May 29, 2024 • 46 mins
5/29/24 - Doug Stephan and Jai Kershner get together to discuss the news topics of the week. After 7 year spent in prison and wanting to turn his pain into something positive, a man and his wife go to music festivals to discuss overdosing and how to help people protect their loved ones from an overdose. A discussion on human trafficking, a son's heroic actions saving his dad when a car they're working on explodes, an Air Force pilot dies after his aircraft ejection seat goes off while still on the ground, and fun facts about DaVinci's Mona Lisa painting. Plus, the International Criminal Court put our an arrest warrent for the Israeli Prime Minister and 3 Hamas leaders, how a reverse dictionary can be a beneficial tool, and BORG drinking. We discuss that, too. Other conversations include the importance of meditation, the latest on the Baltimore bridge container collision, Pope Francis's thoughts on surrogacy, and how one woman learned someone made a deepfake porn of her after declining him for a date and how she's fighting back.
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The next Stefan Good Day download withDoug and Jay Kirshner is made possible in
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keep it off. Here's some goodnews. After seven years spent in an
Ohio prison for possession of stolen carand some other things like burglary, say
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again, Deck, Well, thereit is. William Perry started using heroin
at the age of fourteen. Realizedhe needed a new start in life.
He saw a couple of friends diefrom drug overdoses. He determined himself to
turn his pain into something positive andhe just had to figure out how to
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do it. Prison is a miserableplace, says mister Perry. He worked
on a college degree there in socialservices while he was in jail, and
while he got sober. He said, some people get locked up, others
get saved. I was one whosaved. So now after you get out
of prison, he has found awonderful way Jay to help others in preventing
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deaths from accidental overdoses. There's anopioideic epidemic going on right now. All
kinds of drugs, frankly fentanyl,you know, heroin, orphine oxy.
He and his wife travel around.They live in Columbus, Ohio. They
go to a bunch of music festivalsevery year hand out free doses of ma
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loox alone. Is that how youpronounced that? Yeah? Yeah, And
they teach people how to use it. They have and it's not like they're
just like buying a ticket and goingamongst the crowd and everything. They have
a whole booth set up where theyhave educational pamphlets and other items. They
teach people how to use the theI don't want to call them like the
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drugs, but the stuff to helpdrugs, to help somebody who's overdosing,
like narcanon, all of that,and also sharing you know, he's sharing
his own story and he's not justsomebody who's like, stay off drugs kids.
He is was they just say norock Bottom? Yeah, He's speaking
from experience, and he knows thatanybody who's dealing with an addiction, he
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knows what addiction really is and thelure and how it can stop and all
of that, and so using hislife experience and his loss and his suffering
to help others not face that samefate, and also helping people who may
they're clean and sober. But theyknow people who are dealing with this and
battling this, and how showing themhow they can better help the people in
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their life too. In the lastcouple of years, they've gone this husband
and wife to Bonn a Roue,to Lollapalooza, Burning Man, some other
festivals. They've goten other volunteers.They've distributed sixty thousand doses of this medication
and that that's good. But holysmokes, think about how bad it is
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that there are that many people thatare using these drugs. What is there
about drugs that is so attractive topeople? I never have been able to
figure. I don't think it isattractive to them. I think that it's
one of those things where maybe theywere curious about something, but then one
high led to stronger highs and addiction. It is an illness. It is
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an actual illness. And I thinka lot of people who use and are
addicted they don't want that lifestyle either. It's just very difficult to get out
of it. Yeah, it's prettyugly stuff. Man. All right,
Let's see here. Let me pausefor a moment. I get a couple
of other sort of sobering things totalk about in this hour of the Good
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Day program. I want to focuson something that's global right now around the
world and estimated twenty eight million peoplesubjected to human traffic every year. This
is something that's gotten worse and worseand worse. The crime occurs in every
US state, every US territory.Traffickers take advantage of all the various transportation
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mediums to commit some of these heinousacts. So let's get a little more
the story behind the story, ifyou will. The Federal Motor Carriers Safety
Administrations Your Roads Their Freedom campaign seeksto raise awareness of human trafficking in the
commercial motor vehicle industry. In addition, FMCSA partners with other Department of Transportation
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agencies to raise awareness of human traffickingin all transportation sectors. Human traffickers use
America's transportation systems to facilitate unspeakable crimes. The campaign provides the nation's eight point
seven million commercial motor vehicle drivers withthe information they need to identify and report
suspected human trafficking. Truck and busdrivers are the eyes and ears of the
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nation's roads. FMCSA wants you toremain while it's your roads. It's their
freedom. If you suspect that humantrafficking is occurring, trust your instincts and
text the National Human Trafficking Hotline attwo three three seven three three or B
free b E fr ee. Tolearn the signs of human trafficking and how
to report it, go to FMCSAdot dot dot gov slash stop human Trafficking.
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All right, let's get to someof the senior side of things here.
Jay, here's the story about afather and son of in Oregon this
week, fortunately to be alive afterbeing seriously injured when a car they were
working on exploded. So this group, there were three people in the family,
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j Marcy Garner, her father,Darryl Tucker, and her brother Rhyese
Tucker, who is by the way, a mechanic. We're working on this
car when they discovered a fuel leakand then it exploded and they were caught
in the flames. It ran outof the shop then and his father was
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on the ground near the car,so he ran back in. He put
the flames out on himself first,out of himself out and then he went
back in. But they already youknow, they had serious real burns.
My god, you haven't seen anyof some of the people that you know,
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sometimes you see this in movies andstuff. But the flames and what
it does to your flesh. Yeah, my god. Well, and this
is this is exactly like a movieor a drama TV show or something,
because they discovered the fuel leak.They realized there was a fuel leak just
before the explosion. So they couldn'teven get out of there fast enough.
And the dad was yelling for theson, you know, just get out,
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save yourself. And of course theson wasn't going to do that,
but the dad had already was alreadyrecovering from a previous surgery. Yeah.
Now, the father didn't want theson to come in, you know,
you get up, but the sonwent in to save the father. So
and that's they Yep, they did. All right, here's this story of
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two who didn't make it out.A dive team has found the bodies of
two men who were inside a planethat was found upside down in a lake
in Alaska. Wow, this issomething there. This is in a community.
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I can't ever pronounce the Alaska names. I'm not good at this,
but anyway, they were found,these two found in the aircraft. This
sort of reminds me there have beena lot of things. Has there been
a discovery as to what brought downthe president of Iran and that helicopter.
I think there were a lot ofpeople who thought maybe he got shot down,
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the Israelis were behind it, youknow, you you think about some
of these things. I'm going fromthe frying pand of the fire, I
know that talking about two people diedin a plane in Alaska, going then
to the helicopter crash and Iran.But there are very few of these accidents.
It's so safe, and I wondersometimes to go back to the Alaska
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situation, is it less safe inprivate, private aviation versus commercial aviation?
One would wonder that. I justit seems like it's the private planes that
tend to go down more often,right exactly. And here's something adding to
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that whole scenario. An Air Forceinstructor pilot died after the ejector seat activated
his plane was still in the ground. Wow. That is one of those
like, oh, what is themovie franchise Final Destination where somebody escapes death
and then they die in this reallyweird way anyway, because death catches up
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to them like that. Is justone of those tragic accidents of what on
earth happened? This fellow Captain JohnRobertson was you know, yeah, he
was out there in the teaching capacity, ground operations, et cetera, et
cetera, et cetera. And youlook at this, it's like meaningless in
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a sense. This guy was ahighly valued airman. He was an instructor
pilot and so what happens. I'msure there's an investigation into it, but
it doesn't bring the guy back.That's the thing. He you know,
it's this It's almost un imaginable.I'm trying to put myself into this scenario
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and I don't know how to doit. Frankly. He was in charge
of air education and training at thisAir Force base. There's technical flying training
there and regular flying training there,and this was just, you know,
one of those weird accidents that happens. Oh you man, the agestions.
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He just went off still on theground. Everything was shut right from the
Did you know and do you care? Fact file? Did you know that
the Mona Lisa once hung in Napoleon'sbedroom? Yes, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona
Lisa has been on display in theLouver since eighteen oh four. Before that
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it hung in a pretty year.I guess you would say it was less
accessible Emperor Napoleon's bedroom. After daVinci died in fifteen nineteen, the Mona
Lisa passed into the possession of oneof his patrons. There's no artists at
the time. They didn't make anymoney, They had no idea what the
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work was worth. But when therewas somebody who appreciated the work of people
like DaVinci, King Francis of Francecame along and he paid for He paid
Leonardo da Vinci, so he hadthe property in the the the castle or
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wherever the king lived. And thenduring the French Revolution, Napoleon decided he
was going to take it to hisbedroom. So that's the story behind the
story. That's fascinating. That's areally good one from the did you know
in the UK Department? I didnot know what I do? Care?
I did? Well, there yougo, we have something to continue to
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have more. Have you ever beento the Louver in Paris? Louver now
one and two? But the lineswere always so incredible. Long walked past
it but never went inside. Ye, So, by the way, did
you know Eami, do you careAt the moment, the current value of
the Mona Lisa is eight hundred andsixty million dollars. I don't know how
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they come up with that, butI'm sure somebody would like to. Somebody's
got eight hundred and sixty meal,but it's not available. It's the louver.
It's a French thing, you know. Let's see here. I was
interested. I remember when Bill Gatesthere was an auction of Leonardo da Vinci's
notebooks about I don't know, fifteentwenty years ago, and Bill Gates paid
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thirty million for the notebook. Howabout that? And let's see here.
I guess that's enough of that stuff. Let's go on. I mean,
people collect things. When you havea lot of money, you can collect
like really cool stuff like that.But at the same time, it's just
one of those things, like withthe Mona Lisa. It would be such
a shame of some billionaire bought itjust to keep for to keep it away
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from it own private property. Yeah. As a matter of fact, Pablo
Picasso, I'm looking at the historyof the Mona Lisa was once arrested because
he stole it, and the peoplewho were responsible for security at the I
Louvra. Let's see, this wasin nineteen eleven, they noticed that the
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Mona Lisa was absent from its spotand they found after they looked around the
museum the painting had been taken.Was obviously the police are all over this.
They were, you know, yougot to imagine what they were riding
around on horses around the louver.And eventually they found that a young artist
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named Pablo Picasso who had a historyof stealing art. How many people knew
that about Picasso? I did notknow that he was a thief, and
so that was the story of thatbefore becoming a well known sculptor. Yes,
right, exactly. All right,so let's talk about some interesting developments
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this week. I it was appalled, and I'm guessing that later on some
the next hour or two, we'llhave Erri Geller from Israel to talk about
the arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Ministernet Yahoo and for the leaders of Hamas.
The International Criminal Court has issued thesewarrants for these people. No,
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well, there's two Israelis and threeHamas leaders that if they can get to
them, they're going to arrest them. And you know, you look at
the overview of the prosecutor detailing allthe offenses and crimes against humanity and criminal
responsibility and all the other things thatthey use. When I look at the
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October seventh attack and I think aboutthe extermination of Israelis, the murder of
Israelis, the hostages that were taken, the torture of Israelis, the rape
of Israelis, then you know,does it justify what's happened. I don't
believe the numbers. The news mediais all too eager to go along with
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the numbers that hamas. It's likethat's the credible number. Neither situation is
okay. That's the thing, LikeI've been pretty vocal about it, that
both things can be true at once. Neither situation is okay. Both situations
are happening, and people are dying, and children are dying or having to
raise their own siblings or so you'restill missing. We still know that the
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hostages there are hostages. Yeah,why Swim Music festival and are still missing.
They're still being held hostage. Sohow do you fix this situation?
That's one of the questions that Ihave to which there is probably no answer
at the moment. The Hamas thefirst the you know the Okay, so
who's guilty here? Hamas because theyorchestrated the attack October seventh, or the
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Israeli government because they knew the attackwas going to come? Would they what
would they have done to stop itbefore it happened? It would have involved
bloodshed, no matter what. Sothe aggressor here at the beginning is clearly
Hamas. So from there you cango down any street that you want to.
Certainly, we have had many peoplearound the world who have been certainly
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well known and charged with these kindof crimes and others that weren't well known
from obscure countries, that sort ofthing. What I find is a secondary
side to this that is not amusing. It's annoying. Maybe that's not even
strong enough word. So you indict, you indict net and yaho, you
indict the Hamas leaders. Okay,where have you been with Putin? Why
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isn't Putin? I was just,yeah, what's the story here? This
is kind of selective justice in amanner of speaking, and it makes him
a last He has a warrant forhis arrest, not by you, enter
anything, but by our International CriminalCorps. But by Russia. Yeah,
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okay, so then why isn't therean arrest warrant out for putin times against
humanity? That's what you know,that's the that's the umbrella charge for the
systemic attack against the Israelis and thenback again. It's just I'm looking at
the info of the arrest warrants thatwere leaked to the press and the Republicans.
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Interestingly enough, and Joe Biden thisweek has lashed out as the warrants
against the Israeli officials were served.Interesting time, an interesting way to get
the parties together to have something likethis take place. But it really is
it's very awkward at best, andthat's not even a strong enough word for
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it. Pretty disgusting. Frankly,from my perspective. The whole damn thing
is, as you pointed out,the history of our world is one of
conflict, battle, murders, killingthings. It's just that seems to be
what the human needs. Well,and it's such a loophole, not a
loophole, but it's such like aroundabout situation because it's like the International Criminal
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Court and everything. It's one ofthose things of just stop invading people,
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This is one that I like youto think about for a minute. Remember,
and I go through this all thetime. That's kind of why I
brought it up. When you havea very frustrating feeling when a word is
on the tip of your tongue andyou know what it means, but you
just can't pull out all of theletters to make a word out of it,
right, I find it frustrating ina minute or speaking. But there's
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a new thing called the reverse dictionary. Have you heard about this? No.
You simply enter the phrase or thedefinition or the description that you're thinking
of, and the search engine willfind the word that best fits it.
So maybe you try this out right, you come up with the words this
is so new artificial Well, Idon't know bout yeah, I guess it
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is needed. But it also isbad for your brain when you can't think
this stuff through, when you relyon something that isn't your brain. You
know, I do this all thetime. And Bob k who's at the
production control center here of the program, would tell you over the years he's
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known me since the sixties, thatI would come up with something or I'd
be half they, I'd be halfwaythere. And whether Bob. I've worked
with Bob on four or five radiostations and he's worked with me, so
he's listened for years and years andyears, and there is that when you're
on the air like this, you'reextremely vulnerable. We're talking about how dem
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Moore was vulnerable in this movie thatshe was in. Well, we're vulnerable
every single day. We're here layingit out for you. People who do
this for a living, People areon the radio who do the sort of
exponential stuff like we do. Thisis not rehearsed. This is a conversation
between adults about the issues of theday, the things that matter people and
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that sort of thing. And sowhen you have a conversation with somebody and
you come to a point where ohdamn, I can't remember that word,
and I do that on the air, not all the time, and I
do. I'm not afraid, nota shame to the fact that I don't
remember. It's something that everybody goesthrough. Yeah, I have it with
my fibro flares. When I amin a really bad flare with my fibromyalge,
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I get fibrofog and I will saythe COVID fog was like it wasn't
another level. But with fibro fog, it's like, I can tell I
just can't come up with this wordI'm grasping for. But I can you
know, I'm reaching and I cansee like the definition of it or maybe
something else, or I can atleast pull out a word, like maybe
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I'm trying to say the microwave andit said I say a bathtub. At
least I pulled something out. Butwith the COVID fog, it was like
being in a room and there wasnothing around. There were no walls,
no ceiling, and you were justgrabbing for air. You were there.
Well, the thing is that youhave this this to a point productivity guild.
I want to make sure I'm goingall the time, and you get
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out of the groove. That's whatit is. You just lose it for
a minute or two and I mustbe getting old. No, it's part
of the human condition, old somuch. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
So. Anyway, there's that itemagain. It's called the reverse dictionary.
If you want to check it out, the Reverse Dictionary. Do you know
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what borg drinking is and why it'sdangerous. I'm sorry, did you say
morg drinking Borg? B o Rdrinking Borg? Now drinking borg drinking.
It's something that's being done at parties. Seems to be something that's fairly new.
It's a the borg itself. Youdon't know what the sentence means.
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You know what the word means.This is something that's big at the end.
This is the reason I'm talking abouthow it is because the college year
is over, students are celebrating.This is something that is pretty much a
Generation Z thing. It's blackout ragegallon, that's what it stands for.
Blackout rage gallon. Is it becauseyou're you're blackout drunken drinking or you're drinking
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to get blackout drunk? Well,there's a special concoction that's prepared and a
gallon sized plastic jug that has vodka, O distilled alcohols, water, a
flavor enhancer, electrolyte, powder andmix it all together. You get drunk
fast and you you know, probablygoing to pass out. That sort of
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thing. So there are contests.I don't know how stupid are people drinking.
One of these leads to life threateningalcohol poisoning, and yet it's become
a big thing on college campuses.Well, not only that, but if
you don't trust the people you're around, or even if you do falsely trust
them, if you like pass out, you don't know what they're going to
do going to no, not atall. So this is being studied by
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the Department of Psychiatry at Stanford Universitytrying to figure out what the motivation is
for people to get large batch bottlesof drink. It's sort of they what
theyre I shouldn't laugh at this,but they are comparing it to college jungle
juice. That's basically it's something thatis us as a micro generational thing here
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between millennials and gen Z as towho can drink the most right, and
so they have parties and they bringin these five gallon drink dispensers. Millennials
are doing this, Millennia early forties. Now millennials are not doing this.
This is gen Z all the way. That's what this lady is, Doctor
Anna Lemke has found. She's professorof psychiatry at Stanford who's doing the investigation,
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and that's what she's come up with. So anyway, it's intended to
get you extremely drunk. And sowhat's the motivation for that. That's what
they're trying to figure out, andit has turned out to be a contest
in some circumstances between professors and students. That's the That's kind of where the
generational thing comes in here, right, generator gen z and millennials many,
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Well, if you're in your forties, you're a millennial, right your age
man like current like as of today, millennials are between twenty eight. Those
are the young millennials, and thenyou have your geriatric millennials that are up
to forty three. Jeriat say thatgenerational generational geriatric millennials, geriatric millennials.
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Yeah, so millennials are between theages of twenty eight and forty three.
Wow. Well, here's a groupof people, the college graduates, and
then there's a group in here thatare twenty four and twenty five that I'm
seeing. That's Jensey. Still isa lady named Kelly who's twenty one,
explaining, she said, quote,I graduated college in twenty twenty. Safe
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to say I haven't been part ofthis college party scene in five years,
but I was intrigued by this whenI heard about it from some younger friends.
What are you nuts. Wait doyou say she was twenty one?
As she learned about from younger friends. Yeah, college friends. And there's
a story at the University of Massachusettsand Amherst where students were carrying borgs into
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a drink fest and every single oneof them was carried out by an ambulance.
The high school senior class pool party. They made their own borgs.
So where are the parents. Here'san eighteen year old senior at a private
high school who got so drunk thatshe was in the hospital for a week.
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What do you lot? Are yourminds good? Heavens? So they
it's crazy. A lot of theseparents probably, and the parents can be
held responsible if something that happens.A lot of these parents probably don't know
because they're out of town or theyjust went out to see like a movie
or something. And then you alsohave those people who the parents know,
and the parents are actually there justkeeping to themselves in a different room,
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kind of like a you know,what if I just pretend I don't know
what's going on, Oh, youknow, no harm, no foul,
or some people actually know some parentssupply what kind of parenting is that?
Unga bunga All right? In amoment, I don't want to be their
child's friend. Yeah no, no, you're the parent, you're not the
friend. Okay, So in amoment, what's happened to the ship in
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Baltimore Harbor? Update on that.First of all, though, a trip
to Las Vegas is in order.With all the focus on what's going on
there. The hotel's being destroyed,new ones being put up there. Where
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No is nothing you know attached toit, just a good time. Eight
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to Vegas? You must have beento Vegas? I have. Yes,
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we're good food? That was youlike? Best? Was the food?
And shows? Yes? Yes,I travel to eat. Let's be real,
let's call it what it is.I'll remember that the next time we
have lunch together or dinner. Totravel to eat. That sounds like a
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eighty four. Do yourself a favorright now as you're listening to this,
Hey, take a stab at it. You're not going to lose anything.
You have nothing to lose, everythingto gain. It's also World Meditation Week.
What does that involve? What doyou know about meditation? Jay?
Are you a meditator? I don'tthink about that. I am, yes,
and I like all of the differentkinds of meditation, where whether it's
guided meditation or if just doing itmyself where my brain just shuts off and
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I just am, or if I'mmeditating on certain thoughts looking for a direction
or an answer to something I'm strugglingwith. I love all kinds of meditations,
especially like a guided meditation, nota guided meditator, but a sound
journey, a sound bath meditation.Oh, it's my favorite. It's one
of the things that is most delightfulabout life and the opportunities to expand your
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mind and expand your experiences. Weall have different ways. You probably meditate
and you don't even know it.That's what happens a lot. I get
on my tractor, especially from nowon through the summer in the fall,
when I can go out and spendhours mowing hay or I can be on
a tractor, either seating a field. I love the plant corn, just
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looking at the straight rose, funnylittle things like that. But yet it's
an accomplishment and that makes you feelthe best. I think it's an optimal
way to feel and you can getthere feeling good. You get there through
different types of meditation. Some peopleformalize it too much. You did a
great job in explaining it, Jay, There's all different kinds of meditation.
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It's getting your mind off of whatthe daily hum is oftentimes when you need
it most, like when you goto bed and your mind is, oh,
and I didn't get done today.Or tomorrow, but not done list
Tomorrow's to do list right right,So find a way. Maybe that's the
best example or best to help Ican be when it comes to meditation,
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find a way look around and seewhat you can focus on your children,
perhaps the beauty of those children asthey've grown up, the beauty of what's
growing now. I know that's aconstant thought with me, and I mentioned
it frequently, but it is.It's a great way for you to just
kind of zone out what you needto do. And in tandem with that,
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it's a mental health month. Mayis mental health month kind of a
great time for each of us tomake sure we are checking in with ourselves.
That's why I couple it with thediscussion of meditation, because I think
meditation and mental health go hand inhand, frankly, and if you have
good relations with friends and people thatyou work with and folks in your family,
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that's great neighbors. Community and Ithink that word is misused, frankly.
Community you know, the Black communityor the Jewish community. It's not
I mean, there are those aregroups of people, and I think the
definition of community is people just gettingtogether with a common interest. And so
how about we have with communities.Yeah, focused on where you live,
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like the community in which we live, or the community and which go to
school down the street. Before youknow that, the pavement always stayed between
beneath my feet, before I know, walking after midnight. All right,
I was promising to talk about theBaltimore Bridge ship, the cargo ship that
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struck the Franciscott Key Bridge. Itspent two months j two months ago.
This thing this week was a movefrom the crash site, clearing up the
wave for the ships that come inand out of Baltimore Harbor, the Port
of Baltimore to come back in.Imagine how much money all these people that
had to be laid off. Ithink they were like nineteen hundred long shortmen
(34:35):
that didn't have work for the pasttwo months. I don't know how they
were aware. Yeah, what aboutthe people who are on that ship?
Still there was six or seven thatremember I think we talked about this earlier,
the fact that they couldn't get offbecause they didn't have papers. Yeah,
they wouldn't lint them off because theywere just supposed to be passing through,
not stopping or anything, right exactly, they had no reason to get
off the ship in and out.That's these ships kind of like the ships
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are the same airplanes. They wantto get them in, unload them,
load them up, and get themout. They are not making money if
they're sitting at the port. Theygot to be moving the same as That's
why they have turnarounds for airplanes aboutan hour hour and five hour and ten
minutes, because they get the planein and get the people off, put
the stuff on that you need forthe next trip, clean the ship up
(35:19):
a little bit the airplane and let'sgo. And that's the same with these
ships. They're so expensive, costsso much to maintain and to operate that
they gotta keep them going. Sothe operational width of the channel is going
to be four hundred feet wide afterthey get the rest of the records that's
below the surface of the water out. The original width of the channel is
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seven hundred and some odd feet.I think the mudline has because of the
way the ship hit the side ofthe bridge. You know, they've had
no cruise ships in there, andhad a cruise ship in and out of
there again for a couple of months, and it's big business there. So
I think the first one Royal Caribbeanhas the first cruise to depart from Baltimore
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on the twenty sixth of May.So that's that's the update from the port
officials anyway as to what's going onthere. The Pope talks about things that
maybe he ought not to talk about. Maybe that'll be my read on this
whole business about the Catholic Church andhow they talk about women's reproductive rights,
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focusing on the Pope there, JayBird. Pope Francis is speaking out
on the Catholic Church's position regarding surrogacy. We have to explain what surrogacy is.
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I don't know that we do right. It's when someone else carries a
baby for somebody else. You havethe surrogate because some people they want a
baby and they can't have one ontheir own, and some simply they can
use like they're the man and thewoman. They can use their parts of
them and then just somebody else carriesit. Sometimes the surrogate is also an
egg donor. Yeah, you doall all different reasons for this, but
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the Catholic Church says that no,they cannot authorize this. They condemn this,
even though the Pope says, yeah, we acknowledge it could be a
woman's only hope. But no.People get upset with me because I am
as strident as I am when itcomes to matters of relief. Religion,
in my mind, is something thatwas created by man to help man,
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and this doesn't help. How isthis helpful? A bunch of men sitting
around discussing things that are really noteven in their wheelhouse because they aren't women.
They don't understand how this stuff works. And you can say, well,
it's the church law, it's inthe Bible or whatever it is.
You know what the real story ofthe Catholic Church. This is going to
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really anger people. My read onthis, and this comes from a lot
of study of religion. When Iwas in college, I majored. I
majored in political science, but minoredin speech and also psychology, psychiatry,
whatever, and so learning what motivatespeople. Religion is a great tool if
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it's used properly and presented properly.But the real story of the Catholic Church
is they came along, they tooka being and created a mistee around this
being. And so as a resultof that, and when the earliest teachings
came out, it became apparent thatif you followed the teachings of the Church,
at the end of your life,you could be resolved. So let's
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just say you're in the Catholic Churchand you've done a lot of bad things.
At the end of your life,according to their teaching, you can
be exonerated, you can be thepriest comes in and gives your blessings and
you get to heaven. Anyway,that's a moral human being, right anyway.
So that's what the Pope says aboutsurrogacy. For those of you who
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body. If it's deep fixed,they look real. And even though it
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wasn't her, it was embarrassing enoughbecause it depicts her in such an uncanny
way, right, and obviously shewas devastated by this, humiliated and she
said, I felt all alone.All I could think about is that I'd
be better off dead. Can youimagine having this done to you. This
is a story of a woman inBerkeley, California. So she called the
police with the name of the personshe suspected had created the video, somebody
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that she knew before she graduated fromUniversity of California. But she learned authorities
didn't really know what to do aboutit. They didn't have the tools.
So instead of justice, this ladysaid, they told me there was nothing
they could do. So she decidedto tackle the technology of these deep fake
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this deep fake porn. Basically thenew AI technology is creating this nightmare.
Is another damnable example. And thiswith the deep fix, it's not even
that new where it's not even artificialintelligence doing. It's people that have these
computer skills where it's an actual videoor a photo of a person and then
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the face and body sojitally altered thatthey appear as somebody else. There have
been a lot of these with celebrities, not even just the point stuff.
But we already know that revenge porn. There are issues, not Issua,
well, there are issues, butThere are things when it comes to revenge
porn, where they know what todo legally, but when it comes to
a deep fake where it's not theactual person themselves, it just becomes this
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Like you would think that it wouldfollow the same guidelines because it sure does
look like this person. People couldbelieve it's this person, but they're not
there yet. Well, I'm justit's distressing to see this happen. This
woman gets so sick, so scared, so nervous. You lost twelve pounds
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and ten days after she learned whatwas happening, she said this was She
thought it was a guy who hadcome on to her as she rebuffed his
advances, and then he said hewanted to he ahumiliate her, and which
sounds a lot like the lines ofrevenge porn, where people release actual footage
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or stuff because they're mad at somebodyor blackmailing them or whatnots eight hundred links
jay containing deep fake material about her. She tried to get them removed,
but she couldn't because of a lotof the bureaucracy that's involved. There's no
the government doesn't know how to dealwith this. The government is behind well
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because the person who created it,it's there, it's their creation, it's
their their content, it's their property. And because it doesn't actually use her,
it's a generated version of her.It's like no if it people can
copyright, not copyright themselves, butyou know what I mean, like trademark
and all of this, where theyown their own likeness. It shouldn't have
to be things that we have togo through, like we should just have
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rights to her own likeness, nomatter what, no matter what. The
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Ohio prison for possession of stolen carand some other things like burglary, say
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again, Deck, Well, thereit is. William Perry started using heroin
at the age of fourteen. Realizedhe needed a new start in life.
He saw a couple of friends diefrom drug overdoses. He determined himself to
turn his pain into something positive andhe just had to figure out how to
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do it. Prison is a miserableplace, says mister Perry. He worked
on a college degree there in socialservices while he was in jail, and
while he got sober. He said, some people get locked up, others
get saved. I was one whosaved. So now after you get out
of prison, he has found awonderful way Jay to help others in preventing
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deaths from accidental overdoses. There's anopioideic epidemic going on right now. All
kinds of drugs, frankly fentanyl,you know, heroin, orphine oxy.
He and his wife travel around.They live in Columbus, Ohio. They
go to a bunch of music festivalsevery year hand out free doses of ma
(01:33):
loox alone. Is that how youpronounced that? Yeah? Yeah, And
they teach people how to use it. They have and it's not like they're
just like buying a ticket and goingamongst the crowd and everything. They have
a whole booth set up where theyhave educational pamphlets and other items. They
teach people how to use the theI don't want to call them like the
(01:57):
drugs, but the stuff to helpdrugs, to help somebody who's overdosing,
like narcanon, all of that,and also sharing you know, he's sharing
his own story and he's not justsomebody who's like, stay off drugs kids.
He is was they just say norock Bottom? Yeah, He's speaking
from experience, and he knows thatanybody who's dealing with an addiction, he
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knows what addiction really is and thelure and how it can stop and all
of that, and so using hislife experience and his loss and his suffering
to help others not face that samefate, and also helping people who may
they're clean and sober. But theyknow people who are dealing with this and
battling this, and how showing themhow they can better help the people in
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their life too. In the lastcouple of years, they've gone this husband
and wife to Bonn a Roue,to Lollapalooza, Burning Man, some other
festivals. They've goten other volunteers.They've distributed sixty thousand doses of this medication
and that that's good. But holysmokes, think about how bad it is
(03:06):
that there are that many people thatare using these drugs. What is there
about drugs that is so attractive topeople? I never have been able to
figure. I don't think it isattractive to them. I think that it's
one of those things where maybe theywere curious about something, but then one
high led to stronger highs and addiction. It is an illness. It is
(03:27):
an actual illness. And I thinka lot of people who use and are
addicted they don't want that lifestyle either. It's just very difficult to get out
of it. Yeah, it's prettyugly stuff. Man. All right,
Let's see here. Let me pausefor a moment. I get a couple
of other sort of sobering things totalk about in this hour of the Good
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Day program. I want to focuson something that's global right now around the
world and estimated twenty eight million peoplesubjected to human traffic every year. This
is something that's gotten worse and worseand worse. The crime occurs in every
US state, every US territory.Traffickers take advantage of all the various transportation
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mediums to commit some of these heinousacts. So let's get a little more
the story behind the story, ifyou will. The Federal Motor Carriers Safety
Administrations Your Roads Their Freedom campaign seeksto raise awareness of human trafficking in the
commercial motor vehicle industry. In addition, FMCSA partners with other Department of Transportation
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agencies to raise awareness of human traffickingin all transportation sectors. Human traffickers use
America's transportation systems to facilitate unspeakable crimes. The campaign provides the nation's eight point
seven million commercial motor vehicle drivers withthe information they need to identify and report
suspected human trafficking. Truck and busdrivers are the eyes and ears of the
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All right, let's get to someof the senior side of things here.
Jay, here's the story about afather and son of in Oregon this
week, fortunately to be alive afterbeing seriously injured when a car they were
working on exploded. So this group, there were three people in the family,
(05:44):
j Marcy Garner, her father,Darryl Tucker, and her brother Rhyese
Tucker, who is by the way, a mechanic. We're working on this
car when they discovered a fuel leakand then it exploded and they were caught
in the flames. It ran outof the shop then and his father was
(06:04):
on the ground near the car,so he ran back in. He put
the flames out on himself first,out of himself out and then he went
back in. But they already youknow, they had serious real burns.
My god, you haven't seen anyof some of the people that you know,
(06:24):
sometimes you see this in movies andstuff. But the flames and what
it does to your flesh. Yeah, my god. Well, and this
is this is exactly like a movieor a drama TV show or something,
because they discovered the fuel leak.They realized there was a fuel leak just
before the explosion. So they couldn'teven get out of there fast enough.
And the dad was yelling for theson, you know, just get out,
(06:47):
save yourself. And of course theson wasn't going to do that,
but the dad had already was alreadyrecovering from a previous surgery. Yeah.
Now, the father didn't want theson to come in, you know,
you get up, but the sonwent in to save the father. So
and that's they Yep, they did. All right, here's this story of
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two who didn't make it out.A dive team has found the bodies of
two men who were inside a planethat was found upside down in a lake
in Alaska. Wow, this issomething there. This is in a community.
(07:28):
I can't ever pronounce the Alaska names. I'm not good at this,
but anyway, they were found,these two found in the aircraft. This
sort of reminds me there have beena lot of things. Has there been
a discovery as to what brought downthe president of Iran and that helicopter.
I think there were a lot ofpeople who thought maybe he got shot down,
(07:49):
the Israelis were behind it, youknow, you you think about some
of these things. I'm going fromthe frying pand of the fire, I
know that talking about two people diedin a plane in Alaska, going then
to the helicopter crash and Iran.But there are very few of these accidents.
It's so safe, and I wondersometimes to go back to the Alaska
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situation, is it less safe inprivate, private aviation versus commercial aviation?
One would wonder that. I justit seems like it's the private planes that
tend to go down more often,right exactly. And here's something adding to
(08:31):
that whole scenario. An Air Forceinstructor pilot died after the ejector seat activated
his plane was still in the ground. Wow. That is one of those
like, oh, what is themovie franchise Final Destination where somebody escapes death
and then they die in this reallyweird way anyway, because death catches up
(08:54):
to them like that. Is justone of those tragic accidents of what on
earth happened? This fellow Captain JohnRobertson was you know, yeah, he
was out there in the teaching capacity, ground operations, et cetera, et
cetera, et cetera. And youlook at this, it's like meaningless in
(09:18):
a sense. This guy was ahighly valued airman. He was an instructor
pilot and so what happens. I'msure there's an investigation into it, but
it doesn't bring the guy back.That's the thing. He you know,
it's this It's almost un imaginable.I'm trying to put myself into this scenario
(09:43):
and I don't know how to doit. Frankly. He was in charge
of air education and training at thisAir Force base. There's technical flying training
there and regular flying training there,and this was just, you know,
one of those weird accidents that happens. Oh you man, the agestions.
(10:05):
He just went off still on theground. Everything was shut right from the
Did you know and do you care? Fact file? Did you know that
the Mona Lisa once hung in Napoleon'sbedroom? Yes, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona
Lisa has been on display in theLouver since eighteen oh four. Before that
(10:28):
it hung in a pretty year.I guess you would say it was less
accessible Emperor Napoleon's bedroom. After daVinci died in fifteen nineteen, the Mona
Lisa passed into the possession of oneof his patrons. There's no artists at
the time. They didn't make anymoney, They had no idea what the
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work was worth. But when therewas somebody who appreciated the work of people
like DaVinci, King Francis of Francecame along and he paid for He paid
Leonardo da Vinci, so he hadthe property in the the the castle or
(11:13):
wherever the king lived. And thenduring the French Revolution, Napoleon decided he
was going to take it to hisbedroom. So that's the story behind the
story. That's fascinating. That's areally good one from the did you know
in the UK Department? I didnot know what I do? Care?
I did? Well, there yougo, we have something to continue to
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have more. Have you ever beento the Louver in Paris? Louver now
one and two? But the lineswere always so incredible. Long walked past
it but never went inside. Ye, So, by the way, did
you know Eami, do you careAt the moment, the current value of
the Mona Lisa is eight hundred andsixty million dollars. I don't know how
(12:00):
they come up with that, butI'm sure somebody would like to. Somebody's
got eight hundred and sixty meal,but it's not available. It's the louver.
It's a French thing, you know. Let's see here. I was
interested. I remember when Bill Gatesthere was an auction of Leonardo da Vinci's
notebooks about I don't know, fifteentwenty years ago, and Bill Gates paid
(12:22):
thirty million for the notebook. Howabout that? And let's see here.
I guess that's enough of that stuff. Let's go on. I mean,
people collect things. When you havea lot of money, you can collect
like really cool stuff like that.But at the same time, it's just
one of those things, like withthe Mona Lisa. It would be such
a shame of some billionaire bought itjust to keep for to keep it away
(12:46):
from it own private property. Yeah. As a matter of fact, Pablo
Picasso, I'm looking at the historyof the Mona Lisa was once arrested because
he stole it, and the peoplewho were responsible for security at the I
Louvra. Let's see, this wasin nineteen eleven, they noticed that the
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Mona Lisa was absent from its spotand they found after they looked around the
museum the painting had been taken.Was obviously the police are all over this.
They were, you know, yougot to imagine what they were riding
around on horses around the louver.And eventually they found that a young artist
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named Pablo Picasso who had a historyof stealing art. How many people knew
that about Picasso? I did notknow that he was a thief, and
so that was the story of thatbefore becoming a well known sculptor. Yes,
right, exactly. All right,so let's talk about some interesting developments
(13:54):
this week. I it was appalled, and I'm guessing that later on some
the next hour or two, we'llhave Erri Geller from Israel to talk about
the arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Ministernet Yahoo and for the leaders of Hamas.
The International Criminal Court has issued thesewarrants for these people. No,
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well, there's two Israelis and threeHamas leaders that if they can get to
them, they're going to arrest them. And you know, you look at
the overview of the prosecutor detailing allthe offenses and crimes against humanity and criminal
responsibility and all the other things thatthey use. When I look at the
(14:37):
October seventh attack and I think aboutthe extermination of Israelis, the murder of
Israelis, the hostages that were taken, the torture of Israelis, the rape
of Israelis, then you know,does it justify what's happened. I don't
believe the numbers. The news mediais all too eager to go along with
(15:01):
the numbers that hamas. It's likethat's the credible number. Neither situation is
okay. That's the thing, LikeI've been pretty vocal about it, that
both things can be true at once. Neither situation is okay. Both situations
are happening, and people are dying, and children are dying or having to
raise their own siblings or so you'restill missing. We still know that the
(15:22):
hostages there are hostages. Yeah,why Swim Music festival and are still missing.
They're still being held hostage. Sohow do you fix this situation?
That's one of the questions that Ihave to which there is probably no answer
at the moment. The Hamas thefirst the you know the Okay, so
who's guilty here? Hamas because theyorchestrated the attack October seventh, or the
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Israeli government because they knew the attackwas going to come? Would they what
would they have done to stop itbefore it happened? It would have involved
bloodshed, no matter what. Sothe aggressor here at the beginning is clearly
Hamas. So from there you cango down any street that you want to.
Certainly, we have had many peoplearound the world who have been certainly
(16:11):
well known and charged with these kindof crimes and others that weren't well known
from obscure countries, that sort ofthing. What I find is a secondary
side to this that is not amusing. It's annoying. Maybe that's not even
strong enough word. So you indict, you indict net and yaho, you
indict the Hamas leaders. Okay,where have you been with Putin? Why
(16:34):
isn't Putin? I was just,yeah, what's the story here? This
is kind of selective justice in amanner of speaking, and it makes him
a last He has a warrant forhis arrest, not by you, enter
anything, but by our International CriminalCorps. But by Russia. Yeah,
(16:55):
okay, so then why isn't therean arrest warrant out for putin times against
humanity? That's what you know,that's the that's the umbrella charge for the
systemic attack against the Israelis and thenback again. It's just I'm looking at
the info of the arrest warrants thatwere leaked to the press and the Republicans.
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Interestingly enough, and Joe Biden thisweek has lashed out as the warrants
against the Israeli officials were served.Interesting time, an interesting way to get
the parties together to have something likethis take place. But it really is
it's very awkward at best, andthat's not even a strong enough word for
(17:45):
it. Pretty disgusting. Frankly,from my perspective. The whole damn thing
is, as you pointed out,the history of our world is one of
conflict, battle, murders, killingthings. It's just that seems to be
what the human needs. Well,and it's such a loophole, not a
loophole, but it's such like aroundabout situation because it's like the International Criminal
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Court and everything. It's one ofthose things of just stop invading people,
don't invade other space. But atthe same time, war Inc. Is
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a family owned company. I'm veryproud of having Calitrin as part of my
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This is one that I like youto think about for a minute. Remember,
and I go through this all thetime. That's kind of why I
brought it up. When you havea very frustrating feeling when a word is
on the tip of your tongue andyou know what it means, but you
just can't pull out all of theletters to make a word out of it,
right, I find it frustrating ina minute or speaking. But there's
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a new thing called the reverse dictionary. Have you heard about this? No.
You simply enter the phrase or thedefinition or the description that you're thinking
of, and the search engine willfind the word that best fits it.
So maybe you try this out right, you come up with the words this
is so new artificial Well, Idon't know bout yeah, I guess it
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is needed. But it also isbad for your brain when you can't think
this stuff through, when you relyon something that isn't your brain. You
know, I do this all thetime. And Bob k who's at the
production control center here of the program, would tell you over the years he's
(21:47):
known me since the sixties, thatI would come up with something or I'd
be half they, I'd be halfwaythere. And whether Bob. I've worked
with Bob on four or five radiostations and he's worked with me, so
he's listened for years and years andyears, and there is that when you're
on the air like this, you'reextremely vulnerable. We're talking about how dem
(22:10):
Moore was vulnerable in this movie thatshe was in. Well, we're vulnerable
every single day. We're here layingit out for you. People who do
this for a living, People areon the radio who do the sort of
exponential stuff like we do. Thisis not rehearsed. This is a conversation
between adults about the issues of theday, the things that matter people and
(22:32):
that sort of thing. And sowhen you have a conversation with somebody and
you come to a point where ohdamn, I can't remember that word,
and I do that on the air, not all the time, and I
do. I'm not afraid, nota shame to the fact that I don't
remember. It's something that everybody goesthrough. Yeah, I have it with
my fibro flares. When I amin a really bad flare with my fibromyalge,
(22:53):
I get fibrofog and I will saythe COVID fog was like it wasn't
another level. But with fibro fog, it's like, I can tell I
just can't come up with this wordI'm grasping for. But I can you
know, I'm reaching and I cansee like the definition of it or maybe
something else, or I can atleast pull out a word, like maybe
(23:15):
I'm trying to say the microwave andit said I say a bathtub. At
least I pulled something out. Butwith the COVID fog, it was like
being in a room and there wasnothing around. There were no walls,
no ceiling, and you were justgrabbing for air. You were there.
Well, the thing is that youhave this this to a point productivity guild.
I want to make sure I'm goingall the time, and you get
(23:37):
out of the groove. That's whatit is. You just lose it for
a minute or two and I mustbe getting old. No, it's part
of the human condition, old somuch. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
So. Anyway, there's that itemagain. It's called the reverse dictionary.
If you want to check it out, the Reverse Dictionary. Do you know
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what borg drinking is and why it'sdangerous. I'm sorry, did you say
morg drinking Borg? B o Rdrinking Borg? Now drinking borg drinking.
It's something that's being done at parties. Seems to be something that's fairly new.
It's a the borg itself. Youdon't know what the sentence means.
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You know what the word means.This is something that's big at the end.
This is the reason I'm talking abouthow it is because the college year
is over, students are celebrating.This is something that is pretty much a
Generation Z thing. It's blackout ragegallon, that's what it stands for.
Blackout rage gallon. Is it becauseyou're you're blackout drunken drinking or you're drinking
(24:51):
to get blackout drunk? Well,there's a special concoction that's prepared and a
gallon sized plastic jug that has vodka, O distilled alcohols, water, a
flavor enhancer, electrolyte, powder andmix it all together. You get drunk
fast and you you know, probablygoing to pass out. That sort of
(25:15):
thing. So there are contests.I don't know how stupid are people drinking.
One of these leads to life threateningalcohol poisoning, and yet it's become
a big thing on college campuses.Well, not only that, but if
you don't trust the people you're around, or even if you do falsely trust
them, if you like pass out, you don't know what they're going to
do going to no, not atall. So this is being studied by
(25:41):
the Department of Psychiatry at Stanford Universitytrying to figure out what the motivation is
for people to get large batch bottlesof drink. It's sort of they what
theyre I shouldn't laugh at this,but they are comparing it to college jungle
juice. That's basically it's something thatis us as a micro generational thing here
(26:08):
between millennials and gen Z as towho can drink the most right, and
so they have parties and they bringin these five gallon drink dispensers. Millennials
are doing this, Millennia early forties. Now millennials are not doing this.
This is gen Z all the way. That's what this lady is, Doctor
Anna Lemke has found. She's professorof psychiatry at Stanford who's doing the investigation,
(26:32):
and that's what she's come up with. So anyway, it's intended to
get you extremely drunk. And sowhat's the motivation for that. That's what
they're trying to figure out, andit has turned out to be a contest
in some circumstances between professors and students. That's the That's kind of where the
generational thing comes in here, right, generator gen z and millennials many,
(26:56):
Well, if you're in your forties, you're a millennial, right your age
man like current like as of today, millennials are between twenty eight. Those
are the young millennials, and thenyou have your geriatric millennials that are up
to forty three. Jeriat say thatgenerational generational geriatric millennials, geriatric millennials.
(27:22):
Yeah, so millennials are between theages of twenty eight and forty three.
Wow. Well, here's a groupof people, the college graduates, and
then there's a group in here thatare twenty four and twenty five that I'm
seeing. That's Jensey. Still isa lady named Kelly who's twenty one,
explaining, she said, quote,I graduated college in twenty twenty. Safe
(27:45):
to say I haven't been part ofthis college party scene in five years,
but I was intrigued by this whenI heard about it from some younger friends.
What are you nuts. Wait doyou say she was twenty one?
As she learned about from younger friends. Yeah, college friends. And there's
a story at the University of Massachusettsand Amherst where students were carrying borgs into
(28:11):
a drink fest and every single oneof them was carried out by an ambulance.
The high school senior class pool party. They made their own borgs.
So where are the parents. Here'san eighteen year old senior at a private
high school who got so drunk thatshe was in the hospital for a week.
(28:33):
What do you lot? Are yourminds good? Heavens? So they
it's crazy. A lot of theseparents probably, and the parents can be
held responsible if something that happens.A lot of these parents probably don't know
because they're out of town or theyjust went out to see like a movie
or something. And then you alsohave those people who the parents know,
and the parents are actually there justkeeping to themselves in a different room,
(28:57):
kind of like a you know,what if I just pretend I don't know
what's going on, Oh, youknow, no harm, no foul,
or some people actually know some parentssupply what kind of parenting is that?
Unga bunga All right? In amoment, I don't want to be their
child's friend. Yeah no, no, you're the parent, you're not the
friend. Okay, So in amoment, what's happened to the ship in
(29:18):
Baltimore Harbor? Update on that.First of all, though, a trip
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eighty four. Do yourself a favorright now as you're listening to this,
Hey, take a stab at it. You're not going to lose anything.
You have nothing to lose, everythingto gain. It's also World Meditation Week.
What does that involve? What doyou know about meditation? Jay?
Are you a meditator? I don'tthink about that. I am, yes,
and I like all of the differentkinds of meditation, where whether it's
guided meditation or if just doing itmyself where my brain just shuts off and
(31:15):
I just am, or if I'mmeditating on certain thoughts looking for a direction
or an answer to something I'm strugglingwith. I love all kinds of meditations,
especially like a guided meditation, nota guided meditator, but a sound
journey, a sound bath meditation.Oh, it's my favorite. It's one
of the things that is most delightfulabout life and the opportunities to expand your
(31:38):
mind and expand your experiences. Weall have different ways. You probably meditate
and you don't even know it.That's what happens a lot. I get
on my tractor, especially from nowon through the summer in the fall,
when I can go out and spendhours mowing hay or I can be on
a tractor, either seating a field. I love the plant corn, just
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looking at the straight rose, funnylittle things like that. But yet it's
an accomplishment and that makes you feelthe best. I think it's an optimal
way to feel and you can getthere feeling good. You get there through
different types of meditation. Some peopleformalize it too much. You did a
great job in explaining it, Jay, There's all different kinds of meditation.
(32:22):
It's getting your mind off of whatthe daily hum is oftentimes when you need
it most, like when you goto bed and your mind is, oh,
and I didn't get done today.Or tomorrow, but not done list
Tomorrow's to do list right right,So find a way. Maybe that's the
best example or best to help Ican be when it comes to meditation,
(32:42):
find a way look around and seewhat you can focus on your children,
perhaps the beauty of those children asthey've grown up, the beauty of what's
growing now. I know that's aconstant thought with me, and I mentioned
it frequently, but it is.It's a great way for you to just
kind of zone out what you needto do. And in tandem with that,
(33:04):
it's a mental health month. Mayis mental health month kind of a
great time for each of us tomake sure we are checking in with ourselves.
That's why I couple it with thediscussion of meditation, because I think
meditation and mental health go hand inhand, frankly, and if you have
good relations with friends and people thatyou work with and folks in your family,
(33:28):
that's great neighbors. Community and Ithink that word is misused, frankly.
Community you know, the Black communityor the Jewish community. It's not
I mean, there are those aregroups of people, and I think the
definition of community is people just gettingtogether with a common interest. And so
how about we have with communities.Yeah, focused on where you live,
(33:52):
like the community in which we live, or the community and which go to
school down the street. Before youknow that, the pavement always stayed between
beneath my feet, before I know, walking after midnight. All right,
I was promising to talk about theBaltimore Bridge ship, the cargo ship that
(34:13):
struck the Franciscott Key Bridge. Itspent two months j two months ago.
This thing this week was a movefrom the crash site, clearing up the
wave for the ships that come inand out of Baltimore Harbor, the Port
of Baltimore to come back in.Imagine how much money all these people that
had to be laid off. Ithink they were like nineteen hundred long shortmen
(34:35):
that didn't have work for the pasttwo months. I don't know how they
were aware. Yeah, what aboutthe people who are on that ship?
Still there was six or seven thatremember I think we talked about this earlier,
the fact that they couldn't get offbecause they didn't have papers. Yeah,
they wouldn't lint them off because theywere just supposed to be passing through,
not stopping or anything, right exactly, they had no reason to get
off the ship in and out.That's these ships kind of like the ships
(34:59):
are the same airplanes. They wantto get them in, unload them,
load them up, and get themout. They are not making money if
they're sitting at the port. Theygot to be moving the same as That's
why they have turnarounds for airplanes aboutan hour hour and five hour and ten
minutes, because they get the planein and get the people off, put
the stuff on that you need forthe next trip, clean the ship up
(35:19):
a little bit the airplane and let'sgo. And that's the same with these
ships. They're so expensive, costsso much to maintain and to operate that
they gotta keep them going. Sothe operational width of the channel is going
to be four hundred feet wide afterthey get the rest of the records that's
below the surface of the water out. The original width of the channel is
(35:45):
seven hundred and some odd feet.I think the mudline has because of the
way the ship hit the side ofthe bridge. You know, they've had
no cruise ships in there, andhad a cruise ship in and out of
there again for a couple of months, and it's big business there. So
I think the first one Royal Caribbeanhas the first cruise to depart from Baltimore
(36:08):
on the twenty sixth of May.So that's that's the update from the port
officials anyway as to what's going onthere. The Pope talks about things that
maybe he ought not to talk about. Maybe that'll be my read on this
whole business about the Catholic Church andhow they talk about women's reproductive rights,
(36:32):
et cetera, et cetera, etcetera. Coming up in a moment or
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on the Catholic Church's position regarding surrogacy. We have to explain what surrogacy is.
(38:21):
I don't know that we do right. It's when someone else carries a
baby for somebody else. You havethe surrogate because some people they want a
baby and they can't have one ontheir own, and some simply they can
use like they're the man and thewoman. They can use their parts of
them and then just somebody else carriesit. Sometimes the surrogate is also an
egg donor. Yeah, you doall all different reasons for this, but
(38:45):
the Catholic Church says that no,they cannot authorize this. They condemn this,
even though the Pope says, yeah, we acknowledge it could be a
woman's only hope. But no.People get upset with me because I am
as strident as I am when itcomes to matters of relief. Religion,
in my mind, is something thatwas created by man to help man,
(39:07):
and this doesn't help. How isthis helpful? A bunch of men sitting
around discussing things that are really noteven in their wheelhouse because they aren't women.
They don't understand how this stuff works. And you can say, well,
it's the church law, it's inthe Bible or whatever it is.
You know what the real story ofthe Catholic Church. This is going to
(39:28):
really anger people. My read onthis, and this comes from a lot
of study of religion. When Iwas in college, I majored. I
majored in political science, but minoredin speech and also psychology, psychiatry,
whatever, and so learning what motivatespeople. Religion is a great tool if
(39:51):
it's used properly and presented properly.But the real story of the Catholic Church
is they came along, they tooka being and created a mistee around this
being. And so as a resultof that, and when the earliest teachings
came out, it became apparent thatif you followed the teachings of the Church,
at the end of your life,you could be resolved. So let's
(40:14):
just say you're in the Catholic Churchand you've done a lot of bad things.
At the end of your life,according to their teaching, you can
be exonerated, you can be thepriest comes in and gives your blessings and
you get to heaven. Anyway,that's a moral human being, right anyway.
So that's what the Pope says aboutsurrogacy. For those of you who
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three six eight four. Apparently somebodyposted a porn video of this woman online.
She knew it was fake, shesaid, no, this isn't happening,
but she saw the doctored clip hadher face on it and then the
body. If it's deep fixed,they look real. And even though it
(42:51):
wasn't her, it was embarrassing enoughbecause it depicts her in such an uncanny
way, right, and obviously shewas devastated by this, humiliated and she
said, I felt all alone.All I could think about is that I'd
be better off dead. Can youimagine having this done to you. This
is a story of a woman inBerkeley, California. So she called the
police with the name of the personshe suspected had created the video, somebody
(43:16):
that she knew before she graduated fromUniversity of California. But she learned authorities
didn't really know what to do aboutit. They didn't have the tools.
So instead of justice, this ladysaid, they told me there was nothing
they could do. So she decidedto tackle the technology of these deep fake
(43:36):
this deep fake porn. Basically thenew AI technology is creating this nightmare.
Is another damnable example. And thiswith the deep fix, it's not even
that new where it's not even artificialintelligence doing. It's people that have these
computer skills where it's an actual videoor a photo of a person and then
(43:57):
the face and body sojitally altered thatthey appear as somebody else. There have
been a lot of these with celebrities, not even just the point stuff.
But we already know that revenge porn. There are issues, not Issua,
well, there are issues, butThere are things when it comes to revenge
porn, where they know what todo legally, but when it comes to
a deep fake where it's not theactual person themselves, it just becomes this
(44:22):
Like you would think that it wouldfollow the same guidelines because it sure does
look like this person. People couldbelieve it's this person, but they're not
there yet. Well, I'm justit's distressing to see this happen. This
woman gets so sick, so scared, so nervous. You lost twelve pounds
(44:42):
and ten days after she learned whatwas happening, she said this was She
thought it was a guy who hadcome on to her as she rebuffed his
advances, and then he said hewanted to he ahumiliate her, and which
sounds a lot like the lines ofrevenge porn, where people release actual footage
(45:04):
or stuff because they're mad at somebodyor blackmailing them or whatnots eight hundred links
jay containing deep fake material about her. She tried to get them removed,
but she couldn't because of a lotof the bureaucracy that's involved. There's no
the government doesn't know how to dealwith this. The government is behind well
(45:27):
because the person who created it,it's there, it's their creation, it's
their their content, it's their property. And because it doesn't actually use her,
it's a generated version of her.It's like no if it people can
copyright, not copyright themselves, butyou know what I mean, like trademark
and all of this, where theyown their own likeness. It shouldn't have
to be things that we have togo through, like we should just have
(45:50):
rights to her own likeness, nomatter what, no matter what. The
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