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the Good Day Program celebrating Thursday. Thursday, the eleventh of January. It's
a good day. Yesterday was a good day, Tomorrow will be a good
day. Today is a better day. Depending on what is going on in
your life. I can I could be the king of the world and say
I proclaim today to be a good day. It's a nice day. It's
going to be a fabulous day. Okay. So Jay Kershner is here,
Doug Stephen is here, and I want to look through the website of the
Glass Door. They've released their annual list of the best places to work in
these here United States, and this is based on employee reviews and rankings.
So the future of work, like I'm saying, today's a good day,
Today is the day that we have the future of work in our focus.
Workers are holding their pens. Glass Store has written quote, employees want to
work for companies that prioritize leadership, transparency, flexibility, and growth. So
yeah, doesn't it. Yeah, it sounds like it ought to be the
right thing to focus on. The list provides that leading employers are taking note
and pivoting to meet these particular needs, and the needs are changing of the
employees all the time. So there's a big consulting group called Bain in company
that is on to I never heard of them. I don't think I've ever
heard of them. There's an investment company called Bain. I wonder if this
is the same one. This is the one that leads the larger organizations in
the tech side. Navidia is number one, and in the software company business
service, now is there? So I don't know any of those companies,
right, do you any ring a bell with you? No? None of
them? Do I know? Nvidia makes like computer parts, you know,
graphics cards and all stuff like that. Yeah, well, it's interesting.
I think Bain is an investment company. It's also what you would expect.
I suppose that tech is in the spotlight, right because they're they That's where
people who come out of school seem to be interested, even if they don't
know anything about it, they seem to be so many kids of the next
generation have spent their summers going to coding camps and all of that stuff.
Yeah right, we also have the polar vortex back again this year. Isn't
that sweet? Nice to know that the polar vortex, whatever it was,
and however it was concocted. It's the big storm stuff that comes down from
Canada, our friends. You'd think if these Canadians were that friendly that they
wouldn't send us down this glucky weather. Right, maybe they aren't such good
friends after all. Wow, they're the best. They're like, here's snow
for you, snow when rain, horrible weather. Hello, it's Christmas.
No, it's not anymore. It's New Year's No, not anymore. It's
it is January, and we'll have February, we'll have March, and then
we'll have a spring. All right. That's kind of the way it works.
That's the way it goes. So looking at some of the weather things
around the country, looking at forecasts and stuff, and Okay, maybe I'm
becoming repetitive because I don't buy into all of the global warming stuff and the
climate change in terms of the fact that it might be that if we buy
an electric car, or if we make electric school buses, or if we
come up with an electric truck somehow that'll fix it. It doesn't clean it
up a little, Yeah, of course it does. Yeah, But is
it worth the price of admission right now? It may seem to be because
you get a lot of tax credits for doing it. Seven eight years from
now, after he battery's gone, let's talk about it. Then I'll still
be here. Jay will be here, so you can have our attention if
you'd like at that time. You know what else will still be going on
seven years from now The sale of Girls Scout cookies, Yeah, will be.
They start today this week runs through the first of April. Very highly
anticipated year. I always buy a bunch of spent about one hundred bucks every
year buying thin mints, and some always are good, especially when uh huh.
So the National Girl Scout Organization telling sellers and buyers to rally around the
theme Unbox the Future. It's interesting. I'm looking at the press release now
from the Girl Scouts. The theme quote aims to remove social barriers that keep
girls boxed up. Hmmm, So when you buy Girl Scout cookies, you're
buying more than cookies. Every package of Girl Scout cookies. So they say,
puts girls one step closer are making real changes in their own future and
helping the world. That's interesting. Girls break expectations through the power of the
cookie program. They open a host of possibilities beyond the box. So what's
in the box? There are all kinds. If you go to Girl Scouts
website, you can find where they are selling Girl Scout cookies near you.
A lot of supermarkets now have them and next week. I don't believe they're
not allowed to a door anymore like they used to once upon a time.
Noll Is it because that's dangerous? Is that the state of the world that
we're in, it's dangerous to do this. Yeah, I think it's multiple
reasons. One the whole soliciting thing and dangerous difficult to send them off on
their own. So now they just get the full groups together and set up
shop outside different businesses, right. Well, they at the end around where
I am. Sometimes they go into a neighborhood set up at the end of
a driveway, depending what the weather's like, and four or five of them
be there, and you know, they'll all have little horns and they'll try
to rest your Girls Scout cookies. Yeah, maybe not so much like that,
but close enough. So by your Girl Scout cookies and next month you're
can order them online if you like whichever and they'll send them to you.
But important to Girls Scout cookie time. Here's the story of a Texas community,
small community for the homeless as two thousand neighbors and they're trying to help
in Austin, Texas, the homeless. It's Travis County. Actually, it's
a big movement across the county. Beyond the zoning laws of the city.
This village of tiny homes has been helping to ease the homeless problem in Austin
and it's been going on, I guess for a number of years. Jay.
The last round of philanthropic fundraising is going to help them become one of
the largest communities of their kind anywhere in our country. Things started in twenty
nineteen called Community First Village opened up to renters on the outskirts of Austin.
Their mission, they said, was to exclusively house and accommodate formerly homeless people
so they can have the freedom and security to heal from the years they spent
living out on the street. So they have facilities also for RVs and micro
houses. The village also has community gardens, bee hives, workspaces, playgrounds,
recreational areas, parks, kitchens, and other group facilities. All you
have to do is pay what you can between two hundred and four hundred and
thirty dollars a month, which they can now afford because they have jobs and
the jobs are secured within the village. So the village provides you with jobs
and provides you with a place for mobile home home or whatever it is.
This village was created by the Mobile Loaves and Fishes charity through the community Space.
They have two hundred formerly homeless residents. Organization began constructing additional facilities late
last year and so when they're done in the village will be able to accommodate
five hundred people forty percent of the Austin chronically homeless. Let's see a couple
of years ago, I'm looking at the chronology here, the mastermind behind the
charity and the community First group broke ground on a nearby site that take the
number of tiny homes to two thousand. It's amazing. And by the way,
this guy's name is Mark Hillberlink. I think I pronounced his name Jay.
The fact that there are this many people there. Austin has become a
very popular community, especially for people who living who want to get out of
Los Angeles or get out of California and move to a place that's better.
I think a lot of them have gone to Austin. I'm not sure that
they've been able to handle the price of real estate, and Austin has gone
zooming up because so many people want to live there. And I guess said,
I don't know that much about Austin. Frankly, I know that there's
a direct daily flight from Boston to Austin, and I never saw that before.
So there's got to be some reason there's traffic there, would you say,
Yeah, I was saying, I'm not super familiar with Austin either.
I've never been there. No, Yeah, yep, maybe it's a good
place to go. Just check it out, see it. I wonder if
this could be a model that could be used elsewhere. There are two questions,
Yeah, I mean, in this circumstance, is this a way to
handle the problem or is there another way to handle the problem or the problems
of communities that have a lot of homeless, like in Los Angeles County,
there are seventy. I'm odd thousands homeless. Imagine, I feel like that
homes in LA. I feel like there's there's there's two. There's two different
homeless communities in La. One is right where people just fell down and out
on their luck. There are others where people just want to live off the
grid and this is their version of doing so. They want to live this
way, and it's so easy in California to do it because there's so many
freebies that the taxpayers are convinced that they ought to do, and so that's
what they do. I don't know. I have mixed feelings about the whole
thing, but I think this is a laudable effort to help people who may
not be able to help themselves. So yeah, maybe it is a good
model for you know, every area of the country is different, has different
needs, different ways of dealing with things. So maybe this works there,
and maybe in your area there's another way of dealing with it, but at
least dealing with it is important. I think for sure, time is to
do into some of the trending items, the gossipy items from social media,
and jay I think there's probably nothing more. It's not salacious, it's just
something that people have focused on since the Golden Globe Sit again Doug with a
Bee Golden Globes. Selena Gomez then has revealed what she really told Taylor's Swift
at the Golden Globes. And because this video is everywhere, you know what,
it's our job to unwrap it all. Didn't we have a story last
week Jay about Selena Gomez stopping her singing and focusing on action. Oh yes,
yeah, she thinks that she has maybe one more album in her But
I feel like that's just there's an ellipsison enough for now, because you never
know, you can take a break, to a hiatus and then right,
yeah, right, trying to get more. Well, as we all know,
the Internet loves loves loves loves of a good lip reading theory. So
when you pair that with two of the biggest stars around these days, Selena
Gomez and Taylor Swift, Wow, instant viral moment. So after the Golden
Globes on Sunday, a video of Gomez gossiping with Swift went viral. The
question is, did Gomez really tell her that Kylie Jenner wouldn't let her take
a picture with Timothy Chalomeze that he but not his name. I think it
is right, yes, and anxious lines want to know was that the case,
Doug? Yeah, well this has been what how many days now?
Has been three? Four days with all this kind of speculation, So the
the lip reading experts went to work, and I guess there was some also
investigation with TMZ and E and all these other these groups of people that have
nothing else to do. Extra extra. So the singer claims that she was
gossiping about friends, not just she didn't say she didn't talk about Shallaman Jenner,
but there are other things that are nobody else's business. Yes, she
says she was talking about two of her friends that hooked up with each other.
Yeah, and she added, not that many someone's business. No,
but who cares. She's right, it's not anybody's business. Yeah. Well,
listen, they all like to make them sounds like all these silly shows
right inside edition and and what's an extra and they all claim they all act
like these silly little reporters, like they're the best friends of all this ours.
Hey, it's great to see you again, Taylor. Taylor looks at
whoever it is, says, uh, yeah, and then who are you?
Oh? We all know those radio people who have met a celebrity,
like a certain celebrity once and then every year on their birthday, they regurgitate
that exact same photover social media and they're like, hey, happy bird,
so and so love y'all. I hope you're having it as if they're like
being refs. BFF stands for a best foolish fitting or whatever. Anyway,
it is kind of silly and it's laughable, but it's also enjoyable to act
about here right. I am Robert Strickler. My wife Joyce and I have
been married for fifty three years. Certainly one of the really important things in
my life are our children and our grandchildren. I am essentially a writer.
I've been involved in communications in the media. I've been an avid fly fisherman
for at least forty or more years. I've been taking Previagen on a regular
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impaired. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or
prevent any disease. Hoping that you're thinking about the blessings that you have in
your life, and the blessings are multiplied, I think Jay by understanding where
we are as far as our age is concerned. So think about how old
you are and how many blessings you've had. In other words, the good
in your life over these years has been better than the bad because we're all
going to experience good and bad. And then there are those who think life
is worth living until it isn't. I guess that's probably a good way of
looking at it. So how do you think you'll live to be? How
many years do you have left? What do you want to experience? Well,
what do you want to have? What do you want to do before
you die? I'm not sure this is not morbid. This is about getting
the most out of life, and if you haven't or aren't experiencing the very
best that you think or you even dream about. Why not? Why what
are you waiting for? There's no better time than the present? Right?
They always well, there's always the future, there's always tomorrow. No,
there's not, there's not always X y Z. Do it now? Yeah,
why not? Do it? Do it? Do it? Do it,
and do it if you please. A couple of troubling things here that
I want to address. There's a story from a town in Illinois, Harvey,
Illinois, where people were living in an apartment that was condemned apartment building.
And there's some shocking video jay that's circulating, most of it's on social
media, showing some of the people living in this apartment building being boarded in.
The building was condemned. They were told they were supposed to move out,
they didn't move out, so and nobody seems to know how this happened,
at least to this point. Some of the units in the building unoccupied.
But for example, in one of the units was a mother and her
two children. They three year old. Yeah, so the company that was
supposed to tear the building down boarded up all the windows knowing there were people
in there. And then some people in the community rip the boards down.
Well, yeah, and the people who had the contractors who were putting the
boards up, once they realized that they were being filmed and people were going
up to the boarded up units and you could hear people inside, they started
taking them down. So then they were boarding up ones and they left the
ones boarded that they knew nobody was in, and they removed the boarding from
any units that had their tenants and instell. Yeah, and then there was
a lot of finger pointing where the business owners were like this, the building
owners were like this didn't even happen, and then changing it too. Well,
it wasn't our fault. And you go through the building and if there
are people in there before you're going to tear it down, you make sure
they're out. You know, just this guy who owns these billings is there's
got to be a jerkil Burger factor in here someplace. Although you know,
sometimes we all know there are people who would refuse, under any circumstances to
move from their home for any number of reasons. Well, and sometimes people
don't have anywhere to go. This building was deemed uninhabitable by quote unquote a
professional. It was certified that this place was uninhabitable. There was an issue
with like a front stair well or staircase or something. But what happens in
situations like this where you are paying your rent, you are keeping up with
everything. It's not like you were being evicted because of lapse of payment.
But something happens where it's deemed uninhabitable and then it's like, well, there's
no follow up from the landlords, there's no compensation, you don't get your
money back. You're just kind of told we'll go somewhere else. So what
if that people can't afford to just go somewhere else. In the sense of
the people the tenants who stayed there, they probably had nowhere else to go.
It wasn't just a being difficult for the sake of being difficult, or
this is my well, my home. Sometimes it is, sometimes it's not.
Yeah, there are different circumstances with each of the experiences here. The
building should not have been well from what I can gather here, collapse stairwell,
things like that. My guess, however, is that somebody bought this
building to tear it down to rebuild something new. This was about. This
is what happens in a lot of these circumstances where a new landlord comes in
and they want to tear the building down, they want to put up a
new building, and the residents say they have no other place to go.
This is where I suppose community activism comes in, and this is where good
government comes in. This is where people of conscience come in. You find
someplace else to put these people, or figure out how to make the circumstances
better. That's our You know, there's probably in this group, because I've
seen this one hundred times if I've seen it once in cities small and large
around the country where people get evicted. Some people are squatters, some people
have never paid any rent. Some people have been there forever and they just
don't want to move, or they're sick. Are There are all kinds of
reasons for this, Yes, but take each individual circumstance, yeah, and
address deal with each individual circumstance and not sort of a cookie cutter thing.
But no matter what, that's not a good situation. Here's another one elderly
couple found dead in their South Carolina home. The temperature in the home was
over one hundred to twin body degrees. Apparently these people that had trouble with
their furnace. They told police family family members. This is Spartanburg, South
Carolina. The children hadn't heard from their parents for three days. Police officer
goes into the house finds Joan Little John and glen Wood Fowler, in their
eighties, both dead in their bedroom. The paramedics try to get them know
they've been dead for over a day and their body temperature was one hundred and
twenty degrees. So you can't live if you have a fever and your body
temperature goes over one hundred and four one hundred and five, you'll be done.
You be done. It doesn't your body doesn't work at that temperature.
So said they were having issues. So it was too cold, and a
family member went over and helped, and they got the pilot light lit.
But then because it wasn't working, it started not working in the other direction
and it made it just too hot. And I just the family and the
friends that lost this elderly couple, the elderly couple that went through this traumatic
death, but also that family member that went and helped. They're going to
carry this with them for the rest of their life. And it's not something
that was their faults. No, it's not about faults so much. It's
just one of those things. You know. There are lots of different reasoning
and point fingers here in the area. But the impracticality of sometimes these things
I find it. What's troubling here is that some people, and these people
are in their early mid eighties eighty two and eighty four, I think they
either if they're not sophisticated enough or conscious enough or aware enough to take care
of themselves like this understanding how things work. It's you know, the furnace,
how does it work? You may not know, but if it's not
working, you get somebody who knows what they're doing to come look at it.
You don't fiddle with it if you don't know what you're doing. And
there's a certain amount of common sense that's lacking in all ages of Americans.
And this was a needless this was this is this is as some people don't
think you dead because they can't. Why don't they because they can't afford you
know what that's wrong thinking. If you can't afford it, you get somebody
who you can call somebody and haven't come, and then they fix it.
And you say to them I'm sorry, I can't pay it today, but
I'll pay you ten dollars a week or something. You know, there's always
a way to make a deal. It would be nice if people conducted their
business that way, but they don't. I think some do, some do,
some don't. You're right, some don't. You're right about that.
Some don't. But I think I give more credence to some people who are
a little more generous, or a little more open, or a little more
giving. I don't think the whole world is old and frightful, but in
this circumstance, again, what you do is nothing you can do at this
point. Yeah, there was one story. I can't remember if we talked
about it last week or maybe you guys talked about it this week, but
it was a plumber went over to an elderly customer's home to do some fixing
on something and learned that this person was an end of life stage four cancer
and didn't charge them anything, and then also told the company that, hey,
anytime they need something, we go out, we fix it, and
you do not charge them at all. Like anything here moving forward, we're
not charging them. Yeah. I don't remember talking about that, but that's
what I'm doing. That's what I'm telling you. There are those people who
will do that, but yeah, that's just a good human being. That's
not Unfortunately that some people's business models. Not always, but they aren't all
simon legree. Frankly, ninety three percent of the guns found at airports by
the TSA are loaded. This goes hand in hand with another report that came
from the TSA about last year and how many people were trying to get away
with carrying guns and knives on the into the airport onto the planes. I
think I told you the story when I went in through one of my many
passages over the last few weeks. There's a sign out front, no guns
allowed. So I said to the tsagent, come on, does anybody still
think that guns are allowed on planes? And think guys said last week somebody
tried to get through here with twelve knives in the case. Yeah. I
guess a total of six seven hundred and thirty seven guns were discovered at TSA
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At top loss dot com. We observe things in terms of social media,
some of the technology, the companies that are involved. We do spend
time on social media, celebrity news and gossip. But this is a focus
today on Amazon says they're cutting several hundred positions across the Prime Video network and
at the MGM Studios unit. Last month, they said that users would start
seeing ads on movies and television shows starting on January twenty nine. So then
what are you paying Amazon Prime prices for if you're going to get ads?
The whole idea is not to have ads, right, Prime members who want
to keep their movies and TV shows ad free, you have to now pay
more two ninety nine more a month. I think that started this month too,
didn't it. Yeah, I believe so it's starting at the end of
the month. Yes, it will be starting soon. But my question is,
especially when it comes to Amazon Prime. Amazon Prime is not like the
other streaming options where you pick whatever type, whatever level you want for your
account, whether it is the ads or you don't get ads, or you
get minimal ads kind of stuff like that. But with Amazon Prime, well
they have that option. You you also can rent or officially purchase quote unquote
purchase things, so it's like an additional fee for some of the stuff where
it's not just included in the automatic streaming. So if you are getting one
of those films that you have to pay an additional fee towards does this will
those still show ads because then you're paying yeah dollars, Yeah, I think
yeah. But see, this is a bad model. Was always aimed at
being a bad model. I remember talking about this four or five years ago
when the prices started going up. So many people are taking this streaming service
or that streaming service. I know, I have three. I have Amazon
Prime, I have Netflix and Figure the other max Hulum plus the time you
add all of these up, if you're going to take them all, they
cost more than having a regular FiOS cable TV set up in your house.
Now can you get depending on the plan, you can get a lot of
I have Stars, and you know I have most of the I don't have
Prime because not available really to do that way. But what I'm suggesting here
is that this is something that sooner or later, we'll catch up with itself.
And people, really, wait a minute, I'm paying more money probably
streaming devices, and I paid for my regular cables. So what's the benefit,
especially if you're going to pay by you know, watching commercials. I'm
in the commercial business, so it far be it from me to say commercials
are bad. They're a way of paying for this service. That I provide
to people listening. And so the same can be said for the television shows
that have commercials in them, or the movies not as well, movies on
a TV network that have commercials in them. Yeah, expected, Yeah.
So anyway, Amazon is now, I believe, either the most it's the
wealthiest or second most wealthy company in the world. So people will say,
oh, they've got so much money over there, why don't they help out
this section. Why do they have to take money? But that's why they
have so much money, because they're taking ready because they're stepping back from others.
Yeah, they're boosting the investment in areas with the most impact, and
they're stepping away from the others that just don't have a lot of impacts anymore.
So they have said that they would distribute original films and TV shows like
Marvelous, Missus, Mizelle and others. They were going to take some of
that content, but they have to pay for it, so and now it
looks like you're going to have to pay as well. Anyway, that's the
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