Warm Days

Today, Doug Pike discusses warm weather, the Coldplay incident, and robots playing soccer.

Episode Transcript

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, the goode. This
is fifty plus with Doug Pike. Helpful information on your finances,
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(00:43):
plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
All right, welcome aboard. This is Tuesday day after my
weekly day off, a day on which I did squeeze in.
Actually probably more time outdoors yesterday than would be recommended
for some fellas a I started with a round of
golf among friends, which I often do on Mondays. I
was invited into this group of about close to two dozen.

(01:09):
I think most of these guys are fully retired, if
not semi retired, and they play every well, at least
they set tea times every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and
maybe someday we'll just have to see. Anyway, came home,
plopped into a comfortable chair for a little while, then
went into the backyard and trimmed a tree that was

(01:32):
threatening to block sunlight across a pretty good chunk of
that space. Actually, the backyard of my home is not
that terribly large. It was just enough to play catch
with my son when he was very young, and then
soon after that we had to move up to the
baseball fields where he played little league and do it

(01:56):
from there. The field just wouldn't hold him when he
started swinging a little bit. It's all right. After I
got that tree trimmed and realized I had to get
all of that stuff bundled into the curb so it
could be hauled out because today is green waste day

(02:16):
in my neighborhood. I had to just take a little break.
It was hot, and I'd been working hard out there
and moving some pretty good lumber out of those trees,
or out of that tree. Only I only worked on
one of them. I've got another one I've got to
kind of deal with. In any event, my son showed up.
He came out. He had been away working out and

(02:37):
doing a baseball workout with one of his buddies, and
when he got home, he came straight to the backyard
and dove in and helped me out. So that little assist,
I think is what got me to the end of
it without just falling over in the grass and in
our yard guy, our yard guy was supposed to come,
and I was hoping he would because the grass, because

(02:58):
we took out a giant crape myrtle about I don't know,
close to eight months ago now, somewhere in there, we
took that thing out, and when we did, all of
a sudden, the backyard. It may not have been that
long ago, maybe six months ago. In any event, the
backyard got plenty more sunshine, and holy cow, the back
and the front have just gone crazy. This guy fertilized

(03:21):
for us. He did a good job. He knows what
he's doing, and the yard's looking very good. I'm glad.
I'm glad to have that to look at when I
come home. In any event. At present, we're looking at
three days of heat today through Thursday, on any of
which we might actually get to the official first hot
day by my standard, And if you've listened to this

(03:43):
show or my Outdoor show over on seven ninety on
the weekend mornings, we've already flirted with it a few times.
My standard is an official high temperature of one hundred
degrees or more for that day. We flirted with it
a few times, but we have not crossed that fiery
threshold whatever you want to call it. Not according to

(04:07):
the data I looked up on AI, no AI source
reported a Houston temperature this year of one hundred degrees
or more. So we're still looking for it. And actually
my weekend producer and I have a bet that and
I want to say, honestly, I think it was about
July twenty first or twenty second or something like that,
one of us picked, and then a day very close

(04:30):
to that, and then we did this about two months ago,
and I think we're right in the window of our picks.
I'll have to check with Frankie and see he wrote
it down actually, so he knows what the two dates were.
I don't recall, Well, did you get involved in that
or no, I don't think he did. Yeah, we were
just yapping about it for about half a minute one

(04:50):
day and we came up with a couple of dates
and Frankie wrote it down. And since he had done that,
I knew I didn't need to worry about relying on
my memory, which wasn't gonna hold on to it anyway. Also,
when I talk about temperatures, I talk about actual numbers too,
not the feels like temperature or the chill factor or
any of that hocus pocus. It's is it hotter on

(05:13):
the asphalt freeways, Yes, it's hotter, But that doesn't mean
that the official temperature should be raised just because of that.
It's kind of the same with with cold. The thermometer
reflects what the actual what the actual temperatures are, and
the would it could have should have feels good. Maybe

(05:36):
it feels like this and it's only that, or maybe
there's chill factor. Chill factor I think is ridiculous. If
it's thirty five degrees outside but it's windy, they'll tell
you the chill factor is twenty eight degrees. But if
you put a cup of water on the back porch,
sit out there and wait for it to freeze at
thirty five degrees, I don't care. I don't care if

(05:58):
it blows twenty five thirty miles an hour. If it's
thirty five degrees, it's not going to freeze. I arranged there.
How about that? Uh? I don't know the weather forecasters.
I guess that's all they have, really they don't have. Well,
the ones when we grew up had no had no
hypotheticals really to talk about. They just told you what

(06:19):
they knew, based on a little bit of radar, based
on other reporting stations. And they didn't try to scare
you either. They just told you what was going to
happen to the best of their knowledge. Now we've got
names for windy days, we got names for cold days
and freak storms. The forecasters just wouldn't have as much
to talk about. I want to hear their opinions on

(06:41):
upcoming weather, but I don't want them to start striking
fear into every new Texan who's arrived here. Over the
past year or so, every time a cloud forms in
the Gulf, figured we got to keep an eye on this. Well,
there was a yellow spot in the southern Gulf yesterday
on the National Hurricane Center map. I read this scription
and saw that the actual conditions that were that are

(07:05):
forecast for the next four or five days are not
conducive to development later in the week. But it was
talked about, Oh, it was talked about last night, and
what do you know, this morning, I get up, I
flip on the National Hurricane Center map, just to make
sure that it's still there and it might be worth
talking about, and poof, it's gone. Now it's back to
that saying there's nothing gonna happen in the whole, at

(07:27):
least for a week. Now that that could change too.
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(07:50):
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(08:11):
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(08:34):
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(08:56):
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(09:17):
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Speaker 1 (09:23):
Yeah, they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them, check his
fluids and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This
is fifty plus with Doug Pike. Hi, welcome back to
fifty plus. Thank you for listening. I certainly do appreciate it.
I check that box, check that box, all these these.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
Weather boxes and market by Actually the market is I
didn't mention, But there's not really much to talk about.
Two up and two down among the four I look at.
Most Often something changes between now and the end of
the show. I'll break the news. By the way back
to that backyard tree trimming, I manage somehow. GI can
imagine why, because I had bundles of stuff out there
to be hauled away that had been cut day before,

(10:05):
yesterday and yesterday and ended up a little spider bite
on my left thigh somewhere. It's kind of right on
the side of my leg, and I don't know what
kind of spider it was, but I can I'm pretty
confident it wasn't a brown recluse, because I've had one
of those bites. I mean, if I had another one,
it would be pretty bad. By now. So far, it's

(10:28):
just a little pie size knot, And as long as
it stays that, I'm not gonna worry about it. I
don't know how many of you have ever dealt with
a brown recluse bite. Mine? Actually, when I got bitten bite,
it was same house. I've been in that house thirty
two years, and same backyard and same pile of stuff.

(10:50):
I was trying to get to the curb. Not the
same pile, but you know what I mean. And I
reached in there and then dummy me, invincible me back then,
didn't worry about wearing gloves or any and about I
don't know. Later that evening, I noticed that my left
ring finger was swelling and I got the ring off

(11:10):
of it barely and it just kept puffing up from there.
Ended up having to go to the doctor. I wasn't
really sure how to treat it. Turned out to be
a lot of warm water and ab some salts, and
I think there may have been a little bit more
precaution and maybe even a round of antibiotics as a precaution.

(11:30):
The bottom line was it was a miserable feeling and
it hurt. It really did hurt for a while. So
fingers crossed on no more of those. And I don't
think that's what this is. It's if I don't think
about it, I don't even realize it's there until I move.
Maybe if I brush up against something, I can feel it.
But that's about it. Moving into the news of the

(11:51):
day from the come fly with Me desk. I'm sure
you've heard a little bit about this if you've been watching,
but maybe you have it. Who knows Southwest Airlines after
decades of doing it the Southwest way, which was jump on,
get in line, and first on, first, first in line,

(12:13):
first on the plane, basically except for families and people
with disabilities, and it ended up being a longer and
longer list of people who got to jump the line.
And then finally they actually made it where you could
pay to skip the line. And now they've ditched that
policy altogether. No more open seating, and they're going to

(12:34):
go the way of every other airline that carries more
than a half a dozen passengers per flight. By the way,
I have actually flown on commercial flights in planes that
carried as few as maybe ten I think was the fewest.
And this was most of these flights, not all of them,
but most of them were down in Central America where

(12:54):
sometimes airplanes are the only way you can get from
one region to another. So they have they have flights available,
but they just they don't attract many business travelers, and
they're not the most well maintained airplanes. You just kind

(13:14):
of when you sit down and buckle up on one
of those, you better be saying a prayer the whole time.
You better be so. Anyway, Southwest is moving to a
sign seating, they say, They said, because passengers want quote
greater control over their travel experience end quote. It comes

(13:34):
on the heels also of Southwest dropping its bags fly
free policy, which was phased out back in May. If
you'll recall and if you're wondering why all this is
going on, it could be coincidental, but I don't think so.
Senate investigation this past year turned up that American Delta,

(13:55):
United Frontier, and Spirit collectively earned four point two billion
dollars from seat fees little extra leg room, a little
of this, a little of that, and that turned out
four point two billion dollars and not coincidentally, A Senate
committee also learned recently that airlines made about one point

(14:15):
two billion dollars on checked bag fees, which have also
been implemented at Southwest. That's thirteen and a half billion
reasons for Southwest to abandon its very cool image. And hey,
the peanuts were all right, those were cute and all.
But being able to get there a little bit early

(14:36):
and get in that a get in that a line
that was way better. That was way better. I didn't
mind being at the airport early. That wasn't a problem
at all. From the Icymi desk WNBA players this leek
the All Star Game, Okay, they're big game. They come
out this past week for their pregame shoot around wearing

(14:58):
T shirts that said, pay us what you owe us,
pay us what you owe us. Well, in fact, if
you haven't seen the stories or heard them yet, the
WNBA has never, not once in its existence, been profitable,
not once, and if memory service they I believe it's
forty million dollars they lost last year, forty million dollars.

(15:24):
To keep it afloat. The owners of those teams had
to chip in probably what how many teams are there?
Two and a half three dozen, so they all chipped
in a little bit more than a million dollars to
keep that thing afloat. I'm not sure how long they're
going to keep looking at the league and thinking, well,
maybe next year that'll be it'll be that year when

(15:46):
we make a buck off this game. Kaitlin Clark gave
the WNBA its best shot ever. By the way, if
you want to jump in on this or anything else
I've said, or you want to change the subject, even
that's fine. That's what I do with my outdoor show.
So long is it's something relatable to this audience, we
can talk about it. Seven one three two one two

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five nine five zero seven one three two one two
five nine five zero, Or you can email me Dougpike
at iHeartMedia dot com if you're shy about talking so anyway,
the owners, they just keep wanting to make a profit,
but they can't, and Clark gave them a great shot
at becoming relevant. And it seems to me like they're

(16:27):
doing everything they can, pretty much at every level of
that game to run her off. More appropriate shirt might
have been one that said thank you for supporting our
league while we squander our most recent opportunity to build
it into something profitable. That probably wouldn't have fit on
the shirt. Guess maybe they they thought blatant rough fouls

(16:49):
on the one player one player people are really coming
to see. They fill the arenas when Caitlin Clark's playing
for Indiana, but no, they blatant fowls. They knock her down,
they beat her up, the referees turned the other way.
Tayling Clark gave them their best shot ever, and they're

(17:09):
messing it up. I guess maybe they thought all this
shenanigans would work, but it's not. It's not. It's not
what the fans wanted, and clearly they've seen that now.
They were dead wrong, flat broken, dead wrong. Forty million dollars.
Can you imagine trying to run a business that loses, well,
at least in one year, forty million dollars. I'm sure

(17:32):
there are there are big, big, big, big, big, well
I guess as being kind of a wing of the NBA.
They've got deep pockets, but those pockets all have bottoms,
and somebody's gonna step up and say something someday. Uh
to go a little lighter in this last minute and
a half. Oh good, the clock is up there. Think
you will? I appreciate that. Uh hmm. Have you ever

(17:55):
once in your life will thumbs up? Thumbs down? Pondered
the world wreck for bench press? Yeah? Yeah, until I
saw this story, I hadn't thought about bench pressing since
I was in my twenties. Probably the world record for
bench press in nineteen sixteen was three hundred and sixty
four pounds. Fast forward to twenty twenty three, when a

(18:19):
guy named Jimmy Cole benched one thousand, four hundred pounds.
Now it's said there. I saw in the same little piece,
the same paragraph, that there's something called a bench shirt,
which apparently Jimmy used, because they also noted a non

(18:40):
bench shirt record of something like seven hundred and fifty
seven hundred and seventy five pounds somewhere in there. But
that's still that's still a whole lot of weight to
just push up off your chest and up over to
extended arms. Hats off to anybody can who can bench
their own weight. At my age, I've beaten. I don't
even know. I'd be scared to think of it. I

(19:02):
was fairly strong at one point in my life. I
really was working out a lot with some guys who
worked out more than I did, and felt pretty good
about it. But that was a while back. Some are
just getting started. Starbucks already announced the return date for
pumpkin spice lattes. That's August twenty six, and that's too early.
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What's life without a net? If I suggest you go
to bed, sleep it off.

Speaker 1 (20:51):
Just wait until the show's over, sleepy Back to Dougpike
as fifty plus continues.

Speaker 2 (20:58):
All right, welcome back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening.
Certainly do appreciate it. From the h where do I
want to go from? The big beautiful bill desk comes
word through a number of outlets seven one three two
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you want to jump in at any time, I really
welcome calls. I do. I always have on the weekend show.

(21:18):
We had some technical stuff going on in here for
a while that precluded us from doing it, but it's fixed.
It's all fixed. You could also go to the iHeartRadio
app if you're listening that way to the show, and
when you get to well, while you're doing that, if
you'll look on that screen there there will be a
talkback button and if you tap that, it will give

(21:41):
you about fifteen twenty seconds, I think, to say what
you need to say, whatever that is, and maybe get
me to email you back with an answer to a
question or something about a subject you want covered on
the show. I love hearing from you guys about that
because I don't know everything you're thinking about that. Yeah,
I wonder if he's ever covered that. Well, if you
haven't heard me cover it, that means it's probably time

(22:02):
to cover it again. And I'll be happy to do
that for you. So back to the big beautiful bill
desk comes worth through a number of outlets. Actually that
the left, the same people who pinky swore there were
no illegal immigrants receiving Medicaid service intended to help need
the Americans first and foremost. Well, now that same billions

(22:22):
in waste and overspending are being cut being cut from
that program, those same people are screaming about millions of
other people suddenly able to access their Medicaid benefits. They
don't say Americans can't access it. They say people because
the Americans weren't cut off from from their aid, from

(22:45):
their support. That's what I'm seeing. They say, people to
leave themselves. A little technical loophole in the argument. Oh yeah,
a lot of people without it now, Oh no, it
wasn't them, they never had it. But a lot of people,
a lot of people don't have their same benefits anymore.
Some kind of the way that side work sometimes from

(23:07):
the in and out desk, by the way, not at
all what you're thinking. The California based burger chain moving
its national headquarters all the way across the country to Tennessee,
which is darned near as far as the owner, Lindsay
Snyder could move it without falling into the Atlantic Ocean.

(23:29):
Snyder said in a recent podcast that it's become entirely
too difficult to do business out of California, and that
she'd rather raise her family somewhere else as well. That's
pretty telling. I'm sure that she enjoyed a very comfortable
lifestyle in California. I'm sure she enjoyed some notoriety in

(23:53):
her wherever she lives. People knew who she was. Now
she's going to be the newcomer out there in Tennessee,
and she's willing to do that because California just made
it too hard. One by one. Companies and families both
are just seeing California for exactly what it's become and
they don't want any part of it. Weather's still great,

(24:16):
Weather's fantastic in California. I will give them that. Cool nights,
warm days for the most part, especially along the coast,
you get that Pacific Ocean cooler water over there. The
Gulf of Mexico is a like a backyard spa. In August,

(24:36):
that water, the surface water along the beachfront from now
through about the end of August is going to be
around ninety degrees more days than not. That's hot. The
water in California is closer to the sixties and down
into the fifties in wintertime because those deeper Pacific Ocean

(24:59):
currents and then far further up, just farther up geographically
farther north, all run cold. It's for surfers will understand this.
We are most of the year. You don't have to
wear any sort of neoprene at all. In California, it's
pretty much full wetsuits. Unless it's just a scorching summer

(25:21):
day down in San Diego. That's about your only shot there.
And then, guy, as if that wasn't the only reason
to leave California, mercy. Lots of regular people there are great,
and even they are just moving out now. They just
can't stand it. They just can't stand it. Policies and

(25:42):
taxes and their defiance of federal law not so great. Boy.
Speaking of speaking of where is it, I've got this.
I want to get to this real quickly here. If
I can find it, I can do it. I think
I can do it even without the paperwork. Los Angeles
Marriage Karen Bass has told ICE agents she wants them

(26:03):
out of her city. She's telling federal she the mayor
of Los Angeles, is telling federal law enforcement that she
doesn't want them around there and thinking that's gonna dissuade them.
The problem that she's got is she's ramped it up.
She's taking it to another level now and filed an

(26:25):
fo A FOIA request Freedom of Information Act request to
identify these agents, which she knows full well is going
to put them and their families in serious danger. That's
the only reason she would want or need that information
is to basically threaten them and in a sideways manner,

(26:50):
tell them if they don't leave, they're gonna be in
harm's way. Why don't that really bothers me? That really
bothers me. To deliberately identify the men and women who
are federal law enforcement federal law enforcement people who are
there doing a dangerous job trying to apprehend people who've
been ordered out of here. She ought to be ashamed

(27:13):
of herself. The majority of people in our country favor
what's happening there, and most Americans are feeling more positive
about the path we're on right now. She needs to
take a step back and hush her mouth and withdraw
that request. Ut House Institute on Aging is a fantastic
collaborative among more than a thousand providers around here who

(27:36):
all have gotten additional training to whatever got them their diploma,
whatever got them their title, so that they can apply
all of that knowledge specifically to seniors and our needs.
That's a tremendous asset here, and nobody will I can't say.
I can't say nobody because there are a couple of
other similar attempts at what's been done here, but this

(27:57):
was one of the first. It's more than ten years
old now to where these all of these providers agree
to really dial in on how seniors bodies work, how
seniors' minds work, how rehab works for seniors versus younger people.
And they do an excellent job of helping out. Plus,

(28:17):
they have a tremendous website with almost endless resources, all
of which are of great value to you and me
and anybody else our age who wants to live a
better life. Most of them in the med center, as
you might imagine, but they also work in outlying areas,
in hospitals and clinics and offices all over the region,

(28:38):
so that anybody who needs to be seen by one
of them can be uth dot edu slash agent. Go
to that website, look around uth dot edu slash aging.

Speaker 1 (28:52):
Old guys rule, and of course women never get old.
If you want to avoid sleeping on the couch.

Speaker 2 (29:00):
I think that sounds like a good plan.

Speaker 1 (29:02):
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug Hi Welcome back.
Final segment of the program starts right now. I cannot
hear that song anymore ever, without thinking of Saturday Night
Live and the Christopher Walking version.

Speaker 2 (29:20):
That was well done, well played. It was kind of funny.
It was really funny. It wasn't kind of funny. It
was really funny, all right. By the way, I want
to go to one more of these and then we're
gonna lighten this load up a little bit. From the
illegal immigrant desk, yet another law enforcement officer ambushed and
shot by two Dominican nationals. So I think we're planning

(29:43):
to rob him. He was out of uniform, he was
off duty, and he just mining his own business and
two guys roll up on a little ATV and getting
a gunfight with this man. He got shot in the
face in the forum. He's gonna be Okay's gonna be okay,
but not really. He's not gonna be back where he

(30:05):
was before he got shot in the face, in the arm.
He got one of the bad guys too, didn't didn't
take him out. But I think they Yeah, In fact,
I'm almost positive they've caught up with these two knuckleheads
and gotten them off the street. That these guys had
more than a dozen arrests. They were let in here
and they knew about them since the prior administration racked

(30:32):
up more than a dozen arrests, most of them for
violent crimes, for some pretty bad stuff. They weren't just
shoplifting cigarettes out of the local convenience store. They were
hurting people. They were stabbing people, they were shooting people,
and they were bad guys. That could have turned out

(30:54):
a whole lot worse. It didn't turn out good, but
it could have turned out a whole lot worse. They
were up for deportation too, but they kept avoiding capture
until they ended up shooting a law enforcement person. That's
messed up. So messed up that one is, okay, Oh

(31:15):
oh no, I gotta tell you about this. Will Have
you ever seen robots play soccer? And if you if
you say yes, I'm gonna be shocked. Yes or not?
Thumb you have you've seen that? Oh my gosh, I
saw a version of that a soccer match videoed in Beijing,

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a competition between opposing teams of robots, three to a side,
about three and a half feet tall. And I'm just
guessing based on the height of the actual people who
also were on this little miniature field, maybe about the

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size of a pickleball court. Yeah, and maybe a little
bit bigger than pick a ball court, but not much.
And anyway, they so there. They are not running, by
the way and chasing this ball. There's a there's a
soccer ball on the field, and they're more more than running.
What they're doing is kind of shuffling. And I'm not

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picking on the guy for it, but he's the best
example I've got right now, moving their feet and moving
forward about like President Biden did during the final six
or eight weeks he was in office and making appearances.
It's a shuffling of feet. And if you see that video,
you'll understand why I chose that as the example. It
was all it was almost painful to watch this and

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kind of an insult to actual human soccer the movements.
This audience is old enough, will wouldn't remember the game.
This the football game that you plugged in and you
put these little these little players on the field and
then you flip the switch on. In the entire little

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field about not much bigger than a sheet of pap well,
it was bigger than a sheet of paper. It was
maybe two feet by a foot, let's call it. The
field was I'll wrap that in quotes. And when you
flipped the switch. The whole thing just vibrated. And these
little players were on plastic plastic mounts, if you will,
that had like feathered plastic underneath, and they would just

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vibrate and move all over the field. The guy might
the guy carrying the ball might turn around and run
the other way. You might go to the left, might
go to the right, might fall over. And that was
entertainment back then, and that's kind of what this reminded
me of. It was so slow and so boring. And

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when one of them finally actually turned the right direction
and nudged the ball into the goal, two or three
people in the stands actually jumped up and raised their
arms over their heads. I don't get that. I just
don't get it. So I'm gonna tell you it. Let
me scratch that out. I apologize for taking up your

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time to hear that. It was just that bad. Oh
by the way, from the Coldplay concert kiss cam desk,
no read. There's no reason to talk about that.

Speaker 1 (34:16):
Really.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
I don't know anybody who hasn't seen this yet. It
is just super cringey and super embarrassing for everyone involved.
That single moment changed a lot of lives, and not
for the better. Just a cautionary word. Remember that if
you are in public, you have no expectation of privacy,

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especially if you're outside. Anybody who's outside can video anything
they can see. And I've seen enough videos talking about that.
There are people who actually go all over the country
just annoying other people by doing that. They'll stand outside
of a store in video ors front door, and the
store owners always come out and say we don't want

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you videoing here, and and the people video and say
you can't stop me. I'm in a public space. And
it just goes on and on and on. But the
bottom line is, if you're out there and somebody's got
a camera, somebody's video and everything that's going on. And
if that, if that's somebody wants to put it on
air or put it on social media, they can do that.

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And once it's there, then somebody's gonna screenshot it. And
once it's screenshot it's there forever. Just mind your p's
and q's. You don't want to get caught with the
wrong person. You don't want to get caught like that. So,
speaking of there was a a call to the lawn

(35:50):
call somebody send the rescue squad. Please send the rescue
squad called nine one one said a person was trapped
in a canal. Well, the person who made the call
probably didn't get quite close enough to see that the
person in the canal was actually just a life size

(36:11):
blow up doll somebody had discarded. I guess, I don't know,
Maybe it just ran away. Ah, there'sm I've got time for.
I got time for a little bit, uh to a
couple of cool fun facts to know and tell if
you go to a party and it gets kind of quiet.
That one I've already told you about in Europe. This

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is something that I bet Will Melbourne as knowledgeable as
he is about little just oddball facts, but I bet
he doesn't have this one. In Europe. Cool ranch doritos
are called cool American doritos. Did you know that? Will?
I did not either. That's why I'm sharing it with
this audience. And finally, oh yeah, I got twenty seconds.

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Things that people think are gonna go obsolete in the
next fifty years, charging cables, dental work, trash, how has
that become obsolete? I don't know. And toilet paper. I
think the trash will go long before that. That's all
for today. We'll be back tomorrow. Thanks for listening. Audios