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in the air. Love is in the air, and there are all kinds
of different love connections. The love used to be a TV show, right
called the Love Connection. I think wasn't there. There's always stuff. The
Bachelor now is going to do what it was? Yeah, no, I
think there is. Uh, there's going to be a new Bachelor at old
Timer what do they call the old Bachelor that they had on last year,
Golden Mess And I was going to be a Golden Bachelorette. So you don't
have anybody on this program that could apply for that. That'll be interesting to
see how that shakes out. Their ratings on that show for the best of
any bachelor show, any bachelor series that they ever had. And so of
course they're gonna milk it and find some woman who's gonna chase some old cadure
around this. I don't know, do you feel good about watching old timers
make love kiss? I guess doesn't I'm not the target audience for reality television
anyway, but I believe that that's kind of how the Bachelor franchise always went.
They would do one and then it's like one of the runner ups or
one of the people who just like had a big fan base but didn't win,
didn't get that final Rose or whatever becomes the next one, and then
it just kind of keeps going goes from there, right. Yeah. Henry
David Thurreau, who grew up in my neighborhood, said there's no remedy for
love but to have more love. And this is a perfect time thinking about
all the things that are going on in our country, going on around the
world. Love is in the air. Hopefully we can find a lot of
that stuff to think about today and beyond. Going back to the origins of
Valentine's Day itself, it was actually a feast for the patron saints that were
all there were a bunch of them named Valentine. Catholic Church grabbed the pagan
festival as usual, that's what they were great at any festival where people were
worshiping false God's, false idols, that grab them. Let's make that ours.
So that's what happened. They The first one was paying homage to the
Roman god of agriculture whose name was Faunas. There was a goat and a
dog that were sacrificed, and then they would involve. They'd skin the goat
and tear it up into strips and dip it into the blood of the goat,
and they painted on women. Great, there you go. Can you
see that happening? Well, let's it see so the blood that's the thing,
you know, that's really good. We are to remind people about that.
The reason that the color for Valentine's Day is red is because of the
blood of the goats that they used to sacrifice as the Valentine's Day patron saint.
They didn't want to kill the patron saints, so they killed the goat
instead. So they started about two seventy a d. And then there are
a lot of different stories about a guy named Saint Valentine. It was originally
called Saint Valentine's Day. There were a number of them. Actually, during
the fourteen hundreds, the day was associated with romance and messages of romance,
and so Valentine's began to appear. I don't think the Hallmark Company was around
until limit eighteen hundreds though, right, so no, yeah, they kind
of joined it on it, but I feel like Sweetest Day is the one
that Hallmark had more of a hand in creating. Yes, right now,
they didn't create the moderndy Valentine's celebrations the token of affection, though it's come
a long way since killing a goat and the blood on the women was supposed
to make them fertile, I think, right, wasn't that the idea make
them more fertile? Yeah, we have reproducing or else good for? Right?
So do you love Valentine's Day or would you just as soon leave it
a question that a lot of people think it's overdone. I think every day
should be Valentine's Day? She should, you know? Okay, so today
we associated with romance and celebrations of love, but as I just pointed out,
it hasn't always been that way. I always do those things for each
other just throughout the year, little tokens of your affections, speak each other's
love language, go out on dates anyway, but I feel like Valentine's Day
to go out on a date is just it is too much. I have
not been now since the world shut down with the pandemic and everything. But
like for Valentine's Day, I should say I actually haven't been out to eat
on Valentine's Day in over a decade because the one and only time my husband
and I actually went out to dinner for Valentine's Day when we were dating was
such a miserable time. It's like they bring extra tables and they bring extra
chairs, and you are based its commercial day with other couples. Yeah,
it's just it's it's uncomfortable. It is chaotic and overstimulating, and it's just
like we will stay home and cook dinner and then we will go and on
a date night. Other nights, any night can be That's what I'm saying.
It ought to be something that works year round. It's a good imbetus.
I suppose for it, but it becomes like a lot of other things.
So it went from being a pagan holiday to a religious holiday. Now
it's a commercial holiday. It's all about giving chocolates. You're giving flowers or
buying present, you know, the little tokens of your affection. I feel
like something a present means so much more when it's not given on a holiday,
When it's just a hey, I saw this. It made me think
of you. I feel like you would really like this. Here you go
kind of situation. Also, I hate getting flowers. I'm allergic to them.
If you were going to get okay something, please get me a bouquet
of balloons. I love balloons, balloons. I wonder how many people have
gotten balloons today. Let's post on our various social media, whether it's be
Facebook or Instagram or X what people think you love today? Is it a
special day or do you just think like Jay does, every day should be
a day for a rose. We've idealized the love image. This is you
know, okay, so it's cool to have a show of affection today,
but why don't you have a show of affection every day? And are you
and a good relationship? Is maybe today's a good time for you to examine
your relationship and find out whether it's a loving relationship or whether it's a blurred
sort of a thing. The you know, the people the idea is the
wrong answer, it's true. Well, what do you mean to the question
about whether you love it or yeah, yeah love it? Yeah, there's
yeah, there's no wrong answer. It's it's if you love today, that's
awesome. If it's not your thing, that's okay too. Yeah. I
don't think we should wash away the idealized notion about love, but I also
think that you can use this time to think about what your relationship is really
all about. There are very few people I know who are in a good
relationship, I mean good like all the way around. There's always something and
this stuff gets to the obstacles to having the long lasting love that sometimes we
talk about here to talk about some of these people who have whethered was when
you had somebody the other day were telling me that was eighty years or something
married, and they betting that they were pretty conscious of their relationship every single
day. Otherwise they wouldn't have they wouldn't have lasted for eighty years anyways.
But it may not be as Jay suggested for everybody. It may be just
something silly, or maybe it is some time for you to ask yourself,
what's my relationship all about? What's it all about? Alfie? Remember that
you probably don't remember that song or that movie, but there you know what's
it all about? Alfie pretty close? So you know what I remember doing.
When I was a youngster, I used to make things. It was
a I didn't Valentine's Day wasn't for boyfriends and girlfriends, at least when I
was young. I mean talking about maybe fifth sixth grade, used to make
things. This may sound sad, and it's not meant to be. I
was, I don't know what the right word is, desperate. My mother
was not in a position to be particularly good at mothering, let's put it
that way, and so I would try to gain her favor. I'd make
things and give it to her, or to my second mother, And that
was kind of a It was a cool thing, and well, I know
it was appreciated, or it seemed to be appreciated. So we have Valentine's
Day today, we have ash Wednesday as well. How many people are going
to Is there a celebration here? I'm not sure that that's the right word
and acknowledgement. Yesterday was Marty Grau right, and everybody, according to the
legend, once again a sort of Catholic holiday. Now we've got starting we're
giving up things the old tradition maybe when you were probably gone away giving up
things for lent. I don't pay much into that, but I remember it
was a big deal. When I was a kid, did you ever give
up stuff for No? My religion, it wasn't a thing. I grew
up Lutheran and so we still do ash Wednesday, go get the ashes and
everything on our forehead. But as far as giving anything up for lent,
it's not unheard of for anybody who is a Lutheran to do so. But
it's not a common practice. Yeah, all right, but for those of
you who do, it's one of the trending things Valentine's Day. I was
looking at the trending list for Valentine's Day. Let's see what it is.
The jewelry. That's something we haven't talked about. Jeans buying clothing, all
right, Well, anyway, a revelation from Katie Perry. We there's all
kinds of social media lists today, all kinds of trending lists because of Valentine's
Day, But there's always this celebrity list, and Katy Perry is on it.
I wonder people like her, and no wonder she's attracted to. People
who are doing these American Idol kind of shows want to have her. On
a matter of fact, she's been on American Idol for what three four years,
five years? How long has Katy Perry been on American Idol? Trying
to remember when it all started. I think I follow American Idol more than
I do any of the others. She's out with Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie,
right. I feel like they do a better job promoting things. But
she's been on for seven years. Seven years, okay, well not much
longer. She is now leaving American Idol. She talked about what she was
doing. This is the last one that she wants to do, at least
for now. She left the door open, though, didn't She kind of
yeah, yeah, if there happens to be a time where maybe they want
to invite her back or she wants to approach them again. But right now,
she she's been busy. She was doing American Idol. She wrapped up
a two year residency in Vegas, and she wants to work on new music
and then tour with the new music. So she's going to have a lot
of stuff going on. So what do you think of her? What do
you do you like her? Do you think she's great? Is she the
best music? I like her music? Well? Would you like her?
Does she come across to you as being a genuine article as being somebody that
you'd like to have as your bestie or somebody you could be friends with,
or how do you view her as a human being? Katie Perry, I
would be interested in knowing her on a personal level. I think that she
she seems like she has a lot of energy and sometimes she's one of those
celebrities that I feel like is a little bit more quote unquote on when they're
on and why would you not be most people are. Sometimes it can be
a little bit too much, but I think she has There's been a lot
of times that she's made me laugh. I think she's cute and funny,
but I really like her music. Who's she married to? I was trying
to remember, is it Orlando Blue? With Ah? Okay, right,
all right? Are they happy they have children and that kind of stuff.
I don't know them personally. I'm not sure to be valentized they would be
good for that. Well, yeah, but I'm sure they seem like they
seem like they're fond of each other. Yeah, good, Okay, that's
cool anyway, So she is on the road again and we'll so who's a
good replacement for her? So I was thinking they need to have a They
have two men and a woman. So who would be a good replace?
Yeah? Who would be a good one. It's something to think about.
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any disease. The COVID nineteen isolation advice has changed would be wow, this
is the news media as usual making way too much of this because most people
have already changed their guidance. They have their own guidance. It's not like
you didn't have. I loved this. The government thinks that it's almighty,
all powerful, all influencing, right, I remember all the times during the
almost three years of COVID. Well, according to CDC guidance, it's worth
following CDC guidance because we don't have a brain in our head and we couldn't
think it through. So todayn you don't have to follow those of you who
follow the CDC. Good for you. The guidance for people who test positive
for COVID nineteen has changed. So you don't have a five day isolation when
you had COVID. It's nothing. You don't have to stick around, you
don't have to isolate at all. Nope, So what does that tell you
about all of this house away over the last three years about people and what
they did, what they were clowed into doing. It's it's just, I
mean, hindsight's twenty twenty obviously, but this was the most overwrought, overcharged,
overdone episode in my life. And I would say probably in the history
of the modern history of the planet, the way that people dealt with this
sort of thing and how there certainly were a lot of folks who died because
of it, but there were many more people who you thought they died of
it and they didn't really and differently. Yeah, right, And that's the
point. I've had it three Yeah, I've had it thrice, and it
hit me differently each time, and to be honest, I isolated, and
even this the most recent time, I did the additional five day isolation,
or not the additional five day I isolated until like it was for five days
while I was sick, and then I still wore a mask around people for
a couple extra days just in case. But more than anything, it's because
even though it didn't hit me as hard this last time, the second time
I had it, it was the worst thing I've ever experienced that I would
wish that on nobody, And if I did end up getting somebody sick or
giving somebody my COVID germs and they got as sick as I was. I
wouldn't be able to forgive myself. It was truly awful. It was certainly
the idea of it to passing from one to another through the air, that
was something that was true. I'm looking at an article in Today's Washington Post.
J The updated guidelines suggest isolation is unnecessary once you have been fever free
for twenty four hours. So how long does the fever last? Again,
it's different, as Jay is suggesting. Some people had it for a day,
some people had it for a week long COVID and some people yeah,
right, yep. And it's so closely aligned with the flu and RSV.
There are lots of people who have you know, again, even inside the
CDC. This is an argument's been going on for a long time because there
are some people who are thinkers in there, but they were, you know,
they were sort of put off to the side, the people who didn't
get along or go along with what Fauci said, or some of these other
people that were way over the top for whatever the reason. The number of
people who were dying from COVID once they get into the hospital is down to
six percent, and it was what was it doing? Well? Again,
you can't really tell from the old from the original because everybody was dying,
right, that was it. Anybody who died there was COVID. They died
of COVID exactly. There were people who were already dying on something or they
were already in prospice care, and then they contracted COVID and they died with
COVID, not because of COVID, and then it's COVID was put as the
cause of death. And I think more than anything, it's just because there
was so much uncertainty about it and people didn't know. I was terrified of
it because I'm a hypochondriac. I'll acknowledge that, but also I do get
sick a lot, and I don't have good health, so I do do
have certain things. But I think there was just so much questioning about it
that cause that kind of continued and led. More of the fear was the
fear of the unknown, as opposed to that was itself. Like yeah,
like the flu, if you have the flu, don't go to work,
stay home. Nobody wants your germs. But and we just say you're home
sick and just avoid people. Or how often have you been around somebody who
has a cold and you typically would hug them upon seeing them, but they're
like, oh, don't hug me today, I have a cold. You
don't want these germs. It's perfectly normal. Yeah. It really is interesting
to see people in their reaction to people that are a tough guy, a
big tough guy. I'm I got a cold, but I'm going to work.
No. Probably that's not going to be the sign of you being a
tough guy. It's going to be a sign of you being stupid and the
thoughtless. Not did you look at it that way? I know that people
think I gotta go, the boss needs me, I gotta get to work,
But there was probably did you see it right? I feel like that
was the good thing that came from COVID, that if you are sick with
anything, it was just stay home. You don't need to come in where
Prior to COVID, it was oh, you have the flu, sorry for
your luck, get in here. You know what the CDC recognized interesting in
this article in the post and making the recommendations. What they acknowledge is that
the people are not willing to do what they had to do before. I
always said that if if they if this thing came back. When Ken Crownhouse
and I talk about this on Good Day Health, I said to him,
people are not going to do what they were told to do, required to
do before because they realized that it didn't do what the government said was going
to happen would take place. If you stayed home, everybody would be safe.
And no, but not everybody was forced to stay home. That's the
thing. There was no across the board unity one way. Stakes were different,
some counties different, and yeah, in Tennessee, Davidson County shut down
where Nashville is and Shelby County shut down where Memphis is. All of the
surrounding counties were essentially business as usual. And those are also very transient places.
So there are a lot of people living and working in one county and
then still traveling to other counties or living in one county that was shut down,
but you still had to travel to a different county because that's where you
worked. So the suggestion, the acknowledgment from the people of the CDC is
that even though the science points to there still being a problem, the warnings
accomplish nothing anymore because nobody will listen to you. And I think that's the
bottom line. There is not going to be another one of these, no
matter whether there is there isn't because people are not going to pay attention to
it. Yeah, because they know it was overcooked in their first place.
Yeah, speaking of being overcooked. So the Republicans in the House yesterday went
back to looking at mister Majorcis and decided, Okay, we're gonna yet him.
So, as most of you probably know by now, the House took
the step. And this is pretty I don't think it's ever been done before
for somebody who was in the cabinet Homeland Security secretary of Alejandro Majorcus, who
is absolutely clueless, I think the worst of the worst. But to waste
time to try to get him out of office. Hello, the election is
in ten months, right, nine months, so if there's an election,
not if there is an election, and it's likely that Biden won't be re
elected, so this guy's out of a job anyway. You know how much
time it takes to they have a whole department, they'll be wasting millions of
dollars. So I fault the Republicans and Johnson seemed to have some common sense
when it came to this, as with many other things. But the rest
of them, who are so hell bent on doing whatever they can to waste
the public's money to go after the guy is useless. He's done a horrible
job. He sucks at his job. Okay, we can all pretty much
agree on that, and the Biden Knights don't agree. But here's the guy
who says, well, there's not really a problem. Huh what there's no
problem? What's the matter with you? Of course there's a problem, and
you've helped to create it. But to impeach him, it'll probably die in
the Senate anyway. So I'm getting worked up on he just but still,
it's just so much, there's so many like it's it feels like just in
peach problem across the board, everybody is always just throwing that in like just
we're it's it's just easy to do anymore. Just impeachyep it will you will
if Trump gets re elected, I guarantee you, the first week he's president,
somebody's gonna try to impeach him, because that's the way already happens.
Yeah, we're already trying to go after him to figure out some way to
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in the focus couple of different things, including my experience yesterday with Apple and
the I Tunes and these. I told the story excuse me to j and
James a little while ago about what happened is to have two iPhones and two
iPads, and so I have I don't know how many gigabytes of memory in
the iCloud. But apparently there was a hiccup because the credit card that was
used last year to pay the ninety nine cents a month that it costs to
have this the I had. Every credit card that I owned was hacked last
year, so they are all new numbers. So of course the old numbers
don't work. So we had one day's notice from Apple after they found out,
you know, the credit card charge didn't work, so they said,
if you don't pay today, we'll cut you off. Well I didn't see
it because I was this weekend. I was busy. They sent it to
you over the weekend too, I mean, whenever it runs out, they
send it to you. So I I tried to figure out and I couldn't
figure out how to you know, go back and pay it because they shut
everything off so you couldn't connect with them. So I called the guy that
I have is my guru for all of my various and sundry technology, and
for three hours yesterday we had to recreate. They shut off everything. I
didn't have a working iPhone, I didn't have a working iPad. Everything was
shut off for ninety nine cents, right, so ninety five dollars an hour
for the consultant and three hours later and plugging it. We had to plug
it into the tower for my computer in order to get the access because it's
said on all of the screens you're locked. Basically, when you're locked out,
you can't use the iPad, the iPhone. I thought to myself,
use your phone. Dare you No? Everything is shut off? How dare
you do that for ninety nine cents? Especially it only affected the iCloud,
so I couldn't put any more stuff in there. And they had mis done
that as well, because oh I know. One of the things was that
it was they were charging me two ninety nine because I had two hundred biga
jigabits of I don't needed because I only use My guy went in and looked
at you, you've only used five gigabytes of you know, and you don't
need two hundred. You maybe need ten or twenty or thirty. We settled
on fifty. But the point is that it took all this time. And
I bet you there are tons of people listening right now who have gone through
the same thing. I never had these before. But you know, with
all the hacking that goes on, credit cards also are a challenge. So
it's just the fact that things that you already pay for. You already pay
for the phone, the data plan on all that stuff. And it was
a ninety nine cent situation that made all of your devices obsolete for a moment.
Yeah, there you go, you out. Yep, all right,
let's see what MENA is doing. They're looking at Snapchat again. Mark Zuckerberg
offered Snapchat three billion dollars to buy him out and they said no thanks.
And now the last quarter of last year their earnings were abysmal. So the
investors are saying, well, maybe you better go back to mister Zuckerberg and
see if he can re bring whether he'll re up on the three billion dollar
offer to buy the company. And that was back in twenty thirteen. Yeah,
it was only a few years after Snapchat started face, Zuckerberg and Facebook
were kind of like trying to buy up anybody who could be a competitor.
They bought up Yes for one billion, and the dude with Snapchat was like,
no, no thanks, We've got this. Cut to over ten years
later and the investors are like, you can't catch Facebook. You cannot catch
up Tomato. Now they're too far ahead. Yeah so is so is the
deal going to go through? I guess is the question they're trying to figure
out. What I don't know? They turned they turned that off or down
back in twenty thirteen. That was when the three billion buyout happened in there.
So I don't even think they can come back, and if they did,
it would not be for three billion. Three billion. Yeah no.
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