1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:04,400 The dog Stefan Good Day download with Doug and Jay Kirshner is made possible in 2 00:00:04,440 --> 00:00:08,039 part by Keltren, which is the safe way for you to lose weight and 3 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:12,560 keep it off, and also by previagent keeping your brain healthy. It's the 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,559 Good Day Program. I'm Doug Stephan. January third, twenty twenty four. 5 00:00:17,399 --> 00:00:22,399 Get it right or else you'll get it wrong, or else, let's say 6 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:27,920 twenty twenty three. All right or wrong, I'll be with you. So 7 00:00:28,199 --> 00:00:30,920 let's see here, you know, being with people. I'm Doug Stephan. 8 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:36,560 Being is my thing, and I'm here to be being with Jay Kershner on 9 00:00:36,719 --> 00:00:42,200 the program today Wednesday, James Collins at the Controls in our studio in Dallas. 10 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:49,640 All's right with the world. It would seem accept neither Jay nor I 11 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:56,880 won the powerball jackpot, which was eight hundred forty two million dollars first drawing 12 00:00:56,920 --> 00:01:00,759 of the year. And that's eight forty two if you take it over time 13 00:01:00,359 --> 00:01:04,239 four hundred and twenty five. You take it right now. The winner bought 14 00:01:04,239 --> 00:01:11,719 the ticket at a food castle in Grand Blank, Michigan, which is just 15 00:01:11,799 --> 00:01:14,760 outside of Flint. For those of you who don't know your way around Michigan. 16 00:01:15,879 --> 00:01:21,560 The person hasn't reached out to win. The lottery winning numbers were twelve. 17 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:26,280 Let me look at my ticket here, twelve twenty one forty two. 18 00:01:26,519 --> 00:01:32,680 Sounds like very unattractive dimensions, right, I like to meet somebody who was 19 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:38,079 a twelve twenty one forty two. That wouldn't work to going through most of 20 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:41,959 the doors around anyway. Twelve twenty one forty two, forty four, forty 21 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:47,519 nine and the power ball was one. No, it was three. Well, 22 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:53,400 yeah, no, we got three times the dough with the powerball one 23 00:01:53,959 --> 00:02:00,120 thirty four consecutive drawings, no winner. There was a ticket in Florida and 24 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:04,319 one in Texas had five numbers, so they get a couple of million bucks. 25 00:02:05,079 --> 00:02:07,639 Tickets bought in California, Connecticut, Florida, and Maryland. I got 26 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:15,080 a million dollars. So this is the fifth largest powerball jackpot, the tenth 27 00:02:15,199 --> 00:02:20,680 largest jackpot one in the history of the game. Jackpot also is the second 28 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:25,719 largest lottery jackpot ever won in the state of Michigan. So the last prize 29 00:02:25,759 --> 00:02:31,439 let's see last year seven hundred and sixty million. Fourth jackpot is shade again, 30 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:38,000 Doug there. It is the fourth jackpot to exceed more than a half 31 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:44,240 a billion dollars. That was just last year. Largest jackpot prize is one 32 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:50,639 billion, seven hundred and sixty five million, and that was awarded in October 33 00:02:50,639 --> 00:02:55,919 in California. Whew, January. Let's see here in July. I'm looking 34 00:02:55,960 --> 00:03:01,080 at some of the numbers here July. Second largest prize one point eight a 35 00:03:01,199 --> 00:03:07,520 billion. That was another Californian powerball tickets two bucks apiece. Odds of winning 36 00:03:07,919 --> 00:03:15,039 two hundred and ninety two million to one. Hooray. All I'm hearing is 37 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:19,879 this person messed up getting us up to the one billion mark. Yeah, 38 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:23,560 that's right. How rude, That's terrible. I'm very upset about that as 39 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:30,960 well. Climbing every mountain, climb at the fact that over the Christmas holidays 40 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:36,080 we get to see that movie one more time every year, and it never 41 00:03:36,199 --> 00:03:45,439 loses its starch because Julie Andrews never loses her the fact that she's Julie Andrews. 42 00:03:46,639 --> 00:03:51,680 So I was thinking about that today, thinking about how as we climb 43 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:55,240 mountains, you can, as you get to the top of some of the 44 00:03:55,280 --> 00:04:00,120 great mountains, the great peaks, you can look around and see what seems 45 00:04:00,159 --> 00:04:03,479 to be the whole world, right, the whole world is so open, 46 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:06,599 and here we are at the beginning of a new year, new beginnings. 47 00:04:06,639 --> 00:04:12,520 You got the chance to see the world, and the world can see you. 48 00:04:12,599 --> 00:04:16,040 So put your best foot forward and be the best you can be. 49 00:04:16,439 --> 00:04:21,040 That's it, right, be the best you can be. Some names in 50 00:04:21,079 --> 00:04:25,639 the news as a matter of fact, to start that, to call him 51 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:29,079 out with a person who is the worst that she can be. And she 52 00:04:29,199 --> 00:04:31,959 got what she, in my mind, deserved, and that's to be fired 53 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:38,279 President of Harvard. A lady named Claudine Gaye has been involved and broiled, 54 00:04:38,279 --> 00:04:43,079 if you will not a controversy last few weeks because she's a cheat and she 55 00:04:43,279 --> 00:04:46,480 chose her to tell the truth right, well, she didn't know she did. 56 00:04:46,959 --> 00:04:50,759 She was told to resign and otherwise they're going to fire her. So 57 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:55,079 it looks better, and it happens in business, or it happens a lot 58 00:04:55,079 --> 00:05:01,240 of places. The idea that you are going to be fired looks better for 59 00:05:01,279 --> 00:05:09,639 you if you resign. So anyway, she the local news media here thought 60 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:15,000 she was the greatest thing since slice spread. Here's a black lady who has 61 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:26,120 climbed the peaks of talking about going up mountains of the collegiate world and apparently 62 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:30,439 cheated her away all the way up the hill and was caught. The students 63 00:05:30,439 --> 00:05:36,000 are the ones who chased her around. A very interesting reality because she was 64 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:43,879 not when I the play here. For me looking at this, I hope 65 00:05:43,879 --> 00:05:49,399 objectively the idea that somebody got to where they were and really wasn't qualified to 66 00:05:49,439 --> 00:05:53,279 be there in the first place. That was kind of a rumor that had 67 00:05:53,279 --> 00:05:57,600 been floating around for a couple of years. And so with all of the 68 00:05:57,639 --> 00:06:05,879 advent of the stuff regarding Palestinians and anti Semitism and her comments and that congressional 69 00:06:06,399 --> 00:06:14,560 hearing last month, so she gets and there's just no room. There's no 70 00:06:14,639 --> 00:06:17,560 room for anti Semitism, there's no room for Islamophobia. And I don't understand 71 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:21,800 why those words are so hard to say, Well, because you're being politically 72 00:06:21,839 --> 00:06:27,800 correct and you don't want to for whatever the reason, whatever her own stuff 73 00:06:27,879 --> 00:06:30,639 is, and she obviously has you know, there are plenty of people, 74 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:35,519 plenty of black women, plenty of brown women, plenty of white women, 75 00:06:36,279 --> 00:06:43,800 plenty of black men, plenty of black of brown men, plenty of white 76 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:46,360 men who have gotten where they are because they deserve to be there. They 77 00:06:46,399 --> 00:06:51,160 worked hard and did it the right way. For whatever the reason, this 78 00:06:51,279 --> 00:06:57,959 lady chose to go down a different street, and so she got sooner or 79 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:00,959 lated. That stuff most of the time catches up to you, don't you 80 00:07:00,959 --> 00:07:03,399 think jay things? When you don't do things, you don't follow the rules, 81 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:11,600 you aren't really you're not really who you say you are. And so 82 00:07:13,399 --> 00:07:16,839 this is I don't know, I said this kind of before I inferred that 83 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:23,279 I thought this was an example of Black Lives Matter going awry. As many 84 00:07:23,319 --> 00:07:30,000 other people I think I have, there's actually no one has attacked me for 85 00:07:30,079 --> 00:07:35,480 this my position on this. Oftentimes when I say something that is akin to 86 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:40,800 something like this, someone somewhere will say, well, you're just a prejudiced 87 00:07:40,879 --> 00:07:44,839 you know you are, And I'm not, and I know, uncomfortable in 88 00:07:44,839 --> 00:07:46,199 my own skin. I know who I am and I know what I think. 89 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:49,160 I just think that she shouldn't have had the job, never should have 90 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:55,399 had the job, but she got it by kind of going in the back 91 00:07:55,439 --> 00:08:01,560 door. So anyway, another name in the news, Jeffrey Epstein. He 92 00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:07,600 still did okay, yep, that's good. There were some documents unsealed naming 93 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:16,600 him, and some of his friends in this business of the sex trafficking and 94 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:22,120 whatever the heck else they were doing, Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton, you 95 00:08:22,160 --> 00:08:24,160 know all of the names that have been popping around. I don't see that 96 00:08:24,199 --> 00:08:28,040 there's anything new in this, Jay, Do you think there's anything. No, 97 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:33,320 it's just that the absence document is expected to be released soon, very 98 00:08:33,399 --> 00:08:39,759 soon, the official document, not just the what people are saying whom they 99 00:08:39,759 --> 00:08:43,120 believe are part of the document, or any of the rumors. The list, 100 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:48,080 like the actual list of names of people who were associated with him. 101 00:08:48,519 --> 00:08:56,159 And it doesn't necessarily mean they employed him in that awful sense, but these 102 00:08:56,159 --> 00:08:58,360 will be people that were associated with him, which is still a bad look. 103 00:09:00,559 --> 00:09:03,200 Doesn't look good. Nope, No, And I keep thinking about the 104 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:07,279 Manilla Ice story we talked about recently, where he was friends with Pablo was 105 00:09:07,279 --> 00:09:09,320 a Pablo Escobar in the nineties. He just thought that they were businessmen. 106 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:13,799 He had no idea what they actually did. Google wasn't a thing. I 107 00:09:13,919 --> 00:09:18,679 wonder how many of the Epstein associates had no idea what he was about. 108 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:24,360 If anybody works truly naive to it easy to be well, there's a naivete 109 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:28,519 that goes along with some of this stuff. For sure, that's easy to 110 00:09:28,519 --> 00:09:31,120 be judgmental and not be correct. It may be that none of these people 111 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:35,120 did anything wrong. They just happened to have at one point in time or 112 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:39,519 another, going down the same road. So I said the guy, he's 113 00:09:39,559 --> 00:09:45,440 gotten what he deserves. And so let's move on to another story about another 114 00:09:45,480 --> 00:09:54,000 person named Kathleen Wilson from Minnesota filing a malpractice suit against her dentists this week, 115 00:09:54,039 --> 00:09:58,120 claiming that she was left in pain and disfigured after undergoing a number of 116 00:09:58,200 --> 00:10:07,240 dental proceeds MM. She claimed the doctor conducted thirty two procedures on twenty eight 117 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:15,559 teeth during one single visit, four root canals, eight dental crowns, and 118 00:10:15,639 --> 00:10:24,879 twenty fillings. Oh good god, she continues to endure the pain and suffering 119 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:30,759 emotional distress, disfigurement. What in the world, So she's only seeking fifty 120 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:33,279 grand in damages? I would think you'd go after them. They go after 121 00:10:33,320 --> 00:10:39,799 the guy fifty grand an incident. Multiply that times what twenty eighteeth, and 122 00:10:39,799 --> 00:10:43,120 then you got something. But can you imagine, all you dentists who are 123 00:10:43,200 --> 00:10:50,399 listening right now, can you even imagine somebody pulling this off or trying to 124 00:10:50,399 --> 00:10:58,639 pull this stunt off. Good God, all right, So social media focusing 125 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:05,120 on the fate of Shannon Doherty and what she has focused on in her life 126 00:11:05,519 --> 00:11:09,759 right now. She's had a tough time, this lady. She's had a 127 00:11:09,799 --> 00:11:13,360 lot of cancer problems. She's fifty two years old, and so she's talking 128 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:18,320 about what is the future? What does she think her future? Is one 129 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:22,519 of the things that Shannondarti was involved in over the years, jay is the 130 00:11:22,799 --> 00:11:28,759 TV show Charmed. She has been discussing how cancer treatments have evolved in recent 131 00:11:28,919 --> 00:11:33,720 years, about she's been focused on hopes that future advancements will allow her to 132 00:11:33,759 --> 00:11:39,039 continue living her life. Imagine facing this head on like this, What a 133 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:46,120 great lesson for other people who have had this same problem and thought it was 134 00:11:46,159 --> 00:11:48,399 the end of the road, and then they were offered some hope. She's 135 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:52,320 hoping she can squeeze another three, four or five years out of her life. 136 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:58,440 Imagine getting up every morning and knowing what the end looks like. Yeah, 137 00:11:58,679 --> 00:12:03,200 and cancer research. Thing that this brings up more than anything else is 138 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:07,480 what on outrage all the money has been that's been raised over the years for 139 00:12:07,519 --> 00:12:13,120 cancer research there's a cure for these And I know I sound really like a 140 00:12:13,159 --> 00:12:16,080 cynic here, but most every good doctor you can talk to will tell you 141 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:22,320 that this is this is a game, and a cancer thing is something that 142 00:12:22,519 --> 00:12:24,320 could have been taken care of a long time ago, but there's too much 143 00:12:24,360 --> 00:12:31,240 money being made, billions and billions of dollars. So anyway, she talks 144 00:12:31,279 --> 00:12:35,720 about this with her doctor, emphasizing the importance of finding the right protocol for 145 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:41,480 you if you're a cancer patient well, and also early detection, which is 146 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:46,200 just so key into surviving. I think she has stage four breast cancer. 147 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:48,000 It's gone to her bones, it's gone to her brain. She announced that, 148 00:12:48,080 --> 00:12:52,759 I believe over the summer twenty twenty three, and she's at the point 149 00:12:52,759 --> 00:13:00,600 now where there's been enough research and that she has treatments that can help her 150 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:03,440 to last another three to five years, and then hoping that there's more that 151 00:13:03,679 --> 00:13:07,519 can help her last another three to five years. But at this point in 152 00:13:07,559 --> 00:13:09,200 her life, she's only in her fifties, she's in her early fifties, 153 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:15,240 and she's just hoping for three to five years at a time. My wife, 154 00:13:15,519 --> 00:13:18,639 the only woman I always ever married to, had the same exact thing. 155 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:24,240 She lasted twenty one years after being diagnosed with stage four breast cancer. 156 00:13:24,879 --> 00:13:28,799 Went through a whole lot. Shannon was a big smoker when she was a 157 00:13:28,840 --> 00:13:33,960 youngster, when she first started acting, and who knows whether that contributed to 158 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:35,879 it. You never really know what starts it. But in this case, 159 00:13:35,919 --> 00:13:39,799 you have a good thought, hold a good thought for her, and you're 160 00:13:39,879 --> 00:13:43,200 learning if you're somebody who's had this, and then you're learning by her example. 161 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:48,279 So that's a positive note on this whole bad page. I am Robert 162 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:52,879 Strickler. My wife Joyce and I have been married for fifty three years. 163 00:13:52,879 --> 00:13:58,759 Certainly one of the really important things in my life our children and our grandchildren. 164 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:03,440 I am essentially a writer. I've been involved in communications in the media. 165 00:14:05,159 --> 00:14:09,039 I've been an avid fly fisherman for at least forty or more years. 166 00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:13,879 I've been taking Prevagen on a regular basis for at least eight years. For 167 00:14:13,919 --> 00:14:18,600 me, the greatest benefit over the years has been that Previagen seems to help 168 00:14:18,639 --> 00:14:24,799 me recall things and also think more clearly, have a crisper ability to remember 169 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:31,399 and think through things, and I enthusiastically recommend Previagen. It has helped me 170 00:14:31,559 --> 00:14:37,240 an awful lot Proviagen Healthier Brain, Better Life. Robert Strickler is a content 171 00:14:37,279 --> 00:14:41,000 contributor for Prevagen and real User. Based on a clinical study of subgroups of 172 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:45,080 individuals who are cognitively normal or mildly impaired. This product is not intended to 173 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:48,840 diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. There are those people 174 00:14:48,919 --> 00:14:54,879 who celebrate January after the holidays, Jay with a dry experience. The first 175 00:14:54,879 --> 00:14:56,320 time I saw this, I thought, Oh, it's going to be a 176 00:14:56,399 --> 00:15:01,320 dry January. We won't have any snow. But that's that's not what they 177 00:15:01,360 --> 00:15:09,919 mean. Uh ah. New abstaining from alcohol for the first month of the 178 00:15:09,039 --> 00:15:16,720 year has become an increasingly popular trend with the rise of sober consciousness. It's 179 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:20,399 called the sober curious movement. I never heard of it before, have you 180 00:15:22,120 --> 00:15:26,399 the sober curious? It around for it's been around for a long time. 181 00:15:26,519 --> 00:15:31,159 Or some people do where they stop drinking in the sense of drinking so much, 182 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:33,600 where they get drunk, they'll just have a little bit here there, 183 00:15:33,679 --> 00:15:37,360 or what's the one a California sober where they don't use drugs or alcohol, 184 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:43,440 with the exception of marijuana. There's all these different variations and people do it 185 00:15:43,440 --> 00:15:46,200 for different different reasons that there's an actor. I want to say it was 186 00:15:46,240 --> 00:15:48,200 Tom Holland, but I could be wrong, who once upon a time did 187 00:15:48,320 --> 00:15:54,120 dry January just to do it, and then realized that he liked it, 188 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:56,240 and he went ahead and did February, and then in doing February he kind 189 00:15:56,279 --> 00:15:58,960 of realized, like, maybe I had a little bit of a drinking problem 190 00:16:00,159 --> 00:16:03,399 that I didn't realize. And then he did March, and then he did 191 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:04,879 June, and the next thing he knew, he was like six months in, 192 00:16:04,919 --> 00:16:07,279 and then he was a full year and he's like, yeah, I'm 193 00:16:07,279 --> 00:16:10,519 just I'm not going back. I feel like my head is clear. Jessica 194 00:16:10,559 --> 00:16:15,759 Simpson has been very open about her struggles with alcoholism and that she realized she 195 00:16:15,279 --> 00:16:18,759 needed to change, needed to get sober. But then in finding her sobriety, 196 00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:23,279 she realized how much anxiety and depression she had been battling that she was 197 00:16:23,360 --> 00:16:27,440 numbing with alcohol, and once she stopped that cycle, a lot of her 198 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:30,559 issues with anxiety and depression went away. Now, that doesn't happen for everybody, 199 00:16:32,080 --> 00:16:36,919 but and being open and about talking about her experience starts. Yeah, 200 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:40,639 it's a start. And one of the things we'll talk about is I highlighted 201 00:16:40,679 --> 00:16:44,360 some of the things on Good Day Health. For this weekend Good Day healthshow 202 00:16:44,399 --> 00:16:48,720 dot Com with doctor Ken, We're going to talk about the impact all good 203 00:16:48,799 --> 00:16:59,159 Doug alcohol has on your esophagus and your oral cavity. So that'll be something 204 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:03,159 and you can tell by my tone it's not good. So that'll be part 205 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:07,400 of what we talk about this weekend. The celebration of the life of a 206 00:17:07,519 --> 00:17:15,680 lady called Sally Snowman. Her real name is Sally Snowman. She has had 207 00:17:15,720 --> 00:17:22,519 a post as the lightkeeper the Boston Light Beacon off the coast of Massachusetts, 208 00:17:22,519 --> 00:17:26,240 near the Islands near the city of Boston. She became the first woman to 209 00:17:26,279 --> 00:17:32,559 hold a position. She's seventy two years old. She's had the job for 210 00:17:32,759 --> 00:17:38,039 fifty years. Imagine every day getting on a boat and going out to a 211 00:17:38,119 --> 00:17:44,960 lighthouse and spending the day there. She worked for the Coast Guard. There 212 00:17:45,119 --> 00:17:48,640 was a movement of foot a number of years ago here locally up and down 213 00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:55,160 the coast Maine and New Hampshire and Massachusetts and Connecticut, Rhode Island, where 214 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:59,119 there are a lot of lighthouses. They were all coming down they were falling 215 00:17:59,160 --> 00:18:00,079 apart. The government says, yeah, we're not going to fix them, 216 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:04,119 we don't need them anymore. Tear them down. And then somebody figured out 217 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:10,960 that they would be an immense help to the There's a picture of me somewhere, 218 00:18:11,039 --> 00:18:15,359 Jay being down on Nantucket visiting a friend of mine a few years ago 219 00:18:15,799 --> 00:18:19,720 the Nantucket lighthouse. And you know, it's just one of those things you 220 00:18:19,759 --> 00:18:26,160 almost feel like you're in a different world when you there's a metaphysical feeling to 221 00:18:26,319 --> 00:18:30,319 going into those lighthouses. It's just that's the only way I can describe it. 222 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:33,799 So anyway, a lot of these landmarks are taken care of now well, 223 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:37,119 even though it took a while for people to wake up to understanding this 224 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:42,759 is a good, natural kind of a national treasure. There's a lighthouse near 225 00:18:42,880 --> 00:18:47,680 Cleveland somewhere that just went up for auction, and I can't remember the people 226 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:52,240 of the winning bid if they were going to turn it into a house or 227 00:18:52,319 --> 00:18:57,519 a restaurant. Ye, but I always thought that the lighthouse keepers lived on 228 00:18:57,599 --> 00:19:00,759 the property, lived in the lake. You can't And yeah, some of 229 00:19:00,799 --> 00:19:03,240 them do, Yeah, right, some of them do, You're right, 230 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:07,799 some of them do. Does this feel like, not unnecessary, but does 231 00:19:07,799 --> 00:19:15,319 this feel very sad? I feel shy about this. This is the last 232 00:19:15,640 --> 00:19:18,160 America's last lighthouse keeper leaving the post. It's the end of an era. 233 00:19:18,480 --> 00:19:26,640 This is sad. Yeah, but we continue to do stuff that's I could. 234 00:19:26,359 --> 00:19:30,920 I guess I would. The phraseology I was going to use is not 235 00:19:30,079 --> 00:19:33,759 our best interest. You know. This is penny wise and pound foolish. 236 00:19:33,759 --> 00:19:41,920 Now here's another the price. This is a very interesting, kind of a 237 00:19:41,960 --> 00:19:48,319 weird twist on the problems we're having with immigration. The federal government wants the 238 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:56,519 Supreme Court to settle a dispute with the governor of Texas. The administration there 239 00:19:56,039 --> 00:20:03,000 has installed razor wire along the border to keep out the illegal immigrants. On 240 00:20:03,039 --> 00:20:07,440 the surface, looks like something that makes sense. I'm not a big fan 241 00:20:07,480 --> 00:20:11,279 of Governor Abbott. I think he's kind of a blow hard and a single 242 00:20:11,279 --> 00:20:15,440 dimensional thinker. But the other side of it is, we have such a 243 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:21,119 problem with the illegals, and Texas and California are the places where there is 244 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:25,319 the biggest problem. California would never do this because that's not in their political 245 00:20:25,359 --> 00:20:30,680 wheelhouse. But in Texas, Yeah, this guy puts the governor says all 246 00:20:30,759 --> 00:20:37,359 right, we're gonna this is called Operation Loan Star. We're going to have 247 00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:41,839 this bar was like what you see when you go buy a prison. You 248 00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:45,240 know, that razor sharp wire that's along the top of the fences to keep 249 00:20:45,279 --> 00:20:49,559 the inmates from getting out because you fall on it. Well, barbed wire 250 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:56,680 and the other stuff and somehow or other, some of the it's like three 251 00:20:56,720 --> 00:21:00,400 if you look for a picture of it, it's three courses of three feet 252 00:21:02,359 --> 00:21:07,400 round around and it's it's like a razor blade, only it's a big long 253 00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:11,839 something's been spread out, And how you would get through it without cutting the 254 00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:15,680 hell out of yourself is beyond me. Some people have done it, have 255 00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:19,519 been able to get through it. But anyway, so the point of my 256 00:21:21,119 --> 00:21:26,960 focus on this is the Supreme Court has been asked to allow border patrol agents 257 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:33,400 to cut the wire on the border as part of an effort by the the 258 00:21:33,480 --> 00:21:38,039 state to kind of get a handle on this stuff. And the Feds don't 259 00:21:38,039 --> 00:21:44,319 want. Why would the Feds not want? I'm all for this, you 260 00:21:44,359 --> 00:21:48,240 know, people are not supposed to be coming here. The federal government says 261 00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:52,519 it's cruel and unusual punishment, whatever terminology they want to use. Well, 262 00:21:52,599 --> 00:21:56,640 especially because I know people are going to try to scale it anyway, like, 263 00:21:56,799 --> 00:21:59,839 well, that's the that's their problem. It's not going to take it, 264 00:22:02,119 --> 00:22:04,880 So that's their problem. They're not supposed to be coming here, and 265 00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:10,279 so at least not they're not supposed to be coming here this way. So 266 00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:15,240 as much as I think that Abbott is kind of an Neirenderthal, the installation 267 00:22:15,319 --> 00:22:21,880 of this razor wire along the Rio Grande River as part of the operation to 268 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:26,960 keep illegals from coming into the state of Texas, I think it makes sense 269 00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:32,240 anyway. The Biden people don't think it makes sense. So how do you 270 00:22:32,559 --> 00:22:34,599 how do you argue this in court? How do you go in and say 271 00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:38,519 you know, somebody's going to say, well, it's cruel and unusual, 272 00:22:38,839 --> 00:22:42,000 and then somebody else is going to say, well, why are these people 273 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:45,279 trying to get into the country. This isn't the right way there are go 274 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:52,039 down to Juarez and come across legally and get processed. That's there's nothing wrong 275 00:22:52,079 --> 00:23:00,200 with that at all. So anyway, I think that this is I have 276 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:03,359 no use for Biden's administration anyway. Everybody knows that. Listening to me. 277 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:07,160 I just think that many people too no, they don't. I mean, 278 00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:11,359 it's this kind of stupid stuff. So there's a wire that's like the wall 279 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:17,559 that was put up, especially when you realize the number once again, the 280 00:23:17,599 --> 00:23:25,319 month of December set a record two hundred and eighty six thousand people came across 281 00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:33,000 the border in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California. So how 282 00:23:33,039 --> 00:23:36,960 do you figure that's right? What's right about that? There's nothing right about 283 00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:40,640 that. So people are having a tough time in the places they live. 284 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:42,960 I get that, and maybe it's up to us to help the people that 285 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:48,480 can't help themselves. But when did we become the place these are like a 286 00:23:48,599 --> 00:23:55,599 dumping ground for everybody. You know, these other government Venezuela and other countries 287 00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:59,359 that are not our friends. They send people that are supposed to be in 288 00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:03,039 jail, books, criminals, murderers, they send them up to America to 289 00:24:03,039 --> 00:24:07,440 get rid of them. That's one of the things that trying to to prevent. 290 00:24:08,799 --> 00:24:14,720 Anyway, I'm just finding I find it very distressing. Here's something else 291 00:24:14,759 --> 00:24:17,519 I find distressing. I wonder what we do about this. There's a new 292 00:24:17,599 --> 00:24:23,680 three D printing device JAY that is going to be used to end drug and 293 00:24:23,759 --> 00:24:30,599 chemical testing on animals. I think I want to talk to Warren Extra about 294 00:24:30,599 --> 00:24:33,480 this. Yeah, yeah, right, it needs needs to be ended. 295 00:24:33,559 --> 00:24:37,079 Remind me to talk to And it's not just lab rats or bunnies that we 296 00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:42,240 all believe. That's beagles, dogs like it's dogs. Yeah yeah right, 297 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:48,119 yeah, nothing good? All right? What's going on in uh Russia's attack 298 00:24:48,799 --> 00:24:56,440 against the Ukrainians this week? Russia lost an attack on a number of Ukrainian 299 00:24:56,559 --> 00:25:03,480 cities the last couple of days, large scale attacks. They can't get soldiers 300 00:25:03,519 --> 00:25:07,000 to go in, so now they're using all of these, you know, 301 00:25:07,079 --> 00:25:12,799 the ballistic missiles and drones and all that stuff. The Iranians are involved in 302 00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:18,079 this, as they are involved in the Middle Man. What a disgusting place. 303 00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:23,160 Are disgusting the people that, you know, the Iranians don't like for 304 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:27,720 the most part, the Iranian the average person very well educated in Iran. 305 00:25:29,759 --> 00:25:33,799 You kind of wonder why they leave the Ayatola or that form of government. 306 00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:37,640 And it has to do with a complicated religious sort of set of beliefs. 307 00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:44,400 But anyway, there were a number of people killed in the attacks. Putin 308 00:25:45,440 --> 00:25:48,960 rings in the New Year. This is the headline, by killing one hundred 309 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:53,319 and one people in the attacks on Ukraine. So why is Vladimir Putin still 310 00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:57,640 running Russia? Why is this is? So? 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Caldron at top loss dot com thanks to Elizabeth Miller here, one 337 00:27:56,279 --> 00:28:02,880 of the great Caldron consultants at top Law. Jay and I have social media 338 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:06,799 on our mind at this point in every hour isn't an amazing Jay? How 339 00:28:06,839 --> 00:28:14,519 it works like clockwork? Wowie Zowie on the dot to the tea on the 340 00:28:14,559 --> 00:28:18,440 dot. All right, exactly, all right. So anyway, the social 341 00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:23,000 media portion of the program, we oftentimes talk about the things that you have 342 00:28:23,079 --> 00:28:29,480 responded to on our Facebook page or Instagram page, our social media we can 343 00:28:29,519 --> 00:28:34,759 connect with us at good Day Networks. The technology I'm looking at some of 344 00:28:34,759 --> 00:28:41,119 the news coming out of the Middle East. The Palestinians have used technology to 345 00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:48,079 provide tools to help support Palestinians. So there are a bunch of other people 346 00:28:48,119 --> 00:28:55,200 in the tech industry who have announced a coalition called Tech for Palestine to build 347 00:28:55,279 --> 00:29:02,200 open source projects and data to help people advocate for the Palestinian people. It's 348 00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:07,759 an interesting group comes during obviously a tough time in the Middle East after Hamas's 349 00:29:07,839 --> 00:29:10,759 attack. By the way, you may or may not have heard this, 350 00:29:10,839 --> 00:29:14,880 but one of the leaders of Hamas was killed in an explosion. I guess 351 00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:18,839 it was a bomb. I've forgotten where it was. But anyway, that's 352 00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:23,000 good because no matter what's coming out of this, getting rid of Hamas is 353 00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:27,279 a strong thing. Now, this technology has nothing to do with getting rid 354 00:29:27,279 --> 00:29:30,720 of Hamas. I'm just using I'm saying giving you the update just as an 355 00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:37,720 aside, But this technology is they're trying to raise awareness of the war in 356 00:29:37,799 --> 00:29:42,039 Gaza. Now, I guess I would ask the question, raise awareness of 357 00:29:42,079 --> 00:29:48,599 what the war itself or what's happening to the Palestinian people. Is this itacy 358 00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:55,759 group? Yeah, well, millions of Palestinians, tens of thousands of deaths. 359 00:29:56,240 --> 00:30:00,880 It's it's absolutely awful what's going on. So this will offer the Palestinians, 360 00:30:02,119 --> 00:30:04,880 the Palestinians, not any members of Hamas, but the Palestinians support and 361 00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:12,440 help and in finding anybody who's been displaced and getting resources. And because it's 362 00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:17,400 it's easy from the outside looking in to be like, well just leave, 363 00:30:21,559 --> 00:30:25,559 they don't have the war, the financial support that. Yeah, but it's 364 00:30:25,559 --> 00:30:32,000 a war. People get killed in war. Many, so many people have 365 00:30:32,119 --> 00:30:36,319 been killed, even in Israel. There's the eleven hundred, more than eleven 366 00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:41,039 hundred individuals that were killed in Israel in the Hamas attack. We don't know 367 00:30:41,359 --> 00:30:47,960 how many people are still being held hostage by Hamas. It's just all of 368 00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:51,200 it on both sides. Yeah, you're naive if you don't think they were 369 00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:56,240 going to be The people who were protesting what's happening from their point of view, 370 00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:59,400 don't really know what's happening, and it would be nice if somebody. 371 00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:03,480 I don't know if that'll come out of this group of tech experts that are 372 00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:10,000 putting together information or is this an advocacy group that is aimed at casting a 373 00:31:10,079 --> 00:31:15,160 shadow on Israel and what they're doing to protect themselves. It's the question when 374 00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:17,839 you say we don't know what's happening, or people don't know what's happening. 375 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:22,839 There are things that are known. There are millions of Palestinians to place that. 376 00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:25,960 We do know that. There are tens of thousands that have died. 377 00:31:26,039 --> 00:31:30,680 We do know that. And for people to want to bring awareness to that, 378 00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:33,759 I don't understand why that's an issue. I don't understand you. But 379 00:31:33,799 --> 00:31:37,720 what do you do with the information? If you acknowledge anti Semitism or you're 380 00:31:37,759 --> 00:31:41,759 anti Semitic, if you acknowledge Islamophobia, both are happening, Both are on 381 00:31:41,839 --> 00:31:45,039 the rise increase, not even in the Middle East, but here in the 382 00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:49,720 US. Where people are terrified to walk down the street just based on who 383 00:31:49,759 --> 00:31:55,400 they are, their religion, the color of their skin. It's just absurd. 384 00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:57,440 We are living in twenty twenty four. Why is this still a thing? 385 00:31:59,720 --> 00:32:04,039 Because living in twenty twenty four is about that. Unfortunately, there's still 386 00:32:04,079 --> 00:32:07,079 so much prejudice that we're looking after eighty years since the Second World War, 387 00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:10,799 we'll come Any Nazis and skinheads and people like that who believe in that stuff 388 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:15,559 are still wandering around the planet. They're everywhere. We got them here. 389 00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:20,240 The next Stefan Good Day download with Doug and Jay Kirshner is made possible in 390 00:32:20,279 --> 00:32:22,880 part by Caltron, which is the safe way for you to lose weight and 391 00:32:23,119 --> 00:32:27,799 keep it off, and also by Privilegent keeping your brain healthy.