Praying For AC

Episode Transcript

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I remember whether it was impossible tomisplace the TV remote because you were the
TV remote. Remember when music soundedlike this? You remember when social media
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this show is all about you.This is fifty plus with Doug Pike,

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Fifty plus brought to you by theUT Health Houston Institute on Aging Informed
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because clean air is healthier air.And now fifty plus with Doug Pike.

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All right, Friday, issuear theprogram starts right now. I hope and
pray that everybody listening to me rightnow has electrifty. I still don't,
and I'm getting really close. I'mhonestly beginning to wonder just how much of
this I can stand, how muchlonger I can go without electricity? When

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everybody in the neighborhood knows exactly wherethe problem is, exactly what the problem
is. It doesn't involve any aboveground lines. It's an on the ground
right there here. We'll show itto you. It's right there, and
they know where it is because acouple of neighbors have already been told that
they might have crews coming through theirbackyards. By all means, please do.

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We'll open the gate for you,we'll bring you some ice water.
Just get in there and fix it. And what's really irritating is that the
power is on across the street andadding insult to injury there the people who
live across the street aren't even home, they're not in town, and I

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don't think they have a key hiddenanywhere. But it's because if they did,
if they did, I would Iwould go over there, and well
I'd call them first and let themknow. But which sure would be nice
for my family to all be ableto sleep in the same place. Again,
this is what Centerpoint doesn't take intoaccount. As best I can tell,
every family struggle without power is different. And they just talk about,

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oh, we got a thousand morecustomers or ten thousand more customers, We've
got all of them taken care oftoday. But they don't talk about which
means they don't think about the impactson other people, the people whose power
now has been out going into afifth day in ninety plus degree heat,

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and it's just inexcusable just in myneighborhood. Okay, here's an example.
Quite a few retired people who haveno family in town. They don't have
the resources to own a generator,they don't have a the resources to check
into hotels for a potentially weeks longstay, and they are suffering, legitimately

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suffering. There's one couple in particular, I honestly I don't know how they're
gonna make it through. Both ofthem are elderly, and both are stroke
victims with nowhere to turn. Myfamily's got its own issues and quirks,
and that makes the situation difficult forus in different ways than it might be

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for someone else. But make nomistake, it's difficult, and to have
this go on as long as ithas is inexcusable. Everybody struggles different,
but they're all struggles. And I'vejust flat grown weary of Centerpoint patting itself
on the back for all the greatprogress it's made. Because until the last
house is lit up again, untilthat last AC unit fires up, they're

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not done. And they don't needto be bragging about anything. All I
want to know now from Center Pointis that my power is back on.
Don't give me updates that are justfluffy, little garbage paragraphs of just ridiculous
nothing. They don't tell you anything. They just tell you all. We're

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still trying. We know it's astruggle. We're so sorry. No,
they're not not at all. Here'sthe way that this would be solved.
This is how it's going to besolved. Maybe if you are going to
be a big wig at center point, somebody who works in anybody who works
in air conditioning. At center point, you are required to live in a

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home on a random grid nowhere neara hospital, nowhere near a fire station,
nowhere near a grocery store. You'renot allowed to own a generator,
and you don't get paid until thepower comes back on. I bet we'd
be lit up now. I'll betyou we'd be lit up now. Maybe

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that would help them understand how thoseof us who are still without electricity feel.
It feels good to get that offmy chest. Col Thank you,
ah, how much time to haveleft? Two? Three? Three?
Good? Here we go. Somoving to the weather. And as usual,
even though I'm in a really foulmood right now, I'll do it
in haiku because I've been doing thatfor a while, and it's become custom

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and cal you've judged one of these, this will be the second, and
you've had the opportunity to go ona one to ten. And I actually
had a seven with Will this week, so I was pretty I'm pretty stoked.
See how you think? What youthink of this one? Two days

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with rain chants, then a nicerun of sunshine, come on center point
one to ten. Where does thatget you? Six? Six? Okay,
I'll take that. Yeah, I'mso I'm so hyper focused on the
fact that they can't go replace atransformer that's just sitting in somebody's backyard.

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While they can, they're they're buryingpoles and lines, and I know all
of it's important. Okay, Iknow all of it's important, But my
neighbors and I, a very smallnumber of people impacted by this, we're
kind of feeling forgotten at this point. It would take them an hour,
maybe an hour when from when thetruck pulled up to when they leave there

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to solve our issues. But They'vegot also a back burner for some reason,
and I'm tired of it speaking ofon that. You know, No,
I don't have time to get atall that. I'll tell you something
we're gonna talk about later in theprogram. Cal Are you familiar with to
Battlon be so so you know whatit is. It's a it's a satire

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sport, basically especially in baseball.This season they have walk up music right
well, Babylon Bee came up withthe walk up music the entrance themes for
some of the country's most well knownpolitical figures, and it's it's pretty some

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some of them will do. Somewe might not do because they there's
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Dougpike h right. Welcome back tosegment two of fifty plus this Friday.

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While I continue to languish in theboiling heat. Hey, I've got a
place to stay at night. I'mnot gonna lie to you, okay,
but it's just it's so hard beingaway from my family. My son's sleeping
with friends, because every place we'relooking, it's hard. My buddy John

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Paulus from out where I play golf, saw an email I wrote earlier in
the week and he emailed back said, Hey, if you want to come
over here, you come on.And he even invited my wife and my
son to join me there. ButI didn't want to. I didn't want
to, oh step my boundary withhim. And so I went over there

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last night and at least and theproblem is that I snore like a bear.
I wish I could figure out whyand get it fixed, but I
do, And so my wife can'tsleep in the same room with me.
And that's been that way for awhile, and we work around it.
But it's still it's still difficult becauseif we go to a hotel room,

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or if we go to a guestroom in someone's home, she can't sleep.
And because she can't sleep, itgets so uncomfortable for her that I
end up being awakened, and it'sjust miserable for both of us. And
there's no reason for this. There'sjust no reason. I will tell you
before I get to the Babylon band it's list of entrance themes as these

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people walk onto the congressional floor.Yeah. No, let's just do that
now, and then I'm going togo back to the outages in storm damage
because I made a figured out somethingvery interesting this morning and I'm gonna share
it with Callum just a minute.So Babylon and you want to play along?
Or you are you busy working onthat thing? Oh you got to?

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Okay? Can you play along?What do you think Babylon be chose
for Nancy Pelosi's entrance theme walking ontothe floor for congressional business? Gotta be
something uh evil? Like, uhGod, I'm picturing what's the word I'm

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looking for, Doug. What isshe made the most of since she's been
in there? Other than a foolof herself. Money Yeah, money for
nothing so dire straits. Oh okay, yeah, I like that one that
For some reason I couldn't figure outwhy Alexandria Ocassio Cortes entrance theme Fat Bottom

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Girls by Queen, And that's justthat I don't know people. Yeah,
we're not. I don't like topick on people because the trape mine is
not exactly. I got kind ofa front front issue going on. Let
me find another good one. Gavinknew some Grease lightning. Yeah, he's
slick, isn't he? Oh,kind of slick from grease and bad medicine.

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Who do you think that that's gonnabe useful? Oh? Come on,
fauci. Absolutely, that's by bonJovie. By the way, I'm
not gonna do this one because Ithink it's kind of I think it would
be mean. And that's again Idon't want to know Christy. No,
but I'm not gonna tell you thesong. Yeah, they picked they picked

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Creep by Radiohead for Biden. AdamSchiff. Oh no, Joe Biden,
No, Pink Floyd's got a songfor him. You're ready, brain damage.
I've said a million times on thisprogram. I I like the man
as a man. What I don'tlike him. I don't dislike him.
Like him, but I hate hispolicies. I respect the man for he's

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what he's tried to do. He'spushed in a bad direction. But I
don't have any personal acts to grindwith him. That's what I'm trying to
say. Really, I feel sorryfor him as just as a human being,
because he clearly is at a stagein his life where he's not sharp.
He's nowhere near sharp as a tag. He's not sharp as a hammer,

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and so I feel for him inthat regard. But he's got issues
that I think exclude him from anylist of future leaders of this country.
I really do. Let's go backto the outages in the storm damage for
a second. Acting Governor Dan Patrickhas revealed he fired off pretty hard last

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night on President Biden. Says Bidenflat out lied about not being able to
contact Texas leaders and that he lieddirectly to Patrick about disaster relief from FEMA.
While Biden he signed off on afederal assistance, he signed off on
some help from FEMA. That documenthe signed to cover costs, though expired

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the same day he signed it.He signed it. That was July ninth
when he signed it, and onthat day he declared that FEMA would cover
Texas assistance from July fifth through Julyninth. It's now, what's twelfth,
thirteenth, I've lost track of time. I know it's not the ninth anymore,

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that's for sure. And that leavesTexas on the hook for what's been
spent in the past few days andmoving forward, and there will be more
expense moving forward trying to get allthis mess fixed up top of that,
Patrick said, the documents provide helpfor sixty seven counties. Went on the
phone when he was talking manned manwith our President Biden promised him money for

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one hundred and twenty one counties.The bottom line is this, said Patrick,
in a direct quote. President Bidenlied about reaching out to me from
day one, our declaration request andthe aid he said he would give Texas
end quote. And that Patrick saidmakes Biden another first for President Biden.

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He becomes the first president history toweaponize FEMA as a political till. Biden
is punishing Texas. He is punishingTexas for the grief we've given him over
the border for well, that's allreally that doesn't matter. Anything else is
pales in comparison to what he's doneto our state by leaving that border open
so long. By the way,cal I mentioned something interesting that dawned on

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me this morning. The only differencebetween outage and outweigh outrage is the ar
or okay, outage. I gotan outage, but it's causing outrage.
It's really building up in me.Just keep that in mind. The only

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difference between outage and outrage is thatare okay? So that get it?
I think got my my point mate, Yeah, oh enough, I got
it all right. Sorry. SupremeCourt determined this week by a six to
three decision it's something called the Chevrondoctrine could not be imposed on offshore fishermen.

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Specifically, that rule would have forcedcommercial fishing boats to pay seven hundred
bucks a trip for an onboard federallyaccredited observer to make sure these guys didn't
break any continent or American US fisherieswaters rules. There's federal water, there's

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state water, and there's international water. And these guys fish in state or
in national water, federal water,and there are rules when commercial fishermen are
out there, they have rules justlike, if I go bass fishing,
there are rules, and I believeit was, Oh which one was,

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It might have been National Marne FisheryService. I'm pretty sure it was told
them that they had to have theseobservers on board, and they said,
wait a minute, you don't reallyhave the authority to make us do that.
And that's how it ended up allthe way up to the Supreme Court,
which said, Nope, you can'tmake them do that. You cannot
make them do that. This issomething federal agencies have done in the past

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that just lays unnecessary and unlawful burden, frankly, at the feet of businesses.
And they've never been really held accountable. They've never had their feet held
to the fire. They've never beenquestioned all the way up to the Supreme
Court. But they have now andthey just learned they can't do that anymore.
So score one for the good guys. Let's do that. We'll score

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one for the good guys. Shiftinggears to the upcoming election. The US
House on Wednesday passed a bill withsignatures by the way of I think it
was four or five Democrats. EvenUS House passed this bill that requires proof
of citizenship for voter registration. That'sabsolutely critical to November's election. By the

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way, Democrats from top to bottomoppose the bill. Oh no, no,
no, they say, we don'tneed that, we don't need that.
Those safeguards for that are already inplace. Well, if they're already
in place, why is it thenthat I think it's how many states was
it? Let me see here?Five four, five six, I don't
know. Several states now already havehad a documented proof that not only did

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illegal vot voting get registered, illegalvoters get registered, but they were actually
able to also cast ballots. It'salready happened under their guidelines, So that
means their guidelines aren't worth a sackof nicols. Guidelines are useless. What

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we need is this law the wayit's written to stop this. There's good
reason Democrats have vopened their cities toillegal immigrants, and near certainty among the
conservatives that the left, after takingcredit for they're going to take credit for
all that free Remember, hey,you remember us, we got to go.
Sorry, I'm running late. They'rebuying votes, that's all they're doing.

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They're buying votes. They're letting themin, and they don't want voter
registration because they don't want those peoplenot to be able to vote. All
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coat of wax. This is fiftyplus with Doug Pike. All right,

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welcome back Segment three on this lastday of the week, the last day
that I don't know how much patienceI have left. I really know for
a centerpoint, and I'm sure everylineman out there is really working hard.
The problem. The problem isn't withthe workers, the boots on the ground
people. They're fantastic people. Theyare working out there under miserable conditions and

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going where they're told to go.And just for some reason, I just
got a text back from a listenerjust a minute ago, back during ike
hold on, hold on, thisis breaking news. Let me see what
this says real quick. Here.This might be some pretty good news and
I'm gonna take it live and seewhat happens. Okay, hang on,

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I have to I have to getsome clarification. Okay, I'm gonna get
clarification on that. I don't knowwhat this message means. It's cryptic.
It's great from my wife and wife, and it's cryptic. I don't I'm
not gonna jinx anything. Let's dosomething lighter for just a minute. Oh,
here's some good news. Everybody wantsgood news, right, here's some

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good news. A woman named LynnStories, sixty four years old, retired,
lives up in Fort Worth, sawon one of those apps. Oh
wow, listen to this. Okay, breaking news. Do you do have
any kind of a any breaking news? Sound? This better be true?

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Ex give me one minute. Thatsaid we got a half an hour,
take your time, cal Why don'tyou just okay here, everybody listen now,
you don't quit licking. It's okay. According to my wife. According
to my wife, the power hasjust come. It's just the power has
just come back on. Now Iknow she's not at home, so I

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in turn text back to her whereI want to know where because the hotel
we were in, or she isstill in the hotel she's in yesterday.
She's in yesterday. When that stormcame, we were both sitting there just
thinking about how we were going tomanage the rest of the day and all
that, and the power in theentire hotel went with that big thunderstorm.

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Like holy cow, our sanctuary justbecame a hell hole. But fortunately,
wherever they are and whatever circumstances surroundedit, they were back up and running
in about fifteen twenty minutes. Okay, so that was just some freakish That
was a lightning strike probably which theycan fix. And by the way,

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I am not gonna I'm not gonnayell hip hip parree. I'm not gonna
do anything. But just now itbecomes my job to pray and to speak
for all of you guys, everyone of you who is still without power.
I'm gonna be your champion all theway until they get the last light
bulb turned on. I hope itsticks. I hope it's right. I

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hope we can go home today becauseI was, my wife was, my
son was, and my guinea pig. I bet he'll be happy. He'll
be home, all right. Soback to it. The woman in Fort
were Lynn's story, sixty four yearsold and retired, saw a neighbor in
need on that neighborhood app and decidedto help. Now, this other woman,

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she's only forty six, but sheneeded rides. She just had no
ride to doctor's appointments, and lotsof them since she'd been diagnosed with bladder
cancer. This woman has bladder cancer. She needs a lot of trips back
and forth, and she has noride, and she can't afford to call
uber. There's no way she canget to a bus stop. So Lynn

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retired got time on her hands.Response says, you know what, I'll
take you to the doctor. Andthat was about a year ago, and
since then she's taken that woman tomore than two dozen radiation appointments, six
chemo treatments, sat right there withher the whole time, and countless doctor
visits. That is an angel whojust an angel who hadn't figured out how

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to fly yet, right, thereand get this, when that story got
a tension, Lynn heard about aguy who's legally blind and struggling to get
to work and run his Errand sonow when she's not helping the woman with
the bladder cancer, she's taking careof this guy who can't see to get
around. That's what good people do. That's what good people do. And

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I'm I'm so glad that we havethat many good people. The man who
opened his home for me last nightgood people. When I left there this
morning, I thanked him profusely,and he said, look, until this
is over, that's your room.That's your room, and it's a nice
room and a nice home. AndI'll be forever grateful to him. And

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now, like I said, howmuch time do I have here? Oh
you got the big will you teachWill how to use that? Would you?
He's not doing it for you,Doug, never, not once.
Okay, I'll put it. I'llput in a good word. No,
don't do a good word. He'lljust laugh at all. He won't do
it. Then you gotta you gottahammer do it. Hammer down on him
a little bit, just a littlebit, okay, I am let's see.

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Oh, here's some other good news. All these kids who have student
loans, well, that call andI are paying for We're paying them off.
It's no big deal. Sure,you know, you go try and
get a degree that you can't makea living with and you expect me to
meet me to pay for it.That's not really cool in any event.
Some good news for future students,future students. Michael Bloomberg. You know

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who he is, right, MichaelBloomberg just donated a billion dollars in free
tuition to future doctors and to aidalso financial aid for nursing and public health
students for I don't know how longit's gonna I don't know how long that
money's gonna last. But so longas your family doesn't make a certain amount

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of money, and it's a highamount of money, your tuition's free.
And if your family makes less thanone hundred and seventy five thousand dollars a
year, then those students also Yethere's the rep you got to qualify for
medical school. Not just anybody getsthe money. But if you're going into

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medical school there and you qualify andyour family doesn't make a ton of money,
not only do you get your tuitionpaid for, you also get living
expenses. How cool is that?That's again once again somebody with resources.
He won't miss a billion dollars.He won't miss a billion dollars. But
all these students and all the peoplewho are coming into this world right now,

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as they get older, they willhave better qualified doctors. And by
the way, there was no mentionanywhere in this about any DEI, about
any anything other than future doctors,future doctors, the people who are most
qualified to get into that school andbecome doctors. That's who gets that money.
That's the way I read it.Anyway. I hope that's right.

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I want the best of everything formy family and for all of your families
and anybody else. For it worthI get. Got that took taken care
of. Let's do something fun here. Will you're gonna or excuse me,
cal you're going to have to participate? Can you got a minute? Can
you do it? Of course?Okay, because we have three minutes and
eight seven six seconds according to thatbig giant clock on the wall that I

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only see when you're in here.Oh, Will's listening. I just hope
he's listening. But what are theodds hope he's listening on the iHeart app,
Doug. Yeah, really, Ohthat's right. Yeah. Oh,
by the way, I'm finding outmore and more that I have listeners to
my outdoor shows all over the country. I finally, Yeah, these people
are finally. They'll call once andsay, you know, I left Houston,

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or I heard about your show fromsomebody in Houston, and now I'm
listening on the app all the timeand I'm in fill in the blank.
I've got a very regular guy,Mark who's in Georgia. I've got one
in New York. I've got onein California. I've got one in Arkansas.
I've got one in Arizona. I'msure there are listeners in Louisiana.

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I know there are, and insome other states too, and it's not
a ton of them, but it'sit's a significant number. So anyway,
this is one of those deals whereI'm gonna give you three little headlines and
you tell me what you want tohear about. What's in a word not
in Arkansas or money to burn notin Arkansas, not in Arkansas. That's

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the shortest one. This will bejust straight to the point, although it
includes a pop quiz that I'm justjust making up. Now where two part
pop quiz count where was crystal methinvented? Goodness, not in Arkansas?
Invented? Obviously not in Arkansas,So New Mexico. Wrong. I'll give

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you the right answer in a minute. In what year was crystal meth invented?
Oh, it's gotta go back,I'm not don't look at me for
clues. Twenties. No, crystalmeth was invented in Japan in nineteen nineteen.

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That's why I was close. Isaid in twenty you said the twenty
Yeah, that's twenty. I thoughtyou met the twenty twenties. I didn't
realize the world I thought you weresaying in America. I didn't realize that.
Oh no, the whole world.Okay, Well, what surprised me
was that it came from Japan.Yeah, and I don't know really where
else I would have thought it wasfrom. But it surprised me that was
from Japan. That is surprising.And in Bonus News, you know,

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I'm not gonna make you sweat oranswer a question for this one. The
term when I had what's in aword? The term for not being able
to remember the right word. Youknow it you can't remember. Yeah,
sure, No, it's called letalone l A t ho logica lethologica.

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So you can just drop that oneif you're having trouble remembering something and you're
around a bunch of your friends.Oh god, this is just such lethologica.
Yeah, and they'll look at youlike what, So, I'm sorry,
I didn't realize. You didn't realizewhat that very common word means.
Yeah, let's go to break Shelley. Oh on time already. No less

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collaborative of hundreds of providers from everymedical discipline, mostly med center stuff,
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I suggest you to go to bed, sleep it off, just wait until
the show's over. Sleepy. Backto Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.
Why welcome back on this final stretchof fifty plus for the week. Bad

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news for me, false alarm,no power. I thought we had it.
I thought we had it. I'mstill going to even after mine eventually
does come on. I still will. We'll be your champion all the way
through everybody who's who's without power.And once it does come back on for
me, and even if it doesn'tfor a day or two, just email

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me and let me know where youare, and I'll start kind of letting,
letting my audience know where Center Pointstill hasn't restored power, and maybe
we can we can all get backon a little bit sooner. Darn.
I was so excited. I wasso oh, felt so good for just
one brief moment there. Oh well, yeah, I just misread the text.
I got so excited when I lookeddown and saw those words in the

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way it was, the way thetext was composed it. Reading it really
quickly made me think it was backon. Oh well, as they say,
oh well, okay, I've gotto get back out there. We
got four minutes. Okay, let'sdo a little bit more, a little
lighter stuff again. Cal I thinkwould be a good idea right now for

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me, especially where that's the oldones. This is the new stuff right
here that bugs me, well,the previous text the result does, but
that's different. Money to burn orhey, that's called squatting. That's called

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squatting. Okay. Guy in Virginiagot arrested, which he should have been,
after he went to an open house, decided he liked the place and
tried to just move in without actuallybuying it. In California, that's called
that's called okay for a while.In New York it's called okay for a

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while. If you can get inthere and just establish something, bring in
a couple of bags of groceries andprop your feet up, make yourself at
home. If you can live therelong enough before the owners find you,
it becomes an almost impossibility to moveyou out. Texas has laws against that,
Florida has passed now laws against that. And there shouldn't even have to

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be a law against somebody just comingand moving into your house and then you
having to spend a ton of moneyto get them out. I can think
of in a lot of parts ofTexas. I can think of ways that
those people would be removed from thathome and it wouldn't cost But I don't
know, well, no, Idon't even want to go where I'm going.

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That's kind of dark. You knowwhat I'm talking about. You're Texans,
you know what I'm talking about.Let's go back to that bugs me
new Pole asked about asked people abouttwenty different insects and asked them to rank
them based on how much they'll likethem. What do you think the number
one was the number one insect thatpeople like so much. Ooh yeah,

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spider, butterflies. They like butterflies. You went kind of will on me
there when you pick spiders. Nobodylikes spiders. You're not paying Uh yeah,
maybe butterflies number one, followed byladybugs, honeybees, and dragonflies,
moving down the list. Dead last. That's an easy one. Dead last.

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Least favorite insect a roach. Mosquitoes. Roaches were second, though second
to last. I don't know whereants came in, but I'm no favorite
of them. I'm no fan ofthem either. And here here's what's something
I found very interesting which totally intigatesthe entire study, and it shows that
the people who put it together werejust bumbling idiots. You know what one

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of the twenty insects they asked thethe preferences for was what that crazy little
six legged earthworm. Earthworm was onthe list of the twenty insects they wanted
rated. So just wadd it allup and throw it all away. Just
wad it all up and throw itall away. Boom boom boom boom boom

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boom. Oh well we're getting tookay, forty eight seconds. I'm gonna
tell you all about I had somethinghere that I was gonna do with that.
Um oh, get this Uber.Most of us by now have taken
Uber rides. I guess. Sothere's a guy who gets he's visually impaired.

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He can't see a thing. Thedriver dropped him off at the wrong
location, drops the scalf the wronglocation. Where are you? So he
gets on his phone and says,hey, man, this driver drop me
off for the wrong Where are you? Oh? I don't know. One
more real quick science news is kindof weird. Scientists have discovered a planet

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that rains glass and smells like farts. Oh my word. All right,
that's about it for now. We'llbe back next week on Tuesday. I'll
be back at kbm ME tomorrow atseven o'clock. Thanks for listening, Stay
cool, Audios.