JFK Documents to be Released

Today, Doug Pike discusses the JFK documents, the astronauts coming home, and making cake.

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?

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

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Well, this show is all about you. This is fifty
plus with Doug Pike. Helpful information on your finances, good health,
and what to do for fun. Fifty plus brought to
you by the UT Health Houston Institute on ag Informed
Decisions for a healthier, happier life.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
And now fifty plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
All right, here we go Tuesday ed issues and program
starts right now. I got my headphones on backward. They
feel so awkward when they're like that. Well, do you
notice that when you're wearing headphones? You would if to
look at them, they would just look the same if
I flipped them one hundred and eighty degrees. But to
wear them, no, it just not worked out.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
They just don't sit right.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
They don't, They really don't. It just feels like you're
trying to put a square peg in a round hole. Oh,
I just got I got the word by the skinny
skin of my teeth, That's what I'm looking or the
hair of my chinny chin chin although I shaved this morning,
so there's not much of that going around. Will got it?
I give credit where it's due. You got it in two, Will,

(01:29):
I got it in two. Actually it took me four
and the third one was a waste of time. But
four maybe five. I'll have to go back and look,
I'll stand up to it. Whatever it was, I just
got a I got a severe whipping. What did you
choose as your first word? Marsh? Okay, okay, I can

(01:51):
see how that didn't help you a whole lot. I
got two golds now, yea.

Speaker 4 (01:57):
And from there, I just I had a feeling that
it had to end with certain letters and yes, okay,
tried it out.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
All right, Well there you go, Marsh. Huh. In any event, weather,
let's start with the weather as we always do. Oh actually,
a welcome to all of you who are listening this afternoon.
Thank you very much for joining us. He's Will.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
I'm Doug.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
We've been doing this for what a twenty thirty years now,
it seems like it sometimes we've been doing this the
live show, yeah for three years. Yeah, and have amassed
how many podcasts? Oh well, almost eight hundred? Oh yeah,
we are getting close, aren't we yeah, we should celebrate somehow. Yeah,

(02:45):
maybe maybe go ask the bosses for eight hundred dollars bonuses,
Oh yeah, in recognition and then next year eight a
one or maybe eight hundred dollars worth of catering. You know,
there's actually some thing in the in the is brewing
in that regard, and I'll clue you in in a

(03:06):
little while. There's there possibly will be some of that
if you attend the going away party for one of
our employees who's been here a very long time, and man,
he deserves whatever we can get for him. Any way,
moving forward. Weather courtesy of Texas Indoor Air Quality Specialists
dot net Texas IAQ dot net. To be specific, cleaner

(03:30):
air is healthier air. And anybody who's breathed all this
pollen lately knows that. Well, every time you open your door,
a little bit of this spring pollen gets in. Every
time you open your door when the the Saharan dust
is in there, a little bit of that gets in.
And over the years, stuff clogs in your duck work.

(03:50):
So find out from them how they do what they
do to clean that stuff out of all your duckwork
in the house and keep it clean for a couple
of years, you don't have to worry about cleaning, about
breathing anything but clean air. So into the weather forecast,
Oh wee kending straight week of great weather coming up.

(04:10):
I'm not going to try to chicken little you into
believing anything other than that it's going to be a
really nice five or six straight days. Now there is
the biggest threat on the entire map is a ten
percent chance of rain tomorrow, which means in my world,
at least in the golf and fishing world of outdoor recreation,

(04:32):
which is to my two passions this time of year,
don't cancel your plans. If you're going, If you've got
a golf game tomorrow, go play. Plan on being there
without rain on you. There's a ten percent chance that
somebody from Huntsville to Victoria will see a sprinkle tomorrow.

(04:53):
So that looks pretty good in market news. Not so
good from Houston. Gooldexchange dot com. The roller coaster ride continues,
all four indicators down this morning, anywhere from half a
point to nearly two full points, depending on which one
you're looking at and when you're looking which is not

(05:14):
good news in the short term. But I'm still I'm
still very confident in the long term future of not
only the markets but of pretty much this country of ours.
Oil still south of sixty eight dollars a barrel. It
was up a little bit a little while ago, I
want to say, twenty eight cents something like that, So

(05:35):
really not much impact at the pump on a twenty
eight cent bounce in the price of a barrel. And
gold Man Gold's looking really good. Pretty it's kind of
been new territory once again. Three thousand and thirty nine
dollars per ounce. It's hit the point now where and
I don't have to call Brad Schweiss and ask him

(05:55):
about this, He's a guy from Houston, gooldexchange dot com.
Whether or not that's high enough now to kind of
establish maybe thirty nine hundred as a or not thirty
nine hundred, but three thousand as the benchmark that if
it gets back to three thousand, possibly goes below, that
would there be anything to worry about. Whereas it used

(06:17):
to be well throughout history, used to be three hundred,
then it was five hundred, I'm sure, than a thousand,
then two thousand, then twenty I think it was twenty
four hundred when I sold a little bit to him,
and now six hundred twenty five percent higher than it
was when I sold mine. It's pretty good stuff. Moving
into current events, I watched what I'm absolutely certain was

(06:41):
another another shoplifting event, unchallenged by the way An episode
and a major retailer. I won't say where I was
this time, because there was just really I can't confirm
that it was or was not. The bottom line with
was in that store there, and this was around dusk.

(07:06):
The sun was already below the horizon, so I guess
it was dusk. Typically young woman wearing large framed sunglasses
in the store and a medical mask virtually covering her
entire face, and on her back a fully loaded backpack
so heavy that she was having to lean forward to
keep from tipping backward. She came from the back of

(07:28):
the store, and then she moving really quickly toward the
front of the store and then lingered around the exit
for a while and kind of backed away anytime an
employee was anywhere near her. Seemed really, really nervous. There's
no doubt in my mind she was shoplifting, and what
bothers me it wasn't her first time. You could tell that,
and just nobody cared. Nobody wearing the colors of the

(07:51):
store seemed to care. And that's part of why everything
costs so much. Rather than have shoplifters tracked and followed
and video and arre rested and prosecuted, these stories have
decided just to penalize the quiet ones.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
That's us.

Speaker 3 (08:05):
We're the people who are frustrated by higher prices, but
we don't say anything about it. We just, oh, gosh,
you know, it's just cost of doing business. Well, no,
they'd rather raise their prices and let us cover their
losses than higher security personnel and risk hurting somebody's feelings
by arrescuing them for stealing.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
From the store.

Speaker 3 (08:25):
And maybe it's time we spoke up a little louder
than we have on that. Hopefully maybe we can get
somebody's attention in this administration to put a stop to that,
because it certainly isn't going to happen at the local level,
and the stores are just too scared to prosecute people
for fear they're going to lose some giant lawsuit. I
guess I don't know what it is. Ut health. I
know what that is, the Institute on Aging. It's this

(08:48):
collaborative of more than a thousand providers. Really, I do
need to get an accurate count at some point. Many
many providers in every medical discipline who work all around town,
mostly in the medical center for most their time, but
a lot of these providers also venture out into neighboring
communities all the way up to the Woodlands, down to Galveston,

(09:08):
out to Katie, over to Kingwood, back down to Pearland,
just all over the place, so that you could be
seen by someone who in addition to going through all
that school they had to go through to get what
they've got on the wall, a big diploma, says, MD says,
whatever it says on the wall, whatever aspect of medical

(09:30):
training they've gotten, they have gone back and gotten a
little more training so that they know how to apply
their knowledge specifically to us. It's that simple. They go
back and they've taken additional training, additional time out of
their days that they could have used for anything, but
they chose to find out how they can better serve

(09:52):
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some amazing information there that in resources about just about
anything and everything medical. And then you'll also find other
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(10:15):
use it all you want. You go on there one time.
You're gonna be there for a while. Just keep clicking
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Speaker 2 (10:28):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
That's why every few months we wash them, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh code O wax. This is
fifty plus with Dougpike. Why welcome back fifty plus.

Speaker 3 (10:53):
Thanks for listening. Certainly do appreciate it. I was asked
early this morning to contribute to us that ran over
on k t r H this morning about a representative
from Waco, a state rep from Waco, guy named Pat Cury,
who is who has introduced not one but three bills.
Actually in the the biggest one, the broadest brush he

(11:16):
painted with calls for the abolition, just shut it down,
turn it off the whole entire Texas Parks and Wilife Department.
And I'm going to try and find a copy of
what Jimmy Barrett talked about He mentioned it this morning.
I talked about it over the weekend on my outdoor

(11:37):
show and actually put a post on Facebook about it,
and this is there. It's a pretty interesting story that's
got a lot of twists. It would be it would
make a good novel.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
But I don't want to.

Speaker 3 (11:52):
I don't want to get into it until I know
what Jimmy had on his plate and what he found
out about it, because I'm pretty sure that there's more
to it than he was able to cover in his format.
And once I learned about that, and who knows, I
don't know who else has talked about it on the air,
but I know I'm kind of neck deep in it,

(12:12):
and I'll get to you and give you as much
as I can as soon as I know what's happened
so far. In Fairfax County, Georgia, or excuse me, Virginia.
Fairfax County, Virginia, in celebration of Women's History Month, a
high school there posted pictures and verbiage that, basically, in

(12:36):
celebration of Women's Month, covered the ABC's letter for Letter
twenty six, posters or or pages or whatever on the
walls of the school's classrooms or the hallways. Not the classrooms,
I believe is where they were, and each of these

(12:58):
things you would think they would have been uplifting and encouraging.
Only in keeping with the lefts and doctrination before education theme.
This walk through the English alphabet starts with a IS
for abortion and shows a drawing of a coat hanger

(13:19):
and a positive pregnancy test. That's how they lead off.
That's their lead, and they just get weirder and more
confusing and disappointing as how they relate from there. Honestly,
if you want to see a prime example of how
American kids are learning less and being indoctrinated more, just

(13:41):
search for this one online. I don't the piece I
references was at the Daily Signal, and when you see
what else they highlighted for Women's History Month, hopefully you'll
be as disappointed as I was. And whoever let that
go at that school, it's very disappointed. In good news,

(14:04):
the two stranded astronauts who left the Earth a while
back for an eight day space ride should be they
should be undocked now from the International Space Station and
headed home. That that should have been done if everything
went well, well, can you check that out? And make
sure they're on their way home so we can leave
a light on for them. They're supposed to have left

(14:26):
the space station and undocked at about one oh five
hour time I believe, or twelve oh five hour time
excuse me, one oh five Eastern time, and they are
due home. Let me see if I put this in
the story. Yeah, a little after four pm hour time
here in Houston. They will splash down and be picked up,

(14:49):
hopefully nice, safe and sound. Can you imagine?

Speaker 4 (14:53):
Good?

Speaker 3 (14:53):
Take an eight vague date day vacation and wind up
stuck in a space well a little bit bigger than
this room the International Space Station is. It's actually pretty big,
but it's not where you'd want to be for eight
months if you hadn't packed for it. They hadn't packed
for anything. Eight days.

Speaker 4 (15:13):
Yes, you should be touching down off the coast of
Florida around six pm.

Speaker 2 (15:18):
Six pm.

Speaker 3 (15:19):
Now, okay, that's only an hour later. Maybe they might
get stuck in traffic between you know who knows, well,
they could honk your horn if that If that capsule
has a horn on it, and they're not honking it.
When they splash down and get picked up, they're missing
a golden opportunity. They got a lot of mail to

(15:39):
go through. When they get back to I hope somebody's
been paying their bills for them. Go back and find
an eviction notice on your door for not paying your mortgage.
But but but these last eight months I've been out
of town. That's no excuse. It kind of it is
all right. For the umptenth time now, the FBI has
issued a warning to this time to Outlook in Gmail users.

(16:02):
I'm an Outlook guy about the latest ransomware attacks. The
details are available online. I don't want to get into
the weeds on this, but I will tell you that
the ransomware that's being used can do some pretty nasty
stuff to your computer or even your entire business, your

(16:24):
whole net. Pardon me, I have the hiccups network of computers.
So get whatever safeguards you can, whatever security software you can,
because these people are just getting more and more clever
and finding ways to make us drop our guards when
we're checking emails. These are modern day robbers, they're modern

(16:46):
day bank robbers. And what they do is enable themselves
to figure out the essentially figure out the combination to
your modern day safe which is your computer especially if
you're doing in any kind of banking online. That's just
one of the reasons my wife and I don't do that.
And the people who are doing this, honest to god,

(17:08):
they're just they'd step on their own mother's next for
a dollar. So be really careful what you click on.
Be really careful about responding to any email you don't recognize,
and some of them that you actually think are true
but you're not quite sure. Don't just go ahead and
ope and that's probably okay. No, go ahead, and if

(17:29):
it's from a company, go online. Find that company's website
and double check to make sure you're calling the right
phone number. Get hold of their tech support, get hold
of their customer support and ask them if that's a
valid email that might save you whatever you've got saved
up at this point. Will how much time do I

(17:51):
have here? About four? I'm guessing No, it's only one.

Speaker 4 (17:54):
Huh, it's thirty second, thirty seconds, thirty seconds?

Speaker 3 (17:58):
Doug, Well you want me to do just throw your
real curve and just go straight out. Yes, please, I'm
so tempted to just read that one sentence, but I'm
not going to just for you. Will a late health
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(18:42):
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This is the most common procedure they do at a
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(19:05):
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the go there and get a consultation with somebody about
fixing something you just don't like about yourself. It's something's
bothering you cosmetically, bothering you physically, there's a good chance

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Speaker 2 (19:47):
What's life without a net? If I suggest you go
to bed, sleep it off? Just wait until the show's over. Sleepy.
Back to Dougpike as fifty plus continues.

Speaker 5 (20:05):
And off we trot to toward at least twelve forty three,
when we will take our final break of the program.

Speaker 3 (20:13):
Thank you all for listening, certainly to appreciate it. Where
would he go? Will? I'm gonna let you these are
these are very heavy, serious stories. So I'm gonna I'm
really interesting you to pick a good one. Okay, you
can pick from Stratford upon Avon or no, you won't

(20:35):
like that one. Never mind, I don't want to do
that one. Let's just go with that one and I'll
let you deal with the softer, lighter side of the
of the program in a bit. Does that sound okay
to you? All right? So in Stratford upon Avon, do
you know what's significant about that whose birthplace that was? No,

(20:56):
that would be William Shakespeare. You know, it's it's fair
that you don't know that. But at the birthplace of
William Shakespeare now under new management basically as this kind
of museum slash house slash repository for cool things Willie
Shakespeare is that the people who have taken over are

(21:19):
quite woke, and so are. They are changing the place
to make sure that it doesn't offend anybody. And well,
there are going to be signs, it says here, that
are going to warn people and i'll quote people accessing
our collections may encounter language or depictions that are racist, sexist, homophobic,

(21:42):
or otherwise harmful end quote. And beyond that, there are
also going to be signs to let everybody know that
they're implementing practices that seek to address those harmful or
offensive descriptions, you know. So if people were just educated
in world history, they'd already know that social norms and

(22:07):
society and the actions of people as they regard other people,
all of that has vastly changed since the days of
William Shakespeare, and maybe those educated people with that knowledge
could make up their own minds about what's offensive or harmful.

(22:30):
I don't need anybody to tell me what's offensive to me.
I don't need anybody to tell me what's harmful to me.
I'll make that distinction. It's just crazy. I don't understand
why they do this and what they plan to gain
from trying to appease a very small number of people

(22:54):
who don't want to think for themselves, apparently, who just
want to be offended by everything and then start yelling
at you if you're not just groveling at their feet
telling them you're sorry. You can call me any name
you want to call me. You can say anything about
me you want to say, so long as it's true,

(23:15):
and I really okay, yeah, I'm not gonna let you
lie about me. But if you want to say something
about me, okay, I'll listen, and I'll and I'll take
it to heart too. You know, I'll give you the
benefit of doubt. Maybe you see something in me that
I don't see, but I'm not gonna just let that
run my life. All right, Well, let's let's soften it

(23:37):
up a bit. That was That was a pretty rough one.
I don't like that stuff anyway. Awkward skipping a jump.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
Or lost and found at sea?

Speaker 4 (23:48):
Uh? Skipping a jump?

Speaker 3 (23:50):
That's a nice easy one. Are you a Roku guy
or any of those services? I don't have to. I
don't either. I have a little satellite dish on my
roof and I've been perfectly happy with that for many,
many years, and I'm slow to change. Even if I
decided to change today to one of the subscriber services
that you just plug in a little stick into the TV,

(24:13):
it'd probably be twenty twenty six before I did that.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
Skipping a jump.

Speaker 3 (24:19):
Roku owners are angry after the company started testing unskippable
ads that play before you can even browse or access
the home screen. What do you think of that? Well,
I'm not getting Roku. You know, we live in you

(24:41):
and I are part of an industry that relies on
advertising to pay the bills, and so I'm not gonna
get too bent out of shape about this, But I do.
I do watch, and I do wonder sometimes how these
things are scheduled and why they're scheduled. And I wonder,
if I were an advertiser, whether I would even put

(25:03):
up something that's skippable, or whether I would want to
pay more to make it unskippable. There's a lot of
thinking that goes into this business. It's not just like
somebody calls here and says, hey, I want to put
something on I want to advertise on your station, and
we say sure, when do you want to start? And
they say tomorrow? And we say okay, write us a
big old check and we'll fill them the number later.

(25:24):
That's not how it happens. There are a lot of
people in this building, or at least on our floor
in our offices, who understand how it all works and
who try to make sure that the clients we have
on the air are getting their money's worth and getting
a return on their investments. That's how it's supposed to work.
That's the bottom line. You got to get an ROI

(25:47):
and just like there's a sponsor, a brand new sponsor
I've got coming up, I'm going to tell you about
in just a few minutes. Well, I'll tell you their
name and then i'll tell you more about them later.
Berry Hill out in sugar Land, right there on fifty nine,
been there for almost since my wife and I moved in,
and maybe before that even been there a very long time.

(26:09):
Wonderful Mexican food. And I assured them when we made
a deal just recently to get them on board, that
I would take care of them. I would watch over them.
And that's what I do for all of my clients.
Anybody you hear me talking about, they have my promise
that if they have an issue, all they have to
do is call me. They don't have to call anybody else.

(26:29):
And that's the same. If your business is interested in
being part of this show, or being part of my
outdoor show on the weekends, all you got to do
is email me and I'll start the process. I'm working
with a guy about on an RV park actually right now,
and I really hope I can get him to let
me speak for him because where he is would be

(26:50):
a really fun place to be on a day like today.
I can assure you in any event, if that does
interest you, all you got to do is email me
Doug Pike at iHeart Media dot com, and I will
help you, and I will take good care of you
and make sure that we put something together that'll work
for you. And if it's not time for you to
be on the air, just shit, well then I'll let

(27:13):
you know that too. I tell my clients every time
I talk to somebody brand new two things. I won't
waste your time and I won't waste your money because
I know whose money I'm spending.

Speaker 2 (27:23):
All right, moving on, let's go back to.

Speaker 3 (27:27):
Let's go back to the important stuff pages. Well, you
got a minute, That's all I need for this one.
In American History news, President Trump said that sometime today
and I haven't seen it yet. Well, maybe you could
look while we're in break to find out if he
has released, as he said he would try to do today,
eighty thousand pages of formerly classified files related to the

(27:52):
assassination of JFK back on November twenty second of nineteen
and sixty three. I was a very little boy back there,
but I do remember my mother and father being very
saddened by that event. And if I read correctly, almost
almost at least all or most, let's put it that

(28:12):
way of those pages are gonna be unredacted to this's
the full just everything out there to be seen and
scrutinized by anybody who wants to look. I'm gonna be looking.
I'm very interested in that, I really am. Maybe not
in all eighty thousand pages, that's a little bit much,
but I'll grab it and I'll start flipping through it
electronically when it becomes available. And there's a couple of

(28:35):
things I'd like to see answered. Oh, now, will do
I need to go? Yes, okay, I will. This is
my chance right here. First time, I'm gonna let you
know officially about Berry Hill. This place is a family
run restaurant out there on fifty nine in sugar Landed
Sugarlanded Sugar Creek. It's been there gosh forever and has

(28:56):
some of the best fish tacos in I would say,
all of Texas and perhaps along the Gulf Coast. My
wife and I found Berry Hill more than twenty years ago,
and now it is your turn to try a very casual,
family friendly restaurant that's had the same This is what's
one thing interesting about this that Wendy Brooks, the woman
who owns the place, she told me about this, And

(29:16):
by the way, we've had the same two chefs in
that kitchen for decades, putting out a delicious, consistent variety
of Mexican food favorites. If you're new to sugar Land,
the folks in the bar are gonna welcome you. They're
going to ask you to join them. And if you're
not new to sugar Well, you probably already know about
berry Hill. I was in there when was it just

(29:39):
two nights ago? Actually in there two nights ago and
picking up stuff to bring home, and I probably won't
be a few days before I get back in there.
They also do a ton of catering. We're gonna use
them around here for some meals that we've got upcoming,
and they can deliver to you pretty much anywhere in town.

(30:00):
Wonderful food, wonderful people. Just a real down home, friendly,
comfy cozy. They've got a couple of meeting rooms in
the back too, if you wanted to do something kind
of private. But mostly it's just about kind of camaraderie.
Watch some games on the TVs in there, maybe jump
into a conversation with some of the people sitting at
the high tops in the bar. Or just go back,

(30:22):
sit in the booth and enjoy your food. They'll bring
it right out to you. Berryhill dot Com b e
r r Y berry Hill one word, Well, I guess
in the email it would be or the url Berryhill
dot Com. Go check it out. You're gonna love that place.

Speaker 2 (30:37):
Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 3 (30:46):
Yes, it is mister announcer man fifty plus. Yeah, that's me, Dougpike.
He's Will Melbourne and where are we will? Fourth segment,
Good Heaven seven minutes or so? Do that? Yeah, all right,
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Speaker 1 (31:08):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (31:08):
This is something I just found interesting about Doze. There's
Doze news here and Doze News there.

Speaker 4 (31:15):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (31:16):
And the left continues to claim that Doze's numbers are wrong,
that big government is good, and and on and on
and on, And every time I read something from liberals
about what Doze is and and what it's doing and
how bad it is, I'm reminded of the dozen or
so snippets I've seen on Facebook and other social media
sources that ponder the kind of the hypocrisy of people

(31:37):
who who've been picking our pockets for years and how
they're getting angry now that people have caught them red
handed doing what they've been doing. They're in a lot
of cases not even challenging the the idiocy of some
of the things they've spent our money on. They're just
mad because they got caught. They're mad because the gravy

(32:02):
train they've been on for years is has pulled out
of the station and it isn't coming back. I saw
something else that was pretty interesting too. Oh gosh, there's
four or five of them here. Actually, there's just so many.
I'll leave that one alone. Uh well, let's go back
to you. Let's soften it and then we'll harden it

(32:22):
and then soften it again. It's like a bad cake
in the oven. Have you ever baked a cake from
starting to finish now? And you could use a mix?
Did you do it from scratch or use a mix?

Speaker 2 (32:34):
My mix?

Speaker 3 (32:35):
Yeah? Same here?

Speaker 2 (32:36):
That's okay.

Speaker 3 (32:36):
No, I'm not gonna beat you up or using a
cake mix. If I have a recipe in front of me,
I can follow it, and I'm sure you could as well.
But why on earth would I try to go out
and buy all those ingredients that are in a cake
when I could just get the box and have the
mix and just throw in a couple of eggs, a
little butter and call it a day. Right now, throw

(32:57):
it in the oven, mix it up good. Have you
ever made a really? Have you ever made a pie?
It's out of curiosity?

Speaker 2 (33:05):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (33:06):
What kind coconut cream?

Speaker 3 (33:08):
Real?

Speaker 1 (33:08):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (33:09):
Make me one. No, I thought it was worth a try.
I don't know why I expected a different answer, but
it was worth a try. Not even for my birthday?
Will nope? Um, okay, I've never baked a pie. I
don't recall bacing one anyway. And if I did, now
let me ask you this. Did you buy a store
about crust, the ready made crush your throat it in

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the oven with the filling in it, call it to day.

Speaker 4 (33:33):
I can't remember. It was a long time agore.

Speaker 3 (33:35):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, suddenly amnesia all of a sudden. Can't
remember whether I took the easy way and I would
have as well. I'm not. I certainly can't beat you
up on cooking. I haven't done much of that lately, myself.
Too much of a good thing tapping out or has
anybody seen George? As anybody seeing George? This story is

(33:57):
actually revived from twenty sixteen but making the rounds on
the internet and social media. Again, I'm not sure why
company in Spain a while back, what would that be?
Nine years ago, decided it wanted to honor a sixty
nine year old employee who was working there so long.

(34:19):
And then when they started digging and trying to figure
out what he did and where he was, they realized
that he hadn't even shown up to work in six
years and was still cashing their checks. Like, man, that's
about the easiest job you could ever get. I would
think it's pretty cool, Yeah, wouldn't it be? There's me ideas,

(34:41):
you know, well, there there are some There are some
people recently who have been basically not doing their jobs
and getting getting booted in the federal government, this giant, monstrous,
weird collective of people. It just some of the things
that we hear that those just found out are just

(35:02):
almost unbelievable, but they're real, and it's just very frustrated,
very frustrating people working from different towns, people never coming
into the office and just taking those checks because nobody's
challenged them on it. We'll get to we'll get past

(35:22):
all that. We will and we'll be a better country
for it. Absolutely. We will be a better country for it.
Hunter Biden back in the news indirectly though it's not
anything specific to Hunter this time, but the whistleblowers, the IRS,
whistleblowers who came out and shut down Hunter's a good
deal on the alleged tax crimes two years ago. Right

(35:46):
after they did that, they were kind of ostracized by
the service taking off the case. They just got kind
of pushed aside, if you will, well, turns out just
this week or maybe late last week, I'm I'm not sure,
but they've been given promotions in the IRS, and we'll
move up through the ranks to make that place better

(36:08):
than it was when the people above them decided it
was a good thing to take them off that case
and just kind of tuck them in a corner somewhere
and really not let them do what they're supposed to do.
So hats off to them. They deserve that. I'll leave
that one alone. I'll leave that one alone, and I'll

(36:31):
go back to the soft page. Well, because there's some
good stuff here, come and take it. Mailing it in
or five years later, five years later. What are we
marking five years later today? And not just specifically today,
but right about now, what happened five years ago?

Speaker 4 (36:54):
Oh, what happened five years ago? The pandemic started?

Speaker 1 (36:58):
It did.

Speaker 3 (36:59):
Indeed, this is the five of your anniversary of COVID.
A poll found that forty seven percent of Americans. This
has nothing to do with the shot or no shot,
isolation or no isolation, any of that. But a poll
about COVID found that forty seven percent of Americans think
that we have become what since the pandemic hit will

(37:24):
way way cooler. Yeah, well, aside from that, No, it
wasn't a poll of just you and me. Oh okay,
so bigger brush, paint with a bigger brush. Oh, generally
Americans are more what they are angree. You know. That's
not a bad guess. I have to give you partial

(37:44):
credit on a one hundred to one hundred scale. I
would have to give you like seventy on that seventy
five maybe because the actual answer is that we are ruder.
That's what the poll found, that we are ruder. And
on the way no, that's not even fun to do.
On the way out, I'll just stick with being rude

(38:05):
from COVID. Do you feel like you've encountered more rude people. Honestly,
now that I think about it, I kind of do.

Speaker 4 (38:14):
I don't know if I've encountered more rude people just
in my day to day life, but well, I'm kind
of just a bundle of joy.

Speaker 3 (38:23):
Well that's true. Well I think we can say though,
that the whole world, the whole world changed and it
really kind of messed everybody up. And I'm glad to
see that we're five years out now and maybe it'll
continue to get better, as I believe it is. We'll
talk tomorrow. Thank you for listening. Audios