Selling Wedding Tickets

Today, Doug Pike discusses selling wedding tickets, honeymoon etiquette, and pacifiers.

Episode Transcript

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And now fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, let
me see if I can get this thing to operate
as it should. That should be about right. Thank you
for joining us on this first day of the new week.
For us, that would be Will and me not willing.
I would be willing me first day for Will, first

(01:04):
day for me. That's how that works. Glad to have
you bored. Tropical Storm Aerin spinning up in the in
the Eastern Atlantic Ocean. It is so far away right
now that it's not it's not worth a lot of discussion,
except to note that once again I'm kind of feeling

(01:28):
like the National Hurricane Center is is ramping up its
early warning system. If you will it's gonna tell us
the minute, the minute there's something, the minute there's a
cloud in the sky over the ocean. They want to
put a big yellow blob on the screen, and I
find that a little bit. I worry sometimes that that's

(01:54):
going to end up giving people the wrong impression. It
seems like they're trying to generate attention, trying to get
people to pay attention to them a little bit when
it's a little too early for attention to be paid.
This thing is not even halfway across the Atlantic Ocean yet,

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and it's predicted now, it is predicted eventually in quite
a few days to become a hurricane, possibly even a
major hurricane. But it's gonna be a hot minute. It's
gonna be a while before it threatens any major land mass.
I'm going to keep an eye on it, as I
always do. I'm kind of addicted to tracking these storms.

(02:39):
And I've got a couple of what I consider somewhat better,
longer term sources for what these things you're going to do.
And I don't want to tell you what Aaron is
likely to do according to my sources, because I don't
want to. I don't want to get you thinking anything
at all that's either falsely optimistic or falsely pessimistic. So

(03:03):
let's just leave it alone for right now. Since it's
thousands of miles away. May not be two thousand, it's
at least fifteen hundred miles away, I would guess based
on what I was looking at, and certainly to get
to where we are, it's at least that far and
maybe farther. So nothing to see yet. Let's leave it alone.
And like I said, if you need to know something,

(03:23):
I'll try to be the first to tell you. The
market's opened on the upside and still headed north. Last
time I looked my fab four, I guess you could
call them all well into green space. And the dow
actually was up nearly a full point at about I
want to say, it was around nine to fifteen nine thirty.
Gold down a few bucks, but still at a very

(03:44):
nice level. If you've got some old scrap gold around
the house and you want to sell it and buy
something kind of cool, it wouldn't take a whole lot
of gold. When you stop and look at the price
of gold. Now, if you've got if you could scrabble
up four or five ounces of gold, you could buy yourself.
A decent, little used car, no question about it. Something

(04:06):
you could put in the palm of your hand could
be worth the price of a car. Not a brand
new car necessarily unless you've got big hands and you
can almost fill one up. But nonetheless gold at a
very very attractive rate. And I guess for both buying
and for selling. I sold some goal about a year
and a half two years ago now, and I'm kind

(04:28):
of feeling like, probably should have waited, but it made
sense at the time. I made a lot of money
off of it. I made about seven times. We didn't
have much. I mean, this was just we're talking about
a couple of paper clips of it. It wasn't that
big a deal. But I made pretty good money. Seeing
is how I bought that stuff back in the seventies.
And again it was just a very small transaction. So anyway,

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moving forward, oil by the way down about a half
a buck last time I looked, and that's always that's
always good unless it gets down to the very low
sixties somewhere in there. Then the oil companies start having
issues with getting a return on the investment it takes
to get that stuff out of the ground. Stepping gently

(05:12):
into the news I have seen and I'm gonna I'm
not gonna dwell on this right now. I've got to
get through the entire show, and we've I've got a
lot of stuff I want to get to, but very quickly.
I've seen more and more stories lately written by people
on both sides of politics who are questioning the people
who are emerging as the new spokespeople for the left,

(05:36):
and how increasingly they're not doing that party any favors. AOC,
bad choice, Jasmine Crockett worse than AOC, and Mom Donnie
up in New York, absolutely unrelatable with anybody who enjoys
personal freedom in the American dream, or even half of

(05:56):
an American dream. Just if hey, that's New York and
implements the programs he's talking about, that city will become
unrecognizable within probably within a year. I'm leaning harder and
farther toward the introduction of a third legitimate political party
somehow in our country before the next presidential election. It

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would not surprise me at all. There's talk of it.
I think it was Elon musk E been talking about
that maybe a little while back. Would that new party win,
would it get its new value set into the White
House first rattle out of the box. Probably not. There's
still too many Americans on both sides, just the traditional
left and traditional right, who would quite rightfully be scared

(06:41):
to take such a huge leap of faith into the
genuinely unknown. I was going to say virtually unknown, but
it really would be the unknown. You can anybody who's
watched politics along, anybody who's voted more than three or
four elections, knows that what you get promised in the
in the spin up to the election, in the process

(07:02):
of campaigning sometimes really doesn't match up with what it
turns out to be. I do believe that President Trump
is making good on his promises, and I'm glad to
see that. But whoever becomes president in twenty twenty eight,
if it were somebody from a third party, it would

(07:24):
just take that person even longer to reshape the Congress too,
which is going to be the only way a third
party president could actually get much done. So that's years
and years away, but there is talk of it, and
I wouldn't be surprised if a brand new, shiny new
system wasn't of interest, especially to a lot of young

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people and a lot of people who are just sick
and tired of the same old, same old. All. We
gotta take a little break here on the way out,
I'm going to tell you about Barry Hill. That's Berry
Hill Baja Grill right there on fifty nine in sugar
Land at Sugar Creek Boulevard. Family run, been there for
thirty something years, kind of like I have in sugar Land,

(08:05):
and has arguably the best fish tacos I think I've
ever eaten. My wife and I found Berry Hill when
we moved into the neighborhood a long long time ago,
more than twenty years. I don't know exactly when we
first stumbled across it. There used to be a grocery
store in that same parking lot, but it's long gone. It,
like most of them, is a gem. I think now

(08:27):
it's your turn to try this casual, family style dining,
family friendly dining. You walk in, there's family stuff to
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the right, and as you walk in, you'll notice that
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honest to goodness, do this. I've seen it happen before once,

(08:49):
but I've seen it. Somebody just kind of walked in
and said, I'm talked to the server or the person
behind the counter and was talking about how they were
new there, and next thing you know, here, we'll come
on over and sit with us, Come make some new friends.
If you've been in sugar Land, you've been in berry
Hill enough times, you know what I'm talking about. The
food's fantastic. And to cap it off, get yourself a

(09:11):
margarita to get through the delicious meal you're gonna have,
and then cap it off with trece letchez. They do
that in vanilla and chocolate and both are equally delicious.
They'll come anywhere in town. They will cater anywhere in
the greater Houston area. By the way, if you want
to bring this delicious food to your big party, maybe

(09:31):
a football party, maybe a baseball party a little later
in the year if we make it through, or maybe
just a company event like we've done here a couple
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Speaker 1 (09:49):
Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
To appreciate it. Check that box, check that box, go
that way, you know, by the way. And I I'm
not I'm not gonna let go of this story. I don't.
I don't like it any more than anybody else does.
But all the names and all the all the people

(10:19):
who are being implicated in this whole Russian Russian dossier
thing from many years ago, now they're they've got to
be just on the edges of their seats. We we're
gonna have a long way before we get through this. First,
we got to sort out who knew what about that

(10:40):
thing and when and how those people can be prosecuted
for whatever crimes they may have committed if they have.
My hunch is that some really really big names we're
gonna find themselves in hot seats where they're they're sworn
to tell the truth, and as they testify, they're not
going to know exactly what the whistleblowers have revealed to

(11:05):
law enforcement, to our Attorney general, or exactly what was
hidden in those burn bags in the secret room at
the FBI, and what on what else on earth really
has been uncovered on that burn bag thing. I found
it interesting retired General Michael Flynn, former director of National
Intelligence Agency. He recommended that those bags I hadn't even

(11:29):
thought about it, because that's not the world I live in.
But he recommended that those bags and all their contents
be checked one by one for fingerprints, which you and
I both know are there. I'd be willing to bet
on that if not on the bags, on the documents,
somebody's hands had to pull those documents off of printers somewhere,

(11:54):
and unless they were really really thinking ahead, they didn't
put on gloves to pull the stuff off the printer.
They might have when they were putting them in the
burn bags, but who knows. He also recommended that anyone
responsible for anything in any of those bags might want
to just think about stepping into the light and enjoining

(12:17):
the team that's probably gonna win this thing when all
said and done. I guarantee that folks responsible for that,
for this just staggeringly blatant attempt to mislead Americans in
the worst way. They're all squirming in their seats. I
guarantee it. No matter how loudly they keep saying they

(12:38):
did nothing. We already know that's not true. That's low
hanging fruit. We already know there's a bunch of line
that's been done about that, and in very short order,
I have a hunch we're gonna learn a lot more
about just how dirty that whole bunch was and how
hard they tried to influence that election. This is serious
stuff for this country of ours. It's a wake up call,

(13:01):
really for every one of us, especially on the left,
because the people Democrats thought were so loyal to our
country and so interested in we the people, they were
playing an entirely different game, and they were playing it
with us as their pawns, our jobs, our health, every
penny of our money that they could squeeze out of

(13:22):
us as taxes to pay for stuff. And when they
couldn't squeeze anymore without fear of not being electable anymore,
they started printing money, started printing money and sending checks
and borrowing and borrowing and borrowing to a point now
where it's gonna be hard for this country to dig
out of where we are financially. It really is. We

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have a great economy, we have a very strong economy,
and that's not going to matter much if we can't
pair debt. I'll lighten up here and for a minute
or two. I found quite a few of these little
stories interesting this morning. One this confuses me and I'm
gonna be looking for a thumbs upper thumbs down from

(14:07):
you will on this one. I've titled it whose side
are You on?

Speaker 1 (14:12):
Now?

Speaker 2 (14:13):
You might be thinking I'm talking about an athletic event,
picking teams or whatever. But think about when you go
to a wedding, and traditionally I believe it's the grooms
people on the left and the bride's on the right.
It may be the opposite, but one way or the other,
one side's friends sit on side A and the other

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side's friends sit on side B. Well, there is an
app now that's being used that allows couples to sell
tickets to their weddings, not to the friends and family
they get a personal imitation, but I'm talking about to strangers.
And this is one of the most bizarre, weird things

(14:59):
that I've seen that is just trying to somehow there's
this infiltration of holy matrimony by total strangers who just
like to attend socially wedding. Let's just go to a wedding.
Let's see where we can buy a ticket to a wedding.
For Saturday afternoon. I don't know if that would include

(15:24):
an obligatory gift or a donation by one get one free.
I don't know how it would work, but I think
it's a pretty bizarre idea that I hope it goes
the way of there was something that It's not wedding
related at all. It's hunting related. And if you don't

(15:45):
like hunting, sorry, but I'm gonna tell this parallel. I'm
gonna draw. Years ago, some people in I think they
were in San Antonio came up with this concept of
putting remotely controlled rifles in the woods on private ranches,
and you, too, for a certain amount of money, could

(16:08):
go online and actually use that rifle pointed at a
certain direction to ultimately take a game not a game
animal and a non native species. You couldn't do it
with white tailed deer native game species, but just other
kinds of animals that were on these ranches. I found

(16:30):
that horrifying, and fortunately almost everybody in the hunting community
turned against that, and not only did they not do it,
they talked badly about it every chance they got. I
certainly did as many times as I could. I thought
that was just horrifying that somebody could just be sitting

(16:51):
over here in the galleria somewhere and you you know
what I'm gonna do after lunch. I'm gonna knock down
an access deer. Well that's a long drive. Oh no,
I don't even have to leave the office. What is
that to close my door for a few minutes and
see what wanders up to the feeder? That was bad.
So is selling tickets to a wedding. I guess if

(17:12):
you want to look like you got more friends than
you really do, put them on sale. Why not, Like
I said, two for one, bring a whole family, babysitting available,
free food and drink, open bar. I guarantee you people
will pay a pretty good bit to go watch somebody
get married and then get drunk for free. Seven one three,

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two one two five ninety five. Oh, in case you're
interested in joining the program seven one three, two one
two five to nine five zero. Moving down this little
sheet of paper here, I got about minute and a
half two minutes. Twenty four percent of Americans that's set
here are estranged from at least one sibling. Oh, by
the way, the thumbs upper thumbs down on that idea
will of selling tickets to a wedding. Really, Okay, A

(17:57):
thumb's up from Will. I'll have to I'll I'll dive
a little deeper into that later on in the day.
I don't want to interrupt him right now. Twenty four
percent of Americans is strange from at least one sibling,
it says, but many are willing to reconcile. Some might,
some might not. The top reasons that siblings become estranged

(18:17):
personality conflicts. That's low hanging fruit. I guess that's the
same reason a lot of marriages break up irreconcilable differences.
That's what they would call it with a marriage, lies
or betrayal. That yes, sometimes you just can't get over
what somebody said about you or did to you a long,
long time ago. And the last one I found interesting

(18:38):
the person is just too manipulative. It just it just
gets old that they always have to be right, that
they always have to get their way. That one I
can that one I can see causing an irreversible divide
between a lot of people. Sadly, will Aol has announced

(19:00):
that they're discontinuing their dial up service next month. America Online.
It's how a lot of people first found their way
to the Internet in the nineteen nineties. Gosh, it's been
that long, but in contemporary in contemporary terms, dreadfully slow,

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at a whopping fifty four kilobits fifty four kilobits per second.
That's like a snail with a limp trying to get
across the World Wide Web. We'll take a little break.
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That's why every few months we wash them, check his fluids,
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fifty plus with Doug Pike. Let's go out west.

Speaker 2 (21:47):
Shall we farther than the traditional cowboy west? We'll go
all the way across Cali fourn I A and how
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass Now she's whining about how
these ice roundups are disrupting her city's economy. This is

(22:09):
Los Angeles, California. It's not Tijuana, it's not anywhere in
the Caribbean or in Central America. This is Los Angeles, California.
And she's saying that these roundups of people who are
unlawfully here are disrupting her city's economy. Let that sink

(22:33):
in for a second. The economy of Los Angeles, California
is suffering because people who aren't supposed to be here
are being removed from here. She has almost everything you'll
read as a direct quote from her. Every time you
read something she said, you'll realize more and more that

(22:54):
her concern is far greater for illegal immigrants than it
is for Americans, especially the ones who built that city.
There are a lot of people there who didn't originate
in Los Angeles, and most of those are good people
from all walks of life, from a lot of different countries.

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But those people came here lawfully, They went through the
right channels, they did the right things, they learned what
they had to learn to become part of our country
and even to gain citizenship most of them. And that's great.
Our whole nation was built on immigration, built by people
who came here lawfully, followed the rules, and became Americans

(23:40):
and are proud to be Americans. For most part, to
promote some sort of shortcut to the rights and citizenship
of actual Americans, that's messed up. You're telling people that
all the work that everybody who actually is an American

(24:02):
who either was either was born here or came from
several generations back where people got on a ship and
sailed over here and passed through and looked at the
Statue of Liberty. It said, man, this is where I
want to be, This is how I'm going to be,

(24:24):
this is who I'm going to be. And they did
it right, and they had to pass a test to
become a citizen. And for the last four years there
was an effort being made to just shuttle all these
people in here, no matter how many times they got
caught and thrown out, and let them back in. I've
got more on that just coming up here in a second.

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I'll tell you it just boggles me, honestly that the
Blue states and blue cities continue to discourage the removal
of people who aren't supposed to be here. That's got
to stop, it really does. To allow it to happen
in the first place was bad enough, But to encourage

(25:09):
enforcement from not shutting that down and reversing that process,
I find even worse, honestly, speaking of Immigration and Customs enforcement.
In the past six months, ICE has arrested this is
right around here, Okay. This isn't in the country, it's
not in the state of Texas. It's not in Southeast Texas.

(25:30):
This is right around Houston, Okay. ICE has arrested three
hundred and fifty six illegal alien gang members. These people
represented forty different gangs according to a story. This was
a story from MSN dot com. And they crossed our
border that we know of, they crossed our border fourteen

(25:52):
hundred and thirty four times. Also that we know of,
the actual number of convictions of criminal convictions. For these
three hundred and fifty six men one thousand, six hundred
and eighty five, their profession was criminal activity, and they're

(26:15):
quite good at what they did. They weren't contributing members
to American society. They didn't care about anything but themselves
and whatever they could take from other people. They didn't
care if they had to hurt people to get it.
They didn't care if they had to murder people to
get it. They didn't care whether the people they were
hurting were children or women or elderly people. And it

(26:38):
didn't matter to them. It never has and it never will.
And they just kept coming back here those how many
times was it one thousand, four hundred and thirty four times?
They kept coming back because they kept finding more victims,
they kept getting released when they did get arrested, they

(26:59):
kept being deported and then just hop on a bus,
come back to the border and walk across again. One
of those guys had re entered the United States ten times,
ten times, and we still couldn't keep him out. These
are murderers, they're human traffickers, their pedophiles or rapists, the
worst of the worst. And for four years we did

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nothing about it. Very bothers me. Okay, I'm gonna back
up and lighten it up again. I get on these
little tangents here. I do have some good news, by
the way, and I'll share that in the final segment.
On the way out to this one, though, I find
this guy. What's a good way to say it? Cahone's grande,

(27:46):
I guess would be a good way to describe this guy.
Uh and the little headline I put on it is
might be his last. Fifty one year old man in
Tennessee shot his wife this past month, and while he
was driving her to the hospital, he stopped for a beer.

(28:08):
He said, yeah, you know, you don't look that bad.
I think you're gonna be all right. I need a
cold drink because when I get to the hospital, they're
probably gonna have some questions for me, and I'm probably
gonna end up going to jail, so I'm not going
in sober. He shot his wife and stopped for a
beer on the way to the hospital. That's pretty that's
pretty stonesy, if you will on the good news side.

(28:33):
This is just a warm fuzzy, A warm fuzzy. If
you know anybody who's getting married or are just recently
has whatever groom in Alabama spent months months learning sign
language so that he could surprise his new in laws
during his vows. That is a dedicated guy right there.

(28:53):
His in laws are both hearing impaired, so they they
were gonna have to have someone sign the ceremony, which
I'm sure they had because he didn't want to let
his secret out of the bag. But I'll bet you
that while he was saying his vows to his soon
to be wife and signing them so that the parents
of so that her parents could realize what was going

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on and understand it all. That's a pretty special dude
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just wait until the show's over. Sleepy. Back to Doug
Pike as fifty plus continues, Welcome back to fifty plus,
thanks for listening for and final segment of the program
starts right now. Holy mackerel, you know I mentioned that

(31:46):
weird wedding thing about selling tickets and it reminded me
of something that I had last week and never quite
got to. It's related to weddings. It's actually related to
the post web event, which would be the honeymoon and
a This is something I first time I ever saw

(32:07):
any I'd never even dreamed of this concept, but the
first time I saw it was on HBO's White Orchid series.
And it's actually becoming a thing. And that thing is
your in laws attending your honeymoon as you and your spouse,
your new spouse on your honeymoon. Come on, mom and dad,

(32:32):
you too, in laws. Let's all go on a big vacation.
That's I cannot imagine anything more awkward, to be honest,
or more likely to create a kind of a rift
between the two people who just pledge their devotion to
each other for eternity. Maybe twenty four hours later, a
phone call, maybe a zoom call to just say, hey, yeah,

(32:53):
we're having a great time down here in on whatever
island we are, or whatever ski resort we're at, or
where ever we are. But no, you don't need to
you don't need to come here. We'll be okay, we'll
be fine. We'll bring pictures, we'll send pictures, we'll post
pictures every day, but don't come down here or up here.

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I'm not gonna be joining my son and his just
married wife for dinner. Ever on some sunset crewis not
on their honeymoon. That's just creepy to me. Well in
laws and parents on honeymoon thumbs up, thumb down, thumbs down,
thank you. Yeah, that's just that's so invasive and so private.

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It should be private time for the happily newlywed couple. Umm,
check that that box is done. Back to little silly stuff. Uh.
A study found this is quite interesting AI. We've all
talked about AI and know how invasive it's becoming. I

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can't talk about anything in my house anymore without being
fed advertisements for what I've been talking about. The latest
has been dishwashers. Earlier, uh, in the year, it was
washers and dryers. And I'm tempted to start talking about
oddball things just to see how quickly they come up.

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I'll keep a list. AI generally is becoming a problem.
I told you last week about a company that was
exchanging internal emails about about whether or not that they
should continue using the AI system they were using to
make their business work better. And the AI jumped in

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and said, you better or not, or we'll we'll break
down your computer system. We'll we'll hack your your computer,
the one that you have us working on. So beware
and this comes out, then says a study found that
AI loves talking about us behind our backs. This is
how sophisticated and how intelligent AI has become. Two hot topics.

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One's easy destroying humanity, another one which makes me wonder
just how mature AI is and whether or not it's
a little bit juvenile. For some reason, some AI systems,
when they're talking about us, about us behind our backs,
one of the topics they bring up is eating glue.

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I don't know where that comes from. There's got to
be some sort of that must be code for something
else in AI, because I can't imagine them caring what
we do. There is a very messed up trend in
China right now, and I hope it doesn't spread worldwide
because I cannot imagine walking down the street and seeing

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grown men and women sucking on pacifiers. Gru that's another
thumbs upper, thumbs down, adult pacifiers will don't you dare
go middle of the road on that. I know what
you're good for Christmas? Yeah, you better put it down.

(36:24):
Holy cow, adult pacifiers in China. The last thing we
got from China didn't work out very well for is
now did it? Let's don't do that all right, let
me see if I've got some oh uh no, oh,
good news, good news, and this is medical good news
for infants. So if you know anybody who's having babies,

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are about to have babies or whatever, there is a
new test, a new non invasive test that can detect
meningitis in tiny little babies and infants and whatever without
the dreadful former procedure of a spinal tap on an infant.
That's got to be just so horrifying and so painful

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for them. They won't remember it. But just in the moment,
I can't imagine having to do that to a baby.
But if you don't, there's another problem. Non invasive method,
high reds ultrasound device and early on it's it's it's
been around long enough that they're very optimistic and it's
showing a ninety four percent accuracy rate, which is fantastic. Meningitis,

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if you don't know, causes inflammation and the membranes around
the brain and the spinal cord, and if you don't
detect it and treat it early, nick can kill them.
It can kill those little babies. And that's that would
be horrible, absolutely horrible. By the way, if you if
you're not up on your writing skills, as I take
great pride in my writing skills and my grammar and whatnot.

(37:50):
Guy in Italy's there's a there's something wrong with this story.
It says a guy in Italy survived two days with
a crossbow bolt that's an arrow kind of stuck in
his head. And so my question is, so, after those
two days, did he die or did somebody remove the bolt?
Because they never tell you in the line that's supposed
to grab your headline, ponder that we'll talk about it

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again tomorrow. No, not really. Thanks for listening. Audios