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keep it off. As we focus on Thursday, today's the seventh of March.
Have a week under our belts already in the third month of the year
as a weather system coming across the country dumping rain everywhere. Not well,
there's some lot of snow in the northern California. Yeah, it is a
cold rain. Yeah, yeah, what do you have where you are in
Cleveland? What's the situation there? It's actually quite warm here. We have
forty five degrees down by the barn this morning and rain three four inches is
But it's so difficult for those of us who are farmers who want to have
the land, maybe because El Nino often when it creates rain like this early
in the season. The good part of it is that it drives off fairly
early in the season and you have a plantable spring. So your scribes for
that. So what's it doing in Cleveland in the forties. It's definitely cooling
down, but it's doing a bunch of back and forth, back and forth.
So We've had a couple of days where like yesterday it was just really
foggy, and the day before there was this downpour and a little a little
minor storm, not not too much or anything. But then we're going to
be up into the sixties, and then we're going to drop into the fifties
and then the forties, then back up in a few more days to the
fifties. So it is doing a whole bunch of like, you know,
this is the time when everybody gets sick because it's the it's the hot one
day, cold hot one day, cold one day. But I always recall
it in when we lived in Nashville, you basically had to dress in layers
because just like it's thout the entire day, it could be in the forties
when you first woke up, and then all of a sudden it's in the
seventies or the lower eighties, and then it drops back into the fifties by
the time the day is done. The old expression if you don't like the
weather, here, wait minute, that applies to almost every part of the
country. In fact, well, I'll be grateful that you have weather and
air to breathe, and the good stuff breathing is an important commodity, you
know. I've told the story a couple of times about going down and sort
of cracking a couple of ribs and having a tough time with it. Over
the weekend, and I was feeling much better, and last night I went
into this sneezing episode, and if anything, my chest where that problem is
hurts more now than it did when I first had the accident, because something
has either come apart I just strained it, or if it sounds like I'm
having a hard time breathing, because I am having a hard time breathing,
but I can talk and I can think, and so I'm grateful for that.
And with the gratitude I think we all have to have, what's the
expression sometimes you hear in church an attitude of gratitude, But outside in church,
maybe it bestows reverence. It allows you to encounter some of the transcendental
movement. I don't mean transcendental like transcendental in spiritual way, but that's not
a bad thing. But there are moments of awe that change all of us,
and you experience life differently. It may be a scare about something,
maybe you've had some kind of a sickness or disease or something, or you
had an accident or you had something happen. That's the negative. Maybe the
other side of it, the positive is you've had some experience. Your grandmother
left you three hundred thousand dollars or something like that, whatever it can be.
It doesn't even have to be about money. Let's say you find the
long lost relative that you didn't know was still a lobb yor you didn't even
know existed. How would that highlight your day? What would that do for
your week, your month, your year, your life, probably change it.
Right, So, and kind of wonder why you never knew about them?
Right? Yep. Some environmental news to talk about today. The European
Parliament. We all know that the European Union is a powerful weapon against I
don't know that's what they use it for, to try to pierce through or
protect themselves in any number of ways. So yesterday they passed an incredibly strong
bill I guess that'd be the word that I do strong, that actually criminalizes
destruction of what any someone who is an expert on ecosystems or on the environment,
I would say it was an incident, serious incident, degradation of the
environment. So this is the first time this has been done. It's a
the innovative law. It was called quote comparable to ecoside. That's what the
ecoside is, like genocide, except it's the environment that you're ruining, not
you know, humans. But they want to address the the degradation that's going
on. And frankly, I get the fact that we all want to help
habitat, we want to protect species. But what you don't understand is that
they don't know. We don't some people don't. There are a couple of
things going on, changes that happen no matter what. That's number one,
But number two, there are so many people on the planet. One of
the reasons that these ecosystems are being destroyed is to build, is to use
the lumber, for example, to build homes for people that don't have homes,
and other things that are part of having too many people on the planet.
This is not an angle of this discussion that you hear very often.
But excuse me, if you look at the realities of population growth, that's
one of the things you know. There is global warming. You can concede
that things are changing for sure. Why they're changing, how they're changing.
It's an argument that people have and it's become a religion, and I'm not
sure that it's worth all the attention that we pay to it. In the
way that we pay attention to it, nobody's dealing with the real cause.
And the real cause is, yeah, we are, we're degradating the planet,
but that's because we have too many people who are trying to feed and
howse we're trying to help the people who are being born survive, have a
human experience that involves dignity and constructive work and you know all that stuff.
And if you have this many people on the planet, can't really sustain them.
So a lot of people thought that COVID was good because it whittled down
the population. Some people thought that that was the purpose of COVID, and
then you have the conspiracy theorists that think that was the purpose of the vaccine
itself. Yeah, yeah, well, there's there's certainly a lot of that
too conversation going on. But I just thinking about this bill made me think
about what the real reason is. And seven people were hurt in a shootout
at a Septa bus stop in Philadelphia yesterday. Mass shooting again again the victims
are all children, are young people, juveniles in a manner of speaking.
I don't know what their condition is at the moment. That hasn't been caught
up apparently the crossfire. Yeah yeah, so it's not like they were just
randomly targeted. Yeah yeah so. I again, senseless violence and yet another
example of one of the things we can't manage, it would seem, is
guns and things of the means of destruction because there are too many of us
and we can't properly police the people who are here. I think that's one
of the problems, one of the big threads that I often talk about.
But I'm beginning to think that it's more. This is really the reason for
most of the problems. That we have too many people, no good management.
No, you know, we don't have the time, the ability,
the wherewithal to really you know, keep people, to keep things in you
know, is in control the right phrase something along that line. I mean,
there's still a problem of people who have guns that should not have guns,
and you're having this more and more because more and more states are not
requiring permits. Yeah, and look at this in New York City yesterday,
the mayor and the governor announced they're going to put the National Guard and State
Police into the subway system because the writers don't feel safe because they're so dogone
much crime, people being just accosted and theft, and so one thousand New
York City Police officers are now under orders to patrol the subway lines doing security
checks, kind of almost back to the old stop and frisk. This is
the largest transit system in the country. Obviously, there was an attack on
a conductor, and there are a lot of people. There's a lot of
crime, it really is. So is this the way to fix it?
Well, give people something to think about anyway, and then of course the
governor wants to take all the credit, so I take an office. So
we've tried to do all of this. You know, just do your job
and shut up and tired of all these damn I am really the politicians I
was looking at who's trying to get Nicky Haley's her supporters. Donald Trump wants
to get him. Joe Biden wants to get him. I thought Donald Trump
said he doesn't want them. He doesn't hear that. Really, that's kind
of an ego. That's good. I think any politician who doesn't try to
get every vote that he or she can is pretty foolish. So if he
did say that, I didn't I didn't hear him, but he may have
said that. Trump wrote on his truth social platform yesterday he refers to her
as getting trounced and much of her money, he said, came from radical
left Democrat, once again provoking people into being an angry crowd or mob.
He has the ability to do that. Not the greatest orator in the world,
but it's time. But he's never gonna do it because not in his
style. He's not gonna change. He's going to be with the way he
is, which is confusing, irritating, angering, And so here's the chance
where he could really turn the corner and people would say, oh, is
that really Donald? If I'm saying that some good things, some nice things,
but he just can't help himself. As we focus on what's trending social
media and celebrities, gossip things like that, this is not gossip. This
is a fact. The reality that Jim Beard, who was a member of
Steelee Dan, aged sixty three, he has passed away. Wow, this
is not great for any number of reasons. So we'll talk about his life.
Jim Beard, sixty three years of age, has passed away. He
was not only the pianist, but he wrote a lot of the music.
Stee Dan pretty unique sound, don't you think, Jay, that there was
something when you heard STEELYE Dan, No matter what the song was, that's
a good that's a feather in their cap. Because all these groups and individuals,
it's very interesting how they can find with the instrumentation, they have that
unique sound the message, if you will, in their music. So anyway,
he had been with stee Dan for the last fifteen sixteen years, was
one of the people that toured with them. But he's a big published on
yeah right, one hundred different compositions, produced music for a lot of jazz
musicians because Steely Dan really more than anything else, has that jazz sound to
it. Right. You think if nothing else, it's going to be a
sham bandish, yeah right. He did a number of studio albums on his
own. He performed with lots of major orchestras around the country at Lincoln Center
and Detroit Symphony. He's been at it. He went a Grammy for his
contributions as an artist on a song called some Skunk Funk some skunk funk.
You like that, some skunk funk like skunk funk? What are you supposed
would be? I'd like to hear some of that at some point. I
don't know. I've never even as well. It was a disc jockey after
in nineteen seventy four I was doing this, but early on I'm trying to
think of what would be skunk. The category was best Large Jazz Ensemble Album.
So there you go. Yeah, yeah, all right, Well anyway,
really in the years, a big song and so that's just another one
of these. The rock era passing away Jim Beard at sixty three, so
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Have you been following what's going on in Haiti? They haven't caught a
break. It's the country is almost like sinking into the ocean, the stuff
that's going on down there. It's they have no law, no rule of
law. It's like the Wild West, literally and figuratively. And that's why
so many people have gotten out of there, and they're trying to get into
our country. So a serious crisis and gangs. It is over. They
are trying to get the prime minister to step down, is it? They
are on the brink of a civil war? It looks like yep, they
are, yeah, And a lot of it was caused by the weather and
natural disasters and stuff where the country can't come back around, and they've gotten
help from a lot of differ but so corrupt though a lot of these Central
American countries, a lot of the Caribbean countries. It's just corruption is a
way of life, like well, I mean most places. We have plenty
of corruption here in our country, to be sure, but it isn't like
it is in places like we keep talking about Zelensky and Ukraine and how much
money they've wasted that we've said over there because they're very corrupt, and so
most Eastern block outfits, the Russians. Russian government is very corrupted, always
has been so, and there's plenty of corruption to go around, for sure.
It's a part of human nature, it would seem. As I was
thinking about Worldwidelife Day last Sunday, we weren't on the air, so we
didn't get to celebrated. But one of the things that has come in schools
I noticed here locally, some of the local media is highlighting some of the
entries from children. There are children not only from America but tes around the
world. The International Youth Art Contest is going on right now, and they're
they've gotten it down to fifteen semi finalists, and so they're gonna I think
they have to find they're trying to find two winners. And so what they
have this these pictures and the stuff that has been drawn and sculptures, and
there are three thousand different entries from children around the world trying to buy but
bringing at ten. The main reason for this is because animal welfare is I
mean, we know, let's just put it in a perspective that we understand
it. You when you're watching television, you can't help but see these ads
for in most instances they're paid for by the National Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals or some group like that, where us pictures of dogs that
are needing to be adopted. Yeah, O, my god, being yeah,
part of the testing situation. Yeah right, I always give man when
I see any of that stuff. Open up the checkport and centema check.
Yep. All right, let's go to Portland. Help yourself, Yeah right,
help you out right, take what you need. Portland, Oregon has
a new sports bar, the nation's first women's sports bar. How do you
look that for a concept? Is there a women's sports bar where you are
probably not. But there's one opening after the Portland one. Now there's one
opening in Minneapolis for this. Is this so women watch concerned or something?
Yeah, but I never took normal sports bars as men only, as it's
a men's sports bar, a sports bar. Yeah, but most sports bars
are inhabited by men. Don't you think sports bar is it just women only?
Men can't even go in. I'm just I guess some question of what
women difference. I don't think. I don't forget that this is women.
There's the newest bars called the League of their Own, obviously from the from
the movie of the same name, and there was well but it was not
a movie, it was a reality. There really was a league of women.
Yeah. So anyway, there is a larger trend in professional sports.
I would answer it this way, Jay, the female athletes that are surfacing.
There are some great women basketball players, there are some great women soccer
players, there are great women tennis players. You can go to any sport
probably the exception of football, and even some women are playing football. Now,
what was it last week or the week before we talk about this young
woman who was a wrestling It was at high school or college. She wanted
to wrestle, and the coach didn't want her to wrestle, but somehow or
other, she managed to convince people that she would be a good wrestler,
and she beat all the guys I forget. Yeah, yeah, she she
won the national the national championship for the state or not the national champs championship,
I'm sorry, the state championship. Well, she was on the girls
team and she was just beating everybody, and she asked if she could move
to the geist division, and nobody had a problem with it, and then
she beat all of them. I was looking more into these these female sports
bars or women's sports bars. They're going to be playing female sports, yeah
on TV. So it'll it'll all be the female sports. Yeah, so
anybody can go. It's just they will be focusing on women's athletics. All
right. Excuse me if try to catch my breath, the muscles in my
in my chest. I had a sneezing fit last night after having cracked a
couple of ribs, and I'm having a tough time even breathing. If it's
like, all right, so let's not focus on that. Let's talk about
the new credit card rules, the Consumer Protection Bureau has explained some of the
rules requiring major credit card companies to cut their late fees. There have been
people, some of the small business associations have been opposed to this, and
I don't understand why anybody that was a consumer group, which you know,
we're looking out for consumers, hello, not the banks. So the fees,
the typical fees are for late you know payment thirty twenty nine, thirty
thirty two bucks like that. So now they've cut those to eight dollars.
This is I think a good thing. I think there's usury and I don't
usually get in the way of people doing business, but thirty two bucks for
a late fee is ridiculous. You know, maybe a gradual graduating if you're
late twice, then you pay a little more on and YadA, YadA,
YadA. But last year, different rules too. Some of them will give
you a twenty four hour grace period or as long as you put they'll let
you overdraft. But as long as you put that money, give that money
back before the end of the business day or before the end of a twenty
four hour period. Some of them will charge you that late fee per item
taken. Others will just charge by the day. Yep. So last year,
American families paid fourteen billion dollars in late fees. Forty five million people
will charged late fees, some as much as two hundred dollars over the course
of a year. That's a lot of money, and it's one of the
reasons, you know, the airlines all I'll want you to attach to a
credit card. American has City Bank and Barclay's, I think, but Delta
has America one of them. I don't forget which one it is. At
any rate, they all. The pilot that I've become friends with, one
of the pilots that I see often when I'm going back and forth from Boston
to Los Angeles said, it's become the airline business isn't about passengers, about
credit cards. They make they the average, he said to me, the
average profit of a person riding in a seat on a plane is thirty five
dollars a trip. That's it. So whether you pay one hundred dollars,
three hundred dollars, five hundred dollars, whatever it is, the average take
after expenses for the seat is thirty five bucks. And apparently the so you
multiply that out, let's say for if you've got a two hundred passenger plane,
that's two times thirty five is seven thousand bucks. Right, so if
for a trip across the country, they only take in seven thousand bucks or
that's their profit. And yet when you charge things to the credit card that
is assigned to them, there's more profit involved in it for them on each
of the charges. Then it is within what they net for putting you in
the seat. So it's become the airline business become a credit card business.
And that's why you see all of them promoting these credit cards to the extent
that they do. They want you to have a credit card because they're going
to make money on you using the credit card. That's it. I think
that's kind of whether you realize it or not, it's really quite an interesting
way of looking at that business. So anyway, FDA this week has approved
the first over the counter can continuous glucose monitor you have diabetes not taking insulin.
That story we discussed this week with doctor Ken Cronhouse on the Good Day
Health Program, heard on many of these same stations. So you want to
keep up with the latest in research and what Ken's interpretation is, so you
sort of have it in common terms, so you really understand what all this
stuff is there it is right, that's very important for people who have diabetes
for sure. The Secure Act two point zero, rolled out passed by Congress
a couple of years ago, makes it easier for small businesses to offer employees
retirement plans. That goes into effect this week as well, whether or not
the discussion comes up during the State of the Union. The State of the
Union is not just something that the President talks about, but it's pretty much
a week long conversation about where we are. We don't all know kind of
where we are. But anyway, I thought that was kind of good news.
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media news. Sometimes the technology becomes a focus rather than the trending things and
the gossipy things. So the Florida situation as lawmakers take a second shot at
because Dessanta's veto to social media ban for miners, now they've sent him a
new version. Maybe this will withstand his scrutiny. The bill was passed on
a one oh nine to four vote with the everybody pretty much on the same
page. The bill bans social media accounts for children undre fourteen, requires parental
permission fifteen to sixteen years. I think the first one banned for sixteen year
olds, right, so they kicked it down and banned it totally. It's
like, not even just with parental permission or anything like that. It was
banned completely across the board for anyone sixteen and under. This changes it down
fourteen and then fifteen and sixteen year olds can use it with parental permission,
right, Okay, So it'd be interesting to see once it gets past how
many other states follow suit, You know what I mean, because there certainly
is a lot of sympathy for that thinking. I frankly endorse it. But
how are they going to even if this passes and they follow through, how
they actively going to do it? Yes, I mean unless you are telling
people they have to show you a driver's license or some kind of ID,
and at which point adults may even think I'm not comfortable giving you that kind
of information. Yeah, I want to be comfortable scanning my driver's license and
giving it to some social media site who's constantly getting hacked, new hacked,
exactly new, no new, So it needs to be thought through a little
bit better. Still, it would seem here's a new AI smartphone app that
diagnoses ear infections. Wow prevents unnecessary biotic use. Yeah, is a new
application developed by some scientists the University of Pittsburgh that could decrease unnecessary antibiotic use
in children by diagnosing ear infections on a smartphone. Wow. Mm hmm.
The only thing worse? Why don'd you take this for a second day?
I get to deal with his cough? Yeah. Yeah, it's We're seeing
more and more with different illnesses that are becoming antibiotic resistant. And that's because
so often we are just prescribed antibiotics and a lot of times we may not
need them. I know that when there's a bacterial situation, yeah, you
want an antibiotic. But I personally have had someone try to give me antibiotics
when it's a viral situation. I'm like, did you not go to medical
school? I know I didn't go to medical school, and even I know
that you don't treat a viral infection with antibiotics. You need anti viral or
what I grew up with was always the well, it's viral, you just
have to wait for it to pass because usually your body will kick that out
by itself. But with this, with the yes, yeah, but with
this, with a smartphone that can actually diagnose the ear infection and you know
it's an ear infection, so you need the antibiotics rather than it's an ear
irritation, in which that would be an unnecessary use of antibiotics, because sometimes
we do get irritations. I had a tooth issue that I was convinced I
had an ear infection, but it was in my ear was irritated, but
it was solely because of a tooth situation, not the ear, and thank
goodness, I wasn't given antibiotics for it. The body is an interesting,
wonderful, marvelous thing. Everything is connected. The old hip bone connected to
the knee bone, the knee bones connected to this bone and that bone.
Here's one more item of interest when it comes to social media and the tools
we use and artificial intelligence, certainly in that Chinese national arrested in California charged
with stealing confidential trade secrets from Google's AI program. Oh what a surprise,
So I madly from China stealing? So come on, this is you think
this is? And this guy lives in Newark, New Jersey. So he
is a is a US resident. I don't know if he's a citizen or
not, but anyway, he joined Google as a software engineer. And that
was a plant you wonder sometimes as we ask that question, how many people
coming into this country from China are plants? Well like that, there was
a background. Clearly they failed there. Yep. Apparently the neck Stefan Good
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