August 7, 2024 • 37 mins
Today, Doug Pike discusses the Olympics, Centerpoint, and moving scams.
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Alrighty, then Wednesday edition of the program starts right now.
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We'll see where it goes. We're in the middle, well,
I don't even think we're to the middle yet. We're
in the beginning of a pretty long stretch of really
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of that, and without further ado, okay, will are you
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got creative. I got a little more creative for you.
I like that one I thought you were. I like
the reference. I'll see where you're going. I'll give that one.
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A seven point eight. Seven point eight. Oh my god,
that sets the bar pretty high. Okay, I'm I'm still
whatever whatever score I get, I'm always going to be
trying the next day to get one even higher. Now
and now that I've got a seven eight on the books,
that just raised my GPA considerably, I'm quite proud of that.
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Then that thank you will, thank you very much? All right,
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or take a little bit. Unfortunately, Oil said hold my
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thirty four mid morning, but it had already given up
a little bit of the gain it had very early
this morning. Also worked noting the thirty year mortgage rate
was down by less than three tenths of a point
to six point sixty five, but nonetheless down, so at
least it's trending in the proper direction to get this
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train back on the tracks. Biden inflation and Biden nomics
have well, they've done a lot, but they're not the
only problems we've got in this country right now. In
keeping with my new direction, by the way, the one
by which I entrust you to do your own research
and form your own opinions about political stuff. And by
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the way, I still may toss out a headline and
maybe the lead of a story as regards political things,
and I'll just encourage you to dig deeper. I'm not
going to elaborate on things like I have sometimes in
the past. I do latch onto things that about which
I'm passionate, and our country is one of those things.
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So forgive me if I slip now and then, but
I don't intend to unless it just is something I
feel is absolutely critical to share in more than three
or four sentences. So here, for example, I'm gonna lead
with a story that I found very fascinating, in part
because my father was a history major, So I come
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by this fascination of mine with history pretty honestly. Story
comes from Jerusalem National Park, where excavation, and it's been
ongoing for a while since they figured out what was
under this parking lot, has uncovered what almost certainly was
a moat that is mentioned in the Bible as separating
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the city of David and the Temple mount. The people
who are doing all this excavation over there believe that
this mote dates back about three three thousand years, and
this particular area, they say, has more layers that represent
more than ten different periods in Jerusalem's history. The city
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itself today, the city itself is important in three of
the Abrahamic religions, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. That's a pretty
important thing they're doing over there in trying to uncover
history that's been covered up by just centuries of destruction
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and rebuilding, destruction and rebuilding. But what they found over there,
and the pictures of what they found are pretty clear
cut evidence of something that's that's actually mentioned in the Bible.
I think that's pretty cool. Sidus believe that the Well,
I'll just let them keep digging, and then if they
dig up something else new, I'll keep you posted. With
the twenty twenty four Olympics still underway, the Summer Games
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twenty twenty eight host city loss Angelees could be at
risk for relegation of revocation of its nomination over a
real controversy involving performance enhancing drugs. The sticking point involves
allegations from quite a few people in our country of cheating. Essentially,
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some athletes from other countries suspected of using banned substances
and not getting booted for doing so in a recently
passed Olympic Games or two. Because those athletes countries determined
that the substances they'd were taken mistakenly by way of contamination,
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the World Anti Doping Agency hadn't taken kindly to being
challenged by the US Antidoping Agency for allowing those athletes
to compete. And there apparently is a clause now in
these Olympic hosting contracts that says, you know what, and
I still this is a very long shot, but there's
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a clause in there that says that the IOC could
pull the LA plug if if enough hullabaloo breaks out
over this. I hope it doesn't. Uh, very well, No,
let's wait. We're gonna have to wait until the third
segment because we've got a guy named Aris Papadopolis coming
up in this next segment to talk about he's the
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third segment. Oh that's right, that's right, well done, Will,
I forgot about that, so good. Let's do this. Let's
get in a metal count of the US medals so
far in Paris, and then how about we do that
when we come back, because we're almost at a time. Okay,
that's a good. Yeah. I don't want to rush this
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Just wait until the show's over.
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Back to Dougpike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Time all right, welcome back. Second segment of the program
starts right now. Thanks to Will's reminder a few minutes ago,
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I am aware that we have time now until we
join Arispapaanopolos in the third segment, we have time to
go over the Olympics comings and goings, and specifically the
medals that have been won or not one by Let's
call us what the top five or six countries? Will
you got that handy? I was gonna just go top three. Oh,
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that sounds great, Will, and we'll start with total medals. Okay,
total medals. Really Will in third place with forty eight medals,
we have home of the Olympics this year, France. Okay,
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the French have forty something medals, forty eight, forty eight medals.
In the second place, we have the People's Republic of
China with sixty one medals. My word, and coming in
at first place. You should be playing the star spangled banner,
ud know, yeall of them? It's the United States of
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America with a whopping eighty eight medal. Nicely done, USA?
All right? Yeah, how are we doing with gold? Where
are we? Well, that's what I was about to get to,
so now I'm just trying to help people walk it.
In third place with sixteen gold medals, France, Australia, Australia. Yeah, yeah,
I forgot that their swimmers are so dominant. Australia is
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in third place with sixteen gold Okay. In second place
we have China. Where is mark twenty three gold medals?
Well then I'm guessing coming in at number one with
a bullet well apparently not in not in shooting. Don't
get me started on that. The United States has twenty
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four gold medals standing, thirty two silver and thirty two bronze.
So we are leading in both categories in every single
category gold and overall, yes loss, so no, not silver
and bronze medals. As a quick aside, can you look
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up while I'm chatting here, how many countries, how many
delegations there are that have either one, like one bronze
medal or no medals because and I'm not trying to
make fun of it, I'm just kind of what I
want to do is emphasize how much competition there is,
first of all, and how much work goes in to
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preparing for the Olympics. For all of these athletes, whether
they win or lose, they've all prepared basically for the
last four years except for one guy I'm going to
tell you about in a second. Actually, it's pretty cool. Well,
there are not I mean, there are a lot of
countries that have not won no medals. How many have
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just one bronze one bronze we have let's see two,
there can't be oh, never mind nine. We have nine
countries that have won one bronze medal, and that is it.
And you know that that is worth everything to those
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countries that they win those medals, everything to those athletes
that they've won that medal for their country, just like
it is for the Americans, the Chinese, the Australians, French,
all of them. They're all look at the different countries
right there, on this on this running event. Here, we've
got one too, like almost every yeah, it is actually
every country from or every entrant is from a different country.
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So and they're all they all have been training for
four years for this. Sticking with the Olympics, there's one
man in Paris who's done something no other man or
woman has ever done or is ever likely to do again.
Do you have any idea what I'm talking about?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Well?
Speaker 2 (13:54):
No, This guy's name is Megian Lopez. Okay. He is
a Greco Roman wrestler from Cuba. And even Michael Phelps,
the guy who's twenty three medals is the most ever
earned by a single Olympic athlete. Even Phelps tips his
swim cap to Lopez because at six five to ninety
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this guy's he's forty one years old. Will he's forty
one years old. He competed in his first Olympics in
two thousand and four, he would have been around twenty
years old then, Okay, finished in fifth place. Since then,
he has gone back to the Olympics five times, and
every time he has finished with the gold medal. Five
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straight four year gap competitions. This one guy, where did
it go?
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Here?
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Robbie Smith, an American guy who first wrestled Lopez in
the twenty fifteen World Championships, said he's still the guy
to be, and then added by the way that Lopez
hasn't even competed for the past three years. Somebody talked
him into it in the past year, says, you know,
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go for five, go for five, mission, go for five,
and he go, yeah, I got nothing better to do.
So he rolls up into Paris and just stomps his
way to the top. Again. There's a guy, this retired
Lithuanian wrestler. You could tell I put a little time
into this and I'm not really even sure why, but
I did. Lithuanian guy Mendaugas misguide us said wrestling Lopez.
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I love this quote, like wrestling with a rock that moves. Wow,
he's six five to ninety. Yeah, that's that's gonna be
a tough thing to tip over. You know what his
nickname is, the Hulk. He could be but it's not
el terrible. That's kind of cool now. I like it
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is man, And if you saw a picture of the guy,
you would think, uh, yeah, that's pretty That's a pretty
straight up nickname. In l Passo in l Paso students
at charge. How much time do you have? Three minutes?
You have four minutes. I'll try because I want to
get to this and I want to get to it now.
In l pass, those students at Charles Middle School are
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not going to be allowed to wear all black clothing.
Rules in stated after school officials determined that the dark,
monochromatic clothing was associated with and I quote depression and
mental health issues and or criminality end quote. The president
of the l Paso Teachers Association said, teachers see a
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pattern that indicate stress or depression when kids start wearing
all black to school. Now, they can still wear black
shorts for pe, they can still wear black on free
dress day. They just can't wear it from head to toe,
which bothers me because that doesn't address a very clear
and obvious, they say it themselves, problem with mental health
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and depression. How about a rule that teachers who notice
kids wearing all black sit them down and ask them
how things are going, maybe encourage them to talk to
a counselor. Sounds to me like these kids, even without
knowing it, these kids are kind of reaching out for
help to take away what the school acknowledges is a
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clear sign of trouble in these kids. Seems to fly
in the face of what they're supposed to be doing
at school, and that is taking care of kids and
helping them when they need it. Kids wearing all black,
you don't tell them to go change the color of
their clothes and mask something that bothers them. Do you
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agree with that? Will they ought to be? They ought
to be using that as a flag that indicates this
kid needs to talk to somebody. Well, I also just
love wearing all black. Well, then let a counselor decide
that be kids. But there they have learned over observing
all of this that these kids tend to be troubled
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and depressed and having issues that I think they're missing
an opportunity to do what they probably should be doing
for these kids. And I grant you there. I'm sure
there's some kids who are perfectly fine and just like
to wear black. Johnny Cash comes to mind, he probably
wore all black school. Maybe maybe not all right, I
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of fifty plus.
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On this beautiful Wednesday, there's a there was a miscommunication
and so we'll talk to aers tomorrow. It's as simple
as that, all right, Well you will, well, listeners, Doug
got the dates wrong. Huh. You told me you weren't
gonna throw me under the bus. What's new? You told
me you weren't gonna throw me under the bus. Well
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you have started, Yeah, you have sparked a fire that
you'll never put out okay, good a war of words anyway,
I have seen this particular story in several iterations recently
and wanted to go ahead and bring it up to
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my audience here, because my audience, my audience that grew
up trusting people, grew up believing that everybody was basically
honest until they were proved otherwise, we tend to get
scammed more often than younger people who have grown up
with the technology that allows some of these people to
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kind of rip you off. And this isn't really this
is not an internet scam so much as it is
something that occurs around this time of year, almost every
year in almost every big city in America for a
lot of different reasons. People are moving, okay, and when
they move, especially seniors, they're gonna need help getting all
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the stuff in one house or apartment into a truck
and then off to the next house or apartment. And
what is happening, according to the stories I've been reading,
is typically the con involves somebody calling a moving company
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for which they really didn't go looking, or they a
particular some sort of social media prompt has convinced them
to make a phone call to this alleged up and
up moving company, and they've called and they've been asked
to describe what they need moved, and then they've been
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given a quote over the phone that is usually almost
certainly going to be less than a legit mover would
charge to move what you have. They make sure that
they bring that bid in very low so that you
allow them to come to your home, allow them to
start packing stuff into the truck. And then at some
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point during that packing process, the head of the crew
of movers comes to you and says, you know you
got Mortan. We've got Mortan, we thought you had, so
we're gonna have to charge you an extra fee of
some sort. And when you say no, you quoted me
this number, and you told me that was going to
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be the number over the phone, and so that's all
I'm going to pay you, they say, well, then we're
not giving your stuff back. It's already on the truck.
It's already been loaded, half of it, a third of it,
a quarter of it whatever. I'd be willing to bet
that when they start loading the truck and they know
dog on well they're going to try to scam you,
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they're going to be putting some really good stuff on
that truck first and foremost best they can find in
the house. And the average, the average burn on these
things is more than four hundred dollars. Now, if you're
trying to move a college student into a dorm room,
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there may not be anything of real great value there,
and I'm sure that these movers, these scam movers, would
adjust their thievery accordingly. But imagine someone our age, with
or without a spouse, Maybe someone who's been recently widowed,
or a widower who just you know, just needs to
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get out of that house and doesn't want to live
there anymore. Maybe somebody who has become unable to take
care of themselves. And we've talked about that recently on
the show. When you have to move out of the
family home, move out of the home you've been in
twenty thirty forty years maybe, and go somewhere else, it's
already traumatic enough. Don't let yourself get burned by this. Okay,
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the story I read this morning was from Andy Serrotte
at Channel two. Now, what you need to do before
you commit to a moving company, check with the Better
Business Bureau, see if there are complaints against the company,
Keep a detailed inventory of all your stuff. That's great
for storm prep too, by the way, and that's something
I may bring up with Aris tomorrow. Take a video.
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Just pick your phone up, put it on video and
start recording, and walk from room to room, slowly panning
from one corner to the other. And then open your closets.
Video what's in your closets. Now, this isn't going to
be a totally accurate accounting of an inventory of everything
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you've got. You don't want to just open up your
jewelry boxes and show anybody who might find your phone
all the pounds of gold you have and the diamonds
and whatever. But just for for the sake, I did
it for storm damage. I thought, okay, this is back
when when Harvey was coming and I thought my house
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was gonna get flooded. I videoed the entire downstairs wall
to wall to make sure that any insurance adjust that
came along would see what it was I was trying
to get taken care of. And back to the actual scamming.
If you happen to get scammed by anybody for any reason,
don't be embarrassed, don't be ashamed, reported report it so
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that these people can be stopped in their tracks and
not continue scamming people just because you feel guilty or
you feel ashamed that somebody took advantage of you. These
people are very skilled at what they do, and they
can They could talk to bark off a tree. That's
what my wife says I can do because I talk
so much. These people are smooth talkers. They will convince
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you that they're not going to burn you, and then
you look up and you, you and your trusting soul
have been burned. It's horrible. I got an email for
a voicemail actually from Centerpoint this morning around ten forty
five and let me know that Cruis willd be working
in my area for the next few days to improve
my service. That in one hundred degree heat, I could
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expect occasional outages lasting anywhere from four to eight hours.
If I lose power again long enough to cause me
to lose the contents of my refrigerator and freezer that
only now are coming back up to looking pretty loaded,
I'm gonna send them a bill. I really am. I'm
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sick and tired of this. There's no reason for this.
It's great they're making improvements and hopefully they'll take my
home off that little grid that has sixty eight houses
on it. Because we're always last to get our power restored.
Somebody needs to run a fat long cord from our
grid to the big one that powers the homes across
the street. They hardly ever go out on behalf of
the sixty eight. Center Point get it right this time. Meanwhile,
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over in flod I found out that right behind Debbie
also a Cat one storm. The entire state of Florida
had a couple or a few hundred thousand customers without power.
We had two point two million customers in the dark
and the heat. I'm just saying, general minded that if
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you see Centerpoint cruiser around your house too working on something,
thank them. Okay, what happened after Beryl and what's prompted
to scramble to fix what's broken is not the fault
of those people out there, not the technicians, No, not
all in charge. That's exactly right, haggling over negotiations and
money and generators that never got moved, eight generators that
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never got used, never got flipped on. Oh but they
have to take them apart and they have to put
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Here's more with Doug. I had a great idea on
this power thing. Really, if our power goes out, we'll
go over to the house that guy who was telling
everybody to put their thermostat on seventy eight and his
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was on seventy. He'll be cool over there'll that's that's
cold enough to cool a lot of people. I bet
that house is big enough to cool a lot of
people too. And I think that picture was from the offices.
Oh even more room, yeah, square feet to spare exactly.
Bet you that. I bet you that power doesn't never
go on. That's like number one. I think that's the
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first thing that gets turned right back on, right, just one,
just one little tiny step ahead of hospitals and fire stations. Sure, yeah,
that's I don't want to get into all that. It's
it's it's really frustrating that only now after they really
had a kerfuffle of some sort with barrel. My gosh,
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can you imagine had that been a any stronger storm
at all. It's just I don't want to get into that.
All right, In meaningless but marginally interesting news, Uh and
Will this is this is gonna require you to cast
a vote. Okay, click to Houston. I just I was
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scrolling through the site taking a look around. They still
have a story up from back in July, okay about
which fast food places have the best French fries, and
just out of curiosity, there is no right or wrong answer.
I'm curious Will, as to where you prefer to buy
your drive through fries my go to spot. Where are
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you Whatever you're gonna eat, You're always gonna order fries
at I mean, you know, for me, I don't even
know if it's necessarily about the fries as much as
it is about the sauces that you said you were
gonna good. I thought you were gonna tell me it
was gonna be the experience in the atmosphere. No, it's
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more about the sauce that I can dip in. So
you can dip a fried potato into any sauce and
that's fine. You just want the right sauce. I want
the right sauce, which is usually is walapeno ranch. I
could see that. How spicy though, how jalapeno and how ranch?
How ranch is never spicy to me? But it does
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have a little zing that makes it good. Yeah, kicking
m okay, all right, I'm gonna let you let's go
to the fun stuff for a minute. I don't want
to let me see if I got something really really good.
Oh you want something about dogs? Sure? This is kind
of neat. Yeah, everybody loves a good dog. If you've
(33:51):
you've had them, you you know what you have one? Now, dude,
that's right, you have a guest dog, a guest a
permanent permanent. Well, he's not permanent, but at least until
I mean until it passes. I don't know how long
are you keeping that dog? Will it's not even your dog? Yeah? Well,
I mean second one, it's because my girlfriend's family, you know,
(34:13):
her brother, whose dog it is. Yeah, there and just
left it. They're gone. Well no, well they're they're, they're
they're they live in Europe. Now dogs in Europe, Well,
they do, but he's never happened to the French Poodlehe
he's an older dog and so you'd have to go
into a geriatric Well, they have to go into quarantine
for about six months. They don't think it's got six
(34:36):
months left. Well, it's not that they don't think that
he has six months, but I think it's more when
older dogs tend to go into that kind of scenario,
into short kind of like a nursing home. Well, it
makes them sad, you know, because they're they're away, they
have no idea what's going on. They think they've been abandoned. Okay,
I don't want to waste the entire segment on this
because I have some other stuff to talk about so anyway,
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this one, one guy's dog had a lot of dog
breeds have hypersensitive noses, and some of them are they're
sniffing out drugs and explosives and all these things. Well
some of them are sniffing out cancer. And this dog,
this dog born in the early oh no wait, no,
that's not right. Never mind, that is incorrect. Anyway, this dog,
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this man has has been with him almost throughout well
since she was a little puppy, not officially trained, not
not some highly decorated dog from doing any kind of
sniffing around. But the owner, the guy who owns the
dog noticed, he's sixty five years old, and he noticed,
(35:47):
and his family noticed that the dog had been kind
of acting different around him and really kind of focused
and just not the same, just not the same. And
the guy finally went to his doctor and said, you
know this, this dog has been kind of hanging out
around me and acting really different and acting strange, just
(36:11):
kind of clinging to me. Maybe it's something with my health.
And what they found out he went to his regular
physician first, who sent him to an oncologist who detected
a stage four cancer in this guy's face that they
say would have killed him. In a matter of weeks.
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He was on his way out and he got the
cancer completely removed. He's had some reconstructive surgery, and he
and the dog are expected to live many, many happy,
happy years. That's pretty cool, isn't it? It was pretty cool.
I'm speaking of dogs in good news on the way
out at Chihuahuah mix named Gizmo that went missing. It
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is just a funny name. Went missing in twenty fifteen
from Los Angeles or Las Vegas, not Los Angeles, Las Vegas,
got out of the yard. Nobody gave up the search,
constantly kept it up on social media, and on July
seventeenth of this year, the woman got word that her
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dog had been found by somebody who'd been trying to
catch it for a couple of years and finally caught
it and finally checked the microchip at the vet and
indeed it was Gizmo. About that will that's pretty cool? Well,
I bet you, I'll bet you ten bucks. She did
a coming home party for Gizmo too, a couple of
bones and some biscuits. That's it for today. We'll see
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it again on Thursday when I get it right with
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I don't even think we're to the middle yet. We're
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or take a little bit. Unfortunately, Oil said hold my
beer and jumped even a little more strongly, up about
three percent. Last I looked, it was closing in on
seventy six dollars a barrel, and goal also up a
few bucks roughly, and I was around twenty four to
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thirty four mid morning, but it had already given up
a little bit of the gain it had very early
this morning. Also worked noting the thirty year mortgage rate
was down by less than three tenths of a point
to six point sixty five, but nonetheless down, so at
least it's trending in the proper direction to get this
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train back on the tracks. Biden inflation and Biden nomics
have well, they've done a lot, but they're not the
only problems we've got in this country right now. In
keeping with my new direction, by the way, the one
by which I entrust you to do your own research
and form your own opinions about political stuff. And by
(03:47):
the way, I still may toss out a headline and
maybe the lead of a story as regards political things,
and I'll just encourage you to dig deeper. I'm not
going to elaborate on things like I have sometimes in
the past. I do latch onto things that about which
I'm passionate, and our country is one of those things.
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So forgive me if I slip now and then, but
I don't intend to unless it just is something I
feel is absolutely critical to share in more than three
or four sentences. So here, for example, I'm gonna lead
with a story that I found very fascinating, in part
because my father was a history major, So I come
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by this fascination of mine with history pretty honestly. Story
comes from Jerusalem National Park, where excavation, and it's been
ongoing for a while since they figured out what was
under this parking lot, has uncovered what almost certainly was
a moat that is mentioned in the Bible as separating
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the city of David and the Temple mount. The people
who are doing all this excavation over there believe that
this mote dates back about three three thousand years, and
this particular area, they say, has more layers that represent
more than ten different periods in Jerusalem's history. The city
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itself today, the city itself is important in three of
the Abrahamic religions, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. That's a pretty
important thing they're doing over there in trying to uncover
history that's been covered up by just centuries of destruction
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and rebuilding, destruction and rebuilding. But what they found over there,
and the pictures of what they found are pretty clear
cut evidence of something that's that's actually mentioned in the Bible.
I think that's pretty cool. Sidus believe that the Well,
I'll just let them keep digging, and then if they
dig up something else new, I'll keep you posted. With
the twenty twenty four Olympics still underway, the Summer Games
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twenty twenty eight host city loss Angelees could be at
risk for relegation of revocation of its nomination over a
real controversy involving performance enhancing drugs. The sticking point involves
allegations from quite a few people in our country of cheating. Essentially,
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some athletes from other countries suspected of using banned substances
and not getting booted for doing so in a recently
passed Olympic Games or two. Because those athletes countries determined
that the substances they'd were taken mistakenly by way of contamination,
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the World Anti Doping Agency hadn't taken kindly to being
challenged by the US Antidoping Agency for allowing those athletes
to compete. And there apparently is a clause now in
these Olympic hosting contracts that says, you know what, and
I still this is a very long shot, but there's
(07:03):
a clause in there that says that the IOC could
pull the LA plug if if enough hullabaloo breaks out
over this. I hope it doesn't. Uh, very well, No,
let's wait. We're gonna have to wait until the third
segment because we've got a guy named Aris Papadopolis coming
up in this next segment to talk about he's the
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third segment. Oh that's right, that's right, well done, Will,
I forgot about that, so good. Let's do this. Let's
get in a metal count of the US medals so
far in Paris, and then how about we do that
when we come back, because we're almost at a time. Okay,
that's a good. Yeah. I don't want to rush this
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Speaker 2 (09:36):
Time all right, welcome back. Second segment of the program
starts right now. Thanks to Will's reminder a few minutes ago,
(09:57):
I am aware that we have time now until we
join Arispapaanopolos in the third segment, we have time to
go over the Olympics comings and goings, and specifically the
medals that have been won or not one by Let's
call us what the top five or six countries? Will
you got that handy? I was gonna just go top three. Oh,
(10:18):
that sounds great, Will, and we'll start with total medals. Okay,
total medals. Really Will in third place with forty eight medals,
we have home of the Olympics this year, France. Okay,
(10:41):
the French have forty something medals, forty eight, forty eight medals.
In the second place, we have the People's Republic of
China with sixty one medals. My word, and coming in
at first place. You should be playing the star spangled banner,
ud know, yeall of them? It's the United States of
(11:04):
America with a whopping eighty eight medal. Nicely done, USA?
All right? Yeah, how are we doing with gold? Where
are we? Well, that's what I was about to get to,
so now I'm just trying to help people walk it.
In third place with sixteen gold medals, France, Australia, Australia. Yeah, yeah,
I forgot that their swimmers are so dominant. Australia is
(11:27):
in third place with sixteen gold Okay. In second place
we have China. Where is mark twenty three gold medals?
Well then I'm guessing coming in at number one with
a bullet well apparently not in not in shooting. Don't
get me started on that. The United States has twenty
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four gold medals standing, thirty two silver and thirty two bronze.
So we are leading in both categories in every single
category gold and overall, yes loss, so no, not silver
and bronze medals. As a quick aside, can you look
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up while I'm chatting here, how many countries, how many
delegations there are that have either one, like one bronze
medal or no medals because and I'm not trying to
make fun of it, I'm just kind of what I
want to do is emphasize how much competition there is,
first of all, and how much work goes in to
(12:34):
preparing for the Olympics. For all of these athletes, whether
they win or lose, they've all prepared basically for the
last four years except for one guy I'm going to
tell you about in a second. Actually, it's pretty cool. Well,
there are not I mean, there are a lot of
countries that have not won no medals. How many have
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just one bronze one bronze we have let's see two,
there can't be oh, never mind nine. We have nine
countries that have won one bronze medal, and that is it.
And you know that that is worth everything to those
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countries that they win those medals, everything to those athletes
that they've won that medal for their country, just like
it is for the Americans, the Chinese, the Australians, French,
all of them. They're all look at the different countries
right there, on this on this running event. Here, we've
got one too, like almost every yeah, it is actually
every country from or every entrant is from a different country.
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So and they're all they all have been training for
four years for this. Sticking with the Olympics, there's one
man in Paris who's done something no other man or
woman has ever done or is ever likely to do again.
Do you have any idea what I'm talking about?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Well?
Speaker 2 (13:54):
No, This guy's name is Megian Lopez. Okay. He is
a Greco Roman wrestler from Cuba. And even Michael Phelps,
the guy who's twenty three medals is the most ever
earned by a single Olympic athlete. Even Phelps tips his
swim cap to Lopez because at six five to ninety
(14:21):
this guy's he's forty one years old. Will he's forty
one years old. He competed in his first Olympics in
two thousand and four, he would have been around twenty
years old then, Okay, finished in fifth place. Since then,
he has gone back to the Olympics five times, and
every time he has finished with the gold medal. Five
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straight four year gap competitions. This one guy, where did
it go?
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Here?
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Robbie Smith, an American guy who first wrestled Lopez in
the twenty fifteen World Championships, said he's still the guy
to be, and then added by the way that Lopez
hasn't even competed for the past three years. Somebody talked
him into it in the past year, says, you know,
(15:12):
go for five, go for five, mission, go for five,
and he go, yeah, I got nothing better to do.
So he rolls up into Paris and just stomps his
way to the top. Again. There's a guy, this retired
Lithuanian wrestler. You could tell I put a little time
into this and I'm not really even sure why, but
I did. Lithuanian guy Mendaugas misguide us said wrestling Lopez.
(15:38):
I love this quote, like wrestling with a rock that moves. Wow,
he's six five to ninety. Yeah, that's that's gonna be
a tough thing to tip over. You know what his
nickname is, the Hulk. He could be but it's not
el terrible. That's kind of cool now. I like it
(15:59):
is man, And if you saw a picture of the guy,
you would think, uh, yeah, that's pretty That's a pretty
straight up nickname. In l Passo in l Paso students
at charge. How much time do you have? Three minutes?
You have four minutes. I'll try because I want to
get to this and I want to get to it now.
In l pass, those students at Charles Middle School are
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not going to be allowed to wear all black clothing.
Rules in stated after school officials determined that the dark,
monochromatic clothing was associated with and I quote depression and
mental health issues and or criminality end quote. The president
of the l Paso Teachers Association said, teachers see a
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pattern that indicate stress or depression when kids start wearing
all black to school. Now, they can still wear black
shorts for pe, they can still wear black on free
dress day. They just can't wear it from head to toe,
which bothers me because that doesn't address a very clear
and obvious, they say it themselves, problem with mental health
(17:03):
and depression. How about a rule that teachers who notice
kids wearing all black sit them down and ask them
how things are going, maybe encourage them to talk to
a counselor. Sounds to me like these kids, even without
knowing it, these kids are kind of reaching out for
help to take away what the school acknowledges is a
(17:24):
clear sign of trouble in these kids. Seems to fly
in the face of what they're supposed to be doing
at school, and that is taking care of kids and
helping them when they need it. Kids wearing all black,
you don't tell them to go change the color of
their clothes and mask something that bothers them. Do you
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agree with that? Will they ought to be? They ought
to be using that as a flag that indicates this
kid needs to talk to somebody. Well, I also just
love wearing all black. Well, then let a counselor decide
that be kids. But there they have learned over observing
all of this that these kids tend to be troubled
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and depressed and having issues that I think they're missing
an opportunity to do what they probably should be doing
for these kids. And I grant you there. I'm sure
there's some kids who are perfectly fine and just like
to wear black. Johnny Cash comes to mind, he probably
wore all black school. Maybe maybe not all right, I
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of fifty plus.
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On this beautiful Wednesday, there's a there was a miscommunication
and so we'll talk to aers tomorrow. It's as simple
as that, all right, Well you will, well, listeners, Doug
got the dates wrong. Huh. You told me you weren't
gonna throw me under the bus. What's new? You told
me you weren't gonna throw me under the bus. Well
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you have started, Yeah, you have sparked a fire that
you'll never put out okay, good a war of words anyway,
I have seen this particular story in several iterations recently
and wanted to go ahead and bring it up to
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my audience here, because my audience, my audience that grew
up trusting people, grew up believing that everybody was basically
honest until they were proved otherwise, we tend to get
scammed more often than younger people who have grown up
with the technology that allows some of these people to
(21:40):
kind of rip you off. And this isn't really this
is not an internet scam so much as it is
something that occurs around this time of year, almost every
year in almost every big city in America for a
lot of different reasons. People are moving, okay, and when
they move, especially seniors, they're gonna need help getting all
(22:05):
the stuff in one house or apartment into a truck
and then off to the next house or apartment. And
what is happening, according to the stories I've been reading,
is typically the con involves somebody calling a moving company
(22:26):
for which they really didn't go looking, or they a
particular some sort of social media prompt has convinced them
to make a phone call to this alleged up and
up moving company, and they've called and they've been asked
to describe what they need moved, and then they've been
(22:48):
given a quote over the phone that is usually almost
certainly going to be less than a legit mover would
charge to move what you have. They make sure that
they bring that bid in very low so that you
allow them to come to your home, allow them to
start packing stuff into the truck. And then at some
(23:11):
point during that packing process, the head of the crew
of movers comes to you and says, you know you
got Mortan. We've got Mortan, we thought you had, so
we're gonna have to charge you an extra fee of
some sort. And when you say no, you quoted me
this number, and you told me that was going to
(23:32):
be the number over the phone, and so that's all
I'm going to pay you, they say, well, then we're
not giving your stuff back. It's already on the truck.
It's already been loaded, half of it, a third of it,
a quarter of it whatever. I'd be willing to bet
that when they start loading the truck and they know
dog on well they're going to try to scam you,
(23:54):
they're going to be putting some really good stuff on
that truck first and foremost best they can find in
the house. And the average, the average burn on these
things is more than four hundred dollars. Now, if you're
trying to move a college student into a dorm room,
(24:14):
there may not be anything of real great value there,
and I'm sure that these movers, these scam movers, would
adjust their thievery accordingly. But imagine someone our age, with
or without a spouse, Maybe someone who's been recently widowed,
or a widower who just you know, just needs to
(24:38):
get out of that house and doesn't want to live
there anymore. Maybe somebody who has become unable to take
care of themselves. And we've talked about that recently on
the show. When you have to move out of the
family home, move out of the home you've been in
twenty thirty forty years maybe, and go somewhere else, it's
already traumatic enough. Don't let yourself get burned by this. Okay,
(25:00):
the story I read this morning was from Andy Serrotte
at Channel two. Now, what you need to do before
you commit to a moving company, check with the Better
Business Bureau, see if there are complaints against the company,
Keep a detailed inventory of all your stuff. That's great
for storm prep too, by the way, and that's something
I may bring up with Aris tomorrow. Take a video.
(25:25):
Just pick your phone up, put it on video and
start recording, and walk from room to room, slowly panning
from one corner to the other. And then open your closets.
Video what's in your closets. Now, this isn't going to
be a totally accurate accounting of an inventory of everything
(25:46):
you've got. You don't want to just open up your
jewelry boxes and show anybody who might find your phone
all the pounds of gold you have and the diamonds
and whatever. But just for for the sake, I did
it for storm damage. I thought, okay, this is back
when when Harvey was coming and I thought my house
(26:07):
was gonna get flooded. I videoed the entire downstairs wall
to wall to make sure that any insurance adjust that
came along would see what it was I was trying
to get taken care of. And back to the actual scamming.
If you happen to get scammed by anybody for any reason,
don't be embarrassed, don't be ashamed, reported report it so
(26:32):
that these people can be stopped in their tracks and
not continue scamming people just because you feel guilty or
you feel ashamed that somebody took advantage of you. These
people are very skilled at what they do, and they
can They could talk to bark off a tree. That's
what my wife says I can do because I talk
so much. These people are smooth talkers. They will convince
(26:55):
you that they're not going to burn you, and then
you look up and you, you and your trusting soul
have been burned. It's horrible. I got an email for
a voicemail actually from Centerpoint this morning around ten forty
five and let me know that Cruis willd be working
in my area for the next few days to improve
my service. That in one hundred degree heat, I could
(27:16):
expect occasional outages lasting anywhere from four to eight hours.
If I lose power again long enough to cause me
to lose the contents of my refrigerator and freezer that
only now are coming back up to looking pretty loaded,
I'm gonna send them a bill. I really am. I'm
(27:37):
sick and tired of this. There's no reason for this.
It's great they're making improvements and hopefully they'll take my
home off that little grid that has sixty eight houses
on it. Because we're always last to get our power restored.
Somebody needs to run a fat long cord from our
grid to the big one that powers the homes across
the street. They hardly ever go out on behalf of
the sixty eight. Center Point get it right this time. Meanwhile,
(27:59):
over in flod I found out that right behind Debbie
also a Cat one storm. The entire state of Florida
had a couple or a few hundred thousand customers without power.
We had two point two million customers in the dark
and the heat. I'm just saying, general minded that if
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you see Centerpoint cruiser around your house too working on something,
thank them. Okay, what happened after Beryl and what's prompted
to scramble to fix what's broken is not the fault
of those people out there, not the technicians, No, not
all in charge. That's exactly right, haggling over negotiations and
money and generators that never got moved, eight generators that
(28:43):
never got used, never got flipped on. Oh but they
have to take them apart and they have to put
them together. Well, then don't buy eight hundred, buy a million.
Eight hundred dollars generators and just leave them on street corners.
Now that's some good. Now we're talking. Yeah, if you're
in the market for beautiful custom home whe or without
a generator, they'll do either way whatever you want. Check
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out Kirkholmb's third generation custom builder. They work from the
northwest side of Houston all the way through the hill country. Anyway.
It must be fun, really to work for Kirk Hoolmmes
because the scenery on your way to and from the
job sites every day has got to be just breathtaking, beautiful,
beautiful hill country. Imagine a beautiful little hill overlooking a lake,
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and maybe a beautiful grassy meadow and some big, beautiful
trees over in a corner somewhere right there in the
middle of it, all your dream home facing whichever way
you want. You want to go out on the back
patio and face the morning sun for your first cup
of coffee or maybe the evening sunset for a glass
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of wine. They'll make that house exactly what you want.
It will be unique to you and your family. Only
two things, as I've told you so many times, are
common in a Kirk twenty year structure warranty twice the
industry standard two by six exterior walls to beat the heat,
to beat the cold a little bit better than standard construction.
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Kirk Holmbs is proud and I'm proud to let you
know that they were named builder of the Year from
Southern Living Builder of the Year for the entire year
twenty twenty four. Southern Living Builder of the Year. That's
kirk Hoolmebs because they do a great job at what
they do and have for thirty plus years. Kirkholmes dot
com is the website. Go there and see what they
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can do for you. Kirkholmes dot com. That's k you
are k because at kirk Coombs it is all about.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
You old guy's rule. And of course women never get old.
If you want to avoid sleeping on the couch.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Okay, well I think that sounds like akay.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Please fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Here's more with Doug. I had a great idea on
this power thing. Really, if our power goes out, we'll
go over to the house that guy who was telling
everybody to put their thermostat on seventy eight and his
(31:12):
was on seventy. He'll be cool over there'll that's that's
cold enough to cool a lot of people. I bet
that house is big enough to cool a lot of
people too. And I think that picture was from the offices.
Oh even more room, yeah, square feet to spare exactly.
Bet you that. I bet you that power doesn't never
go on. That's like number one. I think that's the
(31:35):
first thing that gets turned right back on, right, just one,
just one little tiny step ahead of hospitals and fire stations. Sure, yeah,
that's I don't want to get into all that. It's
it's it's really frustrating that only now after they really
had a kerfuffle of some sort with barrel. My gosh,
(31:59):
can you imagine had that been a any stronger storm
at all. It's just I don't want to get into that.
All right, In meaningless but marginally interesting news, Uh and
Will this is this is gonna require you to cast
a vote. Okay, click to Houston. I just I was
(32:19):
scrolling through the site taking a look around. They still
have a story up from back in July, okay about
which fast food places have the best French fries, and
just out of curiosity, there is no right or wrong answer.
I'm curious Will, as to where you prefer to buy
your drive through fries my go to spot. Where are
(32:44):
you Whatever you're gonna eat, You're always gonna order fries
at I mean, you know, for me, I don't even
know if it's necessarily about the fries as much as
it is about the sauces that you said you were
gonna good. I thought you were gonna tell me it
was gonna be the experience in the atmosphere. No, it's
(33:07):
more about the sauce that I can dip in. So
you can dip a fried potato into any sauce and
that's fine. You just want the right sauce. I want
the right sauce, which is usually is walapeno ranch. I
could see that. How spicy though, how jalapeno and how ranch?
How ranch is never spicy to me? But it does
(33:29):
have a little zing that makes it good. Yeah, kicking
m okay, all right, I'm gonna let you let's go
to the fun stuff for a minute. I don't want
to let me see if I got something really really good.
Oh you want something about dogs? Sure? This is kind
of neat. Yeah, everybody loves a good dog. If you've
(33:51):
you've had them, you you know what you have one? Now, dude,
that's right, you have a guest dog, a guest a
permanent permanent. Well, he's not permanent, but at least until
I mean until it passes. I don't know how long
are you keeping that dog? Will it's not even your dog? Yeah? Well,
I mean second one, it's because my girlfriend's family, you know,
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her brother, whose dog it is. Yeah, there and just
left it. They're gone. Well no, well they're they're, they're
they're they live in Europe. Now dogs in Europe, Well,
they do, but he's never happened to the French Poodlehe
he's an older dog and so you'd have to go
into a geriatric Well, they have to go into quarantine
for about six months. They don't think it's got six
(34:36):
months left. Well, it's not that they don't think that
he has six months, but I think it's more when
older dogs tend to go into that kind of scenario,
into short kind of like a nursing home. Well, it
makes them sad, you know, because they're they're away, they
have no idea what's going on. They think they've been abandoned. Okay,
I don't want to waste the entire segment on this
because I have some other stuff to talk about so anyway,
(34:59):
this one, one guy's dog had a lot of dog
breeds have hypersensitive noses, and some of them are they're
sniffing out drugs and explosives and all these things. Well
some of them are sniffing out cancer. And this dog,
this dog born in the early oh no wait, no,
that's not right. Never mind, that is incorrect. Anyway, this dog,
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this man has has been with him almost throughout well
since she was a little puppy, not officially trained, not
not some highly decorated dog from doing any kind of
sniffing around. But the owner, the guy who owns the
dog noticed, he's sixty five years old, and he noticed,
(35:47):
and his family noticed that the dog had been kind
of acting different around him and really kind of focused
and just not the same, just not the same. And
the guy finally went to his doctor and said, you
know this, this dog has been kind of hanging out
around me and acting really different and acting strange, just
(36:11):
kind of clinging to me. Maybe it's something with my health.
And what they found out he went to his regular
physician first, who sent him to an oncologist who detected
a stage four cancer in this guy's face that they
say would have killed him. In a matter of weeks.
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He was on his way out and he got the
cancer completely removed. He's had some reconstructive surgery, and he
and the dog are expected to live many, many happy,
happy years. That's pretty cool, isn't it? It was pretty cool.
I'm speaking of dogs in good news on the way
out at Chihuahuah mix named Gizmo that went missing. It
(36:58):
is just a funny name. Went missing in twenty fifteen
from Los Angeles or Las Vegas, not Los Angeles, Las Vegas,
got out of the yard. Nobody gave up the search,
constantly kept it up on social media, and on July
seventeenth of this year, the woman got word that her
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dog had been found by somebody who'd been trying to
catch it for a couple of years and finally caught
it and finally checked the microchip at the vet and
indeed it was Gizmo. About that will that's pretty cool? Well,
I bet you, I'll bet you ten bucks. She did
a coming home party for Gizmo too, a couple of
bones and some biscuits. That's it for today. We'll see
(37:41):
it again on Thursday when I get it right with
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