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Today, Doug Pike discusses news from around the world.

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? You remember when social media was truly social?

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey John, how's it going today? Well, this show is
all about you.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike. Helpful information on
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Speaker 2 (00:45):
Hi, Welcome to Wednesday. Thank you all for joining us
here in the middle of the day. We'll go to
one more hour in the middle of the day and
see where it goes from there. In breaking tragic news,
and I'm sure most of you who listen to the
radio have already heard about it. Some I don't know
what you know so far. But I just talked to

(01:07):
Ethan Buchanan from the KTRH newsroom. He's been covering this
story for us over on KTRH. He stopped by my
desk to let me know that the current count of
people shot and killed or injured up in Minneapolis at
that Catholic school. These kids were attending mass and this

(01:27):
person who law enforcements say now had intimate knowledge of
the facility, which leads me to think perhaps maybe former student.
I'm not sure. I don't even know how old that
person was. I do know that he has been what
they described as contained by law enforcement and poses no

(01:49):
threat to anybody anymore. The totals now two children dead
so far, two more critical, among seventeen injured, fourteen of
whom are kids. There's just not that much about the
guy who did this, except that he was contained. Like
I said, everybody's scared to use the word killed. Everybody

(02:12):
scared to use the word dead. For some reason. On
social media they actually substitute unalive now for dead and
unalived for killed, and I, for the life of me,
I cannot figure out why. I don't understand that. I
don't know why we've become so sensitive to things that
go on around us that just don't make us, that

(02:34):
make us uncomfortable. We should be able to talk about
uncomfortable things and use the proper words for him instead
of having to make up make up words like unalive. Uh.
This day needs to dry up in a hurry, by
the way, or it's going to ruin my afternoon plans.
I'll keep you posted by the way if I I'll
check with Ethan during the break, maybe maybe at the

(02:57):
bottom of the hour, and see if there's any other
news from up there in Minnesota. I hope it's that
some of these kids are gonna be okay. I really do.
Scattered showers keep popping up here and there around here,
and a big one actually popped up this morning over
the golf course. I'm supposed supposed to play in about
two and a half or three hours with a couple

(03:17):
of good clients. On the plus side, temperatures are going
to be a little more tolerable behind these showers. But
on the minu side, if you've lived here for more
than an hour and a half, you already know this.
The humidity after these things, these afternoon showers, especially when
the world's had a chance to heat up a little bit.
You get the humidity behind one of those showers, and

(03:39):
it's just like you have to wear a snorkel to
walk to the mailbox through the roof. We'll get to
fall sooner or later, hopefully sooner. I've had about enough
of this in market news from roughly ninety minutes ago
because I kept checking these other stories on the way
in here, all four indicators were comfortably into the grin.

(04:00):
I would call it as we're gold and oil. Unfortunately,
I guess well might go up a Nickela gallon at
some point. There's a lot of algorithmic trading going on
these past few days and has been for years now. Actually,
you got these giant rooms full of high capacity mega
computers that use stuff you and I probably wouldn't understand

(04:23):
really to determine when to buy, when to sell. And
that's how the overwhelming majority of trades are made on
Wall Street these days. The tickers and the guys in
the room with the sheets of paper and all that
stuff that's antique, that's window dressing for what really happens
and really moves the markets. It's remarkable how all that

(04:45):
stuff works. It really is. Got all these computers grabbing
up stocks they expect to rise and shedding stocks they
think are at some sort of peak in their value,
and they'll they'll grab little bitty pieces of money. Doesn't
have to go up much from a buy yesterday for
them to trigger a cell, and it doesn't have to
go down much to trigger a buy. They work in increments,

(05:09):
and it's kind of a slow and steady approach rather
than buying something you think is going to get great
all of a sudden or not all of a sudden,
but over the long term and having to wait ten
or fifteen years to see if you made money. They
make their money or lose it at the drop of
a hat. And because these algorithms are so sophisticated, they

(05:30):
usually win more than they lose. What else do I
want to say about that? Oh, by the way, I'm
seeing more and more Facebook posts now from people whose
algorithm strategies they say they claim can make you a
millionaire overnight. That reminds me that Steve Martin bit about
how you can become a millionaire. You too, can become

(05:52):
a millionaire. First get a million dollars, so how he
went at it, And that's basically what they say. You'll
be able to do, dude, if and only if you
sign up for their strategy using their program, which is
just gonna cost you a little bit, you know, at
a low introductory price, just for you to learn this

(06:13):
secret way of making money in the market. Everybody wants
a piece of free cheese, don't they. Everybody wants it.
The only person who makes money on that stuff is
a guy who sells it to you, who sells you
the formula, sells you access to the computer, because it's
only as good as a person who wrote the algorithms,
and they're not all good. They can't be. Otherwise the

(06:36):
market would only go up probably uh in little things,
you know. No, I'm gonna wait. I want to sit
on this because once I get started with what I
want to say, it's gonna take a little while, so
I'm gonna move over to something a little less. I'll
give you some good news right now, good cancer news,
which is it seems somewhat oxymoronic, but there are some

(06:59):
can your drugs that had been around now for the
better part of twenty years and have been re engineered, retooled,
so to speak, and guess what, the new and improved
versions are actually eliminating aggressive tumors. In early trials, the
original form of the drug didn't work terribly well on
the cancers that was supposed to treat and had serious

(07:21):
side effects to boot, so they just kind of hung
around and it was used in special cases and whatnot,
but it never really panned out. This new one testing
two people, one of whom had a malignant melanoma, the
other had breast cancer both of their In both patients,

(07:42):
the tumors disappeared, they didn't shrink, They're gone. So hope
springs eternal. That might who knows, that might be the
next best thing. I hope it is, because cancer is
really ugly. That's what took my mother. Ut Health Institute
on AG is a place where you can go to
be helped with any in every medical condition you could

(08:04):
possibly have by people who know any and every medical condition.
We could possibly have a little bit better than the
average provider as to how that works with seniors, whatever
their discipline, whatever, got in that diploma on the wall,
they've gone back and gott an additional education so they

(08:25):
can apply that knowledge specifically to us. And that's kind
of a big deal. I bet there are on a
half a dozen places in the country where you can
find more than a thousand providers. I think it is.
I don't know exactly the number. I still haven't asked,
but it's a lot of people. I've interviewed most of them.
I've interviewed a very large number of people, many of

(08:45):
whom most of whom are associated with the Institute on Aging,
and every time I do, I learn something about myself,
and I hope you guys learn something too. Go to
the website. You'll learn plenty there about how to take
care of yourself and if you need to help, how
to go find it. Amongst these members of the Institute
on Aging uth dot edu slash aging is the website

(09:08):
ut H dot edu slash aging. What's life without a net?
If I suggest to go to bed, sleep it off.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
Just wait until the show's over, Sleepy. Back to Dougpike
as fifty plus continues.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
Very kind of a sloppy day. Early, I think it's
it's lifted off. I called out for my to where
I'm headed shortly after our button up over here, and
they said, yeah, come on out. It's gonna be yucky,
but it's doable. So that's good enough for me. So
let me get back into this topic I wanted to

(09:43):
kind of deal with today about little things that have
just allowed our country to find itself in a big
fat hole created by the former administration and by really
even more years than that. Of these little concessions we've
made here and there to appease mostly kind of just
loudmouthed micro groups of people who fancy themselves more important

(10:06):
than the rest of us. Little kids, for example, included
here because they're being methodically and deliberately brainwashed to not
like in fact, to just be totally against conservatism. I
found a story this morning that kind of shares what
I'm talking about. Over in Florida, a woman spoke out

(10:28):
in a school board meeting against a book in a
school library that she found age inappropriate and wanted removed.
And that went kind of back and forth for a
good amount of time, and in retaliation for her speaking
out and no other reason, she came to find out
her six year old son was not being allowed to

(10:50):
sit next to his best friend on the school bus
just because his mother spoke against the will of the
board at a board meeting. Her older son's history teacher
actually labeled that boy a Nazi file simply because he

(11:11):
showed interest in ROTC. He was interested in a military
start basically ROTC the opportunity to become part of something
associated with our military, and this woman called him a
what was it, a something not Nazi file. She even
went so far. This is how far it's gone, these

(11:33):
little things that become big things because they don't get
addressed early enough. She created a certificate at some website,
had printed it out and had the child that kid
named most likely to become a dictator. This is a
kid in grade school, and tried to get him to

(11:55):
come to the front of the class to receive it,
which he refused to do. By the way, is credit.
And honestly, that teacher shouldn't teach another minute. And anybody
who says she should ought to go with her little
school district, little attention given to it, and little or
no interest in teaching. Apparently among the administrators and the teachers. Somebody,

(12:17):
somebody's about to get the pants suit off of them,
I bet. And it's not the mom or her sons
either for that type of thing to happen in a school,
in a public school, especially taxpayer dollars. No, not right.
This stubborn persistence is kind of It's not only restricted

(12:38):
to our country either, over in Australia. In Australia, a
fraction of that country's Australian Football League fans are just
over the top outrage that Snoop Dog is so far
at least still scheduled to present what I presume their
equivalent of the of the super Bowl trophy, it'd be
the League trophy over there on Grand Final Day, they

(13:01):
call it. And why are these people so upset that
Snoop Dogg's doing it? Because he's being called out because
he called out Disney for what he thinks good happens,
another spam call coming in. Put that phone over there.
They are upset with him because he called out Disney
for what he believes is a strong LGBTQ plus theme

(13:24):
in nearly every one of that corporation's recent movies. He
took his grandson to see light Year. Okay, took his
grandson to see a Disney movie, light Year. I don't
know anything about it. And somewhere during that movie, apparently
the little boy had to ask his grandpa because he
didn't have any idea. He had to ask his grandpa

(13:45):
how two women could have a baby. Now, that's a
lot to unpack when you was trying to bomb with
your grandson. And so what Snoop said in the interview
is this interview he had that got everybody all worked up.
He said, I'm scared to go to the movies like
y'all throwing me in the middle of blank that I
don't have an answer for. He was just there, he said,

(14:05):
he was just there to enjoy a kid's movie with
his grandson. And the haters are all over the place.
They're either speculating that he's going to be bounced from
that role as presenter, or they're demanding that he be bouncing.
They're saying he's homophobic. But what he said wasn't homophobic.
He just said he didn't want to have to explain
something that complex to his grandson while he's in a

(14:28):
movie theater on a Saturday afternoon, eating popcorn and watching
watching a movie that's entirely different from what they're accusing
him of. It really is very easy to separate the two,
and I doubt that he. I doubt that he, as
an adult, has any issue with that. Really, he's in
a world where he's around a lot of that, and
it's it's just it doesn't bother me. What anybody wants

(14:48):
to be or do or whatever outside of here or
outside of in their own world, that's fine with me.
I just don't anyway. But wait, there's more. Actually, there's
more insanity to share from around the world in Scotland.
I don't know how many of you've heard this story.
I think Ethan actually said he covered it a little
bit this morning. One of many European countries that have

(15:11):
welcomed unlimited and unvetted illegal immigrants onto their continent, videos
emerge of two young girls fourteen and twelve sisters being
threatened by grown men who are not in any way,
shape or formed Scottish or even from the British Empire.
The older girl screams for these guys to leave her
little sister alone, that she's only twelve, and at one

(15:32):
point in the video, when the younger girl is off camera,
she's been kind of separated from her sister. The second
girl shouts, don't blank and punch my sister. And then,
on the heels of record numbers of migrant rapes of
young British girls that are going on over there all
the time, now apparently with virtually no help from police either,

(15:54):
these girls have begun carrying weapons and big sister just
happened to have a knife and a hatchet which she
produced and scared away the attackers. And guess what happened,
Wait for it, What do you think happened? What do
you think is the logical thing? That would have happened.
Logic says they would have rounded up the guys who
who try who threatened those girls. But that's not what

(16:16):
happened in Scotland. No, they arrested her for having those weapons,
and I presume they arrested her for I guess, trying
not to be raped. That's just unthinkable. I don't know
how in the world this world has gotten so far
off its axis, so far off civility and courtesy and respect.

(16:42):
It's mostly young men doing this stuff too. It's not
seventy eighty year old guys walking around trying to trying
to get a smooch off a little girl. If it were,
that would probably be even worse. These are young men
full of testosterone and feeling their oats because they know
that the law isn't going to do anything to them,

(17:05):
even for raping little girls. It's an epidemic over there.
From what I've been reading. It happens all too often
when it should never happen at all. The girl, the
fourteen year old girl arrested for trying to protect her
sister and keep the two of them from getting raped
by a gang of thugs who are in that country

(17:28):
illegally almost certainly from what I'm reading as well, it's horrible.
It's just horrible. I'll get into why I think that
happens and why it shouldn't happen in the next segment.
I want to finish this one off since I've only
got about a minute and ten with something let's see.
Oh and about face for Cracker Barrel. This may have

(17:48):
been one of the wisest, most carefully planned out moves
in a long time if it was done that way,
kind of like the what is her name? Sidney Sweeney
with American Eagle jeans Cracker Barrel. Cracker Barrel was all
up in social media. You couldn't you couldn't open any

(18:09):
social media platform without somebody ranting and raving over Cracker
Barrel changing its logo. Well, guess what they're scrapping those plans.
I bet they didn't have I bet they didn't have
anything printed up yet with that new logo. They just
they just kind of put it on the put it
on Facebook to see what would happen. And it happened,

(18:29):
and they've turned around. Uh, there's a quote in there
that says, we said we would listen and we have
we look forward to welcoming you. Welcoming you to our
table soon. Yeah, I'll go back. I'll eat a cracker barrel.
That's some of the best food when you're hungry and
you want something that's as close to home cooked as

(18:49):
you can get. I like cracker barrel, I like cheddars,
I like where else. There's two or three of them. Oh,
whatever happened, we'll I'm trying to think of what it was.
There was another one that my wife and I used
to go to. Oh good lord, I'm late. All right,
we'll be back in a little bit. On the way out,
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(19:12):
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(19:35):
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(19:56):
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(20:17):
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(20:39):
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Speaker 1 (20:57):
Now, they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them, check his words,
and spring on a fresh cod o wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, welcome back to
fifty plus. Thanks for listening. Certainly do appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (21:13):
The HM, where do I want to go? I'll go
back to the serious stuff a little bit, back to
the subject of immigration. Really, nearly every country in this
world welcomes migrants, and has throughout its history most of
them anyway, And they welcome migrants who follow the rules

(21:33):
of law along their path, presumably to citizenship in that country,
or at least some effort to learn and respect the
culture into which they've immersed themselves for work or retirement
or whatever it is. Sadly, though, of late, there's been
this tsunami of illegal immigration in recent years around the

(21:53):
world that's left a lot of places almost helpless against
the people they've allowed to come into their country, and
at least in our case, take extreme advantage of social services,
many of which aren't even available to Americans. That's what
drives me crazy. People who sneak in here, they have
no legal right to be here, and they're treated like kings.

(22:16):
And so you get a free phone, you get free transportation,
if you want to go to a different city, you
get a hotel, you get to choose what kind of
bed you want, you get three hot meals a day.
There's a whole lot of people, a whole lot of
Americans who don't have any of that. They're they're barely

(22:37):
making ends meet, and a lot of Americans living on
the street, especially a lot of our a lot of
our veterans are homeless, while we give fancy hotel rooms
in New York City to people who just found their
way here cover of darkness. Whatever. Uh, it's it's bothers

(22:58):
me tremendously. A friend made a trip friend of mine
made a trip to Canada recently and came back with
news that where he was for five or six days,
it's pretty clear that Canadians were no longer really in
charge of that area or comfortable walking around in it.
But if they speak out against the immigrants, and then
they're criticized and they're ridiculed, and they're shamed for not

(23:20):
being sensitive, not being empathetic, and there's no justification for
the criticism because the people they're talking about aren't even
lawfully in that country. Just the same as we had
millions upon millions of people get into our country the
past four years. Thank god, the border's closed up now, right,

(23:44):
Same in Great Britain, same over much of Europe, same
in even some pockets of our own country. There are
places in this country where Americans who go there, maybe
walk down the wrong street, turn into the wrong neighborhood
or whatever, are made to feel unwelcome. And there I
will say that in this case, there's not a lot

(24:07):
of violence. There's not a lot of get out of here,
or we're gonna beat you up, But it's just a
sense of like, I just don't feel comfortable here. I
think we should we should just go away and leave
them alone. And that's, of course, unless you choose to
follow the rules of that place. Migration used to be
a path to I see it as a path to

(24:31):
gradual assimilation, not an abandonment of that person's original culture.
That's not right. We can't expect everybody to just give
up everything they grew up with and everything they were
grew up to feel about their heritage and whatnot. That
would be wrong. But what I see it as is
kind of an effort to blend the old with the new,

(24:53):
and to learn the language too. That's That's something that's
always frustrated me is that if if you go into
someplace like the DMV, you can get a form to
fill out in fifteen twenty thirty different languages. There was
a There's been a lot of discussion about this, and

(25:15):
I wouldn't mind seeing some more discussion about it to
try and make sure that people who are here really
want to be here enough to learn the language. That's
I don't know that that's too much to ask. I
don't think it is, really, especially if they want to
truly immerse themselves and take full advantage of what remains
I guess of the American dream. It's getting harder and

(25:37):
harder for a lot of people to make it anywhere.
Government forms, man, don't get me started. I gotta go
get a government form filled out here pretty soon and
go get some paperwork for something I want to do
in the near future. Let's see if I can get
that done. Going back to where I was. By the way,
if you're going to be a truck driver, you need

(25:58):
to learn what the signs mean. Don't make illegal turns
and kill people. I'm still learning new stuff about that case.
And I saw speaking of that guy, that horrific crash
that killed three people and should have killed anybody. That
guy shouldn't have been driving. We've already learned that he

(26:20):
failed a written test. He couldn't answer, I think, but
like two of twelve questions about driving a tractor trailer
truck he wasn't able to identify but a handful a
couple of signs of road signs and traffic signs. He
couldn't handle that, And yet California gave him a commercial

(26:42):
driver's license. I saw a video, there's a video at
the Daily Mail website now of him, same guy being
issued a citation in New Mexico, standing next to his
big old truck, his first ticket. He's talking about that,
trying to talk about it with the patrolman or officer
or what trooper whatever. He was, and he understands almost

(27:06):
nothing that the trooper's telling him, and the trooper can't
understand the truck driver any better than to know that
this is just this guy's first ticket. And that was
back in July, and what a month and a half later,
three people dead. It's very frustrating. It really is not frustrating.

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(27:50):
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Speaker 1 (28:53):
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Speaker 2 (29:01):
I think that sounds like a good plant.

Speaker 1 (29:03):
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug.

Speaker 2 (29:06):
Thank you for listening. I certainly do appreciate it. On
this Wednesday afternoon, ten minutes to the top of the hour,
and that means I've got about seven minutes, maybe eight.
I've got seven minutes left to go through a couple
of interesting things. I'm not gonna, not gonna go dark again.
I'm not gonna go dreary and gloomy. I don't have

(29:27):
any updates from what happened up there in Minnesota, so
I don't want to go there. So instead I will
I will lead with some some very good news from
Australia actually by way of Ohio, and i'll tie I'll
button all this up here right now. An Australian woman
who traveled to our country two years ago lost her iPad.

(29:50):
Doesn't say how, but my hunch is it got stolen
from somewhere. It probably got stolen or at least ended
up in the wrong hands, and then much much later,
like about a year ago. I think it was close
to a year ago, Yeah, it was. She got an
alert on her phone that the iPad had been turned on.

(30:15):
Whoa what do you know? Been turned on for the
first time in more than a year. And it was
in Columbus, Ohio. You know what's missing from that story?
And I recognized it as soon as I got to Columbus, Ohio.
Was It doesn't say where she was. It doesn't say
where she was when she lost it or had it
stolen or whatever. Bottom line is now, all of a sudden,

(30:38):
a year later it's in Hillard, Ohio wherever that is.
She found the address and she shared all of this
on social media to see if anybody anywhere, especially in Ohio,
could kind of help her figure out where this thing
was pinging. And they found the address and it turns
out it was at and uh, an electronics recycling shop

(31:02):
in that town. And seven days ago from this morning
is when I saw the story. A week ago, an
employee at E Cycles saw that post and with a
little confirming information about the device, including its serial number,
which she had, which is a good thing to have,

(31:22):
by the way, a very good thing to have if
you need to lay claim to something you think is
yours and the person who has it is going to
do the right thing and make sure you're not trying
to steal it. I don't have any idea what the
serial number to my iPad is, or to my wife's

(31:43):
or to my sons, or to my laptop or to
my work laptop. I have no idea what those serial
numbers are. But I'm gonna go home, I think, tonight,
and write them all down just in case I ever
go to Australia and my iPad gets stolen. Anyway, they
packed it up and shipped it back to her all
the way back to Australia. So that's some good news
for her. Good news for her. By the way, if

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you are interested as and things are kind of heating
up around here, it's getting pretty full. But I still
have room for one presenting sponsor for this program, and
I still have room for maybe what do you think
maybe two more? Will two more? Just sponsors and good,
good clients that I could talk to and work with.

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And you don't have to You don't have to call
anybody else. You don't have to call the switchboard, you
don't have to call some eight hundred number. You can
contact me directly and kind of eliminate the middleman and
work with me. I've been doing this. I've been doing
this for gosh, doing this on fifty plus the whole
time we've been around, that's ten plus years. And then
I started taking good care of people I knew and

(32:52):
people I wanted to work with, carrying a short list
for my outdoor show as well. And I make sure
that I make sure that you get top top treatment.
That's all I do with the good people who come
on here and share their businesses with my listeners. That's
the very least I could do for you, it really is,
and I greatly appreciate the opportunity to do that. So

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just to email me Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com.
It's very simple, Doug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com, and
I'll share the details. I'm going to talk to a
guy probably tomorrow morning. I've got to arrange that little
meeting and this will be something that will appeal to
I would say probably at least half of this audience,
and hopefully we can do a little business. Who knows

(33:37):
I'm going to interview the guy one way or the other.
That's something else too. When I'm talking to two small
business owners, I like to hear their stories, and I'm
perfectly happy with most businesses to just share your story
with my audience at least once come on and have
a nice interview with you, and make sure that my
audience knows what you do and why you do it

(33:59):
and how you're going to treat them when they get there.
There is a New York Post story that says the
hottest new trend in fitness is running and jumping on
all fours like animals. You ever done that? Will please
put your thumb down. Thank you. I haven't either, and
I have no intention to do. I've actually seen it
on social media and it you know, it looks like

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it's working out your whole body. But then again, so
if I'm doing that and I blow out my age,
it's just like you're running around like a horse on
all your feet in your hands. But here's the deal.
If you tear your acl do you have to be
put down? That's what I want to know, because if so,
I'm not doing it. Uh from the my car won't

(34:45):
start desk. I love this one. I'm just gonna kind
of get to the end with several of these. Thirty
four year old woman in Iowa is in a heap
of trouble with the law. She was at a gas
station and one by one asking customers if they would
blow into her interlock device, which won't allow her car

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to start unless she's sober. She said she hadn't been drinking,
but her blood alcohol content, Hey, what is it? Point eight?
That's the limit? She was at point three five one,
So yeah, I think it's like four times in change

(35:28):
over the limit. I've got time for one more. Let
me think, Oh, this made me feel kind of sorry
for the guy who did it. Uh custom birthday cake
on TikTok's going viral because the handwriting in the message
on the cake is so poor. It does say Happy
Birthday Steve, but the caption underneath says the kid behind

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the counter said, I'm sorry. I did my best. Might
have been his first cake. Maybe they let him him
start with Happy Birthday Steve and not some lengthy special message. No,
I'm not gonna do that. I'll hold that for tomorrow.
Tell you well, we'll get out of here right on time.

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Looking yap for about ten more seconds. Holiday weekend coming up.
I hope you have good plans. I hope they all
work out for you. It looks like it's going to
clear up and get a little dryer for the weekend,
so that'll work. We'll talk again tomorrow. Thanks for listening
to Audios.