Swearing in the Workplace

Today, Doug Pike discusses swearing in the workplace, the two items bought before hurricanes, and term-limits. 

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, go on? Remember when social media was truly social?

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

Speaker 1 (00:20):
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Speaker 2 (00:50):
All right, here we go. Welcome to Friday on fifty plus.
Thanks for listening, Thanks for allowing Will and Me into
your lunch hour. And by the way, for those of
you who think I'm grammatically correct, it is Will and Me.
It's not Willing. I you understand. Why don't you Will?
I know you do. I don't know why it is.
Why don't you explain it to the audience?

Speaker 3 (01:09):
Huh no, No, then why'd you bring it up? I
don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
I won't bring it up again. Anyway. Today looks a
whole lot better than Thursday. Afternoon around most parts of
Southeast Texas a lot drier this morning. A buddy of mine,
Robbie Granger, guy with the Exciting Outdoors dot com. He
and I made a trip down to Argentina many many
years ago together to do some dub hunting, and actually

(01:36):
I was on assignment on a magazine assignment to report
on some big game hunting doing being done by some
big game hunting women. And it was a fantastic trip anybody.
The bottom line is Robbie is over in Atlanta, now
far far from BA and the rest of Argentina, and

(01:57):
a city that's about equally prepared for heavy snow is
as is Houston. His hotels near the show venue, so
he and most of the other exhibitors made it without
issue this morning before he called me. He called me
and said, I said, MAA, I thought you were doing
that show this morning. You're an hour ahead of me.
It's got to be open, right, He goes, Yeah, it's open,

(02:18):
But Atlanta's got four or five inches of snow and
it's still snowing, and they have no idea much like
Houstonians would about how to get around in the snow.
So he and most of those guys they got there
because they're staying in hotels close and could probably walk,
I would think, but on the whole oh, by the way,
it was twenty degrees over there, will how about that?

(02:41):
I don't want any part of that. I would guess
Atlanta's roadways at present though, or about the same hot
mess that Houston's would be under the similar circumstances. Weather
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(03:04):
years to come. Potential for a light freeze tonight, it
says thirty two, which whether you're north or south of
iten might fluctuate by three or four degrees. But that's
going to be it. It's not going to be a
hard freeze anywhere around here at least, And then if
you can hold your nose and bundle up next till
until next Friday, will what's significant about a week from today.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
Next Friday, seventeenth of January. I don't know what is it.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
The forecast calls for a high of that's a clue.
It just kind of go with you, just go with
your gut. A high of thirty threes sixty eight will
you would not do well in the Texas Temperature game
that I play on tomorrow morning. I play tomorrow morning
for for the opportunity to win a delicious prize of

(04:02):
gems and jellies by the way from Bress River Provisions Company,
which I stumbled across when the man who owns it
emailed or called he called, I think originally, and said, hey,
if you're going to do a game surrounding the jams,
the musical Rejoins Jams, if you will that Melvin's doing

(04:26):
for your show, maybe you ought to have prize for
that game. Who guess? And it's the Texas Temperature Game.
It's what it's called. Maybe I should play it with
you one day just to see how you would fare.
I'll explain it some other time, because it's not really
that critical to what we're doing now anyway. The bottom
line is so the twenty first, the high, the predicted

(04:46):
high is going to be sixty eight degrees, sixty eight degrees,
and then rolling forward a couple of days after that,
when another front comes in the you know how they
use those little icons for rain and for partly cloudy
and all that, and all the weather forecast will see those, right, Yeah, Well,

(05:10):
this is the first seasonal snowflake we'll see in the
Houston forecast a week and three days, week and four
days whatever it is from Friday to Tuesday. That's on
the twenty something late January. Basically the first possible potential
but probably not chance for snow. I'll believe that when

(05:32):
I see it, which I probably won't since I live
south of iten, but it's in the forecast. Anyway, Off
to market, we tried with a little bit of time
left here and thanks to Houston Gold Exchange. As always,
I'll leave with gold. And I'm sure Brad's kind of
interested in this, Brad Schwice over there at Houston gooldexchange
dot com, because it's up almost thirty dollars, or was

(05:53):
anyway early in the morning, trading at two thousand, seven
hundred and twenty dollars in that hour. That's almost one
hundred dollars an ounce or a gram. Excuse me, almost
one hundred dollars a gram, twenty eight grams we learned
yesterday in an ounce. And so if you've got just
this little pixie dust sprinkle of gold in your palm.

(06:16):
It might be worth about one hundred bucks, least enough
to fill up a gas tank, which is hard to believe.
That's pretty interesting though. On the downside, all four market
indicators were in the red earlier by one and a
half to two and a half percentage points, in part
thanks to flagging insurance stock on the heels of payouts

(06:38):
yet to be made into the many billions of dollars
I'm sure to Californians who could actually afford homeowner's insurance.
I'll have more on that, by the way, later in
the show. I won't get into it now because once
I once I start, it's going to be hard to stop.
There's all kinds of news around these fires and what's
happened in thereafter math. Terrible, what it is, that's the

(07:02):
bottom line. Let's take a break early, will just for
a giggle? You ready for that? Can you handle it?
Or are you gonna have to just redo the entire
a lot more work because I do this or not? No, okay, good,
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a day. Now that it's not raining anymore. I bet
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(08:26):
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Speaker 1 (09:31):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Dougpike.

Speaker 2 (09:50):
Well back, second segment of the programs starts right now.
Thank you very much for listening and for allowing Will
and I to You know, we still haven't had anybody
bring us lunch. Will you realize that, because you would
think after all loath these many years. I look in
I look in the KBM studio yesterday, like I know,
did you see all that they get a feast for

(10:13):
two here? We had now we had wings out here
at in the in the general area of the office.
But as I discussed with somebody yesterday, the abundance of
what was in there for two guys was about what
three times what was laid out for what twelve fifteen

(10:34):
of us. This was a Thanksgiving meal, a feast in there. Yeah,
those two couldn't eat that much. Well, I don't know
Clinton or Yeah, Clinton probably could eat through a lot
more wings than Wexler, would you think? Probably? Probably so?
But I think they probably take it home, you know. Well, yeah,

(10:55):
here's dinner, kids. Yeah, here you go. It's delicious. By
the way, we got a figure out where those came from.
We gotta figure out who's gonna feed us. Well, yeah,
more importantly, I think we'll make it. I think we'll
be all right.

Speaker 1 (11:10):
You know.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
The interesting thing though about the little delicatessen next door,
is that after I get off work here in the
in the studio, after I finished the shows, there are
things I have to do at the desk to get
buttoned up, if you will, post production wise, kind of
things that I thought went well, didn't go well, whatever.
And by the time I can get into that little deli,

(11:32):
which actually has some pretty good food, they're pretty much
put away and don't want to do a whole lot.
And I don't blame them that. There are business hours
to be kept and the lunch hour for most people
is different than mine. So there you have that. Looking
at the entire nation is at the southern California wildfires
right now. A number of things are emerging that just

(11:53):
don't look good for the state, for its leadership, and
for the people impacted and all in different ways. Several
key players in this game several key players. When they
became key players, and long before these deadly fires began,
the depth tolls up to ten. Now, these people were
doubted or touted, not doubted, and maybe by some touted

(12:17):
as being first ever in one category or another of
human being to hold these positions. The problem, however, and
it's becoming increasingly clear in this time of crisis, there
is that they maybe weren't necessarily the best to hold
those positions. Hopefully, Americans delivered a message in November that

(12:39):
they want the most qualified person doing every job that
needs to be done in America. Appointing or hiring somebody
based on anything other than ability to perform the job
better than anyone else who's applying just proves time and
again to be a mistake, and sometimes an expensive mistake,

(13:02):
sometimes a deadly mistake. There's an adage that's come from
all of this, and I first saw it years ago.
It says, I don't want the best this or the
best that pilot flying my plane. I just want the
best pilot.

Speaker 1 (13:19):
Now.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
I really don't care. Me speaking, I really don't care
what they do, aside from maybe getting drunk when they're
not flying planes. It doesn't matter to me, it's none
of my business, but I want the best pilot sitting
in that cockpit and making the decisions on how to
get the plane from on the ground here up into
the air and back safely onto the ground over there.

(13:42):
In quick sidebar to this story comes news that because
homeowner's insurance was dropped in that part of California by
several carriers recently at g I wonder why an insurance
that was available is has become prohibitively expensive. Same as here,
many the thousands of homes and structures that have been

(14:02):
entirely destroyed by these fires carried no insurance whatsoever. It
was either unaffordable or unavailable to the people who owned
those buildings. Thousands of families now with nothing, and who's
to blame. Who's going to help pay for them to rebuild?
As sure as hell won't be California. It's got a

(14:24):
state and local government debt that totals one point six
trillion dollars. One point six trillion dollars that California, all
by itself owes people that have loaned it money, people
and entities and whatever. And it sure wouldn't be the
rest of the nation. That's going to pay for this,

(14:45):
while the East Coast hurricane devastation from this past summer
still hadn't been resolved. For the past four years, this
whole country's been proactive on issues that did us really know,
didn't move us forward the way they should the way
that some thing productive would, and it's been reactive to
situations that should and could have been prevented. And boy,

(15:09):
sticking here for a minute, proving he is a classless, hopeless,
biased idiot. Former MSB host Keith Oberman actually said after
there was a liberal woman who posted on X she
expressed some empathy for conservative actor James Woods, who's been
on the social media and whatnot talking about how he

(15:31):
fears that his house may have been completely destroyed. Well
Overman saw that and responded to this woman also on
X and I quote, this is the attitude that lost
the election. They will not compromise, they will not convert,
they will not be human. They must be defeated, and

(15:53):
any chance to bruise or batter them psychologically must be exploited.
A nice guy, huh, nice guy he is pretty much
defines him as a liberal and nothing more, and certainly
not an American because Americans as we learned in two
thousand and one, nationally, and after countless disasters around this

(16:16):
country on local levels since then, Americans pitch in to
help each other, pitch in to help anyone who needs help,
regardless of their status or they're anything. Somebody who needs help,
I don't care who they are. They're gonna get it

(16:36):
for me. If I have it, they can have it.
If they need me to move something, I'll help them
move it. If they need me to put out a fire,
I help them put out a fire. If they need
whatever it is they need, if I have it to
share and have it to supply, I'm doing it. And
I don't care about their politics. I don't care where
they came from. I don't care what language they speak.

(16:57):
People are people and we need to take care of
And this guy is just lost. He is totally lost.
I also learned this morning in a story at MSN
dot com drum roll please from the desk, Captain obvious.
Who would have guessed this? California Governor Gavin Newsom in
his twenty twenty four twenty twenty five budget, which I believe. Yeah,

(17:19):
it's underway now. I don't remember exactly when it rolls,
but it does. He made cuts totally more than one
hundred million dollars to that state's wildfire awareness and prevention budgets.
And those chickens are coming home to roost now, aren't they?
Holy cow? All right, let's go to something else in

(17:42):
one minute. It'll have to be something short and fun
that brings you into the picture. Will Are you ready? Yep?
Not what I thought? Watch your language or practical help.
Practical help. Uber has a new promotion for teenagers where
they're offering up to six free rides if you send

(18:03):
them proof that you failed a driver's test. They say
they're covering you until you have a chance to retake it.
Parents are saying, finally, I don't have to drive that
kid around at least six times. I put a bajillion
miles on my vehicle, my new vehicle that I bought

(18:24):
in twenty twenty one. Baseball tournaments, practices, all these things.
I was all over the state of Texas driving that
kid around and in Louisiana for a couple of baseball tournaments,
as a matter of fact, And I don't regret one
single mile of taking him to those things because sports
are important to him and I wanted him to have

(18:46):
as much opportunity as possible. Now that he's got his
own car, though, and his friends are scattered all over
the place. He's putting on mileage on his little truck
as fast as I'm putting it on. Well, I'm not
putting it on fast anymore. The odometer has quit spinning
like a roulette wheel in Vegas, but he's still putting

(19:09):
them on there. Let's take a little break here, speaking
of cars and boats. The Houston Auto Boative Show is
just well, it's not just around the corner. There's a
couple of corners, a couple of blocks away. Let's call
it January twenty ninth through February second in NRG Center,
and hopefully, who knows, hopefully the Texans will still be

(19:29):
in the playoffs by then. It was years ago that
there was a night on which the Big Boat Show
and a playoff game was being played. Maybe we'll have
one of those situations again. I don't know about the
football part, but I know the Houston Auto Boative Show
will be there those days. Cars, boats, accessories for both

(19:49):
the newest stuff, the latest, the greatest, some vented stuff
that you can just kind of check out and see
what it was like when I was growing up. Auto
Boative showed. You can go there and find access to
discounted tickets beforehand, you can find the hours, you can
find all the information you need to haul the family

(20:10):
out there and make a full day of it at
the Houston Autobotive Show. Go to Autobotive dot Com. Oh no,
it's Automotives Show dot Com. Autobotiveshow dot Com aged to perfection.
This is fifty plus with Dougpike. All right, welcome back

(20:42):
to fifty plus. Will and I having a very spirited discussion,
and it was a good exchange. I'm not knocking him
for anything he said, and I agreed with him on
some points. But I don't want to go back to
all that. I just want to move forward because there's
a lot on these pages that I put together for today,

(21:02):
Earlier today. Most of you probably already know by now.
President Trump was sentenced to an unconditional discharge in his
New York case, which means he'll serve no jail time,
he'll pay no fines. The convictions, though on multiple counts,
still stand from DA Alvin Bragg's multi year probe, but

(21:23):
this discharge Freese. President elect, I guess to kind of
get to work. President Trump said afterward that the decision
was an embarrassment to the state of New York and
to our legal system in general, and that his team
likely will appeal to have the conviction itself overturned, which
legal experts actually say has a pretty good chance of
being successful. Moving on from there, going back to COVID

(21:45):
days for a bit, if I may of Florida grandeur
have you seen this story? Will no? Okay? Florida grand
Jury convened by Governor Ron de Saidus this past Tuesday
released its final report on how COVID vaccines were developed,
how and why and to whom they were pushed. While
the grandeury didn't find sufficient evidence to charge anyone or

(22:08):
any entity, it did not. It added that it didn't
and I'll quote here that let's see. It added that,
and I'll quote now, such a conclusion does not absolve
entities of engaging in unethical behavior end quote. In brief,

(22:29):
what it did find were a lot of questions about
premature approval, about incomplete safety studies, about significant censorship on
the parts of both federal government and big tech quote
against Americans who disagreed with its preferred narrative on COVID

(22:50):
HM also deceptive advertising issues thanks to a loophole in
federal guidelines, and a couple more pieces of troublesome evidence
that there was a there was a lot more in
play than the health of Americans when all this was
going on, and as a hint to something else the
grand jury discovered consider this, It recommended that Florida lawmakers

(23:13):
make failure to comply with a statewide grand jury subpoena
a crime, which apparently it's not right now, so a
lot of people probably just dodged them. And it also
asked that they allow state grand juries to indict and
see prosecuted individuals who commit perjury while testifying to the
grand jury, which apparently isn't available now, and to provide

(23:36):
a pre swearing discovery period, which I think is a
great idea. They wouldn't have made those recommendations without reason
or cause. They just wouldn't have. I don't know that
they'd even thought about them if it hadn't been problematic
during their investigation. Back around the time I took vacation.
In story from more than one legitimate outlet, I learned

(23:59):
something or we learn something that should make every American
feel kind of betrayed and bamboozled over history, and fairly
recent history. According to those sources, now President Biden, when
he was vice president met more times with business associates

(24:21):
of his formerly in deep trouble, but now pardon son.
Then he has met as president with his cabinet members.
Sit on that for a second, and then ask yourself
one more time if you're not convinced yet whether he's
been looking after this country's best interest or his own
while he's been a politician, and keep an eye on him.

(24:42):
I guess right up till the moving van pulls up
to the White House. He I hope, I just hope
he doesn't do anything that really makes it any more
difficult to move forward than has been done so far. Okay,
let's go back over here to the easy will. I
have some time, and I don't want to just I

(25:02):
don't want to just blow through all of this stuff.
Watch your language. I'm gonna leave that one in there,
not what I thought. I'll leave that in there as well,
and we will add. But seriously, watch your language. You're
gonna love this one. Now you've been around here, how
long how long you been here? In February, it'll be

(25:25):
four years. Four years. Congratulations, I guess, or condolences, which
we'll see. That's a good answer. There's a new poll
out on profanity in the workplace, and only one in
three workers say it's fine these days. Nine percent say

(25:45):
completely acceptable, and twenty three more percent say dropping profanity
at work is somewhat acceptable, which leaves actually two thirds
of the people they talk to say no, I'd really
not rather hear all that around the office. Here's my thought.
Will if we put a twenty five cent swear jar

(26:10):
in the office somewhere, it possibly could replace the employer
match for four oh one case, wouldn't you think?

Speaker 4 (26:19):
Well, all I'll say is is that you're like, how
do I maybe hit the dump button? Unlike most places,
most places of work, if certain individuals at this office
say certain words on a certain live platform.

Speaker 2 (26:38):
Oh no, we're never gonna we do get we get
fined way more than a swear jar. Yeah, yeah, that
would be problematic. That would take a much bigger jar. Yeah,
and we're talking about but seriously, will this this was

(26:59):
kind of fun. Hey, guess what's loose in Denver? What
is loose in Denver. They're calling this guy a serial
butt slapper. Wow, he's been this. This is this is
the crime story that comes out of Denver. As if
they didn't have many, many, many, many many other things

(27:20):
to deal with in Denver, Colorado these days. He's been
riding around on an e bike and slapping women on
the backside. And guess how many times you've done it
so that it made national news? Will? I mean, it's
gotta be an egregious amount. Take us one thirty times

(27:42):
four four. This happened four times. Still somehow it got
picked up. That's horrible.

Speaker 3 (27:48):
Though, Yes it is women who left behind while walking around.

Speaker 2 (27:55):
Well, no, I really wouldn't, nor would anyone I would think,
just in the casual day to day activity. I'm gonna
be walking down the street, sipping on your your tea
or your coffee or whatever, and somebody come up behind
you and just swatch you on the backside. No, I agree,

(28:15):
But still, why can't they catch this guy? Why are
there not? There are cameras. There've gotta be cameras all
over town. There are cameras everywhere. Now somebody has gotten
a picture that guy's faced, and as we as we
proved when that deranged person shot that that CEO a

(28:39):
couple of weeks ago. You'll be found wherever you are
if your face gets out there, facial recognition, eyewitnesses whatnot.
I'm sure they'll get a horror a bunch of terrible leads.
This guy's on a bicycle. He's on an electric bike,
riding down the street and swatting women on the backsides.
Somebody needs to be able to find him. And what boy,

(29:02):
I should have come up with a punchline about what
they do when they caught him. You got anything? No?
I think maybe we should just put this all behind us. Well, okay,
move was just right off the cuff, man, Yeah, I
got a million of them. This is something else that
I found interesting and you probably won't before a hurricane

(29:25):
will guess what the top two selling items are at
Walmart are just right as a hurricane's coming. Oh my god,
we got to run to Walmart and get what we
need to get through this.

Speaker 3 (29:36):
Well, I'm gonna I'm gonna save bottles of water, but
I doubt that that's what the answer is.

Speaker 2 (29:43):
Two things top two, all right, toilet paper, toilet paper
and water? Yeah, not even close. Well, I had batteries
in water. That makes sense. Toilet paper not a bad idea.
You don't know what's gonna happen when hurricane comes. You
know what they are, but I won't even make you

(30:04):
guess because we'd never get there. Pop tarts you good
with that one, all right? And non perishable? Right If
you don't outlive the just eat by date on pop tarts,
you don't have no hope. And the other is beer. Okay, beer,

(30:29):
I get it, I get it. Let's get drunk so
we could make pop tarts taste better.

Speaker 3 (30:35):
I will say I did, I did. I bought some
beer when.

Speaker 2 (30:42):
Barrel of it.

Speaker 4 (30:43):
I did not buy a barrel, but I definitely bought
a couple of six pasts.

Speaker 2 (30:46):
That would have been that would have been apropos.

Speaker 3 (30:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (30:50):
Maybe, And I'll confess the next cinnamon pop tart, brown
sugar cinnamon pop tart that I won't be my first.
You like to know what's the best labor?

Speaker 3 (31:01):
I mean, I like the classic just strawberry and icing,
you know, iced or no ice on the on the
ice take it off?

Speaker 2 (31:11):
What are you talking about here? A non iced popery?
Or do you warm them or just eat them right out?
Of the box. You warm them up. Oh no, what
are you talking about? A hot mess? We got to
take a break. Wow. UTLS Institute on Aging is an
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Institute on Aging that website, and then you can check
out all the providers as well. You can find somebody's
who's qualified to see you as someone who knows about

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seniors utch dot ed u slash aging, Utch dot ed
u slash aging. What's life without a net? I suggest
you go to bed, sleep it off, just wait until
the show's over. Sleepy. Back to Doug Pike as fifty
plus continues, Welcome back fifty plus on this Friday afternoon.

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I'll wrap up here in a couple of minutes and
then go prep for tomorrow morning, my Outdoors and Golf
show over on Sports Talk seven ninety Will I'm not
going to bore this audience anymore with talk of TGL
new golf tournament or not tournament, but the new golf
competition that is. I think I got an email from

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them this morning talking about the next round and the
next team and the next teams that will play. And
my stoke level was super high after watching that first one.
I'm really I was really impressed, and then the farther
I get removed from it.

Speaker 3 (34:11):
The.

Speaker 2 (34:13):
I don't know that the the Shine is losing a
little bit of its luster. That makes sense. Yeah, I
find myself going I'll probably watch it again if it's on.
I won't set I don't won't set my television to
bring it up as soon as it starts, mostly because

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I don't know how. But if I see it in
the in the scroll and in What's coming up next,
or if I get more emails on it, maybe I'll
take one more swing at it. But I'm not gonna
I'm not gonna just go way out of my way
to to watch it. I don't think it is interesting.
It is fun. And if I happen to be in

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West Palm Beach, in fact I made, I'm gonna make
a phone call and I'm gonna try and coordinate a
week over there, or at least five days where I
can do a little fishing during the day and then
that evening roll over to whatever the name of that
place is. They conduct these things and just see it
in person. That's the only way to really know. If

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you can get involved in some sort of sporting event,
would you agree, will Yeah, I'm not gonna watch the
NBA after I go to a city park and watch
a pickup game between sixteen year olds. But man, if
this thing is the real deal and it's fun to

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watch in person, it would have to be more fun,
I think, in person than on TV, although television gives
you a lot more angles, a lot more looks at
things than does just real time being there, all the
replays and whatnot, we'll see in a joint resolution. Senator

(36:02):
Ted Cruz has proposed legislation that would impose term limits
on US congressmen and women. What do you think about
term limits for them?

Speaker 3 (36:10):
Will?

Speaker 2 (36:11):
I think term womens are great. I have no problem
either two six year terms for senators he proposes, and
three two year terms for representatives. I used to agree
more or less with a former coworker that the vote
determined a senator or reps time in office, and anytime

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we didn't like them, we could vote them out. But
the way money is influencing elections these days, and the
way mainstream media has decided it should influence who gets elected,
that's no longer the case. Most novembers. In the beginning
of our country, becoming a senator or representative was more

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of an act of public service, a feeling that you
should try to help make this country better. An attempt
by those who who ran and won election to improve
our country often it great personal and financial sacrifice during
that entire term. Now, though, politics have become more of
a career for way too many people who get a

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little taste of how lucrative those offices can be, above
and beyond the salary and lifetime benefits of even being
elected one time. It doesn't take you don't have to
stay there forever to get a lot of perks and
a lot of lifetime healthcare, lifetime security, lifetime pension. And

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for proof, all you got to do is look up
the net worth of some of the people in Congress
right now. I don't care what side the eye they're on.
Look at what they were worth before they were elected,
and then look at what they're worth five or six
or eight years after they've been in office. Short of
winning the lottery or putting a swear jar in this office,
I'm not sure there's a fast way to rack up wealth.

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Saw a story this morning, by the way, and this
is just totally out of the blue, and then we'll
get back to some lighter things. So a woman's group,
but this is very serious here a woman's group founded
by a woman who spent five years in a California prison.
She and this group are pushing as hard as they
can to stop prison systems from placing biological men, some

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of whom were convicted of violent sexual crimes, even from
putting those men in women's prisons simply because they've decided
to identify as women. This woman's name is Amy Ichikawa,
and what she calls fully operational or fully functional, I
think she used was the term. These men are in

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many cases terrorizing women. They're raping some of these inmates.
And the law, she says, at least in California, require
that these prisoners only state that they identify as female,
then go before review board just for a fake oversight.
Really that has only limited options for refusal lest they

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be called discriminatory, and she is hell bent on shutting
that down. I don't know what other states would allow
that access to those types of people, but from what
I saw, she is she knows it because she was there.

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She's spent five years studying for this test, and now
that she's out, she's trying to save any woman who
is actually in there for whatever reasons they're there from
having to deal with somebody like that. That's just once
again I have a real problem with that. I really

(39:55):
do mercy. All right, Well, you want some good news
or you want to just play what's fun again? Uh?
What's fun? Okay? And then I'll get to good news
because they've got a minute and a half. Let's roll
these three out. We already did that disgusting distraction thinking
outside the boxes or public health issue? Did you see

(40:21):
disgusting distraction? I did. Let's do that one. Let's do it.
Police in Florida they're on the lookout will for a
woman who relieved herself on the floor of a family
dollar store to distract the staff while a man stole
about five hundred bucks worth of cleaning supplies. Wow, no

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no clues yet they don't have it, of course, I
guess they once again no cameras. None in the parking lot,
none in the store. They've got to know what these
people look like. From the desk of captain obvious mathematicians
calculated the perfect type body type for hula hooping. Guess

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what turns out that curves? Help? Who saw that coming?
And more importantly, will who hula hoops? Anymore? Do you
do you in own a hula hoop? No, well, God's sake,
stay no, say no, yeah, I don't either. I haven't
had one in about fifty years or so. Public health
issue Attewning in the UK blocked the new pizzeria from opening.
Will you want to know why they've taken the bull

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by the horns here? They flat out said that children
in the area are already too fat. So that's it
for us. I'll be back here next Tuesday. I'll be
back tomorrow morning over in the kbm E Studio, studio
seven o'clock, bright and early. Join me, then audios