A Rainy Day for Golf

Today, Doug Pike discusses golf, baseball, and a creeper under the bed.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Remember when it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
because you were the TV remote. Remember when music sounded
like this? You remember when social media was truly social?

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

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

Speaker 2 (00:42):
And now fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, here
we go Thursday. This is the program starts right now.
Welcome aboard. Across the entire sprawl of this Greater Houston
area kind of cloudy and kind of ugly, roughly tenth
one thousand square miles. If you draw a line around

(01:05):
the Greater Houston Metropolitans area, there's I saw one estimate
of like nine thousand, six hundred or so, and another
that was a little north of ten thousand square miles.
So that's how much light rain and missed and occasional
heavier rain is falling. That's how much ground it's covering
at least, and it's not really sus expected to go.

(01:28):
I'm kind of getting into them cheating by getting into
the forecast already without even talking about Texas Indoor air
quality specialists, because cleaner air is healthier air. I'll get
that done texasiaq dot net. Go there and you'll find
out what they do to clean the duckwork in your house.
Where were you when you realize you didn't want to

(01:49):
be outside much today? Huh? Sitting cozy inside the house.
Thanks for sharing your lunch hour or who knows, for
a few of you, maybe early happy hour. And if
this keeps up, you know what, well, if this keeps up,
I might just rename it the shower hour. We get
that for two days. That's got kind of a nice

(02:10):
ring to it, doesn't It kind of sounds all right,
m m, sounds like teenage teenage boys, the shower Hour.
Great to have you all aboard. And to make it
official by attributing what I'm gonna say, we're gonna lay
on that nasty all day forecast and for the better
part of tomorrow. The only question really, and it depends

(02:33):
on how far north or south the bulk of this
weather moves throughout the day. That's where in this giant
metro area about six or seven times the size of
Rhode Island. By the way, I checked where the Beefy
Park cuts its swath. There could be some local, isolated,

(02:55):
heavy heavy rainfall two three inches of it. Otherwise it's
just gonna get a little bit, a little bit damper
and damper as we go through today and tomorrow, and
then hopefully by sometime Saturday afternoon it'll get a little
bit better. Pulling on my goloshes and plodding off to market.
Early movement was mostly upward, but then about twenty minutes

(03:18):
ago I looked again and all four were down. Not
a lot, not a nothing to call your broker about.
But it was red anyway. So was oil, by the way,
a whole penny in the red, which is better than
it was an hour ago when it was up a
good bit. Still, it's chasing seventy dollars, but it's losing

(03:42):
steam at least at present, Gold shot up forty two bucks.
It is now currently trading at well now currently is redundant,
I apologize, currently trading at three thousand and sixty five
dollars per Troy ounce. Stepping into local news from a
bright Bard story, Houston Ice agents arrested here nearly six

(04:04):
hundred and fifty non citizens in and around Houston, and
that was just between February twenty third and March second.
Five hundred and forty three of those people had criminal charges,
and seven were alleged gang members. Along with those charges,
the story continued or along. Among those charges, one hundred

(04:28):
and forty of those people were either charged or convicted
of already an aggravated felony or other violent offense. Thirty
four either charge or convicted already of a sex offense
or a child sex offense. These are not good people.
They are not good people. Well, what time is it?

Speaker 1 (04:47):
It is?

Speaker 2 (04:48):
I don't want to get twelve ten, so have three minutes.
I've got three minutes still, that's very good. So they're
not good people. They really aren't. They have no business
being here, none whatsoever. But this previous administration of ours
absolutely just did nothing to keep them and well them
in about ten million of their friends, keep them out

(05:10):
of our country. Most of these people being rounded up
lately were criminals in their country of origin, and they
just picked up where they left off here, only here
they had a free cell phone. They had they got
to pick their own bad type. Well, what would you firm, firm, mattress, memory, foam, mattress,
what do you want up in New York they were

(05:30):
actually offering that as they filled up one nice hotel
in New York City after another with people who shouldn't
even have been in our country. That was the most
failed and most it's going to take the longest time
of any botched federal program to fix, I think, and

(05:51):
that it's frightening that there are still people who are
trying to undermine the efforts of those who would make
our country safer by getting those people on a plane
and off us soil. Very frustrating. All right, well, let's
go to something a little softer, because it's gonna go
kind of back and forth between rough and easy. Oh

(06:13):
by the way, what, oh yeah, the thing's not up.
The clock's not up. So you don't know what international
or national day it is?

Speaker 1 (06:19):
Do you?

Speaker 2 (06:20):
Does it have something to do with food? No, it
actually doesn't have anything to do with food. That's a first. Yeah,
And I mean if you wanted to go no, never mind,
I'm not even gonna say this. It is International Whiskey Day.
Oh okay, so not food technically, and it is national

(06:43):
Biagra day. Write your own punchline, ladies and gentlemen, I'll
be here all week. Ip your server, mo ye know,
go ahead, say it will. There's a certain order of
those going. Man, I'm not even and I'm not gonna
touch that. Oh no, intention actually speaking of Oh my gosh,

(07:08):
I can't believe I'm gonna do this right back to back.
This next little tidbit of information a fun fact to
know and tell. I have titled takes a lot of balls.
A major league baseball will only last about six or
seven pitches. Now. That is, I believe, only at the
major league baseball level, not for minor leagues. And in fact,

(07:31):
minor leagues get a lot of their baseballs from the
major leagues. Where if a pitch comes in a little
bit low and just glances off just one little piece
of that red clay around the batter's box, then out
it goes. They toss it over to a guy, if
you'll watch, they toss it to a guy who's in
a very close proximity to the dugout, and he wipes

(07:55):
them off real good. And a lot of those go
up into the gift shop where they are sold as
game used balls and maybe one pitch. Who knows, Oh,
that's it, will yep? Okay, when we get back, I'm
gonna ask you no, because you'd look it up. I'll
tell the audience how many baseballs Major League Baseball goes

(08:16):
through in a season, and it might surprise you. Do
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be you and me and those of us who are fellas.
If you have if you're over about fifty five or so,
there's a good chance you may either already be experiencing
or about to experience the symptoms of an enlarged, noncancerous prostate.

(08:39):
And if that's the case, it's not fun. It's not pleasant.
There's a lot that goes with that. Look it up
and see if any of it applies to you, and
if you're interested then in getting rid of that problem,
and possibly potentially you could fire a preemptive shot if
you want to get involved and have that state shrunken.

(09:02):
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They go in and shut down the blood supply to
that prostate where you don't have to worry about it anymore.
All of those symptoms go away. It takes a couple
of couple of weeks, a couple of months. Maybe I'm
not sure exactly how long for it to run its course,
but all it's gonna take is a couple of hours.
And in their clinics, not in any hospital anywhere. You

(09:24):
don't go to the hospital to get this done. In
their clinics, they shut down that prostate and take the
symptoms away with it. Same with fibroids for women, Same
with head pains in some cases, same with varicos, ugly vein,
spider veins, whatever you got those nasty purple streaks on
your legs, they can get rid of that as well.

(09:45):
Most of what they do is covered by Medicare and Medicaid,
which helps for a lot of us. And they also
do regenerative medicine, which is incredibly effective. They, as the
process gets more more familiar to these doctors, incredibly effective
at alleviating chronic pain, and nobody should have to suffer that.

(10:06):
A latehealth dot com as a website, give them a call,
talk to them, set up a little conference where you
can go in look at the website first, and then
schedule conversation with somebody there who can help you start
feeling better. Seven to one, three, five eight, eight, thirty
eight eighty eight. It's very easy number to remember. Seven
to one, three five eight, eight thirty eight eighty eight.

(10:31):
Once life without a net, I suggest to go to bed,
sleep it off, just wait until the show's over. Sleepy.

Speaker 1 (10:38):
Back to Doug Pike, as fifty plus continues, Hi, welcome
back fifty plus.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
Thanks for listening, Thank you will for finding that for us.
I do appreciate it seems more than appropriate. As a
matter of fact, since the Texas Children's Houston Open is
umbrella and plowing forward despite the weather. Those guys, I
don't feel badly for them because there aren't many people

(11:03):
on the PGA tour, many of the players out there
who lack for resources and more power to them. I
don't begrudge any of them a dollar that they make.
That's a very hard game in which to make a living.
These guys have a lot of expenses, and if they
stumble once on Thursday or Friday, they get nothing but

(11:28):
thanks for playing so anyway, to their credit, these players
in their caddies are required to play so long as
the courses remain playable, which is not an issue at
present and shouldn't become one really unless Memorial Park catches
a major rain dump in the next twenty four hours,
and so long as the rain isn't accompanied by lightning,

(11:52):
one lightning strike within several miles of that golf course
would clear it as quickly as vans could be loaded
with the players. The CAB's other personnel out there. Spectators
don't get van rides back to the clubhouse, but they
are encouraged when the sirens go off if they do,
to head for shelter. So far on the wet track

(12:13):
as of about an hour ago, and I've only got
first or last names on this leaderboard I was given,
and there's a couple of them that I can't recall,
not household names, So I'm just gonna give the last names. Uh,
Sam Ryder five hunder par, he's leading, Troy mullenax, I
know that one. He's at four, Meisner's at four, McGreevy,
Gerard all at four under par, and then the threes

(12:36):
are hits at sooning Lee Hadwin Johnson and got her up.
I'm not familiar with him either. That's that's a German name,
I'm sure. Then the twos I'll give you that would
be everybody within a full sleeve of balls. That would
be Hodges, Fox Hall, Tossty Peterson, Mao and Thorbornson. Down

(13:00):
the list a little ways you find world's number two
Roy McElroy at plus one and Ricky Fowler and world
number one Scottie Scheffler apparently asked for late times Will
so that they could catch the show. Yeah, they go
off at one o three pm. I think that's why

(13:22):
they got the one O three T times so they
could listen to fifty plus. I mean, what are the
TV what are the odds? WILL really one and one
A trillion, a jillion, I mean Brazilian.

Speaker 3 (13:35):
I think they would have to know that kPr sees
a station first, you know.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
I've interviewed something. Well, I've interviewed the guys, but only
on kbm E so that yeah, they would have to
recognize that we are here. And yeah, so maybe not.
It's it's fun to think about, though. I come on, man,
come on, will play how long? I don't want to
pooh pooh on your now Yeah you busted my bubble. Well,

(14:03):
I'm sorry. We all excited those guys. I could just see them,
see them calling on like maybe a week ago by
the way, on Thursday and Friday, we would like late
tea times so that we can listen to fifty plus.

Speaker 3 (14:18):
Maybe they're just they need late tea times because they're
enjoying all the barbecue around town.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
That could be. I've met Ricky Fowler and had brief
actually had two brief conversations with him over the years,
which is not exactly a close friendship, but nonetheless, I
most of those guys, most of those players I find
very approachable, very easy to get along with. Now when
you get over to the autograph areas and stuff like that.

(14:45):
And by the way, I love I love what the
Texas Children Texas Children's Houston Open has done with that.
No adults, no adults standing over there with ten items
they want a player to sign because they're just going
to go resell them on eBay. All the all the
all autographed stuff is for kids, and that I think

(15:06):
is a brilliant move. And I hope, if not all
the tournaments at least most of them have already adopted
such a policy, because for a while it just got
out of control. There were grown, grown men and grown
women standing there with with pin flags, with posters, with magazines,
with eight y tens all these items for specific players

(15:29):
to sign, and then immediately after the tournament's up, they
go on eBay. And that's that's messed up. I mean,
it's it's opportunistic, and it's a it's a free market
society we live in, but that's just messed up. When
you're pushing little kids away who are just trying to
get the signature of someone they admire and getting in

(15:52):
their way just to make yourself a buck, Shame on them.
Another interesting story from Breitbart I saw this morning shared
news of a building in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in which
the Chinese Communist Party hosts very powerful Americans and provides
services to Chinese Americans. Says the story, who are quote

(16:13):
still loyal to Beijing, including hosting meet and greets with
CCP diplomats and dignitaries. Foreign governments have embassies in our country,
as do we in theirs, and that's all fair and good.
The issue here, though, is that businesses that occupy or
have occupied that Saint Paul building, including the United Front

(16:35):
Work Department, If that doesn't sound like something that's coming
out of China, I don't know what does they receive?
Six figure grants from you and me, the taxpayers of America.
These people are being paid to host big gatherings of
people on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party. Chinese leader

(16:59):
zi Xi Jinping called United Front work one of work,
department one of his countries. Quote magic weapons, end quote,
designed to undermine our political system. That's just great, front
and center at many of these Chinese related events in
our country. Guess who Minnesota Governor Tom Tim Walls one minute? Will, Yes, Yeah,

(17:24):
speaking of Tim Walls, he's in town tonight. He and
that other I'm sorry, Will, but that's just no way
to describe them other than political losers. At president at
least he's going to be in town. He'll be out
of He and Beto O'Rourke out at the Fort Ben
County Fair GRAMD for what I'm guessing will be a
relatively quiet gathering. A poor turnout will be blamed on

(17:47):
the weather, of course, And if somehow they can tighten
a camera angle and ask everybody to squeeze in close,
it might look as though this pair still has a
handful of believers. I think it's a pretty It's a
little early, really for Democrats to start campaigning again. But
that's they're trying to throw somebody out there. Just they're
throwing everybody at the wall to see who's gonna stick.

(18:07):
If this is their best one to two punch against
conservative values in America, They've got tall hill to klon.
I'm doubling down, Will, by the way, on yesterday's bet
of twenty five cents, that one of them will be
wearing cowboy hats tonight, and we'll know by the ten
o'clock news. So now it's a fifty cent bet, Will

(18:28):
that both both of them will be wearing cowboy hat.
We gotta go. You gotta go find fifty cents, because
you're gonna owe me tomorrow. UT House Institute on Aging
is this collaboration between more than a thousand providers in
this area, all of whom are very well trained, very

(18:50):
long studied in specific medical disciplines, everything from physical therapy
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I guess there's a card, there's some sort of credential,
I'm sure, or maybe just something that they can add

(19:11):
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what got them their credentials, as their expertise can be
applied specifically to seniors. And that is a tremendous, tremendous
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(19:31):
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doing that for us. We should really greatly appreciate that.
Go to the website of the Institute on Aging and
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(19:52):
absolutely nothing. The only charges that you look at the
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(20:13):
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edu slash Aged Aged perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike. Hi,

(20:50):
welcome back to fifty plus, and thanks for listening. I
really do appreciate it. I know it's nasty outside, and actually,
if it doesn't really rain this afternoon, might have to
ease out and test fire in my little golf course
lake under favorable bass fishing conditions. My results have been
up lately. I know nobody cares in this audience, well
maybe a few of you do in this audience, and

(21:12):
I'm encouraged by that I've done better. The cormorants the
only bird on the planet that I can truly say
I despise. The cormorants have not killed them all, so
that's a good thing. And there's a shad hatch which
will help Whatever bass are left in the shad at
present are barely bigger than glitter. They're just these tiny

(21:36):
little sparkles in the water when they show themselves. It's
very interesting to watch them grow, and hopefully they will
be able to grow without attracting the attention of hundreds
more of those nasty, nasty birds that I, oh did
I mention that I despise them and that I'm being very,
very gentle with how I talk about them. Where do

(22:00):
you want to go? Well, I'll let you drive the
bus for a second. Brace yourself? Is the world getting meaner?
Or the cold truth about gas? Brace yourself? This is interesting.
Old school metal braces are coming back in vogue. The

(22:23):
Washington posted a story on how kids are now asking
for them instead of invisil line. There's apparently some social
status now connected to old fashioned metal braces that I'm
sure just hurt like crazy. I've been told they do.
I can't imagine wanting that. We put braces on my

(22:45):
son's teeth when he was younger, and when he got
them off, his teeth looked pretty good. And then he
decided he didn't want to wear his retainers anymore. And
now he's second guessing that decision. So we're getting patched
up again. It won't be long, and I think he'll
find good reasons to get that done. He's a great kid.
I wish you would just do stuff like that for

(23:06):
us with a little more compliance with the appliance. How's
that will? More appliance compliance? That's what I'm looking for. Yeah,
to leave at least ease the burden of the financial
side of those things. Holy cow. So yeah, did you
did you ever have to wear metal braces? I did.

Speaker 3 (23:25):
I had braces from I want to say sixth grade
to eighth grade, so I got them right before high school.

Speaker 2 (23:37):
Good for you, man, Good for you. The cold truth
about gas will and this is something that I've heard
probably four I bet the first time I heard it
it was at least twenty or twenty five years ago. Hey, man,
if it's cool outside in the evening and it's hot
during the day, buy your gas in the evening because
that hotter gas lane when it's coming through the pumps,

(24:00):
a lot of it just evaporates, and it's it's just
kind of goes away when you're trying to buy your gas.
So buy it when the air is cooler. Have you
ever heard that?

Speaker 3 (24:10):
Well, I've never heard that. But wouldn't that it would
make more sense to live in places that were cold?

Speaker 2 (24:17):
Would not? Well, I'm not gonna move just because of
the price of gas. Here's the deal, though, the who
was it? Consumer reports? He said, not so fast gas.
There is some tiny little bit of expansion and contraction
in that liquid in heat versus cool. But the amount

(24:41):
you're gonna save per full tank of gasoline. A few pennies, Yeah,
a few pennies. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna watch
the forecast to figure out when I'm gonna buy my
gas I'm not gonna wait until four in the morning
when it's only eighty two degrees this summer to buy
my guess rather than go ahead and just fill it

(25:03):
up when it's one hundred and five because I'm almost
on e makes sense. Well, yeah, I guess I kind
of thought it might. Back to that. Back to the
sports side of town right now. The Astros open their
season tonight against the Mets in dyke In Park. I
just saw our regional president Eddie Martine on his way

(25:26):
out the door to go attend the game with some
better clients of ours, and I'm glad he'll be there
to represent the team. I'm really curious to see how
that new lineup looks on the field. I have no
there's no doubt in my mind that jose Al Tuvey
can hold his own in dyke In Parks left field,

(25:46):
but I'm kind of curious moving forward to see how
well he navigates that territory where the fence is another
thirty feet or so behind him. Where he's gonna be
at home is in a place where if a ball
looks like it's gonna get deep, he can actually start
backing up a little bit toward the infield and not

(26:07):
backing away from the ball as it comes off the bat,
because it's either gonna go out into the Crawford boxes
or it's gonna bounce off the wall, and hopefully he'll
he'll get a hang of that wall and how balls
bounce off of there, as if he hadn't already probably
had one hundred balls hit off the wall, so he
can watch what they do, and he's gotten I'm sure

(26:28):
he's gotten advice from from everybody who's played left field
for us for the last two years. He'll be all right.
He's a gamer and he's a team player too, which
I really admire about that guy, I really do. He
thinks about the team. What can I do to make
this team better? You want to put me in left field,
But but ge Whiz, coach, I've been playing second base

(26:50):
for one hundred years. Yeah, but we need you in
a left field moving forward because we've got a good
second baseman and we need to round out our outfield
with somebody who can we think, at least they think
he can handle it out there, and he's a he's
a player. He could he could probably excel at at cornhole,

(27:14):
he could excel at ping pong, he could excel at
any sport, because he's just that good an athlete. Nobody's
the new second basement. I can't remember the guy's name.
I really can't. There are like seven changes on that
team will and I've in all through the last two months.
I've been listening as a fan, but I'm not I'm

(27:36):
not going to be able to do play by play.
I could. I could do play by play baseball as
long as I got the lineup in front of me.
I can see their numbers. That'd be easy enough and
recognize the guys who I would recognize. But no, I don't.
I don't dig into it that deeply. I've been more
focused on the out of doors, which is what I
actually cover over there on KBU ME Baseball sometimes out

(27:57):
of doors, not often, not once, not Once we hit
about June, it will never be outdoors again. And I'll
bet you the roof will be closed tonight. Well, it
have to be closed tonight. Now that's a safe bed.
It's rainy, but on a starlit beautiful. What will it

(28:18):
be April night? When the air outside is about five
sixty eight a clear night in April, they'll still close it.
You think there's going to be stars out? The stars
at night are big and bright here yea, not downtown.
That's a good point. I haven't been inside the Loop

(28:39):
overnight in a very long time, and when I have been,
I wasn't outside, so I don't know what the stars
look like. We have a pretty good star gazing if
you will, out in Fort ben County, but it's nothing
like going say out to Brasi Spin State Park, which
is nothing like going to the Big Bend. If you

(29:01):
go out to Alpine, you got to Alpine. It's one
of those Holy cow, I didn't even know there were
that many stars, and that's a fun thing to see.
Will it really is? I know? Where are you? Just
shuffling me away? Will did it? Time to go? Doug?
All right, we will take a little break. We will
come back with the fourth segment of Thursday's edition of

(29:22):
fifty plus here on kPr C. More to come. I
got some pretty good stuff left to to round it
out for the day. Thanks for listening.

Speaker 1 (29:29):
We'll be right back now. They sure don't make them
like they used to. That's why every few months we
wash him, check his fluids, and spring on a fresh
coat of wax. This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 2 (29:55):
Well, I've got a sneeze coming, I know it is.
And there it went a single. That's unusual for me. Actually,
usually they come in pairs, which I think will probably
realizes by now. Well in this allergy season, mind coming
oh Man. Driving home yesterday, I hadn't sneezed all day long,

(30:20):
all day long. Driving home, I get on the final
four lane street before I turn into my neighborhood, and
I can't stop sneezing. Man, just he's horrible. I mean,
my nose is running, my eyes are watered up, and
I'm sneezing about like every rotation of the tires, it
seems like. And I get home and I told my

(30:41):
wife what was going on. I can't believe this is happening.
I didn't sneeze all day. What's the deal, she said.
The mowers were there mowing the esplanade and trimming all
the grass and stuff. Today. Just a little while ago,
it was just constant noise forever and I oh, okay,
So what I may do is just take my cabin

(31:03):
air filter out and incinerate it and replace it with
a new one. I'm gonna wear a hazmat suit when
I pull it out of there too. Yeah, I know,
but that's what I love about the rain this time
of year. Yeah, he clears it up. That's gonna put
a stop to that garbage, knock it out of the trees,
down on the ground, and just soak it in where

(31:24):
the the chich bugs can just choke on it.

Speaker 3 (31:27):
I swear on Monday and Tuesday, I was just dying
from allergies, and then it started raining. We had that
thunderstorm overnight I think Tuesday night to Wednesday, and then
it was just it was good.

Speaker 2 (31:42):
My son's hurting his eyes last night. He looked like
he'd been crying. I mean, his eyes are just so
so red from allergies and sniffling and sneezing, and it's
just all this dog on pollen. There's not much we
can do about it. Yep. I wouldn't mind cutting down
every oak tree in my neighborhood. They're so big, that's

(32:05):
the problem. These are thirty year old trees. I know
they're massive, they are, and and my trees, of course, lucky,
lucky me. My trees produce more acorns and probably more
pollen than other trees. And it's just it's frustrating.

Speaker 3 (32:22):
What if we just quarantined them for the spring?

Speaker 2 (32:26):
What a big bag over them? Yeah, drop a parachute
on them?

Speaker 3 (32:31):
You know those giant tents that they use when they
when when? Uh?

Speaker 2 (32:37):
Yeah yeah? Why do we just get those for oaks?
You know, if you can tint a house, you can
tint a tree or three oak trees? Yeah, sure, man,
I may call them. Just put a big old bag
over the split until the bag turns yellow, yeah, exactly,
and then burn it. Yep. And the tree catches on
fire too, But not the house. We don't want that

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to happen. Oh my, we don't want the tree to
It's you know, the tree has to do what it's
got to do. Well, yeah, yeah it does. But does
it just unfortunate to such an extreme that's the question. Well,
you know, tree's got to do what tree's got to do.
Huh yeah, well it's not I don't even want to
go where else gonna go? Uh? Those keeps rolling and

(33:23):
I'm so glad really just their crushing contract after contract
for things that don't benefit Americans. And that's that's exactly
what that department is. It is designed to do. They're
gonna keep Americans money working for Americans, which is a
very unique concept over the last four years and not
even thought of over the last four years actually when

(33:44):
you really take a look. There was a Fox News
story from this morning. The department announced termination of one
hundred and fourteen Department of Agriculture contracts worth four point
seven billion dollars. And after they have to pay out
parts of those once they're shut down where they can

(34:05):
be shut down, we're going to save about three point
three billion dollars, including one hundred and forty five grand
that was allocated for Peru climate change activities. Additionally, those
acted more than a half a billion dollars from the

(34:27):
Department of Labors perse and that's going to save us
about two hundred and thirty seven million dollars, which included
ten million dollars, ten million dollars for gender equity in
the Mexican workplace, twelve point two million for worker empowerment
in South America, and a whole million dollars being spent

(34:54):
on alpaca farming in Peru. How any of that benefits
anyone who is an American citizen is beyond me, And
how we got ourselves into such a despicable situation is

(35:14):
just it's really hard to understand. It, really truly is
hard to understand how people in Washington have just been
taking advantage of us for so long and shipping all
this money out to stuff that makes absolutely no difference
to the veterans in our country, to the homeless in
our country, to anybody who is marginalized in any way.

(35:40):
There are a lot of programs that would greatly benefit
in this country from an extra million or two dollars
a year, things that help us, not things that help
people halfway around the world, to do nothing, really nothing
even constructive. What on earth our pack of farming in Peru.

(36:01):
It needs to stop, and it's it's gonna stop. That's
the good news, at least good news for golfers. And
this I'm doing because after all, the the tournament is
in town, the Texas Children's Houston Open. A polymer chemist
from San Diego has developed a new covering for golf

(36:24):
balls that could in there could change the game really
when you stop and think about what this golf ball's
cover will do, and honestly it's there is nothing like
it anywhere. So here's what it does. This cover reacts
to either water or a lack of water, says the inventor,

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guy named Thomas J. Kennedy. It reacts in a way
that allows the ball to move across wet or dry
surfaces at the same speed. In other words, all that
rain on the green over there at Memorial Park is
slowing that ball down. Under current current golf ball coverings,
the ball rolls more slowly on wet ground than it

(37:09):
does on dry well with Kennedy's cover, And he tested
it with a Stemp meter, which golfers know what it is.
Non golfers don't care. He tested with a Stemp meter,
and he found that when he did that, whether the
greens were wet or dry, the balls covered with his
surface rolled right about the same distance, right about the

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same speed. Now, that would also looking throughout the bag
of golf clubs, that would change the rollout on drives
on rainy days, and it would change the reaction of
the ball on short trips and pitches onto the greens.
It would really be a very very handy thing. I
think I may try and call that guy and get

(37:55):
him on getting on my out my weekend show over
on Sports Talk seven ninety Outdoors and Golf Show. That
would be good. Jasmine Crockett. Governor Greg Abbott, after being
insulted by her, wasted no time calling her out for
her disgusting reference to him as governor hot wheels, a

(38:17):
shot she took deliberately at a man in a wheelchair
after being paralyzed from the waist down when he was
I think twenty six and a tree fell on him.
That is pure hatred on her part and a total
lack of civility, a total lack of respect, not just
for the man but for the office, for her position
as an elected US congresswoman. She needs to own it,

(38:42):
and she needs to apologize. That's her only shot, or
she's going to have a really, really rough time getting
reelected because she's going to see that quote of hers
on the video of her saying it, just in a
loop on whoever is running against hers can campaign, all right, well,
how much time we got we have forty seconds? Forty

(39:05):
seconds more powerful temptation or fun fact. Now, don't don't
do fun fact more powerful temptation or under the bed.
Under the bed kid in Kansas tells this babysitter, Hey,
come in here, there's a monster under my bed. And
the babysitter's like, yeah, okay, I'll come in and check

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under your bed, don't it. It's okay, kid, I got this.
She looks under the bed and guess what, But there's
a guy under the bed. Will a real guy. He
jumps out, takes off running. I don't know who had
to clean who up after that. They did find the guy.
They did arrest him. Happy ending for that story. We'll

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be back tomorrow. Audios.