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of May, and that traditionally is Memorial Day, and that's what this is.
So what's that all about, Jay Kirshner, Doug Stephen, here,
what is it about? For you? The image that we have a hamburger,
Well, I don't have one, or a hot dog. Don't have
one of those either. Swimming pools don't have one of those. So I'm
out already the beginning of summer time, sum summertime, sum summer time.
But this day serves perhaps more importantly as a time to honor those who have
given their lives while fighting for our country. And I guess the definition of
all of that can be argued, but not necessarily here and now, this
holiday, this day, this time, we ought to all be pretty somber.
We ought to be serious. We ought to be thinking about our American
history. We ought to be thinking about their traditions, the things that America
stands for. Well, and that gets us into an argument also about what
the wars that we fought were all about. This was started. It was
called Decoration Day at first after the Civil War, when people, members of
family, friends, that sort of thing placed flowers on the graves of both
Union soldiers and Confederate soldiers. And so the fact that the barbecues happened.
Because it's the unofficial start of summer, a lot of people think the first
of June is really when summertime, summertime, some sum summertime, and a
lot of people are students are getting out of school and everything, and you
know, I have to say, it was really disappointing. Over the weekend.
I was listening to some radio stations FM, XM all of that stuff,
and whenever anybody discussed Memorial Day, it was all happy Memorial Day.
It's the unofficial kickoff to summer. Not a thing was mentioned about what Memorial
Day is actually about. It is, like you said, remembering our fallen
soldiers, those who died in service. And it's not even Memorial days and
even about just celebrating or honoring or remembering everyone who served. That's veterans Day.
Memorial Day has a very specific reason, and not only do people whose
sight of it, but to not hear a single person discuss it on air
when I was listening over the weekend, it was so disheartening. Yeah,
it is just well, it's just it just gives more into the liberalization.
And I use that term because a lot of people use it in the positive,
some people use it in the negative. But it really is a This
is something that is so serious, but yet people don't get it. They
really don't. People just don't get it. It's one of the things that
in my mind has led or is leading to our country not being as great
as it used to be. And when there were people who were actually willing
Look at the kids today and I say this fully cognizant of sounding like some
old fart, but the people that would be engaged in a conversation like that,
Jay, those people, Yeah, summertime, Ray, it's donn have
to go to work, we'renna have to go to school. Yay. They
haven't got the clue. And teachers suck at teaching this sort of thing.
In many different and most of the country, teachers are not teaching the history
of our country, and therefore we are bound too. That's what happens with
history. If you know, if you don't learn from it, then you
repeat it. And this is an important historical day. A historical perspective ought
to be put on what happened. John Logan, who was a general in
the Grand Army of the Republic, which was an organization that basically was set
up to honor Union veterans, selected this day May thirtieth, actually was the
first one to pay tribute. He wrote, quote, the thirtieth of May
eighteen sixty eight will be designated for the purpose of strewing flowers or otherwise decorating
the graves of comrades who died in defense of our country during the late Rebellion,
and whose bodies now lie in Almos, every city, village and hamlet
in our land. The flowers are. The reason it was chosen is because
by this time it so there's not one person. I had forgotten this myself.
I'm looking at the history of the of the holiday. Is this day
was chosen because by this time flowers are in full bloom, So they wouldn't
have been flowers if you choose another time as many the selection would not have
been as great as it is at the end of May. And so all
over the country flowers are at their peak, and that's why the end of
May was chosen. Most people don't know that, so I thought perhaps that
would be an interesting thing for us to talk about. Federal holiday. No
banks, nothing's open today today. It's one of those holidays. It's kind
of like Christmas, New Years, Fourth of July. All the stores are
open like it's usual. It's the Memorial Days sale, get your sheets,
jape are today. You know that doesn't goes along with all the federal holidays.
Yeah, it does. Half mast or half staff, that's where the
flags are supposed to be today, wherever they are. Be interesting to go
around to all the flags that the car dealers around the country have these big,
huge flags. I'm a Patriot. Let's see how many of them actually
have them at half mast. And then there is the misuse of that term
I'm a patriot. That's also something that goes with a lot of these holidays.
They the annual Washington the thing that Gary Sinis and that's the other actor
who always host this and a lot of the same faces you see every year
singing and portraying Wyatt. They usually do the fourth July too. Anyway,
those things are a reminder that you spend at least part of the day.
Some people will spend the remainder of the day they're doing what the day is
all about. But mostly those are older folks and not the people who we
easily denigrate. I guess those people who are they aren't paying attention. Let's
put it that way. They're traveling. More people traveling this weekend. That
has been the case in the past four or years, four or five years
actually, and the gas prices are stinging us. We thought that would impact
travel. Yeah, people have very much attention, right well, I think
it's just one of those you don't really have a choice. If if you
have your plans and you want to go do them, you you need to
get from pointing to point B. You want to travel, you have to
go get gas. That's just three dollars and fifty nine cents a gallon,
by the way, is the national average right now. That is a decrease
from last year, but still when you look at the very I remember,
was it last year five dollars almost five dollars a gallon? I think at
this time, and of course, our friends, the patriotic gas companies always
jack up the price at Memorial Day at the fourth of July at Labor Day,
because they can as much as anything else, there are I'll see crowds.
There will be a lot of people at Arlington National Cemetery today for sure,
and some of the news media will, you know, interviewing people.
I suppose not necessarily news, but there's a story there, and I know
the mayor of my community goes out and places they. I think last year
five thousand small American flags were placed on graves all over our community, some
people, and this because it was Decoration Day. It was first just for
soldier, but now pretty much everybody remembers others that died in their family because
Veterans Day is really for the soldiers, and today was supposed to be for
soldiers, but then it grew into a date that has been used for a
lot of people to go place flowers on the graves of just loved ones that
have died. In eighteen sixty four the traditions started. Women from Pennsylvania placed
flowers on the graves of fallen soldiers in the case the Battle of Gettysburg,
and then it's gone from there. The American what they call the amvets,
American veterans group usually has a motorcycle rally. That's what you see a lot
of today, a lot of motorcycles and taps has played a lot at funeral
well, yeah, a funerals at at the veteran cemeteries. So it doesn't
make any difference the race, the sex, the color, the creed.
There is from a World War two well, you know, but from the
Civil War after that through World War one, world War two, when there
were sort of legitimate, real legitimate wars, this date made some more sense,
I think to a lot of people. But when you realize that at
the end of the day, there have been so many people, like five
hundred and sixty two thousand people died during the Civil War, more than in
any other war we were ever involved in. World War two is four hundred
and eight thousand, three hundred and six Americans were killed, and then thankfully
it's gone down from there, except for the outrage that was the Vietnam War.
Fifty eighty two hundred nineteen Americans died for not a damn thing, And
since that time there hasn't been any real I mean, we talk about going
to Afghanistan and you know those places that didn't you know, we didn't really
accomplish what we were supposed to accomplish. So there's page after page after page
of various things that we've gotten ourselves involved in the Operation Endure Freedom in Afghanistan.
The first day, twenty eight Americans were killed. And then you go
from the number of people killed in action to the people who were missing.
Some prisoners of war have never been found. Those people I think we think
about today, at least I hope we think about him on this day.
The people who have died while in military US, please think of someone I
know my I'm thinking about my father, my great uncle for whom I am
named. I tell the story often about the USSA who the submarine that my
uncle commanded during World War Two that sunk more Japanese tungage in the first half
of World War Two than any other Pacific submarine um And uh So, anyway,
the story, the stories we have stories, and those are stories that
are good to tell today. And if people don't don't respect it or don't
think about it, then do me. If they were to ignore them,
how's that we can we can do that? Ignore those people who just don't
get it and who have no real reasons. Nah, they don't. You're
right, Yeah, they don't. So, but my two sol somber.
Yeah, this is a day for somber reflections. Any eyes. Yeah.
One of the most interesting performers. A member of the Ames Brothers. There
were four brothers who were very popular in the fifties and sixties, kind of
like the Four Lads or The Letterman or a lot of the pop groups that
were around. He was the youngest of them, the last surviving member of
the Ames Brothers. He had Alzheimer's disease, so he's passed away. His
wife said, he had a wonderful life. I think he was an actor
of some note. There's a lot of television programs, but the one he
was most famous for, by the way. He went to Oxford and got
a degree there in literature, and he always talked and spoke like he was
very well educated. But he played an Indian. He'd never get away with
this these days. He played an Indian named Mingo on the series He's Daniel
Boone He and Fess. Parker has starred as Frontiersman, but the best part
of that show was him being involved in a bit on The Tonight Show with
Johnny Carson. He had he was famous on the TV show for throwing hatchets
as an Indian. So Johnny Carson, they set up a picture of a
human or not a picture, but they've got a little kind of drawing situation.
Yeah right, yeah, yeah, and so Johnny says, I want
to see you throw that axe, and so he throws the axe and the
hatchet and it became one of the show's most memorable. I remember seeing this.
Actually they've seen it over and over and over again because ed Ames hit
the Indian in the crotch with the What's so funny is when you see this
at Ames and he when he notices where it landed, he kind of takes
a step back and he's like you could tell his to gass and so embarrassed
and he tries to walk over to take take the acts out at the tom
hawk out and he stopped because it's like, no, at this moment,
breathe, it's an amazing moment. It's hilarious exactly. Yep. Yeah.
So anyway they had, they'd have been the act the Ames brothers. He
was in musicals, had a great voice, as you heard there, and
he did it. There's another version of his song he did call Try to
remember that came from the Fantastics. That's his beautiful baritone voice. But again,
probably even though he was in lots of Broadway plays with Gean Wilder,
Kirk Douglas like One Flew Over the Cougar's Nest. He used to sing in
Las Vegas. He was one of the best in the Man of La Mancha.
But he's best known for that shot on the tonight show Perfect Head Aames
passing away at the age of ninety five. Our focus on the Good Day
program is what's good for the most part, hopefully, there are some things
in here that a little shaky when it comes to the good department. But
many people like driving on Memorial Day weekend. I had a couple of friends
that went down to North Carolina. They do every year. They have a
one of those time shares, and they came back early because the weather was
where. They had two reasons. One they didn't want to fight the traffic
on Memorial Day weekend, and they also had terrible weather. The Carolinas have
been stuck in this rainstorm, those of you who are listening in North Carolina,
South Carolina, this big snow good I was gonna say, snowstorm.
Good day, this good storm. But the weather hasn't changed because it's been
locked into that area by a couple of high pressure. The jet stream is
in a very interesting place that it's holding high pressure area. Like where I
am in the northeast, weather is abulous, just fabulous. For the next
week, maybe have some showers. Actually the sore is getting dry. We
need more rain for things to grow. Well, all those things are still
wonderfully green. We love that smell of grass beam mode when I'm on my
tractor mowing hey, which I've started to do this week and getting things planted.
It's a great It's just that vibrancy, if you will. It comes
with the first part of the growing season. But then there's that hot weather
that's all across the country and as usual with moving from west to east.
So what you've had in Montana, let's say, other than Yellowstone. By
the way, do you know that Yellowstone. I didn't realize this. I
watched a little bit. They're having a rerun because of I don't know why.
Who knows. Let's have a rerun of Yellowstone that it's filmed in Utah
and not in Montana. But what reason. Well, that makes sense.
I feel like so many shows and most of them are not filmed in the
location trade. Yes, yeah, exactly, Yeah, that's true. And
I think my favorite drama of the last twenty years, other than the usual
Law and Orders and the fbis those are well constructed for what they call procedurals
and the Chicago shows, although the Chicago shows have lost their luster because other
than Chicago Med, there isn't really a lot of you know, the same
people that made it good at the beginning of kind of all gone, and
I thought it was interesting. Patha Murkison, who was a mainstay of Dick
Wolf Productions. She started out on Law and Order and now is Chicago Med
was one of the presenters last night. In the overall they have two and
a half hours of presentations on the Hollywood Hollywood on the Washington Mall when they
have these Memorial Day weekends and the shows the PBS does, and she was
good drama about the do Lay I think it's his last number, first name,
but he's very recognizable. Anyway, They portrayed the story of a family
that lost a veteran and it was very dramatic and it was very interesting.
To go see the audience and then to go out into They went into the
audience to actually meet the families who the story was about. At any rate,
so what else is going on? What else has gone on? The
traveling brings us through the airports. I love last week. I haven't had
much of a chance to talk about this my last my most recent trip to
La Or which was to honor you, Jay and the Andy Gracie's, The
delays, the stupidity of how American runs. They I love their slogan,
we do this for you, bunk them, do it for me or anybody
else. You do it for a paycheck. So but some wise intelligent person,
somebody they paid a lot of money to on a pr and just said,
yeah, let's tell everybody we're here for them now. And you showed
that you weren't here for me because you screwed around. There was two screws
and a latch on one safety kit box in the back of the plane that
had come undone, and instead of reporting it like they should have the crew
the night before, it wasn't until the plane was checked out. At least
you know they're checking the plane when you know before you go. And one
of the flight attendants saw that this thing was unlatched and she looked at it
and the screws had fallen out of it. So normally it would have taken
you and me with a screwdriver probably five minutes, maybe ten minutes. Two
and a half hours later, we're still waiting for these guys in the so
called maintenance screw to screw around literally with this thing. And then once they
get it fixed and we actually start moving, we stopped in a parking lot
basically on the edge of the tarmac. Because American you operate, that was
going to be one of the the flight you know, the flight manifest so
they had to wait for operations. And we've sat there for other half someplace
to you need to taxi and when you land a taxi and get to a
gate, and because they time everything out, I would have thought that you
also have to wait because you can't take off until they know where you will
be able to know. Well, that's the other thing. When we landed.
When we landed, there was no gate because we were two and a
half hours late, and the gate we would have gone to had another plane
in it, and they had to wait another thirty minutes to get a plane
off of the gate. I love it when they say we're gonna land a
half hour early, right, and when you get there there's no gate.
Okay, anyway, enough of that. Although I thought it was, TSA
has been talking a lot about how many people have gone through the turnstiles,
and I saw something. I have an air travel site that I go to
because I like to know kind of what's going on where people are traveling to
and what's going on with the planes that are flying, etcetera, etcetera,
etcetera. So I've found a list of things that TSA will not let you
carry onto a plane. Most everybody who's gone through this knows what the rule
is. You know, I was supposed to carry any any uh knives,
He's stupid enough to bring a knife onto a plane these days? No guns?
But did you know that you are not allowed to carry peanut butter?
The yes, you do that? Really? I didn't know that, you
aid, Yeah, everything has to be below three ounces? So what about
jam and jelly? Can you not carry them either? Are those considered liquids?
I don't know. Frosting you can't carry frosting with you on a plane,
and freezer packs that aren't frozen, and alcohol only if it's over one
forty proof. What do you mean if it's if that's seventy percent alcohol and
it has to be below sports equipment, you can't carry bats and clubs.
Well, I understand that anything that can be, but you can check it
in the bag that you put you know, if you check your luggage,
right, you can do that. I mean, it's news dumb enough that,
come on, that's so stupid. All right, let's see what else.
It's graduation time. Let's say hello and congratulations mc clovis hung who Hi?
This these sort of things just that they put such a wonderful spin on
the day. Here's a young kid who's twelve years old, who just graduated
from Fullerton College in Fullerton, California. Youngest person who ever celebrate commencement at
that school. Five degrees degrees right, five degrees and arts. Let's see
history, social sciences, social behavior, self development, Wow, Science,
Math. He's going to pursue another degree. He wanted to be the youngest
graduate, he said, hopes to follow in the footsteps of the previous record
holder, who is Jack Rico. He this youngster said, I didn't expect
to beat him. Jack Rico was thirteen when he graduated, his kids twelve.
Oh my god, this is something else, isn't it? To behold
nine nine? Yes, yeah, So he's very inquisitive. As you can
imagine, being inquisitive is good for your brain, quite sure, obviously for
his age. Very diligent self discipline is something that you need, could motivation,
that sort of thing. And when he went to the traditional public school
system, they didn't satisfy him, and they are. You know, the
school system isn't doing much for anybody these days, far as I can see,
except like the teachers would say, like the American Airlines, we're here
for you. There are plenty of good teachers, but there are also people
that are just there because it's easy and not to be. It ought to
be a tough job, and if you do it the way it's supposed to
be done, I think it is a tough job, but it's a rewarding
job. Anyway, back to this kid, his college career began with one
class that he started taking and then he just kept going. So I can't
imagine this kid is one of those kids that just hangs around with all of
his friends playing. He's got to be so serious. He's gonna be added
all the time, right, wouldn't just say when you read the story the
story a lot of times we see parents pushing their children to do a lot
of these things. And his mom even said that. No. She more
often than not, is encouraging him to relax, to take it easy,
reminding him it's okay, you are still a child. It's okay to go
have fun and be a child, all right. On the other end of
the scale, here's his student that took fifty four years to finish a bachelor's
degree. Arthur Ross has set a new record longest time to complete a university
degree graduating. He said, I have been to all of my children's graduations.
Seventy one years old. By the way, my daughter says, I
really ought to go off and pursue a master's degree. Maybe that would be
something good for him. He's probably retired. I'm going to guess he enrolled
in this school in nineteen sixty nine, came out of retirement six years ago
after leaving his career as a lawyer. COVID started. He guess. He
guessed, okay, it's a good time to get a degree. So he
wanted to finish, and that's what he did. God love him, right,
fifty four years to get degree before you can get a law degree,
Yeah, you do, but you can do him. At the same time,
I think there's nothing because he was a lawyer. Yeah, he loves
his job of being a lawyer. That's why I would question it. Well,
this was a particular program that he was on. Yeah, that's a
good point. Anyway, he is to be congratulated. I think Texas good
story of it's never too late to follow your dreams, to create a new
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in Los Angeles. So anyway, she says since the fifth season of her
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Also sleep there occasionally have a little cook out. Right. One of the
things that I found most interesting is I was looking around directions to fight those
weeds. It's weed warfare. And this is not about all the people who
are after those who do the smoking and and all what are they eating stuff?
Or they call those people that are not that don't like marijuana. There's
a group, there's a not the I know there's a group. Anyway,
This is not about that kind of weed warfare. This is about the way
you get rid of those ugly things that are on your lawn, in your
flower bed. But it isn't hopeful. I know it isn't because I know
your philosophy not using things like round up and things that are poisonous. So
how do you how do you get results where you know. One thing that
people don't realize now that the grasses like really coming in quickly, is that
we start to get to this point where we're tired of cutting the grass.
So what do we do? Already cut it shorter and shorter and shorter,
right, I mean people think, well, if I cut it, you
know, shorter, that means I have more time before I have to cut
it again. But when you cut the grass too short, you actually are
inviting weeds because when the grass plates are taller, they create shade on the
roots. They're they're stronger, they're healthier. But when you insist on cutting
it very very short, you get a whole bunch of weed problems that will
crop up, no pun intended. Yeah that's a good one. Well right,
yeah, I guess that one of the things on the farm though,
that we find when we mow. If you have a field that hasn't been
made for a while and you want to bring it back, you mow it
constantly and it gets rid of the weeds. For whatever the reason. I
get that, maybe because it doesn't resede itself. But I don't know if
growing hey, it's different than growing grass, But I know that you cut
your grass too low, you get a lot more weed. You know.
It's also isn't also it dries it out too good secks to moisture. That's
right, right, that's right, because if you think about think about every
blade of grass as creating shade. You know, we don't think of grass
is creating shade. But you know when you're when you're the soil, you
create shade with grass as well as bushes and trees and everything else. But
if you let that soil really bake because the grass is so short, then
you get all sorts of issues. You know. The other thing you can
do is check the pH. If the if the if the pH is off,
you're going to get more weeds right, so back in your body.
Maybe we should use balance seven on our lawn. And the other thing is,
you know, it's important to know what you're fighting, know the enemy,
you know, like the National Garden Association has an online weed library that
if you have weeds, you can actually go this library, look at the
picture, figure out what you've got, and I'll tell you exactly what to
do to get rid of them. Because too often we use so sort of
a broad spectrum herbicide and you know, can it's not good. You just
want to use what you have to to get rid of of. It's the
same thing with pest control. Right. You know, you don't just sort
of blast them all with one product. You want to find out what you
got targeted and get rid of it. I had a woodchuck that went underneath
I have a little garden sort of a grow house, right, uh,
and so the and it's attached to the back of the barn. And so
we found my actually my dog Daisy found this hole. And the hole overnight
became bigger and bigger and bigger. This woodchuck had gone in and gone down
to the to the bottom of the of the cellar, right if you will,
and then came back across and went to the garage and came up again.
So, and this is right next to the gardens. I'm not having
any of this. So I know people are going to take exception to this
because they think I'm a bad guy. Woodchucks are the enemy of anybody who's
got a garden. And yeah, there's ways of getting rid of them,
but if you really want to make sure you get rid of them, you
plug out both ends of the hole, yes, and and then you fill
it with water and that's the end of that. So yeah, well there's
a natural murderer row. Listen, you've not heard of I have a hard
trap, Dug, huh have a hard traps don't work for large populations of
them. I have one field that I'm owe a year that has one hundred
and forty six woodchuck holes. Oh way, that would be a lot of
traps. Yes, right, exactly, all right? How about roof vents.
I see that there's a focus on roof vents. I think these things
that could don't they help keep things cool in the house? Well? They
do. And actually the thing is, Doug, that a lot of folks
will get confused about how to vent an attic and they think that the attic
fans are the be all and end all. And the problem is that,
especially as it gets warmer and you're starting to run air consting, attic fans
suck that air consting out. But if you have a defense ridge and soft
advance, then you just vent the like nothing else, right, all right?
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