July 8, 2025 • 35 mins
Today, Doug Pike discusses the flooding in the hill country,bacon, and dog owners.
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Speaker 2 (00:47):
Two day edition of the program starts right now, the
next day of many yet to come, sadly in search
of the people still missing after last week's devastating floods
in the Hill Come Tree. This is a trag It's
a national tragedy. It impacts the Hill Country most the
state of Texas a lot. And then, just because we're
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a sympathetic group and a just a group of people
who try to get along and recognize tragedy as such,
it impacts the entire country. There is at every one
of our stations, not just in Houston, but at every
one of our iHeart stations a box on the front
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page somewhere that leads you to a site that's already
been vetted by us to make sure it's real and legit,
a place where you could donate something if you want
to donate something to the God. It's going to take
years to the rebuilding of that region, and there's it'll
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probably take a year and a half just to clear
the debris that was caused by those floods, and it's
there's still an active recovery process. I think, sadly we're
beyond rescue of people. Although I saw a story yesterday
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late about two kids being rescued, but I don't I
couldn't corroborate it anywhere but that one source, and so
I'm not gonna I'm not gonna cling to that. But God,
wouldn't be nice if we could find a few of
these kids just huddled up in the top of a
tree somewhere and scared to come down. I'd pray for that.
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I don't know if it's going to happen, and if
it doesn't, certainly we will. We'll just have to move forward,
very difficult. This is not a time. This is a
time to reave the losses of all those people, people
who lost family members, people who lost everything they owned,
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people who lost neighbors and friends and probably lost a
big chunk of confidence in their ability to enjoy that
river ever again. There will be lots of people who
have lived up there for many, many years and seen
lesser floods come and go through there, who will probably
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consider leaving after this, And that's I hate that for them,
because they There was one man who owned He was
a kayaker, and the man was eighty something years old.
I saw his story on television yesterday, and I wish
I could remember where, but it was just a fascinating
story about this guy. He lived up there forever and
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ever and had all kinds of friends who would come by.
He just had a kind of an open air shop
next to his house. And it was a fascinating story.
And this man died on the river. And that's probably
you know, if you had asked him two weeks ago
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how if he had to go, he would want to go.
It probably would have had something to do with that river,
because he was so closely connected to it. But to
even have to think about that, and to think of
what was going through his mind when at some point
he realized that the river was gonna win this one.
I don't know. I don't know how how you would
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deal with that other than to just say a prayer
and hang on, try to find something to float you
down the river. It was amazing to me to see
some of the rescue stories where people had floated ten,
twelve to fifteen miles or more down that river as
it just raced through there, and that was really the
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only way to survive was to grab onto something that
floated and just floated out until you came just quieter
flow or moving water somewhere. That is just a story
of survival instincts taken over. I think this is not
a time, by the way, although some truly ghoulish and
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insensitive monsters who live among us are just trying to
make it such for anyone to blame anyone else or
anything else other than a catastrophic weather event for the
destruction and loss of life in Central Texas's that's just
it's barbaric. There's no reason whatsoever, no reason whatsoever to
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blame anything else than weather for all of that. Politicians
who have blamed anything other than an anomalous weather event
for what happened in Carville are sadly mistaken and only
trying to stir another chapter of division into our country. First,
it was cuts to any federal agency that caused this.
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They were all talking about how FEMA was Boy, if
we hadn't gutted FEMA, everything would have been okay. Well,
FEMA was already in the midst of downsizing long before
this happened, and the budget cup cuts that are being
blamed for the flooding don't even go into effect until
later this year. On top of that, there's a great
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explanation for this one authored by ABC thirteen meteorologist Travis Herzog.
Somebody sent it. I think it was allan send it
to me this morning about cloud seating, and Herzog, to
his credit, shares in a very lengthy read. It's about
a three page, single spaced read, how cloud seating had
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nothing to do with these floods. I mean, anyone who
says otherwise it's just dreadfully misinformed. I don't want to
go into all the details of all of that because
it is pretty lengthy, but he explains it extremely well,
extremely well. You can read all those pages and understand
why seeden can't be But it's just so frustrating to
hear politicians as they always do, trying to spin the
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blame for anything that makes headlines in this country onto
the shoulders of conservatives, and doing that only just fuels
an ugly flame fanned by people who claim to be Americans,
but I think in practice really are just trying to
dismantle the America that was founded a couple of hundred
and something years ago. We need to take a break,
and I'm going to get out on time. On the
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way out, I'll tell you about berry Hill, one of
my favorite tex Mex restaurants, and right out where I
live in Sugarland on fifty nine at Sugar Creek Boulevard.
You can't miss it. It's on the inbound side, just
north of that intersection, and inside the doors you will
find both family style and sports bar style seating. There's
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outdoor dining as well when it's not ninety degrees anymore.
My wife and I found berry Hill. Gods, it's got
to have been twenty five years ago out there, and
now it's your turn. If you haven't go in there.
It's a very casual, very family friendly restaurant. Had the
same two chefs in the kitchen putting together delicious text
mex food for decades. You got a really nice variety
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two their fish tacos are top shelf absolutely. I am
fond of the seafood and schiladas. I tried to eat
one of the seafood burritos once and had a really
difficult time getting through it, and I would have stopped
had it not been so delicious as well. And whatever
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And the answer when you're asked that question, it just
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That's why every few months we wash them, check his
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with anything and everything you say. That's really prophetic. You
say something really super smart. I may try and find
out how to get touch with you and interview you
figure out how you got that smart. That would be
kind of fun, kind of where do I want to
go here? No, by the way, yeah, I'm not going
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to linger where I was, But what I will do
is kind of go back on the plus side of things.
I still believe are getting better overall because I keep
and I keep track of this tough the reactions I've
gotten recently in grocery stores and restaurants and just gas
stations whatever. I try to lay out very simple acts
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of kindness, holding a door for somebody, saying good afternoon,
stuff like that, just all simple positive stuff, and no
matter who it was, no matter where I was. And
I've been a lot of places and said a lot
of how you doing so lately, all of them. And
maybe I'm just lucky in talking to nice people, but
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everybody I've greeted like that has returned the greeting, and
I've just gotten generally positive responses. I think it's great
speaking of places that get it and are becoming more
and more like America was before we were force fed
all these policies we knew were crazy, but we're scared
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to talk about. The mayor of Dallas, Eric Johnson, stepped
up yesterday, I think it was, and declared his city
to be a sanctuary city from socialism. His declaration made
him response to New York mayoral candidate Zora and Mam
Donnie's plans to turn the Big Apple into a haven
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for socialism, communism, maybe some hybrid of both. Nothing remotely
like that city has been in the past and could
be again if the right people were in charge. From
Johnson up there in Dallas came this quote right here,
if your city is or is about to be a
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sanctuary for criminals, mayhem, job killing regulations and failed socialist experiments,
I have a modest invitation for were you move to Dallas.
We value free enterprise, law and order, and our first responders.
Common sense and the American dream still reside here. We
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have all your big city comforts and conveniences without the
suffocating vice grip of government bureaucrats here here. Well done,
Eric Johnson, Well done, and I guarantee you it may
not be a title wave of people. But there will
be people in this country who who hear that and go,
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you know what, Texas sounding better and better. I only
wish our own mayor had jumped on that first. I
wish he'd have been first to say it. Greg Abbott
jumped in our governor his response and I quote, the
State of Texas will provide whatever support is needed to
fulfill that mission. Kind of like we do with a
lot of things that make good sense as Texans. We
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just dive in and make sure they happen. Just tithing die,
make sure it happens. That's how proper cities and states
in our country are run and should be run. It
amazes me. It just amazes me how disconnected a lot
of big city Democrat mayors and a lot of state
governors are from their people. So much so they just
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keep pushing policies that only result in more crime, more
problems for their cities, worse city services, worth healthcare, worth housing,
worse everything. And then they wonder why the city starts
to look like a dump, like a third world country.
And then they go run into the federal government for bailout.
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Help us, help us, We don't know what's wrong. Well, yeah,
we told you what was wrong ten years ago, and
you didn't do a thing about it. I got a
client in New York. I got a client in New
York who refuses. He's lived there all his life, but
he refuses now as a grown man, to go into
New York City. It's gone, he tells me, just nothing
like it was when he grew up, and that makes
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him very s A lot of people whose memories of
that city, Democrat City for decades, are of something far
different than New York City is now. I'm hearing that,
not regularly because I don't know that many people from
New York, but I do know a few, and they
tell me, yeah, everything you're here and pretty much true,
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every single bit of it, which is really tragic because
it was at one point and there's still the theater
district is still there. There's a lot tons of entertainment,
a lot of a lot of TV programs shot there,
a lot of all kinds of amazing that Wall Street
is there still. It's just this amazing, once vibrant city
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that in the last six or eight years, certainly the
last five, just was just crippled, just crippled. In any event.
Moving to some little brief notes that I had. Uh,
you know, I'm just gonna kind of run them. I'll
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check mark the ones I'm gonna read to you and
discuss so I don't overdo them. This one's kind of
a two for one. So a New report, Oh lookie
there the clock said, how about that? Will? Are you surprised? Yeah?
I am too, But that's good. Now I have a
clock that I don't have to touch my phone and
mess with it to know how much we have a
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minute and a half left in this segment. So I'm
gonna quit yapping and go. New report says the average
dog owner makes twenty seven decisions a month based on
their pet, such as canceling social plans to hang out
with the dog, which depending on who your friends are,
and yeah, maybe it would be better, I don't know.
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And of course, from the captain obvious desk, dog owners
without kids far more likely to spoil their dogs. Really,
that was just a waste of ink and a waste
of keystrokes. We all knew that. Speaking of dogs, and
I think this is pretty cool. A chihuahua in Switzerland,
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which just sounds weird, rolling off the tongue saved its
owner's life. Last week, the guy fell down a hole
while hiking across a glacier, and rather than just run off,
that little dog hung around right there, right next to
the hole, and that's where rescuers found him. I don't
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know how long that dog was there, but the dog
couldn't have just dialed nine to one one, so I
suspect that somebody had to figure out the guy was lost.
Somebody had to call the authorities, and the authorities had
to figure out where he was. Good thing, his little
dog wasn't just a fair weather friend. That's why people
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Fifty plus. Thanks for listening. Certainly, do appreciate that we
will talk in this segment. Hmm.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Let me.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
I want to give you some good news. There's always
good news, and I do go looking for it, and
I'll this has something to do with what happened in Cerrville.
And if you haven't read about this guy yet, you're
gonna learn about him now. Coast Guard Officer Petty Officer
Scott Ruskin from New Jersey. He's half a country away
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or a whole country away, north to south, on the
scene with other coastguardsmen, men and women at the Guadaloupe
River as it rose and rose and rose this past weekend.
It was his first rescue mission. And this guy made
the mo most of the time he had and the opportunity.
He's flown in by helicopter. And in that flight they
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found a bunch of people, like more than one hundred
and fifty people. It may have been some of the
Camp Mystic people. I'm not one hundred percent sure, but
I think it was Mirre, all huddled up on a
hilltop somewhere, water still rising around him, and it's just
it's not going well, not going well. He gets onto
the ground and starts organizing them very patiently, very methodically,
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into groups of ten or fifteen very scared people, and
got them onto military helicopters, one group at a time
until every one of them had been taken to safety.
A Department of Homeland Security, Christie No, Secretary of Christi No,
called Ruskin an American hero, and I'd have to strongly
agree with that, and true to the humble nature of
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these types of people. Rusking, when he was asked about it,
if he felt like a hero, he's no, He's just
doing his job, same as anyone else in his position
would have done. And you know, I have to believe,
and I do believe that any other Coastguard personnel, any
any other member of our military, would have done just
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what he did under the circumstances. They're trained not only
to fight, but to save lives as well. They're trained to,
especially the Coast Guard, they do a whole lot of rescuing.
And this was his first rescue mission and I saved
one hundred and fifty something people. So hats off to him.
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Good guy, very good guy.
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and it will get to one of us whomever. That
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might be a post haste, as they say. From the
Border Patrol Violence Desk, the Border Patrol Violence Desk directly
adjacent by the way to the Ice Enforcement Desk, comes
the story of a man dressed in full military gear
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opened fire with a rifle on Border Patrol agents down
in the Rio Grand area. Recently, agents return fire and
according to the story, neutralized their wered, not mine. They
took out the guman, they rendered him incapable of ever
firing another shot before he did any more. He actually
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did manage to hit a McAllen police officer, but according
to the story, that officer is in okay shape now.
He is, as they say stable. There's the word I
was looking for. There was a similar attack, except on
ice agents and not border patrol. Happened recently up in
the Northwest. I think it was somewhere in Oregon, but
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I'm not one hundred percent sure. I think it was
somewhere in Oregon, speaking of border patrol and I and
law enforcement in the country. Also from the left coast desk,
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass came across federal officers near
MacArthur Park yesterday. I'm sure she was alerted to their
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presence and raced to the scene and demanded, just demanded
that they leave that park that area immediately, to which
they kind of looked at her and said, no, we
got a job to do. She also demanded to speak
with whomever was in charge, and one of the officers
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there handed her a phone and she was on it
for a little while and speaking her will and sharing
her case. Is there something going on?
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Will?
Speaker 2 (24:48):
What's going on? We have Robert from sugar Land, Robert
Ah Sugarlander like me.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
What's up?
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Robert?
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Hein't not much. It's just gonna let you know. I
got you, buddy, Greg taking care of those polls.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Oh sweet, the poles for the kids to Oh man, Oh,
I'm so glad to hear that. I'm glad you're listening
again today. Look at that Will first call Will and
it's something great. This is awesome.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Yeah, And I wanted to remind the people out there
that are listening, most of them our age.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
But uh, when.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
You think you've had a bad day, think about last
Friday and what these people are going.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Every time, every time this conversation comes up, I try
to put myself in their shoes for a little bit
when I'm kind of feeling sorry for myself or something like.
It could be it could be so much worse, so much,
it really could.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
I think.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Uh, me and a couple of guys, a couple of
buddies are going up try to go to Sunday, help
with the relieve some of those guys for a couple
of days.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
So, yeah, you know, you make a very good point.
I know a lot of people who have gone up there,
and you make a really good point about going up
and trying to help, and going up and trying to help.
But the people who have been there every day since
that happened could just use a break. And boy, what
a what a treat that's gonna be.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
We've got rescue experience so excellent. We won't be we
won't be wandering around in shorts and flip flops.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Yeah, I would hope not. I would hope not. Well,
thank you for the call. I really do appreciate this.
You've kicked us off in grand fashion. My friend.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Well, good y'all have a wonderful day.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Yeah, safe travels. I hope you get up there and
help them out as you can. Thank you, Rob. All right,
we got to take a little break here on the
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I think that sounds like a good plan. Fifty plus continues.
Here's more with Doug. I'm late.
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I was deleting spam calls from my history and blocking
them one by one. I get an inordinate number of
those things, I guess because well, just because I look
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I really don't. I wish I knew, because I would
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from them. From the gift that keeps on giving up
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outrageous stories desk aka. California Education Secretary Linda McMahon told
California Governor Gavin Newsom this week to expect contact by
US Attorney General Pam Bondi after the State of California's
Department of Education and its Interscholastic Federation both rejected federally
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mandated regulations that would return girls and women's sports to
girls and women. Newsom and his crew have drawn, I
think a pretty dangerous line in the sand, really, one
that just might break that state's bank, state that's already
tens of billions of dollars in debt. News I'm not
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going to gain any points toward a presidential run either
with this hard stance on continuing to allow men to
compete against women, to share locker rooms with women, when
overwhelmingly that tide has turned in this country. We've kind
of realized that girls and women were getting hurt. Girls
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and women were being denied any chance to earn scholarships
or other recognition for all the hard work they'd put
in for probably since they were the little bitty kids.
And I think they're going to come to regret that decision,
and maybe sooner rather than later. The Democratic Party just
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kind of seemed more and more to be hitching its
wagon to extremists at every turn, really out there people,
and ignoring the people who elected President Trump and who
really would like to see a return to some semblance
of prior normalcy, whatever that was around here. I grew
up in a time where we had neighbors who were Democrats,
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and the Democrats had neighbors who were Republicans, and we'd
all gather up for weekend barbecues or all go up
to the little baseball games at Sharpstown Little League, and
people could have honest, open discussions and disagree with each
other without without name calling, without getting in somebody's face
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and yelling and spitting at them. And we've we've lost
the ability to do that, at least the younger people have,
I think, and some of the older people too, just
refuse to just settle down and sit down and try
to work things out amicably. It's not that hard to
do when you recognize that everybody is entitled to their
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own opinion and it doesn't have to agree with yours.
It's just their opinion, and unless you can convince them
politely and calmly to change their minds, then at the
end of the at the end of the day, you
just got to say, Okay, yeah, I guess you don't
agree with me, and I don't agree with you. But
we both got kids to ray, we both got work
to do. We both got something. We both got fish
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to catch, birdies to make on the golf course. We've
got one guy in the group I play with who
is a very staunchly democratic and not at the least
bit shy about talking about it. And I have no
problem with him whatsoever. He's one of the favorite guy,
my favorite guys in the whole group, because other than
his politics, he's a really cool guy to hang out with.
A very interesting man too, had a tremendous career, a
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tremendous career. I'm not gonna tell you who he is
or what he did. It doesn't matter. Got that taken
care of. Let's go back to the fun stuff. What
he got about a minute and a half? Will fifty
seven or fifty eight? Fifty eight? Right? Thank you? Uh?
Speaking of now, we already did that. I'm not gonna
do that. Oh here's one. I title this one Enough's Enough.
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Cinnamon Toast. Crunch and Hormel have partnered up for a
new bacon flavored cereal. If I want bacon, I like it.
I do like it crispy, and so the cereal might
crunch like bacon, but it's first of all, it's not
gonna taste one hundred percent like bacon. It's cereal that's
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just nasty. Now you can get six bags of it
at Wall or six ounce bags of it at Walmart
starting today, and I would hope that the next person
in there to go pick up a bag of six
ounces of bacon flavored cereal would be the first and
probably the last. The people who tested it described it
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as not terrible, which is hardly a glowing endorsement I
think from the wrong priorities desk. There's this guy getting
a little backlash because there's a TikTok of him continuing
to participate in a fitness event even after his girlfriend
passed out and was having to be treated by paramedics.
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According to the story, which and this is gonna be
the way it's presented here, it's about third or fourth
hand information. The women or the woman told somebody later
that she wanted him to continue it for them. My
gut says no, My gut says, she's gonna bring that
up at some point fairly soon and say, you know what,
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I'm over here dying and I'm being treated by paramedics
and you're still on the treadmill or wherever he was.
I don't know who knows. Well, here's one bad decisions.
This is gonna be quick, will I promise. Bride created
controversy by sitting all her plus sized guests at the
same reception table and even called that table weight watchers.
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She apparently excused it by saying it was a body
positivity thing. Also not happening. Also a horribly poor choice.
I hope she chose better for a husband. That's it
for now. We'll be back tomorrow. Thanks for listening. Audios
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Two day edition of the program starts right now, the
next day of many yet to come, sadly in search
of the people still missing after last week's devastating floods
in the Hill Come Tree. This is a trag It's
a national tragedy. It impacts the Hill Country most the
state of Texas a lot. And then, just because we're
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a sympathetic group and a just a group of people
who try to get along and recognize tragedy as such,
it impacts the entire country. There is at every one
of our stations, not just in Houston, but at every
one of our iHeart stations a box on the front
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page somewhere that leads you to a site that's already
been vetted by us to make sure it's real and legit,
a place where you could donate something if you want
to donate something to the God. It's going to take
years to the rebuilding of that region, and there's it'll
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probably take a year and a half just to clear
the debris that was caused by those floods, and it's
there's still an active recovery process. I think, sadly we're
beyond rescue of people. Although I saw a story yesterday
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late about two kids being rescued, but I don't I
couldn't corroborate it anywhere but that one source, and so
I'm not gonna I'm not gonna cling to that. But God,
wouldn't be nice if we could find a few of
these kids just huddled up in the top of a
tree somewhere and scared to come down. I'd pray for that.
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I don't know if it's going to happen, and if
it doesn't, certainly we will. We'll just have to move forward,
very difficult. This is not a time. This is a
time to reave the losses of all those people, people
who lost family members, people who lost everything they owned,
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people who lost neighbors and friends and probably lost a
big chunk of confidence in their ability to enjoy that
river ever again. There will be lots of people who
have lived up there for many, many years and seen
lesser floods come and go through there, who will probably
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consider leaving after this, And that's I hate that for them,
because they There was one man who owned He was
a kayaker, and the man was eighty something years old.
I saw his story on television yesterday, and I wish
I could remember where, but it was just a fascinating
story about this guy. He lived up there forever and
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ever and had all kinds of friends who would come by.
He just had a kind of an open air shop
next to his house. And it was a fascinating story.
And this man died on the river. And that's probably
you know, if you had asked him two weeks ago
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how if he had to go, he would want to go.
It probably would have had something to do with that river,
because he was so closely connected to it. But to
even have to think about that, and to think of
what was going through his mind when at some point
he realized that the river was gonna win this one.
I don't know. I don't know how how you would
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deal with that other than to just say a prayer
and hang on, try to find something to float you
down the river. It was amazing to me to see
some of the rescue stories where people had floated ten,
twelve to fifteen miles or more down that river as
it just raced through there, and that was really the
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only way to survive was to grab onto something that
floated and just floated out until you came just quieter
flow or moving water somewhere. That is just a story
of survival instincts taken over. I think this is not
a time, by the way, although some truly ghoulish and
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insensitive monsters who live among us are just trying to
make it such for anyone to blame anyone else or
anything else other than a catastrophic weather event for the
destruction and loss of life in Central Texas's that's just
it's barbaric. There's no reason whatsoever, no reason whatsoever to
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blame anything else than weather for all of that. Politicians
who have blamed anything other than an anomalous weather event
for what happened in Carville are sadly mistaken and only
trying to stir another chapter of division into our country. First,
it was cuts to any federal agency that caused this.
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They were all talking about how FEMA was Boy, if
we hadn't gutted FEMA, everything would have been okay. Well,
FEMA was already in the midst of downsizing long before
this happened, and the budget cup cuts that are being
blamed for the flooding don't even go into effect until
later this year. On top of that, there's a great
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explanation for this one authored by ABC thirteen meteorologist Travis Herzog.
Somebody sent it. I think it was allan send it
to me this morning about cloud seating, and Herzog, to
his credit, shares in a very lengthy read. It's about
a three page, single spaced read, how cloud seating had
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nothing to do with these floods. I mean, anyone who
says otherwise it's just dreadfully misinformed. I don't want to
go into all the details of all of that because
it is pretty lengthy, but he explains it extremely well,
extremely well. You can read all those pages and understand
why seeden can't be But it's just so frustrating to
hear politicians as they always do, trying to spin the
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blame for anything that makes headlines in this country onto
the shoulders of conservatives, and doing that only just fuels
an ugly flame fanned by people who claim to be Americans,
but I think in practice really are just trying to
dismantle the America that was founded a couple of hundred
and something years ago. We need to take a break,
and I'm going to get out on time. On the
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way out, I'll tell you about berry Hill, one of
my favorite tex Mex restaurants, and right out where I
live in Sugarland on fifty nine at Sugar Creek Boulevard.
You can't miss it. It's on the inbound side, just
north of that intersection, and inside the doors you will
find both family style and sports bar style seating. There's
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outdoor dining as well when it's not ninety degrees anymore.
My wife and I found berry Hill. Gods, it's got
to have been twenty five years ago out there, and
now it's your turn. If you haven't go in there.
It's a very casual, very family friendly restaurant. Had the
same two chefs in the kitchen putting together delicious text
mex food for decades. You got a really nice variety
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two their fish tacos are top shelf absolutely. I am
fond of the seafood and schiladas. I tried to eat
one of the seafood burritos once and had a really
difficult time getting through it, and I would have stopped
had it not been so delicious as well. And whatever
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you order as your main course out there, save room
for trey letches, which are a that's chocolate or vanilla.
And the answer when you're asked that question, it just
just say yes. Berryhillsugar Land dot com. They also cater
all over town. Wherever you've got a big group you
want to treat to a great meal, let Berry Hill
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handle it for you. Yhillsugar Land dot com.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Yeah, they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them, check his
fluids and spring on a fresh code O wax. This
is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
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Thanks for listening to fifty plus. Thank you so very
much for joining us today on It's still kind of
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with anything and everything you say. That's really prophetic. You
say something really super smart. I may try and find
out how to get touch with you and interview you
figure out how you got that smart. That would be
kind of fun, kind of where do I want to
go here? No, by the way, yeah, I'm not going
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to linger where I was, But what I will do
is kind of go back on the plus side of things.
I still believe are getting better overall because I keep
and I keep track of this tough the reactions I've
gotten recently in grocery stores and restaurants and just gas
stations whatever. I try to lay out very simple acts
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of kindness, holding a door for somebody, saying good afternoon,
stuff like that, just all simple positive stuff, and no
matter who it was, no matter where I was. And
I've been a lot of places and said a lot
of how you doing so lately, all of them. And
maybe I'm just lucky in talking to nice people, but
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everybody I've greeted like that has returned the greeting, and
I've just gotten generally positive responses. I think it's great
speaking of places that get it and are becoming more
and more like America was before we were force fed
all these policies we knew were crazy, but we're scared
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to talk about. The mayor of Dallas, Eric Johnson, stepped
up yesterday, I think it was, and declared his city
to be a sanctuary city from socialism. His declaration made
him response to New York mayoral candidate Zora and Mam
Donnie's plans to turn the Big Apple into a haven
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for socialism, communism, maybe some hybrid of both. Nothing remotely
like that city has been in the past and could
be again if the right people were in charge. From
Johnson up there in Dallas came this quote right here,
if your city is or is about to be a
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sanctuary for criminals, mayhem, job killing regulations and failed socialist experiments,
I have a modest invitation for were you move to Dallas.
We value free enterprise, law and order, and our first responders.
Common sense and the American dream still reside here. We
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have all your big city comforts and conveniences without the
suffocating vice grip of government bureaucrats here here. Well done,
Eric Johnson, Well done, and I guarantee you it may
not be a title wave of people. But there will
be people in this country who who hear that and go,
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you know what, Texas sounding better and better. I only
wish our own mayor had jumped on that first. I
wish he'd have been first to say it. Greg Abbott
jumped in our governor his response and I quote, the
State of Texas will provide whatever support is needed to
fulfill that mission. Kind of like we do with a
lot of things that make good sense as Texans. We
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just dive in and make sure they happen. Just tithing die,
make sure it happens. That's how proper cities and states
in our country are run and should be run. It
amazes me. It just amazes me how disconnected a lot
of big city Democrat mayors and a lot of state
governors are from their people. So much so they just
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keep pushing policies that only result in more crime, more
problems for their cities, worse city services, worth healthcare, worth housing,
worse everything. And then they wonder why the city starts
to look like a dump, like a third world country.
And then they go run into the federal government for bailout.
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Help us, help us, We don't know what's wrong. Well, yeah,
we told you what was wrong ten years ago, and
you didn't do a thing about it. I got a
client in New York. I got a client in New
York who refuses. He's lived there all his life, but
he refuses now as a grown man, to go into
New York City. It's gone, he tells me, just nothing
like it was when he grew up, and that makes
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him very s A lot of people whose memories of
that city, Democrat City for decades, are of something far
different than New York City is now. I'm hearing that,
not regularly because I don't know that many people from
New York, but I do know a few, and they
tell me, yeah, everything you're here and pretty much true,
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every single bit of it, which is really tragic because
it was at one point and there's still the theater
district is still there. There's a lot tons of entertainment,
a lot of a lot of TV programs shot there,
a lot of all kinds of amazing that Wall Street
is there still. It's just this amazing, once vibrant city
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that in the last six or eight years, certainly the
last five, just was just crippled, just crippled. In any event.
Moving to some little brief notes that I had. Uh,
you know, I'm just gonna kind of run them. I'll
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check mark the ones I'm gonna read to you and
discuss so I don't overdo them. This one's kind of
a two for one. So a New report, Oh lookie
there the clock said, how about that? Will? Are you surprised? Yeah?
I am too, But that's good. Now I have a
clock that I don't have to touch my phone and
mess with it to know how much we have a
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minute and a half left in this segment. So I'm
gonna quit yapping and go. New report says the average
dog owner makes twenty seven decisions a month based on
their pet, such as canceling social plans to hang out
with the dog, which depending on who your friends are,
and yeah, maybe it would be better, I don't know.
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And of course, from the captain obvious desk, dog owners
without kids far more likely to spoil their dogs. Really,
that was just a waste of ink and a waste
of keystrokes. We all knew that. Speaking of dogs, and
I think this is pretty cool. A chihuahua in Switzerland,
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which just sounds weird, rolling off the tongue saved its
owner's life. Last week, the guy fell down a hole
while hiking across a glacier, and rather than just run off,
that little dog hung around right there, right next to
the hole, and that's where rescuers found him. I don't
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know how long that dog was there, but the dog
couldn't have just dialed nine to one one, so I
suspect that somebody had to figure out the guy was lost.
Somebody had to call the authorities, and the authorities had
to figure out where he was. Good thing, his little
dog wasn't just a fair weather friend. That's why people
have dogs, because they're loyal. A Late Health is a
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He and his staff do all sorts of all sorts
of vascular procedures over there. If you go to the website,
you'll see probably two dozen, all of which at some
point I've discussed at least a little bit in some
cases a lot with Doctor Doe on the show Here Live.
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Get the real answers from the guy who does the procedures.
Every day, he does prostate artery embolization, most often right
there in the clinic too. You don't have to go
to the hospital. You get a couple of hours in there,
they knock out what they're gonna knock out for you,
and then somebody drives you home because you're gonna be
a little bit loopy, but you get to recover at
home where you're gonna be a lot more comfortable than
anywhere else. They do that prostate artery imblization for guys
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who have issues with that, and if you have it,
you know what they are and you don't like them.
Fibroids and women, ugly veins, some head pains, some of this,
some of that, some other things, all vascular related. And
they do regenerative medicine, which is so good with chronic pain.
A late hell dot com is a website. Go there,
look around and take a look at all the things
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they might be able to do for you. Seven to one,
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Speaker 1 (19:11):
Eight, Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Fifty plus. Thanks for listening. Certainly, do appreciate that we
will talk in this segment. Hmm.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Let me.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
I want to give you some good news. There's always
good news, and I do go looking for it, and
I'll this has something to do with what happened in Cerrville.
And if you haven't read about this guy yet, you're
gonna learn about him now. Coast Guard Officer Petty Officer
Scott Ruskin from New Jersey. He's half a country away
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or a whole country away, north to south, on the
scene with other coastguardsmen, men and women at the Guadaloupe
River as it rose and rose and rose this past weekend.
It was his first rescue mission. And this guy made
the mo most of the time he had and the opportunity.
He's flown in by helicopter. And in that flight they
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found a bunch of people, like more than one hundred
and fifty people. It may have been some of the
Camp Mystic people. I'm not one hundred percent sure, but
I think it was Mirre, all huddled up on a
hilltop somewhere, water still rising around him, and it's just
it's not going well, not going well. He gets onto
the ground and starts organizing them very patiently, very methodically,
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into groups of ten or fifteen very scared people, and
got them onto military helicopters, one group at a time
until every one of them had been taken to safety.
A Department of Homeland Security, Christie No, Secretary of Christi No,
called Ruskin an American hero, and I'd have to strongly
agree with that, and true to the humble nature of
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these types of people. Rusking, when he was asked about it,
if he felt like a hero, he's no, He's just
doing his job, same as anyone else in his position
would have done. And you know, I have to believe,
and I do believe that any other Coastguard personnel, any
any other member of our military, would have done just
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what he did under the circumstances. They're trained not only
to fight, but to save lives as well. They're trained to,
especially the Coast Guard, they do a whole lot of rescuing.
And this was his first rescue mission and I saved
one hundred and fifty something people. So hats off to him.
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Good guy, very good guy.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
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might be a post haste, as they say. From the
Border Patrol Violence Desk, the Border Patrol Violence Desk directly
adjacent by the way to the Ice Enforcement Desk, comes
the story of a man dressed in full military gear
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opened fire with a rifle on Border Patrol agents down
in the Rio Grand area. Recently, agents return fire and
according to the story, neutralized their wered, not mine. They
took out the guman, they rendered him incapable of ever
firing another shot before he did any more. He actually
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did manage to hit a McAllen police officer, but according
to the story, that officer is in okay shape now.
He is, as they say stable. There's the word I
was looking for. There was a similar attack, except on
ice agents and not border patrol. Happened recently up in
the Northwest. I think it was somewhere in Oregon, but
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I'm not one hundred percent sure. I think it was
somewhere in Oregon, speaking of border patrol and I and
law enforcement in the country. Also from the left coast desk,
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass came across federal officers near
MacArthur Park yesterday. I'm sure she was alerted to their
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presence and raced to the scene and demanded, just demanded
that they leave that park that area immediately, to which
they kind of looked at her and said, no, we
got a job to do. She also demanded to speak
with whomever was in charge, and one of the officers
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there handed her a phone and she was on it
for a little while and speaking her will and sharing
her case. Is there something going on?
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Will?
Speaker 2 (24:48):
What's going on? We have Robert from sugar Land, Robert
Ah Sugarlander like me.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
What's up?
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Robert?
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Hein't not much. It's just gonna let you know. I
got you, buddy, Greg taking care of those polls.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Oh sweet, the poles for the kids to Oh man, Oh,
I'm so glad to hear that. I'm glad you're listening
again today. Look at that Will first call Will and
it's something great. This is awesome.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Yeah, And I wanted to remind the people out there
that are listening, most of them our age.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
But uh, when.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
You think you've had a bad day, think about last
Friday and what these people are going.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Every time, every time this conversation comes up, I try
to put myself in their shoes for a little bit
when I'm kind of feeling sorry for myself or something like.
It could be it could be so much worse, so much,
it really could.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
I think.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Uh, me and a couple of guys, a couple of
buddies are going up try to go to Sunday, help
with the relieve some of those guys for a couple
of days.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
So, yeah, you know, you make a very good point.
I know a lot of people who have gone up there,
and you make a really good point about going up
and trying to help, and going up and trying to help.
But the people who have been there every day since
that happened could just use a break. And boy, what
a what a treat that's gonna be.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
We've got rescue experience so excellent. We won't be we
won't be wandering around in shorts and flip flops.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Yeah, I would hope not. I would hope not. Well,
thank you for the call. I really do appreciate this.
You've kicked us off in grand fashion. My friend.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Well, good y'all have a wonderful day.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Yeah, safe travels. I hope you get up there and
help them out as you can. Thank you, Rob. All right,
we got to take a little break here on the
way out. Ut Health Institute on Aging is where you
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You can get that help by going to the website
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Old Guys Rule and of course women never get old
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I think that sounds like a good plan. Fifty plus continues.
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them one by one. I get an inordinate number of
those things, I guess because well, just because I look
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I really don't. I wish I knew, because I would
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that way yet. Seven one three two one two five
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nine five zero. If you'd like to call or by
all means, please do check out the talkback feature at
the iHeartRadio app and just go to AM nine fifty
KPRC and tap on that talkback button and you'll have
about twenty twenty seconds or so to speak your peace
from them. From the gift that keeps on giving up
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outrageous stories desk aka. California Education Secretary Linda McMahon told
California Governor Gavin Newsom this week to expect contact by
US Attorney General Pam Bondi after the State of California's
Department of Education and its Interscholastic Federation both rejected federally
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mandated regulations that would return girls and women's sports to
girls and women. Newsom and his crew have drawn, I
think a pretty dangerous line in the sand, really, one
that just might break that state's bank, state that's already
tens of billions of dollars in debt. News I'm not
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going to gain any points toward a presidential run either
with this hard stance on continuing to allow men to
compete against women, to share locker rooms with women, when
overwhelmingly that tide has turned in this country. We've kind
of realized that girls and women were getting hurt. Girls
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and women were being denied any chance to earn scholarships
or other recognition for all the hard work they'd put
in for probably since they were the little bitty kids.
And I think they're going to come to regret that decision,
and maybe sooner rather than later. The Democratic Party just
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kind of seemed more and more to be hitching its
wagon to extremists at every turn, really out there people,
and ignoring the people who elected President Trump and who
really would like to see a return to some semblance
of prior normalcy, whatever that was around here. I grew
up in a time where we had neighbors who were Democrats,
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and the Democrats had neighbors who were Republicans, and we'd
all gather up for weekend barbecues or all go up
to the little baseball games at Sharpstown Little League, and
people could have honest, open discussions and disagree with each
other without without name calling, without getting in somebody's face
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and yelling and spitting at them. And we've we've lost
the ability to do that, at least the younger people have,
I think, and some of the older people too, just
refuse to just settle down and sit down and try
to work things out amicably. It's not that hard to
do when you recognize that everybody is entitled to their
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own opinion and it doesn't have to agree with yours.
It's just their opinion, and unless you can convince them
politely and calmly to change their minds, then at the
end of the at the end of the day, you
just got to say, Okay, yeah, I guess you don't
agree with me, and I don't agree with you. But
we both got kids to ray, we both got work
to do. We both got something. We both got fish
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to catch, birdies to make on the golf course. We've
got one guy in the group I play with who
is a very staunchly democratic and not at the least
bit shy about talking about it. And I have no
problem with him whatsoever. He's one of the favorite guy,
my favorite guys in the whole group, because other than
his politics, he's a really cool guy to hang out with.
A very interesting man too, had a tremendous career, a
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tremendous career. I'm not gonna tell you who he is
or what he did. It doesn't matter. Got that taken
care of. Let's go back to the fun stuff. What
he got about a minute and a half? Will fifty
seven or fifty eight? Fifty eight? Right? Thank you? Uh?
Speaking of now, we already did that. I'm not gonna
do that. Oh here's one. I title this one Enough's Enough.
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Cinnamon Toast. Crunch and Hormel have partnered up for a
new bacon flavored cereal. If I want bacon, I like it.
I do like it crispy, and so the cereal might
crunch like bacon, but it's first of all, it's not
gonna taste one hundred percent like bacon. It's cereal that's
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just nasty. Now you can get six bags of it
at Wall or six ounce bags of it at Walmart
starting today, and I would hope that the next person
in there to go pick up a bag of six
ounces of bacon flavored cereal would be the first and
probably the last. The people who tested it described it
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as not terrible, which is hardly a glowing endorsement I
think from the wrong priorities desk. There's this guy getting
a little backlash because there's a TikTok of him continuing
to participate in a fitness event even after his girlfriend
passed out and was having to be treated by paramedics.
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According to the story, which and this is gonna be
the way it's presented here, it's about third or fourth
hand information. The women or the woman told somebody later
that she wanted him to continue it for them. My
gut says no, My gut says, she's gonna bring that
up at some point fairly soon and say, you know what,
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I'm over here dying and I'm being treated by paramedics
and you're still on the treadmill or wherever he was.
I don't know who knows. Well, here's one bad decisions.
This is gonna be quick, will I promise. Bride created
controversy by sitting all her plus sized guests at the
same reception table and even called that table weight watchers.
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She apparently excused it by saying it was a body
positivity thing. Also not happening. Also a horribly poor choice.
I hope she chose better for a husband. That's it
for now. We'll be back tomorrow. Thanks for listening. Audios
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