Mowing the Lawn

Today, Doug Pike interviews David Sjostrom about different types of lawn mowers.

Episode Transcript

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Remember when it was impossible to misplacethe TV remote because you were the TV
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all about you. On it agood die. This is fifty plus with

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fifty plus with Doug Pike. Allright, here we go Wednesday edition.
The program starts right now. Thankyou all for listening as always, and
apparently for introducing the show to friendsas well. The numbers don't lie,
and the numbers are very encouraging.I'm thrilled that they're moving in the way
they're moving. And don't think thatthese friends of yours have to be in

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Houston either. So you know,anyone, anyone you can reach by smartphone
can listen to fifty plus anywhere inthe world. We're not translating the show
into different languages. Just yet,But who knows the truth be told seniors
or seniors everywhere right around the world. Our issues are pretty similar from one

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country to the next. We justmight explain them to care givers in a
different language. But parts were outno matter where you live, and that
happens to all of us, sooneror later. And I think that anyone
who listened to this show and understandsit would gain from it, whether it

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be for themselves or maybe for theiraging parents, which is what got me
started in this many years ago.So here's the deal. Stocks and gold
are down, oil and the sunare up, which is you've got a
bittersweet. I guess we can dodgea what the forecasters called a slight chance

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of pop up showers this afternoon.We should be mostly rain free right through
the long holiday weekend and even throughTuesday, at least enough of that though.
Here we go, so out west, way out west, the far
left, and I'll wrap that inquotes of this country, if you will.
Democratic Representative Pamala Jaiapaul warned our presidentand anyone else who heard her that

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if he considers any budget cuts onthe way toward some compromise on our debt
ceiling resolution by Gosh. Representative Jaiapaulwarned that there would be tremendous backlash and
I quote in the streets end quoteon me crazy, But that sounds kind

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of like a threat, kind oflike a threat of violence. Maybe even
tremendous backlash in the streets really,or maybe it would just be those peaceful
protests, you know, like theones that burned down neighborhoods and destroyed hundreds
of businesses not that many years agoin many parts of this country. Those

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kind I guess, is what she'sreferencing. AOC couldn't help She couldn't help
herself but jump on the no compromisefor the budget changing the debt ceiling negotiation.
Didn't want to negotiate with anybody.But at least she stopped short of

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saying something that might jeopardize her party'spromises to raise taxes to pay for I
don't know how many more junk policiesand practices that this country neither needs nor
can afford. It's just it's justremarkable how how steadfastly they don't want to
look at common sense. They havenone, so they wouldn't recognize it if

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it bit them anywhere. Around thetime those two were voicing their opinions,
Treasury Secretary Janet Yelling said that ournation, the US of A, actually
potentially could default on its debt assoon as June first. This country is
standing on the edge of a cliff. One ft one foot's on top of

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a banana peal, two one footon a banana peal. And the only
reason I can come up with,honestly that the left in Congress want to
stay this course. There's only onelogical conclusion you can draw, and it's
frightening, but that's that they trulydo want to see this country demolished and

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dismantled and just broken apart. Eitherthat or they're just honestly ignorant of how
debt works, of how unsustainable thisspending of theirs is. We can't just
manue well, I would say,we can't make money out of thin air,
but we've been doing that now foralmost two years. I saw a

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Facebook post recently that really really movedme. A very old man, a
super senior veteran of World War Two, in which he was talking about the
absolute horror and shame he's felt overwhat the current administration has done to this

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country. He witnessed the deaths offellow soldiers who were fighting to preserve the
America. He knew then when itwas the strongest country in the world,
when it was the deciding factor ina Second World War. And in barely

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two years, we've watched a verydetermined, very deliberate effort to destroy what
those men died to maintain. Theygave their lives, they shed their blood,
and he was just visibly moved.Man, it was just broken to
tears, sobbing tears talking about it. All right, let's balance that with

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some good news, shall we pardonme? Especially this is good news,
especially for people in Southeast Texas andanywhere else on the planet where somebody might
have to deal with mosquitos some ofthe year, most of the year,
all year around an entomologist, youknow what that is. With help from

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grad students at Auburn University over therein Alabama, they've got their share mosquitoes
too. Over there, I canassure you they have come up with a
fabric that doesn't let the mosquitos needlenike nose cut through traditional clothing like it
can now are bad enough here,but they actually kill thousands of people tens
of thousands of people annually around theworld. I can't wait for this stuff

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to be used in every piece ofclothing. One of the interesting things is
that when the mosquito bites, itcan go through most clothing because it has
little saw like edges on that nosethat can rip through. Well, this
process these students came up with createsort of a chain mail effect that that
little proboscis can't pass through. AndI can't wait for this stuff to be

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used in every piece of clothing Iwear, and I will be early in
line to get some. I canassure you. All Right time take a
little break here on the way out, I'll tell you about Kirkholme's, the
custom builder. They have been buildinghomes for thirty plus years. It's a
third generation company, and I've I'veknown members of each of those three generations.

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They are all they write to theyoungest group that's running it now,
and they have ample experience. It'snot like they just start to believe me.
Brother and sister, who are prettymuch in charge now, are extremely
good at what they do and inmaintaining that company's position as one of the

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leading home builders in the entire stateof Texas, if not the country.
I've been through six I think itis now homes that they've built. Every
one of them totally different. Theonly commonality is I've talked about before is
that twenty year structural warranty which istwice the standard, and those two by
six exterior walls to keep the coldout in the winter and the hot out
in the summer. That Southern Livingshowcase home they built up in Mission Ranch

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and College Station is available for salenow if you want to just move right
into an awesome home, or youcan use that as kind of a springboard,
an idea launcher if you will,for your own dream home. Sit
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with the people at kirk Holmes andlet them make that dream of yours become

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reality. Kirk Holmes dot com that'sthe website, k you r K because
at Kirkholms it's all about you.Now. They sure don't make them like
they used to. That's why everyfew months we wash them, check his
fluids and spring on a fresh cootowax. This is fifty plus with Doug

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Pike. Well, I welcome backto fifty plus. Thanks for listening.
Certainly do appreciate it if you're interestedin reaching the audience I reach with this
show. By the way, Iunlike really, unlike anybody else in our

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building. I take care of ashort list of clients. I make sure
that they get what they're buying whenthey buy into my endorsement, and and
I make sure that anybody I endorseI believe in. So if that's something
that would be interesting to you,feel free to email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia

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dot com, and I'll see ifwe can slide your right into the schedule
at some point. I would behappy to do that. The Los Angeles
Dodgers are Yeah, they can prettymuch count on some backlash after the team
reinvited to its June sixteenth Priday Nighta radical anti Christian transgender group called the

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Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Look them up. The Dodgers, for whatever their reasons,
even intended originally to present this grouplook them up with some sort of
award that evening. And again,this is a free speech issue, but
I'm I'm wondering if they're making theright decision. MLB. Actually they said

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they issued a statement to say that, on second thought, it wasn't going
to do that. It wasn't goingto give out the award. But they
have reinvited at least to attend thisgroup quote given the strong feelings of people
who have been offended by the sister'sinclusion in our evening end quote. Yeah,

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it's I don't know that I'd wantto be party to that. And
that's just me. That's they cando what they want to do. It's
still a free country so far,so more power to them, and I
wish them well. But there's thatother stuff down on the border. Oh

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will I'm gonna bring you in nowwhat rather than wait? Because I have
a couple of truly fun and innocuousthings to share, And I will let
you choose between these three. Honestmistake, must we see this? Or
unnecessary change? Honest mistake? Honestmistake? How do you pick the shortest

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one? Every time? Well,you know, just a gift. I
just s I don't want to hearyou talk him up fair enough. Eighty
two percent of people admit that theyhave forgotten an anniversary at some point in
their relationship. I would have tobelieve that the people who were surveyed for

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this were a little bit younger thanthis audience, because by the time you
get to our age, it's sometimeshard to remember at noon what you had
for breakfast. Sixty eight percent ofpeople this is the frightening part for those
of us who might use that Mgetting older and I forget stuff. Excuse

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sixty eight percent of people would considerbreaking up, it says here with a
significant other if they forgot an anniversary. Now, if it's your if it's
the anniversary of your first dinner together, or your first movie, or your
first vacation, or what. Somethinglike that cut us all some slack.

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My wife can remember everything. Sheremembers every date for every significant event in
our lives and her own, allthe way back before she met me.
I'm not that sharp with dates.I'm pretty good with a lot of things,
but not so much the date part. So and we've been Honestly,

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I think we've been married long enoughnow that if it happened, which i've
already, by the way, whenI saw this, the first thing I
did. Our anniversary is in September, and the first thing I did was
get into my calendar and open itup to that date. In September and
write it in there very In fact, when when I get back to my
desk after the show, I'm gonnaput it in sharpie. I'm gonna put

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it in sharpy, big bowl letters, and I'm gonna use a highlighter to
draw a real beautiful starburst around it. Well, not, in fact,
I'm gonna put in the week priorto that. I'm gonna put at the
top of the page anniversary next week. Oh not a chance I'm gonna fall
into that bad category. Oh right, go to the other two, will

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real quick and pick from must wesee this? Or unnecessary change? Must
we see this? This is adisturbing I think to me, at least
trend that will you'll probably have todeal with somewhere down the line more so
than I will. I am.I'm my son is too young right now

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for me to be worried about havinggrandchildren anytime soon. I really hope.
He's only fifteen. Okay, hecan't even drive a car yet, and
I know that his generation does thingsa little differently, a little sooner than
mine did, perhaps, But I'vegot fingers crossed that he's got a good
enough head on his shoulders that hewon't. He won't make me a grandparent

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before I'm ready, if I makeit that long. But here's what parents
are doing now that really has alot of people unnerved and will pay attention
because I want to get your opinionon this as a younger person. So
someone asked Slate dot com, whateverthat is why they keep seeing kids pooping

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outside on portable toilets like at parksand playgrounds. The parents, they say,
are bringing them everywhere now instead oftaking their kids into public restrooms.
Good bad? What's your opinion?Why are you smiling and giggling? I
think I just I need a waymore information. I think you got to

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give me some of these articles beforehand. I've never heard of this fun I
hadn't either until I read it.But it makes sense because think about this
generation and how hygiene conscious it is. They're scared to take kids anywhere.
You walk through a store and youcome out, and you've got to disinfect
your whole body. You gotta getsprayed down with life. On top of

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portable toilets, but you're not ontop of there are little little things you
can carry that's just something you'd putunder your like a backpack. You could
have a portable toilet in your backpack. So they just whip that thing out
at the playground when when their sonor daughter says, oh, I gotta
go, Mommy, I gotta go, they just whip that thing out,
put the kid on it, cleanup, and then and then go.

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Would that would that disturb you towatch that? To see like you're not
gonna stand there watch, but ifyou just caught a glimpse of it,
how would you react? I mean, how old are these kids? They're
not twelve will they're little toddlers,they're just learning, you know. Well
if they're just learning, like Imean, everybody's got to learn. Yeah,

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it's like would you rather? Wouldyou rather than go on on the
ground? Well, now what they'retalking about is that as an option as
against public toilets, which can bekind of you know, there's a lot
of these parks and whatnot in baseballfields where my son played baseball and where
he played where yeah, I reallywould have said, hang on, we're
gonna get you home as fast aswe can. Some of those things are

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not exactly clean by any stretch ofdefinition. So I can understand it.
I still think it's a little bitweird, and I wouldn't. I wouldn't
make fun of it. I wouldn'tpoint that out. If somebody had to
do that, I'd say, okay, fine, just take care of your
kid. And I really, themore I think about it, I don't
have a problem with it at all, but it would It would just make

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me go, oh okay, yeah, and then you look over at the
public restroom and go, yeah,I know why you're doing that. I
do. New research shows that lookingat photos of food online. Photos of
food online may help curb over eating. It says here as an example,

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So if you want to down abag of M and M's, will all
you have to do is look atpictures of M and M's online and you'll
be just fine. How long youthink that's gonna work? You know,
on Instagram, I get a lotof of food pictures and it just makes
me hungry. Yeah, I justit's the dumbest thing I've ever heard of.

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You're not gonna be sad. Iput a time limit on it,
like ten minutes. I might think, oh, yeah, wow, I'd
love to have those M and M's, and then well, the ten minutes
is probably what it's gonna take me. To get to the store and go
buy a bag of M and M's. But yeah, I'm with you to
chug water, you know, No, that's not gonna. No, I'm
still gonna I'll chug water on theway to go get my M and M's.
I'm not giving up the M andM's, Peanut m and m'zo I'm

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I'm bored with the Plaine chocolate ones. They just do nothing for me anymore.
After have peanut M and M's.My wife and I that's one of
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Thanks for listening. My mine really, I'm Doug He's will. And thanks
to all of you again for yourtime right here in the middle of the
day. I can't tell you howgenuinely I appreciate you. Sharing with friends
too. We'll talk now about somethingmost of the guys and some of the
girls in this audience we'll almost certainlyhave done pretty much every weekend of spring,

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summer, and fall as kids.We mouthed the lawn. Okay,
my grandfather, my grandfather's mower didn'teven have a motor on it, and
come to think of it, mygrandmother's over in New Orleans. My grandfather
lived in southeast Florida. He hadan old school rotary mower, and I
learned to push that thing before theylet me fire one up and run it

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around our yard in Sharpstown. Anyway, Oh, I'm glad his yard was
so small. On the plus sidetoday, I guess for anybody who wants
to tackle that job at least untilit's really really hot. The tools available
to us now are way better thanwhat we had back then, and they'll
stay that way if we take careof them. Which brings me to introduce
David Shostrom from Northern Tool and Equipment. Welcome aboard, David, Well,

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thank you, I appreciate you hadthem. Oh sure, so most of
the people who do their own lawnstarted around here a few weeks ago,
I guess, But I'd bet thatnot all of them around a checklist anything
like you'd recommend before they fired upat mower. Let's start with that too.
What needs a look on a mothballmower before we take it out and
put it to use? Right?So, I mean, really, the

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first thing that should do when theypull it out of the garage, ship
or wherever they might have it isto check the gas. If the gas
has been sitting in it for thewhole off season. Even if they did
remove the fuel, I would stillrecommend that they get remove whatever it might
be in there and get in somenice fresh fuel. Um. You know,

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bad fuel can really get in thereand to curate some rubber seals and
fuel lines and I can make amess of a carburetor too. So first
thing, get some nice fresh fuelin there. Do gas excuse me,
do gasoline additives do any good?Can you put something in there to preserve
that gas? Or is it betterjust dump the thing and just run it

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dry? Oh? No, sir, I mean I recommend we recommend anybody
that that's using just regular unletted gaslater they get some type of fuel treatment.
Um. And we offer a niceNorthern tool to fuel stabilize or has
any times and it helps clean cleanthe car rader. But no matter what
you use, definitely add something toyour gasoline to help Okay, gas,

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okay, yeah, the gas thingspretty important too. The let's go okay.
Yeah, and you mentioned already thatthat stuff that ethanol in there will
eat up pretty much anything that's betweenthe gas station and the exhaust of that
more, won't it? Oh?Absolutely special on small engines. You know,

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cars can handle it, right,bigger engines and bigger seals, they
can handle it with small engines.Yeah, it really does bad, bad
stuff to it, and it'll andthat it sits there for too long.
It started coming up and oxidation occurs, and just cause those more problems just
keeps you in business, doesn't it. Oh? Of course, So let's
let's flip over to the green sideof all this long care. What's the

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latest on electric mowers and blowers andall that? You got an opinion on
those? Yeah, I mean,electric really really making a turn. We
offer a couple of different manufacturers onthe electric side. Battery we have the
battery powered mowers. I don't imaginethey're still plug in electric ones, but

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batteries really, we're really coming around. And we have the Ego Random Milwaukee,
two real nice brands that we carryhere with Northern Tool Equipment. And
yeah, I mean they're selling well. How do those things compare in performance
and price to an old fashioned pullaccord? More so, the main thing

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is really the size of your yard. I would say that's one of them,
could be the you know, Imean it's just just a regular neighborhood,
yard, house and batteries is great. I mean it can you can
pretty much cut your hole on withthe charge of the batteries. When you
get into bigger properties, I mean, you can still use battery, but
you may have to back up batteriesto swap out because it won't you know,

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the charge won't last the entire cutum. But no, they're they're
they're great. What's the noise levelon those things. I'm just curious.
I don't know the actually decipol onthat, but I mean it's it's they're
quiet, quieter than combustion obviously.Oh wait, yeah, I guess it's
just the sound of the blades goingaround really right, right, yeah,

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yeah, yeah, that's true.What about David David Shost from here from
Northern Tool and Equipment. What aboutthe maintenance on those things? What's different?
Well, the difference, like westart off with as large, there's
no gas. Yeah, there's nooil. You don't have to worry about
spark flows. I mean, it'smaintenance is really just making sure it's it's

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clean keeping and you know where thebattery department is and make sure to keep
that area. I mean most ofthem have covered, but your ass and
stuff will still get in there andmake sure your contacts are all clean and
and the decks clean. But yeah, maintenance is plus, it's so much
easier. You've almost got me convincedyou really do. What store you You're
in Houston, right, I'm inHouston, Yes, sir? What store?

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Go ahead? Yeah? What storefrom seven nine nine for Belford Street
right there? Forty five in Belfort. Oh you're so far from sugar Land.
I still might come see you though. What's the biggest mistake people make
when they decide that they're going tostart doing their own law and again and
they walk into the store and theydon't talk to you, they don't talk

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to anybody. They just look atsomething, they like it, and they
buy it. What's the biggest mistakethey make? Um, well, there's
on that. There would be twomistakes. Either one they get too much
product for what they're really doing.Right. I mean, we have people
come in and they can you know, they can buy over buy on a

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morow from from what they need.Or it could also be vice versa where
they come in and they have thishuge yard and they're buying this little little
more they're gonna go do it withthe late teen inch more be out there
for a couple of days. Yeah, oh mercy, Yeah, And I
could say I could see the reversetoo. I actually saw a guy once.
I don't remember where I was intown, but it was just this
row of town homes and this guyhad maybe maybe two hundred square feet of

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front yard and he was on ariding mower. I thought, man,
you've just kind of you're just seeepitome of lady you are. Holy cow.
Talk about the different grades of equipmenttoo out there and who needs what
level of machines. It's not justthe size but the durability. I don't
need a commercial grade mower for myyard, do I? No, not

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a few. I mean just sayingthat little residential sure neighborhood. Yeah,
I'm not on ten acres, Ipromise, yeah, yeah, I don't
recommend to push mower for ten acres. I pushed one of those when I
was a kid too. Holy cow. Oh man, All right, well
look, David, go ahead.Most of those things is going to be
on the type of the drive,the moor as, okay, the hondas,

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that the smart drive to select drive. I have, you know,
very things on the self propelled partwhere you can adjust how fast and slow
it goes okay, Or if youhave a real smile yard and you just
want the old basis started up andpush it, then you know that's also
available. Next the next more Idrive and on this we're gonna have to
end because we're out of time.Is going to be teenager drive because I

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got one of those now and I'mdone. I'm totally done in the yard.
David Shostrom from Northern Tool and Equipment, thank you so very much,
my friend. All right, thankyou, yes, sir, by all
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plus continues. Here's more with Doug. Bum blah blah blam blah, bum

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blah bum bum. I was justtelling Will. I'm Dougi's Will. This
is fifty plus. Thank you forlistening. I was just telling Will about
lawn mowers and how there is there'sa missing piece between internal combustion mowers and
battery powered mowers. And that wasthe We didn't have time to really get
into it with David, but thatwas the short lifespan. I think there

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may still be some in use.I doubt they're even sold pretty much anywhere
in this country anymore. But atone point you could buy an electric mower
that required you to have a biglong extension cord to drag behind you every
time you went across the law,and back and forth, back and forth,
back and forth, one hundred times. What could possibly go wrong.

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It's hard enough to just walk throughthe yard with an extension cord and not
trip over it. If you hitone with a mower, I bet that
would I bet that would wake youup? All right, Will, And
I'm gonna put you back in chargefor briefly, I'll tell I'll put you
back in charge until you pick thewrong one front to back or back to
front making us look bad, orI'm going back to unnecessary change, back

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to front, front to back.Lots of people in this audience right now
are thinking this is going to beabout something that's not about, by the
way, not at all. Fortyfour percent of people, which way are
you will? Forty four percent ofpeople think planes it should board from the
back to the front. You goin that door at the very front,
and they want the plane to beboarded from row one hundred to ninety eight

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all the way up to first class. Let the first class people wait until
we've managed to go all the wayto the back where we belong. Instead
of having to walk that walk ofshame to the last row because just I
don't know, just because these firstclass people think they need to be in
there first get settled into their littlereclining chair. I've flown first class a

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few times, have you. I'veflown first class one time because one of
my flights got canceled due to rainand it got super delayed and then I
got upgraded. Yeah, baby,that flight didn't happen until about one in
the morning. We really can't enjoyit the entire time. Thank god,
I have a seat so well easierto sleep though up front. Then it

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was the one time on a planethat I actually was able to sleep.
Yeah, good for you, allright, I'll give you that when that
wasn't bad. Twenty seven percent.By the way, I think it should
board front to back. Forty fourpercent think back to front to cut down
on boarding chaos. And I kindof a you know, I agree with
that part. I really do.I would like to be able to go

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all the way back to where Ihave to go. That way, I
know pretty much what kind of overheadbin space I'm gonna have. What really
ticks me off is to see theback of the plane starting to fill up
and then I get to where I'mtrying to sit. I'm out in the
middle of the plane, and Iopened the bin and it's already totally stuck.
And when there's nobody sitting in theseseats around me, it's very frustrating

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that people do that. They'll they'lljust bring on stuff and they don't want
to have to lug it, Iguess, from the back of the plane
to the front, so they justdrop it off on I'll nine and then
go sit in their seat in Aisletwenty seven. And now the guy in
all nine that's usually me has noplace to put his stuff. Craft says

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the top complaint they get. Thisis the one where I said unnecessary change,
and I feel like this is sounnecessary. The top complaint they get
is from people who aren't able toopen the clear rapper of the Craft singles.
You ever had any trouble opening acheese rapper wheel I can't remember the

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last time that I even had aCraft single. We keep them around the
house for my son, but honestly, and I'll eat one every now and
then on a sandwich, and Ihave never had so much trouble that I
thought I needed to go to thephone or the Internet and send craft a

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message to tell them how horrible myexperience was with the wrapper on the cheese.
So what they are doing is actuallychanging the cheese wrapper to add some
texture to the flap, so thateven if you're totally drunk and in the
dark, you can figure out howto start opening your cheese wrapper unless you

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have unless you have a physical issuethat prevents you from opening a cheese wrapper,
and you can't open a cheese wrapper, I just don't think you deserve
cheese. I say, just eatat all. Just eat the plastic at
all now and take it out someof those semi cheese products. Not a

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whole lot of difference, I wouldimagine factor fiction will fact. No,
No, this is Let me tellyou first before you judge. The University
of Pennsylvania's Asian American Studies Program isnow accepting applications for its Panda Express Postdoctoral

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Fellowship. True or false? Um, I have no idea. I'm gonna
go with false. It's actually true. The position is being funded by Panda
Express. Wild. Yeah, it'sa postdoctoral it's a pretty big deal.
It's a pretty big deal. Sothere you have it. Sixty four year

(35:34):
old guy in Kentucky freaked out onhis roommate this past weekend after noticing that
the roommate had eaten the last hotpocket. Oh my god, what kind
was it? It doesn't say,it doesn't matter what do you think he
did? He was so mad.He did what will killed him? You're
close, belize beat him. Hefired his weapon and struck the man in

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the buttock. And they say he'sgonna be okay. He probably won't sit
the same for a while, buthe's gonna be okay. How much time
do I have of a minute anda half? Oh good, the good
news for Mississippi's coastal resources. I'mso glad I have time to share this
and I'll be talking about this thisweekend on the Outdoor Show over on KBMI
as well. Texas has a similarprogram to this one that was instituted in

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Mississippi recently. We have an annualcrab trap clean up along the entire Texas
coast two weeks during which any crabtrap you find in the water can be
considered trash and picked up and broughtback to disposal stations the rest of the
year, even if a trap isjust out there apparently doing nothing and isn't

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marked or anything, it doesn't havethe name tag on it. They're still
considered private property no matter how abandoned. Now in Mississippi, now anybody who
wants to go get them not onlycan take them out of the water,
these abandoned traps, but they getfive bucks for every when they turn in
five bucks. The reason those trapsneed to go is because they continue killing.

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They called they're called ghost traps inthe industry. Something swims in there,
it dies, it becomes bait forthe next animal that swims in there,
and then ultimately dies of starvation,and that becomes the next bait.
And those things can keep killing foryears. So I'm really really glad that
that's done. Are we close?Will? Yeah? We have about thirteen

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twelve eleven, Go ahead, No, you started that quiet Now, that's
enough. We'll be back tomorrow.Thanks for listening, Audios