National Doug Pike Day

Today, Doug Pike discusses national days and an update on the jumping beans.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Remember when it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
because you were the TV remote. Remember when music sounded
like this? Remember when social media was truly social?

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey John, how's it going today?

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Well? This show is all about you one. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike. Helpful information on your finances,
good health, and what to do for fun. Fifty plus
brought to you by the UT Health Houston Institute on Aging,
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(00:43):
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fifty plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
All Right, Thursday edition of the program starts right now.
And for those of you who who kind of follow
my schedule and know what I do, that for several years,
Monday was my day off because I'm in here on
the weekends doing my outdoor short show, which I love
over on KBME.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
But Monday was my day off. That was great and
I like it. But on.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
Labor Day, Memorial Day, whatever other national holiday fell on
a Monday, I didn't get Tuesday off. It was just
it just was luck of the draw. So now because
I've changed my schedule to accommodate some needs around here. Administratively,

(01:39):
I get Friday off, which didn't really matter that much
until all of a sudden, I had Monday off for
Labor Day, and I got Friday off for.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
My normal off day.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
So these will make for short and sweet weeks, and
I that I hope that I make the best of them.
For all of you who listen to me regularly, I
really do appreciate it. There might be a couple of
those Monday Holidays when I come on in and do
a show, especially if there's something really important to share,
but otherwise I might be teeing it up with the

(02:17):
boys and having a little fun on a golf course,
maybe going fishing.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
I'll find something to do, I can assure you, and
I'll be thinking about you.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
You know.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
I will welcome to fifty plus, another gray start to
this day. But we really shouldn't complain when we're looking
at five or six straight days of high temperatures lower
than eighty five, maybe some rain today and early tomorrow,
and then we kind of waltz into several days of sunshine.
And in case you hear Halloween music behind tonight's look

(02:48):
at the tropics on television something to scare you, well,
except on ABC because Disney and AT and T are
still squabbling over money again. In all of Disney's stays
and networks are being held hostage from Americans right now.
In case you hear that scary music, it's there because
there are currently will have you looked at the National

(03:10):
Hurricane Center map lately and I have not? There are
currently five yellow exes on the National Hurricane Maps or
National Hurricane Centers. I guess we should call it map
of doom. Little rain maker we've dealt with around here
for the past few days finally gathered just enough steam

(03:31):
to get its own little X. Chances of development nearly nil.
The one in the Caribbean still has a chance to
earn a name as it chugs along, but there are
it's probably not going to be anybody. And then there's
one about four hundred miles east of the Carolinas that

(03:51):
gets equal billing to the two over this way.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
And then there are two.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
More out in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and
no impact on anybody anywhere for quite some time. Mostly,
I just look forward to a cool, sunny weekend that's
gonna be nice. And so long as we're on the
subject of weather less knockout highs and lows and haiku
thanks to texts indoor air quality specialists, because after all,

(04:17):
cleaner air is healthier air. Doll pound two fifty and
you can get the scoop right there, you ready will, Yes,
here we go, We've turned the corner. Time for Houston's
fall wardrobe. Where's my long sleeve shirt. I'm gonna give

(04:38):
that one. That one's that's a seven, A.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
Seven after a nine yesterday? Yeah, too similar?

Speaker 4 (04:48):
Yeah, I think it was just a little too similar
back to back, you know.

Speaker 3 (04:53):
So something that was worth nine points yesterday is only
worth seven today.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
Whoa, just because it's kind of the other one. It
was just it it surprised you and it was so
just so sweet. Yeah, it was good. You hit it
on the head.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
Yeah, but so I hit the same nail again, and
I don't want you to hit the same nail again.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
Okay, I get it. I'll take that to heart.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
Off to market we go, Kurzy Houston Gold Exchange. The
roller coaster ride continues. Among the major indicators. As you
heard a minute ago, the dow just fell off, the
fell off the cliff down three point fifty and change
or so half an hour ago, and then two more
red ones and only one in the green, and not

(05:46):
by much. Crude oil up forty two cents of barrel,
but still below that seventy dollars mark, which is always good.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
There'll be some.

Speaker 3 (05:56):
There'll be some affordable gasoline before long, and even more
affordable depending on how it goes in November, where former
President Trump is already pretty much decided he's gonna he's
gonna return us to energy independence if he's elected president again,
which I would kind of like. I'd like to be

(06:17):
paying two dollars a gallon for gasoline again. That'd be nice,
maybe a little less even. I wouldn't be surprised at
all based on what I've heard and read if he's
elected to see gasoline dip below two dollars a barrel,
and that would be fine by me. Gold gold back

(06:38):
up fourteen dollars in change, currently sitting around two thousand
and five hundred and forty dollars an ounce an ounce.
Got a couple of Kruger rands laying around, might be
time to time to roll them into Houston Gold Exchange
and get them swapped out for cold hard cash, so.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
Long as that still exists.

Speaker 3 (06:59):
On to the most serious topic of the last twenty
four hours, I guess the tragic shooting yesterday at Appalachi
High School in Georgia, where a fourteen year old boy
killed two teachers and two students and either injured or wounded,
depending on how you want to read the stories.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
Nine more, it was a.

Speaker 3 (07:19):
Year ago that this kid caught the eyes of the FBI.
A year ago, they interviewed him, they interviewed his father
and apparently found nothing that raised any serious red flags.
And frankly, in a country where people are presumed innocent
until proven guilty, without knowing anything about how those interviews went,

(07:42):
it's hard to say they could have or or should.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
Have done anything at that point.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
It's disturbs me sometimes how people wind up committing crimes,
and other people, the people who are impacted by all that,
ask why wasn't he stopped before that? Why weren't these
people stopped before they did what they did?

Speaker 2 (08:08):
And the answer kind of has.

Speaker 4 (08:11):
To be.

Speaker 3 (08:13):
In favor of laws that restrict someone's freedoms being stripped
away on a hunch or any other less than anything
less than absolutely hard evidence that either a crime has
been committed or is just on the brink of being

(08:36):
committed somehow.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (08:38):
It's hard, and that's one of the reasons I'm kind
of scared of red flag laws that would remove firearms
from homes in which some resident has been.

Speaker 2 (08:51):
Accused to the authorities by.

Speaker 3 (08:54):
Who knows who, maybe a neighbor with an axe to grind,
or a coworker or whatever, but somebody's been accused of
being a potential threat of becoming violent. I don't think
a person's right to self defense should be taken lightly.
And what I would really want to know is who's
going to determine just how threatening a private citizen who's

(09:17):
perhaps never committed any crime might be, and at what
point do that person's Second Amendment rights to self protection
get taken away. In case you haven't heard, the left's
been really quick to point out too, that this shooter
used an ar style rifle at that school. He could
have under the circle already will when I'm in the

(09:42):
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Speaker 1 (11:20):
Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
All right, welcome back, thanks to listen.

Speaker 3 (11:37):
Certainly do appreciate it. Fifty plus here on Thursday afternoon.
And I want to go back to where I was
when when Wilson rudely interrupted me.

Speaker 2 (11:46):
Well, ye, well it was time. I wasn't paying attention
to the clock.

Speaker 3 (11:50):
I'm gonna have to change the way I face myself
so I can see the clock in my peripheral vision
at least.

Speaker 2 (11:57):
And what I'm going to twenty eight now is that correct?
Twenty eight? Okay, good, I'll get it right this time.
I apologize.

Speaker 3 (12:04):
Well, so back to the point that's been made over
and over, just almost had nauseam now because the Left
just can't help themselves. They're just giddy with excitement that
this shooter at that school in Georgia, Appalachi High School,
used an AR style rifle, because they've wanted to tell
us all along that those things are just scary, they're military,

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they're all the horrible, horrible weapon of war, all of that,
and they're not. It is just a modern version of
a automatic rifle, and semi automatic rifles have been around
for I don't know how many years. The first one
of those I bought, ever, was back, oh my gosh,

(12:47):
forty plus years ago. A Remington was a I can't
remember the exact model number, but it was a thirty
six that I owned for a long time. And it
also would fire multiple rounds, one at a time with
each trigger pull. And that's all that these ars do
that are in the hands of average Americans who own them.

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There are special accommodations that can be made with a
lot of a lot of paperwork, a lot of background checking,
to change some things about those rifles, but the average
person doesn't do that. The average person just enjoys the
newer style of rifle, and that's all that really is
that young man probably could have and likely would have

(13:36):
done exactly exactly what he did.

Speaker 2 (13:40):
It could have done the same damage.

Speaker 3 (13:41):
Either with any other firearm, really, or with a knife,
a match, and a gas can automobile. But because he
used a modern rifle, out will come in short order,
the demands to confiscate those things. Oh, they're horrible, They're terrible,
they're horrible. We've got to take them out of people's hands.
That works eventually, and quite quickly thereafter, they'll go for

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the rest of private citizens guns, and that scares me.
I can't win many fistfights these days. Okay, I'm not
a young guy anymore, and even when I was young,
I wasn't gonna win all of them. My only option
to protect my family is to have some sort of
weapon that at least levels the field for me, because

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I can't kick and claw and scrap my way out
of anything, and my family deserves all the protection that
I can lawfully provide, and any law enforcement officer, at
least all of the ones with whom I've had this discussion,
have told me that they're not going to be able
to get to my house in time to stop a

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bad guy who's kicking in my door or breaking through
a window or stealing my stuff that they can't get
there that fast. Most of the time they show up
just in time to take the report of whatever's happened,
and it's frustrating for them. It's frustrating for us to

(15:08):
know that we have to rely on ourselves. There are
just too few badges on the street and too many
criminals who know exactly that they know it moving into
a lighter lane with oh gosh, I've only got two
minutes left. H I kept hearing on the way home yesterday.
Will you'll appreciate this? I started hearing and it hit rained,

(15:31):
so there was a little bit of water on the freeway,
but not that much. I wasn't going fast. I couldn't
figure it out. I had this annoying little noise in
my car and it was just driving me crazy. I
couldn't figure out what it was. It sounded like it
was coming from the air conditioning vent kind of. I'd
lean forward and listen and it would seem to get
a little louder, and then I'd leaned back up, and

(15:53):
I just couldn't pinpoint it, and it was driving me crazy.
So I looked down one more time to see if
there was anything loose in the side panel of the door,
something like that, and I leaned over just far enough
that my shirt pocket opened up. You know, it was
in the shirt pocket, Will, a little jumping bean, those

(16:13):
damned Mexican jumping beans I got yesterday from a very
kind listener, by the way, and if you're listening today,
thank you. I've got great pleasure from creeping out Will
and several other young people in this office who'd never
even heard of Mexican jumping beans.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
But boy, they were there.

Speaker 3 (16:31):
They were in my shirt pocket, in those tiny little
plastic containers, and every time one of them would jump
and bump its little head against the inside of the bean,
that bean or not, it's actually not a bean, it's
a legume, a little seed pod, and that little seed
pod would bang against that plastic and that's what was
making that noise. And it was driving me nuts, man,

(16:54):
it was driving me nuts, as they have done, I'm
sure and confused at least a lot a lot of
the young people who I sent some home with a
few people here at work, people who have younger kids,
and so I'm sure they've all had a blast with
that they're like tiny pets.

Speaker 2 (17:09):
Now, I've got some on my desk, about a dozen.
The rest. The rest have been.

Speaker 3 (17:15):
Rehomed, as they say, all right, to get out art well,
not early anymore, but to get out on time. I'll
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the Greater Houston area who have to gain that credential

(17:37):
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they went through nursing school and learned or therapies. All
of these people who are involved in medical care broadly
have gotten additional training as to how they can apply

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it works out really well for us because they really
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they went back and got that extra learning and it
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(18:23):
will help you live a longer, happier, healthier, more productive life,
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for a long time to make sure he gets off
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Speaker 1 (18:44):
Once life without a net, I suggest to go to bed,
sleep it off, just wait until the show's over. Sleepy
back that Doug Pike as fifty plus continues, right, Welcome.

Speaker 2 (19:13):
Back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening. Certainly do appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (19:16):
On this Thursday afternoon, it's gonna be really nice over
the weekend, really nice. We could have used that this
past weekend for the holiday. But no, it is Southeast Texas,
after all, and we don't get to we don't get
to call the shots on whether like they might in
southern California or well, even the consistency of all the

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light rain almost daily of the Northwest, the far northwest
in this country or continent. Yeah, in this country, not
on the continent. That's way farther be Alaska. That's too
cold for me.

Speaker 2 (19:53):
But we don't get that. It could be.

Speaker 3 (19:56):
It could be thirty overnight and then seventy five in
the afternoon. It could be forty in the afternoon and
sixty when you wake up you just never know around here,
You just never know. All right, Well, let's let's go
to some softer stuff here.

Speaker 2 (20:14):
First. I will tell you I found the very this.

Speaker 3 (20:16):
Very cool quote, and uh, if it were a high coup,
I want to know what grade you would give it.
It's not, but it's It's just a one two, three, four,
five sixty seven word quote by a guy named Charles
de Lent, whom I'd never heard of and still haven't
looked up. But it sounded interesting to me because I
like the quote, so I'm going to look him up

(20:38):
after the show. You ready, Yes, the best artists know
what to leave out.

Speaker 2 (20:49):
That's deep, isn't it.

Speaker 4 (20:51):
The best artists know what to lead leave out.

Speaker 2 (20:56):
Yes, what do you think he means?

Speaker 3 (21:00):
I think he means the best artists. And as a writer,
I can appreciate this. As a writer, I can appreciate
it because we work in magazines and books and newspaper columns.
I worked against word counts, and you always try to

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say as much as you can in the fewest possible words.
Otherwise you just kind of get accused of writing word salad.
And similarly to how some people just say a lot
of word salad, they use a lot of words and
don't really say anything. At the end, you think, what
were you talking about? And I think that's true in

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art as well. A painter, someone who paints for a living,
should know when to put the brush down. Someone who
writes for a living should know when to put the
keyboard away, when to step back from the keyboard. A
singer should know when the lyrics are done and not

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feel forced to add anything, not feel forced to add
another bar, another chord, another stroke of a string. They
know when it's right. The best know when to stop.
I like that, I really do. I went on for
a minute and a half to tell you that that

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was That was a mistake on my part. I should
have said self explanatory and then just walked away, but
I didn't. The speaking of speech and whatnot, the war
on free speech continues around the world. Brazil just eighty
six ax and bandit from the whole country, and more
and more countries are trying to They're what they're very

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carefully trying to do, and it's being it's being worked
and massaged here as well, is to abolish free speech
by saying that these social media platforms, that newspapers that
television and radio. All of these media have to be
monitored for hate speech. Well the problem and legitimate hate speech.

Speaker 2 (23:18):
I'm not for that. I find it horrible and I find.

Speaker 3 (23:22):
It bad, but I also respect someone's right to say something.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
That I disagree with because I expect them in.

Speaker 3 (23:35):
Turn to show some respect for what I have to say,
even though it disagrees with their position.

Speaker 2 (23:41):
And the way this country has grown into the.

Speaker 3 (23:45):
Amazing country it was up until a few years ago,
is that both sides are coming at a situation with
the intent of making the country better overall. And what
we've ev we've devolved to is a place where free

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speech can be twisted into hate speech, which is very
hard to define really, as far as as goes the
actual censorship of social media platforms, that should be an
extremely high standard, but more and more it's not. It's

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just the whim of and the rule of the people
in charge to determine what is and is not suitable
to be dispersed to the public. They want to take
stuff down because it hurts somebody's feelings.

Speaker 2 (24:46):
I've had my feelings hurt by.

Speaker 3 (24:48):
Things people have said over the years, but I learned
from it, and I grew from it. And I'm sure
I've said things that hurt people's feelings over the years,
and I apologize for hurting your feelings. But my opinion
is only that and it can't My opinion can't hurt anybody,

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not physically, certainly, and I don't. I would never say
anything to intentionally hurt anyone. But I do believe that
the ability to communicate back and forth and share opposing
ideas is vital to this country. It's very important. It's
very important. So anyway, we'll have to watch how that

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goes and see where it leads, and hopefully not to
the United States, where free speech is being challenged frankly
in many ways.

Speaker 2 (25:48):
Let's go to the soft stuff.

Speaker 3 (25:49):
We'll real quick minute and a half here. Oh, by
the way, I mentioned to you before we came on
the air, that is a special national day. Did you
look it up?

Speaker 2 (25:59):
No? Okay, well you didn't. I didn't ask you to.
It is national.

Speaker 3 (26:05):
I find this somewhat bothersome and on a very minor scale,
and nothing about, nothing anywhere near what I've talked about
so far. Today it's National Cheese Pizza Day.

Speaker 2 (26:18):
What does that? What does that do for you? Will
anything nothing. Is it boring or is it exciting? It's
not anything?

Speaker 3 (26:25):
Yeah, just national cheese pizza.

Speaker 4 (26:29):
Days or nothing.

Speaker 3 (26:30):
Well, that's true. You can buy one. Did you know
that you could make it National Will Melbourne.

Speaker 2 (26:36):
Day for a price? And how much do you think
that price is not worth it?

Speaker 3 (26:40):
Whatever it is, I can I can get out of
bed and just to clear it National Doug Pike Day.

Speaker 2 (26:46):
And I don't have to pay a dime for that.

Speaker 3 (26:48):
I can walk around thinking I'm somebody and doesn't cost
me a nickel. But if you want the whole country
to know it, then you have to pay some money
and they'll put it on a I don't know the Yeah,
there are calendars actually of what national days it is,
and if you look them up, the every day is
about it has about a dozen things that it's national

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whatever day. And frankly, a pizza isn't a pizza without
at least three toppings and preferably five or six.

Speaker 2 (27:15):
Agree or disagree? Disagree?

Speaker 3 (27:19):
Less is more dog not on pisa In art, yes,
I agree.

Speaker 2 (27:24):
The greatest artist pizzas art.

Speaker 4 (27:28):
Uh No, I think you can have a fantastic pizza
with just maybe two topics. I don't want it overloaded. No,
I don't want it just falling off the slice. Aren't
we supposed to be going out to break now?

Speaker 3 (27:44):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (27:45):
I thought so? Did you hate? Look at here?

Speaker 3 (27:47):
Will have a little ring of the hands over on
this side. You got to be quiet, dude, I gotta
get out. Don't make me just go right to break.

Speaker 2 (27:56):
Late Health is the it's a group of clinics around town.
You know.

Speaker 3 (28:00):
It's not the anything, it's they. They are clinicians, the
people who work at a late hellse locations around town.
And what they do. They're actually a vascular clinic. They
perform vascular procedures that shut down the blood supplies to
things we don't want bothering us anymore. That's a very

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simple way to look at it. But that's exactly what
they do. And the good part is they don't send
you to the hospital for anything. All of their procedures
are done right there in their own clinics, so you
don't end up dragging something home from the hospital that
you didn't have when you got there. Most of what
they do can be done in a couple of hours,
which is nice.

Speaker 2 (28:41):
You can just get in. Somebody's going to have to
drive you home.

Speaker 3 (28:45):
But other than that, you get to get out of
there and get home and start recovering, which doesn't take
long from these procedures, by the way, because they are
minimally invasive. They do procedures that and this is the
one they do the most often, something called prostate artery mbolization,
which shuts off blood supplies to enlarged non cancerous prostates

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so that guys don't have to get up as many
times in the night to go to the bathroom. They
don't have other problems with that that part of their
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help anybody who's got ugly veins that need to go away.
There are head pains that can be removed and alleviated
that way as well. Most of what they do is

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thirty eight.

Speaker 2 (29:47):
Eighty eight.

Speaker 1 (29:50):
Old guys rule, and of course women never get old.
If you want to avoid sleeping on the couch. If
you think that sounds like a good please fifty plus continues.
Here's more with Doug.

Speaker 2 (30:27):
By.

Speaker 3 (30:28):
Welcome back fifty plus on this Thursday afternoon. If you can,
if you can hear the spring in my step through
my voice, it's because Thursday is Thursday is my new Friday, now,
will It's so complex and so confusing sometimes it sounds
confusing and complex.

Speaker 2 (30:47):
Changing my schedule and all that stuff.

Speaker 3 (30:51):
I had a story from yesterday that I want to
just share with you, just kind of give you an
idea of where things are headed. And I promise not
a ton of politics leading up to the election, because
it's everywhere. But as Kenny Webster and I were talking
about yesterday, just when I tell you I'm not going
to talk about politics, I kind of start talking about it.

Speaker 2 (31:11):
And I have to share this.

Speaker 3 (31:13):
Our Vice president has just hired into her campaign camp
a woman who claims that America is a cult. Reverend
Jennifer Butler is her name, and she's been brought in
to court and woo.

Speaker 2 (31:31):
People of faith.

Speaker 3 (31:33):
But lately she's been running a program specifically aimed at
removing what she sees as white nationalism from the Christian faith.
She wants you to just wipe it away. She wrote
a book in twenty twenty called Who Stole My Bible?
And in that book she wrote, and I quote the
wealthier overwhelmingly white, and to quote, which says a great

(31:55):
deal about her thought process and where she's headed. And
at a time when we should be learning to live together,
this is just yet another division, another wedge being pushed
between the people of this country. And it's frustrating. And

(32:15):
by the way, I know a lot of wealthy people,
and they're not all white. I can assure you a
lot of them. And they're all good people too. They
don't bother me a bit. They're the people who create jobs.
They're the people who who buy goods and services that
a lot of us can't afford, and in so doing
spread more money down the ladder to the people who

(32:37):
built and sold and did everything on the way to
that thing becoming the property of someone with a lot
of money. Fancy cars, fancy homes, airplanes, swimming pools, all
these things are built by a lot of people, a
lot of people whose jobs depend on somebody being wealthy

(32:58):
enough to buy them. So I'm not a fan of hers.
It's frustrating. She's just she's hiding behind a collar and
saying things that I don't like. She doesn't like America,
that's the bottom line. She really doesn't.

Speaker 2 (33:15):
And she may be a greater short term threat to
our country than walls.

Speaker 3 (33:18):
Actually, we'll see how it works out. So I just
had to get that off my chest. I was really
disturbed by what I saw about her and what I
read about her.

Speaker 2 (33:29):
In Great Britain. Now this is a little shorty. If
fifty eight will is that correct?

Speaker 3 (33:34):
Yes, I'll tell you this, I'll then I'll let you
choose a couple of things. In Great Britain, four year
old girl credited with knowing just enough about in home
technology to save her mother's life. This little girl's mom
collapsed during an epileptic seizure, and when that happened, young
Lilah knew she was supposed to call her grandmother because

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her grandmother lives well it's actually believed it or not,
her great grandmother and that woman is fifty four. I
don't know how the math works in their family. It
doesn't matter, but Lah knew she was supposed to call
Nana and let her know when her mom had that happen,
but she couldn't open her mom's phone.

Speaker 2 (34:14):
It was locked.

Speaker 3 (34:15):
So she asked Alexa because she'd been shown how to
do that. She got Alexa to make that phone call
for her, and Nana was able to come over and
get mom back on track and get her taken care
of it.

Speaker 2 (34:30):
Was that was pretty cool, I thought, So will here
you go? Can't let go regrets or no more fun
on the job regrets.

Speaker 3 (34:44):
According to a new survey, this this is kind of weird.
You ought to ask your mom about this. Will Nine
percent of mothers admit that they've regretted the name they
gave their child, and ten percent say their kid's name
doesn't fit their personality.

Speaker 2 (35:01):
How would you know when you're naming a child? Do
you think it is your name? A family name?

Speaker 4 (35:06):
Will?

Speaker 2 (35:07):
Yes, I'm named after both of my grandfather Well, that's.

Speaker 3 (35:10):
Cool, man, There would be no regret whatsoever there. You
know who I think might be included in this or
some of these people who give their their.

Speaker 2 (35:18):
Children trendy names. Would you agree?

Speaker 3 (35:22):
You think that's kind of gonna come back to bite
them after the trend wears off.

Speaker 2 (35:27):
Maybe it kind of depends on I think it depends
on the name. You know, some trendy names can be.

Speaker 3 (35:33):
Cool because they're what because their trendy will Yeah, once
the trend dies out, then the cool of the name
just heats up and it becomes a point of contention.

Speaker 2 (35:45):
Yeah, but we need new names. Yeah, we need lots
of new names. You and I maybe who knows?

Speaker 3 (35:51):
This is the worst food pairing ever, and I can
do it in twenty seconds. Horml launching a new limited
edition product that combines black label bacon with cinnamon toast
crunch Cereals.

Speaker 2 (36:07):
That's bad. I can't do anything else, so I'm gonna
get out of here. Enjoy your week. Audios.