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listen to this fun at excitement galore. Does it seem like it's Friday already?
Jay, It seemed like it was just Monday. It seemed like it
was last month. It seems like it was last year. And so here
we are on April the twenty eighth, Friday tomorrow the twenty ninth. That's
right, because that's what happens after the twenty eighth. As long as everything's
working properly, the inside scoop on what's going on in the world, that's
what you get here on the Good Day Program Dug Steffen with Jay Kirshner.
James Collins is at the controls in our studio in Dallas, so blame him.
Let's see where we have here. Top listener Gripes. I was thinking,
not necessarily very positive, but I was thinking maybe on our social media
Facebook and Instagram and a good Day let's see that's a good day radio to
Twitter, it's good day on air. We would ask for gripes and it
might not be just about this program, or is they call from that lady
who is in love with me? And we get I don't know. Their
callers seem to be more active, which is good. We want more activity
on the eight five, five, nine, nine nine Dougline so we can
share our thoughts, not only in social media, but on the air as
well. Your thoughts important, whatever they are. What you like, what
you don't like, gripes? Why not right? Sometimes we tee off our
listeners. I don't like the term pissed off. Do you like that?
I don't like that pissing off about it? I just crude. It's crude.
I think I'd rather say ticked off than pissed off if I just said
that. When I first started a radio sixties out of getting fired anyway,
So I don't guess I get fired now because I'm the boss. But I
never tell what is going on listener complaints. What can we do? There
are a lot of things we can do to fix stuff that is not that
broken. And I don't mean just here, but generally speaking, because there's
been so much focus on AM radio and the fact that three or four or
five or however, many manufacturers want to take the AM band out of the
out of the cars and trucks that they make. Well, it's inconvenient to
have. Come on, eighty four million people listen to AM radio. So
what you're gonna piss those people that's pissing? There isn't an excuse me take
them off. Yeah, all right, let's find a lot of people that
still don't know that this is even happening. I've had a few conversations.
They're like, I mean, just as outrage about it once they learn abo,
oh dare they It's not going to do any good when it comes to
the sales department. I gotta I gotta know that. So at any rate,
here's the story of a railroad conductor who sprinted off to scoop up a
three year old boy who had wandered onto the third or almost onto the tracks.
And this is an area of New York where the electrified third rail is
what powers the trains. Mister William Kennedy, operating a southbound train, the
first to spot the boy on the Metro North tracks north of New York.
That would make sense because Metro North would be That was kind of a silliest
namement, right, the redundant the Metro North train is not likely to be
going south. But anyway, that's not the story. There was an emergency
radio message quote there's a kid north of you, guys end quote. Right.
They released this video of the crew and it shows the northbound train going
slowly until the crew actually spots this child, three year old child. What's
the child three years old doing by the railroad tracks? The parents the mom
was on a street corner crying because she lost the child got away from her.
And this is a her son is autistic and nonverbal. Really wow,
So congratulations to this fine team, these members of the crew that saved this
kid's life because that's they walk onto the track. They didn't have to be
a train coming. You touched that third rail and you are toast t o
a sd toast they saved those such heroes. It was the assistant conductor who
jumped off the train, Marcus Higgins, to go rob the boy and cut
her head. Yeah heroes, yep, good stuff, all right, not
so good stuff. Speaking of trains, most of the Metro the metropolitan systems
that are run by either the city or the state or the FEDS around the
country are raising fares, some as much as six percent. So you look
at that and you just kind of pilot on to all the other the increases
and everything, and you know that life is it's expensive. And so I
was looking at the list of things that are on our charts from Talkers magazine
that we'll talk about on the talk radio Review in the talk Radio Countdown show
that you'll hear on many of these same stations over the weekend. You wonder
if the debt ceiling discussion is going to help you deal with what your mortgage
costs you, which your car payments cost you. I know, my friend
the car dealer told me that business was off about six percent from where it
was last year this time. Not awful, but it does demonstrate how US
growth has slowed. The economy growing at a lower than predicted one point one
percent annualized in the first three months of the year. So that's good news
for the people in the FED. People are watching this stuff. That means
that what Wall Street said, Wall Street was forecasting at two percent growth and
the number is actually one percent. It was let's see here two point six
percent in the fourth quarter of last year. So all of these things are
supposed to happen. Consumers spending, which counts basically for two thirds of gross
domestic product, it held up a matter of fact, went up about three
points during the first quarter of this year, offsetting some of the business the
businesses that are borrowing money to keep things going because a lot of them are
not doing as well, especially if they're tied to building, building trades,
that sort of thing. But the cars, restaurants, healthcare, that money
was there was more money spent there, FYI, in the first quarter than
was the case with pretty much any of the other big any of the other
big spending categories. And one of the things that's happening as a result of
the economy, people are buying less clothing. So as a result of that,
the gap is laying off eighteen hundred workers, three times the number of
headquarter jobs it cut last year. They're struggling. Do you buy anything of
the gap? J Are you fall into the gap? I like the baby
gap stuff for mac Why what's their buddy? They have a lot of really
soft items. I'm a tech shot person, yea, and very sensitive.
I know that sounds selfish, but yeah, yeah, Mac. There are
very few stores or brands that Mac wears m and so that's a good place
for you to go. I'm looking at Amazon. What last year, McDonald's
having to lay off a lot of people. Let's see who else. Well,
Gap isn't just a gap because they have other stores, right, Banana
Republican, Old Navy among them. Yes, yeah, right, So anyway
they say they're taking the necessary actions to reshape Gap. Most of the stories,
if not all of them, in malls around the country. Right,
are there any self standing Gap stores? Are they pretty much all in malls?
In malls the outdoor ones that I'm free to name, strip malls kind
of things. Yeah, I haven't bought anything. I still have. Well,
there's no news there. I don't. I don't. I don't get
rid of my clothing. I wear it until it wears out. And I
have I can speak to things that I bought a long time ago. A
picture of me. I noticed the other day. My daughter was on the
crew in UH when she was in school in England at Oxford in and so
I would go over there for each one of her crews. Sometimes went every
week. If she had a crew race, I'd be over there on the
Thames cheering on as a picture of her with my father and I and I
had on a Gap shirt. It was red, white and blue and I
still have that shirt. This was right, This would have been in the
nineties. Well that shows the quality. Yeah, that's what I was gonna
say. It's not somebody. If Jennifer were here, she teased me about
my whatever mine was in. But men don't have to. Men's stuff lasts
longer than women's stuff, right in terms of how the styles I'm talking about
more than I am the quality of the okay, yeah, it's well,
just certain trends, and nowadays it seems there are trends across the board that
are they're fast fashion, and but the classics, no matter what, are
always staying those Definitely, the classics have staying power. But things come back.
Do you notice that every twenty years some kind of style comes back.
Yeah, wide Lapel's wide tires of tires, good wide ties. Yeah,
that stuff comes yeah. Right now, I think people are trying to bring
back the ultra low rise jeans. That doesn't look good on anybody. Don't
bring them back. Let them stay dead, right for if you got a
fat butt, though, they look better, right, nobody looks good.
It doesn't matter what your body. I need to have more room looks good
and look ultra low rise jeans. All right. I'll remember that Kanye West.
Wasn't he associated with a gap? Maybe that's why they went down because
he had is Didn't he have a clothing line there? I think that or
does maybe he still does? Oh, I'm not sure. Well, And
the thing is after these corporate jobs that the layoffs and stuff their shares,
well, maybe that lappen again. Yeah. I was sad yesterday afternoon because
when I heard the news that Jerry Springer had died, I started thinking about
all the fun that he and I had together when we were working together in
Cincinnati in a world that was it was crazy, but it was a different
kind of crazy, you know what I mean. The Jerry Springer world became
crazy, but it wasn't It wasn't crazy crazy anyway. We'll talk about Jerry
Springer passing away. Had a pretty fast moving cancer and took his life at
the age of seventy nine yesterday. My Jerry Springer stories are there. They're
replete with a lot of selling as Jerry was during the evening news. After
he got recalled. He was the mayor of Cincinnati, but he used city
fund style or prostitute. So that was the end of his political career.
And he did say he wanted to run for governor, but he never did
because the trail would have ended that that would have gone away fast. But
he then became the anchor of the other major television show of the other television
station in Cincinnati. George Clooney's father, Nick was the anchor on one of
the stations and Jerry was the other one, and it was like a real
There was a contrast as a matter of that. You can imagine they contrast
and styled. So, yeah, I did afternoons in Cincinnati for a couple
of years, and I asked Nick Clooney to come beyond the program every Friday,
and he couldn't, so I asked Jerry Springer and then secondly said,
yeah, I'll be there. So every Friday we'd go. He would come
over at five o'clock and we'd go through what was going on in town.
But the thing that made it real or made it amusing or entertaining, is
that Pete Rose used to follow me on the air on the station from six
to eight, so Pete would come into the studio. He and Springer would
get at it and it was like the beginning of the Jerry Springer TV Show
that I didn't have to do anything. I just sat there and watched them.
The two of them listened to him. It was great radio and he
was a very interesting guy. And the fellow who there was a beer hall
that was opening and Cincinnati at the time, and he asked Jerry and I
to come be the entertainment the first night. So he and I decided we
do. We'd sing a version of karaoke of Ebony and Ivory, and we
dressed the part. He was Ebony and I was Ivory, and it was
what a circus it was anyway, So SATs are the thoughts about Jerry Springing.
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 reasons for my motivational speaking is um I kind of
feel like I have a calling or giving back to the younger generation. You
know, the Golden Rule is doing the others you'd help them doing to you.
My wife, Wanda, as a senior flight attendants, has been flying
for over thirty years. We do laugh by the bed. I think most
adults will start realizing that they don't recall things as quickly, say used to,
or they don't remember things as vividly as they once did. I've been
taking privilege for about three years now. People say to me periodical, Man,
you got a memory like an alpha. It's really really helped me tremendously,
providing healthier brain, better life. Grig Freeley is a paid testimonialist and
real privileging user based on the clinical study of subgroups of individuals who were cognitively
normal or mildly impaired. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat,
cure, or prevent any disease. If you can believe this, many,
if not most, of the colleges, this is a mind blower. We'll
be done with their college courses. College is done in the next week or
ten days. They'll have their testation. What the hell is going on?
When do we pay thirty forty fifty sixty thousand dollars a year? The kids
don't start they have all this time off. What are you getting how to
going to college? Other than a good time which is fine, but it's
a little expensive. Oh. What I've noticed is whenever the students get out
early, it's because they had to start earlier too. Yeah. Well,
any one of my cousins, she's done today. Her parents pick her up
from school from college today, and she went back crazy early. I remember
when they had to take her back and I was like, already, well,
Megan, my daughter, Megan is a prophet, I'd say prop He
was saying, what's a professor at UCLA? And she used to teach through
a four quarters and she used to teach all of them, which meant the
fall quarter or the winter quarter, or the spring quarter in the summer quarter.
And now she doesn't do the summers because when she first started it was
less expensive. But they don't want to pay her to do the summer quarter,
which is okay. She comes to visit here and spends three weeks,
and that's fine with me. But I just wonder sometimes about what it is
that comes out of the college experience anyway, So that the arbors and graduation
day applies to this time of year for colleges, and also because today is
National Arbor Day. So this is how my mind works, all right.
If you are into trees, you have a lot of knowledge, perhaps about
the different types of trees. I'm learning. I knew a lot about New
England trees. But because of this development that I'm involved in, we're doing
the landscaping now and picking out the trees. We bought four hundred trees to
plant all around the development, and some of them are things we had a
consultant that told us, you know, this is what you should put here
from the garages and wherever else. And we didn't cut down any live tree.
We kept and moved the houses around so that they would be around the
trees. But then there are the traditional is maple trees and oak trees and
is you know, the evergreens. But there are some trees that are around
it are just wild and they're beautiful too. A lot of new kinds of
trees around anyway. So National Harbor Day as the last Friday of April,
and so let's see what we have to I mean, think about this is
the best time if you to plant trees, by the way, because they
grow fast. They're rooting a lot of people do I have a number of
trees that I need to transplant. This is a good time to do.
But they say, if the ground is soft during the winter, when the
trees are asleep, you can transplant them there and then as well. So
what better way to celebrate the day than to plant your own tree? How
about that? What an experience to watch a tree grow and some of them,
some of the like poplars, they grow very quickly, some of the
maples grow very quickly. And then we think about some of the other problems
around around the world, deforestation down in Central America. If we don't have
trees, we don't have oxygen. If we don't have oxygen, we don't
have life can be sustainably done. Yeah, of course, yeah, yeah.
So anyway, this is a word to the wise, is sufficient.
Take a hike and you'll then experience some of the great good that comes from
trees as well, because you'll see it and then again breathing you feel it.
So yeah, today is National Arbor Day. Thank you Doug for that
information. You're welcome. Here's some other good news. Cigarette smoking is declining
again in our country. The number of adults who smoke dropped to an all
time low according to some of the new data that's been released by the Center
for Disease Control and well what do they call what do I call them?
Center for Disease Confusion. Anyway, the findings show that twenty seven thousand adults
are now one in nine adults. I think it's twenty seven adults twenty seven
thousand adults a month or stopping. Only one nine adults smokes, which is
kind of interesting time. It kind of used to be visualized as something cool
to do, and now it is really most smell, bad breath, yellow
teeth, yuck, young lung diseases, cancer, heart disease. And I
know people get really ticked off at me when I go at it that way,
but most if you've listened to me for a long time, realized that
my antipathy for smokers comes from the fact that my mother died at the age
of fifty because she smoked and smoked and smoked and smoked, and she was
as as was proven later. Back in the nineteen seventies, they didn't have
this most information about how the nicotine worked and how you were sucked in and
the various things they put in the tobacco to get you hooked, and it
really did. It hooked my mother lock stock and barrel to the point where
she smoked the last day of her life. She'd gone from weighing about one
hundred and twenty I think twenty five pounds are in that vicinity to weighing eighty
pounds when she died. So that's why I'm not very happy being around smokers.
I don't have any patience for them. I have no tolerance other than
understanding that those if you there are choices depending on your own. My father
smoked for a while when he was at the era, as you said,
everybody smoked. So I remember one day he just stopped. And so that
was and he was in his early forties, I think then, and I
think one of the reasons it is because I saw what it was doing to
my mother. But you know, it's that was an era that's gone by,
thank heavens, and so on the better side of this, the better
motivation is certainly to have you look at the well. Remember when there was
a big anti smoking campaign done. I think when Reagan was president, like
you, old Brunner did a spot with a hed a he had smoked,
and he had a tracheotomy, and he said, if you see this,
if you're watching this, I'm dead right. A lot of people will remember
that. And then there are other people. We were talking about Jack Klugman
yesterday who died because he smoked. He stopped smoking when he became quincy m
e, but it was too late and so late in his life. He
had a trackotomy. And that's how you talk when you got a drakeyotomy.
There's this one commercial on this gentleman who's talking about how he smoking has disrupted
his life, all the things that he has had to go through, and
it was all secondhand smoke. He had never seen a secret in his life.
And then watch the commercial. At the very end of the commercial,
there's a card that goes on and says the date he died. Yep,
there you go. Secondhand smoke. Bro We were all around away. Your
folks didn't smoke, no, nothing, no. But see, well it
was these at my age, and he saw what had happened, and so
they didn't Nobody. Most of the thoughtful people that are my age didn't smoke
because they saw what was going on, or they stopped. Okay, nine
people hurt. Unlicensed teen driver crashed his head on into a school bus.
I'd like to see that as adline. Nine people injured. This guy in
a teenager crashed into a school bus head on crash. This kid was driving
a Honda going in this whatever a Newcastle in New York. That's where it
was. The driver whose identity hasn't been shared because he was only sixteen.
Right, is that I'm not sure I always agree with that, Sometimes yes,
sometimes no. Anyway, all these people that were hurting the bus were
brought to the hospital. They were okay. But it's the image, it's
the idea. It's the fact that this youngster felt, Okay, I don't
have to have a license, I'll just go drive. He didn't know how
to drive, lost control of the car and went head on into the bus.
So anyway, a lot of people are not just young of all ages,
but especially younger people think that, well, it won't happen to me.
It's just going to be really quickly. Nothing's gonna happened, nothing's going
to go wrong. Yeah. Yeah. A cruise passenger is missing after falling
overboard during a trip to Hawaii. Search under way. The passers they're gonna
find is from a Royal Caribbean cruise ship. They'll never find this person.
But the Coast Guard ran out from Honolulu. The ship was the quantum of
the seas. You see that a lot in the ads. Fellow fell off
the ship and adios. What do you do in the middle of the night.
You it was what eleven o'clock or something. You're not gonna find a
guy. A day later, they're still looking for him. You're gonna We're
not gonna find him. He's just gone, long gone, long gone.
So what do you He was on the top deck, fifteen floors up on
this huge boat. One of the passengers on the cruise said that there was
a somber mood after everybody and the ship found out that this guy had fallen
overboard. How do you know, maybe he was pushed overboard. Maybe who
knows what happened to him, unless he was drunken he just went too close
to the side. But most of the cruise ships now have really pretty protective
sighting on him to keep people from doing that, right kind of. I
mean, I've been on a cruise ship where as soon as we got to
port, somebody jumped off because they just couldn't wait to follow jumped off the
ship. Yeah really, because they couldn't they couldn't wait to follow suit to
get to the beach, so they thought it would be funny to dive off,
and the friends videotaped it, and he got pretty hurt. He survived,
He got pretty hurt. And this was out of the country, so
because the ship itself is American, he had to go to court twice.
He had to go to court in the location, and then he had to
do in America. All right, here's the jerk of the day. His
name is Brian Johnson. Wealthy entrepreneur spending millions to reverse the aging process.
And this guy has been accused by his former fiance of leaving her after she
was diagnosed with breast cancer. So here's a guy who's an entrepreneur. He
spent a lot of money to help himself. He gets engaged, gonna get
married. He's a software entrepreneur, forty five years old. He meets Terren
Southern, has a whirlwind romance with her, and then when she has breast
cancer, he dumps her about that right from Venice, California. Engaged to
be married. He said, I'll take care of you financially and medically for
the rest of your life. That's what she claims. At least she found
out soon that this guy's a scumbag. Right, But isn't she suing him
for something because he promised to take care of her and he didn't. Yeah,
isn't there what is the It's not alamie, it's called something else.
Yeah. Yeah, trying to think of the term. Yeah, I don't
think. I can't think of any maybe. Yeah. Palamoni was a big
thing during the eighties especially, So here's this poor woman who's weakened, invulnerable,
and he took advantage of her, had financial control over her. And
some people just can't handle it. When it comes to the in sickness and
in health party, some people think, oh, those are nice words,
but when it actually comes to yeah, not just talking the talk, walking
the walk, they can't do it. No, cannot do it. Former
a parole board chair in Wisconsin, John Tate charged this week with one kind
of private interest in a public contract while working in a public capacity. Apparently
he is he accused of stealing using his capacity as a public official, for
stealing money for his own interests. How often do you see this happening a
public official? That's a Jerry Springer. That's why he lost his mayoral seat
because he used their public money to pay for little Hoochie Coo. So I
guess it happens more than you would like to know about. Man, I
want to know any more about that, I want to move on. Here.
It's forty eight past the hour or thereabouts on the Good Day program,
and so here may I invite you to take a deep, pressive, beautiful
spring day where I am thinking about Arbor Day and appreciate all those trees out
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dot com. Time for us to decide whether it's Miles or memory X.
Is this the real Nick Miles who has joined us from our autoexpert dot com
with a focus on your car and what's going on in the automobile industry.
As you know, I have a friend who has a number of dealerships here
in Massachusetts and New York, and he tells me that things are off about
six percent or so, but nothing serious. People still want to buy new
cars and recent model used cars. That business actually going back up again.
Some of the values came off Nick, as I think we were talking about
four or five six months ago, but now they're going back up again,
especially in the luxury car market, which I find interesting. Although you have
a list here of the top ten best selling luxury cars in our country.
It's an interesting list. Frankly, I find it interesting only because I drive
a car that would be consider a luxury car and it's not on the list.
Maybe because it's too expensive with the remaining enough of them, or whatever
it is. Because I I'm looking these, these don't really look like luxury
cars. They're kind of upscale cars. You want to go through the list,
yeah, we could do that, so they list if you do it
by volume, Tesla Model three and Model wise sell the most, about over
a million. But I don't know if I consider those luxury. In fact,
Tesla like to consider themselves as a luxury brand, but Doug, I
don't know if it's what do you consider a luxury vehicle? And I consider
it something that's luxury where somebody's taken time and energy to craft it nicely.
And the one thing that Tesla have failed to do is craft their vehicles nicely.
When you talk about them put together in the factory, if you look
about the gaps between the panels, they are cheap. Yeah, it's cheap.
Cheap. It feels cheap. When you open the door, you're get
it just feels cheap. Yeah. And then and then there's this second class
of car that I call premium. Yes, they're nice, Accura is really
nice. Yes, Infinities are really nice. But are they luxury? No?
I don't think that. What I think luxury rain drovers, BMW's,
Mercedes, Benz most of them, not all of them, rolls racist that's
luxury. And then there's the defined hyper luxury, which is the bent the
roles. Yeah, maybe this world, there's many different classes of it.
So on this list test to make the number one spot because of volume.
But then in the number two spot is Lexus and the RX is the bread
and butter for that company, which is Yeah. But my friend who's the
dealers said that he had an opportunity. I think he'd take it if the
pressure right, to buy a Alexus dealership. But he thinks the brand is
getting old in stale because the cars all looked the same. And when he
when I thought about it, he's right, what's changed about the looks of
the Lexus in however many years? It's just the same car every year,
isn't it. It's interesting that you say that, because they've worked very hard
at making them very different. And if you miss the first, you know,
generation of the RX next to the latest one, your mouth would drop.
They drive amazingly well like the engineers, they're just they're really amazing.
But then look at the volume the amount of money those dealers generate. Ninety
six thousand for the top selling Lexus RX, how many they sell a year
as opposed to the person that's second on the list, which is BMW with
their X five eighty two thousand and selling, they're selling fourteen thousand more.
That's you know, that's a lot of cars we need through it. But
most of the list is made up of BMW, Mercedes, and Audi.
There is an Accurate in there, which I'm not sure you know. Yeah,
yeah, Accurate is is the luxury end of Honda. So are there
any American I'm looking here? Well, Tesla, I guess is considered an
American car. But other than that, all the ones on the list Japanese
are Germany except for catac catillanc make. But again, you know, America
used to be the country that was well known for luxury. You talk about
some of those early cars in the sixties seventies, they were absolutely flawless luxury.
But I think what we've done is we've again sold out and allowed everybody
to learn our secrets. And other car companies are just making better luxury cars,
at least better cars for Americans to buy. So it's interesting. But
the volume of these cars, I mean, they can make thirty five thousand
dollars profit on one of these luxury cars as a post as opposed to making,
you know, twelve thousand dollars profit on a on a regular car.
So unless ye, there's like three thousand and four thousand bucks he's on,
they get out of a minute ventny on what it is. So yes,
all right, a lot of somebody's making. And the big bull of the
week goes to Ford once again and BMW, and I forget who the other
company is as taking AM radios out of their car. Eighty one million Americans
listen to AM radio, And basically these companies are saying, get lost,
so we will, We'll go buy somebody else's car. Nick Miles, our
autoexpert dot Com is his website. The next Stephan Good Day Download with Doug
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