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August 21, 2024 36 mins
Today, Doug Pike interviews Jeff Herman about eating insects.  Pike also speaks with Chris LeVrier about HPD vs. HFD.
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Speaker 2 (00:51):
All right, Wednesday issue of the program starts right now.
Thank you all for listening. I certainly do appreciate it.
For some reason my opening remarks that the notes I
took for that did not print on the printer. So
that's okay, we'll get through it. Not a big deal.
Thank you appreciate that. Will We have two good interviews

(01:16):
coming up, By the way, we have Chris Leavie Laverer.
Excuse me, he is HPD. I for sure want to
get that name right. He and I are going to
talk about a baseball game coming up in early September,
not Astros, not Little League World Series. We'll talk about
that around twelve thirty and then before that, and this

(01:37):
one's going to be interesting. Will you ever eate any bugs?

Speaker 3 (01:42):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Have you really seriously?

Speaker 4 (01:44):
Yeah, wintle, Yeah, crickets, larvae.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Larvae, You never ate larvae anything? No, you did not win, Yeseri,
great New Mexico. How how were they served a meal
or just dig them up out of the ground.

Speaker 4 (02:04):
And no, they saw them in little boxes, you know,
cricket fish bait will crickets, Yeah, crickets, larvae, all that.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
Yeah, earthworms had them in there too. In that same store.
You've seen fishing rods in the store. Maybe No, it
was not fishing, Yeah it was. It was. They didn't
tell you. In New Mexico. Yeah, I fished in New Mexico. Absolutely,
in the White Mountains. Absolutely I have. Is that near it?
Because that's where I was. We were about as far

(02:33):
from civilization as you can get in New Mexico. We
were up high on a mountain and it had a
great time right up until the time came to leave
when our two there were This is a well, it's
not a really quick story, but I can tell it
as quickly as possible. So I get invited out back

(02:54):
when I was writing for the newspaper, I get invited
out to come sample along with three or four media people.
This amazing new business, this guy starting up with a
friend of his, where they are gonna hike you high
up into the mountains and then provide everything you need
food wise for three or four days. Everything we took

(03:16):
up there to eat, to where to sleep in. All
of that stuff we packed into that mountain and crossed
what was a pretty decent sized body or piece of
water moving water down below. And by the time we
got up to where we were going to camp, which
was a gorgeous campsite by the way, we finally get
up there and that that pretty robust creek is only

(03:40):
just a little dribble way up the mountain. It hasn't
been fed by ten or twelve other little, other little
tiny dribbles. So we stayed there. The water, the weather's great.
The first three nights were there. The last night were there, however,
a storm came in and there was discussion around dinner

(04:00):
before it started raining about how we would get out.
He said, don't worry. We've never not been able to
get out of here. We've camped up here a thousand
times and we've never had any problems getting out. Well,
it rained all night, and by all night, I mean
all night, and in the morning, that little dribble of

(04:22):
a creek that was gently moving past our tents through
the night was a raging river. It was about Instead
of being about ten or twelve feet wide, it was
about thirty or forty feet wide, and it was humming
down that mountain. The guy wakes up, he said, we're
still fine, don't worry. Never had a problem getting out

(04:44):
of here. So we all break camp. We pack up.
The rain has stopped now, but it's muddy in all directions,
and everybody loads their gear onto their backs. He puts
one foot and his walking stick into that water and says,
we're not going to be able to get out this way, Like, oh, really, really,

(05:05):
we're not. So what's the alternative?

Speaker 3 (05:07):
Then?

Speaker 2 (05:07):
Do you have a helicopter in this operation? He said,
We're just gonna have to go. Hold on a minute,
he says, So he and his buddy go back over
to a flat spot somewhere and spread out a map,
a topo map, and they plotted a trail that got
us out by going up an additional four hundred vertical

(05:29):
feet and around to the back of the mountain and
then back down that way to the only road within
fifty miles of this place. Probably only where we came
out on. The road was about five or six miles
from where we had left our vehicle, so we had
to pack that out too. It was some needless to say,

(05:53):
I came home and I got a good story out
of it because it was a lot of fun and
it was really a beautiful place. Their operation ran smoothly
right up until that time that they had to figure
out how to get us out of there, which they
never had to do, and they should have planned for that.
And I'm pretty confident that business didn't make it beautiful place,

(06:15):
though I'm sure other people have camped up there and
then just tickled pink. But it was tough, and we
did eat some delicious fresh rainbow trout. By the way,
that's my fishing experience in New Mexico. Will carried a
fly right up there, had a blast. That was one
of my first fly fishing experiences as well. All right,
so moving forward, I got boy, there's a couple of

(06:36):
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Let's do this will Oh, this is a good one.
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About a minute and a half. You have about a
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Speaker 1 (09:10):
This is fifty plus with Dougpike.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
All Right, welcome back to fifty plus. Thank you for listening.
I appreciate it. Another blistering day, huh, maybe the hottest
of the summer so far. In this segment, we're gonna
talk about the food we eat, and this is gonna
be a little different, the foods that some people think
we should be eating more often. And I'm not talking
about nutritional value, although there is great nutritional value actually

(09:44):
without giving it away, giving away the surprise, just shit.
I'm gonna go ahead and welcome in. Jeff Herman, editor
in chief at lonstarter dot com. Jeff, this is gonna
be fun. You know it is. Welcome aboard man.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
Howld you glad to be here?

Speaker 2 (09:58):
Appreciate it? So I understand you're a in Dallas, oh
for heaven side unless you're still here? Okay, good, good, good.
So you want to tell them, or you want me
to tell them what we should eat more of and
more often.

Speaker 3 (10:14):
Well, it's surprising that you can eat insects at some
of the restaurants in Houston and Fort Worth in Austin.
So this is one of those surprising things that if
you like Mexican food, well, have some cata. I think
it's grasshoppers with your guacamole at some of these restaurants.
You never And there's an ant moley sauce at one
of those restaurants Houston. So yeah, and apparently I don't

(10:37):
know a whole lot about this, but Soocie also has
something related to worms that you can get, So you know,
if you're into that sort of thing, it's it's it's
really terrific because it's authentic Mexican food. This is how
Mexican people have been living for years. So if you
want to go for authentic Mexican food, you can go

(10:58):
with insects. They have a little crust, a little bit flavor.
But you know, what we think of as text mechs
not quite so ecius with insects. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
Text mex has always been a little bit watered down
version of Mexican food. And anybody who's actually been deep
into Mexico for any reason and stayed long enough to
go into a restaurant somewhere knows that it is different,
and I like both sides of it. I do. But
we're talking about bugs here, Jeff. We're talking about these creepy,
crawley little things that are actually just like you said,

(11:29):
they're finding their way into restaurants. Now, what would you
say about how many Americans would you guess regularly include
bugs in their diets?

Speaker 3 (11:38):
Now, I would think there's very few, But they do
it in ways that you might not think of. If
you can't see the legs and wings of the crickets
or grasshoppers, it's a little easier to have cricket flowers have.
You know, there is actually a cricket protein drink mix
that's made in Austin, and it's hor shot of flavor.

Speaker 2 (12:01):
Of course, it's made in Austin's Jeff. But that's okay.

Speaker 3 (12:06):
But what I'm surprised about is that Fort Worth has
a Mexican restaurant that's serving up you know, canterpillars and
grasshoppers and you know, just these kind of things that
you wouldn't normally expect. Of course, Fort Worth, Houston, Austin,
it's it's it's in many places across the state. It's
authentic Mexican. It apparently is also authentic tie, some Japanese

(12:28):
and some African cuisine, but all I could find in
Texas was this is predominantly at authentic Mexican restaurants.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
We are we're at the very beginning really of this
infusion into everyday life. I can remember as a little kid,
and we're talking sixty years ago, okay, there was a
Sears store close to home, and we would go into Sears,
and my little sister and I would run over to
this one little area where they had some sort of
bizarre foods from around the world or whatever, and you

(12:58):
could get chocolate covered Rick. It's her chocolate covered ants.
And we just thought that was yicky and ucky. But
it's it's moving into the main stream, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (13:09):
It actually is, but you know, it's inching its way,
much like those inch worms do into the main stream.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
Yeah, it's gonna take a while. I saw and in
your in your business, you may have already seen it too,
a video. I don't remember where. It doesn't doesn't say
where it was shot, but there is a young woman
somewhere over in Asia, presumably because that's there were others
in the the scene in the restaurant. They're the same way.

(13:37):
They're all of Asian descent, it looks like. And she
sees a cockroach walking across her table in the little restaurant.
She grabs the cockroach. She lifts the top off the
bunt of her burger, puts the roach in there, slams
it back down, and takes a big bite. Couldn't if

(13:59):
I find it my thing?

Speaker 3 (14:01):
Yeah? No, not my thing. But you know there's this
cicada Invsion with two broods all over the US. Yeah,
and it turns out that you can eat cicadas too.
I heard about the lace serving one salads.

Speaker 2 (14:13):
Oh my gosh, No, I'm not doing that. I'm not
ready for it yet. What states people eat the most
bugs in this country?

Speaker 3 (14:20):
Well, I guess it wouldn't be surprising, but California is
number one, New York two, North Carolina three, Minnesota four,
Florida five. Texas is number eleven eleven.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
I saw, I saw the bottom five. I was hoping
we would be like forty three or forty four. Not
so much.

Speaker 3 (14:38):
Well, you know, when you look at the when you
look at the bottom five, Alaska doesn't surprise me because
their insects are going to be frozen, So you know,
not not a big thing there. Yeah, which reminds me
I got suckers years ago from my nephews because they
had bugs in them and you know these kind of things,

(14:58):
so you know, I mean it was just more of
a fascinating thing to surprise them with. But you can
still get those out there. But d C was actually
at the bottom. But that's because there is like a
ban on a hunting for like roadkill and like you know,
wildlife spec and networt of thing. I think the gun
band is basically because of you know, Congress and you know,
lawmaker song and sort of stuff. But that's what had

(15:19):
DC kind of at the bottom because they have restaurants
that serve insects too. It's just that we looked at
insects and then you know, like like wildlife that can
shoot too.

Speaker 2 (15:30):
Oh my word. Are they available in grocery stores around
here anywhere? How do you buy them by the pound,
by the piece at court? What bushel basket?

Speaker 3 (15:39):
Would you believe that? At one point, I think they
were in ATV stores Now that was there was one
of the No, there's a company that's making like all
these different kinds of crickets that you are chocolate flagor
and that sort of thing. In fact, for this story,
I tried tricky crickeys hot and spicy gormet roasted crickets,
and they surprised me. I didn't think, you know, I

(16:01):
was afraid of what, you know, they would taste like.
But they tasted really good. But I can't tepe as
the flavor or if it was the cricket itself, but
there was a little bit of crunch.

Speaker 2 (16:12):
Sure, I would the difference for.

Speaker 3 (16:15):
So many of these people who might be trying this.
It's pactful of protein, but you might want to do
a flour or something like that because you don't need
to see the legs and the wings or the heads.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
So so much more tempting. And I use that word
loosely as a crunchy food than as a gooey food.
I couldn't go that exactly. Oh my gosh, right.

Speaker 3 (16:38):
Right, yeah, no, I wouldn't want to do that at all.
But you know, as far as a crunchy thing, you know,
this worked great. I was surprised by the taste of
the crickets. And you know, they make in all sorts
of different flavors in one of these places actually was
in supermarkets across Texas because it was a big deal
when they reached that agreement to be able to be
in other places.

Speaker 2 (16:58):
Is there any room that vegetarians have to follow? Can
they eat bugs?

Speaker 3 (17:05):
Uh? I think so, but I'm not one.

Speaker 2 (17:08):
Sure about that, you know, I'm not sure more they
can have all of mine. I'll tell you that. That's hilarious.
Do you foresee We've got to go ahead. We got
baby a minute left.

Speaker 3 (17:22):
I did look, and you know, none of these recipes
involving insects were on the vegetarian mevenus of the Mexican restaurants.
So it's one of those crazy things that I'm not
one herposon sure where you would find this, but if
you go to Socia and you want the grasshoppers or
the crickets or the ants, they'll serve it to you.

(17:43):
I'm sure.

Speaker 2 (17:43):
I'm sure.

Speaker 3 (17:44):
I feel clearly labeled on the rest. It may not
be clearly labeled on the menu, but it's there and
you can get it there. Montros apparently has the suit.

Speaker 2 (17:53):
You know what you know? Huh? All right, Jeff, thank
you so much, man. It's been a pleasure. Long starter
dot Com go there. They've got a whole big page
or two. I'm sure about eating bugs and it's it's coming.
It's coming. Thank you, Jeff. I appreciate it, man, I.

Speaker 3 (18:09):
Appreciate thanks so much.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
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Speaker 1 (20:01):
That's why every few months we wash him, check his fluids.

Speaker 2 (20:04):
And spring on a fresh code of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike. Hi, welcome back to fifty plus.
Thank you for listening. Third segment starts right now. And

(20:26):
if you're gonna be outdoors today, by all I means
stay hydrated. Okay, be sure to stay hydrated. We're going
to talk in this segment speaking about door activity, about
a baseball game, not an Astros game. As I mentioned, earlier.
Not a little league game, but an annual game that
proves once and for all the sort of I guess

(20:49):
who's better at baseball? Police officers are firefighters talking about
the Battle of the Badges coming up September seven at
Consolation Field out in sugar Land. It's actually almost a
full day of activities. All go ahead and welcome in.
Chris Leaverer, HPD, Board Secretary of the Houston Police Baseball Club.
Welcome aboard, Chris. I'm doing very well. Thank you. I

(21:10):
appreciate that, and I appreciate what you're doing for our
community straight up. For I didn't want to waste another
second before I did that. All of you got, every
one of you who wear badges for a living. I
have one hundred percent respect for all of you. So
let's get to the good stuff. What was the score
last year's game?

Speaker 5 (21:27):
I think it was something like eight to three.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
Oh, it beat us last year. You could have said
anything you wanted right there. I would have backed you up.

Speaker 5 (21:38):
I had you, man, we used it as motivation.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
Well that's good. Yeah, firefighters got an edge from swinging
axes or what. You guys are probably better runners. I
would guess better at chasing down fly balls from chasing
bad guys.

Speaker 5 (21:50):
Right, oh yeah, oh yeah, I think we got their
number this year. We've we've improved a ton over the
last the course of last year, we actually won our
intermediate league championship, good for the spring season. So uh,
we we've improved a lot. We've improved in a lot
of areas. Got some younger blood in there, and I

(22:11):
think we're ready for him this year.

Speaker 2 (22:13):
Anybody on this year's team kind of accidentally maybe every
now and then play a game for the Skeeters the
old Space Cowboys.

Speaker 5 (22:20):
No, no, we don't have anybody like that.

Speaker 2 (22:22):
No, sir.

Speaker 5 (22:25):
Man, that'd be awesome. We have some guys that can
that can helmet throw some heat. But uh oh yeah, no,
we got we got some good pitching. Good pitching, upgraded
our pitching upgraded, some of our hitting. Some positions we
got filled with some younger younger, like I said, younger
guys in there that can actually play the game a
little bit better and they're more familiar with the game.
So it's uh, I'm excited.

Speaker 2 (22:47):
I was gonna ask, but from that answer right there,
I already know you guys take this pretty seriously, don't.

Speaker 5 (22:52):
You well, we're playing in a tournament as well in
Chicago into September. It's the World Series for First Responders teams,
so we're trying to compete in that and hopefully win
that as well. But be nice to start off by
going out there and beating the firefighters, you know, September seventh.

Speaker 2 (23:12):
A little warm up for you.

Speaker 5 (23:13):
Huh oh yeah, we're actually we got a tune up
game this Saturday as well.

Speaker 2 (23:18):
You're playing Dallas FT.

Speaker 5 (23:20):
That's gonna be out in San Jacino's Cinder Center College
Field off a Uvaldy Road. Yes, sir, And it's just
a tune up game. It's open to whoever wants to come,
but it's just kind of more of a tune up
game for us and for them. We're playing HFD at
nine am and then we're playing Dallas Fire Department after
that at noon.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
Fantastic Crystal Vera on fists plus here. As I mentioned
at the top, there's a lot more to this day
than just the baseball game.

Speaker 3 (23:47):
Right.

Speaker 2 (23:47):
You got a hot dog eating contest too, don't you.

Speaker 5 (23:50):
Oh yeah, there's it's gonna gonna fireworks hot dog eating contests.
It's a whole big thing. I mean, that full concessions
this year. It's it's gonna be a lot of fun.
Bring the whole family. I mean, it's a play of
stuff for the kids to do out there at Constanation Field.

Speaker 2 (24:06):
It's a beautiful part. No doubt. Anybody on your team
also doing the hot dog eating or are they separate
saporate moves?

Speaker 5 (24:12):
It's gonna be separate. I think we're gonna hunt. I
think it just yeah, we thought about using one of
our guys, but he.

Speaker 3 (24:22):
A degree.

Speaker 2 (24:23):
He's about sixteen eighteen hot dogs in his belly.

Speaker 5 (24:28):
We joked about using one guy on the team, but
now using I think, yeah.

Speaker 2 (24:33):
Let it sit there, Chris, let it sit there. So
how do you had we get from there to a
tug of war between all four branches of our military
to well, we don't have a coast guard branch, but
I don't know, I don't know what they bring. So
you got the Army, the Navy, the Marines, and the
Air Force teaming up for a tug of war. Whose
idea was that that's kind of cool?

Speaker 5 (24:55):
I think that was going to be Nick Sullivan, our presidents.
He's I think he's excellent, and he's kind of bringing
that in he saw trying different stuff, and we're trying
different stuff this year and seeing what works, what doesn't,
that kind of thing. We're still new at this. This
is only our second ever, I think HFD verse.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
Yeah, that's what I read.

Speaker 5 (25:15):
So this is only the second time we've done it
where we plan on improving every year.

Speaker 2 (25:20):
So well, anything that I can do to help you
guys improve that, just ask please. I'm dead serious about that.
Chris overly in absolutely funny games, which you're also going
to be out there to kind of just recognize every
first responder and and the military. Who who originally came
up with this idea? Was it a group of people
or just that one you were mentioning it?

Speaker 5 (25:42):
Mainly it was for the baseball team. Nick kind of
got everything started for us. And then the nine to
eleven game we played last year on nine to eleven,
and so we turned it into the Battle of the
bad Is Heroes game around nine to eleven, and we're
doing it on a Saturday this year. I think last
year was on a Monday.

Speaker 2 (25:58):
Saturday's get a better crowd, right.

Speaker 5 (26:01):
Well, that's that was kind of the idea behind it,
And like I said, it was also it's a heroes
game and we've turned it into the Heroes Battle of
the Badgers game now and but we yeah, we kind
of got to start with nine to eleven game.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
So back to the baseball game. Or these is the
HFD team just a tomato can just in your way
till you get to the playoffs and all or or
do they have some talent too?

Speaker 5 (26:24):
No, there, they got some talented guys on that team.

Speaker 2 (26:26):
I'm looking for the guys who are in the fire department.
And if they're listening right now, they're they're probably pretty
mad at me for saying I want to just said,
but it's all in fun and it's a great idea. Now,
I'm thrilled that you guys are doing this. If you had,
do you have a a one sheet or some kind
of a flyer or poster that you could send me
so I could put it at my Facebook page for you.

Speaker 5 (26:47):
Absolutely, we've got a flyer with the QR codes on it,
and we've got you know, like I said, it's it's
got everything on there. It's got a website. We got
a website you can post, uh, what's an It's linked
MLB dot com and it will give you access. You
can buy tickets there. You also, like I said, the
flyer will send you that and we'll it has the

(27:08):
QR codes on there. You can scan with your phone
and buy the tickets as well.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
What's it cost to get in.

Speaker 5 (27:14):
It's twenty dollars to get in.

Speaker 2 (27:16):
That's very reasonable, yes, sir, it's kind of and it's
a donation to what you guys are doing.

Speaker 5 (27:21):
Right, correct, that's all proceeds, yes sir.

Speaker 2 (27:25):
Yeah, just be sure to remind them at the door
that hey, this is for something else. If you've got
more than twenty bucks on.

Speaker 5 (27:30):
You, the tone me up absolutely now.

Speaker 2 (27:34):
Yeah, it's not the maximum amount, right.

Speaker 5 (27:38):
Yes, sir. Goodness is all charity everything. We're not getting
paid anything for this game. It's all charity.

Speaker 2 (27:43):
So well, we are getting paid by every one of
you who put that uniform on every morning. And I
deeply appreciate what you do for us. I really do.
When I got the I think it was two days ago,
I got the information on this thing, and I responded
within probably two minutes. It just said, yeah, just tell

(28:04):
me what I gotta do, Chris, thank you. I hate
to tell you, but we're out of time, my friend.

Speaker 5 (28:08):
Yeah, I just got a call for it. Might have
to be going out the door here in just a second,
but yeah, I appreciate, Hey, I appreciate everything you've done
for us.

Speaker 3 (28:15):
Here.

Speaker 5 (28:16):
I'm gonna get with Nick and we're going to get
you the flyer and the website.

Speaker 2 (28:19):
You got it. Thank you so much, thank you, sir, Yes,
sir audios A polite young man. That is right there.
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I have known each other for my goodness, eighteen twenty years,
I don't know. He's been helping me out with any
and every issue I've ever had with a roof. He
helped my mom, he helped my mother in law. He

(28:40):
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in their neighborhoods. And the reason Braun's Roofing has been
in business for more than thirty years is very simple.
Quality work at a fair price. Quality work at a
fair price. It doesn't come down to anything other than that.
And reliability. There's that one too. He doesn't mention that

(29:04):
in his bold little statement there about quality work at
a fair price. But reliability is something else that is
lacking in some parts of the roofing industry. And if
you wonder about that, anytime there's a storm that comes
through here, just count the cards and flyers that get
stuck on your front door. There's a lot of that.

(29:24):
Anybody who has any knowledge of roofing suddenly becomes the
guy who wants to fix your house, and whether they
go up on your roof or not, they just want
to work with you. But the better way to do
that is to get with a reliable company like Bronze.
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(29:44):
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tell you what it's gonna cost to fix your roof

(30:06):
if there's a problem. If there's no problem, they'll just say,
see it will be back in a couple of years.
If there is a problem, you'll know exactly what it is,
how much it costs to fix what materials they'll use,
how much time it'll take the cost all of that.
And that's your cue to say, get started. Bronzeroofing dot
com b r A U N S Bronze roofing dot
com two eight one four eight zero ninety nine hundred

(30:28):
two eight one four eight zero ninety nine hundred. What's
life without a net? I suggest you go to bed,
sleep it off.

Speaker 1 (30:36):
Just wait until this show's over, Sleepy. Back to Doug
Pike as fifty plus continues.

Speaker 2 (30:51):
BLI welcome back on to the final segment now starting
up on fifty plus. Hope you enjoyed that conversation, well,
both conversations really, for with Jeff Herman about eating crickets
and other bugs and whatever else crawls out. You know,
you know how we could make a fortune. Will mosquito soup?
Mosquito soup killing two birds with one stone be rich

(31:15):
in protein? Think about I don't know, you'd have to
be willing to eat a little blood maybe somebody else's.
That'd be kind nasty. Though, let's back off of that one.
It's pump the breek. We got to come up with
a bug, a bug money maker. There's gotta be bag
in bugs. You know, there's gotta be think it over.
We'll come up with something peanut butter with what could

(31:39):
what bug would pair well with peanut butter? Roaches, No, no,
I'm not. I'm not gonna eat a roach. I don't
care how deep you fry a roach. I'm not eating that.

Speaker 1 (31:50):
Come.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
No, that's nasty. Will And I guess the frying process
would kill anything that's on it or in it. Maybe
wouldn't it, shouldn't it? Sure? I don't know. I can't
I'm not there yet. And even Jeff conceded that it's
what maybe five percent of the country. Now, the farther
you get out of this country and over toward the east,

(32:14):
the more consumption of insects there is. But I gotta
get all. It's lunchtime. I forgot about that. Uh, I'll
go back to my first couple of pages, the little
notes I had put together earlier. And by the way,
we've got to do the weather forecast in highkup. We've
got to do highs and lows and haig kup. We
haven't done that yet.

Speaker 4 (32:30):
So it's over. No, it's not passed. How no, you
missed it.

Speaker 2 (32:39):
Oh, I'm reviving it from Air Texas into air quality
Specialist because cleaner air is healthier air. Pound two fifty
say healthy air. There you go, all right, you ready,
all right? It could be hotter, relief nearing, but no rain.
Just more the same, just more of the same. It's good.

(33:04):
So you're gonna give me another six? Is that what
you're telling me? Where are you going with that one?
Then that's uh just seven point one? Really, yeah, it's good.
I gotta figure out how to how you're judging these oh,
okind okay, I'm learning. I'm learning it. And it served
its purpose. There the markets, by the way, courtesy of

(33:25):
Houston Gold Exchange, they weren't doing much of anything. At
eleven thirty goal was down like five bucks, but still
about twenty five hundred and forty dollars, which, by the way,
I saw a note for the first time, for the
first time, A bar of gold is worth more than
a million dollars. A bar of gold is four hundred

(33:47):
troy ounces. Four hundred times twenty five hundred is a
million dollars. And so that little extra, the extra thirty
bucks an ounce, will let me get you another twelve
grand something like that. Not bad not bad money now
All I did have to do is get some bars
of gold and take advantage of that oil, doing exactly

(34:09):
what I predicted it was gonna do month ago, months
months ago, and falling in advance of the election. Imagine
that it was down to seventy two to thirty five
something like that at the bottom of the eleven o'clock hour.
We're not gonna have to wait long before the left
starts taking credit for that too, you know, taking credit
for lower prices on gas, the same price as that.

(34:30):
It was the Biden Harris administration that made them skyrocket.
But you won't hear that part of it. Quickly to
Chicago too, because this warrants mentioned protesters there clashed with
the police yesterday. Several people got arrested and did and
said something that really concerned me. These bear in mind,

(34:50):
these aren't Republicans who dislike Harris or Biden or anybody
in that whole crew. These are anti Israel Democrats who
don't think they're party is doing it right in the
Middle East. And when one of them set fire to
an American flag, a reporter said, don't burn the American flag.

(35:12):
In that protester's response, if this country burn it down.
That should concern us all frankly, that there are people
like that who think it's okay. I'm all for free speech,
but I do also believe that this country isn't really

(35:32):
going to be able to move forward in any direction
with people like that out there. And make no mistake,
they will vote left because they know which way Harrison
and Walls both lean and the way they'll quickly fall
hard left if they get elected. Also within the crowd
of protesters has been the occasional Hama's flag too, which
that's also kind of scary. And by the way, Kamala

(35:55):
Harris is now mandated that everyone working on her campaign
where masks. That's a hint and that's a little bitty
hint at the level of control she likes to push
down people's throats. If you're gonna work on her campaign,
you have to wear a mask. Let's see if she
always wears a mask while she's campaigning. I'll be curious

(36:16):
to see that one of those good for thee but
not for me rules. I think that come up. Uh,
the DNC speeches have gone the same way they're always
gonna go. I got more. We'll talk about that. Oh,
I got a great baldness fix too. For tomorrow. We
't's talk about that. Then we'll grow some hair tomorrow. Audios.
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