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found ourselves on Monday, September eleventh, and so the just hearing the date
September eleventh, it does something to people who were alive on September eleventh,
two thousand one, nine to eleven. It's more, it's really commonly referred
to I think as that I do not know, although some people refer to
it as Patriots Day. The Patriots Day in Massachusetts confuses and so we don't
call it that in Massachusetts because Patriots Day is the third Monday in April and
that's about the early patriots, the revolutionary patriots, and you can call it
whatever you want. It is what it is and was what it was.
These bastards flew three planes, two of them into the trade Center, one
of them into the Pentagon. They actually they actually flew four planes. The
fourth one didn't get where it was supposed to go. Instead, the people
on the plane they took over and they fought with the hijackers. So the
plane crashed upside down in a field in Pennsylvania. Pretty much everybody knows.
Well, I don't know if I should take that for granted, Jay,
because I think there are, like with everything else, younger people who are
not studying this, there are the politically it's one of those things too where
it is being studied in school. But if you even if you were already
born, but you were still too young to know what was going on,
like you and I, Doug, we we remember where we were on this
day. We remember those feelings, We remember watching it and hearing it along
with everybody else. We also remember a lot of the aftermath of how there
were no politics. It was we were truly united, we were all Americans,
and we remember that. And I think that it's one of those things
like with with Pearl Harbor, I learned about that, I don't I wasn't
alive when that happened, and it doesn't hold the same feelings because learning about
something and actually being alive and old enough to know what was going on,
it does hold a very different meaning. That's a very good way of putting
it. Frankly, there is not a lot of I have little use for
the Saudiast because they sanctioned this, were they were all Saudi you know,
the politically correct wants to refer to them as an Islamic suicide terrorist force.
But and there were members of al Qaeda. But they got their training not
only here in the United States, which is the crazy, laughable thing.
They trained at several pilot training places in Florida, and they learned how to
fly these planes, and they were underneath they were right under our noses all
the time, and we paid no attention, mostly because we're good people and
we didn't suspect. I think we're more suspicious today because and not in general,
not just dinner necessarily because of the fact that they were saudiast or Islamists
or that every There have been plenty of people who have over the course of
the history of this country attacked us. You know, the people say it's
the first time were attacked on US soil, and that the British did plenty
to destroy whatever we could muster up for the revolution. And then there were
several other incursions, and certainly the most notable was December seventh, nineteen forty
one. Hawaii was not necessarily it wasn't officially a state, but it was.
It was America, and so that, as you just said, though
I wasn't around, you can read about it, you can hear about it.
I've certainly heard plenty of it from people who were my parents' grandparents knew,
you know, they knew the story. And then we have our own
experience with these the nineteen terrorists and what they did and what they were trying
to accomplish. What they did was unitis. You said, you correctly,
what had cost in lives to do that cost in terms of buildings. Not
only people keep talking about the three thousand lives that were let around that number,
but there have been tens of thousands of people who have died as a
result this. In New York City, the first responders and so we just
the people who went into the building and survived, or who were in the
building and were evacuated there. These were on city blocks, these were apartment
complexes. People you couldn't even see anything because everything, the sh was so
thick, the smoke, all of that. People didn't know where to go.
People other people lost their homes. It wasn't just the ters that were
destroyed, and it took years for some people. Some people are still dying
as a result of what the heroes did on that date and even what people
did just to try to survive and get out of there. It just there's
as it's an amazing reality. And then the ineffectiveness of George Bush as president
and what he did or didn't do, that's it's legion and it doesn't make
any difference. Now, what did make a difference was the declaration of war
on Iraq, which preposterously just created a whole sense, created a stupidity and
winnowing like almost a jingoism in the word I'm looking for but American pride,
you're going to go get the Iraqis. They had nothing to do with this,
nothing zero, And then going to Afghanistan with anyway that's being well,
and look at how It changed even just traveling. I remember you used to
be able to meet your loved ones at the gate, at the gate,
go through security without a ticket. Yep. The entire lands, and that
that's another thing about being united. When this happened, people were traveling and
they grounded all flights, so people were trying to get home. They were
renting cars, rather than people being selfish and renting a car and then just
leaving other people stranded. People grouped together complete strangers groups to drop people off
along the way, just to make sure everybody could get home. I remember
the fellow who was the pilot of American eleven that was going from Boston to
Los Angeles. The two planes that crashed into the towers were both Boston origination
to Los Angeles. And the reason they picked them is because they were loaded
with fuel and they could get on, they could get off the ground,
get to a certain height. And I mean they had planned this down to
a t It was not a mistake, or wasn't just okay, let's pick
a random flight. They studied what our transportation system afford. They went to
Boston to get on those planes because they knew they could get him up high
enough in the air, and they could attack and kill the crew, and
they could fly him. They'd be able to get the planes, you know,
into New York and crash them into the building. They wouldn't be able
to do that they took off from Newark or any of the New York airports.
It had to be planes that were loaded with fuel. And that's what
the American eleven was a seven sixty seven, and it was It was piloted
by a guy named Oganowski. John Oganowski was a farmer, and that's how
I knew him. But he'd flown for American at that point, I think
thirty one years, and he loved the LA to Boston Boston to LA flight,
So that's all he flew. I did it a couple of times a
week, and he was unfortunately the pilot of this plane. But he was
a tough guy, and I can't imagine that he went easily with those guys.
So he went into the North Tower plane did. And then there was
United flight that took off from Boston five minutes later than the American flight.
American flight took off at eight o'clock. The flight to Los Angeles by the
United flight took off at eight o five and that was a seven fifty seven,
And at eight forty six the American Airlines flight went into the north tower,
and then a few minutes later the United flight was United one seventy five
went into the other tower. And then there were all kinds of things,
people wondering, well, this is one hundred and ten story building. Look
at how rugged it is. And nobody really thought that the flames would be
intense enough. And they were all the rumors of dynamite being you know,
planted in the bottom of the buildings and all that stuff. Yeah, right,
exactly. And then there was American seventy seven that took off from Washington
and it was up. They never really got up in the air. It
wasn't supposed to aimed. So they get a hold of it and they flew
it into the Pentagon and that was about a half hour later. And then
the United flight went into this little town of Stony Creek, and I believe,
if I remember correctly, that flight for some reason was delayed. It
was delayed longer than it was supposed to be originally, and that's how people
who were on board started catching wind of what was happening growing on elsewhere.
Yeah, yeah, yep. So the CIA right away said it was al
Qaeda, and then we started to figure out the invasion of Afghanistan, get
rid of the Taliban, which was some of the Russians could never do.
They were war with the Taliban for years and they didn't beat him, and
we didn't either, and we stayed there for how many years? We just
got out of Afghanistan when Trump was verse present. I think we still have
some soldiers over there, not many, but you know, there's it's it's
easy to be critical because it's pretty all of the responses were pretty simplistic,
and then they became complicated because the politics of Saudi Arabia and America and the
oil politics and all of that stuff. So I don't know, I just
I think about the stuff that we went through and knowing how we've grown up
in the years since, and what have we learned? Did we learn anything?
That's a question maybe for our social media, Jay, if you want
to post, ask that question at good Day Networks. All the social media
might be interesting to hear from people, because this is something that will never
go away. As certainly as you can hear in my voice, the timber
and the tone of my voice, the emotion there's there was a lot of
anger at the time. I don't think I'm that angry. I'm I'm angry
because of what we did in Iraq, but I'm angry because these people are
still they got away with it in essence, the Saudi's got away with it.
So anyway, certainly a lot of reflection today September eleventh, twenty twenty
three. Right now, though it's a celebrity time every hour, during this
portion of the hour, social media as the focus, gossipy trending things,
and I got a lot of Man, I'm looking around at all the heat
that came from Ashton Kutcher and his wife Mila Kunis as they had a relationship
with Danny Masterson during that seventies show and they all seemed to be friends.
And I think, if I'm correct here and putting the pieces together, Jay
Ashton and his wife sent a note sort of speaking up for the character of
Danny Masterson during his trial for a rape of what a couple of people?
How many people was he accused of? Convicted actually has been sent to jail
for what twenty two years or something twenty five years. I think the two
were convictions. The third one was I believe a hung jury and then dropped.
Yeah. Yeah. So anyway, the letters he said, Ashton Kutcher
said, were intended for the judge to read, and they weren't written to
undermine testimony the victims or retraumatize them in any way. So let's get down
to the meat and potatoes of this story after this. All right, So,
Jay, in terms of Danny Masterson, I never really paid much attention.
I didn't really know who he was. I certainly know who Milacunas is
and Ashton Kutcher, and there were they were friends. I think the story
was that Danny bett Ashton ten dollars to tongue kiss her when she was fourteen
on the Showy. That was our resurfaced Yeah, and that was actually an
interview that came from me Lacunas when she was kind of laughing about it and
stuff. And yeah, it's not a great not a great testament of character.
And a lot of these videos that are being resurfaced on Danny Masterson,
but some include Ashton Kutcher too, and it does raise So Ashton Kutcher and
me Lacunas wrote those character testimonies for the judge they were requested to do so
behalf on behalf of Danny Masterson's family. And it does raise the question of
when you are close friends could be like best friends with somebody and there are
doing something, Yeah, what do you do? Because you may love and
admire somebody who does a horrible thing, and where does that lead? Do
you? Do you look past it? Do you enough time has passed that
you think that they've learned their lesson? And I guarantee if they knew that
these letters would be leaked, they probably never would have wrote them. They
Mela Cunis and Ashon Kutcher work with victims of abuse and trafficking and all this
stuff, so that's, you know, more reason that they are taking a
lot of heat for this. Christina Ricchi even spoke out about this, saying
that people know that a lot of people that we may know as awesome,
like quote unquote awesome guys can still be predators and abusers can should be right,
And just because they never did anything bad to you doesn't meet doesn't negate
the fact if they did do something bad to other people. And then depending
on where he gets sent to prison, I wasn't sure from nosing around some
of the stuff where he's going to be going. But guys like that don't
do well in prison. Well, and that's why I believe his wife asked
for these character witness testimonies because she's terrified that her husband is going She's stood
by him through all of this, she's terrified her husband's going to end up
dead. Well, it's not something you want to predict, but it is
something that happens under those circumstances. So we could probably talk about the weather
here. Let's do it. You know, we need a good disaster movie,
not the meg but we need remember the Day after the Morrow? Oh,
yes, Tomorrow. What's the one with the rock and the volcanoes?
Oh no, wait, that's San Andreas, San Andreas. Yes, what's
the one Tommy Lee Jones? Oh that was? And Anne Haita was in
that. Yeah, the lava good eats up Los Angeles. It was called
Volcano Volcano it was. Yeah, that was. That was a good movie.
Yeah, we need some more disaster movies to all and makes life better
for all of us. All right. Anna Kendrick is in the entertainment news
today. She said she was heartbroken to miss the world premiere of her new
movie that she directed, but she wouldn't. It's called Women of the Hour
at the Toronto Film Festival, but she decided not to go in solidarity with
the SAG after strike. I don't think she actually could go. I think
it's against the rules for he've even promoted this so and it's her directorial debut.
This is a huge feet and something that I got a lot of actors
who want to jump into directing when they get that first shot that's so big,
and she misses out on being able to really celebrate that and be at
this world premiere. Yep, and you know there's something going around. I
heard a story earlier on about why it is that this strike is going on
as long as it has, because there have been three strikes, one of
them the directors, one of them the actors, and then the writers.
But the directors solve their problem immediately because they know how it works and they
have good leadership apparently. And what's her face? Who's the president of SAG
after what's that actress's name? Fran Drescher, Yeah, right, she apparently
is a loose sprocket. Some places, she took a lot of heat when
I believe was it when the strike first started happening and she was on it
was deemed that she was on vacation, but she was actually somewhere that was
already planned. It was a work engagement. But she's still posted photos that
were like, when you travel even for work, there's still some play.
You work hard, you play hard, and she just was seen in photos.
Well, but I'm not sure she's but I don't know that she is
intellectually stimulated enough to see all of the sides here. Well, she's not
going to keep the presidency there, I don't. I can't remember the name
of the person running against her, but I think that she is. I
do think that she's going to get pushed out and somebody else's will be elected.
In the meantime, these people have been on strike for one hundred and
ten days or more. They haven't got even some of them enough to eat
this shit. Well, maybe the problem with her is that she's too fixed,
and in any negotiation you got to be flexible. Not that you want
to give away the store to these guys that are trying to control your the
AI thing, and that's one issue, but also the wages. If nobody
is guaranteed to work, even if you're in sich After you're not guaranteed to
have a role in anything, but if you do, if you are a
working actor, you should be making enough to make ends meet too, your
health insurance. Yeah, both my son and my daughter in law have certainly
made careers in the business, but they've now both gone off into another direction.
Sophie's mother's a very well known producer of some really important television programs,
and her father is a writer of some very successful movies, and she followed
in the footsteps. But Brendan was also a writer, and they would have
insurance when they were working. Like if Sophie was working as a producer on
the set of The Reabers Show, for example, she was entitled to all
the benefits. And Brendan when he was writing correcting scripts bad scripts for various
shows and movies, he was entitled to insurance and benefits. But when they're
not working, they got nothing. They've got a baby, and so they
can't not have insurance. You know. They weren't some concerned about themselves that
they were about their baby, So they had to go down a different street.
Sophie has become a designer and very successful at it. And Brendan's in
the has finished his master's degree as working in a school as a counselor.
And they all have great benefits and they're able to take care of their family.
But is it as colorful as working in the business. No, But
it's security, which is, you know, this day and age, not
easy to get and that's what they're fighting for, Frank, especially to be
able to only work one job and get that Wheah, yep, So I
get what they're talking about. Meanwhile, back in the ranch here, we
have a lot of things to think about during the day today, So please
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of x X has marked the spot, Apparently they're testing a new option that
would enable certain content creators to gather email contacts from subscribers. This sounds kind
of sketchy to me. He's fulfilling. This is Elon Musk saying I wanted
to fulfill a promise to creators. We're going to develop a new option that
will enable subscribers to share their email contact information where a creator they follow.
How is how dangerous is that? Or is this good? Or well,
it's not an automatic. It's not an automatic. So if you subscribe to
some somebody, a little like subscribe pop up window could come and it gives
you the option of whether or not you want to opt into email sharing.
So it's giving users there are the authority of whether or not they want to
have their email shared with these people. But then it's giving the content creators
that access. If the other user is okay with it? Does that make
sense? Yeah, So they're not like automatically signing you up for these mass
emailers, because who likes that stuff? Come on, it's all that junk
mail, right, Nobody likes that. They don't even remember signing up for.
Yeah, and so that's the point. I guess. I don't know.
I just look at all this stuff. And apparently September ninth is the
most popular day for birthdays. In other words, more people were born on
September ninth than any other day in the calendar year. And so we've asked
that question, or we've for those who had a birthday in September ninth,
what's the school? Andy Brinkley said, it's my oldest son's birthday. He
would have been forty three today. It sounds like there's a story there,
Yeah, exactly. Don Berg says, today is my birthday, born nineteen
fifty four. Let's see here. Terry Sevie says she would have been three
months old. I use her more more frequently. I probably should, just
because I feel connected to her because she came to visit me on the farm
and she was very sweet. So anyway I see her, I kind of
jumped to whatever it is that she said. Thank you. Terry John says,
apparently a lot of New Year's festivity he's happened. Hello, du you
think that's why this guy's on it? Right? The other one, there's
a lot of September birthdays attributing to New Year's and then there are a lot
of December beginning of December birthdays, which I believe is around Saint Patty's Day.
Valentine. Well, it was Valentine's Day, little green beer. Yeah.
Hello. Speaking of birthday news, a couple with the same birthday they
have twins that were born to them on the same day as well, So
now the entire family shares the same birthday. Would you like to do that?
Is it cute or do you just like get kind of like sucked into
the mix? Well, how do you mean? So you could do some
cool thing of like all like the family altogether, or you can pick different
days you want to celebrate. I know somebody who their daughters happen to both
be born on the same day years apart, and while they have a family
celebration on the actual birthday, they both get to pick one month before and
one month after of when they want to have their own personal celebration. My
daughter's birthday is December twenty second, sorry, the twenty seventh, and Miles,
her son's birthday is December twenty second, and they all we all celebrate,
you know, before after Christmas is kind of a fun thing. But
I don't know, I've never known anybody who had an entire family share the
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I first started talking about podcasts eons ago, before podcasting was the thing.
You were honor you've been on the cutting Yeah, right, exactly before there
were pods, you had podcasting on your mind. And we also what we
do when Tommy is here is talk about what to listen questions we have.
And so this is from a lady named Laurie who's doing a deck makeover with
composite decking. I had a chance in an auction a couple of weeks ago
to buy a whole bunch of this decking because I was thinking of I have
a deck that I want to put on the back of the apartment down in
the barn, and it's it's old, it's oak, but it's you know,
and that great. So I figured I'd keep the superstructure and put the
stuff on the top. So what is this The question has to do with
whether she keeps the old joists there or replaces them. I guess that's part
of what she's hounds like. She's knowledgeable. Point, she's she's committed to
keeping the old floor joists, but she's concerned about all the nail holes that
are there from the old decking boards. Because when you do a deck makeover,
you take off the flooring part of the deck, you keep the beams
right, So she wants to know, you know, does she fill them
in? How does she seal them? Fortunately, there's a product design exactly
for that, Lorie. It's simply called flashing tape. It's a self adhesive
sort of peel and stick tape that you basically rolled down and tape off the
tops of the joists and protects them from water intrusion. It comes one joist
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have two beams and two floor joists together, and it does that, and
it also protects the joyce against rot and decay by sealing around the new fasteners.
Not only is the cold of the old holes, but it steals the
new fasteners as well where they sort of burst through it. So definitely figure
that stuff to come up with that. That's really that's clever. Yep,
it is, it is. And in fact, you know, Doug,
I actually did a deck makeover about a year ago, and I hadn't intended
to keep the floor joyce until I got the floor the boards off of the
decking and saw what terrible condition, uh they were in because of situations like
that. And here talking about your house, I don't remember a decade your
house, Yeah, I know. Actually it was a house, a house
that we had bought in the last a couple of years. Get a new
deck. We did this too. And by the way, you mentioned your
your oak boarded deck that the boards were cracked and checked. I'm gonna give
you a trick of the trade for that. You know that if you take
those boards off and you turn them upside down, the bottom side is almost
in pristine condition, usually a bit dirty, yeah right, yeah, But
because you take them off, it's not been exposed to the sun. There's
nothing check out. Yeah, yeah, you just cut them up and get
more life out of it. There we go. All right, So let's
talk about the the upcoming episode of the money Pit podcast Stump Removal. Now,
yeah, I'm involved in this development, and you wouldn't believe. We
have hundreds We've we have a we're building a development around the farm, and
and and a forest really and so. But we have to get some of
the trees out. So I have an excavator digging out after we got the
trees down, digging out these these stumps and we're going to grind them up
and use them for mulch, because that's what they do with it. I
get a big tub grinder. So, but for a lot of people you
kind of tree down. What do you do with a stump but asset on
it? Do you get a stump removal guid to come in? What do
you do? Well? I mean, of course, you know, if
you have a tree service and they have stump grinder, that's the most optimal
way. But it's expensive, it is. But there are some manual ways
you can get rid of stumps. They're not quick and easy, but they
do work. So, for example, one of the one of the ways
that you can do that is using a stump removable chemical. They're sold online,
they're solden home improvement stores, and they generally contain potassium nitrate, which
speeds up the microbial process of decomposition and the usually environmental Yeah. Yeahs get
all worked up about that or is it Okay, I'm sure, I'm sure
there may be but okay, yeah. What you want to do is you
want to cut that stump as close to the ground as possible, and then
you want to drill a whole bunch of holes in it. And I did
this actually in my front yard. I had a stump to get rid of
it took about six months to nine months, I say, before it really
started to soften up. But you can't even tell it's there now. You
put the holes in there and you and you fill it with the chemicals and
you can cover it two lads of plastic which will accelerate it. Uh and
yeah, see you later it starts to go to work. And that's a
natural way, somewhat natural way to get rid of them. Yep. All
right. We have the money Pit newsletter as well. One of the old
standbuys is the kitchen cabinet routine. This must be a frequent question for you.
What do we do with our kitchen cabinets? Yeah, yeah, you
know, everybody's trying to update their kitchens and they're looking for inexpensive ways to
do that because cavin's have gotten so ridiculously expensive. But you know, a
lot more folks are painting cabins these days because the cool thing is that the
trend towards towards a painted cabinet has actually come back, you know, So
it's not it's not a way to cover up something that in an odd sort
of decor way. People are paying good money for brand new cabinets that come
out all solid color. Yeah, all right, good advice. Check it
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