Walmart Changes its Logo

Today, Doug Pike discusses the new Walmart logo, recycling, and finding items in the grocery store.  

Episode Transcript

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Speaker 3 (00:51):
Alright, Wednesday edition of the program starts right now. Let
me get snuggled into this chair a little bit. I
was trying to finish up word so I could be
ahead of Will Melbourne before we even got cracking. He
hasn't played yet this morning or this afternoon. Excuse me,
it's just so awkward when I leave the desk in
the morning and arrive here in the afternoon. It's not

(01:13):
that long a walk.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
You had something to say. No, I'm just pulling it
down because I know ready you think you're gonna beat me.
What's frustrating is I got anyway.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
The bottom line is the first the first try made
looked pretty good. It held promise, a green and a gold,
and then the second I got three greens. The last
three letters I already know. And on my second, third,
and fourth tries all three of those same final three

(01:47):
letters were in place. And there are so there are
several at least four, because I still haven't gotten it right,
at least four words that end in those same three letters,
and those I think are kind of a they're kind
of wonky. Really, they're a little bit more. Those words
that where there are so many options, make it a

(02:07):
little bit odd and difficult. Anyway, it doesn't matter. It's
just a game, and like today, it will be easily
forgotten once we get through it.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
I can't. I couldn't tell you what yesterday's word was
on a bet? Could you do that?

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Well?

Speaker 2 (02:22):
You remember what it was? Yes true day's were? I
do not?

Speaker 3 (02:27):
It was in one in one brain and out do
you in one side and out the other?

Speaker 2 (02:32):
I guess ye.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
All right, this could be not unlike today once it passes,
because most of this city is just under the spell.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Right now.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
Two people walked all the way over to my desk
this morning to talk about the weather and ask me,
don't make it three actually, and ask me if we
were going to get snow. I'm not a weather forecaster.
I don't want to be one. I wouldn't I wouldn't
want a job where my success on only being right

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maybe ten or fifteen percent of the time within twenty
four hours. I think they can be quite accurate. Actually,
the technology we have now is fantastic for that. But
trying to tell me a nearly lifelong resident of Houston
that it's going to snow next Tuesday or Wednesday, not

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The Weather Channel is calling for two days next week
of low's around thurday, well three days total low around
thirty Sunday night and then Monday and Tuesday nights around
twenty seven degrees, and then beginning Wednesday, we're right back

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above freezing across the board for the foreseeable future, whether
for you shows lows around twenty eight or twenty nine
Monday and Tuesday, then.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
Cool but not cold thereafter.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
So two pretty good shots, two pretty good punches will
have to take next week those Tuesday and Wednesday nights.
But after that, now we'll get back to just sparring
with somebody who can't can't break an egg. Foreseeable future
doesn't look too bad really, and the chance of snow
I think north of I ten probably at least get

(04:39):
a dusting. If the temperatures and humidity are just right
south of I ten, I'm gonna have to I'm gonna
have to wake up to snow across the yard before
I'll go for that, And I kind of hope it doesn't,
because I don't want to have to drive on snow
covered roads anymore than I would want to have to
drive on ice. Snow's easier. For a lot of reasons.

(05:02):
I still am amazed that people up in the true North,
where they get real winter weather and icy roads, and
in the mountains where there's a lot of black ice
and stuff. You just can't see it, but you know
it when you hit it, because your car starts spinning out.
And they've got all these sheer drops on the sides
of roads with these flimsy little metal barriers that I

(05:23):
don't think would stop a car. That's I don't know.
I get kind of antsy when I'm up there.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
Certainly.

Speaker 3 (05:30):
I haven't ever driven at any of the ski resorts
I've visited. I've always either had a ride or jumped
on a bus or whatever. But man, it's got to
be scary to have to learn to do that.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
That was a very quick side boar.

Speaker 3 (05:45):
In any event, I've been living here well, like I said,
the better part of sixty years.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
God live.

Speaker 3 (05:53):
I've lived here total more than sixty years now and
seeing significant snowfall what maybe a times if we get it,
takes some pictures because it might be a while before
the next time too. Moving into the markets thanks to
Houston gooldexchange dot com. Everything in the green, which is
good on most fronts, But so was oil. Oh that

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darned oil, which I don't know if it still is,
But a little while ago it was north of eighty
dollars a barrel.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
Again. That's that's just that's not good.

Speaker 3 (06:27):
Back to the markets, all four indicators were up significantly too,
which is really good, as was gold, which climbed back
north of twenty seven hundred dollars an ounce again about
an hour ago.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
I don't look.

Speaker 3 (06:39):
After after those couple of looks early, I don't go
back to it because I'd be obsessed with it and
I'd want to be changing it every minute. Diving into
current events, let me see which one I hit? Want
to hit first, I've got a minute.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
I can do this diving into the current events.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
Michelle Obama says she's gonna skip President Trump's inauguration, which
is the same thing she did for the Washington, DC
funeral service for President Carter. I'm really not sure how
to take that or what's up with that, And I'm
not gonna waste much time on it either, because I'm
really I'm just not impressed by either one of them

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on a lot of levels. But if something comes of it,
I'll let you know, maybe later, real quickly, will because
we got twenty thirty seconds. I'm gonna go to you
because everything else I have here is gonna take longer
that guy looks like me, or there's still hope.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
There's still hope.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
Well, there is actually for this US of A, because
in the US of A there are more public libraries
than McDonald's, and hopefully more people would use those libraries
if they knew what was good for him than eating
fast food all the time.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
You got a library card? No, I don't need well yet,
no don't.

Speaker 3 (08:00):
I have an exhaustive library at home, though I really do.
I have all the books I'll ever need. My wife
is an avid reader. She loves to read, and I
have collected books about the out of doors and golf
and such for the better part of thirty plus years now.
So yeah, I got a lot of books at home.
I have my own personal library. I may sort them

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by Dewey decimal. That'd give me a project to do
once I clean the garage and do all that which
might be never.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
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Speaker 1 (09:48):
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.

Speaker 3 (10:15):
All right, I'm back, finally finished word.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
Well.

Speaker 3 (10:18):
I had to get a hint from Will. I was
stuck on those last three letters and the well. The
only thing I could do The only thing that was
in my mind thinking that it had after I had
exhausted all the other choices, was that it had to
have a repeating letter somewhere, which it did. And you
gave me that clue that it did. And the only
word I had was a back aba c K. And

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so I had to I had to ask. I had
to beg Will for a hint, just come groveling, groveling
at his feet for a little help.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
And I did get.

Speaker 3 (10:53):
That, and then it finally, it finally appeared in my brain.
I would I would say, I'm as good as anybody
with jumbles in the paper?

Speaker 2 (11:04):
Do you ever do those? Will? Now we should start
getting the daily Jumble? The daily jumble?

Speaker 3 (11:11):
Yeah, it's in the newspaper. Have you ever heard of that?
Huh newspaper? Yes, I've heard of the news. There's one
in my yard right now because I didn't want to
get out and pick it up this morning. It was
drizzling when I left the house. It's probably still in
the yard, but that's okay. Yeah, I've been doing those
a long time, my wife, and I'll do them. And
you give me five or six letters and just tell

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me what the letters are, and I can tell you
what it spells. I have to be all jumbled up,
you know, and I can. I can usually do the
entire thing. There are typically four words on a weekday,
four words of either five or six letters, and then
at the end there's a little puzzle that you have
to solve, and you have to use specific letters taken

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out of those words, two or three from each word,
typically to come up with a phrase that completes a
sentence that started in the below the illustration of the
people doing whatever they're doing. And usually I can get
all of that done in less than one minute, and
sometimes even faster than that. So and that's all I got.

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That's my brain work for the day. And I enjoy
doing those, I really do. They're kind of fun. So
let's go back to where we were, Oh, kind of
standing in the lane that I was on when we
went into the break earlier things that are going on
in Washington, DC and in national politics and showing just

(12:41):
how spiteful the left can be and how accommodating of
that behavior the media can be toward some of the
more upset Democrats. Vice President Kamala Harris herself denied incoming
Vice president JD. Vance entry to the home in which

(13:04):
he and his family will have to live for the
next four years.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
She just said, no, you can't come in. Why. I
have no idea.

Speaker 3 (13:14):
Maybe she hadn't done the dishes yet, maybe the place
needed dusting. I don't know. But for her to snub
him like that tells me a little bit about her character.
Unless there's something that has been left out of the story.
And you're not even gonna hear about this in the

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mainstream media. They mostly swept it under the This just
snub swept that snub right under the rug, and gonna
stick to its story that Harris looks forward to a
peaceful transition of power, which she said more than once.
Vance and his wife need to know how this It's
called the Naval Observatory and that's where they're gonna live
with their three children for the next three year, next

(13:58):
four years, and it'd be kind of nice to know
how the place lays out, Who's going to get what
room and all that stuff. And to his credit, to
his credit, Doug em Hoff spent about forty minutes on
the phone this story that I saw said with Vance's
wife Usha. She and he were on the phone for

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forty minutes, and that's credit to him, but certainly not
to her.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
I think she's more bitter than even.

Speaker 3 (14:26):
I thought she might be, after well, she's already gone
through a lot of issues and a lot of humiliation
really after having lost so badly and having to provide
or preside excuse me, over the blessing of the vote.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
So I guess she's spiteful the elections over. Get over it,
move on.

Speaker 3 (14:54):
It's not like she didn't make any money when she
was vice president, not like they're not pretty well set
for life with the protect they'll have and the benefits
they'll have of holding that office. And i'd she got
in their far and square last time. And I'm not
going to argue about any of this stuff. I'm just
glad we're on the track we're on around here, there
is quite a buzz building in advance of Sunday's Houston Marathon,

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which will It's gonna be thousands of runners.

Speaker 2 (15:21):
It always is, and probably would just.

Speaker 3 (15:24):
Continue to grow on what's going to be a very
brisk morning for this premiere event and distance running. I
have only forty two degrees for the whole day, and
you know it's going to be cooler than that when
they take off, and I'd be willing to bet that
not many of the elite runners in that race will
be wearing much more than running shorts and taketops. Their

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bodies just work differently than ours, and they embrace the cold.
They embrace chili weather because it doesn't tax them at
all as opposed to running. If they tried to hold
this thing in July or August, they would probably have
to have first aid stations every couple of one hundred yards.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
After the first five or six miles.

Speaker 3 (16:06):
But it's not that way, not this coming Sunday. I'd
also bet that nobody from this continent wins the race
an American on. There's an outside chance probably that some
American might get a podium finish, but even that's probably
a long shot.

Speaker 2 (16:23):
Uh. Moving on, Let's.

Speaker 3 (16:24):
Go back to this for a minute, will we'll kind
of bounce back and forth because I don't want to
just get through everything too quickly.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
Are you ready?

Speaker 3 (16:32):
First of all, yes, I can't walk that far. Well,
what am I supposed to do? I'll give you a
choice of one of those two. I can't walk that far.
That's about how it would probably be said, if somebody
were asked, A poll found I kind of chuckle at this.
A poll found that almost have forty eight percent of

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workers sometimes text a co worker instead of talking to them,
even if they are sitting nearby.

Speaker 2 (17:02):
Have you ever done that? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (17:04):
If you ever texted somebody like next door, next door?

Speaker 2 (17:08):
Yeah, and I'm talking about in the office here. I
mean I've texted people in the office. But that's because
I don't want to.

Speaker 3 (17:18):
You don't want to what get up and walk? Yeah,
I don't want to go find them. If you wanted
to do that, you just go to the gym, right.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
I feel like it's, you know, for where you spend
most of your day. It wouldn't really make sense because
you're all huddled together.

Speaker 3 (17:33):
You could come over there, it would It would be
refreshing to see you pop over and say hey, Doug,
like you do it at twelve oh four forty five. Yeah,
then you come popping out, don't.

Speaker 2 (17:42):
Hey, I do come popping out because I know you're
not gonna look at your phone. I got I got
to yell at you.

Speaker 3 (17:49):
Come over to my desk sometime and see where my
phone is. You know where it is? It is standing
up right, in front of me, propped up on my
laptop leaning against the Then.

Speaker 2 (17:57):
Why don't you know what the time is? You know?

Speaker 3 (18:01):
Why do I gotta come yell at you? Engrossed in
something very.

Speaker 2 (18:06):
More important than the show.

Speaker 3 (18:08):
It's prep for the show.

Speaker 2 (18:09):
It's it's gonna be the show, for the show, for
the show. You make a good point. I know it's
not what I wanted to hear really, of course, but
it is a fairly good point. I know.

Speaker 3 (18:25):
All right, let's go back. Well, we'll toggle as they say,
got twenty five seconds.

Speaker 2 (18:31):
That's it. Holy cow.

Speaker 3 (18:34):
We could run over to my desk and let you
see where I keep my phone.

Speaker 2 (18:37):
But you just back. How about we just end this
segment now a little early?

Speaker 3 (18:40):
Yeah, no, I think I'm gonna make you just suffering
once that clock. Those are big, big numbers on that clock, too,
aren't they will I'll.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
Hit wow, look at the size of those numbers. Hit
the play button. We'll break be right back. Fifty plus
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Speaker 1 (18:58):
That's why every few months we check his fluids and
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plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 2 (19:14):
Seven at three, take that down, put the clock back up. Will.

Speaker 3 (19:17):
That's really it's boring me, but we're gonna talk about
it anyway. So I saw this story that actually I
saw it yesterday about Walmart rebranding itself, changing its logo
for the first time in something like twenty years, I
don't know, it's been a long time, and I really
expected to see something, something new, something dramatic, something that

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lived up to the hype that was being tossed around
about it. And I asked Will to look at it
during the break. Did you see any change at all?

Speaker 2 (19:49):
Really? No, you couldn't tell me that they changed literally anything.

Speaker 3 (19:56):
And that's exactly how I felt when I looked at it.
But that's most corporate, you know, logos and marketing. It
doesn't it doesn't feel new. You're just like, okay, you
have your basic colors there that you associate with the brand,
but you know, well, it doesn't but it doesn't do anything.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
If you're gonna if you're gonna.

Speaker 3 (20:18):
Do that, then just do it, you know, just order
another billion plastic bags with the new logo and don't
really talk about it as though it's it's.

Speaker 2 (20:28):
A reinvention of the wheel because it wasn't.

Speaker 3 (20:32):
And I don't know who got paid for this or
how much, but if I were Walmart, I'd ask for
my money back because.

Speaker 2 (20:40):
All they did was in the font.

Speaker 3 (20:45):
Imagine whether you shop there or not, Imagine driving by
Walmart and you see the sign out front. You you
can't miss it. It's in big bowl letters. Across the
front of the store. There's the Walmart. And then there's
that little six handed clock of a logo that's somewhere
near it, usually off to the right side of it,

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by a pretty good space, and its color is kind
of a gold color. Well, the rebranding team, I don't know,
they must have spent years on this will coming up
with something so dramatically different, I'm saying sarcastically.

Speaker 2 (21:25):
So here's what they did.

Speaker 3 (21:27):
They changed the font to be a little boulder, a
little thicker, and they changed the blue to a little
darker blue. And on the six hands of that six
handed clock of an asterisk looking thing that's out next

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to it, they bowlded up the little hands of the
clock and that's it. That's all they did. And for
some reason they thought that was a big deal.

Speaker 2 (22:03):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (22:04):
Once again, how much they paid for that. I don't
know who's signed off on it. I don't know why.
It was some hand ringing, terribly difficult decision that had
to be made by a committee or the executive board
of the directors or whatever of Walmart.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
But that was time.

Speaker 3 (22:24):
Wasted as far as I'm concerned, Maybe hire some more
people walk around the store and tell people where stuff is.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
I like that.

Speaker 3 (22:33):
I do like that in stores, and there are some
stores are better at it than others. Grocery store employees.
If you're looking for something in a grocery store, look
for somebody who's pushing around one of those carts that's
going to wind up out next to somebody's trunk on
a pickup order. If you can find one of them,
you could ask them about the most obscure thing in

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the store and they won't even have to look it.

Speaker 2 (22:56):
Up on the phone to tell you what islet's on.

Speaker 3 (22:58):
They'll just oh, yeah, that's on our three, about halfway
down on the left, next too, and they'll tell you
what it's next to.

Speaker 2 (23:04):
As well.

Speaker 3 (23:05):
Hardware stores, if you get the right employee, mostly the
older ones, the whole older employees at a hardware store
can tell you exactly where everything is because they take
pride in their work. The younger ones tend to not
all of them. Some of them are as skilled as
the older ones, but the younger ones tend to have
to rely on their phones and look it up to

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tell you where it is, or sometimes they have a
little special gadget that they carry, some electronic where they
can search specifically in the store without having to get
on the internet. But I do I appreciate that in shopkeepers.
When was the last time you had to ask where
something was?

Speaker 2 (23:41):
Will from my tree clerk? Yeah? Never, I mean I
don't know. Rarely, yeah, rarely.

Speaker 3 (23:55):
They usually have the sub they've got the signs hanging
from the ceiling to kind of tell you what's on
each row. Yeah, and that's great, but if it's something
really obscure that might be in two or three different places.

Speaker 2 (24:07):
H what was it?

Speaker 3 (24:07):
There was something something that ChB moved and my HB store,
I want to say, about six months ago, and it
took me a while to find where they had put it.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
Oh, I know what it was.

Speaker 3 (24:20):
It was a gluten free cracker that my wife likes
to eat, and they forever were on the same aisle.
As the potato chips and stuff like that, and then
all of a sudden they were gone, and I had
to ask somebody, and I started searching up and down
every aisle. There's all kinds of different aisles in there

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that kind of hint it. Maybe you'll find it here,
maybe you won't, but I never did, and I finally
found it. They had taken it all the way down
to the other end of the store and tucked it
in with all the protein shakes and things like that,
and they're they're gluten free selection. There's a few things
that I buy for my wife like that, but not

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a lot. She can eat mostly anything, but sometimes she's
just looking for those because she likes the taste of them.
And it took me forever to find him.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
It really did. Got that taken care of.

Speaker 3 (25:17):
If being quick on your face, I'm gonna go back
to the news and all these hearings that have been
going on, these confirmation hearings that have been going on
up in Washington, and being quick on your feet is
a good trait for a potential Secretary of Defense. Pete
Hesath is gonna be a shoe in. He's going to
be a great one. Democrats yesterday pushed him really hard

(25:38):
during his confirmation. Hearing up there and according to all
but a couple of mainstream media sources who were gonna
bash him, no matter what happened, he rose to the
challenge and left his naysayers just just.

Speaker 2 (25:52):
Quivering in the corner.

Speaker 3 (25:54):
He knocked him around, just as as someone who's gonna
be in charge of our defense. Actually, I think had
to have the courage and conviction to say what he said,
encounter all of the things they tried to use to
make him look bad. In short, he did what a
strong leader has to do, and that's call out the

(26:18):
military we've got today for not focus on any focusing
on its sole mission. That the US military has one mission,
and that one mission is to defend the United States
from its enemies. It doesn't have to meet quotas, it
doesn't have to tiptoe around anybody. It shouldn't, but it

(26:39):
has come to that in recent years, and I got
a hunch headset and anybody else who he brings in
with him is going to put a stop to some
of that and make sure we've got a strong, powerful
army again, which I'm I'm not one hundred percent convinced
we have that right now. I don't know that we

(27:00):
have the best people to do the jobs right now,
based on a lot of reading I've done lately.

Speaker 2 (27:06):
We'll see, and.

Speaker 3 (27:06):
I hope he gets in, and I hope he does
exactly that, just defend us from the enemies we've got
speaking of, there are just more and more people trying
to scoot across the border while it's still while it's
still a revolving door, basically before President Trump gets in,
because I have the hunch that that's one of gonna
be one of the first things he does, is put

(27:27):
a stop to all of this allowance of pretty bad
people to come in here, gang members, terrorists.

Speaker 2 (27:37):
All of whom.

Speaker 3 (27:40):
We know that thousands of these people who really it's
not like they're coming in to make better lives for
themselves and contribute to the American society. They're coming in
as enemies to our country from all sorts of nations
that are hold no regard for us whatsoever and would
love to just beat us down to our knees. And

(28:03):
President Biden, unfortunately and Kamala Harris have let in thousands
of those people, and that's where we start, I think
taking out the trash as they used against us back
before the election, and once the criminals are gone, then
we can start talking to the people who are still
here about whether they even really should be here. It's frustrating,

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it really is, to watch all this stuff happen. We're
gonna take a little break here on time, and you're welcome.
Will the Auto Votive Show. It's a little confusing name,
but all it is is the marriage of the Houston
Auto Show and the Houston Boat Show, both of which
occur around this time of year and half for a
long time, and they are now joined after probably I

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think it's a fourth year they've done it, maybe the fifth,
I'm not sure. Anyway, both shows will run concurrently in
NRG Center from January twenty ninth through February second, and
if you go, plan on spending the day because if
you like cars and you like boats, and you like
all the goodies that come with them, you're gonna find

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everything you can imagine at the Houston Autobotive Show. The boats,
the accessories, the cars, the newest, latest and greatest, some
vintage stuff.

Speaker 2 (29:24):
For those of us who are a little older and appreciate.

Speaker 3 (29:26):
Those things, it's the Houston Autobotive Show, and if you
go to Autobotibshow dot com you'll find a pathway to
discount tickets if you buy them in in advance. Autobotiveshow
dot com, Autobotiveshow dot com.

Speaker 1 (29:44):
Old guys rule, and of course women never get old
if you want to avoid sleeping on the couch.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
Okay, I think that sounds like a good plan.

Speaker 1 (29:55):
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug.

Speaker 3 (30:16):
All Right, welcome back, fourth and final segment fifty plus
Good Heavens.

Speaker 2 (30:20):
Ten minutes ago, nine minutes to go. Now, that was quick.

Speaker 3 (30:24):
One thing I want to get to The fires in
California are tragic, and I'm not taking anything away from that,
not at all. I know it's horrible, and I feel
for every one of those people. I don't care what
their politics are, I don't care where they came from.
I don't care how big their house was, how little
their house was. It's twenty five I think at last

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count dead so far, and another dozen or so still missing.

Speaker 2 (30:52):
And I hope they get all the help they need.

Speaker 3 (30:56):
And last I heard, the federal government's to just fix
it all for them, just send them as much money
as they need to take care of this stuff. Meanwhile, though,
and I just saw something about this as I was
scrolling through some social media during the break. Meanwhile, the
people in North Carolina, remember them, the ones that got

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hammered by a hurricane this past summer, Helene, Well, a
lot of them are still living in what's left of
their homes, if anything was left, some of them in
makeshift structures, tents. Just not a place you would want
to be in sub freezing temperatures. Temperatures in a lot
of areas around there, especially going into next week, looking

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to be at or near zero degrees, and nobody's next
to nobody, at least locals and people who are really
close to this situation are doing all they can. But
the government didn't roll out the red carpet for North
Carolina the way it's doing for California.

Speaker 2 (32:00):
And that's that's messed up. That's messed up.

Speaker 3 (32:06):
It's either we're either all Americans or we're not. And
if you want to, if you guys want to play
that game, I don't, Frankly, I don't. I think anybody
who's in trouble needs help, period, end of story.

Speaker 2 (32:20):
But the whole.

Speaker 3 (32:22):
Federal government, for the last four years has been so
politicized and so quick to help its own and ignore
the needs.

Speaker 2 (32:30):
Of others, that.

Speaker 3 (32:34):
History will History will record this correctly once mainstream media
quits leading the narrative, because right now they they won't
say anything good, and you mark my words, they're going
to start saying, well, they've already they've never stopped. I
was gonna say they're gonna start saying bad things about
President Trump again, but they really have never stopped. They

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continue to press their ideas forward matter how false they
may be, no matter how much they know darn well
that they're talking out of both sides of their mouth
or flat out lying in a lot of on a
lot of occasions, it's just what happens.

Speaker 2 (33:13):
It's just what happens with them, and they're just count.

Speaker 3 (33:16):
There's too many pieces of evidence that prove that out
to even worry about trying to name them anymore. The
laptop thing, Oh no, that's not real, that's Russian, that's
all Russian. No, No, actually it wasn't. And we know
that now. But had we known that before the previous election,

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it may have gone a different way. We'll never know,
But we've thrown four years down the drain thanks to
a lie that way too many people knew it was
a lie and didn't say a thing about it. Very frustrating.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has threatened to fire Texas A
and M president Mark Welsh, who has a long pro

(34:01):
DEI history that our governor says that the university continues
to pay for student travel to racially exclusive conferences. All
this is supposed to be against the law in Texas,
but a Texas scorecard story from Monday sight, specifically a

(34:21):
PhD project conference in Chicago, a DEI event that bars
participation by white and Asian students. Sending students otherwise to
that conference is a direct violation of Texas law and
as regards any public university, and it's also a violation

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of the US Constitution. So that guy's he's going to
have a lot of answering to do and something he
may end up having to answer. I want ads. I
guess he might be looking for a new job sometime soon.
In good news, and let's kind of get to that
and maybe some silly stuff. I don't know, you want
to go good or silly?

Speaker 2 (35:05):
First? Will? Because I got both? What's go good?

Speaker 3 (35:13):
I'm not sure what to make of this one? You
tell me whether it's good or not, Will, because I'm
on the fence. In recycling news, Okay, from Japan comes
the story of a company that is making and marketing
the first ever toilet paper made from Are you ready?
Are you sitting down?

Speaker 2 (35:34):
Will? Of course I'm sitting down. God.

Speaker 3 (35:37):
This toilet paper is made from used diapers. Company sanitizes
bleaches and shreds the diapers before recycling them into usable
toilet paper. Cost and here's one incentive right here. Costs

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is only about twenty five cents of So are you
going to sign up for some of that?

Speaker 2 (36:02):
Maybe? See if it's on Amazon yet? If it's soft,
that's all that's your only criteria. Sure, that's it.

Speaker 3 (36:11):
Yeah, if it's sold, it's an interesting green concept. Well no,
I guess it wouldn't be a green concept for what
it will. Moving on, also from the recycling world, a
team at Northwestern University is turning industrial waste into high
capacity batteries, which I that's fantastic. If if only one
of these two projects is gonna succeed, I kind of hope.

Speaker 2 (36:33):
It's the batteries. I really do, I really do. Moving
on to the somewhat silly news. Which one do we
want to go to? No, that was just goofy.

Speaker 3 (36:47):
That's way too goofy. Here's something interesting. According to a
new survey, one in five young adults cannot change a
light bulb?

Speaker 2 (36:55):
Will can you change the light bulb?

Speaker 3 (36:56):
Yes, you're the guy, you're that No, well, four one can't,
One in five can't. So three of your friends can
and at least one of your friends cannot change the
light bulb. And that's kind of scary.

Speaker 2 (37:09):
Gen Z is also.

Speaker 3 (37:10):
Spending more than fifteen hundred dollars a year calling in
pros to do basic jobs they almost certainly could do themselves,
Like what unclog a toilet?

Speaker 2 (37:23):
Can you do that? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (37:24):
You have a plunger? Yeah, and you know how to
use it. Yes, good, we see, But a lot of
your peers don't.

Speaker 2 (37:31):
They don't know how to do that. Would you be
able to Now, if you had a light switch or
an electrical outlet that was kind of on the fritz,
would you tackle that? No? Even if you owned your home.
You own your home.

Speaker 3 (37:43):
I know you rent, so you know you just call
the landlord. But if you were a homeowner, could you
do that?

Speaker 2 (37:50):
No? It's not hard.

Speaker 3 (37:52):
It's really not want to because you save about two
hundred bucks.

Speaker 2 (37:57):
I could stimulate the economy. Well that's one about that. Huh. Well,
I think about it that way that we're actually helping out.

Speaker 3 (38:07):
I make a trip to the grocery store or the
hardware store, I buy the switch. I come home, I
go to the breaker box and turn off that switch
so that there's no electricity to fry me. Then I
go in and replace it, which I'm gonna do in
my laundry room actually pretty soon.

Speaker 2 (38:25):
Didn't you do it tonight and give us an update tomorrow? No,
I don't.

Speaker 3 (38:29):
I'm not gonna do it tonight.

Speaker 2 (38:32):
You said you gotta do it, Just do it? Yeah,
I do need to. I've already bought the switch. Do
you have everything you need? I do? Then? Come on?

Speaker 3 (38:42):
Okay, here's another one, which are you will? It says
one third of couples say their partner acts like a
baby when they're sick. Are you the one who acts
like a baby? Or you the one who's just kind
of man's up and takes care of business to your will?

Speaker 2 (38:55):
Well, what do you mean, like, when I'm sick, do
I up and take care of business or do I
take like a baby and expect your girlfriend to take
care of you. No. I can go out and I
do everything I need to do, but we gotta go. Doug, yep, Okay,
well we'll do that.

Speaker 3 (39:15):
You never did answer my question, so you might be
up for re examination tomorrow morning or tomorrow afternoon. That's
it for us today. We'll be back tomorrow. Thanks for listening.

Speaker 2 (39:24):
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