Speaker 1: This is The Other Side of Midnight.
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Speaker 3: With Walter Sterling.
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Speaker 1: Walter Sterling, Sterling, Sterling.
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Speaker 1: It's the other side of midnight.
Speaker 5: Eddie Arrigan, Eddie Dragon, a broadcaster from New Mexico, a
Speaker 5: great friend of the show, a world-class broadcaster whose voice
Speaker 5: is way better than mine. Eddie Dragon has information about
Speaker 5: Dolly Parton's passing, a horrible story about a great life. Eddie,
Speaker 5: welcome to the other side of midnight.
Speaker 2: Walter, good evening. Thanks for having me. Yeah, wall-to-wall coverage.
Speaker 2: every channel, every newscaster, every memory that can be cast
Speaker 2: about Dolly Parton. And it is kind of crazy how
Speaker 2: we have this, you know, collective consciousness of when an
Speaker 2: iconic figure, you know, passes and we need to pause
Speaker 2: for just a moment because tonight's story is about death
Speaker 2: memory and the possibility that that consciousness may be bigger
Speaker 2: than we understand, not just on the TV, not just
Speaker 2: on the radio, just everywhere, right? It's omnipresent. But on
Speaker 2: a day like today, this hits differently. Dolly Parton, 80
Speaker 2: years young, died today, according to statements from her family
Speaker 2: and representatives. She was a global music icon, songwriter, storyteller.
Speaker 2: Through efforts such as the Imagination Library, a presence in
Speaker 2: the lives of people, she would Never personally meet, but
Speaker 2: yet she's had an impact on so many people. You
Speaker 2: and me, Walter, right? We know her songs. I mean,
Speaker 2: 50 number one hits. I mean, think about that. That's
Speaker 2: kind of crazy. I mean, reports say she died in
Speaker 2: Nashville after a brief battle with cancer, surrounded by loved ones.
Speaker 2: Her last post was just four days ago. But maybe
Speaker 2: the strange thing about famous people, Walter, dying is that
Speaker 2: we resist believing it, right? We can't believe that she's gone. Um,
Speaker 2: not because her fame makes anybody or anyone immortal for
Speaker 2: that matter, but because certain people become part of the
Speaker 2: wallpaper of our lives, how we look at them, how they,
Speaker 2: you know, weave themselves into our lives. And Dolly really
Speaker 2: felt permanent, right? She was iconic. That's what we get,
Speaker 2: you know, like a song you could always turn on
Speaker 2: like that bright voice that you would hear. I mean,
Speaker 2: it still sounds as young as when it was first
Speaker 2: submitted from her mouth. I mean, think about this. You
Speaker 2: will always be somewhere out there laughing, singing, reminding us
Speaker 2: to be kinder, braver, and maybe a little bit more
Speaker 2: fabulous as she was. And then the news comes. And
Speaker 2: for a second, we say it's just not possible, right?
Speaker 2: But it is possible. And that's the one thing none
Speaker 2: of us gets to outrun. Death gets us all. Which
Speaker 2: brings me to a story that lives in the soft
Speaker 2: candlelit corners of the internet, the kind that you hear
Speaker 2: at two in the morning right now here, the other
Speaker 2: side of midnight when the house is quiet, phone is
Speaker 2: glowing in your hand, and you begin to wonder whether
Speaker 2: death really is a door, a gateway, or merely a
Speaker 2: wall that we have not yet figured out how to
Speaker 2: see through, right? This is one of those stories. And
Speaker 2: it begins back in 1980. A psychiatrist, which I know well,
Speaker 2: named Dr. Brian Weiss, And this was not some sort
Speaker 2: of strange fringe character out there in some robe taking
Speaker 2: appointments between crystal sails and moon water blessings or any
Speaker 2: other sort of mystic stuff. This was a Columbia-educated Yale
Speaker 2: Medical School, conventionally trained. He became the chairman of psychiatry
Speaker 2: on Mount Sinai, just down the street here. And this
Speaker 2: is the man of charts, diagnoses, medications, evidence, the kind
Speaker 2: of doctor who probably heard the phrase past life and
Speaker 2: immediately reached For the nearest exit. I mean, he didn't
Speaker 2: believe in that. Past lives?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 2: What is that? Shirley MacLaine type of thing. Reincarnation. Messages
Speaker 2: from beyond. There's probably people summoning Dolly Parton's spirit right now.
Speaker 2: Souls bouncing around through history. Where are they at? What
Speaker 2: are they communicating? What are they trying to tell us?
Speaker 2: And he probably said, no, thank you. Not on this
Speaker 2: treatment plan. And then came a patient for him. And
Speaker 2: it was written about in a book. Many lives, many masters.
Speaker 2: And Weiss referred to her as Catherine. That was not
Speaker 2: her real name, of course. But he wrote that she
Speaker 2: was a young woman suffering from anxiety, panic attacks, all
Speaker 2: the kind of dysphoric and anxiety-driven stuff, panic attacks. Just
Speaker 2: think about that, right? Darkness and choking and death. And
Speaker 2: for 18 months, he said he treated her with ordinary psychotherapy.
Speaker 2: And by his account, it was not getting them very far.
Speaker 2: So he tried hypnosis, right? Some people believe in it,
Speaker 2: some people don't, but he went there not to contact
Speaker 2: the dead, not to discover Cleopatra, not even to look
Speaker 2: for past lives, but he wanted to guide Catherine backward
Speaker 2: toward whatever childhood experience might have been planted in the
Speaker 2: first seeds of those fears that were driving that anxiety.
Speaker 2: And he asked her to return to the origin of
Speaker 2: her symptoms. And Catherine began speaking She was no longer
Speaker 2: in Miami. She was no longer Catherine. According to Weiss,
Speaker 2: she described herself as a woman named Aranda, living in
Speaker 2: a village 4,000 years ago in 1863 B.C., and she
Speaker 2: got everything exactly right. She described a flood, a wall
Speaker 2: of water, panic, destruction. And right there, sensible people may
Speaker 2: want to hit the brakes on all this. Like, whoa, wait,
Speaker 2: you're from another life? You remember B.C.? What? A skeptic
Speaker 2: hears this and says, yeah, I heard it somewhere else. Imagination, symbolism,
Speaker 2: a dream state drama, a half-remembered movie maybe, or, you know,
Speaker 2: the unconscious mind is creating a little theater and hypnosis.
Speaker 2: May make the, you know, curtains rise. You may start
Speaker 2: to think about other things. But this is not an
Speaker 2: unreasonable response. But Weiss, the psychiatrist, said it was his
Speaker 2: first response too. And after session and session and session,
Speaker 2: Catherine returned with more supposed lives. different eras, identities, sexes, names, voices.
Speaker 2: And while all that was happening, Walter, her symptoms reportedly
Speaker 2: began to ease. The fear of water, the panic, the nightmares,
Speaker 2: because she was going back into her past lives. Did
Speaker 2: that prove that she had lived before? No. Did it
Speaker 2: prove that hypnosis provides a shortcut to some sort of
Speaker 2: ancient memories? Of course not. I mean, no. But in
Speaker 2: his telling, it was enough to make a deeply skeptical
Speaker 2: psychiatrist wonder whether he was seeing something that did not
Speaker 2: fit neatly into any of those medical charts because he
Speaker 2: was a practical man. So he wrote during some of
Speaker 2: these sessions that she, Catherine, seemed to move beyond all
Speaker 2: the alleged past lives into what she described as the, quote,
Speaker 2: space between each of those lives. And her voice would
Speaker 2: even change. Her manners changed. She said beings she called
Speaker 2: the masters were speaking through her, and they were. And
Speaker 2: the story takes a real turn from unusual to deeply
Speaker 2: personal because according to Weiss, those masters began offering information
Speaker 2: about him. Private grief, personal details, matters connected to his
Speaker 2: infant son who had just died a few years earlier.
Speaker 2: Details he claimed Catherine had no ordinary way of actually
Speaker 2: even knowing, and she was nailing all of it. precisely.
Speaker 2: And that was the moment that the story completely changed
Speaker 2: because you can go back and remember floods or histories or,
Speaker 2: or hear any of these things, but you know, the
Speaker 2: information that are aimed directly at the actual doctor himself,
Speaker 2: information tied to his private loss, this is the kind
Speaker 2: of thing that can shake a person's certainty right down
Speaker 2: to its foundation. And so the questions arrive quickly and
Speaker 2: are answered even more quickly because the Catherine unconsciously picks
Speaker 2: up clues from Weiss. Right? Did she know this? Did
Speaker 2: she hear anything? He said no. His expressions, his tones,
Speaker 2: his body language, something mentioned and nothing. Did the hypnosis
Speaker 2: unleash some sort of powerful symbol?
Speaker 6: No.
Speaker 2: Could it have been some sort of cryptonesia, which is
Speaker 2: forgotten information absorbed long ago from books?
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 2: But Weiss encountered something more radical. Something suggesting that consciousness
Speaker 2: is not simply a flickering electrical event trapped inside someone's skull,
Speaker 2: but as a collective consciousness. Something that continues, something that remembers.
Speaker 2: And Brian Weiss went on to write many books, conduct workshops,
Speaker 2: and become one of the best known advocates of past
Speaker 2: life regression. And believe it or not, this is a
Speaker 2: growing field. And his work has fascinated believers, intrigued curious
Speaker 2: people who are very interested. And now it's become even
Speaker 2: more scientific. And mental health professionals are now going into this, Walter,
Speaker 2: as a real field of study. Because this type of
Speaker 2: criticism that was out there is no longer criticism. It's
Speaker 2: actually a field of study of thinking that people are
Speaker 2: living multiple lives over many, many years. Generations, centuries, eons even.
Speaker 2: So the memory under hypnosis is not a courtroom quality recording,
Speaker 2: and any suggestion can save any sort of recollections of this.
Speaker 2: But to wrap this up and to look at this
Speaker 2: as something as a field of study going forward, maybe Dolly,
Speaker 2: maybe us, maybe this isn't our only life that we're living.
Speaker 2: Because now this is a real field of psycho... analysis
Speaker 2: studying in this field and who knows we might be
Speaker 2: evoking more Dolly Parton in our future who knows if
Speaker 2: Dolly is just passing through us or if you know
Speaker 2: Dolly is you know dead dead dead it's all up
Speaker 2: to I guess the eye of the beholder but this
Speaker 2: is a real scientific field of study now so for
Speaker 2: those of you who think Dolly is dead maybe she's not.
Speaker 5: Eddie Dragon owner of a radio station in New Mexico,
Speaker 5: a brilliant broadcaster, alternative information theorist, metaphysicist. One of the
Speaker 5: last things that Nikola Tesla believed was that our brains
Speaker 5: weren't just receivers of information, sounds, sight, memory. We weren't
Speaker 5: just receivers. We were also transmitters. And the concept of
Speaker 5: the law of attractions is based on our brain's ability
Speaker 5: to transmit desire, hope, fear, and probably the ability for
Speaker 5: us to transmit information generation to generation. There have been
Speaker 5: many experiments with lower form animals where they were able
Speaker 5: to test, here's the earthworm today, and we'll do this
Speaker 5: and this with the earthworm, and then the next generation
Speaker 5: of earthworms knows what that one knew, and there was
Speaker 5: no other place for them to get that information. And
Speaker 5: I suspect it has a lot to do with our
Speaker 5: willingness to receive and our willingness to transmit and to
Speaker 5: be heard. And then there are other people who are
Speaker 5: just too busy. They don't meditate. They can't get into
Speaker 5: that trance. They can't do that. But it could also
Speaker 5: be the vibration under which you're born, how you manage
Speaker 5: your life, how you treat other people. All of it
Speaker 5: sets up our receptors to... the psychic world around us.
Speaker 2: There's no doubt that there's a broader consciousness, Walter, and
Speaker 2: we are learning from it, but it's beyond our ability
Speaker 2: to actually comprehend. And the fact that it's there and
Speaker 2: we have faith and that we believe in it, I
Speaker 2: think is sort of this salvation. That's where miracles happen.
Speaker 2: That's where salvation maybe for humanity actually exists. And, you know,
Speaker 2: Tesla was on to something, maybe one of the most
Speaker 2: brilliant minds of all time.
Speaker 5: Of all time. Now, one of the things you'll remember,
Speaker 5: you'll realize is that when a friend of yours or
Speaker 5: a close person to you dies, you think about them
Speaker 5: a tremendous amount during the days and weeks right after
Speaker 5: they died. And you're walking down the street, you're walking
Speaker 5: into a room and you think you see them. You'll
Speaker 5: see somebody on the sidewalk. They look just like them.
Speaker 5: You hear their voice. Your cat moves in a new way.
Speaker 5: The dog starts barking at nothing. The energy. that that
Speaker 5: person had, the energy that that person puts out into
Speaker 5: the world is still there. And we don't understand it.
Speaker 5: We don't know how it works. Eddie Aragon, New Mexico,
Speaker 5: great report on Dolly Parton.
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Speaker 5: Walter Sterling and you at 800-848-9222. 800-848-9222. Introverts, extroverts, and ambiverts.
Speaker 5: People who like to be alone but derive energy from
Speaker 5: being with others but are perfectly happy being alone. They
Speaker 5: don't need to be with others. Whereas extroverts need to
Speaker 5: be with other people. This is our time. This is
Speaker 5: who you and I are. This is the only time
Speaker 5: of day where we get to be honest with who? Ourselves.
Speaker 5: You want to be alone? I don't care. Be alone.
Speaker 5: Have a good time. Nobody's going to say to you,
Speaker 5: why don't you come on outside? Why don't you come
Speaker 5: out with us? Never do introverts say to extroverts, you
Speaker 5: should stay inside. Don't bother to come out. No need
Speaker 5: to make friends. Just stay inside.
Speaker 2: It's all right.
Speaker 5: Introverts never say that to extroverts, but extroverts, boy, they
Speaker 5: think we should get out there, meet some people. It's
Speaker 5: a beautiful day. Why don't you get out and enjoy
Speaker 5: the day? No, you don't understand. I'm alone in my room.
Speaker 5: I am enjoying my day. I'm left-handed. I don't have
Speaker 5: to make any adaptions for you, a righty, as long
Speaker 5: as I'm alone in my room. When I'm alone in
Speaker 5: my room, everything's fine. It's like the Beach Boys song.
Speaker 5: When I was a kid, I thought the Beach Boys song,
Speaker 5: In My Room, was a happy song. It was well
Speaker 5: into my 20s that I realized, God, it's a very
Speaker 5: tragic and sad song. My 14-year-old daughter has apraxia and autism,
Speaker 5: and she spends hours alone in her room. She's very
Speaker 5: happy in there. She's with her cat, her iPad, her iPhone,
Speaker 5: her Zoobs. Do you know what Zoobs are? I'm not
Speaker 5: even going to begin to explain it. No, no, not
Speaker 5: because I don't think you can handle it like a UFO,
Speaker 5: because if I described it, you'd be like, really? Yes,
Speaker 5: she has hundreds and hundreds of zoobs, and her best friend,
Speaker 5: who's a little bit like her, together they play with
Speaker 5: the zoobs. But she'll lie on her bed like a princess,
Speaker 5: look on her iPhone, look on her iPad, and she's
Speaker 5: totally happy. And then if you say to her, come on,
Speaker 5: let's go see these people, if we have to go
Speaker 5: see some people, She can't do anything more than one
Speaker 5: social event a day. She can't do any more than that.
Speaker 5: That's it. But again, the extroverts, they always want us
Speaker 5: to go outside.
Speaker 8: I have decided that I need an emotional support extrovert.
Speaker 8: Someone who will invite me to things.
Speaker 2: I will go. They will talk to people. I will
Speaker 2: eat the food and pet the dogs.
Speaker 6: And then we can both go home feeling like we've
Speaker 6: done something.
Speaker 5: Wouldn't that be ideal? If you and I could have
Speaker 5: a extrovert wingman, somebody to go with us, get us out, introduce,
Speaker 5: and do all the talking for us. We don't have
Speaker 5: to do anything. We just go with them. Everybody's happy
Speaker 5: to see them. We don't need to talk. We're going
Speaker 5: to a party on Friday. You want to come?
Speaker 8: I can't.
Speaker 3: I have plans on Saturday.
Speaker 5: But the party's Friday night.
Speaker 2: I know, but I can't do two things back-to-back on
Speaker 2: the same weekend.
Speaker 7: So, no.
Speaker 5: I called you yesterday.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I saw that. Twice, actually, you called.
Speaker 5: Watch the ring. Sorry, I don't mean to bother you, but..
Speaker 3: So maybe don't. Have a good day.
Speaker 8: Hey, we're going out to lunch today.
Speaker 2: Want to come?
Speaker 5: I don't.
Speaker 3: Thanks, though. Have fun.
Speaker 5: So what's next on the agenda?
Speaker 3: I think we're done here.
Speaker 4: I think we should go home, and I'm.
Speaker 3: Going to do the same.
Speaker 1: See you later.
Speaker 5: That's the thing. If I'm in a situation, especially at work,
Speaker 5: and there are a group of people saying... hey, we're
Speaker 5: going to go to lunch now, Walter, you want to come?
Speaker 5: The answer is always going to be no. It's very
Speaker 5: hard to explain that to extroverts and to normies. It's
Speaker 5: hard to explain why the answer is going to be no.
Speaker 5: Easy to interpret it as he doesn't like us or
Speaker 5: he's a big deal or he's arrogant. or he thinks
Speaker 5: he's the smartest person in the room. No, it's not that.
Speaker 5: It's that I am physically and emotionally challenged, and maybe
Speaker 5: you are too, to hang out with a lot of
Speaker 5: people for a long period of time. And what they
Speaker 5: have found in studying introverts is that after about an
Speaker 5: hour and 45 minutes, we're done. If you and I
Speaker 5: are at a party for more than an hour and
Speaker 5: 45 minutes, we're really done. And then something happens. Then
Speaker 5: Dracula comes out after an hour and 45. If I'm
Speaker 5: there too long, I will start to turn on you.
Speaker 5: I will start to turn on the situation. And those
Speaker 5: canapes that I really liked, all of a sudden I'll go,
Speaker 5: you know, these are cold. Why are you serving these?
Speaker 5: Or why'd you invite Joe? What the hell's with him?
Speaker 5: And all of a sudden I will find problems with
Speaker 5: the social situation. Problems because I'm an introvert. And at
Speaker 5: some point, I need to escape the social situation. I
Speaker 5: need to get out of the social situation because I
Speaker 5: can't handle anymore. My ram is full. My circuitry is full.
Speaker 5: And my feet hurt like hell. Usually, I have found
Speaker 5: that left-handedness goes with flat-footedness. This is a lethal combination
Speaker 5: when it comes to being social. And I'll see people
Speaker 5: who are extroverts at parties, social situations. And as time
Speaker 5: goes on, they get more and more happy. They get
Speaker 5: more and more expansive. They get more and more part
Speaker 5: of the event. I don't envy them. I can't begin
Speaker 5: to envy them because I can't do that. You and
Speaker 5: I are on the radio where? In Chicago. That's a
Speaker 5: very big city. On the biggest radio station, WGN.
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Speaker 5: And you and I should talk at 800-848-9222, 800-848-9222, 800-848-9222.
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Speaker 3: Something really weird happened with Una.
Speaker 1: Tell me everything right now.
Speaker 7: I don't even, like, I really don't know if I can, like,
Speaker 7: explain it.
Speaker 8: Try.
Speaker 3: It was like, her faces were, like, so close to
Speaker 3: each other.
Speaker 5: Like, I could feel her breathing on me.
Speaker 2: Okay, hot.
Speaker 3: And then she touched my thigh.
Speaker 8: Ah, okay.
Speaker 4: So she's in love with you.
Speaker 9: No, because that was it.
Speaker 3: Like, nothing else happened.
Speaker 8: Really?
Speaker 5: And it's so confusing because I can't figure her out.
Speaker 3: I can't, like, tell what she's thinking. And it's driving
Speaker 3: me insane. But at the same time, I'm like, dude,
Speaker 3: why would she touch my thigh like that?
Speaker 5: No, 100%. 100%, actually.
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Speaker 5: Now, here's Joaquin. Joaquin, a truck driver. Are you an
Speaker 5: extrovert or an introvert?
Speaker 4: Walter, my friend, I'm a weird combination of both. I
Speaker 4: definitely do like going out like I do karaoke and
Speaker 4: whatever else. I do like hanging out with people, but
Speaker 4: I also don't mind those times when I'm alone and
Speaker 4: I'm doing something. And the time that I'm a real
Speaker 4: introvert is going down the road in the middle of
Speaker 4: the night. And then you get that person that for
Speaker 4: some reason feels the need to stay 10 feet away
Speaker 4: from your vehicle, you know, because they don't want to
Speaker 4: be alone. I just want to be out there on
Speaker 4: that open road all by myself.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And that that's always been one of my most annoying
Speaker 4: pet peeves. You just want to come back and forth
Speaker 4: to work down to Allentown and Pennsylvania Turnpike. Oh, my gosh.
Speaker 4: Middle of the night, plenty of open road, and some
Speaker 4: idiot just has to decide that they want to drive,
Speaker 4: you know. They just want to pace you somehow, you know. So, yes,
Speaker 4: I'm a combination of the both of them. And I
Speaker 4: also used to love sitting in a car. I had
Speaker 4: a 1940 Chrysler Plymouth, all original. And at night, I
Speaker 4: used to love sitting in that car with my cup
Speaker 4: of coffee and a cup of bourbon. But, you know,
Speaker 4: I got to ask you a question. You have a loving,
Speaker 4: much like me, a loving wife who takes care of
Speaker 4: all your needs. When she takes her daily trip over
Speaker 4: to Target to get paper towels, can't she get you
Speaker 4: a jar of Duke's mayonnaise and a container of pretzel rods?
Speaker 4: Because I got a business idea for you. Just think
Speaker 4: about this. Mayonnaise company has their sterling blend of mayonnaise.
Speaker 4: Pretzel company maybe has Joaquin's extra thick, extra salty pretzels, right?
Speaker 2: And then..
Speaker 4: After your listeners get, you know, cholesterol issues, you can
Speaker 4: get the pharmaceutical company to advertise on your show. And
Speaker 4: then you can get the legal company to advertise on
Speaker 4: your show. So right there, you've got four sponsors. Do
Speaker 4: you think it happened?
Speaker 5: Do you have a trucking story for us, Joaquin?
Speaker 4: I do, Walter. Yes, I do. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 4: I like to work in innuendo. So tonight's story is
Speaker 4: going to be about pussy in the truck. So anyway,
Speaker 4: at one point, you know, me and my wife, you know, she,
Speaker 4: she traveled, she loved traveling with me, you know, and
Speaker 4: we're going down, we're going to Texas and we had
Speaker 4: this cat actually. And this cat just loved to lay
Speaker 4: on the dashboard of my, it was my cab over truck,
Speaker 4: you know, um, my cab over came with aerodyne and
Speaker 4: those catches for some reason, love to lay on the
Speaker 4: dashboard and sun itself there. And I got devious. I
Speaker 4: turned the windshield wipers on and all of a sudden
Speaker 4: this cat would jump in the air and, I did
Speaker 4: this a number of times. Eventually, sooner or later, the
Speaker 4: cat flying would kind of be like laying there looking
Speaker 4: at me like, okay, you idiot. I get it now,
Speaker 4: you know. But it was the funniest freaking thing.
Speaker 5: Oh, he got disconnected? Oh. All right. 800-848-9222. 800-848-9222. The
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Speaker 5: an introvert. It's an unusual thing to be. Because... inevitably,
Speaker 5: whatever company you and I work for, whether it's big
Speaker 5: or small, the person who runs it, owns it, leads it,
Speaker 5: is an extrovert. In order to gather investors, employees, partners,
Speaker 5: they kind of have to be an extrovert. And then
Speaker 5: they say really horrible things like, I like team players.
Speaker 8: Really?
Speaker 5: Because I'm not a team player. I'll obey your rules.
Speaker 5: I'll do what you ask. But that doesn't mean that
Speaker 5: I'm going to sit with other people And come up
Speaker 5: with brainstorming ideas. I can't really help you with that.
Speaker 5: That's not what I'm going to do. All right. Let's
Speaker 5: you and I talk.
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Speaker 5: conspiracies is Agenda 21. Agenda 21. Now listen to this.
Speaker 5: Because when I first learned about this two days ago,
Speaker 5: I started doing a lot of homework because I couldn't
Speaker 5: believe it. Agenda 21 is the name of the UN-published
Speaker 5: white paper, United Nations-published white paper, produced after the Rio
Speaker 5: Socialist plan for a sustainable world. Not sustainable garbage, beverages, wood. No, no.
Speaker 5: A sustainable world in the 21st century. The Earth Summit
Speaker 5: was billed as an environmental issue Facing Mankind and the
Speaker 5: Blueprint for a Sustainable 21st Century. The Future of Mankind,
Speaker 5: where the U.S. Constitution, American national sovereignty and constitution eliminated
Speaker 5: and replaced by a Marxist world government controlled by a
Speaker 5: powerful cartel. American sustainability of the environment and creating a
Speaker 5: more equitable world are thought to be income redistribution, applying
Speaker 5: impossibly restrictive regulations that destroy deinstitutionalization of America and Western
Speaker 5: Europe through international trade organizations. All right, here's the bullet points.
Speaker 5: Under Agenda 21, many American activities are listed as unsustainable.
Speaker 5: Under Agenda 21, many of the things you and I
Speaker 5: do right now are listed as unsustainable. They include all
Speaker 5: private property ownership and rights. What does that clown mayor
Speaker 5: in New York City want to do? He wants to
Speaker 5: get rid of property ownership and rights. All forms of
Speaker 5: crop irrigation, pesticides, commercial fertilizers, except where approved. They want
Speaker 5: to get rid of crop irrigation. That means they want
Speaker 5: to kill the crops. Livestock production and most meat consumption.
Speaker 5: They want us to live in a vegetarian world. They
Speaker 5: want to get rid of meat consumption. For us, I
Speaker 5: suspect they will be eating filet mignon. Privately owned vehicles,
Speaker 5: personal travel, that's got to go. Burning of fossil fuels
Speaker 5: for energy production or personal vehicular travel. Single family homes
Speaker 5: in suburban communities, they have to go. Most forms of
Speaker 5: mineral extraction, mining, public lands, timber harvesting, that has to go. Dams, reservoirs,
Speaker 5: golf courses, ski lodges, vacation resorts. The permanent human population
Speaker 5: needs to be reduced by fewer than 1 billion people.
Speaker 5: It has to be reduced by fewer than 1 billion people.
Speaker 5: That is the goal of Agenda 21 for now. Get
Speaker 5: rid of 1 billion people now. Shortly after his inauguration,
Speaker 5: George Bush became part of the President's Council on Sustainable
Speaker 5: Development by executive order. It became federal policy within the
Speaker 5: administrative branch. He effectively bypassed Congress and, through high gear,
Speaker 5: forever changing the mission of the federal agencies from serving
Speaker 5: the people Mission 21 was never ratified by the Senate
Speaker 5: as required by law. 95% of all federal regulations are
Speaker 5: on target for American sovereignty. Well, that's the deal. The
Speaker 5: Agenda 21 wants to eliminate 1 billion people on Earth
Speaker 5: with the goal of making Earth itself sustainable. This works
Speaker 5: on the assumption that that the population of the world
Speaker 5: today is not sustainable. Where's that research? Because if you
Speaker 5: and I drive through Montana, Pennsylvania, all of Canada, there
Speaker 5: is plenty of land, plenty of resources, no problem. Where
Speaker 5: are there problems? In India. Move the people out of India.
Speaker 5: Too many people in India. Don't kill them. Don't make
Speaker 5: it smaller by a billion. But recognize the fact that
Speaker 5: maybe they should be able to find some more land
Speaker 5: for these people. And don't do it on purpose. Say, listen,
Speaker 5: here's an incentive. It'll be great if you could move here.
Speaker 5: Here's $ 100, 000. Agenda 21. A major initiative by the United
Speaker 5: Nations to make the world sustainable. This is terrifying to me. Paul,
Speaker 5: you're on the other side of midnight.
Speaker 2: Welcome.
Speaker 5: Welcome, welcome.
Speaker 4: Hello, Walter. Hello Paul.
Speaker 6: Good morning.
Speaker 5: Good morning.
Speaker 10: I'd like to speak to Dolly Parton, who passed away yesterday.
Speaker 10: Do you think Dolly was an extrovert or introvert or
Speaker 10: what do you think? Dolly Parton, the singer.
Speaker 5: What does it matter, Paul?
Speaker 10: Well, I suppose it doesn't matter really. The artists and
Speaker 10: talents she gives and she'll be back on the charts again,
Speaker 10: number one, I should imagine. I think you should, with Singer,
Speaker 10: you've got the extra bit, haven't you? I imagine you've
Speaker 10: got to outpour and you've got to be more and
Speaker 10: more positive, I suppose, more outspoken, I suppose. There were
Speaker 10: different issues she put in. She wasn't giving a few
Speaker 10: views about politics, I don't think, and she kept quiet
Speaker 10: on that stage, I believe. And I think that's how
Speaker 10: it's going to be. But if it's a bit... I
Speaker 10: suppose I could be outspoken, but I wouldn't be outspoken
Speaker 10: in public, I don't think. Or there'd be a debate
Speaker 10: of some sort. I don't know. It's hard to say, really.
Speaker 5: No, I understand, Paul. It makes perfect sense. The fact
Speaker 5: is that many stage performers are introverts. They're only extroverted
Speaker 5: on stage. They only come out and come alive when
Speaker 5: they perform. The rest of the time, they're in the
Speaker 5: back of the room really quiet. This is true of
Speaker 5: a lot of performers. A lot of people who entertain
Speaker 5: us are there for you and me. The minute the
Speaker 5: stage is closed, the minute the radio show is done,
Speaker 5: the minute the TV show is done, they're alone. And
Speaker 5: that's how they need to be to recharge. That's the
Speaker 5: challenge of extroverts and introverts, that many of the things
Speaker 5: that introverts do seem very outgoing. They could be baseball players,
Speaker 5: football players. My gosh, what could be more outgoing than that?
Speaker 5: But they can't talk off the field. They can't talk
Speaker 5: off the stage. They can't communicate. They can't go to
Speaker 5: dinner with you. And it's easy to say, well, that's
Speaker 5: because they think they're a big star or they're arrogant.
Speaker 2: No, no, no.
Speaker 5: It's that they just can't do it. They give every
Speaker 5: single thing they have, everything they have to that performance.
Speaker 5: And once that performance is done, they're cooked. They're done.
Speaker 5: It's a fascinating thing. 800-848-9222, 800-848-9222. But this is the
Speaker 5: first radio show, the first thing you and I are
Speaker 5: going to be a part of, where we celebrate it.
Speaker 5: We think it's great. We think it's just fine to
Speaker 5: be who we are. No place else you're going to
Speaker 5: find this. Every place else you're going to be told,
Speaker 5: You know, you really should get outside. You should do
Speaker 5: some more things outside. Why aren't you playing with others?
Speaker 5: This is the curse of your mother. Why don't you
Speaker 5: go outside and play now? You're not going to sit
Speaker 5: in your room all day. You need to get outside.
Speaker 5: That's what moms do. But then we would really just
Speaker 5: rather sit inside. Now, what did I want to tell you? Oh,
Speaker 5: Keith Mortensen, hi. Beryl Kravitz, these are the Midnight Misfits.
Speaker 5: Welcome to the other side of midnight. I have a
Speaker 5: robust list of Midnight Misfits. If you want to become
Speaker 5: a Midnight Misfit, that's easy. Go to the website, waltersterlingshow.com. waltersterlingshow.com
Speaker 5: What's this? 800-848-9222 Yesterday we were talking about things that
Speaker 5: really annoyed me. There are certain phrases that certain activities
Speaker 5: that bother me. I don't want to hear about, let's
Speaker 5: unpack this. Could we unpack this right now? Let's look
Speaker 5: at it a different way. I don't want to hear that.
Speaker 5: I don't want to watch anybody eating, drinking matcha. Do
Speaker 5: not order matcha when I'm around. I don't get it.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 5: What is that? I don't understand why I have to
Speaker 5: use a shaving brush to make a drink. It's kind
Speaker 5: of weird. If it's a busy day, a hot day,
Speaker 5: and we're in line to get ice cream at a
Speaker 5: good ice cream place, do not say, can I get
Speaker 5: a sample? No, you can't get a sample. The answer
Speaker 5: is no. There'll be no samples. If I'm behind you
Speaker 5: in line at an ice cream parlor, there will be
Speaker 5: no samples. I was behind this woman the other day.
Speaker 5: She ordered multiple samples. Oh, well, that's very interesting. Completely
Speaker 5: oblivious to the fact that, no exaggeration, there were 20
Speaker 5: people in line behind her waiting for her to Have
Speaker 5: a sample. Let me just try this. And then looking
Speaker 5: at their eight-year-old and saying, hey, Susie, do you want
Speaker 5: some of this? Do you want to try some of this?
Speaker 5: Why don't you try something new? Do not try something new, Susie,
Speaker 5: when I'm standing there.
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 5: Catherine Collins, Barry Glick. Hey, Barry. Bill Buckingham, Charles Dempsey,
Speaker 5: Wyatt Sharp. Hi, Wyatt. Sophia A., Drew S., Robert Young,
Speaker 5: Michael Leon, Mike Gull, Kathy M., Keith Mortensen, Mark Zaza,
Speaker 5: these are a few of the Midnight Misfits. Welcome to
Speaker 5: the other side of midnight. Kelly Martinson, Bill Buchanan, Charles Dempsey,
Speaker 5: Rhonda B. These are the Midnight Misfits, part of a
Speaker 5: very special group of people who work the great shift,
Speaker 5: the first shift. That's us. There are so many problems
Speaker 5: in our daily life when we have to deal with retail.
Speaker 5: Just so many. What am I looking at here? Okay.
Speaker 5: I work for John Katsimatidis, and I work for Margot Katsimatidis,
Speaker 5: and I work for the Red Apple Audio Networks. And
Speaker 5: I was thinking about this company for the few minutes
Speaker 5: before I came on the air tonight. And I have
Speaker 5: said to many, and the tricky thing about this is
Speaker 5: it just sounds like I'm kissing butt. Now, if you
Speaker 5: knew me at all, you'd know a couple of things.
Speaker 5: You know, I'm from New Jersey. I am left-handed. I
Speaker 5: was raised by a tough cookie. My mother was a
Speaker 5: world-class mom, no complaints, but she was tough. And she
Speaker 5: taught me to be very cynical and very leery of
Speaker 5: anybody that I met. And she taught me, I wasn't
Speaker 5: born with this, she taught me how to size up
Speaker 5: people fast. And it has served me well. Because of that,
Speaker 5: I have made mistakes when hiring people in terms of
Speaker 5: their skills, but never in terms of whether or not
Speaker 5: they're honest, good people. And also, she gave me the
Speaker 5: confidence to hire people who are smarter than me. The
Speaker 5: best thing a person can do, I have found as
Speaker 5: a manager, listen, I've run startups, venture startups, private startups.
Speaker 5: I've run huge divisions in real companies that you've heard of.
Speaker 5: Any type of company you can imagine. I've been responsible
Speaker 5: for running whatever, hiring a lot of people. The smartest
Speaker 5: thing that a manager can do is two things. I
Speaker 5: was taught this. Two things a manager can do that's
Speaker 5: really smart. One, the title does not come with knowledge.
Speaker 5: Whatever your title is, it's your job. It came with
Speaker 5: no information. It gives you the opportunity to be a student,
Speaker 5: to learn everything you can about that title for the
Speaker 5: rest of your career. Whatever you need to learn That's
Speaker 5: what the title gives you. It brings no knowledge. The
Speaker 5: worst managers are the ones who think, well, I have
Speaker 5: this title now, and therefore I know everything that Jack
Speaker 5: Welch knew. No, you don't. You have the opportunity to
Speaker 5: learn everything. Jack Welch at General Electric knew, and then
Speaker 5: hopefully not repeat his mistakes. What a horrible guy. Oh, God,
Speaker 5: the business people, they deified him. There was nothing worse
Speaker 5: to deify. Anybody who comes in with the nickname at
Speaker 5: General Electric of Neutron Jack, Why was he called Neutron Jack? Prophets? No,
Speaker 5: he fired thousands of people. Really? That to me is
Speaker 5: a great failure. You fire thousands of people, you have failed.
Speaker 5: The title doesn't come with knowledge. And the other thing
Speaker 5: is hire smarter. Whatever the job is, hire people who
Speaker 5: know much more about it than you do. Then you
Speaker 5: get to learn from them and You don't have to
Speaker 5: work as hard. Oh, they have it handled. I don't
Speaker 5: have to worry about them. They know this job. They
Speaker 5: got it down. They've done it for a long time.
Speaker 5: Those are the best people to hire. The ones who
Speaker 5: are so smart and know so much more than you
Speaker 5: do that they have it handled. Many managers are threatened
Speaker 5: by that. And that's too bad. The opportunity to hire
Speaker 5: someone who's a lot smarter than you about something And
Speaker 5: learn from them. What a gift. What a terrific thing.
Speaker 5: Because in the words of Jack Benny, and this is
Speaker 5: where a lot of managers forget. Jack Benny, great comedian, right?
Speaker 5: He had a CBS primetime television show. And one of
Speaker 5: his friends noticed it. He said, you know what, Jack?
Speaker 5: You have a one-hour show. And on your one-hour show,
Speaker 5: you have singers, dancers, other comics, puppeteers, ventriloquists, jugglers, all
Speaker 5: these other people you're on for maybe years. five minutes
Speaker 5: of your show, Jack. You're on for, like, maybe five
Speaker 5: minutes of your show. And Jack said, yeah, but it's
Speaker 5: still my show.
Speaker 6: The biggest all-night show on American radio.
Speaker 5: The Other Side of Midnight, Walter Sterling, Red Apple Audio Networks.
Speaker 1: The Other Side of Midnight with Walter Sterling. The Other
Speaker 1: Side of Midnight with Walter Sterling.
Speaker 6: The people of Walmart on the other side of midnight.
Speaker 8: Jonesboro, Arkansas. Yeah, it's the home of Walmart, the corporate
Speaker 8: headquarters of the world's largest corporations and really the corporation
Speaker 8: that put Walmart on the map. And I like that.
Speaker 8: His name, Michael Vincent Coleman. Not a kid, 43 years old,
Speaker 8: and Coleman is now facing charges of first-degree murder, three
Speaker 8: counts of criminal attempted homicide, second-degree battery, killing or injuring
Speaker 8: an animal used by law enforcement, fleeing, resisting arrest, and
Speaker 8: also having sex. 27 and a half grams of meth
Speaker 8: suspected meth and perhaps some cocaine and uh and i
Speaker 8: think that guy is not a good friend anybody's willing
Speaker 8: to hurt somebody that's a bad thing all the way
Speaker 8: around walmart management alerted uh jonesboro police officer working off
Speaker 8: duty security they wanted a man in the in the
Speaker 8: East Highland Drive store, later identified as Coleman Band, for
Speaker 8: prior things like shoplifting. You know, he must not be
Speaker 8: much of a drug dealer. If you're also shoplifting, that
Speaker 8: means your drug dealing hustle is not that good. From
Speaker 8: what I understand, even though I do not have personal
Speaker 8: experience doing this.
Speaker 5: Right, Walter?
Speaker 9: Maybe?
Speaker 7: Maybe.
Speaker 8: I don't tap. I'm good, I think. I've never dealt
Speaker 8: meth or coke or drugs, but from everything I've seen,
Speaker 8: that's a nifty way to make some money. The deal is,
Speaker 8: if you get busted, you go to jail. It's a
Speaker 8: risk-reward type of thing. If you're not making money at it,
Speaker 8: give up the drug dealing. It's not good for you.
Speaker 8: Driving over people, random sweet people... At your neighborhood Walmart,
Speaker 8: not good either. I go shopping at Walmart. I was
Speaker 8: there the other day. It was great. The people were super.
Speaker 8: And you look at the innocents, wide-eyed children, grannies going
Speaker 8: around circles like a Roomba. That's what makes Walmart special.
Speaker 8: Michael Vincent Coleman, likely going to jail, probably guilty, but
Speaker 8: we probably can't say that. So he's innocent until all
Speaker 8: charges are proven. For the people of Walmart, I'm Velo Wool.
Speaker 8: Walter Sterling, the other side of midnight, Red Apple Audio Network.
Speaker 6: Become the media. Call 800-848-9222 now.
Speaker 5: Oh, my God. Is that Stephanie? Really? Let's talk to
Speaker 5: Stephanie at 800-848-9222. Hey, Stephanie. Hey, what's up? Hey, what's
Speaker 5: up with you? What do you know? What do you
Speaker 5: have to report? What do you have to report?
Speaker 3: I don't have anything to report, but I'd like you
Speaker 3: to come to a show.
Speaker 5: Where's your show?
Speaker 3: Well, it's not my show, but if you could come
Speaker 3: to Peaches in St. Louis, that'd be cool.
Speaker 4: Why?
Speaker 3: Get out of your comfort zone.
Speaker 5: Yes, but what goes on at Peaches in St.
Speaker 1: Louis?
Speaker 5: What's going on?
Speaker 3: Oh, you have to look her up.
Speaker 5: No, I don't have to look her up. You're on
Speaker 5: the phone. You can tell me.
Speaker 3: Oh, she's a brilliant artist. She's female. Yeah, she's brilliant.
Speaker 3: I think it'll converge.
Speaker 5: No idea what she was talking about. Do you have
Speaker 5: any idea what she was talking about? I really don't
Speaker 5: want them screen screened, but do we talk to them
Speaker 5: at all before they come on the air? Just to
Speaker 5: make sure, like, we're speaking English, we're on the same planet.
Speaker 5: I'm not reprimanding you, Pete. You know I love you,
Speaker 5: but boy. What was I supposed to do with that?
Speaker 5: You should come to Peaches in St.
Speaker 4: Louis.
Speaker 5: Is that a 1990s record store? That's the last thing
Speaker 5: I heard about 1990 was a Peaches record store available
Speaker 5: in Westwood, California, 800-848-9222, with Walter Sterling. This AOC person,
Speaker 5: she is freezing her eggs. And she's freezing her eggs,
Speaker 5: and she's very annoyed that insurance does not cover her
Speaker 5: IVF treatment. Now, I agree that IVF treatments should be
Speaker 5: covered by insurance. And I'm not a woman, so I
Speaker 5: really don't have any opinion about what she's doing, how
Speaker 5: she's doing it, what she does with her body. It's
Speaker 5: her body. And that's the relationship between her and her doctor.
Speaker 5: And I believe anything that she does with her doctor
Speaker 5: should be covered by all insurance. And I'm thinking how
Speaker 5: magnanimous that is. And what a good feminist I am.
Speaker 5: Do you have that recording of her saying these things?
Speaker 5: Or do I have to do the show from scratch
Speaker 5: every night? Do you have that?
Speaker 4: Matt? Okay.
Speaker 5: Anyway, so she was saying she's going to freeze her eggs.
Speaker 5: She's going to keep her eggs.
Speaker 2: Great.
Speaker 5: And then she was complaining that IVF is not covered
Speaker 5: by her insurance. And I say it should be covered
Speaker 5: by all insurance. And then I started to think it through.
Speaker 5: If you're a guy and you have erectile dysfunction and
Speaker 5: you get Viagra or other medications, no insurance company pays
Speaker 5: for it. None. What is the deal there? that IVF
Speaker 5: is paid for by many federal programs, many federal programs,
Speaker 5: many insurance companies, but not erectile dysfunction medications. And I
Speaker 5: haven't heard one congressman, I've never heard Brendan Gill pounding,
Speaker 5: John Kennedy, I've never heard him pounding on the desk
Speaker 5: and saying, this has to be fixed, why can't this
Speaker 5: be fixed, why can't men get reimbursed for erections, why?
Speaker 5: Crazy Talk, Walter Sterling, Other Side of Midnight, Red Apple
Speaker 5: Audio Networks.
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