Alaska to Texas

Today, Doug Pike interviews Raleigh Jenkins about his bike ride from Alaska to Texas.

Episode Transcript

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And now fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, here
we go. Welcome to the first day of summer. Also
the longest day of the year. Sometimes, boy, all these
summer days, if you're outside and doing something that requires

(01:04):
any physical exertion whatsoever, summer days can seem really really long,
very long. But that's what Summer's force to have a
good time and not have to worry about wearing a
coat to do it. I don't mind skiing and snowboarding,
mostly snowboarding. I grew up surfing. I don't I skied
maybe three times, I guess three or four times. And

(01:27):
from the first time I got on a snowboard on
one of these trips I used to make that was
it I never looked back. I never put on skis again,
mostly because I like the fact that and I don't
know how I got on this, I'm sorry, but because
I like the fact that on a snowboard both knees
are always going in the same direction, and that cannot
be said for skis. Well, have you skied or snowboarding?

(01:50):
I have never skied. Well, when you do, I would
like a report on which you did and what you
thought of it. Does it appeal to you at all?
Or is it just out there but you don't care? Yeah?
I don't. I really ever had the inclination to go
skiing or snowboard. I was always fascinated by it growing

(02:12):
up as a surfer. I would see these emails come
in in the infancy of email from ski resorts and whatnot.
I'm like, man, it looks pretty kind of cool. It
might be fun sit on TV see the Olympics, the
downhill and the slalom and the gs and all of
that good stuff. And I finally got a chance to

(02:34):
do it, and I fell in love with it. It's great.
It's beautiful up there. Cold cold for a guy and
mountainous for a guy who grew up on basically a
pool table. As relief goes in our land around here,
you got to get twenty miles out of town to
start really seeing any kind of bumps taller than overpasses.

(02:55):
Any event, we'll move on. Okay, the Astros by the
way long day of the year, I was talking about that,
But with the Astros on the West coast too, that
makes it more difficult for me. It's hard enough to
feel like crawling into bed when the sun's still up
in its daylight outside, which lasts was until like eight
thirty will quarter nine something like that. I think around

(03:16):
eight thirty, Yeah, it's still pretty bright out there. And
then the Astros not even starting their games until nine o'clock.
That puts me in a bit of a tizzy and
a bit of a predicament, because I do like to
see the outcomes of games, and I kind of wish
I hadn't awakened this morning to see what happened to
them last night in the tenth inning. And anybody who

(03:39):
thinks Josh Hader is a bad pitcher or that we
didn't get our money's worth for him, try to remember
that he that was his first blown save of the year.
I think so in this game, nobody's going to be perfect.
And he he just had a He threw a pitch
that the other guy hit really and it went out

(04:00):
of the ballpark. And I don't even I didn't even
see the pitch, so I can't tell you what it
was a good pitch or a bad one under the circumstances.
It would depend on the count, it would depend on
a lot of things. But it got jacked out of
the stadium, and it's not necessarily. This is why baseball
is so complex if you really study it. A lot
of people were blaming hater for throwing that pitch and

(04:24):
costing us the game. Well what about what about the
middle of the lineup that didn't hit a lick hardly
last night? What about all of the people who struck
out when we had runners in scoring position, all of
the people who made mistakes in the field. There are

(04:44):
a lot of mistakes made every baseball game. Strikeouts aren't mistakes,
They're just part of the game. The pitcher beat you
with a better pitch than you could hit, and that's
all that happens there. And sometimes it goes the other way.
Sometimes sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. And this time

(05:05):
we lost, We didn't lose much ground. We're still comfortably
ahead in the division. We're still comfortably over five hundred baseball,
and that's quite an accomplishment considering how many people we've
had off our starting team from back in April. Jordan
Alvarez still out half of the pictures we had. Well,

(05:28):
what have we lost? Down five starting pictures? That's enough baseball.
I gotta stop. I get carried away. Sometimes from the
presidential desk comes word that you probably knew it. Former
President Biden was in Galveston yesterday to help presidents there
celebrate Juneteenth. I saw a video from the event, and
I honestly felt sorry for the guy as a man.

(05:50):
He's former president. He appeared kind of unsure of where
he was or why he was there. He managed to
read his speech, but still I'm not sure why his
family or his entourage would subject him to things like this.
I wasn't a fan of his policies before or after

(06:11):
he became president, or before or after he became impaired.
But there's just a side of me that says, leave
him alone, just let him go on about his business.
If that's something that the Democrats thought would help their
cause I don't think it did. I think that they
would be better served by bringing contemporaries and potential running

(06:36):
potential candidates for twenty twenty eight out for events like
that to let them get a little face time. I'm
not sure why they chose Biden. I'm really not, but
I feel like he ought to be allowed to just
kind of eat as much ice cream and do whatever
he wants for the rest of God's time for him
on the earth. There you have that, all right, Well,

(07:00):
one minute, we're gonna we're gonna bounce them back and
forth as fast as we can. Here, Dog Garnet, that's
too warm, or thank you, Captain Obvious, that's too warm.
Energy companies would like you to know what what's your
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(07:20):
What do you say to that? Seventy three seventy four? Yeah, okay,
so I can I can go anywhere. Seventy two to
seventy four. Those are very comfortable temperature during the day.
During the night, A usually crank it down again. So
here's the deal. The energy companies, the people who are
supplying our electricity, basically are saying he We're not gonna

(07:42):
be able to keep up if you're not careful. You
know what they say, the ideal thermostat temperature is seventy six.
Seventy eight will seventy eight, almost eighty degrees. They want
you to keep your house because every degree above seventy five,
it says here, saves you three percent on your power bill. Yeah. Sure,
they just want to do that so they can have

(08:02):
an electricity electricity to keep our lights on. I guess
I'm not a big fan of rolling anything else. They
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Speaker 2 (10:43):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, welcome
back to fifty plus. Thank you for listening. I certainly
do appreciate that there was one, and I think I
talked about that yesterday. I'm not gonna go to it.
I'll go back to where I was, coming back to
the we talked about President Biden down in Galveston. I

(11:03):
honestly that yesterday was the first I even heard that
he was coming. I maybe I was watching the wrong
news channel or whatever, but there wasn't a lot of
fanfare made over that trip. I don't think, at least
I didn't see it, and I watch a lot of news.
I do, but I also don't watch it when the

(11:25):
astros around, So maybe if it came on during the
ten o'clock news a couple of days ago. I would
have missed it from the Times up desk. Will Have
you ever heard of something called the death clock? Yes?
Have you? Have you put in your information to figure
out when you're gonna die? No? I haven't either. There's
no way I'm doing that. There's no way I'm doing

(11:46):
and I'm not even like I'm not superstitious. I'm not
worried that it might be right. But I just don't
want to have some day in my head when some
arbitrary alg rhythm thinks I'm gonna croak. It makes no
sense to me, but anyway, the reason I bring it
up so I got an email this morning for some

(12:08):
guy who works with the guy who created the death
clock web page, where you supposedly can type in a
few facts about yourself and get an idea when you're
gonna die. It's interesting, but that's it. It's not even
it's not even a conversation starter. I wouldn't even mention
this except that there was one part of what was

(12:28):
in that pitch to me that caught my attention, and
that is that despite advances in medicine, despite younger people
paying more attention to their health. All of that, this
pitch said that there is a concerning generational trend that shows,

(12:49):
for example, boomers are living longer than millennials, and millennials
are expected to live longer thanerations behind theirs. Despite all
this amazing knowledge we have, despite all this ability to
fix broken bones and men broken spirits and all of

(13:11):
these things we can do to improve our overall quality
of life. While medical breakthroughs potentially can keep us alive
a lot longer, life spends shortening up. How long do
you think? What would you guess will would be the
average age of men of your generation when they pass?

(13:36):
And I don't know the answer, so I can't say
you're right or wrong. Well, what are you shooting for? Oh?
Let me take it to you. What are you shooting for? Me?
All right? If I made it to seventy, that's it
really that you'd feel like you lived a full life,
and just check on out.

Speaker 3 (13:55):
It doesn't really matter, you know, what do you mean?
It doesn't matter, don't matter if I feel I lived
a full life. You're gonna die eventually. Well, when it happens,
then it doesn't matter. It's just so uplifting, So just
try and live as best as you can. Just do
what you can with what you got, right, Sure, I

(14:15):
kind of agree with that. I don't know, and again
back just just it caught my eye only because.

Speaker 2 (14:20):
It was so bizarre and so contrary to everything everything
that I believe. When I talk about ut Health Institute
on Aging, for example, they're helping us seniors now live longer, better, happier, healthier,
more productive lives. Who's to say that that's not going

(14:42):
to be available to future generations. I think I think
that summary that these guys came up with that there's
some sort of tipping point with longevity and we're swinging
back to the other side of that. I don't have
a ton of faith in that little bit of info
I got. Honestly, I think that future generations will have

(15:03):
the ability to live longer, because first of all, we
were learning more and more how to replace parts. There
was a robotic surgery that did a heart transplant with
a of I can't remember the doctor's name. I was
going to talk about that yesterday. I may have it
here with me, I'm not one hundred percent sure, and
if I do, if I find it, i'll tell you

(15:24):
what the guy's name was, but it happened right here
in Houston, almost almost completely robotic heart replacement surgery. That's
pretty special. And then there was something else I saw today,
just right before we came on air, actually that fascinated me.
And this is truly is a breakthrough, and it'll once

(15:46):
it's up and running at full speed and the product
is available, it's going to change a bunch of people's lives.
People with als, people who have had severe strokes, lose
the ability to speak sometimes. And I can't imagine how
horrifying it would be to be fully awake, fully aware,

(16:08):
fully physically well, not fully physically functional, but at least
in your in your mind, you're sharpest attack, but you
can't communicate with anybody. Well, there is a device and
I watched a video of it being tested on this patient.
And there are two little I don't know for the

(16:30):
lack of for lack of a better word, two little batteries,
let's call it. But they're not batteries. They're they're far
more sophisticated that are attached to this guy's head. Okay,
on the top of his head. There's two. They're about
the size of an old match box. Okay, each of them,
and what they do is enable him, through his thoughts,

(16:54):
through his brain waves, to translate them into audible speech. Now,
he's not gonna he's not gonna speak quickly like an auctioneer.
He's not gonna be able to do anything that he
couldn't do with his own mind. And a mind that's

(17:14):
been ravaged by either of those two conditions isn't going
to be super quick. But the ability to just speak,
just have an audible voice in the room, just with
your thoughts, that's that I like. It almost gives me
chills to think about how amazingly advanced that is. That

(17:39):
we can manipulate the brain in such a way that
this electronic device can turn thought waves into speech. That's
pretty cool. As long as they don't learn to read minds,
right will That's fine? We don't want that, do we?
I don't know, are you really? Yeah? You're with every

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if the waves aren't too big, I think I'm getting

(18:21):
you know, I'm not too tight. I want to surf again,
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Speaker 1 (20:30):
Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Welcome back to fifty plus.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
Thanks for listening as always on this first day of summer.
In this segment, we're gonna catch up with a guy
who's on the move as we speak, a Houstonian actually,
who won't be back here though for quite some time.
And that man is Rolegh Jenkins from ABC Home and
Commercial Services, who at present I believe may or may
not be peddling a bicycle a long way from home.

(20:58):
Are you guys riding our or two taking a break? Rowley?

Speaker 4 (21:01):
No, no, we took a break. We've did our first
h twenty miles. We pulled off to the side to
jump on the radio to talk to you. So thank
good me to do this. This is great.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
Well, I appreciate it, and I know I found out
this morning. You're on day two now, but let's let's
start day to Let's start from the beginning. What sort
of prep did you guys have to do in Anchorage
before you hit the road yesterday morning?

Speaker 4 (21:23):
You know, if anything's going to go wrong, it goes wrong.
So little issues with bikes. I mean, uh, my bike
had an issue with the mirror and the gear shifting.
Oh no, stop and fix that real quick. So we
got it off to a late start, got on the road.
It's just beautiful. You say, it's first day of summer
there at the springtime. It's fifty eight degrees stop it right,

(21:46):
sunshiny Alaska's amazing.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
That's gonna that's almost thirty degrees cooler. That's going to
be here this afternoon. Oh my, well, by the way there, yeah,
rub it on in. That's fine, Roy, you go right ahead,
right all right. So, and before this trip, before we
get to why you're doing it and who you're doing
it with, before, how much prep did you guys do months?

Speaker 4 (22:09):
Yeah, I started probably just after Christmas. Yeah, I started,
and so you know, I mean I had both hips
replaced and both knees replaced. My left hip I replaced
in November. So I had a ground zero negative spot
that I knew to build muscles and get ready for.
So my training was build muscle and endurance, and so

(22:29):
I spent time on that. My brother and the other
two Mark and Brian, they've just been viking, so they
didn't have to do the other part that I did.

Speaker 2 (22:38):
Good for this. And so if you don't mind, and
I suspect you won't talk about talk about the guys
you're riding with and where you started and where you're
gonna finish, and then we'll get to another good question.

Speaker 4 (22:48):
Okay, So Brian Kelly, he has worked with ABC since gosh,
she's forty two years and he just retired last year,
and so it was perfect timing for him to say, yeah,
I want to go on this adventure, this epic cride. Yeah,
he's a great. Problem is he's the best shape of
the group and he's the oldest of the group around
you feel right now. And then Mark Ambrose, I mean

(23:11):
he's been a family for instance, junior high and you know,
his work for ABC for twenty five plus years and
has been amazing. The other one is my brother. So
my brother, this is Bobby Jenkins. He's got ABC in Austin.
This is his fourth bike ride, this is my third.
So he did it. You know, we've gone from Seattle

(23:32):
to New York, from Austin to Calgary, and then we
decided we've got to go big. We got to do
something that sixty five year old men and older that
they wouldn't do because they're smarter than we are. So
this is it Achorage Acreage to College Station.

Speaker 2 (23:48):
That that oh my gosh, you know that makes it
nothing against the MSF MS one fifty, but it makes
it look like you're running to the mailbox.

Speaker 4 (23:58):
It's a day. It's one of the days.

Speaker 2 (24:00):
Eighty days, Oh my god. And let's let's talk about
the importance of why you're doing this.

Speaker 4 (24:09):
Yeah, and it is really important to us. And I
would not be out here if it weren't for the why.
I am not a bicycle rider. This is not my thing.
My brother, it was back in two thousand and eight,
his grandson, Moss Pratt, he was one and a half
years old, went upstairs to go take a nap and

(24:29):
didn't wake up, so devastating all of us and the doctors,
you know, couldn't nobody had a reason why this happened.
He wasn't sick, he didn't show any telltale signs. And
so as we dug into this, this is more often
than it should be in the United States that children,
for unknown causes, lay down or take a break and

(24:53):
just die for no reason. So research is being done,
so we wrote, Bobby has raised several million dollars at
NYU that they're trying to do research, gather data to
find out why and if they can find a way
to stop children from dying, stopping families were going through
the catastrophe that they went through, and they're still going through.

(25:14):
It's just unbelievable. And then for me, on twenty ten,
the earthquake happened in Haiti. I was the current president
of the National pest Coke prol Association. I've always said,
you don't choose your charities, your charities choose you. So
I went into Haiti and where over three hundred thousand
people had died, and I started working on some projects

(25:37):
with hospitals and such. And we did that work and
at the end of it, I thought we were finished.
We're not going to do this ever again. I will
tell you it was our last day there. We saw
these two kids digging in the garbage and I'm looking
at them. Tell me about these kids. And they didn't
have a home. They were living on the streets, they
were living with garbage or through garbage. And so we

(26:00):
just felt called to build an orphanage and we did.
Wow and and and we've kind of been there ever since.
And so Mission Lazarus is our mission that we work with,
and they're amazing. They do incredible between school and hospitals,
are medical clinics and you know, trade skills that they teach.

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They are just oh my gosh, it is just a
dream to see what they're doing, how they're getting people
to be self sustained. So the why on this is
much bigger than the ride. And that's what helps us
get up every morning.

Speaker 2 (26:36):
Sure I would so every morning for thirty eight more.
Holy cattle man. So just a bit. What's the exact
number of miles you guys are going to ride?

Speaker 4 (26:47):
So for eighty days, we're going to do seventy miles
on average.

Speaker 2 (26:51):
I don't know how many Seattle.

Speaker 4 (26:53):
Seattle is only halfway. Yeah, it's fifty five hundred miles
totally half way way. So yeah, so that's crazy. That
just kind of blows your mind out.

Speaker 2 (27:05):
All right, And I know it's early. Is there anything
that you feel like you forgot to pack? You know
you always will.

Speaker 4 (27:13):
Know, No, you don't know, But I do know that
that that we're gonna hit it and we're gonna you know,
miss those things, or we're gonna leave them somewhere at
some shampsite way far back. But you know, at the
end of the day, this is gonna be a wonderful
journey and we are really going to feel God's hand
on this and on just having an opportunity to talk
to you and do the other TV and radio stations

(27:35):
along the way and all the different cities we go through.
So that will be a big win for us.

Speaker 2 (27:40):
Let's get an update in a week or two. Can
you are you up for that?

Speaker 4 (27:45):
Wonderful? Thank you?

Speaker 2 (27:46):
Okay, all the way out here, Ronnie Jenkins from ABC
Home and Commercial Services. By the way, Uh, we'll talk
again shortly. And there was one more question, oh very quickly,
because we're almost out of time. Why college station, why
don't you just ride on home?

Speaker 4 (28:01):
Man? I don't know if there's a better place in
an epic ride like this. The college station actually on
Kyle Field to be on Kyle Field on September sixth
for a game day that will be the Oh my gosh,
that's gonna blow my mind.

Speaker 2 (28:14):
You're gonna ride into the stadium? Is that what you're
gonna do?

Speaker 4 (28:17):
We are continued to do just that, and we've got
already kind of lined up, so we're okay. You know,
well September six for the Utah football game, we're gonna
be there cheering our eggings on all the way.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
If you can get if you can get those Utah
guys to ride with you all the way down, then
they'll be tired out and theaggi's are weak. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (28:33):
Absolutely, that's a good one. We'll call them.

Speaker 2 (28:36):
Think about that, all right, man, roleys, thank you, Yeah,
thanks a ton man, save travels, my friend.

Speaker 4 (28:41):
Thank you to you. Ready, take.

Speaker 2 (28:44):
Holy cow, fifty five hundred miles on a bicycle. That's
gonna that's gonna leave some soreness in the cheeks, wouldn't
you think will only if you're not prepared. It's a
good point. Yeah, I'd have a pillow draped over my seat.
I think a big old chuck of foam something, or

(29:06):
maybe one of those recumbent bikes. We got to take
a break, don't we. All right? Ut Health Institute on Aging,
Maybe they could help me with something like that, a
bicycle that would be very comfortable to ride for a
very long period. I need to call Joe, says a rido.
He's good at that, he's a bike rider. UT's Institute
on Aging is a collaborative of more than a thousand

(29:28):
providers around here who most of them are in the
medical center, but many of them work also in outlying
hospitals and clinics and offices so that anybody who needs
them can see them close to home. A lot of
us at our ages aren't really keen on driving into
the medical center. It's confusing, it's congested, and it's just

(29:52):
it can raise your anxiety level more than it needs
to be raised. And that's why these providers, because they
specialize in taking care of seniors, that's why they come
to us a couple of days a week so that
we can still see them and learn what they know
about us. Every medical discipline is covered by members of

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the UT Health Institute on Aging, and their website has
a tremendous number of assets and resources that you can
take on and just absorb and use however you like.
It's a great website, it's a great group of people,
men and women who are from every medical field and
just can't wait to help you live a better life.

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Utch dot edu slash aging, Utch dot edu slash aging.
What's life without a nep? I suggest you go to bed,
leave it off.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
Just wait until the show's over. Sleepy back that Dougpike
as fifty plus continues.

Speaker 2 (30:51):
With those songs end abruptly, don't they will yes, smile
my from them? Which desk do I want to go
to now? From the back to the real world desk,
let's just do that. We'll get off of that weird
o death page. What was it called the death clock? Yeah,

(31:12):
I saw where there was this form fill there and
if you fill in two or three little innocuous facts
about yourself that really don't give it anything, it's gonna
spit out a date of when you're gonna tip over.
I don't want that date, so never mind. I don't
want any of you going and looking it up and
doing that either. I think it's just a bad idea.

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Back to the real world desk. The Middle East, as
we all know, is kind of a powder keg right now,
and there's more than a little anxiety about potentially super
high oil prices. If you watch mainstream media, they'll tell
you it's gonna be five hundred dollars a gallon in
the next week or two. It's not okay. I'm working
on an interview now actually with a guy who knows

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that industry inside and out on a global from a
global perspective, and I should be able to get him
next Tuesday or Wednesday. We'll see, we're working on that.
So far, the bumping price hasn't been overly dramatic at all.
I think the actual maybe a whole barrel of oil
is gone up maybe four or five bucks in the
last week or two as things unfolded over there, and

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you've got Israel and Iran slinging missiles at each other,
and there's there's just a whole lot of drama on
how this is going to unfold, and everybody posturing and
everybody threatening, and if any of these little things goes
wrong in any way, it's it could just spark something more.

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But for now, I'm not gonna be the doomsday scenario guy.
I watched the numbers I follow. I follow WTI prices
West Texas Intermediate crude oil, and that's that's my barometer.
And just remember that we also actually do have quite
a bit of oil under our own feet, just in
case there are any kind of interruptions in production or

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transportation coming out of the Middle East. We could I
don't know what we've got in our strategic reserves right now.
Our former president pretty much drained them nearly dry for
reasons I'll never understand, never understand. That makes it just
made no sense whatsoever. All right, will me and you
you're ready? Yes, let's go. Uh, by the way, I

(33:32):
have I do have a conversation starter for you if
you need something. Are you going doing any social functions
this weekend?

Speaker 4 (33:37):
No?

Speaker 2 (33:38):
Nothing? Well tell your girlfriend okay. Orca's phillis blank? Will,
And if you get this right and you haven't seen
it before, I will be more than impressed. Orcas are
a natural predator of what animals? No? Well, yes that's true,
but that's not the one on this page. Seals keep

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going Dolphins probably uh ships. Never seen one eat a ship,
but I bet they'd try. They are they're attacking ship.
Oh that's you know. They have been attacking sailboats, haven't they?

Speaker 4 (34:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (34:19):
Yep? No, Will, This is a land mammal, a land
a land mammal, a human and the orca. Nope, the orca.
It's a four legged animal. The orca is a natural
predator of this animal. They stalk them, they look for
them on the shoreline. I don't know. I can give

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you a hint and you'll get it wrong. Okay, I
want to take that bet. Here's the hint. Moo cow, No,
the moose, the moose Will Moose. I knew I could
trick you with that. I just made that up. Just
that was just on the fly, right there, Will Dog
dog gone it. We already talked about that, and we

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didn't talk to dog gone it. Captain Obvious. I'm back
to him and spin the bottle. Obvious yet no obvious.
The National Weather Service, this is so boy. It's a
good thing they told everybody will because a lot of
people would have never known that. It's it's a bad
idea in areas where the heat is extreme to drink

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a lot of coffee, drink a lot of alcohol, or
and this is the one that really I'm so glad.
This is such a tremendous public service announcement. In places
where it's super hot, don't leave your kids or your
pet in the car. A little pro tip, of course,
which sometimes happens after people drink a lot of alcohol.

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There's actually a man I saw a video of the
arrest of a man who decided he was going to
leave his infant son in the This is just recently
last day or two. Let's his infant son in the
car in the heat, and the little boy died, and
they were arresting him and I hope they throw away
the key. He was going drinking. Didn't want to bother

(36:14):
with the kids left in the car. That's so sad,
so very very sad. Spin the bottle, well, I wanted
to get to that one before the end. This is
interesting about recycling. So the study found more people would
recycle if you made it kind of like a lottery system.
Instead of ten cents of bottle, each bottle gets people
a one in ten thousand chance of winning one thousand dollars.

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You recycle all the bottles and for each one you
get kind of an entry in the drawing, and every
time they get to ten thousand, somebody's lucky number gets
drawn and they win one thousand dollars. You know what.
The result was forty seven percent bump in recycling rates
forty seven percent. That's if you're going to recycle stuff.
That's not bad. M this is how what I have?

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Thirty seconds? You have thirty five seconds? Okay, well this
is this is just good news. It's a warm, fuzzy,
touchy feely thing. Workers at the Pittsburgh Airport, hats off
to them, found a diamond that fell out of a
woman's engagement ring and into a baggage carousel. The other
little the carousels are going around and they had to

(37:25):
dismantle that thing, get under it, crawl around, and they
found that diamond. You know what day? That happened on?
What day? Friday, the twelve thirteenth, thirteenth will all right,
we'll be back next week. Thanks for listening. Audios