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good idea, and today would be the day. So you can go to
your local dealer and say, I want to know what was made a month
ago today, or two months ago today, whatever it is. Although the
car dealers are on our bad list because the folks at GM and Honda mostly,
but Fords in on it as well, a couple of the car makers
who are working hard to get AM radios out of their cars and their trucks.
To the point, I think I went over this the other day,
Jay right, how much money had been spent by the car manufacturers on lobbyists
millions, as it turns out, hundreds of thousands by each of the companies.
Although I think GM and Honda spent a couple of million to try to
keep AM what's the matter with them? What do they think they're going to
gain by taking AM radioun list? They don't want to sell cars to people
who are over the age of forty. Let's say it's I don't know.
I wonder sometimes where AM radio is kind of a safety measure. Yep,
No, it's the it's the thinking of people who are young bean counters that
are running a lot of companies. Now this is exciting. Look, we
got a forty year old general manager, a forty two year old CEO,
and they're so smart, they're going to lead the way. Well, they
may have good ideas and new ideas, but there's nothing good about the idea
to take am radios out of cars, so especially given the resistance to buying
an electric vehicle, which is rampant among all ages, depending on the part
of the country that you live in. And so I unders I don't know.
Well, I was going to say, I understand, I don't really
get it. But then that's me. I'm de Stefan. That's me.
And then there's Jay Kursner over there, that's her. She's got her.
What are they? What do you put behind your name? You don't do
that, but her, she and they put up my name like the junior,
senior, second, third, fourth. I'm an original. No,
I know you are. That's why you're here. Hello, yay for JA.
That's a good new slogan. By the way, write that down,
James Wit you please yay for Jay whose behavior is above and beyond reproach.
She's motivated well, she has ability, she has promptness. When we need
to get on the air on time, she's there. She's got personality.
I was thinking, where am I going with all of this behavior? Think
about your behavior and who learns from what you do? If you are The
other day, when I was driving in Los Angeles Sun the way to my
son's house, this guy in an Audi was driving up Placienaga Boulevard and he
was passing to the left to the right. He almost went up on the
sidewalk and he was just charging through. And I looked over because he had
to stop at a red light. And there are two little kids in the
back of the car. What do you think they're learning? Watching their father?
And this goes to those people who drive like that. If you have
children in the car, what do you think they're learning? Their mind?
You're endangering them driving like a maniac. But what are they learning what he
is saying? They are definitely learning those words and phrases. Yeah, you
behavior stuff much as anything else. All right, So now we have ten
past the hour, the total eclipse and where it occurs and how to see
it. The air that you breathe in the Ohio Valley today is going to
be moist and the winds will be strong. There is I'm looking at the
results of this storm that blew up through the Ohio River Valley. Not where
you are, because you're not in the Higho River Valley. It's over toward
West Virginia and moving up that way from Kentucky. But there were a dozen
homes that were damaged on the West Virginia side. There are thousands of customers
who are without power at the moment. Last night, this powerful system of
thunderstorms, damaging winds, dangerous hail, very and there are some tornadoes that
came out of it as well with the weather. So the Office of Emergency
Management went to work and trying to help. Well, this is you know,
it's what they do. FEMA kind of does okay in some places and
not in others. But this storm system big leaving. Yeah, it sure
is. And it started actually yesterday afternoon in Tennessee, or yesterday morning in
fact, and then it moved up again the Ohio River Valley. Ohio River
Valley feeds pretty much from I think Pittsburgh down into the miss Missippi if I
remember my geography. But the most significant threat for tornadoes at least to this
point this year in Kentucky, actually over on the Indiana border, but most
of Ohio hasn't you know the I don't think you well, you don't have
the threat because of where you are, but those who are in southern Ohio
I have to deal with the tornado watch anyway. So hopefully people are doing
a oka out of that now. So when all of that system clears out,
we have this total solar eclipse next week, and so if you are,
I don't know how you prepare. I guess that would be my question
for this sky to go dark in the middle of the day. I don't
know if we have a timing sequence here or not. I know where it's
going across, but I think it's eleven o'clock somewhere around there. It starts
in Mexico about eleven o'clock Pacific time, and then it goes out on the
tip of Newfoundland at five o'clock their time, which is naval daylight time.
I think that's what they and what is the end stand for it's Eastern daylight
time, and then it's whatever it is, it's the next hour over.
So the NASA website is the best place to go to prepare yourself. I
don't know whether I'm talking about this too much now, but I think it's
kind of exciting. I think people are excited about it. So starting in
the United States, at least down in Texas. From there it travels through
Oklahoma and Arkansas, Missouri and Illinois and Kentucky and Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
New York from mott New Hampshire and up in Maine, and so it
sort of wraps itself around the country, I mean, in the world in
a rather interesting way. So the most important part of all of this for
those of you who want to watch it is to, if you're lucky enough
to be in the path, a couple of things you need to know before
turning your eyes to the sky. I'm trying to say this in different ways.
Each day, the moon blocks the sun all completely for like four minutes
or so. It is not safe to look directly at the sun without these
specialized eyeglasses. You view the sun through a camera lens maybe, or binoculars
or a telescope. All right, Well, I think even if you're not
wearing the safety glasses and you look through your phone or look through a telescope,
it could still cause damage, does it. Okay, so I shouldn't
tell people to do that. Then it's those glasses the kind of infrared.
They're orange, right, aren't they? Or yellow or something? Ours are
like really really dark yet ours the tint is like it's so dark that you
put them on inside even and you can't see anything. So just to be
smart, prepare yourself. There will not be another occasion when the United States
sees a solar eclipse, a total one like this until twenty August of twenty
forty four. Looks like and isn't it amazing? We keep saying that the
people at NASA figure all this stuff out, right, Well, there is
technically a total solar eclipse every eighteen months. It's just Earth is massive.
So the last time we had a total solar eclipse was in twenty seventeen,
but that was nothing compared to this one because the moon was a little bit
farther away than it's going to be this time. So what's so special about
this one is there's a wider path of like millions more people get to see
this one. It's going to be longer, it's going to actually last for
more time, and more of the sun is going to be covered the sun's
flares or it's going to be like a more active sun where you can see
all these different things kind of coming out of it. It's just going to
be a way more of a show. It's a show our ears and our
eyes turn. In terms of social media, what's trending? The Top ten
celebrity list is out for today, and pretty much on the top of the
list is Taylor's Swift, who has hit a milestone thanks to the Eras Tour.
She's got a big song catalog that's being revived in a manner of speaking,
and other things are going on that put her in a certain league.
What is the member of the old baseball moving a league of their own?
All those women there are, I wonder how many other women are in this
same league as Taylor Swift is. As we nose around to see who's also
in this list Jay of female billionaires, that's where Taylor Swift is now officially
a billionaire. According to Forbes magazine. She's thirty four years old, and
has found herself in this status because of what she can do, what she
has done, what she will do. She'll just keep going going because she's
got that right. And she's the only musician who reached billionaire status strictly off
of her music, her tours, the catalog, all of that, live
performances. Where most other musicians who are billionaires, it's because they also invest
in billion dollar companies. They have their own companies. Rina Rihanna Rihanna.
Yes, she's she's worth billions and she she's made a lot of money with
her music, but she also invests in like she invests in what is lvmh
who is the owner is typically like one, two or three on the top
billionaire's list. She has her own businesses Fenti, Savage, Savage Ax,
all of that stuff. There are thirty four women at this age, thirty
four who have a billion dollars. I'm looking at the list of who has
earned it and who has gotten it. There are a lot of people.
I'm looking at a young lady from Norway who has because of not what she's
done, but where she lived. There's going to be that there's the comparison
of those people who have earned it and those people who have inherited it,
you know, family money, that kind of stuff. But there's still an
interesting list of women. I'm looking at that age only, But then you
can turn it around and look at and again this is kind of a lousy
way of looking at things. I'm looking at the five richest women in the
world, and you know, among them are the lady from walmart Wald and
I forget her first name. I think it's Catherine, and how they got
their money. And I guess that I pay more attention to the ones who
have earned it than the ones who have just you know, kind of gotten
it because of what their name is as much as anything. But is it
because is it actually their money now at that point, like they've inherited it
or they are now running the business that is making all that money because that's
the Walton family. Yeah, no, the Walton family is out of it.
They just have you know, the stock and they are all billionaires.
But no, it doesn't make it. I'm looking at the people who have
been smart enough to make it on their own, and Taylor Swift is on
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There are a couple of things. The storm that we were talking about that
has gone through the High River Valley ahead of it. This is like one
of those triple whammies because ahead of it is a snowstorm that has affected some
of the higher areas of New York State, western Massachusetts into Vermont, et
cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Sleet and so. But the thing
is, so it's like wintertime and we're in springtime. But the winds that
are blowing around fifty sixty seventy an hour and knocking a lot of power out
here and there, so one last gasp of winter weather and then you get
into the things in springtime. If you're a warrior and you only look on
the dark side rather than the bright side of the road. Okay, wonder
storm and another storm. You look ahead for the storms instead of for the
sunshine. I'm looking for the sunshine. Apparently where I am, I'm not
going to see any until probably the end of the week. Although you're you
should clear out today, Jay in Ohio. I think pretty much that looks
like the the weather forecast for where you are, and you're hoping it clears
out, especially for Monday. No clouds. Yeah, right, Well,
you got a long time between now and then a Michigan woman just claimed a
million dollar lottery prize. She was so surprised that she won, she thought,
Nah, this can't be true. No, I didn't win. This
is what I'm talking The reason I bring it up now is because I'm just
talking about the dark side of the moon or the dark side of the street.
Nah, I couldn't win. I don't have any luck. But Anna
Marquez of Bay City, Michigan, she did have luck, and she did
win a million dollar prize playing Mega Minions. She purchased the ticket online.
I don't even know how to do that? Is it? How do you
do? How do you purchase a ticket online? I can't do anything online
now. I think you go to the state or the website itself. But
I'm not sure if every state allows online purchases that that's it. Maybe not.
We're here where I am anyway, Okay, So anyway, she only
tends to buy Mega Minions tickets when the jackpart starts to get big, and
the jackpot that week was well over a billion dollars, so she got the
deal. I think that was when somebody in New Jersey won the big prize.
But anyway, she keeps, no, I can't can't you Well,
you're kidding me. She did so, congratulations, Yeah, yeah, very
good. All right, here's a woman who lost out there's a woman who
won, and a woman who lost. Yesterday, at Logan Airport in Boston,
a woman who obviously is not a genius, came through with two bags
of marijuana. She was going to go to London. She was trying to
get on the plane for London last night, and now she's in jail facing
charges of trafficking marijuana up to one hundred pounds. Her bear was set at
three thousand dollars and she's been ordered to surrender her passport. So there you
go. Is it recreational in Massachusetts? It's both y sod? Did she
think she wasn't doing anything wrong because of that? I'm gonna guess, well,
I mean, what do you need seventy nine pounds of marijuana for?
What do you think you're going to do with that? If you got a
little bit, that's fine, But seventy four What is the seventy nine pounds
something like that in a filled up in a in two suits? Is that
a lot? How much does it weigh normally? Well, when you buy
I only know this not because I've smoked it, but because I was almost
in the marijuana business back a while, a few years ago, and I
know what it was like. An ounce of marijuana was selling for five thousand
dollars retail, and so okay, Matt, multiply that out and a lot
of people buy it now a lot cheaper. There's different grades of marijuana,
to be sure, but if you take an ounce of sixteen ounces a pound
time is like fifty and multiply that time seventy four, you've got a pretty
good haul. So she's resting comfortably in the Suffolk County jail at the moment.
One of the other things we're talking about the weather and what happens in
the spring. This is not a springtime event, but it is an event
that people will be talking about. See I strive to with Jay talk about
things that people will be talking about during the day and maybe during the rest
of the week that we try to sort of play it forward, if you
will. And this is a situation in Taiwan which is kind of still unfolding.
If you haven't heard about this earthquake, this is the biggest one in
twenty five years. Seven people dead already, seven hundred are injured. Buildings
have collapsed, power outages everywhere, landslides, you name it. It's a
mess. Tsunami warnings that go all the way to the Philippines, southern Japan,
so it has Let's see, it was a seven point two on the
Richter scale maybe and seven of the US says it's seven point four. Anyway,
So if you were planning to go to Taiwan to well, never mind
Taiwan. If you're planning to go let's say the Philippines for a vacation,
I think I'd wait a few days. And this is you know, people
being the people that are being evacuated, but it may even be the tsunami
warning goes to Japan, and what will that do to the coast of That's
always the thing that people wonder about you live on the coast. Yeah,
right, anyway, And I mean this just this happened hours ago. People
are still rescue efforts, people are still trapped in tunnels. Oh yeah,
yeah, I remember the last time there was one twenty five years ago.
My son volunteered, got on a plane with four of his friends and went
over to as a relief worker for four was it four weeks? Three or
four weeks. Anyways, spent over there helping people that went through stuff.
And you know, when this happens, their requirements for building over there are
not is stringent is ours are. So the building in an area where there
ought to be stringent rules and rigs there aren't really and so the houses get
washed away, people get washed away, and it becomes a what a headache.
So anyway, one of the world's biggest semiconductor is said again, Dug
semiconductor manufacturers is under the circumstances kind of out of business. It looks like
for a while they had to evacuate all their buildings. And that's the biggest
industry that's on Taiwan. And people say, why Taiwan? What do I
know about Taiwan? Well, the Chinese government wants they get over and they're
an independent country, so who knows what's going to happen with that. Meanwhile,
Israel moving over to the Middle East struggling to contain this situation. Seven
aid workers in Gaza were killed yesterday, and so pretty much around the world
world there's a lot of condemnation being aimed at net Yahoo and in Israel there's
certainly more pressure being put on them to stop where they are the campaign to
wipe out Hamas many people. I'm not sure where I am on this.
I would like to see them go as far as they can to be sure
that Hamas was neutralized. But all of this stuff where you know, you
know, thinking a back to World War Two and what we learned about it
in school, and maybe even Korea where it was much deadlier. Vietnam,
for example, much deadlier than this. But we have in this era that
we're in the modern era of communication, where everybody knows what's going on the
second it happens. With all of these pictures, not the least of which
you see. I weigh the situation in Gaza bad. What thirty depends on
who you believe, but you know, there are numbers that float around in
the thirty thousand people in Gaza have been killed. I don't know what the
right number is because I don't believe what Hamas says and nobody else seems to
have in a what's considered an accurate number. But even if it doesn't make
any was what the number is. There are a lot of people losing their
lives that ought not to. But it's war and these people. You know,
it's becoming one sided. And folks forget that the attack was on Israel
by Hamas and that was orchestrated by Iran. So I continue to try to
remind people of that. That doesn't make the situation any better. And I'm
guessing that there will be enough pressure on the Israelis to somehow. There's a
lot of protesting going on in the country itself against and Yahoom so is a
result of what's gone on over there. The charity that was delivering food to
the Palestinians have pulled back and you know the ships there were a lot of
well they pulled back after an Israeli air strike killed seven of their aid workers.
They're trying to the rest of their workers. Yeah, right, So
anyway, NETANYAHUO apologized for it. It was an unintended strike. Certainly innocent
people, he says, do not deserve to die. And that's I think
that's the first time he said anything about this. The group was the World
Central Kitchen. They'd been coordinating with the military there these ralis to move the
stuff in and trucks and cars and so because everybody's got a phone, you
can see footage of a car with a logo printed across the roof. That's
what they do. You know, when you fly over with these things,
you can see U N on the top of cars or whoever, you know,
whatever the charity is. But the drones and the bombs don't see that
stuff. And so this is I think the repercussions will be serious enough so
that the Brits are really putting and the Canadians are putting pressure, the Polish
are putting it. There's a lot of pressure on them, and I'm I'm
guessing that this may be we were coming to the end of this one way
or another, I think. And I don't know that that's bad. It's
just why is there so damn much hate? Why did the people in the
Palestinians hate the Israelis Because the United Nations, mostly the United States, carved
this area out and gave it to the Israelis after World War Two, but
not to the Raelies, to the Jewish population in Europe. That's why you
know, most of the Jews that are in Israel, they don't look like
Semites because they are from their heritage is Israel, I mean is a Europe.
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com slash dug. It's our social media segments for this hour, and here
we sort of focus on the things that come out of the social media experience
and some My friend is Stephen JJ Wiseman, who has scam Aside the scamatside
dot com website, has asked me to explain to you, or to quickly
remind you, in order to prevent your email from being filtered as junk,
avoid using all upper or lowercase letters in the subject line and don't include any
exclamation points. That sounds pretty sick. Can you include emojis? I believe
you can. Yes, avoid, just avoid the upper and lowercase letters in
the subject line like all of them. They have to go up and down
like a regular sentence, and no explanation points. So there you go exclamation
points. It seemed to be the baddie there as much as anything else.
How about that tip was kind of relevant. Google has announced it's going to
delete billions and billions of Chrome browser records. They have trying to settle this
backlog of lawsuits against them, major anti trust showdowns to the Justice Department.
So they have resolved their this is what the fourth case in four months,
and they're like not even done yet. Yeah, this is there's so many
cases against them, including how they what they did with data, how they
got it, and what they have used it for. And that's why they're
going to go ahead and just delete delete a lot of the stuff from the
late as part of the latest settlement. So here's another one of those.
This is from Visa and MasterCard. They had an trust lawsuit against them because
of swipe fees with the people that use not the buyers but the merchants.
So they announced a major settlement this week, ending two decades of litigation.
Can you imagine how much money the lawyers have made in this the fees that
are charged every time a credit or debit card is used in a store.
So this deal loures and caps the fees charged by the two major processing outfits
that's Visa and MasterCard, and allow those of us who are in small business
to collectively bargain for rates instead of paying them an automatic three percent or whatever
it is they require. You want the business, then you pay us two
percent. Take a couple of points out, So they'll be buying against each
other as much as anything else. But the retailers of America, whether they're
small ones or big ones say the settlement is a good development, but more
needs to be done to remedy the swipe fee situation. The lower feeds will
be not in They're not going to be enforced for ever. It's like they
have the experimenting for the next three four years apparently, and then the fees
go back to the current levels. So and the mom and pop shops,
yeah, this is the local Yeah, like the local businesses and all that
stuff. And I think we've all been there where they ask we're going to
pay, and they ask is that cash your credit? And then you have
your card and then even like is this a debit or credit? And I'll
ask, I'll ask like does it matter for you? Would you prefer I
use debit because you're probably getting charged with the credit. And if I ask
them, most times they will say debit would really help us, Yeah,
because they don't get charged off of the debit exactly right. And that's why.
For example, when I buy something at an auction and I want to
pay for it with a credit card, they'll add three points. So I
spent one hundred dollars, I got to pay a hundred and three. It's
it's it's it's I won't use the word because it gets used in the wrong
way, but it begins with an R. It is the public is being
Let's see, what's the Jewish expression, yinst it's you. We're all being
yinced. That's another word for getting screwed, and it's just us. Yeah,
it is so, but it's their way of making you know. That's
why these companies are as wealthy as they are so. Visa and MasterCard paying
six billion dollars, you'll get a notice in the mail, Oh, if
you bought something with Visa MasterCard, you're going to get nineteen cents back or
something like that. At any rate, it's at least they're at least they're
working on it. You feel like somebody's doing something for you. Right twenty
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