1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:04,400 The deck Stephen Good Day download with Doug and Jay Kirshner is made possible in 2 00:00:04,440 --> 00:00:08,039 part by Caltron, which is the safe way for you to lose weight and 3 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:13,199 keep it off, and also by previagent keeping your brain healthy. Happy New 4 00:00:13,279 --> 00:00:18,920 Year, Yeah happy, Let's be happy if you want to be happy for 5 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:23,920 the rest of your life. That's funky time seven half the hour. Speaking 6 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:27,760 of time, Doug Stephen's a Good Day program for the middle that we were 7 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:32,640 already on Wednesday, Jay, already the middle of the work week. Anyway, 8 00:00:32,679 --> 00:00:35,759 Tomorrow is actually the middle of the week. But today that was fast 9 00:00:35,799 --> 00:00:39,520 consider true. Yeah, right exactly, And is that going to be the 10 00:00:39,679 --> 00:00:43,880 harbinger of what the new year is all about? We're going to be moving 11 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:46,759 fast. We seem to have in the last year or two or three or 12 00:00:46,799 --> 00:00:51,679 four or five or time seems to be going quicker. And I think we 13 00:00:51,759 --> 00:00:57,359 actually have proven too well, not to everybody, but that the Earth is 14 00:00:57,399 --> 00:01:02,240 moving faster. Time goes by occur. Maybe it's because we're busy. There 15 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:04,200 are probably a lot of different reasons, but at any rate, we're here 16 00:01:04,239 --> 00:01:10,560 to occupy time and space. Yeah, speak for yourself, no, for 17 00:01:10,599 --> 00:01:17,040 real, the for me a year is one thirty ninth as opposed to when 18 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:19,760 you're you're ten, and it's like one tenth of your life. And so 19 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:25,560 as the if gets the nth degree or whatever, it gets smaller and smaller, 20 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:29,640 its us go faster and faster. Yeah, I guess that's probably what 21 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:34,799 we're thinking. Yet I just think of myself as being busy and productive and 22 00:01:34,879 --> 00:01:38,799 having a good life, and I don't really think too much about what we're 23 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:42,560 doing with each minute. Well, I have to run on the radio program, 24 00:01:42,599 --> 00:01:45,640 I need to think about what we're doing. What's the quality of the 25 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:49,400 conversation we have minute by minute, an hour by hour and day by day. 26 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:56,400 And so that helps me to think lightly of myself and deeply of the 27 00:01:56,439 --> 00:02:00,840 world in which we live and have to we have to talk about things. 28 00:02:00,879 --> 00:02:04,239 All the news we talked about, not just some of the news here, 29 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:09,759 all the news on a program. It's devoted to the world and our place 30 00:02:09,879 --> 00:02:14,240 in it and what we're doing. So yeah, I would say that we 31 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:17,960 it's like, what's the old expression, walks offtly and carry a big stick, 32 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:23,599 think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world. And I think that 33 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:28,080 sort of is shown every year we get more generous. This year is looking 34 00:02:28,159 --> 00:02:31,439 at all of the radio promotions and all the radio things that were done in 35 00:02:31,439 --> 00:02:38,240 the name of Christmas and giving in the communities all across the country, and 36 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:45,759 this year it looks like the last time it was over twenty million dollars. 37 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:49,360 You know, is COVID and things go over that. But this past year, 38 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:55,120 the total of giving around the country through various radio station promotions twenty five 39 00:02:55,319 --> 00:03:00,479 million dollars of things that were done for people that would not have been done. 40 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:05,719 And some of the stations in the big markets like Los Angeles and New 41 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:10,159 York, some of their promotions raised a million bucks or close to its So 42 00:03:10,280 --> 00:03:15,599 congratulations to the people, not necessarily the radio stations, but to the people 43 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:24,360 who again opened up the fact that the world was looking for some sunshine between 44 00:03:24,719 --> 00:03:30,000 Black Friday, the world of retail, the world of business, looking for 45 00:03:30,039 --> 00:03:35,960 some sunshine between Thanksgiving and Christmas, let's say. And apparently it was a 46 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:39,599 good successful year, which really, when you get right down to brass tacks, 47 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:45,120 that's a good sign for the economy. Now the thinks I think this 48 00:03:45,199 --> 00:03:46,520 next year is going to be good. I don't know that. I want 49 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:50,360 to make too many predictions. But I think that we'll have a good year. 50 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:53,000 And you know what, the best way to start having your good year 51 00:03:53,039 --> 00:03:59,680 is to think we're going to have a good yearfestation, right, hold on 52 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:04,759 to that thought and along with that, when the economy gets better, there 53 00:04:04,759 --> 00:04:12,039 are more bank robberies and more chuckle about that. But you know, when 54 00:04:12,039 --> 00:04:16,600 you really get down to the brass tacks, I saw this story and I 55 00:04:16,639 --> 00:04:20,160 thought, Okay, here's a good way to open an hour. A couple 56 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:29,160 of bears on a military base up in Alaska rated a donut van that was 57 00:04:29,199 --> 00:04:34,199 stopped outside the convenience store that's on the base. The driver left the doors 58 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:42,319 open when he stopped at the store, but as a mother and her cub 59 00:04:42,839 --> 00:04:46,160 who sauntered up to the van stayed there for twenty minutes. You think anybody's 60 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:50,480 gonna mess with them. It's like Yogi And was it Yogi Bear? And 61 00:04:50,519 --> 00:04:54,639 boo boo that was the little yeah boo boo boo boo. Yep, it's 62 00:04:54,680 --> 00:05:00,680 like booboo yeah, all right. The US military carried out multiple airstrikes on 63 00:05:00,839 --> 00:05:06,160 facilities in Iraq that are used by Hesballah. So what is this? We 64 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:13,199 I thought we were you know, we put Iraq back together. Every war 65 00:05:13,279 --> 00:05:16,480 that we've ever been in, certainly that I can remember in my lifetimes, 66 00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:21,839 World War two, Korea, Vietnam. After we blow the hell out of 67 00:05:21,839 --> 00:05:25,759 the country, then we put it back together again. And that was the 68 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:29,040 case in Iraq. I can tell your first hand having been there and spent 69 00:05:29,079 --> 00:05:32,800 four or five days, nine or ten, maybe eleven years ago. I 70 00:05:32,839 --> 00:05:35,720 can't remember when we all went, but I know that we were in the 71 00:05:35,759 --> 00:05:40,720 process because the war was over, trying to put things together. And so 72 00:05:40,879 --> 00:05:46,000 now we've moved out to you know, there's still some military in Iraq, 73 00:05:46,319 --> 00:05:55,199 and that's what this attack was all about. Hesballah takes on our military and 74 00:05:55,279 --> 00:06:00,000 so we take them on. But this whole thing is disturbing because we're not 75 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:04,160 in This is not Israel, but yet these people all in that area, 76 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:09,920 they don't like Israel taking pot shots not only at the Israelis, but taking 77 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:13,319 pot shots at our troops. And are we supposed they don't have any troops 78 00:06:13,319 --> 00:06:15,720 there, which is a lot of bunk them because we certainly do have troops 79 00:06:16,079 --> 00:06:21,279 around, but we have more on this Air Force base, and we certainly 80 00:06:21,319 --> 00:06:26,199 have ships around and they have been attacked as well, and every time they're 81 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:30,000 attacked, we send missiles to the places where their missiles came from to blow 82 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:34,639 them to smithereens. But none of it is good, None of it is 83 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:39,920 There's just I don't think any Americans were injured in this as far as I 84 00:06:39,920 --> 00:06:44,839 can tell. I'm looking at troops, stuff and information, and I don't 85 00:06:45,319 --> 00:06:48,519 see that anything. I mean, there was danger, well danger and damage, 86 00:06:49,199 --> 00:06:56,519 but the Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, says that this is three 87 00:06:56,720 --> 00:07:00,399 three were injured. One critical is that what it was? Okay? And 88 00:07:00,519 --> 00:07:03,560 see that part of the thing, well, at any rate where soldiers are 89 00:07:03,560 --> 00:07:11,120 in harms way and so then what happens, I don't know. It's just 90 00:07:14,399 --> 00:07:17,560 okay. So I'm exasperated, you can tell that, right? How do 91 00:07:17,639 --> 00:07:23,279 we every day? And you know during the Christmas season, I've tried to 92 00:07:23,279 --> 00:07:27,399 stay away from it. Does this get resolved in the new year? Does 93 00:07:27,439 --> 00:07:32,240 this get fixed? And is it because of us that things get fixed or 94 00:07:32,319 --> 00:07:36,519 is it because of us that things get worse? I guess that's the question. 95 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:40,279 And there's no answer to it right now. No everybody has an opinion 96 00:07:40,519 --> 00:07:42,399 one way or another. We've got to do it. We've got to protect 97 00:07:42,399 --> 00:07:49,519 you know, blah blah blah. But the fact that Ukraine is being considered 98 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:57,319 for a membership in NATO is something the national rather the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. 99 00:07:57,360 --> 00:08:01,360 That's what NATO stands for, North Atlantic Treaty Organganization. That means most 100 00:08:01,399 --> 00:08:09,600 of the communities, the countries in Europe are members. I forget how many 101 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:15,800 members they have. But you know, there's also been the focus on Ukraine 102 00:08:15,839 --> 00:08:18,600 and whether Ukraine should be a member of NATO, and that's been Russia's whole 103 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:24,480 thing now, it seems over the weekend this was not very widely covered that 104 00:08:24,959 --> 00:08:31,759 Putin had suggested some parameters for a ceasefire. Did you see that there's some 105 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:35,399 sort of is it a ceasefire in the works or just conversation about having a 106 00:08:35,440 --> 00:08:41,919 ceasefire? It was clear, yeah about that, but it was not again, 107 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:46,879 once again covered well in the news media. They're grated, you know, 108 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:56,279 that's coloring the reporting of who's getting bombed and just gets tiresome and where 109 00:08:56,279 --> 00:09:01,639 do we learned from Anyway, the Turkish parliament of its consent to Sweden in 110 00:09:01,679 --> 00:09:09,879 their attempt to join NATO, so this country most of what's you know, 111 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:16,200 they were Sweden and Denmark and Norway are they're called non aligned countries. The 112 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:24,639 Scandinavian countries have been pretty neutral. Although the Nazis in World War Two took 113 00:09:24,679 --> 00:09:28,720 over all of these countries, they didn't do much with them because there wasn't 114 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:35,879 any real resistance, so they just occupied their lands. But now the Turkish 115 00:09:37,039 --> 00:09:43,879 parliament was the last one. They had delayed ratification for the past year because 116 00:09:43,919 --> 00:09:52,600 they said that Sweden was too lenient toward groups that were a threat to its 117 00:09:52,679 --> 00:09:58,240 security, that is to Turkish security. And so it's amazing what you have. 118 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:01,440 You know, again behind the scenes with this stuff, whether that's important 119 00:10:01,480 --> 00:10:05,639 or it isn't important. The more countries that belong to an organization like this. 120 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:11,279 In Southeast Asia, there's this SEATO group, Southeast Asia Treaty Organization. 121 00:10:11,679 --> 00:10:18,360 America belongs to both NATO and to SITO. I think there's one other organization 122 00:10:18,519 --> 00:10:24,159 like this that's put together all these countries. And at one point in time, 123 00:10:24,279 --> 00:10:28,039 China was a member of SITO, and I'm not sure that they are 124 00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:31,480 anymore. I don't know how the pieces are fit together. But the point 125 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:35,960 I'm making, Jay is that there are lots of these groups all over the 126 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:39,480 world a lot of them, but there are enough of them so that, 127 00:10:41,039 --> 00:10:48,879 yeah, it sort of becomes a nearly everybody who belongs to one of them. 128 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:54,480 Yeah, but then then you wonder how much good does all of this 129 00:10:54,519 --> 00:11:01,440 stuff? It looks good on paper, but you know what. The thing 130 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:05,240 that distracts me about China, and you can hear in my voice when I 131 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:11,039 get distracted by this stuff. A report that you'll hear this week in the 132 00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:16,240 American Family Farmer, one of the programs that I do over the weekend that 133 00:11:16,679 --> 00:11:20,240 focuses on the family farm how to make things better. It's kind of it's 134 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:22,759 akin to our food Farm and Family Report that you hear every day you're in 135 00:11:22,799 --> 00:11:30,320 the program. In the last month or so, the American Farm Bureau and 136 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:35,840 to a lesser extent, the National Farmers Organization have done sort of an accounting 137 00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:39,679 of how much land China owns in the United States. Want to take a 138 00:11:39,759 --> 00:11:46,440 guess as to how many acres of land the Chinese government owns in America? 139 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:52,480 Three point again, how many? Three point four million? No, Actually, 140 00:11:52,559 --> 00:11:56,080 that's it's not that much. It's not that high. I'm even disturbed 141 00:11:56,080 --> 00:12:00,840 by this. Three hundred and eighty thousand acres of land owned by the Chinese 142 00:12:00,879 --> 00:12:05,519 government. I think that's craziness. Frankly. Anyway, what do you folks 143 00:12:05,519 --> 00:12:13,200 think? Maybe he will ask a question about that. On our social media, 144 00:12:13,279 --> 00:12:18,679 we have things to celebrate. This is a social media time, so 145 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:22,559 we take some of the stories that are trending and the people who are trending 146 00:12:22,559 --> 00:12:26,759 in the top ten list, and certainly Dolly Parton. Whenever something's going on 147 00:12:26,799 --> 00:12:30,120 with Dolly, it always makes the top of the list. And that's no 148 00:12:30,279 --> 00:12:37,279 exception. She has done something that you would expect Dolly to do that covers 149 00:12:37,279 --> 00:12:41,120 a wide swath, to be sure, because she's so capable of helping and 150 00:12:41,159 --> 00:12:46,120 being involved in things that are good. So here's the story of somebody who 151 00:12:46,159 --> 00:12:52,320 lives in Utah. His name is La Grande Gold been a fan of Dolly 152 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:56,720 Parton for his entire life, so he says, So, he had been 153 00:12:56,799 --> 00:13:03,720 diagnosed with the stage four colo rectal answer. He made a bucket list and 154 00:13:03,799 --> 00:13:07,120 he wanted, of course, if as a partner fan, if he could 155 00:13:07,399 --> 00:13:13,480 go see Dolly Parton, he'd want to do that. So what happened was 156 00:13:13,519 --> 00:13:18,200 he did get to see her, and in fact, she helped him complete 157 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:22,879 the bucket list. I gave him a phone call. How about that? 158 00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:33,039 She sang a song and talked to him about what was life like and he 159 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:37,120 thought it made him feel good. Anything you can do for somebody like that 160 00:13:37,240 --> 00:13:39,759 certainly helps them. I think it helps their chances of at least making it 161 00:13:39,759 --> 00:13:43,840 a little bit longer in the world. Yeah, well, I think this 162 00:13:43,879 --> 00:13:48,879 bucket list in general he has gives them something to continue to look forward to, 163 00:13:48,919 --> 00:13:54,360 something so keep holding on for yeah. Yeah, right. So anyway, 164 00:13:54,440 --> 00:14:01,720 he called her and said, Hey, this is Dolly p I'm happy 165 00:14:01,759 --> 00:14:07,639 to know that I've got a fan that's devoted I've had a chance to watch 166 00:14:07,679 --> 00:14:13,399 and talk to. So anyway, she went through the years of his being 167 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:18,360 a fan, and she said, I'm just happy that we have to do 168 00:14:18,480 --> 00:14:22,679 the kind of music that makes our journey together in this lifetime better. So 169 00:14:22,919 --> 00:14:28,639 talking about the two of them being together, there are people who are super 170 00:14:28,759 --> 00:14:33,279 fans, right yeah, yeah, And when you think about that, actually 171 00:14:33,279 --> 00:14:35,159 getting to share the journey, because you do, and when you are the 172 00:14:35,559 --> 00:14:41,200 artist or you have the fan who is following the career, it is a 173 00:14:41,279 --> 00:14:43,600 journey and you do get to share it together. And they kind of got 174 00:14:43,600 --> 00:14:46,879 to really reminisce this and there are a lot of great things on this bucket 175 00:14:46,879 --> 00:14:50,200 list, and one that the family will be doing next month. I believe 176 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:56,000 he has daughters, so they're going to hold a fake wedding so that all 177 00:14:56,039 --> 00:15:01,320 of his daughters can get that father daughter dance. Yeah that's sweet. Yep, 178 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:05,200 I hold a good thought for this guy, mister gold as it were. 179 00:15:07,519 --> 00:15:09,360 I'm Greg. I'm sixty eight years old. I grew up in Cleveland, 180 00:15:09,399 --> 00:15:13,519 Ohio, majored in business administration. I do motivational speaking in addition to 181 00:15:13,639 --> 00:15:18,879 substitute teaching. Part of the reason for my motivational speaking is I kind of 182 00:15:18,879 --> 00:15:22,320 feel like I have a calling or giving back to the younger generation. You 183 00:15:22,360 --> 00:15:24,799 know, the Golden rule is doing to others you'd have them doing to you. 184 00:15:24,639 --> 00:15:28,080 My wife, Wanda, as a senior flight attendant. She's been flying 185 00:15:28,080 --> 00:15:33,039 for over thirty years. We do laugh quite a bit. I think most 186 00:15:33,039 --> 00:15:37,039 adults will start realizing that they don't recall things as quickly as they used to, 187 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:41,799 or they don't remember things as vividly as they once did. I've been 188 00:15:41,799 --> 00:15:46,080 taking privilegen for about three years now. People say to me periodical, man, 189 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:50,840 you got a memory like an alphant. It's really really helped me tremendously 190 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:56,399 provagen healthier brain, better life. Greg Freeley is a paid testimonialist and real 191 00:15:56,399 --> 00:16:00,320 Privilegen user. Based on the clinical study of subgroups of individuals who were cognitively 192 00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:03,720 normal or mildly impaired, this product is not intended to diagnose, treat, 193 00:16:03,759 --> 00:16:07,559 cure, or prevent any disease. The future is now. I think Jay 194 00:16:07,559 --> 00:16:12,120 and I talking about time as it relates to every day. But we get 195 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:15,879 ourselves close to the end of the year twenty twenty three, that's a mind 196 00:16:15,919 --> 00:16:21,360 blower. We get into twenty twenty four and all of us will start laughing 197 00:16:21,399 --> 00:16:23,960 because we'll forget that it's twenty twenty four and still write twenty twenty three down 198 00:16:25,279 --> 00:16:30,200 on important documents. December the twenty seventh is upon us, and I just 199 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:33,759 am sending a note to my daughter, whose birthday is today, as one 200 00:16:33,759 --> 00:16:38,320 of the most cherished people on the planet as far as I'm concerned. I 201 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:45,480 remember during many of it, I'm sitting here Jay and I are talking about 202 00:16:45,519 --> 00:16:52,080 this, and I'm thinking about her first moments of life. When Tony, 203 00:16:52,399 --> 00:16:56,799 her mother's father, and I are standing outside the delivery room and she comes 204 00:16:56,840 --> 00:17:00,440 out in this incubator covered with the gluck that you're covered whether you're born. 205 00:17:00,879 --> 00:17:04,400 She was a little joundiceon, so she had to be putting a cooker and 206 00:17:04,480 --> 00:17:10,079 so she came out and she was screaming and yell. Her arms were flailing 207 00:17:10,119 --> 00:17:14,200 around and her legs were banging around. And at that point, I think 208 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:18,000 she's about four minutes old. And so that comes to the man. Every 209 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:19,960 time I tell that story, when Meghan is there, she gives me the 210 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:26,000 evil eye. So I tell it as often as I can, And so 211 00:17:26,079 --> 00:17:30,759 I think about daughters and their dads. Here's a wonderful story about her daughter 212 00:17:30,799 --> 00:17:37,720 who surprised her father by buying back a football card that he had sold thirty 213 00:17:37,799 --> 00:17:44,079 years ago. Was a card and a rookie card from Dan Marino, who 214 00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:47,960 was big football. I remember his name myself, and I'm not a big 215 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:55,720 football fan. But this video that's gone viral. Lindsey Moore who posted this 216 00:17:56,000 --> 00:18:03,720 clip giving her dad, Ted Lawyer, the same card featuring Dan Marino that 217 00:18:03,759 --> 00:18:10,319 time is playing for Miami. The video has the caption I got my dad 218 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:15,839 for a secret Santa this card. I've been waiting thirty years for this and 219 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:21,240 so you know, this is the kind of stuff when you really pay attention 220 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:26,200 to what somebody wants. And sometimes the things that people want for their birthday 221 00:18:26,319 --> 00:18:30,079 for Christmas are the simplest little things in terms of what they might cause, 222 00:18:30,119 --> 00:18:34,279 but it takes a lot of effort to get them. I think that's as 223 00:18:34,359 --> 00:18:40,200 much a loving expression as anything else here. You know, somebody really wants 224 00:18:40,240 --> 00:18:42,599 something and it's not easy to get, but you really go out of your 225 00:18:42,680 --> 00:18:48,240 way. And so back when she was seven, when her father wasn't quite 226 00:18:48,279 --> 00:18:52,000 sure in the story here Jay how he sold it or why he sold it. 227 00:18:52,039 --> 00:18:55,240 Didn't need the money, Yeah, the money was tight for the family, 228 00:18:55,319 --> 00:18:56,759 and this was one of his most priced possessions. But he also knew 229 00:18:56,759 --> 00:19:00,160 he could get a good amount of money for it, so he went and 230 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:03,799 sold it. And even when the daughter was seven to eight years old, 231 00:19:04,079 --> 00:19:10,519 knew the magnitude of this gesture, knew what her father was doing and it 232 00:19:10,559 --> 00:19:12,680 was and that it was being done with love. And ever since then she 233 00:19:12,759 --> 00:19:17,599 always had this dream of being able to buy that card back for him, 234 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:22,240 and eventually she did, but did she paid thirty thousand for it on eBay 235 00:19:22,279 --> 00:19:25,359 because there that's what some of them are going for. How much did she? 236 00:19:25,839 --> 00:19:27,160 Doesn't I say how much? It was? It? You know what, 237 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:33,480 It doesn't mean it matters, right, And the price is also based 238 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:37,319 on the kind of condition the card isn't so like the mint condition cards. 239 00:19:37,880 --> 00:19:41,000 Those are thirty thousand. I'm not sure if she paid that much for it, 240 00:19:41,039 --> 00:19:45,920 but so a lot. This isn't good for her. I just look 241 00:19:45,960 --> 00:19:49,920 at these videos and you think, Okay, this is something good that social 242 00:19:49,960 --> 00:19:55,279 media does when this sort of thing is spread around much as anything else, 243 00:19:55,839 --> 00:20:00,400 is so good for her. I love my dad, That's what she said, 244 00:20:00,519 --> 00:20:03,200 and her dad said I love her. And I can hear that about 245 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:07,759 eighteen times today between Megan and me. We're going to have a brunch where 246 00:20:07,759 --> 00:20:11,519 all the families see the great thing about when I come out here everything. 247 00:20:11,599 --> 00:20:15,960 And sometimes I think I posted one of the pictures Juice, I asked you 248 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:18,119 to dig some of them out because I couldn't find him jay or move him 249 00:20:18,119 --> 00:20:22,680 around. But I did find one. I moved it from Instagram over to 250 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:27,640 Facebook of all of us, just on Christmas Day with that expression whatever it 251 00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:32,240 is that gets said sometimes that we all just laugh about. And if you're 252 00:20:32,279 --> 00:20:36,759 good, you capture it, and that's what was captured. It's just that 253 00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:41,599 was everything perfect on Christmas? Nah, nothing's ever perfect on Christmas. Miles 254 00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:48,720 was a little his nose was out of joint a little bit because Jasper went 255 00:20:48,759 --> 00:20:52,920 into his room and started tearing things apart. Jasper is really good at that, 256 00:20:53,319 --> 00:20:57,440 as most two year olds are, but he loves to be with Jasper, 257 00:20:57,440 --> 00:21:03,799 and Jasper just didn't. The trouble with and I say this lovingly, 258 00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:10,880 maybe single children is that they get a lot and sometimes they're not great at 259 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:12,880 sharing. They learn that as they grow up, I think, as much 260 00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:18,759 anything else. But if you have a couple of sisters and brothers, no 261 00:21:18,799 --> 00:21:22,759 matter whether the presence or whether it's time, you know I can remember well, 262 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:27,200 I say this, we never had much time with either of our parents, 263 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:30,720 my two sisters and I, so I don't really know. There's an 264 00:21:30,839 --> 00:21:36,319 educational process as to how to make that all work right. And I'm not 265 00:21:36,359 --> 00:21:40,559 sure I mastered it very well as a father either. I've mastered it now 266 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:45,400 because I see the impact of it on my grandchildren and then I've seen it 267 00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:49,400 on my children. My relationship with my children now is so much different than 268 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:53,440 it was when they were younger, and I find that, you know, 269 00:21:53,680 --> 00:22:00,119 very satisfying. Frankly, it's a great way to just to wrap yourself around 270 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:04,400 the stuff that's important. And having said that, here's we go from a 271 00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:08,039 father's story to a mother's story. Here's the story of a mother who is 272 00:22:08,079 --> 00:22:18,079 pregnant, who was hit by a stray bullet that narrowly mistered children while she 273 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:22,880 was asleep. So lady who lives in Colorado hospitalized after a stray bullet struck 274 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:27,759 her as she was asleep in her home. A lady's name is Kendall. 275 00:22:29,039 --> 00:22:33,960 Heinold. She said she was sleeping, she was woken by the sound of 276 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:41,640 gunfire outside. Her husband was sleeping next to her. He got up and 277 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:45,880 said to his wife, did you hear that? It was so loud? 278 00:22:45,039 --> 00:22:49,039 And I looked at him and said, wow, call nine one one. 279 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:52,599 I just got shot. Can you imagine you're in your own bed, in 280 00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:59,480 your own home. Uh huh? And a bullet is you catch a stray 281 00:22:59,519 --> 00:23:03,119 bullet? And I guess it went into her shoulder And think the Lord, 282 00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:07,880 that's where it went if it was going to hit her somewhere. Yeah, 283 00:23:07,359 --> 00:23:12,559 but now she survived or her baby survived it. Yeah, but over there 284 00:23:12,599 --> 00:23:18,480 sleeping. What's the story with a gunfire? It could have been anything. 285 00:23:18,799 --> 00:23:23,319 It could have been uh by, It could have been I don't believe. 286 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:30,200 It wasn't clear if anybody was arrested. It could have been targeted for something. 287 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:32,279 It could have been a wrong house. Again, it could have been 288 00:23:32,279 --> 00:23:34,559 a drive by. Where we moved out of in Nashville, there were so 289 00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:38,519 many drive bys happening, And there was the way that was way too close 290 00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:44,720 was on the street behind us, and I was about to leave for work. 291 00:23:44,799 --> 00:23:47,880 It was three in the morning, and I stopped and I text my 292 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:49,960 neighbors who lived on that street, who lived right behind us, and asked 293 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:53,200 them, like, are you guys okay? And two of the bullets hit 294 00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:56,480 their house that didn't go through any windows. They were okay. But it's 295 00:23:56,599 --> 00:24:06,599 just there's some neighborhoods that there's areas this could happen. Wow, I'm not 296 00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:11,799 getting into the lecture mode. Sometimes I feel like a preacher when I go 297 00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:15,480 down the street with some of this stuff going on. One of the things 298 00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:18,319 I don't mind, and when it comes to preaching, if that's what it 299 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:21,759 is, my grandmother always wanted me to be a preacher. So I did 300 00:24:21,799 --> 00:24:25,960 this instead the fact that we were talking in the last half hour about how 301 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:30,039 generous people are and how much money was raised just in the radio world, 302 00:24:30,559 --> 00:24:36,000 about around the country and around the world. Hundreds of millions of dollars has 303 00:24:36,039 --> 00:24:41,759 been raised. And one wonders about the way that we decide to create a 304 00:24:41,799 --> 00:24:47,119 better world, and it's all done at Christmas time. We think about giving 305 00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:52,440 in December, we create sort of a ripple effect that lasts a long time, 306 00:24:52,119 --> 00:24:57,599 and do we think about I was just figuring out how to do something 307 00:24:59,039 --> 00:25:03,359 with my son, yes today, in terms of how we help a certain 308 00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:07,440 group of people that he supports, and it was kind of a Christmas present 309 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:12,319 to him, and how you know, this is an automatic sort of monthly 310 00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:17,920 thing that goes to this group. And so the reason I'm bringing it up 311 00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:22,319 now is because I think that because December does offer us the opportunity to look 312 00:25:22,359 --> 00:25:27,519 at what our donations can do and what acts of kindness can do, why 313 00:25:27,559 --> 00:25:32,400 don't we try to do some of that every month of the year, every 314 00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:37,200 day, or as much as we can. And sometimes although because the world 315 00:25:37,279 --> 00:25:44,200 is not a trusting or trustworthy place, you don't like giving credit card numbers 316 00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:48,839 you don't like giving bank account numbers to individuals or to groups that you don't 317 00:25:48,839 --> 00:25:52,680 really know. But once you vet them and you figure out that a lot 318 00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:56,400 of other people are doing this sort of philanthropy, maybe the year round commitment 319 00:25:56,480 --> 00:26:02,039 is the best. I think. I see this the ads Saint Jude's that 320 00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:06,680 you hear on the radio and you see on television, and then the Society 321 00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:10,359 for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. As those spots that are running, 322 00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:15,240 they're more effective. Frankly, those spots I think are more effective on television 323 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:18,799 because they're so vivid. You see the dogs in their cages, and I 324 00:26:18,839 --> 00:26:22,759 mean that's the producers. Well, but that's what they do. They're tear 325 00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:26,839 jerkers because they know how to produce a good spot. They'll get people to 326 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:33,119 act. Who doesn't when they see that thing pick up the phone and call 327 00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:37,960 that number and plage nineteen dollars a month to take care of some dog someplace. 328 00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:42,440 And that's, you know, kind of what December is all about. 329 00:26:42,519 --> 00:26:48,119 The spirit of giving. But maybe think about it. It's not about you, 330 00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:52,680 although maybe it makes you feel better about you, but it's about those 331 00:26:52,799 --> 00:26:57,279 beings, whether it's people at Saint Jude's or as the dogs in the cages 332 00:26:57,319 --> 00:27:03,000 here and there. It's all about being a humanitarian. Speaking of that, 333 00:27:03,799 --> 00:27:10,759 the situation in Gaza has worsened over the last couple of days. Israeli defense 334 00:27:10,799 --> 00:27:18,240 forces using the ground and the air and their navy, the terror of targets 335 00:27:18,279 --> 00:27:22,720 in the Gaza strip, you know, because the Gaza is on the Mediterranean, 336 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:26,799 so they can aim their bombs at Tel Aviv, or they can aim 337 00:27:26,839 --> 00:27:30,960 them in ships, and so you know, they're trying to take care of 338 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:37,200 take these out, take out the tunnels that are everywhere. I don't really 339 00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:41,039 know what's happened to that, but some of the people who are trying to 340 00:27:41,039 --> 00:27:47,119 get net Yahoo to kind of slow down. There are people over there every 341 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:51,519 day from our White House in the State Department discussing what the next phase of 342 00:27:51,559 --> 00:27:55,880 the war should be. So what should it be? That's another question maybe 343 00:27:55,920 --> 00:28:00,119 that we ask your thoughts on, certainly stuff that we can use. Who 344 00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:03,559 was on the talk radio review and the countdown on Friday, Your thoughts about 345 00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:07,720 whether we should try to get these Raelis to slow down or to just stop. 346 00:28:08,319 --> 00:28:14,920 Twenty thousand people and guys that have been killed fifty five injured five thousand 347 00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:22,240 injured in the last month or so. So you know, this is not 348 00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:26,839 that it wasn't a big deal already. But if you were in Israeli, 349 00:28:26,279 --> 00:28:30,759 I think we'll probably talk to Yell or my friend who's over there later on 350 00:28:30,799 --> 00:28:34,279 today on the program to figure out what from their point of view, what 351 00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:37,799 should you You know, a lot of the hardcore is rarely say, you 352 00:28:37,799 --> 00:28:41,079 know, beat them into the ground, get rid of them, And that 353 00:28:41,599 --> 00:28:47,200 might be an interesting and a good strategy. But unless you get the people 354 00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:51,680 who are running Hamas and you wipe it out completely, you're going to have 355 00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:53,960 this is gonna, this is going to rekindle, It's gonna, yeah, 356 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:59,720 and how do so without the civilian casualty? That's it. That's the whole 357 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:03,920 thing. 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That sounds like it would be kind of fun. 373 00:30:07,279 --> 00:30:11,519 Caltren at top loss dot com thanks to Elizabeth Miller here, one of 374 00:30:11,559 --> 00:30:15,880 the great calatrinconsultants at top loss dot com. Erry Galler joins us from his 375 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:21,079 home in Tel Aviv and israel I said to him, can we do some 376 00:30:21,119 --> 00:30:25,480 New years BESI? This is now that's too boring. Let's talk about artificial 377 00:30:25,559 --> 00:30:29,119 intelligence, because that's what I was just talking about Israel is one of the 378 00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:36,880 most technologically advanced countries on the planet. The technology industry is probably the biggest 379 00:30:37,079 --> 00:30:40,039 driver in the economy of Israel. Would you agree with that, other than 380 00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:45,000 maybe tourism ary, Yes, absolutely. And the reason I wanted to continue 381 00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:52,839 the AI conversation is because, if you notice, I also emailed you an 382 00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:57,279 amazing promo that a friend of mine here, a magician from Brazil, just 383 00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:03,759 created for me solely for the spoonchair. If you remember my spoonchair, it's 384 00:31:03,839 --> 00:31:10,920 now in the museum. I call it the spoon of games, you know, 385 00:31:11,279 --> 00:31:18,240 and it weighs almost half a ton, six thousand spoons. But I 386 00:31:18,319 --> 00:31:22,160 have another next door neighbor who is an expert in AI, so I said 387 00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:27,359 to him, can you create somebody very attractive to sit in the chair, 388 00:31:29,119 --> 00:31:36,680 And in no time this photograph of a beautiful blonde sitting in my spoonchair, 389 00:31:37,279 --> 00:31:41,759 and there is no way on earth that you can tell that she's not real. 390 00:31:41,599 --> 00:31:47,480 I will send you a photograph. I think I did already if you 391 00:31:47,519 --> 00:31:52,519 look, but it's incredible how quickly did that. Not only that, he 392 00:31:52,759 --> 00:32:00,839 also asked AI artificial intelligence to create a furry carpet under her you know, 393 00:32:01,079 --> 00:32:07,480 under her, so she looked like she's sitting on a medieval chair, and 394 00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:14,599 it created it. It's just simply not to be believed what AI can do 395 00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:20,359 today on a flick of a finger. For instance, when I put something 396 00:32:20,519 --> 00:32:24,880 on my social media, whether it's Twitter, Facebook, Instagram or TikTok, 397 00:32:25,839 --> 00:32:31,920 I put a hashtag, you know, to make it more readable to people, 398 00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:40,240 and AI comes up with the exact hashtags for that posting. Unbelievable, 399 00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:49,119 Doug So. For instance, my last posting was about aliens and it got 400 00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:54,519 close to four and half million views, and that's a lot for me because 401 00:32:54,559 --> 00:33:04,079 I'm not justin bieber So in many ways. Yeah, what I wrote is 402 00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:10,079 I just told everyone that I believe that there is an alien mothership lurking in 403 00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:15,680 our Solar system and it could be watching us with tiny probes. And this 404 00:33:15,799 --> 00:33:24,119 is the Pentagon actually agrees with me. The Pentagon official also suggested that and 405 00:33:25,119 --> 00:33:32,039 this also involves Harvard, so a draft vapor by Harvard scientists and the head 406 00:33:32,079 --> 00:33:38,440 of the Pentagon UFO office has raised the idea that an alien mothership could be 407 00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:45,160 in the Solar system sending out tiny probes and there they are dubbed as dandelion 408 00:33:45,359 --> 00:33:51,039 seeds to explore the planets within this is you know, this is real, 409 00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:59,160 so we might be being watched by tiny probes that a mothership out there sends 410 00:33:59,319 --> 00:34:04,319 to learn about us, do understand us better. I also believe that they're 411 00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:10,840 kind of stopping us from pressing the nuclear button. So that's my theory. 412 00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:17,920 And immediately hundreds of thousands of views on these on my alien stories. Well, 413 00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:22,480 it's appropriate because you have credibility when it comes to that stuff. You 414 00:34:22,519 --> 00:34:27,320 know, people think about lots of different things when they hear Uri Geller's name 415 00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:31,880 spoon bending. I just went to click onto a video of all of the 416 00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:37,760 spoons that you have and have collected and where they are in the museum. 417 00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:43,039 It's really pretty fascinating. Actually, Eric Geller's website is U R I G 418 00:34:43,199 --> 00:34:50,079 E L l e R dot com and you can also go sign up to 419 00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:54,280 become a member of his Island Nation at dot com as well. I talked 420 00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:58,760 to you soon, Ry. Thanks. 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