October 15, 2024 • 38 mins
Today, Doug Pike discusses tomorrow's temperature, useless world records, and baseball.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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All right, welcome a board, Thanks for listening. Certainly do
appreciate it. Had a technical malfunction here and Will jumped
right up and said, plug it into the other one,
and that worked. Sometimes he's sayings, just fritz out and
go crazy. And I'm so accustomed to them working perfectly
that I don't even have a backup plan. But that's
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why Will is here, keep me on the air. Good job.
Will he even I'll tell you how far above and
beyond he goes. He is even neglected to go serve
himself a plate of delicious barbecue that's out there in
the kitchen area, just to make sure he was here
on time to get this show started. It's just amazing, Will,
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It's just amazing. I say, thank you. Oh, well, you're
welcome there you go, so welcome Tuesday, and sincere, thanks
for sharing your lunch hour. I had about four minutes
and was able to slam down probably seventy percent of
what I had put on my plate out there. So
if I have to go to a break early later
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in the program, it'll be because I ate way too fast.
It's good stuff too. We have barbecue from Rudi's out
there by the way, in case you're wondering. Ah, actually,
I'm trying to reduce the number. I don't consider barbecue
to be empty calories. I'm looking at that as protein.
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I ate some pulled pork, I ate some brisket, and
I ate some sausage, none of which I think is
particularly heart held. Oh in some cream corn. I love
the cream corn at Rudy's. Got that done. And hopefully,
speaking of empty calories, when I go back out there,
I will discover as if you go out there and
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get some lunch, will be sure to check and see
if there's any cobbler. I'm kind of I got my
fingers crossed for that. I didn't see it, but I
may have been in such a hurry that I could
have overlooked it with everything that's out there, But let
me know if you go out and grab yourself a plate.
So anyway, I feel like I'm making a little progress
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with my attempt to peel off a pound or two
or ten. Oh my gosh, here's somebody else. This guy knows,
he absolutely knows that I'm on the air right now,
and he's calling me because he forgot. That's okay, get
back to him. Let's go ahead and take a look outside.
I'm just gonna ignore my fight I have with my scale.
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I'm not gaining, but i'm not losing, and I think
that with a little more effort, I'll be able to
lose a few and that wouldn't hurt my feelings if
I did that. I'll get on the scale tonight, I think,
and if I do, and if I remember, I'll report
back with an honest assessment of what, if any impact
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the delicious lunch I had after a golf tournament at
Sweetwater yesterday on behalf of Houston Christian University. I had that,
and then I had this lunch today, which is exactly
on any bodyi's diet. And I'll let you know, I'll
let you know. I will so for a look outside
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the importance of clean air in your home. So today
looks to be the last on which we will deal
with afternoon highs in the nineties. Maybe not the last
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day this year or even this month. Actually you never
know around here, but at least for a week once
that dry norther rolls who through here sometime tonight and
without wasting all this good weather vibe on the intro,
I'll just ease into the today's highs and lows in
high coup Are you ready? Will I am? Here We
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go seventies Wednesday. On slight chance this is a dream.
Please don't wake me up. You know it's interesting, though
long pause.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
I noticed between the first and the second.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Line that was deliberate. Maybe it was a little.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
I hope that it's seventies. Tomorrow it will be you
think so one one hundred percent?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Yeah, and then tomorrow night like high fifties.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
You're going on record right now?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Yeah? Fine, okay, fine, Well.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
I'll give you.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
A seven, a seven, and a seventies. If indeed it
is in the seventies tomorrow, then you have to upgrade
that to a seven point five. You have to go
back into the archives and upgrade your your grade for
this one to seven point five.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
All right, Well, you hear a switch in the podcast
from yesterday. You should download the podcast today and then
tomorrow if it is in the seventies, is it to
be in the seventies all day?
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yes? Oh okay, toncality.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Go back listen to it and you'll hear somebody go
seven point five.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
You should get an AI voice to do it. That
would be pretty good. You could do that, all right.
Moving over to the markets for which we have Houston
gooldexchange dot com to thank all four indicators down about
mid morning this morning. We'll call it nasdack down the most,
but only by six tenths of a point, so nothing catastrophic.
No end of the world stuff, but down nonetheless, as
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was oil a couple of hours ago, which is good,
by a pleasing at the time three dollars and seventy
cents a barrel more, which is good. It spiked well
north of seventy five dollars this past week. Morning price
was just pennies north of seventy dollars. Gold in the
green this morning buy ten bucks at twenty six seventy
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six and a half. I've been saying this for two
weeks now, and for as long as gold sits up
there north of twenty five twenty six hundred dollars, it's
actually closer to twenty seven hundred now than to twenty six.
You got anything with gold content that you're not wearing,
not using, or whatever, now'd be a good time to
take it to Houston Gold Exchange like I did a
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couple of weeks ago, and swap out that gold for cash,
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Two eight one four eight zero ninety nine hundred two
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Speaker 1 (10:11):
That's why every few months we wash him, check his fluids,
and spray on a fresh coat of wax.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike. A blank piece
of paper right here, I'm gonna move that out of
the way here, Well, you need something to color on?
Speaker 3 (10:39):
There?
Speaker 1 (10:39):
You go?
Speaker 2 (10:41):
All right? No response at all? No, Uh, that tickled
me for some reason. I have see you took the paper,
didn't you. You're gonna draw a mean stick figure to
get even with me. I just tossed it. I'm sure
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you did, all right. In the latest FEMA fiasco news
not funny over in North Carolina, FEMA says it's temporarily
and this is a quote, temporarily suspended certain Hurricane Helene
relief operations end quote in Rutherford County, North Carolina because
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the organization has received I'll quote again, perceived threats against
federal aid workers. End quote. Okay, first off, I know
it's a train wreck over there. I've seen too many
people from both sides of the equation pointing fingers at
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the other side for what seems a kind of a
hodgepodge fumbled response to the dreadful tragedy that occur, or
their post Helene and or no that, yeah, Helene did that.
First off, anybody who is threatening relief workers, whether they're
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from FEMA or Center Point or any other agency that's
designed at the ground level to help people who are
in trouble, if you're cursing them or throwing stuff at them,
any of those boots on the ground. I hate for
the use of cliche, but that's who they are, their
boots on the ground, and they can help anybody who
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wants to be helped in any capacity if you give
them a chance. If you're giving them grief, if you're
getting in their way, you're an idiot. Straight up. You're
ruining the opportunity for them to help fix what's broken.
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The people who need to be held accountable are the
ones who are in charge of distributing the help and
sending it where needs to go, and if they're getting
it wrong. If you want to protest something like this,
that's fine, make a sign by a bullhorn and stand
outside corporate headquarters, but don't get in the way of
the people who are out there in the neighborhoods in
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the remote areas of North Carolina, and don't get in
their way. Just let them help. Just let them help.
So I'll stop there on that. Let's see where I
want to go here. Oh, there's a little local story
local news from click to Houston and Amy Davis. I
saw this and it got my attention about how perpetual
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it is. I think that everything from cities, to counties,
to states and to the federal government just throw our
tax dollars around. You got to remember anytime somebody says, oh,
don't worry, the federal government will pay for it, that
means that you and I are paying for it. Don't
be fooled when they say, and Ronald Reagan said it
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best as a joke, we're from the federal government and
we're here to help. They're just gonna use your money.
Once they finish getting theirs, they get their piece off
the top in salary and benefits that you and I
could never imagine getting. But once they do that, it
comes down to spending our money for this. There was
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a story about the Houston Housing Authorities deal that was
going to install more than sixteen hundred window air conditioning
units at three Houston housing projects. Great plan. Originally originally
put together at two point three million dollars project for
heat relief, great idea. I don't think anybody in this
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city should live without air conditioning. There's no way, virtually impossible.
But here's what happened. As the story goes, The final
cost on this thing is sitting at more than five
point four million dollars. Originally push pushed through at two
point three million, now five and a half. Almost that's
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messed up. Davis's research showed twenty two companies had been
given contracts to work on this and that some of
those companies had and i'll quote from the piece, little
or no experience end quote in the field. They didn't
know much about air conditioning, but they got the job.
There's a whole lot more to this story, too, and
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I would encourage all of you. None of it's going
to make any more sense, but I would encourage all
of you to see how just how deep this thing
goes beyond that little taste I gave you right there.
It's that clique to Houston, and it's easy enough to
find from Michigan in crime News Michigan. By the way,
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one of the few states I've never visited. I want
to say I've been to thirty five, thirty six, something
like that, and some of them just for a cup
of coffee. I wasn't there long. Couple of states I
never even spent the night in. I just bounced through
there on layovers. But nonetheless, up there in Michigan somewhere
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comes word of a homeowner who used a crossbow. Emphasize
used it, not flaunted it or threatened with it. He
used his crossbow to scare off two guys who'd broken
into his house. The guy who was shot with the
crossbow and his intruder friend both fled the scene too.
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I would say that's a pretty good idea before the
home owner could reload too. By the way, the shoot
e wound up at the hospital to have the arrow removed,
and bowhunters know what that meant. Anyway, he was arrested there,
and then the other guy was caught not far away
from where he'd run, probably faster than the other guy
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at that point ran away from that house. Self defense
wears a lot of hats, and in a time like that,
when someone's broken into your house and his threatening you,
your family, even if the guy lived alone. I don't
care if somebody breaks in your house. You do whatever
you have to keep yourself safe. Will where do you
want to go? Do you want to go to? Oh, gosh,
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Kamala Harris or fung guy? Fungu? Figured you would, but
I'll get back to her. Fung guy news. Is this
I found fascinating? Will scientists spit it out? Doug? I
gotta sync up my mouth in my brain again. I
was off yesterday, saw I'm off my game In fung
guy news. Scientists studying fung guy have learned that those
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tiny little organisms are a lot smarter than we thought.
Who would have guessed it right? So no brain, they
had no brain, there's none at all. But they do
have an incredible amount of irrefutable intelligence. Uh for example,
said one of these Japanese researchers. They have memory, they
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can learn, they can even make decisions. This is we're
talking about fungus and fung guy in the plural. And
despite the appearance of most fun guy, they're actually more
closely related to animals than to plants. They grow. The
story says, they grow, and I knew this even by
releasing spores which germinate and then they form these long
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underground threads known as my cilium. When you see a
little mushroom pop up in your garden, what you don't
see is this vast network of my celium underneath. How
vast you ask, will one my celium can grow to cover?
How much area underground? What would you guess.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
It could?
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Probably? I know it is a large amount. We have
thirty seconds.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
I'm gonna say a couple of acres.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
How about this one my cilium can grow to cover
underground as many as two thousand acres. Two thousand that's
more than three square miles. Well, one my ceilium, and
it's that network of lifelines that enables it to share
information with other ones, even similar in very great part
to our brain's neural network. What that means to you
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and me, I'm not really sure, but I thought it
was cool. It'll be a great conversation starter next time
there's a blowout in the football game or whatever, the
party gets kind of quiet and dull, and just throw
that out there. Hey, by the way, if anybody's wondering,
if you can remember it, it's easy. Ut Hel's Institute
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Anybody who's in this collaborative, the UT Health Institute on Aging,
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Plus with Doug Pike right segment three of fifty plus
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for this Tuesday starts now. And by the way, I had,
I did have a good time at the golf tournament yesterday.
I'm not gonna lie to you. This was a benefit
for the Houston Christian University baseball team. And I had
a very good coach or a very good talk with
the coach, the head coach over there yesterday after the tournament,
and I'm I was just picking his brain about his
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thoughts on some of the things that I see on
Facebook and on YouTube and whatnot about coaching and teaching
and private lessons and select ball versus high school ball
and all of those things. And I'm really encouraged to
have heard that he and I are pretty much on
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the same page for most of that was that was
comforting to me to know that in looking out for
my son's best interests, they run parallel to his ideas
on what he wants to see when somebody steps onto
his field. Talking about that, I'll scratch that out. I
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do want to go to mercy. The craziness of this
upcoming election and now what two and a half three
weeks away, and everything else at the southern border, hurricane
relief efforts, whatever other looney tunes pop into the news cycle.
I'm almost not sure where to start, almost though, I
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tell you what, I'll start today with another heap in helping,
if you will, of a word salad from Master Chef
Kamala Harris. She is she continues to just try to
I guess she's trying to keep talking until something, something,
some really few words of brilliance come out, but they
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tend not to when she's left on her own. She
was at the Coynonia Christian Center in Greenville on Sunday
speaking about faith. And I'm reading here from the story
that I was where I found this about faith and
how going through times of crisis can sometimes lead Christians
to question their faith. Word for word, here's what she said.
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And this as someone who wants to be president of
the United States and stand in front of microphones on
a regular basis and express the summary feelings of all Americans,
this would concern me if that's what we're going to get.
And I quote in times of crisis, and we're looking
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at the images of the aftermath of the hurricane. But
it's easy in these moments of crisis to sometimes question
our faith, to sometimes lose our faith for a moment,
because what we see is so hard to see that
we lose faith or a vision of those things we
cannot see but must know. End quote. What the hell
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did she say there? What is she trying to say?
Even it's anyway? There's another one from today, but I'll
spare you that one. I will drop in this story
about her, though, which as a professional journalist for more
than thirty five years, it really troubles me. World renowned
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plagiarism expert was hired by somebody, or maybe he took
it upon himself. Doctor Stephen Weber is his name, and
he's been exposing plagiarism committed by high level people around
the world for years, maybe decades. We found a couple
of issues with Kamala Harris. First in a book she
wrote back in two thousand and nine, when she was
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then San Francisco's DA and opening up her twenty ten
campaign to become State ag of California. Well, doctor Weber
found that Harris had come She had picked up copied
nearly an entire Wikipedia article into that book without any
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attribution whatsoever to support the passage. She is even said
to have fabricated a source reference that was in the
doctor's report that included a non existent page number. Oh,
that doesn't bode well for her her interest in journalistic
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integrity as a writer. She wrote the book and two
months ago from the same Breitbart piece I was reading
the store this morning. Evidence shows that she lifted texts
from President BID's campaign site by copying and pasting his
issues and then putting them on her site again with
no attribution, no quote marks, no nothing presented as original work,
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which it was not by a candidate for president of
the United States. That would concern me greatly if I were,
if I were not only an American but a world
leader anywhere else. What can we believe? What do we
know about her? Don't count on hearing about this in
mainstream media either ask yourself why, to ask yourself why.
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Throughout her meteoric rise through politics, you go back and
look at where she started and where she is now,
and it's a relatively short period of time. No medior
resources could uncover any of this baggage that she carries.
They never They had virtually unlimited research resources that you
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could have used to vet her to really see who
she was and what she was about. And it's bad
enough if they didn't do that. What concerns me more
is that they may have done that and maybe just
maybe chose to remain silent rather than exposure short comings.
Maybe I don't know. I don't know, but it sure
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bothers me, It truly does. All right, let's get off
all this and oh man, it's just so there's so
much heaviness in the news right now. I'm gonna put
all this away for now. So let's go to some fun.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Will.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
We got a minute and a half here, almost, and
we can pick off at least a couple of these things.
You ready, always tiny fractions? What's your point? Or gee?
I wonder why? What's your point? Of the forty pop quiz? Sorry? Will,
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I didn't I didn't advise you of that first. I
should have maybe the top forty two NFL players with
the most most career points all have something in common.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
What is that?
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Something with the most career the most career points to
their credit. Now, football fans are going, yeah, I know,
I know the answer, but it was gonna make you
think a little bit.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
I don't watch football.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
That's irrelevant. Really in this case, it's irrelevant because this
is something that you do. You understand how many people
are on the field each time, and how many opportunities
there are for people to make points.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Well, there's twenty four people on the field at all time.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Oh no, no, there's twenty two. Twenty two yeah, not
a dozen? Will those are cookies?
Speaker 3 (28:47):
All right? I'm gonna go with they're all quarterbacks.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Well no, actually not, that's not the right answer. The
right answer is they're all place kickers, field goals and
extra points every time the team scores a touchdown. They're
not a whole lot of people score more than one
or two touchdowns a game. And even if they score
only one, if the kicker kicks two field goals, there
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even and if he kicks the extra point for that
guy's touchdown, now he's up seven to six. And field
goals are a lot more common than touchdowns in the NFL,
And so those guys rack up points pretty quickly. And
the top forty two NFL players with the most career
points all kickers. Is your mind blown? Are you going
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to use that at a party at something?
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (29:39):
My mind is completely out the window, though, I'm talking
about all the time.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
I'm just talking about now. All right, we got to
take a little break here before he responds and says,
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Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.
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Twelve fifty one on AM nine to fifty kPr C.
This is fifty plus on Doug Pie Keys Will Melbourne
and I haven't decided which way I want to go
on this. I really haven't. H Yeah, it concerns me
enough that I'll go ahead and do this and if
we have any time, I'll get to some of these
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little fun things I had going on. Back to Kamala
Harris for a minute story this morning at The Daily
Caller said she's now proposed, And bear in mind, she
could have done this anytime she wanted to in the
last three and a half four years. Anytime she wanted
she could have proposed this. But she's doing it in
the middle of October, two and a half weeks, three
weeks whatever it is, before the election. Said she is
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proposing race based forgivable small business loans and hopes of
recovering This is what the story says here. Her support
from black men wasn't a week or so ago when
former President Barack Obama scolded black men for not supporting Harris.
But checkbooks and credit card statements don't lie. She and
Biden have made a horrible mess of things, and every
American now can see just how much illegal migrants are getting,
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how much they're being paid to live in hotels and
get free food and free phones and free medical care,
all that stuff, while so many millions of Americans can't
pay their bills. Press release for this program specifically mentions
black men and promises quote one million loans that are
fully forgivable to black entrepreneurs and others to start a business.
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End quote Hm, how is that in any way equitable
to anybody else? In this country who'd like to start
a business except to a voter block that she's not
doing quite well with. Every time from now to the election.
Remember this, Harris could have introduced any new plan she wanted,
anytime she wanted before now, when she thought she was ahead,
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she said nothing because she really still hadn't and she
still hadn't answered any tough questions that Americans would like
to hear her answer and hold her accountable for all
these promises she's making now. Empty as a bottomless bucket,
they really are. They're just empty as a bottomless bucket. Oh,
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read your own research and information, form your own decisions.
I'm just giving you something to think about. Dreadful idea,
will chomping at the bit? Or how high is too high?
Speaker 3 (34:18):
How high is too high?
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Yeah, this one's kind of interesting. Rich people, it says,
rich people. And by the way I looked it up.
Will this another pop quiz? What would you think in
the United States is the current net worth that makes
Americans generally feel like you're rich, and it's up a
(34:40):
little bit from I think two years ago or three
years ago something like that.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
I would say seven million, two point five two point
five two point five.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
You got that in your pocket. Probably carry that around
and change. I wish I don't blame you. Oh it's
hard to make them, it really is. It's a lot
of money. So anyway, how high is too high? Rich people,
it says, here are now building mansions on top of skyscrapers.
(35:13):
I've never seen one of those around here, I guess,
And if there's not one yet, there will be one.
Some guy over in India built a giant what he
says is a replica of the White House, but it's
thirty three stories up, thirty three stories up on top
of a big giant building. And he just said, you
(35:36):
know what, I got money to burn all these fake
romance schemes and bank accounts of seniors I've emptied out
over the years. Yeah, I can put a White House
on top. I wonder why he chose the White House.
What do you think, will is that kind of a
snubbing of the United States? Uh? No, you don't think so.
(35:59):
All right, we'll scratch this one out and move on.
I don't have a whole lot of time, and I'd
love to get to a couple more useless world records.
That's disgusting or clever. I love clever.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
You know I love hearing about useless world record.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Yes, boy, this is easy. Japan just snags the world record,
and any high school in America could beat this. I
think most high schools in America world's record for most
people pointing at the sky all at once. The numbers
only five hundred and seven. Any school, any high school
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around Houston, the big public schools, could round up six
eight hundred, one thousand kids, put them out there for
one of those big group panoramic shots that they always
put in the yearbook, and then just say okay, on three,
everybody point at the sky one, two, three, bam, and
you got a record. And then the next week some
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other school could do it. It could become a rivalry thing.
Not only students, but now, bring a couple of friends,
we'll do it on us. Well, no, do it during
school when they all have to be there, and just
parade six or seven hundred of them out there, take
a picture and send it to Guinness. I guess is
the ones that actually made that possible. Silly worn out words,
(37:16):
over fra overuse phrases at work. Will can you think
of any top of the Mormon no synergy leverage circle back,
move the needle. Yeah, that's kind of worn out. And
low hanging fruit also worn out at low hanging fruit
rited a long time ago. I I'd try very hard
(37:39):
to not use any of those things in my emails already,
so I feel like I'm right on point. All right,
it's very close to time to go. Twenty seconds isn't
enough time to read any of these I will hold them.
Oh no, A zepto second will a trillionth of a
billionth of a second. A boy, I'm gonna cut this
(37:59):
down to the last zepto second, and I will tell
you that we're going to be leaving you right about now,
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All right, welcome a board, Thanks for listening. Certainly do
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right up and said, plug it into the other one,
and that worked. Sometimes he's sayings, just fritz out and
go crazy. And I'm so accustomed to them working perfectly
that I don't even have a backup plan. But that's
(01:14):
why Will is here, keep me on the air. Good job.
Will he even I'll tell you how far above and
beyond he goes. He is even neglected to go serve
himself a plate of delicious barbecue that's out there in
the kitchen area, just to make sure he was here
on time to get this show started. It's just amazing, Will,
(01:36):
It's just amazing. I say, thank you. Oh, well, you're
welcome there you go, so welcome Tuesday, and sincere, thanks
for sharing your lunch hour. I had about four minutes
and was able to slam down probably seventy percent of
what I had put on my plate out there. So
if I have to go to a break early later
(01:57):
in the program, it'll be because I ate way too fast.
It's good stuff too. We have barbecue from Rudi's out
there by the way, in case you're wondering. Ah, actually,
I'm trying to reduce the number. I don't consider barbecue
to be empty calories. I'm looking at that as protein.
(02:18):
I ate some pulled pork, I ate some brisket, and
I ate some sausage, none of which I think is
particularly heart held. Oh in some cream corn. I love
the cream corn at Rudy's. Got that done. And hopefully,
speaking of empty calories, when I go back out there,
I will discover as if you go out there and
(02:40):
get some lunch, will be sure to check and see
if there's any cobbler. I'm kind of I got my
fingers crossed for that. I didn't see it, but I
may have been in such a hurry that I could
have overlooked it with everything that's out there, But let
me know if you go out and grab yourself a plate.
So anyway, I feel like I'm making a little progress
(03:00):
with my attempt to peel off a pound or two
or ten. Oh my gosh, here's somebody else. This guy knows,
he absolutely knows that I'm on the air right now,
and he's calling me because he forgot. That's okay, get
back to him. Let's go ahead and take a look outside.
I'm just gonna ignore my fight I have with my scale.
(03:25):
I'm not gaining, but i'm not losing, and I think
that with a little more effort, I'll be able to
lose a few and that wouldn't hurt my feelings if
I did that. I'll get on the scale tonight, I think,
and if I do, and if I remember, I'll report
back with an honest assessment of what, if any impact
(03:45):
the delicious lunch I had after a golf tournament at
Sweetwater yesterday on behalf of Houston Christian University. I had that,
and then I had this lunch today, which is exactly
on any bodyi's diet. And I'll let you know, I'll
let you know. I will so for a look outside
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looks to be the last on which we will deal
with afternoon highs in the nineties. Maybe not the last
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day this year or even this month. Actually you never
know around here, but at least for a week once
that dry norther rolls who through here sometime tonight and
without wasting all this good weather vibe on the intro,
I'll just ease into the today's highs and lows in
high coup Are you ready? Will I am? Here We
(04:52):
go seventies Wednesday. On slight chance this is a dream.
Please don't wake me up. You know it's interesting, though
long pause.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
I noticed between the first and the second.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Line that was deliberate. Maybe it was a little.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
I hope that it's seventies. Tomorrow it will be you
think so one one hundred percent?
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Yeah, and then tomorrow night like high fifties.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
You're going on record right now?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Yeah? Fine, okay, fine, Well.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
I'll give you.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
A seven, a seven, and a seventies. If indeed it
is in the seventies tomorrow, then you have to upgrade
that to a seven point five. You have to go
back into the archives and upgrade your your grade for
this one to seven point five.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
All right, Well, you hear a switch in the podcast
from yesterday. You should download the podcast today and then
tomorrow if it is in the seventies, is it to
be in the seventies all day?
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Yes? Oh okay, toncality.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Go back listen to it and you'll hear somebody go
seven point five.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
You should get an AI voice to do it. That
would be pretty good. You could do that, all right.
Moving over to the markets for which we have Houston
gooldexchange dot com to thank all four indicators down about
mid morning this morning. We'll call it nasdack down the most,
but only by six tenths of a point, so nothing catastrophic.
No end of the world stuff, but down nonetheless, as
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was oil a couple of hours ago, which is good,
by a pleasing at the time three dollars and seventy
cents a barrel more, which is good. It spiked well
north of seventy five dollars this past week. Morning price
was just pennies north of seventy dollars. Gold in the
green this morning buy ten bucks at twenty six seventy
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six and a half. I've been saying this for two
weeks now, and for as long as gold sits up
there north of twenty five twenty six hundred dollars, it's
actually closer to twenty seven hundred now than to twenty six.
You got anything with gold content that you're not wearing,
not using, or whatever, now'd be a good time to
take it to Houston Gold Exchange like I did a
(07:21):
couple of weeks ago, and swap out that gold for cash,
good old fashioned cash. Stepping forward into the well. Now
we've only got a minute, not even a minute, right,
will nope, I'll give you something kind of fun. I'll
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Two eight one four eight zero ninety nine hundred two
eight one four eight zero ninety nine hundred dawn. They
sure don't make them like they used to.
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That's why every few months we wash him, check his fluids,
and spray on a fresh coat of wax.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike. A blank piece
of paper right here, I'm gonna move that out of
the way here, Well, you need something to color on?
Speaker 3 (10:39):
There?
Speaker 1 (10:39):
You go?
Speaker 2 (10:41):
All right? No response at all? No, Uh, that tickled
me for some reason. I have see you took the paper,
didn't you. You're gonna draw a mean stick figure to
get even with me. I just tossed it. I'm sure
(11:04):
you did, all right. In the latest FEMA fiasco news
not funny over in North Carolina, FEMA says it's temporarily
and this is a quote, temporarily suspended certain Hurricane Helene
relief operations end quote in Rutherford County, North Carolina because
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the organization has received I'll quote again, perceived threats against
federal aid workers. End quote. Okay, first off, I know
it's a train wreck over there. I've seen too many
people from both sides of the equation pointing fingers at
(11:47):
the other side for what seems a kind of a
hodgepodge fumbled response to the dreadful tragedy that occur, or
their post Helene and or no that, yeah, Helene did that.
First off, anybody who is threatening relief workers, whether they're
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from FEMA or Center Point or any other agency that's
designed at the ground level to help people who are
in trouble, if you're cursing them or throwing stuff at them,
any of those boots on the ground. I hate for
the use of cliche, but that's who they are, their
boots on the ground, and they can help anybody who
(12:32):
wants to be helped in any capacity if you give
them a chance. If you're giving them grief, if you're
getting in their way, you're an idiot. Straight up. You're
ruining the opportunity for them to help fix what's broken.
(12:52):
The people who need to be held accountable are the
ones who are in charge of distributing the help and
sending it where needs to go, and if they're getting
it wrong. If you want to protest something like this,
that's fine, make a sign by a bullhorn and stand
outside corporate headquarters, but don't get in the way of
the people who are out there in the neighborhoods in
(13:15):
the remote areas of North Carolina, and don't get in
their way. Just let them help. Just let them help.
So I'll stop there on that. Let's see where I
want to go here. Oh, there's a little local story
local news from click to Houston and Amy Davis. I
saw this and it got my attention about how perpetual
(13:37):
it is. I think that everything from cities, to counties,
to states and to the federal government just throw our
tax dollars around. You got to remember anytime somebody says, oh,
don't worry, the federal government will pay for it, that
means that you and I are paying for it. Don't
be fooled when they say, and Ronald Reagan said it
(14:01):
best as a joke, we're from the federal government and
we're here to help. They're just gonna use your money.
Once they finish getting theirs, they get their piece off
the top in salary and benefits that you and I
could never imagine getting. But once they do that, it
comes down to spending our money for this. There was
(14:22):
a story about the Houston Housing Authorities deal that was
going to install more than sixteen hundred window air conditioning
units at three Houston housing projects. Great plan. Originally originally
put together at two point three million dollars project for
heat relief, great idea. I don't think anybody in this
(14:44):
city should live without air conditioning. There's no way, virtually impossible.
But here's what happened. As the story goes, The final
cost on this thing is sitting at more than five
point four million dollars. Originally push pushed through at two
point three million, now five and a half. Almost that's
(15:07):
messed up. Davis's research showed twenty two companies had been
given contracts to work on this and that some of
those companies had and i'll quote from the piece, little
or no experience end quote in the field. They didn't
know much about air conditioning, but they got the job.
There's a whole lot more to this story, too, and
(15:28):
I would encourage all of you. None of it's going
to make any more sense, but I would encourage all
of you to see how just how deep this thing
goes beyond that little taste I gave you right there.
It's that clique to Houston, and it's easy enough to
find from Michigan in crime News Michigan. By the way,
(15:49):
one of the few states I've never visited. I want
to say I've been to thirty five, thirty six, something
like that, and some of them just for a cup
of coffee. I wasn't there long. Couple of states I
never even spent the night in. I just bounced through
there on layovers. But nonetheless, up there in Michigan somewhere
(16:09):
comes word of a homeowner who used a crossbow. Emphasize
used it, not flaunted it or threatened with it. He
used his crossbow to scare off two guys who'd broken
into his house. The guy who was shot with the
crossbow and his intruder friend both fled the scene too.
(16:30):
I would say that's a pretty good idea before the
home owner could reload too. By the way, the shoot
e wound up at the hospital to have the arrow removed,
and bowhunters know what that meant. Anyway, he was arrested there,
and then the other guy was caught not far away
from where he'd run, probably faster than the other guy
(16:51):
at that point ran away from that house. Self defense
wears a lot of hats, and in a time like that,
when someone's broken into your house and his threatening you,
your family, even if the guy lived alone. I don't
care if somebody breaks in your house. You do whatever
you have to keep yourself safe. Will where do you
want to go? Do you want to go to? Oh, gosh,
(17:17):
Kamala Harris or fung guy? Fungu? Figured you would, but
I'll get back to her. Fung guy news. Is this
I found fascinating? Will scientists spit it out? Doug? I
gotta sync up my mouth in my brain again. I
was off yesterday, saw I'm off my game In fung
guy news. Scientists studying fung guy have learned that those
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tiny little organisms are a lot smarter than we thought.
Who would have guessed it right? So no brain, they
had no brain, there's none at all. But they do
have an incredible amount of irrefutable intelligence. Uh for example,
said one of these Japanese researchers. They have memory, they
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can learn, they can even make decisions. This is we're
talking about fungus and fung guy in the plural. And
despite the appearance of most fun guy, they're actually more
closely related to animals than to plants. They grow. The
story says, they grow, and I knew this even by
releasing spores which germinate and then they form these long
(18:22):
underground threads known as my cilium. When you see a
little mushroom pop up in your garden, what you don't
see is this vast network of my celium underneath. How
vast you ask, will one my celium can grow to cover?
How much area underground? What would you guess.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
It could?
Speaker 2 (18:43):
Probably? I know it is a large amount. We have
thirty seconds.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
I'm gonna say a couple of acres.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
How about this one my cilium can grow to cover
underground as many as two thousand acres. Two thousand that's
more than three square miles. Well, one my ceilium, and
it's that network of lifelines that enables it to share
information with other ones, even similar in very great part
to our brain's neural network. What that means to you
(19:13):
and me, I'm not really sure, but I thought it
was cool. It'll be a great conversation starter next time
there's a blowout in the football game or whatever, the
party gets kind of quiet and dull, and just throw
that out there. Hey, by the way, if anybody's wondering,
if you can remember it, it's easy. Ut Hel's Institute
on Aging is a good thing to remember too. This
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collaborative of providers who come from every medical discipline. They're
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(19:58):
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the med center. All you have to do is find
out who they are and take a minute to peruse
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(20:18):
you will discover a warehouse of information and resources that
you probably didn't know even existed that all benefit seniors.
Anybody who's in this collaborative, the UT Health Institute on Aging,
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and we need that help. We deserve that help. Uth
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Plus with Doug Pike right segment three of fifty plus
(21:21):
for this Tuesday starts now. And by the way, I had,
I did have a good time at the golf tournament yesterday.
I'm not gonna lie to you. This was a benefit
for the Houston Christian University baseball team. And I had
a very good coach or a very good talk with
the coach, the head coach over there yesterday after the tournament,
and I'm I was just picking his brain about his
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thoughts on some of the things that I see on
Facebook and on YouTube and whatnot about coaching and teaching
and private lessons and select ball versus high school ball
and all of those things. And I'm really encouraged to
have heard that he and I are pretty much on
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the same page for most of that was that was
comforting to me to know that in looking out for
my son's best interests, they run parallel to his ideas
on what he wants to see when somebody steps onto
his field. Talking about that, I'll scratch that out. I
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do want to go to mercy. The craziness of this
upcoming election and now what two and a half three
weeks away, and everything else at the southern border, hurricane
relief efforts, whatever other looney tunes pop into the news cycle.
I'm almost not sure where to start, almost though, I
(22:47):
tell you what, I'll start today with another heap in helping,
if you will, of a word salad from Master Chef
Kamala Harris. She is she continues to just try to
I guess she's trying to keep talking until something, something,
some really few words of brilliance come out, but they
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tend not to when she's left on her own. She
was at the Coynonia Christian Center in Greenville on Sunday
speaking about faith. And I'm reading here from the story
that I was where I found this about faith and
how going through times of crisis can sometimes lead Christians
to question their faith. Word for word, here's what she said.
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And this as someone who wants to be president of
the United States and stand in front of microphones on
a regular basis and express the summary feelings of all Americans,
this would concern me if that's what we're going to get.
And I quote in times of crisis, and we're looking
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at the images of the aftermath of the hurricane. But
it's easy in these moments of crisis to sometimes question
our faith, to sometimes lose our faith for a moment,
because what we see is so hard to see that
we lose faith or a vision of those things we
cannot see but must know. End quote. What the hell
(24:23):
did she say there? What is she trying to say?
Even it's anyway? There's another one from today, but I'll
spare you that one. I will drop in this story
about her, though, which as a professional journalist for more
than thirty five years, it really troubles me. World renowned
(24:46):
plagiarism expert was hired by somebody, or maybe he took
it upon himself. Doctor Stephen Weber is his name, and
he's been exposing plagiarism committed by high level people around
the world for years, maybe decades. We found a couple
of issues with Kamala Harris. First in a book she
wrote back in two thousand and nine, when she was
(25:07):
then San Francisco's DA and opening up her twenty ten
campaign to become State ag of California. Well, doctor Weber
found that Harris had come She had picked up copied
nearly an entire Wikipedia article into that book without any
(25:27):
attribution whatsoever to support the passage. She is even said
to have fabricated a source reference that was in the
doctor's report that included a non existent page number. Oh,
that doesn't bode well for her her interest in journalistic
(25:48):
integrity as a writer. She wrote the book and two
months ago from the same Breitbart piece I was reading
the store this morning. Evidence shows that she lifted texts
from President BID's campaign site by copying and pasting his
issues and then putting them on her site again with
no attribution, no quote marks, no nothing presented as original work,
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which it was not by a candidate for president of
the United States. That would concern me greatly if I were,
if I were not only an American but a world
leader anywhere else. What can we believe? What do we
know about her? Don't count on hearing about this in
mainstream media either ask yourself why, to ask yourself why.
(26:35):
Throughout her meteoric rise through politics, you go back and
look at where she started and where she is now,
and it's a relatively short period of time. No medior
resources could uncover any of this baggage that she carries.
They never They had virtually unlimited research resources that you
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could have used to vet her to really see who
she was and what she was about. And it's bad
enough if they didn't do that. What concerns me more
is that they may have done that and maybe just
maybe chose to remain silent rather than exposure short comings.
Maybe I don't know. I don't know, but it sure
(27:19):
bothers me, It truly does. All right, let's get off
all this and oh man, it's just so there's so
much heaviness in the news right now. I'm gonna put
all this away for now. So let's go to some fun.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Will.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
We got a minute and a half here, almost, and
we can pick off at least a couple of these things.
You ready, always tiny fractions? What's your point? Or gee?
I wonder why? What's your point? Of the forty pop quiz? Sorry? Will,
(27:55):
I didn't I didn't advise you of that first. I
should have maybe the top forty two NFL players with
the most most career points all have something in common.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
What is that?
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Something with the most career the most career points to
their credit. Now, football fans are going, yeah, I know,
I know the answer, but it was gonna make you
think a little bit.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
I don't watch football.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
That's irrelevant. Really in this case, it's irrelevant because this
is something that you do. You understand how many people
are on the field each time, and how many opportunities
there are for people to make points.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Well, there's twenty four people on the field at all time.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Oh no, no, there's twenty two. Twenty two yeah, not
a dozen? Will those are cookies?
Speaker 3 (28:47):
All right? I'm gonna go with they're all quarterbacks.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Well no, actually not, that's not the right answer. The
right answer is they're all place kickers, field goals and
extra points every time the team scores a touchdown. They're
not a whole lot of people score more than one
or two touchdowns a game. And even if they score
only one, if the kicker kicks two field goals, there
(29:13):
even and if he kicks the extra point for that
guy's touchdown, now he's up seven to six. And field
goals are a lot more common than touchdowns in the NFL,
And so those guys rack up points pretty quickly. And
the top forty two NFL players with the most career
points all kickers. Is your mind blown? Are you going
(29:37):
to use that at a party at something?
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (29:39):
My mind is completely out the window, though, I'm talking
about all the time.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
I'm just talking about now. All right, we got to
take a little break here before he responds and says,
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Speaker 1 (31:33):
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Twelve fifty one on AM nine to fifty kPr C.
This is fifty plus on Doug Pie Keys Will Melbourne
and I haven't decided which way I want to go
on this. I really haven't. H Yeah, it concerns me
enough that I'll go ahead and do this and if
we have any time, I'll get to some of these
(32:10):
little fun things I had going on. Back to Kamala
Harris for a minute story this morning at The Daily
Caller said she's now proposed, And bear in mind, she
could have done this anytime she wanted to in the
last three and a half four years. Anytime she wanted
she could have proposed this. But she's doing it in
the middle of October, two and a half weeks, three
weeks whatever it is, before the election. Said she is
(32:32):
proposing race based forgivable small business loans and hopes of
recovering This is what the story says here. Her support
from black men wasn't a week or so ago when
former President Barack Obama scolded black men for not supporting Harris.
But checkbooks and credit card statements don't lie. She and
Biden have made a horrible mess of things, and every
American now can see just how much illegal migrants are getting,
(32:55):
how much they're being paid to live in hotels and
get free food and free phones and free medical care,
all that stuff, while so many millions of Americans can't
pay their bills. Press release for this program specifically mentions
black men and promises quote one million loans that are
fully forgivable to black entrepreneurs and others to start a business.
(33:19):
End quote Hm, how is that in any way equitable
to anybody else? In this country who'd like to start
a business except to a voter block that she's not
doing quite well with. Every time from now to the election.
Remember this, Harris could have introduced any new plan she wanted,
anytime she wanted before now, when she thought she was ahead,
(33:42):
she said nothing because she really still hadn't and she
still hadn't answered any tough questions that Americans would like
to hear her answer and hold her accountable for all
these promises she's making now. Empty as a bottomless bucket,
they really are. They're just empty as a bottomless bucket. Oh,
(34:05):
read your own research and information, form your own decisions.
I'm just giving you something to think about. Dreadful idea,
will chomping at the bit? Or how high is too high?
Speaker 3 (34:18):
How high is too high?
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Yeah, this one's kind of interesting. Rich people, it says,
rich people. And by the way I looked it up.
Will this another pop quiz? What would you think in
the United States is the current net worth that makes
Americans generally feel like you're rich, and it's up a
(34:40):
little bit from I think two years ago or three
years ago something like that.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
I would say seven million, two point five two point
five two point five.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
You got that in your pocket. Probably carry that around
and change. I wish I don't blame you. Oh it's
hard to make them, it really is. It's a lot
of money. So anyway, how high is too high? Rich people,
it says, here are now building mansions on top of skyscrapers.
(35:13):
I've never seen one of those around here, I guess,
And if there's not one yet, there will be one.
Some guy over in India built a giant what he
says is a replica of the White House, but it's
thirty three stories up, thirty three stories up on top
of a big giant building. And he just said, you
(35:36):
know what, I got money to burn all these fake
romance schemes and bank accounts of seniors I've emptied out
over the years. Yeah, I can put a White House
on top. I wonder why he chose the White House.
What do you think, will is that kind of a
snubbing of the United States? Uh? No, you don't think so.
(35:59):
All right, we'll scratch this one out and move on.
I don't have a whole lot of time, and I'd
love to get to a couple more useless world records.
That's disgusting or clever. I love clever.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
You know I love hearing about useless world record.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Yes, boy, this is easy. Japan just snags the world record,
and any high school in America could beat this. I
think most high schools in America world's record for most
people pointing at the sky all at once. The numbers
only five hundred and seven. Any school, any high school
(36:34):
around Houston, the big public schools, could round up six
eight hundred, one thousand kids, put them out there for
one of those big group panoramic shots that they always
put in the yearbook, and then just say okay, on three,
everybody point at the sky one, two, three, bam, and
you got a record. And then the next week some
(36:55):
other school could do it. It could become a rivalry thing.
Not only students, but now, bring a couple of friends,
we'll do it on us. Well, no, do it during
school when they all have to be there, and just
parade six or seven hundred of them out there, take
a picture and send it to Guinness. I guess is
the ones that actually made that possible. Silly worn out words,
(37:16):
over fra overuse phrases at work. Will can you think
of any top of the Mormon no synergy leverage circle back,
move the needle. Yeah, that's kind of worn out. And
low hanging fruit also worn out at low hanging fruit
rited a long time ago. I I'd try very hard
(37:39):
to not use any of those things in my emails already,
so I feel like I'm right on point. All right,
it's very close to time to go. Twenty seconds isn't
enough time to read any of these I will hold them.
Oh no, A zepto second will a trillionth of a
billionth of a second. A boy, I'm gonna cut this
(37:59):
down to the last zepto second, and I will tell
you that we're going to be leaving you right about now,
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