John Bolton - Have A Nice Day

00:00:00.000 Hi, it's John, and welcome to the channel, 5.35 a.m.

00:00:22.900 Thank you so much for being here.

00:00:24.560 I tip the big blue mug of coffee to you today.

00:00:26.780 Well, this is going to be a little different, all right? I'm not going to keep you long.

00:00:32.940 You've got things to do today, right? So I've been up for, I think, about three hours now.

00:00:41.840 And I've been trying to take care of some issues I've had with my computer. I've mentioned a few

00:00:46.300 times I've had some jerky video software issues. It's taken a while to get that straightened out.

00:00:51.100 I was checking the headlines on my tablet this morning as my computer was updating and everything.

00:00:56.780 And I looked at the news this morning and I thought, you know, it's a pretty good day.

00:01:04.440 And I started looking for things to talk about today.

00:01:07.380 And it's an unfortunate aspect of what I do here every morning.

00:01:11.840 But I'm always looking for the negative stuff.

00:01:16.040 I mean, that's what sells, folks.

00:01:18.980 And that's what people on YouTube do.

00:01:20.720 There are lots of people out there doing nice things and giving you good stories.

00:01:24.260 but you generally click on the stuff that's negative, don't you? Be honest.

00:01:30.760 I get up in the morning, I look for a bad story, I look for a story that's sensational,

00:01:35.320 something that people will click on. I'm being honest here. Is it clickbait? Not necessarily,

00:01:42.240 it's my opinion. But I'll put up a thumbnail that tries to entice people in to click on the video

00:01:47.400 or an interesting title, and very often you'll click on something simply because of how a

00:01:52.540 thumbnail looks, right? Or the title of a video. I didn't want to be that person today. I didn't

00:01:58.240 want to. I looked at the news and you know what I thought today was, it's a pretty good day.

00:02:03.160 Of course, there's some negative stories out there, but really the biggest story right now

00:02:07.000 in Canada is a waiting game for us here in Canada. What's going to happen? Are we going to get a

00:02:12.600 trade deal by Wednesday when the tariffs kick in? That's the big story. Generally, things pretty

00:02:17.620 good today. You know what's nice about this time of the year? They call it the dog days of summer.

00:02:22.540 It kind of lays around in the sun. You know, we're getting closer to the end of August.

00:02:28.760 Unfortunately, September will be here soon. Won't be long, there'll be snow flying. Here,

00:02:32.720 living in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains, I remember a few years ago, we got bombed with snow

00:02:36.820 around the 11th of September. It did melt away, but we could see snow on the ground here in October

00:02:41.760 and it might not leave all winter depending on the temperature. It could be beautiful right up

00:02:46.420 to Christmas. It could be the same where you are. We're in the dog days of summer right now.

00:02:50.940 I didn't want to be negative today. You know, there's a saying in the news business,

00:02:55.260 and you probably heard this. I don't know if they're as prevalent today. I think negative

00:03:01.080 cells today, but in the old days it would be, if it bleeds, it leads, right? They'd always put the

00:03:09.140 murder story at the top of the news because it draws people in. It gets people to watch longer

00:03:14.280 through the next commercial break. But that's true. I think it's true today. I think negativity

00:03:19.680 sells or sensationalism sells these days. I think that's what really gets people clicking videos on

00:03:24.580 YouTube. I remember, maybe you remember this as well. Maybe you're old enough to remember this.

00:03:30.040 How long has it been? Three decades? Back into the nineties, I'm thinking here now. Yeah. I

00:03:37.360 remember being at an Eastside Mario's in Cornwall, Ontario. It's where I used to live on Brookdale

00:03:42.360 Avenue is where Eastside Mario's was. I don't know if it's still there. It's been at least 15 years

00:03:47.320 since I've been in Cornwall and lived there in Eastern Ontario. But I remember sitting there and

00:03:52.500 they had TVs around the room on those little stands that came out from the wall, big old

00:03:58.040 cathode ray TVs, you know, four by three aspect ratio. TVs were about that thick. They weighed

00:04:03.200 a hundred pounds. I remember looking up and seeing a white Ford Bronco driving along a highway and

00:04:11.400 the helicopter was following behind the Ford Bronco. You know where I'm going.

00:04:16.880 If you remember this, you probably saw it yourself. And everybody in the room was transfixed.

00:04:24.260 And we found out later, or I guess it was, no, we didn't find out later. It was actually during

00:04:30.400 the broadcast that it's OJ Simpson in the Ford Bronco. And I think they had a cell phone. If I

00:04:38.140 remember correctly, they were saying that they were calling the police from the Ford Bronco,

00:04:41.820 probably one of those big brick phones. Remember them? They were about that long. They had an

00:04:45.800 antenna that stuck out the end, that wide, that deep. They weighed about four or five pounds,

00:04:50.880 big telephone, probably one of those back then. That was the state of the art at that time.

00:04:56.140 And they were reporting in that OJ is here and it was amazing and people were transfixed and it was

00:05:01.880 the sensationalism, right? And then it was later, if it bleeds, it bleeds at the top of every

00:05:07.160 newscast. It was the trial of O.J. Simpson because he had killed his ex-wife and her lover at the

00:05:12.400 time. Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. Is that who it was, if I remember correctly?

00:05:17.840 Been a long time. I didn't want to be that person today. I didn't want to focus on the negative. I

00:05:22.620 wanted to keep it positive today. So I hope you are having a great day today. Spend some time

00:05:28.780 doing things you like. Stay away from the news because it can really drag you down. It's been a

00:05:33.260 lot of negativity, definitely. I'm going to go for a bike ride today. You've got to get back in

00:05:38.380 shape. Got to go for a bike ride today. Hopefully the weather is good wherever you may be. Keep it

00:05:44.080 positive. There's an old song. Check it out on YouTube when you have a chance, okay? Right after

00:05:49.000 this, after watching this video, look up, accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative.

00:05:55.120 You'll probably come up with an old song from the 1940s, 1950s that will really raise your

00:06:01.560 spirits today. Thank you very much for watching. I hope you have a great day. Again, a tip of the

00:06:07.940 big blue mug to you. I'll see you in the next one.

John Bolton - August 17, 2026

Have A Nice Day

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