Gallbladder and Bile Duct Cancers

Today, Doug Pike interviews Dr. Ryan Hall about gallbladder and bile duct cancers.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:45):
Ah, right, here we go.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
Welcome to the Friday edition of fifty plus, a show
that addresses things of importance to those of us who
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And I feel confident in saying that as soon as
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Fixed, and I was very happy, very very happy. Takeing
a look at weather. We're in for three more days
of dry and warm, then four or five still dry
and warm, but.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
With a chance of wet. We could use the rain frankly,
So do us all a favor, and don't wish too
hard against getting some showers next week. I would greatly
appreciate that my yard would appreciate it. Market's top four
indicators all in a bit of a free fall this morning,
after wholesale prices kind of headed upward unexpectedly.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
All four were in the.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
Deep red and anywhere from three quarters of a point
to more than two points off yesterday's closes. Gold, Oh
my goodness, who would have thought back in the seventies
when we were buying gold chains at the gold content
was worth about three hundred bucks an ounce, Who would

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have thought that now gold would be well? Right, a
little while ago, it was just shy of five thousand,
two hundred and fifty dollars an ounce that krugerran that
you saw on sale on late night TV for solo
for many, many years back in the day. What were

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they costing maybe three four hundred bucks something like that?
One ounce of pure gold fifty two hundred right now,
which is somewhat ironic.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
Really well, I guess maybe not. I guess maybe not.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
Oil not nearly so volatile as the stock market, which
is somewhat I'm not really sure why not, given that
we're on really really shaky ground right now with Iran
and them not wanting to talk at all about giving
up their nuclear aspirations. Oil was up a buck forty
to sixty six sixty one, which is still a few

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bucks north of where I'd like to have it, but
it could have shot up worse.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
I still kind of hope that they will back down
and do some more negotiation before all hell breaks.

Speaker 3 (04:06):
Loose over in the Middle East. Lots of stuff going
on over there. That's not the only confrontation going on
hours against Iran. Quite a few little little fires starting
to brew over there. How much time to have a
couple of minutes? Okay, let's get started, shall we?

Speaker 4 (04:23):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (04:23):
To be a fly on the wall, I would think
as the Oversight Committee questions former President Bill Clinton about
his connection to Jeffrey Epstein, Hillary kind of sort of
threw him under the bush yesterday when she just flat
sat there and told that committee she didn't know anything
about anything about any criminal activity, never met the guy.

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She did, however, confirm again that his procurement officers I've
heard her called Elaine Maxwell attended Chelsea Clinton's wedding in
twenty ten. Now in Hillary's favor, and I don't like
to favor somebody that I think is kind of crooked,
but in her favor. Maxwell attended that wedding not with

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a direct invitation, but as a plus one, as a
plus one alongside her then boyfriend, a billionaire named Tim Waite.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
I don't know what he's where he made his money?
You know where Tim wait made his money. Well, not
so anyway.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
After Hillary's testimony, committee members shared that she was predictably
vague with so many of her answers. Now it's Bill's turn,
and frankly, I can't wait to hear what he's got
to say. I don't know that much of it's going
to be right, but it is what it is. It
was an interesting story earlier too, about some missing information

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the FBI back on Super Bowl Sunday in twenty twenty three.
Somebody hacked into the FBI's computers somehow and dug up
the Epstein files, among other things, and it was discovered
shortly thereafter and remedy shortly thereafter.

Speaker 4 (06:01):
But the.

Speaker 3 (06:03):
Bad part about that is whoever the hackers were. They
siphoned out some five hundred terabytes of information, four hundred
terabytes of which were recovered. And the guy who was
telling all this telling this story said that when he

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asked how if there was a way to recover it
once the loss was discovered, the people up the ladder
told him to google it.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
Hey, just google it, see if you can figure out
a way to do it. Well he did.

Speaker 3 (06:37):
He recovered four hundred terabytes, but one hundred terabytes of
information out of a juicy file like the Epstein file.
That's a lot of missing stuff. It's a lot of
missing stuff. There's been an update in the Nancy Guthrie case.
By the way, another arrest has been made, and this
time the guy who was arrested, if I read that

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story right, may have had a picture of Nancy Guthrie
on his cell phone. I don't know whether that picture
was from before or after or what, but the fact
that there's a picture on his cell phone and this
is just some random dude who they found sniffing around.
Also more video now of unfamiliar cars driving up and

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the abduction and before and after. The information I read,
really unfortunately for all of us who were watching this
was almost as vague as Hillary's testimony yesterday. Sadly, but
it does seem like the puzzle may be coming together
a little better than it has been. And hopefully pray

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Speaker 3 (09:17):
Thanks for listening. I always appreciate it. You know, you know,
you must know I do.

Speaker 1 (09:23):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (09:23):
We'll talk in this segment about a couple of very
specific cancers that to my knowledge, don't have walks or
cookie sales or disease of thons to draw attention to them,
but U and those would be gallbladder and bile duck
cancer about which I know absolutely nothing, but fortunately for
us all doctor Ryan Hall, Aboard certified and Fellowship trained

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transplant surgeon does Welcome to fifty plus, Doctor Hall.

Speaker 4 (09:51):
Thank you, Doug. I appreciate it, my pleasure.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
So everything in our body serves a purpose.

Speaker 3 (09:55):
What exactly are the purposes of the gallbladder and bile
duck Now it's a.

Speaker 4 (10:01):
Great question, and I think of it as plumbing. The
liver makes bile every day continuously, and that bile is
one of the key things we need to digest our food.
And so the bile ducts and the gall bladder the
tubes that connect the liver to the intestine. So all
that bile is draining down the main bial duck, and

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there's a valve at the end that stays closed unless
we eat, and so that bile backs up and goes
off a little side tube, so to speak, into the
gall bladder where it gets concentrated and stored.

Speaker 3 (10:31):
So if I went looking inside my body, where would
I bind these two things?

Speaker 4 (10:37):
That's a great question. So the liver is the largest
organ in the body and it makes up almost everything,
and the right upper side of our abdomen, so just
under the ribs on the right, it's all the liver
and the gall bladder would be just there. And so
people have problems then usually they feel some pain just
under the ribs on.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
The right, go to the liver and take a left.

Speaker 4 (10:57):
Yeah, something like that.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
I saw in my note.

Speaker 3 (11:00):
That these are both fairly rare cancers, kind of like
I mentioned earlier, and that might explain their lack of publicity.

Speaker 2 (11:07):
Just exactly how rare are they?

Speaker 4 (11:09):
Yeah, exactly? So total between the two there's just over
twelve thousand cases usually in the United States, so about
five thousand to six thousand of each, So incidents wise,
that's just over one case per one hundred thousand people.
We have seen a slow increase in that and sometimes
in younger folks, but on average we see these cases

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in people around the age of sixty five Doug, and
usually they kind of get referred to places like where
I am to kind of deal with these.

Speaker 3 (11:39):
Well, it's good that you're there, and when they come
a knock there, talk about risk factors, if you would,
who's more likely to develop these cancers?

Speaker 4 (11:47):
Yeah, great question there. So again and as I mentioned it,
you know, thankfully, they're very rare, but when we see them,
they're usually in patients who have gallstones. Okay, eighty to
ninety percent of cases or patients with gallstones, and most
of the time galstones don't give anybody any trouble. There's
some specific situations to watch out for, though, and that's
if somebody has one gallstone that's over three centimeters in

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diameter and so just over an inch, yeah, but one
big gallstone, or maybe there's calcium in the wall of
the gallbladder, and so if you're your primary care doctor,
your family medicine doctor see something like that, they're usually
going to send you to see a surgeon to consider
removing your gallbladder just because of the risk of a
cancer goes up. So that's those are the main things.
There's also you can get polyps in the gallbladder, and

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then there's some certain hereditary situations that are much less common.
But those are the two main things we think of. Women,
because they get gallstones more commonly, are three to four
times more likely to get a cancer in the gallbladder.
So that's something to keep in mind. This varies across
the world. This may be an interest or not, but
you know, there are certain parts of South America where
the incidents is so high that women in their forties

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actually get their gallblader out prophylactically.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
Oh wow.

Speaker 4 (12:57):
Here in the United States, yeah, it's not that common.
So again it's something more surveillance and it's somebody that's
pain or something like that.

Speaker 3 (13:03):
But uh yeah, doctor Ryan Hall here on fifty plus,
I guess if we'd live long enough, almost everything in
our body is going to get walky at some point.

Speaker 4 (13:11):
Huh. It can happen. There's early things to check on,
and we'll appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (13:18):
Well for those of us who I had an earlier
or an interview earlier in the week about preemptive striking
about self checkups and whatnot. What would be the symptoms
or something that we could point to and say, you know,
I better get this checked out.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (13:32):
So, usually it's it's somebody that comes in with pain,
as I mentioned, just under the ribs or kind of
just under the breastbone, and that's you know, pretty common
for gallble hadder problems. The vast majority of the time
it's just gonna be related to golstones. But sometimes again
that that can be an underlying mass. So if you're

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having something like that, then you know you may be
able to take an holino get past it, or stop
eating fatty foods and get better. But it's definitely something
to to uh prompt you to seek evaluation and get
your doctor to look at that with an ultrasound and
make sure there's not something more concerning than a very
common thing, which is just Dallstone's giving somebody trouble. You
mentioned more rarely people can get so sorry yellow in

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their eyes right, and and so something like that you
know would definitely uh be a recommendation to get checked
out really quickly as well.

Speaker 3 (14:21):
You mentioned a diet which comes up in almost every
interview I do. What is the uh, what's the best
diet to keep a nice healthy bile duct and bile
being produced?

Speaker 4 (14:33):
Great question, you know, I think just the common recommendations
to to you know, as I think of everything in moderation, right,
So we think about a low fat diet and and
it's more related duck to to our our body mass
index or whether or not we're obese. And so we
know that obesity does increase the risk of this, but
it also increases the risk of people having golfstone. So
you know, we're not sure if it's you know, related

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to the gallstone formation or dedicated to obesity. But you know, heating,
eating a healthy diet, and keeping our weight within the
parameters set by your primary care doctor would be the
only goal. There's not a specific diet recommendation if you
have to doubt or avoid that, but we just think
of it more as an overall healthy guide.

Speaker 3 (15:12):
From what I've read, early diagnosis is just critical to
have any chance for a good outcome if somebody does
develop this. I saw early stage patients fifteen to thirty
percent chance at five years, and once it spreads that
drops down to two percent. That's kind of frightening, isn't it.

Speaker 4 (15:29):
It is, it is, and you know, you think about
these tumors, you know, in the same spectrum as a
pancreas cancer or something like that, and really, you know,
we're very glad now, you know, improving systemic therapies that
are medical oncology colleagues have with themmunotherapy and targeted therapy.
So we have seen some patients who do remarkably well
that you know, even ten years ago I would have said,

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had no chance. But yeah, early diagnosis is key, and
that would be the point. You know, if you're having
pain there, get that checked out, make sure it's not
something more serious. But you know, if you're able to
find something that is recectable, still the gold standard there
and we're we're always hopeful to be able to get
these out and get some big cure as often as
we can.

Speaker 3 (16:07):
Is this something that would routinely be tested for or
would you have to just present and say, look, I
got this pain over here, I want to be checked
for this and if so, how much does that stuff cost?

Speaker 2 (16:16):
What's the test cost?

Speaker 4 (16:18):
Yeah? Great question. Note, So there's not like a routine
surveillance you know, task like you would think of for
a Kolonoski or something like that, Doug. But again with
pain or something that's would be the indication. And the
most common thing is just an ultrasound that's covered by
usually every major insurance and even out pocket costs are
very reasonable there. So an ultrasound can give you great

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pictures of the gallbladder and if there's anything more concerning
there than cross sectional limitging like a CT or something
is easily ordered as well.

Speaker 3 (16:45):
All right, so in the final thirty forty seconds, put
our minds at ease and tell us what we just
just should be the drop dead time to go and
go see the doctor.

Speaker 4 (16:55):
Yeah, you're having pain, you know, and pain is the
signal something's wrong. And you know it's if you're having
pain und your rips on the right, and you know
it's after fatty foods or something, and you know your
your mom or your dad or your brother or sister
had their gall leighter out and you can say, oh,
well that's just dad and you know cut out, you
know brisket, you know it's it's it's barbecue season around here.
Then then I'll probably be okay, yeah that may be true,

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but I would recommend, you know, going and be seen,
get an ultrasound, make sure there's nothing else underlying there,
and that that's going to help you know that you're
not dealing more than with one of these hopefully something, as.

Speaker 3 (17:26):
The adage goes, better safe than sorry. Doctor Ryan Hall,
thank you so very much. This has been really informative.

Speaker 2 (17:31):
I appreciate it, appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (17:33):
Thanks for having to do.

Speaker 2 (17:36):
All right, there you go.

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Speaker 3 (19:58):
Well, going back to fifty plus, and thanks for listening.
I do appreciate it. On this it's a pretty dog
gone nice day out there. Actually, I got out late
yesterday for a very brief practice session at the golf course.
It didn't make my game any better, really, but I
also I also broke some new ground, and this is
I'll be talking about this tomorrow morning. I can assure

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you at some point I've been suffering from the lack
of fish I'm able to catch. We're in a lake
or two out where I play golf, where my son
and I used to go and be able to catch
twenty thirty in an afternoon easily almost any day of
the year.

Speaker 2 (20:35):
We could do that.

Speaker 3 (20:37):
And then the cormorants showed up, and then on top
of them, these fish eating birds that consume two and
a half three pounds of fish a day each and
can swallow hole a bass that's even a foot long
or more. A little, tiny, little, skinny little necks aren't
as big around as a golf ball, but they can

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stretch them enough to eat a big fish like that.

Speaker 2 (21:01):
That happened.

Speaker 3 (21:02):
We had a fish kill out there, and nobody really
wants to say, or maybe they don't know exactly what
caused it, but it was horrific. And now I've been
still trying to find out how many fish are left,
and I know there's at least one because I caught
it yesterday. I'm very excited about that. You have no
idea how that excites me. I got to call a
friend of mine who occasionally joins me out there to

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try and catch some of those fish.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
It might be time. It might be time.

Speaker 3 (21:29):
There was an update this morning in the Nancy Guthrie case.
Another I talked about that. Never mind, I don't want
to go back to that. Let me scratch that out,
and I'm gonna go to this because I don't want
to miss it. And one of the most brazen displays
of potentially potentially treason us. Really definitely on American behavior
that I have seen or heard the mayor of Denver.

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The mayor of Denver, a guy named Michael Johnston, said that,
by gosh, his sanctuary city will pret checked everyone there,
regardless of our of their status. He kind of took
the way of the left during the State of the
Union address when asked whether Americans should come first. Right,

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So what he's saying is, and here comes the good part.
He's going to protect those people, no matter what their status,
and that could include the arrest of ice officers who
Denver PD officers think are using excessive force to detain

(22:34):
and arrest illegal immigrants. He's asking his police force to
potentially arrest and charge federal law enforcement agents that are
only trying to get the worst of the worst out
of our country. Resident Trump's right, people like him have

(22:58):
just tossed their loyalty to Americans out the window in
favor of protecting murderers, rapists, child molesters, drug dealers, human
traffickers who live off our tax dollars in their cities.
This country, no, not the country. These sanctuary states and
cities that blindly want to protect illegal immigrants over American

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citizens are a bit of a disgrace to the men
and women who fought now for almost two hundred and
fifty years to keep our nation free and to protect
those freedoms. I can't help but think that elected official
who places any elected official who places illegal immigrants before
US citizens must have some incentive to do so, wouldn't

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you think.

Speaker 2 (23:43):
I don't know what that would be. It's people like Johnston,
like Schiff Pelosi, AOC Jeffreys, Mormont, Moron Zomdani.

Speaker 3 (23:53):
Yeah, that's not his name, but I like that better
than what it is. They just Jasmine Crockett. We can't
leave her out. They just make it imperative that we
pass the Save Act before the election without absolute assurance
that only American citizens can vote in November. I can
assure you the outcome will favor the cheaters. Not gonna

(24:15):
name who they are, but whoever cheats is gonna win.
And it's a lot easier to keep cheaters out of
office by having a fair election for only US citizens.
It's a lot easier to keep those cheaters out of
office than it is to remove them if they happen

(24:36):
to get in. Republicans have played nice now for way
too long saves our last chance. I'm afraid it just
if we don't pass that somehow, and if we allow
states to just let anybody and everybody walk up and
say their name, Oh yeah, this is my name.

Speaker 2 (24:55):
Yeah, I'm an American citizen.

Speaker 3 (24:57):
Yeah, okay, So I'm gonna go vote and then get
bust over to some other part of town and just
go through the same thing and do it again.

Speaker 2 (25:04):
That's a recipe for disaster.

Speaker 3 (25:07):
And the fact that the Democrats wouldn't stand up and
support that either tells you all about what's going on,
tells me all I need to know to make me
pretty frightened. Actually, I think we're gonna be okay, but
I just don't want it to take another twenty thirty
years to get there.

Speaker 2 (25:24):
Back to the unqualified, do I have a minute and
a half? I got one minute. No, I'm gonna do that.

Speaker 3 (25:28):
Then I can do this From Jasmine Crockett, one of
so many Democrat gifts that keeps on giving. Fox News
story says she had someone booted an Atlantic Magazine staff
writer named Elaine Godfrey out of a recent political rally. Now,
when Godfrey was approached by someone a staffer there and

(25:51):
told she had to leave. She asked him why when
the rally staffer lifted her phone and read from it
a note from an unnamed person. We don't know who
wrote that note, but what it said was, and I
quote a lane from Atlantic, white girl with a hat
and notepad. She's interviewing people in the crowd. She's a
top notch hater and we'll spin she needs to leave.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
End quote. So much for free press under Jasmine's watch.

Speaker 1 (26:17):
Huh.

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to speak.

Speaker 2 (27:35):
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Speaker 3 (27:36):
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Speaker 1 (27:58):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike back fifty plus.

Speaker 2 (28:02):
Fourth and final segment of the show starts right now.
I want to get back to this.

Speaker 3 (28:06):
The Unqualified Commercial truck Driver file video at Fox this Morning,
Fox Business this Morning, showing an eighteen There's a guy
driving I guess, the right way in the right lanes
on a highway that's got two lanes on each side
and is divided by a pretty wide median like most
are in this country. He's driving in the right lane

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and across the median we see an eighteen wheeler driving
south in the northbound lanes of this highway.

Speaker 2 (28:41):
The driver of that truck is on his phone.

Speaker 3 (28:44):
There's somebody in the video was being taken by somebody
in the vehicle on the correct side of the road
and just paralleling this guy as he just continues forward.

Speaker 2 (28:56):
And I guess what he thought was the right.

Speaker 3 (28:58):
Lane, only it was way the wrong lane, and just
thank god nobody plowed head on into this idiot. He
got his trucking license from a company in Minnesota, by
the way, that was launched just two years ago and
is headquartered. Are you ready for this in an apartment?

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It's actually not illegal. I read to issue those licenses
to foreign nationals, provided that they include the proper documentation
and credentials. But the problem is that a whole lot
of those licenses were issued under the Biden administration without

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following the rules. This is a nationwide issue. California just
recently was found to have issued almost twenty thousand commercial
licenses improperly, twenty thousand. They were ordered to revoke those
licenses several months ago, but for some reason haven't gotten
around to it yet. California, what fifteen twenty thousand, let's

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call it that. Every other Blue state, what maybe five
ten thousand more? We could quite easily be looking at
one hundred thousand licensed semi drivers who can't read our
own street signs and have taken good paying jobs away
from Americans who can read them and who can stay
in their own lane. That was That was one of

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the most frightening things I've ever seen that didn't, at
least while I was watching it, that didn't wind up
in a just a major catastrophe.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
It was horrible.

Speaker 3 (30:38):
I'll soften it up for a little bit. Oh, this
was kind of interesting. Family is six sitting in an
Oregon airport long delay for departure of their flight, kids
are getting hungry. Came up with an idea. Their small airport,
by the way, offers only a few options for food,
all of which are i'll wrap this in quotes airport expensive.

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So instead of paying one hundred dollars to get four
cheeseburgers or whatever, they got on the phone and ordered
Domino's pizza for delivery. Dad waited with the kids while
mom walked out the gate and back out to the entrance,
grabbed the pizzas from the delivery guy. I'm sure she
gave him a nice tip, went back through security, past

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smiling agents and passengers who many of whom said they
wished they'd thought of that, And when the weight suddenly
was over, they even wound up taking some of the
pizzas on board.

Speaker 2 (31:32):
There was a little bit left. Of course, of course,
the public reacted when this kind of halfway went viral
in two ways. Most were they were interested, they loved
the move. Actually, others, of course, had to whine about all.
They whined about the smell. Nobody wants to smell their
pizza on the whole flight. Some of the flight flight

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attendants actually complained and this may be a teeny bit legit.
They complain that the empty boxes are awkward to store. Well,
fold it in half and then fold it a little
bit more and then put it in the trash can.
You don't have to try and stick it into a
double large pizza box in without folding it up. It's

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not that hard to fold a pizza box on, honest
to God.

Speaker 3 (32:23):
And next time you go, don't be afraid to bring
your own food, maybe not pizza, avoid stinky stuff, you
know what, I'm think it'd be a great thing to
take on a playing wheel for my lunch.

Speaker 2 (32:33):
Deviled eggs and Brussels sprouts. We have somebody that eats
deviled eggs, or not devil eggs, but hardboiled eggs in
here on a routine basis because they're healthy, and I
wish I may ask her to bring me three or four.

Speaker 3 (32:48):
Next time she does that, I'd be more than willing
to pay to have some hard boiled eggs.

Speaker 2 (32:54):
They're pretty good. You like hardboiled eggs, no will? What
about deviled eggs? Any eggs?

Speaker 3 (33:02):
Scrambled over easy, scrambled over easy? Okay, I got it, Yeah,
that's that's that's.

Speaker 2 (33:11):
How I get them.

Speaker 3 (33:13):
Actually there's a next door in our little cafe. There
you can get a couple of bowls of rice and
other stuff, and the Korean bowl comes with a fried
egg over They ask you how you.

Speaker 2 (33:26):
Want it over? Easy? Is how? Or I wanted a
little bit running? And that's pretty darn good.

Speaker 3 (33:32):
It's a pretty darn good thing a Frida egg to
put on a lot of a lot of other food items.

Speaker 2 (33:37):
All right, some interesting stuff.

Speaker 1 (33:39):
Boy.

Speaker 3 (33:39):
Once again, I told Will I might start using Friday
to just kind of do a week in review and
maybe talk about either the biggest stories of the week
or maybe the ones that I just didn't get to
because there's so much prep.

Speaker 2 (33:52):
That I do in a day in the morning before
the show, and a lot of it just gets kind
of left behind. It seems so sad to do that.
I may take it that way.

Speaker 3 (34:02):
By the way, well, did you know that Great Salt
Lake in Utah once covered an area larger than Rhode Island. You,
when you think about it, that's that's really not that big.
Rhode Island is not exactly a giant state. I would
bet you that sam Rayburn or maybe to lead a
Bend is close to us big. I would bet you

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it is.

Speaker 2 (34:23):
I'll go I'll do some research and get back to
you on that. Burger King's making three changes to its
whopper to make it higher quality. One they're news and
using a new bun that's that's not working for me.
They're also packaging it in a box instead of a
paper wrapper to make it higher quality. You know.

Speaker 3 (34:47):
And in the end, and the next one I eat
won't be my first, but in the end, it's still
a whopper, right, So there you have that.

Speaker 2 (34:59):
One more thirty nine. No, I'm not gonna do that.
I'm gonna save these for next week when they're not
so fresh and not so weird.

Speaker 3 (35:07):
That's it for this week. Thank you all very much
for listening. We'll be back next week. Audios