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Yeah, all right. I like wearing sweaters. I do that.
I have this collection of sweaters that I wear on the farm. Jay.
They've been attacked by the moths, so they're full of holes, but they
still me. You know, some people would pay good money to buy a
sweater like that. Oh, put them up on Facebook. Let people buy
him. There you go, Greece and all. Yeah, it is the
Good Day Program, Jay Kershner Doug Stefan with the thought about how to not
judge others. It's hard to do. We all do it. We all
judge people. Why do we do it? Are we doing it because we
think we're going to help by judging people and saying, Okay, this is
something that I've noticed about you, and maybe we can do something together that
will help your situation. There's that kind of an encounter, and then there
are the other encounters where people I remember my stepmother, for example, one
of the most judgmental persons I ever met my life, and it drove real
wedge between her and my two children and frankly me I you know, But
that's the way some people are, and it's mostly because they're fearful, They
don't know, they have preconceptions about people or circumstances, and so most of
the information that comes from being a judge is frequently incomplete. Like some people
don't want to be around those who are a different religion. Some people don't
want to be around those who are poor. Some people don't want to be
around those who are wealthy. Some you know, it's a poverty is seen
as sometimes a signifier of laziness, and that's not true. It maybe sometimes
true, but yeah, right exactly. But what do you gain out of
judging people? That's your own insecurities and you look in the mirror. It
is something And I don't mean as suppo as I'm siding a little judgmental myself
here as I go through this stuff, and it's not to be, but
we all catch ourselves thinking or behaving judgmentally. That's my point here. Maybe
well, our brains are wired to make automatic judgments on others' behaviors. It's
it's a it's a psychological thing, and it's scientifically proven that it's also how
we move through the world without spending as much time and energy. Like our
bodies are created, including our brains are created to work smarter, not harder.
The problem is we get into this habit of judging people before we even
experience their behaviors. We judge people based on what we are actually seeing.
And if you've ever noticed too with yourself, Doug, and I've noticed this
with me that I will judge people based on my current mood too. Like
sometimes it's again, we don't see things as they are. We don't see
people as there. We see things as we are. We see people as
we are the kind of mood. How often have you even maybe read an
email and you're in a bad mood, so you read it like the person's
yelling at you and they're not. I have I've done that myself. I've
received text messages where I respond to somebody and they're like, well, clearly
you're in a bad mood, so I'll just talk to you later, And
I'm thinking, what what just happened? Tell me? I think that's right?
It is. I can point to I don't usually send those memoirs to
you. I think once in a while your father will get something to be
not aimed at him, but he'll be able to read between the lines and
know that things aren't traveling down the pike at the right in the right way.
And that brings me around to thinking about children. You know, we're
talking about adults as being judgmental, but what do you do to keep children
or even conscious about your attitude towards some things rubbing off on your children and
your grandchildren. And so I was looking at as in the Target story the
other day, and there's this big section of toys for children that are aimed
at it says, so to see something say something on them. It's not
aimed at the thing from homeland security. But still the good and the bad
of it is training youngsters to be more observant, right, you know,
notice the caterpillar on the driveway, or notice the leaves if you will it
are changing, or notice the dog has a sore on her ear, or
whatever it is. But looking around and observing your world. And as you
get older, the world gets bigger. Right now, I have Brendan and
our conversation last night. I'm beginning to back on my travel schedule, as
been captive on the farm all summer, and at my choice. I love
being on the farm of the summer. I also miss being around my children,
and most of the time now they come out for a few weeks in
the summertime, but I haven't seen any of them for a couple of months.
So I'm eager. It's my son's birthday, and so we have all
of these events that we celebrate together no matter what. And obviously it's much
easier for me to go there than it is for them all to pack up
and come here. And plus I like to travel. I like going out
there. I love the energy of southern California. I don't care much for
the political realities, but I love I just love being in Southern California anyway.
So, and back to the children and what they learn from you.
And Jasper, who's going to be two in December, is now very vocal.
So Brendan picks him up and puts him in front of the screen and
he says to me, hi, with that big Brookhi, and he sticks
his fingers in his mouth. He knows that I'm going to be pleased because
he's just learning how to you know, he's learning how to speak because he
gets reactions to what he's saying, and that's how we learn. And again
that's what he's seeing, and so we're encouraging him to do the you know,
to observe and to speak and listen to what we're saying, et cetera,
et cetera, et cetera. So it brings me around to this thing
and traveling, I'm going to be more aware of it because every time you
walk into the airport, no matter where you are, if you see something,
say something. And so apparently there is a new homeland security effort or
a focus because frankly, of the you know, it's really this is it's
not silly at all. But when you think about we've let the the the
we've let our boarders become porous to all these people are coming in and who
the heck knows. I mean, this thing started, I believe after nine
to eleven the Homeland security folks saying, you know, if you see something,
say something. So anyway, right now their focus is on human trafficking,
and that's very important stuff. We all know what's going on, the
problem is getting worse and worse and worse. So listen to this. Why
why do we ignore the things that give us pause, that seem out of
place, that don't feel right. The answer to why defines who we are.
So if you see something, why do you say something? I see?
Say for my friends, for my community, for my family, for
each other, because all of this matters. We all have something worth protecting.
So why do you see say reports suspicious activity to local authorities. If
you see something, say something. So let's meet some American girls, shall
we. Here's Lilah, an American girl. She was Girl of the Year,
or apparently is the girl. She is the current Girl of the Year.
Loves horseback riding, gymnastics. Lila Manetti is her name. So she
has become the Girl of the year. And does this say something that is
like Barbie. It's a little bigger than a Barbie. It is a doll,
a little bit bigger, almost like baby doll size. But they are
appear a little bit older than baby dolls. They are fantastic. I remember
back in my day four yeah, yeah, yeah, Aantha, Kristen and
I think we got Felicity once somewhere in there. And now there are so
many I don't even know how many there are, but they are they're so
cool. The Barbie thing, right, it doesn't know what that is Barbie
stuff. No. I feel like these ones are very different the American girl
dolls. They they definitely are very different. Where they have these stories of
different eras, Like my favorite was Samantha Parkington. She was from the Victorian
era. And these are like a little bit less twenty inches tall, but
they go through the eras in the decades, and I think there was one
sometime within the last five years that there was like a nineties one, like
we're already there. My children loved Paddington Bear, both my daughter and my
son. Is that the yellow raincoat? Yeah, the English little bear about
twenty inches after made me think about it. About twenty inches tall, raincoat,
rain hat like very cute, lovable and easy to talk to. And
they're all over the place in England. All right. Here's another lady,
a real lady who returned to her late stepfather's overdue library book. He took
it out ninety years ago, and for her trouble, she got a five
dollars fine a late fee. Ah what the book was? Youth and two
other stories by Joseph Conrad checked out in nineteen thirty three, and apparently the
stepdaughter found the book and mailed it back to the library. They mailed her
to phil At least it was only five dollars, but still could have been
sixty four hundred if it had gone by whatever, But why bother? I
mean, that seems kind of silly to me. I think it's cool that
they said them. But it's a story in and of itself without the fine
right, it is just kind of it finds kind of jerky, I think,
but cool that they found the book and sent it back to the library.
Anyway, all right, here's the story of a woman who was South
Carolina lady who had put up some Halloween decorations, but then she took them
down. Didn't hesitate at all. Her neighbor is suffering from fatal lung cancer.
So when she found that out, you know, people put up their
Halloween decorations. Who knows what's going on next door. But anyway, she
found out this from the family of the woman next door. She took the
casket down. I would think, yeah, it was right across the streets.
So these people, whenever they would leave their house, you look out
the window, and it was not all yeah, not all of the Halloween
decorations, but the casket. There's a little graveyard, and the woman whose
home it was she loves Halloween, so she just moved it to the back
in the backyard. And but when she posted about it, it was kind
of it was a nice story to see, but it was also really awful
some of the comments where people were like those people shouldn't find it their own
business, or you did have to oblige, or yeah, you weren't obligated
to move any of your stuff. And it's like, if somebody wants to
do an active kindness because they want to do it, who are you to
tell them that they're wrong for that more active kindness? Please? Yes,
please? All right. Another woman, this lady's thirty two, when missing
in a cross country road trip. Her car sit there listen to that New
England. The calve was found abandoned anyway. The authorities in Arizona looking for
this woman, she's been gone for a couple of weeks, found a car
with a couple of flat tires. Lady's name is Chelsea Grimm Phoenix. The
police department is looking for her. She was last seen in Arizona. She
was planning to travel across the country from San Diego to Connecticut for a wedding.
Yeah, and so anyway, this is who knows somebody shoots the tires
out white Ford escape the you know what husband? His wife is missing?
What does he do? Oh? The father of the best woman? Yeah,
and the father his wife is that. Mom was saying how horrible it
is. And there were some things that were missing from the car as well.
She had a bearded dragon that's gone. Her wallet wasn't found in the
car, her phone was not found in the car. The sleeping bag was
not found in the car. Her camera was left behind. So it makes
you wonder did she try to go find hel on foot or is this something
more menacing, like a human trafficking situation? All right, well, that's
not a pleasant way to end our time talking about women. But time's up.
Now it's time for us to visit with chaer. Everybody ready. Sherilyn
Sarkesian is her name, in case you didn't know that. But share is
a lot easier to remember. I may be one of the three people in
the world they'd even remember. And I don't ask me why I remember her
name. I just remember her name. It's such her pretty name, Sherilyn.
It is, yeah, it is. Anyway, she's been in Switzerland
to see what she had been that is here friend Tina Turner, and she
has done a conversation. She has come up with something for us all to
think about regarding final visits. They were friends, and so Chaer has that's
something interesting to say about what she referred to as a parting gift. In
fact, it was a real parting gift because Tina Turner gave her a pair
of our high heels. Chair says, I gonna wear them. I just
have them in my closet. So this was when I think Tina Turner died
in the spring of this year, didn't she Yeah, yeah, yeah,
it was. It was a few months ago, I want to say,
may or marsh. I think it was May. Yeah. And they were
longtime close friends. It seemed like they had the kind of friendship where it
took low energy to be friends, like you could just sit great hours on
end doing nothing. And how one of her recent visits where Tina even said
that she's just just tired and they were laying around, but then all of
a sudden she gets this burst of energy and they're running around the house like
they were children and just laughing. Yep, yeah, nothing wrong with that.
It is something to behold when that sort of thing happens. It happens
with people who can look ahead as much. I'm not talking about death,
looking into what is the legacy of somebody like Tina Turner and the fact that
she and Cheer were friends. I did not ever know that they were friends
like this. As a matter of fact, they met I think back in
nineteen seventy five, and they were friends from that point. As a matter
of fact, I guess they were interviewed by Oprah once and they were holding
hands and Oprah asked them how it felt to be getting older, and sharesaid
it sucks. I didn't realize how many health battles Tina Turner had faced until
her death, when everything had come out where there was a stroke on an
organ transplant, kidney failure answers, Well, when you live with somebody like
ike, as she did for a number of years, it will create stress,
creates horrible things in your body and in your rear. So isn't it
nice that you have think about this? The exercise here is for you to
think about all the friends that you have and whether they're friends I have.
I can think of three or four people that have known most of my life
or certainly since college, and those people they're the ones. Man. We
have a lot of things that we can predict over the course of the next
however many hours you have. You can listen to us forever and ever and
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it. Here. We ought to celebrate today, Jay Kirshner dugst Efan on
the Good Day Program of the fact that the solar eclipse on Saturday escaped your
oracle, your pinnacle, your the ability for you to see it. You're
in luck because the stunning photos of this cosmic spectacle are rolling in. You
go to a NASA who's your what it was so pretty? I always think
about whenever there's some kind of epic situation happening in the sky, whether it
is a solar eclipse or something happening at night and the clouds block it.
Yeah. I have a listener day whose name is Ed, who traveled across
the country to watch the eclipse. Went to the Bryce Canyon National Park,
which is in Utah. Here this program on the station of Salt Lake City.
He said that it's like seeing these unique experiences they come. That's why
I went. That's why I came to see. It's about as rare as
it gets. How about that for an attitude. That's pretty cool, Right.
There are lots of people who saw this ring of fire and the pictures
and that sort of thing something to behold. So and there's nothing. You
can't come up with anything bad about it, right except you're not supposed to
look at the sun directly, but you can look. I think in this
circumstance you can. Well, it's like a work of art, oh exactly.
And here's what's so fascinating is that there are two solar eclipses per year
somewhere on Earth, and total solar eclipses happen like every eighteen months or something.
Like that, But it's only a small location that gets to see it
at any given time. So whenever a location does get to see it an
eclipse, it's anywhere from like two hundred or four hundred and something years where
that location we'll see it again. So you'll have to live another couple of
lifetimes before it comes back, right, or like you, like you're a
fan, your friend travel for it. Yep, that was the deal.
Take a ride. Remember the story a couple of weeks ago of the lady
who had a real bionic hand, or actually was a piece of her arm
that was lost. Remember we were talking about the first robotic limb that restored
completely her hand function somehow. This is fifty years old. She lost part
of her right arm and an accident on a farm. It was quite a
while ago, so she decided when there was a study that was available,
these people who were building the bionic hand were looking for people that didn't have
hands. I guess that makes good sense, right, don't have a hand.
Let's see what we can do about that. We'll give you a hand,
getting a hand more or less. So they have figured out how to
connect this hand to this woman's nervous system. To her skeletal system, so
that now she can think just like we all do when we move our hands.
I'm just doing this, no camera here, but I'm squeezing my fingers
moving around, and so she can do the same thing with this this arm
that is just below her elbow. This is a concept that is kind of
artificial intelligency. I guess matters. Well, I don't know. Yeah,
we've just now come upon our concern about artificial intelligence. It's going to be
in a place for AI. For sure, there's a time and a place,
and when it comes to situations like this, heck yes. But the
fact that she can she can use her arm comfortably and effectively in all her
daily activities, and she's only fifty years old. Imagine how this will change
her life. And that she was right handed as well to boot. So
for people who have limb loss. Now, I don't know what the financial
side of it is. This is something that people are Okay, so how
much does it cost? And does insurance cover it? I guarantee insurance doesn't
cover it. No, because it's what is it called experimental? Well,
when something's optional, like you don't necessarily need it. Yeah, like one
of those things of it. It's not going to take your life if you
don't have the limb. Yeah, but I think you can make an argument
in court perhaps that it was something that was necessary, especially if you're right
handed. So she says she's tried other prosthetics and they were painful, and
so this one was placed on. Now it looks to me as I kind
of watch it work here, that it's attached, attached. It's not like
sometimes for the prosthetic legs you take them off, but like a temporary thing.
Yeah, yeah, I know this is permanent what I can tell.
Anyway, that's really that's very very cool for those of you who are looking
forward to skiing this winter. Huh Am I really saying this? Yes,
I am, in fact really saying this. There is the Alps. This
is if you go north right the northern part of Italy, southern part of
France, right in the Alps. There there is a new way to go
up to the top of the mountain that does not include a lift. It's
Europe's first lift free ski resort. So what do you teleport yourself up there?
What is where Scotty beat me up? Scotty. Nope, they charge
a fee. In most places to go up on the lift, right,
and this is a place it's oh, by the way, Homeland it is.
You know, they're touting their environmental sustainability and all that stuff. The
Alps are gorgeous in the winter time. They really are. I've been there
and never skied, but I thought, wow, what a wonderful what a
great place to live, especially in the summertime. And they went, you
know, like the sound of music up on those hills. The hills are
alive with the sound of music. Yep, beautiful. Sorry, this is
a nine thousand acre place. And they don't reach out. They don't rely
on energy intensive lifting. They have what they call human power, huh.
They they're bringing There's a village that's sort of like halfway up the mountain and
it's on the German side of Austria, and so you can. They have
other They have a it's kind of a weird thing. They encourage people to
use their own. It's not steep, right, so it's not a it's
not like you've got to have a lift. A lot of ski resorts around
here where I am they use you know, they have a path if you
will, and people go up on it. Together and they sort of support
each other as they go up. They hold on to a rope and you
know, but they have to take their skis off to do that. Okay,
so I was wondering. But I also always think of like different rope
toes. We're not just a rope where you're holding onto it itself and your
arm keeps meeting. But some places have those where you just hold onto a
spot of the rope and the rope pulls you up. Yeah, there you
go. High school marching band director quit this fall and nobody applied for the
job at Pocahontas High School in West Virginia, so they decided. The members
of the band decided they had two choices. They do something else with their
time, or on they continue the band on their own. So they opted
for the latter. They decided. There's a young lady named Haley Fitzgerald who
said, I've been in the band for seven years. This is high school
a long career in high school. It's too important in general school band.
Yeah right, yeah, right exactly. She said. The people in this
family are family. So the students now go into the practice room, they
practice together. They maintain a calendar of football games and other events. They
collaborate with the principal of the school and they practice on their own. They
don't have a director. They there's shortage of Yes, well, they're all
across the country, so it's not unusual that there wouldn't be somebody there to
do this. So the students decided they're going to do it themselves. So
they have a a student instructor, if you will. I thought that was
kind of a cool thing. Take the initiative yourself. Isn't that wonderful?
Take the initiative. That's what we all need to do more of. Take
the initiative. All right, Yeah, so we do have to talk what's
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here, how about this for an example, if you fall into a mud
hole, check your back pocket. You might have caught a fish. All
right, catch that fish? All right, let's talk about what I don't
want to talk about. True things I don't want to talk about. I
say it right up front as the lead. I don't want to talk about
who's going to be Speaker of the House. And I don't want to talk
about what's going on in the Middle East, but both of those things feel
like I am required to spend some quality time, if that's what you want
to call it. The Lebanese known as hes Belah, well they have Hesbella
in several different countries in the Middle East. They have started destroying surveillance cameras
that have been on the Israeli Army side of the border. As the tension
obviously gets warmer and hotter and more focused. The military media arm has released
a video that shows snipers shooting out surveillance cameras. They were placed at a
bunch of you know points along the Lebanese Israeli border. There's a town called
Matula, it's way up north. So they're trying to prevent the army obviously
from monitoring movements on the leban eest side of the border. After all,
this this is what are we into this? Seven eight days? How long
has this been going on? Seventh October seventh, so it's ten days?
Ten good God? So other than fourteen hundred Israeli civilians being killed in how
many more like how many thousands more children? So Joe Biden is going over
there, My question is why is it just to show support and then he's
going to go to Jordan. Apparently he's going to go to Israel and he's
going to go to Jordan. The conflict could get out of hand. I
suppose there's always that possibility. So how do we keep a lid on this
thing? As much as anything else, right, the government's all these governments
in that region have to be paralyzed just thinking about, Okay, what if
things get out of hand? And then I suppose people think about that all
around the world. Does this net terrorist attacks in Europe? If we support
the Israelis, then does that mean we're sitting ducks for some whack job that's
going to come over here? We are borders. It's like, it's very
interesting because these people are trying to avoid what they have been out, you
know, using the fickle finger of fate. But the bad leadership has allowed
anybody from anywhere to come into this country without being supervised. How many,
yeah, how many terrorists can be walking among everybody and some people really that's
not with everybody, it's it's the whole group of things where some people were
really trying to escape possible death and where they lived and that's why they're trying
to cross borders and risking their own lives because that was a better fate than
the guaranteed death maybe that they were going to face. And with the undocumentation
again, how many terrorists could be walking among us. And then you have
the whole conversation with the Middle East of Well, if you stand with Israel,
then you're blind to what's been happening to the Palestinians for so many years.
If you stand with Palestine, then your anti semi and it's those None
of those have to be true. Two things can be true at once.
You can stand with the civilians, the innocent people dying. You can't even
scroll through X without seeing people parading and either parading in celebration or showcasing the
devastation holding dead children's bodies. It's awful, sick, It's sick. So
Anthony blink In the Secretary of State has gone over there and he told these
radis that Joe was coming. I don't think I would have told anybody that
was coming. I think I would have had been me. Just show up
and then you know, go look around the physically, do being like being
over there? Physically? What is it that you can do. Is it's
just grandstands. Just yeah, well, I know that's that's kind of a
native way. It's a strong message of support. The US is behind Israel
for sure, and they've pledged military support. You know, there are a
lot of people in the Republican Party who don't think the Democrats are strong enough
in their support for Israel, and so this is there are all kinds of
motivations here. I don't want to be cynical about it, but you know,
the election and you want to have the Jewish vote, et cetera,
et cetera, et cetera. Joe and Netnyah, who are like about as
strange a pair as you could come up with. Netnyah, who is way
off, way way off at Joe's radar when it comes to being friends,
when it comes to being some people that think alike, they just you know,
they're not like that at all. It would be kind of the equivalent
over here of Joe Biden being friends with Marjorie Taylor Green. It's that extreme
stuff, is what Netta, who is kind of all about. So anyway,
the I don't again. I saw Biden on sixty Minutes on Sunday,
edge you see that at all is not He just doesn't come across And maybe
this is just old so I don't need to repeat it. He just doesn't
come across as being someone who's you know what I mean. It's just kind
of between his facelift and the hair plugs. It just doesn't do it for
me. And maybe I'm the only one who notices that. But and that
shouldn't have anything to do with Maybe that's with credibility. It just unless the
hair plugs are too tight. Maybe that's what that's how I got drawn back.
Okay, I'm being small minded. He's really defense forces. Meanwhile,
say they're so have killed the head of general intelligence for Hamas and their strike
there that got across the border hit a Actually, I think the part of
this bomb is this the bomber was then another one went off to the United
Asian Relief Agency warehouse. I think it was the same bombinger. Certainly at
the same time there was that strike. So the Israeli hostages in Gaza,
there is more information about them. Elderly woman has Parkinson's sixty year old and
this is an example of who they got over there. Sixty old man with
multiple sclerosis, children with autism all this stuff, and of course they're not
being tended to well. There were some people that were at the festival that
went into a bomb shelter when Hamas they started throwing some grenades inside. There
was some brave human at the door who is basically catching these bombs and throwing
them back and fighting out people with guns. Unfortunately that sound like a bad
movie. It does, and unfortunately a lot of people lost their lives in
there. But at the end of all of this, the Hamas had said
anybody who can stand, please stand, And the people who could stand,
some of them had their arm completely blown off, but they stood, and
they were taken hostage. And it is a wonder of what kind of medical
treatment if any of them would even still be alive, just based off of
their injuries. And some people survived that by hiding under bodies and pretending they
were dead too. In this bomb shelter. The one statement that Biden made
on Sunday night on sixty Minutes was him saying he believes the Israelis would do
everything in their power to avoid killing innocence. I believe that's true. I
do not believe that's true. With the Palestinians. Does that show a prejudice
on my part? I think yeah, I mean prejudice time. But it's
not the Palestinians, as you point out, jays Well, it's not the
Palestinians who are the problem. It's Hamas. It's sort of a political quasi
political group, and you know, Hesbelah is the same kind of thing the
Palestinian authority. That's those are their political realities. And so in terms of
the way they're handling this, who would want on both sides? The Palestinians
were told they had to give up the land so that they could have a
state for the Jews who were disenfranchised in Europe after World War Two. So
this was chosen by the United Nations. Palestinian didn't have anything to say about
it, and neither really to anybody else the world body. You know,
the countries around they're all voted against it. The UN was kind of young
then, so they, you know, they didn't have the same cachet as
they do today. I'm not even sure they have much cachet today, but
they're at least a moderating influence. Warnings from Gaza imminent public health crisis.
Water has run out there are hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians. And so
you know, when Joe goes over there tomorrow, what's he going to see?
Is he going to go along the border? Are they going to bring
him in to see all of this stuff? I don't think that probably will
be the case. But we can point out any number of stories, any
number of circumstances that point to the humanitarian crisis. I don't like that word,
so the humanitarian the circumstances. So the thing that's been most disappointing,
I guess is that most of the people who on the political on the sorry
diplomatic side, I've been trying to open the door, open a corridor with
Egypt, but Egypt says, and so do all of the other Arab states,
So so much for standing with your Arab brothers. They're not doing anything
to help them. Now. Does that mean they're worried if they do help
them that Israel will attack them? Well, not only that, but if
they let people in, it's the same thing they let people in undocumented.
How many are those hidden members of the maas? Right? Yep? Bad
situation all the way. Yeah, and it has to be some kind of
I don't want say internal struggle. It's a struggle, but you want to
help others. You want to help your brothers and sisters, but at the
same time you want to protect your own. You know, there are a
couple of different places where you can drive into Israel. I'm sorry, drive
into Egypt. You know, when you go along the highway and there's a
there's there's a road works and they block it off of those big cement barriers
or they fix it so you go from three lanes to one. Well,
that's basically what they've got. If you see their pictures from the Egyptian side,
I'm sorry, from the Israeli side into Egypt are on that lower end.
It's not the Israeli side, it's the lower end below Israel. That's
what they've done. They put those big concrete barriers there so people can't come
across red light. That gives new meanings to the red light district. Going
through various social media connections, some of them are about celebrities, some of
them are well, they're always trending. This is an interesting story from Australia.
A safety watchdog down there has fined X three hundred and eighty five thousand
dollars for not tackling child abuse content. So there is this we're back to
the freedom of speech thing and what people the way I see this, excuse
me. It's up to the other people who are on the social media to
discount the things that are said by the people who are crazy. Are the
people who are malcontent, the people who are less than transparent as to where
they're from and what their real agenda is. So X and other platforms ought
to be this is part of expression, got it? And so it's a
sticky wicked no question about that. Well, it just depends on the laws
for the country that it's operating and where Australia has different different laws and regulations
than America does. And when it comes again with a child exploitation and child
abuse content, it doesn't matter what country with continent, what the rules are
by the government. Keep the kids out of this. But that's up to
the individual, is it not or is it up to social media? Is
it up to X to define how far you can go? That's the sticky
wicket. But isn't it illegal to begin with child sexual exploitation? Sexual abuse?
Line? Streaming child sexual abuse? But that's that's where you draw the
line. Yeah right, that's where you draw the line, and that's yeah,
that's why they're getting fined. Yeah right, because they're not protecting children,
even though they say it's their most important thing. But the proof of
the pudding. Yeah. And they might be allegedly trying to protect the children
who are who are users of the platform, but when it comes to the
content itself, the child abuse content, it's not enough as being done.
It's so frustrating to think that there are people like this in the world.
That's what more annoys me than anything else. And I get it's more than
being annoyed. I want to get rid of them, frankly, I just
want them to go away somehow or other. Get rid of them, you
know, get rid of them. Yeah, And I feel like they kind
of do to a degree. It's almost like this unspoken rule in prison that
if there's an inmate that is there because of child sexual abuse and stuff,
they are not going to last. Nope. All right, here's the news
from LinkedIn. They're laying off six hundred workers, three percent of the workforce.
LinkedIn, by the way, if he didn't know, is owned by
Microsoft. This is an engineering finance team that sort of thing. Talent changes
are difficult, so they say, but we've got to manage our business.
This happens in business all the time. Layoffs, then hires. Look at
what happens at Christmas time. All the people in the workforce increases by seven
to eight percent from now until Christmas, and then those people are all back
on the street again. Thousands of employees are unemployed the day after Christmas.
And it just part of the ebb and flow of the economy. Doesn't make
it easier, doesn't make it better. But that's the reality. So I
don't see anything. Yeah, well, especially when you have a company of
this magnitude where workers, that's a lot of workers. And then you think
of it, well, that's only three percent of their workforce. Yeah,
right right. Here's the story from Nebraska University. Undergraduate student made history by
using AI to read a section of a two thousand year old scroll on papyrus.
Luke Farreder is the student's name. First person to decipher a word from
these ancient scrolls is part of a challenge at Vesuvius College. The challenge is
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So are the leaves doing in your neck of the woods, depending on
where you are in the country, healthy, uf All, Yeah, they
still haven't changed much here where I am in central Massachusetts. I was up
in upstate New York because weekend, and it was a little more colorful than
it is here. But honestly, the I'm looking around, I have three
windows in my studio and I look out over the back pasture and into the
wooded area, and most of everything is still green. Part of that is
because of all the rain that we've had this year, but it's not really.
The temperature has been very moderate in the mid to upper sixties and at
night in the mid to upper forties, so that's not going to bring about
it like fifty It's fifty one here now, so that doesn't that's not going
to change. The leaves will thankfully stick around for a long time. It's
great psychological stuff, right. I think the leaves on the trees is so
healthy psychologically, that bright green, and then the yeah, you can say
that about the fall colors, but then after the fall colors, the leaves
are all gone. Oh as good is that? Oh yeah, it kind
of gets like dull and gray, but then like a dull gray day because
I feel like when there is color anywhere else, it just pops and it
becomes so much more vibrant. Well, northern Ohio is noted for gray winters.
Heck, yes it is. Having had four years at Idelberg in northwest
Ohio, it was dark and dreary. Yeah, we're getting to the time
of year where I really thrive like Elvirah, the Mistress of the Dark.
There you go. So there are a lot of people who have a lot
of things going on in their life, and so I would offer this tidbit
to those of you who are I guess most of us are. I'm not
going to exclude myself from this because I'm in a couple of circumstances that are
trying, and not the least of which is what we all are observing,
the things that are going on in the Middle East. So how about we
just hold on to the fact that there's always hope no matter what. This
is science to it too, the science of hope, the future, thinking
about you know, thoughts or things, think about your future, what's going
on in the future would be better than what's going on today. There is
cause and there's effect. You have learned behavior, but you're still learning about
life. So the actions that we see around us that cause the results that
we have, they're not permanent. Things change, go up, go down,
in Outso whatever it is that you're thinking right now, I hope that
there's hope in those thoughts. I would like to think that there is the
number of people that are focused on the doom and gloom. Certainly this isn't
the brightest time, there's no question about that. But there's other stuff.
Think about your family, think about your children, grandchildren, that sort of
thing, or who's around you that you like, at work wherever. Just
look at something that's good. That's all. Look at something and there is
there, really is. It's one of those that we don't see things as
they are. We see things as we are, and when you are looking
for good you will find it. When you're looking for the negative, you
will find it. Yep, that's it. So it's something interesting with regard
to what's going on in the Middle East. Did you know that Taylor Swift's
bodyguard has gone to Israel to join the Israeli military to fight against Hamas.
Oh wow, I did not know that. Yeah, she has a couple
of guard you know, you can imagine somebody like her. She's gonna although
I haven't seen when she's with Kelsey or Casey or whatever his name is.
What's his name, Travis Cilse Kelse. Yeah. Also Kelsey is acceptable,
even though it's kels Kelts Okay. Well, anyway, he doesn't look like
he needs to. She doesn't need a bodyguard when he's around, apparently.
So anyway, this guy said I can't stand on the sidelines, so he
said, I'm taking off, see you later, alligator. That's a conviction,
right, isn't conviction? Conviction? The Uh, that's the whole thing,
having conviction. And when he returns, he will still have a job.
And I'm sure that she's probably still paying him in his absence too.
She's she's one of those many people not not enough. But there are many
celebrities or notable public figures who once you start working for them, you will
always have a job unless you really screw it up. Yep. I was
looking at the front of the Israeli the English. The English newspaper in Jerusalem,
Jerusalem Post is a big front page bring them back story with pictures of
the people who are captives. On the other side, it's pretty intense when
you look at that. And so Hamas on the other side beginning to release
videos of the people that they have taken hostile, the people they've kidnapped from
Israel, so as to calm some of this stuff down. There were one
hundred and ninety nine people taken the same day they killed thirteen hundred. And
we've all seen the stories and heard the stories about what Hamas did with the
children, with the women, with the toddlers. But there was a new
video that was released showing a young woman lying in bed getting medical treatment.
Her arm is wrapped up. She's obviously had some surgery to stabilize what could
have been whatever it was was going on with her arm. There's another shot
of her that you can see she's sitting up and facing the camera, telling
her name and her age. She was taken into Gaza from a city in
southern Israel, from the event, the musical event, and she said,
she tells her name and where she's from, and she's kind of composed and
so okay. They're trying to put a good face on their brutality, I
guess much of anything else, And you know a lot. You can remember
the days. There are days you see these movies sometimes, but certainly also
look back and conflicts where people who are captured by the other side would sit
in front of a cameon and they'd be told to tell this story or say
that thing, and if you didn't, we'll cut off your leg or we'll
kill your children or whatever it is. So that's what you do. Or
people who have been held hostage and put to work and have been with their
captors for so long, they start to kind of develop a type of empathy
for their captors. Yeah. Yeah, So anyway, Natanyah who invited Biden
to come over and see what's going on, Biden and Anthony Blinkoln the Secretary
of Stage, will go around and go to the Egyptian border, oring to
the Saudi Arabia. They're going to visit a number of different countries actually,
and who knows what that will look. The whole thing about understanding the map,
this is what's fascinating. And I remember when we went into Iraq,
people didn't even know where Iraq was. They didn't know anything about what was
in the middle East, which is shame on us and our world history courses
that most people take when they're in the ninth grade. Right. So the
border, the northern border is Lebanon in Syria up with a gol on heightside.
That's where a lot of activity is right now. Most of the east
side of the West Bank, if you will, is Jordan, and the
west side going down to Gaza is the Egyptian side. And the amount of
it, again, at its broadest, Israel is about may be seventy five
eighty miles wide, and it's narrowest, it's about forty miles wide. That's
the whole country. It's the size of New Jersey, all right. And
so when you look at the and the lands that have been capturing various places.
When Israel was first cut out, if you will, a Palestine,
that area the Middle East after the United Nations decided they needed to be a
place for Jews to go, they didn't have as much land as they do
now. But with the wars that they've been involved in, especially with Egypt,
they got more territory. That's where Gaza came from. But it's really
interesting. Tel Aviv is right on the Mediterranean. Jerusalem is inland about twenty
four to twenty five miles to the south and sorry, south and east of
Tel Aviv, and that's where you see the West Bank where the Palestinians are
part of Old Palestine, which you read about in the Bible. Is you
know, if the people in the Middle East were really serious understanding that nobody
likes this nobody there's nobody who likes this situation, but it's what was done.
So instead of being jerks about it, the Jordanians are the easiest ones
to kind of get along with. The Egyptians have their moments. Syria,
No, Siria is the worst. I remember being in northern Israel and I
could hear the last was the last time, you know, the next the
last time I remember there was something going on. It wasn't on the Egypt
but there was some kind of a border or fight, and you up in
the goal on heights, I could hear the bombs going off and you could
see the people traveling across the border. So anyway, I'm giving you a
little history lesson, a little geography lesson. As we look at the situation
and then you think, okay, so how do we make this better?
How do we avoid making it work or letting them make it worse. And
that's certainly what a lot of most of the people in Europe and most people
around the rest of the world, with the exception of the Chinese and the
Russians, they want it not to get any worse than it is. So
and you know what, Also, the practical side of this is that the
Russians are happy to have this going on because it draws attention away from Ukraine,
and so who knows what they Well, the more the Ukrainians are concerned
because they're not getting the help from America that they were getting. So anyway,
warships in the eastern Mediterranean about one hundred miles off the coast of Israel
some of our toughest ships, toughest men, toughest women, and so anyway,
the interesting scuttle butt is that the guy who's the leader of Hezbollah is
arguing with the guy who's the leader of Hamas. Hezbola doesn't want in all
at war because they know what will happen. But they're not that smart.
Hamas is not that smart because they think that they can win. You can't
win against Israel, you can't And they're not gonna so all they want to
do is inflict maximum damage. Apparently, who thinks like that? Good God.
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