Honor Flight Houston

Today, Doug Pike interviews Alan Montgomery about Honor Flight Houston.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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(00:43):
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Speaker 2 (00:45):
All right, Thursday edition of the program starts right now.
Thank you all for joining us. Oh late somber day,
very somber day, as far as I'm concerned, And one
that I will certainly never forget. This will this embedded?
This one. It's one of those ones where you're not
going to forget where you were when it happened. First

(01:06):
landing on the Moon JFK. There are all kinds of
events nine to eleven appropriately, all kinds of events where
you just when nine to eleven happened. And I'm not
going to ignore the story from yesterday, but just as
a quick aside, when the first tower was hit on

(01:27):
September eleventh, so many years ago, a couple of decades ago. Now,
I was on my way to work over at CCA
Coastal Conservation Association, where I spent ten years editing their magazine.
I was coming from the radio station where I was
already working and headed in there to do some touch

(01:50):
up on whatever edition of the magazine was coming out next.
And I called and said, did I hear right on
the radio that a plane had crashed into one of
those towers? And they said, yeah, big old airliner. When
I heard that a plane had crashed into one of
those buildings, I thought it was just a single engine
something that straight off track, and maybe the pilot had

(02:13):
a heart attack or something. Then when I got there,
there was a small TV, maybe a sixteen eighteen inch
screen in the break room over there, and there were
several people huddled around it, and all of that were
just staring in disbelief at that first big, gaping hole
in a giant building. And as we were all standing

(02:37):
there watching the second plane hit, and I'll never forget
that image in my head. I can't even remember who
was still who was standing there when it happened, because
the event on the screen overrode everything else in the room.
I couldn't tell you how many chairs were at the table,

(02:57):
I couldn't tell you whether that was on a table
or a countertop. But I just remember what I saw
on the screen, and it was horrific, just as was
yesterday when Charlie Kirk was doing what Charlie Kirk does
best and trying to have conversations to impress upon the

(03:18):
people to whom he was going to speak, how relatively
simple it is really to disagree about things but be
respectful of each other and just talk about it. And
who knows who's going to be changed by something like that.
This was not a day when foreign terrorists killed three

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thousand or so people crashing airliners into buildings. This was
a day, It's an important event in this nation of ours,
very important yesterday, a politically motivated death by assassination of
just a single man, just one guy, Charlie Kirk. And

(04:00):
by the way, I was disappointed that the chronicle didn't
even mention his name in the headline this morning, just
said a conservative activist, that's all they gave him in
the headline. And I was both I found that disturbing
and telling just of where we are they just can't

(04:22):
stand it. They can't stand the idea of honoring somebody
with whom they don't agree. It's very frustrating. And I'm
not picking just on our paper. I'm picking on media
in mass media in general, most of which is just
kind of that way. By the way, the FBI has

(04:45):
released two photos of the man they believe shot Charlie Kirk,
and you can see this guy's face behind well, he's
got sunglasses and a cap on, but you can see
the guy they think is responsible for this. At the
ca A website, Ethan Buchanan just came over a little
while ago and told me we got pictures. We got pictures,

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and indeed there are two of them there. So now
now all we have to do is find this guy
and bring him to justice. And that's all that's all
we do, the civilized among us. That's all we do
is get him into court and see how it works out.
So by now, probably nobody in this audience is unaware

(05:28):
of what I'm talking about. That yesterday in Utah, in
front of thousands of people, young and old, all there
to watch one of the nation's most open and honest
and bright conservatives share conversations with people who have different opinions,
people who frankly just don't agree with him, and they're
very vocal about it. If you watch any of the

(05:49):
interviews he's already done. He'll talk about any subject anyway.
While he's doing this. A man on a roof with
a rifle, the guy who's pictures are now at KTRH.
We believe this guy just fired a single shot that
ended Kirk's life and pretty much derailed the lives of

(06:09):
his wife and two children and countless friends and countless
business associates and countless other people, and just fractured him.
He was killed by somebody who just has no interest
in exchanging ideas with anyone but maybe others who think
like himself. This guy wasn't interested in dialogue with a conservative,

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and there's there's a fair chance he was motivated by
increasingly loud declaration of from leaders on the left, many
of whom are in media, many of whom are in politics,
that continuously talk about conservatives being evil and fascist and
Nazi and threats to democracy, all of which, by the way,
is untrue if you really sit down and have an

(06:53):
honest conversation Liberals and conservatives in our country for more
than two centuries, managed to bicker and argue and challenge
each other with new ideas so that this country could
grow into one more powerful country over time. Not all
of people who None of those people thought alike, but

(07:18):
they were able to sit and listen and with their
eyes and ears and minds open to the ideas of
other people just to you know that maybe that would work.
We don't think it will work, but one way or
the other, they didn't turn on each other. Lately, we've
turned into a place where a pretty significant number of

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Americans have been told and tend to believe that the
only hope is to destroy conservatives. Some liberals, most in fact,
still understand that changes is best made at the polls.
You don't like the person in office, then work really
hard to get them taken out of the race and
have them step aside and make room for somebody new. Hey,

(08:03):
speaking of stepping aside, I've got to do that. I
gotta take a little break here, got a little more
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Speaker 1 (09:33):
This is fifty plus with Dougpike.

Speaker 2 (09:35):
Welcome board, Thanks for joining us this morning. This afternoon.
Dang it, I just when I walk into the studio.
As I walk in, sometimes it's still morning and then
I have to transition very quickly into afternoon. So sorry
for the slip. It's been a little hectic this morning
around here. I still I want to go back, just

(09:58):
for another couple of minutes to explain the way I'm
looking at this thing, because I do believe that most
people on both sides still cling to the notion that
elections are the best way to change the path of
this country. And that is correct. There's absolutely no excuse

(10:24):
for violence, none whatsoever, no reason whatsoever for anything like
this to happen. You just go in, you elect the
man or woman you think is going to bring about
gradual change that in the long run, is going to
benefit the country, and you go from there, and if
you lose the election, well you just start working on
winning the next one. Few people, though, have been told

(10:48):
one too many times now that the only hope for
their side is through violence. And yesterday assassination of a
man who loved this absolute loved this country and would listen,
would put his microphone down and just sit and listen
to anything and everything somebody wanted to tell him, and

(11:10):
they would wait until he would wait until they were
finished to respond. I admired the way he went about
what he was doing. I'm not going to spend the
entire show on this, like I said, but I will
ask each of you, regardless of your politics, to just
take a deep, sober breath and work toward the resolution
of differences with words rather than bullets. Honestly, Holy cow,

(11:34):
Charlie Kirk wasn't an extremist. He loved our country and
everybody in it, and he welcomed descending opinions everywhere he spoke.
I know that not all Democrats are evil. I know
that just a tiny, tiny little faction fraction of them.
But there are evil people out there who are convinced
that this is okay. It's not never will be. Charlie

(11:57):
Kirk wasn't a threat to anybody, but at least one
person was convinced over and over by somebody that he was,
and it cost Charlie Kirk's life. As you might expect,
there were staggering numbers of social media posts yesterday from
people who actually found joy and cause for celebration somehow,

(12:17):
and what happened to him. A Pennsylvania public school teacher
called him a white national mouthpiece, among far more vicious
names who deserved no empathy. She's a school teacher. JB. Prisker,
governor of Illinois, blamed President Trump and the January sixth

(12:38):
protesters somehow for Charlie Kirk's death, and on the flip
side of that, a glimmer of hope, a little glimmer
of light from a liberal network. Actually, MSNBC had the
courage and the do the right thing. They fired a
guy named Matthew Dowd after he came on shortly after that.

(12:59):
And I'm pair off phrasing here, but Dowd essentially said
that Kirk's hateful rhetoric led to his death. MSNBC did
exactly the right thing, because words, no matter how they're interpreted,
no matter how sensitive you are to words, that's just
what they are as words, And just like the old

(13:20):
sticks and stones adage goes, they're never any justific justification
for violence, not in words. I'm gonna set this down
before I get too much deeper and can't get out.
We must move forward, all of us, and continue to
just to walk a good path for our country. From
the Irony Desk, Yeah, I'll do that, and then I'll

(13:40):
go to some lighter stuff because I don't I don't
want to let this one get away from us no matter.
There's been a lot of talk about it, and I'm
gonna let law enforcement do its work and then I'm
gonna follow that case and see who see who falls
on which side once the facts come out. From the
Irony Desk worried that Austin, and this was from last week,

(14:03):
Austin has adopted a new logo, something hipper and cooler
and more timely than whatever the capital A looked like before,
whatever preceded this one. And even before that new logo
had time to make one lap around the social media track,
somebody commented, and if you see this thing, you'll get it,

(14:26):
somebody said, quite appropriately for the city it represents. The
A looks like a homeless person's tent. I've seen it.
I get it. It's tent, looks like a tent. I've
got medicine news. I'll leave that for a minute. Good news.
Let's just do it to a straight up good news

(14:47):
kind of feel good thing. After nine years of intense rehab.
A female orangutan has been released back into her natural rainforest.
I can't even remember what tree was in this very
small region where that is a naturally occurring animal. They
are indigenous too, and maybe Burma, maybe I can't remember.

(15:11):
In any event, this this orangutan, Popy, was rescued from
a home of a very wealthy person, where she had
been kept illegally as a pet until she was about
eight weeks old. Somebody ratted them out, and the Orangutans
support squad showed up and grabbed her up, named her Popy,

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and for the last nine years has been teaching this
animal how to climb, how to build a nest, how
to forge for food, do all the things that its
mother would have done in the wild, and all of
the things that she never would have learned. Had these
people been allowed to keep her, she would have led

(15:55):
a miserable existence, absolutely miserable. So hats off to Popy.
Good luck, Pope the orangutan. Uh to something far lighter. Oh,
here's something about longevity, okay, And this one I moved
from about midway down this particular page to the top
because I would presume that most of us who listen

(16:17):
to this show. Want to live a little bit longer
than we have so far, at least a little bit,
And here's how you do it, according to so called
longevity experts. First thing you do if you want to
live to be one hundred, drink a glass of water
immediately after you wake up. First thing you do in

(16:37):
the morning, drink a glass of water. I could do that.
I'm gonna put a check mark by that. Second, eat
a nutrient rich breakfast. I might have to drink it
out of a cardboard container when of those protein drinks
or something. I don't have time to sit around and
cook eggs and sausage and all that stuff. But I'll

(16:58):
find a way to do that. So I'm checking that.
I'll get a nutrient rich breakfast, get some exercise or stretch.
I can do that. Practice mindfulness. I'm still not one
hundred percent sure exactly what that means. If I have
to light incense, I'm not doing it. If I have
to sit cross legged with my forearms on my thighs,

(17:19):
I'm not doing it. But if I can figure out
exactly what that means, I'll take a swing at it.
Set your intentions for the day. Once I get here,
I can. Once I get from the home to the office.
When I sit down here, I typically have a list
of things in front of me that I generated the

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previous afternoon, and that's kind of where I start. And
since I got back from vacation, I've managed to I
came back in on Tuesday, and on Monday evening I
created that list at the house, have my laptop with me.
I looked at some things that I needed to check on,
and there were a good fifteen prioritized things. There were

(18:03):
many more that I could have done, but about well,
maybe a dozen, let's call it really needed priority. On Tuesday,
about six of them got it, and in lou instead
of those other six being taken care of, I wound
up having to go take care of current business that

(18:24):
came in on Tuesday, and all of which was time sensitive.
And that's just how it goes around here. So this
whole notion of I can set intentions for my day,
but rarely do I manage to check off all the
things on the list. And then the last thing it
says here, then enjoy your coffee. Well, I don't drink

(18:45):
coffee at home. I only drink it here, and I'm
trying to drink less of it. I used to drink
it up until about three four in the afternoon and
probably suffered somehow for it. But I keep reading these
different stories about how a lot of coffee is good
for you, and then just a couple of cups are
good for you, and so I just try to work

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it in the middle of about three a day, all here,
never anywhere else. All right, we gotta take a little
break here on the way out Cedar Cove Resort. I
can see myself drinking a cup of coffee at Cedar Cove,
waking up, looking over the bay down there at the
end of Tri City's beach Road. I can see that.
I can see myself out there, got my feet kind

(19:26):
of kicked out in front of me, just waiting to
see a couple of mullet flip out there on the bay,
so I can walk over and throw a top water
out there and maybe catch a big trout or maybe
a little cut bait on the bottom, catch a redfish.
Cedar Cove RV Resort's been there a long long time.
All concrete roads and slabs, electric water and sewer hookups
at every site, Wi Fi free WiFi, got a bathhouse

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where you can take a shower, and like I said,
a little bit of fishing. And actually Al Kibby has
got an RV now that you can rent kind of
like what will called the B and B on the
bay if you will, and you can enjoy that lifestyle,
that portable lifestyle, that house on wheels lifestyle right there

(20:12):
on the bay before you have to invest in buying
your own RV or motor home, which can cost you
a ton of money. I would guess that you could
probably stay there in that RV for the better part
of a year and a half or two years before
you work up a bill that would even come close
to rivaling that of a small little camper of your own.

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Great place, a lot of fun, very calm too. From
ten am to ten pm to six am. There's a
quiet rule. You gotta shut up. You gotta shut down
the party ten p to six A so everybody can
get a good night's sleep and be up early to
go catch a bunch of fish. That's kind of what
I like about it. Cedar Cove rvresort dot com. You
might just like the sunrises and sunsets. That's fine too.

(20:57):
Cedarcovervresort dot Com.

Speaker 1 (21:00):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh cod O wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike. Hi, welcome back. Thanks for
listening to fifty plus. I surely do appreciate it. On
this Thursday afternoon.

Speaker 2 (21:17):
In this segment, we're going to talk about a program
that I would bet good money no more than a
handful of you will recognize, but it's quite an important
one for the veterans in this audience, or for anyone
who's parent or grandparent might have served this nation of ours.
It's called Honor Flight Houston, and the Houston part is

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one of one hundred and twenty eight nationwide hubs from
which veterans are flown from their hometowns to Washington, d C.
To see firsthand the monuments that have been erected in
honor of their service to the country and to explain.
I'm going to bring in Alan Montgomery, an old friend
and outstanding photographer who just happens to be at the
helm of the Houston Chapter.

Speaker 3 (21:59):
Welcome aboard, Alan, Thank you sir, glad to be here.

Speaker 2 (22:03):
Oh my pleasure So when did honor flight begin? And
where where was the first chapter?

Speaker 3 (22:10):
You know, I don't know where the first That's okay,
but there's you don't have to plenty of them.

Speaker 2 (22:17):
Yeah, I saw one hundred and twenty eight of them,
Good heavens. And did I read correctly that across the
board has been something like three hundred and seventeen thousand
veterans flown to DC since two thousand and five.

Speaker 3 (22:29):
That is correct. That's that's a lot of veterans.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
Yes, it is, it really is. But you've got a
waiting list still even down here, don't you.

Speaker 3 (22:37):
We had a waiting list over at three hundred just
for Houston.

Speaker 2 (22:40):
Wow. And how many flights so far from Houston?

Speaker 3 (22:44):
Well, we've done thirty three so far. And when thirty
four is going to be October tenth, they'll leave early
in the morning and at some hobby and they'll return
at seven point thirty on the eleventh to hobby and
we hope to have a big turnout to welcome them home.

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And the great thing about the welcome home is that
something the Korean vests and the Vietnam vets never received.

Speaker 2 (23:14):
Yeah, they didn't really get much.

Speaker 3 (23:15):
An they got a bad one.

Speaker 2 (23:19):
Yeah, I know, well that's true. They got one, just
wasn't what they hoped for.

Speaker 3 (23:22):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (23:23):
Amazing man. And everything that I read anyway, everything Honor
Flight does is done by volunteers, right, one.

Speaker 3 (23:29):
Hundred percent volunteers all the way to the top.

Speaker 2 (23:32):
Oh my gosh, how many volunteers you got in Houston?

Speaker 3 (23:38):
Probably one hundred and fifty.

Speaker 2 (23:41):
How many how many you needs? Five hundred?

Speaker 3 (23:45):
Well no, well we can always use more volunteers because
you know, the more we do, the bigger it grows,
and the more people you need to help. But we
need we need people to them out to the welcome home.
We need people to work on different fundraising projects. You know,

(24:09):
when we take a veteran on a trip, we have
somebody there to greet them and be with them from
the time they get the Hobby Airport for the time
they get back to Hobby Airport, so that if a
veteran's got physical limitations, I should say, we have a

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person there to help them. And we put each veteran
that's going on a flight in a wheelchair because yes,
they can all walk, but they don't all walk at
the same speed. And so by putting them in wheelchairs.
We don't wear them out because you know, at an airport,
no matter where you are, it's going to be the
furthest gate to where you're going to get on the plane.

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And then when we get to pardon.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
It was, it's never any closer for me, I can
assure you.

Speaker 3 (25:03):
No, I always get the last gate in the airport.
But when we get to Washington, d C. They will
have we will have wheelchairs there. So they get off
the plane and they get in the wheelchair again and
we're off to through the airport to the buses. And

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when we hit Washington there will be one hundred and
fifty two hundred people there to welcome these folks to
d C. And you just see their whole face light up,
their whole everything changes about them. I'm sure they never
got that. I don't.

Speaker 2 (25:43):
I don't want to run out of time here, Alan,
So we're talking about Honor Flight Houston. So who pays
for all this?

Speaker 3 (25:53):
Well, we are always out looking for donation. Yeah, and
it cost us forty thousand bucks for a flight of
twenty average twenty three veterans. Okay, you know, we pay
for the food. Once they get to the Hobby Airport,
they never put their hand in the pocket. We pay

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for everything.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
Fantastic, that's amazing.

Speaker 3 (26:16):
But forty k is a lot of money for each trip.

Speaker 2 (26:19):
It is for twenty three people.

Speaker 3 (26:21):
It costs a lot of money to do anything. For sure.

Speaker 2 (26:23):
Yeah, you've got to put them, you got to put
them up that night, and you got to feed them
three four meals, So yeah, I understand that.

Speaker 3 (26:30):
Yeah, how many fun are you do them in flop houses?

Speaker 2 (26:34):
I hope not. It's they They certainly deserve everything.

Speaker 3 (26:41):
Absolutely and we do all this and we say it's
a trip to see the memorials built in your honor.
But as a Vietnam vet it is a healing experience
for me. It was for me, and it is for
so many because of all, the war is not fun
and they carry that with them forever. So it's like

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sharing the Vietnam War and the Korean memorial with other veterans.
It helps soothe the pain and eases that for all
of them.

Speaker 2 (27:15):
I think, yeah, it would almost have. That's there's some
closure involved, right, because they came home cussing at them
and spitting on them and being mean, blaming them, blaming
the people who fought the war for the war and
they deserved better. And I'm glad you guys are They're.

Speaker 3 (27:32):
Just they're just pawns.

Speaker 2 (27:34):
Yeah, sadly, I understand, Yeah I do. And I'm glad
that you you made that trip and I'm glad it
helped you. I really am so. Honor Flight Houston dot
org is the website and again October tenth, they're flying
out anybody who can make it out to Hobby Airport,

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coming back on the eleventh to welcome these people home
they can, so they can look at the website.

Speaker 3 (28:01):
Join us, bring your flag, bring your Americana things and cheer.

Speaker 2 (28:07):
Me in and everything. Everything that they need to know
about where to be and when to be is going
to be at the website.

Speaker 3 (28:12):
Right absolutely on the website. That's the easiest way to
contact us and to get the necessary information.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
All and thank you so much, man, I really appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (28:22):
You're welcome. Thank you for having me, sir, sir.

Speaker 2 (28:25):
Honor Flight Houston dot org. Go there, check it out,
Honor Flight Houston dot org. All right, sadly, another break,
but that's what we're gonna do. And I'm gonna remind
you that Champions Tree Preservation is there. Knock on wood
We've still done pretty well through storm season. We're doing okay,
We're hanging in there. We'll see what this little thing

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out in the Atlantic Ocean does over the next couple
of weeks. But even still, as we move out of
storm season and into fall and winter, there are things
you can be doing for your trees to make sure
that they stay strong and we'll be ready again next year.
And that's where champions Tree Preservation comes in. Get an

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arborist out to your house to diagnose your trees and
make sure that whatever got them to where they are
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they need more water, or probably less water. I came
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eight one three two zero eighty two zero one Once
life without a nap, I suggest to go to bed,
sleep it off.

Speaker 1 (30:18):
Just wait until the show's over, Sleepy. Back to Doug
Pike as fifty plus continues.

Speaker 2 (30:24):
All right, fourth and final segment of the show starts
right now. Thank you for listening. I really do appreciate that.
I'll tell you what that Honor Flight Houston chapter. Uh,
that's something that really kind of caught my attention when
Alan send it over to me about a week ago
or so, and I wanted to get it get it
in front of all of you. If you have a
chance to be out at Hobby Airport on October eleventh,

(30:47):
go to the website and find out exactly where they're
going to because I'm not sure that that place has
gotten really really big and hard to navigate. For US seniors.
But if you show up in the right place, you'll
be able to welcome home about two dozen people who
who really could use a proper welcome home, especially after
going up there to DC to see the monuments to

(31:08):
the Korean veterans, to the Vietnam veterans. And I don't
know where all they get to go in that very
quick day and a half, but wherever they go, it's
going to be very meaningful to them, and I know
that it would mean a lot to them if a
lot of us were out there. I don't know. I'm
gonna check the time on that hobby is not that
far from my house. I might be able to pop over.

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I'd really like to do that. I really would. From
the let's see where I want to go. Let's go
to some very short, very short, little pops of semi
humorous and semi head scratching stuff, nothing heavy at all
in this segment, if I can help it, and something

(31:52):
I titled sticks and Stones. A female office manager was
awarded forty grand in compensation after a judge ruled that
she was wrongly fired for calling her boss a you know,
I'm not I'm not going to say the word but
you can imagine she was upset with him and she

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didn't like what he'd told her to do for some reason,
so she called him a name and they fired her
for it. And this judge ruled sticks and stones ruled
that she was wrongfully fired for just calling this guy
a name. And honestly, depending on the entire history of
the you know what's what's in her personnel file, I

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would probably agree there's if that was just something that
was said on the spur of the moment, it was
the first time. No, that's not cost retermination. I don't
think everybody. Everybody gets frustrated and says says mean things sometimes.
From an interesting one here that I titled put it
Down Granny, there was the question was posed, should we

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start monitor turing Grandma's screen time? A survey suggests. It
says here that many boomers are struggling with digital addiction,
nearly half of them spending more than three hours a
day just looking through their phones, looking at it reels,
looking through the posts, all that stuff, and just letting

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their brains right away, put down the phone, go outside,
get some vitamin D, take up a hobby, even if
it's pickleball, that'll be all right. Will do you still
play pickleball? Gave it up? Did you get injured? Okay,
so he just went on to something else. I don't
know what he's doing now, but he went onto something else.
He used to play a little pickleball someplace called was

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it called the bumpy pickle? Oh?

Speaker 3 (33:44):
My god?

Speaker 2 (33:45):
Why do I remember that? I hope I can forget
it someday.

Speaker 3 (33:49):
Umm.

Speaker 2 (33:50):
I'm gonna have to do some research before I can
do this one, because I want to see the picture
of what it's talking about. Nevermind a wedding guest in
Pennsylvania facing charges after allegedly and everybody who's there knows
he did it, punching the bride and injuring three other people. Why,
you might ask, was he scorned? Was he her secret paramour? No,

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he just was mad because they cut him off from
the bar. So that might explain a few things. M
here's for a bad parenting award goes out to a
couple in Miami arrested after being accused of Yeah, the

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police saw him doing it. So they've been accused so
far of smoking pot inside a closed car, which in
a lot of states really wouldn't be that big a deal.
It wouldn't even the police wouldn't even slow down if
they just saw a car full of smoke. However, inside
that car was a two year old boy who didn't

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deserve that. And I got a hunch they're gonna spend
a little time away from home. Um, this is kind
of funny. Guy on TikTok claims he can tell a
woman's personality based solely on her favorite flavor of ice cream.
Said the guy who doesn't get many second dates. I

(35:19):
would bet ummm, let's go back on. Let's go to Albania.
We'll do that. Researchers there have uncovered a this is
just this is the historical, the history loving side of me.
I get that from my dad, the history major at Tulane.
They have discovered the mausoleum of a Roman nobleman who

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lived there at the time in that what is now
Albania didn't have a lot of Roman influence, but for
about six hundred years or so, Yes, the Romans were there,
and yes, this guy built a mausoleum. And no, I
can't tell you when it was built because the story
somehow left out that tenC weency little detail. I always

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want to know exactly how old these things are. Are
they Egyptian pyramid old? Are they buried in Virginia hillside old? Whatever?
Our country is one of the youngest in the world too,
and surprisingly a lot of people don't realize how historic

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other countries are, especially over in Europe and Asia. And
I've only made one trip to Europe, but I was
treated to seeing more countryside than tourist traps and I
really appreciated that. I looked at a stone wall that
was the equivalent today of a picket fence, a stone

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wall that was put up some I think it was
seven or eight hundred years before I saw it, and
still standing there. I walked into and got to absorb
a thatch roofed barn that was about five hundred years old.
Fascinating stuff, it really was. Oh my gosh, will we're
out of time. Lots more to go for tomorrow, lots

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more to go for the rest of the week. I'll
be here on the weekend too, by the way, with
my outdoors show again. Looking forward to it. That's it
for today. We'll see you tomorrow. Audios.