Fireworks

Today, Doug Pike discusses fireworks, weightloss, and vitamin C. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey John, how's it going today?

Speaker 1 (00:20):
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Speaker 2 (00:42):
And now fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, let's
see how this one goes. Welcome back to fifty plus,
Land of the Free, Home of the Gray. If that's
not offensive to anybody. If you color your hair, more
power to you. If you don't, same power to you.
I don't really pay attention much to hair until it
gets long and I need a haircut, which was actually

(01:04):
I got that done. What is today Wednesday? I got
it done yesterday afternoon. I believe it was after work
got home. No, it couldn't have been yesterday because I
got home very late. It had to have been Monday
afternoon and I ran up to the same place I
get haircuts. I don't know what you guys pay for haircuts.
I know my son pays more than twice what I

(01:27):
pay for a haircut, and in fairness to him, he's
got a lot thicker, heavier hair than I do to cut.
But it's still still just for him clippers and scissors
and whatever, and it's exactly the same process for me.
Mine probably takes a little less time, but hey, that's haircuts,

(01:49):
and I've got a place really close to home that
I'm comfortable with the haircuts I get. And that's really
about it. Holiday weekend coming up for that's to July.
I'm gonna remind everybody once again to either not handle fireworks,
and the popping has already started around where I lived,

(02:09):
despite laws against setting him off at all, by the way,
But off they go, and we deal with it every year,
and at least this year we won't have to deal
with a scared pet in the house. And to his credit,
our our former guinea pig, his name was Stubbs. Stubbs

(02:30):
was pretty cool about it all. He wasn't anxious over
the noise, and I think he felt like, who knows,
I'm putting thoughts into a guinea pig's head, But I
feel like he kind of knew we had him covered
and if anything was wrong, we'd take care of him,
same as we did with Barrel. As a matter of fact,
if I might digress for just a second, it was

(02:52):
so hot in our house that we couldn't we couldn't
leave the guinea pig there, and we were having a
little bit of trouble finding a place to keep him.
And fortunately, and I wish I could remember the name
of the family who did this, my son called one
of his friends and just said, hey, can we bring
the guinea pig over since you have power and we
don't for a few days. And they said, you know what,

(03:14):
we actually used to have guinea pigs, so sure we
can handle that. And we took all the stuff over there,
we dropped stubs off, and he was treated like royalty
for several days. He had his own room in this house.
As a matter of fact, it wasn't a guinea pig room,
but it was turned into one temporarily. In the aftermath

(03:34):
of that storm, we were out of power, I want
to say, eight or nine days something like that, And
fortunately I found accommodations for my family, and I had
the most wonderful couple a man, John Paulus, with whom
I played golf, and his wife invited me to stay

(03:55):
at their house because there wasn't room where the rest.

Speaker 3 (03:59):
Of everybody was.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
It's a long story, but it worked out. It really
worked out very well, and I'm forever beholding to John
for doing.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
That for me. It was really a special thing.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
In any event. Back to these fireworks, I don't know
how I got there from where I was. Back to
the fireworks, I want to remind you that if you're
going to handle them, you're taking well at least your hands.
You're taking your hands into your own hands, I guess
you could say. And there there was a photograph I

(04:32):
was going to post on Facebook, except that I'm pretty
sure that if I did, they would probably flag it
because it's pretty gross to look at. And it wasn't
actual photographs. They were X rays. There were I think
there's nine X rays of hands that were X rayed

(04:53):
after the well what's left of those hands after the
person with the damaged hand or hands showed up in
the er and said please fix this. And I can
guarantee you looking at those X rays that the answer
to that question was, I don't think we can really

(05:14):
fix all that. We're just gonna have to chop some
of that off, and you're gonna have to deal with
it because you made a mistake and because you thought
it was cool to hang on to that thing until
just before it went off and then throw it. That's
not very smart. Some of those hands probably weren't salvageable
at all by any surgeon. And that's a really steep

(05:34):
price to pay in exchange for a loud pop or
maybe a splash of colored light in the night sky.
Let's be really careful. Most of us in this audience
probably did stupid stuff with fireworks when we were young.
Bottle rocket wars come to mind. Out on I think
it was on Rourke Road, or maybe there's another road
adjacent to it or parallel to it, Roork and one

(05:58):
more out there off bel Air Way out west.

Speaker 3 (06:01):
Well, it was back then, way out west of town.
Right now.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
It's just a couple of miles down the road from
a lot of places on the west side. But anyway,
that was all open pasture land except for those couple
of roads out that way, and we would all meet
up out there, two or three different high schools represented,
and just shoot bottle rockets at each other. It's a
miracle we lived through a lot of the things we

(06:24):
did back then. It truly is a miracle moving forward.
Just be careful. If you're gonna do fireworks and stuff,
just do them right, and be very very careful and
keep the kids away from them. The markets were fairly
close to flat when I let when last I looked,
a couple of indicators red, couple of them green, neither
not any of the four that I watch fairly closely

(06:48):
moving more than about maybe half a point, So it's calm.
Things are relatively calm. Goal was up a few bucks also,
calm oil up a few dimes, but not bucks also,
but about sixty It was sixty five something when I looked.
And that's about the long and the shore of the
Wall Street, and algorithms running in computers and data banks

(07:09):
all over the world. That you know what map had
a change, And I'll tell you briefly what it was
before I have to go. That little yellow blob we
talked about over North Florida yesterday has turned orange today.
It still has, according to them anyway, no chance to
develop in the next two days, but forty percent chance

(07:32):
to become something within the week. The frustrating part of
this one is that it's just it's just sitting there.
It's not moving north, it's not moving south or east
or west. It's just sitting on northern Florida, scattered showers,
probably some breeze associated with it, and probably about to
make a mess of Fourth of July celebrations over there.

(07:53):
So we have at least that to be thankful for.
Nothing really dramatic in the forecast extept extremely warm arm
temperatures not quite too hot by my definition, but extremely
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What's life without a nap? I suggest you go to bed,
sleep it off.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
Just wait until the show's over, Sleepy. Back to Doug
Pike as fifty plus continues full time.

Speaker 3 (09:37):
Sorry, sorry, Bob, You're gonna have to be quiet.

Speaker 2 (09:40):
It's my turnout from the Future of Medicine desk, and
this I had. I had a good conversation with a
woman this morning who actually after I saw this and
talked and wrote down what I wanted to say about it.
Not ten minutes later I get an email, what Is

(10:01):
this a spam risk? Huh? Not answering that come on anyway.
Earlier this morning, I get an email from someone who
is asking me about doing an interview with someone who
is much more knowledgeable about the particular field I'm going

(10:24):
to talk about here in a second than I And
both of these conversations, this one, this one was from
by way of Newsmax, from the Future of Medicine desk.
And while I'm on the subject of medicine and surgery,
which I was last week once or twice, I think
there's just more and more evidence now that AI is

(10:44):
actually getting better than actual doctors at diagnosing very complex
conditions and diseases, which is not only going to save
time in the future, but time in medicine is money,
and more and more doctors around the world turn into
a to solve some of these really complex cases. In
use right now is a combination of AI models and

(11:07):
different applications of the technology far far above my pay grade,
and it's all very fascinating and it's all moving literally
at light speed. And then not ten minutes later, I
get this email. We'd like to talk to you about
a story that would bring in one of our experts,
and this expert also is using AI in medicine, but

(11:31):
his company is using AI to expedite the creation of
new medicines, of new treatments. For just a laundry list
of things that can happen and go wrong with human bodies.
And couple those two things with last weeks I believe
it was this past week's story about a fully robotic

(11:56):
now under the control of the surgement. Nonetheless, the entire
her heart transplant was done robotically.

Speaker 3 (12:05):
Now, all of this is happening so.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
Fast, and just like I had told me many times
recently by people in the field, it's just it's gonna
keep getting better and better and better and better, until
eventually there's not a whole lot we're gonna have to do,
except probably won't even have to leave home for most visits,

(12:30):
because AI will be able to look at us and
monitor our vitals by just a probably just have to
put a thumb on a pad on a keypad and
get our vitals checked, get our oxygen levels checked. All
of this stuff eventually will be done by computer, and
that's gonna be pretty cool. From the oh Man, this

(12:53):
is from kind of creepy from the homicide Desk by
way of ABC News Brian Coberger, the the man accused
of stabbing to death for University of Idaho students back
in twenty twenty two. I'm sure you remember that today,
just weeks before he was supposed to go on trial.

(13:13):
He was expected and I haven't checked to see if
it's done yet. He was expected to plead guilty in
a plea deal that's going to spare him from Idaho's
firing squad had he been found guilty at.

Speaker 3 (13:24):
Trial by a jury of his peers.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
The deal, the deal, if he takes it, will include
four consecutive life sentences for the murders and ten years
on a burglary charge.

Speaker 3 (13:38):
I don't know why.

Speaker 2 (13:40):
Yeah, I do know what. Yeah, he deserved every day
he got, and I only wish there were more days
that they could tack onto him. The families unfortunately. Oh,
by the way, he's also waiving his right to appeal
any of those convictions. The families and the victims were
not happy at all Franklin, and one of them just

(14:01):
was stunned that prosecutors didn't even bother to interview them
to figure out how they felt about the outcome. This
guy is gonna get to won't exactly be free, he'll
be in prison, but he will be in prison.

Speaker 3 (14:17):
He will get three squares a day.

Speaker 2 (14:18):
He will have a place to sleep, he will have
phone calls available, I'm sure, and visitation and whatnot by family.
And that's something that the four people he killed will
never have again. Their families will never have that opportunity again.
And I feel like, I feel very strongly that they
should have at least been should have at least been

(14:40):
notified that this deal was on the table for this guy.

Speaker 3 (14:45):
Very evil man, a very evil man.

Speaker 2 (14:48):
It takes a lot of planning to pull off something
like that which he did. It was not a random
act of violence, not something that happened spur of the moment.
He based on the evidence I've seen and heard. He
put a lot of thought into that, and I don't
guess we'll ever really know.

Speaker 3 (15:06):
Why he did what he did.

Speaker 2 (15:08):
I want to go before I have running to time
issues later on maybe how much let me hold on,
Let me look at my clock.

Speaker 3 (15:18):
I've got about three and a half four minutes.

Speaker 2 (15:20):
I'm going to go to the shoplifting desk right now.
And this is something that's really kind of sticking in
my craw of late. I've already seen I think it's
five now counts where I mean big time, blatant running
out with felony level theft of retail stores. I've seen

(15:42):
it five times, and every single time, nobody in the
store moved, well, none of the employees moved. Everybody just
stood there and watched, because those are the rules that
are in place for the employees. So far as lost
control goes now days, most retailers, until about maybe ten

(16:06):
years ago, let's call it maybe a few more than that,
even most retailers had theft prevention people walking the floor.
They have people monitoring, monitoring cameras all throughout the stores,
and if they saw somebody stealing, they went and grabbed
them and took them in a room and waited for
the police to come haul them away. Doesn't happen like

(16:27):
that anymore, doesn't happen like that at all. And the
problem for me is that I'm tired of paying for
what the thieves are allowed to just carry out or
wheel out the door, while I'm standing in line to
give the store enough money to cover those losses.

Speaker 3 (16:45):
I really feel strongly that.

Speaker 2 (16:47):
We're gonna have to we're gonna have to kind of
take this into our own hands and not stop anybody.
I'm not gonna I'm not gonna defend them for allowing
criminals to leave. But what I'm going to do is
I'm gonna start asking store managers what their policy is
on shoplifters, and if they don't actively try to stop shoplifting,

(17:09):
if they don't prosecute people who steal from them, I'm
just gonna start shopping somewhere else. It's a very simple,
very passive, very peaceful act. But I can assure you
if enough of us ask, if enough of us are
told the truth about what these shoplifting policies are, because
I know from asking in some stores that many of them,

(17:32):
if not most of the bigger retailers in the country,
just let it go, let them take it.

Speaker 3 (17:38):
Let them have it.

Speaker 2 (17:38):
We don't want any confrontations, we don't want any trouble
in the store. But if they're not gonna stop it,
I'm not gonna give them my money. It doesn't if
they're not gonna stop theft, it doesn't impact their bottom
line at all because they just jack it up on
us what honest people buy, and eventually maybe they won't
have enough honest, full price paying customers, and then maybe

(18:03):
they'll start rethinking that policy of just free for alls
running out the front door, walking out the front door. Twice,
two of the five times I've seen it, the thieves
just walked right out, one of them at a grocery store,
pushing an entire basket full of various sodas. The twelve

(18:24):
packs of sodas, every name brand you can think of
was in that sack or in that basket, big full
basket of them, and just pushed it right out the door.

Speaker 3 (18:35):
And I turned to.

Speaker 2 (18:36):
An employee who had had to have seen it, he
couldn't have missed it, said, hey, man, that person just
walked out the store with a whole grocery cart full
of soda. Are you gonna do anything about that? He goes, No,
I'm not supposed to. And that's all I needed to know.
All right, let's take a break, shall we. I hope

(18:57):
some of you will start asking at these retail stores
what they do and then maybe let them know that, well,
if you're not going to stop them, I'm not going
to pay you to cover your losses to them, because
I'm here trying to make a living and trying to
buy stuff at full price. I don't mind doing that
as long as nobody else has taken it for free.
The ut House Institute on Aging is a fantastic collaborative

(19:20):
of providers from every field of medicine there is. They
are everything from athletic therapy people to neurosurgeons, from audiologists
to pull monologists. Every facet of medicine is covered by
people within the Institute on Aging, and their credential comes

(19:42):
from going back and getting additional information and training so
that they can apply their specialization, specifically to seniors. It's
a brilliant map, a brilliant plan, and it was instituted
more than ten years ago now by a woman named
Carmel Dyer some other forward thinking people over there at
ut Health and it has only gotten better as time

(20:05):
has gone on. Go to their website, look at all
the different assets, look at all the different resources they
provide there in addition to what they're gonna do for you.
Once you're seen by one of those providers, look around,
make some phone calls, get involved with these people and
get on the list. Most of them in the medical
center most of the time, but there are plenty of

(20:27):
them out in outlying hospitals and clinics and whatnot, so
that you can see them where you live. Basically ut
dot edu slash aging, uth dot edu slash aging.

Speaker 1 (20:41):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them, check us words,
and spring on a fresh cod o wax. This is
fifty plus with Dougpike.

Speaker 2 (20:53):
Thanks for listening. Certainly do appreciate it. On what I
presume is still a pretty nice Wednesday afternoon from the
found this very interesting from the no show desk, we'll
call it. It was a very highly publicized event scheduled
to go on in San Antonio this past weekend, I
believe it was. It was called Sick of Ice, Sick

(21:17):
of Trump, and it was publicized it It was gonna
be the next big thing to draw a big, giant
crowd of angry people, screaming into megaphones and carrying signs
and all of that. Only it kind of like a
wet firecracker. It just fizzled and did nothing, drew fewer

(21:43):
than seven dozen people. That's in a city of what
is San Antonio, more than a million in a city
that big to draw you could draw seven dozen people
to come out and watch ice cubes melt on the sidewalk.

Speaker 3 (21:57):
You could do better. You're not going to see.

Speaker 2 (21:59):
Anything about it or hear anything about it on the
television news either, because that's not a good visual, that's
not a good optic, as they say, when you're trying
to stir up trouble and get people angry again, it's
becoming harder and harder to anger the average American because
the average American has kind of figured out that we're

(22:23):
on a better track than we have been for the
last four years, and I'm kind of giddy over the
lack of success for this thing. Americans are just tired
of the bologney. They honestly are. They're tired of paid
protesters disrupting their cities in blocking streets. That's why there
are laws being passed to stop protesters from blocking highways

(22:45):
where who knows who's out there, Somebody trying to get
to work and make a living for their family, somebody
trying to needing medical care, and the ambulance has to
go this giant detour around fifteen people holding hand and
sitting in the middle of the freeway. I guess the
people who were funding all these things too, a kind

(23:05):
of got tired of not generating any hype for their side,
not getting a decent ROI on their investments in young
people who will do anything for a buck and a
couple of hundred posters, a couple of hundred signs, maybe
a flag or two. If you're not making money on
that stuff, you're gonna quit spending money. The people who
have all that money to do that, to pay protesters

(23:28):
and transport them and get them all there and get
them all geared up, they're smart people, and they're smart
they if they weren't smart, they wouldn't have all that money,
except unless they inherited it, which is possible. But the
bottom line is they're smart enough to know when to
cut their losses. And that's what's I think is what's
going on with all of that. By the way, from
the recent poll desk, I found this interesting and it's

(23:52):
not actually a condemnation of the Democrat Party.

Speaker 3 (23:56):
It's really not.

Speaker 2 (23:56):
And I wish that the moderate Democrat would would put
somebody out there who could who could make a good
case for some of the programs they support. They've been
pushing out these farther and farther left people to coddle

(24:17):
an extreme element, a very small but extreme element of
their party, and that's been hurting them in any event,
this recent poll determined that hangovers and sunburns currently are
more popular than that party. And again, I there are
good people. I know quite a few Democrats, and I
have no quarrel with them. I really don't. They think

(24:39):
differently than I do. But beyond that, there they're people
whose opinions are as valuable as.

Speaker 3 (24:45):
Mine, and I do respect that part of it.

Speaker 2 (24:47):
I disagree on a lot of things that they say,
but that doesn't mean I think any less of them.
A couple of fun facts and conversation starters, if I may.

Speaker 3 (24:58):
Hold on, let me make sure here how much doing?

Speaker 2 (25:00):
Ah? This thing keeps going away from the clock and
over to something else there, I'll put the clock back
up here. All right? How are we doing?

Speaker 3 (25:08):
By the way, does our clock work at all?

Speaker 2 (25:11):
No? All right, well, I'll keep using my phone then,
I mean we have three minutes?

Speaker 3 (25:16):
Yeah, I got I see it. I pulled it up
on my phone now.

Speaker 2 (25:19):
But thank you that that confirms that my clock is right,
at least on my phone, which sometimes it's not. Actually
all right, maybe it's my watch. Yeah, my watch is
about a half a minute faster. All right, So Hawaii
has the record. This is I found interesting. This is
one of these things that the Fourth of July celebration,
you can just drop this if it gets quiet around

(25:40):
the tet Well. Fourth of July parties don't usually get quiet,
but if for some reason they do. Hawaii has the
record for both the highest low temperature ever recorded in
the state and the lowest high temperature ever record well
in the US ever recorded.

Speaker 3 (25:58):
The all time low.

Speaker 2 (26:01):
In Hawaii, And this kind of surprised me, although they
do have a mountain and you can actually you can
actually ski at the top of that mountain a little
bit if you're goofy enough to not take advantage of
the beaches. It's all time low temperature was fifteen degrees.
Every other state has a lower temperature than that, as
it's all time low. And in that same vein on

(26:21):
the flip side, all time high in Hawaii was one
hundred degrees even hot by my definition, every other state
has a hotter temperature, and that includes Alaska, it includes Minneapolis, well, Minnesota,
it includes what else Wisconsin, The Great Cheese all of that,

(26:45):
none of those states has one hundred or lower as
its highest ever temperature. I found that moderately interesting. This
audience will remember the Hojo Hotel Hojo, Well, do you
know what that stands for? Hojo?

Speaker 3 (27:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (27:05):
No, that's you know, you wouldn't be expected to because
of your age. Hojo to everybody in this audience who
is nod in their head right now. That was the
Howard Johnson chain of hotels, which were kind of were
they were running kind of on par with Motel six. Okay, okay,
But in Japan, excuse me, check that in China, not Japan.

(27:27):
In China, Hojo hotels are all either rated four or
five star, which probably tells you a little bit of
something about where the average Chinese person stays if they
get to somehow go on a little vacation. If Hojo
is four and five star, then hold on, I'm not going.

Speaker 3 (27:51):
Were done here. We got to get out. Yeah, we
got fifteen seconds.

Speaker 2 (27:54):
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Cedar CoV RV Resort over in Baytown down Try City
Beach Road near Thompson's Bake Camp. I bet you ten
percent of this audience already knows where Thompson's is. The
rest you go looking for it, and even if you
don't own a little pop up camp or trailer or
something like that, go rent one. They're rentable. Almost every

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place that sells RV's will rent you something. Rent a
little one and go over and spend a few nights
at Cedar Cove RV Resort. You get to wake up
to sunrises, you get to go to sleep to sunsets
over the bay. You could do a little fishing over there.
You can just do a little hanging out and it's
an absolutely first class place. It's got all concrete roads

(28:37):
and slabs. It's got electric water and sewer at every site,
plus free Wi Fi.

Speaker 3 (28:42):
I think it's free.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
I need to make that call to al Maybe he'll
hear this and let me know. And then there's a
bathhouse with showers too, and it's very reasonably priced. A
lot of people who come here for work for extended
periods of work, they get a hotel allowance, but well,
what they'll do is either go rent or or maybe
they already own a little pop up trailer and they'll
take it down there and use their money to get

(29:06):
a slab down there, get a little a concrete place
to put that trailer and spend their time there instead
of waking up and looking out the window on a
parking lot or a fence or a building. Great place
to go, have a little fun, R and R proper,
feed up, dangle them in the bay, catch a fish,
maybe even eat that fish. Who knows Cedar cove Rvresort

(29:30):
dot com. Cedar cove Rvresort dot com look them up.
Old guys rule, and of course women never get old.
If you want to avoid sleeping on the couch, okay, well,
if you think that sounds like a good plan.

Speaker 1 (29:47):
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug.

Speaker 2 (29:50):
Thank you, Thank you for listening first and foremost Again.
July fourth of July, on Friday, I hope you all
enjoy the day, however you choose to enjoy it. Moving on.
It's something I called color me orange out of the
good news pile. I'm usually skeptical, by the way about
magic potions and ointments and creams and whatever that make

(30:16):
wrinkles disappear or age spots or crinkly necks. But there's
a group of Japanese researchers from several institutes over there
actually who have found a way found a pathway that
enables vitamin C to regenerate skin cells. Now, I'm not

(30:37):
sure whether you can get that vitamin C from capsules.
I'm not sure whether you have to get it naturally
through oranges and other citrus fruits. But the bottom line
is they were using three D human skin models and
the story from the Good News Network says they found
that vitamin C increased the thickness of the epidermal skin

(31:01):
by activating genes that are linked to cell growth. And
after that, it just went over my head. At there's
a lot more of the story. There really is, and
it would be worth going to look at. Go to
Goodnewsnetwork dot org. This is where I find a lot
of things that I end up talking about on this show,
because I do like to find good news to offset

(31:22):
some of the ugly stuff we end up talking about
around here as well.

Speaker 3 (31:28):
Yeah, you'll enjoy it.

Speaker 2 (31:29):
It's it's really interesting, and it's it's another option, and
it's a non surgical option to to take care of
things that you know, maybe you want to take care
of on your skin and in that vein.

Speaker 3 (31:42):
I'll go to where did it go? Here, it is.

Speaker 2 (31:47):
The most popular cosmetic surgery in this past year was liposuction.
I guess people are just tired of trying to diet
or maybe even tired of having to wait while magic
pills that are out there now make you lose weight.

(32:07):
The problem with those pills, I have heard, or another
injection exactly. I think whichever whichever route you take with
this new type of fat reduction, is also good at
making you lose your libido. I am told so, congratulations,

(32:30):
you're gonna look smoking hot, but you're not gonna want
to do anything about it.

Speaker 3 (32:35):
And I think.

Speaker 2 (32:37):
That I know some women who are using those drugs
to lose weight. In fact, I'm one hundred percent sure,
there's no question in my mind some of these women
are using these things to lose weight, and more power
to them. If it makes them feel better, that's okay.
But it's kind of like my feelings about botox. You're

(32:58):
putting something into your body that we really don't know
the long term effects of, kind of like vaccines, and
we're learning now that some of that stuff, some of
the information we were told about them wasn't all entirely true.
So before you go doing procedures and stuff that require

(33:18):
injection to reach your goal.

Speaker 3 (33:22):
Maybe it wouldn't be a bad.

Speaker 2 (33:23):
Idea to just do a little LiPo suction. I don't
think that's going to mess up too bad. By the way,
followed from behind liposuction as the most popular procedures in
cosmetic surgery in America this past year, in order would
be boob jobs, tummy tucks, brust lifts, and eyelid lifts,

(33:44):
which are I guess if you get one lifted, your
partner might lift the there's their.

Speaker 3 (33:51):
Eyelids all on their own.

Speaker 2 (33:54):
I'm curious as to why there wouldn't be more butt lifts,
but I'm not exactly sure why. I'll do some research
into that. Maybe a study found, by the way, that
watching YouTube videos at one point five times their normal pace.
I didn't even know you could do that. I didn't
know you could speed up YouTube five times the normal

(34:15):
pay or one point five times the normal pace is okay,
two times normal speed scrambles your brain and stresses you out,
So slow it down, Just slow it down, all right?
Back to Oh, this is an interesting one, and it's
it's only one sentence, so it won't take long. From
the money to Burndesk, comes news of Jeff Bezos's recent wedding,

(34:36):
which is believed to have cost anywhere from twenty five
to fifty five million dollars to get married, and I
hope his doesn't go the way Bill Gates marriage went,
because we had a lot more than fifty five million dollars.

Speaker 3 (34:56):
If that happens.

Speaker 2 (34:57):
Very quickly from yeah, do this, I mean, I've got
three minutes.

Speaker 3 (35:02):
Yeah, that looks about right.

Speaker 2 (35:03):
Three from the disbelief desk comes word that Women on
the View just continue to raise the bar on disconnection
with mainstream America, and some of the opinions not no,
most of the opinions they share on TV are just
they're disgusting. They're anti American, and so much so that

(35:24):
I find it hard to believe the show even still
has an audience large enough to generate ad revenue sufficient
to keep those women in the crew around them paid.
I really don't how they I don't know how they
do it. If they I don't know if they do.
It's got to be losing money. I know a little
bit about media, a good bit about media, actually, and

(35:44):
that show's just got to be losing money, hamorrhaging money.
It costs a lot of money to produce television shows.
And with all the outrageous stuff they say, you can
look it up. I don't want to get into any
one thing because there's so many. If I feel like
if I rattled off three of them in the next
two minutes, I would leave behind fifty that I probably

(36:06):
would have wanted to share if I had time. So
what I'll do instead is just recommend go do this,
Go to the internet and look up the view outrageous quotes,
and then just let them start tumbling in. Just let
them start to wind it up. From the Northern Frontier
desk comes word that Alaska's potential to provide our nation

(36:26):
and the world with an abundance of oil and gas
which was squandered by the way by the Biden administration
and a bunch of rules that put in effect and
left us dependent on enemy nations like Iran, and which
actually to which Biden freed up some sixty billion dollars
to a run on promise it'd be spent on baby
food and bread and humanitarianate. I'm sure, I'm really sure

(36:49):
that's not where those dollars went.

Speaker 3 (36:50):
Anyway.

Speaker 2 (36:50):
President Trump's moving to reverse those bad policies and hopefully
put us back on track to secure all of our
nation's resources, get our strategic reserves refilled.

Speaker 3 (37:03):
And get us a nice long.

Speaker 2 (37:05):
Future of energy independence, which is something we haven't had
in four years. From the did he do it or
didn't he? I only have a few seconds look it
up online, Sean didny Combs acquitted on three charges, found
guilty of two very minor offenses, So he's probably not

(37:26):
looking at much at nothing. I've got some good stuff
for tomorrow. I'll hold on to it until then. How
close are we We have a fifteen seconds.

Speaker 3 (37:34):
Yeah, let's just wrap that one up.

Speaker 2 (37:36):
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