1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:04,320 The next Stefan Good Day download with Doug and Jay Kirshner is made possible in 2 00:00:04,360 --> 00:00:08,000 part by Caldron, which is the safe way for you to lose weight and 3 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:12,279 keep it off. Here there's someplace around the world. At the moment, 4 00:00:12,320 --> 00:00:15,679 the sun's coming up and you can see it and the moon's not in the 5 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:19,800 way, so it's even better. Hooray beauty. It's being of beauty. 6 00:00:19,839 --> 00:00:23,960 It's in the eyes of the beholder, and it can apply to different things, 7 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:26,640 not just the way you look, but the way you sound, the 8 00:00:26,679 --> 00:00:31,199 way you act. There are a lot of beautiful people around who aren't great 9 00:00:31,199 --> 00:00:35,479 to look at, but they you know, that's not the only measure of 10 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:40,200 what beauty is all about. Check it out. There's a website called The 11 00:00:40,359 --> 00:00:46,039 Beholder that you can go to look at and I think get a lot of 12 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:50,200 It influences me once in a while, and it's a good place to go 13 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:53,280 if you want to lift your spirits. And that's kind of what this program 14 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:57,640 is supposed to do most of the time. I hope it accomplishes. That's 15 00:00:57,640 --> 00:01:00,920 called a good Day program. Jay Kirshner is here me. I'm deg Stefan. 16 00:01:00,039 --> 00:01:04,599 She's in Cleveland, I'm on my farm outside of Boston. James Collins 17 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:10,719 is in the control room of our Master Control studio down in Dallas, and 18 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:17,400 so we get into almost a daily routine now talking about some lottery winner someplace. 19 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:21,359 It always gets people thinking, oh, this is great. There are 20 00:01:21,359 --> 00:01:26,439 always good lottery stories. And here's the story of a man from Maryland who 21 00:01:26,159 --> 00:01:33,760 seems to enjoy playing the lottery. He managed to purchase not one, but 22 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:41,280 two winning tickets for the same drawing, and he says it happened by accident. 23 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:44,319 This guy doesn't want everybody to know who he is, and I don't 24 00:01:44,319 --> 00:01:49,280 blame him. He won a million bucks on each of the two tickets that 25 00:01:49,359 --> 00:01:53,159 he purchased. My god, what sign is this guy born under right buys 26 00:01:53,239 --> 00:02:00,599 two tickets and he gets two wins. God love him. He says he 27 00:02:00,599 --> 00:02:06,239 doesn't typically play games like Powerball or Mega Millions unless the jackpot is over a 28 00:02:06,239 --> 00:02:08,439 billion dollars. So when the jackpie went to a billion, he tried his 29 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:14,960 luck, opted to buy a few tickets from a seven to eleven store. 30 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:19,639 He used pre select numbers. That's what happens, right, That's what I 31 00:02:19,719 --> 00:02:22,199 do when I buy him. I just feel like if I'm in a store 32 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:25,199 somewhere. I see the number. Okay, I'll buy a couple of tickets. 33 00:02:27,319 --> 00:02:34,240 So anyway, he used the replay feature, which allows players to scan 34 00:02:34,360 --> 00:02:38,680 an old ticket to get a new one with the same numbers, which is 35 00:02:38,719 --> 00:02:42,759 something that some folks say is the way to win. You play the same 36 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:46,639 number over and over and over and over again, and sooner or later, 37 00:02:47,039 --> 00:02:52,400 I suppose the odds are better that it'll hit. And so that's what he 38 00:02:52,439 --> 00:02:57,159 did. God love this guy, right, he missed the big one by 39 00:02:57,280 --> 00:03:01,680 just one number. He called his wife to share the big news and they 40 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:06,479 then he went home and they had a big he said, they had a 41 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:13,080 month. When they realized what they had, they started to cry. And 42 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:15,879 so it's you know, you think about changing. Yeah, that's enough money 43 00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:19,599 to use something to do something with. Yeah, if that's do any of 44 00:03:19,639 --> 00:03:22,759 that, but also enough that you can have some left over to invest. 45 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:28,159 Yeah, right, exactly, all right. So here's another element. A 46 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:32,560 lady won a million dollars. She bought a lottery ticket. She said by 47 00:03:32,879 --> 00:03:39,680 mistake. Dateline Virginia, rural Virginia. She lives outside of Roanoke, Virginia. 48 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:46,719 She says that's the best mistake of my life. This lady's name is 49 00:03:46,759 --> 00:03:52,960 Mariam Long. She said she went to a local CBS to purchase a ticket 50 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:55,639 for Make a Millions, which at the time had a nine hundred million dollar 51 00:03:55,759 --> 00:04:00,759 jackpot. While using machine to purchase and make a media ticket, she accidentally 52 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:04,479 pressed the button for a powerball ticket. This, I guess instead of it 53 00:04:04,599 --> 00:04:09,280 or an addition to it. Yeah, and luckily for her, the powerball 54 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:15,839 ticket she mistakenly purchased match the first five winning numbers in the drawing six hundred 55 00:04:15,839 --> 00:04:20,360 and fifty six million dollar jackpot for the big winner. But five matching numbers 56 00:04:20,439 --> 00:04:25,480 nothing to sneeze at. She won a million bucks. She said, her 57 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:30,120 heart was pounding. It's overwhelming, of course it is. It's a million 58 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:34,360 bucks, is a million bucks. She was one of five million dollar winners 59 00:04:34,399 --> 00:04:41,079 across the country for that particular drawing. So anyway, God love her and 60 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:46,160 the other guy with his wife. Yeah, just a neat sweet story. 61 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:53,279 Now, speaking of money for a minute, let's talk. We're approaching tax 62 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:57,360 time, right. All the money's got to be in by the fifteenth, 63 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:02,199 which is what next month? Right? Okay, So have you done your 64 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:04,879 taxes? I've talked to any number of people that I know who are small 65 00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:12,079 business folks, and they're preparing the tax return. Couples individuals, you have 66 00:05:12,399 --> 00:05:16,040 until next Monday to make sure the money that you owe for last year is 67 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:21,600 in federal coffers. You do not have to have your tax return finished. 68 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:26,120 A lot of people think that they are both mandated for April fifteenth. That 69 00:05:26,279 --> 00:05:30,600 is not the case. But it's probably a good idea because if you're a 70 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:34,079 procrastinator and you put it off and you wait until it's October the eleventh, 71 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:40,319 and yeah right, I bet this ready for it? Yeah right? Oh 72 00:05:40,399 --> 00:05:46,000 boo, don't say that. So anyway, somebody asked a question. I 73 00:05:46,040 --> 00:05:48,279 was listening to a show I think Bloomberg. When I'm in my car and 74 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:51,959 I don't have sirius, I'm listening around. I do listen to some of 75 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:56,759 the music stations, but then I'll listen also to Bloomberg, which I think 76 00:05:56,839 --> 00:06:02,240 is very helpful. It's well done. Information is good and solid. So 77 00:06:02,319 --> 00:06:08,720 there was a discussion of whether or not this person could claim her parents as 78 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:15,079 dependents. So this is something we You know, you think about your children 79 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:21,240 as dependents, but do you ever think about your parents as dependents? Especially 80 00:06:23,240 --> 00:06:27,800 they live, right, they live with you, which there is, yeah, 81 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:33,040 becoming more and more of a thing. Right. Uh So the this 82 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:38,720 is the like we're in the Sandwich generation conversation. You don't claim your children, 83 00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:41,920 which claim your parents because they're living with you, one or both of 84 00:06:41,959 --> 00:06:47,079 them. And so apparently the trend is because seniors can't afford to live on 85 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:53,399 their own anymore and they're living with their children's help. Of course, the 86 00:06:53,439 --> 00:06:56,639 inflation that's happened in the last few years and all of the other things, 87 00:06:56,639 --> 00:07:01,199 COVID people needing to be together. So there's a poll that suggests almost half 88 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:06,959 of Americans will claim their parents in one way or another during the tax season 89 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:15,600 as some sort of dependent I think that startling, actually they look at it. 90 00:07:15,279 --> 00:07:19,920 Americans age twenty five or older with a living parent claiming their parents on 91 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:29,360 their taxes this year. That is really surprising. But poverty among older people 92 00:07:29,959 --> 00:07:33,639 sixty five seventy years of age, people who have retired either too soon, 93 00:07:33,839 --> 00:07:36,759 you know, a lot of people have to keep working. In a sense, 94 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:41,519 I want to keep working, but I kind of have to because there's 95 00:07:41,519 --> 00:07:44,920 a lot of responsibilities that I have that continued. I mean, if it's 96 00:07:44,959 --> 00:07:49,120 what my age is is still supporting a lot of things like the farm, 97 00:07:49,199 --> 00:07:56,160 and there's just a number of things that require me to continue to keep producing. 98 00:07:56,560 --> 00:07:59,040 But it's good for me. I like it, so I don't feel 99 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:01,319 like it's a burden at all, and many of you may feel the same 100 00:08:01,319 --> 00:08:07,519 way. I had this conversation with somebody the other day in Florida about retiring 101 00:08:07,639 --> 00:08:11,839 and the you know, actually Ken Cronos and I, when I visited with 102 00:08:11,879 --> 00:08:16,199 him on Monday, we're talking about it because he's not quite as old as 103 00:08:16,199 --> 00:08:18,839 I am, but he's practicing medicine. And he looked at me and we 104 00:08:18,839 --> 00:08:22,920 were talking about it, and he knows that I'm not going to retire. 105 00:08:22,439 --> 00:08:26,800 And we've had this conversation a couple of times about him and what you know, 106 00:08:26,839 --> 00:08:28,759 the requirements are for him to keep up the schedule that he does, 107 00:08:30,639 --> 00:08:35,559 because his staff is happy to tell me that there are many days when they're 108 00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:39,200 in the office antil ten o'clock. One of the ladies was there until midnight 109 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:43,120 week working with him on computer stuff because that's how he you know, he 110 00:08:43,159 --> 00:08:48,600 wants to take care of everybody, so, you know, back to the 111 00:08:48,639 --> 00:08:54,960 cost of giving care. Apparently this past year Americans spent four hundred and seventy 112 00:08:56,039 --> 00:09:01,320 billion dollars, according to estimates, to take care of love ones, that 113 00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:05,000 is, people who are older, preparing meals, paying bills, medications, 114 00:09:05,399 --> 00:09:09,840 nursing tasks, all that sort of thing. And I don't think we've thought 115 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:16,879 about it. Apparently the average caregiver spent almost seven thousand dollars in out of 116 00:09:16,919 --> 00:09:22,039 pocket expenses to help their parents. And so this stuff becomes tax deductible. 117 00:09:22,399 --> 00:09:26,720 And that's the point. If you're helping your parents, there is a way 118 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:31,080 to now deduct I don't know that there's a special column. I haven't looked 119 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:37,279 at. My tax return is done by somebody who knows what they're doing. 120 00:09:37,279 --> 00:09:41,360 I've never been good at this stuff. I understand the system. I understand 121 00:09:41,399 --> 00:09:45,720 how it works. I understand reporting income and deductions and all that stuff. 122 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:52,759 But there are different things that make what you spend eligible. And so apparently 123 00:09:52,840 --> 00:10:01,240 you can't claim as a dependent if your parents have enough money to pay taxes. 124 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:05,960 It's only if they don't have enough money. Apparently your parents gross income 125 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:13,639 cannot be more than five thousand bucks. It looks like so. And there 126 00:10:13,679 --> 00:10:16,480 are a lot of people who you know through retirement other things. They don't 127 00:10:16,519 --> 00:10:20,519 have that money. Plenty of people like that. It's hard to imagine, 128 00:10:20,559 --> 00:10:24,960 but that's the way it is. So your financial support has to exceed your 129 00:10:24,039 --> 00:10:30,960 parent's income by at least a dollar during the tax year. That's how you 130 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:33,440 figure this out. So you can use calculations. I'm sure that you go 131 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:37,639 to H and R. Johnny Carson used to call them H and R gone 132 00:10:37,679 --> 00:10:43,240 if H and R blocker, that's the other one, Hewitt Jackson Hewitt, 133 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:46,840 big tax folks. But there are plenty of good I just have my accountant 134 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:48,399 do it. The person that you use. If you're in business, you 135 00:10:48,440 --> 00:10:52,159 probably have an accountant that works on your books, and that's the best way 136 00:10:52,279 --> 00:10:58,759 to have your taxes repaired. Good dog prepared. Although I think sometimes they 137 00:10:58,759 --> 00:11:03,320 do. They do have to be repaired. Some of the numbers are oh, 138 00:11:05,759 --> 00:11:09,879 but I don't know. I just think sometimes people are just dumb about 139 00:11:09,879 --> 00:11:15,919 their taxes. People are afraid they are people are afraid of the irs, 140 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:18,919 so they do things that they don't have to do legally. That's why it 141 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:24,159 may be worth it to spend a few bucks with somebody who really knows what 142 00:11:24,159 --> 00:11:28,159 they're doing, a tax preparer that can keep you from overpaying, because why 143 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:33,960 would you want to overpay? It's not patriotic. Yeah right, that's not 144 00:11:33,039 --> 00:11:41,679 your patriotic duty to overpay your taxes by any stretch of the imagination. How 145 00:11:41,720 --> 00:11:46,600 do you do? I was thinking of that, how do how do you 146 00:11:46,639 --> 00:11:50,360 do? What do you suppose that came from? Jay? How do you 147 00:11:50,399 --> 00:11:52,440 do? And like, how do you do? But how do you? 148 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:56,320 Oh? Do you do? What you do? To me? I just 149 00:11:56,679 --> 00:12:00,200 I just happened to it, like one of those things, right, if 150 00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:03,240 you're curious, you want to know where did that come from? So we 151 00:12:03,279 --> 00:12:07,639 asked the question. We have no answers. Oh, I like my answer, 152 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:11,399 Yeah, how do you do? How do you do? What you 153 00:12:11,440 --> 00:12:16,639 do? To me? Here's the story of Kate Beconsale looking at some of 154 00:12:16,679 --> 00:12:20,960 the social media gossip, the trending stories with people's names in it. Kate 155 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:28,080 Bechonsale is a well known actress. Last week we were talking about her being 156 00:12:28,480 --> 00:12:35,399 in the hospital with some kind of undisclosed health problem. And so now those 157 00:12:35,399 --> 00:12:43,159 photos have been deleted. Somebody's watching them off obviously pretty carefully. She's fifty 158 00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:48,879 years old. She's taken all of the posts down and this is but I 159 00:12:48,879 --> 00:12:52,960 think it's been month, weeks anyway, over a month. Well on we 160 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:58,919 first kind of got news that she was in the hospital with this undisclosed health 161 00:12:58,919 --> 00:13:03,440 issue March eleventh, and it seems that in those photos that she had been 162 00:13:03,480 --> 00:13:07,480 in there for who knows how long, So it is definitely at this point 163 00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:11,639 over a month, is she still in there? She posted I think the 164 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:16,679 last thing she posted were over the Easter holiday, where she still seemed to 165 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:22,000 be in hospital. So I hope she's okay. Yeah, yeah, well, 166 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:26,200 jope, under the circumstances. There's another name that I saw was trending, 167 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:31,279 and I don't know. I confess not to knowing much about basketball players 168 00:13:31,279 --> 00:13:37,799 these days. Fella named Nate Robinson has apparently a kidney that's failing. He's 169 00:13:37,840 --> 00:13:41,320 an NBA player, or was at one point in time, and so a 170 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:46,200 lot of people are wondering. People that are following the game. He apparently 171 00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:52,600 was a big dunker the Dunk Championship, you know, they have these contests 172 00:13:52,679 --> 00:13:58,960 and stuff. It's thirty nine years old. He's got renal kidney failure and 173 00:13:58,120 --> 00:14:03,080 has for He's had it for years, and so he said he wanted to 174 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:07,840 be a voice for the people who are having trouble speaking about the illness. 175 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:13,039 And I thought when I saw that, because I'm looking around at the Kate 176 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:18,759 Beckensell thing and this popped up. So is there a suggestion that maybe she 177 00:14:18,960 --> 00:14:22,799 has the same problem. There will be all kinds of guesses. It's kind 178 00:14:22,799 --> 00:14:31,679 of like when what's his face? The factor Jamie Fox went silent? Whatever 179 00:14:31,720 --> 00:14:35,960 happened to him? Apparently? Yeah, he said, he has said that 180 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:39,279 he will talk about his He will talk about what he wants to in due 181 00:14:39,279 --> 00:14:43,159 time. Yeah, yeah, right. But so all of this springs around 182 00:14:43,679 --> 00:14:50,679 a thought or questions in people. What are the elements that catch you there? 183 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:54,720 Things? The artificial intelligence world in medicine is trying to come up with 184 00:14:54,840 --> 00:15:01,759 ways of fixing these sorts of problems, Like you know, there are people 185 00:15:01,799 --> 00:15:07,000 who are growing kidneys. There was that story about the pig and the trends, 186 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:09,320 But that was a heart transplant, I think was it. It wasn't 187 00:15:09,320 --> 00:15:13,240 a kidney transplant. I think it was a hard transplant some valves or something. 188 00:15:13,279 --> 00:15:18,440 But the idea here of people who are have notoriety or people who don't 189 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:22,840 people whose names you don't know, that are suffering or going through things, 190 00:15:22,159 --> 00:15:26,840 and what's being done behind the scenes. As much as some of modern medicine 191 00:15:28,399 --> 00:15:31,960 is a lot of baloney, the things that are being done like this that 192 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:37,200 will help save lives and keep families together and that sort of thing is pretty 193 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:41,360 amazing. So at one point we think, oh God, no, look 194 00:15:41,399 --> 00:15:46,519 out for the artificial intelligence or lookout for some of this stuff, because nobody 195 00:15:46,519 --> 00:15:48,960 really understands. You can try it, but you don't know what will happen 196 00:15:50,039 --> 00:15:54,200 until you actually in somebody's body. 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The Navy and the Coastguard have rescued three mariners who were 216 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:26,640 stranded on a tiny Pacific ocean. This is like a scene from Castaway, 217 00:17:26,359 --> 00:17:36,240 right. They were there for a week and they the coastguard saw somebody saw 218 00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:38,039 I don't think it was a coast guard. Somebody flying over this little island 219 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:45,480 saw in huge letters in the sand. Help. So the coast Guard in 220 00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:52,759 the Navy investigated and they found that there were three men who had been planning 221 00:17:52,799 --> 00:17:57,920 to fish in the waters around this little island part of Micronesia. Their twenty 222 00:17:57,960 --> 00:18:03,440 foot boat was caught by swells and it was they you know, like lost 223 00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:08,480 it. The swells sunk the boat. They swamed ashore and this island doesn't 224 00:18:08,480 --> 00:18:11,960 have anybody on it. There's no radio obviously, no cell phone, none 225 00:18:11,960 --> 00:18:18,119 of that stuff. So the only way that they could get attention this island 226 00:18:18,200 --> 00:18:22,359 is only thirty one acres. So a good rainstorm washed the thing away. 227 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:27,839 They spelled out help on the beach and the coast guard. Somebody saw it 228 00:18:27,880 --> 00:18:32,400 and they reported the coast guard, and the coast guard went and picked them 229 00:18:32,440 --> 00:18:36,160 up. This is in an area that you don't want to be stuck, 230 00:18:36,240 --> 00:18:40,680 and in the middle of the Pacific South Pacific Ocean, on the bottom end 231 00:18:41,200 --> 00:18:45,559 of the of the equator. You can see a picture of this island, 232 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:49,880 and you wonder what in the world ever possessed them to want to go out 233 00:18:49,880 --> 00:18:56,200 there and go fishing in the first place. Right, So this has been 234 00:18:56,240 --> 00:18:59,480 going on, this sage has been going on for four or five days because 235 00:18:59,480 --> 00:19:06,519 their relative called the into Guam, which is a US territory, and they 236 00:19:06,519 --> 00:19:11,559 said they hadn't heard from these men for a while. And the island is 237 00:19:11,960 --> 00:19:17,400 quite a way. It's one hundred or a couple hundred miles away from Guam. 238 00:19:17,640 --> 00:19:23,039 Again, difficult for me to understand why in the world you'd go to 239 00:19:23,119 --> 00:19:26,720 a place like this to go fishing. Can't go finding a fish off the 240 00:19:26,720 --> 00:19:33,240 coast of Guam. It's a part of the Federated States of Micronesia, which 241 00:19:33,279 --> 00:19:41,000 is near the Philippines. Kind of well, it's kind of halfway between the 242 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:45,319 Philippines and Guam, I mean, and Hawaii, which is where Guam is. 243 00:19:45,319 --> 00:19:48,759 There six hundred of these little islands all across the ocean, two and 244 00:19:48,759 --> 00:19:53,960 a half million square miles of ocean these islands, and people are silly enough 245 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:59,240 to go out there and you know, okay, let's go swimming, or 246 00:19:59,319 --> 00:20:02,519 let's go fish, do something like that, especially if they're kind of like 247 00:20:03,079 --> 00:20:07,200 locals ish, you know, at the surrounding areas, they probably you know, 248 00:20:07,279 --> 00:20:08,680 you wouldn't think twice, you were just all right, let's go. 249 00:20:08,759 --> 00:20:14,319 This is essentially part of our backyard. I'd think twice. I don't think 250 00:20:14,359 --> 00:20:17,920 twice. It's all right, all right. So I want to talk about 251 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:22,000 obsessions here. We seem to have And what makes me think about this is 252 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:26,880 my sister invited me to our house for dinner last night, and they had 253 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:33,039 gone up to Burlington. One of their daughters lives in Burlington, so they 254 00:20:33,039 --> 00:20:37,400 went up there to watch the eclipse. And what they were they this normally 255 00:20:37,559 --> 00:20:42,400 from where we are here in framing him up to Burlington on the outside, 256 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:48,160 maybe a three hour ride on a bad day. So when the eclipse is 257 00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:51,680 all over, Devon, who is Nancy's daughter, said hey, Mom, 258 00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:53,160 I think you ought to go home. They had spent the weekend there, 259 00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:57,960 so they'd visited, and so as soon as it was over, Nancy and 260 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:03,200 her husband Bruce, cut in the car and started to drive back. And 261 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:07,160 the first sign of trouble was pretty much when they got out of the driveway 262 00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:12,480 and went down to the main road in the town south of Burlington where Devon 263 00:21:12,559 --> 00:21:17,200 lives. They couldn't get out because there was so much traffic that was heading 264 00:21:17,279 --> 00:21:19,880 south out of town. Everybody had the same idea, Okay, well let's 265 00:21:19,920 --> 00:21:22,160 not wait for the rest of the traffic, let's get out of here now. 266 00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:26,759 So the long and short of it, a three hour ride turned into 267 00:21:26,799 --> 00:21:30,839 an eight and a half hour ride for them, to get out of where 268 00:21:30,079 --> 00:21:33,960 all these people had gone to see the eclipse. And then I started looking 269 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:38,680 around this morning earlier when I was doing my prep time, and I've seen 270 00:21:38,799 --> 00:21:42,319 stories on top of stories on top of stories of where this happened, all 271 00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:48,279 the way from where James is down in Dallas, the swath. Then it 272 00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:51,920 cut, the path had cut across the country. And what people, what 273 00:21:52,119 --> 00:21:56,960 businesses made hay out of this, and what people they stopped work, They 274 00:21:56,039 --> 00:22:02,720 didn't go to work for the day. They they drove hundreds of miles to 275 00:22:02,799 --> 00:22:07,279 see this thing. It was. It's a phenom. And so I'm thinking 276 00:22:07,279 --> 00:22:11,920 to myself, this is okay, it's cool, but is it way over 277 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:15,559 the top? Is that was to become an obsession with us, like other 278 00:22:15,759 --> 00:22:22,519 things that we are becoming obsessed with the earthquake, for example, the obsession 279 00:22:22,519 --> 00:22:26,880 over the earthquake here in the Northeast. Most you know, the news media 280 00:22:27,279 --> 00:22:30,400 made this big deal out of it. Most people didn't feel a thing, 281 00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:34,720 or if they did feel it, it was just like going through a pothole 282 00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:41,640 or something. And yet we were in social media as well, look at 283 00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:45,400 this, and you know, how can you see you can't see an earthquake 284 00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:48,400 you can feel an earthquake, and you can see the aftermath of an earthquake, 285 00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:52,759 but you can't see it. And so all these people, you know, 286 00:22:52,799 --> 00:22:57,680 nobody died during the earthquake here in the Northeast. It caused very little 287 00:22:57,799 --> 00:23:03,759 damage. It was hardly worth walldewall coverage. But people in Pennsylvania and New 288 00:23:03,799 --> 00:23:07,519 York and New Jersey saw nothing but this thing all day long, and it 289 00:23:07,559 --> 00:23:12,119 was not a big deal. My talk definitely felt it. They didn't feel 290 00:23:12,119 --> 00:23:15,680 like it was not a big deal. They said that that was like the 291 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:18,079 longest three to four seconds of their life that they felt it. At first, 292 00:23:18,079 --> 00:23:21,519 they didn't realize what was going on. They thought that a truck hit 293 00:23:21,559 --> 00:23:25,400 the building. But then when it where were these people that shaping going? 294 00:23:26,079 --> 00:23:27,160 Some when I talked to in New Jersey. Some when I talked to in 295 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:32,400 the city. Yeah, well, I have not talked to I know. 296 00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:37,000 I'm not saying that you're not right, because I'm sure you are. But 297 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:41,079 you know, in the in the let's say, in the overall scheme of 298 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:45,359 things, was it worth a one you know, a whole day wall to 299 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:51,200 wall coverage? Was the eclipse worth all the attention that was paid to it 300 00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:53,880 when everything else seemed to stop. It was cool, it was exhilarating, 301 00:23:55,160 --> 00:24:00,960 it was inspiring, but all of the everybody went bananas over this stuff. 302 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:03,599 It looks I think the conclusion that I'm coming to here is that we are 303 00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:10,599 looking for something to hang on to that isn't the same old, same old. 304 00:24:11,079 --> 00:24:14,039 You know what I'm saying, and to each through people get excited about 305 00:24:14,079 --> 00:24:18,920 different things. Yeah, and that's okay. Yeah, one person wrong. 306 00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:22,880 I think that another person finds like completely mundane. That's totally okay, And 307 00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:26,119 neither person is wrong. Neither person should be shamed for how they feel both. 308 00:24:26,319 --> 00:24:30,799 There's not enough space. Is not about shame. Excited, right, 309 00:24:30,799 --> 00:24:34,799 There's enough space that people can be excited or feel no thrill at all about 310 00:24:34,799 --> 00:24:38,240 the same situation. There's enough space to hold for all of those feelings. 311 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:41,680 Mm hmm. Yeah, well it is about that. I'm giving you my 312 00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:45,119 feelings, you're giving us your feelings. That's what this is about. It's 313 00:24:45,119 --> 00:24:48,160 appropriate to have this. I just think we're overdoing It's like the weather coverage. 314 00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:53,319 There's now a new network, CBS is going to compete with the Weather 315 00:24:53,480 --> 00:25:00,319 Channel and ACU Weather because they think that there is there's room for another weather 316 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:04,799 channel? Is there? How much time does it? Tay? I mean, 317 00:25:04,839 --> 00:25:07,960 I look at it. I look at the Weather Channel when I'm traveling 318 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:11,079 because I want to know what the weather is. But I got an app 319 00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:14,720 on my phone. I can look at it for thirty forty seconds and know 320 00:25:14,759 --> 00:25:18,319 what's going on in Los Angeles and here in Framingham and in between. So 321 00:25:19,039 --> 00:25:26,200 is it something that is there something about your psyche that finds it cool to 322 00:25:26,279 --> 00:25:30,519 watch the Weather channel? It's got mine. Maybe it's like watching the Fox 323 00:25:30,599 --> 00:25:33,720 News Channel. I can't even begin to imagine why people would watch that stuff 324 00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:37,039 all day, every day, but some people have it on right, the 325 00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:41,839 MSNB, And why in the world would you watch that stuff? Nothing in 326 00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:47,440 it except most of the time bitterness and sadness and anger and yeah, yeah, 327 00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:51,839 yeah, all right, let's do something. I feel better now having 328 00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:59,400 expressed myself. Thank you. Yes, I here's some family news. Here's 329 00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:07,759 the story glory of a mother whose son was saved by some sorority sisters. 330 00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:12,920 The two boys. This is the story of a mother and the two boys 331 00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:18,680 that were sinking in a car. And it happened that some sorority sisters from 332 00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:23,599 the university of Georgia were going by where this accident took place. They were 333 00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:29,920 on their route from Athens to to Atlanta. It looks like they had a 334 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:36,599 girl's weekend and they came across this accident. Had they not seen it right 335 00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:40,720 the car off the car, yeah, they wouldn't have had Nobody probably would 336 00:26:40,759 --> 00:26:44,480 have even noticed the car already after the aftermath. But because they saw the 337 00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:48,160 accident happen, they need to immediately go out yep, And so they did 338 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:52,440 so. They got the eight year old and the four year old out of 339 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:55,759 the car, and I guess the mother. They were not any of them. 340 00:26:56,039 --> 00:26:57,960 It looks like they were all unconscious right when they got them out. 341 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:02,799 They did CPR because they knew it. They had The four year old was 342 00:27:02,799 --> 00:27:04,359 subconscious. They were able to get the mom out of the car, the 343 00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:07,359 eight year old out of the car, but the four year old was more 344 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:11,960 so trapped and submerged underwater for several minutes before they can get him out. 345 00:27:11,039 --> 00:27:17,759 And when the four year old finally came out fully fully unconscious and the sorority 346 00:27:17,799 --> 00:27:19,160 sisters were able to save them. One of them was a lifeguard in high 347 00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:23,920 school. The new CPR was able to direct the other sisters of what to 348 00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:27,559 do. Yeah, it's fantastic. Right people at the right time, yep. 349 00:27:29,079 --> 00:27:33,680 And that's an example of the right thing happening for the right reason at 350 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:38,200 the right time. And who's responsible for that? Is there a God? 351 00:27:38,319 --> 00:27:44,400 Is there a universal force? Yeah? 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Social media time devoted to the technology that we I think yesterday, 368 00:28:51,119 --> 00:28:56,000 I get myself really worked up about artificial intelligence and where it's going and 369 00:28:56,039 --> 00:29:00,039 where we're going and what's going to happen when the two are our brains collide 370 00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:07,000 with the so called brains of the artificial intelligence world. All right, so 371 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:11,240 let's go back. Let's take a step backwards here, Jay, shall we? 372 00:29:11,839 --> 00:29:15,240 And as we in this hour talk about social media in general and some 373 00:29:15,319 --> 00:29:21,440 of the technology and the trends, there's a you know, you look at 374 00:29:21,559 --> 00:29:27,039 the grip that just several people and companies have on social media and how much 375 00:29:27,079 --> 00:29:33,079 of a problem it presents as we continue to deal with some of the things 376 00:29:33,119 --> 00:29:37,400 the throwoffs of all of these big companies. A trillion dollar company, for 377 00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:47,079 example, controls Facebook and Instagram and WhatsApp. And so that's an example of 378 00:29:47,079 --> 00:29:51,799 what one company, how one company and the ownership of the company can create 379 00:29:52,279 --> 00:29:57,839 problems around the world. You know, the whole business of censorship. Even 380 00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:03,960 though it's a private company, it people. There's a confusion about what is 381 00:30:03,039 --> 00:30:07,640 freedom of speech. And you know, you look at what they've done blocking 382 00:30:08,599 --> 00:30:11,640 things that you know. There was an example, I think, excuse me 383 00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:21,960 last week after Facebook apologized for blocking links by a nonprofit an independent journalist who 384 00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:29,440 published a report that criticized Facebook and suppressing suppressing posts of doing what it does. 385 00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:33,599 Yeah, and then then it suppressed the post. So hello, much 386 00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:41,880 more blatant can you get? There were about six thousand stories that have been 387 00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:49,839 posted about Facebook that disappeared from the platform. And there was this Kansas City 388 00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:57,039 Reflector, which is a small newspaper in Kansas. The stories that are there. 389 00:30:57,079 --> 00:31:03,559 The Reflector was shut down as well. The staff had no idea why 390 00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:11,279 Facebook had blown up these stories. I guess I don't know what the content 391 00:31:11,319 --> 00:31:17,960 of the stories were, but they basically have their newspaper online and Facebook took 392 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:23,079 it down. Maybe it's because there was an opinion piece in the Reflector that 393 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:29,240 had a criticism of Facebook. So you can see how thin skinned Zuckerberg is 394 00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:33,839 and how thin skinned Facebook is. Doesn't have any how, how many times 395 00:31:33,839 --> 00:31:36,759 have you been taken down on Facebook? Jay, I know that once in 396 00:31:36,759 --> 00:31:40,160 a while we talk. I know people on my farm have posted things and 397 00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:44,960 they get well, yeah, I don't really post anything on the personal stuff. 398 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:51,480 But we've had on the Good Day Networks page had the page itself hasn't 399 00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:52,799 been pulled down or put in time out or anything like that, but there 400 00:31:52,799 --> 00:31:57,720 have been posts that have disappeared. They've been removed, but if you go 401 00:31:57,759 --> 00:32:00,880 to pocket like deleted, they're not and showing up. Or there have been 402 00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:05,640 times where Doug, you're telling me you see something, and I actually log 403 00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:08,240 into your account and I see something, but if I try to look at 404 00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:12,079 it from my account or a different account, I'm not seeing it. Like 405 00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:14,920 this isn't just in your news feed when you go to the actual page. 406 00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:19,359 But there was a teen and young adult kind of get help program I worked 407 00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:23,319 with, and one of the posts that we had was what the program did 408 00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:27,680 was connect people who were hurting with people who could actually help when we called 409 00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:32,200 them hope coaches, and then they would go off onto like different other organizations 410 00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:36,319 based on what the issue was. And it was National Eating Disorders Month, 411 00:32:36,319 --> 00:32:39,079 and so the post contained if you or someone you know, or struggling with 412 00:32:39,119 --> 00:32:43,079 a needing disorder. There's help, and then it has a whole list of 413 00:32:43,119 --> 00:32:46,480 links where you can go get help. Well, the page was suspended and 414 00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:52,240 the reasoning was that we were using bullying verbiage because we were calling out a 415 00:32:52,279 --> 00:32:57,440 specific group of people in our post where it was actually a helpful post. 416 00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:01,359 But the page itself was suspended for two weeks. Yeah, there you go. 417 00:33:01,839 --> 00:33:07,480 I thought it was interesting because the apology that Meta did regarding the blocks 418 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:15,599 was first published on x so who's watching that anyway? It's these people are 419 00:33:16,119 --> 00:33:22,519 They're disgusting. The next Stefan Good Day download with Doug and Jay Kirshner is 420 00:33:22,519 --> 00:33:27,240 made possible in part by Caltron, which is the safe way for you to 421 00:33:27,279 --> 00:33:28,839 lose weight and keep it off