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keep it off. It's Wednesday. What have you accomplished so far this week?
And what do you have left to do? One third of the way
through the month of April twenty twenty four. We can celebrate that long with
the other bunch of other things today. Yep, it's April tenth. Yeah
it is Wednesday, and yeah, this is the Good Day program. And
yeah that's Jay Kirshner, and yeah, I'm Doug Stefan, and yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. We are here to
present the full Monty the Midweek Idea dump in a manner of speaking here and
I thought, perhaps this idea, with this story and the ideas it represents,
might intrigue people. The story of Ross Cook, who claims he's become
the first person ever to run across the entire length of Africa after crossing a
finishing line in Tunisia. What an immense feet this is film, It really
is. But id of Dangerous Grain automatically goes to that scene in Forest Gump
where he just starts running one day and then other people keep start running with
him, and then he just stops and he's like, I just felt like
running. And he's like, well, I guess I'm going to go home
now I'm done running, and everyone's yeah, what. This guy has run
the equivalent of three hundred and eighty five marathons in the last three hundred and
fifty two days, that is thousand miles. He sees what he's done as
an inspirational accomplishment because he's raised six hundred and fifty thousand dollars to give to
select charities. So he crossed sixteen countries, lots of deserts, rainforests,
mountains, He got in angled in visa issues, he got mugged, he
ran through a sandstorm, he got hurt, he got sick, he ran
through a snowstorm. Good God, three five marathons in a matter of three
hundred and fifty two days. Pretty amazing. The world is full of amazing
people who do amazing things. And so that's one of the things I like
to do here on the Good Day pri was celebrate what people like this guy
Ross Cook did. He ran. He started in South Africa and then he
went to in Namibia and then Angola, and then the Democratic Republic of the
Congo, Republic of the Congo, Cameroon, Nigeria, ben in Togo,
Ghana, the Ivory Coast, Guinea, Senegal, Mauritania, Algeria, and
ended in Tunisia. He started in April of last year and he goes his
team and he were robbed at gunpoint in Angola. Some of these countries.
One of the ladies who worked on me works in Ken's office in Florida.
Doctor Ken the other day was originally from what used to be called Rhodesia,
and she came to the United States when she was ten years old and has
worked around the country. But told stories of how difficult it is for white
people to live in these areas. You know, we think of prejudice in
terms of whites not liking blacks, or you know, some people are not
liking Jews, whatever it is. But in some parts of Africa, the
blacks who are the majority population don't like the whites. And then you know,
you go there are lessons to be learned like this all over the world.
The Japanese are the most racist people I've ever come across. They don't
like anybody except themselves. They'll claim that they do, or they'll be okay,
the Japanese men like big blonde American women and that's about it. The
rest of the world you can go take ike with so anyway, the prejudice
stuff, and this is what this guy encountered on day two sixty seven in
Mauritania. People were stopping on the roads to offer water and supply, so
that comparison the contrast getting robbed in one country and then having so many people
support you in other countries. So it was really kind of a what a
great way for someone to claim his humanity if you will, the final day,
the last forty four miles to the finish line, or a gang of
inspired runners who had flown to Tunisia to support him and run with him for
this elast occasion. So God bless this guy. Wow, what this guy
must You wonder about his upbringing? Right? Don't you think about where he
came from and what his attitude with his parents, how much influence they were
he did this in the first place. Was he trying to bring awareness to
something? Did he just like first come? Did he just feel like running
they maybe could be any I don't know, We don't know what the story
is. This is the story basically, as we hear in the Boston area
get ready for the Boston Marathon, which is next Monday, thinking about all
the people who will come from many of those countries. Most of the time,
the people who win these races come from countries that are either the countries
that I've enumerated or countries that are close to them. Kenya. Usually the
Kenyans are pretty strong when it comes to finishing and getting the finish line and
winning the Boston Marathon, New York marathons. He's the one that you have
to qualify for, right, You can't just sign up to do it.
Yep, right, yep, yep. Okay, So let's move into another
area. Things that are on my mind and maybe on your mind, Things
that are really bugging me. The more I read and the more I hear,
and the more I sense of this ridiculous, this annoying, this outrageous
proposal by the President of the United States to pay down more student debt when
there are so many people with the right question, why are you doing this
for them? What are you going to do for me? And how dare
you do this? With my money? Is this guy is so obviously buying
votes and coming up with even though the both the majority of the Democrats and
well Democrats are trying to support him, but they know how unpopular this is.
You got to wonder what it is that is what the thought process is
here and how is it I mean, pretty obvious because he's unpopular with younger
voters that he's buying votes. But what do you do? Don't you feel
helpless? I kind of feel helpless here because I don't think I don't want
this to happen unless there's a fair and balanced way. Pardon the use of
that phrase to help everybody. Either help everybody, or you don't help anybody.
You don't select out well you do if you're President Joe Biden, you
want to specifically you can hear the frustration of my voice, specifically target a
group that doesn't like you or doesn't want to vote for you, and say,
okay, here, I'm paying off the rest of this debt with taxpayers
money, Please vote for me. It's a damnable outrage. And so I
don't know whether we get let people blow off steam by asking a question on
our social media. One of the daily questions, what if if you're not
having your student debt paid off, what do you want paid off? Or
what do you think? I don't know. You come up with some question
that you think is appropriate, Jay, and I will tell you makes me
sick. We always want people to call it to eight five five nine nine
nine Doug eight five five nine nine nine thirty six eighty four. My issue
with this is that it doesn't fix the ultimate problem student debt of so many
so many people borrowing money and then they can pay back the loan itself.
But it's the interest rate that gets people. I've known so many people who
realize that the job that they went to school for is not going to be
enough to pay back the student loans that they actually end up quitting and going
for other jobs just to pay back those student loans. Yep, it's it's
It's one of the most damnable things. And what it does is drive people
into the arms of the other candidates, which it may get you some votes
from people who don't think, who are dull and think, hey, this
is great, I'm getting my loans paid without thinking about anybody else. It's
all about and maybe he has some pity somebody in the way, I's got
a psychology degree, and they say, Okay, other people they'll they'll put
up with this, just do it. And then he doesn't have support for
it among congressmen. And that's that The whole idea of the president spending money
that's not appropriated is kind of illegal or on cost too show something, because
the Congress is supposed to suggest how money is spent or vote on it and
approve it, and then you know, the president can sign a bill that
supports it. But that's it's it is pretty dog gone outrageous and so I'm
not going to leave it at that. But that's what I've said. Enough
for now for some reflection on people's parts. You had more drama for your
mama. Here on the Celebrity News section, this is what's trending and a
lot of social media lists today Mandy Moore talking about what Jay refers to the
two thousand Oughts shooting on the set of Vanity Fair, a teen shoot of
a lot of people that you, I'm sure can identify with Hillary Duff and
Mary Kate and Nashley Olsen, the twins and Evan Rachel Wood, and there
are a bunch of other people an iconic moment for the early aughts, and
Vanity Fair has always had this Hollywood issue where they have a lot of quite
a few famous people that are on the cover, and then the cover flat
folds over and you unfold it and then there's more people. So you had
on the actual cover Man of Binds, the Olsen Twins, many more,
Hillary Duff and then when you opened it more you all so had the rest
of the it girls of that time, Lindsay Low and Raven Simone, Alexis
Bludel, Evan, Rachel Wood and some of them have done different interviews saying
kind of like they're always asked about this because it was such an iconic moment
and they all did it. And we know that a lot of times when
there's a big group shot like this, it's people are shot individually and then
added together, and this was one where they all went in. They had
the same They all had to have their fittings and then line up and be
approved and then Poe's like all all together. And so the most recent one
to discuss it was Mandy Moore, which it's her birthday, by the way,
she turned forty. Happy Happy birthday, and Mandelie Moore, and she
was talking about how there were two of the people were fighting over some boy,
there were some drama on set, there were some people were having issues
with the fittings. She even talked about her experience where she felt like it
was really cool for her to be there, but she also felt like she
didn't fit there. She didn't think she was cool enough. She didn't think
she was at the same caliber of all of these other people. The guy
she was dating at the time an amazing tennis player, Andy Erotick, one
of the Olsen twins. She didn't name which one, but one of them
had a crush on her boyfriend and they joked about that and she was like,
that actually made me feel really cool, Like that was her moment made
her feel cool. Hillary uh Yeah. Hillary Duff had talked about this that
she actually found it to be super stressful the whole shoot. Evan Rachel would
probably said the most where she hated this experience, but she later went on
and shot other covers with Vanity Fair and said it was a lovely time,
but she was one of the last to get fitted and other people took up
more time, so she she was more so rushed and she didn't want to
wear what she was wearing, and she was offered, you know, flats
or heels. She picked the flats and they're like, nope, take the
heels and do this. And she So that was the first time she ever
felt like she was part of a cattle call, that she was not a
human. She like all of her any opinion she had was taken away from
her. And she's owt in that moment of like never to let that happen
again. And so that was really a defining moment in her personality and career
too. So this was not only iconic for fans, but it sounds like
it's pretty iconic for them. Sounds like much to do about nothing to me,
But okay, but that's me. Yeah, I just these folks who
are self important. I mean, I get it's a story and people are
going to want to read it, especially probably the folks from your generation who
look to those people for entertainment stories. But this is the only one that
ever really like icon status. Okay, well listen, it's kind of a
matter of the heart, I guess for a few of them. And that's
kind of cool. That's why I leave these stories to you, because each
generation has its If we had a story about some of the people who were
musicians, like there's a whole thing about Phil Spector that's floating around that has
been done, and then you know, that'd be something we'd identify. So
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the great Caldron consultants at toploss dot com acknowledging the stories of high performers high
achievers. You know, they're some folks who are high performers, but they're
not necessarily high achievers. Some are, some aren't. A lot of people.
We were talking about this guy that ran across Africa and raised all that
money for charity. High achiever, yep, high performer yep. Does he
win an award? I don't know that he was looking to win an award.
Was he trying to attract attention? I don't know that he was trying
to He did so in that circumstance. There are those who do things who
are looking for great results because it's good to have great results. It's good,
it's helpful. They're not looking to aggrandize themselves. They just want to
make it happen. So here's an example of that kind of a thing.
A single father living in Nebraska managed to pick up a a salad. He
went stopped in to a store and picked up one of those salads, you
know, those prepared salads. Wanta he got a He bought a Mega Millions
ticket and uh he won a million bucks on the ticket. His name is
brand Edgington went into a grocery store in Fremont, Nebraska, the pre made
salad he bought for lunch, decided to play Mega Millions and then he you
know they his his folks are avid Mega minions and powerball players, but he
only plays once in a while. When the jack bought, like a lot
of other people, Jay Jackpot gets high, wasn't expecting to buy a ticket,
but he did anyway, and why not. So the person in front
of him was cashing in a bunch of scratch tickets and he said, okay,
I'll buy a ticket. He doesn't again, he doesn't play that often.
He's single parent. The salads in what he buys for lunch and more
important to him financially. So he went back to the store and asked the
clerk to help him check the ticket. The number on the ticket. That's
when he found it out. The person behind the counter looked and disappeared for
a minute and then came out with somebody else, and they stared at him
for a second, and she said, don't pass out when I tell you
this. The ticket had five quick pick plays for the drawing, and it
matched all of the winning numbers but not the Mega ball, So he didn't
win the big prize, but he got a million bucks. So what the
heck's wrong with that? Right? That is? Like I love yep.
The odds of winning a million bucks playing the game are one in twelve million,
six hundred seven, three hundred and six. So the odds of winning
any prizes there are only one in twenty four in something. Often a lot
of times you swing your money back, you win the price of another ticket,
right, yes, yeah, that kind of a cool thing. All
right, I'm going to tell a story here because I may sound a little
distracted this morning, because I am, and sometimes I would. This program
is about you and me and us and what's going on in the world that
may affect us directly indirectly. And this affects me directly. My daughter Megan
was involved in a very serious car accident, and she's not She's physically hurt,
physically harmed, but not as much as she's emotionally harmed in the sense
that the you know, she's sitting in a green light. She's on her
way home from work. She's sitting in a red light, and the light
turns green. So you expect to be able to drive across the intersection of
Wiltshire Boulevard in Los Angeles without having to worry about somebody coming from the other
direction basically crashing into your car, destroying it and affecting your immediate life and
limbs. So anyway, that's what happened on Monday afternoon. She was going
across on her way home, and she the light turned green, and so
she drove through the light. Meanwhile, this lung punk kid, a nineteen
year old driving his mother's BMW on his cell phone texting, drives through the
red light and crashes into her car, destroys the car and scares a living
hell out of Meghan, And she's you know, this is the kind of
thing that you The guy crashed into the side of the car where Miles sits
in the back seat, and you know, she's thinking about what would have
happened if and all of the these things because of something that she had no
control over. She didn't do anything wrong. There are five or six witnesses
who say that the light was red going on wheelchair and it was green to
cross Wiltshire where she was, and so here this unnecessary, this disruption in
her life and the ruination of a car was perfectly good car. And this
guy and his parents now are saying that it was Megan's fault, even though
she has all these people. And of course I'm going to take the side
of my daughter, because that's what I would do. But under the circumstances,
I can see these people, I can smell them, I can feel
them, these people of privilege who feel like they, you know, no
matter what happens, my children don't do anything wrong, and therefore you're wrong,
and therefore we're going to sue you, take you to court, do
whatever. But we're not taking responsibility for what happened. But also there were
cameras in there. What was the inter sections wilsher and what else? I
want to say, Beverly, but I don't remember now what she told me.
Who would I believe that one has Yeah, most of those have have
cameras. Yeah, they can just go easily revert to that. But oh,
I'm so glad she's okay. That is traumatic, Yeah, yeah,
it is. And when I read that first she sent me a note,
Daddy and says what happened, And I call her up and and I can
tell from her emotions and see what it is that's going on. And then
her father feels, you know, all right, I want to go right
for the throat of the people who hurt my daughter. And you know,
sometimes you do it the right way. Sometimes you just the whole thing is
just so upsetting. And then I think about mercury and retrograde and stuff about
being careful, and it's it's important. It's just that it was so unnecessary,
so selfish. And then these people, But what are you teaching your
nineteen year old kid when he's responsible and you don't let him take responsibility or
urge or make him take responsibility. You're going to tell everybody in the world
you weren't there, so you didn't see it. You're going by the way.
And I get it, you know, I want to believe your own
children. But then you make a you know, you turn it around.
It's just up. It's upsetting me knowing how upset that she is over and
so you know, bringing closure to it is probably an important thing to do,
but I just this kind of stuff with these people, and I won't
dig into any more who it is and what they're like. But there's a
group of people who have moved into Beverly Hills who are very much self entitled,
and it's just okay, let me move into something else. And I
got my mind over of that, all right. Here's this story, as
long as we're going down the street that has no end, The story of
doctor Derek Todd. This is a story that goes back about ten years jay.
People who have gone to see this guy doctor at bring him to Women's
Hospital here in Boston. Bostin papers are full of this story this morning.
This is some of the woman that I'm looking at who had the first story,
struggling with pain and her spine, so goes to see this rheumatologist who
is recommended by her. Guy's name, as I said, is Derek Todd.
He started normally, this is a thirty seven year old woman that came
down from New Hampshire. But he progressed and started groping her body, and
she said, I think this. He seems to be enjoying this a little
too much. And so this guy obviously crossing the line. But this was
ten years ago and she didn't do anything about it, but apparently she wasn't
alone. She didn't want to talk about it because she felt ashamed and she
didn't think she could do anything about it. She knew it was wrong,
she wanted to tell somebody, but then she didn't. So anyway, it
turns out that this guy has done this two hundred times or more. There's
another This is like that guy that was the director Larry somebody or rather remember
that from the college in the Midwest who groped Yeah, right, exactly.
So anyway, I'm not going to tell you who some of the possible victims
are here, but there's a line as long as your arm of women and
men who have joined a consolidated lawsuit against this guy, Derek Todd, accusing
him of performing on the necessary pelvic therapy, breast examinations, testicular examinations,
rectal examinations. This guy is a creep and so anyway, he was a
doctor treating inflammatory conditions of the muscles. That was a specialty. He's been
abusing patients since twenty ten. It appears egy or something like that, where
it makes sense that some of these exams may have been needed. His right
upon examination it looks like the people that bring him in Women's and before that
he worked to Charles River Medical Associates. They knew about the abuse and they
didn't do anything about it. So that's what this lawsuit is about. They'll
get millions and millions and millions of dollars, which is good, I guess.
But what is there about these people who practice, who go into medicine
or into any practice with an agenda they want to do more, or they
somehow become jilted, or they become mentally deranged or whatever it is. But
there's no defense against him or the hospital who knew what was going on and
they didn't do anything about it. So this will be the well this has
been investigated since April of last year. It'll be a huge I'm looking again
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for the next few minutes. On the technical side of social media, the
people who control let's say Facebook, that's Meta group. Zuckerberg's in charge of
them. Then you have mister muskover at X and what's going on with him.
He's made a prediction. Mister Musk has the capability of the new artificial
intelligence. He said is will surpass human intelligence in a year that's so long
as the supply of electricity and hard work and satisfy the demands of the powerful
technology that's been created by whom? And where where did this stuff come from?
Who developed it? How did it get developed? Did it develop itself?
That's the question. The AI, he says, is smarter than any
one human probably and it'll be in within the next year to five years,
it'll the AI will exceed the capability of all humans. How can you even
how do you deal with that? How do you even think? What?
You know? What does it do to the money supply? What does it
do to the operation of everything, automobiles, airplanes? What does it do
to work? What does it do to people in their sense of self and
accomplishment because there's a reliance on this stuff that we don't think for ourselves.
I every time it started, Where did this they start? Where did this
come from? How did he get developed? Is there a person or a
company? I never see that? I asked that, how did he get
found? To get the founders of these companies Google and Facebook and the old
you know what is now X So those are the people that are responsible for
this. The birth of AI started around nineteen fifty nineteen fifty six with Alan
Turing publishing his work Computer Machinery and Intelligence, which eventually became the Turing Test,
which experts used to measure computer intelligence. And then eventually the term artificial
intelligence was coined and came into popular use. Wow, I don't know,
so it's been around for that long. The start of it was back in
the fifties. Well, you know a lot of stuff, like the Internet
started as a military as a function of the military, so they communicate,
and that's I'm betting that there's some kind of military expertise or sometime, you
know, we have to look into the military involvement in AI. I'm betting
that that's the route, because the military, even though we say it saves
us, it's the root of all evil and my mind, weaponry and the
things that we've created. Just go look at the movie Oppenheim or if you
haven't seen it, and then you'll come out of the movie theater talking to
yourself as much as anything else, all right. Also with mister Musk,
he broke the news, dropped a big bomb on the on the news media,
introducing something called the ROBOTAXI. This is when I went to the Peterson
Auto Museum with my grandson last week and looked around. There's a whole floor
dedicated to Tesla, a truck and cars and stuff. It was disgusting.
Frankly, I was fascinating to see what other old cars and stuff are there.
It's a great place to visit, but there's just way too much Tesla,
way too much focus on this guy and his smug He's just kind of
a smugger as far as I'm concerned. Everything about what he wants he seems
to be able to get because he's got all the money in the world to
do her with the new robotaxi that's supposed to be introduced, doesn't have a
steering wheel, doesn't have any pedals, so he supposedly, I guess it's
this week he's going to unveil this technology. And so then what's the speculation
on what gets done with this stuff? So anyway, so if you look
at there's some places wherever on X that he spills his guts. That's where
the robo taxi story is there. Now you see it all over the place,
and a TV reports, et cetera, et cetera. We're entering no
man's land. Folks, it would seem to me the next Stefan Good Day
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