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lots of Halloween stuff. I went to a friend's house yesterday afternoon for a
meeting, and all of the children and grandchildren were there. There must have
been a dozen of them running around, and they all had pumpkins that they'd
carved. The sons of my well, they're all my friends. But one
of the kids wanted to take me outside and show me which one was his,
and then he couldn't tell which one it was his. He got well
chopped up and carved up and whatever. But it's kind of a cute way.
Yeah, nothing wrong with that. What there is something wrong with is
the fact that we're already being inundated with Christmas advertising. So it's the ho
holiday season and with that in mind, the Christmas focus already, I hear
they are going to be stations that are right after Halloween going to be converting
to Christmas music. And those stations turn out to be if we're if you
look back over the most recent years, those stations tend to be the ones
that get the most listenership other than the talk stations, especially with this stuff
going on like there is right now. Everybody's talking about what's going on the
at least and the passing of Matthew Matthew Perry. Matthew Perry. So anyway,
Christmas music and Christmas ads, it seems like very inappropriate at this point.
Let's stick with Halloween's larger spending money billions of dollars to spend every year
on Halloween stuff, including a Halloween joke book which I picked up yesterday,
and I thought that you can sort of succumb to the All right, here's
the first question. You're ready ready, Why wouldn't the monster eat the clown?
I don't know. Why wouldn't the monster eat the clown? That's kind
of a whimpy response. Come on, you cow about something? I know
my mind's blank on that. What's the answer? He tasted funny. Never
would have came up with that one. What's a witch's favorite subject? Oh,
James, you can jump in on this stuff as well if you want.
I don't know. I feel like I'm failing here. No, think's
geometry. Why I don't know. Why not spelling? Oh? What do
sea monsters eat for dinner? It's just going straight blake fish and ships ships
fish? Oh and ships ships? Gotcha? Hey, that one's cute.
My last one? Why did the girl put Halloween candy under her pillow?
Because she wanted to have sweet dreams? Good for your No, they didn't
nail at So where are the most haunted states? The spooky stuff? I'm
probably the most haunted because the Salem witch hunts and all the stuff that goes
on at Salem. I know the former mayor of Salem who's now the lieutenant
governor Massachusetts, was telling me that it is. She was mayor up there,
I think for thirteen or fourteen years, and it was this time of
year you cannot move in that town. People come. They want to see
where the witches were burned at the steak. They want to get the field
to see if there's some spooky stuff still around, haunted houses up there,
gal or they make a whole Some people make a whole career out of Halloween
and the stores, sheer number of locations and that kind of stuff. Now,
before Salem there was which trials in Hartford, Connecticut. Do they have
kind of the same turnout as Salem does? Or is Salem really only Wow?
But there are other places around the country where things like in California and
Utah they have haunted houses galore. California ranked first in the number of spirit
Halloween stores. They had one hundred and seventy two at the beginning Good Heavens.
They also have the most haunted locations. Do you know what the number
one location is that people want to see in California on Halloween? California,
I feel like it's the abandoned prisons that are always big ones. It was
Alcatraz. Alcatraz two million search results, right, and then there's an utube
those are you listening? In Utah, you've got Union Station and there are
lots of people looking for stuff about unions. I don't know, I've never
been to well, yes, I think I have driven by Union Station Salt
Lake anyways, So Alaska also has some scary spots. Apparently New Hampshire has
Marshfield, Wisconsin. They have the hospital with the Spirit of a Man in
a black robe, supposedly inhabits Oo. I know a lot of these places,
like some of the abandoned hospitals or abandoned and shut down at prisons.
They will do Halloween time things where they'll do tours year round, but on
some of the Halloween stuff they actually do like ghost hunting or sleepovers. And
I would like to take a tour, but I don't. I don't.
There will be no sleeping if I'm ever there. No. But you like
that scary stuff, yeah, but not like not that in depth, like
I would like to tour someplace, but when it's the whole, like the
overnight thing, and you know, at the three am witching hour, Like
I don't want to be in a haunted location at three am. I just
don't. I'm not that into it. That's a little saly for me.
Movie theaters galore, the whole the business about what's playing at the theater,
but more on television or on the streaming service is good, Evans. You
click around yesterday and there were the stuff everywhere. Every channel, one of
the streaming channels has some horrible, gory Halloween movie or something like that.
I don't know. People like that stuff, but not me. I'm Doug
Stephan along with Jay Kirshner taking a trip over to the Middle East Biden,
the president of our country, says that Net and Yahoo and others have to
consider a two state solution after this current situation subsides that has always been mission
impossible. They could never get these people together because they're both hard liners or
both sides take a hard line. This has been going on for three weeks.
The Israeli Hamas or is what it's being called, and it could be
long and difficult. So some say the situation is so uncomfortable. My friend
Arie Geller, who's there, was recounting being outside and seeing the missiles go
over. I think he's told us that on more than one occasion. Frankly,
yes, yeah. And then the I'm blinking on the name not the
Iron grid, the what is it? The defense Liron dome jon do Yeah,
right, yep. So what is For those of you who don't know
or haven't heard of the two states solution? This is a circumstance in which
Israel coexists with an independent Palestinian state. That the reason it's eluded all of
us, all of since the beginning is because it's not good for business.
Unless Hamas is gone, a mass will continue to stir the pot because the
money that goes in aids supposedly to Palestinians doesn't ever get to them. It
gets to Hamas. And that's why Arafat, who was the original leonol Hegethin
was the second guy in charge of Hamas, died with a five billion dollar
bank account because the money was filled. And that's why they stir this stuff
up. It's all in their own self interest. Does it does it or
could it spiral into a broader regional conflict. The Iranians are trying to be
there like a bug on your butt, but they're they're they're behind the scenes
stirring the pot here because that's good for them. But this is not the
answer they think anyway, not good in the end if they don't mind their
own p's and q's, because we won't, we don't have necessarily mess with
them. Although I think we bombed some places in Syria over the weekend if
I remember reading that, and then you know, because there were some things
that are either in the works, there had been some missiles had been launched
from there. So the Middle East is a tinder box. There's nothing unusual
about that. Frankly, the President of Egypt and President Biden talked about this
was interesting. I was watching Bill Maher, Mar Mayor and Mar m A.
H. T R. On Friday, as I try to do,
because I appreciate his points of view. Frankly, these days not the same
as they used to be, and all he's fairly complementary toward the Biden administration.
He thinks that Biden needs to go away. He thinks Trump needs to
go away. The situation with who comes along? What's the guy's named Phillips,
who's running against Biden? Phillips? Yeah, right, so he got
some time and some thought. It's just this. We keep going around and
around the circles here and I'm not sure what's the old expression where we stop?
Nobody knows. Yeah, that's accurate, right now, yeah, right.
Palestinians have always said they wanted statehood. But then how there is an
outfit called a Muslim advocacy organization, and that is a group that exists here
and in other countries. It's trying to find a way to have something.
Palestine was a state that exist before Israel became a state. And I've given
you some of my thoughts over the last week or so as to how that
all came apart. I came together. There's a lot of frustration here because
there are a lot of people who don't think that Israel should have our full
support. A lot of people. It's actually if you listen to both sides
in this credibility, it's hard to know what to believe. That's really,
you know, when it gets the bottom line here, this is not an
easy thing. It's about us supporting Israel, not for the reasons of humanity,
but for the reasons I explained last week, because it's a military stronghold
for us, and you know, we need to be there. So I
think that that's as part of anyway, the conditions are deteriorating, that's for
sure, a long way from a cease fire, it would seem, and
so we stand in quicksand I think much anything else in the media spread across
the country, this guy was someone that has had a very strong influence because
of his role in Friends, that has had a very strong cultural impact since
it began in the nineteen nineties and still does today. Yeah, the Master
Perry's Chandler is still quoted regularly in different clips used as memes shared on social
media. It's every single character was iconic. Yep, Well, he so
not only did they make a million bucks an episode, none of these people
that were part of the show ever had to work again in their lives because
of the success of the or the resurgence, if you will have interested.
I don't know if it ever went away, but no editation rights and the
amount of money that they made. They made twenty million bucks a year,
all of them. So anyway, that's not the most most important thing.
Most important thing is to use this as a warning what happens when you get
hooked on drugs, certain drugs. His stomach literally exploded and he almost died.
They were able to like a to oh his coal and the opiated addition.
Yeah, yeah, how many years ago, And that's the real kicker.
He had found sobriety and he was sober for I want to say two
or three years. But of course they're doing the autopsy and everything. But
some of the things that are circulating are a cardiac incident. And he was
playing pickled ball earlier, went to the hot tub, and you're not really
supposed to go in the hottubb for twenty four to forty eight hours after exercising
because you need to let your heart rate drop back down and it's one of
those things that will see what happened, but it's just so heartbreaking. It
is absolutely devastating. Well again, is it not. He had been in
and out of these problems because of what he allowed himself to do. And
the thing that seems more apparent than anything is that people who work with him,
people who were around him, loved the guy. They thought he was
fabulous. So anyway, certainly a lot to talk today about the passing of
Matthew Perry at the age of fifty four. I'm Greg I'm sixty eight years
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All Hallows Eve and so we're marking the change in seasons kind of. This
is for me, what really brings us into the Halloween? Well, the
Halloween mode brings us into Thanksgiving mode, which brings us into the Christmas mode,
which brings us into the New Year's mode, which brings us into Valentine's
Day and before you know it, it's springtime again. Hooray. The changing
of seasons and the meteorological parameters, how do you like that for a phrase?
They are based on the weather, the astronomical signs that we have that
uh, pointing to really interesting things in the sky. There's the moon has
been full over the weekend, as I'm sure you all saw a big,
bright, beautiful moon and there's a star just below it, and I don't
know what it is. Sometimes you see Mercury, or you see Mars,
or you can see some of the other planets in our solar system. Does
anybody know what that? Which planet? It is? Ve Venus right now?
Yeah? Okay, whatever it is, isn't it different places? But
we've all seen that same thing, yep, right, I love it.
Ye when the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's a
more so you're obviously, and that's the love mode. Jennifer Jennifer Horne,
j Kirshner, Doug Stephan. Today is Random Acts of Kindness Day, and
I'm thinking about the ways you can bring light and positivity to folks that you
know. Just one gesture as a friend of mine who reminded me of that,
he's said, you're on the radio talk about this, So I decided
he was right in talking about how it relates to your family, to your
friends. Is there a way that today you can surprise somebody you know with
just a small treat, just a little something, or maybe you wait till
it's your half birthday. Actually, when is my birthday? Is a week
from today? Isn't that? Where's my birthday coming on? We changed oots
Sunday. Yeah, so I would think that a random act of kindness for
me would be to turn the clock back a year instead of pushing it ahead.
Just go backwards? Why not? But I mean, seriously, think
about if you've got some friends who are new parents, bring them a meal,
right, take care of the other children are home that they have them.
There are a lot of things like what I do when I go to
California is I both my children take a night. I'll take one night with
Miles and another night now with Jasper. That's nothing but fun for me,
and they like it and so they So you can go out. That's something
to do. I know, all kinds of things you can do. Write
a letter of encouragement to somebody who's having a difficult time, what a great
way to support. Maybe give some flowers to the local nursing home, something
like that. These things don't cost a lot. If there's a snowstorm,
shovel out your neighbor's driveway if the person who lives there is too old to
do it on his or her own, right, Yeah, that's great.
Break some leaves. It's that time of year, or as being at a
grocery store and you're walking in and you see somebody just unloaded their their groceries.
Maybe they have some children with them. Take their cart back in for
them. You're already heading that way. Yeah, Donating blood is a good
thing to do as a random act of kindness. Volunteer if you are bilingual
to be a translator for some community group, that's also a good thing to
do. Bring extra produce from your garden. This is what I do all
a year long. I don't necessarily bring it to the Senior Center, which
you can do that, but there's always going to be need for good food
no matter what. Helping out at the animals shelter, God, there's certainly
is need for that, no question about that. And let's say at work,
you have a new colleague it seems to me a little bit lost.
How about helping that person out see how they're doing right? And then you
know, there's also things. If you hear good things about a co worker,
tell them, hey, Fred said this, you're really good at this
whatever it is. Yeah, healthy snacks for Halloween, who's doing that,
Jennifer. When people come to your house, what do you give them healthy
snacks for Halloween? Now? Come on, I don't know when people come
to my house like a our couterie board? What's that? Are you talking
about trigger treaters? Yeah? Oh, they're getting candy for crying out loud?
Come on, well, but do you is that it? Do you
give them something else besides candy? What else would I give them? Oh?
I could give them money for UNICEF. No, no, we won't
get them money because we'd go broke. We don't get to give them money.
We're not going to be the creep that gives the popcorn balls. We're
not going to be the creep that gives a toothbrush. We're just going to
give out a plain old candy toothbruck. People actually give toothbrushes for news that
the prepackaged ones. Yeah, really, huh? I get a bunch of
them. I get on the airplane in the in the little packet that we
get. Maybe bet I have twenty five of them. But nobody comes to
my house anyway. Nobody comes to my house as I basically close the doors
of the lights off. So why would anybody, Well, then yeah,
you give the hint. That's one of those things. If you see the
lights are off, do not do not go up there. They're not going
to give a candy seal. There's also that seal pumpkin project where you have
a teal pumpkin outside and it lets people know that you, Well, you
may have some snacks and treats and candy, you also have non food treats
for anybody who may be interested in that. Maybe somebody has young children or
somebody who has certain food allergies. Uh, really like a little lot of
small toy things. We're not a restaurant if you can't come and get you
your snicker bar. I'm looking at my Halloween bucket right now because I got
it ready this weekend and we've got all kinds of good stuff in here.
Thank goodness for the big box stores because they really give you a nice mix
of things. So, so what I'll do this weekend. We didn't have
tennts last weekend when I was there. This weekend, maybe I'll let you
take me out for breakfast and oh for your birthday so I can bring you
some leftover candy. All right, yeah, sure, why not? Yay?
So the research discovery of the day. You ready for this? Ready?
The researchers at the Harvard what do they call it, the primate the
Primate Laboratory, have found that chimps go through menopause. Okay, okay,
what do we do with that information? I just thought maybe you'd be interested
in knowing that. I would think any mammal that has a mental cycle wouldn't
dogs too. I don't know about that. I don't know. I'm you're
asking somebody that'd be something. Let's ask Warren that when he's with us.
All right, let's yeah, let's do that when Warren is here. So
I think there's there's a good question there. The pharmaceutical world is in a
quandary because apparently the people who work and this is not the first time we've
talked about this at Walgreen CBS, the big, super big drug companies are
ready to go on strike because they don't get paid enough. They're getting tired
of working and taking abuse from people. So a number of them over the
weekend walked off their jobs and they it could spread and apparently it's not about
pay, which I find very interesting. You know, most of the time
people go on strike because they want more pay right and so the and these
most of these companies, excuse me, companies are non union. So these
wildcat strikes that have been taking place, if you had any in California or
in Ohio, We've had them around here in Massachusetts. If you had them
in either Ohio or California, ladies, not that I've seen. Yeah,
nothely aware of. Well, Walgreens, CBS, right Aid this week and
next week, the pharmacies, even though they acknowledge not to have a union,
apparently they're very closely connected. There are associations of Walmart workers and and
right Aid workers, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. They're asking
the owners to hire more staff so the workloads are less overwhelming. They want
better working conditions basically, and that doesn't necessarily include getting paid more. They
want on the job safety to be more of a priority, which is very
interesting. What would be an issue that would is the drug stuff and what's
going on in the drug stores. Is there dust from drugs that have been
spilled on the floor or something, But you wonder what does that mean.
They're all worried about workplace safety. That sounds kind of weird. To me,
Well, if there are some hazards mold growing in areas, or even
just security threats of people coming in. How many drug stores you think there
are these big drug stores in the country. Take a guess how many drug
stores? Oh? Tons, yep, seven point very good jack, No.
Four four hundred eighty two pharmacies. I thought that was a big number
rank when you think about it as a CBS and Walgreens on every corner.
Four four hundred eighty two at the moment. The more though, I'm telling
you, that's what the stats that I'm looking at show, and seventy five
percent of the workers and these say they're unsatisfied with the working conditions. So
was that that I don't know. It just seems to be indicative of any
number of things. I don't like them, but I haven't. I go
to a little drug store in my community as two branches, and that's it.
They know who I am, They know, you know, what is
important. I don't even need you know. It's not for drugs that I
go there, but I guess, you know, sometimes they go on and
get some vitamins in there and that kind of stuff. Because I like the
guy that runs the store. And he's always telling me what's good for me
and what's not good for me. It's kind of like working with the two
of you, always telling you what's your business. Yeah, Jennifer, Jay
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things, gossip and that sort of technology. To to an extent, thought
it was interesting the Supreme Court has gone into the social media reality free speech
and the focus there, just as Kagan drew laughter a few months ago,
and she remarked that she and her eight colleagues are not the nine greatest experts
on the Internet. That hasn't stopped them, however, from taking on a
new series of cases on the role of social media in our society. All
of them raised different free speech questions, and depending on where they go,
they could certainly have broad repercussions. Cases on the docket reflect how social media
has become a contentious battleground. I think that's an understatement. Frankly, collectively,
they're likely to have quite a dramatic effect on the digital public sphere,
said one of the first Amendment lawyers that's practicing before the Supreme Court. So
if they decide what cases to take up or they will, the debate even
around free speech things it's become a joke on social media because there is no
freedom of speech, certainly on Facebook or any of the meta places. And
I don't know. I guess X is okay these days, but I don't
know about some of the other things. So what is there that there are
certain cases. I think there's one even that involves Trump. I don't know
what it is, but maybe it's the one that he was blocked from when
he was on when Twitter before Musk owned it, he was blocked, and
so you know, should he be blocked. It's a private the owned company.
I don't see there's much room to move here if it's a private even
though we don't like it, if you're a privately held company, you can
do what you're damn well please, and that's you can make it. I
think mostly it's understood and accepted that you run a company. May not like
it, but then why don't you just stop using it. I think where
the where the rub comes in is that they operate a lot like a utility.
So because they're operating like a communication hub, this is where we have
that gray area. Because I agree private businesses should be able to make their
private decisions. But if you act in the situation where you're you know,
I mean, imagine if Verizon said, well, Doug, you can no
longer call Jennifer because she's a Trump voter, you know. I mean it's
like or she a great idea that's been going on with the election. I
mean, that would be a problem. And so I think that's where the
gray area is with these communications with these social media companies. Take that for
a second. Imagine how crazy we think that would be. But you can
imagine in a way world of control or people, there's plenty of that sort
of thing exercising coated you know. It's like I had a lot of my
rights stripped away because I chose not to get the COVID vaccine. So it
to me doesn't seem that far off in the what if game. It's so
it just doesn't. Jay you had you posted something a couple of weeks ago
that was taken down and it was about as benign as anything you could come
up with. You want to what was this? I can't remember exactly what
it was, but it had something along the lines of COVID and maybe masks
or something, but it was it just completely disappeared. The post itself just
disappeared. Gone, and more and more and more with regard to that issue,
the people who supported the masks, the mandates, the shots are being
proven wrong by middle of the roaders, people that would be on one side
or another based on actually will scientific If that's kind of a anymore, What
does that mean? Uh? The right? I mean it's that we believe
in science. I saw some guys at the front lawn over the week.
What does that mean? Good luck? Yeah? Right exactly. The next
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