The Basselorette

Today, Doug Pike discusses bass fishing, a cat's journey, and golf.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
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Speaker 2 (00:47):
All right, Tuesday edition of the program starts right now.
Thank you all for listening. I certainly do appreciate it.
I was actually going to interview Mike Mercado, the guy
who runs Brasses River Provisions. If you've listened to the
Doug Pikes on the weekends over on KBME, you would
recognize the name. He is the man who owns that company.
But he's under the weather and can't do the interview today.

(01:09):
I will tell you about him though, that he's one
of the most fun guys I have to shoot shoot
the breeze with when I'm picking up gift baskets of jams,
jellies and spices or not spices, but sauces, jams, jellies,
and sauces. The guy knows so much about pairing these
types of things, the jams, the jellies, the sauces, with

(01:32):
everything from corn chips to filet mignon. And he's fascinating
Manda to talk to about that because he has something
kind of for every occasion, for every dish, pasta dish,
you name it. Anyway, super nice guy. Brezis River Provisionsbrprovisions
dot Com is his website and I was going to
interview him so that he could share all that information

(01:53):
with us today, but it looks like we're going to
have to wait a little bit longer until he's on
the mend and fully up and running again. If, by
the way, you are interested in becoming part of this
family over here at iHeart part of the advertiser family,
and we've got a lot of them on the books.
I was surprised during our staff meeting this morning. I

(02:16):
was kind of surprised to see just how many accounts
we have on the air and active here, and it's
pretty it's pretty amazing, really, how many people entrust us
to help support their business, to help drive revenue their way.
I personally take great pride in and getting to know
the people I work with. I'm visiting a new client

(02:39):
later this week, as a matter of fact, down in
Texas City. I think he's Yeah, he's in Texas City.
And once I get that interview done, I'm kind of
interviewing him just like he'll be interviewing me, to make
sure I'm worthy of talking about his product. And to
that end, I'm going to take a full tour of
the factory where he makes what he makes, and then

(03:00):
go to a second location to kind of see where
people use what he makes. And I'm not going to
tell you any more about that one but that and
once we get that up and running, it'll be that's
going to be a pretty interesting thing that I think
will I think will be of great interest actually to
a lot of a lot of my listeners on both shows.

(03:20):
As a matter of fact, I'll have to find a
way to cross promote between both shows for this guy,
because it's something that almost any of us, not every
one of us, but almost any of us might need
in either small or large quantities from time to time,
depending on what you do. So the best way to
do that, by the way, if you want to become
a member of either family of mine or actually of

(03:43):
anybody else's around here too. I also kind of help
some of the other on air people get clients onto
the air. And I've been doing this now for the
better part of twenty years, so it's not it's not
something I'm just trying to figure out. I've got pretty
good formulas set up up for someone who comes in
at almost any investment level. So if you're thinking about

(04:04):
it and you want to be part of this family,
you are welcome to be that, and I can help
you with that with a simple email to get the
ball rolling, that's what that actually he went to me.
He got to me through Facebook. He looked me up
on Facebook, sent me a messenger message. However that works,
I'm not really certain, but we started communicating that way,

(04:25):
and then we got the ball rolling and it's it's
tumbling downhill in a big fast way. I'm gonna probably
have him up and running within six or eight days. Anyway. Welcome. Oh,
by the way, yeah, my email. If you want to
try that, or if you want to take a stab
at this, I'll be happy to help you and I'll
work with whatever you've got to work with. It's just simple.
Email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com, or as many did,

(04:48):
I'll tell you more about him next week, probably as
many did go through messenger and just let me go
that way. Man, He's got a cool company and he
does cool things. That's all I'll share. So Tuesday it
is day two for you and day one for my
work week. After coming off a personal first. By the way, Will,
I did something on yesterday that I haven't done in

(05:10):
at least about twenty years. Have you got any idea
what that might be? Knowing me and my schedule? You
played three rounds of golf? Oh my god, no, thirty
six holes. Well, three rounds would be more than your
showing your colors, Will, The three rounds of golf would
be actually eighteen times three, so that would be fifty

(05:34):
four holes. Wha, fifty four holes. You're warm, You are warm.
Bear in mind. Now remember all the rain we had
on the weekend, which would have well, no, you don't understand.
It's you shouldn't understand because you don't play the game.
It's okay that you don't, but when it's really wet
and sloppy like that, But the course the course is

(05:54):
kind of playable, but not. You can't drive carts out
onto the fairways because it kind of tears them up
and ruts them out, and it really just looks bad
and it really infuriates the superintendence of the courses. So
the rule yesterday was cart path only. You could take
a cart, but you couldn't drive it off the cart path,

(06:16):
which is concrete to protect the turf. So rather than
do that, which is it'll drive you crazy if you're
doing it, because you might get all the way across
the fairway, sloshing through the kind of damp parts and
realize that you brought the wrong club for the shot
you've got to hit, and then you either have to
just do your best with what you got or go

(06:37):
all the way back and then all the way back again,
and then all the way back again just to get
the right one. So I walked. I got one of
those little push carts, I put my bag on it,
and I walked all eighteen holes. And that was the
first time I've done that in a long time. I
really wasn't one hundred percent sure I could make it.
To be perfectly honest, I'm not gonna lie. I'm not

(06:58):
gonna tell you. I felt like I was in great,
perfect shape to do that, and my legs did feel
a little bit tired, probably about on maybe the sixteenth fairway.
As I was walking down that fairway to my ball
in the fairway, which is a good thing, I started,
my legs started to hurt a little bit, not enough

(07:18):
to slow me down. I don't think it was even
enough exhaustion or fatigue to hurt my swing. But I
was tired, make no mistake about it. And so now
I'm inspired because there are a lot of guys in
my group who do walk, and several of them, i'm
embarrassed to say, are older than me. But I'm gonna
get out there, and I'm gonna get out there and

(07:39):
do that and get myself in better shape and just
make good on a new Year's resolution I made. And
I don't know, twenty ten, maybe somewhere in there, I'll
be back out there onto the weather. The weather today
and tomorrow also going to be very good for walking,
whether you're on a golf course or in a par

(08:00):
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(08:42):
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which it did the balanced portfolios no failure is if
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(09:05):
and whatnot, they may have taken a hit today, But
on the bright side, oil also was down to sixty
nine fifty ish might have been a few cents lower
than that. Even last time I looked, gold lost a
chunk too, but it was still I don't cry for anybody.
Oh my gosh, will that's all you just just point casually.

(09:26):
I didn't want to enter on rock. No, No, I
don't feel free since when. Maybe I'm also turning a
new leaf this year. Huh maybe maybe anyway, Gold twenty
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They haven't lost any real money yet, unless they only
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(11:15):
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Speaker 1 (11:31):
Just wait until the show's over. Sleepy back to Doug
Pike as fifty plus continues.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
Potty two on Sports Talk seven ninety The Doug Pike Show.
Thank you for listening. Oh I said it didn't I
plus on kp RC that too, that too. Don't make
me tell a fision story just to justify what I
just said. Will please don't telefishing story? Ah, you better
ask nicely? Oh please, pretty please, pretty pleaser. I'm going

(12:05):
to go into it because there's a good one. There's
a good one out there. This from No, this is
the days of old. No, this is recent. All right, Well,
why don't they give me the recap? It's a recap.
I can do it very quickly. This guy catch it.
There's a program called sher Lunker that accepts thirteen well
actually accept some smaller fish, but it's benchmark classes thirteen

(12:30):
pounds in greater for these female bass that it puts
into its spawning program up at the Freshwater Fishery Center
in Athens, Texas. A guy two years ago, this guy
catches a fish that weighs I think twelve ninety something
somewhere in there, and he gives it to the program.
They take it to Athens, Texas. They put it through

(12:51):
the spawn. That year, it spawns a bunch of babies,
and they take it back and they release it back
into the same lake where the guy caught it, only
they released it three point three miles from where he
caught it. It's just an easier boat ramp for them
to get to whatever. They drop the fish off. See
you later, thanks for playing. A couple of weeks ago,

(13:13):
or a week and a half ago or so, he
caught that same fish again. They have genetics on them.
They know the genetic coat of these fish. Because they're rare,
they're very big bass. They want them to breed and
grow bigger bass. Well, he caught the same fish, and
he caught it will from exactly the same place in
a marina, a little boat dock. I don't know if

(13:35):
it was in a marina or not, but anyway, he
was standing on a boat dock and practically on the
same board on the boat dock where he caught it
the first time. Three point three miles that fish had
made it back. Well, maybe that fish just likes being
caught own body. Well, you know what the fish, and
you know you brought up a good point. Maybe it
wanted to go back maybe it had a fun that

(13:56):
would Maybe it likes being raised out of the wander
for a second. All those all those little male baths
courting it up there, like the Bachelourette. Yes, this is
a show. Wow, the Bachelorrette. Bachelorette. That's a pretty that's
not bad. Will you gotta have me the title of
this podcast episode? It could be the Bachelorette. We'll have

(14:19):
to talk about how to spell that. But yeah, that's
pretty good actually, if I do say so myself. Ah,
right back to the real think of real news. We
got care of the markets, We took care of the weather.
Moving into the news, mainstream media continue to double down
on their efforts to hide encouraging truth from Americans and

(14:42):
just keep us thinking that all is all is for naught.
The oh my gosh, it's sixteen days of coverage from
February eighth to the twenty fourth, according to NewsBusters, ABC, CBS,
and NBC invested a grand total amongst the three of them,
a grand total of one minute and fifty three seconds

(15:03):
of airtime talking about specific dollar amounts being saved by doge.
As it continues to uncover, these just outrageous, ridiculous wastes
of our tax dollars. These are real savings for the
people who are paying the taxes, and real chances for
our country to begin digging itself out of these trillions

(15:25):
of dollars we find ourselves in debt. Quick list, and
I won't even hit them all. There's no I mean,
it's it just goes from bad to worse. US taxpayer
payers were going to be fronting the bills for the
following items, all of which have now been canceled. Ten

(15:46):
million dollars for Mozambique Voluntary medical mail circumcision, nine point
seven million dollars for UC Berkeley to develop quote a
cohort of Cambodian youth with enterprise driven skills. Two point

(16:07):
three million dollars strengthening independent voices in Cambodia. Thirty two
million dollars to the Prague Civil Society Center, M boy
Where are they? Oh? How about this one? Four hundred
and eighty six million dollars to the Consortium for Elections

(16:28):
and Political Process Strengthening, including twenty two million for inclusive
and participatory political process in Moldova and twenty one million
dollars for voter turnout in India. Oh, the list goes on.
It's just the list goes on and on and on.

(16:49):
A million and a half bucks for voter confidence in Liberia,
two and a half million for inclusive democracies in Southern Africa,
forty seven million for improving learning out comes in Asia.
They seem to be doing pretty well over there. Last
time I checked worldwide scores just amazing, remarkable, and amazing.

(17:13):
So I'm gonna call it amazing. That's what I did. Well.
Did you catch that I've coined a new word. It's
not as good as bachelorette. No bachelorette. Yeah, that's gonna
be a new TV show or reality show, all filmed
in Athens, so they don't have to be traveling around.
They don't have to fly anybody anywhere. They can just
park and go. All right, we got to take a
little break here. On the way out. I will remind
you that if you want to become part of the family,

(17:35):
there is room and I would love to have you
on board. I've got a couple of them coming on.
I have room for a couple more in either late
Q one or early Q two. Just email me. I
would love to have you on If you want to
reach the older population in this country, which is increasing
in percentage of overall population. And oh, by the way,

(17:55):
we spend the most money too. And if you want
to catch those people for your business, so I can
do it. Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot Com. We'll take a
little break here. We'll be right back with fifty plus
on AM nine fifty KPRC.

Speaker 1 (18:08):
Now, they sure don't make them like they used to.
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 2 (18:30):
Good happened Segment three already on fifty plus. We'll I'll
get it right. No more bachelorette stories, although I may
I may use that term again on Saturday if I
have to, if I bring that story back up, and
for no other reason than to just be able to say,
tune in Sunday nights at eight for the Bachelorette. That'd

(18:55):
be boring to us. So wouldn't just a fish swimming
around in a tank being chased by other fish? Do
you ever watch those fishing shows? Fishing shows? I honestly
I find it a little bit difficult unless I happen
to know one of the guys who's fishing or I
happen to have it.

Speaker 1 (19:12):
Well.

Speaker 2 (19:12):
For example, the Major League Fishing group was here on
Lake Conroe a couple of weeks ago, and those guys
don't have to weigh their best five fish. They can
weigh any fish that way. Well, they can weigh anything,
but to count it has to weigh one pound or more.
And then they just release them immediately, which I like.
Although I would like to see them. Boy, here we

(19:34):
are back on the fishing show. I would like to
see them practice better catching release, because those guys are
pretty cavalier about the way they toss these fish back
sometimes and how they just wrestle the hooks out of
their mouths and stuff. I could see. I would rather
watch a competition where all the hooks had to be barblous,
so that every now and then a fish was gonna

(19:56):
get off of the hook before it came to hand
them wouldn't count. That would make it a little more exciting.
You can catch a fish without a barb. Absolutely the
barb was only put on hooks. Well, oh, boy, menace.
That's definitely gonna be the Bachelorette episode, isn't it. Yeap
hooks were put Barbs were put on hooks a thousand

(20:16):
years ago when they were still being carved out of
bone to keep the bait on the hook, not to
keep the fish on the hook. The way to keep
the fish on the hook is to apply constant pressure
and then learn what lets them kind of get away
and learn what doesn't. My son caught one of the
biggest speckle trout I've ever seen about, I don't know,

(20:36):
five six, seven years ago, down fishing with Cliff Webb,
twenty twenty nine in a quarter something like that, twenty
nine and a half inches somewhere in there, almost a
thirty inch fish on a barbless hook. And when I
told Cliff that, as the fight was going on, with
my young son running around the boat doing everything right,
I was so proud of him. But I just said,

(20:57):
by the way, Cliff, that's a barbleous hook on that jig.
In his face just went pale. Oh, no, he's gonna
lose the news. He didn't say it out loud, but
he thought that for sure. Because my son was very young,
he didn't realize. Cliff didn't realize that he'd already caught
probably five hundred baths on barbarous hooks and was pretty
good at what he was doing, and we got it done.
You want to go back to a normal news, different news. Oh,

(21:19):
let's good, a funny news. Funny news, you say, yeah,
I can do that. Actually I have a couple of
pages of that here.

Speaker 1 (21:26):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (21:27):
Oh, well I did, but I accidentally pulled somebody else's
stuff off the printer. Now, just I'm down to one
now that really belongs to us. Let it go, talk
to your kids quickly, or new angle for attorneys. Mmmm,
that's all I'd go with. Let it go crows, will.

(21:48):
Crows can hold grudges against individual humans. I know for
seventeen years. They're smart and their patty. Let it go, crow,
Let it go, man, just good. Just toss that over
your shoulder and move on with your life. Well, just
don't make a crow mad. Now, my buddy Rick Bisse,

(22:12):
if he's listening, he might want to be worried because
he is an avid crow hunter and they're they're keeping
an eye on him. They're just waiting for opportunity peck
him on the head or something. I bet you want
to go for another one, Will, I would love it. Okay,
let's well, leave one of the two you want to leave,

(22:32):
take talk to your kids, or new angle, leave new angle,
leave new angle, new angle for attorneys, gambling on the weather,
or here kitty kitty, Well you know I love to
gamble on the weather, do you? Yes? That's new. That's
that's a new fun fact for me to know. I'll
i'll bring that up at a cocktail party this evening.

(22:53):
As a matter of fact, over at Republic Boot Company.
I'm gonna be over there for the Saint Jude Invitational.
Well just everybody who wants to show up and play
can play, so provided you are entered. But anyway, the
official Grandiose Awards Sara mean, the awarding of the red
jackets to the four men who scramble team won that tournament,

(23:16):
will be tonight over there, and I'll be there around
probably four thirty five o'clock somewhere in there by the way,
will I saw something pretty funny the other day. Do
you know what a scramble team is in golf? No? Kay,
Well it doesn't matter because I want to get back
to gambling on the weather. But I saw something pretty funny.
This guy had just posted a picture of I think

(23:36):
it was kind of a somber scene, like a funeral
scene or something like that. He said, when I pass,
I want my scramble team to be my pallbearers so
they can let me down one more time. Wow. That's
pretty rough, isn't it?

Speaker 1 (23:52):
All?

Speaker 2 (23:52):
Right? Will gambling on the weather. Jet Blue has a
new program that will supposedly, and I don't know why
they added that word, I might supposedly reimburse travelers if
it rains on your vacation. You have to book an
eligible travel package through them, and it's an added cost,
similar to travel insurance. Would you buy that?

Speaker 1 (24:16):
Will?

Speaker 2 (24:18):
I think I'm going to be flying to Seattle every week?
They might get catch up? Well, I bet they wouldn't
have that availability on those particular packages because it's an
add on. It's not something you automatically get. It would
come at a premium. If you're going to Seattle. I'm

(24:38):
a volume better, so you know I'm going for small winds,
but a lot of them you could make almost the
same money on. And actually it would turn out pretty
well on vacations to Southeast Florida in the spring and
summer because almost every day will almost every day there's
an afternoon shower, that lasts fifteen minutes or so, so

(25:00):
you meet the criteria they do. They specify how long
it has to rain for. You know, you're gonna have
to do research on that. If you want to know
the facts, will I just give you this summaries. I'm
just here to I'm just here to prime the pump.
If you need to just start grinding. If you want
more information, I don't know any more information. That's all
I read. There's always that little thing that says for more,

(25:22):
or click here for more, something like that, and I
just erase it. I just blot it out. I don't
want more information on that. One more? Will one more?
And then we got to get back to the real
and that well, we'll end up at a break probably. Okay,
I'm gonna stick with here, kitty kitty, love it or
hate it? Or snow on the roof here, kitty kitty.

(25:44):
All right, let me put a little check mark there.
And then this other one. Okay, here kitty kitty. A
family's cat went missing right before they moved from Washington
State to Colorado, Colorado or Colorado will Colorado. Oh gosh,
you hill billy talk to people from there, they call

(26:07):
it and I just do it, because I've been up
there enough times and it got stuck. I was told
so many times when I called it Colorado or Colorado
like you did that. No, it's Colorado, well, red red Rod, whatever,
it's still the same. It's where Denver is. We'll leave
it at that. So the cat goes missing as they

(26:28):
pack up and they gotta go. It's moving day. The
van gets filled up, they get in the minivan or
whatever they're driving, and they drive southeast to Colorado and low,
not just low or behold, but low and behold. When
their furniture showed up at the new place three weeks later,

(26:51):
I'm not even gonna ask you what they found, Will,
because I know what you would say. I know what
you would say, and it's so it's just not in
good taste. The cat was alive and hiding in the couch, Wow,
eating the cushions. Figure, Yeah, we'll figure out. Yeah, how
did this cat survive with for three weeks with no water?

(27:12):
Must have been a fat cat. Either that or it
smuggled it. Maybe smuggled a little bottle of water in
there and then used its its feline fangs just bink,
just pop two little holes in the top of the
bottle and just rashing it out.

Speaker 1 (27:26):
M M.

Speaker 2 (27:27):
Probably one bottle of water if you rashing it as
a cat will probably last year, what three weeks at least?
I guess. I guess didn't say in the store. I
don't know. If I want to test the theory, I don't.
I didn't push for any more information on that one either.
Will You're proud, you'll be proud to know. All right,
we're going to tell you another little break here, we'll

(27:48):
come back to wrap this one up. Uh, the Bachelorette
issue of fifty plus. Will you are you promising that? Yes? Okay, well,
this will be the Bachelorette issue and this will be
a edition number one of the program. Willbie, we'll have
that information when we come back. Perfect, We'll take a
little break here. We'll be right back fifty plus on KPRC.

Speaker 1 (28:09):
Old Guys Rule, and of course, women never get old
if you want to avoid sleeping on the couch.

Speaker 2 (28:17):
Hell, I think that sounds like a good plan. Fifty
plus continues Here's more with Doug. Welcome back forth. In
the final segment of fifty plus on AM nine to
fifty KPRC. Will I won't get it wrong again today,
I promise this is the bachelouret issue or edition of

(28:39):
the program. And for those of you playing at home,
this is episode number seven hundred and seventy eight, which
I think is pretty dog on good. We haven't been
keeping these since the show started ten years ago, but
since we have been filing these away for posterity and
in perpetuity. There are seven hundred and seventy eight of them.

(29:03):
After today, they're taking up space on the cloud right Well, yes,
and I think that's well deserved space. I like this program.
I do anyway. I enjoy doing it. I hope all
of you enjoyed listening to it. Where am I gonna go? Will?
I got a couple of things I need to cover.
I really do up in Maine. I don't know why,

(29:26):
beautiful state. If you can know, it's politics. The new
Girls Class B High School pole vaulting champion is a
boy in blatant disregard for President Trump's executive order to
remove boys from girls' sports. This kid, this boy, jumped
a full eight inches higher than the girl who finished second,
and had he competed against other boys, his effort would

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have been with the story called mediocre just mediocre at best.
Moving on from that to let's see, that's that's that.
I don't need that. Really, got to put this back
over here. I have so many pieces of paper every
day and they just all kind of bundle up together.

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I'm not gonna worry about that part right now. If
you're looking for another reason to be worried about who
the Biden administration led into our country and how those
people are being treated so far, know this. Yesterday, just yesterday,
a multi agency task force arrested a Salvadorian illegal immigrant
who was wanted for murder. Now, you might say, well,

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that's not the first one. It's just some guy slipped
in and troublemaker and he did something bad. Allegedly, this
guy is a suspected MS thirteen gang member, and he
had been deported from our country seven times. This was

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his eighth rodeo. This was his eighth ride and he
is alleged now to have stabbed to death a neighbor
while that man sat in his truck outside his home
in Colony Ridge. City of Houston's behind by oh just

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fourteen hundred work orders for infrastructure issues, according to a
Texas Scorecard story from late this past week and coming
as no surprise the front runner. It's either all of
them or most of them, depending on what way you
look at these work orders are water related. According to
the story, replacing as little as six percent of the

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city's old school waterlines has potential to save twenty one
billion gallons of water. That's how fast that ship's leaking.
We are wasting water to the tune of twenty one
billion gallons. If we just fix six percent of the

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league's that's that's undoable. There's no excuse for that. There's
no reason for that. Houstonians ought to be down there
every time the doors are open to city Hall saying
fix this, just fix it. And water leaks. By the way,
it should come as no surprise to anybody. They are

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the most frequently reported problems brought to the attention of
Houston Public Works. And if there were anything else in
worse shape than that, I don't know. I don't see
that as even a remote possibility. City of Austin not
to be outdone by any democratic city in this country
just totally thunderous knows at President Trump's efforts to dismantle

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DEI programs across the country. Austin's Municipal Equity Index, something
contrived by the Human Rights Campaign, a far left group
that just outspokenly supports DEI gave a core of one
hundred for programs within this twenty twenty four twenty twenty
five fiscal year budget, all of which will be funded

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by taxpayers. That's well, that's just Austin keeping it weird
Austin and going above and beyond in this case when
you're dropping that kind of dough into it. In the
latest attempt I found by Democrats to make the world
a little bit more outrageous and awkward and just messed

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up as to how we address people, Wisconsin's Democrat Governor
Tony Evers added a budget recommendation to change the word mother. Now,
you would think maybe maybe they would go with what's
that other one that's just so rutuned, A birthing person.

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There was that, but now it's been it's been ousted,
and this guy ever wants to replace it with inseminated person, happy,
inseminated person day. Well that may that we have Mother's Day,
will is that right? Yes? Okay, So now Hallmark's got

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a lot of work to do if it's gonna sell
cards in Wisconsin, because if the governor gets his way,
it will not be Mother's Day. It'll be inseminated person day.
You can't even parent. Oh there's more, but wait, there's more.
So wife and husband become interchangeable as spouse, father is

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swapped for parent, and mother is replaced with parent who
gave birth to the child. That's something else Hallmark could
work on. They're gonna need bigger cards. So, all of
which infuriated more than a few people, as you might imagine,
including the executive director of the Republican Governors Association named

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Sarah Craig, who said, and I quote, being a mother
is the greatest privilege I will have in my lifetime.
If Tony Evers can reduce motherhood to an inseminated person,
then our society is lost and I would have to
agree with her. Ever's latest slap in the face to

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mothers and fathers comes on the heels of other contemporary
terms designed to just make your skin crawl, and for
no good reason. Chest feeding that one has always kind
of bothered me, instead of breastfeeding, which is what mothers
do for their babies. And none of these things necessary,

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not one of them. The original words are concise. They
describe people exactly as they should be described period in
the story. President Trump told Newsmax recently that he wants
to breathe fresh life into the Keystone Pipeline, by the way,
which President Biden before he'd even warmed the chair in
the Oval Office, a project that would bring oil from

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Canada into the US for refining and export, further our
country's efforts to become entirely energy independent. That's something Biden's
shut down from jump estimated restart date pending approvals fall
somewhere between right away and immediately. According to quotes from

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President Trump yesterday, I'd like to see him do that.
I really would, White House spokesman. I got a minute
and a half, Is that right? Will? Yes? I can
elon my know you don't like any of this stuff.
Let's just go back to you for fun, and then
I'll do some of this other stuff tomorrow. Love it
or hate it? Snow on the roof or how will
we know? How will we know this is a good one? Will?

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I'm going to stretch it out, maybe for the whole minute.
How many approximately will? How many drink flavors do you
think Starbucks has many? Drink flavors. I'll know, probably like
twenty thirty no extra this, take that out, splash them

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around hundreds, probably hundreds of combinations. Will. But they're dropping
thirteen from their menu as part of an ongoing plan
to slash it by at least thirty percent over the
next few months. Guess what, People who have been drinking
something that's been on that list for a long time
are still going to keep ordering it, and the barisas
are still going to keep making it because they don't

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want to miss out on their their gratuities. They don't
want to miss out on making a little extra jingle.
And I don't blame them. I don't blame them at all.
I don't blame him at all. Twenty seconds will Yes, Okay,
this is just simple snow on the roof. The police
in Columbia caught a guy worth more than ten thousand
dollars worth of cocaine sewn into a thick black wig

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he was wearing. Yeah, yeah, it didn't work, so they'll
find some other way. We'll be back tomorrow. Thanks for listening,
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