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this week has gone by freak? Is it frequently freaking fast? Freakyrazily fast?
Yeah, it could be that absurdly fast. Bird feathers from ninety nine
million years ago not only show that modern birds are descended from the dinosaur era,
but also they might point to why some of their ancestors didn't make it.
The feathers that were found and preserved show how molting was the key to
some early extinctions of big birds. This is where big bird comes in.
That yellow big bird, right, remember a big bird from Sesame Street,
big bird bird who is a big bird. Baby was a big bird anyway.
So this, uh, this, there's a feather that's been found,
Um that is ninety nine million years old. That's an old feather. And
so some of these names I can't pronounce. If I had my grandson here,
he can pronounce this. Maybe I'll save this story for him when he's
here in a couple of weeks. It's not important what the name of the
of the of the dinosaur species was. And this makes sense. Remember when
that asteroid you don't remember, I remember somebody off Jennifer here saying, Hey,
Doug, what was it like when the astronaid hit the No, what
the asteroid did when it hit the Gulf of Mexico sixty six million years ago
was kill everything that was on the ground. However, if you were a
flying dinosaur, so the non Abean dinosaurs all died, but the ones in
the air didn't. It would seem so. Anyway, the temperatures were crazy
when the dinosaur hit, up and down, and so the birds who had
higher energy and were up above to stay a little bit warmer, had the
resources to stay alive. So the birds were around actually from a couple of
hundred million years ago to that end of all life sixty six million years ago.
Some survived. It's a whole long story. But this I thought was
interesting because these feathers that had been preserved for all these million years have given
us a clue as to how the birds survived well. But also thinking that
the dinosaurs back in the day, we're all more reptilian, where there really
were a lot that had feathers. Yes, right, so that's the bird
story. Everybody's heard about the bird, bird, bird. There is a
question. All good broadcasters who are doing talk usually start the hour. I
say this often with a question about something that is important. Here's a study
out this week. As the school year is over, and then being contemplated,
he realized that some youngsters will be back in school in a month,
Right back in school in a month. Summer flew by, yes, well
flying as it were. So this report that has come out from the National
Education Association suggests that too many children are chronically from school, don't go.
And so I wondered about the perspective if you're a parent or a grandparent and
you have charge of your youngsters. This is something that soda goes back to
the pandemic. But yet it started the trend. If you look at it,
it started. It started a long time ago. And so as these
people running schools are looking at the numbers, they're trying to figure out what
the most challenging way is to keep youngsters interested in going on what's going on
in school? I would say one thing, stop telling them what to think.
How about we teach them how to think. Absenteeism is up nationwide,
but it has been really acute and some of the biggest cities because the school
systems are awful. In Los Angeles, California, I probably should save this
form of her when she's around half. Half of the students missed big chunks
of the last school year and there's no real used to be. We had
truancy when I was teaching school and when I was in school, and some
of you probably remember this. We used to have truancy officers and the officer
if you were absent from school more than two days, the truancy officer would
check on you or check with your parents to find out if you were sick
or what was really going on. Well, I think that's the case.
Some of these parents don't even know their children aren't in school. They're depending
on the age of the child. Yeah, some of these kids are kind
of being held responsible to get ready themselves and go Mac, what's going on?
Mac? What do you think of the truancy issue Macy, Yeah,
mommy, mommy. But also a lot of these kids are not being met
with how they learn. There's with the whole situation of no challenge being taught,
yeah, being taught what to think rather than how to think. They're
not encouraged to ask questions. He's against the whole time, is right exactly?
All right? Do you need to do something? We can take a
moment or two to do a few things and then Mac might he might want
to become part of the protein gymer in a microphone. I want to go
back to bed. Who knows? All right? So that's the inside or
insight to what's going on and what to do about it. There's a big
debate actually about what to do. I don't understand why there is a debate.
I don't think there should be a debate. Children are supposed to go
to school. That's it. That's what their job is. So if your
children are not going to school, then it's on you. And if you're
not doing your job to make sure that your child is in school, then
what are we paying for? Why am I paying? I resent, frankly,
and I do I really resent because I don't have children in public school
paying for children, for the system to operate and not serve the people.
It's a it's a really big well. I think about people who never had
children, who never even had children, and children to begin with, and
yes, they do have to pay that is that is a little absurd.
This is a situation I should be fixed. Yep, absolutely so some of
you thinking about as we get closer to the beginning, Oh, you man,
do you want to say that again? How close we are? The
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has nothing to do with the FDA, although a lot
of people look at that FD and they say, oh the money. No
FDA, the Food and Drug Administration. And you may or may not have
heard by this time. This is something that was big all over the place
yesterday. The first birth control pill you don't have to get a prescription to
use, has been approved by the federal government. I think this is actually
a good thing. Can be sold across the counter. As they say,
now, is there a chance, Jay, this will be abused? What
else can you use this for? Or what are the critics of this saying
that this is something that's unprecedented, as certainly is political. Some people say
the YadA YadA YadA YadA. But there are a lot of people, millions
of women who want access, and because of the whole Roe v. Wade
thing and what the Supreme Court decided last year, this is one of the
the big bug a booze oral contraceptives. And so is this do we think
this is an applause moment? Well? I mean, I think it's great,
especially because birth control is not always taken for birth control. It is
a lot. It helps a lot of reproductive issues and women. Yeah,
but it can be abused as well as any other currently available over the counter
medication that could be used large doses to abort a vets and that is an
actuality, but that could be used for other things that are currently available over
the counter. Right, this decision, the independent advisory panel that agreed that
this drug was safe for most people. So I guess the question is going
to be second question. You know, are you're choling to going to school?
The second question is is this drug is safe for everybody? And apparently
it's not. Is this going to be another one? I'd see we're so
loaded up. I have no problem with this being available, frankly, and
I shouldn't shouldn't make a difference to me one way or another because I'm not
in this league. But the whole business about making birth, if you want
this is up to you, not up to somebody else to decide for you
what you do. Hopefully, if you have someone that you're close to,
that's a part of your decision making process because it does take two to get
pregnant. And you know, the idea here is to have people agree on
what's going on. Sometimes that works, sometimes it doesn't. But the whole
business of advice and consent, I guess under the circumstances the seventy seven percent
of women who are under fifty that say they want birth control pills. This
is how the Republicans lose, right, if you don't have women under fifty
voting for your candidate, whoever it is, then and women under fifty pretty
much across the board. There is some political there's some people who just don't
want to have this, but most people I know who are of wildly different
political persuasions want this. Women under fifty. So there you go, now
you haven't. This is our social media segment. The not everything that's going
on in social media can be translated and used in a four and a half
minutes hopening. But we'll try to do to touch on a couple of things
here that are important that are more general. For example, the thumbs up
emoji that is considered something that you use. You know, when you're sending
back and forth, people like to use emojis, right, Do you sometimes
sign off your email with an emoji? Sometimes my only response is an emoji?
Yeah? Okay. So here's um a judgment that means that suggests that
legally binding contracts would be something that thumbs up would indicate. So this judge
says the thumbs up emoji is this is very interesting case involves a farmer and
a deal to sell eighty seven tons of flax grain to a buyer. Maybe
it's not important the background, although I think it's kind of interesting from my
point of view that it was a farmer who triggered all of this stuff,
and so the nuance of it is kind of confusing and a little more complicated
than we need to get into. The bottom line is that the farmer was
asked to sell, and the farmer clicked the thumbs up response, and so
the guy who's at the other end thinks, okay, that's an agreement.
So here, let's go, please confirm flax contract text and the emoji thumbs
up was the response. So we'd just hard to say Jay, And I
was going to say, I think it was the buyer that did the thumbs
up emoji, so when the farmers can't deliver, the judge or said that
the thumbs up was kind of contractual, but that was the buyer that sent
it, and the Eiger way, yeah, but either way is it should
it be under the circumstances. Think about it a moment. Is that all
it takes? Are we to that point that we're so lazy that we can't
say yes or no or indicate it or it's not gonna like an actual handshake.
I can understand the handshake emoji because a handshake sometimes signifies a done deal,
But the thumbs up sometimes it's just like acknowledging, like okay, good
deal, or like yes or not even a guess, just like received,
you know what I mean, like okay, I've got your text. The
judge says this court cannot, nor should it attempt, to stem the tide
of technology and common usage. This appears to be the new reality, and
society and courts will have to be ready to meet the new challenges that may
arise from the use of emoji. And they're like, wow, do I
disagree with that? But I'm not a judge, And there the judge came
saw and conquered, and so that's the end of that. Or it'll go
to a higher court. Let's see what happens there. Maybe, So,
Jay, I guess I'm asking this because it is sort of a universal question.
We've been talking a lot in the last few weeks about people throwing things
onto the stage when people are performing. You know, somebody get hit in
the head with a phone. People and throwing bras up whatever it is,
bracelets and people in the eye. It's just dangerous. Yeah. So the
question here is is it a new thing or has it been around forever since
the time of Shakespearean plays? And the answer is apparently, yeah, it's
been something. If you go back to Shakespeare's time, performances were watched by
people, and through folks would throw things on stage. It was there were
more so throwing it on stage rather than at people. Well maybe that's true,
but it's still something has changed. Head. I used to think when
you go to a performance, you politely sit there and clap when you like
stuff, or even you cheer when you like stuff, but you don't throw
things onto the stage. And some people are get on the pandemic because people
are so restless. Noah, Yeah, that's just rude. So that's my
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thoughts. All right, So the good news today, or among the good
news stories, the story of a six year old being praised for his heroics
after he jumped into a pool to save his two year old brother. How
about that, huh? His kid was swimming during a gathering at his grandparents
house. His younger brother fell into the water. At first, the youngster
felt his name youngster was called Atticus Whitlock wasn't sure what was going on,
but he scoped out the situation. Jay. He was horrified when he realized
it was his brother who was in danger. He said, quote, I
saw something on top of the water. I had my goggles on. I
didn't know what it was, so I went under to see what it was,
and it was his younger brother. Isn't that terrifying? The boy's mother
said she was near the pool when this happened, but had no idea that
it was her two year old and her six year old. They were in
the water, and so Attic has jumps in grabs his brother at the bottom
of the pool, pulls him up, and then the mother jumps in and
helps them both get out. But I can just see her. What's so
terrifying is things like this happen when there are either nobody around. The child
got out on their own, or there's a lot of people around. Yeah,
and people are distracted, but everybody else thinks that somebody's keeping an eye
on the child. Yes, and there we are. That's it the bottom
the bottom line. Here's the bad news, some of the bad and it
seems more bad news around. There's only more bad news if you're looking for
bad news. But here, puts yourself at this place, this woman's place.
Ladies, starting the day, nice thing going on. She's out running
errands with her fiance. The two of them hop on their motorcycle and they
as they going out to they I think they were going out to dinner as
a matter of fact. And this lady got an alert on her phone that
a smoke alarm was going off in her home, so she called her son,
who lived closer to the house in Mitchellville, Iowa. He said smoke
was pouring out of the house. So he was running so hard because he
knew that there were all these animals in the house, and she could think
about were the animals there. I guess there's some dogs in the house and
some other animals that were a couple exotics, right, yeah, right,
So she raced back home and went full throttled, but if she headed for
the off ramp, she lost on the control of the v vehicle and crashed.
All right, So already she's got a motorcycle wreck, she's got a
houses on fire, but it's not over there. So she lands on her
shoulder, breaks her clavicle, big gash in her knee, and so she
wasn't and she wasn't wearing any protective gear, which she identifies herself as foolish
after the fact, right exactly. So the house is on fire, she's
hurt, and so the people who you know, she's gone to her house
see what's going on. And people see that she's hurt, so they send
her, come on, let's go. You need to go to the doctor.
You need to go to the hospital. And so she goes to the
hospital to treat her various bumps and bruises and breaks. Doctors are on a
CT scan to make sure that she didn't have any internal bleeding, and they
find a huge cancerous mass on her kidney. She's got renal cell carcinoma,
which is a very sneaky one that's typically not diagnosed until later stages and is
potentially terminal when not caught in the early stages. So put yourself in her
position, right, fire burns your house to the ground, wrecks your motorcycle
first and hurt yep, hurts yourself. Goes to the hospital learning she has
cancer. All of this in the same day, good god, span of
twenty four hours. Well, and here's the thing too, So the good
news and the miracle in this is she would not have known she had this
cancer until a later stage when symptoms arose, and it would have been too
late. She found out about this cancer because she was speeding on her motorcycle
because her house was on fire. She crashed her bike. They did these
scans, they found it, and she was going to survive this cancer because
it was in the early stages. So from that comes good. There's if
there's going to be a silver lining, it has to be a cloudy day.
Yeah, yep, that's right. That's a great way of remembering.
Yeah, yes, yeah, that's Casey musgrapes for that one. Yep,
there you go. So the FDA, we were talking earlier with the FDA
proving this over the counter birth control pill. Now from the same organization,
the Food and Drug Administration, the fact that aspertame maybe a possible cause of
cancer in humans. Did you see this? I wonder what your reaction.
I wonder what anybody's reaction to it is when you get down to the bottom
line, I thought we already knew this though we did too, Yes,
and and aspertame, even the fact that it's a potential carcinogen, but also
it's just it's so horrific for people, especially anybody who deals with inflammation issues
or has a chronic illness. It causes added issues into the body, like
aspartame. And it's in all Aspertam is in anything that is diet or zero
sugar labeled or anything like that. Well, no it's not. It's yeah,
it's in the Coca Cola zero sugar, the caffeine free, the diet
coke. It's not in regular coke. And a lot of the regular pops
get a bad name because it's like, well there's so much sugar. Take
the real sugar. Take all of that stuff. Take the ingredients that are
in the real, the regular, rather than the diets or the zero sugars
or sugar freeze. The aspar team is the worst. Yep, it's very
bad for you. Look at the labels on things, whether it's stuff you're
drinking, things you're eating. Yes, sugar is not great for you.
But aspar team and some of the other things that have been used over the
years, the last twenty thirty years, when people said, oh, no,
what sugar, Let's have something that's safe. I won't gain weight if
I have this stuff. No, you'll die. So I find it different
alternative. Not much chance, not a chance of you having a reaction if
you're dead, right, Okay, So there's that now. Speaking of being
in the case of Lisa Murray Pressley this I was surprised to see she had
a small bowel obstruction and that's what killed her, which seems rather it would
have been easy to find and I wouldn't have thought. I mean, I
don't I've never had a small ball. I don't know, you know,
knock on? Would everything worked fine? Thanks very much? But one wonders
with all of the medical attention she would be exposed to you have the resources,
there are the people. I just I find this. I find it
distressing frankly and so kind of not necessary. Are you with me on this
search? Yeah, that's one of those things where exactly what are the symptoms?
Because there are so many different things that they share the same symptoms.
And I think we as a society prior to the COVID pan dymach, but
more so after, we brush things off like oh, it's probably just this,
or it's probably just that, until it gets significantly worse. And for
anybody who's by themselves, sometimes when it gets worse, then it's too late
for you to even help yourself or to reach out to get help. Right.
Have they figured out? By the way, there was a big to
do after she died, a kind of a fight between her daughter Riley and
her grand and her mother Priscilla, Yeah to Graceland. Yeah, is that
settled? I think they did settle it, and I think that Riley still
I think Riley Kios still got everything that she was supposed to receive in it.
But I'm not sure if she's allowing Priscilla to do anything. I would
think so because Priscilla is Graceland. Priscilla is I mean, she is Graceland
and Riley doesn't know much about anything. From what I can figure out from
quote unquote sources that they still have a good relationship, and it was that
was one point in this whole fight, was to make sure that it didn't
hinder their relationship, right exactly. And so it's solid about Elvis Presley Enterprises
and the things that go on. Priscilla has been responsible for the way this
has grown, the way the all of this, this whole business of who's
in charge and how do they continue to live well off of Elvis, That's
kind of what this is all about, right, So Priscilla is only I'm
looking at the terms of the settlement here, looks like Priscilla got a million
bucks and four hundred thousand dollars in legal fees. Yeah. I think they
had to pay Priscilla to end the family trust dispute situation. Why would you?
I don't get this. But Priscilla is the one that I mean,
she was already divorced from Elvis, but they maintained a solid friendship and mutual
respect, and she rarely turned grace Land. Graceland was not Graceland while all
of us was still alive. Priscilla did that, Yep, she did.
She knew how to. She's a good business lady, good business sense.
I don't know there's something smelly here, frankly, because again it hasn't been
said. Leadood been Okay, here's something good for Donald Trump fans. Pause.
A judge has ruled it groping is only a crime if it lasts more
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seconds, and let's see what happens after. This is a story. It
went to court. Sixty six year old groped a seventeen year old student,
and it went to court. Judge ruled that it wasn't a crime because oh
so pedophilia is okay as long as it lasts for lessons less than ten seconds,
right, what a disgusting human being? Yeah, and how does the
seventeen year old feel about this? You know? The I would think,
and I'm seeing evidence that this young lady is angry and he was betrayed by
the system. Yeah, yes, I would think, yeah, yeah,
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I said that, Nick and Amer the electrifying Nick Miles from our autoexpert dot
com. So I'm looking at and you there are a couple of different ways
of looking at this, the electric vehicle business and prices for us dvs basically
or collapsing. So I had James Collins, who's on my staff at the
main studio in Dallas, go find a Kelly Bluebook evaluation of a Tesla from
the first year two thousand and eight. And at first I couldn't find any
reference to it. And then he found one that sold for eighty thousand dollars.
And it has nothing to do with the everyday run of the mill car.
I don't think there are too many of them that are left anyway because
of the battery thing, right, well, yeah, well yeah, the
early batteries I wouldn't have anything to do with because, well, what happens
to the cars though, those early cars If the batteries are no good and
they can't find a replacement, what do you do with a car the junkyard,
Yes exactly, it becomes it becomes something of a flower pot. Let's
say you put it in the garden. There you go. I'm going to
plant some corn in my electric vehicle, thank you very much. All right,
So there are more and more of these things being sold all the time,
and but you you point out in an article that you wrote how complicated
it is. It really is a people waking up to the reality of what
they're really doing or not doing when they buy an electric car. Doug.
It's it's this horrible sort of whirlpool of things that we're getting into where car
companies are losing money on electric cars. They're they're actually breaking even at best.
Tesla is the only company that's making money on these cars, and yet
we're selling more and more of them, and when people go to look at
them at the store, they're going, well, again, the fifty one
percent of Americans are saying, yeah, we'll go, we'll go look at
them, but they're only only eight percent of people are buying them because they're
saying, well, wait a second, the chargers don't really work for us.
There's not enough chargers, and those things are getting better by the way,
but they just don't really work for most Americans. And gas still works.
But the adoption is happening too fast. We know that electric is coming,
but we're being pushed too fast to adopt them. And this is a
fast pretenses too. Yeah yeah, and it's like, yes, we know
it's coming, Yes we know the technology is here, but don't push too
hard. Let's let this thing happen naturally, and when we're ready and good
and ready. And yes they're exciting to drive, but it's like forcing us
to do something before we're good and ready and before the technology is there.
And we don't want flower pots in our yard for things that just get filled
with dirt because it's a waste of money. And yes it works for some
people, but it doesn't work for everybody. And I think the most interesting
fact is a tiny one that's buried way below everything here, which is at
the beginning of the year, there was a seven point three percent of people
had adopted electric cars. That is now down to seven point two percent,
which tells me that people bought electric cars and got rid of them at the
beginning of this year because they didn't work for them. And that is a
reversal of Americans buying electric cars. Is super interesting, which means that people
are getting caught up in the hype and going this isn't working. I need
to get rid of my electric car. Well, but what do they do
with them? What does the dealer do with them? That's the question.
Are you you don't put an ad into you know it used to be who
sold our cars online? Right or not online? And put an ad in
the newspaper I am for sale in nineteen sixty eight. Dodge charger. Yeah,
you don't see those anymore. Well, just go look at the inventory
here. You know, we used to have fifty three days supply of electric
cars. Now are over one hundred days supply. So they're sitting on lots.
That's exactly what's happening. You know, they're the board lightning there eighty
eight days supply, they're the Mustang one hundred and sixteen days supply, the
best. You know BMW's I four as forty day supply and that that's one
of the hottest selling cars out there. So you know, there are a
lot of evs sitting out there, and yes they're exciting to drive, but
we are not for everybody. So I met a gentleman who had got caught
up in the EV saga, and he now is he has a long community
as one hundred and twenty five mile commute every day, and now he has
a extra forty five miles every day to find charging stations along his driving.
Ridiculous because because got caught up in the EV boom when he shouldn't have been
buying an EV. So let's say, eat off of sum. But they're
not for everybody where do the wise? Okay, Nick Miles here are Autoexpert
dot com is his website. The Next Stephen Good Day Download with Doug and
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