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This is the story of Chef boy r D. You know who Chef
boy or D is. I know of his products? Right? Well,
A lot of people think that that's just somebody came up with that name.
They put it on a can. But no, oh no, he's real.
But wait, yeah, he's a real person. Smeltim Well yeah he
uh if you look at the cans, he had a face that has had
a big smile, kind of a big face. Chef boy or D.
I think mostly is Ravioli, isn't it? What is it like Ravioli's Spaghettio's,
Yeah, that kind of stuff. His real name was Torre boy I
guess I'm spelling I'm saying it the same way as it's sounding in English.
Bo iar D boy r D chef boy r D. Yeah, they just
changed the spelling for the products. It's from Italy, obviously working as an
apprentice chef when he was eleven, and then he founded the company bearing his
name in nineteen twenty eight. He was born in eighteen ninety seven. He
and his family were Cleveland Heights. They suddenly came to this country. So
that's why you know so much about him. Yeah, and at that time,
the Italian food wasn't well known when he first came over here in the
twenties, and that was during the depression, and so that was one of
the things his what he made was popular because it was inexpensive. And anyway,
the products sold under they spelled instead of using his name boy r D.
It was Bay. It was it was easier obviously for Americans in English
to work with boy R D. Yeah, kind of like phonetically spelling it
out. So there wasn't any question, right, see. So I was
thinking that this would have been a big deal. Of course, now it
belongs to one of the big ag food companies, ConAgra, and they,
you know, have made kind of a I don't know whether I think I
don't when it comes to this stuff. I don't need this kind of stuff.
I've had a couple of cans though, when I was in college of
Chef Boyardi Spaghettio's, as you said, and the other things that are sort
of Italian, but they aren't really. It's just, you know, it's
big business making a product that is no longer special. It's just average if
it's that, Yeah right, yeah, exactly. So anyway, let's see
here, how many tons of pasta do they sell every year? Chef boy
or the name on the can? How many you want to take it?
Yes? Twenty seven million, three point nine million, that's a lot of
twenty cent men. Right. Let's see how many pasta shapes are there that
have been created over the annals of Italian food, you know, like we
have pasta bow ties and things like that, spaghetti, spaghettios regoli. How
many eighty nine, three hundred and fifty? All right, so here's the
best question. How many pounds of pasta are eaten by the average Italian every
year? Ty pounds? Can you imagine? Now? Fifty? What movie?
What would it be? Im? And the number of you want to
know? This is the big boy and this is why ConAgra loves this product.
The annual revenue of Chef Boy r D in twenty twenty three last year?
How much how much Chef boyardy stuff got sold around the world? Take
it? Yes, four hundred and twenty four twelve billion, twelve billion dollars
of prime. Imagine that. Yeah, yeah, all right, So there
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what's going on in the Trump trial. The ex publisher of the National Inquirer
headquartered down in Palm Beach, became very friendly number of years ago with Donald
Trump, and at the trial yesterday he detailed jay the effort that he took
to help mister Trump during the campaign. David Pecker is his name, had
his own private email, like a separate email address that he'd need his assistant
coming across certain things. Nope, it was sort of an undercover arrangement,
if you want to look at it that way. David Pecker is his name.
He laid out all of the things, the agreement that he had with
Donald Trump, involving running stories that made Trump look good while at the same
time taking shots smearing some of the rivals. So and then there was the
before all that started, there was a testy gag order hearing. Again,
this is the second day in a row, and Trump just sits there and
smirks and does makes comments and acts like a ten year old. So anyway,
that stuff goes on and on and on. I thought it was interesting.
Malania Trump is keeping a close eye on the trial. Her chief of
staff was interviewed away these news media's trying to find whoever they can find.
You walk down the street, you know Donald Trump? Oh what do you
think? And that becomes the headline anyway, she is the pressure was the
press sector and apparently is an aid right says that Mlanie is watching every ounce
of the trial. So what do you think she thinks it's all about him
paying off a prostitute. What do you suppose that conversation? Yeah, well,
according to the x Aye, which you always have to take that with
a grain of salt because clearly it's not somebody who's currently in the inner circle
and they didn't have a true, respectful, close relationship, otherwise this person
would not be speaking out again it But what this, what her name Stephanie
Grisham says is that Milania is somebody who does not care about hearsay, does
not care about allegation. She cares about proof and there's never been any true
proof yet and Trump denies all of the allegations. And so the Exada is
saying that Milania will be watching this trial closely looking for any actual evidence of
cheating, and then it's the a doesn't go into what they suspects Milania will
do afterwards. But I don't know, That's like, I think it's easy
to forget that this is someone's life, this is somebody's marriage. Yeah,
for sure. All right. So now after we go through all of that
stuff, wondering what the future for Trump really is, does he go to
prison. If he goes to prison, there are Secret Service agents who will
be attached to him as the former president. Can you imagine how bizarre this
is or could be? Right, It's like going into a foreign war zone
and the Secret Services with him every step of the way. The job to
protect the former president is to protect the former president no matter where he is.
Would there be a special circumstance or a different situation would it Would it
be like a an at home kind of situation or is there a special space
where it's not necessarily solitary confinement? But well, probably he might be a
little bit more protective about. What's kind of interesting is that what he is
facing, potentially facing, is up to four years in prison. Yeah,
which is a presidential church could serve his term in prison, but he is
probably not a lappable. Well, it's kind of a lappable thing. When
you get down the two of the whole, the whole thing is pretty laughable.
People will still vote for him because Biden is that bad, yeah,
right, or because they love Trump. It's almost like, you know,
I compare him to other leaders who've been like pied pipers over history, some
more recent than others. We all can think of one or two that have
managed to mesmerize a certain group in their countries and then rally them into action
and get them to support him anyway. So this is actually if he's you
know, he because he's charged with contempt, he could go to jail now,
so let's see what happens. So let's think about the reason that you
can smile today. This is the Good Day Program. Thus we are here
to create the atmosphere that would lead you to feeling good and having a smile
or two or three or four or five or six. How is it that
you do you even think about It's almost it's an automatic response. Right,
you hear something good, you smile, You hear something funny, you laugh.
Right, Maybe one of the things that you could think about today is
be the reason for somebody to smile, be the reason for someone to feel
good about him or herself, Be the reason that somebody believes in not only
himself or herself, but other people as well, Because no matter what you
hear, the stories of goodness, grace, fun, they're not what make
the headlines. People strangely enough, don't gravitate. And I guess I find
that the proof positive is that this program doesn't have the same ratings as programs
that talk about death and destruction and horror and all kinds of stupid political stuff.
So there's a little bit of everything here, because I think there's a
little bit of everything in all of our lives. So that's kind of why
you know, there's a myriad of things to focus on here. It's Earth
weak that's one of the things people are thinking about. And so as a
result, the Environmental Protection Agency announced yesterday's solutions. This would be good right
for cleaning up those forever chemicals. This is some people looking at this.
I think it's kind of a remarkable step to environmental protection. Where then get
all the companies to clean up, and who's going to be responsible? Center
or letter you and I know that we'll have the hook will be on us
as the taxpayer. The best example of that is here in my community or
the community less next to a framing Him a little town called Ashland, and
they had a large chemical. Actually we had one on framing Him too,
A big general chemical had a facility and they went out of business. I
think it was twenty some odd years ago. Nobody could get onto the land
because it was so loaded with all kinds of horrible chemicals. They tested a
land and so they've had to spend twenty million dollars EPA, the states,
the town to clean up this mess so that it could be usable for something
else. And the thing that really bothered people is it was right next door
to an elementary school where my wife at the time taught. She was teaching
there about the time. They discovered what kind of a mess, what kind
of chemicals And you know, I don't know whether they're pfoa's or PFOSS or
whatever they are, but I know they were nasty and hazardous. So they
at that site became part of the superfund. Remember that, you know,
maybe you do, Maybe you don't remember the super fund that came into effect.
I don't know about thirty years ago. What is the Superfund. Superfund
is the government identified buying plants like this General Chemical and the company in the
next town was called Nienza. That even sounds dirty, doesn't it. Nienza
what's under the My friend the developer who's going to buy it and develop it
until he found out much it's going to cost to clean it up, and
then he didn't, so it still sits there waiting for cleanup efforts. They
take this soil, They go down about four feet, take all the soil
and they bring it some place and burn it so that it can have some
use. They don't bring it back to that site necessarily. Those companies that
do that. Now a lot of companies have come up into business and they
made a lot of money cleaning up these sites. I don't know what the
health and welfare is are the people who work for these companies, and you
have no idea what the cost is for rehab these rehabbing these land We have
a park in Framingham called the Mary Dennison Park that's four acres of stuff that
the Dennison name. Most people know when you go to a store like Staples,
you see Dennison paper products, stickers and that sort of thing. They
were made in framing him. The plant was in framing him. Dennison family
lived up the street from me, and they were bought by a company called
Avery, and now Avery has had to contribute twelve million dollars to the city's
cleanup of Mary Dennison Park, which before it became a park that children play
in, was a dump for all of the garbage that came out of the
Dennison plant, and they found all kinds of stuff in there. So these
companies, at least those people were responsible enough to stand up and you know,
kick into the cleanup. But there are a lot of companies that aren't,
and certainly a lot of companies that have done that over the years that
aren't even in business anymore. General chemical. As I was talking about just
coming up with two. You can all probably find examples of this where you
live, because they're all over the place. And I'm not a chicken little
kind of a guy, but i will tell you that this is a big
mess and it needs to be cleaned up. And who do you think is
going to pay for it? You and me? But it is part of
the focus probably ought to be the reality of what's going on. Excuse me,
and all these big companies that are around. I was talking about con
Agra earlier, and you know they're plenty like ADM and those companies. They're
up to their mickey in this kind of stuff. So, and the way
some of these factory farms are run these days with cows in feed lots up
to their ankles in cow boomp, there's other stuff that's flowing. Nothing wrong
with cowpoop. It's good for the soil, it's good for everything, makes
things grow. But there are other things that are being used on those facilities,
and it's not nasty, not cool, not good. And also we'reing
some farms that originally were considered or and they're doing everything they can to be
organic or certification because of a neighboring farm or farm up the hill. This
is rare, These are rare occasions, but their land is therefore it's not
it can't be considered organic because of chemical use and all of that stuff from
something nearby. Yep, a lot of that. So again that's part of
the focus. Is not bad focus. It's good to know, what's the
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four slash twenty four slash twenty four. Don't you wish there were twenty four
months in the year, could be twenty four, twenty four to twenty four?
Well, what is it this whole week? Is I'm blanking on the
name now palindrome A palindrome. Yeah, I'm saying it's the same forward and
backward, yes, right, four two four two four, Yeah, that's
right. I didn't even you know, I'm looking at that. I didn't
even think about it. Uh huh. Yesterday and tomorrow whole week? Yeah,
yeah, all right. The Federal Trade Commission has taken some action not
good for American business. I don't talk a lot about business, not one
of the things, but a lot of people listening to this program are business
people, small business people, so you ought to know what maybe you don't
know what things that were done that were terribly unfriendly by the Biden administration yesterday.
I would challenge some of my talk radio brethren to dig down into something
that is important. Mind what Donald Trump is doing in court, and talk
about this stuff, because this is the information that you should have when it
comes to voting. The Federal Trade Commission, under the direction of the Biden
administration, has issued their quote unquote final rule that will change employer relations with
employees dramatically. The thing about non compete new business creation. It's a mess.
The rule certainly not a welcome development for those of us who are American
small business people. Not favorable for workers either. This is about the most
intrusive rule. And you want again, you're not gonna because Trump so sucks
all the oxygen out of the room and all this nonsense and the protesters on
the campuses, you know, that's the stuff that makes headlines and video and
okay, well look at all that stuff, but it doesn't How did the
How did the Columbia protesters, even though they're ridiculous, What does that do
for you? How does that affect your life. How does Donald Trump's trial
affect your life? But if you're an electrician, you've got a small company
with two or three employees, this affects your life. It affects it to
the ends degree. It's it's one of those that it This definitely hurts the
employer, and noncompete hurt employees. There were people, especially if there was
a situation where it was in your contract, that even if you got let
go, you still couldn't get work within a search of radius or any competitors
within the business, and therefore if you did something like a trade, your
hands are essentially ted. It was almost like you had to straight up move
across the country to be able to work, which a lot of people,
especially after losing a job, don't have those kind of funds. But I
know of a lot of companies who, ahead of this, had already dropped
their non compete, but they also dropped contracts as well, because it was
like, well, if things aren't working, I don't want you to be
tied to a contract. Either, there's no compete, and some people will
get a job specifically to use it as a stepping stone to get to an
impetator it means a lot to a lot of different companies. It's just bad
and it shows the complete lack of understanding or interest in small business, which
you listen to all these bsing the politicians, Oh we're going to protect your
business. Bunk them. This is crap, and so the people already there
will be lawsuits galore on this, and all it is is political posturing on
the part of people who have never had a business, don't know how to
meet a payroll, wouldn't have a clue, but yet they've gone to some
theoretical college and have some theory. Oh, you got to protect the workers,
So yeah, you protect the workers by getting them fired because these the
company. This is the rule. Listen to this on January first next year.
The small businesses that fit this this rule. And there's a definition of
small businesses as to how much income they have a year. But this rule
increases the minimum salary threshold in two stages. So right now the current threshold
is thirty five, five hundred and sixty eight dollars. It'll be fifty eight
thousand, six hundred and fifty six dollars. There's an increase forty three eight
eighty eight is where it's step. The step goes up in July of this
year, and then next year it goes to fifty eight thousand. You're going
to be people laid off like you wouldn't believe. This is the dumbest thing
by a bunch of dumb you know what. It infuriates me, and it
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the gossip or the things that are trending, but the actual the usage of
social media. So we found the key to muting people on social media,
something that may change your life. All right, how would this work?
I suppose maybe, Jay, you're closer to these things than I have.
This is one of those things that we're constantly talking about how the dangers of
social media and the scrolling is just it's bad for the human mind anyway,
no matter of age, especially for younger people. But we are not designed
to be always connected, to be so inundated with all of this information at
all times, every single day. But a lot of people forget the power
of just unfollowing accounts and following people. But some people choose not to because
they feel like that is, uh, what's the word I'm looking for?
Like aggressive. Sometimes people think that that's, you know, really aggressive to
unfollow over even if they're even I following that account is not only not contributing
to your life, but actually ticking you off or making you feel more negative
emotions, are stressing you out, or anything like that. But we forget
about just muting people. You don't have to unfollow them if you don't want
if you don't want them to find out you unfollowed them and get upset or
something, just mute them and then you don't see it anymore. Pretty simple.
It seems so simple, yeah, Or like people are always talking about,
oh, well you see the post you don't like, we'll keep scrolling.
Then okay, well what if we just take the post out of it
because we just mute the account, all right? So why let them get
to you? I guess you know a lot of people say, oh,
social media brings out the worst in me. That's because you'll let it.
Yeah, bring out the worst in you. It is if you fix it.
I guess with some you can fix. If you have a youngster that
has a cell phone, you can fix it so they can't access things that
will be harmful to them to their psyche. There are all kinds of digital
boundaries, and you can create more fairly easily. Again, why wouldn't you
want to avoid distress disase? Just cut that connection to these people, you
know, and it doesn't have to be with you. Don't you just ignore
them? I delete so much stuff every day. I bet you do as
well, Jay, just delete it, screw it. I don't want to.
They're not interested. The hell with it. So anyway, if you're
being irritated by anybody, somebody who's a coworker, somebody who's in school,
there's somebody who is trying to embarrass you, we have something in framing him,
called framing him unfiltered. It's in the people who run it are really
dastardly idiots who love to bring out the worst in everybody. And so,
and I find myself a frequent target of their foolishness. And so at first
I said, oh man, But the mayor said to me, why do
you pay attention to it? It's just people who are idiots that are trying
to be trying to be smarter, be somebody. But so ignore them,
how like how awful must they truly feel? And they're a cipher about themselves
because genuinely happy people, genuinely, genuinely self content and confident. People don't
go out of their way to drag other people down. Yep, all right.
Google has fired twenty more workers in the aftermath of the protests in their
company over what they're doing to help the Israeli government. And so here's this
is very interesting. Fifty people have been fired so far internal turmoil at Google
because of Project Nimbus, which was a contract for Google and Amazon to provide
the Israeli government with cloud computing and artificial intelligence services. And now the people
that think the Israelis are wrong are technical, you know, these technic geeks,
and they organized a group of protests No tech for apartheid. So their
Google keeps firing them as well. They should, frankly, if they're not
doing what the company he wants them to do, they get involved in this
stuff during business, fire him. I have no sympathy for him myself,
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