1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:04,360 The next Stefan Good Day download with Doug and Jay Kirshner is made possible in 2 00:00:04,440 --> 00:00:08,080 part by Calitron, which is the safe way for you to lose weight and 3 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:13,279 keep it off, and also by prevagent keeping your brain healthy. Friday, 4 00:00:14,519 --> 00:00:17,039 I mean, we're gonna have fried fish today? Is that what it is? 5 00:00:17,960 --> 00:00:25,559 Fried fresh fries on Friday? And French fries and fried barbecue something or 6 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:30,239 other? Can you fry something and barbecue it? It doesn't sound like yeah, 7 00:00:30,359 --> 00:00:34,880 why not? Is that I listened? There's after you fry it? 8 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:39,600 Yeah? Okay, all right, So there we have it. The recipe 9 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:43,039 for dinner tonight, Boys and girls, moms and dads, grandmas and grandpa's, 10 00:00:43,079 --> 00:00:46,479 aunts and uncles, folks everywhere interested in what's going on in the world. 11 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:51,439 On January the twelfth, it is Friday Good Day Program. Doug Stefan 12 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:56,399 and Jay Kirshner optimistic about the weekend, even though we're gonna get slammed. 13 00:00:56,399 --> 00:01:00,000 The whole country's getting slammed with weather because it's winter. Yes, it's not 14 00:01:00,039 --> 00:01:06,400 global warming, it's winter. It's the what they call that thing, the 15 00:01:06,439 --> 00:01:11,640 polar vortex. Vortex there I gets you every year. But yet every year 16 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:17,400 we're like, oh what, wow, yeah, look at this. We're 17 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:21,959 so foolish. We're so we have to name everything, and then we have 18 00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:26,000 to remain everything right exactly. Yep. I have the willpower to stand on 19 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:30,799 my own and have my own thoughts and tell people I don't think this makes 20 00:01:30,799 --> 00:01:34,000 a whole lot of sense? Am I crying? Like loan WM? I 21 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:38,560 all by myself. I'm in the woods by myself. I'm the only one 22 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:42,719 who's said, excuse me, all right. Will Power? What a great 23 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:49,599 word. Isn't it the steam for a life's locomotion. It is the reason 24 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:56,959 we do things. The reason that this lady Marlene Engelhorn, who inherited a 25 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:04,040 fortune from her grandmother, she in Vienna, co founder of a campaign to 26 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:09,280 combat wealth inequality, setting up plans to redistribute the inheritance by placing it in 27 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:15,599 the hands of the Good Council for Redistribution. Who knew there was such a 28 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:23,360 thing. Fifty people, ages of sixteen and on upwards ten thousand addresses were 29 00:02:23,479 --> 00:02:31,039 randomly selected sent invitations to apply for membership. Applications will require people to complete 30 00:02:31,080 --> 00:02:37,879 a short survey. Here you go before you the people there are researching you 31 00:02:38,719 --> 00:02:45,639 narrowing down the applicants to fifty and then there you go. The lady says, 32 00:02:45,639 --> 00:02:51,439 I've inherited a fortune, therefore I have the power. I didn't do 33 00:02:51,479 --> 00:02:53,919 anything, so I have the power to do what I want with it. 34 00:02:54,039 --> 00:02:59,680 The state doesn't even want to tax it. This, lady's not necessarily. 35 00:03:00,199 --> 00:03:05,120 I think that the people who want to do this, God love them. 36 00:03:05,599 --> 00:03:08,039 Do what you want. If you don't want to, that's okay too. 37 00:03:08,719 --> 00:03:13,439 It's up to you. It's your money. You should do what you want 38 00:03:13,479 --> 00:03:20,520 to it. Inheritance tax has been abolished in her country. In two thousand 39 00:03:20,520 --> 00:03:23,520 and eight. She said, quote, I see this as a failure of 40 00:03:23,599 --> 00:03:30,319 decision makers. It's not the inheritance that should ensure that I'm doing well in 41 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:35,360 life, but the way I distribute or contribute to society. Well, then, 42 00:03:35,599 --> 00:03:38,680 lady, who decides what the contribution is worth? You can decide for 43 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:43,759 yourself what you think your contribution is worth. And God love you, But 44 00:03:44,159 --> 00:03:50,520 don't please tell me that somebody else's contribution isn't what It isn't the factor in 45 00:03:50,599 --> 00:03:53,439 things. We just want to take away whatever it is that the state or 46 00:03:53,439 --> 00:03:58,759 somebody else wants to use. Well, that's not She's saying your decisions how 47 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:02,199 she can contributes to societe in a non monetary way. That somebody's worth isn't 48 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:06,639 just based on their birth rate or their birth that's true with the family that 49 00:04:06,639 --> 00:04:12,520 they were born. That their worth is how they contribute to society, not 50 00:04:12,599 --> 00:04:15,079 only in an monetary way, but just do they take care of their neighbors? 51 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:19,240 Do they? Yeah, we can all do that in a different way, 52 00:04:19,399 --> 00:04:24,720 in different ways, different ways to do it as well as you can. 53 00:04:25,079 --> 00:04:28,839 I'd like to think that I do that with what I'm doing to save 54 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:31,920 some land here on my farm. Everybody's in a different way of looking at 55 00:04:31,959 --> 00:04:36,800 these sorts of things. But that's it. It's your decision, not somebody 56 00:04:36,839 --> 00:04:41,040 else's. And somebody else will say, well, oh come, you've got 57 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:44,720 all that money and I don't. That's none of your damn business. It's 58 00:04:44,759 --> 00:04:48,319 not it. This is not about you. This is about what she has 59 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:53,759 found herself surrounded by and by the same token, it's not up to her 60 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:57,879 to decide that Bill Gates ought to just you know, distribute the money that 61 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:00,480 he's got. Bill Gates, he does figure that out. Yeah, he's 62 00:05:00,519 --> 00:05:04,079 pretty good at doing that. Yeah, Yeah, he's buying too much farmland. 63 00:05:04,160 --> 00:05:08,360 That's something that is disturbing to a lot of people. What is he 64 00:05:08,439 --> 00:05:12,800 going to do with all the farmland? But that's the just The people who 65 00:05:12,839 --> 00:05:18,639 make judgments based on this sort of thing are at best annoying and it worst 66 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:24,120 wrong. It's not you, it's not your money, it's not up to 67 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:28,600 you, and that's what the state has done. Austria and some European countries 68 00:05:28,639 --> 00:05:31,879 in our country and other countries have decided they want to extort money from people 69 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:35,560 who have it just because they have it and because they want it, then 70 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:40,680 they want to redistribute it in their own way. And that's not the way 71 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:43,240 it works. It is the way it works, but isn't the way it 72 00:05:43,279 --> 00:05:47,120 should work. It's not right. Yeah, it's just a council for redistribution 73 00:05:47,199 --> 00:05:51,680 of fifty people age of sixteen and up and they have certain things that they 74 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:55,319 have to look for, like it can only the money can only go towards 75 00:05:55,360 --> 00:06:02,079 nonprofit things. Nothing that takes away from life or society should really set things 76 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:08,800 on where Yeah, plenty of stuff, plenty of stuff. You could use 77 00:06:08,839 --> 00:06:15,279 the money to start a new sewerage treatment plant. Wouldn't that be for profit? 78 00:06:16,519 --> 00:06:21,040 No, not necessarily. Not if you decide you don't want it to 79 00:06:21,079 --> 00:06:26,160 be I come up with these wild ideas. No, you can have a 80 00:06:26,199 --> 00:06:31,319 nonprofit sewerage treatment plant. Right. As a matter of fact, in that 81 00:06:31,519 --> 00:06:38,160 vein those of you who are all worked up about the global warming and what 82 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:46,040 do we do with gases and stuff, this is a perfect fix for sustainable 83 00:06:46,199 --> 00:06:50,879 energy. In another corner of the world, there's a program going on that's 84 00:06:50,879 --> 00:07:00,800 starting I think next month in Vancouver. They are transforming the energy landscape there 85 00:07:00,879 --> 00:07:06,040 by collecting all of the garbage, anything that has any ability to be warm, 86 00:07:06,519 --> 00:07:11,959 because if you put garbage here, it's like anything else. My manure 87 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:15,720 pile on the farm, the compost pile, anything that's organic, when you 88 00:07:15,759 --> 00:07:18,439 pile it on top of each other, is going to be warm. It's 89 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:24,199 going to get warm, and they're taking that heat, that gas, and 90 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:28,920 they're using it to produce energy, renewable heat source. Pretty good, right 91 00:07:29,959 --> 00:07:34,560 in this case, there are six thousand homes that will get their electricity from 92 00:07:34,839 --> 00:07:41,079 this sewerage treatment plant. It's a good idea. We could do that here, 93 00:07:41,560 --> 00:07:44,759 Yeah, it's very good. We could do that easily. All right, 94 00:07:44,759 --> 00:07:49,839 what else can we do here? It's time for all the numbers to 95 00:07:49,879 --> 00:07:56,720 come in from December, and consumer prices last month rows more than they have 96 00:07:56,879 --> 00:08:00,160 for a while. It's December, though, see this is it. The 97 00:08:00,199 --> 00:08:07,839 twist on these stories is there's not the contextual look at what happened last December 98 00:08:07,279 --> 00:08:13,519 or ten Decembers ago or one hundred Decembers ago. People always spend more money 99 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:18,800 and prices are always higher in December. Hello, it's Christmas. People are 100 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:22,040 buying things. They'll pay whatever the price is. Even though you see all 101 00:08:22,079 --> 00:08:26,560 these ads everywhere or hear them on the radio, this is a special deal 102 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:30,319 Black Friday, blah blah blah. They've already inflated the prices, so when 103 00:08:30,319 --> 00:08:33,519 they mark them down, they're still getting the profit out of them that they 104 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:37,559 want. And plus the fact there's a lot to be said for volume. 105 00:08:37,559 --> 00:08:41,879 Long as you're selling things you know, and you're not selling it at a 106 00:08:41,879 --> 00:08:46,120 loss, that isn't gonna do anybody any good. So here we go with 107 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:52,399 the people who want this is the same group, in a matter of speaking, 108 00:08:52,399 --> 00:08:54,879 the ones to take your money away. They want to control what you 109 00:08:54,960 --> 00:08:58,720 do with your money. Well, maybe better do something with the interest rates 110 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:03,679 again, which you know is not what the Federal Reserve wants to do. 111 00:09:05,320 --> 00:09:09,600 They're going to dial back inflation. So they have said cutting interest rates more 112 00:09:09,639 --> 00:09:16,240 this year. And whether or not this is a plant, whether somebody has 113 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:20,240 come up with is to complicate those plans to cut interest rates so that people 114 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:26,240 could borrow more and use their credit cards more and have the ability to mortgage 115 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:31,360 property to buy new homes, that sort of thing. So anyway, I 116 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:35,960 just this is such whoey. So when you read these statistics this morning, 117 00:09:35,039 --> 00:09:39,240 or you hear somebody else talking about them on the Bloomberg radio station that's near 118 00:09:39,279 --> 00:09:46,279 you, or even maybe Dave Ramsey will talk about it, although he puts 119 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:50,679 things in a perspective fairly well. The price increases were big on food, 120 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:58,399 Okay, that happens in Thanksgiving and through Christmas. Prices on beef went up 121 00:10:00,279 --> 00:10:05,759 nine percent. Price of crackers here's something important, boys and girls rose eight 122 00:10:05,799 --> 00:10:09,840 percent last month. Biscuits. That's gonna that'll put us right over the top, 123 00:10:09,919 --> 00:10:13,919 right, that'll end your life. The cost you pay for biscuits and 124 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:22,080 rolls and muffins and pasta and rice. Wow, that'll be the end of 125 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:24,840 the world. They should maybe should be talking about this on the Food Farm 126 00:10:24,879 --> 00:10:31,480 Family Report. Hey, we could do both. I think we're I think 127 00:10:31,799 --> 00:10:35,360 hopefully. I'm making my point here that this is something that is seasonal. 128 00:10:37,039 --> 00:10:39,639 Food always costs more. Food has cost a lot more in the last couple 129 00:10:39,639 --> 00:10:43,120 of years because we don't have enough of it. We don't have enough farmers. 130 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:48,200 We don't have we have people using the land in inappropriate ways instead of 131 00:10:48,279 --> 00:10:52,840 keeping the land going. I was I went doing some farm work yesterday and 132 00:10:52,919 --> 00:10:56,240 drove by a couple of fields that I used to cut lots of hay off 133 00:10:56,240 --> 00:11:01,320 of seventeen eighteen hundred bales a year, and the time decided that they wanted 134 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:05,799 to let that just grow. Just leave the fields alone, don't take the 135 00:11:05,799 --> 00:11:09,799 hay off of them, and uh and be a natural habitat for all of 136 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:13,639 the animals that would like it. Well, hello, dere, you're so 137 00:11:13,759 --> 00:11:20,120 stupid over there. The animals have adapted to the field being mode, and 138 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:26,440 they have used the field and the surrounding areas to their advantage. So then 139 00:11:26,759 --> 00:11:31,480 they figured out, well, if we leave everything grow, it'll start getting 140 00:11:31,519 --> 00:11:35,000 wet and absorb water and become a swamp. So I guess we'll cut it 141 00:11:35,039 --> 00:11:39,080 with a morning machine just let it sit, which is another thing that doesn't 142 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:43,279 work well. But they don't get it because they don't know and they don't 143 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:48,600 ask questions. They just assume that this is the right thing to do and 144 00:11:48,039 --> 00:11:52,960 it's not so anyway. Well, I'm on my too today. All right, 145 00:11:54,559 --> 00:11:58,519 Well listen, everybody needs to have a toot, right do do do? 146 00:11:58,519 --> 00:12:05,320 Do? It's eighteen? Hello, what happy bridy. I'm Greg. 147 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:07,519 I'm sixty eight years old. I grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, majored 148 00:12:07,519 --> 00:12:13,399 in business administration. 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Apparently she's not giving any well, she may be 166 00:13:30,039 --> 00:13:33,120 giving something away, but it's not giving this away. And so we get 167 00:13:33,159 --> 00:13:37,799 to the bottom of a jay, We'll get this is an outrage and we're 168 00:13:37,799 --> 00:13:41,519 gonna fix it. So everybody knows what's going on with Taylor Swift. How 169 00:13:41,559 --> 00:13:46,919 do Swifties make it known that there's Swifties jay? Do they just go to 170 00:13:46,919 --> 00:13:50,320 the concerts or they buy the record? They dance in the middle of the 171 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:54,320 street. Well, different conversations come up. We just know things really, 172 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:58,559 like for instance, this whole Taylor Swift give away with the La Crusee cook 173 00:13:58,559 --> 00:14:05,399 where a Swift wouldn't have fallen for this because no, no, Well when 174 00:14:05,440 --> 00:14:11,759 you watch the ad, it's clearly very old photos that they use, you 175 00:14:11,799 --> 00:14:16,039 would notice immediately that it's not real. You can hear a little bit of 176 00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:20,639 the fakeness and the AI version of the voice. But people who are just 177 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:24,919 the run of the mill fans, not swifties or anybody who just wanted some 178 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:28,519 free La Cruse cookwear fell for it. What is that? It's a high 179 00:14:28,639 --> 00:14:31,159 end brand. I don't know that much about it. It's a French it's 180 00:14:31,159 --> 00:14:37,080 a French cookwear brand. They are known for their cast iron cookware and it's 181 00:14:37,120 --> 00:14:41,080 good stuff. I mean, I do want some. But people wanting to 182 00:14:41,799 --> 00:14:48,159 wanting to fall wanting to like people falling for this were commenting in the in 183 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:50,600 the comment section too on social media of any of these ads, saying, 184 00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:54,039 hey, I fell for this. I paid for shipping and handling, I 185 00:14:54,080 --> 00:14:56,200 never received the cookwear. I tried to contact somebody, Nobody was available for 186 00:14:56,240 --> 00:15:00,480 me to even contact, Like, this is a scam. And so people 187 00:15:00,519 --> 00:15:03,480 on social media were trying to help each other out if they did fall for 188 00:15:03,519 --> 00:15:07,720 it. Did a lot more with celebrities. Yeah, did she say anything 189 00:15:07,720 --> 00:15:15,480 about it herself. 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This is Friday, and 216 00:17:15,599 --> 00:17:18,359 so we all think, well, it seems like it was just Monday and 217 00:17:18,359 --> 00:17:22,519 now it's Friday. Have the weekend to do all of our stuff. Whatever 218 00:17:22,519 --> 00:17:26,279 it is you're going to do. I'm going out to New York to go 219 00:17:26,359 --> 00:17:29,079 bring some things to an auction and pick up some stuff that'll be exciting. 220 00:17:29,160 --> 00:17:33,640 Daisy and out of a nice ride in the truck in the rain. There's 221 00:17:33,640 --> 00:17:37,119 a lot of rain coming across the country as well. But we If you 222 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:41,200 feel like you don't want to do anything, weekend's a good time to stay 223 00:17:41,240 --> 00:17:44,559 in the sack, right, or maybe watch a movie or read a good 224 00:17:44,559 --> 00:17:48,119 book, or go to the gym and exercise. Do all of those things. 225 00:17:48,440 --> 00:17:51,119 If you have a traditional Monday through Friday job. If you don't, 226 00:17:52,039 --> 00:17:55,559 well, think positively about it. And next week, when you have a 227 00:17:55,640 --> 00:17:57,599 day or two off in the middle of the week, you'll find fewer people 228 00:17:57,640 --> 00:18:03,519 in the gym uss competition for right. That's the way it works most people 229 00:18:03,559 --> 00:18:07,640 around running errands. When you are running your errands, yeah, exactly. 230 00:18:08,319 --> 00:18:15,000 Put that into your mind. Good words, good ideas that shape our lives 231 00:18:15,039 --> 00:18:21,039 and drive us all towards success. Be happy, you know the old sign. 232 00:18:21,039 --> 00:18:23,000 If you want to be happy for the rest of your life, that's 233 00:18:23,039 --> 00:18:29,680 a different kind of happiness. But are they happy? From Fanel Williams, 234 00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:36,240 Right, Fanel par L Williams, think and feel because how you think and 235 00:18:36,359 --> 00:18:42,680 feel has a profound effect on your ability to recognize opportunities, how well you 236 00:18:42,759 --> 00:18:48,319 perform the outcome of the goals that you set for yourself. Were into the 237 00:18:48,559 --> 00:18:52,680 second week of New Year's resolutions, how are you doing? Are you maintaining 238 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:56,599 and optimistic out look on the things you decided you wanted to do? Are 239 00:18:56,640 --> 00:19:00,759 you harboring positive thoughts about the things that you said you wanted to do as 240 00:19:00,759 --> 00:19:06,519 you went into the new year? Are you creating the circumstances that are conducive 241 00:19:07,119 --> 00:19:11,039 to you achieving what it is that you desire. I feel like I'm a 242 00:19:11,119 --> 00:19:14,680 preacher sometimes when I go off on a tune with some of my ideas. 243 00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:18,640 But I just hope that I can help you set a tone because there are 244 00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:22,680 a lot of challenges around today. We just talked about the scams with the 245 00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:26,839 Taylor Swift thing. I mean, there's scams everywhere. There are people trying 246 00:19:26,839 --> 00:19:32,720 to rip you off every day in all kinds of circumstances. So you figure 247 00:19:32,759 --> 00:19:36,680 out how not to be ripped off, come up with a positive conclusion, 248 00:19:37,559 --> 00:19:41,039 the right actions, and I think that in your head the right place. 249 00:19:41,079 --> 00:19:45,880 I mean, I go down these rat holes all the time with things that 250 00:19:45,960 --> 00:19:48,839 I think are wrong or going on, and they really aren't. But you 251 00:19:48,839 --> 00:19:55,839 know, your mind gets something focused and you just go bum But I know, 252 00:19:56,240 --> 00:20:00,440 because I've had a lot of good help over the years, that positive 253 00:20:00,519 --> 00:20:06,359 thinking will dramatically increase your chances of being successful no matter what the endeavor. 254 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:08,759 You want to be successful in your marriage, want to be successful with your 255 00:20:08,759 --> 00:20:12,039 family, want to be successful at your work, you want to be a 256 00:20:12,039 --> 00:20:17,440 good golfer, whatever the heck it is that you want to do. Relax 257 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:22,240 with it. There are solutions to that slice that you get every time you're 258 00:20:22,279 --> 00:20:27,920 on the second hole right, and you know, go through the situation and 259 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:32,480 the outcome and you'll get rid of the roadblocks. That's the way I think 260 00:20:32,519 --> 00:20:37,400 it works. And if you're close to somebody, some religion person, that's 261 00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:41,519 good. Sometimes that helps you out a little bit. It sounds silly and 262 00:20:41,799 --> 00:20:47,480 sometimes it sounds simplistic. I get that. I know that it may be, 263 00:20:47,599 --> 00:20:52,200 however, that it is that simple a shift in your retention. It's 264 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:56,559 a mindset that you have. You know, the Republicans are always white, 265 00:20:56,680 --> 00:20:59,960 right, and the Democrats are always wrong. No, that's not true. 266 00:21:00,319 --> 00:21:04,680 Get real right. Whenever a negative thought enters your mind, replace it with 267 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:08,720 something constructive, like there are people in Washington are trying to do good things, 268 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:12,720 and there are people in Washington who are not doing good things. And 269 00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:17,960 that if you're if you dwell on that sort of thing, maybe your mother 270 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:22,319 in law you don't like, and maybe you want to put her into a 271 00:21:22,359 --> 00:21:25,039 position, or your father in law. It's always the mother in law jokes, 272 00:21:25,039 --> 00:21:30,400 But sometimes the father in laws are just as bad, just as distracting 273 00:21:30,599 --> 00:21:33,880 or whatever it is. So is that good? Is that a lesson? 274 00:21:33,039 --> 00:21:38,960 Here endeth the morning lesson? That is it's over. Speaking of things that 275 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:45,839 are over. China's manufacturing activity is over. The signs as I said earlier, 276 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:51,440 all these numbers are coming in from December. The economy is struggling in 277 00:21:51,519 --> 00:22:00,359 China. Survey of factory managers shows manufacturing contracted. The sign that this economy 278 00:22:00,839 --> 00:22:08,680 is slugging, slugging down now slowing down. It is sluggish right there. 279 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:18,920 What I call it the what is that the the GPS GPI, the gross 280 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:23,960 productive something or other whatever that is, went down fifty points. And that's 281 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:30,880 because in the last nine months the index has gone down because the amount of 282 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:34,160 goods and service is mostly goods. They don't sell any services. They sell 283 00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:41,039 goods. Then their factory outputs way down and we see and if we take 284 00:22:41,079 --> 00:22:45,559 what we buy over here, or you buy in Europe, you buy anywhere 285 00:22:45,559 --> 00:22:52,960 around the world. China has been the predominant influencer in things being made and 286 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:57,519 then selling them in the last thirty years or more, and the economy has 287 00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:04,000 We've been fabulous and very dynamic. However that's not the case now. Part 288 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:08,160 of it is interest rates, part of it is the pressure to get things 289 00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:11,599 that were used to be made here, for example, there are in other 290 00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:18,240 places made back here or in other countries. So anyway, I don't necessarily 291 00:23:18,319 --> 00:23:23,200 think this is something to celebrate. It's something to be realistic about and to 292 00:23:23,319 --> 00:23:27,799 understand that, yes, even if you haven't looked at the label, and 293 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:32,640 even if you don't care where something comes from, there are other people who 294 00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:37,559 do. So you can raise your consciousness and not buy stuff made in China, 295 00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:41,440 or you can keep doing it, but you're becoming a minority. Certainly, 296 00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:45,000 Fewer and fewer things. Although if you go to home depot of Lows 297 00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:48,519 or places like that, look at all the things they have in the hardware 298 00:23:48,559 --> 00:23:52,759 department. You go out and look at the things that they have to be 299 00:23:52,839 --> 00:23:56,480 sold with, washers and dryers and stoves that a lot of them are still 300 00:23:56,519 --> 00:24:03,720 made with American brands. I think it's Unamerican to put an American brand name 301 00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:07,960 on a product made in China. I just do. I think it's bad 302 00:24:08,039 --> 00:24:14,400 business. So anyway, there's my toot on China. Here's the story of 303 00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:18,000 a couple of bodies of two men who died while they were in Alabama's prison 304 00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:26,440 system. Guess my god, Jay, these people were missing their hearts and 305 00:24:26,559 --> 00:24:33,440 other organs. Yeah, so family without these organs just completely yeah. Yeah, 306 00:24:33,799 --> 00:24:37,400 So the families are suing the state of Alabama and their Department of Corrections 307 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:42,880 as well. They should this guy. One guy's body was decomposing, his 308 00:24:42,960 --> 00:24:48,359 heart was taken out, his remains were sent to the family, so they 309 00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:53,000 filed a suit. The daughter of this guy, Charles Edward Singleton, who 310 00:24:53,039 --> 00:25:00,400 was in the slammer for I'm not sure what, but not important. Your 311 00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:04,920 father's body was missing all of his internal organs. There are a couple of 312 00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:11,160 different families. An attorney representing them said, the experience of these families shows 313 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:15,279 that this is part of a pattern. Apparently there are other people who started 314 00:25:15,279 --> 00:25:23,000 complaining years ago about this sort of the organ harvesting going on in bodies. 315 00:25:23,039 --> 00:25:29,400 And when either these guys are getting killed in prison or they're dying of natural 316 00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:34,200 causes, but when their bodies are found they in this case, I think 317 00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:37,480 both of these follow up plays expected. So they kill them, they take 318 00:25:37,519 --> 00:25:41,480 out you know, I'm sure this is something on the inside with the guards 319 00:25:41,519 --> 00:25:45,519 and stuff. Right, they kill these guys, they take their organs and 320 00:25:45,559 --> 00:25:52,519 sell them, and then they pocket the dough Pretty damned outrageous, and so 321 00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:56,240 what are you going to do about that? I was looking at this and 322 00:25:56,240 --> 00:25:57,359 I thought, well, maybe I shouldn't tell the story because to give people 323 00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:02,519 ideas. No people know what's going on. I bet you this isn't the 324 00:26:02,559 --> 00:26:04,839 only place in the country, because these all these guys talk to each other, 325 00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:08,759 and there's a network of prison guards all around the country. I'll bet 326 00:26:08,799 --> 00:26:14,200 if you investigate the prison systems in most states, you'll find this stuff going 327 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:19,000 on. So what's the penalty these families that get millions of dollars from the 328 00:26:19,039 --> 00:26:26,480 state? You wait, right, and they should This is people in jail. 329 00:26:26,559 --> 00:26:29,240 All they were in jail. I can hear somebody saying that right, 330 00:26:29,799 --> 00:26:33,720 oh, they're in jail. That doesn't mean that they have to get killed 331 00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:37,920 in their heart and kidneys and livers and everything else and to get taken out 332 00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:41,039 so they go somewhere else. Those things are worth lots of money on the 333 00:26:41,079 --> 00:26:47,079 open market. And I mean it's not just some amateur that could do something 334 00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:48,079 like that, because you have to have to know how. You have to 335 00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:52,160 act fast and not damage the organs if that is the case. And the 336 00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:56,200 funeral director even said that normally organs are in a they are taken out, 337 00:26:56,279 --> 00:26:59,839 placed in a bag and that bag is put back in the body after an 338 00:26:59,839 --> 00:27:04,720 all topsy but for some reason just the whole bag was missing, or just 339 00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:10,200 one of the organs. This is yeah, craziness. All right, let's 340 00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:15,079 get some find me some happy birthday music, will you please. Mom's in 341 00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:18,440 the news, Pennsylvan. Your mother says a man has broken into her home 342 00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:22,880 on a number of occasions to watch your daughter sleep. This is creepy as 343 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:30,480 hell. This woman in Coatesville says the unidentified man has come into her family's 344 00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:36,039 home four times so far. He's coming in, has conversations with the daughter, 345 00:27:36,839 --> 00:27:41,960 and then he leaves or he watches or go to sleep? Ah, 346 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:44,839 get better? D the doors of the windows? Why did it take four 347 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:48,319 times? Like after one time? Once? Is too much? Woof? 348 00:27:49,079 --> 00:27:52,640 All right, here's another mom's story, sort of a happy birthday. This 349 00:27:52,759 --> 00:27:59,559 is a great story. A mother welcomed her son on her birthday. She 350 00:27:59,599 --> 00:28:03,480 has a new baby boy born on her birthday, and she also shares the 351 00:28:03,519 --> 00:28:07,839 birthday with her eight year old daughter, so her son and her daughter and 352 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:14,559 her have the same birthday. Wow, Hey, that's kind of cool. 353 00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:19,960 January twelfth, that's today? Whoa? Okay? All they was supposed Oh, 354 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:22,440 the baby's supposed to be born today. But I was born the other 355 00:28:22,519 --> 00:28:27,000 day, so that's why there's this big thing. It was I think January 356 00:28:27,039 --> 00:28:30,160 third or January ninth, I'm not sure what the date was. But the 357 00:28:30,599 --> 00:28:36,440 story here is that the mother has a new baby and it was born on 358 00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:40,480 her birthday, which she also she gave birth to her eight year old daughter 359 00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:45,319 eight years before this on her birthday as well. Wild stuff, right, 360 00:28:45,039 --> 00:28:51,640 who would to thunket? Good? Good? Let's see one more quick mommy 361 00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:56,559 story. Florida homeowners speaking out of She says her driveway was torn up without 362 00:28:56,559 --> 00:29:00,279 her knowledge. As she put her a house on the market, came back 363 00:29:00,279 --> 00:29:03,079 from a trip to find dirt, somebody came in and took all the tar 364 00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:10,440 off, or for driveway man. There's scams everywhere out there, huh. 365 00:29:10,519 --> 00:29:14,799 The next Stefan Good Day download with Doug and Jay Kirshner is made possible in 366 00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:18,480 part by Calitron, which is the safe way for you to lose weight and 367 00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:22,400 keep it off, and also by Previgent keeping your brain healthy.