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we're not going to start playing Christmas music, but it brings around because it's
too early. It's only the thirteenth of November. Let's get through Thanksgiving at
least. Please thank you, After all we diminish by doing this last year,
I think I made a big deal, and I haven't years past,
as the radio stations changed to their Christmas music, and that's happened all across
the country. Pretty much every market now has a station that's playing Christmas music.
And there are two sides to this coin, as there are the most
any argument or discussion, should you, shouldn't you? Do? We don't
we? You know that kind of stuff. And so some of the the
conversation comes out of me watching the movie The Holdovers with Paul Giamatti last night
and the Christmas part of the discussion, and then I started thinking about when
the trees are the trees around yet where I am, it's pretty seasonal.
Although the temperature have been in the forties the last four or five six days,
going up to the fifties and sixties later on this week here in my
part of New England. It just seems to me that we push it too
far again. It's good and it's not so good. One of the reasons,
so maybe it's a double sided thing. One of the reasons that I
like it is because the Christmas music, as with most of us, puts
me in a good mood, puts in puts me in a good place,
and we need that. When you look around and see what's happening in our
country, see what's happening around the world, does this displace the real focus
on what the real issues are. Well, you can know and understand the
issue, which is part of the problem. A lot of people don't understand
the issues and thus the protests on college campuses where we're supposed to be focused
on education, instead we're focused on ignorance, it would seem but I I
mean, meanwhile, back to the but there is kind of a genocide happening
with Palestinian people. Just because people are protesting and bringing awareness to that,
that doesn't mean that they are in support of Hamas Amas is true evil on
this planet. Yeah, but I think that's been confused by a lot of
ignorance. Frankly, it's been confused. I think the genocide happened though.
You know, it's weird. The Israelis always feel like they have to go
too far or farther because there have been people that have been trying to push
them into the sea for their entire existence. So do they overdo it?
Do they overreact? The argument can be made that they have and they are.
That still doesn't mean is none of this is good, none of us
is right. And behind the scenes, you see we're not getting the real
focus. The Iranians are the ones that are stirring the pot now, not
just Hamas. It's Hamas being sponsored by Hamas and his love. Both's being
sponsored by or pushed by, or funded by, or supported by whatever you
want to use for terminology, by this meathead, the Ayatola and his band
of unmarried men who have come across the money. The argument still is that
the six billion dollars that went back from America, although America says it didn't
really go back yet. You know, there's all that stuff, it's just
a nest of controversy, arguments and bad everything, bad karma, and you
look at these, I kind of lost the I've gone away from the discussion
of winds too early discussions to have Christmas. But as long as we're there.
I'm looking at the report from Gaza Hospitals suspending operation. The Israelis are
actually on the hunt for members of Hamas. What I want to know is
how do they recognize them from the average person. They don't wear a uniform,
but there are hospitals that are closed because the bombardment continues. Genocide.
Is it bad judgment? Is it going too far? That's an argument that
we can have a discussion that we can have because there are people who are
just innocent on both sides. Most everybody on both sides are innocent. We
have governments, heads of government who are trying to maintain power or trying to
shift power. The axis of evil that George Bush talked about in reality is
there now the Iranians, the Chinese, and the Russians and why it is.
I went into a store yesterday. I had to drive up to Vermont
to pick up some colows for the farm, and I went into a store
in my hands, I can't find gloves. I've never found good, comfortable
gloves that keeps my hands warm. So I'm looking at this display of gloves
and I look at them and I try them on and they feel good.
And then I look at the label. The damn things are made in China,
and I will not buy stuff made in China. I told you about
the books that I bought for the kids when I went out there and mostly
focus on Halloween and stuff, and those things are all made in China.
It's just ridiculous how we have allowed ourselves to fall into this trap. And
many people say it's just plain greed. Whatever it is. Now we have
to untangle ourselves from it. And it's not an easy thing to do.
You know, you look around at what you know, what we're trying to
do or what are we in fact doing it? Because the economy, the
connection to our economy and to their economy is so stark. When you think
about forty percent of the world's goods and services are made either here or there.
Forty percent of everything that is consumed by everybody on the planet is either
made here in America or in China. Goods, services, things that are
provided. So we have this economic battle now brought upon us by the realization
that we've screwed ourselves. Basically, we've allowed these people to have a stranglehold
on us economically. What is Biden and Zi bing Ling there, whatever his
name is it going to have a high level summit this week? Is that
right? In that there's a big meeting. I think it's in San Francisco
where all of the Asian country people from around the world are trying to figure
out where the economy is going. So the thing is, and the same
is true for almost anything. Think about life. Isn't it better when you
get along with your spouse. Isn't it better when you get along with your
children? Isn't it better when you get along with your boss? Isn't it
better when you have friends? You don't have to agree on everything, But
the way the world is today, especially when it comes to politics, if
you don't agree, then you were discounted, you are dismissed, You're pushed
out on either side. And that's kind of what's happened between the US and
China because the China government, Chinese have decided they want to take over the
world, at least the present group, and so there's no room for cooperation
anymore, and we've experienced that ourselves kind of. Anyway, this is Wednesday.
I think that these two guys are meeting now. Is Joe Biden going
to be out paced, out classed, outdone by she who is in his
sixties and Joe's eighties And is that the thing? Is it age again or
is it just the fact that Biden can't really he doesn't garner he confidence anymore
because he doesn't feel like he even has confidence in himself. When you look
at it's like he doesn't want to talk, isn't it doesn't it seem like
that to you? Yeah, So anyway, there's lots of different things that
are going on that are brewing. See, this is what I mean of
a manic Monday. Go from Christmas right into the bucket, right the guy's
the hospitals and the Middle East, and the Iranians and the Chinese and the
Russians and the Russians and what they're doing. The whole business of whether they're
at a standstill because well, the Russians have over the weekend ramped up their
attacks on some of the key cities in eastern Ukraine. I don't know where
they're getting their soldiers from because it looks like the front lines have had lots
of cannon fire. So the troops began to push into the eastern mining cities,
and that was where some of the bloodiest battles have taken place. Here
to four Ukrainian troops recaptured, the Russians got it, then the Ukrainians got
it back again, and now the russ is trying to get it again,
and around and around and around it goes. So the international this would be
and I don't mean this to sound facetious. I'd love to be teaching international
politics at a university right now. I would. It's stimulating in a manner
speaking. And you go back to I make reference to that movie with Jimati
The Holdovers. His teaching was aimed at to sort of I don't call it
medieval history, but certainly the early history of what is now Europe. That's
what that's part of the dialog, that was part of the focus. And
so you think about what went on the Peloponnesian Wars. If anybody listening even
remembers or knows what those were about, then you know that was the area
of Greece, and that whole wasn't called Greece at the time. And I
don't mean to make this history lesson except I just find this fascinating. Fascinating
it is yeah to look at the history of our planet. It's a history
of one war after another, war after another war after another war. And
even when the dinosaurs roamed the planet, they were always at war with each
other because they wanted to eat each other. Right, think about it.
I mean, I have eighty cows. They don't fight with each other.
One of them gives a head butt to another one if they, you know,
want to get in and get to the feed. But I don't see
the cows fussing and fighting about things. They get it settled among themselves.
Right, But think about what we could learn from cows. Maybe that's what
I guess. I'm looking at all of this stuff and I'm thinking the cows
is maybe that's why I love them so much, because it's all peaceful.
It's fun, they're friendly, they're loving, they get along. I have
big cows, I have little cows, I have old cows, I have
young cows, and they all get along. And because maybe I put more
of a focus on it, it's not like a regular dairy where a lot
of people have hundreds of cows and they're just commodities. My cows mean something.
I just picked up a cow named Becky yesterday who was on a farm
up in Vermont, and she was the grind. She had ten lactations,
She's had ten calves and she couldn't get rebrid So the fella knows that I
have a sanctuary, and so he said, I'm going to give you this
cow, and every time I have a cow like this that runs out,
I'll give it to you. They serve as nurse. I have twenty calves
now and they all Rather than have to bottle feed them, I'd rather they
be on a cow because they're much healthier that way. And so I got
back just before dark last night. We put the cows sort of rearrange things,
and watching these calves, I've got to have to get a video of
it, Jay, watching them just just run around and basically play with each
other. That's what they do. They're getting they get to know each other,
and the mothers keep them in line. You know what, if they
start to do stuff, or they get a little bit frisky or fresh,
the mothers put them right in line and I know. Is that a good
analogy for where we are now? I know, I bunced all over the
place. One of the things that really troubled me over the weekend was seeing
some video from some high schools around the country where there's so much fighting going
on, Teachers getting beaten up by students, stuff like that. What the
hell's going on? So much anger in the world. Oh my god,
That's why I love the cows. Time now for some celebrity gossip, the
social media things that we pay attention to that are trending, and so mss
Swift has done it again. Jay, She's set a new Grammy record for
the most nominations for any person in the Song of the Year category. The
new song anti Hiro was shortlisted for an award. By the way, there
are all these things that were announced after we get off the air on Friday.
You have some of the other nominations, some of the other things that
are on the list. She's been dominating. I can get them. But
yeah, she has twelve. I mean, she's done so much, but
she already has I believed Grammys from her albums and her songs over the years.
But for Song of the Year, that is a category that goes to
the songwriters, not the performers, and that you know, she writes all
of her own music and so she's setting records for that. And then as
far as most nominations with as an artist and for the albums, she is
tied with Barbara Streisand. Ah, that's interesting because Barbara Streisand's book is out
now. A lot of people are talking about that. I just think that
the whole idea, how is this something that really these people? Should Taylor
Swift get another award? I guess that's what's kind of in mind. She
deserves it, But should there be a way to pass somewhere around so that
one person didn't get so many? Or does this highlight the fact that she's
popular? I wonder what sull and extremely talented? Yeah, but there are
a lot of you know what I say about how many people have gotten oscars
or how many people have gotten Tony's or yeah, maybe not it's deserved.
It just seems like all the attention is on her, and for good reason.
Very successful, But should you have some more I don't know. I'm
just throwing it out there because I'm wondering. Let's think about it for a
moment here a little discussion here about awards and who gets some? Is this
woman the most? Is she the most? Certainly in the modern era of
music, the most are one recognized and awarded And in terms of the profit
of her ability, how did she first realize and when was she thirteen fourteen?
I'm trying to remember what there wasn't at a young age. There are
photos of her in like this little makeshift stage and her name and a banner
on the front, when you know, she was doing some of those those
small performances trying to make a name for herself before she's you know, has
these sold out crowds that are actually crashing the ticketing system. And look in
the movie and that still is like number two on the hit parade. And
I went to the movies last night and there were a number of young people
that were there to see the Taylor Swift movie. And that was that.
They're very thankful they had the Tailor Swift movie, I think at most of
the theaters. So anyway, that's the story that Grammy's I'm Greg. I'm
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disease. The young twelve year old lady who has just won twenty five thousand
dollars speaking of contests, she got the top Junior Science Award for creating or
developing a fire detection System's twelve years old. She's from Miller Middle School in
San Jose. Was the science fair. She invented a new fire detection system
that's faster, cheaper, and more reliable than having smoke detectors. So this
is a challenge. This is one of the STEM contests going around middle schoolers
in the country. For those of us who think those of you are those
of us who think that the educational system in our country has gone to hell,
Well, in some places it has, but here's an example of where
it hasn't. There are a couple of they're all young ladies. Second third
place innovations. Here's a young lady named Sanya Gill who won for a smartphone
app that can detect certain cancers. Did we talk about her? Who do
we talk about last week that won with these Jade Do you remember it was
another one of these like their fourteen years Yeah, and there was a story
about somebody with early detected skin cancer. Yeah that was it soap, It
was kid soap, Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it. Yes,
that was fabulous. Another one of these. So look at what these these
privately funded that's what happened. These schools get together with some private resources and
they offer these twenty five thirty forty thousand dollars prizes for things, and they're
either junior high school, eighth graders, ninth graders, that sort of a
thing. The system. This is another system that detects and sends text messages
or is this the same one the heat sources? Yeah? Yeah, I
think no, this is for humans anyway. They're all kinds of these things
that are going on, and God bless them for having these contests and for
the kids getting into them and understanding them. Notice most of the winners are
young women. Very rarely do you see one of these contests where young men
are the winners, Because I think that means that we focus still a lot
more on trying to develop girls than boys. And maybe as much as that's
benefited probably me Jay, well, it's still I mean, look at what
it's done to poor James. It's like over corrected. So you're okay,
James. You have three people who love you and we'll take care of you
no matter what. Be okay. You'll be okay. And even if you're
sound like your textan, it's all right, we're gonna work that out.
I have the power. I like, yeah, right, exactly, Okay,
So there are some things there's a the data is in. We were
just talking about if on the the social media segment in this hour, whether
you would be bought out. You could be bought out of your TikTok account,
or your Instagram account or your Facebook account. So I just did a
little quick examination of the of the impact still of TikTok. Even though there
are states that are abandoned here, it still is the number one way,
depending on your age, of people communicating their whatever it is they want to
communicate. The global posting and views on tic tac, tic tac, good
doug TikTok, especially when it comes to the Middle East, like standing with
Palestine or standing with Israel. This is back to the how we're doing with
We're winning over minds and hearts and stuff with the information. And we had
this conversation earlier, Jennifer Jay and I did about the you know, whether
the genocide, what's happening, and whether or not people get the right information.
The number of people standing with Palestine on social media has risen eighty seven
percent. If you are a viewer of TikTok, and they don't know what
the other side is obviously, and so China once again, if this is
one of the things that Biden talks to this guy about this week, they're
together on Wednesday, I think, but it won't be. It's probably how
you doing. I mean, they just unfroze relations with China. You've got
Newsome who saw him two weeks go saying we need to defrost things. And
then this last week it was really quiet in the media. The Biden administration
reinstalled like the back door military phone with China, which I mean, I
guess you can say that's good if China's honest, But do we trust them
to be honest? No with this guy, But who knows who's behind him?
All Right, I want to bring something else up. I'm I'm not
a fan, and I'm not somebody who dismisses Bill O'Reilly. Bill O'Reilly is
Bill O'Reilly. He created an ambiance around himself and he's been working on it
for years. He started here in Boston as a newsman on Channel seven,
and then he did Inside Edition I think was an inside He did one of
those shows that was syndicated, and then somehow or other, he found his
way to Fox and created quite a stir because that's the kind of a guy
he is. He's one of the most narcissistic people I've ever met in my
life. He's very He's just an interesting character. I mean, it can
be an interesting character still be a narcissist with him. It's all about him.
And one of the things that I liked about I used to love listening
to his radio program, frankly because he was It was funny. Actually it
was very amusing. You know, he'd go on, this is the no
Spin Zone. There wasn't one word that ever came out of his mouth was
anything except spin. And he's continued in that vein. It's kind of like
whether it was the Fox slogan fair and balanced, everybody knew that that was
a croc. So anyway, he managed to build this ambiance around him and
every one. So he's on with Cuomo now on News Nation at least once
a week. The two of them are interesting pair together. Actually, So
this is something that he has written that I'm with one hundred percent, talking
about the cancel culture being vicious, immoral, embracing the media companies and they're
embracing that one way of thinking. So he brings up a bunch of examples
in this column that I almost want to read verbatim because it's that important.
He makes reference to Rachel Maddow and the new book that she has and how
the networks have been all over her interviewing her. CBS has had her on
twice, she's been on with Kobe Area. This is all this stuff.
So she's using, according to him, the liberal media to sell her product.
Good for her. And then he counters with Mark Levin has a new
book called The Democrat Party Hates America. It's a massive bestseller, so says,
O'Reilly because he's selling it on his own TV show, radio show.
But there's no corporate media that's behind him. Nothing, not a he says.
And then he talked about Alan Dershowitz, who doesn't have a program.
He has a book called It's Actually about Donald Trump being targeted by the Justice
Department, and you know how many people have read. Well, he's got
one that's coming out. I just talked to dersh and he had the coming
out about Israel, and yeah, two weeks but nobody will the point that
nobody will talk to him about it, and it's not even about Trump,
is the point I'm making, right, Yeah, And the point that that
Bill O'Reilly is making is one that is well suited to having a discussion about
because it is a direct link to how one sided much of the news media
is. And so there was that's the reason that Fox was born in the
first place, because there were people who wanted I mean, it got a
little carry the devotion to it got a little carried away, but then the
devotion to MSNBC or CNN also got misconstrued, shall we say. Anyway,
he goes on in this op ed piece to talk about Republicans and conservatives who
are abused by the mainstream media, and he specifically talks about Disney and ABC
and Comcast and NBC and Warner Brothers' own CNN, and it is it's a
factor in what you don't know. It's not that it's bad business, because
it's not. It's good business because they find an audience and they're selling advertising
and that's what they're trying to do. So they either create an audience or
they find an audience that likes what it is that they're presenting. In the
meantime, those of us who want to really know what's going on. Thank
heavens for News Nation that's come along, and there's a scripts Howard has a
new competing Nationals is not as good as News Nations, but as good presentation
as I've seen in a long time, Frankly, and you hear me talking
about all the time, because it's refreshing to be able to watch it.
I mean, Cuomo used to be on CNN and he used to be associated
with a left Now, whether it's because he needs a job or because this
is who he really is, I don't know, and I don't care.
I'm just getting stuff from them that makes me think, Okay, this is
really telling the story and the message is clear here because more and more people
are watching News Nation. But Riley points out how the cancel culture has gained
momentum and there is much more of this sort of you know there, He
says, you know, you look at the view. He cites the view,
which is as lopsided as you can possibly. It's so obvious, you
know how much who wants to listen to Joey bay Are anyway? No matter
what is that can be a sexist comment, and I don't care she's a
bore b o a r and to be ore as well. And the people
they get one sided like that. Yeah, I you know, I know
Mark Levin. I like him as a person. I think his program is
terrible because it's just like and Sewan the same thing. I like them both.
I would consider them not we're not friends, Frid Well, Sean and
I know each other better, but you know, you converse them to see
each other here and there and have a good conversation. I just but there's
an audience for it, and they found it okay, good, so they
can sell their stuff. But would it be better if they were if it
was, you know, not so lopsided? Is the point that O'Reilly is
making after making the point that they are one side and we all know that
they're one sided. There's no mystery, there's no news there. It's just
that the way he put it together, it's so blatant to have it put
together this way, so obvious, and that there is this one side in
this. Are we beating a dead horse by having this story or continuing to
tell the story. I don't know. I don't think we're beating data ors.
I just think it's good to point it out. Yeah, you agree,
ladies, absolutely, and it just further's the point of you can't get
one story from one news source. You have to see the same news story
across different news sources to if you want. The actual story is open everywhere.
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loss dot com. Should I put down my farm newspaper that's all about crop
comments and do social media stuff? Now, ladies, what do you think?
Yeah, I'm kind of interested in these crop comments though, are you
really well? It is? This is a discussion of fertilizer costs, as
a matter of fact, and how much more it costs us for fertilized thinking,
get something getting some of the fields lined last year for the appropriate number
of acres that I wanted to have lime put on because that neutralizes the soil,
makes it less acidic. And it was like four thousand dollars was the
cost, and now the same thing as five thousand dollars. So welcome to
the world of realction costs. Okay, let's get to some social media,
shall we remember our social media handled is that good day networks wherever you go
to X or to Y or Z or whoever it is that you're following.
I noticed that TikTok and Instagram users say they would be willing to pay for
everybody to get them off social media. Ditching people say they'll ditch social media
in exchange for being paid a small fee. This is according to a study.
It was done? Was this done by the TikTok? The Chinese people
in the National Bureau of Economics research. Oh, so it doesn't have some
credibility a real study? Really? So that means, yeah, go ahead,
and I want you to explain. Thanks you No, No. What's
fascinating is there are some users who would willingly give up social media in exchange
for being paid a small fee. Some people would willingly pay for their peers
to get off of social media. And I think a lot of us,
we we know people like this where they can't even have a conversation when keeping
their eyes focused on you and listening to you intently because they can't go longer
than five minutes without starting to scroll through their phone, like just completely incapable
of it. Have we ever been to dinner with those people who cannot keep
their phone out of their face while you're at arriving it? Yeah, I
just I refuse to bring it. People say, well, well, I
just texted you, so what do you want from me? My my iPhones
are in the truck. I'm not I'm not having dinner. We need a
break. I always tell people, I'm like, do not make me your
emergency contact, because in a case of an emergency, you probably won't get
a hold of me. Just thank you, so you know. So,
how much money are we talking about here? We talked about one hundred dollars,
fifty dollars, two hundred dollars. How much will the average person take
to stay off? Is this permanently or is this just for X amount of
time? Pardon the use of some of it. Some people would get off
of it for four weeks about a month, for like under sixty dollars.
So maybe that's who's gonna pay every month? Where's the money going to come
from? It's the theoretical conversation, man ah, monopoly past, go without
pulling up your phone? Collect two hundred hours, two hundred Maybe that's a
little better than sixty. Please, Hey, Jen, Jen, have you
noticed how much better and Jay has? She thinks she always had a wry
sense of humor, but she has hesitated to put it into gear, and
I'm finding I love her. She's got a great dry wit. Are you
should have liked being insulted? Which is funny. Well, thank you.
I feel our relationship has gone to the next level. Doug, Yes,
it has, right, exactly, all right, you spend it. Don't
spend too much time with Jennifer though, because that's contagious. All right.
Next, we have a question at all of our social media having to do
with the election results from last week. This has been brewing all a week
and weekend. Here's Dennis who says, looks like the Republicans are on the
wrong side once again. I keep hanging on to that Trump train. Cliff
is right. I love that there it is. But he said, is
that cliff just ahead Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio. Go over the cliff,
you go with Trump. See later, Alligator. The next Stefan Good Day
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