Dangerous Heat

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Welcome one, all and everybody in between. I guess to
this day's edition of fifty plus, the Wednesday edition of
the show. I greatly appreciate you all for listening, Thank you,
and welcome aboard. As I talked about yesterday, I'm kind
of reframing the front end of this show. I want
to get into stuff that really matters in the beginning,

(01:13):
rather than just go over a weather forecast and look
at the markets, because I don't know that much about
the stock market anyway, and I don't want to pretend
that I do. So I'm just going to kind of
back off of that. And if it's something about gold
and you want to ask me a question, that's fine.
Ask me that question. I'll take it to Brad Schweiss
from over Houston Gold Exchange and he'll come up with

(01:34):
an answer for us. Other than that, check with your broker,
check with your financial manager, whoever that may be handling,
however much money you've given to them to take care
of your future. But I'm not going to do that anymore.
I just I think I was kind of to the
very intelligent, the very educated people in this audience on finance.

(01:57):
I'm not telling them anything they don't know. The people
who know less than me, I'm not doing them any
good by giving them advice or talking about trends in
the markets. It's like it's kind of like being taught
how to play golf by someone who's an eighteen handicap.
If you're an eighteen handicapper and you're teaching how to

(02:18):
play golf, the best you can do is teach them
how to be an eighteen handicap, and not too many
people want to be that. So anyway, off to the
Supreme Court and its decisions from yesterday. One of the
bigger ones is the rejection of President Trump's bid to
restrict birthright citizenship, which I think I wish it had
gone through. I truly do it just it goes against

(02:42):
a lot of things historically, and it goes against in
the current, in the present. It goes against any hope
we have of ever really getting our ducks in a
row in this country financially. When you make it enticing,
when you make it, when you incentivize somebody getting pregnant,

(03:02):
and then in the ninth month, right three days before
giving birth, they hop across the border, whether they get
here legally or not, now, based on this decision, they
hop in here, they have their baby. That baby becomes
a US citizen, and that US citizen is entitled to
all the things that everybody gets who needs help. And

(03:26):
guess what those parents who are coming here on what's
called I think they call it old what do they
call it? Citizenship tourism? That's what it is. They come in,
they have a baby, and all of a sudden they
are entitled to anything and everything that any American citizen
is entitled to the family, not just the baby. And

(03:47):
in fairness to the court. Although I disagreed with the
decision of the majority in the court in fairness, they
did say in their statement about it in the ruling
that Congress is a to do that anytime they want,
they can restrict that birthright citizenship to only people who
are lawfully in the country, or to only people who

(04:09):
are left handed, whatever they want to do. If Congress
passes it, then it will make it through and it
will be better for this country. But right now, when
it's still lawful for anybody, regardless of their status or
how they got into the country, they can shimmy over
a wall or crawl under a fence, come in here pregnant,

(04:32):
and two days later have a baby, and you and
I are having to pay for that baby and that
baby's family. It was a six to three ruling, and
basically what the court said is that they found that
a person's citizenship status isn't dependent on their parents. They're
citing the Fourth Amendment, or excuse me, not the fourth
the fourteenth Amendment in here, and Judge Roberts, actually Justice

(04:56):
Roberts wrote that the court's eighteen ninety eight ruling a
case spit it out Doug in a case named wonkim
Ark had settled that issue on the flip side, though
in the dissenting opinion Justice Clarence Thomas Justice Neil Gorsuch,
they authored a ninety one page dissent arguing that the

(05:19):
majority of the court misinterpreted the Fourteenth Amendment. Clarence Thomas
wrote that the Fourteenth doesn't guarantee birthright citizenship to children
born to parents who are in the country unlawfully or temporarily.
All the way back to eighteen ninety eight, that decision
in wonkim Ark, and I'll quote Thomas here, quote walk

(05:41):
kim Mark addressed only the citizenship of a child born
to parents who were lawfully and permanently domiciled in the
United States. End quote. How the rest of them didn't
see it that way. It is beyond me, and it's
going to cost this country continued millions in this citizenship
tourism that's become a hot thing ever since Joe Biden

(06:04):
opened up the borders five years ago. Judge Alito put
it this way, and I'll quote again, Suppose that a
person's only connection to this country is that he was
born here to a mother who was present just long
enough to give birth and then quickly returned to her
native country. Suppose that country is a strategic adversary or

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enemy of the United States. Suppose the child never visited
the United States while grown and was inculcated with hatred
of this country. End quote. That sounds like a whole
lot of people on the left right now, as a
matter of fact, only they were born here and their
parents were born here too in many cases. In another
decision on Tuesday, a five to four decision, the Supremes

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also allowed states to count mail in ballots after elections,
so long as those ballots are postmarked honor before the election.
There's enough evidence out there now, and I mean really
hard evidence to say that's not a good idea when
certain candidates are losing magically, these giant containers of ballots

(07:08):
postmarked honor before the election day, they show up here, there,
and everywhere, and in most cases, which should come as
no surprise to anyone, those votes go mostly to Democrats.
Time for quick break, and on the way out, I'll
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seen by people who understand us. Utch dot edu slash
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Segment two of the program starts right now. Thank you
all for listening. I certainly do appreciate that I want
to stick to kind of a sidebar from the birthright

(08:15):
citizenship thing, and that is open borders and the crisis
they created when President Biden and his crew let in
ten fifteen million people. We really don't know how many
millions of people came into the country then, but it's
important to talk about this because it's important to understand

(08:36):
that if we don't do something about it and keep
that border tight, we really don't have a country. The
concept of a nation relies entirely on its borders, because
without a country just doesn't exist. It's just land. Border
is not just a line on a map. Either, it's
the framework that protects the laws, it protects our economy,

(08:59):
our shared culture. But when we open those borders completely,
we throw away the very foundation of our own sovereignty
and security. All right, First of all, it could consider
the immense strain on local communities. Think about this, particularly
in frontline border states like Texas right here. You and

(09:19):
I have seen it, especially down along the border. They
see it. The communities just get inundated, absolutely inundated. Public
resources aren't infinite. Local schools, the hospitals, the social safety nets,
all of that stuff that's funded by taxpayers who work
very hard to build them gets unraveled because it's overwhelmed.

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And when an influx of people enter without regulation, these
systems just they face a breaking point. They really do.
Look at the hard data from Texas. Okay, listen to this.
According to official statements from the Office of the Texas Governor,
Texas taxpayers have been forced to shoulder more than ten
billion dollar on state led border enforcement under Operation Loan

(10:04):
Star to plug the gaps that were left by Biden's
inadequate federal enforcement. And so now let's leave the border
and come inland a little bit, come into the small
towns all around the borders and eventually all the way
across Texas. Think about what this does to public school budgets.
There was some research released by conservative policy groups like

(10:25):
Huffin's Liberty Foundation and others that indicate the fiscal burden
educating undocumented students in Texas public schools almost seven billion
dollars a year. Now seven billion dollars a year educating
undocumented students. Now I feel for the kids, I truly do.

(10:46):
Wasn't their idea to come here, but their parents brought them,
and now we are paying for that. It's a tremendous,
tremendous expense, and we're massively unfunded underfunded to do that. Fortunately,
Texas is a very wealthy state and we can hold
our own with a lot of this stuff. But it's

(11:07):
like I said before, none of this money is infinite.
There is an end to what that money can do.
There is a stop point at which there is no
more money. Then you get into the diverted educational resources
with all the different costs that have to be met
as they upscale very quickly, by the way, very specialized

(11:29):
resource intensive services. You've got to be teaching English as
a second language. You've got to have remedial tutoring to
bring kids who haven't had much education up to speed.
You've got to have mental health support, which stretches. The
States recently passed eight and a half billion dollar public
education funding boost that was house built something too, I

(11:51):
think one one two, one one five, something like that.
And then hospital care, hospital and healthcare. Recent finding from
the Texas Health and Human Services Commission showed that uncompensated
medical care for people without legal presence. Uncompensated medical care
for individuals without legal presence cost Texas hospitals more than

(12:15):
a billion dollars in a single year. The list just
goes on and on. The list goes on and on,
and when you break it down to tax dollars and
look at who's paying them across the country, total annual
cost of illegal immigration to the United States has reached
at least at least it's said here, one hundred and

(12:38):
fifty point seven billion dollars, which, if you really want
to break it down, break it down to per household,
per taxpayer, per taxpayer, eleven hundred and fifty six dollars
a year goes to taking care of people who are
in our country illegally. On top of that, it takes
away jobs. Really does all those people come here, they

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want to work, they need work, They want to support
their families, often back in the country from whence they came.
So they go to work, they get paid, and they
send the money out of our country. They don't spend
it here. They don't reinvest in America. It's frustrating, very frustrating.
Classrooms overflow, property, taxpayers foot the bill, educational resources meant

(13:23):
for legal residents or stretch to their limits. It's not
uncompassionate to want to protect these services for the citizens
who pay for them. It's just basic math. And then second,
the open border compromises security. For heaven's sakes, we've seen
that in action. Who knows who came across the border.

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We don't know how many people came in. We don't
know who they were. We know that a lot of them,
we know now that a lot of them were terrorists,
a lot of them coming in here and plotting horrible
things against this country. And that's pretty much why President
Trump closed the barn door and said no more TikTok.
The game is locked. Nobody else can come in here

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unlawfully if you want to come through like most of
the migrants came into our country, do it legally, do
a little studying, learn about America, assimilate, become one of us.
Then I'm fine with it. Come on in, come on in, contribute,
contribute to our country. You're coming into our country. You

(14:26):
need to adapt to our everything. It's just staggering to
me how so many forms now that are produced by
our government have to be translated into a dozen two
dozen languages. I'm not certain there's another country in the
world that does that. When you go to Spain, I'm

(14:47):
guessing they make you learn how to speak Spanish. When
you go to France, you got a parle vou froancais.
But not here. Not here. We bend over backwards to
take care of people who more and more we are realizing,
are not here to assimilate, are not here to become Americans.
They're here to take over America. And if you don't

(15:08):
think so, take a look at what's happening in Europe. Now.
Great Britain's gone, and in a few short years it
won't look anything like it looked when you may have
gone over there as a tourist, ten or twenty years ago.
France is becoming the same way. There's one country and
I wish I could remember which one it was, which
one it is, and basically I think it's one of

(15:31):
the Norwegian countries and somewhere over there Denmark, Holland. It's
not Sweden, but something like that, somewhere over there. And
when you come into their airport, when you fly in,
if you don't have a job lined up, they hand
you one thousand dollars and send you back from whence
you came. Every sovereign nation has a man. They've just

(15:56):
got this fundamental duty to know exactly who's in their country,
who came in yesterday, who's trying to get in today,
And for four years we just threw that out the window.
In twenty twenty two, two point two million migrant encounters,
twenty twenty three, two million migrant encounters. And I'm not
talking at the Statue of liberty coming in and asking

(16:19):
where's the line to get in the country legally, I'm
very frustrated. In case you can't tell, I'll wrap it
up here. A nation thrives on shared identity and the
rule of law. But when the people bypass the legal
immigration process. It creates a really unfair system. To start,
It disrespects the millions of legal immigrants who wait years,
they pay fees, follow all the rules to join our society,

(16:42):
and now our system is collapsing under the weight of it.
All current estimates on immigration review cases all three point
two four million of them. Average weight time now is
nine hundred days per case. All right, I've got a
cool down. I'm going to tell you about Midway Meat Market.
That's a fine place right there. Midway Meat Market is
on Old Highway ninety in Katie, just a little ways

(17:05):
outside of ninety nine off of I ten. It's been
there fifty seven years and is one of the finest
meat markets you'll ever walk into. Still got that old
country charm too, like maybe it came out of Mayberry
or Hooterville. My people know where those places are. Twenty
five flavors of premium sausage, beef, chicken, and pork cut
the way you want. And a lunch counter too, Oh

(17:28):
what a lunch counter. Traditional barbecue. Sure they've got that
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(17:50):
welcome back to fifty plus and thanks to you all
for listening again. I really do appreciate that. Tell some
friends about the show, Tell your neighbors, get them involved,
and they don't have to be listen. According to the
numbers on the show, there are a lot of adults,
say thirty five plus who are listening on behalf of
their parents, and their parents are darned lucky to have

(18:10):
those kids. So diving in and I was gonna say
something about this show being as g rated as my
outdoors show, but it can't be quite that. To cover
the topics that I need to cover for folks our age,
sometimes it's gonna get a little graphic. Sometimes it's gonna
get a little blushy, if you will, And so I

(18:33):
reserve that for this show. I don't go in that
direction at all on the Outdoors show. So if you've
got grandkids and you hear my voice on Saturday morning,
you don't have to worry about anything like what you're
just about to hear about now. So in the now,
here's what's going on up in Seattle, which apparently is
just racing neck and neck with Portland to become the

(18:54):
sewer of America. They had a big pride parade past
I think it was this past weekend, and dozens of
people participating in the parade and then maybe walking around
town afterward. There were videos from people in city parks,
all of whom, not all of whom, but some of

(19:15):
whom decided that would it would be perfectly okay, even
in front of children, to shed all of their clothing
and just wander shamelessly down the streets and into the parks.
And they did so without any intervention from law enforcement
that I saw nothing based on the video that I
looked at. Whatever happened to public indecency laws? And what

(19:37):
about just how wrong it is to go naked in
front of kids? Is that supposed to be okay? Now?
I guess so in Seattle and in other places where
city and county officials have just grown scared to death
of speaking the truth and standing up for basic rules
of right and wrong. And they do that because they're scared.

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They're scared of offending, they're scared of offending people, and
so rather than offend these people who want to walk
naked in front of kids, they just keep their mouths
shut and turn their heads the other way and let
it all happen. And they do that, of course, because
they're just so scared that the people who choose to

(20:19):
walk naked in front of kids and choose to just
make everybody in their presence throw up a little in
their mouths. They're scared that those people who are walking
around naked might be offended, might even protest. You know what,
Let them protest all they want. I don't care. They
can protest till the cows come home. And it looked

(20:42):
like some of them are on their way home in
that parade. But that won't make it okay to go
naked in front of small children. And equally culpable. Equally
culpable are the parents of the children who line that
parade route and were subjected to the sites of grown
men and women and completely disrobed, almost every one of them.

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They brought backpacks because they knew they were going to
get out of their clothes and they didn't want to
leave their clothes in the street. They did it to
just to prove a point that they could and that
nobody was gonna bother them. I'd be willing to bet
a lot of money that at a pee wee football game,
or at a baseball game or a soccer game where

(21:24):
little eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve year old kids were
all playing and having fun, I'd bet a lot of
money that if those games were being played down here
in Texas, especially around Houston here, and a bunch of
adults showed up walking naked, maybe leaning on the fence
behind the umpire, or standing in the concession stand line

(21:44):
trying to get a snow cone. I'm pretty sure that
the people around here are the people at these baseball
games and little league football game, peewee football, and anywhere
there's a bunch of kids around. It really doesn't matter.
What matters is that a bunch of naked grown ups
showed up for that. They would either be escorted out
peacefully or otherwise, either by the parents or the police.

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But they sure as heck wouldn't be strutting around that
baseball field or that football field without drawing a whole
lot of unwanted attention. That's just creepy, it really is.
I don't know of a better word to describe that,
other than creepy. For grown people to walk down the
street buck naked in front of children. I hope I

(22:30):
don't ever see anything like that. I would have to
get involved. I'm not big enough or tough enough anymore
to try to fight somebody, but I would sure make
a phone call, and I would sure make a phone call,
and I'd hang around afterward long enough to make sure
that law enforcements showed up. I really don't want to
talk about that anymore, and I hope I never see
that in Houston, Texas. I've got to take a minute

(22:52):
off lighting up the topic at least a little bit,
and shift over to something fun. Some entertainment options around here.
I've lived here most of my life, and I have
been to many of the museums down in the Museum District,
but I can't say I've been to all of them,
and that's probably It's probably been a mistake in my

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adult life. And if you're a senior who is kind
of watching your money, there are options that you may
not know about that would allow you access to most
of the places in the museum district. Here's a couple
of places that will let you in absolutely free if
you're just there on the right day, and that's all
you need, just roll up whenever they're open. And one

(23:36):
is called the Mental Collection. This one's tucked away in
a really nice, peaceful neighborhood, gorgeous, has everything from ancient
tribal pieces to crazy modern surrealist art that most of
us won't really understand. And then there's the Contemporary Arts
Museum Houston. Most people just call this the camh It's

(23:57):
right across the street from the Fine Arts Museum and
has a really really vibrant modern art collection from mostly
from today's artists. This next one I'd never even heard of.
It's called the Rothcoe Chapel, completely silent, peaceful space. It
features fourteen massive dark paintings by a guy named Mark Rothko,

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hence the name, and people seem to love going there
just to sit and reflect. I don't know exactly how
this place defines dark as when it comes to that art,
but a completely silent, peaceful space really appeals to me.
And then there's the Lowndale Art Center. That's a really
cool gallery space that focuses entirely on up and coming

(24:41):
local Texas artists. And then comes the big day Thursday.
If you only have one day to go museum hopping,
make it a Thursday. Almost all the big ones, all
the heavy hitters in this space, open their doors for free.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, this is the big one.
This is the beautiful place. I haven't been in the
in years, but I remember vividly walking through there and

(25:03):
just being amazed at the works that are displayed there.
We have a really fine fine arts museum in Houston,
and you can go there free on Thursdays. They're open
from eleven am to nine pm all day and you
get access to the permanent collection, which spans across multiple
huge buildings. You won't run out of things to see

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just on that Thursday at the Museum of Fine Arts.
One of the most solemn places in the entire museum
district is the Holocaust Museum Houston. You can get in
free on Thursdays there from two pm to five pm.
It is a very moving, very focused human rights education place.
If you will, you'll get to see and read a

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lot about what happened so long ago now thank God,
and some of it might make you uncomfortable, but all
of it will educate you. The Health Museum is another
good one, kind of for the whole family. It's pretty
pretty interesting, very interactive, and it's open from two pm
to seven pm on Thursdays, also free. And in this

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one you can actually walk through a giant model of
the human body. I have a good idea where you
walk into that and I don't even want to think
about where you come out. And finally, the Children's Museum,
or for this audience, more like the Grandchildren's Museum, open
from five pm to eight pm on Thursdays, free. And

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this one's perfect if you're bringing the grandkids. But keep
in mind that you actually have to have a kid
with you to get inside. You can't just roll down there.
You and your wife, both of you eligible for the
low ann Senior Dish at Louby's. No, no, no, you're
gonna have to find a kid to bring with you.
Nothing says it has to be yours, but you have

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to have a kid with you. I want to put
one more place on that list too, and it's not
in Houston. It's actually down in Texas City. It's the
Lone Star Flight Museum. This place is free all day,
every single Tuesday and it's basically giant hangars, several of
them filled with rare old school airplanes. There's an old

(27:11):
DC something I don't remember. It's one of the original
passenger airliners. They've got several World War II aircraft. They've
got a lot of smaller planes. In a different hangar
from there, there are interactive flight simulators in there. That's
a place that's really fun for the entire family. Just
make sure you hop online first to get your free tickets.

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Welcome back to fifty plus, and thank you for listening

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all through this hour. Fourth and final segment starts now
from the Fearmongering Headlines desk comes word that and I'll
quote here two hundred and thirty million Americans will face
dangerous heat ahead of July four end quote. Raise your
hand if you know why not both hands because you're

(28:59):
driving probably right now, but just raise one hand in
the air. And if you don't have your hand in
the air, I'm going to tell you why. Two hundred
and thirty million Americans are gonna face dangerous heat ahead
of Saturday and on Saturday and on Sunday. Because it's summer,
that's why. And nationally they'll face dangerous heat for at

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least another sixty or seventy five days down here. Down here,
that dangerous heat could hang around well into September. Because
it's summer this is it's kind of like the weather
people just won't stop. They won't stop trying to scare us.
And by the way, you'll never see a headline like

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that come out of Canada, or even one that says
two hundred and thirty million people may face dangerous cold
before Christmas. You know why, because there are fewer than
forty million, well forty one million, forty million in some
odd people in that whole giant country. Maybe it's because
it's so brutally cold in winter that would keep me

(30:04):
from wanting to live up there. I can assure you
I like Canada. I've been there. I've been there, and
they'll tell you, oh, you get used to it, same
as we do the heat wave we endure every year
around here. But I, frankly, I would never want to
be forced to get used to temperatures that can turn
you into a popsicle in a half an hour. I
never want to have to hang a lamp in the

(30:25):
engine compartment of my car to keep the oil from freezing.
That's what they have to do up there, and the
farther north you go, the colder it gets quick sidebar,
I've hunted in Canada, shot geese and ducks about I
don't know, thirty years ago. It was an absolutely beautiful place,
absolutely beautiful country. I really enjoyed it, totally different from

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how we did it down here too. Basically a lot
easier than waterfowl hunting down here, if you ask me.
And just like every fishing trip I ever made when
I was working with the paper or since I've been here,
and every hunting trip I learned learn from the guide
up there in Canada, and he learned a few tricks
of the trade for me as well from the who

(31:07):
cares desk as if well who cares? Word has leaked
out now that Lebron James will not return to the
Lakers next season. I wonder why, man, I don't know,
Maybe AARP has a basketball team looking to fill a uniform.
That could be and in far more important news for

(31:30):
lots of us and maybe some family members, even in
case you didn't know, major stores such as Walmart and Target,
even Chucky Cheese, and I saw Sephora added in that list.
Not that I would ever go in there, But in
any event, they have actually set aside specific hours or

(31:52):
in a couple of cases around the country, specific days
on which customers can come in there and not have
to worry about being bombarded by noise and lights and
other things. These are special hours, specific hours so that
their sensory sensitive customers can shop without all the lights

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and the music and whatever other in store distractions there
are that can in some cases cause real legitimate pain
and anxiety for people during those hours, the music's turned off,
the lights are dim to provide a calmer, more relaxing
environment for people who who's who have short fuses, let's

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call it. And if they also can soften the auditory
blow of toddlers having meltdowns because their moms won't buy
them a toy, that would be good. I would like
that I'd shop there. In National Policy and another quick sidebar,
I don't know what it is about some parents these
days that make them that makes them think it's okay

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for their toddler to just be totally blowing up and
for them not saying a word about we don't do
that in here. You're disturbing the other people. I can
guarantee you when I grew up, if I'd have pitched
any kind of a fit like that, I'd have had
a real problem all the way back to the car
on their drive home, and when I got home, and

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if it was my mother who was disciplining me on
the way home, I would get a second dose of
whatever it was when my dad got home. I heard
that more than once, and it struck just the fear
of God came over me. She would, she would just
I would have done something so stupid and so ridiculous
that it really upset her. My mom had the patience

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of a saint. She had to to raise me. But
every now and then I'd set her off, and she would.
You could just see the steam coming out of her ears.
She wouldn't really hit me, but she would. She would.
You could just tell she was she wished she could,
and in any event, it would just be the words
that I feared most. Wait till your dad gets home.

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And he also wasn't. He wasn't a violent man. He
didn't beat me up or anything. But I got caught
a couple of belt weapons in my time. I did,
and I deserved every one of them. I guarantee you
I did. I deserved every single one of them, so
in anyway anyway, Target, Walmart, Chuck E Cheese sub store.

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In other words, what I'm trying to say is, if
you're a person who is in that category and you
would love someplace where you could go shop quietly in
a little dimmer lighting and no music all that stuff,
call the stories you like to shop and say hey,
do you do this? And if they say no, then say, well,
gee whiz, Target and Walmart do it, and Sephora and
Chuck E Cheese do it. Why can't you do that

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for us? And I bet you'd get a pretty positive response,
I really do. Moving out into national politics real quickly,
a thirty year incumbent Rep. Diana Diggett from Colorado lost
her primary to a Democratic social of America backed woman,
twenty nine year old Socialists Melt Kiros for the inky

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blue House seat that's anchored in Denver. There. The story
came from Fox News. Kiros is backed by the usual
socialist suspect, Bernie Sanders AOC and Hassan Piker no relation.
By the way, I don't have an R on my name.
All of them have pretty much come out and admitted
they're no longer Democrats, traditional Democrats, the ones who used

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to work alongside Republicans in Congress Congress to make our
country better. They're being ousted one after one by far
left socialists who have very little trouble getting votes from
young Americans who've been groomed in public schools and universities
to hate our country, and they gladly do so in
exchange for all these promises. Oh, you're going to have

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free this and free that. But there's all promise but
no delivery ever. And the promises of free stuff and
more affordable this and better that just aren't going to
happen in our country, just like that haven't happened in
any other country. You know what, I think, I'm gonna
get off the negative train right now because I have
a couple of things I want to get to before
I have to shut down. First of all, a photograph

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taken by a European telescope. It's in the same orbit
a million miles away from Earth, along with the I
think it's with the hubble To No, it's the Webscope
telescope that's out there along with this one. Anyway, that
it took nine of these photographs in invisible light while
it was pointed at the galactic center of the Milky
Way galaxy. That's where we live, by the way, that

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telescope was pointed at the center of our galaxy for
twenty six straight hours. And the images are just staggering, staggering. Lee.
If I'm beautiful, I'm fascinated by space stuff. I really am.
It shows the incredible density of the stars, sixty million
of them in just a snapshot of the sky, the

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size of your average full moon. Sixty million stars, and
they're really trying to learn more about the planets that
are out there as well. Every one of those stars
has a potential for having a planet or two, or three,
or six or seven orbiting it. And as long as
I'm on Space News, I'll throw this one in. Two
scientists have discovered two planets they're way out there, we'll

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never get there, that are lighter than cotton candy. Think
about that, lighter than cotton candy. Both of them among
the lowest density giant planets ever known, and both for reference.
If you're thinking they're a little bitty, no they're not.
They're both bigger than Jupiter. Cotton Candy's density is about

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zero point zero five grams per cubic centimeter. That's featherweight,
and these planets are lighter than that, but bigger than Jupiter.
And honestly, I have no problem at all wrapping my
head around statistics like that, because they fascinate me and
I absolutely love it. And a quick reminder if any

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of you have forgotten, this Saturday is out country's two
hundred and fiftieth birthday, and this country deserves to be
recognized on its birthday. Two hundred and fifty years, We've
been around and there's not a better place to live
on Earth. That's it for today, Happy Birthday, America. We'll
talk again tomorrow. Audios.