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keep it off. Friday Good Day programs the fifth of April. Have no
fear. Do you know what fear is? I ever discussed this with you.
People who are so full of fear, Everything about their thinking is is
aimed at being afraid of stuff. So I will, As I have said
many times, it's kind of like worrying, which is a prayer for something
you don't want to have happen. As fear are fear thoughts. Fear is
false expectations appearing real. F eare false expectations appearing real. So don't don't
let you so go down that road. If you can possibly help it.
You will be better than that, and look at yourself as being better than
that. You're certainly better today than you were yesterday and the day before,
and hopefully not as good today as you will be tomorrow. How about them
apples? Today? And I have that in my mind because today is National
Self Care Day? What is self care? Some might define it as an
act of caring for you, for oneself through means that help you feel your
healthiest and your happiest, and you feel happy, you feel whole. I
know that we all know that feeling so the most common form actually proven by
one test after another, the best form of healthy living is to take care
of yourself, something that otherwise certainly don't think that you're selfish to take care
of yourself, that's not You can't pour from an empty cup or like what
they always say when you're on a flight and something happens and the oxygen masks
drop down, put on yours first, and then other people. Yep.
Can't help others before you help yourself. And that's it. Basically. The
bottom line is something that is somewhat institutionalized depending on where you live and how
you think. Taking care of yourself doesn't mean you can't give to others,
just means, as Jay just suggested, you can't give to others well if
you don't take care of yourself, and is kind of a personal thing.
There are a lot of groups around the country. I think mary An Williamson
is good at helping people to figure this out and others that come from that
train of thought. So anyway, I just thought we would start thinking about
your own self care. And this is a day that has been created to
remind you to take a break on you and put yourself first. All right,
and you do that, Everybody raise your hands if you say, yeah,
okay, I can do that. I'll think about that today. Why
not thing for us to think about those things? All right? Let's see
one of their exciting things have we missed or not talked about. There's the
situation in Kansas. It is mostly Kansas City, I guess. The owner
of the Royals, guy named John Sherman, and the fellow who runs the
Chiefs in Kansas City, Mark Donovan. We're on a stage at a distillery
in Kansas City this week acknowledging the will of the voters. There was an
election, there's primary election, and one of the things on the ballot this
week in Kansas was whether or not to take money tax money and pay for
a new downtown ballpark. And the answer is the answer is no. Right
they said, nope, we're not going to do that. We can't do
it. Fifty eight percent of the voters, by the way, ejected this.
It was a three eighths of a cent sales tax. The Royals were
promising a one billion dollar well. They put in the billion dollars for private
funding on their own. They wanted to use their share of the revenue,
the tax revenue, to build a new ballpark as the centerpiece of a two
billion dollar downtown district. This is a pretty right now. It's a good
neighborhood called the Crossroads. I remember I should have thought about this. One
Maria Trilogy was with this yesterday. The first conversation I ever had with her
was right there in the Crossroads in Kansas City. Forgotten about that until I
just remember what went on there this week. So here's something. This becomes
controversial because a lot of communities are trying and have tried and have been successful
at coughing up a lot of money for sports teams. And there are many
people, and I'm one of them, who thinks that's not a proper use
of taxpayer money. Now you can say, well, you know, there's
a lot of business that's built around it. Businesses do better, We're helping
the downtown. We're doing this, we're doing that. If you look at
how much money these teams are making now and how much money they're worth,
there certainly is a way through private funding to get what they need. And
I'm not sure whether these guys have come back and readdressed this said and call
such one billion from ownership to the projects. And then the chiefs had committed
I think like three hundred million in private money and then they're going to use
hundreds of million in shares. So how about But I think, I guess,
yeah, this will needed some But also what if and this comes with
a lot of school levies and issues that don't get past due to taxes.
Because what if you are not a sports fan. What if you don't you
know, you don't buy tickets, you don't go to the games, you
don't go to the stadium. Then you're stuck having to pay. That's why
a lot of schools fail because people don't have children in schools and they don't
want to pay for the school taxes to help fix something up. It's kind
of in a way like a lot of other things that we get taxed for
that we don't want to be taxed for. We want to pay I don't
want to pay for college education for I would like them the youngsters who have
had their debt repaid or released or whatever we want. I think that's great,
except I shouldn't have to pay for a no should you. We've been
paying. We paid all of our bills over the years. There's something else
going on here that's deeper than this, and that's the problem. These people
are not thinking. It's not a deep thinking solution. It's a superficial and
that's what oftentimes politicians and bureaucrats come up with, superficial ways of fixing serious
problems, and it doesn't work. So anyway, I guess the chiefs and
the royals are going to explore other options. Now they could still find I
bet you they can still find the money, and this was just an easy
way out. Well do you know? That's the IWA's see what happens.
But this is just an example. The reason I brought it up is because
it's an example of the kinds of things that have been done in other communities
and frankly most of the places that I know. It was tried in Boston
and it didn't work well because people don't want to replace Fenway Park, and
it'll be like doomsday before before that ever gets through a place, they're taken
down. All right, let's talk about the solar eclipse. People are getting
ready for Monday turn night into day. All of this across North America.
So the line goes from Texas to Maine. I think most people have figured
that out. Now. There is a place in the sky. It's interesting
because the NASA website says that there is about is between one hundred and eight
and one hundred and twenty two miles in this That is, you can what
you're seeing. The opportunity you have to see at the same time is between
one hundred and eight and one hundred and twenty two miles. So if you're
sitting let's say in a town near Dallas that's one hundred miles away from Dallas,
you will see the stuff at the same time. It's about one hundred
and eight miles and the Sun is in a new cycle increased solar activity.
So if the NAESSA website says viewers of the eclipse can potentially see bright pink
loops and eruptions of solar material in addition to the corona of the Sun,
that is so. It really is so here make sure though there are three
ways to use the solar eclipse. If you have a child, that maybe
is I don't know, in the first grade you ought to take every opportunity
you can find to give them the exposure, because this is something that when
parents and educators and you know, people have an opportunity. This is one
of a kind thing for many people. It will never happen again in a
lifetime, depending on where you live. So if you take there's a technique
comparing historical ideas about eclipses with present scientific answers, and this again you can
find on the NASA website. You can use the eclipse to discuss how things
in science evolve. I've said this and this is this is sort of the
acceptance of science, if you will. Science has always changed. You know,
people say, well, according to the science, Well there's a flaw
in that thinking. That doesn't mean you don't need science or you don't need
to be able to you know, get yourself wrapped around what the scientific method
is. And that's how you get children to be curious. So Monday,
Monday will certainly talk more about it on Monday. I'm positive we will because
we're all wrapped up. All right, here's a question about the way world,
the way the world is thinking. And I'm going to ask this of
you, Jay, because I think that you're maybe more tuned into it than
am I, because I've kind of checked out of some of the new thinking
about girls and boys and stuff. So the question becomes whether pink dresses,
for example, are appropriate for girls, in blue pants for boys? Are
men angry because of their testosterone? The sex and gender stuff that anthropology and
sociology courses have taught us, I remember having all this stuff when I was
just called. I don't know if you took any sociology courses when you were
in school, Jay, but I took a lot of them because I wanted
to examine the approaches to the sociology of understanding people. And now we have
this new focus on sex and gender, women's experiences and men's experience is that
sort of thing? So I think we ought to listen to some information.
There's a new study out from of all places, the Lego Group, finding
that girls feel an intense pressure to be perfect and believe adults give boys different
recognition for their work. Here's Janet Simmons. Did you know that globally,
society is around seven times more likely to attribute terms like sweet, pretty,
cute, and beautiful exclusively to girls. And we know that language has a
big impact on how children see themselves. Amy Morin, psychotherapist and author,
explains how parents can foster creativity in girls. Girls are inherently creative, but
like any skill, creativity develops over time. Use playtime to ask open ended
questions, encouraging your child to share more and open up their creative courage.
Parents can also encourage a growth mindset. This means prioritizing progress over perfection,
so children solve a problem that enables them to focus on overcoming challenges. There
are tools out there to help. The Lego groups Play Unstoppable campaign is calling
on parents to help girls create something without fear of failure by building and then
rebuilding using one brick at a time. For more of these tips, plus
free online and in store workshops, head to Lego dot com. The appropriate
moment in time for us to discuss social media things is right here, right
now, and in the celebrity department top ten trending names, mister Gene Simmons
is in there along with Kiss because of what they're doing. Mister Simmons has
assured fans that what's going on is the right thing at the right time.
You want to know what's going on, don't you write, you do certainly
he Kiss is known as a hard rock quartet. So they announced this week
that they're selling their catalog, as a lot of musicians are their brand name
and their IP address to a Swedish company for three hundred mini in dollars.
Not just any Swedish company. Pop House Entertainment Group, which was co founded
by ABBA's Bjorn oveis oh h and yeah Yeah and Abba. So Kiss at
the end of their very last concert when they took the stage shook that final
bow on the night of the final night of their farewell tour. I think
that was at the end of twenty twenty three, they revealed digitized avatars of
themselves. Well, Abba has done that and Gene Simmons has said this just
selling all of this doesn't mean it's the end of the road. It's more
of a collaboration. So I think that's really kind of where their artistry is
going into the digital space. So the stuff that George Lucas created at Industrial
Light and Magic, our own Bob Ka has done a lot of work there
a lot of people when it comes to the some of the effects that you
see in movies that look real but really aren't all that stuff comes out of
industrial light and magic, which is up in San Francis, And so they've
been able to create a lot of these things that they're talking about here.
You can use the images, for example, use all of these, use
the light, use the pictures, use the sound, and create what has
been now described as digital avatars. And so they're going to be able to
control this is AI stuff, and this will help them. There's a whole
lot of worrying going on with good reason. I think about people in their
images and their music getting stolen by AI. And these people and their images
who the people that own their own image, they can't do anything about,
or at least they haven't been able to. So now there's legislation pending to
protect the images and the sound and thoughts of people who have been robbed of
the value of what they have by AI various AI acquisitions, if you will.
So this is probably a smart thing for them. I mean, they
all get to put Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons and I know who's what's it
to Tommy Thayer? I think Paul, Yeah, these three guys they get
one hundred million bucks a piece out of this. It's wrong with that it's
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at top loss dot com. How are you working through things? That need
to be worked through today. Have you started already and are you struggling?
A lot of people you know do This is a great lesson I learned a
long time ago on the on the page that gives you instructions for life.
Right, you have this this thing that came from your father and maybe your
mother about hard work and doing things the right way. And sometimes that is
correct and sometimes it isn't. Because when you work hard and you don't work
on the right things, then you won't get to where you need to go.
So the important thing here is to learn what it is that is the
what what do you have to focus on? Working hard is great, but
working hard on the right things is even better. And this kind of goes
along with my philosophy. I suppose maybe this suggestion. I'm considered a leader
of thought. Okay, whether I am or not remains to be seen,
but it's nice that people think that I'm a thought leader. You get these
things, you must get them to j in the mail or you get the
email for what do they call them? It's not intellectual, it's it's something
like thought leader, but it isn't quite that phraseology. Nope, you kids
say, I ever have I get a stuff though for some reson you're a
long way from that. And believe me, there's nothing about the AARP that
you can. You know, they sell you lots of stuff, but you
can you can find it pretty much anywhere else as less money. Anyway,
my admonition to you here is to pay attention to how you're working and what
you're working on. That as you work, you're working smart and you're getting
ahead, and you're doing the right things, not working on the wrong things.
All right, just think it through. That's the story here. That's
where my head's at. Now, let's talk about some people who are in
the news, shall we. On the Friday Good Day program. Bill Clinton
has written a book called Citizen Clinton, Citizen My Life after the White House.
He says that the book is going to cover everything from his campaigns,
his wife, his views on a lot of things that are going on,
like the January sixth insurrection, the Iraq War. He did write a book
what about twenty years ago that was entitled My Life and so there. I
think the news book new. They've just anounced it because they're putting it together.
It'll be out in time for Christmas. Yay I want to. I
book them on Bill Clin and give it to all my friends. So anyway,
this is basically about his years since he left the White House, and
the stories are mostly other people who have changed his life. So the people
that he worked with probably going back to visit and the book will do fine
because Clinton is still popular. Yeah, this interesting read. Yeah, I
think they Yeah, I agree with you. You know, he's been a
lot of controversy since then, the whole business about Epstein. I guess he's
going to address that in the book. And Okay, so he'll tell his
side of that story. And you know what, a lot of things happened
through influence. But the old weathers smoke this fire. Sometimes that's true,
sometimes it's not, so you give him the benefit of that. But anyway,
he's going to tell the story, and the books out in November,
and YadA, YadA. Conan O'Brien he had other works. He he co
authored with James Patterson. We did that's right, Uh huh yeah, actually,
yeah, right. He's done very well as ex presidents do. In
terms of monetary I think he was. He and Hillary both get is it
fifty thousand dollars a speech something along that line, and they are, you
know, both he and Obama. Most of the recent presidents. George Bush
never did it because he didn't need the money, but these two. You
know, when Clinton went into the White House, he didn't have a penny
to his name, and Obama, yeah, I had a little bit,
not much. So they all have now at least a couple of hundred million
bucks in bag accounts here and there. It's being the president's good business.
It would appear Conan O'Brien is in the focus. I could have put this,
I suppose in the social media department because his name is trending. You'll
see the story all over the place today. He's going to go back to
the Tonight show, but as a guest, Jimmy Fallon invited him to come
back. So he's going to be on next Tuesday. Those of you who
are Conan O'Brien fans, he's doing a HBO Max series called Conan O'Brien Must
Go, so you know it'll be him and the stuff that he's I didn't
he I used to like the program before they made it a half hour after
he left and he did this show. If it was at Fox, where
was it that he did. He did another late night show and it was,
you know, a couple of years for jay Leno for that year old
then all of the together, they wanted to move the time and all of
this stuff. Yeah, he felt like it was going to kind of ruin
what the show that he had just left was doing, and so he opted
out and jay Leno came back for a short period. Yeah, he did
not sabotage. You know, I believe Leno when he says O'Brien said that
he thought jay Leno sabotaged him and O'Brien and jay Leno said he didn't and
it was back of this kind of childish and I've read it was more about
the network, not jay Leno, but it was the network this sabotage.
Yeah, well because it wasn't didn't work. It was awful. Yeah,
John O'Brien was terrible in that role, awful, terrible. Jay Leno is
not perfect. Johnny Carson was the only really perfect one. But I have
on the rake what is it raku Roku roku. The house in California has
Roku, So once in a while I'll watch an old episode of Johnny Carson.
They have on roku. And there were three or four episodes on kind
of like right after the other, one after the other with Jay Leno when
he was a kid with his black hair and he was starting and Johnny Carson
loved having him on. And then when all of the controversy started. When
he was retiring, he told NBC he wanted David Letterman to take his place,
and NBC said, nah, we like Jay Leno better. So what
did David Letterman do? He went CBS and the rest, as they say,
is history. But no, it worked out for everybody pretty well.
In fact, the only sad thing we were talking about jay Leno earlier this
week because his wife has to be in a conservator ship situation. She's got
kind of bad dementia. Looks like yeah, yeah, some days she doesn't
recognize her husband, some dashes her own birthday. Yeah, all right.
Here's another name in the news. Derek Deerman. Mister Deerman is a convicted
killer, been on death row in Alabama. He said he does not want
to delay justice anymore. Justice for the families deserves to take place. He
murdered five people eight years ago and he says I'm ready to pay. So
he apparently was interviewed this week, and he said he mailed some letters this
week to the governor of Alabama, as well as to some judges and the
Attorney general who were involved in his case. He had been there was one
group that put up the money to appeal the convictions, and he says,
nat, I don't want that anyway. He's only thirty six years old.
He says, now is the time, yeah, for the victims and their
families to get the justice they rightly deserve and have some closure. So he's
not told to victims came out and it's all over the place in the news
meeting now, so they must all know. He says he's laid awake many
nights thinking what would I say to any of them if I ever had the
chance the opportunity to say something. And that's he said, the reason I
made my decision to have my sentence carried out. Words don't have any weight
in this situation. The only thing I would say everybody is that I'm sorry.
So, man, how do you even begin to try to figure out
how these people who do these sort of heinous things think or don't think?
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