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let's do some people news people in the news. Matt Gates. Ah,
yes, the token troublemaker for the Republicans. Apparently he's been found out
again escalating ethics probe and so now no, should we have a more second?
Wow? One there, that's not the right one? All right?
Anyway, you can get my drift. He's going to have so manymos and
gadgets that you can grab one and it's the wrong one. You're like,
oh, no, that's not the right one because you have that many all
here, Wait a minute, that's better. Right. Yes, he is
a jerk and apparently always has been a jerk and probably always will be a
jerk. So the House Ethics Committee, remember this is the House Ethics committees
run by the Republicans. So when the Republicans go after one of their own,
and they went after Santos, so they're went after Gates. So can
the Republicans? Would they be vulnerable to the Democrats saying, oh, look
at those Republicans, how unethical they are. I don't think that that's necessarily
the case. I think there've been over the years, though, I think
there have been. I can remember back to when I was doing a much
more political program, how there was always a Republican who was getting caught with
a woman that he wasn't supposed to be with right or in some compromising situation
that always had to do with sex. Does something more of a politician thing
than a specific party thing. Yeah, but there have been more Republicans of
these. If you chase that, if you want to go into your mister
Google bought there and see, that's really not the point of the conversation.
Gates is just an embarrassment to himself. How'd you like I don't know.
I don't think he's married, But how'd you like to be one of his
children or be his mother or father? They are I have my Thursday morning
whatever stuff in my throat? How'd you This committee is re examining allegations.
He's, you know, the division member, he's the one who got rid
of McCarthy and now they're all thinking of maybe we shouldn't have gettenrid of McCarthy.
Yeah, that stuff. And I don't know where he is when he
comes to Trump. I'm guessing he's probably a Trumper, right is he?
You know, I'm not sure about I don't know. I think he is,
all right, Sonyhow do I want to spend a lot of time on
this? No, but the seventeen year old and he paid to travel with
him. That certainly is something being investigated. There are other things that have
to do with sex trafficking allegations. I should say that for later on when
we have that as a focus, all right. Some other people in the
news Kate Middleton, she's having surgery, but according to the people who were
taking care of her, she had abdominal surgery. They have confidence she's resilient.
It sounded kind of serious though, Yeah, some people that are close
to her said that it seems a little bit more serious. It sounds a
little bit serious, just based on the time for recovery. She has to
spend like, I think nearly a week, a little over a week or
two weeks in the hospital and then more weeks outside of the hospital. And
this wasn't just some emergency surgery. This was a planned surgery of sorts.
But nobody but nobody's yeah, yeah, because the real the reality of that,
that's a private situation. It's not their news to tell, you know.
I'm just thinking about my older sister when she was in her forties,
had a cyst that was the size of her grapefruit. It was not cancerous,
it was removed, and it took her a couple of weeks to even
be able to walk again. And that kind of surgery is yeah, oh
yeah. You know, you wonder what they based on the location? Yeah,
right, it was in her uterus, so that's abdominal, right.
Yeah. Yeah. When I was a teen, I had an ovarian cyst
and an appodectomy at the same time of the same surgery. Yeah, and
I was sent home the following day. Wow, you're a big tough guy.
Yeah. They kicked me out. They were like, okay, now,
just go recover at home. Same with my C section with mac he
was born on a Thursday. I was home by Saturday late morning. You
know. Speaking of that, there are some real problems in hospitals around the
country. A couple of issues. One of them is blood. Please,
if you can give some boo, I'm gonna go give blood today. As
a matter of fact, the blood shortage is a big problem. And also
the number of beds. For example, one of the most famous hospitals in
the world is here in Boston, mass General. They have no beds,
zero beds. And one of the problems with that, and I wonder if
it's happening. You have the Cleveland Clinic there, you have a lot of
good medicine. A friend of mine bringing your husband to the Mayo clinic this
next week. And there are places those are probably the two best known other
than maybe in Los Angeles Cedar Sinai and a good hospital, but they're all
filled up. And the reason for that, in part is that the regional
or local hospitals. For example, my hometown of Framingham where the Framingham Art
Study started at Framingham Union Hospital. The Fremingham Union Hospital is run by Tenant
Healthcare, which apparently, according to doctors that I know, is the worst
of all of these nationwide owners of hospitals. So they keep cutting services,
they keep cutting pay. The nurses went on strike, they're unionizing at this
hospital. But they keep turning people away at these hospitals, so they send
them into Boston. So the hospitals are all getting filled up. What do
you think of that? Is that going on in Cleveland? The last time
I had a family member hospitalized, they it was more of an emergency room
situation where before they could get into a room at the er, they they
had still had the beds lined up and everything, and then once it was
moving, they were moving into the main part of the hospital. I think
they had to wait nearly a day in the day and a half before they
could get to bed. But other than that, I haven't experienced anybody waiting
a significantly long time. But I feel like around here there is a hospital
on every corner. It's like there's always there's a hospital within a two miles
radius. Cleveland Clinic has so many. They have the main campus down and
they have so many other branches. You have, university hospitals, you have
there are so many, it's like Starbucks here. Wow, it's one on
every corner. The situation that we have going on here is again tenant is
the bad guy and the emergency room. For example, there was a hearing
before the City council leone and night that basically brought the management of the hospital
in. The nurses came in. It was an hour and a half listening
to people complain about services. One person waited, he came. He had
a I'm forgetting Now, let me think what was the issue. There was
some kind of an issue with he had pneumonia or something, and he came
into the hospital coughing, and they put him in a chair and they set
him in a chair three hours before anybody looked at him. They put him
on a gurney and they took his temperature and blood pressure another three hours.
This is in the middle of the night before anybody looked at him. There
was one nurse on duty for a five hundred bed hospital. Can you imagine
that in the er and then a room. They didn't have a room for
him, so he stayed in the He stayed in this gurney out in a
corridor all night long before they managed to investigate. There was a doctor on
duty that gave him some prescription. His insurance was charged twenty nine thousand dollars
for that experience. So what do you expect people are going to say or
think about this sort of I mean, this is no way to run a
railroad, that's for sure. And I betted many people listening to the program
right now, can come up with a similar story something like that. All
right? Other people in the news Noah Roush and got Tonia Bryant, two
people murder suspects escaping from a jail in Arkansas. Wow, they have escaped
and they're being obviously the sheriffs after him. But there's a burglary attached and
there's also a homicide attached to it. So imagine, how how can they
people like charged with stuff like this? How are they so unwatched or unpre
That's another thing like the hospital, so you know, the policing is so
lacking. Wow. Dig Ozzy Osbourne in fact, is in the focus here
as we dig into some celebrity gossip news from social media. Ozzie is in
the top ten today because he's talking about a very fam He actually talking about
two very famous people and he uses their name. One is contemporary and one
was around a long time ago. But he uses their names together in the
same sentence. Does that intrigue you? All Right? So instead of more
music from Black Sabbath, as we heard Ozzy Osbourne there, we are going
to play the music of the person he was fascinated to meet, Starstruck in
fact, doesn't that intrigue you? Okay, hold on, don't hold your
breath, because it'll be sixty seconds before you find out who he is in
awe. Oh had a good sentence. I handed in the preposition within let's
see with the person with whom he is in awe, he said. Ozzy
Osborne said that he was in shock the first time he met Paul McCartney McCarty
good doug, that's his name, to his butt, yeah, McCartney.
So I was in awe when I met Paul McCartney. But it was a
it was I didn't feel like it was I was meeting Jesus Christ. Osborne
says meeting Paul McCartney was like meeting Jesus Christ. I don't know how he
knows. Well, maybe in a past life was a member of who he
could have been Ozzy Osbonne could have been one of the twelve Disciples, right,
who knows? So then he talks about how nice he is. I
would say that as well. And when Ozzie got a Grammy, he followed
up where they congratulations, that is McCartney did, and that was yeah yeah.
And then his wife Sharon Osborne shared that she was dazzled when she met
Elizabeth Taylor. Yeah, I never met Elizabeth Taylor. I would have thought
that had been a kind of cool thing, Right, Who have you been
and you met anybody, Jay that you were be dazzled by? You were
uh or taken? You thought it was fab that you met this. The
one person that I met that I don't know if you'd call it starstruck or
not. It was country artist Martina McBride, And it was more of a
situation of I don't know about you, dug, but I have this thing
where if I am talking to somebody, or if I'm looking at somebody in
the eyes that has those extremely blue eyes, my brain just goes like,
ah, like there is nothing in there. I have one of my best
friends has these blue eyes, and there all be times where she's even talking
and I'm like, I missed what you said. I got lost in your
eyes. I think Martina mcride was her eyes were just so dazzling that like
I lost on of everything. Well, looks like Ozzie lost his sense of
whatever meeting Paul McCartney. It's kind of a cool story. Actually, I'm
Greg, I'm sixty eight years old. I grew up in Cleveland, Ohio,
major in business administration. I do motivational speaking in addition to substitute teaching.
Part of the reason for my motivational speaking is I kind of feel like
I have a calling or giving back to the younger generation. You know,
the golden rule is do unto others, you'd have them do un to you.
My wife, Wanda, as a senior flight attendant, She's been flying
for over thirty years. We do laugh quite a bit. I think most
adults will start realizing that they don't recall things as quickly as they used to,
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youre or prevent any disease. The day you wake up and you're going you
don't want to go to work, you better go find another job. But
how many people, I think we said this yesterday the day before Jay,
spend their lives just waiting until it's over all right, dah my god,
when you have so much potential. So what options can you consider today?
Whether it's your work, whether it's your home life, whatever it is,
what can you do? Do you think that work life balance? Yeah,
Passion, excitement, motivation, energy. Although those words are great, I
think they contribute to a level of success and fulfillment that makes people's lives where
it's living. The old Bishop Fulton Jay Sheen. Nobody remembers him, probably
but me. He wrote a book called and he did a radio show called
Life is Worth Living, And it's sure as heck is more. The more
you dedicate yourself to your tasks and to it comes to a point with some
that it's effortless. Right, you just automatically think about somebody else. And
here's an example of that. A teenager invented a gadget which will transform dementia
care. And this was done because he was concerned about his grandmother. This
youngster self confessed nerd loves robotics, loved his grandmother and so he created this
new invention that will greatly improve care for his grandmother and ultimately for Alzheimer's patients
all around the world. This kid was twelve years old when he was out
and about a summer of twenty eighteen, he saw his grandmother go into the
kitchen to make tea. When she left the room, she left the gas
on. She couldn't remember to turn it off. So that got him to
thinking he knew what was going on, and so his grandmother diagnosed with Alzheimer's
I guess that year or the year before. She since has passed away,
But he invented. This kid invented what he's called the Alpha monitor, which
is a badge like monitoring device that sends alerts if the person wearing it wanders
off is in unfamiliar circumstances. Apparently, she used to get up early in
the morning go outside. She thought she was on a train. And so
this is a young kid, very smart, interested in his grandmother, as
I say, came up with this this device that was wearable and it's like
it kind of looks like a heart pace maker thing above her, only it
relates more to your mind than it does to your heart. Yeah, And
when he even had enough wherewithal two too, he was like, it can't
it can't act like a watch. It can't be like a watch, because
if it's uncomfortable, if it gets heavy, if it's something that people regularly
take off, then the patient could possibly take it off. It has to
be something that they won't. They wouldn't barely even notice that it's on them
exactly. Yeah, like it capable yet in a sense. Yeah, something
like that. All right, Well, that's a good news story. If
I've heard one today, that's a good one. I'm looking around at the
political landscape. It's gonna be hard for us to as much as I don't
want to, it's gonna be hard for us to escape some of this stuff.
Jay, So we just have to live with it. I have remember
was it last week? The week before? I said, And I certainly
can't be the only one who is thinking this. The most vulnerable issue for
Republicans is birth well Roe v weighed more specifically, and the ramifications of abortion.
And then the Democrats have this immigration albatross around their necks, and they
don't seem to be able to get out of their own way. Neither of
these parties. That's kind of why I say they've become irrelevant. The parties
haven't done you know, they keep talking about this, they keep we know
what the problem is, but what's being done nothing because they can't get out
of their own way because they're all too busy worried about being re elected.
That's it, in a nutshell. All the problems that we have in our
country are related to the electoral process, and to maybe that's a big statement,
but that's my feeling that the parties become so beholden to certain events,
certain issues, certain people, certain groups that they can't get out of their
own way, and thus you have these gnawing problems that aren't getting they're aren't
getting taken care of. Trump will bounce all over Biden because of the immigration
issue. He'll point to the wall and people of both parties are going to
agree with him because it is a disaster. It's a mess, and it's
I think it's fairly easily fixed. But I must be in the minority.
But I'll tell you one thing, Jay, what I'm looking at when I
knows around in this arena, the issues that young people are interested in.
The young voters who have been polled so far in the youngsters who are voting
first time voters in a presidential election and in the primaries and that sort of
thing. If you're under thirty, pretty much all of you are leaning left
of center, and you'll make a difference voting for Democrats. A lot of
young people under thirty, like Joe Kennedy, whether you're like, I mean,
what's his face, Robert Kennedy, whether you like it or not,
those people are going to have That's where the when you look at the polls,
that's where the strength is coming from for Kennedy. He's attracting younger voters
by far more than either Biden or Trump. Trump has very very very few.
You can count them on your hands, people under thirty who are going
to vote for Trump, and in the mainstay that's the same problem that Biden
has. Kennedy doesn't have that problem because he has not he's not beholden to
the Democrats. Democrats despise him, and Republicans see him as a problem taking
votes away from Trump. So as far I'm concerned, hooray right. Think
about it, though, if you have children that are under thirty, do
you talk to them about what their political preferences are and do you listen to
them if they disagree with you, or do you shut him out because you
don't want to have somebody's own opinions. Of course, the opinions off the
opinions of others. Right, Yeah, And a lot of youngsters are doing
you know, we talk about all of the stuff with with the you know,
smartphones and devices and stuff, but I see a lot of these young
people who are digging around. They care deeply about social issues, especially,
they care about the economy, they care about their job, affordable living.
You know, there's this whole thing now floating around about the There's an article
over the weekend that are read on the plane that focus basically on the renting
society. That is, people who are not of all ages, who are
not buying homes anymore. They're renting homes they don't want to. They either
don't want to or they don't have the money to put into a down payment,
so and they don't like the interest rates on mortgages, so they'll rent
down and the property tax will get people. And astounding is that the monthly
rental fee is typically more it's more expensive than the monthly mortgage fee. But
it doesn't take into account beat that down payment and the property taxes again,
and then if you live in an Ha, those are additional fees. It's
a lot, yeah, exactly. Anyway, So the latest foolishness from Trump
is he threatened to blacklist anybody who's giving money to Haley at this point,
so he must be worried about her, because otherwise he wouldn't pull all some
of the stunts that he's doing, you know, just the usual nasty stuff.
So if you are donating to Haley, you'll be permanently barred from the
Magagas. Okay, all right, Donald, do your thing. Here's the
Pope speaking of people doing their thing. Jay Holocaust Remembrance Day on his mind.
He says, this should remind the world that war can never be justified.
Amen to that, Pope Francis recalling the extermination of the Jews. Call
for this is Holocaust I have remembered, I think, isn't it this week?
Remember that Saturday? Yeah? Okay, So anyway, he referred to
the commemoration, which is something this year that people are concerned about because of
what's going on with the Israelis and Gaza and the rise in anti Semitism all
around the world, mostly due to the ignorance of people who don't know what's
really going on there. The remembrance condemnation also of the extermination of all the
Jews. This ought to be on people's minds, and it's on the Pope's
mind obviously. Italy's Jewish community denouncing the anti Semitic sentiment in their country.
France, same thing, the head of the Jewish community in Italy announcing that
marathons around Italy that have traditionally marked past Holocaust remembrance days have been canceled this
year because of security concerns. Once again, here we have people that don't
have a clue that are protesting what you know, you can find certainly criticized
how Netanyahu's run, you know, running the war, but there's way way
too much anti Semitism brought about mostly by ignorance. So it's great business time
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name that's trending, and this is a sort of a sad story about Melanie
Safka. For those of you who don't know who Melanie Safka, well you
know who she is, you just don't recognize that name. I'm going to
guarantee that most people listening when they hear the music associated with Melanie Safka will
remember, Oh yeah, I remember her. We'll only use the first name.
One of those people like Oprah Dolly. How many people just go by
their first name, right, Well, that's the story of Melanie Safka.
Nobody knew her last name was Safka. I remember interviewing her once and I
passed her because she went by Melanie from the beginning of her career. She
first performed at Woodstock in the sixty eight Yeah, nobody knew who she was.
She had a great voice. And I interviewed her when I was working
on a radio stage in Boston. I think it was seventy three, seventy
four, somewhere in there, and I said to Jay off the air,
I maan, I fell in love with her. I could have run away
with her, but anyway she did. She had a lot of songs lay
down. It was one of them brand new key another one she has passed
away yep at the age of seventy six, and nobody knows how she passed
away. But she had that look in her eye, she had that voice,
she had that aude. She was just Actually she'd gone into a studio
earlier this month to work on her new record. She wanted to do some
covers and so the album was set. Thirty. Second album that she recorded,
A Secondhand Smoker, was called She has three children, and the children
posted on Facebook yesterday, were heartbroken, but want to thank everybody, every
one of you, for the affection that you've had for our mother and to
tell you that she loved all of you. She was one of the most
talented, strong and passionate women of this era, and I think that that's
really what her music was about, and that's what I got from her when
I met her. So I don't know people like that that are so positive.
I think she was from down in the net where you lived. I
think she came from Tennessee, if I'm not mistaken. But anyway, the
children all talk about her adding light to the darkness, and anyway, just
great music and great memories. Melanie passing away the next Stefan Good Day download
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