Speaker 1: All right, it's you and me at eight hundred eight
Speaker 1: four eight nine two two two. Eight hundred eight four
Speaker 1: eight nine two two two. It's the other side of midnight,
Speaker 1: which brings up the key issue. How many sides of
Speaker 1: midnight are there? Are there just two? Or are there four?
Speaker 1: Or they're ten? These are the existential questions of our time.
Speaker 1: These are the things that people are perspiring over right now.
Speaker 1: My existential threat at any given moment is the dishwasher.
Speaker 1: The dishwasher is always speaking to me. It has been
Speaker 1: speaking to me since I was sixteen when my mother
Speaker 1: first said to me, empty the dishwasher. It was my
Speaker 1: first chore. And you know, I have three teenage daughters
Speaker 1: and it exhausts them. The possibility of emptying the dishwasher
Speaker 1: is something they can't begin to deal with. If one
Speaker 1: of them does empty the dish washer today and then tomorrow,
Speaker 1: I say, could you eumpty the dishwasher please, they will say,
Speaker 1: but I did it yesterday, And I said, yes, I know,
Speaker 1: but could you do it today? And they will say,
Speaker 1: but I did it yesterday because it's such an exhausting task.
Speaker 1: And then I think about the man I saw tonight
Speaker 1: who was standing behind the hotel on the loading dock
Speaker 1: with at least two hundred bags of garbage ten feet
Speaker 1: across at least and he was going to take each
Speaker 1: of them from the loading dock to the curb. A
Speaker 1: true midnight misfit, A true third no sorry, first shifter,
Speaker 1: the great shift. But again it goes down to who
Speaker 1: we are. We are the ones, we are the task masters.
Speaker 1: We're the ones who get it done. We don't waste
Speaker 1: our time on theory. We don't waste our time filling out,
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, did 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 day,
Speaker 1: is made out of pieces that collectively can cause us
Speaker 1: to say, God, I've had a great day today, or gosh,
Speaker 1: I had a terrible day today. But when you deconstructed
Speaker 1: is to like what was the terrible part of the day.
Speaker 1: Usually it comes down to the printer. Many of our
Speaker 1: joyful moments and tragic moments are the printer. If the
Speaker 1: printer kick causes trouble, We've had a terrible day, Why
Speaker 1: do you have a terrible day? The printer, the damn printer.
Speaker 1: And then we start to explain what a curse the
Speaker 1: printer is. We have to get a new printer ran
Speaker 1: out of stuff. It said that it was empty, it
Speaker 1: had no more ink, but then when it kept printing,
Speaker 1: it still had ink. That's the lie. That's their installed
Speaker 1: expiration date. That's the installed obsolescence, which is it tells
Speaker 1: you that it's out of ink when it's not out
Speaker 1: of ink at all. We've experienced that with the battery
Speaker 1: in the iPhone. Eddie Arrogant or Eddie Dragon explained that
Speaker 1: to us that the iPhone heats up on purpose. They
Speaker 1: and by the way, you you can search iPhone too hot.
Speaker 1: The battery is too hot, and it tells you the
Speaker 1: settings to change that I've done on my phone, and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden the battery was fine and it
Speaker 1: stopped heating up. But really, that's what it is. The
Speaker 1: iPhone's annoying us. The iPhone's heating up. My gosh, the
Speaker 1: printer is out of ink, the paper jams. Those are
Speaker 1: the things that ruin our day. And one of the
Speaker 1: things that has been really stupid. Not true of the
Speaker 1: company I work for here, not true of the Red
Speaker 1: Apple Audio Networks, in fact, quite the opposite, but one
Speaker 1: of the things that many companies has really screwed up.
Speaker 1: There are people in other companies you won't believe this,
Speaker 1: in other businesses and other retail businesses that have people
Speaker 1: to fix the printer. What yeah. They they have guys
Speaker 1: just to fix the printer so you don't have to
Speaker 1: waste your time and energy. There are people actually hired
Speaker 1: to fill out the FedEx form, to do the postal stuff.
Speaker 1: What 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 horrible thing. And you get off
Speaker 1: the elevator and you're looking for a receptionist. You're looking
Speaker 1: for somebody to smile at you and say hello. But
Speaker 1: you don't see them. Now at this company, you get
Speaker 1: off the elevator, you see somebody who 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 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: that's where it gets stupid. When assistants and secretaries get
Speaker 1: cut and you're expecting an executive to fill out the
Speaker 1: FedEx's form and to fix the printer, and to deal
Speaker 1: with the challenge of the printer, and to deal with
Speaker 1: the challenge of the copier in addition to all of
Speaker 1: their other tasks. Here's the danger. A person who works
Speaker 1: on the part of their brain that's fixed the printer,
Speaker 1: the fix or fix the printer part of their brain
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, can think they've really
Speaker 1: achieved something. They can decide, Boy, you know, I had
Speaker 1: a really good day. I got stuff done. No, you
Speaker 1: fix the printer. If they didn't do anything, that can
Speaker 1: generate new money for the company. If they didn't do anything,
Speaker 1: they can generate profits for the company. They haven't done anything,
Speaker 1: but they fix the printer, they fix the copier, and
Speaker 1: they start to believe that that's an achievement and are satisfied.
Speaker 1: It's much harder to come up with new ideas ways
Speaker 1: to sell things. Selling things, that's much harder. But many
Speaker 1: a company will give their workers a false sense of economy,
Speaker 1: a false sense of achievement by letting them think that
Speaker 1: filling out that FedEx form, My god, that's a great day.
Speaker 1: That's just fantastic. Is any of this familiar to you?
Speaker 1: Have you experienced this? There was a time when the
Speaker 1: guy who came to fix your phone in your house,
Speaker 1: he had a truck, and in that truck was extra phones,
Speaker 1: cable nick knacks to make your phone work better, And
Speaker 1: if you two got along, he'd give them to you.
Speaker 1: He'd give you a couple of knickknacks, he'd give you
Speaker 1: an extra cord. He'd give you an extra phone. And
Speaker 1: you loved that guy, and you loved that phone company.
Speaker 1: Now all of that's inventoried, cataloged. You say to the guy, Hey,
Speaker 1: you got one of these on the truck. He goes,
Speaker 1: I used to I don't anymore. Lots of false economy.
Speaker 1: Jim and Staten Island. Welcome to the other side of
Speaker 1: Midnight with Walter Sterling.
Speaker 2: Hello Jim, Hey, Well, I was a printer technician. I
Speaker 2: repaired those crazy things.
Speaker 1: How hard was that job?
Speaker 2: Dealing with people? People get a little frustrated when they're
Speaker 2: dealing with the printers. I did copyist too. But a
Speaker 2: great scene in the movies Office Space when the guys
Speaker 2: again fired, they take the printer out into a park
Speaker 2: and the three take the three guys that did software
Speaker 2: 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?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: No, you know, I was intimate I'm I have relationship
Speaker 2: with inanimate objects. I fixed things, so I can't beat
Speaker 2: I can't do that. So but I know hooking them
Speaker 2: up now is a nightmare because you got to hook
Speaker 2: them up through the router. Now a nightmare and they frustrated.
Speaker 2: I struggled with that for hours and then I took it,
Speaker 2: stuck in it. My son gave it to me. I
Speaker 2: stuck it in the closet. I'm not going to use
Speaker 2: it ever again.
Speaker 1: As an expert on printers, which brand do you like best?
Speaker 2: The old IBM lasers are the best. I would stay
Speaker 2: away from the cartridge stuff, and I would stay away
Speaker 2: from anything that goes through your router because that gives
Speaker 2: them a path into your home for the weird, you know,
Speaker 2: the the sci fi stuff, thee once once you give
Speaker 2: them your password to your router to print a piece
Speaker 2: of paper, they control you. So you want to stay
Speaker 2: away from that.
Speaker 1: 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 two two Walter
Speaker 1: Sterling The Other Side of Midnight Red Apple Audio Network
Speaker 1: eight hundred eight four eight nine two two two. Eight
Speaker 1: hundred eight four eight nine two two two. Let's see,
Speaker 1: let's see the I I'm challenged when I talk to
Speaker 1: my gen zer when she says that she and her
Speaker 1: friends are sharing information on their new jobs, about what
Speaker 1: they do for a what they get paid, what they
Speaker 1: get paid, and I'm like, I don't know. It seems
Speaker 1: like a really bad idea to me. And I'm thinking
Speaker 1: about our day when you and I go to work,
Speaker 1: when we work on the first shift, the great shift,
Speaker 1: and we are challenged by the fact that it isn't
Speaker 1: a bad day, and it isn't a good day. It's
Speaker 1: one thing. There'll be one thing that bothers us. There'll
Speaker 1: be one thing that makes it a great day. But
Speaker 1: we generalized, we make it to something much bigger than
Speaker 1: it is, or something much less than it is. Right,
Speaker 1: That's what we're up against. That's our challenge. And when
Speaker 1: so I was thinking about today, I had a tough
Speaker 1: day today. All day it was a tough day. I
Speaker 1: was at home. I was staying in my sister in
Speaker 1: law's apartment and my sister I had the apartment alone, right,
Speaker 1: I had the apartment for the whole day. And then
Speaker 1: I found out that others were going to be staying there,
Speaker 1: that I was going to have to have others staying there,
Speaker 1: And 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 oh
Speaker 1: my gosh. And then I'm like annoyed, Oh annoyed, you
Speaker 1: can't have that. And those those are the actual challenges.
Speaker 1: Those are the mysteries of what you and I have
Speaker 1: to deal with when we are dealing with relatives. And
Speaker 1: what I have found best. I don't know how this
Speaker 1: works for you, but what I have found best in
Speaker 1: my 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, Iebrain. I'm like,
Speaker 1: why am I saying, Ibran, They're in Eyebrain and they're
Speaker 1: thirty kids special aid kids, but they have severe brain injuries.
Speaker 1: But there's a federal government subsidy to the school district
Speaker 1: that takes care of them, gets them to school, It
Speaker 1: gets them to class, it makes sure that they have
Speaker 1: lunch and make sure that they're fine. And that's been
Speaker 1: so for a couple of years. This week it was stopped.
Speaker 1: This week it was stopped. And as a result, these
Speaker 1: kids who thought they were going to go back to
Speaker 1: school tomorrow, they're not going back to school tomorrow. There's
Speaker 1: been a bunch of lawsuits and what the what was
Speaker 1: changed as a federal judge throughout a I don't know
Speaker 1: what they call it. It was a hold. It was
Speaker 1: a delay of doing anything to the kids until the
Speaker 1: lawsuit between the parents and the school district was stopped
Speaker 1: and settled between the kids and the school district was settled.
Speaker 1: Until that was settled, they were not they didn't have
Speaker 1: to stop taking care of the kids. Well, a federal
Speaker 1: judge said that pause is not okay, it's not all right.
Speaker 1: We're not going to respect that and instead we're going
Speaker 1: to cease funding. So here are these kids. They're young
Speaker 1: kids who are like eight to twelve, and they're not
Speaker 1: going to let them go back to school. They're not
Speaker 1: going to have the funds to go back to school. First,
Speaker 1: it has to be settled in court. And the delay
Speaker 1: in enacting that was lifted by a federal judge. This
Speaker 1: is the challenge of special ed if you have a
Speaker 1: special ed kid, if you know a special ed kid.
Speaker 1: There's a part to it that is not discussed, and
Speaker 1: I'm going to discuss it. It's this that special ed
Speaker 1: kids need special funds. That for the school to take
Speaker 1: care of a special ed kid. The law says that
Speaker 1: a school district, a public school district. The law says
Speaker 1: a public school district must educate that kid. Then the
Speaker 1: parent has to agree to what it is that they're
Speaker 1: being educated, how they're going to be educated. The school
Speaker 1: district is only obligated, you're ready for this, to put
Speaker 1: the kid in a classroom. That's all they're obligated to do.
Speaker 1: Is to put your kid, a special ed kid with
Speaker 1: extraordinary needs from autism to a praxia in a classroom.
Speaker 1: That's all they're required to do. Meanwhile, if they can't
Speaker 1: accommodate your kid, listen to this. If they can't accommodate
Speaker 1: your child, they have to say. You have to then
Speaker 1: say you're not accommodating my And there's all this form
Speaker 1: and all this paperwork, and these kids are screwed. Part
Speaker 1: of the reason that they're screwed is that accommodating special
Speaker 1: ed kids is an enormous task for a school district.
Speaker 1: It's an enormous task. And not every teacher is capable
Speaker 1: of working with these children. Of course not, because every
Speaker 1: kid who has special needs is different. You can say, gee,
Speaker 1: they have a praxi or they have autism, they have
Speaker 1: this motor skill challenge, they have this reading challenge, they
Speaker 1: are uh have they have dyslexia. But those are all
Speaker 1: a huge variety A huge variety, a huge scope of
Speaker 1: those things. And you and I are on the air
Speaker 1: in Chicago on WGN, Thank you, WGN with Walter Sterling
Speaker 1: on the other side of Midnight at eight hundred and
Speaker 1: eight four eight nine two two two, And what I
Speaker 1: came to learn with my special ed kid? And the
Speaker 1: minute you have a special ed kid, what do you learn?
Speaker 1: You learn that all the other parents have similar challenges.
Speaker 1: And the challenges are these the school district says, we're
Speaker 1: taking care of your kid, and then you find out
Speaker 1: that the school district really can't and isn't. And you say, well,
Speaker 1: we want this money to go to this special ed
Speaker 1: school 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
Speaker 1: two two. I have a tremendous empathy with these thirty
Speaker 1: kids in the New York City school system that are
Speaker 1: in a special program called I Brain that was put
Speaker 1: on hold this week. And these kids, they're not going
Speaker 1: to school until the settlement is made, until there's a
Speaker 1: settlement between the school district and the kids parents. It's
Speaker 1: a crappy situation, all right, Walter Sterling. Exciting to be
Speaker 1: with you. And now we're starting our work week. This
Speaker 1: is the special time that you and I get where
Speaker 1: we're getting back to work, which is much better than
Speaker 1: being back with the relatives, much better than the existential
Speaker 1: threat of the dishwasher, the existential threat of the teenager
Speaker 1: who doesn't think, Oh, I love the cats. I enjoy
Speaker 1: being with the cats so much. You love the cats, Yes,
Speaker 1: I really do. Oh that's fantastic. Are you gonna empty
Speaker 1: the litter box? No, no, no, I'm not emptying the litter box.
Speaker 1: But you said, you love the cats. I'm not emptying
Speaker 1: the litter box. They're threatened by the litter box. The
Speaker 1: other side of Midnight, Greg in Brooklyn, Welcome to the
Speaker 1: other side of midnight.
Speaker 3: Hello, Greg, It's an honor to speak with the Walter helped.
Speaker 3: Things are well with you this morning, sir.
Speaker 1: I hope things are well with you and Marinnie Brooklyn.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yes, I'm a Franciscan brother of Brooklyn.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: And I live with the other brothers, and my favorite
Speaker 3: house tour, because we all share chores, is to empty
Speaker 3: the dishwasher.
Speaker 1: Now why do you think that is? Do you view
Speaker 1: it as a spiritual event to this dishwasher?
Speaker 3: Well, one thing, it is serving my brothers. But the
Speaker 3: other thing is it simply means that I've eaten.
Speaker 2: Ye.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you've I don't know if you've
Speaker 3: considered sharing with your children that they're probably about a
Speaker 3: billion or two billion people who would love to empty
Speaker 3: the dishwasher because that means they've had nice meals the
Speaker 3: 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've you have food, that's all I'd have to say,
Speaker 1: the dishwasher means you have food, that would do it.
Speaker 1: Putting it on a grandiose and impossible do envision scale
Speaker 1: would 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 3: No, we have ministries and our congregation has been here
Speaker 3: since eighteen fifty eight and we've been in education, so
Speaker 3: in high schools, grammar schools. I'm over at beautiful Saint
Speaker 3: Francis College in downtown Brooklyn. That's my ministry there. You
Speaker 3: got a good assignment, very very good assignment. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: love my work. I say thank God for Monday. I
Speaker 3: know it's Monday morning, so 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
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Speaker 1: like talking to you. It's the reason I do this
Speaker 1: show is that you and I get to talk, and
Speaker 1: I was sharing you with you the I had a
Speaker 1: difficult weekend. I had a difficult weekend because I had
Speaker 1: to deal with in laws, which is never good for me.
Speaker 1: I had to deal with the challenges of having a
Speaker 1: special needs kid and we have to start school soon
Speaker 1: and it's going to be homeschool. And when I first
Speaker 1: had a homeschool her, I was very nervous because she's
Speaker 1: a social animal. This is a kid who likes to
Speaker 1: hang out with people she likes. She will be your friend.
Speaker 1: If you meet her, she will be your friend. And
Speaker 1: it turns out that this made her more social that
Speaker 1: by homeschooling her, she became more social because she had downtime,
Speaker 1: she had recovery time. She was able to take it
Speaker 1: easy and deal with the fact that she's although social,
Speaker 1: is a type of introvert that needs to be alone,
Speaker 1: and at least she knows it. It's interesting a lot
Speaker 1: of introverts, don't they think there's something wrong with them.
Speaker 1: You know, you and I work at this time of
Speaker 1: day because we don't want to be bothered with people.
Speaker 1: We don't want to know other people. This is who
Speaker 1: we are. We're not group thinkers, we're not brainstormers. That's
Speaker 1: not what we do. We sit in the back of
Speaker 1: the cave. Give me the problem, Let me sit in
Speaker 1: the back of the cave. I will solve the problem
Speaker 1: and I will bring it back out. That's what we do.
Speaker 1: But you put me in a group think situation. You
Speaker 1: put me in a brainstorming situation. I can't do that.
Speaker 1: I'll shut down the minute I'm in with a group
Speaker 1: and I hear somebody at the front of the group
Speaker 1: say I believe in team players. Really, I don't want
Speaker 1: anything to do with team players. I want to deal
Speaker 1: with individual thinkers, innovators. Does that make sense. I don't
Speaker 1: want to know about team players. I don't want to.
Speaker 1: I don't want to people. I'm not on a team.
Speaker 1: I'm not Travis. I'm not Travis. I'm not on a team.
Speaker 1: That's not who we are. We get to be this.
Speaker 1: We get to be working the great shift, the late shift.
Speaker 1: We get to take our problems to the back of
Speaker 1: the cave. We get to sit alone, and we need
Speaker 1: the alone time and that's what my special needs kid has.
Speaker 1: She gets alone time because she homeschools in her bedroom
Speaker 1: with her laptop on the zoom. That's what works for her.
Speaker 1: And they, and you know who they are, are just
Speaker 1: figuring that out. They're just figuring it out that there
Speaker 1: are different types of introverts, they're different types of extroverts.
Speaker 1: There are people who are both introverts and extroverts. Don't
Speaker 1: even want to know about them, but it's all different.
Speaker 1: Those are the challenges. And that's my recommendation to you,
Speaker 1: my friend. My recommendation to you is that if you
Speaker 1: want to binge. I'm not a binge TV watcher. I
Speaker 1: don't like to binge TV. Whenever I hear somebody say, well,
Speaker 1: you know, I binge that show and binge, I always
Speaker 1: think they're weak they have a weakness. What do you
Speaker 1: mean binge that show? What's that about? But this show
Speaker 1: Star City, WHOA, it's not really a science fiction show.
Speaker 1: It's an alternative history show where the Russians won this
Speaker 1: they won the space race. And what happened in Star City,
Speaker 1: which is there Cape Canaveral, what happened after that with
Speaker 1: the engineers, with the scientists, with the security people in
Speaker 1: Star City in Russia. It's fascinating. No stars. It captured
Speaker 1: me for eight episodes. It was very unusual. It was
Speaker 1: very unusual. So anyway, it's a great show. I recommend that.
Speaker 1: And then the other thing that you and I have
Speaker 1: to consider is how much of our day do we
Speaker 1: spend scrolling through TikTok? How many hours of our day
Speaker 1: do we go through TikTok? How much of our time
Speaker 1: do we do that? And we never discuss it, we
Speaker 1: never admit it when in doubt we're scrolling through TikTok.
Speaker 1: It's a sad life, but it's true. And I'm always
Speaker 1: fascinated by the TikTok store. In the TikTok Store, I
Speaker 1: have bought things I'm ashamed to admit. I have bought
Speaker 1: the drain on that powder that instantly drains the entire
Speaker 1: street in the sewer. I've bought that. The interesting insuls
Speaker 1: that are multiple color that have little spikes in them.
Speaker 1: Those work. I've wasted a lifetime getting custom orthotics and
Speaker 1: the TikTok store insuls. They are actually the best things
Speaker 1: that I've bought. That's been my experience. Other things not
Speaker 1: so good. Nothing has stopped my mail cat from P
Speaker 1: if you had that experience. Nothing has stopped my mail
Speaker 1: cat from P. It's impossible. We have done everything. We've
Speaker 1: done the diffusers, the abromas, the different kind of litter,
Speaker 1: and we've done the different kind of boxes, things that
Speaker 1: calm the cat, you name it. Nothing has worked. Nothing.
Speaker 1: You've given me great suggestions. I am grateful for your suggestions,
Speaker 1: but so far nothing has worked. Shame on us. And
Speaker 1: what else? Oh, what did we learn tonight? We learned
Speaker 1: that Apple planned obsolescence with their iPhones. We knew this,
Speaker 1: but how they did it was interesting to the degree
Speaker 1: where other countries, not our country, protected their citizens from
Speaker 1: what Apple did to them. Apple forced them to buy
Speaker 1: thousand dollars phones for absolutely no reason at all, no
Speaker 1: reason at all, But our country, no problem. They you
Speaker 1: know you you make the phone hot. Oh that means
Speaker 1: you need a new phone immediately. Yes, we have a
Speaker 1: new Orange phone. Get the Orange phone. It's a thousand
Speaker 1: bucks here it is. But our country not protecting us. France,
Speaker 1: they find them a million bucks, fine, another million, But
Speaker 1: you see, Apple six trillion dollars in the bank doesn't
Speaker 1: affect them at all. Walter Sterling one am to five
Speaker 1: am every night, the other side of midnight on the
Speaker 1: Red Apple Audio Networks, and you and I stay in touch.
Speaker 1: Walter dot Sterling at WABC radio dot com. The Other
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