October 8, 2024 • 36 mins
Beyond the Ring: What the World of Dog Shows Can Teach Us All with guest Kelly Marquis - certified life and business coach, nationally acclaimed dog show handler, and author of the new book, Behind the Scenes of Best in Show: Intimate Moments with the Masters: Handlers and Their Show Dogs.
Space weather! What are solar storms and how do they affect how we see things like Northern Lights? (Which some are predicting might be visible in some states including parts of New England this weekend) with guest Shawn Dahl – Space Weather Expert with the National Weather.
Fire Prevention Week in Massachusetts - This Year’s Theme is “Smoke Alarms: Make Them Work for You” with guest State Fire Marshal Jon Davine.
FTX cleared to repay billions in assets to customers after bankruptcy plan approval. How will this affect Bitcoin? with guest: Adam O’Brien – CEO of Bitcoin Well
Space weather! What are solar storms and how do they affect how we see things like Northern Lights? (Which some are predicting might be visible in some states including parts of New England this weekend) with guest Shawn Dahl – Space Weather Expert with the National Weather.
Fire Prevention Week in Massachusetts - This Year’s Theme is “Smoke Alarms: Make Them Work for You” with guest State Fire Marshal Jon Davine.
FTX cleared to repay billions in assets to customers after bankruptcy plan approval. How will this affect Bitcoin? with guest: Adam O’Brien – CEO of Bitcoin Well
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on Bezy Radio.
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nice to hear your voice.
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My name is Dan Ray.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I'm not sure it's always nice for you guys to
hear my voice, but I love chatting with you.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
I love doing this program.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
We're here every Monday through Friday night from eight until midnight.
We are now well into year eighteen, and I think
that tonight we need to give away some tickets. This
is I May. We have some tickets coming up, which
I will explain. That'll be after nine o'clock. Also, we
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got some t shirts. We've got a lot going on here.
We've got a lot going on here, and of course
during the first hour we don't take any phone calls.
We have four guests who present some pretty interesting perspectives.
So let's get right to it again. Rob Brooks and
Dan Cantano are in the booth tonight, two producers tonight,
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Aren't I lucky? Our first guest is Kelly Lynn Marquee.
Kelly Lynn marquis welcome to Night Side. You're a certified
life and business coach. You're nationally acclaimed dog show handler
and author of a new book Behind the Scenes are
best in show intimate moments with the masters, handlers and
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their show dogs. The question is, I think, what have
you learned as a dog show handler and what can
we learn from the world of dog shows.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Well as a dog show handler. One of the things
that I've learned is the importance of energy, and when
you connect in with a dog and you're looking to
work with an animal, you need to be able to
connect in with their energy and meet them where they're at.
And one of the beauty I'm working with animals is
that they're very pure in their energy, so you don't
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tend to have body language that is expressing one thing
and then verbal language that actually may be expressing something
very different. So that's one of the beauties that I
have when I'm working with an animal that I have
noticed is often different when you're working with people. And
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that has actually translated into helping me from what I've
learned with the dogs and their energy, it's also helped
me when I'm reading other people and getting their words
and their body language in alignment.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Let's just talk for a second about dogs. I happen
to love dogs.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Dogs, I mean, I think that's great about dogs is
they're just honest.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
There's no phoniness about a dog.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
If the dog loves you and likes you, he'll jump
up on you and.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
He'll smother you with kisses.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
There's no question the dog doesn't like you, uh, he'll
let you know to you know, keep your distance, keep
your distance, whatever the circumstances.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
There's there's there's.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
No phoniness about dogs, or probably about cats or other
animals as well.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
So how do you take those lessons?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I mean, look, my daughter has a a Yoki, which
is just a beautiful dog, mean Mustard. My son has
a uh has excuse my getting it mixed up here.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
My son has a shortky which is named Willy.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
And my daughter has a dog which is a Corgi
uh named named Mustard. And they're just two very different dogs.
But they just love people and they express it every
time they see you. So how do you take the
honesty of dogs and learn from that and apply it
to human beings who oftentimes are a little more complex
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and maybe not as straightforward as dogs.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Well, I love that question, and especially when it comes
to children. I know, even with my own daughter when
she was younger, I knew I wanted her to have
her very own dog. And I think that one of
the main things we can learn about dogs is how
they hold space for our emotions. And so when you
have children, and I remember one time my daughter came
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home from school and she had had a bad day,
and I wanted to talk to her about it, but
yet I saw how she was with her dog, and
her dog could just be with her. It's like when
you're with a dog, it's like they can feel what
you feel, and sometimes they know just what to do
to cheer you up, or they're just always there to listen.
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And I just think that's one of the most beautiful things,
is how pure apart and how well they really hold
space for us emotionally, or we can just feel their
joy when they're frolicking in the yard or chasing something
or just completely consumed in the moment. And there's just
so much beauty to a dog. And I think especially
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you know, I've thought a lot about this too, and
how we connect with dogs. You know, the connection with
a dog is actually different than the connection with a cat.
You know, cats are more independent, and yet with dogs
that often you know, they want to like crawl into
our skin and just unite with us, and so I
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think it's I mean all.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
So identify with what you're saying there. I am my daughter.
When she was I guess nine, she was begging for a.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Dog, so we got a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel for
her and within two days this dog, Charlie, he became
He adopted me. He would follow me around, sit with me.
He just wanted to hang. As kids got older, all
they wanted to do was, you know, can we have
a couple of dollars? Can I have the car keys?
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And my wife gave me the.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
To do list.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
All Charlie wanted to do is hang with me. I
give you hate that, but how do you apply that
to your relationships with others? When you see others, you
can't run up to them and wag your tail and
lick their face and let them know that you're really
happy to see them. You're a coach, you're a trainer.
If I'm not mistaken of a certified life and business coach.
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How do you apply those that knowledge to the people
you help train to become better? I guess either business
people or just better human beings.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Well, one of.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
The biggest things is teaching people how to trust their
own energy, how to trust what they're feeling, how to
pay attention to someone's body language, and how to pay
attention to what it is that they're feeling and practicing authenticity.
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You know, sometimes sometimes we're confused about something, and if
you check in with your energy, you can actually feel
that you have two conflicting feelings. So these are things
that I've learned with the dogs. Is that I actually
when I ended up making the move to going into
life coaching, I was realizing that there was a dynamic
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with a certain person in my life, and I stepped
back and thought, well, why am I feeling this way
with a person When I work with my dogs. We're one,
we'd just be completely slow. We're in sync. We just
know how each other feels. And then I was noticing
and this was the first AHA moment I had, was like, oh,
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the words aren't in alignment. And I started paying more
attention to the signals that my body was giving me,
just you know, when you're putting little feelers out about
how I was feeling energetically about that person, and then
I would ask myself more. I would ask those those
feelings more.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
So.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
One of the things that I do do when I
am working with people, is how people get more in
tune to their feelings and their emotions, and because I
do believe that they're here to actually help guide us
to say, oh, I want more of that, or I
don't like this, or this is making me uncomfortable, and
that helps guide us as to how to take our
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next best step.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
All right, I appreciate insight. Kelly Lynn, Marky Marquee. I
hope I'm pronouncing that correctly. The new book behind the
Scenes are best in show intimate moments with the master's
handleers and.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Their show dogs.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Has that book out already or if folks want to
buy it, is it out or is it Oftentimes we
get books that are coming out a week from now
or a month from now.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
When is it out?
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Yes, it actually launched.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
It launched.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Back in the spring and it's gone phenomenal and I'm
so excited. Would be on your station in Boston and
my local area.
Speaker 6 (08:59):
That's great, that's true.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I see you're from New Hampshire, so or at least
you're some phone numbers from New Hampshire.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Weel, maybe we'll have you back some night and we
can talk about dogs and get people can question you
about how they can better train their dogs. I could
never train Charlie, but boy, he would do what I wanted,
you know, I mean, just a great dog. The dog
adopts you, I think, to be honest with you, That's
what happened with my dogs.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
They figure out a way to communicate with you too.
They really do. Yeah, I would love to talk.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
More specifically with dog stuff because.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
There's so much I've learned about how even dogs learn
how to communicate with us and meet us at our level.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Definating and I think they'll I think they are way
above us. And the other thing I want you to know,
I end my show every night with this phrase, all dogs,
all cats, all pets go to heaven, and I do
believe that is true.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Thanks, because what would heaven be without dogs?
Speaker 6 (09:50):
Thanks so much, Kelly, Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
All Right, we're going to take you out of this world.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
In the next seg We're going to talk about space
weather with Sean he's a space weather expert with the
National Weather Service, and how do these solar storms and
things like that affect some of the things that we see,
like northern lights. This will be science for you scienceists
out there, or for your people who for you folks who.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Want to learn about science.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Coming right back on night Sign after this quick break
on a Tuesday night.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Now, science was never my strength in school, but.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I must say this that meteorology and weather have always
fascinated me. So we're going to talk with Sean Dahl.
He's a space weather expert with the National Weather Service. Sean,
I'm assuming that the space weather we're talking about is
not the stuff that's up, you know, twenty five thirty
thousand feet we're talking about why above the wild blue yonder,
(10:55):
Am I right?
Speaker 6 (10:57):
That's right? Dan, Hey, nice to be on your show
The night Side here, Thanks for having us. Yeah, you're right,
he is taking its stuff is taking place in that
giant vacuum of space ninety three million miles between the
Sun and the Earth that ultimately arrives at and around
our planet here.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Yeah, So, for example, what I want to talk about,
I know.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
That Here's what I really don't understand. Our system has
been around for billions of years, and we've been warmed
by the Sun for billions of years. And I've asked
lots of different scientists who have had on the program,
you know, some really smart people. How the heck does
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that that sun just keep on burning and burning and burning.
I know it's big. I know it's big, but can
you explain to me and to my audience, why is
it that the Sun hasn't burned out?
Speaker 6 (11:52):
It's a marvel, isn't it. It's truly quite a miraculous thing. Well,
for when the Sun is so massive, you know, a
million earths to fit inside of it, and it's just
continually burning this giant supply of hydrogs into the has
and eventually, as the Sun continues to age, you know
that hydrogen is going to be converted. It's going to
run out, and that won't be for fortunately, you know,
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there's something like another five billionaires, so not in anyone's lifetime.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Who's listening to this show? I've asked questions.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
I don't know Brian Green from Columbia. He has written
great books, he's a scientist a and these are the
questions that strike me. Okay, that's a good answer. I
got that one. Okay, solar storms, I know the word
solar comes from the Sun. What are we talking about
when we talk about solar storms.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
Yeah, we're talking about a wide variety. Dan They come
in different forms and in almost different stages. Some are
at the speed of light, so we see something like
a solar flare, this blast of energy that travels at
speed of light. We see it. The effect is already
on the Sun the side of our atmosphere. Others are
in the form of energetic particles that can go through space,
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so they are a tad bits slower. They can almost
be speed of light stuff, but it may take them
fifteen to twenty minutes to get here at their fastest,
but usually it can be even as long as twenty
four hours. And those penetrate things, so those get a
little more potential of danger to satellites in space and
astronaut health of course. And then pieces of the Sun,
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giant blobs of solar material and strong magnetic fields can
expand out into space and giant, really impressive looking explosions
called coronal mass ejections or CMEs for short, and that's
what leads to those geomagnetic storms that causes the aurora
that so many people want to see.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
So yeah, that's and I guess the aura of Borealis
is going to be seen.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
It was seen a couple of months ago in August.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
If I'm not missaying. It always seems to come around
the middle of August. I don't know what that's all about,
but I'm hearing that it's now going to be up
on the northern climbs in Canada and maybe the state
of Washington, not so much in New England.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Is that what's going on this time?
Speaker 6 (14:03):
Yeah, we had another CME arrived. We were looking for
one to come in potentially the beginning of the weekend,
but it was a bit slower than we thought, and
it finally arrived in pretty good force on Sunday evening
going into Monday, and that led to a really good
Northern lights display, perhaps even seen from Massachusetts. I don't know.
I haven't heard, but we did get to a three
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on our one through five scale, and I know it
was seen here in northern Colorado.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
So yeah, that's that's below the state of Washington. If
I'm not mistaken. In terms of the map, I mean,
you got Washington, Oregon, then California, Colorado. You got a
couple of states above you. I think Dakota's or something
like that. If I'm not mistaken on Montana, I mean
for you to see it in Colorado. That's that's that
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is central United States. You're you're in the middle of
the of the country. You're about halfway between the Canadian
border and the Mexican borders. So if you saw, I'm
assuming a lot of people north of you, in places
like Minnesota and the Dakota's in Montana and parts of
Idaho saw it as well.
Speaker 6 (15:07):
Oh, absolutely for sure they did if the skies were
clear up there, because there was a very young moon, right,
so the skies nice and dark. We get longer periods
of darkness this time of year. And I know my
relatives in North Dakota if they were outlooking, they certainly
had a really nice auroral show last night.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
So what does this mean to us other than beauty
in the sky, which is wonderful.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
What are the practical aspects?
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Does it affect our weather on terra firma or is
it just simply a beautiful sky that we can look
at a few.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Nights a year.
Speaker 6 (15:41):
Yeah, then there's more to It's you got the beautiful aurora.
Of course, it really doesn't affect the norm mainstream meteorology,
the weather here on our planet so much. It's really
about the technology that we live and rely upon so
much today, the electric power that we rely on so much,
that can be dramatically impacted in the worst case in
have a a multiple state power blackout. Although that's very rare,
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we know it can happen. Historically, there's been strengths that
will allow that to happen. That's why we do what
we do at the Space Weather Prediction Center, which is
we contact all these key technological infrastructure operators like the
power grid, aviation industries, satellite communities, space launch communication folks,
emergency management officials. All of these kinds of things are
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what we do from the Space Weather Prediction Center. So
most of society can sit back and hope to see
and enjoy a Northern Lights show while everybody else does
all the work to keep our systems running.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Okay, my last question, Sean, is a little off via
some of my questions are as you've probably figured out
by now.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
But I broadcast remotely, so we're all into electronics. Okay,
we have a broadcast tower. I don't know how well
you know New England, but we have a broadcast tower
down in Hull, Massachusetts, which is right out over the water.
Fifty thousand am booming signal across the entry we heard
in about thirty eight states at night. I have a
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little device what looks like the size of a transistor
radio but it's what's called the com rex, and and
my producer is about, I don't know, maybe one hundred
miles from me back at Broadcast Central. So we're all electronics.
Can this stuff affect our broadcasts? Because every once in
a while we get a little glitch or something like that,
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we think it's a gremlin.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
How much how much havoc?
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Can can I know, we can talk about electromagnetic fields.
I've had experts on about that, but just in terms
of the day to day stuff that we all use.
My day to day stuff is a little more complicated
because it's you know, broadcasting radio show, you know, halfway
across America.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
But people who are.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Watching television at night, it's all electronics at this point.
Can can our electronics be impacted adversely as well?
Speaker 6 (17:55):
Not really, Dan, Our personal electronics are pretty much free
from most of these types of direct impacts. It's really
about the high voltage transmission lines and certain communication frequency
bands that can be impacted by these types of storms
in their different varieties. That's not to say that some
communication means like you're talking about with your broadcast, how
er can't be impacted in some way. I just don't
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know all the frequency bands they're using, but most certainly
some of these bands, satellite communication wavelengths, line of site wavelengths,
and high frequency systems, they can all be impacted by
these types of storms.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Well, Sean, I wish I had about one one thousands
of the information and knowledge in my head about this
subject that you have. It's something that I wish i'd
learned more about in school. Your enthusiasm and your passion
is obvious. You've been a great guest. Thank you so much.
Maybe we'll bring you back some night. In this hour,
(18:50):
we just do four brief interviews, and then from nine
to midnight we do an hour on a subject and
we ansertain questions from listening. If you'd be interested, I'd
love to have you back because I love your passion.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
Yeah, of course, Dan, happy to do so. It's nice
getting out and educating and helping people understand more about
this really important topic of space weather. Thanks for having
us and I'm glad to come back anytime.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Well, my producer will be in touch. My people will
call your people. Sean Dahle, space weather expert with the
National Weather Service. Fascinating stuff. Sean, thank you so much.
When we get back, we're going to talk about something
a little closer to home back here in Massachusetts. This
is Fire Prevention Week in Massachusett, and we're going to
be talking with the State Fire Marshall about some of
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the things you can do that can maybe prevent you
from having a fire at your home, because that is
a disaster when you think about it. Anyone's ever experienced
anything like that? You know of what I speak. Be
back with State Fire Marshall John Devine. Right after this.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
You're on Night Side with Dan Ray on w z
Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
All right, well, this is an interesting time of year. Uh,
Summer's over, as I think all of us know, Uh,
it's getting a little a little cooler.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
It hasn't gotten really.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Cold yet, but as a result, this is the week
that's called fire Prevention Week in Massachusetts. And I want
everyone to listen on because I don't want to lose
any of you in a fire, and I don't want
any of you to lose family members, possessions, or your
home in a fire.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
This year's theme is.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Smoke alarms, Make them work for you with me and
stay fire marshaled, John Devine. Uh, is that the correct pronunciation?
John Devin? Oh, Davin? Okay, that's easy. Okay, that's the
way I would have pronounced that. I got a fanatic
outp here, which they don't understand. John Davin. Hey, that's
pretty simple. Come on, I'm an irishman. Do I know
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how to pronounce Davin? So, so tell us what's going on.
Everybody needs to have smoke and carbon monoxide alarms and
you need to check them, check the batteries and all
of that. But just explain to us. I'm sure. Well,
I know that you investigate a lot of fires, and
when I was a TV reporter a long time ago,
I went to more than my share of fires, and
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in many cases they're preventable.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Tell us how.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
Well. So thanks, first of all, thank you for having
me tonight. I really appreciate it. And again, like you said,
this is Fire Prevention Week, and it's actually the longest
running public health and public safety observance in the United
States history. So I appreciate you allow me to speak
tonight about the importance of smoke and carbon dioxide alarms.
And we really have three core messages this week that
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we're trying to get out to the folks, and the
first one is be sure you have working smoke alarms
at every level of your home. They're especially important when
we're sleeping, so you know it's best to have them
in each bedroom and in the hallway outside of each
bedroom if possible. Second, we want you to test them
every month, and we do a little thing at the
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Department of Fires Services on our social media and start
a little trend called smoke Alarm Saturday. But we test
our smoke and carbon dioxide alarms on the first Saturday
a month. But you know, obviously you can do it
whenever it works for you or your family. And then third,
you need to replace the batteries twice a year when
we change the clock. So we're changing the clock's here
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coming up soon, so I expect everybody to change their
batteries out. And you know when you do check them,
check the date on your smoke alarm. They're only good
for ten years, just like any other appliance in your home.
They don't last forever, so check the manufacturing date it's
printed on the back of the alarm, and if it's
older than ten years, you need to replace it. We
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had I think we had thirty one fires or twenty
seven thousand fires last year in the counterwelth. I mean
that includes our structured fires, vehicles, outdoor fires, everything, but
about half of those fires took place in people's homes
and that's where almost all the fire deaths and injuries
took place. So we've had twenty seven fire decks this
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year already. That included two children and fourteen older adults.
We're down from last year. Last year total was forty
five deaths, with two kids and twenty six older adults.
And honestly, the leading cause of fires overall is cooking,
and the leading cause of our fatal fires is smoking,
So you know, it's really important that.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
The traditional smoking in bed.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
I guess, are there any statistics that anyone has as
to what percentage of homes. I assume every business has
smoke alarms and carpa monoxide alarms because they can be
they can be inspected a lot easier.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Any any idea as to what percentage of.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Homes have the necessary alarms, and that doesn't even question
how many of them have alarms, but they don't have
batteries and them other batteries have run out. How many
how many homes do you do you think it's anywhere
close to one hundred percent.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
Well, we had thirty one people died in fires and
home last year in Massachusetts and it was almost I
believe it was almost half of them that it didn't
have working smoke arms. You know, some some folks had
you know, the batteries went dead, they never replaced them,
or you know, the battery goes dead in the middle
of the night, so they pulled the detector down and
put it on the counter and said, oh, you know,
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I'll run out Saturday and get a battery and never
replace it. And then some of them had no alarms
at all. So you know, I don't have a number
of how many people don't have them, but it's it's
sad that, you know, most of these fatal fighters that
we go to, you know, these folks would have had
a pretty good chance to get out of that home
if they had working smoke alarms.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Well it is I mean, many people have never seen
a home burned down I mean, you see it on television.
Everyone can see it on television. There's a big fire
going on somewhere. But to actually physically watch a home
burned down, and as I you know, did too many
times as the television television reporter back in the day,
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you just realize that even if everyone escapes, which you
hope they do, the memories and the possessions and the
pictures and all of that can never be replaced. So
for not only for your own good and for the
safety of your family, but just for your you know,
your heritage which you hope to pass on to your
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children and grandchildren. It's a really inexpensive investment.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
No, it really is. And you're right, you know, home
fires are tragic in many ways. But you know what
we tell folks too is listen, we would rather have
you safe and sound outside, you know, let the firefighters
come in and do their work. And you know, some
of your possessions, you know, obviously not your photos and
all your family artifacts can't be replaced. But your home
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can be replaced, your furnishings can be replaced, but you're
not going to replace a family member.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Yeah, well, I totally agree, and I don't mean to
minimize the loss of life. But as I say, even
if you're lucky enough to escape a fire.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
And that's a good point because that smoke alarm gives
you that early warning, so you know you can get
up if it's the middle of the night, you can
make that call the nine to one one and obviously
you know, the quicker you get to nine to one
one and get your fire department on the way, the
better chance there is of you saving your home. Yeah,
but if you don't have detectors, you know, it's it's
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very difficult, difficult fires get a good head start, and
you know, the wave homes are built now and the furnishings,
everything burns much faster, much hotter. They're more difficult to
put out. So once that fire gets going, it's very
difficult to stop it. So you know, early warning is key.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
And the other thing that I always like to talk
about are space heaters because so many fires either are
caused by space heaters or the space heaters are placed
and get very hot in a place curtains or something
like that. I mean, so many fires that I covered
it would be the cause with.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
Space heaters, so now absolutely.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
So unnecessary just talk about space heaters for a second,
because some people do want space heaters. You know, they're
going to try to keep the price of fuel at
this point is going up. Winter time's coming on. The
bills can be prohibitive, and I can't understand why people
want a space heater. To be so careful with a
space heater. It's like having an open fire, I think
in your house.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
You're right, it really is. That's a great analogy. And
what we tell folks and what we push out for
our message is thirty six inches in a circle around
that space heater. So you don't want anything near that
space heater within thirty six inches three feet. Give yourself
a good three feet circle around that space heater. And
if you're going to purchase a space heater, make sure
that when you look at it, it's been tested by
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an independent lad like UL or Intertech slash ETL. You know,
those are the good ones to purchase. We don't. You
never want to plug space heaters into extension cord through
power strips. You want to plug them directly into a
wall outlet if possible. But the biggest thing is, as
you said, is just keeping combustibles and stuff away from
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that space heater so good. Three feet that's what we
tell everybody. Keep the three circle around it and you'll
be good.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Yeah. Even taking if you're reading a newspaper and you
fall asleep in the newspaper, you know, slips off your
lap onto the floor, and it's next to the space heater,
that can be huge problem as well.
Speaker 5 (28:30):
Those things get very hot.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Let me tell you. Look, I so appreciate the estate.
Fire Marshal John Davin coming in tonight place. Say ahead
to my friend Jake Wark who time Tell them I
said hello, and it's high wall Prevention Week. Is there
a website people can go to? You know, a lot
of information you throw out here and maybe some of
it people miss because I asked them. I didn't ask
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every question perfectly. There is a website you want to
direct folks to fire marshals.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
Sure, they can go to our Department of Fire Service
web page. We also have our Department Services YouTube channel,
our Facebook page and our Twitter account.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
So it's just Department of Fire Services. Don't have to
indicate Massachusetts or anything like that. Just Department of Fireservices dot.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
Com, MASSDFS dot com.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Okay, so mass m a s s DFS dot com
for Department of Fire Services. That's great, Thank you so much,
appreciate it very much.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
Thanks very much for Frank, Thank you very much.
Speaker 5 (29:28):
I appreciate you having me on tonight.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Absolutely. Well we get back.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
We're going to talk about a scandal which I think
many of you remember, but maybe you haven't thought about
for a while, and that is the f t X scandal,
the bitcoin scandal. Remember the dude Sam Bankman Free, Well
he's in the slammer for the next twenty five years
unless he has a successful appeal. And now FTX has
(29:51):
been clear to repay billions in assets to customers after
a bankruptcy plan has been approved. What a mess. We're
going to talk with I'm O'Brien, CEO of Bitcoin well
as to how this settlement might affect your bitcoin. Back
on night Side right after the break.
Speaker 6 (30:07):
Now back to Dan ray Line from the Window World.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Night Side Studios on w b Z News Radio.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Well, I think many of us remember the name sank
Sam bankrupt bank drankruptcy, fraud or what Sam Bankman Freed
was his real name?
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Actually young kid.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Who made billions and is now in the slammer for
twenty five years. The company was f FTX, and we're
joined by Adam O'Brien, who's the CEO of Bitcoin.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Well, Adam, thanks for joining us.
Speaker 6 (30:43):
How are you, hey, Dan?
Speaker 1 (30:45):
I'm great man. How are you doing.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
I'll bet you're glad you had nothing to do with
this guy, Sam Bankman Freed.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
WHOA, I'm quite I am quite happy that I keep
my bitcoin safely tucked away in my own personal wallet.
Speaker 6 (30:58):
Absolutely all right.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
So the FTX now has been cleared to repay billions
in assets to customers after a bankruptcy plan approval.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
What was left? I mean, how much did this guy lose?
Speaker 2 (31:17):
You know, desk badly? I mean he was I don't
know if this was a pyramid scheme. All I remember
was this guy had this weird look about him, and
I thought to myself, I wouldn't give I would loan
that guy five bucks.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
And I'm not the smartest financial guy in.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
The world, but yeah, man, this is a This is
a good old fashioned scam through and through. I think
that it's such an interesting bankruptcy proceeding here because they're
actually paying out more than what people supposedly lost. However,
because they're paying it out in US dollars and not
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in bitcoin or the crypto assets that was hold at
the time of bankruptcy. Most investors are going to be
worse off, even though they're paying something like one hundred
and twelve percent of the account balance. So it's so
interesting where the only reason they have money. Basically, the
structure here was Sam Bankman. Freed was taking the users
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deposits and effectively gambling them as a philanthropist and a
venture capitalist, and he had one AI investment that absolutely
blew up and took off, and that is almost single
handedly what is funding the entirety of this bankruptcy payout.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Okay, so now I'm confused.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
He makes a horrible investment, but at some point in
time the investment started to appreciate in value.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Well, he didn't make one investment. Basically, what was happening
is users were depositing their money into SDX as an exchange,
and he was taking the user deposits and sending them
to politicians and investing in early stage startups. He made
hundreds of different investments and he had and they were
most of them, ninety nine percent of them were terrible investments.
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But one of them happened to pay off. And he's very,
very lucky that it did because it actually well I'm
not sure if he's lucky, but the ye, he's not
lucky gave So.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
What you're saying, So, what you're saying is the one
investment that paid off paid off big time?
Speaker 6 (33:22):
Uh yes, exactly when when.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Did when did that investment? Did that investment he was
He was convicted, I believe last March. So has the
has the investment increased dramatically?
Speaker 3 (33:37):
This one.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Good investment hasn't increased dramatically since he was he was
indicted in all of that, and that then all of
a sudden, Now ironically, these investors who were built, most
of them are going to get their money back.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
So it's it's it's very interesting because they are going
to get their dollars back. But however, most of them
were holding bitcoin. And so imagine a world where you're
holding one bitcoin in your FTX account. The court is
taking the dollar equivalent in bitcoin to mark your account value.
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So in November one bitcoin was worth I forget exactly
the number, but it was book twenty eight thousand US dollars,
and so the court is going to give you back.
Speaker 5 (34:26):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
So the court's going to give you back, let's say
twenty nine thousand dollars, but you're like, hang on a second,
if I had just had my bitcoin, I would now
have sixty thousand dollars worth of bitcoin in my possession.
So even though they're getting more dollars back, ultimately the
FTX investors are still, you know, going to be down
fifty percent if they were holding bitcoin in their account
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or other crypto assets that are volatile. And I think
this goes to show kind of just how dangerous holding
crypto assets or bitcoin anywhere other than in your personal
wallet is is going to expose you to weird random
things like some kid, you know, gambling your money away
and then it paying off, but then it not paying
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off that great.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
I wonder if this if this kid's going to win
an appeal, or if he's going to actually spend twenty
five years.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
In stir.
Speaker 6 (35:19):
Yeah, I was wondering that my does.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
In or in the slammer, Okay, in.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
The slammer, I uh yeah, US Canadian boys call it
just just the bars, but I hear.
Speaker 5 (35:30):
What you're saying.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
I think that he probably does spend a significant amount
of time in jail because regardless of the outcome, here,
fraud is fraud, and he has admitted to substantial amounts
of fraud. This is like Bernie made Off level fraud.
And I think he deserves to be behind bars for
a very long time, you know, and he'll come.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
Out and improved man, and whatever. You know, how how
that starts. We have, y I wish I had more time, Adam.
You're sounding a great guy, and thank you very much.
Your company is called bitcoin Well, and you're on the level. Yes,
people want to get to your company, they can go
to bitcoin well correct.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Yeah, bitcoinwell dot com. And if you're in Boston area,
checkout mass Adoption. It's the oldest and biggest bitcoin meetup group.
And you'll be talking about this stuff for weeks, I'm sure.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
And again, as we say in Latin, when we talk
about anything like this, caveat emptor buyer beware.
Speaker 6 (36:31):
Thanks Adam, Thanks so much.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Jan all right, we get back right after the nine
o'clock news. We're going to talk about Massachusetts valid question two.
That's the mcast question. We'll talk with Matt Hills, vice
chair of the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education
back on night side.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
After this
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on Bezy Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Thank you very much, very small, appreciate it. I'm always
nice to hear your voice.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
My name is Dan Ray.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I'm not sure it's always nice for you guys to
hear my voice, but I love chatting with you.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
I love doing this program.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
We're here every Monday through Friday night from eight until midnight.
We are now well into year eighteen, and I think
that tonight we need to give away some tickets. This
is I May. We have some tickets coming up, which
I will explain. That'll be after nine o'clock. Also, we
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got some t shirts. We've got a lot going on here.
We've got a lot going on here, and of course
during the first hour we don't take any phone calls.
We have four guests who present some pretty interesting perspectives.
So let's get right to it again. Rob Brooks and
Dan Cantano are in the booth tonight, two producers tonight,
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Aren't I lucky? Our first guest is Kelly Lynn Marquee.
Kelly Lynn marquis welcome to Night Side. You're a certified
life and business coach. You're nationally acclaimed dog show handler
and author of a new book Behind the Scenes are
best in show intimate moments with the masters, handlers and
(01:20):
their show dogs. The question is, I think, what have
you learned as a dog show handler and what can
we learn from the world of dog shows.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Well as a dog show handler. One of the things
that I've learned is the importance of energy, and when
you connect in with a dog and you're looking to
work with an animal, you need to be able to
connect in with their energy and meet them where they're at.
And one of the beauty I'm working with animals is
that they're very pure in their energy, so you don't
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tend to have body language that is expressing one thing
and then verbal language that actually may be expressing something
very different. So that's one of the beauties that I
have when I'm working with an animal that I have
noticed is often different when you're working with people. And
(02:22):
that has actually translated into helping me from what I've
learned with the dogs and their energy, it's also helped
me when I'm reading other people and getting their words
and their body language in alignment.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Let's just talk for a second about dogs. I happen
to love dogs.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Dogs, I mean, I think that's great about dogs is
they're just honest.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
There's no phoniness about a dog.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
If the dog loves you and likes you, he'll jump
up on you and.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
He'll smother you with kisses.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
There's no question the dog doesn't like you, uh, he'll
let you know to you know, keep your distance, keep
your distance, whatever the circumstances.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
There's there's there's.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
No phoniness about dogs, or probably about cats or other
animals as well.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
So how do you take those lessons?
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I mean, look, my daughter has a a Yoki, which
is just a beautiful dog, mean Mustard. My son has
a uh has excuse my getting it mixed up here.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
My son has a shortky which is named Willy.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
And my daughter has a dog which is a Corgi
uh named named Mustard. And they're just two very different dogs.
But they just love people and they express it every
time they see you. So how do you take the
honesty of dogs and learn from that and apply it
to human beings who oftentimes are a little more complex
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and maybe not as straightforward as dogs.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Well, I love that question, and especially when it comes
to children. I know, even with my own daughter when
she was younger, I knew I wanted her to have
her very own dog. And I think that one of
the main things we can learn about dogs is how
they hold space for our emotions. And so when you
have children, and I remember one time my daughter came
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home from school and she had had a bad day,
and I wanted to talk to her about it, but
yet I saw how she was with her dog, and
her dog could just be with her. It's like when
you're with a dog, it's like they can feel what
you feel, and sometimes they know just what to do
to cheer you up, or they're just always there to listen.
(04:41):
And I just think that's one of the most beautiful things,
is how pure apart and how well they really hold
space for us emotionally, or we can just feel their
joy when they're frolicking in the yard or chasing something
or just completely consumed in the moment. And there's just
so much beauty to a dog. And I think especially
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you know, I've thought a lot about this too, and
how we connect with dogs. You know, the connection with
a dog is actually different than the connection with a cat.
You know, cats are more independent, and yet with dogs
that often you know, they want to like crawl into
our skin and just unite with us, and so I
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think it's I mean all.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
So identify with what you're saying there. I am my daughter.
When she was I guess nine, she was begging for a.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Dog, so we got a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel for
her and within two days this dog, Charlie, he became
He adopted me. He would follow me around, sit with me.
He just wanted to hang. As kids got older, all
they wanted to do was, you know, can we have
a couple of dollars? Can I have the car keys?
(06:00):
And my wife gave me the.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
To do list.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
All Charlie wanted to do is hang with me. I
give you hate that, but how do you apply that
to your relationships with others? When you see others, you
can't run up to them and wag your tail and
lick their face and let them know that you're really
happy to see them. You're a coach, you're a trainer.
If I'm not mistaken of a certified life and business coach.
(06:24):
How do you apply those that knowledge to the people
you help train to become better? I guess either business
people or just better human beings.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Well, one of.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
The biggest things is teaching people how to trust their
own energy, how to trust what they're feeling, how to
pay attention to someone's body language, and how to pay
attention to what it is that they're feeling and practicing authenticity.
(06:56):
You know, sometimes sometimes we're confused about something, and if
you check in with your energy, you can actually feel
that you have two conflicting feelings. So these are things
that I've learned with the dogs. Is that I actually
when I ended up making the move to going into
life coaching, I was realizing that there was a dynamic
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with a certain person in my life, and I stepped
back and thought, well, why am I feeling this way
with a person When I work with my dogs. We're one,
we'd just be completely slow. We're in sync. We just
know how each other feels. And then I was noticing
and this was the first AHA moment I had, was like, oh,
(07:39):
the words aren't in alignment. And I started paying more
attention to the signals that my body was giving me,
just you know, when you're putting little feelers out about
how I was feeling energetically about that person, and then
I would ask myself more. I would ask those those
feelings more.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
So.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
One of the things that I do do when I
am working with people, is how people get more in
tune to their feelings and their emotions, and because I
do believe that they're here to actually help guide us
to say, oh, I want more of that, or I
don't like this, or this is making me uncomfortable, and
that helps guide us as to how to take our
(08:18):
next best step.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
All right, I appreciate insight. Kelly Lynn, Marky Marquee. I
hope I'm pronouncing that correctly. The new book behind the
Scenes are best in show intimate moments with the master's
handleers and.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Their show dogs.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Has that book out already or if folks want to
buy it, is it out or is it Oftentimes we
get books that are coming out a week from now
or a month from now.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
When is it out?
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Yes, it actually launched.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
It launched.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Back in the spring and it's gone phenomenal and I'm
so excited. Would be on your station in Boston and
my local area.
Speaker 6 (08:59):
That's great, that's true.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I see you're from New Hampshire, so or at least
you're some phone numbers from New Hampshire.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
That's great.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Weel, maybe we'll have you back some night and we
can talk about dogs and get people can question you
about how they can better train their dogs. I could
never train Charlie, but boy, he would do what I wanted,
you know, I mean, just a great dog. The dog
adopts you, I think, to be honest with you, That's
what happened with my dogs.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
They figure out a way to communicate with you too.
They really do. Yeah, I would love to talk.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
More specifically with dog stuff because.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
There's so much I've learned about how even dogs learn
how to communicate with us and meet us at our level.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Definating and I think they'll I think they are way
above us. And the other thing I want you to know,
I end my show every night with this phrase, all dogs,
all cats, all pets go to heaven, and I do
believe that is true.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Thanks, because what would heaven be without dogs?
Speaker 6 (09:50):
Thanks so much, Kelly, Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
All Right, we're going to take you out of this world.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
In the next seg We're going to talk about space
weather with Sean he's a space weather expert with the
National Weather Service, and how do these solar storms and
things like that affect some of the things that we see,
like northern lights. This will be science for you scienceists
out there, or for your people who for you folks who.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Want to learn about science.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Coming right back on night Sign after this quick break
on a Tuesday night.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Now, science was never my strength in school, but.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I must say this that meteorology and weather have always
fascinated me. So we're going to talk with Sean Dahl.
He's a space weather expert with the National Weather Service. Sean,
I'm assuming that the space weather we're talking about is
not the stuff that's up, you know, twenty five thirty
thousand feet we're talking about why above the wild blue yonder,
(10:55):
Am I right?
Speaker 6 (10:57):
That's right? Dan, Hey, nice to be on your show
The night Side here, Thanks for having us. Yeah, you're right,
he is taking its stuff is taking place in that
giant vacuum of space ninety three million miles between the
Sun and the Earth that ultimately arrives at and around
our planet here.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Yeah, So, for example, what I want to talk about,
I know.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
That Here's what I really don't understand. Our system has
been around for billions of years, and we've been warmed
by the Sun for billions of years. And I've asked
lots of different scientists who have had on the program,
you know, some really smart people. How the heck does
(11:37):
that that sun just keep on burning and burning and burning.
I know it's big. I know it's big, but can
you explain to me and to my audience, why is
it that the Sun hasn't burned out?
Speaker 6 (11:52):
It's a marvel, isn't it. It's truly quite a miraculous thing. Well,
for when the Sun is so massive, you know, a
million earths to fit inside of it, and it's just
continually burning this giant supply of hydrogs into the has
and eventually, as the Sun continues to age, you know
that hydrogen is going to be converted. It's going to
run out, and that won't be for fortunately, you know,
(12:14):
there's something like another five billionaires, so not in anyone's lifetime.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Who's listening to this show? I've asked questions.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
I don't know Brian Green from Columbia. He has written
great books, he's a scientist a and these are the
questions that strike me. Okay, that's a good answer. I
got that one. Okay, solar storms, I know the word
solar comes from the Sun. What are we talking about
when we talk about solar storms.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
Yeah, we're talking about a wide variety. Dan They come
in different forms and in almost different stages. Some are
at the speed of light, so we see something like
a solar flare, this blast of energy that travels at
speed of light. We see it. The effect is already
on the Sun the side of our atmosphere. Others are
in the form of energetic particles that can go through space,
(13:02):
so they are a tad bits slower. They can almost
be speed of light stuff, but it may take them
fifteen to twenty minutes to get here at their fastest,
but usually it can be even as long as twenty
four hours. And those penetrate things, so those get a
little more potential of danger to satellites in space and
astronaut health of course. And then pieces of the Sun,
(13:22):
giant blobs of solar material and strong magnetic fields can
expand out into space and giant, really impressive looking explosions
called coronal mass ejections or CMEs for short, and that's
what leads to those geomagnetic storms that causes the aurora
that so many people want to see.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
So yeah, that's and I guess the aura of Borealis
is going to be seen.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
It was seen a couple of months ago in August.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
If I'm not missaying. It always seems to come around
the middle of August. I don't know what that's all about,
but I'm hearing that it's now going to be up
on the northern climbs in Canada and maybe the state
of Washington, not so much in New England.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Is that what's going on this time?
Speaker 6 (14:03):
Yeah, we had another CME arrived. We were looking for
one to come in potentially the beginning of the weekend,
but it was a bit slower than we thought, and
it finally arrived in pretty good force on Sunday evening
going into Monday, and that led to a really good
Northern lights display, perhaps even seen from Massachusetts. I don't know.
I haven't heard, but we did get to a three
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on our one through five scale, and I know it
was seen here in northern Colorado.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
So yeah, that's that's below the state of Washington. If
I'm not mistaken. In terms of the map, I mean,
you got Washington, Oregon, then California, Colorado. You got a
couple of states above you. I think Dakota's or something
like that. If I'm not mistaken on Montana, I mean
for you to see it in Colorado. That's that's that
(14:49):
is central United States. You're you're in the middle of
the of the country. You're about halfway between the Canadian
border and the Mexican borders. So if you saw, I'm
assuming a lot of people north of you, in places
like Minnesota and the Dakota's in Montana and parts of
Idaho saw it as well.
Speaker 6 (15:07):
Oh, absolutely for sure they did if the skies were
clear up there, because there was a very young moon, right,
so the skies nice and dark. We get longer periods
of darkness this time of year. And I know my
relatives in North Dakota if they were outlooking, they certainly
had a really nice auroral show last night.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
So what does this mean to us other than beauty
in the sky, which is wonderful.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
What are the practical aspects?
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Does it affect our weather on terra firma or is
it just simply a beautiful sky that we can look
at a few.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Nights a year.
Speaker 6 (15:41):
Yeah, then there's more to It's you got the beautiful aurora.
Of course, it really doesn't affect the norm mainstream meteorology,
the weather here on our planet so much. It's really
about the technology that we live and rely upon so
much today, the electric power that we rely on so much,
that can be dramatically impacted in the worst case in
have a a multiple state power blackout. Although that's very rare,
(16:04):
we know it can happen. Historically, there's been strengths that
will allow that to happen. That's why we do what
we do at the Space Weather Prediction Center, which is
we contact all these key technological infrastructure operators like the
power grid, aviation industries, satellite communities, space launch communication folks,
emergency management officials. All of these kinds of things are
(16:24):
what we do from the Space Weather Prediction Center. So
most of society can sit back and hope to see
and enjoy a Northern Lights show while everybody else does
all the work to keep our systems running.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Okay, my last question, Sean, is a little off via
some of my questions are as you've probably figured out
by now.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
But I broadcast remotely, so we're all into electronics. Okay,
we have a broadcast tower. I don't know how well
you know New England, but we have a broadcast tower
down in Hull, Massachusetts, which is right out over the water.
Fifty thousand am booming signal across the entry we heard
in about thirty eight states at night. I have a
(17:04):
little device what looks like the size of a transistor
radio but it's what's called the com rex, and and
my producer is about, I don't know, maybe one hundred
miles from me back at Broadcast Central. So we're all electronics.
Can this stuff affect our broadcasts? Because every once in
a while we get a little glitch or something like that,
(17:25):
we think it's a gremlin.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
How much how much havoc?
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Can can I know, we can talk about electromagnetic fields.
I've had experts on about that, but just in terms
of the day to day stuff that we all use.
My day to day stuff is a little more complicated
because it's you know, broadcasting radio show, you know, halfway
across America.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
But people who are.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Watching television at night, it's all electronics at this point.
Can can our electronics be impacted adversely as well?
Speaker 6 (17:55):
Not really, Dan, Our personal electronics are pretty much free
from most of these types of direct impacts. It's really
about the high voltage transmission lines and certain communication frequency
bands that can be impacted by these types of storms
in their different varieties. That's not to say that some
communication means like you're talking about with your broadcast, how
er can't be impacted in some way. I just don't
(18:18):
know all the frequency bands they're using, but most certainly
some of these bands, satellite communication wavelengths, line of site wavelengths,
and high frequency systems, they can all be impacted by
these types of storms.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Well, Sean, I wish I had about one one thousands
of the information and knowledge in my head about this
subject that you have. It's something that I wish i'd
learned more about in school. Your enthusiasm and your passion
is obvious. You've been a great guest. Thank you so much.
Maybe we'll bring you back some night. In this hour,
(18:50):
we just do four brief interviews, and then from nine
to midnight we do an hour on a subject and
we ansertain questions from listening. If you'd be interested, I'd
love to have you back because I love your passion.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
Yeah, of course, Dan, happy to do so. It's nice
getting out and educating and helping people understand more about
this really important topic of space weather. Thanks for having
us and I'm glad to come back anytime.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Well, my producer will be in touch. My people will
call your people. Sean Dahle, space weather expert with the
National Weather Service. Fascinating stuff. Sean, thank you so much.
When we get back, we're going to talk about something
a little closer to home back here in Massachusetts. This
is Fire Prevention Week in Massachusett, and we're going to
be talking with the State Fire Marshall about some of
(19:36):
the things you can do that can maybe prevent you
from having a fire at your home, because that is
a disaster when you think about it. Anyone's ever experienced
anything like that? You know of what I speak. Be
back with State Fire Marshall John Devine. Right after this.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
You're on Night Side with Dan Ray on w z
Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
All right, well, this is an interesting time of year. Uh,
Summer's over, as I think all of us know, Uh,
it's getting a little a little cooler.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
It hasn't gotten really.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Cold yet, but as a result, this is the week
that's called fire Prevention Week in Massachusetts. And I want
everyone to listen on because I don't want to lose
any of you in a fire, and I don't want
any of you to lose family members, possessions, or your
home in a fire.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
This year's theme is.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Smoke alarms, Make them work for you with me and
stay fire marshaled, John Devine. Uh, is that the correct pronunciation?
John Devin? Oh, Davin? Okay, that's easy. Okay, that's the
way I would have pronounced that. I got a fanatic
outp here, which they don't understand. John Davin. Hey, that's
pretty simple. Come on, I'm an irishman. Do I know
(20:52):
how to pronounce Davin? So, so tell us what's going on.
Everybody needs to have smoke and carbon monoxide alarms and
you need to check them, check the batteries and all
of that. But just explain to us. I'm sure. Well,
I know that you investigate a lot of fires, and
when I was a TV reporter a long time ago,
I went to more than my share of fires, and
(21:15):
in many cases they're preventable.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Tell us how.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
Well. So thanks, first of all, thank you for having
me tonight. I really appreciate it. And again, like you said,
this is Fire Prevention Week, and it's actually the longest
running public health and public safety observance in the United
States history. So I appreciate you allow me to speak
tonight about the importance of smoke and carbon dioxide alarms.
And we really have three core messages this week that
(21:39):
we're trying to get out to the folks, and the
first one is be sure you have working smoke alarms
at every level of your home. They're especially important when
we're sleeping, so you know it's best to have them
in each bedroom and in the hallway outside of each
bedroom if possible. Second, we want you to test them
every month, and we do a little thing at the
(21:59):
Department of Fires Services on our social media and start
a little trend called smoke Alarm Saturday. But we test
our smoke and carbon dioxide alarms on the first Saturday
a month. But you know, obviously you can do it
whenever it works for you or your family. And then third,
you need to replace the batteries twice a year when
we change the clock. So we're changing the clock's here
(22:19):
coming up soon, so I expect everybody to change their
batteries out. And you know when you do check them,
check the date on your smoke alarm. They're only good
for ten years, just like any other appliance in your home.
They don't last forever, so check the manufacturing date it's
printed on the back of the alarm, and if it's
older than ten years, you need to replace it. We
(22:40):
had I think we had thirty one fires or twenty
seven thousand fires last year in the counterwelth. I mean
that includes our structured fires, vehicles, outdoor fires, everything, but
about half of those fires took place in people's homes
and that's where almost all the fire deaths and injuries
took place. So we've had twenty seven fire decks this
(23:02):
year already. That included two children and fourteen older adults.
We're down from last year. Last year total was forty
five deaths, with two kids and twenty six older adults.
And honestly, the leading cause of fires overall is cooking,
and the leading cause of our fatal fires is smoking,
So you know, it's really important that.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
The traditional smoking in bed.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
I guess, are there any statistics that anyone has as
to what percentage of homes. I assume every business has
smoke alarms and carpa monoxide alarms because they can be
they can be inspected a lot easier.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Any any idea as to what percentage of.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Homes have the necessary alarms, and that doesn't even question
how many of them have alarms, but they don't have
batteries and them other batteries have run out. How many
how many homes do you do you think it's anywhere
close to one hundred percent.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
Well, we had thirty one people died in fires and
home last year in Massachusetts and it was almost I
believe it was almost half of them that it didn't
have working smoke arms. You know, some some folks had
you know, the batteries went dead, they never replaced them,
or you know, the battery goes dead in the middle
of the night, so they pulled the detector down and
put it on the counter and said, oh, you know,
(24:17):
I'll run out Saturday and get a battery and never
replace it. And then some of them had no alarms
at all. So you know, I don't have a number
of how many people don't have them, but it's it's
sad that, you know, most of these fatal fighters that
we go to, you know, these folks would have had
a pretty good chance to get out of that home
if they had working smoke alarms.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Well it is I mean, many people have never seen
a home burned down I mean, you see it on television.
Everyone can see it on television. There's a big fire
going on somewhere. But to actually physically watch a home
burned down, and as I you know, did too many
times as the television television reporter back in the day,
(25:00):
you just realize that even if everyone escapes, which you
hope they do, the memories and the possessions and the
pictures and all of that can never be replaced. So
for not only for your own good and for the
safety of your family, but just for your you know,
your heritage which you hope to pass on to your
(25:21):
children and grandchildren. It's a really inexpensive investment.
Speaker 5 (25:26):
No, it really is. And you're right, you know, home
fires are tragic in many ways. But you know what
we tell folks too is listen, we would rather have
you safe and sound outside, you know, let the firefighters
come in and do their work. And you know, some
of your possessions, you know, obviously not your photos and
all your family artifacts can't be replaced. But your home
(25:48):
can be replaced, your furnishings can be replaced, but you're
not going to replace a family member.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Yeah, well, I totally agree, and I don't mean to
minimize the loss of life. But as I say, even
if you're lucky enough to escape a fire.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
And that's a good point because that smoke alarm gives
you that early warning, so you know you can get
up if it's the middle of the night, you can
make that call the nine to one one and obviously
you know, the quicker you get to nine to one
one and get your fire department on the way, the
better chance there is of you saving your home. Yeah,
but if you don't have detectors, you know, it's it's
(26:27):
very difficult, difficult fires get a good head start, and
you know, the wave homes are built now and the furnishings,
everything burns much faster, much hotter. They're more difficult to
put out. So once that fire gets going, it's very
difficult to stop it. So you know, early warning is key.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
And the other thing that I always like to talk
about are space heaters because so many fires either are
caused by space heaters or the space heaters are placed
and get very hot in a place curtains or something
like that. I mean, so many fires that I covered
it would be the cause with.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
Space heaters, so now absolutely.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
So unnecessary just talk about space heaters for a second,
because some people do want space heaters. You know, they're
going to try to keep the price of fuel at
this point is going up. Winter time's coming on. The
bills can be prohibitive, and I can't understand why people
want a space heater. To be so careful with a
space heater. It's like having an open fire, I think
in your house.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
You're right, it really is. That's a great analogy. And
what we tell folks and what we push out for
our message is thirty six inches in a circle around
that space heater. So you don't want anything near that
space heater within thirty six inches three feet. Give yourself
a good three feet circle around that space heater. And
if you're going to purchase a space heater, make sure
that when you look at it, it's been tested by
(27:51):
an independent lad like UL or Intertech slash ETL. You know,
those are the good ones to purchase. We don't. You
never want to plug space heaters into extension cord through
power strips. You want to plug them directly into a
wall outlet if possible. But the biggest thing is, as
you said, is just keeping combustibles and stuff away from
(28:11):
that space heater so good. Three feet that's what we
tell everybody. Keep the three circle around it and you'll
be good.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Yeah. Even taking if you're reading a newspaper and you
fall asleep in the newspaper, you know, slips off your
lap onto the floor, and it's next to the space heater,
that can be huge problem as well.
Speaker 5 (28:30):
Those things get very hot.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Let me tell you. Look, I so appreciate the estate.
Fire Marshal John Davin coming in tonight place. Say ahead
to my friend Jake Wark who time Tell them I
said hello, and it's high wall Prevention Week. Is there
a website people can go to? You know, a lot
of information you throw out here and maybe some of
it people miss because I asked them. I didn't ask
(28:52):
every question perfectly. There is a website you want to
direct folks to fire marshals.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
Sure, they can go to our Department of Fire Service
web page. We also have our Department Services YouTube channel,
our Facebook page and our Twitter account.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
So it's just Department of Fire Services. Don't have to
indicate Massachusetts or anything like that. Just Department of Fireservices dot.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
Com, MASSDFS dot com.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Okay, so mass m a s s DFS dot com
for Department of Fire Services. That's great, Thank you so much,
appreciate it very much.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
Thanks very much for Frank, Thank you very much.
Speaker 5 (29:28):
I appreciate you having me on tonight.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Absolutely. Well we get back.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
We're going to talk about a scandal which I think
many of you remember, but maybe you haven't thought about
for a while, and that is the f t X scandal,
the bitcoin scandal. Remember the dude Sam Bankman Free, Well
he's in the slammer for the next twenty five years
unless he has a successful appeal. And now FTX has
(29:51):
been clear to repay billions in assets to customers after
a bankruptcy plan has been approved. What a mess. We're
going to talk with I'm O'Brien, CEO of Bitcoin well
as to how this settlement might affect your bitcoin. Back
on night Side right after the break.
Speaker 6 (30:07):
Now back to Dan ray Line from the Window World.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Night Side Studios on w b Z News Radio.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Well, I think many of us remember the name sank
Sam bankrupt bank drankruptcy, fraud or what Sam Bankman Freed
was his real name?
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Actually young kid.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Who made billions and is now in the slammer for
twenty five years. The company was f FTX, and we're
joined by Adam O'Brien, who's the CEO of Bitcoin.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Well, Adam, thanks for joining us.
Speaker 6 (30:43):
How are you, hey, Dan?
Speaker 1 (30:45):
I'm great man. How are you doing.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
I'll bet you're glad you had nothing to do with
this guy, Sam Bankman Freed.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
WHOA, I'm quite I am quite happy that I keep
my bitcoin safely tucked away in my own personal wallet.
Speaker 6 (30:58):
Absolutely all right.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
So the FTX now has been cleared to repay billions
in assets to customers after a bankruptcy plan approval.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
What was left? I mean, how much did this guy lose?
Speaker 2 (31:17):
You know, desk badly? I mean he was I don't
know if this was a pyramid scheme. All I remember
was this guy had this weird look about him, and
I thought to myself, I wouldn't give I would loan
that guy five bucks.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
And I'm not the smartest financial guy in.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
The world, but yeah, man, this is a This is
a good old fashioned scam through and through. I think
that it's such an interesting bankruptcy proceeding here because they're
actually paying out more than what people supposedly lost. However,
because they're paying it out in US dollars and not
(31:52):
in bitcoin or the crypto assets that was hold at
the time of bankruptcy. Most investors are going to be
worse off, even though they're paying something like one hundred
and twelve percent of the account balance. So it's so
interesting where the only reason they have money. Basically, the
structure here was Sam Bankman. Freed was taking the users
(32:12):
deposits and effectively gambling them as a philanthropist and a
venture capitalist, and he had one AI investment that absolutely
blew up and took off, and that is almost single
handedly what is funding the entirety of this bankruptcy payout.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Okay, so now I'm confused.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
He makes a horrible investment, but at some point in
time the investment started to appreciate in value.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Well, he didn't make one investment. Basically, what was happening
is users were depositing their money into SDX as an exchange,
and he was taking the user deposits and sending them
to politicians and investing in early stage startups. He made
hundreds of different investments and he had and they were
most of them, ninety nine percent of them were terrible investments.
(33:05):
But one of them happened to pay off. And he's very,
very lucky that it did because it actually well I'm
not sure if he's lucky, but the ye, he's not
lucky gave So.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
What you're saying, So, what you're saying is the one
investment that paid off paid off big time?
Speaker 6 (33:22):
Uh yes, exactly when when.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Did when did that investment? Did that investment he was
He was convicted, I believe last March. So has the
has the investment increased dramatically?
Speaker 3 (33:37):
This one.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Good investment hasn't increased dramatically since he was he was
indicted in all of that, and that then all of
a sudden, Now ironically, these investors who were built, most
of them are going to get their money back.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
So it's it's it's very interesting because they are going
to get their dollars back. But however, most of them
were holding bitcoin. And so imagine a world where you're
holding one bitcoin in your FTX account. The court is
taking the dollar equivalent in bitcoin to mark your account value.
(34:16):
So in November one bitcoin was worth I forget exactly
the number, but it was book twenty eight thousand US dollars,
and so the court is going to give you back.
Speaker 5 (34:26):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
So the court's going to give you back, let's say
twenty nine thousand dollars, but you're like, hang on a second,
if I had just had my bitcoin, I would now
have sixty thousand dollars worth of bitcoin in my possession.
So even though they're getting more dollars back, ultimately the
FTX investors are still, you know, going to be down
fifty percent if they were holding bitcoin in their account
(34:49):
or other crypto assets that are volatile. And I think
this goes to show kind of just how dangerous holding
crypto assets or bitcoin anywhere other than in your personal
wallet is is going to expose you to weird random
things like some kid, you know, gambling your money away
and then it paying off, but then it not paying
(35:10):
off that great.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
I wonder if this if this kid's going to win
an appeal, or if he's going to actually spend twenty
five years.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
In stir.
Speaker 6 (35:19):
Yeah, I was wondering that my does.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
In or in the slammer, Okay, in.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
The slammer, I uh yeah, US Canadian boys call it
just just the bars, but I hear.
Speaker 5 (35:30):
What you're saying.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
I think that he probably does spend a significant amount
of time in jail because regardless of the outcome, here,
fraud is fraud, and he has admitted to substantial amounts
of fraud. This is like Bernie made Off level fraud.
And I think he deserves to be behind bars for
a very long time, you know, and he'll come.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
Out and improved man, and whatever. You know, how how
that starts. We have, y I wish I had more time, Adam.
You're sounding a great guy, and thank you very much.
Your company is called bitcoin Well, and you're on the level. Yes,
people want to get to your company, they can go
to bitcoin well correct.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Yeah, bitcoinwell dot com. And if you're in Boston area,
checkout mass Adoption. It's the oldest and biggest bitcoin meetup group.
And you'll be talking about this stuff for weeks, I'm sure.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
And again, as we say in Latin, when we talk
about anything like this, caveat emptor buyer beware.
Speaker 6 (36:31):
Thanks Adam, Thanks so much.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Jan all right, we get back right after the nine
o'clock news. We're going to talk about Massachusetts valid question two.
That's the mcast question. We'll talk with Matt Hills, vice
chair of the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education
back on night side.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
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