Taking off Shoes in the Office

Today, Doug Pike discusses taking shoes off in the office, pharmaceutical companies, and divorcing over pets.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
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Speaker 2 (00:45):
All right, welcome to fifty plus. Thank you all for
listening on this wonderful afternoon. Will Melbourne just delivered the
bad news after I proudly knocked out the word in
three tries, that he got four golds on his first,
so I'll be lucky if I get a tie. Of course,
he's been cheating by practicing over and over and over

(01:07):
thousands of times a day. You're gonna get cramps in
your hands. Will Oh, he got it in two great
Thanks thanks for that. Thanks for knocking me down another peg?
All right, So here we are another dry day in
this little sporadically magical place we call Southeast Texas. I
suppose we went two weeks a while back wishing it

(01:31):
would stop raining every afternoon, and then once those wishes
were granted, when it did stop, we got a couple
of days to let the water seek in and start
looking around the yard and seeing cracks again wishing it
would rain again. Now we're kind of stuck. We've got
at least I don't know, a couple of more days

(01:52):
of this, which I'm not complaining. Okay, it's not bad
to have dry weather as long as we can turn
on the sprinkler systems. Then we get a mediocre but
increasing chance for rain as we head toward the weekend.
But don't hold your breath. The chance, the percentage chance
of precipitation wherever you live, and bearing in mind that

(02:15):
a correct guess on their part means that two rain
drops fall on your head in that day. It's only
forty percent on Monday, and then it heads back down
again after that. So I think it's twenty tomorrow, twenty
or thirty through the weekend, forty on Monday and then

(02:36):
going back down. So run those sprinklers. Hurricanes Umberto and
Emelda apparently have opted not to honeymoon on the East
coast of the United States, but instead will enjoy a
nice cruise out into the open Atlantic Ocean, the middle
of the Atlantic Ocean, where the two of them, oh

(02:59):
sadly will just fall apart, never to be remembered for
having caused so much as any damage anywhere to the
United States or any other land mass for that matter.
Good riddance as far as I'm concerned. Early market showed
all four indicators slightly in the red, not quite a
half point in either direction. Well in that direction, they

(03:20):
were all read on average. Oil was down a touch,
close to sixty two bucks a barrel, and gold back
on the rise again, really close. Last time I looked
to thirty nine hundred dollars an ounce. That's just a
lot of money for one ounce of gold when you
stop and think of how small a piece of gold
one ounce really is. A kruegerrand I think might weigh

(03:43):
one ounce. I'm not one hundred percent sure on that,
but that's a tiny little coin when you stop and
think about what it's actually worth. Now, would have been
fun if I'd had the money to have just taken
a flyer and bought oh, I don't know, ten thousand Kruegerrands.
Why not didn't have that kind of money. That's okay,
that's okay. I'm holding my own and still loving what

(04:06):
I do. Marching into the wide world of news, rubber
boots pulled high, as I'm going to start doing more
and more as we continue down the path we're on,
it seems we'll start in New York City, where the
front runner candidate for mayor one Zorhand, Mam Donnie, refused
to condemn Hamas or even label it a terrorist organization,

(04:30):
which we all kind of know it is. Mam Donnie
also criticized current New York Mayor Eric Adams for even
attending Israeli leader Benjamin Nett and Yahoo's addressed to the
un Mom Donnie's claiming his presence there, not his presence,
but Eric adams presence was offensive to all residents of

(04:51):
the city. I somehow think it wasn't offensive to all
of them. Maybe the people who think like he does,
the people who ultimately are are going to destroy that
city if they elect him mayor see how it works
out for him. This guy's a loose cannon, he really is,
and he's he's saying out loud things that are absolutely
certain to launch a mass exodus from that city if

(05:13):
he's elected. I think most of the people who are
hanging on now are just hoping against all hope that somehow,
some way he's gonna lose the election. But I don't
think that's gonna happen. I think he's gonna get it.
I really do. And before New Yorkers can blink, major
businesses are gonna be gone. They're gonna move here. They're

(05:33):
gonna move to Florida. They might move out west, but
not to California, maybe Arizona, someplace like that, Colorado for
those of them who like to snow. If the CEO
and the board are all skiers, they might move their
headquarters or to Colorado, maybe Utah, but no farther west
than that. This is just incredible. What this guy is

(05:57):
gonna do. Crime is gonna spike like never before, too
change that city one hundred ways to worse. The only
thing I'll give him credit for as a politician is
that he's not trying to lie his way into office,
not trying to sneak up on anybody, not trying to
present a very false front. He's telling everybody exactly how

(06:18):
he's going to destroy New York City, and it sounded
more and more like they're just there might be just
just enough fools left there to get him elected. It's
kind of scary, really, I hope it doesn't work that way.
How much time do I have? Well, not much? Huh,
one minute. I can do this one in one minute. No,
I'm gonna save that one. A new poll found Americans

(06:41):
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I'm not sure exactly why that is, but it's an
average of twenty five times a week, and I get
the spam calls. I get my share. I get seven
or eight spam calls a day, whereas this saying is
given weekly numbers. The nine or that twenty five a

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I get a few of those. It's mostly phone calls
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Speaker 1 (08:49):
Com Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
All right, welcome back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
I certainly do appreciate it. Got a couple of interesting
I've got a couple of fun things. I've got a
couple of serious things. I'll lead with a fun thing.
It's very interesting. Fortune magazine did a story on an
emerging trend in the workplace. I'm gonna give you the opportunity,
will to go thumbs up or thumbs down on this one.

(09:18):
More companies are making employees leave their shoes at the door,
which they say is gonna create a more relaxed and
corrapt excuse me, collaborative work environment. Do you agree or disagree?
You want to go no shoes, really, I don't know. Man,

(09:43):
what about no socks? Can we go barefoot? Must wear socks?
I agree with that one hundred percent. Yeah, it's gonna
be bad enough if all the shoes come off. But
I don't there's a lot of people in this office.
I don't want to see their toes, and they probably
don't want to see mine either. I've had you heard
of that before. I hadn't either. All these trends that

(10:05):
we seem to be missing somehow, Will, most of them
are kind of weird. But if you if you think
this would be okay, I'd be willing to take a shot.
My gut reaction was no, that's kind of creepy and weird.
But to show that I'm a man who embraces change,
a man who's willing to give it a try. Let's see,

(10:27):
maybe we should just start. Let's leave our shoes in here,
just go walking around the office for a minute. You know,
we actually had at the old building, Will, long before
you were probably about six when this happened. But long ago,
over in the other building, there was one guy who
walked around with his shoes off. He just slid him
under his little cubicle and then walked all over the

(10:48):
office with just his socks on, and nobody really liked it,
but nobody really told him not to do it either,
so he just continued to do it until he left.
Was a little bit different, though, I must say real quickly.
Then I'll get to get back to the big news
of the day. A couple in India. This is one

(11:09):
of those how can you not see this coming? So
this couple in India get married and each of them,
the wife has a cat, the husband has a dog,
and after less than a year, the dog and the
cat aren't getting along. So what do they do. They
get a divorce. They abandoned their relationship in favor of

(11:34):
their pets, which tells me that wasn't gonna last that
long anyway, not at all, So I'll scratch through that one.
Back to the news. Washington, d C. House Speaker Mike
Johnson played a video loop yesterday of Democrats protesting previous
government shut down. No, we can't do that. We got

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to keep this government running full speed ahead and the
politicians can sort it out while it's running. Not we
don't need to shut down. Well, that's exactly what they
allowed to happen yesterday last night at midnight, because Conservatives
wouldn't bank roll to the tune of some one point
three trillion dollars some plan the Left has to for

(12:19):
free health care and pretty much all kinds of other
services to illegal immigrants. That was and until this country,
as far as I'm concerned, until this country has free
health care for every American, maybe free everything that it
gave illegals for the past four years. You want a hotel,
got a free hotel. You want three hots a day,
and got that cell phone? Yeah, sure, we'll pay for that,

(12:41):
transportation all over the country, pick a flight, where do
you want to go? Until we've got all that available
at no cost to us, we're not keeping our promise
to Americans to do to make it special to be American.
If you're giving more to people who aren't supposed to
be here, then you're giving to the people who are

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supposed to be here. That's a problem Left is in.
They're just pushing all in on providing free stuff to
people who have nothing in return for the for the
for the chance, just to give them a vote. Somehow
They're gonna get the vote, get the vote, and then
more free stuff. And if the left can ever figure
out how to make all that happen, then they'll they'll

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be able to keep that that segment of society beholden
to them just by handing them more free stuff. And
you know that's already allowed by the way local elections
in some cities, and they allow just pretty much anybody
and everybody who lives there to go ahead and hang
a vote on the on the ballot and watch how
long it takes. It's not gonna take hardly any time

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at all to replace entire city governments moving forward with
people who look like, talk like, and think like those immigrants,
because there's gonna end up being more of them and
fewer of the people who were there when they started coming. Man,
it's it's gonna change. It's going to change some of
the cities in this country, no question about it. That's
already happening. It's already happening in places up north, in Minnesota,

(14:13):
in Michigan, there are pockets of people who just don't
want us around there, and they'll they'll run you out.

Speaker 1 (14:21):
There.

Speaker 2 (14:21):
Was I think it was a I can't remember what
mayor might have been a Michigan mayor. A man who's
a Muslim, and hey, it's freedom of religion in this
country across the board. I don't have a problem with that.
But what he told what he did was he he
got angry with a Christian and told that guy he
was not welcome in that city anymore, and that when

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he left, the mayor was going to throw a parade
for him. So there's not That doesn't sound like freedom
of religion to me. That sounds like somebody who's trying
to just take over and change things, probably not for
the better, probably not. Saw another story this morning about
how concerned Democrats suddenly are over people on their side

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being being detained and charged and harassed and whatever they
can come up with to call it unfaired attention this,
that and the other being arrested. Some of them they're
just hollering political warfare as lawfair as they say. Uh,
not entirely unlike what happened to nearly everybody close to

(15:23):
President Trump and President Trump for the past five years.
You know, I hadn't thought about this until very recently,
but a lot of the lawfair levied on President Trump
and his inner circle, witless as it might have been
in recent years past, could have been done just in
case he won this election, which he did. And now
they're hollering about conservatives going after the left as an

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act of revenge. They're gonna use that, they're gonna hang
that on it as if there's no basis in fact
for some of this stuff. But that's not the case.
It's it's legitimate. These are legitimate investigations. They're turning up
legit evidence of wrongdoing, and they're getting grand jury indictments
in some cases that say, hey, we need to take

(16:08):
this to the law, we need to take it to court,
and we'll just let the chips fall where they may.
That's just that's law enforcement. It's not anything else. It's
just enforcing the law, which is what we're supposed to
do in this country. And the left doesn't like it
because they're getting there, they're getting the lights are coming
on while their hands are in the cookie jar, and

(16:31):
they that's a man. There's a couple of them. It's
amazing to me how much money a lot of politicians
make really quickly as soon as they get in office.
And there was a story about elan Omar gaining a
lot of money at being having a negative net worth
when she got in and being worth thirty million dollars.
Now a lot of that, honestly, to be unbiased, is

(16:54):
unfair because most of that valuation is owned by her husband,
who has interest in a private equity firm I think
it is, and some other business entity. So it's their
net worth, and that's the high end. There's a big range.
I think the the most recent number is that that

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equity thing is worth like one to twenty million dollars
or something like that. And the numbers used to point
a finger at her were all the extreme numbers, so
that shouldn't have been done that way. But it's still
it's still interesting how many other politicians you can even

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throw hers out the window. There's a lot of people,
and this is not the it's not exclusive to one
side of the aisle. But and most recently that President
Biden's family made an awful lot of money. Of course,
according to what's been revealed so far, and I'm sure
there's going to be more coming, but they they did
very well for themselves during his time in politics, which

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his whole adult life. Okay, let's get to one more
easy one. We got no shoes allowed covered? Will what
about Okay? Yes or no? Will people on social media
debating whether or not we should just get rid of
coffee tables. Are they a vital place to put drinks
and the remote or are they just a waste of
time and space and money? For or against? Coffee tables?

(18:25):
Will for them? You know, I got one. We've got
one in the den, and we've well, actually I use
an ottoman for it upstairs. But yeah, there's got to
be a place to put all that stuff. Cedar Cove
RV Resort over on Galveston Bay, I bet you if
you took a coffee table over there and a nice
rocking chair, one of those foldable rocking chairs, two of them.

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You need two, because you want to have your your spouse,
your best friend or or roommate or whatever, your partner
with you over there. And you put a chair and
then little coffee table and then a chair, and you
don't even have to bring coasters. You can get a
really cheap coffee table, maybe even a tray table would work,

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and just sit there and watch the sun go down
over the water. Just relax and just listen to listen
to the lapping of the little waves against the shoreline,
Listen to the palm fronds rustling up over your head
and just enjoy a nice evening on the bay with
you and a few other people over there at Cedar

(19:29):
Cove RV Resort, all concrete roads and slabs, electric water
and sewer at every site, free Wi Fi. There's a
bathhouse with showers, a convenience store, everything you need to
enjoy a little time on the water over there. If
you don't own an RV, don't own a motor home,
you don't own a pop up trailer. Al Kibby's got

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an RV that he will rent to you along with
a slab to where you and your family can come
over there and just kind of give it a try.
What that life is like. See what it's like to
wake up, stretch a little bit, brush your teeth, and
just walk outside and start fishing. Maybe catch a redfish,
speckle trout, maybe a flounder, a drum who knows. Just
enjoy some time on the water. You won't regret it.

(20:15):
Right down at the end of Tri City Beach Road,
Cedar Cove Rvresort dot com is website. Go check it out. Well,
weather's great for this right now, and that's gonna help
the fishing too. As it cools off Cedar cove rvresort
dot com. What's life without a net? I suggest you
to go to bed, leave it off, just.

Speaker 1 (20:33):
Wait until the show's over, Sleepy. Back to Doug Pike
as fifty plus continues.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
We didn't even find out what he didn't need in
that second part there, will do you know what it is?
I do? It doesn't matter, though. Let's get back to
the news, shall we. How about some good news. Let's
let's go there. I'm gonna put these two pages down.
I'm gonna go over to this page right here, and
I will start pick a number from one to four.

(21:01):
Will for it is lucky lucky Oklahoma family that bought
digging tools. I mean, and you'd have to wrap that
in quote. They bought their digging tools at a dollar
store on the way to Crater of Diamond State Park
in Arkansas. And while they were digging with their dollar

(21:23):
store digging tools, they uncovered a it's pretty rare, actually
a brown diamond that weighs two point seventy nine carrots.
I wasn't able in a hurry to find the actual
value in the park itself or monument whatever it's state

(21:44):
Park in Arkansas doesn't appraise the value of any of
these stones that people find, because they can't really do
that until they can study, until a real true gemologist
studies them and looks at the color, looks at how
it can be cut and into what size? Uh for whatever,

(22:07):
I don't know how to figure out a diamond. I
had a roommate in college we played baseball together whose
parents owned a jewelry store up in Ohio, a couple
of them in fact. But that was a long time ago,
and whatever he taught me about rating stones like that,
it just it went out in my head a long

(22:27):
time ago. So anyway, I'm sure it's at least worth
more than the pale and shovel and maybe a three
pronged little fork or whatever they bought at the dollar
store in the beach department. But by yeah, I wonder
if I wonder if the dollar store in Arkansas or
in Oklahoma has a beach department, that'd be probably that'd

(22:48):
be a pretty good stretch. Maybe they'll call it just
I don't know, let's just call it a pale and
shovel cost of what two bucks, maybe five might have
spent five bucks. Uh, they'll get a good ROI on
that one. Sticking with some good news, good news for
millions of Americans, a lot of the major pharmaceutical companies

(23:09):
have agreed after a call with President Trump, to sell
directly to patients. I just heard them talking about that
on Fox News a little while ago. And that's going
to reduce the cost of a lot of high priced
medications in this country, hopefully all the way down to
just the patient level, regardless of ability to pay, not

(23:31):
necessarily just Medicare and Medicaid recipients, because there's a lot
of people in this country paying a ton of money
for things that they have to have, just for example,
if they can't really tolerate the generics, because the generics
aren't exact imitations of the real deal. And if you

(23:52):
if you can't tolerate that, you're paying twenty thirty times
in some cases more for the brand name medication. Then
you would have to pay for the for the generic.
And that's just that's wrong. We already pay about three
times more as Americans for most of our drugs than

(24:15):
do people in other developed nations, and that's something that
President Trump wanted to put a stop to right away.
There's just no reason for that. We're gonna be able
to buy a lot of medications fingers crossed for those
of you who are on really expensive ones, a lot
of them directly from the manufacturer. So hopefully that'll bring
the price down a bunch and help a lot of

(24:37):
people make a lot of make a lot more income
than they're making right now that they can actually spend
on pails and shovels to go to the diamond park.
A speaking of diamond parks, no astros in any baseball
fields right now. I'm sad to see that they lost,
didn't make it to the playoffs for the first time
in ten years, but dog on it, they just got

(25:00):
thrown one bad bit of news every day after another.
If this guy wasn't hurt, this guy finally healed up,
he either went in and got hurt again, or somebody
else got hurt in his place. Our injured list throughout
most of the season could have fielded a pretty good team,

(25:23):
a playoff caliber team, probably including a good pitching staff
of starters and relievers. At one point, I think I
don't know how many we had in all on the aisle,
but it was a ton and that and I think
that more than anything else, is why we just didn't
make it. We were essentially playing at least half, maybe

(25:46):
more of the season with a good part of our
roster made up of Triple A players. And there's nothing
wrong with those guys. They're all good. They're all close,
so close that they're in Triple A but kind of close.
But no cigar. Unfortunately, In violent reoffender news from California
comes word that a paroled felon imagine this, he's been

(26:10):
arrested again, this time accused of stabbing a man to
death on a railway platform. Some I think the guy
who got killed was in his fifties, had a lot
of living left to do, except for this guy, thirty
one years old, Jose Gomez Bustamante, has been arrested in
charge with that stabbing. In twenty twenty, just five years ago,

(26:33):
he got six years in prison for trying to stab
a Tacoia employee. But he got let go this past
April for good behavior and going to some rehab classes
that he had to attend in prison. How'd that work out?
Not very well? And that may be the understatement of

(26:54):
the day, at least from me. Back to some more
good news, I kind of like bouncing back and forth,
or this is interesting archaeological news, because you know how
I am about history. On the southern edge of the
net Food Desert in Saudi Arabia, all pronunciations correct, I'm sure,
except for the food, I don't know how they were.

(27:16):
It's any fud. That's as close as I can get.
Archaeologists have found twelve thousand year old engravings that have
been determined to be helpful to travelers who were trying
to relocate and expand their humanity across that giant desert region.
These carvings are of camels, and they are They've used

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high tech instruments to figure out that the camels depicted
indicated that these were places where travelers could find an
oasis in the desert, so to speak, a place to
get water when they needed it during the dry period.
Pretty much, when you get right down to it what

(28:05):
it is. Think of these carvings as signs to let
you know there's a Bucky's at the next eggsit off.
The interstate carvings are fairly large, actually in many cases,
and it had been found as high and big as
in high as one hundred and twenty feet up these
cliff faces, the old the old sign, the joking sign

(28:28):
out in front of some old gas station with a
little cafe next to it. Eat here, people my age
will get this. Will you've never heard this before? Have
you eat here and get gas? That was kind of
a joke of a sign many many years ago. Let's
take this final break of the program, shall we. On
the way out, I'll tell you about country Boy's roofing again.
Country Boy's roofing has been around a long time, John.

(28:50):
I mean, he lives kind of down southwest of Houston,
but he tried. He'll go anywhere anywhere he can get
to in reasonable time to make sure that you're The
lit on your house is doing exactly what it's supposed
to do. You wear a hat to keep the sun
off your head. You wear a roof on your house
to keep the rain out, keep the sun out, all
of that stuff, but primarily it's to keep the water

(29:11):
out of your house. And he's there to make sure
that it's doing just that for you. He'll come out,
he'll assess your roof, make sure it's okay, if it's
not okay, if there's little damage which he can see
from being up there. And you'd probably miss from down
on the ground. He'll let you know exactly what it'll
cost to fix it with the best materials he can
get for you, and in a very timely manner. If

(29:32):
you need an entire roof replacement, here's where the good
stuff starts from Country Boys Roofing. And I'm really so
proud to be talking for him because he just kind
of goes that extra mile for people who probably need it.
That would be current or past military, it would be educators,
and it would be first responders. If you're on any

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of those lists, you get a fifteen hundred dollars discount
on a complete roof for placement. And even if you're
not on the list, if I as I've been saying
for so long now and I'm really happy to do
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the price of that complete roof. We're still not out
of storm season, and once that finishes, here comes wintertime,

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and there are issues that can occur during winter because
we get extreme cold after this extreme heat in the
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let that happen. Get him out there. There's no there's
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with a Z. That is the gen x millennial gen
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You put that into the into the where wherever you
type at what it's called, and it'll right down below

(31:03):
you'll see country boys roofing countryboysroofing dot com. Yeah, they
sure don't make them like they used to.

Speaker 1 (31:10):
That's why every few months we wash them, check his words,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike pe plus. Thanks for listening
for of four segments starting now. I'm glad you all
could join us early. I've got I'm trying to decide which.

Speaker 2 (31:27):
Way I want to go. Oh, this I found very interesting.
It's only a few weeks now after the assassination of
Charlie Kirk, and finally we're seeing some revelations about security
failures on that day that have been brought to light
and are being remedied now a little bit late, but

(31:48):
nonetheless being remedied so that hopefully nothing like this happens again.
And some of it is very very obvious, the fact
that there were no drones in the air, the fact
that there were only think it said six city police officers,
there was campus security, campus police, there were campus police

(32:09):
officers there, but only six others. I believe is how
it was noted no bag checks, no metal detectors, which
in this case wouldn't have really mattered. But nonetheless you
just can't do that. He was in a courtyard surrounded
by buildings, and there's no drone in the air to

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look at what's going on on the tops of those buildings.
That is bothersome. And I guess there's just this false
sense of security that comes up a little. It just
gets a little hirghed a little higher every time nothing
goes wrong, right up to the time that something goes wrong.

(32:53):
And hopefully well new safety measures measures for these appearances
are already coming into play. There's going to be closer
communication with security at whatever venue is being used. Security
and the and this is I think the playbook is
going to be used by a lot of people not

(33:13):
just not just people who go to college campuses to
share opinions, but there's going to be more security, clearly
necessary barricades to keep some distance between anyone who might
do harm and the person who's speaking. Metal detectors for everybody.
Why that wasn't in place, I don't know. No backpacks

(33:36):
or bags kind of the same as trying to get
a backpack or a purse into a professional sports stadium.
There's just no room for that anymore. It's too great
a risk. And I mean they're on and on that.
I'm sure there's way more than that, way more than
that that's written elsewhere. But holy man, holy Mackwels. I

(34:02):
guess maybe from his death will come some good that
somebody else will be saved from an attack like that.
In an assassination attempt. Man, they went after our president twice.
They killed Charlie Kirk. And that's just a sign of
the times, it really is. It's kind of scary. Back
to the cool stuff, good stuff. By way, the Good

(34:23):
News Network comes word of a new therapy that could
result in safe, long lasting meds that will treat and
actually kind of reverse osteoporosis, which impacts millions of people.
There's a specific substance called AP five O three. I
have absolutely no idea what that is, but whatever it is,

(34:46):
researchers using it were able to improve bone density and
bone strength in mice, some of which had osteoporosis. Osteoporosis, yeah,
I got it right, and some that didn't have the condition.
There's still a whole there's a big long line, a
lot of room between mouse bones and a prescription we

(35:07):
could pick up at the drug store. But this one
really shows great promise, and I hope that like Saint
Jude Children's Research Hospital, whoever's doing that research over in Germany,
will share it and help a lot of older people
in this world get relief, not just patch it up

(35:29):
or make it progress slower, but get relief from that
that horrible condition. There's something about joy read. I'm really
not really impressed with her enough to even read that.
From Crazy California, though, where Governor Newsom keeps trying to
make jokes and take pokes at our president, comes a
San Francisco story about a politician there, a guy named
Danny Sawter, who is determined to change a permitting rule

(35:53):
that insists that any new business planning to open up
after another one closes in the same spot has to
be the same business prior use, they call it. In
other words, if your coffee shop failed, the only way
I could go in and open a new business in
that space, even if everybody in there loved to fish
as much as me and would buy fishing tackle, if

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I could own a tackle store, I'm only able to
occupy that space if I put in another coffee shop
that's probably doomed to fail like the other one did.
Only in California. Only that's the only place that could
possibly happen. Also from that same area. By the ways,
just so you know that that's not isolated. It is
illegal in knob Hill to open a dance studio or

(36:37):
any other business in the arts on Polk Street. You
can't open a medical business period. Also illegal opening two
businesses under the same roof. So much for strip malls, huh.
You know it's thriving in California, moving companies and truck rentals.
They can't get out fast enough, And I don't blame them.

(36:58):
They cannot get out fast enough. By the way, sixty
five percent of us not to be creepier or weird
or dark sixty five percent of us have already planned
our own funerals. I have not. My wife is not.
My mother's was planned in advance, as was my father's.

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I found it very interesting. That's it for today. We'll
see you tomorrow. Thanks for listening. Audios