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James Collins is a blessing most of the time. So it's awesome to
be here in this sort of customized world, being able to talk about what's
going on in the world with some degree of relevance and experience. And there's
probably nothing else that we talked about more this week of interested to see on
Friday what the number one story of the week is. It's got to be
pretty dog on. Close to the eclipse. Yeah, when you think about
all the attention that has been this total solar eclipse exercise that cut across our
country, there was an unexpected. I think that would be the word I'd
use. I've asked you to come up with a word at our social media
sites, a good Day networks the word that I would use in part I've
got a couple of them, but unexpected is a word that we could apply
and it led to among another thing good business for the radio world, because
the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration bought a lot of advertising urging drivers to take
care during the eclipse. There were lots of extra drivers. I think somebody
said that the in terms of the of the millions of people who are out
watching it. Many people were on the road driving and looking they're driving.
This is how dumb some people are. They're driving. Well, hey,
Millie, look out there, and they're driving sixty miles and look at the
Yeah, no, you pull off to the side of the road. But
that was also one of them minute which you wouldn't be able to see that
they couldn't be able to drive class Yeah, exactly. And if you did
suffer some like some kind of damage to your eye by looking at the sun
directly instead of the glasses, you may not even know for a couple of
days. Yeah right, that's right. It burns the retina and you wouldn't
that's nothing. You don't want to play with that. So there were lots
of celebrations though that was people traveling. Yep, there were some folks.
We were talking about this too. The airplanes couldn't keep up with it,
you were saying, when we got the description from James as to what it
was like in Dallas where he was, and then you are north of James
about twelve hundred miles in Cleveland. And yet it only took fifteen twenty minutes
for the path to get to you after it was done in Dallas and Texas.
Yes, Dallas has totality. I believe it started around forty two or
something like that. And then and then in Cleveland totality and that was Central
time, and then totality started about three fourteen eastern four minutes and twenty eight
seconds. As it went along. It actually entered Texas round one thirty one
Central time, and then it get up to you. What'd you say,
one forty one? Is that one forty five there, James? One one
to one forty five around that area. Yeah, so once it came into
Texas, it took eleven twelve minutes for it to get up to where you
are, and then only, as Jay was saying, like less than a
half an hour to get to where she was. And the fans that took
the day off from work, the people who just got all charged up about
this. It is a phenomenon and it does kind of give you something to
think about twenty five hundred miles across our country. Actually from Mexico to Canada,
it was about twenty six hundred and forty miles. The experience, the
sensory experience of what you see, but there was you could hear it kind
of you know, if everything was silent, there was something about the movement
that created noise. I'm not sure what helped to create the noise, but
this is the whole thing. Is the experience, very cool, great thing
to talk about. The one thing that I hope that didn't happen was that
the watching the eclipse damaged your eyes. If in fact, let's dig around
in this for a minute, because this is something this is post eclips and
if you were silly enough to look at the at the event and you didn't
have the proper eye tool, if you will, there are a number of
telltale signs that you will get. If you looked at the solar eclipse and
didn't have the proper glasses on, you'll probably have some kind of eye damage,
or you're certainly you will. You've enabled yourself looking at the sun without
any glasses is damaging, can be very serious when it comes to the retina
your vision in general. There were all kinds of announcements also in the last
week or so from the American Academy of Ophthalmology and as well. Looking at
the sky and at the eclipse was something that so many people did, and
the damage that was done to your vision if you didn't protect your eyes is
something that you may not be able to recover from, so hopefully, hopefully,
hopefully, And if you don't know what the signs are your eye,
you'll be uncomfortable. If you use drops in your eyes, sometimes that can
if there's just a little bit of damage, sometimes that helps. But the
retina is the retina doesn't have any pain nerves. You'll be able to tell
because you can't see right, but it won't hurt. Yeah, you may
want to look for blurred vision, maybe you've got a headache, you may
have sensitivity to light, may be like a blind spot in the middle.
Yeah right, yeah, exactly. So anyway, it's just one of those
things you gotta be careful about it. Here's a crazy story about this woman
who shot was shooting drivers in Florida. God told her because of the eclipse.
So she said, all right, she was God directed to shoot.
This was on Interstate ten, which starts since Saint Augustine, goes across the
top of Florida and all across the country ends actually about two blocks from my
house in Santa Monica at the end of Interstate ten. They weren't as crazy
at the end as they were at the being, or at least this woman,
her name was Teylon Celestine. She was from Georgia. She was one
hundred and fifteen miles from the Alabama border in the Florida Panhandle, heading west
as she fired into a passing car several times, grazed in the arm.
She fired at the second car, hitting the driver in the neck. Troopers
stopped her. She had an AR fifteen, She had an automatic rifle and
a nine millimeter handgun. So she got arrested and was booked into the Cowdy
Jail. But again, was this put woman's out of her mind? What
she doing with a gun? How did she well? And she told hotel
staff on her way out what she was doing, and so they called authorities.
And the question is was this pre meditated? Did she know she was
going to do this ahead of time? Or did she did something happen and
she did this. It just was kind of spontaneous. That will be interesting
to find out. Definitely a mental health crisis, but also wondering if there
were some drugs involved too. And again it was this premeditated or not.
Yeah, crazy people And this kind of stuff is like Luna. Do you
hear you know the word lunatic It comes from the the Spanish word for luna
for the moon is luna luna. And so it does do things, at
least it seems to have an impact on people. Right the moon. It
does the gravity of the moon, the place the moon has in our world.
It does seem to bring out, you know, howling at the moon
like the wolves do. Oh you are the end of all the Dick Wolf
shows on TV, all along Order shows and the FBI shows. It's created
Chicago shows by Wolf Wolf Films. And there's the picture of the wolf and
oh at the end of it. So crazy stuff. So now people are
wondering when the next totally clips will be. Right if you missed out this
because you weren't in the path of it, the folks at NASA have come
back with the next exciting opportunity because the eclipses unique. It is it's exciting
throw a spectacular natural phenomenon that you can see. You know, with the
naked eye, you can see a lot of things. You've got a good
telescope, or you look at some of the pictures on the NASA website from
the web telescope. But thirty one million people were able to experience this thing
one hundred and fifteen hundred and twenty mile path for the day. So the
next solar eclipse to occur in our country will be August twenty third, twenty
forty four, and it's only going to be in three states, Montana,
and the Dakotas. That's it. NASA says. It'll go up across British
Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and then let's see after that. The next
year, August the twelve, twenty forty five, the eclipse will span coast
to coast, covering California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico,
Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama,
Florida, and Georgia. So you get that. People will then ask
also, well, why doesn't it have the same path all the time?
Why is it different doesn't the moon go around the Earth the same way.
No, look at the follow the moon from when it is. You know,
when you see the new moon and you see the full moon, it's
in different places in the sky depending on where we are in the year at
the time. You don't see the moon even though it's a full moon.
It's not a new moon. You just don't see the moon because it's below
the horizon. Or some days it's daytime and you look up in the sky
and you see the moon. Yeah, right, So anyway, but that's
something I was again, I don't know, I found that I got to
find the headline again from the last experience A lot of people in twenty seventeen
experience and it was, you know, animals were affected for sure by all
of this stuff. So anyway, enough more, enough, but it's fun
to talk about it, it really is, all right. So we have
our usual spot here in this hour for social media gossip, kind of celebrity
news. What's trending? A couple of names on the trending list here we
are to pay attention to, starting with Beyonce. I guess this portion,
this particular segment is about country artists and most of the time. When you
think of Beyonce, I don't think of her as a country star. But
she's number one on the Billboard Country album list. She's won Grammys before.
Was hearly enough for this stuff? But on the hot first for a yeah,
into country. She on her Lemonade album, she had a collaboration with
Checks the Checks formerly known as Chicks Daddy Lessons. That was a country a
country song, and she has a Texas girl. She grew up on country.
So it's not when you really think about it, it's not the white
people make so much of a big deal. Well hasn't gone into country yet.
And the big deal is that she's the first black woman to hit number
one on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart. See, I think that's that's
outrageous. I'd be offended if somebody put it that rate. Take it so
long, Yeah, the first black woman. The fact that she's done is
she has with let's see Willie Nelson, Dolly parton Stevie Wonder has been Is
Stevie Wonder on this album or is it I'm looking at some of the names
of people who are on the album. Yes, some people included on the
album. She has a little bit like of a collaborations and things not unlike
what Dolly Parton is doing with her rock album in a way, Yeah,
yeah, yeah, so good. It's good to spread things around. I
think the Chicks, the Dixie Chicks refers to country group, and then they
became sort of an m not an mor but they became a pop group,
right, didn't. They sort of changed their stripe ay down the road.
I'm not sure of it considered that. No. I always think yeah,
I always thought of them as as country. But they did get canceled once
upon a time. They changed. Yeah, they got sort of they got
canceled because of their strong political points of view. One of them said Bush
yeah, yeah, right, So then they came back around and changed their
They kind of changed the actively, if you will. All right, So
that's country group where country had a number one. Number two in the country
news department is singer Morgan Wallen, who's back in the in the Spotlight,
who was arrested in Nashville charged with three counts of three different felonies. This
guy's got to be a little bit loose, and his screw have got to
be a little loose because he kind of keeps he's got a drinking problem.
That's obvious. And so he's in front of a bar. A couple of
police officers were there and watched the ch on the balcony. This was Eric
Church's new bar. And Eric Church is somebody who when he was going through
a lot of these issues and essentially he wasn't he was never canceled, but
he was putting a halfty time out. Eric Church took him under his wing
and it became kind of like tried to be a good influence in his life.
And for Morgan Walling to be on the balcony inside his bar throwing a
chair over onto Broadway is just I mean, it's disrespectful and wrong on any
level. But for that to have been at Eric Church's bar, which just
opened, they had the grand opening over the weekend, that's absurd. Like
he needs he needs some serious help, yeap. And they've been pandering to
him, whether it's Eric Church or others. And he had a problem.
Was it last year or the year before? How long ago was it when
he became Oh he got into issues. Yeah, he was caught on a
camera saying derogatory word. He was the one that got in trouble with sn
L during the shutdown of the pandemic, excusing the N word that kind of
stuff. Yeah, yeah, I think guys, you know whether is is
he a publicity hound or is he just kind of maybe he can't handle success,
maybe he can't handle celebrity. That may be one of the things that
is part of whatever's going on with it. Anyway, not a good day
or a good time for Morgan Wallen or the fans, So it's great business
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go to the did you know and do you care? Facfile Delnane Did you
know? Then? On August twenty sixth, nineteen twenty, Secretary of Secretary
of State Bainbridge Colby certified the nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which would be
giving the women in our country the right to vote, which so many people
still rew the day. Yeah, I know women up at e as they
are. Yeah, yeah, I'm going to ask a lot of the guys
who are becoming fathers this year. So this was a big battle and the
reason that I pay attention to it a number of reasons that the you know,
one of the suffragettes was a lady who was the mother of my second
father, Louise Parker Mayo lived here in Framingham, Massachusetts, in a house
that eventually I lived in for eight years of my life when I was married.
But I grew up in that house because the mother of the well,
the people that were there were my second family, and so this is something
that is close to me. But that's not really the story. The women's
suffrage was changing in the States gradually, begrudgingly gave women the right to vote,
and so if you look back across the history of this, it was
about a ten or twelve year process. The first state to give women the
unrestricted right to vote was Montana in nineteen fourteen. And then a lady who
was a vocal suffragette. I guess suffragette. How would you what would be
the word suffragiste? Je suffragist? Yeah, I guess. She ran for
the House and won a seat in the House, which is a pretty interesting
thing given the fact that it hadn't. Her name was Jeannette Rankin. She
was the first woman congressman before women had the right to vote nationally. I
think this is kind of cool, actually pretty appropriate for a woman at that
time, first woman ever elected to Congress. That it happened before most of
the women in this country had the right to vote. So, but Montana
has always been kind of a quietly progressive state. I've only been in Montana
a couple of times. They call it a great sky country. Big no
big sky, it's big sky country. Beautiful driving across that state. Anyway,
she went into the Senate in let's see here nineteen seventeen. There was
a debate about whether it was appropriate for a woman. This is in the
House of the US House House of Representatives. The men in there had a
debate after she was elected for months as to whether it was appropriate to let
her come, to let her be there. Imagine how long we've come,
how far we've come, and this last what one hundred years? Huh?
So now twenty eight percent of the members of Congress are women. I thought
that was kind of an interesting revelation. Yeah. Anyway, let's see here,
people cashing out of Donald Trump's stock. They only but it's gone up
and down in sideways. It's been kind of an interesting ride so far.
There have been a number of sales, some people cashing out making thirty five
percent of their money depending on when they sold it. Some people losing money
because that's the way the stock market works, you know, and so you
shouldn't be there. It's interesting, though, how much attention that stock got
for the right reason and the wrong reason. You know, that's the way
people are. Some of it's good, some of it's not. Speaking of
up and down, Uber and Lyft I use. I used to use Uber
not a lot, but I use Lyft a lot now because I think they're
better than Uber and they seem to serve me better. I don't use them
around here, use them in Los Angeles pretty much when I'm going back and
forth to the airport and things like that. So the concern in Minneapolis over
a vote in the city council to require that Uber and Lift pay drivers a
higher rate while they're within the city limits. So Uber and lyft both responded
by saying, okay, you can require that, but we're just not going
to serve Minneapolis anymore. We're done. The ordinance takes place the first of
next month, so now the city is wondering whether it did the right thing
or not. The state also could take some action and say that the city
ordinance it doesn't work, doesn't you know you can't do that. So if
you are out there and you're wondering whether you're gonna use Uber and lyft,
I would make I would make other plans on May first unless uh the uh
you know, they pushed this through and the mayor vetoed it and then the
city council overrode the vedo. So they want to pay the drivers at buck
forty a mile excuse me, fifty one cents a minute five dollars a ride,
whichever is greater, excluding tips. I don't know how their formula works,
but it basically they wanted to. They want these drivers to be paid
with the city's minimum wages is fifteen to fifty seven an hour, which makes
sense. I mean, it makes us to get them paid, and also
makes sense for them to say, you know what, then we're just not
going to do what We're not going to offer it here. But okay,
so take a taxi again, Like let's just tak it back to the old
days, back to the taxis. Yep, that's pretty much what the bottom
line is here. And this is, by the way, pretty typical of
most cities. The uber drivers that I use say that I am the typical
rider in Los Angeles. That is that almost forty percent of their rides are
from various locations in Los Angeles County to the airport, which I find very
interesting, and that's about the same thing. It's not quite that percentage,
but there were millions of people every year that use uber and lyft to get
to the airport, and so this would be you know, okay, it's
good for the taxis, and maybe that's the way to look at it.
Maybe that's the way this thing shakes out. You know, Uber and Lyft
have been around, what ten years or so? How long have they been
around? Trying to remember when I first found out, Well, they were
very prominent. I mean you were probably using them in LA before everybody else
sat it. I was using it in LA before. And I remember coming
back home to Cleveland once upon a time and I was like, wait,
I can't get an Uber here. That's right, it's only here. So
it's only like a really big cities before it became more readily available. Right
the city of Austin, Texas threw them out in twenty sixteen or they just
quit because of a finger print based background checks the drivers. Now, see,
I don't see anything wrong with that. I think you need to know
who these drivers. And since that time it has been pretty much been more
stringent right as to how getting into a stranger's personal vehicle. Yeah right,
background, right, yeah, yeah, so it'd be interesting to see where
that goes. All right. The folks at NASA are preparing to launch a
gas station, huh. Scientists working for NASA are putting together plans to put
a gas well, basically get fuel station into space to provide a refueling opportunity
for ships that need to be refueled on missions to the Moon. This is
a company in San Antonio, Texas working with NASA building and testing a small
demonstration spacecraft. At the moment, it's a twenty five million dollar space mobility
and logistics project funded by US and NASA. We want to The idea behind
this is to preserve our space superiority. So the prime contractor is building a
spacecraft called the Astroscale Prototype Servicer for refueling. Okay, I love these names,
don't you. And they it is not. It doesn't have gasoline.
It has a propellant that you used obviously for spacecraft. And if this spacecraft
happens to be, you know, out there charging around and running low on
fuel, pulls up to the station, right, the guy puts on his
uniform, gets out and fills up the I'm not sure that's how it works.
I'm just being paid. Yeah, right, exactly. Can I change
your oil buddy anyway. So, actually, what they're doing with this stuff
is to get using some sort of re using some of the stuff that's already
out there in orbit, some of the spacecraft that's out there, and it'll
be I think it's a good idea. Actually, somebody's pretty great. Why
didn't somebody think about this before, I guess is the question. So it's
gonna take them. They figure about sixteen months to make this thing and it'll
be launched. And thing only weighs four hundred and thirty seven pounds, which
I find very interesting. I would not expect that. Yeah, no,
I wouldn't either. No kind of interesting. Okay, the couple of things
that are kind of interesting and that they don't end well as a result of
the eclipse. Some guy actually this was a doctor who was on his way
to see the solar eclipse. He was in somebody who's driving the vehicle in
front. He was in one of those airstream. Oh, the pediatrician.
Guess she was in her Yeah, she was in her family's airstream and the
door came open, so she was trying to get it shut. She was
thrown from the airstream. Yeah yeah. Her husband was driving the pickup truck
that it was carrying the airstream and they were on their way to see the
solar eclipse. And here's another story about an elderly American killed. This is
a tourist in Zambia who was killed in an elephant attack. This is a
fellow. This was an aggressive bull elephant actually attacked the vehicle. It was
on a game drive Safari, and so this is I don't know, I
haven't seen something like this happened for quite a long time. The bull elephant
charging the vehicle. There were six people in it. They were just on
a normal game drive. They do these things every day of Safari. Woman
eighty years old was injured and then she later died. Four other people were
hurt in this thing. So it is dangerous when you go out on these
things. You never know what you're going to do. Who died. This
was her last big thing that she wanted to do before in life. Yeah
right, well she did it and then she died. I guess maybe that's
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interesting story here. Social media, the technology of social media. You can
always reach us with the various questions and pull questions, the things that we
ask you respond on all our social media at good Day Networks. Now,
here's a group of lawmakers and this is one in a million, right,
bipartisanshipy there's new legislation yep that would set the first ever national standard for data
privacy. This is certainly as most of us here in America are concerned about
the way social media platforms and other companies are using the information they glean from
us. The cookies. You know, you have to sign and accept all
that stuff you want to use the site, which is like signing your life
away. It's pretty damned outrageous, frankly that they can get away with that.
Maybe this bill will change that how social media companies, online search engines
use your data so you can have more control. That's what the American Privacy
Rights Act is all about. It sets standards for how the companies like Meta
TikTok, God damn excuse me those I'm so sick of reading about them.
And what they're all about. All right, anyway, all use the same
practices, They all use the same the same technology to gather data. They
all use it the exact same They violate your privacy, that's what they do.
And you allow them to do that. They're telling you that that that's
what they're going to do. When you accept that they're saying we use cookies,
that means that they're going to be spying on you in essence. So
anyway, this bill comes from the chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, Maria
Cantwell of Washington, and the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee,
a fellow named Morris. I think mc morris Rodgers. He's from repub they're
both Republicans. I mean they're both from Washington's Republican and the other's Democrat.
First significant step toward the regulating of data privacy. This is something that we
all should be concerned about. We all deserve the right to control our data.
And hopefully the House and the Senate will see this and they'll report it
out. There's a study jay from the Pew Research Center found that seventy seven
percent of Americans don't have any trust in the leaders of social media companies.
I'm surprised it's that small. I would say that none of them are trustworthy,
and there should be hundred percent people in this country that don't trust him.
But the younger people are oblivious to all of this. Really, and
I say that without hesitation, this is an age thing among many other education
but an age thing. Younger kids that are all over TikTok. They don't
know. They don't give it damn about the Chinese governments buying on them.
They just oh, this is fun, let's do more of this. So
anyway, all right, here's the story of a judge in Buffalo allowing the
lawsuit against YouTube and redditch. Going back to twenty twenty two, the top
supermarket shooting in Buffalo. There's a lawsuit moving forward filed by survivors. It's
kind of like the Alex Jones thing that was the same kind of a trial.
The survivors of the shooting. Family member of a victim claims that the
two social media were instrumental in preparing the shooter to commit his crime. His
attack. Ten people were killed, all of them black, in what was
described as a racially motivated mass shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo shook. I
remember how wow, you know, the white supremacist involved in this thing.
The shooters planned to attack the supermarket. He said that he was he's anti
Semitic, basically a radical racist. And that's and all that stuff was cultivated
he said on the internet. Yeah, so the dangerous, you know,
choices that he made were because he was addicted to the social media places and
watch Yeah, the algrarithms helped radicalize the shooter. Yeah, so let's see
how that lawsuit shakes. That would be interesting to watch that. The next
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