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And now fifty plus with Doug Pike.
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All right, welcome yet again to fifty plus, and I
am certainly glad you've come aboard. During the front, middle,
or back of your lunchtime, whatever it is, in this show,
we'll talk about gosh, about theft, about tariffs, about cover
ups and rule chain and how politics might cost our
nation nearly an entire generation of children. That's kind of
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a stretch, really, but you'll you'll understand once we talk
about it. If we can get to it, there's a
lot of time to be spent, and some of it
on other things. A second segment, by the way, I'm
going to talk to Jason Fortenberry from over to Opt
to my Iron Doors. He has first hand experience with
tariffs and what they can do for or against a business,
and I'm going to kind of get his opinion on
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all that. If there's something on your mind that doesn't
seem to be on mind, give us a call seven
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And if if we have time in the segment, I'll
certainly get to you immediately. If not, I'll either ask
you to wait or maybe just ask for the opportunity
to call you back after the show. I could do
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that as well. Use the talk back feature on iHeartRadio.
If you're listening on your phone or your tablet or
your laptop, you can go to the app. Just click
on that button, the talk back button. That'll buy you
twenty seconds to say your piece. The market's pulled back
a little bit this morning, but really nothing notable on
the board. Oil fell a little more as well, and
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gold came up just a bit not much. In other words,
a yawner on Wall Street. So onward we go. I
saw a story this morning about some incredible storage unit heists,
and it makes me want to leave here today and
go straight to my storage facility at an underclosed location
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where there's actually not that much in it, But then again,
I wouldn't want to lose any of it either. And
the stories that I read were of storage units that
contained significantly valuable furniture and heirloom pieces of silver and
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other and crystal and whatnot in China, all of this
stuff that somehow, some way disappeared from storage units. I
can't imagine leaving my leaving it well. First of all,
I don't think I could even just gut my garage
and come up with twenty thousand dollars worth of fishing tackle.
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But for some apparently, especially if you're moving, if all
of a sudden your house sells and your new house
isn't ready, which was kind of a thing that happened
to me years ago, me and my wife we had
to move a little more quickly than we thought we would.
We didn't end up having to do any storage of anything,
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but it was still kind of a hassle. And I
understand if that's your case. But these people were talking
about losing twenty to thirty thousand dollars worth of things
that were stored in storage units. Now I wonder how
My question is, how did the thieves know which units
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to target? I didn't see in the story, and maybe
I just didn't read down far enough. I didn't see
anything to indicate that the thieves just went in and
opened up fifty units with their lock cutters and just
took a chance. My guess is somebody, somehow has an
idea what's in some of those things and gives that
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information to people who probably pay a little piece. I
don't know, but anyway, I would hope that all of
those any place I would ever store my stuff is
going to have cameras all over the place, cameras at
every door, cameras down every walkway, every aisle of units.
Otherwise I'm not leaving my stuff there. I like the
climate controlled stuff too, because, for example, I had a
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surfboard once in a non climate controlled unit for not
that terribly long, and the heat that built up in
there delaminated part of that custom made board that I
had in there while since I served. So that's okay.
I would like to get back to it, though if
only I lived a little closer and worked out for
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six months before I tried to get back in the
water from USA today today, what is the time I
got what maybe a couple of minutes will Is that
about right? Okay? Thank you from USA. No, I don't
have near the time I need for this one. I
will tell you that the FCC is eyeing rule changes.
I saw a story this morning about them rolling back
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a few dozen broadcast rules that are believed to be
either obsolete or unnecessary. Don't get a pen here behind
changes to the medium over the past twenty or so years.
I wish there was something really exciting that I could
say would be dashed from the rule book things. Who
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knows what. But after reading the entire story, it's just
word afterword that only a broadcast engineer would either understand
or even appreciate. I've been in this business for twenty
five years now and I read that and I just.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
What are they talking about?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
I have no idea what are they talking about? To
the where do I want to go? Let's lighten it
for just a minute. Well what do I got?
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (06:21):
I got a minute and a half? Is that right? Okay?
Very good? Thank you from the cringe pole desk. But
by the way, I'm not going to talk about the
couple who got busted for cheating on the baseball kiss
camera or whatever it was. Everybody's heard that story by now,
and if you haven't go look it up. Two people
who shouldn't have been together, thinking they were all alone
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among those twenty thirty forty thousand people at the baseball
game when that kiss cam started rolling around, and there
they were standing, all cuddled up together and looking at
the camera and laughing at everybody else. And when they
saw their own video rolling live, they poach. Just turned
and ran, just turned and ran from the cringe pole desk.
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Thirty one percent of pet owners say they would date
their pet if it was a human. I'm not even
gonna I'm not even gonna ask will That's such a
silly question. I'll save my questions for you for things
that matter anyway. The top reasons that these people said,
only thirty one percent of people said they would do that.
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The reasons they wouldn't include that the pet even as
a person. I suppose we just need constant attention. They're
too clingy, they're not great with boundaries, they're too jealous,
and way too many mood swings. These people are attributing
human emotion and human characteristics to their pets, and some
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of that I can see. Some of it I think
is a bit of a stretch in the Oh no,
holy cow, we got to go. I'll move from here forward.
In this next segment, we're going to talk to Jason Fortenberry.
On the way there, I'll tell you about Champions Tree Preservation.
I was just out there yesterday. I drove all the
way up there on the north side of town. Now
they'll come to your place wherever you are on the
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south side of town, send an arborist there and analyze
and assess your trees to make sure they're healthy enough
to get through storm season. If a tree needs help,
they can either do what needs to be done, or
it's just explained to you how to feed that tree
to make it get better, quicker, and it should make
it through the storm season. We're right in the middle
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of it now. You don't want anything to happen. I
actually am going to send a picture to Irwin through
Rob Logan, with whom I work over here, and I
want to find out whether that tree needs to come out.
It's not in my yard, thank goodness, but it's one
that the whole neighborhood's a buzz over because it's next
to the mailbox and we don't want to get hit
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by a tree. The arboris from Champions Tree Preservation. We'll
go anywhere to help you get that assessment. And then
once if if it does turn out that a tree
really just has to come out for whatever reason. And
one of the this is something Irwin told me. One
of the biggest reasons that trees fail is not not
enough water. It's too much water.
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And I'm gonna have.
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What's life without a net? I suggest you go to bed,
sleep it off, just wait until the show's over. Sleepy.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues. All right,
welcome back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening to certainly
do appreciate it. Now we're going to cover a pretty
good amount of around in this segment, all with the
same guy that is Jason Fortenberry from Optimum Iron Doors.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Welcome back to the show.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
Jason, Hey, Doug, howy you doing.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
I'm good man. So, first off, since your neck deep
in it, how about kind of an explanation of how
these rising and falling tariffs from an from an outsider
standpoint like my own, I don't really get how it
impacts a business like yours. What what happens when all
this jostling of tariff numbers goes goes into your business?
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Well, I can tell you right now. I mean it's
it's it's real, and you know, businesses and small businesses
for sure are feeling it. So the terrace you know
on skill and aluminum has directly affected our business as
far as the iron doors and steel doors are involved.
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You know, our doors come over from from Mexico. We
don't sell any Chinese product, but we do have our
iron doors come over from Xi and March, you know,
our president installed a twenty five percent tariff and then
he doubled down on that in second week of or
first week of June to fifty percent. And what it
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does really, it kind of just causes a strain between
me and my supplier. Yeah, on you know, this is
a US tariff who's going to cover the tariffs? Luckily,
you know, the manufacturers working with us on that, we
weren't really ready to rush into price increases right away.
The most volatile thing is is we don't know, you know,
there was a lot of push and pull back and
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things like that. It hasn't been real consistent, so it
just kind of keeps us guessing on you know, is
this going to sustain what's going on? And we've got
some more news that was supposed to come on July ninth,
and now Trump's extended that to that deadline to August first,
So we're still just kind of in a wait and
see kind of mode to see if these are going
to continue or drop off. And it's just really really
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uncertain times.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Yeah, and there's no source where you can turn to
get predictions on which way any of this is going
to go in the next quarter or the next year
or whatever.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Is there No, not really Like I said, it's just
been very unpredictable lately, and it's got us in our
manufacturers second guess, and it's you know, affecting delivery sometimes. Okay, well,
there's some news supposed to come out next week. Do
we wait and make this ourn door delivery? Are these
Terraff's going to go away? Or do we go ahead
and make a delivery, And then how do we adjust
our prices to offset the additional costs of the terraffs. Yeah,
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now we're we haven't we've steadfast. We're kind of letting
us play out. We haven't had a major price increase,
and we're actually running a sale right now on pre
tarff prices. So we now it's the time. If anybody's
interested in buying iron or steel doors, the time to
buy is now. We'll see what happens in August first,
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but these terror stick around. We're definitely, you know, gonna
be looking at a price increase.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Heay supporting Bary on fifty plus. Here, let's talk about doors.
You told me a long time ago. You can drive
down most any East West Street in Houston until which
is the north side.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Explain that, Uh, well, you know our climate is pretty
harsh on on doors, especially wood doors. Yeah, I mean
I can drive down down one street and see a
bunch of doors that are just kind of roached out
by the sun's and it could be a new neighborhood
that's only been around for like a year or two.
And then you look on the other side of the
street where you know those the back of the houses
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face south in the north, in the front of the
house faces north, and they look brand new. So there's
a lot of maintenance involved with any type of door
that you're gonna buy, whether it be wood, steel, or fiberglass,
there's always maintenance and upkeep to keep those doors looking
good and performing well, especially with.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Wood, which ones are the lowest maintenance.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Uh So, our steel doors have the lowest amount of maintenance.
They are just a it's got an automotive paint finish.
We don't do a baked on or powder coat finish
on our steel doors. It's an automotive finish, so you know,
just like your car. I mean, they sit out in
the sun all day long, so these doors stay well protected.
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They do maybe get some little oxidation on there, but
that's easily wipe away. We have a product called steel
Saver that we sell with every door that takes away
the oxidation prevents RUSS. It's a great product that's just
a wipe on, buff off type of thing. Fiberglass doors
are great doors we're a dealer for Thermatrue Doors, which
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is the largest manufacturer of fiberglass doors in the country
and they're made here in the US. We're a design
dealer for Thermatrue. It's a great product. They're great for
your back doors, side doors, things like that, things that
don't have a lot of overhang like your front porch
may have, and doors that have a lot of exposure.
They well, well, they have a lifetime warranty. They're great doors.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Now.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
They do have some beautiful designs as well that for
your front entry door. They've got a lot of different
stylish designs as well, so they can be used for
front entries. They have a great finish on those as well.
They also warranty. They're finished for ten years, so it's
a good door will finish, whether it's a stained finish
or painted finish that they offer. And then lastly, we
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have our wood doors. You know, there's a lot of
people woods beautiful. There's a lot of people that appreciate
the natural warmth and beauty that the wood gives off
and how that looks on their home. I'm one of
those guys. I just like love wood. They're they're a
great addition to the home, but those do require a
little bit more maintenance and upkeep, especially if you get
more of a direct sun or don't have a lot
of protection on those doors. But if you keep those
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doors maintained, they'll last forever, I mean, and they just
they're beautiful.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Before we run out of time here, let's talk about
security too, just overall. What's the best way to keep
a door good and secure? What lock and what extra protection?
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Well, most doors, you know, you're just going to have
your standard dead bolt on there. We typically recommend, you know,
around the stripe plates, that you drive some long screws
three inch screws, so that actually goes most most When
you buy a handle set or lock, it just comes
with a little three quarter inch or one inch screw
that kind of holds us right plate together, but we
recommend driving some long screws in there to get through
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the stud We also have some aftermarket products that we
can put on wood doors and fiberglass doors to prevent
break ins and kick ins that are very low costs.
That gives you security and peace of mind. Our steel doors, again,
you can't kick through steel, so those are also secure
because they have heavy steel frames protecting those doors and
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around the dead bolt where you want it most. So
the ultimate security. Right now, we're seeing the trend just
in our city, especially with crime rates going up, to
a lot of people going towards the steel door options.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Purely on looks, Jason, what's the hottest trendiest thing now?
On doors?
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Front doors, narrow profile steel doors and optim iron doors.
If you go to the website optimiron Doors dot Com,
you're going to see our whole selection of iron doors.
We have the decorative, you know, ornamental iron work, but
the narrow profile, thin steel is what's in right now.
A lot of the housing trends have been modern farmhouse
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for the last couple of years. People are replacing windows
with those black thin windows, and we've got the steel
door that complements that and keeps it keeps your house
up to date, and then also you get the security
and the less maintenance of the steel doors with our
Optima Iron Doors collection.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Jason Fordenberry Optima iron Doors dot Com. Right over there
on North Post UK. I've told you guys where to
find him, and he's sitting over there right now. Thank you, Jason.
I appreciate your time.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Man.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Always a pleasure duck. Thanks for showing me on.
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Yeah, they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them, check us words,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, welcome.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Back, Thanks for listing to fifty plus on this. It's
kind of I can't tell what kind of a day
it is outside. I don't have a window in here,
and Will and I don't have enough, don't have enough monitors,
the one big one in here. We've got a big
clock up there, so I don't run too late on
a segment. And that's really all we have, isn't it Will?
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That's all man thumbs up on that. All right, So
let's get back to some of the interesting stuff that's
going on around the world right now and around our country,
and this, that and the other. By the way, a
very brief look earlier at the leader board of the
Open Championship ongoing at what is it called Ports I
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can't recall. I can't recall the name of the course,
but it's not the first time they played there. Scotti
Scheffler just basically said, hold my beer this morning. And
I want to say he was four under through seven
the last I looked, he was four under through eight holes,
and he's probably finished nine by now. I'm not sure.
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And according to a text message I just got from
Jason Fordenberry from over at Primo Doors, he's not selling
the door right now. He's looking at the leaderboard, said
John Ram is imploding. I don't know what that means.
I might take a look during the next break and
given update there. I believe are enough golfers and interested
in the Open Championship golfers in my audience that that
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would warrant at least a little bit of coverage. Going
back to the radio stuff I mentioned a little while
ago about the FCC changing a bunch of rules and
eliminating a bunch of rules, none of which will impact
you or me or anybody else other than engineers and
people who are really just necked deep in radio and
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how it works. Budget cuts PBS and NPR are getting them,
all of which are are going to target waste and
abuse that's been going on for decades among those two entities.
Some people are calling it dangerous, people who mostly people
who've enjoyed some pretty fat paychecks for a long time.
I find it very interesting, I really do that public
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radio and television, which by recent research are shown both
to be quite liberal with their programming, still claim to
be the voice of all the people.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
N PO or n PO NO, n.
Speaker 3 (21:28):
P R CEO E I E I O. Katherine Mayer
kind of speaking from both sides of her mouth, told
and seeing in New Central, Okay. She was talking about
how the network is addressing these accusations of bias that
she still doesn't really understand, and that they will quote
keep doing that work in order to both understand those
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criticisms but also to ensure that we remain the nonpartisan
organization that we are today end quote. Well see they're not.
That's not what they are. That's not what research turns
up when they look at what NPR does and stands for.
Nobody likes finding out their bottomless purse has a bottom
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and that they've hit it. There's gonna be some jobs lost.
I'm sure there's gonna be some smaller stations that may
get shuttered. But I'm pretty confident that this trimming of
the fat, since PBS and NPR both earned plenty of
money in public contributions, I really don't think these cuts
will change a lot long term. There will be there
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will be other anytime there's a void, something comes along
to fill it. And that's exactly what will happen here
if there's a true need. And look back to the
pandemic for a minute, there's a there's this pervasive narrative
to this day that blames COVID for destroying just tremendous
numbers of small and medium sized businesses. But according to
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data released more recently by Borell Associates, this is a
Virginia based company that monitors advertiser spending and the over
overall health of small and medium sized businesses across the country. Well,
here's a quote. Okay, here's a quote from the Barrell
statement that I saw this morning, and I quote, while
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economic downturns also trigger business failures, the net number of
businesses didn't decline during the pandemic. In fact, growth accelerated,
resulting in a record number of SMBs year after year.
Americans didn't crawl into a hole and do nothing. They
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saw opportunity, in different types of opportunity, but they acted
on that opportunity. We were all told that it was
just it was horrible. That's back when I was driving
here to work and not seeing two dozen cars on
the Southwest Freeway between home and the studio at ten
eleven o'clock in the morning. In adversity, there's always opportunity
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and to help to recover, to just see a need
and fill it. Our nation is full of really bright people,
really bright people, creative people who can look at a
hole in the ground and see opportunity. Somebody drives by
the hole and just looks at the hole, and it
looks back at their phone and keeps driving. Somebody probably
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wants that whole filled with dirt or asphalt and millions
of those holes in Houston. Or maybe they'd like to
see it turned into a little cooy pond in their backyard.
Maybe some people just see a hole. They just see
a hole and then go back to TikTok or whatever,
doing whatever influencers tell them to do. Let's take this
break early well, so we don't have to be rushed.
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This is fifty plus with Dougpike.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
All right, welcome back, fourth and final segment of the
program starts right now. Thank you all for joining us.
An interesting story this morning from Fox News. Forty one
year old Mexican illegal immigrant woman living in Los Angeles
charged now with faking her own kidnapping, supposedly perpetrated by
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Immigration and Customs enforcement. Imagine that when in fact, the
entire thing appears to have been just a well orchestrated
plot and plan pick up some fast money. While the
agents continue to be harassed and threatened and even assaulted
people on the law, the wrong side of the law,
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just they just keep looking for ways to profit from
their alleged wrongdoing. I can't I don't know who sits
around and thinks these plans up. And her own ignorance
of how the world works these days, especially our country,
is what got her caught, and that was video cameras.
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At one point she was supposed to have been kidnapped
and hauled away somewhere, and there's video of her walking
through a parking lot. There's more video of her coming
out of a fast food place, and at the time
when she was supposedly being kidnapped, and a police cruiser
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was very close by, and she just walked across parking
lot all by herself and made no indication, made no
attempt to contact the law enforcement that was right there.
And so she's going to have her day in court.
In similar news that's become so frequent it's to almost
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lose some of its impact. That I hate that an
illegal immigrant woman from Venezuela has pleaded guilty to causing
a crash that killed a Missouri boy just one day
before his twelfth birthday. This woman had no driver's license,
She had no idea what she was doing behind the
wheel of that car. She was doing seventy five miles
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an hour in a forty mile per hour zone and
driving on the wrong side of the road whilst here
illegally and killed a child because our border was open
and let her in. There's the damage that's going to
be done by the people who've come here illegally. And again,
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I'm not saying that every one of them's bad. I'm
really not. They've they've broken a law, and they're they're
being given an opportunity to correct that wrong and perhaps
come back and and do it the right way and
become a US citizen. But there are a whole lot
of people in this country who really don't care about
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anything but the free stuff we keep giving them, and
they want to go out and do something stupid. They
want to drive recklessly, they want to murder and rape
and kill people, just whatever goes shoplifting as an occupation.
We're not really standing in their way as well as
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we should, and we're we're getting better at it, clearly,
but it's not all. There's a lot of work to
be done still up in New York, Zora and Mam
Donnie Hears to have been anointed now as the face
of the new Democrat Party, and that designation shows the
true colors of that party, their intention to totally dismantle
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American society and American rules of law. Beginning He's already
said he's gonna start by dismantling and defunding New York
City Police Department. He's gonna shutter corner grocery stores and
put in city run stores in their places. And I
cannot possibly imagine how anybody thinks that that's gonna work.
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Oh and he's gonna pay for all this, by the way,
this wholesale change. I guess he'll save a lot of
money on police. But he's gonna have to have somebody
to come by and pick up the pieces for victims
of crime. That is gonna skyrocket if there's no If
there's no enforcement, there's no law. There's gonna be nobody
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out there to keep you from having someone walk up
to you and just take whatever you've got unless you
can defend yourself. And I guess if there's no police
out there there, well, I don't I don't know how
that could possibly work. What are they gonna do if
there's a if there's an issue, are they some guys
in the in the subway and mentally ill person starts
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swinging a knife at somebody on the platform? Mom, Donny's strategy,
I guess is to what send a social worker out there,
maybe sit down and have lunch with the guy and
maybe maybe ask him what's really bothering. Uh, They're gonna
have to They're gonna have to have a whole lot
of help for the I don't know who would volunteer
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for that job. First of all. First, first social worker
who's told go go deal with this guy who's got
a gun, is gonna say no, call the police. Oh wait,
we can't. Just very frustrated, very frustrated. Lighten her up
on the way out. I've got five things here, six
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actually that are decent conversation starters. I would think a
family in San Francisco adopted a dog after their dog
passed away. A DNA test showed their new dog entirely
unbeknownst to them to be their deceased dog's son. That's
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that is that on a one to ten, Will or
on a thumb kind of up or kind of down?
How interesting and noteworthy is that story? None at all?
You don't care that it's the dog's son. I thought
this just touched me a little bit.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
Um.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
I might have to swing by a Krispy Kreme store today,
and you might want to as well, if you love
Krispy Kreme donuts, because it is their eighty eighth birthday.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Now.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
I told Will about this too. I think he might
go get some donuts after work. You buy a dozen.
Your second dozen costs in line with the birthday eighty
eight cents. Two dozen donuts for one dozen plus eighty
eight cents and I guess plus about six or seven
pennies in tax. Whatever it takes a sixty one year
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I put physical attraction on this one. Pardon me, and
it's not what you think. Sixty one year your old
guy on Long Island critically injured, I believe yesterday after
he wandered into a hospital's MRI room with a big
old chain necklace on. The magnets sucked him right in.
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Witnesses say he absolutely ignored orders to stay out of
the room. Oh no, I'll be okay. I'm big and tough.
It turns out he wasn't nearly as tough as an
MRI machine. Nobody is. I wouldn't walk in there with
a paper clip in my pocket under that won't work out? Well,
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this one really kind of got my attention. Thirty seconds right,
will thumbs up? Yeah, thank you. The votevoting age in
the UK is being reduced to sixteen. That would never
work here, It wouldn't How about the How about a
vote for every citizen who actually works and pays taxes,
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or has a legitimate health issue that prevents them from
working in paying taxes. If influencers in the teenage world
start influencing voters at sixteen, we're all doomed. I'm out
of here. Thank you all so very much for listening.
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