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Year, Yeah happy, Let's be happy if you want to be happy for
the rest of your life. That's funky time seven half the hour. Speaking
of time, Doug Stephen's a Good Day program for the middle that we were
already on Wednesday, Jay, already the middle of the work week. Anyway,
Tomorrow is actually the middle of the week. But today that was fast
consider true. Yeah, right exactly, And is that going to be the
harbinger of what the new year is all about? We're going to be moving
fast. We seem to have in the last year or two or three or
four or five or time seems to be going quicker. And I think we
actually have proven too well, not to everybody, but that the Earth is
moving faster. Time goes by occur. Maybe it's because we're busy. There
are probably a lot of different reasons, but at any rate, we're here
to occupy time and space. Yeah, speak for yourself, no, for
real, the for me a year is one thirty ninth as opposed to when
you're you're ten, and it's like one tenth of your life. And so
as the if gets the nth degree or whatever, it gets smaller and smaller,
its us go faster and faster. Yeah, I guess that's probably what
we're thinking. Yet I just think of myself as being busy and productive and
having a good life, and I don't really think too much about what we're
doing with each minute. Well, I have to run on the radio program,
I need to think about what we're doing. What's the quality of the
conversation we have minute by minute, an hour by hour and day by day.
And so that helps me to think lightly of myself and deeply of the
world in which we live and have to we have to talk about things.
All the news we talked about, not just some of the news here,
all the news on a program. It's devoted to the world and our place
in it and what we're doing. So yeah, I would say that we
it's like, what's the old expression, walks offtly and carry a big stick,
think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world. And I think that
sort of is shown every year we get more generous. This year is looking
at all of the radio promotions and all the radio things that were done in
the name of Christmas and giving in the communities all across the country, and
this year it looks like the last time it was over twenty million dollars.
You know, is COVID and things go over that. But this past year,
the total of giving around the country through various radio station promotions twenty five
million dollars of things that were done for people that would not have been done.
And some of the stations in the big markets like Los Angeles and New
York, some of their promotions raised a million bucks or close to its So
congratulations to the people, not necessarily the radio stations, but to the people
who again opened up the fact that the world was looking for some sunshine between
Black Friday, the world of retail, the world of business, looking for
some sunshine between Thanksgiving and Christmas, let's say. And apparently it was a
good successful year, which really, when you get right down to brass tacks,
that's a good sign for the economy. Now the thinks I think this
next year is going to be good. I don't know that. I want
to make too many predictions. But I think that we'll have a good year.
And you know what, the best way to start having your good year
is to think we're going to have a good yearfestation, right, hold on
to that thought and along with that, when the economy gets better, there
are more bank robberies and more chuckle about that. But you know, when
you really get down to the brass tacks, I saw this story and I
thought, Okay, here's a good way to open an hour. A couple
of bears on a military base up in Alaska rated a donut van that was
stopped outside the convenience store that's on the base. The driver left the doors
open when he stopped at the store, but as a mother and her cub
who sauntered up to the van stayed there for twenty minutes. You think anybody's
gonna mess with them. It's like Yogi And was it Yogi Bear? And
boo boo that was the little yeah boo boo boo boo. Yep, it's
like booboo yeah, all right. The US military carried out multiple airstrikes on
facilities in Iraq that are used by Hesballah. So what is this? We
I thought we were you know, we put Iraq back together. Every war
that we've ever been in, certainly that I can remember in my lifetimes,
World War two, Korea, Vietnam. After we blow the hell out of
the country, then we put it back together again. And that was the
case in Iraq. I can tell your first hand having been there and spent
four or five days, nine or ten, maybe eleven years ago. I
can't remember when we all went, but I know that we were in the
process because the war was over, trying to put things together. And so
now we've moved out to you know, there's still some military in Iraq,
and that's what this attack was all about. Hesballah takes on our military and
so we take them on. But this whole thing is disturbing because we're not
in This is not Israel, but yet these people all in that area,
they don't like Israel taking pot shots not only at the Israelis, but taking
pot shots at our troops. And are we supposed they don't have any troops
there, which is a lot of bunk them because we certainly do have troops
around, but we have more on this Air Force base, and we certainly
have ships around and they have been attacked as well, and every time they're
attacked, we send missiles to the places where their missiles came from to blow
them to smithereens. But none of it is good, None of it is
There's just I don't think any Americans were injured in this as far as I
can tell. I'm looking at troops, stuff and information, and I don't
see that anything. I mean, there was danger, well danger and damage,
but the Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, says that this is three
three were injured. One critical is that what it was? Okay? And
see that part of the thing, well, at any rate where soldiers are
in harms way and so then what happens, I don't know. It's just
okay. So I'm exasperated, you can tell that, right? How do
we every day? And you know during the Christmas season, I've tried to
stay away from it. Does this get resolved in the new year? Does
this get fixed? And is it because of us that things get fixed or
is it because of us that things get worse? I guess that's the question.
And there's no answer to it right now. No everybody has an opinion
one way or another. We've got to do it. We've got to protect
you know, blah blah blah. But the fact that Ukraine is being considered
for a membership in NATO is something the national rather the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
That's what NATO stands for, North Atlantic Treaty Organganization. That means most
of the communities, the countries in Europe are members. I forget how many
members they have. But you know, there's also been the focus on Ukraine
and whether Ukraine should be a member of NATO, and that's been Russia's whole
thing now, it seems over the weekend this was not very widely covered that
Putin had suggested some parameters for a ceasefire. Did you see that there's some
sort of is it a ceasefire in the works or just conversation about having a
ceasefire? It was clear, yeah about that, but it was not again,
once again covered well in the news media. They're grated, you know,
that's coloring the reporting of who's getting bombed and just gets tiresome and where
do we learned from Anyway, the Turkish parliament of its consent to Sweden in
their attempt to join NATO, so this country most of what's you know,
they were Sweden and Denmark and Norway are they're called non aligned countries. The
Scandinavian countries have been pretty neutral. Although the Nazis in World War Two took
over all of these countries, they didn't do much with them because there wasn't
any real resistance, so they just occupied their lands. But now the Turkish
parliament was the last one. They had delayed ratification for the past year because
they said that Sweden was too lenient toward groups that were a threat to its
security, that is to Turkish security. And so it's amazing what you have.
You know, again behind the scenes with this stuff, whether that's important
or it isn't important. The more countries that belong to an organization like this.
In Southeast Asia, there's this SEATO group, Southeast Asia Treaty Organization.
America belongs to both NATO and to SITO. I think there's one other organization
like this that's put together all these countries. And at one point in time,
China was a member of SITO, and I'm not sure that they are
anymore. I don't know how the pieces are fit together. But the point
I'm making, Jay is that there are lots of these groups all over the
world a lot of them, but there are enough of them so that,
yeah, it sort of becomes a nearly everybody who belongs to one of them.
Yeah, but then then you wonder how much good does all of this
stuff? It looks good on paper, but you know what. The thing
that distracts me about China, and you can hear in my voice when I
get distracted by this stuff. A report that you'll hear this week in the
American Family Farmer, one of the programs that I do over the weekend that
focuses on the family farm how to make things better. It's kind of it's
akin to our food Farm and Family Report that you hear every day you're in
the program. In the last month or so, the American Farm Bureau and
to a lesser extent, the National Farmers Organization have done sort of an accounting
of how much land China owns in the United States. Want to take a
guess as to how many acres of land the Chinese government owns in America?
Three point again, how many? Three point four million? No, Actually,
that's it's not that much. It's not that high. I'm even disturbed
by this. Three hundred and eighty thousand acres of land owned by the Chinese
government. I think that's craziness. Frankly. Anyway, what do you folks
think? Maybe he will ask a question about that. On our social media,
we have things to celebrate. This is a social media time, so
we take some of the stories that are trending and the people who are trending
in the top ten list, and certainly Dolly Parton. Whenever something's going on
with Dolly, it always makes the top of the list. And that's no
exception. She has done something that you would expect Dolly to do that covers
a wide swath, to be sure, because she's so capable of helping and
being involved in things that are good. So here's the story of somebody who
lives in Utah. His name is La Grande Gold been a fan of Dolly
Parton for his entire life, so he says, So, he had been
diagnosed with the stage four colo rectal answer. He made a bucket list and
he wanted, of course, if as a partner fan, if he could
go see Dolly Parton, he'd want to do that. So what happened was
he did get to see her, and in fact, she helped him complete
the bucket list. I gave him a phone call. How about that?
She sang a song and talked to him about what was life like and he
thought it made him feel good. Anything you can do for somebody like that
certainly helps them. I think it helps their chances of at least making it
a little bit longer in the world. Yeah, well, I think this
bucket list in general he has gives them something to continue to look forward to,
something so keep holding on for yeah. Yeah, right. So anyway,
he called her and said, Hey, this is Dolly p I'm happy
to know that I've got a fan that's devoted I've had a chance to watch
and talk to. So anyway, she went through the years of his being
a fan, and she said, I'm just happy that we have to do
the kind of music that makes our journey together in this lifetime better. So
talking about the two of them being together, there are people who are super
fans, right yeah, yeah, And when you think about that, actually
getting to share the journey, because you do, and when you are the
artist or you have the fan who is following the career, it is a
journey and you do get to share it together. And they kind of got
to really reminisce this and there are a lot of great things on this bucket
list, and one that the family will be doing next month. I believe
he has daughters, so they're going to hold a fake wedding so that all
of his daughters can get that father daughter dance. Yeah that's sweet. Yep,
I hold a good thought for this guy, mister gold as it were.
I'm Greg. I'm sixty eight years old. I grew up in Cleveland,
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feel like I have a calling or giving back to the younger generation. You
know, the Golden rule is doing to others you'd have them doing to you.
My wife, Wanda, as a senior flight attendant. She's been flying
for over thirty years. We do laugh quite a bit. I think most
adults will start realizing that they don't recall things as quickly as they used to,
or they don't remember things as vividly as they once did. I've been
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cure, or prevent any disease. The future is now. I think Jay
and I talking about time as it relates to every day. But we get
ourselves close to the end of the year twenty twenty three, that's a mind
blower. We get into twenty twenty four and all of us will start laughing
because we'll forget that it's twenty twenty four and still write twenty twenty three down
on important documents. December the twenty seventh is upon us, and I just
am sending a note to my daughter, whose birthday is today, as one
of the most cherished people on the planet as far as I'm concerned. I
remember during many of it, I'm sitting here Jay and I are talking about
this, and I'm thinking about her first moments of life. When Tony,
her mother's father, and I are standing outside the delivery room and she comes
out in this incubator covered with the gluck that you're covered whether you're born.
She was a little joundiceon, so she had to be putting a cooker and
so she came out and she was screaming and yell. Her arms were flailing
around and her legs were banging around. And at that point, I think
she's about four minutes old. And so that comes to the man. Every
time I tell that story, when Meghan is there, she gives me the
evil eye. So I tell it as often as I can, And so
I think about daughters and their dads. Here's a wonderful story about her daughter
who surprised her father by buying back a football card that he had sold thirty
years ago. Was a card and a rookie card from Dan Marino, who
was big football. I remember his name myself, and I'm not a big
football fan. But this video that's gone viral. Lindsey Moore who posted this
clip giving her dad, Ted Lawyer, the same card featuring Dan Marino that
time is playing for Miami. The video has the caption I got my dad
for a secret Santa this card. I've been waiting thirty years for this and
so you know, this is the kind of stuff when you really pay attention
to what somebody wants. And sometimes the things that people want for their birthday
for Christmas are the simplest little things in terms of what they might cause,
but it takes a lot of effort to get them. I think that's as
much a loving expression as anything else here. You know, somebody really wants
something and it's not easy to get, but you really go out of your
way. And so back when she was seven, when her father wasn't quite
sure in the story here Jay how he sold it or why he sold it.
Didn't need the money, Yeah, the money was tight for the family,
and this was one of his most priced possessions. But he also knew
he could get a good amount of money for it, so he went and
sold it. And even when the daughter was seven to eight years old,
knew the magnitude of this gesture, knew what her father was doing and it
was and that it was being done with love. And ever since then she
always had this dream of being able to buy that card back for him,
and eventually she did, but did she paid thirty thousand for it on eBay
because there that's what some of them are going for. How much did she?
Doesn't I say how much? It was? It? You know what,
It doesn't mean it matters, right, And the price is also based
on the kind of condition the card isn't so like the mint condition cards.
Those are thirty thousand. I'm not sure if she paid that much for it,
but so a lot. This isn't good for her. I just look
at these videos and you think, Okay, this is something good that social
media does when this sort of thing is spread around much as anything else,
is so good for her. I love my dad, That's what she said,
and her dad said I love her. And I can hear that about
eighteen times today between Megan and me. We're going to have a brunch where
all the families see the great thing about when I come out here everything.
And sometimes I think I posted one of the pictures Juice, I asked you
to dig some of them out because I couldn't find him jay or move him
around. But I did find one. I moved it from Instagram over to
Facebook of all of us, just on Christmas Day with that expression whatever it
is that gets said sometimes that we all just laugh about. And if you're
good, you capture it, and that's what was captured. It's just that
was everything perfect on Christmas? Nah, nothing's ever perfect on Christmas. Miles
was a little his nose was out of joint a little bit because Jasper went
into his room and started tearing things apart. Jasper is really good at that,
as most two year olds are, but he loves to be with Jasper,
and Jasper just didn't. The trouble with and I say this lovingly,
maybe single children is that they get a lot and sometimes they're not great at
sharing. They learn that as they grow up, I think, as much
anything else. But if you have a couple of sisters and brothers, no
matter whether the presence or whether it's time, you know I can remember well,
I say this, we never had much time with either of our parents,
my two sisters and I, so I don't really know. There's an
educational process as to how to make that all work right. And I'm not
sure I mastered it very well as a father either. I've mastered it now
because I see the impact of it on my grandchildren and then I've seen it
on my children. My relationship with my children now is so much different than
it was when they were younger, and I find that, you know,
very satisfying. Frankly, it's a great way to just to wrap yourself around
the stuff that's important. And having said that, here's we go from a
father's story to a mother's story. Here's the story of a mother who is
pregnant, who was hit by a stray bullet that narrowly mistered children while she
was asleep. So lady who lives in Colorado hospitalized after a stray bullet struck
her as she was asleep in her home. A lady's name is Kendall.
Heinold. She said she was sleeping, she was woken by the sound of
gunfire outside. Her husband was sleeping next to her. He got up and
said to his wife, did you hear that? It was so loud?
And I looked at him and said, wow, call nine one one.
I just got shot. Can you imagine you're in your own bed, in
your own home. Uh huh? And a bullet is you catch a stray
bullet? And I guess it went into her shoulder And think the Lord,
that's where it went if it was going to hit her somewhere. Yeah,
but now she survived or her baby survived it. Yeah, but over there
sleeping. What's the story with a gunfire? It could have been anything.
It could have been uh by, It could have been I don't believe.
It wasn't clear if anybody was arrested. It could have been targeted for something.
It could have been a wrong house. Again, it could have been
a drive by. Where we moved out of in Nashville, there were so
many drive bys happening, And there was the way that was way too close
was on the street behind us, and I was about to leave for work.
It was three in the morning, and I stopped and I text my
neighbors who lived on that street, who lived right behind us, and asked
them, like, are you guys okay? And two of the bullets hit
their house that didn't go through any windows. They were okay. But it's
just there's some neighborhoods that there's areas this could happen. Wow, I'm not
getting into the lecture mode. Sometimes I feel like a preacher when I go
down the street with some of this stuff going on. One of the things
I don't mind, and when it comes to preaching, if that's what it
is, my grandmother always wanted me to be a preacher. So I did
this instead the fact that we were talking in the last half hour about how
generous people are and how much money was raised just in the radio world,
about around the country and around the world. Hundreds of millions of dollars has
been raised. And one wonders about the way that we decide to create a
better world, and it's all done at Christmas time. We think about giving
in December, we create sort of a ripple effect that lasts a long time,
and do we think about I was just figuring out how to do something
with my son, yes today, in terms of how we help a certain
group of people that he supports, and it was kind of a Christmas present
to him, and how you know, this is an automatic sort of monthly
thing that goes to this group. And so the reason I'm bringing it up
now is because I think that because December does offer us the opportunity to look
at what our donations can do and what acts of kindness can do, why
don't we try to do some of that every month of the year, every
day, or as much as we can. And sometimes although because the world
is not a trusting or trustworthy place, you don't like giving credit card numbers
you don't like giving bank account numbers to individuals or to groups that you don't
really know. But once you vet them and you figure out that a lot
of other people are doing this sort of philanthropy, maybe the year round commitment
is the best. I think. I see this the ads Saint Jude's that
you hear on the radio and you see on television, and then the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. As those spots that are running,
they're more effective. Frankly, those spots I think are more effective on television
because they're so vivid. You see the dogs in their cages, and I
mean that's the producers. Well, but that's what they do. They're tear
jerkers because they know how to produce a good spot. They'll get people to
act. Who doesn't when they see that thing pick up the phone and call
that number and plage nineteen dollars a month to take care of some dog someplace.
And that's, you know, kind of what December is all about.
The spirit of giving. But maybe think about it. It's not about you,
although maybe it makes you feel better about you, but it's about those
beings, whether it's people at Saint Jude's or as the dogs in the cages
here and there. It's all about being a humanitarian. Speaking of that,
the situation in Gaza has worsened over the last couple of days. Israeli defense
forces using the ground and the air and their navy, the terror of targets
in the Gaza strip, you know, because the Gaza is on the Mediterranean,
so they can aim their bombs at Tel Aviv, or they can aim
them in ships, and so you know, they're trying to take care of
take these out, take out the tunnels that are everywhere. I don't really
know what's happened to that, but some of the people who are trying to
get net Yahoo to kind of slow down. There are people over there every
day from our White House in the State Department discussing what the next phase of
the war should be. So what should it be? That's another question maybe
that we ask your thoughts on, certainly stuff that we can use. Who
was on the talk radio review and the countdown on Friday, Your thoughts about
whether we should try to get these Raelis to slow down or to just stop.
Twenty thousand people and guys that have been killed fifty five injured five thousand
injured in the last month or so. So you know, this is not
that it wasn't a big deal already. But if you were in Israeli,
I think we'll probably talk to Yell or my friend who's over there later on
today on the program to figure out what from their point of view, what
should you You know, a lot of the hardcore is rarely say, you
know, beat them into the ground, get rid of them, And that
might be an interesting and a good strategy. But unless you get the people
who are running Hamas and you wipe it out completely, you're going to have
this is gonna, this is going to rekindle, It's gonna, yeah,
and how do so without the civilian casualty? That's it. That's the whole
thing. And it seems like anybody who speaks out against the Israeli government is
then deemed antisemitic. Yes, right, I understand that. Yeah, yeah,
Well understand words and their meaning and how people twist and turn stuff around.
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home in Tel Aviv and israel I said to him, can we do some
New years BESI? This is now that's too boring. Let's talk about artificial
intelligence, because that's what I was just talking about Israel is one of the
most technologically advanced countries on the planet. The technology industry is probably the biggest
driver in the economy of Israel. Would you agree with that, other than
maybe tourism ary, Yes, absolutely. And the reason I wanted to continue
the AI conversation is because, if you notice, I also emailed you an
amazing promo that a friend of mine here, a magician from Brazil, just
created for me solely for the spoonchair. If you remember my spoonchair, it's
now in the museum. I call it the spoon of games, you know,
and it weighs almost half a ton, six thousand spoons. But I
have another next door neighbor who is an expert in AI, so I said
to him, can you create somebody very attractive to sit in the chair,
And in no time this photograph of a beautiful blonde sitting in my spoonchair,
and there is no way on earth that you can tell that she's not real.
I will send you a photograph. I think I did already if you
look, but it's incredible how quickly did that. Not only that, he
also asked AI artificial intelligence to create a furry carpet under her you know,
under her, so she looked like she's sitting on a medieval chair, and
it created it. It's just simply not to be believed what AI can do
today on a flick of a finger. For instance, when I put something
on my social media, whether it's Twitter, Facebook, Instagram or TikTok,
I put a hashtag, you know, to make it more readable to people,
and AI comes up with the exact hashtags for that posting. Unbelievable,
Doug So. For instance, my last posting was about aliens and it got
close to four and half million views, and that's a lot for me because
I'm not justin bieber So in many ways. Yeah, what I wrote is
I just told everyone that I believe that there is an alien mothership lurking in
our Solar system and it could be watching us with tiny probes. And this
is the Pentagon actually agrees with me. The Pentagon official also suggested that and
this also involves Harvard, so a draft vapor by Harvard scientists and the head
of the Pentagon UFO office has raised the idea that an alien mothership could be
in the Solar system sending out tiny probes and there they are dubbed as dandelion
seeds to explore the planets within this is you know, this is real,
so we might be being watched by tiny probes that a mothership out there sends
to learn about us, do understand us better. I also believe that they're
kind of stopping us from pressing the nuclear button. So that's my theory.
And immediately hundreds of thousands of views on these on my alien stories. Well,
it's appropriate because you have credibility when it comes to that stuff. You
know, people think about lots of different things when they hear Uri Geller's name
spoon bending. I just went to click onto a video of all of the
spoons that you have and have collected and where they are in the museum.
It's really pretty fascinating. Actually, Eric Geller's website is U R I G
E L l e R dot com and you can also go sign up to
become a member of his Island Nation at dot com as well. I talked
to you soon, Ry. Thanks. The next Stefan Good Day download with
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