Where to Travel?

Today, Doug Pike interviews executive editor for AARP The Magazine and AARP Bulletin Jim Lenahan about where to travel.  

Episode Transcript

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If I were tasked with a writing a Christmas song,
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be because I have something in mind and I may
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Are you ready? Will? I think I'm gonna redeem myself here.
I'm feeling pretty good. I just got worded in three. Uh, okay,
I'll check that during the during the break. Tell me
where I need to start on these two by the way,
before we get to them, all right, never mind? Is it?
Let me ask you? This is it? This one? Let's

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see it is it is? Okay, that's all I need
to know. So here's my high coup. Are you ready? Yes,
rain chances, rain chance for a week. I have to
start over. Gosh, just like the start of the program,
Rain Chance for a week. Milder tempts are the upside
after that? Who knows? And don't me don't mess with

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me for for messing it up earlier. It's just a choke.
It's terrible. Alright, I'm gonna you know, I'll forgive the choking. Okay, good, good, good,
I can do it again. Yeah, you know what, why
don't you do it again?

Speaker 3 (05:09):
All right?

Speaker 2 (05:09):
You ready? Yeah, let the people hear it. Rain chance
for a week, milder temps are the upside after that?
Who knows you love playing into the unknown? Don't you do?
Your favorite part of the mystery of the future, the
future which we can't predict? Right right? Okay? Well you

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know what I think. I like rainy weather. I like
you ought to man, you ought to be in a
good mood. Then to give me a good score. I'm
feeling pretty pretty good today. Okay, what do you got.
Let's give that one. That's a seven point five. Wow,
I had six eight. Okay, well, thank you, thank you

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very much. Will Merry Christmas to you too. Just keep
that in mind next week when we're doing shows. It's
the hall of the Giving Spirit. It's a giving, higher
scores spirit that I need you to embrace for the
rest of my time here before I take some vacation,
taking the week of Christmas off, and I'll be back

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live on the second of January, presuming nothing happens to
me between now and then. And I'm not superstitious. I
don't worry about jinxing myself. Lord at this age. If
I was going to jinx myself, I'd have done it
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I don't know which way to go, honestly. Earlier all
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again fifteen minutes ago and they were all red. So
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really moving dramatically, as has been the case for the
past probably six months, no major moves really, but red's
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the backyard, will I will not disclose that information. I
was trying to find out, find out whether it's worth
written a shovel. Yeah, I don't want anybody. I don't
have to make that treasure map to the back of
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Speaker 2 (10:00):
I feel like when every time you play this rejoin,
I feel like I ought to be sitting on the
tailgate of a pickup truck chewing on a piece of straw.
It does have that feeling, does it. Yeah, it's it's
not full on yeeha uh, but it's it's still just
got that kind of a feel to it. And it
would have to be at the gate of the ranch

(10:26):
and just sitting there waiting on somebody. I'm not not drinking.
I wouldn't be drinking if I drove my truck to
the to the ranch gate, but just sitting there, maybe
drinking a bottle of water because it's a hot day.
You say, that's not cold weather music, is it not
at all? No, that's that's summertime. Be lucky. If I'm
wearing a shirt, yeah, you know, m all right, let's

(10:50):
move on, shall we let me get to that here? Oh,
by the way, in the next segment, not this one,
but in the next segment, we're gonna talk to a
guy named Jim Lenihan from AARP about travel in some
specific spots and specific ideas for seniors who might have
all kinds of different reasons to be traveling. It's I

(11:13):
think it will be pretty fascinating. I really do. I
really do. By the way, where is this one piece
of paper? What did I do with it? Hold on
just one second, let me see if I surely I
didn't want it all up? No, that's not it. That's
not the one I'm looking for. I'm looking for the
piece of paper. Yeah, this one right here. Two things

(11:35):
diving in if you missed it earlier on KTRH Harris
County DA Kim Agg's office will seek the death penalty
for the two illegal immigrants accused of killing twelve year
old Joscelyn Nungerray earlier this year. I've noted in her
interview with Jimmy Barrett that after she leaves office, the
newly elected Democrat DA Seawan teerr I think it's tyr

(11:58):
Is it is that right? Will? Or do you know?
I look at that? I believe yeah, check that out. Anyway,
he would have the option to pull the death penalty
off the table. Now it would it would take more
than just a nod of the head to do that,
but that may be that may be available to him

(12:19):
and boy, how he handles this one's really gonna speak
volumes as to how he plans to run that office
into the foreseeable future and staying in the same disturbing lane.
A fundraising account has been opened to help pay legal
fees for Luigi Mangioni, the man accused of killing United

(12:40):
Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. As you walk down the street
in New York City, if you're thinking about sending any
of your own hard earned dollars, your your own honestly
earned money to that fund, know that the alleged killer
comes from an extremely wealthy Baltimore family, wealthy enough that

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they have donated millions of dollars to legitimately good causes
over the years. They need, they need donations to this
guy's legal fund, like the ocean needs salt. It's yeah,
and somewhat related to that one too. There's question as
to whether the McDonald's employee who spotted this guy in

(13:24):
Pennsylvania and alerted authorities about it is gonna whether or
not he's gonna get the sixty thousand bucks offered as
reward by the FBI in New York City. To get
the money from the FBI, apparently the good guy, the
person who makes a phone call, has to be nominated,
so to speak, by somebody in law enforcement for that
reward also, and it may or may not be the

(13:47):
case here, I'm not really sure, but rewards sometimes aren't
paid unless and until there's an actual conviction in the case.
I kind of see that. But nonetheless, this guy, for
finding this person a full state away from where he

(14:09):
is alleged to have committed the offense with which he's charged,
I think he deserves something in something that Washington insiders
are calling a bit of a bombshell. Justice Department Inspector
General Michael Horowitz dropped a report yesterday that puts twenty

(14:30):
six I believe the number is of what the FBI
calls confidential human sources, essentially undercover people, more than two
dozen of them on hand at the Capital on January sixth,
twenty twenty one. That evidence that information was never provided
to the people who were prosecuted for their actions that day,

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and if it had been, I'd bet a whole lot
of those cases either would have been dropped or certainly
amended or otherwise changed up a little bit before those
sources were put on a witness stand under Oath all
the way back in night or nineteen, all the way
back in twenty twenty two, said that the story I

(15:13):
was reading was from the Western Journal Today. When Senator
Ted Cruz asked FBI Assistant Director Jill Sanborn if any
FBI agents or confidential informants actively participated in the events
of January sixth, Sanborn's answer. Sanborn's answer was, quote, sir,
I can't answer that end quote now we know. Huh,

(15:37):
all right, let's lighten it up a little bit, will
before we go to mister menahan, where is that piece
of paper? Good heavens, you're all over the place. I am, Well,
I have stuff all over the desk if that's what
you mean. Oh, today is what day? Will? By the way, national?
What is it on the screen? Well, it is Friday
the thirteenth. Well I know that. No, no, no, but

(15:58):
it's something much better than that. Oh, it's a food.
As always, there's always some food. I guess where the
region is this from? Earth? Well, I guess I guess
our country because it's nash It's not it's not global
this day, it's just national. This day it's National clam

(16:21):
chowder Day. I had that for lunch yesterday as a
matter of fact, well day too early apparently. No, you're
wrong though, Uh you wanna you wanna? No way you
can miss hint? Yeah, blue Belt National ice Cream Day?
Are you going to celebrate with some Bluebell ice cream

(16:42):
or any other anything? I celebrate National ice Cream Day
every day, Doug? Pretty much?

Speaker 3 (16:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (16:49):
Do you do? You have a favorite brand of ice cream?
And if it's other than Bluebell, that's okay, I do.
And what is it then? Tillamook? Huh Tillamok? Can you
say that on the air, Tillamook. I've never heard of it.
You've never had Tillamook. Not about their cheese? Well, if
I haven't had their ice cream, I surely haven't had
their cheese. Well, their ice cream. Their ice cream is fanned,

(17:14):
tasts made from cheese, it's dairy, comes from a cow,
doesn't it all? Really? Well? But it is so good,
it's so creamy. And what I like to get is
they have their own ice cream sandwiches. The sandwich part,
the cookie part. The cookie part is the is a

(17:37):
waffle cone with a chocolate layer. Okay, find these at
your local grocery. Kill Amok. Till am T I L
l A Okay, I know how to sp it's an
Oregon based ice cream. Yeah, so artisan ice cream. It's

(18:00):
not an artisan, it's they don't have. How many calories
in that stuff? A lot? It depends if you're eating
the whole bucket. Like, speaking of calories, get this will
guess how many calories a blue whale can eat on
an average day, just an average day. How many calories
does a blue whale eat? I'm gonna get with one
hundred thousand. It's a snack. It's like a potato chip

(18:25):
will twenty million calories, twenty million. How would you like
to be an anchovy in front of one of those guys.
I'm gonna eat about four thousand of you guys, and
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Speaker 1 (20:33):
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fifty plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 2 (20:49):
Alright, welcome back to fifty plus day Philisi. On this Friday,
look kind of gloomy outside, not the prettiest day, but
not the worst we've seen in the last month or
so anyway. So in this segment, we're going to talk
about travel, about getting out of this town of ours.
For those of us who woke up recently and kind
of maybe realized we probably ought to see a little
more of the world before we're too old or too

(21:10):
tired to go somewhere and to throw out a few
ideas and maybe get you thinking about hitting the road
or hitting the skies and make the most of a
long or short trip anyway, I'll bring in Jim Lenahan,
AARP's resident travel expert. Welcome aboard, Jim, Hi, thanks very
much for having me. You bet so. This audience of

(21:31):
mine on fifty plus includes lots of people like myself
who are coming to realize that if they're gonna make
a bucket list trip, they probably ought to grab that
bucket sooner rather than later. And no time like the
present really to start planning, even for folks who might
have to save a while to make it happen for
a big trip. Is it wise to allow what six
months a year of planning for this?

Speaker 3 (21:53):
Well, I think it really depends.

Speaker 4 (21:55):
What we tried to do in this article is give
you some ideas that maybe you don't.

Speaker 3 (21:59):
Have to plan so far in it.

Speaker 2 (22:01):
Yeah, I guess that's but yeah.

Speaker 4 (22:03):
So for in the in the coming you know, calendar year,
But they really would make sense they're they're specific to
twenty twenty five, and they would appeal to, you know,
older sensibilities.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
I like the way your team breaks out great trips
for a kind of a variety of travelers too, So
let's just kind of run from one to the next.
It looks like, for example, for the adventurers among us,
you singled out Fairbanks, Alaska. Why is that?

Speaker 3 (22:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (22:30):
So you know you mentioned the quote unquote bucket list,
and that's often one that people have, which is to
see North the Northern Lights for analyst. And this year,
this coming year, in twenty twenty five, where scientists stay,
it's supposed to have some of the best Northern Lights
activity in about a decade, so this would be the

(22:52):
year to go. You have about a ninety percent chance
of seeing the Northern Lights if you stay for three days.

Speaker 2 (22:59):
That's pretty rare.

Speaker 3 (23:00):
That's a high number. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:02):
I like those. I'd like those same odds in Vegas
at some point. So, I mean, it's it is Alaska,
It's it's the Northern Lights. And on top of that,
you've got just staggering scenery. I'd have to work in
some fishing. You can go look at bears and what's
the affordability level of Alaska these days?

Speaker 4 (23:20):
Oh, you know, Alaska is fairly inexpensive option. It's caters
to travelers, so there's a lot of great opportunities there.
There's a lot of services that will you know, an
amenities available and yeah, it's not a terribly expensive trip.

Speaker 2 (23:38):
Strongly recommend summer in spring.

Speaker 4 (23:42):
Oh yeah, well, I mean that's up to you. But
you know, one of the nice things we put in
this article is that, uh, there are hotels and resorts
that cater to even the wintertime traveler where you can
stay like in a hot tub and watch the northern
lights from there so you can.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
Stay warm, can see that.

Speaker 3 (24:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (24:01):
You also you kind of broke out from the group
solo female travelers I see, and tossed out just just
casually send them over to France. Talk about that.

Speaker 3 (24:12):
Yeah, so this is something we came upon. You know.

Speaker 4 (24:15):
It's sort of one of these these like social media
trends right where people are talking about where they've been traveling,
and a lot of older women in particular, if they're
traveling on their own, are finding A great place to
go is province of France. And if you go there,
I mean I can't speak from experience on this one,
but if you go there as a single woman, you'll

(24:37):
find a lot of others who are doing the same
kind of solo traveling. So it's a really appealing from
that standpoint. And you know, you're in France. You have
the cafes and the shopping and you know, lots of
you know, things to see as you walk around town,
and you'll, you know, see a lot of other people
like you.

Speaker 2 (24:56):
Maybe a little wine, maybe just a little there's some
of that there. I've heard slow Page. Yeah, it's I've
heard as well that it's just a very beautiful place
and I would imagine quite safe. If you guys are
recommending it for the bravest in our ranks, and I
do I do say that this group is the bravest.
That would be seniors who are traveling with kids and grandkids.

(25:18):
You picked Universals Epic Universe in Orlando because it's going
to be brand new, isn't.

Speaker 4 (25:23):
It brand new in twenty twenty five? It opens in May,
so you got a little bit of time to plan this. Okay, Now,
what's really cool about this one is, you know, you
said you gotta be kind of brave to go to
an amusement park with the kids. You know, yeah, kids
are grandkids, right. But what's really interesting about this one
When we think about travelers over fifty, a lot of

(25:43):
them in that say fifty to sixty age range maybe
grew up with video games, right, and so there is
a whole Super Nintendo world no part of this epic
amusement park where you can go on rides and it
says if you're like in the game, you know I'm
saying so, and you know, so Nintendo very popular, was

(26:04):
sort of the Gen X generation. Most people are in
their fifties now, and so they can have as much
fun as the kids. There's you know, another thing that's
really I found really interesting about this one too, is
there's another world there that is all about the Universal monsters.
If you remember the old monsters, you know, the Monkey
and the wolf Man and.

Speaker 3 (26:22):
Dracul and so on.

Speaker 4 (26:23):
They've created a whole world around that too. So another
great sort of nostalgia factor for older people.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
Have you been in the Orlando Airport recently? I have? Actually,
let's yeah, how was it? How I mean, for my audience,
it may require wearing depends just to get through the
TSA line.

Speaker 3 (26:42):
Yeah, Orlando's a busy airport.

Speaker 4 (26:44):
Now there are some other smaller airports in central Florida
idea that you can travel to as well, so you
don't have to fly into Orlando.

Speaker 2 (26:51):
Well, and that's that's not a bad idea because there
are also from those smaller airports or car services that
will get you to Orlando at reasonable rates. I've experienced
that my I didn't want to go into Orlando. I
went into somewhere else and jumped in a suburban and
was there in not long time and just kind of
got to relax and just sidetrack all that.

Speaker 3 (27:11):
So, yeah, that's a great option.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
But believe it or not, we're darn here out of time.
I'm gonna try and squeeze in one more minute. But
I want to talk about Argentina real quick for seeing
something really different and very affordable.

Speaker 4 (27:22):
Yeah, so this is a good tip for people if
you're looking for an international destination. Argentina has typically the
lowest exchange rate in the Western hemshyre in the Western
hemisphere right in the America. So if you are looking
for you know, a really you know, great sort of
exotic adventure and a very safe place to visit beautiful scenery,

(27:44):
great culture, architecture, art, all that kind of stuff, and
it is one of the most affordable places you can go.

Speaker 2 (27:50):
I happened to have been there. I've been. I was
in BA for a couple of days and then we
went way out into the country for reasons doesn't matter,
and then back through BA to get home, and it
was it was a fascinating experience. Okay, well, great, believe
it or not, Jim, we're already out of time. Where
can people go to find this article?

Speaker 4 (28:10):
So this article is in the current issue of AARP
the magazine. Okay, that's the December January issue. But you
can also find it at AARP dot org.

Speaker 2 (28:21):
Should we go to just jump the track and go
AARP dot org slash travel.

Speaker 3 (28:27):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
Okay, so I already did.

Speaker 3 (28:28):
I did my homework, so you're you're good at navigating.

Speaker 2 (28:31):
Jim, Actually I am. I want to have you back
on to talk about travel insurance and that type of
thing sometime soon, if we can make that happen. Okay,
sounds good, wonderful. Jim Lenahan from AARP, their travel expert,
Thank you so much.

Speaker 3 (28:47):
Thank you for having me, sir.

Speaker 2 (28:48):
All right, we got to take a little break here
on the way out. Ut H's Institute on Aging. Ut
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many years now and will continue as long as they'll
let me, because I believe so much in it. This
is a collaborative of providers from every medical discipline. If

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you're seeing a doctor for something, there is one of
those doctors, and probably several of them connected to the
Institute on Aging, and that connection means that they have
gotten additional training and education in how to apply their
specific expertise, especially to seniors. That's us, and we are

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different from younger people, and these providers, everybody in the
Institute on Aging understand that very well. Go to the website,
look around at all of the just there it is.
It's all right in front of you, all these different
amazing resources to help you live a longer, happier, healthier life. Suggestions, opportunities, gatherings,

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all kinds of things for seniors. That's what they are.
UT dot edu slash Aging, uth dot edu slash aging.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
Old guys rule and of course women never get old.
If you want to avoid sleeping on the couch.

Speaker 2 (30:17):
Hey, I think that sounds like a good plan. Fifty
plus continues. Here's more with Doug. All right, what more
time for those of you, For those of you who
are here early and heard me fumble the ball when

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I was trying to tell you this, I'm gonna tell
you now and I'm gonna get it right this time. Will.
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Speaker 3 (31:16):
Will?

Speaker 2 (31:17):
Oh yeah, we are over seven forty? Oh my goodness.
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All right, we are well. We got five or six
seven minutes, don't we? This is good. This is good
because I have some Okay, Oh, you want some heartwarming

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news will for the holidays? Sure, this is it's a
cool story. And don't jump ahead, looks I as I
read this story, don't jump ahead. It's one of those
ones where you can you can see the ending coming,
but it's still cool. So this is the story of
Lenar Lindsay, who owns a bakery called give Me Some

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Show Sugar in Chicago. Okay, and there's a longtime customer
of hers, a guy named Hunter Varmar, recently hired by
Lindsey and is said to make an amazing pound cake.
He's boy, he is right there in the middle of it.
Has he's just got a passion for baking, and she

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needed somebody who could help her in that store. And
so there they are. And so a while back, not
that long ago, really, Varmarer in his thirties, and he
learns out that he had been adopted as an infant
wanted to find his birth mother. This is where you
just don't go ahead. Okay, it's coming, but just wait
for it. So he got a DNA test done, and

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he told the testing company that if they found his mother,
he would love to get a call from her. He's
sitting around the house one afternoon and he gets a
call and he looks down in the caller idea it
says it's the bakery, and he's thinking, h man, am
I late for work? Did I miss a shift? Do
we have some big order coming in? And this voice

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on the other end says, hey, hey, it's Lindsey at
the bakery and I got a call from this DNA place.
They tracked me down. And as it turns out, as
all of you have already guessed, I'm sure she was

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the mom and he was her son. She had him
when she was seventeen years old, wasn't going to be
able to support that child the way she wanted that
child supported, and offered him for adoption to what turned
out to be a good family, instant bond between the
two of them. He couldn't believe it was her. She

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couldn't believe it was him. And that's pretty good news,
I would think. Will do you agree? Yeah? A history
isn't it? Really is? Really is? I talked about that,
talked about that, talked I'm not gonna talk about that.
Let's get to some kind of fun stuff. Let's do that. Okay,

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here we go we'll for this Friday. I already talked
about the whales eating twenty million calories a day. Holy cow,
that's crazy, disturbing trend once a quarter or that was second,
that was second, Well done, well done, mimicking the intonation.
There a poll, this is kind of weird. Man asked

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thousands of bus travelers worldwide to rank the things that
annoy them the most that other riders do. Can you
figure out one or two of those? Will just off
the top of your head. Annoying things that other bus

(34:55):
riders do. They sit right next to you. Some of
it there's an open seat on they just come cuddling up. No,
that's not one. Clipping toenails. That probably should have been one,
but it wasn't one of the first two. All right,
number one response, so I have time to do another one.

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Number one response loud music, loud music, playing their music
too loud. You know what the number two response was,
But how can I put this cleanly? Romantic interludes on
the bus and what makes people think stuff like that

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is okay, it's not you're not even it's not a
mile high club accomplishment that you maybe make in the
in the privacy of the back of the plane or
in a in a restroom or something. They're just on
a bus and doing things they shouldn't even be doing.
And that's just creepy with I bother you. If you're

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trying to ride the bus and that happened, I would
say they were going the mile just this ten foot
high club. Yeah, no, that's messed up. False alarm? Will
how fast is too fast? Or in the hot seat
in the seat? You ever heard the term seat squatter,
seat squatter? Yeah, this is a new one. Seat squatter

(36:23):
probably be on the list of new terms next year.
It is. It's going viral because people are complaining about
people who intentionally sit in the wrong seat on the
plane and then try to get away with keeping it. No, no,
this is my seat. I was here first, and it
never mind what it said, never mind that it says
thirty two E on my ticket. I'm sitting up here

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in row two seat ABC. I want the aisle seat.
I'll take the aisle seat. Isler window will I'm an
aisle man? I say I am too. I saw some
pompous woman in an interview the other day asked if
she preferred the aisle seat or the window seat, and
she just goes, well, the window, of course, And the

(37:07):
interviewer said, well what if you you know, like you
have to go to the bathroom and you have to
get up and climb over people. She goes, oh, I
don't fly like that. Well aren't you miss fancy pants?
You and your private jet. If I'd have known that that,
people like that annoy me. They really do. That's annoying.

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Never happened on the bus, would it?

Speaker 3 (37:31):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (37:31):
What have I got here? Half a second? Half a minute?
That's too long. Here's something put some thought into it.
That's what I call this. For young adults buying gifts,
they say is the most stressful part of the holidays.
You know why because they don't want to put ay
thought into it. So you know what they do what
they buy a gift card and just call it today.

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All right, we got to get out of here. That's
it for this week. I'll be back in next Tuesday
and talk to you all. Then listen to me on
the weekends on KBMME if you get a chance. It's
an outdoor show. I think you'll like it. Audios