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intriguing? I saw this and I thought, wow, wow, wow wow.
The story from a Missouri hospital reportedly performed amputations on dozens of people who
suffered frostbite during the cold spell. A few Kansas City Chief fans, Who
why do you do this? Why do you go to a football game and
sit out? You that crazy about the Dolphins or anybody? The temperatures inside
the stadium were below zero and you sat there for what three hours? Good
buck? Yeah? And if you weren't dressed appropriately, you didn't have something
covering your hands in your face and a lot of times, you know,
at sporting events, people get a little bit not even a little bit,
but like super loose with the adult beverages. And yeah, then they feel
like they're heating up, so they take they take things off, or they
take off their jackets or something. But then you also have those fans who
they don't care what the temperature is. They painted their chest and by golly,
they're going to take their shirt off at some point so people can see
their chin. I mean nuts, why you so nuts? Nuts? Nuts,
nuts. So anyway, some of these people I had frostby when I
was a kid, but I managed to have anything amputated. I just when
it gets really cold like it did during that same period of time. It's
really cold here in the Northeast, and my hands were purple and my feet
were always cold when I would go out. But fortunately I didn't get it.
I didn't. I didn't stay out in the cold. So this what
does it do to your life though, to not have fingers and do not
have toes and to have hypothermia thermia all the time. I said it again,
Doug, hypothermia. It's pretty it was really cold. This is during
the you know, are we going to call this the Kelsey era now?
Because he's gotten so much attention he does a podcasts. He's always had attention.
He's just garnered a new audience now. As far as the football world
is concerned, we've all known his name. He has already has been his
star. Yeah, he has star quality on his own. But now there's
a whole new audience that didn't know who he was and weren't as avid football
fans. Mm hmmm. So how did the if the people sitting in the
stands had this same this this dreaded horrible circumstance. Why the players who sit
on the bench, for example, how they keep them warm? Do they
have warmer Yeah, they're heated bens and then if you they do get wrapped
up with heated like jacket thingies. Yeah. And then they also have things
these like giant space heaters that are over in the area too. Got it?
Okay, all right, here's the latest from the Biden camp. They're
chasing Trump around because Trump has been floating the idea of cutting social Security to
curb the debt. That'll go over like a red balloon the people who would
normally support Trump, and so Biden jumps right in there. They have seized
on the opportunity, if you will, The entitlement programs are the most expensive
part medicare. And you know, so scary that sort of thing. So
at any rate, Biden wrote on his own account, quote not my watch,
not on my watch. Nope, it's not going to happen anyway.
The election fight is on, and there's this back and forth, and so
what do we believe? We don't? Why do we even you know what?
I ask myself this all the time, why do we get suckered into
these conversations because they're meaningless. All they do is provide I suppose, fodder
for conversation, but these guys never do. Paula, when's the last time
you know of a serious politician who did everything that he or she promised to
do, even whether it's a local, it's a mayor, and they well,
let's see, that's it. So there's this back and forth of foolishness
on social media. What a waste of time. There's fraudulent on both sides.
It's just so much YadA, YadA, YadA. You know what is
a good exchange? These two guys when they get together, there won't be
a it'll not be a healthy exchange. I watched on News Nation last night
Chris Cuomo with what's his face? Now, that's what's the guy that I
always say that I don't think he's very smart. Tyler, not Tyler the
kid. They got fired from Fox the same way Cuomo got fired from He
went over his interview, putin nothing ringing about Yeah. Yeah, well it's
because we never talk about these guys, so they don't they're not on the
top of our Yeah yeah, right, so Tucker Carlson. That's how much
I put people who I don't care for out of my mind, including their
names, half the time. So Cuomo and Carlson have done this interview and
pieces of it are on News Nation and Tucker apparently is going to play it
today on his ex account, and they go into their relationship, which has
not necessarily been all that great. Carlson used to love to take shots at
Cuomo when he was on CNN. Apparently the two of them are not friends,
but they were friendly, and it was a very enlightening conversation. I
enjoyed it. Frankly, I enjoyed listening to the two of them. I
ate my opinion about Tucker Carlson hasn't changed at all. His but he's and
he admitted to some of the things that he does. It's sounded sort of
an opportunist. I just thought it was good to see two guys who aren't
friends be friendly and be you know, in a sense. They were warm
and fuzzy with each other. But they acknowledged how they approach the issues of
the day when they talk about them on their television programs, and they also
approached how Carlson, probably more than Cuomo took him apart, took him to
task for things, kind of made fun of him, and it was it
was It wasn't brutally honest, but it was a feel good kind of conversation.
Cuomo asked him some legitimate questions about why he didn't ask various questions of
Putin and that, but it was just if you get a chance to watch
it either on a news nation in the evening, he's on at eight o'clock
Eastern, that is Cuomo or Tucker Carlson, I don't even know. Can
you check the schedule, Jay, just for the heck of it for me
and tell me when this stuff because I don't mind promoting it at all.
I think it's good, healthy viewering. I think it's a good way for
you to kind of get a sense of what's real. You know, it's
it's a real conversation that you don't hear very often. You just hear huffery
and puffery. That's why I said, I was having that conversation with you
because of the Biden and Trump back and forth. That's not a real conversation.
It is nothing about that. It's real. It's just bunk them.
But it didn't I didn't feel that way. Carlson came across well, Como
came across well. And so it's worth your time if you're interested in the
news, you're interested in conversation about what these cable channels are all about.
They both talk very frankly about being fired from Tucker Carlson's case, Fox and
in Colmo's case it was CNN, And they don't seem to care that much
about it at this point. And so what do you do? Even if
you do care, what are you gonna do? You move on? I've
all we've all of us in this business, radio and television. I've been
fired. Let's see how many times, three four times from various radio stations
I work for it. That's one of the reasons that I do this program
because nobody's gonna fire me because it's my program. Yeah right, who's gonna
fire me? No? Anyway, So it's it's very much. Did you
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media because of the problems that Facebook is having. So is that a universal
problem? Jay was just telling me that Facebook has been down. I haven't
been on Facebook for about a week, so I don't know what. Well.
They had that big worldwide outage, what was the late last week?
And then there still seems to be some kinks, Like I have trouble.
I can see the same There were two days I saw the same five stories
on the news feed and I couldn't go anywhere else. I couldn't change the
accounts I was using. It would say that the menu was currently unavailable.
Please try again later. I signed out, I signed back in. I'm
actually trying to get on it at this moment, and I'm just getting the
circle looped loop like it's loading, but it's not getting into the account.
Other than that, it's just it's a blake screen. Everybody is looking.
I see comments here that are two days old, three days old, four
days old five days old, they go back to stuff that we did last
week. And so I'm looking lady that has an interesting story good news.
You've asked for good news? What did you hear about? And a lady
named Jane Rose said, I wasn't a burger king when a girl came in
with her grandparents. She told me she was six today. I could tell
the grandparents were struggling to pay for the food, so I stepped up to
the cashier and paid for their meal as a birthday treat. Isn't that?
Now? That's a jan I wish I could send you something I'm going to
kiss and a love What a great don't you? Sweet? Sweet? That
sweet, sweet, sweet sweet person? All right, here's some info on
the technical number side of social media, because every hour during this portion of
the r we focus on either communications that we've had, people that are trending,
or stories like this one. Three quarters of US teens say they feel
happy or peaceful when they don't have their phones with them. How about that?
For research? This is not what you would expect to hear. Right.
This is a survey that was published by the Pew Research Center. Probably
America is foremost and most reliable and most trustworthy of all the research centers that
do all kinds of polling and that sort of thing. So these folks found
that despite the positive association with going phone free, most teens have not limited
their phone or social media use. So they admit to it being good for
them, but that doesn't mean that they do it. And there's it to
talk about an oxymoron. But as we know, a lot of people in
government, policymakers, that sort of thing, advocates are growing increasingly concerned with
youngsters through their teen years and their phones, the relationship social media, that
kind of stuff. Well, there's so much content that I mean, there's
we already know in society there's not enough emphasis on mental health, and then
you have social media telling you that people are living certain lives whether or not
it's there. It's all highlight reels, and nobody knows that you have bullying
at an all time high because now it doesn't end when the bell rings.
People take it home with them on social media and then also putting your self
worth into posting something and how many people like it, how many people commented
on all of that, and then the constant connection our brains were not developed
to be like, yes, we're we are pack animals to a degree,
but we're not supposed to be connected to everything all at once at all times,
inundated with so much news from everywhere. I remember growing up and we
knew, we knew what was happening in our hometown and it had to be
really, like really big news to like national news to know about something to
otherwise it was local stuff. It was in our hometown, in our state.
Things like that. Now we know everything going on everywhere. And also
people expect immediate responses. If somebody calls you things you to answer, call
them back immediately. They text you. Sometimes I don't know. Yeah,
I cannot stand when somebody text me they're like, hey, I need to
talk to you, call me. When you can't, just if you need
to talk to me, call me, don't make me tell me you need
to talk to me. There's a big fight brewing between the legislative and the
well the business community. If I'm going to be brought about this, and
I don't think I really am. I want to be specific about big pharma
here and how we pay more money for things like Eloquist and Zerelto and some
of these other drugs that you see advertised all over the place. Every spot
break on radio and television has a drug commercial in it. And I'm not
biting the hand. Well, maybe I am biting the hand that feeds me,
because this stuff is out of control. And when the question came up
earlier about why does vegetable prices why do they keep going up and up and
up, and I explained that on the air and off the air, same
question can be asked about the program on especially seniors who take a lot of
Eloquist for example in zerelto the cost of this stuff the profit level. Now,
granted, it takes a lot of money to develop a drug, no
question about it. But why is it that everybody else, literally every other
country in the world that has these same drugs, people pay much less for
the drugs then we pay for them here. Yeah, so Biden wants to
lower it even just getting everything right, Yeah, it's crazy. So now
the big pharma has brought their lawyers, the big guns in to fight a
vigorous legal battle against the plan to lower the prescription drug costs. So the
federal system, judges, et cetera around the country are being asked to invalidate
the program that's trying to aim that's aiming to reduce the price of medications.
Now I am not I don't have to I mean, why do I have
to say this every time? I don't know why I do what I do.
I'm not a Biden guy. I don't care that much about what he's
done. But this is a general informational piece that is now there's so many
there's a flurry of lawsuits everywhere, the drug makers blasting the government, blasting
Biden. They say that government control is unconstitutional. They're pricing practices are legitimate,
and the future cures that might come from all of this and may you
know, be affected, the research might be affected, et cetera, etcetera,
etcetera. So as the story in the Washington Post today about the legal
wrangling that is probably going to get to the Supreme Court, And so,
what does this do to the government's ability to regulate healthcare prices? Should the
government be involved? Should this be free market? The public? The health
system in most countries where it is successful, is run by the government.
As much as that hurts excuse me, it hurts me to say that you
can't run a hospital anymore, and you can't seem to. I mean,
look at the state of the hospitals around the country. For profit hospitals there
my own community, a Framingham Union Hospital Metro West Medical Center is a prime
example. It sucks. Nobody wants to go there anymore. When I had
my incident the other day with my lung breaking my ribs, I didn't go
to the local hospital. I went to the one in Newton because it's so
much better. I don't want to go to this one. And most of
the big hospital systems that are not for profit are better off than the ones
that are for profit. Now again this sort of somebody's going to send me
a note Again at what a hypocrite I am. I'd like to be consistent,
But I don't think that the financial strain on older Americans is good for
older Americans, and thus I don't believe the system is serving the people.
I mean, all these drugs are made, the pharmaceutical industry makes, specifically
these most of these drugs for older people, and they count on the insurance
companies to pay their sky high prices. In the insurance companies say no,
we're not going to and so then what do they do? Anyway, So
the Inflation Reduction Act has pinpointed the price of drugs from Bristol Myers and squib
and Novardis and all these other drug companies, and the lawyers are having a
field. They imagine they charge seven hundred and fifty dollars an hour these lawyers
to just and I'm sure there are some that are more expensive than that.
Right, So then you have the people who are a retainer, so they
just have those additional fees just for existing within the network. Very frustrating.
All right, here's the story from Saint Louis. But a television station anchor
apologizing on the air, I think this is so ridiculous. We are so
out of we're getting ourselves crazy about the woke world. The television station here
that why is woke bad? I don't understand that. Well, I don't
know. Maybe it's the principle. I don't know that it is. I
don't even know what it really is. It's maybe I should refer to it
as politically correct. So an anchor used what the management admitted to being outdated
and offensive, referring to black homeowners as colored. Okay, maybe that's not
the way that we refer to black homeowners these days colored people. When I
was a youngster, they were called colored people, and then what so then
they became black, and then they became African American. And I don't use
this just to refer to you know, it's not just about black people.
It's the whole thing. This television station, by the way, is owned
by CBS. It's not like it was in the boondocks. And so the
Saint Louis Post Dispatch has a story about the story was about homeowners of color.
It's Black History Month last month, so that was when this took place,
and then the era was acknowledged and the viewers got an apology from the
manager of the station. This was almost like a Ron Bergety moment where in
the movie the Paris character will read anything that is on the teleprompter, and
the wrong wording was on the teleprompter and the anchor just read without even thinking,
Yeah, so why is that a hanging offense? Pardon the use of
the of the phrase, but still racist. But it's still racism. It
is, Yes, racism is racism across the board, even if why is
it? But why is the term? Why is a word? It's attitude
and its action that it would seem to me, will is predicated or the
the business of our racism is predicated that way. Not if you refer to
somebody as a colored person after all, as black a color, colored person,
as it could be any number of things, maybe it's not appropriate and
maybe it's not acceptable in today's world for whatever the reason. But why are
we driving ourselves crazy with all of this stuff? Why is it for us
to say when we come from a race that was never oppressed, Oh that's
not true. White people have been oppressed in the in ancient time. Yeah,
the Jews are white for the most part, and they were oppressed.
There's plenty of oppression to go around for every race, color, and creed,
which brings us back to the core question is for me is why are
we so concerned? Why are we so aware? Why are we so prejudice?
You hear me all the time talking about why is it that we have
to focus what a shame, what a ridiculous state of affairs that we have
to acknowledge the first black woman to go into space, or the first woman
to go into space, or the first whatever. You never hear that about
men, and because men are always going on first. But I agree with
you. The fact that it's twenty twenty four and we still are only getting
the first of certain things. That's still that's suppression. Still. Yeah,
anyway, it's discouraging, especially in an era where we need all work to
be together and be on the same page and try to get along. It's
very well, that's my always question when people use woke as like a bad
thing. I don't understand why it's bad. Wellference and discrimination, prejudice,
okay, yeah, and it's it's being alert to racial prejudice and discrimination.
And then it's in the recent years has come to include sexism and the denial
of LGBT rights. Why so, again, I always ask, why is
woke always us in such a bad way? Well? Why are we so
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or older by twenty thirty. One in six people will be sixty or older.
This is a story. Is that something that always happens? Or is
that I'm trying to wrap my mind around those numbers. One in six people
will be sixty year older by twenty thirty. Is that not a normal thing?
By decades, numbers are going up because of the baby boomers. The
people my age is an increase and the people that are our age, but
the people who are your age, those numbers are going down. So,
you know, we were talking about Social Security and Medicare and people wondering whether
it runs out of money. I don't think it will, frankly, if
you look at the stats, because there will be fewer people that pay out
as time goes on. And then people say, well, the fewer people
paying in too, if that's the case, And yes, that is the
case. But you know, it's so silly. These people don't invest the
money in things that you and I would invest in if I were buy an
investment account, or you have one and you want to watch your four oh
one K, or you have whatever it is. The government doesn't do that,
and nobody can give you a good reason why. It's why aren't they
investing our money so that the returns are like a bank? Right banks?
There aren't many banks losing money these days, plenty of money being drained out
of the federal government. However, anyway, a little bit for us to
think about. It was also I wish I got it on bitcoin, invested
in bitcoin early on now it's like worth over seventy thousand. I know crazy.
I had Jack Stockwell's son is in that business, and he and I
both put a couple of bucks in early but it wasn't it wasn't just bitcoin.
It was all kinds of that sort of stuff. And so usually the
bitcoin, though, seems to drag the other stuff with it. So we'll
see whether that's the case or not. But anyway, I was thinking about
four years ago today. I got in I was in California, I had
a place in Venice, and in a twenty four hour period, think about
this. Let's just go back a little bit. Think about what happened to
your life four years ago today, when the first announcement was made that this
thing called COVID, which had been a problem in Italy and China and other
places, now first signs of it coming to America. And the president at
the time was Donald Trump, and he said it's to be a couple of
weeks and we'll be done with it. And four years later, we're still
talking about it, and there's still people have long COVID. But that's not
really I just want you to think about what you were doing. I remember
vividly you weren't here yet. Jay, I don't think no, no,
no, I didn't. Jennifer and I at the beginning of twenty twenty one,
twenty one. Okay, so Jennifer and I are talking about it,
and we both happened to be in California that day. She lives in California
all the time, and I live in California. I can't this year,
and I haven't really been there all the time in the winter time like I
used to be, for any number of reasons. But for the three years,
or mostly three years, it was one that first year, I'd fly
out and stay in a hotel and I'd go see the kids, but I
wouldn't hug them, and I wouldn't, you know, we'd keep our distance.
I'd see them, but it wasn't like, you know, it wasn't
like because everyone's a mask, get a shot, don't touch anybody, YadA
YadA. But that first day, when in a California newscast, I saw
the anchor saying, the governor of California is thinking of shutting the state down
to not let anybody out or anybody in. So I packed up my car.
Daisy and I had got in the car. It was. I don't
know, three or four hours after I heard that story, I was on
my way east bound on the ten. I wasn't gonna stay there and get
caught. Meghan called me that morning. She said, Dad, are you
gonna stay? Are you gonna go? I said, Megan, I'd love
you more than life itself, but I'm not staying here and I'm not gonna
get caught being able to get out because I have other responsibilities obviously on the
other side of the country. So I drove home and it took us.
I don't know. There was nobody on the roads, no trucks, no
cars. It was like Christmas. Nobody and in restaurant if you could find
one opened, find a hotel that was open. And this was in a
twenty four to forty eight hour period when everything shut down. Everything, planes
couldn't get on a plane to go anywhere, right, pretty much everything shut
down, and then things, you know, people started to figure out what
was what and who was who. I at that next day on the air,
I remember saying that I thought that this was a complete overreaction, and
this was my gut telling me this. I didn't know anything about really the
stuff that I've learned and we've all learned about it coming from the laboratory in
Wuhan, and what started it, and you know how it spread and all
that stuff. I didn't know any of that, but I knew in my
heart of hearts and my gut. And that was interesting because Chris last night,
I've been talking off and on all day about this interview between Tucker Carlson
and Chris Cuomo in which the two of them face each other and discuss a
lot of issues, and one of the things that they come up with is
COVID and how it was handled, and they both pretty much agreed that it
was not handled well. But you didn't know it at the time. I
didn't know why. My gut told me that this was an overreaction, but
I know that I believed it more and more every day, and I believe
it even more today than I did then. But back to how the first
day was the first twenty four to forty eight hours again driving across the country.
So what was your experience think back about when you first heard this and
what was your thak I remember I was in Nashville. Well, like just
I was working with stations just west of Nashville, and when we knew about
COVID, but prior to things shutting down, we were told to help curb
the fear, you know, talk about COVID as it's like the flu.
You know, your chances of dying from the fluor ammonia are probably higher than
COVID. That's what we were told to say. So that's what my morning
show partner and I were disgusting, and a lot of that. And then
the beginning of March, the night of March second and early morning hours of
March third, horrible tornadoes that just reached Tavoc in Nashville and east of Nashville,
and so that took a lot of our focus, and we did and
I was pregnant, super pregnant, And when we were doing different the week
that everything shut down, days before, we did a supplies drive where people
were coming out and giving you know, monetary donations or bringing supplies and all
of this stuff. And it was already kind of like, Okay, well
things are happening with COVID. And so I was in a mask and gloves,
not just because of COVID, but because of how pregnant I was and
my immune system. I was like, I don't want to catch anything period.
And two days later we were doing well. We were doing this like
teacher of the Month thing where my partner and I would go to a school
and surprise the recipient of the teacher of the Month thing and all of this
stuff and kind of, you know, just celebrate them. Well, we
did it early because we got word the day of it was Friday. I
believe it was a Friday, March thirteenth, that schools were shutting down and
they would not be back in session until further notice. So it's one of
those things of like, okay, you guys, just go out today,
and so again in gloves and a mask, went to the school and did
the teacher of the stuff, and then all of a sudden everything was shut
down. And I think it was two or three weeks later. My operations
manager he was like, look, I don't want to be at fault if
something happens to you because you are pregnant, you do have a week immune
system, you do have really bad asthma, you have lung issues, you
have a chronic illness pypermyldra. He's like, we're going to give you equipment
and we want you to work from home until further notice, and so they
I mean they hear me and sent me home. But essentially thanks Davidson County
where Nashville is shut down, but none of the surrounding county shut down.
There was still a lot of business as usual. They all survived, right,
they all survived. Yeah, it has been I don't know, just
the craziness of all that. It just it still bugs me frankly to this
day. But anyway, remembering it was four believe it or not, four
years ago this week that that craziness all started. The next Stefan Good Day
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