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as we have our new beginnings. Life is sweets. We should say thank
you. I do. I know that every morning, every evening it's a
good time to say thank you, celebrate sort of what's going on. So
the I guess the idea is, as you have new beginnings, new chances,
and maybe you've been bitter about something that happened in the last year,
So let's toss that out. Shall we say thank you? And let's grow
into twenty twenty four, Thursday, the fourth of January, one of the
deadliest attacks in Iran in decades. This shows you, Jay, what it's
really like, because there's a a civil war brewing there. You know,
we talk about what's going on discontent here, and a lot of people don't
pay it atention to what's going on elsewhere. The Iranians, as I have
said many times, are very unhappy with the Ayatola, but they he has
the support of the military, so they can't really get rid of them,
and so as a result of that, there are these sorts of things.
This cemetery blast yesterday, ninety five people I think a one hundred people somewhere
in that vicinity. Yeah, yeah, a couple of hundred were hurting service.
Yea, there were two. It wasn't one. There were a pair
of bombings at this cemetery, which is as I look at a map here,
this is sort of southeastern city in Iran, and this was something that
was that was obviously planned. There are people, as I said, there
was a there was a celebration and a manner speaking of life. Remember when
we killed that guy Solomoni who was the former leader of the Revolutionary Guard and
some bombing, I forget what it was. It was three or four years
ago. US drone strike took him out. So that made the US unpopular
with the Ayahtola and the people who support him. But the people who don't
like him and don't like the Ayahtola, they were happy. And even though
there was no I don't think there's been a group that claimed responsibility for these
explosions, but it was you know, this goes back to the time the
Islamic Revolution in Iran when they got rid of This was at the end of
Jimmy Carter's era, and one of the blunders, huge blunders that he made,
was to not support the Shah of Shah is that New England, the
Shaw of Iran, who was tossed out of power, and this became one
of those things that upset the Middle East, the sort of balance of power,
if you will. And there were a lot of other tensions at that
time, and certainly there were plenty of other tensions right now that are focus.
We weren't thinking because we don't know, we don't pay attention to the
folks who are not our friends. We've done some things that are really stupid.
In the last year, we've done some a lot of things that were
really stupid when it came to the Iranians. Or it's almost like we don't
the government doesn't know what the people in Iran are thinking and what they're all
about. I mean, the CIA's got to be on top of that,
but they don't seem to be. And so here we are with a situation
that you know, just again, I think the best what comes out of
this that's most important is the fact that this is a very very disgruntled nation.
And it's like the bombings that go off elsewhere. Remember when the IRA
did their thing in England and how there were bombings everywhere because they didn't like
the English interference in what was going on in Ireland. So there you go.
But usually there's some group that takes ownership, and I don't believe any
group has claimed responsibility for this. No, well, that's what I'm saying,
and that's part of yeah, you know, in a manner of speaking,
as part of what is indicative of what life is like in that country
these days because nobody really kind of know. I think that the people inside
are they know what's going on. Did I talk to you about this woman
who's one hundred and four years old? It was a skydiver? Seem to
me we talked about somebody who was a skydiver, but I don't think it
was this woman who is who took her for This wasn't a birthday present.
I think the last time we talked about one of these things. Is this
the one that I feel like we've had a discussion about somebody who've always wanted
to do it and they finally decided to do it, and then there's somebody
else who this was like a big hobby for them, and it's just something
that they've never stopped doing. Right if you jumped from thirteen thousand and five
hundred feet and there are a picture of what I was attracted to. Was
on the plane last night coming out here. I was reading some of these,
you know, the stories that we try to put together that we can
talk about on the air, and there's this picture of this woman with her
hair standing straight out in the air with somebody on you know, sort of
rite behind her who's guiding her down. But you look into her face and
you think, this woman's hundred and four. Oh wow, he's aUI that
is something how many of us are ready to soar, even at the age
where we are. I've I had a couple of our opportunities to do and
I didn't want to do it, just just nope, thanks. I don't
think that's one of those things for me. George Bush, the Father,
did it the last few years of his life. He was well into his
eighties when he did it, I think, and he tried it right when
they went in't the Secret Service. He wanted to do it when he was
president of the Secret servers wouldn't let him, and so the Secret Service real
he runs things under the you know, the guys of protecting the president.
They and the vice president. They really do run most of the activities,
the things Yep, you can do that or no you can't, which is
kind of interesting, imagine spending eight years like that. Eight years ago.
I remember Bill Clinton, so how he had a Mustang and they had the
Mustang was parked in Washington someplace, and I'm trying to remember where it was,
because they park there's a building about four blocks away from the White House
where they the Secret Service keeps all the cars, and one of the cars
was in there. Clinton wanted his car close to him, and they said,
mister President, you can't drive. Well, apparently one night he was
able to get out of the building, get away from the Secret Service,
and take a ride in his Mustang. I don't remember where he went,
but I remember there's a big to do. The next day, the Secret
Service was all over him and well, yeah, I mean they failed at
their job. They lost them. I went out, Yeah, I wanted
to take a walk around the grounds. Okay, speaking of Bill Clinton,
there's a lot of to do just to remember we mentioned the Jeffrey Epstein list,
where I have to hand it to you, and maybe I'll hand it
to me and pat myself on the back a little bit. I have always,
as I've done this program for as long as I have been, in
many circumstances ahead of the day's news. You know, the news talk radio
program, you're supposed talk about what's going on in the news, and I
like to talk about everything that's in the news, not just some of the
stuff. We get to more of it than I think most other programs do,
just because it's kind of like a music program. When we were done,
after the record's done in three three and a half minutes, okay,
so our conversation about this, that or the other thing is done in three
or three and a half minutes and on to the next record, onto the
next story. And so anyway, this was something that we spent a little
bit of time on yesterday, And having just mentioned Bill Clinton's name reminds me
of what I also read on the plane coming back out here last night about
these unsealed documents that sort of focus on some of the people who were his
victims. This Virginia and I ever pronounced her last name right, accusing Epstein
and Gizlane Maxwell, who's in prison? Still? Right? Yeah? Isn't
she still in the slammer? Still she's in jail? Right? She was
convicted of sex trafficking, which reminds me the next time we talk about sex
trafficking with one of those things that come into alert people, we ought to
bring that up. There's something by the way, let me go down.
I'm going down a side street for a minute. Well, it has to
do with sex trafficking. How many people have seen the spot from I think
it's the Dallas Cowboys that are doing a spot on human trafficking. I see
it when I'm on the plane watching videos. At the intro to every one
of the things. You know when you're take when you're looking at the entertainment
device on the plane, there are usually promotional things an add for thirty seconds
in front of the show, maybe promoting the airline or promoting the credit card
or its case. There's a thirty second blurb that airs with three players from
the Dallas I'm pretty sure it's the Dallas team and the general manager, James
Collins in our studio in Dallas, our main studio. Is there a lady
who runs the team in Dallas, because that's who the woman who runs whatever
team this is. And I was pretty sure they was talking maybe it was
Arizona, though I'm not too sure about that one. I'm not too sure.
Let me see, let me look at it. Well, anyway,
it's not important to the story. It's just the interesting thing this document that
the news media is pouring over. There are a lot of names in there,
names that we knew though, like Prince Andrew and Alan Dershowitz and Bill
Clinton and Donald This is only the first set of the documents. There's more
to come. Yeah, right, anyway, there were a number of I
think Bill Clinton and Donald Trump were there together. It's an interesting pair.
Imagine today Charlotte Jones, Yes, the owner and executive VP of the Dallas
Cowboys. Yeah, so I think that's who it was that's doing the spot
at any rate. Okay, So I think we've highlighted one of the things
that I think we'll be on the talk radio Countdown show that we talk about
this every week at the end of the week and runs on the weekend,
the national debt. Now, you know, one of the things going back
to wanting to be first on some of these stories and talk about them and
get the first sort of before these are virgin stories before everybody else gets onto
them, and it gives you their interpretation or their thought about it. I
mean, they don't have to be the first, but I was again,
I think Jay and I were on this yesterday, the focus on thirty four
trillion dollars that we have in debt according to the Treasury Department, and it
has it's gone up tremendously obviously because of COVID, and if we don't do
what we need to do, stop spending, the debt will reach fifty trillion
dollars in ten years. So money's worthless, right, That's why it's so
much inflation, because we owe so much money. I don't know why people
don't get all that, or maybe people don't care. I sure, azek
do. Selena Gomez is on the top of the list when it comes to
social media things that are trending regarding celebrities. She's talking about how she's been
making music. I just noticed and Jay and I were talking about it here
for a moment off air. The fact that she's in that show with Martin
Short and Steve martin In the building, only murders in the building. Yeah,
and I didn't. I watched a little of it the other night,
but I didn't get into it because I didn't it's been it was what was
it on Hulu or something before or Hulu? Yeah, and so now they've
put it on ABC because everybody's looking for products. A lot of these things
that were exclusive a couple of years ago on the you know, the streaming
service is now getting there, making their way to the TV itself and getting
great ratings. Look at the ratings that are coming on Sunday night when Yellowstone
is on. It was great ratings for that, and I think the ratings
are good. You say this is a great show. Oh, I love
it. This was one of the very few shows that whenever a new episode
would drop on Who I would make sure I would watch it that day,
where normally I don't get to watch anything on the day, let alone like
on the week. And also when I am watching a show, it takes
me a few days. I have to keep stopping and going and doing something
else. And this was the one show that I'm like, I'm watching it
when it drops and I'm watching the full episode no matter what, No matter
what, everyone be quiet and pay attention. Yes, all right, So
Selena Gomez is not talking about the television work or the acting words that she
joined. She's talking about making music. And I've never gotten into her music
for me, and I say this as Captain curmudgeon, that much of the
music that's popular today sounds the same. And then somebody would point out,
do you remember the duop era? There dug o and all the music so
the same, And there's something to be said for that anyway. So Jay,
she's a pretty frank about where she is at this point in her career.
She says she only has one more album in her Yeah, she's tired,
and I get it. I mean, when you are a musician,
you put out albums, you tour, you do the whole shebang. She's
also acting, and she said that when she started out, she loved it.
She was doing her show on Disney Channel, Wizards of Waverley Place,
and singing was always a hobby for her. She never felt like she was
a great singer, but she knew she was a great storyteller. And clearly
she was doing a bang up draw because she's a great, well known singer
as well as actor, but she said that it turned into something more than
she ever intended it to be. And while she loved it and enjoyed it,
at this point of her life, she's tired. She maybe has one
more album in her and then she'll retire from music and just focus on acting.
All right. Does this sound like she's complaining or just telling you what
the story is? No, I don't think she's complaining at all. I
think she's acknowledging her truth that she's tired, she has one more album in
her and she'll just focus on acting. She's done well well. She seems
like pretty good actress from what I can do, and she has lucas.
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right, so we have the Oakrage Boys here. Apparently one of the Oakridge
Boys, a guy named Joe Bonsal, is retiring from the group doing a
lot of touring as they do, because he's got some kind of neuromuscular disorder.
Is this the same sort of thing that Celine Dion has? You know,
what do you stiff person syndrome? I think this is this is something
different, but it's just he's not leaving the band. He just can't tour
anymore. Uh huh, too difficult on his body. Yeah, so you
wonder, well, he's seventy five. How old these guys are all in
their seventies by now. I would thought anyway, Right, they've been around
for fifty years, and this was supposed to be their farewell tour, wasn't
it. And then of course, like what most of them say, like
Share, that's my last tour until the next one, and then that'll be
the last. Oh no, no no. And Shar's defense though, Share
never stopped her tour. It just it was the same tour and just kept
going. So if you don't stop the tour, then it's not a new
tour. That'd be the end of the tour. It was all part of
the same tour. Yep. Anyway, they've had a great there in the
Country Music Hall of Fame. They have been playing a lot of fans around
the country, and they started when they were in their twenties and they're now
in their seventies, so that tells you something about their career. Back in
this seventies they started in For heaven's sakes, who would have thought that a
group like this, or any group, frankly, any band would last.
And then you think about, well, the Beatles aren't still around, but
the I think of my Friends and the Moody Blues, Well, there are
only two of them left, so it's not much touring you can do.
And there were five or six in the original group and now it was only
two. So what do you do to make up the rest of the music.
And so by attrition, they're just all losing the members of the groups,
and that's why they're all sort of stopping. But anyway, this is
a lot of times they'll get replacements, especially if they're not putting out new
music. They're just touring. Like Tops Queen has Adam Lambert with them,
and yeah, right, he took Freddie Mercury's place, right, didn't he?
His voice was very similar. Has been a fantastic edition. Uh no,
I thought, Remy all or not? Right? Remy? Oh?
Did he? Oh? All right? Well? Anyway, hold a good
thought at Joe bons Hell from the Oak Rage Boys. It's a good day
program. I'm Doug Stephan with Jay Kirshner, thinking about what happened. You
know, we're still sort of halfway betwixt and between is it last year or
is it this year? And thinking about one of the things that I learned,
we're all steeped in our community with a new library and a new library
leader, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. So it made me
think about public libraries in general. We think they are less necessary, and
maybe they are. Is the advent of technology, you go in, what's
the point of borrowing a book? Right? You can get the books online?
Can't you get almost every book it was ever printed on? But also,
what's the point of buying books? How many and how many times?
How often do we read a book more than once? And normally if we're
is it's maybe it's like one or two of our books. But when we
read a book and then we'll tend to pass it on to somebody else.
So why not hit up the library and borrow's over buying them. Thought about
that with regard to Netflix when they were offering to buy you know, you
want to buy this movie? How many times? I don't want to watch
a movie more than maybe once or twice, with a few exceptions like The
Hunt for Red October or True Grid or something like that. But For the
most part, you see a movie and that's it. See you later,
like watching an old, stale telle. I don't it really amazes me how
many people watch the same episodes of Friends over and yeah, over again.
I'm that person. Well, when it comes to TV shows and movies,
I will unless it's one I don't like or I just I didn't care for,
I'm not going to watch it again. But if I liked it,
I'll I'll have no problem watching it again. Like Friends episodes, if I
see it's on, just on one of the regular channels and I'm doing other
stuff, I'll have it on in the background. The Big Bank Theory.
I could watch The Big Bank Theory season to season on repeat. You I
don't get that at all. I there's nothing about that show. I've tried
to watch it here and there and I just haven't. Doesn't grab me.
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I was talking about the libraries is because I saw this is one of those
things Doug who cares well maybe gets people's interests. But if you, especially
if you're a reader and you read a lot of books. I have lots
of people. Friend that I visited in Palm Beach, she's an ardent she
always has been an ardent reader. I've known her for a long time,
and she grabs any in all books and reads them. And that's a great
way, by the way, to keep your mind active and stimulated as you
grow older. So the most borrowed book of the year. Never heard of
this book before I read this story, Lessons in Chemistry, which was adapted
to an Apple TV series Top Spot around the country. Libraries that were surveyed
New York, Seattle, Boston, Cleveland, cities like that. So that's
the number one I suppose. I think, well, there's two lists,
the fiction list, and that's where this book comes from, Lessons in Chemistry,
and then the reality books like Prince Harry's memoir Spare was the most borrowed
book in terms of what do they call that autobiography or sort of reality.
It's not fiction, that's fact, And by the way, was the most
borrowed book also in the ebook sphere, So that's another thing. That's those
are the two most popular libury finds for this past year. All right,
got that. Here's something I am sort of taken back by Jay. That
is the number of bomb threats that forced evacuation of state capitals across our country
yesterday. The state Well, I'm looking at the list of the states Connecticut,
Georgia, Hawaii, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi. The result of bomb
So in Kentucky, for example, state police ordered the capital be evacuated.
They're investigating a threat received by the Secretary of State's office. But why so
many of these on the same day. What's the story with that? This
is an email that initially was received by secretaries of state around the country,
and just basically I'm looking at the story from Connecticut. Well, employees got
this suspicious email in the secretary of State's office claiming that multiple explosives had been
placed in their state building, their state capitol building. So they searched the
building. They didn't find anything. But again Georgia State Capitol, same thing
happened there. Michigan State Capitol, same thing happened there. What the heck
is going on Michigan anything, but they have to take it. Every single
threat like this, they have to take it seriously. Yeah, Maine State
House was evacuated. The why state Capitol building was evacuated. Wyoming got several
mass emails, but law enforcement said the threat wasn't credible and so they didn't
do anything. Okay, all right, listen, how do you know under
the circumstances what to take seriously? That's what they get paid for, right,
they should know or figure out what really matters in that department. Well,
it's always better to take a seriously check it out, and nothing comes
from it than you think already it's a hoax, don't follow up, and
then something that happens. Yep, right, okay, tell me what you
think of this. Jay the United States or no, I shouldn't say the
United States because this is scheduled for the state of Alabama later this month.
They're going to execute a prisoner by asphyxiation by using pure nitrogen, saying that
this method may help to get you to dispatch them faster. And then there
are others who say it's cruel, inhumane, and degrading to use something like
this on a guy. His name is Kenneth Smith. Oh this is the
gas mask one, right, yeah, right, Scheduled to be executed on
January twenty fifth using this gas method. It's like, I guess, like
going to do a gas chamber, except they've got a mask on his mouth,
and it really let me see how I approach this, so that I
it seemed like a horrible way to die. Lack of oxygen. This is
right up there with drowning with right, like putting a pillow over somebody's face,
Yeah, right, using a cylinder of nitrogen, which is heavier than
air, and so it pushes the air and the oxygen out and when you
breathe it, what the heck do you think is going to happen? It
asphyxiates you. That's an inert gas. So anyway, this fellow, I
think there was a way they tried to execute him before, but it was
a botched attempt at doing it last year. They couldn't get They couldn't They
can't find a vein, so that's why they're doing this. They can't there.
This is a new I'm not sure, well is it new or just
it's new to us? What it does? According to a lot of human
rights people. Is cause graves suffering. It's a painful and humiliating death.
Well, you know what, if you murder somebody, you ought to think
about that maybe as part of when if you're even thinking when you do this,
I don't know, you know, I'm sure there's a quicker way to
firing, putting a gas mask on it. Yeah, firing squad. So
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Kelly Clarkson now in our focus on what's going on celebrity things that are trending,
Kelly Clarkson's name is in the top ten today talking about a number of
things, including how she lost weight. I think I was talking about her
earlier this week on Monday, because I saw an interview she did with Hannah
Wattingham on her program and I am taking is those of you know as something
about wanting him that I find fascinating anyway, So she says she got When
did she get divorced Kelly Clarkson? Was she the one who's married? I
want to say it. What was she married to a policeman who is the
celebrity? No? No, she was married to Reba McIntyre's stepson, RIBA's
ex husband Marvel Yeah okay, got it, who was also her like manager
acted as a manager and all of that stuff, and it was a pretty
pretty tough divorce. I want to say that was was that four years ago?
Now twenty? Okay, thank you, mister expert. There is the
voice of expertise, all right. So anyway, she as she builds a
new life and a new look. I didn't think she looked bad before.
So much prejudice aimed at women who know, you don't see this about men,
women who you should lose some weight? Yeah? Really, who says?
So she got to be comfortable? Yeah, And Kelly Clarkson is somebody
whose weight has always fluctuated, and she has looked fantastic no matter what I
think. She's very attracted, very cute. Anyway, So is she the
first winner of American Idol? Isn't that where she Yeah? Yeah, she
was very good. So she got married, she got a couple of children,
she divorced, her husband, moved from LA to New York. And
part of it was she was feeling like she had to look a particular way
living in LA. And she doesn't feel like she has to be like that
in New York. So miserable and her kids were miserable in LA, she
said. And they just have a better quality of life in New York.
Mm hmm. No, listen, there's there's good things and bad things to
be said about any place where you are in Cleveland, and a lot of
great yeah, everything for everyone. No, exactly right anyway, So what's
this focus on how she dropped? Wait? I thought, you know,
she's a little chunky, but she's I think it's an attractive look. Frankly,
I've always thought, you look at some of these waifs, these young
models who don't have any nothing Jesus skin and bones. Why is that attractive?
Well, there's this whole ozempic craze right now too. So anybody who
seems to lose weight gets accused of being on ozempic. And the reality is
it's nobody's business whether they use it or not. And also, if somebody
loses weight one way and they're being accused of losing it a different way,
that takes away all of their you know, work and everything that they did
do. And again I refer back to my previous statement, it's nobody's business
business. Kelly Clark's in your art. In my book, you're in number
one? How's that go out? Jay's number one? Kelly could be number
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