Join hosts Dave and Len as they delve into the major news and trends of 2024, providing insights and reflections on the year's significant events. From the near-miss aviation disaster in Alaska to the shocking infrastructure collapse in Baltimore, explore how these incidents shaped media narratives. Examine the tragic school and public shootings, their legal aftermaths, and the societal impacts that spurred new dialogues around safety and responsibility.
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With thoughtful commentary, Dave and Len offer a recap of the year’s pivotal moments and share their personal goals and outlooks for a hopeful 2025, emphasizing resilience and the pursuit of progress amid the unfolding narratives of our time.
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00:00:10 --> 00:00:15 All right, y'all, get ready for another edition of News and Trends with your
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00:00:28 --> 00:00:32 Welcome, welcome, welcome to News and Trends with Dave and Lynn.
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00:00:59 --> 00:01:02 All right. Hanging out with my partner, Mr. Leonard Young. what's
00:01:02 --> 00:01:05 going on guy dave everything's good happy new year
00:01:05 --> 00:01:08 to you and our listening audience this is leonard young
00:01:08 --> 00:01:13 ceo of national black guide delawareblack.com black
00:01:13 --> 00:01:18 media specialist all around good guy how's it going dave well uh it's gone man
00:01:18 --> 00:01:23 it's definitely been a year since we talked to anybody so you know year has
00:01:23 --> 00:01:29 passed so but happy 2025 and it's good to be on this side of,
00:01:29 --> 00:01:32 the new year as opposed to staying behind you know
00:01:32 --> 00:01:36 yeah yeah we we we what's that
00:01:36 --> 00:01:39 saying mama we made it we made it yeah that's right yeah made
00:01:39 --> 00:01:43 it to a new year man you know so i was sitting there thinking i think i mentioned
00:01:43 --> 00:01:50 this to you or a couple days ago you know just think 25 years ago man we were
00:01:50 --> 00:01:57 wondering if we were going to wake up the next day as a y2k remember you know so oh yeah Yeah.
00:01:58 --> 00:02:00 I mean, we're always worried about the world blowing up.
00:02:01 --> 00:02:05 Yeah, man. You think about that. 25 years ago that happened,
00:02:05 --> 00:02:12 you know, and here it is, you know, you know, we didn't move 25 years past that time.
00:02:12 --> 00:02:15 And I remember, I remember all that craziness.
00:02:15 --> 00:02:21 So, you know, but, you know, we want to say, you know, we hope that everybody
00:02:21 --> 00:02:27 had a great holiday season. This is our first show since since before the holidays.
00:02:27 --> 00:02:31 So we definitely hope that everybody got what they wanted.
00:02:31 --> 00:02:37 I mean, got the fun with their families, friends, or even if they were just
00:02:37 --> 00:02:40 chilling by themselves. We hope that was the gift that you wanted.
00:02:40 --> 00:02:44 So did you guys have a good time for the holiday season? No.
00:02:47 --> 00:02:52 Well, Dave, kind of like I was telling you, we we were in a car accident.
00:02:52 --> 00:02:56 The day before christmas and
00:02:56 --> 00:03:01 then so you know of course that kind of affected christmas a little bit and
00:03:01 --> 00:03:05 then i mean luckily you know we weren't really you know a little sore the next
00:03:05 --> 00:03:08 day but we were fine and then new
00:03:08 --> 00:03:15 year's eve we ended up working at the campground and we went out to eat,
00:03:16 --> 00:03:24 on the way home we went to plaza azteca which i'm not a fan of just fyi mexican
00:03:24 --> 00:03:28 spot you know and bear and dave i would probably sleep around 10 o'clock i i
00:03:28 --> 00:03:30 didn't even make it to the new year.
00:03:31 --> 00:03:34 I did not even make it to the yeah you know what i did
00:03:34 --> 00:03:37 yeah that's right i think i texted you i didn't hear back from you till the
00:03:37 --> 00:03:41 next day or something like that so yeah yeah yeah
00:03:41 --> 00:03:44 i mean you know new year's doesn't have
00:03:44 --> 00:03:48 it doesn't have the bite that it used to have and
00:03:48 --> 00:03:51 you know people are too busy doing their own thing or
00:03:51 --> 00:03:54 engrossed in a lot
00:03:54 --> 00:03:57 of things that you wouldn't
00:03:57 --> 00:04:00 call like new year related 10 years ago
00:04:00 --> 00:04:04 you know what i mean so you know so like i
00:04:04 --> 00:04:07 didn't you know i didn't do much of anything you
00:04:07 --> 00:04:15 know well what'd you do let me see hung out with friends and family Christmas
00:04:15 --> 00:04:22 New Year's I did hang out over at the Riverfront for pre-New Year's party with
00:04:22 --> 00:04:24 Tim over at the Riverfront.
00:04:26 --> 00:04:29 But i mean that was basically the highlight i didn't
00:04:29 --> 00:04:32 you know try to try to just relax because i
00:04:32 --> 00:04:35 was off for most of the time you know so i
00:04:35 --> 00:04:38 was just chilling you know so this time
00:04:38 --> 00:04:41 of year i take a lot of time off yeah now what
00:04:41 --> 00:04:45 what about christmas how was your christmas well that's what i'm saying okay
00:04:45 --> 00:04:53 yeah yeah so christmas yeah but it was good i mean watch football and you know
00:04:53 --> 00:04:59 you know a little bit basketball and and i mean nothing i mean christmas is another day really,
00:05:00 --> 00:05:06 i know you know yeah i mean you know even you don't even know it's christmas.
00:05:08 --> 00:05:13 Anymore you know what i mean yeah i i definitely agree you don't know you don't
00:05:13 --> 00:05:17 know it's christmas i mean you know the only time you can you can see christmas
00:05:17 --> 00:05:23 if you go in the stores like i mean i I had to go into the dollar store on 273
00:05:23 --> 00:05:25 there in that shopping center.
00:05:26 --> 00:05:29 And I went in there just to grab a couple of bags.
00:05:30 --> 00:05:35 Man, that place was jam-packed, man. I was like, well, okay,
00:05:35 --> 00:05:38 everybody, I guess this is where everybody would be.
00:05:40 --> 00:05:42 I couldn't find the bags anywhere else, and they had them.
00:05:43 --> 00:05:45 I'm just going to go in, stand in line, and grab these bags,
00:05:46 --> 00:05:50 man. And so I'm probably in line for probably about a good 30 minutes.
00:05:51 --> 00:05:56 So, but, you know, I got out of there, but that's the only time I could feel
00:05:56 --> 00:06:00 that there was the Christmas was going on because everybody was in there.
00:06:02 --> 00:06:07 I agree. You know, I think for me, the only thing that made me think of Christmas is little kids.
00:06:07 --> 00:06:11 Cause they, you know, my teenagers, they, you know, they could care less.
00:06:11 --> 00:06:13 It's more like, what am I getting?
00:06:13 --> 00:06:16 And half of them are, they, you know, for most of our kids already know
00:06:16 --> 00:06:19 what they get in because you know most parents aren't out here trying to waste
00:06:19 --> 00:06:27 not a dime yeah yeah now of course you may get some clothes that you ain't want
00:06:27 --> 00:06:31 didn't ask for but you know other than that you know the main stuff you get
00:06:31 --> 00:06:37 is probably on your list look a friend of mine was telling me about her daughter who's a teenager,
00:06:38 --> 00:06:43 the what she's a senior in high school and she wanted this gucci purse,
00:06:45 --> 00:06:48 so the mom was like
00:06:48 --> 00:06:53 my friend was like i don't have a gucci purse why would i buy her a gucci right
00:06:53 --> 00:06:58 you know that type of thing right so she bought a really nice purse it was it
00:06:58 --> 00:07:04 was a i think it was the michael kors that she got a really good deal on right
00:07:04 --> 00:07:08 she said her daughter looked at it and said, I don't want this.
00:07:08 --> 00:07:12 She said, this is not Gucci. All my friends have Gucci. She said,
00:07:13 --> 00:07:14 all my friends have Gucci.
00:07:14 --> 00:07:18 She said, it's a Michael Kors. She said, yeah, that's the last year.
00:07:21 --> 00:07:24 I just said, what'd you do? She said, I took it back to the store.
00:07:25 --> 00:07:30 I said, did you get the Gucci? She said, no, I'm not getting anything.
00:07:31 --> 00:07:35 So, so she said that she got her money back and she said, forget about her.
00:07:36 --> 00:07:42 You know she said she said look because she and i grew up she and i grew up
00:07:42 --> 00:07:42 in the same neighborhood.
00:07:44 --> 00:07:48 And she's younger than me but we still live in the same neighborhood at the
00:07:48 --> 00:07:52 same time and she said look dave she said you know how we came up she said you
00:07:52 --> 00:07:55 know what our pitch she said i did exactly what my parents would do you don't
00:07:55 --> 00:07:59 like it yeah you get back and you don't get nothing,
00:07:59 --> 00:08:03 you know and she said she said her daughter kept keeps
00:08:03 --> 00:08:06 bothering her asking her about when she's want to get her bag her
00:08:06 --> 00:08:09 purse she said look i'm not buying you no purse i bought
00:08:09 --> 00:08:12 you one you didn't want it and i bought you a very
00:08:12 --> 00:08:16 nice one she said i should have kept it for myself you know
00:08:16 --> 00:08:19 she spent good money on that on that michael kors
00:08:19 --> 00:08:22 purse and the daughter went no parts of it the gucci purse
00:08:22 --> 00:08:26 that she wanted i said well how much was it she said she said
00:08:26 --> 00:08:28 on sale the cheapest she could
00:08:28 --> 00:08:36 find the gucci purse was 300 oh wow on sale yeah well they she she might have
00:08:36 --> 00:08:39 to tell her that that's your what is it used to do back in the day this your
00:08:39 --> 00:08:44 christmas birthday and half of your next christmas yeah there you are look i
00:08:44 --> 00:08:46 would i would have sent her a picture of it in the email.
00:08:47 --> 00:08:53 That's what i would have done you know so say there you go there's a gucci right
00:08:53 --> 00:08:56 there you know So I don't know if you may be able to use it anytime,
00:08:56 --> 00:08:58 but, you know, it is what it is.
00:08:58 --> 00:09:02 So, but yeah, that's where we are nowadays, man. I mean, it's crazy.
00:09:02 --> 00:09:06 Well, you know, Dave, that's why I said, and Dave, you know,
00:09:06 --> 00:09:13 I hate to make it sound like we're slaves, but if it ain't on their list, I ain't getting it.
00:09:16 --> 00:09:19 But the thing about this you spend all your hard-earned money
00:09:19 --> 00:09:22 you try to get them nice so because you know michael kors
00:09:22 --> 00:09:28 is still luxury it's still quality oh yeah oh no you look ain't too many people
00:09:28 --> 00:09:32 gonna turn down a michael kors bag yeah and and dave imagine if it was on sale
00:09:32 --> 00:09:39 she couldn't return it you know i was like she didn't want the michael kors purse she said nope.
00:09:40 --> 00:09:44 And and and get this her first
00:09:44 --> 00:09:47 request she she she went to
00:09:47 --> 00:09:49 the gucci bag because she thought it would be cheaper but she
00:09:49 --> 00:09:54 wanted a she wanted a louis uh louis
00:09:54 --> 00:09:56 purse and uh and her
00:09:56 --> 00:10:00 mom said oh no we're not doing that no we're
00:10:00 --> 00:10:03 not doing that yeah and and she's a
00:10:03 --> 00:10:06 senior in high school so that means that she would plan on
00:10:06 --> 00:10:08 taking it to school and you know what
00:10:08 --> 00:10:11 that means right you know she would have to guard it with her
00:10:11 --> 00:10:15 life you know you know i mean no
00:10:15 --> 00:10:18 no you don't want you don't want your
00:10:18 --> 00:10:22 kids having anything that you know
00:10:22 --> 00:10:24 cause too much attention because they ain't gonna have it long
00:10:24 --> 00:10:27 nope you know
00:10:27 --> 00:10:30 i mean i i definitely i know my mom would
00:10:30 --> 00:10:33 have laughed at me if i even tried to answer for something like that
00:10:33 --> 00:10:36 yeah but you you know dave you know what i kind of
00:10:36 --> 00:10:39 compare it to so think about back in
00:10:39 --> 00:10:41 the day and our listeners whatever
00:10:41 --> 00:10:46 age you are you can probably relate you know back in the day nikes were the
00:10:46 --> 00:10:52 hottest things around yeah but your parents they don't get your nikes oh no
00:10:52 --> 00:10:58 they ain't no i got they they they they get you some reeboks but but that's
00:10:58 --> 00:11:01 But your parents got you. My mom wouldn't have done it.
00:11:01 --> 00:11:06 No, but I just say it in terms of, but you know, everyone at school is wearing
00:11:06 --> 00:11:10 Nikes and your parents, they say to you, well, you know, Reeboks are quality
00:11:10 --> 00:11:14 shoes that made well, they last long. And you're like, forget that.
00:11:14 --> 00:11:18 Everyone at school wearing Nikes. I need some Nikes. I don't want them. Take them back.
00:11:18 --> 00:11:22 Look, let me tell you, I've never had a pair of Nikes. Ever?
00:11:23 --> 00:11:28 Ever. Now, my sons, yeah, they definitely did. You know, they had them.
00:11:28 --> 00:11:34 And, like, my oldest son, he only wore two things, Nike sneakers and Timberlands.
00:11:35 --> 00:11:37 He had every color. I think he
00:11:37 --> 00:11:41 had almost every color you can get in Timberlands at one point, you know.
00:11:42 --> 00:11:46 And, see, those kids, when Timberlands really got hot, those kids were playing.
00:11:46 --> 00:11:50 They wore them to play basketball in them, you know, and stuff like that.
00:11:50 --> 00:11:52 I mean, that's how much they loved those things.
00:11:52 --> 00:11:55 But, yeah, I'll never forget the first pair of Nikes I ever bought.
00:11:55 --> 00:11:58 And they wasn't for me. They were for my oldest son.
00:11:58 --> 00:12:04 And i got them on sale for 79 i ain't never in my life spent 79 on a pair of sneakers.
00:12:06 --> 00:12:10 Well i think the most i ever paid on for a pair of sneakers was a pair of converse all-stars,
00:12:11 --> 00:12:20 dr j's no the dr j's leather um all-star sneakers and they were like 30 40 bucks.
00:12:20 --> 00:12:24 All right cd man now you're showing your age yeah well
00:12:24 --> 00:12:27 you know i love look i'm old you know them
00:12:27 --> 00:12:30 leather sneakers came out of everybody everybody was wearing them man
00:12:30 --> 00:12:34 so you know so but but even
00:12:34 --> 00:12:38 that even if i was young now and had
00:12:38 --> 00:12:41 the money i don't know if i would spend two or three hundred dollars
00:12:41 --> 00:12:44 on jordan sneakers because you first of all
00:12:44 --> 00:12:48 i played a lot of basketball back then so nowadays
00:12:48 --> 00:12:51 you can't play in the sneakers that you
00:12:51 --> 00:12:54 spend three or four hundred dollars for i mean
00:12:54 --> 00:12:57 two or three hundred dollars for it you're not supposed to play ball
00:12:57 --> 00:13:00 in those you gotta have a second pair of sneakers yeah
00:13:00 --> 00:13:03 to play ball in so you know
00:13:03 --> 00:13:07 so you gotta you gotta spend like you know
00:13:07 --> 00:13:11 a good three or four hundred dollars on sneakers yeah
00:13:11 --> 00:13:14 and dave it's funny now because a lot
00:13:14 --> 00:13:17 of the kids they don't even wear sneakers at
00:13:17 --> 00:13:20 school they wear a crocs slide sandal
00:13:20 --> 00:13:23 you know i mean like so i was like you know
00:13:23 --> 00:13:26 they're buying these expensive shoes to you know maybe wear
00:13:26 --> 00:13:29 wearing a couple classes and then they wear that it's all
00:13:29 --> 00:13:33 about the main name brand america some crocs i never i don't understand the
00:13:33 --> 00:13:38 whole croc thing i really don't but they're popular they're very popular yeah
00:13:38 --> 00:13:41 it's almost like i talked about they're supposed to be real comfortable i just
00:13:41 --> 00:13:43 don't see how it comes have you
00:13:43 --> 00:13:47 ever had a pair yeah my wife bought me a pair So, I mean, I have a pair.
00:13:47 --> 00:13:52 I don't really wear them because I'm like, I didn't grow up wearing stuff like that.
00:13:53 --> 00:13:56 Like, I'm going to wear some sandals, some like some slides.
00:13:57 --> 00:14:01 And I mean, they're comfortable. But to be honest, I never maybe because I got
00:14:01 --> 00:14:04 big feet. I wouldn't wear mine out the house.
00:14:04 --> 00:14:08 You know, I mean, like, no, Dave, Dave, I kid you not.
00:14:08 --> 00:14:14 If you catch me wearing Crocs outside the house, just know that I look just
00:14:14 --> 00:14:18 as raggedy as like whatever you you would expect for me to be wearing Crocs.
00:14:19 --> 00:14:21 I just put it like that. If I'm wearing Crocs outside the house,
00:14:21 --> 00:14:24 I don't give a damn about how I look that day.
00:14:24 --> 00:14:26 Well you ain't got to worry about me caring how you
00:14:26 --> 00:14:31 look i won't be around you at that point so you know i'll be like he got crocs
00:14:31 --> 00:14:35 on okay see you later man i'll talk to you later all right yeah there you go
00:14:35 --> 00:14:39 you know not gonna embarrass me out there in them streets we're walking around
00:14:39 --> 00:14:44 with crocs on you know what did linder go to medical school is he,
00:14:45 --> 00:14:50 between crocs and clogs you know because i'm still surprised how popular clogs
00:14:50 --> 00:14:55 still are in the, you know, in the medical hospital, in the hospitals. Yeah.
00:14:56 --> 00:14:58 Yeah, so that's another story.
00:14:59 --> 00:15:02 So, you know, folks, this is what happens.
00:15:02 --> 00:15:07 You know, this is every year we have to look at all the things that's changing.
00:15:08 --> 00:15:15 And, you know, it is, you know, it is where we are now. I'm going to put it that way.
00:15:15 --> 00:15:20 You know, we're at all of the changes that have happened and all the things
00:15:20 --> 00:15:23 that have been happening that lead to changes.
00:15:23 --> 00:15:32 Just like I was watching TV yesterday, what you call Neil deGrasse was being interviewed,
00:15:33 --> 00:15:39 and he talked about how, did you hear that he has determined and discovered
00:15:39 --> 00:15:42 that the Zodiac sign chart,
00:15:42 --> 00:15:49 The hard scope has been changed because of the way that.
00:15:50 --> 00:15:58 The earth has shifted, and the turning radius that it's on has changed.
00:15:58 --> 00:16:05 So the months of the year that your birthdays might have fallen under have changed
00:16:05 --> 00:16:11 because of the timing of the turning is off.
00:16:11 --> 00:16:16 I mean, you know, I'm listening to this guy, and I'm like, so he has a chart.
00:16:16 --> 00:16:21 And I've got to find that chart. he has a chart that shows the new alignment,
00:16:22 --> 00:16:27 the stars and the planets as far as the horoscope and astrology system,
00:16:27 --> 00:16:35 and so there's a great chance that if you're a person that knows about your
00:16:35 --> 00:16:38 sign and all that stuff, there's a great chance that you might not be the sign
00:16:38 --> 00:16:40 that you've been all your life anymore.
00:16:42 --> 00:16:48 According to the chart that he had, I'm a Pisces according to the chart that he had I'm an Aquarius.
00:16:49 --> 00:16:52 And, you know, it's funny because you kind of look like an Aquarius,
00:16:52 --> 00:16:56 too. I mean, I'm, you know, I'm just going to throw that out there real quick. Oh, Lord, here we go.
00:16:57 --> 00:17:01 What does Aquarius look like? It's so funny because my mother happened to be an Aquarius.
00:17:02 --> 00:17:08 Yeah. But, you know, but it's just interesting because according to this chart,
00:17:09 --> 00:17:13 you know, you, what you always thought you were, you're not anymore.
00:17:14 --> 00:17:17 So I just thought but that just tells you about all the
00:17:17 --> 00:17:20 different things that are happening and all the different changes
00:17:20 --> 00:17:23 that are happening so but we're going
00:17:23 --> 00:17:26 to talk you know we're going to go ahead and get into the show we
00:17:26 --> 00:17:29 haven't gotten into the show yet you know but this is what happens when we don't
00:17:29 --> 00:17:33 do a show for a couple weeks and we just get a chance to get around to talking
00:17:33 --> 00:17:38 to you guys so but what we're going to talk to you tonight about is just some
00:17:38 --> 00:17:42 we're to talk about some of the big stories that happened over the last year
00:17:42 --> 00:17:45 you know kind of do our little recap of the year 2024.
00:17:48 --> 00:17:51 So i'm just going to bring up a couple stories leonard
00:17:51 --> 00:17:54 and just get you know
00:17:54 --> 00:17:58 we'll just say a little bit about each story and you know get each other's thoughts
00:17:58 --> 00:18:06 on the story this first one that i'm going to bring up it says this is the alaska
00:18:06 --> 00:18:12 door plug incident the alaska door plug incident.
00:18:13 --> 00:18:20 Minutes after Alaska Airlines flight 1282 took off from Portland International
00:18:20 --> 00:18:26 Airport on January 5th, a door plug blew out, sparking chaos on the plane.
00:18:27 --> 00:18:31 The flight was nearly full with the exception of a few seats.
00:18:31 --> 00:18:36 The two seats next to the missing door plug happened to be empty.
00:18:37 --> 00:18:41 The Boeing 737 MAX 9 safely made it.
00:18:42 --> 00:18:45 Made an emergency landing. No one was seriously injured.
00:18:46 --> 00:18:53 An NTSB preliminary report found that before the flight, four bolts designed
00:18:53 --> 00:18:58 to prevent the door plug from falling off the plane were missing.
00:18:58 --> 00:19:06 A Boeing executive told ABC News this summer that the fuselage came to Boeing's
00:19:06 --> 00:19:12 damage from its supplier, and to fix the fuselage, the door plug needed to come off.
00:19:13 --> 00:19:18 Before they could get the plug back on, the plane needed to be moved.
00:19:18 --> 00:19:25 The overnight team put the door plug back onto the seat.
00:19:28 --> 00:19:37 And the plane from the outdoor elements but didn't install the bolts because
00:19:37 --> 00:19:40 it wasn't their job, as Zachary said.
00:19:40 --> 00:19:44 The first team never filled out the paperwork when they removed the door,
00:19:45 --> 00:19:48 so the next team didn't know to put the bolts back on.
00:19:48 --> 00:19:53 The executive said, could you imagine the horror?
00:19:55 --> 00:20:00 You know, you're sitting there, plane takes off, all of a sudden,
00:20:00 --> 00:20:05 whoosh, thank God nobody was sitting there. Yeah, for real.
00:20:05 --> 00:20:10 Yeah, yeah, thank God nobody was sitting there. And that was the first of a
00:20:10 --> 00:20:14 couple of incidents with Bowling, you know, but that was the big one.
00:20:14 --> 00:20:22 And, you know, that, and that happened very beginning of the year, January 5th. So...
00:20:24 --> 00:20:32 It just kind of set the course for what kind of year we were about to have, to be honest with you.
00:20:32 --> 00:20:34 What were your thoughts when you heard that story?
00:20:35 --> 00:20:37 I mean, you know, I just thought it was crazy because, you know,
00:20:37 --> 00:20:43 I think we always assume that people, you know, these safety companies are on point.
00:20:43 --> 00:20:46 They have all their checklists, you know, double checking, triple checking.
00:20:47 --> 00:20:52 And clearly, we know they're just like us. Like, you know, who did it? I ain't do it.
00:20:53 --> 00:20:56 You know nobody told me to do it oh they
00:20:56 --> 00:20:59 were on the seat well i left them there for the next you know i'm like like all
00:20:59 --> 00:21:03 the same stuff we hear at probably a lot of our jobs unfortunately
00:21:03 --> 00:21:06 the same thing but they if i was in an exit
00:21:06 --> 00:21:09 row or similar and the
00:21:09 --> 00:21:12 door flew off oh my goodness
00:21:12 --> 00:21:15 because you know dave in the movies and i
00:21:15 --> 00:21:18 mean it is the movies but when the door flies off yeah everything
00:21:18 --> 00:21:21 get sucked out yeah like you know those those first
00:21:21 --> 00:21:24 couple seats usually seem like they just fly right
00:21:24 --> 00:21:27 on out with it yeah yeah yeah yeah
00:21:27 --> 00:21:30 and look with your luck and with my luck we'll probably
00:21:30 --> 00:21:34 be in those first couple seats and probably fly right out the door so you know
00:21:34 --> 00:21:42 so it's interesting i mean you know with all the technology and all the stuff
00:21:42 --> 00:21:47 we have now to kind of avoid these type for things from happening.
00:21:49 --> 00:21:52 That's really crazy that that happened, you know?
00:21:52 --> 00:21:58 And that kind of, like I said, that kind of set the tone for some things that
00:21:58 --> 00:22:01 were about to happen the rest of the year.
00:22:03 --> 00:22:07 Like the story that I'm about to talk about now.
00:22:08 --> 00:22:19 The next thing, the next big thing that I remember and we can remember was on March the 26th,
00:22:19 --> 00:22:26 a container ship struck the Francis Guy Key Bridge, Baltimore,
00:22:27 --> 00:22:31 collapsing the bridge and killing six construction workers.
00:22:31 --> 00:22:34 Who were filling potholes on the span.
00:22:35 --> 00:22:41 Two workers survived the crash-affected entry into the port of Baltimore for
00:22:41 --> 00:22:46 weeks with the debris blocking entry for other ships.
00:22:47 --> 00:22:53 Crews worked to remove about 50 tons of steel, concrete,
00:22:53 --> 00:23:00 and asphalt from the channel and from the container ship, the Department of Justice said.
00:23:00 --> 00:23:04 That was, of course, the Francis Scott Key Bridge.
00:23:05 --> 00:23:11 Of course, it was something that we really got to witness because it was close
00:23:11 --> 00:23:16 by or in our area where we are.
00:23:16 --> 00:23:19 And I know you said you've been on that bridge a few times, right?
00:23:20 --> 00:23:26 I think so. Because, yeah, I think that's the one in like 695 East.
00:23:26 --> 00:23:30 I mean, to be honest, I don't really recognize it that much,
00:23:30 --> 00:23:34 but I'm sure I've been on it. Yeah, yeah.
00:23:35 --> 00:23:39 That was really big news because when you looked at the video,
00:23:39 --> 00:23:45 it was horrifying to see how that happened and how it collapsed.
00:23:47 --> 00:23:54 But they worked diligently to get the bridge back in order for people to cross
00:23:54 --> 00:24:01 it because they knew that's like a very important bridge as far as connecting, you know,
00:24:02 --> 00:24:08 connecting the areas that people use to travel back and forth on that bridge.
00:24:09 --> 00:24:14 So I had to confirm that the bridge is not fixed.
00:24:14 --> 00:24:18 It's scheduled. It says construction. The question is scheduled to begin in 2025.
00:24:19 --> 00:24:23 But aren't they using it, though? I thought I read that they were using it.
00:24:24 --> 00:24:27 I'm not sure. I didn't say I don't think it's fixed. No. But,
00:24:27 --> 00:24:32 I mean, I thought they had made it so that they can use it. You know what I mean? Mm-hmm.
00:24:32 --> 00:24:37 I got you. That people can drive along. Yeah, I thought they did some kind of
00:24:37 --> 00:24:42 makeshift thing so that people can drive it until they get it completely fixed.
00:24:42 --> 00:24:46 Because I know one of the things was getting the funds to be able to fix it,
00:24:46 --> 00:24:55 you know. So, yeah, so, but yeah, so that was back in March of this year, this past year.
00:24:55 --> 00:25:00 Then this next story, sad story. Unfortunately, you know, most of these are
00:25:00 --> 00:25:07 very, you know, I wish they were positive, but, you know, it just tells you the world.
00:25:08 --> 00:25:14 I mean, I mean, it really does. But Jennifer and James Crumbly,
00:25:14 --> 00:25:18 the parents of Michigan high school shooter Ethan Crumbly,
00:25:18 --> 00:25:26 was sentenced to 10 to 15 years in prison in April after each was found guilty
00:25:26 --> 00:25:32 of four counts of involuntary manslaughter in separate trials.
00:25:32 --> 00:25:40 The trials were a rare case of parents facing criminal charges over their roles
00:25:40 --> 00:25:44 in a shooting carried out by their child.
00:25:45 --> 00:25:49 I think this was the first time this happened, too, if I'm not mistaken.
00:25:50 --> 00:25:55 Ethan Crumley, who was 15 years old at the time of the 2021 shooting,
00:25:56 --> 00:26:02 was sentenced to life in prison without parole for killing four students at Oxford High School.
00:26:02 --> 00:26:09 The prosecutor said Jennifer and James Crumley ignored several warning signs
00:26:09 --> 00:26:11 in the days leading up to the shooting.
00:26:11 --> 00:26:18 The parents also bought their son the gun used in the shooting and failed to
00:26:18 --> 00:26:25 secure the weapon and limit the son's access to it, as prosecutors argued.
00:26:26 --> 00:26:34 That story was a big story when the parents were found guilty because it really
00:26:34 --> 00:26:40 said a lot about how the parents have to start taking ownership for the young
00:26:40 --> 00:26:42 people who have been going,
00:26:43 --> 00:26:50 you know, and we've had quite a few of them to go out on these shooting sprees and killing people.
00:26:50 --> 00:26:53 You know because it always seems
00:26:53 --> 00:26:57 that the guns are accessible or the
00:26:57 --> 00:27:01 parents bought the guns for so the
00:27:01 --> 00:27:05 fact that this happened was a big big
00:27:05 --> 00:27:10 thing because now you know with something like this and hopefully you know we
00:27:10 --> 00:27:14 don't have anything like this to happen again but you know of course we never
00:27:14 --> 00:27:22 know yeah but you know not only is that the shooter held accountable but if it's a minor.
00:27:23 --> 00:27:29 The parents have to be you know if especially if you have not secured the weapon
00:27:29 --> 00:27:33 now of course is it's one thing if the parents don't know that's another story
00:27:33 --> 00:27:38 but if you if the parents are buying the weapons and,
00:27:38 --> 00:27:41 you know,
00:27:41 --> 00:27:44 teaching them how to use the weapons and, of course,
00:27:44 --> 00:27:49 feeding them with all types of rhetoric and all that kind of stuff, you know,
00:27:49 --> 00:27:54 then, of course, naturally, yes, they should be put on trial as well.
00:27:54 --> 00:27:55 What's your thought for them?
00:27:56 --> 00:27:58 Yeah, I mean, you know, I definitely agree. You know,
00:27:58 --> 00:28:02 I think parents have to be held responsible and
00:28:02 --> 00:28:05 you know i think kind
00:28:05 --> 00:28:09 of like what you said dave like this that wasn't an everyday situation they
00:28:09 --> 00:28:14 were grossly negligent you know it's almost like if you give your child alcohol
00:28:14 --> 00:28:19 and they go out and drunk drive and they kill somebody and they're under age
00:28:19 --> 00:28:24 you know i mean you're you're responsible so but you know at the same point
00:28:24 --> 00:28:28 i think i don't think it's really going to change how parents act.
00:28:28 --> 00:28:31 You know, like parents are going to do what they do anyway.
00:28:32 --> 00:28:36 But, you know, I think it will, you know, I guess put some consequences behind it.
00:28:37 --> 00:28:42 Let's hope so. Let's hope it'll help. Let's hope it'll help and put a stop to
00:28:42 --> 00:28:44 this kind of madness. But that's.
00:28:46 --> 00:28:54 I don't know. I guess they not like us, man. You know, that's all I can say. They not like us.
00:28:55 --> 00:29:01 All right. The next story that I came across and that we probably remember from
00:29:01 --> 00:29:04 last year, because this was a big ruling as well.
00:29:06 --> 00:29:13 And I'll just read the story itself. a judge dismissed Alec Baldwin's Russ case
00:29:13 --> 00:29:20 in July on day three of his involuntary manslaughter trial from the fatal onset
00:29:20 --> 00:29:26 shooting of cinematographer Halina Hutchins.
00:29:28 --> 00:29:36 The defense said in its argument for dismissal that live ammunition that came
00:29:36 --> 00:29:42 into the hands of local law enforcements related to the investigation was concealed from them.
00:29:43 --> 00:29:50 The judge agreed to dismiss saying that the state's discovery violation regarding
00:29:50 --> 00:29:56 the late disclosure of a supplemental report on the ammunition evidence injected
00:29:56 --> 00:29:59 needless delay into the proceedings,
00:29:59 --> 00:30:07 approached bad faith and was highly prejudicial to the defendant.
00:30:07 --> 00:30:16 Meanwhile, Russ Armorer Hannah Guterres was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in March.
00:30:17 --> 00:30:22 She was found not guilty of tampering with evidence. Prosecutors said that Guterres
00:30:22 --> 00:30:31 repeatedly failed to maintain proper firearm safety, arguing her negligence led to Hutchins' death.
00:30:31 --> 00:30:36 Guterres was sentenced in April to 18 months in prison.
00:30:37 --> 00:30:46 So this Gitaras was the person who actually eventually was charged with her
00:30:46 --> 00:30:50 negligence as far as that whole thing was concerned as far as that shooting.
00:30:51 --> 00:30:53 I never forget when that happened.
00:30:54 --> 00:30:59 I just remember how shook up Alec Baldwin was because, you know,
00:30:59 --> 00:31:01 he couldn't believe, you know,
00:31:01 --> 00:31:06 here you are, you got a gun and it's supposed to be shooting blanks and whatever,
00:31:06 --> 00:31:11 and you go pull the trigger and an actual bullet comes out and kills somebody.
00:31:12 --> 00:31:16 And, you know, and I guess this kind of stuff happens on sets all the time.
00:31:16 --> 00:31:21 You know, it's just the fact that you don't know, you know, that,
00:31:21 --> 00:31:25 you know, So, of course, something like that would happen where somebody would
00:31:25 --> 00:31:30 actually have a bullet in the gun.
00:31:30 --> 00:31:35 But it was really unfortunate when it happened.
00:31:36 --> 00:31:42 But, you know, they were able to come to this final outcome as far as that's concerned.
00:31:43 --> 00:31:48 And it was a pretty big case because I know Alec Baldwin, they said,
00:31:48 --> 00:31:50 was a mess over that whole thing.
00:31:50 --> 00:31:53 You know and you can see that he's just
00:31:53 --> 00:31:58 starting to come back outside now you know what i mean so like
00:31:58 --> 00:32:01 he i used to watch i watched saturday night live he
00:32:01 --> 00:32:05 was always on saturday night live you know cutting up on there all the time
00:32:05 --> 00:32:09 and he disappeared from you know he disappeared from all of that stuff oh yeah
00:32:09 --> 00:32:14 he did yeah yeah yeah well you know i thought it was real crazy and but it's
00:32:14 --> 00:32:19 like who put a real bullet like you know in my mind it's just kind of like
00:32:20 --> 00:32:25 I would hate to ever be in that situation as an actor knowing that you killed
00:32:25 --> 00:32:28 somebody, but it wasn't your fault, but it was your fault.
00:32:28 --> 00:32:33 And people are blaming you, you know, to be honest, I'm sure that probably took a mental toll on him.
00:32:33 --> 00:32:37 Maybe that was some of the reason he like backed out and, you know, just kind of.
00:32:38 --> 00:32:41 I'm sure it's something that will never go away. I mean, you know,
00:32:42 --> 00:32:43 I mean, you know, you figure it cuts.
00:32:43 --> 00:32:49 I mean, something similar like that happened with Bruce Lee's son on a set, you know, you know, so.
00:32:50 --> 00:32:56 You know, it's really a shame because here it is, you know, that's the last
00:32:56 --> 00:33:00 thing on your mind, you know, when you're shooting these films.
00:33:00 --> 00:33:07 I'm sure it changed a lot of stuff that goes on on movie sets since that happened,
00:33:07 --> 00:33:13 you know, I'm sure, you know, and as far as the weapons and so forth and handling
00:33:13 --> 00:33:14 the weapons and so forth.
00:33:16 --> 00:33:23 And, you know, you know, if I was an actor, I'd be scared to point a gun at
00:33:23 --> 00:33:25 somebody because you never know what might happen.
00:33:25 --> 00:33:29 So, you know, so. And, you know, Dave, you know, even if we just think about
00:33:29 --> 00:33:35 how traumatic it is for people to witness somebody getting shot and killed,
00:33:35 --> 00:33:37 you know, I mean, yeah, I mean, it's crazy.
00:33:38 --> 00:33:40 I'm sure that's something he'll never forget.
00:33:40 --> 00:33:42 Yeah, I'm sure. I'm sure.
00:33:43 --> 00:33:46 You know, well, I couldn't even imagine.
00:33:48 --> 00:33:53 All right. This next thing was a pretty big thing that happened this year,
00:33:53 --> 00:33:55 too, this past year, too.
00:33:55 --> 00:34:02 This happened in August. Five people were charged in August of 2024 in the connection
00:34:02 --> 00:34:09 with last year's ketamine death of Friend star Matthew Perry.
00:34:09 --> 00:34:17 Eric Fleming, who admitted in court documents that he distributed the ketamine
00:34:17 --> 00:34:25 to that killed Perry and the actor's living assistant Kenneth O'Hara.
00:34:26 --> 00:34:33 Wassama, who admitted in court documents to administering the ketamine on the
00:34:33 --> 00:34:35 day Perry died and pleaded guilty.
00:34:36 --> 00:34:43 Wassama and Fleming face up to 15 years and 25 years, respectively.
00:34:44 --> 00:34:47 Two doctors are among those charged. Dr.
00:34:47 --> 00:34:52 Mark Chavez admitted to selling ketamine.
00:34:52 --> 00:34:59 Two doctors, Salvatore Placentia, a licensed medical doctor he has known for
00:34:59 --> 00:35:03 at least 20 years, with the understanding it would be sold to Perry,
00:35:03 --> 00:35:06 who was struggling with a ketamine addiction,
00:35:06 --> 00:35:08 according to the prosecutors.
00:35:10 --> 00:35:14 Chavez has pleaded guilty and faces up to 10 years in prison.
00:35:14 --> 00:35:20 Two defendants pleaded not guilty, Placentia and Jasmine Sanga,
00:35:21 --> 00:35:24 a woman allegedly known as the Ketamine Queen,
00:35:25 --> 00:35:32 who was accused of selling Perry the batch of ketamine that killed him,
00:35:32 --> 00:35:34 the Department of Justice said.
00:35:34 --> 00:35:41 Sanga and Placentia face charges including a conspiracy to distribute ketamine
00:35:41 --> 00:35:44 and are set to go on trial in March of 2025.
00:35:44 --> 00:35:48 If convicted of all charges sangha
00:35:48 --> 00:35:51 would face a mandatory minimum of
00:35:51 --> 00:35:55 10 years and a maximum of life in prison um
00:35:55 --> 00:35:58 placentia would face up to 10 years for each
00:35:58 --> 00:36:02 ketamine related count and up
00:36:02 --> 00:36:06 to 20 years for each record falsification count
00:36:06 --> 00:36:12 according to prosecute prosecutors that dude ain't getting out right he's guilty
00:36:12 --> 00:36:18 so you know this almost sounds like the whole stuff that went on with michael
00:36:18 --> 00:36:23 jackson and and you know the doctors prescribing the medicine and all of this stuff.
00:36:25 --> 00:36:31 I mean, real talk, this all starts with Matthew Perry, to be honest with you,
00:36:31 --> 00:36:36 because, you know, because of the drug that he was using.
00:36:37 --> 00:36:39 And, of course, he got addicted to it.
00:36:40 --> 00:36:44 And but then you have all of these yes people around you who want to supply
00:36:44 --> 00:36:49 you and, of course, make their money from it and all of that kind of stuff.
00:36:49 --> 00:36:54 But this, you know, when you, you know, they kind of found all these people
00:36:54 --> 00:37:00 pretty quickly, Leonard, if you ask me, you know, and we know,
00:37:00 --> 00:37:04 you know, if you think about it, you know, if that was one of us,
00:37:04 --> 00:37:09 that it probably wouldn't have happened that way. You know, you know, so.
00:37:10 --> 00:37:16 But it's really a shame because when people are calling out for help like that and,
00:37:16 --> 00:37:22 you know, I mean, we've had two two celebrities like Michael and Prince who
00:37:22 --> 00:37:25 both, you know, kind of died of drug overdoses.
00:37:27 --> 00:37:31 And I'm sure that they were being enabled by the people who was giving them
00:37:31 --> 00:37:32 the stuff that they were taking.
00:37:34 --> 00:37:37 But you know this sounds like a whole network of stuff
00:37:37 --> 00:37:41 that was going on right and you
00:37:41 --> 00:37:44 know i think it's one of the things too where i'm sure
00:37:44 --> 00:37:47 his friends they know exactly who the suppliers are
00:37:47 --> 00:37:50 so when he passed i mean
00:37:50 --> 00:37:54 you know how it is it's kind of like you know you know
00:37:54 --> 00:37:56 like your son you know you know a few of his friends like if
00:37:56 --> 00:37:59 something happened to your son you gotta call up three or four people and
00:37:59 --> 00:38:04 find out what happened yep well yeah and i know his friends very much especially
00:38:04 --> 00:38:11 my oldest son i know his friends so one thing about him the guys that he's very
00:38:11 --> 00:38:18 close to they have been friends since they were kids matter of fact three of them live within.
00:38:19 --> 00:38:25 The three that he the two that he's closest to they all live in walking distance
00:38:25 --> 00:38:27 from each other So, you know, so.
00:38:28 --> 00:38:35 So, yeah, I would definitely get in touch with them right away because I know they would know.
00:38:36 --> 00:38:41 So when you have these type of relationships and whatever, and I'm sure,
00:38:41 --> 00:38:46 you know, because he's had issues in the past with alcoholism and also.
00:38:48 --> 00:38:50 Drugs and so forth so but it's you
00:38:50 --> 00:38:53 know it's really a shame because this is somebody that was on
00:38:53 --> 00:38:57 tv for a long time and i wasn't
00:38:57 --> 00:39:00 a friends watcher were you i was i
00:39:00 --> 00:39:04 wasn't a big fan but i just felt like it was always on so
00:39:04 --> 00:39:07 yeah it was always on it was it
00:39:07 --> 00:39:10 was yeah then they have like 80 seasons of
00:39:10 --> 00:39:13 friends i would say 80 seasons yeah
00:39:13 --> 00:39:17 i mean like they like it was on for a long time
00:39:17 --> 00:39:20 it was on for over 10 years yeah because that
00:39:20 --> 00:39:23 was the big thing because you know of
00:39:23 --> 00:39:27 course you know there was a big controversy around that because they
00:39:27 --> 00:39:31 stole the idea from living single right living
00:39:31 --> 00:39:36 single was promised all this stuff and they gave all the stuff that they said
00:39:36 --> 00:39:39 they were going to do the producers and everything said they were going to do
00:39:39 --> 00:39:43 for living single they ended up doing for this show and of course the show became
00:39:43 --> 00:39:48 a big show and they made all the money and living single was making less than
00:39:48 --> 00:39:50 half of what they were making. Peanuts.
00:39:51 --> 00:39:58 Yeah, yeah. I mean, you know, so... But that just, you know, just tells you...
00:40:00 --> 00:40:05 You know, it's a sad story. It definitely was a sad story, but it's good to
00:40:05 --> 00:40:11 know that people are going to pay for what, you know, aiding and abetting and
00:40:11 --> 00:40:13 their parts and what happened there.
00:40:13 --> 00:40:18 So, all right, I'm going to move on to this next story.
00:40:19 --> 00:40:29 A 14-year-old student, Colt Gray, is accused of open fire on the Appalachee
00:40:29 --> 00:40:33 High School in Georgia on September 4th,
00:40:33 --> 00:40:38 killing two students and two teachers and injuring several others.
00:40:38 --> 00:40:47 The suspect's father, Colin Gray, is also facing charges for allegedly knowingly
00:40:47 --> 00:40:53 allowing his son to possess the weapon used in the shooting, according to the GBI.
00:40:54 --> 00:41:00 Investigators believe the team received the AR-style gun used in the shooting
00:41:00 --> 00:41:05 as a Christmas present from his father, according to sources.
00:41:05 --> 00:41:08 The father and son have both pleaded not guilty.
00:41:09 --> 00:41:19 Here we go again another teenager parent gives a gift knowingly gives a gift
00:41:19 --> 00:41:28 to the to the kids and this kid uses the gift it goes out it's just unbelievable it really is.
00:41:30 --> 00:41:34 Unbelievable killing two students and two teachers i
00:41:34 --> 00:41:37 remember seeing that story and i was just like because i
00:41:37 --> 00:41:41 thought it was a repeat from the other story i mean because this happened after
00:41:41 --> 00:41:47 the other one the 15 year old right you know and you know this seemed like it
00:41:47 --> 00:41:54 was the same thing happening all over again we got to be we as parents we got to be more responsible,
00:41:56 --> 00:42:00 Unless this is truly what it seemed like it was, which was a hate crime.
00:42:00 --> 00:42:09 But when you look at the pictures of the teachers and the students, they were not of color.
00:42:09 --> 00:42:13 So the motivation, what was the real motivation?
00:42:15 --> 00:42:22 It's sad. But, you know, now if you notice the pattern so far of all the stories
00:42:22 --> 00:42:24 that I've read, there's a little pattern there.
00:42:24 --> 00:42:31 Yeah 2024 was no joke folks it really wasn't there was a lot to happen there
00:42:31 --> 00:42:36 was a lot that went on even though and even with the outcomes of a couple of
00:42:36 --> 00:42:37 the trials that we talked about,
00:42:38 --> 00:42:43 and you know this is just the touch of ice of the iceberg you know as far as
00:42:43 --> 00:42:49 things that that happened i got a couple more that i want to talk about and
00:42:49 --> 00:42:53 here's a couple big ones On September 26th,
00:42:54 --> 00:43:01 Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida as a powerful Category 4 storm.
00:43:02 --> 00:43:08 As Helene moved north, it wreaked havoc in Florida, Georgia,
00:43:09 --> 00:43:14 South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee.
00:43:14 --> 00:43:19 Colleen destroyed homes and roads, stranded residents.
00:43:21 --> 00:43:28 Without phone service and water and claims, the lives of nearly 250 people throughout
00:43:28 --> 00:43:35 the southeast and lean is now the deadliest storm in North Carolina history.
00:43:36 --> 00:43:44 Western North Carolina, including the city of Asheville, was especially the hardest hit.
00:43:44 --> 00:43:48 And then weeks later, on October the 9th,
00:43:48 --> 00:43:55 Hurricane Milton made landfall in Florida as a Category 3 storm,
00:43:55 --> 00:44:01 bringing tornadoes, powerful winds, and flooding rains.
00:44:02 --> 00:44:05 Hurricane Milton killed at least 23 people in Florida.
00:44:06 --> 00:44:11 Can you imagine being in that area during that time? No, not at all.
00:44:12 --> 00:44:16 And to be honest I'm surprised more people don't leave during these like large,
00:44:17 --> 00:44:21 storms but you know we all have that thing,
00:44:22 --> 00:44:27 it's not going to happen like that here you know or whatever you know you just
00:44:27 --> 00:44:32 think that you know we all have a tendency to think that there's some sort of.
00:44:33 --> 00:44:36 Invincibility you know when it
00:44:36 --> 00:44:38 comes to you know they think that only happens in
00:44:38 --> 00:44:41 movies and so forth in the Avenger movies and stuff
00:44:41 --> 00:44:44 like that you know but when people
00:44:44 --> 00:44:48 when when you get more than one morning saying
00:44:48 --> 00:44:51 hey everybody needs to evacuate this area
00:44:51 --> 00:44:55 you know look back
00:44:55 --> 00:45:01 in the day y'all didn't have to tell us if somebody started running we ran you
00:45:01 --> 00:45:05 know we ain't sticking around to try to find out why we're running we'll find
00:45:05 --> 00:45:11 that out later on once we're safe you know but every time i hear about this type of thing.
00:45:11 --> 00:45:19 It always makes me think about that scene in Independence Day with Will Smith when he goes outside,
00:45:20 --> 00:45:24 and he's standing there and everybody packing up their cards and everything
00:45:24 --> 00:45:28 during takeoff and he's looking around and he's like, where's everybody going?
00:45:28 --> 00:45:32 And then he looks up in the sky and he sees the ship. It's time to go.
00:45:33 --> 00:45:36 It's time to go. I'm getting out. I'm going to try to get out anyway.
00:45:39 --> 00:45:43 It was really tragic that this happened and of course it did it rained so much
00:45:43 --> 00:45:48 down there it was so much that that was so bad that remember we had rain for
00:45:48 --> 00:45:57 how many like a week ago it was crazy up here yeah so but yeah that was the big storms of,
00:45:58 --> 00:46:05 you know towards the late part of the summer where hurricane season this year yeah,
00:46:07 --> 00:46:15 Next story, this is Leonard Boyd. Music mogul Sean Diddy Combs was arrested
00:46:15 --> 00:46:18 in New York City in September.
00:46:20 --> 00:46:27 Charged with sex trafficking by force, transportation to engage in prostitution
00:46:27 --> 00:46:29 and racketeering, conspiracy,
00:46:29 --> 00:46:37 prosecutors, alleged he ran an enterprise that engaged in sex trafficking,
00:46:38 --> 00:46:40 forced labor, or kidnapping,
00:46:41 --> 00:46:42 arson, and other crimes.
00:46:43 --> 00:46:49 Combs is accused of using violence, threats, and coercion to force women to
00:46:49 --> 00:46:56 engage in sex acts with male prostitutes, sometimes lasting days and often recorded.
00:46:57 --> 00:47:01 Combs allegedly called the activities free call.
00:47:03 --> 00:47:11 Everybody's favorite thing to say these days. Yeah. Man, how the mighty has fallen, man. Yeah.
00:47:13 --> 00:47:17 Matter of fact, his trial is coming up in May of this year. That trial is going
00:47:17 --> 00:47:19 to probably be big, I can tell you.
00:47:20 --> 00:47:26 You know, how can you be on top of the world one moment and then be under the jail the next?
00:47:29 --> 00:47:38 2024 that's all you got to say the 2024 strikes again yeah that's right that is right.
00:47:40 --> 00:47:47 2024 man it was no joke i'll tell you man it was no joke and and this is just
00:47:47 --> 00:47:49 the beginning because i'm sure,
00:47:50 --> 00:47:53 about to see a lot that happened did you hear about the the big
00:47:53 --> 00:47:56 thing that happened with fox sports and all the yeah
00:47:56 --> 00:47:59 i did yeah that's gonna be that's gonna
00:47:59 --> 00:48:02 be big too because there's a whole bunch of stuff about to come out
00:48:02 --> 00:48:05 about that you know so uh so i'm
00:48:05 --> 00:48:08 just telling you man a lot of people want to
00:48:08 --> 00:48:11 get exposed i mean this year 2024 might have
00:48:11 --> 00:48:14 opened the door but there's going to be some people walking
00:48:14 --> 00:48:17 through the door this year so i'm
00:48:17 --> 00:48:21 telling you that they kind of we said people are getting crazier and
00:48:21 --> 00:48:24 crazier every single year so i i
00:48:24 --> 00:48:27 don't doubt it yeah yeah yep that's
00:48:27 --> 00:48:30 right that's right and speaking of crazier and crazier
00:48:30 --> 00:48:33 you know of course puppy was you know
00:48:33 --> 00:48:41 he's he's a he's one of a kind this next story was crazy too united health health
00:48:41 --> 00:48:46 care ceo brian thompson was gunned down outside of midtown manhattan hotel on
00:48:46 --> 00:48:51 december 4th while he was on his way to an investor's conference.
00:48:52 --> 00:48:57 Thompson murder ignited online anger at the health insurance industry,
00:48:58 --> 00:49:01 and some people online celebrated the suspect.
00:49:03 --> 00:49:08 The slant also sparked a massive manhunt for the mass government,
00:49:08 --> 00:49:15 with the NYPD releasing images of the suspect found via surveillance cameras on December the 9th.
00:49:17 --> 00:49:21 Suspect luigi mangioni was
00:49:21 --> 00:49:23 apprehended after he was spotted at a
00:49:23 --> 00:49:26 mcdonald's of course he would be at
00:49:26 --> 00:49:30 a mcdonald's in the outstune of pa the gun
00:49:30 --> 00:49:35 the ghost gun allegedly in his possession when he was arrested was matched to
00:49:35 --> 00:49:40 the three shell casings recovered at the scene of the murder the new york police
00:49:40 --> 00:49:46 department said fingerprints recovered from the water bottle and kind bar near
00:49:46 --> 00:49:49 the crime scene were also,
00:49:50 --> 00:49:56 match to Mangione, police said. Of course, everybody was so worried about how
00:49:56 --> 00:49:58 nice looking this guy was.
00:49:59 --> 00:50:03 All the women were up there chiming in that he was fine.
00:50:04 --> 00:50:08 In fact, did you hear that the McDonald's
00:50:08 --> 00:50:16 employee who turned them in may or isn't going to even get the money why i cannot
00:50:16 --> 00:50:20 remember the fact let me try to look for it as we talk but yeah so you know
00:50:20 --> 00:50:28 a lot of people are talking about that let me just see let me see what it was like some technicality,
00:50:29 --> 00:50:32 are they did they think that they knew him
00:50:32 --> 00:50:35 or something but i'm about to okay
00:50:35 --> 00:50:39 so it looks like now is saying that they
00:50:39 --> 00:50:43 possibly will get the
00:50:43 --> 00:50:47 money and for okay
00:50:47 --> 00:50:50 yep so i mean here's it said it looks like he will get
00:50:50 --> 00:50:53 the money but i feel like it was something dumb like you know
00:50:53 --> 00:50:57 he called the police department instead of the fbi or
00:50:57 --> 00:51:00 i mean it was something i i just can't remember what
00:51:00 --> 00:51:04 they said it was okay well well
00:51:04 --> 00:51:09 you know well they're going to try not to pay anyway of course you know was
00:51:09 --> 00:51:13 this a black person or a white person you're talking about the mcdonald's employee
00:51:13 --> 00:51:22 yes uh i'm not sure i have not seen his name the name listed anywhere all right okay.
00:51:24 --> 00:51:27 Take a bet i wonder if they're black but anyway we'll see
00:51:27 --> 00:51:30 why because they work at mcdonald's what they
00:51:30 --> 00:51:33 will no no no because they wasn't going to pay him because
00:51:33 --> 00:51:36 they wasn't going to pay
00:51:36 --> 00:51:39 him that's why you know but maybe the
00:51:39 --> 00:51:42 ice cream the ice cream wasn't working it
00:51:42 --> 00:51:45 wasn't working you know so people got upset so
00:51:45 --> 00:51:48 i don't know but that that whole thing that's
00:51:48 --> 00:51:51 a mess right there and this guy was an ivy
00:51:51 --> 00:51:55 league school graduate too i mean he was you know yeah
00:51:55 --> 00:51:58 and and didn't they say he was a trump supporter yeah
00:51:58 --> 00:52:06 okay yeah so leonard said that by the way i didn't put it out there so okay
00:52:06 --> 00:52:13 all right so well we i'm sure when we that that when that goes to trial that's
00:52:13 --> 00:52:15 It's probably going to be an interesting draw, I can guarantee you.
00:52:17 --> 00:52:21 All right. And the last thing that I wanted to talk about as far as,
00:52:21 --> 00:52:28 and I don't really have a story around this, but I just wanted to say this because
00:52:28 --> 00:52:29 it definitely, definitely,
00:52:30 --> 00:52:34 if any year definitely showed that this is here to stay,
00:52:35 --> 00:52:37 2024 definitely did.
00:52:39 --> 00:52:43 AI, it's here, folks. AI is here.
00:52:43 --> 00:52:50 And not only is it here, it's here big, and it's not going anywhere.
00:52:50 --> 00:52:52 People are losing their jobs.
00:52:52 --> 00:53:00 You know what I mean? IT people got let go from companies, tech companies, because of AI. I'm sure.
00:53:00 --> 00:53:03 Yeah, I mean. It's just the beginning. And it's just the beginning.
00:53:04 --> 00:53:07 AI is basically in everything that we do now.
00:53:08 --> 00:53:15 You know i watched the i was watching something on tv a series called the cues
00:53:15 --> 00:53:23 i don't know if you've seen this it's on hulu and it's a series of court cases.
00:53:24 --> 00:53:27 That are based on true stories but they're
00:53:27 --> 00:53:30 acted out with different things with different
00:53:30 --> 00:53:32 actors and whatever and one of the it's been
00:53:32 --> 00:53:36 two seasons of this last episode of
00:53:36 --> 00:53:39 the second season has um you know michael coulter
00:53:39 --> 00:53:42 is he's in it
00:53:42 --> 00:53:45 and i can't forget remember the
00:53:45 --> 00:53:48 actress name who plays his wife but
00:53:48 --> 00:53:51 she's married to the guy aaron pierre who's
00:53:51 --> 00:54:01 in that who's in the possibly but anyway this the the wife worked for a company
00:54:01 --> 00:54:10 that was like one of the top streaming services where they were taking people.
00:54:11 --> 00:54:16 Musical masterpieces like Beethoven and stuff like that, remixing it,
00:54:16 --> 00:54:25 using AI and streaming it through their platform and recreating a whole new sound.
00:54:25 --> 00:54:30 What was happening, though, is that because of the streaming and everything
00:54:30 --> 00:54:37 and the AI, you know, using AI to create the sound, it was putting a lot of musicians out of work,
00:54:38 --> 00:54:40 real musicians, because they don't need them.
00:54:41 --> 00:54:43 You know, they can do everything right through the AI stuff.
00:54:44 --> 00:54:49 And the whole premise of this whole thing, there was a situation where she wasn't
00:54:49 --> 00:54:50 being intimate with her husband.
00:54:50 --> 00:54:55 So she, her sister worked for an AI company that created AI robots.
00:54:56 --> 00:55:01 And one of the types of robots you can get from her company was doll,
00:55:01 --> 00:55:04 a robot doll, a female robot doll.
00:55:05 --> 00:55:09 So the wife was too busy to have sex with her husband. So she got this doll
00:55:09 --> 00:55:11 for the husband to have sex with the doll.
00:55:12 --> 00:55:15 And of course he fell in love with the doll.
00:55:17 --> 00:55:25 Cause I was putting it on anyway. So, you know, but that just tells you because
00:55:25 --> 00:55:29 the whole story is centered around AI in, you know, in the music,
00:55:29 --> 00:55:30 you know, talking about the music field.
00:55:30 --> 00:55:34 And then as far as technology, as far as these robots and everything.
00:55:34 --> 00:55:39 And I'm just saying, you know, they keep making these movies these shows and
00:55:39 --> 00:55:42 so forth talking about ai and everything.
00:55:43 --> 00:55:49 It's it's here you know they even had there was one moment in the show him and
00:55:49 --> 00:55:53 him and the wife had gone out on a date and they're in one of those driverless
00:55:53 --> 00:55:59 cars you know you know so and i'm just saying you know this stuff man it's here,
00:56:00 --> 00:56:05 is definitely here and and they are still point now where it can start creating
00:56:05 --> 00:56:11 its own stuff so like i would be surprised like dave and i kid you not so around
00:56:11 --> 00:56:15 halloween i was like oh man like you know i should try to do something like
00:56:15 --> 00:56:19 a like a halloween book i put in a story idea to ai,
00:56:20 --> 00:56:23 and it darn near wrote a book
00:56:23 --> 00:56:26 about like a haunted story based on you
00:56:26 --> 00:56:29 know what i was talking about yeah i can
00:56:29 --> 00:56:32 imagine because i had something like that i had something similar like
00:56:32 --> 00:56:35 that to happen recently too so i know exactly what you're saying yeah
00:56:35 --> 00:56:38 yeah yeah and and dave it was actually pretty good
00:56:38 --> 00:56:42 pretty good yeah yeah yeah i mean it's
00:56:42 --> 00:56:46 almost you you got to fill in some of the blanks and personalized and all that
00:56:46 --> 00:56:50 stuff but it's almost reading your mind it's almost reading your mind and and
00:56:50 --> 00:56:58 using your ideals and and and with their words right yeah yeah yeah it's It's
00:56:58 --> 00:56:59 scary. It's interesting.
00:57:00 --> 00:57:10 But it's also when you look at today's children coming up, is it going to make them even more lazier?
00:57:12 --> 00:57:12 Of course.
00:57:14 --> 00:57:16 That's the problem well dave forget
00:57:16 --> 00:57:20 the kids the adults is gonna make it dave i'm
00:57:20 --> 00:57:23 already lazy for certain stuff oh but
00:57:23 --> 00:57:26 i'm i mean i'm serious because ai takes some
00:57:26 --> 00:57:30 of the tasks out of your daily routine yeah it
00:57:30 --> 00:57:33 does especially if you're a business owner like if
00:57:33 --> 00:57:36 you're a business owner oh my goodness yeah
00:57:36 --> 00:57:39 i can only imagine i can only
00:57:39 --> 00:57:43 imagine i mean folks you
00:57:43 --> 00:57:46 know you could try to fight it and a lot of older people like myself
00:57:46 --> 00:57:49 and older probably won't
00:57:49 --> 00:57:53 want to use it i mean i consider myself a
00:57:53 --> 00:57:55 pretty progressive person when it comes to
00:57:55 --> 00:57:59 new things and technology and so forth so
00:57:59 --> 00:58:02 i don't have a problem with using and i have used
00:58:02 --> 00:58:05 ai myself but there's
00:58:05 --> 00:58:12 a lot of people my age and older that won't touch it and they're going to get
00:58:12 --> 00:58:17 left behind unfortunately because they're going to have a hard time trying to
00:58:17 --> 00:58:23 do things and trying to cope with everything that's going to be happening because
00:58:23 --> 00:58:24 things are going to be moving too fast.
00:58:25 --> 00:58:29 Yeah. And I think the same with the workforce.
00:58:29 --> 00:58:33 Like if your workforce, there's certain jobs that AI is going to take right
00:58:33 --> 00:58:35 off the bat. It's going to take it.
00:58:35 --> 00:58:39 They're going to take it. Yeah. Because, you know, Dave, you remember the app I showed you?
00:58:39 --> 00:58:42 So they also have a travel planner.
00:58:44 --> 00:58:47 Now, I'm not sure if it does the flights and stuff like that,
00:58:47 --> 00:58:51 but if you put in where you're going and said, create me an itinerary,
00:58:51 --> 00:58:55 it'll create you an itinerary with places to go, things to see.
00:58:55 --> 00:58:59 So AI is coming for everybody's job, Dave.
00:59:00 --> 00:59:11 Well, it's not good for those who have worked hard all of their lives to be good at what they do.
00:59:12 --> 00:59:18 And it's a shame if you lose your job because of AI, but you're going to need to get on board.
00:59:19 --> 00:59:23 You know, people, if you can, you're going to need to get on board because it's
00:59:23 --> 00:59:27 here and it's here in a very big way.
00:59:27 --> 00:59:35 You know, you got Elon Musk running around with the new elect president and
00:59:35 --> 00:59:40 which gives him even more power than he already has to be able to do.
00:59:40 --> 00:59:43 And we know Elon's king of AI stuff. So...
00:59:44 --> 00:59:48 Can see them turning the whole presidency into a
00:59:48 --> 00:59:52 whole ai experience a nightmare
00:59:52 --> 00:59:57 a nightmare yeah yeah so so
00:59:57 --> 01:00:00 like i said people ai is here
01:00:00 --> 01:00:06 to stay and just better get on board and you at least learn the things you need
01:00:06 --> 01:00:14 to learn so but that's basically some of the things that i wanted to talk about
01:00:14 --> 01:00:17 as far as what's happened in 2024.
01:00:17 --> 01:00:22 Of course, there was a lot more, but I just thought I'd touch on those particular stories.
01:00:23 --> 01:00:32 And I also just kind of wanted to go over some of the people that we lost during
01:00:32 --> 01:00:35 this time, and I kind of compiled some names.
01:00:35 --> 01:00:42 Well, now, Dave, before you do that, you forgot to mention one of your favorite stories of 2024.
01:00:42 --> 01:00:48 Which one is that you forgot to mention the trump assassination attempt.
01:00:52 --> 01:00:55 Oh because i don't believe it that's why i didn't mention it,
01:00:57 --> 01:01:04 well keep in mind let it i didn't want to mention trump because i also could have mentioned i i i
01:01:04 --> 01:01:10 had it in here but i took it away i took it out okay trump was elected president
01:01:10 --> 01:01:18 united states again i took that out now it did happen there was a assassination
01:01:18 --> 01:01:20 attempt and supposedly a second one,
01:01:21 --> 01:01:28 that was thwarted as they said it thwarted you know avoid you know avoided and
01:01:28 --> 01:01:34 all of that stuff because there was supposedly a bomb found you know where he was you know but,
01:01:36 --> 01:01:41 I still have my whole feelings on that whole assassination attempt thing.
01:01:42 --> 01:01:47 Nobody else was shot at, right? Kamala. No, not that we heard of.
01:01:48 --> 01:01:51 None of the other candidates were shot at, right?
01:01:52 --> 01:01:55 Just Trump, who supposedly thinks he's loved by everybody, right?
01:01:57 --> 01:02:01 So, yes. Okay. So, but yeah, Len is correct.
01:02:02 --> 01:02:06 There was, that was the story from 2024, the assassination attempt.
01:02:06 --> 01:02:14 And, of course, the one I took out, Trump in, reelected to the White House as
01:02:14 --> 01:02:15 president of the United States.
01:02:17 --> 01:02:19 So. All right, Leonard, you got me.
01:02:22 --> 01:02:26 You knew I had to throw a monkey. Yeah. Yeah. No, I thought I was going to get
01:02:26 --> 01:02:27 away with that. But anyway.
01:02:28 --> 01:02:36 All right. But we I just wanted to kind of go over a list of some notable people that passed away.
01:02:36 --> 01:02:42 And this little list that I collect I kind of put together so a lot of these
01:02:42 --> 01:02:45 are people that you know that I kind of.
01:02:48 --> 01:02:51 Say that I was familiar with and you
01:02:51 --> 01:02:54 know well a lot of them we all were but you know
01:02:54 --> 01:02:57 definitely people that I was familiar with but just
01:02:57 --> 01:03:03 going to go through the list and I'm going to check and see if Leonard knows
01:03:03 --> 01:03:10 everybody I'm about to say too because you know we know how Leonard is so all
01:03:10 --> 01:03:14 right of course everybody's one of everybody's favorite fathers Mr.
01:03:14 --> 01:03:20 John Amos one of my favorite guys i always thought he was pretty funny and i
01:03:20 --> 01:03:21 like the shows that he was on
01:03:21 --> 01:03:27 mr bob newhart you can you familiar with bob newhart okay let's make sure,
01:03:29 --> 01:03:36 mr apollo creed himself mr cole weathers tito jackson one of the original jackson
01:03:36 --> 01:03:43 vibes miss sissy houston mother of whitney houston and of course gospel singer herself,
01:03:45 --> 01:03:46 originally Mr.
01:03:46 --> 01:03:52 Mufasa Mr. James Earl Jones and of course Darth Vader's voice.
01:03:54 --> 01:04:02 Frankie Bebley lead singer of the group Maze and one of the greatest party songs
01:04:02 --> 01:04:08 I've ever written before I let go so he definitely will be missed,
01:04:09 --> 01:04:14 one of the greatest composers musicians ever Mr.
01:04:15 --> 01:04:18 Quincy Jones Miss Nikki Giovanni,
01:04:19 --> 01:04:24 if you never heard got a chance to hear her speak or read any of her material,
01:04:25 --> 01:04:31 Nikki was all that I saw her live at the University of Delaware one year she
01:04:31 --> 01:04:35 used to live in Delaware at one time too she hated it here though did you ever hear her talk about it,
01:04:36 --> 01:04:39 yeah she was not a fan of Delaware man Yeah.
01:04:42 --> 01:04:50 Ricky Henderson, he was the all-time steals champion base running in baseball,
01:04:50 --> 01:04:53 played for the Oakland A's, Los Angeles Dodgers.
01:04:53 --> 01:04:56 He was a great player, Hall of Famer.
01:04:56 --> 01:05:02 Another Hall of Famer for, I mean, not Hall of Famer, but another great player
01:05:02 --> 01:05:04 in baseball, Mr. Fernando Valenzuela.
01:05:05 --> 01:05:07 You ever hear that name before? Mm-hmm. Okay.
01:05:08 --> 01:05:10 Pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
01:05:11 --> 01:05:20 President Jimmy Carter died at 100 years old just before the year changed this year he was a great man,
01:05:22 --> 01:05:27 I had somebody ask me you know somebody hit me up the day at work and they said
01:05:27 --> 01:05:33 are we going to be is the state going to be closed on January 9th,
01:05:33 --> 01:05:39 the day of his funeral and I said no not that I'm aware of I said it hasn't
01:05:39 --> 01:05:43 been And we haven't been told that, but, you know, they've already they're closing
01:05:43 --> 01:05:44 a lot of the federal offices.
01:05:45 --> 01:05:46 We're not federal. We're state.
01:05:48 --> 01:05:50 And so when the person said, well, why not? They said, you know,
01:05:51 --> 01:05:53 I hear some other offices close.
01:05:53 --> 01:05:56 I said, yeah, because I know the post office will be closed and a couple other
01:05:56 --> 01:05:59 federal offices because they're federal.
01:05:59 --> 01:06:02 And, you know, that job is a federal job.
01:06:04 --> 01:06:06 So this person says to me, Leonard.
01:06:08 --> 01:06:12 But Delaware has always been a democratic state. So anytime,
01:06:12 --> 01:06:18 you know, when I was coming up, anytime a democratic president died, we were closed.
01:06:20 --> 01:06:23 So I'm sitting there thinking about something. I started laughing. I said, OK.
01:06:24 --> 01:06:31 So I said back to them, what was the last? Who was the last democratic president that died?
01:06:31 --> 01:06:34 And the person came back said george bush bush.
01:06:38 --> 01:06:41 So you're like all wrong okay and
01:06:41 --> 01:06:44 i was like uh yeah right i
01:06:44 --> 01:06:47 said no i said if george bush was
01:06:47 --> 01:06:50 you know george bush was a republican not
01:06:50 --> 01:06:54 a democrat they said oh and
01:06:54 --> 01:06:57 i said i'll give you another chance of course they must have went on the internet
01:06:57 --> 01:07:00 because they came back with the right answer do you know who that who there
01:07:00 --> 01:07:05 was without you looking um no i'm not gonna look so if i just had to guess let
01:07:05 --> 01:07:11 me just go back damn i mean it's really gonna be a guess.
01:07:12 --> 01:07:17 Would it have been Truman? I don't know.
01:07:18 --> 01:07:21 You went back a little too far. Yeah, I went back too far. Yeah.
01:07:22 --> 01:07:29 It was somebody after that. Now, a lot of history buffs would probably automatically
01:07:29 --> 01:07:32 go to a certain time and period.
01:07:32 --> 01:07:36 Because if you think about it, it hasn't been recently.
01:07:36 --> 01:07:47 The last democratic president we had to die was jimmy carter prior to him it was way back in 1973,
01:07:48 --> 01:07:52 linden bain johnson yep never
01:07:52 --> 01:07:55 would have known and the only reason that that you
01:07:55 --> 01:07:58 could have even come close to try to figure that out is
01:07:58 --> 01:08:01 because he was the vice president of
01:08:01 --> 01:08:06 john f kennedy when john f kennedy was
01:08:06 --> 01:08:11 assassinated he took over as president and the only way and the only reason
01:08:11 --> 01:08:15 that he could do that because he was a democrat i mean well you know he was
01:08:15 --> 01:08:20 a democrat when he took over and that was the last one that was the last one
01:08:20 --> 01:08:23 to die prior to jimmy carter so,
01:08:25 --> 01:08:29 so there you go a little history lesson i'm sure a lot of people didn't know
01:08:29 --> 01:08:36 that so I'm going to probably get all I knew it that's probably what I'm going to get no you're not.
01:08:38 --> 01:08:44 They're not going to know I knew the answer to that believe it or not I did.
01:08:46 --> 01:08:55 Next Pete Rose former baseball great and you know all time hits champion Mr.
01:08:55 --> 01:08:57 Phil Donahue you remember Phil Donahue.
01:08:59 --> 01:09:06 Actor Donald Sutherland he was always good in his movies I liked him Mr.
01:09:07 --> 01:09:10 Willie Mays one of the greatest baseball players to ever live,
01:09:11 --> 01:09:14 Bill Walton, one of the greatest basketball players to ever live.
01:09:15 --> 01:09:22 Mr. Jerry West, also one of the greatest basketball and Laker of all time. He's the logo.
01:09:22 --> 01:09:25 Matter of fact, a lot of people don't know that. He's the logo of the NBA.
01:09:27 --> 01:09:31 One of my favorite jazz musicians, Mr. David Sanborn.
01:09:33 --> 01:09:39 OJ Simpson. Greg Gumbel, who just died recently in the last week.
01:09:40 --> 01:09:45 Dikembe Mutombo, former basketball great, Hall of Famer.
01:09:46 --> 01:09:52 Mr. Mercury Mars played football for the Miami Dolphins, was on the only undefeated
01:09:52 --> 01:09:58 football team to go all the way through the whole season and win the championship undefeated.
01:09:59 --> 01:10:03 Mr. Wally Amos. What is Wally Amos famous for?
01:10:03 --> 01:10:12 The cookies yes mr famous amos the cookies yes bob love former basketball player
01:10:12 --> 01:10:21 for the chicago bulls one of the best singers of my lifetime miss angela beaufield.
01:10:23 --> 01:10:29 Walker, former basketball player, Hall of Famer, NBA basketball player, Hall of Famer.
01:10:30 --> 01:10:34 Miss Marion Robinson. Who is Marion Robinson? Do you know?
01:10:35 --> 01:10:41 Was she one of the, she's one of those female singing groups.
01:10:41 --> 01:10:44 Was it based out of Philly? Am I on the right track?
01:10:46 --> 01:10:50 No, you're on the track already. You're about to get ran over by a train.
01:10:53 --> 01:10:57 That's because you're not even close. That's so far from the truth.
01:11:01 --> 01:11:06 Good try, though. Marianne Robinson. She was one of the Supremes, okay?
01:11:06 --> 01:11:09 No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. She wasn't one of the Supremes, okay?
01:11:10 --> 01:11:13 Marianne Robinson is Michelle Obama's mother.
01:11:15 --> 01:11:17 No. Far off.
01:11:19 --> 01:11:22 But yeah we lost we lost the
01:11:22 --> 01:11:25 former first lady's mother last year
01:11:25 --> 01:11:28 and another one of my favorite actors
01:11:28 --> 01:11:31 of all time mr lou gossett jr
01:11:31 --> 01:11:36 died last year so that's
01:11:36 --> 01:11:39 just to name a few of the people that we lost during during
01:11:39 --> 01:11:45 last year some great individuals and they definitely left left a lasting impression
01:11:45 --> 01:11:52 on a lot of people's lives you know personally on mine as well because i you
01:11:52 --> 01:11:56 know connected you know i could connect with each one of them in some kind of way,
01:11:57 --> 01:12:00 and also i'm going to mention this
01:12:00 --> 01:12:07 person they're not famous but we know we know a lot of people know of her miss
01:12:07 --> 01:12:15 leila star as she's affectionately known you know it was a year ago this past
01:12:15 --> 01:12:17 week, right, that she passed away.
01:12:18 --> 01:12:23 For those of you who know Mr. Tim Baird, affectionately known,
01:12:24 --> 01:12:29 also known as DJ Tim Dog, lost his daughter around this time last year.
01:12:31 --> 01:12:38 And it was a sad time for everyone. And I know he's a listener.
01:12:39 --> 01:12:42 And we just want to say, you know, keep your head up.
01:12:42 --> 01:12:51 We know she's with you no definitely and you know and this is a we know this
01:12:51 --> 01:12:55 is a hard time of year for you but you know just letting you know we're thinking about you all right,
01:12:57 --> 01:13:04 okay with that being said dave's corner leonard's favorite part of the show,
01:13:05 --> 01:13:08 let's figure to make this simple.
01:13:10 --> 01:13:13 Your three personal goals for 2000 oh
01:13:13 --> 01:13:23 i put 2024 i can't get out of 2024 2025 which are three personal goals no matter
01:13:23 --> 01:13:31 how all they are so one of them first one if i to do my best to try to,
01:13:31 --> 01:13:36 continue in to carrying the weight of the news and trends podcast with dave and,
01:13:37 --> 01:13:44 But that right there is goal number one, just, you know, make sure my mind doesn't carry it.
01:13:44 --> 01:13:47 Yeah, that's right. You do that, okay?
01:13:47 --> 01:13:51 But so realistically, I think one of them would just be a little better organized,
01:13:52 --> 01:13:56 you know, a little cleaner, a little better with time management,
01:13:56 --> 01:13:58 a little less procrastination.
01:13:58 --> 01:14:00 So, I mean, that's probably one goal.
01:14:02 --> 01:14:05 Second goal and i you know and if
01:14:05 --> 01:14:08 i just said this yesterday somebody too was a
01:14:08 --> 01:14:11 little more self-care almost like a
01:14:11 --> 01:14:14 me day so i either told myself at least once every
01:14:14 --> 01:14:21 week or every other week i'm gonna have a day where i'm not actively working
01:14:21 --> 01:14:25 where i can kind of rest i can catch up on certain things because you know you
01:14:25 --> 01:14:30 know they you know the the stress of life and having to do something every day
01:14:30 --> 01:14:31 can kind of get to you after a while.
01:14:32 --> 01:14:34 So I definitely want to incorporate a me day.
01:14:35 --> 01:14:37 So I guess that'd be two to four times a month.
01:14:38 --> 01:14:45 And then, you know, I think the last one would, to be honest,
01:14:46 --> 01:14:52 all the goals or a few of the goals that I did not accomplish in 2024,
01:14:53 --> 01:14:56 I want to continue them and accomplish them in 2025.
01:14:56 --> 01:15:02 So, you know, a couple of the business ideas and, you know, just some of the,
01:15:02 --> 01:15:06 putting some of the businesses to the level that I want them to get to,
01:15:06 --> 01:15:08 which of course requires work.
01:15:09 --> 01:15:11 But so then those are kind of my three goals.
01:15:13 --> 01:15:17 What about yourself? What are some of your personal goals for 2025?
01:15:19 --> 01:15:24 Okay. And, you know, Len is trying to skirt past becoming a billionaire, but don't worry.
01:15:24 --> 01:15:27 Don't worry. I'll make sure you all know that when it happens.
01:15:27 --> 01:15:28 Okay. Cause I'll be right there.
01:15:28 --> 01:15:34 Anyway, mine are pretty simple.
01:15:35 --> 01:15:38 First one I'll mention is just trying to stay healthy and
01:15:38 --> 01:15:40 make it through to another year you know
01:15:40 --> 01:15:43 what i mean too many of us are
01:15:43 --> 01:15:47 just inexplicably just
01:15:47 --> 01:15:51 not making it you know what i mean one moment you're there and the next moment
01:15:51 --> 01:15:57 you're not and i just you know as i get up in age up next month i'll be turning
01:15:57 --> 01:16:06 a different age so uh i just as you You know, the ages aren't going down. They're going up.
01:16:08 --> 01:16:14 And I want to live life as long as I can and get to watch you,
01:16:14 --> 01:16:20 you know, accomplish your goals, you know, and other people watch my kids accomplish their goals.
01:16:20 --> 01:16:24 So that's one of the things I definitely want to do is make it through to another year.
01:16:26 --> 01:16:33 Number two is a goal that I have in my mind is to retire at the end of the year from my job.
01:16:36 --> 01:16:42 It might be a leaf of faith, but I just never saw myself as one of these people
01:16:42 --> 01:16:52 to work past 65 and keep working and keep working into my 70s because I had to.
01:16:53 --> 01:16:58 I want to be able to enjoy life. If I've seen too many people that are working
01:16:58 --> 01:17:04 to a certain age and then they'll retire, the next thing you know,
01:17:04 --> 01:17:05 you're reading their obituary.
01:17:06 --> 01:17:09 I don't want that to be me. I want to be able to enjoy my retirement.
01:17:11 --> 01:17:15 And if I choose to do some other things, then I have the option to do that.
01:17:16 --> 01:17:22 But I just want to be able to enjoy life. I don't want to have to work the rest
01:17:22 --> 01:17:24 of my life. You know what I mean?
01:17:24 --> 01:17:27 Yeah. So that's a goal for this year is to retire.
01:17:28 --> 01:17:35 Number three, get a chance to do some really much needed traveling.
01:17:35 --> 01:17:40 You know, I used to travel a lot. I haven't done much of that lately.
01:17:41 --> 01:17:44 And really because I haven't really taken the time to do it.
01:17:44 --> 01:17:47 And I really would like to do that.
01:17:47 --> 01:17:53 I want to be able to do that. So after I, you know, as I get close to the retirement
01:17:53 --> 01:17:54 thing and then, of course,
01:17:55 --> 01:18:01 retiring, that is something I'm truly open to do is to be able to do some more
01:18:01 --> 01:18:03 traveling and be able to, uh.
01:18:05 --> 01:18:08 You know, be able to go to places that I haven't been before.
01:18:08 --> 01:18:13 You know, I've been I've been to a few places, but I mean, I want to go to places
01:18:13 --> 01:18:16 that I haven't been before and really enjoy myself.
01:18:16 --> 01:18:22 So those are the things that are I think that I have on my books for this year.
01:18:23 --> 01:18:28 OK, all right. Well, sounds good. I guess we kind of started off with the birthday party there.
01:18:28 --> 01:18:36 Home yeah well you know i need to get i need to figure out what i'm doing as
01:18:36 --> 01:18:42 far as that's concerned but yeah you know uh there will be one coming i guess
01:18:42 --> 01:18:45 you know god that's next month.
01:18:48 --> 01:18:53 Time just goes so fast man it's just scary man it is really scary you know so
01:18:53 --> 01:18:59 So, but there we have it, folks. That's the year 2024.
01:18:59 --> 01:19:07 And a recap, you know, hopefully 2025 will be fun.
01:19:08 --> 01:19:14 Not as much drama, but you never know. It's never a thought moment in life anymore.
01:19:15 --> 01:19:20 So. No, not at all. But one thing we're hoping that will remain constant,
01:19:20 --> 01:19:26 constant is that news and trends will be there to fill you in on everything that's going on.
01:19:27 --> 01:19:35 We thank you for 2024 from us personally for hanging in with us.
01:19:37 --> 01:19:41 Listening, and giving us your feedback and your comments.
01:19:42 --> 01:19:49 Hopefully, 2025 will be informative and the same type of year that we had last year.
01:19:50 --> 01:19:53 Right, Leonard? You got anything to say to that? Yeah, no, I mean,
01:19:53 --> 01:19:57 I agree. I want to definitely wish everybody a happy new year.
01:19:58 --> 01:20:00 And Dave, I was listening to something the other day and it said,
01:20:00 --> 01:20:07 if you have goals, you are 60% more likely to achieve them if you write them
01:20:07 --> 01:20:09 down and look at them every day.
01:20:09 --> 01:20:12 So I just want to encourage everyone out there who's making new year resolutions,
01:20:12 --> 01:20:17 make sure you write them down and look at them every day and you're more likely to achieve them.
01:20:17 --> 01:20:22 That's right. And that is something that people, philosophers,
01:20:22 --> 01:20:24 all types of people have talked about every day.
01:20:25 --> 01:20:30 If it's there in front of you, then you can touch it, you can feel it and you
01:20:30 --> 01:20:32 can achieve it. There you go.
01:20:32 --> 01:20:37 So, all right. Well, that's our show. We're sticking to it.
01:20:38 --> 01:20:43 We really appreciate you and we will talk to you next week. Have a good night.
01:20:51 --> 01:20:56 Join us next week for another edition of news and trends with your.
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