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I mean, we're gonna have fried fish today? Is that what it is?
Fried fresh fries on Friday? And French fries and fried barbecue something or
other? Can you fry something and barbecue it? It doesn't sound like yeah,
why not? Is that I listened? There's after you fry it?
Yeah? Okay, all right, So there we have it. The recipe
for dinner tonight, Boys and girls, moms and dads, grandmas and grandpa's,
aunts and uncles, folks everywhere interested in what's going on in the world.
On January the twelfth, it is Friday Good Day Program. Doug Stefan
and Jay Kirshner optimistic about the weekend, even though we're gonna get slammed.
The whole country's getting slammed with weather because it's winter. Yes, it's not
global warming, it's winter. It's the what they call that thing, the
polar vortex. Vortex there I gets you every year. But yet every year
we're like, oh what, wow, yeah, look at this. We're
so foolish. We're so we have to name everything, and then we have
to remain everything right exactly. Yep. I have the willpower to stand on
my own and have my own thoughts and tell people I don't think this makes
a whole lot of sense? Am I crying? Like loan WM? I
all by myself. I'm in the woods by myself. I'm the only one
who's said, excuse me, all right. Will Power? What a great
word. Isn't it the steam for a life's locomotion. It is the reason
we do things. The reason that this lady Marlene Engelhorn, who inherited a
fortune from her grandmother, she in Vienna, co founder of a campaign to
combat wealth inequality, setting up plans to redistribute the inheritance by placing it in
the hands of the Good Council for Redistribution. Who knew there was such a
thing. Fifty people, ages of sixteen and on upwards ten thousand addresses were
randomly selected sent invitations to apply for membership. Applications will require people to complete
a short survey. Here you go before you the people there are researching you
narrowing down the applicants to fifty and then there you go. The lady says,
I've inherited a fortune, therefore I have the power. I didn't do
anything, so I have the power to do what I want with it.
The state doesn't even want to tax it. This, lady's not necessarily.
I think that the people who want to do this, God love them.
Do what you want. If you don't want to, that's okay too.
It's up to you. It's your money. You should do what you want
to it. Inheritance tax has been abolished in her country. In two thousand
and eight. She said, quote, I see this as a failure of
decision makers. It's not the inheritance that should ensure that I'm doing well in
life, but the way I distribute or contribute to society. Well, then,
lady, who decides what the contribution is worth? You can decide for
yourself what you think your contribution is worth. And God love you, But
don't please tell me that somebody else's contribution isn't what It isn't the factor in
things. We just want to take away whatever it is that the state or
somebody else wants to use. Well, that's not She's saying your decisions how
she can contributes to societe in a non monetary way. That somebody's worth isn't
just based on their birth rate or their birth that's true with the family that
they were born. That their worth is how they contribute to society, not
only in an monetary way, but just do they take care of their neighbors?
Do they? Yeah, we can all do that in a different way,
in different ways, different ways to do it as well as you can.
I'd like to think that I do that with what I'm doing to save
some land here on my farm. Everybody's in a different way of looking at
these sorts of things. But that's it. It's your decision, not somebody
else's. And somebody else will say, well, oh come, you've got
all that money and I don't. That's none of your damn business. It's
not it. This is not about you. This is about what she has
found herself surrounded by and by the same token, it's not up to her
to decide that Bill Gates ought to just you know, distribute the money that
he's got. Bill Gates, he does figure that out. Yeah, he's
pretty good at doing that. Yeah, Yeah, he's buying too much farmland.
That's something that is disturbing to a lot of people. What is he
going to do with all the farmland? But that's the just The people who
make judgments based on this sort of thing are at best annoying and it worst
wrong. It's not you, it's not your money, it's not up to
you, and that's what the state has done. Austria and some European countries
in our country and other countries have decided they want to extort money from people
who have it just because they have it and because they want it, then
they want to redistribute it in their own way. And that's not the way
it works. It is the way it works, but isn't the way it
should work. It's not right. Yeah, it's just a council for redistribution
of fifty people age of sixteen and up and they have certain things that they
have to look for, like it can only the money can only go towards
nonprofit things. Nothing that takes away from life or society should really set things
on where Yeah, plenty of stuff, plenty of stuff. You could use
the money to start a new sewerage treatment plant. Wouldn't that be for profit?
No, not necessarily. Not if you decide you don't want it to
be I come up with these wild ideas. No, you can have a
nonprofit sewerage treatment plant. Right. As a matter of fact, in that
vein those of you who are all worked up about the global warming and what
do we do with gases and stuff, this is a perfect fix for sustainable
energy. In another corner of the world, there's a program going on that's
starting I think next month in Vancouver. They are transforming the energy landscape there
by collecting all of the garbage, anything that has any ability to be warm,
because if you put garbage here, it's like anything else. My manure
pile on the farm, the compost pile, anything that's organic, when you
pile it on top of each other, is going to be warm. It's
going to get warm, and they're taking that heat, that gas, and
they're using it to produce energy, renewable heat source. Pretty good, right
in this case, there are six thousand homes that will get their electricity from
this sewerage treatment plant. It's a good idea. We could do that here,
Yeah, it's very good. We could do that easily. All right,
what else can we do here? It's time for all the numbers to
come in from December, and consumer prices last month rows more than they have
for a while. It's December, though, see this is it. The
twist on these stories is there's not the contextual look at what happened last December
or ten Decembers ago or one hundred Decembers ago. People always spend more money
and prices are always higher in December. Hello, it's Christmas. People are
buying things. They'll pay whatever the price is. Even though you see all
these ads everywhere or hear them on the radio, this is a special deal
Black Friday, blah blah blah. They've already inflated the prices, so when
they mark them down, they're still getting the profit out of them that they
want. And plus the fact there's a lot to be said for volume.
Long as you're selling things you know, and you're not selling it at a
loss, that isn't gonna do anybody any good. So here we go with
the people who want this is the same group, in a matter of speaking,
the ones to take your money away. They want to control what you
do with your money. Well, maybe better do something with the interest rates
again, which you know is not what the Federal Reserve wants to do.
They're going to dial back inflation. So they have said cutting interest rates more
this year. And whether or not this is a plant, whether somebody has
come up with is to complicate those plans to cut interest rates so that people
could borrow more and use their credit cards more and have the ability to mortgage
property to buy new homes, that sort of thing. So anyway, I
just this is such whoey. So when you read these statistics this morning,
or you hear somebody else talking about them on the Bloomberg radio station that's near
you, or even maybe Dave Ramsey will talk about it, although he puts
things in a perspective fairly well. The price increases were big on food,
Okay, that happens in Thanksgiving and through Christmas. Prices on beef went up
nine percent. Price of crackers here's something important, boys and girls rose eight
percent last month. Biscuits. That's gonna that'll put us right over the top,
right, that'll end your life. The cost you pay for biscuits and
rolls and muffins and pasta and rice. Wow, that'll be the end of
the world. They should maybe should be talking about this on the Food Farm
Family Report. Hey, we could do both. I think we're I think
hopefully. I'm making my point here that this is something that is seasonal.
Food always costs more. Food has cost a lot more in the last couple
of years because we don't have enough of it. We don't have enough farmers.
We don't have we have people using the land in inappropriate ways instead of
keeping the land going. I was I went doing some farm work yesterday and
drove by a couple of fields that I used to cut lots of hay off
of seventeen eighteen hundred bales a year, and the time decided that they wanted
to let that just grow. Just leave the fields alone, don't take the
hay off of them, and uh and be a natural habitat for all of
the animals that would like it. Well, hello, dere, you're so
stupid over there. The animals have adapted to the field being mode, and
they have used the field and the surrounding areas to their advantage. So then
they figured out, well, if we leave everything grow, it'll start getting
wet and absorb water and become a swamp. So I guess we'll cut it
with a morning machine just let it sit, which is another thing that doesn't
work well. But they don't get it because they don't know and they don't
ask questions. They just assume that this is the right thing to do and
it's not so anyway. Well, I'm on my too today. All right,
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Some of the trending items on social media, whether they be fake or
not, and in this circumstance, apparently we got lots of fake stuff.
Regarding Taylor's Swift. I know she makes it into this column regularly, sometimes
once twice a week or no. But there's a story floating around about Taylor
Swift giving things away. Apparently she's not giving any well, she may be
giving something away, but it's not giving this away. And so we get
to the bottom of a jay, We'll get this is an outrage and we're
gonna fix it. So everybody knows what's going on with Taylor Swift. How
do Swifties make it known that there's Swifties jay? Do they just go to
the concerts or they buy the record? They dance in the middle of the
street. Well, different conversations come up. We just know things really,
like for instance, this whole Taylor Swift give away with the La Crusee cook
where a Swift wouldn't have fallen for this because no, no, Well when
you watch the ad, it's clearly very old photos that they use, you
would notice immediately that it's not real. You can hear a little bit of
the fakeness and the AI version of the voice. But people who are just
the run of the mill fans, not swifties or anybody who just wanted some
free La Cruse cookwear fell for it. What is that? It's a high
end brand. I don't know that much about it. It's a French it's
a French cookwear brand. They are known for their cast iron cookware and it's
good stuff. I mean, I do want some. But people wanting to
wanting to fall wanting to like people falling for this were commenting in the in
the comment section too on social media of any of these ads, saying,
hey, I fell for this. I paid for shipping and handling, I
never received the cookwear. I tried to contact somebody, Nobody was available for
me to even contact, Like, this is a scam. And so people
on social media were trying to help each other out if they did fall for
it. Did a lot more with celebrities. Yeah, did she say anything
about it herself. No. Representatives for her haven't responded yet, but it
is definitely they just leave it alone. No, I mean, I feel
like lacer Say and her camp should definitely respond because we're seeing this a lot
with celebrities, where people are not necessarily faking images or videos even stuff like
this, and they're faking the voiceovers. Yeah. Yeah, well that sort
of a thing. So Taylor Swift is not a bad actor. That's another
thing. Uh, the you know, notice the Golden Globes. The other
night her the movie of her concert was up for the Best Movie of the
Year award. I wonder it was the best movie of the year. It
was like Event or theatrical event. Oh all right, well whatever, that's
a new one. I wonder if she becomes an actress in the future,
how that'll She has been in different things. She was in Valentine's Day cats,
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loss dot com. The positive nature of today. This is Friday, and
so we all think, well, it seems like it was just Monday and
now it's Friday. Have the weekend to do all of our stuff. Whatever
it is you're going to do. I'm going out to New York to go
bring some things to an auction and pick up some stuff that'll be exciting.
Daisy and out of a nice ride in the truck in the rain. There's
a lot of rain coming across the country as well. But we If you
feel like you don't want to do anything, weekend's a good time to stay
in the sack, right, or maybe watch a movie or read a good
book, or go to the gym and exercise. Do all of those things.
If you have a traditional Monday through Friday job. If you don't,
well, think positively about it. And next week, when you have a
day or two off in the middle of the week, you'll find fewer people
in the gym uss competition for right. That's the way it works most people
around running errands. When you are running your errands, yeah, exactly.
Put that into your mind. Good words, good ideas that shape our lives
and drive us all towards success. Be happy, you know the old sign.
If you want to be happy for the rest of your life, that's
a different kind of happiness. But are they happy? From Fanel Williams,
Right, Fanel par L Williams, think and feel because how you think and
feel has a profound effect on your ability to recognize opportunities, how well you
perform the outcome of the goals that you set for yourself. Were into the
second week of New Year's resolutions, how are you doing? Are you maintaining
and optimistic out look on the things you decided you wanted to do? Are
you harboring positive thoughts about the things that you said you wanted to do as
you went into the new year? Are you creating the circumstances that are conducive
to you achieving what it is that you desire. I feel like I'm a
preacher sometimes when I go off on a tune with some of my ideas.
But I just hope that I can help you set a tone because there are
a lot of challenges around today. We just talked about the scams with the
Taylor Swift thing. I mean, there's scams everywhere. There are people trying
to rip you off every day in all kinds of circumstances. So you figure
out how not to be ripped off, come up with a positive conclusion,
the right actions, and I think that in your head the right place.
I mean, I go down these rat holes all the time with things that
I think are wrong or going on, and they really aren't. But you
know, your mind gets something focused and you just go bum But I know,
because I've had a lot of good help over the years, that positive
thinking will dramatically increase your chances of being successful no matter what the endeavor.
You want to be successful in your marriage, want to be successful with your
family, want to be successful at your work, you want to be a
good golfer, whatever the heck it is that you want to do. Relax
with it. There are solutions to that slice that you get every time you're
on the second hole right, and you know, go through the situation and
the outcome and you'll get rid of the roadblocks. That's the way I think
it works. And if you're close to somebody, some religion person, that's
good. Sometimes that helps you out a little bit. It sounds silly and
sometimes it sounds simplistic. I get that. I know that it may be,
however, that it is that simple a shift in your retention. It's
a mindset that you have. You know, the Republicans are always white,
right, and the Democrats are always wrong. No, that's not true.
Get real right. Whenever a negative thought enters your mind, replace it with
something constructive, like there are people in Washington are trying to do good things,
and there are people in Washington who are not doing good things. And
that if you're if you dwell on that sort of thing, maybe your mother
in law you don't like, and maybe you want to put her into a
position, or your father in law. It's always the mother in law jokes,
But sometimes the father in laws are just as bad, just as distracting
or whatever it is. So is that good? Is that a lesson?
Here endeth the morning lesson? That is it's over. Speaking of things that
are over. China's manufacturing activity is over. The signs as I said earlier,
all these numbers are coming in from December. The economy is struggling in
China. Survey of factory managers shows manufacturing contracted. The sign that this economy
is slugging, slugging down now slowing down. It is sluggish right there.
What I call it the what is that the the GPS GPI, the gross
productive something or other whatever that is, went down fifty points. And that's
because in the last nine months the index has gone down because the amount of
goods and service is mostly goods. They don't sell any services. They sell
goods. Then their factory outputs way down and we see and if we take
what we buy over here, or you buy in Europe, you buy anywhere
around the world. China has been the predominant influencer in things being made and
then selling them in the last thirty years or more, and the economy has
We've been fabulous and very dynamic. However that's not the case now. Part
of it is interest rates, part of it is the pressure to get things
that were used to be made here, for example, there are in other
places made back here or in other countries. So anyway, I don't necessarily
think this is something to celebrate. It's something to be realistic about and to
understand that, yes, even if you haven't looked at the label, and
even if you don't care where something comes from, there are other people who
do. So you can raise your consciousness and not buy stuff made in China,
or you can keep doing it, but you're becoming a minority. Certainly,
Fewer and fewer things. Although if you go to home depot of Lows
or places like that, look at all the things they have in the hardware
department. You go out and look at the things that they have to be
sold with, washers and dryers and stoves that a lot of them are still
made with American brands. I think it's Unamerican to put an American brand name
on a product made in China. I just do. I think it's bad
business. So anyway, there's my toot on China. Here's the story of
a couple of bodies of two men who died while they were in Alabama's prison
system. Guess my god, Jay, these people were missing their hearts and
other organs. Yeah, so family without these organs just completely yeah. Yeah,
So the families are suing the state of Alabama and their Department of Corrections
as well. They should this guy. One guy's body was decomposing, his
heart was taken out, his remains were sent to the family, so they
filed a suit. The daughter of this guy, Charles Edward Singleton, who
was in the slammer for I'm not sure what, but not important. Your
father's body was missing all of his internal organs. There are a couple of
different families. An attorney representing them said, the experience of these families shows
that this is part of a pattern. Apparently there are other people who started
complaining years ago about this sort of the organ harvesting going on in bodies.
And when either these guys are getting killed in prison or they're dying of natural
causes, but when their bodies are found they in this case, I think
both of these follow up plays expected. So they kill them, they take
out you know, I'm sure this is something on the inside with the guards
and stuff. Right, they kill these guys, they take their organs and
sell them, and then they pocket the dough Pretty damned outrageous, and so
what are you going to do about that? I was looking at this and
I thought, well, maybe I shouldn't tell the story because to give people
ideas. No people know what's going on. I bet you this isn't the
only place in the country, because these all these guys talk to each other,
and there's a network of prison guards all around the country. I'll bet
if you investigate the prison systems in most states, you'll find this stuff going
on. So what's the penalty these families that get millions of dollars from the
state? You wait, right, and they should This is people in jail.
All they were in jail. I can hear somebody saying that right,
oh, they're in jail. That doesn't mean that they have to get killed
in their heart and kidneys and livers and everything else and to get taken out
so they go somewhere else. Those things are worth lots of money on the
open market. And I mean it's not just some amateur that could do something
like that, because you have to have to know how. You have to
act fast and not damage the organs if that is the case. And the
funeral director even said that normally organs are in a they are taken out,
placed in a bag and that bag is put back in the body after an
all topsy but for some reason just the whole bag was missing, or just
one of the organs. This is yeah, craziness. All right, let's
get some find me some happy birthday music, will you please. Mom's in
the news, Pennsylvan. Your mother says a man has broken into her home
on a number of occasions to watch your daughter sleep. This is creepy as
hell. This woman in Coatesville says the unidentified man has come into her family's
home four times so far. He's coming in, has conversations with the daughter,
and then he leaves or he watches or go to sleep? Ah,
get better? D the doors of the windows? Why did it take four
times? Like after one time? Once? Is too much? Woof?
All right, here's another mom's story, sort of a happy birthday. This
is a great story. A mother welcomed her son on her birthday. She
has a new baby boy born on her birthday, and she also shares the
birthday with her eight year old daughter, so her son and her daughter and
her have the same birthday. Wow, Hey, that's kind of cool.
January twelfth, that's today? Whoa? Okay? All they was supposed Oh,
the baby's supposed to be born today. But I was born the other
day, so that's why there's this big thing. It was I think January
third or January ninth, I'm not sure what the date was. But the
story here is that the mother has a new baby and it was born on
her birthday, which she also she gave birth to her eight year old daughter
eight years before this on her birthday as well. Wild stuff, right,
who would to thunket? Good? Good? Let's see one more quick mommy
story. Florida homeowners speaking out of She says her driveway was torn up without
her knowledge. As she put her a house on the market, came back
from a trip to find dirt, somebody came in and took all the tar
off, or for driveway man. There's scams everywhere out there, huh.
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