That's One Creepy Hotel Manager

Today, Doug Pike discusses hydrogen powered planes, a creepy hotel manager, and a breakthrough surgery.

Episode Transcript

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the addition of the program starts rightnow. Thank you all for listening,
certainly to appreciate it. Am Italking too loudly? Will? Is that
why you're pulling that down? Oh? That's the music you're pulling down?
Okay, I thought you were thoughtyou're trying to pull my volume down,
which if my wife had one ofthose little buttons, she'd be all over

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it. Man. Oh well,all right, So never mind the markets
and the price of oil. Justnow, it's kind of what it always
is. There's a big fat bandof rain and thunderstorms on tap beginning either
an hour ago, right now,or pretty soon, depending on where you
are in its path. Most ofthe worst of this one is actually offshore,

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but there's a lot happening up throughthe entire southeast quadrant of the state,
enough to bring out watches and warningsand all kinds of good thing.
I haven't seen any tornado information knockon wood around here, but that's not
to say that something might not popup a little later depending on how this
thing unfolds. I looked at iton the statewide radar, which I kind

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of like to do, and justsee exactly how much is coming in from
how far away, and you couldit's easy to see in a little time
laps. There's the site I usehas about a ninety minute or two hour
time laps in it, and thereis clearly, or was about an hour
ago, clearly a center. AndI if this were a hurricane, it's

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I would have been somewhere over aroundSan Antonio, maybe just a little northeast
of there, and you can visiblysee as the radar images unfold that circulatory
pattern. It's a typical big oldlow pressure system. Rumbling across the state.
Only this one coming from the westand not the south or southeast.

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It will pass. That's the goodnews. Most of us has been through.
I don't know a lot of thesethings, and we know that they
can be pretty nasty. In themoment. They can be. And the
forecast actually calls for sloppy and wettoday, sloppy and wet most leave for
tomorrow, and then a good chanceof the same at least into Thursday.

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So if you have your sprinkler setto go off anytime in the next forty
eight hours, maybe the next seventytwo or even ninety six, just go
ahead and turn it off. You'renot gonna eat the water. Most of
us, like I say, haveendured these things. They don't last.
For every front end of a thunderstormthat comes through and makes a lot of
noise, and the wind picks up, and sometimes there's hail. Sometimes there's

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things that fall because of the wind. There's always a back end to them
as well. The sun's going tocome out. It will maybe not until
Thursday or Friday, but it'll comeback out and we can plod on toward
the hundred degree days of summer.They'll be here soon enough, well,
way too soon. Probably this onegot my attention. And I don't know

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why I'm gonna leave with this ona Tuesday, but it just it bothers
me. And it's a local storytoo. Canny Creek High School cheer about
this now, the can Caney CreekHigh School Caper. If I'd have practiced
that line, if I'd actually writtenit down and practiced it a few times,
I might not have messed it up. Evacuated one day this week because

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some or might have been either yesterdayor maybe Friday, I don't know.
Anyway, some student in there,not yet identified the last time I looked,
a student at that high school decided, and I'm pretty sure with help
and a few dares from his friends, presuming it's a guy, and there's
good reason to presume that in thiscase, he decided to introduce a high,

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high intensity Can I say, fartspray on the radio? Will I
think that you just did? Yeah? Okay, I think that's okay.
But anyway, the reason I'm sayingit is because he set it off in
the school's air, and ultimately itmade several people sick enough to send well

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it send seven people of the hospital, and I'm sure many others who felt
very uncomfortable, which immediately bumps themove up the list several steps beyond just
a harmless prank. This was noharmless prank, not when ambulances have to
be called. Nothing harmless about that. Air quality has been fixed. The
kids are back in school. There'sno word yet on what charges, if

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any, might be filed against thekid who made a really bad decision,
But it does kind of concern me. With the social media sites and all
of the instant ideas, instant badideas being served up to kids these days,
it's frustrating. I don't think Icould have even imagined doing that back

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in high school. The spray wasn'tavailable, but there were other things.
Sulfur smelled like that, and surewe could have gotten our hands on sulfur,
I'm sure. Speaking of throwing out, throwing out, speaking of passing
out and throwing up over In Nashvillea couple of nights ago, a severe

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thunderstorm rolled through there and forced fansinto an outdoor stadium venue to huddling place,
to stand shoulder to shoulder for severalhours during a Taylor Swift performance and
that's good that they moved those peopleto safety where they belonged, but in

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that move and forcing them to notgo anywhere, standing shoulder to shoulder,
huddled into really confined space where atone point they've just been sitting in seats
enjoying a show. It ended upcausing some of those people to get really
claustrophobic. They had anxiety attacks,and it was rough. Not sure at

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what point the plug might have beenpulled on this one. I get maybe
there's a number of people who haveto pass out before they cancel the rest
of the performance, and they justdidn't hit that number. I don't know,
and I do believe it would beIt would be very difficult in a
tremendous inconvenience to everyone who had paidmoney for tickets and finally gotten there to

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see Taylor Swift perform and her whatis it called her eras tour. That's
a big deal to a lot ofpeople, not to me, but it's
a big deal to a lot ofpeople. So the show had to go
on, and I guess the forecasters, I'm sure they have a meteorologist on
site with any kind of an outdoorvenue dealing with that. But man.

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I would also bet that behind thosestorms, pretty much anywhere in that place,
the air hung pretty heavy and mustyand just nasty for the rest of
that event. I'm sure the kidshad good time too, anybody who was
there. Actually, there were severaladults in our office who went to the
Taylor Swift shows at Reliant. Yes, it Reliant in RG. Is it

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now NRG? Right? Is thatcorrect? Will the State football stadium?
Yeah, it's only had the twonames, right, thank you? So,
yeah, that's enough for me.All right, let's take a little
break here on the way out.I'll tell you about Incredible, the stain
remover that's been in my house fortwenty three years, maybe twenty two,
somewhere in there, I'm not reallysure. I've been there a long dog

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on time, and so far ithas not failed once in eliminating stains and
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big, long, long, longlist. And then just a small list
of things that you should double check, maybe in a spot that can't be

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visible, it's not visible before youuse it on that stain or whatever.
That's a very short list. Ihave never found anything, by the way,
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right out. Sometimes it takes morethan one application. The max in my
house. I've talked to you aboutthis before four times to take out some
weird, crazy stain on an upholsteredchair that it was actually quite an expensive
chair, and I didn't want anyspots or anything left over. Unfortunately,
after that fourth application, the onlything that's left is the beautiful fabric of

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the chair. I would defy anybodyto tell me where that stain was prior
to me using incredible on it,ask for it by name, as I
said at HB and most fine hardwarestores. Incredible. What's life without a
net? I suggest to go tobed, sleep it off, just wait
until this show's over. Is sleepy? Back to Doug Pike, as fifty

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plus continues, we welcome back tofifty plus. Thanks for listening. I'm
Doug Heath will Blue morning, blueday. It's more like a midnight blue

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out there right now. It wasdark as night for about an hour.
We couldn't even see across the street. It was that dark. It's not
twelve to twenty am right now.You would think it was you. If
you looked outside an hour ago,you might have. You'd have fallen for
it. You'd believe one that itwas just pitch black, dark night,
but it's not very quickly. Iwant to go one more time. And

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it reminds you guys about this wholemove by some of these car makers to
take AM radios out of cars andtrucks, which is ridiculous. It makes
no sense at all, and itleaves us vulnerable in an emergency to not
getting critical information that we might needto find shelter, or when to seek
shelter, or when to go backto your house, or when it's safe

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to do anything. It eliminates theopportunity for us to get immediate information,
which is what AM radio provides outin your car. When the electricity's out
at your house it has been fora day and a half, you can
get that as long as you canfind a gas station and keep that car
running. If you've got an AMradio in there, you can get that

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information. And it's it's more thanmore than what most FM stations are going
to provide. I would be willingto bet. Just do yourself and do
us, in all all of usa favor, and go to your phone
and text the letters AM. Thisis all you have to do. You
don't have to write a letter,you don't have to make a phone call.

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Just text AM to five two eighteight six, text AM to five
to eight eight six, and thatwill let your congressmen and women, your
representatives in Washington know that you wantthat AM radio in your car. You
still want it, you always wantit. And hopefully they can they can

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stem this foolishness before it gets anytraction. Ah well, I got a
couple of things. I'm going totell you. The least crazy thing,
well, one's a crazy thing onit's and the other was just a mistake
I made that cost me a tonof anxiety. The quirky weird one yesterday

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morning. Mondays are my only dayoff. Most of you would know that
because on Mondays you're listening to anepisode of fifty plus that happened the prior
week that Will decided was good enoughto replay or the best he had,
whatever. So yesterday I took advantageof my day off. I went out
to the golf course and was hittingsome balls warming up. I didn't have

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time to play with my friends outthere who always play on Mondays and Wednesdays
and Fridays and most Tuesdays and thirtiesand Saturday Sundays as well, because they're
all retired, but I'm not.That's another story. They're good guys.
It's a lot of fun. Bottomline is I couldn't play, but I
did warm up some and while Iwas out there, I stopped because it
was getting kind of hot and muggy, and took a big slug of a

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water bottle. And when I pulledthe water down, somehow a gnat flew
into my mouth. I felt acouple of and heard, not heard,
but seeing him buzzing around me alittle bit earlier in my practice session.
This one gets in my mouth andbefore I can expel it, it bites

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me on the inside of my lip. Now for most people that might not
be a big deal, but forme, because I've shown sensitivity to gnat
bites, like if I get oneon my neck or something like that,
it's gonna swell up m about thesize of a dime at least well on

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the tender tissue of my left lowerlip. It did the same thing,
and it looked when I kind ofI saw it on the drive home,
and I could feel that it feltlike novacane was wearing off. After a
trip to the dentist for a fillingor something, and I noticed in the
mirror that it was a little bitswollen, and I walked into the house

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and didn't want to make a bigdeal of it, so I didn't really
say anything. And my wife justlooks at me and goes, oh my
god, what's wrong with you?I just got a nat bite. You
need to go have that checked out. No, it's a nat bite.
It'll go away, it will,and it finally did about last night.
This occurred at around eight thirty nineo'clock in the morning, maybe maybe ten

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o'clock at the latest, and wasn'tgone until last night. There's no evidence
of it anymore at all. Butif I'd have walked in here at this
same time yesterday, Will would havegone, oh my god, what happened
to your lip? It was?It puffed up like a toad frog.

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It really did. That's an oldTexas expression right there. Texas gun laws
may change a little bit in ina fairly surprising move. Kind of fairly
surprising, yet not entirely anymore thesedays. A legislative committee in Austin and
by eight to five vote, movedforward to bill nothing's law yet, but
they moved forward to bill that wouldraise the age at which you can purchase

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a semi automatic rifle, which coverswhat the left calls assault rifles, which
is just vague and misleading. Butit moved that age from eighteen to twenty
one. It would move that agefrom eighteen to twenty one. Bill still
got some pretty tough sledding ahead ofit, to be honest, and I'm
honestly not sure whether it'll get awhole lot farther than it is. What

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troubles me, though, is thatanyone sees this as a cure or even
a band aid really over potential masskillings in Texas anywhere else. It's only
been days now since somebody rammed avehicle into a crowd of migrants, killing
seven or eight of them. Fertilizerfire, poisoned guns, cars. The

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only common factor in these events reallyis mental illness. It's mental illness,
and until we address that, becauseno person in their right mind is going
to commit these acts, nobody buttaking guns off the table doesn't change anything.
They're just a very convenient talking pointwhen these things happen, and something

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that people have been convinced now somepeople who don't really think it through have
been convinced will make a difference.Guy rams through a bunch of immigrants and
nobody, nobody demands that we takecars off the road. And I know
that's a stretch, but it's stillIf somebody's instable enough and makes up his
or her mind to hurt people,they're not going to change their mind.

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Just because they can't legally require agun. That's not going to change anybody's
mind. I don't think I titledthis assault with a friendly weapon. Imagine
yourself all snugging your hotel bed again, as in a nice hotel in Tennessee,
and then somewhere in the night youwake up too. I'll pause for

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a dramatic effect here as your mind'swander as far as they want to go,
because you'll never get where I'm goingwith this. You've seen this story
yet, will No, I wasn'tlistening the guy. You know what,
Then I'm gonna make you wait,and I'm gonna make the audience wait.
And this is your fault, becauseif you'd have been listening, I could
have finished up in time. Butnow they're gonna have to wait to find

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out what awoke this person in theirhotel. We're all snug in the hotel
tell room bid and it brings tomy think I heard the story. Yeah,
probably so, or maybe you justit was just last night at your
house. I don't know. Ihope not. Yeah, me too.
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health dot com aged to perfection.This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.

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All right, welcome back to fiftyplus. As promised, I'll finish off
the story about the I believe itwas. It was a guy in the
room sleeping, right. Will doyou remember you said you've seen the story?
Is that correct? Or? Yes? Okay, he was asleep in
his hotel room. Rockabye, baby, he just he just sawing logs man.

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He's in there zeeing out and hewakes up, and the hotel manager,
a fifty two year old guy,is god Lee, how do you
even he sucked on his toes?Okay, I'm sorry if I ruined your

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lunch. But the manager is inthere doing that, and the guest,
rightfully shocked and dismayed, starts callingpeople, starting with the police. I'm
sure the manager claimed he entered theroom because he smelled smoke, which even

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if you go into the room andit's on fire, I don't think the
first action you should take is theone he took. Do you think that
was an appropriate reaction to the smellof smoke? Will? I gotta be
honest, you know, maybe hemaybe he panished, you know, and
that was the first thing on thefirst thing get popped into his head.

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Really, I don't know what todo. I think I'll do that if
I'm gonna die in the fire,might as well. My guest is that
he did in fact smell smoke,but it happened earlier, like when he
was behind the dumpster with the overnighthousekeeper puffing on something that mushed up his
mind a little bit. Maybe couldthat be it? You think I think

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he was having a stroke? Maybea little courage in a bot, Isn't
that? What they say is thatyou know, ye're if you're you're just
randomly out and abount and you startto smell burnt toasts that suck on somebody's
toes. Yeah, that was gonnacure him. That's that. It's bizarre.
I used to play a game onmy outdoor show over on KB and
me called could I make this up? And for that game, I came

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up with some really bizarre scenarios thatwere only exceeded sometimes by real life stories
that about the outdoors that happened toshow up at a great site that used
to be available for that just weirdoutdoors news from all over the country.
It was a fantastic site, andI turned it into a really fun game
to play. And never, inyears of making up out landish, crazy

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stories, did anything involved in thatone ever come to my mind. And
I've got a pretty my mind wandersinto some really weird places, but nothing
like that. Nothing. Speaking ofwandering minds, our president's approval ratings continue
to slip, with nearly two thirdsof Americans now saying he doesn't have what

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it takes to serve as our president. What's I think, potentially even more
amazing and alarming to me at least, is that thirty two percent there he's
okay, all right, you're doinga pretty good job. I don't know
where they get their information. Ihave no idea where they get their news.
But it's it's just sad into somedegree, actually, well actually many

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degrees. It's said that there's awrong ironically, he and his team,
he said in an interview, andI listened to it. That pretty much
the whole reason he's having a roughtime up there is because of all the
bad news in the media since hetook office. He I don't think he

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realizes that the bad news we're hearingfalls almost exclusively on his shoulders. We
buy all from our enemies inflations,run them uck. We cowtow to a
pretty much every marginal group that canafford posterboarding markers in a bullhorn, all
of which distracts us from securing ourselvessomehow and getting back on track. Our
boarders wide open despite what the administrationcontinues to say, and by the way,

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about to get overrun since the lastmeans we had of turning people away
disappears on Thursday. Wait till thathappens. Let's get out of there and
get to some better stuff. Willand I do have better stuff here,
I really do. I have goodnews. I can't decide how to go
about this. Where is that?That's not it? Oh? Where is

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my other page of this? Iswear this printer prints out all kinds of
stuff. It's kind of weird.Oh. I forgot to mention the national
debt while I was there. Wehave thirty something trillion dollars to the world
trillions, thirty trillion thirty something trillion, and his administration wants to dig the
hole even deeper. If there,if there's a playbook anywhere on this planet

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on how to dismantle America, mostof what I just outlined is in it.
Lots of people still making money thesedays, though, which maybe that
gives them some false sense of security. I don't know. But the average
Americans just taking one gut punch afteranother, and we keep being told there's
just absolutely nothing wrong, nothing tosee here. Let's go to some good
news or other. Oh, here'sjust an interesting thing. How much time

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do I have? Will? Two? Three? One? Four minutes?
Awesome? We can do a lotin four minutes, believe me worth noting?
You know whose birthday it is today? Amongst other people, most of
whom I didn't recognize, but thisone I did. Who Billy Joel?
You never heard of him? WillBilly the piano Man? Yes? Of

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course? Horse seventy four today,which, like holy cow, I thought
he was well. At least he'sstill kicking. Also interesting, one hundred
and nine years ago today in nineteenand fourteen, who was the president?
Win? Then? Will test yourAmerican history? Nineteen fourteen pop quiz nineteen

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fourteen. Give you one guess anddon't take for long. God, is
that your brain working? Let's gowith we're not working. We'll know in
a second. Just drag one outof your hat. Come on nineteen fourteen?
Who was the president? I'm gonnago with Woodrow Wilson? Very good?
Was that a guest? No?It was not? Was it?

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I knew it was? Type itup? Didn't it? I knew it
was Woodrow Will? Did you readthe same thing all read? Didn't you?
Okay? I get it. That'sfine. You could be that way
established Mother's Day on this day inhistory. That's pretty interesting, okay,
will depends on whose phone it is? Had to be mostly us or waste

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of time. Let's go with wasteof time. There's this firm in Japan
that has redesigned beer cans, okay, that are going to give you the
perfect beer to foam ratio without tiltingyour glass. These are cans of beer,

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and they expect you to open notone, but two pole tabs.
You open one and pour half theglass of beer, and then you pull
the second one and pour the rest. Now, if you're pouring beer from
an open can into a glass.Aren't you kind of just waste in time?

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Really? Or do you just isthe beer experience so special that you
have to just pour it all ina glass with that perfect cut of foam
on top and just sit and admireit while it starts to warm up,
and front of you you're asking me, well, I was, but I
guess since you didn't respond, youknow, I, personally, I don't

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really mess with the glass that much. Why would you? If you want
a glass you used by a bottle, by a bottle, and then waste
your time pouring that into a glassand I just whack the bottle on the
wall and whatever falls into the glass, yeah, whatever left you the shards
the top, Yeah, I likethe metallic taste that it gets in my

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mouth. Yeah. Or to movethose, I'll drink to that naptime or
fair price real quick. Well,let's get with I'll drink to that because
we're kind of already on it.Forty eight year old woman with no water
survived five days in the Australian backcountry by eating sweets and drinking a single

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bottle of wine that had been givento her as a gift from her mother.
Although she claims we're not so sureanymore. She claims she doesn't drink
alcohol, So why would her motherhave bought her that bottle of wine.
Maybe she bought her a bottle ofwine to give to somebody else. And
you know, when she's driving downto this party or something, you know

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she got lost. No, thatdidn't happen. That's not how it was.
Will a minute or less? Yeah, fifteen seconds? Good? Heavens
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want to avoid sleeping on the couch. Okay, I think that sounds like
a good plan. Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug. Welcome back

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to fifty plus. Thankful listening,certainly to appreciate it, as does Will
you appreciate our listric Will I'm justchecking my doom. That's good. That's
good to know. I'm glad youdidn't I'm glad you didn't go rogue on
that one. That would have beenawkward. Now we're good. Um oh,
I did want to tell you aboutthis. In Sweden, a European

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company called Destinis is testing now it'sthird prototype of a hypersonic jet that shaves
about seventy five percent off of traveltime. Imagine Will getting on an airplane
today and being told, Okay,you're gonna go halfway around the world.
It's gonna take about twelve hours,we'll get you there, or a fourteen
hour flight or a sixteen hour flight. What if you could do that sixteen

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hour flight, say New York Cityto Melbourne or I don't know how long
it takes to get there, butany way to my house, yeah,
Melbourne. Oh that's right, theMelbourne, the Melbourne house. Well,
let's just go with Sydney, becausethere's nobody in this room named Sydney.
So let's say we're talking about atwelve hour flight, and now, thanks

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to what was it called? Holdon? Let me go back, Destinus,
you could make that same twelve hourflight in about three hours, froe
hours and fifteen minutes. That's barelyenough time to watch a good movie.
You couldn't even watch Titanic in thattime. Never seen it? Well,
you should watch it, will.It's a good movie. It's a good

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movie in any event. Hypersonic jetfrom where did it go down? I'm
gonna have to hold on. Letme highlight that so I don't have to
go chase it down again, Destinus, hypersonic jet fueled not by jet fuel,
not by fossil fuel. What wouldyou guess then? Will? What
is it? Check? You're close? Hydrogen? Hi Rogen fuel, the

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one I keep telling everybody is goingto be the real answer to renewable fuel,
not electricity. They didn't make itwork on electricity. You know why
will because they couldn't figure out howto get the chord to uncoil that fast.
Think about how, and it's along, very long extension chord and

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be like the yeah, I nevermight. Doesn't matter. Seriously, though,
this plane ride is going to be. If it was twelve hours today
when they launched these things, it'sgoing to be three three in change,
which we'd all greatly appreciate. Thankyou, thank you very much Sweden for
developing this. Meanwhile, over herein Vermont, a startup company is testing

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an electric airplane that can take offvertically very cool like a helicopter, reach
impressive horizontal speed, very very welcomeand very necessary. But it can carry
it. It kind of brags inthe story about being able to carry either
five passengers plus its pilot or aboutfourteen hundred pounds of cargo. That's not

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exactly that's not exactly right in linewith hypersonic travel for a couple of hundred
people. But it does show promise, and I'll give it credit where it's
due for short hops. Think aboutthis when timing is absolutely critical, such
as transplanting organs for transplantation. Soinstead of having to retrieve an organ in

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at this hospital, put it ona helicopter, take it to an airport,
have that airport pick it up ina jet to have the jet flight
where it needs to go, andthen maybe by ambulance or helicopter get it
to the hospital. Now they justuse the same vic vehicle for the whole
thing. You just pick it upright at the helipad at the hospital for
that application. I think it's fantastic, I really do. It's great on

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both fronts. Still, a littlepiece of me just wishes it was us
that developed the hypersonic jet. Ithink that would be way cooler. Medical
good news. I gotta give youthis when this was a fantastic story,
and honestly I have no idea howon earth it happens, but it does
and it's cool, and it happenedright up in Boston. An innovative surgery,

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the very first of its kind asurgery, was performed on the brain
of an unborn child. Think aboutthat. Think about how complex and amazing
that is, and what the surgerydid was prevented that child from developing a
specific heart failure. I have noclue about how that works, how it's

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done, what was done, butI'm thrilled that it worked. I may
call on my folks over at utHealth see if we can get somebody to
talk about this. That's fascinating stuff. It really is what's happening in medicine
these days. How much time doI have? Will you have two and
a half? Oh you got morethan two? Good? Good? Then
I don't have to rush this story. Young guy in Kansas who makes his

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living mowing lawns, okay, mowinglawn has been quietly mowing some lawns for
free, just to help people whoneed it but maybe can't afford it or
can't physically do it himselves. Hewas inspired, he said, by videos
of other people doing the same thing, and wouldn't it be nice if more
people who run these types of businesseswould do as this guy Spencer does.
See a yard that needs help,knock on the door, offer to do

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that one free, no charge,not forever, but at least once,
and it helps them solve a problemthat maybe makes the homeowner feel better.
Good people doing good things. I'vealways told you, and I still believe
one hundred percent that good people areout there, and they're mostly good people
out there. Prime example yesterday,long story, I'll try to shorten it.

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I take my son, he's gota hair cut and baseball practice tomorrow
night. I'm at my house insure Land. I take him to to
get the hair cut and then weget food. It first called him all
that's because there's a place he likesin there. And then on the way
to baseball practice, I remember thatI need my laptop because while he's practicing
baseball, I'll come over here tothe office and work. So I go

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to the house, I pick upmy laptop, We go to the baseball
field. I drop him off overdown in town at one of the big
high schools down in there. Comeback to the office in the galleria,
open the laptop, and when Itry to open up my files, I
realized that I don't have my cellphone, which is what I need to
get the code. So I think, oh, I just left my phone

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in the car. I go checkthe car. Not there. I call
the house, said, hey,I need I talk to I get my
wife on the phone. I say, I need you to read me the
code that's about to appear on myphone. So that I can open my
laptop and go to work. Shesays, sure, hold on just a
second. She comes back, yourphone's not here, And my heart just
sank. And I just got thischill. And it was at the mall.

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Life three sixty says, it's atthe mall. I buttoned up my
stuff here, I got in thecar, I took off driving. I
went back to the house, gother phone so I could see where it
was, and then played detective.It was like kind of like an Easter
egg hunt for something far more valuablethan an egg. Bottom line is,
I walked all over that mall andfinally found it, and it wasn't far

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from We had made two or threestops in the mall too before we left.
I didn't know where I had leftthe phone. It was right where
he and I had eaten at thetime. It must have fallen out of
my pocket when I stood up,and I didn't I didn't hear it hit
the floor. But one of thewomen who works in a little kiosk there
had found it and safeguarded it behindthe counter. And I got there like

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ten or fifteen minutes before they hadto close up for the night, and
I would have just been in shockhad I not been able to get that
phone. More good people doing moregood things, this time for me.
Some of those people thought I wasnuts too. Have you seen a phone
around here? Anybody drop off aphone in your store? It kind of
shows it's close to here. Well, no close is not here. Use

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your three sixty I did. Igot my phone. I took care of
her quite well, Thank you verymuch, as anybody should have done to
reward a good deed. More gooddeeds coming tomorrow. We'll talk then.
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