August 26, 2024 • 38 mins
Today, Doug Pike disscusses rainy days, gym teachers, and being late.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Hey John, how's it going today?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
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Speaker 2 (00:50):
Edition of the program starts right now. Thank you all
for allowing Will and Me into your lunch hour or
the precursor to your Perhaps you think we put people
to sleep? Will do you think we're that? Maybe not?
I hope I think so? You think so? Yeah? It
just all curled up, got tired of watching their stories
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on TV this morning, or watching the prices. Right, I
think it still comes on it having a big old lunch.
Oh yeah, big lunch, kind of lean back carbo loading,
prop up your feet on the ottoman, take a four
hour long nap, bam. That was a four hour nap,
A proper nap from what I've heard in interviews on
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fifty plus, and what I've read is about thirty minutes
to forty five maybe an hour, maybe an.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Hour jumps a bunch of chumps, Like what's not? I
like to wake up not knowing where I am?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
How often have you done that? A lot?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
You have sleep sleep walking an well, you would have
wakened this morning to not much. But then as we
watched from our building over here on the West Loop
looking back to the southeast, a major rain event occurred
for about I don't know, forty five minutes or an hour,
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and then after that cleared up, interestingly enough, there was
a big giant plume of smoke coming from somewhere southeast.
I thought it was around Pasadena, I think it was,
And nobody in the news was reporting anything about it
for quite some time, and finally I heard from from
I think it was Jeff Biggs back in the newsroom
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that what it was was one of the one of
the refineries over there flaring off apparently a significant amount
of gas over there, because the smoke plume ultimately went
all the way from southeast Houston. Probably I could see
it going as far north as way north of iten
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and I don't even know how far it stretched beyond
there where you could actually see it, but it was
it was significant, kind of like that rain this morning.
It was good to get it. I guess we actually
did have a light sprinkle yesterday evening at my house,
but it wasn't even enough to dampen all the concrete.
In duve hunting terms, and only because the season opens
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on Sunday and it's I'm fixated on that right now.
The rain had a lot of holes in the pattern.
Hunters and shotgunners will understand that, and the rest of you.
It's not a big deal. It didn't rain much. Let's
just put it that way. Speaking of weather, let's get
to a markedly different highs and lows in Haiku thanks
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Are you ready? Will I am? Rain? Chance? Good? All week?
Cloudy sky helps block the sun not fall but not hot.
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I like the ending not fall but not hot. That's good,
But that middle line helps block the sun. What's wrong
with that? That keeps it from being hot.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
With I get it, but it's just clunky.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
It's clunky. Yeah, it doesn't roll off the tongue very well. Okay,
it get off my it's oh boy, be careful. That's uh.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
We're starting this week off a little, a little rough
like it is outside. I'd say that was a six
point one six one. Okay, well, at least it's better
than half. At least it's better than half. I'll aim
higher for tomorrow. I'll see if see how the weather
turns out, which you gotta remember. I'm having to do
this based on real weather.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I can't just make stuff up, will I can't just
talk about a snowstorm this week or anything like that.
That could really spice it up. But why not? You
could talk about any weather if you will. I could,
but it wouldn't be You know. That gives me an idea.
If I can remember it tomorrow, I might put it
in play. Okay, I have an idea. I think that
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it would be an interesting twist to the thing. So anyway,
off to market, we go teed up as usual by
Houston gooldexchange dot com. All four indicators at one point, well,
three were down, three were up, one down early then
all four started running up the board, all greened up,
and then they've kind of backed off in the middle,
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and it was just I don't know what they're doing
right now, honestly, I haven't looked in about an hour.
I didn't There was no well, there was one significant
move early. The russell was up more than three percent
at one point. I don't know where it is now.
Oil back on the rise thanks to all the tension
in the Middle East. Right now, it was already up
more than two point fifty a barrel and hovering around
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seventy seven seventy seven fifty somewhere in there, and just
it just ricocheted off. I think it was seventy two
something just a couple of days ago, maybe Friday, I'm
not sure. At one time late Friday it might have
been seventy two seventy three bucks, and now here we
are chasing seventy eight again. Gold I'm kind of glad
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I waited and have it sold my stuff yet. Whatever
I've got around the House, there's not much. But nonetheless,
the last time I looked, and it wasn't that long ago,
Gold had risen to twenty five hundred and sixty one
dollars and change and was still trying to climb. I'll
have to look at that during the break when we
get there, stepping into what's going on at President and
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I'll use this little time as necessary to address these
things as so as to not go back on my
promise to steer mostly clear of politics. When President Trump
said he wanted Mike's muted except for the person answering
questions in this upcoming debate with Vice President Harris, which
is exactly how Biden wanted him this debate running how
(07:01):
it ran well, the Harris team has spun that now
to say that they wanted Mike's open at all times
and actually said that President Trump's team wanted the muting
because they didn't think he could handle a wide open,
live debate with Harris. Honestly, I've never seen in my
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life such gaslighting, and its persistence throughout this campaign pretty
much proves out something I read recently and talked about
about how easy it is to confuse gullible people and
The only thing you have to do is accuse the
other side of doing exactly what you're doing. Harris's team
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knows she'll fair poorly against Donald Trump. They must, certainly,
they must. And I'm still waiting for her to sit
down in front of reporters somewhere, one on one, a
press conference, something where she can actually talk about. Oh,
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Speaker 2 (09:41):
Hi, welcome back. Segment two. Will has the big clock
on the wall, and I've actually written down what time
I'm supposed to be out, so we will probably at
least get this one closed. What do you think, Well,
what are the odds that I'm out? Like right dead?
Double zero, next to nil, challenge next to nothing?
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Watch and see you told me, you asked me right
before the show started.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Put a big clock on it. What time are we
gonna be out of the first segment? I'm even gonna
turn this way and you are gonna yap your way
to fourteen. I'm not. No, I'm not. I'll take care
of this, don't you worry. All right, there's another story
circulating this morning, quite the liberal fairy tale that tries
(10:28):
to justify this administration allow on more than ten million
people into this country in the last three years and change,
most of them unlawfully, and almost hardly any of them
really truly vetted out. They're here, though, and they're getting
free stuff every time they wake up. But that's just
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the way to It's another kind of disturbing lie designed
to divide this country a little bit more and hopes
maybe enough people will believe the line give liberals four
more years. I am I'm really wary of Harris telling
us that she's gonna fix what's broken if we elect her.
It's so it's just such a ridiculous statement to make
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by the person who, along with her cohort President Biden,
actually is responsible for breaking the stuff that's broken. Right now,
and then she's still in office, she could do anything
she wants right now. Pretty much nobody's going to stand
in her way as the vice president when the president
has pretty much stepped down, she could fix it. She could,
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or better she probably should just step down and just say,
you know what, I'm not so sure I got this.
And finally, this is the last one, I promise. Texas
Governor Greg Abbott in twenty twenty one, signed into law
Senate Bill one, which aimed to remove from voter rolls
people whose names should not be there. Pretty simple. This
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past week I saw a release from the Governor's office
to share that SB one has resulted so far in
the removal of more than a million. More than one
point one million names have been deleted just from Texas
voter rolls. Extrapolate that across the country to imagine, just
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imagine what's really going on registered to vote in Texas
among others. Will pop quiz how many people who actually
are dead have been found as registered to vote in
the state of Texas until they were pointed out and
(12:41):
taking off the roster? How many? You tell me again,
you tell me, pop quiz, take a stab. They're dead already.
I didn't know. I didn't mean add to the count.
I meant just take a guess.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Okay, I'll say, I'll say twenty five hundred, four hundred
and seventy five thousand deceased people were on our voter rolls.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
There's a suspense list, which means they're right to vote
has been suspended somehow. Four hundred and sixty three thousand there,
and then it goes down to one hundred and thirty
four thousand who'd moved six thousand. This is a very
interesting and telling factor because there's already been movement to
get this done in other parts of the state. Already
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sixty five hundred non citizens registered to vote, some of
whom had a history of already voting. By the way,
although it doesn't say in which elections, the bill, by
the way, elevates lying while registering to vote to a
state jail felony in case in case there's anybody out there,
you know, who might be thinking of hoodwinking the election.
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It requires also random audits every two years. It criminalized
ballot harvesting. It bans distribution of unsolicited mail in ballot
applications in ballot so if you happen to get one
of those in your mailbox, maybe set it aside and
call the governor's office to let him know. It also
withsholds funds from counties that failed to remove non citizens
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from voter rolls. Well, that's going to turn some heads,
and it makes a second degree felonly excuse me, a
second degree felony to knowingly count invalid votes or refuse
to count valid votes. Those are all great strikes. But
my only concern is that any investigation and potential charges
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that might result from SB one following the November election,
likely you're going to happen long after the elections are
finished and offices has changed hands, and it would just
be a big hot mess to try to unravel all
of that. But hopefully, if there is a no need
to unravel it, it will be unraveled. And anyway, it's
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a great step forward, really toward fair elections in Texas.
I'll step back from the political news chain now still
see I've got four minutes and ten seconds left to go,
Will I'm watching. We'll step away from all that and
let's start with some outer space news. A local woman Anna,
I believe I'm saying this right manan Emmy Non. She
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first started thinking about space travel as a little fourth
grader at Barbara Bush Elementary School had a field trip
to Johnson's Space Center that ultimately led to her Fast
forward to now grown up. She is being one of
four people headed to space tomorrow, I believe, as part
of a SpaceX Polaris launch down there at Kennedy Space Center.
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Five days up there, hopefully including the first commercial space
walk and hopefully recording the highest orbit of Earth ever
done by humans.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Try.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
I do admire her courage, and there's a teeny little
piece of me that kind of wishes, kind of wishes
I was maybe I don't know, a whole lot younger,
thirty years or so, and might have had an opportunity
to visit space, but then come right back. I want
to be back. If I'm going to space for five days,
I only be back on the sixth day, in time
for dinner. I really can't. I can't help but think
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of those two people up there in the space station,
now stuck on some sort of modern day Gilligan's Island mission.
They went up in June, supposed to be up there
for what a week or two, and now because their
return vehicle, their uber's got a flat, NASA's decided they
can't bring these two home until February of twenty twenty five.
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I cannot imagine signing up for a quick trip. We're
just gonna run to the space shuttle, grab a pizza,
do a couple of experiments, and then we'll come right
back home. Don't worry. And then you find out you're
gonna miss Halloween, you're gonna miss Thanksgiving, you're gonna miss Christmas,
you're gonna miss New Day, you're gonna miss Valentine's Day,
and the Super Bowl, probably some family birthdays, who knows
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what else, just gonna be circling the globe. And I
honestly I pray that they have the mental strength to endure,
because that's that's a kick in the teeth. We're gonna
be up there a couple of weeks, we'll be right
back and then now it's gonna end up being seven
eight months. It's tragic, it really is. It really is.
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All right. So look I'm watching my time. Well, I
know I got a minute and forty five left for
dog lovers. I'll this is a very quick one. And
then there's another one I want to do for dog lovers.
Comes the story of a stray dog over in Franklin County, Georgia.
You're a dog owner, will you'll appreciate this Labrador Retriever
sitting next to another dog that was sitting at the
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curb waiting for I didn't even know they had these.
The doggie daycare bus. Somebody drives a bus around, opens
the door, and these dogs hop on the bus and
go to their daycare center. Well, one house had an
extra dog in front of it. The driver called the
owner of the dog that was supposed to be getting
on the buses, and the owners said, no, that second
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dog's not ours, it's just some stray, some some rogue
trying to hop on the bus. Well they let that.
The dog just kept following the bus, kept running alongside it,
running alongside, wanting to get on board, and finally the
driver let it on, and in a relatively short amount
of time they found a new owner for that dog,
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and that new owner got him signed up for more
doggy daycare. Hooray for that little dog. In Franklin County, Georgia,
I pulled the audience in our offices here, and nobody
here knows of any place that does that. In Houston
that comes by. There's all kinds of doggy daycares, but
you have to drop off. I don't think there's one
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here that does doggy daycare by pick up i'd be
curious to know. All right, we're gonna get out of
here on time. We'll check it out.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
On the way out.
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Speaker 1 (20:48):
Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Holdom back. Third segment of the program starts right now.
Out time will forty three forty three For the record,
I got out ten seconds early on that other one.
So do I have ten seconds of credit here or no? No?
So okay, so you're just going to be a hardliner home. Yeah,
is all right. We'll see how that works out for you.
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I can do this now.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
You know, if I tally up all the times that
you got out late throughout the years that we've been
doing this show, you never finished Italian, we would not
have a show anymore.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
We have to No, it hasn't been that bad. Oh,
I don't know, Doug, I don't know. The second said, uh,
all right, good news. Let's do some of that. And
this is this is quite interesting. There's a guy in Taiwan,
halfway around the world. This is almost like some salty
fairy tale. He's found a way to turn oyster shells.
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You got to grind them up, you gotta process them somehow.
I don't know how he does it. I'm not interested
in knowing how he does it, but I might be
interested in learning how to do it. Over here, here's
the deal. He grinds these things up, he processes them,
and he turns them into a flexible yarn that's very
similar to sheep's wool. Currently, there's a lot of empty
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shell winds up back on oyster reefs, which is good.
They put it in places where ecosystems will benefit from
more reefs, which is pretty much any marine ecosystem, or
in places where the ecosystems just have nothing they can
either add them to existing shell reefs or put them
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where there's just bare sand, and miraculously, a little while later,
fair while later, it'll be oysters. But with one hundred
and sixty thousand tons of shell discarded every year just
in time one, that's pretty much more than enough to
pull some off to the side and make a few
sweaters and socks. Business is good. This guy's names Eddie
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Wang and Eddie Wang figured out how to make yarn
out of oyster shells, and his company currently processes about
nine hundred tons of what they call seawool annually. They
nine hundred tons of seawool every year. Guess what that
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makes him?
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Will?
Speaker 2 (23:31):
How much? Take a bet? Take a guess how much seawool?
It makes sense? Oh?
Speaker 1 (23:37):
God?
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Oh? Will? How much money he makes off of developing
turning nine hundred Oh where did it go? Nine hundred
tons of seawool turning oyster shell into nine hundred tons
of seawool? How much does that grosses company?
Speaker 1 (23:53):
No?
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Nothing. He's very altruistic and he does it for free.
That's hilarious. Will. This is free enterprise, as it worked.
This is where great ideas are born. Great ideas are
born by people who take risks in exchange for the
potential for great reward. This is why socialism doesn't work,
because nobody takes risks as soon as it gets in there,
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and the people who work the hardest realize that there's
no gain for them. There's nothing that they get that
the people who don't work at all don't get. They
quit doing it. Eddie, our buddy Eddie Wang over there
in Taiwan is turning six million bucks a year from
oyster shells. He turns into yarn. That's pretty awesome stuff,
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will you know? It is? Seventies and eighties were pretty
good for a lot of us in this audience, and
the music from those two decades was really good. But
it turns out classical music is better for our brains.
There are some scientists who are using brain wave measurement
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and neural imaging. I'm just gonna to read this because
I don't understand really what it means. They're doing that
and finding that Western classical music brings very positive changes
to our brains. This particular brand of music generates antidepressant
effects by synchronizing neural oscillations between the auditory cortex and
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the rewards circuit, and I am unqualified to explain in
any greater detail than that long term what they're trying
to do, and I'll try and get somebody on who
can explain it in terms all of us will understand.
But what they're saying is that it could be especially
helpful to people who suffer from depressions that are resistant
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to traditional treatment, and who wouldn't want to just kind
of chill and listen to music for a certain amount
of time every day. Classical music. I know a lot
of you are metal heads from the eighties, a lot
of you are rock and rollers from the seventies, and
even the few of them from the sixties still the
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nineties crazy and then the incomes hip hop and all
of that. But classical music specifically has been found to
alleviate depression. And I don't know how it works. I
don't care how it works. But if I ever need that,
I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go online, I guess, and
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find some You think you'd get in trouble for pulling
classical music music off the internet will maybe now I
have to look into it. Who's gonna come after you? Bach, Beethoven, Tchaikovski,
maybe they are states mon andof I bet they still got.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
The state's going now, I bet they don't. I bet
they got something going.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
That's free and clear. Man, crank it up.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Maybe bring us back with some with some I like
my copyright free music.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Fair enough. Yeah, let's not get in any trouble here.
What was the time I had to be out? Don't
tell me I have it here somewhere, I got it.
I still got a minute and a half. I'm good.
This one I titled Ice Ice Baby, I met. Guess
what it's about? Will uh no? Ice No, take another guess, think,
think outside the box, just a.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Team far Ice Ice Baby. It's a really cold child.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
No, it's about diamonds. Will Diamonds. The world's second largest
diamond was found this past weekend, but swanna it weighed
in diamond language. It weighed two thousand, four hundred and
ninety two carrots. It's probably gonna be j Lo's next
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engagement ring, be my guess, or maybe Beyonce somebody who
somebody who is with somebody and wants to lock it up,
and both of them have so much money they could
just set fire to a half of it and not
miss it. I don't know how much set thing's worth,
but the only one larger ever found in the entire
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world was the culor in diamond. I looked it up.
Found in nineteen o five that one weighed three thousand,
one hundred and six carrots, and the twenty four to
ninety two, if I haven't said it already, is about
a pound. It's about a solid pound. That's a that's
a big chunk of ice right there. I don't know
how you could wear something like that on your finger.
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It would have to be if you hung it around
your neck on a necklace, it would just weigh your
neck down. All right, we're gonna get out of here
on time. What do you know? Will? What do you know?
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Old Guy's rule, and of course, women never get old
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Speaker 2 (29:55):
Okay, I think that sounds like a good plan.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
All right, welcome back Dugpie Show. No, it's not the
Dugchpike Show. It's not Saturday, it's not Sunday. It's Monday.
That means it's fifty plus. Sorry about that. A m
nine to fifty KPRC been doing this show. I think
it's close to nine years. You were not my first producer,
you know that. Well, it's been several actually several in
here and gosh for my outdoor show, I bet I've
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had two dozen over the twenty four years I've been around.
Things are going very well now with Melvineo, and I'm
glad to have both of you guys on board. So
let's have a little fun, shall we. Will you ready sure?
High voltage? What time do we meet or hide or
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shake hands? What time do we meet? It's okay, apparently
according to most and this is I think this survey
was done amongst young people, but I would I would
kind of go along with this, Is it okay? Will
to lie to somebody who's chronically late and tell them
(31:22):
an event starts earlier than it really does so that
they won't drag everybody down by being super late. Depends
on what the event is. We're going to dinner, and
there's this trending topic comes up after a woman on
TikTok TikTok showed up to an eight pm dinner invitation
at eight twenty two, only to find out that her
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friends actually made the reservation for eight thirty just to
make sure that she'd be there on time. Are you
for that against it?
Speaker 3 (31:52):
I guess it kind of depends on how late somebody
is on average.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
The only time I think it's okay to be even
a minute late. Otherwise you're just if you're on time.
This is how it goes in athletics, at least, if
you're on time for practice, you're late. Okay, you need
to be there and ready to go when the whistle blows,
not not coming up to stretch out and all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
And I.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
No, I just I just don't like being late at all. Now,
maybe to a party. It's kind of awkward sometimes to
be the first person at a party. And if you,
I know, you've been to plenty of them in your life.
You're a social guy. And most of the time, I
think I would say the majority of guests show up
anywhere from about ten to twenty minutes after start time.
(32:39):
Would you agree with that? Yeah, you know, let the
room fill up a little bit. Nobody wants well, few
people want to be first. I don't mind if I
show up first. I'll say, hey, what can I help
you with? What's not ready to go yet? Let's let's
get it all done for everybody else gets here. Okay,
So we'll move on from that one. Two opportunities to
talk about parents. Will I will give you horrible idea,
(33:02):
it's a hint, or show me, show me the state
of Missouri, the show me state took custody of an
eight week old infant after finding out that the parents
of that child had only fed I don't know. It
doesn't say whether it's AHM or her. It doesn't matter.
(33:25):
They only fed this baby eight weeks old, goat milk
replacement mashed up being a sausages and mountain dew code
red at the gas station. Sounds like the gas station,
dollar store or something. I don't know where. Man, they oh,
(33:46):
by the way, there's a there's a by the a. Btw,
they found eighty marijuana plants on the property, so I'm
guessing that's not for personal concer So they're busy entrepreneurs.
They don't have time to feed a baby. That's horrible.
(34:06):
That's absolutely horrible. The other horrible parenting idea comes from
San Francisco, where the latest trend will think about this,
The latest trend is sending your kids to school in
self driving cars? What do you think of that one?
Where in San Francisco? We aren't listening again? Where you no?
(34:30):
Do you have any idea? What I said? You said
there's a trend of people sending their kids to school
in self driving cars. You could knock me over with
a feather right now, You got that right, But you
did have to ask where San Francisco? Where else? Will
where else? I mean, there's the laundry list is very long.
And oh, by the way, our VP got most of
(34:51):
that garbage start in that state. Let's not forget that.
I'll let you off the hook for a second.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Fifty eight right, yeah, okay, it has to be fifty
eight on the dots.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Is that why you count down from ten? Yeah, little fingers,
I'll just watch the clock this time. I'll just watch
the clock. In Orange County, Florida, there's some good news.
Deputies responded to a call and absolutely just jumped out
of their gear belts as fast as they could and
their shoes and dove into a lake to rescue a
woman trapped in her car, which happened to be sinking
(35:27):
at the time. Video has been released. It shows the
deputies just racing to get this woman out of the
car before it filled with water. And right here in
Texas City a while back, a woman who suffered a
medical emergency and just drove right off into a lake,
rescued by police and bystanders who reacted just immediately without
any regard for their own safety. When the women's children,
(35:50):
I think one of them sixteen, a sixteen year old
son and a twelve year old daughter, I believe did
manage to get out of the car and let the
police know that their mother still in there and having
a seizure. They saved her life that day. So two
happy endings for those cars in the lake, which don't
often or don't always at least happen that way. By
(36:12):
the way, if you saw that smoke on the southeast
side of town kind of billowing northward and filling just
a big strip of sky out that way, I did
some digging around here and finally found out from the
newsroom that there was a large flaring of excess gas
from one of the refineries down there. And I've seen
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flares before and never one of that magnitude. I don't
know what it was they had to burn off, but
there was a lot of pressure being released down there
and a lot of smoke in the air. Nobody hurt,
nobody to worry about. It wasn't explosion, it was just smoke.
A wallet hub story, by the way, this is interesting.
Texas was named one of the hardest working states in
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the country, to which almost every Texan replied, yeah, we know. Mother.
Study found that Houston has get this will this other
hub stub hub study found that Houston has lowest inflation
among a lot of big cities. Good thing, I guess,
because I can't imagine prices being higher than they are here.
(37:22):
But I do know that every time I see a
picture of gas stations in California, huh, I know it
could be worse. Bless their hearts out in California. And
if you're from here, you know what that means. You
know what it means, all right? Will? Hmm, I've got
a minute, don't I?
Speaker 3 (37:44):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Gym teacher?
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Bad call?
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Will? Or sensitivity overload? Bad call? Will? We'll go with
bad call Will? A high school gym teacher in Laredo.
How can these people be educators when they don't know
better than to do this? This guy gets arrested last week.
He's a high school gym teacher. He got arrested because
(38:06):
he called the police to let them know that he
had hired a prostitute and that she ran off with
his money. And he didn't think that would have any
impact whatsoever on his employment or his legal status, which
changed from regular old dude. We had a little bad
(38:27):
encounter to soliciting a prostitute, which is now it's against
the law. I see that. Well, I got ten seconds.
It's not a problem. Be back to seconds. We'll be
back tomorrow. Thank you for listening. Bring a friend tomorrow.
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Hour jumps a bunch of chumps, Like what's not? I
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How often have you done that? A lot?
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No?
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You have sleep sleep walking an well, you would have
wakened this morning to not much. But then as we
watched from our building over here on the West Loop
looking back to the southeast, a major rain event occurred
for about I don't know, forty five minutes or an hour,
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and then after that cleared up, interestingly enough, there was
a big giant plume of smoke coming from somewhere southeast.
I thought it was around Pasadena, I think it was,
And nobody in the news was reporting anything about it
for quite some time, and finally I heard from from
I think it was Jeff Biggs back in the newsroom
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that what it was was one of the one of
the refineries over there flaring off apparently a significant amount
of gas over there, because the smoke plume ultimately went
all the way from southeast Houston. Probably I could see
it going as far north as way north of iten
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and I don't even know how far it stretched beyond
there where you could actually see it, but it was
it was significant, kind of like that rain this morning.
It was good to get it. I guess we actually
did have a light sprinkle yesterday evening at my house,
but it wasn't even enough to dampen all the concrete.
In duve hunting terms, and only because the season opens
(03:19):
on Sunday and it's I'm fixated on that right now.
The rain had a lot of holes in the pattern.
Hunters and shotgunners will understand that, and the rest of you.
It's not a big deal. It didn't rain much. Let's
just put it that way. Speaking of weather, let's get
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Are you ready? Will I am? Rain? Chance? Good? All week?
Cloudy sky helps block the sun not fall but not hot.
(04:05):
I like the ending not fall but not hot. That's good,
But that middle line helps block the sun. What's wrong
with that? That keeps it from being hot.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
With I get it, but it's just clunky.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
It's clunky. Yeah, it doesn't roll off the tongue very well. Okay,
it get off my it's oh boy, be careful. That's uh.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
We're starting this week off a little, a little rough
like it is outside. I'd say that was a six
point one six one. Okay, well, at least it's better
than half. At least it's better than half. I'll aim
higher for tomorrow. I'll see if see how the weather
turns out, which you gotta remember. I'm having to do
this based on real weather.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I can't just make stuff up, will I can't just
talk about a snowstorm this week or anything like that.
That could really spice it up. But why not? You
could talk about any weather if you will. I could,
but it wouldn't be You know. That gives me an idea.
If I can remember it tomorrow, I might put it
in play. Okay, I have an idea. I think that
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it would be an interesting twist to the thing. So anyway,
off to market, we go teed up as usual by
Houston gooldexchange dot com. All four indicators at one point, well,
three were down, three were up, one down early then
all four started running up the board, all greened up,
and then they've kind of backed off in the middle,
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and it was just I don't know what they're doing
right now, honestly, I haven't looked in about an hour.
I didn't There was no well, there was one significant
move early. The russell was up more than three percent
at one point. I don't know where it is now.
Oil back on the rise thanks to all the tension
in the Middle East. Right now, it was already up
more than two point fifty a barrel and hovering around
(05:58):
seventy seven seventy seven fifty somewhere in there, and just
it just ricocheted off. I think it was seventy two
something just a couple of days ago, maybe Friday, I'm
not sure. At one time late Friday it might have
been seventy two seventy three bucks, and now here we
are chasing seventy eight again. Gold I'm kind of glad
(06:19):
I waited and have it sold my stuff yet. Whatever
I've got around the House, there's not much. But nonetheless,
the last time I looked, and it wasn't that long ago,
Gold had risen to twenty five hundred and sixty one
dollars and change and was still trying to climb. I'll
have to look at that during the break when we
get there, stepping into what's going on at President and
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I'll use this little time as necessary to address these
things as so as to not go back on my
promise to steer mostly clear of politics. When President Trump
said he wanted Mike's muted except for the person answering
questions in this upcoming debate with Vice President Harris, which
is exactly how Biden wanted him this debate running how
(07:01):
it ran well, the Harris team has spun that now
to say that they wanted Mike's open at all times
and actually said that President Trump's team wanted the muting
because they didn't think he could handle a wide open,
live debate with Harris. Honestly, I've never seen in my
(07:21):
life such gaslighting, and its persistence throughout this campaign pretty
much proves out something I read recently and talked about
about how easy it is to confuse gullible people and
The only thing you have to do is accuse the
other side of doing exactly what you're doing. Harris's team
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knows she'll fair poorly against Donald Trump. They must, certainly,
they must. And I'm still waiting for her to sit
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Hi, welcome back. Segment two. Will has the big clock
on the wall, and I've actually written down what time
I'm supposed to be out, so we will probably at
least get this one closed. What do you think, Well,
what are the odds that I'm out? Like right dead?
Double zero, next to nil, challenge next to nothing?
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Watch and see you told me, you asked me right
before the show started.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Put a big clock on it. What time are we
gonna be out of the first segment? I'm even gonna
turn this way and you are gonna yap your way
to fourteen. I'm not. No, I'm not. I'll take care
of this, don't you worry. All right, there's another story
circulating this morning, quite the liberal fairy tale that tries
(10:28):
to justify this administration allow on more than ten million
people into this country in the last three years and change,
most of them unlawfully, and almost hardly any of them
really truly vetted out. They're here, though, and they're getting
free stuff every time they wake up. But that's just
(10:48):
the way to It's another kind of disturbing lie designed
to divide this country a little bit more and hopes
maybe enough people will believe the line give liberals four
more years. I am I'm really wary of Harris telling
us that she's gonna fix what's broken if we elect her.
It's so it's just such a ridiculous statement to make
(11:10):
by the person who, along with her cohort President Biden,
actually is responsible for breaking the stuff that's broken. Right now,
and then she's still in office, she could do anything
she wants right now. Pretty much nobody's going to stand
in her way as the vice president when the president
has pretty much stepped down, she could fix it. She could,
(11:33):
or better she probably should just step down and just say,
you know what, I'm not so sure I got this.
And finally, this is the last one, I promise. Texas
Governor Greg Abbott in twenty twenty one, signed into law
Senate Bill one, which aimed to remove from voter rolls
people whose names should not be there. Pretty simple. This
(11:55):
past week I saw a release from the Governor's office
to share that SB one has resulted so far in
the removal of more than a million. More than one
point one million names have been deleted just from Texas
voter rolls. Extrapolate that across the country to imagine, just
(12:19):
imagine what's really going on registered to vote in Texas
among others. Will pop quiz how many people who actually
are dead have been found as registered to vote in
the state of Texas until they were pointed out and
(12:41):
taking off the roster? How many? You tell me again,
you tell me, pop quiz, take a stab. They're dead already.
I didn't know. I didn't mean add to the count.
I meant just take a guess.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Okay, I'll say, I'll say twenty five hundred, four hundred
and seventy five thousand deceased people were on our voter rolls.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
There's a suspense list, which means they're right to vote
has been suspended somehow. Four hundred and sixty three thousand there,
and then it goes down to one hundred and thirty
four thousand who'd moved six thousand. This is a very
interesting and telling factor because there's already been movement to
get this done in other parts of the state. Already
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sixty five hundred non citizens registered to vote, some of
whom had a history of already voting. By the way,
although it doesn't say in which elections, the bill, by
the way, elevates lying while registering to vote to a
state jail felony in case in case there's anybody out there,
you know, who might be thinking of hoodwinking the election.
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It requires also random audits every two years. It criminalized
ballot harvesting. It bans distribution of unsolicited mail in ballot
applications in ballot so if you happen to get one
of those in your mailbox, maybe set it aside and
call the governor's office to let him know. It also
withsholds funds from counties that failed to remove non citizens
(14:18):
from voter rolls. Well, that's going to turn some heads,
and it makes a second degree felonly excuse me, a
second degree felony to knowingly count invalid votes or refuse
to count valid votes. Those are all great strikes. But
my only concern is that any investigation and potential charges
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that might result from SB one following the November election,
likely you're going to happen long after the elections are
finished and offices has changed hands, and it would just
be a big hot mess to try to unravel all
of that. But hopefully, if there is a no need
to unravel it, it will be unraveled. And anyway, it's
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a great step forward, really toward fair elections in Texas.
I'll step back from the political news chain now still
see I've got four minutes and ten seconds left to go,
Will I'm watching. We'll step away from all that and
let's start with some outer space news. A local woman Anna,
I believe I'm saying this right manan Emmy Non. She
(15:26):
first started thinking about space travel as a little fourth
grader at Barbara Bush Elementary School had a field trip
to Johnson's Space Center that ultimately led to her Fast
forward to now grown up. She is being one of
four people headed to space tomorrow, I believe, as part
of a SpaceX Polaris launch down there at Kennedy Space Center.
(15:50):
Five days up there, hopefully including the first commercial space
walk and hopefully recording the highest orbit of Earth ever
done by humans.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Try.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
I do admire her courage, and there's a teeny little
piece of me that kind of wishes, kind of wishes
I was maybe I don't know, a whole lot younger,
thirty years or so, and might have had an opportunity
to visit space, but then come right back. I want
to be back. If I'm going to space for five days,
I only be back on the sixth day, in time
for dinner. I really can't. I can't help but think
(16:23):
of those two people up there in the space station,
now stuck on some sort of modern day Gilligan's Island mission.
They went up in June, supposed to be up there
for what a week or two, and now because their
return vehicle, their uber's got a flat, NASA's decided they
can't bring these two home until February of twenty twenty five.
(16:45):
I cannot imagine signing up for a quick trip. We're
just gonna run to the space shuttle, grab a pizza,
do a couple of experiments, and then we'll come right
back home. Don't worry. And then you find out you're
gonna miss Halloween, you're gonna miss Thanksgiving, you're gonna miss Christmas,
you're gonna miss New Day, you're gonna miss Valentine's Day,
and the Super Bowl, probably some family birthdays, who knows
(17:08):
what else, just gonna be circling the globe. And I
honestly I pray that they have the mental strength to endure,
because that's that's a kick in the teeth. We're gonna
be up there a couple of weeks, we'll be right
back and then now it's gonna end up being seven
eight months. It's tragic, it really is. It really is.
(17:29):
All right. So look I'm watching my time. Well, I
know I got a minute and forty five left for
dog lovers. I'll this is a very quick one. And
then there's another one I want to do for dog lovers.
Comes the story of a stray dog over in Franklin County, Georgia.
You're a dog owner, will you'll appreciate this Labrador Retriever
sitting next to another dog that was sitting at the
(17:51):
curb waiting for I didn't even know they had these.
The doggie daycare bus. Somebody drives a bus around, opens
the door, and these dogs hop on the bus and
go to their daycare center. Well, one house had an
extra dog in front of it. The driver called the
owner of the dog that was supposed to be getting
on the buses, and the owners said, no, that second
(18:13):
dog's not ours, it's just some stray, some some rogue
trying to hop on the bus. Well they let that.
The dog just kept following the bus, kept running alongside it,
running alongside, wanting to get on board, and finally the
driver let it on, and in a relatively short amount
of time they found a new owner for that dog,
(18:36):
and that new owner got him signed up for more
doggy daycare. Hooray for that little dog. In Franklin County, Georgia,
I pulled the audience in our offices here, and nobody
here knows of any place that does that. In Houston
that comes by. There's all kinds of doggy daycares, but
you have to drop off. I don't think there's one
(18:58):
here that does doggy daycare by pick up i'd be
curious to know. All right, we're gonna get out of
here on time. We'll check it out.
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Holdom back. Third segment of the program starts right now.
Out time will forty three forty three For the record,
I got out ten seconds early on that other one.
So do I have ten seconds of credit here or no? No?
So okay, so you're just going to be a hardliner home. Yeah,
is all right. We'll see how that works out for you.
(21:24):
I can do this now.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
You know, if I tally up all the times that
you got out late throughout the years that we've been
doing this show, you never finished Italian, we would not
have a show anymore.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
We have to No, it hasn't been that bad. Oh,
I don't know, Doug, I don't know. The second said, uh,
all right, good news. Let's do some of that. And
this is this is quite interesting. There's a guy in Taiwan,
halfway around the world. This is almost like some salty
fairy tale. He's found a way to turn oyster shells.
(22:02):
You got to grind them up, you gotta process them somehow.
I don't know how he does it. I'm not interested
in knowing how he does it, but I might be
interested in learning how to do it. Over here, here's
the deal. He grinds these things up, he processes them,
and he turns them into a flexible yarn that's very
similar to sheep's wool. Currently, there's a lot of empty
(22:26):
shell winds up back on oyster reefs, which is good.
They put it in places where ecosystems will benefit from
more reefs, which is pretty much any marine ecosystem, or
in places where the ecosystems just have nothing they can
either add them to existing shell reefs or put them
(22:47):
where there's just bare sand, and miraculously, a little while later,
fair while later, it'll be oysters. But with one hundred
and sixty thousand tons of shell discarded every year just
in time one, that's pretty much more than enough to
pull some off to the side and make a few
sweaters and socks. Business is good. This guy's names Eddie
(23:09):
Wang and Eddie Wang figured out how to make yarn
out of oyster shells, and his company currently processes about
nine hundred tons of what they call seawool annually. They
nine hundred tons of seawool every year. Guess what that
(23:30):
makes him?
Speaker 3 (23:31):
Will?
Speaker 2 (23:31):
How much? Take a bet? Take a guess how much seawool?
It makes sense? Oh?
Speaker 1 (23:37):
God?
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Oh? Will? How much money he makes off of developing
turning nine hundred Oh where did it go? Nine hundred
tons of seawool turning oyster shell into nine hundred tons
of seawool? How much does that grosses company?
Speaker 1 (23:53):
No?
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Nothing. He's very altruistic and he does it for free.
That's hilarious. Will. This is free enterprise, as it worked.
This is where great ideas are born. Great ideas are
born by people who take risks in exchange for the
potential for great reward. This is why socialism doesn't work,
because nobody takes risks as soon as it gets in there,
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and the people who work the hardest realize that there's
no gain for them. There's nothing that they get that
the people who don't work at all don't get. They
quit doing it. Eddie, our buddy Eddie Wang over there
in Taiwan is turning six million bucks a year from
oyster shells. He turns into yarn. That's pretty awesome stuff,
(24:36):
will you know? It is? Seventies and eighties were pretty
good for a lot of us in this audience, and
the music from those two decades was really good. But
it turns out classical music is better for our brains.
There are some scientists who are using brain wave measurement
(24:57):
and neural imaging. I'm just gonna to read this because
I don't understand really what it means. They're doing that
and finding that Western classical music brings very positive changes
to our brains. This particular brand of music generates antidepressant
effects by synchronizing neural oscillations between the auditory cortex and
(25:21):
the rewards circuit, and I am unqualified to explain in
any greater detail than that long term what they're trying
to do, and I'll try and get somebody on who
can explain it in terms all of us will understand.
But what they're saying is that it could be especially
helpful to people who suffer from depressions that are resistant
(25:43):
to traditional treatment, and who wouldn't want to just kind
of chill and listen to music for a certain amount
of time every day. Classical music. I know a lot
of you are metal heads from the eighties, a lot
of you are rock and rollers from the seventies, and
even the few of them from the sixties still the
(26:05):
nineties crazy and then the incomes hip hop and all
of that. But classical music specifically has been found to
alleviate depression. And I don't know how it works. I
don't care how it works. But if I ever need that,
I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go online, I guess, and
(26:26):
find some You think you'd get in trouble for pulling
classical music music off the internet will maybe now I
have to look into it. Who's gonna come after you? Bach, Beethoven, Tchaikovski,
maybe they are states mon andof I bet they still got.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
The state's going now, I bet they don't. I bet
they got something going.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
That's free and clear. Man, crank it up.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Maybe bring us back with some with some I like
my copyright free music.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Fair enough. Yeah, let's not get in any trouble here.
What was the time I had to be out? Don't
tell me I have it here somewhere, I got it.
I still got a minute and a half. I'm good.
This one I titled Ice Ice Baby, I met. Guess
what it's about? Will uh no? Ice No, take another guess, think,
think outside the box, just a.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
Team far Ice Ice Baby. It's a really cold child.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
No, it's about diamonds. Will Diamonds. The world's second largest
diamond was found this past weekend, but swanna it weighed
in diamond language. It weighed two thousand, four hundred and
ninety two carrots. It's probably gonna be j Lo's next
(27:47):
engagement ring, be my guess, or maybe Beyonce somebody who
somebody who is with somebody and wants to lock it up,
and both of them have so much money they could
just set fire to a half of it and not
miss it. I don't know how much set thing's worth,
but the only one larger ever found in the entire
(28:07):
world was the culor in diamond. I looked it up.
Found in nineteen o five that one weighed three thousand,
one hundred and six carrots, and the twenty four to
ninety two, if I haven't said it already, is about
a pound. It's about a solid pound. That's a that's
a big chunk of ice right there. I don't know
how you could wear something like that on your finger.
(28:28):
It would have to be if you hung it around
your neck on a necklace, it would just weigh your
neck down. All right, we're gonna get out of here
on time. What do you know? Will? What do you know?
Ut Health Institute on Aging is where it's not a where,
it's not a place, it's a thing, and that thing
is a collaborative of healthcare providers from every imaginable imaginable
(28:50):
health care discipline. And what they do is they take
the knowledge they already have and then they go back
and get additional education as to how that knowledge can
be applied specifically to seniors and out all of our
unique medical needs. We're so different, so so different from
(29:12):
younger people, and it really pays off. It really helps
to be seen by somebody who has gone through that
additional training, who has taken the time to learn more
about us, cares enough to learn more about us so
that they can treat us better. Ut dot edu slash aging.
Go to that website, look at all the tremendous resources
(29:34):
that are available there, and then find your way to
one of the providers who has gone that extra mile
to take care of us. Utch dot edu slash aging.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
Old Guy's rule, and of course, women never get old
if you want to avoid sleeping on the couch.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Okay, I think that sounds like a good plan.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
All right, welcome back Dugpie Show. No, it's not the
Dugchpike Show. It's not Saturday, it's not Sunday. It's Monday.
That means it's fifty plus. Sorry about that. A m
nine to fifty KPRC been doing this show. I think
it's close to nine years. You were not my first producer,
you know that. Well, it's been several actually several in
here and gosh for my outdoor show, I bet I've
(30:38):
had two dozen over the twenty four years I've been around.
Things are going very well now with Melvineo, and I'm
glad to have both of you guys on board. So
let's have a little fun, shall we. Will you ready sure?
High voltage? What time do we meet or hide or
(31:01):
shake hands? What time do we meet? It's okay, apparently
according to most and this is I think this survey
was done amongst young people, but I would I would
kind of go along with this, Is it okay? Will
to lie to somebody who's chronically late and tell them
(31:22):
an event starts earlier than it really does so that
they won't drag everybody down by being super late. Depends
on what the event is. We're going to dinner, and
there's this trending topic comes up after a woman on
TikTok TikTok showed up to an eight pm dinner invitation
at eight twenty two, only to find out that her
(31:43):
friends actually made the reservation for eight thirty just to
make sure that she'd be there on time. Are you
for that against it?
Speaker 3 (31:52):
I guess it kind of depends on how late somebody
is on average.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
The only time I think it's okay to be even
a minute late. Otherwise you're just if you're on time.
This is how it goes in athletics, at least, if
you're on time for practice, you're late. Okay, you need
to be there and ready to go when the whistle blows,
not not coming up to stretch out and all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
And I.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
No, I just I just don't like being late at all. Now,
maybe to a party. It's kind of awkward sometimes to
be the first person at a party. And if you,
I know, you've been to plenty of them in your life.
You're a social guy. And most of the time, I
think I would say the majority of guests show up
anywhere from about ten to twenty minutes after start time.
(32:39):
Would you agree with that? Yeah, you know, let the
room fill up a little bit. Nobody wants well, few
people want to be first. I don't mind if I
show up first. I'll say, hey, what can I help
you with? What's not ready to go yet? Let's let's
get it all done for everybody else gets here. Okay,
So we'll move on from that one. Two opportunities to
talk about parents. Will I will give you horrible idea,
(33:02):
it's a hint, or show me, show me the state
of Missouri, the show me state took custody of an
eight week old infant after finding out that the parents
of that child had only fed I don't know. It
doesn't say whether it's AHM or her. It doesn't matter.
(33:25):
They only fed this baby eight weeks old, goat milk
replacement mashed up being a sausages and mountain dew code
red at the gas station. Sounds like the gas station,
dollar store or something. I don't know where. Man, they oh,
(33:46):
by the way, there's a there's a by the a. Btw,
they found eighty marijuana plants on the property, so I'm
guessing that's not for personal concer So they're busy entrepreneurs.
They don't have time to feed a baby. That's horrible.
(34:06):
That's absolutely horrible. The other horrible parenting idea comes from
San Francisco, where the latest trend will think about this,
The latest trend is sending your kids to school in
self driving cars? What do you think of that one?
Where in San Francisco? We aren't listening again? Where you no?
(34:30):
Do you have any idea? What I said? You said
there's a trend of people sending their kids to school
in self driving cars. You could knock me over with
a feather right now, You got that right, But you
did have to ask where San Francisco? Where else? Will
where else? I mean, there's the laundry list is very long.
And oh, by the way, our VP got most of
(34:51):
that garbage start in that state. Let's not forget that.
I'll let you off the hook for a second.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Fifty eight right, yeah, okay, it has to be fifty
eight on the dots.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Is that why you count down from ten? Yeah, little fingers,
I'll just watch the clock this time. I'll just watch
the clock. In Orange County, Florida, there's some good news.
Deputies responded to a call and absolutely just jumped out
of their gear belts as fast as they could and
their shoes and dove into a lake to rescue a
woman trapped in her car, which happened to be sinking
(35:27):
at the time. Video has been released. It shows the
deputies just racing to get this woman out of the
car before it filled with water. And right here in
Texas City a while back, a woman who suffered a
medical emergency and just drove right off into a lake,
rescued by police and bystanders who reacted just immediately without
any regard for their own safety. When the women's children,
(35:50):
I think one of them sixteen, a sixteen year old
son and a twelve year old daughter, I believe did
manage to get out of the car and let the
police know that their mother still in there and having
a seizure. They saved her life that day. So two
happy endings for those cars in the lake, which don't
often or don't always at least happen that way. By
(36:12):
the way, if you saw that smoke on the southeast
side of town kind of billowing northward and filling just
a big strip of sky out that way, I did
some digging around here and finally found out from the
newsroom that there was a large flaring of excess gas
from one of the refineries down there. And I've seen
(36:36):
flares before and never one of that magnitude. I don't
know what it was they had to burn off, but
there was a lot of pressure being released down there
and a lot of smoke in the air. Nobody hurt,
nobody to worry about. It wasn't explosion, it was just smoke.
A wallet hub story, by the way, this is interesting.
Texas was named one of the hardest working states in
(36:58):
the country, to which almost every Texan replied, yeah, we know. Mother.
Study found that Houston has get this will this other
hub stub hub study found that Houston has lowest inflation
among a lot of big cities. Good thing, I guess,
because I can't imagine prices being higher than they are here.
(37:22):
But I do know that every time I see a
picture of gas stations in California, huh, I know it
could be worse. Bless their hearts out in California. And
if you're from here, you know what that means. You
know what it means, all right? Will? Hmm, I've got
a minute, don't I?
Speaker 3 (37:44):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Gym teacher?
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Bad call?
Speaker 2 (37:46):
Will? Or sensitivity overload? Bad call? Will? We'll go with
bad call Will? A high school gym teacher in Laredo.
How can these people be educators when they don't know
better than to do this? This guy gets arrested last week.
He's a high school gym teacher. He got arrested because
(38:06):
he called the police to let them know that he
had hired a prostitute and that she ran off with
his money. And he didn't think that would have any
impact whatsoever on his employment or his legal status, which
changed from regular old dude. We had a little bad
(38:27):
encounter to soliciting a prostitute, which is now it's against
the law. I see that. Well, I got ten seconds.
It's not a problem. Be back to seconds. We'll be
back tomorrow. Thank you for listening. Bring a friend tomorrow.
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