Storms, Savings & Second Chances

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Welcome to yet another edition of fifty plus, this one
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on a Friday, and an absolutely beautiful Friday, hittering what
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we had yesterday and what we were told to expect
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from what happened yesterday. Now that we're on the backside
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of Bertha figuratively at least, that doesn't sound right when
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you say it the way I said it, does it?
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On the backside of Bertha. Yeah, Honestly, that was as
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tropical storms go. That was about as good a result
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as anyone possibly could have hoped. There was a lot
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of rain out in Fort ben County, out where I live.
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Four to six inches of it I heard in a
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fairly short time. But otherwise, yeah, pretty much just a
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rainy day. When I left work around I don't know
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what it was late, I know that, but I had
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a conversation with my son. It was still raining pretty
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hard and he wanted to go into town. We were
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out in Sugarland, and he wanted to go into town
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to visit with a friend of his. And at that
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point I hadn't really looked at the weather channel, I
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hadn't looked at radar to see what was coming, and
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I just that we were in the midst of a
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tropical storm, and that's about all I knew, and that
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it was a week one, thank goodness. But the long
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and the short of it was, I didn't want him
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being anywhere in town and trying to come back out
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where we are late at night, which is his typical
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mo He goes and hangs out with his buddies here there, everywhere.
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They all go out to eat and just have a
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good time. And I didn't want him driving home and
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winding up in a flooded street somewhere and can't get out.
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And when I got home, I went ahead and took
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a look at the Weather Channel's radar, and I had
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to run it two or three times to really see
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and believe what I was looking at. There were still
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a few little green patches on the screen out kind
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of close to where we were. But after that, when
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I ran the next six hours, nothing holy is that.
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It is that all Bertha is going to drop on us.
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And when I got settled again, I settled up around
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the house, and you know, I better check that radar again,
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and darned if it wasn't just clear as a bell,
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just clear as a bell everywhere. So as the cliche goes,
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all's well, that ends well, and Bertha is nothing but
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a memory now. And while I was here yesterday, I
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spent some time watching the surf build along the coast
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as that storm moved our way. Early. When I thought
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we probably would have had at least some sort of
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a pulse coming off of that off of Bertha, there
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was nothing. The surf was basically flat. I don't think
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you could have pushed a toddler off on a long
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board and had that little toddler catch the wave. It
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was just that flat. All up and down our coast
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because we were on what's called the dry side of
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the storm, and all of us here should know that.
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And if you don't the counterclockwise rotation, the front end
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of that thing is gonna be offshore wind, and it's
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the backside that's pulling wind and waves on shore. And
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that none of that built up as this thing kept
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coming across until I'd say mid to late afternoon, and
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that's when all the surfers I was watching on a
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couple of cameras I look at on saltwater recon they
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kept moving farther and farther offshore to catch bigger and
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bigger waves. And for a lot of them, the way
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they sat in the water, the way they tried to
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paddle for waves, the waves they were in at that
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point probably were the biggest they had ever encountered in
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their lives. And for my crowd, that the older surfers
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in the audience here, it was just a solid chest
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hide ahead, high day, kind of mushy, but still fun.
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Even mushy little waves are fun, and mushy big waves
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are just a little bit more fun. I wish it
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had cleaned up when the surf was still big and
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given some of those guys a chance to really really
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ride bigger waves, because we just don't get those options
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very often around here. I used to surf a lot,
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I really did. I had several different boards for different
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wave days, different waxes for different water tempera. I was
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all set up, and you really don't need that much equipment.
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You just need. You need a board, and you need
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wax and courage in a leash these days. I grew
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up before leash has ever existed. If you got connected
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from your board out there two three hundred yards offshore
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on a big day, you didn't have a whole lot
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of options. And I don't care whether you were riding away,
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whether you're trying to punch through one that was breaking
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on your head while you were paddling out. If you
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let go of that board, you had to swim to
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catch it, and if you didn't, if a few more
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waves kept shoving it towards the beach as you scrambled
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trying to catch up to it, you wound up having
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to swim all the way back to the beach, and
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then even worse, because of the way the currents work
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on big days, you probably had to walk one hundred
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hundred and fifty yards down the beach to go retrieve
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your board. I was never, never thinking back on it
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in better physical shape in my life than when I
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was surfing a couple of times a week pretty much
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year round, and a couple of days a week more
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even in the summer when there was waves. When there
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were waves, excuse me. And one more thing I remember
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about big days back then, and we were still allowed
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to do it was jumping off the piers to avoid
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having to make that long paddle. You just go on
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the pier, carry your board out there and wait for
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a lull between a few waves, throw your board over,
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and then jump right behind it a little farther out,
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just in case a wave came along and moved it shorreward.
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You didn't want to jump inside where your board landed.
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You always wanted to jump outside, And then of course
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you had to make sure you swam like crazy to
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go catch it before a wave found it. And if
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we weren't using a peer to get an advantage on
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paddling out, we'd go to the jetties down at surfside
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and just walk all the way out past where it
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was breaking, dive in there and then find our way
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back on hopefully some good rides back to the beach.
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Good lord, I have gone through this entire segment talking
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about surfing. I apologize to those of you who've never
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surfed and don't care, but yesterday I was really hoping
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those young people down there would have gotten some better
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waves than they did. But that's surfing in Texas, all right.
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On the way out here, Let's see it up with
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Midway Meat Market out there in Katie. It's been there
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fifty seven years, in case you're not familiar, and it's
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very easy, very convenient to pretty much any part of Houston,
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unless maybe you're over way way way over on the
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east side. And even then, why not go to a
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place like that. You might arrive hungry. If you do,
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you can just go over to the lunch counter and
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get yourself something deep, great barbecue lunch if you want that,
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or maybe just an old fashioned cheeseburger. And by old fashion,
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i'm talking about they've been there fifty seven years and
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open seven days a week, taking care of people who
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want to pick up a little ground beef, maybe that
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grind that fresh daily, maybe some big old thick steaks,
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maybe some pork chops, you name it. They've got a beef,
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chicken and pork cut the way you want, plus twenty
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five flavors of premium sausage, and of course a lunch
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counter there. Case that long drive you made from the
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far side of town got you hungry. If you go
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into Midway meat Market, there's no reason whatsoever to go
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away hungry. Cheeses, spices, rubs, all the grab and ghost snacks.
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Midway Meatmarket dot Com is a website. They're on Old
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Highway ninety a couple of miles west of ninety nine
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off I ten. It's not that hard. Just plug it
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into your GPS. Midwaymeetmarket dot Com. That's Midwaymeetmarket dot Com.
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All right, welcome back to fifty plus on this bright
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and sunny Friday afternoon. Holy cow, what a difference a
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day makes, huh So long Bertha left virtually outside of
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Fort Benn County, virtually no impact from Bertha really so. Meanwhile,
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back in the real world, I'm somewhat sad to report
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that an illegal immigrant from El Salvador was arrested this
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week in connection with the hit and run deaths of
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three people in North Carolina, and as it turns out,
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as it so frequently does. We had this guy in
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custody years ago, right up to the time he was
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released by the Obama administration. That's been a hot minute, right.
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He's got more than one prior to dating back to
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twenty fifteen. For he's got hit and run, reckless endangerment,
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driving without a license, failing to stop after an accident.
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This guy's no choir boy, and he proved just how
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dangerous and stupid he was this week in North Carolina
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when he killed three people. Now that doesn't really impact
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you or me, okay, but it darn shore knocks the
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wind out of the families who suddenly have to plan funerals,
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learn how to cope with a tragic, preventable loss. They
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shouldn't have to do that. And to lighten the mood
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a little bit, I'm gonna go back over to the
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outdoors for a minute. I'm not gonna talk about surfing anymore,
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I promise. But and this story I'm gonna mention now
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is I'm gonna cover at length on Saturday. I think
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it's really cool on my outdoor show over on KB
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and Me. The story of an eight hundred year old
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tradition across most of Europe. Not around here, but most
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of Europe. We're in. Men and women and kids wind
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up at the Deer Calling World Championships, held every year
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in Dorman, that's a city in western Germany. And there
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they gather either to produce the sounds made by red
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stags or to hear other people do that, and they
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use their own voices, They use shells and some handmade
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devices to get those sounds just exactly right of the
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sounds that red stags make in their everyday lives. And
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that might seem kind of silly and a waste of
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time to a lot of people, but it's certainly it's
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not a whole lot different from our duck and goose
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calling Championships over here, only we haven't been doing it
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for eight hundred years. America hadn't been doing anything for
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eight hundred years. But I would say that we've done
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a darn good job of what we have done in
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the past two hundred and fifty and so back across
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the ocean for a few minutes, and on a personal note,
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my one and only trip to Europe, okay, and actually
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technically to Sweden on a week long fishing trip years ago,
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I found my way there and was escorted around by
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the people who were hosting this trip. And on the
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way to and from some of these fishing days we had,
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we got to stop and visit with people from around
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there and see how they lived and whatnot. I saw
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structures in countryside unchanged for centuries, the Swedish equivalent of
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our barbed wire fences, for example. They were just walls
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high enough to keep sheep from jumping over them that
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were constructed hundreds of years ago, one bowling ball sized
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stone at a time. I can't imagine how long it
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would take to put up some of these fences, to
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gather the rocks and just do all of that, but
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it was fascinating. I stood in a barn. This is
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the history side of me. It just is. I stood
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in a barn on one man's farm, thatched roof and all.
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And I asked, because I was really curious, when was
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this barn built. Oh yeah, this barn late sixteen hundreds,
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and it's probably still standing there today. If it lasted
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that long. Yeah, it's gonna be there when you and
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I are gone. In half of our heirs for the
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next ten generations are gone. History does fascinate me, It
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really does. My father majored in it at twu Lane University,
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So I come by this curiosity honestly. Born and raised
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in New Orleans, he was, and he had uncles who
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lived in the French Quarter, and when the last one passed,
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there were two of them. They lived in the same
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house down in the French Quarter, right in the heart
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of it all. Place would have been worth a fortune today.
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It wound up being my dad who was charged with
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clearing the house after the later living of the two
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brothers finally passed, And that took a lot longer than
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it probably should have because they had had stacks of
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newspapers in there, and Dad couldn't toss one out until
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he'd looked at every headline. And one of those headlines,
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his favorite, among some truly historical treasures he tripped over,
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was this. This was just a and it was a
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small piece. It was maybe two columns wide and about
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maybe two inches deep. It wasn't a big story, but
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the headline was this Lincoln, an unknown running for office.
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Everything starts somewhere right. Oh, and while I'm thinking about it,
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I want to go back and spend one more minute
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or so on that story about co host of The View,
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Sonny Hoston whose grown man's son got in a little
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trouble and called his mom in hope she could flex
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him out of that trouble. This isn't about him, though,
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It's about about his mom and her hypocrisy. She talked.
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I saw a story in which she talked about a
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year ago or so, maybe two years about wanting equal
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legal treatment for everybody, that everybody deserved the same recognition
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under the law. And then when her son gets caught
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on city property behind a gate with a no trespass
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on and I mentioned earlier yesterday, I think it was
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I don't think that what he did was terrible. I
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don't think he should have gotten in much trouble, if any,
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for doing what he did. This guy's a thirty year
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old runner, he's a school teacher, Harvard graduate. He could
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have handled the situation by himself. But you know, like
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equal treatment affords him the opportunity to exercise for some reason,
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calling his mom and on speaker. Interestingly enough, if you
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go back and listen, she told her son to tell
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the police, said tell him, I'm a federal prosecutor. And
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then I guess she checked herself and after that one,
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that little knee jerk slip up, she referred to herself
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correctly as a former, a former federal prosecutor. And she
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even drove over there. She drove over there to flex
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a little more, which is hardly an example of equal
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justice for everyone. And like I said, this guy was
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he can handle himself. He could have taken care of
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that and probably had the same outcome. And from what
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I saw online, he does seem like a good guy.
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But mom, being a mom, she chose to interfere and
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throw her weight around a little sort of ruined that
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whole equality pitch for her. I guess not everybody's mom
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is or was a federal prosecutor. What next? Oh, here's
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one I like from the Jasmine Crocket file, which which
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frankly is growing thinner and thinner as people realize just
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who she really is and what she really stands for.
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She actually tried to get attention last week by somehow
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tying rooting for Argentina in the World Cup to racism.
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Racism exists, I'll concede that, But every time that word
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is used inappropriately, as it was here, it loses a
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little of its impact on the people who hear it.
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Not everything can be rooted in racism, And leaning back
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into my own ongoing social experiment, I find the overwhelming
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majority of people, regardless of where they are, where they're from,
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what they look like, most of us are just paddling
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the same canoe. We're worrying about the cost of stuff,
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we worry about our health and our children, and I'll
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guess the most of us also just wish we could
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could get the politicians and activists to sit down, quit
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paying protesters, and shut up. And to balance this segment
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out with some better news, if you'll recall last week
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I talked about a bunch of beluga whales that were
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stranded up north at an abandoned marine park near Niagara Falls,
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I think on the Canadian side, and the little whales
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were supposed to be transferred to better quarters soon, and
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I'm pretty sure that's all been completed now. A couple
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of them actually came to San Antonio SeaWorld. Four of
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them wound up at Chicago's Shed Aquarium wherever and whatever
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that is, and I can't recall where the rest of
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them were going, but I'm pretty dog on sure their
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new quarters are going to be way better than the
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old ones. So three cheers for the beluga whales, and
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bigger cheers really for the people who all pitched in
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and chipped in and help relocate those things to much
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better living quarters. And once again I'm running up against
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about something that's on lots of minds these days, and
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that is pretty much how to live without going broke.
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I know that's a really simplistic take on the pinch
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a lot of us are feeling. But when you boil
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it down, that's kind of where a lot of people are.
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Prices are up, and that's that's not news to anybody
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in this audience. Really, prices always go up, and we
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can adjust to gradual bumps, but it's those unexpected things
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that hurt, like avian flu, wiping out a bajillion egg
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laying hens or iran closing the strait of horror moves.
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But as crazy as things seem now, there are ways
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to stretch whatever income you've got coming in. And my
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guest budgeting expert Trey Bodge, who by the way, has
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been seen almost every major network. You've probably seen her
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before yourself and leaned in and listened to what she
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was telling you or telling us. She's got pretty simple
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tricks really, and tips on how to make nickel spin
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like dimes and quarters.
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Welcome back, Trey, Oh, thanks so much for having me back.
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I read some stuff from AARP this morning about just
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what you're here to discuss, which is stretching money. Talk
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about the things summertime Americans tend to cut out most
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quickly when money gets tied, and why that's a good
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or bad idea.
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Yeah. So the thing that I'm seeing that's falling by
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the wayside is travel. And you know, travel is so expensive,
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but it's also so important. It's so important to go away,
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get a break, especially if you're traveling with family. It's
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such a good opportunity to connect. And so what I'm
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seeing is that families are forgoing that trip rather than
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kind of looking at travel a little bit differently. What
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we often find is that grandparents are paying for the
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family for these big ticket trips, you know, maybe it's
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an all inclusive resort or a theme park. I suggest
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that everyone look at travel a little bit differently, so
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look for discounted options. Maybe consider a road trip, or
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everyone piles from the car and meets up halfway. You
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can still do your family trip, just maybe not the
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same way you've been doing it all along.
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That's a good point, and I guess for a lot
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of people in this audience an AARP membership or a
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membership in maybe in your your bank, maybe your points
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you're getting on your bank card or whatever. There are
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special discounts even for seniors for a lot of these things,
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aren't there.
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Absolutely? You know, seniors can do really well if they
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take advantage of those savings. And a really good base
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camp to those discounts is ARP. That ARP membership, which
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is only twenty dollars a year, gives you access to
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all these amazing benefits. So we're talking about travel. If
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you're an ARP member, you can get ten percent discount
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on flexible bookings that win them hotels and resorts, or
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up to twenty percent just by booking at least seven
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days in advance. That's twenty percent off your hotel bill.
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So rather than an all inclusive resort, maybe you do
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a Windom stay and you have the whole family gather
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and everyone gets to see each other, and you save
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twenty percent at the same time.
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Twenty percent is a big chunk of a travel budget,
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isn't it. Really that's a lot.
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Absolutely, so it's up to twenty percent. Of course it
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depends on the room and all of that stuff, but
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that is a significant discount.
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And of course, think of all the money we're saving
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right now, Trey by not buying.
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Lettuce exactly, skipping the lettuce for now, that's one thing
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we could check off the grocery list.
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Oh my gosh, what about household things, just the everyday
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stuff that we use, the groceries, the lighting, the air conditioning.
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For sure down here it was one hundred and three
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yesterday something like that. How can we kind of save
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on those without really becoming uncomfortable.
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Yeah, So, first of all, let's tackle groceries real fast.
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So we're seeing those prices up high. So a couple things,
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if you're not doing this already, off to the store
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brand versus the same brand. Join any available loyalty programs
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so you can earn points towards exclusive discounts and free food.
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Pay with a credit card that's giving you points or
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miles for all of those purchases. So that's kind of
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on the food front. And then you know, when we're
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talking about keeping our homes cool, a couple things here.
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You know, first of all, keep your blinds and curtains
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closed during the day because the sunlight, even though it's
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fabulous to have those rates coming in, it is heating
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up your home. So keep those lines closed. Don't run
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those hot devices during the day, like your oven or
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your clothes dryer. Try to run those either early in
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the morning or late at night. And then opt for
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fans when you can, because if you have a ceiling
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fan and it's running counterclockwise, it'll push the cool air down,
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so you might not need the AC if you use
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a ceiling fan properly.
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It's a good idea right there. For sure. The one
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thing I was thinking about doing to my I've got
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windows in an upstairs room that I'm going to put
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that infrared protection film on. It's not going to block
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all the light, but it'll knock that heat back. And
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I had a friend of mine just yesterday tell me
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he did it on an office wall, a wall window,
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a very big large window in an office, and within
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two or three hours the temperature came down like eight
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degrees in there.
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Oh my gosh, that's a great idea. I have to
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look into that.
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Oh yeah, he told me, I'll tell you and you'll
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look into it and tell everybody what that's right. But
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he said, don't worry about UV rays, they're not the
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heat ones. You've got to get a film that protects
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from the infrared rays. That's where the heat is. Another tip.
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Thank you, well, thank you, I appreciate it. How on
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earth are we supposed to squeeze the most mileage we
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can out of a tank of gas these days?
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Yeah, that's a tough one, right, but that we do
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have some control over gas prices, even though it seems
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like a crazy roller coaster and also stressful. A couple
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things to keep in mind whenever you're getting ready to
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fill your tank. First of all, don't go to the
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first gas station you see. Look around because you can
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the prices can fluctuate widely. If there is a gas
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station that you usually like join their loyalty program, like
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for example, Exxon Mobile Rewards Plus is a really good one.
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They give you lots of benefits, and if you happen
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to be an ARP member and you link those memberships
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on the ARP site, you can earn extra points every
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time you fill up, extra points on convenience store items
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and car wash, and even double points on dedicated member days.
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We'll take advantage of those membership benefits and then also
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look for cash offers. You can say five to ten
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cents per gallon by buying in cash with the stations
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that offer it, or use a credit card that gives
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you points or miles on every purchase to let that
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purchase go a little bit farther.
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Those are good ideas, and we're still we're still putting
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good on gas. I think I'm paying like three forty
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something like that for a gallon of gas.
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Oh that's low. Yeah, we're up over I'm in New Jersey.
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We're up over four right now.
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Oh.
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I hate that for you. I feel like Trey Bodge
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here on fifty plus. I feel like some of the
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strain on families for travel, going back to that for
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a minute, comes from peer pressure, like trying to keep
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up with the neighbors. They just got back from Hawaii
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and now they're going to be off in Italy next week.
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You can't let that influence your own family's decisions.
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Can you. Oh that's such a good point. And I
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feel like peer pressure filters into so many things. So,
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like you said, those big trips that you see other
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people so and so I was buying a bigger house
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or a nicer car. It's really important to stay where
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you are and be honest with what you can afford.
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And those trips, those big trips, you don't have to
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do that this year. You know, there was one year
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that prices were really high. My family and I did
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a road trip down into the Carolinas. We live in
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New Jersey, and it was a fabulous trip and we
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were not paying what other friends were paying going to
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Portugal or Grease or whatever the hot place of the
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year was. So it's okay not to do what everyone
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else is doing.
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That's it's sad that we have to have permission, and
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anybody feels like they need permission in their mind to
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not try to keep up with the Joneses, because there's
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always going to be somebody has more a good friend
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of mine told me one time, and this guy he's loaded, Okay,
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he's got plenty of money, and he I just jokingly said,
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why don't you buy an airplane? He goes, well, if
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I buy an airplane, then all I'm going to do
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is look at my friend who's got the bigger airplane,
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and I'm gonna want the bigger airplane. And it's just
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it's a never ending cycle. So he's just decided, if
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I need to fly somewhere, I'll get on with everybody
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else and fly somewhere. I'm you know, I wish I
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had his problems sometimes.
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But you know what I'm that's how those problems.
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He's a really grounded guy though, too, and he invests
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in other things. Then then the luxury of having his
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own airplane. A friend of his uh told him that
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his wife brings his airplane from Dallas to Houston once
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a month. It's like a pretty good sized jet. She
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flies in Houston wants a month to go shopping with
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her dog, and then they fly back the same day.
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Yeah, oh my goodness, Well those are those are very
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nice problems to have more.
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To them, Yes, they are. You, on the other hand,
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are helping people pretty much every time you open your
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mouth or write something online, helping us all get through
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this without needing jetplane money.
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Thank you for that, my pleasure. Thank you so much
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for having me.
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It is my pleasure, believe me. Where can they find
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you online?
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They can find me at truetrade dot com or at
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true tray.
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On Instagram, fantastic t r u e t r AE
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so they get it right the first time. Truetrade dot com.
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Thank you so much. I really appreciate it.
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Thank you so much. It was a pleasure.
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And on the way out here, I want to remind
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you about ut Health Institute on Aging if you're unfamiliar.
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This is a collaborative of thousands of providers in this region,
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all of whom have gone back and gotten additional training
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to whatever got them their degree, their diploma, their credentials
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as medical people, whatever. They go back and learn how
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to apply that knowledge to seniors. And that's a really
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big deal for us anybody, and everybody in the senior
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category is different from everybody else in the junior and
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middle age and all that categories. We need providers who
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can help us. Go to the website UTH dot edu
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slash Aging and look at all the free resources there
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for starters. And then if you need somebody to handle
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a particular condition you're dealing with and you're not getting
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the help you want, start your search there ut dot
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edu slash aging, uth dot edu slash aging. All right,
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welcome back to the fourth and final segment of fifty
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plus for this day, this Friday afternoon, bright and sunny
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after yesterday's version of it, which was accompanied by tropical
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Storm Bertha, who turned out to be quite the lightweight,
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which just happens to be exactly what we were wishing
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for and praying for. Frankly, around my house, I don't
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mind praying at all that storms don't hurt anybody, don't
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tear stuff up. I know that's gonna happen eventually, but
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the longer we can postpone it, the better as far
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as I'm concerned. And if praying's gonna help, then, by gosh,
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I'm gonna pray about it. Leaning over toward Iran for
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a minute or two more, I'm having a little difficulty
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at this point understanding how after we we've had to
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keep going back and bombing military targets seemingly every day
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for quite some time, now I'm having a hard time
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with figuring out how or why we have it pretty
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much hit almost every military target they've got. I understand
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that we're being exceptionally careful about collateral damage, and I
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plot our armed forces for being able to blow up
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a hangar full of drones without spilling a drop of
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tea from the cup on a table next door. That's
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precision and that greatly reduces collateral damage, and I'm all
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for that. I also understand that the Iranians have miles
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and miles of tunnels underground too, though, where they store stuff,
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and we haven't been able to get in and blow
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all that up just yet. But somehow, some way, as
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President Trump said a few times lately, we do need
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to finish the job, and we need to do it
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pretty quickly. And in the end, I suppose that's not
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really easy to do when you're dealing with a regime
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that has no concerns whatsoever over the well being of
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its own people, has not a they've never lived up
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to an agreement with anyone, not a single shred of honesty,
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and for several decades now, all they've done is annoy
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everybody around them, and between them and there wanna be army,
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the hooties, the terrorist over there. They are forcing upon
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the region an escalation that they're not going to be
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able to stop. Speaking of hot messes that can't be stopped.
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By the way, the cyclospora outbreak seems to be settling
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out a little bit, but not before the left had
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a chance to blame. You want to take a while,
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guess what the left is blaming for causing the cyclospora outbreak.
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How about climate change? Yeah, this stuff is caused by uh,
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it's a human poop problem. It's not a climate problem
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at all. And yet they just couldn't resist the chance
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to feed into the news stream this ridiculous notion, which
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I'm sure many of their useful idiots will just lap
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up like dog food to a dog, this notion that
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climate changed caused the cyclospora outbreak. I don't know where,
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I don't know who makes this stuff up. But the
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only thing more preposterous than making up a story that
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cyclospora outbreak, that's this horrible, horrible affliction, if you will,
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is caused by climate change. The only thing more preposterous
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is that there are actually people, grown men and women
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who believe that it makes about as much sense as
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saying that earthquakes are caused by donuts. Let's shift back
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over to some good news. By the way, I saw
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this yesterday and I just couldn't help but share it
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today because it's groundbreaking medical news once again, and I'm
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in the twelve years I've done this show gotten to
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cover some really really amazing things, and this qualifies. A
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man paralyzed from the neck down is now able to
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pet his dog and feed himself and more, I'm sure
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after surgery that was performed on him, a double neural bypass.
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I don't even really know how to explain that. Essentially,
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what they've done is connect his brain to a computer,
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and that has enabled him to tell the computer use
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his brain, which is still purely functional, to tell the
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computer what it wants his arm to do. And it
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happens He's regain sensation, regain function in one of his arms,
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and even when the computer is turned off, he can
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still pass those instructions somehow that I really don't understand.
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But the possibilities are just endless, really, And like any
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of these stories about great medical breakthrough, science remains a
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very long way from these procedures becoming run of the mill,
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but they do shine a really bright light of hope
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on people whose outlook wouldn't have been nearly so bright otherwise,
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And you know, as luck would have it. There's a
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third outdoors related story that I want to tell on
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fifty plus this morning, and I'm going to talk about
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probably all three of them tomorrow on my Outdoors show
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tomorrow or Sunday when I'm over on KBME in the morning.
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This one is about people who lived four thousand years ago,
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but it's still pretty interesting to any of us who
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have any fascination whatsoever with the outdoors and with hunters
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and gatherers and whatnot and traditional roles just kind of
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throw all that out the window and hear this from
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the Good News Network. The story the items that were
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found in the burial tombs of Egyptian princesses were thought
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by some of the people who originally found them to
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be just tools that happened to be lying around it,
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kind of putting stuff in there that maybe didn't belong.
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Other people thought they might be just symbolic. But now
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after a whole lot of discussion over pintes, I'm sure,
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and also some very very detailed research into the mummies
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that were found in these tombs, in these burial chambers,
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they have determined that not only do they know that
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these were princesses who were in there, but it turns
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out that based on their muscular structure and the way
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their bones attached to their muscles and whatnot, they have
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deduced somehow that these women, these princesses, were skilled archers
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in their time. Some of that deduction comes from the
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things they found, of course, like bows and arrows, But
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as I said, the rest was from studying very closely
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their bodies, which showed that muscle attachment that is required
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for people to draw and hold bows. They didn't have
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compound bows back then. This would have all been just
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straight up a stick in a string, and it took
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a lot of muscle to hold long enough to aim
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and get that done. There are even some bone fractures,
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little small bone fractures that are indicative of overuse of
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certain muscles and limbs and whatnot. Just fascinating it really is.
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Who knows. Maybe they well, I would say they weren't
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the first female bowhunters, They certainly were among the first.
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I still got a little time here, and there's one
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I want to mention a guy named Tom mckeeviick out
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in California actually working at a senior center and is,
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after working there a long time, quite a senior himself.
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This guy, I think this past week ors I don't
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know when it exactly when it was, but he just
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turned the corner on fifty years at that job without
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ever taking a single sick day. I'm not sure how
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that's possible, but some of us are just born with
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healthy jeens, I guess, in the good sense not to
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eat or drink stuff that'll make you sick. My father
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in law passed a couple of years ago in his
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late nineties, and to my knowledge and from what I've heard,
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never spent a night in a hospital or took any
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prescription meds in his life. That's just crazy, but it happened.
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The story goes that his mother gave him a spoonful
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of castor oil every morning, so maybe that has something
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to do with it. Who knows, You never know. So
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that's why it's important, as far as I'm concerned, to
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just enjoy every day we get on the way to
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wherever our road's going to come to an end. And lastly,
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before we have to go on a money saving note
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for the country. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessen announced recently that
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the Trump administration's going to require individual rus who are
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sending money overseas to disclose whether they're receiving public assistance.
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That throws a big blanket over millions of people who
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are in this country right now, many of them illegally,
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but legal or not. If you are sending money abroad
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while you're receiving public assistance from our country, that's going
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to put a big red flag over your name. And
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in a lot of cases, these people are going to
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be barred from sending that money out of our country
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if there are at the same time accepting money from
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US taxpayers. You can bet your last nickel. The Left's
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gonna have a field day with this, but I think
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it makes a lot of sense. If you've got enough
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money to wire it overseas, you got enough money to
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take care of yourself. That's gonna wrap it up for
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fifty plus today. Thank you all for listening. I really
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do appreciate it. Go outside, have some fun. It's sunshiny
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for a change, and if you do something out doorsy,
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give me a call and tell me about it. Over
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on Sports Talk seven ninety I'll be there at seven
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o'clock tomorrow morning. Thanks again, Audio