Houston Sports and the Little League World Series

Today, Doug Pike discusses Houston sports, the LLWS, and parking bills.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:42):
And now fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, here
we go. Welcome to Wednesday, midday point of the week
and quite possibly a day on which about half half
this audience recognizes it is just another day as you
bask in the warm glow of retirement. If you're there,

(01:04):
good for you. I'm not jealous. If you're not, I
hope you like your job as much as I like mine.
I do enjoy coming in here and visiting with all
of you. I do enjoy the emails I get. I
do enjoy the recommendations for topics that I get. All
of that stuff is important because it just helps bring
me closer to this audience, and the more I know

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about you, the better show I can produce for you.
So in breaking news by the way, something none of
you is gonna want to hear. But there is an
active shooter event on going. This is by way of
k T rh as Ethan Bratt, and he swung by
my desk a little while ago over at Fort Stewart
in Georgia, an Army Bay US Army base active shooter

(01:45):
incident maybe still underway. I'm not sure. I kept looking
right as I got to time to come over here
into the studio and hadn't seen anything new on it
other than I think the at present it was something
like maybe four people injured. It might be more, it
might be fewer. I don't know the extent of the injuries.
All I know is that that's what's going on over

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at Fort Stewart, and if we get anything new during
the show, I'll share it with you. The National Hurricane
Center map, the one that shows the Atlantic Ocean, shows
tropical Storm Dexter headed east and likely as it moves
out into the open Atlantic Ocean to become nothing within

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a few days. It'll just be a cloudy area at
that point, the two orange blobs. However, that's of the
three things that are on the map right now, which
I think the most I ever saw at one time
was about five and that was just crazy right probably
in the maybe late August, early September, somewhere in there,
when things are really going wonky. But these two blobs

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are quite a bit larger than I remember most of
these pre storm indications being in years past. The smaller
of the two, based on very rough estimates that I
was doing just eyeballing and spitballing, knowing the sizes of
states and how many miles there are across Texas, and
trying to see the map of Texas over the orange

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blobs and whatnot to figure out how many square miles
we're talking about. The smaller of the two covers what
I'm guessing to be about a quarter of a million
square miles of ocean from the middle of Florida. This
is all offshore. Nobody's getting anything but maybe some good
waves right now and perhaps some out outer band clouds

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of whatever it is. It's still not a thing yet,
but there may be some clouds, maybe not, It doesn't matter.
The bottom line. It goes all the way from roughly
the middle of Florida northeastward following the coastline almost as
far north as the Statue of Liberty and the other one.
The other one is at least twice as large, and

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it is an anticipated to meander north westward for a
few more days. It's still way out in the Atlantic Ocean.
Right smack in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean is
where the little dot is. It's supposed to be the
center of it, the center of nothing, by the way,
so far, just to disorganized bunch of stuff that may
or may not become something. It has a little better
chance than that smaller one that's closer to the coast,

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but nonetheless still a long ways out. And what it's
supposed to do is meander kind of west northwest and
then turn increasingly northward as it gets close to land.
We had a year a couple of years ago, I
can't remember exactly which one it was, where a lot
of those storms did just exactly that. They would head

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our way and then hang a right hanging north. And
that's what this one wants to do. More power to it.
I got no problem with that. I sure hope they're
right about these long term direction changes too. There's also
one off the west coast of Mexico. That one is
either a tropical storm or it might might be a
hurricane right now, but it is expected to basically throw

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a really nice swell onto the SoCal coast in the
next few days. I don't think it's gonna make it
up that far without pushing on westward, but it could,
who knows. I don't pay attention that much to the
west coast stuff because it really doesn't. It doesn't involve
us unless something comes all the way across the continent
and all the way dumps back into the Gulf of Mexico,
which I think one or two storms in the last six,

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eight ten years have done. The markets open mostly green
after taking a little dip yesterday. Those algorithm buys are
way ahead of most of us. Will never keep up
with them, but they're making somebody rich. I don't know who.
It's not me. Golf, golf, gold has recovered. I'll never
recover from golf. I'll never shoot my best round. That's

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what I've come to it. Just understand about golf. Unless
you quit playing, you haven't yet shot your best round,
and you could. Anytime you go out there and play.
It may happen to It may happen next year. It
may not ever happen, but if you go out thinking,
this might be my day, and maybe you'll get it.
It's kind of a lot of things in life that

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are like that. If you anticipate success, you have a
better chance at succeeding than if you anticipate otherwise. Gold
recovered most of what it shd a couple of weeks ago.
It was well up beyond thirty four hundred dollars an ounce,
and oil was up about a bucket a quarter somewhere

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in there, like the high sixties before they shut down
the breakfast buffets wherever they may still be one of
those around town. Guy, I can remember some really really
good breakfast buffets and loved every minute of every one
of them. I'm I'm kind of a glutton for breakfast.
I really do like it. The last one I ate,
actually was it Moody Gardens down in Galveston. They serve

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up a wonderful buffet and there's I mean, you could
just you can start with the omelet bar if you
want to just walk over there and have that guy
throw everything everything he's got in front of him into
your omelet if you want, or you can just get cheese.
Doesn't matter him. He gets paid the same for standing
there either way. Before I step into the world around us,
I think I'll go ahead and take this first break

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just to make sure that we stay on track and
we'll won't have to do extra stuff afterward to squeeze
it all into the sack. Cedar Cove RV Resort over
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to Thompson's Bait Camp, And if you've never been there,
you're in for a treat. That's a real old school

(07:32):
bait store, old school stand where you can go and
get anything you pretty much want or need to catch
anything that's swimming out there in the Bay. Cedar Cove
r V Resort is a great place to stay if
you're gonna fish out of Thompson's. And what you can
also do there is just walk right over to the
water and sling a line out there early or late

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or sometime in the middle of the day. Who knows,
you might catch a red fish, you might catch a drum,
maybe a trout, maybe some crokers. There's all kinds of
fish women by there. Over the course of a day,
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important to RV owners. It's got water, sewer and electric
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I checked checked with Al about that and made sure.

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in your motor home if you don't have a motor home.
Al and one of his business partners have created an
opportunity through the business partner having a big motor home
where you can rent not only the slab, which you
would have to do if you're going to stay there,

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a month, whatever you want to do, at a surprisingly
much more affordable price than trying to do any kind
of a vacation in a hotel where you're just going
to wake up looking over a parking lot behind some

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(09:20):
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they sure don't make them like they used to.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
That's why every few months we wash him, check his words,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike twelve twenty. It says here
on the wall. I presume that's right, by the way.
I'll check with Will here too.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
I on the way home yesterday on National Underwear Day,
I did not see one pair of underwear hanging from
a rearview mirror, did you no? So my plan. I
don't know what kind of a prize I could have
offered up for that. I guess in hindsight, it's probably
good that I didn't see that, because then I would

(10:06):
have had to come up with something. Although we have
some very cool things that we have around here. Oh well, today,
I don't remember what today is. I'd have to go
back and look. But when I looked at it, it
didn't really it didn't really capture my attention. So I
moved on from there. Let's go move into the world
around us. For CNN journal I can't really call him

(10:28):
a journalist, honestly. I mean, this guy has just he
continues to lower the bar every time he opens his mouth,
it seems. Anyway, Jim Acosta, former CNN guy, for some
inexplicable reason, decided to conduct what he called an interview
with the parents' permission, by the way, an interview with
an AI created image of their son, who was one

(10:53):
of the kids killed at Parkland School back in twenty eighteen.
It's kind of creepy and cringy and disgusting really to
ask questions of an avatar that's presented as being loyal
somehow to what that child might have thought. This is

(11:14):
nothing but an attention grabbing stunt. That's it. That's all
it is, unless you count it as a blatant attempt
to garner more support for gun control, because that's kind
of what the avatar's answers just happened to be. They
coincided exactly with the way a costa thinks. Imagine that
his little circus Act drew instant criticism too, from both

(11:34):
sides of politics, and with good reason. He dragged out
a computer generated image of a dead child and used
it to draw attention to himself. That's all he was doing.
Parents aren't to blame. They keep that thing close to
them to kind of keep their son's memory alive in
a visible way. And I don't have a problem with that.

(11:55):
They're allowed to grieve however they like. But for a
cost to do what he said what he did, at
least for me, whatever final hair hair's with tie. He
had to journalism, legitimate journalism anyway. That broke that one.
That was the straw that broke the camel's back. What

(12:19):
a clown. The hammers are beginning to fall, first to
Clinton's being subpoena to testifying the Jeffrey Epstein mess, and
now word that Senator Adams shiff is under federal investigation.
There's not They're not thinking about it. They're doing it
now for allegedly falsil falsifying documents in regard to his
primary residence, which is what determines where you can hold

(12:41):
federal office in represent representation of a specific state. I
need to slow down a little bit. My mouth keeps
getting ahead of my brain. That primary address determines where
you can hold federal office in representation of a specific state.
That was much easier. And the allegation is that ship's

(13:02):
primary residence according to him in some documents he filled
out for real estate purposes, he said in some documents
that his primary residence was in Maryland while his senates
dat represented California. So here we go. Here we go
with more of and there are going to be a

(13:23):
lot more of these kinds of things coming up now
that the judiciary, now that the law enforcement side of
this administration is not scared anymore to go after the
people they think are responsible for stuff. Back to the
Clinton's for a minute from Fox News a couple of

(13:45):
days ago. CIA director John Ratcliffe says Hillary's plan to
well her plan to frame Donald Trump allegedly by claiming
he was in cahoots with Vladimir Putin allegedly and that
Russia allegedly was interfering in that election. None of that
stuff we know now is true. And it's also coming
to light that a lot of important people knew a

(14:06):
whole lot about what was going on and who was
behind it, and it's not looking good for those people,
you know. Transparency. Republicans have always called for transparency in
government from the top down. They want everything on the table,
and so do Democrats, except when it makes them look bad.

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In that case, you put all the evidence in a
burn bag and go looking for a box of matches.
That's what happened with all of that. Seven one three,
two one two five nine five zero. If you would
like to offer up a topic idea, if you would
like to comment on what I have said up to now,

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this I found interesting. There's a couple of little conversation starters.
If things go stale at the party this week. And
red solo cups. You're all familiar with those. They are
a popular souvenir for European tourists to take home after
they visit the United States. I'm surprised that red solo

(15:09):
cups aren't sold around the world. That's the thing that
I took away from this little snapshot, this little one
sentence deal. Red solo cups are a popular souvenir for
European tourists to take home after they visit the US.
Why don't they have their own solo cups? What are
they from? What are they drinking their ale? In Germany from?

(15:31):
What are they drinking their what else? What are they
drinking tea? In your I guess in Great Britain they're
drinking their tea out of tea cups still, although I
bet they have iced tea over there now, you know.
The last time though that I saw, I saw a
video of about three or four I guess it was

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young British men, a teenager, late teens, early twenties over
here sampling American foods and just absolutely falling in love
with almost everything they ate. They were just astonished at
how good our foods were once they figured out the
difference between a biscuit and a cookie. And the bottom

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line is you get what you get and over here
what you're also going to get when you start looking
at fast food burgers. I saw a video about this
just the other day. The average fast food burger, the
average fast food burger in this country contains meat from
about fifty five different cows. That's how many times they

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chew it up and churn it up and grind it
up and mix it up and do all of that
all this meat from all these cows. If you think
they're just taking the meat off of one cow and
then grinding it up, you're wrong. Fifty five cows. And
the problem is that any bacteria that's in any of
those fifty five cows now is at least microscopically into

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some tiny degree in that meat. They might need to
look at these burgers one more time and pretty soon
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taking a few days off, and her reason. A couple

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of the managers around here kind of snickered at this too,
and I, quote, my energy feels a little off end quote,
So I'm gonna take a few days off. You know
I'm doing it, and I'll see you later, all right,
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Speaker 1 (18:53):
Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Welcome back to fifty plus. Thank you for listening. Bottom
of the hour here.

Speaker 2 (19:02):
More or less, let's go to some sports news, and
there is some sports news around here, mostly good. I
don't have anything on the Texas, by the way, I haven't.
I've been following baseball because that's the sport I grew
up with, the sport I continue to love watching, continue
to watch at every chance I get. And there's all

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kinds of stuff going on. First of all, I was
at the mailbox getting the mail yesterday and one of
my neighbors, who lives close to the mailbox right there, said,
by the way, that Lamar little league team, I think
it's I think it's a nephew of his who is
on that team. I certainly hope I'm right, Brian, if
you're listening. But anyway, the bottom line is that little

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league team from Lamar last night beat the Louisiana team
they played against. I think that was the East Bank team,
and Lamar was representing East Texas. Anyway, they played themselves
into the Little League World Series. I'd love to see
him win it all. I'd love to see every team win,
but that's the reality of it is, it can't happen

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that way. It's still fun to watch these kids, and
they're very good. Every team that advances to Williamsport, every
one of those teams is really really good at that age.
Every player. Lamar's third baseman yesterday late in the game,
made a play last night that was just it sucked.
Peretti is like this guy just there was a shot,

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an absolute shot off the bat that probably would have
gotten by ninety five percent of the kids in that tournament,
ninety five percent of Little leaguers, well, no, ninety nine
percent of Little leaguers and probably ninety five percent of
the kids in that tournament. Bottom line is, he snagged it,
he gathered himself, and he threw the ball to second

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base to pick up a lead runner out. It was
tremendously impressive, tremendous. It's the only thing that I'm not
enjoying about the Little League Playoffs and going over to
the World Series is the announcing. They use some of
the tiredest, lamest cliche lines to describe these kids, to

(21:16):
describe their abilities, and honestly, it just it takes away
from the game for me. I'm very tempted, and I
think I'll try this tonight and see if it's not
more exciting. I'm just gonna mute the television. I'm just
gonna watch baseball like I'm sitting in the stands but
can't hear the crowd. If I could only get crowd noise,

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I would take that over. Listening to these guys just
every horribly weathered adage you can imagine about baseball. They're
throwing them out there, just in rotation. They probably got
about three pages of them, and they just go one
to the next, to the next to the next. At
the end of the third page, they just go back

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to the top of page one. And it bores the
tears out of me. It's horrible. Secondly, the Astros seem
to have found the right band aids to put on
that team while half its best players still sit sidelined.
I wish, I really do wish that Myers would come back,
that Alvarez would come back, that our pitching staff would

(22:20):
get healthy, although that that dude who pitched yesterday, or
whether I think we had three or four guys pitch yesterday,
but every one of them did exactly what they were
supposed to do. We are finding ways, we've got the
right band aids on the wounds to put the team
in a better place while everybody else recovers. But I

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would like to I would like for Hm, I would
like for everybody involved with this team to have an
opportunity to put even more really great players on the
field and let them get back up to speed before
we get down to the wire. What I'm impressed with

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is the potential we have moving forward after this season
and maybe after one more. Even to watch some of
these kids we've had in lately coming up from sugar
Land and Corpus wherever. It's fantastic to watch them play
at the big league level because some of them seem
pretty dog on good. Camp Smith didn't have did He

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barely had a cup of coffee in professional baseball before
he came and joined the team this year, and he's
turned out pretty dog on good. Now he's kind of
the exception more than the rule. But nonetheless, that's a gym.
That's a gym we had sitting on the sidelines for
a little while glad to have them all. And thirdly,

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ah this, I don't even I'm hesitant to even expose
you to this sport because it is so boring. It
is so it's a timesucket. I warn you if you
ever see it in the lineup on your when you're
scrolling through the directory of what shows are on TV,

(24:09):
I caution you not to push on it. Don't be curious.
I'm gonna tell you all about it, everything you'll ever
need to know about it, and then you won't be
so tempted to see what it is, which is what
I did yesterday. And I'll never get those fifteen or
twenty minutes back, and I wish I could. The game
is called and I was watching bear in mind the

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National Championships. I saw the semifinal, which involved three players,
and then the finals, which involved two players of a
game called roof ball, like what's on top of your
house ball? Roofball? You ever heard of? That will not
a chance. If you'd have said yes, I'd have been stunned.

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Roofball probably the most alcohol dependent sport I've ever watched.
I'm presuming that I think the actual participants in the
semis in the finals probably were sober, but I doubt
that the audience, the the the grand stands, if you will. Well,
it's hard to call them that because the game is

(25:12):
played at somebody's house, anybody's house with a pretty well
pitched roof, hence the name, and the only real requirement
is that the house have a vent stack protruding somewhere
from the front of the roof. Yeah, I don't know.
I don't know if it matters how far up the
roof it is. I have no idea about that. Each

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player in turn, you go first, you go second, you
go third, and then we'll keep doing it ten times.
Each player throws a football from wherever they like on
the driveway up toward that vent stack, that pipe coming
out of the out of the roof. If the ball
touches the stack, it's called a ping. I learned way

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too much about this, I really did. And if you
subsequently after the ball touch there's the stack, and then
gravity pulls it back down the roof, bouncing all around
like a football would. If you actually catch it coming
off the roof, you get some points. I don't remember
how many. I don't even care if you miss the stack,
but catch the ball. I think you get kind of

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a participation point, and if the ball lands, this is
where it really gets. Boy, this is big time here.
You got to be super skilled. If the ball hits
the roof and then continues upward a little bit and
goes around the stack and then comes back down, that's
the equivalent of a home run in baseball. Apparently, because

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everybody was cheering the one time I saw it done,
and all I watched only with a much smaller and
probably drunker crowd, did I mention that it was raining
in the neighborhood that day and that the guy who
ended up winning actually had to dart across the driveway
and into the side lawn and ultimately into the bushes

(26:58):
trying to chase down a bad bounce off the roof.
He slipped and fell on his backside in the wet grass,
and from that time forward played the game with mud
all up and down his legs, and just attendance for
the National Championship, by the way, was about twenty not
twenty thousand, just twenty. And I'm guessing there were almost

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I didn't count, but I think there were almost as
many ice chests underneath their little pop up canopies as
there were people there. There was even an official, even
an official in a zebra striped outfit, but I never
saw him say or do anything. I guess he just
went to the Halloween store online and bought himself a

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referees uniform. And he was there doing something that had announcers.
I mean, this was a television production. They had announcers,
They had all the stuff except for an interesting piece
of content. So you've been warned, do not watch roof Ball,
And if you know of it, send me an email,

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Speaker 2 (29:32):
I think that sounds like a good three.

Speaker 1 (29:34):
Fifty plus continues Welcome back to fifty plus, Thanks for listening.

Speaker 2 (29:38):
Certainly do appreciate it. Uh. It's happened again, and I
am so weary of having to report these stories. But
I'm going to to make sure that everybody understands the
predicament we really are in as a country. After what's
happened in the last four years an illegal immigrant up

(30:00):
New Jersey sanctuary city up there. Of them, they'd probably
have half a dozen. I don't know. Scott had already
been arrested twice for DUI and once for domestic violence
and released every time. Well, this scumbag killed a mother
and her young daughter who were just on their way
to get ice cream one afternoon by driving his suv

(30:21):
head on into them. He was said to have had
a strong odor of alcohol about him. When law enforcement
showed up, they did a blood draw on him. There's
no results available. Apparently that's evidence. I don't care what
the level was, but why any American would want to

(30:43):
interfere with getting this trash out of our country is
just beyond me, it really is. Police had him three times,
and three times somebody let him out, and now a
mother and her daughter are dead. And I am sure
there are other people who really would like for that
not to have happened to their sister, cousin, aunt, uncle, whatever.

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Mom and daughter dead because of this guy just doing
what he didn't care about doing. In Aurora, Colorado, the
illegal immigrant from Venezuela shot and killed a woman in
relation to a domestic violence incident. No by the way
he did that. He shot her in front of five kids.

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Didn't care. He just was mad about something and killed
somebody in front of five kids. Right here in Houston,
Right here in Houston, six illegal bad guys picked up
by Ice recently were found to have entered our country
illegally that we know of, a grand total of forty

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two times over the past twenty years. They'd come in,
they'd get caught, they get sent out, they come back,
they get caught. That in case you're doing in the
math is seven times each. And there was one guy
I think who'd done it fifteen times, one who hadn't
bothered as many. Maybe he was new to the game,
I don't know. While they were here, by the way,

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they racked up forty eight criminal convictions, not charges, convictions.
It's kind of the Biden immigration legacy right there, right
on grand display. Actually, I'm gonna lighten it up for
a minute, and I may get to I may get
to Jasmine Crockett kind of hope. I don't, honestly, on

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a cringe factor of one to ten, a scale of
one to ten, what I'm about to read you, just
one sentence, I feel like goes to about a a
seven and a half or an eight if we're using
half points a straight eight if we're not will, and
that's that's my great will. So I want to warn

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a thumbs up or a thumbs down on whether I'm
about right about what I'm gonna read. Here, a small
batch ice cream company based in New York has released
a limited number of pints of breast milk flavored ice cream.
I give it a cringe. Eight. Is that about right?
Or higher? Or lower? About right? A little lower? Maybe

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it's hard to tell. Okay, we'll just go with that.
I'm gonna stick with eight. It's got to be at
least an eight, maybe more. Here's one I have. I
have personal knowledge of how some of this parking stuff works.
At medical facilities. The place where my wife sees or
goes for a procedure annually had and still has what

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I consider a very awkward, clumsy system for paying for
your parking, and it leads you to believe that you're
free and clear to go when the gate rises up,
but you turn out a ticket or a bill later on.
My wife tried this is It's happened to her twice

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at this place where she thought she had paid, and
then a week or so later, we get a letter
from these people saying, Yo, it's like thirty two dollars
because you cheated and didn't pay before you left. It was.
It's not worth worrying about, though, because this other woman's
story is a whole lot worse. So as a woman
in La left with a hefty parking bill after visiting

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a local hospital, she was there for forty five minutes.
Her receipt from the machine claimed that her car was
parked there for three years, not three days, not three months,
three years, and initially the parking company didn't believe her.
I would imagine it was around the time she had

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counsel contact that parking company and say you really want
to do this. She eventually and they find her or
build her eight thousand dollars. And it says that they
eventually gave her a refund. What I want to know
is a refund implies that she paid it, she was

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forced to pay it, and she ought to get a
little little something something on top of that little something something.
Gen Z, by the way, and I'm not picking on
Will Will works hard around here. I know he does.
A gen Z in turns email to her boss going
viral because she didn't ask. She told him she was
taking a few days off, and her reason, my energy

(35:37):
feels a little off. I don't know if that's exactly
how she said it, but that's what she put in
the email. My energy feels a little off, so I'll
be taking a few days. No, you know what else
gets low energy from gen Z people. The airline may
be refusing to let them board with a therapy parrot.

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That was one that they had in your eye contact.
I don't know if that's true, the parroting therapy anything.
And nobody noticed their new forearm tattoo of a parallelogram
and the one the the other one that I had
here and went ahead and printed was a nose ring infection.
That's kind of funny. Unless you're a gen Z then

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you're probably mad at me. I'm sorry. What is unhygienic?
That's what a pole asked. And the things that are
on there, touching sticky condiment bottles, eating while bowling, and
resting a tortilla on top of the package. I've got
some other good stuff we can talk about tomorrow. I'll
do I'll do the Jasmine Crockett thing tomorrow. Because I

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need to. That's it for today. We'll see around noon tomorrow.
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