Texan Update

Today, Doug Piked discusses the Texans, surfing, and an ice cream truck.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 1 (00:24):
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Speaker 2 (00:45):
All right, Welcome board.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
Thursday edition of the program starts right now. Thank you
all for joining us. I had a guest schedule for today,
but my guest has the crud. I'm not sure what
he's got, but I heard through my source over there
at ut Health that he wasn't going to be able
to go to be able to join us today, So
we'll plod forward. I've got plenty of things to talk
about here, not the least of which, by the way,

(01:08):
is some breaking news that I saw from just a
couple of minutes ago at the Houston Chronicle online. And
I'll just read this first sentence. The Houston Texans have
crossed a major hurdle that will get them closer to
building a new headquarters and training facility on the outskirts
of Harris County. I don't know whether, I don't know

(01:31):
what motivates this. They're not building a new stadium, they're
building a new headquarters and practice facility, which will be
I don't I guess it will be another one of
those giant domes. Maybe, but on eighty three acres you
could build a dozen football fields. Maybe they'll have separate

(01:54):
fields for every position. Maybe they'll let high schools and
there are not many colleges out that way that don't
have decent facilities. Maybe they'll let the high schools practice
out there. Who knows, But it's gonna be way on
the way, and I mean way on the northwest side
out at Bridgeland if you know where that is. That's
a development that's kind of off of ninety nine almost

(02:15):
to to ninety That's where Bridgeland is. And that's, for
whatever reason, gonna make it an awfully long drive. If
if any anybody named McNair wants to go from the
office to see how the players are doing, to see

(02:35):
what those guys, make sure they're doing their laps and
their push ups and running their plays. Right, he's gonna
have to get in his car now and drive an
hour and fifteen hour and twenty minutes just to see
how his players are doing that. I don't know if
that makes sense to me. They're actually, as it turns out,
there are only reading through the story. There are only

(02:57):
three teams at the Texans, or one of them whose
administrative side, the actual business side of the team is
housed in the same building, if you will, where the
games are played. So maybe kl just wants out. He
wants a different he wants a different look, he wants

(03:18):
something special, and on eighty three acres he can get
it now. The story said that it's unclear so far
who's gonna pay for it and how much it's gonna cost,
But there you go. Harris County owns in ourg Stadium
by the way, and leases it to the Texans and
the Houston Livestock Showing Rodeo. That's also from the story.

(03:42):
It says that lease ends in twenty thirty two. For
the Texans, that set up hasn't been ideal, as they've
had to move their schedule around county events and the Rodeo,
which kicks off later this month. I think we knew that. Yeah,
that's just I don't. I saw that pop into my
feet right before I came in here and wanted to

(04:02):
go ahead and let you guys know what's going on.
So when you see it on the news tonight and
get more detail than I can give you here, you'll
have a good idea what's going on. Thank you, Houston
Chronicle dot com for sharing that with me so I
could share it with all of you. Oh mercy sakes.
Mild temperature is still lots of sunshine, Gonna be some

(04:23):
clouds little ways over the horizon and they'll get here
soon enough, but it's still pretty nice overall through tomorrow.
Then the tail end of the country's latest coal front's
going to move through here on Saturday, hopefully not with
more than moderate intensity. That's my fingers crossed plan. Was

(04:46):
what's the word I'm looking for? It wasn't forecast. Prognostication,
That's what it was. It was a much bigger word
than forecast. Anyway, Let's all just enjoy this stretch of
good stuff while we can. We're gonna get our spring
storms sooner or later, hopefully later. And still possibly with
another truly cold spell. The cold weather doesn't normally go
away completely until I'd say mid April. Really is the

(05:12):
last time you can. You can start packing away all
your winter gear whatever that might have been, the windbreaker
that you use during the winter, except on that one
day when it's really cold outside and you just don't
go out. You don't have winter clothes. I fortunately still
do from the trips I made up to the ski

(05:32):
resorts while I was writing at the paper about skiing
and hunting gear and whatnot. That's fully insulated, high tech stuff.
The old school way was just to put on wool.
Wool retains its heat holding power even when it's wet,
and it's one of the only fabrics that does that.

(05:55):
In any event, that's what's going to happen. Yeah, we'll
turn that corner soon enough. Turning to the mark get,
three of the four indices that I watched were up
roughly roughly a quarter to almost half a point, and
the Russell was actually down with an equal lack of significance.
Gold had shaved about twelve dollars an ounce early, still

(06:17):
still well north of five thousand dollars an ounce oiled
down about a quarter and I mean twenty five cents
thirty cents somewhere in there last time I looked, which
was about I don't know, nine thirty ten o'clock. The
biggest news so far this week in the work slash
finance world is the impressive January jobs number we got yesterday,

(06:37):
up one hundred and thirty thousand to start the year.
That's pretty good, way better than most months in the
last well, the prior four years of the prior administration.
That was tough. It really was. Between COVID and Joe
Biden and Kamala Harris. We got the triple play of

(07:00):
things that hurt this country. And we're digging out. We're
going to dig out, We're going to be okay. As
something interesting, I'll tell you, I think I'm gonna go
ahead and hit this brake a little bit early because
I want to get into what one Texas legislator up
in Washington, DC wants to do that would be a fantastic,

(07:23):
a fantastic amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
Stick around, I'll tell you what that is. It's going
to be a good one too. It really really is.
Where is my list here? It is This is what
I'm looking for. Cedar Cove RV resort down in Baytown,
Tri City Beach Road, almost to the end when you

(07:43):
see Thompson's Bay Camp on the right. I'm pretty sure
it's going to be Cedar Cove on the left, right
there on the bay shore, right there where you can
park your RV or your motor home or whatever it
is you want. All concrete roads, all concrete, which is
a big deal if you've ever been to one. That's
not because it gets all dusty, and once you set up,

(08:06):
you can hook up to the water and the sewer
and electricity available at every site. They've got free WiFi,
a bathhouse, they've got a convenience store, all that, plus
some pretty good fishing. Actually, when the tide and the
wind are right, which they will be after this little
thing blows through here Saturday, be right back to good
weather to get out there. Maybe put a wind breaker on,

(08:28):
like I was talking about earlier, do a little fishing.
If you want to soap dead bait, got a good
chance of catching a red fish on that. If you
want to go to live bait, they've got it right
across the street at Thompson's. If you don't own an RV,
but you like the idea of the lifestyle. Al Kibby
will rent you one. You can use it for a
day or two or three or a week, whatever you want.

(08:49):
They'll have it all set up when you and the
family show up in the minivan. This one he rents
sleeps four people very comfortably, and all you got to
do is drive down there and then test it out
for yourself. The calming effects of water lapping up against
the shoreline and a breeze wafting through the palm trees.

(09:10):
That's what Cedar Cove is about. Cedar covearvresort dot com.
I'll warn you, though, if you rent one and go
down there and rent it and do that for a
few days, next RV show in town, you're gonna go
checking them out. You'll be tire kicking. At least, it
is a wonderful way to spend a few nights somewhere.
Cedar Cove Rvresort dot com. If you get down there,

(09:30):
by all means, please do tell Al and Nancy. I said, hello,
cedarcovervresort dot com.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
What's life without a nap? I suggest you go to bed,
sleep it off, just wait until the show's over. Sleepy.

Speaker 1 (09:44):
Back to Dougpike as fifty plus continues.

Speaker 3 (09:47):
Come back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening. Certainly do
appreciate it. Pretty afternoon out there. I'm gonna try to
get a little chunk of that outdoor stuff this afternoon. Hopefully, hopefully,
if all goes well, after I sign off here in
a little while, I think it'll work. I promise to
tell you about the legislation. Legislation that's being pushed forward.

(10:09):
The bill has been presented, and I really really hope
this makes it. And I'm not talking about the Save
America Act. I'm talking about something Wesley Hunt's doing. Texas
Republican Wesley Hunt. He introduced a bill on Monday that
would create a constitutional amendment to require members of Congress

(10:31):
to take and pass a basic civics test prior to
taking their oaths of office. In other words, if you
don't know who we are and what we stand for,
you can't lead us, you can't. Congressional Civics Act is
what it's called, and it would require those who serve
in the House or Senate to take, guess what, the

(10:54):
same test that lawful immigrants must take to become naturalized citizens.
I think that if we expect one level of competency
in American civics of the people who want to become citizens,
it's not anywhere near too much to ask that the

(11:14):
people who will be making laws for the rest of
us know about our country at least as well as
that at least as well they ought to take a
college level course in American civics to be qualified to
run for office and hold that office. Of course, that
would take out about half the Congress. I would bet.

(11:38):
I would bet. I can think a lot of people
in Congress right now who I'd almost be absolutely certain
couldn't pass a third grade Civics test. Speaking to Blaze News,
Hunt said, and I quote, as leaders, we swear an
oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic,

(11:59):
an oath I take seriously. We must ensure that those
entrusted with the highest level of American leadership fully understand
that oath. I couldn't agree with him more. I think
that's brit I don't know why nobody's thought of it
until now. Why should we If our own elected officials

(12:21):
don't even have to know anything, how could we possibly
expect that of people who are trying to come to
our country. Why don't we just let them all on in?
Just come on in. You don't have to know anything
about us. That's one of the reasons a lot of
these people who have come over here don't bother to
try to assimilate. Nobody's told them anything about our country.
They don't know much about the history of our country.

(12:42):
They just knowed that if they can sneak in, they
can get free stuff. And that's what's caused a lot
of these problems. And the effort to get rid of
the people who sneak in goes way back, way back.
Obama did more. There were more people died on his
watch of getting immigrants out of here. There were more

(13:04):
people deported than President Trump's deported. Yet, and yet nobody
said a word. Say Bill Clinton said the same stuff
he wanted every if you came in here illegally, Hillary
his wife same thing, you come in here illegally, We're
going to boot you out of here. Only nobody cared
until it was President Trump saying it. It's amazing how

(13:24):
that works, huh. Speaking of these Save America Act, which
would require voters in national elections to show valid photo ID.
It's gone to the Senate, it made it through the House,
and for the record, two hundred and thirteen Democrats in
the House voted against knowing who's casting votes in federal elections.

(13:45):
Adam Schiff said the acts it's going to be dead
on arrival in the Senate, that's what he thinks. And
if so, Democrats then will have gone against the wills
of a majority of the people who elected them, a
majority of the people who elected them as Democrats, and

(14:05):
an even greater majority of Americans overall. It should matter
who's standing in that polling booth, who's pulling the lever,
who's punching the ticket. However they're voting, it should matter,
and it should be a US citizen voting for the
first and only time in each of those federal elections.

(14:26):
It's just it's mind boggling to me. For the President
and Senate and House of our federal government, they're voting, trying,
we're trying to get people in there, making sure they're
the right people who are truly qualified to vote, and
yet Democrats don't want that to happen. And there can
only be a couple of reasons for that. Really think

(14:46):
about it. This is a desperate move by Democrats to
keep from getting swept out with the trash in November.
They're lying about why they won't vote for the Act
because telling the truth would mean saying out loud that
they they want anybody who can crawl up to that
booth and pull that lever, they want that person to
have a vote, because, hey, they haven't been doling out

(15:09):
all these billions of dollars in free stuff for years
and years now for nothing. That's been an investment they
made thinking that they were going to be able to
get all these illegal people in this country that hit oh,
what's her name, Kamala Harris, That Vice President Kamala Harris
went elected president, which didn't happen, But she was going

(15:31):
to come up with a way to invite them all
to become Americans, even if they don't bother pledging allegiance
to America, even if they don't do anything but hurt
people here. I've got more and more evidence of how
many bad people were let into this country and past
four years before President Trump got back in. It's horrifying,

(15:55):
it really is. That just one after another, the stories
keep stacking up. But if you turn on the the
TV news other than Fox News probably, and maybe one
or two others might mention these things. Otherwise you're not
gonna hear about it. But I don't mind telling you
about it, and I'm gonna do it when we get
back from this next break. It's just crazy. There was

(16:16):
some good news, by the way. I don't just walk
in here with nothing good to say at all, the
fastest one I've got here. No, I'll hold these for
a little bit later because they're all good and I
don't want to rush them. Let's go ahead and start
now and get our way into this break so I
can get back with a little bit more time for
the next segment. UT Health Institute on Aging is that

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(17:24):
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Speaker 2 (18:19):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.

Speaker 1 (18:21):
That's why every few months we wash him, check his
words and spring on a fresh code O Wax. This
is fifty plus with Doug Pike fifty plus. Thank you
for listening. I certainly do appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (18:34):
I don't know how you took that news about the
Texans in their proposed new eighty three acre facility way
out on the northwest, well the northwest, beyond northwest Houston.
It's it's way out there. It's way far away from NRG.
The good news. If you're one of the players or
a coach, somebody wants to fire you, they're gonna have

(18:57):
to drive a long ways to go do it. Just
don't answer your phone, don't look, don't check your messages,
make them drive over to you. By the time they
get there, they might change their mind. Who knows. Who knows.
As evidence that the left cares less about Americans than
about destroying American lines, how about this from Fox News Today.
Louisiana federal judge and Obama point a point e named

(19:21):
John de Gravier. De Gravier I believe has released four
illegal migrants from custody, which probably shouldn't and doesn't surprise
anyone in this audience. But wait, there's more. These same
four guys it's not like they just got called jaywalking. Okay,

(19:43):
here's the deal. One guy is an Ethiopian man convicted, convicted,
not charged, convicted of sexual exploitation of a miner, and
a final order removal of removal for him has been
in place since September of twenty four. Cuban released by

(20:03):
this judge has convictions for sit back, homicide, assault, resisting
an officer, concealing stolen property, and two counts of robbery,
probably related to the stolen property charges. Third member, and
this guy was he was up for deportation a long

(20:25):
time ago as well. Third member this choir Boy's quartet,
also a Cuban, has convictions for homicide, kidnapping, agg assault
with a firearm, robbery, burglary, larceny, and selling cocaine. And
now he's back on the street despite having an order

(20:45):
of deportation issued in two thousand and two. And the
fourth guy's got convictions drag out the usual homicide and
a weapons offense. His deportation order was is sh in
nineteen ninety five. And they were all still here, all

(21:05):
still committing crimes, and thanks to that Louisiana judge, they're
right back on the streets and probably likely eager as
well to get back to doing what they do best,
which by my estimation is rob and kill people. That's
what they seem to be good at. Although they've been
caught a few times, I would think that they would

(21:26):
get better at it. And I've talked about this before.
I had a long discussion with a good friend of
mine who was in law enforcement for a very long time.
Asked him, do these guys ever really rehabilitate the worst
of the worst, And he said, no, that's all they know.
And if you let him out, they're going to go
do it again till they get caught again, and then
they're gonna get let out again. It's just incredible, just incredible.

(21:52):
While I'm in that vein, how much time do I have?
Will about three? Maybe four? Yeah? Okay, good, I'm going
to give you a couple more of these. Just let
them soak in. These are the people who have been
in our country illegally for quite some time now, and
many of them found their way back at some point
during the during the Biden administration. Headline this morning about

(22:14):
an Illinois woman whose corpse was abused by an illegal immigrant.
Here's the deal and he was freed by the way
under that state's sanctuary laws. Thirty seven year old victim
was reported missing for a month before the authority found
her body in a storage container in the backyard of
this this guy's house. Same guys. Some judge in Illinois

(22:37):
thought post no threat to the state. That's why he
kicked him back out. The woman died, according to that
guy who kept her body in his basement by the
way for a while and then tossed her into a
big garbage can. His story was that she'd overdosed. But
then why, you might ask, why do you keep her
in your possession, put her in that container and then

(23:00):
pour bleach all over her body, unless maybe that somehow
wrecked any chance of finding any DNA evidence against him.
He was arrested, faced multiple charges, and after his court
hearing drum roll please, he was released. Fortunately, Ice found
him and arrested him in July. All of this stuff

(23:26):
took place. What he did most recently, anyway, took place
in at the first quarter second quarter of last year,
and then finally got him arrested and held by Ice.
Hopefully he's out of here by now, I would think so.
From the same page, illealien coaching coaching a soccer team. Okay,

(23:46):
this is where it really starts. I hope to irritate
some of you who have felt sympathetic toward these illegal
immigrants who were there only just here because they want
a better life. Well, here's what this guy's better life did.
He's coaching a soccer team. He's now charged with raping
and killing a teenaged boy who played on his team.

(24:09):
The last time anybody saw him alive, he was headed
to the coach's house get some extra training. Whatever it
was going to be, I don't know. This guy turns
out to be a forty four year old guy away
from El Salvador. He's also been charged with several other
equally disgusting things done to minors that date back to

(24:32):
an incident that started all the way back in twenty
twenty two. These are the people that are being left
out and allowed to roam freely in our country. And again,
all they know is what they know, and that's rape
and murder and human trafficking and drug trafficking and mooching

(24:53):
off the system that makes it pretty easy to do. Honestly,
that's fraud stories. Where's let me see, Oh, this one
I wanted to get to I can't. I would have
to turn in my man card if I didn't play
this story today or air this story today, and it happened,
I want to say a day and a half ago,

(25:13):
I didn't get to it. Yesterday. I had it. I
knew about it. A case of gun jugging, which, by
the way, if you don't know what jugging is, that's
following somebody home when you know they've got valuables of
some sort on them. Usually they follow home old ladies
from banks, because those are easy targets, those are soft targets.

(25:36):
For some reason, three guys, I don't know what inspired
them to follow a guy home who was just leaving
a gun range and thinking maybe they could just steal
his guns if they threatened him with their own guns.
Well here's how it went down. Uh yeah, So they
see the guy leave and they follow him. This is

(25:59):
all going on in southwest Houston. They follow him to
his apartment where he parks his car, and then the
three bad guys aka idiots, they see that opportunity and
jump out and demand his guns. Get out of your
car and give us your guns. One of them apparently
grabbed up a soft guncase or some sort of gun

(26:21):
case off the front seat, if I heard right. And
when the man got out of his car because they
told him to, well, it turns out he had a
couple of guns still on him and still very much loaded,
and he pulled an old Oh.

Speaker 2 (26:38):
Already will anyway? He hit one of them. They didn't.

Speaker 3 (26:42):
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missed with every shot they took, which says a lot
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Speaker 1 (27:48):
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Speaker 2 (27:53):
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I think that sounds like a good plan. Fifty continues.
Here's more with Doug.

Speaker 3 (28:02):
Rounding out the fourth segment of the show. Now, a
little sip of water to get me where I need
to be, and off we go. Let's go to something good,
something innocuous. The first skiers among this audience, and there
are still some of you out there who wouldn't mind
strapping on a pair of skis. I prefer the snowboard, actually,

(28:25):
because I learned very early in my times of going
up to the mountains and going skiing, which I did
a lot of. Actually, when I was at the paper,
I learned that as a surfer, it didn't we were
falling in water and it wasn't a big deal, and
it didn't matter which way your knees went. There were
very few knee injuries in surfing, but in skiing that's

(28:48):
not the case because your skis are independent of each other,
and therefore your knees when the skis get messed up,
can go in all kinds of directions. The strain is
on the knees, the strains on the leg bones, and
things break more often, I would guess, I would bet

(29:09):
than on snowboards, because when you're on a snowboard, at
least both knees are always going in the same direction.
And I liked that about snowboarding from the very beginning,
so that's why I stuck with that and toss the
skis out. There's a new device for skiers who aren't
quite Olympic caliber, by the way I knew. It's a

(29:30):
wearable air bag that is already required for downhill skiers,
some of whom protest because they think it slows them
down or they're scared of an unexpected deploitation deployment, not deplotation,

(29:52):
I'm thinking of deportation. Deployment of that airbag on the
way down the mountain. That would totally ruin a good
run if there was a would run happening. Bottom line,
as though they do have to have them on there.
Then these athletes, they're doing seventy five eighty eighty five
miles an hour in some stretches. We saw what happened
to Lindsay Vaughan. We saw what happened to her. Now,

(30:16):
those injuries weren't related to whether or not there was
an air bag around her chest and possibly protecting her head.
But the bottom line is anything that'll keep them a
little bit safer, I think is well worth exploring. The
sports governing body made the vest for World Cup events,
made them mandatory back in the twenty twenty four and

(30:37):
twenty five season. There are very few of us who
are ever going to race downhill at eighty miles an hour,
but at least some sort of entry level vest if
one were affordable a beginner's skiing air bag. Between that
and helmets, I guarantee you that would prevent a lot
of major injuries and more than a few deaths each year.

(31:01):
I don't know the first time that a helmet was
offered to me. When I went on a snowboarding trip,
I was kind of like, yeah, I don't need that really,
never hurt my head on the snow, And then I
read a story somewhere. Just a few days later, and
this is before I went on the trip, they were
calling me and said, Okay, we're gonna get you a board.
What kind of board do you want to ride? What

(31:22):
kind of boots do you want, what kind of bindings?
All that stuff, And then they said what about a helmet?
What do you want a helmet? And I just I paused,
I hesitated, and I said that probably not. I'll figure
it out when I get there. And then I saw
this story about somebody and it wasn't Sonny Bono who
crashed into the tree in this particular incident, but somebody
else had gone headfirst into a tree after losing control

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of his skis and it killed the guy. And from
that day forward, every time I put on the snowboard,
I put on the helmet. And I'm still here, so
I guess they were. I never had any really really
bad bills. I fell quite a bit, especially early on
when I was snowboarding, but yeah, it was it was fun,

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and I didn't mind wearing that helmet at all. Darn
glad to have it and glad not to ever need it.
By the way, it's kind of the same with bicycle helmets.
I've had that discussion with Wayne Aerington from up there
at air Ride Bikes for We heard me talk about
him and talk with him on my outdoor show over
on KBAME weekends, and he's the same way. Even before
he would let me do a test ride of an

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e bike, he insisted that I put on a helmet.
You bet if you're telling me I need a helmet
the guy who sells these bikes, then I'm putting on
a helmet. I don't have a problem with that. A
couple of quick stories from Florida two minutes is that
what you threw up there, I can do them both.
Orange County Sheriff's Department found a great way to invest

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the ninety thousand dollars that seized recently from some convicted
drug dealers. That was enough to buy them an ice
cream truck and loaded full of ice cream for a
long time to come by law in Florida seized money
like that has to go to something of benefit to
the community, and so what they did was invest in

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their own pr If you will invest in the children
and teenagers mostly, but surprisingly many adults, it turns out,
who live in areas where law enforcement isn't always particularly welcome. Well,
if you hear the music and you see the big
truck coming down the street with the Sheriff's department logo

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on the side, and you know you can walk up
there and get a free ice cream cone or a
free fudge sickle or a moon pop? What are those drumsticks?
All the drumsticks were my favorite. That's a way better
way to put that money to work. Pr campaign that
you know is going to work for your ice cream.
You bet. We're in very quickly from Florida. Father and

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son riding a four wheeler in the Everglace got stuck
in a mudhole and ran out of gas. They wound
up being airlifted out of the seven hundred and twenty
five thousand dollars swamp and not too much worse for wear.
My gut says, though, that that helicopter ride cost a
whole lot more than it would have been to have
an extra gas can on the back of that thing.

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I also, I'm pretty confident that they got lost because
they tried to go a little farther and a little
farther than maybe they should have, and one thing led
to another, and then they were lost and then here
comes the chopper, just like in mash that's it for today,
see you tomorrow, Audios.