Number One Non-Chocolate Candy

Today, Doug Pike discusses candy, exercise, and moving.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey, John, how's it going today?

Speaker 1 (00:20):
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Speaker 2 (00:42):
And now fifty plus with Doug Pike. Honey, Oh, here
we go. Tuesday edition of the program starts now last
what fifty five minutes, fifty four minutes, something like that,
Whatever we've got left in the hour minus the breaks.
Welcome to Tuesday. As I said, one of several tragic
days already, and a couple of more to come for

(01:03):
folks down there in Jamaica, in Haiti, Eastern Cuba, the
Dominican Republic, and just a pretty large handful of smaller
islands that may or may not wind up in the
path of Hurricane Melissa, which, as her is a Category
five storm, is going to have sustained winds crowding one

(01:24):
hundred and seventy miles an hour, Beryl, I'm guessing will Beryl,
what maybe ninety maybe maybe one hundred miles an hour
for a very brief period, and old Melissa here, Holy cow.
To consider this, the winds at a cat fiver are

(01:45):
around one hundred and seventy to one hundred and ninety
something like that. Just outrageously strong winds, as strong as
storms can get pretty much without falling apart. And to
compound that risk to all of those islands I just mentioned,
this thing is only moving currently at least at three
miles per hour. That's a big, old wide thing, seventy

(02:07):
eighty one hundred miles probably at least wide, and it's
moving at three miles an hour, which is it's the
strongest storm that's hit that region in about forty years.
Almost forty years, I think thirty seven I think is
the word I heard or the number I heard, And
forecasters are talking about it dumping more than three feet
of rain before it moves out. Now, the slight advantage

(02:33):
to being on an island like that is the water
always has somewhere to go, which is back into the ocean.
But when the wind's blowing one hundred and seventy miles
an hour. It really doesn't matter. It's it's just going
to be a train wreck down there, and I feel
sorry for those people. Already a few dead in Jamaica
and a couple of more in I think it was Haiti,

(02:54):
but this is a big one and it's moving slowly,
and I really feel for those Peoplebody who's lived here
longer than a hot minute knows what it's like to
go through a hurricane. It's not fun. It affects some
people more than others. There are almost always lives lost.
I suspect there's a hurricane somewhere that's come onto the
US mainland and not killed anybody. But it's just it's

(03:18):
a hard thing to get through, especially if your house
is not in tip top condition or and you haven't
been able to maintain it as you would like to.
Some people just don't have the resources to take care
of everything, and they're usually the ones who wind up
being hurt the worst, and they're the ones who can
least afford the hurt. It's very frustrating on the flip side,

(03:42):
almost just somewhat embarrassing. I guess for our region, we're
blessed this week with a forty chance of rain today,
and I'll take whatever rain I can get at the
house still, and then a chance of rain goes away tonight,
I guess, and then tomorrow for six kentuckut consecutive, he said,
correctly days, six consecutive days of no rain and cooler

(04:06):
weather on top of that, highs in the sixties for
Wednesday and Thursday, with lows in the fifties. Then some
warmer days but nothing anything like summertime. And each night
low's hovering around sixty degrees, so you don't have to
run the ac all night again. Now that sixty degree

(04:28):
line is going to be somewhere kind of north and
south of I ten. If you're north of IT ten,
you might get lows in the fifties overnight. If you're
south of I ten, they might be sixty, sixty two,
sixty five somewhere in there. But it's going to be
dogone nice weather no matter how you cut it, for
the next solid week. Once we get over whatever little

(04:48):
threat of rain there is this afternoon, once that passes,
cold front comes through, which by the way, is going
to help shove Melissa back into the Atlantic Ocean. Once
it gets over there, those people have still several days
of hard heart stuff coming at them. Markets surged upward early,
with the Dow climbing more than two hundred points before ten,

(05:10):
then kind of settled back a little bit just after eleven.
Two of the three other big markers, also Green and Apple,
if in case you haven't heard and care, Apple climbed
into a new level of net worth, joining in Nvidia
and Microsoft in the four trillion dollar evaluation club. That's it,

(05:31):
just three of them worth four trillion dollars, you know.
I hope my son comes up with an idea like
that someday, and I hope I live long enough to
peel off a couple of hundred mil for the biggest
yacht you ever saw. I really wouldn't do that with
that kind of money, honestly, I straight up I would
give a lot of it away. I really would, because

(05:54):
as senior as I am in seniority, I don't I
don't know that I could do enough things just to
please myself personally. Just go on enough fishing trips and
hunting trips and and travel and see the world. I'd
like to see that. I'd like to see the Pyramids.
I think that would be cool. There's places in Europe

(06:16):
I would like to go. I've only been over there
once and it was a mostly fishing trip, which was fantastic.
I don't mind being away from the big cities. Big
cities are just kind of big cities, and in Europe
they're older and have more history. Over here, they're giant
skyscrapers and whatnot. But I like being out in the
countryside with the people who got callouses on their hands

(06:40):
and and know how to change a tire. That's what
I like. That's where, that's where for me the fun starts.
I guess very quickly before we have to go to break.
Gold fell below four thousand dollars I think yesterday at
some point. Shed more than fifty an ounce today and
was down around thirty nine seventy five a little while ago.

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Oil also down a little more than a buck of barrel.
I'm gonna talk with Brad Schwiss from Houston Gold Exchange
on Thursday to find out just what's causing these big
moves up and down in gold. Normally it's a few
dollars here, a little bit of red, little bit of green,
no big deal. But we've had chunks of fifty one
hundred dollars an ounce lately, and I want to find

(07:21):
out what's driving that and whether it's a better time
to buy or sell. It's really hard to tell. I
don't know. He will. We'll get to that when we
get to it. Berry Hill Baja Grill. That is where
my wife and I ate there. What was it Friday night?
I think it might have been Friday as a matter
of fact, probably do it again before the week's out.

(07:42):
We run by there, pick it up, take it home.
It's a beautiful family run restaurant over there on fifty nine,
family run, family friendly. When you walk in, well before
you walk in, you'll see the outdoor dining area, which
is gonna be that's gonna be preferred seating for the
next week, that's for sure in the evenings. And then
on top of that, you go in and it's just very relaxed,

(08:03):
like I said, as long as you're just dressed and
you come on in and have a seat. On the
left side in the family area that's tables and booths.
The right side's more of a sports bar. I suspect
there'll be a baseball game on TV tonight in there,
and whatever you can imagine being delicious in the Textmax Field.
That's what you get at Berry Hill Baja Grill. They

(08:25):
have two people, the two primary cooks in their kitchen
have been in there each for more than ten years,
and they have a great time putting out a delicious,
consistent product. It's traditional text mex but with a Berry
Hill twist. And to find out what that twist is,
you'll have to just go in there and see for yourself.

(08:47):
Berryhillsugarland dot com is the website they're at on fifty
nine inbound side at Sugar Creek Boulevard. I've been eating
there for thirty years, as has my wife and my son,
and a whole lot of regulars in that place almost
every single night. Great people, great fun atmosphere, very friendly
to Berryhillsugarland dot com. They'll cater all over town. By

(09:09):
the way, Berryhillsugarland dot com. What's life without a nap?
If I suggest you go to bed, leave it off,
just wait until the show's over. Sleepy.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
It's over here playing the console keyboard. Could you see
my fingers just moving all over the place? Will no?
Probably not? Oh you did look at that I did
not strike a single bad note either. That was amazing.
I was just playing right along that guy. I'm fascinated
by keyboard stuff. I dabbled years ago, years and years ago,

(09:43):
long before my son was born. And at some point,
maybe when he goes off to college, I'll get back
into it, sit down and see if I can compose
something else. Today is National Chocolate Day, and so far
neither Will nor I has done anything to celebrate. But
I suspect I could talk myself into something something chocolate

(10:06):
this evening. Maybe perhaps the chocolate tery Lechiz from berry Hill,
or perhaps something as simple as a Reese's peanut butter cup.
I'm kind of a fan of those. I always have been,
although I find myself more and more able to resist

(10:27):
when I'm standing there in the grocery store and I'm
watching my bill go over one hundred dollars when it
used to go to about forty five for the same stuff,
and I'm able to resist reaching out and just grabbing
one of those little two cup packages that's been on
the candy shelf for a thousand years and tossing it
down into the pile. I don't do that anymore. I'm

(10:50):
very proud to say I've given up on a lot
of sweets, and I don't know whether it's made me
better or worse for it, but I just I truly. Okay,
that's what I'm gonna tell I'm practicing for when I
go get my physical in a couple of weeks. I'm trying, period,
end of story, best I can do at my age,

(11:10):
and that's just gonna have to be good enough. Actually
I could do a little better. I could do a
little better. Do you exercise often? Will daily? Thumbs up
or thumbs down? On daily? Once a week? Still no
thumb Oh okay, you know that's fair. In our world,
there's not really a lot of spare time, and I'm

(11:34):
guilty as anybody of thinking, Okay, surely I can find
fifteen minutes in a day, But a lot of times
when I'm trying to carve out that fifteen minutes, I
end up sitting down in a big brown chair and
falling asleep. And my wife and my son, to their credit,
usually will let me just sleep right through whatever my

(11:54):
NAP's got going on, unless I have something I have
to do, or unless the house catches on. Hopefully it
won't in any event, exercise very important. As doctor John
Higgins that I have mentioned every single time I have
interviewed him, which is probably coming up on I would
say at least two dozen times, and maybe more throughout

(12:17):
his history of helping me on this show. With various
and sundry medical topics, we never get through one without
in some way, shape or form, diet and exercise being
on the plate. Those two things very simple. Eat a
better diet and exercise regularly for just long enough at

(12:37):
least to get your heart rate up. If you're going
to go for a walk, don't just shuffle down to
the mailbox and back. If you're gonna go for a walk,
get out there and put in an honest twenty or
thirty minutes. Start with five minutes, start with two minutes.
If that's all you can do, walk to the mailbox,
but pick up the pace a little bit, and then

(12:58):
the next day go a little bit farther, a little farther,
and try to work yourself up to at least three
or four times a week for twenty thirty minutes. That's
going to help you live longer. Eating a what John
called doctor Higgins calls a colorful plate vegetables, a little meat.
I guess the meat to cook it rare, you can
count that as red. I suppose. In any event, a

(13:20):
nice balanced meal will certainly help you live longer, especially
in conjunction with that exercise. And there ends my sermon
for the day. By the way, only one non chocolate
candy made the top ten for Halloween. Top ten things
that kids want to see in their bags at Halloween.
There's only one that's not chocolate, and that one that's

(13:44):
not chocolate is drum Roll Starburst. Would you have thought
of that? Will? Was that? That was? But do you
have one that's non chocolate? Tell me during the break
and we'll break that news when we get back from that.
Under what I wrote as simple explanation, there was this
big piece I saw today. According to a new report,

(14:08):
the average American spends nearly forty eight percent of their
paycheck within the first forty eight hours, and thirty five
percent of that paycheck is gone within the first twelve hours. Now,
that sounds pretty extravagant and reckless and careless with money.

(14:31):
But what about the hard working folks like me and
like Will who just get that money into the the
account and then start paying down bills. That counts as
the first forty eight hours. That counts as the first
twelve hours. You sit down, you pay your bills first,
and then you see what you can do with the
rest of the money that's left. I really, I genuinely

(14:52):
believe that hard working Americans are taking care of business.
That's why it sounds like they're just throwing their money
away early. But they're taking care of business so they
don't become a burden to society. I've got several friends,
good friends I would call them, who don't have much
money at all. They don't make a lot of money,
they never have made a lot of money, and they

(15:13):
just don't have stuff. But they have integrity, they have pride,
and they take care of their business so that taxpayers
don't have to help them out. They do the best
they can with what they got and get on down
the road. And if I ever need help from somebody,
those are going to be the first people I call

(15:33):
on because they know what it's like. They know what
it's like to need something and not have it, and
I'm sure they've been helped by other people, and I
bet you they would help any of us who really
needed it. If we called on them. Those are the
good people. I think there's a lot of people I
know who have a boatload of money but don't really.

(15:53):
They're just kind of not around. When you need something,
you want to find out. At least when you're young,
you can find out who your real friends are by
telling them you need their help moving. And I'm flashing
back to the story the first time, this one friend
of mine tried to back up a trailer and it
didn't work at all. Tried desperately to back this trailer.

(16:14):
He got it, he got it, he drove in. It
was an apartment deal and this one of our friends
was moving. So this guy's got a truck, it's got
a trailer hitch on it. He goes to the U
haul place or wherever he rents a trailer, and he
drives straight into the very end of a dead ended
parking lane where there's covered parking on both sides. You

(16:38):
know you've been to apartment complexes. He drives all the
way back, parks it, everybody comes out, starts loading stuff up,
and then when it comes to back it out of there.
He's never backed a trailer in his life. That's why
he didn't back it in. That's what we learned the
first when we first asked him about it. Hey, you
going to back this thing out of here? Well, not really.

(16:59):
Any of it had much experience with trailers at that point,
and so the final touch was that the trailer was
actually taken off of the truck, and I think it
was two or three guys, I don't remember how many
it took, but they lifted the tongue of that trailer up,
turned it one hundred and eighty degrees, and walked it

(17:20):
out of the parking lot. And then once it was
out of the way, the guy was able to back
his truck out of there at least. And everybody in
the apartment complex by that time was out there laughing
and clapping and just having a hoot. Danny, I'm surprised
they didn't set up a quick fruit stand or something,
or maybe a lemonade stand for everybody who had come

(17:43):
out there to watch us. I don't recall whether there
were people in lawnchairs, but they would have had plenty
of time to sit there and really soak it up.
And I'm so so glad there were no videos on phones.
There were no phones portable phones then anyway, and nobody
brought out their little brownie instematic or their Kodak movie camera,

(18:04):
and so that's just something that's that's tucked away in
my brain and their brains, never to be seen by
the public. Ever. Let's take a bright shall we Ut
House Institute on Aging is that collaborative of providers all
over town, all over the region really when you count
that most of them are usually in the medical center,

(18:25):
but they also come out to outlying hospitals and clinics
and whatnot on a weekly basis, so that people who
don't want to go in or can't get into the
medicenter can see these specific providers. Because it's it is
they in every discipline of medicine who have gone back
and gott an additional training so that they can apply
their knowledge specifically to us. That is such an advantage,

(18:49):
such an advantage over living in any city where oh yeah,
we've got lots of great doctors here, but none of
them have really gone back and worked on senior medicine.
And that's a growing field because the senior population, as
all of us know, is growing. There are more of
us now than there have been ever, and there will

(19:10):
be more to come by the millions in not that
many years. People who are fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety
years old, even a little bit older. It's leaning in
that direction and we need special attention. Thank you very much.
We've earned it. We've been on this planet a long
time and we want to be here a little bit longer.

(19:30):
Go to the website uth dot edu slash aging. Check
out all the resources they have there. There are tons
of things that you can get your hands on and
take advantage of for absolutely nothing. It's information, it's free.
Go get it. And then if you need them, find
one of those providers and find your way into an

(19:51):
appointment or consultation with one of them close to where
you live. Uth dot edu slash aging, uth dot edu
slash aging. Now they sure don't make them like they
used to.

Speaker 1 (20:04):
That's why every few months we wash him, check his fluids,
and spray on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, welcome back to
fifty plus. Thank you all for listening. I certainly do
appreciate it, as does Will. Will thought it was going
to be sour patch kids, and I kind of agree
with him.

Speaker 2 (20:22):
I told him. I remember seeing sour Patch mentioned somewhere
in some candy list recently, which comes as no surprise.
But I think I would have leaned pretty hard into
into Starbursts because that's They've been around since I was
not since I was a kid, certainly, but since I
was a young man at least, and I kind of

(20:45):
like them. I think they're probably well, no, they're not
like Skittles in that they Skittles apparently have the same
flavor in every color, but nobody seems to care. They're
different colors but the same flavor. I don't think that's
true with Skittle or with the with Starbursts. Is that career, Yeah,
they have different flavors, distinctly different flavors. Not that I've

(21:08):
eaten a ton of candy lately. I'm trying to think
of the last time I bought candy. It's been a while.
From Gavin Newsom's refusal to enforce stricter rules on foreign
born commercial truck driver's desk comes word that a non
domiciled guy meaning not from here CDL license holder, Well,

(21:29):
these guys can drive. Bear in mind, California remains the
only single state laws have been in place and I
talked about this last week. Laws against foreign people who
cannot speak the language and not read the signs is prohibited,
but it's been kind of with a wink and a

(21:50):
nod for many years. And after a couple of recent
incidents in which Americans have been killed by non English speaking,
non English reading foreign illegal immigrant drivers who obtain cdl's
commercial driver licenses, forty nine states signed on and said, yeah,

(22:12):
we're we're not gonna let this happen anymore. We're gonna
start enforcing the rules. We'll get those guys off the road,
and it's going to take about six thousand truck drivers
off the road. If you're if you're wondering what you
could do for work coming up soon, and you speak
English and you're here, you're an American anyway. Gavin Newsom
out in California, unlicensed guy, well licensed, excuse me, he's licensed,

(22:36):
and he and anybody else out in California the only
hold out state still. They can drive tanker trucks, they
can drive buses, they can drive hazardous material vehicles. And
this week some guy driving an eighteen wheeler tried to
make a U turn. Picture your neighborhood, if you live
in a normal neighborhood, a regular old neighborhood, middle class neighborhood,

(23:00):
anywhere in this city. You've got streets about the same size.
You've got lots about the same size. You know what
I'm talking about. Well, some guy who isn't from around here,
out in California, decided he would make a U turn
on a on a neighborhood street in his eighteen wheeler,

(23:24):
and a couple of neighbors got video of this. This
guy's the cab of his truck is about halfway up
into the lot and facing east we'll call it, and
the tail end of his trailer is facing we if
that's east, then that's gonna be northwest. That's the way

(23:48):
the trailer's facing. He's just about pretty much got it
jackknifed where it may never come out of the It
might still be in those yards. Who knows. He ended
up trenching a couple of yards trying to do what
he was doing. He destroyed somebody's gate, but you know what,
it wasn't Gavin's gate, and it wasn't Gavin's neighborhood. So
nothing to see here, nothing to talk about. That guy

(24:12):
between him on the West coast and Mom Donnie on
the East coast. We got issues we need to deal
with as Americans and get this country back on the
right road. Speaking of illegal immigrants doing bad things, Breitbart
had a story today about Shaquilla or yesterday, maybe or
early this morning, it doesn't matter. Shaquille O'Neil wrapped up

(24:35):
in a car theft ring. These guys who are transporting
high dollar vehicles up just a big band of illegal
immigrants who have managed to hack the systems of these
high car, high end car dealers and kind of tap
into where these vehicles are being put together, and where

(24:57):
they're being shipped, and how they're being shipped, who's driving them,
And all of a sudden, Shaquille O'Neill's two hundred thousand
dollars custom range Rover is gone. Who knows where it is.
I don't know whether they got the car back or not.
I do know that they arrested more than a dozen people,
ten of whom share the same last name. I'm not

(25:20):
gonna tell you what it is because I don't want
anybody to think I'm stereotyping anybody. But ten of them
have the same last name, and in Texas, here. Actually,
I was talking to Will about this a minute ago.
Another guy who has the same last name arrested recently
and sentenced to a year in jail for stealing nine
hundred televisions. Only a year ago, a federal judge gave

(25:42):
that same guy migration asylum, which allowed him to remain
in our country even though he came in here illegally,
so and gave him a chance to steal nine hundred televisions.
And as my good friend, former hpd A homicide detective,
Captain Scott All said, when I asked him how many

(26:02):
times they commit crimes per time they get caught, he said,
that's their job, that's what they do twenty four to seven.
So if you get caught once in a year, you
probably did it three hundred and sixty four more times
you just didn't get caught. That's how it works. Unfortunately,
from the good news desk, how much time do I have? Will?
Two minutes? This is perfect. Actually I could do the

(26:24):
big one in two minutes. I'll do this one in
Vision News. In Vision News, the potential for artificial vision
is coming more and more into focus. In your I
wrote that myself. I kind of like that line in
Europe thirty eight patients in seventeen hospitals across five countries.
Blind patients. These are people who had eye conditions that

(26:44):
were deemed to be untreatable, such as GA and dry AMD.
They their vision was gone in these eyes. And what
they did is they inserted a tiny, very micro thin
micro chip that's and planted into the eye and receives
infrared projections via a camera fitted into augmented glasses. And

(27:09):
then you've got a little small computer and a control
panel WARN on your waistband that runs AI algorithms that
then process the infrared information and convert it into a signal.
And the rest of the story was way over my head.
But the bottom line is these people are able to
read letters and numbers and words using this prosthetic vision

(27:32):
through those eyes that were pretty much given up forever
seeing anything again. And that really that opens the door
to people who are vision impaired, vision gone. That opens
the door to them actually being able to see or
at least at least read a book, read a newspaper article,

(27:53):
read anything, read a menu in a restaurant when they
couldn't before. It's a long ways out, granted, most of
these medical things are still kind of hanging out there.
But this was a pretty broad a broad test and
a broad trial, and I hope it continues to get
better for all of them, all of them. All right,

(28:13):
we'll take a little break here and then come back
to wrap her up. Country boys roofing, you know, we're
very fortunate that we haven't knock on wood, had tropical
weather come rolling through Houston. And I hope we don't.
I really do. We're getting more and more out of
the woods right now, and fingers crossed and knock on
wood that we don't have any problems. Now though, is

(28:35):
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significant limbs knocked off a couple of nights ago. When

(28:56):
I came in to do my shows over the weekend.
There was stuff all over the street that probably if
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If they find something little, they may be able to
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(29:18):
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(29:41):
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(30:03):
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(30:25):
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Speaker 1 (31:02):
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If you want to avoid sleeping on the couch.

Speaker 2 (31:09):
Okay, well, I think that sounds like a good plan.

Speaker 1 (31:12):
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug. I'll wake you up.

Speaker 2 (31:16):
Huh. I can't even tap my toe that fast. I
saw a woman yesterday. Where was it? Where was it?
Where was it? Let me think for just one second. Uh,
it was outside the doctor's office. I was outside the
doctor's office. This woman was inside the doctor's office. I
was just sitting there waiting on my wife. Something had
to help her get to too, not through if she
can handle her own knitting. But I just drove her

(31:37):
over there. And in any event, I'm sitting out there
kind of in the office lobby, the main office building lobby,
and this woman's sitting inside the doctor's office, probably pretty young,
because she was wearing the old like Converse style tennis shoes,
and she was tapping her foot at about this pace.

(32:04):
And I watched and she did that for a good
fifteen twenty seconds and then stopped, and I thought, well,
she's just warmed down her old ankles just toast. And
then about ten seconds later, and now I'm fascinated by it.
How long can she keep this up? Can she go faster?

(32:25):
Does she ever go slower? And I've got all these
questions for but I never got to ask him because
my wife came out and we had to go. I
just found that interesting. I'm very easily amused and distracted,
and at the time I was playing games on my phone,
so it wasn't like I was really dialed into anything.
Oh my goodness, where am I gonna go. Let's go

(32:47):
to Let's go to the federal government shut down desk
and some of the things I've been seeing about the
people who are recipients SNAP and EBT payments that are
about to get cut off on November one, if the
Left doesn't go ahead and sign what it needs to

(33:08):
sign off on so that we can just at least
continue status quo and then deal with the details later.
And I, for one, I have no problem standing the
ground of the conservatives in that we don't need to
be bankrolling all these oddball, weird programs halfway around the

(33:30):
world that benefit no American whatsoever. And I'm ninety five
percent convinced that a whole lot of those millions and
in some cases billions of dollars that are being transferred
halfway around the world aren't winding up helping anybody, not
even the people they were directed to help. So here

(33:53):
these people are jumping on social media as fast as
they can to talk about how we the taxpayers are
supposed to be paying their bills for all of their
kids and everybody else, and goodness gracious, they're just somehow
entitled to every dime that they can get from you
and me by filling out as many forms as they

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can fill out, and even though a lot of them
are perfectly capable of working, but they just choose not to.
There was one I saw the other day. I'd say, yes, yesterday,
No it wasn't yesterday, It might have been Saturday or
maybe Sunday. Even this woman just demanding you owe me,
you owe me the money to take care of myself

(34:39):
and my kids. Like, Noel, we don't really owe you
that money. That program, all of these programs were intended
to be bridges between down on your luck and getting
back into it, and no, I don't think so. Just
the same woman I'm talking about talking about how she

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wasn't going to get her money, wasn't going to get
her kids money, and then she layered on another something
she was some check she was supposed to get for
some disability she had, But boy, she sure didn't look
or act disabled in the video. And I know that
some things can't be seen. I get it, but I
just wonder how many of these people are are genuinely

(35:26):
in need of that money but just don't want to work.
How many of them don't want to work? That's what
bothers me and iant I guarantee you there more out
there than we realize. Probably I don't know how many.
And for anybody who genuinely needs that money and is
working two part time jobs to try to get back

(35:48):
on their feet somehow and take care of a family
or maybe just take care of themselves if they if
they're in genuine, legitimate need, then let's help them out
a little bit, but not forever. It's not supposed to
be a lifestyle. It's not supposed to be forever and ever.
And then bring children into the world and teach them
that that's how they need to survive, as well as

(36:09):
just by making sure they maximize the checks and telling
us we have no right to turn off their golden spigot.
It's it's wrong, it's a broken system. It's intended, like
I said, an inception, just to get somebody who falls
on tough times out of those tough times. So they

(36:30):
can get back to work and be contributing to our
society instead of just taking from it. Ah. I saw
something from Bill Maher. It was pretty funny. He's asked
nearly every far left person of prominence in the country
to come on his show, and he says not a
single one of them has accepted the invitation. Why you

(36:54):
might ask, because he's gonna ask them hard questions and
they're not gonna want to answer those questions, honestly, mar not.
He said, Republicans have come on his show and accepted
the challenge he's presented to him, taking their taking their
licks as just as as as best they could, and
then responded as best they could. And that's called civil debate.

(37:15):
That's how this country was formed, and that's what it
should work on. But the left has just decided to
know that it's either their way or the highway, and
that's that's not gonna help them at all. It's not
going to help this country. We got all kinds of
things we need to work on. Talk about tomorrow. I'm
gonna leave it with this real quickly. According to new research,
most popular airport snacks are oreos, jack links, beef jerky,

(37:38):
and Cheetos puffs. I'll take none of the three. We'll
be back tomorrow. Audios.