New Golf League

Today, Doug Pike discusses a new golf league, clapping at the end of a flight, and a phone-call course.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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(00:51):
All right, here we go.

Speaker 4 (00:53):
No, I was gonna say, Wednesday's Thursday already? Holy cow?
Will where did this week go? Man? Just blowing by? Huh?
Welcome to Thursday edition of fifty plus. A day on
what the forecasters guarantee will be a chilly, wet day
and night might even get some heavy rain later in
the day. Here last I looked at it was about

(01:16):
an hour and a half two hours away from and
that a lot of that depends on just where you
are exactly around here and the forecast, I guess, thanks
again to Texas Indoor Air Quality specialists, because cleaner air
is healthier. Here go to texas iaq dot net to
learn how they clean duckwork so that it stays cleaned
four years. So here's the forecast today and to night.

(01:37):
A sloppy mess, windy, chili, rainy, just not a good
time to be outside if you can help it. Not
supposed to freeze tonight around most of Houston, but darn
close to it anyway. After that, not much in the
way of rain or warmer temperatures. Unfortunately, that's sad to hear,
but it's just that season. It's all we can about it.

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And remember yesterday when the long term forecast didn't show
anything warmer than sixty until January twenty first, Well, surprise,
surprise now, and it shouldn't be a surprise to anybody. Really.
It's supposed to hit sixty two a week from Friday,
and then and this is creeping up on that nineteenth

(02:21):
twentieth of January, but sixty two a week from Friday,
and then sixty seven on that following Saturday, and still
fat chance. Who knows what it's gonna do. There's really,
there's just really no way to tell what's gonna happen.
The big stuff, the ugliest of the rain that's coming
is coming much later this afternoon and into the evening.

(02:43):
I'm gonna try to get out of here a little
bit early after the show, will so I've got a
decent drive and I want to make sure everything's buttoned
up at the house before all this, this latest round
of rain gets here and that the rain is coming
from it. It's interesting, really, this is a north of
this bearing down and it's gonna put a ton just
a ton of snow north of here, heavy freezes north

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of here, all of those things. But for us, it's
gonna and that's gonna be pushing downward from the north. Oh,
come on, get this little pop up at off here
three two one, push the X and back to the
radar screen. Thank you very much if it'll come up there.
It is. So, what's gonna happen later this afternoon is

(03:28):
this there's kind of a hole around Houston and whatnot
until about two or three o'clock maybe, and then it's
just a big old bundle of goo coming our way
from the southwest, moving to the northeast, and we do
kind of sit in a hole that's gonna close up
later and then yeah, it looks like some potentially pretty

(03:49):
heavy stuff, maybe late afternoon, four, five, six o'clock, maybe
even to seven or eight, who knows how long it's
gonna last after that, and then we clear off again
and we'll be fine. One of the markets which are
basically no more predictable than weather, and and even split
among the four indicators I tracked this morning, neither of
which was up or down by even a half a

(04:11):
percentage point when I looked, gold and oil both up though,
so as Brad Schweis would say from over at Houston,
gooldexchange dot com, if you've got a little gold laying around,
you might be able to sell it to him and
buy a tank of gas. Who knows I did the math?
Will Are you aware of how many grams are in
an ounce? How many? It's twenty eight point something? Okay,

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and gold currently is selling for twenty seven hundred points
something dollars an ounce, So if you could scratch up
a gram of gold, it's worth about ninety five dollars
a gram. That's the weight of a paper clip. Will.
Maybe we could spray paint some stuff gold and find

(04:59):
somebody who buy it from us, buying some sucker out there. No,
I don't do that. That's against the law, that would
be wrong anyway. But yeah, a couple of grams, actually
a half a gram, a half a gram of goal
would fill up the tank in quite a few cars
driving around town. And I don't know how much does
it cost to charge an electric car? Will do you know?

Speaker 2 (05:22):
No?

Speaker 4 (05:23):
I have no idea. You're are you on full full
gas or just hybrid? I'm on full gas. Yeah, my
son's on hybrid. He seems to like it. He seems
to get pretty good gas mileage. He's putting miles on
miles on his little truck, though, as fast as I
put him on my my SUV, and that concerns me

(05:44):
for him. But he's having a good time, and he's
he seems to be a safe driver. I've seen him
driving a little too fast occasionally, but overall, I think
he's doing a pretty good job. And he already knows
if he gets a ticket, he's going to be taking
the bus or he's going to be hitching rides for
a considerable amount of time while he thinks about what

(06:05):
he did wrong. Moving into well, you know what, let's
kind of get let's get out of here a little
bit early so we can get back a little bit early.
And oh, by the way, iHeart Houston here is celebrating
the best in podcasting at our twenty twenty five iHeart
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to vote for the Podcast of the Year. The nominees
are Do we have any kind of a drum roll?
Will I get a We don't have time for that. Well,
it'll be too late by the time you get there.
That's okay, we should have We should have one in

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Story of the NYPD, and The Good Whale. Have you
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I've listened to some podcasts, but they're mostly mostly of
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Iheartpodcast Awards dot com. We'll take a little break here
on the way out. I'll remind you that Bronze Roofing
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(08:01):
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Speaker 2 (09:15):
What's life without a NET? I suggest to go to bed,
sleep it off, just wait until the show's over. Sleepy.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.

Speaker 3 (09:35):
Why welcome back fifty.

Speaker 4 (09:37):
Plus on AM nine fifty KPRC. We're trying to contact
man we're supposed to interview today. He may have had
who knows he's a doctor, he's a surgeon. He may
have had to rush into emergency surgery. I never question
why a doctor isn't available to do ten minutes of
shooting the breeze with us, no matter how important it is.

(09:58):
The conversation will be about colorectal cancer and how to
discover it, how to treat it, and all that good stuff,
and we will get to it when we can. I'll
move on into some news from news of the bizarre,
we could call it from around the nation. In New Jersey,
something that just launched yesterday after being okayed late last year.

(10:22):
I believe it was a teachers will no longer be
required to read and write at basic levels. The same
law says they don't even have to know math, even
at a sixth grade level to become teachers in that state. Meanwhile,

(10:50):
other countries are lapping us around the education track. New
Jersey law now describes those requirements as barriers to bringing
new educators into the field. Well, if you can't read
or write or do math at a sixth grade level,

(11:11):
how are you gonna teach them? How are you gonna
teach anybody anything. What it does, according to the story,
is enabled New Jersey at a time when when DEI
is being rolled back by major corporations one after another
because it fails. This enables New Jersey to meet its

(11:33):
own diversity objectives, but at tremendous cost. I would think
to its children and to its future. If the teachers
aren't if they can't do sixth grade math, if they
can't read at a sixth grade level, if they can't

(11:53):
do anything, if they can't write at a sixth grade level,
I can't qualify that person as an educator, even even
for younger children, even for third graders, because there are
going to be third and fourth and fifth graders who
are going to ask questions of that teacher. Who that

(12:15):
teacher is not going that they're not going to be
able to answer the questions of people younger than them
by twenty thirty years. That's a that's a bad decision
on New Jersey's part. And well, I'm just glad forget
another reason now that I don't live in New Jersey
from the federalists in California. This is pretty serious stuff

(12:35):
where these wildfires around LA and just a much of
southern California now have destroyed thousands of acres and homes,
taken at least five lives already. This week we learned
that California sent its own surplus firefighting supplies to Ukraine
two years ago. Additionally, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bath, who

(13:01):
just recently visited Ghana as the fires were burning, gutted
the city's fire department by seventeen and a half million
dollars for this fiscal year. Why I don't know, but
it doesn't make sense to me when all these other
programs that were possibly going to help them control fires

(13:24):
also were being gutted. The US Forest Service not long
ago and did controlled burns in California because they they
might hinder in hinder, not hinder, because they might hinder
environmental and wildlife programs. So to help with people in
their homes, don't worry about that. We gotta save a

(13:46):
little fish or a little bird or whatever. And hey,
I'm all for animals, I'm all for the environment, but
not at the cost of people and their property. And meanwhile,
President Biden shoveling more money to Ukraine. He can't make
this stuff up. Not much of anything, nothing going to
to California just yet that I know of, but he's

(14:08):
sending more money to Ukraine on his way out the
door at an airport somewhere by the way this week.
This was also pretty interesting. Possibly I believe in Ghana.
On her way back from that trip, Mayor Bass refused
to answer even a single question from a guy named
David Blevins, who's a reporter for Sky News. He stood

(14:31):
there and very politely, very patiently asked her six or
seven questions on camera, and she not once looked at him.
She not once uttered a sound or a word, or
said she was sorry that her city was burning. No

(14:52):
apologies for the damage and death that's already been caused
or will be soon. Those fires are as yet mostly
uncontrolled one. They're just still burning out of control because
they're strong wind. The entire hillsides of that region are

(15:12):
nothing but tender for fires, and that's what's happening. Kind
of seemed kind of cowardly to me, to be perfectly honest,
that she would choose not. And he asked her, do
you have nothing to say to the citizens of your city?
She just stood there, just stonefaced, not a peep out
of her pretty chicken whatever uh grabbing go oh by

(15:37):
the fire. This is something that most of us here
probably already know, and it doesn't really apply to wildfires,
say around Houston, because there's just not that much stuff
to burn and we get enough rain that it shouldn't
be tendered out like that. But the fires in LA
have people googling the top things that they want to
have in their go bag in case they have have

(16:00):
to evaluate fast and cal Fire's list includes much of
what you or I might put on a list if
we had to bug out for a hurricane. That'd be
some food, some water, a map, which if you're hey,
if it's bad enough and the power goes down, you're

(16:22):
not going to be able to rely on GPS, now,
are you. They've got that medications, of course, especially for
this audience, clothing, extra keys, a handful of cash, a
first aid kit, a flashlight, pet food if you have one,
and copies of important documents such as burst certificates and passports.

(16:47):
That is not a bad idea. My passports and birth certificate.
That sort of stuff is in a safe that hopefully
would survive a fire. I believe it will. I'll have
to double check that, just make sure that that one's
good to go. For a fire that would last long
enough and burn hot enough to bring my house down

(17:08):
to the ground. I hope that never happens. I truly do.
I truly do. By the way, what do I have here?
A couple of minutes good? Incoming President Trump continues to
make it known to Hamas he said this more than
once already, that if they don't release every hostage they've
got before he takes office, there will be and i'll

(17:31):
quote him here, hell to pay and quote. You know,
if I were Hamas under the circumstances, I'd be bringing
those people new clothes. I'd be getting them shaved and showered,
and I'd be feeding them all they can eat until
he takes office. And then well, actually i'd and I'd

(17:51):
get I'd get them all spruced up as best I could.
I would. If they're smart, they would make it apology,
although I do out they will, and they could even
they could even couch it with I'm sorry this lasted
so long, or something as un effective really as that is,
as unapologetic as that may be, but at least say

(18:14):
something to that regard, because otherwise they're gonna be in
a heap of trouble, a heap of trouble, and hopefully
they'll get all that dialed in.

Speaker 2 (18:25):
Well real quick.

Speaker 4 (18:28):
All about the money, know when to say when or
let me find another short one or no applause necessary,
When to say when, when to say when. Study found
that coffee drinkers live longer, but only if you stop
drinking it by noon all day. Coffee addicts don't get

(18:50):
the same benefits, which means I'm in good shape because
I don't drink coffee afternoon after this show. I drink
it all the way up to the show, and then
if you were to look over here, you would notice it.
I have a cup of water in the studio. Cup
of water. So take that to heart, boys and girls,
and by that I mean old people like me. You

(19:11):
can drink your coffee all the way to noon and
it's going to be beneficial. I don't know how. We
just live longer somehow, and then after that shut it
down and drink something else. We'll take a little break
on the way out. Ut Health Institute on Aging is
a fantastic collaborative of providers in every medical field, every
medical discipline, who have taken it upon themselves to go

(19:37):
back for additional training as to how their knowledge and
expertise can be applied to seniors exactly what. The Institute
on Aging was founded upon about ten or twelve years
ago by doctor Carmel Dyer and everyone who has come
on board since then has stayed true to that initiative.

(19:59):
Their highly skilled people who have added skills to their
portfolios by making sure they know how to take care
of us, and they're all over town. Go to the
website first of all, take a look at all the
resources resources you can find there, and then and they're
all free. You could just you can browse through there
and find information on pretty much anything you can imagine

(20:21):
that relates to seniors and our health. And then find
yourself an educator who who keep shop out in the
area where you live, whether it's Kingwood or the Woodlands,
or Katie or Pearland or Sugarland or Pasadena wherever, there
are people from that Institute on Aging who work close
enough to you to where you can get there easily

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and not have to go into the medicenter uth dot
edu slash aging uth dot edu slash aging. Yew.

Speaker 2 (20:52):
They sure don't make them like they used to.

Speaker 1 (20:53):
That's why every few months we wash them, check his words,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 4 (21:27):
Right, Welcome back.

Speaker 3 (21:29):
Well thirty five.

Speaker 4 (21:30):
It says here on the will thank you for listener,
certainly do you appreciate it? How you doing over? There
will any luck? Okay, never mind. I was going to
tell you something, but now I'm not because it didn't
work out, and we'll fix that tomorrow. That won't be
a problem at all. We'll get this all dialed in.
Getting back up to full speed sometimes take a little

(21:51):
bit longer. Sometimes the engine's not running at full RPMs.
As they say, Oh, something I missed yesterday I wanted
to talk about, and it was it's a TV thing
and it's golf related, So forgive me if you just
don't like golf for one reason or another. But Tiger

(22:13):
Woods and Rory McElroy launched their TGL Golf, which is
arena golf, and it's two teams of four players each
going head to head in what could be its simulated
golf on about a forty or fifty foot tall screen,

(22:37):
which is pretty interesting. And then once the t shots
are hit and once the approach shots are hit, and
all of these holes they're not They haven't borrowed from
actual golf courses, any particular holes. This is all probably
AI generated holes that have varying degrees of difficulty. And whatnot.

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And then once that's done, when they get to the
pitching and chipping around the green area. That entire complex
is laid over a series of canisters that can either
raise or lower depending on how the computer has that

(23:20):
particular hole's green complex set up. It appears to work
very legitimately. It appears to the putts appear to break
as they should if they were on real grass, the
chips tend to roll as they should if they were
on real grass, and then the going back to the

(23:41):
tea box and the fairway shots. They're actually hit from
pretty significant sized chunks of real turf. So if you
chunk something, you're gonna chunk it, and there's gonna be
dirt and grass flying. There's a sand area. If you're
in a bunker, you have to hit from that, and
I actually think that when is carpeted rather than sanded.

(24:02):
I'm not one hundred percent sure. It doesn't really show
on TV that way. Anyhow, They all the players are
miked up, which I think is really good because there
is some interaction between them as they go along. They
have some interesting little twists on the game of golf,
whereas this is it's four person rotational shot kind of

(24:26):
a match play set up, and there's also a hammer
which comes from the game of Wolf somehow, and that
hammer changes the value of the whole it gets. It's
not terribly complicated, really, but it's it is entertaining. I
found now one of the things that I wasn't really

(24:48):
keen on. They have more than enough announcers walking around
the place. Nearly all of them seemed strained at times
to fill dead air between shots, which isn't long by
the way. This in two hours. They can they can
do an entire match because there's not all that time
walking from hole to hole, and to their credit, most

(25:10):
of what they said at those times either first off,
in this inaugural episode, basically it sounded either dreadfully scripted
or inep dad lived. I do think they'll get more comfortable, though,
and they'll become more informative too as time goes on,
and they also understand what's happening in front of them.

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And to their credit, I know what it's like. I
know exactly what it's like to do something on air
so public for the first time. It's not easy. So
I'm not going to beat them up at all for
seeming a little awkward and contrived from from beginning to
end of that particular show, and maybe even for a
few more. They've got to they've got to get some

(25:53):
some miles on their tires, so to speak, and become
comfortable moving from shot to shot, from player to player
and making it easier to listen to as well as watch.
It is fun to watch, and the computer simulations are fantastic.
All of that's good. It's just not easy to do

(26:15):
what those announcers are doing, though, and especially because they're
doing it under the harsh light of all these Internet
trolls who are constantly on the lookout for something to criticize.
These people will get better, there's no doubt about it.
And in the meantime, the actual golf being played in
that arena was really, really good. Some of the shots
that were hitting, or you can see them after they

(26:38):
leave the club face and hit the screen. There's a
brief delay before the computer takes over and shows the
flight of the ball and the flight of the ball
when it hits the greens, for example, on short wedge shots,
actually the ball might check up and spin back a
little bit. It might hop a little forward if somebody's
hitting out of the roough. It is very legitimate and

(27:00):
it doesn't take forever to wash. Like I said a
minute ago, it's kind of a it's a hybrid cross
if you will, between the PGA Tour, live golf, and
speed dating. They keep it moving. They keep it moving
to keep your interest and I don't know, I just
hope they don't litter it up with too many commercials
going down the way as so long as they encourage

(27:21):
the players to engage in conversations among themselves too, that
could make for some very interesting television, Very interesting up
in Washington, d C. Moving from Florida to Washington West
Palm straight north. Basically a very icy greeting between President

(27:42):
Biden and his wife Jill when they were seated at
the service in Washington, d C. For for deceased former
President Jimmy Carter. They had to walk directly by these
front row seats, directly past VP Kamala Harris and her husband.
Harris removed her handbag or maybe a notebook. I couldn't

(28:03):
tell exactly what it was from Joe Biden's seat as
she stepped down the way to get into her seat.
But other than that, not one of the four even
made eye contact. Little chili around DC this time of year.
I guess it's a little bit chilly. It was. It
was interesting to watch that, it really was. And I

(28:27):
guarantee you there's stuff going on behind the scenes up
there that's that's even worse. All right, will I'm back
to you, my friend. Are you ready? I don't know
for all that golf talk, I'm pretty bored to let
me wake you up here. Then you don't like golf
at all? Do you know? Do you realize that you
are probably in the minority for this audience, even not

(28:49):
just my outdoors audience, but even this audience. He can
be in the minority. But that doesn't make me wrong.
It does in this case. It's very important stuff in
my world. Yeah, all right, all right, come on here.
It would be a get rich quick plan coming through

(29:12):
or back to No applause necessary, No applause necessary. We'll
get that one out of the way. Pilots a survey said,
hate it when people clap after the plane lands. Have
you ever done that? Nope, I don't know that I
have either. Unless it was terrible, and here's the deal,
unless it was terrible, Well, it was rough coming in
and it made it. No, because here's the deal. When

(29:34):
it's smooth, that's just their job. They're just doing their job,
So why are you applauding it? And when it's rough,
they feel like it's kind of sarcastic, you know.

Speaker 3 (29:44):
Oh, yeah, we made it.

Speaker 4 (29:45):
We didn't die, Thanks a lot, pilot. All right, we
gotta take a little break, don't we. Yeah, we got
to get out of here. When we get back, we'll
talk more about it. We'll solve a couple more worlds
problems and have some fun. Doug, No, not the Doug
Pike Show. Fifty plus can ten years right after.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
This old guys rule. And of course women never get old.
If you want to avoid sleeping on the couch.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
Okay, well do you think that sounds like a good plan?
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug.

Speaker 3 (30:25):
Old couch is.

Speaker 4 (30:26):
That late already? Will? Well, it's kind of a third
and heading time works, Doug. You know it just baffles
me every day. Well, how that clock keeps going around
and around? Uh? And usually it most times it seems
to be running faster, except when you're you're waiting on

(30:50):
a doctor for an appointment. Maybe, except when you're waiting
for a table at a nice restaurant. Then it just
seems to move at a snail's pace. What other times
would you say that time seems to pass slowly? Oh well,
when you were talking about golf, had definitely was just
move and move to a just to a cross speed

(31:13):
of a brick. You know what is the speed of
a brick? Well, you want to try all that. It's
nothing at all. You could put just sitting there molasses
down a December hill or something like that, a real mock.
You know. Yeah, I'm sorry about that. It's okay, Doug,
I forgive you. Sorry about that. Oh well, back here,

(31:36):
you know, I was gonna do this yesterday, but I'll
try to squeeze it in. We've got ten minutes or so,
uh back here in Houston at all points really within
about fifty miles around City Hall. Is it just me?
Or are fewer people being raised with manners and common
decency and whatnot and the ability to just get along

(31:57):
with other people have social interaction without it meaning anything,
or without screaming or being offended or whatnot. I've been
conducting my own little social experiments now for about six months,
and it's nothing official it's purely out of curiosity, and
all I'm doing is just going through my day to
day life and doing a couple of things that I

(32:19):
probably would do anyway, Like, for example, when I'm walking
toward a person and they're walking toward me, I'll give
it a little smile and nod and just say good morning
or good afternoon, and just wait to see if I
get any response. And when I and someone else are
coming up to a door around the same time, if
I'm there first, I'll open it and hold it for them,

(32:43):
And if so, I'll kind of wait for a simple
thank you and see if it comes. Somebody holds a
door for me, I thank them, and I don't expect
anything in return. They don't have to say you're welcome,
but when they do, when I do think them, most
of them will say you're welcome. A couple more little
things just come of decencies that are I think all
people should be on the same team and on the

(33:05):
same page about that, no matter what position we're playing
on the plus side in this experiment overall, and this
is across every ethnicity, every color, every religion, lifestyle, whatever,
and including all the little micro groups who I find
people in our part of the country especially, and in

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our part of the state, to be pretty friendly when
someone else's friendly. First. A lot of these people, especially
the younger ones, won't initiate the communication, won't initiate the
exchange because they're very poorly skilled at social interaction. But

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in some cases they do, and I'm pleasantly surprised when
they do. I have had people walk right by my
wife and me on our little afternoon walks around a park,
and these people we pass two three feet apart at most,
and they deliberately avoid eye contact. It's not accidental. They're

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not looking at a phone, they're not looking at a
bird in a tree, they're not looking at a snake
on the trail. They just avert their eyes so that
they don't have to make contact with my eyes. Also,
people out there and couples, small groups who will continue
to take up the entire width of the past or
sidewalk and refuse to move an inch out of the

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way to us, my wife and I who are walking
toward them, and rather than doing what we do, which
is just go into single file on the right side,
just like two cars on a two lane road, we
get the right side and on their side, they get
the right side. But these people are just arrogant and
obstinate enough that they're almost daring us to bump into them,

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which would then give them, of course, the the excuse
to start yelling and screaming, which I'm sure they do
to people they know and care about. Even it's just
remarkable how easy it would be. Yeah, I'm too old
now really to bump shoulders on the trail and risks
having to whip somebody's butt out there just for being rude.

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But if that's the way they treat people elsewhere in
their lives, and if they breed more of their kind,
I'm not sure we can all we can call ourselves
civilized anymore. Civility is what enables different groups of people
to find common ground and just move forward, move forward
with a smile. Even arrogance and senses of entitlement and
whatnot just divide us. Nobody owes me anything I didn't

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work for, and I don't know I don't know anybody
who's capable but unwilling to work. I don't know them anything.
We were just moving forward, not backward. Oh, by the way,
speaking of hold on, let me find this little tidbit
I had from today's today's work. It's on one of

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these pages. I know it is. And if I can
just get this paper to not be so dry, maybe
I can find it. Where did it go? Will? What
have I done with it? TikTok, TikTok, TikTok. It's got
to be here. It had to This was a relevant thing. Oh,
I know what it was. I remember it. I can
do it from memory, will. And that doesn't always happen.

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A college in I can't recall the name of the college,
but a college in England is teaching its students what
what skill that I was raised on? You were probably
raised on and could do well? You you actually do
it at work? What skill? Or is there a college

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course for now at some horrible, little pathetic college in England?
Take a staff. This doesn't have anything to do with
gender or DEI or any of that stuff. This is
just something that everybody ought to know how to do
if they have social social skills. I don't know, make

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a phone call, Make a phone call. Your generation and
younger don't use the phone. That's not true. Well you
call people all you do, yes, But all my friends
call people all the time. When I talk to my friends,
we always talk about how people prefer to have a

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phone call text. Amen, you're you and I think you're
believe in some propaganda. Did the course is real? Well?
They teach these kids how to call and ask a
shopkeeper if they have an item in stock. What do
you mean, I'm telling you that's on the curriculum. Let
me what's the school call. I'll go look it up. No,

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tell me, I don't have it with me. Let me
see right here will Nottingham College offering classes on how
to make phone calls. Homework includes calling stores to ask
if they have something in stock and calling restaurants to
ask what their hours are. They're having to teach kids,

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college aged young adults how to do that. Where are
you looking up somebody's phone number? No, I'm looking up
this college. Yeah, there it is. You find it. I'm
sure it's all over the internet. Not really, I'm just
joking about that part. All right, Well, let's go back

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to the fun stuff, because this is rapidly getting boring,
especially after the golf thing that you don't think was
interesting at all, but I find I find entertaining anyway.
It's another it's another something to watch on TV other
than reality shows like all that are not real. You
want to find you want to hear something ironic while

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you're over there reading. Yeah, guess who invented cotton candy? Uh,
the cotton candy man. I'll make it. I'll make it
easy on you. Just what this guy's profession was, the
guy who invented cotton candy? And just go with it.
You know exactly what it is. He was an insulator.
No will, he was a dentist. He was a dentist

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early retirement. All about the money. Ah. In Vietnam, Will,
the government is paying people up to two hundred dollars
to report bad drivers for things like texting and running
red lights. Here's how it works. If you turn them

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in and they get fined, you get ten percent. You
get a ten percent commission on their fine. How much
money do you think we could make just sitting by
the edge of the freeway with a radar gun and
just taking a picture showing the radar gun and the
speed of the car coming at it, get a nice
clear shot through the windshield of the driver and the

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license number and all that stuff. That would that would
be way faster than any of these these YouTube and
TikTokers make money. I'm to be making money hand over fist. Well. Oh,
by the way, I'm gonna I saved this kind of
for last because I've got a question to ask you,
and I'm going to ask it of you in the

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entire audience when I tell you what happened down in Florida.
There's somebody in Florida got caught on video driving the
wrong way down a sidewalk. It says here, you know
what I want to know? Will what?

Speaker 2 (40:33):
What?

Speaker 4 (40:33):
What concerns you about that? It just says here, someone
in Florida was caught on video driving the wrong way
on a sidewalk.

Speaker 3 (40:41):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (40:41):
That who's driving on the sidewalk? No, I want to
know what the right way is to drive on the sidewalk.
That's what I want to know. Maybe you can tell
me before tomorrow. That's it for today. Thanks for listening,
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