Speaker 1: Okay, so that's where jingle comes. Whyat sharp Welcome to
Speaker 1: the other side of Midnight?
Speaker 2: High Hello?
Speaker 1: Really, why do you say that.
Speaker 3: Always?
Speaker 2: It's such a pleasure on.
Speaker 1: Why is this a crappy phone connection? What's that about?
Speaker 1: Do you hear the problem? I hear, I do not.
Speaker 4: I know you.
Speaker 1: I hear every third word, and I hear an echo.
Speaker 1: So we're going to hang up and call you back. Okay,
Speaker 1: so hang up, We're going to hang up on you.
Speaker 1: We're going to call you back, and I will vamp hi.
Speaker 1: It's the other side of midnight. It's a show filled
Speaker 1: with exciting production and complicated hoops and it's a yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh it's Monday morning. Welcome brand new week. I hate
Speaker 1: it when morning men say that. It's like, I mean
Speaker 1: a brand new week and I've got I can't hear
Speaker 1: anything in test test I've got. Oh, we got the
Speaker 1: earphones with the tin the tinfoil like you made when
Speaker 1: you were a kid and you would set up an
Speaker 1: intercom that you could talk to your best friend at
Speaker 1: the house next door. Well, that's what I've got. It's
Speaker 1: a special challenge. Do you hear an edge in my voice?
Speaker 1: Pay no attention to it. Just pay attention to the
Speaker 1: words I had the best weekend. There are two reasons
Speaker 1: for this, and I hope you had a well. I
Speaker 1: don't care if you had a best weekend. But I
Speaker 1: had a great weekend. And here's the weekend I had.
Speaker 1: My wife and children were not home any questions, and
Speaker 1: then they're not going to be home all week. And
Speaker 1: then I did what I wanted to do. Now I'm
Speaker 1: going to give you an example. Maybe you can relate
Speaker 1: to this. Maybe you can share this. When I was
Speaker 1: in a room and I wanted to go to a
Speaker 1: different room, I stood up and I walked to that room,
Speaker 1: like what I know, it's insane, mean, nobody said did
Speaker 1: you leave anything? Did you leave any cups in the
Speaker 1: TV room? Are there any cups in the TV room?
Speaker 1: For some reason, the inventory on the cups dominates my
Speaker 1: wife's thinking. It is completely changed from our honeymoon. Now
Speaker 1: it's did you leave anything in the TV room? Is
Speaker 1: there anything in there that I'll need to pick up later?
Speaker 1: You know how this goes. You've seen this transcript your
Speaker 1: entire life. Your mother shared it with you, your wife
Speaker 1: has shared it with you. If you made that mistake
Speaker 1: every time when I was a kid. We were in
Speaker 1: the car with my grandfather. Every time on a Saturday
Speaker 1: we went by a church and there was a wedding
Speaker 1: four point thirty on a Saturday afternoon. My grandfather would
Speaker 1: always say the same thing, go another mistake. That's all
Speaker 1: he'd say, without any extrapolation, without any comment. It was
Speaker 1: like another mistake, and there it is. And here's the
Speaker 1: best part of that story. I have a happy marriage.
Speaker 1: This is I have a good marriage, and I'm delighted
Speaker 1: when they're all away for a week. They're down with
Speaker 1: her sister and the dreaded brother in law. The dreaded
Speaker 1: brother in law. I watch something in this time alone
Speaker 1: that I don't binge watch. I view people who binge
Speaker 1: watch TV shows. As week. I watch an episode and
Speaker 1: then I stop, and then I do something constructive like
Speaker 1: go into the kitchen, and then a day or two later,
Speaker 1: I'll watch the next episode, and in the next episode.
Speaker 1: But this time, I see this series and I watched
Speaker 1: the first episode and I'm like, oh my god, this
Speaker 1: is incredible, and then the next one, and I binge watched.
Speaker 1: I would binge watch all eight episodes of this particular
Speaker 1: series that was like whoa never say anything this great
Speaker 1: for me. It may not be perfect for you, but
Speaker 1: I think you'll have a good time. It's called Star City.
Speaker 1: You may recall that Russia had a Cape Canaveral. Russia
Speaker 1: had a Cape Kennedy and it was called Star City.
Speaker 1: That's where all of their rockets went off from. That's
Speaker 1: where their astronauts and the teams that built the rockets worked.
Speaker 1: It was in one isolated place, much like Florida, and
Speaker 1: it was called Star City. This is about an alternate
Speaker 1: history where the Russians got to the Moon first. All right,
Speaker 1: you've already seen that series that was called something Beyond
Speaker 1: Space or something. I don't know, but this was different.
Speaker 1: This was Russia beat us to the moon. And this
Speaker 1: series is about what happened after that at Star City
Speaker 1: to the Russians, what happened next in the Russian space program.
Speaker 1: And it's not about getting in space. It's not about
Speaker 1: all of the challenges getting into space. It's about living
Speaker 1: at Star City. Now. I always thought that was a
Speaker 1: better name than Cape Canaveral. I always thought that was
Speaker 1: a better name than Cape Kennedy. I thought, wow, star City,
Speaker 1: that is pretty cool. I watched all eight episodes, and
Speaker 1: it was stunning. Do we have Wyatt? No? Is there
Speaker 1: a reason we don't have Wyatt? Is it a new
Speaker 1: phone system to Canada? What is the problem there? Well,
Speaker 1: just keep calling, just keep calling, radio show, live, radio show.
Speaker 1: Walter's talking away. Probably should just keep not talking to
Speaker 1: each other. Just trying to get Whyatt. I know I'm insane.
Speaker 1: I want you to hear from Wyatt Sharp, who joins
Speaker 1: us at the beginning of every Monday morning show, Sharp
Speaker 1: as Hell. He happens to be a senior in high
Speaker 1: school who sounds better than anybody on this radio network.
Speaker 1: He's a really smart guy, but he's also a shockingly
Speaker 1: good broadcaster. I'm very nervous when he's about putting him
Speaker 1: on because he does sound better than I do, and
Speaker 1: that is a challenge. No, I didn't mean it that way.
Speaker 1: It's you know what I'm talking about anyway, So it
Speaker 1: star City. Now get a load of what this is.
Speaker 1: We get to see what the Soviet Union worked like
Speaker 1: at the height of the Cold War, at the very
Speaker 1: height of their power sixty sixty one, sixty two sixty three,
Speaker 1: when Krush Jeff was in charge and then Breshnef was
Speaker 1: in charge, it was like really hardcore Russian and we
Speaker 1: get to see how it operated in ways that were terrifying.
Speaker 1: Their spy system way advance compared to ours, their military
Speaker 1: internal operations way advance compared to ours. And it's an
Speaker 1: alternate history as to what happened after they got to
Speaker 1: the moon first, how did they deal with it? What
Speaker 1: was fascinating is what happened to us after we got
Speaker 1: to the moon first. And we'll talk about that. Do
Speaker 1: you have him now? Guys? Do you have him now?
Speaker 1: Could I talk to him? Are you just gonna keep
Speaker 1: talking to him? This is he that charming to you? A? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you more about Star City in seconds, But
Speaker 1: right now I want to talk about Wyatt Sharp. Welcome
Speaker 1: to the other side of Midnight, Wyatt. Were they having
Speaker 1: a chat with you?
Speaker 5: You know it's the great Canadian cell service, I think
Speaker 5: is the problem?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not funny. You have updates for us. Wyatt
Speaker 1: runs a YouTube channel that's terrific. He also happens to
Speaker 1: be a senior in high school, has booked amazing guests
Speaker 1: like Hillary Clinton, and has a has a real gift,
Speaker 1: like a real gift. You're going to use this to
Speaker 1: get into Harvard. I know you will. So what's your news?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 1: What? What are you doing.
Speaker 6: This week?
Speaker 5: In Bertin The Nancy Guthrie stuff has really continued to
Speaker 5: get a lot of attention after my interview with the
Speaker 5: PMA County Sheriff Chris Nanos, there's been a lot of
Speaker 5: developments in the case. They release some ransom notes and
Speaker 5: in my interview with him with this a little bit
Speaker 5: last week, but it's been kind of expanded upon. They
Speaker 5: confirm that they're using something called genetic genealogy to basically
Speaker 5: connect family members to the potential suspect and an effort
Speaker 5: and make their investigation move along a little bit faster
Speaker 5: because people are getting pretty frustrated at the pace.
Speaker 2: Of the investigation.
Speaker 1: What does that mean?
Speaker 5: Well, basically, what is genealogy?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: What is the pace? When do they expect some conclusion?
Speaker 1: Are they happy with the pace?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: I think that's what I'm getting at, is that they're
Speaker 5: definitely not. And it's not so much even they're frustrated
Speaker 5: with the pace of the investigation so much is the
Speaker 5: fact that the FBI director Cash Bettel, for example, said
Speaker 5: just this past week that they were withheld from the
Speaker 5: scene for too long, and that the sheriff of was
Speaker 5: didn't allow the FBI to use Quantico to go through
Speaker 5: a lot of the DNA in various labs. Quanticos, of
Speaker 5: course the FBI's premier lab that they use for most
Speaker 5: of these types of high profile investigations, but the local
Speaker 5: officials there refused, and the FBI attributes that refusal to
Speaker 5: know the slowed pace of this investigation.
Speaker 1: Why could a local sheriff prevent the FBI from becoming involved?
Speaker 1: How does that work? I would have assumed the FBI
Speaker 1: had priority.
Speaker 5: You know, that's a great question, and it's one that
Speaker 5: a lot of people are asking, But it's actually the
Speaker 5: state officials that can prevent the FBI from accessing the scene,
Speaker 5: and that's exactly what they did. You also have I've
Speaker 5: been seeing online some people saying, well, why can't the
Speaker 5: federal government just remove the sheriff? And that goes back
Speaker 5: to the fact that in Arizona they have a democratic
Speaker 5: governor and Chris Nanos, the sheriff there is a Democrat.
Speaker 5: So you know, even though the sheriff is the lead investigator,
Speaker 5: there's still a lot of partisan politics at play.
Speaker 1: Well, Plus, isn't the sheriff elected there not appointed. Correct, Yes,
Speaker 1: therefore it'd be impossible to remove the sheriff he was appointed.
Speaker 1: They'd have a better shot. But what I don't understand
Speaker 1: is why, Well you don't have this answer, but why
Speaker 1: would they delay? Why wouldn't they want all the help
Speaker 1: that they could possibly get. Is it just so that
Speaker 1: they'd get the credit? Is that it so the sheriff
Speaker 1: could solve the case and get the credit without help.
Speaker 5: I think that's definitely part of it, because I think, again,
Speaker 5: going back to the politics, he wants to be, you know,
Speaker 5: the poster child, so to speak, for solving the investigation,
Speaker 5: and if the FBI comes in and solves the case,
Speaker 5: then you know, it might take some of it away
Speaker 5: from him. But I will also say that part of
Speaker 5: the problem is that Pema County, the area where this
Speaker 5: is happening, they have not dealt with high profile investigations
Speaker 5: like this ever, not even just recently, but ever. The
Speaker 5: last high profile thing that happened in Pema County was
Speaker 5: the shooting of gab Giffords and that was over ten
Speaker 5: years ago. And so I think a lot of it
Speaker 5: I attribute to just not really a whole lot of
Speaker 5: expertise in that area, even down to you know, a
Speaker 5: lot of the not just the shriff himself, but a
Speaker 5: lot of the people who make up the office of
Speaker 5: the sheriff. Through no fault of their own, this is
Speaker 5: something that really they weren't prepared for because of the
Speaker 5: sure size of their community.
Speaker 1: You and I have never heard of Puma County, Arizona before.
Speaker 1: This must be a very very rural, desert oriented, abandoned community,
Speaker 1: and it's curious that a woman with those means would
Speaker 1: have lived in such a pathetic place.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I mean I just think for her, I mean,
Speaker 5: her house is very nice. I think a lot of
Speaker 5: people I live in a very rural area, hence the
Speaker 5: cell service sometimes. But I think that for a lot
Speaker 5: of people who know Nancy Guttriy, it was actually just
Speaker 5: them trying to map out how is it that someone
Speaker 5: would even know how to get to her house because
Speaker 5: of how rule and remote her house actually is. And
Speaker 5: that's why in the very beginning of the investigation, as
Speaker 5: with many investigations of this nature, you have people turning
Speaker 5: to the immediate people who knew her as kind of
Speaker 5: the first primary suspects in the investigation. Because of how
Speaker 5: rural and inaccessible her house actually was.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my first thought was the brother, the brother, the
Speaker 1: son in law who looks like resputant. The son in
Speaker 1: laws looks terrifying. That was my first thought. I assume
Speaker 1: they have they have blocked him out and he he
Speaker 1: is in. It's out. He's been ruled out, all right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there are other stories you guys are working on tonight.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: The other one that I found, and we've hinted at
Speaker 5: it before but not as directly, and that is that
Speaker 5: gen Z is actually starting to put their phone down
Speaker 5: more so than before. Because of course, what we know
Speaker 5: is gen Z uses phones more than any other generation.
Speaker 5: They're finding innovative ways to use it, but sometimes they're
Speaker 5: getting addicted to it, right, And that's why you've seen
Speaker 5: governments trying to ban both cell phones, especially in educational settings,
Speaker 5: but also banning things like social media as well. But
Speaker 5: there's the report that's kind out now that says that
Speaker 5: young people are actually not using cell phones as often
Speaker 5: as they perhaps were, and a lot of it comes
Speaker 5: down to young people wanting to have more social time
Speaker 5: with friends and with family because it's something that people
Speaker 5: have lost out on a lot recently. With COVID nineteen.
Speaker 5: They were locked inside their houses, they were having to quarantine.
Speaker 5: And so it's really the constant notification and their algorithms
Speaker 5: and the social pressure that is in some ways creating
Speaker 5: a lot of chronic stress for young people, and I
Speaker 5: think young people themselves are starting to realize that.
Speaker 1: All Right, Wyatt Sharp. What's the name of your channel on.
Speaker 5: YouTube, The Sharp Exchange. And We've got some really big
Speaker 5: interviews coming up as well, which I'm sure we will
Speaker 5: talk about here on your show over of course of
Speaker 5: the next few weeks. I won't give away one of
Speaker 5: them because it's very big, but I have one coming
Speaker 5: out tomorrow with James Carville on the state of the
Speaker 5: Democratic Party and kind of where things are heading. We're
Speaker 5: talking about the Michigan primary that's coming up on August fourth,
Speaker 5: and lots of other news as well.
Speaker 1: All Right, The Sharp Report YouTube, Wyatt Sharp, thank you
Speaker 1: for being on the Other Side of Midnight. Walter Sterling,
Speaker 1: Red Apple Audio Networks, Mattea Spoonbowman, Hollywood. Welcome to the
Speaker 1: Other Side of Midnight with Walter Sterling live from Hollywood.
Speaker 1: Finally we have a live connection that reaches Hollywood. It
Speaker 1: cost a tremendous amount of money to get this in
Speaker 1: and fourteen people working overtime to actually be able to
Speaker 1: reach to you. And soon I'll get a pair of
Speaker 1: headphones that enable me to hear stuff and I'll get
Speaker 1: on it. Right now, I'm staring at a black computer screen,
Speaker 1: and then over there is another black computer screen. But
Speaker 1: you know, the trick is to ignore all that and
Speaker 1: just plow ahead. And then you know what people say,
Speaker 1: You know what people say. Then they say, they say, boy,
Speaker 1: he's a professional. What a professional he is if he
Speaker 1: can do a show with a black computer screen there
Speaker 1: and another one over there. And then if I touched
Speaker 1: one that was you know, feeding Dominic's Sacred show and
Speaker 1: it went out for eight seconds, Oh my god, that's
Speaker 1: a disaster. But if it happened to me twice, there's
Speaker 1: no problem. You know. The overnight guy boom boom in Hollywood.
Speaker 1: Thank you for being my friend. I don't have any left.
Speaker 6: Well, it's a pleasure to be your friend, and I
Speaker 6: bid you a very pleasant mooring. Although you've had so
Speaker 6: much fun thus.
Speaker 1: Far, I've had a special time.
Speaker 6: It's a special time. Speaking of special time, you were
Speaker 6: at home by yourself. You were enjoying the new series
Speaker 6: on Apple TV, Star City, and I'm curious to know
Speaker 6: where the orange flavored Hostess cupcakes involved at all. Well,
Speaker 6: you were alone and secretly there.
Speaker 1: That's a very good question. The orange cupcakes are such
Speaker 1: a controversial food that I don't dare eat them in
Speaker 1: the home. I only eat them alone in the car,
Speaker 1: which is also where I eat gas station chicken. Now,
Speaker 1: have you ever had gas station chicken?
Speaker 6: I haven't been that brave.
Speaker 1: Well, I didn't think I was that brave either, but
Speaker 1: I saw every time I went to this one gas
Speaker 1: station which had this incredible aroma of gas station chicken.
Speaker 1: And I saw it being made and you could get wings,
Speaker 1: legs or or something. Strip strip not a known part
Speaker 1: of a chicken. And so I and it smelled great.
Speaker 1: But here's the two things that persuaded me to try it. One,
Speaker 1: the owner of the gas station made it. It was
Speaker 1: always the owner of the gas station who made it,
Speaker 1: so I figured there was some hope there. But the
Speaker 1: other thing is there was always a line. It didn't
Speaker 1: matter what time day I went in, there was always
Speaker 1: a line of people wanting the gas station chicken.
Speaker 6: Hmmm.
Speaker 1: And there then I got it, and it's a delicate
Speaker 1: synthesis of light, grease and just enough spice in the coating.
Speaker 1: Wo I know, and it's cooked perfectly. I never thought
Speaker 1: i'd eat it, but I can't admit it to members
Speaker 1: of my family. They'll be furious that I would eat
Speaker 1: the gas station check and furious.
Speaker 6: Did the chicken me get home with you to watch
Speaker 6: the television program this weekend? Or did it just stay
Speaker 6: at the.
Speaker 1: Gas I sit in the car at the gas station,
Speaker 1: don't I don't even leave the gas station in the car.
Speaker 1: And then then I'll go home and I will watch
Speaker 1: Star City, which is uh so far from me, the
Speaker 1: best television I've seen in years.
Speaker 6: I understand that Ronald D. Moore was one of the
Speaker 6: creators on that, and he's got you know, he's involved
Speaker 6: in the Battlestar galact the TV series, the Star Trek Generations,
Speaker 6: Star Trek Next Generation, Star Trek First Contact. So he's
Speaker 6: a sci fi guy, and I think that's probably why
Speaker 6: he's had a lot of sci fi experience. Did he
Speaker 6: do probably one of the reasons.
Speaker 1: Did he do Strange New Worlds? Is he involved with
Speaker 1: Strange New Worlds? Which is amazing.
Speaker 6: No, I haven't seen that series yet. I don't know
Speaker 6: if he is, but I know that he did those
Speaker 6: three at least, and so well, that's probably one of
Speaker 6: the reason, since it's going in that direction.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's something I have.
Speaker 3: To tell you.
Speaker 6: This has been the biggest weekend in Hollywood in recent memory.
Speaker 6: I mean this is a big thing. I mean big, big, big, big.
Speaker 6: The two movies that are out have now made Hollywood
Speaker 6: the most money it's made since before COVID. So the
Speaker 6: first one, of course is Spider Man Brand New Day.
Speaker 6: We talked about it last week. That's the new Spider
Speaker 6: Man movie, which is out right now, and it's rather
Speaker 6: good and it certainly seems to be reflecting in the
Speaker 6: attendance worldwide Spider Man has made since last Friday. Nine
Speaker 6: and twenty seven million dollars.
Speaker 1: That's impossible, It's impossible.
Speaker 7: Nuts.
Speaker 6: This makes it the biggest opening weekend, second only to
Speaker 6: the one point two billion opening weekend of Avengers Endgame,
Speaker 6: and that was before COVID. So, as I thought might happen,
Speaker 6: Spider Man would knock the Audist out of first place,
Speaker 6: and it certainly has. But nine hundred and twenty seven
Speaker 6: million dollars worldwide now locally. What I mean locally, I
Speaker 6: mean in the US and Canada. The Spider Man made
Speaker 6: three hundred and fifty five million, but that's an amazing
Speaker 6: worldwide gross. So it's remarkable to me that the other
Speaker 6: movie that also has Tom Holland, Zendia and John Burnhal,
Speaker 6: The Odyssey, it just sailed past nine hundred and eleven
Speaker 6: million worldwide on its third weekend. So it's been a
Speaker 6: very nice time in Hollywood. Universals are proding its biggest
Speaker 6: grosses probably since those old Monster movies with Boris Carloff,
Speaker 6: like Frankenstein and Baylor Lugosi. So it's it's a good
Speaker 6: time in Hollywood, and people are very happy with Tom Holland,
Speaker 6: who's having a great time in his career right now.
Speaker 6: He just married Zendaya. He's having these terrific movies, and
Speaker 6: then he's going to play a fault people Fred Astaire
Speaker 6: coming up, so.
Speaker 1: Well, thank god, he's worst in Hollywood. Thank god he
Speaker 1: has worked. Because we were worried about Tom Holland getting work.
Speaker 1: I know you won't, all right, my friend, what are
Speaker 1: you reviewing next week? You know?
Speaker 6: Oh, I haven't seen the playlist yet from the studios
Speaker 6: there's some sort of a rom com that has sort
Speaker 6: of a mysterious thing that I don't even remember the title.
Speaker 6: You know, I go to four pictures a week, and
Speaker 6: I just put in my calendar I have to go.
Speaker 6: I've never watched the trailers ahead of time because I
Speaker 6: don't want to be influenced. And then when I see them,
Speaker 6: I said, oh, well that was good or not good,
Speaker 6: and then we talk about it. So looking forward to
Speaker 6: talking to you again on Friday morning.
Speaker 1: How do I find you on Facebook?
Speaker 6: Mattias Bomball's Hollywood on Facebook? It's M A T I
Speaker 6: A S B O M B A l apostrophe s
Speaker 6: Hollywood just like the city. Matias Bomball's Hollywood on Facebook.
Speaker 1: Thanks Walter, thank you for being on the other side
Speaker 1: of Midnight with Walter Sterling. You and I are on
Speaker 1: the radio in Chicago on the Great wg N. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, there's no accounting for taste. There you are.
Speaker 1: You got a phone number? We can talk at any time.
Speaker 1: I'll give you a reason to talk in just moments.
Speaker 1: Eight hundred eight four eight nine two two two, My gosh,
Speaker 1: is it doctor Sky? Also from Arizona? Are you in Arizona?
Speaker 8: Tonight, sir Ah sure end, good morning, Walter. Good to
Speaker 8: be with you.
Speaker 1: It's nice, but I mean your voice is just it
Speaker 1: ruins my mystique. Like I think I have a good
Speaker 1: radio voice and then you come on the air and
Speaker 1: all is lost.
Speaker 8: No, I'm here in Arizona actually struggling through one of
Speaker 8: the most ridiculous days. But we expect that in Arizona
Speaker 8: one hundred and seventeen degrees. If you believe that the momenter.
Speaker 1: That's impossible. How it is? How does that feel terrible? Yeah?
Speaker 8: I mean I set the air conditioning. I think we
Speaker 8: had an air conditioning conversation before, so.
Speaker 1: I've lowered it.
Speaker 8: Actually I had it at eighty, but after listening to you,
Speaker 8: I put it at seventy eight. And my electric bill
Speaker 8: is going up exponentially.
Speaker 1: So there you go, right, And the beauty of that
Speaker 1: is that every year you and I by energy efficient
Speaker 1: appliances progressively energy efficient appliances, and you go, well, I
Speaker 1: got another energy efficient appliance, and therefore my bill should
Speaker 1: go down. And it never goes down no matter how
Speaker 1: many energy efficient appliances we buy, the bill always goes up.
Speaker 1: Makes no sense. It's one of the mysteries, Doctor Sampsai,
Speaker 1: it's a great mystery. Well listen, doctor Sky, there's a
Speaker 1: great story that's fascinating, and I'd like you to share
Speaker 1: it with us because it's a doctor Sky's story and
Speaker 1: share your theories.
Speaker 8: Well, Walter, this week will be another good week for
Speaker 8: people who love space And even if you don't, it's
Speaker 8: good to pay attention because Wednesday, something unusual is going
Speaker 8: to happen. It's been done before, but it's never received
Speaker 8: the media attention. And what is that They will be
Speaker 8: actually intentionally slamming into the Moon an upper stage of
Speaker 8: a SpaceX booster from a mission Walter that happened back
Speaker 8: in January the fifteenth of twenty twenty five. The booster
Speaker 8: was actually trying to get it two space probes, two
Speaker 8: privatized space probes to the surface of the Moon, one
Speaker 8: Japanese and one American. But unfortunately, apparently I don't know
Speaker 8: the facts on this, but I believe this is what
Speaker 8: I've been reading. That booster never got its way out
Speaker 8: of the way, so it's got into this weird orbit
Speaker 8: around the Moon. So what's going to happen Wednesday? And
Speaker 8: the calculations tell us that the impact will take place
Speaker 8: at this large booster, but we have to put it
Speaker 8: in the mind like a theater in the mind concept
Speaker 8: forty five feet long, twelve feet wide. We don't know
Speaker 8: if it has any external you know, internal propellants still
Speaker 8: in it, God help us. But it will be slammed
Speaker 8: into the Moon, traveling at over five thousand miles an hour.
Speaker 8: Whoa with a kinetic effect. If you look at kinetics,
Speaker 8: you know the energy that can be imparted or exported
Speaker 8: out three tons of TNT. That's their estimate. So why
Speaker 8: are they doing this? I mean, it's not just for fun.
Speaker 8: We don't want to intentionally litter the Moon, but that's
Speaker 8: a whole nother story. It's actually to test what happens
Speaker 8: when we create craters because in the future, at least
Speaker 8: that's what I hope, when we do habitate the Moon,
Speaker 8: we're going to have to understand what impactors do and
Speaker 8: what kind of damage they do on the surface of
Speaker 8: the Moon. Now, from the observation side, I've been viewing
Speaker 8: the Moon like probably many people with decent to very
Speaker 8: high power telescopes. So the point is some media hype
Speaker 8: and I want to correct this if we can on
Speaker 8: this show, your show, I think so much in so
Speaker 8: many in the media are talking about this as if
Speaker 8: it might be a visible event for people. I wish
Speaker 8: it were, but I can't rule it out. So you
Speaker 8: would need a fairly large telescope. So here's the dynamics
Speaker 8: of what's going to happen. The curring estimates say that
Speaker 8: on Wednesday morning, two thirty five a m. Eastern daylight time,
Speaker 8: and this window can change by minutes who knows West
Speaker 8: coast of course, eleven thirty five pm Pacific daylight time.
Speaker 8: Now I'll be out there with the telescope the day
Speaker 8: before just to set it up. But the best views
Speaker 8: would happen for the eastern to midwestern parts of the nation.
Speaker 8: Here or obviously anywhereward. It's dark what you could see theoretically,
Speaker 8: and this has happened before. I've watched a few of
Speaker 8: these events, never to see the impact, but we looked
Speaker 8: at exactly the location. Back in two thousand and nine,
Speaker 8: NASA had a mission called l Cross to the Moon.
Speaker 8: It was a large booster from a Centaur rocket, and Walter,
Speaker 8: what they were doing is slamming it into the south
Speaker 8: Pole area of the Moon. And this actually this experiment
Speaker 8: when they slammed it in. We actually detected water vapor.
Speaker 8: So that's why if people wondering why are we headed
Speaker 8: to the south pole of the moon, the possibility now
Speaker 8: is a fact that there is water vapor in the
Speaker 8: form of ice there, but this one which will be
Speaker 8: visible on the very bright side the left edge of
Speaker 8: the moon. It may be impossible to see the flash,
Speaker 8: but who knows. But what could happen Walter, is that
Speaker 8: to briefe from that impact could actually send the plume
Speaker 8: of material against the edge of the Moon, where people
Speaker 8: who have a large telescope, not binoculars, may get to
Speaker 8: see something unprecedented. I've never seen that. I don't think
Speaker 8: anybody has, so it's pretty exciting.
Speaker 1: What does it mean to us if the moon has
Speaker 1: water vapor? What does that mean?
Speaker 8: Meat Well, Walter in the symbolest term, This is really strange.
Speaker 8: People always ask me, They say, what temperature is the
Speaker 8: lowest in the Solar System? And going back to school,
Speaker 8: everybody would think, well, the outer planets. Now, Pluto's a dwarf,
Speaker 8: but let's take Nepten temperatures out there can be three
Speaker 8: hundred degrees below zero. Fahrernhit. How they know that they
Speaker 8: take these things called spectroscopes, space probes have visited it
Speaker 8: and you know, put their so called thermometer out to
Speaker 8: measure the temperature. But we find out Walter, at the
Speaker 8: south post of the Moon, this is almost incredible. It's
Speaker 8: probably the coldest place in the Solar system. Temperatures allegedly
Speaker 8: recorded at over four hundred degrees below zero fahrenheit. So
Speaker 8: why is it important. It's important because in the future
Speaker 8: when we do habitate that area, there's that possibility since
Speaker 8: water is so scarce, you know, not only here in
Speaker 8: the United States now the big water crises, but we
Speaker 8: need that and that can help us to generate, you know,
Speaker 8: future production of water if we would scrape the ice,
Speaker 8: let's say. And it's a possible location for as we
Speaker 8: talk about now, for habitation. So it's got a positivity
Speaker 8: to it. But this one is just to detect what
Speaker 8: the impact results are, in other words, what happens when
Speaker 8: you slam something into the Moon like that. So it's
Speaker 8: exciting and I'll be out there with the telescopes.
Speaker 1: And so people, and it could be that the moon
Speaker 1: is hollow. Is that also something we're studying here?
Speaker 8: Yes, And this is interesting, but let me define what
Speaker 8: they call hollow when the follow astronauts orbited the Lonely
Speaker 8: Astronaut like Michael Collins and Apollo eleven.
Speaker 1: Uh, he's going to have to come on and tell
Speaker 1: us more about that. That was an amazing story. How
Speaker 1: they train these guys to be in the subway tunnels.
Speaker 1: They think they're going to be solving robberies in the Bronx,
Speaker 1: and now they're stuck in subway tunnels and they better
Speaker 1: turn the power back off fast enough. Whoa, whoa. I
Speaker 1: don't always get to listen or look at what he's
Speaker 1: going to talk about ahead of time, and usually I'm
Speaker 1: as amazed as you are. Vic Ferrari, retired New York
Speaker 1: City Police detective. Oh my gosh, wow, Wow, the other
Speaker 1: side of Midnight. That's pretty cool, mister Ferrari. Vic Ferrari,
Speaker 1: buy that book, for gosh sakes, by that book. I've
Speaker 1: never said that before, have I? No, I'm telling you that.
Speaker 1: By the book, I was so The situation with my
Speaker 1: wife went like this. Everything was fine. I was spending
Speaker 1: the weekend at my sister in law's apartment, one of
Speaker 1: her many of her estate, and I was staying there
Speaker 1: for a couple days alone. All right. Then last night
Speaker 1: I get this notification when I'm away and they want
Speaker 1: me to do something. I don't get a phone call,
Speaker 1: I don't get a text. I get a notification, much
Speaker 1: as you would at work or if there was a
Speaker 1: police emergency. And it says, Susan's going to come there
Speaker 1: with her daughter tonight. I'm like, okay, and that's all
Speaker 1: I knew. I said, when is she leaving? They said tuesday. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's fine, and I changed my brain so I understood
Speaker 1: I'd be in an apartment with these two other people
Speaker 1: I had met twenty five years ago. Well, I go
Speaker 1: to sleep, I wake up today. Everything's fine. Then around
Speaker 1: four o'clock I get this text. And the text says,
Speaker 1: now they're going to be staying in the room you're
Speaker 1: in because there are two beds, and I want you
Speaker 1: to make your bed. I said, WHOA, You had already
Speaker 1: told me I could stay in this room. And I said,
Speaker 1: when did they arrive? Oh, they haven't arrived yet. They're
Speaker 1: going to arrive today. You told me they were going
Speaker 1: to arrive yesterday. Right then it starts to get slippery.
Speaker 1: Right then I get slippery. I'm supposed to make my bed.
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to change rooms, and I'm all settled. I
Speaker 1: have my things on the dresser, I have my clothes out,
Speaker 1: I have my prescriptions all set up right. You know
Speaker 1: the situation when you check into a hotel. Will Now,
Speaker 1: I'm all checked into the hotel and I'm told I'm
Speaker 1: going to have to move to a different room, and
Speaker 1: it was already promised. I said, no, you promised me
Speaker 1: I could stay in this room. You, in fact said
Speaker 1: first dives. Whoever gets into the room first, it's first dives?
Speaker 3: Like what?
Speaker 1: And it continues, it continues. This story is amazing coming
Speaker 1: up eight hundred eighty four eight nine two two, eight
Speaker 1: hundred eighty four eight nine two two two. When when
Speaker 1: am I supposed to do something? Don't don't do that?
Speaker 1: Talk to me? All right, there's Eddie Aragan. Welcome New Mexican.
Speaker 1: Where were you born?
Speaker 7: By the way, Albuquerque? Can you spell it?
Speaker 1: No? And and you were born in Albuquerque when it
Speaker 1: was territory.
Speaker 7: I'm not that old. It was the territory of nineteen eleven,
Speaker 7: became a state in nineteen twelve. We were actually older
Speaker 7: than Arizona, but less developed.
Speaker 1: My grandfather went to elementary school in Albuquerque when it
Speaker 1: was a territory with the American natives. No, really, he did.
Speaker 7: And well, so you have quite the show tonight. I
Speaker 7: got to say, what you and your wife that whole Wow,
Speaker 7: there's a lot going on. I'm glad you're batching it though.
Speaker 7: That's great. And well you weren't the binge watcher?
Speaker 8: Do you not?
Speaker 7: Binge? No binging?
Speaker 1: I did watch. I did binge watch. I watched Star City.
Speaker 7: The UTIs, have you seen stars? I haven't.
Speaker 1: In this alternative history, they got there, they got to
Speaker 1: the moon first, but that isn't what this story is about.
Speaker 1: This story is about right after they got to the
Speaker 1: moon first. What happened in Star City after they got
Speaker 1: to the moon first? What did they want to do next?
Speaker 1: How did they do it? And how did they all
Speaker 1: live with each other? How did they communicate the engineer
Speaker 1: and the security people? It was it's and there are
Speaker 1: no stars in it. And the fact there are no
Speaker 1: stars and I couldn't stop watching it means it's a
Speaker 1: hell of a story.
Speaker 7: Well, well, I'll definitely have to check it out. I
Speaker 7: guess it's a long list. I have so many recommendations
Speaker 7: that come in.
Speaker 1: A yeah, but they're not important. They're really not important.
Speaker 1: My recommendations. What's important? Sir, Yes, sir, I I captain.
Speaker 1: I'm doing well. I got a lot to tell you
Speaker 1: to know. Okay, go go okay.
Speaker 7: So Apple, right, they just crossed the five trillion dollar line, Walter,
Speaker 7: Who I mean, that's a lot of cheese, right, that's
Speaker 7: a lot of do rey me right, just let that
Speaker 7: sink in five trillion right. If Apple wore a country,
Speaker 7: that kind of economic firepower would put it in the
Speaker 7: same class as the world's top ten economies. And here
Speaker 7: we are, I have my Apple phone. It'd stand shoulder
Speaker 7: and shoulder with Germany, India, UK and GDP. And it's
Speaker 7: not just a company, it's a shadow country with a
Speaker 7: logo instead of a flag. There you go, the Apple
Speaker 7: on the back of your phone. And how does a
Speaker 7: country like that grow? This is what everybody needs to
Speaker 7: know tonight. It's a it's a conspiracy, but it's real.
Speaker 7: They don't do it just by selling phones, but by
Speaker 7: actually slowing your phone down, Walter, pushing you into the
Speaker 7: next must have upgrade and calling it battery management. So
Speaker 7: back with the iPhone six and the sixes era, which is,
Speaker 7: you know, feels like eons ago with the cycling. I
Speaker 7: think about thirteen years ago. This was your sidekick it.
Speaker 7: You know, I'm taking pictures in New Mexico, sunsets, my
Speaker 7: kids first steps, all the memes, all that stuff out there.
Speaker 7: Then one random Tuesday, my phone starting to act like
Speaker 7: it had like a smoking habit, you know, three packs
Speaker 7: a day. It's dragging, the battery collapses and everything feels
Speaker 7: like it's moving like wet concrete. And I didn't change
Speaker 7: the phone, did right? Then Apple swoops in with what
Speaker 7: they call a It gives us a iOS ten dot ten,
Speaker 7: dot five or whatever. The boring little update It says,
Speaker 7: we will update once your past fifty percent, improve power
Speaker 7: management during peak workloads to avoid unexpected shutdowns. Right, they
Speaker 7: tell you this sounds completely innocuous, harmless. Right, So translation
Speaker 7: from corporate speak Apple jobs, you know, Tim Cook all
Speaker 7: that to English. We're going to slow your phone down
Speaker 7: and hope that you blame it on the battery, not us.
Speaker 7: And they install a governor in the engine like it's
Speaker 7: like slowing down your car and never even tell the driver.
Speaker 7: So independent testers start like poking around, They run benchmarks.
Speaker 7: They you know suddenly, you know, try to figure it
Speaker 7: all out. And older iPhones, especially, you know, the ones
Speaker 7: I was telling you about the six were throttled by
Speaker 7: software once the battery ages, right, slows it down, and like,
Speaker 7: why can't get anything done with this thing? So the
Speaker 7: Internet slaps this name on it and they call it
Speaker 7: battery gate back in the day. All right, it's not
Speaker 7: a bug, not a glitch, not a feature. It is
Speaker 7: just something. It makes you feel like you need to
Speaker 7: upgrade your phone because it's dying, and I got to
Speaker 7: go back to the Apple store. So it's a five
Speaker 7: trillion dollar company. They get caught and they launch in
Speaker 7: this you know, tech giant apology tour way back in
Speaker 7: twenty seventeen, and they admit that they deliberately slowed down
Speaker 7: older phones six, seven, eight and all the way through
Speaker 7: once the batteries were chemically aged. They called it. But
Speaker 7: don't worry, it's all out of love, and we've got
Speaker 7: to make sure that you're taking care of They did
Speaker 7: it to prolong the life of your device. And then
Speaker 7: they even you know, dropped you know, some battery credits
Speaker 7: towards you. They give you like seventy nine bucks. These
Speaker 7: things are expensive by the way, you know, you know
Speaker 7: where they're made in China. So they admit it, Walter,
Speaker 7: that they slowed down your phone, and they swear they
Speaker 7: would never and never do it again. They would never
Speaker 7: share it in the battery life of any Apple product
Speaker 7: or degrade your experience or anything that is going to
Speaker 7: degrade you know, your opinion of Apple. Well, guess what
Speaker 7: they're doing.
Speaker 1: Same thing.
Speaker 7: This is plan exactly planned, obsolescens. This is like you know,
Speaker 7: your dad telling you, like, I'm not tracking in your car,
Speaker 7: not tracking, Yeah, and he's slowing you down. They're slowing
Speaker 7: your phone. They said they would never do it again.
Speaker 7: And how do you think they've gone from two to
Speaker 7: three to four to five trillion dollars? They did it
Speaker 7: to prolong the life right now, they didn't. Their thing
Speaker 7: is they're driving the bottom line. They are selling more
Speaker 7: phones now than ever. So the legal system wasn't quite
Speaker 7: as forgiving. They give them a pittance, five trillion against
Speaker 7: five hundred million. They settle the class action lawsuit in
Speaker 7: all this, and the regulators oversawved the same pattern. In Europe,
Speaker 7: same thing. Watchdogs included Apple had engaged in deceptive commercial
Speaker 7: practices biomission because they didn't adequately inform you or me
Speaker 7: or anybody else who has an Apple phone that installing
Speaker 7: those updates could actually slow down the phones. In the UK,
Speaker 7: they had a collective lawsuit over the iPhone seven eight
Speaker 7: and the related models, accusing Apple of intentionally thralling devices
Speaker 7: without telling them. Actually, what's happening all sorts of cords
Speaker 7: throughout the world, and regulars say you left out important
Speaker 7: details to the consumer. So from our perspective, you know,
Speaker 7: here's how this strategy feels. Right, Your iPhone, six, seven, eight,
Speaker 7: whatever is fine, and then all of a sudden you
Speaker 7: stall a routine update app apps that you have on there.
Speaker 7: They start crawling, they're slowing down. Their phone's quieter, their
Speaker 7: speaker's not working. You weren't given any sort of warning
Speaker 7: about this. It's just that you were upgrading your experience
Speaker 7: and you experience this sort of pain that prevents you
Speaker 7: from being able to use your phone the way that
Speaker 7: you liked it when you first bought it. So then
Speaker 7: ultimately you end up at the store. So tech writers
Speaker 7: are now jumping in on this and they're calling the
Speaker 7: systemic obsolescence. They're almost expecting it now to the point
Speaker 7: where you're not even messing with it. They're not smashed
Speaker 7: in their old phones. You're trading it in and then
Speaker 7: they you know whatever, I can get a little bit
Speaker 7: of a credit, and you've been brought into all of
Speaker 7: this and it's ultimately just driving the bottom line. Like
Speaker 7: they have more cash on hand. Get this stat, Walter,
Speaker 7: Apple has more cash on hand than the United States government.
Speaker 1: I believe that, yes, how many trillion did you say?
Speaker 9: Five trillion dollars? From our angle, this is like insulting, right.
Speaker 9: Their message is like, we change how your phone runs
Speaker 9: because we know what's best for you, and they insist
Speaker 9: they never degrade the user experience to drive any sort
Speaker 9: of upgrades. But the real world effect on me, you
Speaker 9: and millions of other people, billions of other people around
Speaker 9: the world thinking their phones are on their last legs
Speaker 9: and heading to the checkout line and they get fined
Speaker 9: a pittance and they have some sort of settlement. But
Speaker 9: this is where I'm telling you. Our phones, the way
Speaker 9: that power works, in the way that they can actually
Speaker 9: make more and more and more money, Like we could
Speaker 9: be using our phone six seven, eight, nine, ten years.
Speaker 9: There's nothing changing. It's the same thing other than the
Speaker 9: chips at. Apple has the economic heft, if you will,
Speaker 9: of a top five country around the world, five trillion
Speaker 9: dollar market cap. Okay, it can ship software updates on
Speaker 9: hundreds of millions of devices, change their behavior overnight, no
Speaker 9: vote by you or me, there's no debate about it,
Speaker 9: just just a line and the release note, you know,
Speaker 9: after the fact, and some tech writers and everybody else
Speaker 9: kind of you know, saying I've got to upgrade my iPhone.
Speaker 7: So yeah, they paid hundreds of millions dollars to subtle
Speaker 7: these lawsuits, but it means nothing. It's incidentalllion dollars. No,
Speaker 7: and planned obsolescence is nothing new. It's how General Motor's
Speaker 7: got to be rich before Japanese cars said well, wait
Speaker 7: a minute, we can make these cars still last to
Speaker 7: three hundred thousand miles. And they're all, ohh and they
Speaker 7: used to only last for fifty thousand miles at the most.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Planned appsolescence is a great American tradition. The other thing
Speaker 1: that's amazing about them having trillions of dollars in the
Speaker 1: bank is they never go on sale. Apple products never
Speaker 1: go on sale. They're never discounted. If a retailer discounts
Speaker 1: an apple product. They lose the right to sell apple products.
Speaker 7: Walter, I love talking to you. That's the next thing
Speaker 7: that was going to come out of my mouth was
Speaker 7: you're right. There is never any sort of promotion as
Speaker 7: driving the bottom line. It's like, look at the five
Speaker 7: new colors of the new laptop. Look at the three
Speaker 7: new colors of the new iPhone. Look at they're just
Speaker 7: selling you like bells and whistles that have no technological prowess.
Speaker 7: They are just selling you like a new style, like
Speaker 7: a new color.
Speaker 1: Or new orange yep or orange. Yeah, oh wow, it's orange.
Speaker 1: It's one thousand dollars if you want the orange. And
Speaker 1: that means nobody is looking at how ugly the orange is.
Speaker 1: And they since Steve Jobs died, there's been no innovative product.
Speaker 7: Now it's still the same iPhone. I was the first
Speaker 7: in line back in two thousand and seven, when they
Speaker 7: rolled it off the line and I picked it up,
Speaker 7: I switched off for my tree. Do you remember the Trio,
Speaker 7: this device it was like a sort of akin to
Speaker 7: the U what is that that thing? The BlackBerry whatever
Speaker 7: whatever they had you know back then, and then before
Speaker 7: that it was the Palm Pilot. Do you remember the
Speaker 7: Palm Pilot.
Speaker 1: That wasn't theirs, but the Merlin was theirs. That was
Speaker 1: the handheld that they So.
Speaker 7: There is a great movie about that. It's called I
Speaker 7: don't know what it is, something Genius, and it talks
Speaker 7: about all these guys that were just cramming like all
Speaker 7: these ideas and they failed, right, and they failed over
Speaker 7: and over again until finally Steve Jobs released the iPhone
Speaker 7: and it's really revolutionized everything. But they don't deserve to
Speaker 7: be a three, four or five trillion dollar company. I mean,
Speaker 7: you look at the market caps of these these these
Speaker 7: you know companies, and you look at where the stock
Speaker 7: market is, and you look at the indexing that's going on.
Speaker 7: I mean your four oh one k people. You guys
Speaker 7: are funding all this stuff over and over and over again.
Speaker 7: And it's like, yeah, the AI is good, and I'm
Speaker 7: glad that all the AI companies are American. In fact,
Speaker 7: Hudloaw did a great little job on that. I love Larry.
Speaker 7: I think he does a great job on Saturday Mornings
Speaker 7: and he revamps everything. But Larry was talking about this like, yeah,
Speaker 7: it's good because these are all American companies and we
Speaker 7: do have to you know, beat the Chinese and beat
Speaker 7: these other countries, and we're glad it's all here. But
Speaker 7: at what cost? I mean, it's expensive.
Speaker 1: I had a friend who was rich and when the
Speaker 1: iPhone came out and there were people in line outside
Speaker 1: of iPhone stores. It was you know, six hour six,
Speaker 1: you know, full day lines. Sure, and I an iPhone
Speaker 1: shows up in my office. He gave me one as
Speaker 1: a gift and I said, I can't believe that you
Speaker 1: that you made somebody who works for you to stand
Speaker 1: in that line. And he said, I paid somebody to
Speaker 1: stand in that line. So it's a very different worldview
Speaker 1: that some of us have. All Right, Sure, there's the
Speaker 1: legendary Eddie Aragon. What's the name of your radio station.
Speaker 7: It is the rockof Talk Rockoftalk dot Com AM sixteen
Speaker 7: hundred k I v A and Albuquerque. And I want
Speaker 7: to change my name just for you, Walter. You know,
Speaker 7: I get all sorts of mail that comes in from
Speaker 7: the US Postal Service and it's always like miss you
Speaker 7: know written. A lot of people, you know, you know,
Speaker 7: say different things about my name is pronounced it whatever,
Speaker 7: but ed Dragon, Eddie Dragon because they change the A
Speaker 7: to a D. There's my name.
Speaker 1: Say that again, because now I'm confused.
Speaker 7: Change the A instead of a R, A G O
Speaker 7: N my last name. Just change the A to a
Speaker 7: D because it looks like a D anyway, just Ed Dragon,
Speaker 7: There you go.
Speaker 1: That makes you cool. You think that's going to make
Speaker 1: you cool?
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think so. All right, Ed Dragon, thank you very
Speaker 1: much for being on the other side of Midnight with
Speaker 1: Walter Sterling on the Red Apple Audio Networks. There's Andrew
Speaker 1: in New Jersey. Welcome? Is it in New Jersey?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: See, the computer screen is very far away from me
Speaker 1: because there are three computer screens here, none of them
Speaker 1: are anywhere near me. What happened to Andrew? Hello? Okay,
Speaker 1: good he did not eight hundred eight four eight nine
Speaker 1: two two two. Eight hundred eight four eight nine two
Speaker 1: two two. I was looking forward to talking to Andrew
Speaker 1: because it was intriguing what he was wanted to talk about.
Speaker 1: But let me tell you what I let me share
Speaker 1: with you the traumatic evening and day I had today.
Speaker 1: So here's my traumatic day. All luxury problems, mind you.
Speaker 1: I'm spending a weekend, well, spending a week at my
Speaker 1: sister in law's apartment, and I'm there alone, and then
Speaker 1: yesterday I get informed. I get the notification, the official
Speaker 1: notification that there will be two other people staying there
Speaker 1: with me. That never happens. These are distant, vague relatives
Speaker 1: who I haven't heard or seen in twenty five years.
Speaker 1: No exaggerations, twenty five years. And I'm like, well, when
Speaker 1: are they coming here? They said, well, yesterday, so I'm
Speaker 1: ready to see them yesterday. And then I figure they're
Speaker 1: there big apartment. I do things. And then today four
Speaker 1: in the afternoon, I get a text saying they're arriving today.
Speaker 1: I said, I thought they were arriving yesterday. Listen to
Speaker 1: this story. No, no, they're arriving today, and they're going
Speaker 1: to stay in the bedroom. You're staying in What are
Speaker 1: you talking about. I've already unpacked, I've already slept in
Speaker 1: the bed. Oh yeah, we need you to make the bed.
Speaker 1: What mean you need me to make the bed. I
Speaker 1: I'm Walter Sterling. I don't make beds. I do talk shows.
Speaker 1: They forgot who I was, so right there there was trouble.
Speaker 1: They forgot who I was. And they'll be arriving soon
Speaker 1: and you have to make the bed and you have
Speaker 1: to sleep in a different room. They're going to sleep
Speaker 1: in the room you're in, But you told me it
Speaker 1: was first divs whoever got there first. That's the room
Speaker 1: you get and you keep because I asked you which
Speaker 1: room should I be in? No, No, I told you that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, now I'm getting mad because I have
Speaker 1: to move stuff. You know, I got to move stuff.
Speaker 1: And I was happy to be alone and to be happy,
Speaker 1: and to have to move stuff very dramatic. It's very
Speaker 1: difficult for me to have to move stuff. They show
Speaker 1: up and I'm not happy. And worse than that, Neither
Speaker 1: my wife nor my sister in law tells me I
Speaker 1: have to do this. They had my middle daughter tell
Speaker 1: me they're on vacation somewhere. I don't know where. They
Speaker 1: make The middle daughter tell me this, and I said
Speaker 1: to her, how did you get stuck having to tell
Speaker 1: me this? Why are you stuck having to tell me this?
Speaker 1: Why weren't either of them brave enough to tell me this.
Speaker 1: I got into a spiritual place and I left the room.
Speaker 1: I went into the other bedroom, which, oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: is a laundry room. Not only is there a bed,
Speaker 1: but there's a washer dryer. Any sheets that may have
Speaker 1: come up. I could have dealt with it immediately, because
Speaker 1: now I'm in the laundry room. Then I start getting
Speaker 1: texts that my wife's annoyed at me for not being
Speaker 1: gracious about this. You me be gracious? Now, why am
Speaker 1: I supposed to be gracious about having to make a
Speaker 1: bed move? Everything be unsettled? Clearly it has rattled me
Speaker 1: to this moment. How would you have handled it? My
Speaker 1: poor medium daughter had to deal with this. My sister
Speaker 1: in law thought it was all funny. She wasn't annoyed.
Speaker 1: My daughter forgave me. She wasn't annoyed. My wife's still annoyed.
Speaker 1: She didn't have to do anything. She forgot to tell me,
Speaker 1: she forgot to ask Andrew Welcome to the other side
Speaker 1: of midnight.
Speaker 2: Hey, hey, hey, Walter, how you doing?
Speaker 1: Yes, what's up?
Speaker 2: I don't know. You're talking about communication and relationships, and
Speaker 2: I can definitely relate.
Speaker 7: You know.
Speaker 2: The funny thing is, I've had it both ways, and
Speaker 2: you know, sometimes like I had a girlfriend, we were
Speaker 2: together for four years. We lived together, we had disagreements,
Speaker 2: like we never fought, like we treated each other with
Speaker 2: absolute respect. We understood each other very well and we
Speaker 2: talked about things. We always talked about things. I remember
Speaker 2: when I went to look for our first apartment in
Speaker 2: San Francisco, I got along really well with this guy
Speaker 2: that was rinting out his basement apartment. But he's like, look,
Speaker 2: I like you a lot, but have your girlfriends and
Speaker 2: I know you guys are gonna fight. And I was like, no,
Speaker 2: we really don't. What happened ultimately is the thing is
Speaker 2: I wasn't really like she was a best friend, not
Speaker 2: like you know what I mean, we weren't really in
Speaker 2: love ultimately, and like I just I craved the you know,
Speaker 2: the madness of most of the rest of my relationships,
Speaker 2: and it's just I don't know, that's the one time
Speaker 2: I actually had that, And I mean I did value it,
Speaker 2: but it just did didn't do it for me. One
Speaker 2: thing I know I'll say about women, and this is absolute.
Speaker 2: I hope no one's offended by it. But I've just
Speaker 2: seen this is that men tend to deal with when
Speaker 2: we communicate with each other, like it's with fact based
Speaker 2: regarded what happens would happen. Women generally they remember and
Speaker 2: hear what they feel, like the emotional impact of what
Speaker 2: you say and that's why they'll say. That's why they'll
Speaker 2: see you said I looked fat in this or something,
Speaker 2: because it's how they felt that. That's one thing I've learned.
Speaker 1: You lived with somebody for how many years?
Speaker 2: Well that one time four years really together, but.
Speaker 1: You weren't You weren't in love with her.
Speaker 2: I loved her very much, very very much. She just
Speaker 2: like we moved to San Francisco together from here and
Speaker 2: she didn't take to it the way I did.
Speaker 1: Well, it's a terrible place. It's an awful place to live.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, it's changed a lot. I gotta say
Speaker 2: it's worse.
Speaker 10: Two.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know people would say that and say that.
Speaker 2: You know, people always sensational, and then one day is like,
Speaker 2: you know, I got to check this out. Let me
Speaker 2: see this homeless mister. San Francisco. It's like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: really crazy right.
Speaker 1: Well, their main shopping area is completely closed now. Their
Speaker 1: Union Square main shopping area, which had the most prestigious
Speaker 1: stores in America, they're all boarded up. Really, Yeah, all
Speaker 1: of those stores that were on Union Square are boarded up.
Speaker 11: Wow.
Speaker 2: Square was like a run and I didn't go there much.
Speaker 4: What is it like?
Speaker 2: The crazy homeless encampment with knife bights. Yes, people get
Speaker 2: in Shanghai.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that was funny. Got it, Andrew, That's a
Speaker 1: good call. I appreciate everything that you just told me.
Speaker 1: Eight hundred and eight four eight nine two two two.
Speaker 1: You and I are on the air in Chicago on WGN.
Speaker 1: There's a clip called trigger Men, and I want you
Speaker 1: to play that next. When I point to you, do
Speaker 1: you hear me? Okay? You and I are triggered differently
Speaker 1: than women. And this is a pretty good example. Men
Speaker 1: don't cheat for sex. Men cheat for softness. Men don't
Speaker 1: cheat for sex, Believe it or not. What they cheat
Speaker 1: for is what she just said, for respect and kindness.
Speaker 1: Because a guy's day is a little different than many
Speaker 1: women realize. A guy's day is all hardness. Got to
Speaker 1: be tough at work. You have to be tough on
Speaker 1: the playing field. You have to be tough physically, depending
Speaker 1: on your job. I saw an amazing job tonight. And
Speaker 1: then when a guy comes home after that day where
Speaker 1: he has to make sure that he brings home the goods,
Speaker 1: he wants somebody to say, how are you doing? And
Speaker 1: mean it. He wants somebody to say, what can I do?
Speaker 1: To make you comfortable. This is not this is not
Speaker 1: being less than, it's being an equal. This is the difference.
Speaker 1: The difference is that most guys, when they come home
Speaker 1: or when they're with you, they want you to be
Speaker 1: charming and kind and sweet. And if he crosses a
Speaker 1: boundary in terms of what your needs are, you will
Speaker 1: say them, but you will express it inside your way
Speaker 1: that he wants to buy in. You will in effect sell.
Speaker 1: In effect you'll sell eight hundred eight four eight nine
Speaker 1: two to two two eight hundred eighty four eight nine
Speaker 1: two two two. This is what keeps us up at night.
Speaker 1: This is what we take to work with us, isn't it.
Speaker 1: I have to tell you about this guy so all
Speaker 1: working today? Oh my gosh. I was walking down a
Speaker 1: street and I was passing by a loading dock of
Speaker 1: a hotel. And it's a big hotel, probably five hundred
Speaker 1: room hotel. Got I hate the way this chuir set
Speaker 1: up five hundred room hotel and five hundred room hotel.
Speaker 1: Think about the garbage of a five hundred room hotel
Speaker 1: that has a restaurant in it and room service in it,
Speaker 1: and five hundred at least five hundred people staying in
Speaker 1: this hotel. And now the back the bowels of this
Speaker 1: hotel is open, and it's open to where the garbage
Speaker 1: trucks are going to come right about now. But usually
Speaker 1: you don't see the guard bridge the trash docks. So
Speaker 1: now we're looking at the trash docks at the back
Speaker 1: of a hotel. No exaggeration, my friend, there were at
Speaker 1: least two hundred plastic bags of trash. And they weren't
Speaker 1: the cute little ones that you have in your kitchen.
Speaker 1: These were enormous. These were enormous bags. These had to
Speaker 1: be ten feet across, yes, about ten feet across. And
Speaker 1: there's one guy taking these bags from the loading dock
Speaker 1: and putting them on the curb. One guy. Maybe there
Speaker 1: are more guys inside, but I'm only seeing one guy,
Speaker 1: and he's taken these enormous bags of garbage and bringing
Speaker 1: them to the curb. And I took a mental picture
Speaker 1: of that. You've probably done that sometimes when you've seen
Speaker 1: something you think is important. There's a mental picture I have.
Speaker 1: Any time I think that I have any problems, I've
Speaker 1: got to remember this guy who is I swear he's
Speaker 1: loading two hundred of these garbage bags. But think about it.
Speaker 1: Every hotel has that guy, and you and I are
Speaker 1: working right now. This is the great shift. This is
Speaker 1: when we do the most important work in any city.
Speaker 1: We keep it functioning. The busiest time of day is
Speaker 1: at an airport is right now. This is the busiest
Speaker 1: time of day at an airport because this is when
Speaker 1: the great cleaning crews are cleaning. Consider how many people
Speaker 1: are walking through an airport at any given time. Just
Speaker 1: think about that and you'll realize that there's a crew
Speaker 1: working right now to keep it clean. Edward Jones, Do
Speaker 1: you have Edward Jones? Run down? Says Edward Jones. Do
Speaker 1: you have him? Did he call in?
Speaker 2: So?
Speaker 1: I have to figure out how to get at you
Speaker 1: a phone number while I'm on the air. Is that
Speaker 1: what you're telling me? How is that supposed to work?
Speaker 1: One of you want to run in here and get
Speaker 1: it from me. I don't fight over it, but either
Speaker 1: one of you is okay. You don't want to know.
Speaker 1: You just don't want to know. Remember I was telling
Speaker 1: you about that guy who showed me I have no
Speaker 1: problems at work right now. He's very valuable to me. Well,
Speaker 1: on one second, I want you to hear from Edward
Speaker 1: Jones who has some pretty good information for us. I'm
Speaker 1: going to write down this phone number.
Speaker 12: I can't say it, can I I'm on the air.
Speaker 12: I can't say his phone number on the air. My
Speaker 12: friend here is getting ready to write down a phone number,
Speaker 12: which I would have to say on the air, but
Speaker 12: I'm not going to say on the air. Thank you
Speaker 12: very much. It's Edward Jones. Welcome to the other side
Speaker 12: of midnight.
Speaker 3: Good morning, Walter. Great to be with you.
Speaker 1: Thank you for spending some time with us tonight. Edward
Speaker 1: is an expert in military intelligence. He's a former marine.
Speaker 1: I shouldn't say that all marines are always marines. They're
Speaker 1: always marines, and they all know each other too, which
Speaker 1: is particularly fascinating. Ed you have some perspective on our
Speaker 1: situation in the Middle East and where you think it's
Speaker 1: going and what we should be aware of, and please
Speaker 1: go ahead. Edward Jones.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks Walter, and yeah for the shout out. You know,
Speaker 3: what's a marine, always a marine. Let's see, well, you know,
Speaker 3: for President Trump again, you know, threatened really dire consequences
Speaker 3: there forward the end of last week and threatening to
Speaker 3: attack power grids and bridges, water supplies, things of this
Speaker 3: nature and and he held off again. You know, we've
Speaker 3: had this is the sixth month, by the way, we
Speaker 3: just started our sixth month in this this mess over
Speaker 3: there in Iran, and there have been three three combat
Speaker 3: actions going on and three three seafires. So it's been
Speaker 3: the seesaw for the last five going to six months.
Speaker 3: And President Trump pulled back from his threats. My understanding
Speaker 3: is that I know for a factor that he had
Speaker 3: a meeting with his advisors, the closest advisors I presume
Speaker 3: that would be General Kine and perhaps Admiral Cooper who
Speaker 3: runs Syncom UH and UH and his White House team
Speaker 3: on Friday at Camp David and UH, and they talked
Speaker 3: to him out of it that they just basically said,
Speaker 3: And he also had been getting phone calls from from
Speaker 3: Saudi Arabia and golf partners down there saying, you know
Speaker 3: a couple of things. One is that you know our
Speaker 3: missile interceptors they're called these these particularly the Patriots and
Speaker 3: the fads, which are really effective against the ballistic missiles, hypersonic,
Speaker 3: very high speed ballistic missiles that come in and UH
Speaker 3: and also the high altitude the FADS go after the
Speaker 3: ones that are really up there, but they're depleting those
Speaker 3: stocks and they're really in demand. You know, we can see,
Speaker 3: you know, what's happening in Ukraine, for.
Speaker 1: Example, but what what's going to happen here?
Speaker 3: What's going to happen is uh, the way I see it,
Speaker 3: I think we're just gonna be going back and forth
Speaker 3: worth in this I for eye business. Trump made an
Speaker 3: announcement yesterday. He's saying that negotiations will begin on Monday
Speaker 3: afternoon in Tehran. But I'm sorry, and we don't know
Speaker 3: where they'll be. But he said they're going to be
Speaker 3: begin Monday afternoon. But I don't see any movement of
Speaker 3: the negotiators advance, Woodcoff, and Kushner. They're not moving. So
Speaker 3: I don't know what he means by negotiations. There. There's
Speaker 3: two kinds of negotiations. There's the direct ones that we
Speaker 3: saw in Switzerland, which I thought got off to a
Speaker 3: pretty good start in June there in middle of June,
Speaker 3: but a week or two later they were running has
Speaker 3: walked away from the table. But the bed being said,
Speaker 3: you know, where are the negotiations. I don't see them
Speaker 3: right now. But I do see the negotiations between Iran
Speaker 3: and their partner, their closest ally, their only ally really
Speaker 3: in the Gulf, which is Oman, which uns on the
Speaker 3: other side of the street, and they're negotiating, been negotiating
Speaker 3: for the last few weeks. They're still in negotiations about
Speaker 3: how to control and administer the strait i e. Chrudge tolls.
Speaker 3: So I'm just really confused right now, Welder. You know,
Speaker 3: I started this pretty pretty closely. But that's why I say,
Speaker 3: this thing right now is really really stuck. And I'm
Speaker 3: not I don't I don't think it's really going to
Speaker 3: progress very, very far beyond where it is.
Speaker 1: All right, Edward Jones, you don't sound optimistic.
Speaker 3: Right now. No, and I've got other reasons for that
Speaker 3: as well. I don't know how much time we have
Speaker 3: this morning, but then but anyway, Yeah, that's that's where
Speaker 3: i'm right now. I'm watching what what Trump said, you know,
Speaker 3: the negotiations on it, and he's changed his mind so
Speaker 3: many times that that's a that's informed in affected the
Speaker 3: Iranian strategy, which I've said in the very very beginning,
Speaker 3: Well do you remember this early on in the early days,
Speaker 3: their goal is survival. They're showing the world they've showed
Speaker 3: the world now for almost six months that they've survived
Speaker 3: against the Great Satan, the largest power in the world,
Speaker 3: the US and the Israelis. The Little Satan is a clone,
Speaker 3: and they're going to keep doing this. They're gonna keep
Speaker 3: taking risks. They exercised their strategy of what I call
Speaker 3: strategic patients. They slow things down. Let's not focus on
Speaker 3: the US negotiations. We've got the US at bay. We're
Speaker 3: holding them at arm's length. We'll work with our friends.
Speaker 3: The omanis to go to work on this straight plan.
Speaker 3: So you know, it's really very very A lot of
Speaker 3: stuff is happening. I feel sometimes, Walter, I'm watching a
Speaker 3: FIFA Championship match with twelve teams on the field at
Speaker 3: the same time.
Speaker 1: Right, and unlike FIFA a sport, I don't understand. I
Speaker 1: don't understand what's happening here, and I don't feel we're
Speaker 1: making any progress. Edward Jones, I thank you for being
Speaker 1: on the other side of midnight eight hundred and eight
Speaker 1: four eight nine two two two. You and I are
Speaker 1: talking to Heidi in the Bronx high Heidi, Yeah.
Speaker 13: I just realized my phone charge is almost off anyway, Hi, Walter,
Speaker 13: how are you. You were so you were so engaging
Speaker 13: that one almost have no choice but to call because
Speaker 13: what you talk about is so relatable to what we
Speaker 13: all go through in life and different situation. But anyway,
Speaker 13: a long story short, because I don't want to hold
Speaker 13: up the phone line. When you talked about the ten
Speaker 13: feet garbage bags one man loaded, I had a very
Speaker 13: similar experience with that and the mental picture of that.
Speaker 13: I had a very similar experienced last Friday night when
Speaker 13: I took the New Jersey Transit bus after the Lincoln Tunnel.
Speaker 13: Shortly before it goes into the terminal, they're doing construction
Speaker 13: around I think it's tenth Avenue, I don't know exactly.
Speaker 13: So the boss had to stop in the middle of
Speaker 13: the night and the workers were, you know, with the
Speaker 13: street lights, doing construction gear. I was at the front
Speaker 13: of the bus and I saw this one man in
Speaker 13: the orange gear running from one side to the other
Speaker 13: moving things that the boss coulk go. And he worked
Speaker 13: so hard. I never will forget that picture in my head,
Speaker 13: the way it just told everything about that man, just
Speaker 13: the way he was working very sincere, took his job
Speaker 13: very seriously, and he went out of his way to
Speaker 13: do his job. I never will forget this, and this
Speaker 13: was one man doing this. I just when I heard
Speaker 13: you say that, I felt like, oh my god, this
Speaker 13: is a very similar incident, right.
Speaker 1: And you're the same sort of person, Heidie. I'm sure
Speaker 1: that you do what you have to do with seriousness
Speaker 1: of intent, that you're thorough about it. And they're really
Speaker 1: several types of workers. But to see a gentleman like
Speaker 1: you saw, see one who I saw, and I think,
Speaker 1: my friend, if you sit back and just think about
Speaker 1: your day, we see people like that all day. They're
Speaker 1: not the vice president, they're not in a fancy suit,
Speaker 1: they don't get into an uber. They just get it done.
Speaker 1: They just right, They just get it done. And I
Speaker 1: bet you're like that too, Heidi, thank you very much
Speaker 1: for the call. Thank you. Eight hundred eighty four sure,
Speaker 1: eight hundred eighty four eight nine two two two eight
Speaker 1: hundred eight four eight nine two two two. You and
Speaker 1: I are talking about. What she's referring to is I
Speaker 1: was walking down a street today and there were the
Speaker 1: big garage door open onto the street that you usually
Speaker 1: don't see huge garage doors. And there are the trash docks,
Speaker 1: not the loading docks, the trash docks where all the
Speaker 1: trash bags from a huge hotel were being taken down.
Speaker 1: There were, no exaggeration, two three hundred of the biggest
Speaker 1: trash bags I have ever seen. They had to be
Speaker 1: ten feet wide circumference, whatever you call it, it's not
Speaker 1: a math major, at least two hundred. And they had
Speaker 1: to get from the loading dock to the curb about
Speaker 1: a thirty foot walk. And there was one guy And
Speaker 1: I'm watching a little while, I'm like, I don't see
Speaker 1: another guy. This one guy was taking bag after bag
Speaker 1: after bag and putting it on the curb on a
Speaker 1: Sunday night. My hunches that there was no one else
Speaker 1: schedule there to help him, and he had to get
Speaker 1: it done in time for the garbage trucks to come
Speaker 1: and pick it up. And I bet you he has
Speaker 1: to do that every day because it's a hotel room
Speaker 1: service rooms. But there's the power of the first shift.
Speaker 1: There's the power of the great shift that you and
Speaker 1: I are at a time of day where it's all task.
Speaker 1: What you and I do is all task. We're not
Speaker 1: asked for our ideas, we're not asked for how to
Speaker 1: make this system better. We're asked to get it done
Speaker 1: with you. Walter Sterling, The Other Side of Midnight from
Speaker 1: the Red Apple Audio Networks eight hundred eight four eight
Speaker 1: nine two two two. Eight hundred eight four eight nine
Speaker 1: two two two. So today I faced a domestic challenge.
Speaker 1: And the domestic challenge was very simple, staying at my
Speaker 1: sister in law's apartment alone, plan to stay there alone,
Speaker 1: and then I find out that two distant, vague relatives
Speaker 1: were going to show up and I didn't know about it,
Speaker 1: and that rattles me. But it got worse. I'd have
Speaker 1: to move the room. I couldn't stay in the bedroom
Speaker 1: that I'm in. That may not sound like a big
Speaker 1: deal to you, but remember I sleep at unusual times
Speaker 1: and I needed to be very cold, so the air
Speaker 1: conditioner has to be just right. I am a diva
Speaker 1: when it comes to sleeping a diva. These people show
Speaker 1: up and I'm told I have to move to the
Speaker 1: other room and make my bed. The making the bed
Speaker 1: part was a problem. And then, rather than tell me herself,
Speaker 1: my wife didn't tell me herself, my sister in law
Speaker 1: didn't tell me herself. They asked my middle daughter to
Speaker 1: tell me. The angel, the good one, the perfect one,
Speaker 1: she had to tell me, said, how'd you get this job?
Speaker 1: How did you get the job of telling me I'd
Speaker 1: have to unsettle? Because I was all settled, and ultimately
Speaker 1: I did move. I refuse to make the bed. I said,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to make the bed. They can make
Speaker 1: the bed, and I explained it to them in a
Speaker 1: way that they were okay with it. And I have
Speaker 1: I've apologized to my middle daughter because I was not
Speaker 1: at my best. I was not at my worst. My
Speaker 1: sister in law thought all of this was funny, so
Speaker 1: she wasn't really annoyed. No one else would have mattered.
Speaker 1: And my wife still hasn't forgiven me because what what?
Speaker 1: Because I had to move? Eight hundred eight four eight
Speaker 1: nine two two two. That's the challenge that men and
Speaker 1: women who love each other react to the simplest things
Speaker 1: so differently that you and I spend half of our
Speaker 1: relationships just negotiating those reactions. Fred in New Jersey, Welcome
Speaker 1: to the other side of Midnight.
Speaker 7: Hi, Hello Walter, Hello friend, I need your help.
Speaker 1: Oh you're in trouble.
Speaker 11: A little bit ago you played I believe a woman
Speaker 11: talking about disrespecting men. There's some commentary I need that.
Speaker 1: You want to hear that? Here, let's play that again.
Speaker 1: That would be labeled Oh, now you're asking a lot.
Speaker 1: Hold on a second, Hold on a second. It's it's
Speaker 1: you have no idea why this is hard. I have
Speaker 1: no idea why it's hard either. Wait a second, do
Speaker 1: do eight hundred and eight four eight nine to two two?
Speaker 1: You and I can talk. We're talking about the challenge
Speaker 1: of just doing what we have to do in our
Speaker 1: personal relationships and then endless challenge. Did you find it?
Speaker 1: Did you find it? I can't hear you. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: can't hear you. Hold on a second, what play that? Fred?
Speaker 1: Is that what you wanted to hear?
Speaker 11: I'm in tears over that. I'm in tears over that.
Speaker 11: That That sums up my day today, for sure, But
Speaker 11: so many days I run a fruit and vessel market
Speaker 11: at a vocal town far market, and people come all
Speaker 11: day and the disrespect and they just push buttons and
Speaker 11: it just makes things so hard sometimes. And for me
Speaker 11: to hear that explains to me that there are people
Speaker 11: out there who understand certain things that they could that
Speaker 11: I'm not alone that that was. I wish I can
Speaker 11: find out who that person was and get a transcripted at.
Speaker 1: Uh fred, I will I will get you that information.
Speaker 1: Keep listening and I'll get you that information. Walter Sterling
Speaker 1: the Other Side of Midnight from the Red Apple Audio Network,
Speaker 1: a known Canadian Dave's Scott Legend spased out radio up
Speaker 1: to date on all spaced out radio things. Have you
Speaker 1: seen the TV show Fear City?
Speaker 4: Which TV show?
Speaker 1: It's a series on Apple TV called Fear City.
Speaker 4: No, I haven't.
Speaker 1: Okay, So this is what's cool. It's a alternative history
Speaker 1: of the space program. And the scenario is that Russia
Speaker 1: got to the moon first, but that's not what it's about.
Speaker 1: It's about what happened after that, what happened after.
Speaker 3: That in.
Speaker 1: Stars I'm sorry star City in star City and star
Speaker 1: City is the Russian cape Canaveral Cape. Kennedy, I always
Speaker 1: thought it was a much cooler name than we had.
Speaker 1: It's always been called star City. But it's about the
Speaker 1: life of people who live in star City, the engineers,
Speaker 1: the military getting along. How that works in Russia completely
Speaker 1: different than how it works here. But the story is
Speaker 1: how they lived and what they did after they beat
Speaker 1: us to the moon.
Speaker 4: That is a very interesting theory and one of the
Speaker 4: theories that I've heard of is that the Russian space
Speaker 4: program actually lost a lot more astronauts up in space,
Speaker 4: but gave all the credit to Yuri to Garin because
Speaker 4: they needed to have a national hero for the space program.
Speaker 1: Well, that might have happened, and that was covered in
Speaker 1: Star City.
Speaker 4: I'll have to look that up. That sounds really interesting.
Speaker 1: It's on Apple TV and it's eight episodes and I
Speaker 1: don't binge watch. I binge watched that. Once I started watching,
Speaker 1: I could not stop it. There are no stars in it,
Speaker 1: that's how strong the story was.
Speaker 4: Oh, that is absolutely excellent. Sounds fantastic.
Speaker 1: All right, there's Dave Scott. Do you have any updates,
Speaker 1: anything interesting for us to think about.
Speaker 4: We do. Just a couple of days ago, the NDAs
Speaker 4: for people who have claimed to have whistleblower protection have
Speaker 4: been lifted, and Eric Burlison, the congressperson who has been
Speaker 4: spearheading this, said that President Trump has officially lifted the
Speaker 4: NDAs for current and former personnel who had some sort
Speaker 4: of contact or understanding of UFO programs within the US government.
Speaker 4: He believes that's Burlison believes that this is going to
Speaker 4: be something that opens up the true secrets of what
Speaker 4: the United States government is currently holding regarding UFO's alien
Speaker 4: life and unidentified a novelist phenomena. Now, it's great that
Speaker 4: this has actually been released because now we can kind
Speaker 4: of start to hopefully move the ball forward to any
Speaker 4: type of disclosure. But the problem is, Walter, you need people.
Speaker 4: You need people in order to sign up for this. Now,
Speaker 4: the kind of people that they need in order to
Speaker 4: break this story open isn't the person who say, is
Speaker 4: working for the Air Force as a staff sergeant who
Speaker 4: goes outside on a cigarette break and see something weird
Speaker 4: over the base. No, they need people from internal in
Speaker 4: order to be able to do this in order to
Speaker 4: try and get any of the news out, to give
Speaker 4: the stiffing dogs something that they can have a weed on,
Speaker 4: to try and find out where these programs are being
Speaker 4: hidden number one, but number two, who is currently holding
Speaker 4: any potential crash retrievals and or alien bodies? And right now,
Speaker 4: in the people that I have talked to leading up
Speaker 4: to this, they don't believe anybody is actually going to
Speaker 4: come forward. And there's a strong reason for that is
Speaker 4: because many of these people who leave government programs, they
Speaker 4: usually want to be hired on as contractors or some
Speaker 4: sort of liaison towards defense companies or contracts in the
Speaker 4: military industrial complex. And they don't want to shut the
Speaker 4: doors on anything that they may perceive as UFO or
Speaker 4: United States technology that hasn't gone through. And the last thing,
Speaker 4: if you're on a hiring board, it's kind of like trying.
Speaker 4: You know, you open up a position and you see
Speaker 4: somebody with blue hair and a septum ring in their nose,
Speaker 4: You're going to think twice about whether or not you
Speaker 4: want somebody with pronouns coming in. And I say that
Speaker 4: in jest, but the fact is they really don't want
Speaker 4: somebody who is going to be a mouthpiece to secrets
Speaker 4: that are being hidden by the government. It's basically, you're
Speaker 4: either going to retire, you're planning on retiring, and you're
Speaker 4: done with work, and that way you don't have to
Speaker 4: hold on to any secrets anymore. And those are the
Speaker 4: type of people who would might maybe do this whistleblowing thing.
Speaker 4: But the people say who are still paying off a mortgage,
Speaker 4: still have a family, maybe kids at college, who are
Speaker 4: needing there for a one k, who are needing their
Speaker 4: jobs or potential.
Speaker 1: So you don't think you don't think that the lifting
Speaker 1: of the NDAs is going to result in anybody turning
Speaker 1: over their secrets?
Speaker 4: I don't think so why would it? And here's the fact.
Speaker 4: Here's the other thing problem with this NDA lifting as well, Walter,
Speaker 4: is that let's just say you have an NDA, it
Speaker 4: gets lifted, okay, and you want to you want to
Speaker 4: talk about this, you don't get to talk or publicly
Speaker 4: about it. You can't go on Fox News or CNN
Speaker 4: because that's part of the agreement that they can only
Speaker 4: talk to Senate and Congress people behind closed doors. They
Speaker 4: are not allowed to go public.
Speaker 1: Oh so they can only talk to the echo chamber.
Speaker 4: Basically, yes, yes, And I don't know where the transparency
Speaker 4: is in that. I mean, great, it's a step forward.
Speaker 4: All the people are saying the right things. This is
Speaker 4: a giant step forward towards getting this disclosure movement done.
Speaker 4: And then they remind us this is a marathon, not
Speaker 4: a sprint. But if you're going to have people and
Speaker 4: allow them to talk to Congress, why does Congress get
Speaker 4: to hold onto the secrets? Doesn't Congress work for the people,
Speaker 4: and don't the people have a right to know I
Speaker 4: think they do.
Speaker 1: Dave Scott, how do we find you online.
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Speaker 1: Fly it well, you're the best, thanks, Dave Scott. All right,
Speaker 1: it's eight hundred eight four eight nine two two two
Speaker 1: eight hundred eight four eight nine two two two with
Speaker 1: Ivy in New York. Welcome to the other side of midnight. Yes, hello, Hi,
Speaker 1: you're on the air. You're on the air with Walter Sterling.
Speaker 14: Yes, can you hear me perfectly? Yes, thank you, mister Sterling.
Speaker 14: It's Irene. I they irene. But anyways, I wanted to
Speaker 14: express to you my point of view when you were
Speaker 14: referred when you're telling the stories staying by your relatives, right, yes,
Speaker 14: and I understand that they're wealthy, correct you said that,
Speaker 14: yes the beginning, yes, and when so okay, when you
Speaker 14: deal with wealthy people, you have to sit their paradigm.
Speaker 14: You have to play by their rules. It's their way
Speaker 14: or the highway.
Speaker 10: I know.
Speaker 14: It's very very well family included. They don't stand on
Speaker 14: ceremony very rarely. I don't want to say barely. You
Speaker 14: know my experience and experience of people that come in
Speaker 14: contact with and my daughter is also she went to
Speaker 14: a private college, undergrad grad school and she has you know,
Speaker 14: had friends that came from money, whether they inherited it
Speaker 14: or earned or their inherited it or their parents earned it.
Speaker 14: They are very nice, very nice, very easy going, where
Speaker 14: when everything goes smoothly, when something doesn't shoot them, they
Speaker 14: don't want to know you. They do it very politely,
Speaker 14: but it's do you understand what I'm trying to point.
Speaker 14: I'm trying to bring a curse and the whole personalities
Speaker 14: can change. I experienced it personally in a dating settings
Speaker 14: with men and encounter dated You didn't have to be
Speaker 14: a lot, but you know, I know that behavior very well.
Speaker 1: You know, and how did you deal with it?
Speaker 14: How did they deal with it? Well? Well, each situation
Speaker 14: is different with family. At one time I just distanced myself.
Speaker 14: It was difficult, extremely difficult. That wasn't therapy because family
Speaker 14: you can disinherit, you understand. And I had a family
Speaker 14: members since deceased who would talk to me like you
Speaker 14: would give me orders, just like a close very close
Speaker 14: you know. I you know, it was a male and
Speaker 14: a femail and you know. And and when my daughter
Speaker 14: experienced said she didn't break it down for me. But
Speaker 14: I just know how is I had met a man
Speaker 14: as an example, for instance, I don't know, twelve fifteen
Speaker 14: years ago, whose family is in a commercial real estate,
Speaker 14: extremely rich, extremely and I wouldn't understand his behavior because
Speaker 14: I thought, you know, she spoke with the statisticated things.
Speaker 14: I mean, you know, I understand his but I remember
Speaker 14: how I we were in a restaurant one time, and
Speaker 14: he was he invited me to a gallery and this
Speaker 14: and that and the arts that. So he took me
Speaker 14: to a restaurant in Manhattan, in the city, in the
Speaker 14: town and the viewers, and he was telling me what
Speaker 14: to order, how to sit, not to ask questions of
Speaker 14: the waiters, you know, if I had an equations to
Speaker 14: address them to him whatever. And then suddenly I remember
Speaker 14: he picked myself up, he like through the menu, you know,
Speaker 14: not at me at the table and just walked out.
Speaker 14: I mean he paid, you know, we were just getting appetizers, appetizers.
Speaker 14: I was in shock, in shock.
Speaker 1: I remember, well, I can understand. I totally understand. Listen,
Speaker 1: this was great information. It's a good reminder the rich
Speaker 1: are different than you and me. But you're a great
Speaker 1: friend to this show. Thank you very much for calling
Speaker 1: the Other side of Midnight. It has always been a
Speaker 1: puzzle to me about the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages
Speaker 1: came after the period of enormous architectural growth around the world.
Speaker 1: The Pyramids came after the Pyramids. It came after the
Speaker 1: incredible astronomical work that was done in Alexandria and in
Speaker 1: South America, and then suddenly a thousand years we did nothing.
Speaker 1: Does that make any sense at all? Let me make
Speaker 1: it po more practical and simple for you, because this
Speaker 1: is one of the great mysteries of human kind. Think
Speaker 1: about your family history. What you know of your family, grandma, grandpa,
Speaker 1: all of the DNA tests that you could take. Think
Speaker 1: back before nineteen fifty, the stories you heard before nineteen twenty,
Speaker 1: the stories you heard before nineteen hundred, and now go
Speaker 1: back to eighteen fifty. What do you know of your
Speaker 1: family before eighteen fifty. I'll bet it's mystery. I'll bet
Speaker 1: you don't know anything about your family before eighteen fifty. Now,
Speaker 1: they were writing books before eighteen fifty. There were logs,
Speaker 1: there were histories. The Vatican libraries are packed with information
Speaker 1: before eighteen fifty. Libraries around the world, Harvard, Yale, Cambridge,
Speaker 1: those libraries have books from before eighteen fifty. But you
Speaker 1: don't know anything about your family before eighteen fifty. Is
Speaker 1: it possible? Is it possible that the calendars were adjusted
Speaker 1: by the elites to maintain power. Michelle Gibson, who is
Speaker 1: a researcher and an academic, she's on our show frequently,
Speaker 1: and what she says is that a signific amount of
Speaker 1: time was taken out of our calendar, out of our history,
Speaker 1: and made things happen much sooner, much more recently than
Speaker 1: we believe. She says that many of the things that
Speaker 1: we think happened long ago did not happen long ago.
Speaker 1: That hundreds of years were taken out of our calendars,
Speaker 1: hundreds of years. That the Holy Roman Empire did not
Speaker 1: end a thousand years ago, it ended maybe five hundred
Speaker 1: years ago. Consider the Roman roads, consider the aqueducts are
Speaker 1: just fine. The aqueducts in Rome still work, they still
Speaker 1: carry water to the Roman Empire. The roads in northern
Speaker 1: England that were built by the Romans, they're still there.
Speaker 1: They're better than the Jersey Turnpike. They're better than RUT eighty,
Speaker 1: which always, for some reasons, needs to be fixed. Why
Speaker 1: does RUT eighty always need to be fixed when the
Speaker 1: least used parts of Route eighty are never are always
Speaker 1: the ones in trouble. It's it's the least used parts
Speaker 1: of Root eighty that they're always fixing. Why is that?
Speaker 1: But there? It is. Our memories don't go back as
Speaker 1: long as they should with information that's readily available, and
Speaker 1: many of the major events were told happened five hundred
Speaker 1: years ago, a thousand years ago, that that isn't what happened,
Speaker 1: and that information about the Middle Es, sorry, the Middle Ages,
Speaker 1: the Dark period of our history was made up eight
Speaker 1: hundred eight four eight nine two to two eight hundred
Speaker 1: eight four eight nine two two two. You and I
Speaker 1: talk about Tartaria, we talk about the land grab. In
Speaker 1: eighteen fifty there was an enorm an, enormous, astronomical event
Speaker 1: fire in the sky, major explosions. Telegraph operators said their
Speaker 1: telegraphs went down. Nothing worked. At the same time, there
Speaker 1: were massive weather challenges, there were mud floods. Mud floods
Speaker 1: wiped out cities. The elites of the day went to
Speaker 1: those cities where people had lost their homes, the buildings,
Speaker 1: their architecture, they had lost everything, and the elites of
Speaker 1: the day went in and just grabbed the land. They
Speaker 1: went in and grabbed as much as they possibly could,
Speaker 1: and that's how they built their wealth. They built their
Speaker 1: wealth by stealing the land that was destroyed by fires
Speaker 1: and mudslides. That's what happened. That's one of the great mysteries.
Speaker 1: In eighteen hundred, every school map, in every elementary school,
Speaker 1: every high school, every school map had a country called Tartaria.
Speaker 1: Tartaria all of Central Asia. And by nineteen hundred it
Speaker 1: was gone. What do you mean it was gone? Where
Speaker 1: did that go? These were This was an empire without
Speaker 1: posts around the world, amazing architecture, ether electricity, power that
Speaker 1: was captured from the air, lay lines that were captured
Speaker 1: from the ground that powered these cities, lit these cities,
Speaker 1: heated these cities and then was destroyed. Why would that
Speaker 1: have been destroyed. It was destroyed because it was free.
Speaker 1: And at the same time standard oil, the oil barrens
Speaker 1: were establishing. They were starting to drill oil, and they
Speaker 1: got it out and they're like, well, wait, we want
Speaker 1: to manufacture this heat. We want to manufacture this electricity
Speaker 1: in this light. They wanted to put a meter on it.
Speaker 1: You and I are on in Chicago on the Great
Speaker 1: WGN Radio, the Great WGN Walter Sterling, the other side
Speaker 1: of midnight. You and I can talk at the live
Speaker 1: radio show Sunday into Monday on the First Shift, the
Speaker 1: Great Shift eight hundred eight four eight nine two two
Speaker 1: two eight hundred eight four eight nine two two two.
Speaker 1: These are the biggest mysteries there are. How is it
Speaker 1: possible that the world had free electricity? And that Tesla
Speaker 1: knew this? Tesla will be the first to have said
Speaker 1: you can find it everywhere in his writing that he
Speaker 1: did not come up with the idea of free electricity.
Speaker 1: He did not come up with the idea of capturing
Speaker 1: ether and turning it into heat and light. He didn't
Speaker 1: do that. He said, this has been done before, and
Speaker 1: all he wanted to do was establish it, make it work,
Speaker 1: distribute it for free. Because that's who he was. It's
Speaker 1: the biggest mystery of our time eight hundred eight four
Speaker 1: eight nine two to two two with Walter Sterling. Now
Speaker 1: there are other mysteries. They are more urgent and current
Speaker 1: mysteries that I want to share with you. One of
Speaker 1: the big campaigns among generations Z is that they stop
Speaker 1: going to bars. They don't want to go to the
Speaker 1: bar anymore. They're not drinking. And many sociologists are saying, well,
Speaker 1: it's because they don't want to have They don't want
Speaker 1: to be drunks. They want to live a love healthy lifestyle.
Speaker 1: They want to have wellness. They'd rather do things that
Speaker 1: represent wellness. Go to the gym, meet each other at
Speaker 1: the gym, meet each other in social things, playing cards,
Speaker 1: traditional board games, all of that. And that's a lot
Speaker 1: of nonsense. The reason there's a traumatic drop in alcohol
Speaker 1: consumption among eighteen to thirty four year olds is marijuana.
Speaker 1: That pot is legal, and what you used to go
Speaker 1: and get a martini over the day, they're having a
Speaker 1: joint over the day. That's what it is. I don't
Speaker 1: know why that In none of the reports about the
Speaker 1: decline in alcohol consumption, which is a significant decline, there
Speaker 1: are distilleries and distribution centers that are out of business.
Speaker 1: There are distilleries that have gone bankrupt in the last
Speaker 1: two years because business is down. Business is down. But
Speaker 1: then there are other wacky things that I hear from
Speaker 1: gen Z's that I hear from my daughter. My daughter's
Speaker 1: about to go to work. She just got out of college,
Speaker 1: she just graduated from college, and she is going to work.
Speaker 1: And one of the things that she and her friends
Speaker 1: readily discuss, openly discuss is how much they're getting paid.
Speaker 1: And when you were about to enter the workforce, one
Speaker 1: of the things that your mother or father said to
Speaker 1: you is do not tell anybody what you're getting paid.
Speaker 1: And your mother and father were right, do not tell
Speaker 1: anybody what you're getting paid. My daughter, I had to
Speaker 1: have this serious conversation with her, Well, everybody should know
Speaker 1: what everyone else is getting paid. That's how you may
Speaker 1: make sure you're all getting paid fairly. No, that's not
Speaker 1: how you all know. First of all, you're assuming a lot.
Speaker 1: You're assuming the other person's telling you the truth. Secondly,
Speaker 1: you're assuming that you don't have some nda in that
Speaker 1: package of stuff you got from your employer that says
Speaker 1: you will not reveal that information. Nowhere is it encourage
Speaker 1: It's not a good idea. Well, everybody knows that credit
Speaker 1: bureaus know. No major mistake, major misunderstanding of what credit
Speaker 1: bureaus do, kreit, no cred. No place can you go
Speaker 1: online and find out what somebody else makes for a
Speaker 1: living unless they have volunteered it. It is not reported,
Speaker 1: and in fact, most companies view it as a corporate secret.
Speaker 1: It's a trade secret and the worst thing an employer
Speaker 1: can do.
Speaker 3: It.
Speaker 1: In many states it's still legal, but it's not still
Speaker 1: legal in New York State. In many states it's still legal.
Speaker 1: When you sit down for a job interview the person
Speaker 1: across from you. If they say to you, so, what
Speaker 1: are you making now? What are you earning? Now? Don't
Speaker 1: answer that question. It's none of their damn business. And
Speaker 1: the way to answer it is to say, I signed
Speaker 1: an NDA with my current employer that I would never
Speaker 1: reveal that, And you might ask me the same to
Speaker 1: do the same thing, and I'll be happy to I
Speaker 1: will treat that as a trade secret, no problem, because
Speaker 1: they would love to know what you're making. Because boom,
Speaker 1: you're busted. You're not going to get any more money
Speaker 1: than that. You're going to get just about that much money.
Speaker 1: Worst thing you could do is reveal to an employer,
Speaker 1: what's your potential employers what you're making. But even one
Speaker 1: worse is to reveal to your friends what you're making.
Speaker 1: Even worse the But that's definitely a generational thing where
Speaker 1: my daughter who's twenty four, she believes that it's a
Speaker 1: good thing, that it's the right thing to do. It's
Speaker 1: the way to bust the man. How's that a way
Speaker 1: to bust the man? What that does is it's going
Speaker 1: to keep your salary right there. And if somebody is
Speaker 1: particularly good at their job and deserves more, they're not
Speaker 1: going to get it because if they're telling everybody what
Speaker 1: they're making, that puts the employer in the jackpot. Then
Speaker 1: the employer has a problem. If you've done a great job,
Speaker 1: you deserve a raise, you deserve a bonus. Good for you,
Speaker 1: it's your business. Don't tell anybody what you make, because
Speaker 1: then the employer's got a problem, which is, oh, you've
Speaker 1: told everybody what you make, and now they're all in
Speaker 1: line with your employer to say, can I have that?
Speaker 1: Can I make that? Why you're giving them to Susan,
Speaker 1: and then they're stuck explaining why they gave that to
Speaker 1: Susan and not you. And they have learned a valuable lesson,
Speaker 1: which is to not give anybody a raise. Genius, got it?
Speaker 1: Real work experiences eight hundred eight four eight nine two
Speaker 1: two two. Eight hundred eight four eight nine two two two. Yes,
Speaker 1: the So those are those are my frontline pieces of
Speaker 1: advice to my daughter. I also heard her on the
Speaker 1: phone with another worker at her upcoming business where she's
Speaker 1: about to work. First thing, Hey eight hundred eight four
Speaker 1: eight nine two two two. Eight hundred eight four eight
Speaker 1: nine two two two The great challenge, Well, what does
Speaker 1: that mean? Does that mean yes or no? Okay? No answer?
Speaker 1: Thank you? Eight hundred eight four eight nine two. Eight
Speaker 1: hundred eight four eight nine two two two. That's our
Speaker 1: big challenge, my friend. Our big challenge on any given
Speaker 1: day is not the job. It's not the health. Usually
Speaker 1: the big challenge is just making it all work, making
Speaker 1: it work with your relationships. That's the mystery is getting along.
Speaker 1: I've got some stuff to play for you, but that
Speaker 1: requires me having to find it. But in the meantime
Speaker 1: we will talk to Larry and Tampa Welcome to the
Speaker 1: other side of Midnight. Hi, Larry, Hi, Hello, we get
Speaker 1: them cued up, we tell them we've got to go,
Speaker 1: go go, and Walter answers the phone. Bum Hi, Larry, welcome. Okay, no,
Speaker 1: I know it's it's my show. Let's see what did
Speaker 1: I want to share with you? I had a bunch
Speaker 1: of good things. Give me one second, hold on, there
Speaker 1: it is. Let's see, all right, William, Let's do oh
Speaker 1: play Love Island. Let's get an update on Love Island.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get an update on Love Island. And
Speaker 1: there we is. Larry Ready, can I talk to Larry? Now?
Speaker 1: How was I gonna know that psychic? Is this a
Speaker 1: psychic friends network? Larry, Welcome to the other side of Midnight.
Speaker 15: High Thank you, Walter. I was a little off there.
Speaker 15: But what my question is to you is I would
Speaker 15: like to lobby the milk industry and I would like
Speaker 15: to see how who to contact to try to see
Speaker 15: the regulations of the milk industry be required to go
Speaker 15: back to the standard where milk is issued into the
Speaker 15: glass bottles. Is I think that the plastic industry is
Speaker 15: killing us. It's getting into the milk and the water.
Speaker 15: Maybe the same for the water industry.
Speaker 1: William, do you have that cart ready? Do you have
Speaker 1: that cut ready that I discussed a minute ago? Are
Speaker 1: you ready to run that cut? All right? On my cue? Okay,
Speaker 1: what are you talking about, Larry? Do you have a
Speaker 1: lot of free time? I mean, why are you worried
Speaker 1: about this?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 15: I have free time. But the reason I'm worried about
Speaker 15: this is because I think that plastics are getting into
Speaker 15: our food by way of water and milk and the uh,
Speaker 15: the microwave, and it's causing a lot of cancer in
Speaker 15: the the colon cancer, and I think we should all
Speaker 15: be worried about it.
Speaker 6: I appreciate the call certain citizens.
Speaker 1: Well you know exactly what to do, you don't, you know?
Speaker 1: You don't call me to ask that. You know exactly
Speaker 1: what to do with that. You know exactly how to
Speaker 1: get back to the standard of glass. First of all,
Speaker 1: I get my milk delivered and it's delivered in glass bottles.
Speaker 1: I get it now. Thank you for the call. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I do. It's there are many milk delivery services that
Speaker 1: specifically will deliver in glass bottles.
Speaker 15: Well, anyway, I think we should contact our congressman.
Speaker 1: Then don't don't tell me to do that. You can
Speaker 1: do that, but that isn't going to get it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what that isn't how you get it done.
Speaker 15: The way you get it done people, Okay, the other
Speaker 15: way you get it done.
Speaker 2: Un listen.
Speaker 1: You send letters to the milk companies and ask them
Speaker 1: how can I get it delivered in glass bottles? And
Speaker 1: you know what, they all will do it. Thank you
Speaker 1: for the call. Eight hundred eight four eight nine two
Speaker 1: two two eight hundred eight four eight nine two two
Speaker 1: two with Walter Sterling on the other side of Midnight. Now,
Speaker 1: what did I want to talk to you about? Uh?
Speaker 1: Let me yes? Uh okay, yes, play that thing that
Speaker 1: I wanted you to play. Thank you.
Speaker 16: Love Island, USA couple has officially caught it quits. Season
Speaker 16: seven stars Clark and Taylor have reportedly ended their relationship
Speaker 16: just a little over a year after leaving the villa together.
Speaker 16: According to People, a source close to Clark says she
Speaker 16: made the difficult decision to part ways with Taylor.
Speaker 1: And wish can I give you the titles here and
Speaker 1: correct them to come right up?
Speaker 16: Is that possible time they shared together and for everyone
Speaker 16: who showed them line support from the very beginning.
Speaker 1: So my Mic was on, just now, what let's see,
Speaker 1: let's talk about, let's talk, let's do I know what,
Speaker 1: let's do, Let's do what we normally do it fifty
Speaker 1: Are you ready to go at the fifty break? Can
Speaker 1: we do that? Go to the fifty break, play the
Speaker 1: fifty break? Okay, all right, give me a second. And
Speaker 1: you at eight hundred eight four eight nine two two two.
Speaker 1: What's keeping you up? Usually the trouble is this, we
Speaker 1: want to rewrite the past impossible, or we want to
Speaker 1: predict the future impossible. That's what keeps most people up.
Speaker 1: And you are at the at work on the great shift,
Speaker 1: the late shift, and you're thinking about stuff you don't
Speaker 1: want to ruin your day. What ruins our day? What
Speaker 1: makes our day great? What makes our day great? It
Speaker 1: isn't the day, it's an event. It's one thing. I
Speaker 1: want to know what your one thing is. It's eight
Speaker 1: hundred eight four eight nine two two two. It's a
Speaker 1: live radio show with Walter Sterling. Eight hundred eight four
Speaker 1: eight nine two two two. Oh my gosh. What Yes,
Speaker 1: a website waltersterlingshow dot com and an email, but I'd
Speaker 1: rather have you call, so I'm not going to give
Speaker 1: you the email I'd rather have you call eight hundred
Speaker 1: eight four eight nine two two two that thing, that
Speaker 1: one thing that's eating at you or that you're making
Speaker 1: really happy. The other side of midnight, Red Apple Audio,
Speaker 1: notte all right, it's you and me at eight hundred
Speaker 1: eighty four eight nine two two two. Eight hundred eight
Speaker 1: four eight nine two two two. It's the other side
Speaker 1: of midnight, which brings up the key issue, how many
Speaker 1: sides of midnight are there? Are there just two? Or
Speaker 1: are there four? Or they're ten. These are the existential
Speaker 1: questions of our time. These are the things that people
Speaker 1: are perspiring over right now. My existential threat at any
Speaker 1: given moment is the dishwasher. The dishwasher is always speaking
Speaker 1: to me. It has been speaking to me since I
Speaker 1: was sixteen, when my mother first said to me, empty
Speaker 1: the dishwasher. It was my first chore. And you know,
Speaker 1: I have three teenage daughters and it exhausts them. The
Speaker 1: possibility of emptying the dishwasher is something they can't begin
Speaker 1: to deal with. If one of them does empty the
Speaker 1: dishwasher today and then tomorrow I say, could you empty
Speaker 1: the dishwasher please, they will say, but I did it yesterday,
Speaker 1: and I said, yes, I know, but could you do
Speaker 1: it today? And they will say, but I did it
Speaker 1: yesterday because it's such an exhausting task. And then I
Speaker 1: think about the man I saw tonight who was standing
Speaker 1: behind the hotel on the loading dock with at least
Speaker 1: two hundred bags of garbage ten feet across at least,
Speaker 1: and he was going to take each of them from
Speaker 1: the loading dock to the curb. A true midnight misfit,
Speaker 1: a true third no sorry, first shifters, a great shift.
Speaker 1: But again it goes down to who we are. We
Speaker 1: are the ones. We are the task masters. We're the
Speaker 1: ones who get it done. We don't waste our time
Speaker 1: on theory. We don't waste our time filling out forms.
Speaker 1: We don't waste our time making forms. That's for the
Speaker 1: day people. The day people handle all of that because
Speaker 1: it makes them happy. It would make us miserable if
Speaker 1: you and I are put in a situation where we
Speaker 1: have to generate forms, create forms, if we have to
Speaker 1: fill out forms, we're miserable. When they stick a form
Speaker 1: in your locker or your mailbox, I know what you do.
Speaker 1: You lose it, that's what you do. And then a
Speaker 1: month later they go the you fall out that farm,
Speaker 1: and you go, I didn't get a form. That's what
Speaker 1: you and I do. Our day is made up of
Speaker 1: really odd things. If you break down the day, if
Speaker 1: you deconstruct it, what's our day made out of? Our
Speaker 1: day is made out of pieces that collectively can cause
Speaker 1: us to say, God, I've had a great day today,
Speaker 1: or gosh, I had a terrible.
Speaker 8: Day to day.
Speaker 1: But when you deconstruct it is to like, what was
Speaker 1: the terrible part of the day. Usually it comes down
Speaker 1: to the printer. Many of our joyful moments and tragic
Speaker 1: moments are the printer. If the printer kick causes trouble,
Speaker 1: We've had a terrible day. Why do you have a
Speaker 1: terrible day? The printer the damn printer. And then we
Speaker 1: start to explain what a curse the printer is. We
Speaker 1: have to get a new printer. Ran out of stuff.
Speaker 1: It said that it was empty, it had no more ink,
Speaker 1: but then when it kept printing, it still had ink.
Speaker 1: That's the lie. That's their installed expiration date. That's the
Speaker 1: installed obsolescent, which is it tells you that it's out
Speaker 1: of ink when it's not out of ink at all.
Speaker 1: We've experienced that with the battery in the iPhone. Eddie
Speaker 1: Arrogan or Eddie Dragon explained that to us that the
Speaker 1: iPhone heats up on purpose. They and by the way,
Speaker 1: you can search iPhone too hot, the battery is too hot,
Speaker 1: and it tells you the settings to change that I've
Speaker 1: done on my phone and all of a sudden the
Speaker 1: battery was fine and it stopped heating up. But really
Speaker 1: that's what it is. The iPhone's annoying us. The iPhone's
Speaker 1: heating up. My gosh. The printers out of ink, the
Speaker 1: paper jams. Those are the things that ruin our day.
Speaker 1: And one of the things that has been really stupid.
Speaker 1: Not true of the company I work for here, not
Speaker 1: true of the Red Apple Audio Networks, in fact, quite
Speaker 1: the opposite, but one of the things that many companies
Speaker 1: has really screwed up. There are people in other companyanies.
Speaker 1: You won't believe this, in other businesses and other retail
Speaker 1: businesses that have people to fix the printer. What yeah,
Speaker 1: they have people. They have guys just to fix the
Speaker 1: printer so you don't have to waste your time and energy.
Speaker 1: There are people actually hired to fill out the FedEx form,
Speaker 1: to do the postal stuff.
Speaker 8: What.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're called assistance. If you want to get fancied,
Speaker 1: they're called executive assistants. Some places call them secretaries. Most
Speaker 1: of them have been eliminated, especially in industries that are
Speaker 1: consolidating and consolidating industries, those people are eliminated. That is
Speaker 1: the biggest, stupidest, the falsest economy. A company can make
Speaker 1: the dumbest economy. I'll tell you. I'll tell you what
Speaker 1: company not to do business with. If you get off
Speaker 1: an elevator, you're going to go see a company, you're
Speaker 1: going to go deal with, maybe a new doctor or
Speaker 1: a lawyer or some horm and you get off the
Speaker 1: elevator and you're looking for a receptionist. You're looking for
Speaker 1: somebody to smile at you and say hello. But you
Speaker 1: don't see them. Now at this company, you get off
Speaker 1: the elevator, you see somebody who will smile and say
Speaker 1: hello to you and greet you. That is the proper
Speaker 1: way to do it. It's almost common sense, but way
Speaker 1: too many don't have that. Instead, you know what they have.
Speaker 1: They have the dumbest greeting, the most inefficient greeting possible.
Speaker 1: They have a trimline phone and the trim line phone
Speaker 1: is hanging on that wall, and next to it is
Speaker 1: a directory of extensions. What, Yeah, they like to have
Speaker 1: ten names and you're supposed to die the extension of
Speaker 1: that person. That's how you get in. And then you
Speaker 1: look at the list of names and is the name
Speaker 1: of the person you're there to see on that list? No,
Speaker 1: it never is. And then you got to guess. You
Speaker 1: got to guess which which three digit code should you dial?
Speaker 1: And that's how you're greeted. That's not a greeting. That's
Speaker 1: a challenge. It's not even a video game. It's not
Speaker 1: even a good challenge. But that's how stupid companies will
Speaker 1: greet you because why because they wanted to save on
Speaker 1: a receptionist. Meanwhile, that receptionist can be doing many other
Speaker 1: things and does do many other things if they're good.
Speaker 1: It's called a starter job. Or there are people who
Speaker 1: love it. They're task people, daytime people. But that's where
Speaker 1: it gets stupid when assistants and secretaries get cut and
Speaker 1: you're expecting an executive to fill out the FedEx form
Speaker 1: and to fix the printer, and to deal with the
Speaker 1: challenge of the printer, and to deal with the challenge
Speaker 1: of the copier in addition to all of their other tasks.
Speaker 1: Here's the danger. A person who works on the part
Speaker 1: of their brain that's fixed the printer, the fixer fix
Speaker 1: the printer part of their brain, at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, can think they've really achieved something. They can decide, boy,
Speaker 1: you know, I had a really good day. I got
Speaker 1: stuff done. No, you fix the printer. If they didn't
Speaker 1: do anything that can generate new money for the company,
Speaker 1: if they didn't do anything that can generate profits for
Speaker 1: the company, they haven't done anything. But they fix the printer,
Speaker 1: they fix the copier, and they start to believe that
Speaker 1: that's an achievement and are satisfied. It's much harder to
Speaker 1: come up with new ideas ways to sell things. Selling things,
Speaker 1: that's much harder. But many a company will give their
Speaker 1: workers a false sense of economy, a false sense of
Speaker 1: achievement by letting them think that filling out that FedEx form,
Speaker 1: My god, that's a great day. That's just fantastic. Is
Speaker 1: any of this familiar to you? Experience this? There was
Speaker 1: a time when the guy who came to fix your
Speaker 1: phone in your house, he had a truck and in
Speaker 1: that truck was extra phones, cable, nick knacks to make
Speaker 1: your phone work better, and if you two got along,
Speaker 1: he'd give them to you. He'd give you a couple
Speaker 1: nick knacks, he'd give you an extra cord, he'd give
Speaker 1: you an extra phone. And you loved that guy, and
Speaker 1: you loved that phone company. Now all of that's inventoried, cataloged.
Speaker 1: You say to the guy, Hey, you got one of
Speaker 1: these on the truck. He goes, I used to I
Speaker 1: don't anymore. Lots of false economy. Jim and Staten Island.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the other side of Midnight with Walter Sterling.
Speaker 1: Hello Jim, Hey, Walter.
Speaker 17: I was a printer technician. I repaired those crazy things.
Speaker 1: How hard was that job?
Speaker 17: Ah, dealing with people. People get a little frustrated when
Speaker 17: they're dealing with the printers. I did copies too. But
Speaker 17: a great scene in the movies Office Space when the
Speaker 17: guys that get fired they take the printer out into
Speaker 17: a park and the three take the three guys that
Speaker 17: did software or something, they beat up the printer.
Speaker 1: Two weeks ago, Jim, two weeks ago, I took out
Speaker 1: a printer. I took it to its final resting place
Speaker 1: in my backyard. I beat the hell out of it
Speaker 1: for exactly that reason, and it felt good. Did you
Speaker 1: ever do that, Jim? Or did you have too much
Speaker 1: of a relationship with the printers? Oh?
Speaker 17: No, you know I was intimate. I'm I have relationship
Speaker 17: with inanimate objects. I fixed things, so I can't beat
Speaker 17: I can't do that. So but I know hooking them
Speaker 17: up now is the nightmare because you got to hook
Speaker 17: them up the router now a nightmare, and they frustrate
Speaker 17: you even I struggled with that for hours, and then
Speaker 17: I took it, stuck in it. My son gave it
Speaker 17: to me. I stuck it in the closet. I'm not
Speaker 17: going to use it ever again.
Speaker 1: As an expert on printers, which brand do you like best?
Speaker 17: The old IBM lasers are the best. I would stay
Speaker 17: away from the cartridge stuff, and I would stay away
Speaker 17: from anything that goes through your router because that gives
Speaker 17: them a path into your home for the weird, you know,
Speaker 17: the the sci fi stuff. Once once you give them
Speaker 17: your password to your router to print a piece of paper,
Speaker 17: they control you. So you want to stay away from.
Speaker 1: That, Jim, that is insanely useful advice. And I thank you,
Speaker 1: I really do, thank you. Thanks for listening and thanks
Speaker 1: for calling. Eight hundred eight four eight nine two two two.
Speaker 1: Eight hundred eight four eight nine two to two. Walter Sterling,
Speaker 1: The Other Side of Midnight Red Apple Audio Network eight
Speaker 1: hundred eight eight nine two to two. Eight hundred and
Speaker 1: eight four eight nine to two two. Let's see, let's
Speaker 1: see the.
Speaker 7: I was.
Speaker 1: I'm challenged when I talked to my my gen Zer
Speaker 1: when she says that she and her friends are sharing
Speaker 1: information on their new jobs, about what they do for
Speaker 1: a what they get paid, what they get paid, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't know, it's it seems like a
Speaker 1: really bad idea to me. And I'm thinking about our
Speaker 1: day when you and I go to work, when we
Speaker 1: work on the first shift, the great shift, and we
Speaker 1: are challenged by the fact that it isn't a bad day,
Speaker 1: and it isn't a good day. It's one thing. There'll
Speaker 1: be one thing that bothers us, there'll be one thing
Speaker 1: that makes it a great day. But we generalize, we
Speaker 1: make it to something much bigger than it is, or
Speaker 1: something much less than it is. Right, That's what we're
Speaker 1: up against. That's our challenge. And when so I was
Speaker 1: thinking about today. I had a tough day today. All day,
Speaker 1: it was a tough day. I was at home. I
Speaker 1: was staying in my sister in law's apartment and my
Speaker 1: sister I had the apartment alone, right, I had the
Speaker 1: apartment for the whole day. And then I found out
Speaker 1: that others were going to be staying there, that I
Speaker 1: was going to have to have others staying there, And
Speaker 1: then I had to deal with my sister in law,
Speaker 1: my daughter, my wife, all of whom had deep thoughts
Speaker 1: for me that I should. I'd have to change my bed,
Speaker 1: I'd have to change the bedroom, I'd have to do
Speaker 1: all my gosh, and then I'm like annoyed, Oh, annoyed,
Speaker 1: can't have that. And those are the actual challenges. Those
Speaker 1: are the mysteries of what you and I have to
Speaker 1: deal with when we are dealing with relatives. And what
Speaker 1: I have found best. I don't know how this works
Speaker 1: for you, but what I have found best and my
Speaker 1: relationships is that I'm not actually part of my marriage.
Speaker 1: I view my marriage as none of my business. Let
Speaker 1: her talk to her sister, let her talk to her
Speaker 1: brother about it. But my marriage is really none of
Speaker 1: my business as long as I stay out of my marriage.
Speaker 1: Things go well. There was a situation today in New
Speaker 1: York where there's a group of kids in a special
Speaker 1: section of a school called Eyebrand. And these kids are
Speaker 1: in Eyebrand and you and I don't have any problems.
Speaker 1: You and I don't have any problems. The Eyebrand kids
Speaker 1: are kids who have been physically have physical head injuries
Speaker 1: that you and I can't even imagine what it's like.
Speaker 1: We just can't even imagine what it's like. And the
Speaker 1: let me just see you and I can't even imagine
Speaker 1: what it's like. So there are thirty kids in the
Speaker 1: special group. It's called Eyebrain. I'm sorry, Ibrain, I'm like,
Speaker 1: why am I saying?
Speaker 3: I Bran.
Speaker 1: They're in Eyebrain and they're thirty kids, special ed kids,
Speaker 1: but they have severe brain injuries. But there's a federal
Speaker 1: government subsidy to the school district that takes care of them,
Speaker 1: gets them to school, It gets them to class, it
Speaker 1: makes sure that they have lunch, and make sure that
Speaker 1: they're fine. And that's been so for a couple of years.
Speaker 1: This week it was stopped. This week it was stopped
Speaker 1: and as a result, well, these kids who thought they
Speaker 1: were going to go back to school tomorrow. They're not
Speaker 1: going back to school tomorrow. There's been a bunch of
Speaker 1: lawsuits and what the what was changed as a federal
Speaker 1: judge threw out a I don't know what they call it.
Speaker 1: It was a hold. It was a delay of doing
Speaker 1: anything to the kids until the lawsuit between the parents
Speaker 1: and the school district was stopped and settled between the
Speaker 1: kids and the school district was settled. Until that was settled,
Speaker 1: they were not they didn't have to stop taking care
Speaker 1: of the kids. Well, a federal judge said that pause
Speaker 1: is not okay, it's not all right. We're not going
Speaker 1: to respect that, and instead we're going to cease funding.
Speaker 1: So here are these kids. They're young kids, are like
Speaker 1: eight to twelve, and they're not going to let them
Speaker 1: go back to school. They're not going to have the
Speaker 1: funds to go back to school. First, it has to
Speaker 1: be settled in court. And the delay in enacting that
Speaker 1: was lifted by a federal judge. This is the challenge
Speaker 1: of special ed. If you have a special ed kid,
Speaker 1: if you know a special ed kid, there's a part
Speaker 1: to it that is not discussed, and I'm going to
Speaker 1: discuss it. It's this that special ed kids need special
Speaker 1: funds that for the school to take care of a
Speaker 1: special ed kid. The law says that a school district,
Speaker 1: a public school district. The law says a public school
Speaker 1: district must educate that kid. Then the parent has to
Speaker 1: agree to what it is that they're being educated, how
Speaker 1: they're going to be educated. The school district is only
Speaker 1: obligated you ready for this, to put the kid in
Speaker 1: a classroom. That's all they're obligated to do, is to
Speaker 1: put your kid, a special ed kid with extraordinary needs
Speaker 1: from autism to a praxia in a classroom. That's all
Speaker 1: they're required to do. Meanwhile, if they can't accommodate your kid,
Speaker 1: listen to this, If they can't accommodate your child, they
Speaker 1: have to say. You have to then say you're not
Speaker 1: accommodating my kid. And there's all this form and all
Speaker 1: this paperwork, and these kids are screwed. Part of the
Speaker 1: reason that they're screwed is that accommodating special at kids
Speaker 1: is an enormous task for a school district. It's an
Speaker 1: enormous task, and not every teacher is capable of working
Speaker 1: with these children. Of course, not because every kid who
Speaker 1: has special needs is different. You can say, Gee, they
Speaker 1: have a praxi or they have autism, they have this
Speaker 1: motor skill challenge, they have this reading challenge, they are
Speaker 1: they have dyslexia. But those are all a huge variety,
Speaker 1: a huge variety, a huge scope of those things. And
Speaker 1: you and I are on the air in Chicago on WGN,
Speaker 1: Thank You WGN with Walter Sterling on the other side
Speaker 1: of Midnight at eight hundred and eight four eight nine
Speaker 1: two two two, and what I came to learn with
Speaker 1: my special ed kid? And the minute you have a
Speaker 1: special ed kid, what do you learn? You learn that
Speaker 1: all the other parents have similar challenges and the challenges
Speaker 1: are these the school district says, we're taking care of
Speaker 1: your kid, and then you find out that the school
Speaker 1: district really can't and isn't. And you say, well, we
Speaker 1: want this money to go to this special ed school
Speaker 1: or to homeschooling or to tutoring or whatever it is.
Speaker 1: They have to agree to that. And if they don't
Speaker 1: agree to it, here's the magic word mediation. You find
Speaker 1: yourself with a mediator, You find yourself starting to have mediation,
Speaker 1: and you walk into these wacky settlements that are involve
Speaker 1: enormous amounts of money, incredible amounts of money, and they
Speaker 1: are mysterious in that there are no guidelines, there's no consistency.
Speaker 1: You have to hire a lawyer. If you hire a lawyer,
Speaker 1: you find out that in the settlement, the school district
Speaker 1: paid for the lawyer, and in fact, the lawyer is
Speaker 1: working for the school district. Oh my god, And it
Speaker 1: goes on and on. Eight hundred eight four eight nine
Speaker 1: two two two eight hundred eight four eight nine two two.
Speaker 1: I have a tremendous empathy with these thirty kids in
Speaker 1: the New York City school system that are in a
Speaker 1: special program called Eye Brain that was put on hold
Speaker 1: this week. And these kids, they're not going to school
Speaker 1: until the settlement is made. Until there's a settlement between
Speaker 1: the school district and the kids parents. It's a crappy situation,
Speaker 1: all right, Walter Sterling. Exciting to be with you. And
Speaker 1: now we're starting our work week. This is the special
Speaker 1: time that you and I get where we're getting back
Speaker 1: to work, which is much better than being back with
Speaker 1: the relatives, much better than the existential threat of the dishwasher,
Speaker 1: the existential threat of the teenager who doesn't think, Oh
Speaker 1: I love the cats. I enjoy being with the cats
Speaker 1: so much. You love the cats? Yes, I really do.
Speaker 1: Oh that's fantastic. Are you gonna empty the litter box?
Speaker 16: No?
Speaker 1: No, no, I'm not emptying the litter box. But you said
Speaker 1: you love the cats. I'm not emptying the litter box.
Speaker 1: They're threatened by the litter box. The other side of Midnight,
Speaker 1: Greg in Brooklyn, Welcome to the other side of midnight.
Speaker 10: Hello Greg, it's an honor to speak with the Walter.
Speaker 10: Hope things are well with you this morning, sir.
Speaker 1: I hope things are well with you and Marinie Brooklyn.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I'm a Franciscan brother of Brooklyn.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 10: And I lived with the other brothers and my favorite
Speaker 10: house tour, because we all share chores, is to empty
Speaker 10: the dishwasher.
Speaker 1: Now why do you think that is? Do you view
Speaker 1: it as a spiritual event to empty the dishwasher?
Speaker 10: Well, one thing, it is serving my brothers. But the
Speaker 10: other thing is it simply means that I've eaten.
Speaker 1: Ye.
Speaker 10: I don't know if you've I don't know if you've
Speaker 10: considered sharing with your children that they're probably about a
Speaker 10: billion or two billion people who would love to empty
Speaker 10: the dishwasher, because that means they've had nice meals the
Speaker 10: day before or even that day.
Speaker 1: One of the mistakes that I believe people make with
Speaker 1: children is they give them math for an emotional issue
Speaker 1: or a practical issue. So, for example, when a parent says,
Speaker 1: you know you're going to have a time out, I'm
Speaker 1: going to give you a ten minute time out. That's
Speaker 1: insane because no nine year old has a concept of time.
Speaker 1: And if I were to say to a sixteen year old,
Speaker 1: two billion people would give anything to have a dishwasher empty,
Speaker 1: That'll mean nothing to them. But if I said to them,
Speaker 1: but if I said to them, the dishwasher means that
Speaker 1: you have food, that's all I'd have to say, the
Speaker 1: dishwasher means you have food, That would do it. Putting
Speaker 1: it on a grandiose and impossible do envision scale would
Speaker 1: not do it. It's like when people used to say,
Speaker 1: you know, children in China are starving, Well, they didn't
Speaker 1: know where China was. Sure right now, a Franciscan friar,
Speaker 1: what do you guys make bread?
Speaker 10: No, we have ministries. Our congregation has been here since
Speaker 10: eighteen fifty eight, and we've been in education, so in
Speaker 10: high schools, grammar schools. I'm over at beautiful Saint Francis
Speaker 10: College in downtown Brooklyn. That's my ministry.
Speaker 2: There.
Speaker 1: You got a good assignment, very very.
Speaker 10: Good as Sami. Yeah, I love my work. I say
Speaker 10: thank God for Monday. I know it's Monday morning, so
Speaker 10: I say thank God for Monday.
Speaker 1: I say thank God for you listening. I appreciate your time.
Speaker 1: I appreciate your call. Thank you very much for calling
Speaker 1: the other side of midnight. All right, eight hundred and
Speaker 1: eight four eight nine two to two two. Do we
Speaker 1: have the answer to that dilemma there? The printer problem.
Speaker 1: We have a printer problem, Ladies and gentlemen. We have
Speaker 1: a printer problem. And you know, I could solve that
Speaker 1: printer problem, but I didn't get it any other way.
Speaker 1: I don't have it any other way. They want me
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Speaker 1: something because this is this has been one of those
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Speaker 1: I like talking to you. It's the reason I do
Speaker 1: this show is that you and I get to talk.
Speaker 1: And I was sharing you with you the I had
Speaker 1: a difficult weekend. I had a difficult weekend because I
Speaker 1: had to deal with in laws, which is never good
Speaker 1: for me. I had to deal with the challenges of
Speaker 1: having a special needs kid and we have to start
Speaker 1: school soon and it's going to be homeschool. And when
Speaker 1: I first had a homeschool her, I was very nervous
Speaker 1: because she's a social animal. This is a kid who
Speaker 1: likes to hang out with people. She likes. She will
Speaker 1: be your friend. If you meet her, she will be
Speaker 1: your friend. And it turns out that this made her
Speaker 1: more social that by homeschooling her, she became more social
Speaker 1: because she had downtime, she had recovery time. She was
Speaker 1: able to take it easy and deal with the fact
Speaker 1: that she's although social is a type of introvert that
Speaker 1: needs to be alone, and at least she knows it.
Speaker 1: It's interesting a lot of introverts, don't. They think there's
Speaker 1: something wrong with them. You know, you and I work
Speaker 1: at this time of day because we don't want to
Speaker 1: be bothered with people. We don't want to know other people.
Speaker 1: This is who we are. We're not group thinkers, we're
Speaker 1: not brainstormers. That's not what we do. We sit in
Speaker 1: the back of the cave. Give me the problem, Let
Speaker 1: me sit in the back of the cave. I will
Speaker 1: solve the problem and I will bring it back out.
Speaker 1: That's what we do. But you put me in a
Speaker 1: group think situation. You put me in a brainstorming situation.
Speaker 1: I can't do that. I'll shut down the minute I'm
Speaker 1: in with a group and I hear somebody at the
Speaker 1: front of the group say I believe in team players. Really,
Speaker 1: I don't want anything to do with team players. I
Speaker 1: want to deal with individual thinkers, innovators. Does that make sense.
Speaker 1: I don't want to know about team players. I don't
Speaker 1: want to. I don't want to people. I'm not on
Speaker 1: a team. I'm not Travis. I'm not Travis. I'm not
Speaker 1: on a team. That's not who we are. We get
Speaker 1: to be this. We get to be working the great shift,
Speaker 1: the late shift. We get to take our problems to
Speaker 1: the back of the cave. We get to sit alone
Speaker 1: and we need the alone time. And that's what my
Speaker 1: special needs kid has. She gets alone time because she
Speaker 1: homeschools in her bedroom with her laptop on the zoom.
Speaker 1: That's what works for her. And they, and you know
Speaker 1: who they are, are just figuring that out. They're just
Speaker 1: figuring it out that there are different types of introverts,
Speaker 1: they're different types of extroverts. There are people who are
Speaker 1: both introverts and extroverts. Don't even want to know about them,
Speaker 1: but it's all different. Those are the challenges. And that's
Speaker 1: my recommendation to you, my friend. My recommendation to you
Speaker 1: is that if you want to binge. I'm not a
Speaker 1: binge TV watcher. I don't like to binge TV. Whenever
Speaker 1: I hear somebody say, well, you know, I binge that
Speaker 1: show on bitch, I always think they're weak they have
Speaker 1: a weakness. What do you mean you binge that show?
Speaker 1: What's that about? But this show Star City whoa it's
Speaker 1: not really a science fiction show. It's an alternative history
Speaker 1: show where the Russians won the space race. They won
Speaker 1: the space race, and what happened in Star City, which
Speaker 1: is there Cape Canaveral, what happened after that with the engineers,
Speaker 1: with the scientists, with the security people in Star City
Speaker 1: in Russia. It's fascinating. No Stars, it captured me for
Speaker 1: eight episodes. It was very unusual. It was very unusual.
Speaker 1: So anyway, it's a great show. I recommend that. And
Speaker 1: then the other thing that you and I have to
Speaker 1: consider is how much of our day do we spend
Speaker 1: scrolling through TikTok? How many hours of our day do
Speaker 1: we go through TikTok? How much of our time do
Speaker 1: we do that? And we never discuss, we never admit
Speaker 1: it when in doubt we're scrolling through TikTok. It's a
Speaker 1: sad life, but it's true. And I'm always fascinated by
Speaker 1: the TikTok store. In the TikTok store, I have bought
Speaker 1: things I'm ashamed to admit. I have bought the drain opener,
Speaker 1: that powder that instantly drains the entire street in the sewer.
Speaker 1: I've bought that the interesting insuls that are multiple color
Speaker 1: that have little spikes in them. Those work. I've wasted
Speaker 1: a lifetime getting custom orthotics and the TikTok store insuls.
Speaker 1: They are actually the best things that I've bought. That's
Speaker 1: been my experience. Other things not so good. Nothing has
Speaker 1: stopped my mail cat from p if you had that experience.
Speaker 1: Nothing has stopped my mail cat from P. It's impossible.
Speaker 1: We have done everything. We've done the diffusers, the abromas,
Speaker 1: the different kind of litter, and we've done the different
Speaker 1: kind of boxes, things that calm the cat, you name it.
Speaker 1: Nothing has worked. Nothing. You've given me great suggestions. I
Speaker 1: am grateful for your suggestions, but so far nothing has worked.
Speaker 1: Shame on us. And what else?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: What did we learn tonight? We learned that Apple planned
Speaker 1: obsolescence with their iPhones. We knew this, but how they
Speaker 1: did it was interesting to the degree where other countries,
Speaker 1: not our country, protected their citizens from what Apple did
Speaker 1: to them. Apple forced them to buy thousand dollars phones
Speaker 1: for absolutely no reason at all, no reason at all,
Speaker 1: but our country, no problem that you know you you
Speaker 1: make the phone hot. Oh that means you need a
Speaker 1: new phone immediately. Yes, we have a new Orange phone.
Speaker 1: Get the old Orange phone. It's a thousand bucks here
Speaker 1: it is, but our country not protecting us. France they
Speaker 1: find them a million bucks, fine, another million. But you see,
Speaker 1: Apple six trillion dollars in the bank doesn't affect them
Speaker 1: at all. Walter Sterling one am to five am every night,
Speaker 1: the other side of midnight on the Red Apple Audio Networks,
Speaker 1: and you and I stay in touch. Walter dot Sterling
Speaker 1: at WABC radio dot com, The other side of midnight,
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