February 6, 2025 • 38 mins
Today, Doug Pike discusses the Superbowl, athlete pay, and an old bird.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Remember when it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
because you were the TV remote. Remember when music sounded
like this? Remember when social media was truly social?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey John, how's it going today?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Good?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Well, this show is all about you. This is fifty
plus with Doug Pike. Helpful information on your finances, good health,
and what to do for fun. Fifty plus brought to
you by the UT Health Houston Institute on Aging, Informed
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plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
All right, Thursday edition of the program starts right now.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Thank you all for joining us. Will end me as
we say around here? Will I have an assignment for you?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Are you ready? I mean, right out the gate? Here
we go.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
What a pop quiz? No, it's not a pop quiz.
It's an assignment. I would like for you to look
into and consider at least one new daily bit and
something and that's kind of alliterative and whatnot, Like don't
don't say Taco Tuesday, that's already been done. But something
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like friendly Friday or Funny Friday or every Wednesday or whatever.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
I'm funny every day. Well I don't think we could
do funny Friday.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Well yeah, but funny every day doesn't sound It's just
my life. It doesn't draw you, it doesn't draw me.
This is just a little we're talking about a three
or four minute something.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Now.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
I actually have something for my friend from Airline Vacuum
King Tikin. I've been in talks with him. He's got
a one project he needs to take care of before
he can come back on board. But then when he does,
I'm gonna have something that'll be kind of fun, and
I might share it with you off the air. I
might not because I'm afraid you'll leak it. Kind of
like apparently what happened up in Colorado. I don't know
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if you've seen it yet, but in Denver and Aurora,
the big Raid was about to go down on all
those trendy Arragua guys, and they had a lot of
them in their sights for apprehension and ultimate deportation.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
These are some really, really bad guys.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
And when the good guys went in, those guys that
already bailed, somebody tipped them off. Somebody tip those people
off and that's really that's so disappointing. Honestly, it's just
so disappointing. You got hundreds of law enforcement personnel there
trying to do a good thing for the American people,
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trying to get these really, really bad guys off the streets,
and he told him they were coming, and every time
there was a law enforcement guy being interviewed, and he
said every time, they already had to reschedule one raid
from last week to this week because word had gotten out. Somehow,
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there's a leak. There's a just a bad leak somewhere
within law enforcement. Because every time he said this week
that they went to a different location to try to
arrest people, those people were gone. News media was already there,
and activists were there with bullhorns telling people how to
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avoid apprehension, how to avoid being caught, and some of them.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
There was one woman some.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
I hate to define someone by the term Karen because
that's offensive and insulting to people whose name actually is that,
but she was one of those people who just doesn't like,
doesn't know what's good for her. She's got a neighborhood
full of gang members who are terrorizing, raping, killing, doing
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all the drugs being given to kids and whatnot or
sold I guess, And she's screaming at them, what are
you doing? Get out of our community? What's wrong with
these people? What's wrong? Why would anyone protect violent gang members?
Why would they want those people to be left alone?
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They got a major problem in Aurora, and even Aroya's
town government's kind of has to talk. I don't know
whether they've been threatened or not, but it would seem so.
And for the news media and activists to already be
there before the law enforcement shows up for a surprise raid,
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no surprise. Most of the apartments they went to, most
of the doors they either broke down or had opened
for them by somebody perhaps in there. Most of those
places were just empty. Whoever had lived before the gang members.
They had good information, they had good intel, but apparently
the gang members got to somebody who talked.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
So anyway, moving into the.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Weather, because I can't see the clock, I have no
idea what time it is.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
It's twelve times? Is this still an issue with this
monitor over here? Yeah? Look at all I see is
your reflection. That's not nearly as helpful as would be
the clock.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Now, but it's a lot pretty here well, moving into
the weather, still brought to you as always so far
by Texas Indoor Air Quality Specialist Texas IAQ dot net.
These are the people who clean ductwork, and they do
it in a way that keeps that duckwork clean for
a couple of three years to come. You don't have
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to worry about you don't have to worry about dirty air.
So still no major rain threat until at least Monday.
Then Tuesday and Wednesday looked pretty wet, but by then
we'll probably need the rain. Temperature is gonna go go
down a little bit as well, but nothing below even
overnight until February nineteenth, which at present seems kind of
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like a light year away. It's not that far, but
it's still a good ways out. The markets from Houston
Goldexchange dot com, the big four were split half green
and half red last I look, which was about fifteen
minutes ago, and only the Russell was down more than
a couple of tenths. Russell's down one point five percent
at that time. Oil moved up early and then came
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back down twenty minutes ago, most recently trading at about
seventy dollars and seventy two cents of barrel gold finally
went red for the first time in quite a while,
and actually fell almost nineteen dollars, but still was at
two thousand, eight hundred and seventy four bucks.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
A change per ounce.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
If you got gold laying around and you need enough
money to buy a half dozen eggs, it won't take
much gold at least to get that done. We are
going to take a break, and when we get back,
I'll give you more things to think about, more converse
station starters as we go toward the end of the week.
On the way out, I'll tell you about UT Health
Institute on Aging, the organization of which I am so fond,
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and I've been happy to speak for them now for
ten years, believe it or not, ten solid years singing
the praises of this group of providers who not only
have a website that offers tremendous resources of great value
to seniors, and if you can think of it health wise,
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you'll find it at UT Health Institute on Aging website.
If you need a provider to help you get something
fixed that's broken on you, no matter what medical thing
it is, you can find a provider through this website
and its resources. Who is specially trained in that regard
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as it pertains to seniors. They all went to school,
they all got diplomas, They all got their medical licenses
or nursing licenses or what whatever it is they do
in medicine, and for that they can be quite proud.
They hang a diploma on the wall, usually in the office.
But what you won't see, what you may not know
about a lot of these providers, and they're all over town,
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is that they went back and got additional training as
to how they could apply that expertise only to seniors.
Go to the website ut dot ed u slash aging
and see what the Institute on Aging can do for
you ut dot ed u slash aging.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
What's life without a net? I suggest you to go
to bed, leave it off, just wait until the show's over. Sleepy.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Hold on here we go, all right? Will we're back?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Right?
Speaker 2 (08:58):
It sounds like it sound like it to me. So
moving into.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
That was somewhat abrupt. Did you did you yank the
cord out of the wall or what?
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (09:09):
I was I accidentally pulled down the wrong one? You
you essentially rear ended the music. Holy kay, he just
ran right into it. I'm sorry, Doug. I was too
busy thinking about what my what my alliterative day was.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Going to be hold on. I have to write down
a little demerit over here. Okay, I got it.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Stepping into local news first, potentially life threatening water quality
issues not the not the water quality scheme, infrastructure scheme
that went on and in and is finally sort of
over but not probably to the liking of people who
worked very long and hard to put together those cases.
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And then found out that uh, pretty much everybody involved
was going to get a slap on the wrist and
a reduction and in anything but to this one over
in Crosby, Texas. And this has led to a lawsuit
actually filed by Harris County. Inspection's done over the course
of four years, most recently this past month revealed what
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a click to Houston story called several violations, including the
presence of extremely high levels of E. Coli bacteria and
even some untreated waste leeching into the ground around there.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
That's that's kind of not good. That's really not good.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
And hopefully they'll get that stuff cleaned up over in
Crosby and post haste. As they say in Federal government news,
many many, many thousands of federal employees, and a whole
lot of them who haven't visited their offices in years,
say they're uncertain about their futures. That's that's understatement. I
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can pretty much guarantee them. If they're some of the
ones who haven't shown up for work in three four
years and been taking paychecks, yeah, their future is pretty certain.
Some of these people don't even live in the town
where their office is. I saw a story, I think
it was yesterday about a woman who holds a federal
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job in a big city, doesn't matter where, and then
actually has a second, well paying government job I think
at the city level in another state, and draws paychecks,
significant paychecks from both of those. That's how deep the
misuse and abuse of this system runs. And when you
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add up all the money these people are essentially stealing,
stealing from taxpayers who pay their salaries.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
It ought to make you really angry.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
It does me, and I'm pretty glad this administration is
taking that bull by the horns and shaking out all
the dead weight that's costing us trillions of dollars we
don't have. In related news, more than a thousand employees
at the Environmental Protection Agency received immediate termination letters this week.
The whole government's loaded with people who don't come to
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work while taxpayers paid to maintain virtually virtually empty office buildings,
by the way I saw, excluding security guards and maintenance personnel.
Elon Musk said this week that the number of people
who actually come into the office to work regularly, based
on what he and his Department of Government Official efficiency
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have uncovered, that amounts to about one percent of that
federal workforce. Taxpayers doled out seven billion dollars a year
in rent space. I think this past year seven billion
dollars or so, which seventeen of twenty five agencies that
use this space utilize for less.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Than one quarter of the year.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
All of this waste, all of this wasteed ought to
be at least, has been uncovered in less than a month.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
This is the tip of the iceberg.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
There's going to be a whole lot more uncovered and
unraveled and unpacked to show just how many people were
getting paid for doing nothing. And it start started at
the top with that administration. A sad sadly for California,
and I'm still hesitant to well, no, it's it's about time,
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really to blame California for not taking care of its underbrush,
for not doing prescribed burns, for not filling its reservoirs
when all of that should have been done. Wildfire's there
finally settling down, recently displaced hundreds of thousands of people
and destroyed tens of thousands of structures, and now there's
a new concern the Palace vered His Peninsula. This is
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a very elite part of that state, a very upper
crust place, an address that would make river Oaks look
a little bit lower than its stature.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
And I'm a big fan.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Of anybody who anybody who could afford a house in
river Oaks, More power to them. They worked hard for
their money, somehow, some way, they I hope they worked
hard for it. Either that or they inherited it, and
either way they live there. And it's a beautiful, beautiful
piece of piece of Houston. The bottom line is, though
Palace vert Is is well in at least when it
was being measured back in the last I think it
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was October into November, about a four week span in
which that peninsula inched four inches a week for four
weeks straight toward the ocean. It's sliding, it's sliding. One
of the people studying this troubling movement said, and I quote,
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the speed is more than enough to put human life
in infrastructure at risk. Down at Dana Point, which is
really really uppercross stuff there there there's video and photographs
of three huge homes that now just teeter on the
edge of a steep cliff there after storm. Recent storms
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triggered landslides in that area. These homes are enormous, and
their foundations, the foundations are secured by pilings that are
driven into the bedrock. So there's no there are no
red flags, no warnings to evacuate the building. No, what's
that word they put on a building when it's just
time to go? Will I can't recall, just off the hand,
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off hand, when it's time to go, when the house
is unfit to be lived in? Oh the house is
God's just escaping my head right now. But anyway, nobody's
gotten one of those warnings. But you look at those
videos and you could see just how precariously close these
places are to being claimed by the Pacific ocean, and
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I wouldn't want to be home when that starts up.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Will do you want to go with dinosaurs? How much
time do I have? By the way, since there is
no clock, you have two and a half minutes.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Okay, you want to go dinosaurs and this is serious news?
Or do you want to go to the fun page.
Let's hear what you have to say about dinosaurs, dug school,
scientists and an art I'm just getting giddy over this
kind of stuff. I wish I once again if I
win the lottery, I'm gonna become a treasure hunter and
an archaeologist, and for the rest of my days, I'll
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travel the world looking for cool stuff. In Antarctica, scientists
recently discovered the nearly complete intact skull of an early
relative of today's ducks and geese. This bird lived down
there while t rex roamed warmer climates up here, and
because it the bird was so far south, it wasn't
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impacted as a species by what killed off all the
dinosaurs up here in little warmer climate ground zero. For
whatever the big crash bang was that destroyed all theme,
it's the oldest remains of a modern bird. Uh pop quiz.
Will you weren't even I didn't give you a chance
to study. I know, but how old? Approximately within within
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a million years? How old is that bird skull? I'll
say it is sixty two million years old? That is
one of your better guesses, will I'm you must be
you must be brushing up before the show or something.
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Sixty nine sixty nine million years so you only miss
The good news is from you missed from sixty two
to sixty nine. The bad news is that gap is
seven million years. But that's still pretty good. Hats off
to you. That's certain to rewrite at least a few
pages of animal history on Earth. Are we out of
time yet? Or can I do one more? You got
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thirty seconds? Oh, let's take the break. Then let's take
the break, so I don't feel rushed, because I like
to expound upon some of these things that I have
even on my little bits and pieces conversation starter's page.
So now that we're right about on time, to go
ahead and go to the break.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
I will.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
If you are in any way sheap or form, interested in,
or fascinated by, or just overjoyed anytime you get to
go fishing, you cannot really afford to miss next week's
Fishing Show. It is the fiftieth edition of this thing,
the Golden Anniversary, and it will be ongoing at the
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GRB Downtown, the George R. Brown Convention Center from the
twelfth through the sixteenth of February. Everything you can imagine
related to the sport will be in that one haul,
everything including the latest and greatest from all the major manufacturers.
And the thing I like about this show is that
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it includes It's not just a bunch of people selling stuff.
You can buy pretty much anything you'll see in there
somewhere in there, but the manufacturers come to this show
so that you and I and this sophisticated audience of
fishermen in this greater Houston area can actually talk shop
with the people who researched and developed and tried out
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and did all the legwork before a new product was
put to market.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
And I mean all of it.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
You can find out a lot of times in some
of the smaller businesses, you can talk to the person
who actually invented whatever it was and learn how that
thing is supposed to be used, better than just finding
it on the shelf in a store somewhere and taking
it home. There are continuous clinics ongoing by expert fishermen.
I'm actually going to be talking to a guy named
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Chester Moore, the editor of Texas Fish and Game magazine.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
He's doing a seminar I think it's.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
On Saturday that will address great white sharks in the
Gulf of Mexico. There are more and more of them
showing up. It's pretty interesting. There's a kid clinic over
there on both Saturday and Sunday. Plenty of giveaways for
those little kids. Get them into fishing. If you love
to fish, you'll want to learn about fishing. Or you're
right there in the middle somewhere, go to the show,
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enjoy it. It's all gonna be there. It's a lot
of fun.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Watch for me. If you see me, tell me hello.
I'd love to shake your hand and meet you. Houston
fishingshow dot com is a website, Houston fishingshow dot com.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them, check us
fluids and spring on a fresh coat o wax. This
is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Hy Welcome back. Third segment of the program starts right now.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Thank you for letting willing me join you during your
lunch hour, your work break, your drive across town, drive
to the doctor's office, whatever it is, wherever you're going.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
I certainly do appreciate you allowing us to do that.
A story that just came to my attention. I'm being
emailed during the break. Basically, headline says, yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Basically, what it's saying here, the headline is is letting
us know that we didn't know that taxpayers were spending
a boatload of money on corporate media outlets. The ones
named in the story include Politico, The New York Times.
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This is a story from where is it?
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Oh, come on, come on, he said, The Daily Caller, Okay,
Daily Caller, News Foundation. They're all over the place.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
The recipients of this money taxpayer cash, Politico, the New
York Times, Wall Street Journal parent company, dal Jones, the
Associated Press, and others. It says here raked in taxpayer
dollars from a myriad of federal agencies. And that's here
we are at another little tiny piece of the Iceberg. Politico.
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I'm not gonna give you all the numbers. They'll come out.
They're out there if you want to go look at
the story. But I don't want to get into the
weeds by going with each outlet getting this much and
that much money. But suffice to say that we're talking
about millions and millions of dollars being shuttled through the
government to various media agencies for stuff that our government
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probably shouldn't be paying for. And once again, once this
Department of Government efficiency gets a little deeper into that,
I'm hoping that'll stop as well. All Right, well enough
for breaking news. We need a sounder for breaking news.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
By the way, I want you to get that. Okay,
can you do that? No?
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Why are you so so hesitant, so resistant?
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Are you just an anarchist or what? I don't think so.
I don't think that's what anarchy is.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
I know, but it just it just rolled off the
tongue so easily, thinking of you and think, yep, there's
an anarchist right there.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Yeah, now you're gonna do you should?
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Well, you know I've said this many times and I'll
say it again. We different opinions on a lot of things.
But I respect your opinion. I do because it's based
on You're not somebody who just knee jerks. I don't
think you'll come do that sometimes when we're having fun
and doing a bit or something. But I know that
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you put thought into the things that matter to you most,
and that I do respect. From the crimey a river
desk comes word in a story from The Federalist that
ESPN just absolutely pitched a hissy fit when it learned
that President Trump has banned men from women's sports.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
It even went so far as to all men.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
The story did get this, Not the story did, but
ESPN did. And I quote people who were biologically assigned
male at birth end quote. No, ESPN, that is not
That is not how it works when babies are born.
They weren't assigned anything. They left the womb with chromosomes
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in genitalia that showed clearly what whether they were.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Male or female.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Federals Editor in chief Molly Hemingway wrote this on X
and I quote, being male or female is not a
function of being assigned something at birth. You idiots, Your
propaganda terms are dangerous end quote.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
I would have to agree with her. It's a pretty
good way to sum it up.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Stand by one more a bit that was a sneeze.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Standby. Oh, here's no.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
They always come in two. I don't know what I'm
allergic to in here. There must be something in the air.
I think I hear the air. Yeah, the airs on
in here. It may have not have blown a little
dust particle into my nose. Super Bowl Sunday this coming Sunday,
Chiefs and the Eagles. President Trump likely to attend, the
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first president to do so, actually sitting president. I mean,
are you gonna watch the game?
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Will?
Speaker 2 (25:25):
I might watch the halftime performance? Who Oh, it's Kendrick Lamar, right, yep?
Is that right? So? Are you a big fan? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (25:34):
I would watch if Travis Scott was there, since I
met him in all, since we're tight now.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Yeah, have you listened to any of his music? Not yet?
You should start with Rodeo. Rodeo? Yeah, let me write
that down. Rodeo thisays twenty I believe twenty fifteen album. Well,
that's ancient history already he's had, certainly he's had mortally.
Is that his best? It's my favorite of his?
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (25:58):
So? In ten years he hasn't written a better song
than Rodeo? I don't think that hasn't written a better song,
But I think album wise, I think it's okay. That's
the name of the album.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Yeah, Okay, it's not just one song about him riding
on a horse or something.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
No, okay, No, he's had lots of hits.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Who was little naws X on a on a like
a twenty five cent pony at a grocery store thing
with Elton John? Do I remember that correctly?
Speaker 2 (26:24):
I don't know. I think so.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
It was some video they did. Let me ask you
a question, and honestly, I'll tell you my answer as
soon as you answer for me. Do you know much
about Can you name other than Patrick Mahomes and Taylor
Swift's boyfriend? Can you name any other players on those
two teams?
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Jalen hurts. That's the only other one I had. That's it,
Jalen Hurts. Oh wow, look at you go, man, keep
it up. Tyreek Hill he still playing. Yeah, he's on
the Chiefs for sure. Yeah, I'll look it up right now.
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You know he's a receiver. I thought he had gotten hurt.
Tyreek Hill plays for the Kansas City Chiefs. Yes, okay, oh,
now well he's here we go? What what? I'm sorry?
Maybe he plays me a dolphin? Yeah he did? Oh
he sure did?
Speaker 3 (27:25):
I think he got dumped to the Dolphins or sent
to the Dolphins, or he wanted to go.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Maybe he just likes Miami.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
That was funny about that commercial, Miami's spring Break Caution
done as a spoof commercial, letting these kids know before
they get there that there are rules and those rules
are going to be enforced and if you do something stupid,
you go to jail. All right, well, nowhere else on earth?
How much time do we have?
Speaker 2 (27:52):
We havelock? Oh man, dang.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Well, Okay, I'm gonna go early, and then you're gonna
give me extra time when we get back. That's not
out of this alertug Sorry to interrupt. I have important
things to tell you about a late hel.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Well not you. You're not ready for this yet. A
late health is a series a string of vascular clinics
around town where they do amazing work in making ugly
veins go away and dealing with acting up fibroids and
women enlarge noncancerous prostates and men. Even some head pains
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can be alleviated with vascular work. To go in and
what they do.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
The procedure they do most often that pae prostate artery
embolization involves going in and identifying the exact artery that
is feeding fresh blood to that thing so it can
keep growing and keep making you more uncomfortable than you
already are, and they shut it off. I don't know
what they plug it with. Silly putty, I don't know, modeling, clay,
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I'm not really sure. But whatever it is they put
in there, it shuts off the blood supply without harming
anything else in your body. It just targets the prostate
and the prostate alone, and that makes the symptoms go away,
and that.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Makes you feel better.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
It only takes a couple of hours to do any
of the procedures they do at a late health and
once you're done, you get to go home and recuperate.
You never go to a hospital. You just you come in,
you get the work done, somebody drives you home. You're
not gonna be if you've been under anesthesia, you can't
drive yourself home. Once they get that done, you go
home and sit back and relax, and in very short
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order you will feeling You'll be feeling much better, much
more perky, much more happy to be alive.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
And that's what we're all looking for, really, aren't we?
Speaker 3 (29:39):
A latehealth dot com? Alat e a latehealth dot com?
Most of what they do is covered by Medicare and Medicaid.
They also do regenerative medicine there and that is so
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Speaker 1 (30:01):
Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Rounding third and headed home.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
If that happens in take in part this summer and
spring and fall. Will they be rounding third and looking
at Alex Bregman or will they be rounding third and
looking at someone else? I've watched the same story pop
up with different headlines. This is just just clickbait. I
guess there have been three different headlines over the past
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three days that if you click on them, goes to
the same story about what might happen with Alex Brigman
and some of the teams that he thought.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Were gonna court him and haven't yet. Boros that is known.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
For getting big names, big money, but he's also known
for Scott bores, known for maybe messing up some potentially
really big deals and the the athletes winding up having
to settle for far less than I don't know that
he's not promising them anything, but it's still less than expected.
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Alex Bregman is worth a lot of money, There's no
question about it. He's worth a lot of money. But
I think they're well, you got to look at some
of these contracts with a half a billion dollars to
somebody recently, and granted, the right person can get a
lot of money, but when there are other really talented players,
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I'm not even saying equally talented, because there are so
many factors that go into choosing a baseball player, even
a position player, just somebody who's at one position.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
How good a base runner are they? How good is
there base running IQ? How good is their fielding IQ?
How good is their fielding? How team oriented are they?
Speaker 3 (32:10):
Or are they more in it for themselves just trying
to rack up stats to earn bonuses. What are they
doing on that field to help your team? I think
if you put a football player out there, and I'm
not knocking football, it's a very complex sport at the
highest level, which you'll be able to see on Sunday,
very complex in the field. Just pick one player when
the ball is snapped on just a handful of plays.
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Just pick one player other than the quarterback or anybody
in the backfield, and just watch what they do on
one play. You'll see how much work goes into everything
they do on that field.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Same with basketball.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Basketball tends to be somewhat chaotic and move really fast.
The court is not nearly so big as a baseball
field or a football field is not much bigger really
than a tennis court. But up and down that floor
they run constantly and at just break neck speed, dribbling
the ball, and then when they get settled into an
offensive time of full shot clocks worth of stuff. There
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are a lot of moving parts. But the bottom line
is your value is what someone will pay you, and
Alex Bregman hasn't gotten anybody to pay him what he
was either told or thought he was worth. If he
ends up on the Astros, which I'm beginning to doubt
more and more as we get nearer to spring training,
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if he does land here, I think, because Houston is
so loving of him already, they'll welcome him back and
be glad to have him. But there will be some
There will be some who would think, well, we had a.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Chance to swap him out, he hadn't.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
Hit a lick in the last couple of years, and
we had a chance to move him and we didn't.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
So that sports that is.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
And don't don't cry for any of those guys at
that level there. They have made so much money already
that nobody in their family for three generations will have
to work a day in their lives. I hope they do,
and and I hope these guys are teaching their families
to be better than that and smarter than that.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
But you never know, all right, will I'm coming to you.
I'm coming to you, man. I got that. I got that. Yeah,
I took care of all that. You ready? Much time
do I have? You have? Nowhere else? On Earth? Rise
and shine or or Buffalo rise and shine.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
According to a new study, mornings are actually the happiest
time of day when people are more satisfied and less downbeat.
Have you ever used that term less downbeat? Wouldn't that
be more upbeat? I think that's a better way to
phrase when you're talking about something that's supposed to be good,
less downbeat.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
That's almost oxymeronic. All right, So the least happy time,
when the least happy time, I'm gonna go with. It's
the longer the day goes on.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
So nighttime, whenever you go to bed, that's when you're
at your worst. That's when you just h this day's
shut and I'm glad it's over. Horrible day. I don't
know why they picked bedtime. It's kind of funny. It
said something like midnight or whenever you go to bed. Well,
most of my audience, I'm gonna just take a swing here.
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Most of us are in bed before midnight. What time
do you usually go to sleep? Well, don't worry about it, Doug,
do you sleep?
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Nope? I come alive in the night time. That's what
I kind of figured. Yeah, I feel like that article
or whatever was written by a morning person. Yeah, you're
exactly an opinion piece. Yeah. My wife gets a lot
of stuff done. It she really does.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
House is quiet, she can really focus on stuff, and
she truly does. Okay, we're back. Life saver literal interpretation
or the beginning of the end ooh, lifesaver. Police are
praising a local pilot in Arkansas who stopped a disturbing
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a fifteen year old who entered a regional airport with
guns and demanded an airplane.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
He didn't get it. The guy stopped him, Thank goodness.
There's no telling what a fifteen year old might have
done with an airplane. I that it's disturbing on so
many levels that a fifteen year old even thought that up.
And I know that some kids have really serious mental issues,
and that's something this country needs to address a lot
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better than it does. Even still, it changed.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
The thought process about mental health has greatly changed for
the better in.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
The last fifteen or twenty years, but.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
We still got a long way to go to get
people who truly are in dire straits the quality of
care they need to get out of those situations. There's
all kinds of great help available, but a lot of
it costs ten to fifteen twenty thousand dollars a month,
and not everybody who has issues has a quarter million
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dollars a year to throw at the problem.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
We'll see how it all works out. Let's do another one.
Will watch your step soft landing or get off the bench.
Get off the bench, and we got a minute. Judging
Upstate New York was forced to resign. He tried to
get out of jury duty by insisting A judge in
(37:51):
Upstate New York by insisting he couldn't be impartial because
he believed that all defendants are guilty. It's a judge
in New York, which tells you a lot. But nonetheless
that's not very good. Okay, we'll pretty good line though.
You'll have thirty seconds, twenty ten, what oh you have fifteen? Okay,
(38:15):
here comes the end of the world. Listen to this.
In the Ukraine right now.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
Drones are being used to launch other drones to attack
other drones.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
No people involved.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
Drones are being used to launch drones to attack other drones.
In the meantime, it's just me and you trying to
get through it. We'll see you tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (38:38):
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Speaker 3 (00:53):
Thank you all for joining us. Will end me as
we say around here? Will I have an assignment for you?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Are you ready? I mean, right out the gate? Here
we go.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
What a pop quiz? No, it's not a pop quiz.
It's an assignment. I would like for you to look
into and consider at least one new daily bit and
something and that's kind of alliterative and whatnot, Like don't
don't say Taco Tuesday, that's already been done. But something
(01:27):
like friendly Friday or Funny Friday or every Wednesday or whatever.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
I'm funny every day. Well I don't think we could
do funny Friday.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Well yeah, but funny every day doesn't sound It's just
my life. It doesn't draw you, it doesn't draw me.
This is just a little we're talking about a three
or four minute something.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Now.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
I actually have something for my friend from Airline Vacuum
King Tikin. I've been in talks with him. He's got
a one project he needs to take care of before
he can come back on board. But then when he does,
I'm gonna have something that'll be kind of fun, and
I might share it with you off the air. I
might not because I'm afraid you'll leak it. Kind of
like apparently what happened up in Colorado. I don't know
(02:16):
if you've seen it yet, but in Denver and Aurora,
the big Raid was about to go down on all
those trendy Arragua guys, and they had a lot of
them in their sights for apprehension and ultimate deportation.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
These are some really, really bad guys.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
And when the good guys went in, those guys that
already bailed, somebody tipped them off. Somebody tip those people
off and that's really that's so disappointing. Honestly, it's just
so disappointing. You got hundreds of law enforcement personnel there
trying to do a good thing for the American people,
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trying to get these really, really bad guys off the streets,
and he told him they were coming, and every time
there was a law enforcement guy being interviewed, and he
said every time, they already had to reschedule one raid
from last week to this week because word had gotten out. Somehow,
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there's a leak. There's a just a bad leak somewhere
within law enforcement. Because every time he said this week
that they went to a different location to try to
arrest people, those people were gone. News media was already there,
and activists were there with bullhorns telling people how to
(03:36):
avoid apprehension, how to avoid being caught, and some of them.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
There was one woman some.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
I hate to define someone by the term Karen because
that's offensive and insulting to people whose name actually is that,
but she was one of those people who just doesn't like,
doesn't know what's good for her. She's got a neighborhood
full of gang members who are terrorizing, raping, killing, doing
(04:04):
all the drugs being given to kids and whatnot or
sold I guess, And she's screaming at them, what are
you doing? Get out of our community? What's wrong with
these people? What's wrong? Why would anyone protect violent gang members?
Why would they want those people to be left alone?
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They got a major problem in Aurora, and even Aroya's
town government's kind of has to talk. I don't know
whether they've been threatened or not, but it would seem so.
And for the news media and activists to already be
there before the law enforcement shows up for a surprise raid,
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no surprise. Most of the apartments they went to, most
of the doors they either broke down or had opened
for them by somebody perhaps in there. Most of those
places were just empty. Whoever had lived before the gang members.
They had good information, they had good intel, but apparently
the gang members got to somebody who talked.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
So anyway, moving into the.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Weather, because I can't see the clock, I have no
idea what time it is.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
It's twelve times? Is this still an issue with this
monitor over here? Yeah? Look at all I see is
your reflection. That's not nearly as helpful as would be
the clock.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Now, but it's a lot pretty here well, moving into
the weather, still brought to you as always so far
by Texas Indoor Air Quality Specialist Texas IAQ dot net.
These are the people who clean ductwork, and they do
it in a way that keeps that duckwork clean for
a couple of three years to come. You don't have
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to worry about you don't have to worry about dirty air.
So still no major rain threat until at least Monday.
Then Tuesday and Wednesday looked pretty wet, but by then
we'll probably need the rain. Temperature is gonna go go
down a little bit as well, but nothing below even
overnight until February nineteenth, which at present seems kind of
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like a light year away. It's not that far, but
it's still a good ways out. The markets from Houston
Goldexchange dot com, the big four were split half green
and half red last I look, which was about fifteen
minutes ago, and only the Russell was down more than
a couple of tenths. Russell's down one point five percent
at that time. Oil moved up early and then came
(06:27):
back down twenty minutes ago, most recently trading at about
seventy dollars and seventy two cents of barrel gold finally
went red for the first time in quite a while,
and actually fell almost nineteen dollars, but still was at
two thousand, eight hundred and seventy four bucks.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
A change per ounce.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
If you got gold laying around and you need enough
money to buy a half dozen eggs, it won't take
much gold at least to get that done. We are
going to take a break, and when we get back,
I'll give you more things to think about, more converse
station starters as we go toward the end of the week.
On the way out, I'll tell you about UT Health
Institute on Aging, the organization of which I am so fond,
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and I've been happy to speak for them now for
ten years, believe it or not, ten solid years singing
the praises of this group of providers who not only
have a website that offers tremendous resources of great value
to seniors, and if you can think of it health wise,
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you'll find it at UT Health Institute on Aging website.
If you need a provider to help you get something
fixed that's broken on you, no matter what medical thing
it is, you can find a provider through this website
and its resources. Who is specially trained in that regard
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as it pertains to seniors. They all went to school,
they all got diplomas, They all got their medical licenses
or nursing licenses or what whatever it is they do
in medicine, and for that they can be quite proud.
They hang a diploma on the wall, usually in the office.
But what you won't see, what you may not know
about a lot of these providers, and they're all over town,
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is that they went back and got additional training as
to how they could apply that expertise only to seniors.
Go to the website ut dot ed u slash aging
and see what the Institute on Aging can do for
you ut dot ed u slash aging.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
What's life without a net? I suggest you to go
to bed, leave it off, just wait until the show's over. Sleepy.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Hold on here we go, all right? Will we're back?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Right?
Speaker 2 (08:58):
It sounds like it sound like it to me. So
moving into.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
That was somewhat abrupt. Did you did you yank the
cord out of the wall or what?
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (09:09):
I was I accidentally pulled down the wrong one? You
you essentially rear ended the music. Holy kay, he just
ran right into it. I'm sorry, Doug. I was too
busy thinking about what my what my alliterative day was.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Going to be hold on. I have to write down
a little demerit over here. Okay, I got it.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Stepping into local news first, potentially life threatening water quality
issues not the not the water quality scheme, infrastructure scheme
that went on and in and is finally sort of
over but not probably to the liking of people who
worked very long and hard to put together those cases.
(09:52):
And then found out that uh, pretty much everybody involved
was going to get a slap on the wrist and
a reduction and in anything but to this one over
in Crosby, Texas. And this has led to a lawsuit
actually filed by Harris County. Inspection's done over the course
of four years, most recently this past month revealed what
(10:15):
a click to Houston story called several violations, including the
presence of extremely high levels of E. Coli bacteria and
even some untreated waste leeching into the ground around there.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
That's that's kind of not good. That's really not good.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
And hopefully they'll get that stuff cleaned up over in
Crosby and post haste. As they say in Federal government news,
many many, many thousands of federal employees, and a whole
lot of them who haven't visited their offices in years,
say they're uncertain about their futures. That's that's understatement. I
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can pretty much guarantee them. If they're some of the
ones who haven't shown up for work in three four
years and been taking paychecks, yeah, their future is pretty certain.
Some of these people don't even live in the town
where their office is. I saw a story, I think
it was yesterday about a woman who holds a federal
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job in a big city, doesn't matter where, and then
actually has a second, well paying government job I think
at the city level in another state, and draws paychecks,
significant paychecks from both of those. That's how deep the
misuse and abuse of this system runs. And when you
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add up all the money these people are essentially stealing,
stealing from taxpayers who pay their salaries.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
It ought to make you really angry.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
It does me, and I'm pretty glad this administration is
taking that bull by the horns and shaking out all
the dead weight that's costing us trillions of dollars we
don't have. In related news, more than a thousand employees
at the Environmental Protection Agency received immediate termination letters this week.
The whole government's loaded with people who don't come to
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work while taxpayers paid to maintain virtually virtually empty office buildings,
by the way I saw, excluding security guards and maintenance personnel.
Elon Musk said this week that the number of people
who actually come into the office to work regularly, based
on what he and his Department of Government Official efficiency
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have uncovered, that amounts to about one percent of that
federal workforce. Taxpayers doled out seven billion dollars a year
in rent space. I think this past year seven billion
dollars or so, which seventeen of twenty five agencies that
use this space utilize for less.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Than one quarter of the year.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
All of this waste, all of this wasteed ought to
be at least, has been uncovered in less than a month.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
This is the tip of the iceberg.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
There's going to be a whole lot more uncovered and
unraveled and unpacked to show just how many people were
getting paid for doing nothing. And it start started at
the top with that administration. A sad sadly for California,
and I'm still hesitant to well, no, it's it's about time,
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really to blame California for not taking care of its underbrush,
for not doing prescribed burns, for not filling its reservoirs
when all of that should have been done. Wildfire's there
finally settling down, recently displaced hundreds of thousands of people
and destroyed tens of thousands of structures, and now there's
a new concern the Palace vered His Peninsula. This is
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a very elite part of that state, a very upper
crust place, an address that would make river Oaks look
a little bit lower than its stature.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
And I'm a big fan.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Of anybody who anybody who could afford a house in
river Oaks, More power to them. They worked hard for
their money, somehow, some way, they I hope they worked
hard for it. Either that or they inherited it, and
either way they live there. And it's a beautiful, beautiful
piece of piece of Houston. The bottom line is, though
Palace vert Is is well in at least when it
was being measured back in the last I think it
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was October into November, about a four week span in
which that peninsula inched four inches a week for four
weeks straight toward the ocean. It's sliding, it's sliding. One
of the people studying this troubling movement said, and I quote,
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the speed is more than enough to put human life
in infrastructure at risk. Down at Dana Point, which is
really really uppercross stuff there there there's video and photographs
of three huge homes that now just teeter on the
edge of a steep cliff there after storm. Recent storms
(15:09):
triggered landslides in that area. These homes are enormous, and
their foundations, the foundations are secured by pilings that are
driven into the bedrock. So there's no there are no
red flags, no warnings to evacuate the building. No, what's
that word they put on a building when it's just
time to go? Will I can't recall, just off the hand,
(15:30):
off hand, when it's time to go, when the house
is unfit to be lived in? Oh the house is
God's just escaping my head right now. But anyway, nobody's
gotten one of those warnings. But you look at those
videos and you could see just how precariously close these
places are to being claimed by the Pacific ocean, and
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I wouldn't want to be home when that starts up.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Will do you want to go with dinosaurs? How much
time do I have? By the way, since there is
no clock, you have two and a half minutes.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Okay, you want to go dinosaurs and this is serious news?
Or do you want to go to the fun page.
Let's hear what you have to say about dinosaurs, dug school,
scientists and an art I'm just getting giddy over this
kind of stuff. I wish I once again if I
win the lottery, I'm gonna become a treasure hunter and
an archaeologist, and for the rest of my days, I'll
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travel the world looking for cool stuff. In Antarctica, scientists
recently discovered the nearly complete intact skull of an early
relative of today's ducks and geese. This bird lived down
there while t rex roamed warmer climates up here, and
because it the bird was so far south, it wasn't
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impacted as a species by what killed off all the
dinosaurs up here in little warmer climate ground zero. For
whatever the big crash bang was that destroyed all theme,
it's the oldest remains of a modern bird. Uh pop quiz.
Will you weren't even I didn't give you a chance
to study. I know, but how old? Approximately within within
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a million years? How old is that bird skull? I'll
say it is sixty two million years old? That is
one of your better guesses, will I'm you must be
you must be brushing up before the show or something.
(17:32):
Sixty nine sixty nine million years so you only miss
The good news is from you missed from sixty two
to sixty nine. The bad news is that gap is
seven million years. But that's still pretty good. Hats off
to you. That's certain to rewrite at least a few
pages of animal history on Earth. Are we out of
time yet? Or can I do one more? You got
(17:53):
thirty seconds? Oh, let's take the break. Then let's take
the break, so I don't feel rushed, because I like
to expound upon some of these things that I have
even on my little bits and pieces conversation starter's page.
So now that we're right about on time, to go
ahead and go to the break.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
I will.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
If you are in any way sheap or form, interested in,
or fascinated by, or just overjoyed anytime you get to
go fishing, you cannot really afford to miss next week's
Fishing Show. It is the fiftieth edition of this thing,
the Golden Anniversary, and it will be ongoing at the
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GRB Downtown, the George R. Brown Convention Center from the
twelfth through the sixteenth of February. Everything you can imagine
related to the sport will be in that one haul,
everything including the latest and greatest from all the major manufacturers.
And the thing I like about this show is that
(18:51):
it includes It's not just a bunch of people selling stuff.
You can buy pretty much anything you'll see in there
somewhere in there, but the manufacturers come to this show
so that you and I and this sophisticated audience of
fishermen in this greater Houston area can actually talk shop
with the people who researched and developed and tried out
(19:15):
and did all the legwork before a new product was
put to market.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
And I mean all of it.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
You can find out a lot of times in some
of the smaller businesses, you can talk to the person
who actually invented whatever it was and learn how that
thing is supposed to be used, better than just finding
it on the shelf in a store somewhere and taking
it home. There are continuous clinics ongoing by expert fishermen.
I'm actually going to be talking to a guy named
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Chester Moore, the editor of Texas Fish and Game magazine.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
He's doing a seminar I think it's.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
On Saturday that will address great white sharks in the
Gulf of Mexico. There are more and more of them
showing up. It's pretty interesting. There's a kid clinic over
there on both Saturday and Sunday. Plenty of giveaways for
those little kids. Get them into fishing. If you love
to fish, you'll want to learn about fishing. Or you're
right there in the middle somewhere, go to the show,
(20:09):
enjoy it. It's all gonna be there. It's a lot
of fun.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Watch for me. If you see me, tell me hello.
I'd love to shake your hand and meet you. Houston
fishingshow dot com is a website, Houston fishingshow dot com.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them, check us
fluids and spring on a fresh coat o wax. This
is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Hy Welcome back. Third segment of the program starts right now.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Thank you for letting willing me join you during your
lunch hour, your work break, your drive across town, drive
to the doctor's office, whatever it is, wherever you're going.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
I certainly do appreciate you allowing us to do that.
A story that just came to my attention. I'm being
emailed during the break. Basically, headline says, yeah.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Basically, what it's saying here, the headline is is letting
us know that we didn't know that taxpayers were spending
a boatload of money on corporate media outlets. The ones
named in the story include Politico, The New York Times.
(21:35):
This is a story from where is it?
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Oh, come on, come on, he said, The Daily Caller, Okay,
Daily Caller, News Foundation. They're all over the place.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
The recipients of this money taxpayer cash, Politico, the New
York Times, Wall Street Journal parent company, dal Jones, the
Associated Press, and others. It says here raked in taxpayer
dollars from a myriad of federal agencies. And that's here
we are at another little tiny piece of the Iceberg. Politico.
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I'm not gonna give you all the numbers. They'll come out.
They're out there if you want to go look at
the story. But I don't want to get into the
weeds by going with each outlet getting this much and
that much money. But suffice to say that we're talking
about millions and millions of dollars being shuttled through the
government to various media agencies for stuff that our government
(22:38):
probably shouldn't be paying for. And once again, once this
Department of Government efficiency gets a little deeper into that,
I'm hoping that'll stop as well. All Right, well enough
for breaking news. We need a sounder for breaking news.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
By the way, I want you to get that. Okay,
can you do that? No?
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Why are you so so hesitant, so resistant?
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Are you just an anarchist or what? I don't think so.
I don't think that's what anarchy is.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
I know, but it just it just rolled off the
tongue so easily, thinking of you and think, yep, there's
an anarchist right there.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Yeah, now you're gonna do you should?
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Well, you know I've said this many times and I'll
say it again. We different opinions on a lot of things.
But I respect your opinion. I do because it's based
on You're not somebody who just knee jerks. I don't
think you'll come do that sometimes when we're having fun
and doing a bit or something. But I know that
(23:40):
you put thought into the things that matter to you most,
and that I do respect. From the crimey a river
desk comes word in a story from The Federalist that
ESPN just absolutely pitched a hissy fit when it learned
that President Trump has banned men from women's sports.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
It even went so far as to all men.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
The story did get this, Not the story did, but
ESPN did. And I quote people who were biologically assigned
male at birth end quote. No, ESPN, that is not
That is not how it works when babies are born.
They weren't assigned anything. They left the womb with chromosomes
(24:24):
in genitalia that showed clearly what whether they were.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Male or female.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Federals Editor in chief Molly Hemingway wrote this on X
and I quote, being male or female is not a
function of being assigned something at birth. You idiots, Your
propaganda terms are dangerous end quote.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
I would have to agree with her. It's a pretty
good way to sum it up.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Stand by one more a bit that was a sneeze.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Standby. Oh, here's no.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
They always come in two. I don't know what I'm
allergic to in here. There must be something in the air.
I think I hear the air. Yeah, the airs on
in here. It may have not have blown a little
dust particle into my nose. Super Bowl Sunday this coming Sunday,
Chiefs and the Eagles. President Trump likely to attend, the
(25:19):
first president to do so, actually sitting president. I mean,
are you gonna watch the game?
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Will?
Speaker 2 (25:25):
I might watch the halftime performance? Who Oh, it's Kendrick Lamar, right, yep?
Is that right? So? Are you a big fan? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (25:34):
I would watch if Travis Scott was there, since I
met him in all, since we're tight now.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Yeah, have you listened to any of his music? Not yet?
You should start with Rodeo. Rodeo? Yeah, let me write
that down. Rodeo thisays twenty I believe twenty fifteen album. Well,
that's ancient history already he's had, certainly he's had mortally.
Is that his best? It's my favorite of his?
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (25:58):
So? In ten years he hasn't written a better song
than Rodeo? I don't think that hasn't written a better song,
But I think album wise, I think it's okay. That's
the name of the album.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Yeah, Okay, it's not just one song about him riding
on a horse or something.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
No, okay, No, he's had lots of hits.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Who was little naws X on a on a like
a twenty five cent pony at a grocery store thing
with Elton John? Do I remember that correctly?
Speaker 2 (26:24):
I don't know. I think so.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
It was some video they did. Let me ask you
a question, and honestly, I'll tell you my answer as
soon as you answer for me. Do you know much
about Can you name other than Patrick Mahomes and Taylor
Swift's boyfriend? Can you name any other players on those
two teams?
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Jalen hurts. That's the only other one I had. That's it,
Jalen Hurts. Oh wow, look at you go, man, keep
it up. Tyreek Hill he still playing. Yeah, he's on
the Chiefs for sure. Yeah, I'll look it up right now.
(27:06):
You know he's a receiver. I thought he had gotten hurt.
Tyreek Hill plays for the Kansas City Chiefs. Yes, okay, oh,
now well he's here we go? What what? I'm sorry?
Maybe he plays me a dolphin? Yeah he did? Oh
he sure did?
Speaker 3 (27:25):
I think he got dumped to the Dolphins or sent
to the Dolphins, or he wanted to go.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Maybe he just likes Miami.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
That was funny about that commercial, Miami's spring Break Caution
done as a spoof commercial, letting these kids know before
they get there that there are rules and those rules
are going to be enforced and if you do something stupid,
you go to jail. All right, well, nowhere else on earth?
How much time do we have?
Speaker 2 (27:52):
We havelock? Oh man, dang.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Well, Okay, I'm gonna go early, and then you're gonna
give me extra time when we get back. That's not
out of this alertug Sorry to interrupt. I have important
things to tell you about a late hel.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Well not you. You're not ready for this yet. A
late health is a series a string of vascular clinics
around town where they do amazing work in making ugly
veins go away and dealing with acting up fibroids and
women enlarge noncancerous prostates and men. Even some head pains
(28:27):
can be alleviated with vascular work. To go in and
what they do.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
The procedure they do most often that pae prostate artery
embolization involves going in and identifying the exact artery that
is feeding fresh blood to that thing so it can
keep growing and keep making you more uncomfortable than you
already are, and they shut it off. I don't know
what they plug it with. Silly putty, I don't know, modeling, clay,
(28:55):
I'm not really sure. But whatever it is they put
in there, it shuts off the blood supply without harming
anything else in your body. It just targets the prostate
and the prostate alone, and that makes the symptoms go away,
and that.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Makes you feel better.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
It only takes a couple of hours to do any
of the procedures they do at a late health and
once you're done, you get to go home and recuperate.
You never go to a hospital. You just you come in,
you get the work done, somebody drives you home. You're
not gonna be if you've been under anesthesia, you can't
drive yourself home. Once they get that done, you go
home and sit back and relax, and in very short
(29:30):
order you will feeling You'll be feeling much better, much
more perky, much more happy to be alive.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
And that's what we're all looking for, really, aren't we?
Speaker 3 (29:39):
A latehealth dot com? Alat e a latehealth dot com?
Most of what they do is covered by Medicare and Medicaid.
They also do regenerative medicine there and that is so
so effective on chronic pain. Seven one, three, five eight, eight,
thirty eight eighty eight. Give them a call, set up
a consultation. Seven to one, three, five, eight, eight thirty
eight eighty eight.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Rounding third and headed home.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
If that happens in take in part this summer and
spring and fall. Will they be rounding third and looking
at Alex Bregman or will they be rounding third and
looking at someone else? I've watched the same story pop
up with different headlines. This is just just clickbait. I
guess there have been three different headlines over the past
(30:43):
three days that if you click on them, goes to
the same story about what might happen with Alex Brigman
and some of the teams that he thought.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Were gonna court him and haven't yet. Boros that is known.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
For getting big names, big money, but he's also known
for Scott bores, known for maybe messing up some potentially
really big deals and the the athletes winding up having
to settle for far less than I don't know that
he's not promising them anything, but it's still less than expected.
(31:22):
Alex Bregman is worth a lot of money, There's no
question about it. He's worth a lot of money. But
I think they're well, you got to look at some
of these contracts with a half a billion dollars to
somebody recently, and granted, the right person can get a
lot of money, but when there are other really talented players,
(31:45):
I'm not even saying equally talented, because there are so
many factors that go into choosing a baseball player, even
a position player, just somebody who's at one position.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
How good a base runner are they? How good is
there base running IQ? How good is their fielding IQ?
How good is their fielding? How team oriented are they?
Speaker 3 (32:10):
Or are they more in it for themselves just trying
to rack up stats to earn bonuses. What are they
doing on that field to help your team? I think
if you put a football player out there, and I'm
not knocking football, it's a very complex sport at the
highest level, which you'll be able to see on Sunday,
very complex in the field. Just pick one player when
the ball is snapped on just a handful of plays.
(32:33):
Just pick one player other than the quarterback or anybody
in the backfield, and just watch what they do on
one play. You'll see how much work goes into everything
they do on that field.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
Same with basketball.
Speaker 3 (32:47):
Basketball tends to be somewhat chaotic and move really fast.
The court is not nearly so big as a baseball
field or a football field is not much bigger really
than a tennis court. But up and down that floor
they run constantly and at just break neck speed, dribbling
the ball, and then when they get settled into an
offensive time of full shot clocks worth of stuff. There
(33:12):
are a lot of moving parts. But the bottom line
is your value is what someone will pay you, and
Alex Bregman hasn't gotten anybody to pay him what he
was either told or thought he was worth. If he
ends up on the Astros, which I'm beginning to doubt
more and more as we get nearer to spring training,
(33:34):
if he does land here, I think, because Houston is
so loving of him already, they'll welcome him back and
be glad to have him. But there will be some
There will be some who would think, well, we had a.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Chance to swap him out, he hadn't.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
Hit a lick in the last couple of years, and
we had a chance to move him and we didn't.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
So that sports that is.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
And don't don't cry for any of those guys at
that level there. They have made so much money already
that nobody in their family for three generations will have
to work a day in their lives. I hope they do,
and and I hope these guys are teaching their families
to be better than that and smarter than that.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
But you never know, all right, will I'm coming to you.
I'm coming to you, man. I got that. I got that. Yeah,
I took care of all that. You ready? Much time
do I have? You have? Nowhere else? On Earth? Rise
and shine or or Buffalo rise and shine.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
According to a new study, mornings are actually the happiest
time of day when people are more satisfied and less downbeat.
Have you ever used that term less downbeat? Wouldn't that
be more upbeat? I think that's a better way to
phrase when you're talking about something that's supposed to be good,
less downbeat.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
That's almost oxymeronic. All right, So the least happy time,
when the least happy time, I'm gonna go with. It's
the longer the day goes on.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
So nighttime, whenever you go to bed, that's when you're
at your worst. That's when you just h this day's
shut and I'm glad it's over. Horrible day. I don't
know why they picked bedtime. It's kind of funny. It
said something like midnight or whenever you go to bed. Well,
most of my audience, I'm gonna just take a swing here.
(35:37):
Most of us are in bed before midnight. What time
do you usually go to sleep? Well, don't worry about it, Doug,
do you sleep?
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Nope? I come alive in the night time. That's what
I kind of figured. Yeah, I feel like that article
or whatever was written by a morning person. Yeah, you're
exactly an opinion piece. Yeah. My wife gets a lot
of stuff done. It she really does.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
House is quiet, she can really focus on stuff, and
she truly does. Okay, we're back. Life saver literal interpretation
or the beginning of the end ooh, lifesaver. Police are
praising a local pilot in Arkansas who stopped a disturbing
(36:23):
a fifteen year old who entered a regional airport with
guns and demanded an airplane.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
He didn't get it. The guy stopped him, Thank goodness.
There's no telling what a fifteen year old might have
done with an airplane. I that it's disturbing on so
many levels that a fifteen year old even thought that up.
And I know that some kids have really serious mental issues,
and that's something this country needs to address a lot
(36:53):
better than it does. Even still, it changed.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
The thought process about mental health has greatly changed for
the better in.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
The last fifteen or twenty years, but.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
We still got a long way to go to get
people who truly are in dire straits the quality of
care they need to get out of those situations. There's
all kinds of great help available, but a lot of
it costs ten to fifteen twenty thousand dollars a month,
and not everybody who has issues has a quarter million
(37:27):
dollars a year to throw at the problem.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
We'll see how it all works out. Let's do another one.
Will watch your step soft landing or get off the bench.
Get off the bench, and we got a minute. Judging
Upstate New York was forced to resign. He tried to
get out of jury duty by insisting A judge in
(37:51):
Upstate New York by insisting he couldn't be impartial because
he believed that all defendants are guilty. It's a judge
in New York, which tells you a lot. But nonetheless
that's not very good. Okay, we'll pretty good line though.
You'll have thirty seconds, twenty ten, what oh you have fifteen? Okay,
(38:15):
here comes the end of the world. Listen to this.
In the Ukraine right now.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
Drones are being used to launch other drones to attack
other drones.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
No people involved.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
Drones are being used to launch drones to attack other drones.
In the meantime, it's just me and you trying to
get through it. We'll see you tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (38:38):
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