Finding a Picasso

Today, Doug Pike discusses finding a Picasso, sleep stickers, and Mega Millions.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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(00:47):
And now fifty plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Here we go, Wednesday edition of the program. Thank you
all for listening, and as I've always said, I greatly
appreciate I know you have choices, okay, and I'm glad
you chose us again, I hope. And if you're here
for the first time, stick around. I hope you like
it well enough to stick around through the whole show.
I'll start with the tale of the guy in the

(01:11):
black Prius who cut me off this morning on the
way to work. Totally unnecessary. I would have let him
in had he just slowed down and put on a
blinker and gotten himself into a position where I could
just ease off the gas let him on in. It
wouldn't been a big deal. And I really couldn't understand

(01:32):
why he had done that until he actually dove into
the lane and I saw his license play, which was
from where will take again? License play? And it told
me all I needed to know about his situation. All right,

(01:52):
sad situation from Texas. God, I'll get you should get
email Will Melbourne at iHeartMedia dot com. Yeah, send it
to Will Melbourne, a media you should get. You get
any of those emails scolding you should get an email.
Oh that's right. Hold on now, you can find him

(02:15):
if you want him. In any event, I'll give you
a second guess to be to be made with a
little more thought put into it. Okay, Where would there
be somebody from here who might be a little sad
and angry at the same time, A little sad and angry?
I mean maybe Florida. No, that's a happy place right now. No,

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not right now, I'm talking about long term sadness in despair. Oh, okay,
ready place to be Ohio right now because of their
taxes and their energy policy and their governor slick. Governor slick?
Governor slick? Who is that stumpet? It's only a one

(02:59):
hour show, will It's California. Come on, pay attention. If
you moved here from there, I get it. Okay, if
you moved here from California, you're probably still all a
twitter and worried and scared for your friends who didn't
make it out. Then you're wondering why you didn't move
here sooner. But where that bitterness of yours on your sleeve? Okay,

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don't don't lash out at us, don't don't make a
fool of yourself in Texas. Okay, you're out of California.
You made it to Texas. You're gonna be Okay, take
a deep breath, be happy that these next four days
are gonna remind you of the only good thing about
California too, which is the weather, which actually provides me

(03:44):
with a nice little segue will into today's highs and
low's naiku courtesy of Texas Indoor Air Quality Specialists. Because
cleaner air is healthier air, doll pound two fifty say
healthy air and you'll find out a lot more. You're ready,
will always well, sweet Autumn, Your crisp cleanses our souls

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feel free to linger? Okay, stepped it up, didn't I
that's pretty good. I like crisps. That's nice. That's really nice.
That's it. That's I'll give it an eight. That's good,
Just an eight zero eight point zero? Yeah, okay, I'll
take that. That's Is that the highest square I've gotten?

(04:26):
I can't remember now. I think you've gotten an eight
point five really before. I'd like to know what that
one was. But I'll give you another couple of weeks
and read it again, because you probably have forgotten what
it was. Of course, I forgot what you said yesterday,
forgot what I said five seconds ago. But repeat the
high coup. I'll prove it. You don't remember anything I said?
What was the haikup? What was the first line? The

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first line was no pressure? Was something about uh cool
fall air? Huh No, it was not. It was welcome autumn,
sweet autumn? Okay. What was the last word, last word

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and the whole thing? Linger? Yeah, you got that right?
What did I say the three words before that? Please? Please,
if you don't get it the first time, you won't
get it all right? Just for that, that's a four

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that's a four. Cut that score, and Hatch change the
score because you messed up. Oh, I didn't mess up.
It didn't make that good. An eight should impress you
enough that you at least remember the first line. That's
what grabbed you. That's what pulled It's not what pulled
me in. What pulled me in is in the sun rises.

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Chris cleanses our souls. That's great. That's a good line.
Is a good one. That's a very poetic line. Alright,
Moving on and and by the way, this was the
first morning, said spring. Let it be known that the
temperature in my house when I woke up this morning
was actually cooler, cooler than where I'd set the thermostat
when I went to bed. Wow. I know, yeah, it

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kind of shocked me too. When I woke up. It's
pretty chilly in here, pretty chilly, and I recognized the difference.
It was very subtle. I had the temperature this set,
the thermostat set on seventy two. And when I went
out there and opened up the door and turned on
the light and looked up there at the thermostat seventy one. Wow,

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sixty three. When I got in my car to come here,
this morning, which tells you how early I got in
the car to come here. That was nice too. I
don't mind the crisp fall air at all. It cleanses
my soul. I took the dogs. When I took the
dogs out last night for their nighttime walk, Yeah, it
just felt so good, didn't it. I went out without

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a shirt on. It was the whole walk. Yes, that's
kind of disgusting, neighborhood. Well, it was also midnight cover up?
Will that all the worse? Man, You're out there walking
dogs midnight with no pants and shirt on?

Speaker 1 (07:08):
Well?

Speaker 2 (07:09):
I had pants on, sure, Yes, I definitely had. I'll
never leave the house without pants, but I don't sometimes
leave the house without the last mid of a joke.
I'll tell you when we get to the break. I
got that covered. I got that covered. We'll take a
look at the market when we get back. I don't
want to get into it right now, but there's good
news there. There's actually a pretty good amount of good news,

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and we'll do it when we come back. I'm gonna
try to stay on time this show and set a
record for four breaks on time? Would that be care?
Three breaks on time? That sounds good to me we
get going UT's Institute on Aging. I've told you about
them so many times, and I so really truly hope
that you've gone to that website ut h dot eedu

(07:52):
slash aging so that you two can see all of
the resources that are available to us to seniors that
are there. You can see the work of some of
these providers. You can see how the Institute on Aging
is structured so that you can find a provider in
any part of the medical field, any facet of it,

(08:16):
that has been trained, especially on how to apply the
knowledge it took to get the diploma on the wall,
how they can apply what they know to us to seniors.
Most of them work in the med center, which you
would expect of the best providers around here, but a
lot of them also go to outlying clinics and hospitals
in a neighborhood where you live. Probably go to that website,

(08:40):
check it out. I promise you will not be disappointed
in what you find there. Utch dot edu slash aging,
ut dot edu slash aging. What's life without a nap?
If I suggest you go to bed, sleep it off.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
Just wait until the show's over, Sleepy Back to Dougpike
fifty plus continues.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
All right, welcome back to fifty plus the Wednesday edition,
which is Tuesday look like today. Monday actually looked pretty
much like today than Tuesday. Now Wednesday, and then for
the next five or six days, it's gonna look the same.
It's gonna be great, it's gonna beautiful. It's gonna be
California esque dry cool air overnight thanks to a high

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pressure system that's kind of locked down on us and
actually needs to. We need all send a thank you
note to that high pressure system because that's what kept
that nasty Milton out of here. Off the market. We go.
Curties of Houston gooldexchange dot com. Best news for those
of us who drive a lot is that oil shed

(10:02):
about five bucks of barrels since it went skyrocketing upward
on Monday, back down to seventy two dollars in change,
which is still several dollars higher than I'd like to
see it. However, that's better than seeing it go the
other way. So gold soften a bit as well, down
about ten bucks an ounce, but still at twenty six

(10:25):
twenty five or so earlier in the day. All four
market indicators all four of them in the green. There's
the good news, but none of them on the plus
side by even half a percentage point. So there's good
news in that they're all on the rise. There's yawner
news in that it's just not a big rise. Back

(10:48):
to the real world. Hurricane Milton's got its eye on
the central coast of Florida, West coast of Florida. Expected
landfall of the actual eye sometime early this afternoon, maybe
early this evening. Sustain wins. We're still around one hundred
and fifty five miles an hour, which means it's gonna
be a cat for if. I don't know. Has it
changed at all? Well, take a quick look to see

(11:09):
if it's been upgraded or downgraded. There was talk earlier
about it going getting harder or bigger and faster, and
also talk about being downgraded. So I'm not sure where
it is right now. Where is it? Give us an update?
Look up? My browser is not cooperative. Oh gosh, Well,

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this is an important thing. It's a very important thing.
We should have told me to turn the break. Well.
I hadn't really thought about going there during the break,
but since it is such a hot topic, I would well,
get me an update, and I'll move on a little
bit from there. Some of the people who were ordered
to evacuate, by the way opted to stay. And if

(11:51):
you heard the Fox News broadcast at the top of
the hour, there are still plenty of shelters over there,
and plenty of room in those shelters. Frightening. I'm not
really sure whether I'd want to leave or stay. But
when you're talking about winds of one hundred and fifty
five miles an hour, that's strong enough to just rip

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the roofs off of most homes and most buildings as well,
and even start destroying entire houses frame houses. Once the
wind hits full speed and starts throwing heavy things through
the air too, that's another issue. When you've got wind
that's strong, that's almost like little tornado wind, and it
will sling things through the air for considerable distance, and

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once one of those big heavy things hits your wall,
it may just come right through it if you're in
a frame home. Most of the coastal homes over there
in Florida are stucco and concrete and pretty well built
knock on wood for them to withstand significant wind and
rain and whatnot. But one hundred and fifty five miles

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an hour is a whole wind. Any luck will or
did you just blow it off? No, I'm reading about
it says as of eight am. We'll go with that. Okay. Well,
the NHC says that Milton had weakened to a Category
four systems. Okay, Well, that's still that one hundred and
fifty five mile an hour wind. Yes, and that's that's

(13:21):
potential catastrophic devastation. It won't be the flooding like North
Carolina saw they are now. There will certainly be coastal flooding.
And Florida is generally a flat state, farther inland than most.
It's kind of like Texas, and I guess Texas really
is a good example. This upper Gulf coast of ours.

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You could pretty much stand on an overpass and see
twenty miles in any direction. So they'll have issues with
flooding pretty far inland too. I would think, I don't
know that it'll be as deep as they're expecting. All
of the weather forecasts of late of the last ten
years anyway, are giving you worst case scenarios. They're not

(14:03):
giving you best estimate scenarios. They give you worst case scenarios,
which frankly scares the bejeepers out of a lot of people, unnecessarily,
I think, but honestly, well, gosh, these people are in
for a hell of a ride next twelve or fifteen hours.
This is this is really close to being one of
those if you're going to stay, you write your Social

(14:26):
Security number on your forearm, one of those in sharpie,
just in case, you know, just in case, just to
shorten the time where loved ones are made aware of
something that has happened to their loved ones, their family
member or friend or whatever. Men Already Helene has claimed

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what two hundred and thirty lives, and there's still a
whole lot of looking to do. There are hundreds, if
not thousands of people still missing in that area, and
I'd suspect that at this point a good number of
good number more people are going to be found killed
by that storm. And I just wish, I really wish

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that based on what I've read, based on what I've
heard from very credible sources, the presence there, the rescue effort,
the search effort is only a small fraction of what
it could and should be. Bring it back local up
in Spring, Texas, not the season, the city, the town.

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If you will, two elementary school teachers you hear about this,
will now, holy cow? Two elementary school teachers accused of
giving students these are little kids sleeping stickers for nap time.
Sleeping stickers. You know what those are? Stickers you get
for going to take your nap. No speakers or stickers

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you give the kids to help them fall asleep. They're drugged,
they have some sort of sleep aid in them. And
the school officials apparently, according to the story I read,
were notified by one parent, but those same school officials
now are being accused of waiting almost two weeks until

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several other parents reported the same thing to say anything
or do anything publicly. Parents want to know how long
this has gone on. One of the symptoms. One of
the things that was common amongst the kids who were
getting these stickers was that they were having a really
hard time going to sleep at night because they were
sleeping so much during the day because they had the

(16:37):
little sleep stickers. Do you know where to get those? Will?
I could use some? I wake up a couple three
times a night sometimes. Uh. Parents want to know how
long this has gone on? One and number two, more importantly,
how those drugs might have impacted their children. I would presume,
honestly that something like that wouldn't be, wouldn't be habit forming,

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wouldn't be hopefully wouldn't have any long term impact. But
the fact that they were doing that at all as teachers,
as educators in charge of the well being and education
of those kids, that's messed up. In case you missed it,
and I heard about it this morning on the way
in Texas, Scorecard had a story about Harris County Judge

(17:24):
Lena Hidalgo and something she recently posted on x on
her official account, mind you, a promotion of voter registration,
which would have been fine, wonderful thing, register to vote,
go vote, except for one little thing she did, And
that one little thing was video her plea for registration

(17:46):
from her county office, from the county office, and she
led people. I guess there's two things in and she
was leading people to a site called Iwill vote dot com,
which is a Democrat site and even has a twenty
twenty four DNC copyright on that web page. Is it
time to go? Will? Yes, you missed it. You said

(18:08):
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(18:32):
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The good news, the best news report is everything's fine.
We'll see in a while. The other side of that
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what's wrong, they'll explain what it will take to fix it,

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Speaker 1 (20:31):
Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 2 (20:49):
Segment three starts now. Thanks for hanging around. I appreciate
that I have a boy, I have a lot to
get to. I really do you got that taken care of?
I'll scratch that out. Back to back to Lenahidalgo Judge
Lena Hidalgo, Harris County Judge Lena Hidalgo and her brief post.

(21:10):
She took it down, actually pretty quickly. She took it down.
If she directed prospective voters to the county site, which
is nonpartisan, that that would have been okay. But she didn't.
She chose, she made the choice to push DNC backsite.
And in case she didn't know, she was fined five
hundred dollars for a violation of the same Election Code section. Huh,

(21:38):
just earlier this year. I think it was back in January,
maybe somewhere around there. Senator Paul State Senator Paul Bettencourt,
who brought attention to this, called it a shameless, shameless electioneering,
is what he said. Sure seems that way to me too.
I don't know what else she'd call it. You're not
supposed to do that. You're not supposed to influence how

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people vote. That's wrong. Encouraging them to vote is right.
And you and I and everybody else who would like
to see the election go the way we want it to,
whichever way that is for you and me, we have
I think, almost an obligation to encourage everyone who is eligible,

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by the way, everyone to cast a vote, and then
we'll just move the country forward from there. Somehow, this
whole notion of a new path that I don't know,
whatever that's saying, is on the left right now. Man.
It's it's kind of disturbing that after four years of
being in office, of being number two to the president

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of the United States, how she suddenly wants to change everything.
She wants to change everything, all right, So here's another
one of these things. It's up to you to decide
whether it's right or wrong, and as always all encourage
you to do your own research and draw your own conclusions.
But I found a story this morning, Breitbart's story that
set American hospitals in the past four years have earned

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nearly and this is this is a low estimate. According
to the story and its sources, have earned an est
almost one hundred and twenty million dollars thirty million a
year in the past four years performing gender transitioning surgeries
on nearly fourteen thousand children, people younger than eighteen seventeen

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and younger fourteen thousand opportunities to forever change their lives
and made one hundred and twenty million dollars doing it.
Top twelve hospitals where those surgeries were performed by state
and in no other particular order, were in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Minnesota, Washington, California,

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massad choose its, Colorado, and Ohio. All twelve possibly worth
noting here. All twelve include the word children's in their names.
These are surgeries and services provided to children to make irreversible,

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life changing decisions on kids. I'm troubled by that. I
really am fair and impartial. Journalism is either dead or
at very best on its last gasp of aara this country.
And if you want proof, fact check this. When asked
by CBS on face the Nation Sunday, why it seemed

(24:43):
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyah, who wasn't listening to US
Advice Vice President Harris, rolled off just a heap and
helping of words salad that in absolutely no way truly
answered the question. It was gibber because she couldn't cobble
a solid answer to that question. But when CBS aired

(25:06):
the interview Monday night in prime time, her answer had
magically changed to something far less confusing and far more concise.
Same question, same same role, only a different answer. Now,

(25:26):
Editing is necessary sometimes with interviews. I get that, I
really do. It happens around here. Sometimes go into podcasts
and whatnot. I'll run over, I'll run long on a
podcast that I'm working for doing for someone else, and
we have to trim the fat, so to speak. How
often do you have to edit? You don't really have

(25:47):
to edit these shows, though, do you? No, they don't
have to fit. They could be twenty minutes or they
could be two hours. Huh. Well, these normally, since they're
already broken up into segments, they'll go all wonky and technical.
Spit it out. Will I'm just saying, I know where
you're Yeah, most shows will range anywhere between thirty five
to maybe if we run along on this show, forty minutes. Yeah,

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that's fair and that's not a bad deal. But for
the for the television people, sometimes they do have hard
breaks they have to hit. So this is not This
was not a podcast. This was a live broadcast on
Monday that included the same person answering the same question,
only she answered it differently on Monday than she did
on Sunday, far more concise, far less confusing. It's been

(26:33):
interesting also through recent weeks to hear Harris talk about
how as she keeps emphasizing how different she is than
Joe Biden, the guy she said only a few a
couple of months ago really was, was strong and aware
and perfectly capable of serving a second term. And she
wanted that because she wanted to be VP again. Right

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up to the minute somebody called her and said, hey, uh, Kamla,
how would you like to be president? Here's all you
have to say about Joe Biden to get that nod,
And she couldn't get out there fast enough to say
that he was out and she was in. Also bothersome,
also very bothersome, very quickly will, but the money's good.

(27:19):
How lazy are No? We can't do that when it's
a two parter or it's your own fault. It's your
own fault. Woman in Washington, the state, not the DC,
called the police after her property was invaded by more
than a hundred raccoons that were closing in on her,
and she told police she feared for her life. You

(27:41):
know why that happened. What She's been feeding those raccoons
for thirty five years and she tried to stiff them.
Oh yeah, she tried to stiff them. Yeah, I'm not
gonna feed you guys anymore. Oh, yes you are. I
don't know how raccoon would talk. If a raccoon could talk, will,
what voice would it be in m Raccoon boys say

(28:02):
yes you are? Yes? Yes, what? Yes you are? That
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Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug. All right, let's go.

(29:47):
Final segment of the program starts right now, and I'll
start with some good news, will because we can always
use that. What's good news for the person who had
this particular item and has zero impact on your life
or mine or anybody else's around here, but boy, it's
good to be that guy. So a painting was there

(30:11):
was There was a guy in in Italy, I believe, okay.
And he's just roaming around and he goes he's kind
of a kind of a swap meet guy, kind of
a garage sale, estate sale guy. He's just looking for
something he can flip and make a quick buck, okay.
And there's a lot of those people around who who

(30:32):
kind of make their living that way. They they certainly
at least make some spending money that way. That probably
doesn't get reported to the RS. But that's not my problem.
I pay him what I owe, and I've always I've
told every accountant I've ever had, I want to pay
him everything I owe him, but not a dime war, okay,
and that's only fair. So anyway, this guy finds this

(30:53):
painting in a a I believe it was an attic
and Negotia. He ate a nothing next to nothing price
with it, takes it home and notices that in the
corner of the painting it says Picasso. That's all. It
says Piicasso. And he thought, well, that's cute. Somebody tried

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to make it worse worth more than it is, that
piece of junk. So he puts it and his wife
didn't like it at all, And prankster that he was,
he put it in a cheap frame and gave it
to her for her birthday, and she wasn't really impressed.
So it kind of got set aside for a very
very long howl a long time. It just came off

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the wall. It was put in a closet in their base.
I don't know where they put it, but they didn't
have it even displayed. And then at some point he
decided to give it to a restaurant just so they
would have something that looked really cool, and they had
it hanging in the restaurant the new owner of it,
and somebody came in and said, hey, let me take

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a look at this. He takes it off the wall.
He takes it to a guy who knows a guy
who knows a guy, and what they have determined is
that it is indeed an original Pablo Picasso painting, and
they've determined that it would they believe it to be
at least an asymmetrical image of a woman named Dora Marr,

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who was Picasso's lover at the time when he was
living on the Italian island of Capri, and the piece
originally it's found its way all this far. And guess
what fast forward now to several decades up to most
recent evaluation. What's that little thing worth? A ballpark? Five

(32:51):
and a half million? You're close, You're close. It's estimated
at six million dollars. However, there's a caveat to that
number if indeed it becomes certified who knew this was
here by the Pablo Picasso Foundation in Paris, their stamp

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of approval. If they give it that, guess where the
value goes then twenty millions, almost fifteen to eighteen, fifteen
to eight. Now that's no lottery win, that's no Mega
Migan's win, but fifteen to eighth life changing money, yes
for most people. Mark Cuban like whatever, okay, George Sorows, Yeah,

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beer money, but whatever. The point is, Yeah, somebody's about
to somebody's about to get paid on that, and happy
for them, you know, more power to them. Okay, let's
ditch these these glooming even though FEMA is really ticking
me off. In a whole bunch of North Carolinians right now,
I'll leave them alone for today, and I may come

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back to it tomorrow. Here you go, will but the
money's good? Howazy are we? Which is a two parter?
And there's a sucker born every minute? There's a sucker
born every minute. I don't have anything for that. I
was just testing if it was true. No, I'm kidding.
There is one mega million speaking of has announced Get this,

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They've announced enhancements beginning next April. That's a spin. Believe me.
The cost of a ticket goes from two bucks to
five bucks. Okay, they want you to invest. They want
you to invest in. The encouragement is that it will
be easier to win. The odds of winning are gonna improve.
How they're gonna I guess they're gonna maybe eliminate one

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of the numbers. They're gonna make it a little higher
prize for or maybe you only have to get too
right to get your money back instead of three something
like that. I don't know. I didn't. It's just full
story in parentheses on all of these, and I always
just delete that because then it just gets too far
into the weeds. Why do you want to know? You're

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not gonna play anyway? I know, but I want to
know what's going on. Well, you're in the know. Now
there's going to be an enhancement to the game. It's
going to cost five dollars instead barely in the know.
Well that's true, folding money, fundamental differences or humming along?
Humming along? Eighteen wheeler flips over early Monday, not the

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one yesterday on six ' ten. By the way, all
the way up in Mississippi. We're over in Mississippi. Terrifying
solution for the driver. Guess what he was carrying in
that fully loaded eighteen wheeler ice cream. It starts with
a bee and it is with a lot of bees,

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because that's what was in his entire eighteen wheeler is bees. Bees,
bees carrying hives to places that needed pollination done. Wow
and yeah, hey like that humming along? That's pretty good.
Buzzing along just didn't sound right. Oh man, we only
have fifteen seconds. It is okay to wrap this up.

(36:04):
How lazy are we? Part one? Will exercise pills finally
be a thing? Scientist in Denmark say they've come up
with a drug that mimics the effects of running a
ten k. That is the ultimate expression of lazy. And
I got news for him. It's not gonna work. You
gotta get out there and run. I'll see you tomorrow. Audios.