October 29, 2025 • 35 mins
We kicked off the program with four news stories and different guests on the stories we think you need to know about! For one of our segments this evening, we talked about the impact that Hurricane Melissa made in Jamaica and the Caribbean as it makes landfall in Cuba.
Massachusetts landowners face excessive zoning and permitting restrictions that limit their property rights.
Guest: MA state Rep. John Gaskey (2nd Plymouth)
Seasonal Depression/Affective Disorder & how it impacts people this time of year when daylight is minimized.
Guest: Dr. Varsha Radhakrishnan – Psychiatrist at Tufts Medical Center
How Hurricane Melissa has impacted Jamaica as it makes its way up the Caribbean and makes landfall in Cuba…
Guest: Ken Mahan – Meteorologist for the Boston Globe
Trump predicts $2 gas prices 'pretty soon'
Guest: Rey "R.T." Trevino – Oil & Gas Expert - runs Pecos Country Energy, a privately owned oil and gas exploration and production company headquartered in Fort Worth.
Massachusetts landowners face excessive zoning and permitting restrictions that limit their property rights.
Guest: MA state Rep. John Gaskey (2nd Plymouth)
Seasonal Depression/Affective Disorder & how it impacts people this time of year when daylight is minimized.
Guest: Dr. Varsha Radhakrishnan – Psychiatrist at Tufts Medical Center
How Hurricane Melissa has impacted Jamaica as it makes its way up the Caribbean and makes landfall in Cuba…
Guest: Ken Mahan – Meteorologist for the Boston Globe
Trump predicts $2 gas prices 'pretty soon'
Guest: Rey "R.T." Trevino – Oil & Gas Expert - runs Pecos Country Energy, a privately owned oil and gas exploration and production company headquartered in Fort Worth.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's nice with Dan Ray. I'm going razy Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Not only is it a great idea to go to
Knightside with Dan Ray, but it is even a greater
idea to stay for the next.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Four hours with Nightside with Dan Ray.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
We have a great show coming and we had a
great show last night, by the way, and I also
want to mention that we have Rob Brooks is off
this week, but Shane Stokes is in the control room
as our producer. So please be nice to Shane. Say
hi to Shane when you call in after nine o'clock.
That'll he's a very He's a really good producer. And
(00:36):
Rob is on vacation, but I'll say it, Shane's been
doing a great job. Now we have four guests coming
up this hour. We're going to talk about exceptive zoning
and permitting restrictions in a moment with state Representative John Gaski.
He represents a number of communities down in the southeast
corner of the state. His home community is Carver. Will
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identify those communities for you as well. Then we're going
to talk about seasonal depression, that effective disorder that impacts
a lot of people this time of year. As where
our daylight hours, our daylight minutes are drifting away, and
there'll be a big impact this weekend because by what
said Sunday night, it's going to be getting darker a
heck of a lot Earlier.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
We'll explain that.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Then we'll talk with Ken mahon, meteorologists from the Boston
Globe about the impact of Hurricane Melissa down in the Caribbean,
the Dominican Republic Haiti as well as of course Jamaica was.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Really hit by it today and yesterday.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
And we'll also talk with an oil and gas expert
about the possibility of gas prices gas at the pump.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Those gas prices going even lower.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
We'll talk about a zoning battle coming up in Medford,
and we'll talk about.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
A visitor to producer Lightning Marita producer Marita's backyard earlier
this week.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Wait do you see? Well, we'll explained the picture. But
first up, let's talk with State Representative John Gaske. He's
a Republican down in the second Plymouth District and Representative.
I know your hometown is Carver. What are the other
communities that you represent?
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Good evening, Dan, Good evening, Yeah, so I also represent
where him and the sudden portion of Middleborough.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Excellent, okay.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
And the issue that you're concerned about is the use
of excessive zoning and permitting regulations that restrict individual owners
to utilize their property in a reasonable fashion, but in
a way that they see fit. If I frame the
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issue for you, tell us what you mean, if I
framed it correctly, I hope I have.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Yeah, Well, that's that's pretty much that Dan. That when
you've got a private homeowner who doesn't have access to
a team of lawyers and engineers there that's trying to
get maybe a garage built or extend their fence or
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something like that, and then they have to go into
try to navigate the the bylaws, the local bylaws and
the state by laws and everything else like that. It's
it becomes such a daunting test that so many people
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just refuse to take part in it and end up
with with doing you know, illegal additions and things like
that that they end up having to work out whenever
they sell their properties.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Well, you know, I think most of us understand, particularly
if you live in a residential community, that you don't
want a barroom opening up on the corner. You don't
want a pizza joint will putting up next to you.
Those are great to have in a commercial district. So
most of us understand that. But why is it that
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when someone's looking to do something simple as you mentioned,
extending a fence or maybe adding a garage which will
allow them to keep their car a little more covered
during during the wintertime here in New England, why is
it that the bureaucrats seem to give people what I
would characturize as unnecessary aggravation.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Yeah, that's a good question, and I think you know,
a lot of it comes down to, you know, people,
they they try to hide behind making sure that whatever
somebody is going to put up sits in the sits
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in the area, or that if they if they're making
a repair, that they especially if it's like an antique home,
that it has to be repaired at a specific way,
even if that way ends up, you know, costing costing
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folks extra money when they can when they can build
or repair to make it look as it was just
using more modern materials and people these different boards and
things like that, forcing people to use older and efficient
methods and materials.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Well, you know, I can understand that if you live
in an anti home, you know, circa you know, sixteen
forty or something like that. I get that, But at
the same time, you would think that they would be
some flexibility. I hate to put it this way, but
I do think that some people who find themselves in
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positions of some power or influence often get a little
influenced by that power itself. Yea, almost what you and
I might refer to as petty bureaucrats. I just don't
know why human nature drives people in that direction.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Yeah, that's that's a that's a really good question. I mean,
because I think everybody starts out with good intentions and
then as they as they get into the position. So
a lot of times we're forced to the boards and stuff,
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are kind of forced to push a specific way because
of state laws, and the state is breathing down their neck.
And if they don't if they don't force a particular
by law or you know, like or don't allow something
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that's not good for the that's not good for the
area that you know, there's the the opposite side of
that as well, where.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
You know that.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
You know, projects are Let's take for instance, with the
NBTA Communities Act and stuff, where they're trying to drive
multi family housing stuff in an area like with Carver
that just doesn't have the infrastructure to support it. We
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we end up going back and forth where the state
is trying to force its will onto landowners and neighbors,
and then you've got the town either pushing back or
accepting it. And with when it comes to the little
guy who doesn't have this big team of people with him, uh,
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they just get the rubber stamp no. And this is uh,
you know, you know what you need to do with
your land, and you have a good plan for what
you want to do, and but but other people are
just like no, I don't really like that, and.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Has a tough balance to strike.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
By the way, I want to ask you a question
because I'm sure there are a lot of constituents in
every district here in Massachusetts who are relying upon snap
payments which may go away this Saturday. I spent some
time last night on my talk show advocating that the
governor has an eight point eight billion dollar rainy day fund,
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which would put a lot of people's minds at ease
that their snap payments would continue. I'd like to know
if if you agree with me, or if you agree.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
With the governor on that.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Absolutely agree with you, Dan, with this whole thing. They
you know, the the state is so willing to pay
for for so much stuff that is really kind of
extraneous to our life and and doesn't really have much
(09:14):
impact on us in the day to day thing. But
when it comes to something as basic as food, you
don't want to open up your wallet and and make
sure that everybody that everybody is able to keep going
to the grocery store and and you know, keeping their
refrigerator stocked. I mean, that's a little of seem But
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at the same time, our Senators Marky and Warren, they
they got quite a bit of this blame to shoulder
as well. As you know, they voted what is it now,
thirteen times after today that to to keep the government
shut down. So all because they're they're having a little
(10:00):
hissy fit over.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Well, they're basically trying to say, we will negotiate, we
will open the government and negotiate, but first you have
to agree to three or four pre preconditions before we'll
even begin to negotiate. That's not much of a negotiation, representative.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
It's like signing a prenup before you go in to
the wedding.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Yes, Sarah, thank you very much. Representative, keep us posted
on this love to have you back. Thanks again. Representative
John Gaskey of Carver represents other communities in the second
Plymouth District.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Thank you very much, Representative.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Have a good night.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
All right, when we get back.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
We're going to talk about seasonal depression effective disorder with
doctor Vashar rud Hakrishnan. She is a psychiatrist and Tuft's
Medical Center. This is going to be an important conversation.
Do stay with us here on Nightside.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
My name is Dan Ray.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
You're on night Side with Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
All right, I want to welcome doctor varshap run Hakrishnan.
I gave it my best shot. I'm hoping I got
that last name pretty close to correct, doctor, very very.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
Close, almost almost there, Varsha Radh Krishnan. But thanks so
much for having me.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Oh well, yes, well, thank you very much. You're a
psychiatrist at Tuft's Medical Center. And we're gonna go through
a big change this weekend. We're going to have our
clocks fall back, so it's gonna start getting dark around here.
Not at four thirty quarter five, well, it will be
four to thirty quarter of five. Were to start to
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get dark, we're gonna lose We're gonna lose an hour.
We're gonna gain an hour of sleep, but lose an
hour of afternoon daylight. And that impacts a lot of
people with what is called seasonal effective disorder.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
How can people.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Diagnose that because that's a serious, Absolutely.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
It actually affects between five to ten percent of all
adults in the US, so it's it's very common. But
you know, sometimes it's it's hard to tell when you're
in the midst of feeling depressed or hopeless in those moments,
but it's it's really reduced to associated with that reduced
exposure to sunlight, especially on shorter fall and winter days.
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But some of those warning signs and symptoms, especially when
when feeling persistently either apathetic, lowen energy, feeling depressed or down, hopeless,
feeling sad nearly every day most days, having trouble waking up,
so many many symptoms like that that that could be
a warning sign.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Well, this is particularly tough beginning on Sunday because I
think the sun right now is setting around you know,
five five, and all of the sudden, the sun at
our latitude is going to be setting at what will
be for US four forty five, and the days will
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continue to get shorter for a good five to six weeks.
So this is a tough time of year for people
who are impacted by this. The days won't even begin
to increase in length, and at that point it will
be around December tenth, maybe a minute or two every day,
and you really won't notice it until sometime probably in
late January.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
What can people do.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
If they think they're impacted by this condition?
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Who should reach out?
Speaker 2 (13:33):
I guess to the GP first of all, and then
find a specialist like yourself.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
Absolutely, So it's always important once any of those symptoms
start to happen, if there's any kind of difficulty functioning
during the day, if there's anything at all that feels
like a big change, it's important to notify your primary
care provider to talk about any potential medications option. And
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really medications are just one piece, but actually what can
be really helpful is seeing whether you can purchase a
light box. So that's actually a very common therapy is
almost simulating sunlight exposure, and there's certain light therapies that
can be really really effective, and so it's a good
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idea to always bring it up to a primary care
doc and then they can potentially refer to a psychiatrist
or a specialist afterwards if needed.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Now, you say five to ten percent of the population,
I'm sure within that five to ten percent, there's some
more serious cases, cases which are more transitional. Are the
cases that impact people in early November, and even when
the sun starts to come back and stay high in
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the sky longer at night, it doesn't go away. It
sticks with him for a substantial period of time. Or
where does again, when when the sun starts to set
a little a little later in the day, does does
the case? Does the situation get resolved until the next November?
Speaker 6 (15:15):
A great question. I would say that generally speaking for
most folks who have this this seasonal component of to
their depression, I'd say it doesn't start and stop necessarily
perfectly with the changes in the season or or length
of day of the day. But yeah, some people can
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can start to develop symptoms later earlier than others. Other
folks can have those symptoms persist for several weeks, even
into you know, changes into a new season. So every
everyone is a little different.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Uh is does this impact men more than women.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Is there an.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Age calculation that's involved here? I remember Mike Ducaucus is
late wife Kitty Takak has suffered from this greatly.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Is there a.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Gender likelihood or an age likelihood that that works into
this formulation.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
That's a great question. In general, women suffer more from
seasonal effective disorder than men. It's actually some studies suggesting
women are four times more likely to develop this disorder. Yeah,
so it's a pretty significant risk. And some of that
might actually also be related to hormonal changes that can
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occur in the winter time for women. So that's one
one important, you know, piece to definitely keep in mind.
I'd say age wise, sometimes we can see that older
adults might be affected with a higher likelihood. Part of
that can be some of the sleep cycles that we
see they change over time as we age, So that's
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also some substantial risk that we can see both with
gender and age.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Okay, then my last question is an.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Occurrence of this condition and that's confirmed, is that necessarily
an indication of a deeper psychological issues that should be
addressed or is this a sort of a topical impact
that can be dealt with, you know, in some form
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of fashion, but it's not necessarily reflective of a deeper condition.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
So I'd say, generally speaking, the ideology and cause of
depression can be so variable. On one hand, it can
be you know, related to genetics. On the other it
can be environmental factors like changes in in you know,
the daylight, exposure, the way our bodies are regulating our rhythms.
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But on the other hand, if there's other other stressors
going on in life that are precipitating depression are increasing
that risk, I think it really depends on what's what's
going on during that period of time.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Just feel like it's very.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Much an individual case that that means that needs to
be looked at carefully.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
Absolutely absolutely, everyone's a little different.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Doctor.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Thank you so much, Doctor Vasha Rada Krishtan. And again,
I know I didn't get it perfectly, but I'm trying
my best. A psychiatrist at Tough Medical Center. Thank you
so much for your time. I might like to do
a longer version of this and entertaining callers for maybe
a full hour.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Would you be.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Willing to spend some time with us and talk to
some of my listeners. We do not take phone calls
during these briefer segments. If you'd consider that, I'd be honored.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
Oh, absolutely would love to.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Okay, I take that as a yes. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
We'll do something in the next couple of weeks and
in timely fashion. Thank you so much, doctor, I appreciate
your time.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Tonight, Thank you so much. Good night, very welcome.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Okay, we have the eight thirty news coming by a
couple of minutes late, but I think it was worth it.
And we get back on a talk with Ken Mahon,
meteorologists for the Boston Globe. Yes, the Globe does have
a meteorologist about Hurricane Melissa's impact on Jamaica as well
as Haiti and the Jamaican Republic as well. But impact
on Jamaica has been just horrific. Back on Night Side,
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my name is Dan Ray. We are halfway through the
eight thirty hour. We have just begun. Stay right with us.
You're going to have a fun night with us, a
fun ride all the way to midnight.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray, Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Delighted to have back here on the show. Ken Mahan.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
He is the Globe meteorologist and can I assume you're
probably getting only some radio time with the Globe, and
I know you have a new interactive sports program with ESPN,
so I'm sure you're getting some on air TV.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Time as well.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
But you're going to talk with us tonight about the
impact of this storm, Hurricane Melissa, Haiti, the Dominican Republic,
and most importantly Jamaica. This can I think I heard
is the worst on record that Jamaica.
Speaker 7 (20:30):
Then, yeah, then, first of all, thanks for having me back.
Really appreciate chatting with you. And unfortunately you're correct. It's
the strongest hurricane to ever make landfall in the Atlantic
Basin on record, numerous record shatters, and unfortunately for the
island of Jamaica, still eastern Cuba portions of Haiti, as
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you mentioned, pushing into the Bahamas now tonight. But boy,
what a devastating scenario for Jamaica upwards towards three feet
of rain and the higher elevations, ridiculous coastal inundation and
storm surge up to fifteen feet in some spots. Unfortunately,
worst case scenario, as the hurricane made sort of a
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head on collision to the island versus side swiping, so
it brought its entire fury and it was strengthening as
it went into landfall. Pretty remarkable.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
So, putting aside the weather aspects are there, I assume
they don't have any real final numbers on people who
have lost their lives, have lost their homes. I assume
it's going to take days to even discover how many
people have been devastated by this storm.
Speaker 7 (21:43):
Yeah, Dan, I think you're right with that. You know,
there's all sorts of different information out there on different
news outlets, local and national and global, and through social
media outlets, but I'm sure you're right it's going to
take some time in order to unfortunately figure out what
the casualties end up being. The National Hurricane Center did
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put it really bluntly that Hurricane Melissa is going to
bring complete structural failure, and unfortunately, I've seen so many
images more than I've wanted to of just that, so
have a very difficult scenario in Jamaica.
Speaker 8 (22:21):
For sure, did the forecasters it sounded to me, And
you follow this more closely than I do, but it
sounds to me like the forecasters pretty much predicted how
bad this would be.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
That everyone had, well, maybe not as much.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Advanced notice as they would have liked, but there was
advanced notice here, so I hope some lives were saved
as a result of accurate, a little pretty devastating forecasts.
Speaker 7 (22:49):
Yeah, you know, you're right, Dan, the forecasting the picture
became clear pretty early on, and it's not always the
case in the world of forecasting. Shit was because it
eliminates more questions as we lead to an impending landfall.
But for sitting ducks on an island, there's only so
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much that you can do. The track, the intensity was
forecasted days ahead, but unfortunately it's I mean, jeez, you're
sort of just sitting there waiting, twiddling your gums. Just
hopefully folks got to their safe place out of harm
and we're able to muscle through the worst of it
for us.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
For the United States, this has been a fairly quiet
hurricane season. I know that technically it's not over until
the end of November, but we've been pretty fortunate this year.
We're going to get brushed by some rain I guess
tomorrow and into Friday, which is probably related to Melissa.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Am I incorrect on that or did I hear no correctly?
Speaker 7 (23:53):
Dan, You're pretty spot on there, you know. Fortunately for
the United States, we're not. We're most likely not going
to see a landfalling hurricane this year, which would be
the first time since twenty fifteen that has happened, So
that is good news as far as for us in
New England. Melissa is taking up speed and will be
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near Bermuda very very quickly by late morning early afternoon tomorrow.
And because of its sheer size and how tall the
structure is, a lot of the moisture is going to
be caught up in the upper level and you hit
it spot on, it's going to fuel some of the
rainfall that we're going to see tomorrow evening and overnight
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into Halloween morning across New England. Fortunately, I think that
the rainfall will be steady enough where we won't be
dealing with flooding issues across New England. But you know,
we are going to see a rainy night tomorrow and
then talking about Halloween morning at least being wet before
trick or treating stays hopefully dry for everybody.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
And I assume that once Melissa gets bad asked Bermuda,
the next stop is Europe, so there's not much between
Bermuda and Europe, so at that point it's it's devastation.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
The impact of Melissa will will dissipate.
Speaker 7 (25:15):
I hope you know it's it's funny. Then I appreciate
your you're you're looking at this sort of expanding the scope. Yeah,
the Northern Atlantic sea surface temperatures this year have been
pretty warm, above average, so a lot of these storms,
I say a lot relatively speaking, but a couple of
the storms that have made it this far north, and
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Melissa will follow suit, will will end up being sort
of a coastal storm for portions of Europe, Ireland, the UK.
You're definitely correct, and that instant that's happened on a
couple of occasions this season already.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
I'll tell you give me a quick weekend weather forecast,
can but what you do best?
Speaker 3 (25:56):
I know it's only Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
People are still thinking about the first weekend of November.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
What are we looking at? Saturday and Sunday.
Speaker 7 (26:05):
So Saturday and Sunday I'm going to call them sort
of copycat days. It does look like the weather pattern
is going to stable out a little bit on Saturday
and Sunday. We do have the end of daylight saving
Time coming on Sunday early Sunday morning, so we'll start
to see those four thirty pm sunsets, but going to
be sort of a mix of sun and clouds both
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Saturday and Sunday. Windy on Saturday, but much much more
calm on Sunday, with highs for both days settling mostly
in the mid fifties across Boston, most of Massachusetts, billing
into southern New Hampshire and Rhode Island. So calm in
comparison to what we're going to see tomorrow evening in
early Friday morning, but still definitely going to feel like
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early November by the time that weekend wraps up.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
So I guess we could call it calm, but crisp.
Speaker 9 (26:53):
Yes, I like it nice, just like a.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Good Macintosh apple crisp.
Speaker 7 (27:00):
That's right. Oh.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Thanks always great to talk with you. I so enjoy
our conversations. We've got to get to get you on
here more often. Thank you, my friend Ken Mahond and
me mediologist to the Boston Globe.
Speaker 7 (27:11):
Thank you so much, Ken, Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
All Right, when we get back, we're going to get
into the good news portion of this hour, and that
is there are some predictions that gas prices may be
still going lower. They've gone they are now on average
across the country below three dollars a gallon? Uh?
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Could we get closer to two?
Speaker 7 (27:33):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (27:33):
We're going to talk with a oil and gas expert by.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
The name of Ray Trevino.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
We'll see what he has to say on the other
side of this break on a Wednesday night edition of Nightside.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
It's Night Side with Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Well, last week we received the good news that the
average price of a gallon of gasoline across the country
was now below three dollars a gallon. There are some
places where it's substantially lower, and there are some places
where it's still above three dollars a gallon, particularly I
believe in California. Here in Massachusetts, it's pretty close to
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that magic line of three dollars a gallon. With us
now is Ray Travino. He's an oil and gas expert.
He runs a company called pekos is Picos or pekos
where I never know how to pronounce that word.
Speaker 9 (28:26):
How are you doing well, it's Pekosos Country Energy.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
I'm doing great. We've had you on before. Thanks for
joining us again. I guess President Trump he likes to
tease people and sometimes will say that he likes to
troll people. He apparently was suggesting that maybe gasoline prices
are going to take a big dip fairly soon. I
(28:53):
don't see how they can do that get much below
where they are now, because most of these states take
a good, you know, hunk of that three dollars average
price for state taxes.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
What do you think?
Speaker 2 (29:07):
You know this business industry a heck of a lot
better than I do. Is this possible that the bottom
could be falling out for gas and oil?
Speaker 9 (29:15):
Well, it wouldn't really be necessarily the bottom falling out
of oil, but wow, what an eye opener it would
be for ever for all Americans to know how much
additional state taxes there are on every gallon of gas.
Speaker 7 (29:30):
We do.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
We do that here here on night Side all the time,
trust me on that.
Speaker 9 (29:36):
Okay, yes, but you know it is extremely possible, and
I don't think at this time if we actually saw
a two dollars gasoline, And keep in mind, we're in
some places here in North Texas at two dollars and
forty nine cents a gallon already.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Oh yeah, there were some other parts around the country
where it's two and a half dollars to fifty something
like that. So what would have to happen. I mean,
on the one hand, we're trying to keep Russian oil
off the market internationally to cripple their economy.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
That's what's going on.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
We're asking India, in places like India is to stop
buying Russian oil. At least the Trump administration is to
hurt Putin's efforts to annihilate Ukrainian and Ukrainians, which is
a good thing, but that obviously, I think when you
take their contribution off the market, that's probably going to
(30:31):
have an inflationary price on the price of gasoline? Am
my economics one on one wrong on that?
Speaker 9 (30:38):
Well, it's not necessarily that we're going to see an
inflation increase. What we're going to see is a global
supply be added to the market. Okay, keep in mind
that we are now at somewhat of an ease with Iraq,
and we're allowing Iraq and Iran, what I'm in Iran
(30:59):
to deuce that three million barrels of oil a day
as long as they don't create nuclear bombs, and that.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
I don't think.
Speaker 9 (31:13):
And but again, because of that, they're now they've got
three million barrels a day that they've got on market.
Opek is going to try to get up to twelve
million barrels a day over the next six more months, okay,
and the United States is still at fourteen million barrels
of oil a day. So with these countries and of
course like Brazil and some of the other South America
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countries that are you know, finally in the United States,
will only continue to produce oil. And what these Russian
sanctions truly do is actually affect Russia's bottom line and
deters them from continuing this war in Ukraine. Uh. These
two oil companies that we hit hit their sanctions on
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consists of five percent of the global oil supply, so
that's a big hit to hit them, not to mention
the thirty subsaid thearies companies of those two, which affect
China and India. So we are doing our best to
curtail anybody for buye. We're actually doing what think you
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they're supposed to do and hurt somebody economically.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
And so you think that we can balance this off,
we can help put pressure on Russia to back off. Basically,
I guess to hurt their war machine while at the
same time have enough production to offset that worldwide to
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bring down gasoline prices at the pump. That would be
quite a trick. If we can do that, the Trump
administration can do that successfully.
Speaker 9 (32:56):
Well, Hey, here's the other part of the trick that
I'm starting to look out for is if we actually
hit fifty dollars oil, will the Trump administration encourage Congress
to act and fill up the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Yeah, so that's not a decision that the President can
take as an executive action or his secretary of Energy
can do that, and that has to you need an
approval of Congress.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
I mean, fifty dollars at yallon.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Fifty dollars a barrel, I should say that's a pretty goodbye.
Speaker 9 (33:28):
Absolutely. Now, unfortunately I'm not too well at verse and congressional,
but I don't believe the president has the power of
the purse to purchase. So that's going to come through Congress.
And absolutely fifty dollars is great, like you just said. Unfortunately,
back in twenty twenty, the Democrat led Congress and Democrat
(33:52):
led Senate shut down President Trump from trying to fill
up the Strategic Patrol and Reserve at twenty five dollars oil.
So if we can actually get it done at fifty.
That's great because that doesn't really hurt the United States
economy just you know, at fifty dollars oil like it
would if we actually dropped at twenty five.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
I think there was a point in twenty twenty one
when no one was driving, when the price of a
barrel of oil actually dropped below zero, and that there
were people who were paying not to pull oil out
of the ground. It really got pretty desperate right at
the early height of COVID.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
I'm sure you know of what I speak.
Speaker 9 (34:37):
Yes, absolutely, And that's what I hope does not happen again.
We don't need oil that low because then just to
oil too high hurts the economy. Oil too low hurts
the economy.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Yeah, it's kind of a Goldilock story, you know, you know,
not too hot, not too cold, just right, not too high,
not so low. Keep it in that zone and maybe
fifty forty five dollars a barrel so you guys can
actually spend, you know, can pump it out of the
ground and keep the supply going and keep those prices down.
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Ray Travino, thank you so much. As always, we'll have
to have you back as the winter goes on. Okay,
I appreciate your talk to you all the time. Thank you, sir,
Thank you, sir. I'll have a great one when we
get back. We're going to talk about a zoning battle
in Medford. There's a it's sort of a mini New
York City battle.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
I'll explain when we get back, right after the nine
o'clock news. My name is Dan Rey.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
This is Nightside
It's nice with Dan Ray. I'm going razy Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Not only is it a great idea to go to
Knightside with Dan Ray, but it is even a greater
idea to stay for the next.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Four hours with Nightside with Dan Ray.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
We have a great show coming and we had a
great show last night, by the way, and I also
want to mention that we have Rob Brooks is off
this week, but Shane Stokes is in the control room
as our producer. So please be nice to Shane. Say
hi to Shane when you call in after nine o'clock.
That'll he's a very He's a really good producer. And
(00:36):
Rob is on vacation, but I'll say it, Shane's been
doing a great job. Now we have four guests coming
up this hour. We're going to talk about exceptive zoning
and permitting restrictions in a moment with state Representative John Gaski.
He represents a number of communities down in the southeast
corner of the state. His home community is Carver. Will
(00:58):
identify those communities for you as well. Then we're going
to talk about seasonal depression, that effective disorder that impacts
a lot of people this time of year. As where
our daylight hours, our daylight minutes are drifting away, and
there'll be a big impact this weekend because by what
said Sunday night, it's going to be getting darker a
heck of a lot Earlier.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
We'll explain that.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Then we'll talk with Ken mahon, meteorologists from the Boston
Globe about the impact of Hurricane Melissa down in the Caribbean,
the Dominican Republic Haiti as well as of course Jamaica was.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Really hit by it today and yesterday.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
And we'll also talk with an oil and gas expert
about the possibility of gas prices gas at the pump.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Those gas prices going even lower.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
We'll talk about a zoning battle coming up in Medford,
and we'll talk about.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
A visitor to producer Lightning Marita producer Marita's backyard earlier
this week.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Wait do you see? Well, we'll explained the picture. But
first up, let's talk with State Representative John Gaske. He's
a Republican down in the second Plymouth District and Representative.
I know your hometown is Carver. What are the other
communities that you represent?
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Good evening, Dan, Good evening, Yeah, so I also represent
where him and the sudden portion of Middleborough.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Excellent, okay.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
And the issue that you're concerned about is the use
of excessive zoning and permitting regulations that restrict individual owners
to utilize their property in a reasonable fashion, but in
a way that they see fit. If I frame the
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issue for you, tell us what you mean, if I
framed it correctly, I hope I have.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Yeah, Well, that's that's pretty much that Dan. That when
you've got a private homeowner who doesn't have access to
a team of lawyers and engineers there that's trying to
get maybe a garage built or extend their fence or
(03:15):
something like that, and then they have to go into
try to navigate the the bylaws, the local bylaws and
the state by laws and everything else like that. It's
it becomes such a daunting test that so many people
(03:35):
just refuse to take part in it and end up
with with doing you know, illegal additions and things like
that that they end up having to work out whenever
they sell their properties.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Well, you know, I think most of us understand, particularly
if you live in a residential community, that you don't
want a barroom opening up on the corner. You don't
want a pizza joint will putting up next to you.
Those are great to have in a commercial district. So
most of us understand that. But why is it that
(04:08):
when someone's looking to do something simple as you mentioned,
extending a fence or maybe adding a garage which will
allow them to keep their car a little more covered
during during the wintertime here in New England, why is
it that the bureaucrats seem to give people what I
would characturize as unnecessary aggravation.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Yeah, that's a good question, and I think you know,
a lot of it comes down to, you know, people,
they they try to hide behind making sure that whatever
somebody is going to put up sits in the sits
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in the area, or that if they if they're making
a repair, that they especially if it's like an antique home,
that it has to be repaired at a specific way,
even if that way ends up, you know, costing costing
(05:15):
folks extra money when they can when they can build
or repair to make it look as it was just
using more modern materials and people these different boards and
things like that, forcing people to use older and efficient
methods and materials.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Well, you know, I can understand that if you live
in an anti home, you know, circa you know, sixteen
forty or something like that. I get that, But at
the same time, you would think that they would be
some flexibility. I hate to put it this way, but
I do think that some people who find themselves in
(05:57):
positions of some power or influence often get a little
influenced by that power itself. Yea, almost what you and
I might refer to as petty bureaucrats. I just don't
know why human nature drives people in that direction.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Yeah, that's that's a that's a really good question. I mean,
because I think everybody starts out with good intentions and
then as they as they get into the position. So
a lot of times we're forced to the boards and stuff,
(06:35):
are kind of forced to push a specific way because
of state laws, and the state is breathing down their neck.
And if they don't if they don't force a particular
by law or you know, like or don't allow something
(06:55):
that's not good for the that's not good for the
area that you know, there's the the opposite side of
that as well, where.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
You know that.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
You know, projects are Let's take for instance, with the
NBTA Communities Act and stuff, where they're trying to drive
multi family housing stuff in an area like with Carver
that just doesn't have the infrastructure to support it. We
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we end up going back and forth where the state
is trying to force its will onto landowners and neighbors,
and then you've got the town either pushing back or
accepting it. And with when it comes to the little
guy who doesn't have this big team of people with him, uh,
(07:51):
they just get the rubber stamp no. And this is uh,
you know, you know what you need to do with
your land, and you have a good plan for what
you want to do, and but but other people are
just like no, I don't really like that, and.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Has a tough balance to strike.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
By the way, I want to ask you a question
because I'm sure there are a lot of constituents in
every district here in Massachusetts who are relying upon snap
payments which may go away this Saturday. I spent some
time last night on my talk show advocating that the
governor has an eight point eight billion dollar rainy day fund,
(08:39):
which would put a lot of people's minds at ease
that their snap payments would continue. I'd like to know
if if you agree with me, or if you agree.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
With the governor on that.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Absolutely agree with you, Dan, with this whole thing. They
you know, the the state is so willing to pay
for for so much stuff that is really kind of
extraneous to our life and and doesn't really have much
(09:14):
impact on us in the day to day thing. But
when it comes to something as basic as food, you
don't want to open up your wallet and and make
sure that everybody that everybody is able to keep going
to the grocery store and and you know, keeping their
refrigerator stocked. I mean, that's a little of seem But
(09:37):
at the same time, our Senators Marky and Warren, they
they got quite a bit of this blame to shoulder
as well. As you know, they voted what is it now,
thirteen times after today that to to keep the government
shut down. So all because they're they're having a little
(10:00):
hissy fit over.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Well, they're basically trying to say, we will negotiate, we
will open the government and negotiate, but first you have
to agree to three or four pre preconditions before we'll
even begin to negotiate. That's not much of a negotiation, representative.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
It's like signing a prenup before you go in to
the wedding.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Yes, Sarah, thank you very much. Representative, keep us posted
on this love to have you back. Thanks again. Representative
John Gaskey of Carver represents other communities in the second
Plymouth District.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Thank you very much, Representative.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Have a good night.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
All right, when we get back.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
We're going to talk about seasonal depression effective disorder with
doctor Vashar rud Hakrishnan. She is a psychiatrist and Tuft's
Medical Center. This is going to be an important conversation.
Do stay with us here on Nightside.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
My name is Dan Ray.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
You're on night Side with Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
All right, I want to welcome doctor varshap run Hakrishnan.
I gave it my best shot. I'm hoping I got
that last name pretty close to correct, doctor, very very.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
Close, almost almost there, Varsha Radh Krishnan. But thanks so
much for having me.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Oh well, yes, well, thank you very much. You're a
psychiatrist at Tuft's Medical Center. And we're gonna go through
a big change this weekend. We're going to have our
clocks fall back, so it's gonna start getting dark around here.
Not at four thirty quarter five, well, it will be
four to thirty quarter of five. Were to start to
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get dark, we're gonna lose We're gonna lose an hour.
We're gonna gain an hour of sleep, but lose an
hour of afternoon daylight. And that impacts a lot of
people with what is called seasonal effective disorder.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
How can people.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Diagnose that because that's a serious, Absolutely.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
It actually affects between five to ten percent of all
adults in the US, so it's it's very common. But
you know, sometimes it's it's hard to tell when you're
in the midst of feeling depressed or hopeless in those moments,
but it's it's really reduced to associated with that reduced
exposure to sunlight, especially on shorter fall and winter days.
(12:25):
But some of those warning signs and symptoms, especially when
when feeling persistently either apathetic, lowen energy, feeling depressed or down, hopeless,
feeling sad nearly every day most days, having trouble waking up,
so many many symptoms like that that that could be
a warning sign.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Well, this is particularly tough beginning on Sunday because I
think the sun right now is setting around you know,
five five, and all of the sudden, the sun at
our latitude is going to be setting at what will
be for US four forty five, and the days will
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continue to get shorter for a good five to six weeks.
So this is a tough time of year for people
who are impacted by this. The days won't even begin
to increase in length, and at that point it will
be around December tenth, maybe a minute or two every day,
and you really won't notice it until sometime probably in
late January.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
What can people do.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
If they think they're impacted by this condition?
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Who should reach out?
Speaker 2 (13:33):
I guess to the GP first of all, and then
find a specialist like yourself.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
Absolutely, So it's always important once any of those symptoms
start to happen, if there's any kind of difficulty functioning
during the day, if there's anything at all that feels
like a big change, it's important to notify your primary
care provider to talk about any potential medications option. And
(14:00):
really medications are just one piece, but actually what can
be really helpful is seeing whether you can purchase a
light box. So that's actually a very common therapy is
almost simulating sunlight exposure, and there's certain light therapies that
can be really really effective, and so it's a good
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idea to always bring it up to a primary care
doc and then they can potentially refer to a psychiatrist
or a specialist afterwards if needed.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Now, you say five to ten percent of the population,
I'm sure within that five to ten percent, there's some
more serious cases, cases which are more transitional. Are the
cases that impact people in early November, and even when
the sun starts to come back and stay high in
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the sky longer at night, it doesn't go away. It
sticks with him for a substantial period of time. Or
where does again, when when the sun starts to set
a little a little later in the day, does does
the case? Does the situation get resolved until the next November?
Speaker 6 (15:15):
A great question. I would say that generally speaking for
most folks who have this this seasonal component of to
their depression, I'd say it doesn't start and stop necessarily
perfectly with the changes in the season or or length
of day of the day. But yeah, some people can
(15:35):
can start to develop symptoms later earlier than others. Other
folks can have those symptoms persist for several weeks, even
into you know, changes into a new season. So every
everyone is a little different.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Uh is does this impact men more than women.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Is there an.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Age calculation that's involved here? I remember Mike Ducaucus is
late wife Kitty Takak has suffered from this greatly.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Is there a.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Gender likelihood or an age likelihood that that works into
this formulation.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
That's a great question. In general, women suffer more from
seasonal effective disorder than men. It's actually some studies suggesting
women are four times more likely to develop this disorder. Yeah,
so it's a pretty significant risk. And some of that
might actually also be related to hormonal changes that can
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occur in the winter time for women. So that's one
one important, you know, piece to definitely keep in mind.
I'd say age wise, sometimes we can see that older
adults might be affected with a higher likelihood. Part of
that can be some of the sleep cycles that we
see they change over time as we age, So that's
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also some substantial risk that we can see both with
gender and age.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Okay, then my last question is an.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Occurrence of this condition and that's confirmed, is that necessarily
an indication of a deeper psychological issues that should be
addressed or is this a sort of a topical impact
that can be dealt with, you know, in some form
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of fashion, but it's not necessarily reflective of a deeper condition.
Speaker 6 (17:36):
So I'd say, generally speaking, the ideology and cause of
depression can be so variable. On one hand, it can
be you know, related to genetics. On the other it
can be environmental factors like changes in in you know,
the daylight, exposure, the way our bodies are regulating our rhythms.
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But on the other hand, if there's other other stressors
going on in life that are precipitating depression are increasing
that risk, I think it really depends on what's what's
going on during that period of time.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Just feel like it's very.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Much an individual case that that means that needs to
be looked at carefully.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
Absolutely absolutely, everyone's a little different.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Doctor.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Thank you so much, Doctor Vasha Rada Krishtan. And again,
I know I didn't get it perfectly, but I'm trying
my best. A psychiatrist at Tough Medical Center. Thank you
so much for your time. I might like to do
a longer version of this and entertaining callers for maybe
a full hour.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Would you be.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Willing to spend some time with us and talk to
some of my listeners. We do not take phone calls
during these briefer segments. If you'd consider that, I'd be honored.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
Oh, absolutely would love to.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Okay, I take that as a yes. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
We'll do something in the next couple of weeks and
in timely fashion. Thank you so much, doctor, I appreciate
your time.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Tonight, Thank you so much. Good night, very welcome.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Okay, we have the eight thirty news coming by a
couple of minutes late, but I think it was worth it.
And we get back on a talk with Ken Mahon,
meteorologists for the Boston Globe. Yes, the Globe does have
a meteorologist about Hurricane Melissa's impact on Jamaica as well
as Haiti and the Jamaican Republic as well. But impact
on Jamaica has been just horrific. Back on Night Side,
(19:37):
my name is Dan Ray. We are halfway through the
eight thirty hour. We have just begun. Stay right with us.
You're going to have a fun night with us, a
fun ride all the way to midnight.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray, Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
Delighted to have back here on the show. Ken Mahan.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
He is the Globe meteorologist and can I assume you're
probably getting only some radio time with the Globe, and
I know you have a new interactive sports program with ESPN,
so I'm sure you're getting some on air TV.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Time as well.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
But you're going to talk with us tonight about the
impact of this storm, Hurricane Melissa, Haiti, the Dominican Republic,
and most importantly Jamaica. This can I think I heard
is the worst on record that Jamaica.
Speaker 7 (20:30):
Then, yeah, then, first of all, thanks for having me back.
Really appreciate chatting with you. And unfortunately you're correct. It's
the strongest hurricane to ever make landfall in the Atlantic
Basin on record, numerous record shatters, and unfortunately for the
island of Jamaica, still eastern Cuba portions of Haiti, as
(20:51):
you mentioned, pushing into the Bahamas now tonight. But boy,
what a devastating scenario for Jamaica upwards towards three feet
of rain and the higher elevations, ridiculous coastal inundation and
storm surge up to fifteen feet in some spots. Unfortunately,
worst case scenario, as the hurricane made sort of a
(21:12):
head on collision to the island versus side swiping, so
it brought its entire fury and it was strengthening as
it went into landfall. Pretty remarkable.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
So, putting aside the weather aspects are there, I assume
they don't have any real final numbers on people who
have lost their lives, have lost their homes. I assume
it's going to take days to even discover how many
people have been devastated by this storm.
Speaker 7 (21:43):
Yeah, Dan, I think you're right with that. You know,
there's all sorts of different information out there on different
news outlets, local and national and global, and through social
media outlets, but I'm sure you're right it's going to
take some time in order to unfortunately figure out what
the casualties end up being. The National Hurricane Center did
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put it really bluntly that Hurricane Melissa is going to
bring complete structural failure, and unfortunately, I've seen so many
images more than I've wanted to of just that, so
have a very difficult scenario in Jamaica.
Speaker 8 (22:21):
For sure, did the forecasters it sounded to me, And
you follow this more closely than I do, but it
sounds to me like the forecasters pretty much predicted how
bad this would be.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
That everyone had, well, maybe not as much.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Advanced notice as they would have liked, but there was
advanced notice here, so I hope some lives were saved
as a result of accurate, a little pretty devastating forecasts.
Speaker 7 (22:49):
Yeah, you know, you're right, Dan, the forecasting the picture
became clear pretty early on, and it's not always the
case in the world of forecasting. Shit was because it
eliminates more questions as we lead to an impending landfall.
But for sitting ducks on an island, there's only so
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much that you can do. The track, the intensity was
forecasted days ahead, but unfortunately it's I mean, jeez, you're
sort of just sitting there waiting, twiddling your gums. Just
hopefully folks got to their safe place out of harm
and we're able to muscle through the worst of it
for us.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
For the United States, this has been a fairly quiet
hurricane season. I know that technically it's not over until
the end of November, but we've been pretty fortunate this year.
We're going to get brushed by some rain I guess
tomorrow and into Friday, which is probably related to Melissa.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Am I incorrect on that or did I hear no correctly?
Speaker 7 (23:53):
Dan, You're pretty spot on there, you know. Fortunately for
the United States, we're not. We're most likely not going
to see a landfalling hurricane this year, which would be
the first time since twenty fifteen that has happened, So
that is good news as far as for us in
New England. Melissa is taking up speed and will be
(24:14):
near Bermuda very very quickly by late morning early afternoon tomorrow.
And because of its sheer size and how tall the
structure is, a lot of the moisture is going to
be caught up in the upper level and you hit
it spot on, it's going to fuel some of the
rainfall that we're going to see tomorrow evening and overnight
(24:36):
into Halloween morning across New England. Fortunately, I think that
the rainfall will be steady enough where we won't be
dealing with flooding issues across New England. But you know,
we are going to see a rainy night tomorrow and
then talking about Halloween morning at least being wet before
trick or treating stays hopefully dry for everybody.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
And I assume that once Melissa gets bad asked Bermuda,
the next stop is Europe, so there's not much between
Bermuda and Europe, so at that point it's it's devastation.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
The impact of Melissa will will dissipate.
Speaker 7 (25:15):
I hope you know it's it's funny. Then I appreciate
your you're you're looking at this sort of expanding the scope. Yeah,
the Northern Atlantic sea surface temperatures this year have been
pretty warm, above average, so a lot of these storms,
I say a lot relatively speaking, but a couple of
the storms that have made it this far north, and
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Melissa will follow suit, will will end up being sort
of a coastal storm for portions of Europe, Ireland, the UK.
You're definitely correct, and that instant that's happened on a
couple of occasions this season already.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
I'll tell you give me a quick weekend weather forecast,
can but what you do best?
Speaker 3 (25:56):
I know it's only Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
People are still thinking about the first weekend of November.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
What are we looking at? Saturday and Sunday.
Speaker 7 (26:05):
So Saturday and Sunday I'm going to call them sort
of copycat days. It does look like the weather pattern
is going to stable out a little bit on Saturday
and Sunday. We do have the end of daylight saving
Time coming on Sunday early Sunday morning, so we'll start
to see those four thirty pm sunsets, but going to
be sort of a mix of sun and clouds both
(26:25):
Saturday and Sunday. Windy on Saturday, but much much more
calm on Sunday, with highs for both days settling mostly
in the mid fifties across Boston, most of Massachusetts, billing
into southern New Hampshire and Rhode Island. So calm in
comparison to what we're going to see tomorrow evening in
early Friday morning, but still definitely going to feel like
(26:46):
early November by the time that weekend wraps up.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
So I guess we could call it calm, but crisp.
Speaker 9 (26:53):
Yes, I like it nice, just like a.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Good Macintosh apple crisp.
Speaker 7 (27:00):
That's right. Oh.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Thanks always great to talk with you. I so enjoy
our conversations. We've got to get to get you on
here more often. Thank you, my friend Ken Mahond and
me mediologist to the Boston Globe.
Speaker 7 (27:11):
Thank you so much, Ken, Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
All Right, when we get back, we're going to get
into the good news portion of this hour, and that
is there are some predictions that gas prices may be
still going lower. They've gone they are now on average
across the country below three dollars a gallon? Uh?
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Could we get closer to two?
Speaker 7 (27:33):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (27:33):
We're going to talk with a oil and gas expert by.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
The name of Ray Trevino.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
We'll see what he has to say on the other
side of this break on a Wednesday night edition of Nightside.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
It's Night Side with Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Well, last week we received the good news that the
average price of a gallon of gasoline across the country
was now below three dollars a gallon. There are some
places where it's substantially lower, and there are some places
where it's still above three dollars a gallon, particularly I
believe in California. Here in Massachusetts, it's pretty close to
(28:13):
that magic line of three dollars a gallon. With us
now is Ray Travino. He's an oil and gas expert.
He runs a company called pekos is Picos or pekos
where I never know how to pronounce that word.
Speaker 9 (28:26):
How are you doing well, it's Pekosos Country Energy.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
I'm doing great. We've had you on before. Thanks for
joining us again. I guess President Trump he likes to
tease people and sometimes will say that he likes to
troll people. He apparently was suggesting that maybe gasoline prices
are going to take a big dip fairly soon. I
(28:53):
don't see how they can do that get much below
where they are now, because most of these states take
a good, you know, hunk of that three dollars average
price for state taxes.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
What do you think?
Speaker 2 (29:07):
You know this business industry a heck of a lot
better than I do. Is this possible that the bottom
could be falling out for gas and oil?
Speaker 9 (29:15):
Well, it wouldn't really be necessarily the bottom falling out
of oil, but wow, what an eye opener it would
be for ever for all Americans to know how much
additional state taxes there are on every gallon of gas.
Speaker 7 (29:30):
We do.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
We do that here here on night Side all the time,
trust me on that.
Speaker 9 (29:36):
Okay, yes, but you know it is extremely possible, and
I don't think at this time if we actually saw
a two dollars gasoline, And keep in mind, we're in
some places here in North Texas at two dollars and
forty nine cents a gallon already.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Oh yeah, there were some other parts around the country
where it's two and a half dollars to fifty something
like that. So what would have to happen. I mean,
on the one hand, we're trying to keep Russian oil
off the market internationally to cripple their economy.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
That's what's going on.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
We're asking India, in places like India is to stop
buying Russian oil. At least the Trump administration is to
hurt Putin's efforts to annihilate Ukrainian and Ukrainians, which is
a good thing, but that obviously, I think when you
take their contribution off the market, that's probably going to
(30:31):
have an inflationary price on the price of gasoline? Am
my economics one on one wrong on that?
Speaker 9 (30:38):
Well, it's not necessarily that we're going to see an
inflation increase. What we're going to see is a global
supply be added to the market. Okay, keep in mind
that we are now at somewhat of an ease with Iraq,
and we're allowing Iraq and Iran, what I'm in Iran
(30:59):
to deuce that three million barrels of oil a day
as long as they don't create nuclear bombs, and that.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
I don't think.
Speaker 9 (31:13):
And but again, because of that, they're now they've got
three million barrels a day that they've got on market.
Opek is going to try to get up to twelve
million barrels a day over the next six more months, okay,
and the United States is still at fourteen million barrels
of oil a day. So with these countries and of
course like Brazil and some of the other South America
(31:36):
countries that are you know, finally in the United States,
will only continue to produce oil. And what these Russian
sanctions truly do is actually affect Russia's bottom line and
deters them from continuing this war in Ukraine. Uh. These
two oil companies that we hit hit their sanctions on
(31:58):
consists of five percent of the global oil supply, so
that's a big hit to hit them, not to mention
the thirty subsaid thearies companies of those two, which affect
China and India. So we are doing our best to
curtail anybody for buye. We're actually doing what think you
(32:19):
they're supposed to do and hurt somebody economically.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
And so you think that we can balance this off,
we can help put pressure on Russia to back off. Basically,
I guess to hurt their war machine while at the
same time have enough production to offset that worldwide to
(32:45):
bring down gasoline prices at the pump. That would be
quite a trick. If we can do that, the Trump
administration can do that successfully.
Speaker 9 (32:56):
Well, Hey, here's the other part of the trick that
I'm starting to look out for is if we actually
hit fifty dollars oil, will the Trump administration encourage Congress
to act and fill up the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Yeah, so that's not a decision that the President can
take as an executive action or his secretary of Energy
can do that, and that has to you need an
approval of Congress.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
I mean, fifty dollars at yallon.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Fifty dollars a barrel, I should say that's a pretty goodbye.
Speaker 9 (33:28):
Absolutely. Now, unfortunately I'm not too well at verse and congressional,
but I don't believe the president has the power of
the purse to purchase. So that's going to come through Congress.
And absolutely fifty dollars is great, like you just said. Unfortunately,
back in twenty twenty, the Democrat led Congress and Democrat
(33:52):
led Senate shut down President Trump from trying to fill
up the Strategic Patrol and Reserve at twenty five dollars oil.
So if we can actually get it done at fifty.
That's great because that doesn't really hurt the United States
economy just you know, at fifty dollars oil like it
would if we actually dropped at twenty five.
Speaker 3 (34:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
I think there was a point in twenty twenty one
when no one was driving, when the price of a
barrel of oil actually dropped below zero, and that there
were people who were paying not to pull oil out
of the ground. It really got pretty desperate right at
the early height of COVID.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
I'm sure you know of what I speak.
Speaker 9 (34:37):
Yes, absolutely, And that's what I hope does not happen again.
We don't need oil that low because then just to
oil too high hurts the economy. Oil too low hurts
the economy.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Yeah, it's kind of a Goldilock story, you know, you know,
not too hot, not too cold, just right, not too high,
not so low. Keep it in that zone and maybe
fifty forty five dollars a barrel so you guys can
actually spend, you know, can pump it out of the
ground and keep the supply going and keep those prices down.
(35:11):
Ray Travino, thank you so much. As always, we'll have
to have you back as the winter goes on. Okay,
I appreciate your talk to you all the time. Thank you, sir,
Thank you, sir. I'll have a great one when we
get back. We're going to talk about a zoning battle
in Medford. There's a it's sort of a mini New
York City battle.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
I'll explain when we get back, right after the nine
o'clock news. My name is Dan Rey.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
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