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lives. Even though I think that we have since COVID, literally we've all
done a lot of healing, and that's good. There are other things from
which we could be healed. Or maybe you are being here, maybe something
going on in your life that hasn't been pleasant and you've gotten over it.
You've gotten through it. Now you're on the right side, the right side,
the upside, on the other side of whatever it is. It may
have been an issue for you, whether it was personal, I had to
do with relationships, had to do with work, had to do with health,
whatever it is. You can heal yourself in a manner of speaking,
by having the right attitude. A lot of people I put healing and helping
sort of in the same sentence, the same phraseology, Jay, I think
we're here to help, and we're also so here to heal. You wonder
why a lot of people had this conversation with somebody yesterday about why we're here
Why is Jay here? Why is James Collins here? Why is Doug Stephani
here? Why are you here? Why? What are we supposed to do?
What are we gaining from the question is what? Why? Yeah?
Finding it much as anything else, finding your purpose. A lot of people
dedicate themselves to doing certain things, like there's the big movement that I chastise
because I think the organization of it is faulty. But I don't think it's
a bad idea to be kind to our planet, to be good to our
home, to be helpful to Mother Nature. As talking to somebody yesterday also
about we're organizing some stuff on the farm for Earth Day, which is coming.
It just seems everything is coming faster and faster and faster. That's in
April, but here we are on Februar Who worried the twenty ninth. It's
a national leap day. It's a leap year, and so you know we
know that it's once every four years. I have a friend named Patricia Lust
who went to college with me. She's the only person that I know who
is a February twenty ninth birthday, and I need to send her well wishing.
It's some kind of a greeting today. She takes it in stride.
It's interesting because there are a lot of people who think this is cool,
and a lot of places have parties, right, and then there are those
who have birthdays today, and so do they only celebrate once every four years?
I think they have their celebrations. But most people I know who casually
who are February twenty ninth. I know a few people well, and a
few people well, maybe one or two. Well a few people casually,
they don't really care. A big deal is made out of this by everybody
except those people who have the birthday. I think it'd be a bigger deal
as a child, because everybody gets to celebrate their birthday on the day of
their birthday, and then if their birthday falls on a weekday, they also
will celebrate, maybe on a day of the weekend for their party. To
the kind of two celebrations. And people who who are born on linkeday,
they don't get to celebrate their birthday on the actual day of year. I
always question do they celebrate it on the day before or the day after?
Have they adopted whenever it's not a leap year, Have they adopted March first
or February twenty eighth as their designated birthday. I think I've heard both sides
to that the day before some traditionally, I think more people in February twenty
eighth than on March first would celebrate their birthdays. And so then you go
back to the calendars, the Roman era and how the calendars were constructed.
The thing that is more that really hits me harder than anything else is the
fact that all of this stuff sort of fits. You know, the weather.
The Romans stumbled into it by having Julius Caesar and Augustus Caesar have months
named after them. But think about the perfection that is the planet, how
it cycles itself through in the same way. Every day goes around, The
sun is visible certain times of the day, certain things happen during the year
that change the seasons. But it's perfection. The planet is perfect because it
has the ability to have life on it. What we do with the planet,
what we do with our lives, that's kind of up to us.
It's about the business about if you hear, depending on who you talk to,
philosophically, of will you have. Everybody has their own will, and
we can you know, we do things based on our will we have the
will to do this or the will to do that, and anyway. So
I just I find the whole business of whose birthday it is today and how
you celebrate it. It'd be an interesting conversation. Tony Robbins is, let's
see look at the list of people who have a birthday. Let's see Dennis
Farina, remember him, he's passed away, A good actor, was a
police officer. Did you know that he was a police He and Danny But
that makes sense. Yeah, he and Danny Iello were friends and they became
actors in Second City. And Dennis was a police officer who got to do
a bit part in a movie and he loved it, so he just pursued
it. Same with Danny Iello. He was a bus driver and then he
was a bus dispatcher, and then he got into the same kind of had
a bit part driving a bus in a movie, and then bingo, he
became a very good actor, as was Dennis Farina. So let's see here
who else has a birthday today. I'm looking for names that you would recognize.
William Hathoy was a senator back in the twenties. Dinah Shore actress and
TV hosts singer. Her birthday was February twenty ninth, nineteen sixteen. Let's
see, Jimmy Dorsey, who is a band leader in the nineteen forties,
is born on leap here in nineteen oh four. And then there's a John,
he was called Pepper. John Pepper Martin baseball player, was born in
nineteen oh four. And if you know somebody who is born on leap your
baby, and then don't you go out of your way to wish him a
happy birthday and have them I'd like to have a little server. Maybe you
asked the question, maybe this is something we can do on our social media.
Jay, do you know anybody who is a leap your baby or are
you a leapier baby? And if so, how do you celebrate? And
when do you celebrate? Now? How do you feel about out this business
of being born on February twenty ninth to whatever year it is? Why?
Well, I guess it is not a why you could. Well, the
way things are today, you get a sea section, You schedule the the
birth for you know, kind of within the always sea sections are always planned.
No they aren't, but I'm just saying sometimes they are extra Those can
be planned. Sometimes people have it scheduled to be induced without a C section,
but yeah, a lot of people can kind of pick essentially the date
of birth. Mm hmm. Yeah. Anyway, I think this is interesting.
Every year divisible by four is a leap year. Every year divisible by
one hundred is not a leap year. So unless the year is also divisible
by four hundred, then it is still a leap year. That's pretty confusing,
right, So let's put into practical terms. Eighteen hundred, nineteen hundred,
twenty one hundred, twenty two hundred, twenty three hundred, twenty five
hundred are not leap years. Two thousand and twenty four hundred are leap years.
So that means that year two thousand it's kind of special first time.
The third rule was used in many parts of the world of the rule of
exceptions matter speaking the old calendar. I think, in essence, the practical
side of this is we need this day. The reason leap years are needed
the calendar needs to be aligned with the Earth's motion around the Sun. So
this is, you know, the the time between two vernal equinoxes is three
hundred and sixty five point two four to two days. That means it takes
that many days for the Earth to make one revolution around the sun orbiting the
sun. So if you have a calendar with three hundred and sixty five days,
there's an error there, like six hours a year. But what amazes
me or what sort of makes me wonder, how does it again turn out
to be as perfect? What happens to those six hours during the course of
the three years in three hundred and sixty five days? Right? This is
they call this a solar day. That's what confuses the kind of me.
I'm not a linear thinker. Maybe we'll be better if I was, but
I'm not so anyway, maybe that makes sense to you, depends on I
guess what you have fun with in terms of your head. Also what happens
This is one of the traditions that was developed around the fourteenth or fifteenth century.
Leapier traditionally became the time that women would propa marriage. So you know,
today women proposed marriage all the time. But you know, what do
they say, Back in the day, society kind of looked down on women.
Men were and you know, it's been this way for a long time,
frankly, and so the tradition was started back in Ireland. Saint Bridget
complained to Saint Patrick about women having to wait for so long for a man
to propose to them, so the law was changed February twenty ninth. Was
ignored and had no legal status, and so the people who had no status,
I eat women that were able to do what they wanted to and that
fixed the problem. So they thought, wow. Imagine that being trying to
pull that off today these days. Huh. I don't think so. But
anyway, there's also people who called this day Sadie Hawkins Day and more,
you know, fast forward to today women being given the right, oh wow,
to run after unmarried men. That's right. Sadie Hawkins was a character.
Yeah right, Well Al Capp had a cartoon strip called Little Abner and
Sadie Hawkins was in that and that's where that all came from. So any
rate, that's enough. On New Year's Good Doug. On Leap Year Day
twenty twenty four, we have our social media trending list for today, the
top ten items, actually, I should say, more correct, the top
ten people whose names are trending because of things that they're doing, things around
them, and on the list is Adam Sandler, who gets jumpy around other
people who are professionals, or who are stars, or who are big names.
And this more often than not happens when he has his children with him
to introduce them to some celebrities that he knows. And so we're going to
find out who the latest celebrity that he's brought his children to see. Who
are who is this person? And how come he gets jumpy around these people?
It's a good question. Sandler has been bringing his children to meet celebrities,
and he admits that he is around He's very famous. I wonder if
some people get nervous around him. So anyway, he's been talking to a
lot of you know, all these people are because of so many podcasts around
now, they do a lot of interviews, and so he was talking about
some of the big celebrities that he has met with his children, Sadie seventeen,
Sony is fifteen, and his wife Jackie. They lose where he at
least loses his school, so say the rest of the family, and his
Taylor's swift because of what she means to my children. He said, I
get jumpy. I don't want to blow it for the kids. So I'm
like Taylor, that is the cutest, sweetest reason to be starstruck by another
celebrity, because you don't want it for your children. Yeah, right,
exactly. And so you know, there are a lot of people who have
had going back to my era. I can't. I'm not affected by that.
I've been around a lot of famous people, interviewed a lot of famous
people. You probably too have done the same thing, Jay, and it
doesn't affect me because I look at it as if they were just folks who
are doing something different. I remember having this conversation with Edd McMahon. I
always refer to him his head because he and I were good friends, and
he loved being a celebrity, and he loved being with celebrities. He's very
close friends with Frank Sinatra and a lot of people who liked him because he
was a likable guy, not because he was friends with Johnny Carson and not
because everybody knew who he was, but because he was a genuinely interesting human
being, and that's what you know, most people like. So I'm guessing
Taylor Swift is probably a pretty good human being, and Adam Sandler is as
well. But it is fun. You're right, Jay to see how people
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you can distinguish yourself. Yeah, it is bringing purpose to life, and
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Governor Abbott of Texas issued a disaster declaration. Jay, there are sixty counties
in this so called Smokehouse Creek fire, which I don't think anybody's been talking
about very much. This is a big disaster. It's the second largest wildfire
in Texas history. Thousands and thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate.
The fire remains just three percent contained from what I can gather looking at two
or three these stories covering one person is dead. This thing broke out late
on Monday. Number of wildfires burning across Texas actually headed up toward Oklahoma.
If you want to know what part of the state it is, it's the
part that touches Oklahoma. Let's see here, eight hundred and fifty thousand acres
have been burned to a crisp that's larger than the state of Rhode Island.
Just to put it into perspective, huh, So, businesses, homes,
farms burned to the ground. And this has not been much discussed because of
all of the huzzer eye around the elections Tuesday and Trump and going to jail
and all this stuff. I mean, come on, what's more important knowing
about this sort of thing? I guess it depends on who you talk to.
For me, understanding and knowing this, and the reason you want to
understand and know about it is because you want to make sure this sort of
thing doesn't happen where you are. That's been pretty dry, I think,
James Collins in our studio in Dallas. This winter has been pretty dry.
It's also been kind of cold until now. Now it's warmed up. But
temvers's in the eighties this week in Texas right in about eighty it was eighty
eight. I think I saw there yesterday. I'm not mistaken. James is
talking to somebody else, so he's not going to respond. But anyway,
there's twenty there are twenty three separate wildfires. Yeah, in this area,
So did they get set? The question is did they get it's set?
That's what you you know. You come back around to that. How did
that coincidentally happen that there were twenty three separate fires? That's good point,
Jay, I mean, that's a possibility. It could just be I don't
want to say stupidity, maybe ignorance When there are there are like no burn
notices where the elements are pretty high or pretty pretty good and the chances are
high that there might be wildfires caused, and people will still say like,
oh, I have some trash need to burn in the backyard, or they
want to do a bonfire, or they smoke and they just throw out their
lit But like that's really so many things can happen, And especially when everything
kind of culminates together on a certain day because of all of the elements again
dry and all of that stuff and high winds, things can can go ablaze
pretty quickly. Yep. All right. Other than the Supreme Court hearing the
Trump immunity claim and the business of him having to pay the fines, the
the other political news is about John mccon and John mcconnog's John McConnell is listening
to us down at Vero Beach right now, is huh what happened to me?
Now? This is about Mitch McConnell, John mcconnoll's great radio guy.
Mitch McConnell is a Republican politician that's been in control of the Republican Party in
the Senate I think for like twenty years. So he's agreed to set himself
aside two years ahead of the current His terms over in two years. So
he's the longest serving Senate leader from either party. So what is this going
to do. It'll kickstart a race to replace him. Let's see who's on
the list. A couple of John's former majority with John Cornan of Texas,
current minority with John Thune of South Dakota. Let's see here, John Barrosso
of Wyoming. They have if you look around in this particular election cycle,
all of those guys are going to win it. They are not. They're
not losing anyway, the question. And by the way, the only the
only seat that may change that I've seen, and you can correct me if
I'm wrong, is a Kirsten Cinema seat in Arizona. Democrats are trying to
push her out. She's an independent. They don't like her. Appointed you.
I don't know if the Republicans like her. She's pretty independent. I
kind of like her. Yeah she is? Yeah, all right. So
anyway, McConnell can't make up his mind. He doesn't really want to endorse
Trump. And so you know, they had a big falling out three years
ago and they haven't talked to each other since Trump was extraordinarily disrespectful. I
mean, I'm never I've never been a fan of Mitch McConnell at all,
but the again back to Trump and how he takes all the oxygen out of
the room. He was so disrespectful. He is just disrespectful. That's he's
not if I get off on this, I just that's what really bothers me
about him. It really does it. I don't you know, you can
say what you want to. Maybe the country has become so crude that they
think that this is okay, But for me, there's definitely there. It
seems like bullying culture has had an uptick amongst even adults. Absolutely, and
manners just aren't as problem as they once were. I love good manners.
I do. I think people in your face, it's in very I never
engage people. People get into my face. I have people call me over
the years on the air and be rate me for this, that or the
other thing. I said, okay, thanks, hang up the phone.
What do you get out of arguing with somebody like that or even engaging them
in a conversation. M Right, bother the fool. Prove yourself to be
the big that's a great one. I like that. I don't know that
I've heard that before. I don't know who said that, but yeah,
yeah, accurate. All right, let's go to my favorite website, the
NASA website, to bring you up to date on the latest research. There
is a very interesting reality. This is the term dwarf galaxies. You're familiar
with that, Jay, right, What a dwarf galaxy is. It's what
you expected. He's kind of a small galaxy, and we are in one
of them. We're in one of the smallest galaxies. And yet for the
most part, all the stars that we see in the sky at night are
in our galaxy, and we think, wow, look at those and how
far away they are. Well, I mean relative terms, they're pretty far
away, but in real terms, they're like our next door neighbors and compared
to what else is out there. So these new, faint dwarf galaxies that
you can hardly see some of them, depending on what you know. Some
people think that there's what they call a big Bang theory everything just happened all
at once. That but that's being kind of tossed away now. There are
theories that they're the Big Bang came after the last reality whatever it was.
How many? Yeah, right, it's really it's it's more than the mind
you can understand. Frankly. Anyway, these uh, these these parts of
the universe have what's described here by the scientists, says, a dense hydrogen
fog, and that's responsible for reionization. That's how the stuff gets put together,
you know, the nitrogen, the oxygen, all the things that make
up a planet, and all this stuff is coming from the James Web telescope.
It's fabulous, it's fascinating. It's a amazing what is being seen in
what we're learning. I hope youngsters are being taught this in science classes because
they really ought to get a handle on what. You know, how big
the world is in essence, right, it's a world. It's fabulous.
It's a big, wide, wonderful world. And so there are other things
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in terms in this hour, I like to sort of dig around rather than
focus on some of the trending things. What happens, how does this work,
what goes on? And here the I saw this in one of the
trades actually yesterday, about how news organizations around the country are basically falling apart
because the advertisers are going to social media instead of to these news organizations because
there are more people watching. This is almost sick. Yeah, not that
you know, the news organizations have their problems, frankly, unless they're an
outfit like News Nation, but these social media companies that are sucking up all
of the money and advertising that once went to the media companies, not just
news media companies, but radio companies, TV companies, all of this sort
of thing. So, you know, and people are going to follow what
they want to do. You have free choice, but it's very dramatic shift.
And so these companies, the advertisers are smart to do this because that's
where they're going to be seen and noticed. More more often than not,
people are going to these news sites through social media. They're already on social
media and then they're clicking a link that takes them to the news site.
Most people don't go directly to the The news sites don't get paid for that,
and that's really kind of an outrage the news they're trying to make deals
with these various social media companies to be paid for allowing them to click through
to the story. That's been a big issue at Facebook for a long time.
Zuckerberg don't want to share, but for example, a Wall Street Journal.
They're not going to let you just click onto a story there that they
have been responsible for unless they get paid, yeah, for the click to
subscribe as well. They ought to be right exactly well, and I mean,
how can they not anymore? We used to be able to go online
and see things free, because they've still had most people weren't going online.
You were still buying the hard copy magazines and the tangible items. And now
with less and less people doing that, they still need the subscribers. You
still need to subscribe to something, so instead of having your mail delivery subscription,
it's online. You know. You look though at some of the crazy
stuff, some of these conspiracy theories that have radicalized a lot of people in
America, built around social media gossip and rumors and stuff that isn't true.
January sixth is a perfect example, I think of that, but there are
plenty of others go on all day every day. The whole business about Facebook
or Meta if you will, allowing child sex exploitation to exist on Instagram is
this is horrible, and yet these guys are considered credible or these sites are
considered credible when they allow you know, and then we're back to the free
speech issue. They because they aren't, you know, not a government.
They're controlled entity. It's a private business, so they can do what they
want. And that's okay, except allowing things like child porn and child exploitation
and all of this stuff human trafficking. How the hell is that good for
It's good for them, good for business because there obviously are perverts who want
to go and look at that stuff, so they banner it with advertising.
Imagine that, huh, imagine that it's these sexploitation. Speaking of gross,
the government has figured out the Russian hackers are using some kind of new compromised
router for their operations here and around the world. Because they do have operations
here. They don't have to be here. They got Edward Snowden so he
can cook up all of this stuff. There are other state sponsored hackers that
are exploiting some kind of a new router, using their credentials to break into
them. The FBI can't seem to figure out how to fix it or how
to deter them. They're just saying, well, look out because this is
a possibility. Okay, So a rumor is one thing, but there are
all kinds of Russian cyber actors that have been created by the push that our
pal Puke and Putin has come up with. So I then what in a
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