Dogs, Swearing Children, and Coyote Hunting

Today, Doug Pike discusses dogs, swearing children, and coyote hunting.

Episode Transcript

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

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

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Well, this show is all about you, only thee This
is fifty plus with Doug Pike, Helpful information on your finances,
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(00:43):
plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
All right, welcome aboard.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
The Wednesday train leaves the station right now, and we'll
we'll be at our destination wherever the heck that may
be in an hour, almost an hour, fifty five fifty
four minutes somewhere in there. This is I guess maybe
the pretty good sunshiny semi sunshiny day. And I'm glad

(01:10):
to see it. I really am the for all we've
been through. Good Heavens, it's been quite a while, quite
a while.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Indeed, I have a lot of things that I want
to get to. I'm really not sure you know what.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
Let me look at this. I may have Where is
the piece of paper? Yeah, that is not the piece
of paper I was looking for.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
We gonna have to kind of wing it going through
here this first segment.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
I can remember what I did well, is I printed
out in my haste still on the screen because I.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
Just put the computer to sleep yesterday.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
I printed out Tuesday's notes instead of Wednesdays. So that
puts me a little bit behind the eight ball, but
it won't be too big a deal.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
I do have quite a few.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
Things that I wanted to get to, not the least
of which is and I can't remember the people's names.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
That's gonna be a problem for me.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
But in any event, one of the things that concerned
me was an increasing number of politicians sort of, I guess,
in their own ways, just gently encouraging.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
People in this.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
Country to use what they're calling justifiable violence and necessary
violence against the ICE agents and other law enforcement people
who are tasked with rounding up people who aren't supposed
to be here and who have committed crimes and just

(02:41):
they're doing their jobs. There was a conversation between two
people on CNN. One of them I believe her name
is Rashida Talaib to Leab Talabe.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
I believe it is.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
I'm not exactly sure how to pronounce her last name,
but she and the host of the show that was
on that she was on, talked about how these men
and women who are doing that task being masked just
might somehow make these people their rounding up think that

(03:13):
they're being kidnapped, and so that maybe they should be
allowed to use force in self defense. Well, I don't
know of any instance that I could think of where
law enforcement people doing their jobs and executing lawful orders
that they've been given by superiors. I don't think that's

(03:36):
going to hold up for using violence against those people.
It's enough that people out in California especially are going
out of their way. The mayor of Los Angeles, as
a matter of fact, I think it was yesterday yesterday
or day before, might have been Monday, decided she was

(03:56):
going to give money. She was going to give cash cards,
basically two immigrants so that they could kind of keep
moving around and maybe get out of out of the
way when some of these people were coming around to
round them up. It's frustrating to hear. All of that
was a the CNN thing. There were headlines there talking

(04:22):
about how unfairly migrants were being treated and On the
same day, there was a headline.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
At Fox News.

Speaker 3 (04:31):
That let people know that a man who had been
picked up finally after being caught coming into the country
and released under former President Biden's rules, wound up. Allegedly,
he hasn't been taking a court and proven guilty, but
the evidence is there. Apparently he's been charged at least

(04:53):
with kidnapping two children and raping at knife point a
thirteen year old girl. And when that was mentioned, I
believe it was Rashida who snickered, kind of smirked and
smiled about that like that. Just no, we don't know

(05:14):
if that's right or not. I don't understand how we
can possibly be that far lost, how anybody in this
country can be so far lost as to snicker at
anything to do with the rape of a thirteen year
old girl. It's kind of like some of them jumped on,

(05:35):
jumped on after July fourth floods in the Hill Country
and started laying blame on this person or that person
or anybody else, when there were still people alive clinging
to trees up there, and hundreds of volunteers and law
enforcement and fire departments and search and rescue people had

(05:56):
converged on that region and took on the horrible task
of having to find ways to save those people, find
ways to get them out of harm's way. And in
the meantime, people who don't know anything about much of
anything really just took that opportunity to say stupid things.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
And that's all they are. It is just stupid things.
I don't understand the.

Speaker 3 (06:23):
Where they're where their compassion is for people who are
suffering so greatly to find out that they're to find
way at that point on the fourth, fifth, and sixth,
maybe the seventh, even maybe the eighth, still holding out
hope that their loved one might be the one who's
found somewhere far down river, still clinging to a tree

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and hoping to be found. And I have a real
problem with people who don't, who don't take that into
account before they open their big mouths.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
I'll tell you what.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
Let's do this first break early, a little bit early anyway,
and then I'll go back can reprint the right pages,
because there's some really good, juicy stuff out there to
talk about today, and I want to get to a
lot of it. And there's good news along with the
bad news. That's the balance of the world, and I
try to keep it balanced. Here, a little bit of this,
a little bit of that, make it go around on

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We actually the well.

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Speaker 1 (08:34):
Once life without a nap.

Speaker 2 (08:35):
If I suggest you go to bed, sleep it off.

Speaker 1 (08:38):
Just wait until the show's over. Sleepy back that Doug
Pike as fifty plus continues.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
I got the right paperwork in front of me. Now
I feel so much better the I guess one of
the leads. I'm I'm gonna not say too much about
the Hill Country right now, because it's been I want
to when I've got good news I can report from
up there, which may be a while, I'll do that.

(09:05):
I don't want to dwell on. I'm not forgetting about it,
believe me. And if there's news that comes out of there,
I will share it. But until then, I want to
do what we can to pay attention to the other
stories that are pretty big around here. And there were
a whole lot of people. I went in a grocery
store yesterday and there were people stacking up carts with

(09:26):
water already for a system that if they look at
the map, if they look at the predictions, if they
look at any weather forecast, except maybe some of those
that are, they tend to be suspect and chicken little ish.

Speaker 2 (09:42):
Anyway, this thing is that's over.

Speaker 3 (09:45):
There, crawling across Florida and into the Gulf of Mexico
today Gulf of America, into the Gulf.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
I'll stop there.

Speaker 3 (09:53):
It's a hard habit to break, Okay, I've been saying
it the same way for a lot of years. It'll
take some time in any event, coming across and into
the Gulf. This thing is predicted by every model. Every
model shows it going past Alabama, past Mississippi and kind
of hugging the coastline, which will also keep it from

(10:16):
developing very much.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
And then when it.

Speaker 3 (10:19):
Gets somewhere around New Orleans ish, somewhere around that Mississippi
River delta, it's gonna put on a blinker and turn
left or turn right.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
Excuse me, it's gonna turn right. It's gonna go.

Speaker 3 (10:33):
North and just keep plodding northward, still as a depression.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
By all but one model.

Speaker 3 (10:40):
There's only one model that I look at this shows
it even becoming a tropical storm. It's just gonna be rainy,
windy days, and it's gonna just keep on going up
the continent until it runs out of Rain, I guess
runs out of steam.

Speaker 2 (10:55):
If only they would all do that right.

Speaker 3 (10:57):
As of a couple of hours ago, since I didn't
have my notes in front of me beforehand, Wall Street's
big four indicators and gold all were green, and the
only red on the board was the one we want
to be read. And that was a slight dip in
the price of West Texas intermediate crude. All good news
after yesterday's a little sell off behind more talk of

(11:19):
tariffs being used by President Trump to bring other nations
kind of in line with better trade deals for us,
and the closer we get to something that makes sense,
something that can really benefit us, the better off we're
all going to be much better off. On the same page,

(11:39):
by the way, I saw news that another country, and
I wish I could remember exactly which one it was,
has pledged some investment somewhere, and I believe it's a
nine figure investment of money in our country over the
next few years. How anybody can look at what's happening now,
honestly and not see the benefits to our country, not
see the lift it's giving us in our in our

(12:03):
world view, It's just beyond me, so uh to tee
it up, by the way, actually from taking advantage of
hard working Americans desks.

Speaker 2 (12:14):
Let me go there.

Speaker 3 (12:15):
I'm not gonna I'm not gonna talk about the Open
Championship over there just yet. Although I did hear from
Billy ray Brown, one of a good friend from a long,
long time ago, and I asked if he was there,
and he said, no, he's he's covering something up in
Reno Tahoe up there some event. I'm not sure which
one it is. It might be a lower tier PGA

(12:37):
Tour event, it might be something else, but that's where
he is. But I asked him who he liked in
the Open, and he said for some reason, and he's
not He wasn't really able to articulate a reason. He
likes Tommy Fleetwood, and I would not bet against Fleetwood
for this one. But there are a couple of other
guys that I might.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
Look at, and it's hard. It's hard to walk away
from Scheffler at all.

Speaker 3 (13:04):
Right now, that's kind of an odds on favorite pick
McElroy as well, and who knows, maybe got her up,
can get her up again and take advantage of that
field and find a way to do something. Tournament starts tomorrow.
I'll be watching and reporting on it all through the

(13:26):
weekend and through the end of the week. I might
hit leaderboards tomorrow and Friday, but I don't think we'll
do much more than that. From the taking advantage of
hard working Americans desk comes the word in a Fox
News story that some of this country's biggest retailers actually
have been taking advantage of tariff talk to raise prices,

(13:48):
even even on items that are not subjected whatsoever to tariffs.
In fact, the story said, many of the items that
have seen these big price hikes have ever been mentioned
in any of this talk about having to raise things
to offset trade imbalances. Prices in this country on pretty

(14:09):
much everything we touch went up after during COVID, and
at the end of COVID, when all of that died down,
when the supply chain was restored and all of that
was gone, most of those prices stayed right where they
had been, most of them. Wholesale prices since then have

(14:31):
come down on most of those items, but we're not
seeing that reflected in the retail prices we pay. Some
of the big box retailers are just stubbornly and greedily
and I'm normally not that kind of guy, you know.
I don't like to pick on companies for wanting to
make a profit, but to deliberately raise prices on stuff

(14:53):
that never went up at the wholesale level, that kind
of bothers me a little bit, It really does. That
bothers me, and more than a little bit, actually blaming
tariffs for the increases when tariff's weren't there from the
let's lighten it up a little. I've got more stuff

(15:13):
that I hate to have to talk about, but I will.
But I also have some very good news about it.
Kind of a lost and found, if you will. A
German woman vacationing in Australia had rented a vehicle and
was driving all around the outback. I don't remember exactly
where she entered, but she eventually got her big suv

(15:38):
stuck in mud twenty one miles from the nearest kind
of a main road within the Australian out back. Well,
they found her a live, believe it or not, twelve
days after this ordeal of hers began. She'd lost a
lot of weight, been eaten alive by mosquitoes, torn apart

(16:00):
by the brush. Nighttime temperatures dropped as low as thirty
two degrees, she said, just to survive, she drank water
from puddles and ate scraps of food that she'd tucked
into her pockets. When she decided to leave the vehicle,
thought she'd get to a road real quick, thought she'd

(16:20):
wave somebody down, just like she's in the middle of
a city somewhere, and the people who actually found her. Well,
wasn't the people who found her who said it, but
the people who know about getting lost like that pointed
out that leaving that vehicle was the biggest mistake she made,
and she's lucky it didn't cost her life today a

(16:43):
long time ago. And if you know where you are
and know where you're headed and have a good idea,
she got lost pretty quickly after she left that vehicle.
She said she thought she knew where she was going,
but clearly she didn't and ended up being found. I
want to say it was ten twelve miles from where
she'd gotten out. The thing that works in your favor

(17:06):
if you stay with a vehicle or stay where you
first realize you're lost, rather than wandering aimlessly. Nowadays, rescuers
have these big old drones they can put up and
search by heat. They can search by a lot of
different ways, and it's a whole lot easier for them
to locate somebody who's in a giant off road vehicle

(17:31):
than it is to locate somebody who's huddled next to
a tree trying to stay warm.

Speaker 2 (17:36):
Just stay put.

Speaker 3 (17:38):
Even a stuck vehicle provides you shelter from the elements.
And she certainly should have known that nighttime temperatures were
going to drop. And why she walked away, I'll never know,
but she's darn lucky to be alive. And by the way,
if you've got that vehicle there, and you've packed properly
enough food and water, you ought to be able to

(17:59):
get through at least a few days on your own
without having to lift a finger other than to open
a wrapper on a protein bar tay in a break.
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Speaker 1 (19:43):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them, check us fluids,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 2 (19:54):
Back fifty plus. Thank you for listening, certainly to appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (19:57):
On this Wednesday afternoon, I've got some driving to do
this afternoon, a little bit, not too far, not too far,
And as always, in the back of my vehicle there
are golf clubs and fishing rods, just in case some
opportunity arises that I just can't ignore from the I
see that one.

Speaker 2 (20:18):
That one. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (20:21):
I dealt with this a little bit in the first
segment about how the I think way too many people
in this country still believe that we should have totally
open borders. I don't agree with that. A country with
no borders just really isn't a country. There's nothing to
keep people from coming here illegally, and that's that's a problem.

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And to keep people who we really don't want in
our country out of here, that's a problem. So we're
working on that. We're working on it. One of the
things that have become interesting talking points too. Nobody seems
to have a problem nobody on the left has a
problem with the protesters out there who for years now

(21:07):
have covered their faces when they're committing crimes and destroying
statues and setting cars on fire and throwing rocks at police.
They don't seem to have a problem with that, but
they want our law enforcement people to take those masks off.

Speaker 2 (21:20):
And I honor, I don't. I can't follow. There's just
no logical path to that conclusion. It makes no sense.

Speaker 3 (21:29):
A The good news is though, that with increasing determination
people in charge of taking care of our country and
keeping all of us safe from the people who would
do us harm or worse, they're not backing down anymore.
They're actually pushing back against all the unfounded claims that

(21:50):
come out. And just this week, Apartment of Homeland Security
absolutely rip the New York Times for a story about
how our Hill Country flood opened up, and the Times
claimed that FEMA didn't answer calls from survivors in the
midst of the tragedy. Christy Nome had a DHS stood

(22:13):
up and pretty much said emphatically on x that the
accusations made by the Times were absolutely false and that
every call they received generated a response. In the early
parts of something like that unfolding, there's going to be
a major spike in calls and that's going to lead
to some little bit longer wait times. And I don't

(22:35):
know how long exactly, but all of the calls were
answered as quickly as they could be, and NOME said
they see within hours of the flood. According to NOM,
DHS SAT three hundred and eleven staffers up there to
work alongside the rescuers. They arrived with aerial imagery capability,

(22:55):
they arrived with intelligence already taken and done, and shelter
temporary shelter for one hundred and seventy one survivors. Something
tells me The Times isn't gonna be printing a retraction.
I can just about guarantee that what they wrote was
inflammatory and false, and it's like, okay, what have we

(23:16):
got for tomorrow? Serve this purpose, which was to rile
people up who still think there's truth in newspapers just
because they're big city newspapers.

Speaker 2 (23:24):
Those days are long gone. Those days are long gone.

Speaker 3 (23:28):
I've gotten more on that story with Tashida, but I'm
not gonna no, I'm not going back to that.

Speaker 2 (23:35):
That's just too much. That's enough of that stuff. Let's
go to the far light side of the page. Got that. Yeah,
all of that's done good.

Speaker 3 (23:46):
By the way, Amazon turns thirty today, And if you
are younger than about forty, you probably don't even realize that.
When Amazon launched all it was. All it was was
an online bookstore. And I bet it didn't have just
a whole lot of titles compared to what's out there now.

Speaker 2 (24:08):
It was just books. That's it. Amazon the online source
for books. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (24:14):
I don't recall who Amazon used for it shipping early
on either. I doubt that they did it themselves.

Speaker 2 (24:21):
But there you have it.

Speaker 3 (24:24):
If you're wondering why puppies are drawn to squeaky this
is kind of one of these conversation starters. If you
got something to go to, some gathering of friends or
family or whatever this weekend, just ask if anybody knows
why puppies are drawn to squeaky toys, And the answer
goes to the depths of their DNA. Those squeaky toy

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sounds mimic the sounds of distress in prey animals, going
back to being wild dogs and chasing down food.

Speaker 2 (24:58):
Who knew, huh, that's why?

Speaker 3 (24:59):
Well, most of you, I don't know a fair number
of you might know anything about predator hunting and coyote
hunting and stuff like that, but the sounds that are
made by, if you would, a coyote call, are the
sounds of distressed small mammals, and that's what gets them

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coming and running your way. An interesting study I don't
understand who they asked and why they answered this way,
found that people, some people not in me, probably not will,
would prefer a mean boss if you see the world
as mostly a caring and collaborative place. It says here

(25:44):
you probably think aggressive bosses are jerks, But if you
think it's a dog eat dog world, you might see
that management style as somehow necessary to get through it all.
And some people say they even admire it, even my
I guess, watching or hearing themselves get chewed out or
disciplined in front of everybody else. I'm not a thumbs

(26:08):
up or thumbs down on mean boss will thumbs down.
I agree one hundred percent. I agree one hundred percent.
I can't imagine why anybody would want to do that.
This one one of these things, one of these things
just shouldn't be on this list. Somehow, but it's There

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was a study done of teachers on TikTok who were
sharing horrific places they bumped into students outside of school,
that outside of school place they bumped into students. I'll
go to the easiest one while they were moonlighting somewhere
or while they were at a bar. Those two came

(26:50):
up pretty frequently. Somebody, at least one of them said
while they were at therapy, which would be somewhat awkward.
And the really bizar are when whilst getting a bikini wax.

Speaker 2 (27:05):
I yeah, we'll just let that one line there on
the way out.

Speaker 3 (27:09):
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the prices, and this is he set these prices even
before there was any mention of tariffs.

Speaker 2 (27:47):
Anywhere.

Speaker 3 (27:48):
He didn't wait for the prices maybe to go up
and then just kind of take it down a little
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Old Guy's rule, and of course women never get old
if you want to avoid sleeping on the couch.

Speaker 3 (29:08):
Okay, well, I think that sounds like a good plan.

Speaker 1 (29:11):
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug.

Speaker 3 (29:14):
Thanks for listening. Certainly do appreciate it. On this Wednesday afternoon,
I got just a little bit of time left. I
don't want to I don't want to burn it all
up with bad stuff or good stuff. I will say.
I don't know about you, but somehow, some way, I am.
I am getting more and more spam calls than.

Speaker 2 (29:38):
Ever before and ever before, and I don't know why.
I don't know what I did. What is this?

Speaker 3 (29:47):
Okay, yeah, I got something that was disguised as breaking news,
but for this program, probably not so much. These spam
calls are driving me crazy. I'm getting, on average now
eight to ten a day, and each one of them,
despite me not answering them, is generating a voicemail which blank.

(30:12):
As soon as the technology that they're using, the AI
in the boiler room, kicks in, it just throws the
call off and goes to the next number. But so now,
right now I'm sitting on eight unheard messages, and so
far I'm er for I think four on anything being there,

(30:33):
I don't If somebody knows how to turn that off,
let me know.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
Please.

Speaker 3 (30:37):
By the way, we do have our phones working in
here now, So if there's a point at which tomorrow
or today even well now, maybe not today, it might
be a little bit late to get a good call
in today, but moving forward, don't forget and go ahead
and put this number in your phone just in case
I say something that that triggers your your impulse to
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which would be your phone, your tablet, anything other basically
than your AM radio, in a vehicle, or maybe on
your nightstand if you're really old school, if you're listening
that way, you can at the iHeartRadio app, you will

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find a talkback button and you can push that and leave.
I think it's about a twenty second message perhaps somewhere
in there. Uh, leave your first name so I can
attribute great things said on those to the right person,
and then I'll I'll get them, we'll, we'll, we'll screen
them and check them out for us. And then he'll
pass them on to me and we'll see if we

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can't generate a little interaction that way as well. But
I love talking to you guys, I really do. I
do it all the time on my weekend show, The
Outdoor Show over on KBME seven one three two one
two five nine five zero. Write it down, put it
somewhere where.

Speaker 2 (32:01):
You won't lose it.

Speaker 3 (32:03):
In Energy News, I found this interesting, but I'm still
I'm cautiously optimistic about this, and the work has been
going on, and the effort has been underway for several
years now. I am not, I'll say up front a
big fan of windmills. I don't like those giant windmills

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that are supposed to be generating enough electricity to keep
us all going in hot and cold and everything in between.
Too often they malfunction. There have been problems up until
recently with the blades of those things, once they're decommissioned,
having to be buried in monstrous landfills because they would

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not biodegrade. That hurdle has been jumped with some biodegradable ones.
But the bottom line is those things kill a ton
of birds. They're just they're not fun to look at
on the way to Corpus Christy.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
I'm just not a fan of them.

Speaker 3 (33:02):
But I saw a story this morning about something different,
and that is taking modified giant wind turbines, and well
they've been modified to function underwater and are being used
off the Scottish coast and other places around the world
to take advantage of the energy generated by the rising

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and falling of tides, by the movement of ocean currents
and these things. There's the ones over there off the
Scottish coast knock on Wood have generated NonStop power now
moved only by tidal movement for the past six years
without malfunction. Marine energies just getting a ton of information

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and attention worldwide, if for no other reason, then it
doesn't clutter the landscape like the giant pin wheels do.
Those things they're just I don't know they're better ways.
And I don't think solar panels are a better way either,
because the first hailstorm that comes through has been found
out a lot recently, hailstorm has just knocked those things out.

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Still hesitance among the investors in these current and water
turbines turbines, mostly because the ocean is a very cruel
environment in which place anything mechanical that just it eats
up everything that falls into it, absolutely everything that falls
into it. But these particular turbines over there off the

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Scottish coasts been hunting along for six years. That's impressive.
That's impressive. Similar technology with pistons and other driving mechanisms
is being tested, and I have a hunch that this
one's gonna come through and be like I think hydrogen
engines will be someday they will take the place of

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electric engines in cars and what still a long ways
to go, still a lot of testing to do.

Speaker 2 (35:03):
But fingers are crossed.

Speaker 3 (35:04):
We certainly, I think everybody can agree we're gonna have
to look for alternative energy sources at some point. But
we still have enough oil to fuel the entire planet
for something like four hundred years, so there's no rush,
I don't think. In fact, one of the automakers just
announced big plans to build bigger and better manufacturing of

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gas powered cars gaso lean powered cars up there, and
I want to say, in Detroit, back up there in
the Motor City, underwatch your tongue. Thirty nine percent of
Americans can't get through the average day without swearing at
least once. The most offensive words.

Speaker 2 (35:47):
Now, I'm not going to say them. I know better
than that.

Speaker 3 (35:49):
Some of the words they included on the list, though,
were pretty lame. They would be like toddler, wash your mouth.
Although I do hear toddler. I don't know how parents
think it's okay for their little toddlers to be dropping
F bombs, but they do. Sometimes I disagree with that
a lot. That's enough, will, I'm not gonna try to

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squeeze in anything else. Let's go ahead and get out
a few seconds early. On our way out, I will
thank you for listening and hope to see it tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (36:16):
Thanks audios.