Milton is Heading to Florida

Today, Doug Pike discusses the hurricane heading toward Florida, candy rankings, and Vienna Sausages.  

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Well?

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Speaker 1 (01:36):
Report front end of October.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
That's where we are. Hard to believe we're already here. Honestly,
Christmas decorations are going to be in the hardware stores
before you know it. If they're not already, they're staged.
They still have the Halloween stuff up for another I
don't know, maybe another couple of days, but very quickly
they'll transition. They'll start sweeping the ghosts and goblins and

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skeletons and bats and witches over here, and bringing out
the reindeer and the Santa Claus and the gingerbread houses
and all that over there. So maybe I don't know
how long they work at night to gut the Halloween section.
And there really isn't much in the way of Thanksgiving

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decoration anymore. Thanksgiving has almost become kind of a It's
not a forgotten holiday. It certainly isn't. I don't think
it ever will be in this country, but it certainly
gets less attention than it has in the past because
it's not nearly so commercial as Halloween and Christmas. I
don't know many people who put a fifteen foot turkey

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inflatable turkey in their front yard, but that's kind of
what it is. Weather it's been pretty nice, Gonna get
progressively better this week, as well as the inevitability of
a fall and then winter eventually creep slowly our way.
No rain this week, by the way, highs in the eighties,

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overnight lows in the sixties for us. Actually, life is
pretty good weatherwise, at least elsewhere not so much uh
his and lows in haikup. Here we go will courtesy
of text Sinder Air Quality Specialists, because cleaner air is
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Speaker 1 (03:22):
You'll learn a lot. The poetry moment starts now. Are
you ready?

Speaker 3 (03:26):
Yes, this one's a little different. Will pray for Florida.
Two major storms are too much. We dodged a big one.
I mean, I agree, how much do you agree? The
middle line was way too clunky? I appreciate the two

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major storms are too much?

Speaker 1 (03:51):
Yeah that's clumsy. Yeah, in what way? Edit it?

Speaker 3 (03:56):
Will you? You're the one who wrote it? Yeah, you
can't even say it right? You're the one who has
you stumbled on your own words. I get that one.
I do that when I'm very emotional and choked up.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
Oh don't try and make me pity you or something.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
When I'm feeling for people who are in pain.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
I'm you can insensitive. Yeah, you can play the sympathy card.
It doesn't mean I'm gonna pick it up. You know,
I feel a number.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
I feel for the people. What are we doing?

Speaker 3 (04:33):
That's it's it's a it's a six, it's a six.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
I had a six point four?

Speaker 3 (04:41):
Can you go Can you go with that?

Speaker 1 (04:43):
Can you go to six point four?

Speaker 3 (04:44):
No? I can go with six sixth period. Put two
periods on top of each other and hollow them out
a little bit. It be sixty eight. That would be
a good score, but not today.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
Huh Nope. So you don't.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
Basically, what you're saying is you don't care about people
in Florida.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
That's not what I said. I I said I do
care about what I heard from Florida.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
That's what I heard.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
Just because you're right, a little hikup about the tragedy
that's going on to the state of Florida doesn't mean
I'm gonna give you extra points or something.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
All right, We'll move on from there.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
Sliding into the markets. As you may have heard on
the Fox News report just a minute ago, all four
of the indicators we're in the red this morning, and
I think all four are still that way. I'm not certainly,
I'm not terribly certain. Gold also down a few ticks,
but still last time I look north of twenty six
hundred dollars an ounce, which is really really good, and

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oil really really bad. All this tension over there in
the Middle East has caused the price of oil to
surge north of seventy seven dollars. I had a note
written from earlier today. It said up past seventy five dollars.
That's how long ago I wrote it. And now it's

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all the way up past seventy seven dollars a barrel,
and that is going to be felt within about a
week at the pump. If you're even close to half
a tank right now, I'd suggest going ahead and buying
gasoline today or tomorrow at worst, because it's going to
bounce back up to about gosh, I don't know, it's

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gonna be high. It's gonna be back high, and I'm
just disturbed by that, but we'll get past it. Getting
into the news center. Point got grilled this past week,
and Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick actually showed up and called
for the resignation of the company's CEO over the horrific
handling of our power restoration behind Hurricane Beryl. I get that,

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but I also had to agree this morning with Jimmy
Barrett over on kt RH when he wondered whether the
five members of the Public Utilities Commission who were appointed
by Governor Abbitt might also be held accountable. There's certainly
enough blame to go around, but I'm not certain how
those folks appointments work or whether they can be easily replaced.

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I'll tell you one thing, though, if they were let go,
I doubt seriously that the line for consideration as a
replacement would be very long. Nobody in their right mind
would want to sit in one of those seats right now.
I wouldn't want to be on that commission and have
people staring at.

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Me, especially now.

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Aged to Perfection This is fifty plus with DUG pike.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
Bi, Welcome back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening. Certainly
do appreciate it. Watching a magic trick during the break,
and an impressive one too, It doesn't Matter. Saw a
great story about some of the fallout from our immigration
crisis over the weekend. The story of a teacher in Pennsylvania,
a woman named Dana Smith, been teaching first graders for

(10:33):
more than sixteen years and enjoying it and doing a
fine job of it. I'm sure moving those kids from
eating the crayons to simple addition and subtraction to knowing
basic words, get a little start with some reading. I'm
sure I don't know what they teach first graders, It's

(10:53):
been a while since I was there. Bottom line is
a sudden inflow this past year or so of kids
from Haiti, and they could have been from anywhere in
the world. I'm not picking on one particular place, but
that's where the kids in her town in Pennsylvania are

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from which they are.

Speaker 1 (11:17):
Coming.

Speaker 3 (11:18):
That's where they come from, and they don't speak English,
but she's still charged with teaching them what needs to
be taught in the first grade in American schools. So
there are no translators available So what she's trying to
do is use an app on her phone to translate

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for her as she tries to speak to her American students,
and then have that same translation presented by the audio
app on her phone to the kids from Haiti. Just
miss Smith, just her app on the phone. That's the
only translates in brief chunks, which completely, she explains, delays

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and upsets the tempo of the classroom, and, as increasing
numbers of local parents point out, it makes it really
difficult for her to teach the kids who have lived
there all their lives. A number we don't hear in
stories about immigration is this one. Since two thousand and
twenty two, more than a half million school aged migrant

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kids brought into our country, dropped into our school systems
and resulting in significant overcrowding pretty much everywhere, very drastic
budget shortfalls all of a sudden, with no additional tax
revenues to offset them, all the frustrations, all the tensions

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that come with sometimes doubling classroom sizes with children who
don't speak our language. It's not the kids fault at all.
It's not their fault, not one bit. And I hope
that we can find some way to take care of
those kids, because they deserve that, but the way it's
being done is inexcusable, and that unless the numbers are
reduced dramatically, that influx is going to make it nearly

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impossible for American kids to receive a proper education as
they move into higher grades. It's somewhat similar to the
carrying capacity of land for wildlife. If there are ten
deer on a piece of property and there's exactly enough
food for ten deer, and you bring in four or

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five more deer, all fourteen or fifteen of them wind
up malnourished, no fault of their own, there's just not
enough food there for them, no fault of those kids.
There's just not enough resource available to teach them. And
that's very frustrating for me. It shouldn't happen. It shouldn't

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happen this country. It should happen in any country. But
in the last four years, our country has made some
very well not our country administration has made some very
bad decisions on what we should do with our border. Also,
I got an email from a listener this past weekend,
actually on my Outdoor show over on KBA ME who
just insists that the federal government's doing a bang up

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job of helping victims of Hurricane Helen, even though people
from all walks of life, people on the ground over there,
either working in the rescues and restoration of the place
or actually walking around trying to figure out what they
can salvage of their own lives after their homes were

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swept away in a river or whatever. There are just
simply too many reports of mismanagement from all over that
horribly broken piece of our country. They can't all be
dismissed as incorrect, as misinformation, the buzzword of the year,
buzzword of the decad misinformation. It's it's only misinformation if

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it's it can be proven such. And there's a lot
of times when that word's thrown out there to get
a story pulled down before everybody gets a really good
look at it. And there's a lot of that to
go around. I actually I found it especially troubling that
while Vice President Harris was very quick to unveil I

(15:27):
think it was like one hundred million dollar relief package
for North Carolina flood victims and landslide victims and wind damage.
All of that one hundred million dollars, she said, And
FEMA was thrown around seven hundred and fifty dollars checks
by the way, or at least you could reply for

(15:48):
them seven hundred and fifty bucks. Your whole house just
got swept under a bridge. Here's seven fifty start a
new life. Same week, same day as this last week,
the same administration promised one hundred and fifty seven million
dollars to Elebanon. She got slammed on social media for that.

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By the way, that whole bunch is just doing everything
it can. It seems like to choose America last, not first.
And I don't know how much longer we can we
can do that. I just don't think we can pick
up the tab for the rest of the world when
we ourselves have already run up an historic, horrible, untenable

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tab ourselves thirty something almost forty trillion dollars. If I'm
not mistaken, I think we have crossed the threshold of
our defense budget being higher than our interest payments on
that debt, to where now it costs more money just
to keep the doors open. And I don't know how

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much defense we're gonna be able to do. Just about
ready for a break let's take it shaw we on.

Speaker 1 (17:01):
The way out.

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Maybe more around here, I don't know.

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Speaker 1 (18:30):
Well, 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 Dougpike. Hi, welcome back to fifty plus.

Speaker 3 (18:58):
Thank you for listening on this Monday Day morning, first
of five days this week until the weekend. That should
come through with no rain, that should come through with
highs in the eighties and lows in the sixties, and
that's going to be really really, really really nice all
the way from HM, I don't know if I want

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to go here, I want to go We'll jump back in.
Let's go, let's lighten the mood. Just a tad, just
a tad roll on no Way or almost canned over cans.

Speaker 1 (19:32):
No Way.

Speaker 3 (19:34):
Candy supplier put out a comprehensive list of the top
selling Halloween candies over the past seventeen years. Which you've
seen that before, right, I mean every year around this
time comes out for the first time, though for the
first time in their analysis, Reese's Peanut butter Cups were
not number one. They still are at my house? What

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about your house?

Speaker 2 (20:00):
No?

Speaker 3 (20:00):
No, I mean they're good. What's wrong? What can you
find wrong? Where can you find fault with a Reese's
Peanut butter cup of any any iteration of them?

Speaker 2 (20:10):
Okay, I mean I'm not saying that I do find
fault with them. I like a Reese's Peanut butter cup.
I personally though, for gummy candies.

Speaker 3 (20:22):
Gummies, well, well that's a whole different category.

Speaker 2 (20:27):
More of a gummy kind of guy. You what kind
of ice more of an ice cream kind of game?
What kind of gummies are you talking about? Because there
are the and then there's the grown up comes the
shark cons you know, the coke bottle comes, you know,
the star mixes, the bears, the worms, the ones you

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buy at a dispensary, or the ones you buy at
the grocery store.

Speaker 1 (20:55):
What are you?

Speaker 3 (20:56):
Are you a cop or something?

Speaker 2 (21:01):
Come on, I go to I go to my local confectuary.

Speaker 3 (21:08):
How do you say that we're confectioner confectionery?

Speaker 2 (21:11):
There we go. Yeah, knew what you meant confectionary. I
do that all the time. I can't buy myself a
boatload of sweets.

Speaker 3 (21:22):
So for all the money in the world and the camper,
what replaced Reese's is the number one candy and I
just I can't believe this.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
Really, you can't believe it. Yeah, it's gotta be twigs,
No milky Web, no almond Joy, no.

Speaker 1 (21:40):
Kit Cat.

Speaker 3 (21:40):
It's more basic than any of those eminems. Yeah, Eminem's
number one. That's that's plain vanilla. Just it's just chocolate
with a little candy on top of it. It's not
something delicious like chocolate and peanut butter. It's just chocolate
and all the flors, all the colors that they all

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taste the same. They're just eminems. And there are even
fake eminems out there.

Speaker 2 (22:06):
So they don't they don't even specify if it's maybe
no peanut peanut eminems. They have a cookie eminem. They
they do have peanut butter eminems. Well that aren't bad.

Speaker 3 (22:17):
Yeah, well we know what they're trying to be, don't we.
All Right, one more that was some that wasn't bad,
actually almost canned over cans come fly with me or
beyond bizarre.

Speaker 2 (22:31):
I'm gonna go with beyond bizarre.

Speaker 3 (22:34):
The bizarre part of this is that it even occurred,
that it even happened, that it even came to what
it came to picture a nursing home.

Speaker 1 (22:45):
Will Okay, okay.

Speaker 3 (22:47):
These are these are elderly people. Primarily they are not
exactly athletic at that stage in their lives. I think
that's reasonable and fair to say. But at an a
nursing home in Georgia, an argument ensued over who stole

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this was at dinner time or lunchtime, I don't know,
but someone accused someone else in that place of stealing
the Vienna sausages and the Vina sausages. I'm just reading it, man,
I'm not making this up. I don't think I could
have made that up, stealing the Vienna sausages at this

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nursing home, and it ended with one man being stabbed.
There was a stabbing over Vienna sausage, which you could
get a whole can of them for a dollar.

Speaker 2 (23:41):
Go to any gas station and they're selling them.

Speaker 3 (23:44):
Well, their dollars seventy five there, but they're still Vienna
sausages no matter how you cut it, like.

Speaker 2 (23:50):
Those are no dug. I don't want your can sausage.

Speaker 3 (23:56):
I the next Vienna sausage I ate dipped in little
little mustard will not be the first. I'll admit that
I don't mind them. I don't like I don't dislike
them at all. They make a great little snack on
fishing trips and hunting trips and stuff like that, because
they are the last nearly forever in that hermetically sealed,
vacuum packed can, and once you pop it open and

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you have a delicious treat. It's delicious, too hard, too
strong a word for being a sausage.

Speaker 1 (24:26):
Yeah, probably edible? Edible?

Speaker 3 (24:31):
Is that closer to where you would be on that?

Speaker 2 (24:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (24:35):
I guess they are edible. You could eat them? Yeah, sausage,
Yeah I do. I don't mind cut them in yeah,
cut them in half lengthwise and then lay about four
of them on a sandwich.

Speaker 1 (24:47):
Not bad, and a pitch.

Speaker 3 (24:48):
When I was young, when I didn't have any money,
all right, I could I could afford being a sausage.
I couldn't afford roast beef. Oh that was for the
for the royalty around me. But I could afford being sausage.
There was a time, man, there was a time.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
Who knows.

Speaker 3 (25:03):
I hope that time never comes back. I hope it
never comes for you. So anyway, all right, let's move on,
let's go back to I got three minutes here. Oh,
this is kind of a PSA, a public service announcement.
I read this morning, and this won't take three minutes,
so I don't know what we'll do for the last one. Well,
I read this morning. There was a kind of a

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caution put out by the NSSAY that says that at
least once a week you should completely turn off your phone.
Just completely turn it off and reboot it.

Speaker 1 (25:36):
Do you do that now? Probably not used to leave
it running all the time.

Speaker 3 (25:40):
Huh, yes, you and my son. It's never dead. My
wife doesn't have to worry about that because she'll forget
to charge it and so it'll eventually just go dead.
So I guess it serves the same purpose. But nonetheless,
they say that at least once a week you need
to do that because for some reason that that inhibits
the intrusion of hackers that I don't know why only

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once a week.

Speaker 1 (26:03):
I would think like once a day.

Speaker 3 (26:05):
I feel like it just makes it easier for.

Speaker 1 (26:07):
The NSA to get into your phone.

Speaker 3 (26:08):
Huh. I don't know, there's a thought maybe that's a
little ruse. I'll turn it off once a week, not
once a day. Don't do that because then we can't
get in. Yeah, I didn't think of it that way.
I thought they were I thought they were the federal government.
They were here to help. Oh probably not maybe, so
I don't know. I very just as soon it also,

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by the way, is said to help all your systems
run more smoothly for some reason, which Lotti daw as
long as the phone turns on and I can see
what I'm looking at, by the way, I had.

Speaker 1 (26:39):
I want to say.

Speaker 3 (26:40):
It was like one hundred and forty emails this morning
from an internal source here of stuff that I used
to get and then we were all taking off of
that list, and now I'm back on it. Now I'm
back on it. Just it's like I said, it's iHeart stuff.
But there were one hundred and something emails.

Speaker 2 (26:59):
Somebody's saying you back up for it or is it
just on.

Speaker 3 (27:01):
A mass And it wasn't me and I haven't. I
didn't hear anybody else in the in the office talking
about that this morning either. I don't know why I
would have been on that list, but it's just something
else to delete.

Speaker 1 (27:12):
I kept three of them. Oh, I'll tell you what
they were later. It's not that big a deal, uh
it all.

Speaker 3 (27:18):
You know what I did when I read that story
about the phones, will turned off my phone. Oh wow,
for the first time in a long time. Actually, I'll
turn it off occasionally.

Speaker 1 (27:27):
You know what.

Speaker 3 (27:28):
Just set an alarm on your phone to turn it
off once a week Sunday at seven o'clock in the air.

Speaker 2 (27:33):
You know what I did yesterday? Is I just I
don't use my phone yesterday at all? I mean I
used it at the beginning. I went to go pick
up some breakfast, so I used it in the car
to listen to order.

Speaker 1 (27:45):
Oh I thought you were ordering your card. I never radio.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
Will Well, it does have a radio, but I want
to listen to my own stuff. Doug.

Speaker 3 (27:53):
No, don't be a don't be so arrogant that you
have to have your own music. I do have to have.

Speaker 2 (27:59):
My own music.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
Oh you're the.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
My own music, my own podcast.

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Speaker 1 (29:36):
Old guys rule and of course women never get old.
If you want to avoid sleeping on the couch, Hey, well,
I think that sounds like a good plan. Fifty plus continues.
Here's more with Doug.

Speaker 3 (29:58):
Bye, Welcome back Finals SEGM one of the program starts
right now. Thank you all for listening to Will and
me as we plod through Monday. Interrupt your launch or
your drive across town. I hope it's a pleasant interruption
on the way into this segment.

Speaker 1 (30:14):
I want to go to.

Speaker 3 (30:17):
There is a law that has been moved through the
Senate and the House up in Michigan, and I want
to I wish it weren't so, but I think it's
going to be one of many attempts in the coming years,
depending on which way November goes, to kind of circumvent

(30:39):
the harsh light of day by tucking disturbing little addendums
to these things. Very deeply and darkly hiding them inside
bills that address legitimate needs of Americans. A Michigan school
aid bill looked really, really good overall. It was going
to do a lot of stuff for their school, a

(31:01):
lot of good things. Passed it through the House, passed
it through the Senate by overwhelming majority on both sides.
Really and what many of those legislators may not have
realized though, is that the bill also included a million
dollar investment in something called the Tip Support Hotline, which,

(31:23):
from what I've been able to gather, would allow children
to report their own parents for improper storage of guns,
which are a Second Amendment right. And any everybody in
law enforcement I've talked to. I can't say everybody in
law enforcement, because I don't know everybody, but the people

(31:45):
with whom I've talked who are involved in law enforcement
say that if you want to protect your home and
your family with a firearm, you don't have time to
holler kings X, let me get my gun out of
the safe if somebody kicked in your door. That's something
that if you ever need it, God forbid, it needs

(32:06):
to be accessible right now. And there absolutely is no
time to change any of that so anyway, the bottom
line is a million dollars for a statewide tip support hotline.
Kids are gonna gonna just imagine this audience is old
enough at least to have learned in history class, old

(32:26):
enough to know that having children accuse their parents of
crimes is a tactic most notably used in Nazi Germany
leading up to World War II. Challenged is there will
be challenges to that bill, and they're already being put
together based on Second Amendment protections.

Speaker 1 (32:45):
Are in the works.

Speaker 3 (32:46):
That's pretty scary, really, given the volatility sometimes of teenagers
I get mad at their parents, make a phone call,
and a handful of lives are forever changed. This bill
in there are penalties, obviously if you're doing something wrong
in Michigan's eyes, and those penalties would be fines.

Speaker 1 (33:08):
They might even be.

Speaker 3 (33:09):
Felony charges against people who are just trying to defend
their own families. And maybe just because some teenager got
all huffed and mifed because mom and dad took away
their phone or their car keys or wouldn't let them
go to a party, they said, I'll fix you, mom
and dad. Watch this, and once that bell is wrong,

(33:31):
it can't be unwrong.

Speaker 1 (33:33):
That bothers me. It really does. Well.

Speaker 3 (33:35):
Have you ever been to Disneyland. I have been to Disneyland,
as if I the West Coast version correct, Yes, and
you were how old?

Speaker 2 (33:45):
I don't know, I was small, I mean probably six
or seven.

Speaker 3 (33:49):
A lot of people kind of speaking out against very
subtle but constant changes to the experiences at those theme parks.
Price is already high. I think the ticket prices ir
anywhere from like one hundred three to one hundred and
eighty nine dollars per person to walk in the door
unless you're like five and under, and then you get
a five or ten and under I think it is,

(34:10):
and you get a five dollars discount for what.

Speaker 1 (34:13):
I don't know why that is, but they've got.

Speaker 3 (34:15):
Those premium experiences where you can kind of pay extra,
like double or something and avoid some of the long
wage for the popular rides whatever. I heard a comedian
talking about how he dodged taking his little girl to
Disneyland for several years until she was about eight, and
then when she asked again about going to Disneyland, you

(34:37):
know what he told her. He said, we took you
when you were three, and you didn't like it.

Speaker 1 (34:43):
Never took her at all, never took her at all.

Speaker 3 (34:46):
Do you recall much of it?

Speaker 2 (34:49):
I recall the merchandising I really call as a little baby,
little bitty kids, because I my cousin and I got
the He's matching Steers fanny packs.

Speaker 1 (35:04):
Oh okay, you know from Lulu and Stitch.

Speaker 3 (35:07):
You still got that? Nope, I remember you think I
have no idea twenty bucks my love kitty fanny pack.
You know the price of my love? Oh my god,
So you're letting you're wanting them to buy your love.

Speaker 1 (35:21):
Is that what you're telling me?

Speaker 3 (35:22):
Yes, they don't get it unconditionally.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
No, everything is conditionally in this world.

Speaker 1 (35:29):
No, it's not.

Speaker 3 (35:30):
Will it is, No, it's not. There's something some very
good things you can get just for free. They really
are like what like my good will? Can't even get
a Vienna sausage for free? Well, let's se if you try,
you get stabbed for it. I know if you're in
that nursing home. I'm not going to that nursing home.

Speaker 1 (35:46):
Or we out.

Speaker 3 (35:47):
No, we got one minute, we have one minu fantastic.
Let's go back over here. We did that one wrong
on many levels. Money to burn or welcome to otel
your house. Money to burn all good as if all
these these clothing makers, all these people who have all

(36:09):
these overly ridiculously overpriced garments and shoes and what not,
the muddy jeans, you remember all that stuff. Oh yeah, Well,
now here's something else. You can burn a lot of
money on Rubik's Cube. Okay, hard enough to solve all
by itself. Now you can pre order the world's smallest

(36:29):
Rubik's Cube. Okay, it says here. It can fit under
your fingernail. Okay, and you'll have to have tweezers and
for everybody in this audience a big magnifying glass to
solve it.

Speaker 2 (36:45):
What does it cost? Will, And you've got eight seconds.
I'm gonna go with one hundred and ninety five dollars.

Speaker 3 (36:50):
No, you're close, So five three hundred dollars for a
Ruby's Cube. You'll lose it lose in a minute. Audios.
We'll be back tomorrow.