Lost in the Woods

Today, Doug Pike discusses being lost in the woods, fishing, and waitstaff.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Remember when it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
because you were the TV remote. Remember when music sounded
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey, John, how's it going today? Well, this show is
all about you.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike. Helpful information on
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Speaker 2 (00:42):
And now fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, here
we go. Thank you for listening this morning, this afternoon. Ah,
it's just that fine fine line. Will I mess it
up once a week or so? Maybe not that often anymore,
but I did then maybe one? No start keeping score.

(01:03):
Just scratch it into the console over there somewhere. All right.
You can borrow my knife if you want to use
that to be fine. Won't be a problem anyway. Welcome
to this Wednesday before Memorial Day weekend, three days, maybe four.
If you're willing to burn a vacation day or a
personal day. Well, what's the difference between a vacation day

(01:24):
and a personal day? Do you know? I don't know
why even why don't they just say okay, and you
can have one more day. Just add one three weeks
and a day and they're all vacation days. It really
doesn't matter. And there's something else. There's like a service
day or something like that, right, don't we get that too,

(01:44):
a service day? Yeah, Like, if you're going to go
volunteer for something, maybe maybe you do. I don't volunteer
to go fishing. I could do that. I wouldn't have
a problem with that at all. In fact, I'm plotting
and planning a trip down to Corpus to fish with
my buddy Cliff Webb, and I talked to him yesterday
and he basically just said, look, wait for the wind

(02:06):
to stop blowing and get into June. We've got to
get into June's that's become the months to be down there.
The wind starts to settle down a little bit. He said.
Right now, it's just ugly down there, and I don't
want to go all the way down there and just
sit and watch the surf be ugly all day. I
might just borrow one of his boards. I'd go surfing

(02:28):
for a little while. If I can remember how it's
been a hot minute, I'll confess, but boy, there was
about a good thirty year stretch of my life that
if there were waves, I was going so anyway on
this weekend. And this will be much easier for the
fifty plus audience probably than for younger folks. I'm gonna

(02:48):
ask all of you to pause for two, maybe three
minutes sometime between Friday morning and Monday night, Okay, to
just give thanks to the men and women who gave
their lives so that we can go boating or fishing,
or play golf, or go surfing, or play pickleball, or
cook something in the backyard, whatever we want to do.

(03:11):
Because for a couple of centuries now, brave Americans have
been fighting all around the world to maintain our freedoms
and those of other people who needed the help, and
a bunch of those soldiers didn't come back. They didn't
make it. A couple of minutes, that's all I'm asking,

(03:33):
and not a couple of seconds either. Don't just stand
in the backyard and look around and go, oh yeah, now, okay, one, two, three, Okay,
I'm done. No, that doesn't count. That is not enough.
Set a timer on your phone and just stand there quietly,
or maybe ask a couple more people to say just say, hey,
while we're all gathered here eating this barbecue, or while

(03:56):
we're all gathered here bowling or on the seventh tea
or whatever it is, hey, let's take a minute to
just think about the people who gave their lives so
we could do whatever silly thing we're doing. If you
want to do it right, say kind of a silent

(04:16):
thank you to the people in Arlington Cemetery, or maybe
the people in our own veterans cemetery right here in Houston.
That's not too much to ask. I don't think it
is anyway. So from the breaking news desk, by the way,
the Chronicle comes news that George Coolam, the founder of
the Texas Renaissance Festival, was actually found unfortunately dead in

(04:36):
his Grimes County home. Court battles over the sale of
that fair didn't go his way recently from what I read,
And no word yet officially on the cause of death
for the man who created that amazing annual event, but
I'm sure there will be news soon enough. He was
in some legal trouble. I don't know that he was

(05:00):
was any financial trouble. His estimated net worth at the
time that. I looked this up just a few minutes ago,
said to be around one hundred million dollars. But he
had a lawsuit that he didn't prevail in recently. Also,
I saw it the same site and he was on

(05:20):
the hook for about twenty three million dollars in legal
fees and whatever to the person who sued him. So
that's that's his story. I don't know much more. It's
all very fresh and new. But yeah, George Coolam dead
at his home in Grimes County, which is not that

(05:41):
far up the road really from the local tragedy desk. Yesterday,
two men you've probably already heard this story. It was
all over the news. Two men died, about three dozen
injured after a chemical league of hydrogen sulfide at the
PMX facility over in Deer Park. And then this morning,
just this morning, train slammed into a dump truck on

(06:02):
the tracks. I guess that's about the only place the
train would do that. The Channel eleven story on that
confirms that the driver of the truck was killed and
two people operating the train were injured in that fatal collision.
I hate to hear stuff like that, I really do.
Onto some good news. Thank goodness from the road trip desk.

(06:26):
This Memorial Day weekend is expected to offer up the
lowest gasoline prices in more than twenty years. I cannot wait.
I cannot wait. I'm telling you it's gonna happen. You
mark my words to hear how the Left is gonna
spend lower fuel prices to be somehow bad for our economy.

(06:50):
There's got to be a way, because they can't come
out and say, Wow, what a great thing that gas
prices are finally down to the lowest price in twenty years,
because that would be concession that they're not gonna give
an inch. They're not going to give a quarter of
an inch to the man who's sitting in the White House. Now,
it'll be interesting to see just in time for people

(07:11):
to fill up their trucks and SUVs and boats and
ATVs and even your lawnmower. I guess gas isn't gonna
cost as much. It's just not gonna cost as much.
And as a bonus, that means lower transportation costs on
everything we move around this country, which means lower prices
down the road, which pretty much means if you're keeping

(07:35):
score at home, that's a win win. Lower prices, lower
fuel prices, so we can drive around. It's cheaper to
drive to the store to pick up things that are
gonna cost less, and they should. If retailers are smart,
they're gonna find a way too, even if they don't
roll back prices two three, four years worth, If they'll

(07:57):
just do some little rollbacks just to show a just
to throw us a bone, there'll be a lot of
loyalty gained by some of these retailers who in the
end they're going to be exposed for having, in a
lot of cases, just raised prices because other people were
raising prices. I was listening to Michael Berry on the

(08:19):
way home yesterday and he said something about how there's
this mentality, well, if everybody's doing it, we can do
it too, and nobody's going to blame us for it.
When prices were being raised during the pandemic, because even
if some of these businesses and some of these retailers
and food establishments and whatnot really weren't having to eat

(08:42):
any costs higher than what they'd been accustomed to, if
somebody came in and said, man, your prices are higher,
all they had to do was say, yeah, you know,
the pandemic and then they were off the hook. Oh well, yeah,
well of course that's what it was. Well, sometimes it
wasn't that. Sometimes people do things because they want to

(09:02):
make a better profit margin. And I'm not knocking it,
but say that. You know, I got kids in school.
I gotta raising prices a little bit. I'm still gonna
give you the best service. I'm still gonna feed you
the best meal. I'm still gonna offer you the best products,
but they're just gonna cost a little more. And I hope,
I hope that my customer service and my attention to

(09:23):
detail will make it work for us. Time to break
will really, of course, could have said something, I'm just
sitting over here talking man, I'll go until you stop me,
and you just stop me. So we'll do that. We'll
take this break straight up, walk it out cold, not
as opposed to being what on the rocks. Maybe we're
gonna walk this one out neat. Those of you who

(09:44):
frequent bars know what that means. We'll take a little
break here, We'll be right back with more fifty plus
on AM nine fifty kp RC. What's life without a nap?
I suggest you go to bed, sleep it off.

Speaker 1 (09:56):
Just wait until the show's over. Sleepy back to day
Pike as fifty plus continues, Hi.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
Welcome back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening. Ten Soldiers Home.
What made you choose that will? It's out of curiosity.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
It's one of my favorite songs off Really Yeah for Real,
off of the Crosby Still Young.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
Indeed, I know it well. I think I may actually
have a cassette of that album at the house. It's possible.
But we may have ditched all our cassettes too, that's
quite possible as well.

Speaker 3 (10:29):
That song Cut my Hair love that one. Especially whenever
I'm getting ready to, you know, thinking about cutting my hair,
I say, I gotta let my freak flag fly, you know.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
Cases gotta just put it in the breeze. Will put
it in the breeze. So I got into the office
a little late. This morning. I went up to Fort
ben County Fairgrounds for the Senior Health Safety and Awareness Day,
and I actually I did meet a lot of interesting people.
I got there early because I can't sleep late anymore.

(11:04):
It's almost impossible for me to sleep past about six thirty,
and so I hung around the house for a little
while until my son left finally got his little truck
out of the driveway and got ready, and it was
still early for this. The event had a nine am start,

(11:24):
and so I was out there probably about eight thirty
by the time I stopped and grabbed something to eat
and just did what I had to do. I met
some pretty interesting people as I, as I said, sat
down at one of there was an area after the safety, health,
safety and awareness gathering. There's probably breaking out at about

(11:47):
one o'clock right after the event officially ends. There's going
to be a bingo game. It's all set up and
there's probably two hundred chairs and I bet they'll all
be full at one o'clock. I bet they'll start rolling numbers.
And in any event, I'm sitting there by myself. There
are half a dozen chairs to the left of me,

(12:08):
probably sixty, maybe fifty or forty, I don't know. A
lot to the other side of me, and then there's
six or eight rows like that. There's a lot of
seating in there. And a woman comes up and sits
directly across the table from me. Well like, okay, look

(12:29):
what the heck? I don't care, So I stand up
because a ladies come to the table and I said
how are you? And she said I'm fine. I said,
my name's Doug. How are you. I introduced myself, she
introduced herself. That was Oh, let me think, give me
a second.

Speaker 1 (12:46):
It was.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
It was I want to say, Barbara. I think that's it.
She sat down directly across from me. We strike up
this conversation. She's born and raised in Rosenberg, probably about
the same time I was growing up in Sharpstown. Very
interesting talking to her, and it turns out that she's
actually she was there just to be there, I believe.

(13:10):
I don't know that they had any sort of display
set up for her, but she mentioned that she is
of the part of the grandparent this foster grandparenting program.
That's fantastic. I've actually talked about it on fifty plus
here a few times over the years, and it just

(13:30):
kind of reminded me that I need to talk about
it again, and I'll do it right now. This is
an opportunity, if you will, where seniors share time with
children whose grandparents aren't around for one reason or another,
whatever that may be. And first of all, I thanked
her for being part of that program, and I told
her I'd mention it again. Today, which I just have foster.

(13:54):
I don't know the exact name of the program, but
that's what it is, is foster grandparenting. And if you
look that up on whatever search engine you used for
internet stuff, I'm pretty dog on sure that's where it's
going to show up at that interest you as a volunteer.
Please look it up and please get involved because just

(14:14):
think back to what I'm hoping was a wonderful relationship
you had with your grandparents, as I did with mine,
at very fond memories from a time I was very
small and right up until they're passing. So if you
have a chance to do that and maybe help a
kid who isn't able to do it with his actual
own flesh and blood grandparents, hey do it. I also

(14:38):
took time to visit with several of the vendors at
the show that verta health plans. I talked to them,
TRS Health promised Angel Perez an email today she's with
Divinity Hospice, Winona Jacobs with always Best Care. Miko Brunet,
Dan Bryce Soccer, Claudia Mullin. This is someone who does

(15:00):
you talk about, somebody who does the right thing something
most of us would have a really hard time doing.
She spends a bunch of her time waiting for an
important phone to ring. She's with the VA, she spends
a lot of time answering incoming calls to the VA's
suicide hotline. Troubles me deeply to know that almost two

(15:21):
dozen veterans take their lives every day, and for the
past four years, we pretty much ignored them as a nation,
while we threw money and healthcare and cell phones and
free food and free housing at people who weren't even
here legally, men and women who fought bad guys around
the world. I talked about it a minute ago when
I was talking about Memorial Day. They go out, they
fight bad guys halfway around the world, They get shot up,

(15:43):
they see their friends shot up, and a lot of
them come home with very serious emotional and mental issues,
enough so that twenty something of these heroes just can't
take it anymore. Every day. We didn't hear them, we
didn't listen to them. But Claudia does. She didn't say
much to me really about what she does, but I
could tell from talking to her that she saves lives

(16:07):
pretty much every day, the lives of people who served
our country the lives of people who put their lives
on the line so that we can do what we
want to do. Just like I mentioned earlier, the VA camp, Hope,
those places, those phone lines there are lifelines for people
who are really close to giving up, close to hanging up.

(16:28):
People who answer those phones, they're heroes, They're real heroes.
And Claudia, if you happen to be listening for some
reason and not talking to somebody else out there at
that show, thank you. Thank you for picking up that
phone and knowing what to say when you do that
would be hard. Well do you think you could do
a job like that now? Yeah, I'm not sure how

(16:50):
I want to say I could. But before I would
pick up the phone on an actual call, I would
want so much training because I would not be able
to live with myself if if what I said turned
out to be not enough, that would that would just

(17:11):
crush me because I would I would desperately want to
get it right. You only get one shot at that.
I mean, really, somebody calls and they're they're having a
really really hard time getting through the day. You got
to say the right thing and make sure they understand
that people do care about and make sure they understand
that people do want to help them. Make sure they

(17:32):
know where to find that help. If they need a
ride to that help, make sure they get one. God,
that would be hard. That would be so hard. All right,
moving on, let's let's lighten it up just a teeny bit.
I got about a minute and fifteen seconds before we
have to do something else. It's oh, by the way,
will it's National Weight Staff Day and just as good

(17:57):
measure at least today maybe tip a little better you
usually do? You want to know why? Because in a
big fat pole and man, they must be I don't know.
Have you ever been polled over the phone? Somebody calls
you and says can you answer ten questions real quick?

Speaker 3 (18:12):
Yeah, somebody's called. But I tell you though, Yeah, so
I don't want to be a part of their polls.

Speaker 2 (18:19):
They don't know who you are. Say my name? Well, okay,
let's move on. So anyway, here's why. In a poll
of servers, okay, at various restaurants all levels of service
in the food industry, fifty percent of those servers say

(18:40):
they have retaliated against a rude customer. Retaliation could be
a lot of things. It can mean bringing your food
out slowly. It can mean things you won't want to
think about really being done to your food back in
the kitchen. Well, you know what I think.

Speaker 3 (18:58):
If you're rude to wait staff, then you kind of deserve.

Speaker 1 (19:04):
You know.

Speaker 2 (19:05):
My wife and I went to dinner years ago with
two other couples and there were a very nice Mexican
restaurant out there in sugar Land, and there was one guy,
one guy among the eight of us two three, I
don't know the I think there were eight of us
at the table who was just rude and obnoxious and

(19:26):
he would kind of snap his fingers at the server
and whistle and just one of those guys, you know,
And I just I couldn't believe what I was seeing,
seeing I'd spent a lot of time as a bartender
when I was younger, and my wife actually waited tables
getting through college, and neither of us ever will be

(19:49):
mean or rude or whatever, because we know what it's
like we do. And I think it's just yeah, if
I see that happen in restaurants, if I'll stare at
that person until we make eye contact, and then I'll
give one of those looks that hey, you jack ass.
You just did something really mean to somebody who didn't

(20:10):
deserve it. I can guarantee you most servers based on
the experience I had, based on friends whose children have
done the same thing, hauled tables full of food to people,
cut them a little slack. They don't want to be
doing that job. That's not what they want to do

(20:30):
for the rest of their lives. They're doing it because
they need to, not because they have to. They're doing
it because they need to. I'm late again. Well you're
not gonna stop me. I'm gonna keep talking. You're gonna
like the song that I got coming up next. Okay,
well we got to get there first.

Speaker 3 (20:48):
Late.

Speaker 2 (20:48):
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little pain or a lot of pain, or you got
issues with maybe enlarged non cancerous prostate that's giving you
fits because the symptoms are so oh obnoxious and annoying,
they can fix that with one quick visit into their clinic.
They're vascular people, that's what they do. They work with

(21:08):
veins and arteries. They can plug them up, they can
open them up, they can increase blood flow, they can
shut off blood flow, and all of those things matter,
depending on what you've got. But whatever it is you've got,
that way, that can be worked on. That way. Doctor
Doe and his crew will take care of you. Usually
just a couple of hours in the office. You're gonna

(21:29):
need somebody to drive you home because you're gonna be
a little loopy from sedation if you need it. And
then after that you just get well at home and
you'll be back up and moving back up and hit
the ball three hundred yards and make it every put
you make and all of that good stuff. If you
have chronic pain, this is something else they do over there.

(21:50):
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getting better and better, better and better as the technology improves,
as the understanding of how it works improves, and a
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A latehealth dot com Go to their website. They do
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(22:14):
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Speaker 1 (22:31):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike. Hi, welcome back, Thanks for listening.
Certainly do appreciate it. How about that song, rambling man,
you will not today rambling anyway. I'm gonna be rambling

(22:54):
down to Corpus Christy soon, I really am. I gotta
get down there. I'm patiently waiting now for the wind
to at least for the forecast of when to be
inside about twelve miles from now twelve to fifteen. I
got places I could fish at fifteen. I don't have
a boat that.

Speaker 2 (23:11):
I'm going to drag down there, and I don't ever
like to ask Cliff to throw me in his boat,
whether he's with customers or not. If he's not with customers,
he likes to fish the surf as much as I do,
and it's a lot less I think he feels a
lot less pressure on him when he's fishing the surf,
even when he's fishing with somebody there's a handful of

(23:36):
guys he knows that are really good at doing that,
and they have a nice tight network of phone calls
to each other. And hopefully maybe there's a couple of
guys I might ask him for their numbers just in
case he does have to take a trip that day
where I can get in touch with him and see
where they're going, because if I'm going, I want to
guess some fish. We talked about Happy National Weight Staff Day,

(24:00):
and there's a little bit more to that one. By
the way, if you are if you're rude to servers,
you pretentious jerk, don't do that. I'm not kidding you.
These they don't want to you. Just try to understand.
And whatever makes you think that you're better than them
is probably the thing that makes you worse than them.

(24:23):
So anyway, an online poll, by the way, will found
thirty two percent of servers have eaten food off a
customer's plate. Did that ever even cross your mind? Now,
let them have a fryar five, let them eat cake.

Speaker 3 (24:37):
Huh?

Speaker 2 (24:38):
What is it a friar five? Yeah, eighty fry or
maybe five or five fries. I thought you were no,
never mind, I'm not going to go there. Twenty five
percent says here have had a relationship that I'll say
with a cook, what do you think of that? Works?

(25:01):
Workplace romances happen, you know, yeah they do, of course
they do. If you're working in that close a proximity
to somebody, you get to know him, maybe you get
a little twinkle in your eye, and stuff happens. Will
I'm gonna go with these three for you will not
so fast, party boy, write your own punchline? Or who

(25:24):
was that masked man? Who was that masked man? Some
guy in Montreal? Okay or motoll if you want to
hear it in French. It's just a funny answer to
who was that mask man?

Speaker 1 (25:35):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (25:35):
Just some guy? No, no, no, there's more. Just behind
Montreal did CPR on a man who was going down.
He did CPR on this guy for twenty minutes and
saved his life. And then the man who saved the
life just walked off. He just vanished and the family

(25:59):
is trying desperately to track him down to say thank you.
I see an opportunity for a bad guy to raise
his hands, say as me, what do you got and
try to get a fast reward out of that. Will,
that's the jaded side of me. I think. I don't

(26:20):
like to think like that, but it's hard not to
in this world. Sometimes it's hard. So anyway, that's that one.
I'll go back to some other stuff and then we'll
get back to some of these A little later. From
the Coast to Coast Desk comes word of a Georgia woman.
If you heard about her, will She went missing in
the California wilderness and was just out there for three

(26:43):
weeks and four days or three weeks in three days,
something like that. I have not heard this. Yeah, found
alive and tells this incredible tale of how she survived
on modest supplies and they were deleted pretty soon, and
there was a fall, I think, And there's a couple
of people in the news with this, and I think

(27:05):
this is this woman's story. Said something about having to
splint one leg and reset the knee and another after
a nasty fall. Well, she was found in a cabin
in the woods way out there that is intentionally left
open by its owner for just such an occasion, which
has never happened, by the way, until now. And I'm

(27:27):
truly glad this woman was found alive and rescued and
back with her family, And I really want to hear
the whole story of surviving for twenty four days alone
in the woods, eating whatever you can forage until she
finally got to that cabin and found a peanut butter

(27:50):
and jelly sandwich in there shortly before she was rescued.
Three weeks is a long time to be out in
the woods on your own, literally, no access to fire,
no access to a warm place to sleep until you
get to the cabin. It's just a I don't know.

(28:12):
I want to hear the full story of this one,
and it may be a while before it comes out,
but I really want to hear the full story on
this one. That's a long time. More to come on
that one, I'm almost certain will do you believe her story?
You haven't seen it, but from what I said, I
mean maybe three weeks and change all by yourself, I mean,

(28:34):
I think crazier things have happened, you know what. I
wonder if she found the cabin like two days in thought,
you know, I just need to reset. I'll just chill
here until somebody trips over me and can drive me
out of here. You know, honestly, I would almost find
that more believable than that she just wandered through the
woods and then found that place, like on the twenty

(28:56):
first day or whatever. Because if I were lost in
the woods and I found shelter and food, why would
I leave? Why would I leave? Will? I wouldn't, That's
the answer. I would sit there and wait. That's if
you get lost, you're not supposed to keep running around.
Just stay put and they'll they will find you. Ute's

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If you want to avoid sleeping on the couch.

Speaker 2 (31:18):
Okay, well do you think that sounds like a good plan?
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug. All right, welcome back.
Thanks for listening to fifty plus. I got that taken
care of already. I'm not gonna worry about that. What
was that will By the way, I'm not familiar with
that song. It's Bob doing oh well. That's why I

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was never a fan of Bob Dylan. And you know,
hate me if you want to, I don't care. Uh,
but no, it just it's very nasily. He's kind of
like the the New York City version of Willie Nelson.
I love Bob Dylan, do you really? Yeah? I got
the harmonica around his new Yeah, love it.

Speaker 3 (32:02):
You know, Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson are playing this
summer in the Woodlands.

Speaker 2 (32:08):
You're still alive? Yes, just checking. Yes, been a while,
been a while. I'll tell you who got himself in
trouble was Bruce Springsteen running over, running out of the country,
and then bad mouth in our country while he was away.
A lot of people came down very hard on him
for that was if that's all you needed, you know,

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he's given me plenty of reasons not to be really
stoked about him as well over the years. In the
Good News department, well a California dry cleaner, this is
one of the best stories to come out of California,
probably in five years. There's just this humble dry cleaner.
Unless he's born here to parents who immigrated here, his

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name is not one that would It's not like Bill Smith. Okay,
he has a name that hints that he is from
somewhere else, at least that his roots are. And it
doesn't matter where he's from, because what he's done is
come here living the American dream. He is succeeding because

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he's working hard. And so what he's doing at his
dry cleaning outfit or at dry cleaning store is allowing
free or offering free dry cleaning to anybody who wants
to come in there for clothes they're going to be
wearing headed straight to a job interview. The store's name

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l u Z Lose Cleaning in San Jose, California, and
the owner just said he just repaying his community for
success he's had and he wants to return the favor
through this act of kindness. Mostly the people who are
using this service of his are homeless people. They've got
some clothes they either found somewhere or got from a

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donation center. But you can imagine how not so clean
those clothes would be how not so sharp and snazzy
they'd look if they weren't cleaned properly. And this guy, Look,
if you need clean clothes to go to your job interview,
just pop on in, pop on in now. I suspect
that he would draw the line at people who are

(34:18):
trying to take advantage, and I would hope nobody would
do that anyway. Good for him, Good for him? From
the Oh, where do we want to go? Will? It's
such a there's so much that gets left behind. Most
of this You're probably gonna hear on Friday because I'm
not gonna have time to get to it. I've only
got what five minutes, four and a half, four and

(34:41):
a half. That's not bad. Actually, we can do quite
a bit on this, uh. From the Come sail Away
Desk by way of Fox News. This was from yesterday. Actually.
Chuck Schumer claimed on social media over the weekend that
President Trump was somehow to blame for that tall masted

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Mexican Navy ship crashing into the Brooklyn Bridge. That's absurd
at best, and and just borderline delusion. How on earth
could it be his fault that a foreign vessel slammed
into the bridge. It. It just seems to me like
there's nothing the Left won't say is somehow our president's fault.

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And the good part is that fewer and fewer people
are believing believing them when they try to divert attention
away from the horrible job they've done for the past
four years, and specifically in Congress. By the way, while
they ran it even longer. They they had control of
Congress for a whole long time. That's That's one thing
that came up yesterday when I was doing some researcher

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on something else. There's there's a theory being thrown around
that because the Left knew that President Biden was not
in the best cognitive shape, that some of them who
actually did want to crush the country and overflow it

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with illegal immigration and ultimately get those people the opportunity
to vote this, that, and the other. There's a question
now as to whether President Biden's record before he went
into decline shows that he would have been the likely
person to do something like that. And he's got a

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pass in which he talks about not wanting too many
immigrants in the country, and his Democratic predecessor, President Obama,
was known as the Deporter in chief. He booted a
lot of illegal immigrants out of this country, and I

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think Biden looked up to him, and he would have
advised Biden probably to do the same thing. But when
it came down to it, and when President Biden wasn't
really aware of what was going on, then somebody else
was running the show. And that brings me to this
big trouble desk where we get word now that the

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House Oversight Committee has figured out who was inching up
President Biden's auto pen while he was pretty much in
the midst of a very progressively worsening state of cognition.
Thousands of clemencies and pardons, even a fair number of
executive orders, all it turns out, signed with auto pens,

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and at least some and probably a lot of that stuff.
A lot of stuff was never even discussed with him.
I'd be willing to bet on it. Oversight Chair James
Comer has the names of the people who were doing it,
and somebody was instructing them to do that, and all
of those people can expect some pretty serious questions in
the very short term future. Back to you will write

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your own punchline, give it to good charity instead or
Sign of the Times, Sign of the time. That's the
short one, so we'll get into we'll get a two
for one here. The top amenity now at campgrounds added.
The amenity added in twenty four most often to campgrounds
was what we'll think about it? M showers. No, it's

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an old people thing. Think about it. Oh starts with
a P and is with eckleball. Oh, pickleballs. Yeah, that's
keeping those some keeping those orthopedic surgeons in rolling in
the dough. Weddings are very expensive, it says here bride
to be's friend is shocked over a makeup artist who

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was gonna do the primping for the day for all
these brides. The bride and her bridesmaids. Guess how much
that makeup we're in the wrong job, will guess how
much that makeup artists wanted to charge one hundred and
twenty five thousand dollars. Either there's some really ugly women
or she's overcharged. That's it for today. Thanks for listening.

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