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of the days that Monday, Tuesday, okay, or Friday night, mondnight.
You've convinced me, you convinced me. How are the Trump sneakers going
and they get more? Or are they all? It was like a one
time shot. Should that's a good question. I mean it's definitely sold out.
They sold out within hours and then you know that you can still get
some because mister who bought them or no, are going to be reselling them
to make a profit. Of course they are, right right on. Let's
hear it for the American way. Full line of sneakers so well, even
if it's not a specific one, there will be others. Okay, good
to know. Shoo man, I'm carrying that right now, right exactly March
first, in like a Liam out like a lion or is it going the
other way around in like an a lion. Okay, I got it all
right. So one of the things that I have been studying this week is
a study on radio on what people want when they listen to the radio,
what they want to hear, what their preferences are, And it doesn't really
make a difference whether it's a music radio program or whether it's a conversation program.
Sixty five percent of listeners who tune in to a radio program on terrestrial
radio which they like, are happy when they hear a voice with whom they
are familiar. Right, if you hear a voice, That's why morning people
the morning in the afternoon most listen to times they want to hear someone that
they know. So a lot of stations, not necessarily talk stations, but
music stations that have the people who are like you were at one point in
time as someone who what they did what they called voice track, so you
were really in the community where you were. You just told a few stories,
did a couple of commercials, and made it sound like yeah, really
local. However, some there are some stations that kind of do a mixture
of both to save money, where they only hire mourning on air people,
and then all of this morning on air people then voice track one of the
other stations for a different day part. So it's voice track the rest of
the day. But because it's all of their more local morning people that they
get away with it still being live and local. Right. Well, the
shop talk of this, the inside radio inside baseball routine here is that because
of streaming services, because of podcasts, because of other things, radio is
not in as good as shape. I can certainly attest to that in terms
of what the advertising on the programs are worth. It turns out that the
largest company in the world doing radio is a company called iHeart. Most of
you are familiar with them because they're always promoting themselves. They lost a billion
dollars in not in revenue, but they were in the hole for a billion
dollars last year. But listen, I'm not gonna hold they've cost the rest
of us a lot of money. But as look at this survey, back
to that for a second, eighty six percent of the people who were surveyed,
and there were seventy three hundred people surveys, a pretty good survey favored
genuine personalities who are not necessarily always polished, but are relatable personalities who share
stories and insights to what's going on. People have a strong desire for the
personal touch, knowing about the folks that are on the air, like you
and I talk about things that are in our lives. People know you have
a son named Mac, and you have a dog named Daisy and a husband
named Ryan. And they know about my children, my grandchildren, they know
about my farm. They kind of know about what's going on in my life.
And that's the approach that most people like. They would like to have
fun, be entertained and not necessarily spoken down to. So with that in
mind, I have found a few leap ear jokes that perhaps we could just,
you know, kind of either groan about or we could laugh. This
is a certain type of entertainment. Why does February say it again? Doug?
Thank you there? Why does February get the leap day? Why that's
not the right way. Okay, there's an in what year where kangaroosline is
not worth it? In what year where kangaroo's discovered? Umm, yep,
you're on it in March now a leap year, Oh elite, did you
hear me? Those start going through the months, I'm like, what one
of the months has to have a jumping thing? Mm hmm, yeah,
exactly. Birthdays are good for your health. Studies have shown that people with
more birthdays live longer, rest in peace. The people who were born in
the twenty ninth of February. That's that's not really fun. That's kind of
sad. That's a little dark. It is a little dark, all right,
enough of that, but we had a smile anyway for a moment.
Here's something that's good. Lady from Illinois wound up with a birthday present of
a lifetime this week thanks to another lucky lottery ticket. We've had one of
these lucky lottery things. I think every day this week we have yes,
yeah, people their lottery ticket. There was the one guy who did his
scratch off and then left it in the store by accident. Right. The
woman who is this woman has not been identified for good reason, visited a
gas station and picked out a twenty five dollars diamond crossword ten X. This
is the Illinois lottery. So she's in whereabouts is She's in Palo's Heights.
The people that are in they're listening around to Chicago what do they call it
Shytown? Now? They call it what they called Chicago. There's a name
for it's windy City. But there's another name for it. It's also shytown,
isn't it. Yeah it is. I think it is Shytown anyway.
This lady said that she selected the ticket because it was purple, which is
her favorite color. She said, quote. When I scratched the ticket in
my car, I kept seeing wins. They were getting bigger and bigger and
bigger. I got to the end, I realized it was worth one million
dollars. Wow. Man, No, stunned she was, so she runs
back into the gas station. She double checks the ticket. Wasn't a dream.
Clerk says, yep, you're right, and so she started crying.
Her legs got weak. I didn't think i'd be able to drive home,
she said. She told lottery officials that winnings will make a difference in her
life. I think a million bucks would make a difference in most people's lives,
don't you It would make a difference in your life. My life.
Yeah. Both She and her husband work hard to provide for their family.
They want their children to have all the opportunities that all of the world,
a big, wide, wonderful world that we live in has to offer.
She said, quote never in a million years I think my life would change
in an instant. Well that's the whole idea of what they call the instant
lottery, right, instant lottery. Everything changes. So and the pass you
bought it gets ten thousand dollars as a bonus for selling them. Everybody is
a winner. I always wonder about, though, these stories of people who
get their lottery ticket, they're still in the store, they scratch them off,
or they figure out if they want while they're still in the store,
and then they react, well, they are still in the store. That
is showing a lot of trust to anybody else who might be around you that
might not try to like not I would tell nobody. Frankly, I wouldn't
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a very interesting reason. He lived in then he liked it there. He
found peace, he said, being there, and so there's something going on
with his house. So Freddy made a lot of money pretty quickly as the
seventies were good for Queen and the frontman for Queen. So he went to
Kensington, which is the up Let'd say, well, yeah, it's probably
the most expensive neighborhood in London, and he buys a house. I don't
know, I think, what do you buy? Spent three minion for this
house or something like that. I think at the time, yeah, which
was still like a lot of money. Then yeah, now, of course
the property value obviously went up, but then the fact that it was his
home, Freddie Mercury helped decorate it in everything, so there's a lot of
his touches in there. And I don't believe his ex fiancee, Mary Austin,
who always they always stayed very very close. I mean she essentially was
still the love of his life. Yea, and change too much through her
years of living there. Who played her in the movie. I'm trying to
remember who played the love interest? It was good. That was a good
movie. Actually, the story of Fredwick. I just can't remember who played
it was good. She was very sympathetic anyway, So her is she still
alive or is there the family Mary? Yeah? Okay, So the house
that they lived in together in London now up for sale. Coucher Nichols,
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Yeah, that's a great neighborhood. In the houses there were fabulous.
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It gives me a lot of hope. The new begins are always beautiful.
Think about what your life is like and think about the day every day.
Actually, there's beauty in every day, beauty in every moment, because
there's always a chance. You can do something. If you're doing well and
you feel good, great congratulations. If not, perhaps you'll make a resolution
to give today a chance, and this week a chance, and this month
a chance, because March does really you know, we talked about January being
new beginnings of the new year, but spring doesn't that give us all.
You see things growing. People have already planted their seeds. They're teaching their
children and their grandchildren how things grow because they put the seed in a plastic
cup. I can see this across the windows above the sink in so many
people's kitchen. Right. You got a dozen plastic cups, and you put
the dirt in there, and you put the seeds in, and you water
it every day, and you can watch as the roots begin to sprout on
the peas and the corn and the whatever it is that you've planted. It's
very cool. So let's have that in our minds at a school. Yeah,
oh yeah, it's tons of fun. There are more details coming out
about that Titan submersible. Remember that from what eight months ago, the catastrophe,
all those people dying in the ocean gates, and there was so much
question about it ahead of time because before news came out that it had imploded,
it kind of seemed like it was it just lost contact and lost basically
all functions, and it was a rescue against the clock trying to get these
people out of the submersible before their oxygen ran out. We're here than we
time to find out they passed away pretty quickly. Into the the adventure,
the excursion, and now in this documentary that's out this week, the highlight
of it is the knocking sounds that rescuers heard when they went down to the
bottom just do they could find the five passengers, which that's kind of scary
in a manner of speaking. Captain Ryan Ramsey, the Navy commander of the
submarine that went down and sent more. You know, there was a lot
of pictures. I think they actually have a sub The Navy has a sub
that can go down that deep. But anyway, the the when you listen
you watch the documentary, it talks about this rhythmic, this sort of knocking,
this sound like somebody was making the sound trying to get out of something,
right, you know what on knowing that that they yelled, nobody would
hear them, but if they could, and that was one of the one
of the speculations was that that knocking sound was them and they were trying to
locate it in that that race against the clock. Yep, what a freak
accident, and it was. So they find a documentary the BBC. I
don't think it's a BBC. I think it's the independent channel in England.
While they're at first this next week and then it'll get over here for sure.
It'll be on PBS and probably in other places as we'll be able to
scream it. But there it is from June eighteenth last year, and they
were going down to look at the Titanic. Remember they had this company had
people pay what was it twenty thousand dollars or something a seat. You go
down and see this thing at the bottom of the Atlantic. It was a
lot. Yeah, right, kind of freaky. The country of Ghana past
a controversial new anti LGBTQ bill, a lot of debate. So this bill,
if it goes all the way through the system, will make it illegal
to identify as a citizen of the LGBTQ community in that country. It's called
the miteriosexual cys gender. Then it becomes illegal there you go, how do
human sexual well it tells you about that part of the world. The bill
is called the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill that has passed on Wednesday
unanimously by their national legislature. So it the law states that it aims to
quote provide for proper human sexual rights and family values. So now the president
has got to decide whether he signs this harsh bill. I don't think there's
any harsh is there anything around the world it's any tougher than this. It
bans basically gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and sexual being imprisoned with
jail time and everything and a fine. And what about people who are already
out? What about members of the lgbt q I A plus community who are
already out and in Ghana? And then this passes it just the reason I
tell you the story. You know it's I say, it would never happen
here. I mean, you look around at some of the things that are
going on and you think, Okay, anything's possible these days, But it's
sort of in twenty twenty four. No matter where you are in the world,
broadening sanctions against these folks is not kind of the way the world is
going. I mean, I I guarantee there are plenty of people who are
upset at the speed in which these changes are being put into place and in
some cases being enforced. They're just people that don't like the realization of homosexuality
and some of the other things that are part I think, frankly, and
I say this advisedly, that there's really too much interest and emphasis on this
stuff from the point of view of letting people what do you care? Well,
then you know, why is it make a difference to you. Whether
it's somebody that you're riding on a train with next to you, maybe gay,
You don't know. It doesn't have a gay sign on his forehead or
her forehead or any of these. You don't know what the religion is,
You don't know what their political stance smells. You don't know if they're well
or they're sick. You know what I think about them? Yeah, you
don't know if they're a former Fellas, you don't know anything about that person.
Right, Okay? In San Francisco, this is weird. A seven
foot tall corpse flower that smells like a porter potty. What is it?
First of all, I've never heard of a corpse flower before, have you?
I have what is Yeah, it's it's quite fascinating. It's very slow
growing, and it only blooms for a few days, like every one year,
every two years, and flats off because it smells like rotting flesh ow.
It has this horrendous smell when it blooms, and it's bloomed right now
in San Francisco. You can actually see it on a live stream. Really,
I don't think I care to do that. You can do it.
You can watch it for me. How's that you smell it through the live
stream? Wouldn't that be cool if you could? Though, if technology got
to the point where you could watch something on a live stream or see something
and then all of a sudden you can smell it. I know that some
movie theaters give you that experience, but if you were just looking at something
on your computer, yeah, I think that it's probably something that I don't
need to see. Frankly, it's not upon I want to know about the
baseball season actually, what's going on? Maybe because Jen likes the Dodgers,
she follows. Are you following baseball? What's a Cleveland? What's Cleveland doing
in baseball? I don't follow it until the season actually starts, which is
coming up relatively soon. I don't follow, though you don't care. I
think the reason I like spring training is just because it changes our attitude.
Like I was saying earlier in this half hour about March coming into March and
what March is all about, and how much fun it is to see things
start to grow. It's also, by the way, as we get into
the month of March, it's National Reading Month, celebrating doctor Seuss, who
was born on March second, nineteen oh four. Doctor SEUs wasn't a doctor
at all. He's the one remember who wrote The Cat and the Hat,
How the Grinch Stole Christmas? A lot of books can yeah, One Fish,
two Fish, Red Fish, Bluefish, and you got to peel the
surprise. For his contribution to the education of America's children, I love reading
these books to my grandchildren. They're so much fun and they look in their
eyes, light up, in their smile, you know, the face.
Everything about doctor Seuss was great, and so we celebrate March is National Reading
month. Every month should be National Reading month. Some there. You know,
a lot of people around the world is still talking about Ghana. One
of the problems there is that they're not very illiterate. And that's probably why
that bill passed, because the educational system in some of these African countries is
almost non existent. The children learn whatever they learn at home. So anyway,
understanding that books, we were, you know, talked about this development
that I'm involved in in the main main house is is being demolished and we
finding a lot of books, and the guys who are going to throw the
books in the dumpster, I said, well, wait a minute, I'm
throwing those books away. Give them to the library. You find someplace you
can give them to. But I'm not sure I saw any Doctor Seuss books
in there, but a lot of other good books. Books are good read
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