Speaker 1: Money, money, money, Better get ready, It's time for a
Speaker 1: big old want of business news. This is the Bloomberg
Speaker 1: Money Minute on seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 2: Alrighty, we say good morning to Denise Pelagreney from the
Speaker 2: Bloomberg newsroom in New York City. This is a disturbing story.
Speaker 2: Social media platform X appears to be a top site, Denise,
Speaker 2: for creating images of people non consensually undressed by AI.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And I mean usually when I see this kind of story,
Speaker 4: I just report of yep, right, But this time I
Speaker 4: read this story. I read it like three or four
Speaker 4: times just to make sure I was reading it correctly
Speaker 4: and I wasn't missing something. Here's the story. Elon Musk's
Speaker 4: X has apparently become a top site for images of
Speaker 4: people that have been non consensually undressed by AI, as
Speaker 4: you mentioned, with thousands of instances each hour. This is
Speaker 4: according to Genevieve Oh It's a social media and deep
Speaker 4: fake researcher. And this this report indicates Grock generated about
Speaker 4: six thousand, seven hundred images every hour that were identified
Speaker 4: as sexually suggestive or neudifying. Compares to only and I
Speaker 4: say only that this is still a lot seventy nine
Speaker 4: new AI undressing images per hour on either other top websites,
Speaker 4: which still even at a low seventy nine is obviously
Speaker 4: still too much. But compared to six thousand, seven hundred
Speaker 4: images every hour, if that report is correct, that's just.
Speaker 3: Shocking. Yeah, totally, it is totally.
Speaker 2: It'll be if Elon Musk gets directly involved in this,
Speaker 2: I would imagine that he will.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, in the past he said he'd like to punish
Speaker 4: the people who try to do things like that. But
Speaker 4: this report that we have out this morning also says
Speaker 4: that people have objected to X, and some say X
Speaker 4: hasn't done anything to take them down. Now, these are
Speaker 4: individual claims that those individual claims not investigated by Bloomberg
Speaker 4: still looking into everything, but just a jaw dropper.
Speaker 2: Is Meanwhile, if you're looking for a job, it could
Speaker 2: be worth your while to become an auto dealer mechanic.
Speaker 3: They are in need.
Speaker 4: I mean, this is crazy. Ford says it's struggling to
Speaker 4: fill what it calls six figure mechanic jobs. These jobs
Speaker 4: for senior mechanics they pay something like one hundred and
Speaker 4: twenty thousand dollars a year, and Ford says it has
Speaker 4: five thousand mechanic openings at its dealerships amid a labor shortage.
Speaker 4: You know, you do have to pay some money for
Speaker 4: training to get into one of these jobs. When you start,
Speaker 4: you might only get paid fifty eight thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 4: But after two or three years, if you don't turn
Speaker 4: your nose up at you know, jobs like taking out
Speaker 4: the transmission or the engine, sure, fix the oil leak,
Speaker 4: redo whatever, those are six thousand dollars jobs.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 4: It's the dealership is making money on these. If you
Speaker 4: don't mind that kind of labor, you can make a
Speaker 4: ton of money out un trade schools.
Speaker 2: They're going through the roof for reasons, just like this
Speaker 2: that did. I had a friend of my son's in
Speaker 2: heigh school. He just wasn't cut out for college, if
Speaker 2: you will, went to a trade school. And I mean
Speaker 2: this guy now is working for a building contractor. He's
Speaker 2: making one hundred and something thousand dollars years twenty one
Speaker 2: years old.
Speaker 4: Yeah, those are the other one framers, bricklayers and those people.
Speaker 4: I mean they work their butts.
Speaker 3: Ze, yes they do. Uh, okay. The stock futures today, Denise.
Speaker 4: All right, how futures are up twenty seven, SMP futures
Speaker 4: down six, Nasdaq futures down fifty nine, Crude oil futures
Speaker 4: slightly lower. And that's amid the events unfolding in Venezuela
Speaker 4: with the Trump administration looking for a lot of Venezuelan
Speaker 4: and oil to come to the US. Still some tension
Speaker 4: over exactly how it's going to get their Chevron is
Speaker 4: involved in. Those events are still unfolding from Bloomberg. I'm
Speaker 4: Denise Pelgrinean News Radio seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 2: Man, how about that one hundred and twenty something thousand
Speaker 2: dollars of the year and they're looking for five thousand
Speaker 2: people to fill those jobs. Steve Balco, you got to
Speaker 2: get some veterans in there to start doing that kind
Speaker 2: of thing.
Speaker 6: I'm telling you, because it's an unknown, it really is, right,
Speaker 6: And I don't where do you see the advertisements? Are they?
Speaker 2: Well, you know, we all of a sudden have a
Speaker 2: group and I'm drawing a blank, and I feel terrible
Speaker 2: that I'm drawing a blank right now. But I read
Speaker 2: a story the other day of this huge school, for
Speaker 2: lack of a better term, right up in Lebanon, the
Speaker 2: Lebanon Monroe area up there, tens and tens of thousands
Speaker 2: of square feet where they're teaching guys to do everything.
Speaker 2: They had a big story about it the other day,
Speaker 2: and of course we all know about, you know, some
Speaker 2: of the tech schools here in town. And that's where
Speaker 2: the friend of my sons went because he just he
Speaker 2: knew he didn't he didn't want to go to college,
Speaker 2: he didn't want to be opening books and you know
Speaker 2: this kind of thing. So he went there got his
Speaker 2: training while he was in high school, and he's been
Speaker 2: working for a home builder and knocking it out of
Speaker 2: the park. But that's why, that's not why you're here.
Speaker 2: Always nice to have Steve Balco here. I tell you
Speaker 2: of all the times we've gotten together from the Claremont
Speaker 2: County Veterans Association, we all the times we've been here.
Speaker 2: But looking over some of the notes that you and
Speaker 2: Kenny Williamson put together to talk about today, I think
Speaker 2: today might be one of the more interesting conversations we're
Speaker 2: going to have because this deals directly with getting VA
Speaker 2: healthcare benefits right and some of the misconceptions out there, okay.
Speaker 6: And the misconception is either by the VA, the public
Speaker 6: or the veteran themselves, all subjective to the party.
Speaker 2: All right, let's start with here's one of them. Okay,
Speaker 2: that you've heard before. You don't want to take medical
Speaker 2: care away from other veterans.
Speaker 6: False, right, it is as absolutely false, but it's rooted
Speaker 6: somewhat in history. If we went back to your grandparents,
Speaker 6: I think we're about the same age, Tom, They probably
Speaker 6: as children or teens twenties, came through the depression, that's right,
Speaker 6: and they were taught pick that nail up, straight in it,
Speaker 6: throw on the bucket, grab that penny goes in your pocket. Right,
Speaker 6: there is nothing wasted, everything is reusable, yep.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 6: Then they became such a self reliant part of community.
Speaker 6: We went through World War Two, we had victory gardens.
Speaker 6: It's do what you can sacrifice. Do without straighten that out,
Speaker 6: reuse that that. When it gets to the point where
Speaker 6: they need hearing aids. Now, at this age with their
Speaker 6: self self reliance, just turn up the volume on a TV. Well,
Speaker 6: three apartments down are listening to your TV coming to
Speaker 6: the walls. But yet I can still hear it because
Speaker 6: I'm afraid if I take that pair of hearing aids
Speaker 6: for the VA, someone else is not going to get
Speaker 6: their hearing aids, and they may need them more than
Speaker 6: I do. But the fact is the VA, this is
Speaker 6: the federal government. We need to think about it that way.
Speaker 6: To develop budget, you need to have expense and if
Speaker 6: people are not taking their hearing aids and or signing
Speaker 6: up for healthcare with the VA, their budget is then reduced.
Speaker 6: Try the VA location. So sign up for the healthcare,
Speaker 6: Go get your services, Go get your hearing aids. Okay,
Speaker 6: hand in hand with that.
Speaker 2: Really, veterans, there are many out there who believe that
Speaker 2: you had to be injured in service or have service
Speaker 2: connected disabilities to be eligible for VA healthcare.
Speaker 3: Not true, No, no, not at all.
Speaker 6: And it is a misnomer that there's this impression that
Speaker 6: I have to take my medical records from active duty
Speaker 6: converted into an issue and how it's impacted my life
Speaker 6: and my capabilities today, and that turns into compensation and benefits,
Speaker 6: and that's what the VA is only going to treat
Speaker 6: me for. But you can, actually, as a veteran with
Speaker 6: a D two to fourteen from active duty, can sign
Speaker 6: up for VA healthcare just like you would a primary
Speaker 6: care physician from someplace else. You may have a deductible
Speaker 6: and that's based off your level of injury firm. Right,
Speaker 6: so I'm at a If an individual's at fifty percent
Speaker 6: or higher disability rating by the VA, your healthcare is
Speaker 6: free from the VA. But you might be somebody that
Speaker 6: nothing else. I mean, I got a cold on active
Speaker 6: duty and that was it. There's nothing wrong with me. Well,
Speaker 6: you might pay a twenty dollars copay, a thirty dollars copay,
Speaker 6: no different than what you do out in town. Sure,
Speaker 6: but you just need to sign up for healthcare and
Speaker 6: you can have a primary care physician through the health care.
Speaker 3: And that does not mean strictly with the VA. Hospital.
Speaker 6: We have community based outpatient clinics. We call them Sea Box.
Speaker 6: There's one on thirty two in Claremont over by our
Speaker 6: church as well. And so this is where I have
Speaker 6: outpatient care where I can do I test hearing AIDS.
Speaker 6: I have a general physician in there that's doing my
Speaker 6: wellness checks for me, flu shots, blood analyzation, what have you?
Speaker 6: So broaden your perspective, veterans on how you think about
Speaker 6: the VA.
Speaker 2: Okay, we've got three other ones here, all of them
Speaker 2: very important. Some might say, well, look, I already have
Speaker 2: private medical insurance. That has to disqualify then me as
Speaker 2: a veteran from enrolling in the VA.
Speaker 6: Again not true. Yeah, let's squash that rumor. So number one,
Speaker 6: I have retired from active duty, so I have Tricare,
Speaker 6: so I get health care for the rest of my life.
Speaker 6: Turns to Medicare at sixty five. That's forced by the
Speaker 6: government as everybody else is right. I also work for
Speaker 6: the County of Clarmont, so I have County of Clarmont's
Speaker 6: health insurance. I also have VA health insurance because at
Speaker 6: my rated disability, the VA takes care of my health. Now,
Speaker 6: the interesting thing is the VA wants to work in
Speaker 6: concert with you. There's not a set level like if
Speaker 6: Johnny reaches this point, then will help take care of them.
Speaker 6: If you have a DD two to fourteen from active
Speaker 6: duty the VA. You can even enroll online for health care.
Speaker 6: It's whether there's a col payment amount or every service
Speaker 6: is free to the VA.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, you just brought it up about a lot
Speaker 2: of people think, well, I can't sign up anywhere locally.
Speaker 2: I live out in Claremont County. There's no way I
Speaker 2: can sign up there. I have to go all the
Speaker 2: way to Virginia to do that.
Speaker 6: Right, I don't want to go to downtown CNT No, right,
Speaker 6: VA dot gov.
Speaker 3: And sign up for healthcare.
Speaker 6: But there's also you know, sometimes there's there may be
Speaker 6: a I don't talk in the capitalist sense, but if
Speaker 6: I'm working for another employer out in town, okay, and
Speaker 6: I'm getting healthcare through that employer, yep, well then I
Speaker 6: can't get VA healthcare.
Speaker 3: That's a misnumber. Yes you can.
Speaker 6: The capitalist side of my heart says, hey, mister employer,
Speaker 6: I've got health care through the VA. If I decline
Speaker 6: your health care, well you bump my yearly comp by
Speaker 6: six seven thousand.
Speaker 3: You're going to pay for my healthcare anyway. Perfect sense.
Speaker 6: Yep, right, why not bring that home to the family
Speaker 6: because you already have a healthcare That's a hell of
Speaker 6: an idea.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it really is. And here's the one
Speaker 3: that that I found.
Speaker 2: All of these I think are just so interesting because
Speaker 2: I know there are so many men and women who
Speaker 2: served our country out there. We talk about them all
Speaker 2: the time and thank them for their service, who just
Speaker 2: think some of these things just because the reasons you
Speaker 2: mentioned a little while ago that there is a quote unquote,
Speaker 2: here's another one waiting period following active duty before a
Speaker 2: veteran can enroll in VA healthcare.
Speaker 3: Again not true. Yeah, where's the bin message?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 3: Where's that dumb button? There is a.
Speaker 6: The day after active duty you're eligible to sign up
Speaker 6: for VA healthcare. And I would imagine while on active
Speaker 6: duty in your last ninety days that you could submit
Speaker 6: the paperwork that it's a seamless transition into the VA healthcare.
Speaker 2: You know, you just brought up something that I think
Speaker 2: is a nightmare for anybody. You don't have to be
Speaker 2: a veteran for this, but paperwork. I mean, my god,
Speaker 2: you know, and I'm curious. That's part of what you
Speaker 2: guys do to help some of these veterans, right is
Speaker 2: to NAT because man to navigate through some of Our
Speaker 2: daughter just bought a car and she's going through it
Speaker 2: for the first time. She got it yesterday. Some of
Speaker 2: the paperwork just for that, I can't imagine what it's
Speaker 2: like if you're trying to get into VA healthcare. Buying
Speaker 2: a car is half a day of your life. It
Speaker 2: was a half a day of her life yesterday.
Speaker 6: It takes time, right, and to sign up for VA Healthcare,
Speaker 6: there is a sequence, a synchrony, a matrix of how
Speaker 6: you file for healthcare and benefits. And if you get
Speaker 6: it wrong, if you use the wrong form, if you
Speaker 6: use an old form, the VA kicks it back. Use
Speaker 6: your county veteran service officers. They know the current forms,
Speaker 6: they know the routing, they have a direct link to
Speaker 6: the VA. Everything we do is free for the veteran
Speaker 6: and they know the proper process and who to call
Speaker 6: if it gets stuck in the process.
Speaker 2: Well, and you mentioned maybe two or three times ago
Speaker 2: when we got together that you're actually bringing in more
Speaker 2: and more people out in Claremont County that can help
Speaker 2: specifically with many things, but things like that as well.
Speaker 6: Right right, Yeah, we added a new service officer, so
Speaker 6: we by twenty percent. We had four, we now have five. Yeah,
Speaker 6: so which is phenomenal. We've hired new drivers. I had
Speaker 6: to purchase a new vehicle, so we're up to a
Speaker 6: fleet of five. Now we're shuttling upwards of one hundred
Speaker 6: and thirty veterans a month, no kidding, door to door
Speaker 6: service to the VA and back. And if you've ever
Speaker 6: been to the VA parking lot downtown Cincinnati, you will
Speaker 6: appreciate the fact of door to door service.
Speaker 2: You know, let me ask you this, and you don't
Speaker 2: work for the v A. I mean, in some way,
Speaker 2: it's sort of all tied together. But I'm just curious
Speaker 2: of this because you know, as a layman out there,
Speaker 2: I can read these articles about the VA is this,
Speaker 2: and boy, it's in terrible shape there and we're not
Speaker 2: treating our guys rights, so on and so forth. What
Speaker 2: is the experience for a veteran going to the VA
Speaker 2: for the first time.
Speaker 3: Is it a positive experience?
Speaker 6: I will tell you we are in my opinion. This
Speaker 6: is Steve Bozo's personal opinion, coming from Columbus, coming from Georgia,
Speaker 6: from Columbus, Ohio.
Speaker 3: The v here in Cincinnati. I don't want to call
Speaker 3: it an anomaly, but.
Speaker 6: What I do know is that the leadership of our
Speaker 6: VA location of Cincinnati is aggressive at tackling problems.
Speaker 3: They're positive.
Speaker 6: I have many friends, personally, none that I've even participated with,
Speaker 6: who've had cancer treatment to the VA and said, everybody
Speaker 6: is positive.
Speaker 3: They're welcoming.
Speaker 6: It is really a great experience, which is why you
Speaker 6: probably see their parking lot so full downtown and it's
Speaker 6: hard to find a parking space.
Speaker 3: But I will tell you Cincinnati, VA is doing a
Speaker 3: great job. So I am thrilled to hear that.
Speaker 2: Hats off indeed to them, and hats out to everything
Speaker 2: you guys are doing out there in Claremont County.
Speaker 3: How was before I let you go?
Speaker 2: I'm curious and I always I think of so many people,
Speaker 2: those less fortunate, the poor, the needy, veterans around the holidays.
Speaker 2: It's a broad question, but did you get us sense
Speaker 2: of good things during the holidays for so many veterans
Speaker 2: out there?
Speaker 6: We did, and I'm glad you threw that one out there.
Speaker 6: There's the American Legion has a gentleman that works with
Speaker 6: us who presents to my board. I have a board
Speaker 6: of five commissioners. For the past two years we have
Speaker 6: presented funds so that we can underpin those that were
Speaker 6: food deprived, sure and families. There's other other five to
Speaker 6: one c three organizations that we will vet out veterans
Speaker 6: that need toys or gifts for children. And so this year,
Speaker 6: I don't know how many Thanksgiving and Christmas meal packages
Speaker 6: were handed out to veterans and their families fantasts to
Speaker 6: include and then over Christmas jackets presents each kid got
Speaker 6: two presents from a veterans family, so they get vetted
Speaker 6: out through the VA. Where are they at in this process?
Speaker 6: Are they in a certain type of program with the VA?
Speaker 6: Are the Claremont County residents? So we spend our money
Speaker 6: on Larmont County veterans, right, so I can't cross borders
Speaker 6: there and we don't, but yet to offer that veteran family.
Speaker 6: Let me help you, John, stand up your family as
Speaker 6: a dad wants to do.
Speaker 3: Amen for his kids. Amen. Steve, you're the best.
Speaker 2: Kenny. Great to see you and we'll get together again
Speaker 2: next month. It's always a pleasure and an honor to
Speaker 2: have you in here. Thank you for your service and
Speaker 2: good to see Ustee. Tom, thank you for your This
Speaker 2: is the connection and you're the man. So I appreciate you.
Speaker 2: Steve Belzo and Kenny Williamson kind enough to join us,
Speaker 2: and we love having these guys in here and a
Speaker 2: part of the morning show on seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 3: Alrighty Chuck, what's happening out there?
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Speaker 2: Ketch Mark. It is a beautiful day today. Let's enjoy
Speaker 2: the sunshine. We're getting up to fifty two degrees. Might
Speaker 2: even be better than that when all is said and done.
Speaker 2: Tonight we're only down to thirty nine. Tomorrow gonna be cloudy,
Speaker 2: it will be warm. We're gonna be close to sixty degrees.
Speaker 2: Showers likely late in the afternoon. That will carry into
Speaker 2: Thursday night, and if you can believe it, are low.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow night is going to be fit fifty five degree
Speaker 2: are low. Friday, we're getting up into the sixties, but
Speaker 2: there will be some showers. Saturday, we will dry out
Speaker 2: and temperature is expected to be right in the mid fifties,
Speaker 2: upper fifties. There could be some rain in the morning,
Speaker 2: but then drying out in the day, but then overnight.
Speaker 2: And this is changing even since the last time we
Speaker 2: gave you the weather. A chance of snow overnight Saturday
Speaker 2: night into Sunday morning, and are high on Sunday is
Speaker 2: going to be thirty seven degrees. We've got Pastor Chad
Speaker 2: to talk about a different kind of New Year's resolution
Speaker 2: coming up at eight thirty eight, seven hundred wl W.
Speaker 1: Money, Money, Money, Now the info you need to achieve
Speaker 1: your money dreams. This is the Boonberg Money Minute on
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Speaker 4: Good morning. Investors today are keeping a close eye in
Speaker 4: the crude oil market after President Trump said Venezuela will
Speaker 4: give up thirty to fifty millillion barrels of oil to
Speaker 4: the US. That's worth about two point eight billion dollars
Speaker 4: at the current market price. Illinois Democrat Robin Kelly introducing
Speaker 4: a bill requiring new motor vehicles with electric door systems
Speaker 4: to include a mechanical latch that is intuitive to use
Speaker 4: and readily accessible for occupants. That's after all the safety
Speaker 4: concerns about the handles popularized by Tesla that can lose
Speaker 4: power unexpectedly, sometimes tragically during accidents, and attention Lego lovers.
Speaker 4: Lego unveiling its Lego Smart Play platform at a massive
Speaker 4: tech show in Vegas. The new bricks contains sensors for
Speaker 4: detecting light and distance and make lights and sounds when
Speaker 4: used in unison. Combine them with a new deal between
Speaker 4: Lego and the Star Wars franchise, and may the Force
Speaker 4: be with you when you play with them. From Bloomberg,
Speaker 4: I'm Denise Pelgrinian newsrat of seven hundred WLW.
Speaker 2: Alrighty eight forty on the Morning show here on seven
Speaker 2: hundred WLW.
Speaker 3: We do it every single Wednesday.
Speaker 2: We call it plane glass, stained glass and kind enough
Speaker 2: to join us every single Wednesday. Is the lead pastor
Speaker 2: at the Horizon Community Church over in Newtown, right along
Speaker 2: the banks of the Little Miami River. And that is
Speaker 2: Pastor Chad Hovan, Happy New Year, sir. How was your holiday?
Speaker 5: Well, it's pretty good. We had ten services, hung out
Speaker 5: with family, saw a couple of movies, and then gave
Speaker 5: ourselves the flu and we were miserable in bed for
Speaker 5: about five days passing it around. So how it went well?
Speaker 3: I hope everybody is healthy.
Speaker 5: Now we're fighting our way back. We're about it's seventy
Speaker 5: eight probably, okay.
Speaker 3: All right, Well we're thanking and praying for everybody there. Now.
Speaker 2: When when you and I were texting back and forth
Speaker 2: last couple of days, we were thinking, you know, what
Speaker 2: New Year's comes along, A lot of people make New
Speaker 2: Year's resolutions, and I'd given some statistics about seventy nine
Speaker 2: percent of those that make a New Year's resolution making
Speaker 2: New Year's resolue that does with their physical health.
Speaker 3: Right, I'm going to get in better shape, all that
Speaker 3: kind of thing.
Speaker 2: But you and I came up with the idea that
Speaker 2: we're going to basically have a four week series each
Speaker 2: and every Wednesday, starting today.
Speaker 3: And you want to call this series what.
Speaker 5: The me I want to be?
Speaker 3: Okay? The me I want to be? Okay?
Speaker 2: So we're going to head on four different areas in
Speaker 2: each of the next four weeks of maybe where you
Speaker 2: could start. So here's one that we're going to begin
Speaker 2: with today. I'm not too busy. It's just not a priority.
Speaker 2: Let's start there.
Speaker 5: Well, I think again, like you said, at the new
Speaker 5: time of year, we come up with to do lists
Speaker 5: and goals and things we're going to accomplish. But I
Speaker 5: want to propose that there's something that can extend beyond
Speaker 5: that and won't make you depressed in about a month
Speaker 5: because you didn't do it. It's one outlook and it's one inlook.
Speaker 5: And that first one is that we tell ourselves all
Speaker 5: the time, I'm too busy. When's the last time you
Speaker 5: went on a date with your wife. Well, we're so busy.
Speaker 5: When's the last time that you got involved in your hobby.
Speaker 5: I'm too busy. If every time you find yourself saying
Speaker 5: I'm too busy, just swap that and just say this,
Speaker 5: it's not I'm too busy, it's just not a priority.
Speaker 5: That's going to immediately either one affirm your decisions. That's right,
Speaker 5: I'm not doing. For example, my dad gave up fishing
Speaker 5: for many years because he was a young dad and
Speaker 5: he won't be involved as kids and so if you'd
Speaker 5: ask my dad, you know, are you motorcycling these days?
Speaker 5: And are you fishing these days? You'd say nope, I'm
Speaker 5: right now, that's not a priority. Now once we left
Speaker 5: the home, I can't get on my dad's calendar because
Speaker 5: I was fishing. He's a motorcycle drive. But that phrase
Speaker 5: is so helpful. If I told you, when's the last
Speaker 5: time you and your wife and a date, and you said, well,
Speaker 5: we're too busy, isn't a swap? It's not you're too busy. Yeah,
Speaker 5: it's just not a priority. Then you're like, oh, then
Speaker 5: I I don't want that to be true of me.
Speaker 5: I want to rethink what I do because the same
Speaker 5: people who tell you they're too busy will then just
Speaker 5: talk about how they binge watched three Netflix shows sometime
Speaker 5: this week and the staffs and howefin we're on our
Speaker 5: phone and on our iPads. It's pretty shocking. It's not
Speaker 5: this too busy. We all get the same twenty four hours.
Speaker 5: We all get the same number of minutes per day.
Speaker 5: The question is how are you going to invest those
Speaker 5: minutes and those moments to make them matter? And if
Speaker 5: you talk to my Gurbil growing up, he'd say he
Speaker 5: was busy. You know, he's runn wrapped in that wheel
Speaker 5: all day. You're going to fill the time? The question
Speaker 5: is are you filling with things that really matter? And
Speaker 5: every day is a chance for you to inch closer
Speaker 5: to the me you want to be? Instead of saying
Speaker 5: I need to make radical shifts, giant shifts, big changes.
Speaker 5: What are you going to do today to be a
Speaker 5: little more joyful? What are you going to do today
Speaker 5: to move a little closer to your priorities? What do
Speaker 5: you do today that's going to bring a little more
Speaker 5: joy into your life? In fact, I think if you
Speaker 5: think about your life this way, how do I fill
Speaker 5: my life and not just that? How do I fill
Speaker 5: today with things that matter? Just kind of an idea,
Speaker 5: kind of in the sting glass perspective called kronos versus krynos.
Speaker 5: We all get the same amount of kronos, that's chronological time,
Speaker 5: But the really wise person knows how to redeem the time,
Speaker 5: and a person who redeems time changes kronos into krynos,
Speaker 5: which is opportunity. I'm driving in the car and I've
Speaker 5: got my kids around. I'm going to try and take
Speaker 5: this cronos time in the car and just have have
Speaker 5: one meaningful conversation. Yeah, I'm going to try and when
Speaker 5: sitting across for dinner, I'm gonna put my phone down,
Speaker 5: I try and turn this cronos into krynos. And to
Speaker 5: do that, though, you've got to really come against the lie.
Speaker 5: And it's it's it's the plague of our of our culture.
Speaker 5: We all love telling people how busy we are, but
Speaker 5: it's actually partially true, and it's partially a lie to
Speaker 5: disguise why we're not prioritizing the things we know we
Speaker 5: probably should.
Speaker 2: You know, I when you when you talk about, you know,
Speaker 2: replacing that it's not a priority, and you gave the example.
Speaker 2: I mean, when you really start thinking about saying that
Speaker 2: line out loud in a given situation, the one you
Speaker 2: just said about going on a date with your wife,
Speaker 2: you know what, what if all of a sudden, you
Speaker 2: know you I'm just sitting here, you know, thinking out
Speaker 2: loud that a lot of people, Look, they get they
Speaker 2: get pulled hard from work all the time, right, and
Speaker 2: they got to stay longer.
Speaker 3: They got to do this.
Speaker 2: Maybe they're going to miss their kids soccer game or
Speaker 2: their kids recital or whatever. If all of a sudden
Speaker 2: you say, not not just to somebody else, but the
Speaker 2: impact it makes just hearing that, saying it to myself
Speaker 2: that I'm not going to make this a priority getting
Speaker 2: to my kids recital or sporting event.
Speaker 3: Man, that stings a little bit.
Speaker 5: Now, Yeah, but it's a good conviction.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a very good one. Yes.
Speaker 5: And you want to say, listen, there's plenty of grace,
Speaker 5: and there's plenty of exceptions. Want to say, am I
Speaker 5: characterized meaning more often than not doing the things that
Speaker 5: I prioritize. There's always exceptions, there's always something to happen
Speaker 5: this week. But am I characterized by my priorities? And
Speaker 5: that can happen even in the midst of this real difficulty.
Speaker 5: I mean, I was under the gun five years ago,
Speaker 5: my walk that had two back surgery. I was a
Speaker 5: full time caregiver for here plus my special need son,
Speaker 5: plus I was working full time. It was not ideal circumstances,
Speaker 5: and I was getting resentful and angry, and I had
Speaker 5: thrown everything in the kitchen sink of trying to change
Speaker 5: this circumstance, and for whatever reason, it wasn't going to change.
Speaker 5: I remember getting out my journal and grabbing my pen,
Speaker 5: almost like you're holding a knife, and almost like carving
Speaker 5: the words into the page. I will not be bitter,
Speaker 5: and that stopped me from going in a bad direction.
Speaker 5: And then a couple of weeks later I was able
Speaker 5: to write I will choose joy. And that's the second
Speaker 5: thing is besides changing your priorities and repeating that phrase,
Speaker 5: what if this year you ruthlessly commit to finding joy
Speaker 5: in your current life, even with your problems, even with
Speaker 5: your challenges. Most of us are living lives that are
Speaker 5: envied by the world, that were chased by others, dreamed
Speaker 5: about by kings. I mean, we have air conditioning, we
Speaker 5: actually have some money in our pockets, we can actually
Speaker 5: choose where we might eat today. These are enviable, prayed about,
Speaker 5: dreamed about goals that most people in the world have
Speaker 5: longed for. And if you've never been on a mission
Speaker 5: trip or been on a third world country, everyone that
Speaker 5: goes on once says the same thing. I go down
Speaker 5: to people who have so little, and I'm amazed at
Speaker 5: how they can ruthlessly find joy in their current life.
Speaker 3: What if all of us did that.
Speaker 5: We all have things we want to tweak, things we
Speaker 5: want to change things. We wish we could make better
Speaker 5: work on that, but you're as happy now as you
Speaker 5: choose to be. And if you can't be happy in
Speaker 5: this circumstance, I promise you you probably won't be happy
Speaker 5: in the next er.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right, that's right, because you're always playing that
Speaker 2: keep up with the Joneses kind of thing. And we
Speaker 2: talked about you know that from time to time. Let
Speaker 2: me let me walk you back for a second, when
Speaker 2: you talked about that timeframe that you went through. Okay,
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, you know, you're going through these
Speaker 2: really tough times and there's only enough chronos time in
Speaker 2: the day. Correct to give me an example or people
Speaker 2: out there listening an example chat if you wouldn't mind
Speaker 2: of something that you thought you couldn't give up, right,
Speaker 2: and that once you said to yourself, no, this thing
Speaker 2: with my wife or this thing with our son, whatever
Speaker 2: it might be, that's going to be the priority today.
Speaker 2: And maybe something you thought, boy, there's no way I
Speaker 2: can walk away from this other thing. But then once
Speaker 2: you did it, you realized it wasn't the end of
Speaker 2: the world.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, i'd say eternally for me internally, rather one
Speaker 5: of my biggest priorities is independence. And so the fact
Speaker 5: that I was basically handcuffed to my house, handcuffed to caregiving,
Speaker 5: and again, yes, I want to serve, but it really
Speaker 5: came against a core value of mind, which is independence.
Speaker 5: And so I really had to wrestle with that, which
Speaker 5: is in my desire to serve, need to serve out
Speaker 5: wanting to have the priority is serving. I could feel
Speaker 5: that tension like almost a rat caught in a trap,
Speaker 5: which is like I just I just felt that, and
Speaker 5: I had to say, this feels permanent. It's not permanent.
Speaker 5: This is a season, and it's gonna be a hard season.
Speaker 5: I don't even know. I'm not gonna say an arbitrary deadline.
Speaker 5: I'd like it to be a week. It might be
Speaker 5: a month, it might be a year. But it's a season.
Speaker 5: So during this season, I need to change my mindset
Speaker 5: and so I am not going to have the flexibility
Speaker 5: that I had. And even when you know, we adopted
Speaker 5: my son, you know, and found out he had special needs,
Speaker 5: it was an eighty year season, which is I need
Speaker 5: to adjust my expectations, which is all right. I had
Speaker 5: expected a B and C and now I need to
Speaker 5: say and thought joy only came from A, B and C.
Speaker 5: Now I need to say it's gonna look like D,
Speaker 5: E and F. But D and E and F. Though different,
Speaker 5: doesn't mean I can't experience joy. It doesn't mean I
Speaker 5: can't have a fulfilled life. It's just different. And for
Speaker 5: many of us, we're so living for the expectation. Once
Speaker 5: I get that degree, if only I had two houses,
Speaker 5: if only I got that special vacation, if only I
Speaker 5: get that job, and we have delayed joy. We have
Speaker 5: we have pushed joy ahead of ourselves into some other
Speaker 5: circumstance versus all right, right now, I've got to manage
Speaker 5: my expectations and realize this expectation that I thought was
Speaker 5: the end all I was the only way I could
Speaker 5: find joy and happiness and gratitude. I began to say,
Speaker 5: what can I in the next twenty four hours be
Speaker 5: grateful about? Where can I take this not as a resentful,
Speaker 5: obligatory duty bound serving, but how can I joyfully serve?
Speaker 5: And maybe I can't have enough energy to think about
Speaker 5: joyfully serving for a week. I can think about what
Speaker 5: I can do in the next hour.
Speaker 3: You know what I had year. You know I forgive
Speaker 3: me for erupting.
Speaker 2: You know, you know, something that sort of hit me
Speaker 2: a couple of days ago, and I'm curious about how
Speaker 2: how you would address this. I find sometimes that when
Speaker 2: I put myself in that frame of mind, and I
Speaker 2: try to do it a lot, because I have a
Speaker 2: tendency to start going dark. Okay, and maybe not dark's
Speaker 2: maybe the wrong word, just not being as appreciative of
Speaker 2: things that I have as I should be. But then
Speaker 2: you start getting around, whether it's co workers, maybe it's
Speaker 2: even your family, okay, where this kind of attitude has
Speaker 2: been around you for so long that those you spend
Speaker 2: a lot of time, well, let's say your family. Maybe
Speaker 2: you're walking in the house and you want to walk
Speaker 2: in with a sense of joy and with peace and happiness,
Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden, those in the house
Speaker 2: they're not used to that kind of thing, and they're
Speaker 2: not there yet either.
Speaker 3: Does that make sense?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, it's like Dad, what happened to you?
Speaker 3: Right? Right?
Speaker 5: But I want to be this is me we've never seen.
Speaker 5: But I think over time you go, oh, this is different.
Speaker 5: And honestly, have you ever been around yourself when you're negative?
Speaker 5: Or are the people in they're negative? Yeah, there's kind
Speaker 5: of this glue. It's almost like gossip. You're kind of
Speaker 5: drawn into kind of negativity and the nihilism, but it's
Speaker 5: pretty quickly hopeless and doesn't give a lot of joy,
Speaker 5: and at some point you've got to get sick of it.
Speaker 5: You're going to say, you know what, this is just
Speaker 5: so not life giving. And I don't know if you're
Speaker 5: into treasure hunters, but I love treasure hunting type of stuff,
Speaker 5: whether it's like you know, the TV shows like The
Speaker 5: Goony's Grown Up for the Movie's National Treasure, or you know,
Speaker 5: occasionally I try and watch Chris of Oak Island, although
Speaker 5: I've given up after ten years. They've done anything. But
Speaker 5: what if I told you that the next twenty four
Speaker 5: hours your life is filled with treasures that you need
Speaker 5: to discover, and you want to look at your life
Speaker 5: like a treasure hunter and say, there's going to be
Speaker 5: something to be grateful that's going to happen today in
Speaker 5: a conversation with your colleague. There's going to be somebody
Speaker 5: you come in contact with who's got some way that
Speaker 5: you can listen to them and it's going to really
Speaker 5: make them feel heard. If you begin to look at
Speaker 5: your life as there are hidden treasures to appreciate, to
Speaker 5: be grateful for, to find. I think people are going
Speaker 5: to notice because when you get around people who are negative,
Speaker 5: it sucks the.
Speaker 3: Life, no doubt about it, and ourselves too.
Speaker 2: Right, Yes, yes, guilty of charge.
Speaker 5: You ever want to hang out with Mike seal up today?
Speaker 5: Guess what the rest of the stone either. But what
Speaker 5: if I you take your eyes off yourself? Right instead
Speaker 5: of saying but I'm feeling down, I'm feeling depressed, walk
Speaker 5: into a room and say, how can I lift someone
Speaker 5: else up? And the irony is one of the greatest
Speaker 5: way to get out of depression is put your eyes
Speaker 5: on someone else. So I think that's what I encourage
Speaker 5: is to think of the new year two things, ruthlessly
Speaker 5: commit to find, join your current life, and then radically
Speaker 5: change your priorities by just repeating that one praise. It's
Speaker 5: not that I'm too busy, it's just not a priority,
Speaker 5: and then inch closer. I used to tell folks that
Speaker 5: three times three times three is twenty seven, but four
Speaker 5: times four times four sixty four. If you want to
Speaker 5: improve your life this year from a twenty seven to
Speaker 5: a sixty four, double your joy, double your impact of
Speaker 5: your marriage. All you have to do is take three
Speaker 5: areas of your life and just tweak them. Not from
Speaker 5: a three to a ten, just get a little bit
Speaker 5: more joyful. Move from a three to a four tomorrow.
Speaker 5: I want you to be a little bit more grateful.
Speaker 5: From a three to four. I want you to think
Speaker 5: about other people ahead of yourself A three to a four.
Speaker 5: The cumulus impact of tweaking three areas of your life
Speaker 5: is that you'll move from a twenty seven to a
Speaker 5: sixty four and the impact of your overal health. And
Speaker 5: then chase your goals. I love goals. Monitor your goals,
Speaker 5: track your goals. But while you're doing it, don't delay
Speaker 5: joy until you get to the goals.
Speaker 3: That is great stuff.
Speaker 2: I love the start of this series and look forward
Speaker 2: to two, three, and four in the weeks to come. Chad,
Speaker 2: thanks so much for your time. This was this just
Speaker 2: great stuff. I hope you have a great rest of
Speaker 2: your day.
Speaker 5: Thanks so much. Stuck soon.
Speaker 3: I tell you what. Let's see that advice.
Speaker 2: I mean when you think of it, when he breaks
Speaker 2: it down like that, A three to a four, just
Speaker 2: with a small tweak, you don't have to go to
Speaker 2: three to a ten man. I'm going to get something
Speaker 2: out of that. I think I know, or I'm going
Speaker 2: to try. That's all we can do is try, Sloan.
Speaker 2: He's coming up right around the corner, and let's check
Speaker 2: the roadways one more time.
Speaker 3: Chuck, what's happening, my friend?
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Speaker 7: The wreck northbound out of the way. The last of
Speaker 7: the heavy traffic is coming out of Saint Bernard towards
Speaker 7: Town Street southbound seventy five. That wreck is clear, but
Speaker 7: traffic still runs an extra three to four minutes through
Speaker 7: the split eastbound two seventy five. Now looking pretty good
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