October 21, 2024 • 36 mins
Today, Doug Pike discusses apples, roaches, and national parks.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
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Speaker 3 (00:50):
All right, here we go, Monday edition, first day of
the week for all of you who work five days
a week. I work six. I take off Fridays. In
case you didn't know it, In case haven't said that,
what a day or so?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Will maybe day number?
Speaker 4 (01:06):
What?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Twelve fifteen? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
I've lost count on how many days it's been since
it rained around here, and I don't see any rain
in the forecast for the entire week and actually a
few more days if you want to go, extending your
forecast outward and onward. What you call a dry spell,
which can be defined in more ways than one, but
in this case it's about rain, which leads us very quickly,
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there without tearing it up. Pretty good at what they
do too. Here we go, will are you ready? I
know it's a little early. I am sit back and relax.
We'll here we go, rain, mean, where are you? We
could use a few showers, sooner the better.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Hmm, rain, rain, where are you? We could use a
few showers, A few showers. Let's say that's that's a
six point one. Look what I wrote down? Wow, so close,
I know you.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Six point two is what I wrote down for those
of you playing at home, Yeah, six point two on
that one, and I I would say that it was
worth six to two.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I don't know why you just.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Just dissed it, as they say, really, yeah, six one
sixty two.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Whatever it takes.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
You know what was interesting when I started doing this
one will yeah, think about this rain, rain, go away,
come again some other day. Those are the first two
lines in a haikup also, but I didn't want to
just steal them right outright. Oh, so you put your
own little what's the word after? I mean, what's the
phrase after rain? Rain, go away? Come again another day?
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And then what comes after that? Or anything?
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Please?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Please please stop raining? No you want it terrain?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Well we do now, but I'm talking about in the
original version. Yes, little kids sitting inside with their noses
pressed against the window. Please go away, come again some
other day or another day. Wherever you're from geographically, I'm
sure there are different versions of it all over the country,
but they all say the same thing.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
When you're a little kid, you want to go outside.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Not anymore. I think you could probably start it with rain, rain,
We don't care. So long as our devices are charged.
That's all they need. Actually, it is gorgeous weather outside too,
If you could ignore how dry we are just for
a minute, keep the sprinklers running until they tell us
to stop. Keep that yard cranking, growing seasons just about over.
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I need to get out there and put some pre
emergent or whatever it is I'm supposed to put on
in the fall. I gotta go figure that out and
splatter that across the yard pretty quickly. Got some places
where there are unwanted things growing where Saint Augustine used
to grow, and I'm really kind of perplexed in the
front yard and the backyard. The backyard I'm gonna solve
(04:26):
problems by taking out a crape myrtle tree. And I
don't know when we're gonna do it exactly. It seems
like we're just hemorrhaging money. We've got a new fence up,
We've got all kinds of things going on in our
household that eat money, and a lot of improvements, a
lot of things that we're gonna replace. The house is
thirty years old, so there's had to have been a
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lot of done, we work done this year, and it's
all done, and I'm not broke yet, So what the heck?
Speaker 2 (04:54):
We'll keep going. Uh.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
I would highly wreck commend while we do have this
stretch of good weather getting outside, and I don't care
whether you can just walk out the front door and
put out a little chair in the yard and just
sit there and soak up some sunshine and relatively cooler,
more comfortable air, whether you have to. Perhaps you're in
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a wheelchair someplace where you don't get out often, push
the button, get somebody to come in there and saddle
you up and walk you outside and breathe some clean,
fresh air. The great week for a picnic, great week
for a hike, a golf trip, fishing, anything outside. Just
don't waste these days sitting on the couch. It's just
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too pretty to ignore. That's something I think a lot
of young people in this current generation have really missed
out on so many opportunities to understand more about the outdoors,
to become more involved in the outdoors, which would make
them far better stewards of the world we're living in
right now than simply learning from people who who think
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everything that's done outdoors is bad and they just want
to keep them pretty much locked into a classroom somewhere
so they can keep telling them that everything people over
fifty do is wrong.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
It's kind of messed up. Skipping into the markets.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Let's do that, okay, Thanks to Houston gooldexchange dot com.
That's where we're going right now. Three reds and one
green among the big four indicators, and none not a
one of the four even half a point off Friday's closes.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
So it's really kind of a non event for now.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Oil up a bucket a quarter it was trading at
about seventy and a half earlier in the morning, and
gold ho that crazy gold up another twenty three dollars
this morning, and where when I looked it was at
two thousand, seven hundred and fifty three dollars per ounce.
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Per ounce, I would have bade about a another one
hundred bucks if I'd have held on to it until now.
Be course, of course, it could have gone the other
way as well. I would have had just as good
a chance of it going one way or the other.
I don't think the planet's about to run out of
gold just yet. Maybe gold is it just in short supply.
Maybe the mines are kind of drying up, maybe the
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creature drying up. I don't know one way or the other, though,
if you have some laying around, like I've told a
couple of people in the office, if you have some
laying around, take it over to Houston Gold Exchange and
see what they can.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Do for you. Old Brad. He's a good dude. He'll
make a nice deal for you.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
From the desperation desk. No, I'm gonna pause. I'm gonna pause. Actually,
when we come back, first and foremost, i'm gonna talk
about some things that came up as far as Halloween goes,
and the potential for problems and danger and injuries and
kind of how to avoid him to we'll do that
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Speaker 2 (09:43):
What's life without a net? I suggest you go to bed,
sleep it off, Just wait until the show's over. Sleepy.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
All right, welcome back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening.
Second segment starts right now.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Just will just me and we're going to talk a
little bit here about Halloween because it's coming up, and
I know a lot of you in this audience.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Either are going to be.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Handing out candy, sitting on the front porch, maybe sneaking
up on them and scaring them maybe, I don't know.
Or you might be out walking with the grandkids or kids,
depending on who you are in this audience. I do
have some younger listeners who listen on behalf of their parents,
and I greatly appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Feel free to.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Let me know who you are and I'll give you
a personal thank you. Well, I don't know if I
could do that for all of them anyway, Thank you
all for listening, no matter how old you are, no
matter whether you participate in Halloween or not. One of
the I got this email this morning, one two three
full pages, two and a half pages about how inies
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happen around Halloween and how common they are and even fatalities,
especially among well not hitting run but just pedestrian accidents,
the kids running out in front of cars, adults running
out chasing the kids. A lot of things happen. Forty
three percent increase, it says, in the risk of pedestrian
fatalities on Halloween compared to a normal, well otherwise evening.
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I don't know if there are any normal evenings. I
guess between twenty eleven and twenty twenty, it says here
more children were killed by cars on Halloween than any
other night of the year.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Which it only makes sense.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
I mean, that's low hanging fruit when you're trying to
find statistics on something like that.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
There are so many.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
More kids out after dark and excited and not thinking
as they might during the day.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Interesting.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Also, forty four percent of all car crashes that occur
on Halloween are results of drunk drivers. Now, I don't
see Halloween as being caused to drink, cause to celebrate
with alcohol, like maybe New Year's Day or something like that.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
So why that is?
Speaker 3 (12:15):
I think most of that is probably attributable to just
the people who might be drunk twenty thirty other days
of the year or one hundred days of the year
and driving around at night. Maybe they're just having more
opportunities to run into something or somebody.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
That's possible.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Also, peanut related allergic emergencies jump eighty five percent on Halloween.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
That's no secret.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
There a lot of the candies that these kids get
either have nuts in them or are made in places
where they make other things with nuts, and on and
on and on.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Which is why actually.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
A lot of the candy makers because they're seeing declu
First of all, chocolate, I think is up like one
hundred percent in price. And if you buy peanut m
and ms like I do, if you buy anything that's
got chocolate in it and you know the price of
chocolate's going up, you're feeling it. That little bag of
M and M's peanut m and ms that I used
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to buy for maybe sixty nine cents buck sixty nine.
Where I'm shopping, well, I don't shop there. My wife
shops there for candy every now and then. Doesn't matter
where it's up, no matter where you're going. This is
something I found almost well, it's actually way too polite
the way it's written. By the way, as far as
driving around Halloween goes, it says, and I'm going to
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quote here, if you are a driver out on the roads,
comma consider reducing your speed when going through residential streets
period end quote. First of all, it's a horribly clumsy sentence.
Second of all, don't consider reducing your speed. Reduce your speed.
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You don't have time to consider it. The thing I
wonder if I should reduce my speed tonight since Salloween. No,
just do it, and while you're at it, do the
same thing on the other three hundred and sixty four
days a year, three hundred and sixty three days a year,
whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Depending on a leap year. Then you get more. Here's
some other things that are just things to remember.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Okay about this the penodalgy I mentioned the driving fatalities
and accidents I mentioned. Here's one that really caught my attention.
Will pop quiz? Fifty five percent of all Halloween related
injuries that send people to US emergency departments are related
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to what jawbreakers?
Speaker 2 (14:52):
That's pretty good. But no, that's not it. You know
what it is? Actually?
Speaker 4 (14:55):
What?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Pumpkin carving? Pumpkin carving?
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Pumpkin car Oh yeah, you slice yourself with a a
somebody mistakes two fingers for the ribs on a pumpkin
and just messes up. By the way, I saw something
interesting on carving pumpkins. Will you know the traditional method?
Where would you start to carve your pumpkin for Halloween?
Where would I start?
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Probably the top you cut the top off right, a
big kind of a big circle. You cut that out
of there, and then you dig it all out, and
then you carve out the thing and do the thing
and whatever. Right, who didn't realize and I didn't that
if you turn the pumpkin over, okay, and cut that
circle out of the bottom and just save it, and
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then dig all the goo out and then carve your
little face or whatever it is you're design in the
pumpkin while it's up right side up, then you can
carve out a little flat spot on the bottom of
that bottom of the pumpkin that you carved out. You
put that back on the pumpkin, put the candle in there,
light it, put that back on the pumpkin, and the
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top of your pumpkin looks.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Just like it came out of the garden.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
This genius will somebody really figured out something kind of cool.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
You mean, just going from the bottom.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Go from the bottom up. Yeah, start from the bottom up,
and it's genius.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
S dug Well. I think it's borderline. I think it's tremendous.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
I think it's just flipping a pumpkin over and being like,
I'll cut it from the air just a rebel.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Some rebel thought of that.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Oh, I'm not going to conform to traditional pumpkin carving
technique and etiquette. I'm going from the bottom up. Which
you know, if you're using a big long knife, though,
and you got that pumpkin sitting upside down in your
lap and you're trying to carve the top out, you
might want to be careful, very careful.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
All right.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Also important in this discussion is trips and falls. There's
a lot of things in a lot of front yards
this time of year that potentially, especially some of those inflatables,
inflatables that have the little guy wires coming off of them,
you got to watch out for that, because all of
those things are tripping hazards. And on top of the stuff,
the little land mines that are in the yard. You've
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got kids, a lot of them wearing masks that they
can't really see that well from I see few and
fewer kids.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
In masks actually now.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
They either decorate their faces with makeups or glitter or whatever,
or maybe they just don't do it at all and
they let the costumes speak for them and that's way safer.
So just keep that in mind too, all right, and
keep your walkways in everything, all your surfaces kind of even.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
And well lit. That'll help keep everybody safe as well.
That's enough pumpkin talk.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
We'll move on to this break and on the way
there I will tell you about UT Health Institute on Aging.
Hopefully none of us wind up needing their services after Halloween.
This is a collaborative I'm guessing more than a thousand
providers now in the greater Houston area who in addition
to getting their formal education to get the degree and
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then go possibly through med school or through physical therapy school,
or whatever it is that they had to do to
get where they were or where they are today yesterday,
to get where they are today, they went back and
were additionally educated in how their expertise can be applied
to seniors, because we seniors are a whole lot different
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than those juniors in our medical needs, in the way
our bodies function and react to different meds and whatnot,
and people from the Institute on Aging understand all of
that and can help us a little bit better than
your average medical provider. UT Health has had this Institute
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on Aging up and running out for more than ten years,
and they continue to improve it every year. If you
want to see what they do and what they can
do for you, go to that website. Look at all
the resources. There's actually even a space in there where
you can send me an email and ask me to
respond to your email and ask me a couple of
questions in there. We were testing that this morning as
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a matter of fact, to make sure it's it's properly functioning.
There was a malfunction over the weekend. It's been corrected.
Everything's fine. Go find that box, shoot me an email
on a topic you want to hear.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Anything else like that.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Ut dot edu slash aging, uth dot edu slash aging.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
That's why every few months we wash them, check his
fluids and spray on a fresh code O wax. This
is fifty plus with Dougpike. All right, welcome back segment three.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
I was going to go into some stuff, but I
found a story that I want to bring up. I
just saw it two minutes ago from Yellowstone National Park.
Yet another instance where some idiot, some moron, the actually
the park rangers called turns.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
There's another I was never mind.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
I don't I don't want to tell you what I
told Will over the break, now, I'll leave it alone.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
That's foolish, it's not necessary to the story.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
So somebody on a boardwalk near Old Faithful decided to
carve a smiley face and the word high into some
part over there along that boardwalk.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
I'm not sert.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
I'm not sure exactly where it is or what it's on,
but the bottom line is stop it.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Just stop it, Okay, if you're going to.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Go to one of the most amazing national parks in
this tire country, it's huge, it's it would cover several
New England states if you dropped it over there, all
those people would have to just move out because they'd.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Be living in a park.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
And I honestly believe that we've raised this second generation
of people who think the rules don't apply to them.
They don't care what the sign says, they don't care
about anything but themselves and getting what they want, and consequently,
more than a couple of them a year get beat
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up by elk and by bison and by other animals.
They think it's okay to get real close, to snuggle up.
If you ever want to see the stupidity that goes
in and out of Yellowstone National Park on a regular basis.
Just look up some of the things that have been
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said and some of the questions that have been asked
of park rangers, easy questions that anybody who understands anything
about the outdoors should be able to answer themselves, such as,
I remember one of them that just just clear as day. Hey,
what time do you let the animals out each morning?
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What time do you put the animals to bed at night?
Where do the animals sleep? Things like that, things that
you you shouldn't even be allowed in the park unless
you could pass the test with those questions on them,
and you have to answer. You have to score one
hundred to even be allowed entrance. It's just bizarre to me.
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And oh, by the way, are you smart enough not
to deface anything in there while you're there? Wild animals
are wild animals. National treasures are just that. But the
problem is we have way too many people in this
country now who don't consider anything here a treasure, People
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who who claim to hate the United States. If they
never leave, they don't want to leave, they know better
than to leave. They just want to gripe about it.
They just want to gripe about it. And claimed that
somebody else should be doing something else. What on earth
is this? That almost sounded like an alert of some sort.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Didn't it will?
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Let's see it did? And yet it was not twelve
thirty six. Yeah, okay, oh you know what it was.
I got three emails in simultaneously, almost, That's what it was.
And they just all felt obliged somehow to this buzz
buzz buzz in my ear. All right, from the desperation
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desk at Harris Headquarters comes word of a television commercial
now that uses sort of a dating game theme. I
heard Jimmy and Sheriff talking about this this morning, and I'll.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Just boil it down to its assets.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
It uses a dating game theme to tell black men
that if they don't vote for Kamala Harris, women won't
date them. That is just so disrespectful, so presumptive on
so many levels. And my guess that it's got a
backfire on them. It's got to back.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
That can't that can't hold water. There's just no way.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
From the news about the news desk comes It's actually
kind of encouraging that people understand this now, and I hope,
I hope all of the major news networks are paying
attention when they read it. Somebody's got to bring it
up in a staff meeting once a week or whatever
it is, and say, you know, we.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Really need to work on this.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Not one in, not even one third of Americans trust
the network news to deliver both sides of any story,
And frankly, I'm surprised that percentage isn't even lower. I
would have guessed maybe ten percent. Are that gullible and
that foolish? It just tells me how many people have
been groomed and trained for so long now that they're
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starting to believe the lies they really are because they
get told often enough.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
They get to tell you.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
They tell you one per is bad, and you believe
that person is bad, and you never question the facts.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
You never say is that real? Is that true?
Speaker 3 (25:08):
And that can go both ways. I won't just read
about all of it. Get your information from both sides,
then make your decisions. Then make your decisions from the
sacriligious desk. Comes word that during Kamala Harris's speech in Lacrosse,
Wisconsin and support of abortion by the way, which hey
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U beu okay, that's why we have votes. When a
heckler shouted, Jesus is Lord. Harris replied by saying, Oh,
you guys are at the wrong rally. No, I think
you meant to go to the smaller one down the street. Well,
first of all, that smaller one probably was a reference
to President Trump's recent rally there, which drew eight thousand people, which,
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by the way, was a packed house in the Lacrosse Center.
Harris drew about three thousand into the Lacrosse Recreational Eagles Center,
whatever that is. And worth noting. A woman posted on
next that she had to show ID to get into
the Harris event, So you got to prove who you
are to be in the same room with Kamala Harris,
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but not to vote for You don't have to do
that in a lot of places. And by the way,
for the first time in about forty years, an invited
presidential candidate, that would be Harris, ditched the Al Smith Dinner,
which is a bipartisan, high profile Catholic event.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
So she could speak in Wisconsin instead of going. She
said a video done.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
With Saturday Night Live alum Molly Shannon and President Trump
opted to attend, and by the way, he was the
featured speaker, which is probably partly why she didn't show
up at all am, I late will oh, no, I'm early.
Never mind, No, I'm early. I was looking at the
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wrong number. I was looking at the wrong number. Well
I got I've got two minutes, minute and a half
from me.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
I'm calling baloney sandwich desk. I've wrapped that.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
In quotes comes VP nominee Tim Wallas's claim, by the way,
during the speech in North Carolina this past Thursday, that
his ninety year old mother relies on her Social Security
checks to buy food, Walls is worth more than a
million bucks. If their whole focus on the middle class
thing isn't fake as a three dollar bill, I don't
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know what is. And if his mother relies on her
Social Security check to buy food, then Walls is worse
than I thought. He needs to be buying her food.
She raised him, for heaven's sakes. There's a whole lot
more of that. I'll try to get away from that
and move on. When we get back on the way out,
I'll tell you about a late health. Late health is well.
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They three clinics around town are vascular in nature. They
do vascular surgeries in there, and the most common procedure
they do is called prostate artery embolization for the guys,
for the fellas, for us old guys who are experiencing
the symptoms of an enlarged non cancerous prostate. You go
in there, they determine which exact artery is supplying that
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thing with blood, and then they just turn off the faucet. Sorry, sorry,
enlarged prostate, No more oxygenated blood for you. And as
it begins to shrivel and die, then so do the
symptoms that plagued you for however long you've been dealing
with them. Everything they do over there, they do in
the office. You never have to go to a hospital
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and worry about bringing home something you didn't go in
there with. They're doing it right there in the office,
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Okay, well, I think that sounds like a good plan.
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug. All right, welcome back.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
Fourth and final second of the program starts right now,
moving into guy. Where do I want to go? Good news?
We'll go to good news. I found a good story
in here, I really did. It's always out there if
you go looking for it, and you can define good
however you want.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
This is a particularly.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
Uplifting story about a young man's well, a young boy
actually seven years old. This kid from Sierra Leone over
there in Africa, born with bilateral cataracts, which is a
progressive condition that can lead ultimately in some cases to
total blindness. And I'll tell you why in just a second.
(30:47):
So back in February, anyway, after just a two hour surgery,
that's all it took aboard a Mercy ship, performed by
doctors and nurses and oer technicians whoever all else is
in there, they enabled him to see clearly for the
first time in his life. It's seven years old. All
(31:08):
he had was at if he was lucky, just kind
of blurry images.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Doctor said.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
If the surgery hadn't been available for much longer. And
here's where it gets kind of tricky and ugly for
little kids, your brain just never learns to see. It
doesn't understand how it. It just sets that aside. It's
something that doesn't need to learn. And at that point,
at ten or twelve or fifteen years old, even if
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they did the surgery, I don't know whether it would
be effective because I don't know that much about brains.
Maybe somebody in this audience could tell me I saw
another story.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
No, I don't want to do that.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
Well, let's just kind of have a little fun here
and then I can come back to a couple of
other things that I found troubling in the news this morning.
By the way, I just can't wait for this election
to be over, honest to goodness. Honest to goodness, twenty
percent I think it was of Americans actually said we
talked about this yesterday. Will twenty percent of us say
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that they wish that the election cycle could just keep
going for even longer? And just as I said yesterday,
they are nuts. This is just too it's too volatile
right now, especially this particular election, and there's just too
much hoodwinking and shenanigans going on. All right, Well, do
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you know what today is?
Speaker 2 (32:27):
National? What Day? And I'll give you a hint. Okay,
it's national It's a fruit day? What is it? National
Strawberry Day? You know I'm not gonna tell you why,
but you're warm. You want to try again? National Blueberry Day?
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Nope, I'll give you another hint. Has nothing to do
with berries.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
National, but it's a fruit? Yeah, Oh yeah, it's definitely
a fruit. National melon Day? Why does that relate to
a strawberry? Though? Sweet? They're all fruits are sweet. What
bittersweet have you eaten lately? What bittersweet?
Speaker 3 (33:13):
What sour, sour can sour no sour fruit lemon. I
guess bottom, Okay, I'm going for the color. Will, I'm
going for the color. Oh, it's red, it's red apple, das,
it's just Smith. Any app though not Granny Smith, just
any apple. What's your favorite apple? Will, Honey crisp, that's
not bad. I'm kind of a gala Gala and then
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red delicious and maybe not in that order, even standard
old fashioned. I grew up on red Delicious apples and
my mother had I don't know if you have one
in your house, but it's pretty handy.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
One of those little apple corers that.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
If you just mash it down around the apple from
the top to the bottom, or I guess from the
bottom to the top, kind of like you're gonna carve
your pumpkin this year, it takes the core out and
leaves you eight beautiful full slices of apple.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
You have one of those, Yeah, I just.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
Eat my my apples like a man, Doug, just jomp
into it.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Just bite right through the middle of it, seeds and all.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Yes, yeah, yeah, okay, sure you do stem. Yeah, you
just use that to pick your teeth leg It's all
good for you just whittle it down with your pocket
knife and use it to pick the the apple pieces
out of your eat.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
A pocket knife, just use my trumpers.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Here's a here's a pop quiz for you that I'm
pretty sure unless you've read the same thing you will
not get right.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
All right?
Speaker 3 (34:33):
What's US city lies directly north of a Canadian city?
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Lies directly north? Yes, a Canadian? Yeah? US city?
Speaker 4 (34:45):
Okay, Well, I'm thinking maybe something up in the north east.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
I'm not telling you a thank you ten seconds because
a name Okay in St. Mont buzz No, in New
hampsh Sure.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
You're gonna have to go farther west to get their
work and think about doing it.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
What about in uh? In Michigan?
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Yeah, think about a state that kind of goes up
and around, I know, like it might maybe it's got
like an upper peninsula something like in Michigan. Yeah, Detroit
will Detroit time? Yeah, Detroit is directly north of some
Canadian city. I didn't bother to seeing this when it
was well, it would be useful in Texas. Who cares?
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Well?
Speaker 4 (35:33):
Then why even bring it up?
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (35:34):
Because it's you could just say we're in Texas, who
cares about anything?
Speaker 3 (35:39):
Well you could geographically unique, I would say, well, okay,
almost all right, sucker born every minute or stomach.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Ache, stomach ache? Oh god, I hate to do this
to this audience. I so hate Should I will or no, yes,
I demand it.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
I've got to think this one through because it might
It's well, okay, if you have a sensitive if you
if you're a sensitive type person with gastro intestinal stuff,
just put the put the radio down, put your phone down.
However you're listening, you're stolen, man, maybe a little bit so.
This guy had a stomach pain. He thought it was
(36:17):
just indigestion from eating street food. What it turned out
to be actually will oh, I'm I'm gonna apologize in
the advance. What it turned out to be was a
live cockroach in his tummy.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Not good. We gotta go. I'll see you tomorrow. I'm
so sorry. Bye bye,
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All right, here we go, Monday edition, first day of
the week for all of you who work five days
a week. I work six. I take off Fridays. In
case you didn't know it, In case haven't said that,
what a day or so?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Will maybe day number?
Speaker 4 (01:06):
What?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Twelve fifteen? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
I've lost count on how many days it's been since
it rained around here, and I don't see any rain
in the forecast for the entire week and actually a
few more days if you want to go, extending your
forecast outward and onward. What you call a dry spell,
which can be defined in more ways than one, but
in this case it's about rain, which leads us very quickly,
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there without tearing it up. Pretty good at what they
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know it's a little early. I am sit back and relax.
We'll here we go, rain, mean, where are you? We
could use a few showers, sooner the better.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Hmm, rain, rain, where are you? We could use a
few showers, A few showers. Let's say that's that's a
six point one. Look what I wrote down? Wow, so close,
I know you.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Six point two is what I wrote down for those
of you playing at home, Yeah, six point two on
that one, and I I would say that it was
worth six to two.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
I don't know why you just.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Just dissed it, as they say, really, yeah, six one
sixty two.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Whatever it takes.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
You know what was interesting when I started doing this
one will yeah, think about this rain, rain, go away,
come again some other day. Those are the first two
lines in a haikup also, but I didn't want to
just steal them right outright. Oh, so you put your
own little what's the word after? I mean, what's the
phrase after rain? Rain, go away? Come again another day?
(03:05):
And then what comes after that? Or anything?
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Please?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Please please stop raining? No you want it terrain?
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Well we do now, but I'm talking about in the
original version. Yes, little kids sitting inside with their noses
pressed against the window. Please go away, come again some
other day or another day. Wherever you're from geographically, I'm
sure there are different versions of it all over the country,
but they all say the same thing.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
When you're a little kid, you want to go outside.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Not anymore. I think you could probably start it with rain, rain,
We don't care. So long as our devices are charged.
That's all they need. Actually, it is gorgeous weather outside too,
If you could ignore how dry we are just for
a minute, keep the sprinklers running until they tell us
to stop. Keep that yard cranking, growing seasons just about over.
(04:03):
I need to get out there and put some pre
emergent or whatever it is I'm supposed to put on
in the fall. I gotta go figure that out and
splatter that across the yard pretty quickly. Got some places
where there are unwanted things growing where Saint Augustine used
to grow, and I'm really kind of perplexed in the
front yard and the backyard. The backyard I'm gonna solve
(04:26):
problems by taking out a crape myrtle tree. And I
don't know when we're gonna do it exactly. It seems
like we're just hemorrhaging money. We've got a new fence up,
We've got all kinds of things going on in our
household that eat money, and a lot of improvements, a
lot of things that we're gonna replace. The house is
thirty years old, so there's had to have been a
(04:48):
lot of done, we work done this year, and it's
all done, and I'm not broke yet, So what the heck?
Speaker 2 (04:54):
We'll keep going. Uh.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
I would highly wreck commend while we do have this
stretch of good weather getting outside, and I don't care
whether you can just walk out the front door and
put out a little chair in the yard and just
sit there and soak up some sunshine and relatively cooler,
more comfortable air, whether you have to. Perhaps you're in
(05:19):
a wheelchair someplace where you don't get out often, push
the button, get somebody to come in there and saddle
you up and walk you outside and breathe some clean,
fresh air. The great week for a picnic, great week
for a hike, a golf trip, fishing, anything outside. Just
don't waste these days sitting on the couch. It's just
(05:40):
too pretty to ignore. That's something I think a lot
of young people in this current generation have really missed
out on so many opportunities to understand more about the outdoors,
to become more involved in the outdoors, which would make
them far better stewards of the world we're living in
right now than simply learning from people who who think
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everything that's done outdoors is bad and they just want
to keep them pretty much locked into a classroom somewhere
so they can keep telling them that everything people over
fifty do is wrong.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
It's kind of messed up. Skipping into the markets.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Let's do that, okay, Thanks to Houston gooldexchange dot com.
That's where we're going right now. Three reds and one
green among the big four indicators, and none not a
one of the four even half a point off Friday's closes.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
So it's really kind of a non event for now.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Oil up a bucket a quarter it was trading at
about seventy and a half earlier in the morning, and
gold ho that crazy gold up another twenty three dollars
this morning, and where when I looked it was at
two thousand, seven hundred and fifty three dollars per ounce.
(06:58):
Per ounce, I would have bade about a another one
hundred bucks if I'd have held on to it until now.
Be course, of course, it could have gone the other
way as well. I would have had just as good
a chance of it going one way or the other.
I don't think the planet's about to run out of
gold just yet. Maybe gold is it just in short supply.
Maybe the mines are kind of drying up, maybe the
(07:20):
creature drying up. I don't know one way or the other, though,
if you have some laying around, like I've told a
couple of people in the office, if you have some
laying around, take it over to Houston Gold Exchange and
see what they can.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Do for you. Old Brad. He's a good dude. He'll
make a nice deal for you.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
From the desperation desk. No, I'm gonna pause. I'm gonna pause. Actually,
when we come back, first and foremost, i'm gonna talk
about some things that came up as far as Halloween goes,
and the potential for problems and danger and injuries and
kind of how to avoid him to we'll do that
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Speaker 2 (09:43):
What's life without a net? I suggest you go to bed,
sleep it off, Just wait until the show's over. Sleepy.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
All right, welcome back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening.
Second segment starts right now.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Just will just me and we're going to talk a
little bit here about Halloween because it's coming up, and
I know a lot of you in this audience.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Either are going to be.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Handing out candy, sitting on the front porch, maybe sneaking
up on them and scaring them maybe, I don't know.
Or you might be out walking with the grandkids or kids,
depending on who you are in this audience. I do
have some younger listeners who listen on behalf of their parents,
and I greatly appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Feel free to.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Let me know who you are and I'll give you
a personal thank you. Well, I don't know if I
could do that for all of them anyway, Thank you
all for listening, no matter how old you are, no
matter whether you participate in Halloween or not. One of
the I got this email this morning, one two three
full pages, two and a half pages about how inies
(11:00):
happen around Halloween and how common they are and even fatalities,
especially among well not hitting run but just pedestrian accidents,
the kids running out in front of cars, adults running
out chasing the kids. A lot of things happen. Forty
three percent increase, it says, in the risk of pedestrian
fatalities on Halloween compared to a normal, well otherwise evening.
(11:25):
I don't know if there are any normal evenings. I
guess between twenty eleven and twenty twenty, it says here
more children were killed by cars on Halloween than any
other night of the year.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Which it only makes sense.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
I mean, that's low hanging fruit when you're trying to
find statistics on something like that.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
There are so many.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
More kids out after dark and excited and not thinking
as they might during the day.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Interesting.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Also, forty four percent of all car crashes that occur
on Halloween are results of drunk drivers. Now, I don't
see Halloween as being caused to drink, cause to celebrate
with alcohol, like maybe New Year's Day or something like that.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
So why that is?
Speaker 3 (12:15):
I think most of that is probably attributable to just
the people who might be drunk twenty thirty other days
of the year or one hundred days of the year
and driving around at night. Maybe they're just having more
opportunities to run into something or somebody.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
That's possible.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Also, peanut related allergic emergencies jump eighty five percent on Halloween.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
That's no secret.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
There a lot of the candies that these kids get
either have nuts in them or are made in places
where they make other things with nuts, and on and
on and on.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Which is why actually.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
A lot of the candy makers because they're seeing declu
First of all, chocolate, I think is up like one
hundred percent in price. And if you buy peanut m
and ms like I do, if you buy anything that's
got chocolate in it and you know the price of
chocolate's going up, you're feeling it. That little bag of
M and M's peanut m and ms that I used
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to buy for maybe sixty nine cents buck sixty nine.
Where I'm shopping, well, I don't shop there. My wife
shops there for candy every now and then. Doesn't matter
where it's up, no matter where you're going. This is
something I found almost well, it's actually way too polite
the way it's written. By the way, as far as
driving around Halloween goes, it says, and I'm going to
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quote here, if you are a driver out on the roads,
comma consider reducing your speed when going through residential streets
period end quote. First of all, it's a horribly clumsy sentence.
Second of all, don't consider reducing your speed. Reduce your speed.
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You don't have time to consider it. The thing I
wonder if I should reduce my speed tonight since Salloween. No,
just do it, and while you're at it, do the
same thing on the other three hundred and sixty four
days a year, three hundred and sixty three days a year,
whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Depending on a leap year. Then you get more. Here's
some other things that are just things to remember.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Okay about this the penodalgy I mentioned the driving fatalities
and accidents I mentioned. Here's one that really caught my attention.
Will pop quiz? Fifty five percent of all Halloween related
injuries that send people to US emergency departments are related
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to what jawbreakers?
Speaker 2 (14:52):
That's pretty good. But no, that's not it. You know
what it is? Actually?
Speaker 4 (14:55):
What?
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Pumpkin carving? Pumpkin carving?
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Pumpkin car Oh yeah, you slice yourself with a a
somebody mistakes two fingers for the ribs on a pumpkin
and just messes up. By the way, I saw something
interesting on carving pumpkins. Will you know the traditional method?
Where would you start to carve your pumpkin for Halloween?
Where would I start?
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Probably the top you cut the top off right, a
big kind of a big circle. You cut that out
of there, and then you dig it all out, and
then you carve out the thing and do the thing
and whatever. Right, who didn't realize and I didn't that
if you turn the pumpkin over, okay, and cut that
circle out of the bottom and just save it, and
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then dig all the goo out and then carve your
little face or whatever it is you're design in the
pumpkin while it's up right side up, then you can
carve out a little flat spot on the bottom of
that bottom of the pumpkin that you carved out. You
put that back on the pumpkin, put the candle in there,
light it, put that back on the pumpkin, and the
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top of your pumpkin looks.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Just like it came out of the garden.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
This genius will somebody really figured out something kind of cool.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
You mean, just going from the bottom.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Go from the bottom up. Yeah, start from the bottom up,
and it's genius.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
S dug Well. I think it's borderline. I think it's tremendous.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
I think it's just flipping a pumpkin over and being like,
I'll cut it from the air just a rebel.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Some rebel thought of that.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Oh, I'm not going to conform to traditional pumpkin carving
technique and etiquette. I'm going from the bottom up. Which
you know, if you're using a big long knife, though,
and you got that pumpkin sitting upside down in your
lap and you're trying to carve the top out, you
might want to be careful, very careful.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
All right.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Also important in this discussion is trips and falls. There's
a lot of things in a lot of front yards
this time of year that potentially, especially some of those inflatables,
inflatables that have the little guy wires coming off of them,
you got to watch out for that, because all of
those things are tripping hazards. And on top of the stuff,
the little land mines that are in the yard. You've
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got kids, a lot of them wearing masks that they
can't really see that well from I see few and
fewer kids.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
In masks actually now.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
They either decorate their faces with makeups or glitter or whatever,
or maybe they just don't do it at all and
they let the costumes speak for them and that's way safer.
So just keep that in mind too, all right, and
keep your walkways in everything, all your surfaces kind of even.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
And well lit. That'll help keep everybody safe as well.
That's enough pumpkin talk.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
We'll move on to this break and on the way
there I will tell you about UT Health Institute on Aging.
Hopefully none of us wind up needing their services after Halloween.
This is a collaborative I'm guessing more than a thousand
providers now in the greater Houston area who in addition
to getting their formal education to get the degree and
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then go possibly through med school or through physical therapy school,
or whatever it is that they had to do to
get where they were or where they are today yesterday,
to get where they are today, they went back and
were additionally educated in how their expertise can be applied
to seniors, because we seniors are a whole lot different
(18:23):
than those juniors in our medical needs, in the way
our bodies function and react to different meds and whatnot,
and people from the Institute on Aging understand all of
that and can help us a little bit better than
your average medical provider. UT Health has had this Institute
(18:43):
on Aging up and running out for more than ten years,
and they continue to improve it every year. If you
want to see what they do and what they can
do for you, go to that website. Look at all
the resources. There's actually even a space in there where
you can send me an email and ask me to
respond to your email and ask me a couple of
questions in there. We were testing that this morning as
(19:06):
a matter of fact, to make sure it's it's properly functioning.
There was a malfunction over the weekend. It's been corrected.
Everything's fine. Go find that box, shoot me an email
on a topic you want to hear.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Anything else like that.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Ut dot edu slash aging, uth dot edu slash aging.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
That's why every few months we wash them, check his
fluids and spray on a fresh code O wax. This
is fifty plus with Dougpike. All right, welcome back segment three.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
I was going to go into some stuff, but I
found a story that I want to bring up. I
just saw it two minutes ago from Yellowstone National Park.
Yet another instance where some idiot, some moron, the actually
the park rangers called turns.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
There's another I was never mind.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
I don't I don't want to tell you what I
told Will over the break, now, I'll leave it alone.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
That's foolish, it's not necessary to the story.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
So somebody on a boardwalk near Old Faithful decided to
carve a smiley face and the word high into some
part over there along that boardwalk.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
I'm not sert.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
I'm not sure exactly where it is or what it's on,
but the bottom line is stop it.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Just stop it, Okay, if you're going to.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Go to one of the most amazing national parks in
this tire country, it's huge, it's it would cover several
New England states if you dropped it over there, all
those people would have to just move out because they'd.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Be living in a park.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
And I honestly believe that we've raised this second generation
of people who think the rules don't apply to them.
They don't care what the sign says, they don't care
about anything but themselves and getting what they want, and consequently,
more than a couple of them a year get beat
(21:18):
up by elk and by bison and by other animals.
They think it's okay to get real close, to snuggle up.
If you ever want to see the stupidity that goes
in and out of Yellowstone National Park on a regular basis.
Just look up some of the things that have been
(21:39):
said and some of the questions that have been asked
of park rangers, easy questions that anybody who understands anything
about the outdoors should be able to answer themselves, such as,
I remember one of them that just just clear as day. Hey,
what time do you let the animals out each morning?
(22:02):
What time do you put the animals to bed at night?
Where do the animals sleep? Things like that, things that
you you shouldn't even be allowed in the park unless
you could pass the test with those questions on them,
and you have to answer. You have to score one
hundred to even be allowed entrance. It's just bizarre to me.
(22:25):
And oh, by the way, are you smart enough not
to deface anything in there while you're there? Wild animals
are wild animals. National treasures are just that. But the
problem is we have way too many people in this
country now who don't consider anything here a treasure, People
(22:47):
who who claim to hate the United States. If they
never leave, they don't want to leave, they know better
than to leave. They just want to gripe about it.
They just want to gripe about it. And claimed that
somebody else should be doing something else. What on earth
is this? That almost sounded like an alert of some sort.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Didn't it will?
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Let's see it did? And yet it was not twelve
thirty six. Yeah, okay, oh you know what it was.
I got three emails in simultaneously, almost, That's what it was.
And they just all felt obliged somehow to this buzz
buzz buzz in my ear. All right, from the desperation
(23:31):
desk at Harris Headquarters comes word of a television commercial
now that uses sort of a dating game theme. I
heard Jimmy and Sheriff talking about this this morning, and I'll.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Just boil it down to its assets.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
It uses a dating game theme to tell black men
that if they don't vote for Kamala Harris, women won't
date them. That is just so disrespectful, so presumptive on
so many levels. And my guess that it's got a
backfire on them. It's got to back.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
That can't that can't hold water. There's just no way.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
From the news about the news desk comes It's actually
kind of encouraging that people understand this now, and I hope,
I hope all of the major news networks are paying
attention when they read it. Somebody's got to bring it
up in a staff meeting once a week or whatever
it is, and say, you know, we.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Really need to work on this.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Not one in, not even one third of Americans trust
the network news to deliver both sides of any story,
And frankly, I'm surprised that percentage isn't even lower. I
would have guessed maybe ten percent. Are that gullible and
that foolish? It just tells me how many people have
been groomed and trained for so long now that they're
(24:51):
starting to believe the lies they really are because they
get told often enough.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
They get to tell you.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
They tell you one per is bad, and you believe
that person is bad, and you never question the facts.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
You never say is that real? Is that true?
Speaker 3 (25:08):
And that can go both ways. I won't just read
about all of it. Get your information from both sides,
then make your decisions. Then make your decisions from the
sacriligious desk. Comes word that during Kamala Harris's speech in Lacrosse,
Wisconsin and support of abortion by the way, which hey
(25:29):
U beu okay, that's why we have votes. When a
heckler shouted, Jesus is Lord. Harris replied by saying, Oh,
you guys are at the wrong rally. No, I think
you meant to go to the smaller one down the street. Well,
first of all, that smaller one probably was a reference
to President Trump's recent rally there, which drew eight thousand people, which,
(25:53):
by the way, was a packed house in the Lacrosse Center.
Harris drew about three thousand into the Lacrosse Recreational Eagles Center,
whatever that is. And worth noting. A woman posted on
next that she had to show ID to get into
the Harris event, So you got to prove who you
are to be in the same room with Kamala Harris,
(26:14):
but not to vote for You don't have to do
that in a lot of places. And by the way,
for the first time in about forty years, an invited
presidential candidate, that would be Harris, ditched the Al Smith Dinner,
which is a bipartisan, high profile Catholic event.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
So she could speak in Wisconsin instead of going. She
said a video done.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
With Saturday Night Live alum Molly Shannon and President Trump
opted to attend, and by the way, he was the
featured speaker, which is probably partly why she didn't show
up at all am, I late will oh, no, I'm early.
Never mind, No, I'm early. I was looking at the
(26:57):
wrong number. I was looking at the wrong number. Well
I got I've got two minutes, minute and a half
from me.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
I'm calling baloney sandwich desk. I've wrapped that.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
In quotes comes VP nominee Tim Wallas's claim, by the way,
during the speech in North Carolina this past Thursday, that
his ninety year old mother relies on her Social Security
checks to buy food, Walls is worth more than a
million bucks. If their whole focus on the middle class
thing isn't fake as a three dollar bill, I don't
(27:29):
know what is. And if his mother relies on her
Social Security check to buy food, then Walls is worse
than I thought. He needs to be buying her food.
She raised him, for heaven's sakes. There's a whole lot
more of that. I'll try to get away from that
and move on. When we get back on the way out,
I'll tell you about a late health. Late health is well.
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they do is called prostate artery embolization for the guys,
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the symptoms of an enlarged non cancerous prostate. You go
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thing with blood, and then they just turn off the faucet. Sorry, sorry,
enlarged prostate, No more oxygenated blood for you. And as
it begins to shrivel and die, then so do the
symptoms that plagued you for however long you've been dealing
with them. Everything they do over there, they do in
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and worry about bringing home something you didn't go in
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Speaker 1 (29:40):
Old guys rule, and of course women never get old.
If you want to avoid sleeping on the couch.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Okay, well, I think that sounds like a good plan.
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug. All right, welcome back.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
Fourth and final second of the program starts right now,
moving into guy. Where do I want to go? Good news?
We'll go to good news. I found a good story
in here, I really did. It's always out there if
you go looking for it, and you can define good
however you want.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
This is a particularly.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
Uplifting story about a young man's well, a young boy
actually seven years old. This kid from Sierra Leone over
there in Africa, born with bilateral cataracts, which is a
progressive condition that can lead ultimately in some cases to
total blindness. And I'll tell you why in just a second.
(30:47):
So back in February, anyway, after just a two hour surgery,
that's all it took aboard a Mercy ship, performed by
doctors and nurses and oer technicians whoever all else is
in there, they enabled him to see clearly for the
first time in his life. It's seven years old. All
(31:08):
he had was at if he was lucky, just kind
of blurry images.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Doctor said.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
If the surgery hadn't been available for much longer. And
here's where it gets kind of tricky and ugly for
little kids, your brain just never learns to see. It
doesn't understand how it. It just sets that aside. It's
something that doesn't need to learn. And at that point,
at ten or twelve or fifteen years old, even if
(31:32):
they did the surgery, I don't know whether it would
be effective because I don't know that much about brains.
Maybe somebody in this audience could tell me I saw
another story.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
No, I don't want to do that.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
Well, let's just kind of have a little fun here
and then I can come back to a couple of
other things that I found troubling in the news this morning.
By the way, I just can't wait for this election
to be over, honest to goodness. Honest to goodness, twenty
percent I think it was of Americans actually said we
talked about this yesterday. Will twenty percent of us say
(32:05):
that they wish that the election cycle could just keep
going for even longer? And just as I said yesterday,
they are nuts. This is just too it's too volatile
right now, especially this particular election, and there's just too
much hoodwinking and shenanigans going on. All right, Well, do
(32:26):
you know what today is?
Speaker 2 (32:27):
National? What Day? And I'll give you a hint. Okay,
it's national It's a fruit day? What is it? National
Strawberry Day? You know I'm not gonna tell you why,
but you're warm. You want to try again? National Blueberry Day?
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Nope, I'll give you another hint. Has nothing to do
with berries.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
National, but it's a fruit? Yeah, Oh yeah, it's definitely
a fruit. National melon Day? Why does that relate to
a strawberry? Though? Sweet? They're all fruits are sweet. What
bittersweet have you eaten lately? What bittersweet?
Speaker 3 (33:13):
What sour, sour can sour no sour fruit lemon. I
guess bottom, Okay, I'm going for the color. Will, I'm
going for the color. Oh, it's red, it's red apple, das,
it's just Smith. Any app though not Granny Smith, just
any apple. What's your favorite apple? Will, Honey crisp, that's
not bad. I'm kind of a gala Gala and then
(33:35):
red delicious and maybe not in that order, even standard
old fashioned. I grew up on red Delicious apples and
my mother had I don't know if you have one
in your house, but it's pretty handy.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
One of those little apple corers that.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
If you just mash it down around the apple from
the top to the bottom, or I guess from the
bottom to the top, kind of like you're gonna carve
your pumpkin this year, it takes the core out and
leaves you eight beautiful full slices of apple.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
You have one of those, Yeah, I just.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
Eat my my apples like a man, Doug, just jomp
into it.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Just bite right through the middle of it, seeds and all.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Yes, yeah, yeah, okay, sure you do stem. Yeah, you
just use that to pick your teeth leg It's all
good for you just whittle it down with your pocket
knife and use it to pick the the apple pieces
out of your eat.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
A pocket knife, just use my trumpers.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Here's a here's a pop quiz for you that I'm
pretty sure unless you've read the same thing you will
not get right.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
All right?
Speaker 3 (34:33):
What's US city lies directly north of a Canadian city?
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Lies directly north? Yes, a Canadian? Yeah? US city?
Speaker 4 (34:45):
Okay, Well, I'm thinking maybe something up in the north east.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
I'm not telling you a thank you ten seconds because
a name Okay in St. Mont buzz No, in New
hampsh Sure.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
You're gonna have to go farther west to get their
work and think about doing it.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
What about in uh? In Michigan?
Speaker 3 (35:12):
Yeah, think about a state that kind of goes up
and around, I know, like it might maybe it's got
like an upper peninsula something like in Michigan. Yeah, Detroit
will Detroit time? Yeah, Detroit is directly north of some
Canadian city. I didn't bother to seeing this when it
was well, it would be useful in Texas. Who cares?
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Well?
Speaker 4 (35:33):
Then why even bring it up?
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Huh?
Speaker 2 (35:34):
Because it's you could just say we're in Texas, who
cares about anything?
Speaker 3 (35:39):
Well you could geographically unique, I would say, well, okay,
almost all right, sucker born every minute or stomach.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Ache, stomach ache? Oh god, I hate to do this
to this audience. I so hate Should I will or no, yes,
I demand it.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
I've got to think this one through because it might
It's well, okay, if you have a sensitive if you
if you're a sensitive type person with gastro intestinal stuff,
just put the put the radio down, put your phone down.
However you're listening, you're stolen, man, maybe a little bit so.
This guy had a stomach pain. He thought it was
(36:17):
just indigestion from eating street food. What it turned out
to be actually will oh, I'm I'm gonna apologize in
the advance. What it turned out to be was a
live cockroach in his tummy.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Not good. We gotta go. I'll see you tomorrow. I'm
so sorry. Bye bye,
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