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can't take credit for making it a good day, but I think Jay Kirshner
and I can help make it a better day. Make it a good day.
That's old of broadcasters from the fifties and sixties. I remember a couple
of Boston broadcasters who would say at the end of the broadcast, Oh,
make it a This is Joe whoever it was, make it a good day.
Yes, yeah, big voice, don't what's the other thing? Have
a good day and do it on purpose? Yeah, there we go.
That's always apen one. But on the other side, it's also like,
you know what, have the kind of day you want to have, because
let's not tell people how to live their lives. Nope, this is one
of those Well I was gonna say, one of those programs. It probably
is the only it's the one and only program you're here on the radio that
isn't point counterpoint, It isn't negative, it isn't nasty. It isn't we
argue all the time about things because that stuff gets really old, really fast.
And that's not our relationship. Jay is here. I'm here to start
trouble and she's here to fix. No, it's all about what is on
our minds, frankly, and one of the things that's on my mind is
the women, the US women the World Cup. We're out because there was
a penalty. If I am reading between the lines here, Megan Rappano has
made a lot of noise about this since this happened. She said I'm going
to retire. Did she says you're going to retire? Because we know we
knew she was going to retire. Well, she she had already said that
the end of this season would be her final. She was already going to
retire. So it's just a bummer to end on this kind of note.
Because they US and Sweden, it was a scoreless game, so then there
you had the penalty kicks for each team, and she was the one that
missed hers and as well. But isn't she a sure loser? Or is
she? I don't see that she is, But I don't know that much
about her. I'm not a follower of fashion here when it comes to the
Women's Cup made, she's made a lot of noise over her career that has
been contorted, twisted, turned because she's she doesn't live the normal quote unquote
lifestyle, whatever that is anymore. So she says, it's like a dark
comedy. I missed a penalty, YadA YadA. Yeah, Okay, so
maybe there's too much analyzing of this from any number of angles. The United
States lost, Okay, so well on what I've seen is less less about
um, less coming from the players, more coming from people with their opinions
on social media, specifically x FKA Twitter, where a lot of them are
mad that there were a portion of the athletes that during the national anthem they
stood silently, they didn't sing along. But how often do we see that
from athletes where they're not singing along. They're standing and being respectful of the
flag, but also they're in a headspace where they're trying to get prepared for
the game. A lot of times they're meditating, they're praying, they're trying
to psyche themselves up. They just kind of get into this zone where they're
not trying to be disrespectful by not singing along. Yeah, but we all
make we all make mistakes and judgment. None of us are perfect by any
stretch of the imagination. Let he who throws the first rock be judged or
whatever it is. And then there's don't throw rocks at windows. What's the
messing these up? But you get the gist of what I'm saying. Well,
people who live in glass houses, you didn't throw rocks. That's it.
And so okay, it's a game for God's sakes. And so they
represented the United States. Oh no, we don't have gay people in the
United States. They shouldn't be representing us. Really, take a look around
and tell me that we don't have a gay or it's a well, then
trans athletes and Megan Repino is really she's she's a member of lgbt QIA,
she's a support of lgbt QI, and she was a supporter is a supporter
of trans athletes. And it's just one of those things where people can't allow
others to have their own opinions and support who they want to support. They
have to they have to aggressively be against everybody. So there were a lot
of people who wanted to see Team USA lows and celebrated in that loss and
grow up. Yeah, it's this yeah right, Well, when they do
this for men, that's also the question too, would they do this for
men in men's sports as well, because there are a lot of athletes in
men's sports as well that have a difference of opinions than other people, And
it doesn't seem like a majority of people are so vocal about wanting there Isn't
that also anti Americans too? You want your country to lose because you don't
like some of the athletes. Hardly pats, hardly patriotic. It's just so
sad that everything, everything is getting so political. There's I know this might
be a little off topic, but Ohio has a special election on Tuesday this
week, and there's only one issue on the ballot, and you see the
signs in the yard where it's like vote yes on issue one, vote no
one Issue one, And most of the signs I see have the subliminal messaging
of blue verse read, and a lot of the vote yes signs are read
signaling that Republicans are going to vote this way and if you are Republican,
you must vote this way. And then a lot of the do signs are
blue signaling the opposite for the Democrats, there are some signs that are red,
white and blue and pretty neutral. But it's like, can just remind
people there's a special election, and then where they can get information so they
can decide for themselves how they're going to vote. So what does this all
end? Does it end? Do we solve our problems? Do we get
together? Do we figure out? This is all one country that hasn't happened
since September eleventh, and look what it took to bring us together. And
from that point to this has been one steady downhill course after another, one
episode another episode. So there are those who say, if we don't straighten
it out, if every does but he doesn't become a Republican a country,
we're going to hell. I remember working for a guy at a radio station
who was really tortured by his own beliefs, and he maintained that if everybody
wasn't a Republican and a Catholic, the world was going to go to hell.
And he believed that to his soul. That was it. That's how
he grew up. So how much of that stuff can we stomach and take
and still survive? You see signs all around us, of how things.
The dream of America is cracking, and we're being helped by a lot of
different circumstances in the whole business with China and what we've done to ourselves.
I saw an overview and I figured why was on News Nation? I think
the number one why we have to spend a lot of time talking about our
number one enemy. But our number one enemy the country to worry most about
is China. And I am not a fan of China, and you can
hear it all the time when I am telling various stories and present points of
view. China is not our friend. China has in the modern era never
been our friend. We've tried to get along since the Nixon era, but
that doesn't mean that there weren't people who had different ideas about how to get
along, get as much money out of America as you can, and then
use it against him. So let's go back to sports for a second.
The Tim Anderson, Jose Ramirez fight, White Sox versus the Guardians SmackDown.
What the heck is that about? This is a baseball game, talk about
unsportsmanlike conduct. These people have all been fined, I guess, and had
suspensions and all of that stuff. Since when is there this big thing between
Chicago and Cleveland. Well, there's been, and I am unsure of the
reasoning behind it, but it seems that there's been some tension between Jose and
Time for a long time. I guys, I don't know why, but
there has been some tension between them for a long time. And Jose hit
got a double and when he slid into second, his head was kind of
up and there was a little bit of a run in and then Tim didn't
really he was still on like not on top of and who was standing in
away that Jose couldn't get up, and so I yeah, so I'm I
don't know what was said. I couldn't hear, you know, I couldn't
hear what it said. But they started mouthing to each other, like you
know, talking to each other, and then threw off his glove and they
both put their fists up. They got the dukes up and we were riding
to throw down, and Tim threw a couple of punches before Jose got one
good one in that just totally laid him out, and then of course just
cleared out. But like children in a sand, you see it every so
often. In baseball, it's not not which you're not going to see it
every game. It's not a hockey where yeah, those gloves are coming down
every game. Well that's most It's like their that phony foolishness. And wrestling
it's the same. What are we doing? What are you yelling and screaming
about? What you're these stupid things on these wrestling shows. It's the height
of stupidity. They stand up there and that yell and screamed the man and
the women. Yeah, what does hoop? That's entertainment. Oh, with
wrestling, it's almost like soap operas. It's a lot of it is more
so what's going on outside of the ring and backstage, which is all scripted
and everything. But yeah, and I think there was a big there was
a big fight. What was it SmackDown or something. There was something going
on in Detroit this weekend. Bailing hand trying to feed my cows. So
here's one more for the road, literally and figuratively. NASCAR driver Noah Gregson
has been suspended. He made some or he liked as some comment about George
Floyd. So he's under indefinite suspension. Why is that? What is that
going to do? With his driving, whether he's a goofball or a goon
or whatever. What is that, Well, it's guilty by association. So
anybody with his team in the organization for whom he drives don't want to be
associated with behavior like that. So and you ignore him. You know what
is the you make a big deal. It's getting to the point where,
especially with social media, you can lose sponser, you can lose money.
Yeah, OK, so it's well, no, it's the team's problem in
the organization with whom he drives, not just NASCAR, but I mean,
I mean the actual team who who people who get the sponsors for it.
People could pull out because of this, So they have to go through and
do stuff like this where he's he's suspended or he gets let go or anything.
And why is that? Why is it that it bothers in terms of
this reminds me of the thing with the with the yeah right, exactly,
that kind of thing. This is to the point where we can't We have
to be careful. But Michael Harrison and I talked about that on the Countdown.
You gotta be careful of everything you say because somebody's gunning for you.
Somebody's gonna get you well, and he acknowledged that he messed up that he
shouldn't have. Yeah, social media is a buzz, lots of back and
forth on X and on Facebook and what's going on with Megan Marcole And this
is again social media ruling the world. Who gives a rats butt whether or
not social media paid much attention to Megan on her birthday, which was over
the weekend. I didn't celebrate it because I didn't know her husband did however,
Prince Harry. But as the story reads, not everyone is publicly acknowledging
her birthday, and it might be for a very strategic reason. The royal
family let the day slide and on and on it goes. Perhaps they said
private messages, but it's not clear. What get do these people not have
anything to do with their lives? What a slow news British tabloids right exactly?
Yeah, that's the priority focus. G I know it, get real.
Sorry, Apparently Sophie Trudeau is getting divorced or separated from her husband,
who is the Justin Drudeau who's the Prime Minister of Canada, and so who
knows what that's all about? More gossipy stuff. But because Megan Markle is
apparently having a problem with her husband. Uh, they're seen as friends,
so Sophie is leaning on Megan for whatever the reason. Well, that's podcast
and discussing being in the public eye and the public pressure and the whole balancing
being a spouse and being a parent and again the public eye situation, and
they were relating to each other and that because of course we know everything that
happened with Megan Markle as well, but it's just divorce is one of those
things that is so tough on anyone who goes through it. It's just so
tricky. It's the leminati. And then have to do so in the public
eye and have all of these people weighing in and giving their comments that we
weren't even a part of anything. Rice William and Kate Middleton wrote official things
on their Twitter account last year and they didn't do that this year. Yeah,
okay. Story of a hero post office worker who saved a senior from
sending a lot of money to a scammer. It sounds like something for Stephen
JJ Wiseman's scam Alert website. So this vulnerable senior was being scammed. She
was ready mail in three thousand dollars to this swindler, this scammer. Apparently
this is how it worked, so listen up, everybody. Scammer contacted her,
claim to be from the bank saying there was unusual activity on her account.
They told her she should withdraw all her money and send it to an
address so they could deposit it in a new account. Oh wow, there's
a lot of balsam in that. So this is a very elderly woman.
She went to the post office. The manager there noticed that she was shaken
up, and they've seen her before, like they kind of knew her.
She used the post office a lot, and so they noticed a difference in
her behavior and flagged it immediately. Yeah, good for them, be careful.
Lots of scams go ahead. Yeah yeah, yeah. The skill was
saying, like, you, there's an issue with the bank, withdraw all
of your money and send it to us to positive and a new account for
you. And yeah, sure. Anybody who has gone into a drug store,
Walgreen, CBS any of it. When you're at the checkout counter,
do you notice that sign that says do not buy gift cards and send them
to people you do not know? Because that's that's one of the big scamps.
They tell people you need to this issue is happening and you need to
pay with gift cards or anything like that. Right your bank is not going
to contact you. Another bank is not going to contact you until you need
to do this. Um. Really, any company, nobody is going to
say, hey, pay us with gift cards. Munga. Do you know
that there are back to school sales going on right now? A matter of
fact, I think this is the week. This weekend is where in a
lot of states have what they call a sales tax holiday. Yeah, past
weekend, what was it? Yeah? I think Karen messages the next weekend
and my grandson who's here visiting goes back to school. There's are my son
last night and he wasn't sure when Meghan and her husband and Miles were going
to go home. And I said, they're going home on Sunday. And
he looked at me quizzically and said, they're they're coming home on Sunday.
I said, yeah, they're enjoying themselves because Miles starts school a week from
today, so that'll be It's just let's just keep them moving anyway. It's
just so fast. Tennessee and Kentucky. There's some schools that they've already started
school now. Really, they're already like a weekend. Yeah, So how
well do you get to know your children's teacher? How well do you support
your child's teacher? Is communication more open now than it used to be?
I taught for four years in a junior high school, middle school they call
it now. And I remember having some connection with some with some parents,
and it was good, and I remember some not being so good. And
then I was sad because a lot of children whose parents ought to be more
involved, because I think everybody, frankly ought to be involved. Not in
a distracting way, not why don't you do this for my child? Or
why are you're teaching? It's that, but showing appreciation, I suppose,
in a manner of speaking. Yeah, And some teachers don't need to be
appreciated. Some ought not to be appreciated. But it's always nice if,
in fact, you feel like your daughter or your son has the best possible
learning experience going on. You want them to succeed, You want them to
develop, You want their distinct personalities, their individuality to be underscored. But
you also want them to read and figure out how to add and subtract,
and you want them to figure out how their world works. And sometimes there's
a need for a more open community. If your child is insecure or feels
for whatever the reason, and that you know school is not a safe place
then and there are a lot of children, because of bullying and things like
that, don't want to go to school. And there are a lot of
parents who decide, Okay, well, if that's the case, we ought
to keep the child home. But under that circumstance, I think I would
I would want to hold my tax my real estate tax money back to the
point whatever it is that is taken in that way and what's used for educational
purposes. Hard to do that. Some people have taken it to court,
some people have had a tough time they're doing it. But I and I
frankly feel at this point in my life, I'm not I'm sending kids to
school, not my kids, So is it my responsibility? And if that's
the case, and I feel like we're paying in a lot of money,
we do in my community. I think it's um fifty four percent of every
tax dollar goes to the school system, and readily speaking, the school system's
not that swell here. It's a little better than it has been, but
it's had its ups and downs. When I was teaching in the system,
it was among the best, not because I was there, but because there
was a sort of a concern, a thought for actually the child's welfare.
And so much of it today is about the teachers union. Especially go to
a big city, it's all about the union workers and it's all about,
Oh, look at COVID and what that brought about, how that's basically destroyed
the system. In places like Los Angeles. Not even before COVID, you
had some teachers who were there because they were just trying to hit retirement,
so they had checked out. You had some people who were there, depending
on what type of school you go went to. If you wanted to do
one of the extracurricular activities like be a coach for basketball or football or soccer
or something like that, you had to also be a teacher. And some
people only wanted to do the coaching thing, and they had to be teachers
so that they were already checked out with the teachers stuff. The lessons.
We all had somebody like that. Mine was Frank Calvani, who was the
athletic director. But he taught math, and I knew math better than he
did. But you know, that was his job. And he was a
pleasant enough guy and was kind of fun in his class, and so those
sort of things were not a focus. Plus in those days, everybody who
had a job as a teacher got it because of their connections. For the
most part, it was always the Irish and the Italians, and those are
the ones who had the teaching jobs because the superintendent was either Irish or Italian.
That's why it worked. Back when I was in school and when I
was teaching in the framing him systems system I grew up in. But meanwhile,
back to what's necessary again, back to the resources and whether or not
you decide you want to volunteer. A lot of parents do. That's kind
of cool. Donating supplies, though, gets into my craw because that's why,
back to the taxes. What are we providing. You can't buy paper,
you can't buy pencils. You can that's an offer if you don't want
to donate, but why should you have to? That way, you can
donate your time. I think that's a very worthwhile thing to do. Volunteering
the classroom is very helpful and that helps to know the children. Smaller groups
always a little bit better learning for the most part of these. That's with
the studies show. Maybe you want a chaperone a field event. Okay,
that's good. But to have to pay for supplies, No, but that's
the thing you don't have to. Well, you shouldn't have to. I
guess I'll put it another way, Jay, you shouldn't have to because the
tax the money that is set aside from those of us who are taxpayers,
includes money for supplies. Why should we You know, you got to the
four walls, you have teacher's hours and that kind of stuff, But you
also be buying things that are necessary. Look at all the school systems that
are buying computers for their youngsters. They're buying iPads or something like that.
I think that's completely inappropriate. You can say, well that's how kids learn
today. Well, you see how wonderfully well many of them are able to
communicate or not especially encouraging participation in school. If you get the screen in
front of you, that's where you learn how not to participate. Frankly,
social media and all of that stuff, I think, but they're using them.
Well, but even it's the same as having computers and doing the different
computer games to learn stuff that I grew up with that your children went to
school and grew up with. It's just a different device at this point,
but it's still the same kind of screen. What's separate, what is there?
What's better? Maybe I'll put it this way. Higher levels of parental
involvement correlate with improved attendance, reduced dropout rates, better performance in school.
So if you have the time, and if you don't, maybe you should
make the time to promote that that sort of connection, if you will.
I remember liking having parents that it was just beginning when I was teaching school
in the sixties and seventies, having parents come in and help with groups and
that kind of stuff. I also built such a great relationship. Yeah,
it's good, but it's all about relationships. Yeah. Well, now there
are more avenues for communication because you do have social media where the teacher school
there's specific groups that only these parents of the students can access and they give
the information out and they keep you abreast of what's going on. And there's
also these websites that these additional platforms where you can even see your child's grade,
see the assignments that are currently out and what's been turned in you and
it's almost okay, are you big brother watching at this point. But for
younger kids, where you if you're not going to school with them, you
don't know everything they're doing. You don't know what you don't know, and
you can't always rely on the children to relay that information. Of course,
not that they're purposefully withholdings, but like at a younger age, they're just
not thinking about it. They're outside of school, they're home from school now,
their brain has moved on to other stuff. They're not thinking about what
all happened and giving you the play by play of everything. Do you monitor
your child's work? Do you talk to your children about the lesson plans,
the assignments? Do you ask questions of your children? Do they say,
oh, I don't want to talk about it. Well, and you have
to get into their head to encourage listening, to encourage participation, Otherwise they
don't develop many of the skills that are necessary to be social in the world.
Part of going to school is the socialization I think anyway. I mean,
there's a lot of things that come out of the experience in school learning.
Yes, that's not just the curcu No, but the fear child is
able to blend. Well, that's much more of a sign of success,
I think anyway. But I know that my daughter and my son in law
check out miles homework and they talk about what the papers are that he brings
home from school and how he did and what kind of projects. They're always
in touch and whenever I go with Megan to pick up Miles at school,
we always have that ride on the ride back to the house. Okay,
where'd you do? Where'd you like? Where'd you have to eat? See?
And that's so much better than the typical. So, how is your
day at school today? Good? And then you get mad that they gave
you a one word answer? Well, rephrase your question, Well, dig
into it a little bit more, be an advocate exactly the child being part
of school today? Yeah right, school bells ringing, children sing, it's
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the air about Raven Simone, talking about the ways that she has she experiences
psychic visions, and I just use that as a launchpad because a lot of
people, more and more, I think mary are having the connection with things
that they can't see. That's so called sixth cents. And so when people
come to you asking you for help and guidance, pretty pretty easy to do
that, pretty easy to get a hold of you. It's very interesting to
kind of put the pieces together as to when you talk to someone, can
you tell right away whether they have the ability a to understand what you're saying,
be perhaps developed their own psychic sense. See, they're there because they
have something going on with them that they don't understand, and maybe all of
those things. What do you think? Yeah, so I believe everybody has
psychic ability. I mean, it just it's there. However, like Spirit
told me, it's like having legs. If you have legs, you can
run. Some people naturally run faster than others. So it but quite often
I'll get to Spirit will tell me or show me how psychic a person is
when I'm working with them, and I can stop and say, but you
know all this right, So a lot of times they're just maybe not confident
with their own abilities, or when did you become When did you become confident
with your abilities? I was gosh, probably already already forty or almost forty,
and I had been taking some hypnotherapy classes and was around a bunch of
people who you know, believed in it, talked about it, worked with
it, and they all kept pointing out how psychic I was. Yeah,
yeah, So so one day I just started working with it and started helping
people with it. And the more I did it, the better better I
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Yeah, yeah, right exactly. So um, one of the things
that we were just talking about National Sea Serpent Day, because there are a
lot of people who have beliefs or fears. Maybe that's the best way of
putting it. People are afraid, and I think more and more people are
afraid today, and I think those kind of folks come to you as well
to try to if you will, what is it, exorcisms, getting rid
of the fears. Some people live their whole lives based on things they're afraid
of, right, and so it could be some people are afraid of you
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I mean, think about all the things around us that could be problematic.
It could you know, I guess you could get killed by most anything
and hurt by most anything. So how do you live your life and not
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get to know what's truth from fiction. Usually we're afraid when we feel like
we're not empowered, when we're not in control, when something can control us.
And so it's not really like that. With the sixth sense, it's
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questions focusing on things that are necessary for you to understand when you're taking care
of your home. How do we fix this? How do we fix that?
All kinds of things, not only in the radio program, but on
the podcast and on the newsletter. And we here when we have the presence
of mind to bring Tommy on, take questions from our audience. Rachel Listener
says that she's remodeling her laundry room, which is also our guest's half bath,
and she wants to know whether laminate wood flooring is safe under a washing
machine. First, for those who are unwashed, Tommy, what is laminate
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but about twenty five times tougher than the old fashioned laminate tops. You know,
I gotta say dog in lay the fact that now we have more options
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there's a type of flooring called hybrid stone flooring which has a much much
tougher surface. And again in both cases those products are one hundred percent waterproof,
so it doesn't matter if you're under laundry equipment or in a bathroom.
You know, in terms of laundry equipment, especially if this laundry room is
on a wood floor of a basement or within the second floor. Another thing
you should be aware of is something that are called anti vibration blocks. These
are like rubber blocks that you put between the bottom feet of the washing machine
and the floor, and they're actually quite effective at absorbing some of the vibrations
put out by the spin cycle and making the washers quieter. And they don't
walk if they're a little off a balance because the load kind shifted. But
I've always used those anti vibration blocks since I discovered them some years ago,
and they've been very effective in trying to keep the equipment quiet and in place.
And when Tom was doing it, when he was putting that down,
he had the beach boards arm with good vibrations. Yeah, that's the thing
as good vibration when it comes to your washing machines walking out. All right.
So we were talking before we went on the air about deck collapses.
Yeah, I'm putting a deck up on the back end of the apartment that
I have on the barn, and I'm using an old deck and that I
got from who knows. I've forgotten even where I got this deck, but
it's been sitting around for a while. And I started looking at the wood
and I'm thinking, because it was all hard wood, it was all oak
made out of that. But I do I put that up or I just
build a new one. Well, the key here, and especially when it
comes to avoiding deck collapse, is how the frame is built and how it's
attached to the building and supported. Because most of all you hear about when
it comes to the deck collapses DOUG is when the decks the deck frame pulls
away the main body of the house. And it does that because typically it's
not attached properly. So for example, it might be attached with lag bolts
rather than bolts that have nuts and big washers and are really securely tied into
the frame, or the girders that support the outside end outside sections are not
properly supported and then they start to sort of shift from side to side,
especially when you have like big parties. We often hear about this on like
Memorial Day or Fourth of July or Labor Day parties when you have a lot
of people over your house and you're really stressing that structure out and it gets
quite dangerous. So attachment to the house and the flashing around that to make
sure water doesn't get in there and cause rot is really really key. Once
you get that framing done and done well and done securely, you know,
then whatever you put on top is really going to be a question of how
much maintens you want to put on into it over the years and that sort
of thing. You know, well, no maintens, you go at composite,
you want to you don't care about having to stain it every two three
years, and maybe you're going to use pressure treated for example. Yeah,
I guess I wouldn't have to worry about that because I don't have that many
friends. There you go, I'm all set, okay, and when we
come over, we know enough just to look before we before Yeah, right,
exactly, all right, So, um, well, you have about
a minute left here. I'm trying to figure out what to do with my
driveway, and I noticed one of the things that's in the money Pit newsletter
is how to fix the cracks and the driveway without or to redo it a
lot of different This guy came around and he's going to take out the cracks
and put new stuff down and cover it up with some kind of Yeah,
you got to steal them good and you may have to open them up if
they're really like hairline. Otherwise the seilant won't ad here and let's stick got
it won't take it. And if it's a big deep one, then you
can put a backer rod in there so that you don't sort of waste the
material and that'll keep towards the top of the surface. There we go,
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