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keep it off. It's the twenty seventh of March. I feel like I'm
a little congested, but I feel fine. It's middle of the night.
Why wouldn't I feel fine? Right, It's midnight in Hawaii. I'm at
the studios of ninety four to three, the Star on Kawhi in louaylu who
lo who? I think listen. I could spend my entire lifetime to figure
out how to pronounce some of these names over here. The thing that's good
about it is the beauty, the scenery. Jay Kirshner and Duk Stefan.
On Good Day, Jay posted some of the pictures of me just being a
tourist, spending some time yesterday wandering around and various places, including this place
that has like a whale up against that. You saw that one, right,
Jay, the whale up against the shore of the beachline place with Oh,
I didn't see that one yet. I saw the Yeah, go look,
I saw the one with you in front of a big sign. And
then the one with the lighthouse. I really like the lighthouse. Yeah.
There was another one from the from what looks like a whale, and it
isn't a whale, but it's the it's the water coming up against the coast
just everywhere. So that's the story in this end. A Jay's in Cleveland
where it's kind of cold. You have snow a little. What was the
weather yesterday last twenty four hours? I mean it was tolerable yesterday. Yeah,
it was a little chilly, not absurdly cold. We had a few
moments of like a little bit of rain, but no, no snow.
All right, And down to Dallas, isn't it too cooler? James Collins
in their main studio down to Dallas, isn't it a little bit cooler?
It's cooler for me. It's like forty right now, which is like pretty
freezing for me. But hey, right, buck up, kid, all
right, all right. Here's the story of a woman who won twenty five
thousand dollars a year for life. She had a dream last night. I
had a wonderful dream about this. She dreamt she would win the lottery.
She woke up and she won the lottery. This lady is Patricia Harris lives
in Holliston, which is about ten miles from where I live in Framingham.
She got the quick pick ticket. Wait a minute, I had that number.
Hold on a second, what's the big idea? No, I guess
I did. She bought the ticket at a place called the Country Farm.
Now I know this is my ticket. Anyway, she got her prize the
other day. During the visit, she said that she had that dream about
winning the lottery, and so she she she won. Shook the one time
pamily. You got three hundred ninety thousand bucks, and she's going to invest
in a I guess a home, some good things for her family, wasn't
it. Yeah? Game, I mean twenty five thousand dollars a year's like
for some people that's their salary. Yeah, right, exactly. That's amazing.
Yep, all right, so that's good. Congratulations to her. All
Right, it's hard to escape this Baltimore thing. I think there needs to
be a deep dive into what actually happens. So let's spend some time.
I actually was listening online to some radio coverage of this from a couple of
really good radio stations in Baltimore. You know the story, the news yesterday,
not about this time that it became known locally and then it spread like
wildfire. The tragedy in the Francis Scott Key Bridge circumstance completely collapsed. So
what is going on? And there was a warning apparently jay issued by crew
members on this ship, yeah before and I guess that helped save some lives.
Yeah, they stop traffic. So when they lost power and they knew
that they couldn't control anything, and there was a bridge coming up, and
they made a mayday call and it was able to stop the flow of traffic.
And I think there was still like maybe a couple of cars and most
people were like construction workers or crew members who were in the water. This
could have been so much worse had they not gotten that mayday call out.
Yeah. No, the people on the ship certainly did the right thing.
The warning helped a lot. Whatever happened to the boat, that'll take a
few days probably for them to figure out what happened to the boat. But
anyway, this is the major bridge to think about the impact of this.
The large yes of this. This is Baltimore Harbor is a very very busy
harbor. It's one of those harbors like let's see Philadelphia on the East coast
and New York, and you know, all of the biggest cities have a
large, big harbor. Baltimore's is especially large, a lot of large shipping
container ships, and so this one lost power. Two people who went into
the water apparently were rescued, but I think there's another six that they can't
find, and they've called off the search for those people, right, and
if I have that in my mind correctly, and by the way, all
of these people he ate, the two that they got and the six that
they didn't get were all part of the crew that was working on the construction
of the bridge. So this bid and the reason they were rebuilding it is
because it was built back in nineteen seventy seven. It's a two mile long
bridge. Thirty five thousand drivers a day used this thing on Intertate six ninety
five. And so the port of Baltimore, I guess is closed as well.
And all of these this is like most of the port like long beaches.
The same way, they specialize and roll on vehicle shipments, and so
anyway they have to. They pulled the ship out and they're bringing the ship,
I guess towing the ship to someplace in Virginia. But they get the
thing off, but they are the debris around the bridge. They got to
get out of the way. So that's why they got to close the port.
But the process could take what a month anyway, the bridge replacement could
take years years. Yeah, So this container ship was on its way to
Sri Lanka. It had been operated. Well, you see, this is
the this is the dark side of whatever goes on in the shipping business with
these big ships. They're all because it's cheap to base them in Singapore or
wherever. And so when you see these ships, you see some consistent names
like Mayors M A E. R. S K. That's the company that
charted this boat with its cargo. And then there's Costco, which is the
Chinese Overseas Container operation. Those are two of the biggest the ones that you
see often, and so there's that component to it. People are curious as
to this will be a good thing because we'll learn a lot about how just
because it's pretty interesting and kind of compelling to know. When you talk about
these things. Sometimes people it's kind of like the Boeing situation where people are
talking like they have a paper butt because they don't really know what's going on,
and they just log. They just fall in footsteps with the news media
that doesn't know. They couldn't grab their butts in the snowstorm most of the
time when they're talking about these things. So there's a lot of misinformation not
about what happened, but about what you know, the ship was, about
how these ships operate, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. So
in I guess the conversation about these sorts of things, the sad disasters,
again, I bring Boeing into it and bring this ship. The transfer.
World of transportation is a pretty complex thing these days. These ships are all
run pretty much like railroads and airplanes. It's almost all automatic. When you
come into a port, though, a boat, what they call the pilot
boat is set out from the harbor and they put a pilot in the boat
to guide the boat into where it's supposed to be docking. Because most of
the you know, the captains they go all over the world, they don't
know the captains don't know the Baltimore Harbor necessarily, or any other harbor.
So there's usually four or five depending on the size of the Where I am
right here. If it were daylight in the studio, I could see out
to the harbor here. When I came in the other day, there was
a huge tanker that was offloading because on these islands in Hawaii they have some
solar but mostly all of the of the power that runs everything, all the
electricity is generated by huge generators that are fueled by a diesel. So they
have tankers coming in every day. It's about a tank all over to day
to fuel the bunkers so that the generators keep going. So this was really
I mean I was like maybe two hundred feet away from the tanker as we
drove by it. Those things and you if you have children with you,
they'll look at that and they go, oh wow, yeah, it's that
you know sort of thing. But in terms of this, I'm not I'm
not overviewing what's going on with the seriousness of this circumstance with a bridge and
the people who lost their lives. But you know, they they apparently the
I guess something about the water temperature Jay and what it would be in Baltimore
at this time of year, it's like thirty seven degrees. Yeah, I
mean, they're already freezing conditions. Yeah, right, they're not going to
They're gonna save those people. I just I would be curious to know what
it is what happened. The construction crew was on the bridge repairing potholes.
You know, they do that stuff at night. Most major roadways had these
crews that work all night long to fix stuff like that, and so that
was going on on that side. Well, how were they able to stop
traffic? But then but they didn't get off the bridge? Say that?
Huh? How was it that with the MAYD alert they were able to get
have traffic be stopped, so there weren't more cars traveling on the bridge.
But why didn't the construction workers get off the bridge or were they already moving
to get off the bridge? Maybe? I don't know. Yeah, that
is one of the people that survived. One of them is very seriously hurt.
The other one was just treated and released. Imagine what that person is
thinking today. Imagine what's in that in the mind of that person. And
you know, when you see the ship heading, it's dark the middle of
the night, so they could hear there's kind of like a foghorn on the
ship, and they can see the lights of the ship it's a big bridge,
right, two miles long. Anyway, So the governor was talking about
it. She went to the families of the six people who were affected by
this, and so, yeah, it'll take a while to investigate it,
but the circumstances are such that it is. It's more than a curiosity of
her people. You know, lives were lost and the port is closed.
It will affect a lot of people's jobs, that whole thing. So hold
a good thought for the folks who are involved in this in Baltimore. Okay,
good deal. This is the portion of the hour we sort of check
how what's going on the trending column with the celebrity news and gossip, because
that's a lot the stuff, whether it's local news in your neck of the
woods or are these national stories. I have some remind me to talk about
the bore that went into the swimming pool here in Hawaii, would you,
Oh my goodness, yeah, you can go find that video online right now,
though, our focus on Kathy Lee Gifford, who, as you know,
is someone who has been all over television for years and years and years,
and so she made some people sort of did you say that she said
something about the Golden Bachelor and the Golden Bachelorette. But we're gonna have a
woman now to do what the Golden Guy did? Is that what this?
Oh? Of course, I mean it all started with just The Bachelor,
and then it turned into the spinoff of the Bachelorette, and then I think,
what do they have like Bachelor Island or something like that where a bunch
of didn't get together, and now the Golden Bachelor's of course there's going to
be a Golden Bachelorette. I know there are a lot of people that love
these Bachelor shows, The Bachelor, the Bachelorette, the Old Foggy Bachelor,
and the Old Fogie Bachelorette. Apparently now, oh no, it's called the
Golden Bachelorette. So has there been one already? Yeah, there's only been
the Golden Bachelor so far, the one season of the Golden Bachelor, and
of course people loved it, so they continue with their spin off franchises.
So Kathy the Franchise was on with her former co host Hoda Cole not evenronounce
to last Night. Copy. That's what I always thought was I think it
was always mispronounced Cobb. But yeah, it's copy anyway. So she was
talking about what she would do if she was a Golden bachelorette, but she's
not interested in having somebody her own age. Her husband, Frank Gifford,
died but last year or the year before, he was a baseball player,
great announce her. They'd married a long time and had a lot of stuff
went on in their marriage, including him being unfaithful to her, and it
became very public. But she's stuck with him. But now she says,
Okay, I'll go on to the Golden Bachelorette if I'm asked, but I
want somebody who's a lot younger than me, which I thought was kind of
cute, maybe a little Well, she had been asked before about it,
and she was saying like, no, she wouldn't want to do anything like
that because of just that many guys. And she's like, I don't know
where they've been. Yeah, all right, So instead of for her anyway,
instead of calling it the Golden Bachelorette, they ought to call it the
Golden Cougar, which might make things a little more interesting, right, I'd
watch the show that was about them, But it's only the Cougar because if
she's older, but it's not if the guy's older. No, I know
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the opening day and all the thirty Major league teams that are going to be
playing. We've already had that sole opening series last week of the Dodgers Podres
and there are other teams are going to play in London in Mexico about the
real season comes tomorrow, So are we all? I always I like baseball.
I'm not, as anybody can tell by listening to this program. I'm
not a sports fan, never had been. But I do like baseball,
Yeah, because it signifies a lot of stuff. Right you hear the crack
of the bat there going to the park and smelling that freshly cut grass at
this time of the year, it's yum. Want you just think about,
like the not only the athleticism, but the coordination of this small object flying
at you at ninety miles per hour over one hundred miles per hour and then
connecting with it with a like a stick. Essentially, it is just absolutely
astounding the ability that they have. Yeah, now, it's a cool thing.
It's a it's the thing. And I say this not to sound like
a jerk, and I don't want anybody I hope you know, take it
as such. But growing up as I did in a town that's a big
baseball town. Was when I was a kid and it still is, always
has been, the Red Sox really do uh preoccupy much of the conversation.
Uh in the spring of the summer, they just that was. That's where
you find that to be the case in Cleveland too, Jay, that the
Guardians occupy a special place in people's minds. Feels better, feels it feels
different. Well because also there's a little bit of a lull. I mean,
you from football and then of course basketball is going, but it's just
you have these moments of like multiple sports happening for a little bit and then
it just simmers down slightly and then once baseball picks back up and back ball
will go until you know, the championship finals in June. I kind of
feel like most people they follow their hometown teams, but nobody really pays attention
or most people don't pay attention to baseball until October, Yeah, when the
season series. Yeah, I just think that it's cool and so I underscore
that. Some political news, Robert F. Kennedy Junior announced his running mate
and lady named Nicole Shanahan. And they must say, when I first saw
this, I don't know who she is. When Jennifer was on the other
day, she seemed to know her because she's from California. She's a big
time attorney, has done well as an entrepreneur, and so I believe she's
from the Bay Area too. H Oakland, Yeah, she's from Oakland.
So anyway, he went up there and introduced a running mate, said that
she was battle tested and that's why he's putting her on the ticket. I
wanted, he said, quote a partner who possesses the gift of curiosity and
open inquiring mind, and the confidence to change even her strongest opinions in the
face of conflicting evidence. I found all those qualities in this woman. She
grew up right here in Oakland, the daughter of immigrants who overcame every daunting
obstacle and went on to achieve the highest levels of the American dream. So
anyway, we got a bunch of he's not as old Robert F. Kennedy's
seventy, So if we won't let him go into the same league as Trump
and certainly Biden. Well, and he comes from a famously democratic family Shahan
has been a lot of money Democratic campaigns. Yeah, so it seems like
they're kind of the alternative possibly for Democrats who don't want to vote for Biden.
And then RFK Junior's family has been very open about they don't like that
he's running because they feel that he is taking away votes from Biden. You
know, they need to grow up, they need to grow a pair,
They need to understand what's going on. The political climate is not what it
was when JFK ran in nineteen sixty even when his father, Robert F.
Kennedy Senior, ran in nineteen sixty eight. The political climate now is so
much different. The reality of what's going on in our country, the issues
are so much different, and frankly, you know, to a certain extent,
Trump is sort of up on the issues. I don't feel like Biden
is at all. And I feel more and more strongly about this pretty much
every day. I don't usually go out of my way to create a situation
where there's going to be a conflict in conversation, but Joe Biden has been
an all unbelievable disaster in my mind. And the verbal thing about this is
that the rhetoric of two parties continues because it's still Republicans. Were Democrats Democrats
versus Republicans, and anybody else is just quote unquote in the way or a
quote unquote wasted vote. Yeah, and that just stinks. And when it
comes to the big to Bay, it's it's going to be Biden and Trump.
Are they only two on the big stage, even though there are other
parties, there are other candidates. She's thirty eight years old, she's been
politically active for most of her adult life. Pretty good profile of her in
the La Times today. So let's see what happens. Let's see how much
she brings. She's married. Oh, okay, that's why I know she
was. She's married to the co founder of Google, Sergey Brinn, one
of the two guys I referred to as a little worm. He's got plenty
of dough. They have a daughter. They've been separated for a year or
so, and so that's kind of her background. She's apparently friendly with Elon
Musk, right, well here, that's her ex's like close friend. And
then there were rumors, which she's denied, that there was an affair with
Elon Musk. No Elon Musk had an affair. I can't believe that.
Who'd want to actually think about it for a second. I'm gonna be a
little I'll be a little off the tip here. Who what woman would want
to have an affair with Elon Musk? Seriously, guys, I mean,
he's not my cup of tea, but he's not like atrocious. Yes,
well, maybe I'm speaking as a man. People might say that, who'd
go out with you? Okay, so I suppose that's fair. All right.
Now, let's see what's going on with Trump. I'm sure many of
you who are Trump fans have followed how the shares of Trump Media? The
uh, the the guy was, he got fifty nine percent of the stock
I think truth Social went public, and the value of the stock after the
opening bill yesterday went up homot sixty percent. So man, oh man,
it went up to seventy seven dollars a share, and then it went up
to I think eighty, and then it went back down at fifty eight.
So the company is valued now as of today, as of this moment,
at eight billion dollars. So of that Trump, what is he owned?
When I say fifty nine percent? So what's that? What's sixty percent of
eight billion. That's six billion dollars. That's twice as much as we thought
he was going to have in his pocket when we talked about this last week.
Unless I am the numbers wrong, and I may, but I'm just
taking a quick look here at the numbers. So and plus the fact now
he doesn't have to worry about the CORNU or the cash the bond for this
foolishness in New York. But at any rate, I think it's very interesting.
This is good, not necessarily just for Trump, but any new company
like this that generates this kind of cash, no matter what it is.
And I'm not even I don't care whether it's trong. I just think it's
good for the economy. It's very good to have that sort of interest in
Kaplan. Certainly, there are a lot of people that are investing in it,
not because they know anything about social media, but they want to support
Trump. Okay, So it's fine. People can spend their money how they
want to. For sure, exactly yep. The Attorney General in Texas jay
name is ken Paxton, reached a deal yesterday with prosecutors to resolve criminal securities
fraud charges. This has been a saga that's been going on for quite a
while, he says, I'm innocent. This goes back like what to twenty
eleven he was a state rep. He so accused of recruiting two people to
invest in a computer server company without disclosing to them his role as a paid
advisor. And then the guy who, let's see, this company was called
I think it's serve in, servage, serve Energy. I guess I think
that's what it's called. I never heard of it until I looked into this
story. I've heard of Paxton before. So he's got to pay a two
hundred and seventy one thousand dollars. Fine, Okay, so this is you
know what it is? What the reason I bring it up at all because
it may not be of interest the individual story may not be of interest to
a lot of people. But this just shows you how corrupt, how easy
it is for the people who have influence and power to corrupt or be corrupted
or yeah. Right, So anyway, I just think that he's he's got
are just pigs. They are they take advantage of the circumstances. I'm talking
about the congressman, I'm talking about Trump anyway. Okay, So yesterday the
Supreme Court having discussions about the whole abortion pill thing. So apparently there were
thirteen people Jay arrested in front of the Supreme Court and they were demonstrating against
the examination of restrictions to the abortion pill that nobody can pronounce. Have you
you've been practicing this, mef priss to miss say it again? Why?
Yeah, everybody knows what I'm talking about when I say that your abortion pills,
So why sounds silly and not being able to pronounce it anyway. So
they're hearing arguments over whether the FDA has lawfully relaxed restrictions to make it easier
to access the drug in question to end one's pregnancy. This is the first
pill to take of you. If maybe you can help me with this.
There's a two drug regimen for a medical abortion, and so this is the
most common method around the country. And once again people are trying to tell
other people what to do with their bodies. I think that the appropriate thing
here is I don't like abortion, never have. If I was ever with
anybody, I've said this one hundred times. I would encourage them to keep
the baby and put it up for adoption. But that's me. It's not
my business what somebody else does. It's not your business, frankly, what
anybody else does. You can say, oh, we're trying to protect the
unborn child. Well, I think there's a lot of misconception of late term
abortions and that is not where Yeah, a lot of people believe that.
Well, some people are against abortion, no matter when. A lot of
people are against abortion because of the thought of late term and a lot of
people think that, well, what if somebody is farther along second trimester,
third trimester and they are doing this, that's not possible. Your body doesn't
just absorb the fetus like. Your body has to pass the fetus. And
if it's too big, like bigger than six, eight weeks, ten weeks,
it's it's your body's not going to pass it. This pill is not
going to help. Nope, it's a sticky weekend. You're still going to
need a procedure, still need a surgery. So much controversy. There's always
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yesterday was seeing the Joe Biden and his campaign. Remember, these are the
people that are trying to eliminate TikTok, although he's more a legislative process involved.
Before it gets to Joe Biden but I think if it wasn't him,
many of the people around him have said TikTok needs to be curved. But
yet yesterday the campaign joined to TikTok to try to reach younger voters. And
they certainly need to because they are basically vacant when it comes to voters under
thirty five. They're all looking for Robert F. Kennedy's junior. They're not
looking at Joe Biden by any stretch of the imagination. And so what they
did, though, was open themselves up to a lot of jokes and criticism
because of the stance that the Democrats in general have toward TikTok. So anyway,
just I mean, it's silliness, all right. Here's another one.
It really is, Yeah, it is. It's just silly, all right.
Here's Governor desandis signing a bill that bans children under fourteen. We've been
talking about this for a number of weeks now. So if you're fourteen,
you don't have social media accounts, period, end of story, if you
live in Florida. So how do they how do they manage this? How
do you know That's a good question. Yeah, how do you know that
somebody's not lying about their age? Are they going to require that they put
in like a state ID or a driver's license and proof of that. And
then a lot of adults who are able to use social media might not just
because they don't want to give that information. Right And as far as like
our country goes, how do you dictate something like this in one state but
not others? How can you control that? It seems like craziness anyway.
All the social media companies, according to the bill, have to delete the
existing accounts of those who are under fourteen. How do they know if they're
under fourteen? I don't remember putting my age in when I signed up for
any kind of account, So this seems you did. You did, But
again, underage people could still lie about their birth year. Yeah, how
you're going to prove that? So if you're if you're caught violating this bill,
this law, you could have to pay a ten thousand dollars fine.
That's a individual of the companies if they allow this to happen, could be
level over fifty thousand dollars fine. So what are they trying to do?
I get what they're trying to do, trying to help parents navigate this difficult
terrain makes sense, but leave it up to the parents. Yeah, Like
I mean, I'm all for having you know, I'm all for focus on
social media and how it affects the human mind in general, regardless of age,
but especially at the younger age. I don't like that the government is
getting involved in trying to control it, though, don't control other people's parenting.
So this is a small part of what the FEDS are trying to do.
Remember the Kids Online Safety Act KOSA, it's called trying to keep miners
away from it because it negatively affects their mental health. Keeme away from apps
and online platforms and that sort of thing. But once again, how are
you going to measure this? You know, the TikTok thing needs to go
for any number of reasons. But you know, you also have the X
and you have all of the stuff from face mak. They all use the
same Yeah, they all use the same data grabbing algorithms and all of that.
But it's one of those things too that when you look at how social
media affects everybody, how it affects other people, there is a difference in
the younger generation with Gen Alpha right now, where I believe One of their
nicknames is the New Old or the Old New or something like that. Where
Gen Alpha is happy taking digital detoxes, they don't feel as obsessed with their
phones as the generations above them do, and they're more willing they want to
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