Hot Dog Tower

Today, Doug Pike discusses hot dog towers, museums, and area codes.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Remember when it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
because you were the TV remote. Remember when music sounded
like this, Remember when social media was truly social?

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey, John, how's it going today? Well, this show is
all about you. This is fifty plus with Doug.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
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Speaker 3 (00:45):
All right, Thursday edition of the program starts right now somewhere.
I guess between what third base and home played. If
you're a baseball fan, maybe halfway through the fourth quarter,
or at least a chunk of the fourth quarter, or
basketball and football events. Either way, it's another absolutely beautiful
day in the neighborhood and a day when if you can,

(01:08):
try to get outside, try to get a little sunshine,
little vitamin D, and don't go and do what one
of the guys here in the office did yesterday at
Rod Ryan's tournament over at Wildcat and not put on sunscreen.
His neck looks like it came off just hot off
the griddle and it's got to be hurting him. He's young.

(01:28):
He'll learn, he'll learn. He's not that young, but he's
young enough that he didn't think he needed sunscreen, you know,
for five hours, five and a half hours out in
the sun, right at the peak of the top of
the sunshine day. If you like today, by the way,
you're probably going to like the weekend every bit as much.
Weather looks pretty stable for the next several days. The

(01:50):
stock market not so stable, though, huge swings against once again,
caused mostly by reactions to tariffs on tariffs off, tariffs
on tariffs off, as President Trump continues his his game
of chess against dozens of other world leaders who've been
pretty much smiling the whole time they've cheated our country

(02:13):
over the past several years. I don't know why this
went on as long as it will. I do know
why the previous administration had no interest in correcting that wrong,
and the current one does so. The markets were down
another chunk today after giant gains yesterday. Most of what
you're seeing today is from just short term profit taking

(02:34):
after that lift we saw all through Wednesday. Most of
the market algorithms, I would guess, are quite happy and
so would I be with making five six, seven eight
percent on your money in a single day. That turns
out to a pretty good annual lift. If you can
ride that train. And this isn't gonna happen forever. We'll

(02:54):
see we'll see another rebound. The only it'll go up
and down and up and down, not entirely unlike it
did last time. Everybody got scared. And that's that's when
people lose money, is when they get scared, when they
get scared that it's just gonna keep going down and
down forever, and you give up your shares, You forfeit
shares at a loss, whereas if you just hold onto

(03:16):
those shares until the market recovers, which knock on wood
throughout the entire history of.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
The market, it has done.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
Most of the people in this audience are certainly old
enough to remember when the stock market was well beneath
the ten thousand point mark, and now we're flirting with
thirty five to forty five thousand, so and that wasn't
that long ago historically, when you when you go back

(03:45):
and look at it, markets are gonna they're gonna come back.
They're gonna come back. Oil, by the way, oil was
down another chunk less than sixty dollars a barrel last night. Look,
that's not good for producers. That's about it's sixty dollars
is pretty important. It has been in the past. I'm
not sure whether we become more efficient in gathering the

(04:07):
oil and gas from beneath the ground or not, but
sixty bucks used to be about where we needed to be. Eventually,
all of this is going to be behind us, it
really is. It'll all be in the rearview mirror, in
the windshield, I believe, will be of a stronger America.
By the way, that sixty dollars oil is going to
look really, really good at the pump for anybody who's

(04:30):
going to be driving over Easter weekend. Gold up a
chunk too. Gold was thirty I want to say thirty
one point eighty. I can't remember exactly, but I believe
that's pretty close to what it was. Thirty one hundred
and something dollars. Another big lift on. I still think
a little bit premature activity. You'll see that sell off

(04:52):
a little bit in the future. In the short term future.
So to the juicy bits from the cut em loose desk,
a Texas store not store. A Texas Scorecard story today
revealed that nine hundred people charged with murder, not jaywalking,

(05:14):
charged with murder, nine hundred people charged with taking someone
else's life are free on bond and going about their
lives in Houston, Texas. Some judges worse than others about
releasing violent criminals on bond, criminals who all too often
victimize other people while they're out. Just this past week,

(05:37):
there was a great story, well not a great story,
a sad story, but a great example of what happens
when you release perpetual violent criminals. Was a guy who
pleaded guilty to a murder charge in twenty nineteen and
got out, then guilty to another murder in twenty two,

(06:00):
twenty four and was released again, And he was out
on bond this past week when he's alleged to have
killed his girlfriend before turning the gun on himself. Same
judge who cut this guy loose also bonded out a
guy who has been accused of killing a Harris County

(06:20):
Sheriff's deputy. How does that happen, How does that happen in?
What line of thinking makes that okay? And what does
it say to the families of people who are going
through such a tragic and unnecessary loss that the person
who's accused of causing that loss, and a person who's

(06:46):
there's enough evidence that charges are brought against that person,
Why would they be just cut loose to go live
the life the same as a grieving family has to
do every day from the No, we're not going to
go to any other desk right now, we're gonna go.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
To a quick weill.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
I'll give you a chance to help me burn up
this last bit. Did you find anything else we need
to talk about that's gonna happen over the weekend, by
the way, anything new?

Speaker 2 (07:14):
Yeah? Okay? Hit it all right? At the Museum of
Natural Science the Houston in the Museum of Natural Science,
why it was there, doesn't even need to be another one.
They have an exhibition on autubonds bird drawings. Nice, nice,

(07:35):
and you can get tickets for yes, they're about thirty
five dollars, but you get access to the whole museum.
Makes it worth while. And this is only gonna last
until I mean, you still have time, but you know
it'll last until July fourteenth. But you know, going to
the museum, people don't take enough advantage of Houston's Museum.

(07:59):
We do have good museums. We have fantastic museums, and
that whole area is great. You can go down to
Herman Park, you can walk around, you can.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
Play a little golf at Herman Park, play a little golf,
you them look at John j Audubon's illustrations of birds.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
Yes, you could go to the Rose Garden. There's tons
of things to do over there, and indeed there are.
Thank you very much for that. Will.

Speaker 3 (08:26):
Have you made us run late? Is that why you're
leaving the clock blurred?

Speaker 2 (08:30):
They we are about thirty seconds over.

Speaker 3 (08:33):
Well oops, well let's just go straight to this break then,
and I'll catch up with what I need to do later.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
How's that get you back on clock? Sounds good? All right,
we'll take a little break here.

Speaker 3 (08:42):
We'll be right back fifty plus on AM nine to
fifty KPRC.

Speaker 2 (08:46):
What's life without a net? I suggest to go to bed,
sleep it off, just wait until the show's over. Sleepy.
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues. All right,
welcome back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening, certainly to
appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
To Will too. He is in charge now of gathering
generationally appropriate music for our rejoins, and I appreciate him doing.
I thought, why do we have these silly, nondescript instrumental
intros when we have all these wonderful, wonderful songs from

(09:20):
our past. And we found a way to make this work,
and I'm so glad we did. From the Unnecessary Technology Desk, will,
have you got any idea what this might be? Are
you not up with current events and whatnot and current
offerings from appliance companies?

Speaker 2 (09:38):
No?

Speaker 3 (09:39):
From the Unnecessary Technology Desk comes word of new appliances that, honestly,
there is now a vacuum. You can be vacuuming your house.
Do you vacuum at home?

Speaker 2 (09:50):
Will? Yes? I do.

Speaker 3 (09:51):
Sometimes you vacuum around and all of a sudden, your
vacuum goes, hey, chill man, you've got a text or
a call coming in. It doesn't say that specifically, but
it alerts you to text messages and calls so that
you know you can stop vacuuming to make sure that

(10:12):
you get that call from I don't know, the president,
your your cardiologist, or whatever. It seems unnecessary to me.
If I have my phone in my pocket and it's
set on and I'm expecting a call so important that
I would have to interrupt ten or fifteen minutes of
vacuum vacuuming for it. I can just set it on vibrate,

(10:34):
put it in my pocket, and if that call comes,
I'll turn off the vacuum and I'll look at my
phone and see who's calling. They're also this is even
less necessary. There's a refrigerator now that lets you play
games and watch videos on the refrigerator screen while you're

(10:56):
probably standing within fifteen or twenty feet, even in a
pretty large house, from a bigger screen. Would you agree
with that? Will do you want to watch? Do you
want to watch movies.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
On your refrigerator or your television? Uh? Probably my tele Yeah,
but you can't cool a beer on your TV, so
you know, but I can put the beer in the
fridge and then pause the TV and then go get
up here.

Speaker 3 (11:27):
You know, at some point, somebody's gonna be sitting in
a chair that they will have pulled over to the refrigerator.
And when you go to the refrigerator, you open the doors,
so that kind of if you want something out of
the refrigerator, you're gonna have to stop watching your movie

(11:47):
for a second anyway, which just makes no sense. And
the the coup de gras, if you will, there was
another one where did it go?

Speaker 2 (11:57):
I can't see it here?

Speaker 3 (11:58):
Oh oh, A refrigerator that will this is this is
kind of creepy technology.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
Here.

Speaker 3 (12:04):
It will offer up recipes to you. Sounds pretty good, right, okay,
But these recipes will be things that you can make
with the stuff that's.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
In your refrigerator.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
So it's looking it's looking at what you're buying, it's
looking at what's in your refrigerator and say, hey, you
know what, you could make whatever out of something in there,
and you know, hey, refrigerator, if you're so smart, Okay,
what can the average young man in his first apartment

(12:41):
or house make with expired yogurt, half an avocado, and
some chocolate milk? Because that's what's gonna be in the fridge? Wow,
what do you think you could drum up with?

Speaker 2 (12:51):
That? Will?

Speaker 3 (12:52):
So they call it, they call it affectionate technology. No,
it's it's more like invasive technology. I think if my
refrigerator knows what I have in my refrigerator, boy, that
would have messed up Jeffrey Dahmer pretty bad, wouldn't it.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
What's for supper heads? Heads that'd be horrible heed their tails?

Speaker 3 (13:19):
Oh mercy from the normally no, but yes, this time
desk comes a food related promotion. And if you if
you've listened to my shows long enough, you know I
tend to avoid new food things because they're just promotions.
But this one was actually somewhat interesting. Lace Potato Chips
ran a big promotion last year to generate interest in

(13:40):
a new flavor or two or three to be determined
by fans of the brandy. They called it do us
a Flavor, which I actually that's pretty good marketing. Would
you agree?

Speaker 2 (13:51):
Will do us a flavor? Do us a flavor? They got?

Speaker 3 (13:54):
How many responses? Will pop quiz?

Speaker 2 (13:56):
How many responses did they get to do us a Flavor? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (14:00):
People suggesting flavors of potato chips.

Speaker 2 (14:03):
That they don't try.

Speaker 3 (14:04):
Uh, probably one hundred thousand, seven hundred thousand responses, which
doesn't say much about healthy diets in this country.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
But anyway.

Speaker 3 (14:16):
The three finalists will are bacon grilled cheese, Valentina and lime,
and Korean style fried chicken.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
Which one of those would you take? I would probably do?
I mean the the burger one, right, what burger one. Oh,
I thought you said burger bacon grilled cheese, Bacon grilled cheese,
and the Korean fried chicken. Those are my one and
two in order, as well. The Valentina and lime. Apparently
Valentina they.

Speaker 3 (14:45):
Used the the adjective fiery to describe what Valentina and
line chips are said to be.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
And my gut doesn't like fiery anymore. Oh I love
a jalapeno chip.

Speaker 3 (14:59):
Well, yeah, well they're not that hot though this. I mean,
they're not fiery. They're spicy, but they're not fiery. Why
are you raising your eyebrows?

Speaker 2 (15:08):
Well, I don't think any chip is really that fiery.
You know, I never had a spicy chip before.

Speaker 3 (15:16):
There's what about those red hot cheetos?

Speaker 2 (15:18):
That little is it a wol or something? What is
that animal? That's a cheetah? The cheetah, that's right. I
don't know why I said a wolf. That's kind of stupid. Uh. Yeah,
I love this. The fries, the hot fries. Oh, they're
so good. Those are probably one of my favorite chips. Okay, well,
when they get here, you can have mine.

Speaker 3 (15:38):
From the Augusta National Desk comes word that the masters
and most people in this I think a lot of
people in my audience would know that the Masters is underway.
And actually I'm going right now to the leader board
of the Masters to see what's going on, because there
was some we were off to a pretty good start just.

Speaker 2 (15:56):
A few minutes.

Speaker 3 (15:57):
Agoto TikTok oh huh. So it's changed Scheffler and Hatton
to Roll Hatton and Justin Rose all at three under par.
Rose is just right out the gate. He's three hundred
through five. Scheffler and Hatton are three under through ten.
Ryan Nieman, Canter Homer all at two under par at

(16:20):
varying places on the golf course, and then wow, Freddy
Couples is under par, which not a lot of whole
not a whole lot of guys are Sergio Garcia. I'm
just looking for names morecwa at one. It really today
and tomorrow aren't all that critical, so long as you

(16:41):
just don't get just get wiped off the map. If
you're still playing on Saturday and Sunday and you have
a tea time after about noon or after about eleven
in the morning, then you're in contention to some degree,
if not not closer than that. But for right now.

(17:01):
For right now, these guys are just kind of getting
a feel for how the course is gonna play, which
I think is gonna play at three under par right now,
after half the course, that's about where I would have
expected somebody to be. To have a couple of guys
there and a few more guys at two just tells
me that the masters and the course set up are

(17:22):
exactly as the people who set it up at Augusta
National Golf Club. That's how they wanted it. They can
tweak it if they need to, but that's how they
wanted it. It's gonna be a good tournament. It always is,
we'll see. I would not Scotti Scheffer on the leaderboard
at the top right now is great for him, but

(17:43):
it doesn't That doesn't tell me anything about where he's
gonna finish. I would, almost by the end of the day,
rather see him like maybe one or two shots back,
because he tends to He tends to rise to occasions.
You don't win as many tournaments as he's won in
the last couple of years by not being able to

(18:03):
dig out of a shallow hole, at least not a
deep hole. Speaking of Holy col oh, we're late again.

Speaker 2 (18:09):
Aren't we will? Yes, my goodness, why didn't you alert
me well? I thought you were cut on it.

Speaker 3 (18:15):
Oh no, I was paying attention to my notes in
the leaderboard. In any event, we have to take a
little breaker on the way out ut Health Institute on aging.
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(19:21):
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Speaker 2 (19:38):
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Speaker 2 (19:46):
All right, welcome by. We couldn't let that one go
a little bit longer? Will I think? Maybe I'm gonna
start holding my hand up and telling you when to stop.
The people want to hear you though, Yeah over that song?

Speaker 3 (20:00):
All right, very well, well onward will plod then and
I will engage you again. I did, by the way,
a quick reminder about Moody Gardens. That's where I'm going
to be tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow night and through Sunday morning.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
I'll do both my shows.

Speaker 3 (20:18):
If anybody around here will I've asked two people to
show me how to use that magic remote broadcast box
that they all tell me they all use it all
the time, and this is oh, it's easy, is nothing,
don't worry about it, And nobody's shown me it. I
don't even know how to plug it in right now?
Will that's kind of scary, so and I don't know
who's going to be producing on Saturday or Sunday, also scary,

(20:41):
but the show will go on. I can assure you
I will learn between now and Saturday morning at seven
o'clock how to plug that thing in, turn it on,
and use it. I'm ready to kick those training wheels off.
I didn't think I would ever have to learn how
to how to generate my own spots for my sponsors,

(21:01):
but I did. And now I'm so glad I did
it too it but it really because it really frees
me up. I used to have to depend on some
one of our image guys or one of the other
people who who read commercials for other companies that don't
use endorsements, which is not a good idea, by the way,
endorsement actually does. We have all the evidence you need
to know that that works much much better that it

(21:23):
were if something were to come from me versus just
a voice you didn't recognize. And I don't put my
name on stuff that I don't personally.

Speaker 2 (21:33):
Know a whole lot about. I wouldn't do that.

Speaker 3 (21:35):
I wouldn't do that to anybody who's listening, because that
wouldn't be fair to them. If I use something, I'll
tell you. If I know a lot about something, I'll
tell you that, and I'll tell you everything I know
about the people who run the companies too.

Speaker 2 (21:47):
That's very important to me.

Speaker 3 (21:48):
So anyway back to it, Moody Gardens tomorrow night Saturday night,
the fly Fishing Film Festival I've been talking about for
a couple of weeks now goes off. I'm taking some
pretty darn good if I do say so myself, door
prizes to give away that the people at Moody Gardens

(22:09):
don't even know I'm bringing right now, and I am
going to introduce each of these films, every one of
which is just incredible cinematography from all around the world.
They are a two separate film festivals combined into one.
You get to see all the films, and even if

(22:33):
you don't care about fly fishing, even if you've never
fly fished ever, the cinematography itself is worth it, and
you'll be watching all of this on the largest screen
in Texas. So by all means, please go to the website.
You can get discounted admission tickets there You also can
get opportunities to have a weekend package and spend one

(22:56):
night or two to really immerse yourself in it all.
I truly I look forward to this every year. I'm
so glad they keep asking me back. Hopefully I'm doing
something right. I'm gonna try to find one or two.
Really you think I should really aim will for knock
them just knock them dead jokes about fishing, or just
some corny dad jokes about fishing.

Speaker 2 (23:18):
No, knock them dead jokes about fishing.

Speaker 3 (23:21):
That's hard to find. There aren't many great You want
them to be sleeping with the fishes, Oh will? I
don't want to put them to sleep with the fishes.
These are fantastic films. You and your maybe you and
your girlfriend could come down. You want to pop down
there and at least for one night and just come
see the cinema. This I'm talking about all around the world.

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These films are mazy this week not just somebody something
somebody shot on their phone down in Galves busy.

Speaker 2 (23:48):
Are you what do you got? I'm going to crawfish
boil this weekend. You want to m see the show
one day, I'll go do that. Yeah, fat chance.

Speaker 3 (23:57):
No, I'll be fine.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
I'll be fine. I'll be You should get some crawfish
of your own done.

Speaker 3 (24:02):
I might, I just might.

Speaker 2 (24:03):
That's not a bad idea.

Speaker 3 (24:05):
I've got I've got to eat, you know, han, it's
gotta eat. He's gonna keep all this hard work up.
Where do I want to go? I've got three minutes,
two minutes, two minutes to take it back to you.
Then for a minute. Okay, we did that yesterday. I'm
not doing that. No end to food gimmicks. What can

(24:25):
I get for this? Or nine to one one?

Speaker 2 (24:28):
Can you hold a second. Let's stick on the food gimmicks.
Hot dog towers? Have you ever heard of that? Will?

Speaker 3 (24:35):
No hot dog towers?

Speaker 2 (24:36):
Maybe?

Speaker 3 (24:37):
It says here the big barbecue trend this summer. Restaurants
have started adding them as cheaper alternatives to seafood towers.

Speaker 2 (24:45):
Yeah, I would hope it be cheeser cheaper.

Speaker 3 (24:48):
One tier is this is where the creativity just falls
flat on its face. One tears hot dogs when another
tears fries. And then the top tier is condiments. If
only der Wiener Schnittle had come up with that long
ago summertime Wiener Mountains from der Wiener schnitzl.

Speaker 2 (25:09):
What how does that sound? Will? Wait? So the bottom
is froy dogs, just hot dogs.

Speaker 3 (25:15):
No, the bottom is just hot dogs, the bottom middle
is fries and then the top.

Speaker 2 (25:19):
Is condiments like it's it's got a rung on the
bottom and yeah, okay, yeah, it's a tower, like a
seafood tower. They're not actually a shrimp building something out
of these, you know, they're not putting you know, four
hot dogs here and then two hot dogs across and
then like a log cabin.

Speaker 3 (25:40):
Yeah, that's what they ought to do. And then just
pile the fries in the middle of the hot dog
cabin something.

Speaker 2 (25:47):
I thought that was a better idea.

Speaker 3 (25:49):
Yeah, and then put the condiments as the roof.

Speaker 2 (25:51):
Yes, we should. We should call Chili's. They would maybe
do that. M maybe you know, it wouldn't.

Speaker 3 (25:57):
Be hard to build one. That's not a bad idea, will.

Speaker 2 (26:01):
I mean, it might be difficult to build a one.
So are they talking about are they putting uh, you know,
the buns on them and everything, you know? Or is
it just the meat? Full story click here, no click
I'd love to see a picture of one of them.

Speaker 3 (26:16):
I bet it's just the meat. And then they bring
you a stack of buns. Just a bag of buns.

Speaker 2 (26:22):
That's awful. Do you think they put it on ice? Like?

Speaker 3 (26:25):
Yeah, no, not on ice, It makes no sense. Maybe
it has just one of those little Sterno cans underneath
it to keep your meat warm.

Speaker 2 (26:33):
You never had a cryo dog. That's a frozen hot dog.

Speaker 3 (26:39):
No, old, I pray there's no such thing. Will really too?
Oh my word? All right, we have to take a break,
don't we. Yes, probably a good idea before we get
out of control here. We'll take a little break. We'll
be right back to wrap up fifty plus. I'm Doug
pie Keys Will Melbourne, And yeah, we'll be back to

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finish it off in a minute.

Speaker 2 (27:05):
Aged This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 3 (27:10):
There's another one we could have played a little bit longer.
I was over here singing along. Hope it didn't scare you.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
Will, It didn't scare me. But it was time. Okay,
it was time, sure will, sure will. All right, welcome back.

Speaker 3 (27:26):
Final segment of the program starts right now from the
what are you doing over the weekend desk? No, I'm
not I know what I'm doing over the weekend, never mind.
The International fly Fishing Film Festival at Moody Gardens. I'm
not going to go into this other stuff here we'll
already covered. Probably a really good one if you don't
want to leave town, A really good one. That museum district.
I'll go back to that will because I spent a

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lot of time over that way over the years. I've
been in pretty much all of the museums over there
at least once, and we truly do and rightfully so,
in the city that it's the fourth largest in the
nation and probably soon to be the third if it
keeps growing like it's growing. We should have that much

(28:08):
interest in museums and that many to offer. One thing
I was disappointed we missed, though, was the Titanic exhibition,
which is up in Dallas now. I went to it
when it was here in Houston years ago and was
fascinated by what I saw. And they do a good
It's not just a bunch of stuff sitting on tables, okay,
it's immersive, and you can get headphones and get audio

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and video and things you can look at as you
go around from one part of the exhibit to the other.
If it had been any closer than Dallas, I probably
would have done it again because I know there is
a lot of new stuff in there and history like
that fascinates me. It's a horrible, horrible tragedy in history,
but that we've been able to recover so much of that,

(28:59):
I think is pretty pretty special. From the World Trade Desk,
this is this I think is kind of exciting. Uh.
There's a project down in Mexico, down Mexico Way, if
you will, to create a second passage between the Atlantic
and Pacific Oceans. There's a part of Mexico down there
pretty close to the middle of the two continents, a

(29:22):
part of Mexico that is about the same distance across
from ocean to ocean as is the Panama Canal. I
want to say it's forty miles maybe something like that.
And Mexico is contemplating building that canal to the tune
currently at least of about four point five billion dollars.

(29:46):
It's a lot of dirt to dig out of there,
There's no question about it. They got to They gotta
dig a really really big hole. And I frankly, I
think it's a wonderful idea. It would it would take
away Panama's stranglehold in China's because they run the canal.
It would take away their stranglehold frankly on passage between
the two oceans without having to go all the way

(30:07):
around Cape Horn. And I think that would be a
fantastic thing.

Speaker 2 (30:11):
Really.

Speaker 3 (30:11):
I wouldn't be surprised at all if our own government
is kind of reaching out and saying, hey, if you
need help with this project, we're here. We would benefit
greatly from it. You certainly would benefit greatly from it,
and that might be a nice place to start a partnership.

Speaker 2 (30:28):
Wouldn't hurt my.

Speaker 3 (30:29):
Feelings at all to have not only the Panama Canal,
but the Mexico Canal. Let them build a ditch. If
you build it, they'll come, that's for sure. And that
would again, it would take away the stranglehold that currently
is on trade that either has to take on a

(30:51):
under good conditions in a fast ship about two weeks.
You could cut that time in half. And time is
money when you're talking about and stuff all the way
around the world. A couple of times from the desk
of Elon comes news of documented fraud against the country
in the form of unemployment insurance. This is just nuts,

(31:11):
according to data gathered. Data gathered, not data gathered by
the dose cheam. Claims since twenty twenty, Just since twenty
twenty for unemployment insurance have come from twenty four thousand,
five hundred people older than one hundred and fifteen, mind you,
who got fifty nine million dollars in counting in benefits.

(31:33):
There were claims from twenty eight thousand people uncovered who
are between the ages of one and five. They've collected
so far two hundred and fifty four million dollars in
unemployment benefits.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
They're babies, they're on jobs.

Speaker 3 (31:53):
And ninety seven hundred people this is what, really, I
don't know which is worse that or a little one
to five year old ninety seven hundred people whose birth
dates will are more than fifteen years in the future.
There's one guy already collected forty one thousand. You know
what his birth year is? Will what take a stab?

Speaker 2 (32:17):
Just try.

Speaker 3 (32:19):
Take an honest stab.

Speaker 2 (32:23):
I'm sorry I wasn't paying it, tying attention. So we're
talking about.

Speaker 3 (32:32):
Well, at least you confessed your sin. This guy's birthday.
He's gotten forty one thousand dollars so far from the
unemployment insurance and his birth date is in the year
two thousand, one hundred and fifty four though he's not

(32:52):
even born for another one hundred and twenty six years,
twenty years whatever it is under twenty one years a
long ways out.

Speaker 2 (33:02):
Maybe it's more than that. I'm not doing my math
right right now. It long ways out, though, But.

Speaker 3 (33:07):
He's got forty one grand to sit on, and he
turned out to invest it in the stock market. Now,
while it's low, I could be rich when he's born,
when his great great great great great great grandchildren are born,
then they will inherit his fortune. That's just sad that
that happens real quickly. From the better late than never
death came word this morning that the Biden administration may

(33:30):
have concealed a report on the earliest suspected cases of COVID,
including Americans who may have contracted that deadly disease. Guess
where in Wuhan. Mounting evidence in a Washington Free Beacon
story leads to circulation of the virus in that city
for months before it was revealed to the world by

(33:51):
the Chinese government. This report, by the way over here,
the stuff that they had was congressionally mandated to be
released and reported, but that mandate seems to have been ignored.

Speaker 2 (34:05):
What we need to find out.

Speaker 3 (34:06):
Now is by whom and why Biden administration had it
and they sat on it. They had it, and they
sat on it, and a whole lot of people died
quite probably, not possibly, but quite probably because of that.
All right, Well it's back to me and you.

Speaker 2 (34:27):
Oh forever only one or reminds.

Speaker 3 (34:31):
Me of a golf joke? Hm hm, oh for one?
Oh for one?

Speaker 2 (34:37):
How many states will pop? Quiz?

Speaker 3 (34:39):
How many states in these United States.

Speaker 2 (34:40):
Have only one? And one only area code? One and
one only area code? Wow? I won't have time for
an essay or I mean it's gotta be small state,
got to be.

Speaker 3 (34:57):
You would think they were small states, wouldn't you.

Speaker 2 (35:00):
Yeah? I do think that they're small states.

Speaker 3 (35:02):
But they can also be bigger states with small populations
because no matter how big the state is, you know,
like a North Dakota. Now, yeah, now you're working, so
how many? I want to do one or two more
of these?

Speaker 2 (35:13):
That's what I'm trying to get there. I'm gonna say
there are three.

Speaker 3 (35:18):
Eleven eleven states? Yeah, real quickly, probably both Dakota's, Wyoming,
Hawaii probably Wait, you don't know, No, I didn't look
up its full story, school story.

Speaker 2 (35:29):
I don't care you look it up. If you want
to know what they are, you got to look them up.

Speaker 3 (35:35):
The whole purpose of this show is to inspire my
listeners to do their own research and form their own opinions.
Do your own research, form your own opinions. If you
care that much about which eleven states have only one area.

Speaker 2 (35:50):
Code, then you'll look them up. All right, this state
says only nine, Well yours is wrong. Well, at least
I know what that. So now we have a range
between nine and eleven. Right, Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, New Hampshire,
North Dakota, South Dakota.

Speaker 3 (36:08):
Vermont, Wyoming. Okay, there stop. A study found that having
pets ups our happiness level so much it's the equivalent
of making an extra ninety thousand dollars a year.

Speaker 2 (36:21):
How many people? That's great? If I get two pets,
you mean I get another one eighty in happiness.

Speaker 3 (36:26):
I'm all over. We're out of here. Thanks, I'll see
you tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (36:28):
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