Prepping your Plants for the Freeze

Today, Doug Pike interviews Davey Tree Service's Curt Smith about prepping your plants for the freeze.

Episode Transcript

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Speaker 2 (00:50):
Hike Friday edition of the program starts right now. Will
just just issued me a pretty pretty good whipping in
the world today. It was one of those words I'm
not going to tell you in case you like to
play the game as well, But it was one of
those words that once you get well. On my second
on my second attempt, I had three correct letters in

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the correct places, and after that it took me two
more attempts to just figure out which of the many
words that have those letters in it it was. But
enough of that, nobody really cares about that. Really, it's
something Will and I do just to kind of launch
to see how the day is gonna go. And would

(01:34):
you agree, well that it's about a fifty to fifty
or you think you win more than I do.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
No, I think I think that we split up.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
I think so too. And typically if the word is
really hard and one of us fails a lot of times,
the other person does as well. I think we've learned
enough about the game that we're all kind of on
the same page a little bit. Anyway, gonna be nice
and toasty this afternoon relative to what's gonna come plowing
through here in the next couple of days. Houston's official

(02:08):
load Tuesday night. It kind of depends on which forecast
you look at, really anywhere from about maybe maybe twenty
five degrees to I've seen it as low as twenty
in the last hour or two, and really give it,
give it about one more solid day, and then I

(02:28):
think they can they can figure it out a little
bit better. If twenty is where we're headed. I'm gonna
do some extra prep work around the house too. I
can make that call a little later today, probably maybe
tomorrow morning or even tomorrow afternoon. There's time to do
what I want to do, and it won't take long
because I tend to to prep that attic pretty good

(02:50):
in the outside of the house, and I've worked outside
in the cold more than once in my lifetime. I'm
pretty sure I can do it again if I have to.
But I don't have any into busting any pipes, and
if it goes anywhere south of where it's looking right now,
I'm gonna consider just shutting off the water overnight. Officially,

(03:12):
thanks to indoor air quality specialists, I guess since cleaner
air is healthier air, and they clean duct work that
stays clean for years. Go to Texas iaq dot net
to find out about it. Officially, we're probably looking at
three overnight freezes beginning with Sunday night, and possibly a
fourth depending on how long it takes this system to
get lost. Sooner better than later, as far as I'm concerned,

(03:35):
Late Monday most of Tuesday is when we're gonna get
the winter precipitation. Whatever it turns out to be, might
be snow, might be sleep, might be rain. Still anybody's guests,
I think the bulk of whatever snow we get is
gonna fall north of I ten, which makes sense most
storms that deliver this kind of weather are gonna come

(03:57):
pretty much straight out of the north and go straight south,
which is I think what this one's more or less
inclined to do so far. But whatever it is, it will.
That's what we're gonna get. Who knows, anybody's guest. Forecasters
leaning more towards snow actually for Tuesday, just now, and
we can judge them afterward and see how it works out.

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Just show me some snow. I want to see the snow,
and then almost as quickly as it falls and sticks
and looks kind of cool for a while and everybody
takes a picture, then out melt it, out, heat it up.
Forecasts for a week from Tuesday, by the way, shows
a high higher than seventy degrees. That's going to be

(04:41):
a nice big switch. Somebody on Facebook said it appropriately,
This is coming no matter what. And then within a
few days, which looks like it'll be about six or seven,
go right back to shorts and flip flops. Thanks to
Houston Gold Exchange. Now for this look at the markets,
where all four indicators were up and in good fashion

(05:02):
a couple of hours ago. Oil concurrently also making me
smile a little bit down at the same time, hanging
around seventy seven ninety a barrel after being after just
tickling eighty bear dollars a barrel yesterday, and gold recovered
from an early slump to be up just two bucks,
but still up and well north of twenty seven hundred

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dollars just a little while ago into the news. We
plow now with word that the Israeli Security Cabinet has
now approved the Gaza hostage and ceasefire agreement. Once the
signatures are received and put in place, hostage release is

(05:44):
expected to start as soon as Sunday. Interestingly, the Biden
administration continues to try to take credit for this. But
it wasn't after what year and a half whatever it's
been now since that started up. It wasn't until incoming
President Trump issued a very stern warning to Hamas that well,

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it wasn't until then. He told him they were going
to have hell to pay. As soon as they heard that,
what do you know, they agreed to meet with negotiators
and bringing it into this conflict. And I'm so glad,
I really I kind of know who is responsible for it,
and I'm glad he's in office or on his way
to being in office again, otherwise that might have gone

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on just forever. We've been portrayed, well, not portrayed, but
perceived as sadly weak in the past four years and
not done much of anything to make the world a
better place to be perfectly honest, and I'm glad to
see where we're going. A story from the Texas Scorecard
about a Texas school district's executive director of equity, diversity

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and Inclusion says that that person says it's a case
by case scenario when it comes to boys rooming with
girls on school led field trips, and in some cases
parents don't even have to sign off on that, and
an undercover journalist found out she actually said, I've seen

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it all. Yeah, I've seen it all. The district, shortly
after that story broke, had that story amended to share
its opinion, and the district said that it follows all
state law regarding gender and knows of no complaints in
that regard. The district does offer an exception, which I

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think is fair under the circumstances, that says that on
field trips, on away trips where boys and girls are going,
the boys and girls might room in the same room
as long as all the parents and all the students
who would be in pacted are fully aware and grant

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Speaker 1 (09:41):
Once life without a nap, I suggest to go to bed,
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Just wait until the show's over. Sleepy.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
Welcome back to fifty plus on Friday weekend starts. It
depends on what you do and where you work in
a little while for most of us, and I can't wait.
I'll be back in here tomorrow morning, bright and early
seven o'clock over on KBME talking about the outdoors and
golf and what this front is going to do in

(10:21):
that regard. But until and I like doing what I do.
If I didn't, I wouldn't keep coming in here as
much as I do. Up in Massachusetts, a self ascribed
non binary town council member decided to take a full
month off work to recover from being misgendered by a
fellow city council member. The person claims need to take

(10:46):
that amount of time to deal with transphobia in the workplace.
Others up there say the time away demand came after
officials mandated in person attendance for meetings. Oh I have
to come in. Well, I'm distraught. I'm gonna be out
for a month. I've been called a lot of names

(11:08):
over the years, I really have. Not all of them flattering,
but none of them broke my bones. None of them
caused me to rethink who I am or what I believe.
They're just words, and other people can say what they
want about you or me or anybody else, and they
can believe whatever they want and have every right to

(11:30):
do so in this country. But that doesn't mean I
don't enjoy the same protection for my beliefs. And every
time somebody just screams and hollers that they're offended, they
need to kind of check themselves maybe and remember that
we do have free speech. And if they want to
call me, and if I called somebody the name, which

(11:50):
I wouldn't do, that's just not me. But if somebody
I knew called someone a disparaging name and that other
person all them a name back, that neither one of
them really should let it escalate from there because they
are just words, just words, and those are protected still

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in this country and hopefully for a long time to
come out. In California, where wildfires have displaced tens of
thousands of people, destroyed thousands of structures, and killed more
than two dozen people. So far, two out of the
three fires continue to burn, but the good news is
that conditions are turning in favor of the firefighters and

(12:36):
hopefully finally they can make some real headway into shutting
this all down. Concurrently, that state now is dealing also
with a major fire at one of the largest battery
storage facilities in the world out near Monterey, California. That
blaze started in a building that contains lithium ion batteries,

(12:59):
and the the video from that was just staggering. It
was amazing. That's in and of itself a huge fire,
big evacuation orders around that place. I don't know how
many people are involved in that, not nearly what's going
on with the wildfires, but nonetheless something else burning in California,

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and I hate that for them. In what I would
call a major blunder, somebody at ESPN last week decided
to not air the singing of the national anthem at
the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans. Well, I guess it
was a couple of weeks ago, now, yeah, it has
been that long. One day after the Bourbon Street terrorist

(13:42):
attack that claimed fourteen lives and injured many, many more
people that that network got a lot of pushback for
not airing the national anthem at a time of national crisis.
Shame on them. It's guy's Burt Magnus, he's the VP
of ESPN said yesterday in a story I read a

(14:05):
little while ago that the decision was made at ESPN
headquarters in Connecticut and that it was an enormous mistake.
To quote him, an enormous mistake. Well, yeah, and so
that I think, even more so, maybe than much of
what President Biden said on his way out that may

(14:26):
set the benchmark for post stupidity. Understatements in twenty twenty
five and it's gonna be hard to top. Let me
know if you read or see anything or hear anything
that I can validate. That's a bigger understatement than not
airing the national anthem to a national audience. In time

(14:46):
of trouble, in crisis and frightening events, they decided not
to air the national anthem. Yeah, that's gonna be tough
to be. Let's go to you will and talk about
something else. I've got that. I've got this, and I'm
going to go to this page right this is all

(15:07):
fresh stuff. Will from today. I won't even have I
doubt that I'll have to go back to the to
the archives of the week. Where do you want to start?
Will We'll love you all the same? Or we love
you all the same? Excuse me? I wrote that and
I just misread it. Keep an eye on this one
or lights out, lights out? Lights out? One percent? One

(15:29):
percent of Americans say they usually fall asleep in less
than a minute. How long does it take you to
fall asleep?

Speaker 3 (15:36):
A couple hours?

Speaker 4 (15:37):
Seriously?

Speaker 2 (15:37):
Yeah? And how many of those couple of hours are
you holding your phone or laptop or pad or whatever.
Zero You just lie there and you can't fall asleep yep,
what's up? Will you? Okay?

Speaker 3 (15:53):
I just I've never never been good at falling asleep.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
I have a routine now and it may help you.
Not you do you do the same routine every night?

Speaker 3 (16:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (16:03):
Wow? For me, it's it's kind of wind down and
watch a little TV for just a little while. Nothing,
nothing that's gonna grab me and hold me for hours.
Are you? Oh, somebody walked by again and gave you
a thumbs up or something. Yeah, it's really when I'm
talking to you, it confuses me when you give me

(16:24):
a thumbs up what I think is for me, and
then it's somebody outside because I can't see out that window.
In any event, I start by watching a little TV
and kind of just getting quiet and winding down a
little bit. And then once I get ready for bed
and crawl into bed, I'll do a crossword puzzle or
a jumble or all of the above, the puzzles that

(16:46):
are in the newspaper every day. That's the only reason
I even look at the thing anymore. There's just the
news is so much fresher online and of equal validity.
I think there there's no no value in waiting for
a story to show up on the yard in the
next morning, thinking it's going to be more more reality

(17:08):
based than what was online the night before. In any event,
I do that, I do the puzzles, and then I
have a little app on my iPad that I start
that's just this little drone of a soothing voice talking
about waves lapping up on the beach and then retreating

(17:29):
back into the ocean to be replaced by other waves.
And it just goes on and on. In nine nineteen
times out of twenty, I'm asleep before the thing. Ever
is it's about five minutes long, probably total, and I'm
gone before it gets to the end. Every now and
then I'll sleep or I'll stay awake through it, but
not much. Six percent of these people said it takes

(17:53):
them more than an hour, and even this story blames
phones for a lot of that. Only one in seven
people say that they do avoid screens at least an
hour before bed. And technically I can't even say that
because I'm looking at TV and that's a screen. So

(18:14):
but it works for me. I guess it's probably because
I'm exhausted too. Boy, I got some I got some
doozies coming up when we come back. I do have
some doozies. We are going to take a little break
here and come right back. We're going to talk to
a man named Kurt Smith about what to do about
our trees in the coming free Stick around more fifty

(18:35):
plus after this. Now, they sure don't make them like
they used to.

Speaker 1 (18:39):
That's why every few months we wash them, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 5 (18:57):
Welcome back to fifty plus on this very comfortable Friday,
soon to be followed by uncomfortable unless you just embrace
below freezing temperatures.

Speaker 2 (19:09):
Thanks for joining us as we inch closer to this
coming freeze event. Speaking of, in this segment, we're gonna
talk about how sub freezing temperatures impact our trees and
if there's time, maybe a little bit about the right
way to cover outdoor plants that need covering. To help,
I'm gonna bring in Kurt Smith and Arborus with Davy
Tree Service National Companies got offices right here in Houston
at which Kurt and other arbors help Ustonians take care

(19:31):
of their trees.

Speaker 6 (19:32):
Welcome Kurt, Doug, thanks for having me. Looking forward to
helping you and you're viewing or your listening audience get
ready for this coming weather event.

Speaker 2 (19:42):
If they could see me, they might just turn the dial.
I don't know. It looks like the forecast lows for
early next week are going to get lower than originally
they thought down around twenty for Houston. Cooler as the
farther north you go, and most of the trees we
have around here, I would guess are gonna be okay.
But talk about some of the ones that are more
vulnerable to air temperatures that low.

Speaker 6 (20:04):
Well, any any new trees, obviously that don't have a
really well established rooting system, that would be something that
I would be concerned about. And of course any of
your trees that you're or shrubs for that matter, that
you have a lot of passion, and I would prepare.
I prepare this Saturday. That would be a great day
to get out there. Put some mulch around some of
the beds or the trees, wrap some of the trunks

(20:27):
if you can, with some windshields, some burlap. Certainly, as
I said, get the ground hydrated. Saturated soils are really
hard to freeze versus not so saturated soil. A little
bit of waters, light light to freeze and heart a
big buget of water really hard to freeze.

Speaker 2 (20:47):
That makes pretty good sense right there. It seems kind
of it would seem unreasonable to me to try to
wrap a whole tree that's taller than maybe ten feet high.
How do you do that? You mentioned burr lap, but
how much and I guess you can just curate with
duct tape and how high up the.

Speaker 6 (21:01):
Trump Yeah, that's a great question. You know, for the
big established trees, you know, eight inches and larger, you're
not going to be able to get up into the
you know, the upper canopy. It's going to be impossible.
So the more established trees, I'm really not worried about.
I am still concerned in regards to the damage that

(21:23):
we sustained earlier this year from both DIRECTO and Hurricane
Burrow with broken limbs that didn't necessarily manifest.

Speaker 4 (21:34):
In a completely dead limb.

Speaker 6 (21:36):
We get some moisture up in there, high winds, the
low temperatures, you might get some additional fracturing. So inspecting
the trees is going to be very critical a year
long obviously, but right after the storm, let's let's get
out there and inspector juries, make sure that you don't
have any hidden problems that may end up falling on

(21:56):
a house or car, or there's somebody for that matter.
So inspecting your trees is going to be a great
thing to do.

Speaker 4 (22:02):
Right after this this week.

Speaker 2 (22:04):
What are we looking for and as far as visible damage.

Speaker 6 (22:08):
Goes, well, anything that doesn't look right, if it's abnormal,
and anybody that's gone to kindergarten school can look at
a tree and do that, well, that doesn't look right,
you know, trust your instincts. Colin Arborist. We're available all
the time. We're ready to go and be able to
point out some other health issues that might be there

(22:29):
that you're not even aware of.

Speaker 2 (22:31):
Yeah, I'm hoping that knock on wood. My trees have
made it through everything for thirty something years. And in fact,
you know, I've got a crape myrtle that we're actually
having to take out. Sadly, my boy, the neighbors and
we are, My wife and me both are sad because
this thing's been there twenty eight years and it's huge,

(22:52):
but it's become a liability if it were to topple
over and we're kind of worried about that. So what
about the shrubs? And flowers. What's the right way to
cover them?

Speaker 6 (23:04):
Well, plastic is not the greatest idea. If you can
bring them in, if it's in a pot, bring it in.
I do that on Saturday. Bring in some growlites, Put
them in the garage, put them in the you know,
the back room that doesn't get used, or the front
the formal dining room if if that's possible, But certainly
putting a windscreen, much like you would put in around well,

(23:26):
you know it's cheese cloth or something that's a bed sheet.
If you if you can't get to this door and
get the proper frost cloth or those frost shield bed
sheets will be just fine. You want to cut down
the brake the wind getting into those shrubs. So and
if if you're not, if you've already put mulchen, you're
still wanting to be extra careful, careful put it, put

(23:48):
another bag on top of it.

Speaker 4 (23:49):
You don't have to break the bag open.

Speaker 6 (23:51):
You can put the bag on top of the rooting
system and then move the bag after the frost has
come excuse me, after the frost has come through, and
moved that onto a a different part of the garden.

Speaker 2 (24:03):
If somebody does leave their relatively sensitive landscaping uncovered. Talk
about what happens to that plant that makes it unsavable.

Speaker 6 (24:14):
Well, just like you and me, you're gonna get some
kind of a frostbite. Hopefully you know it's not anything serious.
So after this event, coming through and pruning back some
of those peat of those tips would be advantageous to
promote good future growth. Now, you may be a little
bit early. So if we go through one storm, a

(24:36):
winter event, and then you do a little pruning, and
then you're gonna have to do maybe some additional pruning
that if we have another event like this before temperatures
warm up. But certainly keeping an eye on the plant,
the shrub, the tree, you know, all year long will
help you minimize the destruction of these kind of weather events.

Speaker 2 (24:58):
You mentioned not use plastic to cover plants, and I
see a lot of commercial landscaping. I see a lot
of plastic sheeting over plants. Why is that not the
right way to do it.

Speaker 6 (25:11):
Well, you know, plants need oxygen, so if you get
that on there too tight, you may be creating an
inhabitable environment for the rooting.

Speaker 4 (25:21):
System for the canopy as well.

Speaker 6 (25:23):
Okay, we want them to breathe, But we just want
to keep the temperatures out and that's where that frost
cloth will be helpful.

Speaker 2 (25:30):
Yeah, I've got some frost cloth in the garage. I'm
gonna have to jump over some old bed sheets to
get to it, I think, but I'm gonna find one
or the other before Sunday night. One question I want
to ask, and I asked this a lot of people
because you're the expert. You see the mistakes that are made.
What's the biggest mistake people make with their landscaping, either
before or after a freeze or both?

Speaker 6 (25:52):
Not preparing. And that's the great part of this show
is you're sending out the word to everybody. We've got
time today, We've got time tomorrow, even Sunday, before these
before these cold temperatures really come in. I'm concerned about Tuesday, obviously,
but we've got plenty of time. Do a little today,
do a little tomorrow, do a little on Sunday. You're

(26:14):
going to be well prepared. Even hydrating today is going
to be great for uh, keeping that frost from getting
deep into the rooting system on Tuesday or middle of
the week. So do it now and you'll get down
deeper into the rooting system and then you can come
back and top it off a little bit more.

Speaker 4 (26:32):
Again, out supervention is worth a pound of cure.

Speaker 2 (26:34):
Yeah, I thought about that. So if I run my
sprinkler system today, would you recommend doing it again? Maybe
Sunday morning? Even?

Speaker 4 (26:41):
Sure?

Speaker 2 (26:41):
Absolutely, Just soak that ground as best we can and
that'll help keep it from getting those cold temperatures. Any
deeper in there makes sense. What about speaking of snow,
which they're saying might come around Tuesday, is that good
or bad for trees and plants?

Speaker 3 (26:55):
Well?

Speaker 6 (26:56):
Uh, in some cases, yes, it's good. The maple like
the snow in order to produce the maple. But we
don't you know, we're not into the production world here
in Harris County and the listening environment. But you know, hey,
it's just part of being in the subtropics. We got
a lot of tropical plants that people make mistakes with

(27:18):
thinking hey, I'm going to be great.

Speaker 4 (27:20):
That put their heart and their.

Speaker 6 (27:22):
Passion into it, and then all of a sudden we
get a you know, a freeze with snow and they're
not prepared. H Then you certainly can have serious repercussions
with either dive back, or you know the tree, you know,
may the plant may end up dying completely.

Speaker 2 (27:39):
Let's hope none of that happens to anybody who's listening
to this program. Huh.

Speaker 6 (27:44):
If anybody has any questions, of course, Collins ready.

Speaker 2 (27:47):
Yeah, well they go to the website or they get Yeah,
the phone numbers right there, obviously, davy D A V
E Y dot com. You can go there and get
in touch with an arborus and get them out there
to take a good look around. Make sure you guys
are Thank you, Kurt. I really appreciate this.

Speaker 6 (28:03):
Appreciate the opportunity, and everybody, let's get ready.

Speaker 2 (28:06):
Let's get ready. I couldn't agree more. All right, we
got to plow forward. I wanted to get to a
couple of these before we get into segment four. Will
I'm gonna go to We Love You All the Same,
I'm gonna go back to that, and I'm gonna go
back to keep an eye on this one, and then
I'll throw in Sweet Dreams. Sweet Dreams. Oh, you just

(28:29):
keep ignoring the first two. I'm gonna have to do
them myself right as we go up. Sweet Dreams two
women who run a daycare center in Georgia are facing
charges for dosing kids with benadrill and melatonin to get
them down for their naps. That's kind of against the law,

(28:50):
and it's kind of lazy, and it's kind of dangerous
and will I hope they enjoy their time either being
heavily fined or potentially incarcerated for what they did. I
think a lot will depend on how many times they've
done it and how many kids they're talking about. That's
pretty that's pretty bad. That's pretty bad. I got that

(29:16):
taken care of. You know what, we can go to
this last break on time and that way we'll come
back and have a little bit more time when we
get back. You are listening to fifty plus on KPRC.
You just heard how to take care of your trees
and your plants, and I hope you take that advice
to heart because it came from an expert at davy
dot com dave e Y dot com. We'll take a

(29:36):
little break here, we'll be right back fifty plus on
kp RC.

Speaker 1 (29:41):
Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike.

Speaker 2 (30:01):
All Right, welcome back, Thanks for listening to fifty plus.
I appreciate that do this today do my outdoors and
golf shows tomorrow and Sunday, and then by Sunday afternoon,
the Houston Marathon will be done. That goes off this
weekend Sunday. A lot of guys I know are running
in that, and I won't be one of them. I've

(30:25):
never run a marathon. I ran. I felt like I
ran so much back when I was playing sports in
school that I'm just kind of run out. I can
still jog a little bit. Prove that to my wife
just the other day when we were out taking a
walk and I said, you know, I think I could
still jog some, not a lot, but some. And I

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just took off and did it for a little while
and felt okay about it when I decided to stop.
It's not like I wanted to keep going for another
twenty six miles, but nonetheless I felt comfortable, comfortable at
that pace, which I hadn't gone after in quite some time. Well,

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let's go back to a little bit of stuff for you.
Make some choices here. I'll have what she's having or
what's in a name? Well, and I've got to make
sure I keep track of all these or something disturbing.

Speaker 3 (31:28):
What's in a name?

Speaker 2 (31:29):
Okay, we'll go with this one. A report says that
aggressive baby names are trending. Some of the examples include,
can you think of any baby names that would be aggressive?

Speaker 4 (31:43):
Will?

Speaker 2 (31:44):
Yeah, Doug, that's pretty well played. I'll give you that. No,
that's not on the list, Will, I'm sorry. Let's go
with blade. On one to ten, rate these just and
we'll rapid fire through them so it doesn't take forever.

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But on a one to ten, rate them as aggressive
or non aggressive. Aggressive being a ten, non aggressive being
a zero. Blade, I'll say that's uh, that's a six.
We're gonna have to go quicker than that. Cannon Ball.

Speaker 3 (32:22):
I'll say that one is U. That's a three.

Speaker 2 (32:26):
Cutter.

Speaker 3 (32:28):
That's no good.

Speaker 2 (32:30):
That's that's horrible. That's a horrible name.

Speaker 3 (32:32):
That's a I mean it's a one for the name.

Speaker 2 (32:35):
Yeah, yeah, Dagger, it is up these I know these
are real baby names that are coming up. M Dagger.
Moving on, Gunner.

Speaker 3 (32:49):
I feel like I've heard gunner before. Yeah, I have
met some gunners. How would you like to be that?
Would you like for your parents who have named you danger?
That would be awesome. That's that it's not even my
middle name. Yeah, it's my first and middle name. I'm
Danger Danger Melbourne.

Speaker 2 (33:06):
Oh God. And the last one, which I think is
pretty twisted in the logic that's applied to it, the
name Arson Arson Arson. You know why, because they think
it's cute because it sounds like our son. No, it doesn't.

Speaker 3 (33:23):
I thought that maybe they just forgot to write the
sea in front of him.

Speaker 2 (33:27):
Well, we could have done that, that would be better. Yeah, Arson,
that's just that's somebody who plays with matches. That's not
our danger. That's a cool Yeah Danger. I think that's
that sounds like, you know, you know what profession you
could be really good at and it would work for
that name.

Speaker 3 (33:45):
Literally any profession that's true.

Speaker 2 (33:47):
But you know what, I'm thinking, what bull rider Danger
Melbourne on tappioca pudding coming out of Get for three.
That'd be a shot. You'd have a shot on tap
boka putting. I think what if they named the bull Danger?
I would be scared. I wouldn't climb onto that one.
Speaking of being scared, I'm kind of scared of this kid.

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Will thirteen year old boy's bucket list is going viral.
It starts off with get a full taxidermy alligator okay,
includes get a cool jeep? What no reaction to that.
I'm waiting for you to finish the list. There's only

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two more prove the existence of goblins and all three
of those things. Really is somebody who was raised in
the outdoors and raised down south and just good old
boy stuff.

Speaker 3 (34:44):
I don't think that this boy was raised at all.
I think he grew up alone.

Speaker 2 (34:49):
In the woods. Yeah, raised by the goblin. Here's the
one that disturbs me a little bit, and I would
want to I want to keep an eye on this kid.
You know what is fourth one on his bucket? Listened?
What up? Someone? I like?

Speaker 3 (35:02):
That's that's good.

Speaker 2 (35:04):
No, that's not good. With this kid's name Danger, that
must be him. It's either danger or see if there's
any uh, there's nobody named fisticuffs on here, but that
would be a cool name.

Speaker 3 (35:17):
That would be a cool name.

Speaker 2 (35:18):
Would you want to know a useless world record to
take into the weekend? And sure that's while you're sitting
around shivering. Two Swedish table tennis enthusiasts walk into a bar. No,
I'm just kidding. That would be a funny joke though.
If there was a punchline they've set a new record
for the longest rally. Will for all the money on
the planet? How long was that rally in terms of

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time or back in for time? Oh, I'm gonna go
with twenty seven hours. Lord, no, it's only half of
that thirteen hours, thirty seven minutes, and six seconds. And
you have to wonder whether somebody just messed up and
missed the shot, or whether they both just looked at

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each other and said, you know, okay, we got the record.
We're done. I wonder what the old record was. And
more importantly, I wonder why in the world we keep
records on silly things like that. It just doesn't make
any sense at all, doesn't make any sense. Did you
know how many do you have siblings?

Speaker 6 (36:21):
Will?

Speaker 2 (36:22):
No? Well, then you won't be bothered by this at all.
A study found that parents do treat their children differently,
and their favorites are more likely to be daughters. I
can see that. Agreeable kids. I can see that makes
it easier. And according to the study, birth order doesn't

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play any significant role in the selection of which one
gets the lion's share of the goodies. Whatever the goodies are,
what else you got? You got anything?

Speaker 4 (36:55):
Well?

Speaker 2 (36:56):
I got a couple more things I can talk about. Yeah,
bring it up. Hey, how about this two things? Actually,
I'll go with the longer of the two first, and
then finish with the shorter in case we run out
of time. All the way from southern Lowthia, not Louithiana, Lithuania,
I'm trying to say, Lithuania comes a story of royal

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treasure that was hidden sometime around nineteen thirty nine, right
as World War Two was coming around, in secret crypts
beneath a cathedral there. I love these stories and it
makes me wonder what else of historic or other significance
is buried around the world. Anyway, the team that discovered
this trove, while exploring the cathedral's subtle hiding places beneath

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its floors, turned up crowns, rings, chains, scepters, and orbs
belonging to Elizabeth of Austria and Barbara Radswell, the first
and second wives of Sigismund, the second Augustus King of Poland.
In the fifteen hundred will there's a picture of a

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crown that was found in there with all that other stuff.
It is. It has hundreds literally of large diamonds on
it and a couple of dozen rubies, as big as grapes,
all set in yellow gold, and just as impressive as
you can imagine it might be. That's fascinating to me.

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I know it doesn't just bors you to tears, doesn't it?
Are you awake?

Speaker 3 (38:26):
I didn't hear anybody named Danger in that whole story,
King Danger, that was his name.

Speaker 2 (38:31):
No, yeah, that was his nickname. No, yes it was.
I can't help but wonder whether Hunter Biden. I don't
know what's gonna happen to him out there in California.
They say his house actually may have survived the fire.
He's an intelligent man, but not necessarily a good man,
And I'm curious at least as to whether he will

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profit through insurance recovery after the Los Angeles fires apparently
have destroyed almost two hundred pieces of his artwork, which
he claims there were tons of money and stored near
the Pacific Palisades residents of Kevin Morris, one of Biden's attorneys,
estimated value in media runs into the million dollars millions

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of dollars. But honestly, if they were that valuable, I
don't think they'd have been in some storage locker or
bin or cube or something somewhere. And there's a really
bizarre story about something he tried to use as collateral
a piece of his artwork that he made. I don't
even want to really, just just look it up. You'll

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find the story, and just don't look it up during
lunch or dinner. Oh gosh, we only got thirty seconds.
Will less than okayra that one. I'll have what she's having.
Will was a woman in Ohio goes into Burger King
and orders chicken fries, and in her order of chicken fries,

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underneath the chicken fries, you know what. She had A
fool whopper. No marijuana. Mmm, have it your way. We'll
be back next week. Thanks for listening to Audios