The Whales are Flying

Today, Doug Pike discusses margaritas, whales on boats, and restraining orders.

Episode Transcript

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Remember when it was impossible to misplacethe TV remote because you were the TV
remote. Remember when music sounded likethis, Remember when social media was truly
social? Hey John, how's itgoing today? Good? Well, this
show is all about you die.This is fifty plus with Doug Pike,

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and by because the imaging department iscatching up. My good friends at Bron's
Roofing, Skeeter Braun. He's gonnacome by the house this afternoon. As
a matter of fact, we gotto look at something, figure out what's
going on. Welcome to fifty pluson this Wednesday afternoon, which should be
supposed to be a lot like Tuesday, and maybe even a little drier than

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Thursday. We are in just thisgooey mess of wet weather. Feel like
I'm living in Seattle or Salem orone of those other Northwestern towns. I
ran into a guy who was fromI want to say, Portland, about
a week ago, and we comparednotes, and what he said is,

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yes, they get actually about theaverage, the same average annual rainfall as
we do here in Houston. He'slived here for now quite a while.
Only here we get it in occasionalbig dumps, whereas there it kind of

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sprinkles almost every day. We getmore sunshiny days, they get more drizzly
days. But it's all about thesame in the end, and frankly,
I'll take it our away. Iwould rather have an occasional thunderstorm than have
it cloud up and start raining fivedays a week, which I would imagine

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is probably pretty close. I hada good meeting a few just a few
minutes ago, maybe fifteen twenty minutesago, with the Kobe Stevens team.
They came over here to show meand put in my hands actually a couple
of new pieces that I'm excited tohave, and they offered them to me,
and I am I'm a card carryingmember of the brand. Well,

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I guess a card carrying spokesman forthe brand on weekends. But since he
was just here, Kobe was,and I got I had a good talk
with him about some things that aregoing to be coming soon in addition to
the fishing gear. That's actually soanyway, great talk with Kobe and that
went well and I'm glad to havethem on board over on KBME with me.

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Maybe we'll bring him over here sometimesoon. So moving quickly to the
weather, very quick. Well,I tell you what another guy I had
here about forty five minutes ago,Forest Wilkinson, who if you listen to
my outdoor show on KBMME on theweekends, you know better as faux Pro
Forest. I don't know how Igave him that nickname a while back,

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but he's taking it and run withit, and I believe actually that might
be his Facebook page name, fauxPro Forest. Great guy. We talked.
Mostly what we talked about was goingfishing. He was coming to pick
up some golf certificates he won overthe weekend. But mostly we talked about
fishing, which was perfectly normal forus. All right, So moving quickly

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to the weather presented as is customarynow by Texas into air quality specialists.
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today goes something like this, payattention. Will are you ready? Yes,

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rainy but cooler, gradual improvement dailynineties back Monday, nineties, back
Monday. Yeah, all right,what the forecast says? Okay, so
I'll give that one a seven anda half. You are. You are

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tougher than Olympic diving judges, youreally are. What is it gonna take?
Will? What is it gonna taketo get an honest, a legitimate
eight from you or better? WhenI hear it? You don't know,
do you? When I hear it, I hear it, I guess.
So it's just gonna have to wowyou in the moment. What's gonna have

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to happen is somehow, some way, it's gonna have to to touch your
life personally, something that that resonatesas maybe a fond memory from childhood or
a dream you have for some weatherrelated event. I don't know what it'll
be, but when you hear it, you'll hear it, and you'll give

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me an eight and a half atleast, and possibly even the first and
probably only ten you ever dish out. No matter how hard I work off
to the market. We skip nowor slog perhaps, depending on how much
train you've gotten so far today.And this, courtesy of Houston Gold Exchange
now took a tumble this morning.I haven't looked since, to be perfectly

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honest, but it shared almost afull percentage point. It was hundreds of
points, about three point fifty somethinglike that, maybe four hundred NASDAK was
down nearly two full points. Sand P also down more than a point.
Otherwise, there's nothing to see there, right, Oil up again,

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sneak it up on seventy eight bucksof barrel early, and gold actually was
up fifteen bucks back to two thousand, four hundred and twenty two dollars in
change. Noteworthy also because I've hearda lot of talk, especially among younger
people in our office here, aboutmortgage rates and how hard it is to
buy house, and on and onand so forth. And what I found

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out was that US mortgage rates fellto their lowest point since February today,
just inside seven percent. If you'rewondering whether seven percent is anything to write
home about, don't bother picking upa pen for reference. That rate,

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just inside seven percent is still doublewhat mortgage rates were in twenty twenty one,
and for the fourth straight month,home buyer affordability declined and hovers at
one of its lowest levels since nineteeneight nine. That's a long time to
be in the in the garbage can, but that's where it is now,

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one of the lowest levels since eightynine. But hey, hey, that
economy of ours is well according tothe people in Washington, According to people
in the White House and the secondin command, the economy's great sliding into
the newsybits. One minute, thisone, I can do this in a

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minute. FBI announced this morning thatit was using NRG Stadium parking lot.
I guess the parking lot maybe insidewho knows there is a gathering point for
people arrested in what the bureau isonly describing as a major operation. I
haven't seen any details at all releasedon that yet. Maybe they have been
by now, but I saw thisabout maybe e nine thirty ten o'clock this

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morning. They did say that thepublic was not in any danger, which
is comforting, but I'm really dyingto know just how many people rounding up
Apparently. I guess they needed thewhole parking lot of an NFL stadium to
take care of business. The goodnews is nothing to see here. We're
not gonna get hurt. It's nota public safety risk, so we'll find

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What's life without a neat I suggestyou go to bed, sleep it off,
just wait until the show's over.Sleepy. Back to Doug Pike as
fifty plus continues. All right,welcome back to fifty plus. Thanks for

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listening. Certainly do appreciate it.Will Do you think I should just plod
through a little more rough stuff orwould you like to lighten it up a
little bit? I always love lightingit up. Yeah, let's do that.
Let's do that. There's been enough, and I've got a couple of
more things I will get to,but let's just go here. I like
this one a lot. I founda story this morning will about an archaeological

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site four thousand years old somewhere overeither in the Middle East or eastern Europe
I can't recall, but the bottomline is it's about four thousand years old,
and what was discovered in there isa tablet, a written tablet that

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essentially describes in great detail the forerunnerto the modern day lunchable. On that
tablet, was information about a particularstone box or maybe a wooden box.
I'm not sure that travelers carried thatincluded meat and cheese and bread took it

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when they got on the road.And you know what was most interesting about
the box that they found that wasnearby? What it doesn't expire till November
fourteenth. You like that? Now? That was pretty clever, was it
not? What did I get youon that one? Yeah? I didn't
know where you were going for sure, Thank you, thank you. Okay,

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I'm going nowhere with this one exceptdown the Nerdy Space News Road if
I may. And that Nerdy SpaceNews road takes us to Mars, where
a rover, whilst driving around andchecking out the scenery, actually rolled over
and cracked open a big rock,and inside that rock were sulfur crystals,

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which may or may not wow anybodyin this audience. It's a first,
by the way, for Mars.And the reason it's notable is that sulfur.
There's a kind of salt that containssulfur and that forms as water evaporates,

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so clear, more clear indication thatthe planet Mars had, Well,
it's pretty obvious it's got water.It's got to have water. Still.
We don't know exactly where and exactlyhow much, but I'd pretty much say
it's got it. So I'm gonnacheck that out. I'm gonna check this
off. Oh, by the way, what is today? Well? National

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what day? Pop quiz? Yesterdaywas National Vanilla ice Cream Day? M
Oh, Today's National chocolate Day?No, not at all. Today is
National Tequila Day. And it's beena while for me. When was the
last time you had tequila in anyform? Margarita shot whatever? Probably a

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couple weeks, two weeks. It'snot bad. Now of Americans say,
Margarita, are there? Go tohappy hour? Drink? Are you a
Mark guy? I don't normally drinkmarks, but I'm more of a whiskey
man. Oh are you now?I like a whiskey cocktail old fashion?

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Then maybe I like a Manhattan.Yeah, that's a good one too.
It's a good I poured a lotof those when I was a bartender.
I did a lunch shift at avery fine restaurant for a couple of years,
and we poured a lot of Manhattans, a few old fashions, and
then at night just it all brokeloose, and it was Katie bar the
door. We were just slinging itthrough there as fast as we could.

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Nevada drinks the most tequila per person. Will How much tequila do Nevadens as
they like to be called, consumeper year? Four point three tequila.
Listen to this. Listen to this. The average person in the bad this

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is average per person two point threebottles, two point three bottles a year,
every adult, every adult. Itdoesn't say it doesn't necessarily exclude kids,
but I'm presuming they went with withlegal drinking age people on this Pennsylvania
is the least just a quarter ofa bottle. I haven't had a quarter
of a bottle of tequila in probablythe last fifteen years. That just I

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don't I just don't drink it anymore. I hardly ever drink, really,
I hardly ever do. I'm gone, it's probably been, but it's been
a long time since I had anykind of a cocktail or beer. A
in what I wrote up as justheadline says it all. Just absorb this
headline, will and ask me ifyou have any idea what they're really talking

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about. Are you ready? I'mready? Eco friendly sponges made of dairy
byproduct can extract gold from old computerpart. Is that just that's pretty most
bizarre. Yeah, that's one ofthe most bizarre headlines I've ever seen on
a store. I have no ideahow that works or what it really means.

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And I don't know how you makea sponge out of a dairy part
or a byproduct of some whatever.Did you see that video, by the
way, Yeah, whale comes upand just smokes the back of a boat,
tosses people in the water. Itwasn't the whales fault. He didn't
know what he was. He wasjust splashing around being luckily nobody was hurt.
Yeah, I thank goodness. It'samazing that nobody was hurt. Oh,

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there's the kids who were in theboat. They're young, young people
are just so so fortunate that they'reresilient and strong and in crisis. I
think, actually do think fairly clearlywith with whatever information they have at the
time, those two made it flip, their flip their boat all the way

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over. Holy cow, I didn'trealize that. Wow, good for them.
A list of the most useless thingsthat people have memorized has been issued,
and see if you can guess twoor three of them. Will,
all right, the most useless thingsthat people memorize. Oh, you won't
need to just guess right now?Well, yeah, I wasn't going to

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give you an hour and a halfonly have all right, let's see useless
things that people feel like, I'mon sixty minutes when I start that clock
on you. Oh uh, peoplehave memorized the uh all of the guests
that have ever been on sixty minutes. No, no, I thought that
was a hint. No, itwasn't a hint at all. Old friends,

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birthdays. How many people's birthdays canyou name outside of family? I
can, I can name. Ican name a few people's birthdays from outside
of family. Yeah, okay,old phone numbers. I've memorized phone numbers
I have. I can remember phonenumbers from high spo. But then there's

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this huge gap because as I,as I got into the workforce, we
eventually got the phones, and thenwe got the it's all done on computer
now, and outside of family,there aren't that many numbers that I could
dial on an old rotary dial phoneand the other one that's just useless and
boring, or two of them,actually all the US presidents in order,

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Why you would feel compelled to knowthat is beyond me, and it's congratulations
if you do. But if youcan't recite all the presidents in order,
I'm not gonna hold that against youat all. And the most the most
bizarre one on the list the themesong to What Sitcom Happy Days No Fresh

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Do you do all right? Welcomeback, Thanks for listening. Certainly,
do appreciate that I am trying tomake my way through Wednesday, as we
all are on what if you're downsouth, it's probably already raining. If
you're north of maybe north of fiftynine, you might still be lucking out

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and not having too much trouble withthe weather yet. But between now and
to tomorrow night, everybody's going toget a little taste to think. I
titled this decisions mean things, andthey do. And our VP and presumptive
Democrat nominee for president, Kamala Harris, is skipping Israel Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin

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Netanya, who's addressed to Congress todayin Washington. Instead, she, the
person who wants to become president,opted to attend, not a speech by
a world leader whose country was attackedwithout provocation, who's been an ally of
this country for years. No,she's going to a convention hosted by a

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sorority, the Zeta Phi Beta sororityin Indianapolis. That's where she's going to
be now. She's going to meetwith him tomorrow. But I found it
very telling that she and her thepeople who are advising her thought this was
a good idea, because I certainlydon't think it's a big snub to somebody

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who wanted our attention, our fullattention. Another bothers, some point on
our vice president and her potential runfor president is that she continues to profess
herself as a champion for abortion,which I have to call out because it's
and it's perfectly within her right todo that. But then she tries to

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strengthen her position by repeating the absolutelie that former President Trump wants to ban
abortion in every state, when hehas repeatedly said he believes that to be
a state issue and not a federalone. She keeps bringing this up,
keeps telling that lie along with it, because that's about the only issue on

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which she really carries any chance ofswaying a few votes her way. Can't
do it with the border, can'tdo it with inflation or crime or green
Man eight, all of which arethe economy, all of that. It's
on her hands, every bit asmuch as on President Biden's hands. Her
track record of failure dates back farthertoo, all the way back to California.

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Go ahead, do your own researchon her practices and strategies and policies
in California and see if that's whatyou want in the White House. She
was at one point voted the mostprogressive person in government, even further left
than Bernie Sanders. And that's apretty fur piece to go in Yellowstone National

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Park news from yesterday morning and maybea few of you haven't seen or heard
about this yet, and a normallyquiet spot called Biscuit basin. That sounds
like someplace where there should be ataco stand, or at least a breakfast
taco stand. Would you agree?Will that the biscuit reference, I wonder
where that comes from. Well,probably not from tacos. A good point.

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Some breakfast food, though, shouldbe served there, Oh, like
biscuits and gravy. Gravy, Yeah, well, the gravy erupted yesterday,
a huge geyser actually just erupted withoutwarning. People were out there walking the
walkway through through this park, YellowstoneNational Park, the Hot Springs. They're
just you're walking on these wooden Thankfullythey all have well not all of them

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have rails, but most do.And in any event, this giant eruption
occurs. There's great video of it. Actually, it's pretty cool. It
erupts without warning and set the touristson that walk that walkway just absolutely scrambling
for safety. I think it's amiracle nobody got really seriously hurt, because

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you can see when the thing eruptsthat pretty big rocks are flying out of
there in all directions. And Idon't know how, I have no idea.
I'm not educated on what would havecaused something like that. With such
spontaneity. But I'm guessing there aresmart people working to determine if there are
any other surprises lurking beneath the surfaceof Yellowstone National Park. That's crazy,

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That really is. Investigation continues atall levels, by the way, into
the assassination attempt on President Trump,And as one senator said recently, it's
hard not to use the word failurewhen a lone gunman who'd been identified as
a concern quite a while before hestarted shooting, he actually got off enough
rounds to wound the former president,to kill one person and critically injure two

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more before he was taken out byour own sniper. That's just unthinkable that
that could happen on any law enforcementswatch. And there's a lot of information
being shared in real time very quickly. I think that the truth ultimately he

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will take a while to dig upon who exactly gave what commands when,
on how to distribute the resources.The one thing that really does kind of
bother me is that I've read fromseveral sources that President Trump's security team wanted
and has requested more Secret Service personnelto be with him when he goes places

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and now what they're telling him afterthey made a mistake is that he should
take all of his rallies indoors,which limits the places he can have them
tremendously. And there was one Isaw one story that in a subhead actually
asked, is this election interference?Are they moving him inside to change what

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he's able to do? And that'sa question that it probably bears a little
bit of research at least before hejust carte blanche ston know or yes.
This whole operation, which by theway, led to the resignation of Secret
Service head Kimberly Cheadle yesterday, justspells stinkier and stinkier every time a new

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page has turned. And by theway, her resignation, I read,
does not prevent her from being subpoenaedby Congress in the future, which I
think is going to be necessary toreally understand what happened. I don't think
she wants that, but I don'tthink she's going to be able to avoid
it. And more recently, theFBI director Christopher Ray agreed to update Congress

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with new details on the attempt andwhat gear exactly that shooter was caring.
One thing that bothers me a littlebit about this story, too, is
that almost every story I've seen isaccompanied by a photograph of the shooter,

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and that photograph appears to have beentaken when he was about thirteen or fourteen,
which he was not when he wason that roof. There are more
current photographs of him, and I'mnot really sure what decision making process is
being undertaken to present him as achild, an innocent looking child, when

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he clearly plotted for some time andwent to great links to make an attempt
on the life of a former presidentof the United States that also needs to
be looked into. I would think, oh, already, well, holy
cow, gotta go. Okay,let's go. Then Bron's Roofing. I'll
go there. Thirty plus years inbusiness, and Bronze Roofing gonna be there

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another thirty years if Skeeter can hangaround that long, if he doesn't retire.
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repaired, and they will come andgive your roof a free inspection, an
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but under normal circumstances they're usually outthere within twenty four hours. Give them
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even if you don't think it's damaged, and they will get there as soon
as they can to walk it fromtop to bottom, front to back,
side to side and determine whether itneeds any help at all. If you're
lucky, they'll say no, we'llsee in a couple of years. If

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you have damage, they will explainwhat it is, they will explain how
they'll go about fixing it. They'lltell you how much it's going to cost,
and they'll tell you what when theycan get started. And my recommendation
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because you're not going to find acompany that's going to offer you better,
better service on that repair or replacementat a better price, top quality

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work, best prices you can findprobably well maybe not the lowest price,
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Good roof can last fifteen eighteen yearsif they they if somebody maintains it and
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Dougpike. All right, welcome backSegment four A lee. How much time

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do we have left? Not alot? Will right? What the heck
we or something? We have?Almost six minutes? Oh okay, that's
better. My watch may be fast. Maybe that's what it is. It
doesn't matter. We're gonna kind oflighten it up here a little bit.
There's so much doom and gloom goingon and all the rain we've got around
here. No sense ruining anybody's dayor dragging you down it's the lunch hour.

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I appreciate you sharing it with us, So we'll just soft pedal and
give you some things to some conversationstarters, if you will. Uh oh,
By the way, a scam alert, the real deal. This is
not a joke. There are peopletexting other people telling them that, bye
gosh, they need to get apolitical donation from you to make sure you're

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sure your candidate winds up victorious comeNovember. Well, the problem is that
all they're really trying to do isjust get your credit card info. They
look pretty flick. They appear ifto the uneducated and to average folks like
you and me, no matter howeducated we are, but they appear to

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be legitimate, and the Better BusinessBureau says no, they're a big huge
thing right now, election themed scamtext messages, text messages, So by
all means, watch out for thatand don't get don't get hoodwinked into giving
up your credit card to anybody unlessyou have contacted them and know that you're

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at the right place. Well,let's put you to work and we will
go with either Lucky hat rock abye baby, or what about radio?
What about radio? There's a newreport there's a new report on the Happiest
industries and they have determined that thehappiest gig and this I find just curious.

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I do. I would have notthought this would be the happiest profession,
the happiest industry. But that industryis construction. I'm not so sure
construction roofing falls under that heading,I would think, and I'm not so
sure the guys climbing on rooftops inJuly and Houston would would just be whistling

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happy tunes at that point. Theleast happy industries, there's a tie,
and they're both kind of vague.Retail and commerce. I think retail is
kind of like how did I endup here selling tennis shoes? And commerce
that's just a that's painting with apretty broad brush. I don't know what

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they include in that. In anyevent, we move on. So now
we're going to go to three more. Will you might want to rethink this
one playing chicken or messed up?You may want to rethink this one.
Well, if you do, here'sthe deal. Twenty six year old woman

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arrested in Florida wherever where else?And this is almost like what happened yesterday
when we talked about the wedding inthe Middle East that ended in I think
it was what four minutes something likethat. The groom what an idiot called
his brand new bride stupid. Sheflew into a rage, which surely he'd

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seen that before and knew better,but he went on with it and they
ended their marriage in four minutes.This one in Florida, the twenty six
year old got into an argument withher fiance over a prenup. The wedding
was supposed to be this weekend,but that's going to be pretty difficult because

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one or the other of them hasnow obtained a cover restraining order. So
I don't know, maybe they'd haveto get married from what five hundred feet
apart. I don't know how faryou're supposed to stay away from somebody with
one of those to you. Idon't think they're getting married, Doug.
Yeah, I think it's Yeah,they're just gonna just say blow it off.

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Ah, but thanks for the gifts, everybody, Thank you very much.
You will not be getting those back. Noah, we're gonna hold onto
those. We're gonna split them upnext time we can get together. Yeah,
that's just that's some really hot headed, at least one very hot headed
person. I think, how canyou get into an argument that's serious over
a pre nub. Somebody has tojust take the high ground and say,

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okay, you know, scratch thatout it's okay, or okay, that's
fine, leave it in, whicheveris necessary to maintain the peace, if
if the marriage is gonna last anyamount of time, or we're just not
doing this. I'm thirty four yearsinto mine, man, and I'm not
gonna say my wife and I havenever had arguments that would be very untrue,
but we always find a way tojust just smooth the water and get

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on down the line. I got, I got two more, No,
I can make it three more.Yeah, here you go. Well,
one man's trash. Fake it tillyou break it or early release, Fake
it till you make it, notmake it? Do you not pay attention?

(35:21):
No, fake it till you breakit? Fine, okay, and
it'll all tie in in just amoment. Virtual reality players are suffering real
life injuries now. The most commonVR related injury is fracture, which is
pretty scary, followed by lacerations,contusions, and strains or sprains. In

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other words, people are getting waytoo into this fantasy world stuff and running
into walls and slapping refrigerators and thinkingthey're dinosaurs and whatnot, and seriously hurting
themselves. It's really funny. Evertried sword fight with somebody, But that's

(36:05):
really funny. You know. Ifyou're gonna play that stuff, get outside
for starters, don't think you're runningthrough a maze of some sort, and
take a hard left into a bookcase. It's crazy. All right, we're
gonna take a hard rite and getright on out of here. We'll be
back tomorrow. Thank you all forsharing your lunch hour audios