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But I'm not thinking that today is the day to be subtle, right,
Or maybe I don't think any day subtle's right. It's June ninth.
Hello, it's Jay Kershner. Hello, it's Doug Stephen. Hello. Here
to enthrall you with the activities of the world, the trending items, the
things that actually are on the charts. I'll give you a little preview of
the the Talker's charts for this week, which we will be discussing in detail
on the Talk Radio Review and the official Talk Radio Countdown Show, the stories
of Certainly you would expect that we would be talking j about the presidential race.
We will talk about the infighting and the Republican Party. We will talk
about the immigration problem, we will talk about the smoke problem. You see
those pictures of New York. Good god, oh the time Laps video.
It looks like something out of a horror film. It does. Yep,
we will talk about what's going on in the gay and then some community.
The bidens are being investigated. Imagine that Trump is being investigated and that Yes,
the Russians are still at war with the Ukrainians, that's something to talk
about. The Chinese are going to build a base in Cuba. Our friends
that we've helped so much to survive are going to build a base. It's
to help protect Cuba. So they say, from what be my question?
And if we had need brains, we'd be normalizing. Really, that's the
one that's one of the things that Trump did that was bad. We should
have complete relationships with Cuba, period, end of story. All right,
Well, anyway, so those are some of the things that we will be
yakking about during the talk radio review. I thought it was interesting. You
know, we always are doing trending items, trending things, talking about the
world with hopefully a great degree of relevance, right So, and that's Jay's
job's my job. So I thought it was interesting looking at some of the
things that are online at this moment. One of the big things is a
shark attack in Egypt. Did you see about that? That's an interesting kind
of each No, I didn't see this one. Yeah, how old was
the victim? I didn't see that. I'm just looking quickly at list.
Frankly, Braun is not going to make electric shavers anymore. They're going to
power them with gasoline engines, just to kind of buck the trend. No,
they're not really who's going to say, are we playing like real or
fake news? A friend of mine who runs a hardware store, said to
me yesterday that he was told by Toro, which is the largest domestic manufacturer
of lawnmowers, that they will no longer make a gasoline powered engine driven gasoline
driven lawnmore he realized. I looked at him, and he rolled his eyes.
He bought an extra hundred to sell this year because when people find out
that they're going to be all electric, and they will, I'm sure some
people will embrace it, and some people will turn their noses up as I
am, because of the ludicrous focus the raise that is a part of this
whole electronic revolution, which I hope I'm wrong, but I think it's going
to backfire, and backfire big time because it's going to be so expensive A
and B. And this is the more important angle here, which is not
something that I'm just coming to. This is something that many people have been
talking about for months, if not years, that we will drain the electric
power system to the point where it will be in gridlock, and people in
hot states like California, where they're really gone progressive in a manner of speaking,
will be without power, and they will be without air conditioning, and
they will be miserable, and hopefully they'll vote out guys like Gavin Newsom.
Yeah, especially when you look at well, yeah, with the power grid
and how they already to do some practices of well, we don't want to
crash the system, so we're going to start doing rolling blackouts where it's not
like there's something some natural event that is happening called this is. Yeah,
like the recession we're in, it's all man made, yes, government made.
Yeah, right. And there are some households that cannot do without power,
cannot do without the electricity, whether it is because they have medical devices
in the house or yeah this is and not everybody can afford a backup generator.
Well, I have one because I need to have power to do this
radio program. If I don't have power from the normal natural sources, and
then I have a generator that flips on and go oh, powers the whole
house and all the farms going. Do you remember my last house, It
was above ground the duct choires, and my power would go out if the
wind blew. It was awful. That's what happens here. It's going out
old rural neighborhood, narrow streets. People who are drunk on the weekend come
down the street, these narrow, windy roads and crash into telephone polls all
the time, knock them over. Power goes out and so but the electric
company and the folks that do utilities like Verizon, Oh, we can't do
that. It would hurt our investors too much. We don't have the money
to do it. That's why PG and E let the fires burn or created
the atmosphere in which the fires were burning California, because they don't. They'd
rather kill people. They'd rather kill people than to disappoint their investors. So
there you go, speaking of killing people. Pat Robertson's passed away. We'll
talk about that in a little bit. And then there's Father's Day, Father's
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io kaya. One of the other things that is trending is the El Nino.
I was listening to the newscast the top of the hour and the focus
on El Nino and what it means. And I don't know whether we can
kind of coordinate this with what's going on in New York City and the drying
us up in Canada and the fire is there. So this is a warm
weather pattern in the Pacific Ocean and that shapes droughts and heat and things the
hurricane season, doesn't it, Oh yeah, it does. So it usually
takes the grabs about the same time, and maybe this is no coincidence.
I don't know the edge of that specifically, Jay, but you make a
good point because June is the beginning of the hurricane season as well, and
there've already been a couple of tropical depressions that have started and formed in that
area near the equator in the Atlantic. And is that where is you know,
like an eighty four percent chance of some kind of moderation in temperature.
So the and that this increases as you know, we're talking about the whole
business of it's called southern oscillation. The way, according to Noah, a
National Ocean Granite stat again Duck National Ocean Granitic or why do I National Ocean
a Graphic Administration, whatever it is. It's no headquartered down on the cape
anyway. So this is something that will affect the weather for obviously all of
us farmers, and that sort of thing. Stronger the event, the more
likely it is that area is known and impacted by things like hurricanes, you're
gonna be affected. Now this moderate sometimes it changes. There have been years
when there was an El Nino and it's sort of stopped mid stream, if
you'll pardon the pun to La Nina so you know, the Elnno is the
masculine side of this, supposedly the tougher side, the warming phase, yep.
And then there's Nina that's the cooling phase. So that's Semina. You
know there's a joke in there, Yes there is. So anyway, we
will have the looking at the long term forecast for the country. And when
I say long term, you know you can go to the various weather websites
and you can see like the next week or ten days. And sometimes I
find that accu weather is pretty accurate, almost down to the hour. Have
you ever noticed that now, because I'm in farming season and I need to
kind of know hour by hour more to do my haying than anything else.
Um. So yeah, anyway, so it'll be a wet summer, it'll
be a hot summer. We are having here in the Northeast, a lot
of rain. I should have started my hanging on the farm just about the
time it started a rain again, and so now we haven't done that yet.
Good luck to those of you farmers who are doing that. First full
week is under our belt now in the month of June, and you have
sunshine, lollipops and roses and Also, those of you who were followers of
the Seven hundred Club are probably sad today because Pat Robertson, the well known
televangelist. He and Billy Graham, I don't know if they if you would
put them into the same category or not. Pat Robertson, he was described
often as the leader of the religious right. I don't know whether that's what
people feel or not. I happen to have worked for him for a little
over a year found him to be I guess the best way I can put
it as he was an interesting fellow and had lots of angles, came across
as one thing on television and was in real life something different. That happens
a lot with the people anyway. He was familiar, certainly in terms of
politics, very involved, and wanted to have people of the religious of the
people who were members and watchers to the Seven hundred Club. He wanted them
to know where he stood and where they should was that this is what you
should do, so from being a pastor to being a strong political force.
I remember him from having worked with him, worked for him. Actually i'd
never worked with him. You didn't work with Pat Rabitson. You worked for
him and if you didn't believe in the religious and other traditions that were part
of his family and the political side of things, then you were out.
His father was a powerful US Senator, and he grew up around politics.
He was described as the leader of the White Evangelical Christian Church, which I
thought was very interesting, and the Christian Broadcasting Network, which he started in
nineteen sixty. He had telethons like the PBS. He was actually the first
one to do that. Instead of people think the PBS, the first to
who had no it was Robertson. He got a lot of money, made
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to know that today is National Donald Duck Day. Donald, could you hold
on for saying introduce you and talk to the world about what this day is
all about. This is the first day that Donald Duck was actually introduced by
Walt Disney June ninth, nineteen thirty four. Donald, I didn't know you
were that old. Frankly, Jay, can you understand what he's saying?
No, But all I can think of is the line that Donald always says,
it's exasperating. Exasperating, Yes, why Donald, I would like to
have people here. So the updated version of Donald Duck and talk about some
of the issues of the day. For example, what does Donald Duck think
about diversity? Huh? Okay, right, uh, you're an uncle the
three Ducklings. How are the Ducklings behaving? Okay? Um? If again?
Did you ever actually make an honest woman out of Daisy Well star?
H Have you ever gotten tired of all of the movies and all the animated
cartoons that you've been here? That's a lot of work, isn't it.
Oh? I wonderful, warful? And you still live in Duckberg. You
lived at a long time at Duckberg. Do you still live there? Who
are? Who are? Mm hmmm? So Donald? What makes you so
relatable in the world today? You were something that was really swelled in nineteen
thirty four, but it's twenty twenty three, and so how have things changed
in your life over these years? Let's see I can understand that. All
right, the voice of Donald Duck is actually the voice of my dear friend,
longtime colleague and a participant in making this program hold together as part of
the glue of this program, Bob Clos, for whom I first worked in
six All right, okay, come on, we'll tell a couple of Yeah,
right, I think you, as a matter of fact, Jay,
you published a picture when you stop at donald when you become Bob. Now,
okay, so um, Bob, what do you want? Give me
a break here the factor in the morning. That's true. So I think
you published a you put up on the on the duck step on the good
Day website or did you put it on Facebook? Jaky Facebook? Okay,
picture of you all, picture of the the radio rascals. It was like
a w b Z Yes, it is a w b Z uh sort of
reunion for four of us. And then there are a couple of other uh,
there are a couple of other local invaders to the to the party who
do local radio on the station that we're actually heard of heard on up in
Lowell, Mass w c AP. Anyway, So one of the many things
that Bob has done over the years being program director of a dozen or so
great radio stations. Run some great radio stations. All right, yeah,
well listen, and most of them long enough for a cup of coffee.
Yeah, well listen. That's the way of the world when you're doing this
sort of That's why I wanted to do this instead of doing the thing because
I was. We were talking about this the other day. I've been on
at least a dozen stations, and I think you I think you agreed,
didn't I say that I've been on about a dozen local station in addition to
doing this broadcast, maybe more than a dozen stations. If I had to
sit out on every radio station in New England, come on, yeah,
that I have. I've been around anyway. When I knew you, you
run a different format station every night. One night on beautiful music right JIB
Boston. The next night you were on WBCN BOSTONN doing hard rock. The
next day you were on WBZ doing you know, chicken rock or adult whatever
the heck we call that music back then. Yeah, so, and then
then the next day you're on w e I doing talk. Hey listen.
We had a varied career. It was. It was good to do lots
of different things. And when you were on w NRI I down here doing
uh right, you know, new birth and uh an, obituaries, I
had all. I was doing all these things at the same time, and
that was the thing of many of them I was on. When I remember
we used to laugh about Sundays when I was on w JIB, I was
on w BZFM, and I was on wj W nt N. Anyway,
So the world of radio fascinating place. One of the stories that we tell,
and we'll cap this conversation the fund that we've had over the years.
One of the one of the one of the neatest things we did. When
you were leaving w b Z to go to Wo Wo and Fort Wayne.
Uh, there was a party that was held and the fellow who was your
boss managed to procure a couple of ducks as a present for you. And
so the evening that the ducks appeared at this party, Uh, they everybody
said, well, what are we gonna name these ducks? Wellmado, yes,
and Bob's real name is Marvin and my real name is Dudley. So
guess what the names were Jay for the ducks. The ducks name Marvin and
Dudley. And there was a famous broadcaster in Boston named Jerry Williams who was
on WBZ in the evenings, and he had he was heard in forty states,
had the biggest ratings of the country, and he was quite the character.
I think that's a good way of describing him, don't you. He
was quite the character. He was one of the He was an originator,
one of the best. Yea. He plays trails that no one had done
before, including dealing with a couple of ducks. So we brought the ducks
over to the studio. You could never get away with us today. We
brought the ducks over to the WBZ studios on soldiers Field Road in Boston and
brought the ducks. Well, the people around here now he's always not important,
okay, So bring the ducks into the station. And in those days,
the studios had airlocks, so there was a door outside and the door
inside to protect and maintain the soundproofing in the studio. So we decide to
Jerry Williams is doing a commercial, and we decide to open the door,
the airlock and the inside door and let the ducks go into the studio.
You couldn't see us, no, he just saw the ducks. The ducks
come quacking in and that we I don't think we have any of that sound.
And did you ever save the audio from that? That was it was,
I know, the funny. He was such a pro. He just
kept going. I mean he's reading his commercial for the Charlie's Tire service or
whatever, and the ducks are quacking in the back of Oh, I think
a couple of ducks just walked in the studio and then he went back and
continue doing the spot. Yeah right, anyway, and Bob is always no
but yeah, no, I didn't face them at all. So the whole
point here is, as we um talk about Donald Duck Day, et cetera,
et cetera, the whole reason that Bob became the voice of Donald Duck
in the sense that he has was because of the duck that noises that he
made and when when they were thinking of a good gift to give him,
as he why not ducks? Right, all kinds of noises, but that's
one of the best of them. All. Right, Well, happy Donald
Duck Day. Donald's there's another broadcast moment that will go down in history.
The Supreme Court, shockingly, on a five to four decision, has ruled
that Alabama has discriminated against black voters. You would not expect this to come
from this Supreme Court because of the political makeup, but because Chief Justice John
Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh sided with the three liberal judges. The decision as
shaken and annoyed a lot of right wingers. And Alabama more than one and
four residents are black, about twenty seven percent, about twice the national average,
and the state's current congressional map includes only one black district out of seven
total, so you can be sure that's going to change. But what it
does is show you how incredibly racist as some of these Southern Republicans are.
Like it or not, that's really oh my god. Yes, So the
Supreme Court says it violates the Voting Rights Act of nineteen sixty five. So
Alabama and Louisiana, which has the same problem, are going to have to
redraw the congressional districts before the election next year in order to give black voters
a fair and equal voice, which is only fair, frankly. And you
can say Justice Thomas, of course went the way of the right wingers.
Anyway, I think he's disgraceful. And that's it, the Supreme Court story.
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well, what a revolting development this is because Nick Miles, our autoexpert at
our autoexpert dot com, is super sick. He doesn't have any voice,
so this is the first time ever I can remember that he's had to withdraw
from being on the ear. But never fear the dugger is here. I
have some things that I have come up with because I'm a great I love
cars. I love talking about cars. That's why Nick and I have so
much fun relating the car news to you. Things that are happening with drivers
and automobiles and that sort of thing. So i'll get into it. A
matter of fact, I want to talk right now about what the Triple A
is saying. They estimate thirty seven point one million drivers are going to hit
the roads this summer, and that number includes those traveling fifty miles or more
fifty miles away from home. That's a six percent increase from last year.
So that'll be what two million additional card travelers more than last year. So
here's an overview. Let's get to the nitty gritty from Andy Solomon in the
Know. I'm Andy Solomon. If you're planning to hit the road this summer
for your next getaway, then let Kelly Blue Book give you some tips to
make your road trip a successful one. Matt Deagan, editor at Kelly Bluebook,
has more. Before you get going, remember to do a basic safety
check of your vehicle's tire pressure, wiper blades, fluid levels, headlights,
heating and air conditioning. Also schedule a regular services such as tuneups, oil
changes, battery checks, and tire rotations. Once your car is ready,
make sure you have your cell phone and a safety kit with a phone charger,
battery backup, a first aid kit, flashlight, water and snacks.
The last thing to do is decide when to leave. Late afternoon and early
evening can be the worst times on the road. Also, if it's a
long weekend, then try to leave on a Wednesday or Thursday so you can
be well on your way when the travel rush kicks in, and try to
avoid late night driving so you can stay alert. For even more tips for
your summer road trip, go to KBB dot com. All right, so,
because Nick is not with us, I'll cover a few things that are
going on in the world of automotive news or actually, I found this story
to be the most compelling of all the things that have to do with automobile
travel. A driver's survived this week after the car he was in that had
broken down, it was picked up by a tow truck. He stayed in
the car, which I thought was illegal. I didn't think you could stay
in the car while the tow trucks hauling you down the road. But anyway,
the car flew off the tow truck and vaulted into the air before it
crashed. So anyway, this guy's in the hospital. This took place in
Georgia, and the sheriff's deputy happened to be following the truck and his body
cam was on, so you can he was following. He was responding to
a separate accident across the highway, and then this thing happens. So the
footage shows the car traveling in the same lane as the tow truck and the
truck the car comes off of the truck. Anyway, it's wrecked, and
this guy's likely to be alive. Because that's the bottom line in that story.
The folks at Tesla have said that they are going to build a battery
specifically for GM vehicles. Now they're super charges, which is something that they're
well known for. I think what I sense here is that anybody and everybody
can be had for a buck. Right at first, Tesla said, nope,
this is our this is this is our stuff, and nobody else is
going to have it. But apparently GM's not having much luck in developing and
you know, actually what they should do is share. They should do it.
I recreate the wheel here. So there's that. The fellow who's been
running Dodge USA is now heading up Ram as well. So they put the
truck used to be they were Dodge trucks and they will call Rams. Now
they're not called Dodge trucks anymore. They just called Ram trucks, which I
think is a mistake because everybody still calls them Dodge trucks. So I'm going
to predict that because this guy has been put back in charge of the truck
division, that you're going to see what I just talked about come back again.
That the Dodge emblem on the trucks will be back as I think it
should. Nobody what Ram truck. Nobody knows what Ram is other than the
sheep, but they all know what dodges. So anyway, there's that.
And now there's a picture on Tom's website, our autoexpert dot com of him
standing in front of the new Lexus. The new Lexus was one of the
first, really I guess, Upscale SUVs. And so now the twenty twenty
four Lexus has been introduced the t X. It's made in America. Interestingly
enough, it's an oh, it's a sort of redeview re design of the
GX. So all those things you can find and many other items of interest
at our autoexpert dot com. Holding a good thought that Nick will be good.
His voice will be back next week. The deux Stephen Good Day download
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