December 1, 2025 • 39 mins
We kicked off the program with four news stories and different guests on the stories we think you need to know about!
How to avoid getting arrested at airports & on airplanes. Basics that all travelers should know before entering an airport.
Guest: Jacqueline Goodman - Criminal Defense Attorney & Legal Analyst
China implemented new export controls to reduce the flow of critical rare-earth metals shipments to the United States, highlighting a key weakness in the U.S. military supply chain
Guest: James Morrone Jr. – energy policy analyst at Americans for Prosperity
A rare group of Einstein portraits and historical artifacts, many signed by the scientist himself are up for auction starting today 12/1! - artworks by Hermann Struck, Lou Albert-Lasard, Max Liebermann, and others each capturing Einstein at a different stage of his life
Guest: Bobby Livingston – Executive Vice President of RR Auction
Plowable snow returns to Massachusetts Tuesday. What we can expect from the big storm expected to hit MA.
Guest: Brian Thompson – AccuWeather Meteorologist
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's nice eyes with Dan Ray. I'm Delligan Beezy Boston's
news Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Thank you very much, Harry Small. Always great to hear
your voice here on the night Side part of wbz's
program Day. My name is Dan Ray. Rob Brooks is
back in the control room. Both Rob and I were
off for a few days and not together. Rob was
off with his family. I was off with my family
celebrating Thanksgiving. I trust and hope that all of you
(00:27):
had a wonderful Thanksgiving wherever you celebrated it. I want
all of my audience to know that I indeed did
toast you at my Thanksgiving dinner table with friends and relatives,
and I specifically mentioned all the Nightside listeners. Some of
you may have toasted us well. Thank Bradley for sitting
in on Thursday Friday so I could spend some time
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with my family. I really do appreciate that opportunity whenever
it comes along. And I also just want to make
one little programming note that later on tonight, I think
it will be at ten o'clock. I'm not exactly sure
we will announce the specifics of this year's upcoming It's
the thirteenth annual Nightside Charity Combine where we will profile
oh anywhere from fifteen to twenty charities. Give you an opportunity,
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from the comfort of your own home to speak with
us as a guest on the air Tuesday night, December
twenty third. You have to do not even waste the
time of recommending some great charity. We do not want
any recommendations. I want people who want to be on
the show. If you are involved in a charity, find
the person who's the spokesperson for the charity, or if
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it's your own charity, you can call us and give
us your name and a daytime phone number. We'll get
back to you with all the information. You will sit
at home on Tuesday night, December twenty third, which is
the last broadcast that I do this year. I'll be
back after New Year's before we spend our final couple
of hours promoting great, wonderful charities here in New England
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and elsewhere. We've done some charities from around the country
as well. They need to be five oh one c threes.
I do make an exception if you want to pitch
us on it, but again do not say, oh, won't
you have the Whatever charity you might be interested in No,
I want you to call whoever's the head of that
charity and that they want to come on our program.
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So they have to ask to come on. We do
not go about inviting people. So with that said, I'll
talk about that a little bit more. But first like
to introduce a fellow member of the Bar, a criminal
defense attorney and legal analyst, Jacqueline Goodman. She is going
to explain to us how to avoid getting arrested at
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airports and on airplanes. I think it's pretty simple. Behave yourself. Hi, Jacqueline,
how are you tonight?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Hi there, Dan, I'm great.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Welcome to Night Side. Okay, I'm going to first of all,
I guess you don't carry a weapon with you? How
about some other tips. I'm sure you have a lot
more tips that I could provide off the top of
my head, because in one of those moods, I haven't
been on the air since Wednesday and I'm all riled up.
Go ahead, Jack, Lily, well listen.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Don't carry a weapon is a great place to start.
Airports are one of the few places, though, where federal, state,
and local laws will overlap, and enforcement is extremely strict,
especially during the holidays. So really, most ar USTs that
the airport aren't about terrorism or major crimes like we think.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
They're about ordinary.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
People making avoidable mistakes under stress. And you talk about
a weapon. I can't count the number of times that
I've had cases near the airport where someone had a
zipper pocket, had had a weapon that was kept in
there for sports. You know, some family member put a
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weapon in there and they didn't realize it and it
goes into metal detector and there's an arrest. So really
it's about making sure that you've checked everywhere there could
possibly be a weapon. And more.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
By the way, we're here at Logan Airport. A professional
athlete or two. I'm not going to mention them for
embarrassing them. But you know guys who I guess you know,
carry for a little bit of self protection, but they
forget to leave it at home. It's normally will say,
remember that added said, don't leave home without it. Well,
it's just the opposite. Be sure to leave home without
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the gun.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
What else you got exactly?
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Yeah, Well, you know, really a lot of the times
people get arrested, there's really three I think major triggers.
As I was thinking about talking with you, tonight. One
of them about arrest during the holidays at airports is
that they get they drink alcohol on their way to
the air or on their wait for the flight, and
disorderly conduct, usually tied to alcohol or stress, is something
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that happens a lot. Again, bringing those prohibited weapons that
you've forgotten in your carry arms, et cetera. And then
interfering with slight crew instructions. Those three things are really
what I can put as the buckets of what I
see when people get rested at airports. And it seems
like it's simple, but you'd be surprised that, you know,
especially at times where there's crowds and there's stress and
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sometimes there's alcohol involved, you can make a simple mistake.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Well. For example, when you're lining up, I can never
understand why airlines do not load the people at the
back of the plane first. You know, if it's a
plane for fifty rows, why don't you row load row
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forty to fifty first. If you want to do the
first class or the business section first, because they're paying
a little extra, that's okay, But once you get to coach,
it makes no sense to do you know, row one
to five then so that's people are trying to sneak in.
(05:57):
You know, they want to they want to get it.
They want to make sure they have four bags with them,
and they want to make sure they all get stowed
above them. Goad, I'm interrupting you. I just had to
mention no.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
No, no, you're not absolutely and you're exactly right. And
a lot of times people think they know better, and
sometimes they do know better. But what we have to
think about is just the absolutely yes kind of mantra.
Yes absolutely, whether the other person is right or wrong,
it's TSA or the flight crew, you have to just
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understand that they have broad discretion to do the things
they're doing, and you know, listen, if they perceive a
safety risk or even a minor confrontation, that can become
a major issue. So even though we can sit and
look at what's happening and think this makes absolutely no
sense and I could do it better, we have to
keep that to ourselves because those kinds of things can
inspire other passengers to get involved as well, and before
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you know it, you can have a little melee on
your hands.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
But even the.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Slightest disturbance can turn ugly. When you're talking about ABA.
So you're absolutely right about what you're saying, and it's
only one of many things. I'm sure people think they
could do better, but we have to allow the experts
to do the TSA, to do what they do every day,
over and over again.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I think everybody that flies, you know, as passengers on airplanes,
if you fly private, to what you want, but if
you're going to fly on a major carrier, it's like
a bus these days, we get it. However, I think
everybody should have to take a civility course once every
five years in order to qualify. I'm talking about the
knock ahead and who in front of you has to
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throw that seat back at a g force of you know,
at least seven, or the person behind you who insists
on putting his or her bare feet on your arm rest.
You know, I've been in situations so many times where
you're sitting next to somebody even when the plane has
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Remember sitting on a flight out of van Over to
Montreal many years ago and there was this chowderhead who's
sitting there. He's talking. He must have just gotten his
cell phone. This was around like twenty twelve, so he
wanted to impress everyone on the plane that he had
a cell phone, and I'm looking at the guy like,
are you kidding me? And he's having on this wonderful
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conversation like he's talking to his assistant or his secretary.
But it was so loud and so forced. I just
kept looking at this guy and I said, well, what
are you looking at? And I looked and I said
to him nothing, And I said it that way he
got He got my point. So absolutely, Yeah, here's a
(08:44):
final question. Okay, what about if you do find yourself
in an in stir and you have been he handcuffed
and you're you're now you're going to a room, give
them the lawyer's advice, which I think I know what
I would say to you. Sober up, shut your mouth,
(09:05):
and just the only word you want to say, May
I call my lawyer? Sir?
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Please exactly right, follow directions.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
You know.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
For example, TSA can only ask questions and search for
weapons and safety related issues. They're not their authority ends.
Actually we're safety ends. So if an agent is asking
questions that make one feel uncomfortable or information about even contraband,
drugs and things, they really can't do that. But that
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is not the time to make that statement. If an
agent make somebody feel uncomfortable, et cetera. The best approaches
to remain calm, cooperate and request a supervisor. But over
and over again I tell people just cooperate while you're there,
because you're in their space and there's no winning that
against TSA or other authorities at the airport. Just really
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keep your mouth shut and make no statements other than
maybe to ask for a supervisor and continue on cooperating
and remain calm.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Jacqueline. Generally, when our guests they come on, do you
have a little booklet that people might want? Is how
do folks get in touch with you if they would
like to. I hope that no one has been arrested
during this segment here nights, But what's the best way
to get in touch with you if you would like
to give us a website or anything that would get
(10:26):
people to you.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Sure, well, statistically speaking, while we've been talking, someone has
been arrested at an airport. But yes, they can reach me.
You can google my name Jacqueline Goodman, and I'm in
Orange County, California, and my website is California Defense Lawyer
dot net.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
So that covers on the ground that covers about fifty
five million potential clients. California defense lawyer. That's a good one.
That's a good one, Jacqueline Goodman. I really do appreciate it.
Thank you for your time tonight. Okay, you start it
off the week with a smile or two. Thank you
about a serious subject.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Nonetheless wonderful talking to you.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Okay, delightful, delightful. All right, we get back here on Nightside.
As we start the week off, back here in the
big chair, we're going to talk with James Morone Junior.
He's an energy policy analyst at Americans for Prosperity. It's
a libertarian organization. China has implemented new export controls. I
(11:29):
think they've led up on those, but this would potentially
reduce the flow of critical rear earth metal shipments to
the US. And we will talk with James Morone Junior.
I hope it could be Maroney, but I think it's
Moron Junior. We'll find out for sure right after the break,
and please stay tuned here on Nightside. I'm told that
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there's a football game going on somewhere. If there is
and you want to watch that, just turn the audio
down because you can figure out what's going on. Just
watch the game and listen to Nightside Back on Nightside.
Right after this, when.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
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Speaker 2 (12:13):
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Speaker 1 (14:05):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on w Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Well, I have found out how to pronounce James Moroney
Junior's name correctly. James, welcome to Night's side.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Let's for having me all tonight.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
You're welcome. Got your audio cranked up there, which is great.
You're an energy policy analyst at Americans for Prosperity, and look,
we got a problem with China. They have some critical
rare earth medals and they can control the flow of
those rare earth medals to the US. President Trump met
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with President Shijiping. I think it was October thirtieth, and
it sounded as if we were making some progress on
this difficult situation. What's going on?
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Yeah, as far as I know, they China has relief,
still relax some of these export controls for the time being.
But the reality is, with these ongoing trade and tariff negotiations,
it is unclear if this will this little daytime will last.
And more importantly, it's not something we can really risk
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or bet against lasting or not lasting. The reality is,
if we allow a strategic adversary or competitor like China
to control the flow of such important materials, the things
that help create our key military weapons, such as like
an F thirty five or a Tomahawk missile, or even
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simpler things like your smartphone. It gives them an incredibly
beneficial and leveraged point to negotiate with us, and it
puts us at a severe disadvantage. And so the reality
is we need to do something on the home front,
and fortunately we have an option in permitting reform. Really,
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the crux of the argument of this out that I wrote,
and the only way we can really free ourselves from
foreign interference in our economy and such key critical elements
is through a per writing reform that allows us to
take benefit and use the resources that we already have
here in the US.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Well, I think what you're referring to is that, and
we've seen this in hundreds of examples where there will
be an effort to I don't know, do a new
gas pipeline or an oil pipeline, or for that matter,
to extract important metals where earth metals from the earth,
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and someone will come along, generally from some one of
the groups that is concerned about the environment and say
that by doing this we might upset an area where
rattlesnakes are living or something that doesn't really you know,
bother me. How do we get around that. I'm assuming
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that the Trump administration which says, you know, drill baby, drill,
probably also is willing to say dig baby, dig right.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Oh, definitely. And the reality is that those obstacles that
you decided, they stop all sorts of energy projects. They
stop green energy products, they stop solar developments, they start,
stop green energy transmission lines, windmill projects. It's it's hitting
everything across the board. And that's a key reason why
our energy prices are skyrocketing right now. We haven't been
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able to build things. There's instances of key energy projects
dating back to the early twenty fifteen, twenty seventeens that
are still aren't completed out in the midwest, northwest, northeast.
Pick a state or a region, and I could you
could probably find some some kind of energy project that
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is just bogged down because of permitting issues.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
James, we can only negotiate with China, and if China
wants to get nasty and pull back. Right now, things
maybe are going in a fairly positive direction. But who
knows where we might be with China six months or
a year from now. Obviously, what can be done. I mean,
the federal judges that are in place, you know, who
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oftentimes end up district court judges ruling on some of
these cases. That there are so many these cases that
percolate up through the judicial system, the Supreme Court would
be overwhelmed if they had to deal with every one
of these cases. What is the solution other than a
political solution.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
A key solution is, of course, an A lasting solution
would be a legislative one. Unfortunately we have there's some
good legislation moving through the House right now. For example,
the Bipartisan Speed Act is a really good example. It
reforms NEVO, which is done Environmental Policy Act, which is
essentially a procedural tool which manages these environmental and procedural
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reviews of all sorts of projects. And within that new
build the Speed Act, it contains more of a narrowing
of what can be filed, what kind of lawsuits can
be filed, it, what kind of judicial reviews can happen,
and it rains it in from what we're seeing right
now to a more fair way of doing things. So
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instead of these lawsuits that are really just meant to
stop any kind of progress, they're meant to really limit
who can file the suit, how judges can review them,
and really ensure that the process is just to serve
as a procedural check to ensure that all parties are
being heard and understood in any kind of impacts are
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being measured accurately and fairly, instead of being used as
this procedural tool, or I guess now blockade more accurately.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Sure, James, how can folks read the article that you wrote?
Obviously this should with their appetite. You're with Americans for Prosperity.
Where did this article appear with at Reason Magazine?
Speaker 4 (20:14):
No? No, it's in Inside Sources or the DC mag
You can check it out at anytime. I'm always happy
to plug my own work.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
I guess you could say, okay, so to give us
the website where they can find it. That's what that's
what I'm looking for.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Yeah, of course, check out the Dcjournal dot com. It's
under the politics section.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Excellent, excellent, James, Thank you very much. James Maroney, junior
energy policy analyst at Americans for Prosperity DC Journal dot
com under the politics section. Thanks James. Maybe we'll have
you on as a guest somenight and talk about this
in greater length and take some phone calls from our listeners.
That might be an opportunity as well.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Okay, yeah, of course anytime. Dan, thank you so much
for having me tonight.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Enjoyed it very much, Thanks, James, appreciate it. Here comes
the news. At the bottom of the hour, we come back.
How would you like to have a autographed portrait of
Albert Einstein? Think about that. We'll show you how you
can get one. We'll be talking with Bobby Livingston, Executi
Vice President. Are our auction right after the break. These
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are forty we're portraits of Einstein, many of them autographed,
maybe all of them, but we'll find out from Bobby
Livingston right after the news at the bottom of the air.
My name is Dan Ray, and this is Nightside. I
am back in the big chair and be here for
right through December twenty third, So stay with us. Thanks everybody,
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coming back on Nightside.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm WBZ, Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
All right, let's think about Albert Einstein. I have a
quote of Einstein on my actually right in front of me.
Einstein's quoted is saying, I have no special talent. I'm
only passionately curious. I too have no special talent. I'm
not as smart as Einstein. But I like to ask questions.
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So with my guest, Bobby Livingston has been with us before.
He's the executive VP of our our auction. Bobby, you've
got a rare group of Einstein portraits and historical artifacts,
many signed by the scientists himself. First of all, where
did you get this this cash of unbelievable, unbelievable historical
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products that anyone would be honored and happy to own.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
Well, this comes from an anonymous collector who he and
his father had spent since the seventies buying lithographs and
original artworks of Albert Einstein. And like you said, a
lot of them are signed by Einstein himself, are signed
by the artist who drew Einstein. These these are all etchings, paintings, drawings,
and they're most mostly lithographs. So it's an incredible collection.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Let's do this, Okay, When you say paintings or drawings,
we get that. When you say etchings, what sort of
product or what is used in an etching? I don't
want to display my artistic ignorance, but I like to
ask questions. I'm passionately curious, like Einstein.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
Well, we have some that are called woodcuts, where the
artists uh, created a stamp basically by using them wood
to cut Einstein's image into it and then applying it
onto paper. So that's kind of that that's an etching. Wow.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
And so it's so it's a piece of paper that
that you would put in a frame. It's probably already
in a frame in a frame. And what was you
said paintings and drawings and etchings and what was the
fourth category?
Speaker 5 (23:54):
Lit lithographs where they've they've taken the artwork yet and
we created it and then Einstein signs them I seek.
So what's really incredible, Dan, is that the collection starts
in nineteen seventeen and then all the way to the
end of his life. So you kind of are able
to look at Einstein's transformation from this world famous physicist
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to this what you know, this incredible huge icon, you know,
post World War two, post atomic bomb. So it amazing.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
So the artworks and I don't know these artists Hermann Struck,
lou Albert Lessarde, Max Lieberman was with these things that
Einstein was aware of. Was he sitting and posing for
these because some of them look very posed, or with
these drawings of Einstein that was done of him through
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photographs and newspapers, and he would the ones he signed,
obviously he had knowledge of but some of the ones
that he didn't sign, these weren't Einstein. I mean, Einstein
was a pretty busy guy. He wasn't sitting there well,
iosing right.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
Einstein loved to get his portrait taken. He loved to
sit for artists. It's one of the things he loved
to do. He you know, the public relations of his image.
He came enamored with it. And yes, he sat for
these artists. They'd come to him and he and they
would they would paint him in life or draw him,
uh from life. But there's also a few artistic interpretations
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of him that are really cool too, that give you
the zeitgeist of that time in art. How they how
they portrayed Einstein. So yeah, we you know, we've sold
many photos. He loves to have his photo taken, and
he loved to sit for artists, and he loved to
communicate with the artists, and he would sign the lithographs
for the artists.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
So yeah, So when you say a lithograph, a lithograph
then is the original that the artist does and then
from that there were prints made of the original artwork.
Is that my am I understanding explaining that correct.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
Yeah, they take no, the lithograph, They take the original
artwork and reproduce it is a lithograph. But they're but they're.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
I think that's kind of what I said. But that's okay.
So these would be pictures, you know, just as as
those of us who grew up with pictures of the
Pope and Jack Kennedy President Kennedy there obviously those are
colored pictures and high gloss. These are more black and
white from what I can see. I did look at
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the website today. That's fascinating work. You know, it's it's
it's it's amazing. I mean, Einstein has to have been
one of the towering figures of the twentieth century. If
you had the name the top ten or twenty people
of the twentieth century, Einstein has to be on that
list every day.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
Absolutely, I mean absolutely, one of the most important figures
in all of human history. You know, his theory relativity,
you know, it's proven true by an eclipse in nineteen nineteen,
you know, so so there it's a He's a towering
figure in humanity and probably one of the most important
of the of you know, twentieth century for sure.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Okay, So now let's get people with their eyes on
some of this artwork. Give us the website for our
our auction.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
It's our our auction dot com. R U C T
I O. It's easy, right, And can you go there?
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Does caps make a difference because I know it's a
capital R, capital R and then auction with a capital
A or is it just our our auction off the
lower case doesn't matter.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
Yeah, it doesn't matter, okay, Yeah, And then there's a
great link. If you click on Einstein you'll see all
the portraits in chronological order, from from you know, a
very early one from nineteen seventeen all the way to
nineteen fifty five.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
And by the way, if you don't mind me saying, so,
we're not talking about spending you know, hundreds of thousands
of dollars here. This is. This is particularly the autographed
portraits of Einstein's, you know, signed signed by Einstein. They're
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not out out of the reach of a good percentage
of my audience. So I would encourage people if this
is of interest to you, If it's not, if you're
a sports guy and you're not interested in Albert Einstein.
You're interested more in Albert poolholes. You know that's okay?
Probably you like that, huh.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
I got to laugh out of all for you, Bob,
I like, I like, yeah, you're absolutely right there. Some
of these Prince and lithographs uson for under a thousand dollars,
the ones that are signed by him, you know, or
eight thousand, ten thousand. But they are affordable, and they're
beautiful and they're you know, they're they're you know, they're
in their vintage yeah images, So they're great artwork.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Well, Bobby, I appreciate very much. We've had you on before.
It's a great auction house. It's a local auction house too,
as I understand it. You're you're located in New England.
Speaker 5 (29:20):
Correct, Yeah. Yeah, we're Boston based and have been since
nineteen seventy six. It's going to be our fiftieth year
next year.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
So that's amazing, my fiftieth year in media as well.
I should do something with you.
Speaker 5 (29:32):
Yes, yes, let's do it. Let's do it all.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
So I started at BCTV in nineteen seventy six, and
before that I spent a couple of years in radio.
Well here in WBC well, I was in law school,
so we have something in common here. It's a very
important period of time for all of us as well
as not to mention the United States of America as well.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
That's right, that's right, that Bison tennal year of seventy six.
I'll never forget being in Boston by the time.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
It was a great It was a great time to
start us a report because you couldn't do a bad story.
I think that's the only reason they hired me full time. Hey, Bob,
thanks very much, Bobby Livingston, executive be a key of
our auction. Are our auction dot Calm calling all Albert
Einstein enthusiasts. This is not to be missed. Thanks again, Bobby,
(30:22):
have a great night. Yep, there you go. So Okay,
before we get to this upcoming weekend, which now is
four days or five days away, as we move out
of the Thanksgiving weekend, we're going to have a snow
event here in New England tomorrow. It is the start
of meteorological winter and we have lined up Brian Thompson,
(30:43):
acute weather meteorologist. We will have probable snow in a
lot of New England. So stick with us and we
will tell you where it's going to snow and maybe
where it's not going to snow. Coming back on Night's side, Well, folks,
winter is here, logical winter, and with us to explain
what that means is Brian Thompson, we're also going to
(31:05):
talk about a little bit of snow that's going to
fall here in New England. Perfect timing here, Brian. I
don't know how you guys have pulled this off again,
but the cold weather arrived yesterday and snow tomorrow. Welcome
to winter. How are you, my friend?
Speaker 6 (31:20):
I'm doing well, Dan. Yeah, just as we turn the
calendar into December, like you said, the beginning of meteorological winter.
We do have some snow on the way tomorrow for
some places, not everybody's going to see it. It's gonna
be one of those storms we're battling with, mixing and
rain in some areas, snow and others. And then after
a bit of a break, we have at least a
(31:42):
brief surge and some very cold weather coming late in
the week.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
So let's talk about the snow tomorrow. We'll take it.
We'll take it slowly here so that nobody gets too upset.
Who's going to get it worse. I'm assuming northern New England,
northern Massachusetts, and the Berkshires.
Speaker 6 (32:00):
Yeah, kind of the normal, the normal spots that do
pretty well in these situations. At least in Massachusetts, the
Berkshires will get a pretty good hit of snow, probably
more than six inches in some places. And there's probably
gonna be some spots northern parts of Worcester County and
then through southern New Hampshire that get over six inches
as well. And that swath of heavier snow will not
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only extend through southern New Hampshire, but will extend through
a good part portion of southern Maine as well. So
that's the area most likely to pick up in excess
of six inches of snow.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Now, is this the stuff that's coming out of the
Midwest or is this coming up from the south? What's
its source?
Speaker 6 (32:37):
Well, there's a piece coming out of the Midwest. There's
also kind of a piece coming out of the Gulf
of Mexico, and that's where this becomes a little stronger.
What we have right now in the Midwest as a
pretty light snow falling tonight from around Chicago through northern
Indiana through Detroit. These are areas they got hit pretty
hard with snow over the weekend, but this is a
much lighter storm. But as this as these two systems
(32:59):
kind of together here, we're going to see a storm
develop along the coast and it's going to intensify as
it moves up the coast till later tomorrow into tomorrow night.
Kind of an old fashion nor easter, I guess, as
this is going to become again a stronger storm, but
with some of that Golf moisture getting injected in, that's
when we start getting some of those heavier precipitation amounts
like we're going to see.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
But is it fair to say that the Gulf moisture,
that it's the Gulf of Mexico that perhaps is the
start of this, But we got the Gulf stream still
relatively warm off the southeast coast of Massachusetts. Is that
what's going to spere folks down in the cape in
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the south shore.
Speaker 6 (33:41):
That's certainly part of it. At this time of year,
especially with those water temperatures still generally in the forties.
Anytime you get a storm like this, a lot of
times the flow is going to come off the water,
so you're bringing essentially warmer air in off of the water,
so it becomes more difficult, especially with a not a none,
a truly fresh source of cold air to the north
(34:01):
to help drive some of the cold air in place.
Makes it a lot easier to move the cold air out.
And as the storm moves northeastward, I think that's what
we're going to see along the coast and in many
areas inside of east east of four ninety five, there's
just going to be too much warm air to overcome.
At some point, we're going to see that switch over
to rain. And in many places in Boston and the
immediate suburbs, there may be very little snow at all.
(34:24):
It may just be mostly rain. Just that the timing
of this doesn't help either for the snow lovers that
want the snow, because this is going to be arriving
later tomorrow morning into the afternoon. That's when some of
the heavier precipitation is going to be around, and that's
when the temperature are going to be the highest, of course,
with the sun being up.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
So then you said, after the storm clears, we got
some cold air coming in. What's the deal there? We
had some cold air last week, didn't amount to what
I feared, as they would tell us about a pole
of vortex, did that ever get here, because they never
really felt that.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
No.
Speaker 6 (34:56):
And a lot of times, especially this early in the season,
the cold air masses that drop out of the drop
out of Canada especially have a hard time sometimes reaching
south of New England because, of course, the Great Lakes
kind of the same thing we're just talking about with
the gulf S dream. The Great Lakes are still relatively warm,
they're not frozen yet, so these cold air masses tend
to modify as they come over the Great Lakes. They're
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not as powerful, and that's been the case and even
this one coming up. But we're talking about late in
the week. It's going to be centered around Friday. I
think that's going to be kind of the similar situation
will be colder in the Midwest that it's going to
be here because the next couple of days, after we
get past Tomorrow and to Wednesday and Thursday, HIGs will
still be near forty but then an arc to cold
front comes through late Thursday, might bring a snowshower, maybe
(35:38):
even a heavier snow showers as that front moves through,
and then by Thursday night we're talking about lows and
the teens and highs only in the twenties by Friday.
So it's going to be colder than really anything we've
had so far this season. But at least there's signs
that won't be quite as cold as we get into
the weekend, highs'll at least be back near forty again.
So even though it's going to be a shock to
(35:58):
the system, maybe Thursday night Friday, temperature should bounce back
a little bit by the weekend.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
And not to put you on the spot, but long
term models are they suggesting it's going to be colder
than normal and perhaps snowier than normal this winter.
Speaker 6 (36:14):
Certainly it could be on the snowier side at times,
but I think we're still expecting maybe snowfall to maybe
be on the lower side of average. It certainly over
the next couple of weeks, it certainly looks like we're
going to be on the colder side of average. Of course,
the average temperatures are still coming down here through the
month of December. We of course see some of the
coldest weather into January and February, so it's certainly compared
(36:37):
to what we normally see this time of year. It
is going to be running a little bit colder than
average for most of the next week, and that may
take us through most of next week as well. I
don't see any big reprieves from the cold coming anytime soon.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Last question, a little reflective yesterday. People may not realize it,
but the hurricane season, which runs from June first to
no thirtieth, ended well. It ended, I guess on November thirtieth,
on Sunday. Didn't turn out to be a bad hurricane season,
particularly in these parts.
Speaker 6 (37:10):
Yeah, and really not just New England. We really didn't
have We had no landfalling hurricanes in the United States.
We did, of course have Hurricane Melissa, which caused so
much devastation in the Caribbean about a month ago, But
outside of that, it was a kind of a strange year.
Like I said, we had no landfalling hurricanes in the US,
(37:31):
and it wasn't a terribly active year compared to the
number of storms they typically see. But we had three
Category five hurricanes, which is kind of unusual. So it
was kind of a just an unusual year. We didn't
have a lot of a lot of problems in the US,
but there were some strong storms out there. Luckily, outside
of Melissa, most of them stayed away from land.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
Yeah, there was only one. It looked to me, I
think it was one of the early hurricanes that touched
the Carolinas, and I think that was Hurricane Chantell. I
was checking it out today, a little geeky and on
that sort of stuff, and that was the only one
that actually touched our land surface, other than there was
one that was over I guess over in CanCon and Mexico.
(38:15):
There was a Hurricane Barry, which I think probably none
of us really cared much about because it stayed on
the on the on the coast to east coast of Mexico.
Speaker 4 (38:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Great to talk to you, as always. I so appreciate
you're taking the time and and explaining it to us
in a little bit of depth. Brian, you guys are
always fascinating to talk to. I appreciate it. I'm sure
we'll talk again, probably sooner than later as the winter unfolds.
Speaker 6 (38:41):
I'm sure to have a good night YouTube, Brian.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Appreciate your time. Brian Thompson, accurate weather meteorologist. It is
now time to step aside for the nine o'clock news
and get ready for talking about our first topic of
the night, which is the beginning of the Brian Walsh trial.
Really interesting start to this trial. We'll talk with Attorney
Phil Tracy on the other side
It's nice eyes with Dan Ray. I'm Delligan Beezy Boston's
news Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Thank you very much, Harry Small. Always great to hear
your voice here on the night Side part of wbz's
program Day. My name is Dan Ray. Rob Brooks is
back in the control room. Both Rob and I were
off for a few days and not together. Rob was
off with his family. I was off with my family
celebrating Thanksgiving. I trust and hope that all of you
(00:27):
had a wonderful Thanksgiving wherever you celebrated it. I want
all of my audience to know that I indeed did
toast you at my Thanksgiving dinner table with friends and relatives,
and I specifically mentioned all the Nightside listeners. Some of
you may have toasted us well. Thank Bradley for sitting
in on Thursday Friday so I could spend some time
(00:49):
with my family. I really do appreciate that opportunity whenever
it comes along. And I also just want to make
one little programming note that later on tonight, I think
it will be at ten o'clock. I'm not exactly sure
we will announce the specifics of this year's upcoming It's
the thirteenth annual Nightside Charity Combine where we will profile
oh anywhere from fifteen to twenty charities. Give you an opportunity,
(01:14):
from the comfort of your own home to speak with
us as a guest on the air Tuesday night, December
twenty third. You have to do not even waste the
time of recommending some great charity. We do not want
any recommendations. I want people who want to be on
the show. If you are involved in a charity, find
the person who's the spokesperson for the charity, or if
(01:36):
it's your own charity, you can call us and give
us your name and a daytime phone number. We'll get
back to you with all the information. You will sit
at home on Tuesday night, December twenty third, which is
the last broadcast that I do this year. I'll be
back after New Year's before we spend our final couple
of hours promoting great, wonderful charities here in New England
(01:59):
and elsewhere. We've done some charities from around the country
as well. They need to be five oh one c threes.
I do make an exception if you want to pitch
us on it, but again do not say, oh, won't
you have the Whatever charity you might be interested in No,
I want you to call whoever's the head of that
charity and that they want to come on our program.
(02:20):
So they have to ask to come on. We do
not go about inviting people. So with that said, I'll
talk about that a little bit more. But first like
to introduce a fellow member of the Bar, a criminal
defense attorney and legal analyst, Jacqueline Goodman. She is going
to explain to us how to avoid getting arrested at
(02:41):
airports and on airplanes. I think it's pretty simple. Behave yourself. Hi, Jacqueline,
how are you tonight?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Hi there, Dan, I'm great.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Welcome to Night Side. Okay, I'm going to first of all,
I guess you don't carry a weapon with you? How
about some other tips. I'm sure you have a lot
more tips that I could provide off the top of
my head, because in one of those moods, I haven't
been on the air since Wednesday and I'm all riled up.
Go ahead, Jack, Lily, well listen.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Don't carry a weapon is a great place to start.
Airports are one of the few places, though, where federal, state,
and local laws will overlap, and enforcement is extremely strict,
especially during the holidays. So really, most ar USTs that
the airport aren't about terrorism or major crimes like we think.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
They're about ordinary.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
People making avoidable mistakes under stress. And you talk about
a weapon. I can't count the number of times that
I've had cases near the airport where someone had a
zipper pocket, had had a weapon that was kept in
there for sports. You know, some family member put a
(03:47):
weapon in there and they didn't realize it and it
goes into metal detector and there's an arrest. So really
it's about making sure that you've checked everywhere there could
possibly be a weapon. And more.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
By the way, we're here at Logan Airport. A professional
athlete or two. I'm not going to mention them for
embarrassing them. But you know guys who I guess you know,
carry for a little bit of self protection, but they
forget to leave it at home. It's normally will say,
remember that added said, don't leave home without it. Well,
it's just the opposite. Be sure to leave home without
(04:21):
the gun.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
What else you got exactly?
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Yeah, Well, you know, really a lot of the times
people get arrested, there's really three I think major triggers.
As I was thinking about talking with you, tonight. One
of them about arrest during the holidays at airports is
that they get they drink alcohol on their way to
the air or on their wait for the flight, and
disorderly conduct, usually tied to alcohol or stress, is something
(04:46):
that happens a lot. Again, bringing those prohibited weapons that
you've forgotten in your carry arms, et cetera. And then
interfering with slight crew instructions. Those three things are really
what I can put as the buckets of what I
see when people get rested at airports. And it seems
like it's simple, but you'd be surprised that, you know,
especially at times where there's crowds and there's stress and
(05:09):
sometimes there's alcohol involved, you can make a simple mistake.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Well. For example, when you're lining up, I can never
understand why airlines do not load the people at the
back of the plane first. You know, if it's a
plane for fifty rows, why don't you row load row
(05:35):
forty to fifty first. If you want to do the
first class or the business section first, because they're paying
a little extra, that's okay, But once you get to coach,
it makes no sense to do you know, row one
to five then so that's people are trying to sneak in.
(05:57):
You know, they want to they want to get it.
They want to make sure they have four bags with them,
and they want to make sure they all get stowed
above them. Goad, I'm interrupting you. I just had to
mention no.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
No, no, you're not absolutely and you're exactly right. And
a lot of times people think they know better, and
sometimes they do know better. But what we have to
think about is just the absolutely yes kind of mantra.
Yes absolutely, whether the other person is right or wrong,
it's TSA or the flight crew, you have to just
(06:30):
understand that they have broad discretion to do the things
they're doing, and you know, listen, if they perceive a
safety risk or even a minor confrontation, that can become
a major issue. So even though we can sit and
look at what's happening and think this makes absolutely no
sense and I could do it better, we have to
keep that to ourselves because those kinds of things can
inspire other passengers to get involved as well, and before
(06:53):
you know it, you can have a little melee on
your hands.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
But even the.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Slightest disturbance can turn ugly. When you're talking about ABA.
So you're absolutely right about what you're saying, and it's
only one of many things. I'm sure people think they
could do better, but we have to allow the experts
to do the TSA, to do what they do every day,
over and over again.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I think everybody that flies, you know, as passengers on airplanes,
if you fly private, to what you want, but if
you're going to fly on a major carrier, it's like
a bus these days, we get it. However, I think
everybody should have to take a civility course once every
five years in order to qualify. I'm talking about the
knock ahead and who in front of you has to
(07:34):
throw that seat back at a g force of you know,
at least seven, or the person behind you who insists
on putting his or her bare feet on your arm rest.
You know, I've been in situations so many times where
you're sitting next to somebody even when the plane has
(07:56):
Remember sitting on a flight out of van Over to
Montreal many years ago and there was this chowderhead who's
sitting there. He's talking. He must have just gotten his
cell phone. This was around like twenty twelve, so he
wanted to impress everyone on the plane that he had
a cell phone, and I'm looking at the guy like,
are you kidding me? And he's having on this wonderful
(08:19):
conversation like he's talking to his assistant or his secretary.
But it was so loud and so forced. I just
kept looking at this guy and I said, well, what
are you looking at? And I looked and I said
to him nothing, And I said it that way he
got He got my point. So absolutely, Yeah, here's a
(08:44):
final question. Okay, what about if you do find yourself
in an in stir and you have been he handcuffed
and you're you're now you're going to a room, give
them the lawyer's advice, which I think I know what
I would say to you. Sober up, shut your mouth,
(09:05):
and just the only word you want to say, May
I call my lawyer? Sir?
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Please exactly right, follow directions.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
You know.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
For example, TSA can only ask questions and search for
weapons and safety related issues. They're not their authority ends.
Actually we're safety ends. So if an agent is asking
questions that make one feel uncomfortable or information about even contraband,
drugs and things, they really can't do that. But that
(09:34):
is not the time to make that statement. If an
agent make somebody feel uncomfortable, et cetera. The best approaches
to remain calm, cooperate and request a supervisor. But over
and over again I tell people just cooperate while you're there,
because you're in their space and there's no winning that
against TSA or other authorities at the airport. Just really
(09:56):
keep your mouth shut and make no statements other than
maybe to ask for a supervisor and continue on cooperating
and remain calm.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Jacqueline. Generally, when our guests they come on, do you
have a little booklet that people might want? Is how
do folks get in touch with you if they would
like to. I hope that no one has been arrested
during this segment here nights, But what's the best way
to get in touch with you if you would like
to give us a website or anything that would get
(10:26):
people to you.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Sure, well, statistically speaking, while we've been talking, someone has
been arrested at an airport. But yes, they can reach me.
You can google my name Jacqueline Goodman, and I'm in
Orange County, California, and my website is California Defense Lawyer
dot net.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
So that covers on the ground that covers about fifty
five million potential clients. California defense lawyer. That's a good one.
That's a good one, Jacqueline Goodman. I really do appreciate it.
Thank you for your time tonight. Okay, you start it
off the week with a smile or two. Thank you
about a serious subject.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Nonetheless wonderful talking to you.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Okay, delightful, delightful. All right, we get back here on Nightside.
As we start the week off, back here in the
big chair, we're going to talk with James Morone Junior.
He's an energy policy analyst at Americans for Prosperity. It's
a libertarian organization. China has implemented new export controls. I
(11:29):
think they've led up on those, but this would potentially
reduce the flow of critical rear earth metal shipments to
the US. And we will talk with James Morone Junior.
I hope it could be Maroney, but I think it's
Moron Junior. We'll find out for sure right after the break,
and please stay tuned here on Nightside. I'm told that
(11:50):
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and you want to watch that, just turn the audio
down because you can figure out what's going on. Just
watch the game and listen to Nightside Back on Nightside.
Right after this, when.
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Speaker 2 (14:11):
Well, I have found out how to pronounce James Moroney
Junior's name correctly. James, welcome to Night's side.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Let's for having me all tonight.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
You're welcome. Got your audio cranked up there, which is great.
You're an energy policy analyst at Americans for Prosperity, and look,
we got a problem with China. They have some critical
rare earth medals and they can control the flow of
those rare earth medals to the US. President Trump met
(14:43):
with President Shijiping. I think it was October thirtieth, and
it sounded as if we were making some progress on
this difficult situation. What's going on?
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Yeah, as far as I know, they China has relief,
still relax some of these export controls for the time being.
But the reality is, with these ongoing trade and tariff negotiations,
it is unclear if this will this little daytime will last.
And more importantly, it's not something we can really risk
(15:18):
or bet against lasting or not lasting. The reality is,
if we allow a strategic adversary or competitor like China
to control the flow of such important materials, the things
that help create our key military weapons, such as like
an F thirty five or a Tomahawk missile, or even
(15:40):
simpler things like your smartphone. It gives them an incredibly
beneficial and leveraged point to negotiate with us, and it
puts us at a severe disadvantage. And so the reality
is we need to do something on the home front,
and fortunately we have an option in permitting reform. Really,
(16:00):
the crux of the argument of this out that I wrote,
and the only way we can really free ourselves from
foreign interference in our economy and such key critical elements
is through a per writing reform that allows us to
take benefit and use the resources that we already have
here in the US.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Well, I think what you're referring to is that, and
we've seen this in hundreds of examples where there will
be an effort to I don't know, do a new
gas pipeline or an oil pipeline, or for that matter,
to extract important metals where earth metals from the earth,
(16:39):
and someone will come along, generally from some one of
the groups that is concerned about the environment and say
that by doing this we might upset an area where
rattlesnakes are living or something that doesn't really you know,
bother me. How do we get around that. I'm assuming
(17:02):
that the Trump administration which says, you know, drill baby, drill,
probably also is willing to say dig baby, dig right.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Oh, definitely. And the reality is that those obstacles that
you decided, they stop all sorts of energy projects. They
stop green energy products, they stop solar developments, they start,
stop green energy transmission lines, windmill projects. It's it's hitting
everything across the board. And that's a key reason why
our energy prices are skyrocketing right now. We haven't been
(17:34):
able to build things. There's instances of key energy projects
dating back to the early twenty fifteen, twenty seventeens that
are still aren't completed out in the midwest, northwest, northeast.
Pick a state or a region, and I could you
could probably find some some kind of energy project that
(17:55):
is just bogged down because of permitting issues.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
James, we can only negotiate with China, and if China
wants to get nasty and pull back. Right now, things
maybe are going in a fairly positive direction. But who
knows where we might be with China six months or
a year from now. Obviously, what can be done. I mean,
the federal judges that are in place, you know, who
(18:24):
oftentimes end up district court judges ruling on some of
these cases. That there are so many these cases that
percolate up through the judicial system, the Supreme Court would
be overwhelmed if they had to deal with every one
of these cases. What is the solution other than a
political solution.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
A key solution is, of course, an A lasting solution
would be a legislative one. Unfortunately we have there's some
good legislation moving through the House right now. For example,
the Bipartisan Speed Act is a really good example. It
reforms NEVO, which is done Environmental Policy Act, which is
essentially a procedural tool which manages these environmental and procedural
(19:07):
reviews of all sorts of projects. And within that new
build the Speed Act, it contains more of a narrowing
of what can be filed, what kind of lawsuits can
be filed, it, what kind of judicial reviews can happen,
and it rains it in from what we're seeing right
now to a more fair way of doing things. So
(19:29):
instead of these lawsuits that are really just meant to
stop any kind of progress, they're meant to really limit
who can file the suit, how judges can review them,
and really ensure that the process is just to serve
as a procedural check to ensure that all parties are
being heard and understood in any kind of impacts are
(19:51):
being measured accurately and fairly, instead of being used as
this procedural tool, or I guess now blockade more accurately.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Sure, James, how can folks read the article that you wrote?
Obviously this should with their appetite. You're with Americans for Prosperity.
Where did this article appear with at Reason Magazine?
Speaker 4 (20:14):
No? No, it's in Inside Sources or the DC mag
You can check it out at anytime. I'm always happy
to plug my own work.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
I guess you could say, okay, so to give us
the website where they can find it. That's what that's
what I'm looking for.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Yeah, of course, check out the Dcjournal dot com. It's
under the politics section.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Excellent, excellent, James, Thank you very much. James Maroney, junior
energy policy analyst at Americans for Prosperity DC Journal dot
com under the politics section. Thanks James. Maybe we'll have
you on as a guest somenight and talk about this
in greater length and take some phone calls from our listeners.
That might be an opportunity as well.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Okay, yeah, of course anytime. Dan, thank you so much
for having me tonight.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Enjoyed it very much, Thanks, James, appreciate it. Here comes
the news. At the bottom of the hour, we come back.
How would you like to have a autographed portrait of
Albert Einstein? Think about that. We'll show you how you
can get one. We'll be talking with Bobby Livingston, Executi
Vice President. Are our auction right after the break. These
(21:18):
are forty we're portraits of Einstein, many of them autographed,
maybe all of them, but we'll find out from Bobby
Livingston right after the news at the bottom of the air.
My name is Dan Ray, and this is Nightside. I
am back in the big chair and be here for
right through December twenty third, So stay with us. Thanks everybody,
(21:38):
coming back on Nightside.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm WBZ, Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
All right, let's think about Albert Einstein. I have a
quote of Einstein on my actually right in front of me.
Einstein's quoted is saying, I have no special talent. I'm
only passionately curious. I too have no special talent. I'm
not as smart as Einstein. But I like to ask questions.
(22:08):
So with my guest, Bobby Livingston has been with us before.
He's the executive VP of our our auction. Bobby, you've
got a rare group of Einstein portraits and historical artifacts,
many signed by the scientists himself. First of all, where
did you get this this cash of unbelievable, unbelievable historical
(22:32):
products that anyone would be honored and happy to own.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
Well, this comes from an anonymous collector who he and
his father had spent since the seventies buying lithographs and
original artworks of Albert Einstein. And like you said, a
lot of them are signed by Einstein himself, are signed
by the artist who drew Einstein. These these are all etchings, paintings, drawings,
and they're most mostly lithographs. So it's an incredible collection.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Let's do this, Okay, When you say paintings or drawings,
we get that. When you say etchings, what sort of
product or what is used in an etching? I don't
want to display my artistic ignorance, but I like to
ask questions. I'm passionately curious, like Einstein.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
Well, we have some that are called woodcuts, where the
artists uh, created a stamp basically by using them wood
to cut Einstein's image into it and then applying it
onto paper. So that's kind of that that's an etching. Wow.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
And so it's so it's a piece of paper that
that you would put in a frame. It's probably already
in a frame in a frame. And what was you
said paintings and drawings and etchings and what was the
fourth category?
Speaker 5 (23:54):
Lit lithographs where they've they've taken the artwork yet and
we created it and then Einstein signs them I seek.
So what's really incredible, Dan, is that the collection starts
in nineteen seventeen and then all the way to the
end of his life. So you kind of are able
to look at Einstein's transformation from this world famous physicist
(24:17):
to this what you know, this incredible huge icon, you know,
post World War two, post atomic bomb. So it amazing.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
So the artworks and I don't know these artists Hermann Struck,
lou Albert Lessarde, Max Lieberman was with these things that
Einstein was aware of. Was he sitting and posing for
these because some of them look very posed, or with
these drawings of Einstein that was done of him through
(24:51):
photographs and newspapers, and he would the ones he signed,
obviously he had knowledge of but some of the ones
that he didn't sign, these weren't Einstein. I mean, Einstein
was a pretty busy guy. He wasn't sitting there well,
iosing right.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
Einstein loved to get his portrait taken. He loved to
sit for artists. It's one of the things he loved
to do. He you know, the public relations of his image.
He came enamored with it. And yes, he sat for
these artists. They'd come to him and he and they
would they would paint him in life or draw him,
uh from life. But there's also a few artistic interpretations
(25:28):
of him that are really cool too, that give you
the zeitgeist of that time in art. How they how
they portrayed Einstein. So yeah, we you know, we've sold
many photos. He loves to have his photo taken, and
he loved to sit for artists, and he loved to
communicate with the artists, and he would sign the lithographs
for the artists.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
So yeah, So when you say a lithograph, a lithograph
then is the original that the artist does and then
from that there were prints made of the original artwork.
Is that my am I understanding explaining that correct.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
Yeah, they take no, the lithograph, They take the original
artwork and reproduce it is a lithograph. But they're but they're.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
I think that's kind of what I said. But that's okay.
So these would be pictures, you know, just as as
those of us who grew up with pictures of the
Pope and Jack Kennedy President Kennedy there obviously those are
colored pictures and high gloss. These are more black and
white from what I can see. I did look at
(26:38):
the website today. That's fascinating work. You know, it's it's
it's it's amazing. I mean, Einstein has to have been
one of the towering figures of the twentieth century. If
you had the name the top ten or twenty people
of the twentieth century, Einstein has to be on that
list every day.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
Absolutely, I mean absolutely, one of the most important figures
in all of human history. You know, his theory relativity,
you know, it's proven true by an eclipse in nineteen nineteen,
you know, so so there it's a He's a towering
figure in humanity and probably one of the most important
of the of you know, twentieth century for sure.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Okay, So now let's get people with their eyes on
some of this artwork. Give us the website for our
our auction.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
It's our our auction dot com. R U C T
I O. It's easy, right, And can you go there?
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Does caps make a difference because I know it's a
capital R, capital R and then auction with a capital
A or is it just our our auction off the
lower case doesn't matter.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
Yeah, it doesn't matter, okay, Yeah, And then there's a
great link. If you click on Einstein you'll see all
the portraits in chronological order, from from you know, a
very early one from nineteen seventeen all the way to
nineteen fifty five.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
And by the way, if you don't mind me saying, so,
we're not talking about spending you know, hundreds of thousands
of dollars here. This is. This is particularly the autographed
portraits of Einstein's, you know, signed signed by Einstein. They're
(28:24):
not out out of the reach of a good percentage
of my audience. So I would encourage people if this
is of interest to you, If it's not, if you're
a sports guy and you're not interested in Albert Einstein.
You're interested more in Albert poolholes. You know that's okay?
Probably you like that, huh.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
I got to laugh out of all for you, Bob,
I like, I like, yeah, you're absolutely right there. Some
of these Prince and lithographs uson for under a thousand dollars,
the ones that are signed by him, you know, or
eight thousand, ten thousand. But they are affordable, and they're
beautiful and they're you know, they're they're you know, they're
in their vintage yeah images, So they're great artwork.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Well, Bobby, I appreciate very much. We've had you on before.
It's a great auction house. It's a local auction house too,
as I understand it. You're you're located in New England.
Speaker 5 (29:20):
Correct, Yeah. Yeah, we're Boston based and have been since
nineteen seventy six. It's going to be our fiftieth year
next year.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
So that's amazing, my fiftieth year in media as well.
I should do something with you.
Speaker 5 (29:32):
Yes, yes, let's do it. Let's do it all.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
So I started at BCTV in nineteen seventy six, and
before that I spent a couple of years in radio.
Well here in WBC well, I was in law school,
so we have something in common here. It's a very
important period of time for all of us as well
as not to mention the United States of America as well.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
That's right, that's right, that Bison tennal year of seventy six.
I'll never forget being in Boston by the time.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
It was a great It was a great time to
start us a report because you couldn't do a bad story.
I think that's the only reason they hired me full time. Hey, Bob,
thanks very much, Bobby Livingston, executive be a key of
our auction. Are our auction dot Calm calling all Albert
Einstein enthusiasts. This is not to be missed. Thanks again, Bobby,
(30:22):
have a great night. Yep, there you go. So Okay,
before we get to this upcoming weekend, which now is
four days or five days away, as we move out
of the Thanksgiving weekend, we're going to have a snow
event here in New England tomorrow. It is the start
of meteorological winter and we have lined up Brian Thompson,
(30:43):
acute weather meteorologist. We will have probable snow in a
lot of New England. So stick with us and we
will tell you where it's going to snow and maybe
where it's not going to snow. Coming back on Night's side, Well, folks,
winter is here, logical winter, and with us to explain
what that means is Brian Thompson, we're also going to
(31:05):
talk about a little bit of snow that's going to
fall here in New England. Perfect timing here, Brian. I
don't know how you guys have pulled this off again,
but the cold weather arrived yesterday and snow tomorrow. Welcome
to winter. How are you, my friend?
Speaker 6 (31:20):
I'm doing well, Dan. Yeah, just as we turn the
calendar into December, like you said, the beginning of meteorological winter.
We do have some snow on the way tomorrow for
some places, not everybody's going to see it. It's gonna
be one of those storms we're battling with, mixing and
rain in some areas, snow and others. And then after
a bit of a break, we have at least a
(31:42):
brief surge and some very cold weather coming late in
the week.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
So let's talk about the snow tomorrow. We'll take it.
We'll take it slowly here so that nobody gets too upset.
Who's going to get it worse. I'm assuming northern New England,
northern Massachusetts, and the Berkshires.
Speaker 6 (32:00):
Yeah, kind of the normal, the normal spots that do
pretty well in these situations. At least in Massachusetts, the
Berkshires will get a pretty good hit of snow, probably
more than six inches in some places. And there's probably
gonna be some spots northern parts of Worcester County and
then through southern New Hampshire that get over six inches
as well. And that swath of heavier snow will not
(32:21):
only extend through southern New Hampshire, but will extend through
a good part portion of southern Maine as well. So
that's the area most likely to pick up in excess
of six inches of snow.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Now, is this the stuff that's coming out of the
Midwest or is this coming up from the south? What's
its source?
Speaker 6 (32:37):
Well, there's a piece coming out of the Midwest. There's
also kind of a piece coming out of the Gulf
of Mexico, and that's where this becomes a little stronger.
What we have right now in the Midwest as a
pretty light snow falling tonight from around Chicago through northern
Indiana through Detroit. These are areas they got hit pretty
hard with snow over the weekend, but this is a
much lighter storm. But as this as these two systems
(32:59):
kind of together here, we're going to see a storm
develop along the coast and it's going to intensify as
it moves up the coast till later tomorrow into tomorrow night.
Kind of an old fashion nor easter, I guess, as
this is going to become again a stronger storm, but
with some of that Golf moisture getting injected in, that's
when we start getting some of those heavier precipitation amounts
like we're going to see.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
But is it fair to say that the Gulf moisture,
that it's the Gulf of Mexico that perhaps is the
start of this, But we got the Gulf stream still
relatively warm off the southeast coast of Massachusetts. Is that
what's going to spere folks down in the cape in
(33:40):
the south shore.
Speaker 6 (33:41):
That's certainly part of it. At this time of year,
especially with those water temperatures still generally in the forties.
Anytime you get a storm like this, a lot of
times the flow is going to come off the water,
so you're bringing essentially warmer air in off of the water,
so it becomes more difficult, especially with a not a none,
a truly fresh source of cold air to the north
(34:01):
to help drive some of the cold air in place.
Makes it a lot easier to move the cold air out.
And as the storm moves northeastward, I think that's what
we're going to see along the coast and in many
areas inside of east east of four ninety five, there's
just going to be too much warm air to overcome.
At some point, we're going to see that switch over
to rain. And in many places in Boston and the
immediate suburbs, there may be very little snow at all.
(34:24):
It may just be mostly rain. Just that the timing
of this doesn't help either for the snow lovers that
want the snow, because this is going to be arriving
later tomorrow morning into the afternoon. That's when some of
the heavier precipitation is going to be around, and that's
when the temperature are going to be the highest, of course,
with the sun being up.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
So then you said, after the storm clears, we got
some cold air coming in. What's the deal there? We
had some cold air last week, didn't amount to what
I feared, as they would tell us about a pole
of vortex, did that ever get here, because they never
really felt that.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
No.
Speaker 6 (34:56):
And a lot of times, especially this early in the season,
the cold air masses that drop out of the drop
out of Canada especially have a hard time sometimes reaching
south of New England because, of course, the Great Lakes
kind of the same thing we're just talking about with
the gulf S dream. The Great Lakes are still relatively warm,
they're not frozen yet, so these cold air masses tend
to modify as they come over the Great Lakes. They're
(35:16):
not as powerful, and that's been the case and even
this one coming up. But we're talking about late in
the week. It's going to be centered around Friday. I
think that's going to be kind of the similar situation
will be colder in the Midwest that it's going to
be here because the next couple of days, after we
get past Tomorrow and to Wednesday and Thursday, HIGs will
still be near forty but then an arc to cold
front comes through late Thursday, might bring a snowshower, maybe
(35:38):
even a heavier snow showers as that front moves through,
and then by Thursday night we're talking about lows and
the teens and highs only in the twenties by Friday.
So it's going to be colder than really anything we've
had so far this season. But at least there's signs
that won't be quite as cold as we get into
the weekend, highs'll at least be back near forty again.
So even though it's going to be a shock to
(35:58):
the system, maybe Thursday night Friday, temperature should bounce back
a little bit by the weekend.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
And not to put you on the spot, but long
term models are they suggesting it's going to be colder
than normal and perhaps snowier than normal this winter.
Speaker 6 (36:14):
Certainly it could be on the snowier side at times,
but I think we're still expecting maybe snowfall to maybe
be on the lower side of average. It certainly over
the next couple of weeks, it certainly looks like we're
going to be on the colder side of average. Of course,
the average temperatures are still coming down here through the
month of December. We of course see some of the
coldest weather into January and February, so it's certainly compared
(36:37):
to what we normally see this time of year. It
is going to be running a little bit colder than
average for most of the next week, and that may
take us through most of next week as well. I
don't see any big reprieves from the cold coming anytime soon.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Last question, a little reflective yesterday. People may not realize it,
but the hurricane season, which runs from June first to
no thirtieth, ended well. It ended, I guess on November thirtieth,
on Sunday. Didn't turn out to be a bad hurricane season,
particularly in these parts.
Speaker 6 (37:10):
Yeah, and really not just New England. We really didn't
have We had no landfalling hurricanes in the United States.
We did, of course have Hurricane Melissa, which caused so
much devastation in the Caribbean about a month ago, But
outside of that, it was a kind of a strange year.
Like I said, we had no landfalling hurricanes in the US,
(37:31):
and it wasn't a terribly active year compared to the
number of storms they typically see. But we had three
Category five hurricanes, which is kind of unusual. So it
was kind of a just an unusual year. We didn't
have a lot of a lot of problems in the US,
but there were some strong storms out there. Luckily, outside
of Melissa, most of them stayed away from land.
Speaker 2 (37:50):
Yeah, there was only one. It looked to me, I
think it was one of the early hurricanes that touched
the Carolinas, and I think that was Hurricane Chantell. I
was checking it out today, a little geeky and on
that sort of stuff, and that was the only one
that actually touched our land surface, other than there was
one that was over I guess over in CanCon and Mexico.
(38:15):
There was a Hurricane Barry, which I think probably none
of us really cared much about because it stayed on
the on the on the coast to east coast of Mexico.
Speaker 4 (38:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Great to talk to you, as always. I so appreciate
you're taking the time and and explaining it to us
in a little bit of depth. Brian, you guys are
always fascinating to talk to. I appreciate it. I'm sure
we'll talk again, probably sooner than later as the winter unfolds.
Speaker 6 (38:41):
I'm sure to have a good night YouTube, Brian.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
Appreciate your time. Brian Thompson, accurate weather meteorologist. It is
now time to step aside for the nine o'clock news
and get ready for talking about our first topic of
the night, which is the beginning of the Brian Walsh trial.
Really interesting start to this trial. We'll talk with Attorney
Phil Tracy on the other side
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