Brain Cancer Gel

Today, Doug Pike discusses a new brain cancer gel, dog-walking accidents, and ice skates.

Episode Transcript

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Red light is on Tuesday morning,Tuesday afternoon. Excuse me, it's been
morning all the way up until fourminutes ago. And I have a hard
time with that. Just the conceptof starting right at noon, for some
reason confuses my poor tired brain.Welcome one and all, quick glance as

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always to lead. Markets are down. Actually the last time I checked was
about an hour ago, and allthree of the indices at which I look
we're down more than a point anda half. And that's yeah, one
point in a day. It doesn'tscare me too much. But if you
start stringing days like this, that'swhen it gets a little, a little

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scary. Banking still quite shaky overall. We've had some major bank collapses in
the last in the past few weeks, few at least certainly in the past
month or two, and that's gotto be getting people's attention. Oil also
down. That's kind of a goodthing for us, so at least it'll

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take a few dollars less to fillup until I guess, until some nation
that hates us jacks up the priceagain. The weather, that's the best
of the little things that I checkbefore we really dig into the show.
The weather looks really good, andI'm thrilled to report that best of the
three things I'm mentioning up front ofthe show like this, Oh, a

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barrel of oil. By the way, I mentioned that oil had gone down.
It's in the low seventies as ofan hour ago, seventy two dollars
I think in fourteen or forty onecents. I can't remember exactly the tail
in, but the seventy two surelylooked good. So here we go again
with the Tuesday edition of fifty plus. There's a saying about us, it
goes something like he's got a lotof miles on his tires, but on

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behalf of us all I would liketo I would like to change that saying.
I thought about this a little whileago. While it's true that we
had lots of miles on our tires, it's true, but more and more
of us are exercising where watching whatwe eat. We were doing what our
doctors tell us to do. AndI'd like to think that we're kind of

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riding on full sets of new tires. The chassis and the brakes might be
a little suspect, and that checkengine light might come on every now and
then, but for the most part, for most of us who do what
it takes to keep going, I'dsay we're riding pretty well for our ages.
Got the windows rolled down, elbowhanging out, leaned back and listen

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to our favorite song on the AMradio as we drive by. What what
was your hangout dairy queen? Wasit? Was it sonic? Was it
Jack in the box? Wa aburger? There'd be kids outside at those
places we hung out in kids outsideof the hamburger joints, but not so

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much the pizza places. But nomatter how cool you look driving by a
pizza place, nobody'd be outside tosee you, so it was basically a
total waste of cool and style andtime. I've embraced the technology we have
today, but a piece of mewishes my son could have grown up in
a world a little more like theone we had and a lot less like

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the one he has now. Ilike knowing where he is, or at
least where his phone is through theapp I used to track him, and
I like being able to reach himto coordinate drop offs and pickups from sports
and movies and whatever. What Idon't like or the social media apps that
encourage these kids to do really stupidstuff. Teenagers don't need help doing stupid

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things. They don't need suggestions.They'll think up enough dumb stuff on their
own. On their own, thoughwhat they cook up isn't so likely to
potentially kill them or harm anyone else. I sometimes wonder if social media challenges
aren't actually some sort of test tosee just how gullible and or in many

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cases, cruel, young people canbe to their own. Between those and
the bits where somebody asks random twentysomething's simple questions about history or geography or
science or math, and so manyof them get it so dead wrong.
What gets me through is a confidencethat to get those idiot reels we see

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on social media, to show someoneaccepting a dare to do something foolish and
dangerous, I have to believe.I just have to believe that more young
people are smart enough to answer thequestions or to ignore suggestions to do something
stupid. Kids are gonna be kids. I know that I was one once
and I made some questionable decisions.But I do have faith in most parents,

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as did mind, to instill atleast enough common sense and their kids
not to eat detergent pods. Willyou're a young man, do you know
anybody in your peer group, amongyour friends who actually tried to eat a
tide pod? Well, I wouldsay if they did, I would say
that I knew them. You know, good point, But no, nobody.

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No, have you? Have youknown anybody who who fancies themselves some
sort of social media influencer and goesout and records ridiculous things like I see
on some of these sites. Now, yeah, so see there is hope
for young people. That's that's I'mbanking on you and people like you will,

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who have some common sense and whoknow better, who know better than
to do dumb things and not andnot take responsibility for them. On a
sad and pathetic note, kind ofalong that line, our president son Hunter's
battling in court to prevent a daughterhe shares with a woman other than any

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wife or current woman. He's saying, he's battling to prevent this little girl
from carrying the Biden name. Andworse, I believe maybe that his own
father, our president, refuses toeven acknowledge this little girl's existence. Everybody
in the family gets a Christmas stockingin the White House, everybody but his

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granddaughter. That doesn't make sense tome. Hunter might not admit to create
that child, He might not havewanted to create that child, but he
did. And it's not her fault. And I believe she has a right
to that name if she wants it. Why she'd want it is her own
business. But in an administration thatfights so hard against deadbeat dads, I
find it sad that this one kindof slipped very smoothly and quietly through the

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like, I'm not like this areal kind of shine, but I get

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all right. Twelve eighteen on AMnine fifty KPRC. You're listening to fifty
plus and thanks for doing so.Be sure to tell your friends about it.
The show is is doing well andit has it has legs, as
they say, in this business,and I guess some others. I don't
know what other what other business?Well, this is a pop quiz and

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it has nothing to do with anythingthey have written in front of me.
But what other businesses might you say, with more definity have legs? I
can think of one has more legs. Yeah, this business has legs.
Yeah, I mean i'd say,you know, maybe the Olympics, they

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probably have some legs. How aboutthem? What is the name of those
dancers up in New York at thatfamous place that's the Roquettes. Oh yeah,
they yes, they even more sothan the Olympics. I think,
at least from a viewer's point ofview, that it's a fantastic show they
put on. I've only seen Ihaven't ever seen them live, but the

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precision with which they do what theydo is is fascinating to me. The
closest I ever came to anything likethat was during football practices in high school,
when we'd all have to run sprintsback and forth, and that was
like so far different than any dancinggroup. Oh well, moving on,

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Um, where do I want togo here? Here's one high stakes game
of chicken. We're gonna call thisUS Fishing Wildlife Service acting almost certainly after
quest of the Biden Administration recently listedthe lesser prairie chicken as an endangered species.

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Why you ask, because the Administrationand therefore the US Fish and Wildlife
Service, because it's kind of underthat control, is at war with the
fossil fuel industry. And in Kansas, where most of those prairie chickens live,
that listing will make it virtually impossibleto drill any new oil wells in

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the entire state. Further, thelisting is going to force ranchers to file
annual grazing management reports with a federallydesignated agency. In other words, those
ranchers are going to have to askpermission to move their cattle. Hey,
macaw'sip grazed out this particular pasture andI need to move them to another pasture.

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Oh, we'll hold on, we'regonna have to look into that,
and we're gonna have to make sureyou filled out the form correctly. It's
just amazing. This administration is leavingabsolutely no stone unturned and it's effort to
steer us all away from fossil fueland toward the this green pot at the

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end of some non existent rainbow.In barely two years, we have gone
from a flourishing energy independent nation allof that, to a very weak and
very fragmented nation of people who arebeing forced to bicker over prairie chickens when

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that should be one of the leastimportant things on our minds just now.
And by the way, the administration'sreasoning for that designation on behalf of those
prairie chickens more holes than a slabof Swiss cheese. It's going to go
to court, and if the courtsuphold the law, it'll be overturned and

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rescinded. But the problem is thatit's going to take months or even years
of time and somebody's money to runthis thing through the court system to fight
a what I read to be avery erroneous classification. I'm all about saving
animals, but I also know thatseveral dozen species of animals on this planet

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go extinct every day, plants,animals. There is an evolution of all
things on this earth all the time. And once again, we're trying to
make ourselves far more important to thefuture of the planet than we are.

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I wish us well, I reallydo. No, I'm gonna save that
one. I'll come back to it. I'll give you some good news because
I hate to just hate to justlitter the floor with bad news. There
is a gel, and I mentionedthis in a little post I did to
Facebook before the show started, andI came across this later in my research

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this morning, later in my prepwork, but I wanted to make sure
I got to it, so I'mgoing to do so now in a study
at Johns Hopkins University. And bythe way, I'm so glad this happened
in the United States, because fartoo many of these types of advances,
these types of eye opening research projectsare happening elsewhere around the world than here.

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For the first time probably in thelast hundred years, but right up
there at Johns Hopkins, a medicationdelivered by a very unique gel cured one
hundred percent. Make that clear,one hundred percent of mice that had an
aggressive and highly deadly form of braincancer it's called gloud blastoma, very very

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aggressive, almost always lethal, andthis gel enabled the researchers to deliver medication
that cured every one of those cases. The cool part about this gel is
that it can reach areas of thebrain that surgery might miss, areas that

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the current drugs in parts of thosecancers that current drugs struggle to kill,
And it also seems to trigger animmune response in the mouse's body to help
activate its own cancer fighting abilities.So I don't know what's in that gel,
but I hope they make a lotof it, and I hope they

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use it to deliver that medication sooninto the brains of people who are suffering
from glaublastoma. That's nasty stuff.I actually had a friend years ago the
reason that kind of caught my eye. A friend that I used to hunt
with on the Katie Prairie died braincancer. And I don't know if that's
the exact type of cancer he had, but I know that it wasn't long

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after it was diagnosed that he wasno longer with us, and it was
that was a tough tough thing todeal with out there. The camaraderie amongst
hunting guides is no different than thatamongst any group of people who who are
doing things outdoors and love what they'redoing. Hunting guides, fishing guides,

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team sports players. We're all outthere having a lot of fun and get
very close and become really good friendsbecause and help each other. And it's
tough to see one of us godown when we come back. I'm not
gonna get in anything. I'll tellyou what. I'll give you three chances,
well to pick the best of thesethree things. Headlines. I give

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you um um, triple LUTs.I didn't I wrote down, didn't know
what to call this one, butthat's so week, So I'll go with
triple LUTs, gazoot height or andI can't give you gazoot height because already
told you that one. Or Clutteris clutter, Clutter is clutter. Their

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study found that one in four peoplefeel stressed and overwhelmed when they have too
many tabs or windows open in theirbrows or does that bother you? Oh
you're laughing. If you could seewhat this desktop looks actually can Yeah,
and it's nuts? Have files Ihave on this little at home. Lord.

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Yeah, there's a woman out inour sales department who's whose screen looks
exactly like that. It's just likea little checkerboard with a checker in every
square. Basically, great mind,How many are there? Three hundred?
You think? M Yeah, Ihave no No, it's it's you don't
need those? Will You don't needhalf of those? I guarantee you just

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kill them, just delete them.Well, you know I do. I
eventually moved them to the recycle.BA, do yourself a favor. Go
get some cobbler. I'll come aroundthere and just delete about half of them,
and then you'll never miss them becauseyou won't even know. You won't
be able to tell me what Ideleted. Well, you know we work
out okay, but but you knowit's all. It's all from recent recent
weeks. You know. If Ineed to, if I need to throw

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in a best of somewhere, Ihave it all handy dandy, sure will.
They're all so we have three hundredbest stubs? Is that what you're
telling me? I have a lotof best su do you? Yeah?
A lot of great? Are youimplying that my show is that good?
Just that you're saving a bunch tosee if you could cobble one decent one
together. Well, you know itkind of depends. Okay, why don't

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we just break and move on?We should have a cobbler eating contest,
by the way, I think weshould just see how many people are,
how many how many bites of cobblerwe could take in one minute? Um
No, because I wouldn't be ableto stop. Don't let your age sneak
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check his fluids, and spring ona fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike DOTEP backall right, welcome back to fifty plus.

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I'm Doug. He's Will twelve thirtythree on AM nine fifty KPRC.
Thank you for listening on this Tuesdayafternoon. Will took off to get coffee
during the break. I opted instead. I've had enough coffee today, if
you can't tell. I opted insteadfor peach cobbler, which Will didn't think

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I could finish before we got backon the air. But indeed the bowl
and spoon have been pretty much lickedclean and deposited in the trash receptacle here
in the studio. I don't knowwhy you didn't grab a couple of bites,
Will, Why didn't you? Well, it was your cobbler, so
I thought, not out of mybowl. You could have gotten your own
bowl. Good. Well, gosh, yeah, now that's disgusting. I

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listened to a little kid at abaseball game last night. He's I went
up there with my son. We'rewatching the son of a friend play,
and I know the coach on thatteam and his son, and anyway,
it's a little boy. He's probablyI want to say, he's probably eleven,
maybe twelve years old tops, andif that probably ten eleven. They're

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in that ten eleven range. Andhe hollers to his dad, who is
standing outside the fence over between I'mbetween the two of them, Hey dad,
can you get me a bottle ofwater? And he goes, here,
you can have mine. He's gonnahand his son the bottle of water,
and he goes, oh, no, yours has cooties, Like,

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are you kidding me? Have wecome to that? Really? Have we
come to that? Oh? Well? Have we? Will? You think
we have his own dad, hisown dad here takes taking a water man
It has cooties that's so weird.Um, good news or bad news?
Will let's go with some bad news. Okay, here's this Department of Energy

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Secretary Jennifer Granham Granholm Granham g RA n H O l M. I'm
not sure the pronunciation, and I'dlike to get that stuff right out,
honestly do whether I disagree or agreewith anybody, I want to get names
right. Secretary Jennifer Granholm shared hersupport of President Biden's requirement of the US
military by the year twenty thirty tobe potentially fighting its wars with an all

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electric fleet. Now think about wherethat puts. God forbid that should happen,
because if it does, we willhave opened a door that I'm laughing
to keep from crying it can't beclosed, and we will have weakened our
armed forces to what well may bea point of no return. She plays
the card of reducing our reliance onwhat she calls the volatility of globally traded

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fossil fuel, and she talks ofhow we have to negotiate prices for oil
with nations that may not support us, and whatnot. But what she doesn't
say, what she doesn't speak aword about in this presentation of hers is
how all we have to do isundo what President Biden's done to our energy

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companies, which instantly would put usback in the driver's seat on the price
of wall around the world. Itwould be we who dictate the ice,
not these countries that hate us andare quickly aligning themselves with each other.
The whole bunch is just so soquick to give us only one side,
only their half of a story,and deliberately omit facts that would reveal both

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the pros and the much higher percentageof cons in this case, to this
pressure to electrify not only our countrybut our military. Can somebody please tell
me how we're gonna recharge a battalionof tanks in the heat of battle or
troop carriers if a war starts,if there's a war going on, we

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can't just call time out. Wegot to charge our tanks. This whole
idea is just so far beyond eveninsanity. I don't know how on earth
you would you could, anybody couldwith a straight face in this right now
time say the way to go isto electrify our military terry. That's just

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foreign powers around the world. Uponreading that, are they just sitting grin.
They just sitting grin. We're makingit easier, we're handing it,
just handing it off to them.How about that? Oh, I did
want to remind all of you ifyou don't mind to help us keep AM
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no longer necessary. They've come upwith reasons, not many of which are
easy to justify, to take themout of those cars and trucks they want
to yank them out of. They'retrying to take away our lifeline in an
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Astros games. They're trying to takeaway our enjoyment of a radio signal that
we've grown up with and relied upon. This is the most important part,
really, I think you rely uponthose stations in time of emergency. Your
local radio broadcast station is there toprovide pretty much wall to wall coverage,

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where to find a shelter, whereto get water, where to connect with
other people in a crisis. Andthen after that they'll help you rebuild.
They'll tell you where you can getsupplies to get started with stuff. Radio
also shares information it gathers from listenersin real time. They'll go right back.

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I've watched and heard KTRH to dothat during hurricanes. We just got
a call from so and so thatthere's a station where you can go get
cases of water on this corner orfirewood during the freeze. You can go
right here and go get that.If the powers out in your house,
you're the only communication you may haveis going to be that AM radio in

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your car. You can sit outthere and charge your phone. You want
all you want, but once youget that phone charged up, all you're
going to get our little text messages, nothing like we have in AM radio.
Text AM to five to eight eightsix. Tell Congress to keep AM
radios in all these cars and trucksthat we drive around. AM to five

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two eight eight six. I've gottenresponses from both of my congressional elects.
What would they be called, senators. Let's just go with senators, do
that? Please, let's get this, let's get this ball rolling. All
right. Well, I'm gonna giveyou a chance another chance to pick a
different one. We did that one. I want you to pick that one,

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but I'm not gonna tell you whatit is. Um, what did
I call it the last time?Let's call it cold as ice? Now
we'll go with that cold as ice? Or too much time on our hands
or gone to the dogs, goneto the dogs? You just refuse cold
as ice. I gotta write thatdown because I'm gonna keep saying it until

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you pick it. According to areport by whom I have no idea,
it's really irrelevant, though. Thefun part is in the report itself,
the number of dog walking injuries inthe past twenty years has quadrupled, mostly
because people have stopped just letting theirdogs out to go to the bathroom in

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other people's yards, which is whatthey did twenty years ago. Am I
correct? Yeah? I don't thinkwe were scooping back in the year two
thousand and three, were we?I mean I was, you know,
six years old, so yeah,you don't remember. Do you remember running
through the yard playing with your friendsand just going, oh, no,
I gotta go to the hose.That happened a lot when I was a

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little because everybody's dogs just winning everybody'syards, and we'd be out there playing
touch football or whatever and just ohno, time it out. You'd have
to go clean your foot. Itwas not fun twenty years. In the
past twenty years, four hundred andtwenty two thousand people have gone to the

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emergency room after being hurt walking theirdogs. Another reason that so many people
have been hurt while walking their dogs, what do you think I'm going to
will take a guess, because thedog drags them around, or they're totally
untrained. They just think that hookinga dog to a leash makes it a

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dog walk. No, the dog'swalking you at that point, and that's
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just wait until the show's over.Sleepy. Back to Doug Pike as
fifty plus continues, What is this, will, don't worry about it.

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Oh that's Led Zeppelin. No it'snot. It sounds like Rush. It's
Rush. I never working. Iwould have never known that. You could
have given me twenty guests. Youcould have put it in a multiple choice
and I wouldn't have gotten that Iwas. I'm a little too old for
Rush. That's why I went ledZeppelin. It sounds very much like something
they would have done. But anyway, Okay, I'm gonna give you one

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choice this time will cold as ice? What do you want? Cold as
ice? Okay? I told youearlier, before we even started the program.
I believe that I was going togive you a pop quiz and I
was going to be surprised if yougot within one hundred years of the answer
to this. The earliest known iceskates. And I'm gonna bet I didn't
look at full story. I didn'tlook at that little abbreviated link to the

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full story. But I'm willing tobet a lot that, um it involves
rib bones. Okay, the earliestknown ice skates date back to around what
year will ten fifty two? You'reonly off by almost three thousand years,

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two thousand BC. Think about howlong ago that was two thousand BC.
They're they're strapping what masted on?What do you think now? I would
have been too big, you wouldn'tneed would be for a full on sleigh.
That would be ice booting, youknow, Yeah, maybe a Cariboo,

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something like that, a precursor tothe Cariboo. Um, yeah,
that would have been kind of cool. Anyway, you have two thousand BC.
I found that very interesting. Theseare the kind of things that I
like. Um on the good newsside, something warm and fuzzy, for
those of you who like such.A teacher in San Diego going viral.

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The story says, after years agohe sat two kids next to each other.
Okay, sat them down. Yousit here, you sit here,
and then I guess the rest ofthe class gut got equally assigned to their
seats. But those two kids,all these years later now have asked him

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to officiate their wedding. Oh thatis so lovely, is it not?
And oh bad news or good news? Will well? I did bad news
earlier, so why don't we dosome good news? Got some? This
is well, this is interesting sciencekind of news. I have plenty of
time, right should five minutes?Ye? Good? In Sweden, a

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stretch of the E twenty highway whichstands for Europe and not electric. By
the way, stretch of that roadwill soon become When I say soon,
I'll tell you how soon in aminute. The nation's first functioning charging roadway
capable of juicing the batteries of heavytrucks carrying freight around the country as they

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drive on this road. Think aboutthat. Okay, it's runs between Ballsburg
and Malmo, a city I visited, actually very cool town. Construction set
to begin in twenty twenty five,So no great news just yet. But
think about this. Even the possibilityof actually working with electricity in the roadway,

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it has got well, it gota lot of the ev folks just
positively giddy. It's a great concept, but I'm still betting on hydrogen as
the ultimate alternative fuel once fossil fuelsrun out worldwide. And oh, I
don't know about five hundred years.Early attempts at this idea required and it's
been tried before, people have thoughtof this before. But what they were

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using was actual charging cables strung overthe roadway and then robotic arms on the
trucks to reach up and grab thepower as they drove along. Total flop,
major flop. It just doesn't workand it would never work with cars.
Honestly, if we can't do betterthan electricity to function globally, I'm

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not sure how this story is goingto end. For humanity. Still Sweeten
the first to announce at least onestretch of one highway that can charge trucks
as they traveled, probably around theyear I don't know, twenty twenty eight,
twenty twenty nine. Juice right therefrom the center. It's a start,
at least for Sweden. Also oncars, by the way, several
automakers hitting at a return to buttonsand knobs instead of touchscreens, the operation

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of which has proved quite dangerous becausethey force our eyes to leave the roadway.
Hund Porsche of Volkswagen have announced areturn to letting our fingers do the
walking a little bit, letting ourfingers feel something other than a glass screen
and worth noting. Despite backlash inmany cases against touch screen controls, neither

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GM nor Mercedes intend to follow thatpath. In fact, I read just
this morning that Mercedes actually has amodel coming out or out already with three
screens in a single cabin, threeof them. So there you go,
Oh, Mercy Will. Such along, long day and so much much

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in the news. I'm glad Igot to cover all of that because all
of it I felt like was prettyimportant. Okay, some simple stuff to
get out of here. Let's see, we got that already gone to the
dogs. We took care of.There's another page of these somewhere, and
I can't find it. A storythat's not a story. How much time

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do I have here? Will youhave about two minutes? Oh? Perfect?
Ok. I'll give this one aminute, and i'll give this other
one a minute, and then i'llponder where on earth that other page went
that's now missing in action. It'sreally not important, though. An art
student in South Korea eight a banana, A real banana that was part of

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an art installation for which the universityapparently paid. How much will this is
a piece of contemporary art that's gota banana in it somehow? Okay,
I'm gonna go with us like fiftycents a pound, one million dollars?

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Lord, no, you have theone in the two, correct, But
you have too many zeros one hundredtwenty thousand dollars. Bananas are cheap.
Remember now, I don't know ifthere was more than one banana in the
display. I don't know if itwas truly what you or I would consider
art. I suspect not. Butnonetheless, here's why I titled this one

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a story. That's not a story, or it's like whatever he said,
he did it because he was hungry. That's logical, that makes sense.
The banana was replaced, it sayshere and the artist. Guess how the
artist reacted, m no reaction whatsoever, whatever, Just put another banana in

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there. It's not going to changethe thing. The artist had no he
he got his hundred and twenty thousanddollars, and I think he's just he's
probably they probably had to call himon a beach somewhere laying back in a
lounge chair like Snoop Dog, drinkinga cold beer and just chilling out one

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hundred and twenty thousand dollars for bananaart. That's messed up. Okay,
Well, I'm gonna give you aquestion, pop quiz real quick? Is
this is like the other one iscereal soup? Maybe we don't even have
time to do it, do wethree seconds? Well we'll answer that question
tomorrow. Thanks for listening. Seethen, Audios