Sports Sayings

Today, Doug Pike discusses sports sayings, the end of the penny, and AI.

Episode Transcript

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Speaker 2 (00:45):
All right, here we go. Let's talk a little bit
about what's going on in the world. I got some
funny stuff here one of my listeners, one of my
listeners to the weekend show. I don't know if this
person wants her name used or not, but anyway, she's
super and she sends me a lot of cool stuff.
And there are just some I'll get to them later.
I'm not gonna get to them right now because I
want to start kind of where we usually start. But

(01:08):
these are just quotes from professional athletes and coaches that
in the end are pretty dog on humorous. Some made
me laugh, some made me smile, some made me kind
of roll. My eyes, but they're all pretty good and
I don't know. I'll God, there must be twenty twenty
five of them here. We're not gonna get to all

(01:29):
of them, I can assure you, but maybe just going
into each of the breaks, I could do one or two.
We'll see.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
If you like the weather day, you're gonna see some
more of it tomorrow. There used to be a chance
of rain for the weekend, but I think it's kind
of gone away now. We're looking at Tuesday and maybe
Wednesday before we cloud up enough. It was so moistless morning.
There was so much water in the air. It was
just everywhere, and of course there was because I got
my car washed yesterday. I have an event down at

(01:57):
the Lone Star Flight Museum this evening and I wanted
to get everything cleaned up. And uh, that car is
not perfect. It's it's mostly a rolling It's usually a
rolling sporting goods store. They do love to fish and
I do love to play off and occasionally there will
be hunting gear in there as well. Not now though

(02:18):
I don't have anything on the on the on the
docket for that, but I'm working on it. I'm gonna
take a little bit of vacation here coming up, and
I'm hoping not to leave any days on the any
days on the on the books that I could have
taken off. I left ten last year, as I've talked
about before, and vowed not to do that. I think
I'm still at four. But it's I looked at all

(02:41):
the time I've got coming up that I am going
to be off with no absolutely absolutely no concrete plans
just yet, except for unplugging my alarm clock and resisting
throwing it out the window. I will I will welcome
the first morning on which I don't hear any alarm
at all. I might even put up blackout curtains just

(03:02):
so I don't know what time it is either. I
don't know if you can catch up on ten years
of lost sleep in thirty days, but I may give
it a try. So we already talked enough about the
weather market's kind of turning back toward the positive. There
were three greens and a slightly down dow just a

(03:23):
little while ago, like a few minutes ago, gold was
down I think ninety two dollars an ounce. I'm not
really sure why. Maybe I'll dig in next week and
see if Brad Schwis can't help us with that. Oil
also down a bit, and I don't understand why on
that as well. But the good news is it'll cost

(03:43):
a little bit less to drive around town. And Houstonians
know all about driving around town. I think, almost anything
and anywhere we go, and we'll tell me if I'm
close to this or not with a thumbs up or
a thumbs down. Okay, most anywhere we drive, if somebody
calls it says, hey, how far do you live from
such and such whatever it is? Wherever it is, it's

(04:04):
a minimum of fifteen minutes and usually thirty. Yeah, that's
the time you allow to get to your neighbor's house
across the street. And when you drive to the same
places as often as I do. This just redundancy of
off the work off to home, off, the work off,
the home off, the work over, the golf course off

(04:24):
the home, that kind of stuff. It tends to feel
like it takes more time. I think, now that I've
done it so much, I feel like it takes more
time than it used to. When my anticipation level to
be at any of those three places I like being
at all three of them was there, and now it's
kind of whole home. It's just now I'm stuck in

(04:45):
traffic and I got to watch because of the daylight.
No more daylight saving, We're daylight wasting now, just totally
throwing it away at about five thirty or five forty five,
and so that's been an issue for me. Diving into
the umpster we call mainstream news shutting down the government
for a while exposed some really really disturbing statistics when

(05:09):
it comes to SNAP benefits and people collecting money that
belongs to all of us in the name of having
it for themselves. Where do I want to start? Just
this morning? Okay, I'll start there. I saw a story
of how our government asked every state to provide an accounting.
This is the Department of Agriculture. I believe they wanted

(05:31):
an accounting of everywhere that SNAP money was actually going.
Mostly Red states responded, I'm not sure if any Blue
states did. And even on the books of those red states,
overseers found five thousand dead people getting SNAP benefits and
who knows who's cashing those checks, and a half million

(05:53):
people who had apparently found a way to apply twice
and get double the benefits, getting two checks same account,
same everything, two checks. Hey, it's just tax money. Who cares,
We'll print some more. That's what the last administration did,
and that that's gonna come to a stop. I have
a hunch. Saw a woman on Facebook absolutely ranting about

(06:17):
how she relied on Snap to feed her six kids
and just for food. She was doing more than forty
four hundred dollars a month in Snap, plus she had
a couple of other checks coming in disability checks, whatever checks,
whichever checks. Bottom line was she and another woman who
was kind of whining and griping that she'd been collecting

(06:41):
ten thousand a month from the government handouts for thirteen
years and never had a job. This is all tax dollars.
She has made one hundred and twenty times thirteen. That's
a lot of money. That's a lot of money. She's
made more than a million dollars off the taxpayers just
because she has a bunch of kids and she does
don't want to go back to work. That first one

(07:02):
talked about how she was just allergic to work and
she would never get a job, but she wanted her money,
by gosh, and that's our money, it's not her money.
And I really do hope they just got this whole
program and start over and really put boundaries out where
people can't take advantage of anything like that. She had
the nerve to say that, despite being healthy, she just

(07:24):
wasn't gonna do anything. And she said, why do you
think I had all these kids? Because I knew how
much money I could get from the government for having them.
She said that out loud into her phone. I guess
when she was griping about not getting her money. So
why is food so expensive? Because forty million people are
getting it for free? And we all know the smart

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ones know that nothing's free, somebody's paying for it. And
though somebody's are us take a little break here, let
me calm down a little bit. That really irks me
that people feel so entitled to stuff like that. We
are I'm comfortable in saying we've kind of lost the
tropical storm season, hurricane season all that. Now. It's middle
of November, after all, and not that it couldn't happen,

(08:09):
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(08:29):
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(08:50):
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That's one thing John emphasizes every time we talk. Let
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(09:32):
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Speaker 1 (10:12):
Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
I this was brought to my attention this morning by
a man I call faux Pro. He's one of my
uh mostly an outdoors listener on the weekends and also
a very good fisherman. And uh, he sent this to me. Actually,
he sent me a question like, have you heard of this?
Where is it? What is it? I don't know, and

(10:38):
I love baseball, but I did some research and each
of us founded at about the same time. I don't
even I don't even think I can watch the Capitol
one MLB Open at Shadow Creek in Las Vegas.

Speaker 1 (10:52):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
First of all, the first television coverage of this thing,
which is going on now, is going to be four
days after the whole thing wraps up. Got passed and
present major League Baseball players and amateurs who I'll guarantee
you are paying handsomely to be there. They've got a
pro am that took place Wednesday, then a two day

(11:13):
competition only among the MLB players using some trumped up
scoring system that gives the bad ones a shot. I'm presuming.
I don't know why they would change the scoring system.
There are a couple of established systems that tend to
reach parody to some degree. But they've gone and figured

(11:35):
out their own in any event that was going on
yesterday and today, and then it will be televised at
I think eight thirty at night on Tuesday on some network.
I'm not going to be looking for it. I love
golf too, I really do, but this seems so contrived
and so far removed from golf, and it just seems

(11:57):
to be some sort of fishing expedition really to see
if they're any money to be made off athletes playing golf.
And my gut says no, I don't care how any
of those guys play unless they're on my scramble team
in some charity event. Otherwise, what's next? Or we're gonna
put PGA Tour players in a softball tournament? No, NFL

(12:21):
on a basketball court. No. If you watch any of
this broadcast on what did I say, Tuesday? Whenever Wednesday? No,
that's when it's there now next Tuesday. If you watch
any of that, just let me know what you thought
about it. And I'll be surprised if anyone whom I
truly know in this audience would support something like that

(12:44):
by buying a ticket to go see it. It just
makes no sense. The DNC speaking of not making any
set well, actually it does. The leader of the Democratic
National Committee, Chairman Ken Martin, let employees know early in
the week that moving forward, they would be expected to
be in the office, no longer working from home Monday

(13:07):
through Friday, just like most of us. A rep from
the union that represents these people called the move callous.
He said, it was just unnecessary. It's just so horrible
to make these people actually come to the office and
I don't understand that. And immediately employees started firing off

(13:29):
thumbs down emojis to show their disapproval, as this generation
has learned to do. So I wish them well, as
did Martin. By the way, simply with a simple reply,
and i'll paraphrase very simple. Either show up or look
for another job. That's pretty simple, I would say. Straight

(13:50):
to the point, moving into these little shorties that I
was sent. The name is Mojo' that's the name this
person goes by. And we exchanged pleasantries almost every weekend,
Saturday and Sunday mornings. It's become kind of a ritual, actually,
and I'm so glad. And every now and then when

(14:10):
I don't see that. Good morning. I get a little anxious,
a little nervous. Oh, what's going on? Hope everything's okay
up there. In any event, everybody's heard what Babe Bruce
said when somebody asked him why he deserved a salary
bigger than the president. So I'll skip that one. This
one caught my attention. I'd never heard this one before.

(14:31):
It came from Harry Neil, a professional hockey coach, who said,
and I quote, last year we couldn't win at home,
and we were losing on the road. My failure as
a coach was that I couldn't think of any place
else to play end quote. I like that a lot.
I like that a whole lot. Doug Sanders I knew

(14:54):
Doug Sanders. I actually went to his house twice, and
he had the most amazing collection of memorabilia, golf memorabilia
from decades past all the way to the present. He
had probably one hundred custom golf bags in there. He
had you name it gloves signed by almost every recognizable

(15:18):
name in golf, dozens of those each. It was just
a remarkable collection. And I'm hoping it's all in a
museum somewhere, But I'm not sure where it is right now.
In any event, Doug Sanders once said, I'm working as
hard as I can to get my life and my
cash to run out at the same time. If I

(15:39):
can just die after lunch Tuesday, everything will be perfect. Yeah.
I understand that one too. Only cow back over to
the little things that I've got here with a little
bit of time to work with. Oh remember a couple
of weeks ago will when the Louver lost this big,
giant collection of jewels. I think there have been tourist
three men arrested already, But one of the things that

(16:01):
they might want to think about in this day and
age of technology, did you ever hear what the Louvers
video security password was supposed to be or was actually
was lou VR. Yeah, nobody would have started there, right,
although it is in its own way a little bit

(16:22):
clever if you think about it now, it's very simplistic,
and a supercomputer running combinations at the speed of light
would probably end up with that go all through the
a combinations. I guess it would have to start with
maybe four letter words or who knows, my gut says
somebody on the inside kind of helped them out. I

(16:43):
don't know if that'll ever come to light. They were
probably pinky sweared not to talk rat each other out,
but it still was very interesting. That's that. That's that,
that's not even worth talking about. Oh, as briefly as possible,
I'll let you know that yet another American has been
killed now by yet another drunk illegal immigrant, this one

(17:05):
out on the West Coast. I've quit keeping score, honestly,
it just it just depresses me to think about that.
But it happened, and I'm going to let you know
each time it happens, so we don't ever forget that
it's still happening. In a related story from Breitbart this morning,
California Department of Motor Vehicles has admitted to doling out

(17:25):
some seventeen thousand commercial driver's licenses to foreign truck drivers.
Those drivers have been made aware by the Department of
Transportation that their licenses will expire in sixty days, So
good luck to them and their future endeavors. But hopefully
they won't be driving trucks anymore. That scares the heck

(17:48):
out of me. Ongoing in Galveston right now is the
Old Quarter Songwriter Festival, and I hope some of you
have made plans to be down there for that. It
started yesterday and it's going to continue right on through tomorrow,
November thirteen through fifteen, packed with Texas songwriters and their

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special guests sharing the music that just it just comes
straight from their hearts. Where storytellers Texans are and these
artists who are down there in Galveston right now are
the same way. They're telling stories through music, and they
were allowed to invite some of their best friends from
all over the country to be heard as well. Several

(18:30):
venues involved. There's all kinds of details available if you
want to go looking for it and you were thinking
about something you might want to do on tonight or
tomorrow night down there in Galveson. This is an outstanding
way to spend your time. Go to Old Quarteracousticcafe dot com.
This is their inaugural event and I hope they keep
it up every year. Old Quarteracousticcafe dot com.

Speaker 1 (18:53):
What's life without a nap? If I suggest you to
go to bed, sleep it off, just wait until the
show's over. Sleepy. Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.

Speaker 2 (19:03):
Welcome back to fifty plus, Thanks for listening. Got paper
spread out all over this console in here. We didn't
get to the pennies yesterday, did we will? In case
you didn't know it, And most of you probably have
seen a story about this already, but I've got a
little bit of extra detail that may may be new.
The US met at Philadelphia has cast its last penny,

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and worth noting that mints first pennies were cast in
Take a guess, think about it, When were the first
pennies made? When would that have been? If you didn't
guess seventeen ninety three, you were wrong, which most of

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you probably were, and they were actually worth something up
until about the nineteen sixties. I can still remember going
in the dimes store we called it back in the day,
where you could buy for a nickel you could buy
a full sized candy bar, and for a penny.

Speaker 1 (20:10):
You could get sticks of gum.

Speaker 2 (20:12):
You could get kind of this, that and the other. Really,
there were things that you could buy for a penny,
different little individual candies, neatly wrapped and just piled in
where anybody could pick them up and look at them
and touch them and handle them. And nobody cared about
germs back then, because we all played in the dirt

(20:32):
when we grew up and got exposed to god knows
what while our immune systems were still developing and learning
to recognize the bad stuff and leave the good stuff alone.
We didn't get sick that often back then, and we
did get things like the measles and the mumps and
the flu and all of that. But I don't remember

(20:53):
anybody I knew back then ever actually dying from any
of those things. And in fact, way back when a
lot of you will remember this and will will be horrified,
some parents had measles parties, which I think made a
comeback a couple of years ago when measles was starting
to spread and people didn't want to get vaccinations, so
they'd take one kid with measles and throw them in

(21:16):
a room with six or eight or ten other kids,
and they all get the measles, and then they all
didn't have to worry about it anymore. Didn't make much sense.
Back to the pennies, though, the pennies in that last lot,
By the way, there's no sense going out and looking
for a twenty twenty five penny. You probably won't find one,
because most of them they're never gonna see the dark

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confines of pockets or purses. They're never gonna be lost
under a seat cushion or dropped and rolled behind furniture.
They're gonna be auctioned off so that people who fancy
such things can get an uncirculated, last of its kind penny.
And the main reason pennies aren't worth minting anymore really

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isn't as much about how inconsequential they are with purchases,
which have a lot of companies already started rounding up
or down on the five and just ignored the penny altogether,
and sooner or later it's gonna go to nickels two.
But the reason this went down the way it did
is because pennies cost about well a little over two

(22:26):
cents to make. Each penny is costing that's so typical
federal government, too honest to goodness, so typical of federal government.
We're gonna build something and it's gonna be worth a dollar. Okay,
that's great, We're gonna be We're gonna be building something
that's gonna be worth a dollar. We can sell them
all for a dollar, right, yeah, yeah, this is gonna

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be perfect. How much does it cost to make them?
Two fifty will double down. Let's say, if man, it's
gonna take a long time to make our money back
at that kind of mass, so we better make a
lot of them right. That's how I feel a lot
of this government stuff goes down. They just don't they
don't know what they're doing. A lot of them don't

(23:06):
know what they're doing. But they'll talk. They'll talk for
an hour and a half to tell you what they're
going to do, and then it's almost like they forgot,
deliberately perhaps to go on and do it. Right. I
talked about that last week. I'm not going to do
that one. I will go back over here. Remember remember
all the hullaballoo a while back about Epic City, a

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proposed potential municipality in North Texas that in reality was
probably going to become an Islamic community and including its
laws within the boundaries of that municipality, which is totally
against the law, but probably would have. There'd been a
lot of heads turned the other way on some of that.

(23:50):
I'm afraid. Well, we were told a long time ago
that Epic City was not going to be allowed, but
it has re emerged under the title of the Meadow,
and plans are expected to land on the desks of
two counties up there fairly soon if that's allowed. The
meadow is going to cover about four hundred acres, okay,

(24:13):
which is roughly the size of a golf course. Let's
call it. A nice sized golf course can be built
on four hundred acres, so can in this case about
a thousand homes, a mosque, a community center, school, other facilities,
all catering according to Texas Scorecard to Muslim families. Now,

(24:37):
the concepts exclusion of all but Muslims has raised eyebrows,
as it should in our country, and developers insist that
they will not exclude non Muslims. But well, we'll just
have to wait and see. Oh that's true. Maybe a
lot of us could go up there. We could just
all it's a beautiful part of the state, a lovely

(24:58):
place to live. But the potential to not be able
to exercise our right to be of the religion we
choose would make it a lot harder to make that
decision to go in there with fingers crossed that I
don't know, I don't think that will work out, and

(25:20):
I hope, I hope that we can find some way
to make sure that what everybody thinks is going to happen,
doesn't happen. I really don't know. Ah oh, there's one
of these things that these quotes that I got that
I really want to read because it was quite funny.
Here it is right here. George McIntyre. You ever heard

(25:42):
of him? Will Vanderbilt football coach, George mca not mcre McEnroe.
George McIntyre, Vanderbilt football coach. I'm gonna slow down some
of my cake. My mouth can keep up with my brain.
Football coach surveying the teamster for whatever year this was.

(26:02):
That included twenty six freshmen and twenty five sophomores, and
that's it, said this to the media, Our biggest concern
this season will be diaper rash. That's pretty funny. Nothing
will that gets nothing from you. Okay, let me try
one more then hold on. Ummmm, bum Phillips, you ready?

(26:27):
Bum Phillips said? You remember him? The orders head coach
on why he always takes his wife on road trips.
Bum Phillips said, the nerve. I'll call it to say
out loud, because she's too ugly to kiss goodbye. You're smiling,
yes you are. That's I don't there's not a chance

(26:51):
I'd ever say that, because my wife is lovely. She
really is. She's a very attractive woman. But yeah, he
said that. I'm not, sir, really sure, not really sure
how that worked out. All right, let's get out of here.
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(27:56):
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Speaker 1 (28:39):
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Speaker 2 (28:53):
Oh okay, it just didn't get a chance to get
cooking locomotive breath. Yes, now I recognize that the front
end of the that makes sense. Moving into it again.
Yet another launch of a high school chapter of Charlie
Kirk's Turning Point USA drew negative response from liberals and
progressives associated with the school, every one of whom it's

(29:17):
just they're just showing kind of their true colors when
they do stuff like this. The left doesn't want anyone's vision,
anyone's passion, anyone's knowledge to be spread unless it is
absolutely in line with what they think. That's kind of
what got him killed. He was able to make young

(29:38):
people think for themselves. He was able to make young
people reconsider things they've been told for years. And he
wasn't trying to convert anybody over to his way of
thinking immediately. He just he just said, hey, think about
this for a little while. And I'm sure a lot
of people thought about it, and they have gone on

(30:00):
to want to open these chapters, but they're not, in
some cases being allowed to speak their own minds. Left
wants to listen, wants us to listen really to their
kind of rants and raves, except their way is the
only way. And then just go away, go away. Now
that you think like we do, you're okay. The thing is, though,

(30:23):
young people today kind of seen what that side has
to offer, and if they haven't seen it yet, they
will if they'll watch legitimate news sources as mom Donnie
takes over New York City. That place is just hemorrhaging people.

(30:43):
It's hemorrhaging tax dollars, it's hemorrhaging everything. And I'm afraid
it's going to really lose out. And I've got friends
who have been up there numerous times, worked up there,
lived around there, and they're all kind of the same,
the same thinking. And the people who stick around probably

(31:04):
are going to find out pretty quickly that they might
have wanted to leave when they could. Turning point ussays
about sharing ideas calmly and then just if necessary, agreeing
to disagree and just getting back to work or school
or life or whatever you want to go do. Go
watch a movie, go read a book, go bolding, but
don't get angry enough to throw things and scream and
curse and insist that everybody think like you, because there's

(31:28):
no reason for that. It doesn't work that way. In
a related well, no, I don't even want to talk
about it. I'll talk about Jasmine Crockett. Instead, she came
out and said recently that she's got visions of running
for the US Senate. I honestly can't imagine there being
enough people so misguided as to vote her into any

(31:49):
position higher than the one she holds now. I know
a lot of people like her. I understand that, but
the things that she said and the things that she's
done have kind of revealed who she really is. And
I think if even some of her biggest fans would
just step back and ask themselves if that's what they

(32:10):
really want in government, I don't think they would be
as committed. I think what she's committed to is maybe
just cashing in, because she's seen already what people who
get into the US Senate can make and suddenly become

(32:32):
on a fairly it's not a low salary, not by
any means. One hundred and eighty hundred and ninety thousand
dollars a year. I believe the long and the short
of it is people have gone in and made that
money for six or eight years and come out worth
twelve fifteen to twenty million dollars. And I don't know
how they do the math on that, but somebody's helping them.

(32:55):
Somebody's helping them, that's for sure. Oh, my goodness. Such
an I'm really excited by the way. I'm going down
to the Lone Star Flight Museum this evening for a gala,
a wonderful annual gala, at the invitation of a woman
named Laura Panini Panino. Excuse me, Oh gosh, Laura. I

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hope she's not listening. In any event, she and I
have been trying to meet up down there for some
time so that she could show me around the place,
which fascinates me. I've looked at the website a number
of times, and so now I'm getting to do that.
I'm gonna meet down there about six o'clock. I'll probably
show up a little early, just in case I encounter
traffic on forty five going south at five o'clock. No

(33:38):
problem there, huh. But I do look forward to it,
and I'll be doling out probably a full report on
that tomorrow on my outdoor show over on Sports Talk
seven ninety that'll start at seven o'clock and march on
until ten. That's not good. Oh, I found this and

(33:59):
found it quite interesting. A gay in friends, keep this
in the back of your head. Will, just in case
it's necessary someday for you. He has been selling ad
space on his tuxedo to help fund his wedding. Would
you ever do that? Please say no, no, come on,
come on, no, no, we'll don't do that.

Speaker 1 (34:23):
No.

Speaker 2 (34:24):
Here's something I found. Also. A couple of days ago,
somewhere near Toronto, somebody stole a trailer loaded with eighty
thousand dollars of whip cream. Did I just talk about
that last week? I don't think so? Thought did? He
was in jail? Makes no sense. I don't know who
would need eighty thousand dollars worth of whipped cream? Will?

(34:47):
These little ones, they're just so fun to talk about,
they truly are. I've got that one taken care of.
I'm running out, I really am. So here's the deal.
I'm gonna lay in a couple of more of these,
and then we're gonna say, how much time do I have? Well?

Speaker 1 (35:02):
Two three minutes? Still?

Speaker 2 (35:05):
Oh? Get ready for some of these then? Because I'm
just I don't want to say any more bad news.
And I didn't find anything really really good, really really good.
I can't say, let me, let me do this. I'll
talk about AI because that's been that's been on my mind.
I'm seeing more and more uses for AI that are good,
but every time I read something good about it, something

(35:27):
bad comes along as well. Like this the song that
country song by Russ Bucket or whatever it is. In
any event, that's an entirely AI song. But by necessity
now we were becoming a world of skeptics and seldom
really sure that what we're reading or seeing or hearing

(35:47):
is legit. And you can go to any social media
page and expect to see things that just clearly aren't real,
and so long as they're presented that way, that's okay.
But when people start presenting that fallacy as truth and
as reality, that's where some of this stuff is crossing

(36:09):
a line that doesn't need to be crossed. Really, it's
funny a lot of it, and if you know it's
it's not real. But then some of that stuff gets closed.
As a creative writer now for close to forty years,
my ability to put words together in a way that
can elicit a feeling or maybe sell a product or

(36:32):
explain a complex situation that's had value for all these years,
and it served me very well because not everyone can
do that. There's a lot of things I can't do either.
But I can't I can do that. I'm pretty good
with words. The problem, though, is that smart people have
learned to let AI do most of the work and
then go into a document or whatever and tweak away

(36:54):
the obvious hints that they were written by AI. It
is just a tool, and as long as it's being
used for good, it's like a hammer, a weed eater,
frying pan, or whatever. Long as it's being used for good,
that's okay. Like every other tool. Some people use it
for good and some are gonna find ways to turn
it into a weapon. And that's where it becomes a problem.

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And if we can't if we can't distinguish between the two,
very soon AI is got We're we're already at the
point where AI doesn't need human intervention anymore, human programming anymore.
It's programming. It's beginning to program itself. And that's where
a lot of things are gonna go away. Unfortunately, a

(37:34):
lot of jobs will, but the trades they seem to
be doing well. We'll talk again next week. We will
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