1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:04,400 The Duck Stephen Good Day Download with Doug and Jay Kirshner is made possible in 2 00:00:04,480 --> 00:00:08,039 part by KELLATRN, which is the safe way for you to lose weight and 3 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:12,599 keep it off, and also by privileging keeping your brain healthy. Time now 4 00:00:12,679 --> 00:00:16,519 for the food farm and family moments. Here on the Good Day Program, 5 00:00:16,719 --> 00:00:22,440 listen to this fun at excitement galore. Does it seem like it's Friday already? 6 00:00:22,519 --> 00:00:24,600 Jay, It seemed like it was just Monday. It seemed like it 7 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:28,199 was last month. It seems like it was last year. And so here 8 00:00:28,239 --> 00:00:35,039 we are on April the twenty eighth, Friday tomorrow the twenty ninth. That's 9 00:00:35,119 --> 00:00:39,079 right, because that's what happens after the twenty eighth. As long as everything's 10 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:43,359 working properly, the inside scoop on what's going on in the world, that's 11 00:00:43,359 --> 00:00:47,240 what you get here on the Good Day Program Dug Steffen with Jay Kirshner. 12 00:00:47,759 --> 00:00:53,039 James Collins is at the controls in our studio in Dallas, so blame him. 13 00:00:53,399 --> 00:00:58,439 Let's see where we have here. Top listener Gripes. I was thinking, 14 00:01:00,119 --> 00:01:04,079 not necessarily very positive, but I was thinking maybe on our social media 15 00:01:04,159 --> 00:01:07,760 Facebook and Instagram and a good Day let's see that's a good day radio to 16 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:14,079 Twitter, it's good day on air. We would ask for gripes and it 17 00:01:14,159 --> 00:01:18,840 might not be just about this program, or is they call from that lady 18 00:01:18,879 --> 00:01:22,079 who is in love with me? And we get I don't know. Their 19 00:01:22,120 --> 00:01:26,079 callers seem to be more active, which is good. We want more activity 20 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:30,680 on the eight five, five, nine, nine nine Dougline so we can 21 00:01:30,719 --> 00:01:34,200 share our thoughts, not only in social media, but on the air as 22 00:01:34,239 --> 00:01:37,079 well. Your thoughts important, whatever they are. What you like, what 23 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:42,640 you don't like, gripes? Why not right? Sometimes we tee off our 24 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:46,239 listeners. I don't like the term pissed off. Do you like that? 25 00:01:46,319 --> 00:01:52,159 I don't like that pissing off about it? I just crude. It's crude. 26 00:01:52,599 --> 00:01:57,120 I think I'd rather say ticked off than pissed off if I just said 27 00:01:57,159 --> 00:02:00,840 that. When I first started a radio sixties out of getting fired anyway, 28 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:07,239 So I don't guess I get fired now because I'm the boss. But I 29 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:12,560 never tell what is going on listener complaints. What can we do? There 30 00:02:12,599 --> 00:02:15,800 are a lot of things we can do to fix stuff that is not that 31 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:19,879 broken. And I don't mean just here, but generally speaking, because there's 32 00:02:19,919 --> 00:02:23,879 been so much focus on AM radio and the fact that three or four or 33 00:02:23,879 --> 00:02:29,719 five or however, many manufacturers want to take the AM band out of the 34 00:02:30,439 --> 00:02:34,479 out of the cars and trucks that they make. Well, it's inconvenient to 35 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:44,240 have. Come on, eighty four million people listen to AM radio. So 36 00:02:44,479 --> 00:02:47,680 what you're gonna piss those people that's pissing? There isn't an excuse me take 37 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:53,280 them off. Yeah, all right, let's find a lot of people that 38 00:02:53,319 --> 00:02:55,439 still don't know that this is even happening. I've had a few conversations. 39 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:00,960 They're like, I mean, just as outrage about it once they learn abo, 40 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:06,240 oh dare they It's not going to do any good when it comes to 41 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:09,680 the sales department. I gotta I gotta know that. So at any rate, 42 00:03:10,159 --> 00:03:16,599 here's the story of a railroad conductor who sprinted off to scoop up a 43 00:03:16,639 --> 00:03:23,560 three year old boy who had wandered onto the third or almost onto the tracks. 44 00:03:23,599 --> 00:03:28,680 And this is an area of New York where the electrified third rail is 45 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:37,240 what powers the trains. Mister William Kennedy, operating a southbound train, the 46 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:42,680 first to spot the boy on the Metro North tracks north of New York. 47 00:03:43,639 --> 00:03:46,840 That would make sense because Metro North would be That was kind of a silliest 48 00:03:46,919 --> 00:03:52,360 namement, right, the redundant the Metro North train is not likely to be 49 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:55,240 going south. But anyway, that's not the story. There was an emergency 50 00:03:55,719 --> 00:04:03,039 radio message quote there's a kid north of you, guys end quote. Right. 51 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:10,360 They released this video of the crew and it shows the northbound train going 52 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:15,759 slowly until the crew actually spots this child, three year old child. What's 53 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:19,800 the child three years old doing by the railroad tracks? The parents the mom 54 00:04:19,879 --> 00:04:24,279 was on a street corner crying because she lost the child got away from her. 55 00:04:24,759 --> 00:04:30,800 And this is a her son is autistic and nonverbal. Really wow, 56 00:04:30,519 --> 00:04:38,240 So congratulations to this fine team, these members of the crew that saved this 57 00:04:38,399 --> 00:04:41,600 kid's life because that's they walk onto the track. They didn't have to be 58 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:45,439 a train coming. You touched that third rail and you are toast t o 59 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:51,439 a sd toast they saved those such heroes. It was the assistant conductor who 60 00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:55,519 jumped off the train, Marcus Higgins, to go rob the boy and cut 61 00:04:55,519 --> 00:05:00,680 her head. Yeah heroes, yep, good stuff, all right, not 62 00:05:00,759 --> 00:05:05,759 so good stuff. Speaking of trains, most of the Metro the metropolitan systems 63 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:11,160 that are run by either the city or the state or the FEDS around the 64 00:05:11,199 --> 00:05:15,839 country are raising fares, some as much as six percent. So you look 65 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:20,800 at that and you just kind of pilot on to all the other the increases 66 00:05:20,839 --> 00:05:28,720 and everything, and you know that life is it's expensive. And so I 67 00:05:28,839 --> 00:05:32,720 was looking at the list of things that are on our charts from Talkers magazine 68 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:36,279 that we'll talk about on the talk radio Review in the talk Radio Countdown show 69 00:05:36,279 --> 00:05:41,639 that you'll hear on many of these same stations over the weekend. You wonder 70 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:46,800 if the debt ceiling discussion is going to help you deal with what your mortgage 71 00:05:46,839 --> 00:05:50,800 costs you, which your car payments cost you. I know, my friend 72 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:56,720 the car dealer told me that business was off about six percent from where it 73 00:05:56,800 --> 00:06:00,360 was last year this time. Not awful, but it does demonstrate how US 74 00:06:00,399 --> 00:06:08,439 growth has slowed. The economy growing at a lower than predicted one point one 75 00:06:08,519 --> 00:06:13,600 percent annualized in the first three months of the year. So that's good news 76 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:17,680 for the people in the FED. People are watching this stuff. That means 77 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:26,600 that what Wall Street said, Wall Street was forecasting at two percent growth and 78 00:06:26,839 --> 00:06:31,879 the number is actually one percent. It was let's see here two point six 79 00:06:31,959 --> 00:06:38,000 percent in the fourth quarter of last year. So all of these things are 80 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:44,600 supposed to happen. Consumers spending, which counts basically for two thirds of gross 81 00:06:44,639 --> 00:06:47,519 domestic product, it held up a matter of fact, went up about three 82 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:55,040 points during the first quarter of this year, offsetting some of the business the 83 00:06:56,240 --> 00:07:00,959 businesses that are borrowing money to keep things going because a lot of them are 84 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:05,160 not doing as well, especially if they're tied to building, building trades, 85 00:07:05,199 --> 00:07:11,439 that sort of thing. But the cars, restaurants, healthcare, that money 86 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:15,040 was there was more money spent there, FYI, in the first quarter than 87 00:07:15,199 --> 00:07:21,079 was the case with pretty much any of the other big any of the other 88 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:27,519 big spending categories. And one of the things that's happening as a result of 89 00:07:27,560 --> 00:07:31,959 the economy, people are buying less clothing. So as a result of that, 90 00:07:32,079 --> 00:07:39,639 the gap is laying off eighteen hundred workers, three times the number of 91 00:07:39,839 --> 00:07:44,639 headquarter jobs it cut last year. They're struggling. Do you buy anything of 92 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:49,240 the gap? J Are you fall into the gap? I like the baby 93 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:55,079 gap stuff for mac Why what's their buddy? They have a lot of really 94 00:07:55,120 --> 00:08:00,959 soft items. I'm a tech shot person, yea, and very sensitive. 95 00:08:01,839 --> 00:08:03,920 I know that sounds selfish, but yeah, yeah, Mac. There are 96 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:11,040 very few stores or brands that Mac wears m and so that's a good place 97 00:08:11,519 --> 00:08:16,600 for you to go. I'm looking at Amazon. What last year, McDonald's 98 00:08:16,839 --> 00:08:22,680 having to lay off a lot of people. Let's see who else. Well, 99 00:08:22,839 --> 00:08:26,399 Gap isn't just a gap because they have other stores, right, Banana 100 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:33,000 Republican, Old Navy among them. Yes, yeah, right, So anyway 101 00:08:33,399 --> 00:08:37,720 they say they're taking the necessary actions to reshape Gap. Most of the stories, 102 00:08:37,720 --> 00:08:39,320 if not all of them, in malls around the country. Right, 103 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:43,600 are there any self standing Gap stores? Are they pretty much all in malls? 104 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:48,320 In malls the outdoor ones that I'm free to name, strip malls kind 105 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:52,840 of things. Yeah, I haven't bought anything. I still have. Well, 106 00:08:52,879 --> 00:08:56,960 there's no news there. I don't. I don't. I don't get 107 00:08:58,039 --> 00:09:01,000 rid of my clothing. I wear it until it wears out. And I 108 00:09:01,080 --> 00:09:05,759 have I can speak to things that I bought a long time ago. A 109 00:09:05,919 --> 00:09:07,120 picture of me. I noticed the other day. My daughter was on the 110 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:16,039 crew in UH when she was in school in England at Oxford in and so 111 00:09:16,279 --> 00:09:18,200 I would go over there for each one of her crews. Sometimes went every 112 00:09:18,240 --> 00:09:22,320 week. If she had a crew race, I'd be over there on the 113 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:26,200 Thames cheering on as a picture of her with my father and I and I 114 00:09:26,279 --> 00:09:31,399 had on a Gap shirt. It was red, white and blue and I 115 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:35,600 still have that shirt. This was right, This would have been in the 116 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:39,000 nineties. Well that shows the quality. Yeah, that's what I was gonna 117 00:09:39,039 --> 00:09:43,159 say. It's not somebody. If Jennifer were here, she teased me about 118 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:48,679 my whatever mine was in. But men don't have to. Men's stuff lasts 119 00:09:48,799 --> 00:09:54,120 longer than women's stuff, right in terms of how the styles I'm talking about 120 00:09:54,159 --> 00:09:56,600 more than I am the quality of the okay, yeah, it's well, 121 00:09:56,679 --> 00:10:01,879 just certain trends, and nowadays it seems there are trends across the board that 122 00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:05,799 are they're fast fashion, and but the classics, no matter what, are 123 00:10:05,879 --> 00:10:11,919 always staying those Definitely, the classics have staying power. But things come back. 124 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:15,200 Do you notice that every twenty years some kind of style comes back. 125 00:10:16,120 --> 00:10:20,720 Yeah, wide Lapel's wide tires of tires, good wide ties. Yeah, 126 00:10:20,799 --> 00:10:24,240 that stuff comes yeah. Right now, I think people are trying to bring 127 00:10:24,279 --> 00:10:28,360 back the ultra low rise jeans. That doesn't look good on anybody. Don't 128 00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:31,000 bring them back. Let them stay dead, right for if you got a 129 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:35,720 fat butt, though, they look better, right, nobody looks good. 130 00:10:35,759 --> 00:10:37,559 It doesn't matter what your body. I need to have more room looks good 131 00:10:37,559 --> 00:10:41,840 and look ultra low rise jeans. All right. I'll remember that Kanye West. 132 00:10:41,919 --> 00:10:46,200 Wasn't he associated with a gap? Maybe that's why they went down because 133 00:10:46,279 --> 00:10:50,759 he had is Didn't he have a clothing line there? I think that or 134 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:54,240 does maybe he still does? Oh, I'm not sure. Well, And 135 00:10:54,480 --> 00:10:58,720 the thing is after these corporate jobs that the layoffs and stuff their shares, 136 00:11:01,639 --> 00:11:09,279 well, maybe that lappen again. Yeah. I was sad yesterday afternoon because 137 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:15,399 when I heard the news that Jerry Springer had died, I started thinking about 138 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:18,159 all the fun that he and I had together when we were working together in 139 00:11:18,679 --> 00:11:24,720 Cincinnati in a world that was it was crazy, but it was a different 140 00:11:24,759 --> 00:11:28,759 kind of crazy, you know what I mean. The Jerry Springer world became 141 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:35,039 crazy, but it wasn't It wasn't crazy crazy anyway. We'll talk about Jerry 142 00:11:35,080 --> 00:11:41,440 Springer passing away. Had a pretty fast moving cancer and took his life at 143 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:46,679 the age of seventy nine yesterday. My Jerry Springer stories are there. They're 144 00:11:46,759 --> 00:11:50,159 replete with a lot of selling as Jerry was during the evening news. After 145 00:11:50,240 --> 00:11:54,960 he got recalled. He was the mayor of Cincinnati, but he used city 146 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:58,080 fund style or prostitute. So that was the end of his political career. 147 00:11:58,399 --> 00:12:01,279 And he did say he wanted to run for governor, but he never did 148 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:07,600 because the trail would have ended that that would have gone away fast. But 149 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:13,360 he then became the anchor of the other major television show of the other television 150 00:12:13,399 --> 00:12:18,480 station in Cincinnati. George Clooney's father, Nick was the anchor on one of 151 00:12:18,480 --> 00:12:22,720 the stations and Jerry was the other one, and it was like a real 152 00:12:22,919 --> 00:12:26,279 There was a contrast as a matter of that. You can imagine they contrast 153 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:28,879 and styled. So, yeah, I did afternoons in Cincinnati for a couple 154 00:12:28,879 --> 00:12:33,799 of years, and I asked Nick Clooney to come beyond the program every Friday, 155 00:12:33,799 --> 00:12:37,960 and he couldn't, so I asked Jerry Springer and then secondly said, 156 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:41,240 yeah, I'll be there. So every Friday we'd go. He would come 157 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:43,000 over at five o'clock and we'd go through what was going on in town. 158 00:12:43,279 --> 00:12:48,279 But the thing that made it real or made it amusing or entertaining, is 159 00:12:48,279 --> 00:12:50,840 that Pete Rose used to follow me on the air on the station from six 160 00:12:50,919 --> 00:12:56,159 to eight, so Pete would come into the studio. He and Springer would 161 00:12:56,159 --> 00:12:58,759 get at it and it was like the beginning of the Jerry Springer TV Show 162 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:01,440 that I didn't have to do anything. I just sat there and watched them. 163 00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:05,600 The two of them listened to him. It was great radio and he 164 00:13:05,679 --> 00:13:09,759 was a very interesting guy. And the fellow who there was a beer hall 165 00:13:09,799 --> 00:13:13,320 that was opening and Cincinnati at the time, and he asked Jerry and I 166 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:18,799 to come be the entertainment the first night. So he and I decided we 167 00:13:18,879 --> 00:13:22,480 do. We'd sing a version of karaoke of Ebony and Ivory, and we 168 00:13:22,639 --> 00:13:26,000 dressed the part. He was Ebony and I was Ivory, and it was 169 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:33,120 what a circus it was anyway, So SATs are the thoughts about Jerry Springing. 170 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:37,080 I'm Greg I'm sixty eight years old. I grew up in Cleveland, 171 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:41,840 Ohio, major in business administration. I do motivational speaking in addition to substitute 172 00:13:41,879 --> 00:13:46,600 teaching. Part of the reasons for my motivational speaking is um I kind of 173 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:50,039 feel like I have a calling or giving back to the younger generation. You 174 00:13:50,080 --> 00:13:52,480 know, the Golden Rule is doing the others you'd help them doing to you. 175 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:56,759 My wife, Wanda, as a senior flight attendants, has been flying 176 00:13:56,799 --> 00:14:00,720 for over thirty years. We do laugh by the bed. I think most 177 00:14:00,759 --> 00:14:03,759 adults will start realizing that they don't recall things as quickly, say used to, 178 00:14:03,879 --> 00:14:09,480 or they don't remember things as vividly as they once did. I've been 179 00:14:09,519 --> 00:14:13,759 taking privilege for about three years now. People say to me periodical, Man, 180 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:18,559 you got a memory like an alpha. It's really really helped me tremendously, 181 00:14:18,879 --> 00:14:24,759 providing healthier brain, better life. Grig Freeley is a paid testimonialist and 182 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:28,039 real privileging user based on the clinical study of subgroups of individuals who were cognitively 183 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:31,440 normal or mildly impaired. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, 184 00:14:31,440 --> 00:14:35,759 cure, or prevent any disease. If you can believe this, many, 185 00:14:35,879 --> 00:14:41,799 if not most, of the colleges, this is a mind blower. We'll 186 00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:46,720 be done with their college courses. College is done in the next week or 187 00:14:46,759 --> 00:14:52,960 ten days. They'll have their testation. What the hell is going on? 188 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:56,879 When do we pay thirty forty fifty sixty thousand dollars a year? The kids 189 00:14:58,440 --> 00:15:01,399 don't start they have all this time off. What are you getting how to 190 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:05,120 going to college? Other than a good time which is fine, but it's 191 00:15:05,159 --> 00:15:09,080 a little expensive. Oh. What I've noticed is whenever the students get out 192 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:11,159 early, it's because they had to start earlier too. Yeah. Well, 193 00:15:11,519 --> 00:15:16,360 any one of my cousins, she's done today. Her parents pick her up 194 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:20,120 from school from college today, and she went back crazy early. I remember 195 00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:22,840 when they had to take her back and I was like, already, well, 196 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:26,519 Megan, my daughter, Megan is a prophet, I'd say prop He 197 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:31,919 was saying, what's a professor at UCLA? And she used to teach through 198 00:15:31,919 --> 00:15:35,360 a four quarters and she used to teach all of them, which meant the 199 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:39,519 fall quarter or the winter quarter, or the spring quarter in the summer quarter. 200 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:43,039 And now she doesn't do the summers because when she first started it was 201 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:48,519 less expensive. But they don't want to pay her to do the summer quarter, 202 00:15:48,559 --> 00:15:50,440 which is okay. She comes to visit here and spends three weeks, 203 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:56,399 and that's fine with me. But I just wonder sometimes about what it is 204 00:15:56,399 --> 00:16:00,519 that comes out of the college experience anyway, So that the arbors and graduation 205 00:16:00,639 --> 00:16:07,519 day applies to this time of year for colleges, and also because today is 206 00:16:07,639 --> 00:16:11,000 National Arbor Day. So this is how my mind works, all right. 207 00:16:11,519 --> 00:16:15,519 If you are into trees, you have a lot of knowledge, perhaps about 208 00:16:15,559 --> 00:16:19,360 the different types of trees. I'm learning. I knew a lot about New 209 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:22,919 England trees. But because of this development that I'm involved in, we're doing 210 00:16:22,960 --> 00:16:27,799 the landscaping now and picking out the trees. We bought four hundred trees to 211 00:16:27,879 --> 00:16:33,039 plant all around the development, and some of them are things we had a 212 00:16:33,039 --> 00:16:34,559 consultant that told us, you know, this is what you should put here 213 00:16:34,679 --> 00:16:40,919 from the garages and wherever else. And we didn't cut down any live tree. 214 00:16:41,480 --> 00:16:45,200 We kept and moved the houses around so that they would be around the 215 00:16:45,240 --> 00:16:49,120 trees. But then there are the traditional is maple trees and oak trees and 216 00:16:51,399 --> 00:16:53,720 is you know, the evergreens. But there are some trees that are around 217 00:16:53,799 --> 00:16:59,120 it are just wild and they're beautiful too. A lot of new kinds of 218 00:16:59,480 --> 00:17:03,519 trees around anyway. So National Harbor Day as the last Friday of April, 219 00:17:04,599 --> 00:17:10,400 and so let's see what we have to I mean, think about this is 220 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:11,799 the best time if you to plant trees, by the way, because they 221 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:17,319 grow fast. They're rooting a lot of people do I have a number of 222 00:17:17,359 --> 00:17:18,839 trees that I need to transplant. This is a good time to do. 223 00:17:18,920 --> 00:17:22,559 But they say, if the ground is soft during the winter, when the 224 00:17:22,559 --> 00:17:26,119 trees are asleep, you can transplant them there and then as well. So 225 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:32,160 what better way to celebrate the day than to plant your own tree? How 226 00:17:32,160 --> 00:17:36,640 about that? What an experience to watch a tree grow and some of them, 227 00:17:37,039 --> 00:17:40,759 some of the like poplars, they grow very quickly, some of the 228 00:17:40,920 --> 00:17:45,519 maples grow very quickly. And then we think about some of the other problems 229 00:17:45,559 --> 00:17:53,839 around around the world, deforestation down in Central America. If we don't have 230 00:17:53,920 --> 00:17:59,079 trees, we don't have oxygen. If we don't have oxygen, we don't 231 00:17:59,079 --> 00:18:04,680 have life can be sustainably done. Yeah, of course, yeah, yeah. 232 00:18:04,759 --> 00:18:08,599 So anyway, this is a word to the wise, is sufficient. 233 00:18:10,440 --> 00:18:15,799 Take a hike and you'll then experience some of the great good that comes from 234 00:18:15,839 --> 00:18:21,039 trees as well, because you'll see it and then again breathing you feel it. 235 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:25,640 So yeah, today is National Arbor Day. Thank you Doug for that 236 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:30,119 information. You're welcome. Here's some other good news. Cigarette smoking is declining 237 00:18:30,160 --> 00:18:34,200 again in our country. The number of adults who smoke dropped to an all 238 00:18:34,279 --> 00:18:38,880 time low according to some of the new data that's been released by the Center 239 00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:42,240 for Disease Control and well what do they call what do I call them? 240 00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:49,559 Center for Disease Confusion. Anyway, the findings show that twenty seven thousand adults 241 00:18:51,599 --> 00:18:56,240 are now one in nine adults. I think it's twenty seven adults twenty seven 242 00:18:56,240 --> 00:19:02,599 thousand adults a month or stopping. Only one nine adults smokes, which is 243 00:19:02,640 --> 00:19:06,440 kind of interesting time. It kind of used to be visualized as something cool 244 00:19:06,519 --> 00:19:11,440 to do, and now it is really most smell, bad breath, yellow 245 00:19:11,519 --> 00:19:19,240 teeth, yuck, young lung diseases, cancer, heart disease. And I 246 00:19:19,279 --> 00:19:23,799 know people get really ticked off at me when I go at it that way, 247 00:19:23,839 --> 00:19:26,920 but most if you've listened to me for a long time, realized that 248 00:19:26,960 --> 00:19:32,799 my antipathy for smokers comes from the fact that my mother died at the age 249 00:19:32,799 --> 00:19:37,440 of fifty because she smoked and smoked and smoked and smoked, and she was 250 00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:42,480 as as was proven later. Back in the nineteen seventies, they didn't have 251 00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:48,000 this most information about how the nicotine worked and how you were sucked in and 252 00:19:48,079 --> 00:19:52,200 the various things they put in the tobacco to get you hooked, and it 253 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:56,759 really did. It hooked my mother lock stock and barrel to the point where 254 00:19:56,759 --> 00:20:02,359 she smoked the last day of her life. She'd gone from weighing about one 255 00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:07,440 hundred and twenty I think twenty five pounds are in that vicinity to weighing eighty 256 00:20:07,440 --> 00:20:14,279 pounds when she died. So that's why I'm not very happy being around smokers. 257 00:20:14,799 --> 00:20:18,359 I don't have any patience for them. I have no tolerance other than 258 00:20:18,519 --> 00:20:23,519 understanding that those if you there are choices depending on your own. My father 259 00:20:23,599 --> 00:20:27,160 smoked for a while when he was at the era, as you said, 260 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:33,519 everybody smoked. So I remember one day he just stopped. And so that 261 00:20:33,640 --> 00:20:36,640 was and he was in his early forties, I think then, and I 262 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:38,480 think one of the reasons it is because I saw what it was doing to 263 00:20:38,559 --> 00:20:44,960 my mother. But you know, it's that was an era that's gone by, 264 00:20:45,279 --> 00:20:51,440 thank heavens, and so on the better side of this, the better 265 00:20:51,759 --> 00:20:56,359 motivation is certainly to have you look at the well. Remember when there was 266 00:20:56,400 --> 00:21:00,000 a big anti smoking campaign done. I think when Reagan was president, like 267 00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:06,079 you, old Brunner did a spot with a hed a he had smoked, 268 00:21:06,079 --> 00:21:07,960 and he had a tracheotomy, and he said, if you see this, 269 00:21:08,319 --> 00:21:11,920 if you're watching this, I'm dead right. A lot of people will remember 270 00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:15,319 that. And then there are other people. We were talking about Jack Klugman 271 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:19,680 yesterday who died because he smoked. He stopped smoking when he became quincy m 272 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:23,720 e, but it was too late and so late in his life. He 273 00:21:23,839 --> 00:21:30,039 had a trackotomy. And that's how you talk when you got a drakeyotomy. 274 00:21:32,079 --> 00:21:38,319 There's this one commercial on this gentleman who's talking about how he smoking has disrupted 275 00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:41,559 his life, all the things that he has had to go through, and 276 00:21:41,599 --> 00:21:44,559 it was all secondhand smoke. He had never seen a secret in his life. 277 00:21:44,559 --> 00:21:47,200 And then watch the commercial. At the very end of the commercial, 278 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:51,480 there's a card that goes on and says the date he died. Yep, 279 00:21:52,079 --> 00:21:55,599 there you go. Secondhand smoke. Bro We were all around away. Your 280 00:21:55,599 --> 00:21:59,599 folks didn't smoke, no, nothing, no. But see, well it 281 00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:03,240 was these at my age, and he saw what had happened, and so 282 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:07,960 they didn't Nobody. Most of the thoughtful people that are my age didn't smoke 283 00:22:07,039 --> 00:22:11,319 because they saw what was going on, or they stopped. Okay, nine 284 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:17,440 people hurt. Unlicensed teen driver crashed his head on into a school bus. 285 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:23,359 I'd like to see that as adline. Nine people injured. This guy in 286 00:22:23,519 --> 00:22:30,720 a teenager crashed into a school bus head on crash. This kid was driving 287 00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:37,039 a Honda going in this whatever a Newcastle in New York. That's where it 288 00:22:37,119 --> 00:22:41,319 was. The driver whose identity hasn't been shared because he was only sixteen. 289 00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:45,160 Right, is that I'm not sure I always agree with that, Sometimes yes, 290 00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:51,039 sometimes no. Anyway, all these people that were hurting the bus were 291 00:22:51,039 --> 00:22:53,359 brought to the hospital. They were okay. But it's the image, it's 292 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:59,200 the idea. It's the fact that this youngster felt, Okay, I don't 293 00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:02,079 have to have a license, I'll just go drive. He didn't know how 294 00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:07,079 to drive, lost control of the car and went head on into the bus. 295 00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:11,680 So anyway, a lot of people are not just young of all ages, 296 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:15,279 but especially younger people think that, well, it won't happen to me. 297 00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:18,759 It's just going to be really quickly. Nothing's gonna happened, nothing's going 298 00:23:18,799 --> 00:23:26,359 to go wrong. Yeah. Yeah. A cruise passenger is missing after falling 299 00:23:26,799 --> 00:23:32,359 overboard during a trip to Hawaii. Search under way. The passers they're gonna 300 00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:34,880 find is from a Royal Caribbean cruise ship. They'll never find this person. 301 00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:40,880 But the Coast Guard ran out from Honolulu. The ship was the quantum of 302 00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:44,559 the seas. You see that a lot in the ads. Fellow fell off 303 00:23:44,559 --> 00:23:49,519 the ship and adios. What do you do in the middle of the night. 304 00:23:49,559 --> 00:23:52,920 You it was what eleven o'clock or something. You're not gonna find a 305 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:56,319 guy. A day later, they're still looking for him. You're gonna We're 306 00:23:56,359 --> 00:24:00,000 not gonna find him. He's just gone, long gone, long gone. 307 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:04,400 So what do you He was on the top deck, fifteen floors up on 308 00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:10,519 this huge boat. One of the passengers on the cruise said that there was 309 00:24:10,559 --> 00:24:15,559 a somber mood after everybody and the ship found out that this guy had fallen 310 00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:18,559 overboard. How do you know, maybe he was pushed overboard. Maybe who 311 00:24:18,599 --> 00:24:22,240 knows what happened to him, unless he was drunken he just went too close 312 00:24:22,279 --> 00:24:26,680 to the side. But most of the cruise ships now have really pretty protective 313 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:30,440 sighting on him to keep people from doing that, right kind of. I 314 00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:33,640 mean, I've been on a cruise ship where as soon as we got to 315 00:24:33,839 --> 00:24:38,440 port, somebody jumped off because they just couldn't wait to follow jumped off the 316 00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:41,720 ship. Yeah really, because they couldn't they couldn't wait to follow suit to 317 00:24:41,799 --> 00:24:45,480 get to the beach, so they thought it would be funny to dive off, 318 00:24:45,519 --> 00:24:48,480 and the friends videotaped it, and he got pretty hurt. He survived, 319 00:24:48,519 --> 00:24:52,200 He got pretty hurt. And this was out of the country, so 320 00:24:52,599 --> 00:24:56,720 because the ship itself is American, he had to go to court twice. 321 00:24:56,960 --> 00:24:59,640 He had to go to court in the location, and then he had to 322 00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:03,839 do in America. All right, here's the jerk of the day. His 323 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:11,920 name is Brian Johnson. Wealthy entrepreneur spending millions to reverse the aging process. 324 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:22,039 And this guy has been accused by his former fiance of leaving her after she 325 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:26,279 was diagnosed with breast cancer. So here's a guy who's an entrepreneur. He 326 00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:34,880 spent a lot of money to help himself. He gets engaged, gonna get 327 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:41,039 married. He's a software entrepreneur, forty five years old. He meets Terren 328 00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:48,400 Southern, has a whirlwind romance with her, and then when she has breast 329 00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:53,839 cancer, he dumps her about that right from Venice, California. Engaged to 330 00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:59,319 be married. He said, I'll take care of you financially and medically for 331 00:25:59,359 --> 00:26:03,079 the rest of your life. That's what she claims. At least she found 332 00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:07,279 out soon that this guy's a scumbag. Right, But isn't she suing him 333 00:26:07,279 --> 00:26:10,680 for something because he promised to take care of her and he didn't. Yeah, 334 00:26:10,759 --> 00:26:14,200 isn't there what is the It's not alamie, it's called something else. 335 00:26:15,559 --> 00:26:17,759 Yeah. Yeah, trying to think of the term. Yeah, I don't 336 00:26:17,759 --> 00:26:21,640 think. I can't think of any maybe. Yeah. Palamoni was a big 337 00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:26,079 thing during the eighties especially, So here's this poor woman who's weakened, invulnerable, 338 00:26:27,240 --> 00:26:33,000 and he took advantage of her, had financial control over her. And 339 00:26:34,079 --> 00:26:37,680 some people just can't handle it. When it comes to the in sickness and 340 00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:40,759 in health party, some people think, oh, those are nice words, 341 00:26:40,839 --> 00:26:44,359 but when it actually comes to yeah, not just talking the talk, walking 342 00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:48,359 the walk, they can't do it. No, cannot do it. Former 343 00:26:48,519 --> 00:26:55,160 a parole board chair in Wisconsin, John Tate charged this week with one kind 344 00:26:55,200 --> 00:27:00,559 of private interest in a public contract while working in a public capacity. 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Time for us to decide whether it's Miles or memory X. 370 00:28:55,160 --> 00:29:00,599 Is this the real Nick Miles who has joined us from our autoexpert dot com 371 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:07,720 with a focus on your car and what's going on in the automobile industry. 372 00:29:07,279 --> 00:29:11,640 As you know, I have a friend who has a number of dealerships here 373 00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:17,359 in Massachusetts and New York, and he tells me that things are off about 374 00:29:17,839 --> 00:29:21,960 six percent or so, but nothing serious. People still want to buy new 375 00:29:22,039 --> 00:29:26,000 cars and recent model used cars. That business actually going back up again. 376 00:29:26,079 --> 00:29:30,160 Some of the values came off Nick, as I think we were talking about 377 00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:33,319 four or five six months ago, but now they're going back up again, 378 00:29:33,039 --> 00:29:38,200 especially in the luxury car market, which I find interesting. Although you have 379 00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:44,680 a list here of the top ten best selling luxury cars in our country. 380 00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:51,359 It's an interesting list. Frankly, I find it interesting only because I drive 381 00:29:51,839 --> 00:29:55,599 a car that would be consider a luxury car and it's not on the list. 382 00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:59,039 Maybe because it's too expensive with the remaining enough of them, or whatever 383 00:29:59,079 --> 00:30:02,759 it is. Because I I'm looking these, these don't really look like luxury 384 00:30:02,839 --> 00:30:07,039 cars. They're kind of upscale cars. You want to go through the list, 385 00:30:07,519 --> 00:30:11,839 yeah, we could do that, so they list if you do it 386 00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:15,160 by volume, Tesla Model three and Model wise sell the most, about over 387 00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:18,839 a million. But I don't know if I consider those luxury. In fact, 388 00:30:18,839 --> 00:30:22,880 Tesla like to consider themselves as a luxury brand, but Doug, I 389 00:30:22,119 --> 00:30:26,559 don't know if it's what do you consider a luxury vehicle? And I consider 390 00:30:26,559 --> 00:30:32,799 it something that's luxury where somebody's taken time and energy to craft it nicely. 391 00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:37,880 And the one thing that Tesla have failed to do is craft their vehicles nicely. 392 00:30:37,119 --> 00:30:40,680 When you talk about them put together in the factory, if you look 393 00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:44,680 about the gaps between the panels, they are cheap. Yeah, it's cheap. 394 00:30:45,319 --> 00:30:48,960 Cheap. It feels cheap. When you open the door, you're get 395 00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:52,559 it just feels cheap. Yeah. And then and then there's this second class 396 00:30:52,599 --> 00:30:56,279 of car that I call premium. Yes, they're nice, Accura is really 397 00:30:56,400 --> 00:31:00,559 nice. Yes, Infinities are really nice. But are they luxury? No? 398 00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:07,000 I don't think that. What I think luxury rain drovers, BMW's, 399 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:11,720 Mercedes, Benz most of them, not all of them, rolls racist that's 400 00:31:11,839 --> 00:31:17,759 luxury. And then there's the defined hyper luxury, which is the bent the 401 00:31:17,839 --> 00:31:22,920 roles. Yeah, maybe this world, there's many different classes of it. 402 00:31:23,039 --> 00:31:26,680 So on this list test to make the number one spot because of volume. 403 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:30,559 But then in the number two spot is Lexus and the RX is the bread 404 00:31:30,559 --> 00:31:36,680 and butter for that company, which is Yeah. But my friend who's the 405 00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:40,640 dealers said that he had an opportunity. I think he'd take it if the 406 00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:45,119 pressure right, to buy a Alexus dealership. But he thinks the brand is 407 00:31:45,119 --> 00:31:48,160 getting old in stale because the cars all looked the same. And when he 408 00:31:48,319 --> 00:31:53,240 when I thought about it, he's right, what's changed about the looks of 409 00:31:53,279 --> 00:31:57,720 the Lexus in however many years? It's just the same car every year, 410 00:31:57,839 --> 00:32:01,920 isn't it. It's interesting that you say that, because they've worked very hard 411 00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:06,799 at making them very different. And if you miss the first, you know, 412 00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:08,759 generation of the RX next to the latest one, your mouth would drop. 413 00:32:08,839 --> 00:32:15,240 They drive amazingly well like the engineers, they're just they're really amazing. 414 00:32:15,519 --> 00:32:20,000 But then look at the volume the amount of money those dealers generate. Ninety 415 00:32:20,079 --> 00:32:25,240 six thousand for the top selling Lexus RX, how many they sell a year 416 00:32:27,039 --> 00:32:30,279 as opposed to the person that's second on the list, which is BMW with 417 00:32:30,359 --> 00:32:34,640 their X five eighty two thousand and selling, they're selling fourteen thousand more. 418 00:32:35,279 --> 00:32:38,559 That's you know, that's a lot of cars we need through it. But 419 00:32:38,759 --> 00:32:43,240 most of the list is made up of BMW, Mercedes, and Audi. 420 00:32:43,319 --> 00:32:46,640 There is an Accurate in there, which I'm not sure you know. Yeah, 421 00:32:46,799 --> 00:32:52,480 yeah, Accurate is is the luxury end of Honda. So are there 422 00:32:52,519 --> 00:32:57,039 any American I'm looking here? Well, Tesla, I guess is considered an 423 00:32:57,039 --> 00:33:01,119 American car. But other than that, all the ones on the list Japanese 424 00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:08,640 are Germany except for catac catillanc make. But again, you know, America 425 00:33:08,799 --> 00:33:13,039 used to be the country that was well known for luxury. You talk about 426 00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:19,039 some of those early cars in the sixties seventies, they were absolutely flawless luxury. 427 00:33:19,319 --> 00:33:22,079 But I think what we've done is we've again sold out and allowed everybody 428 00:33:22,119 --> 00:33:28,279 to learn our secrets. And other car companies are just making better luxury cars, 429 00:33:28,319 --> 00:33:31,640 at least better cars for Americans to buy. So it's interesting. But 430 00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:35,720 the volume of these cars, I mean, they can make thirty five thousand 431 00:33:35,759 --> 00:33:39,119 dollars profit on one of these luxury cars as a post as opposed to making, 432 00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:43,880 you know, twelve thousand dollars profit on a on a regular car. 433 00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:49,160 So unless ye, there's like three thousand and four thousand bucks he's on, 434 00:33:49,279 --> 00:33:52,359 they get out of a minute ventny on what it is. So yes, 435 00:33:52,759 --> 00:33:55,319 all right, a lot of somebody's making. And the big bull of the 436 00:33:55,359 --> 00:34:01,319 week goes to Ford once again and BMW, and I forget who the other 437 00:34:01,359 --> 00:34:07,519 company is as taking AM radios out of their car. Eighty one million Americans 438 00:34:07,599 --> 00:34:10,400 listen to AM radio, And basically these companies are saying, get lost, 439 00:34:10,639 --> 00:34:15,039 so we will, We'll go buy somebody else's car. Nick Miles, our 440 00:34:15,079 --> 00:34:20,599 autoexpert dot Com is his website. The next Stephan Good Day Download with Doug 441 00:34:20,639 --> 00:34:23,840 and Jay Kirshner is made possible in part by Kellatrin which is the safe way 442 00:34:24,159 --> 00:34:29,280 for you to lose weight and keep it off, and also by Privigent keeping 443 00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:30,199 your brain healthy