 7: It's klouser klounser klauser.
Speaker 2: Okay, if you a pitcher for the Red sox out
Speaker 2: of the bullpen. We'll call you a closer. Both. You're
Speaker 2: Ted Klauser, technology and cybersecurity expert and CEO of PCA
Speaker 2: Technology Solutions affirm that specializes in cybersecurity and data protection.
Speaker 2: You were right here. You know so much stuff about
Speaker 2: this sometimes don't even know where to start. I do
Speaker 2: know that artificial intelligence can steal your voice, okay, and
Speaker 2: there's not much you can do about it. I am
Speaker 2: on radio twenty hours a week, so I'm sure that
Speaker 2: my voice has been stolen in a number of ways
Speaker 2: and there's probably not much I can do about it.
Speaker 2: But why should I be worried about it? That's the
Speaker 2: important question, and I know you have the answer to that.
Speaker 7: Well, thanks for having me, Van. I think the major
Speaker 7: concern is the technology is available now to be in
Speaker 7: the hands of anybody that wants to put together information
Speaker 7: that would really alienate yourself, myself, anybody that's on air.
Speaker 7: It doesn't take more than a matter of a few
Speaker 7: clips to be able to compile with today's technology entire conversations,
Speaker 7: and it's really revolutionizing the way things are being done.
Speaker 7: And it's quite scary, to be honest.
Speaker 2: So I've seen I've seen recently, ohe some some fake
Speaker 2: presentations where you have a coach or a baseball manager,
Speaker 2: you know, talk derisively like they never would talk about
Speaker 2: their players, and you watch the video and you say,
Speaker 2: my god, Bill Belichick really say that about Tom Brady
Speaker 2: And I'm serious, and it's beyond It's like, wait a second.
Speaker 2: You know there's no way that but you know that,
Speaker 2: you know whatever, amusing this as a hypothetical just to
Speaker 2: make people understand what we're talking about Bill Brady. You
Speaker 2: could rather Bill Belichick could get up and say, no,
Speaker 2: Brady was an okay quarterback, but he would have had
Speaker 2: no success without me all those years. It was me
Speaker 2: that is responsible for the six Super Bowl wins and
Speaker 2: it's Brady who's responsible for the three Super Bowl loss losses.
Speaker 2: And they can create something that said that that looks
Speaker 2: like it's genuine. What the hell sort of world are
Speaker 2: we heading into here?
Speaker 4: Dan?
Speaker 7: Well, you're exactly right, Dan, and you throw video in
Speaker 7: that's that's absolutely something that can be easily put together.
Speaker 7: And you might be able to spot a dugree. You
Speaker 7: might be able to spot a fake, But think about
Speaker 7: the audio we take away, the visual cues we take
Speaker 7: away the things that really can look out and say
Speaker 7: that's not accurate voice is so much more believable. And
Speaker 7: you know, as we continue to see these voice scams,
Speaker 7: we're seeing the granny cam, the granny scams where we're
Speaker 7: essentially having the elderly being at risk. We're seeing potential
Speaker 7: ransoms of children, and it's just very concerning the things
Speaker 7: that we're already seeing. And I think it's only going
Speaker 7: to get better. As Jenner today, I continues to improve
Speaker 7: and these solutions are put in the hands of more
Speaker 7: and more people.
Speaker 2: But the granny scam is not involved to my recollection
Speaker 2: of this as artificial intelligence. That's the scam where someone's
Speaker 2: calling from I don't know, Eastern Europe and they're just
Speaker 2: speed dialing and you're saying Grandma, and if it's an
Speaker 2: older person who picks up the phone, obviously, if it's
Speaker 2: a teenager who picks up the phone, then can say
Speaker 2: who are you looking for and hang out. But if
Speaker 2: an older person picks up the phone and maybe Grandma
Speaker 2: doesn't hear that well, and and they think, oh, that
Speaker 2: must be the niece or the nephew. Is this you, billy?
Speaker 2: And right away that's off to the races. Yes, it
Speaker 2: is Grandma, but I'm in trouble. I got arrested for
Speaker 2: I was I had marijuana and I don't want my
Speaker 2: parents to know. Could you send some money? As I said,
Speaker 2: that's the granny scam right give me.
Speaker 7: But now we're going to take it to the next level.
Speaker 7: Right now, they're going to take a real voice of
Speaker 7: the actual We're going to take a real voice and
Speaker 7: actually a real story. So they'll call Granny and it'll
Speaker 7: be their actual voice, and maybe they'll give Granny information
Speaker 7: about real life things that happened last week, and all
Speaker 7: of that can be very easily done with AI.
Speaker 2: Okay, so how do they get the backstory? Meaning, in
Speaker 2: other words, did they focus on did they have to
Speaker 2: focus on somebody? I'm told that when you get a
Speaker 2: phone call at night and you know it's a it's
Speaker 2: somebody who's looking for whatever, that you shouldn't even say hello.
Speaker 2: If you don't recognize the number and you want to
Speaker 2: pick it up, just pick it up and let them
Speaker 2: talk to you. Because my wife will say to me,
Speaker 2: if you say hello, they got your voice. Is it
Speaker 2: that bad?
Speaker 7: Well I think it absolutely is that bad. But Dan,
Speaker 7: you and I are having a conversation right now. So
Speaker 7: we're already a risk, right So I was going through
Speaker 7: the answer my phone and not give my name for
Speaker 7: a little bit, and then I thought, what am I doing?
Speaker 7: My voice is already all out there, so for me
Speaker 7: to take that extra step, really, isn't that helpful? I think,
Speaker 7: you know, to answer your earlier question, how are they
Speaker 7: getting the information? We're actually giving it to them. If
Speaker 7: you think about our social media platforms, we're voluntarily giving
Speaker 7: them information about our lives that then can be used
Speaker 7: against this.
Speaker 2: How does this get controlled? I mean, obviously, when there
Speaker 2: were people out there who are producing false passports or
Speaker 2: false ideas, false drivers licenses, that's tangible and the police
Speaker 2: can find out about it and in many cases people
Speaker 2: get arrested and all of that. But is this the
Speaker 2: the level of scams that all of us will be
Speaker 2: able to do nothing about. I mean, you have to
Speaker 2: answer your phone. I have to do my job as
Speaker 2: a radio broadcaster. You have to do your job. What
Speaker 2: can people do? You can't climb into a cave, close
Speaker 2: the cave, the rocks and just stay the end of
Speaker 2: the rest of your life. What can we do?
Speaker 7: Well, Dan, if you are about to do that. That
Speaker 7: will that will work. By the way, if you're able
Speaker 7: to figure that out, thank you, thank you very much.
Speaker 2: It's just closing with the rocks. That's all go ahead,
Speaker 2: And it's the it's the it's the darn bear. When
Speaker 2: I go in the cave and half an hour later,
Speaker 2: I realized there's a couple of beers in there, and
Speaker 2: I've closed the thing off. No, what can we do?
Speaker 7: What can we do something? Something's going to get us. Uh,
Speaker 7: you know, the dark web obviously is a factor here.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 7: Criminals will be criminals. They are still going to do
Speaker 7: evil things. We have to actually be aware and recognize
Speaker 7: that that occurs. But we can put some stop gaps
Speaker 7: in place. We can lean into law enforcement to help us,
Speaker 7: but we also need to have the companies that are
Speaker 7: producing these solutions double down on what they're doing to
Speaker 7: make sure that it really is authorized. For example, if
Speaker 7: I take your voice and I try to create a
Speaker 7: video or an audio message, I need some authorization or
Speaker 7: they need some authorization for me that I have your
Speaker 7: permission right now that doesn't exist, and we need to
Speaker 7: do something to be able to at least say I
Speaker 7: am the one that owns this voice. I have the
Speaker 7: rights to it. You cannot use it without my pumps.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, it's funny. In radio, as you probably know,
Speaker 2: there's a thing called ask me where we cannot just
Speaker 2: pull music and put it on our radio station. The
Speaker 2: radio stations have it agreement with asking artists, so they're
Speaker 2: kind of protected for the commercialization of their product. But
Speaker 2: they're like us. They're not protected for somebody who will
Speaker 2: take their voice and maybe try to use that to
Speaker 2: scam someone. You know, would you like to meet Ed Sharon? Hi,
Speaker 2: this is Ed Sherion. Now you know, I'm going to
Speaker 2: be in Boston and he was here last night as
Speaker 2: a matter of fact, playing at a club on Saint
Speaker 2: Patrick's Knight. People get used to that and they think
Speaker 2: it's you know, all you got to do is buy special.
Speaker 2: I think we're entering into the end of Eldess's Huxley's
Speaker 2: brave New world where we could do nothing, and I'm
Speaker 2: scared about that.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Well, I think it's very legitimate and a concern, and
Speaker 7: I think that one of the things we have the
Speaker 7: factor in it's your ask me example is a great example.
Speaker 7: The challenge is AI takes everything and puts it at
Speaker 7: the speed of light. Right, So you've got one specific
Speaker 7: thing you have to do, well, AI can do multiple
Speaker 7: things that speeds you and I can only imagine, right,
Speaker 7: So the risk is much greater.
Speaker 2: This is scary, Ted. Whatever you're doing to help protect
Speaker 2: me and every one of my listeners and everybody in
Speaker 2: the world. Thanks. I know you're trying to keep up
Speaker 2: with these guys. But uh, maybe some night I'll have
Speaker 2: you back and we'll talk about where we're going to
Speaker 2: be five or ten years from now. I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: we never thought okay, yeah, no, we never thought that
Speaker 2: we'd have to have cameras installed in our homes and
Speaker 2: we could watch people who come up to the door.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, fifty years ago you never thought
Speaker 2: of anything like that. You hope your neighbors would keep
Speaker 2: a lookout for you. So we got to get ahead
Speaker 2: of the bad guys. We'll get back in touch with you, Ted, really,
Speaker 2: Ted klaus or Ted, what what's the best way people
Speaker 2: can get in touch with you and get in touch
Speaker 2: with your company?
Speaker 7: PCA Techsolutions dot com.
Speaker 2: Pretty easy, PCA Techsolutions dot com. Ted Klouser, thank you
Speaker 2: so much for your time tonight. It was a really
Speaker 2: fascinating interview. We'll talk again, Thank you, sir, Thank you.
Speaker 2: Good night. When we come back, we're going to talk
Speaker 2: with Massachusetts State Senator Peter Durant. He's thinking about running
Speaker 2: for governor in twenty twenty six. At least he's thinking
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Speaker 2: want to listen and learn a little bit more about him,
Speaker 2: or you may want to call and tell him that
Speaker 2: it would be a good idea. We'll see what happens.
Speaker 2: We're coming back with Peter Durant later on tonight. We
Speaker 2: will talk about the telephone conversation between President Trump and
Speaker 2: President Putin today and what your hope or apprehension is
Speaker 2: of that particular event.