Doobie Brothers, The Funny Farm, Travel Trauma

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42 million are evermore private Highway while travel is all but back to pre-pandemic levels we heard about those canceled flights and schedule cutbacks. This is why Rocky Rd., Chris Brinkley.

No matter where you're going, you hey then on the Leslie stall the story of a modern Noah's Ark filled with some unlikely fast for. It's not like the tail of the lion lying down with the land, but these friendships are still pretty jaw-dropping email and her goose pal always wherever she the alpaca and use your body looks now is waiting very think there's a body and a donkey and an adorable llama later on Sunday morning animal couples down on on a five Doobie Brothers have been rocking for more than half a century now and they have the hits to prove. Jim Axelrod talked with them about the good times then and now there like ours is a little different than a lot of it's more than a little different when you consider the rock 'n' roll band the Doobie Brothers on tour again and that their first album you show able to do it. Maybe want to hear us. What's Running on Sunday morning just in time for 4 July, one helps us remember a true American hero plus birthday gift from Steve Hartman opinion from historian Douglas Brinkley and will this Sunday morning, July 3, 2022 will be right back. Time was we flew the friendly skies gas was a bargain these days. Chris Brinkley tells us travel often means trouble. Fasten your seatbelts, there's travel turbulence ahead.

Another day, another slew of flight cancellation.

A lot of people have to decide drive will fly you know someone is flight was canceled. What started as a summer of so-called revenge travel after two years of the pandemic is turned in to travel. Hell, I'm extremely frustrated and disappointed people on board admin all of the sudden I can even get on the young and her kids were not about to risk losing at Disney World this week and next dated 70 canceled 48 million are expected to be on the move. This Independence Day weekend, the busiest of the pandemic in the nation's airlines are struggling since Memorial day in the US alone over 200,000 flights have been delayed 24,000 canceled, impacting nearly 2.4 million passengers roughly the population of Houston. That's up from pre-pandemic levels. While the airlines are flying up to 25% less than 2019 and charging 45% more for airfare.

Is it fair to say this is the airlines fault their share of responsibility, airline and aviation is a team sport. Henry Horta belt is an airline industry analyst and founder of atmosphere research in San Francisco. What went wrong this summer. It seems everything has gone wrong one. Airlines are still working to rehire pilots, flight attendants and other boys to the FAA is still higher. People 30 and scheduled a lot of flights and for we just had bad weather and a lot of it put that altogether and you have a fragile system that has no room left flex just shatters Congress taxpayers bailed out the airlines so they wouldn't let anyone off what you mean there aren't enough people the airlines got more than $50 billion in government subsidies to keep operating and to keep people working but in the first few months before any subsidies were guaranteed and seeing their traffic fall by 96% airlines panicked that pandemic panic led to the airlines offering early retirement to tens of thousands of employees by December 2020 more than 3000 pilots took tryouts were sitting a growing pilot shortage Delta pilots marked the start of this holiday weekend getting at airports coast-to-coast pilot Maggie I call the pilots right now and hope it continues to be an unwanted passenger, resulting in higher than normal sick calls, life stepped through it as best as we can. Capt. Laura find settlers been an airline pilot for 27 years is frustrating for us as it is for the passengers you want your flight delayed or we do not want our flights delayed either. We like to be in charge and control and find the schedule.

As we have expected it to be right now were doing things to sacrifice like flying on her days and getting up our vacations for ourselves. We tried to talk to the CEOs of the nations biggest airline, but none were available to discuss summer travel.

The airlines say they have already cut percent of their planned summer whites and are ramping up hiring and training try to meet growing demand Thursday. Delta CEO sent a letter to customer apologizing for the recent stretch of delays and cancellations. Meeting with all the early leaders about what they're doing to prevent cancellations.

Next day I woke up in the morning.

My flight was canceled count transportation Sec. Peter due to judgment among the millions flying this weekend.

Is this the new normal is a guy get better.

This chemical. We can't have this number of cancellations and delays and accepted what your message to the airlines were counting on you were looking for you to provide the service the matches the tickets that you sold the bottom line is they need to deliver on Wednesday. Sen. Bernie Sanders called for fines up to $55,000 per passenger.

If an airline cancels a flight due to staffing shortages is the situation so bad that DOT should start finding airlines. We have find airlines where they failed to provide refunds or treat customers canceling a flight for staff, so there are other authorities that we may have and work and look what I'd much rather do is just have a good outcome so that we don't even have to go there. It's clear that the airline sector is not ready to public expectations and I'm concerned about whose fault is not interested in the blame game I'm interested in making sure the passengers can get to where they need to be a record 42 million people are opting to drive this weekend, but hitting the road comes with name in the pocketbook. Gas prices are dollars 74 more on average than a year ago Monte Kenney was gassing up at buggies in Northwest Georgia in the midst of a 3000 mile family road trip when I fly wife even more than what and those spending to fly necessarily landing airline analyst Henry Horta belt found 74% blue or plan to fly said they regret their decision, but he has some advice for finding friendlier scouts always taken nonstop where you came first the morning.

Take the first flight in the morning that you're able to take those least likely to be canceled or delayed.

He also says to check luggage can complicate things if you need to rebook but most importantly, keep it light if something goes wrong. Stay call but unfortunately what you need to presume with your summer trip is something will go wrong and if it doesn't, be grateful, and maybe buy a lot of some 60 years ago in Arizona woman's quest for an abortion limited the nation and some say helped pave the way for the Roe V Wade decision, which as you know was just overturned by the US Supreme Court. Maj. Garrett takes us back in time Sherry Chesson was a married mother of four star children's TV show in Phoenix.

She was known as Sherry from Vermont for stump removal. Tell me tell me tell me that year she became pregnant and to treat morning sickness took a sedative, her husband Bob Finkbeiner brought back from Britain was placing myself with drug whose name I don't even know that drug. She later discovered contained thalidomide chemical linked to severe birth defects for children to consider Sherry and Bob, not wanting to bring a child with a congenital disorder into their family opted for an abortion which at the time was only available in rare cases first though, with the promise of anonymity.

Chesson called the local newspaper to warn the community about thalidomide. The story rocked Phoenix Chesson's name leaked out in the hospital canceled the abortion after the local prosecutor threatened legal action I feel about 1/10 of what I used to be. Soon Chesson's painful story was in the pages of life magazine in the nation began to ponder the deeper complexities of abortion and a woman's choice. Eventually a hospital in Sweden promise to provide the abortion so the couple flew to Stockholm. Their every move covered by an aggressive press corps noted told you still think that you've done the right thing.

My intuition and guidance don't have this baby. I didn't now I'm threatening letters piled up FBI provided security for the family and the Vatican condemned Chesson and called the procedure murder or anything it was. I think they would do to save her own child. I remember waking up after the operation sold the sweetest doctor with the baby, a boy or girl and he said it wasn't abnormal growth never would be a normal child that August the same month of her abortion.

Pres. Kennedy praised the top food and drug biggest ration official Dr. Frances Kelsey for keeping thalidomide out of America. Recent events in this country and abroad concerning the effects of a new set of difficult vitamin emphasize again the urgency of providing additional protection to American consumers all work with drug product in the years after Chesson's 1962 case. Some states legalized abortion when the Supreme Court defined abortion as a constitutional right. 1973. 13 states already allowed the procedure Chesson Newell world without rose constitutional protections. Now she like the rest of America has been cast back into a world without.

We can't go back to willow sticks and knitting needles and all the things that women have perforated there uterus is with 60 years on end three weeks shy of 90. Sherry Chesson is a bit fragile and fierce about what has been lost, the Supreme Court may be surprised to know there is light and what they've done.

They have empowered women everywhere.

I feel it might like granddaughters file added to all that is great dose of anger and we as women I will say it again and again we shall prevail. Chesson's thoughts about abortion are like the issue itself layered and complicated. She thinks of herself as pro-choice and antiabortion. Some people think it's a form of birth control. If I go out and get pregnant I can have an abortion. No, that's not the reality of portion.

The abortion has great ugly for life. If you if you will say where you think cannot. Should I is a lot of tears for a lot of people in the aftermath is horrendous. Chesson says she never set out to be an abortion rights activist. I didn't know a thing about abortion, my abortion was to me the most hateful and yet the most loving thing I ever again, but I didn't know a thing about it. She wanted to do was warn people about thalidomide exactly that had to have been a scary time. It was very scary and I just heard on the radio yesterday where women here are being because of the trigger loss are being thrown out of the doctor's office. I know how that feels. Because you know what, 60 years ago at least 60 years in in August I was thrown out in my doctor's office out of the city and out of the state after her abortion the TV station fire Chesson telling her she was no longer fit to be around children. They gave her another less prominent show when she got pregnant again. She was fired for that to me.

I didn't have a baby and I lost my beautiful, wonderful, wonderful job and I have a baby and I lost my beautiful wonderful job. Make up your mind. I remember both my parents sitting sitting down and they didn't use the word abortion they told me that mommy had a bad seed inside her and the doctors were going to take it out Chesson's daughter Terry Finkbeiner. Arnold was seven years old in 1962. All the press was there and they had all these cameras with the old-fashioned flashbulbs that would pop and yes I was terrified.

Justin had two more children after the abortion.

This is baby number six Kristin Atwell Ford still lives in the Phoenix area.

She paid dearly for standing up for herself and her family, but I wouldn't be here if she didn't know she wouldn't be here because if I had had to carry a baby around in a basket, it would be impossible.

I will never ever ever would've had another child. I'm grateful I'm grateful that my mother stood up to the state of Arizona to the United States and found a way to determine what was best for her and her family. She's my hero. We set aside a Fourth of July baby come together to honor these United States course. Our differences are many these days. If only as lovely stall suggests we could follow the lead of some of our fellow down before in the leafy barons of southern New Jersey is a very different kind of farm. So for those people who have never been here on a five how would you describe, I say heaven on earth's animals and for people because when you walk the gates. You can feel inner peace and harmony because they all get along, here they do, it's astonishing astonishing funny farm not-for-profit animal sanctuary open to the public two days a week was created by New Jersey's own Dr. Doolittle Lorrie Zaleski we have a baby sheep. This is basically a farm from rescued most of them where they abuse abused, unwanted, neglected, elderly, disabled, every single animal here is a rescue so you been healing them as well as protecting she's healed and protected more than 600 over the last 20 years from retired racehorses.

Marcus roosters hundred and roosters will so noisy and listen you funny farm. Why didn't you name it heaven on earth or whatever. So my mother had the original funny farm and she said it's full of animals and fit for lunatics and the people of the world as she writes in her book. There are lessons here are polarized at each other's throat, society because the creatures on the funny farm live in harmony. No matter how different they are. It's not quite the biblical tale of the lion line down the but as friendships go, this bond is pretty jaw-dropping between Emily, a very large bird and who's named airplane because it did wings from their mean that always wherever she do you know why goose likes large women that she protected.

At one point that we just don't know about and he thought my protector and I'm to stay with her so Lasky introduced us to another across species couple how beautiful your very attractive donkey and a very kissable, so this is Lorenzo and so tell us about how this friendship developed. Jethro was here with his horse that passed away the pony died and Jethro went into morning. He did go into morning. This poor guy was suffering because he was so sad Lorenzo came in they bonded themselves. They just found each other in these two are such an odd couple, and even hotter couple might be Yogi the Steere and Cooper. The alpaca looks out is waiting. I think there's your money is coming out so wherever you go to go. They make an adorable pair today. Two years ago Yogi's Longhorns ripped a hole in Cooper's side by accident when I tried to take Cooper to the hospital go he was definitely reaching out cried he cried he went think my heart it was my friend where taken really missing are you attributing human emotions to your animals, you're making it up. I actually think that they miss each other was a grieving. I think he was creating sure people say they don't have emotions. They do have emotions, but scientists complain scientists mind just what and they have in their backyard so much favorite coupling, dogs, dogs and dolphins have Jennifer Holland has collected dozens of stories of unexpected animal affection in unlikely friendships, one of a series of unlikely bestsellers. One of my favorites is an iguana with a cat on the fact that the iguana that not only would cuddle with the cat but would let it play with his tail and lick him and share his food. Those kinds of stories just really make me smile. In the course of writing her books, the former National Geographic staffer had some questions I wanted to know was there science kindness do we understand why this happens and started looking into it and realized we don't really have one answer because there's so many different contexts and different animals. It would be very difficult to do a rigorous study and explain what's happening but I wondered if in some of the cases it's less friendship and more. I'm thinking that gorillas are very close to us and that maybe our instinct for a little hat is instinct and if a gorilla is the way we are waiting on a little kitten right and part of that may be kind of be a little bit of that parental instinct just kind of the instinct to care for wanting to mother wanting to mother zookeepers often place orphan babies with mothers of another species who are nursing. I asked Holland if the need for protection might come into play. I told her about the goose and as you saw them walk along you thought she got herself a bodyguard yes and also leaving with an animal that's blind another animal may kind of turn into a Seeing Eye dog and protect that animal show where the food isn't just the bodyguard helper animal altruism, altruism, love it when they're young. Anything is possible. How does that song from South Pacific go, you've got to be carefully taught to hate and fear. What about the lion, tiger and bear my yes really pounds they were pals and these are three animals that would never meet in the wild. These three predators turn pals were found as babies in a drug dealer's basement and brought to an animal sanctuary where they became lifelong buddies and it just happened that these three found something again positive in each other pal around together. I think you see this in captivity so often because these animals are taken care of competing for food there not stressed and so they have this luxury of being able to be social with other Lorrie Zaleski takes that if you feed them, they won't fight every to a whole other level.

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You have 35 animals look like what I have 10 dogs. About 20 cats cockatoo who is louder than all of them put together a chicken. Here's a Delta David chicken.she does and they don't need or they don't need her know you know what comes to mind know what know it's Noah's Ark saving Moses what know what did you biblical it. Drew Barrymore all my goodness, I want to tell you about our new shout to his news podcast and in each episode meet weekly gastric and cover all the quirky find inspiring and informative stories that exist on the ball because well and maybe you do too. From the newest interior design trend Barbie car to the right and wrong way to wash her arm. Also getting the things that you just kind of will probably not able to do in daytime television so watch out. Tristan is ever you get your podcast good news on the takeout with preacher Garrett this week.

Stephen Law alive. Mitch McConnell in one of Washington's biggest midterm monument list for me to set races you think Republicans have the best chance of taking a democratic seed with Nevada not Georgia. Georgia is right up there, but New Hampshire's products to New Hampshire people really just don't like you have for more from this week's conversation, follow the takeout with major Garrett on Apple podcast wherever you get your podcasts word used perhaps a little too often hero last year are David Martin talked with the last surviving medal of honor recipient for the second crucial Woody Williams. Williams died Wednesday at the age of 98.

We thought this story is worth another look. We think you'll agree that using the true American hero Herschel Woody Williams is literally one of the comma usage of 97. Here's the last living recipient of the medal of honor from World War II, but it's the way he lived all those years since that really sets them apart. I felt that I owed back more than possibly give you grew up on a farm in West Virginia during the Great Depression there were 11 board of my family. Only five of us survive to adulthood after Pearl Harbor, he tried to enlist in the Marines but was rejected as too short.

Marine started taking her renders casualties fighting the Japanese across the Pacific limit was eased and he ended up a Marie what was your first taste of combat like exceedingly scary February 1945, a massive invasion fleet gathered off the Japanese held on of Iwo Jima. We didn't know that they had 22,000 Japanese we know that they had miles of tunnel dug out of a volcano.

In the movie letters from Iwo Jima.

The Japanese held their fire until after the Marines landed, then turned the Jewish water for truck blowing up more than 6000 Marines with the court would finally Marines made it to the top of Mount Suribachi for the most famous flag raising in American history did you notify Google know.I think I had my head buried in her same flood was withdrawn from show to show fun. Finally, with this long line of pillboxes for concrete Japanese machine guns inside the pillboxes cut down the advancing Marines to Williams commander turned to him. Do you think you can do something with the right what are you supposed to find through. Put flame in the pillbox show that you annihilate everybody within covering fire from four rifleman Williams crawled toward the first pillbox Japanese ricochet office point up on top of this pillbox seal over the blue smoke rolling out of the top crawled up on top of the pipe that does just about the same shot my friends or not Williams is credited with taking out seven pillboxes in the course of four hours. That was February 1944 and surrendered in September of that year, Williams was on Guam killing time when he suddenly received a summons to go to general said what for good.

That's what I thought scared to death from falling over. So I walk walk up to and he said the Uribe order back to walk I'd never heard no such thing existed. The board from employment. Bill West Virginia found himself at the White House being presented the medal of honor by Pres. Truman. I never even dreamed of being able to see president of the states standing shaking hands with you. Talk about scared moment correct. I really will get over the nerves but never the responsibility that comes with the metal especially when he learned that Cpl. worn boreholes. Pfc. Charles Fisher to the rifleman who would provided covering fire during those four hours of flaming hell, had been killed. Once I learned that my whole concept of the metal said this metal does not belong to me that ball so I wear it in the water. They sacrificed their lives to make that possible. Williams learned what that sacrifice meant to their families at an early remember the scene from saving Pvt. Ryan with a car drives up to tell her mother, her son is been killed in combat will Woody Williams delivered those Western Union telegrams before he joined the Marine Diablo just collapsed 19-year-old boy what to do didn't do it left no I can afford left a lasting impression on my mind made me realize what it costs just to have our freedom be who we are. You work for the Department of Veterans Affairs for 33 years afterwards you set up the Woody Williams foundation to support Goldstar families designed this monument in their own world.

All 50 states that require a lot of travel on your part would try to attend every dedication and every groundbreaking for COBIT it is 90 something would be on the road more than 200 days a year. What you drive yourself like the peerage everybody would understand that golf this is my way of making sure that all Goldstar family members are not forgotten.

This past April, Charles Coolidge, the only other living medal of honor recipient from World War II passed away. You're the last man standing.

Does that add to the feeling of responsibility that never wonder what you've been given so long to live. Maybe I'm making somebody else's life a little better a little more meaningful. Williams has led the most meaningful life possible. Although he puts it differently. I'm just absolutely the most fortunate person you could play this morning is the story of one very happy birthday. What may look like a house you something much more magnificent.

The boy inside. What did you think when you saw this place for the first time we said it second heaven second heaven pastor dismissing the DF and that is what I believe so he means that literally why would Abraham and his brother James are from Sierra Leone. They were homeless before finding their way to an orphanage and eventually to their new family outside Charlotte, North Carolina, Joe and Jamie Walker adopted them last fall. They see the boys wide-eyed with wonder. Every little thing we took for granted coming home from the airport. The button open the front gate that everything is magic to check whether it's a present. Just showing up on Christmas morning or something Monday like a carwash. The kids are constantly blown away the biggest surprise, the most profound reaction happened last month on Abraham's 12th birthday. You have birthdays before he came here.

How did you celebrate holy and pleasing Christian was a crazy question I never said and put them in heaven. It was my birthday. So when the song started in his mama. With that glowing trip was overwhelmed and when I see the Kate. I thought that is the most beautiful listing ever seen the kick. It's not just the cake it's in the lesson blessing.

And what a blessing that once a year.

Friends and family gathered just honor our existence. Most of us take that for granted but not in this house. Not anymore. Just be reminded to stop super grateful for what we do have a good wish for America from this American dream.

It's Sunday morning on CBS and here again is Lee Cowan back in the 70s. The brothers about their fair share while selling out concerts, coast-to-coast, tell it. They took full rockstar life. I talked with our genetics around for the record considering that for half a century. All like different Doobie Brothers are more than a little different for the million albums over the last year. Bands that kind of long will embers have come and gone. Michael McDonald Johnston, Patrick Simmons and John McPhee record for dubious role feeling pretty fortunate to still be playing together and not about the kind of broke up there keep them from celebrating the career for anniversary longer dinosaur out.

That is crazy about that later story begins in 1970 in California were Johnston and Simmons met playing guitar jamming led to booking some gigs which then meant they needed the name sky's smoke so much. We should call yourselves a Doobie Brothers that's been a fly, hard driving rock appealed to a crowd of Northern California for spring China Grove like water rocking down the highway accelerating here. It was all anyone is ever strapped on the guitar and chase the rockstar dream could imagine.

Which is exactly when the trouble started.

All the obvious to those women.

There really is no way now having outside success handle all of that is that's true, John sidelined the band was on the band on fourth Avenue had the ulcers and sizable throw in the booze the drugs on the rock 'n' roll's that surveys the whole problem. The duties needed to find someone fast. A few of them knew keyboardist to his playing clubs in and around Los Angeles that the point of playing the Trojan room in England with the Trojan room in Glendale on a Tuesday and Thursday playing with Michael McDonald would never be the same with the duty brothers when it came time to record your Nextel. I started to kind of bring songs at the point at that point, varying degrees of finished the sound of the Doobie Brothers was shifting and were you aware that my changing the sound of this old and not in the goodwill will boy the reason this whole thing turned to actually there 1979 album, minute by minute when when you're recording minute by minute here. Are you aware that this might really be huge. I don't think you can never predict things I think you can only say this is accomplished as a player, track, believe became the band's all-time Grammy is anyone saying we are losing so what were so successful balance by leaving. I didn't feel like music that I really belonged in that situation.

Now Dave doesn't matter, but in those days. I didn't feel like a right, but those days are now more than four days got better things to worry about who's guessing what part with cord and again I really cares about whatever happened maybe that conflict in 1976 just isn't as relevant anymore than you might if McDonald released her latest album, their first by artists from the 70s is at some point John said something like thinking about those for the better days.

These better days will aware of the passage of time, but grateful for the way they still have two combat were so no able to do it. People maybe want to hear this. We get up and Starts Blackwater jump in the China Grove Street magic is quite a week for former White House aide Cassidy January 6 committee which prompts these thoughts from historian Douglas Brinkley with Independence Day upon us, celebrated underappreciated type of American archetype, the hyper- partisan defender of democracy that is politicians who put country over party in times of crisis. Charles Thompson was the secretary of the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1789, along with John Hancock. He was one of only two names to appear in the original printing of the Declaration of Independence. Thompson wrongly thought that the new country couldn't survive a two-party system. The polarization would reign supreme in that the new nation would inevitably devolve in the two mobs fighting for power every four years.

Thompson didn't know then that the federal government could produce incorruptible leaders such as Cassidy Hutchinson and Liz Cheney are truth tellers in the Margaret Chase Smith tradition during the 1950s Sen. Joe McCarthy, a Republican, had consolidated considerable power in Washington by redbaiting citizens as being communist wasn't Democrats who called out McCarthy was Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, the main Republican corner 1950 declaration of conscience speech from the Senate floor slammed her roguish GOP colleague is having based America, Chase Smith, willingness to speak truth to members of her own party was what Cassidy Hutchinson did last week in front of the January 6 committee when she bravely testified that she didn't want to see the United States Capitol trash peaceful transfer of power disrupt likewise during Watergate. It wasn't Democrats that do Richard Nixon state with three forthright Republicans John Dean. I began by telling the president there was a cancer growing on the presidency, Howard Baker, what did the Pres. know, and when did he know very good decision he makes this country or not.

Discombobulated Donald Trump grabbed the steering wheel of his armored SUV.

On January 6 20, 21, directing capital right patriots Liz Cheney and Cassidy Hutchinson headed straight for the Constitution.

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