February 13, 2026 • 36 mins
Today, Doug Pike discusses screenplays, AI cafes, and warmth.
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And now fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, welcome
to you. Had another episode of fifty plus where seniors
get to hear mostly seniors talk about senior stuff, which
is really a long list when you get right down
to it. I have always welcomed topic recommendations and when
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I send out those queries kind of like I'm doing now.
If you want if there's something you want me to
talk about on this show, if you something you want
me to find an expert who can address this topic,
whatever it may be, by all means, just email me
Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com and I will get on
to it as soon as I can. And if there's
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a reason I can't cover that subject, I will let
you know by email. I won't just ignore you. I
can assure you that I don't ignore my listeners. I
try very very hard to respond as quickly as I can,
and much of my time, just so you know, much
of my time this weekend, after my two outdoor shows
on KBME, will be spent deleting emails that have been
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there for really not that long relatively speaking, but currently
my inbox is north of four thousand, so that's it's ridiculous,
I know, and I just get. I get so many
every day that it's hard to it's hard to push
the old ones aside and keep up with that. It's
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not that I don't try. I do try to kill
out the bad stuff, and my phone actually has and
so does my my word what is it Microsoft Inbox
Windows whatever that is the name escapes. But the bottom
line is I have an option where I can either
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look at the real important stuff or the fluff. And
so usually in the case of the fluff, I'll go
to go to that one and just scan them briefly
before I delete them all if I can get to
all of them. But I typically won't just just punch
the delete. But I won't hit the trash can as
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rapidly as the Astros did years ago. And I'm joking
about that because I played baseball and I know that
every team on the field is trying to get an
advantage over the other teams. And the only reason they
didn't go deeper with MLB and in that scandal was
because it would have exposed so much other stuff going
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on with so many other teams. We were the fall guys.
We took our hit, but they didn't take away the
trophy for that very reason, because if they had, then
there would have been a whole lot of questions that
people inside baseball wanted to have answered in open court
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and anyway. So here I'll go back to where I was.
I was thinking about this earlier. Let's say, because the
name of the show is fifty plus, let's say fifty
is the middle. Which of these two statements is true.
You've done more things at fifty than you'll do in
the rest of your life, or you'll do more things
after fifty than you've done up to. Then what do
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you think about that will? What do you think more
before or after fifty? Just things come on before after
I think you're gonna do I kind of do too.
I would have thought when I was, when I was
about your age or younger, I would have thought, man,
I'm doing so many wild, crazy, stupid, weird things and
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learning so much and doing so much. Fifty was so
far away too. I would have thought that it would
all be done before fifty, and then after fifty. When
you're twenty, twenty five or thirty, you think after fifty,
I'm pretty much gonna be rich and I'm gonna retire
and I'm just gonna play golfer, fish or play pickleball
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or something every day, and that that won't be a
whole lot, so it won't be a lot of new stuff.
But in reality, and I'm well past fifty, I can
assure you, in reality, I think I'm doing more now
than I was when I was younger. I got to
do a lot of fun stuff too when I was younger.
I'm not gonna tell you I was cheated. I'm gonna
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have to work to do more, and not work work,
but just I'm gonna have to put forth significant effort
to do more after fifty than prior to fifty. But
I think it's gonna be rewarding stuff, things that I
really always wanted to do things that I couldn't get
around to doing. I'm gonna if and when I do retire,
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before I croak, I'm gonna I'm gonna do more writing,
more fiction. And I truly enjoy that. I've got a
couple of screenplays that are almost finished and have been
since my son was born, a very long time ago.
I just haven't been able to find the time. And
I know I have to make the time to make
it happen, even if I can only do that for
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an hour a day, maybe or a half an hour
a day.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
The screenplay thing is is harder though than it might
you might think. And when you talk about trying to
just write a half an hour a day, because you've
got to refresh yourself, you've got to and put yourself
back into that world. And that takes time in and
of itself. Turn on the turn on the laptop, bring
up the screenplay you want to work on. Sit there,
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look at where you last left off, Look at where
you left off that was kind of redundant. Look at
where you left off, and then go back a little
ways so that you can because you can't just look
at the last line you wrote and go, Okay, we're
gonna go forward from here. You gotta get it into
context and know why that character said that. It's it's
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a complicated thing. It really is. But I'm fascinated by it,
and I love doing it, and I've got a couple
more I want to get going on as well, although
I wonder, I wonder if I do that, whether I'm
kind of playing into a medium, an art form that's
kind of going away, box offices and all that dum
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and all that busy these days for a lot of movies. Anyway,
very quickly, the decreasing clouds throughout the day, with the
high seventy five or so degrees, fog tomorrow morning, then
increasing southeast wind that'll blow out the fog ahead of
a front that's going to bring rain and some thunderstorms
maybe before Saturday around midnight. Then decreasing rainfall after that
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as we move into two really good days Sunday and Monday,
comfortable temperatures, bright sky, and so forth. Market News. I
looked again at eleven after seeing some downside stuff earlier.
All four indicators back in the green, all still kind
of clawing their way back to recent highs. Dow was
at forty nine six eighty eight, very close to fifty
thousand again, gold still north of five thousand announce and
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oil is holding around sixty two seventy five. It's time
to take a little break and it will. I knew
it was. Let's tee it up first with Cedar Cove
RV resort over there on Galveston Bay. Got all the
amenities you could want in a place to park your
RV for a day, a weekend, a week if you
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want to. There are some people who instead of some
people who are working here in the refineries and stuff,
who will, instead of using their accommodations money for a
hotel room, they'll bring down a big camper truck or
something like that and park it on one of the
slabs at Cedar Cove and enjoy that bayside lifestyle instead
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of being cooped up in a ten by twenty room
with neighbors above, below and on both sides of you,
and a nice beautiful view of the dumpster behind Denny's.
Now this is real relaxation. You go there and the
palm leaves or the palm fronds are kind of waving
in the breeze, and the water's lapping up on the beach.
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All of the slabs are concrete, the roads and the slabs.
You got electric water and sewer at every site. You've
got free Wi Fi. You got a convenience store or
showers available if you want one of those. After a
hard day of doing nothing and just watching the bay
really good time too. They have a rule there that
the noise has to stop. You can. You can have
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all the fun you want and play your music and
do that up until ten o'clock. Then it's quiet time
until six am. Six am, if you can get up,
it's pretty good time to go walk down to that shoreline,
maybe sling a live shrimp you bought across the street
over at Thompson's bake Camp. Sling that out there, and
catch yourself with redfish to eat for dinner the next
night or that night. You see how it works. And
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if you don't have an RV, you can rent one
from them. They will rent you an RV that comfortably
sleeps for so that you and your family can roll
down there in the minivan and just get a taste
of that lifestyle. Once you do, you're gonna love it,
So just be prepared. You can start throwing quarters in
the jar now, because once you spend some time in
an RV at a place like Cedar Cove, you're gonna
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want more of it. Cedar Cove Rvresort dot com, Cedarcovervresort
dot com. Yew, they sure don't make them like they
used to.
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That's why every few months we wash them, check his
fluids and spring on a fresh coat of wax. Is
fifty plus with Doug Pike.
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Thank you for listening. Certainly do appreciate it. On this beautiful, beautyful,
beautiful day, went out and did a little late late
yesterday afternoon. I had some family stuff I had to
take care of, and then I had a little bit
of extra time and I went out and hit a
few golf balls and practically broke a sweat. It was
so warm out there. I couldn't believe it in the
middle of February. I'll take it, so off we go
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coming out of shoot number one. It's a rodeo reference.
You know, I would wear out or I would wear
Western apparel in here once the rodeo starts, and all
the way through the rodeo will except for one thing.
I can't get that the headphones over the hat that's
so I'm just gonna just rest use my normal dress
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that I come in here in. You think would there
be any proper cowboy attire? A hat that would also
accommodate headphones, not really a backward baseball cap. Maybe STP cap.
You know what that is, right? You don't know what
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STP is. That is one of the premier It was.
It's still out there, believe me, but it's racing oils
and other products with the STP brand on that. I
don't remember what STP stands for, but yeah, STP was
an old, old brand, and you would see if you
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went to your hunting lease and went into the feed
store back in the seventies and the eighties and even
a little before then, I'm sure probably at least one
guy in there would have been wearing an STP cap.
And that's about enough of that Holy cal anyway, So
no Western gear because I can't get the headphones over
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the hat. Here's a head scratcher for you. In the
Nancy Guthrie kidnapping case, contrary to early reports of the
Pima County Sheriff's Department working hand in hand with the
FBI and they're all getting along and each welcomes the
other's help. What I found out is they had early
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I heard and I reported actually that the FBI had
been handed the reins of the investigation and is going
to just take the head position and get this thing solved.
And then as I read today, it turns out that's
not the case at all. The sheriff out there and
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos, his office doesn't officially have
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to let the FBI help find Nancy Guthrie, but they
still are making the lion's share of the decisions on
what gets tested where and how it gets tested, and
so on and so forth. From a story at RedState
dot com this morning, FBI requests to review and process
physical evidence from the scene were denied by the sheriff.
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He said, no thanks, and instead of sending these pieces
of really valuable evidence, I would think from the scene
a glove, there are several different things. Rather than sending
them to Quantico, Virginia, where the FBI does its lab work,
Pema County sent that stuff to a private lab in Florida,
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And after also sending that same lab two hundred thousand
dollars per tests, so far, they're still not much closer
than they were the day it happened, except for by
the way that video of the kidnapper obtained by whom
by the FBI, turns out they can They can find
things that a lot of people might have thought were unfindable. No, no,
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my camera's not. My camera's not hooked up to the cloud.
I didn't pay that extra fee to have that feature.
So you presume completely lost reality is retrievable. Very interesting.
Pima County has jurisdiction over the case by law, but
in the headline kidnapping case, you'd think a county sheriff
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anywhere in this country would welcome anything the FBI offered
to help solve that crime. Seems to me, maybe it's
just me, but it seems like Nanos is either just
egomaniacal who and thinks he can do a better job
than the FBI, or he's so far left that he
can't stand the thought of the current FBI under President
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Trump now solving this case and having to hear how
our president's new and improved FBI got the job done.
He doesn't want to play second little to anybody, and
I don't know what he thinks is going to come
of his way of thinking, because so far it hasn't
really done much of anything to help the case. We'll see,
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I guess we'll see from Ethan Breton over on the
KTRH newsroom. Sharp kid, he really is. He's going to
do well in this business. I think he knows how
to go digging around. And he came by my desk
this morning to show me a story that I actually
I think I got a glimpse of it on kind
of like down the side of a page or something yesterday,
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but he brought me the full story. And it wasn't
until I took a look at that that I realized
just how creepy all of this is. In this particular
what I'm about to tell you about. Here, a new
cafe has opened in New York City, and it's clientele,
it's primary clientele. The people who this cafe is trying
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to reach are people who they like to have dates
with their AI companion. Okay, and I hope you were
sitting down when I read that, because you might have
tripped over what you thought you heard. Yes, there now
are because AI is getting is weaseling its way in
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and then latching on to so many people and people
are turning to AI for advice on anything, on relationships,
on money, on anything and everything. What was that number?
Thank you? And now there's a place you can go.
You can take your phone and have a date with
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your AI companion. Isn't that nice? Isn't that nice? A place?
A room filled with tables for one I guess, and
you put your little phone on your little tripod across
in front of you, and you just have wonderful conversations
back and forth. I guess you'd have to put in
your earbuts so nobody else could hear what AI is
telling you to do about that person who cheated on you,
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or that person who's been mean to you. It just
this is just something else that people traditionally have done
only in private, but are now being told that, yeah,
go ahead, do it in public. What's next? Huh? I
wonder if the PA system in the cafe only runs
a loop. Maybe I don't know, mister Lonely by Bobby Vinton,
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or maybe only the Lonely by Roy Orbison that would
be appropriate. On the plus side, only buying one meal though,
so you're saving money. You're never having to pay for
a full date. I wonder this. Will you think there's
maybe a charge charge to keep your cyber date up
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and running. Do you think they have plugins at every table?
I bet they do. I bet they do. All right,
let's take this next break and try to stay a
little bit ahead of the clock. I tend to run
long on stuff and it will's very accommodating when I
do that. So anyway, I want to tell you right
now about medical aesthetics for Angelica. Actually there's two locations
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brick and mortar, very well, very clean, very well run
by people who know what they're doing, clinics if you will,
where you can go and get anything from pick one,
some metabolic mis malfunction or dysfunction for guys, that's something
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they work on. For the women, they work on everything
from weight, appearance, energy, confidence, all of those things for
both men and women. Really the weight thing is handled
with those what are they the peptize, the GLP ones.
They do hormone therapies which can help with a lot
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of different things. That you'll start with a blood test
if you're going in for that type of treatment, and
that will determine by looking at what you have a
lot of and what you don't have enough of which
way they go over what probably will end up being
a sixteen week wellness program that will get you more
than on your way to feeling better, to looking better,
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to having more energy, all those things that you really want.
There are specials available now coming up to Valentine's Day
here real quick that if you can get in there
and get them taken care of, then maybe you and
your partner can go in there together and go through
that whole process of just making better selves of yourselves.
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Call them get an appointment eight three two nine three
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fifty plus with Doug Pike. Welcome back to fifty plus.
Thank you for listening. I certainly do appreciate it, really do.
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That whole AI cafe. They're not calling it a restaurant.
It's a cafe up there in New York City where
you can go with your AI companion. That's just that's
check it out. It really is. When you're willing to
devote that much time to something that isn't real and
never will be, that's a big disconnect. What's next, you
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might ask about this technology. There's a startup company in Shanghai, China,
called Droid Up building the first truly realistic humanoid robots.
They say that will have They have cameras behind their eye, well,
cameras are their eyes. They look real, by the way,
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and they even have warmed skin to more closely replicate
a true human being in the room. They have the
capacity to express emotions through facial expression. There's sets of
launch this year. Base model if you're wondering, and if
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you have a straying mind, no, I don't think they're
fully equipped, but the base model for this robot is
going to be around one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars.
And a piece for Fox News, a tech journalist I
wasn't familiar with him. His name is Kurt and a
cyber guy. Newtsen said of this robot's warm skin, and
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I kind of agree with the guy and I quote,
warmth removes one of the few clear signals that separate
machines from humans. Once that line blurs, discomfort grows fast
end quote, And I would have to agree with him.
This is some There'll be years from now, I hope,
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if ever, and I'd prefer not, but there will be
places where you can take your robot that's powered by
AI and walks beside you and responds to your touch,
responds to your voice, responds to anything and everything you do,
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and still isn't real. It's I don't know, it's it's
a really kind of a Daneis bridge to cross and
I just hope we know what we're doing. I really do.
From Florida comes word that the woman who won Miss
Florida back in twenty twenty four and then went on
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to become Miss America woman named Kaylie Bush, she was
told after winning and signing the contract that spelled out
what she could and couldn't do as the holder of
that Miss America title, she was told later, like several
months later, or maybe even close to a year later,
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that she had to sign a revised set of rules
that forced her to accept and acknowledge transgenderism. She refused,
and the Miss America folks took away her title. There's
a quote from her from the piece says, and I quote,
I used to look up to Miss America because they
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empowered women, but now it's really disappointing to see that
they've abandoned such a common since truth that a man
is a man and that a woman is a woman.
I am disappointed in the miss America organization, but I'm
really hoping that they get back on track or return
to truth end quote. Uh see how that goes. I
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got a hunch they're they're not going to back down,
and that's that's there. That's their option. I suppose agree
or disagree. From the desk of how much time do
I have? Three and a half? Just three? I missed
that one by a little bit. It wasn't bad. From
the desk of preposterous political posturing Minnesota Governor Tim Wallas,
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Remember Tim and all he and that goofy mayor from
Minneapolis have done in the past several months. He is
now demanding, Tim Wallas is that the federal government pick
up the tab for what Ice broke. While Ice removed
thousands of hardened criminals from that city and that state,
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despite being spat on, despite being shot at, despite being
having rocks and bottles thrown at him, despite all the violent,
unlawful things done to them while they took out the
trash in Minnesota, Walls demands money to keep keep his
state afloat, money to cover the deep damage and generational trauma.
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Those are his words in my mind. Left in the
wake of ICE operations, what Ice left is a quieter city,
a less crime ridden city. He took out a lot
of people who shouldn't have been there. None of what
Ice had to do would have been necessary, probably if
he and that idiot mayor had not let paid protest. Well,
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first of all, they shouldn't have allowed so many people
to come into their state unlawfully. Something. They had to
have known something was going to happen eventually, so they
did that, and they want us to ignore that they
did nothing to stop the paid protesters who were doing
their full time jobs of obstruction and assault. And without
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those folks getting paid to start trouble, most Minnesotans, I
would imagine, during the dead of winter, probably would have
stayed home and let the law do its work if
those people weren't there. We don't own Minnesota at the time.
And while we're on that subject, by the way, how
about we send Tim a bill for the billions of
tax dollars people in his state have stolen from the
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rest of us over the past four or five years.
There's no way that guy didn't have at least a
hunch of what was going on on his watch under
his sniveling little nose. Tim. I don't have a whole
lot of respect for Tim Walsh. I got a hunch
there's more to come on him and a lot of
those people in Blue side politics over the next two
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and a half three years. That's going to be a
fright for these people. They're picking them off one by
one to the fraud, the schemes, the stealing money from us,
to the tune of probably more billions than we'll ever
be able to count. It just so happens that we
got the right guy in office right now to put
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a stop to all at garbage too. Let me tell
you about Whitetail Ranch. This is a place about ten
miles west of cold Spring, somewhere ten fifteen miles west
of cold Spring, where you will discover in those beautiful
rolling hills of Central Texas, you will find this gated
acreage community that's offering home sites from one and a
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half to more than four acres. They've got concrete roads,
they have no mud taxes, absolutely beautiful amenities and a
thoughtfully planned Texas hunting ranch theme. That's how it kind
of feels as you ride through there. So I am
told I haven't been up there yet, but I'm planning
a trip as quick as I can. There's no mud
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taxes like said, and it's just it's just peace and quiet,
and you can you can use that peace and quiet
to build yourself a weekend get away, your final house
maybe if you want to live out in the country.
It's not terribly far from the nearest grocery store. You've
got freedom, You've got long term value too. You can
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either buy and build right now, buy and build later,
or just hold on to it as open land and
use it as an investment tool. They've got a special
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you can get up there, you'll be pleasantly surprised at
the deal they will make for you on one of
those lots. Go up there, check it out, go to
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the website first. Do that. You'll see what I'm talking about.
You'll understand why I'm so excited to tell you about this.
Whitetail RANCHTX dot com. Whitetailranchtx dot com. What's life without
a nap? If I suggest you go to bed, sleep
it off, just.
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To wait until the show's over. Sleepy back to Doug
Pike as fifty plus continues.
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Fifty plus fourth and final segment starts. Now we've got
about seven minutes or so to go from the same books,
next chapter desk. I suppose New Jersey Governor Mikey Cheryl
pledged this week to help the public in her state
track ice movement through an online portal. I want to
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write a word down so I don't forget to mention
this either. Okay, good, that's that's fun. And as most
of us hoped and expected, the DHS absolutely fired back,
and I quote, this certainly looks like obstruction of justice,
and the quote, a spokesperson said, the quote continues, Actually,
I want to get this into and I quote, this
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action by the governor encourages violence against our officers and
obstruction of our operations. Our officers are all ready facing
a highly coordinated campaign of violence against them and a
more than thirteen hundred percent increase in assaults against them,
and she wants to make it easier for people to
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find them and harass them and harm them. That same Governor, Mikey,
by the way, dodged reporters question about an illegal immigrant
who has multiple violent charges against him in the past year,
but has been let out after every one of them.
This guy, a forty year old Mexican national, threw a
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baseball sized rock through the window of a school bus
headed out for a field trip on the New Jersey Turnpike.
They were headed to a museum, I believe it was,
and that baseball sized rock went through the window and
fractured an eight year old girl's skull, a third grader
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on a field trip, and she's protecting that guy. He
is what law enforcement in that state called a quote
serial rock thrower end quote. And I bet you, I
bet you he's out again right now in that sanctuary state.
I'll bet you. And a spokesperson by the way, for
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either Mikey's office or maybe some other official body up there,
somebody who called themselves a spokesperson, actually gave us this quote.
Our office's number one priority is keeping New Jersey ins safe.
End quote. If that's the case, madam or mister spokesperson person,
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you guys really suck at your job. You really suck
at your job. A little girl, an eight year old girl,
had to go through surgery for a cracked skull after
a guy through a rock through the window, and that's
not really protection by my defer benission anyway. So what
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I find interesting, in quite telling, really is how few
people outside Minneapolis, by the way, are willing to go
stand on a street corner, walk back and forth carrying
anti ICE signs, and waste their day's campaigning on behalf
of violent criminals that are being taken off our streets
by the people against whom they are. They're protesting violent
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crime rates, by the way, in case you haven't been told,
and you won't see much about it on network TV,
so don't go looking there. Violent crime rates across this
entire country have nose dived since this operation began, nose
dive lovest murder rates since we started counting murder rates
just in this past year. I have a friend, I
have an acquaintance who owns a small business, and he
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told me this, Okay, he's here in town. He often
works late into the night in his office alone, and
for the past several years, nearly every night, he said,
there were people walking around his building, jiggling door handles,
breaking into cars, looking for something they could steal or
someone they could threaten make some fast money. And a
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few months ago, ICE rolled into his area, his neighborhood,
his part of the city, came through there and hmm
about I don't know how long it took after that. Anyway,
he said, when they finally rolled out, when they made
their presence known, came in there, took a whole bunch
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of people out. Then they were gone. And since they left,
and he paused when he told me this part, since
they left, there hasn't been a single car alarm go off.
There hadn't been a single broken window, hasn't been a
single jiggle door handle. And still because of false narratives
in the media, because of instigation by paid agitators, and
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because the left desperately needs these bad guys to keep
Americans afraid to step out or speak up. Still, there
are liberals who want to protect those really, really bad people.
And I just can't figure that out. By the way,
Bad Bunny in his halftime performance came under the spot
lot of the spotlight of the FCC for a little
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while that halftime. A lot of the songs that he
said are some of the songs at least he sang,
have in their original versions, very explicit sexual references to
acts to genitalia, and he cleaned them up for the performance, apparently,
but they still were looking also at some of the
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activities that were going on on stage at this point.
Right now, they stepped away from it and said, Okay, fine,
I'm kind of curious what you guys think about that.
Do me a favor. If you have an opinion either
way on that performance and whether it moved your or not,
go to the iHeartRadio app Go to KPRC, listen live,
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then use the talkback button to tell me in thirty
seconds or less, your first name, what part of town
you're from, and what you thought about Bad Bunny's performance.
Most of us watched it. I did. I wanted to.
I was curious. I wanted to see what I was
going to talk about this week. And it was every
bit as disappointing as I expected it to be. And
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if you look at the reactions to the people of
the people in the stands that I've seen a lot
of just video pans across the camera, pans across the
fans there they were in the same boat. Couldn't understand
it made no sense at all, made no sense at all. Ah,
where do I go? Let's go to the Olympics, shall
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we from the Olympics, comes news this is kind of funny,
not for one guy, but it's funny to the rest
of us. Comes news of a Slavic fugitive, somebody who
didn't come to this country and instead went to Italy
at some point in his life. Big time robber of
small businesses and had managed to elude the law for
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sixteen years whilst in Italy, robbing and stealing. Well, his
time on the run is finished. An avid hockey fan,
the guy is, and he wanted to see his home
country's team compete. And when he came to Milan to
check into the little guest house he'd rented, I guess
in his real name because he had to show ID
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maybe well, the police were waiting for him. He's looking
now instead of hat a soccer match or two, he's
looking at eleven months and seven days of jail. Slovakian
hockey team, by the way, beat Finland four to one
that day and will face Italy today and Sweden on
satur With Italy today and Sweden tomorrow, our squad is
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still in third place overall by metal count we have fourteen.
Finland and Norway are ahead, both with eighteen total medals.
France with ten is in fourth behind US. It's interesting
I found out that only twenty one of the country's
twenty one countries of the ninety three competing in Milan
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with more than thirty five hundred athletes total overall. Now
only what did I say? Twenty one countries out of
ninety three have even earned one single medal. But they've
got their entourages there, they've got their teams there, and
more power to them. They're all fighting hard. I hope
they all win something atast, or at least gained something
personally out of being in there. Still nine more days
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of competition and give them a look pretty good stuff.
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And now fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, welcome
to you. Had another episode of fifty plus where seniors
get to hear mostly seniors talk about senior stuff, which
is really a long list when you get right down
to it. I have always welcomed topic recommendations and when
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I send out those queries kind of like I'm doing now.
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talk about on this show, if you something you want
me to find an expert who can address this topic,
whatever it may be, by all means, just email me
Dougpike at iHeartMedia dot com and I will get on
to it as soon as I can. And if there's
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a reason I can't cover that subject, I will let
you know by email. I won't just ignore you. I
can assure you that I don't ignore my listeners. I
try very very hard to respond as quickly as I can,
and much of my time, just so you know, much
of my time this weekend, after my two outdoor shows
on KBME, will be spent deleting emails that have been
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there for really not that long relatively speaking, but currently
my inbox is north of four thousand, so that's it's ridiculous,
I know, and I just get. I get so many
every day that it's hard to it's hard to push
the old ones aside and keep up with that. It's
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not that I don't try. I do try to kill
out the bad stuff, and my phone actually has and
so does my my word what is it Microsoft Inbox
Windows whatever that is the name escapes. But the bottom
line is I have an option where I can either
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look at the real important stuff or the fluff. And
so usually in the case of the fluff, I'll go
to go to that one and just scan them briefly
before I delete them all if I can get to
all of them. But I typically won't just just punch
the delete. But I won't hit the trash can as
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rapidly as the Astros did years ago. And I'm joking
about that because I played baseball and I know that
every team on the field is trying to get an
advantage over the other teams. And the only reason they
didn't go deeper with MLB and in that scandal was
because it would have exposed so much other stuff going
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on with so many other teams. We were the fall guys.
We took our hit, but they didn't take away the
trophy for that very reason, because if they had, then
there would have been a whole lot of questions that
people inside baseball wanted to have answered in open court
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and anyway. So here I'll go back to where I was.
I was thinking about this earlier. Let's say, because the
name of the show is fifty plus, let's say fifty
is the middle. Which of these two statements is true.
You've done more things at fifty than you'll do in
the rest of your life, or you'll do more things
after fifty than you've done up to. Then what do
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you think about that will? What do you think more
before or after fifty? Just things come on before after
I think you're gonna do I kind of do too.
I would have thought when I was, when I was
about your age or younger, I would have thought, man,
I'm doing so many wild, crazy, stupid, weird things and
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learning so much and doing so much. Fifty was so
far away too. I would have thought that it would
all be done before fifty, and then after fifty. When
you're twenty, twenty five or thirty, you think after fifty,
I'm pretty much gonna be rich and I'm gonna retire
and I'm just gonna play golfer, fish or play pickleball
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or something every day, and that that won't be a
whole lot, so it won't be a lot of new stuff.
But in reality, and I'm well past fifty, I can
assure you, in reality, I think I'm doing more now
than I was when I was younger. I got to
do a lot of fun stuff too when I was younger.
I'm not gonna tell you I was cheated. I'm gonna
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have to work to do more, and not work work,
but just I'm gonna have to put forth significant effort
to do more after fifty than prior to fifty. But
I think it's gonna be rewarding stuff, things that I
really always wanted to do things that I couldn't get
around to doing. I'm gonna if and when I do retire,
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before I croak, I'm gonna I'm gonna do more writing,
more fiction. And I truly enjoy that. I've got a
couple of screenplays that are almost finished and have been
since my son was born, a very long time ago.
I just haven't been able to find the time. And
I know I have to make the time to make
it happen, even if I can only do that for
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an hour a day, maybe or a half an hour
a day.
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Uh.
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The screenplay thing is is harder though than it might
you might think. And when you talk about trying to
just write a half an hour a day, because you've
got to refresh yourself, you've got to and put yourself
back into that world. And that takes time in and
of itself. Turn on the turn on the laptop, bring
up the screenplay you want to work on. Sit there,
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look at where you last left off, Look at where
you left off that was kind of redundant. Look at
where you left off, and then go back a little
ways so that you can because you can't just look
at the last line you wrote and go, Okay, we're
gonna go forward from here. You gotta get it into
context and know why that character said that. It's it's
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a complicated thing. It really is. But I'm fascinated by it,
and I love doing it, and I've got a couple
more I want to get going on as well, although
I wonder, I wonder if I do that, whether I'm
kind of playing into a medium, an art form that's
kind of going away, box offices and all that dum
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and all that busy these days for a lot of movies. Anyway,
very quickly, the decreasing clouds throughout the day, with the
high seventy five or so degrees, fog tomorrow morning, then
increasing southeast wind that'll blow out the fog ahead of
a front that's going to bring rain and some thunderstorms
maybe before Saturday around midnight. Then decreasing rainfall after that
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as we move into two really good days Sunday and Monday,
comfortable temperatures, bright sky, and so forth. Market News. I
looked again at eleven after seeing some downside stuff earlier.
All four indicators back in the green, all still kind
of clawing their way back to recent highs. Dow was
at forty nine six eighty eight, very close to fifty
thousand again, gold still north of five thousand announce and
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oil is holding around sixty two seventy five. It's time
to take a little break and it will. I knew
it was. Let's tee it up first with Cedar Cove
RV resort over there on Galveston Bay. Got all the
amenities you could want in a place to park your
RV for a day, a weekend, a week if you
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want to. There are some people who instead of some
people who are working here in the refineries and stuff,
who will, instead of using their accommodations money for a
hotel room, they'll bring down a big camper truck or
something like that and park it on one of the
slabs at Cedar Cove and enjoy that bayside lifestyle instead
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of being cooped up in a ten by twenty room
with neighbors above, below and on both sides of you,
and a nice beautiful view of the dumpster behind Denny's.
Now this is real relaxation. You go there and the
palm leaves or the palm fronds are kind of waving
in the breeze, and the water's lapping up on the beach.
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All of the slabs are concrete, the roads and the slabs.
You got electric water and sewer at every site. You've
got free Wi Fi. You got a convenience store or
showers available if you want one of those. After a
hard day of doing nothing and just watching the bay
really good time too. They have a rule there that
the noise has to stop. You can. You can have
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all the fun you want and play your music and
do that up until ten o'clock. Then it's quiet time
until six am. Six am, if you can get up,
it's pretty good time to go walk down to that shoreline,
maybe sling a live shrimp you bought across the street
over at Thompson's bake Camp. Sling that out there, and
catch yourself with redfish to eat for dinner the next
night or that night. You see how it works. And
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if you don't have an RV, you can rent one
from them. They will rent you an RV that comfortably
sleeps for so that you and your family can roll
down there in the minivan and just get a taste
of that lifestyle. Once you do, you're gonna love it,
So just be prepared. You can start throwing quarters in
the jar now, because once you spend some time in
an RV at a place like Cedar Cove, you're gonna
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want more of it. Cedar Cove Rvresort dot com, Cedarcovervresort
dot com. Yew, they sure don't make them like they
used to.
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That's why every few months we wash them, check his
fluids and spring on a fresh coat of wax. Is
fifty plus with Doug Pike.
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Thank you for listening. Certainly do appreciate it. On this beautiful, beautyful,
beautiful day, went out and did a little late late
yesterday afternoon. I had some family stuff I had to
take care of, and then I had a little bit
of extra time and I went out and hit a
few golf balls and practically broke a sweat. It was
so warm out there. I couldn't believe it in the
middle of February. I'll take it, so off we go
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coming out of shoot number one. It's a rodeo reference.
You know, I would wear out or I would wear
Western apparel in here once the rodeo starts, and all
the way through the rodeo will except for one thing.
I can't get that the headphones over the hat that's
so I'm just gonna just rest use my normal dress
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that I come in here in. You think would there
be any proper cowboy attire? A hat that would also
accommodate headphones, not really a backward baseball cap. Maybe STP cap.
You know what that is, right? You don't know what
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STP is. That is one of the premier It was.
It's still out there, believe me, but it's racing oils
and other products with the STP brand on that. I
don't remember what STP stands for, but yeah, STP was
an old, old brand, and you would see if you
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went to your hunting lease and went into the feed
store back in the seventies and the eighties and even
a little before then, I'm sure probably at least one
guy in there would have been wearing an STP cap.
And that's about enough of that Holy cal anyway, So
no Western gear because I can't get the headphones over
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the hat. Here's a head scratcher for you. In the
Nancy Guthrie kidnapping case, contrary to early reports of the
Pima County Sheriff's Department working hand in hand with the
FBI and they're all getting along and each welcomes the
other's help. What I found out is they had early
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I heard and I reported actually that the FBI had
been handed the reins of the investigation and is going
to just take the head position and get this thing solved.
And then as I read today, it turns out that's
not the case at all. The sheriff out there and
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos, his office doesn't officially have
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to let the FBI help find Nancy Guthrie, but they
still are making the lion's share of the decisions on
what gets tested where and how it gets tested, and
so on and so forth. From a story at RedState
dot com this morning, FBI requests to review and process
physical evidence from the scene were denied by the sheriff.
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He said, no thanks, and instead of sending these pieces
of really valuable evidence, I would think from the scene
a glove, there are several different things. Rather than sending
them to Quantico, Virginia, where the FBI does its lab work,
Pema County sent that stuff to a private lab in Florida,
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And after also sending that same lab two hundred thousand
dollars per tests, so far, they're still not much closer
than they were the day it happened, except for by
the way that video of the kidnapper obtained by whom
by the FBI, turns out they can They can find
things that a lot of people might have thought were unfindable. No, no,
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my camera's not. My camera's not hooked up to the cloud.
I didn't pay that extra fee to have that feature.
So you presume completely lost reality is retrievable. Very interesting.
Pima County has jurisdiction over the case by law, but
in the headline kidnapping case, you'd think a county sheriff
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anywhere in this country would welcome anything the FBI offered
to help solve that crime. Seems to me, maybe it's
just me, but it seems like Nanos is either just
egomaniacal who and thinks he can do a better job
than the FBI, or he's so far left that he
can't stand the thought of the current FBI under President
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Trump now solving this case and having to hear how
our president's new and improved FBI got the job done.
He doesn't want to play second little to anybody, and
I don't know what he thinks is going to come
of his way of thinking, because so far it hasn't
really done much of anything to help the case. We'll see,
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I guess we'll see from Ethan Breton over on the
KTRH newsroom. Sharp kid, he really is. He's going to
do well in this business. I think he knows how
to go digging around. And he came by my desk
this morning to show me a story that I actually
I think I got a glimpse of it on kind
of like down the side of a page or something yesterday,
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but he brought me the full story. And it wasn't
until I took a look at that that I realized
just how creepy all of this is. In this particular
what I'm about to tell you about. Here, a new
cafe has opened in New York City, and it's clientele,
it's primary clientele. The people who this cafe is trying
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to reach are people who they like to have dates
with their AI companion. Okay, and I hope you were
sitting down when I read that, because you might have
tripped over what you thought you heard. Yes, there now
are because AI is getting is weaseling its way in
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and then latching on to so many people and people
are turning to AI for advice on anything, on relationships,
on money, on anything and everything. What was that number?
Thank you? And now there's a place you can go.
You can take your phone and have a date with
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your AI companion. Isn't that nice? Isn't that nice? A place?
A room filled with tables for one I guess, and
you put your little phone on your little tripod across
in front of you, and you just have wonderful conversations
back and forth. I guess you'd have to put in
your earbuts so nobody else could hear what AI is
telling you to do about that person who cheated on you,
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or that person who's been mean to you. It just
this is just something else that people traditionally have done
only in private, but are now being told that, yeah,
go ahead, do it in public. What's next? Huh? I
wonder if the PA system in the cafe only runs
a loop. Maybe I don't know, mister Lonely by Bobby Vinton,
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or maybe only the Lonely by Roy Orbison that would
be appropriate. On the plus side, only buying one meal though,
so you're saving money. You're never having to pay for
a full date. I wonder this. Will you think there's
maybe a charge charge to keep your cyber date up
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and running. Do you think they have plugins at every table?
I bet they do. I bet they do. All right,
let's take this next break and try to stay a
little bit ahead of the clock. I tend to run
long on stuff and it will's very accommodating when I
do that. So anyway, I want to tell you right
now about medical aesthetics for Angelica. Actually there's two locations
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brick and mortar, very well, very clean, very well run
by people who know what they're doing, clinics if you will,
where you can go and get anything from pick one,
some metabolic mis malfunction or dysfunction for guys, that's something
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they work on. For the women, they work on everything
from weight, appearance, energy, confidence, all of those things for
both men and women. Really the weight thing is handled
with those what are they the peptize, the GLP ones.
They do hormone therapies which can help with a lot
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of different things. That you'll start with a blood test
if you're going in for that type of treatment, and
that will determine by looking at what you have a
lot of and what you don't have enough of which
way they go over what probably will end up being
a sixteen week wellness program that will get you more
than on your way to feeling better, to looking better,
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to having more energy, all those things that you really want.
There are specials available now coming up to Valentine's Day
here real quick that if you can get in there
and get them taken care of, then maybe you and
your partner can go in there together and go through
that whole process of just making better selves of yourselves.
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fifty plus with Doug Pike. Welcome back to fifty plus.
Thank you for listening. I certainly do appreciate it, really do.
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That whole AI cafe. They're not calling it a restaurant.
It's a cafe up there in New York City where
you can go with your AI companion. That's just that's
check it out. It really is. When you're willing to
devote that much time to something that isn't real and
never will be, that's a big disconnect. What's next, you
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might ask about this technology. There's a startup company in Shanghai, China,
called Droid Up building the first truly realistic humanoid robots.
They say that will have They have cameras behind their eye, well,
cameras are their eyes. They look real, by the way,
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and they even have warmed skin to more closely replicate
a true human being in the room. They have the
capacity to express emotions through facial expression. There's sets of
launch this year. Base model if you're wondering, and if
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you have a straying mind, no, I don't think they're
fully equipped, but the base model for this robot is
going to be around one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars.
And a piece for Fox News, a tech journalist I
wasn't familiar with him. His name is Kurt and a
cyber guy. Newtsen said of this robot's warm skin, and
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I kind of agree with the guy and I quote,
warmth removes one of the few clear signals that separate
machines from humans. Once that line blurs, discomfort grows fast
end quote, And I would have to agree with him.
This is some There'll be years from now, I hope,
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if ever, and I'd prefer not, but there will be
places where you can take your robot that's powered by
AI and walks beside you and responds to your touch,
responds to your voice, responds to anything and everything you do,
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and still isn't real. It's I don't know, it's it's
a really kind of a Daneis bridge to cross and
I just hope we know what we're doing. I really do.
From Florida comes word that the woman who won Miss
Florida back in twenty twenty four and then went on
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to become Miss America woman named Kaylie Bush, she was
told after winning and signing the contract that spelled out
what she could and couldn't do as the holder of
that Miss America title, she was told later, like several
months later, or maybe even close to a year later,
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that she had to sign a revised set of rules
that forced her to accept and acknowledge transgenderism. She refused,
and the Miss America folks took away her title. There's
a quote from her from the piece says, and I quote,
I used to look up to Miss America because they
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empowered women, but now it's really disappointing to see that
they've abandoned such a common since truth that a man
is a man and that a woman is a woman.
I am disappointed in the miss America organization, but I'm
really hoping that they get back on track or return
to truth end quote. Uh see how that goes. I
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got a hunch they're they're not going to back down,
and that's that's there. That's their option. I suppose agree
or disagree. From the desk of how much time do
I have? Three and a half? Just three? I missed
that one by a little bit. It wasn't bad. From
the desk of preposterous political posturing Minnesota Governor Tim Wallas,
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Remember Tim and all he and that goofy mayor from
Minneapolis have done in the past several months. He is
now demanding, Tim Wallas is that the federal government pick
up the tab for what Ice broke. While Ice removed
thousands of hardened criminals from that city and that state,
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despite being spat on, despite being shot at, despite being
having rocks and bottles thrown at him, despite all the violent,
unlawful things done to them while they took out the
trash in Minnesota, Walls demands money to keep keep his
state afloat, money to cover the deep damage and generational trauma.
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Those are his words in my mind. Left in the
wake of ICE operations, what Ice left is a quieter city,
a less crime ridden city. He took out a lot
of people who shouldn't have been there. None of what
Ice had to do would have been necessary, probably if
he and that idiot mayor had not let paid protest. Well,
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first of all, they shouldn't have allowed so many people
to come into their state unlawfully. Something. They had to
have known something was going to happen eventually, so they
did that, and they want us to ignore that they
did nothing to stop the paid protesters who were doing
their full time jobs of obstruction and assault. And without
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those folks getting paid to start trouble, most Minnesotans, I
would imagine, during the dead of winter, probably would have
stayed home and let the law do its work if
those people weren't there. We don't own Minnesota at the time.
And while we're on that subject, by the way, how
about we send Tim a bill for the billions of
tax dollars people in his state have stolen from the
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rest of us over the past four or five years.
There's no way that guy didn't have at least a
hunch of what was going on on his watch under
his sniveling little nose. Tim. I don't have a whole
lot of respect for Tim Walsh. I got a hunch
there's more to come on him and a lot of
those people in Blue side politics over the next two
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and a half three years. That's going to be a
fright for these people. They're picking them off one by
one to the fraud, the schemes, the stealing money from us,
to the tune of probably more billions than we'll ever
be able to count. It just so happens that we
got the right guy in office right now to put
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a stop to all at garbage too. Let me tell
you about Whitetail Ranch. This is a place about ten
miles west of cold Spring, somewhere ten fifteen miles west
of cold Spring, where you will discover in those beautiful
rolling hills of Central Texas, you will find this gated
acreage community that's offering home sites from one and a
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half to more than four acres. They've got concrete roads,
they have no mud taxes, absolutely beautiful amenities and a
thoughtfully planned Texas hunting ranch theme. That's how it kind
of feels as you ride through there. So I am
told I haven't been up there yet, but I'm planning
a trip as quick as I can. There's no mud
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taxes like said, and it's just it's just peace and quiet,
and you can you can use that peace and quiet
to build yourself a weekend get away, your final house
maybe if you want to live out in the country.
It's not terribly far from the nearest grocery store. You've
got freedom, You've got long term value too. You can
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either buy and build right now, buy and build later,
or just hold on to it as open land and
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you can get up there, you'll be pleasantly surprised at
the deal they will make for you on one of
those lots. Go up there, check it out, go to
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the website first. Do that. You'll see what I'm talking about.
You'll understand why I'm so excited to tell you about this.
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a nap? If I suggest you go to bed, sleep
it off, just.
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To wait until the show's over. Sleepy back to Doug
Pike as fifty plus continues.
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Fifty plus fourth and final segment starts. Now we've got
about seven minutes or so to go from the same books,
next chapter desk. I suppose New Jersey Governor Mikey Cheryl
pledged this week to help the public in her state
track ice movement through an online portal. I want to
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write a word down so I don't forget to mention
this either. Okay, good, that's that's fun. And as most
of us hoped and expected, the DHS absolutely fired back,
and I quote, this certainly looks like obstruction of justice,
and the quote, a spokesperson said, the quote continues, Actually,
I want to get this into and I quote, this
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action by the governor encourages violence against our officers and
obstruction of our operations. Our officers are all ready facing
a highly coordinated campaign of violence against them and a
more than thirteen hundred percent increase in assaults against them,
and she wants to make it easier for people to
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find them and harass them and harm them. That same Governor, Mikey,
by the way, dodged reporters question about an illegal immigrant
who has multiple violent charges against him in the past year,
but has been let out after every one of them.
This guy, a forty year old Mexican national, threw a
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baseball sized rock through the window of a school bus
headed out for a field trip on the New Jersey Turnpike.
They were headed to a museum, I believe it was,
and that baseball sized rock went through the window and
fractured an eight year old girl's skull, a third grader
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on a field trip, and she's protecting that guy. He
is what law enforcement in that state called a quote
serial rock thrower end quote. And I bet you, I
bet you he's out again right now in that sanctuary state.
I'll bet you. And a spokesperson by the way, for
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either Mikey's office or maybe some other official body up there,
somebody who called themselves a spokesperson, actually gave us this quote.
Our office's number one priority is keeping New Jersey ins safe.
End quote. If that's the case, madam or mister spokesperson person,
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you guys really suck at your job. You really suck
at your job. A little girl, an eight year old girl,
had to go through surgery for a cracked skull after
a guy through a rock through the window, and that's
not really protection by my defer benission anyway. So what
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I find interesting, in quite telling, really is how few
people outside Minneapolis, by the way, are willing to go
stand on a street corner, walk back and forth carrying
anti ICE signs, and waste their day's campaigning on behalf
of violent criminals that are being taken off our streets
by the people against whom they are. They're protesting violent
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crime rates, by the way, in case you haven't been told,
and you won't see much about it on network TV,
so don't go looking there. Violent crime rates across this
entire country have nose dived since this operation began, nose
dive lovest murder rates since we started counting murder rates
just in this past year. I have a friend, I
have an acquaintance who owns a small business, and he
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told me this, Okay, he's here in town. He often
works late into the night in his office alone, and
for the past several years, nearly every night, he said,
there were people walking around his building, jiggling door handles,
breaking into cars, looking for something they could steal or
someone they could threaten make some fast money. And a
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few months ago, ICE rolled into his area, his neighborhood,
his part of the city, came through there and hmm
about I don't know how long it took after that. Anyway,
he said, when they finally rolled out, when they made
their presence known, came in there, took a whole bunch
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of people out. Then they were gone. And since they left,
and he paused when he told me this part, since
they left, there hasn't been a single car alarm go off.
There hadn't been a single broken window, hasn't been a
single jiggle door handle. And still because of false narratives
in the media, because of instigation by paid agitators, and
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because the left desperately needs these bad guys to keep
Americans afraid to step out or speak up. Still, there
are liberals who want to protect those really, really bad people.
And I just can't figure that out. By the way,
Bad Bunny in his halftime performance came under the spot
lot of the spotlight of the FCC for a little
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while that halftime. A lot of the songs that he
said are some of the songs at least he sang,
have in their original versions, very explicit sexual references to
acts to genitalia, and he cleaned them up for the performance, apparently,
but they still were looking also at some of the
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activities that were going on on stage at this point.
Right now, they stepped away from it and said, Okay, fine,
I'm kind of curious what you guys think about that.
Do me a favor. If you have an opinion either
way on that performance and whether it moved your or not,
go to the iHeartRadio app Go to KPRC, listen live,
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then use the talkback button to tell me in thirty
seconds or less, your first name, what part of town
you're from, and what you thought about Bad Bunny's performance.
Most of us watched it. I did. I wanted to.
I was curious. I wanted to see what I was
going to talk about this week. And it was every
bit as disappointing as I expected it to be. And
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if you look at the reactions to the people of
the people in the stands that I've seen a lot
of just video pans across the camera, pans across the
fans there they were in the same boat. Couldn't understand
it made no sense at all, made no sense at all. Ah,
where do I go? Let's go to the Olympics, shall
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we from the Olympics, comes news this is kind of funny,
not for one guy, but it's funny to the rest
of us. Comes news of a Slavic fugitive, somebody who
didn't come to this country and instead went to Italy
at some point in his life. Big time robber of
small businesses and had managed to elude the law for
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sixteen years whilst in Italy, robbing and stealing. Well, his
time on the run is finished. An avid hockey fan,
the guy is, and he wanted to see his home
country's team compete. And when he came to Milan to
check into the little guest house he'd rented, I guess
in his real name because he had to show ID
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maybe well, the police were waiting for him. He's looking
now instead of hat a soccer match or two, he's
looking at eleven months and seven days of jail. Slovakian
hockey team, by the way, beat Finland four to one
that day and will face Italy today and Sweden on
satur With Italy today and Sweden tomorrow, our squad is
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still in third place overall by metal count we have fourteen.
Finland and Norway are ahead, both with eighteen total medals.
France with ten is in fourth behind US. It's interesting
I found out that only twenty one of the country's
twenty one countries of the ninety three competing in Milan
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with more than thirty five hundred athletes total overall. Now
only what did I say? Twenty one countries out of
ninety three have even earned one single medal. But they've
got their entourages there, they've got their teams there, and
more power to them. They're all fighting hard. I hope
they all win something atast, or at least gained something
personally out of being in there. Still nine more days
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of competition and give them a look pretty good stuff.
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