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Celtics Triumph! Yasiel Puig Trial, Bitcoin Surge, AI Weather. · Sunny Mornings Boston

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  Good morning and a warm welcome to your show,
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  Sunny Mornings in Boston. I'm your host, Melissa,
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  and it's Tuesday, January 27th. You'll be interested
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  to know. 146 years ago, today, in 1880, Thomas
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  Edison successfully secured a patent for his
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  electric light bulb. demonstrating a durable
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  and practical incandescent design that could
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  be produced and used in homes and businesses.
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  This innovation accelerated the spread of safe
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  indoor lighting, transformed daily life in industry,
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  and set the stage for widespread electrification
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  and modern urban growth. So now you know. And
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  now, it's time for the weather report. This morning
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  it's sunny and it feels like minus four degrees
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  with nine mile per hour wind The sunset will
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  take place at 452 and it will rise again tomorrow
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  at 658 It looks like grand for a mostly sunny
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  day with a high near 72 and a light west wind
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  at about 8 tonight Expect partly cloudy skies
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  with a low around 7 and a gentle west wind For
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  all you beach runners out there, the first low
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  tide Tuesday will be at 1145, with a high tide
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  just before 6. The nearshore buoy at Cape Cod
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  Bay reads 36 degrees for the water temperature.
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  Looking ahead in the weather, Wednesday will
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  be sunny with a high near 23 and a west wind
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  around 6 to 9 miles per hour, producing wind
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  chill values as low as minus 4. Thursday stays
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  mostly sunny with highs near 22 in light west
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  winds. Then Friday turns cooler with highs near
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  18 and a west breeze near 10 miles per hour.
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  A warmer Saturday returns with highs near 26
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  and a slight chance of snow arrives late Saturday
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  night. Bonjour, food enthusiasts. This podcast
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  on by and don't forget to tell them. Sunny mornings
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  send you. In local news, from New England lore
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  to Netflix, the documentary Secret Mall Apartment
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  is now streaming. This fascinating tale began
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  in 2003 when Michael Townsend and seven friends
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  discovered a vacant 750 square foot loft within
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  Providence Place Mall. They lived there for four
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  years until mall security caught on, leading
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  to Townsend's arrest in 2007. After years of
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  science, Townsend's story resurfaced through
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  a podcast, and now the gripping documentary explores
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  themes of gentrification and creative resilience.
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  Executive produced by Jesse Eisenberg, Secret
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  Mall Apartment captures a unique chapter in local
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  history and is set to resonate with audiences
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  everywhere. Now onto sports. was once one of
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  Major League Baseball's most exciting players,
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  but now he is on trial. Dressed in an understated
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  black turtleneck and black pants, Puig has mostly
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  been in the background of his own trial. This
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  trial, which began on January 20th, is four years
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  in the making and involves illegal gambling,
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  multiple witnesses, and serious charges. Puig
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  faces charges of obstruction of justice and making
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  false statements. which could lead to a maximum
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  of 20 years in federal prison. His defense argues
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  that language barriers and cognitive disabilities
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  influenced his interview with investigators.
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  The trial continues, with significant implications
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  for Puig's future. In local sports, the Celtics
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  secured a solid victory against the Portland
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  Trail Blazers, winning 102 -94 on Monday night.
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  Hayden Pritchard led the charge with 23 points,
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  including buzzer -beaters to end the first two
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  quarters, while Jalen Brown contributed 20 points.
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  Derek White added 18 points, hitting a crucial
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  three -pointer after Portland narrowed a 23 -point
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  deficit to five. Former UKIN star Donovan Klingon
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  grabbed 15 rebounds for the Blazers, who had
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  recently been on a winning streak. Next up, the
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  Seas will host Atlanta on Wednesday night as
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  they continue their five -game homestand. In
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  top news, we may not have flying cars, but we
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  do have flying umbrellas. Inventor John T. has
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  embraced high technology to keep raindrops from
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  falling on your head. For years, people have
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  viewed the humble umbrella as a challenge, questioning
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  if human ingenuity can perfect it. Currently,
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  there are more than 11 registered patents for
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  backpack umbrellas, featuring everything from
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  simple extendable designs to full -body variants.
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  Tee has innovated with his flying umbrella, using
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  drone technology to keep your head dry without
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  the need to hold anything. Despite its imperfections,
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  Teezy's invention is fun and potentially practical,
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  offering a glimpse into the future of umbrellas.
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  In business news, private credit investors are
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  cashing out in droves, with redemptions soaring
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  at the end of 2025 after performance declined.
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  For the first time since the onset of the private
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  credit boom, many individual investors are seeking
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  to withdraw their money. Requests to cash out
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  surged to about 5 % of shareholders, with one
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  fund managed by Blue Owl witnessing redemptions
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  for around 15 % of its shares. Total returns
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  for five major private credit funds aimed at
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  individual investors fell to an average of about
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  6 .22 % in the first nine months of 2025, down
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  from 8 .76 % the previous year. And crypto movement.
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  Bitcoin is up 1 % to about $89 ,000. Ethereum
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  is up 2 .5 % to 3 ,000. An XRP is up 1 .5 % to
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  $1 .91. Moving on to a more local vibe. In our
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  community spotlight on health and wellness, we
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  are working with a national Pilates studio to
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  bring you some free classes, so listen up. Check
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  out Club Pilates with several locations in the
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  Boston area. Pilates presents a comprehensive
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  wellness approach, cultivating strength, reducing
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  tension, and elevating mental well -being. Scientific
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  research affirms its benefits. So now you can
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  check out Club Pilates for a free class. With
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  locations in Canton, Wellesley, Hingham, Brookline,
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  and Framingham, just be sure to tell them Sunny
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  Morning sent you by. And now, back to the show.
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  Let's talk tech. NVIDIA has announced a suite
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  of open -source artificial intelligence weather
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  forecasting systems, joining other big tech players
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  as federal funding evaporates. California farmers,
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  insurers, and meteorologists stand to gain from
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  adding artificial intelligence to their weather
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  forecasting tools. At the American Meteorological
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  Society's annual meeting in Houston, NVIDIA unveiled
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  a new NVIDIA Earth -2 family of open models,
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  libraries and frameworks for weather and climate
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  artificial intelligence. NVIDIA described the
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  system as complete for no -casting and medium
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  -range predictions, previously requiring hours
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  on high -performance computing clusters. The
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  company stated these tools surpassed traditional,
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  physics -based models in short -term precipitation
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  forecasting. And in entertainment news, the highly
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  anticipated Masters of the Universe is set to
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  hit theaters on June 5th. Nicholas Galatzine
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  stars as He -Man, the muscle -bound superhero
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  in the first live -action film since 1987. Joining
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  him are Jared Leto, Alison Brie, Idris Elba,
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  and Kristen Wiig in a star -studded supporting
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  cast. The story follows Prince Adam, who returns
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  to his home world of Aeternia, now under the
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  fiendish control of Skeletor. Galadzine has transformed
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  his physique for the role, consuming around 4
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  ,000 calories daily. Fans are eager to see how
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  this new adaptation unfolds. Well, alrighty folks,
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  it's time for the quote of the day. And today,
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  our quote comes from the American inventor and
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  visionary, Alexander Graham Bell. And he said,
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  before anything else, preparation is the key
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  to success. And that's a wrap for this morning.
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  You can check out our Instagram, YouTube, and
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  TikTok for some captivating aerial videos with
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  local news and the weather reports. Have an amazing
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  day, my good friends. We'll see you tomorrow
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  with another episode of Sunny Mornings in Boston.