The New Monday Show

Today, Doug Pike discusses the schedule change, hummus, and Biden dropping out of the race.

Episode Transcript

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Remember when it was impossible to misplacethe TV remote because you were the TV
remote. Remember when music sounded likethis? You remember when social media was
truly social? Hey John, how'sit going today? Well, this show
is all about you. This isfifty plus with Doug Pike, helpful information

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on your finances, good health,and what to do for fun. Fifty
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Roofing's been around a long time,and that's the guy who takes care of
my roof I'll tell you more aboutthem in a little while. Welcome.
I don't know, I guess tothe land of eternal chaos an appropriate term
I think to describe what's happened aroundSoutheast Texas and the entire country and the

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world for the past couple of weeks, if not months, if not years.
Actually, first of all, Iam live in the studio just now,
which is a departure from the norm. It's been a while since I
did a Monday show. I don'tknow that we did we ever do a
live Monday show, not with you, I don't think did we know?

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It has always been Tuesday through Friday. Okay, So Tuesday through Friday is
out and I am in for theforeseeable future. Because we've changed here the
this is Real Time Radio. Wehad our weekly staff meetings moved. Is
why we're doing this to Mondays,and I need to be here for those.

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So henceforth, my day off eachweek will be is this out or
in? That is out? Thereno reason for it to be. I'll
have to look that up. Yeah, I'll have to look that up for
sure. I don't know why it'soff. So anyway, we have changed
our weekly meeting to Friday. Theweekly meeting goes to Monday, so my

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day off each week will be Friday, on which I am one hundred percent
confident that Will is capable of He'sgoing to cobble a fantastic best of episode
from all that we've done Monday throughThursdays, which that really makes it a
little easier on you, does itnot? Or does it? Or do
you cared? I'm not good eitherway? Okay, Yeah, you just

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you had to do the same amountof work either way. Yeah, you
just have to get it done alittle early earlier now that it's going to
go on Friday. Yeah, that'sthat's a good point, all right.
So we have emerged from the hurricane, which came complete with extended power outages,
trees down all over the place thatfrankly, I didn't think woul had
fallen in a Cat one hurricane,But who knows. These trees, the

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trees that I'm thinking of lined acouple of streets out where I live,
and were significantly large, no questionabout it. But I think what happens
is that when they're planted that closeto the roadway, they have very little,
very little area in which to spreadtheir roots under all that concrete,

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and so maybe they were just kindof sitting there waiting for a reason to
fall. Who knows we're out ofthat. We have dealt with the death
of a congresswoman, an assassination attempton a presidential candidate COVID for the sitting
president, and then that same timesitting president only a day or two after

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he vowed to be on the ticketin November, that same sitting president has
bowed down. He's ducked out.It's I'm not gonna do it anymore,
and actually gave his blessing right awayto his vice president, who's really honestly
done nothing more than talk about thepresident and all the good things he's done

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in the past four years. Idon't know what inflation and an open border
that resulted in more than ten millionpeople about whom we know almost nothing coming
in here, many as the peopleliving out of America's wallets and in many
big cities, living in luxury hotels, chatting on free cell phones, committing
crimes and not being held accountable becausethe local law enforcement can't tell federal law

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enforcement about that. None of thismakes any sense, But it's happening in
real time in our country, andall these people doing that while they wait
for a court date that is setfor years ahead, years ahead, not
weeks or days, like any ofus who had done something wrong might expect
to at least get some sort ofa hearing right away. Oh and unrest

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around the world, a couple ofwars going on, a dangerous, well
funded band of bad guys slinging missilesat cargo ships in the Middle East.
Anybody can go in any bathroom theywant, school teachers, administrators keeping life
altering secrets from their students' parents,all that stuff that the current leader for

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nomination by the Democrat Party is goingto have to answer to because she's been
part and parcel to all of thaton her boss's watch. I don't know.
Other than those few things, well, and a few more. It's
kind of quiet around here. Iguess it on the bright side, because
it's always there if you look forit. The nation seems to have finally
seen through the what I consider theleft's outrageous planet to destroy our country,

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and they're close. They're close.Even some young people I know have fin
who thought Biden Harris was the answerfour years ago. They seem to finally
realize just how much damage has beendone in so short a time. It's
almost four years and they pretty muchtorn down the most powerful prosperous nation this

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world ever knew, and their chantof four more years ought to scare every
American to his or her core.It really should. Four more years of
this be pretty tough to get through. Enough, it's forecast time, and
I'm hanging on to my highs andLows in Haikup. Will did you bother
to put one together for today?Maybe since you didn't do one Friday?

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No, okay, so you're justconceding that you can't possibly do anything more
creative or better than what I'm doing. No, that's that's how I read
this. Okay, I'm reading howI don't want. But what other excuse
could there possibly be? I wasdoing other things. Yes, I'm a

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busy guy. I got things Inormally do on Monday. Well, let
me just throw this one at you. Then, Highs and Lows in Highkup
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discount. So here we go.I do kind of like the the challenge,
the daily challenge. By the way, are you ready, Will?
I'm ready? Judge this rain forthree full days plus side is five cooler
days. We needed the break,and m I thought that was pretty good.

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What do you do you need tolive in room? Do you need
to excuse yourself for a minute?Just it didn't hit my soul, Doug.
Well, I'm not trying to hityour soul. It didn't. It's
this strike a core the weather forecast. It's not a soul seeker. It's
supposed to it's supposed to excite me, but it did. What is exciting
about three days of rain? Will? How could I excite you? That's

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the thing? Nothing? So Ididn't try to excite you because there was
nothing to do. It's a five. It's it's in the middle. We're
gonna have to get a second judgein the middle. Doug. Okay,
okay, I'll I'll accept your judgmentbecause you have given me good ratings before,
and you've given me inaccurate ratings.Well, all right, moving into

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a fresh cod o wax. Thisis fifty plus with Dougpike. All right,

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welcome back to fIF peo plus.Thank you for listening. I had
to run down the hall and grabsomething to eat. I was starving for
some read just all of a sudden. I don't know where it came from.
I don't know why I didn't needa big breakfast, that's true,
but usually I can at least getthrough the get through the show on what
I had in my stomach this morningdidn't happen. I doubt that I've lost

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any weight. That's probably not thecase, but whatever it is, I
put a band aid on it.I ate two little cereal bars. I
keep a big box of them bymy desk. Gobbled up a pair of
them, and I'm certain I canmake it to one o'clock now. So
don't anybody bother bringing me a sandwich. I'm good. Saw a story this
morning about how VP Kamala Harris hadalmost forty seven million dollars poured into her

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campaign purse almost overnight. And beforeyou wonder whether there was just some sudden
on rush of support from thirty millionpeople who all sent a bucket a half,
just remember that forty seven million,that entire amount also could have come
from one person, like maybe GeorgeSoros. There are a lot of really

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wealthy people, really wealthy people inthis country whose futures and fortunes kind of
depend on keeping this country on itsheels. So don't let those numbers or
anything you hear fool you into thinkingotherwise. It's just it's just money,

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and both sides have a lot,and both sides are willing to spend a
lot. What your job and myjob is, what our jobs are is
to weed through all the bologney anddo a lot of our own research and
find actual truth. One thing Ido find interesting is that the Democrat Party

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burned a whole lot of time andeffort and money maintaining that Joe Biden would
be on their ticket only the oneand only candidate for president in November.
They held onto that narrative for avery long time, and not coincidentally,
I'd bet Kamala Harris was at hisside and praising all of his accomplishments as
president the whole time, as thoughshe had no idea how this story would

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end. I got a hunt.She knew and has known for a long
time. Truth be told. Shethen again, maybe she didn't, because
she's on the hook now for nothaving done anything constructive to fix anything her
boss broke in the past several years. If you were recalled from very on

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she was presented to us, andmore recently has said no, no,
no, it wasn't me. Itwas Melli Orcus. No, no,
no, I wasn't in charge ofthe border. But that's what our president
told us early on. She wasgoing to go down there and do all
that take care of the border.Didn't happen. Nothing was going to keep
Biden off the ticket. While theycontinued to wholeheartedly and I think deceptively ignore

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his obviously failing health and cognitive function. Somewhat sorry for the man to be
honest, Joe Biden, and forhow he was clearly deceived into thinking he
actually would be his party's nominee fora second term, second term at the
helm of the United States, whenwhen in fact, there's likely been a

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whole lot of closed door discussion overthe past several months about exactly when to
drop the hammer and have things unfoldas they unfolded over the weekend. It's
tough. One thing I found especiallyappalling about about Democrats overall, if a

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recent poll is correct, is thatone in three of them actually believe that
President Trump faked the entire assassination attempton his life. One in three think
that to be true. A FoxNews reporter sat down at a restaurant and
bar up in the Northeast somewhere overthe weekend and listened to a patron there

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as he explained that he believed nothingwas beyond Donald Trump. Maybe he would
pay off the shooter's family, maybepromised a short prison term for the young
man who took the shots that didn'twork out, and corey comparatory. Well,
this particular outspoken Democrat answered and Iquote Donald Trump doesn't care if his

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supporters die. End to quote,How on earth can anyone have gotten that
far from reality in just four years. Those are the statements and thoughts of
someone so disconnected from what's really happeningin this world. And it's at the
hands of liberal media in most instancestoo. It's frustrating. He believes everything

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he's been fed by all these talkingheads who if you if you've seen the
montages, they utter the same keyphrases word for word. And it's impossible
that all those news rooms and allthose stations could have sat down to empty
screens and hit the same exact keystrokesto have their their anchors utter the same

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phrases word for word, over andover and over. When the reporter suggested
that if people in politics truly werewilling to kill Americans over the election,
he said, well, you know, he told this guy, maybe it's
time to buy some guns, huh, to which that man replied another quote
from him, it's not the otherside, it's just Trump. End quote.

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That's a frightening situation and one thatin the wrong mind, could be
terribly problematic down the road. Ifsomebody truly believes that ah, this too
shall pass. Let's lighten it up. Well, a quick quick three three

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shot here a dip in the pool. It's a scam, or been around
a while, it's a scam.Officials are warning people of scam phone calls
that ask people to pay money orbe arrested for missing jury duty. They
don't do that. It's kind oflike the irs. They're not gonna call
you and threaten you with a restover missing jury duty. You'll just find

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out if you get pulled over thatyou have you have a warrant maybe,
and it'll just be a it'll besomething simple that they're not gonna throw you
in and they're not going to demandmoney, and they're certainly not going to
demand Walmart gift cards or something likethat. It's it's frustrating that some people
actually they pray on older people,they pray on the gullible, and people

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will go and drop one thousand dollarson grocery store gift cards thinking that that's
going to keep them out of jail. Ut Health Institute on Aging is an
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Aged to Perfection. This is fiftyplus with Dougpike. It's amazing how many

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places that little bits of cereal barcan hide in your between your teeth and
under your tongue, and all thatstuff might be days before it's all out
of there, Will, I don'tknow. I was so hungry though,
Holy co I had to eat them. That was during that first break,
not the second break. And Ifeel much better now. Rather than then

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step back into the mud, Will, let's some let's just lighten up for
a minute or two. Can youcan you spare that for me? Yeah?
Okay, good? Uh? AndI'll go to three fresh ones,
and then if we run out,I will revert back to some of the
ones that you skipped over. Thethree new ones sounds about right hmmm or

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hmm. I wonder why hmmm,hmmm or hmm, I wonder why Yeah,
No, the first one it soundsabout right. Uh. The second
one is hmmm, it's more likehum. And then the third one is
hmmm. I wonder why hmm?Okay, the hum one is a pole.

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As people which dip was their favorite, and, stunningly to me,
the number one dip was what guacamole, no case, no salsa, no
A seven layered dip be like thatidea? Yeah, you could keep going

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for a while and probably not getthere. The number one. Now,
granted it only got twenty percent ofthe vote. Okay, it only got
twenty percent of the vote. Thatmeans four out of five people don't like
this as much as other somethings.Hummus, Oh, I get that.
Hummus is so yummy. It's whatare faking about it? Flavor is disgusting.

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No, that is so ronny.You have to put something on hummus
to make it taste good. No, what does it taste like? Does
it taste like anything else? Idon't think I've ever eaten like chickpeas.
No, well that I rest mycase. It's so good. Better than
guacamole, olive oil, no way, never better than no way. You

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could get some pita chips. Youcould get some Oh yeah, you gotta
get chip, don't you pita peta? What? Yeah, pita bread like
pita. No, just why don'tyou just get some normal chips in normal
guacamole and get on down the roadwith the most delicious thing. The only

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way to make guacamole better, whichis very difficult to do, is to
add queso, add a little meltedcheese, double dip, and some sour
cream. Let's get to that sevenlayer dip. Let's go to nuts,
dug. You know what's not inseven layer dip hummus. Yeah, and
you know what would make it evenbetter if it was eight layer, not

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hummus in it. No, itjust needs more. The eighth layer would
be more guacamole. Or what ifyou just got rid of all the layers
and you just had a big thingof hummus. No, you could eat
hummus as a meal. No,I couldn't. I'd starve to death.
I didn't. I'll take one bymy stomach. I'm not getting hummus.

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Period. Well, why are wehaving this conversation. You're you're a hummus
hater, dude, a humus,A humus denier. I'm a denier.
I'm not a hater. I'm adenier. I don't. I just deny
that it has any value to whatsoever. That's just so wrong. You know
what. What's so wrong is thatfourteen percent of the people who were surveyed

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just kind of copped out totally,is it? I don't know, I
don't have a favorite. Oh,it's just a if you're if you're gonna
participate in a survey, have anopinion, have an answer at least what's
your favorite dip? I don't careif you say strawberry jam. Just say
something and you'll get lumped into thatthat part of the deal that where other

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answers were the outliers chose that kindof a thing. But don't just say
I don't know. That's a totalcop out. All right, will We're
gonna do it again. That wasquick. South Africa just lost all credibility.
Or don't bring glass to the pool. Don't bring glass to the pool.

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I was so hoping you go adifferent way there. But that's okay,
it's okay. How much time dowe have, Oh we have like
three five minutes. Beautiful, wemay get through this whole page. I
don't know. No glass pool,a massive pool in Massachusetts had to be

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closed, speaking of dips, whena glass jar of salsap broke and sent
shards of glass into the water.Guess what they had to do to this
two hundred and twenty thousand gallon pool. They had to take out all the
water and clean up the glass.Yeah, it's called draining. Yeah,

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they had to drain the entire pool. They had to get in there and
methodic go from end to end,flushing everything that possibly could have hidden the
tiniest little glass yard. All ofthat had to go and it cost the
town how much will to be reasonable? It got uh, it costs the

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town maybe ten thousand dollars. Thatcleaned half the pool. It cost twenty
grand just because somebody had to bringtheir favorite salsa, which is better than
hummus. See. Now, theone advantage to hummus there would it would
be that it was in some plasticcontainer. That hummus doesn't belong in a
jar. It belongs in a plasticbag, maybe with a little sippy straw,

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like a kind of like a juicebox. I'm gonna get you some
hummus. Why you know you'll getto eat it all the time. I'm
gonna change your mind about hummus.Hummus in a pita chip. Yeah,
oh god, I just can't wait. Will Are you serious? I don't
know you Come on, save yourmoney, bro, I'm gonna get you
that. I'm gonna get you somepokey what is that? Yeah, I've

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seen the signs for all that noodlesor something raw fish over a bed of
rice, sushi, cucumbers and seaweed, sushi wi. It's sush It's sushi
is not a bowl, so it'ssushi. Hit a bowl bowl, So
why don't they call it bullshie orsomething like that. It's gotta be pokey.

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And then p o k E pokey. That's a that's a Gallagher gag
about pronunciations of words. P ok E poke b r o k E
broke. If you keep buying it, No, I'm gonna get you some
good pokey. I'm gonna get yousome good hummus. Those are oxymorns.
We'll both stop it, tug.You need to expand your palate. Oh

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my palate's been expand many countries around. Obviously not not enough. I've eaten
some weird stuff in my time aroundthe world. And yeah, I'm not
even asking you to eat anything weird. So this is raw fish in a
bowl is not weird. It's delicious. Well, that's the same thing you

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told me about hummus, and Ialready know better than that. Let's move
on, shall we. All right, let's go back to Oh this I
found quite interesting barely twelve hours Itold Will about this a little while ago,
barely twelve hours after Joe Biden pennedthat letter and announced to the world

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that he was opting out of chasinga second term as President VP, Kamala
Harris launched a line of branded merchandiseat the same site that only hours before
was selling Biden merch. I findthe timing to be just a little bit

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more than troubling. Somebody had tohave known about that. Somebody had to
have signed off on all those differentpieces of merch long and with ample time
to get into the manufacturing process.Somebody had to pick the colors, somebody
had to pick the design, allof that, and that's not something you

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get done in twelve hours. She'sknown about the Switcher room. She knew
it was coming, probably for acouple of weeks at least. Hey,
you might want to get some merchready, Kamala, miss Vice President,
because we're gonna raise a bunch ofmoney for you her signature on a T
shirt. If you want one ofmy signature T shirts, first of well,

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first of all, I'd have tohave some and then we could talk,
could negotiate a price. Maybe I'lljust do one and auction it off
for charity. Will how about that? I need to talk to my buddy
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Boom boom, boom boom boom.All right, welcome back fifty plus,
fourth final sevement Stars. Now,thank you all for listening, Thank
you for giving me this little chunkof your day. I truly enjoy this.
And Mondays are now my old Tuesday, and Friday is now my old
Monday. And I'm gonna get usedto it, and I'm gonna be I'll

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be settled in here within a week. It's really not that big of change.
So here we go. Oh,by the way, early in the
program, I neglected to go intothe markets. I took care of weather
in haiku. And I was sodistraught over Will's low opinion of my work,

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did I forgot to mention the marketsand oil and gold. The markets
are generally up, the four bigindicators. At least. I didn't look
at what my particular stocks were doingthis morning. And it's not like I'm
a major investor. I got ahandful of shares and a handful of a
very small handful of companies. Butthe bottom line is all the big four

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were up. Oil. Oil startedthe day down a little bit. It
was inside seventy nine dollars or insideeighty dollars, closer to seventy nine for
a little while during the break Willand I did, and now it is
back up a few cents to eightydollars and fifteen cents as of about what
two minutes ago. Will now Gold, on the other hand, cost of

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which is brought to us as alwaysby Houston Gooldexchange dot com, Thank you
very much. Gold down down aboutI think what was it four or five
bucks? Will Gold was down fourdollars and thirty cents to twenty three one
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bit you want to move not abad idea. I don't know. Maybe
Brad could shoot me a text orsomething and I could share it with you
tomorrow about what he sees as theshort term future of gold. And by
short term I mean between now inNovember. What for the next quarter is
gold going to do? Kind ofcurious and why? It always helps to

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have a why, and it's alwaysprobably it's It's just impossible for anybody to
guess these things super accurately. It'svery difficult, at least, to say
the least. I haven't had achance to listen to the testimony being given
today by the head of the SecretService, but rest assured, I'm going
to take a look later today.I have a hunch there's going to be

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a lot of evasive, inconclusive answersto the hardest questions that are asked.
They what we do know is thatthey knew about this guy. They knew
he was a threat, and theyknew what they were looking for hours in
advance they asked. I don't knowwhen it was, but it's been revealed

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that there was a request for additionalsecurity for that appearance that was denied.
By the way. This is reallyweird. They knew all about this guy
and couldn't find him. They couldn'tfind a young guy within one hundred and
fifty yards words of a rooftop,a featureless metal rooftop that had a clean

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line of sight to our former president, not when he was carrying his ladder,
not when he was carrying his rifle, none of that. This whole
thing stinks to hoigh heaven. Itreally does. And I fear that more
than a couple of people knew morethan they probably ever will be willing to
tell. I pray I'm wrong,But my goodness, how can you miss

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someone? This was not a tinyperson. He was a grown young man
and managed to put up a ladder, climb onto a rooftop, and be
given a clean line of sight betweenhimself and President Trump. And I think
the only thing that bothers me moreis that guy in the bar up in

(34:53):
the northeast somewhere believes with all hisheart that it was totally fabricated and staged,
and and that President Trump wouldn't carethat one of his supporters was shot
and killed. That that that bothersme on a lot of levels. It

(35:13):
really does, I truly I praythat it's all of this stuff it when
it when it's passes, and itwill that it results in a more unified
America, which is it can't itcan only go in that direction, honestly.
One that goes back to when peoplecould disagree on some on some pretty
sensitive topics and issues and then pushtheir politics aside and maintain a friendly,

(35:36):
respectful relationship, maybe share some barbecueover the weekend. Just push the politics
aside and be neighbors and be friends. Disagreement doesn't give anybody the right to
hate somebody. Disagreement is the foundationof this nation. And when disagreement leads
to discussion among calm, rational people, that actually was results of a favorable

(36:00):
long term result almost every time.It has for about two hunred and fifty
years. And if we just rememberhow it works and just get everybody on
board with making it work again,that will reunite. It'll bring us back
together, rather than what's happening nowis that we're just being torn farther apart.

(36:21):
Ah, that's enough of this seriousstuff. Will we're back to you.
How much time we have? Threeminutes? Three? Oh good,
We're gonna get them all. I'mgonna give you pears? Will a dip
in the pool? Or been arounda while? Oh? I thought you
were gonna give me the fruit?What fruit? Some pears I've been giving

(36:42):
you? Hummus and pokey? Ifit's only right that you return the favorite
are giving you a hard time ifyou don't pick one of the runner,
Could you run them? Buy meagain? Yeah? I know you just
were so giddy over this pear lineof yours. A dip in the pool,
or been around a while? Okay, I been around a while?

(37:04):
The first fantasy football league? Willthink about this? The first fantasy football
league started in what year? Innineteen and the year nineteen one? What
makes you think it's that old becauseyou're talking about it in this an old

(37:29):
people show. It's got to bepretty old. Purely by a stroke of
luck. Will you only missed itby one year? Actually, fantasy football
started in nineteen sixty two, sixtytwo, sixty two. I was just
a wee lad then growing up inSharpstown. Had absolutely no idea. I

(37:51):
guess they just did it by phone. Guys would get together. They get
together in the wherever they usually playedpoker or something like that. They get
together with their quill and ink,and they'd write letters to one another send
them off on carrier pigeons. Iheard a joke about that the other day,
and I can't recall what it was. It doesn't matter, all right,

(38:13):
so we'll cross that one out andgo to another one. Sounds about
right? Or hmmm? I wonderwhy? I wonder why? Who wrote
the Book of Love? No cNBC just put out lists of the states
with the best and worst economies.What are the two best economies in the
entire country? Will in the entirecountry two best economies as a state?

(38:37):
As a state, Well, it'swe only got like two minutes, we
have less than a minute. Well, then speed it up. Let's go
pick one, pick a horse.Let's say, uh, these tast it.
I can't stand it anymore. IfFlorida and Texas are the best,

(38:58):
why why you have to ask?Yeah? Yeah, Well, then if
you have to ask, you'll neverunderstand it. The two worst Hawaii,
which gets inflation gets multiplied because ofthe transportation costs in Mississippi. And I
don't know why Mississippi is a coolstate. I got a friend who just
moved there and took over a biggolf club, that economy is going to
get better. We'll be back tomorrow. Thank you all for listening. Audios