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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Remember when it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
because you were the TV remote. Remember when music sounded
like this, Remember when social media was truly social?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey John, how's it going today?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Well, this show is all about you one.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
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Speaker 2 (00:45):
All right, Wednesday, ed issue of the program starts.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Now.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Let me turn this headset up so I can hear
myself think and talk. Not a bad day out there today.
There's gonna be some rain. It's gotta pop up here,
pop up there. A little bit of pop up everywhere.
Reminds me a lot of summers in Southeast Florida, my
grandparents house. We've talked about that the afternoons. In fact,
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I was just talking to a woman down there today
this morning, not long ago, about how it's just a
guarantee that they're gonna be pop up thunderstorms in the afternoons.
The humidity as such, there's just so much groundwater right now,
we're just gonna get more. And when it heats up,
it goes up into the atmosphere, it forms clouds. Those
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clouds darken when they get heavier and heavier with water,
and then they just can't hold it anymore. They gotta
let it go. Maybe we should get some depends for
the sky will if it gets too wet. You think
we could make those make a fortune off of them.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
So the cloud's gonna buy them.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
No that you could get a lot of Boy, a
couple of years ago, you could have got the federal
government to buy a couple of trillion dollars worth. They
could use those up in the Northwest where it's just
constantly raining and muggy and gloomy, and people seem I'm
if I'm not mistaken, I've read that even like depression
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rates and whatnot are higher up there because it's just
so it's just not fun to be outside, and outside.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Is where we are.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Built to be. There's no reason for us to be
cuddled up in a corner somewhere staring at a screen
all day, and yet there is just there's a significant
percentage of our population now who do exactly that, and
that's not just kids either, that's people of all ages.
They get bottled up somewhere, something goes wrong where they
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can't go outside or even when they can, and then
they just sit there and stare at that screen over
and over and over. I'll confess to it. Sometimes, if
I wake up in the morning fifteen twenty minutes before
my alarm arm's gonna go off, there's no way I
can get back to sleep in that little bit of time,
not at my age, not in my situation. So I'll
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reach for the phone, take a look, reach for my iPad,
take a look, see what's going on, see what my
friends have been doing. And it's not I'm not obsessed
by it, but it's just such a handy space filler,
a handy time killer. Do you find social media to
be that for you? Will or do you try to
stay away from it?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
I try and stay away from it, but sometimes it Yeah,
it's it's just it's incredibly easy.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Like a pacifier. Yeah, it really is. You think about
it and you never know what you're gonna see, and
nine times out of ten, I won't say ninety nine
times of ten, but nine times out of ten it's
probably gonna be stuff that you certainly didn't need or
even want to get through your day. It's just mindless
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information about not important topics. And I think one of
the reasons we resort to that is because that if
we don't, if we stare at the mainstream media news,
we'll all just get even more depressed than if it
were raining twenty four to seven. It just seems like
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there's always and a lot of this is delivered if
you're if you're on the left and you look at
news delivered by the right, you get concerned and worried.
And if you're on the right and look at what's
being doled out by the left, you get concerned and worried.
So there's really no safe haven from it all. Whichever
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side you're on, the other side seems to be stirring
up trouble all the time. I hope, I hope that
what's happened in the last week or so turns out
to be every bit is for reductive as it appears
to be. The one thing that right before I came
on the air, I saw a story and I didn't
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get to really dig into it about the estimation of
Iranian insert just people who have come into this country
and are of great interest to our national defense, a
great issue, of great interest to the people who would
keep us safe. And they're not really sure where these
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people are, thousands of them, because they were let in
and then just kind of blended in, mixed in, moved
in all over the country, free transportation. Where do you
want to be, I'll be in the Los Angeles Sleeper cell,
I mean group, I mean pickleball Association. Yeah, We've got
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to get those folks rounded up. That that's going to
be a high priority, a major priority for this administration,
for all of the law enforcement agencies, just to make
sure that we find and and move out people who
came here intending on doing us harm. And they're out there.
And it's not just Iranians either, they are people from
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all over the world who it's just gonna be a
hot mess for a little while. And I I just
pray we get through it without anything serious happening. That's
not that's not a guarantee. It's really not this point,
all right, Moving on from the plit, I kind of
like this. From the Blissful Ignorance desk by way of
Fox News this morning came the story of a CNN
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reporter or a woman who recalled being in Iran years ago,
I don't recall for what. And she was reporting in
and amongst a huge crowd, a huge crowd there that
was shouting death to America. And then she said, you know,
but when I told them I was from CNN and
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that I was American, she said, she recalled a friendliness
that came over a few of those people who heard
her say that. Now, yes, there are good and bad
people in every country and every state, and every county
and every city and every town. But to believe that
one or two smiles from a huge crowd that's chanting
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for the death of our country, to believe that that
offsets the thousands who are indeed doing those chants, that's
not friendly at all. When the reporter who somehow believed
she'd established some bridge, some diplomatic bridge of joviality between
Iran and our country is naive. It best toward the
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images of so many Irunians and what they see and
what they feel are represent our country and our values.
There are a lot of things they do in that
country that if some of these people beating the tambourine
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fifty plus with Doug Pike looking at the markets.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
I'm doing a different way. I'm doing it on my
phone and don't get as much information. Uh nothing, nothing dramatic. Honestly,
there's nothing's moved by as much as a point. The
Dow's down a third of a point, Russell's down almost
a point, and the Nasdaq is up a quarter of
a point. Oil came back up a little bit today,
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sixty five fifty eight. That's up almost two dollars. Gold
up a little bit as well. Oh, I take that
back one point eight percent. Yeah, crude oil is only
up one point eight percent. I thought that was a
dollar eighty eight, but it's not. And on and on
it goes.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Silver, interestingly enough, moving up thirty six dollars an ounce.
That's up a point. Otherwise, not much to look at.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
I like. I like far better the desktop or the
laptop version of Yahoo Finance. There's a lot more information
there from the where do we want to go? Will
let's go back?
Speaker 3 (11:13):
There's there's a piece I wanted to bring up from
a couple of days ago, or might have even been
late last week one, and I think we may Did
we talk about what was going on in elementary schools
in Illinois and how much more quickly the children learned
after something happened there.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
I don't think we did, did we?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
No?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Okay? Good? So Illinois elementary schools learned that, And it's,
like I said, it's kind of a captain obvious thing.
Uh learned more quickly?
Speaker 3 (11:44):
It turns out after their school's classrooms were retro fitted
with windows, just plain old glass windows, a look outside.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Is it raining, is it sunny? Or are we gonna
get to go to recess today? What's gonna happen for
There are a lot of years in this country there
were people who thought it would be best to just
keep the kids in the dark, don't let them see outside,
there's too many distractions, but that actually hindered their learning.
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The return of natural daylight worked absolute wonders for those kids,
and in addition to better learning, they also the teachers
also reported that the student's moods and well being were
also dramatically improved, as did occur with the moods and
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overall well being of the teachers. Imagine that. Imagine that
and on top of that, Now that brings me to today.
So that's from I think last week when we figured
that out. Who knew that daylight was good for kids?
The president of the Chicago Teachers Union said Monday that
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all the children of Chicago belong to the union, not
the parents. By the way, this is one of the
worst school districts in the country, the worst teachers' unions
in the country. Kids don't belong to the parents, they
belong to the union. In a speech quoting a civil
rights leader god named James Baldwin Gates said, and I quote,
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the children are always ours, every single one of them,
all over the globe end quote. And then she mocked
parents who dared think otherwise. And for the record, by
the way, Chicago Public schools system a total hot mess.
They wanted to keep kids in remote learning for more
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than a year back during COVID, And clearly the whole
place is just a train wreck. Systems under investigation at
present for discriminatory practices that it refuses to stop despite
federal law against what they're doing. Not example, not any
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kind of example really of success for those poor kids
over there. I hate seeing that stuff, I really do.
I hate it. Okay, from O, where was this other
stuff I wanted to talk about today? Let's go to
the left coast? Shall we the west coast? Starting with
VP former VP Kamala Harris. She is now she is
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now talking about taking a shot at governing California. Newsom's out.
He's going to be gone thanks to term limits which
they have over there for their governors. And now the
Golden State's gonna find a new nut to look over
all the acorns, there are four or five other candidates
actually whose hats are either already in the ring or
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at least in the air over the ropes. And a
couple of them have already said that if Kamala Harris
jumps in, they're jumping out. California just keeps moving away
from American values, moving towards socialism. They're not going to stop,
I don't think. As Ethan Bratton here in the newsroom
at k t r H told me last week, he said,
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the conservative people who lived in California are out, They're gone.
The only ones left are the truly radical left side
and so and to share just to give you an
idea how far left California has gone so far. I
saw a story just this morning the vice mayor of
an LA suburb, a small kind of it'd be kind
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of like a West U or a bel Air or something,
a town within the city. I don't remember the name
of it though. This woman's name is Cynthia Gonzales, and
she called upon rival gang members in her area for
what she seems to say in the quote is their
lack of challenge to ice teams coming into those areas
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to arrest illegal immigrants. And I quote from her and
now that your hood's being invaded by the biggest gang
there is, there ain't a peep out of you.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
And quote, if that doesn't sound like a call to
rise up and start trouble with that, bear in mind
she's talking about gang members challenging federally empowered law enforcement
agents to remove from those neighborhoods people who are not
even supposed to be in our country.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
And that's her take on it, is that, yeah, yeah,
we think our gang members can handle that, let's get
them involved. That won't work out well for the gang members.
And I think they know that, and I think that's
why they're laying low. Frankly, I think they're smarter than she.
And if they're not, they're going to have an issue.
Will you want to talk about money, thing that we
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don't have much of? We can, well, we will how
much time? Behalf? Yeah? Of two and a half? Okay,
think about this. Just put this in your pipe and
smoke it, as the old people used to say, and
it would be a very different It would be a
very different thing. If your generation did that, then, myny,
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even if you made ten thousand dollars a day, will
since the pyramids were built, you would only have four
percent of the money. Elon Musk has let that sink
in for a minute. Ten grand a day. Do you
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think that's right? Ancient Egyptians? Do you think that's right?
Do you think it's wrong? Yeah? Why? Absolutely? Was it wrong? Wrong?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Who needs all of that money? And the fact that
all of that money sits with one person? Did you
know that in Texas? Sixty six billionaires in Texas hold
more money than twenty five million Texans and they are
sixty really? Yeah, they are in their money, you think, so,
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you know how more than twenty five million people. So
let me see you six get to hold more money?
You think that they're better than all twenty five million.
They're better businessmen than most of us. So let me
ask you a question.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Well, so, at what point then would you would you
say that you had more money than you needed? If
somebody in government said you have too much? Will you
have to give us? Give us some of your money? Yeah?
I would be fine with that. So and they said,
you know what, will you you've tapped that threshold where
you're going to have to give us fifty percent of
what you make.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
That's fine if I'm living. If I am living well above.
Nobody said that because that's who they're talking about. Okay, wait, wait, Doug,
you have a billion dollars?
Speaker 2 (18:56):
No I don't.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Yeah, I know you hypothetically. Hypothetically you have a billion dollars.
That is an insane amount of money.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Sure, I truly think about it.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
But what if I also could you live on five
hundred million? Listen, what if I also employ ten thousand
people whose families rely on me and my money to
pay their bills?
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Your money? Do you think that?
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Like again, in the company, Okay, yeah, you own the
company who actually does the work the workers, and I
pay them. But do you think that it's commiserate that
you loan who can't do all of that work by yourself,
gets all.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Of that money. I don't oh man, Yeah, well you no, No,
I don't have any problem repaying. I don't have any
problem debating that. Because without without people who have the
resources to hire more people when their businesses grow, what
should he do? Will If the government takes half his
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money and he can't the government takes half of Elon
Musk's money, he still has one hundred and twenty billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Yeah, a hundred What what are you even you e've
been going to use one hundred and twenty billion dollars
on to a single person innovate.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
It himself. Yeah, he's not using it. I saw that
rocket blow up over.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Yeah, and you know what, if he didn't have enough money,
he couldn't build one that won't blow up.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Yeah, he learned from that. Really.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
I mean there's also the problem that he got most
of his money through government subsidies. Now, come on, I
mean the man is the man is a shill. All right,
we gotta go, Yeah, we do.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Yeah, take from the rich, give to the poor that
that's worked out every time it's been tested, and let
them eat cake, right Yeah. Yeah. There's a few countries
in the world that that like to take from a
rich and there's only like five rich people. Then everybody
else eats dirt. This country takes from the poor. Op
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Speaker 1 (23:40):
This is fifty plus with Dougpike Hi welcome back to
fifty plus.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Thanks for listening. I certainly do appreciate it. Pop quiz Will,
how much paint in pounds does it require to repaint
the Eiffel Tower?
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Paint in pounds?
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Gonna say that.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
At least ten thousand.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
That's a little bit more one hundred and twenty thousand pounds.
Well that's sixty tons of paint will at least. Yeah, Yeah,
I saw it's kuy Who is that actor? I can't
remember his name, but he was being challenged by some guys.
(24:30):
He's the more cow bell guy from Saturday Night Live.
What's the men's name? Christopher Walkin, Christopher Walking And he's
standing there and these guys are he's kind of bragging
about being in shape or whatever, and he says, I'll
bet you five hundred dollars or whatever the amount was,
that I can do between three and four hundred push ups.
And everybody in the room, yeah, you're on. We'll take
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that bet.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Will.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
All the money's going down, okay, And so they say
get star and he goes one, two, three, four and
he stands up and then what are you doing? He said,
You're gonna do between three and four hundred push ups,
and he said, I did between three and four hundred.
(25:16):
I did four that's between three and four hundred. Now
give him my money. It's the way old people think, well,
we're a step ahead of you young pupps a little bit.
Do you believe that? No, no young person ever believes
what old people tell them. They don't and nine times
I will you at some point. I mean, I mean,
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I'm sure you went through a little bit of a
phase where you didn't think your parents knew much, but
now you know better. Is that a fair assessment? Or
did you always know that they knew more than you?
Speaker 3 (25:49):
No?
Speaker 2 (25:50):
I knew that they knew stuff. Yeah. Yeah, that's what
parents are for.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
And we try, we try to just to send you
off on down the road path.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
And I think it's working well for us. All. There
is a new this is telling of the two of
the generation gap too well. New report out on America's
most trusted brands for gen Z. What do you think
America's most trusted brand is? This will tell you everything
you need to know. What do you think it is? Okay? YouTube? Okay,
(26:22):
that's for you guys. The most trusted brand of gen
Z is YouTube. You know it is for boomers. This
is almost embarrassing. Clean XX Yeah, Clean X the most
trusted brand. I guess you know what you're getting.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
You know, that is a little bit, a little bit
on the bizarre side, though, Okay, do I want to
go back to something from the past or something from
the present?
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Will? I don't know? Okay, Well, I'll go with this then,
from the omission, with good reason, desk comes worth that
there were Democrats in Congress who were all just all
a twitter by the fact that they weren't made aware
of this strike on Iran's nuclear facilities beforehand. Well, consensus
opinion as to why they weren't made privy to the
(27:12):
secret operation was straight up fear that one or more
of them would have tipped off Iran, And based on
the sides they've taken in recent months and years, I'd
have to agree that that mission could have been compromised
had all of Congress received it received knowledge of it
in advance. White House Press Secretary of Caroline Levitt forced
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CNN to actually retract its statement that claimed no Democrats
in Congress were brief prior to the mission. In fact,
Levitt said Chuck Schumer was made aware in advance and
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries when they tried to alert him,
wasn't available, and as soon as he was available, he
was notified. It was a little book after the mission,
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but he was informed as soon as possible, and CNN said, yeah,
you know what, I guess we'll make that retraction. And
they did, and I'm sure it didn't Sure it didn't
take long and didn't occupy the screen for law, but
nonetheless they had to walk it back. By the way,
if you don't think mainstream media outlets are following the
same script, go online and count the number of times
you can find this word, this phrase about the US
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inserting itself into this war with Iran when it was
nothing but strategic strikes on some very specific targets. Never mind,
we didn't insert ourselves into their war. The last break
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Okay, well, I think that sounds like a good plan.
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Well too fast, there might go back to the bumper
MIXI no, no, no, no, no, that's not happening my deal.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
No no, no going backwards. Will We got to just
man up and deal with it. Welcome back to fifty
plus final sab where the program starts right now. There
was something I wanted to tell you. Oh, by the way,
I had an email yesterday and then an email the
day before or somebody said, hey can you can you
recommend a plumber? And if you're I actually need I
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need a plumber and I need what was the other
one somebody was asking about what was it? Dad, gumm it.
It wasn't an electrician. It was a plumber and something else.
I don't know. I'll figure it out in a minute.
In any event, if you run a business like that
and you're a nice, good, honest business person, I would
(31:25):
love to talk to you. And there was somebody talking
about remodeling too. I had somebody I thought was going
to come on in the remodeling end, but it I
don't know. I just tell I said, oh, I know
what it was. It was a roofer too. I don't
have a roofer on right now. And I'm I do
get calls on that because I've I've spoken for several
of them over the years and help them grow their
(31:46):
businesses and then they just do whatever they do and
that's fine with me. It doesn't matter. But I know
I've got a good loyal audience and I know that
you guys trust me, and that's why I vet everybody
out before I take them on and make sure that
I talked to them enough times to feel very comfortable
about recommending that you spend your hard earned money with
(32:06):
these people. All right, So from the now, we're not
gonna go to that one from the Golden Arches desk. Well,
did you see this story this morning? There is a
group called what do they called? The People's Union USA,
and they are calling for a boycott of McDonald's after
the fast food giant announced it was going to distance
(32:29):
itself from DEI practices and just move forward on a
merit based hiring and and moving up basis. They want
to make sure that they have the best people in
there doing that, and they want to if you're going
to give somebody a raise, if you're gonna give somebody
(32:52):
a bump in their their position, they're gonna base that
all on whoever can do the best job. And really
that that's all we want when we go to a
McDonald's or any other fast food place. I just want
my next quarter pounder, and the next one I eat
won't be my first. I've backed off of a lot
of that stuff because I know it's not the best
(33:13):
for me, but I just want it to be the
best one that the kid in the paper hat can make,
or the kid in the hairnet whatever. I just want
a good burger, the best that somebody can do, made
by the person who showed the most skills at making it.
And I want the person who's taking my money to
be able to count. And that's it. It's amazing to
(33:37):
me how many young people, and I don't care who
they are, where they're from, but how many young people
these days struggle with making change. And if you give them,
if a bill is a dollar, let's say it's seven
dollars and forty three cents, and you give them ten
dollars and forty three cents, they're confused as to how
much money to give you back. A lot of times
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give them something back that'll get you a half a
dollar back and just really blow their minds. All right.
That goes to, Oh, this concerned me a little bit
this morning from the espionage desk. There's an FBI investigation
underway now to determine just exactly who it was who
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leaked info after not before our strikeing, I wan, but
afterward the claims the strikes were not as effective as reported,
which our President and Defense secretary both say is just
bad information. Politically motivated. Secretary of State called the leakers
professional stabbers. I've never heard that term before, people who
(34:44):
get hands on a tiny piece of information and then
extrapolate it and manipulate it to fit a certain negative narrative.
I do find it interesting and quite telling that these
leakers don't race to present whatever they found directly to
the media. They just they leak little things because if
they just try to I think if they try to
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show too big a hand, it's gonna be pretty obvious.
They're bluffing. I'm pretty confident that Iran is not really
thrilled with where it is and its nuclear quest right now,
and it pleases me to be able to feel that way.
I truly am. All right. Well, back to you all
(35:28):
the rage. Count on it? Or who can we trust?
Count on it? Somebody on social media asked foreigners, what
is your equivalent of in our country? If we're trying
to count something down? It's like one Mississippi too Mississippi?
Speaker 3 (35:46):
Right?
Speaker 2 (35:46):
You know that one? Have you been to any other
country where they do that? No, The coolest one came
from the Dutch people. In Danish, the expression is one
case beer, two cases of beer, three cases of beer,
four cases of beer. And that's about the same cadence
as one Mississippi, two Mississippi. They're counting seconds, and if
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you don't get in a big hurry, it can actually
be somewhat accurate. Let's go to one more, will.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
No?
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Not that one? Huh? Oh? Have about some good news?
They got thirty seconds? Yeah, okay.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
British teams develop tiny robots that can fix underground pipe
leaks without digging up sidewalks and roads. They're about the
size of a toy car and use cameras and other
stuff in there to find these leaks and potential leaks,
little weak spots and pipes, and that enables a cruise
to minimize disruption and digging that has to be done
above ground. The tiniest of these little things they've got
(36:46):
cameras and all kinds of sensors on them, is about
the size of a matchbox.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
They're called pipe bots, and someday maybe they can even
fix that stuff. Who knows. We'll be back tomorrow. Thanks
for listening, Audios
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Now.
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Let me turn this headset up so I can hear
myself think and talk. Not a bad day out there today.
There's gonna be some rain. It's gotta pop up here,
pop up there. A little bit of pop up everywhere.
Reminds me a lot of summers in Southeast Florida, my
grandparents house. We've talked about that the afternoons. In fact,
(01:08):
I was just talking to a woman down there today
this morning, not long ago, about how it's just a
guarantee that they're gonna be pop up thunderstorms in the afternoons.
The humidity as such, there's just so much groundwater right now,
we're just gonna get more. And when it heats up,
it goes up into the atmosphere, it forms clouds. Those
(01:31):
clouds darken when they get heavier and heavier with water,
and then they just can't hold it anymore. They gotta
let it go. Maybe we should get some depends for
the sky will if it gets too wet. You think
we could make those make a fortune off of them.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
So the cloud's gonna buy them.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
No that you could get a lot of Boy, a
couple of years ago, you could have got the federal
government to buy a couple of trillion dollars worth. They
could use those up in the Northwest where it's just
constantly raining and muggy and gloomy, and people seem I'm
if I'm not mistaken, I've read that even like depression
(02:14):
rates and whatnot are higher up there because it's just
so it's just not fun to be outside, and outside.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Is where we are.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Built to be. There's no reason for us to be
cuddled up in a corner somewhere staring at a screen
all day, and yet there is just there's a significant
percentage of our population now who do exactly that, and
that's not just kids either, that's people of all ages.
They get bottled up somewhere, something goes wrong where they
(02:47):
can't go outside or even when they can, and then
they just sit there and stare at that screen over
and over and over. I'll confess to it. Sometimes, if
I wake up in the morning fifteen twenty minutes before
my alarm arm's gonna go off, there's no way I
can get back to sleep in that little bit of time,
not at my age, not in my situation. So I'll
(03:09):
reach for the phone, take a look, reach for my iPad,
take a look, see what's going on, see what my
friends have been doing. And it's not I'm not obsessed
by it, but it's just such a handy space filler,
a handy time killer. Do you find social media to
be that for you? Will or do you try to
stay away from it?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
I try and stay away from it, but sometimes it Yeah,
it's it's just it's incredibly easy.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Like a pacifier. Yeah, it really is. You think about
it and you never know what you're gonna see, and
nine times out of ten, I won't say ninety nine
times of ten, but nine times out of ten it's
probably gonna be stuff that you certainly didn't need or
even want to get through your day. It's just mindless
(04:02):
information about not important topics. And I think one of
the reasons we resort to that is because that if
we don't, if we stare at the mainstream media news,
we'll all just get even more depressed than if it
were raining twenty four to seven. It just seems like
(04:24):
there's always and a lot of this is delivered if
you're if you're on the left and you look at
news delivered by the right, you get concerned and worried.
And if you're on the right and look at what's
being doled out by the left, you get concerned and worried.
So there's really no safe haven from it all. Whichever
(04:46):
side you're on, the other side seems to be stirring
up trouble all the time. I hope, I hope that
what's happened in the last week or so turns out
to be every bit is for reductive as it appears
to be. The one thing that right before I came
on the air, I saw a story and I didn't
(05:08):
get to really dig into it about the estimation of
Iranian insert just people who have come into this country
and are of great interest to our national defense, a
great issue, of great interest to the people who would
keep us safe. And they're not really sure where these
(05:31):
people are, thousands of them, because they were let in
and then just kind of blended in, mixed in, moved
in all over the country, free transportation. Where do you
want to be, I'll be in the Los Angeles Sleeper cell,
I mean group, I mean pickleball Association. Yeah, We've got
(05:54):
to get those folks rounded up. That that's going to
be a high priority, a major priority for this administration,
for all of the law enforcement agencies, just to make
sure that we find and and move out people who
came here intending on doing us harm. And they're out there.
And it's not just Iranians either, they are people from
(06:17):
all over the world who it's just gonna be a
hot mess for a little while. And I I just
pray we get through it without anything serious happening. That's
not that's not a guarantee. It's really not this point,
all right, Moving on from the plit, I kind of
like this. From the Blissful Ignorance desk by way of
Fox News this morning came the story of a CNN
(06:38):
reporter or a woman who recalled being in Iran years ago,
I don't recall for what. And she was reporting in
and amongst a huge crowd, a huge crowd there that
was shouting death to America. And then she said, you know,
but when I told them I was from CNN and
(06:59):
that I was American, she said, she recalled a friendliness
that came over a few of those people who heard
her say that. Now, yes, there are good and bad
people in every country and every state, and every county
and every city and every town. But to believe that
one or two smiles from a huge crowd that's chanting
(07:23):
for the death of our country, to believe that that
offsets the thousands who are indeed doing those chants, that's
not friendly at all. When the reporter who somehow believed
she'd established some bridge, some diplomatic bridge of joviality between
Iran and our country is naive. It best toward the
(07:47):
images of so many Irunians and what they see and
what they feel are represent our country and our values.
There are a lot of things they do in that
country that if some of these people beating the tambourine
on their behalf already will read haf in a way.
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Speaker 1 (09:52):
That's why every few months we wash them, check his words,
and spring on a fresh coat o wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike looking at the markets.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
I'm doing a different way. I'm doing it on my
phone and don't get as much information. Uh nothing, nothing dramatic. Honestly,
there's nothing's moved by as much as a point. The
Dow's down a third of a point, Russell's down almost
a point, and the Nasdaq is up a quarter of
a point. Oil came back up a little bit today,
(10:30):
sixty five fifty eight. That's up almost two dollars. Gold
up a little bit as well. Oh, I take that
back one point eight percent. Yeah, crude oil is only
up one point eight percent. I thought that was a
dollar eighty eight, but it's not. And on and on
it goes.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Silver, interestingly enough, moving up thirty six dollars an ounce.
That's up a point. Otherwise, not much to look at.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
I like. I like far better the desktop or the
laptop version of Yahoo Finance. There's a lot more information
there from the where do we want to go? Will
let's go back?
Speaker 3 (11:13):
There's there's a piece I wanted to bring up from
a couple of days ago, or might have even been
late last week one, and I think we may Did
we talk about what was going on in elementary schools
in Illinois and how much more quickly the children learned
after something happened there.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
I don't think we did, did we?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
No?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Okay? Good? So Illinois elementary schools learned that, And it's,
like I said, it's kind of a captain obvious thing.
Uh learned more quickly?
Speaker 3 (11:44):
It turns out after their school's classrooms were retro fitted
with windows, just plain old glass windows, a look outside.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Is it raining, is it sunny? Or are we gonna
get to go to recess today? What's gonna happen for
There are a lot of years in this country there
were people who thought it would be best to just
keep the kids in the dark, don't let them see outside,
there's too many distractions, but that actually hindered their learning.
(12:16):
The return of natural daylight worked absolute wonders for those kids,
and in addition to better learning, they also the teachers
also reported that the student's moods and well being were
also dramatically improved, as did occur with the moods and
(12:37):
overall well being of the teachers. Imagine that. Imagine that
and on top of that, Now that brings me to today.
So that's from I think last week when we figured
that out. Who knew that daylight was good for kids?
The president of the Chicago Teachers Union said Monday that
(12:57):
all the children of Chicago belong to the union, not
the parents. By the way, this is one of the
worst school districts in the country, the worst teachers' unions
in the country. Kids don't belong to the parents, they
belong to the union. In a speech quoting a civil
rights leader god named James Baldwin Gates said, and I quote,
(13:21):
the children are always ours, every single one of them,
all over the globe end quote. And then she mocked
parents who dared think otherwise. And for the record, by
the way, Chicago Public schools system a total hot mess.
They wanted to keep kids in remote learning for more
(13:41):
than a year back during COVID, And clearly the whole
place is just a train wreck. Systems under investigation at
present for discriminatory practices that it refuses to stop despite
federal law against what they're doing. Not example, not any
(14:01):
kind of example really of success for those poor kids
over there. I hate seeing that stuff, I really do.
I hate it. Okay, from O, where was this other
stuff I wanted to talk about today? Let's go to
the left coast? Shall we the west coast? Starting with
VP former VP Kamala Harris. She is now she is
(14:26):
now talking about taking a shot at governing California. Newsom's out.
He's going to be gone thanks to term limits which
they have over there for their governors. And now the
Golden State's gonna find a new nut to look over
all the acorns, there are four or five other candidates
actually whose hats are either already in the ring or
(14:47):
at least in the air over the ropes. And a
couple of them have already said that if Kamala Harris
jumps in, they're jumping out. California just keeps moving away
from American values, moving towards socialism. They're not going to stop,
I don't think. As Ethan Bratton here in the newsroom
at k t r H told me last week, he said,
(15:11):
the conservative people who lived in California are out, They're gone.
The only ones left are the truly radical left side
and so and to share just to give you an
idea how far left California has gone so far. I
saw a story just this morning the vice mayor of
an LA suburb, a small kind of it'd be kind
(15:34):
of like a West U or a bel Air or something,
a town within the city. I don't remember the name
of it though. This woman's name is Cynthia Gonzales, and
she called upon rival gang members in her area for
what she seems to say in the quote is their
lack of challenge to ice teams coming into those areas
(15:55):
to arrest illegal immigrants. And I quote from her and
now that your hood's being invaded by the biggest gang
there is, there ain't a peep out of you.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
And quote, if that doesn't sound like a call to
rise up and start trouble with that, bear in mind
she's talking about gang members challenging federally empowered law enforcement
agents to remove from those neighborhoods people who are not
even supposed to be in our country.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
And that's her take on it, is that, yeah, yeah,
we think our gang members can handle that, let's get
them involved. That won't work out well for the gang members.
And I think they know that, and I think that's
why they're laying low. Frankly, I think they're smarter than she.
And if they're not, they're going to have an issue.
Will you want to talk about money, thing that we
(16:50):
don't have much of? We can, well, we will how
much time? Behalf? Yeah? Of two and a half? Okay,
think about this. Just put this in your pipe and
smoke it, as the old people used to say, and
it would be a very different It would be a
very different thing. If your generation did that, then, myny,
(17:14):
even if you made ten thousand dollars a day, will
since the pyramids were built, you would only have four
percent of the money. Elon Musk has let that sink
in for a minute. Ten grand a day. Do you
(17:36):
think that's right? Ancient Egyptians? Do you think that's right?
Do you think it's wrong? Yeah? Why? Absolutely? Was it wrong? Wrong?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Who needs all of that money? And the fact that
all of that money sits with one person? Did you
know that in Texas? Sixty six billionaires in Texas hold
more money than twenty five million Texans and they are
sixty really? Yeah, they are in their money, you think, so,
(18:07):
you know how more than twenty five million people. So
let me see you six get to hold more money?
You think that they're better than all twenty five million.
They're better businessmen than most of us. So let me
ask you a question.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Well, so, at what point then would you would you
say that you had more money than you needed? If
somebody in government said you have too much? Will you
have to give us? Give us some of your money? Yeah?
I would be fine with that. So and they said,
you know what, will you you've tapped that threshold where
you're going to have to give us fifty percent of
what you make.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
That's fine if I'm living. If I am living well above.
Nobody said that because that's who they're talking about. Okay, wait, wait, Doug,
you have a billion dollars?
Speaker 2 (18:56):
No I don't.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Yeah, I know you hypothetically. Hypothetically you have a billion dollars.
That is an insane amount of money.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Sure, I truly think about it.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
But what if I also could you live on five
hundred million? Listen, what if I also employ ten thousand
people whose families rely on me and my money to
pay their bills?
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Your money? Do you think that?
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Like again, in the company, Okay, yeah, you own the
company who actually does the work the workers, and I
pay them. But do you think that it's commiserate that
you loan who can't do all of that work by yourself,
gets all.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Of that money. I don't oh man, Yeah, well you no, No,
I don't have any problem repaying. I don't have any
problem debating that. Because without without people who have the
resources to hire more people when their businesses grow, what
should he do? Will If the government takes half his
(20:00):
money and he can't the government takes half of Elon
Musk's money, he still has one hundred and twenty billion dollars.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Yeah, a hundred What what are you even you e've
been going to use one hundred and twenty billion dollars
on to a single person innovate.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
It himself. Yeah, he's not using it. I saw that
rocket blow up over.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Yeah, and you know what, if he didn't have enough money,
he couldn't build one that won't blow up.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Yeah, he learned from that. Really.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
I mean there's also the problem that he got most
of his money through government subsidies. Now, come on, I
mean the man is the man is a shill. All right,
we gotta go, Yeah, we do.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Yeah, take from the rich, give to the poor that
that's worked out every time it's been tested, and let
them eat cake, right Yeah. Yeah. There's a few countries
in the world that that like to take from a
rich and there's only like five rich people. Then everybody
else eats dirt. This country takes from the poor. Op
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Speaker 1 (23:40):
This is fifty plus with Dougpike Hi welcome back to
fifty plus.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Thanks for listening. I certainly do appreciate it. Pop quiz Will,
how much paint in pounds does it require to repaint
the Eiffel Tower?
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Paint in pounds?
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Gonna say that.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
At least ten thousand.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
That's a little bit more one hundred and twenty thousand pounds.
Well that's sixty tons of paint will at least. Yeah, Yeah,
I saw it's kuy Who is that actor? I can't
remember his name, but he was being challenged by some guys.
(24:30):
He's the more cow bell guy from Saturday Night Live.
What's the men's name? Christopher Walkin, Christopher Walking And he's
standing there and these guys are he's kind of bragging
about being in shape or whatever, and he says, I'll
bet you five hundred dollars or whatever the amount was,
that I can do between three and four hundred push ups.
And everybody in the room, yeah, you're on. We'll take
(24:54):
that bet.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Will.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
All the money's going down, okay, And so they say
get star and he goes one, two, three, four and
he stands up and then what are you doing? He said,
You're gonna do between three and four hundred push ups,
and he said, I did between three and four hundred.
(25:16):
I did four that's between three and four hundred. Now
give him my money. It's the way old people think, well,
we're a step ahead of you young pupps a little bit.
Do you believe that? No, no young person ever believes
what old people tell them. They don't and nine times
I will you at some point. I mean, I mean,
(25:38):
I'm sure you went through a little bit of a
phase where you didn't think your parents knew much, but
now you know better. Is that a fair assessment? Or
did you always know that they knew more than you?
Speaker 3 (25:49):
No?
Speaker 2 (25:50):
I knew that they knew stuff. Yeah. Yeah, that's what
parents are for.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
And we try, we try to just to send you
off on down the road path.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
And I think it's working well for us. All. There
is a new this is telling of the two of
the generation gap too well. New report out on America's
most trusted brands for gen Z. What do you think
America's most trusted brand is? This will tell you everything
you need to know. What do you think it is? Okay? YouTube? Okay,
(26:22):
that's for you guys. The most trusted brand of gen
Z is YouTube. You know it is for boomers. This
is almost embarrassing. Clean XX Yeah, Clean X the most
trusted brand. I guess you know what you're getting.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
You know, that is a little bit, a little bit
on the bizarre side, though, Okay, do I want to
go back to something from the past or something from
the present?
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Will? I don't know? Okay, Well, I'll go with this then,
from the omission, with good reason, desk comes worth that
there were Democrats in Congress who were all just all
a twitter by the fact that they weren't made aware
of this strike on Iran's nuclear facilities beforehand. Well, consensus
opinion as to why they weren't made privy to the
(27:12):
secret operation was straight up fear that one or more
of them would have tipped off Iran, And based on
the sides they've taken in recent months and years, I'd
have to agree that that mission could have been compromised
had all of Congress received it received knowledge of it
in advance. White House Press Secretary of Caroline Levitt forced
(27:36):
CNN to actually retract its statement that claimed no Democrats
in Congress were brief prior to the mission. In fact,
Levitt said Chuck Schumer was made aware in advance and
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries when they tried to alert him,
wasn't available, and as soon as he was available, he
was notified. It was a little book after the mission,
(27:58):
but he was informed as soon as possible, and CNN said, yeah,
you know what, I guess we'll make that retraction. And
they did, and I'm sure it didn't Sure it didn't
take long and didn't occupy the screen for law, but
nonetheless they had to walk it back. By the way,
if you don't think mainstream media outlets are following the
same script, go online and count the number of times
you can find this word, this phrase about the US
(28:23):
inserting itself into this war with Iran when it was
nothing but strategic strikes on some very specific targets. Never mind,
we didn't insert ourselves into their war. The last break
of the program starts right now. UT Health Institute on Aging.
I cannot say enough good things about this group. I
(28:45):
just can't. Every time I turn around, every time we
have a meeting, something good comes of it that benefits you,
me and them and everybody else who needs help with
health care and happens to be a senior or has
kids who are trying to help them. I know I
have listeners who are in that thirty five plus range
(29:06):
listening on behalf of their older parents. This is exactly
what I needed when I was trying to find help
for my mom in the last years of her life,
and I couldn't find it anywhere because it really wasn't around.
And now that the Institute on Aging is moving forward,
anybody and everybody who needs specific help something that seniors need.
(29:27):
And everybody knows we're different than middle aged people than
young people, and it's important to be seen by a
provider who has that knowledge. Knows ophthalmology, knows cardiology, knows pullmanology, whatever,
but then has gone back and got an additional training
as to how to fine tune that knowledge so that
(29:49):
it impacts seniors specifically. Go to the website, look around.
There's tons of stuff there, tons of stuff you'd like
to see. Most of these people are in the medical center,
as you might guess, but many of them also practice
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who understands you close to home. That's a big benefit
(30:12):
for all of us. Go to the website. Check it out.
Uh dot edu slash aging uth dot edu slash aging.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Old guys rule, and of course women never get old
if you want to avoid sleeping on the couch.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Okay, well, I think that sounds like a good plan.
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Well too fast, there might go back to the bumper
MIXI no, no, no, no, no, that's not happening my deal.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
No no, no going backwards. Will We got to just
man up and deal with it. Welcome back to fifty
plus final sab where the program starts right now. There
was something I wanted to tell you. Oh, by the way,
I had an email yesterday and then an email the
day before or somebody said, hey can you can you
recommend a plumber? And if you're I actually need I
(31:05):
need a plumber and I need what was the other
one somebody was asking about what was it? Dad, gumm it.
It wasn't an electrician. It was a plumber and something else.
I don't know. I'll figure it out in a minute.
In any event, if you run a business like that
and you're a nice, good, honest business person, I would
(31:25):
love to talk to you. And there was somebody talking
about remodeling too. I had somebody I thought was going
to come on in the remodeling end, but it I
don't know. I just tell I said, oh, I know
what it was. It was a roofer too. I don't
have a roofer on right now. And I'm I do
get calls on that because I've I've spoken for several
of them over the years and help them grow their
(31:46):
businesses and then they just do whatever they do and
that's fine with me. It doesn't matter. But I know
I've got a good loyal audience and I know that
you guys trust me, and that's why I vet everybody
out before I take them on and make sure that
I talked to them enough times to feel very comfortable
about recommending that you spend your hard earned money with
(32:06):
these people. All right, So from the now, we're not
gonna go to that one from the Golden Arches desk. Well,
did you see this story this morning? There is a
group called what do they called? The People's Union USA,
and they are calling for a boycott of McDonald's after
the fast food giant announced it was going to distance
(32:29):
itself from DEI practices and just move forward on a
merit based hiring and and moving up basis. They want
to make sure that they have the best people in
there doing that, and they want to if you're going
to give somebody a raise, if you're gonna give somebody
(32:52):
a bump in their their position, they're gonna base that
all on whoever can do the best job. And really
that that's all we want when we go to a
McDonald's or any other fast food place. I just want
my next quarter pounder, and the next one I eat
won't be my first. I've backed off of a lot
of that stuff because I know it's not the best
(33:13):
for me, but I just want it to be the
best one that the kid in the paper hat can make,
or the kid in the hairnet whatever. I just want
a good burger, the best that somebody can do, made
by the person who showed the most skills at making it.
And I want the person who's taking my money to
be able to count. And that's it. It's amazing to
(33:37):
me how many young people, and I don't care who
they are, where they're from, but how many young people
these days struggle with making change. And if you give them,
if a bill is a dollar, let's say it's seven
dollars and forty three cents, and you give them ten
dollars and forty three cents, they're confused as to how
much money to give you back. A lot of times
(34:01):
give them something back that'll get you a half a
dollar back and just really blow their minds. All right.
That goes to, Oh, this concerned me a little bit
this morning from the espionage desk. There's an FBI investigation
underway now to determine just exactly who it was who
(34:23):
leaked info after not before our strikeing, I wan, but
afterward the claims the strikes were not as effective as reported,
which our President and Defense secretary both say is just
bad information. Politically motivated. Secretary of State called the leakers
professional stabbers. I've never heard that term before, people who
(34:44):
get hands on a tiny piece of information and then
extrapolate it and manipulate it to fit a certain negative narrative.
I do find it interesting and quite telling that these
leakers don't race to present whatever they found directly to
the media. They just they leak little things because if
they just try to I think if they try to
(35:06):
show too big a hand, it's gonna be pretty obvious.
They're bluffing. I'm pretty confident that Iran is not really
thrilled with where it is and its nuclear quest right now,
and it pleases me to be able to feel that way.
I truly am. All right. Well, back to you all
(35:28):
the rage. Count on it? Or who can we trust?
Count on it? Somebody on social media asked foreigners, what
is your equivalent of in our country? If we're trying
to count something down? It's like one Mississippi too Mississippi?
Speaker 3 (35:46):
Right?
Speaker 2 (35:46):
You know that one? Have you been to any other
country where they do that? No, The coolest one came
from the Dutch people. In Danish, the expression is one
case beer, two cases of beer, three cases of beer,
four cases of beer. And that's about the same cadence
as one Mississippi, two Mississippi. They're counting seconds, and if
(36:10):
you don't get in a big hurry, it can actually
be somewhat accurate. Let's go to one more, will.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
No?
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Not that one? Huh? Oh? Have about some good news?
They got thirty seconds? Yeah, okay.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
British teams develop tiny robots that can fix underground pipe
leaks without digging up sidewalks and roads. They're about the
size of a toy car and use cameras and other
stuff in there to find these leaks and potential leaks,
little weak spots and pipes, and that enables a cruise
to minimize disruption and digging that has to be done
above ground. The tiniest of these little things they've got
(36:46):
cameras and all kinds of sensors on them, is about
the size of a matchbox.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
They're called pipe bots, and someday maybe they can even
fix that stuff. Who knows. We'll be back tomorrow. Thanks
for listening, Audios
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