The Guillotine

Today, Doug Pike discusses the guillotine, baked goods, and spam calls.  

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Remember when it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
because you were the TV remote. Remember when music sounded
like this? Remember when social media was truly social?

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey John, how's it going today?

Speaker 3 (00:20):
Well?

Speaker 1 (00:20):
This show is all about you one.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
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Speaker 2 (00:50):
All right, here we go. Thursday edition of the program
starts right now.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
And I am human. I brought a pin here? Do
you recall that?

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Will?

Speaker 3 (00:59):
I went and got a pin out of the official
office supply closet here, went and did that yesterday during
the first break because there was no pen in here whatsoever.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
And now also no pen. I had to check to make.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
Sure somebody didn't knock it on the floor or something.
You don't have one over there to.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
You give me that? Did you steal my pen? Why
would I steal your I don't know, but it was
not your pen's the offices the office's pen. Not evenmore.
It's in my hand now, finders keepers will. Well I
should have kept it then, and I'll remember that for

(01:40):
you next time.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
I should have kept your mouth shut. Now, I know
what kind of a guy you are. Just grab somebody
else's office.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
I didn't it was over here, Sure it was. I
haven't written anything down, just got up and walked over there.
Didn't it didn't it. We're scarting off on the wrong
foot today.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Well yeah, but I'm smiling and you're not. You're all
upset so and we shouldn't be smiling. Really. It's kind
of a somber day actually morning anyway. After a commuter
jet and military military helicopter, he said correctly, when his
teeth got in the right spot, collided midair over Washington,

(02:22):
d C. They crashed into the Potomac. This is the
first commercial airplane crash in the United States since two
thousand and nine. We had a pretty good run going there.
We had a pretty good run, and it's just horrible
what happened. Emergency personnel quick to the scene, obviously, but
between the wind and the murky water and the cold,

(02:46):
their efforts I don't know that they well, they couldn't
have done any better than they did under the circumstances.
I'm not going to second guess anybody who had to
go out there and look in the river for survivors from.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
A plane crash. That's horrible, absolutely horrible.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
According to the reports I've seen too, there were no
survivors among the sixty passengers and four crew on the
airliner and three soldiers who were on the helicopter a
training mission they were on, and as of about seven
this morning, twenty seven victims had been recovered. Officials do

(03:25):
say that they have located at least one of the
recorders from the airliner. They don't know whether that was
the cockpit or the one that controls the actual operation
of the mechanical operation of the airplane, but it's one
of the two at least, and hopefully they can find
the other one. Hopefully they can recover all of the

(03:47):
victims of that so that their loved ones can at
some point move forward at least.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
It's horrible.

Speaker 3 (03:55):
If you're a prayerful person, pray for those victims and
their families. Please, just to confirm there are still morons
walking among us, wearing the caps of captain obvious and
just oblivious to what's actually happening around them. Someone on
true Social posted this unfeeling insensitive message that it sounds

(04:19):
like something that a third grader might have put up,
and I'll quote this is a bad situation that looks
like it should have been prevented, and then in all
caps and with three exclamation points behind it not good
end quote. What on earth would prompt someone to do that?

(04:42):
What's what's not good in this case is tapping out
a message that exposes your immaturity and your addiction to attention.
This person, this person just there's no connection to the
victims whatsoever, No sympathy, no empathy, no anything. He or
she which whichever, just wants somebody to take blame for this.

(05:04):
And I'd presume if you would ask, they want that
person whoever's responsible to lose their job. Well, when the
when the problem really is possibly that the big problem
is going to be that the person who ultimately might
be held responsible has lost their life.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
That's probably someone who passed in that crash, that horrific,
horrific crash.

Speaker 3 (05:31):
I've got a spam number coming in here, will oh no,
this is from forty minutes ago and it won't stop.
Oh there's who it is. Yeah, I told her I
had to go on the air. I told her I
had to go on the air. I'm gonna this woman
should know better. Hold on, I've got to send a
real quick text message, as I mentioned earlier, coma I'm

(05:51):
on the air this hour period. Okay, Now I can
get back to her later. I thing rang and ring
and rang. It's most times it's ever rang. I don't
know why it did that.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
Where are we? Oh we're in good shape, aren't we.
We actually are. So let's get back to the.

Speaker 3 (06:08):
Normalcy of the show, at least despite a horrific deadly
plane crush. Turning back to Houston and looking at the weather.
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for years to come. Texas iaq dot net, if you

(06:31):
can get through today without stepping under a rain cloud,
you will be rewarded tomorrow and for several more days
behind that with some really nice weather, especially Monday if
the forecast is true, God willing, when I'll be teeing
it up with the boys over at Blackhawk on my
day off under what's allegedly going to be sunshine and

(06:55):
seventy two degrees.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
It just doesn't get much better than that for outdoor record.
I can't wait. Look at the stock market.

Speaker 3 (07:03):
I can do this in one minute. Will thanks to
Houston Gold Exchange. By the way, I'm gonna probably try
and get Brad Schweiss from over there on tomorrow to
talk about golds up up.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
In a way. Holy cow, Holy cow, it is? Where
was it now?

Speaker 3 (07:18):
It's yet it came up another thirty something dollars so
far today and was trading at twenty eight twenty four
an ounce. That's two thousand, eight hundred and twenty four
dollars an ounce. The Big Four they were just kind
of hum nothing to see here. That's the typical typical Thursday,
I can say. And oil actually oil was up a

(07:41):
little bit, but by less than a quarter of barrel
about an hour and a half ago, so it's no
big deal. There was a headline I saw that was interesting,
yet Yahoo financed it said US economy grows at slower
than expected pace in two thousand or in Q four. Well,
the good news is countries already started to pivot back

(08:02):
in the other direction toward an America first strategy that
I can't wait to watch unfold. Well, take a little
break here on the way out, I'll remind you that
ut Health Institute on Aging is where you and I
and anybody else who's interested can go and go to
the website first and look around uth dot edu slash aging.

(08:22):
Go there, peruse if you will, for as long as
you dare, and you will find just every time you
flip a page electronically, you'll find something else of interest,
something else that can maybe encourage you to do something
good for yourself or encourage you to get something looked at.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
When you're you're not really sure who to go to
out where you.

Speaker 3 (08:43):
Live, Well, what you need to do is locate one
of the providers that's part of the Institute on Aging.
Because those people, no matter what their medical discipline, every
one of the people involved with this has received additional education,
additional learning toward a play lying their knowledge, specifically to seniors.

Speaker 2 (09:04):
This is a good group.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
They've been around for a long time now, right at
about ten years, maybe eleven, I think I'm not sure exactly,
but The bottom line is they are all for us,
and they have providers who work, most of them in
the medical center most of their time. But as I've
said before, they also travel to outlying clinics and communities
and hospitals and whatnot, so that those of us who

(09:27):
really don't really want to go to the med center
don't have to to be seen by someone who knows.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
What makes us tick.

Speaker 3 (09:34):
Ut dot edu slash aging, utch dot edu slash aging.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
What's life without a net? I suggest to go to bed,
leave it off, just wait until the show's over. Sleepy.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.

Speaker 2 (10:05):
A couple more weeks.

Speaker 3 (10:06):
Well, I'll be able to play this on the piano.
Do you want to bring one in?

Speaker 2 (10:12):
Why would the onus be on me to bring in
a piano, because.

Speaker 3 (10:17):
That way I know it'll never have to happen live
on the air. I actually do have still two keyboards
at the house.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
Well, when.

Speaker 3 (10:27):
One would be very easily portable, the other one's actually
pretty heavy. It's an electric piano, but it's it's pretty heavy.
I wouldn't want to just try and pick it up
and tote it over my shoulder. I couldn't probably all right,
so welcome back, thanks for listening. Certainly do appreciate it,
will and I are we're we're here four days a week.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
Life dip your server on the way out. I hope
you are. At lunch.

Speaker 3 (10:50):
I just I just knocked back a little a little
protein bar. I guess you'd call it the thing that
keeps me from having to having to feel like I'm
really really hungry about this time of day. I don't
eat a great breakfast, but I eat breakfast. And I
don't eat a great lunch, but I eat lunch.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
And then I usually.

Speaker 3 (11:09):
Try to save my one good, truly healthy meal of
the day for dinner.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
And my god, I'm turning into an old person.

Speaker 3 (11:18):
I have to eat it before probably, oh, I would say,
at least before eight o'clock now, or I'm going to
have trouble sleeping. I'll toss and turn and just it's
so difficult being my age. But I'm glad the alternative
is not good. So I feel pretty confident, comfortable in

(11:40):
my skin. From the comes as no surprise, desk. I
took a look at border encounters leading up to the
inauguration and continuing thereafter, and guess what the daily average
in January from the first to the nineteen the daily

(12:02):
average of border encounters, however that's measured, was two thousand
and eighty seven. The daily average since beginning the day
of the inauguration has been one hundred and forty eight,
roughly seven percent of the actual numbers prior to Biden leaving.

Speaker 2 (12:26):
The White House.

Speaker 3 (12:28):
Words getting around the United States of America to not
welcome people who aren't willing to move patiently and lawfully
through the system for entry and potentially even citizenship. But
that's hopefully that trend is going to continue. I got that.
That took that taken care of that. In education, I

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found this disturbing and once again not surprising. A lot
of this stuff just doesn't surprise anyone, but it should
frustrate every.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
One of us, no matter which side of the out
world nation's education system.

Speaker 3 (13:05):
So many public schools for the last several years have
been teaching kids about things a lot of us feel
are inappropriate and certainly don't fall into any of the
categories of reading, writing, and arithmetic the three RS.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
I bet a lot of young people would would believe
that too.

Speaker 3 (13:23):
In any event, the percentage of eighth graders who scored
at or above expected reading levels in twenty twenty four
was just two out of three sixty seven percent. And
that is the just reading, not like they're teaching them calculus.

(13:44):
It's just knowing how to read the English language lois
since nineteen ninety two. And I don't know what was
going on in ninety You weren't even born then.

Speaker 2 (13:52):
Where you will no?

Speaker 3 (13:54):
Okay, So I guess it's all up to me now.
I can't remember exactly what would have check who was
president in nineteen ninety two?

Speaker 2 (14:03):
You know, off him nineteen ninety two. Wouldn't it have
been Nabbit? Maybe Carter? Wouldn't it have been Clinton?

Speaker 3 (14:11):
Maybe you can look while I'm talking, would you? Could
you come on? Be a pal? Will be a pal.
We'll find out who was. And this is this is
like one of those games they play on KTRH about dates.

Speaker 2 (14:25):
You know, what's the date? You got it? Will? Bill Clinton? Oh? Wow,
you nailed it. Good for you. Yeah, Carter was earlier.
Actually I know that Carter.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
Was in the seven Yeah, it was right after I
got out of high school because I remember a friend
of mine and his wife. He married his high school
sweetheart in their first house. They were so excited to
get in, and I want to say they're interest rate
on their loan was something like fourteen percent. It's one
of these almost impossible things to ever pay off.

Speaker 2 (14:58):
But somehow they did so.

Speaker 3 (15:00):
Anyway, these kids just flat can't read. And I'm all
for paying teachers everything they're worth, which is more than
what most of them get paid and less than what
a lot of people who do less important jobs get paid.
But only if they're getting these kids prepared to tackle
the world that's just running laps around them. In most

(15:21):
of the STEM courses, reading bad enough, and some of
the other things that kids are supposed to be taught.
It's even worse as measured against the world itself, and
that just doesn't bode well. There's no reason for that.
We have the resources if we'd spend them, well there
it is, if we'd spend them on ourselves and not

(15:42):
on feeding and clothing and providing medical care and getting
to choose what kind of bed you want, which is
what some of the migrants in New York City were
able to do.

Speaker 2 (15:56):
Mud porridge is too.

Speaker 3 (15:58):
Hot, too cold anyway.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
Anyway, it'll it'll go away.

Speaker 3 (16:05):
Got about a minute and a half do I will
somewhere in there.

Speaker 2 (16:08):
I'm gonna shift it over to you. Will.

Speaker 3 (16:10):
I'm just gonna toss the ball into your court. I'll
hit it into your court. Actually we'll use a tennis reference. Oh,
by the way, today is what national day?

Speaker 2 (16:20):
Will? Does it say it up here?

Speaker 3 (16:21):
No?

Speaker 2 (16:21):
It does not. It is national. It's usually a food,
so we'll say it's National Brownie Day, not brownie, but
it is a baked product, a national croissant. Did I
get nailed at you do? Well?

Speaker 3 (16:43):
That's even better than your wordle score today. Wow, that's
two tries and I got whirdling three. Yeah, you're on
a roll. It took me five. I'll conceee defeet. We
should have a bet. I'll put up a quarter each
day and you only put up a nickel. Okay, I'll
put a quarter, you put up a nickel, and then
we'll just keep score and at the end of the

(17:04):
month somebody's paying up.

Speaker 2 (17:05):
You think I have loose change on me, Doug.

Speaker 3 (17:10):
I think you're all about the We're in the digital
age's right. I'd have to get up like PayPal or hey,
you can venmo me. How about No, I'm not venmoing
you anything, why not. I just don't like to use
all that stuff. I don't want anybody in my bank accounts.
I really don't. All right, well, oh my gosh, we

(17:30):
don't have much time left doing we go ahead, you
know what, just just for giggles, kind of like what
I do about once a month on my outdoor show
over on KB of Meal on the weekends.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
I'll get out on time.

Speaker 3 (17:40):
The Houston Auto Botive Show is rapidly upon us.

Speaker 2 (17:45):
A matter of fact.

Speaker 3 (17:46):
It started today the twenty ninth of January and continues
through February second, which also happens to be Groundhog Day,
and I've got a story about that coming up at
the auto Botive Show. As you might suspect, what you'll
do is go over to NRG Center and just you
kind of walk in through that main middle door, and

(18:07):
I believe it's to the left you buy one ticket,
and then to the left half of all that tremendous
just thousands and thousands of square feet of space is
all automotive stuff. And then to the right, I believe
is all boat stuff. And I mean everything in anything
you could imagine that is related to boating, related to autobiles,

(18:29):
related to accessories for any of those related to places
to enjoy them, places that will fix them if they break,
just you name it. It's there at the Houston Auto
Boative Show. This is something they put together three or
four years ago. Now I think it was. If I
recall from the interview I did, just two great minds

(18:50):
came together.

Speaker 2 (18:51):
You know, there's no.

Speaker 3 (18:51):
Reason for us to just keep alternating back and forth.
Let's just join it all up and there it is.
Houston Auto botib Show, January twenty ninth, Today through the
second this weekend basically all the way through to Sunday.
Go to NRG Center see it all. Plan on being
there several hours. Autobotibshow dot com is a website you

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can find out a whole lot more right there autobotivshow
dot com.

Speaker 1 (19:20):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash him, check us
fluids and spring on a fresh cod o wax. This
is fifty plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 2 (19:42):
By a welcome back pitch plus. Thanks for listening.

Speaker 3 (19:43):
Certainly do appreciate it on this potentially much better Thursday
than Wednesday, and certainly much better Friday Saturday Sunday, and
at least Monday and probably Tuesday than any of the
last few days events.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
It's been muggy and.

Speaker 3 (20:00):
Damp and moist and wet and nasty just for days now.
It seems like it's never stopped. It felt cooler the
few days after the snow melted because it was so
dog one humid, it felt cooler. Then then on the
days when the snow was around, that snow was just
dry and fluffy like Colorado snow. It was just absolutely beautiful,

(20:24):
like Utah snow. I'm a huge fan of Park City,
an absolute that's that's one of my favorite places on
the planet, and I've been there many times, and I
liken it to that.

Speaker 2 (20:37):
I want telling the story yesterday about.

Speaker 3 (20:40):
Being up there on a media trip once and there
was a blizzard up on the mountain and they had
to shut down all the lifts and we were all
there were half a dozen of us there and three
of us we're given the opportunity to take a snowshoe
tour and jumped on it. I've never been snowshoes in
my life, but I strapped them on to my feet

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and we had a guide with us, a young woman
who was from there and was going to take us
walking through the woods and about almost back to where
we had started, and not even realizing how close we
would finish to where we started when she told us
to do something that we all did and had a blast.

Speaker 2 (21:19):
She said, okay, We paused on the.

Speaker 3 (21:21):
Trail and to our right was mountain side going up
higher and higher in trees everywhere, and to our left
was just kind of an open meadow. It looked like
couldn't tell what was under the snow, but she assured
us that that snow was at least four or five
feet deep, but that we were in snow shoes and
it wasn't going to be a big deal.

Speaker 2 (21:40):
But here's what we were going to do.

Speaker 3 (21:42):
On three, she said, we're all going to take off
running down this hill and we're going to see who
can stay on their feet the longest. And after that
it was just like one, two, three, and we were
all six years old again, and we started running, and.

Speaker 2 (21:59):
We fell, and we threw snow in all directions. The
it was.

Speaker 3 (22:05):
It really was one of the most exhilarating experiences as
a grown man I've had in a long time, and
it just it took me way way back there. You
ever done something like that, will something crazy like that
on the snow?

Speaker 2 (22:18):
Yeah? The only I mean, I've only been around snow
a couple of times in my life, fair enough. And
the only other time besides last week was in Minnesota,
in Minneapolis.

Speaker 3 (22:31):
And not four or five feet of it on a
hillside now with grass underneath, where you knew you were
gonna be okay. Oh man, if you ever I don't
care how old you are, well even if you're eighty
years old. Someday and somebody says, hey, take a tumble
down that hill. Take it because the snow will protect you.
The snow protected us. We never got anywhere near the
bottom of.

Speaker 2 (22:50):
All that snow on the side of that hill, but
it was sure cool.

Speaker 3 (22:54):
There was someplace I was reading about earlier today that
a big snowstorm. I forgot to copy and paste it
into my material here. But they had snow drifts in
that town I can't remember where. It was, like twenty
feet of snow drift. They had an additional pileon of
snow onto two blizzards worth or something like that. It

(23:18):
was already ten or twelve feet and then they had
another big snowstorm come in. It was somewhere maybe Great Lakes,
maybe some of that lake effect.

Speaker 2 (23:26):
Snow up there. I don't know, but anyway it was.

Speaker 3 (23:29):
I had a roommate from Ohio and my freshman year
in college, and he told me of a time when
it snowed so much where he was from in Ohio.
I think it was Dayton family own a jewelry store there,
or a couple of them. Anyway, along and short of
it is the snow was up to the top of
the back door of the house.

Speaker 2 (23:50):
Open the back door. You're not going anywhere. You're not
going anywhere. It was just a wall of snow.

Speaker 3 (23:57):
All right, I'm back to you will hit off with
his head. Not as good as you think, or fw.

Speaker 2 (24:06):
I not as good as you think. In honor of
Groundhog Day, which is what Sunday? Is that it or
Monday the.

Speaker 3 (24:17):
Second thirty first first second Sunday. So anyway, punksatani Phil.
Out of all the weather predicting groundhogs in the United States,
as for accuracy ranks, where there's nineteen of them, and
what is punk satawny Phil?

Speaker 2 (24:36):
The most famous of the.

Speaker 3 (24:38):
I was gonna say rained here the most famous reindeer bowl. No,
the groundhog of the nineteen nineteen what's his rank?

Speaker 2 (24:47):
I'm gonna go with fifteen. It's even worse than that.
He's only right thirty five percent of the time. It
is number one.

Speaker 3 (24:57):
I doesn't say because nobody cared. It wouldn't even I
don't even. Well, I didn't open the full story. It
might have given more detail, but it just you should
open the full store. Let me rephrase that I didn't
care enough.

Speaker 2 (25:09):
Oh no, what stay? You can look it up if
you like. You're welcome to do that.

Speaker 3 (25:15):
Oh, we've still got a teeny bit of ton Yes, okay,
I'm gonna stick with this. I'm gonna keep you involved. Well,
I'm gonna keep you in the mix.

Speaker 2 (25:21):
It mean believe it or not? Going wireless or back
to off with his head, believe it or not? Come on?
Will ten percent?

Speaker 3 (25:35):
Only ten percent of people say they trust online reviews
more than they did five years ago.

Speaker 2 (25:43):
Are you in that group or not? I mean it
kind of depends on how many I think. I look
more so to hear how many reviews there are on
a certain product. Here in versus what you're asking me
a question? Okay, I'm answering essay I'm saying, I look

(26:07):
at more how many people are reviewing, and then I'll
go into it. But if it's you know, it's a
product that I only have like four reviews.

Speaker 3 (26:19):
Then you got kind of worried. And they all they
all have the same last name as the company's owner.
Oh yeah, that's a dead giveaway. My name's uh no,
never mind, don't worry about my name. But I love
this product. Tell my brother, you said, said, I said, hello,
all right, off with his head, thank you. It's a
pop quiz. It comes from a pop quiz. Will you

(26:42):
what year was the last year that France used the
guillotine to execute a criminal?

Speaker 2 (26:50):
Nineteen seventy seven. You're closer than you think. I know
it's in the seventies. No, it's not in the sixties. Eighties, Yes, why?
Teen eighty one, eighty one? Why?

Speaker 3 (27:05):
And it's far enough back now that it does. It
just seems.

Speaker 2 (27:09):
Barbaric, and it did at the time, even to me.

Speaker 3 (27:13):
And I'm I don't have a problem with having a
death penalty for the most horrendous crimes of.

Speaker 2 (27:22):
All, but the guillotine.

Speaker 3 (27:26):
Man, there's just there's just something about that that's just
too up close and personal You agree or disagree?

Speaker 2 (27:33):
Well, were they doing public executions?

Speaker 3 (27:36):
I don't know where they did it, will I presume
not in a playground. I doubt In nineteen eighty one
they were doing it.

Speaker 2 (27:43):
For the public eye by the Eiffel Tower on the
circuit TV I very top, Yeah, on the very top
of the eye. Wow, that head would go fly. Okay,
we're off on a really really bad track here, all right,
we gotta go. Yeah, that's a good idea, oh mercy.

(28:05):
A Late Health is the well.

Speaker 3 (28:07):
Actually, it's a group of clinics around town where you
can go and get yourself something called prostate artery embolization
to remove and forever say goodbye to the symptoms of
an enlarged, non cancerous prostate.

Speaker 2 (28:22):
And if you have one, you know exactly what I'm
talking about.

Speaker 3 (28:25):
We're talking about incomplete emptying, frequent trips during the night
to the bathroom, trouble in the bedroom, all of that
stuff sometimes can be attributed to that pesky prostatea you'rs
swelling up and not doing its job. If you go
to a late health through vascular procedure in a couple

(28:46):
of hours in their clinic, you don't have to go
to a hospital ever for any of the things they do.
But just in a couple of hours in there, you
will have that the artery that's feeding that prostate shut off.
I don't know what they plug those artis with to
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Speaker 1 (29:50):
Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike.

Speaker 2 (30:13):
Hi Welcome back.

Speaker 3 (30:13):
Fourth and final segment of the program starts right now,
and thank you all for letting us into wherever you are.

Speaker 2 (30:22):
And however you're listing. Will did some research. It was
very interesting. We found that we have.

Speaker 3 (30:29):
I don't know what was it, eight hundred something downloads
a month, Is that right?

Speaker 2 (30:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (30:34):
Eight hundred and twenty and most of them are from
the US of a affair, notb was it about ten
percent or maybe five percent from Canada somewhere in there. Yeah,
and then the UK has a handful in all these
obscure countries where I think it's probably just scammers trying
to figure out how they can get some of our

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information tap into the resources of Doug and Will.

Speaker 2 (30:59):
I sent it to scam wish them. Look when they
when they call me on my phone, I answer, and
I say, listen to fifty plus. Tell your friends about it.
You know what.

Speaker 3 (31:09):
That's I'm gonna start doing that when I get spam calls,
because my phone tells me it's pretty accurate, dude. And
when I get a spam call, I'm gonna open it up.
Do you listen to fifty plus?

Speaker 2 (31:19):
That's awesome? Yeah.

Speaker 3 (31:23):
You know how I'm gonna answer. I'm gonna answer Hello,
who's calling? And then they'll say something, and then I'll say, Bob,
have you thought about listening to fifty plus?

Speaker 2 (31:33):
Normally I'll wait until again, because normally it's like a
robot that'll of course start talking, and then I start
mimicking the robot. I go, Hell, hello, Lynn dot, oh,
how are you today? Do you have met? Decare parts?
Ain't and B And then they say, well, we're gonna

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transfer you to one of our associates. And then they
start doing that, and then I start talking to the
associate like I'm a robot, hell low associate.

Speaker 3 (32:06):
That's just so good will Yes, I just I thought.

Speaker 2 (32:11):
For a minute you were a robot? Thanks good? Yeah, man?
How could I not perfect perfect imitation of a robot
with low batteries?

Speaker 3 (32:23):
Former Texan JJ Watt weighed in on the high number
of NFL players who didn't make it to the Super
Bowl and who were invited to play in the Pro
Bowl Pro Bowl and said no, thanks that a few positions.
Here's how little the NFL players care about the Pro
Bowl anymore. And it's not a bad trip. I believe

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they play it in Hawaii if I'm not mistaken, and
so it's not bad. Take the family to Hawaii for
a week and have a lot of fun and then
just go play one.

Speaker 2 (32:55):
It's they might as well be playing touch football. And
may be that at this point, I.

Speaker 3 (32:59):
Don't know, but a whole lot of these guys just
didn't go and they're gonna end up having and they
kept calling alternatives, Well, who's next on the list, who's next,
who's next?

Speaker 2 (33:11):
And eventually they get to.

Speaker 3 (33:12):
Like fourth and fifth most most skilled players at those
positions and they've but they've got to fill the roster spots.
They have to have enough to put people on both sides.

Speaker 2 (33:25):
And JJ watt on X wrote this quote, when you
get five alternatives deep, just call it the Participation Bowl
end quote. I kind of like that.

Speaker 3 (33:37):
I think that's pretty funny. Pro Bowl used to be
a big deal. It really did. These guys get to
go play around in Hawaii, get a nice paycheck, and
now they they make so much money now, and I
don't begrudge my dime. If somebody wants to pay me
two million dollars to do this show, I'll do it.

Speaker 2 (33:54):
But they don't.

Speaker 3 (33:55):
But in any event, now they I think, because they
do have so much money, if they want to go
on vacation. They can certainly do that wherever, whenever, and
for how long ever, except during training and season just
they can make their own plans, and I think in
a lot of those guys' minds, anything is better than
strapping on those pads again until fall.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
Can't blame them, really.

Speaker 3 (34:20):
While most of the country is adopting new policies that
strip away DEI initiatives and replace them with merit based
hiring practices, cost Co has decided They've doubled down on
the insistance at hiring people based on skin color and
gender and stuff like that matters more than hiring a
person on the skills and work ethic they bring to

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the position. I'm curious to see how that plays out
for them. Honestly, cost Co doesn't seem to be struggling
at all, so don't expect any change of significance anytime soon.
They're going to onward plod, and that's their prerogative. It's
their business to run. I'm not telling them how to
run their business. But if enough Americans agree that that's

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wrong now that mega Giant Monster retailer could get enough
pushback that it eventually might consider some change. Don't know
that it will, don't know that it won't.

Speaker 2 (35:16):
Will. I'm back to you for these final three minutes,
two minutes and forty five seconds. Are you ready? Yes?
Good stuff for tomorrow too?

Speaker 3 (35:26):
Good stuff? Fw I disturbing or not? Honest mistake, no harm,
no foul on this mistake. Honest mistake, no.

Speaker 2 (35:41):
Harm, no foul.

Speaker 3 (35:42):
And woman in New Zealand will and I want your
I want your opinion on whether she should or shouldn't
do what I'll ask you about women in New Zealand
posted a video after she bought a wrap sandwich at
a sandwich place and it had a knife in it,
had a little, you know, little cut up the tomatoes
or whatever, like a little paring knife in it. Luckily

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she bit into the handle and not the blade. And
people online, most of them probably in this country, are
just shocked that she's not suing these people.

Speaker 2 (36:14):
Would you sue or not? No harm, not a drop
of blood, you didn't chip a tooth, nothing? No. I
wouldn't either, I really wouldn't. I wouldn't.

Speaker 3 (36:25):
I wouldn't demand that somebody lose their job. I wouldn't
do anything like that. If I'm not hurt I have
I'm not doing that to that person put them through
all that. There's no reason I'm not gonna go in
there and sue the sandwich shop for half a million
dollars on because something.

Speaker 2 (36:43):
Could have happened, it didn't. It could have, but it didn't.

Speaker 3 (36:47):
And I suspect that there will be new training and
procedure at least for one of the employees before they
put on the apron and start making sandwiches again.

Speaker 2 (36:58):
Yeah, a lot of.

Speaker 3 (36:59):
Countries just try not to sue at the drop of
the hat. I'm pretty sure it's the United States that
has the most attorneys of any country, probably per capita
and just in general, more than any other country in
the world. That's the best I can figure. All right,
Will we're down to one good one or two if
i'd make one quick. There's a quick one just out

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of California. Very interesting school in California. First to cancel
classes indefinitely because somebody stole the copper wiring in that
school as much as they could carry away and knock
power out. So until they can get it all rewired,
that's too bad. Guy in England, this is just kind
of cool. Guy in England got his first cell phone

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in nineteen ninety eight, will And prompted, Well, he promptly
texted the word hello to a random number. He winds
up marrying this woman and they have two kids.

Speaker 2 (37:53):
That's pretty impulsive, I think. No, I bet he's led.
He didn't get a dude though

Speaker 3 (37:59):
Hello, oh uh oh, coming back tomorrow, Audios