1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:04,240 The next Stephen. Good Day Download with Doug and Jay Kirshner is made possible 2 00:00:04,240 --> 00:00:07,839 in part by Kellatrin, which is the safe way for you to lose weight 3 00:00:07,919 --> 00:00:12,640 and keep it off, and also by priviging keeping your brain healthy. I 4 00:00:12,679 --> 00:00:16,920 can't take credit for making it a good day, but I think Jay Kirshner 5 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:20,960 and I can help make it a better day. Make it a good day. 6 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:27,399 That's old of broadcasters from the fifties and sixties. I remember a couple 7 00:00:27,399 --> 00:00:31,120 of Boston broadcasters who would say at the end of the broadcast, Oh, 8 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:35,679 make it a This is Joe whoever it was, make it a good day. 9 00:00:36,119 --> 00:00:39,520 Yes, yeah, big voice, don't what's the other thing? Have 10 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:42,840 a good day and do it on purpose? Yeah, there we go. 11 00:00:43,119 --> 00:00:45,399 That's always apen one. But on the other side, it's also like, 12 00:00:45,679 --> 00:00:48,640 you know what, have the kind of day you want to have, because 13 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:52,640 let's not tell people how to live their lives. Nope, this is one 14 00:00:52,679 --> 00:00:55,359 of those Well I was gonna say, one of those programs. It probably 15 00:00:55,439 --> 00:01:00,240 is the only it's the one and only program you're here on the radio that 16 00:01:00,439 --> 00:01:06,000 isn't point counterpoint, It isn't negative, it isn't nasty. It isn't we 17 00:01:06,159 --> 00:01:11,840 argue all the time about things because that stuff gets really old, really fast. 18 00:01:11,319 --> 00:01:17,280 And that's not our relationship. Jay is here. I'm here to start 19 00:01:17,319 --> 00:01:23,239 trouble and she's here to fix. No, it's all about what is on 20 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:26,519 our minds, frankly, and one of the things that's on my mind is 21 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:34,519 the women, the US women the World Cup. We're out because there was 22 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:40,120 a penalty. If I am reading between the lines here, Megan Rappano has 23 00:01:40,159 --> 00:01:46,439 made a lot of noise about this since this happened. She said I'm going 24 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:49,480 to retire. Did she says you're going to retire? Because we know we 25 00:01:49,560 --> 00:01:52,120 knew she was going to retire. Well, she she had already said that 26 00:01:52,239 --> 00:01:57,200 the end of this season would be her final. She was already going to 27 00:01:57,239 --> 00:02:00,239 retire. So it's just a bummer to end on this kind of note. 28 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:06,200 Because they US and Sweden, it was a scoreless game, so then there 29 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:09,719 you had the penalty kicks for each team, and she was the one that 30 00:02:09,759 --> 00:02:16,800 missed hers and as well. But isn't she a sure loser? Or is 31 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:21,919 she? I don't see that she is, But I don't know that much 32 00:02:21,919 --> 00:02:23,680 about her. I'm not a follower of fashion here when it comes to the 33 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:30,879 Women's Cup made, she's made a lot of noise over her career that has 34 00:02:30,919 --> 00:02:38,199 been contorted, twisted, turned because she's she doesn't live the normal quote unquote 35 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:43,000 lifestyle, whatever that is anymore. So she says, it's like a dark 36 00:02:43,039 --> 00:02:46,199 comedy. I missed a penalty, YadA YadA. Yeah, Okay, so 37 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:53,759 maybe there's too much analyzing of this from any number of angles. The United 38 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:57,719 States lost, Okay, so well on what I've seen is less less about 39 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:01,240 um, less coming from the players, more coming from people with their opinions 40 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:07,840 on social media, specifically x FKA Twitter, where a lot of them are 41 00:03:07,879 --> 00:03:14,319 mad that there were a portion of the athletes that during the national anthem they 42 00:03:14,319 --> 00:03:16,800 stood silently, they didn't sing along. But how often do we see that 43 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:21,039 from athletes where they're not singing along. They're standing and being respectful of the 44 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:24,280 flag, but also they're in a headspace where they're trying to get prepared for 45 00:03:24,319 --> 00:03:29,120 the game. A lot of times they're meditating, they're praying, they're trying 46 00:03:29,159 --> 00:03:32,199 to psyche themselves up. They just kind of get into this zone where they're 47 00:03:32,199 --> 00:03:37,039 not trying to be disrespectful by not singing along. Yeah, but we all 48 00:03:37,159 --> 00:03:42,759 make we all make mistakes and judgment. None of us are perfect by any 49 00:03:42,759 --> 00:03:46,840 stretch of the imagination. Let he who throws the first rock be judged or 50 00:03:46,879 --> 00:03:52,199 whatever it is. And then there's don't throw rocks at windows. What's the 51 00:03:53,199 --> 00:03:55,719 messing these up? But you get the gist of what I'm saying. Well, 52 00:03:55,759 --> 00:03:59,240 people who live in glass houses, you didn't throw rocks. That's it. 53 00:04:00,439 --> 00:04:04,919 And so okay, it's a game for God's sakes. And so they 54 00:04:05,039 --> 00:04:10,199 represented the United States. Oh no, we don't have gay people in the 55 00:04:10,240 --> 00:04:14,240 United States. They shouldn't be representing us. Really, take a look around 56 00:04:15,479 --> 00:04:18,360 and tell me that we don't have a gay or it's a well, then 57 00:04:18,439 --> 00:04:25,920 trans athletes and Megan Repino is really she's she's a member of lgbt QIA, 58 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:30,480 she's a support of lgbt QI, and she was a supporter is a supporter 59 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:33,199 of trans athletes. And it's just one of those things where people can't allow 60 00:04:33,199 --> 00:04:36,079 others to have their own opinions and support who they want to support. They 61 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:43,480 have to they have to aggressively be against everybody. So there were a lot 62 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:48,480 of people who wanted to see Team USA lows and celebrated in that loss and 63 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:55,920 grow up. Yeah, it's this yeah right, Well, when they do 64 00:04:55,959 --> 00:04:58,720 this for men, that's also the question too, would they do this for 65 00:04:58,759 --> 00:05:02,399 men in men's sports as well, because there are a lot of athletes in 66 00:05:02,439 --> 00:05:06,680 men's sports as well that have a difference of opinions than other people, And 67 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:12,800 it doesn't seem like a majority of people are so vocal about wanting there Isn't 68 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:15,879 that also anti Americans too? You want your country to lose because you don't 69 00:05:15,879 --> 00:05:21,199 like some of the athletes. Hardly pats, hardly patriotic. It's just so 70 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:26,480 sad that everything, everything is getting so political. There's I know this might 71 00:05:26,519 --> 00:05:31,240 be a little off topic, but Ohio has a special election on Tuesday this 72 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:34,879 week, and there's only one issue on the ballot, and you see the 73 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:40,360 signs in the yard where it's like vote yes on issue one, vote no 74 00:05:40,439 --> 00:05:44,759 one Issue one, And most of the signs I see have the subliminal messaging 75 00:05:44,959 --> 00:05:49,720 of blue verse read, and a lot of the vote yes signs are read 76 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:54,639 signaling that Republicans are going to vote this way and if you are Republican, 77 00:05:54,680 --> 00:05:56,680 you must vote this way. And then a lot of the do signs are 78 00:05:56,680 --> 00:06:00,160 blue signaling the opposite for the Democrats, there are some signs that are red, 79 00:06:00,199 --> 00:06:05,360 white and blue and pretty neutral. But it's like, can just remind 80 00:06:05,399 --> 00:06:09,319 people there's a special election, and then where they can get information so they 81 00:06:09,319 --> 00:06:12,800 can decide for themselves how they're going to vote. So what does this all 82 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:16,199 end? Does it end? Do we solve our problems? Do we get 83 00:06:16,199 --> 00:06:20,560 together? Do we figure out? This is all one country that hasn't happened 84 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:25,319 since September eleventh, and look what it took to bring us together. And 85 00:06:25,639 --> 00:06:30,759 from that point to this has been one steady downhill course after another, one 86 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:35,439 episode another episode. So there are those who say, if we don't straighten 87 00:06:35,439 --> 00:06:40,600 it out, if every does but he doesn't become a Republican a country, 88 00:06:40,639 --> 00:06:44,000 we're going to hell. I remember working for a guy at a radio station 89 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:50,000 who was really tortured by his own beliefs, and he maintained that if everybody 90 00:06:50,079 --> 00:06:54,839 wasn't a Republican and a Catholic, the world was going to go to hell. 91 00:06:54,879 --> 00:07:00,759 And he believed that to his soul. That was it. That's how 92 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:04,759 he grew up. So how much of that stuff can we stomach and take 93 00:07:05,199 --> 00:07:11,519 and still survive? You see signs all around us, of how things. 94 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:17,879 The dream of America is cracking, and we're being helped by a lot of 95 00:07:17,879 --> 00:07:25,240 different circumstances in the whole business with China and what we've done to ourselves. 96 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:30,000 I saw an overview and I figured why was on News Nation? I think 97 00:07:30,319 --> 00:07:35,040 the number one why we have to spend a lot of time talking about our 98 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:40,560 number one enemy. But our number one enemy the country to worry most about 99 00:07:40,680 --> 00:07:44,120 is China. And I am not a fan of China, and you can 100 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:47,399 hear it all the time when I am telling various stories and present points of 101 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:54,199 view. China is not our friend. China has in the modern era never 102 00:07:54,279 --> 00:07:59,079 been our friend. We've tried to get along since the Nixon era, but 103 00:07:59,279 --> 00:08:03,600 that doesn't mean that there weren't people who had different ideas about how to get 104 00:08:03,639 --> 00:08:05,680 along, get as much money out of America as you can, and then 105 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:11,360 use it against him. So let's go back to sports for a second. 106 00:08:11,560 --> 00:08:18,439 The Tim Anderson, Jose Ramirez fight, White Sox versus the Guardians SmackDown. 107 00:08:18,839 --> 00:08:22,040 What the heck is that about? This is a baseball game, talk about 108 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:28,399 unsportsmanlike conduct. These people have all been fined, I guess, and had 109 00:08:28,480 --> 00:08:33,879 suspensions and all of that stuff. Since when is there this big thing between 110 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:39,200 Chicago and Cleveland. Well, there's been, and I am unsure of the 111 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:43,519 reasoning behind it, but it seems that there's been some tension between Jose and 112 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:46,759 Time for a long time. I guys, I don't know why, but 113 00:08:46,799 --> 00:08:50,039 there has been some tension between them for a long time. And Jose hit 114 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:56,759 got a double and when he slid into second, his head was kind of 115 00:08:56,879 --> 00:08:58,720 up and there was a little bit of a run in and then Tim didn't 116 00:08:58,759 --> 00:09:03,679 really he was still on like not on top of and who was standing in 117 00:09:03,679 --> 00:09:07,440 away that Jose couldn't get up, and so I yeah, so I'm I 118 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:09,799 don't know what was said. I couldn't hear, you know, I couldn't 119 00:09:09,799 --> 00:09:15,320 hear what it said. But they started mouthing to each other, like you 120 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:20,039 know, talking to each other, and then threw off his glove and they 121 00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:22,559 both put their fists up. They got the dukes up and we were riding 122 00:09:22,559 --> 00:09:26,720 to throw down, and Tim threw a couple of punches before Jose got one 123 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:31,639 good one in that just totally laid him out, and then of course just 124 00:09:31,639 --> 00:09:35,279 cleared out. But like children in a sand, you see it every so 125 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:39,919 often. In baseball, it's not not which you're not going to see it 126 00:09:39,919 --> 00:09:43,840 every game. It's not a hockey where yeah, those gloves are coming down 127 00:09:43,919 --> 00:09:48,679 every game. Well that's most It's like their that phony foolishness. And wrestling 128 00:09:48,759 --> 00:09:52,159 it's the same. What are we doing? What are you yelling and screaming 129 00:09:52,639 --> 00:09:58,279 about? What you're these stupid things on these wrestling shows. It's the height 130 00:09:58,399 --> 00:10:01,480 of stupidity. They stand up there and that yell and screamed the man and 131 00:10:01,519 --> 00:10:09,519 the women. Yeah, what does hoop? That's entertainment. Oh, with 132 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:13,639 wrestling, it's almost like soap operas. It's a lot of it is more 133 00:10:13,679 --> 00:10:18,320 so what's going on outside of the ring and backstage, which is all scripted 134 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:20,559 and everything. But yeah, and I think there was a big there was 135 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:24,679 a big fight. What was it SmackDown or something. There was something going 136 00:10:24,679 --> 00:10:33,000 on in Detroit this weekend. Bailing hand trying to feed my cows. So 137 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:39,360 here's one more for the road, literally and figuratively. NASCAR driver Noah Gregson 138 00:10:39,279 --> 00:10:46,559 has been suspended. He made some or he liked as some comment about George 139 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:54,679 Floyd. So he's under indefinite suspension. Why is that? What is that 140 00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:58,039 going to do? With his driving, whether he's a goofball or a goon 141 00:10:58,799 --> 00:11:01,799 or whatever. What is that, Well, it's guilty by association. So 142 00:11:01,879 --> 00:11:07,559 anybody with his team in the organization for whom he drives don't want to be 143 00:11:07,679 --> 00:11:13,039 associated with behavior like that. So and you ignore him. You know what 144 00:11:13,240 --> 00:11:16,679 is the you make a big deal. It's getting to the point where, 145 00:11:16,759 --> 00:11:20,320 especially with social media, you can lose sponser, you can lose money. 146 00:11:20,559 --> 00:11:24,480 Yeah, OK, so it's well, no, it's the team's problem in 147 00:11:24,519 --> 00:11:28,600 the organization with whom he drives, not just NASCAR, but I mean, 148 00:11:28,720 --> 00:11:31,799 I mean the actual team who who people who get the sponsors for it. 149 00:11:31,080 --> 00:11:35,799 People could pull out because of this, So they have to go through and 150 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:39,559 do stuff like this where he's he's suspended or he gets let go or anything. 151 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:43,600 And why is that? Why is it that it bothers in terms of 152 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:50,840 this reminds me of the thing with the with the yeah right, exactly, 153 00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:54,879 that kind of thing. This is to the point where we can't We have 154 00:11:54,919 --> 00:11:56,759 to be careful. But Michael Harrison and I talked about that on the Countdown. 155 00:11:58,360 --> 00:12:01,840 You gotta be careful of everything you say because somebody's gunning for you. 156 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:05,679 Somebody's gonna get you well, and he acknowledged that he messed up that he 157 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:13,000 shouldn't have. Yeah, social media is a buzz, lots of back and 158 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:20,399 forth on X and on Facebook and what's going on with Megan Marcole And this 159 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:26,480 is again social media ruling the world. Who gives a rats butt whether or 160 00:12:26,519 --> 00:12:31,240 not social media paid much attention to Megan on her birthday, which was over 161 00:12:31,279 --> 00:12:39,480 the weekend. I didn't celebrate it because I didn't know her husband did however, 162 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:46,360 Prince Harry. But as the story reads, not everyone is publicly acknowledging 163 00:12:46,360 --> 00:12:50,480 her birthday, and it might be for a very strategic reason. The royal 164 00:12:50,559 --> 00:12:58,000 family let the day slide and on and on it goes. Perhaps they said 165 00:12:58,039 --> 00:13:03,360 private messages, but it's not clear. What get do these people not have 166 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:09,200 anything to do with their lives? What a slow news British tabloids right exactly? 167 00:13:09,519 --> 00:13:15,559 Yeah, that's the priority focus. G I know it, get real. 168 00:13:15,960 --> 00:13:22,559 Sorry, Apparently Sophie Trudeau is getting divorced or separated from her husband, 169 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:28,639 who is the Justin Drudeau who's the Prime Minister of Canada, and so who 170 00:13:28,679 --> 00:13:33,559 knows what that's all about? More gossipy stuff. But because Megan Markle is 171 00:13:33,559 --> 00:13:37,360 apparently having a problem with her husband. Uh, they're seen as friends, 172 00:13:37,639 --> 00:13:46,279 so Sophie is leaning on Megan for whatever the reason. Well, that's podcast 173 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:54,759 and discussing being in the public eye and the public pressure and the whole balancing 174 00:13:54,159 --> 00:13:58,600 being a spouse and being a parent and again the public eye situation, and 175 00:13:58,639 --> 00:14:03,120 they were relating to each other and that because of course we know everything that 176 00:14:03,159 --> 00:14:07,279 happened with Megan Markle as well, but it's just divorce is one of those 177 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:11,799 things that is so tough on anyone who goes through it. It's just so 178 00:14:11,879 --> 00:14:13,679 tricky. It's the leminati. And then have to do so in the public 179 00:14:13,720 --> 00:14:18,279 eye and have all of these people weighing in and giving their comments that we 180 00:14:18,279 --> 00:14:22,879 weren't even a part of anything. Rice William and Kate Middleton wrote official things 181 00:14:22,879 --> 00:14:26,159 on their Twitter account last year and they didn't do that this year. Yeah, 182 00:14:26,159 --> 00:14:41,279 okay. Story of a hero post office worker who saved a senior from 183 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:48,519 sending a lot of money to a scammer. It sounds like something for Stephen 184 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:58,279 JJ Wiseman's scam Alert website. So this vulnerable senior was being scammed. She 185 00:14:58,440 --> 00:15:07,399 was ready mail in three thousand dollars to this swindler, this scammer. Apparently 186 00:15:07,720 --> 00:15:11,120 this is how it worked, so listen up, everybody. Scammer contacted her, 187 00:15:11,279 --> 00:15:16,519 claim to be from the bank saying there was unusual activity on her account. 188 00:15:18,879 --> 00:15:22,200 They told her she should withdraw all her money and send it to an 189 00:15:22,200 --> 00:15:28,080 address so they could deposit it in a new account. Oh wow, there's 190 00:15:28,080 --> 00:15:31,039 a lot of balsam in that. So this is a very elderly woman. 191 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:37,159 She went to the post office. The manager there noticed that she was shaken 192 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:41,240 up, and they've seen her before, like they kind of knew her. 193 00:15:41,279 --> 00:15:45,320 She used the post office a lot, and so they noticed a difference in 194 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:50,600 her behavior and flagged it immediately. Yeah, good for them, be careful. 195 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:54,679 Lots of scams go ahead. Yeah yeah, yeah. The skill was 196 00:15:54,679 --> 00:15:58,120 saying, like, you, there's an issue with the bank, withdraw all 197 00:15:58,159 --> 00:16:00,360 of your money and send it to us to positive and a new account for 198 00:16:00,399 --> 00:16:06,720 you. And yeah, sure. Anybody who has gone into a drug store, 199 00:16:06,759 --> 00:16:08,679 Walgreen, CBS any of it. When you're at the checkout counter, 200 00:16:10,080 --> 00:16:14,080 do you notice that sign that says do not buy gift cards and send them 201 00:16:14,080 --> 00:16:18,039 to people you do not know? Because that's that's one of the big scamps. 202 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:22,639 They tell people you need to this issue is happening and you need to 203 00:16:22,679 --> 00:16:26,279 pay with gift cards or anything like that. Right your bank is not going 204 00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:29,000 to contact you. Another bank is not going to contact you until you need 205 00:16:29,039 --> 00:16:32,440 to do this. Um. Really, any company, nobody is going to 206 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:37,120 say, hey, pay us with gift cards. Munga. Do you know 207 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:41,360 that there are back to school sales going on right now? A matter of 208 00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:45,639 fact, I think this is the week. This weekend is where in a 209 00:16:45,639 --> 00:16:51,600 lot of states have what they call a sales tax holiday. Yeah, past 210 00:16:51,639 --> 00:16:53,960 weekend, what was it? Yeah? I think Karen messages the next weekend 211 00:16:55,399 --> 00:17:00,600 and my grandson who's here visiting goes back to school. There's are my son 212 00:17:00,679 --> 00:17:04,240 last night and he wasn't sure when Meghan and her husband and Miles were going 213 00:17:04,279 --> 00:17:07,920 to go home. And I said, they're going home on Sunday. And 214 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:11,079 he looked at me quizzically and said, they're they're coming home on Sunday. 215 00:17:11,119 --> 00:17:14,480 I said, yeah, they're enjoying themselves because Miles starts school a week from 216 00:17:14,559 --> 00:17:21,640 today, so that'll be It's just let's just keep them moving anyway. It's 217 00:17:21,680 --> 00:17:26,440 just so fast. Tennessee and Kentucky. There's some schools that they've already started 218 00:17:26,519 --> 00:17:33,319 school now. Really, they're already like a weekend. Yeah, So how 219 00:17:33,359 --> 00:17:37,839 well do you get to know your children's teacher? How well do you support 220 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:42,640 your child's teacher? Is communication more open now than it used to be? 221 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:47,319 I taught for four years in a junior high school, middle school they call 222 00:17:47,359 --> 00:17:52,359 it now. And I remember having some connection with some with some parents, 223 00:17:52,759 --> 00:17:56,960 and it was good, and I remember some not being so good. And 224 00:17:56,960 --> 00:18:00,640 then I was sad because a lot of children whose parents ought to be more 225 00:18:00,720 --> 00:18:04,119 involved, because I think everybody, frankly ought to be involved. Not in 226 00:18:03,799 --> 00:18:07,839 a distracting way, not why don't you do this for my child? Or 227 00:18:07,839 --> 00:18:11,680 why are you're teaching? It's that, but showing appreciation, I suppose, 228 00:18:12,119 --> 00:18:18,920 in a manner of speaking. Yeah, And some teachers don't need to be 229 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:22,799 appreciated. Some ought not to be appreciated. But it's always nice if, 230 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:29,559 in fact, you feel like your daughter or your son has the best possible 231 00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:33,920 learning experience going on. You want them to succeed, You want them to 232 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:41,160 develop, You want their distinct personalities, their individuality to be underscored. But 233 00:18:41,279 --> 00:18:45,400 you also want them to read and figure out how to add and subtract, 234 00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:52,279 and you want them to figure out how their world works. And sometimes there's 235 00:18:52,319 --> 00:18:57,880 a need for a more open community. If your child is insecure or feels 236 00:18:57,920 --> 00:19:03,079 for whatever the reason, and that you know school is not a safe place 237 00:19:04,079 --> 00:19:07,880 then and there are a lot of children, because of bullying and things like 238 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:10,640 that, don't want to go to school. And there are a lot of 239 00:19:10,640 --> 00:19:14,640 parents who decide, Okay, well, if that's the case, we ought 240 00:19:14,640 --> 00:19:18,599 to keep the child home. But under that circumstance, I think I would 241 00:19:19,119 --> 00:19:22,799 I would want to hold my tax my real estate tax money back to the 242 00:19:22,880 --> 00:19:30,920 point whatever it is that is taken in that way and what's used for educational 243 00:19:30,960 --> 00:19:33,480 purposes. Hard to do that. Some people have taken it to court, 244 00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:40,799 some people have had a tough time they're doing it. But I and I 245 00:19:40,920 --> 00:19:44,480 frankly feel at this point in my life, I'm not I'm sending kids to 246 00:19:44,519 --> 00:19:48,920 school, not my kids, So is it my responsibility? And if that's 247 00:19:48,960 --> 00:19:52,799 the case, and I feel like we're paying in a lot of money, 248 00:19:53,079 --> 00:20:00,400 we do in my community. I think it's um fifty four percent of every 249 00:20:00,440 --> 00:20:06,039 tax dollar goes to the school system, and readily speaking, the school system's 250 00:20:06,079 --> 00:20:08,640 not that swell here. It's a little better than it has been, but 251 00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:11,519 it's had its ups and downs. When I was teaching in the system, 252 00:20:11,559 --> 00:20:15,680 it was among the best, not because I was there, but because there 253 00:20:15,759 --> 00:20:21,440 was a sort of a concern, a thought for actually the child's welfare. 254 00:20:21,480 --> 00:20:23,759 And so much of it today is about the teachers union. Especially go to 255 00:20:23,799 --> 00:20:27,559 a big city, it's all about the union workers and it's all about, 256 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:33,359 Oh, look at COVID and what that brought about, how that's basically destroyed 257 00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:37,880 the system. In places like Los Angeles. Not even before COVID, you 258 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:42,200 had some teachers who were there because they were just trying to hit retirement, 259 00:20:42,319 --> 00:20:45,960 so they had checked out. You had some people who were there, depending 260 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:49,079 on what type of school you go went to. If you wanted to do 261 00:20:49,119 --> 00:20:52,759 one of the extracurricular activities like be a coach for basketball or football or soccer 262 00:20:52,839 --> 00:20:56,559 or something like that, you had to also be a teacher. And some 263 00:20:56,599 --> 00:21:00,359 people only wanted to do the coaching thing, and they had to be teachers 264 00:21:00,359 --> 00:21:03,799 so that they were already checked out with the teachers stuff. The lessons. 265 00:21:03,839 --> 00:21:07,279 We all had somebody like that. Mine was Frank Calvani, who was the 266 00:21:07,319 --> 00:21:11,680 athletic director. But he taught math, and I knew math better than he 267 00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:15,039 did. But you know, that was his job. And he was a 268 00:21:15,079 --> 00:21:19,279 pleasant enough guy and was kind of fun in his class, and so those 269 00:21:19,319 --> 00:21:23,799 sort of things were not a focus. Plus in those days, everybody who 270 00:21:23,839 --> 00:21:29,960 had a job as a teacher got it because of their connections. For the 271 00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:33,000 most part, it was always the Irish and the Italians, and those are 272 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:37,960 the ones who had the teaching jobs because the superintendent was either Irish or Italian. 273 00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:41,000 That's why it worked. Back when I was in school and when I 274 00:21:41,079 --> 00:21:48,240 was teaching in the framing him systems system I grew up in. But meanwhile, 275 00:21:48,279 --> 00:21:53,119 back to what's necessary again, back to the resources and whether or not 276 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:56,839 you decide you want to volunteer. A lot of parents do. That's kind 277 00:21:56,839 --> 00:22:02,599 of cool. Donating supplies, though, gets into my craw because that's why, 278 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:07,400 back to the taxes. What are we providing. You can't buy paper, 279 00:22:07,519 --> 00:22:11,240 you can't buy pencils. You can that's an offer if you don't want 280 00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:15,839 to donate, but why should you have to? That way, you can 281 00:22:15,880 --> 00:22:19,119 donate your time. I think that's a very worthwhile thing to do. Volunteering 282 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:25,880 the classroom is very helpful and that helps to know the children. Smaller groups 283 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:27,880 always a little bit better learning for the most part of these. That's with 284 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:32,400 the studies show. Maybe you want a chaperone a field event. Okay, 285 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:36,079 that's good. But to have to pay for supplies, No, but that's 286 00:22:36,079 --> 00:22:37,920 the thing you don't have to. Well, you shouldn't have to. I 287 00:22:37,960 --> 00:22:41,400 guess I'll put it another way, Jay, you shouldn't have to because the 288 00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:48,000 tax the money that is set aside from those of us who are taxpayers, 289 00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:53,279 includes money for supplies. Why should we You know, you got to the 290 00:22:53,359 --> 00:22:56,200 four walls, you have teacher's hours and that kind of stuff, But you 291 00:22:56,640 --> 00:23:03,599 also be buying things that are necessary. Look at all the school systems that 292 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:08,759 are buying computers for their youngsters. They're buying iPads or something like that. 293 00:23:08,839 --> 00:23:14,839 I think that's completely inappropriate. You can say, well that's how kids learn 294 00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:18,279 today. Well, you see how wonderfully well many of them are able to 295 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:26,880 communicate or not especially encouraging participation in school. If you get the screen in 296 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:32,680 front of you, that's where you learn how not to participate. Frankly, 297 00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:37,160 social media and all of that stuff, I think, but they're using them. 298 00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:41,039 Well, but even it's the same as having computers and doing the different 299 00:23:41,039 --> 00:23:45,440 computer games to learn stuff that I grew up with that your children went to 300 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:48,920 school and grew up with. It's just a different device at this point, 301 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:52,720 but it's still the same kind of screen. What's separate, what is there? 302 00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:57,160 What's better? Maybe I'll put it this way. Higher levels of parental 303 00:23:57,240 --> 00:24:06,960 involvement correlate with improved attendance, reduced dropout rates, better performance in school. 304 00:24:07,559 --> 00:24:10,200 So if you have the time, and if you don't, maybe you should 305 00:24:10,319 --> 00:24:15,640 make the time to promote that that sort of connection, if you will. 306 00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:21,000 I remember liking having parents that it was just beginning when I was teaching school 307 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:25,359 in the sixties and seventies, having parents come in and help with groups and 308 00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:27,640 that kind of stuff. I also built such a great relationship. Yeah, 309 00:24:29,079 --> 00:24:32,599 it's good, but it's all about relationships. Yeah. Well, now there 310 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:37,000 are more avenues for communication because you do have social media where the teacher school 311 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:42,640 there's specific groups that only these parents of the students can access and they give 312 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:47,839 the information out and they keep you abreast of what's going on. And there's 313 00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:52,119 also these websites that these additional platforms where you can even see your child's grade, 314 00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:56,440 see the assignments that are currently out and what's been turned in you and 315 00:24:56,519 --> 00:25:00,559 it's almost okay, are you big brother watching at this point. But for 316 00:25:00,720 --> 00:25:03,599 younger kids, where you if you're not going to school with them, you 317 00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:06,240 don't know everything they're doing. You don't know what you don't know, and 318 00:25:06,319 --> 00:25:08,440 you can't always rely on the children to relay that information. Of course, 319 00:25:08,519 --> 00:25:14,720 not that they're purposefully withholdings, but like at a younger age, they're just 320 00:25:14,759 --> 00:25:17,480 not thinking about it. They're outside of school, they're home from school now, 321 00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:21,519 their brain has moved on to other stuff. They're not thinking about what 322 00:25:22,079 --> 00:25:26,279 all happened and giving you the play by play of everything. Do you monitor 323 00:25:26,319 --> 00:25:29,880 your child's work? Do you talk to your children about the lesson plans, 324 00:25:30,519 --> 00:25:34,079 the assignments? Do you ask questions of your children? Do they say, 325 00:25:34,119 --> 00:25:36,839 oh, I don't want to talk about it. Well, and you have 326 00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:44,559 to get into their head to encourage listening, to encourage participation, Otherwise they 327 00:25:44,559 --> 00:25:49,000 don't develop many of the skills that are necessary to be social in the world. 328 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:53,759 Part of going to school is the socialization I think anyway. I mean, 329 00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:57,480 there's a lot of things that come out of the experience in school learning. 330 00:25:57,559 --> 00:26:02,799 Yes, that's not just the curcu No, but the fear child is 331 00:26:02,839 --> 00:26:07,359 able to blend. Well, that's much more of a sign of success, 332 00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:11,599 I think anyway. But I know that my daughter and my son in law 333 00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:18,720 check out miles homework and they talk about what the papers are that he brings 334 00:26:18,759 --> 00:26:22,839 home from school and how he did and what kind of projects. They're always 335 00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:26,799 in touch and whenever I go with Megan to pick up Miles at school, 336 00:26:29,079 --> 00:26:32,960 we always have that ride on the ride back to the house. Okay, 337 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:36,839 where'd you do? Where'd you like? Where'd you have to eat? See? 338 00:26:36,839 --> 00:26:38,400 And that's so much better than the typical. So, how is your 339 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:41,720 day at school today? Good? And then you get mad that they gave 340 00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:45,440 you a one word answer? Well, rephrase your question, Well, dig 341 00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:49,359 into it a little bit more, be an advocate exactly the child being part 342 00:26:49,519 --> 00:26:56,279 of school today? Yeah right, school bells ringing, children sing, it's 343 00:26:56,319 --> 00:27:00,680 time to go back to school. I'm Greg I'm sixty eight years old. 344 00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:04,319 I grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, major in business administration. I do 345 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:10,000 motivational speaking in addition to substitute teaching. Part of the reasons for my motivational 346 00:27:10,039 --> 00:27:12,359 speaking is I kind of feel like I have a calling or giving back to 347 00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:15,559 the younger generation. You know, the golden role is doing to others you'd 348 00:27:15,599 --> 00:27:19,519 have them doing to you. My wife, Janda, is a senior flight 349 00:27:19,519 --> 00:27:23,519 attendants who's been flying for over thirty years. We do laugh quite a bit. 350 00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:29,000 I think most adults will start realizing that they don't recall things as quickly 351 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:33,039 as they used to, or they don't remember things as vividly as they once 352 00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:37,720 did. I've been taking privilege for about three years now. People say to 353 00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:41,839 me periodical, Man, you got a memory like an alpha. It's really 354 00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:48,359 really helped me tremendously priviging healthier brain, better life. Greg Freely is a 355 00:27:48,359 --> 00:27:52,960 paid testimonialist and real privileging user based on the clinical study of subgroups of individuals 356 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:56,960 who were cognitively normal or mildly impaired. This product is not intended to diagnose, 357 00:27:56,000 --> 00:28:00,519 treat, cure, or prevent any disease. By so, we get 358 00:28:00,599 --> 00:28:06,119 visited by Mary o'melie, our psychic scout, and we were just talking off 359 00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:14,720 the air about Raven Simone, talking about the ways that she has she experiences 360 00:28:14,799 --> 00:28:18,519 psychic visions, and I just use that as a launchpad because a lot of 361 00:28:18,559 --> 00:28:25,400 people, more and more, I think mary are having the connection with things 362 00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:30,160 that they can't see. That's so called sixth cents. And so when people 363 00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:36,640 come to you asking you for help and guidance, pretty pretty easy to do 364 00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:40,200 that, pretty easy to get a hold of you. It's very interesting to 365 00:28:40,319 --> 00:28:44,319 kind of put the pieces together as to when you talk to someone, can 366 00:28:44,359 --> 00:28:49,640 you tell right away whether they have the ability a to understand what you're saying, 367 00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:56,160 be perhaps developed their own psychic sense. See, they're there because they 368 00:28:56,400 --> 00:29:00,920 have something going on with them that they don't understand, and maybe all of 369 00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:06,319 those things. What do you think? Yeah, so I believe everybody has 370 00:29:06,359 --> 00:29:11,720 psychic ability. I mean, it just it's there. However, like Spirit 371 00:29:11,799 --> 00:29:14,519 told me, it's like having legs. If you have legs, you can 372 00:29:14,599 --> 00:29:19,480 run. Some people naturally run faster than others. So it but quite often 373 00:29:19,519 --> 00:29:23,599 I'll get to Spirit will tell me or show me how psychic a person is 374 00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:26,359 when I'm working with them, and I can stop and say, but you 375 00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:30,880 know all this right, So a lot of times they're just maybe not confident 376 00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:37,759 with their own abilities, or when did you become When did you become confident 377 00:29:37,839 --> 00:29:48,480 with your abilities? I was gosh, probably already already forty or almost forty, 378 00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:52,519 and I had been taking some hypnotherapy classes and was around a bunch of 379 00:29:52,559 --> 00:29:56,480 people who you know, believed in it, talked about it, worked with 380 00:29:56,519 --> 00:30:00,640 it, and they all kept pointing out how psychic I was. Yeah, 381 00:30:02,119 --> 00:30:06,799 yeah, So so one day I just started working with it and started helping 382 00:30:06,839 --> 00:30:08,920 people with it. And the more I did it, the better better I 383 00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:14,000 got out it, the stronger I got. And it's like exercising them up. 384 00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:22,079 Yeah, yeah, right exactly. So um, one of the things 385 00:30:22,119 --> 00:30:26,839 that we were just talking about National Sea Serpent Day, because there are a 386 00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:30,960 lot of people who have beliefs or fears. Maybe that's the best way of 387 00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:34,039 putting it. People are afraid, and I think more and more people are 388 00:30:34,079 --> 00:30:37,920 afraid today, and I think those kind of folks come to you as well 389 00:30:38,359 --> 00:30:47,000 to try to if you will, what is it, exorcisms, getting rid 390 00:30:47,039 --> 00:30:52,880 of the fears. Some people live their whole lives based on things they're afraid 391 00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:56,400 of, right, and so it could be some people are afraid of you 392 00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:59,960 go to that movie The Meg that was around this weekend, Well, nobody 393 00:31:00,119 --> 00:31:03,440 go in the water again if they watch that. The fear of being right, 394 00:31:03,599 --> 00:31:10,319 I mean, think about all the things around us that could be problematic. 395 00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:14,240 It could you know, I guess you could get killed by most anything 396 00:31:14,279 --> 00:31:17,279 and hurt by most anything. So how do you live your life and not 397 00:31:17,359 --> 00:31:22,039 be afraid? Well, you become educated, you talk to somebody, you 398 00:31:22,079 --> 00:31:26,519 get to know what's truth from fiction. Usually we're afraid when we feel like 399 00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:32,839 we're not empowered, when we're not in control, when something can control us. 400 00:31:33,039 --> 00:31:36,519 And so it's not really like that. With the sixth sense, it's 401 00:31:36,559 --> 00:31:41,000 available for us to use, just like if we open our eyes, then 402 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:44,880 our eyes are available for us to see. So the more you understand and 403 00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:48,640 the more you understand what you're in control of and how much you're in control 404 00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:52,559 of it, the better you feel. And that's what I teach people, 405 00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:56,079 all right, You teach people. You help people. You're a psychic, 406 00:31:56,160 --> 00:32:01,000 a medium, coaching people, helping them create things. How do people make 407 00:32:01,039 --> 00:32:07,759 an appointment? How do people connect to you? Www? 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Thanks to Elizabeth Miller here, 424 00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:27,880 one of the great Calatron consultants at top laws dot com. It's time for 425 00:33:28,079 --> 00:33:31,759 Romeo and Juliet Tommy the K and Doug Stevens. So which role do you 426 00:33:31,799 --> 00:33:37,119 want to play? That's a stretch, my friend, right there. I 427 00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:39,799 know it is, yes, it is. But listen, we stretch the 428 00:33:39,839 --> 00:33:45,240 truth. It's actual and everything is satisfactoral, all right. So Tom and 429 00:33:45,319 --> 00:33:49,799 Leslie Sagretty host the weekend program called The Money Pit, answering a lot of 430 00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:57,240 questions focusing on things that are necessary for you to understand when you're taking care 431 00:33:57,240 --> 00:33:59,480 of your home. How do we fix this? How do we fix that? 432 00:34:00,039 --> 00:34:02,000 All kinds of things, not only in the radio program, but on 433 00:34:02,039 --> 00:34:08,840 the podcast and on the newsletter. And we here when we have the presence 434 00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:15,639 of mind to bring Tommy on, take questions from our audience. Rachel Listener 435 00:34:15,119 --> 00:34:22,079 says that she's remodeling her laundry room, which is also our guest's half bath, 436 00:34:22,199 --> 00:34:27,639 and she wants to know whether laminate wood flooring is safe under a washing 437 00:34:27,679 --> 00:34:31,679 machine. First, for those who are unwashed, Tommy, what is laminate 438 00:34:32,119 --> 00:34:37,000 wood flooring? So, laminate flooring is kind of like a laminate countertop, 439 00:34:37,119 --> 00:34:42,280 but about twenty five times tougher than the old fashioned laminate tops. You know, 440 00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:45,239 I gotta say dog in lay the fact that now we have more options 441 00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:52,719 in flooring. Laminate is starting to sunset in popularity because it can be impacted 442 00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:57,599 by moisture, especially if you get a flood. A much better choice today, 443 00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:01,800 Rachel might be one of two products, either a luxury vinyl plank which 444 00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:05,840 is not like the old vinyl sheet flooring that you used to think of. 445 00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:08,320 It's more of a plank floor and it can look just like beautiful wood, 446 00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:13,880 or can even look like tile locks together it floats, or even better yet, 447 00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:19,840 there's a type of flooring called hybrid stone flooring which has a much much 448 00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:24,239 tougher surface. And again in both cases those products are one hundred percent waterproof, 449 00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:29,800 so it doesn't matter if you're under laundry equipment or in a bathroom. 450 00:35:30,039 --> 00:35:34,239 You know, in terms of laundry equipment, especially if this laundry room is 451 00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:37,559 on a wood floor of a basement or within the second floor. Another thing 452 00:35:37,559 --> 00:35:43,119 you should be aware of is something that are called anti vibration blocks. These 453 00:35:43,119 --> 00:35:47,400 are like rubber blocks that you put between the bottom feet of the washing machine 454 00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:52,639 and the floor, and they're actually quite effective at absorbing some of the vibrations 455 00:35:52,119 --> 00:35:57,880 put out by the spin cycle and making the washers quieter. And they don't 456 00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:00,920 walk if they're a little off a balance because the load kind shifted. But 457 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:05,239 I've always used those anti vibration blocks since I discovered them some years ago, 458 00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:08,360 and they've been very effective in trying to keep the equipment quiet and in place. 459 00:36:09,039 --> 00:36:12,639 And when Tom was doing it, when he was putting that down, 460 00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:15,719 he had the beach boards arm with good vibrations. Yeah, that's the thing 461 00:36:15,760 --> 00:36:20,920 as good vibration when it comes to your washing machines walking out. All right. 462 00:36:21,199 --> 00:36:24,559 So we were talking before we went on the air about deck collapses. 463 00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:29,320 Yeah, I'm putting a deck up on the back end of the apartment that 464 00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:32,199 I have on the barn, and I'm using an old deck and that I 465 00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:36,400 got from who knows. I've forgotten even where I got this deck, but 466 00:36:36,440 --> 00:36:37,760 it's been sitting around for a while. And I started looking at the wood 467 00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:40,199 and I'm thinking, because it was all hard wood, it was all oak 468 00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:44,239 made out of that. But I do I put that up or I just 469 00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:46,960 build a new one. Well, the key here, and especially when it 470 00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:51,119 comes to avoiding deck collapse, is how the frame is built and how it's 471 00:36:51,119 --> 00:36:54,599 attached to the building and supported. Because most of all you hear about when 472 00:36:54,639 --> 00:36:59,440 it comes to the deck collapses DOUG is when the decks the deck frame pulls 473 00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:02,960 away the main body of the house. And it does that because typically it's 474 00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:07,239 not attached properly. So for example, it might be attached with lag bolts 475 00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:10,840 rather than bolts that have nuts and big washers and are really securely tied into 476 00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:16,559 the frame, or the girders that support the outside end outside sections are not 477 00:37:16,719 --> 00:37:22,199 properly supported and then they start to sort of shift from side to side, 478 00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:25,320 especially when you have like big parties. We often hear about this on like 479 00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:29,599 Memorial Day or Fourth of July or Labor Day parties when you have a lot 480 00:37:29,639 --> 00:37:32,239 of people over your house and you're really stressing that structure out and it gets 481 00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:37,440 quite dangerous. So attachment to the house and the flashing around that to make 482 00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:40,360 sure water doesn't get in there and cause rot is really really key. Once 483 00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:45,400 you get that framing done and done well and done securely, you know, 484 00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:47,920 then whatever you put on top is really going to be a question of how 485 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:51,519 much maintens you want to put on into it over the years and that sort 486 00:37:51,519 --> 00:37:53,079 of thing. You know, well, no maintens, you go at composite, 487 00:37:53,119 --> 00:37:57,719 you want to you don't care about having to stain it every two three 488 00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:00,280 years, and maybe you're going to use pressure treated for example. Yeah, 489 00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:04,039 I guess I wouldn't have to worry about that because I don't have that many 490 00:38:04,079 --> 00:38:08,599 friends. There you go, I'm all set, okay, and when we 491 00:38:08,679 --> 00:38:13,039 come over, we know enough just to look before we before Yeah, right, 492 00:38:13,079 --> 00:38:15,079 exactly, all right, So, um, well, you have about 493 00:38:15,079 --> 00:38:17,239 a minute left here. I'm trying to figure out what to do with my 494 00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:22,480 driveway, and I noticed one of the things that's in the money Pit newsletter 495 00:38:22,599 --> 00:38:28,320 is how to fix the cracks and the driveway without or to redo it a 496 00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:30,679 lot of different This guy came around and he's going to take out the cracks 497 00:38:30,719 --> 00:38:35,880 and put new stuff down and cover it up with some kind of Yeah, 498 00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:37,360 you got to steal them good and you may have to open them up if 499 00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:42,639 they're really like hairline. 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