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the issues, the people, like the Senate passing this foreign aid bill.
We talked yesterday about the House passing it. So now the Senate has passed
it and Biden's going to sign it, So then what's next. This is
help for Ukraine. A lot of people don't want us to do that anymore.
Help for Israel, A lot of people don't want us to do that
anymore. At Taiwan, I don't know that there's anybody. I haven't heard
anybody say no, we shouldn't help. Try one. I think that's where
the most support is. But what does it tell you that the thing passed
in the Senate seventy nine to eighteen, and wasn't the TikTok situation in this
same bill? Yes, yeah, it was by TikTok. See ya audios
mucha Jo's you've had it, sell it or get out one or the other.
It's okay with me. So the urgency depending on who you listen to.
It's kind of like the other stuff, you know, the protests and
things that are going on. It's who you listen to. It causes you
to act, right. I mean, I think that's true. It's not
true just in politics. It's not true just in international relations. It's true
everywhere. For example, your father has a great influence on me, my
thinking and how I do my radio work because he's the radio guru, and
he's inspired me in lots of other people of the years to do their best
and providing them with coaching that is the best. And that's one of the
other things. Do you have a coach? I ask that unilaterally. If
everybody who's listening, who's the person who helps you in your life the most,
it may be you. And that's okay. As a matter of fact,
that's good if you're not necessarily dependent. I'm not dependent on him,
but I am connected because being connected makes sense. I've never thought in the
years that I've been on the radio, which now I'm pretty close to seventy
years sixty, let's do the seventy please, sixty years on the air from
when I was a teenager, and I've had lots of great experiences, different
experiences, like hopefully a lot of you have in your chosen field. What
have you done in terms of staying with the requirements of your job? You
school yourself and people say, well, I drive a truck. What do
I have to school myself on? Well, you score yourself on the latest
techniques. I've taken care of your vehicle of what's going on on the highways,
because there are always different things going on in the highways. Even knowing
where the work is. You can't go anywhere country now, whether it's a
local job, whether it's a statewide job, or whether it's a national job.
There are delays everywhere. There's roadwork everywhere. There's construction everywhere. Wow,
and guess who's paying for most of it? Aha, you and me,
we're doing it. Don't you feel good about that? So yeah,
listen as you're driving around. Here's something else to think about. The auto
insurance rates have gone up month by month twenty two percent more it costs you
to ensure your car, your whatever, mostly cars. Insurance has been affected
by you know, lots of different things in lot, whether it's a house
or whatever it is. But auto insurance rates up almost three percent last month
alone, twenty two percent from a year ago. Premiums going up very regularly
because of inflation. So you know, they say that inflation is cool down,
but the prices are not to a point. Some of these companies,
like most of the other things that have like the cost of an airplane ride.
I'll give you an example, going back and forth to Los Angeles as
I do in the winter time. I'm pretty much done with that now because
we have to get to work on the farm. But the back and forth
is at least twice as expensive as it was a year ago. And what
do they blame that on the cost of fuel? Right? Cost of insurance?
How much at cost? To think about this, Think about how much
you pay, whether it's progressive or whoever it is a local carrier, how
much you pay for insuring your car. And then if you have a boat,
how much it costs you to ensure the boat. Then think about it,
not even just different tiers, but different uses. Like they ask you,
is this your regular car, your vehicle that attract to work every day?
Is this only a week in car? Is this something that miles you
drive? It just sits in your yard because you're waiting to get to fix
Well, guess what, something could happen and tree could still fall on it,
so you still have to ensure. Yeah, if you saw that movie
No Hard Feelings, you see how it is an old buwer gets destroyed during
the course of the movie. It's kind of interesting. It's fun to watch
actually uploom. Anyway, the whole idea of insurance, I was suggesting that
you think about what it costs you to ensure your car or things that you
have, and then think about how much the insurance is on that boat that
crashed into the bridge in Baltimore. How much the insurance was on that a
year. Take a guess, m two point five million, two point six
you're pretty close for you, all right? How much do they get cost
to insure the average airliner American, Delta, United, most of those companies
are they are self insured to a point think seven million a plane, about
a plane plane a year? Yeah, not quite for one plane. For
one plane a year. The average plane that carries a couple of hundred passengers,
like a seven to fifty seven. I take a guess what it costs.
Is it one point eight? No, it's not that well. I
was going to say, it's not that bad. Think about what you pay
for your car. For example, I'm thinking about my cars, my trucks.
My cars are about one thousand bucks a year for insurance. And so
if you take the value of the car, whatever your cars were, but
what they charge you for is not only what your record, your driving record
is, but you know how much does it cost to buy a new car
or to replace a car. And that conversation with my daughter since the wreck
that she was involved in a couple of weeks ago, so their insurance in
California was about twice what mine is here in Massachusetts. And so you look
at all those things. Just take the value. Let's say your car is
worth fifty thousand dollars and you pay one thousand dollars a year. So the
average seven thirty seven these days costs about two hundred and ten million dollars,
and to ensure it every year about four hundred and seventy thousand dollars for each
plane. And then there's the umbrella on the over so you know they're looking
at the cost of the new cars for having sake, average up to forty
seven thousand dollars. That's pretty stiff. The first ever YouTube video that was
put out nineteen years ago was a trip to the Zoo? Why not right?
Listen? It was fun, it was grainy, it looked like somebody
had used a film nineteen twenty nine. But what it lacks in quality it
makes up for in charm or as we say here in New England, in
cham there's on YouTube wind. So YouTube. I was thinking YouTube been along,
been around longer than nineteen years though apparently it hasn't. Is that do
I What am I getting? Or no, it hasn't. And here's something
for your typical do you know or did you know? Do you care?
Fat files? Yeah? Do you remember Janet Jackson's napplegate from the Super Bowl
halftime show? Okay? So just yeah. That essentially is what led to
the creation of YouTube. The creators wanted to find a video. They were
looking for a video of the performance online and they were like, how is
this not online anywhere? Why are there Why is there no like search engine
that just has all of these videos piled together that you can easily find if
you're looking for a video that was aired somewhere here or there. And so
they created YouTube because snipplegate. So I didn't know. I'm just I guess
what the biggest part of this is. I'm surprised that it was only nineteen
years ago. It seems like YouTube has been around, like PayPal and some
of these other things that have only been around last twenty thirty years or so,
like they've been around forever, like Uber yeah, uber, yeah exactly.
So anyway, it's it isn't that way, and so YouTube, I
guess we're celebrating a little bit because of the acknowledgment of the first or one
of the first YouTube videos was called a trip to the Zoo that they just
wanted to be posted. Yeah, and that's also something I guess you can
see it still on YouTube someplace right now. The most watched videos on YouTube
certainly don't anything to do with a zoo, but they are music videos,
right. Taylor Swift and the questions been asked by the way about Taylor's Swift
as to whether she's being out promoted, whether there's too much Taylor Swift?
Can there ever be too much Taylor Swift? The question is being asked,
I mean, is there too much Michael Jackson, Yes, there was too
much Friends Yeah, never too much of the Beatles. No. I think
it just depends who you ask. A fan is not a fan, and
fans are fans. So yeah, some people will say no, the amount
does not exist in other people will be like, yes, I'm tired of
her face, move on right, let's go all right. I don't know
if that's the case with Gwyneth Paltrow. I think most people kind of figure
that she's a pretty interesting character. I find it'd be very interesting. Actually,
Oh, I feel like she is so polarizing. People you love Gwyneth
Paltrow or absolutely hate her. I'm with you. I find her adorable.
I like I find her interesting. Yeah. So she has her children trying
to teach her about things on the internet. She's done this thing called Goop,
which is all over or social media. She doesn't apparently engage too much
in what it takes to get the publicity, but she's also talking her children,
talking to her children about understanding memes. Yeah, she said, what
does that mean? And I'd ask you the same thing. I don't really
know what a meme is, what the meaning of a meme is, What
does this mean? What is it? What does a mean? It's like
online jokes and stuff, and sometimes it's a static image, sometimes it's a
video. But she always has to ask her her kids the meaning of specific
memes, like Okay, so what's the joke of this one? Or what
does this one mean? I don't get it. So I'm right there with
you. I look at this stuff. I don't get it either. I
have to have you or James, as somebody explained to me or my children
explained it to me. And what is really going to be dangerous is when
my grandson Miles or Jasper explains it to me. Now that is the time
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going on, and Willie's this weekend talking to a couple of friends in Los
Angeles about AI and where it's going and what will happen, and you know,
the people that are trying to create a situation where we worry ourselves to
death. But well, I know, I don't even want to repeat the
rumors. You've all heard them probably anyway, So we move ahead. One
of the problems that radio is having in television as well and news is exemplified
by National Public Radio. A lot of people are talking about this. A
lot of folks who listen to this program specifically claim that they also listen to
NPR. A lot of NPR co listening to this program. So I'm not
a big fan. Frankly, I listen because I think the stuff there that's
valuable. But I also don't like the way they run their network because it
takes too much taxpayer money and they aren't efficient at how they use it.
But anyway, there are more and more programs, more and more local stations,
and certainly the national NPR listeners are hearing more sponsors. Sponsors like there
is commercial revenue coming in and so one of the things that they have suffered
from. However, according to a couple of studies, why are people either
giving to NPR or not giving to NPR? And the interesting thing is that
the reason people say that they are not giving to NPR is because there's too
much push for diversity. It's generated a lot of turmoil among the staff at
NPR stations, and it's generally a lot of management as to how to get
more money. And because their stories seem to focus and I understand this.
I think that's part of the Black Lives Matter thing that became difficult. It
has become difficult because there's too much of it and that's the public's reacting.
At first, there was an embracing. I certainly embraced it. I think
it was necessary. It's important to pay attention to a coefficient that gave equal
representation in any kind of a job to whatever the minority is, whether it
was black, Hispanic, whatever. But I think that it's gone too far,
and the people at NPR have found that to be the case too,
because people are stopping. They think it's gone too far there. It's generated
a lack of funding, not an end to the funding, but it's changed
the way that they're trying to do fundraising. So does that showcase how much
racism and prejudice still exists that people won't give them money because they're offended because
it's not majority white people anymore. Well, it's how they present stories that
really is the issue and what they cover. Frankly, But in terms of
what you just said and how to generally apply it, Jay, I don't
think I know where my heart is and where my head is. In terms
of support for everybody and anybody, I think everybody needs to be in the
same pot and considered equally as to their representation. So like if we have
if the population of this country is twelve or fourteen percent black, which apparently
it is. Then I think that the number of people, if you are
going to be specific about this and give them their due, maybe some people
think, well, because there's so much prejudice and they've had a shirt,
they've gotten a short shrift over the years, maybe we give them more.
Okay. So if you agree that it's fourteen percent, and you give twenty
five percent of the work, and any given persuasion or pursuit to give the
jobs to black people twenty five percent as long as they qualified, Okay.
But if you listen to again the story coverage on NPR, or even look
at the television, we all know this. You see the ads. Now
most of the ads that are done for most of the commercial products are being
done by black actors, and there's a big to do. Was quiet for
a while, but it's become more noisy where white actors are getting tired,
are being pushed aside because they don't have the right skin color. So that's
what I mean. You know, I've told you the story about my son
who was a scriptwriter for a long time and got out of the business because
when he went to get a job at a writer's room for a TV show.
He was on the list and it looked like he was certainly qualified.
They wouldn't hire him, and the producer told him, you're not black and
you're not gay. We only want black or gay or both. Isn't that
crazy how everybody has to be put into a box. Yeah. Have a
friend who auditioned for one of the well known singing competition shows and by the
time he auditioned, he made it through the first round. He got to
the second round before things were televised, and they told him we already have
one of you, a perfect even though like he's an amazing singer, but
they were like, we already have one of you, and so you're out.
Man. Can you imagine? Ugh, I bunga all right? Couple
of quick hits here if you will. The second patient to receive a kidney
from a gene edited pig has received the said kidney at New York University's Langone
Health Center. Surgeons performed the transplant after implanting a mechanical heart pump in her
chest to make sure everything was working as they put in because they had to
stop her heart. Apparently that's part of the operation. I didn't get that
from the first time we talked about that. Was it a month or two
ago when the first pig kidney went into a human being was apparently that person
the recipient is still very healthy, but they got to stop your heart,
it would appear in order to stick. Well, yeah, I think I
think the other person only needed the kidney where she needed a heart pump as
well, So for the heart pump part, they had to stop the heart.
Yeah, all right, I need to get to the bottom or I
need to help you get to the bottom of We talked about this in the
food fam and farm thing earlier about the cows and whether or not the bird
flu is going to ruin the milk, and if you're drinking milk, we're
going to get the flu, and all this other nonsense that is complete conjecture
and baloney. So what's happening now is the FEDS are requiring cows transported between
states to be tested for the bird flu. What is supposed to happen?
What always does happen? For example, when I buy cows up in Vermont
to bring into my farm here in Massachusetts, I have they have to have
a health certificate from the state in order to ship them over the state line.
And you know whether you do that or you don't do that. If
you're a good farmer, you know whether a cow is healthy or not healthy,
and you know that's you can tell. But then they test the blood
and they do other things. But this bird flu, which basically has been
around for a couple of years, it's affected. It's from the poop of
geese and other animals of that ilk, and they have salmonella in their poop
and the birds also there are other birds that you know, regular birds that
are transporting this flu. And if the cows eat something that has the feces
of a bird, a bird plops or poop on a cow or something like
that, and then they have a bird flow. The cows are going to
get it, but it's not going to kill them, and it really isn't
going to hurt the milk. Even if you have the flu, who's in
it? Are you going to get the flu? You're not going to die,
But are you going to get the flu? It's not proven yet,
Frankly, it's but as usual when something unusual happens like this, everybody goes
bananas, don't drink any milk. Jay's happy to tell you to go drink
that almond crash milk is icious. Cats, I'm sorry, I misspoke.
Cashew non dairy is delicious. Okay, good for you. All right,
let's see what else here. There's a new and then we're going to talk
about this this week with doctor Ken. I think, uh, the FDAs
have proved an antibiotic to treat urinary infections. If I can pronounce this,
let me try Okay, you any want me to try this. It's pivmicillium,
pivmicillium, pivemicillium, piv maicillium. This has been a drug that's been
used in Europe for a long time, but the FEDS here is that not
FDA not we can't have that here, and we got to test it instead
of whatever. So it's going to be available next year. But mostly it's
for women, not for men. So am I going to ask an indelicate
question here? Yes? I guess I will. What's you know? Urine?
A urine? You're well men's yeah, we have a yeah, function
looks different obvious fure as men do get uti is that, there's no doubt
about that. But also take take notice of this medication needs additional testing.
Medication that has approved in other countries need additional testing before they put it on
the market here. Yet our food or food like products that are very easily
to get here are completely pulled off the shelves. Or we have the same
products with different ingredients. When you like, take one box of cereal here
versus another box of cereal that's the same product, the same maker. Every
thing is the same in the UK, and then you look at the ingredients.
Listen, the ingredients are completely different. Why are they so will and
nelly with our food? But when it comes to medication they are really test
things. Yeah, it's a constituency much anything else. We've been trying for
years. The farmers have been trying for years to get beef that's coming from
Chile in Brazil to be labeled as such because it's not as good as the
American beef. It just isn't. But can you get that done? Ew
the lobbyists that work for those institutions, and that is what surprises me about
this drug stuff, because the lobbyists are really big time, super strong and
effective when it comes to the drug companies. But they obviously can make this
work, which is you bring up the right question, Jay, No question
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lot of things, including a frequent flyer. Yesterday, the Department of Transportation
said it's going to implement stricter passenger right rules, including one that requires all
of the domestic airlines to provide you with cash refunds when the flights are canceled.
You know, they don't. They give you a flight voucher and you
got to use it in a year, and what happens if you don't use
it in the year, You get screwed. So in this case, no
more, I think was this is one of the good You know, there
are a lot of things I can say about this administration that I think are
cool, but I do think this is something that is very very appropriate,
frankly, so good for them. The story from Indiana today about an elementary
school that has become the first there to approve a four day school week.
What are the hours? What are the school hours? They're an extra hour
every day, but they say it will save them lots of money and energy.
The teachers like the idea. Apparently of working four days a week doesn't
change the number of hours that they work. I wonder though, so I
think children need to kind of be occupied, and not that schools should be
responsible for just occupying them, But I do think that I don't know.
It's like the four day work week. I'm not sure that I go for
that either. There are a lot of companies that still now are employing it.
They work ten hours a day and four days a week, and they
have three days off, so it's still working forty hours. And I don't
know. It just maybe it's just on a traditionalist and it doesn't set well
with me. But if it's trying, a lot of people will watch it
carefully to see how it works. That's all where it goes. It starts
next year, next school. Here. A couple of new types of mosquito
nets important tools for fighting malaria as there is more of it around now.
Most all doctors and medical folks thought that malaria was all done, it wasn't
going to be a problem anymore, but that's not the case now. In
Africa and also in any equatorial region where it's hot and wet, mosquitos are
all over the place. They're becoming resistant to a lot of the stuff that
you know you're spray to get rid of them. That happens with lots of
insects. They become immune to it after a while. So anyway, yesterday
in Colorado, the Parks and Wildlife guys rescued a pair of yearling mountain lions
that were trapped in a dam. You watch the video. This is really
pretty amazing stuff. You get right down to it. The animal kingdom,
and how do we get along? How do they get along with us?
And how do we get along with them? How do we survive with them?
How do they survive with us? And so a couple of the parks
guys were on alert and they were able to get They were able to save
the mountain lions, which is important to a lot of people, somebody who
cares. But no, they deserve to be able to live the same as
you do. Frankly, all right, speaking of that, the problem with
bears is getting bigger and bigger. And here's about as dumb a thing as
you can get. The woman named Maura Gallagher, seventy two years old,
vacationing in Romania with a friend of hers. They decided to go for a
drive through the mountains. During the outing, the women came across some brown
bears and they were trying to get photos. Okay, so you know from
here it's going down though of Darwin. Yep, right exactly. So she
puts the window down and this woman, dummy that she is seventy two years
old, tries to take a selfie with the bear. And did you hear
what she said about the situation, because the bear gives so she said,
I thought the bear wanted to be friends. She also said I didn't get
a proper picture, so I wanted to get closer. So anyway, she
get rolled out in a stretcher. She's lucky to have her arm and the
rest of her being. Frankly, this is she was a mummy bear with
a baby. Hello, stupid. Doesn't everybody know that you don't go near
a bear if it has a cub with it? She says, we saw
these bears and they were gorgeous. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're a
numskull. So anyway, it's not lucky. Bear wanted to get into the
car, and well, that'll be an even better photo. Let's nott the
bear into the car, right, and let's eat get eaten by the bear.
That'd be great. They survive so we can make fun of them.
Yeah. Yeah, but but but how are you that clueless? Honestly,
how are you that? How did you make it to seventy two years of
life? Yeah? Thank you? Good heavens the neck Stefan Good Day download
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