Happy Hump Day

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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today by the one the Only Cal.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
What's up, Cal?

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Hey? I can read.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
By the way, if anybody's wondering.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
I appreciate that.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yeah, Yeah, Will's off. He'd better be doing the right thing.
It's his girlfriend's birthday. You're aware of that, right I am.
He allegedly he had a pretty good day plan for them.
They're down on the island somewhere, the island of Galveston,
a place that they enjoy, and I hope he's taking
her out for a nice meal this evening. Do it upright?

(01:26):
You only get once one shot a year at your
girlfriend's birthday? Right?

Speaker 3 (01:31):
Oh yeah, how.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Are you on that? Are you good at that?

Speaker 3 (01:36):
No, I'm gonna be honest.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
I'm not true confession. You're not in a confessional. You
can you can sugarcoat it if you want a little bit.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
I'm good at buying a nice dinner.

Speaker 4 (01:47):
And that's good that, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
Girlfriend kills it with the thoughtful presence.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Oh god, yeah, I can't.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
Not that, I can't.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
Well, let me tell you a little secret after being
married thirty four years. Don't try to do it on
your own, and don't don't look for hints anywhere in
the house. What you need to do is just go
to her about three weeks out. Make it as far
out as you can to show her that you're already
thinking about it. Like if her birthday is on November
the first, then you should have been in there yesterday

(02:17):
and there should be something in your calendar yesterday that
says ask her what she wants for her birthday, and
she'll think, wow, he's asking a month in advance. He
really wants to put some thought into this and tell
her that that you can't possibly fulfill every dream she has,
but just this one opportunity to do something really nice

(02:39):
for her, and then the next tomorrow go get it,
get it wrapped, and then just put it on the
put it on the counter with her name on it,
and do not open until November first.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
Oh see she shares the birthday with my mother.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
Oh wow, that makes it easy to remember at least.
But what but what you forget them both? No, it's
just okay, that's an interesting day, that's all. Yeah, I'm
sure it did. Oh yeah, that that makes sense. All right. Anyway,
Here we are sixteen or so hours after the debate
between JD. Vance and Tim Walls, and after which even

(03:16):
some of the most liberal left meat left leading media
folks conceded that Walls just kind of fell flat. He
appeared unsettled. I saw that word. I saw unprepared, whereas
Vance was perceived as as warm and caring and fully
prepared to counter anything that Walls through his way. The

(03:38):
two moderators, Actually, I found it. Did you watch it cal.

Speaker 3 (03:44):
A couple of months?

Speaker 2 (03:45):
A little bit? Yeah, I mean you may or may
not have seen this then that they seemed almost robotic
to a point of being almost a caricature of like
a weekend update on SNL. They were so scripted and
e glance. They gave each other, take it away, whatever
your name is, thank you, whatever your name is. And

(04:06):
they just did this back and forth all night. And
if I heard once, I heard a million times. We've
got a lot to cover. We've got a lot to cover.
So they would cut somebody off kind of right at
the very end of what their response was. To their credit,
they let both of the guys talk pretty well, and
they offered chances to rebut as they did, as they

(04:29):
had set out in the rules, So I'll give them
credit for that. But they were just stiff as cardboard,
not warm, not inviting, not nothing. I watched all about
maybe all but about five minutes of it, and I
don't recall, frankly, any question about the general direction that
Harris and Wall see for our country, or well, we

(04:51):
everybody kind of knows what President Trump sees for our country,
because he's out talking about it every day. Harris has
hidden herself, and it was a pair last night that
Wallas has also kind of been in hiding, not quite
as badly as she has, But neither of them exactly
polished in the public expression of what they plan to

(05:13):
do with this country, and probably being told to keep
their mouths shut because they're looking for socialism and that's
the best solution they have. There are other things, I'm
sure within that party, and even within the two of them,
two of the most left leaning people in government, that
they just don't want, they don't want to fall out

(05:34):
of their mouths. Before the election. This whole joy and
new beginning and all that pitch is just nothing but hollow,
empty mishmash. It means absolutely nothing. If she's all about
a new beginning, and this has been pointed out more
than once. If she's all about some new beginning, then
why don't you start now? Even jd Vance asked that question.

(05:58):
If she's in charge as acting vice president and pretty
much as close to being president as she's ever gonna get,
I hope, then why isn't she doing something now to
cure all the things that are wrong around here? All
this stuff she's promising to do if she's elected, she
could be doing right now to show that she really

(06:19):
means what she says. And every time she doesn't act
on one of these great plans of hers that she'll
do the first day she's president. It just tells me
she's full of bologney and she doesn't want to tell
us what she's really gonna do. She's not gonna do anything.
She's saying she's gonna do nothing good anyway. And don't
think for a minute that she's in charge. She's probably

(06:43):
not doing anything now because she's being told to not
do anything.

Speaker 3 (06:48):
No.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
No, she's not in charge of the White House, she's
not in charge of Congress, she's not in charge of
pretty much any decision making. She's puppet and her weakness
is already being exploited all around the world. You could
see that. To wrap this up, I saw a panel
discussion after debate about twenty people split fifty to fifty
left and right, who watched the whole thing. Talking head

(07:09):
asked how many people had a more favorable opinion pinion
of jd Vance after the debate. About half of them
raise their hands. Then they asked from the same people
who had a more favorable opinion of Tim Wallas after
the debate, about half of them. So basically, what that
tells me is that nobody on that panel actually really
listened or paid attention because none of them changed their minds.

(07:32):
They were asked, also, did anybody's change of did anybody
change their vote based on this? Nah, They're already stuck
in it. They're already stuck in it. Wats played his
little mistic midwestern upbringing like a fiddle too, and I
think most people saw through that. He and harrissedn'trate raised

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Speaker 1 (09:40):
Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike.

Speaker 4 (09:47):
Alli.

Speaker 2 (09:47):
Welcome back. Gal's at the controls. We might hear some
songs with words and singers and everything. Gal this is
pretty special. This is pretty special stuff. Thank you very much.
I appreciate it. So I was talking about Walls and
Vance before it, and them mentioning both of them really
trying to convince everybody that they were born and raised

(10:11):
middle class, and I believe them pretty much. I know
Walls comes from farm country. I'm not even exactly sure.
There's Vance in Ohio doing what he does in the Senate,
and that's where he was raised. But the problem is,
I don't really care where or how either of them

(10:32):
grew up. What I want to know is how well
they connect with the plight of average people. I want
to know what they're going to do politically, because one
of them, about the middle of November is going to
be the vice president of the United States, and I
want to make sure that the right person is there.

(10:56):
Walls made a big blunder by the way I talked
to cal about it. During the break, he was asked
a direct question about something I can't even recall exactly what,
but he opened up with Kamala's I was his iteration,
at least of her I was raised in a middle
class family line of Boloney and in the entire two
minutes he had to answer the original question. He didn't

(11:17):
do that, and even a moderator called him out on that.
She said, well, thank you, governor, but the question was
and then she repeated it, and we never did get
a good answer. Never did. Wallas also claimed he got
called out for this too, that he'd been at Teneman
Square in China when the troops quashed the uprising of

(11:37):
citizens there. Then he backpedaled and said, well, you know,
I actually wasn't there then, but I was kind of
around there, And hell, he's been there thirty times something
like that. It would just be coincidental even that he
might have been there then. And that much that much interest,
that much passion for China and what it stands for. Really,

(12:01):
that's a troubling thing from me. It scares the heck
out of me. But enough of that. If you saw it,
I hope you saw through the fog around Tim Wallas
and recognized him for what he is. No matter how
moderate he tried to appear and sound last night, he's
not that. He's hard left. He's farther left than Kamala,
the woman who destroyed California. I wouldn't trust her to
run a bake sale. I wouldn't trust her to handle

(12:22):
a crowd control in a line outside the women's bathroom
at a football stadium. No neither of them is qualified,
and I can't imagine this country under their leadership. If
it happens, it happens, and we'll march on, but I
hope it goes the other way. I do on. Now
to the weather forecast, which remains boringly benign but still

(12:44):
is presented by Texas IAQ. That's Indoor Air Quality Specialists,
because cleaner air is healthier air. Do'll pound two fifties,
say healthy air. Then stay on the line and you'll
hear more about that. Today's highs and lows and haiku,
and we'll are a cow by the way you are.
You are chet tasked with judging this on a one
to ten scale, as Will has done. And know that

(13:07):
actually he gave me a little bit better score yesterday
I thought than I deserved after he decided, well yeah
he anyway, I'll let you judge this one. Okay, here
we go, so long hot summer. We're all tired of
constant sweat. You will not be missed. And there it is.

Speaker 3 (13:31):
Oh man, oh it was good.

Speaker 2 (13:33):
Okay, seven, Oh good, seven. We'll take seven. Yeah, and
I'll rub that in Will's nose when he comes back tomorrow.
I'll say, you know, I yeah, So why does it
get seven and not six or eight? And that becomes
more complicated, doesn't it.

Speaker 3 (13:48):
That's the way it rolled off your tongue. Sounded good?

Speaker 2 (13:50):
I did.

Speaker 4 (13:51):
And you know why.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
One of the reasons I got a bad score yesterday
was because I just fumbled the ball. I was right
in the middle and I had I had looked down
to the line and I started to say it, and
then it for some reason, my brain just forgot the
last line. So there was just this long pause, and
Will asked me, was it for dramatic effects? No, it
is because I forgot the line. I just had to

(14:13):
wait and look down. So I feel comfortable. I feel
confident that I'm gonna be working off of a seven
tomorrow and I'll ramp it up even more and we'll
see what Will thinks.

Speaker 3 (14:24):
Good. Confidence is key. Are you spend on these? I
want you spend on these.

Speaker 2 (14:29):
Oh at least three minutes?

Speaker 3 (14:32):
Oh well, maybe an eight for three minutes.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
Thank you? Yeah, I don't, I don't dwell. It's haiku.
I used to write poetry. I went to my fiftieth
reunion over the weekend on Saturday, and I actually ran
into a woman who was a neighbor. She lived about
two blocks up at about six houses over, and she
and I were very close friends. We never were romantically

(14:56):
involved at all, but she and I were really close friends.
And and one of the things she said she remembered
was that I wrote poetry for her, and I actually
have an entire book of it that my mother saved,
the original work in my original hand of some of
this stuff, and looking back at it every now and then,
some of it's okay, it's not bad at all. It

(15:17):
served its purpose. I'll just leave it at that. Off
to market we go. Courtesy of Houston Gold Exchange, where
all four. Her name was Laurie Taylor, by the way,
Lori Taylor Swisa. Now she'd been married for many years,
very happily married, and lived down in or not in
the valley, but down like on around Port Isabel, down
there on the island for a long time, and was

(15:38):
in the real estate business with her husband. Now. I
think they're back up this way somewhere now. I can't
recall exactly where she is in any event. It was
great to see her and all the other alums of
mine from that class of seventy four. Holy cow, that
was a long time ago, man, long time ago. Everybody
looked pretty good too. We've lost a lot of classmates,

(15:58):
as you might imagine. Three minutes I got that, so
off to market we go. Courtesy of Houston Gold Exchange.
All four of the big indicators are up well, actually
there was one. I think the Dow was down like
twenty points or something a minute ago. All of this
stuff totally insignificant. Nothing had moved by more than two
tenths of a point as of most of the morning.

(16:21):
Gold had shed about twenty two dollars an ounce around
that same time, but was still closer to twenty seven
hundred dollars an ounce than to twenty six hundred and
I actually I took some stuff over to Brad Schweiss yesterday,
just a little palm full of old gold stuff that
my wife and I no longer care about. There's no

(16:43):
reason for us to keep them in the house. There's
really no sentimental value in all these pieces. I had
one back when guys wore a lot of gold change
and medallions and whatnot. I had one of a blue
marlin in fourteen care at gold. And then I was
in the oil busines for a little while, so I
had a little oil derek in fourteen carrot gold. And

(17:05):
as Brad pointed out to me before I even took
it over there, said, when you bought that stuff gold
was probably about three hundred dollars an ounce. Well, when
it's twenty six hundred dollars an ounce, it's worth a
lot more. I'll tell you. I'll tell you more about
that off the air anyway. Oil up another dollar in change,
almost seventy one dollars a barrel about thirty minutes ago.
And that that bothers me that we don't need, not

(17:27):
at all. With a minute and a half, we're gonna
go to some little fun stuff and see what happens here.
I'll let you choose from one of these three. Gone
to the dogs, guess which state? Or sweet dreams.

Speaker 3 (17:41):
Guess which state?

Speaker 2 (17:43):
Dan the official bird of a city in blank, And
these are pop quizes for you, by the way, when
when there's a blank, the official bird of a city
in what state is the Goodyear blimp? That's their official
state bird. And if you just give it half a second.
There's only one state that would do something this stupid,

(18:06):
and it's not And I'll give you a hint, it's
not Florida.

Speaker 3 (18:13):
It's gonna be up north somewhere.

Speaker 2 (18:15):
Though it doesn't. No, nope, no, it doesn't. I'm trying
to lead you. I'm trying to lead you there. The
governor of this state is a peacock. Think about that.
Who's got his hair slicked back? The most of them
among all the governors can't be Tim Wallas because he
has Yeah, so the state is yeah, really, the state

(18:39):
bird of California is the Goodyear blimp that just falls
right in line. How could how could anybody possibly be
surprised at that?

Speaker 4 (18:51):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (18:51):
How about that? I've got Oh, we're out of time.
We'll take this break, come right back, and I will
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Speaker 1 (20:36):
Aging Once Life without a net if I suggest to
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Just wait until the show's over. Sleepy. Back to Dougpike
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Speaker 2 (20:48):
Hi, welcome back. Well this is uplifting, cal I appreciate this, man,
I really do such a departure from the norm. May
have a talk with our friend. Hey man. Plus, it
doesn't have to last long. It's good. So I promised
more commercial news. This a television commercial in a Walls

(21:09):
Harris campaign I think up in Minnesota they're running, they're
airing this one. It features two people, a man and
a woman, who are purported to be ex Republican voters
who claim that the events of January sixth disturbed them
so much so that they just can't imagine, can't imagine

(21:32):
supporting anybody who was around that. Well, it turns out
those two people actually are professional actors who happened to
be just coincidentally happened to be regular donors to the
Democrat Party. They don't even try to hide this stuff anymore.
It didn't take anybody very long to figure out who

(21:52):
these people were, and the Democrats don't care because most
of the people with whom this would aren't going to
do the aren't going to do the research to figure
that out. They're not going to see the stories that
call out those two people, and they're just just blissfully
ignorant of how hard the wool is being pulled over

(22:15):
their eyes. It's very frustrating for me, it really is.
They know that a lot of voters who lean left
already would never bother back check anything they do and
all of this, and all they do is is they
call conservatives liars, which goes right back to my favorite
communist Marxist socialist strategy. I can't remember which where it originated,

(22:36):
but the man who said it said that the best
weight and I'm paraphrasing here because I don't want to
have to go back and look it all upward for word,
but to paraphrase, he said that if you want to
really confuse the most people the quickest, and really have
them confused over which way to lean, all you have
to do is accuse your opponents of doing exactly what

(22:59):
you're doing. So every time they talk about somebody on
the right, some conservative who's lying and not telling the
truth about something, just know that there's a reason they're
doing that. They want to put up the smoke and
mirrors and all that good stuff. Let's lighten this up again, Cal,
I just this gets so heavy, and I want to
get out of that. I don't want to linger. I

(23:19):
couldn't help it, though. There's just so much that went
on last night that disturbed me. In that thing, and
in fairness, I think both of them were quite respectful
of each other. I think both of them went out
of their way to genuinely acknowledge the importance of healing

(23:42):
this country to where one side can disagree with the other,
but that doesn't mean you have to scream at him,
or throw something at him, or or berate them in
any way, shape or form. So I will give both
of them that. I'll give that credit to Walls and
I'll give it to Vance. But policy wise, they are

(24:04):
light years apart, and I don't think that that separation
was explored adequately last night. I think they the moderators,
perhaps deliberately dodged some of the questions that would have
exposed what Harrison Walls have in store for this country.
If you're elected, All right, will or excuse me, Cal,

(24:24):
I'm so sorry. All right, Cal, let's go back. I'll
go back to one of the things that we talked
that I gave you before, and then I'll add two
more sweet dreams shouldn't be on any menu and tip
of the iceberg shouldn't be on any menu. Today cal

(24:45):
is National Kale Day. How do you feel about kal?
Have you ever eaten it?

Speaker 3 (24:50):
Oh? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (24:51):
On purpose? Oh yeah, you sound like you're a fan. No, okay,
so birthday dinner with your girlfriend?

Speaker 3 (24:59):
Yeah yeah, you know.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
Yeah, let's have a kale salad now, man, that kale
landed on it's today's National Kale Day. That's why it
comes up. That's the only reason I'll ever talk about kale,
and not in a favorable way. Keal made a list
of foods that some people only pretend to like, and
that goes along with caviar. How are you on caviar,

(25:20):
fish eggs? Yeah? No, man, no, no, really, yeah, you
enjoy I like the caviar, Okay, on a cracker. Licorice,
I don't have a problem with licorice. I like that.
And blue cheese. I have no problem with blue cheese either,
especially if it is kind of hidden in a big
pile of wrench dressing on top of a wedge of

(25:41):
lettuce with a couple of little half tomato slices, a
little cherry tomatoes sliced up around it, maybe a little
bacon on top.

Speaker 3 (25:47):
Perfect.

Speaker 2 (25:47):
I could eat those for dinner. Yep, just needs more bacon.
People who eat kale. There was a little list of
things that identify the people who eat kale. They own
at least one Yoga matt their radio sadly not here.
The radio is typically tuned to NPR. Okay, you agree

(26:08):
with that one. They've seen every episode of The White Lotus.
Do you know what that is? No, don't, don't bother.
They have a complicated Starbucks order, no question about that.
And they either drive an ev a hybrid or a
plug in or something else that allows them to judge
you for not doing that. Maybe I don't know that

(26:32):
goes in a different direction.

Speaker 4 (26:34):
You know.

Speaker 2 (26:34):
That's okay, it's still it is. It is what it is.
It is what it is. All right, let me get
back over to the newsworthy thing. Oh this is this
was an interesting fun fact to know and tell. And
if the conversation goes slow anywhere that you are, you
can just drop this in. Hey, by the way, did
you know cal that Hurricane Helene and all the stumb

(26:56):
thumbers just rewind that, Hey, cal did you know that
Hurricane Helene and all the thunderstorms that accompanied it on
its journey up the East coast dumped enough rain it
basically is the entire volume of Lake Tahoe forty. Now,

(27:19):
I don't know how they measure this exactly. I guess
just they take the inches of rain and just start
doing a bunch of multiplication. But according to this forty
trillion gallons of rain from that hurricane, I would be
curious to know exactly how many gallons of water fell

(27:40):
with Harvey, because with Harvey we had more than fifty
inches of rain in three days. Yeah, remember that it
just sat there and dumped and dumped and dumped. And
I'm kind of curious to know how that would compare
side by side, which one of them put up the
most rain. Be interesting to know that, would it not?

Speaker 3 (28:03):
It would three.

Speaker 2 (28:04):
Minutes here, gosh, where do I want to go? I'm
I'm gonna go back and forth. I'm gonna go back
and forth. I'm gonna go back to this page right here.
And then I had a couple of things from the
other day that I brought in here just in case
I had time for him, and I'm hoping I will,
but I'll stay a little soft. I want to do that. No,
I'll tell you what. Minneapolis. Speaking of tim Walls in
Minnesota and all that stuff, the city of Minneapolis, I

(28:27):
think it was this week, actually maybe early this week
or late last week, swore in its first non US
citizen to their police force, a non US citizen with
the power to The woman who was was made a
member of the police force wore her he job over

(28:49):
her head as she was sworn in and given the
power to arrest and detain US citizens. Now, there's a
large population in Minneapolis from Somalia, and the city incorrectly
identified her, as far as I'm concerned, as a Somali American,
because she's not that. I believe that she should be

(29:12):
correctly described as a Somalian living in America. She hasn't,
I don't think. Well, according to the title of the story,
she is a non US citizen. That's right in the
first line. So she is a Somalian citizen living in
America and worth Hey, anybody who wants to take that job.

(29:33):
First of all, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna go
out of my way to say no. But then again,
I have to really kind of wonder what direction that
could take long term. And a lot of members of
that community in Minneapolis, I read, are under in guest

(29:54):
investigation over a fraud case that alleges some tens of
millions of dollars stolen from medicaid and funneled through some
fake charity up there. Look it up. This is so bizarre.
It's just so bizarre. And what the mayor said, if
you go look that story up, is actually kind of

(30:16):
crazier than what happened up there. Again, I guess somebody
who's willing to take up law enforcement may be a
very valuable asset to the community in one hand, because
they will be able to relate to the people that
they're going to be dealing with. Most likely that the
Somalian community there, I think would respond better to someone

(30:39):
who is who understands that culture, that community. So maybe
it'll be a good thing, maybe it won't, But there's
bound to be somebody there who is who is who
has been become a citizen in the United States who
maybe could take on that same role. I don't know
that one kind of goes back and forth on me

(31:00):
back and forth. I want to iterate again. Oh no,
seventeen seconds. I can't do anything. I can't. Let's take
a little break here. Kirk HOOLMBS. I'll give them a
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Speaker 4 (32:30):
They sure don't make them like they used to.

Speaker 1 (32:32):
That's why every few months we wash him, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax.

Speaker 4 (32:38):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 2 (32:41):
This has been quite fun today, it really has. I
like that song too, by the way, you and Melvin
both you pick good songs, no question about it. I
got to have a couple of them here that I
want to get to before we get to the end.
We got about what ten minutes or you need to
stop to start that clock, don't you.

Speaker 3 (32:57):
Yeah, I haven't even put the new to week. We
don't know.

Speaker 2 (32:58):
We don't even have ten there's no we have ten minutes.

Speaker 3 (33:01):
We got a three.

Speaker 2 (33:03):
Ice cream News class action suit filed against Briar's ice
Cream is gonna shell out almost nine million dollars because oh,
such a terrible thing they've done. Cal the vanilla flavor
and it's vanilla ice cream doesn't come entirely from vanilla plants,
and somebody filed a class action lawsuit over this. It

(33:26):
also contains flavors from some non vanilla plant sources. You know,
when I grew up, you know what that was called.
That was called a secret ingredient, the only thing that
distinguished one ice cream or pie filling or popsicle or
whatever from another, or hamburger. It's okay. I don't have
a problem with them having some other ingredient in calling it.

(33:50):
If it's mostly if it's fifty one percent vanilla ice cream,
then it's vanilla ice cream. I don't have a problem
with that. From the over reaction category, an editor of
the It's called, a left leaning publication called Mother Jones,
a woman named Clara Jeffrey, went little sideways when a
flight attendant attendant on an Alaska Airlines flight rolling into

(34:13):
They were landing in San Francisco, and this flight attendant
had the nerve to look at her and wish her
a blessed night as they were about to depart. The plane.
She called it creeping Christian nationalism, when at least for now,
our nation allows freedom of religion. There's nothing wrong with that,

(34:35):
and I bring it up only because it's symbolic of
just how divisive the least wants to make this country.
If somebody practices a different religion from mine and offers
me a blessing or a pat on the back or
a high five, or whatever that person considers a kind
and positive message, I'd just say thank you and know
that it's not my faith. But if it's their faith

(34:57):
and they mean well for me, I I'm not gonna
have a problem with that, Sorry, Clara, Well, actually not sorry,
because there aren't many people who care about your reaction
to a well meaning person's kind words. I certainly don't.
From the classical music file, which we rarely get to
open up around here, cal after get this, after two

(35:21):
hundred years, sitting quietly on a shelf at a library
over in Leipzig, Germany, sheet music for a previously unknown song.
It's eleven minutes long. Eleven minutes song found on that
shelf just kind of buried up with a bunch of
papers whose name for all the money in the world

(35:43):
and the camper whose name is on there as the songwriter.

Speaker 3 (35:49):
How old is it two hundred years? I mean there's
a couple of big names to think of, right.

Speaker 2 (35:55):
Yeah, and didn't you? You're probably warm, so shoot one out.

Speaker 3 (36:00):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (36:00):
Mozart, Yeah, Wolfgang Mozart written before he even became a teenager,
which makes it especially kind of cool.

Speaker 3 (36:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (36:10):
Yeah, I like classical music, I really do. I'll listen
to it every now and then. And I have that
I like stuff like that. I'm a history nut anyway.
I get that from my father. He got a history
degree from Twulane University many many years ago, and it
immediately went into the oil business. But none of that.

(36:31):
He had to make a living. You know, I don't
know what you're gonna do with history unless you want
to curate a museum or something. Okay, I'll go back
to the fun stuff. Real quick, tip of the iceberg,
nothing new or clowning around quickly?

Speaker 3 (36:43):
Nothing new, nothing new.

Speaker 2 (36:44):
Candy company Ferrero trying to claim that grown up celebrating
Halloween is a new trend. Sixty nine percent of adults
say they say, well, buy candy this year, even if
they don't expect trick or treaters. That has gone on
every year that there has been hallowe? Is there ever
a year when you get into about well late July

(37:04):
and some of the hardware stores, but you go into
the grocery store and they've already had it up in
the store I shop at for God forever. I'm gonna
go buy some candy. I'm getting a sweet tooth. We'll
be back tomorrow. Thanks a lot, Audios.