Litterbox Odor

**SPEAKER_1** (0:01)
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**Doug Pike** (0:54)
All right, here we go, Tuesday morning.

**SPEAKER_1** (0:57)
Darn it, I did it again, Will.

**Doug Pike** (0:59)
Having trouble looking across and looking at Will. A little different look. Somebody put Nair in his shampoo bottle, I believe. So you just decided to cut it off for summer, cool you off a little bit. You know, I'm getting a haircut this afternoon. Not gonna go that extreme, okay?
I can't do that right now, but I understand why you did. And yeah, you're gonna be glad when it's 95 or 105 or... 105 feels like 600 around here. Good for you, man. It's a good look. It's a clean look. I've already gotten used to it. You didn't shave your beard, but you trimmed it up. Yeah, you look pretty snazzy, man.
Ready for a night on the town. You should talk to your fiance about that. How does she feel about it? Yes, thumbs up? Good. I'm glad for you, man. You look sharp. Day two of an extended run of wet warm air around here. Get used to it, newcomers. Get used to it, FIFA fans who are in town.
It's not going away from here for months. It's going to be humid. It's going to be mid 90s after about 10 a.m. and right up to dark. Then overnight lows, if you can really call them that, in the high 70s to around 80 for the next five or six days. It's like Groundhog Day, only wetter, and it just makes you feel like there's somebody riding on your shoulders, somebody who is soaking wet, by the way, riding on your shoulders all day long. And there's a furnace. They brought a furnace, a little pocket furnace along too.
I've lived here near all but, let's see, four, five, all but about six or so years of my life. And I grew accustomed to it as a younger man, and I didn't have any trouble at all with it as a younger man. But as I get a little more senior, able to take advantage of discounts just about everywhere now, yeah, the heat's trying to infiltrate my, trying to get past my defenses. I played golf on Monday and drank, well, that was yesterday. Yeah, yesterday actually wasn't as bad as the past Friday. On Friday this past week, I drank eight bottles of water, a Gatorade and a Propel. Just while we played and then drank some more water on the way home. Yesterday, I limited myself to only six bottles of water somehow, but still had the Gatorade and the Propel, and water on the way home. I try desperately to stay hydrated, and I think that's something every one of us ought to be really cognizant of, especially at our ages, because we're going to dry up pretty fast if we get out in that sun. We're going to sweat out everything we have. And if you get to the point ever outside, where you start to feel like you're not sweating anymore, that's a red flag. That's a red flag that you absolutely positively need to get out of the heat. Another is feeling disoriented. I've never gotten to that point with the heat, but I have looked down and realized, even in this climate, that I wasn't sweating anymore. And I don't know how they gauge that in places that are dry, these dry heat places like Arizona, and even up in the kind of north central Texas, I was up there for a sporting event many years ago and participating in this sporting event.
And I was, I was doing the same amount of work that I did to do the same task down here.
But down here, when I did that amount of work, I was sweating profusely up there, dry as a bone. Not even, not even under my arms damp. It was just, I was dry as a bone. And I wasn't sick, I didn't feel bad. There was no problem with the heat itself. It just evaporated all the moisture that was coming out of me before I could even feel it. And that was a new and weird sensation. Moving on, in the markets, Dow was the only one of the big four I watch regularly that was in the green this morning, as of about a half an hour ago, a hundred and something points up, which measured against what, 50,000 isn't much. NASDAQ was off almost a point and a half though, and the S&P was down not quite a full point. That tech sell off is scaring some people, but I think the algorithmic moves when stocks get low enough that they trigger buys are kind of keeping everything in check and kind of keeping most people from thinking the sky is falling. Gold shed almost 50 bucks. It was at $41.54 half an hour ago per ounce. And oil, holy cow, this is getting kind of nice. Oil, just a dime and two pennies, a little about 15 minutes ago, north of $73.