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that we all make, Jay the follow through on decisions like you decide today,
I'm going to go buy a new car, all right if that's right,
Or you're going to change your diet, or you're going to stop doing
something that's bad for you. And a lot of people do that. They
try and under difficult circumstances, sometimes they succeed and sometimes they need a little
bit of help. And the best way to get that help I have found
over the years is to find to have somebody around you who's a really positive
influence because most of the things that are challenging physically are not things that you
can get over. Well, I shouldn't see you can get over on your
own, because a lot of it is mental attitude towards going through the stuff
and fixing it. But help support. You know, we talk all the
time about weight loss, and there are plenty of good programs around where you
get support to lose weight and then there are other things that are more serious.
Cancer survivors and the support that they have, you know, that kind
of stuff. I'm just trying to think about the high road that some people
take. And because this week is Giving Week and there's Giving Tuesday that starts
it, a lot of people give of their time, they give them their
service, they give their help to support people who are in need, whatever
the situation. Maybe whatever the need is, there are all kinds of things
in which you can help. So maybe a good way to start the Christmas
season is to have that in the back of your mind. At least I
was hoping that I could encourage people to do that. Here's something that happened
in a garage. Couple were stunned when they were cleaning out their garage and
they found something tucked away inside it that turned out to be an ancient antique
treasure from a Chinese dynasty. This thing is worth thousands and thousands and thousands
of dollars, an old libation cup. The this is like going on that
show on PBS, right, antique what do they call that show, the
Antique something or something like that. Yeah, right, that's it. Yeah.
Yeah, So anyway, uh, this person called an anti antiquities dealer
antiquities, and she went to the home and looked at this because she was
going to consign it. And then when she started digging around, she found
out that this classic cup which was made apparently from rhinoceros horn, it was
back in there's you know something and the queen what they call the Qing dynasty.
There are four or five of these dynasties in which a lot of ancient
things were made. Some of them were appadisiac, some of them were just
because you know, they were done so intricately that they had value in and
of themselves. Rhinoceros horn libation cups were used for commercial drinking and ceremonial occasions
back in ancient Chinese times. So anyway, these people, the good news
here is they've got some that goes back hundreds, if not thousands of years,
and it'll sell for a lot of dell And they just found it hidden
away in their garage. You have to wonder if they've either lived there j
for a long time or if the thing just got left in the garage by
their previous own. Yeah, I feel like sometimes it's inherited. Like there's
a box that if somebody passes away and then there's just a box of stuff
that somebody doesn't really go through and it's just sitting in storage. And how
often do people not call an antiquities dealer? They just straight up donated and
then somebody finds it's incredible race, what's so much money that they bought for
five dollars? Ah, there you go. So at any rate, there's
a little bit of extra. It's just something to hope for or be hopeful
about. From the Miscellaney department, I have. My mother used to say,
you don't have something good to say about somebody that don't say anything at
all, So I make exceptions for that from time to time. And Alex
Jones is one of those people that I have never he embarrasses me as somebody
who makes his living the same way. He's certainly made a lot more money
doing this, but at what costs, and you know what's been the means
for his game. Most people know that Sandy Hook story where the judge assigned
a one and a half billion dollar legal settlement against Alex Jones. I think
guy's wealth, but he's not that wealthy, so he filed for bankruptcy.
So there's a bankruptcy procedure that's going on now, and I think it's in
Texas some place, against both Jones and his company Free Speech Systems. So
they have offered the families involved in this, who were awarded the billion dollar
plus judgment, have said, Okay, we'll settle for eighty five million dollars.
You pay it to us over ten years. Now here's the reason that
this guy's a piece of dirt. He always has been as far as I'm
concerned. But when you look at the way he's living. You can google
Alex Jones and his life and times, et cetera, et cetera, et
cetera. He has still been living high on the hog, even though he's
declared bankruptcy, personal bankruptcy and corporate bankruptcy. So there are ways around it.
And this sort of stuff has obviously stuck in the kraw of the people
who lost children at Sandy Hook, who sued him to begin with. Doesn't
bring the children back, but it still sort of makes a statement. At
any rate. You know, the judge says yesterday, Jones has failed in
every way to serve as the fiduciary mandated by the Bankruptcy Code, in other
words, he's continuing to live and enjoy the fruits of his ill gotten labor.
I guess so much. I mean a lot of people listening to me.
May I don't know if that. He's not on many stations anymore.
And so that's because of this sort of thing much anything else, But you
know, he's figured out how to continue selling things and making money and he's
still living. I listen, I don't begrudge anybody living a nice, wonderful
life if you earned it, well, when you do it on the backs
of somebody else, and it's just the way that it was done anyway.
So that's there's not a lot of this stuff I can talk about because I
know what the inside, behind the scenes story is. But much worth as
far as I'm concerned, he's not worth much time. Yeah, so here's
yeah. I mean, something else from the miscellane department is kind of interesting.
There's a new plane that will fly from New York to London in an
hour and a half. This is this is the replacement for the Conchoid that
used to be able to do it in three hours and fifteen minutes. Supersonic
passenger plane is called the X fifty nine. It'll be obviously faster twice as
fast as the conchoid engineers are trying to reduce the sound. See, the
sonic boom is the big problem because when you take off. I think I
told the story a couple of weeks ago about Uri Geller's old house, which
was right on the flight path coming on a Heathrow when he lived in London
in the suburbs. Plane took off and just about where he lived, you
would hear a sonic boom every day at the same time, like ten thirty
five in the one. I remember many times as I stayed there. I
was scared the first time I heard, and then I knew what it was.
The plane by the time it's taken off from Heathrow and got into its
cruising point and to the place where it can zoom into hyperdrive or whatever it
is. I was right about over where or used to live, and that
was what that was. And I remember I took the concord once from London
and New York. I've told the story before about being fortunate enough to sit
next to Paul McCartney. We spent the whole time talking about his career and
things that I had to do with radio. It is a wonderful trip.
And it was you're going so fast as the time flies. Anyway, and
now if you mean think about it, it takes me. Let's see what
do I I can use this as from Boston to Washington for me about an
hour and fifteen minutes. If I go down to Charlotte, it's a little
less than two hours. You go to Florida, it's less than three hours.
So in the same time it takes me to fly let's say at Raleigh,
North Carolina. In conventional means, these days we can go to we'll
go to England from New York bar they'll use this plane in other cities as
well. Anyway, NASA is behind it at the moment, even though American
and a couple of the other airlines have signed on to buy a dozen or
so of these planes because they they want to be in on this. Listen,
there's going to be this big business and going with Mark four three thousand
miles an hour. All right, hold on to your hats, but you
won't even feel it like the shes going back, Yeah, right exactly.
Social media time. Sometimes we focus on technology because that's a part of how
all of this stuff works. In fact, our social media department at X
and Instagram and Facebook and wherever else can be. You can reach out at
good day networks and connect. Here's something happening in Europe. A focus on
Elon Musk and X, the mayor of Paris, which is the host city
for the Olympics in a couple of years. I think, right, isn't
it? When is it supposed to be? I think the Olympics are there?
Yeah, anyway, she's quitting X. She's accused Elon Musk and the
platform of spreading disinformation and hatred and becoming a gigantic global sewer. Okay,
but also like social media has been that way before Elon Musk, Yeah,
took over Twitter and then change at tracks. All of social media has been
that way. You have people who are the quote unquote keyboard warriors or the
basement trolls who feel all this hatred in their heart and it gives them a
platform. That's how social media has been for quite some time. Yeah,
she says, I refuse to endorse his evil scheme. Anyway. Her name
is Anne Hidalgo, and she said on a post, why I am I
leaving Twitter? And she makes reference to the gigantic global sewer and other things.
Apparently her office is keeping its own separate account. She's just dropping her
account on x So. Anyway, she's based a lot of criticism from opponents
over other things that have gone on. She's parently a controversial sort and you
know what, that's somehow that's the way to do office. Oh yeah,
yeah, many circumstances. Also, here's the thing, Like with social media,
you have the power to hit the mute button if there is content you
don't want to see. If there are people who the algorithm, not even
somebody you follow, but the algorithm is saying you might like this post and
it's something that you don't like, just block the person, hit mute,
unfollow. You don't have to see stuff. But also, in today's society,
don't you kind of want to know who the scumbags are? Like if
somebody is outright just evil in their rhetoric, and if there is anybody who's
racist or anti Semitic or Islamophobic and any of that stuff, don't you kind
of want to know who they are. Let them call themselves out so you
can further distance yourself. Mm hmm. Sounds like a good plan to me
all right, speaking of evil, the fact that time March is on and
my daughter's fiftieth birthday is this next month, she posted, I'm only saying
this because she got a note from the AARP. She knows of my disdain.
I have no use for the ARP. I didn't belong. I started
getting these same notices, and so did everybody else in America. When you're
about to turn fifty, somehow or other than the mind of the AARP,
you're turning into an old timer. So the American Association of Retired Persons thinks
you should join and take advantage of their wonderful stuff, which, by the
way, you can buy cheaper someplace else, anyplace else, the things they
sell, insurance, et cetera, et cetera. No, it's it's always
cheaper somewhere else. I just you know. The woman who started this back
in the sixties was a teacher in California. Sweet wonderful idea. But then
it's become a monster. So anyway, she posted the card that was mailed
to her and her this is so many and her response online was at two
AARP, you couldn't wait a month until my actual birthday. So a lot
of her friends had things to say about the ARP, and one woman said,
how did you get to be that age? Somebody that has known her
all their life said, how is this possible? Her father says, yes,
how is this possible? But anyway, I'm happy to tell you if
you want to find stuff, you look at the AARP list of things available
and go find them somewhere else and throw the membership card away. I'm Greg
I'm sixty eight years old. I grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, majored
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Wanda, as a senior flight attendant. She's been flying for over thirty years.
We do have I've quite a bit. I think most adults will start
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or prevent any disease. Next up is the new Merriam Webster Dictionary and
the word of the Year. Hmm, let's see here with all the deep
fakes around, including words that aren't really words, and all the other things
that have happened, this is one of those things that we're starting. We
know we're coming to the end of the year, because these things always happened
to the end of the year at the time Man of the Year or Person
of the Year or whoever it is, and a bunch of other stuff that
happens. So Merriam Webster has come up with the word of the year.
The Merriam Webster Word of the Year for this year is authentic. Isn't that
interesting? Authentic cuisine, authentic voice, authentic self. Maybe because authenticity is
becoming a lost art with AI right, there are lots of things that are
authentic, and so the people that are the editors of Marion Webster say,
we see this year as kind of a crisis of authenticity. And what we
realize is that when we question authenticity, we value it even more. So.
What might be an example, Jay, of something that is authentic because
we're this is sort of in the face of artificial intelligence we you know,
at GPT and all that other stuff. Look what we've done here creating stuff.
Taylor Swift is considered authentic. Prince Harry is considered authentic. Being true
to yourself, especially because I think a lot of times people use masking as
a term for anyone who's on the spectrum, but I think that masking is
something that a lot of us do. Sometimes we kind of put on a
different personality based on whom we're with. Maybe it's to keep the peace,
maybe it's with volatile family members, or just getting back to knowing who you
are, being the real you, recognizing that if somebody doesn't like you,
that's their problem, it's not yours anyway, the opinions of others aren't our
business. Like, let's be real and yeah, just they. Miriam Webster
noticed that more and more people authentic and authenticity were the ones that people were
googling. When it comes to even social media, a lot of people are
saying that the more the more acutely curated social media profiles and pages aren't getting
as many hits because people don't like that anymore. They want the real stuff.
They want the kind of down and dirty like, oh, you woke
up in your hair's a mess, you didn't wake up naturally with makeup on,
because you're not Dolly Parton. That's real stuff, that's authentic, very
cool. And so the other words that were in line it could have been
chosen include gas lighting, which is very overthm. It was last year's word.
Oh was it? Oh yeah, it was last year's. So then
there are other ones. I'm looking at some of the other lists and that
are in no particular order here. I never even heard this word used.
RIZ. That's supposed to be slanged for a romantic appeal. Somebody who's charming
has riz? Have you ever used that? And oh, James, were
we talking about this? We were talking recently. Charisma. Yeah, so
riz is short for charisma. It's like the new gen alpha lingo. Even
James is too old for it now he's aged out. I'm sure that that's
why I don't know anything about it, because that's not my wheelhouse. Here's
another The another word is kibbutz, which is the reference to communal of farming
in Israel that certainly has been used a lot because of the attack at the
kibbutz. I remember spending a night. I'd actually spent more than one night
at a kibbutz, basically a farm place where youngsters are taught about farming,
that sort of thing. We would do well in our country to have kibbutz's,
frankly, says the farmer. All right, let's see what other words
are on this car. Toppelganger is one of my favorite words. I think,
what is the It's fun to say, yeah, yeah, but it's
also kind of interesting things where people. Have you ever been walking somewhere and
you see somebody who looks like somebody else, Like they almost look exactly like
somebody else. You know, that's the doppelganger. People say, I look
like Robert Conrad? Is that I do? Right down? I'll see there
you go. Robert Conrad was a very famous actor, as attends. He
died a couple of years ago. He was working for Jennifer and her father
on CRN, but he'd been in any number of Really, he was the
Wild Wild West. He was Bob Bob Black Sheep. He had four or
five different television programs. He wasn't quite as successful as James Garner, but
he had very strong success in the series television. And he had a good
looking guy. And he did a commercial that lasted forever. If you google
him, the first thing that will probably come up is his battery commercial.
That'll come up before any list of his accomplishments on television. There is a
photo I'm looking at and I can definitely see a little resemblance. You don't
look exactly alike. You look like you could be related, but you are
far more handsome. Oh how about that? He has nothing on you?
Oh I got it. Okay, here's a painting it was stolen sixty years
ago that's been returned. Is this sort of When I saw this, I
thought that was like Thomas Crown. The painting that was stolen sixty years ago
was returned to an art gallery in New York. It turned up in a
sale. There's another one of these things at an auction in England, sixty
years after it was stolen. This is a painting by Cortes recovered. The
painting is called Flower Market Madeline. I remember seeing this. It was one
of more than three thousand pieces of art stolen from the gallery that was This
is the Herbert or No Gallery in New York in the sixties. So anyway,
as you might expect from people steal these things, they're looking for a
market. And this person obviously thought that after sixty years nobody would remember that
it had been stolen, so let's see if we can get a few bucks
out of it. Well, that wasn't These people are very very very very
good, these art recovery people. A matter of fact, a company called
Art Recovery International, and that's what they do. They go around and find
paintings and other things that have been stolen or have gone missing. What was
it we were talking earlier about that cup, the Chinese cup that was found
in somebody's garage. You know, those sorts of things are also there are
a lot of these great museums and they have great collections in them, and
they gain value by being displayed. So anyway, Apparently the guy who stole
some of this stuff was arrested and spent a couple of years in prison.
Anyway, this story of of something of value. All right, would you
I guess it depends. Do you buy art for anybody? Jay? Do
you have what I mean? Everybody considers art for me art or pictures of
my family. Yeah. Art is one of those things that I feel like
it's very personal that I wouldn't dare pick art out for somebody else. Does
that make sense? I would I buy art for myself, but I wouldn't.
I wouldn't pick something out for someone else. Yeah. I think that's
a very person That's like buying underwear for somebody else. Kind of Well,
maybe that's not a great comparison, but I would buy underwear for somebody else
before I would buy art for them. I think, where'd you like?
Oh? These are soft? These are great. I think you might like
them where art is like? No? That like art touches your soul?
Yep? All right, here's something else that's gone on in France, not
quite as exciting as the lad Well. I suppose it depends on your point
of view. Six teenagers on trial in Paris for their roles in the beheading
of a teacher who showed caricatures of the prophet Islam to his class. The
killing led to who does this? Who is crazy enough or angry enough,
or gets taught to think like this? Six kids kill They behead the teacher
because he showed them. Oh my god, they deserve whatever serious punishment they
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loss dot com. Meanwhile, we have Dolly Parton with a very interesting reality.
After all these years, all these successes, forty nine solo albums,
she's released this rockstar at seventy seven. She has broken a new record because
she was nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. And she said,
why are you nominating me for the rock and Roll Hall of I'm not
a rock It's unworthy. Yeah yeah, So she decided, yeah, that's
no you. You need to be in the album in the rock and Roll
Hall of Fame. So she decided to record a rock album which opened Mind
You opened in the number three spot on the Hot one hundred on Billboard,
her highest charting album ever to open on the Billboard charts. This is a
big thrill, right, she said that, and I believe that she thinks
that way. She says, I, Oh, thank you to the fans
who've always been there for me. Their sport made this achievement possible. I'd
also like to thank my producer, all the artists, the musicians, the
engineers who put this project together. So if you go back to nine to
five, which had two top ten songs in it, it was in a
sixth spot on the charts, but it took it a while again, didn't
open at number six. This opened at number three out of the two hundred
albums that are on that chart. So wow, what a great collaboration,
isn't it. Yeah, it's kind of age, is no fact? Yeah,
right, exactly. So, I mean you look back at some of
the others. I've forgotten about some of these albums. I'm looking through a
list of them now that you know. She's had forty nine over her career.
Lots of different types of little country sort of slash rock tunes, but
they've all been distinctly. There's nothing. There's nobody mistaking Dolly for anybody else,
or for that matter, anybody else for Dolly. So anyway, she
was also on the halftime show, wasn't it last week? Were talking about
that on the Thanksgiving Day? Yeah, yeah, nine five and Joline and
stuff. She was dressed up like hey, a cheerleader, So God lover
Dolly Parton. Yeah, the next Stefan Good Day download with Doug and Jay
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