Will Social Security Be There?

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, only the good die.
This is fifty plus with Doug Pipe. Helpful information on
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(00:42):
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Speaker 2 (00:52):
Welcome one and all to fifty plus the Tuesday edition
of the program. Thank you all for joining me. I
am really appreciate of each and every one of you
who not only listen to the show, but also bring
in new listeners. As you meet people, talk to people whatever.
Anytime the conversation might turn towards stuff that's of interest

(01:13):
to those of us who are seniors. I would greatly
appreciate it if you would let people know just where
to find the show. Looking at the weather forecast, it
still kind of a no rain, plenty of warmth forecast
going at least for another few days, almost to the
point of too much of this, although I'll reserve that
description for when it really heats up around here. For now,

(01:35):
I think we just need to be thankful that the
hurricane killing Saharan dust is wrapping itself around us. You're
going to have to wash your car a little bit more,
and if you have any kind of respiratory issues, you
might want to think about staying inside for a little while,
at least limiting your time outside. Maybe even go back
to wearing a mask a little bit if you really

(01:57):
have respiratory problems, that might not be a bad idea,
to be perfectly honest. In any event, we'll move forward here.
I made a decision over the weekend to kind of
back off of the stock market reports and the oil
reports and whatnot in Gold, just because the information is
so readily available and I don't want to I don't

(02:20):
want to overstep any boundaries that there may be on
somebody like me, just an average average guy paying attention
to these things but not really understanding them enough to
give you any more information than I believe my intelligent
audience would already have so no more of that, really,
And I guess what I'll do now is just kind

(02:41):
of move into something that mattered to me when I
looked at it. Looking around the world. It runs leadership
wherever it may be hiding, needs to get a grip
on the members of its military who are acting like
little spoiled children and just continue to lob drones and
missiles all around the Middle East. Find an agreement to
stop shooting at each other not that long ago, and

(03:04):
so instead of shooting at us now, they're shooting at
their neighbors who happen to be our allies, and they're
just they just continue to poke the bear. And that
big old Golden bear is not going to put up
with this for very much longer. I'm pretty sure my
gut tells me that President Trump is getting very close
to the fool around and find out phase of what

(03:27):
this conflict's going to be. And Iran continues to fool around,
continues to fire missiles and drones at chips in the
Strait of Hormuz at neighboring countries that happen to be
allies of ours, So technically they don't fire at US assets,
but indirectly they're just poking the bear. And what they

(03:49):
don't realize is that when President Trump reacts to what
they're doing, he's going to react in a way like
no other president they've dealt with. Has hasn't changed at all.
But what's changed is the man who is in charge
of making this problem go away. One thing that's been
a source of frustration for me is how when when

(04:10):
it Ron fires a missile at a ship, Let's say,
we go destroy a bunker that holds a bunch of
their missiles, so we knew where those missiles were, but
we didn't destroy them before they went ahead and fired
off another one. I'm pretty sure we know where most,
if not all, of their missiles are hidden. And I'm
about ready to drop something on every one of those

(04:30):
armories and just wipe them out. So long as we're
concentrating on military targets and not on civilian infrastructure, let
them fall, Just let them fall. The only thing these
Iranian regimes have responded to and understand for years and
years and decades and centuries two things. Actually, that's money

(04:51):
and force. And they're probably more fond of money than
they are scared of force. And I would frankly like
to see our present apply sufficient force to the point
that they just can't. They just can't find anything so
much as a bottle rocket to fire at their neighbors
or at our ships anymore. And by the way, in

(05:12):
addition to ditching the market report that I have done
for so very long, and unless somebody, maybe somebody sends
me an email and says, hey, we want that back, Okay,
I'll try to figure out a way to do that.
But I genuinely believe that our time is better spent
on things that matter more to us. Most of us

(05:33):
in seniority have we have the money we need to
get buy maybe not in a lavish lifestyle, but at
least we have some money. And probably not too many
of us are ready to buy pounds of gold or
anything like that, which leaves the price of oil. And
you and I and everybody else can monitor the price
of oil either by going online anytime during the day

(05:56):
or just looking at the gasoline pump prices. So moving
forward and coming up next in the program, I'm going
to talk a little bit about social security and as
yet another thing that I think is way more important
than the price of oil. To this audience, and we'll
do that when we get back from this first break.
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next on fifty plus. Stick around all right, Welcome back
to fifty plus, and thanks for hanging around with us today.
In this segment, I want to dig in a little
bit too do social Security and just thinking of things
that are of high importance to us. I really wanted

(08:06):
to talk about a decline in retirement confidence that kind
of goes along with this among lots of Americans. Really,
and straight up, if the Left gains political power in November,
I'll be a whole lot more concerned then than I
am now about the future of Social Security and about
my retirement confidence. Seniors in the higher earning category got

(08:28):
a little boost with President Trump's Big Beautiful Bill a
while back in the form of about a six thousand
dollars tax deduction on their Social Security earnings. On the
other hand, though low earning seniors kind of felt left out,
I gain't left behind a little bit. And don't forget
that the Social Security wage cap got bumped all the

(08:49):
way up to one hundred and eighty four five hundred dollars,
which is great for people who earn more, but doesn't
really help the folks who make less, which is really
kind of a high percentage of if you ask me,
I don't know a whole lot of guys who make
one hundred and eighty four plus, But that doesn't really
matter to me at all. What makes makes me anxious

(09:09):
a little bit is the notion that if the Left
gets in, there may be no more Social Security because
they're gonna start giving things to people who just waltz
into the country when they reopen the borders, which is,
by the way, something else we're going to talk about
this afternoon. But sticking on topic back to Social Security.
For twenty twenty six, social Security is going to take

(09:32):
six point two percent of what you make up to
that number of one eighty four to five, and then
the rest is all yours. But it doesn't raise your
future retirement benefits, and I'm okay with that part as
long as they're not taking more money now. As for
when to start taking Social Security, other than just starting now,
because you're not sure how long it's gonna be available,

(09:52):
or you don't know how long you're gonna last, it's
probably best to ask a legitimate financial advisor or maybe AI,
which actually look at your income and your knees and
your expenses and whatnot, and offer up a fairly accurate
chart of just how much you might gain or lose
overall by reaching into the Social Security purse a little

(10:13):
earlier or maybe a little later. My money guy told
me a couple of years ago that if I waited
longer than I did to start taking Social Security, I'd
have to live to something like ninety two to just
get back to a break even point. So I said,
pay me now. I'd rather have that money now and
rather use it. Maybe if I find a little extra

(10:36):
somewhere and vest it somewhere. Yeah, just show me the money,
let's put it in my account, and I'll move on
from there. I also wanted to talk a little bit
early here in the program about aging in place. This
is something that a lot of people don't really talk
much about sometimes until it's kind of too late to
do anything about it. And I know some people who

(10:57):
have been kind of left in that, in the lurch
like that and just not really not really thought about
when they were going to move out, if they were
going to move out. They just kind of keep living
where they're living and hoping they're going to be okay,
and then something happens that makes it not okay, and
they don't have a plan. They just don't have a plan.

(11:18):
I want to I want to live where I live
right now for as long as I can. I'd rather
do that than move into an assisted living facility really
any place else in which they uh they are we
I couldn't do as I please and come and go
as I please. I I like my mother actually spent
the last years of her life in an assisted living facility,

(11:40):
and it was it was nice enough, it was comfortable.
I think the care could have been a little bit better,
frankly than what she received, and I talked to them
about that. But the frustrating part was that when she
moved into that facility, she lost contact with a lot
of her friends who had lived out closer to where
her home was. There's a time, and it's always going

(12:03):
to be different for anybody who's involved in it, where
you're gonna eventually lose those friends who lived out close
to you and now are farther away and can't find
as much time to come visit, And it's going to
take a while to become friendly and friends with the
people who live in the assisted living community. And making
friends or having friends is kind of the least of

(12:25):
your worries. I guess when you go into a place
like that at first blush. Based on interviews on this
subject I've done for twelve years now, I think the
most hesitation sometimes stems from horror stories we hear from
other seniors about some of the mistakes that get made
in those places, and worse, some places where the staff
might be just outright cruel or neglectful to its residents.

(12:48):
That's a really hard thing to sell if you're trying
to manage one of these places, or give somebody a tour.
No matter how lovely and attentive their staffs may seem
to be, bad news travel way faster than good news,
and some seniors tend to find it easier to just
say no, I'm staying home than to do their own
research on anything that might actually get them out of

(13:10):
a home they've been in forty or fifty years. They
don't want to leave, but even if they need to,
they're just kind of they're going to try to avoid it.
That's been personal experience, and then from some of the
people I've talked to after I've done these interviews, a
lot of times a senior will tell you that they
want to move and that they'll start looking into it,
and then they just never look into it. Another problem

(13:33):
is that invariably, unless you have just money to burn,
you're going to be moving into a much smaller space
than you have in any home, single family home that's
around this region. My mother went from about twenty six
twenty seven hundred square feet or so down to I
want to say, well, it was just a bedroom and

(13:57):
a sitting area, a very very small kitchen area, just
a microwave and a sink basically, and a bathroom and shower.
And that's another restriction on what you're gonna have to
deal with in a senior living facility or a nursing
home versus what you had where you could just walk
freely around your house. And on top of living in

(14:20):
that tiny space, you're also gonna have to learn to
get along with I don't know what two three hundred strangers.
That's not easy, I'm sure, And speaking in a kind
of a quick sidebar about some of the things that
happened in assisted living facilities, and I did an interview
about this not that long ago, just maybe a couple
of three months ago. If that, there's apparently at a

(14:41):
whole lot, not a lot, a whole lot of what
we used to call hanky panky going on after dark
among those residents. I get it, okay, and I guess
so do they in a way, But that lingering friskiness
also is causing a sharp spike in cases of sexually
transmitted diseases among seniors long done worrying about getting pregnant.

(15:06):
Lots of people in these places don't bother to use
any kind of protection, no condoms, just know nothing, and
they don't worry up front about these infections because they
weren't so common when these now seniors were much younger.
That's enough of that. Back to senior living facilities, though
the cost of the nice ones can be prohibitive anywhere

(15:28):
from three thousand to then. That's for places that don't
really get the best ratings even but and don't really
have the nicest amenities, but up to six' eight even
ten thousand and more a month for just increasingly better
accommodations in food and, service but not a whole lot

(15:49):
of us who expect to live another ten years or
so can shell out eight or ten grand a month
for three hots and a, cot even if there is
a pool in a ping pong. TABLE a plus for those, places,
though lpping the coin, again is that the seniors who
live in them are able usually to form, good solid
relationships and friendships because there are activities that may not

(16:10):
be available at other. Places there are, libraries there are
just different, meetings games they, play and some of that's
not available in the lesser expensive. Places that, SAID i
do believe that most of these senior living places do
the very best they can with the assets they. Have
this Isn't, minnesota BUT i have to believe that for

(16:33):
at least some period of, time when you move into
a place like, that it gets kind of lonely and.
Tough staring at the same four empty walls and only
hearing from of your adult children maybe once a. Week
that could lead to pretty quickly really lead to depression
and a sense of isolation that seniors don't. Deserve All,
Right i'm going to stop on. That we've got to

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This tuesday. AFTERNOON i greatly appreciate. That very, quickly back
to the plus side of aging in. Place the technology
that's been introduced is it involves all sorts of gadgets
and devices to make life easier for seniors in their own.
Homes automated, lighting fall detection technology in mats that have

(18:20):
wires in, them rugs that have, wires voice controlled. Assistance
all of that's, important and all of it helps people
stay in their homes if they want. To these are
the kind of things that can either prevent outright or
at least report immediately a situation that's going to require medical.
ATTENTION i WISH i had a company in the endorsement

(18:40):
portfolio that makes her sell stuff like. That one of
those false sensing mats would have helped my mother. Too
the first time she, FELL i learned later she didn't call,
me she called her lifelong Friend. Seal and then the
second time she, fell she also Called, seal But seal called,
me and that time she had broken her. Hip to

(19:00):
get her out of there in an, ambulance get her
to the. Hospital and if you don't, know hip fractures
late in seniority rarely end. Well, unfortunately average life expectancy
after that is barely two, years regardless of how all
your other parts are. Working the physical therapy posts surgery
on that is brutal and it's almost impossible really to

(19:20):
regain your former. Strength the, decline AS i witnessed was
pretty rapid and pretty cruel as. Well my mother's health
was complicated by two cancers. Too that didn't help at.
All she beat the doctor's expectations by a couple of.
Years but it's really never the right time for your
mother to. PASS i just that hurt me and hurts

(19:42):
me to this. Day if you have relatives living alone
and you haven't already done, so call them, regularly please
and make sure that they can contact you or call
nine to one one from any room in the. House
doesn't do any good to have a phone on the
kitchen counter if you're mother or father falls in the
back of the. House even if they have to crawl

(20:04):
across the room and can't lift themselves up to a
dresser or a table to grab a, phone then that
house is not ready for them to be living there by.
Themselves at some, Point i'm going to get one of
those life alert buttons and hang it around my own.
Neck i'm not anywhere near that just, yet Thank, god
but someday IF i need, It i'm not going to
be embarrassed to wear. It, well ALTHOUGH i may just

(20:25):
tuck it in my, SHIRT i still got to live
up to my tough guy image around, here you. Know
shifting off that topic and going halfway around the world
a FORMER uk police officer who said he was suspended
and forced out of police training after he asked questions
About islam during A dei workplace. Training this guy's reached

(20:46):
a confidential settlement with The North Yorkshire police after he
alleged discrimination against His christian. Beliefs, unfortunately For, europe they're
about two or three years deeper into what's being called
over there and. Invasion AND i was frankly a little
bit surprised and quite happy to hear that that guy

(21:06):
had been paid money because he had been wrongfully accused
and wrongfully. Persecuted the courses he and all those other
officers had to take WERE dei training in twenty twenty
three and twenty twenty four that was supposed to develop
a new policy on, race, religion and. Culture the courses
were actually hosted by external trainers and presented as a

(21:28):
safe place where officers could ask challenging questions, instead though
he said that the majority of the courses focused On,
islam and during one session In september twenty twenty, four he,
says the trainers walked up and down the roads Chanting
islam is a religion of, peace and that gave him,
pause and that's when some of the trouble started for.

(21:50):
Him but the good news is it ended in his.
Favor and again there two or three years deeper into
it than we are over, Here and if you don't
want stuff like that happening over, here it's time to speak.
Up and now easing away from some of the troublesome
stuff going on in the. WORLD a survey conducted in
this country of ours found that ninety two percent of

(22:13):
parents say screen time brings joy to the, household and
seventy six percent say screen time can be family. Time
i'm not sure that three or four or five people
all looking at different screens at the same time really
constitutes quality family. Time it's actually quite the opposite if

(22:34):
you ask, Me but nobody asked, me SO i guess
it can. Be and one more before we shift gears.
AGAIN i don't know how many of you are really
keeping close tabs on The World cup matches this. Year
but one of the things that's kind of crazy and
going on is the weird foods that are showing up
at some of these. Venues one of, them one of
the CRAZIEST i came, across was the fancy Af tots In,

(22:58):
miami which is three fried hash browns topped with caviare
cremfrochet and chives and it's only going to cost you
seventy five bucks for fancy tater. TOTS i Think costco
sells a barrel of tater tots for seventy five. Dollars
and moving back into some, local well not local, news

(23:19):
but national, NEWS i suppose from The alex Marlow, show
hosted By Alex marlowe Of, Breitbart Pennsylvania congresswoman let it
slip that somehow half Of pennsylvania's voters wouldn't get to
vote if The Save act. Passes i'm pretty sure that

(23:39):
Every pennsylvanian who is A us citizen already has a
proper identification or at least certainly could get one very
easily between now In. November and if that's the, case
the only other people who might not be able to
vote but that the left certainly could benefit from their,
support is people who are NOT us. Citizens slowly but,

(24:03):
surely people on the left are revealing what they really
think and what they really plan For. November to think
that half of any STATES us citizens who are eligible
to vote couldn't vote just because they need AN id
card is. Ludicrous and turning again to a lighter, note
just to kind of keep some balance in the, PROGRAM

(24:24):
i saw that researchers. FOUND i don't know who these researchers,
are but it's a very interesting conclusion that was reached
about the benefits of exercise versus no, exercise standing versus
sitting and what they found was that people who sat
very little each day actually had a higher risk of

(24:44):
death and heart problems than those who sat an average.
Amount and we're not talking about couch potatoes. Here that's
got its own, downsides believe. Me but people who just
sit a normal amount of time wind up with better
overall prospects for a, longer happier. Life with a good
ticker and worth noting the story didn't actually come out

(25:05):
and say what exactly a normal amount of sitting is each?
Day you know?

Speaker 1 (25:10):
WHAT i?

Speaker 2 (25:10):
Think i'm going to end this segment with two more
art related which is nothing we've talked. About, yeah but
two more art related stories THAT i found very interesting
and picked up last week but didn't get. To first of,
all the world famous mouse De, Orse i'm guessing In
france has opened the doors to a very unique gallery
and the dream of the museum would be to get

(25:34):
rid of all the paintings inside. It so here's. Why
that's because the exhibits are a rotating selection of two
hundred and twenty five works that were stolen when The
nazis Occupied paris during The Second World. War, currently twelve,
paintings including works By renoir And degas and a sculpture

(25:54):
From rodin are on display and clearly do not belong
to the, Museum but nobody really is certain to whom
they do. Belong you know, what IF i wasn't an honest,
PERSON i might be throwing my hat in the ring
and claiming ownership of a couple of those things and
sticking with art on a much smaller. SCALE A minnesota

(26:16):
artist who wanted to help her peers built and installed
a mini art vending machine at a local. Bookstore it's
really a cool, concept AND i would love to see
something like that down. Here what she's done is hired
And i'll wrap hired in quotes some of her artist
friends to draw simple little drawings on maybe something the

(26:37):
size of an index, card nothing, fancy and then tuck
them into little envelopes on the vending. Machine each numbered
slot has a brief description of the artists and what
types of things they like to, draw so you kind
of get an idea of what piece of art you
might get for your, dollar but you don't really know
until you put your money in the, machine four quarters

(26:59):
at a. Time that machine's already made more than three
thousand dollars and presuming she's working with starving, artists which
who might be the only people inclined to work for.
Nothing three thousand dollars will buy a lot of pencils
in ram and. Noodles let's close the book on this,
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to fifty. Plus thank you for. Listening final segment of

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the show today starts. NOW i CAUGHT i caught a
sports related stuff or sports related, story if you, will
Not World cup, related by the. Way so don't Think
i'm going off on The World, cup Because i've watched
a lot of, it more THAN i THOUGHT i. Would
actually in quick, Sidebar i've actually sat down and watched

(29:06):
the games And i'm trying to learn the. Strategies and
WHAT i, see, though is that almost all the, time
not all the, time but almost all the, time there's
a lot of patients involved in this, game whereas football
and even, baseball everything happens pretty quickly relative to Football european,

(29:27):
football let's call it. Soccer those guys spend a lot
of time back in their own half of the field
of the, pitch excuse, me just tapping the ball back and,
forth maybe back to the goalie once or, twice and
really trying to line up these plays that they have
drawn up back in the locker room or. Wherever and

(29:50):
then once they flip the, switch, though and once they
start going, downfield everything moves very, quickly and either they
work their way through all the other, players all the
defensive players to get a close shot on, goal or
a defensive player steals the, ball and usually when that,

(30:10):
happens they try to whack one way down the field. Again,
Again i'm no, expert AND i suppose that's pretty apparent by.
Now in any, event the STORY i saw this morning
was actually about legislation that's proposed By Senator Ted cruz
from right here In texas and A democrat senator From,
Washington Maria. Cantwell it's called The Protect College Sports act

(30:34):
of twenty twenty, six and it aims to set national
frameworks for college. Athletics it's kind of a consolidation of
rules of sorts that would apply to all the, conferences
in all the divisions as to how athletes are compensated
and more, IMPORTANTLY i think. Protected in addition to THE nil,
stuff that's, name image and, likeness that's where they're all

(30:55):
making their. Money you've got eighteen nineteen twenty year old
kids making three four five million dollars a, year the
most elite of the, elite and most of them in,
football maybe. Basketball once you get past those two, sports,
though THE nil money isn't what you might think it.
Is in any, event this new, legislation if it's fixed

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up and passed and gets, signed would also set national
standards for transfers of eligibility that would expand regulation of
sports agents and establish these long term standards for medical
coverage of concussion of heat related, injuries stuff like. That
and in addition to, that it creates AN Ncaa Injury

(31:37):
fund and a whole lot more, so, naturally somebody is
going to be against. It in the first two to
raise their, HANDS ut And TEXAS a AND M university
issued statements from the chairman of their boards of regents
to say they weren't on board with the act as it's,
written but they did look forward to working With congress

(31:58):
in The Southeast, conference and everybody's going to sit around
a table for a long time and hopefully come up
with something that protects those athletes a little. BIT i
don't understand the current rules these colleges and the universities
have in place, now not well enough to be qualified
to really talk about. Them but What i'm more curious
about than learning that IS i want to know exactly

(32:21):
What texas's two powerhouse university systems feel are the sticking
points on this. One if they're designed to protect the,
athletes then what's wrong with? That we'll. See by the,
way if you're ever inclined to drop me a line
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(33:06):
pressing on AND i hope you've all listened to fifty
plus long enough to hear me. SAY. Ai while it's
great for trivia answers or high school, ESSAYS ai is
far from infallible and much, closer often very often really
to outright. Inaccurate and here's just another example of that
From breitbart this morning news That Duck duck GOES ai

(33:29):
search feature has been tossing out acclaim recently That President
trump AND Jp VANCE i can almost ARE vp Vans
JAY vp Jd vance both died earlier this month from
a rape from. Rabies they didn't they, didn't of, course
they didn't die at. All but this is just the

(33:50):
latest in what's being called a prank as an example
OF ai. Poisoning and it's just what happens is these
these groups of, people big groups of, people start putting
stuff on The internet and it just mushrooms and, mushrooms
AND ai sucks all that information in as though it's
fact because it's been presented so many. Times this group

(34:14):
who did this is called they call themselves are POISON.
Ai they plug false and ridiculous stuff into social media
and it gets accepted sort of like what mainstream media
does to make liberals believe that falsehoods are. True and,
boy they did a good job on this one. Too,

(34:35):
No President trump's not. Dead no Jd vance is not. Dead,
no neither one of them died in Early june from.
Rabies good, heavens but just let that anytime you're looking
at something ON, ai or you're ASKING ai questions about
relationships or money or just anything that really matters to,

(34:55):
you just remember. That remember THAT AI i claimed that
our president and vice president both died of. Rabies it's just.
Ridiculous coming into the holiday. Weekend from newsmax dot, Com
President trump's urged gasoline retailers to lower prices at the.
Pump falling crude prices should have allowed them to do,

(35:16):
that but they seem to be the dropping gas isn't really.
Following even noting that it takes a little extra time
for the oil to become sellable, gasoline that's still the
gas prices ought to be. Lower he especially called Out california.
Too they've got eighty nine cents per gallon in tax

(35:38):
before you ever start looking at. Oil eighty nine cents per.
Gallon that's. Nuts the price of oil is already down
a little more than thirty percent from its, peak in
excess of one hundred dollars of barrel only what maybe
weeks maybe a month, Ago but the cost of gas
hadn't flagged nearly that. Much and LIKE i, said there's
a lag time we should be, THOUGH i think based

(36:00):
on just based on where we are with oil and
where we, were we ought to be closer to maybe
three point fifty or so by, now maybe even a
little bit lower as opposed to the current national average
of about three dollars and eighty six. Cents oh and
for the, record gasoline down sixty cents in justice past Month,

(36:21):
california though there had five dollars and fifty six cents
a gallon for regular. Unleaded oh, my look at the
time before we get out of, here and we've got
a couple of. Minutes but that's it to prove crazy
isn't restricted to our. Country the mayor Of, Paris, france Not.
Texas the mayor Of, Paris Audre poolvar has released a

(36:42):
long winded accusation against The United states that claims it
was we it was we who caused the heat wave
in his city this past. Week he whined because a
lot of his buildings and homes are not air. Conditioned
that's not our. Fault and, sadly when the temperatures rose
to one hundred and four or forty eight people actually
died while trying to cool down outside of what they

(37:05):
call designated swimming. Areas apparently you can't just go swimming
in the, pond you can't just go swimming in the, creek,
Whatever and that's, tragic but that's also not our. Fault summer's,
hot monsieur mayor get used to, it all. Right i'm
down to about a minute, now AND i want to
lighten things up on This tuesday leading Into wednesdays more

(37:28):
hot weather ahead of, us of, course And america's two
hundred and fiftieth birthday On. Saturday don't forget that some
shoppers actually say you'd never know instead of the stars and,
stripes a lot of the stories they say are just
jam packed With World cup. Stuff i'm kind of disappointed about.
That america's two fiftieth not getting the love it, deserves

(37:48):
that's for. Sure and if you're planning on traveling at
all over the holidays or anytime, soon here's some things
you should never put in A tsa, bin loose, cash
your passport because you might lose those, headphones, glasses neck
pillows BECAUSE tsa bins are loaded with germs and you're
about to put those things on your. Face one more

(38:10):
quick crazy around the world. TOO a guy In scotland
says he can't do community service unless his emotional support
lizard comes with. Him and to wrap it, Up polish
is the only word in The english language that changes
its meaning and pronunciation when. Capitalized that's it for. Today
we'll talk again. Tomorrow. Audios