December 12, 2024 • 37 mins
We kicked off the program with four news stories and different guests on the stories we think you need to know about!
Nathan Honeycutt - FIRE polling and analytics manager brings us a FIRE SURVEY: Only 20% of university faculty say a conservative would fit in well in their department.
Dr. Saunda Dalton-Smith – Author of "Sacred Rest: Recover Your Life, Renew Your Energy, Restore Your Sanity" stopped by.
Kyle Bray – WBZ NewsRadio Reporter checks in with Dan on Coach Bill Belichick Heading to North Carolina, making the move to college sports becoming NC’s Head Coach!
And AccuWeather Meteorologist Matt Benz on where we stand with a drought? Especially after all the rain we received in the last day or so…
Ask Alexa to play WBZ NewsRadio on #iHeartRadio and listen to NightSide with Dan Rea Weeknights From 8PM-12AM!
Nathan Honeycutt - FIRE polling and analytics manager brings us a FIRE SURVEY: Only 20% of university faculty say a conservative would fit in well in their department.
Dr. Saunda Dalton-Smith – Author of "Sacred Rest: Recover Your Life, Renew Your Energy, Restore Your Sanity" stopped by.
Kyle Bray – WBZ NewsRadio Reporter checks in with Dan on Coach Bill Belichick Heading to North Carolina, making the move to college sports becoming NC’s Head Coach!
And AccuWeather Meteorologist Matt Benz on where we stand with a drought? Especially after all the rain we received in the last day or so…
Ask Alexa to play WBZ NewsRadio on #iHeartRadio and listen to NightSide with Dan Rea Weeknights From 8PM-12AM!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
The Coal, the Coal, the Kraken, a great National Hockey
League franchise, as I'm sure you remember from your childhood,
right Nicole, Yeah, okay yeah. Oh. By the way, by
the way, did you see did you happen to notice
who rang the opening bell at the stock market today?
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I believe that was President ELEC. Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I don't want to have him get near that bell ever. Again.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
I am staying out of it.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
There, that's all I got. I got it, I got it.
I was thinking to myself, Oh, yeah, the one thing
you can never predict is the stock bar.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
That is true.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Oh and laundry and death and taxes, yes, yes, yes, well,
death and taxes are things you kind of voice laundry
to the tax Yeah. Your CPA will tell you sometime,
probably like in middle February, what your tax is going
to be in middle of April.
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pay tax. All right, my friend, I'll talk to you.
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I think it's a fish, of it's a squid. Oh great,
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for overtime now said only kidding. Nicole is my friend
by pal. She has the same sense of humor I have,
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going to talk about empathy, a surprising amount of empathy
for the killer, the alleged killer of the healthcare CEO
(02:36):
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Scott Bond, like the former capital of Germany, Scott Bonn.
He's going to talk not only about that case, but
about some other high profile cases. And then we're going
to talk about those mysterious drones that are appearing and
have been appearing since I think for about a month
(02:57):
now over New Jersey and no one knows what they are.
But before we get to that, we're going to get
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Ray in case we haven't established that already. Rob Brooks,
the producer, great producer of this program, is back in
the control room. He's ready to go, but no phone
calls before nine o'clock. First up tonight, we're going to
(03:18):
talk about a theme that we talk about here on Nightside,
and it's one that I think maybe is due for
an adjustment. We're talking with Nathan Honeycut. He is with Fire,
which is an organization founded by our great friend Harvey
Silverglade co founded by Harvey silver Glade back on many
years ago the foundation of individual rights and expression. And
(03:41):
Nathan Honeycut says there's a new poll done by a
Fire about how welcome a university faculty would welcome a
conservative professor. There aren't many conservative professors at college in
universities today, which I think is part of the problem
(04:03):
we have in this world right now. Nathan Honeycutt, welcome
to night, said, how are.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
You doing good? Thank you for having me Dan, Well, thanks.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Very much, so you. The question you asked of the
college professors and university professors is not what their political
viewpoints are, it's how they perceived the other faculty would
welcome or if a conservative faculty member would be welcomed
into those little closed communities. And it's not very encouraging,
(04:34):
to say the least, tell us about it.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Yeah, it was somewhat discouraging. So we asked faculty at
fifty five schools across the nation. Got a little over
six thousand responding how well a liberal or a conservative
would fit into their department. And then we also asked
a ton of questions trying to figure out like, well,
how comfortable do you faculty member feel speaking on campus?
(04:59):
Do you have to tone down your writing, do your
self censor? Do you worry about your job or reputation?
And the answer across the board for a decent number
of faculty was yes to all of the above. Yes,
they're afraid of damaging the reputations of losing their jobs.
They self censor, and the base the base rate was
about depending on the question, about twenty five percent or
(05:21):
higher in our sample. But then when we've kind of
narrowed in by ideology and looked at the conservative faculty,
it was it was through the roof. Typically over half
of the conservative faculty were saying that they were engaging
in all of these all of these things, which are
it's they're not they're not good to say the least,
and it's it's not of benefit to research, to teaching,
(05:42):
and to the general environment and universities.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
I mean, I always saw it and was taught and obviously,
well I should say obviously people listen to my show
might not believe this, but not only did I graduate
from a state college, but I also graduated from a
very highly respected law school, Boston University Law Schools, So
I know a little bit about what it's like to
be on college campus, and clearly, uh, conservatives are are
(06:08):
not particularly welcomed. Were was there was there any cadre
of uh, you know, admittedly liberal professors who said yeah,
I'd like to see more diversity, you know, intellectual diversity,
philosophical diversity in our in our faculty. There was there
much support for that, obviously, they they have the majority
(06:32):
on campus these days. What was there any engling? Are
they just very happy with how it is right now
and that there's there's not much discussion in that pe
tradition of ideas. Were not much disagreement within that p
tradition of ideas.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Yeah, there there's there is a small contingent of liberal faculty,
so it's not it's not uniform that all liberal faculty
are against good point diversity or or having conservatives on campus. Anecdotally,
on campus, I still teach as an adjunct professor about
a classis semester and have a number of colleagues who
are really concerned about this. But I think by and large,
(07:09):
the majority of faculty they either aren't aware of the problem,
or they are and they just don't care. It's a
lot easier to have people that surround you and your department,
and even outside of the universities too. This applies where
they all agree with you. Then it's like your ideas
aren't going to be challenged. Conversations are easier.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
But it's comfortable. Comfortable.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Yeah, it's easy, Yeah, comfortable.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
And that's not what Again, a college is supposed to
be a patrit dish of competing ideas, particularly in the
social sciences. Obviously, Yeah, there can be some disagreements within
the sciences itself as well. If you take mathematics, two
plus two is always going to be four. I mean
there's a lot of math, there's the arguments kind of
(07:53):
closed on that. But when you get into political science
and psychology and sociology and world history, and you know,
all sorts of subjects this room from many viewpoints, I
would be a great college professor. I'd be a great
journalism professor. I've spent my entire career in journalism, both
as an on air television reporter, where no one knew
what my political viewpoints were because I was assiduous in
(08:17):
making sure that I was fear and I looked at
every through the through the lens of objectivity. As a
talk show host, I can give more of my opinions,
some of this direction, some of that direction, but I
would care less. I would want to hang with faculty,
people who I disagreed with, people who I agreed with
it would have nothing. I would want to just hang
with smart, bright people, and I'd like my ideas to
(08:40):
be challenged, but I couldn't take the pay cut to
do what they do.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Yeah, I don't blame you there. And that's I mean,
when so many people idealize what a university is there
when I was in grad school, or when I talk
to kids who want to be go to grad school,
and so I do you imagine the university is this
place where you got people when kind of tweed jackets and.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
With leather patches, with leather patches on the elbows. Don't
forget that.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Yeah, and they debate and discussed and uh, there's there's
a recent article by Roland Fryar, I think in Wall
Street Journal where he talked about how when he was
undergrad he used to debate people and have really deep
conversations in the common room of his dorm. And it's
it's just it doesn't happen anymore. It doesn't.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
When I debated Howard Zinn, I was in law school,
and Zin was paid two thousand this is in the seventies,
was paid two thousand dollars for his appearance. I was
paid two hundred and of course he was a communist socialist.
He was so far to the left, And in my
concluding remarks, I suggested that since you know, he very
much believed equal work, equal to time, equal pay, and
(09:50):
all of that, that we would blend our two honorarium
and split the difference to no one. Surprise, Howard Zin
did not go on with that proposal. Oh yeah, Nathan,
I enjoyed. I enjoyed this conversation. Say hello to all
my friends. That fire the foundation of individual rights and expression.
Keep on keeping on, my friend.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Thank you, I appreciate it. Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Dan, You're very welcome. We'll have you back, Nathan Honeycott
of Fire and how can folks before you leave, Nathan,
get more information on this great organization founded and co
founded by our great friend Harvey Silverglade.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
Yeah, visit us online. Our website is thefire dot org.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
That's perfect. That's perfect, the fire two words mesh together,
the fire dot Org. Thanks, Nathan, we'll talk again. Thank
you very much. All right, well, we we're going to
talk about the concept of sacred rest with doctor Sandra
Sondra excuse me, Sonda Sonda Dalton Smith. Uh, we're gonna
(10:52):
We're gonna get you. We're gonna get you in a
situation to recover your life, renew your energy, and restore
your sanity, all in about seven or eight minutes. I'm
up on the other side of this break on Nightside
right here in w BZ, Boston's news radio. My name
is Dan Rayyo, your host, your congenial host. Back on
Nightside right after this.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Now back to Dan Ray, Mine from the window World
Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Want to welcome to Nightside doctor Sanda Dalton Smith. She's
an author and board certified internal medicine doctor. Welcome, doctor
Dalton Smith. How are you tonight?
Speaker 3 (11:30):
I'm great, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
So we're talking about your newest book, Sacred Rest. Recover
your life, renew your energy, restore your sanity. Talk to
Dalton Smith. It sounds so easy. Is it really that easy?
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Easy might not be the best word. It's doable.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I like doable. Go ahead. I'm just having a little
fun with you. Go ahead.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
I think for a lot of people, rest is something
that we struggle. It's just because we don't really fully
understand what it is. We think rest and sleep are
the same thing, and they are not. Sleep is a
part of rest, but there are a lot more components
to it.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
So let's talk about it. The subtitle recover your life,
renew your energy, restore your sanity. What can people do?
There are a lot of people out there one who
have trouble sleeping. I luckily am not in that category.
If I'm awake fifteen seconds after I put my head
on on the pillow, I know I'm in trouble. But
(12:35):
not everyone is that lucky. My problem is I used
to be able to sleep in easily, like on a
Saturday or Sunday, I would sleep in nine thirty ten
o'clock and feel great. But it's tough to do that
when you're on a schedule like I am, where you
normally are getting up seven thirty or eight o'clock in
the morning, and that's considered late because you're going to
(12:56):
get the day going. Give us some advice as to
what people is it. Is it smart? Let me ask
you that is it smart to occasionally try to load
up on your sleep, catch up on your sleep? Just
turn the turn the alarm clock off on a Saturday
or Sunday and you're off day and just snooze the
morning away or is that a bad idea.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Yes, marathons don't typically work. That's what I call those
where we're trying to get it all in at the
same time. Uh, it's more helpful for the body when
you do as you mentioned, you have some regularity to
your sleep schedule. Our body has a normal circadian rhythm,
so it has patterns that it wants to follow. When
(13:37):
we break too far outside of those patterns, it creates
its own stress. Some people, if they try to sleep longer,
we'll even get headaches or body aches and actually feel
bad when they try to prolong those those periods of sleeping.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Okay, so we now know what we what I should
not be doing. What about the question of I'm hearing
now that as people get older they need less sleep.
What is this such a thing as the average person
or the average American in terms of what their sleep
requirements should be.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
I don't believe so. I think you know, when we
look at sleep, when we look at the number of
hours if people sleep, they range really from some people
say they need five hours and they're perfectly good. Some
people say they need nine to ten. And really what
we're noticing is that when people get higher quality sleep.
(14:33):
When they get higher levels and longer periods of non
rim deep sleep, the stage three and four non rim
deep sleep, that's when they feel restored. So some people
are able to go into deeper levels of sleep more
quickly and some take a longer time. And really most
of my research, and what you mentioned is in my
(14:53):
book Sacred Rest, is specifically looking at the RESTful things
that were storative processes that actually help us get into
deeper levels of sleep. My research is based around there
being seven different areas of rest that we need, seven
different ways our body needs to enter into restorative cycles.
(15:14):
And when we omit some of those, you can get
eight hours of sleep even or nine or ten, and
you'll still wake up exhausted because your body isn't rested
in one of these other seven areas.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
When I talked about sleep to friends of mine, I
usual to say eight is great, nine is fine, and
eleven is heaven. But we'll leave that. I want people
to buy your book, But are there tips in the
book as how people can change their patterns in terms of,
you know, how soon they go to bed, maybe what
they when they eat or drink before they go to bed,
(15:48):
you know, Obviously, I think most people are smart enough
not to have a huge meal at nine o'clock at
night and expect to get a RESTful night's sleep. But
are there some tips in the book that people would
benefit from.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Absolutely, particularly if you're that person who is sleep you know,
staying in bed eight nine, ten hours and waking up
still exhausted. When someone's tired, The question that we tend
to have people start reflecting on is what kind of
tired are you? What is the area where you actually
have a rest deficit? Is it physical, mental, spiritual, emotional, social, sensory,
(16:22):
or creative? Those are the seven types of rest and.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
All of the above sea do you have all of
the above category there too?
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Holy kitty, Some people do, yes, especially if you're someone
who's on the verge of burnout. So those people who say,
you know, I feel like I'm burned out, they tend
to have sleep or rest deficits, I should say, in
multiple of those areas. And unfortunately, you know a lot
of people if they laid it down to go to
sleep at night and they can't shut their brain off,
(16:50):
well that mental rest deficit will actually keep them from
going into sleep.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Yeah, well, I keep going even when I'm sleeping. I
mean to be honest with you, That's the one thing
I My best RESTful night is when I don't have
a dream. I don't think about anything. I just stay awake.
I stay asleep. What is that one or two tips?
I don't want you to give the book away, but
one of two tips people can do who are listening
(17:15):
right now that they can try before they go to
bed tonight, that might help them in the short term
at least.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Yeah. Absolutely, and I'm more than happy to. As I
often say, we tend to give the secrets away quite
freely from within the book within our rest quiz. I'll
share about that in a moment. But to two tips
that we find, particularly if you're someone with a mental
rest deficit, you have busy brain. You're thinking all the
thoughts before going to bed. Something as simple as a
(17:43):
brain dump, So having a notepad where you're jotting down
whatever the ruminating thoughts are, because those ruminating thoughts will
have you'll think about them for long periods into the night,
and it actually keeps your brain from turning off. So
jotting it down sometime is a quick way for the
brain to release it. Another thing is if you struggle
with that is using something like white noise or background
(18:05):
rhythmic noises because the brain will attach to following that
particular the pattern and it will help you to kind
of release some other thoughts. Cooler temperatures. Most people sleep
better when the room is cool rather than being overheated.
And then making sure that you do that. You are
aware of blue light and how your body responds to it.
(18:26):
A simple tip. If your clock sitting at the bedside
is pointing towards you and it has a bright red
or blue light, turn the clock away from you.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Yeah, so if you need to say it, you can
go look, but don't have it shining in your face.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
I'm with you on that one. Look, I could do
a lot more with you and maybe what we could
do some night if it's okay with you, doctor Dalton Smith,
I could make it up to you. These interviews are great,
but we don't incorporate callers. I could bring it back.
We could do an hour some night on this whole
question and take take questions from listeners and calls from listeners.
(19:06):
If you'll be up for that one, my producer, get
in touch with your PR person Corey Newman.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Okay, sounds good.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Thanks very much, Doctor Sunda Dalton Smith the book Sacred
rest Recover your life, renew your energy, and restore your sanity.
I love alliteration rest, recover, renew, restore. I like that.
Speaker 5 (19:28):
Thank you so much, doctor, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
You're welcome. When we get back, go and talk a
little football. Bill Belichick. What the heck is he doing
heading to North Carolina to become a tar Heel boy?
That's something I didn't expect. We'll talk with Kyle Bray,
WBZ news radio reporter and try to figure it out
why coach Bill is heading south. Back on night Side
(19:52):
right after the news at the little bit after eight thirty.
But I thought she was a really good guest. At
eight thirty two, here comes the.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
News night Side with Dan Ray on w BOST's news Radio.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Well, the big news story sports story today should be
the Red Sox signing the picture from the White Sox,
but it really wasn't Bill Belichick heading to North Carolina
to coach the tar Heels. Kyle Bray's been working on
this story today. Kyle, I can't figure this one out
from a What's I mean? Obviously, I guess Bill Belichick's
(20:28):
doing what he wants to do. Kyle, what do you
think is in his head? Here?
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Well, hey, Dan, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Yeah no, I thank you so much for you know,
you were working late.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Oh yeah, well, I mean I was just as puzzled
as you were when I first heard this, because you know,
I mean, you're looking at the second most winningest coach
in NFL history, you know, whether you want to debate
Schula or not, probably the greatest coach of all time,
and he's saying, you know what, I'm gonna I'm gonna
pack my bags and I'm gonna go back to school. No,
it's it's very perplexing. But there there are definitely a
lot of things that makes sense to me about this move,
(21:01):
even if you know it.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
It's okay, give me a couple because obviously there's fifty
million things because I believe he signed a five years
for ten MILLI a year. Yeah uh. And obviously he
could probably walk away at any point because if some
really good, underperforming NFL team came to knocking, he could
(21:26):
walk away.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
But you know what, the biggest difference I think that
you'll see versus you know, him taking an NFL job
and you know, going to the college game, is that
as a as a college coach, you pretty much have
complete control. I mean you are in charge of, you know,
what schemes your team's gonna run. You're in charge of
what players you're bringing in. I mean, obviously the landscape
has drastically changed in recent years. You know now that
(21:52):
you're allowed to pay athletes with these name image and
likekness deals. But he's not gonna have to worry about
an overbearing owner sort of controlling everything, because I mean
that that was he kind of he had the reins
completely during his time in New England. You know, he
was in charge of all the plays they put out,
he was in charge of who they brought in. And
you know, in the later years of his tenure here,
you know, the you know, ownership seemed like it was
(22:13):
really starting to sink its teeth into what he was doing.
And and I think that bothered him because I know
that he was linked with the Jacksonville job in the NFL,
but people were talking about how they would have to
get rid of their GM if they wanted to bring
him in. And that was the same when he was
going for the job in Atlanta and I think now
that you know he's there, he doesn't really have anyone
kind of overseeing him. It's the you know, the buck
stops at him. He gets to make all those decisions.
(22:35):
I think that's that's huge for him.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Yeah, it's gonna be interesting. I know one of his
former assistant coaches pretty well, and I have some insight
into what went on down in Atlanta. I think he
was I think he thought that deal was done and
I had that from a what I would consider to
be a pretty good source, and it fell apart, not
on his end, but on the Atlanta end. So maybe
(23:00):
he just got tired of the gamesmanship within the NFL.
But I'll tell you he doesn't have He might be
the boss of the football program down there, but they
have something that most major colleges, the Alumni Association. If
he wins, they will build a shrine to him. But
if he doesn't win after a couple of years, and
(23:22):
UNC has not been a powerhouse football program, although obviously
Drake May the Patriots quarterback, came out of UNC. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
No, definitely. I mean under Mac Brown they had some
they had some moments. I mean this year they went
six and six. They're going to be playing in the
Fenway Bowl actually, which is pretty exciting. You know, maybe
Belichick's not supposed to coach that game, but he might
be in attendance.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Oh, I definitely think he would want to be there
to watch because some of those guys on the team,
He's not going to turn that that roster over completely.
They'll be changes, graduating seniors and maybe some players will
decide to get in the portal and leave. But who
I mean, it's just no, Yeah, what do you think?
What do you think the key? What do you think
the key was? I mean, was it it was? It
(24:05):
could have been the money because he could have gotten
just as much money in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
You I think a lot of it has to do
with that. And then also, I mean in his prens
conference today, he just said, you know, he just loves
to coach. I think that, you know, I mean, he
was he was pretty good on some of the media circuits.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
He was doing.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
But I mean, we know from anything, you know, Bill
Belichick and the media are not exactly you know, they
He has had his spats, but you know, I think
he just really wanted to get on the field, and
I think, you know, NFL teams didn't want to give
him that control. And I think he he looked at
this opportunity, as you know, and I get to be
get to be on a field, and I get to
build a build a program from the ground up. I
mean the you mentioned, you know, the the he'll want
(24:43):
to see those players. I mean, this is a tremendous
opportunity for any players that are that are on un see.
I mean you in the college football landscape right now,
you see so many people, you know, kids transferring because
they're not getting enough playing time. You know they're transferring
or you know, sitting out seasons because they're not getting
enough money. I mean that this is now, like I
would argue if you want to go to if you're
a start player that thinks that they're a star and
(25:05):
wants to go to the NFL, I mean, this would
be the best place to do it. I mean there's
really no one else better to learn from than Bill Belichick.
I mean it's only gonna time. Only time will really
tell the results on if he, you know, can bring
his you know, mindset to the college game and you know,
if he can have success in that conference. But you know,
I was when I was working today. I saw comments
(25:26):
from a former Patriot player, Logan Ryan. He was talking
on CBS Sports and he was basically like, if you're
a if you're a transfer player, like and you you
really want to make that push to go pro, like,
why would you not consider UNC? I mean, to get
a chance to learn from maybe the greatest coach that's
ever coached the game. I mean that's I mean, that
seems like a no brainer.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Well, it's this is another factor and I'd love to
get your reaction to it. I'm a sports guy. I
know you're a sports guy, and not that either of us,
you know, make our living covering sports. You cover a
lot of different news stories. But Belichick's success at New
England was over a period of twenty years, and he
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had a pretty good quarterback for most of those years,
and when the quarterback left, the team sort of went away.
So you can have you can draft a quarterback like
Drake May who's twenty two or twenty three years old,
and you can say, okay, ten years minimum, maybe fifteen.
Anybody who he brings into UNCEE three years, four years max.
(26:31):
That's a different sort of situation that he's now going
to find himself in and I wonder how difficult that
will make it. You know, you start to get somebody
good and all of a sudden they're going to boom,
then they go, yeah, they're not there long. It's what
I'm saying. And I wonder if he'll have the patience
because I don't think Belichick is someone who's imbued with
(26:52):
a lot of patience. I don't know him at all,
but I don't think patience is probably his strong suit.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
Yeah, no, I could certainly see that. I mean, you
bring up a good point where I mean, and especially
if he's being successful, he'll probably only have three years
because some of those kids will probably want to declare
for the draft. And he talked a little bit in
his press conference today about how, you know, developing players
is really important to him. He mentioned, you know, Brady
was a fourth stringer his first year. You know, Gronk Edelman,
(27:19):
you know those guys, they went through a lot of
development in their time. But you know, I mean, you're right,
you know, getting to work with these work these kids
for such a short period of time, will that payoff?
And I mean, you look at some of the issues
that they had that the Pats had in his final season.
You know, offensively, they weren't strong and the personnel that
they were bringing in weren't up to the caliber that
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you would expect the past Patriots teams. And in college
recruiting is so much more important than it really is
in the NFL because you have such a wide pool,
and you know with now with nil deals. I mean,
I know that reportedly UNC is increasing their nil pool
to help him sort of entice more players there. But
I mean, at the end of the day, like it's
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is he gonna be able to do the recruiting that's required.
I mean, because I mean, obviously he has a pretty
good pitch. You know, Hey, I'm Bill Belichick. I'm the
greatest coach of all time. Come play for me. But
you know that there are coaches that have to put
it a lot, a lot of legwork to get these
deals done. And sometimes, you know, you put in all
this work, you've you've got the money on the table,
you got them all excited, and then they just flip
(28:24):
at the last second. And I can't imagine what what
we'll be going through Bill Belichick's head the first time
he has a recruit flip on him at the signing day.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Yeah, and also you gotta you have to go most
of these college coaches, maybe Belichick would be the exception,
but you have to go to the to the home
of the kid. You gotta get on on a puddle
jumper maybe, and go to wherever the talented players are
and you got to meet mom and dad, and you
got to schmooze a little bit. And I'm not sure
(28:52):
he's the schmoozing type, but we'll see.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
Yeah, No, he's He's He's definitely the type of guy
that kind of always gets what he wants, if at
least for most of his career. So it'll be interesting
to see what happens when he's got to go into
those you know, he's got to go to these high
school games, got to go to these living rooms and
meet with you know, the whole exten family and and
and give a you know, a you know, sweet talk
them and whatnot. I'd love to see. I'd love to
be a fly on the wall and see that happen.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Yeah. I have a buddy of mine who played basketball
at BC when Bob Coosey was a coach, and he
told me it was just amazing, you know, Bob Cousy
became the coach at BC right after his NBA career
with the Celtics finished. And uh, he said, Bob Coosey
walks into our house and he's asking me to play
on his college But it was like done deals just
by walking to the door. But I'm not sure that
(29:35):
that the same sort of magic is going to occur
when when Wody walks in the door. I don't know.
We'll see what happens. Gole. I enjoyed the conversation. I
really appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
Of course, thank you for having back.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Come on back whenever you can, and don't forget to
put in for some overtime tonight. Okay, definitely, thank you. Okay,
we're gonna flip from school. This is like a regular newscast,
going to go to weather next. Where do we stand
with the drought. We're gonna be talking with an ACU
weather meteorologist. I'm pretty sure. Uh, we'll get to that
(30:10):
right after this break here on Nightside, And we got
lots of questions about not only the weather in the past,
but what's coming up, particularly for the rest of the month.
Coming back on.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Nightside now back to Dan Ray live from the Window
World nightside studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
All right, we a very pleased to be joined again
by Matt Benz. Hey, Matt, how are you tonight? Hey
doing well? How are you doing? I'm doing great, a
little bit better after this rain. Look, I'm trying to
figure this out. We had a drought that a lot
of rain. Where do we stand with the drought? Are
we still in the drought? We out of the drought, were.
Speaker 6 (30:49):
Close to the We're still We're still in the drought.
So a couple yeah, I know, we keep that word going.
But hey, there's a couple of different ways you can
look at it. So for the year, we're actually a
bob average in the precipitation department. He thinks, Okay, no drought. Yes,
that's good, that's what we want to hear. But since September,
September through November, that's a time period right there, we
(31:10):
accumulated a drought deficit and rainfall of over five and
a half inches. So even though we saw all this rain,
you know, in the last couple of days, that now
puts us about one point nine inches above average per December,
we still have about another four you know, three four
inches a go to really say, hey, we've recovered, because
we kind of went missing there for a while in
the fall months and earlier in November.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
So so you kind of look at like the year
to date sort of thing, you know, almost got to
do it. Obviously, we were in a drought in October
and started in September, but we've now had more precipitation
in twenty twenty four than we had in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 6 (31:51):
Yeah, since it would be about correct. And yeah, it
kind of weird that we're in the severe drought, but
sometimes that's kind of how drought goes. It goes by,
So it's not like it's not like the way it's
been going slightly.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
But it's what I'm saying is you got to think
of it differently. It's not like a baseball season. A
win in April is just as good as a win
in August. You know, you want to get the number
of rights to get the play. That's not quite it's
not linear. So how much more rain would we need
because it's going to rain next week to get out
of the drought here.
Speaker 6 (32:19):
I think what you'll see is, especially after this wet
start to the month, you're gonna see a dent in.
You know, when the drought monitor comes out right now,
we're in that extreme drought category. I wouldn't be surprised
that that usually updates every Thursday, and unfortunately we just
kind of caught the tail end of this latest wet cycle,
so to say. But I have a feeling what you're
gonna see is we're gonna kind of step down gradually.
(32:40):
So we're in the extreme danger right now. Extreme drought
right now probably go to the severe to moderate maybe,
you know, by next week, and especially if we get
the rain, I think you'll quickly see things improving here
across the area. But just because it was so dry
in the fall months, that really set us on the
stage where where we're at right now.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Okay, I know this is not your department, but are
there any brush fire is still burning in Massachusetts? I
know they have some problems out in California, but I
assume that our chance of brush fire has has diminished
remarkably over.
Speaker 6 (33:10):
The last few Yeah, especially with the especially with the
rain that we've had. Now you've gotten you know, the
at least a cut top soil top. They call it
the duff, the all the leaf matter and stuff. Now
that that's all really good and soap. That fire danger
has gone down. Of course, if you get any long
term drying trend for a couple of weeks, that could return,
but at least for now, that fire danger has come
down quite a bit.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
And then the other question, of course, that everyone wants
me to ask you, is we're going to have any
snow by Christmas.
Speaker 6 (33:37):
There's a big question. And here's what I can tell
you right now. Right now, ACI Weather has some confidence
that we're going to get another real cold shot of
air here right before Christmas. And the big question is
is that going to include snow. So we're gonna go
through this weekend, it's gonna be chilly, we're gonna get
into next week and it's gonna kind of warm up again,
and you're kind of gonna think, well, we're not going
to get back to that cold, winter like weather again.
(33:58):
But it does look like winter will turn at least
with regards to cold air here probably after the twenty
first and going towards Christmas. The big question is can
we get some sort of moisture with that colder air,
And that's kind of hard to say right now. Right now,
our forecast looks like a low percent chance for a
light Christmas here in Boston, but a little bit shift
in the pattern could change that.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
What's the long term for the balance of the winter.
I read somewhere today that we are expecting, well, they
didn't have much snow last winter, but that we are
expecting more snow at least than last winter.
Speaker 6 (34:29):
Yeah, we are expecting more snow than last winter, but
still below the historical average of what we'd expect for
a winter period. We're kind of on a fine line.
I think northern New England, especially once you get into
the interior Vermont, New Hampshire up into northern Maine, those
areas could overperform this winter. But we're going to be
right on that boundary where we're going to get into
these sloppy sides of these storms. We're probably going to
(34:51):
get more rain and then some snow, but overall we
expect the balance of snow to be higher than last year,
but perhaps below the historical average for the year.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Matt, let me ask you this. When you go to
parties and people say, hey, what sort of what's on
a line of work you win, Matt, I kind of
assume that you really don't tell on your meteorologists, because
I assumed every question for the for the balance of
the parties. What about this? What about that? Do you
get that when you get out in social settings, I'm
assuming you do.
Speaker 6 (35:17):
Yeah, and then you also get you know, you get
paid for being wrong all the time, and you know
all that different stuff.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Oh yeah, so they'll ask you what the forecast is
and then they'll insult you. Oh yeah, that would be.
Speaker 6 (35:28):
But yes, I kind of keep it a little down
low when you go out some days.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Yeah. Yeah, no, with a name like Ben's last name, Matt,
Ben's what's some of your car dealer or.
Speaker 6 (35:38):
Something like that, I get to add as my my
daughter's name, Mercedes. You know, I get that a lot.
So yeah, all sorts of fun jokes that come up. Yeah,
that's great, that's great, Matt, to get a great sense
of humor. Always enjoy talking to you, particularly now that
a little bit of.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
The pressure is off. I was down the Cape for
most of the summer and well into the fall, and
it was amazingly beautiful in the Cape. I know it
cost a lot of aggravation up here, but it was
spectacular September and you know, an opulent October in terms
of how we were doing, and uh, you know if
(36:16):
you had anything to do with that, Matt, I just
on behalf of everyone down in the Cape. I want
to say thank you very much, well, thank you and
and you're welcome.
Speaker 6 (36:23):
I just did it for the Cape though, and not
for everyone else because I know we needed the rain elsewhere.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
AH got you, I got you, all right, Matt, thank
you so much. We'll talk again. Okay, all right, sounds good.
Thanks for having all right, my pleasure, my pleasure, absolutely
always like to talk with Matt Benn's. Okay, when we
get back, let me give you a quick rundown on
what we're going to be doing tonight, because I think
it's important. We'll be opening up those f FO will
actually be Rob will be opening up the phone line.
It's going to talk about the level of empathy and
(36:50):
I guess you could almost stay sympathy shown for this guy,
Luigi Mengioni, the guy charging the murder of US Healthcare
CEO Brian Thompson troubling, including some comments made by our
own Senator Elizabeth Warren. We'll get into that. Also, we're
going to talk with a criminologist named Scott Bond. We've
(37:11):
had him on before. He has an expertise in serial killers.
Now again, this guy, to the best of our knowledge,
is not a serial killer. But we're going to talk
a little bit about what goes into the minds of
these folks and the Later on tonight, we're going to
talk about those mysterious drones over New Jersey and of
all the places in America, why would anyone be flying
in drones over New Jersey. I mean there's really well,
(37:35):
there's a couple of military bases there, you get, right,
Air Force Base Fort Dix and all that. But so
we're gonna that's Those are the topics for the night
stay with us always welcoming new callers feel free as
well as old callers. My name's Dan Ray. This is Nightside.
We'll be back right after this
It's night side on radio.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
The Coal, the Coal, the Kraken, a great National Hockey
League franchise, as I'm sure you remember from your childhood,
right Nicole, Yeah, okay yeah. Oh. By the way, by
the way, did you see did you happen to notice
who rang the opening bell at the stock market today?
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I believe that was President ELEC. Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I don't want to have him get near that bell ever. Again.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
I am staying out of it.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
There, that's all I got. I got it, I got it.
I was thinking to myself, Oh, yeah, the one thing
you can never predict is the stock bar.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
That is true.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Oh and laundry and death and taxes, yes, yes, yes, well,
death and taxes are things you kind of voice laundry
to the tax Yeah. Your CPA will tell you sometime,
probably like in middle February, what your tax is going
to be in middle of April.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Yes, and then you run away and don't want to
pay tax. All right, my friend, I'll talk to you.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
The cracking, I don't even know what a crack it is.
I think it's a fish, of it's a squid. Oh great,
a big squid. Oh gret.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Okay, now I'm done by way.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Okay, I know Nicole's gonna be able to put in
for overtime now said only kidding. Nicole is my friend
by pal. She has the same sense of humor I have,
which is kind of scary. Actually good evening, everybody, welcome
on into night Side. As we start a Thursday night here,
I will, as Nicole promised, take you all the way,
not only through the Bruins game, but right up till midnight.
(01:52):
I'll watch the last period of the second last half
of the last period, probably after I do my program,
which is on Facebook every night, well most every night,
I do what we call Nightside postgame. So if you
haven't had enough of Nightside by eleven fifty eight, jump
on Facebook, go to a Nightside with Dan Ray and
(02:12):
you'll be able to see me. I'll do a little
review of how I thought the evening went. Might even
mention your phone calls as a good phone call or
a bad phone call. Who knows. Anyway, we have watched
to cover tonight. We're going to talk about crime and punishment,
going to talk about empathy, a surprising amount of empathy
for the killer, the alleged killer of the healthcare CEO
(02:36):
Brian Thompson that we'll be talking with a criminologist, doctor
Scott Bond, like the former capital of Germany, Scott Bonn.
He's going to talk not only about that case, but
about some other high profile cases. And then we're going
to talk about those mysterious drones that are appearing and
have been appearing since I think for about a month
(02:57):
now over New Jersey and no one knows what they are.
But before we get to that, we're going to get
to news update. By the way, my name is Dan
Ray in case we haven't established that already. Rob Brooks,
the producer, great producer of this program, is back in
the control room. He's ready to go, but no phone
calls before nine o'clock. First up tonight, we're going to
(03:18):
talk about a theme that we talk about here on Nightside,
and it's one that I think maybe is due for
an adjustment. We're talking with Nathan Honeycut. He is with Fire,
which is an organization founded by our great friend Harvey
Silverglade co founded by Harvey silver Glade back on many
years ago the foundation of individual rights and expression. And
(03:41):
Nathan Honeycut says there's a new poll done by a
Fire about how welcome a university faculty would welcome a
conservative professor. There aren't many conservative professors at college in
universities today, which I think is part of the problem
(04:03):
we have in this world right now. Nathan Honeycutt, welcome
to night, said, how are.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
You doing good? Thank you for having me Dan, Well, thanks.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Very much, so you. The question you asked of the
college professors and university professors is not what their political
viewpoints are, it's how they perceived the other faculty would
welcome or if a conservative faculty member would be welcomed
into those little closed communities. And it's not very encouraging,
(04:34):
to say the least, tell us about it.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Yeah, it was somewhat discouraging. So we asked faculty at
fifty five schools across the nation. Got a little over
six thousand responding how well a liberal or a conservative
would fit into their department. And then we also asked
a ton of questions trying to figure out like, well,
how comfortable do you faculty member feel speaking on campus?
(04:59):
Do you have to tone down your writing, do your
self censor? Do you worry about your job or reputation?
And the answer across the board for a decent number
of faculty was yes to all of the above. Yes,
they're afraid of damaging the reputations of losing their jobs.
They self censor, and the base the base rate was
about depending on the question, about twenty five percent or
(05:21):
higher in our sample. But then when we've kind of
narrowed in by ideology and looked at the conservative faculty,
it was it was through the roof. Typically over half
of the conservative faculty were saying that they were engaging
in all of these all of these things, which are
it's they're not they're not good to say the least,
and it's it's not of benefit to research, to teaching,
(05:42):
and to the general environment and universities.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
I mean, I always saw it and was taught and obviously,
well I should say obviously people listen to my show
might not believe this, but not only did I graduate
from a state college, but I also graduated from a
very highly respected law school, Boston University Law Schools, So
I know a little bit about what it's like to
be on college campus, and clearly, uh, conservatives are are
(06:08):
not particularly welcomed. Were was there was there any cadre
of uh, you know, admittedly liberal professors who said yeah,
I'd like to see more diversity, you know, intellectual diversity,
philosophical diversity in our in our faculty. There was there
much support for that, obviously, they they have the majority
(06:32):
on campus these days. What was there any engling? Are
they just very happy with how it is right now
and that there's there's not much discussion in that pe
tradition of ideas. Were not much disagreement within that p
tradition of ideas.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Yeah, there there's there is a small contingent of liberal faculty,
so it's not it's not uniform that all liberal faculty
are against good point diversity or or having conservatives on campus. Anecdotally,
on campus, I still teach as an adjunct professor about
a classis semester and have a number of colleagues who
are really concerned about this. But I think by and large,
(07:09):
the majority of faculty they either aren't aware of the problem,
or they are and they just don't care. It's a
lot easier to have people that surround you and your department,
and even outside of the universities too. This applies where
they all agree with you. Then it's like your ideas
aren't going to be challenged. Conversations are easier.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
But it's comfortable. Comfortable.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Yeah, it's easy, Yeah, comfortable.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
And that's not what Again, a college is supposed to
be a patrit dish of competing ideas, particularly in the
social sciences. Obviously, Yeah, there can be some disagreements within
the sciences itself as well. If you take mathematics, two
plus two is always going to be four. I mean
there's a lot of math, there's the arguments kind of
(07:53):
closed on that. But when you get into political science
and psychology and sociology and world history, and you know,
all sorts of subjects this room from many viewpoints, I
would be a great college professor. I'd be a great
journalism professor. I've spent my entire career in journalism, both
as an on air television reporter, where no one knew
what my political viewpoints were because I was assiduous in
(08:17):
making sure that I was fear and I looked at
every through the through the lens of objectivity. As a
talk show host, I can give more of my opinions,
some of this direction, some of that direction, but I
would care less. I would want to hang with faculty,
people who I disagreed with, people who I agreed with
it would have nothing. I would want to just hang
with smart, bright people, and I'd like my ideas to
(08:40):
be challenged, but I couldn't take the pay cut to
do what they do.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Yeah, I don't blame you there. And that's I mean,
when so many people idealize what a university is there
when I was in grad school, or when I talk
to kids who want to be go to grad school,
and so I do you imagine the university is this
place where you got people when kind of tweed jackets and.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
With leather patches, with leather patches on the elbows. Don't
forget that.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Yeah, and they debate and discussed and uh, there's there's
a recent article by Roland Fryar, I think in Wall
Street Journal where he talked about how when he was
undergrad he used to debate people and have really deep
conversations in the common room of his dorm. And it's
it's just it doesn't happen anymore. It doesn't.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
When I debated Howard Zinn, I was in law school,
and Zin was paid two thousand this is in the seventies,
was paid two thousand dollars for his appearance. I was
paid two hundred and of course he was a communist socialist.
He was so far to the left, And in my
concluding remarks, I suggested that since you know, he very
much believed equal work, equal to time, equal pay, and
(09:50):
all of that, that we would blend our two honorarium
and split the difference to no one. Surprise, Howard Zin
did not go on with that proposal. Oh yeah, Nathan,
I enjoyed. I enjoyed this conversation. Say hello to all
my friends. That fire the foundation of individual rights and expression.
Keep on keeping on, my friend.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Thank you, I appreciate it. Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Dan, You're very welcome. We'll have you back, Nathan Honeycott
of Fire and how can folks before you leave, Nathan,
get more information on this great organization founded and co
founded by our great friend Harvey Silverglade.
Speaker 5 (10:27):
Yeah, visit us online. Our website is thefire dot org.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
That's perfect. That's perfect, the fire two words mesh together,
the fire dot Org. Thanks, Nathan, we'll talk again. Thank
you very much. All right, well, we we're going to
talk about the concept of sacred rest with doctor Sandra
Sondra excuse me, Sonda Sonda Dalton Smith. Uh, we're gonna
(10:52):
We're gonna get you. We're gonna get you in a
situation to recover your life, renew your energy, and restore
your sanity, all in about seven or eight minutes. I'm
up on the other side of this break on Nightside
right here in w BZ, Boston's news radio. My name
is Dan Rayyo, your host, your congenial host. Back on
Nightside right after this.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Now back to Dan Ray, Mine from the window World
Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Want to welcome to Nightside doctor Sanda Dalton Smith. She's
an author and board certified internal medicine doctor. Welcome, doctor
Dalton Smith. How are you tonight?
Speaker 3 (11:30):
I'm great, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
So we're talking about your newest book, Sacred Rest. Recover
your life, renew your energy, restore your sanity. Talk to
Dalton Smith. It sounds so easy. Is it really that easy?
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Easy might not be the best word. It's doable.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I like doable. Go ahead. I'm just having a little
fun with you. Go ahead.
Speaker 5 (11:57):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
I think for a lot of people, rest is something
that we struggle. It's just because we don't really fully
understand what it is. We think rest and sleep are
the same thing, and they are not. Sleep is a
part of rest, but there are a lot more components
to it.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
So let's talk about it. The subtitle recover your life,
renew your energy, restore your sanity. What can people do?
There are a lot of people out there one who
have trouble sleeping. I luckily am not in that category.
If I'm awake fifteen seconds after I put my head
on on the pillow, I know I'm in trouble. But
(12:35):
not everyone is that lucky. My problem is I used
to be able to sleep in easily, like on a
Saturday or Sunday, I would sleep in nine thirty ten
o'clock and feel great. But it's tough to do that
when you're on a schedule like I am, where you
normally are getting up seven thirty or eight o'clock in
the morning, and that's considered late because you're going to
(12:56):
get the day going. Give us some advice as to
what people is it. Is it smart? Let me ask
you that is it smart to occasionally try to load
up on your sleep, catch up on your sleep? Just
turn the turn the alarm clock off on a Saturday
or Sunday and you're off day and just snooze the
morning away or is that a bad idea.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
Yes, marathons don't typically work. That's what I call those
where we're trying to get it all in at the
same time. Uh, it's more helpful for the body when
you do as you mentioned, you have some regularity to
your sleep schedule. Our body has a normal circadian rhythm,
so it has patterns that it wants to follow. When
(13:37):
we break too far outside of those patterns, it creates
its own stress. Some people, if they try to sleep longer,
we'll even get headaches or body aches and actually feel
bad when they try to prolong those those periods of sleeping.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Okay, so we now know what we what I should
not be doing. What about the question of I'm hearing
now that as people get older they need less sleep.
What is this such a thing as the average person
or the average American in terms of what their sleep
requirements should be.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
I don't believe so. I think you know, when we
look at sleep, when we look at the number of
hours if people sleep, they range really from some people
say they need five hours and they're perfectly good. Some
people say they need nine to ten. And really what
we're noticing is that when people get higher quality sleep.
(14:33):
When they get higher levels and longer periods of non
rim deep sleep, the stage three and four non rim
deep sleep, that's when they feel restored. So some people
are able to go into deeper levels of sleep more
quickly and some take a longer time. And really most
of my research, and what you mentioned is in my
(14:53):
book Sacred Rest, is specifically looking at the RESTful things
that were storative processes that actually help us get into
deeper levels of sleep. My research is based around there
being seven different areas of rest that we need, seven
different ways our body needs to enter into restorative cycles.
(15:14):
And when we omit some of those, you can get
eight hours of sleep even or nine or ten, and
you'll still wake up exhausted because your body isn't rested
in one of these other seven areas.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
When I talked about sleep to friends of mine, I
usual to say eight is great, nine is fine, and
eleven is heaven. But we'll leave that. I want people
to buy your book, But are there tips in the
book as how people can change their patterns in terms of,
you know, how soon they go to bed, maybe what
they when they eat or drink before they go to bed,
(15:48):
you know, Obviously, I think most people are smart enough
not to have a huge meal at nine o'clock at
night and expect to get a RESTful night's sleep. But
are there some tips in the book that people would
benefit from.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Absolutely, particularly if you're that person who is sleep you know,
staying in bed eight nine, ten hours and waking up
still exhausted. When someone's tired, The question that we tend
to have people start reflecting on is what kind of
tired are you? What is the area where you actually
have a rest deficit? Is it physical, mental, spiritual, emotional, social, sensory,
(16:22):
or creative? Those are the seven types of rest and.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
All of the above sea do you have all of
the above category there too?
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Holy kitty, Some people do, yes, especially if you're someone
who's on the verge of burnout. So those people who say,
you know, I feel like I'm burned out, they tend
to have sleep or rest deficits, I should say, in
multiple of those areas. And unfortunately, you know a lot
of people if they laid it down to go to
sleep at night and they can't shut their brain off,
(16:50):
well that mental rest deficit will actually keep them from
going into sleep.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Yeah, well, I keep going even when I'm sleeping. I
mean to be honest with you, That's the one thing
I My best RESTful night is when I don't have
a dream. I don't think about anything. I just stay awake.
I stay asleep. What is that one or two tips?
I don't want you to give the book away, but
one of two tips people can do who are listening
(17:15):
right now that they can try before they go to
bed tonight, that might help them in the short term
at least.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Yeah. Absolutely, and I'm more than happy to. As I
often say, we tend to give the secrets away quite
freely from within the book within our rest quiz. I'll
share about that in a moment. But to two tips
that we find, particularly if you're someone with a mental
rest deficit, you have busy brain. You're thinking all the
thoughts before going to bed. Something as simple as a
(17:43):
brain dump, So having a notepad where you're jotting down
whatever the ruminating thoughts are, because those ruminating thoughts will
have you'll think about them for long periods into the night,
and it actually keeps your brain from turning off. So
jotting it down sometime is a quick way for the
brain to release it. Another thing is if you struggle
with that is using something like white noise or background
(18:05):
rhythmic noises because the brain will attach to following that
particular the pattern and it will help you to kind
of release some other thoughts. Cooler temperatures. Most people sleep
better when the room is cool rather than being overheated.
And then making sure that you do that. You are
aware of blue light and how your body responds to it.
(18:26):
A simple tip. If your clock sitting at the bedside
is pointing towards you and it has a bright red
or blue light, turn the clock away from you.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Yeah, so if you need to say it, you can
go look, but don't have it shining in your face.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
I'm with you on that one. Look, I could do
a lot more with you and maybe what we could
do some night if it's okay with you, doctor Dalton Smith,
I could make it up to you. These interviews are great,
but we don't incorporate callers. I could bring it back.
We could do an hour some night on this whole
question and take take questions from listeners and calls from listeners.
(19:06):
If you'll be up for that one, my producer, get
in touch with your PR person Corey Newman.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Okay, sounds good.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Thanks very much, Doctor Sunda Dalton Smith the book Sacred
rest Recover your life, renew your energy, and restore your sanity.
I love alliteration rest, recover, renew, restore. I like that.
Speaker 5 (19:28):
Thank you so much, doctor, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
You're welcome. When we get back, go and talk a
little football. Bill Belichick. What the heck is he doing
heading to North Carolina to become a tar Heel boy?
That's something I didn't expect. We'll talk with Kyle Bray,
WBZ news radio reporter and try to figure it out
why coach Bill is heading south. Back on night Side
(19:52):
right after the news at the little bit after eight thirty.
But I thought she was a really good guest. At
eight thirty two, here comes the.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
News night Side with Dan Ray on w BOST's news Radio.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Well, the big news story sports story today should be
the Red Sox signing the picture from the White Sox,
but it really wasn't Bill Belichick heading to North Carolina
to coach the tar Heels. Kyle Bray's been working on
this story today. Kyle, I can't figure this one out
from a What's I mean? Obviously, I guess Bill Belichick's
(20:28):
doing what he wants to do. Kyle, what do you
think is in his head? Here?
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Well, hey, Dan, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Yeah no, I thank you so much for you know,
you were working late.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Oh yeah, well, I mean I was just as puzzled
as you were when I first heard this, because you know,
I mean, you're looking at the second most winningest coach
in NFL history, you know, whether you want to debate
Schula or not, probably the greatest coach of all time,
and he's saying, you know what, I'm gonna I'm gonna
pack my bags and I'm gonna go back to school. No,
it's it's very perplexing. But there there are definitely a
lot of things that makes sense to me about this move,
(21:01):
even if you know it.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
It's okay, give me a couple because obviously there's fifty
million things because I believe he signed a five years
for ten MILLI a year. Yeah uh. And obviously he
could probably walk away at any point because if some
really good, underperforming NFL team came to knocking, he could
(21:26):
walk away.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
But you know what, the biggest difference I think that
you'll see versus you know, him taking an NFL job
and you know, going to the college game, is that
as a as a college coach, you pretty much have
complete control. I mean you are in charge of, you know,
what schemes your team's gonna run. You're in charge of
what players you're bringing in. I mean, obviously the landscape
has drastically changed in recent years. You know now that
(21:52):
you're allowed to pay athletes with these name image and
likekness deals. But he's not gonna have to worry about
an overbearing owner sort of controlling everything, because I mean
that that was he kind of he had the reins
completely during his time in New England. You know, he
was in charge of all the plays they put out,
he was in charge of who they brought in. And
you know, in the later years of his tenure here,
you know, the you know, ownership seemed like it was
(22:13):
really starting to sink its teeth into what he was doing.
And and I think that bothered him because I know
that he was linked with the Jacksonville job in the NFL,
but people were talking about how they would have to
get rid of their GM if they wanted to bring
him in. And that was the same when he was
going for the job in Atlanta and I think now
that you know he's there, he doesn't really have anyone
kind of overseeing him. It's the you know, the buck
stops at him. He gets to make all those decisions.
(22:35):
I think that's that's huge for him.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Yeah, it's gonna be interesting. I know one of his
former assistant coaches pretty well, and I have some insight
into what went on down in Atlanta. I think he
was I think he thought that deal was done and
I had that from a what I would consider to
be a pretty good source, and it fell apart, not
on his end, but on the Atlanta end. So maybe
(23:00):
he just got tired of the gamesmanship within the NFL.
But I'll tell you he doesn't have He might be
the boss of the football program down there, but they
have something that most major colleges, the Alumni Association. If
he wins, they will build a shrine to him. But
if he doesn't win after a couple of years, and
(23:22):
UNC has not been a powerhouse football program, although obviously
Drake May the Patriots quarterback, came out of UNC. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
No, definitely. I mean under Mac Brown they had some
they had some moments. I mean this year they went
six and six. They're going to be playing in the
Fenway Bowl actually, which is pretty exciting. You know, maybe
Belichick's not supposed to coach that game, but he might
be in attendance.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Oh, I definitely think he would want to be there
to watch because some of those guys on the team,
He's not going to turn that that roster over completely.
They'll be changes, graduating seniors and maybe some players will
decide to get in the portal and leave. But who
I mean, it's just no, Yeah, what do you think?
What do you think the key? What do you think
the key was? I mean, was it it was? It
(24:05):
could have been the money because he could have gotten
just as much money in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
You I think a lot of it has to do
with that. And then also, I mean in his prens
conference today, he just said, you know, he just loves
to coach. I think that, you know, I mean, he
was he was pretty good on some of the media circuits.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
He was doing.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
But I mean, we know from anything, you know, Bill
Belichick and the media are not exactly you know, they
He has had his spats, but you know, I think
he just really wanted to get on the field, and
I think, you know, NFL teams didn't want to give
him that control. And I think he he looked at
this opportunity, as you know, and I get to be
get to be on a field, and I get to
build a build a program from the ground up. I
mean the you mentioned, you know, the the he'll want
(24:43):
to see those players. I mean, this is a tremendous
opportunity for any players that are that are on un see.
I mean you in the college football landscape right now,
you see so many people, you know, kids transferring because
they're not getting enough playing time. You know they're transferring
or you know, sitting out seasons because they're not getting
enough money. I mean that this is now, like I
would argue if you want to go to if you're
a start player that thinks that they're a star and
(25:05):
wants to go to the NFL, I mean, this would
be the best place to do it. I mean there's
really no one else better to learn from than Bill Belichick.
I mean it's only gonna time. Only time will really
tell the results on if he, you know, can bring
his you know, mindset to the college game and you know,
if he can have success in that conference. But you know,
I was when I was working today. I saw comments
(25:26):
from a former Patriot player, Logan Ryan. He was talking
on CBS Sports and he was basically like, if you're
a if you're a transfer player, like and you you
really want to make that push to go pro, like,
why would you not consider UNC? I mean, to get
a chance to learn from maybe the greatest coach that's
ever coached the game. I mean that's I mean, that
seems like a no brainer.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Well, it's this is another factor and I'd love to
get your reaction to it. I'm a sports guy. I
know you're a sports guy, and not that either of us,
you know, make our living covering sports. You cover a
lot of different news stories. But Belichick's success at New
England was over a period of twenty years, and he
(26:06):
had a pretty good quarterback for most of those years,
and when the quarterback left, the team sort of went away.
So you can have you can draft a quarterback like
Drake May who's twenty two or twenty three years old,
and you can say, okay, ten years minimum, maybe fifteen.
Anybody who he brings into UNCEE three years, four years max.
(26:31):
That's a different sort of situation that he's now going
to find himself in and I wonder how difficult that
will make it. You know, you start to get somebody
good and all of a sudden they're going to boom,
then they go, yeah, they're not there long. It's what
I'm saying. And I wonder if he'll have the patience
because I don't think Belichick is someone who's imbued with
(26:52):
a lot of patience. I don't know him at all,
but I don't think patience is probably his strong suit.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
Yeah, no, I could certainly see that. I mean, you
bring up a good point where I mean, and especially
if he's being successful, he'll probably only have three years
because some of those kids will probably want to declare
for the draft. And he talked a little bit in
his press conference today about how, you know, developing players
is really important to him. He mentioned, you know, Brady
was a fourth stringer his first year. You know, Gronk Edelman,
(27:19):
you know those guys, they went through a lot of
development in their time. But you know, I mean, you're right,
you know, getting to work with these work these kids
for such a short period of time, will that payoff?
And I mean, you look at some of the issues
that they had that the Pats had in his final season.
You know, offensively, they weren't strong and the personnel that
they were bringing in weren't up to the caliber that
(27:41):
you would expect the past Patriots teams. And in college
recruiting is so much more important than it really is
in the NFL because you have such a wide pool,
and you know with now with nil deals. I mean,
I know that reportedly UNC is increasing their nil pool
to help him sort of entice more players there. But
I mean, at the end of the day, like it's
(28:03):
is he gonna be able to do the recruiting that's required.
I mean, because I mean, obviously he has a pretty
good pitch. You know, Hey, I'm Bill Belichick. I'm the
greatest coach of all time. Come play for me. But
you know that there are coaches that have to put
it a lot, a lot of legwork to get these
deals done. And sometimes, you know, you put in all
this work, you've you've got the money on the table,
you got them all excited, and then they just flip
(28:24):
at the last second. And I can't imagine what what
we'll be going through Bill Belichick's head the first time
he has a recruit flip on him at the signing day.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Yeah, and also you gotta you have to go most
of these college coaches, maybe Belichick would be the exception,
but you have to go to the to the home
of the kid. You gotta get on on a puddle
jumper maybe, and go to wherever the talented players are
and you got to meet mom and dad, and you
got to schmooze a little bit. And I'm not sure
(28:52):
he's the schmoozing type, but we'll see.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
Yeah, No, he's He's He's definitely the type of guy
that kind of always gets what he wants, if at
least for most of his career. So it'll be interesting
to see what happens when he's got to go into
those you know, he's got to go to these high
school games, got to go to these living rooms and
meet with you know, the whole exten family and and
and give a you know, a you know, sweet talk
them and whatnot. I'd love to see. I'd love to
be a fly on the wall and see that happen.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Yeah. I have a buddy of mine who played basketball
at BC when Bob Coosey was a coach, and he
told me it was just amazing, you know, Bob Cousy
became the coach at BC right after his NBA career
with the Celtics finished. And uh, he said, Bob Coosey
walks into our house and he's asking me to play
on his college But it was like done deals just
by walking to the door. But I'm not sure that
(29:35):
that the same sort of magic is going to occur
when when Wody walks in the door. I don't know.
We'll see what happens. Gole. I enjoyed the conversation. I
really appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
Of course, thank you for having back.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Come on back whenever you can, and don't forget to
put in for some overtime tonight. Okay, definitely, thank you. Okay,
we're gonna flip from school. This is like a regular newscast,
going to go to weather next. Where do we stand
with the drought. We're gonna be talking with an ACU
weather meteorologist. I'm pretty sure. Uh, we'll get to that
(30:10):
right after this break here on Nightside, And we got
lots of questions about not only the weather in the past,
but what's coming up, particularly for the rest of the month.
Coming back on.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Nightside now back to Dan Ray live from the Window
World nightside studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
All right, we a very pleased to be joined again
by Matt Benz. Hey, Matt, how are you tonight? Hey
doing well? How are you doing? I'm doing great, a
little bit better after this rain. Look, I'm trying to
figure this out. We had a drought that a lot
of rain. Where do we stand with the drought? Are
we still in the drought? We out of the drought, were.
Speaker 6 (30:49):
Close to the We're still We're still in the drought.
So a couple yeah, I know, we keep that word going.
But hey, there's a couple of different ways you can
look at it. So for the year, we're actually a
bob average in the precipitation department. He thinks, Okay, no drought. Yes,
that's good, that's what we want to hear. But since September,
September through November, that's a time period right there, we
(31:10):
accumulated a drought deficit and rainfall of over five and
a half inches. So even though we saw all this rain,
you know, in the last couple of days, that now
puts us about one point nine inches above average per December,
we still have about another four you know, three four
inches a go to really say, hey, we've recovered, because
we kind of went missing there for a while in
the fall months and earlier in November.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
So so you kind of look at like the year
to date sort of thing, you know, almost got to
do it. Obviously, we were in a drought in October
and started in September, but we've now had more precipitation
in twenty twenty four than we had in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 6 (31:51):
Yeah, since it would be about correct. And yeah, it
kind of weird that we're in the severe drought, but
sometimes that's kind of how drought goes. It goes by,
So it's not like it's not like the way it's
been going slightly.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
But it's what I'm saying is you got to think
of it differently. It's not like a baseball season. A
win in April is just as good as a win
in August. You know, you want to get the number
of rights to get the play. That's not quite it's
not linear. So how much more rain would we need
because it's going to rain next week to get out
of the drought here.
Speaker 6 (32:19):
I think what you'll see is, especially after this wet
start to the month, you're gonna see a dent in.
You know, when the drought monitor comes out right now,
we're in that extreme drought category. I wouldn't be surprised
that that usually updates every Thursday, and unfortunately we just
kind of caught the tail end of this latest wet cycle,
so to say. But I have a feeling what you're
gonna see is we're gonna kind of step down gradually.
(32:40):
So we're in the extreme danger right now. Extreme drought
right now probably go to the severe to moderate maybe,
you know, by next week, and especially if we get
the rain, I think you'll quickly see things improving here
across the area. But just because it was so dry
in the fall months, that really set us on the
stage where where we're at right now.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Okay, I know this is not your department, but are
there any brush fire is still burning in Massachusetts? I
know they have some problems out in California, but I
assume that our chance of brush fire has has diminished
remarkably over.
Speaker 6 (33:10):
The last few Yeah, especially with the especially with the
rain that we've had. Now you've gotten you know, the
at least a cut top soil top. They call it
the duff, the all the leaf matter and stuff. Now
that that's all really good and soap. That fire danger
has gone down. Of course, if you get any long
term drying trend for a couple of weeks, that could return,
but at least for now, that fire danger has come
down quite a bit.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
And then the other question, of course, that everyone wants
me to ask you, is we're going to have any
snow by Christmas.
Speaker 6 (33:37):
There's a big question. And here's what I can tell
you right now. Right now, ACI Weather has some confidence
that we're going to get another real cold shot of
air here right before Christmas. And the big question is
is that going to include snow. So we're gonna go
through this weekend, it's gonna be chilly, we're gonna get
into next week and it's gonna kind of warm up again,
and you're kind of gonna think, well, we're not going
to get back to that cold, winter like weather again.
(33:58):
But it does look like winter will turn at least
with regards to cold air here probably after the twenty
first and going towards Christmas. The big question is can
we get some sort of moisture with that colder air,
And that's kind of hard to say right now. Right now,
our forecast looks like a low percent chance for a
light Christmas here in Boston, but a little bit shift
in the pattern could change that.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
What's the long term for the balance of the winter.
I read somewhere today that we are expecting, well, they
didn't have much snow last winter, but that we are
expecting more snow at least than last winter.
Speaker 6 (34:29):
Yeah, we are expecting more snow than last winter, but
still below the historical average of what we'd expect for
a winter period. We're kind of on a fine line.
I think northern New England, especially once you get into
the interior Vermont, New Hampshire up into northern Maine, those
areas could overperform this winter. But we're going to be
right on that boundary where we're going to get into
these sloppy sides of these storms. We're probably going to
(34:51):
get more rain and then some snow, but overall we
expect the balance of snow to be higher than last year,
but perhaps below the historical average for the year.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Matt, let me ask you this. When you go to
parties and people say, hey, what sort of what's on
a line of work you win, Matt, I kind of
assume that you really don't tell on your meteorologists, because
I assumed every question for the for the balance of
the parties. What about this? What about that? Do you
get that when you get out in social settings, I'm
assuming you do.
Speaker 6 (35:17):
Yeah, and then you also get you know, you get
paid for being wrong all the time, and you know
all that different stuff.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Oh yeah, so they'll ask you what the forecast is
and then they'll insult you. Oh yeah, that would be.
Speaker 6 (35:28):
But yes, I kind of keep it a little down
low when you go out some days.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Yeah. Yeah, no, with a name like Ben's last name, Matt,
Ben's what's some of your car dealer or.
Speaker 6 (35:38):
Something like that, I get to add as my my
daughter's name, Mercedes. You know, I get that a lot.
So yeah, all sorts of fun jokes that come up. Yeah,
that's great, that's great, Matt, to get a great sense
of humor. Always enjoy talking to you, particularly now that
a little bit of.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
The pressure is off. I was down the Cape for
most of the summer and well into the fall, and
it was amazingly beautiful in the Cape. I know it
cost a lot of aggravation up here, but it was
spectacular September and you know, an opulent October in terms
of how we were doing, and uh, you know if
(36:16):
you had anything to do with that, Matt, I just
on behalf of everyone down in the Cape. I want
to say thank you very much, well, thank you and
and you're welcome.
Speaker 6 (36:23):
I just did it for the Cape though, and not
for everyone else because I know we needed the rain elsewhere.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
AH got you, I got you, all right, Matt, thank
you so much. We'll talk again. Okay, all right, sounds good.
Thanks for having all right, my pleasure, my pleasure, absolutely
always like to talk with Matt Benn's. Okay, when we
get back, let me give you a quick rundown on
what we're going to be doing tonight, because I think
it's important. We'll be opening up those f FO will
actually be Rob will be opening up the phone line.
It's going to talk about the level of empathy and
(36:50):
I guess you could almost stay sympathy shown for this guy,
Luigi Mengioni, the guy charging the murder of US Healthcare
CEO Brian Thompson troubling, including some comments made by our
own Senator Elizabeth Warren. We'll get into that. Also, we're
going to talk with a criminologist named Scott Bond. We've
(37:11):
had him on before. He has an expertise in serial killers.
Now again, this guy, to the best of our knowledge,
is not a serial killer. But we're going to talk
a little bit about what goes into the minds of
these folks and the Later on tonight, we're going to
talk about those mysterious drones over New Jersey and of
all the places in America, why would anyone be flying
in drones over New Jersey. I mean there's really well,
(37:35):
there's a couple of military bases there, you get, right,
Air Force Base Fort Dix and all that. But so
we're gonna that's Those are the topics for the night
stay with us always welcoming new callers feel free as
well as old callers. My name's Dan Ray. This is Nightside.
We'll be back right after this
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