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right. Let's hope anyway, January the fifth is upon. It's getting
close to Elvis's birthday. Next week will celebrate Elvis's birthday and my sister.
He and my sister are born on the same day. My sister can't sing
a lick. Yeah, you can't have everything right, Jay Bird and the
Duckster. Here it's Tex Stefan and Jay Kirshner. What's going on? For
what's going on? What is going on here? That's what I want to
know. This, that and the other thing. The story of the snow,
the big snow, the first big snow of the season. According to
the weather people on the East Coast. How much can we get, well,
how much we could get and how much you will get as usual.
There's two different things to encounter here, or to think through or to think
about, or they get yourself on the same street I was actually looking at
the nuance because I have to fly back on Sunday and into Oh, you're
going to fly into the snow. No, I'm not going to fly into
the snow. A matter of fact, Boston isn't going to get any snow,
is going to get rain and wind and that sort of thing, and
in little maybe like cold slushy stuff. Yeah, right, exactly is it
snowing in Ohio yet? Probably would be not at this very moment. No,
Okay, Well, we'll keep our fingers crossed that you'll have that to
talk about, because Heavens knows, there's really not much else going on in
the world right to talk about. There's an interesting overview of doctors who perform
unnecessary surgeries and what it is that motivates them other than money. Right,
there's a thing about well that's always been some there was a trail for those
people who did the plastic surgery, right, because there's none of that that's
really necessary unless it Yeah, well it's the page. The attractiveness of doing
uh, the you know, having the surgery performed, I guess as much
as anything else. And uh, and so what does that the attractiveness of
how how much can we scare you right as much as anything. Let's see
the fear based thinking that goes into whatever the news desk assigns. You know,
most people don't understand how the news works, whether I'm talking printed if
yeah, there's still some newspapers around, and the stuff that you see online
that is supposedly from legitimate news sources, and then the things that you watch
on television or here on the radio. There's always a news editor. Somebody
sits at a desk. I remember when I was running the news station in
Boston in the mid eighties. W Yeah, I was the news station then,
and we had somebody literally sitting in the middle of the room with their
fifteen reporters, and she was making the assignments, deciding where to go with
story to cover, which person should go out on the street to do it,
and then you know, who would do the editing and rewriting of the
story. That sort of thing that still happens, not to quite the extent.
A lot of people just self edit and work on these things because so
many people are working from home and the places of allved. You know,
these companies going bankrupt right and left. One of the biggest companies the third
biggest company in the country radio companies going bankrupt. That doesn't mean that you
won't be able to hear whatever you hear on the radio stations. Just means
that it's a sign at the times in the radio world, the advertising world.
What tolls have been taken by podcasters and podcasting and advertising there, you
know that kind of stuff. So many different ways to spend your money to
get people's ears or eyes or get them to do something. That's what advertising
is all about. Right bye bye bye or do do do or get get
get anyway, I'm off on a tangent here. The storm is it has
left a trail as it crosses the country, no question about that. But
when you look at the actual fact, this is the thing. People just
look at the headlines. They don't look at what the nuance of the story
is. So this as an example, East Coast braces for big snow first
of the season. How much could we get, Well, if you read
the story, how much you could get depends on where you are. For
example, in the general feeling is that Massachusetts, in most of New England
or much of New England will get six seven inches, But where I am
will get maybe two. But you wouldn't know that unless you really read into
the story. And isn't that the thing? Do you feel like your friends,
you're the people you talk to about things that are newsworthy? J Do
you feel like they dig into stories? Do you think they really know what
they're talking about whenever they're made? Is there a fact box there? Well?
One of the things that we're always talking about you and I, Doug,
is that people will read the headlines. They won't read the actual story,
or when it comes to social media, they will just read what somebody
has posted or shared from a non reputable website, and they don't do their
own research to see if that's even if the state must a even true.
I can't tell you how many times I have seen people post about a celebrity
who died and they're like, oh my goodness, this is heartbreaking news,
and that in actuality, that celebrity died like over a decade ago. Yeah
good, that's a great examplelation. So well, anyway, this is not
supposed to be a lecture. I'm not on a podium here. It just
is very interesting. It's an observation because we are observers. If you will,
there's a new there's an over I like this the advocacy. I'm looking
at what is a basically a black journal, the newspaper that's aimed at Black
Americans that's printed in Pennsylvania. Every once in a while, I kind of
come over. I see something that I want to grab. And so this
is an advocacy piece by a group of black journalists who are upset because the
Republicans are working as they try to cut spending, and so they think their
point is very They hit the point like a sledgehammer, and that's sometimes what
happens here. They're saying that a lot of the cuts and spending proposed by
the Republicans would hit federal social programs and could that's the word you read into
the story. It could have a disproportionate impact on Black Americans. Okay,
so how did we get here in the first place? I think that it
ought not to be. And this is sort of my this is a ruse.
Right, you have Black Americans, White Americans, Hispanic Americans. People,
why don't we just say Americans? What are the social programs that may
be affected that will affect Americans? Well, this is a black newspaper,
so they're going to focus on black issues, right, and racial equity is
one of them. That's one of the bywords now, diversity and equality and
all that stuff. But are we really getting it or is there a disproportionate
amount of money or disproportionate, more importantly, a disproportionate focus on people who
haven't had maybe enough, or haven't treated fairly. I can certainly agree with
the component of the conversation that there are a lot of people who are still
today and have been for since they were their relatives were brought over here as
slaves who have gotten screwed. Basically, not to put too fine a point
on it, but they have been taking advantage of the prejudices that are aimed
at people. There are plenty of white people who, for whatever the reason,
don't want to don't have anything good to say or think about black people,
and there's that there's plenty of black people don't have anything good to say
about white people. So how does continuing to focus on that in the way
that uses a sledgehammer, How does that? How does that fix the problem?
I'm all about fixing problem, and I think we have a lot of
racial gaps, certainly in wages, like women still don't get paid either as
much as men do for doing the same job. It's better than it was,
but it still isn't there's no equality there. So while come we're not
talking about that, there's access to higher education for whites and blacks and just
that is still something. I mean, what during COVID, wasn't there a
big to do about black's not getting enough vaccine? Don't I remember that from
the Yeah? I think there was. I think it was something about in
certain certain areas that the vaccine wasn't as readily available available? Yeah? Was
that? Was that? A is that a racial issue has been made to
be a racial issue? I think perhaps there is that prejudice. There's a
subtle prejudice that works its way into a lot of the thinking and and Republicans
seem to have more of that or there there. It's easily the finger of
fickle, finger of fate is easily pointed at Republicans, perhaps more Southern Democrats.
So why is that? Why would Republicans want to why are they why
do they think that way? Not all Republicans do and not all Democrats,
not like you say, everybody is the same, but there's a lot of
that thinking and so I guess I wonder why. I guess I'm thinking back
to Ted Kennedy's speech about his brother at his funeral, who talked about his
lot in life was to basically am summarizing it to fix things. He didn't
worry about what the wise were. He fixed whatever. I'd like to find
that as a matter of fact, maybe James, you can find that quote
somewhere, that Ted Kennedy quote about his brother from the funeral. That'd be
good to revive, as we are doing a lot of that here on the
program, trying to revive things that politicians have said, famous Americans have said
things in movies and TV shows, just to kind of get your head focused
around something that we all kind of have in common, which is the culture.
If you will, you know, all that stuff is very much a
part of our American culture. So anyway, and speaking of that, the
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leveled against SpaceX and Elon Musk back a year or so, and this is
a way this is you know, this is the thing? Is that again,
I'm taking an interpretation of this. Elon Musk is more of a Republican
than he is a Democrat. Do we agree on that? Kind of feel
like it depends on the day. Really, all right, well, I
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treat, cure, or prevent any disease. As we dig around in the
social media world to see what's trending when it comes to celebrities, Diane Keaton
is in that list of AJ because she has been talking about what she likes
to what she likes to sing. She's amazed she's seventy seven years old.
Man, that surprises me. I don't know why it surprises me. I
often confuse her when I was younger, I confuse Diane Keaton with what's her
face? Who's in the new movie about the about Diana and iad why is
the name escaping me? You know who I'm talking about? The no idea
no Idea Diane Keaton and she's married. To help think about it. I'm
on a track here because I'm I'm looking at Diane Keaton's conversation about who her
favorite singer is, and that will probably surprise you too, because I'm going
to bet that there are not many seventy seven to seventy eight years old who
find this particular person to be to the number one, although Dolly Parton might
find her to be number one, and dollar is that age, So maybe
I'm speaking out of the wrong end of my mouth, But we'll talk about
Diane Keaton and who her favorite singer is. Sounds like a karaoke night,
right, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a cute video. She's sitting
on the steps and she's singing along to Miley Cyrus, and she says that
Miley was her favorite artist of twenty twenty three and this was kind of a
birthday tribute to herself, her one favorite person in life. Diane Keaton is
Diane Keaton's favorite person and Miley's her favorite artist and like this song so much
and sang a long sort of with it. I don't know the song.
I don't know that much about the Miley Cyrus songbook other than what you tell
me. Diane Keaton is seventy eight years old today, and I was thinking
about Annette Benning, who is the other the other actress that is I think
from the same league, although Anette Benning is sixty five, but she's playing
the role of this this swimmer and Ni ed something we'll talk about with Chucker.
The idea that Diane Keaton likes Miley Cyrus was what grabbed my attention here.
And so she sings along in that clip? Did she hear? Miley
Cyrus is thirty one? And I said, would she be that? You
know, that favorite the favorite singer for other people that are that age?
And then I thought about Dolly Parton, who's her godmother? I think right,
Cyrus's godmother, so she would like her as well. So does Diane
Keaton like to sing in public? Or is this how did she get caught?
This was her house? No, she this was a video that she
had set up. Somebody was taking it, Yeah, somebody was taking it.
She was facing the camera and singing at the camera while sitting on some
stairs. But Diante Keaton when she actually like sings, I remember her singing
in what was the First Wives Club. She has a good voice. She's
singing what's the other one? The Mandy Moore movie? Because I said so
Yeah, she's been in a lot of those kinds of movies and is good
in them. She also is a member of that club like the She's been
a lot of movies with Robert de Niro. You know, they're all that
same age, and those actors and actresses love to do stuff together. So
that's good. Happy birthday to the person she loves in life the most,
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are. We're thinking about things that are going on and talking about the things
that people are intrigued by that may not necessarily be on the front headlines the
front pages. There is a somebody did a video. Listen to this.
J I saw this on the plane the other day. Somebody did a video
of all the people went around the world and found every man whose name is
James Bond. Hell, there there are like it's just like like one hundred
or more guys whose names in America and elsewhere are James Bond. And they're
all ages. And the question always is, why do you suppose your parents
chose the name James to go with your last name Bond? How could you
not? But My question is what are their middle names? Yeah, there
is, but they're not always well, it wasn't clear that there was a
middle name. I think someplace somewhere, Ian Fleming wrote there is a middle
name. I don't remember what it is, but I think someplace. You
know. Ian Fleming started writing these spy novels after World Yeah, it was
right after World War Two. He was obviously a brit and he imagined because
the world of spying on the Russians had become a big thing and people were
obsessed with the spies, and so this came out of that era. And
so the novels were written in the forties and the fifties and they were easily
you know, it was a perfect perfect focus for a movie, and nobody
knew where this was going to go. First one came out in nineteen sixty
one and the signature line was and that clip that you just heard was from
the first James Bond movie. And so, but just imagine if your name
is James Vond and you introduced hello, sir, what's your name? My
name is Bond, James Bond, and people look at you. It's got
to be the source of all kinds of and that was really what the movie,
this documentary was all about. What was life like or what has life
been like for you? Your name's James Bond, so you know they've had
a lot of fun. How many people think you're lying when you say your
name? Yeah, maybe that's it right. Yep, here's something good to
think about. This small girl whose parents were told when she was born that
she would never walk. Wow, five years later she's running around. She
had spinal surgery in the womb. And what I mean think about the miracles
of modern medicine, and this is going to be on the top of that
list. This was available to these folks who the lady Georgia was nineteen,
the husband, Tyler was twenty one. They were told that their baby had
spina bifida. The ultrasound was taken to twenty weeks. And if you don't
know about this, this is something that's fairly well known. The condition causes
a weakness in your lower limbs. The parents were told likely the child would
never walk. So she went to Germany to have a treatment. The baby,
the unborn baby in the womb, was operated on. It cost him
eleven thousand dollars. And so this young girl Piper was born healthy in July
of twenty eighteen. She was named after this the surgeon who fixed her,
whose name was Thomas Cole. So her name is Piper Cole Kelly. And
now she can walk, and she can run, and she takes part in
her school sports every day. So you can imagine what an amazing thing is.
And you wonder how often this was something You've got a lot of attention.
How often has this happened to youngsters in the womb? How much more?
And I'm asking the question because I don't know what the answer is,
frankly, how much of this sort of thing is a part of when you
find out what's going on see this sort of and I don't mean to tie
it into the whole abortion debate, but when you have a think about this,
here's this family. They find the child could never walk, and without
the right information, they could have made a decision that they wanted to avoid
the baby because they didn't want to live a life of misery. And yet
now with yet same information, you can go to I'm sure the best hospitals
in the world are performing these operations, and the baby was saved, could
be saved, And so I don't mean to make I'm somebody who doesn't like
the idea of abortion much. But it's not I just say that because I
don't just say it. I say it because i'm that's how I feel.
But I think that there are reasons for having an abortion, and there's solid,
good, strong reasons. I think just making a blanket you can't have
an abortion is nonsense and not very smart. But the other side of it
is that some people have used it. But then you know, you dig
into the rhyme and reason, and that's why I say it's not my business,
because it's nobody's business. If somebody has you know, you can say,
well, we've got to protect the unborn fetus. Why is that your
job? But nobody's looking to protect the mother, the pregnant mother, right,
thank you? Yeah. I mean it's there's an argument on both sides,
but it isn't just about it. It's like these people are fanatics,
and I wonder how much they really think about, Like what you just said,
what happens if there's a danger to the mother and the child is going
to be born dead or in some way not not healthy and beat with life?
Yeah? Right, so anyway, good, Well, also girl,
Yeah, this is fantastic. And for anybody wondering what is the most premature
surviving baby, that baby was born in the USA at twenty one weeks and
one day, eleven days earlier than the previous record holder. When did that
just now? Just recently, I want to say, this past spring.
Yeah, well listen, less than a year ago. Yeah, all right.
There's a certain thing when you think things through. There's a it's a
great thing to be able to think things through thinking. I remember my sixth
grade teacher's name, her name was Margaret Hayes. She had a She and
the fourth grade teacher had the same sign on their desk, th h I
n K think. And that's what we were taught to do, to think
for ourselves, to think about what's going on. Teaching people how to think
is way more important than teaching people what to think, because if you teach
people what to think, you're not teaching them how to think. And we
need to be able to think because our thoughts the activities. There's nothing there's
no active action in the world that's ever wasted somehow or other. It has
a consequence, whether it's a good, loving expression of help or whether it's
something that happens in some of these wars going on around the country. There's
always some there's something going on with each person who's involved in these in each
action that has a consequence, And so think about the things that you do.
You're the giver, right, think you're the giver of whatever. Sometimes
you're the receiver of some of these actions. But be thinking about the consequences
of what you do, and hopefully other people will think about the consequences what
they do or what they say. Sometimes people don't always think about that.
I've certainly been guilty of that over the years. When you're on the radio
as much as I am, sometimes I say things that I think after I
said it, mush, why'd I say that? Where did that come from?
All Right? We go to Perry High School in a small town in
Iowa. Everybody's trying to figure out what happened there yesterday. All right.
This youngster has two guns, walks into the school and starts firing at the
in the cafeteria at breakfast time, and a sixth grader was killed. Other
people I think were injured, and you can imagine what happened to the children.
The teachers go scrambling yelling out the door. This is the first day
of new classes and they're still trying to find This was a seventeen year old.
He's dead and they don't understand why he did what he did. This
is a school of town near Des Moines. I don't believe there was a
manifesto like we've been seeing lately with some shooting, but there were allegedly social
media posts that are being added to the investigation. Yeah, they say one
sixth grader. No, that hasn't that hasn't been listed, and I'm assuming
that they've been archived or hidden, yeah, from public view. But yeah,
one sixth grader is died, five or wounded. Four of them were
other students, one was a faculty member. Why. What's the question here?
The question is why? And I suppose how in a manner of speaking
to right, why and how? And then the gunman turned his weapon on
himself. Yeah. So here's these angry kids and why are they so angry?
What are we doing? What are parents doing with all of this?
It's wof man, All right, let's get off of that. Here's the
story of another teenager, thirteen year old that says that he has accomplished what
no video gamer has ever done before. So this is where I need you
to I don't know what Tetris is. I ask both of you, I
think during the last break, what the heck this is and why this is
so important? I suppose this is a social media story to a point,
because that's where all this attention. It's a puzzle. It's a puzzle video
game. Okay, So who plays it? Who's the person? Who are
the people that would play it? Anybody who wants to? It was really
popular. Honestly, I haven't met anyone but you who hasn't played it.
So it's a it's a puzzle game. Blocks and different shapes will come down
from the top of the screen and you have to try and get them all
in a row, and then the longer you last, the higher score is
essentially, is that what's intriguing about that? Well? This was I mean,
this debuted back in the eighties. It's not like there were a lot
of like high tech That's what I'm saying, where have you been? I
don't play games. I don't play games in life. I don't play board
games. The only person that I play games with is my grandson Miles.
Who loves these things and is becoming pretty good at him. His father has
an iPad and so on the tablet. He's found these things where his father
has taught him where they are, and they're good for your mind. For
Heaven's sakes, there is and your agility. You know. The whole business
coordination says it's good problem solving. Thinking on your toes. As you go
along, it gets faster, say you have to kind of think faster,
you know. So are you surprised that a thirteen year old has been has
been able to do this? This has never been done before this game.
I think that's the more fascinating part, that this is the first time that
somebody has beaten all of the levels. Uh huh, Well is there a
prize involved this? How much? Did he wins some money? What's the
winning game? Getting tracking rights? I mean he's made national news. I
think that's that we're talking about him. Yeah, yeah, thirteen years old,
he's famous right now. Speaking of a name, he was one of
the most prominent, one of the most outspoken figures in January sixth is he
was a Capitol police officer and now he's running for Congress's name is Harry Dunn.
He was on duty during the January sixth situation. Some people call it
an attack, don't. I don't choose to call it. There were some
people who were there to do harm, and some people there that were there
to do that, were there to attack. But there are a lot of
people, as we've said many times before, they're just there because they kind
of wanted to see what was going on, what all hoopla. Well,
and after a certain point people were let in, Like the people who were
at the front of all of this, Yeah, they were menacing. They
were where we they should say, the writers versus the protesters and the people
in the back were kind of like they didn't know what was going on.
They thought they were allowed to go into They're on a self guided tour essentially.
Yeah, it'll be interesting to see how this guy does is he runs
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