Tiny Snake

Today, Doug Pike discuses a tiny snake, a Taco-Bell marathon, and sleep habits.

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
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all about you, the goody.This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.

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right, here we go on Tuesday. Boy, what a nice looking Tuesday
it is, Dad gut fifty plusright here on KPRC. Second day in
a row, second day in arow of no rain. Never mind the
seventy eighty ninety percent chance. Theygave it a couple of days ago to

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rain on Monday and Tuesday and Wednesdayand Thursday, and gosh, it looked
like it was gonna rain till theend of the month because of this thing
down South. And so, afterconsultation with Braun's Roofing with Skeeter Braun,
several days ago. Now, wedecided to postpone putting a new lid on

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my house because after all, itwas going to rain all day both days,
and another couple of days after this. Here we are thirty six hours
after start time later, actually morethan that, know, about thirty six,
and we still don't have the firstshingle torn off my house. The

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roof is functional, it just gotdamaged back in March, to the extent
that the insurance company ultimately decided weneeded to replace it. I've got a
huge, huge deductible to meat onit, and that's okay. A new
roof is a new roof, andI need it, and they're helping,
so that's all fine. But I'dkind of like to get it on there

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before we get any deeper into thebad weather season without getting any rain.
Frustrating. It's so frustrating. Iwould have been I would have been okay
if it had rained just a littlebit at my house yesterday. They could
have worked probably well. Frankly,it didn't rain to drop at my house

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yesterday. I actually had to runthe sprinkler yesterday afternoon. It was just
that parched in that dry So nowwe wait. They could have come back
this morning. Had it rained forthirty minutes like it did with a neighbor's
house. It took them, Ithink actually a little piece of a day
to get it done this past week. Those they showed up, they did

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their work, and they got outof there. Now, this is not
Skeeter's fault at all. It's notthe roofer's fault. And if you have
a roofer who told you he couldn'tcome yesterday or today, they made the
right call based on the forecast.But it's just getting more and more frustrating
to be given worst case scenarios aswhat's most likely to happen. So now

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we just have to sit and waitfor a day that I'm real close to
saying, just wait for a daywhen there's another ninety percent chance and let's
go because it's not gonna rain.But then that's when it would. You
know that, And you know howthis works. If you've lived here long
enough, you know that a forecastout beyond about twelve hours is gonna change

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before those twelve hours pass. Itjust does. It always does. I'll
get that roof soon enough, hopefully, hopefully, hopefully soon enough. H
Like I said, there's no problem. Functionally, I guess the roof is
not leaking, and that's a goodthing. All right, time, speaking
of weather, time now for yourTuesday highs and lows in high coup Thanks

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Yes? You over there? Thereyou are. It's kind of weird with
you hermetically sealed. From my view, I can see the top of your
head. That's good enough. Allright, Here we go, false alarm
again swinging a miss for forecasts raintoday? Who knows? Oh? What

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do you think? Uh? Ithink you like it? Didn't you you
did? I think some of you. I think some of your other ones
have been a little little cleaner,to be honest. What was unclean about
that one? I didn't like theending. Didn't like the ending. Well,
that's that's almost a personal just it'san homage to my frustration with the

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rain and the roof rain today.Who knows. I'm hoping it doesn't rain
today. They're working on the electricalat my apartment right now, outside the
ball or something. Oh boy,yeah, you don't want them getting zapped.
Nope, I wants power. Iwant power back in my apartment.
Everybody wants power. Ask anybody inWashington what they want? Will they want

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power? Oh it's ninety though,it's ninety degrees in my apartment, Doug,
is it really Yes, that's notgood. I'm so sorry to hear
that. Honestly, I really am. You got fans right, Well,
no, you have no I haveno power. Yeah, so I'm not
even staying there. Well, that'sthe worst part about it too, when
you go out. I'm my wifeand I are considering a generator. There's

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reasons we do or do not getone anytime soon. I don't know.
Maybe we will, maybe we won't. In any event, it's frustrating when
the power goes out because if it'shot outside, the first thing you do
is say, well, I justplug in a fan. Well no,
you can't do that either. Youcan get a little battery powered fan maybe,

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And just here's what I'll do,will I if my power goes out,
I'm a get little be battery poweredfan and I'm gonna go sit in
my car. I'm gonna throw thefan in the back seat, and I'm
gonna turn on my car and justsit in the air conditioning. What would
you rather? Would you rather havethe power out when it's really hot outside
or when it's really cooled outside.Well, there's an asterisk for me because

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I have gas service to the houseand a gas fireplace. So during that
god awful freeze a few years ago, I was able to isolate the entire
family and the guinea pig down therenear the fireplace, so we didn't have
to really really get super cold.However, in the house it got into
the high thirties, which if wehadn't had that fireplace, I don't know

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that we could have stayed there.I really don't, because that was like
an oasis. You could walk intoanother part of the house and be freezing,
freezing cold, but then come hustlingback. And we learned from a
neighbor who's from Minnesota how to isolatethat room even so that the entire room
could be heated without any risk offire. Just leaving the fireplace on and
the flu open. But that roomcould have been heated up to I don't

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know, probably sixty eight seventy seventyfive degrees. Who knows. Now if
you left the enclosure, it wouldhave been cold in the house, but
at least that enclosure. And boy, I'm gonna be ready for the next
one because I know how to doit. That enclosure would have been toe
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of wax. This is fifty pluswith Dougpike. Welcome back to fifty plus

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on this pretty tarn Nice Tuesday.I gotta say nice Tuesday for a day
when it's supposed to rain all day. If you'll recall, it was supposed
to rain pretty hard all over theplace yesterday. Now I did talk to
I go back to segment one forjust a second. I did talk to
Skeeter Brun yesterday and he said,in fairness to the weather people, he'd
been driving all over town and hehad run into a couple of brief showers.

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So technically, which is that's theirbread and butter is technically they were
right. It did rain. Itdid. But in I would bet ninety
percent of the greater Houston area upfrom say the Woodlands, down to Richmond

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Rosenberg, down to Pearland and maybeout to Kingwood, the Woodlands, all
of that stuff, it didn't rain. It didn't rain. Moving off to
the markets, we go here wherearound round ten. I haven't look since
then. There really wasn't much movementin the stock market at all up or

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down. Oil however, has managedsince this past week to jump about I
don't know, four dollars. Maybeit's north of eighty one dollars a barrel
again. As we right, aswe come into the fourth of July,
we're rounding third and headed home forthe big holiday weekend, when a lot
of people like to go a lotof places and enjoy themselves, and a

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lot of them are probably going tostay home. They're not going to have
a choice. They're not going tohave a choice because everything else that they
would try to buy to enjoy theirweekend is also crazy, ridiculous high.
The price of gold thanks to Houstongooldexchange dot Com up eight bucks and ounce
to twenty three point thirty seven lastnight, look, which is still a

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good price, no question about it. I think anything north of about two
thousand dollars is pretty good. ButI'm no Brad Schwiss. Okay, that's
the guy who owns Houston Gold Exchange, and he knows a lot about that.
You should call him if you havea question. Moving into what we
can I think only can be calledjust right now, tales of the bizarre.
We'll call it White House mouthpiece.Corrine Jean Pierre actually is trying to

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pass off videos of our president fumblingand mumbling and doing what he's been doing
for the past at least year.She's trying to claim. She is claiming,
she's not trying to claim. Sheclaims to use active voice and verbs.
She claims it's all fake, justa. This is a painful attempt

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at spinning the president's miscues at themicrophone in and on the stairwells, just
in hopes of convincing us we're nothearing what we're hearing or seeing what we're
seeing. We do see it,we do hear it. If she were
correct, riddle me this, batman. If she were correct, would

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there not, boy, that's anold school line. Would there not be
a line of supporters of his supportersdown the street and around the block,
lining up to tell us we're wrong? That they were there? And he
actually didn't misspeak at all. Heactually didn't stumble at all. Where are
those people, dalldeia w They're inthe minds of democrats and that's the only

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place they exist. Unfortunately for him. I've said it before. I feel
sorry for the man. I reallydo sorry that they continue to force him
into the public eye where he doesn'tshe doesn't show well, it's just he's
an old man. He's having cognitiveissues, he's having balance issues, which

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old people tend to do. That'sjust the way it happens. And they
continue to try to tell us thatno, no, no, you didn't
see that, you didn't hear thatit didn't happen. Well, yeah it
did, Yes, it did.Uh. There's still time for Democrats to
change their minds on leaving him onthe presidential ticket too. And I'm I

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won't be surprised. I would sayI'm confident, but I just don't know.
I don't know what their long termplan is. What I think they're
going to do is get him tomake some really dumb moves that buy them
or somehow otherwise procure for them afew more million votes, and then they'll

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they'll pull him down and say,you know, man, after the election,
they'll say, maybe that wasn't thegreatest idea, but you know,
since we're still in power here again, we're gonna make it great for everybody.
Well, they won't use the wordgreat, that's for sure. That's
already taken. Still time for themto change their minds. And I'm really
confident that we're getting close to somesort of announcement along those lines. I

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really I see that coming. Ireally do. Will do you want to
go you want to go serious again? Or little silly? Oh, little
silly? Okay, let's go,ah idiots? Wrong turn? Or long
walk for a burrito? Long walkfor a burrito, long walk for burrito.

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It is a young woman who doesstunts on social media. Show me
one who doesn't stunts on social media, set out to become the first person
to complete a full marathon inside ofwhat will in this side of a free

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birds You're not far off Taco Bell. Taco Bell, a phone booth would
have been better. But then again, if it were a phone booth in
which she walked around for twenty sixpoint whatever it is, point two miles,
then nobody would have paid her.But you can rest assured that she's
gonna get paid a lot of moneyby Taco Bell for something that really isn't

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gonna gather that much, that muchsupport, that much curiosity. I don't
want to watch. And she didit on a treadmill too. She didn't
even walk around the store, whichI find a little bit. If you're
gonna do it on a treadmill,you can do it anywhere. If you're
gonna do it in a Taco Bell, walk around the place, walk around
the the what is it the diningroom. That's kind of a stretch to

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call that a dining room. Walkaround where the chairs are and where all
the taco leavings are on the floor. They do clean. The one closest
to my house is relatively clean.I will give them credit for that,
but I've been in a few aroundthis country of ours that well that we're
not time. Will we have aminute and a half? Oh nice,

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let's go with one more. Then, since we're here, have a seat.
Early to bed or got to beskippable? Early to bed? All
right, early to bed. Studyfound that's staying up past one am is
a bad choice for your mental health, even if you are a night owl.

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Everyone, the study found, hashigher rates of mental and behavioral disorders
if they stay up too late.You want to know one one dead tip
off that you're not getting enough sleep? Oh right? The gate agent at
Southwest offers to check the bags underyour eyes. Oh like that? Well,

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you know I somebody that routinely staysup to one two in the morning.
You shouldn't. I feel great?You gotta you gotta change your ways?
Will? I don't know, Ifeel pretty? I feel pretty good.
Behavioral it says your behavioral will.So if I detect any behavioral attitude

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of yours, I'm gonna call yourgirlfriend and I'm gonna recommend that she puts
you to bed earlier. No Ican't. I can't fall asleep, Yes
you can. I can't get upearlier. No guarantee he'll fall. I
go to I go to bed late, and I wake up later, late
to bed, late to rise.So if I still get seven to eight
hours, nine eventually draws flies.If I still get seven to eight hours

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of sleep a night, Yeah,that's what you think. It just doesn't
work. That's not how circadian rhythmworks. Well mine does, okay,
all right, uh stull. Theyfound that sitting on your behind all day
might kill you, but not ifyou drink enough coffee. Coffee drinkers who
sit all day are this makes mefeel so good, twenty four percent less

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likely to die young than people whosit around all day and don't drink coffee.
I drink coffee. I'm gonna drinkmore coffee now. I may live
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I've been able to announce on theirbehalf for the close to ten years now,
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it's all about you once life withouta net. If I suggest to go
to bed and sleep it off,just wait until shows over. Sleepy back

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that Doug Pike as fifty plus continues. All right, welcome back to fifty
plus segment three it is. We'llgo back to some of the more more

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interesting news. This one, thisone caught my attention. Do we talk
about that snake in that ain't thewoman? No, the one in the
house. I don't think so,Okay. I just wanted to make sure
now the one that ate the womanthat we don't need to go back to
that will it's lunchtime. Harris CountyConstable's called to the home of a family
that reported a snake beneath their sleepinginfant's bed. That that's like, man,

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that's big time. You gotta getout there and get that snake out
of that house. I presume fromthe way I read the story was mom
and dad in the house, baby, a sleep in the crib, and
a snake under the bed. Sothe officers arrive on the scene, they
assess the situation promptly and pretty easily, frankly removed the snake from beneath the

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crib. For all the money inthe world, Will and the camper,
how long was the snake? I'mgonna guess twelve feet? You might as
well, what do you got tolose? Right, No, you'd be
You'd be wrong by wide margin.Will the snake under the crib that threatened,

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not prop I'm in their minds,not just the child. But I'm
sure the whole neighborhood was five incheslong. Five inches long. Will I
know absolutely, because it just showsthat we're as as a country which is

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soft as cheese. So all aroundthe world, these horrible groups of people
who want to take us over aregoing Wait, wait, there's an easier
way. Gather up all the rubbersnakes you can find and a bunch of
string, and we'll go get them. We'll take the whole country over a

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five inch snake under a bed.Will in Harris County, Texas, not
in California, not in New YorkCity. This was in Texas. And
I'm gonna stop short of guessing thatthe person who called this in was not
from Texas and just hates Texas anddoesn't like Texas because all the wild animals,

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and by gosh, there's one underthe crib. I don't know a
grown man. I don't, atleast none in my closer circles. Okay,
who would have to call anybody tohelp with removal of a four foot
snake, let alone a five inchsnake? No, even a venomous snake.

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I've been called to neighbors homes toget rid of venomous snakes more than
once. Not a problem. Justgo over there and put it in an
ice chest. Put it in,and I don't I'm slow enough. Now.
There was a time when I wouldjust kind of try to trap their
heads against the ground and grab behindthat and toss them into an ice chest,

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close it up, take it downto oyster creete and let them go.
But no more, I'm gonna usesome sort of tool, a grabber
of some sort, or even I'veused a yard rake a couple of times
to just lift the snake up andput it into an ice chest. That
that gives me a good six feetof handle distance social distancing with the snake

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man really five inch nothing, probablylittle baby Texas brown snake. The best
I could tell from what little photographwas available. I'm sure their hands were
shaking when they were trying to takea picture of this anaconda. I mean,
baby brown snake, Come on,come on, No cause for alarm,

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not whatsoever, No cause for alarm, not whatsoever. A five inch
snake, even if it's a babycopperhead, which could bite you and hurt
you. It could. But youcan just throw a towel over it,
pick it up, take it outin the yard and throw it. Just
toss the whole towel out there,and then go back and get it later.

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The snake will be gone. It'snot going to hang around after getting
tossed out in the yard. Andbetter yet, if you can, if
you really can get that thing outof there, release it somewhere in a
place where there aren't a bunch ofkids, there aren't people. Just take
it to the back edge of apark somewhere where it where it backs up

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to open in open land where thereare probably other snakes. Oh, mercy,
mercy sakes alive. Let's see.No, I'm not gonna even talk
about that guy. I'm already upsetwith him. I'm already upset with him,
So I'm gonna go to some somedifferent news. How much time do

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I have? Will you have aminute? I need a short one,
then yeah, I can do thisin a minute. Doesn't really matter to
me that much anyway, WNBA newswill there's never much really of that.
But Chicago's Angel Reese told fans,uh, by the way, fans being
drawn now after nearly thirty years ofthe league being unable to draw a crowd

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with a pencil, Reese pretty muchsaid that if you don't like the product,
don't watch it. Don't watch okay. Message understood? And in sidebar
by the way, Steven A.Smith took Reese's side in a recent controversy
over what ref's called a fragrant flagrantfoul. Excuse me, but Reese and

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Smith both just believed was a basketballplay if you believe that swatting someone across
the side of the head with yourforearm is a normal basketball play. She
said she was just going for theball, trying to block it, but
the ball. Reese came behind CaitlynClark and swatted her with her forearm across

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the side of her head when theball was already beyond the outstretched reach of
Clark's arm, so not a chanceshe's gonna hit that basketball. But she
did square up pretty good. Shebarreled Caitlyn Clark's head to borrow from baseball.
We got to take a little breakhere. I just I find that

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the notion that the WNBA is gonnatell us now all of a sudden,
they finally got people watching, andthe first thing they do is give us
reasons to quit watching the very firstthings they do. I wish them well.
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This is fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, welcome back. Segment

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four. It is will you overthere? There you are see see the
top of your head? Oh mercy, what a day? What a oh
wait wait wait? What's that onthe window? Will? Are there a
little rain drops? There are?So technically, of course, technically the
forecaster just got it. Oh lookat the parking lot too. Out there,

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just during that break we got alittle rain man that wasn't there five
minutes ago, was it? Nope, So if there had been roofers on
top of my house, they wouldn'teven have stopped. Probably they're just it's
not enough water to stop a roofjob. But there it is, so
technically they were right. So ifit doesn't rain another drop, however,

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it is looking kind of rainy.Hold on a minute, I have I
don't know why I haven't looked atthe the Weather Channel. I trust the
Weather Channel's radar, I really do, and I would imagine there's I'm kind
of talking about this a little bitjokingly, a little tongue in cheek,
because there clearly is rain around here, and it's clearly enough in a lot

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of places that it could be problematiclater on. I'm going to the details
of all this rain. Yeah,there's the one that we just got Will,
right there, it's just north ofHouston. Now, let's let's look
at the future. Two three,four, five o'clock, six o'clock.
Okay, if the weather channel's right, and I kind of trust the weather

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channel, watch this, Will,Can you see me? Are you there?
Are you looking? I'm looking,So tell me when it's gonna get
really bad, because this is thefuture we're gonna look at right here.
Click there we go. Watch nothing, man, nothing all the way to
six o'clock from now. You know, do you know what that means?

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Will? Well, I think itisn't seven o'clock when it's supposed to.
Yeah, it starts to get seveno'clock. Y home. Yeah, But
between now and then, I've gotto run out to the house and then
I'm gonna do a little bit ofwork. I gotta clean up at the
house, and then I'm going bassfishing. This is a great day for
that, as if yesterday weren't.But yeah, I'm going fishing and I'm

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gonna catch him on what do youwant me to throw? Will? Spinner
bait? Uh, jerk bait?Mmm, crank bait? Or top water
say topwater crank say topwater crank baitplease? Well then no, well that's
what I want you to eat,you asked me. Yeah, I know,
but I did try to give youa hint. Uh. Well,
you were trying to tell me whatyou wanted to use. Well you had

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an idea in mine, don't butyeah, I guarantee you I did.
This is probably the conditions are settingup for a good top water bite.
If it's not already going on nowout there where I want to go,
well, old habits will parent ofthe year, or I'll take another swing

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at idiots and see if you'll bite, make another cat habits, old habits.
A man in Illinois was on supervisedrelease after serving an eleven year prison
sentence for ribbing a bank of eightyseven thousand dollars, and just recently he

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got caught stealing a dollar at agrocery store. You know, once a
tief. I truly believe that alot of people can can do better and
can stop a criminal lifestyle given theright opportunity, given the right circumstances.

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But there also are some people whoand I think prosecutors can can spot them
and understand who who the repeat offendersare going to be pretty quickly, kind
of like I can tell my whenI have producers that come in and come
and go, and I knew youwould stick because you're good at what you're

(34:27):
doing. And I've known from theprobably forty maybe fifty producers I've had on
my weekend shows which ones were gonnastick and which ones we're gonna be gone.
And yes, some people are justthey they find that the life of

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crime, even when they do caughtus get caught, especially these days,
they really don't. They really don'tserve much time, if any at all,
before they're back out on the streetsdoing what they do. U.
Let's get one more. We haveone minute or two? Will one and
a half? Now one and ahalf, okay from the bad ideas desk
uh and with good reason? Ornot so fast supercomputer, not so fast

(35:15):
supercomputer? All right, this willbe your last one. Not so fast
supercomputer. McDonald's is ditching the AIdrive through ordering system it's been testing for
the past few years because it's justnot ready. Imagine will AI is getting
people's orders wrong, which means it'sjust like real people at most fast food

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places. I could name a coupleof them where anywhere from fifty to sixty
percent of the stuff that I bringhome if I don't check the bag,
it's wrong, it's wrong. Thirtynine percent of people worldwide actively avoid the
news. Now, that's up twentynine percent from twenty seventeen. You know

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why, because it's just all toostressful. So they just they bury their
heads in the sand, which couldcost them if they're not paying attention.
It might cost them if you buryyour head in the sand. Come November,
we might get more at homes.God, I can't even say it
out loud without choking. I can'tdo it. All right, that's gonna

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roll five seconds. I can dothat. We'll be back tomorrow. How
about that? Back tomorrow. Thanksfor listening. Audios