1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:04,400 The next Stefan Good Day download with Doug and Jay Kirshner is made possible in 2 00:00:04,440 --> 00:00:08,039 part by Keltren, which is the safe way for you to lose weight and 3 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:12,519 keep it off, and also by previlegent keeping your brain healthy. Here we 4 00:00:12,599 --> 00:00:17,480 are on the first day of Kwanza. Good welcome, good welcome, good 5 00:00:17,519 --> 00:00:22,640 day, good whatever. It's the twenty sixth of December. Was it Christmas 6 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:28,199 at geddon? Do you think that word works day Christmas? Well, some 7 00:00:28,239 --> 00:00:33,960 people have. Most people have a fabulous day and they love what they experience 8 00:00:34,039 --> 00:00:37,000 and they are having a great time with the family and all that good stuff. 9 00:00:37,039 --> 00:00:42,439 But sometimes it just doesn't work. Sometimes it becomes you know how everything 10 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:46,079 is at gedding of some sorts. You know, if it's bad, it's 11 00:00:46,159 --> 00:00:50,600 ah, look at that. It's so it's something. What is it Armageddon? 12 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:55,359 I think that's how it all started. And it's so I like throwing 13 00:00:55,399 --> 00:01:00,479 the best, the worst out and the best to begin. But there's always 14 00:01:00,479 --> 00:01:02,759 gonna be something. Yeah, let's see you talking about I had a terrible 15 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:08,640 day. Nope. We are looking for a few of your favorite things from 16 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:15,319 your Christmas experience so we can share them with us. Use our social media 17 00:01:15,359 --> 00:01:19,760 if you'd like to all of them connect to us at a good Day show, 18 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:22,640 right, isn't that? However, is that the handle that we use? 19 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:26,480 Good Day Network? Good Day Networks? Okay, so Jay is here 20 00:01:26,519 --> 00:01:30,599 and Doug is here with a merry Christmas and a happy New Year. Do 21 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:33,599 you think we should just put a lot of Christmas music stays to just put 22 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:37,439 them all the Christmas music aside? Okay, it's over, Christmas is over. 23 00:01:38,159 --> 00:01:40,519 Sometimes they keep it going until January first. I was just going to 24 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:42,400 say, I feel like a lot of people keep it going for just this 25 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:49,680 last week. M all right, So I want to know what your favorite 26 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:53,480 thing was, please, Jay Kirshner, about your Christmas experience? What was 27 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:57,000 it? You all? There was a lot there There were yeah, there 28 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:00,959 were there was a lot that was just so enjoyable. This was the first 29 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:06,599 year that my son was really into Christmas, understanding doing more so about Christmas. 30 00:02:06,799 --> 00:02:08,360 Yeah, so just kind of getting to see him experience it. Even 31 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:10,719 though this wasn't his first Christmas, this was the first one he was more 32 00:02:10,719 --> 00:02:15,560 aware of, so getting to see things of his experiences through kind of his 33 00:02:15,719 --> 00:02:17,479 eyes, and it was just it was a lot. It was a lot 34 00:02:17,479 --> 00:02:23,159 of fun getting to have him be with his cousins, and yeah, there's 35 00:02:23,199 --> 00:02:27,360 a lot of great things. How about you, I want to you're but 36 00:02:27,599 --> 00:02:30,439 for you personally? What was that? Is it? That was it? 37 00:02:30,479 --> 00:02:35,599 Okay? Yeah, James, James Collins had the controls in our studio in 38 00:02:35,719 --> 00:02:39,280 Dallas. What was your favorite thing about your Christmas experience? And by the 39 00:02:39,319 --> 00:02:44,439 way I do these things, I often start the hour with a question because 40 00:02:44,479 --> 00:02:47,800 I'm rhetorically asking you and the audience to sort of reflect on what it is 41 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:53,479 that were talking about. What did you get out of Christmas that was good? 42 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:55,759 Oh? I love the food. The food was fantastic, and you 43 00:02:55,759 --> 00:02:59,680 know, it's always good. It's always a pleasure getting to sit with mom 44 00:02:59,719 --> 00:03:02,199 and dad and let them cook all day and then I could eat the you 45 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:06,960 know, it's all like, no, they a sweet son, No do 46 00:03:07,039 --> 00:03:08,719 you help clean? I do help clean. I do help clean quite a 47 00:03:08,719 --> 00:03:12,800 bit. And you know, whenever they cook, I get to learn how 48 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:15,240 to cook a little bit just by watching them. So that's that's the beneficial 49 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:21,400 part. But now we had a fantastic rib roast and then a whole bunch 50 00:03:21,479 --> 00:03:24,159 of other size mashed potato, you know, the fixings it was really good, 51 00:03:24,879 --> 00:03:30,400 all right. So that's the ecumenicalized version of it. And you asked 52 00:03:30,439 --> 00:03:35,240 me, yes. So I had my time here with my children and my 53 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:39,840 grandchildren and opening things up and the usual. There's stuff that gets shared and 54 00:03:39,879 --> 00:03:46,560 some that doesn't when it comes to cousins and the things that get opened and 55 00:03:46,639 --> 00:03:51,360 the things that don't. And it's just I had a long chat with both 56 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:54,400 my children, which I haven't had the two of them. Well, they 57 00:03:54,439 --> 00:03:58,919 were at home a couple of weeks ago and we had chat. But they 58 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:04,159 wanted to have more conversation about the future. So they're they want to there. 59 00:04:04,479 --> 00:04:08,080 I don't have concerns the right word, but they all want to know 60 00:04:08,919 --> 00:04:14,400 that if something happens to me that everything will be okay. And you know, 61 00:04:14,599 --> 00:04:17,160 so that settles a lot of people. And you know, me with 62 00:04:17,199 --> 00:04:20,319 my attitude, it's the same. Doesn't mean it was at this age. 63 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:24,639 Whatever age we're at, was always around the corner. You don't know what's 64 00:04:24,639 --> 00:04:28,839 going to happen, so you just kind of I think what they like is 65 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:32,319 to have me not all excited about it and all worked up about it. 66 00:04:32,319 --> 00:04:35,360 It's just okay, we'll make sure we have plans we'll make sure things are 67 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:40,360 older, we'll make things. Yeah, but that's about it. And then 68 00:04:40,399 --> 00:04:47,879 we had some silly things. I got some Brendan split had got. I 69 00:04:47,959 --> 00:04:50,639 brought in a suitcase. So they're all looking at me, like, what's 70 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:54,720 in the suitcase? And I opened it up and I had a bunch of 71 00:04:54,759 --> 00:04:58,519 sweatshirts that I had made with our name and some silly things on it. 72 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:00,920 And Brendan loves to aware stuff like that, so he was right at it. 73 00:05:00,959 --> 00:05:04,480 And his wife Sophie said, oh, I'll wear that. She's very 74 00:05:04,519 --> 00:05:09,680 conscious of as you know, Jay, you watch her on on Instagram, 75 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:13,439 very conscious of her style and how she looks, because that's her business. 76 00:05:14,199 --> 00:05:17,680 So there was that. It's just it was good because I could do things 77 00:05:17,759 --> 00:05:25,199 I didn't have to for three days. I didn't have to get up, 78 00:05:25,199 --> 00:05:27,279 I didn't have to go to the farm, I didn't have to be on 79 00:05:27,319 --> 00:05:31,079 the radio. I just what I did was become addicted to Doc Martin. 80 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:36,000 That's really the other than being with my children. I have become obsessed in 81 00:05:36,079 --> 00:05:40,120 the right word. But if I could choose somebody to run away with, 82 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:45,040 it would be Doc Martin's wife. And I hadn't even I've never really seen 83 00:05:45,079 --> 00:05:48,000 the show before, but there's I think most people know what I'm talking about, 84 00:05:48,079 --> 00:05:51,680 right the PBS show called Doc Martin. Does everybody know what I'm talking 85 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:58,199 about? No idea what you're weare? I know, yeah, exactly. 86 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:02,519 That's well for those of you who watch the show is very popular with I 87 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:06,879 guess this certain age group. The woman who plays his wife, Louisa, 88 00:06:08,360 --> 00:06:10,959 is just a darling. She's a doll. You can look around. Her 89 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:16,839 name is a Catherine Cruz, no cats k c A t Z, well 90 00:06:16,879 --> 00:06:23,160 known British actris. But so so there's silly things that we have put together 91 00:06:24,279 --> 00:06:28,439 from just the fact that they didn't have to get up. And that's a 92 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:30,199 you know, I feel you can hear in my voice. It's kind of 93 00:06:30,199 --> 00:06:35,439 a wow E'ZAUI, you know that sort of thing. Today is the first 94 00:06:35,519 --> 00:06:42,920 day of Kwanza. There's a professor of Black Studies at California State University in 95 00:06:42,959 --> 00:06:48,759 Long Beach, doctor Karenga, who created this experience back in nineteen sixty six. 96 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:56,279 This was the beginning of the Black freedom movement. So what was what 97 00:06:56,360 --> 00:07:00,480 came out of it was concern I guess that many people had for cultural grounding, 98 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:06,800 and this had been after the Watts riots. Did I say lots, 99 00:07:06,839 --> 00:07:12,360 not Watts. The Watts riots say that fast hundred timeser Wats riots. In 100 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:18,160 La she was looking for ways to strengthen the community, which she called her 101 00:07:18,199 --> 00:07:24,800 own. So she founded this organization, which is a cultural organization. Started 102 00:07:25,279 --> 00:07:31,160 to research the celebrations that were native to the Africans that came to America. 103 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:40,079 She combined all kinds of different harvest celebrations from tribes like the Zulus and came 104 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:46,759 up with Kwansa. So at any rate, and that term means first fruits 105 00:07:46,639 --> 00:07:53,399 in Swahili. That's the most commonly used African language, I think, and 106 00:07:53,600 --> 00:07:56,680 I wonder if it is It was then probably still is, a matter of 107 00:07:56,680 --> 00:08:01,920 fact. So anyway, I think this is something that people know little about. 108 00:08:03,519 --> 00:08:09,199 And I'm going to sort of couch my comments about this, going back, 109 00:08:09,240 --> 00:08:13,560 as I said, to the nineteen sixties. In the nineteen nineties, 110 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:16,439 Hallmark and in on it. Of course they did, right. The first 111 00:08:16,519 --> 00:08:24,759 Kwanza Hallmark card got sold nineteen ninety two, and then this became kind of 112 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:30,360 an official So I remember, I think we started I started talking about on 113 00:08:30,399 --> 00:08:35,559 the air late nineties. I think probably it's a non religious celebration, but 114 00:08:35,639 --> 00:08:41,960 it's the same sort of thing, again focused on culture, and so people 115 00:08:43,399 --> 00:08:50,639 from this experience celebrating both Christmas and Kwanza. Anyway, twelve and a half 116 00:08:50,679 --> 00:08:56,120 Minyon Americans celebrate Quansa, it would seem, and that represents about twelve and 117 00:08:56,120 --> 00:09:01,000 a half percent of our population in America is black, and so it would 118 00:09:01,039 --> 00:09:05,120 seem that there ought to be like twice as many people celebrating. And I 119 00:09:05,159 --> 00:09:09,600 would suggest one of the reasons that they don't is because they don't know about 120 00:09:09,639 --> 00:09:13,279 it as much as anything else. It isn't really taught. It's not, 121 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:16,679 as I say, a religious experience. It's just one of those things. 122 00:09:16,879 --> 00:09:20,320 And the politically correct among us would say, you know, it's important to 123 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:22,919 celebrate it because and you can fill in the cultural holes if you want. 124 00:09:24,919 --> 00:09:28,720 I think that there is a I don't do it because I think it's politically 125 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:31,480 correct, because most of you know that I'm not really too interested in what's 126 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:37,559 politically correct. I'm interested in what it is that makes people tick. And 127 00:09:37,159 --> 00:09:41,399 this is something that I think makes a lot of people tick. The people 128 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:46,519 who find themselves embroiled, if that's the right word. In the Black Lives 129 00:09:46,559 --> 00:09:52,639 Matter movement. I think if you were to take hold in Jay you can 130 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:56,320 I would hope reflect on this if you have some thoughts. The Quansam movement 131 00:09:58,399 --> 00:10:01,840 has nothing to do with Black Lives Matter, doesn't it. It could be 132 00:10:03,039 --> 00:10:13,799 woven if people who were intellectually able to put aside their anger about things that 133 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:18,279 have been in black history. I think this sort of thing would help to 134 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:22,960 smooth out the rough edges because it's all about the culture and the culture. 135 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:26,759 We all have a cultural background one way or another, some of us. 136 00:10:26,039 --> 00:10:30,639 I don't mean that you got culture. I just mean that we have all 137 00:10:30,720 --> 00:10:33,879 of us history. If you've got an Irish background, you got a history. 138 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:37,639 If you have a Russian background, you have a history. Whatever you're 139 00:10:37,879 --> 00:10:43,879 you know, we're all this melting pot. The mosaic that is America has 140 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:50,360 all kinds of different historical combinations that lead to who we are. Yeah, 141 00:10:50,399 --> 00:10:54,840 what were you going to say? Yeah? Well, I mean definitely related 142 00:10:54,879 --> 00:11:00,600 and not related, unrelated at the same time you have with Black Lives Matter, 143 00:11:00,679 --> 00:11:05,480 that's about racism and fighting racism and fighting systemic racism. Even in Kwansa, 144 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:09,279 Kwansa is a celebration. Kwansa is honoring, and I honestly did not 145 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:13,919 know that until you were just giving the history and the timeline of everything that 146 00:11:13,960 --> 00:11:18,679 it was so recent. Since I remember being in elementary school and when we 147 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:22,399 would do our winter programs, we did a lot of Christmas stuff. We 148 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:26,639 did Hanka stuff, and we did Kwansa stuff. I had no idea that 149 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:30,879 it was so recent that even as of nineteen ninety two, Hallmark was the 150 00:11:30,879 --> 00:11:33,919 first time. That was the first year that there was a Quanza card. 151 00:11:33,639 --> 00:11:37,240 Yeah. Interesting, I thought we ought to bring to terrybody's attention, so 152 00:11:37,279 --> 00:11:43,519 that's why we did. We wish you were Merry Christmas. This is a 153 00:11:43,679 --> 00:11:52,480 theme for John travolta fans, wishing his fans are very merry Christmas. So 154 00:11:54,240 --> 00:12:00,679 he was sharing photos of his children, who are twenty three and thirteen, 155 00:12:00,840 --> 00:12:05,360 celebrating together. This was an Instagram post and that's kind of why it makes 156 00:12:05,399 --> 00:12:09,240 it into our focus here on social media. We like to talk about the 157 00:12:09,240 --> 00:12:13,240 trending things in the people that are in the top ten, and certainly Travolta 158 00:12:13,279 --> 00:12:18,559 with these pictures is in there. So I'm willing to tell you what came 159 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:22,480 out of this other than a wish for everybody to have a merry Christmas. 160 00:12:22,960 --> 00:12:28,480 Merry Christmas to everybody. We love you, was the caption under the post 161 00:12:28,159 --> 00:12:35,120 that John Travolta published with Ben and Ella. They are children from his marriage 162 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:39,039 to Kelly Preston, who died what three years ago? I think she's been 163 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:41,879 gone for three years and then yeah, the two of them really were close. 164 00:12:43,720 --> 00:12:50,000 They also lost a son during all of the Huzzarai of the nineties. 165 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:56,240 He had Kawasaki disease. You know that was I can't recall exactly what it 166 00:12:56,279 --> 00:12:58,600 was, but I remember he had seizures seasons. Yeah, it was only 167 00:12:58,600 --> 00:13:01,480 sixteen. He died in two thousand and nine, and it was while they 168 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:07,919 were at the family vacation home and the Bahamas. Yeah. Yeah, heartbreaking. 169 00:13:07,960 --> 00:13:11,120 And then go ahead, Well, he's well known. He's obviously a 170 00:13:11,159 --> 00:13:16,039 famous actor and an accomplished actor, but he also is a certified pilot and 171 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:22,000 he has his own planes and he parks them at his house. He's the 172 00:13:22,120 --> 00:13:26,480 picture. If you look up John Droll, the slash plane or a Slash 173 00:13:26,639 --> 00:13:31,840 pilot, you will see pictures of him. He has flown pretty much every 174 00:13:31,919 --> 00:13:37,960 commercial airliner that there is, and he's been people British Airways Quantis. I'm 175 00:13:37,960 --> 00:13:41,519 trying to think of some of the airlines that have used him as a pilot. 176 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:48,240 It is a promotional thing because he's certified to fly internationally. I think 177 00:13:48,279 --> 00:13:52,399 that's an interesting part of his history. But I think more to the point 178 00:13:52,440 --> 00:13:58,600 here, the skiing vacation that they went on, the two children, and 179 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:03,320 just kind of I think maybe it feels like it's the first time he wants 180 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:07,919 to be out and you know, just kind of they've gotten away from the 181 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:13,080 worry or a concern or what happens when somebody you love die. Sometimes it 182 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:18,320 takes a while to get it, you know, especially circumstance like this. 183 00:14:18,440 --> 00:14:22,639 It takes a while to get over it. And he's lost some prominent women 184 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:28,159 in his life. Kristially, they always remain close. Olivia and John, 185 00:14:28,159 --> 00:14:31,320 they always remain close, of course, his wife Kelly. Yeah, Yeah, 186 00:14:31,559 --> 00:14:39,879 it's interesting because they both I forgotten whether he was what do you call 187 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:43,120 it, scientologist? Wasn't travolta scientologist for a while, it seems to me 188 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:46,759 he was. That's where he you know, I can't recall. I think 189 00:14:46,799 --> 00:14:52,480 he was all right, So anyway, some thoughts from John Travolta. I'm 190 00:14:52,519 --> 00:14:54,519 Greg, I'm sixty eight years old. I grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, 191 00:14:54,759 --> 00:15:00,399 majored in business administration. I do motivational speaking in addition to substitute. 192 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:03,000 Part of the reasons for my motivational speaking is I kind of feel like I 193 00:15:03,039 --> 00:15:07,360 have a calling or giving back to the younger generation. You know, the 194 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:09,759 golden rule is doing to others you'd have them doing to you. My wife, 195 00:15:09,840 --> 00:15:13,399 Wanda, as a senior flight attendant, She's been flying for over thirty 196 00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:18,080 years. We do laugh by a bit. I think most adults will start 197 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:22,159 realizing that they don't recall things as quickly as they used to, or they 198 00:15:22,159 --> 00:15:26,879 don't remember things as vividly as they once did. I've been taking Prevagen for 199 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:31,279 about three years now. People say to me periodic man, you got a 200 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:37,480 memory like an alephant. It's really really helped me tremendously. Priviagen Healthier brain, 201 00:15:37,879 --> 00:15:43,360 Better life. Greg Freeley is a paid testimonialist and real Privilegen user based 202 00:15:43,399 --> 00:15:46,440 on the clinical study of subgroups of individuals who were cognitively normal or mildly impaired. 203 00:15:46,559 --> 00:15:50,240 This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent 204 00:15:50,279 --> 00:15:56,120 any disease. It's Tuesday now day after Christmas, and all through the house, 205 00:15:56,240 --> 00:16:00,240 not a creature is stirring everybody. Most people have this. This is 206 00:16:00,240 --> 00:16:03,919 the second most popular week of the year to have vacation time, and it 207 00:16:04,039 --> 00:16:08,480 started last Thursday with all the traveling. Although I will tell you I traveled 208 00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:14,480 out here on Thursday night and it wasn't a hitch. I didn't find the 209 00:16:14,519 --> 00:16:18,759 airport, you know, crazy crowded. The lines at the TSA were not 210 00:16:18,879 --> 00:16:25,080 crazy people. I think the news media does a lot to get people worked 211 00:16:25,159 --> 00:16:30,039 up for no good reason. We know that we talk about it with some 212 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:33,960 frequency here. So I guess what I'm thinking about is to put yourself in 213 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:38,120 the here and now. So with that advice, do I follow it? 214 00:16:38,240 --> 00:16:42,639 Do I think, well, now Christmas is over, let's move on into 215 00:16:42,679 --> 00:16:47,919 New Year's And yeah, that's okay. I was just thinking about all of 216 00:16:47,960 --> 00:16:52,440 the decorations and how we don't just walk away from them the day after Christmas, 217 00:16:52,559 --> 00:16:56,759 because there are a lot of people who work very hard to have a 218 00:16:56,919 --> 00:17:02,840 magical Christmas. There is something on their lawn or something in their windows, 219 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:07,680 or something in their home, or maybe something in their business, and so 220 00:17:07,759 --> 00:17:10,920 there are a lot of if you go across America. There are a lot 221 00:17:10,960 --> 00:17:15,920 of Christmas towns. I was looking at something that came from the community. 222 00:17:15,960 --> 00:17:21,720 It's Furthest West and Masters at Stockbridge, where there is it's one of the 223 00:17:21,799 --> 00:17:29,839 thirty most Magical Christmas Towns, supposedly by the Hallmark folks. And I had 224 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:34,799 the house I live in now is considered a sort of Hallmark, a curryer 225 00:17:34,839 --> 00:17:38,119 and knives thing, And people are always trying to get me to put Christmas 226 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:42,680 decorations up, and frankly, I don't have the time and I'm not really 227 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:45,960 interested in people paying a lot of attention. It's the way it sits on 228 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:49,960 the road, and it's the way it looks kind of surrounded by trees and 229 00:17:51,119 --> 00:17:55,160 things, and it's nice. It feels very warm and comfortable, but it's 230 00:17:55,240 --> 00:17:57,079 kind of for me. You know. There are people who want to sharew 231 00:17:57,160 --> 00:18:00,799 I mean that does sound like a jerk, but I don't don't feel like 232 00:18:00,039 --> 00:18:04,799 sharing it. Like, you know, I'm putting up lots of decorations, 233 00:18:06,359 --> 00:18:11,960 plenty of decorations around and I think sometimes people get lost in what really is 234 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:18,119 the true meaning of Christmas? What is this all about? Is it about 235 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:23,799 compliments? Is it about good vibes. Is it about long lines that you 236 00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:30,480 have to wait in for Christmas time? Is it about appreciating gifts? Some 237 00:18:30,519 --> 00:18:37,799 people go my daughter and my daughter in law, I went to great, 238 00:18:37,079 --> 00:18:41,559 and I ature you have people in your family too that went to great trouble 239 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:45,920 to wrap things just the right way, and then the kids get a hold 240 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:51,759 of it and they all rip. I used to drive everybody nuts because I 241 00:18:51,799 --> 00:18:56,720 wanted to save the paper the packages were unwrapped, I'd save it for next 242 00:18:56,759 --> 00:18:59,880 year. And the kids all thought, and I just said, it's kind 243 00:18:59,880 --> 00:19:03,160 of wasteful. And I wasn't doing it too, you know, it wasn't. 244 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:04,720 I wasn't overbearing about it. I just said, let's, you know, 245 00:19:04,839 --> 00:19:10,880 let's save it, because then then Megan would just rip everything apart just 246 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:15,880 to get me. And as adults, they are kind of the same. 247 00:19:15,920 --> 00:19:18,799 They remember that stuff. Yeah, yeah, and I think some people, 248 00:19:18,839 --> 00:19:21,759 you know, there are a lot of people that still do it, maybe 249 00:19:21,799 --> 00:19:25,079 even if it's not necessarily with the paper, it's definitely with the bows or 250 00:19:25,119 --> 00:19:29,519 the gift bags, the tissue paper. Yeah, so be careful to be 251 00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:33,400 gentle with it because we're using that again next year. Mm hmmm, why 252 00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:38,079 not? Well, yeah. Sometimes people who bought these these uh fake trees, 253 00:19:38,119 --> 00:19:41,359 and they save them. I can't imagine putting up a take tree, 254 00:19:41,359 --> 00:19:45,119 but some people do. A lot of people do. Actually, yeah, 255 00:19:45,160 --> 00:19:51,880 we big fans. Yeah yeah, uh huh yeah, Okay. I just 256 00:19:51,920 --> 00:19:56,640 think whatever it is that you If you're in a celebrating mood and a lot 257 00:19:56,680 --> 00:20:00,319 of time and it's been fun so far, then keep it going. Why 258 00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:04,519 not for the week at least and celebrate the new year and all the possibilities. 259 00:20:06,519 --> 00:20:11,920 But put yourself into the here and now right, there's this time we 260 00:20:11,039 --> 00:20:15,920 have, this time, this moment, yesterday's gone, Christmas is over. 261 00:20:17,519 --> 00:20:22,519 You can hold on to the memories and every year we think about the fantasies 262 00:20:22,079 --> 00:20:26,079 they go along with Christmas and the realities as well, the things that we 263 00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:32,480 kind of choose to hold on to our common pastimes. You know, we're 264 00:20:32,599 --> 00:20:37,440 the Los Angeles like a ghost town on Christmas Day. I love driving around 265 00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:41,400 here because there's no traffic, none, zero, It's just you. You 266 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:44,000 know how I felt like I was the only one on the road. Yes, 267 00:20:44,079 --> 00:20:51,839 they're driving from my son's house to my daughter's house and going around and 268 00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:56,319 looking at things. There's nobody around it. Is nice, and you miss 269 00:20:56,880 --> 00:21:00,680 this because back today, Well it's not so this week, but it'll catch 270 00:21:00,759 --> 00:21:03,920 up a week from now, and you know, we're back to kind of 271 00:21:04,039 --> 00:21:07,480 normal. But can we hold on to this spirit for a while. Can 272 00:21:07,519 --> 00:21:11,559 we hold on to the good thoughts the good experience is just like for a 273 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:17,839 while? Please, let's do that. Let's think about it as a prominent 274 00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:21,559 part of what we're doing, what our activities are all about. Here's the 275 00:21:21,599 --> 00:21:26,599 story of a man from Arkansas who says he was tickled to death to find 276 00:21:26,599 --> 00:21:30,960 out that a piece of what he thought was clear glass that he found at 277 00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:37,200 the state park is actually a colorless four point eighty seven carot diamond. Okay, 278 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:40,279 so you gonna have to translate that for me, because I don't know 279 00:21:40,519 --> 00:21:45,680 how it's a nice sized diamond. It's a nice size for diamond. I 280 00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:52,440 don't know the answer to that one. Yeah, well I find that again, 281 00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:57,200 this is something that some people value. It's often that you hear me 282 00:21:59,119 --> 00:22:02,559 talking about how I wouldn't do this. I thought it was silly. But 283 00:22:02,599 --> 00:22:07,119 this is the story of Jerry Evans. He went to a state park called 284 00:22:07,119 --> 00:22:12,359 the Crater of Diamonds, which is in Murphreesboro, Arkansas. He's got a 285 00:22:12,839 --> 00:22:18,359 kick out of the most people call it Murphy's. It's now there's an R 286 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:26,000 in there, Murphreesboro, Arkansas, Tennessee. Which that R is silent? 287 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:29,559 Yeah? Is it? No? This is the Arkansas Isn't it is? 288 00:22:30,039 --> 00:22:33,880 Right? But I'm saying yeah, non pronunciation right? Got it? Okay, 289 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:38,359 Well do you know because you spend a lot of time down there anyway, 290 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:44,599 This is called the thirty seven acre field, and the visitors go in. 291 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:51,119 They often find diamonds from a crater, volcanic crater, because sometimes they 292 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:55,519 create the diamonds. You can find him there. He found this on the 293 00:22:55,559 --> 00:22:59,960 top of a ridge and just put it in his pocket. So, okay, 294 00:23:00,079 --> 00:23:03,559 a piece of glass, I'll check it out. He didn't pay much 295 00:23:03,559 --> 00:23:07,160 attention to it. He sent the stone to a gemalogist for some kind of 296 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:12,039 identification and study, after thinking that it could be something other than just to 297 00:23:12,079 --> 00:23:18,000 be said class And they called and told him it was real. Heither was. 298 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:22,000 This is kind of cool. So his son contacted the state park to 299 00:23:22,039 --> 00:23:30,720 share the news, and the fellow who is the chief cook and bottle washer 300 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:33,880 at the park, the park superintendent, said, quote, well, I 301 00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:37,519 get many emails from people wanting me to identify something they found here. To 302 00:23:37,559 --> 00:23:42,559 my recollection, this is the first time somebody has contacted me after they've had 303 00:23:42,759 --> 00:23:47,880 a diamond identified. So it's kind of a cool thing. So what's he 304 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:51,720 going to do with your Oh? I mean, he'd do anything. He 305 00:23:51,759 --> 00:23:55,000 could keep it as is, keep it in the rough, get it put 306 00:23:55,039 --> 00:23:59,359 on like a ring or in jewelry or something. But what's so cool is 307 00:23:59,359 --> 00:24:03,920 it? Because most of the diamonds found here I think are kind of like 308 00:24:03,039 --> 00:24:07,720 have a brown or yellow to it, so it's very rare to find a 309 00:24:07,759 --> 00:24:10,839 near colorless one. That's why he thought it was glass. And this happened 310 00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:12,759 a few years ago too, where somebody thought they found a chunk of glass 311 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:18,319 and ended up being a over at nine care brown diamond. They thought it 312 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:22,119 was a piece of like a bottle that broke or something. Yeah, right, 313 00:24:22,279 --> 00:24:26,359 all right, well good, They've had a good Christmas season, for 314 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:33,960 sure. There's a lot of noise around al Gore today in terms of trending 315 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:40,359 things. He has sounded the alarm. Climate change, according to al could 316 00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:47,640 displace a billion people, threatening global governance. So there are those who believe 317 00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:51,759 what he has to say, and there are those who don't. He's a 318 00:24:51,839 --> 00:24:56,799 very polarizing character. So you wonder, Okay, is this a value hearing 319 00:24:56,839 --> 00:25:00,279 this from al Gore? Or is it just more are the same sort of 320 00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:07,400 thing that Who needs to have any more info on this? Uh? You 321 00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:12,200 know, I guess I'm just kind of curious as to what people think about 322 00:25:12,240 --> 00:25:17,519 this or if you've even seen it. That's the that's the question that I 323 00:25:17,559 --> 00:25:22,839 would have, you know, under the circumstances, and what is there about 324 00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:27,319 what al Gore brings to the table that has value? I don't know. 325 00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:33,359 I saw the headline that, yeah, well, I think more than one 326 00:25:33,359 --> 00:25:36,200 thing can be true when it comes to this sort of thing. You know, 327 00:25:36,279 --> 00:25:42,599 I think that there are problems and I think that I'm just actually I'm 328 00:25:44,039 --> 00:25:48,160 truth be told. I'm reading this online and it's on I saw it on 329 00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:52,440 a website that I haven't seen before, so I clicked on it. And 330 00:25:52,519 --> 00:25:56,119 now all of the warnings, the bells and whistles that you can't hear, 331 00:25:56,160 --> 00:26:03,119 but I'm watching this this whatever this wherever this appeared? First, this is 332 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:10,480 a some it's a website that has been hacked, and so this viruses on 333 00:26:10,519 --> 00:26:14,400 top of virus is connected to it. So I wonder as much as the 334 00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:18,039 story is what it is if people when they see it, because he is 335 00:26:18,079 --> 00:26:21,839 such a polarizing character to people, I don't even know how they do this. 336 00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:25,000 You'll have to give me the heads up on this, Jay, I 337 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:27,440 don't know how you how do you attach a virus? Or should we be 338 00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:32,559 talking about this even on the air. Yeah, that's the I don't know 339 00:26:32,559 --> 00:26:34,359 how to do that. That's one of those things that only those who are 340 00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:40,880 doing it, all those hackers who are very intelligent people and should be using 341 00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:44,559 their powers for good, not stuff like this. Right, But now, 342 00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:47,680 I'm not going to open any email I get from you just to be safe. 343 00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:49,799 Well, no, it's not for me. This came from This is 344 00:26:49,839 --> 00:26:53,599 not my stuff. It came but if you open it, it can get 345 00:26:53,599 --> 00:26:57,000 into your emails and then start sending emails to people. And it's like, 346 00:26:57,119 --> 00:27:02,480 okay, follow that. It's a cool story, and I'm not going to 347 00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:04,160 trust it. I'm going to start calling you for every email. Doug, 348 00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:07,759 did you actually send this email to me? Really? That'll be the kind 349 00:27:07,799 --> 00:27:12,759 of right before done anything what people do. That's the kind of stuff, 350 00:27:12,799 --> 00:27:17,720 the damage that's done by people. They want to ruin things. And here's 351 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:22,440 somebody I'm following exactly. I know what went on here. This story get 352 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:26,359 posted and somebody didn't like it because it was attached to al Gore, and 353 00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:30,039 they don't like the whole discussion of climate change. And there are millions of 354 00:27:30,079 --> 00:27:33,599 people, tens of millions of people who think that this is a hoax or 355 00:27:33,599 --> 00:27:37,880 a bunch of bunkom. So instead of just leaving it alone, they decide 356 00:27:38,039 --> 00:27:44,920 to be nasty. They decided to be destructive. And so what do you 357 00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:48,559 get out of that? What is there that you if you do that and 358 00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:52,279 have done that sort of thing? What is there? What pleasure are you 359 00:27:52,359 --> 00:27:56,279 deriving? Well, we want to straight. I don't like al Gore because 360 00:27:56,279 --> 00:28:00,680 he doesn't tell the train. Okay, so you just delete it or you 361 00:28:00,759 --> 00:28:03,160 just don't read it, or you just ignore it or whatever it is. 362 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:08,200 What is there? Now? I'm getting to be a captain curmudgeon here. 363 00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:12,279 They have business, but come on, lost that stuff serious? We are 364 00:28:12,319 --> 00:28:15,720 like people who do something because they want to bring awareness, but then we 365 00:28:15,799 --> 00:28:18,839 end up talking about what they did rather than what they're trying to awareness on 366 00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:23,400 right exact And that's what we just did okay, So it's great business time 367 00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:26,000 for Caldron. I would think the phones would be ringing off the hook and 368 00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:30,400 people would be ordering nauseum. That's right. You know, it'll be twenty 369 00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:37,279 five years this April, and we've been helping customers lose weight safely and effectively 370 00:28:37,559 --> 00:28:40,480 for twenty five years. 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Calatrin 379 00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:19,279 at toploss dot com thanks to Elizabeth Miller here, one of the great calatrinconsultants 380 00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:23,039 at toploss dot com. Week from today, we'll be enjoying the new year 381 00:29:23,079 --> 00:29:30,519 and not writing twenty twenty four in our checks yet doing other things that well, 382 00:29:30,079 --> 00:29:33,480 I guess I'm dating myself somewhat because a lot of people don't write checks 383 00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:37,839 anymore. Right, So, but's still writing here on something, and I 384 00:29:37,839 --> 00:29:41,839 will guarantee you I will still be writing twenty twenty twenty three for quite a 385 00:29:41,839 --> 00:29:45,319 few weeks into twenty right. All right, let's see what's trending here social 386 00:29:45,359 --> 00:29:51,960 media, celebrity news, that sort of thing. Ron Howard's daughter Bryce Dallas 387 00:29:52,119 --> 00:29:56,640 Howard has been talking about her father and what family is like. What is 388 00:29:56,839 --> 00:30:03,480 Christmas like for the Howard family? Director Ron Howard, who was Opie on 389 00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:07,559 the How Long Ago was That? The Andy Griffith Show, and then he 390 00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:14,920 played the son of Lauren Bacall in the Shootest Well, No, was he 391 00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:18,240 in Happy Days too? I don't remember whether he was in Happy Days. 392 00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:23,079 He may have been, but his he I think that he was really a 393 00:30:23,119 --> 00:30:26,079 young kid when he was on with Andy Griffith. I don't remember whether he 394 00:30:26,119 --> 00:30:30,359 was on Happy Days. I never really got excited about I didn't watch that 395 00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:33,759 show. I love the theme, but I never really was into the show. 396 00:30:33,079 --> 00:30:37,039 So I'll have to leave that to you. To figure it out. 397 00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:41,039 Meanwhile, his daughter Bryce Dallas Howard, who is an actress of her. 398 00:30:41,359 --> 00:30:45,759 I guess what has she been in? I don't know that much about her. 399 00:30:47,279 --> 00:30:52,960 Oh, she was in the Jurassic Park remakes. She was in a 400 00:30:53,039 --> 00:30:57,599 movie called The Help. She's been in one of the m Night Shyamalan movies. 401 00:30:57,640 --> 00:31:03,480 Now I can't recall which one what it was called. He directed. 402 00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:07,400 She's done a lot of stuff. Her father, Ron directed the movie Parenthood, 403 00:31:08,039 --> 00:31:12,599 and that apparently that was Steve Martin's film that was She says, according 404 00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:21,200 to Bryce, her Christmas feels exactly like Parenthood, but less dysfunctional. Yeah, 405 00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:23,519 whatever that means. But we all have you seen the film. It's 406 00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:27,640 the four adult siblings, who are I do actually the children? And yeah, 407 00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:30,960 there's a little bit of dysfunction and chaos. And she says, it's 408 00:31:30,319 --> 00:31:36,240 the same, just minus the dysfunction. There's a lot of family members around, 409 00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:38,759 extended family members around, a lot of grandchildren. You have the chaos 410 00:31:38,799 --> 00:31:42,880 in just how many people and different families, but you also have so much 411 00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:47,279 love and all of that. So it's a lot like that film, just 412 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:53,599 minus the dysfunctional pieces. He her father directed how the Grinch Stole Christmas? 413 00:31:56,039 --> 00:31:59,319 And I think did he direct one of the other Grench movies as well? 414 00:31:59,359 --> 00:32:04,680 That I noticed that my grandson wanted to see The Grinch, the original what 415 00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:08,440 they call the rid the kids know what, the original Grinch movie. There 416 00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:12,119 are a bunch of Grinch movies out. I couldn't tell you which one the 417 00:32:12,119 --> 00:32:15,160 original was, but my nine year old grandson knew which one was the original. 418 00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:19,000 That's the only one he wanted to watch. So I thought that was 419 00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:23,759 kind of interesting anyway. So basically what young Mssaurd has to say is that 420 00:32:24,039 --> 00:32:29,160 it was fun. And you know, there's a whole business an you say 421 00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:31,279 your life is like a movie, hers actually is like it is, Yeah, 422 00:32:31,319 --> 00:32:36,039 exactly, So there you go. The next Stefan Good Day download with 423 00:32:36,079 --> 00:32:38,960 Doug and Jay Kirshner is made possible in part by Keltrin, which is the 424 00:32:39,039 --> 00:32:43,880 safe way for you to lose weight and keep it off, and also by 425 00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:45,960 Previgent, keeping your brain healthy.