February 10, 2026 • 33 mins
Today, Doug Pike discusses the weather, the stock market, and orcas.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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because you were the TV remote. Remember when music sounded
like this, Remember when social media was truly social? Hey John,
how's it going today? Cool? This show is all about you.
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And now fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Bye and welcome board on this yet another seasonably warmer
than usual.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Day across Southeast Texas.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I think one of the forecaster people last night on TV,
right before I crashed out and went to bed, said
something about it being five to ten degrees warmer than
normal for this time of year, and so be it.
I got no problem with seventy five and seventy eight
degree days. We've got some more of them coming up
to It might even tickle eighty degrees today, who knows.
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With that ever popular heaping helping of Southeast Texas humidity,
oh my gosh, might even get you feeling a little
sticky if you do anything more than just stand still. Outside,
go try to hit a couple of golf balls. Definitely
break a sweat. Take a brisk walk in anything heavier
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than shorts and.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
A T shirt. That's gonna break a sweat.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Slight chance for rain tomorrow, and then a pretty safe
bet for rain Friday night or Saturday, and that's about it.
We got a pretty good shot of rain a couple
of nights ago. I think it was late in the
evening whenever that I much needed my yard. I still
haven't had to run the entire sprinkler system just yet
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since the freeze, and since I reopened.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
All the piping to the system.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I turned it on briefly to make sure I had
turned it off right, and then I'd got it back
on right. But then that rain came and I didn't
have to use it again. If you've been out of
the country or under a rock for the past week
or so, stock market's done quite well of late. The
tal surged again this morning. I didn't look right before
I came in here, and I may regret that if
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I'll do it during the break and see just where
the dow is now. But this morning it was at
fifty thousand, three hundred and change. And at some point,
maybe it's already happened, but at some point the algorithms
are going to trigger some profit taking, and it'll it'll
slump a little bit, nonetheless a steady upward rise. And
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until then the S and P and the Nasdaq. By
the way, we're red, but no more than a demure blush,
if you will, of negative color. Gold found its way back.
Speaking of blushing, it's almost embarrassing how expensive gold is.
And if you've got any you wanted to sell, now
would be.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
A good time.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Now it's above above five thousand dollars an ounce again
oil sadly also up to sixty four dollars and fifty cents.
Now that's not gonna that's not gonna break the bank
when you go try to fill up your tank. But
it's still I would like to see it hanging around
sixty two sixty three? Will are you giving me instruction?
(03:37):
Are you just waving in the air? That was that
light bulb wave that beauty pageant? People on marty gruff floats?
Do are you practicing for something? You got a prize,
you've been awarded.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
You're not telling me about okay, all right?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Stepping gingerly into the news as if I could even
name the current headline stories all in this hour. Actually,
I'll start with one everybody should have figured out before
it even happened, and that is Gulaine Maxwell, former confidante
to Jeffrey Epstein, taking the stand and then taking the
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fifth and saying she'd be happy to spill the beans
on everybody, tell them everything they want to know, if
only she is granted clemency from President Trump. That's all
they gotta do is is grant her clemency and she'll
tell all.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
I don't see that happening. She's locked up right now
and into I think.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
It's a twenty year sentence that she got for her
part in all that was going on. I don't see
a complete free ride for her, but maybe I don't know,
maybe a shorter sentence in exchange for full cooperation. Members
of Congress have access to those files now, mostly unredacted,
some redacted, and when one of the Oversight Committee people
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asked why there were still redaction in what was supposed
to be unredacted stuff, that's how it was when it
got here. We didn't make those redactions. It's just it's
crazy how complex this is and It's also crazy how
many millions of records they've got to sift through. I
don't know how they've gone through all of that. I
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guess it just takes a lot of people and maybe
maybe some help from AI looking for keywords and whatnot.
But they're in there, digging around and they're looking, and
most of what they're finding as they look indicates that
that whole operation might have been even a little bit
scummier than we thought. And we all thought some pretty
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scummy things about what was going on on Epstein Island
and how young women were being abused, and there's even
there's even some information that I've read at two different
sources today that talk about how perhaps some children were
even and by children, I guess they mean underage, not adult,
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yet nonetheless might even have been killed during all of that.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Sad either way, it really is very sad.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I saw a Breitbart story this morning that said more
than half of Americans aren't happy with the way President
Trump's handling the economy, noting specifically that they think he
should be focused on lowering prices, and they think tariffs
aren't working to our benefit. And there's a lot more
going on than that, and I don't know in snapshots
for the short term some of what they say is
actually true. But this president works typically a couple of
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moves ahead of the other players around the board, and
I truly believe that, and I'm confident that we're headed
in a good direction. We've got trillions of dollars in
manufacturing committed by companies that want to come back here
and do business with us, and that's going to be
a tremendous boost to the overall economy. We've got lots
of prices that are already down, and more will be down.
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You can just bet on that more are going to
come down as as some of these different sectors get
just kind of one by one overhauls. And I think
what's happening in some cases that the retail prices have
remained high despite drops to some degree, at least in
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wholesale costs.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
We know fuel cost is down.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Gas was what three fifty four dollars five dollars a gallon,
depending on where you were in the country when before
President Trump Trump got back in office. Now suddenly I'm
all worked up over paying two dollars and thirty five
cents for a gallon of gasoline. I managed, by the way,
never to pay four dollars for a gallon of gas.
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I don't know how, but I managed. I'd look around
and find a station, and I typically use branded stations,
the name brand oil company stations for reasons. I'd be
happy to discuss with somebody an email exchange. Right, Well,
I can't do it now, Will says they got to stop.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
I'll do that.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
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Speaker 1 (09:28):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Thanks for listening to fifty plus on this pretty dog
one nice February day. Holy cow, we only got a
few days before Valentine's Day and it's it's it's not
quite sweat and bullets weather, but it's pretty warm outside.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
From Fox News.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
I wanted to get to this one too. News that
Texas State Rep. Gene Wu and a clip from about
thirteen months ago, actually said that certain racial groups should
unite against what he called their quote common oppressor, end quote,
and take over the country. In Texas, white people are
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rapidly becoming a minority, there's no question about that. But
according to WU, they're still the majority of voters, which
is ridiculous. I think really, any American of lawful voting
age can register to vote, show up at the polls,
and vote. One citizen able to provide citizenship proof equals
one vote. And this guy just it seems to me
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he's just doing nothing more back then, at least, I
don't know what he's doing lately, but he's just kind
of stirring the pot and trying to divide people. And
that's the last thing this country needs right now, is
any more division. I don't understand who would do that
and why. Because if we're ever if we ever all
sit down as Americans and we have calm conversations over
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however long it takes to have them, we're going to
realize that we all kind of want the same things,
but we're just going about it a little differently. We
want a strong country, we want a safe country, and
some people define those things differently. But eventually, at least
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the left probably will see through, or the Democrats among us,
not the far left, the ones who are in office
already and making a mess of things, they'll see through
the clap trap and realize how badly they those people
have played their constituents. It just doesn't I watched some
video right before we came on the air of people protesting,
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and many of them senior citizens, protesting out in California
about immigration and claiming that just one guy said, yeah,
holding up this sign now, but I know they're gonna
come arrest me and throw me in What did he
call it?
Speaker 3 (12:07):
U some some.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Reference to alligator Alcatraz, but he had a more vicious
sounding name for it. I don't know what he called it.
But he was convinced, just because he was standing out
there holding a sign, that they were gonna come take
him away, ship him halfway across the country, all the
way across the country, and then had him let it,
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just let him get lost there, just let him get
just let him die there. And that's just so so absurd.
I don't know how people have allowed themselves to be
convinced or by whom.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
That this is the case. It's just frustrating his sect.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
I'm tired of listening to people standing on street corners
and carrying signs. They just that whole video I watched
was one after another person making all these wild claims
about what our government's doing, and how they're doing it,
to whom they're doing it, and all of these things.
And they are just so pathetically disinformed and gullible that
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they're willing to waste days at a time believing that
we're gonna arrest them. There's two steps from being arrested
and hauled off and never to be seen again. But
they can't back up any of what they're saying with
any facts. They that's the amazing part. They've just been
They've been taught the talking point, but nothing to back
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it up. There's no confirmation, there's no justification for what
they say. They just they've been.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
That's it's almost like brainwashing to believe this stuff.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
That's that has to be right because we heard it
on the radio, because we saw it. Well, they didn't
hear that on the radio. Probably there's not a whole
lot of that going around. They saw it on TV,
or they saw it online and this person or that
person told them that they have to get out there
in March, and all of a sudden, there's really nothing
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that's just hot air. It's just hot air. I'll shift
gears and do something a little bit lighter if I may.
And I titled this these Nose I read something about
I think I read something about this a couple of
months ago, but I don't think we ever talked about it.
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And even if we did, it's interesting enough that it
might merit another mention. These people are using science called
biomolecular archaeology, and the scientists who are doing that have
been able to actually recreate with very very good precision,
actual smells from about thirty five hundred years ago, which
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is when the what it is, As it turns out,
the containers that just long ago held medicines or perfumes
or ritualistic concoctions, whatever, well those things retain a molecular
fingerprint of what the actual contents of the jar or
the bucket or whatever it was smelled like. And so
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what these people are doing is using that and you
recreating those smells of the substances whatever they were, so
that museum visitors can get a chance and really just
close their eyes and imagine themselves in someplace or halfway
around the world thirty five hundred years ago I'd be
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interested in what people from so long ago considered aromatic
and attractive, like their perfumes. I can't imagine, though, I
can't imagine a medicine or a ritualistic elixir that would
make me want to take a whiff. The perfume would
be okay, I could deal with that. I think it
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would be interesting to see what they found attractive. And
mostly the reason they wore all that stuff back then
was just because they stunk and there was that was
the only way they could keep from that because they
didn't have in many places running water, they didn't have
a way to take baths regularly, so it was just
just was.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
What it was. Two I forgot about one. Oh, here,
i'll do this.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
I've got a new category I'm gonna and i'm gonna
call it the Liebrairie. And I had one thing written out,
and I backed off on it because I want to
do a little bit more research before I come out
and say that.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
But this from the library comes word that the House
Oversight Committee is going to be investigating reports that a
key swing state could have non citizens both in its
jury pools and on its voter rolls. Big surprise, right,
it's an area in a specific county in the Detroit
metro which is alleged to be granting voting rights to
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not US citizens, and that friends, is a no no
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Speaker 1 (18:13):
What's life without a nap? If I suggest you go
to bed and sleep it off, just wait until the
show's over. Sleepy. Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues,
Welcome back to fifty plus.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Thank you for listening. I certainly do appreciate it, as
does Will. I'm sure keeps us rolling in the dough.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Will just can't just can't make enough of that green stuff.
In the tragic case still of the disappearance of Savannah
Guthrie's mother, Nancy, still unsolved in the NBC.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Start anywhere near having her mother return, hopefully alive.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
A story that broke late yesterday in The New York
Post said that that local law enforcement didn't immediately accept
help from federal criminologists for several days in fact, and
now the Pmacarey Pema County Sheriff Department saying that the
FBI is in charge of the entire investigation. And there's
still no ransom payment that I know of, at least,
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still no proof of life either, which should precede any
payment to anybody. And of course still know Nancy Guthrie.
There's conversation online among some pretty qualified people who now
question whether or not this kidnapping is really a kidnapping.
Your imagination runs wild with other scenarios and motives and options,
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but there's just no more proof pointing in one direction
or another. Just four hours ago, actually from Fox News,
former FBI director Dan Bongino outlined two alternatives to the
current narrative. One he said was that this was just
a crime gone bad, a burglary or something like, just
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somebody was in there thinking she was going to be
out later because she was. Is that some dinner with family,
Maybe they'd been watching her for a while, and maybe
she interrupted the bad guys, and maybe they did something stupid,
and all of a sudden they're trying to cover their tracks,
and out she goes, and with that dear disappearance, either
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came perhaps the ransom demand from those people, if if
that's what the case is, or somebody else who was
just an opportunist and saw good shot at maybe making
some fast millions. The other thing that he suggested might
be and this one I'm not.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
I'm not as much in line.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
With this being a possibility as the other I think
maybe something went wrong.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
I could see that happening.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
But what he also says it could have been maybe
a medical emergency or some other non criminal event that
maybe was later misunderstood or misrepresented somehow somewhere.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
I don't. I don't know. I don't. I don't see
that one.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
I don't know how you would misunderstand an older woman
coming to you for help, or being brought to you
for help, perhaps, and then see that woman on the
news the next day and not say something. The case
is unusual in that it hasn't yet to at least
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to our knowledge, coughed up any digital forensic surveillance evidence. Nothing,
no fingerprints, no license plates. She just vanished, disappeared without
a trace, into thin air. All the all the adage
is about that, and that's not easy to do these days, either,
with cameras everywhere and and movement being tracked every time something.
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You could tear up a piece of paper and there'd
be video of the two halves of it tomorrow morning.
I feel sad for that family. I really really hope
it doesn't turn out to be that brother in law
who who's been talked about. I just I can't go
there I don't I don't see that being the case.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
I don't understand that if it happened.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
All the way over in Italy. I just just just
kind of caught my eye. It's not gonna take long.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
It was. It was interesting. I saw the video of
it though. It's very frightening. Ashley.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
There's a passenger ferry going down one of the canals
in Venice and all of a sudden, its transmission gets
stuck in forward and the throttle is full ahead. Two
tourist gondolas got hit, knocked the people out of them.
There were other crash bangs into dockage and whatnot. Fortunately
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nobody really hurt, but a lot of people ended up
in the water who didn't plan to end up in
the water that day. And I'm sure there were losses
of cell phones and other valuables out of those out
of those gondolas.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Tough thing to lose, especially that cell phone.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
If you're half a world away, all of a sudden,
you're supposed to call your children or your parents or
whatever to let them know you're okay and you're having
a great time in Venice, Italy, and all of a
sudden you got no cell phone it's gonna take a while.
It's gonna take a while to get that fixed. Oh
where do I want to go from here? I have
pages and pages of good stuff. A story from the
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open ocean, will or a story of Olympic courage, open ocean.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Here it goes curious story too.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
It's something I've actually been casually reading about for the
past fifteen maybe twenty years, killer whales. And they're increasing
numbers of attacks on boats, especially ocean going sail boats
that average and I mean, there have been enough attacks
lately that they've and now that they're dialing in what
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these animals are attacking, and it's sailboats from maybe thirty
six to forty eight feet something like that, sailboats that
people would travel across the ocean on. And they're not
just nudging these boats either. They are physically ripping pieces
off of these boats, in some cases actually compromising the
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boat hulls to where these boats they got to hit
the bilge pumps right away, they got to bail by hand.
And yeah, it's a big old hot mess. Environmentalists claim
they're doing it as a revenge against humans, but I
can't go down that path because there's no way these
orcas could know whether the changes in the ocean are
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caused by people or whales, or seals, or crickets or bulldogs.
These encounters have increased slowly in frequency, like I said,
for about twenty years, and it's almost always sailing vessels.
And I'm guessing that's just because they just like the orces,
they don't make any noise when they move through the water.
Maybe they just see these boats as either as whales
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that they're trying to kill and eat or as competition
for food. They don't do that to fishing boats. I
know that big thirty fifty sixty foot fishing boats because
most of them are pushed by twin diesels and they
make a lot of noise in the water.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
That might be enough to keep.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
The the orces off of killer whales. They can't kill
a sailboat, but I hope I don't. They don't kill anybody.
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to try just a casual, family friendly place. It's got
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and each of them has added just a little bit
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and say, hey, I'm brand new to Sugarland. I have
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no idea what to order here, I have no idea
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to avoid whatever, and somebody will probably welcome you to
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was in there picking up food for my wife and
me and my son.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
He likes it as well.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
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Speaker 3 (27:13):
I've got so much here I got to cover.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
This is by the way, this is my first chance
to really scrutinize Bad Bunnies halftime performance at the Super Bowl, and.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
I'll make it brief.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
It was in Spanish, so I couldn't understand it, despite
living in a country where English is the official language, and.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
You know, I got a little bit of Spanish.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
I spent a lot of time in Mexico fishing and
surfing back when I was younger and working at the
paper down there. I don't know, several times a year,
seemed like, and always enjoyed it and could get around
on my Spanish. But I couldn't understand any of that stuff.
And I actually I saw one website yesterday that translated
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some of his lyrics beforehand before the game, and it
all seemed so totally innocuous and just just typical song
lyrics of somebody uh in his genre. But I also
saw another place where, if it were true, then he
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was saying some pretty raunchy things, some more yeah stuff
that you really wouldn't want to be hearing on television.
I don't know whether that was the case or not,
because I'm no I'm no translator, and I'm not fluent
in Spanish, But either way, I don't know why he
didn't at least mix it up a little bit. Lady
(28:37):
Gaga sang in English and that was nice, but bad money.
I don't recall him saying much of anything in English,
and it would have it would have made it would
have made me soften at least a little bit to
him just making a political thing out of this, this
whole halftime show that, by the way, most of the
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reaction online was was not favorable, except maybe by his
fans that stuff they couldn't couldn't wait. But people who
didn't know what he was or who he was.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Weren't really impressed.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
And I didn't know him from a hill of beans
up until maybe six months ago or so, And yeah,
that's enough for me in my my space if he
had talked about going to the marina and getting on
the boat to go fishing, I would have understand.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
I would have understood that.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Or maybe going to a restaurant to get something good
to eat, a local restaurant because I'm from out of
town and blah blah blah, I could have done that.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
But that's about it.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Okay, Well, Arizona or the side of the highway, come on,
put a number up.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
That.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
No, there is no third number. No, okay, Well, I'll no,
I'll talk about Lindsay Vaughn.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
For a second. Will I've got a couple of minutes here.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Think of this, Despite a torn acl in her right knee,
despite a titanium implant in her left knee that was
put in there last year, and various and sundry other
issues that anybody who can peace at that level possibly
might have, Lindsay Vaughan, Olympic champion. Lindsay Vaughan opted to
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compete in Milan, and as we all know now, sadly
suffered a horrible crash that broke her lower left leg
the tibia I believe it is, and severely enough that
she had to be airlifted off the mountain. By the way,
she had nothing to prove to anybody, nothing at all
to prove to anybody, and she knew that, but as
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a competitor, she wanted to prove to herself. I think
that she was still capable of navigating that very difficult
downhill course over there in Italy, and boy, it just
didn't work out. There was just one little hiccup and
that was it. I'm pretty sure she's I'm positive.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
I think. I don't know. I don't know. Lindsey Vaughan,
that's who it is.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
I was gonna say she's done with downhill skiing, but
I wouldn't say it yet. I wouldn't bet the farm though,
that she'll be back on skis someday doing something, or
at the very least helping young women with similar aspiration
get better at what she's done at the absolute pinnacle
of her sport for so very, very long. That's off
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to her for giving it a try. I hate that
it would have been okay, more okay. Has she fallen
but not suffered that really bad fracture. If she'd just
fallen and slid down the mountain a little ways and
then scrambled back up and come down slowly.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
That would have been an.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Okay way to go out as well, But to be
he broke it in pieces again and have to go
through rehab and go through healing for as long as
it's going to take to fix that bone, and then
they've still got to go back in and do the
ACL on the left side. She's got a long waist
to go I feel bad for In Arizona, this time
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not an immigration story, two sheriff's deputies helped save the
life of a two week old baby who was choking
on some unknown object. They were called but called nine
one one side of the road one of those, and
the two deputies showed up. Their medical training took over.
They asked the right questions and were able to clear
the baby's airway. That's good news anyway you look at it.
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In Florida a similar story too, only this time it
was a four year old child. I think it was
riding along the highway with his parents. Suddenly stops breathing
and when nine to eleven's called, the situation looked really,
really bad. When deputies arrived, the child even had no pulse,
but they saved him too. Two other similar stories online today,
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and I'm really glad.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
They turned out the way they did.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
I have got a couple of more things, but I
want to wait until tomorrow, I think, so that I
can give them the.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Time that they deserve.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Otherwise, half a story, just I'm sure you'd just be
all on pins.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
And needles, wouldn't you. Probably not.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
I'll tell you what. One of them is gonna be
about peaceful protests in Minnesota. The other is going to
be about Adam Schiff, and they're all gonna come together.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
And just you know, I might put both of these
in the library. I'm not so sure. All Right, today's
beautiful day. Go enjoy it. Tomorrow is going to be
another pretty good day. Go enjoy it as well. We'll
see then, Audios.
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Speaker 2 (00:47):
Bye and welcome board on this yet another seasonably warmer
than usual.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Day across Southeast Texas.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I think one of the forecaster people last night on TV,
right before I crashed out and went to bed, said
something about it being five to ten degrees warmer than
normal for this time of year, and so be it.
I got no problem with seventy five and seventy eight
degree days. We've got some more of them coming up
to It might even tickle eighty degrees today, who knows.
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With that ever popular heaping helping of Southeast Texas humidity,
oh my gosh, might even get you feeling a little
sticky if you do anything more than just stand still. Outside,
go try to hit a couple of golf balls. Definitely
break a sweat. Take a brisk walk in anything heavier
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than shorts and.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
A T shirt. That's gonna break a sweat.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Slight chance for rain tomorrow, and then a pretty safe
bet for rain Friday night or Saturday, and that's about it.
We got a pretty good shot of rain a couple
of nights ago. I think it was late in the
evening whenever that I much needed my yard. I still
haven't had to run the entire sprinkler system just yet
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since the freeze, and since I reopened.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
All the piping to the system.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I turned it on briefly to make sure I had
turned it off right, and then I'd got it back
on right. But then that rain came and I didn't
have to use it again. If you've been out of
the country or under a rock for the past week
or so, stock market's done quite well of late. The
tal surged again this morning. I didn't look right before
I came in here, and I may regret that if
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I'll do it during the break and see just where
the dow is now. But this morning it was at
fifty thousand, three hundred and change. And at some point,
maybe it's already happened, but at some point the algorithms
are going to trigger some profit taking, and it'll it'll
slump a little bit, nonetheless a steady upward rise. And
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until then the S and P and the Nasdaq. By
the way, we're red, but no more than a demure blush,
if you will, of negative color. Gold found its way back.
Speaking of blushing, it's almost embarrassing how expensive gold is.
And if you've got any you wanted to sell, now
would be.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
A good time.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Now it's above above five thousand dollars an ounce again
oil sadly also up to sixty four dollars and fifty cents.
Now that's not gonna that's not gonna break the bank
when you go try to fill up your tank. But
it's still I would like to see it hanging around
sixty two sixty three? Will are you giving me instruction?
(03:37):
Are you just waving in the air? That was that
light bulb wave that beauty pageant? People on marty gruff floats?
Do are you practicing for something? You got a prize,
you've been awarded.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
You're not telling me about okay, all right?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Stepping gingerly into the news as if I could even
name the current headline stories all in this hour. Actually,
I'll start with one everybody should have figured out before
it even happened, and that is Gulaine Maxwell, former confidante
to Jeffrey Epstein, taking the stand and then taking the
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fifth and saying she'd be happy to spill the beans
on everybody, tell them everything they want to know, if
only she is granted clemency from President Trump. That's all
they gotta do is is grant her clemency and she'll
tell all.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
I don't see that happening. She's locked up right now
and into I think.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
It's a twenty year sentence that she got for her
part in all that was going on. I don't see
a complete free ride for her, but maybe I don't know,
maybe a shorter sentence in exchange for full cooperation. Members
of Congress have access to those files now, mostly unredacted,
some redacted, and when one of the Oversight Committee people
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asked why there were still redaction in what was supposed
to be unredacted stuff, that's how it was when it
got here. We didn't make those redactions. It's just it's
crazy how complex this is and It's also crazy how
many millions of records they've got to sift through. I
don't know how they've gone through all of that. I
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guess it just takes a lot of people and maybe
maybe some help from AI looking for keywords and whatnot.
But they're in there, digging around and they're looking, and
most of what they're finding as they look indicates that
that whole operation might have been even a little bit
scummier than we thought. And we all thought some pretty
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scummy things about what was going on on Epstein Island
and how young women were being abused, and there's even
there's even some information that I've read at two different
sources today that talk about how perhaps some children were
even and by children, I guess they mean underage, not adult,
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yet nonetheless might even have been killed during all of that.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Sad either way, it really is very sad.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I saw a Breitbart story this morning that said more
than half of Americans aren't happy with the way President
Trump's handling the economy, noting specifically that they think he
should be focused on lowering prices, and they think tariffs
aren't working to our benefit. And there's a lot more
going on than that, and I don't know in snapshots
for the short term some of what they say is
actually true. But this president works typically a couple of
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moves ahead of the other players around the board, and
I truly believe that, and I'm confident that we're headed
in a good direction. We've got trillions of dollars in
manufacturing committed by companies that want to come back here
and do business with us, and that's going to be
a tremendous boost to the overall economy. We've got lots
of prices that are already down, and more will be down.
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You can just bet on that more are going to
come down as as some of these different sectors get
just kind of one by one overhauls. And I think
what's happening in some cases that the retail prices have
remained high despite drops to some degree, at least in
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wholesale costs.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
We know fuel cost is down.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Gas was what three fifty four dollars five dollars a gallon,
depending on where you were in the country when before
President Trump Trump got back in office. Now suddenly I'm
all worked up over paying two dollars and thirty five
cents for a gallon of gasoline. I managed, by the way,
never to pay four dollars for a gallon of gas.
(07:45):
I don't know how, but I managed. I'd look around
and find a station, and I typically use branded stations,
the name brand oil company stations for reasons. I'd be
happy to discuss with somebody an email exchange. Right, Well,
I can't do it now, Will says they got to stop.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
I'll do that.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
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Speaker 1 (09:28):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
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fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Thanks for listening to fifty plus on this pretty dog
one nice February day. Holy cow, we only got a
few days before Valentine's Day and it's it's it's not
quite sweat and bullets weather, but it's pretty warm outside.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
From Fox News.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
I wanted to get to this one too. News that
Texas State Rep. Gene Wu and a clip from about
thirteen months ago, actually said that certain racial groups should
unite against what he called their quote common oppressor, end quote,
and take over the country. In Texas, white people are
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rapidly becoming a minority, there's no question about that. But
according to WU, they're still the majority of voters, which
is ridiculous. I think really, any American of lawful voting
age can register to vote, show up at the polls,
and vote. One citizen able to provide citizenship proof equals
one vote. And this guy just it seems to me
(10:38):
he's just doing nothing more back then, at least, I
don't know what he's doing lately, but he's just kind
of stirring the pot and trying to divide people. And
that's the last thing this country needs right now, is
any more division. I don't understand who would do that
and why. Because if we're ever if we ever all
sit down as Americans and we have calm conversations over
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however long it takes to have them, we're going to
realize that we all kind of want the same things,
but we're just going about it a little differently. We
want a strong country, we want a safe country, and
some people define those things differently. But eventually, at least
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the left probably will see through, or the Democrats among us,
not the far left, the ones who are in office
already and making a mess of things, they'll see through
the clap trap and realize how badly they those people
have played their constituents. It just doesn't I watched some
video right before we came on the air of people protesting,
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and many of them senior citizens, protesting out in California
about immigration and claiming that just one guy said, yeah,
holding up this sign now, but I know they're gonna
come arrest me and throw me in What did he
call it?
Speaker 3 (12:07):
U some some.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Reference to alligator Alcatraz, but he had a more vicious
sounding name for it. I don't know what he called it.
But he was convinced, just because he was standing out
there holding a sign, that they were gonna come take
him away, ship him halfway across the country, all the
way across the country, and then had him let it,
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just let him get lost there, just let him get
just let him die there. And that's just so so absurd.
I don't know how people have allowed themselves to be
convinced or by whom.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
That this is the case. It's just frustrating his sect.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
I'm tired of listening to people standing on street corners
and carrying signs. They just that whole video I watched
was one after another person making all these wild claims
about what our government's doing, and how they're doing it,
to whom they're doing it, and all of these things.
And they are just so pathetically disinformed and gullible that
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they're willing to waste days at a time believing that
we're gonna arrest them. There's two steps from being arrested
and hauled off and never to be seen again. But
they can't back up any of what they're saying with
any facts. They that's the amazing part. They've just been
They've been taught the talking point, but nothing to back
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it up. There's no confirmation, there's no justification for what
they say. They just they've been.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
That's it's almost like brainwashing to believe this stuff.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
That's that has to be right because we heard it
on the radio, because we saw it. Well, they didn't
hear that on the radio. Probably there's not a whole
lot of that going around. They saw it on TV,
or they saw it online and this person or that
person told them that they have to get out there
in March, and all of a sudden, there's really nothing
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that's just hot air. It's just hot air. I'll shift
gears and do something a little bit lighter if I may.
And I titled this these Nose I read something about
I think I read something about this a couple of
months ago, but I don't think we ever talked about it.
(14:26):
And even if we did, it's interesting enough that it
might merit another mention. These people are using science called
biomolecular archaeology, and the scientists who are doing that have
been able to actually recreate with very very good precision,
actual smells from about thirty five hundred years ago, which
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is when the what it is, As it turns out,
the containers that just long ago held medicines or perfumes
or ritualistic concoctions, whatever, well those things retain a molecular
fingerprint of what the actual contents of the jar or
the bucket or whatever it was smelled like. And so
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what these people are doing is using that and you
recreating those smells of the substances whatever they were, so
that museum visitors can get a chance and really just
close their eyes and imagine themselves in someplace or halfway
around the world thirty five hundred years ago I'd be
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interested in what people from so long ago considered aromatic
and attractive, like their perfumes. I can't imagine, though, I
can't imagine a medicine or a ritualistic elixir that would
make me want to take a whiff. The perfume would
be okay, I could deal with that. I think it
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would be interesting to see what they found attractive. And
mostly the reason they wore all that stuff back then
was just because they stunk and there was that was
the only way they could keep from that because they
didn't have in many places running water, they didn't have
a way to take baths regularly, so it was just
just was.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
What it was. Two I forgot about one. Oh, here,
i'll do this.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
I've got a new category I'm gonna and i'm gonna
call it the Liebrairie. And I had one thing written out,
and I backed off on it because I want to
do a little bit more research before I come out
and say that.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Ah.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
But this from the library comes word that the House
Oversight Committee is going to be investigating reports that a
key swing state could have non citizens both in its
jury pools and on its voter rolls. Big surprise, right,
it's an area in a specific county in the Detroit
metro which is alleged to be granting voting rights to
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not US citizens, and that friends, is a no no
from sea to Shining Sea. Let's take a little break here,
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Speaker 1 (18:13):
What's life without a nap? If I suggest you go
to bed and sleep it off, just wait until the
show's over. Sleepy. Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues,
Welcome back to fifty plus.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Thank you for listening. I certainly do appreciate it, as
does Will. I'm sure keeps us rolling in the dough.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Will just can't just can't make enough of that green stuff.
In the tragic case still of the disappearance of Savannah
Guthrie's mother, Nancy, still unsolved in the NBC.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Start anywhere near having her mother return, hopefully alive.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
A story that broke late yesterday in The New York
Post said that that local law enforcement didn't immediately accept
help from federal criminologists for several days in fact, and
now the Pmacarey Pema County Sheriff Department saying that the
FBI is in charge of the entire investigation. And there's
still no ransom payment that I know of, at least,
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still no proof of life either, which should precede any
payment to anybody. And of course still know Nancy Guthrie.
There's conversation online among some pretty qualified people who now
question whether or not this kidnapping is really a kidnapping.
Your imagination runs wild with other scenarios and motives and options,
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but there's just no more proof pointing in one direction
or another. Just four hours ago, actually from Fox News,
former FBI director Dan Bongino outlined two alternatives to the
current narrative. One he said was that this was just
a crime gone bad, a burglary or something like, just
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somebody was in there thinking she was going to be
out later because she was. Is that some dinner with family,
Maybe they'd been watching her for a while, and maybe
she interrupted the bad guys, and maybe they did something stupid,
and all of a sudden they're trying to cover their tracks,
and out she goes, and with that dear disappearance, either
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came perhaps the ransom demand from those people, if if
that's what the case is, or somebody else who was
just an opportunist and saw good shot at maybe making
some fast millions. The other thing that he suggested might
be and this one I'm not.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
I'm not as much in line.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
With this being a possibility as the other I think
maybe something went wrong.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
I could see that happening.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
But what he also says it could have been maybe
a medical emergency or some other non criminal event that
maybe was later misunderstood or misrepresented somehow somewhere.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
I don't. I don't know. I don't. I don't see
that one.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
I don't know how you would misunderstand an older woman
coming to you for help, or being brought to you
for help, perhaps, and then see that woman on the
news the next day and not say something. The case
is unusual in that it hasn't yet to at least
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to our knowledge, coughed up any digital forensic surveillance evidence. Nothing,
no fingerprints, no license plates. She just vanished, disappeared without
a trace, into thin air. All the all the adage
is about that, and that's not easy to do these days, either,
with cameras everywhere and and movement being tracked every time something.
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You could tear up a piece of paper and there'd
be video of the two halves of it tomorrow morning.
I feel sad for that family. I really really hope
it doesn't turn out to be that brother in law
who who's been talked about. I just I can't go
there I don't I don't see that being the case.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
I don't understand that if it happened.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
All the way over in Italy. I just just just
kind of caught my eye. It's not gonna take long.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
It was. It was interesting. I saw the video of
it though. It's very frightening. Ashley.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
There's a passenger ferry going down one of the canals
in Venice and all of a sudden, its transmission gets
stuck in forward and the throttle is full ahead. Two
tourist gondolas got hit, knocked the people out of them.
There were other crash bangs into dockage and whatnot. Fortunately
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nobody really hurt, but a lot of people ended up
in the water who didn't plan to end up in
the water that day. And I'm sure there were losses
of cell phones and other valuables out of those out
of those gondolas.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Tough thing to lose, especially that cell phone.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
If you're half a world away, all of a sudden,
you're supposed to call your children or your parents or
whatever to let them know you're okay and you're having
a great time in Venice, Italy, and all of a
sudden you got no cell phone it's gonna take a while.
It's gonna take a while to get that fixed. Oh
where do I want to go from here? I have
pages and pages of good stuff. A story from the
(23:27):
open ocean, will or a story of Olympic courage, open ocean.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Here it goes curious story too.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
It's something I've actually been casually reading about for the
past fifteen maybe twenty years, killer whales. And they're increasing
numbers of attacks on boats, especially ocean going sail boats
that average and I mean, there have been enough attacks
lately that they've and now that they're dialing in what
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these animals are attacking, and it's sailboats from maybe thirty
six to forty eight feet something like that, sailboats that
people would travel across the ocean on. And they're not
just nudging these boats either. They are physically ripping pieces
off of these boats, in some cases actually compromising the
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boat hulls to where these boats they got to hit
the bilge pumps right away, they got to bail by hand.
And yeah, it's a big old hot mess. Environmentalists claim
they're doing it as a revenge against humans, but I
can't go down that path because there's no way these
orcas could know whether the changes in the ocean are
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caused by people or whales, or seals, or crickets or bulldogs.
These encounters have increased slowly in frequency, like I said,
for about twenty years, and it's almost always sailing vessels.
And I'm guessing that's just because they just like the orces,
they don't make any noise when they move through the water.
Maybe they just see these boats as either as whales
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that they're trying to kill and eat or as competition
for food. They don't do that to fishing boats. I
know that big thirty fifty sixty foot fishing boats because
most of them are pushed by twin diesels and they
make a lot of noise in the water.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
That might be enough to keep.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
The the orces off of killer whales. They can't kill
a sailboat, but I hope I don't. They don't kill anybody.
It's on one ah Mercy Berry Hill, Berry Hill, Sugarland
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has some of the best fish tacos on the planet.
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My wife and I found berry Hill got at least
twenty years ago. I don't remember exactly when they opened,
but that's about the time we went in there because
there was a grocery store up on that same corner
that we used to frequent and now it's your term
to try just a casual, family friendly place. It's got
the same two chefs in that kitchen for more than
a decade each. They are very good at traditional text mechs,
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and each of them has added just a little bit
of something to call that recipe their own. If you
go into the sports bar side, I says you walk in,
it's casual family dining. Left sports bar right outdoor dining
before you even get in, obviously. And if you go
into that sports bar side and just raise your hand
and say, hey, I'm brand new to Sugarland. I have
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no idea what to order here, I have no idea
what's going on in Sugarland, what's fun to do, what
to avoid whatever, and somebody will probably welcome you to
a table. I saw that happen once myself when I
was in there picking up food for my wife and
me and my son.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
He likes it as well.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
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Speaker 3 (27:13):
I've got so much here I got to cover.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
This is by the way, this is my first chance
to really scrutinize Bad Bunnies halftime performance at the Super Bowl, and.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
I'll make it brief.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
It was in Spanish, so I couldn't understand it, despite
living in a country where English is the official language, and.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
You know, I got a little bit of Spanish.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
I spent a lot of time in Mexico fishing and
surfing back when I was younger and working at the
paper down there. I don't know, several times a year,
seemed like, and always enjoyed it and could get around
on my Spanish. But I couldn't understand any of that stuff.
And I actually I saw one website yesterday that translated
(27:54):
some of his lyrics beforehand before the game, and it
all seemed so totally innocuous and just just typical song
lyrics of somebody uh in his genre. But I also
saw another place where, if it were true, then he
(28:16):
was saying some pretty raunchy things, some more yeah stuff
that you really wouldn't want to be hearing on television.
I don't know whether that was the case or not,
because I'm no I'm no translator, and I'm not fluent
in Spanish, But either way, I don't know why he
didn't at least mix it up a little bit. Lady
(28:37):
Gaga sang in English and that was nice, but bad money.
I don't recall him saying much of anything in English,
and it would have it would have made it would
have made me soften at least a little bit to
him just making a political thing out of this, this
whole halftime show that, by the way, most of the
(28:58):
reaction online was was not favorable, except maybe by his
fans that stuff they couldn't couldn't wait. But people who
didn't know what he was or who he was.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
Weren't really impressed.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
And I didn't know him from a hill of beans
up until maybe six months ago or so, And yeah,
that's enough for me in my my space if he
had talked about going to the marina and getting on
the boat to go fishing, I would have understand.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
I would have understood that.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Or maybe going to a restaurant to get something good
to eat, a local restaurant because I'm from out of
town and blah blah blah, I could have done that.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
But that's about it.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Okay, Well, Arizona or the side of the highway, come on,
put a number up.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
That.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
No, there is no third number. No, okay, Well, I'll no,
I'll talk about Lindsay Vaughn.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
For a second. Will I've got a couple of minutes here.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Think of this, Despite a torn acl in her right knee,
despite a titanium implant in her left knee that was
put in there last year, and various and sundry other
issues that anybody who can peace at that level possibly
might have, Lindsay Vaughan, Olympic champion. Lindsay Vaughan opted to
(30:27):
compete in Milan, and as we all know now, sadly
suffered a horrible crash that broke her lower left leg
the tibia I believe it is, and severely enough that
she had to be airlifted off the mountain. By the way,
she had nothing to prove to anybody, nothing at all
to prove to anybody, and she knew that, but as
(30:48):
a competitor, she wanted to prove to herself. I think
that she was still capable of navigating that very difficult
downhill course over there in Italy, and boy, it just
didn't work out. There was just one little hiccup and
that was it. I'm pretty sure she's I'm positive.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
I think. I don't know. I don't know. Lindsey Vaughan,
that's who it is.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
I was gonna say she's done with downhill skiing, but
I wouldn't say it yet. I wouldn't bet the farm though,
that she'll be back on skis someday doing something, or
at the very least helping young women with similar aspiration
get better at what she's done at the absolute pinnacle
of her sport for so very, very long. That's off
(31:35):
to her for giving it a try. I hate that
it would have been okay, more okay. Has she fallen
but not suffered that really bad fracture. If she'd just
fallen and slid down the mountain a little ways and
then scrambled back up and come down slowly.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
That would have been an.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Okay way to go out as well, But to be
he broke it in pieces again and have to go
through rehab and go through healing for as long as
it's going to take to fix that bone, and then
they've still got to go back in and do the
ACL on the left side. She's got a long waist
to go I feel bad for In Arizona, this time
(32:18):
not an immigration story, two sheriff's deputies helped save the
life of a two week old baby who was choking
on some unknown object. They were called but called nine
one one side of the road one of those, and
the two deputies showed up. Their medical training took over.
They asked the right questions and were able to clear
the baby's airway. That's good news anyway you look at it.
(32:40):
In Florida a similar story too, only this time it
was a four year old child. I think it was
riding along the highway with his parents. Suddenly stops breathing
and when nine to eleven's called, the situation looked really,
really bad. When deputies arrived, the child even had no pulse,
but they saved him too. Two other similar stories online today,
(33:03):
and I'm really glad.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
They turned out the way they did.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
I have got a couple of more things, but I
want to wait until tomorrow, I think, so that I
can give them the.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Time that they deserve.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Otherwise, half a story, just I'm sure you'd just be
all on pins.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
And needles, wouldn't you. Probably not.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
I'll tell you what. One of them is gonna be
about peaceful protests in Minnesota. The other is going to
be about Adam Schiff, and they're all gonna come together.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
And just you know, I might put both of these
in the library. I'm not so sure. All Right, today's
beautiful day. Go enjoy it. Tomorrow is going to be
another pretty good day. Go enjoy it as well. We'll
see then, Audios.
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