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the sun's coming up and you can see it and the moon's not in the
way, so it's even better. Hooray beauty. It's being of beauty.
It's in the eyes of the beholder, and it can apply to different things,
not just the way you look, but the way you sound, the
way you act. There are a lot of beautiful people around who aren't great
to look at, but they you know, that's not the only measure of
what beauty is all about. Check it out. There's a website called The
Beholder that you can go to look at and I think get a lot of
It influences me once in a while, and it's a good place to go
if you want to lift your spirits. And that's kind of what this program
is supposed to do most of the time. I hope it accomplishes. That's
called a good Day program. Jay Kirshner is here me. I'm deg Stefan.
She's in Cleveland, I'm on my farm outside of Boston. James Collins
is in the control room of our Master Control studio down in Dallas, and
so we get into almost a daily routine now talking about some lottery winner someplace.
It always gets people thinking, oh, this is great. There are
always good lottery stories. And here's the story of a man from Maryland who
seems to enjoy playing the lottery. He managed to purchase not one, but
two winning tickets for the same drawing, and he says it happened by accident.
This guy doesn't want everybody to know who he is, and I don't
blame him. He won a million bucks on each of the two tickets that
he purchased. My god, what sign is this guy born under right buys
two tickets and he gets two wins. God love him. He says he
doesn't typically play games like Powerball or Mega Millions unless the jackpot is over a
billion dollars. So when the jackpie went to a billion, he tried his
luck, opted to buy a few tickets from a seven to eleven store.
He used pre select numbers. That's what happens, right, That's what I
do when I buy him. I just feel like if I'm in a store
somewhere. I see the number. Okay, I'll buy a couple of tickets.
So anyway, he used the replay feature, which allows players to scan
an old ticket to get a new one with the same numbers, which is
something that some folks say is the way to win. You play the same
number over and over and over and over again, and sooner or later,
I suppose the odds are better that it'll hit. And so that's what he
did. God love this guy, right, he missed the big one by
just one number. He called his wife to share the big news and they
then he went home and they had a big he said, they had a
month. When they realized what they had, they started to cry. And
so it's you know, you think about changing. Yeah, that's enough money
to use something to do something with. Yeah, if that's do any of
that, but also enough that you can have some left over to invest.
Yeah, right, exactly, all right. So here's another element. A
lady won a million dollars. She bought a lottery ticket. She said by
mistake. Dateline Virginia, rural Virginia. She lives outside of Roanoke, Virginia.
She says that's the best mistake of my life. This lady's name is
Mariam Long. She said she went to a local CBS to purchase a ticket
for Make a Millions, which at the time had a nine hundred million dollar
jackpot. While using machine to purchase and make a media ticket, she accidentally
pressed the button for a powerball ticket. This, I guess instead of it
or an addition to it. Yeah, and luckily for her, the powerball
ticket she mistakenly purchased match the first five winning numbers in the drawing six hundred
and fifty six million dollar jackpot for the big winner. But five matching numbers
nothing to sneeze at. She won a million bucks. She said, her
heart was pounding. It's overwhelming, of course it is. It's a million
bucks, is a million bucks. She was one of five million dollar winners
across the country for that particular drawing. So anyway, God love her and
the other guy with his wife. Yeah, just a neat sweet story.
Now, speaking of money for a minute, let's talk. We're approaching tax
time, right. All the money's got to be in by the fifteenth,
which is what next month? Right? Okay, So have you done your
taxes? I've talked to any number of people that I know who are small
business folks, and they're preparing the tax return. Couples individuals, you have
until next Monday to make sure the money that you owe for last year is
in federal coffers. You do not have to have your tax return finished.
A lot of people think that they are both mandated for April fifteenth. That
is not the case. But it's probably a good idea because if you're a
procrastinator and you put it off and you wait until it's October the eleventh,
and yeah right, I bet this ready for it? Yeah right? Oh
boo, don't say that. So anyway, somebody asked a question. I
was listening to a show I think Bloomberg. When I'm in my car and
I don't have sirius, I'm listening around. I do listen to some of
the music stations, but then I'll listen also to Bloomberg, which I think
is very helpful. It's well done. Information is good and solid. So
there was a discussion of whether or not this person could claim her parents as
dependents. So this is something we You know, you think about your children
as dependents, but do you ever think about your parents as dependents? Especially
they live, right, they live with you, which there is, yeah,
becoming more and more of a thing. Right. Uh So the this
is the like we're in the Sandwich generation conversation. You don't claim your children,
which claim your parents because they're living with you, one or both of
them. And so apparently the trend is because seniors can't afford to live on
their own anymore and they're living with their children's help. Of course, the
inflation that's happened in the last few years and all of the other things,
COVID people needing to be together. So there's a poll that suggests almost half
of Americans will claim their parents in one way or another during the tax season
as some sort of dependent I think that startling, actually they look at it.
Americans age twenty five or older with a living parent claiming their parents on
their taxes this year. That is really surprising. But poverty among older people
sixty five seventy years of age, people who have retired either too soon,
you know, a lot of people have to keep working. In a sense,
I want to keep working, but I kind of have to because there's
a lot of responsibilities that I have that continued. I mean, if it's
what my age is is still supporting a lot of things like the farm,
and there's just a number of things that require me to continue to keep producing.
But it's good for me. I like it, so I don't feel
like it's a burden at all, and many of you may feel the same
way. I had this conversation with somebody the other day in Florida about retiring
and the you know, actually Ken Cronos and I, when I visited with
him on Monday, we're talking about it because he's not quite as old as
I am, but he's practicing medicine. And he looked at me and we
were talking about it, and he knows that I'm not going to retire.
And we've had this conversation a couple of times about him and what you know,
the requirements are for him to keep up the schedule that he does,
because his staff is happy to tell me that there are many days when they're
in the office antil ten o'clock. One of the ladies was there until midnight
week working with him on computer stuff because that's how he you know, he
wants to take care of everybody, so, you know, back to the
cost of giving care. Apparently this past year Americans spent four hundred and seventy
billion dollars, according to estimates, to take care of love ones, that
is, people who are older, preparing meals, paying bills, medications,
nursing tasks, all that sort of thing. And I don't think we've thought
about it. Apparently the average caregiver spent almost seven thousand dollars in out of
pocket expenses to help their parents. And so this stuff becomes tax deductible.
And that's the point. If you're helping your parents, there is a way
to now deduct I don't know that there's a special column. I haven't looked
at. My tax return is done by somebody who knows what they're doing.
I've never been good at this stuff. I understand the system. I understand
how it works. I understand reporting income and deductions and all that stuff.
But there are different things that make what you spend eligible. And so apparently
you can't claim as a dependent if your parents have enough money to pay taxes.
It's only if they don't have enough money. Apparently your parents gross income
cannot be more than five thousand bucks. It looks like so. And there
are a lot of people who you know through retirement other things. They don't
have that money. Plenty of people like that. It's hard to imagine,
but that's the way it is. So your financial support has to exceed your
parent's income by at least a dollar during the tax year. That's how you
figure this out. So you can use calculations. I'm sure that you go
to H and R. Johnny Carson used to call them H and R gone
if H and R blocker, that's the other one, Hewitt Jackson Hewitt,
big tax folks. But there are plenty of good I just have my accountant
do it. The person that you use. If you're in business, you
probably have an accountant that works on your books, and that's the best way
to have your taxes repaired. Good dog prepared. Although I think sometimes they
do. They do have to be repaired. Some of the numbers are oh,
but I don't know. I just think sometimes people are just dumb about
their taxes. People are afraid they are people are afraid of the irs,
so they do things that they don't have to do legally. That's why it
may be worth it to spend a few bucks with somebody who really knows what
they're doing, a tax preparer that can keep you from overpaying, because why
would you want to overpay? It's not patriotic. Yeah right, that's not
your patriotic duty to overpay your taxes by any stretch of the imagination. How
do you do? I was thinking of that, how do how do you
do? What do you suppose that came from? Jay? How do you
do? And like, how do you do? But how do you?
Oh? Do you do? What you do? To me? I just
I just happened to it, like one of those things, right, if
you're curious, you want to know where did that come from? So we
asked the question. We have no answers. Oh, I like my answer,
Yeah, how do you do? How do you do? What you
do? To me? Here's the story of Kate Beconsale looking at some of
the social media gossip, the trending stories with people's names in it. Kate
Bechonsale is a well known actress. Last week we were talking about her being
in the hospital with some kind of undisclosed health problem. And so now those
photos have been deleted. Somebody's watching them off obviously pretty carefully. She's fifty
years old. She's taken all of the posts down and this is but I
think it's been month, weeks anyway, over a month. Well on we
first kind of got news that she was in the hospital with this undisclosed health
issue March eleventh, and it seems that in those photos that she had been
in there for who knows how long, So it is definitely at this point
over a month, is she still in there? She posted I think the
last thing she posted were over the Easter holiday, where she still seemed to
be in hospital. So I hope she's okay. Yeah, yeah, well,
jope, under the circumstances. There's another name that I saw was trending,
and I don't know. I confess not to knowing much about basketball players
these days. Fella named Nate Robinson has apparently a kidney that's failing. He's
an NBA player, or was at one point in time, and so a
lot of people are wondering. People that are following the game. He apparently
was a big dunker the Dunk Championship, you know, they have these contests
and stuff. It's thirty nine years old. He's got renal kidney failure and
has for He's had it for years, and so he said he wanted to
be a voice for the people who are having trouble speaking about the illness.
And I thought when I saw that, because I'm looking around at the Kate
Beckensell thing and this popped up. So is there a suggestion that maybe she
has the same problem. There will be all kinds of guesses. It's kind
of like when what's his face? The factor Jamie Fox went silent? Whatever
happened to him? Apparently? Yeah, he said, he has said that
he will talk about his He will talk about what he wants to in due
time. Yeah, yeah, right. But so all of this springs around
a thought or questions in people. What are the elements that catch you there?
Things? The artificial intelligence world in medicine is trying to come up with
ways of fixing these sorts of problems, Like you know, there are people
who are growing kidneys. There was that story about the pig and the trends,
But that was a heart transplant, I think was it. It wasn't
a kidney transplant. I think it was a hard transplant some valves or something.
But the idea here of people who are have notoriety or people who don't
people whose names you don't know, that are suffering or going through things,
and what's being done behind the scenes. As much as some of modern medicine
is a lot of baloney, the things that are being done like this that
will help save lives and keep families together and that sort of thing is pretty
amazing. So at one point we think, oh God, no, look
out for the artificial intelligence or lookout for some of this stuff, because nobody
really understands. You can try it, but you don't know what will happen
until you actually in somebody's body. Yeah, right, exactly, So good
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wild in crazy time as a jubilation that we hopefully can find here or there
and everywhere. And I found another. I guess yeah, you would call
this a jubilation. The Navy and the Coastguard have rescued three mariners who were
stranded on a tiny Pacific ocean. This is like a scene from Castaway,
right. They were there for a week and they the coastguard saw somebody saw
I don't think it was a coast guard. Somebody flying over this little island
saw in huge letters in the sand. Help. So the coast Guard in
the Navy investigated and they found that there were three men who had been planning
to fish in the waters around this little island part of Micronesia. Their twenty
foot boat was caught by swells and it was they you know, like lost
it. The swells sunk the boat. They swamed ashore and this island doesn't
have anybody on it. There's no radio obviously, no cell phone, none
of that stuff. So the only way that they could get attention this island
is only thirty one acres. So a good rainstorm washed the thing away.
They spelled out help on the beach and the coast guard. Somebody saw it
and they reported the coast guard, and the coast guard went and picked them
up. This is in an area that you don't want to be stuck,
and in the middle of the Pacific South Pacific Ocean, on the bottom end
of the of the equator. You can see a picture of this island,
and you wonder what in the world ever possessed them to want to go out
there and go fishing in the first place. Right, So this has been
going on, this sage has been going on for four or five days because
their relative called the into Guam, which is a US territory, and they
said they hadn't heard from these men for a while. And the island is
quite a way. It's one hundred or a couple hundred miles away from Guam.
Again, difficult for me to understand why in the world you'd go to
a place like this to go fishing. Can't go finding a fish off the
coast of Guam. It's a part of the Federated States of Micronesia, which
is near the Philippines. Kind of well, it's kind of halfway between the
Philippines and Guam, I mean, and Hawaii, which is where Guam is.
There six hundred of these little islands all across the ocean, two and
a half million square miles of ocean these islands, and people are silly enough
to go out there and you know, okay, let's go swimming, or
let's go fish, do something like that, especially if they're kind of like
locals ish, you know, at the surrounding areas, they probably you know,
you wouldn't think twice, you were just all right, let's go.
This is essentially part of our backyard. I'd think twice. I don't think
twice. It's all right, all right. So I want to talk about
obsessions here. We seem to have And what makes me think about this is
my sister invited me to our house for dinner last night, and they had
gone up to Burlington. One of their daughters lives in Burlington, so they
went up there to watch the eclipse. And what they were they this normally
from where we are here in framing him up to Burlington on the outside,
maybe a three hour ride on a bad day. So when the eclipse is
all over, Devon, who is Nancy's daughter, said hey, Mom,
I think you ought to go home. They had spent the weekend there,
so they'd visited, and so as soon as it was over, Nancy and
her husband Bruce, cut in the car and started to drive back. And
the first sign of trouble was pretty much when they got out of the driveway
and went down to the main road in the town south of Burlington where Devon
lives. They couldn't get out because there was so much traffic that was heading
south out of town. Everybody had the same idea, Okay, well let's
not wait for the rest of the traffic, let's get out of here now.
So the long and short of it, a three hour ride turned into
an eight and a half hour ride for them, to get out of where
all these people had gone to see the eclipse. And then I started looking
around this morning earlier when I was doing my prep time, and I've seen
stories on top of stories on top of stories of where this happened, all
the way from where James is down in Dallas, the swath. Then it
cut, the path had cut across the country. And what people, what
businesses made hay out of this, and what people they stopped work, They
didn't go to work for the day. They they drove hundreds of miles to
see this thing. It was. It's a phenom. And so I'm thinking
to myself, this is okay, it's cool, but is it way over
the top? Is that was to become an obsession with us, like other
things that we are becoming obsessed with the earthquake, for example, the obsession
over the earthquake here in the Northeast. Most you know, the news media
made this big deal out of it. Most people didn't feel a thing,
or if they did feel it, it was just like going through a pothole
or something. And yet we were in social media as well, look at
this, and you know, how can you see you can't see an earthquake
you can feel an earthquake, and you can see the aftermath of an earthquake,
but you can't see it. And so all these people, you know,
nobody died during the earthquake here in the Northeast. It caused very little
damage. It was hardly worth walldewall coverage. But people in Pennsylvania and New
York and New Jersey saw nothing but this thing all day long, and it
was not a big deal. My talk definitely felt it. They didn't feel
like it was not a big deal. They said that that was like the
longest three to four seconds of their life that they felt it. At first,
they didn't realize what was going on. They thought that a truck hit
the building. But then when it where were these people that shaping going?
Some when I talked to in New Jersey. Some when I talked to in
the city. Yeah, well, I have not talked to I know.
I'm not saying that you're not right, because I'm sure you are. But
you know, in the in the let's say, in the overall scheme of
things, was it worth a one you know, a whole day wall to
wall coverage? Was the eclipse worth all the attention that was paid to it
when everything else seemed to stop. It was cool, it was exhilarating,
it was inspiring, but all of the everybody went bananas over this stuff.
It looks I think the conclusion that I'm coming to here is that we are
looking for something to hang on to that isn't the same old, same old.
You know what I'm saying, and to each through people get excited about
different things. Yeah, and that's okay. Yeah, one person wrong.
I think that another person finds like completely mundane. That's totally okay, And
neither person is wrong. Neither person should be shamed for how they feel both.
There's not enough space. Is not about shame. Excited, right,
There's enough space that people can be excited or feel no thrill at all about
the same situation. There's enough space to hold for all of those feelings.
Mm hmm. Yeah, well it is about that. I'm giving you my
feelings, you're giving us your feelings. That's what this is about. It's
appropriate to have this. I just think we're overdoing It's like the weather coverage.
There's now a new network, CBS is going to compete with the Weather
Channel and ACU Weather because they think that there is there's room for another weather
channel? Is there? How much time does it? Tay? I mean,
I look at it. I look at the Weather Channel when I'm traveling
because I want to know what the weather is. But I got an app
on my phone. I can look at it for thirty forty seconds and know
what's going on in Los Angeles and here in Framingham and in between. So
is it something that is there something about your psyche that finds it cool to
watch the Weather channel? It's got mine. Maybe it's like watching the Fox
News Channel. I can't even begin to imagine why people would watch that stuff
all day, every day, but some people have it on right, the
MSNB, And why in the world would you watch that stuff? Nothing in
it except most of the time bitterness and sadness and anger and yeah, yeah,
yeah, all right, let's do something. I feel better now having
expressed myself. Thank you. Yes, I here's some family news. Here's
the story glory of a mother whose son was saved by some sorority sisters.
The two boys. This is the story of a mother and the two boys
that were sinking in a car. And it happened that some sorority sisters from
the university of Georgia were going by where this accident took place. They were
on their route from Athens to to Atlanta. It looks like they had a
girl's weekend and they came across this accident. Had they not seen it right
the car off the car, yeah, they wouldn't have had Nobody probably would
have even noticed the car already after the aftermath. But because they saw the
accident happen, they need to immediately go out yep, And so they did
so. They got the eight year old and the four year old out of
the car, and I guess the mother. They were not any of them.
It looks like they were all unconscious right when they got them out.
They did CPR because they knew it. They had The four year old was
subconscious. They were able to get the mom out of the car, the
eight year old out of the car, but the four year old was more
so trapped and submerged underwater for several minutes before they can get him out.
And when the four year old finally came out fully fully unconscious and the sorority
sisters were able to save them. One of them was a lifeguard in high
school. The new CPR was able to direct the other sisters of what to
do. Yeah, it's fantastic. Right people at the right time, yep.
And that's an example of the right thing happening for the right reason at
the right time. And who's responsible for that? Is there a God?
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where we're going and what's going to happen when the two are our brains collide
with the so called brains of the artificial intelligence world. All right, so
let's go back. Let's take a step backwards here, Jay, shall we?
And as we in this hour talk about social media in general and some
of the technology and the trends, there's a you know, you look at
the grip that just several people and companies have on social media and how much
of a problem it presents as we continue to deal with some of the things
the throwoffs of all of these big companies. A trillion dollar company, for
example, controls Facebook and Instagram and WhatsApp. And so that's an example of
what one company, how one company and the ownership of the company can create
problems around the world. You know, the whole business of censorship. Even
though it's a private company, it people. There's a confusion about what is
freedom of speech. And you know, you look at what they've done blocking
things that you know. There was an example, I think, excuse me
last week after Facebook apologized for blocking links by a nonprofit an independent journalist who
published a report that criticized Facebook and suppressing suppressing posts of doing what it does.
Yeah, and then then it suppressed the post. So hello, much
more blatant can you get? There were about six thousand stories that have been
posted about Facebook that disappeared from the platform. And there was this Kansas City
Reflector, which is a small newspaper in Kansas. The stories that are there.
The Reflector was shut down as well. The staff had no idea why
Facebook had blown up these stories. I guess I don't know what the content
of the stories were, but they basically have their newspaper online and Facebook took
it down. Maybe it's because there was an opinion piece in the Reflector that
had a criticism of Facebook. So you can see how thin skinned Zuckerberg is
and how thin skinned Facebook is. Doesn't have any how, how many times
have you been taken down on Facebook? Jay, I know that once in
a while we talk. I know people on my farm have posted things and
they get well, yeah, I don't really post anything on the personal stuff.
But we've had on the Good Day Networks page had the page itself hasn't
been pulled down or put in time out or anything like that, but there
have been posts that have disappeared. They've been removed, but if you go
to pocket like deleted, they're not and showing up. Or there have been
times where Doug, you're telling me you see something, and I actually log
into your account and I see something, but if I try to look at
it from my account or a different account, I'm not seeing it. Like
this isn't just in your news feed when you go to the actual page.
But there was a teen and young adult kind of get help program I worked
with, and one of the posts that we had was what the program did
was connect people who were hurting with people who could actually help when we called
them hope coaches, and then they would go off onto like different other organizations
based on what the issue was. And it was National Eating Disorders Month,
and so the post contained if you or someone you know, or struggling with
a needing disorder. There's help, and then it has a whole list of
links where you can go get help. Well, the page was suspended and
the reasoning was that we were using bullying verbiage because we were calling out a
specific group of people in our post where it was actually a helpful post.
But the page itself was suspended for two weeks. Yeah, there you go.
I thought it was interesting because the apology that Meta did regarding the blocks
was first published on x so who's watching that anyway? It's these people are
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