The Day After Beryl

Today, Doug Pike discusses Hurricane Beryl's impact on the Houston area.

Episode Transcript

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Remember when it was impossible to misplacethe TV remote because you were the TV
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all about you, the good.This is fifty plus with Doug Pike,

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Fifty plus brought to you by theUT Health Houston Institute on Aging Informed
Decisions for a healthier, happier life, and by Texas Indoor Air Quality Specialists
because clean air is healthier air.And now fifty plus with Doug Pike.

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Hi, Welcome aboard on Tuesday.Hold on, I gotta go over here
and bring this temperature down, willI'm sorry if you don't like it colder
in here, man, but I'vebeen burning up for days now, and
I'm tired of burning up. Lostpower six thirty I think it was about
six twenty six thirty yesterday morning,Still no power and you I got the

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double whimmy did my lost power again? Luckily, it doesn't look like anything
fell on my line, so I'mjust waiting for them to switch it back
on. Yeah, you gotta wondernow there is out where I am on
one of the main drags that goesto and from how I get to work
and whatnot, there is an oldschool high line poll. Okay, I

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don't know whether it's a telephone lineor electric line or both, doesn't matter.
It's just one of those tea's upabout thirty feet in the air,
and it is not at ninety degreesvertical. It's hanging over, leaning down
over the road at about a fortydegree angle, maybe forty five degree angle,
just like it just it's like playingRussian Roulette every time you drive under

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that thing, because if it goes, it's gonna take somebody with it.
I'm afraid. I hope it justlands on an empty street and doesn't affect
anybody's electricity. My wife and Iwere so excited on the way home yesterday
from dinner. We're trying to getdinner but never getting it because right as
we pulled up to Jason's Delli,which was open, guys poking his head

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out the door. Sorry, we'reclosed. Oh great. So we turn
around and head home and I said, look, and she said what I
said? These houses are lit upand we're less than a mile from home.
We're less than a mile from home, and at about a third of
a mile from home, all stilldark. So we drove home, optimistic

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that our turn certainly would be nextfingers crossed. And when we got to
the house, nothing, When westarted even thinking about trying to go to
sleep, nothing, And then whileshe stayed downstairs because it's cooler down there,
and I snore like a bear,so I get pushed upstairs, which

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is fine if the AC's working,but when it's not. It was about
four or five degrees warmer up therethan it was where I was. I'm
just splayed out on the bed inmy underwear, no sock, no shoes,
no socks, no shirt, nosheet, no blanket, no nothing,
just just sprawled out on the mattressand begging for sleep. I didn't

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get much. I did try togo find us a hotel. She finally
just threw in the towel and said, look, we got to try to
find something that I'll be back.I don't know when, but i'll be
back. And I went to eightI think it was either eight or nine
hotels out there close to where Ilive. Walked into every one of them,
and well a couple of them.I didn't even get in because they

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had a sign on the door,no vacancy, but it was. It
was horrible. And what I figuredout is a lot of those people in
there were in the same situation Iwas, but as many or more of
them were probably people who are broughthere to work, and they're taking up
all the motel rooms too. Thatthe hot people need, which and I
understand they need. They need tobe fresh and ready to go when they

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get up and get on that truckand go move those power lines around.
But holy cow, it's I've gother into place now, and it's it's
one of my favorite places. I'mnot even gonna mention it for a lot
of reasons, but the bottom lineis she's comfortable, and I'm gonna be
comfortable tonight. We may have toship sleep in shifts if I don't,

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you know, as soon as Istart snoring, she might go wander around
the hotel or something. I don'tknow. I wouldn't blame her or that,
Or I'll have to wander and justget no sleep. I'll figure it
out. Oh well, moving on, I had a lot to talk about
in this first segment. I've darnednear burned it up. We have no
guests today, so it's gonna beyou and me will We're gonna have to
We're gonna have to carry the entirehour. And I'm sure we can do

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that that in our audience. NowI can. I can get emails,
certainly, and I can get thosepound two fifty calls if you just say
pound two to fifty and then fiftyplus. Oh brother, there's some baseball
text message I'm getting. I don'tneed that right now. D'll pound two
to fifty say the keyword fifty plus, and you'll have about fifteen seconds to

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leave me a voice message. AndI would love to hear from you,
I really would. I'd kind ofbe curious to see who's still got power
and who doesn't. And by theway, if you do have power,
quit posting notifications about it. Eh, power. We finally got our power
back. We didn't have power forforty five minutes. Like no, I'm

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I'm past twenty four hours now,I'm at about thirty hours, actually thirty
and a half. And so youand your little troubles having to do without
something for that short period of timethe rest of us. I talked to
Kenny Webster out in the hall alittle while ago, and I told him
I was going to mention that,and he said, yeah, just let

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him know that when they do that, it just makes us hate them.
It just makes us hate them becausethere's no reason to rub our noses into
your comfort when we are so miserablyuncomfortable. All right, So we got
barrel out of here. Category onehurricanes still hurricane, by the way,

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and Beryl let us know that ifyou've driven around town at all, you
know exactly what I'm talking about.Goly. We just hoping, prayer.
We thought for sure that since thoselights were on so close to home,
we would be next in the sequence, but we were not. So I
get that because that happened. That'sin my neighborhood on the other side of

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where I live, Like by theother neighborhood, lights are lights are on,
and you know. And then Iwas like, I was going through
and I was driving down the streetsand I was looking at some of the
some of the businesses, and Iwas like, Okay, they're on,
and then I was like, no, not us though. Sureland. Sureland
for the last day and a halfhas been like a just like a war

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zone. There have been people drivingall over town trying to find gas,
because if you can't, if youdon't have electricity, you can't pump gas.
There was a station open this morningwhen I left the first time,
and it had gas, and Ithought about stopping. I still, I've
still got enough to do a coupleof more days and hopefully things will be
turned around by then. But Ididn't stop. And on the when I

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was coming back to get some stufffor my wife and pick her up and
take her to this hotel, Ifound no more gas. Just that fast
it was gone. Because everybody,everybody's looking for the lid upside. If
it's lit up, they got gas. If it's not, they don't.
Oh oh well, moving into themarket is very quickly. Two up,
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back fifty plus. Sitting over herelooking at something on the interweb. I've
been so deprived of Internet. I'mnot getting my fix. I was taking
a quick look at something and Iheard music. I said, will are
we back? Oh yeah, yeah, we've been back. Thank you,
will, thank you very much.All right, highs and lows in high

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up at the owner of the company. Come and gone, Center point disappointed.
Here we come Conroe. What's goingon with Conroe. It's farther from

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the beach, will Oh. Okay. I'm at the stage of my life
now where storms are becoming more thanjust an annoyance. They're they're really significant
deals. And if I got tomove north to get away from I don't
want to move north into Tornado Country. I want to still stay in Texas
for sure. And I'm not evengoing north to I twenty just maybe maybe

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after that northwest side. I've gotto have a clean shot at the beach.
So I could probably take ninety ninedown to fifty nine and then and
then cut off and go down andfish mat at Gordon Moore. I could
take forty five two ninety to fortyfive and get back down to Galveson not

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that long I'm gonna I think Iwant to open up the window of time
I'm willing to give to getting there. In exchange. If I ever get
to retire, what I'll do isjust stay there longer, because I won't
have to race back for work.If I go to the beach, I'll
go for three days instead of threehours. There were many times my justification

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when I was a younger guy,at which I'm not anymore. But my
justification for driving anywhere to go fishingwas if the total number of hours that
we were gonna fish was greater thanthe total number of hours it would take
to get there and back. Soif I could fish for eight hours,
I was willing to drive three hourseach way just to go do that.

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And I did it probably one hundredtimes when I worked at the newspaper.
Just take off for Sam Ravern,no problem, take off for pick something,
port O'Connor, no problem. I'dgo down there. I actually fished
Corpus Christie. I got in CliffWebb's boat about noon after driving down there,

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when the speed limit was still fiftyfive miles an hour. Are you
too young to remember that, willwhen it was fifty five on the freeway.
No, Yeah, that was thatwas bad. That eats bad.
Well, we did because there wasa big gas shortage, so they were
trying to save fuel that way.Now we just save it by charging four

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dollars a gallon for it. It'sa different, totally different mindset, different
administration, you know. So anyway, yes, I drove down there.
I got up at about seven inthe morning. I got down there right
around noonish somewhere and got in theboat. We only fished for about we
really only had about four hours offishing. But that was the most incredible

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fishing trip I've had, probably inmy life. Not for the biggest fish,
but just for the quality of thespeckled trout that we caught. Cliff
and I and I had a phone, a very new hip and cool car
phone, a portable telephone in thecar and paid. I would think I
was paying about thirty two cents aminute to talk on that thing. And

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I'm not sure I ever got offof it on the way home. It
was just that good. It wasjust everybody I knew who liked speckled trout
I called them on the way home. All right, so let's let's get
moving. So now I'm just gonnamove a little farther north maybe at some
point, and just stay out ofthe way of these hurricanes as best I

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can. Quickly Back by the wayto the aftermath of Beryl. There were
yesterday morning. Once the worst ofit had passed. It took ten minutes
probably for neighbors to start coming outand cleaning up, even while there was
still a little rain falling that rainactually felt pretty good by the way.
I was out there raking, andspeaking of good, I'm out there doing

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my raking and I hear a noiseat the curb behind me. Couldn't figure
out what it was, so reallythere was no reason for anybody around me
to be out other than me.And here's this guy, and I'm talking
about a big, strong young man. This guy's probably six to four will
maybe two point fifty of solid muscle, and he has got a good sized

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push broom and he is pushing everybit every leaf away from the curbs of
the water can drain better and notclog up the drains. And I watched
him go down my street. Isaid, what are you doing, man,
I'm just trying to get the grainthe drains cleared for everybody. Well,
thank you, I said, thankyou very much. And I watched

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him keep sweeping down the street.A couple of other people out down there.
Then he went around the corner andultimately, at at cautiously a conservative
guess, he pushed broomed probably fourhundred and fifty to five hundred yards of

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curb. And I don't know ifhe kept going after that. He didn't
need to. But he just startedwherever he was and started pushing stuff out
and there was that's a lot ofstuff that he kept out of the gutters.
Man. It really was. Itwas incredible. I was. I
ended up working at a neighbor's house, well actually a different neighbor across the

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street, neighbor, and he wasout there working on his yard and the
house next door to them had abig tree fall across the driveway and he
and I started talking, and onething led to another, and he got
his chainsaw out, and I gotmy son over there, and his wife
was helping as well to haul allthat wood to the curb, and we

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got that tree off the driveway.And I mean it was a big tree
full of limbs too. It wasthe real deal man, the real deal
man. Let's see where I wantto go. Oh here's something I don't
know if I talked about this lastweek or not. The French, I
feel like lost their minds. Butwe learned that the US Olympic team is

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going to bring its own air conditionersbecause the French are so giddy over saving
the planet that they don't want touse air conditioning. It's summer, Parisians
it says here have threatened to defecatein the river, saying and a protest
ahead of the Olympics. These theseways they're protesting become more and more just

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disgusting and bizarre and all of thatstuff. By the way, will today
is or this week is National NudeRecreation Week, which I find a lot
more potentially interesting if we get topick who's allowed to recreate that way?
Would you agree if you could justrun a list out and say, okay,

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if you're on the list, dropthem and go play volleyball, run
up down the stairs, go swimmingwhatever you Why are you cringing over there?
And I'm pretty sure that you andI wouldn't pill on the list.
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with Doug Pike. All right,welcome back to fifty plus. Thank you
for listening. I really appreciate it. Wherever you are, I hope you're

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in a very cool and comfortable place. And if you're not, I hope
like crazy that your AC is thenext one to go on Okay, I
don't want anybody, especially this audience, sitting in all that heat. And
that's something that I don't think.I get a little miffed when I hear
the centerpoint talking about being sure totake care of healthcare people who have health

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risk hospitals and whatnot. There's alot of us who might wind up in
the hospital if we don't get someAC back soon, especially seniors. We
need that AC. We can't dowell. We won't do well without air
conditioning. It's a little bit frustrating. I get it. Okay, if

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there's an emergency, the emergency peopleneed to be able to do their jobs.
I understand. But if they wantto have fewer emergency situations heat related,
how about they just get everybody's ACon as fast as they can.
Or how about they get everybody hereand have them staged and ready to go,

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just already got the tool belt on. Just decide when we can go.
Just tell us when we can leavehere, no matter how much rain
there is, no matter how muchwind. Just tell us what we can
work in and we'll take off thenand we'll go get it done. That's
all they had to do was stagethem first and I've heard a story.
I'm not I want to do alittle bit more research, but I think
I heard a story about how thismay have happened. Also with Ike Now

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had a lot of people they couldhave called on and didn't. It was
either Ich or Harvey, one ofthe two. In any events, it's
very frustrating. In any event,very frustrating. There was a guy in
New Jersey, will he was somad. He played online gamer okay,
and he boy, he and thisother guy really got twisted off with each
other. So the guy New Jerseyflew to Florida, flew to Florida and

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attacked this guy with a hammer.He was that's a special kind of mass.
What was the fight over? Idon't know, man, but I
know no matter what it is,you can't How can you boy talk about
premeditation? What if it was?What if it was a fight about I
bet you you couldn't hit me witha hammer. Maybe maybe that was part

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of the game. Yeah, likeI ain't. He was asking for it.
Come on, get him out ofthere. I'll bet you can't hit
me with a hammer. Maybe notin this game, but give me about
twelve hours and just wait for theknock at your door. How about this
hammer? You like hammers? Howabout this hammer? What a I just

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the whole world's gone berserk man?They really have, well, not the
whole world, not the whole world. I won't say that. I still
am an optimist. I still thinkthat most people are quite good and nice.
Now. Like I said, Iwitnessed a lot of that yesterday.
With the cleanup started out where Ilive. There's still a ton to be
done. Oh my gosh, thereare about I don't know a dozen just

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in a half mile a dozen treesthat are all about two and a half
feet maybe in diameter at their trunks, that are just out of the ground.
Just tipped them over one by one, that hurricane did. And that's
a Cat one. That's just amazing. We were where I live, that
was right down the center line ofthat storm, actually a little bit on

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the dirty side as it came through, and we found out what exactly a
Category one hurricane can do if youif you don't I don't know, if
you plant the wrong kinds of trees. I don't know what's causing all this
mess, but it certainly is amess. Ah, where do I want
to go to the news let's goto the news, shall we, mayor

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Eric Adams up there in New Yorkhe has finally finally realized that being head
of a sanctuary city has very,very difficult consequences. He's got all these
illegals up there now there beating uppolice or getting away with it because the
way all of this is written upand the way he explained it is that

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he can't call the immigration people whenillegal immigrants commit crimes. They have to
handle that at the city level.And why that could how that could possibly
be law is just it's just it'sbeyond the pale. There is absolutely no

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excuse in the world to be shelteringthese people from criminal prosecution. They're beating
up police, they're killing Americans.Happened right here in our own city a
couple of weeks ago, that preciouslittle girl killed by a guy. The
two guys, they raped her andthey killed her, and that should never

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have happened. And Adams is gettinghis little taste of it up there in
New York. There were recently wereI think it was four or five dozen
of them found living in the basementof a furniture store. How they got
in there, I'll never know howthey got in and out, I'll never
know. And now they're giving themloaded debit cards so they can all go

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out and spend a bunch of money, allegedly on family and kids. But
they're gonna give them to all everybody. So what difference is it really gonna
make? Tens of thousands of thesepeople in New York City alone living in
some of that city's finest hotels.At least they used to be, they're
not anymore. They're dumpster fires.Now they get medical care, they get
food, they get phones, allof that on us. All of that

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on us because the Democrats wanted toopen their arms and just let everybody into
the country. And now they've donethat, and they forgot to say King's
X on the bad guys who werecoming here too, and they are everywhere
from Washington, d C. Comesword. I can't even say this without
laughing. Kamala Harris might wind upat the top of the Democrat ticket.

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She might be who they present asthe next leader of the free warp.
Well, our status isn't what itused to be. It was that we
were the leaders of the free worldbefore this last president's election. But yeah,

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they're thinking about Kamala Harris. Shehas absolutely no clue how to run
any country, and I truly Ihope and pray that even the Democrats recognize
the speed at which she would destroyour nation, because she wouldn't possibly,
there's no way that she would makedecisions on her own, because she would
have no way to know what todo, so she would have to rely

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on people who are going to towthe Democrat party line, which is to
spend us and restrict us into submission, because that's all they're trying to do.
Really, They're going to spend usand and legislate us and hold us
back until we have nothing left.Speaking of Democrats in their candidate, it's

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Governor Gavin Newsom out there in California, green lighted twelve million dollars in reparations
to black Californians who've never been slaves, and that money's going to be paid
by other people who have never ownedslaves, all while his state is about
forty seven billion dollars in debt becauseof other bad and foolish policies. He's

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made a lot of them, greenpolicies. Let's go send, let's go
spend ten twelve billion dollars on somethingand have it not achieve anything. And
well, another reason they're so indebt is because taxpayers, tax paying citizens
of California are leaving that state indroves. ABC anywhere but California. Starting

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to hear that out there, ABCman anywhere but California. But it's politics,
all politics. And if Newsom wouldstep away and somebody with a clearer
head and a better vision for thefuture of that state would step in somehow,

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maybe it could be a good stateagain. But right now it's not.
Are we done? Okay? Iwant to tell you about a notice
that came up this morning, andI want to talk to you about it.
If you live in Montgomery, Harrisor Polk County, you're gonna want
to hear about it. On theway out, I'll tell you about ut
Health Institute on Aging. That isthe collective I've talked about now for the

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better part of seven or eight years, at which you can find the website
at which you can find all kindsof information about incredible services that they provide
for seniors, incredible help they canoffer seniors. All of the members,
all the the doctors and therapists,and all these practice people practicing medicine and

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recovery from medicine and injury. Allof them are specially trained beyond their their
standard issue gotta habit education. They'respecially trained in how that part of medicine
applies to seniors. You got apullmanologist, that's a person with the UT
Health Institute on Aging who knows aboutseniors lungs, not just a general knowledge

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of lungs. It's amazing. Ihope you will go to that website.
I hope you will take a lookand understand how much good they're trying to
do for you. And come Novemberninth, I hope you will join them
for their UT for UT Health Houston'sInstitute on Aging team for the Walk to
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to walk in that in that event, and I hope you'll join them.
Ut H DOT ed U slash aging, ut H DOT E d U slash
aging. What's life without a NET? I suggest you go to bed,
sleep it off, just wait untilthe show's over, sleeping back to Dougpike
as fifty plus continues, poort andfinal segment starts. Now, boy,

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that was a wrong segment to play. Well, I'm so tired, Holy
cow. I never I haven't donethat much physical work in I don't know,
probably since the last big hurricane wehad, what would that have been
Harvey? Harvey like before that,And it's just it's just surreal that the
AC has been off as long asit has. Now, I'm at an

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age now where the heat actually doesstart to get to me, and I
felt just mildly nauseous, and partof its sleep deprivation, part of it's
the heat. But it'll take melonger to rebound this time now. When
I kit, I stayed at ourhouse with no AC, no nothing,
and just kind of camped out there, and my my wife and very young

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then son went to her sister's house. I'm pretty yeah, And no,
that was when they went to mymom's house for Ike. It was my
sister in law's house they went tofor Harvey. We all went there for
Harvey. I got the heck outof there. We were expecting three and
a half feet of water in ourneighborhood and I didn't want to be part

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of that. Fortunately we got it. Never never even came up on the
curb where I live, and afriend of mine who lives in a little
lower part of the neighborhood got itup to about the maybe over the tops
of not the tops of the tires, but just onto the rim, let's
say, of a big truck thathe had at the time, that was
parked in the street. So Harveyfor us wasn't as bad as it was

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for so many hundreds of thousands offew Stonians. And for that I'm grateful,
and for them, I'm sorry.And good news, I guess,
and most of us could use someabout now us marshals, I learned today
we had federal, state, local, and just all kinds of law enforcement
agencies working together all around the entirecountry, and they have now wrapped up

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what was called we will find youtoo. Over the weekend they did that
and safely recovered one hundred and twentythree children from very dangerous, very disgusting
situations. I was so glad tosee that, and another seventy seven kids
on the list. You know,it's not always a horrible outcome when they

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go looking for some of these kids, seventy seven of them, who were
their families feared the worst, foundout that most of them were runaways.
They had just essentially settled somewhere elseand were doing okay and weren't in any
real danger. But at least thepeople who were looking for them knew that
they were going to be okay.By the way, that notice I wanted

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to tell you about, I'm sorryI didn't get to it until now,
but that notice was issued for someparts now, not all parts, but
some parts of Harris, Montgomery,and Polk Counties a boil water notice.
So if that's where you live,find a way to get online and see
whether you are a part of thismess, which is just tagging along with

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the hurricane and just making people's livesmiserable. Speaking of miserable people, three
deans at Columbia University were kicked tothe curb this week permanently. Out you
go, don't come back, aftera discovery of an anti Semitic text exchange

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that was going on. It's amazingactually took place among these people while they
were working remotely. I think itwas kind of a zoom call or something
like that, or teams working ona panel that was supposed to be stopping

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anti sim Semitism. Excuse me,and I think it's about time really that
we started seeing some repercussions and notletting these people get away with things like
that. And apparently at Columbia they'renot going to let him get away with
it. You're either on one sideor the other. And if you're on

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the wrong side of goodness and justcommon sense, then off you go.
See you later. Back to Californiareally quickly, where police say at least
two men broke into a really reallynice home, I guess, hoping to
steal some laptops and maybe some jewelryand whatever done in San Fernando Valley.

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Well, they didn't expect it,but the homeowner was there, and the
homeowner happened to have a firearm andhe hit one of the bad guys twice.
He didn't hesitate when these guys brokein his house. He hit one
of the bad guys TWI and theother bad guy or bad guys probably still

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running at this point. Homeowner,it said in the story, was also
injured, but there was no wordgiven on how he was injured or how
Seriously it was all right, well, let's get to some lighter stuff if
we might, and I'll let youI'll let you drive again. Set the
example sounds familiar, or dumb criminalssounds familiar. That's a good one.

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Plea or a poll, not apolice. A poll found that the most
polite city in the Midwest is SaintPaul, Minnesota, and the rudest Evansville,
Indiana. So we're gonna scratch outEvansville. We don't want to talk
about them because they're rude. Seventyfour percent of Midwesterners, it says here,
admit that they often and what doesit say admit? I think they

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should be proud to say that.They often apologize even when they've done nothing
wrong, just to kind of keepthings going forward. Sixty four percent wave
at people they don't know. Ido that, and fifty five percent regularly
hold doors for strangers. Do youdo that? Yes? I do too.

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I had all three of those things. Really, the thing where somebody's
apologizing, it might just be somethinglike, man, I'm having a rough
day and you just say, oh, I'm so sorry, and it's no
skin off your teeth, and itmight make them help make them feel just
a teensy bit better. The dumbcriminal thing I gotta to get to.
Oh, how much time do wehave? We have twenty seconds. Okay

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in genome news. Oh wait,it's gnome news. Somebody in Canada is
stealing garden gnomes, taking them somewhere, restoring them, and then putting them
back. I haven't seen a gnomein a yard in forty years. I
guess it's a Canadian theme. Maybethey hide under maple leafs. We'll be
back tomorrow, Audios.