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four, My goodness, I know. Come on yep. January second,
twenty twenty four. It's the Good Day Program continuing into the New year with
Jay Kershner. Doug Stephen James Collins is at the controls in our studio.
The absolute best program we can do. So as we say hello to new
people, we get ourselves onto stations like wyoh, Youngstown, Ohio starting the
new year with us. That's a good thing. Hello and Happy New Year.
How long is it appropriate for us to say to each other Happy New
Year? Is it a one time this week? Okay? Yeah, if
you haven't seen somebody, I don't think you need to say like I don't
think we need to say to each other every single day. But I think
it's okay to continue to say happy in the Year for the rest of the
week to people. All right, anyway, so we will we will do
that. You can set the rules and I'll follow them. How's that I
will follow you before you go. This is sometimes difficult for people to wrap
themselves around what seems to be impossible. It's a new year already. I
want the old year to last a little longer. I don't know too many
people who thought that was the case. I spent New Year's Eve down with
some friends in Florida, and it wasn't. We were all thinking, okay,
as were most of you. I'm sure thinking this is a new opportunity,
new beginnings, new things, new resolutions, the ill fated tradition of
creating resolutions. The situation all right, So James Collins is in our control
room in the studio, the main studio. You're in Dallas. So what
you have made a resolution or two or three? And what has been the
outcome in past years of you doing New Year's resolutions? There pal you know,
standardly, it's the it's the standard stuff, like you go to the
gym, work out, get a new body, all that kind of stuff.
This year, though, I'm doing it the gym. I'm supporting my
partner because she's going to the gym a lot to kind of you know,
get better, get healthier, And I'm going to support her by going with
her. So yeah, good, that's good. It helps a lot to
have someone to go with you that is absolute accountability partners for sure. Exactly,
yes, exactly, So all right, so this confetti will throw confetti
and James's direction, Jay, what about you? What's on a noisy crowd?
Support do you have for whatever it is that you did to ring in
the New Years? Ringing in the New Year? As far as resolutions,
but oftentimes people they attach the New Year's resolution to conversation on New Year's Eve,
people say, I know, we had this conversation to a point,
all right, so what are you gonna do that. The older you get,
the less you do of this. By the way, I think,
oh the gold is stup. Yeah. My goal for this year is actually
to find my sense of style again. I used to be super stylish,
and then in the last three years I've been living in leggings and T shirts
or leggings and sweatshirts that when it's time to actually get dressed, I'm like,
what am I supposed to wear? What fits my body? And so
yeah, it's just the goal for this series to find my sense of style
again, not just wear clothes, but style clothes. So maybe I'll do
a gift to you a session with my daughter in law Sophie. You follow
her on Instagram. You know what she does. As far as being a
style yes, you need stylist, Yeah she is, so maybe you can
do that. I was looking at a Forbes survey of resolutions. In reality,
most of us slip away, or let's say the resolutions slip away.
That's not news. Six percent of resolutions are the fruit of your labor by
the time you get to next year. At this time, six percent of
you will have fulfilled what you promised you would do for yourself with yourself at
the beginning of this year. So it's the hour glass. Remember what is
that? What is that soap opera that begins with an hour? Our lives?
Yeah, days of our lives, Days of our lives? Right,
well, listen, the days of our lives will last two to three months
on average, and so listen, break if you have goals, break the
tradition, break the rules, or break something, and at this time next
year, maybe you've got some stellar statistics to focus on. There are so
many people at this time. I've found this to be with the folks that
I was with over the weekend, very optimistic and hopeful. They think that,
you know, they have new intentions and they're going to stick with them,
And so that's the thought that you have. Maybe not I think maybe
I'm not I'm doing a disservice here by suggesting that people don't follow through.
Why don't I just turn it around myself and say, I don't really make
resolutions just because it's fraught with danger for me. But I think there's an
opportunity for all of us to remember what it is that we didn't like about
last year. And there are many things that most of us didn't like them
about last year. And then there's a glass who raise a glass cheers to
the new year and resolved to make it a better year. That's kind of
what I've done. There are there are people who we were using the term
casual promises. You're under a casual promise to yourself. You're under no legal
obligation. You're just gonna do something because it feels good or it feels right.
Here's a couple of things that I saw with people sending us notes.
Sharon says, I made no resolutions for the new year. The habit of
making plans of criticizing, sanctioning, and molding. My life is too much
of a daily event for me, so I just don't there's let's see here.
Zach says. My new Year's resolution was to stop saying you go girl
to myself is John? He says, my wife challenged me to make New
Year's resolutions I can keep, so I'm determined and committed to becoming fatter,
lazier, and older. Congratulations John, Let's see here. Mark says,
now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week
you can begin paving hell with them as you usual. And John says,
I set out a box at Donuts just to see how many New Year's resolutions
I could mess with. That's a good idea, right, See, if
you can put the donuts on the table and try to stay away from them.
I find donuts very hard to stay away from. You, No,
I probably would to do. I do not care for donuts remotely, but
I don't really have a sweet tooth. I'm not super into sugary stuff.
Give me salt any day of the week. Really, let's see, dieting
on New Year's Day isn't a good ideas. You can't eat rationally, but
really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary moment by moment. How
many of us had that. I had a couple of really good meals in
Palm Beach over the last couple of days. It was great this you know
that, like three course meals as you go up to get closer to New
Year's I didn't make it. We were done at ten o'clock, but it
started at six, so you can imagine how it's spread out over the course
of the evening. Anyway, keep your resolutions if it's important to you.
This is a time of year when we are focused also on the first new
babies. There were three babies here in Boston, according to the Boston papers,
who were born exactly at midnight. So that's a sweet new Year,
right, Bringing the new year with new babies. There are there's always going
to be this. The two big hospitals here bring them in Women's and Beth
Israel. Welcome to three babies. Margarita and Roberto of Dorchester. As that
we say here about dutchesstter six pound, five ounce Selena came into the world.
Let's see here Eileen and Andrew de Roma, welcome to seven pound fifteen
ounce baby named Emily, got two older sisters and let's see, there was
one of the one. But you know, just think about this is the
story here locally, but there are tons of these babies and no, this,
I mean this is a national story. This is this is one of
those things that, yeah, there's always that one baby, the first baby
to be born at the beginning of twenty twenty four, and this year there
were three that were all born at the exact same time. They were all
the three first babies of the year. Very cool. Huh, Yeah,
that's something And what is that? What is this year? And what do
their lives hold in store for them something. I'm not necessarily making it a
rhetorical question, but think about all of the things that yeah, all right
ahead of us and like astrologically speaking too, yeah, right, the population
of the world has increased and so as of today, eight billion, just
shive, eight billion people live on the planet. I remember remember when I
was a kid, the population of the planet was like four billion. That
would be it's doubled in the past seventy eighty years. Wow. And this
is one of the conversations that we had at dinner about how we were talking
about all of the illegal people coming into our country. We can't seem to
manage. We don't seem to have the leadership, not only here but also
the world's too big. And then you wonder, Okay, what's going to
happen, because the natural progression of things is that the Earth will take care
of itself. There was a big earthquake yesterday in Japan. I don't know
what it was on the Richter scale, was like eight point one or something.
And the western part of Japan although a series of islands, and that's
where when the earthquake took place, that destroyed the atomic nuclear power plant that
was on the east side of Japan, and that took place, it was
about ten years ago. How long ago was that jay you remember on that
Yeah, sounds like if I werecalled ten fifteen years ago somewhere in that vicinity.
And they've just cleaned up from that. And so now this on the
other side of Japan, tidle waves and tsunamis and things like that. I
imagine that island is the most popular in the New World order of things.
There are those who refer to that area of the world as New Asia.
I wonder what that we'll see as we move into the new year. Yep,
there it is twenty twenty four. Billy Joel, one of our most
prolific popular singers, has done very well over his life, and so he's
got a big mansion on Long Island that he has decided in the new year
to sell. I'll tell you how much he's selling it for what the listing
price is and some of the other stuff. He did a New Year's concert,
and so he's been talking a lot about what he wants in his future.
I think he's about the same now. He's seventy four, I'm going
to say about the same age as I am. So he's got a big
mansion on Oyster Bay on Long Island, compound, a twenty six compound.
This is massive, big, huge house. He said, I don't need
to live here anymore. He's talking to the audience. I'm going to sell
my home. He's got a place in sag Harbor. I know my way
around Long Island kind of, but I don't know too much about where anyway.
Not important to the story, probably just the fact that when his plans
for the new year is to sell this big, sprawling mansion that he has
and the price tag. He's asking forty nine million for a house that he
paid a mere twenty two million for when he bought it to twenty two years
ago. The way to turn that, yeah, right exactly. Not that
he needs it, but you know what, you get me the smart stuff
and you do it. So he has a home in Manhattan, Yeah right,
Well he's got a he's got a bunch of places around. Anyway,
he was over the weekend during the old langdine Zion said again, Doug,
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residency at Madison Square Garden too, right, or is that still going?
There was something in the news about this last year that he was going to
end. He's been doing it for ten years. He goes once a month
into Madison Square Garden and every time he goes in there, it's filled and
they get premium. The average is like two hundred bucks a seat for this
place. But what a great residency, I believe it. He has announced
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it funny how you get impact impacted by things that you learn that you know
are true, like the way we treated the Natives and the way you know
the Indians good Indian is a dead Indian from some of the old cowboys,
and how wrong all of that stuff. I'm no liberal political thinker by any
stretch of the imagination. That was one of the things conversing with a lot
of people who have different points of view politically over the weekend, and realizing
that some of the newfound friends that I had were libertarians the same as I
am in a sense, Just okay, leave me alone. Let the government
do what it has to do needs to do to help people in the and
nothing further than that. That's it, We're done finished. I'd be nice
to have that as a new year as a new Year's reality. Here's some
other This is we're talking about the New York City police people who saved those
folks in the burning building over the weekend. Here's another thing. New York
was busy over the weekend. A couple of officers helped rescue a man who
fell onto the subway tracks Unga Bunga. The officers were conducting an inspection of
a subway station. They saw this guy lose his footing and fall onto the
subway tracks. You talk about it. As fast as those trains go through
and as often as they do. They ran toward this fellow who was standing
up but unable to get back onto the platform. And obviously, when you
look at some of the body camera footage from the police, you can see
the officer jumping down on the tracks because this guy can't move, and so
they got them up. They pulled them up on the platform. But this
is something you know, we think, those of us who live in the
country that the most dangerous thing is to be on the road driving. Well,
there are all kinds of damage, there's all kinds of danger and places
all over the country. And living in the city in Brooklyn, New York
in January of twenty twenty four, Yep, you can imagine how this could
be a real and the fact that they jumped on and saved him. Good.
There you go, that's something good the way. Yeah. Also,
before I get into skywatching, I was kind of looking back. We're all
talking about some of the new laws that are supposed to take place this year
is supposed to start. There are a lot of state laws that took effect
yesterday, and these we addressed a few of them earlier on. Some of
the laws are pretty simple, allowing, for example, in Illinois, drivers
to hang things off the rear of your mirror. Okay, that's pretty that's
pretty simple. But then there are some other laws that are kind of fuzzy,
if you will, things that deal with pornography, things that deal with
taxes, things that deal with guns and LGBTQ stuff. I was looking back
at some of the things, Jay that have happened in the past year,
the number of laws that were filed and then enacted that we're targeting LGBTQ,
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, and queer. That's what that stands
for. The American Civil Liberties Union says five hundred eight bills impacting these folks,
and of those five hundred eight bills, eighty four of them were passed
into law and many of them take effect this week. So what does this
do for them to be just left alone? I think there's a you know,
I believe in live and let live. I think a lot of times
some folks who are activists in these various communities who bring attention on themselves sometimes
even though they don't mean to create a problem. They're trying to create awareness,
but they do step up the ignoramuses in the world trying to do something
about them, and I just think, come on, what leave leave them
alone? They leave. You know, if somebody is in your face and
they're trying to convince you of something you don't believe in, then I can
understand your being upset. But most of these people just want to live their
lives and get, you know, along with things. And so why does
why does it? Why does it feel important that we have to pass laws
around the country. The gender affirming care for minors is something I agree ought
not to be. I'm I'm I'm for that. I don't think they get
thirteen, you know what your life is all about, and to begin stuff,
especially in school, they have, you know, hormone therapy and surgery
and stuff. I just think that's what wrong? What about to play Devil's
Adickett? What about in the instance of a child who is intersex? I
don't know what that means even what do you mean intersex? Uh? So
like the difference? I mean, yeah, little. The difference between sex
and gender. Sex is the chromosome level, and they may have the genetic
composition of being male, but they have female body parts or vice versa.
That would be intersex. So then if the child or the parents wanted to
pick which which gender, the gender affirming care in the intersex I'll play Devil's
advocate with you, playing Devil's advocate with me? Where did this? Where?
Where did this start? Where did it begin? How did it begin?
It just seems to have fallen on us in the last four or five
years. That is not the LGBQ that stuff. No, that's been around
forever. They're been gay people forever because that's part of the reality of life.
But to have some of these I don't the answer to the question Jay,
that you presented, I don't have I don't know what to tell you
because I don't know that I understand it, frankly, and I don't know
that most people understand it. And that's why it ought to be kind of
kept in the realm of over there someplace, so that the folks that need
to have whatever attention they need to have. They get the attention, but
it doesn't become a major upheaval and change the course of events of history because
there aren't that many people. And even if there are a large number of
people, which I'm not convinced that there are, that we change everything to
accommodate stuff that isn't a problem to begin with. If it's a problem,
then you deal with it. If there's bullying, or if there's if there
are people that are being abused because of their sexual orientation, because of the
way they live, or the way they look, or whatever it is,
that's just wrong. What business I guess I really turn this around and ask
of to those of you who find this to be a problem other than the
business that I said, you know, the having hormone therapy and surgery when
you're twelve thirteen years old, I just that doesn't ring a bell for me.
And yes, that term intersex youth? Are they transgenders? Is that?
What is that? How you basically explain? Well, transgender is somebody
who is born either male or female and then identifies as the opposite sex,
where intersex you may have the chromosomes of one sex one gender. But say
it like you have the chromosomes that would make you female, but you have
a male appendage that's in our sex, and sometimes in our sex children identify
as what they were born with with the chromosomes, but they have certain hormones
that they need to have gender affirming care essentially, or they identify with the
male appendage over their chromosomes. This is I was talking about the libertarian streak
and the people I was talking to over the weekend and a number of gatherings
that I attended, and talking about, you know, the whole business of
the sexual stuff and where it begins and how you handle it. Why is
it my responsibility, excuse me, or society's responsibility to deal with these individual
things. Maybe gender transformation isn't that so personal that it shouldn't It's like Roe
v. Wade or abortion. I mean, I was sitting with some of
the most conservative Trump supporters in the country and they all agree to a person
that a woman's right to choose is a woman's right to choose and the government
has no play in it whatsoever, no say, and should be out of
it. So this is there's you know, the older some of these rules
are. Maybe they've become inculcated in our lives, and then they are more
acceptable. And maybe that's why every time it comes up for a voting,
these various states that have had they put the Roe v. Wad thing up
on the ballot and they all win. That people want to have privacy,
And I don't know why it doesn't apply to all of these other things here
they were talking about mind your own business. Why is it if you're so
insecure in your own sexuality that you have to make fun of somebody else's sexuality,
Then you're a jerk and you need to look in the mirror and figure
out what it is that makes you. Why are you so threatened by somebody
who's different than you? Are you different and you don't want to admit it?
What's the story? What is it saying thou dost protest too much?
Or something like that. Yes, yes, for a lot of people,
it's very simple where it is yes, it's easily yes or no. It's
not situational, and that's not the case like in the instance of Roe v.
Wade, which you had also commented on, when a lot of people
say, well, it's used as a form of birth birth control. Yeah,
for some people it is. Other people it's because they were raped,
and in some places they would have to co parent with the rapist should a
child have come from that rape, or other instances where it could be a
medical necessity. Where some places where it is you cannot get an abortion unless
it's medically necessary. But there's already a situation that will deem it medically necessary.
It's just in due time, just not yet. Well by that time,
this mother who potentially wanted this child but once future children, it can't
get an abortion because it's not at this moment medically necessary. But in maybe
a month it will be, or a few weeks it will be by the
time she's septic and ends up losing her uterus, making her unable to bear
another child. It's a it's a suppose, yeah, a long way of
saying it's situational. Yep. All right. So I was talking about the
fuzzy dice hanging from the from the the rear of your mirror, and you
can now do that in Illinois. Just so you know a lot of news.
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every hour. If you're new to the program at this juncture, we take
either some social media stories trending stories about celebrities and stuff talk about them,
or we talk about the social media itself. Maybe some of the technology.
Parents and guardians are going to have more control. There's a new law that's
gone into effect, a lot of new law taking place at the beginning of
the year, and this one focuses on children's social media usage, the Social
Media Parental Notification Act. It goes into effect in Ohio this month's Jay.
How do you think it's going to impact teenagers and even younger children. I
think it's irresponsible for parents to Again, I know you have a tablet for
mac, but that he's not using it. He's just it's there for him.
Yeah, it's a learning to enjoy it. But when it comes to
social media's there's so much that even adults sometimes it's like we have to take
a step back that it can be hard on our mental health comparing things and
also back in our day, Doug, we if there was bullying, bullying
ended when a school bell rang where nowadays kids are if they're being bullied,
they're being cyber bully. They take it home with them. And granted,
even though Facebook and Twitter, Instagram didn't exist. When I was in high
school, we had AOL instant messenger, so that was our social media where
if people are being bullied, they still would on that. But the minimum
age that always was was thirteen, so you had to have restrictions in place,
and when you sign up for a new account, you'd have to stay
your age, and sometimes you can't access other parts. But it doesn't it
still doesn't really cause or give you a lot of protections. And now they're
updating that age to the age of sixteen instead of thirteen, but you will
need parental approval and they will, yes, but I'm also I'm not sure
to monitoring this. Yeah, our parents are going to have to put their
driver's license in. Can a child take their parents driver's license where they're not
looking and put, you know, create their own account and lie that they're
actually older than they are? Uh, it looks like it depends on the
website itself or the app. When consent is granted, is it written confirmation
of the accounts sent to the parents. But again, you who you know
that are clever, probably get around there. So some parents won't care and
they'll say, oh, well, do whatever you want there, Sonny,
And yeah, so that will be kind of dicey and also something for us
to all be aware too as parents. It's not about punishing your children either.
It's about teaching. These are teachable moments and everything. And if your
child is doing something on social media and you punish them or you don't really
give the educational side of it where you were saying like here, not just
this is wrong, but this is wrong, and here is why it's wrong.
Here's what we could do instead. You're not stopping them from using social
media. You're just helping them discover new ways to hide their social media use
from you. It's a pretty slippery slope for sure. Also, beginning this
month, Amazon starts displaying advertisements and movies and TV shows on his Prime video
streaming service. So here you go. You thought it was for you paying
two ninety nine a month or whatever it is, and you can and now
the price goes up another two ninety nine if you don't want to see the
ads. So you knew this was going to come, sooner or later.
They promised you, oh, you don't have to look at any ads,
and now they're creeping in and they're going to be good guys offering you an
ad free alternative which you thought you already had, right, you thought you
were already being provided with something there doesn't have any ads, but now there
are. I mean, it'll be more subtle and it'll be shorter and stuff,
but it's still is a it's deceitful. There is a shift now,
according to what I'm looking at here, the whole industry is going to start
bringing in ads. So that Netflix, by the way, which is probably
the most popular streaming service around the world, they have a new subscription tier,
so and the same with Prime Video, and they're all they're going to
all do the same thing, all right, So that that's what you're going
to encounter this year when it comes to streaming services. The next stefan Good
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