Chocolate Mints

Today, Doug Pike discusses chocolate mints, tug-of-war, and a scary road trip.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Remember when it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
because you were the TV remote. Remember when music sounded
like this, Remember when social media was truly social? Hey John,
how's it going today? Well, this show is all about
you one. This is fifty plus with Doug Pike, Helpful

(00:27):
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happier life. And now fifty plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
All right, here we go. Wednesday edition of the program
starts right now. Will and I are in deep battle
over World. I've paused though, until we get through this segment,
and then I'll return to the game and see if
I can't take him down. What a difference of day makes?
Holy cow, my old temperatures. Yesterday it felt pretty good, actually,
all the way to dark. When I had to go

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out and move my car. When my son comes home,
we flip cars because I always leave early and he
typically comes home lady from baseball or working out or
whatever seventeen year old boys are doing driving around town.
So I went out there and it still felt pretty comfortable,
and I knew that colder air was coming, I just

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didn't know when. Well, it was overnight, easily, easily enough,
but I thought it would have been in before he
got home, and it hadn't arrived yet. And then this morning,
oh oh, slap in the face. I knew it was
cold outside. I cheated and asked Alexa what the temperature was.
We need to get an Alexa in here. Will you

(01:49):
want to get one in here so you don't have
to do any more research? You can just ask? No?
You sure? Yeah? I don't want them, Alexa. Do you
trust Alexa? I don't trust anyone. What if I bring
her in here and just PLoP her down on this
just right there on the console? What a you're gonna
do about it? I'll put Alexa outside, put her in

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time out? Yes, don't do that, will speaking, I'll tell
you what. As long as I'm here, I will go
Where did I say it? Forty three percent of people
will said they would not do a job interview conducted
by AI. Can you imagine doing a job interview and
Alexa asking all the questions? I don't like that either.

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It's so impersonal. I think that's that's a step too
far in the technology, would you agree.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
Well, you know that there is a trend in doing
self interviews where essentially you're just recording yourself answering questions
that are posed by the company.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Oh, there's a list of questions.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
You just answer those yes, and you have to answer
them like they give you a time limit for how
much you're answer And yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
I like the time limit idea because some people would
just ramble and I don't want to open up one
of those. If I'm the future potential employer and see
that my three questions took seventy eight minutes to answer,
I'm not listening to all of that. And that just
shows to me, as someone who had to learn very

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early on how to say as much as you could
in as few words with print media, that was the
greatest lesson I ever had in writing anyway, was being
forced to write tight, where every single word mattered. There
are a lot of people who, when faced with a
five hundred word what I would consider just a very

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short feature or maybe just a big sidebar to a
better story and a bigger story five hundred words. After
about two hundred, they're already fluffing and just adding in
redundancy and just wasted words, whereas i'd be cutting back
usually on something like that, my first draft would be
about seven or eight hundred words. I don't look the

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first time I go through. I just I just kind
of follow a path in my head from the start
of the trail to the end of the trail. And
I try to tie the stories that I write somehow.
I try to tie the lead to the tail end
of the story. I have one recently for Saltwater Sportsman
magazine that's gonna come out, I want to say, maybe

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next month or something. That it centers around poker and
how Parks and Wildlife Department went all in and it's
it's poker game to protect speckled trout and increase our population.
But that's boring you to tears, isn't it? Come back? Will?

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I'm so sorry. I sometimes I just I just go
off on a different track, and that's one of those times.
So anyway, I woke up to well, all of us
woke up this morning either to somewhat freezing or near
freezing to temperature, depending on where you live. And as
for a forecast, here we go again. Courtesy of Texas

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You can look for a light freeze across most of
the region tonight and again tomorrow night. High's in the
twenties in the woodlands, mid thirties down towards the coast,
somewhere between those two numbers. If you're living between those
two number or those two places, which where I am
surely intends to be about two or three degrees colder, cooler,

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whatever you want to call it than Houston, just based
on the forecast pinpoint areas wherever this is done. Oh now,
I know, why don't you turn this thing on. We'll
turn the clock on. Come on, man, can you do it?
You still can't do it? Can't do it. That is
so sad. I'm gonna have to take my watch off

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and prop it up here on the console. Hold on
a minute, now I can. Now I have an idea
what I'm doing, So I show twelve after is that correct?
It's eleven after Oh good. That means I get time
to go all the way through the markets as well.
So we're gonna stay cool through Friday, which actually Friday
is gonna be one of those very unique days around

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Texas where the low and the high are exactly the same.
It's a forecast, but at least now will pop quiz
what is the low and high temperature expected for Friday?
For Friday a high of sixty five? The same number.
Keep that in mind, they're exactly the same number, the

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low and the high, sixty five degrees. So it's not
gonna be you know better, it's not gonna be a
low of sixty five in February. Take one more swing
and put two seconds of thought into dum. I'm gonna
go with fifty degrees. No, forty forty for the low,
forty for the high. Then we start warming up. We're

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gonna get some rain over the weekend and then sunny
Monday and Tuesday with highs of sixty seven and seventy two, respectively.
So in your car this time of year, you should
be carrying a blanket, a jacket, an umbrella, flip flops, shorts,
maybe a tank top if that's the kind of person

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you are. And in my car as always, golf clubs
and fishing rods off the market. We skip quite quickly
now thanks to Houston gooldexchange dot com. Gold hanging in
there trying to get to three thousand, but not quite yet.
Up a few bucks around ten o'clock to twenty nine
to fifty five announce troy ounce, and then oil also

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up by nearly a dollar, which is not good news.
Around seventy two to seventy last time I looked, and
that's too much. All four of the market indicators were down,
but none by more than half a point. We've got
to take a break. Is that some hands signal will yeah,
it means cut it out on the way. A late health.
A late health is a it's a group of clinics

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around town that do vascular procedures, one of which the
one they do most often is called prostate artery embolization.
And if you're a guy my age, or maybe even
fifteen eighteen years younger or a little bit older, there's
a fairly good chance that you are already experiencing the
symptoms of that thing, and you know they're not comfortable.

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You're up half the night, back and forth to the bathroom.
You have occasional bedroom problems, maybe for some of you
out there, you have it's just uncomfortable. You feel like
you're finished, and then you're not. You walk away and
you have to go right back. That's a problem, and
that can be fixed at a late health Most of
what they do is covered by Medicare and Medicaid as well.

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They do other procedures, lots of other procedures, ugly veins, fibroids,
even some head pains can be alleviated with vascular procedures
and regenerative medicine. They do that there as well, and
that's very, very helpful with chronic pain. Most of what
they do covered by Medicare and Medicaid, I believe already
said that. And you'll be taken care of right there,

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not in a hospital where you might take something home
that you didn't come in there with. Seven one three,
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Speaker 1 (09:45):
This is fifty plus with Dougpike.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
Off we go second segment of fifty plus this Wednesday afternoon.
Thanks for listening, to Will and me do what we do?
I'm not what would you how would you describe it?
In ten words or less? What we do? Well, we
app on the radio, we aamp on the radio. That's it.
That's all you got, That's all we got. I'd go

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a little deeper. I'd use bigger words, probably steven into
mainstream news to take us away from it. By the way,
if anybody was wondering what today's wordal score was in
the the ongoing competition daily competition except on weekends between
Will and me, he took five tries to get the
word today and I got it in how many? Will?

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I can't, I'm sorry, I can't remember. How many was it?
Go ahead? You got it a hard time? You got
it in four? Oh yeah, that's right, I didn't four.
You know what. And when it's my turn to take
the lump, I'll take it because I'll have it coming.
I'm beating you up today because I beat you today,
but tomorrow it may be my turn in the well.
And that's okay. So from the mainstream news, but from

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a different point of view than what's been regurgitated as
mainstream news for the past several years. Late is one
of mainstream media's catchphrases. By the way, remember all those
montages a couple of years ago where newscasters were all
saying exactly the same thing over and over and over
and over and over, even on competing networks, even at

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every level, from local to national, all of that stuff. Well,
they're at it again, and this time it's constitutional crisis.
You hear it on the view, you hear it on
the the network news, you hear it in local newscasts.
Everybody's telling us the nation's in a constitutional crisis. Only
it's not the only crisis. That's a risen has has

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been the exposure of how care free our federal government's
been with Americans tax dollars, billions and billions of tax dollars.
Just this week, Elon Musk. Elon Musk called it like
it is when he said, people screaming about a constitutional
crisis quote are guilty of the crime of which they

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accuse us end quote. And he's pretty much spot on. Honestly,
that's what they do. President Trump followed up same day
he said, and I quote that's always the first thing
they do, end quote. And he's right. They grab a catchy,
shiny little ball and then they share that same little
ball with everybody around the country, and then they all

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just run around in circles with it, even though they
just have to know it's hollow, it's got no basis
in fact. And the only reason somebody might do that
is this is it. The only reason they would do
that is if they truly believe that we are not
smart enough to see through their lives. Because no matter
how many times something is set on the news, if

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it's a lie, it's still just as much a lie
the last time as it was the first time. And
that's what this whole constitutional crisis thing is. It's just
the latest their latest attempt to lie to us and
have us all start believing it if they say it
enough times in educational news right here in Texas, Will
your girlfriend is a teacher? Correct? Is okay? Here? Think

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about this and ask yourself what would she think about
this idea? In the Whitney Independent School District that's just
up outside of Dallas, a little southwest of Dallas, I
think after surveying faculty and staff, the school board has
opted for a four day work week. Almost ninety five

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percent of those who had votes were in favor of
only working four days a week, and two thirds of
them thought Monday would be the right day off. I
would agree with them. If you're only going to get
one week day off, Monday's the one to take off.
That's my only day off all week. By the way,
in any event, the administrators say they're having a hard
time getting teachers and that giving their current teachers mondays

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to work on lesson plans and do prep for the
rest of the week might help them bring up test
scores in the district. Or are they gonna are the
teachers just gonna have fifty two three day weekends? What
do you think of that idea? Just on the surface,
will on behalf of your girlfriend? Well, you can't speak
for her. I would never presume to speak no, no, no,

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Then what do you think about that? But a four
day work week? It's great, I love it, but but
what's that do for the kids? And the point to
be made is that nowhere in the story is there
one word about what parents thought of this idea. You
know that the parents who work five days a week
and are gonna suddenly have to find one day of childcare.

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That doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense
teachers aren't. I don't know if they're gonna work at all.
I think they're just gonna kind of chill that now.
I did hear from one guy who's another guy here
whose wife is a teacher, and he said, honestly, as
much time as she has to put into making lesson
plans and grading papers and all that, if she could
just work from home on a day where she didn't

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have to teach, she could do a better job of planning,
a better job of grading, a better job of everything
she has to do in addition to what she does
when the kids are actually in school. So I could
see that a little bit. I think that that is
absolutely true. I mean, the amount of time that my
girlfriend spends at home having to lesson plan and get

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ready for the nut for the next day, I mean,
you know, it's it's not a normal eight hour, you know,
a work day. It's a it's a twelve hour work
day at the minimum. Teacher some of the hardest working
people on the planet. There's no question about it, no
question about it. Paul Lambert, our market president here, summed
it up pretty well when he said, and this I

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agree with too. And I don't know how you find
the balance. He said, kids need more education, not less so,
and it's gonna be up to the parents. Now, the
parents who elected that school board to make their voices
heard one way or the other. And I bet the
next meeting of that board is gonna get a little chirpy.
And on both sides too. The teachers are gonna make

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a good case, just like you've done for your girlfriend,
Will and my friend Dirk out there did on behalf
of his wife. They work more than just classroom hours.
They're there before the kids get there. They're not out
until the kids are all gone. They take work home
with them, and sadly, in even in this state where
I think we do a fairly good job overall, a

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lot of teachers end up having to come out of
their own pockets. Teachers who don't have extra money to spend,
but they have to come out to get the tools
they need, the supplies they need to educate these kids
to the best of their ability because the school won't
pay for stuff that might help them. You agree with
all that, Will, I do? I mean, I think I
think school should be way better funded. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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there's got to be a way these kids need they
need structure. I don't know what you're gonna do with
kids on Mondays if they're out of school. That's That's
the only thing that I really struggle with is what
are all these parents supposed to do with these kids
if they're not in school. They'll figure that out. I
guess they'll figure that out. The where do I want
to go yet? One minute?

Speaker 3 (17:26):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (17:26):
Really quickly then? Will did you know that? In eighteen
seventy eight, on this day and this day exactly as
a pop quiz, Thomas Edison received a patent in yeah,
in eighteen seventy eight for what and boy, he's got
a lot of them. What did he patent in eighteen
seventy eight? It's kind of cool. The light bulb, not

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the light bulb, the phonograph. That's kind of cool. It's spinning, spinning.
Final The next day, at the disc where his only
electric light was on display, they were square dancing to
the mixing of what would they call him? What do

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you think they would call him? Will Tommy? E litt Tom?
I doubt they were calling them will tom. I don't
think they're calling them that. All right, we got to
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Speaker 1 (19:50):
Now, they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them, check us fluids,
and spring on a fresh code O wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 2 (20:15):
By welcome back. Third segment of the program starts right now,
third of four as usual. And I've got my little
cheat sheet in here to know when to be quiet,
will I've got what eight and a half nine minutes
somewhere in there, somewhere in there close enough, Let's go back.
You haven't come up with any better DJ name for

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Thomas Edison than I had? Have you? The light Man?

Speaker 3 (20:42):
The light Man, the light Mann?

Speaker 2 (20:47):
Yeah, exactly. I wonder what it would have looked like
a light show? What just a few years after Thomas
Edison invented the light bulb? There wouldn't have been much,
would it? I don't think so. Do you think he
would be impressed or dismayed by what that invention has become.

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I think he'd be fascinated by it. Hmm yeah. And
for a man of his intellect, I think he would
be sad that he hadn't thought of it first. He was.
He was clearly thinking way ahead when he figured out
just how to harness the power of Lightning like gray Star, right,

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something like that.

Speaker 3 (21:35):
Well, and I mean, you know, there's no I'm not
overthinking it, but I mean Thomas Edison wasn't as he wasn't.
He wasn't on the level of like Tesla, and I
think he really kind of ripped Tesla off, you know, Okay,
Tesla thought that Thomas Edison was an idiot the way because.

Speaker 2 (21:58):
Getting pompous.

Speaker 3 (22:00):
Know, Tesla came in and saw the way that he
was conducting experiments and things that he was using for
conductors and all that, things that were not absolutely there
was no reason to even try them. All he had, Yeah,
but he was basically at that time essentially still behind
the tugs to Nikola Tesla.

Speaker 2 (22:24):
You're saying that Edison was playing checkers and Tesla was
playing chess.

Speaker 3 (22:28):
Yeah, and then you know, basically Edison kind of discredits
and smears Tesla.

Speaker 2 (22:35):
Then you know, he claims his ideas for his own.
All right, Well, let's just just jump off that. If
you if you like Fox News now, you may not
a few years from now, depending on how long it takes.
But anyway, the company is going to have new bosses

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once its owner Media mogul Rupert Murdoch passes. He he's
still alive and kicking now. He's ninety something I believe
it is, or maybe late eighties. Born in Australia back
in nineteen and thirty one, So what's that only six
years from now, so ninety three ninety four, depending on
what his birthday is. And his intention all along has

(23:17):
been to have his public companies, which include Fox, pass
exclusively to his eldest son, Lachlan Well. A court is
ruled now that stakes in Fox and all these other
companies controlled by Murdock are going to be sliced into
equal parts and equal control handed to all four of

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his offspring. That would be Lackling, the lone conservative, along
with James, Prudence and Elizabeth with an S, all quite
left leaning, and all three intent already they pretty much
let it be known that if they get in there,
you got three of them leaning in one way and
one leaning the other. They're going to kind of force

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it down on Fox's throat to become more liberal in
its in its bend, if you will, and they're just
gonna try and turn it into another CNN. And we've
seen how that, seen how that party ends. We've seen
how that TV show concludes James even spent twenty million
bucks trying to defeat President Trump in this past election.

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So it's a pretty good idea which way he's gonna go.
Once he gets his little piece of that, he's gonna
have a quarter and his two sisters, it appears, are
gonna kind of go his direction. We'll see. That may
leave room for somebody either to buy them out or
maybe launch yet another news network. But either way, it's
looking like the Fox we know now might be kind

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of turning from red to blue. Shots in the dark
I wrote here it says it's come to light that
our nation has a stockpile of five hundred million dollars
worth of COVID tests. That's that's a good been about now, huh.
And until only minutes before they would have been destroyed

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and forgotten. Rather than distributed, Health and Human Services decided
to go ahead and store them at least for a
little while, and which I believe. I think they're free.
If you just go to COVID tests plural dot gov
you might be able to get your hands on some.
They're gonna keep them laying around until they expire, and
then I guess after that they'll just take them to

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the curb on heavy trash day and let them get out.
I had some stuff for heavy trash this past week
will and the one thing I told my wife, if
if any of this stuff out here is gonna get
picked up, it's gonna be this, And it was. I
had no reason to keep it. Actually. It was an
old surfboard and it's not in bad shape. It was

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made by a company called Wave Hollow out of resin
honeycomb inside and resin a cover, a very hard plastic
if you will cover. And it was a fun little board.
It was only I think right at six feet maybe
five ten, a little kind of a shorty board, and
back when I was riding it, I didn't wait near

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what I weigh now, and so it was fun for
me to paddle a really good, fun, short, peaky wave
kind of a thing. It wasn't a cruiser at all.
It was it was a little longer than the original
potato chip surfboard. I owned a five to four to
twin fin and that was a lot of fun around
the surf side pier, and so was that little six footer.

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The six footer actually worked pretty well on bigger waves too.
Really responsive, so I could kind of make the most
of what I was doing back in the day. Will
back in the day, All right, let's go to your
page here, Will Frightful future long drive Champion or Kentucky

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Fried Movement Van m what's the long drive champions? Nothing
like you think. Guy in Michigan, a nutcase, was arrested
after he drove more than seven hundred miles to Pennsylvania

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to set fire to the home of a man who
was talking to his ex. That's dedication right there, and
a little bit of insanity, I think it's gotta have.
And the problem it turned out not funny at all.
Six adults in the house were hospitalized and even sad well,

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at least as sadly two dogs in the house died
in that blaze. So this guy was a total nutcase.
He didn't care who he heard or killed or whatever.
And I hope he's got a lot of time coming
think about what he did. That was messed up, totally
messed up. Now, how much time do have? Well? One minute,

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we took care of Thomas citizen. One more? Oh, what
is national? What day? Today? Is national? What day? Will
it is national? Is it food? It is food? It's
always food, not always, because there's two of them on
my sheet. Okay, well it's mainly food. It's National mac

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and Cheese Day. You've tried that before. I'm out of
food one out of three hundred and sixty five times.
You may be right, will No, it's National Chocolate Mint
Day and National Tug of War Day. And what we
might do over the break here is go out to

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the lunch counter because earlier, at least and maybe still,
there was a package of thin mints out there, and
maybe we could just grab one from either side and
commence to tugg in and just see who gets that cookie,
the one with the nasty thumbprint in the side. Yeah,
we'd have to wear gloves, wouldn't we. You would just

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not go for that at all. I know you so well.

Speaker 3 (29:07):
I won't do that, but it does make me think
about We were talking about it the other day.

Speaker 2 (29:12):
You were kind of first. No, we were talking about
chocolate mints. Yeah. Remember, Oh that's the movie theaters. Yep, yeah,
j junior mints. Look at that. That's pretty fancy stuff
that I couldn't afford those.

Speaker 3 (29:25):
Come on, I'm looking at them right now. You could
get you could get a thing of junior mints from
Target for a dollar twenty nine.

Speaker 2 (29:34):
That's that little, fake, little box of about six of them.
That's not good. What do you think it would be
a good deal on a movie theater box? Do me
a favorite. During the break, we're gonna go to it
right now. During the break, we'll go find out how
much movie theater thin mint or junior mints cost. Now,

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just go to one of the movie theater sites and see. Okay,
all right, we'll take a little break here. We'll come
back to wrap fifty plus and find out just how
much people are paying in theaters for junior mints, if
they're still for sale, and if people actually buy them,
and what's the expiration on the Let's find all that out.
See in a minute.

Speaker 1 (30:13):
Bye, old guys rule And of course women never get
old if you want to avoid sleeping on the couch. Okay, well,
I think that sounds like a good plan. Fifty plus continues.
Here's more with Doug.

Speaker 2 (30:49):
Already then fourth and final segment right now, and Will
and I have done some research. Will, what did you
find would be the and you can ballpark all of
this every price for a box of thin mints in
a movie theater in Houston, Texas. You're talking about junior
I mean junior mints. Nevermind what thin minutes you got

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to go find a girl scout According.

Speaker 3 (31:11):
To the twenty twenty two prices anywhere twelve four and
four dollars and fifty cents.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
So in twenty twenty four, then I don't know if
there are anything like eggs, like fourteen dollars and fourteen.

Speaker 3 (31:26):
Fifty you're going Nutso with that, I don't really think
so really good because I saw at the River Oaks
Theater which has reopened.

Speaker 2 (31:38):
Is it excellent? I've been and all candy is six dollars,
Well you can eat or just all they just.

Speaker 3 (31:47):
You can get you can get you can get ten
dollars popcorn and it's free refill.

Speaker 2 (31:52):
Okay, you have to fill it up yourself.

Speaker 3 (31:55):
No, they they have a button by your chair. They
have somebody coming.

Speaker 2 (32:00):
Okay, I thought, spencer at my chair, that'd be kind
of cool. Nobody and then it drop from the ceiling.

Speaker 3 (32:06):
Somebody comes and they they take it from you and
they refill it.

Speaker 2 (32:11):
You think they refill it with their bare hands. Will
I'm gonna plant that seat in your head? I doubt it.
I doubt its theater. It's a classic old place and
it's great.

Speaker 3 (32:22):
But if you go, if you haven't been, you should
definitely do a little date nighter.

Speaker 2 (32:28):
Take yourself at all time.

Speaker 3 (32:30):
But it's they've redone it and it's it looks it
looks great date night?

Speaker 2 (32:34):
Would it be if I took myself will? Well, if
i'm talking to the audience, I'm not talking to you,
take me to dinner and then take myself to the men.
You know what, you can get dinner there. That's the thing.
I have one of those very close to my house
out in sugar Landell me that you want a lobster
rule Doug, Mmm, that's it. Yeah, you're gonna go get them.

(32:59):
I'm not gonna get them, but you could go. Do
I have to watch a movie with you to get one?
I'm saying you can go by yourself. Does you're telling
me I should? Yeah? I think it's great. And it's inside.
You know what else?

Speaker 3 (33:13):
It's inside that's not a players, that's not a perk.
Will that way you can expect? Tell you you can
get you can also get a blanket there.

Speaker 2 (33:23):
What would be cooler would be to have drive ins again?
They were a lot of fun when I was growing up.
Do you ever go to a drive in or are
you too young for that? I never went to a
drive Yeah, they were kind of cool, they really were.
And yeah, I'll just leave it at that. This audience
knows what I'm talking about. Uh, and well, what do
I have here? A couple of minutes? Yeah, I got

(33:43):
three or four in those news we learned today that
the US government has approximately four point six million active
credit cards and accounts, and those cards processed about ninety
million unique transactions this past fiscal year. That added up

(34:06):
to around forty billion dollars. If you're wondering, that's four
point six million accounts for a few more than three
million government employees. Now, the General Service Administration, which administers
all of this, notes that government contractors may be eligible

(34:26):
also for government credit cards. My question about this is
why why can't they pay their own bills and then
invoice the government for legitimate expenses. It seems a little bit,
a little bit suss and a whole lot risky to
put credit cards that are going to be paid for

(34:48):
by taxpayers in the hands of people who are are
one step removed from the scrutiny that well. I don't
know if there is much scrutiny over federal employees from
what we're finding out lately, But never mind, I guess
that's kind of a waste of breath. ESPN.

Speaker 1 (35:04):
Steven A.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
Smith and I don't agree on a lot of things,
but we do agree on this. Smith made it clear
in an interview for Bloomberg that transgender athletes don't belong
in women's sports. The quote from him is, so that's
how I look at it. LGBTQ rights and all that stuff.
I'm in full support of that. But when transgender athletes

(35:25):
men are transitioning to women and they're competing in female sports,
that's a different animal to me. End quote. Kind of agree.
I don't like the idea of former men with the
muscle that they can bring to the table in many cases,
not all cases, but there have been enough examples now

(35:46):
in weightlifting, in boxing, in basketball, in pretty lacrosse, at
the high school level, soccer, volleyball. There are a lot
of examples of how tennis that just these former men
are overpowering women who have invested a lot of time

(36:09):
and a lot of effort into being the best at
their sport, and it is their sport as far as
I see it, everything else if you be you in
your everyday life, in your profession, whatever you want that
doesn't require athleticism or strength, and then leave that part

(36:29):
to the young women and girls who are working hard
to be really good at what they do. White House
Press secretary what's her name? Will I forgot Levitt? Is
that right? I don't know, I can't remember. Shame on
me for not writing that out fully, but anyway, she
absolutely gutted. Check Chuck Schumer's theory about President Trump being

(36:50):
in any way responsible for the Toronto plane crash. They
just can't stand it. Sores losers in history. They'll never
stop vilifying him because unless they can get him out
of there somehow, they know they're gonna be found out,
found out to be as crooked as a rattlesteak with scoliosis.
How much time do I have? A minute and a
really oh, here we go. Let's go to some fun stuff.

(37:11):
Then I want you to try try really hard, Will
to go back to nineteen seventy seven in a history
book or if you can get it fast enough on
AI and tell me who won Album of the Year,
who won Song of the Year, and who won Best
Comedy Album. Just take some shots, Stabs. You're good at this,

(37:36):
You're good at historical trivia. Let's see, Oh God, installid
tight faster Will.

Speaker 3 (37:44):
I'm trying to figure it out. That's what I thought. Okay,
I mean rumors Fleetwood Mac Nope, what.

Speaker 2 (37:53):
Sorry, you're in the wrong year. I guess I don't
know the Grammys Will nineteen seventy seven, Yeah, Stevie wonder
one Album of the Year with songs in the Kia Life.
You want to go for the for the Best Song
of the Year, you already you already missed the first one.
Let me hear it. I write the songs.

Speaker 1 (38:13):
Bye.

Speaker 2 (38:15):
Surely you know who wrote that song? Will? Sorry? We
got fifteen Verry Manlow, Best Comedy Album Richard Pryor and
Best New Artist Starland Vocal Band with Afternoon Delight. I
like that song actually because I know the harmony parts
in it. It's fun to sing. That's it for today.
We'll be back tomorrow. Thank you all for listening. Idios