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not the end of the month. Middle of the month has been achieved.
We have gotten to the middle of this month already. The end can't be
far away. Okay, well, let's not celebrate that too much. What
you need to know sort of a commentary or some opinion items after the stories
of the day, the things that we can discover that will be the best
conversational piece. It may not be that we all agree on this stuff.
I think it's important not to agree, frankly, because we need to know
how to think. T H I n K to think. Dolly Parton said,
think about this. We can't just hope for a brighter day. They
have to work for a brighter day. Love too often gets buried in a
world of hurt and fear, and we have to work to dig it out
so we can share it with our family, our friends, and our neighbors.
Very prolific, very intelligent. Did she go to like she'd have formally
educated it? I don't think is she I cannot recall. I don't think
she is very you know sometimes that there's there's more said and and sometimes it's
more expected from what we call a what do we as a post high school
degree? Right? A graduate degree then would be a master's degree. Well,
she got into entertainment at a young age, thin earlier than that like
thing. I thought she was like ten she I thought she was ten when
she's first started kind of getting into it. And I think that more nowadays
people who are child actors, child entertainers will will continue with education, where
back then I don't think they did. M All right, Well, this
week we've had a lot of things going on, back to school for some
people. Have you got a school calendar handibide? You know your son is
too young to go to school, right, he's going to be involved probably
in some preschool activities. Do you believe in that or do you want to
school them at home? How do you bring back along just the Yeah,
I believe in both. I think it's just it depends on the family dynamic
and what's best for each family unit. But I know a lot of people
that send their children to preschool, whether it's public or private. A lot
of people who do their own homeschooling for preschool. Yeah, well, let's
see what we can do with what we have to work with. Shall we
have to work with? We have to work with the story of a Kansas
girl who's eight years old dying after being hit by a school bus while she's
on the side of the road waiting for her own school bus. How about
that eight years old outside of her home. Her name was Harmony Harper,
waiting in Wichita. This was the other day she went between two cars and
was hit by a bus on the way to She was waiting there on the
way to the stop. How do they do that bus stops these days?
I remember, I've told a story many times of being in the bus business
when I let's see the nineteen seventy one to nineteen eighty three, I had
four hundred school buses that I ran here around eastern central Massachusetts. I had
a bus company that operated the commercial bus company carrying passengers from Boston to Worcester.
We had the express service from Framingham to Boston, ran the airport buses,
and it was the liability. And this is because the reason I'm telling
you the story is because what happens in these circumstances where you have to hire
people's sometimes, especially today, when people don't seem to want to drive school
buses. In my community we have seventy school bus routes and only fifty seven
drivers. So there are people who are not going to have school transportation.
We give more than is necessary, and if you want to pay for it,
you can, but normally it's two miles from the school. You live
further than that a way, you're in table of free transportation. You want
something, if you're closer, you're gonna pay for it. But we don't
have enough drivers here. And I've looked around and most every community as school
gets started, there are huge signs outside the bus lot. Drivers wanted yes
then if it's signing bonus, you know that kind of stuff, and thirty
bucks an hour to drive a school. When I was been in the school
business, there were pan him six bucks an hour and that was considered sometimes,
Wow, what are you panem so much for? And so there are
a lot of distractions. I say, this is a different sort of side
to the story. You're driving a school bus in it here alone of the
bus. Children today do not well well, at least in my community.
I know that because I've talked with people in the school system, of people
on the school board. Why don't they do something about it? Why are
children so out of control? Why do they feel entitled to be able to
spit on the bus or beat up kids on the bus? And the d
think about what their home life must be like. They've learned it somewhere yep,
exactly. Yeah, So what are we doing? Why do we make
it so easy for them? I guess that's another question here. And this
poor young lady at passing away. So there's a go fund me page set
up by the Wichita Eagle. The family has collected I think thirteen thousand dollars
to help their the family cover the funeral expense. Is what a horrible epos
have, right fourth grade? No parents should ever have to bury their child
and just nope, right and the hug your children, hug your grandchildren a
little bit more, hold him close to you. Here's a what would you
do sort of a question. This father has murdered the driver who struck and
killed his son, North Carolina, father accused of shooting a truck driver after
the driver ran over his seventeen year old son and killed him. Father's name
is Chad Woods. Arrested on charges of second degree murder connection with the death
of his son. Oh no, well, the death of his son and
the death of the driver of the truck. They were walking home, just
walking along the road. Their car had become disabled, so they were walking
back to the house and the truck driven by this guy, Jeffrey McKay,
struck the boy dead at the scene, Investigators say the father call nine one
one, reported the crash, and then he pulled out a gun and just
shot McKay. Then he threw the gun in the woods. But I wonder
if he will if his lawyer will get what is it called, not temporary
insanity, but being so distraught. Yeah, that's the instant death of his
child. Yeah, and that's not that water. I mean, you don't
do that. You have to have control. If everybody did. Do you
have a gun, yes, yeah, you need to have control. But
if you took it out, if everybody took out on the perpetrator of something
like this, if everybody did something like that, it would be it's like
everything would be out of control because there are all kinds of things going on
all the time. Well, I mean that was what it was in the
wild wild West, and there's a reason that they did away with a lot
of that life style. Yeah, exactly. And then I guess I asked
the question again, what would you do if it was you? I don't
know that I want to post that on social media, but I guess it's
rhetorical. It's a kind of rhetorical question, isn't it when you get right
down to brass tacks. It's a question that we hope we never have to
answer. Frankly, here's on the family side of things, Well, this
is what would you do or what would you think? Kind of a question.
There is a brother and sister who were adopted and now they've learned that
they're biologically related. They were two different adoptive experiences, if you will.
Brother and sister adopted into the same family as babies, discovering that they are
actually siblings. They didn't know that, and now they're twenty two and nineteen
years old, respectively. Adopted by this couple in the earl two thousands,
they decided to learn more about their family history through DNA testing and whoops,
Wow, how about how what's the what are the chances? Yeah, that
thing happening right, you're and a half apart winding up in the same family.
Wow, that a miracle? Is that the way it's supposed to be
seen? There are a lot of things in life that we can't really explain
away grinicity, you know that kind of yeah, right, exactly. They
had a special reunion with the people who who found them. I just think
that that's just it is the daughter Victoria, who was my Vickie. She
was actually found in a bathroom stall at a medical center and then she ended
up being adopted and I'm not I'm not sure about her brother, but oh
my goodness, yep. It is put yourself in that position a driver,
driver of a pilot of a flight. The flight was on its way to
Chili from Miami, made an emergency landing, pilot experienced to medical event and
then died. I did to be on a plane. Pilot dies mid trip.
That's why there's two right, yep. Yeah, that's why all the
there's a lot of talk about eliminating the second pilot and only having one in
a plane. So what happens up. You can't have that. There are
a lot of people who think we ought to eliminate pilots all together with artificial
intelligence. Let's the plane fly itself. Well started like a drone, right,
Who's gonna ride on that plane? Aren't they looking to do some of
that kind of like in a helicopter kind of way or air taxis Uh nothing,
thanks a lot, but I'll stay home or all swim We'll swimmer away.
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right there, two children that they yes, yeah, exactly. And there
was when the Olivia while she left him for which singer Harry Styles is who
the relationshipships she got into? Right? But that's over, isn't it right?
Yeah? It is. It's gonzo. So are they back together?
That is Jason and Olivia. Doesn't look like it except in this circumstance where
they had a big fight with their former nanny, which seems to be when
you really get down to brass tacks here and you understand what the story is
all about, what the case is all about. This nanny sued them for
what the bronkial termination termination when you're a nanny, you come and you go,
there's no wood to him. You think you get a contract. Well,
and then they say that she actually resigned and also that all of the
allegations that the nanny had wanted to be paid at tax free under the table
pretty much. And when they declined, then she says that they forced her
out or they're trying to force her to quit, and then they ended up
firing firing her anyway. They said that when she requested to be paid under
the table and they decline. That's when things got odd and she ended up
quitting. And she had threatened to air things to the media and say different
things to the media, which she ended up doing. Anyway, she had
said that Justin s Todakas at one point allegedly throw his body in front of
Olivia Wilde's car to prevent her from seeing Harry Styles. Who knows if that's
true or not. That Olivia was basically an absent mother and like just went
off on all of these things, all of these tangents. And now the
judge has dismissed the wrongful termination lawsuit. However, it's not done. It's
moving into arbitration, which Olivia Wilde and Jason's Dakas had been pushing for since
May. Anyway, Yeah, one of the things about living in Los Angeles
and being a celebrity, you can go and this is in New York as
well, and probably some other places. I don't notice it around here at
all, frankly where I live, and I don't know whether you do in
Cleveland or not. But if you go, remember any number of times taking
my grandson Miles to the park to play, go to the playground all these
things, and there are a few mothers, but most of the people that
are they are in nanny's who have children of wealthy folks who pay no attention
to them, even on a weekend. The parents seem to be paying no
attention. I think that's part of the problem, the dislodged parent, if
you will, the absent parent, and whether that was the case for these
two or not, but they still, you know, you can have it,
even though even at times when it got rough in their marriage or not
their marriage. I'm sorry they were never fully married, but in the demise
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children, always acting in cordial when the children were around, still showing up
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you know and what we talk about, hopefully are two different things. Because
I don't want to talk about stuff that you know all about anyway. I
think that's really one of the biggest wastes of time when people but it's I
suppose you can compare it. I do from time to time when you hear
as you know how to talk radio contown show and a talk radio review,
the hot Hits and talk radio from Talkers Magazines Perspective, which we promote and
publish every week, and Good Day Show dot com, and it's at Talkers
dot com. So I look at the list and we plan our approach and
attack to some of these stories and the issues. And so when I get
stuck on something, it's because I don't want to talk about it, because
I don't know that makes a difference. I want to make a difference here.
I want clarification sometimes of things that we don't that we know a little
bit about. And then and it can be lighthearted, it can be serious.
For example, the last Peanuts comic strip appeared on this date in two
thousand, but apparently because Amazon or no Apple acquired the rights to Peanuts a
couple of years ago, they have released some specials. They call them the
Sweet Snoopy Specials, and there's one that comes out today. Snoopy Presents One
of a Kind, Marcy with Charlie Brown, Peppermint Patty woodstock Snoopy and the
focus is on Marcy as she runs for the president of her class in school.
Right, So you can get a peak of that. You can go
to Apple TV or Apple Plus I think, or you just can put Snoopy
and probably just put in Snoopy the comic strips were because it Snoop is still
prolific. Yeah, there are Cedar Point in Ohio. Sandusky has Camp Snoopy
for the kids, and then you have the was it Charlie Brown's Christmas?
And then there's a Halloween special that's year after year after year. Yeah,
I think it's kind of cute. Actually, all right, let's go to
the oldie what is it, the moldy Oldie Goodie Goldie from our rusty rack
of wrinkled records. There's a picture online today of what a man may have
looked like in the Stone Age because scientists have taken the DNA of this Stone
Age mummy and they have created, using artificial intelligence, what this person might
have looked like. And it is not like you and me tell you that
right now. It really is earn kind of creepy. Actually, I don't
know which which is creepier that we can find out what these people look like
or what they look like. And you see this, well, especially when
you look at the bone structure from what's been found. Yeah, I don't
know what's going to happen now, they'll think about this. So what happens
in six hundred thousand years when they try to reconstruct us? This is from
the ice age. This was discovered in the Alps. This mummified whatever it
is body. I know it's not a body because there's no body to it.
It's just's bones. Right. But apparently they've created because you look at
this the beard and the hair, and then some other assumptions that were made
once they've used artificial intelligence. This guy had dark skin and dark eyes and
had male male patterned ball right, So what do you think you're gonna look
like when somebody digs you up in three hundred thousand years? Jay? Uh,
Well, that will be an option for them. I don't want to
be buried. Oh you want to get cremated? Yeah, Or we'll see
what other options there are. Maybe turn me into a record, turn me
into a diamond, give it to somebody. Really, we're going to turn
you into a diamond. I'm curious to you that. Oh, they do
those different things where I think that they create cremation and then they press the
ashes or whatever. It's actually a thing that's already out there where a lot
of people are. Rather than carrying dead loved one around in an urn or
having like on a fireplace or mantle or something like that, it's turned into
some type of jewelry that they can with them. Oh really, Oh,
I didn't know that though. That's right. That's a very interesting idea.
How is it cost to get that done? Oh? Probably a lot of
money. Where do you go? We'll have to search the internet. And
it's not even something that you need to go to the dark Web for.
It's just there Outlet's that do it. But I think the record one is
very cool because you can pick a song, pick a favorite song, and
be pressed into a record, an actual functioning record. I would do it
to Heaven must be missing an angel by Tavares happen to me? Right?
It's a good question. This week more Discoveries and outer Space on the I
do at least once a week a rub over the NASA website and kind of
got co opted by what happened in Maui as far as what you could find
online because the stuff the satellites in the NASA satellite imagery of what happened in
Hawaii kind of took over for a minute. But then you go back to
the James Webb Telescope and what has been described or they've named it Mazie's galaxy.
Astronomers knew that what they were looking at was old, but they weren't
sure how old. Now they have used artificial intelligence. Here we go part
two of this already, how many stories we've done this half hour or two
of them already are wrapped around artificial intelligence. They're determining by using that that
this galaxy that they now think they're looking at was or is being detected now
some three hundred ninety million years before the universe, according to some scientists,
was formed. So it is the now, this whole business, and this
is we've I think we've dealt in because of the the questions presented by the
Web's Space Telescope, the questioning of the Big Bang theory and when the universe
began, that's all up in smoke. Oh yeah, And there's a new
theory that the beginning of the Big Bang, of in the beginning of ours
was the end of a previous Yeah, there was another one before it's gone.
Can you even imagine? Can you wrap your brain around this? It
is spectroscopically difficult, or had been prior to this, according to the author
of this study, detailing the findings of what's in the space telescope's purview.
And so it takes your breath away when it literally takes mine away looking at
this stuff. And because the color is red, they know something about the
color sort of helps them to decide when or how it happened in the universe
and what the theory is now because the universe is ever expanding, it is
planets like ours, solar systems like ours, Galaxies like ours, are being
formed all the time and being destroyed again. Remember there's no time anywhere but
here. See, there's no time in the universe. It just stuff happens,
and so we try to put a handle on it so that we can
understand it. But you really, I don't think you can understand it.
I don't I get it. That doesn't mean I understand it. It just
so fascinates me that there's so much more to life than some of the dribble
that we wrap ourselves in every day. Right, it's dribble. It is
all this stuff. Humanity has created dribble, and so we live with it.
Meanwhile, speaking of dribble, there are fourteen states starting today that have
sales tax holidays because it's back to school shopping season. Ray, come get
your new whatever. What do people buy? They buy clothing for the most
part, right, or what else you can get school supplies, different things
like that, odds and ends, and I believe most states have them,
it's just at different times, like in the South. I want to say
it's the end of July, the last week of July, first week of
August. Maybe is it? Ohio was just last week or the week before.
I have no concept time buying here in frame here it's this weekend,
masters this weekend. And I think there are some rolls and stipulations, like
you can't if you're buying clothes, you can't the clothing item has to be
below a certain price. You can't buy a new car and expect to get
a sales tax. Yes, yeah, I'm buying my kid a new car
for school. Come on, or go get like top design our clothing and
say like, hey, it's sales tax eligible. No. Who. That's
one of my hot button things. Who among us? I forget whether I
ever asked you this or not. Whether you had a car when you went
to school as soon as during sixteen A driver, car, I hired a
car, a driver, if you had a car, if you were given
a car, or you were working and you bought a car when you first
Yeah, when I turned sixteen, you did it? Did I did?
Wow? Jennifer and I had a huge argument one day about this because she
get a car, and I just think that it is too soon. You're
not ready. I even think sixteens too soon these days to get a license.
Most of the reason that they chose sixteen goes back to our agricultural roots,
when kids had learned to drive on the farm, and by the time
there was sixteen, they were ready to drive on the road. I think
most children at the age of sixteen seventeen today, I haven't got a clue.
Well, they have no business being on the road. Some adults don't
either, I have noticed. That doesn't make it right. You have different
changes in some of the rules. Like back when I got my license,
I think that I was allowed to have by law, I was allowed to
have one passenger in the front seat, one passenger in the backseat or something
like that. But now if you are sixteen, I think until you're seventeen,
maybe eighteen, you have to have an adult or a guardian or actually
just not even a guardian, just an adult in the car with you if
you're going to have more than one passenger. Otherwise you're only allowed to have
one passenger. And they do do some of those more like rules and sipulations.
But what I find interesting is that just to get your licensed, all
of the hoops and different things you have to go through and the classes,
it's not all the same state by states. So for Ohio, you have
to do a certain amount of in class sessions, in car sessions with a
parent or guardian, in car sessions with an actual licensed like teacher, driver
person. And then in Tennessee you just had to I don't even think,
I think you had to do in class, but you didn't have to do
in car, and you only had to do a certain amount of hours with
your parents or guardian. And half the time the parents are guardians and even
do them. They just signed off on it, and it was like,
as long as you pass the test, there you go. It's not mandatory
to do all of those additional things. But I also think it depends on
the sixteen year old themselves. Some are more responsible, Yeah, but then
how do you arbitrate that you are a more responsible teenager so you can get
joys? And how do you determine that? But that's not that's one of
those things. That's not for anybody else's determine. It's up to the the
families. If they feel comfortable getting their child a car because they think the
child can handle it, then that's that's their choice. Some parents are they
either can't afford to give their child their own car, or they let their
child borrow their car. And some are like, absolutely not, you just
cut it because you have your license. I don't believe that you are able
to do this. And it's just it's a it's a family choice. I
guess, do you know what a Ferguson thirty is? A Ferguson thirty Yeah,
no, all right, it should be a prize. I should figure
out a prize for somebody. Ferguson thirty is a tractor. I learned how
to drive on a Ferguson thirty when I was somewhere between eight and nine years
of age, So how many people and some people would say that that's that's
inappropriate and it was great made a great driver practically, so it's great business
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We're going to be talking about Car a week, which happen to be
in right now. And what better way to celebrate car week than to think
about some of the coolest cars around. If you're in the market for a
very cool car, whether it's a sleek hybrid, a burly pickup truck,
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Whether you think it's cool to go fast, get great gas mileage,
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under thirty thousand dollars and ten Coolest under twenty thousand dollars go to KBB dot
com. All right, so the bottom line here when it comes to coolest
cars. You've been studying cars for years, you know what the market is.
The coolest car you ever owned, Nick Miles, was a Deep Wrangler
three ninety two, which I just got ten days ago. Really, that's
the cool What makes it the coolest car that you've ever had. That's quite
a statement for a car guy like you, Right, and I have a
lot of cars that come through my stable Dug. They visit for a short
time and then they go away, and they it's very sad. Sometimes it's
very happy when it's it's a Toyota Yarra's, but sometimes it's very sad when
it's something you know, elegant and it's more expensive than I could imagine.
But this is staying. And I purchased this vehicle because you know, V
eights in some people's silly plan are going right, and so I decided,
look, I want one of the last V eight jeeps. And this is
a vehicle. You can take the doors off, you can take the roof
off. It has a big V eight engine, it makes lots of noise,
and it's really celebration of Motor Week. It's a celebration of the car.
So car a week. What else is being celebrated this week? There's
a lot of stuff going on here, but one of the biggest pieces of
news is looking to cars of the future, and Ford just unveiled last night.
They're brand new Mustang GTD and I have no idea what GTDS stands for.
I've asked several times. They haven't told me yet. I think they're
holding onto that. But this is the sort of part two of the movie
Forward Versus Ferrari. They always actually wanted to win Lamont with a Mustang and
they never could, so they invented the GT car. And now they have
invented a Mustang that can win Lamart and that is their plan. They are
taken on the Germans. They are taken back the road to the racetrack with
this eight hundred horsepower vehicle. Wow, eight hundred horsepower. How does the
car even stay together with that kind of juice in front of the driver.
Well, we haven't got a driver yet. We've just got to see it
and it is definitely a site to behold. We will get to drive probably
sometime next year. But the fact is that the American motor business is stronger
than ever and it's here to stay, and racing is still fun and it's
a massive, growing American pastime and everybody is excited about getting back on the
road, whichever form of transportation you choose. In America is the country that
has roads beyond any other country in the world, and we should enjoy it
and get out and have fun on them. Here's somebody who did this.
Guy would certainly be regarded as a car fanatic that took the extraordinary road trip
which invited other people to come see his old car. He went to every
owner. This is a nineteen thirty three Austin ten saloon, and he found
all the found the history of the car, who owned it, and he
went to every place he could where there was somebody alive that had owned the
car. I thought that was pretty amazing when you get right down to it.
It's fount the fifty three years old and he set out to he obviously
has got the money to buy the car and to take the time to go
and get around and see all these people. I thought that was pretty fascinating,
right, seeing every previous owner of a car that was ninety years old.
Yeah, exactly, That's exactly how I feel, all right, and
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