Black and White...and Maybe Some Gray

[00:00:00] :  Yeah. Okay. This show is brought to you by safety. The following program is rated M A L s V. It contains strong language, sexual situations and violence. It is intended only for mature audiences. Finally show with the ball should call it like it is rated R safety show on safety FM countdown to audio Torture directed. Our safety show starts in 321 Levee Ear drum pain. Begin. Forget the corporate bullshit. This is the rated R safety show with your host, Dr. Uh, It doesn't matter who the host is. Well, is that not the truth of what? Today's Thursday, April, the first of 2021 day 91 of the year in only 274 days left to go. So there you go. We are broadcasting live from the safety FM studios in Orlando, Florida. Yes, and we are coming across the multiverse of safety FM. And of course, we're hanging out with those other people that we hang out with, You know? You know what I'm talking about? Real big 24 7. Real big dot FM. Okay, so there you go. We are coming across the radio big dot FM, our sister station as we hang out, talk and do the things that we do over there, over here, in a little bit of everywhere, just in case. So, yeah, it sounded like, you know, there was some issues yesterday where people were trying to reach out and find me. I think you might have come to the conclusion that I wasn't here yesterday. So thanks for all the people that reached out trying to showing their concerns of what was going on with me and all that kind of fun stuff. It's all good. It's all good. Everything's fine and fantastic and moving forward. Um, just as you are aware, yesterday we had a scheduled class, so that was part of the reason of having the scheduled class thing going on, and we'll see how we can make it up to you here in the near future. Um, in regards of, you know, not being here yesterday, I might have something a little special for you here in just a tiny, tiny bit, Um, for us to be able to go over and all that kind of fun stuff anyway, So let's start talking about some other things going on inside of the world real quick. Normally, at the beginning of the show, we talk about a little bit about everything, and I would start telling you about things that are trending, and I guess I can tell you about it. But I'm definitely sure as hell not showing it today. A video went viral this week of a mother bear having a challenging time getting her cubs across a busy road in Winsted, Connecticut. Check out the clip. It is available, but it lasts about two minutes. And I thought that I'd be crucified if I tried to go two minutes with a clip like that on here. So I figured, Hey, it might be a better idea of not doing that. So there you go. That's what we have going on. Oh, I don't know what it just did it on my computer. I'm sure it's gonna be all kinds of fun times, um, as we are doing it here. So anyways, let's continue talking because I think that that's going to probably be the most important factor of what we're doing. Yeah, everything. I clicked on a button and it caused, like, eight screen stove and probably not probably not the best idea to do that at the moment, anyway. So there you go. That's what's going on. So a lot of stuff as we do talk, move, groove and all the other things that we normally say in that really strange world of lingo. Uh, so anyways, let's get us to your friends and my friends and feature stories. Have them moving and grooving. Start talking about the things that are going on inside of this lovely world of ours, from their perspective alone. Here is the news on the safety show from Feature Story News in London. I'm Ali Barrett. Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai in six other high profile democracy activists have been found guilty of unauthorized assembly in relation to an anti government protest in 2019. The group includes some of Hong Kong's longest standing democracy campaigners. Richard Kimber reports for Memphis in Hong Kong. The ruling follows a four week trial that centered on an unauthorized march that took place amid months of anti government protests in the second half of 2019. Prosecutors accused the seven activists of turning a police approved assembly in one of the city's biggest parks into an unauthorized march through the streets towards government headquarters. Organizers of the protest at the time said almost two million people took part to voice their opposition to a controversial extradition bill that was later scrapped by the government. Those convicted include the founder of Hong Kong's Democratic Party, Martin Lee, and outspoken former opposition lawmaker Leung Hong. All seven activists have denied the charges of organizing and taking part in an unauthorized assembly. US. President Joe Biden's unveiled a $2 trillion infrastructure package. The plan will be paid for by raising corporate tax from 21 to 28%. Billions will go into electric vehicle charging stations and removing lead water pipes, but Republicans say it will cause stagnation and decline. An exodus from French cities is expected over the coming days ahead of a new Covid 19 lockdown for the country. Travel restrictions are being put in place, but the government will allow people the Easter weekend to get to where they want to spend. Lockdown schools are closing for at least three weeks and all non essential shops will close from Saturday. Paris correspondent Peter Allen says President Emmanuel Macron had been trying to resist a new lockdown. You look at the figures here, they are absolutely appalling, especially in major cities like Paris. We're looking at about 50,000 new case of coronavirus a day across the country, staggering figures, intensive care units in cities like Paris overflowing to the extent that patients are being evacuated out of the city to less busy parts of France. At least 23 people have been killed by suspected rebels in the east of the DRC. The killings were reported in the rest of eastern territory of Benny as Chrysostom, Ringo reports, a group of armed men raided bail Maniema Melissa Village in eastern DRC and killed 23 farmers living in the area. The village is located in a remote territory that has very few government troops. The Congolese army says it pursued the armed men and killed two of its fighters. Local officials suspect the attack was carried out by a militia known as the Allied Democratic Forces ADF. According to the UN attacks carried out by ADF rebels claimed nearly 200 lives and forced 40,000 people to flee their homes in March from bureaus worldwide. 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Take a look at this right here. In case you did not know about it. We have a contestant. We have a contest. We have a contest going on right now. So this is your opportunity to enter in this contest right here. Put on by the good old folks here. Todd Conklin, Winnipeg AnAnd, about their accidental or accident investigation theory and practice class that is coming up now, The winner of this will actually get access to both sessions that actually do occur on the 13th of April through the 16th of April. It is between nine. I believe it's nine and one AM nine and 1 a.m. nine a. M to 1 p.m. or 1300 specific Pacific standard time. So just for f y I purposes, it will be one ticket to both sessions that you get to hang out and watch virtually, um, it is a live event. So there you go. I will tell you, um, to this date we have had several contests, but the 1st 12 hours of this thing, man, it was it went hoo rah rah in regards to the amount of entries there. So looking, it looks like a lot of people are looking forward to actually getting involved with that one. Now, if you have the option like I said of actually doing this or you have the option of actually purchasing the ticket, I mean, you have you can enter to win, or you can enter to win, or you can go out and buy the ticket. I mean, the options, of course, is yours for sure. Good morning, Loving the black and white. There's a reason we'll get to the black and white here in just a few. Don't worry about that. We won't get too far before we start talking about it anyway. So let's start talking about what is going on inside of the shit list. So here we go. As of Wednesday, over 100 and 50 million covid vaccines have been administered. Nationwide, 54.6 million Americans have been fully vaccinated, while more than 97.5 million have received at least one dosed. According to the CDC, The total number of competitive cases in the US are slightly over 30.2 million, with over 548,000 deaths a tribute to the virus. So, as you see every day that we talk about it or that we've been talking about it are actually giving numbers, it increases between 1 to 2000 per day on the amount of deaths that are taking place. Now think about that because we do talk about this. 548,000 people dying and the impact that those people have on other people seriously, it's really something to think about. It goes a lot deeper than just what am I thinking? It's just a couple of people. I mean, I will tell you taking a look around at some of these other places and some of the things that they did. It's kind of interesting on how we look at it here in the U. S. Uh, in comparison to some of the other countries, I always default to New Zealand. Don't ask why. It just happens anyway. Let's continue talking. One small territory in southern Europe is returning to normal as almost all of its residents are vaccinated. Giblets are has become one of the first places in the world to have fully vaccinated nearly 90% of its adult population. Bars and restaurants are full. Fans are in the seats at sporting events. Curfews have been lifted in signs and signs asking people to wear masks have been removed. Many residents credit the government vaccine rollout for restoring their ability to give back to living their lives. You know, I think it's funny you hear about this about Hey, we were able to get back to normal based on vaccination based on some of these things based on some of the changes. But you look at other countries of this is being forced by the government. If any time the government is putting something out there, it must be something. It's like I just don't get it. It's like at some point, what is conspiracy, what is real and all this other stuff. And I mean, I think that, you know, when we started looking at so many conspiracy theories, no wonder. No wonder people think the way that they do when it comes to certain things. Like, Is there a conspiracy that I have just moved my hand towards my face in the way that I am grabbing my glasses? Was it all planned out? There must be a conspiracy around that. What did he just say? We have safety. Don't always agree with the viewpoints of our hosts and guests. Now back to real safety. Talk on safety FM. Okay, an off duty firefighter in New Mexico help remove thousands of bees from a car parked outside of a grocery store. Last weekend, the last Cruz's fire department responded to a call on Sunday about a swarm of bees that had hunkered down inside of a car in a supermarket parking lot, according to the department. The owner of the vehicle said that he put his groceries inside and was about to drive, and then when he noticed bees in the back seat after the scene was secured, an off duty firefighter, Jesse Johnson, who was a bookkeeper and in his spare time, was called to safely remove the insects and relocated UH, the estimated 15,000 bees to an area on his property. No major injuries or stings were reported. Hold on, Hold the phone, man. How the hell do you get 15,000 bees into your car? Like seriously? I mean, that's just that's something That's something, something to think about for sure. Okay, let's continue going, Uh, go fund me. Page has been so fun has been set up for to help defray funeral costs in support of the family of Mohammad Anwar, the uber eats driver who was killed last week in a deadly Carjacking accident and has surpassed about a million dollars. The page calls Anwar to hardworking Pakistani in immigrant who came to the United States to create a better life for him and his family. He has. He was a simple He was simply at work providing for his family when his life was tragically taken in an appalling act of violence. As previously reported, two teenage girls allegedly tried to carjack Anwar. They they tased him and tried to drive away with with him hanging off the side of the car or the door of the car. The car crashed and tipped onto its side, throwing and watches the payment where he succumbed to his injuries. I don't even know what to say. Like how the hell do you think about that for a moment and say, Let's taze the dude steal his car as he's doing his uber, his uber work. And that seemed like a good idea or a good plan. I just don't get it At times. I really don't. The guy is trying to better himself in regard to what he's doing, so at least the people out there are supporting Go fund me. You know what I'm saying? Go fund me page over a million dollars. So of course we know he's hit his funeral cost or at least the family has. Anyway. Let's continue talking. Let's bring in our friend John Smiles and him talk a little bit about what was going on with Mark with the Markets, and then I'll jump in and talk about my version of it. So let's let's go through. Here's your market beat minute for Thursday, April 1st 2021. Equity markets extended recent gains and set new all time highs Wednesday following the release of the president's infrastructure spending plans. The plans, worth upwards of $2 trillion include heavy tax increase is expected to fully fund the deal within 15 years. Wall Street cheered the news despite the thought of higher taxes, but the reality may turn into a sell. The news event. In other news, the economic data this week has been strong and points to a robust N F P report on Friday. On Wednesday, the ADP employment report showed number of new jobs increased by over 500,000 in March and was compounded by an equally strong read on Chicago P M I. The Chicago P M I increased by seven points to outpace consensus by six points and rise to its highest level since 2017, you can get the inside track from Wall Street's brightest minds, delivered directly to your inbox every day at market beat minute dot com. Okay, market beat minute dot com sharing exactly what they thought. So let's talk a little bit more about it. Major stock index finished and mixed on Wednesday as the Dow loss of 85 points, but the NASDAQ searched 201 points and the S and P climbed about 14 points. The NASDAQ composite saw gains strong performance on the day by Apple, Microsoft and Facebook. Tesla added more than 5% on Wednesday session. Private payrolls grew during March to the ethics fastest pace since last September. Expansion was reported at 525,000 jobs in March, compared to 176,000 in February. So there you go, some interesting news and some good stuff going on. I have to tell you real quick as we are talking about market minute and we're talking about the stocks and all that stuff. So you are aware that there are some new currencies that are coming out in a brown and about, and all that kind of fun stuff. Cryptocurrencies A different kind of coins. Everybody and their brother is trying to make something different. You know, I have to tell you probably You know, when you start looking into investing into something along those lines, you should probably have a clear understanding of the investment. And let me explain why, if I came to you right now and said, Hey, I have a business proposition for you that you can make money back on my business proposition. But I said, That's all I can tell you. You'll make money. Would you invest in my business proposition? The answer is probably more than likely not So why is it okay that if your friend Joey from down the road decides to tell you Hey, I'm I'm actually investing in crypto, and this is the weird crypto that I'm investing in, and it's working for me, and I think you should do it. You'd be willing to do it. Don't you think you should do some minor research in regards of it? At least have an understanding of what you're investing in because the crazy part about it is that people hear about these places and people and organizations that are saying, Hey, we'll take your money, you can invest it into our new crypto blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah and don't have a true understanding of what the hell is doing. And then all of a sudden there could be a loss. And I want you to make money off your hard earned money. I understand that you work day in day out to get things done. So at no point would I like to see a failure rate of anything. Anyways, let's continue talking about some other stuff. New York Coronavirus Death toll has surpassed the 50,000 mark. As of Wednesday, the total of 50,212 New Yorkers have succumbed to Covid 19, according to data from John Hopkins University. Only the state of California, which has more than doubled New York's population, has recorded more deaths from the virus, and it's supposedly somewhere close to 58,949. So what do you think is gonna happen now with that actually making making the circles? I guess we should probably talk a little bit more about New York before I move forward with this, So let's think about this. Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill on Wednesday. Recognize recognizing, legalizing recreational marijuana in New York. The move comes after the state level legislation approved Marijuana, Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act late on Tuesdays. Parts of the of the new law went into effect immediately, including expungement or re sentencing of anyone who had a previous marijuana conviction that would now be legal. Under the new law, New Yorkers are now legally allowed to possess up to three ounces of cannabis outside of the home and up to £5 at home and can smoke in public. Um, wherever public smoking is permitted. There you go. That's something different. Uh, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio cheered the passing of the bill during his City Hall press briefing shortly before it was signed into law. So what do you think here? What do you think? Between the Covid conversation and then now, the legalization of recreational marijuana that can be smoked in public wherever public smoking is allowed? Interesting, huh? Interesting twist of things. What do you think about it? Do you like the idea? Because here's the thing I know that when I speak with safety professionals, we know that when this could potentially be some issues based on how testing is currently done. So what do you think about it? How is it going to affect you? Your organization? I mean, when I say affect you being affect, you not like personal use. I'm talking from an effectiveness standpoint. I mean, I think we're gonna have to start talking about this more and more because we're probably going to get to a point where we're going to see this legalized across the board here. So what do you think about it? Interesting. I feel like I'm talking to myself. But then again, a lot of the times I feel like I'm talking to myself. What did he just say? We don't always agree with the viewpoints of our husband. Guests back to real safety. Talk on safety FM. Okay, here we go. Pfizer covid 19 is 100% effective in kids ages. You ready for this? 12 to 15. The company announced on Wednesday that the shot generated a robust immune response to the deadly virus among the age group, outpacing the effectiveness for 16 to 25 year olds, according to drug Maker. The findings came at a clinical trial of the vaccine, in which nine of the 1131 kids who received it contracted the virus. Side effects were similar to those experienced in older teens and young adults. The company, which noted that the debt is not yet hold on, is not year. Peer reviewed hopes that the FDA will amend the emergency approval to the vaccine and can be distributed to adult to adolescence as soon as possible. So there you go as we struggle and have the conversation about the vaccine because a lot of people don't want to have the convo. So we start having the conversation. How inclined would you be on allowing a child? Let's say, in this case, your child to actually have the vaccine. I mean, think about it. Would you be willing to do it? And I'm not going to say one way or the other. That's one thing to think about. So how do you think that will end up working? I mean, it's a thought process for sure. That will change a lot of things because now we'll start talking about how quickly can schools reopen? Can they even reopen in regards if the shot is available and how we're looking at this now? Because when we started talking about a 12 year old was shocking. We're talking closer to junior high levels and age, so just some stuff to think about as we do move forward. Anyways, the owner of Wisconsin Restaurant wants his rooster back. Last week, someone stole the giant rooster statue from the outside of Oh CEOs family restaurant in Ocio. After several days with no leads, owner Anistan Tiana B is now offering a reward of return for $1000 in a free meal. The rooster, which has also been around for about 30 years, is popular spot for photos. So Tiana B said it, it doesn't turn up. He will just get a new one. So there you go. You have the opportunity of actually returning a cock in getting $1000 in a free meal. You are listening to a radio guard. What? This has to be an error. That host is not a radio god. Anyway, this is the rated R safety show on safety FM. Okay, The Wisconsin Supreme court struck down Governor Tony ever statewide mass May. Indeed, yesterday, the conservative leaving court ruled for 23 that ever violated state law by Unitary. Really? Um, issuing multiple emergency orders to extend the mandate for months. The question in this case is not whether the governor acted wisely is whether the acted lawfully we concluded that he did not. Justice Brian Head again brought for the majority last May. The court struck down ever stay at home order. And in October, the state appeal court blocked every attempt to limit capacity and bars, restaurant and indoor places. So the issue was not the mask. It was that the governor violated the law with the order. So that's the main thing here. So think about that as we are talking about this. Uh, so let's take a look of what we have going on here. Richard Nichols is popping inside of the box. Did you see the forklift operators will now be required to train on a half pipe. So there you go. You know, I'm taking everything with a grain of salt today before I move forward with anything, especially because you sent me a link in it being April Fool's Day. So not sure if I want to click on this and opened Pandora's box. So no joke in there. So there you go. So no, I did not hear about it. Thanks for sharing. Hopefully, it is true. And I feel like Rick roll might be the next thing going on inside of the world to uh So there you go some interesting stuff. I'll take a look at it after this because I'm not clicking on this, Um, as we are live inside of this thing 28 minutes past the top of the hour. You kind of know where we go from here, and we do the things that we do all day right now. So there you go. Here is a main story on the radio safety shows. Okay, so let's continue talking. Let's go through the path and talk about some other things. If you are watching live on the streamer, let me tell you exactly what is going on inside of the world right now in regards of black, white and gray. So let me explain what we have going on Most of the times as we think about these things and safety professionals. We normally come into the industry thinking that a lot of things are black and white before we kind of come to the conclusion that things are gray when it comes to certain aspects. So I really wanted to put the focal point today if you are watching on the streamers of the black and white color. So we are doing the show in black and white and a little bit of shade of gray, and there are some red and yellow is depending on where you're hanging out. But here's the gig. The world is not as black and white as we would love for it to be. Unfortunately, that's part of the case. Unfortunately, things are not as perfect as we would dream for them to be. And sometimes we noticed that we have to get into some of the gray to be able to move forward with things. It's getting so sad with some of our industry in regards of the things that are going on that almost nowadays you have to vet everything before you move forward and let me explain what I mean here. So as of recent, we had a show that we were talking about some things going on in the U K about some events that were being put on and people giving false information of presenters that are being there. And that's the interesting part. So with presenters not showing up to this, but they're being advertised, people are paying their hard earned dollar to show up to these events to find out that their keynote speaker is not key, noting it, unfortunately again, yesterday was another release with the same information a very well known international speaker had been announces key noting event that was happening in the UK, I decided to contact the person and say, Hey, you're doing this and their response to me was no one's ever asked me. I had no idea. And the problem that we run into is that there's Italian of reality fakeness and the gray, the black, white and gray. So what this genius has done has actually taken parts of actually bringing in some people that are actually there. So you see them and you go, Hey, this makes sense. But that advertises people that will never show up to the event, and people think that it's there And then there is a cancellation at the last moment, pulling the wool over someone's eyes, which is a terrible idea. And I look at this and I go. It's kind of, well, shady, as you can see at the moment or shitty, depending on how you want to look at it. And I look at this and we go into a lot of things inside of the world of that we manage, work in and do stuff and realize that a lot of similarities occur inside of our work environments. Not that we're trying to pull the wool over people's eyes, but the way that people answer questions make you question the answer they're giving you. We've spoken about this several times. We are the number one at, or we are the number one rated at never know where. The how they got the number one rating never understood how the peer rating actually ended up coming about never understood how they purchased the award for it. Like I will tell you, we are the best top rated radio show on the planet in the world of safety. I think some family member of mine gave me that award But, hey, I should probably talk about it, really. And this is where it drives me crazy because I'm sure at some point in your life, regardless of where you stand right now, in the world of safety, you've probably done a root cause analysis. And you know that when you're doing that investigation, because if we go old school format for a moment, depending on how those answers to those questions come about, it's not black. It's not white. It's definitely gray. So think about this war moment. Think about how this method is done. Think about the other aspects of your life that the answers are almost exactly the same. Hey, don't get me wrong. I'm not saying the world is perfect, and I'm not expecting everything to be black or white. I understand there is some shades of gray, but what can we do to make it better, especially when it comes to our work environment? Because here's the thing. When we start talking about safety and doing safety, we're playing with people's lives. You know what kind of an impact an injury, a dismemberment or a death can have? Just take the death out of it for a moment, but just those two things on a person. Now, add the death factor into it and imagine the impact that it will have on the family. It's not like the other two did not. But think about this. We have these discussions every day of how we would like the world to look, but its understanding that there is gray that needs to transfer over in us to have a better understanding of what we are doing, moving forward. How do we do that? Everything is not black and white. How do you feel? Yes, and it is a feelings question knowing that you have to interact within the gray. How do you standardize stuff knowing that you're interacting in the gray? Is it possible? Is it possible to do? How do you adapt and frame that? How do you? I mean, I'm really wanting to understand that because it becomes a question to think about, especially depending on how much you interact with inside of your organization. Just a thought, just the thought for a simple moment in time. If it's not black and white, it's more than likely Gray, and are you okay with interacting with it And how do you improve the way that you do the things that you do Knowing that you have to interact in the world of gray? Hey, welcome to the black and gray and white show When it comes all to it today, just have to think about anyways. Don't go too far. I got something I want to share. You're probably gonna like this. I'll be back right after this. Don't go anywhere. You're listening to the home of real safety talking. You are listening to safety FM. We'll be right back. More sarcasm. Mortal Kombat. 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