Losing Pounds

Today, Doug Pike discusses losing pounds, local elections, and movies.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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how's it going today? Well, this show is all about you,

(00:22):
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Speaker 2 (00:45):
All right, if we go Tuesday issue. The program starts
right now. I hope I say something during the show
that it just makes you think, a little bit, makes
you smile, a little bit makes you cringe a little bit.
I don't know. There's no telling what the thing I've
got on the board today, I could run this race
in about a nine or ten different directions pretty day. Outside.

(01:08):
We could start with that something of a preamble, I
guess to several more as we warm back into the
mid eighties. Okay, that's for just a few days, and
after that we're gonna catch another cool front. And this
is all gonna happen within five days or so maybe yeah,
five or six around the weekend, probably Saturday evening. I

(01:31):
think it is. We're gonna get another nice, sharp cool
front that's gonna drop temperatures about fifteen eighteen degrees somewhere
in there. It'll feel like it did a few days
ago when we really caught the big part of that thing.
I woke up. I usually set the thermostat in the
upstairs of the house. That's where the snorers quarters are.

(01:53):
That's very convenient, the upstairs snoring quarters. I set it
around seventy two something like that. At night. That's cool
enough to keep me comfortable. When I was a younger guy,
I could put it on sixty five and feel just fine.
Had had the sheet pulled up over one ankle and
just they're in my skivies, pajamas, whatever, and would be

(02:17):
perfectly fine. Because my body was a furnace. I had
a metabolism. I had the metabolism of a teenager well
into my late twenties and early thirties. Couldn't gain weight
to save my soul. Thought I was going to be
blessed with that issue for life. This is going to
be great. But I've cured myself of that now and

(02:39):
have no problem gaining a pound or two or three
if I'm not careful. Sometimes more than others. When you
reach our age, I think you're there should be a
generous amount of skip days. Whether it's now skipping exercise
probably not a good idea, but skipping that tiny little
portion and all healthy foods. Like doctor John Higgins likes

(03:04):
to talk about that colorful plate, fresh vegetables, fresh, this
fresh that. Every now and then I just gotta pop
the top on a pint of cookie dough ice cream,
and I typically won't eat the entire thing within with
it one sitting, but two sittings it's gone. I can't.

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That's just two cups, and that's not a lot. And again,
back in the day, it was not uncommon for me
to come home from the store with a bag of
Chipsyhoy cookies and sit there on the couch and whilst
watching one or two television shows before I finally decided

(03:47):
it was time to go to bed, just knock back
the whole bag that was my late evening snack after
eating a decent dinner and lunch and breakfast and a
couple of snacks in between. Those worthy days. Indeed, and
I hope. I know some fellas about my age who
still haven't yet gained much weight. It's not like I

(04:12):
gave weigh five hundred pounds, but I'm probably I would
be more comfortable if I could lose about fifteen or eighteen.
Maybe maybe I'll talk to somebody around here about getting
me on one of those weight loss programs and see
what I can do. That would suit me just fine.
I don't even know that i'd want to get paid
for it. I think the reward would be the loss
of the weight and in turn probably a little bit

(04:34):
better health. I don't feel like I'm in bad shape
right now, but I know I've been in better shape
moving out of the weather, which is going to be
just fine. There's no rain all the way through the weekend,
so I don't know when we'll get the next of that,
but it is going to be a little bit warmer
for a few days. Your AC might come on at

(04:54):
night and almost certainly will be on for a good
part of the afternoon. You're unless you're really into eighty
degrees in the house, which it could be. Markets opened
red and have stayed red since the bell not quite
as bad as overall from jump this morning, all four
of the indicators I look at were pretty significantly down

(05:16):
a point and a half, and that had me wondering
how it was going to turn out. Now. The good
news is apparently they weren't quite down enough to trigger
some of that algorithmic buying that we see all the time.
Oil was down a little bit too. I think either
right at or just a hair below seventy dollars into

(05:38):
the sixties again, which is or not? I think it
actually it may have been six, might have been sixty dollars.
I think it was will I'll check that during the break,
and I don't want to be off by ten bucks.
I think it might have been in the low sixties.
Not really sure. Anyway, Gold lost about thirty bucks. I
remember that very distinctly. It fell below four thousand dollars

(05:58):
an ounce again and quite a bit like what we
were what we talked about last week with with Brad
Schweiss from out of Houston Gold Exchange. There are a
lot of factors that can move gold and its value,
same with all the other precious metals. But the one
thing that's been true forever is that if you buy

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gold and you hang on to it, it's going to
be worth probably a lot more than you paid for it,
and in a relatively short time. I think it at
least mirrors some of the best other options in investment,
and on the right run, it comes up pretty quickly.
It's been I want to say, maybe two years since

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gold was hanging around twenty three, twenty four, twenty five
hundred dollars an ounce, and a little while back was
that about what was it, forty two hundred something like that.
Now it's down again, like I said, below four thousand,
but even at thirty nine fifty, that's a whole lot
more than the twenty four hundred it was a couple

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of years ago, and even many times more than what
I paid for the gold that I have around the house,
little things that I used to wear, my wife used
to wear that we don't anymore. It doesn't amount to anything. Really,
don't bother breaking in and trying to find our gold stash,
because there is not one. The bottom line is, back then,

(07:24):
when I started buying it, thinking that was a cool
hip disco guy, it was around three hundred bucks an ounce,
and that was a lot then, but it's not now.
All right, Let's go ahead and take this first break
of the program. On the way out, I'll tee it
up with UT Institute, the University of Texas Institute on Aging,
UT Health Institute on Aging. That's the whole name, and

(07:45):
what that is is a collaborative of more than a
thousand providers who are specially trained. Now this is training.
They go ahead and get on their own, after they've
got the diploma on the wall, after they've maybe been
in practice ten, fifteen, twenty years, and they thought, you know,
I'm going to be a senior someday, and maybe it'd
be a good idea to learn more about seniors because

(08:07):
there's sure seemed to be a lot of them coming
through my clinic, my office, my hospital, my whatever. And
that's what they did. They went back on their own
and found out how to apply their specific world of knowledge,
whether that's your eyes, your lungs, your your blood, anything
to seniors, specifically to seniors. It's a fantastic thing that

(08:27):
we have here in Houston that's unavailable in all but
maybe a handful of places around the rest of the country.
In ours, it's centered in the med center, as you
might imagine, and a lot of these providers also come
and work in outlying areas. So you and I and
anybody who is hesitant to drive into the medical center
for whatever reason doesn't have to. Their support, their knowledge,

(08:52):
their help for you is available out close to where
you live. Somebody who can fix whatever's broken on you
is out there close to where you live. Go to
the website uth dot edu slash aging. Look around first
at all the resources that are available for nothing, and
then look start looking for a provider who you can

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see out close to home if that's where you want
to do it. Ut Health Institute on Aging uth dot
edu slash aging ut dot edu slash aging.

Speaker 1 (09:24):
What's life without a net? If I suggest you go
to bed, sleep it off, just wait until the show's over. Sleepy.
Back to Doug Pike, as fifty plus continues.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
Hey, welcome back, Thanks for listening. Certainly do appreciate it.
Let me put this over here, let me put that
over there. That over there. It is, as most of
you probably know, election day around here and around the country.
Not a major election, not even a congressional midterm. But
there are several important things in play locally, and certainly

(09:55):
some actually much bigger things in play here there, everywhere
around the country, a lot of things I'd like to
unpack here of it. I think I'll stay off of
just being specific about anything local here if you haven't.
And the reason I say that is because I don't.

(10:18):
I don't care how you vote. I don't care whose
side you play on. It's really not my business. But
what I will do is just ask you to get
to your polling place, stand in there and pull the
little curtain around you or however you're doing it at
your place, and then read what's there and know what

(10:40):
you're voting for or against. Again, it's not my It's
not my job to tell you who to vote for.
My job is to make sure that you do it,
because that's one of the most important things we've got
in this country still, and if we don't take advantage
of that we have, we I don't know what will
happen to this country. Well, the one thing I will

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talk about is there is on our ballot here a
requirement state constitution for the voting to be done by
all US citizens. And nothing in our country is really
any more important than making sure only citizens are allowed
to vote in national elections. I just can't imagine how

(11:21):
the left is so free wheeling with the vote in
the United States, except for the fact that they have
invested so many, many millions and billions and trillions of
dollars over the last twenty years or so into getting
all these people here, thinking that it would just be

(11:42):
a walk in the park to have a Democrat Congress,
a Democrat president, and Democrats all up and down the
bench and just say, yeah, oh yeah, let everybody vote.
Anybody who's here can vote. If you've been here an
hour and a half, you get a vote. Been here
twenty five, thirty, forty years vote. Maybe who knows, maybe

(12:02):
they can change it up in the future to where
if you're a really good person you get two votes.
How about if you're a taxpayer. I think that's where
voting ought to kind of kick in the age of
somebody doesn't necessarily mean that they have knowledge of what's
coming to them. Well, yeah, actually it does, because if

(12:26):
you're young and there's actually there was somebody I don't
remember exactly where it was. I heard a couple of
days ago about a push by somebody on the left
to give sixteen year olds the right to vote. At teenagers.
Think about the teenager since time began have all been
pretty rebellious and just grossly uninformed when it comes to

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who should lead anywhere in politics a city of state,
a nation of county, whatever. And they just flat don't know.
They don't understand that when when they're told they'll get
something for free if they vote for somebody, that there
is no such thing as something free. The only way
you can get something is if somebody else pays for it,

(13:09):
unless you pay for it for yourself. And that doesn't
happen a lot on with young people they're accustomed, especially
this last generation, or so I think Will's may may
have been the last generation that really learned about a
little bit about money before they were in a position
to earn it and respect it and know how to

(13:30):
hang on to it. These youngsters today just think money
falls from the sky because a lot of parents are
very quick to just say, oh, sure, yeah, I don't
want you to do with that. I want you to
have more than I had growing up. But when I
think about how I grew up, I grew up in
a very modest household. My dad didn't make a ton

(13:53):
of money. We didn't have fancy anything unless somebody gave
it to us as a gift, but we got fed.
We had a roof over our heads. We had an
air conditioner, which was pretty fancy really back in the sixties.
It's a long time ago. Now, Holy cow. We had

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the first change of climate other than opening and closing
windows in our house was a single little window unit
back in the cracker barrel sized den that we had,
And if you weren't in that room or the kitchen
which was adjacent to that, this was kind of a
breakfast room area. Actually not the den. That was a

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different place. But if you weren't back there in that
breakfast room or in the kitchen on an August afternoon,
you weren't going to be very comfortable. Now, we were
able to move some of that cold air all the
way through the house, a little bit of it by
cracking windows in the other rooms and letting the air

(14:56):
go out that way. It would come in through the
air conditioner and then go out of those other windows.
So it wasn't just unbearable, but as many or more
people in our neighborhood who didn't have any air conditioning
at all when I was a little bitty kid, that's
a tough way to grow up. Guarantee you back to voting.
Now that voting is underway in New York City has

(15:19):
been for the better part of what six seven hours. Now,
stories are popping up already in regard to just how
many dollars were poured into Mom Donnie's campaign and how
his concurrent rise to stardom within that Muslim community happened.
The Council on Islamic American Relations was his biggest backer apparently,

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and I mean in chunks I read this morning actually
that Muslims all over the country were strongly encouraged to
support him, both verbally and financially, and him and his
particular takeover which is about to happen. I think of
New York City. It's still not done, but I don't

(16:03):
see anyway when uh the with three candidates, two of
whom had kind of equally smaller followings, and then one
Mom Donnie, who who was raking it in because he
was all over television, all over Mediah. He found his

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way in and he's a he's a slick guy, he
really is. He he spends a good yarn. He reminds
me quite a bit actually of Gavin Noosom out there
in California. And UH once he's in. Once that's done,
he's already said he's gonna turn it into a socialist
city city. There's gonna be there's gonna be city grocery

(16:45):
stores city. This city that had free bus passes for everybody,
and as I mentioned a little while ago, nothing's free.
Somebody's got to pay for it. And already the mass
exit of exit of New York is pretty close to
getting kicked off. I'd say a little bit after he's
sworn in, he's gonna have to start dealing with a

(17:07):
lot of stuff he didn't want to deal with and
didn't think what happened so fast. But when he talks
about making all these changes and making it free to
do whatever you want to do to get around the
city down there, he's going to also, I'm pretty sure
he'll make a swing it getting rid of the police
and starting to send social workers into subways where some

(17:30):
nut jobs swinging knives at people. And those social workers
aren't going to want to go down there either because
they know, dog on well, there won't be police to
come back them up. There won't be some police to
keep them safe. And if you can't keep the peacemakers safe,
who wants to be a peacemaker. I don't want to
walk in and try to get some guy to have

(17:52):
a seat over on the bench and get in touch
with his feelings and share them with me, and then
let me share some ideas that might make his life
a little bit better right now. Sometimes people just need
to go to jail before they hurt somebody or kill somebody.
And boy, I hope New Yorkers know what they're doing,
but I don't think they do all right. Time for

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a break. Let's take a pause here of good. Let
me tell you about Berry Hill. Berry Hill is the
restaurant my wife and I found out in Sugarland, all
fifty nine at Sugar Creek Boulevard in bound side. Can't
miss it. We found it probably thirty years ago, maybe
twenty nine, I can't remember exactly, but ever since then,

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every chance we get we wind up grabbing something from
there or sitting around there. We used to take our
son in there a long time before he got his
own wheels and started running around and eating dinner with
his buddies. Berry Hill has the best fish tacos I've
ever eaten. I hesitate to use superlatives, but they are
They're the best fish tacos I've ever had. They're seafood enchilada,

(18:58):
probably the best I've ever had. There's one that I
can think of that might run a close second, but
I Bury Hill not only is good, but it's convenient too. Now,
the two cooks in the kitchen who have been there most,
they have the most seniority. The two who have done
most of the cooking each have more than ten years
experience in that kitchen. They know their way around, and

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they put their own little personal twists on some of
these some of these items, some of these recipes so
that they are unique to Berry Hill. It's still very
traditional tex Mechs food, but with just little subtle twists
that be oh wow. I didn't realize this could take
so good, but it does taste good, and it has

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for thirty plus years. They'll cater all over town. By
the way, if you've got a big, swinky party, you
need to throw for a lot of people. They've entertained
us here and brought food for as many as forty
fifty people. And everything that was supposed to be hot
was hot. Everything's supposed to be cold was cold. You
can do that, or you can just go in there,
and boy, the outdoor dining for these next few weeks,

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maybe a month and a half or so, is going
to be just outstanding, really mild temperatures. And then inside,
of course, you've got a family area with tables and booths,
and then you've got the sports bar area to the
other side of it, and a few private rooms back
in the back too. Berryhillsugarland dot com. Trust me, if
you go there, you will be glad you found it.

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Berryhillsugarland dot com.

Speaker 1 (20:27):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash him, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 2 (20:38):
Come back. Thank you for listening to fifty plus today
on this beautiful Tuesday, it is nice outside. Let's go
to the movie, shall we. Well, actually, if we go
to the movies, we might be the only ones in
the theater. According to what I read this morning, the
movie industry took a huge hit in October. They had

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ten big soon to be blockbusters that were released throughout
the month, and according to what I read, only one
of them was a modest success, and only that was
black Phone two. Whatever? Do you know what that's about?
Will thumbs up? Thumbs down? Have you heard of black

(21:22):
Phone two? The movie? Okay? Is it good? Or do
you know? You don't know? So here's the deal. Black
Phone two was rated as a modest success in this
particular piece. The rest of the nine ranged from flop
to flop, no other designation, not kind of successful, not

(21:46):
yeah they made a few bucks. Not blockbusters, certainly there
were none of those. They've all nine flops and a
modest success. It was all that Hollywood could muster for
the month of our October. That's a lot of major investments,
a whole lot of really big investment into what if

(22:10):
they're lucky. If they're lucky, they might make their money back,
if the theaters will hang on to them, these producers
and all these other people who are big wigs in Hollywood,
they might break even on some of them. Hollywood has
developed over the last I don't know, ten to fifteen years,
whatever kind of a habit, a bad habit of resurrecting

(22:35):
old titles that made a few bucks and getting somebody
new or maybe bringing back the same people, even to
write a sequel to the sequel to the sequel to
the sequel, Fast and the Furious comes to mind. How
many of those are there now? Like eight or nine? Will, yeah,
almost ten, And honestly, I never saw one of them

(22:58):
that Just as much as I like driving fast when
I was young, as many times as I've been in
and around fast cars and other vehicles, that really never
appealed to me because I knew it was all it
was all Hollywood. And to some degree, I like the
The Thriller, well, not the Throwers, but the action movies,

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whether it's cars or boats or airplanes or whatever. The
Mission Impossible stories are pretty good, and they have really
interesting and complex stunts. And to give Tom Cruise credit,
he does all his stunt stuff. But this bunch of
garbage kind of that's coming out of Hollywood now, I

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don't know how long anybody's gonna support that stuff. Even
the kids movies have been so twisted and so messed
up now with subplots and things that kids don't really
need to understand at three, four, five, six, seven, eight
years old. There's just no reason for that. And with

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all the stuff we can see on TV now, big
old screens at the house for next to nothing to
watch them on going to the theater, to walk down
a sticky aisle, to sit in a sticky seat, and
pay thirty dollars for a small soft drink in a
smaller bag of popcorn. It's no wonder those people are hurting. Man,

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I haven't been to a movie in at least ten years.
I've watched a bunch on TV. Well, I can't say
that I don't watch many movies on TV, but I
have watched some. And the next time I watch a
movie from start to finish will probably be the first
time in fifteen years. I'm getting older. Sometimes I got

(24:46):
to get up and leave the room for a few minutes,
and I don't even I haven't even bothered to try
to learn how to pause a movie on TV. That's
something you can do with the click of a button, right,
will you can just pause something? Yeah, you're gonna have
to teach me how to do that because I don't know.
And by the way, I've got to get the people
who handle my video delivery to the house, the TVs

(25:09):
and the movies and TV shows and movies and all
of that stuff. I need to get them back out
there because the remote that I'm using right now I
think is something like fourteen or fifteen years old. And
the machinery down there, the box, if you will, is
as old and it has features on it that I've

(25:30):
never even awakened. So yeah, call me old, I'll take it.
And I'm a little behind the times on some of
that technology, but I see what I want to see.
And I'm the only person in the house who even
watches TV. In let's go to something fun. Oh, this
is something everybody's looking for, a side hustle. Everybody's looking

(25:53):
for a way to make money other than their jobs. Sometimes,
well not everybody, but most people in this country probably
are thinking, you know, if I could just make a
few bucks on the side, let's do it.

Speaker 1 (26:04):
Well.

Speaker 2 (26:04):
I don't know what the laws are in New York
City about air pollution, but there are some people who
are kind of cutely I think is a good word
being called street snitches. And what they've done is raked
in close to a million dollars apiece now from that

(26:27):
city by recording videos of idling trucks and buses spewing
out air pollution. Wouldn't take you long on the freeway
in Houston. It wouldn't take you long pretty much anywhere
in Houston to come across a vehicle idling at a

(26:50):
red light, or maybe running down the highway, or maybe
who knows where school buses. I wonder if school buses
fall into that category. There's a bunch of them that
bark out some pretty ugly smoke. Sometimes people have made
a million dollars apiece from the city suing them over

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those horrible busses and trucks s viewing air pollution. Think
about that. That's not a not a bad way to go.
Flip flop on that factory worker in Russia. I love
this being sued by his company rightfully so, I think
because he mistakenly somehow received all his co worker's paychecks

(27:36):
into his account, into his bank account. They just automatic deposit, right,
you'd sign up and you do all that. Well, somehow
his number, his account number was, became the default number
for everybody in the company, and he got all their
paychecks added up. I don't know what they're doing and
that for how long You would think it would be

(27:58):
more money, but it added up to a eighty seven
thousand US dollars and he's refusing to return the money.
I don't think he has a leg to stand on, frankly,
but it's still I like the way he thinks, you know.
Come take it away from me. Let's burn up a
little time in court. I got nothing to do, and
I got eighty seven grand in the bank. I'll use
that to pay him legal expenses. And then when you

(28:20):
come back for that money, it'll be gone and might
lose his job over, I would say, so, time to blow,
will time to go. Let's go country boys, roofing. I
love talking about John Eiman and what he does for people,
especially this time of year when it's a little slow.
This is a perfect time in the roofing business to
get somebody to your house. Let them check your roof

(28:41):
and make sure that it's going to be ready for
another year, two years, three years. They get up on
there this time of year and they'll locate things that
you can't possibly see from the ground, maybe around your chimney,
maybe around a dormer window, someplace up there in the
shadows and you can't quite see it from the ground.
But if there's something wrong with that reef for years,

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they'll find it and they'll bring down pictures. They'll show
you what they found. They'll tell you what it's going
to cost to get it fixed, how long it's going
to take, and whether or not. And with small stuff,
a lot of times they've got on the truck what
they need to fix that little problem before it becomes
a big problem next year when the rainy season gets
here and everybody's calling roofers because they didn't get it

(29:23):
done in the wintertime. Do it now, Do it now.
If you do need something small done, they'll do it,
like I said, sometimes same day, probably at least by
the next day because they're not terribly busy this time
of year. And then coming up if you do need
a full replacement roof. I've been talking about this for
a while now, and I love doing it. If you

(29:44):
are a first responder, if you are an educator, if
you are past or present military, then he will give
you a fifteen hundred dollars discount off a full roof replacement.
That's pretty dog on good. If you are none of those,
if you don't fit into an any of those categories,
just drop my name and he'll give you one thousand

(30:04):
bucks off that price. And you can wait till he
shows you the price to ask him. He's not trying
to trick you here. He's gonna give you that full
discount whatever it is you qualify for, and he's happy
to do it because he knows how important you and
everybody like you are to our society. First responders, military educators,
very important people. As far as I'm concerned, and as

(30:26):
far as John Eiman's concerned. Countryboysroofing dot Com is website
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Speaker 1 (30:44):
Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 2 (30:49):
All right, welcome back. Fourth and final segment of the
program starts righting.

Speaker 1 (30:52):
Now.

Speaker 2 (30:53):
I've got some good stuff, some funny stuff, some weird stuff.
I will start with something that bothered me tremendously. There's
this judge District Judge, US District Judge Colleen Koller Kutelli
who said not that long ago that US Election Assistants

(31:15):
Commission officials she just declared, are prohibited from updating the
federal voter registration for him to require proof of US citizenship.
Who is she that where she is to just throw
that out there. What she's trying to do is pretty
clear what American, especially a judge, would say or write

(31:36):
or order such a thing. I'll tell you who. She's
one that was maybe on that bench now thanks to
former President Bill Clinton who put her there all the
way back in nineteen eighty four, thirty one years ago,
thirty one years ago, thirty one or forty one, it's
a long time. I know that maybe forty one might

(31:57):
be one hundred and one. I don't know. She seems
somewhat out of touch with where this country tends to
want to go right now, though maybe she's just waiting
for her chance to make national headlines. I don't know
she did, though she certainly did. She got on social
media and I've never seen her name before. And that's
a long time to be on the bench and not
being national news when all these other judges are doing

(32:18):
crazy stuff and get getting notoriety for it. If you're
not let yet convinced that the left doesn't just disagree
with conservative values, know that yet another person from that
side has wished via a voicemail that's been corroborated and
confirmed true so far as I know. You know what,

(32:40):
I'm gonna wait. I don't this is this is not
how I work. I'm gonna go ahead. I'm gonna find
a second a second source of corroboration to make sure
that this is real before I say what she is
alleged to have said. It comes from a credible source.
But I'm just I'm always hesitant to say something that

(33:00):
may not be true. I try to get it, try
to get it right. So I'm gonna leave that one
alone for a little bit. I'll put a little star
over it here, and I'll go back and look around,
and maybe i'll tell you tomorrow what she said. It
was very disturbing. Anyway. I told Will during the break
that there was some woman somewhere. She's twenty seven years
old and was arrested after she went to the police,

(33:24):
claiming that it's kind of old news. She's not the
first to do this, claiming she'd found a needle in
candy that was collected during trigg or treating. Well, it
turns out she made the whole thing up and even
put the needle in the bag. I kind of hope
that's a felony. It should be because Halloween has gotten

(33:46):
a bad rap ever since that pixie stick thing back
when we were much younger and still probably trigger treating. Ah,
that's horrible. Two things about food that are worth talking about,
neither of which should sell any but somebody will buy it.
Oreo selling a tent of Thanksgiving cookies that taste like

(34:10):
turkey and stuffing. These are oreos. Now. Sweet potatoes that
might work, creamed corn oreos, Cranberry sauce oreos. I'd eat
one of those, and then the two that might help
them at least keep this thing from losing money. Pumpkin

(34:30):
pie and caramel apple pie oreos. You get a wopp
in twelve cookies. These are oreos.

Speaker 1 (34:39):
Now.

Speaker 2 (34:39):
These aren't those big giant kind you get in a restaurant.
These are oreos. You get a dozen of them for
twenty bucks plus shipping, so two dollars a cookie for
something about the size of a poker chip. And by
the way, I noticed the other day, maybe it's just me,
but I'm very confident when I say this. I haven't

(35:03):
looked at an oreo in a long time to judge,
but my wife likes fig newtons and I do too,
and I am one hundred percent certain that the fig
Newtons that we're buying today are not nearly as big
as the fig Newtons that we could have bought maybe
five ten years ago, let's just call it before the pandemic.

(35:23):
Have you noticed that in sizes and things going down
will not really maybe nothing yet nothing comes to mind.
I'll take that. I'll take that reaction as nothing comes
to mind. The other thing that I don't think ought
to sell even one of, but because it's going on
at a what the writer called a fancy la grocery chain,

(35:46):
they are now offering up boy, this makes Whole Foods
look like just a one of Mom Donnie's New City
grocery stores. They are selling a toothpaste smoothie. They partnered
with some upscale toothpaste Bremd. There's no actual toothpaste in it,
because that would not be good for you. It's just

(36:07):
the taste. It's just something They just threw some mint
into a vanilla smoothie probably and made it taste like toothpaste.
A toothpaste they sell, it, says here in the story,
and that I don't care if they were giving them
away on a street corner, a law and wrapped them
in one hundred dollars bills. I wouldn't stop the car

(36:28):
to go get one. I don't understand why people get
sucked into stuff like this. It's just this fear of
missing out that we've all, no, not all of us,
that some mostly younger people have developed. Oh well, they
have holes in their genes. We need jeans with holes
in them. They have muddied sneakers for seven hundred and

(36:49):
fifty dollars a pair. Everybody's got them. We got to
have them. And the truth is that nobody with a
brain needs stuff that looks torn up, needs stuff that
just doesn't make sense, and we're just kind of wrapped
up in it. I'll give you some good news on
the way out. One is good news for two people.

(37:12):
The rest is good news for most of us. The
two people actually three brothers in California. Excuse me, I
thought there were just two of them. They found an
original Superman comic book in mom's attic and the estimated
selling price six million dollars. Congratulations, boys, I got to

(37:34):
get back up in my attic. Well, there may be
something in there. I don't know. Good news is new
study shows that seniors who listen to music just very
well may slash their dementia risk by more than a third.
Since I don't want to coax anybody, though, I'm not
going to tell you can't listen to everything Barry maneow
Alice Cooper, Zac Brown, Cardi B. Doesn't matter. Just listen
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