News of the Day

Today, Doug Pike discusses news.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:47):
All right, Tuesday edition. The program starts right now. I
am trying to get my laptop do what I want
to do, and it doesn't. I don't know what this
screen is. This is kind of crazy. We'll figure it out.
We'll make it through, no doubt about that. Oh the
other I think that worked out pretty well. Let's go

(01:07):
over here. No, I'm not really sure where this goes.
We've got all kinds of things going on. I can
tell you that, and I mean, just it's very simple.
Right now. What's the first thing I guess I want
to talk about is probably well, to welcome you all
and thank you for being here. The next thing I'd
kind of like to get done is to I'm going

(01:28):
to pop this little document up here. Gosh, everything is
totally frozen on my laptop. That's crazy, absolutely crazy. I'm
looking at the last page of a document that i'd
like to see all of I'm looking at the top
page of half a document, and I don't know why
that's done that. This is just some quite the hot mess.

(01:49):
I will let me start with first of all, the weather,
and I after my thank you for joining us, there
are where there were once only I want to say,
there was one little yellow blob and then not that
many days ago, just four or five days ago, probably
there was nothing on that map, and it said there
wouldn't be anything for seven days. And then I popped

(02:10):
it open this morning, knowing full well that there was
there was potential for some good stuff, well bad stuff,
depending on where you live. And lo and behold one
red and that was I can't remember the name on
this particular storm. It's a tropical storm somebody. And then
two big yellow blob or orange blobs excuse me, not
even yellow anymore. There orange. That's the bad news. The

(02:33):
good news is the one right off kind of right off.
The Carolinas is supposed to move on out into the
Atlantic Ocean and then the big giant one in the
Atlantic Ocean already that's about on level ground horizontally with
maybe Florida, Texas. If it were to go dead west,

(02:56):
it would come rolling up our streets at some point.
But it too is supposed to take a gradual right
turn and hopefully hopefully become something less sinister and less serious.
Can only hope from the good news. I saw this.

(03:17):
It relates to AI, and I wanted to go ahead
and tee it up a little bit earlier in the
show that I normally would have. But there is a
tendency now among some of the bigger insurance companies. And
it doesn't name names in the little story that I saw,
but I suspect that if one's doing it and making
money off of it, then others are going to do

(03:39):
just the same in hopes of adding to their bottom lines.
And what they're doing when people put in claims for
particular procedures or whatever, they're using AI to generate the declines. Sorry,
that's not covered, but it's said so eloquently and with

(04:00):
a little bit of backup, because AI, after all knows everything. Well,
what's happening, though, is some physicians are fighting back by
using similar AI to very quickly appeal those decisions on
behalf of themselves, because they'd like to make a little
money for all that education they got, and on behalf

(04:21):
of their patients who are paying through the teeth as
you and I and most people are for good medical insurance,
well for medical insurance anyway. I don't know how good
it is sometimes these days, but we are entitled, I think,
to be paid what's due. And I guess ultimately years
from now, not many, probably you and I will be

(04:43):
the only pawns in an AI game back and forth
to see just exactly us and our doctors be these
pawns in a game to see just how much the
other side, one side can extract from the other, who
can make the most money, And that's that's the side
that's gonna win. That's the side that's gonna win. Unfortunately,

(05:05):
let me go. I'm trying desperately to see this one
document and it refuses to show up, and I really
don't know why, but it's the most important one I
have on this screen somewhere. Oh, I think I can
see it. If I can get that out of here. Yeah,
just get a little bit of it. One of the
things that I'm really disturbed about in Texas anyway, is

(05:26):
this mass exodus of Democrats who went up north. A
lot of them went to Chicago, some of them, I think,
went to other states. And Governor Abbott has decided he's
had about enough of this, and what he's doing is
trying for all he is worth to get them back
here and has even ordered their arrest to make sure
that happens. So far, not much of anything has happened,

(05:50):
but at some point it will, and that they're actually
up against also up to five hundred dollars a day
fines for being MI I A and pretty much basically
just throwing away the duty they have to the people
who voted them into office. It's a little bit disturbing,
it really is. And I'm not sure why it would

(06:10):
do that, or why they would do that, except that
they just didn't like one of the things that they
were gonna have to vote on, and because they didn't
like it, they found reason to just abandon ship. Well,
we're not going to stick around for that. We have
no reason to stick around for that. We'll make it
so you can't vote on it either, because if enough
of us leave, then you don't have a quorum, and

(06:32):
if you don't have a quorum, you can't take your vote.
There was a time in American politics where even people
who disagreed strongly would agree that the process had to continue,
and they would go in there and they would cast
their vote against something that they didn't want to happen,
knowing full well that the majority were gonna make it happen.

(06:53):
But then it would just it would just steal them
to continue to fight for what they want. It. It
was that simple. And why it's not that simple anymore,
I really don't know. It's frustrating. I know that it's
extremely frustrating to watch these people do this. I've got
a couple of more stories that are about politicians and
things they're doing these days that we'll get to in

(07:16):
a little wall. I'll go ahead and take this break
a little early. I'm I'm gonna take a big hammer
to this laptop and see if I can't get the
documents I want to at least show up on the screen,
if not in printed for them, I much prefer to
have the sheets in front of me so that I
can write on them. And I don't think I can
get my ballpoint pen to write on this laptop screen

(07:37):
all the way out. Champions Tree Preservation. You remember, Beryl,
You remember most of us, remember all the way back
to even Carla. If that's not a lot of hurricanes
that go, they come and they go. But man, when
they hit here, they tear the place up. When they
hit anywhere, they tear the place up. And a lot
of that tearing up happens to the trees, at least

(07:58):
the ones that weren't in good shape and ones that
couldn't withstand the constant pressure of a hurricane blowing first
one direction on them and then another direction after the
eye passes. You want to solve that problem for your trees,
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(08:19):
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(08:41):
can watch grow just like you did the other ones.
Get that assessment. Make sure your trees are ready. One
of the things I learned from Irwin Costellanos the day
he came to my house was that you can over
water and it's very easy. Most oak trees around here,
he said, especially in yards that have elaborate gardens out
front that require a lot of water. Most of those

(09:04):
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(09:25):
two zero eighty two zero one Aged to Perfection. This
is fifty plus with Dougpike. It's gonna be closed. It's
gonna be closed. I got my laptop rebooted, and I'm
hoping that document pops right on up when it opens up. Uh.
If it doesn't, we'll find something else talk about. I've
got all kinds of things here, but there were some

(09:47):
very timely things that I wanted to get to and
it's really frustrating. Technology is fantastic until it's not, and
then there's nothing that someone of my skill level with
it can really come up with. It's gonna make anyth diference.
One of the things I did want to mention, and
I did not forget this one. Jasmine Crockett back in

(10:07):
the news, because I think she she's really full of
herself and decided that she can say anything and do
anything she wants without repercussion. But I think she stepped
over a line when she chose. And I'm all for
free speech, Okay, I have no problem with free speech,

(10:30):
but I also I have a fondness for decorum, a
fondness for civility over vulgarity, and a fondness for mutual
respect for people who have been elected into office. And she,
during a speech this week, decided she will call she

(10:52):
would call President Trump a piece of well, you know what.
And I found that very disturbing that she thought that
was okay. That's not okay. She can disagree all she wants,
she can shout her disagreement from the rooftops, but to

(11:15):
come out and use that language to describe the president
who she may not like him, but he was elected
by a majority of Americans, and she did herself and
her party no fair, as if they needed anything else
to drag him lower down in popularity. She I wish

(11:35):
she every now and then she'll say something that almost
makes sense, but she hides all of well what little
of that there is behind this blanket of just being rude,
being just not the kind of person that I think
that her constituents really want to have in office. So

(12:00):
she just keep doing what she's doing. All these little
documents are trying so hard to tee it up. Here.
There's one of them that came up. Let's see if
the other one will come up now, wouldn't that be nice?
Oh my gosh, be still my heart. All right, So
I have my stuff here now and I can go
along the path I wanted to go on. And by

(12:21):
the way, the market's still on their well, they were
up until a little while ago, kind of on a
downward path. It started out pretty low. They dropped a
couple of hundred points, I think the dal did, but
by the way, it was still even at that point,
about five thousand points north of where it was a
year ago. So there are some touch points out, there's
some little hot points that are impacting prices. But I

(12:45):
do still strongly believe that most Americans, and the polls
say so, are confident in the current direction UH and
the administration that's guiding it. There. The loud ones, the
jasmine crockets in the world are gonna scream and call
names and call the people who are in charge now

(13:05):
bad for a millian reasons, But when you look at
how the country's going, you realize that they're really not
so bad. If you like higher salaries, if you like
more money, if you like any of those things that
most of us do like, good job out outlook, good
economic outlook. In state news, as I mentioned, Governor Abbott

(13:29):
is he's ordered the arrest of these Democrats that took
off rather than stay for that vote. So we'll see
how that turns out. I don't need to go over
that again. I'm gonna go there. I got that one
taken care of the other. By the way, the other
political disrespect news of the week comes from a US REP.
A federal or a national Rep. Delia Ramirez, Illinois Democrat,

(13:54):
joined members of the squad at a conference or a
conference excuse me, in Mexico, Mexico City specific. They're speaking
into the microphone and representing the United States of America
as an elected official. She said this, and I quote,
I'm a proud guatemalin before I'm an American end quote.

(14:16):
She said that during her speech, in which she, by
the way, also accused our country of prioritizing attempts at
world domination, which is that we're not trying to dominate anything.
We're just trying to get a fair shake. That's what
the people who have allowed us to get so far
in the hole don't realize, is that we're right now.
We're just trying to get back to where we were

(14:38):
and then make it better for us. That's what President
Trump's doing. He's not looking to dominate the world. He
just wants a fair shake for Americans. He wants us
to occupy the right position in the world, one of
strength from negotiation, not from anything else. Really, white House

(14:59):
very quick too, can dim her words too, And and
those of others who are taking their anti American tour
on the road on tax dollars. Mind you, they're they're
they're being they're being paid. They're not having to spend
a dime to go halfway around the world or in
this case, just to Mexico City and talk about how
bad America is. I don't see how they can justify

(15:20):
any of that. It makes no sense at all, none whatsoever.
White House spokesperson Liz Huston told Fox News Digital this
and I quote again, these Democrats' comments are despicable and
underscore their commitment to putting Americans last end quote. That's

(15:43):
that's what she said, and I couldn't agree with her more.
They're they're just hell bent on on letting you and
me foot the bill for them to go around and
bad mouth us and and try to turn us into
a socialist or Marxist or any other thing country. Uh
more from more from Liz Huston, and I'll quote from
the same conversation. In start contrast, President Trump is working

(16:06):
tirelessly to secure peace deals, to port illegal alien criminals,
and advance America's interests at home and abroad. End quote.
It's a pretty good thing. By the way, we are
right in the midst of the teacher of the day
around here, and that teacher of the day is an
important person. This is somebody you might remember from whoever,

(16:29):
however long ago, maybe, and you want to acknowledge that
teacher of yours who made such an impression on you.
Today's teacher Today's Teacher of the Day is Samantha Newton,
who teaches at Campbell Middle School and who folks told
us makes it her goal to not only teach academics,

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but also to build confidence and community one student, one
student at a time. You can nominate somebody. Go to
iHeartRadio and look for the Teacher of the Day area,
and what you need to do is name someone who
is a teacher in a public school around here and

(17:13):
ask us to highlight them a little later in the month.
We're going to keep this up for quite a while,
and hopefully a lot of really good teachers are going
to be named, and a lot of really good thoughts
will be placed into other teachers heads, into other people's heads,
so we can we can regain our education system. I

(17:35):
saw something the other day about the grade schedules out
in California, and the thing that I saw was just ludicrous,
and it reminded me so much of California, and I
did a little digging, and what I saw was not
entirely accurate, not entirely accurate. While the source I saw

(17:55):
is that it may be being used over parts of
the state, but by and large, California's grading system is
close to not quite, not quite up to what most
states have, I think as far as what's an A
of B, A, C, A, D, N and F. But
that chart, which the source said it may very well

(18:19):
be used in some parts of the state. We're not
going to go looking for every school district to see
what they use, but that one particular one had an
A as anything from I believe it was eighty four
or eighty six and above, and a B was from
sixty four to eighty four in a C was forty

(18:41):
four to sixty four. So and it just it just
fell apart even more from there. No wonder our countries
having a hard time. If you can, if you can
score forty eight in some in any school district and
get a C and be declared ready to move on
to the next level, you're not. You're not ready for
anything except to go back and do what you did

(19:03):
again so that hopefully you can do better this time.
That all of these there are just so many things
that we've got what is wrong with this keyboard. Move
move there we go. All right, I gotta go. I'm
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Speaker 1 (20:57):
Yeah, they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash him, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike middle of the middle of
the middle of.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
The day, halfway through of fifty plus by the way.
I may have misspoken about the teacher of the day
today because I had because of the issue with my
laptop and the printer, both printers all three balking on me.
I think I used the one that we had last Friday. Will,

(21:34):
But I know who the teacher of the day is
today now. It's Samantha Newton, who teaches at Campbell Middle School.
And yeah, this is what tied. Yeah, I had the
right one. Thank goodness I did too, Thank goodness I did.
Moving forward, if you haven't seen it yet, this is

(21:54):
a story I've watched since day one last week, and
it's it's so disturbing, really. And if you haven't seen
the follow up to the big riot in Cincinnati in
which a gang, a mob of street thugs just went
to beaten up people, just do a search for a

(22:17):
riot victim speaks out and you will see video and
at least pictures for sure of the woman who found
herself in the headlines because she's the one who got
sucker punched by a man and fell backward onto the concrete.
This woman's the entire right side of her face is

(22:41):
bruised and bloodied and horribly discolored. She is suffering from
tremendous brain issues caused either by the punch or the fall,
one of the two. And there are still people on
the far left who are supporting what happened that day,

(23:04):
and that is probably the most disturbing thing of all.
Just go go watch that again and then unders understand
that there's just no excuse for what a couple of
people have said. Some people already are saying that this
was sparked because racial terms were being thrown around out there,

(23:28):
But the Cincinnati Police themselves, who have who have gone
through all of it and gone back over it and
not found that to be the case, they're just saying that, look, this,
that's not what caused this. And even if bad words
were being thrown around Chasmin Crockett, why would that Why

(23:52):
does that validate the brutal beating and kicking in the
face and in the ribs and the back of people
who were at that point totally defenseless. Whatever happened to
sticks and stones. Nobody got hit with a stick, nobody

(24:12):
got hit with a stone. They were just even if
it's true, they were just words that were being thrown around,
and that that cannot be enough to trigger what happened
to those people. City councilwoman up there, by the way,
there's been no apology whatsoever from pretty much anybody who
should have known better, should have should have been out

(24:34):
there and responded faster. Whatever city councilwoman actually said. And
I'm kind of paraphrasing, but I know I'm really close.
They begged for this beat down, that's what she said.
Nobody begged to get kicked and punched, and the people

(24:56):
who took the worst of it had nothing to do
even with the onset of what a rupt did. That night,
I heard somebody, I think it was a Fox News guy,
talking about how street gangs and this bear in mind,
this is the this is the mom Donnie policing. Street
gangs take over the street whenever and wherever they want to.
They just go out looking for trouble, and as soon

(25:16):
as they can find something to blame, they start swinging
and kicking and just beating up innocent people. And we
cannot allow that, just can't allow that to happen. There's
kind of an associated story to this one. Let me
see if I can find it. Yeah, I saw an
internet story this morning by way of I think it

(25:38):
was MSN which you know which way this one's going
to go. That it claims that it's uncovered some sort
of doomsday plot that would use in US military forces
to gain control of American city streets, especially with immigration issues,
with violence and all this stuff, and for years to come.

(25:58):
And the headline included the term forever war, implying that
our US military was going to be used to start
something horrific against its own people. And that's not what's
going on here. The ones who still hate President Trump
are saying that they might think there's some diabolical plot

(26:19):
to dissolve state and city government and replace it by
force with our own military. I can see him thinking that.
But here's the deal. There are cities in this country
that have been entirely taken over by progressives and by
liberals in politics, who have then, through lacks, if not

(26:41):
nearly non existent law enforcement, have handed the streets to
the bad guys, violent criminals. They get arrested, they get
put back on the street, over and over and over again.
And we really do need to consider some alternative to
regain some feeling of safety, which is what we should
feel well wherever we go and whatever we're doing, retailers.

(27:03):
They're ignoring shoplifters now because they don't want to be
threatened by lawsuits or worse yet, somebody coming in and
burning down their store, so they just have to let
them go. They let them go with an armload of
expensive stuff that you and I end up paying for.
Murderers set free on criminal bonds, just little bitty money,
just ridiculously low money, only to get rearrested days or

(27:26):
weeks later for more serious charges. And that's not always
the first time they've committed another crime, it's just the
first time they've gotten caught after that other first time.
And that's what they do. That's their profession, and as
long as you let them out to continue doing that profession,
that's what they're going to do. Democratic governors and mayors
aren't going to make their cities and states safer. Well,

(27:47):
maybe it will take some intervention of some sort. California
comes to mind, where the mayor. The mayor and the
governor both have just demanded that federal law enforcement teams
go away. They don't want ice in their state. They
don't want illegal immigrants bothered by threat of being deported.
These are people who aren't supposed to be here, and

(28:10):
they are being removed from our country, which is gonna
make us a lot safer if you just look at
the records of these people they're taken out of here,
and it goes all the way back. And when people
start saying, well, they're not bad criminals, the fact that
they're here illegally, that's breaking the law. And we have
to start somewhere. This has got to stop. It's really

(28:32):
got to stop. And thank god, the current administration's got
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Speaker 1 (30:33):
Plan fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug.

Speaker 2 (30:37):
Final segment of the program starts right now. Thank you
all for joining us today. Apologies for the technical difficulties
on TV. They just if that happens, they just put
up a different screen and if the audio is still
on it, all all you hear is sh Remember that, well,

(30:58):
you're you're probably too young to remember when TV just
shut off at midnight. Correct, you've had, Yeah, you've had
twenty four to seven video distraction your entire life. When
I was a kid, about midnight, they just did the show, ended,

(31:18):
the last commercial, ran some doctor promoting cigarettes, and then
it just went to a test pattern, some sort of
test pattern. It reminded me of it was a circular thing,
But I don't remember really any of the details beyond that.
I don't. By the way, today, in case you didn't hear,

(31:42):
is National Underwear Day. I don't know why anybody paid
money to get that one. Up there. I've decided to
celebrate by hanging my underwear from the rearview mirror of
my car. So here's my idea. Let's all do that
on the way home from work today and just watch
for each other on the freeway and if I see anybody,

(32:03):
If I see any car with underwear hanging from the
rearview mirror, I don't know how I could identify you,
but if I find a way, I might have a
way to find out who that is. It'd be awkward,
but I could probably do it through connections, and maybe

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I'll find something I don't know. I'll handshake, y'all, I'll
give you a big shout out on the show. I'll
do something in recognition of that. What do you think
there's any snowball chance at all will that I will
see underwear hanging off of a rearview mirror on the
way home. And to follow up on that with one

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more question, if if I did, what are the odds
that it would be something I'd really want to look at?
Probably zero? Probably zero. That that's the scary part about
opening something like that up to the public, because you
don't know who's going to participate. It's kind of like
when you're a youngster and you hear that there are
places called nudist camps and you think, oh, that must

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be awesome, and that at some point in your life
you see a picture of nudists playing volleyball and you go, eh,
not what I thought it was going to be. In
this week's news about the Russian dossier hoax, stack of
evidence that implicates some of the most influential and powerful
politicians in this country continues to grow. By the way,

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this so called Russia Gate files absolutely loaded, it turns out,
with things that just generate undeniable links from one end
of that fictitious load of lize to the other to
some really, really, really big names the DNI, the Director
of National Intelligence Tulci Gabbard, told Fox News Jesse Waters

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that it was one whistleblower who was able to really
blow the lid off this case and kind of connect
the dots. There were holes in some of the original
documentation that people who were investigating kind of had to
scratch their heads over. They couldn't really understand it, they
couldn't figure it out. But then this whistleblower came around

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and said, Okay, well, now this is how you get
from A to G, and this is how you get
from G to L. And all of these blanks are
coming together, and she was able to just kind of
get around what they were calling deep state obstacles. I
don't know who this person is, but I assure her
hope they're under locking keys that well, not locking key,

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but just in some very safe place. You can just
guess they've already been talking about who's involved in this.
I'm almost scared to say the names. Feel somebody's gonna
come knocking on my door in the middle of the night.
This is crazy. It's not going away either. When the
hammer finally falls, every eye is gonna be dotted, every
t is gonna be crossed. There's gonna be no way
that they can wiggle out. There are gonna be no

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there's gonna be no escape routes from kind of having
to come to terms with what they've done. I saw
one story I found somewhat interesting. Missouri state trooper arrested
three people over the weekend after they were allegedly found
with multiple pounds it says here of methamphetamine in their car,

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and one of the women had a glass smoking pipe
inside her purse. Of what hold on inside her person.
I'm sorry I misread that in the I'm too lazy
to run? How can I get more fit? Category? Here's
an activity that it says here, and I bet you

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couldn't guess it in a million years. It says here
that if you do this activity, it's good for your brain.
It helps with hand eye coordination and balance, and it
improves your posture and can even burn up to two
hundred and eighty calories an hour. I'd have to do
it probably for about ten hours a day to be effective.

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That activity is juggling. I can juggle two things in
one hand. And I'm not talking about flaming chainsaws. I'm
just talking about tennis balls or golf balls or something
like that. But once I get past it, and there
was a time in my life actually when I was
able to, for brief periods of time, like maybe ten seconds,

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handle three things in the air, not in the air,
but one in the air and one in each hand
as I just moved them from I think it was
right to left and up and over. I'm left handed. Somehow,
some way, I've forgotten anything and everything I ever knew
about anything and ever everything I ever knew about juggling,
and so now I'm just a dude who can toss

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a I can toss a ball up in the air
and catch it on the way down. That's about what
I got left, uh under the keep it moving thing.
If you're going to Louisiana anytime soon and you're kind
of a slow driver anyway, here's the deal. Law just
went in effect over there that bans dry from driving
below the speed limit in the left lane on highways.
Why don't we have that here? They have it in
Florida and probably in some other states where they are

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where they are protective of the people who would actually
like to go the speed limit and get where they're
going before dark. But here's the deal. You can be
sighted and fined or even jailed over there. I don't
see this ever happening for being just one mile an
hour under the speed limit in the left lane and
from the crypt creepy and cringey desk. I'll finish with

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this for today and maybe we'll lighten it up again
to Mark because this is weird. A Danish zoo is
facing backlash for asking people to donate their pets. Okay,
no cats or dogs, but rabbits, chickens, guinea pigs, miniature horses,
any of those. If you'd like to donate them, they
would be happy to have them and feed them to

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their large carnivores. Happy trails, Audios,