A Murder of Crows

Today, Doug Pike discusses crows, hawks, and historical facts.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Remember when it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
because you were the TV remote. Remember when music sounded
like this? Remember when social media was truly social?

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey John, how's it going today?

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Well? This show is all about you. This is fifty
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(00:44):
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Speaker 2 (00:50):
All right, Wednesday edition of the program starts right now.
Thank you all for joining us, Will and me. We
have been feverishly going over the world for to day
leading up to launch, and I am crushed to tell
you that neither of us. Did you finish out yet?
I still have one more gas? Oh ya, you're just

(01:11):
gonna hang on. I'm thinking I'm going through all the
different scenarios. It could be you haven't gone through all
of them yet. Apparently. Anyway, I know what the word is.
I just didn't get to it in time. Had I
had two letters in the right position, and on the
second try and then just fell apart. After that. There

(01:32):
are too many combinations, and that's all I can give. Will.
There's a million tries with those two letters in the
right place, and on the sixth one I was wrong.
I had it between a couple of different words. There
were still multiple chances, and I just guessed wrong. And
as soon as I did, I realized exactly what the

(01:55):
word could be and only could be with the selections
that I had made. So here we are yet another
day of kind of yuck in far southeast Portland. No
wonder so many people from the Northwest seem so down
a lot of the time, at least the ones who
don't fish or hunt, and I just live in the
city like our ils. You know what that is? Will?

(02:16):
Are you an il an itl? Yeah? What is that?
Inside the loop? Oh? Yeah, of course take that up.
I don't know, maybe somebody's done it before. I'm inside
the loop. You know, I just wrote it down and
made it official. I'm staking a claim to that. I'm
staking a claim Will. So anyway, yesterday, in case you

(02:36):
haven't looked at Facebook and don't follow or and or
don't follow me on Facebook or by the way, my
friend requests, there are a lot of them sitting there,
and I'm really hesitant sometimes to go after him. Did
you get it? I got it at a boy. Yeah.
Wasn't easy. Was it? No obscure word? I'm going to

(02:57):
say it because maybe somebody in this audience is still
struggling with it. It took me a grand total of
seven tries to get it right, unfortunately. But so anyway,
back to where was I I was talking about yesterday
or what? I don't know, it's too busy on the word.
I know, and I was so excited that you got it.
It just we're talking about being in the loop and

(03:18):
how cool people on the loop are speaking of quickly
mean speaking of cool people will we had a very
a very famous person in the building yesterday and I
I know And if you yeah, it was Facebook, I
was talking about That's what it was. And and if

(03:39):
you don't follow me on Facebook book, or you haven't
befriended me and I haven't accepted your friend request, that
first of all, is because I've had my my Facebook
account hacked four or five times now in the last
couple of years by people who send fake frame requests
and who present themselves as people I know, they present

(04:03):
themselves with additional information to make me think that they
are the person they say they are, and then when
I accept that friend request, all of a sudden, I'm
sending out friend requests to people who have already been
my friends for years. So I would I would welcome
any and all who are legitimate in their interest in

(04:27):
befriending me, and we can swap information and all that.
But if you want me to accept that friend request
on Facebook, please please either send me an email, find
somebody who knows my cell number, and send me a
text message something to where I know that it's legitimate
and real, and I'm not gonna have to go through
that whole change the password thing again. I'm getting tired

(04:50):
of doing that. It's just impossible to keep up with
all that stuff. So anyway, the photograph that I put
up yesterday is of me and of a very famous
young man who happened to be here yesterday, and there
was really kind of a funny situation. Nobody else got
to take a picture with the guy, which I found

(05:11):
very interesting. But the way the stars aligned and everybody
else who was in the building, my buddy Kyati Brown
from over on the Beat and I see each other
regularly on weekends and stuff when he's coming in here
doing things for his shows and then I'm in here
sweeping up after doing my outdoor shows on kbmme. Well,

(05:33):
bottom line is, I was hoping that Kyati maybe could
help me out because this famous person was over there
getting a couple of photographs just of himself in front
of our iHeart logo. And I looked at Kiyati, and
Kyati looked at me, and I kind of threw my
hands up and said, hey, where's my picture? And he
recognized the fun that all of us could have with

(05:56):
me standing there in a photograph with Travis Scott. And
we got the phone. Actually we got a couple of them,
four or five of them on my phone. Kiyati had
my phone, and then all of Travis's people either had
their phones or their cameras out, so who knows they
might they might have gotten away and thought, you know, well,

(06:16):
we're not gonna do this. We're not gonna we're not
gonna put this one up. I haven't looked actually at
any of his social media sites, but it'd be cool
if you did. And I had a lot of response
to that, like how did you get that? And a
couple of my listeners that you might well have been.
One of them said who is that? They didn't even know.

(06:37):
And it's okay because he's from a different world. He's
from the rap and hip hop world and and very
well known in his world. I think he has something
like seven million followers on Instagram, will if something like that. Yeah,
it's a lot more than I have. Like you could
haul off like three of those zeros and yeah, then

(06:58):
we then we could talk maybe, but that'd be about it.
So anyway, it was fun, uh and and a lot
of people really appese. I appreciated the humor because Travis
himself a very friendly guy and after the photograph we
big smiles and we shook hands and I thanked him
and he thanked me, and it was it was really good.
But the funny part was that when I came in

(07:20):
closed to get the photograph, he's he's kind of leaned
over with his arms across his chest and he's looking
straight down and I said, Kiati, what do I do? Man?
He said, do what he's doing. So the photograph that
I placed, or that I put on Facebook is of
me in the same pose as Travis Scott, but not
looking nearly as cool, not looking nearly as cool. So anyway,

(07:42):
that was that was fun and we all enjoyed that.
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We got to get through today and tomorrow. Then we've
got four nice days and maybe even a fifth with
mild temperatures across the board. So write it out on
Thursday and then we start making outdoors plans for the
foreseeable future. We are going to take a little break
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Speaker 1 (09:35):
Now, they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them, check his
fluids and spring on a fresh code O wax. This
is fifty plus with Dougpike.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
Segment two starts right now. Thanks for listening, certainly do
appreciate it. Will and now we're just going over podcast stuff.
It's fascinating and quite a few listens, and thank you
all for doing that. Apparently a lot of you are
listening on your phones and that's very cool, and it's
amazing how just randomly all these different countries around the

(10:25):
world are showing like one download from Germany and one
from where else, will just all over the place. Huh. Yeah,
we start to we start to get into the one
download territory when we enter into Columbia. Okay, where else?
So Japan we have one download, South Korea, Russia, Wow, Argentina,

(10:49):
you know, you just never know. Man. But at our
top three, the United States obviously at number one, Canada
and then the United Kingdom. That's pretty cool. To the
United Kingdom, we have a few over there. Huh yep,
they're they're they're interested, I think. And the United Kingdom
had enough. I think it was a handful that it's

(11:10):
you know, somebody's picked it up somehow and gone back
and listened to it again, I bet. And then Canada's
got a few as well. And I know we've got
a lot of them around our country because I hear
from those people by email and stuff. Anyway, off to
market we go now. Thanks to Houston Goldexchange dot Com
Top four were mixed an hour and change you go
as usual, No big moves in any direction. Oil was

(11:33):
down nearly half a bucket seventy three dollars and thirty
cents last I looked. But still that's still several dollars
north of where it should be and where it will
be I think in the in the short future ahead
of us. Gold still nudging upward. Good news for my
buddy Brad s twice out there at Houston Gold Exchange
dot com, this time by almost eight dollars last I looked,

(11:56):
and holding around twenty seven seventy five two thousand and
seven hundred and seventy five dollars for an ounce of gold.
That's a good price if you wanted to sell some
first up. In case you missed it. There's another check
fraud scheme. Well, actually it's a concern that the scheme

(12:20):
has been around forever where people steal checks however and
whenever and wherever they can get them, mostly from mailboxes,
and then they wash them and I don't know what
else they do to them or how they do it,
but they take out the name that was originally intended
to be the recipient of those funds and put in

(12:40):
their own or put in that of a fake company
that they've got somehow managed to put a bank account
up for the bottom line is we are being advised
again by the federal government and the US Postal Service
to be really, really careful when and how you use
your checks. Us in this age category still aren't really

(13:02):
comfortable with online banking. I'm among them. I don't really
like the idea of doing a lot of banking and
opening up my bank accounts to the internet. I've had
my identity stolen more than once, and it spooks the
heck out of me just to have my name and
all that information out there. And the last thing I

(13:23):
want is for somebody to be able to open my accounts.
That would just I don't know what would happen. Then
that'd be very hard to take. So the bottom line
is the best thing you can do, really, if you're
still paying your bills by check is put them in
the envelope, sign them, put them in the envelope, and
drive those envelopes to the post office and drop them

(13:44):
into the inside boxes for outgoing mail, neighborhood mailboxes. If
you've still got a mailbox right out at the curb,
right in front of your house. Those one at a
time boxes that the postman comes around in a little
vehicle and drops them out that side window not safe
at all. Even some of the post office boxes, the

(14:06):
ones that are outside, are being opened by thieves when
they get a chance, and they're going to change that
information on that check and profit very greatly from doing so.
So right around here actually, just recently, people have reported
mailboxes being broken into. Postal workers have had mail stolen
from trucks and mailbox keys stolen. There was one one

(14:26):
mailbox key got stolen from a postal worker at gunpoint recently.
So just be aware. And if you're going to use checks,
there's nothing wrong with that, just make sure you don't
make sure they don't get into the wrong hands by
doing everything you can to safeguard them and eliminate the
fingerprints that get on those envelopes. Between between hither and

(14:47):
yon and illegal immigration news, and we can't ignore that
a very disturbing number of sanctuary cities, I think, and
even some major cities that didn't outwardly put the comfort
and well being of illegal immigrants ahead of what they
were doing for their own American citizens. A lot of
these cities are refusing to help or even participate at

(15:07):
all in the ongoing round up first of people who
are violent offenders now living among us. Even one of
our local TV stations they aired a piece that basically
told anybody who listened to it and watched it how
to avoid detection and arrest. I did boggles some mind.

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In other words, the outlet told people who are in
our country illegally, to paraphrase, they're looking for you, so
here's how and where to hide. And I have a
strong disagreement with that philosophy when it comes to securing
our country from long term, potentially catastrophic threat. You don't

(15:53):
know who you're aiding in a betting when you're telling
them how to avoid detection by the authorities. It might
be somebody whose credentials are pretty good and who just
came here trying to find a better life whatever. But
it also might be somebody who has other intentions for

(16:13):
our country. And that's what scares me. That's what scares me.
I just I hope that at some point we're going
to all have to conceive that a majority of Americans
are sick of being treated like second class people, sick
of a federal government that for the past four years

(16:34):
ignored federal law and enabled all these millions of people
about whom we know virtually nothing, just ushered them in
and dropped them off from sea to shining Sea. Just
yesterday and Coral Gables, Florida police detained and searched more
than twenty Chinese migrants discovered in a series of vans

(16:56):
moving around that city. That's not coincidental, accidental. They weren't
on their way to a pickleball tournament, okay, they to
have that many of those young men riding around in vans,
it tends to make me think they were They were
headed some for some extraction points somehow, And I don't know,

(17:20):
I don't know. I'm not accusing them of anything. They're
innocent until proven guilty. But holy cow, that's that's an
odd coincidence at best. At best. DEA enforcement in Denver
took roughly fifty illegal migrants into custody Sunday, most of
them suspected to be drug dealers and or members of

(17:41):
that trend dear Ragua game. And in New York City
so far, illegal migrants with Violet pass are being rounded
up pretty much every day and a lot of New
Yorkers are are being interviewed and breathing sighs of relief
that they finally might get their once incredible city back,
along with all the city dollars spent on housing and

(18:03):
feeding and caring for these migrants for several years now. Ah.
I meanwhile videos also being made of arrest in Chicago,
where that city's mayor is publicly resisting deportation efforts. It's
that that's a tough one, and I hope that once we,

(18:24):
once we get rid of the really bad ones, we
can take a little more time to vet out the
ones that we don't know or suspect have committed violent
crimes and just deal with those people on a case
by case basis. At some point it will be down
to that few that can be looked at that close,
a little more scrutiny, and then if they're good guys,

(18:45):
leave them here. But if they're not, we need we
need to talk. We need to talk. UHH, where do
I want to go? A? Where A where we want
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Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike. All right,

(20:48):
welcome back to fifty plus. Thank you for listening. I
certainly do appreciate it. I hope you were able to
get something done during that break you wanted to do.
And now that you're settled back in your chair or
you you've fluffed your pillow, feel just a little bit
more comfortable than you did a few minutes ago. Whatever
got you where you are to be listening to this program.
Thank you for doing that. I really appreciate it. Well,

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let's tip it off with a little history lesson I'm
gonna give you. I'm trying to figure out how to
do this and turn it into something compelling. It's going
to be difficult. It was one hundred eighty years ago,
will on this day in eighteen forty five, that a

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very classic piece of literature was published. Have you got
can you you need a hint, I'll give you three
eighteen forty five. Yeah, that's even before I was born.
Not much. Yeah, I'm gonna need a hint on this. Well,
so i'll give you. You can ask three questions. Is

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it British? I can't even. I can't remember whether this
guy's British or not? Go into question, I can't remember,
So I'll give you three more. Then I can't answer
that one off the top of me. And I'm embarrassed
to say that, but it just that little piece of

(22:11):
information has slipped off my hard drive. Is this a
man or a woman? Man? Let's see?

Speaker 1 (22:19):
Is this.

Speaker 2 (22:22):
I'm trying? There are lots of different things that could
be published. Just think of it that way. And it's
not musical, it's words. Oh is it smut? God? No? Will? Well,
that's what you were saying. Lots of different things could
be published. Yeah, um yeah, I don't know. Doug short stories, poetry,

(22:42):
all those things. All right, what is it? Who is it?
You ever heard of? Edgar Allan Poe? Yeah? There you go, Okay,
the Raven? The Raven? It was yeah, one hundred and
eighty years ago today how about that. It's a fun
fact to know and tell. Try to drop that into conversation.

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If I look out, so help me. If I see
a bird out the window, I'm gonna point it out
to somebody and then remind them that today is the
day that The Raven was published. I had a murder
of crows in my neighbor's tree just a couple of
days ago. You know what that is. That's the side
a group of crows, and there were probably at least

(23:23):
two dozen of them, based on the noise they were making.
I think, I know I talked about this on my
outdoor show or maybe not here, but they were fussing
and making all the noise you can imagine, early early
in the morning, just shortly after daybreak. And the reason
after I went outside to figure out what the commotion

(23:43):
was all about from these crows. I mean it was loud.
It was it was a concert being put on. It's
just like the heavy metal version of crow calling. And
they were all out there doing that because there was
a hawk, a big, old, fat redtail hawk kind of
surf the trees they were in, and I guess hungry

(24:04):
from snow covered, snow covered ground for a several days,
it couldn't find a little mice, couldn't find any squirrel
to pick on. All the squirrels hunkered down in their nests,
I guess. But anyway, the bottom line is those crows
were flat going off. And then when I went out there,
the hawks started going off too. And I kind of
know how to make a hawk sound so doing no no, no,

(24:27):
no no, it would be very loud and shrill, and
I'm not going to do it, but anyway, I'll do
it off the air. But the bottom line is that
that hawk then started going off on me and turning
around and looking for it. You don't look like a hog, dude,
I'm just a hawk impersonator. In any event, we'll go
back to the Baseball Hall of Fame because I'm a
baseball fan too. Eighty nine years ago today, in nineteen

(24:50):
thirty six, the original five players inducted into the Baseball
Hall of Fame earned that earned that stat us. Can
you name three of the first five? Can you name
two of the first five? The first five?

Speaker 1 (25:07):
Why?

Speaker 2 (25:07):
Baseball Hall of Fame members? Oh no, you can't name
Can you name three baseball players? Yes, We'll take a swing, Okay,
Jose ALTUVEO, oh god, other than astros, other than current astros. Okay,
Roger Clemons, other than any astros, Alex Rodrigoes. O my word,

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Derek Jeter, stop it. No, you can't be naming Yankees
for sure? All right? Let me just give him to
Oh I'm sorry, not at all a Eucless. What's his name? Eucless?
You know what I'm talking about? Yeah, sure I do.
The guy with the weirdest batting stance of all time Eucless. Yeah, yeah,

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you look him up and yea his name. Meanwhile, the
official five or of the official Yeah, the official first
five in no particular order, well, actually in the order
of number of votes they received. Yeah, it's here, Ty Cobb,
Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Matthewson, and Walter Johnson. They

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were the first five inducted into Cooperstown. How cool is that? Man?
I think it's very cool anyway. But then again, then again,
I'm a baseball fan, so uh well, people say the
darnedest things National Holiday or just sell me the razors.
People say the darnedest things. See what we're talking about.

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Things we say that don't make any sense, Like I'm
sweating like a pig, or I slept like a baby. Well,
if you're sleeping like a baby, it probably means you
cried half the night and wet yourself, so that doesn't
really make any sense. I'm sweating like a pig. I
don't know where that comes from. You ever heard the
expression cold as hell? Will No, honestly, you've never heard that.

(27:05):
This is this is a legitimate thing here. You got
to know, of course you've heard it. Do you know
what the the original saying actually was. It makes so
much more sense. What cold as hail? That's where that originates.
That's where that originates. And it just got lost in
mild profanity after that, it's mild swearing. Let me go

(27:29):
back over here to the news pages. If you recall,
by the way, we talked this past week about about
shrimp with Dave Williams from CD Consulting, the company that
just completed a study of seafood restaurants in their truth
or not in advertising the shrimp they sell. The study
turned up some some kind of it's not frightening. They're

(27:54):
just shrimp, and and it's not illegal to sell imported shrimp.
It's not illegal to sell domestic it's not illegal at all,
but there has to be kind of truth in advertising.
If your establishment sells these shrimp and even gives a
hint that they are domestic wild caught shrimp, then they

(28:17):
have to be that. And the study that CD put
together determined that a high percentage, a high percentage of
places that sell shrimp on their menus or to the
public for you know, as a seafood dealer and whatnot,
are actually selling importing shrimp when they purport to be

(28:37):
selling the golf cast stuff. And that's hurting the local
shrimp industry, the shrimping industry. About maybe thirty forty years ago,
there were hundreds of shrimp boats on the base and
because there is more and more shrimp being imported now
and again there's nothing wrong with doing that, it's just
it's just killing the the domestic shrimping industry. And so

(29:04):
CD was hired to go out and find out just
how many places are telling it like it is on
their menus and then their stores and whatnot. And it
was a whole lot of them that aren't. So that's
gonna change, and maybe we'll have who knows, maybe there'll
be a few more shrimpers on the bays. Maybe not.
Maybe it's the ones who are still out there. We'll
be able to make a little bit better living and

(29:25):
provide for their families a little better. I've never been
a big fan of commercial finfish fishing, especially when the
monofilament gil NEETs were in our bays and just wiping
us out. But the shrimpers well already. Will. Oh yeah,

(29:46):
holy cow, I'm running late again. All right, let's take
this break. I want to stay on time. I promised
Will I would do that for twenty twenty five. We'll
take a little break here. We'll be right back. More
of fifty plus on AM nine to fifty KPRC. What's
life without a net? Just to go to bed and
sleep it off, Just.

Speaker 1 (30:02):
Wait until the show's over, Sleepy. Back to Doug Pike
as fifty plus continues, Welcome.

Speaker 2 (30:30):
Back, Thanks for listening to fifty plus. Fourth and final
segment starts right now. Was a little bit tardy. I
don't know. I had a little some little allergen in
here got into my nose that just sneezed twice. I
always sneeze twice for some reason. Very rare if I
sneeze once, I'm just sitting there waiting for the hammer
to fall, and it usually does. It may take a second.

(30:50):
Let's go to boy, where do I want to go? Oh?
That was one thing I did see kind of interesting
and a little bit funny. Today, now that there's a
new president in charge and ledger of the former president
is getting light shined on it, we've learned that Biden
spent fifteen million dollars shipped oral contraceptives and condoms to Afghanistan.

(31:17):
Moved these funds through the US Agency for International Development,
which conceded, by the way, that those funds included working
with the Taliban for what it called programmatic purposes, which
by the way, is against US law, in case anyone wondered.
I just can't understand how the hot mess that was

(31:43):
this country during that administration managed to find money to
send all around the world and to spend here on
feeding and clothing and giving medical care. And youn have
free cell phones, debit cards, preloaded debit cards to all

(32:06):
the migrants who came here legal, illegal or otherwise, and
essentially just put Americans out on a back burner somewhere.
I will get to them later. We'll get to them
once they become more compliant. Maybe that was the thinking.
I don't know, Maybe that was the thinking in good news,
which I like to sprinkle in whenever I can find it,

(32:27):
and I did find some today. Now it's a long
ways out, but it's still anytime I hear anything about
a potential boost in the treatments available and in the
at least the slowing of the progress, and certainly if
there's ever something that kind of leads toward a cure

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Alzheimer's in the news and the Noble Gas. Xenon was
found in a relatively small test so far, but boy
are they excited. Xenon was found and use that in
anesthesia and stuff. It was found to stimulate the immune
response in the brains of mice and reduce neuro inflammation,

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which essentially is what needs to be done to deal
with Alzheimer's, especially early on. It's all still very early
in the research process, and there's a long way to
go before any of this would have impact on people,
I would imagine, But just to have something like that
come on to the radar and show such promise toward

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doing anything in the fight against that horrific disease is
worth mentioning. And worth talking about because maybe it'll spark
other conversations here, there and everywhere. There's a tremendous amount
of research into Alzheimer's disease being conducted right down in
our mediciner and I'm glad it's there. I'm glad it's

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being done all over the world. This story actually came
out of Great Britain, I believe if I remember correctly.
Also over in the UK there was another medically related
story I thought was very cool. There are dogs being
trained now, and a lot of different breede of dogs
surprisingly being trained to sniff out everything from drugs to explosives,

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all the bad guy stuff. They're used to track people.
The bloodhounds are great for that, and now in the
medical field, after already being trained to detect Parkinson's and
to detect COVID, there are dogs over in the UK
that are being trained and doing very well at sniffing

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out bowel cancer in urine. Somehow, some way, the dogs
are able to pick up on whatever little, whatever little
hint there is that something's amiss up in the our
nether regions. And once again there's still work to be done.

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But boy, wouldn't that be nice to be able to
go in and have a dog just come walk by
you and or walk by a you'reine sample. The dog
wouldn't even have to smell you. You provide a urine sample,
the dog comes in and either ignores it or sits
down next to it, or whatever their response is supposed
to be for a positive test, and let you know

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you got something you didn't realize you had and quite
possibly saved your life. I think that's fantastic. I really do.
Going back to where did I want to go from here? Will,
I'm gonna bring you back in. We've got a few minutes.
Let's just casually get through these. Do you want one
more history lesson as a fun fact to know and tell?

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Or would you prefer to go to either national holiday
or sell me the razors? Give me another? You want
to go here lesson? Okay? Sixty six years ago? Will
the Walt Disney Company in nineteen fifty nine premiered what

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just incredible work of cinematic art to the United States.
What movie from Walt Disney premiered in nineteen fifty nine? Mmmm?
I'm it was it The Little Little Mickey Mouse? Lord? No?

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That was that predates that? Actually? What dog, sleeping beauty,
Sleeping Beauty, Wake up, Wake up, sleeping Beauty. The Prince
maybe a kiss on the lips and rise and shine.
I think actually in one of the there was some
controversy over the Prince doing that without her consent, uh,

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and it just kind of taints this whole story. He
just missed her, I think, and wanted her to come
back to him, and I think in the end they did. Right.
She woke up? Am I correct? Do you remember the story? Yeah?
I'm pretty sure she did. Otherwise it would have been
a very disturbing ending to that movie. It would have

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been a pretty boring movie if she's just a sleep
the whole time. We've got the super Bowl coming up?
Will do you think or not think that the Monday
after the super Bowl should be a national holiday? Now?
I'm kind of with you on this. Honestly, we have
enough holidays and if you party too much after the

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super Bowl, then take a personal day on Monday. A
fifty five percent of people in this country actually said yes,
that the Monday after super Bowl ought to be a
national holiday. You know who said no? Business owners, who
were you going to say? I was just gonna say,

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just take a fire, the same people of this country.
You know, well, yeah, I don't see good reason to
shut down the economy for a day after a football game,
after any football game, or any sporting event. Really, you
don't shut down the country after the final game of
the World Series or the America's Cup internationally. Can you

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imagine if the world took the day off after the
final minute of the penalty period in the on and
on and on of the last game of the World Cup.
That would be unnecessary. Fifty two year old teacher in Wisconsin,
will no, wait a minute. We've only got one minute left.
We got thirty seconds, thirty seconds, Oh my gosh. Okay,

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let's do this one. A learning about gangs event up
in Canada. This is from the desk of Awkwardly Ironic. Okay,
they've got this big seminar. It's going to be learning
about gangs and everybody's going to come in and take
all this knowledge back. But they had to cancel the event.

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You know why, Will take it? Take a shot, Take
one quick shot. We've got three seconds. Threats of potential violence.
We'll see you tomorrow. Thanks for listening. Audios