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And now fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, here
we go, Thank goodness, huh for some comfortable weather on
the horizon. Anyway, once we get through today, it's gonna
be might be some clouds, might be sprinkles, maybe a
scattered shower here and there. But after that we're looking
at a full week of just outstanding weather, absolutely outstanding.
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And if you haven't gotten a drop of rain at
your house yet, don't give up. Don't give up. Good sources.
I checked a couple of them, a couple of radars,
forward seeing radar, if you will, And the bass fishermen
in my audience know what that's a reference to. In
any event, the forward facing radar says that throughout the
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afternoon there will be little pockets of light. Two I
didn't see, but maybe some very teeny tiny little yellow dots.
So I'm just gonna call it light rain. Still on standby.
You might get some, you might not if you don't
run the sprinkler system. Everything's been dry for quite some time.
I had mine shut off through those two really cold
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nights a week and a half ago. Finally peeled all
the covers off of everything yesterday afternoon, except for one
of those little spigott caps on the west side of
the house that just I think I'm just gonna leave
that there all year round. We don't use that's figot,
we don't need it, but it's there and I have
to cover it. So anyway, after today, when you, when
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you and all of us get our at least modicum
of precipitation, it's going to be a lot of sunshine,
mild temperatures. Absolutely first academy whether to go outside and
do whatever you want to do outdoors. And as a bonus,
by the way, we're catching an extra minute or so
if sunlight each and every day now, moving ourselves closer
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and closer to the ultimate push of daylight. Savings time,
which I'm still torn on that I think I could
do without it. It's still the number of light, the
number of hours when it's light. It stays the same
no matter what we put the clock on, and so
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I don't have a real problem with it getting dark
a little earlier. I would I would rather honestly have
an opportunity for kids not to have to stand at
the bus stop in the pitch dark and cold of winter. Yeah,
that would be nice. Well, I guess that's what they're
having to do anyway. But right when that stuff starts
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in the fall or stops in the fall, that's a
hot mess. It used to really bother us as waterfowl
hunters many many years ago because it tended to happen
on the Saturday of the opening of waterfowl season, and
the first day on Saturday, you didn't have to get
out there so early. That on Sunday, boy, you had
to get moving. You had to get up an hour earlier.
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And it just it seemed like it would never end,
but it did, and here we go. Markets mixed early.
Nasdaq was up about about nine o'clock this morning and
then down now by several hundred points for the for
the Dow for the Nasdaq was actually green early and
now it shd about I think one and a half
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percentage points. It's a pretty good lick. So who knows?
Gold jumped more than three hundred dollars an ounce this morning,
back on the doorstep, not not quite there yet, but
back on the doorstep of five thousand dollars an ounce.
These are historic prices and pretty much no better time
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to buy ourselves. So I would strongly recommend if you
want to put a little money in your pocket before
that fishing show coming up a couple of weeks, you
might want to go and lay off some of that
scrap you got around the house. Might get enough money
to buy a little boat, maybe a kayak, at least
oil up a half a buck or so. It was
at sixty two fifty last time I looked. I saw
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something this morning as I drove here on the Southwest
Freeway in the dark that I haven't seen in years,
And it really because I haven't seen anything like this
in years. It caught my attention and I felt like
it was worth saying and talking about for just I
maybe a minute or so. So it's dark meat traffic
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kind of light really where I was. You know how
the freeways moving packs. There's one hundred cars all together
moving by you, and then it gets kind of scattered,
and then all of a sudden, you feel like you're alone.
And then you cross the next overpass and look in
your rear view mirror behind you, here comes the next
swarm of cars. It was one of those mornings, and
I was kind of in a in a light traffic area,
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and all of a sudden, there it was. Somebody threw
a mostly smoked cigarette out of a car window, maybe
a truck window, and it when it hit the concrete,
it just threw off this nice little spray of sparks,
kind of like the the cheapest, the cheapest Fourth of
July firework ever. Well, actually I think that because they're tobacco,
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they'd probably be more expensive than a typical firecracker. But
you get my drift. It wasn't It wasn't spectacular in
any way, shape or form. It was just a cigarette.
But hitting the concrete on a dark highway used to
be very common. I couldn't drive to work without seeing
five or six people throw cigarettes out the window. And
true confession, many many years ago, I would have been
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one of those people. I smoked for a very long
time and fortunately quit twenty five years ago or so.
But yeah, I just I found it interesting. There even
used to be television and radio commercials reminding us, not
going back to the days when doctors promoted smoking, but
going back to the days when the TV and radio
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were reminding us constantly that cigarette butts tossed out along
country roads quite easily can ignite the dry grass and
then start big wildfires. I was hoping, and I know
it's just a pipe dream, but I was hoping it
might be the last smoker in Houston flicking his cigarette
out of the window, partly because they're unsightly and stinky
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and nasty, but mostly because I know what a health
hazard they are. And maybe that guy knows. There shouldn't
be any adult alive right now who has any amount
of education whatsoever who doesn't know how dangerous cigarette smoke
is to your health, and yet people still do. They
opt to fill their lungs with that toxic smoke. And
if you're one of them, I hope you find some
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way to convince yourself that that's not a good way
to go. Like I said, I used to smoke them,
did for a long time, and at one point in
my life I just said, you know what, I'm not
doing this. And you know what that point was the
point when my wife said, look, you just tell me
what you want to quit smoking, and if you can
quit for not just quit and then get what you want,
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you got to stay quit. I think it was six
months maybe something like that. It was a long time
and that developed the habit and I haven't touched one
since and really haven't cared to what I would like
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I was going through some old paperwork I had over
here next to me and tripped over that list I
had from last week about the best food in the nation,
and I just some of the things that these states
are known for. I don't even I still don't know
what they are, and I don't care enough because I
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like Texas food, I like Louisiana food, and that's really
about far as I've got to go to feel like
I can find anything that I want. The one thing
that I don't recall seeing much on Louisiana recipes. This
is just a quick sidebar and something interesting to talk about.
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But the one thing I don't remember seeing as much
in Louisiana, and maybe that's changed over the years because
it became so popular over on the East coast in
the Carolinas, and that is shrimping grits. Many places better
than Louisiana to get shrimp, not many places better than
over there. And I think it was South Carolina when
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I got my first play to shrimp and grits, which
I thought was gonna be and so so. Turns out
it was way better than so so. And I don't
remember exactly how it was seasoned, but it was dog
gone good. When there are still some places here that
you can get good at shrimp and grits, none comes
to mind offhand because I haven't had it in a while,
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but if you ever get a chance, that's certainly something
to think about. And that's about enough for food right now.
From the careful what you wish for careful, I'll start
over from the careful what you wish for desk comes
the backlash that Billie Eilish is getting after she and
a whole lot more of her woke Grammy Winter Friends
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two nights ago. I guess it was decided that rather
than thank her fans and thank the people who voted
for her, and thank heavens and the stars for the
opportunity she has in this country, she decided that she
would let every know, everybody know that she's okay with
leaving pedophiles and murderers and human traffickers and drug smugglers
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in our country. And in the middle of her acceptance speech,
she said, and I quote, no one is illegal on
stolen land, and that room full of liberal whatever they
are just clapped and cheered like she'd said something that
made sense. And then she added the obligatory, at least
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among her type, the f ice as but yeah, as
though that was gonna make a difference. That's just that's
when you don't have any more anything smart to say,
but you're angry and you don't know how to express
it because you really aren't sure where you stand on
that when it's what it's laid out in front of you. Well, yeah,
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that's what she said. Her fans, by the way, and
I'm thrilled to report this, very quick to drop the
hypocrite card in front of her turns out she owns
a fourteen million dollar estate that, according to one site
I saw this morning at least one online post, happens
to have been built atop a former burial ground of
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some sort. And if that's the case, maybe she ought
to just hand that over. When's she going to give
up that mansion which, by her own words, if this
is all, if our entire country has stolen land, then
so is the land on which her fourteen million dollar
estate sits. And maybe she ought to turn that back over?
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When's she going to take down the gates and the
walls that surround that house? This is it's the same
song every time we turn around. Don't look at me,
look at somebody else. She when she voluntarily leaves that
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stolen land on which she built her mansion, maybe we
could turn it into a shelter maybe, or a hospital
for homeless veterans. How about that? Every one of those
entertainment elite honestly, well, not all of them. I can't
say that, no, because there are some really good ones.
Jelly Roll took one for the team last night or
what is this today's Sunday night? I guess it was?
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He did, and he stood up for what was right.
But many of them, all too many of them. That
would be goodness her? Who else was up there? Bad bunny?
There was somebody. Oh. Bruce Springsteen wrote a song about
how much he hates ice in this country. Just leaves
go on. There's military or not military, but transportation. Take
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you out here anytime you want to go, and I'll
help you pack. Let me know where you live. I'll
come help you pack, and I'll be very polite about it,
very nice, and wish you well. But just don't stand
around beating up the place that's made you bajillions of dollars.
Speaking of veterans and military stuff, and this is kind
of weird. I'm gonna I'm not sure how to go
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about this release. I'll just say it and then I'll
move on pretty quickly. Probably At a hospital in Toulouse, France,
the entire facility had to be evacuated after staff determined
that a twenty four year old man who had appeared
and presented, as the medical community says, in the emergency room,
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somehow had wound up with a live World War two
light artillery shell. Well, let's just say they couldn't see
the shell except with X ray when he came in,
and since the shell was still technically alive round they
had to call in bomb disposal experts. They had to
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set up a perimeter around the place to get that
sorted out. Daily Mail summed it up very well, said
and I quote there was no initial explanation as to
why the shell ended up in the man's body, but
local media speculated speculated that it might have had something
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to do with his social life. And holy cow, you know,
I'm honestly I'm glad the guy's okay. Hey, whatever you
want to do, wherever you want to do it, that's okay,
but don't show up with live AMMO on your person
or whatever. From the Wall, how much time do I have? Three?
Another good guess from the Wall Street Journal. Only days
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before a vote that may have put Bill and Hillary
in contempt of Congress, which would have really been problematic
for them, comes word through their attorneys that now the
pair have had a change of heart and they're going
to appear for deposition on what's being called mutually agreeable dates.
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Now that's a cute promise to make, But what I
want to know is just how long they can kick
that can down? The street. Mutually agreeable means that I
would imagine that it's going to start with Congress and
the Oversight Committee saying we want you in here next week,
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and they're going to say, well, no, we can't do
it next week, but maybe a month or so down
the line, and once those compromises start being accepted and
made back and forth. I got a hunch they're going
to keep kicking that can for a very long time
because they've got a lot of stuff they need to
go over together, they need to go over with people
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they know and know them, and it's really really gonna
be a big hot mess if they don't get them
in there pretty quickly. I think that that whole notion
of mutually agreeable might be a real issue. My gut
says that it could drag out for months, if not years,
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even which I don't think looks very good for the
Clintons from New York City and it's communist mayor comes
forward that the upper crust in that city already calling
out their new Communist mayor for not cleaning up the
place after the recent major snowfall they had. They got
a big dump of snow about the same time we
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were going down to twenty six somewhere in there, and
that snow now just looks like pile after pile of filthy,
dirty snow and ice that currently blankets the other filthy,
dirty stuff on those once beautiful busy streets. Nearly a
week after the snow and the Big Apple's elite are
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really really miffed at looking at this hot, filthy mess.
Michael Rappaport called New York City a dirty, snow covered dump,
and that's probably gonna be one of the better descriptions
of it, at least in the near term future. As
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more and more things get taken away from New Yorkers,
more and more New Yorkers learned that what they what
they voted for, isn't what they're gonna get it. Mom.
Donnie's a slick guy, man, He's He's like Gavin Newsom
on steroids. He really is. He can he can spin
a yarn better than most, and he got himself elected.
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And now he hadn't figured out how in the world
he's gonna make that place a little little isolated communist utopia.
If that's not oxymoronic, all right, We're gonna take a
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Just wait until the show's over. Sleepy Back to Doug
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Thank you for listening to fifty plus. Been on for
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happy to do that. For you. Never waste your time,
Never waste your money. A brief feel good story courtesy
of ABC thirteen from actually from a little while back,
but it's still pretty cool, And it's about a woman
who somewhat recently discovered that the woman who delivered both
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of her children her obgyn was also her childhood pen
pal in the nineteen nineties. Doesn't that make you feel
like at least makes me feel like I got a
few extra miles on my tires. I wasn't in my
childhood in the nineteen nineties, I can assure you anyway.
Both of them lived in Pennsylvania. The mom and the
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story in the story moved away, but on a recent
vacation back home to be with her parents, they started
looking through old scrapbooks and came across some of those
letters that the two of those kids had exchanged, and
she searched the pen pal's name and an ob jen
popped up. What do you know, but it wasn't the
same last name the doctor had married, obviously, and no surprise,
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and the two of them ultimately reconnected again, only to
find out that the doctor had delivered her babies. That
was kind of a cute story. I thought and worth telling,
worth telling. The Super Bowl set for this Sunday, when
the Patriots and Seahawks go after it for the title
of Champagne after a very long season. Viewership's likely going
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to be pretty high, But I got a suspicion that
ratings are going to drop during halftime and not go
up like they sometimes do when Bad Bunny takes the
field and the microphone and does whatever he plans to do.
This week, he won Album of the Year at the
Grammys for an album that was entirely in Spanish. Now
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it's I don't have a problem with albums being in Spanish,
So if that's the best album we had this year,
more power to him. More power to him for beating
out everybody else. It seems somewhat coincidental, though maybe a
little bit more than coincidental that this happened this year
when he's going to be performing at the halftime. He's
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just very outspoken about how Lily cares for our country,
and that bothers me some. And apparently he's the best
the NFL could do. Well, I take that. No, he's
not the best. The NFL chowse him because he'll be controversial.
Whatever he does, and you know he's going to do
something controversial. He can't do what Janet Jackson did years ago.
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That's already been done, so who knows what he'll do.
But anyway, I'll bet that part of the decision to
have him do halftime was to to really draw attention
and have people just go, oh, we can't wait to
see what he's gonna do. And then that might have
had something to do with him winning Album of the
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Year two. Jelly Roll, by the way, in his acceptance
speech at the Grammy, said he longed for a country
music themed halftime show, which I would love to see,
and I'm sure quite a few people in this country
would love to see that. Sadly, though, based on the
NFL's current leaning, I just don't see that happening. But
if it ever did, I would be willing to bet
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that the numbers for that one would go absolutely through
the roof country. People have had a long time to
wait for something like that, and the people who are
fans of country music would just rush to it, absolutely
rush to it. Ah, where do I want to go? Now?
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Let's go here. From the West Coast comes word that
LAPD chief Jim McConnell said this, He is not going
to enforce a state law his police, his entire police force,
isn't going to enforce his state law that bans federal
agents from wearing masks while they're doing their jobs to
remove bad people from his city. He wants his city
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cleaned up. He wants his city safer for the people
who live there. There was somebody I can't remember who.
I think it might have been some sort of an
alderman or a commissioner city somebody called on he's running
for and he called on all the gang leaders in
Los Angeles to come together and try to get ice
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out of their city. Now, I'm not sure exactly what
he was asking for, but that doesn't sound like a
good idea, and I'm not sure it'd go very well.
That law, by the way, the one about the mass back,
it's backed by gad about Gavin, and it makes no
sense at all. According to the chief, one armed agency
is the chiefs. I'm paraphrasing what the chiefs said. Basically,
it was one armed agency approaching another armed agency to
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quibble over what is at worst a misdemeanor and might
even not even generate a citation. If it were to
happen to regular old folks in the city. They're just
they're trying like the devil to keep this movement from
gaining more traction in the removal of these many of
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them very very bad people, very very bad people. That's
too long to go in one minute. I'm gonna save
that one for a little while later up in Portland,
out in Tucson. Two so immediate when looking for some No,
I'm gonna wait because I want to be able to
read this whole thing and paraphrase and do whatever I
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have to do to get what I'm looking at done.
I'll tell you what I am gonna do. This is
what I'll do. I will move on to the final
break of the program because it's gonna take a little while.
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Old Guy's Rule and of course women never get old
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Fifteen k sounds like okay.
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Three fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug come back.
Fourth and final segment of the program starts right now.
Let's go out to Tucson, shall we, where media recently
went looking for somebody who'd portray a man who was
shot by border patrol and rested recently. They were looking
for somebody to say he was a choir boy, model citizen,
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just trying to protect puppies and kittens, minding his own business.
And what better person to sing the praises of a
brother than the sister of that man. And so this
reporter walked up to her, stuck a microphone in her face,
and said, Hey, what do you think of your brother?
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And she said, and I quote, he is no victim.
He is a violent person end quote, and later that
he does not need or deserve any sympathy. Seems like
that reporter picked the wrong relative. But this guy he
was just not, apparently according to his own sister, not
a terribly good guy. The man who was shot and
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arrested believed to be involved in human trafficking and alleged
to have shot at a Border Patrol helicopter. When the
sister learned that, she said she wasn't really surprised and.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Conned. Yeah, it's interesting to hear that he is quote
back running illegals again end quote. So after fighting with
law enforcement and getting shot in the process, he was arrested.
Ultimately will face justice. So anyway, don't expect any news
about this model citys is on major networks or online sources.
He doesn't fit their mold. They're not going to say
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a word about him, at least not a negative word.
It's kind of like that pretty guy who at first
we were told he was, Oh, he was a nurse
at the VA hospital. Well it turns out he left
there months ago, and even his own family said he'd
gotten kind of wonky and weird and was just not
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himself in more recent times. And he also wound up well,
he wound up shot to death and after confrontation. I'm
really curious to see how that case plays out, too,
because there's some stuff I read about it this morning
that I want to confirm before I say anything about it.
But I don't know how that's going to end up.
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Here's one that I really found bothersome All the way
up in Portland, Okay, teachers' unions now are organizing anti
ice protests that even have gotten occasionally violent and even worse.
They are sometimes bringing children to these sure gosh, to
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these crazy things they're doing, putting them into dangerous situations
where sometimes the law enforcement side of it has had
to use crowd dispersal methods in gas and maybe even
less than lethal rounds. And they've got kids, even infants,
in these not so peaceful protests with them. That ought
to tell every one of us just just how much
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these people, at least these teachers care about teaching about kids.
I still contend that most people in this world are nice,
and that goes for teachers, truck drivers, pilots, construction workers.
Most people in this country are nice, and most people
in this country know better than to support leaving bad
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people in our country. Down in Florida, by the way,
I found this kind of interesting. Democrat congresswoman has been
charged fifteen counts to be exact, charged with stealing as
much as five million dollars in federal disaster funds during
the COVID nineteen pandemic. Well, a little help from her
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brother who's also been charged. She is expected to enterpla
of not guilty on Monday, but if she's convicted, she
could face up to fifty years in the penitentiary and
her brother could get thirty five years if he's convicted.
And it is until proven guilty as always, but one
by one, people who got rich on American tax dollars
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are being found out. They're being charged and eventually will
be tried in a court of law and see where
that leads them. How much time do I have will being?
Oh good, four minutes? This is going to be fun,
first of all, because I am a history buff and
not just because it's the best story. It's just an
interesting story that kind of changes the historic benchmarks we
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thought we knew about Over in Indonesia, on this tiny
little island. In caves on the tiny little island, they've
discovered stylized hand prints and depictions of animals that are
believed by very sophisticated dating methods to be sixty seven thousand,
eight hundred years old, which it provides evidence that people
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have been crossing the sea to the mainland and then
going back somehow, some way for nearly seventy thousand years,
when the more recent estimate was it was not even
half that. Probably that all this movement back and forth
across the ocean was going on. And one thing that
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bothers me. I know that back then they didn't have
really good painting utensil. They didn't have brushes and palettes
and access to hundreds of colors and oils and pastels
and an acrylic and all that. Just didn't have mush
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if any of that. But man, they still every one
of those people who were doing the drawing seem to
have had very little artistic talent. They're like fourth grade
sketches of dogs and horses, and just like we know
what they are because we've got stuff that looks like that.
At least back when we were parents of young children,
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we had those same drawings on our refrigerators with a
little gold star from the teacher in a note that says,
way to go. It's it's art. I get it, and
it's ancient art. But still I would have thought at
least one or two of them could do better. Maybe
they can, maybe they can't. Two minutes. I'll take care
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of this. Ah, this is a cool story. Thirteen year
old kid in Australia Southwest Coast. Out there in the
water with his mom and two siblings. He and a
kayak and the mom and two siblings on inflatable paddle boards,
and the wind got hold of those things, and all
of a sudden, Mom and the two brothers, sister or
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whatever they were were headed out to sea. Now his
kayak's taking on water, so he doesn't feel like he's
gonna be able to What he wants to do is
get back to shore and call for help. There's no
way he's gonna swim out to him and try and
drag him all back to the beach. So he bails
out of the kayak in his life jacket, smart kid,
and swims for two hours and still isn't back on
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dry land. Feels like he wasn't getting the shore fast enough,
so he ditched the life jacket, swim another two hours,
finally got help from a water police station and they
put a helicopter in the air. He gave him a
great description and an hour later, so now they've been
out on the open sea five year or five hours.
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Rescuers pick up mom and the two kids seven miles
out in the Indian Ocean. Let that be a lesson
to you. If you're ever inflatable anything, the wind will
grab him, and the wind will push you around and
it'll be very hard to not get hurt. I've got
a story, a surfing story, believe it or not, and
I think I'll just sit on it until tomorrow when
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I'll have a little more time to go into it.
And it comes from California. I'll tease it that way.
And it's not a really not a really flattering story
for paddle boarders. At least one of their folks did
something really stupid and really nasty and really mean out
on the water, and nobody's surfing or paddle boarding should
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do that. We'll talk about it tomorrow. Thanks for listening.
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be might be some clouds, might be sprinkles, maybe a
scattered shower here and there. But after that we're looking
at a full week of just outstanding weather, absolutely outstanding.
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And if you haven't gotten a drop of rain at
your house yet, don't give up. Don't give up. Good sources.
I checked a couple of them, a couple of radars,
forward seeing radar, if you will, And the bass fishermen
in my audience know what that's a reference to. In
any event, the forward facing radar says that throughout the
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afternoon there will be little pockets of light. Two I
didn't see, but maybe some very teeny tiny little yellow dots.
So I'm just gonna call it light rain. Still on standby.
You might get some, you might not if you don't
run the sprinkler system. Everything's been dry for quite some time.
I had mine shut off through those two really cold
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nights a week and a half ago. Finally peeled all
the covers off of everything yesterday afternoon, except for one
of those little spigott caps on the west side of
the house that just I think I'm just gonna leave
that there all year round. We don't use that's figot,
we don't need it, but it's there and I have
to cover it. So anyway, after today, when you, when
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you and all of us get our at least modicum
of precipitation, it's going to be a lot of sunshine,
mild temperatures. Absolutely first academy whether to go outside and
do whatever you want to do outdoors. And as a bonus,
by the way, we're catching an extra minute or so
if sunlight each and every day now, moving ourselves closer
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and closer to the ultimate push of daylight. Savings time,
which I'm still torn on that I think I could
do without it. It's still the number of light, the
number of hours when it's light. It stays the same
no matter what we put the clock on, and so
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I don't have a real problem with it getting dark
a little earlier. I would I would rather honestly have
an opportunity for kids not to have to stand at
the bus stop in the pitch dark and cold of winter. Yeah,
that would be nice. Well, I guess that's what they're
having to do anyway. But right when that stuff starts
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in the fall or stops in the fall, that's a
hot mess. It used to really bother us as waterfowl
hunters many many years ago because it tended to happen
on the Saturday of the opening of waterfowl season, and
the first day on Saturday, you didn't have to get
out there so early. That on Sunday, boy, you had
to get moving. You had to get up an hour earlier.
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And it just it seemed like it would never end,
but it did, and here we go. Markets mixed early.
Nasdaq was up about about nine o'clock this morning and
then down now by several hundred points for the for
the Dow for the Nasdaq was actually green early and
now it shd about I think one and a half
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percentage points. It's a pretty good lick. So who knows?
Gold jumped more than three hundred dollars an ounce this morning,
back on the doorstep, not not quite there yet, but
back on the doorstep of five thousand dollars an ounce.
These are historic prices and pretty much no better time
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to buy ourselves. So I would strongly recommend if you
want to put a little money in your pocket before
that fishing show coming up a couple of weeks, you
might want to go and lay off some of that
scrap you got around the house. Might get enough money
to buy a little boat, maybe a kayak, at least
oil up a half a buck or so. It was
at sixty two fifty last time I looked. I saw
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something this morning as I drove here on the Southwest
Freeway in the dark that I haven't seen in years,
And it really because I haven't seen anything like this
in years. It caught my attention and I felt like
it was worth saying and talking about for just I
maybe a minute or so. So it's dark meat traffic
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kind of light really where I was. You know how
the freeways moving packs. There's one hundred cars all together
moving by you, and then it gets kind of scattered,
and then all of a sudden, you feel like you're alone.
And then you cross the next overpass and look in
your rear view mirror behind you, here comes the next
swarm of cars. It was one of those mornings, and
I was kind of in a in a light traffic area,
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and all of a sudden, there it was. Somebody threw
a mostly smoked cigarette out of a car window, maybe
a truck window, and it when it hit the concrete,
it just threw off this nice little spray of sparks,
kind of like the the cheapest, the cheapest Fourth of
July firework ever. Well, actually I think that because they're tobacco,
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they'd probably be more expensive than a typical firecracker. But
you get my drift. It wasn't It wasn't spectacular in
any way, shape or form. It was just a cigarette.
But hitting the concrete on a dark highway used to
be very common. I couldn't drive to work without seeing
five or six people throw cigarettes out the window. And
true confession, many many years ago, I would have been
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one of those people. I smoked for a very long
time and fortunately quit twenty five years ago or so.
But yeah, I just I found it interesting. There even
used to be television and radio commercials reminding us, not
going back to the days when doctors promoted smoking, but
going back to the days when the TV and radio
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were reminding us constantly that cigarette butts tossed out along
country roads quite easily can ignite the dry grass and
then start big wildfires. I was hoping, and I know
it's just a pipe dream, but I was hoping it
might be the last smoker in Houston flicking his cigarette
out of the window, partly because they're unsightly and stinky
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and nasty, but mostly because I know what a health
hazard they are. And maybe that guy knows. There shouldn't
be any adult alive right now who has any amount
of education whatsoever who doesn't know how dangerous cigarette smoke
is to your health, and yet people still do. They
opt to fill their lungs with that toxic smoke. And
if you're one of them, I hope you find some
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way to convince yourself that that's not a good way
to go. Like I said, I used to smoke them,
did for a long time, and at one point in
my life I just said, you know what, I'm not
doing this. And you know what that point was the
point when my wife said, look, you just tell me
what you want to quit smoking, and if you can
quit for not just quit and then get what you want,
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you got to stay quit. I think it was six
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and that developed the habit and I haven't touched one
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I was going through some old paperwork I had over
here next to me and tripped over that list I
had from last week about the best food in the nation,
and I just some of the things that these states
are known for. I don't even I still don't know
what they are, and I don't care enough because I
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like Texas food, I like Louisiana food, and that's really
about far as I've got to go to feel like
I can find anything that I want. The one thing
that I don't recall seeing much on Louisiana recipes. This
is just a quick sidebar and something interesting to talk about.
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But the one thing I don't remember seeing as much
in Louisiana, and maybe that's changed over the years because
it became so popular over on the East coast in
the Carolinas, and that is shrimping grits. Many places better
than Louisiana to get shrimp, not many places better than
over there. And I think it was South Carolina when
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I got my first play to shrimp and grits, which
I thought was gonna be and so so. Turns out
it was way better than so so. And I don't
remember exactly how it was seasoned, but it was dog
gone good. When there are still some places here that
you can get good at shrimp and grits, none comes
to mind offhand because I haven't had it in a while,
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but if you ever get a chance, that's certainly something
to think about. And that's about enough for food right now.
From the careful what you wish for careful, I'll start
over from the careful what you wish for desk comes
the backlash that Billie Eilish is getting after she and
a whole lot more of her woke Grammy Winter Friends
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two nights ago. I guess it was decided that rather
than thank her fans and thank the people who voted
for her, and thank heavens and the stars for the
opportunity she has in this country, she decided that she
would let every know, everybody know that she's okay with
leaving pedophiles and murderers and human traffickers and drug smugglers
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in our country. And in the middle of her acceptance speech,
she said, and I quote, no one is illegal on
stolen land, and that room full of liberal whatever they
are just clapped and cheered like she'd said something that
made sense. And then she added the obligatory, at least
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among her type, the f ice as but yeah, as
though that was gonna make a difference. That's just that's
when you don't have any more anything smart to say,
but you're angry and you don't know how to express
it because you really aren't sure where you stand on
that when it's what it's laid out in front of you. Well, yeah,
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that's what she said. Her fans, by the way, and
I'm thrilled to report this, very quick to drop the
hypocrite card in front of her turns out she owns
a fourteen million dollar estate that, according to one site
I saw this morning at least one online post, happens
to have been built atop a former burial ground of
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some sort. And if that's the case, maybe she ought
to just hand that over. When's she going to give
up that mansion which, by her own words, if this
is all, if our entire country has stolen land, then
so is the land on which her fourteen million dollar
estate sits. And maybe she ought to turn that back over?
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When's she going to take down the gates and the
walls that surround that house? This is it's the same
song every time we turn around. Don't look at me,
look at somebody else. She when she voluntarily leaves that
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stolen land on which she built her mansion, maybe we
could turn it into a shelter maybe, or a hospital
for homeless veterans. How about that? Every one of those
entertainment elite honestly, well, not all of them. I can't
say that, no, because there are some really good ones.
Jelly Roll took one for the team last night or
what is this today's Sunday night? I guess it was?
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He did, and he stood up for what was right.
But many of them, all too many of them. That
would be goodness her? Who else was up there? Bad bunny?
There was somebody. Oh. Bruce Springsteen wrote a song about
how much he hates ice in this country. Just leaves
go on. There's military or not military, but transportation. Take
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you out here anytime you want to go, and I'll
help you pack. Let me know where you live. I'll
come help you pack, and I'll be very polite about it,
very nice, and wish you well. But just don't stand
around beating up the place that's made you bajillions of dollars.
Speaking of veterans and military stuff, and this is kind
of weird. I'm gonna I'm not sure how to go
(14:09):
about this release. I'll just say it and then I'll
move on pretty quickly. Probably At a hospital in Toulouse, France,
the entire facility had to be evacuated after staff determined
that a twenty four year old man who had appeared
and presented, as the medical community says, in the emergency room,
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somehow had wound up with a live World War two
light artillery shell. Well, let's just say they couldn't see
the shell except with X ray when he came in,
and since the shell was still technically alive round they
had to call in bomb disposal experts. They had to
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set up a perimeter around the place to get that
sorted out. Daily Mail summed it up very well, said
and I quote there was no initial explanation as to
why the shell ended up in the man's body, but
local media speculated speculated that it might have had something
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to do with his social life. And holy cow, you know,
I'm honestly I'm glad the guy's okay. Hey, whatever you
want to do, wherever you want to do it, that's okay,
but don't show up with live AMMO on your person
or whatever. From the Wall, how much time do I have? Three?
Another good guess from the Wall Street Journal. Only days
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before a vote that may have put Bill and Hillary
in contempt of Congress, which would have really been problematic
for them, comes word through their attorneys that now the
pair have had a change of heart and they're going
to appear for deposition on what's being called mutually agreeable dates.
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Now that's a cute promise to make, But what I
want to know is just how long they can kick
that can down? The street. Mutually agreeable means that I
would imagine that it's going to start with Congress and
the Oversight Committee saying we want you in here next week,
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and they're going to say, well, no, we can't do
it next week, but maybe a month or so down
the line, and once those compromises start being accepted and
made back and forth. I got a hunch they're going
to keep kicking that can for a very long time
because they've got a lot of stuff they need to
go over together, they need to go over with people
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they know and know them, and it's really really gonna
be a big hot mess if they don't get them
in there pretty quickly. I think that that whole notion
of mutually agreeable might be a real issue. My gut
says that it could drag out for months, if not years,
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even which I don't think looks very good for the
Clintons from New York City and it's communist mayor comes
forward that the upper crust in that city already calling
out their new Communist mayor for not cleaning up the
place after the recent major snowfall they had. They got
a big dump of snow about the same time we
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were going down to twenty six somewhere in there, and
that snow now just looks like pile after pile of filthy,
dirty snow and ice that currently blankets the other filthy,
dirty stuff on those once beautiful busy streets. Nearly a
week after the snow and the Big Apple's elite are
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really really miffed at looking at this hot, filthy mess.
Michael Rappaport called New York City a dirty, snow covered dump,
and that's probably gonna be one of the better descriptions
of it, at least in the near term future. As
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more and more things get taken away from New Yorkers,
more and more New Yorkers learned that what they what
they voted for, isn't what they're gonna get it. Mom.
Donnie's a slick guy, man, He's He's like Gavin Newsom
on steroids. He really is. He can he can spin
a yarn better than most, and he got himself elected.
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And now he hadn't figured out how in the world
he's gonna make that place a little little isolated communist utopia.
If that's not oxymoronic, all right, We're gonna take a
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happy to do that. For you. Never waste your time,
Never waste your money. A brief feel good story courtesy
of ABC thirteen from actually from a little while back,
but it's still pretty cool, And it's about a woman
who somewhat recently discovered that the woman who delivered both
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of her children her obgyn was also her childhood pen
pal in the nineteen nineties. Doesn't that make you feel
like at least makes me feel like I got a
few extra miles on my tires. I wasn't in my
childhood in the nineteen nineties, I can assure you anyway.
Both of them lived in Pennsylvania. The mom and the
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story in the story moved away, but on a recent
vacation back home to be with her parents, they started
looking through old scrapbooks and came across some of those
letters that the two of those kids had exchanged, and
she searched the pen pal's name and an ob jen
popped up. What do you know, but it wasn't the
same last name the doctor had married, obviously, and no surprise,
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and the two of them ultimately reconnected again, only to
find out that the doctor had delivered her babies. That
was kind of a cute story. I thought and worth telling,
worth telling. The Super Bowl set for this Sunday, when
the Patriots and Seahawks go after it for the title
of Champagne after a very long season. Viewership's likely going
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to be pretty high, But I got a suspicion that
ratings are going to drop during halftime and not go
up like they sometimes do when Bad Bunny takes the
field and the microphone and does whatever he plans to do.
This week, he won Album of the Year at the
Grammys for an album that was entirely in Spanish. Now
(22:37):
it's I don't have a problem with albums being in Spanish,
So if that's the best album we had this year,
more power to him. More power to him for beating
out everybody else. It seems somewhat coincidental, though maybe a
little bit more than coincidental that this happened this year
when he's going to be performing at the halftime. He's
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just very outspoken about how Lily cares for our country,
and that bothers me some. And apparently he's the best
the NFL could do. Well, I take that. No, he's
not the best. The NFL chowse him because he'll be controversial.
Whatever he does, and you know he's going to do
something controversial. He can't do what Janet Jackson did years ago.
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That's already been done, so who knows what he'll do.
But anyway, I'll bet that part of the decision to
have him do halftime was to to really draw attention
and have people just go, oh, we can't wait to
see what he's gonna do. And then that might have
had something to do with him winning Album of the
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Year two. Jelly Roll, by the way, in his acceptance
speech at the Grammy, said he longed for a country
music themed halftime show, which I would love to see,
and I'm sure quite a few people in this country
would love to see that. Sadly, though, based on the
NFL's current leaning, I just don't see that happening. But
if it ever did, I would be willing to bet
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that the numbers for that one would go absolutely through
the roof country. People have had a long time to
wait for something like that, and the people who are
fans of country music would just rush to it, absolutely
rush to it. Ah, where do I want to go? Now?
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Let's go here. From the West Coast comes word that
LAPD chief Jim McConnell said this, He is not going
to enforce a state law his police, his entire police force,
isn't going to enforce his state law that bans federal
agents from wearing masks while they're doing their jobs to
remove bad people from his city. He wants his city
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cleaned up. He wants his city safer for the people
who live there. There was somebody I can't remember who.
I think it might have been some sort of an
alderman or a commissioner city somebody called on he's running
for and he called on all the gang leaders in
Los Angeles to come together and try to get ice
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out of their city. Now, I'm not sure exactly what
he was asking for, but that doesn't sound like a
good idea, and I'm not sure it'd go very well.
That law, by the way, the one about the mass back,
it's backed by gad about Gavin, and it makes no
sense at all. According to the chief, one armed agency
is the chiefs. I'm paraphrasing what the chiefs said. Basically,
it was one armed agency approaching another armed agency to
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quibble over what is at worst a misdemeanor and might
even not even generate a citation. If it were to
happen to regular old folks in the city. They're just
they're trying like the devil to keep this movement from
gaining more traction in the removal of these many of
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them very very bad people, very very bad people. That's
too long to go in one minute. I'm gonna save
that one for a little while later up in Portland,
out in Tucson. Two so immediate when looking for some No,
I'm gonna wait because I want to be able to
read this whole thing and paraphrase and do whatever I
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have to do to get what I'm looking at done.
I'll tell you what I am gonna do. This is
what I'll do. I will move on to the final
break of the program because it's gonna take a little while.
I got two people to talk about, and this one.
The first one I'm going to talk about is Berry Hill.
Berry Hill Baja Grill out there on fifty nine in
sugar Land, been around for thirty some odd years as
some of the best fish tacos. That's kind of what
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they take pride in most of their fish tacos. And
once you eat them, you'll understand why my wife and
I found Berry Hill more than twenty years ago, more
than twenty years ago, and now it's your turn. Try
this casual, family friendly restaurant that's had the same two
chefs in the kitchen for decades, each vo out a
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delicious variety of Mexican food favorites with their little twists
on it to make it true to berry Hill and
unique to berry Hill. If you new to sugar Land,
the folks in the bar area, the sports bar area
will happily ask you to join them, probably just let
them know, Hey, I'm new here. Can I come sit
with somebody? I need to learn my way around sugar Land.
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And if you're not new, you probably already know about
berry Hill, so I might see you there. I'm in
their average about once a week, I would say, somewhere
in there. Berryhillsugar Land dot com. If you have a
big get together coming up, be sure to check in
with their catering department as well. They'll bring a whole
lot of food to feed however many people you got,
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and they're really good at it. And I know that
because I've eaten it here several times. Berryhillsugar Land dot com.
Berryhillsugar Land dot com.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Old Guy's Rule and of course women never get old
if you want to avoid sleeping on the couch.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Fifteen k sounds like okay.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Three fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug come back.
Fourth and final segment of the program starts right now.
Let's go out to Tucson, shall we, where media recently
went looking for somebody who'd portray a man who was
shot by border patrol and rested recently. They were looking
for somebody to say he was a choir boy, model citizen,
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just trying to protect puppies and kittens, minding his own business.
And what better person to sing the praises of a
brother than the sister of that man. And so this
reporter walked up to her, stuck a microphone in her face,
and said, Hey, what do you think of your brother?
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And she said, and I quote, he is no victim.
He is a violent person end quote, and later that
he does not need or deserve any sympathy. Seems like
that reporter picked the wrong relative. But this guy he
was just not, apparently according to his own sister, not
a terribly good guy. The man who was shot and
(29:08):
arrested believed to be involved in human trafficking and alleged
to have shot at a Border Patrol helicopter. When the
sister learned that, she said she wasn't really surprised and.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Conned. Yeah, it's interesting to hear that he is quote
back running illegals again end quote. So after fighting with
law enforcement and getting shot in the process, he was arrested.
Ultimately will face justice. So anyway, don't expect any news
about this model citys is on major networks or online sources.
He doesn't fit their mold. They're not going to say
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a word about him, at least not a negative word.
It's kind of like that pretty guy who at first
we were told he was, Oh, he was a nurse
at the VA hospital. Well it turns out he left
there months ago, and even his own family said he'd
gotten kind of wonky and weird and was just not
(30:02):
himself in more recent times. And he also wound up well,
he wound up shot to death and after confrontation. I'm
really curious to see how that case plays out, too,
because there's some stuff I read about it this morning
that I want to confirm before I say anything about it.
But I don't know how that's going to end up.
(30:25):
Here's one that I really found bothersome All the way
up in Portland, Okay, teachers' unions now are organizing anti
ice protests that even have gotten occasionally violent and even worse.
They are sometimes bringing children to these sure gosh, to
(30:50):
these crazy things they're doing, putting them into dangerous situations
where sometimes the law enforcement side of it has had
to use crowd dispersal methods in gas and maybe even
less than lethal rounds. And they've got kids, even infants,
in these not so peaceful protests with them. That ought
to tell every one of us just just how much
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these people, at least these teachers care about teaching about kids.
I still contend that most people in this world are nice,
and that goes for teachers, truck drivers, pilots, construction workers.
Most people in this country are nice, and most people
in this country know better than to support leaving bad
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people in our country. Down in Florida, by the way,
I found this kind of interesting. Democrat congresswoman has been
charged fifteen counts to be exact, charged with stealing as
much as five million dollars in federal disaster funds during
the COVID nineteen pandemic. Well, a little help from her
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brother who's also been charged. She is expected to enterpla
of not guilty on Monday, but if she's convicted, she
could face up to fifty years in the penitentiary and
her brother could get thirty five years if he's convicted.
And it is until proven guilty as always, but one
by one, people who got rich on American tax dollars
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are being found out. They're being charged and eventually will
be tried in a court of law and see where
that leads them. How much time do I have will being?
Oh good, four minutes? This is going to be fun,
first of all, because I am a history buff and
not just because it's the best story. It's just an
interesting story that kind of changes the historic benchmarks we
(32:43):
thought we knew about Over in Indonesia, on this tiny
little island. In caves on the tiny little island, they've
discovered stylized hand prints and depictions of animals that are
believed by very sophisticated dating methods to be sixty seven thousand,
eight hundred years old, which it provides evidence that people
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have been crossing the sea to the mainland and then
going back somehow, some way for nearly seventy thousand years,
when the more recent estimate was it was not even
half that. Probably that all this movement back and forth
across the ocean was going on. And one thing that
(33:31):
bothers me. I know that back then they didn't have
really good painting utensil. They didn't have brushes and palettes
and access to hundreds of colors and oils and pastels
and an acrylic and all that. Just didn't have mush
(33:52):
if any of that. But man, they still every one
of those people who were doing the drawing seem to
have had very little artistic talent. They're like fourth grade
sketches of dogs and horses, and just like we know
what they are because we've got stuff that looks like that.
At least back when we were parents of young children,
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we had those same drawings on our refrigerators with a
little gold star from the teacher in a note that says,
way to go. It's it's art. I get it, and
it's ancient art. But still I would have thought at
least one or two of them could do better. Maybe
they can, maybe they can't. Two minutes. I'll take care
(34:35):
of this. Ah, this is a cool story. Thirteen year
old kid in Australia Southwest Coast. Out there in the
water with his mom and two siblings. He and a
kayak and the mom and two siblings on inflatable paddle boards,
and the wind got hold of those things, and all
of a sudden, Mom and the two brothers, sister or
(34:58):
whatever they were were headed out to sea. Now his
kayak's taking on water, so he doesn't feel like he's
gonna be able to What he wants to do is
get back to shore and call for help. There's no
way he's gonna swim out to him and try and
drag him all back to the beach. So he bails
out of the kayak in his life jacket, smart kid,
and swims for two hours and still isn't back on
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dry land. Feels like he wasn't getting the shore fast enough,
so he ditched the life jacket, swim another two hours,
finally got help from a water police station and they
put a helicopter in the air. He gave him a
great description and an hour later, so now they've been
out on the open sea five year or five hours.
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Rescuers pick up mom and the two kids seven miles
out in the Indian Ocean. Let that be a lesson
to you. If you're ever inflatable anything, the wind will
grab him, and the wind will push you around and
it'll be very hard to not get hurt. I've got
a story, a surfing story, believe it or not, and
I think I'll just sit on it until tomorrow when
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I'll have a little more time to go into it.
And it comes from California. I'll tease it that way.
And it's not a really not a really flattering story
for paddle boarders. At least one of their folks did
something really stupid and really nasty and really mean out
on the water, and nobody's surfing or paddle boarding should
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do that. We'll talk about it tomorrow. Thanks for listening.
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