June 23, 2026 • 36 mins
Today, Doug Pike interviews CEO of Red Rocket Pets Tom McConnell about litterbox odor.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Hey John, how's it going today?
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All right, here we go Tuesday morning.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Darn it, did it again?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Bill, I'm in trouble looking across and looking at Will
a little different look. Somebody put nare in his shampoo bottle,
I believe. So you just decided to cut it off
for summer. Cool you off a little bit. I'm you know,
I'm getting a haircut this afternoon. Not gonna go that extreme. Okay,
(01:19):
I I can't do that right now, but I understand
why you did. And yeah, you're gonna be glad when
it's ninety five or one hundred and five or one
hundred and five feels like six hundred around here. Good
for you, man. It's a good look. It's a clean look.
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I've already gotten used to it. And you shaved it.
You didn't shave your beer, but you trimmed it up. Yeah,
he looked pretty snatty man, ready for a night on
the town. You should talk to your fiance about that.
How does she feel about it? Yes, thumbs up. Good,
I'm glad for you, man. He looks sharp. Day two
of an extended run of wet, warm air around here.
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Get used to it. Newcomers, get used to it. FIFA
fans who are in town. That's not going away from
here for months. It's gonna be humid. It's gonna be
mid nineties after about ten am and right up to dark.
Then overnight lows, if you can really call them that,
in the high seventies to around eighty for the next
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five or six days. It's like Groundhog Day, only wetter,
and it just it just makes you feel like there's
somebody riding on your shoulders, somebody who is soaking wet,
by the way, riding on your shoulders all day long,
and there's a furnace. They brought a furnace, a little
pocket furnace along too. I've lived here near all but fine,
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let's see four or five, all but about six or
so years of my life, and I grew accustomed to
it as a younger man, and I didn't have any
trouble at all with it as a younger man. But
as I get a little more senior, able to take
advantage of discounts just about everywhere. Now, Yeah, the heats
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trying trying to infiltrate my trying to get past my defenses.
I played golf on Monday and drank well that was yesterday. Yeah,
yesterday actually wasn't as bad as the past Friday. On
Friday this past week, I drank eight bottles of water,
a gatorade, and a propel just while we played, and
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then drank some more water on the way home. Yesterday,
I limited myself to only six bottles of water somehow,
but still had the gatorade in the propel and water
on the way home. I try. I tried desperately to
stay hydrated. And I think that's something every one of
us ought to be really cognizant of, especially at our ages,
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because we're gonna dry up pretty fast. If we get
out in that sun, we're gonna sweat out everything we have.
And if you get to the point ever outside where
you start to feel like you're not sweating anymore, that's
a red flag. That's a red flag that you absolutely
positively need to get out of the heat. Another is
feeling disoriented. I've never gotten to that point with the heat,
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but I have looked down and realized, even in this climate,
that I wasn't sweating anymore. And I don't know how
they gauge that in places that are dry, these dry
heat places like Arizona and even up into kind of
north central Texas. I was up there for a sporting
event many years ago and participating in this sporting event,
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and I was doing the same amount of work that
I did to do the same task down here. But
down here, when I did that amount of work, I
was sweating profusely up there, dry as a bone, not
even not even under my arms damp. It was just
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I was dry as a bone, and I wasn't sick.
I didn't feel bad. There was no problem with the
heat itself. It just evaporated all the moisture that was
coming out of me before I could even feel it,
and that was a new and weird sensation. Moving on
in the markets now was the only one of the
big four I watch regularly that was in the green
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this morning. As of about a half an hour ago,
one hundred and something points up, which measured against what
fifty thousand isn't much. NASDAK was off almost a point
and a half, though, and the S and P was
down not quite a full point. That tech sell off
is scaring some people, but I think the algorithmic moves
when when stocks get low enough that they trigger buys
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or kind of keeping everything in check and kind of
keeping most people from thinking the sky is falling. Gold
shed almost fifty bucks. It was at forty one fifty
four half an hour ago per ounce. And oil, holy cat, ooh,
this is getting kind of nice. Oil just a dime
and two pennies a little about fifteen minutes ago north
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of seventy three dollars. One of the gas stations, one
of the branded gas stations, the one where I almost
buy my gas all the time. There's one other that
I'll use if I just happen to get to it
first or whatever. It's about the same price, but gasoline
there yesterday, as of yesterday was three dollars and seven
cents a gallon, three oh seven. And I'm guessing that
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this move that oil's at right now is gonna take
that particular station down below three dollars a gallon for
the first time in a long time, first time since
that war started over yonder. I don't want any more
part of that. I've got some really fun stuff to
do today, and some interesting stuff and even something about cats,
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something about cats, a new product on the market that
and I don't normally do these kinds of interviews, but
this one, I think on behalf of everybody who's had
to deal with a litter box in the house. I
think those of you who are in that category will
be glad to hear about what this guy's got. It's
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Pamela Anderson, well, I bet you didn't know this, or
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Speaker 2 (09:21):
What's life without a net? If I suggest you to
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show's over.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Sleepy back that Doug Pike as fifty plus continues fifty.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Plus, thank you all for listening. By the way, coming
up in at the bottom of the hour, that segment
I mentioned about pets and about cats, we're gonna be
talking to a guy named Tom mcconnelly's CEO of Red
Rocket Pets, a family owned business. I don't I'm not
sure where, but they've got something. They've got something I
think that every cat owner should at least be aware
(09:54):
of and I've been out of the cat game for
a while, and the last time I had a cat,
I've had three in my life, and the last time
I had a cat, I wished i'd have known about
what he's got to talk about today. Considered an air freshener,
and we'll just go from there when we get there.
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In local news from the Lone Star Flight Museum in
Texas City, and this is it's a small group of
people who will care about this, but it's something that's
really I think this man has a right to be proud.
And Laura Panino was kind enough to send me the
information about this Lone Star Flight Museum in Texas City.
Longtime contributor to that museum, Ed Nole, recently learned that
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his Arrow L thirty nine C named American Spirit, has
been made a permanent part of the Smithsonians National Air
and Space Museum up in Washington. That's a big loss
for the Lone Star Flight Museum, but a tremendous addition
to the Smithsonians Museum up there in Washington, d C.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
This plane was.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Built in the Czech Republic. It's a jet racer that
racked up eight competitive wins and nine top five finishes
in its brief term as a legitimate racing machine. Twenty
twenty four was long Star Flight Museums Playing of the
Month too. Congratulations to Ed Hate see the American Spirit
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leave Texas, But I don't think it could have landed
in any more appropriate spot. I have a great admiration
of people who for people who race airplanes, and there
are several different ways they race them, but every one
of them just looks dangerous as can be and far
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more potential, I think, for catastrophic, catastrophic ending, because at
least if you wreck a race car, the race cars
that are out there to now and that are out
there now are they can take quite a lick and
still protect the driver. But if your airplane fails you,
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the ground isn't going to be near so cushiony as
all that protective gear that the drivers of race cars wear.
Boats boats can be pretty bad too. When they go south,
they go really south and can really take somebody out fast,
but nothing faster than an airplane. So hats off to
anybody who's flying racing jets. That's just that seems crazy.
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And the airplane, if you look at it yourself, you
can I'm sure you can find it. It's called American
Spirit and it's going into the the Smithsonians Aerospace or
Air and Space Museum up in Washington. You'll see it.
It's up there now. In fact, it did a flyover
up there, I think, when it was about to be
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enshrined in that place of honor. In any event, from
the Where's the Beef Desk? Via Newsmax, Texas Agriculture Commissioner
Sid Miller, who I met actually interviewed him in here
once said recently that the federal strategy to prevent further
intrusion of the New World screwworm into our country isn't
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working and probably won't. Eight billion sterile flies have been
released in Mexico and here over the past nineteen months,
and still some of these screw worms are finding their
way North. Found a few of them in Texas so far.
I think in Arizona there may have been one or two.
Miller says the better way would be fifty year old
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screwworm adult suppression system, which is nothing more than a bait. Really,
the flies eat the bait and they die period into story.
You don't have to hope that they mate with with
fertile or infertile flies. These things they eat that bait
and they die. And I'm not sure what the downside
would be to that. Unless these screwworms get stopped, and
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pretty quickly too, by the way, they could have really
bad negative impact on the beef herd here and pretty
much throughout the country if these things ever were to
gain more traction than they have now. And our beef
herd is at an extremely low level, some say the
lowest ever. We kind of need cows to eat the
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things we'd like to eat in this country of ours,
and if those screw worms get get in and get established,
that's going to be a really big problem. From the
anti American desk, we just had more entries recently than
I would have hoped and certainly would have even suspected.
But from the anti American desk. By way of Breitbart, yesterday,
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Biden appointed federal Judge Sparkle Soup nnin issued an order
that prevents the Trump administration from using a stream blind
version of the SAVE program to reduce voter fraud. This
one's likely to get escalated to the Supreme Court pretty quickly,
as it should. In hope that our nation can can
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continue its work to ensure that everyone who votes in
our national elections, and we've got a big one coming
up in November, we need some way to make sure
that the people who are casting votes are entitled to
do so, that they truly are American citizens and not
just people who got drug addicts who've got five dollars
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for sign in a form. There's a lot of there's
a lot of fraud in voting that's been uncovered around
our country already, very clear evidence it, and I'm sure
we haven't scratched the surface. That's what frightens me the most.
And so long as hurdles are being placed in front
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of us being absolutely sure that only citizens are voting,
it's hard to believe that the fraud won't continue until
all of these people are caught and all of them
who are guilty. If they're caught, they need to be charged.
If they're charged and found guilty, they need to get
a severe punishment. But until we can get level headed
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judges in some of these places where they are and
where lawsuits like this end up landing, unfortunately, Yeah, it's
gonna be a problem. We're just gonna have to work
through it. We've got bigger problems on the horizon too.
I'm not even gonna get into any of that. How
much time do I have? Will two one and a half?
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Well one fifty? Well that was one to ten. I'm
sorry anyway, I'm gonna save a little bit of this.
I don't want to Well, there's a couple of little
short ones I can do. I can do one if
I can ever get these pages apart. No, I don't
want to do that one. Now, it's gonna take a
little longer. In sports news, Arlington police were braced for
the worst when England played Croatia recently up there in
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the home of the Dallas Cowboys. Despite some fifteen thousand
three Lions fans in attendance so days before and a
couple of days after the match, there were zero arrests made.
And if you haven't been watching social media, fans from
around the world have been stunned at how favorably different
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our country is from any of theirs. Rave reviews for
the Red, White and Blue everything from food a quick sidebar.
Some FIFA fans are talking about the new FIFA fifteen,
which is how many pounds they're gaining while they're eating
our food here that they love, the stores, the clothes,
they love our country. And we've got all these people
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over here who hate our country but won't leave. Oh no,
I'm not leaving. I hate it. I hate it, but
I'm not leaving. It makes a lot of sense. Berry
Hill makes sense to me. I may go there for
dinner tonight. I just looked down and I saw the name,
and I need to talk about them, and you know what,
I'm getting kind of hungry already. It's a family run
restaurant on fifty nine down there in sugar Land Sugar
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Creek Boulevard exit coming or going, been around for thirty
something years and has some of the best fish tacos
on the planet. My wife and I found this restaurant,
I don't know, thirty years ago, maybe twenty at least
twenty five years ago, because we've been in our house
more than thirty and Berry Hill I think was there
when we got there. Now it's your turn to go.
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Try this very family friendly casual restaurant. Same two primary
chefs in the kitchen, by the way, for more than
a decade apiece, and they turn out delicious, consistent product
every single day of the week except Sunday when they're closed,
folks in the bar are going to welcome you in.
If you're brand new to sugar Land and you raise
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your hand and say, hey, I'm new here, somebody talk
to me. There'll be somebody and they'll talk your ear off. Probably.
I've met a lot of the people in there. When
I go pick up food, sometimes people will I've had
several times people come over. Are you Doug Pike? Yeah,
I am man. I just want to tell you thanks
for introducing us to Berry Hill. We love it over here.
That's what you're going to find too if you go there.
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They cater all over town. By the way, if you
want to throw a big party and wow your guests.
Berryhill Sugarland dot com is a website, Berry hillsugar Land
dot com.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
That's why every few months we wash them, check his
fluids and spray on a fresh coat o wax. This
is fifty plus with Doug Pike. Fifty plus. Thanks for
listening this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Every now and then I come across something new and good,
and I come across a lot of things new but
rarely good. And in this segment, we're going to talk
about such a thing, a good thing for pets, and
more specifically today for cats, which I know many of
you have, and a lot of you probably can see
at least one from where you're sitting. Anyway, Today we're
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going to learn about a new solution to an old
problem among cat owners, and that's litterbox owner, which is
so nasty. And with that, I'm going to introduce Tom
McConnell's CEO of Red Rocket Pets. Welcome, Tom. How you doing, man,
I'm doing fine.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Oh it's my pleasure. How long has Red Rocket been around?
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Probably about six years now.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Okay, and you'd settled into a nice are you.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Yeah, we have.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
We've developed quite a few products and we're just about
ready to launch a new one called Cleo, which is
I'm really excited about.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Yeah, that's the one I want to hear about.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
It's a very unique solution to an old problem which
faces all cut owners, and that's a litter odor. And
I think we've solved that problem pretty well. We use
odor barrier film and i'd refall bags and there's absolutely
no odor that can migrate through that film. And then
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we've got a twisting mechanism that twists keeping the litter
sealed away from the outside air.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
So it really works.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
And from from what I read you, these these bags
are strong enough that you don't have to change them
out every every hour and a half or every day
even right.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Oh no, they hold fourteen a litter. That's a low yea.
It depends the cats you have.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
It's it's easily two weeks if you have a couple
of cats.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
And so people are people listening because they can't see
what we're talking about. Uh, we're talking about not something
that replaces the litter box. What it does is it
just it hides the odor in a different place where
it can't get out.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Right right? What what the what the cleo?
Speaker 5 (21:24):
But all of our litter uh uh, you know, disposal
systems are there, they're outside the litter box. They're positioned
right next to the litter box. They have a scoop
den and a scoop with our dens.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
And what you do is you scoop.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
Your litter and instead of putting it in an individual
bag the grocery bags that they used to give you
but they don't anymore, you scoop the litter, lift the
lid on top of the CLEO for example, and put
the litter right on top of the twisted bag, and
then you close the lid. And then the CLEO has
a turn handle. You turn it clockwise until it stops
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and the bag opens, the litter drops, and then you
immediately turn it back to the home position and the
bag twist shut again and so no odor escapes at all.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
It's really clever.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Then you just take them off and it's got a
drawstring tied.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
Bag that you you lift off and out of the
bin and throw it away.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
When it's over ten pounds weighs more than your cat,
then you throw.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
It away right exactly.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
You know when the bag is getting full in the
turn handle getting harder.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Oh okay, okay, that makes sense. Is Cleo only available
at your website or have the big pet stores come
knocking on your door.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Well, we've got some big pets stores knocking on our door,
but we haven't shipped it yet. I've got everything. The
bins are being made right now, and then we're passing the.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Refilled bags, and I'd say it'd be at August.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
Before we have that out on the market, and it'll
probably be available on our website first, which is Red
Rocket Pets dot com. But to this's going in a
lot of big box stores and places like Chewy, Intractor
Supply and things like that.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Tom McConnell from Red Rocket Pets on fifty plus here,
you and your family been in the pet industry for
what six years? You said, there are people in our
country still as fond of their pets as when you started,
you think, and even twenty years ago.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
Let's say, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
I mean I've had many mini pets myself and eleven
cats at one time. Oh yeah, But yeah, we've been
in that pet business actively for six years.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
But the consumer products business are.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
Over fifty and we have a baby products company as well,
and that's where we started really with the diapers diaper disposal.
We evolved in litters. Suppose a corollary about.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
So you said you'd had some cats. Is that do
you have if you had dogs as well? Which side
of the ledger you fall on that one?
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Well, right now, we have nothing, but you're too busy. Yeah,
that's right.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
I traveled so much, but we've had cats and the
horses and the goats and the chick and all that
sort of stuff, Longhorn, So quite a bit of everything.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
I'm guessing Tom, that you get suggestions from customers on
what they think is the next latest and greatest thing
that you ought to be building and selling. Have you
ever got any really off the wall ideas.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
I've gotten plenty off the wall ideas. But the only
thing is a lot of them.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
You know, they might sound good to the person that
has thought about them, but you know, there's a lot
in making a successful product, you know, pricing, costs, thing,
the fact that it can be patented or not.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
Yeah, that's all important. So it takes a lot.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
And uh, I'm kind of creative myself, so generally we
just work on the ideas that we come up with ourselves.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
That's probably better.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
Yeah, I've got about fifty patents.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
Kind of active, actively come up with new ideas all
the time.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Good for you. When somebody writes you a letter like that,
you ought to write them back and say, you know what,
I think your ideas are great, and I think if
if we develop it and send it or send it
to market, we're going to sell exactly one to you.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
Oh yeah, but that yeah, that's that's often what happened.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Back to CLEO again, because I'm thinking of questions my
audience might be wanting to ask, Uh, you mentioned that
if you have more than one cat, you need to
get more than what you just You don't need to
get a bigger or is there a different size for
different numbers can use clean the bags?
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Well, we.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
Have different models of our liter disposal systems.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
We have the Twister line, which goes from relatively small
twelve pounds capacity up to seventeen pounds capacity. We have
dog waste disposal bends, the same type of thing, but
the difference with the CLEO is that we have made
a different type of disposable bag which is a lot
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easier to use and a lot less expensive. That makes Yeah,
that's well, I know that at times are tough nowadays
with you know, making ends meet on everything because you
know the cost of things that have gone up so
much lately. So we're trying to make things that are
affordable for the family and pet owners in particular. And yeah,
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it's this one. If it holds fourteen pounds a litter,
that should do pretty well from the most.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
Cat, even three or more. But it has a handle
on the back of it so that you can carry
it around to multiple litter boxes.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
Okay, when you get fourteen pounds of litter in there,
it's time to change the bag.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
How she goes. I think a lot of people will
probably four go milk and eggs and meat before they
give up on those bags, once they figure out how
nice it's going to keep the house smelling, right.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
You got it? Yeah. It is.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
Interesting because we've been doing our testing with it a
long time and my daughter had a Golden Retriever that
was sitting right next to the ones that we did
for diapers.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
The diapers had been six months.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
Is a test and the duck tell anything, and we
emptied the bag, but it has completely validated our belief
that the bags are completely out of free.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
That's a tough test, and I'll just take your word
for it. Okay, I don't want to come up and
smell six month old diapers.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
All right.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Tom McConnell from Red Rocketpets dot Com, that's the website.
Go check everything out there and keep an eye out
for Cleo. I really I kind of like this, I
really do. I may try and talk to you a
little bit more about it off the air. Thank you, Tom,
I appreciate your time. Man, Thank you, Doug, Yes, sir,
buy bye, Holy Cow. Not a bad idea to get
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rid of that smell, huh. And I like the system.
I looked at it. I kind of studied what I
could find out about them, and I like the system.
I really do. Midway Meat Market out and Katie something
else I like tremendously, and I have for the better
part of probably I guess probably about forty years now.
They've been out there fifty seven years. Herman Meyer started
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that company a long, long time ago. Right there on
Old ninety and Katie. You take I ten just past
ninety nine, and that very next exit is going to
say downtown Katie, and that's where you get off. You
run in on ninety Old ninety and at the second light,
you're going to see a strip shopping center on the
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south side of the road. At the very west end
of that shopping center is Midway Meat Market, same place
it's always been, doing, the same thing they've always done,
providing quality fresh meat products along with twenty five flavors
of premium sausage, along with a nice lunch counter that'll
sell you a lunch or dinner any day of the week,
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seven days a week. They're open from eight am to
seven pm. They'll fix you a cheeseburger. They'll fix you
some brisket, some sausage, whatever you want, with the sides
just where they are to be and just what you
want to see. Midway is a great place run by
good people. Herman's daughter, Trish is running the store now,
and she has taken up where her father left off
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and just made it even bigger and better. It's still
got that old country store feel. It really does. When
you walk in. The very first thing you're gonna hear
is high Welcome to Midway, and they're gonna take it
from there. And if you need help, they'll help you.
If you don't, you can just walk around and absorb
it all and try to figure out what you want
to take home. Midwaymeetmarket dot Com is the website Midway
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Meatmarket dot Com.
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Old Guy's rule, and of course, women never get old.
If you want to avoid sleeping on the couch.
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Okay, well, I think that sounds like a good plan.
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug.
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Fourth and final segment of the program starts right now.
I want to get into this one because I found
it very interesting. From somebody who I'm pretty sure knows
more than she talks about. This comes from the Western
Journal by way of MSN, Minnesota Rep Ilhan Omar has
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released a financial disclosure that covers twenty twenty five, okay,
and in that disclosure she claims that her husband, Tim Minette,
they're saying that he brought in as little as two
hundred dollars throughout the entirety of twenty twenty five from
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his California, California winery and his main job. The story
said at Roselake Capital was listed in value as and
I quote here none end quote not long ago. If
you'll recall, those same two entities were supposedly valued at
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thirty million dollars. That has apparently vanished, gone from thirty
million to this guy's making two hundred off the winery
and nothing off of the other company. Rose Lake Capital
also notes a negative net worth for the pair, So
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somehow they're even burning through her money. Assets valued at
twenty thousand to one hundred and twenty five thousand, that's
I guess that's one of the the checkboxes in that form,
and debts totaling thirty thousand to one hundred thousand dollars
check that box too. She makes it pretty clear and
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has made it pretty clear for a long time now
that her loyalty to the United States of America is
minimal at best and nonexistent, probably just last October this
past October a rally of Somalians in Minnesota. Last year,
she spoke, by the way in Somalian of Somali President
Hassan Sheik Muhammad as quote our president end quote. She
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did that on American soil in Minnesota. She talked about
somebody other than our president being our president. And there's
got to be there's got to be some kind of
problem with that, and if there's not, it needs to
be written into law. And to think she knew nothing
about the fraud that was taking place in Minnesota through
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recent years, among a significant percentage perpetrated by Somalians, to
think she had no idea about that is just totally naive,
totally naive. I'm not a big fan of hers. I
gotta tell you, really, not going back to the World
Cup for a minute. I found this very interesting and
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it showed up, I want to say, sometime late last week,
maybe maybe even a little bit earlier than that. An
example of where our country could take a lesson from
another country. Occurred after an early match in the this
year's World Cup between Japan and I don't know, it's
not important who they were playing that day, anyway, after
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the match, the people in a large section of the
stadium that was occupied mostly by Japanese fans took after
the match to completely clean that entire section. All the
popcorn boxes, all the hot dog holders, cups, whatever it was.
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All the trash that was there was picked up by
the people who dropped it. That's respect, it's respect for
the game, it's respect for the players, for their hosts,
the United States of America. Nobody should visit somebody's house
and or stadium for that matter, and leave it a
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filthy mess when they walk out. Or movie theater for
another example, where we as Americans have been so spoiled
that we just throw our trash on the ground and
presume somebody's coming by to pick it up. Thanks Japan,
thank you for coming. You're welcome back anytime. And from
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the Washington d C reflecting pool at the Lincoln Memorial.
Five arrests now people alleged to be responsible for the
sudden return of alergy to that pool after a major
recent cleanup the first I think, and I want to
say something like one hundred and one hundred and fifty years.
Some people claim there was no vandalism involved, by the way,
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in the return of the algae, but I find that
somewhat tough to swallow. I really do repairs of a
long gash in the pools lining or underway now, and
hopefully they'll be able to restore that pool's original beauty
once again, and maybe keep a little closer eye on
who's hanging out and what they're tossing in the water.
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If anything that's really disappointing. I'll be curious to see
how those cases pay out too. There have been charges
fouled and citations issued. We can only hope, we can
only hope. Oh, by the way, tomorrow, Yeah, I don't know. Yeah,
I'll do this right now. I've got a minute. Speaking
of Father's Day, the New York Times printed and op
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ed piece presented in comic strip style that sang the
praises of transgender women living as men on Father's Day.
I found that to be pretty bad timing on the
part of The Times, as did social media all over
the country. The left just keeps trying, but the right
keeps pushing back a little harder and a little harder. Finally,
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more people are willing to speak up. James Talerico's prime
example of uber liberalism, so much those that even Jasmine Crockett,
Even Jasmine Crockett is saying, you know, I lost to
him in the primary, and yeah, no, I can't support
that dude. That's going to covers for today. I'll be
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back tomorrow. Thank you all for listening. Audios
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All right, here we go Tuesday morning.
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Darn it, did it again?
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Bill, I'm in trouble looking across and looking at Will
a little different look. Somebody put nare in his shampoo bottle,
I believe. So you just decided to cut it off
for summer. Cool you off a little bit. I'm you know,
I'm getting a haircut this afternoon. Not gonna go that extreme. Okay,
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I I can't do that right now, but I understand
why you did. And yeah, you're gonna be glad when
it's ninety five or one hundred and five or one
hundred and five feels like six hundred around here. Good
for you, man. It's a good look. It's a clean look.
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I've already gotten used to it. And you shaved it.
You didn't shave your beer, but you trimmed it up. Yeah,
he looked pretty snatty man, ready for a night on
the town. You should talk to your fiance about that.
How does she feel about it? Yes, thumbs up. Good,
I'm glad for you, man. He looks sharp. Day two
of an extended run of wet, warm air around here.
(02:01):
Get used to it. Newcomers, get used to it. FIFA
fans who are in town. That's not going away from
here for months. It's gonna be humid. It's gonna be
mid nineties after about ten am and right up to dark.
Then overnight lows, if you can really call them that,
in the high seventies to around eighty for the next
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five or six days. It's like Groundhog Day, only wetter,
and it just it just makes you feel like there's
somebody riding on your shoulders, somebody who is soaking wet,
by the way, riding on your shoulders all day long,
and there's a furnace. They brought a furnace, a little
pocket furnace along too. I've lived here near all but fine,
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let's see four or five, all but about six or
so years of my life, and I grew accustomed to
it as a younger man, and I didn't have any
trouble at all with it as a younger man. But
as I get a little more senior, able to take
advantage of discounts just about everywhere. Now, Yeah, the heats
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trying trying to infiltrate my trying to get past my defenses.
I played golf on Monday and drank well that was yesterday. Yeah,
yesterday actually wasn't as bad as the past Friday. On
Friday this past week, I drank eight bottles of water,
a gatorade, and a propel just while we played, and
(03:35):
then drank some more water on the way home. Yesterday,
I limited myself to only six bottles of water somehow,
but still had the gatorade in the propel and water
on the way home. I try. I tried desperately to
stay hydrated. And I think that's something every one of
us ought to be really cognizant of, especially at our ages,
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because we're gonna dry up pretty fast. If we get
out in that sun, we're gonna sweat out everything we have.
And if you get to the point ever outside where
you start to feel like you're not sweating anymore, that's
a red flag. That's a red flag that you absolutely
positively need to get out of the heat. Another is
feeling disoriented. I've never gotten to that point with the heat,
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but I have looked down and realized, even in this climate,
that I wasn't sweating anymore. And I don't know how
they gauge that in places that are dry, these dry
heat places like Arizona and even up into kind of
north central Texas. I was up there for a sporting
event many years ago and participating in this sporting event,
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and I was doing the same amount of work that
I did to do the same task down here. But
down here, when I did that amount of work, I
was sweating profusely up there, dry as a bone, not
even not even under my arms damp. It was just
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I was dry as a bone, and I wasn't sick.
I didn't feel bad. There was no problem with the
heat itself. It just evaporated all the moisture that was
coming out of me before I could even feel it,
and that was a new and weird sensation. Moving on
in the markets now was the only one of the
big four I watch regularly that was in the green
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this morning. As of about a half an hour ago,
one hundred and something points up, which measured against what
fifty thousand isn't much. NASDAK was off almost a point
and a half, though, and the S and P was
down not quite a full point. That tech sell off
is scaring some people, but I think the algorithmic moves
when when stocks get low enough that they trigger buys
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or kind of keeping everything in check and kind of
keeping most people from thinking the sky is falling. Gold
shed almost fifty bucks. It was at forty one fifty
four half an hour ago per ounce. And oil, holy cat, ooh,
this is getting kind of nice. Oil just a dime
and two pennies a little about fifteen minutes ago north
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of seventy three dollars. One of the gas stations, one
of the branded gas stations, the one where I almost
buy my gas all the time. There's one other that
I'll use if I just happen to get to it
first or whatever. It's about the same price, but gasoline
there yesterday, as of yesterday was three dollars and seven
cents a gallon, three oh seven. And I'm guessing that
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this move that oil's at right now is gonna take
that particular station down below three dollars a gallon for
the first time in a long time, first time since
that war started over yonder. I don't want any more
part of that. I've got some really fun stuff to
do today, and some interesting stuff and even something about cats,
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something about cats, a new product on the market that
and I don't normally do these kinds of interviews, but
this one, I think on behalf of everybody who's had
to deal with a litter box in the house. I
think those of you who are in that category will
be glad to hear about what this guy's got. It's
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pretty amazing actually. Oh by the way, one quick note,
Pamela Anderson, well, I bet you didn't know this, or
maybe you did. Give me a thumbs up or down,
was discovered after appearing on the jumbo tron at a
Canadian Football League game. Did you know that?
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Sleepy back that Doug Pike as fifty plus continues fifty.
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Plus, thank you all for listening. By the way, coming
up in at the bottom of the hour, that segment
I mentioned about pets and about cats, we're gonna be
talking to a guy named Tom mcconnelly's CEO of Red
Rocket Pets, a family owned business. I don't I'm not
sure where, but they've got something. They've got something I
think that every cat owner should at least be aware
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of and I've been out of the cat game for
a while, and the last time I had a cat,
I've had three in my life, and the last time
I had a cat, I wished i'd have known about
what he's got to talk about today. Considered an air freshener,
and we'll just go from there when we get there.
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In local news from the Lone Star Flight Museum in
Texas City, and this is it's a small group of
people who will care about this, but it's something that's
really I think this man has a right to be proud.
And Laura Panino was kind enough to send me the
information about this Lone Star Flight Museum in Texas City.
Longtime contributor to that museum, Ed Nole, recently learned that
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his Arrow L thirty nine C named American Spirit, has
been made a permanent part of the Smithsonians National Air
and Space Museum up in Washington. That's a big loss
for the Lone Star Flight Museum, but a tremendous addition
to the Smithsonians Museum up there in Washington, d C.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
This plane was.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Built in the Czech Republic. It's a jet racer that
racked up eight competitive wins and nine top five finishes
in its brief term as a legitimate racing machine. Twenty
twenty four was long Star Flight Museums Playing of the
Month too. Congratulations to Ed Hate see the American Spirit
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leave Texas, But I don't think it could have landed
in any more appropriate spot. I have a great admiration
of people who for people who race airplanes, and there
are several different ways they race them, but every one
of them just looks dangerous as can be and far
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more potential, I think, for catastrophic, catastrophic ending, because at
least if you wreck a race car, the race cars
that are out there to now and that are out
there now are they can take quite a lick and
still protect the driver. But if your airplane fails you,
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the ground isn't going to be near so cushiony as
all that protective gear that the drivers of race cars wear.
Boats boats can be pretty bad too. When they go south,
they go really south and can really take somebody out fast,
but nothing faster than an airplane. So hats off to
anybody who's flying racing jets. That's just that seems crazy.
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And the airplane, if you look at it yourself, you
can I'm sure you can find it. It's called American
Spirit and it's going into the the Smithsonians Aerospace or
Air and Space Museum up in Washington. You'll see it.
It's up there now. In fact, it did a flyover
up there, I think, when it was about to be
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enshrined in that place of honor. In any event, from
the Where's the Beef Desk? Via Newsmax, Texas Agriculture Commissioner
Sid Miller, who I met actually interviewed him in here
once said recently that the federal strategy to prevent further
intrusion of the New World screwworm into our country isn't
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working and probably won't. Eight billion sterile flies have been
released in Mexico and here over the past nineteen months,
and still some of these screw worms are finding their
way North. Found a few of them in Texas so far.
I think in Arizona there may have been one or two.
Miller says the better way would be fifty year old
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screwworm adult suppression system, which is nothing more than a bait. Really,
the flies eat the bait and they die period into story.
You don't have to hope that they mate with with
fertile or infertile flies. These things they eat that bait
and they die. And I'm not sure what the downside
would be to that. Unless these screwworms get stopped, and
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pretty quickly too, by the way, they could have really
bad negative impact on the beef herd here and pretty
much throughout the country if these things ever were to
gain more traction than they have now. And our beef
herd is at an extremely low level, some say the
lowest ever. We kind of need cows to eat the
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things we'd like to eat in this country of ours,
and if those screw worms get get in and get established,
that's going to be a really big problem. From the
anti American desk, we just had more entries recently than
I would have hoped and certainly would have even suspected.
But from the anti American desk. By way of Breitbart, yesterday,
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Biden appointed federal Judge Sparkle Soup nnin issued an order
that prevents the Trump administration from using a stream blind
version of the SAVE program to reduce voter fraud. This
one's likely to get escalated to the Supreme Court pretty quickly,
as it should. In hope that our nation can can
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continue its work to ensure that everyone who votes in
our national elections, and we've got a big one coming
up in November, we need some way to make sure
that the people who are casting votes are entitled to
do so, that they truly are American citizens and not
just people who got drug addicts who've got five dollars
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for sign in a form. There's a lot of there's
a lot of fraud in voting that's been uncovered around
our country already, very clear evidence it, and I'm sure
we haven't scratched the surface. That's what frightens me the most.
And so long as hurdles are being placed in front
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of us being absolutely sure that only citizens are voting,
it's hard to believe that the fraud won't continue until
all of these people are caught and all of them
who are guilty. If they're caught, they need to be charged.
If they're charged and found guilty, they need to get
a severe punishment. But until we can get level headed
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judges in some of these places where they are and
where lawsuits like this end up landing, unfortunately, Yeah, it's
gonna be a problem. We're just gonna have to work
through it. We've got bigger problems on the horizon too.
I'm not even gonna get into any of that. How
much time do I have? Will two one and a half?
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Well one fifty? Well that was one to ten. I'm
sorry anyway, I'm gonna save a little bit of this.
I don't want to Well, there's a couple of little
short ones I can do. I can do one if
I can ever get these pages apart. No, I don't
want to do that one. Now, it's gonna take a
little longer. In sports news, Arlington police were braced for
the worst when England played Croatia recently up there in
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the home of the Dallas Cowboys. Despite some fifteen thousand
three Lions fans in attendance so days before and a
couple of days after the match, there were zero arrests made.
And if you haven't been watching social media, fans from
around the world have been stunned at how favorably different
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our country is from any of theirs. Rave reviews for
the Red, White and Blue everything from food a quick sidebar.
Some FIFA fans are talking about the new FIFA fifteen,
which is how many pounds they're gaining while they're eating
our food here that they love, the stores, the clothes,
they love our country. And we've got all these people
(17:27):
over here who hate our country but won't leave. Oh no,
I'm not leaving. I hate it. I hate it, but
I'm not leaving. It makes a lot of sense. Berry
Hill makes sense to me. I may go there for
dinner tonight. I just looked down and I saw the name,
and I need to talk about them, and you know what,
I'm getting kind of hungry already. It's a family run
restaurant on fifty nine down there in sugar Land Sugar
(17:48):
Creek Boulevard exit coming or going, been around for thirty
something years and has some of the best fish tacos
on the planet. My wife and I found this restaurant,
I don't know, thirty years ago, maybe twenty at least
twenty five years ago, because we've been in our house
more than thirty and Berry Hill I think was there
when we got there. Now it's your turn to go.
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Try this very family friendly casual restaurant. Same two primary
chefs in the kitchen, by the way, for more than
a decade apiece, and they turn out delicious, consistent product
every single day of the week except Sunday when they're closed,
folks in the bar are going to welcome you in.
If you're brand new to sugar Land and you raise
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your hand and say, hey, I'm new here, somebody talk
to me. There'll be somebody and they'll talk your ear off. Probably.
I've met a lot of the people in there. When
I go pick up food, sometimes people will I've had
several times people come over. Are you Doug Pike? Yeah,
I am man. I just want to tell you thanks
for introducing us to Berry Hill. We love it over here.
That's what you're going to find too if you go there.
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They cater all over town. By the way, if you
want to throw a big party and wow your guests.
Berryhill Sugarland dot com is a website, Berry hillsugar Land
dot com.
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Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
That's why every few months we wash them, check his
fluids and spray on a fresh coat o wax. This
is fifty plus with Doug Pike. Fifty plus. Thanks for
listening this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Every now and then I come across something new and good,
and I come across a lot of things new but
rarely good. And in this segment, we're going to talk
about such a thing, a good thing for pets, and
more specifically today for cats, which I know many of
you have, and a lot of you probably can see
at least one from where you're sitting. Anyway, Today we're
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going to learn about a new solution to an old
problem among cat owners, and that's litterbox owner, which is
so nasty. And with that, I'm going to introduce Tom
McConnell's CEO of Red Rocket Pets. Welcome, Tom. How you doing, man,
I'm doing fine.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Oh it's my pleasure. How long has Red Rocket been around?
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Probably about six years now.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Okay, and you'd settled into a nice are you.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Yeah, we have.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
We've developed quite a few products and we're just about
ready to launch a new one called Cleo, which is
I'm really excited about.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Yeah, that's the one I want to hear about.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
It's a very unique solution to an old problem which
faces all cut owners, and that's a litter odor. And
I think we've solved that problem pretty well. We use
odor barrier film and i'd refall bags and there's absolutely
no odor that can migrate through that film. And then
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we've got a twisting mechanism that twists keeping the litter
sealed away from the outside air.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
So it really works.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
And from from what I read you, these these bags
are strong enough that you don't have to change them
out every every hour and a half or every day
even right.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Oh no, they hold fourteen a litter. That's a low yea.
It depends the cats you have.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
It's it's easily two weeks if you have a couple
of cats.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
And so people are people listening because they can't see
what we're talking about. Uh, we're talking about not something
that replaces the litter box. What it does is it
just it hides the odor in a different place where
it can't get out.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Right right? What what the what the cleo?
Speaker 5 (21:24):
But all of our litter uh uh, you know, disposal
systems are there, they're outside the litter box. They're positioned
right next to the litter box. They have a scoop
den and a scoop with our dens.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
And what you do is you scoop.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
Your litter and instead of putting it in an individual
bag the grocery bags that they used to give you
but they don't anymore, you scoop the litter, lift the
lid on top of the CLEO for example, and put
the litter right on top of the twisted bag, and
then you close the lid. And then the CLEO has
a turn handle. You turn it clockwise until it stops
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and the bag opens, the litter drops, and then you
immediately turn it back to the home position and the
bag twist shut again and so no odor escapes at all.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
It's really clever.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Then you just take them off and it's got a
drawstring tied.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
Bag that you you lift off and out of the
bin and throw it away.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
When it's over ten pounds weighs more than your cat,
then you throw.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
It away right exactly.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
You know when the bag is getting full in the
turn handle getting harder.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Oh okay, okay, that makes sense. Is Cleo only available
at your website or have the big pet stores come
knocking on your door.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Well, we've got some big pets stores knocking on our door,
but we haven't shipped it yet. I've got everything. The
bins are being made right now, and then we're passing the.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Refilled bags, and I'd say it'd be at August.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
Before we have that out on the market, and it'll
probably be available on our website first, which is Red
Rocket Pets dot com. But to this's going in a
lot of big box stores and places like Chewy, Intractor
Supply and things like that.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Tom McConnell from Red Rocket Pets on fifty plus here,
you and your family been in the pet industry for
what six years? You said, there are people in our
country still as fond of their pets as when you started,
you think, and even twenty years ago.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
Let's say, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
I mean I've had many mini pets myself and eleven
cats at one time. Oh yeah, But yeah, we've been
in that pet business actively for six years.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
But the consumer products business are.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
Over fifty and we have a baby products company as well,
and that's where we started really with the diapers diaper disposal.
We evolved in litters. Suppose a corollary about.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
So you said you'd had some cats. Is that do
you have if you had dogs as well? Which side
of the ledger you fall on that one?
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Well, right now, we have nothing, but you're too busy. Yeah,
that's right.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
I traveled so much, but we've had cats and the
horses and the goats and the chick and all that
sort of stuff, Longhorn, So quite a bit of everything.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
I'm guessing Tom, that you get suggestions from customers on
what they think is the next latest and greatest thing
that you ought to be building and selling. Have you
ever got any really off the wall ideas.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
I've gotten plenty off the wall ideas. But the only
thing is a lot of them.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
You know, they might sound good to the person that
has thought about them, but you know, there's a lot
in making a successful product, you know, pricing, costs, thing,
the fact that it can be patented or not.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
Yeah, that's all important. So it takes a lot.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
And uh, I'm kind of creative myself, so generally we
just work on the ideas that we come up with ourselves.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
That's probably better.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
Yeah, I've got about fifty patents.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
Kind of active, actively come up with new ideas all
the time.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Good for you. When somebody writes you a letter like that,
you ought to write them back and say, you know what,
I think your ideas are great, and I think if
if we develop it and send it or send it
to market, we're going to sell exactly one to you.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
Oh yeah, but that yeah, that's that's often what happened.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Back to CLEO again, because I'm thinking of questions my
audience might be wanting to ask, Uh, you mentioned that
if you have more than one cat, you need to
get more than what you just You don't need to
get a bigger or is there a different size for
different numbers can use clean the bags?
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Well, we.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
Have different models of our liter disposal systems.
Speaker 5 (26:07):
We have the Twister line, which goes from relatively small
twelve pounds capacity up to seventeen pounds capacity. We have
dog waste disposal bends, the same type of thing, but
the difference with the CLEO is that we have made
a different type of disposable bag which is a lot
(26:30):
easier to use and a lot less expensive. That makes Yeah,
that's well, I know that at times are tough nowadays
with you know, making ends meet on everything because you
know the cost of things that have gone up so
much lately. So we're trying to make things that are
affordable for the family and pet owners in particular. And yeah,
(26:54):
it's this one. If it holds fourteen pounds a litter,
that should do pretty well from the most.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
Cat, even three or more. But it has a handle
on the back of it so that you can carry
it around to multiple litter boxes.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
Okay, when you get fourteen pounds of litter in there,
it's time to change the bag.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
How she goes. I think a lot of people will
probably four go milk and eggs and meat before they
give up on those bags, once they figure out how
nice it's going to keep the house smelling, right.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
You got it? Yeah. It is.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
Interesting because we've been doing our testing with it a
long time and my daughter had a Golden Retriever that
was sitting right next to the ones that we did
for diapers.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
The diapers had been six months.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
Is a test and the duck tell anything, and we
emptied the bag, but it has completely validated our belief
that the bags are completely out of free.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
That's a tough test, and I'll just take your word
for it. Okay, I don't want to come up and
smell six month old diapers.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
All right.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Tom McConnell from Red Rocketpets dot Com, that's the website.
Go check everything out there and keep an eye out
for Cleo. I really I kind of like this, I
really do. I may try and talk to you a
little bit more about it off the air. Thank you, Tom,
I appreciate your time. Man, Thank you, Doug, Yes, sir,
buy bye, Holy Cow. Not a bad idea to get
(28:25):
rid of that smell, huh. And I like the system.
I looked at it. I kind of studied what I
could find out about them, and I like the system.
I really do. Midway Meat Market out and Katie something
else I like tremendously, and I have for the better
part of probably I guess probably about forty years now.
They've been out there fifty seven years. Herman Meyer started
(28:46):
that company a long, long time ago. Right there on
Old ninety and Katie. You take I ten just past
ninety nine, and that very next exit is going to
say downtown Katie, and that's where you get off. You
run in on ninety Old ninety and at the second light,
you're going to see a strip shopping center on the
(29:06):
south side of the road. At the very west end
of that shopping center is Midway Meat Market, same place
it's always been, doing, the same thing they've always done,
providing quality fresh meat products along with twenty five flavors
of premium sausage, along with a nice lunch counter that'll
sell you a lunch or dinner any day of the week,
(29:28):
seven days a week. They're open from eight am to
seven pm. They'll fix you a cheeseburger. They'll fix you
some brisket, some sausage, whatever you want, with the sides
just where they are to be and just what you
want to see. Midway is a great place run by
good people. Herman's daughter, Trish is running the store now,
and she has taken up where her father left off
(29:51):
and just made it even bigger and better. It's still
got that old country store feel. It really does. When
you walk in. The very first thing you're gonna hear
is high Welcome to Midway, and they're gonna take it
from there. And if you need help, they'll help you.
If you don't, you can just walk around and absorb
it all and try to figure out what you want
to take home. Midwaymeetmarket dot Com is the website Midway
(30:13):
Meatmarket dot Com.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Old Guy's rule, and of course, women never get old.
If you want to avoid sleeping on the couch.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
Okay, well, I think that sounds like a good plan.
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Fourth and final segment of the program starts right now.
I want to get into this one because I found
it very interesting. From somebody who I'm pretty sure knows
more than she talks about. This comes from the Western
Journal by way of MSN, Minnesota Rep Ilhan Omar has
(30:51):
released a financial disclosure that covers twenty twenty five, okay,
and in that disclosure she claims that her husband, Tim Minette,
they're saying that he brought in as little as two
hundred dollars throughout the entirety of twenty twenty five from
(31:13):
his California, California winery and his main job. The story
said at Roselake Capital was listed in value as and
I quote here none end quote not long ago. If
you'll recall, those same two entities were supposedly valued at
(31:34):
thirty million dollars. That has apparently vanished, gone from thirty
million to this guy's making two hundred off the winery
and nothing off of the other company. Rose Lake Capital
also notes a negative net worth for the pair, So
(31:55):
somehow they're even burning through her money. Assets valued at
twenty thousand to one hundred and twenty five thousand, that's
I guess that's one of the the checkboxes in that form,
and debts totaling thirty thousand to one hundred thousand dollars
check that box too. She makes it pretty clear and
(32:19):
has made it pretty clear for a long time now
that her loyalty to the United States of America is
minimal at best and nonexistent, probably just last October this
past October a rally of Somalians in Minnesota. Last year,
she spoke, by the way in Somalian of Somali President
Hassan Sheik Muhammad as quote our president end quote. She
(32:45):
did that on American soil in Minnesota. She talked about
somebody other than our president being our president. And there's
got to be there's got to be some kind of
problem with that, and if there's not, it needs to
be written into law. And to think she knew nothing
about the fraud that was taking place in Minnesota through
(33:07):
recent years, among a significant percentage perpetrated by Somalians, to
think she had no idea about that is just totally naive,
totally naive. I'm not a big fan of hers. I
gotta tell you, really, not going back to the World
Cup for a minute. I found this very interesting and
(33:29):
it showed up, I want to say, sometime late last week,
maybe maybe even a little bit earlier than that. An
example of where our country could take a lesson from
another country. Occurred after an early match in the this
year's World Cup between Japan and I don't know, it's
not important who they were playing that day, anyway, after
(33:50):
the match, the people in a large section of the
stadium that was occupied mostly by Japanese fans took after
the match to completely clean that entire section. All the
popcorn boxes, all the hot dog holders, cups, whatever it was.
(34:15):
All the trash that was there was picked up by
the people who dropped it. That's respect, it's respect for
the game, it's respect for the players, for their hosts,
the United States of America. Nobody should visit somebody's house
and or stadium for that matter, and leave it a
(34:35):
filthy mess when they walk out. Or movie theater for
another example, where we as Americans have been so spoiled
that we just throw our trash on the ground and
presume somebody's coming by to pick it up. Thanks Japan,
thank you for coming. You're welcome back anytime. And from
(34:57):
the Washington d C reflecting pool at the Lincoln Memorial.
Five arrests now people alleged to be responsible for the
sudden return of alergy to that pool after a major
recent cleanup the first I think, and I want to
say something like one hundred and one hundred and fifty years.
Some people claim there was no vandalism involved, by the way,
(35:17):
in the return of the algae, but I find that
somewhat tough to swallow. I really do repairs of a
long gash in the pools lining or underway now, and
hopefully they'll be able to restore that pool's original beauty
once again, and maybe keep a little closer eye on
who's hanging out and what they're tossing in the water.
(35:38):
If anything that's really disappointing. I'll be curious to see
how those cases pay out too. There have been charges
fouled and citations issued. We can only hope, we can
only hope. Oh, by the way, tomorrow, Yeah, I don't know. Yeah,
I'll do this right now. I've got a minute. Speaking
of Father's Day, the New York Times printed and op
(36:01):
ed piece presented in comic strip style that sang the
praises of transgender women living as men on Father's Day.
I found that to be pretty bad timing on the
part of The Times, as did social media all over
the country. The left just keeps trying, but the right
keeps pushing back a little harder and a little harder. Finally,
(36:21):
more people are willing to speak up. James Talerico's prime
example of uber liberalism, so much those that even Jasmine Crockett,
Even Jasmine Crockett is saying, you know, I lost to
him in the primary, and yeah, no, I can't support
that dude. That's going to covers for today. I'll be
(36:43):
back tomorrow. Thank you all for listening. Audios
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