July 29, 2025 • 37 mins
Today, Doug Pike discusses a captcha scam, kidnapping, and canned foods.
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And now fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, here
we go. Twoday edition of the show starts now. Welcome
to fifty plus. I'm Doug Pike, your host on this
crazy ride for the next hour or so. Will Melbourne
on the other side of two big monitors, all I
can see is the very tippy top of your head. Will.
That's it, and that's all right. I know you're here
(01:02):
and I know you're taking care of He had to
come around the corner to drag me away from the desk.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I was.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I had just gotten an email from a client that
I had to address, and it made me just a
teensy bit late to get into the chair in here.
But we're good I was here on time. We'll tee
it up with a brief look at the weather. It's August. Okay,
another really warm and potentially hot day today, and you
know what that means. In my vernacular, warm is anything
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up to ninety nine point nine degrees. When it eclipses
this century mark, it becomes a hot day. We have
potential for a hot day today, then afterward, thankfully increasing
chances of rain toward the weekend, which should pull those
highs back into the low nineties, which is actually okay
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when you consider the potential alternatives for August around here.
High pressure system is gonna move out. That's what's been
bakeding us basically here and pretty much up north through
most of the continent and back toward the east. Across
most of the eastern half of the continent. There're a
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lot more people than us suffering under severe heat. The
difference up north is that they're not accustomed to it,
and it's probably causing some real discomfort up there for
people who say they wouldn't want to live here because
it's too hot. There have been several days recently where
it's been hotter five hundred or one thousand miles north
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of here than it has been here, and that's okay.
We've got enough to go around, good Heavens. I just
don't I don't dare wish for anything else. We've got
some disorganized low pressure that's going to the front. Is
the high pressure system is moving northward and eventually going
to just kind of disappear off the map. But behind
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it is going to be this disorgani band of low
pressure that doesn't appear like it's gonna become anything to
worry about. It's gonna generate some pop up afternoon showers,
I'm sure, for several days, And for heaven's sakes, don't
wish for rain right now. You know the adage be
careful what you wish for right especially until about what
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mid November. If you want to wish for something, wish
for more saharan dust, because even though it'll talk you
into getting your car washed a little bit more often
than you do right now, saharan dust keeps that keeps
that Atlantic Ocean calm. And I don't know how that works.
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I don't care how it works. Will that is a
very fancy clock you found, by the way, I'm impressed.
I'm entirely impressed. It's not even just minutes, it's seconds.
So that puts me on the hot seat, though, because
that means I have no excuse at all for being
late for anything in market news four for four in
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the red this morning a little while ago, but not
by nearly enough anywhere to trigger some algorithmic trading, panic buying,
panic selling any of that. It's just kind of a
whole hum day on Wall Street. Really. Oil was up
a bit, as was gold, but both still at solid
levels and likely to stay pretty quiet for a while.
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I don't I don't see anything. I didn't see anything
in the headlines and stories I read about financial news
this morning to make me think that we're in anything
but a really good, solid position right now. To lead
the day, a couple of public safety thoughts, one an
internet scam and the other far more sinister than just
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trying to take people's money. If I can get to
them both before the break, I will, If not, I'll
lead the second segment with the other one. There's an
internet scam out there, pretty new, and I saw it
for the first time yesterday while I was scrolling through things.
And this one apparently is a lot of unsuspecting people,
people who tend to be trusting of the things they
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see on the internet, which is that's a bad move.
It is just for your own safety and your own
financial security. Don't trust anything that you don't really recognize
as coming from a trusted source. And even if you
think it's a trusted source, close the site, hang up
whatever it is, depending on whether you're on the phone
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or on the internet, and call that company's main number
and ask them if whatever you're looking at is real.
Here's what's going on. You go to some site, something
pops up on your screen as an ad for maybe
something you'd like to purchase or at least get more
information about, and up pops one of those capture boxes
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that's either got kind of squiggly scrambled looking letters and numbers,
or and you're supposed to type what you see into
another box. Or there's a series of photographs and it
says click on the photographs that have bridges or buses
or motorcycles or whatever in them, And so you do that,
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you hit the right buttons, or you copy the text
and numbers correctly and then hit enter, and another box
pops up that says, uh, oh, something's going wrong. Please
go ahead. We can fix this very easily if you'll
just go ahead and tap this box. And that's where
the problem starts. When you pop that one, you open
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the gateway into your phone or laptop or PC or
tablet or whatever it is, you give them access to
everything in there. And unless you have the wherewithal to
absolutely immediately turn that thing off or somehow shut it
down and back it out of there, pretty much anything
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and everything you've got on that device is going to
be sucked out of it by the scammers. They don't
have access to everything you don't want them to have
access to. That's one of the reasons my wife and
I just don't do any online banking. It just makes
no sense. It really, not yet, not yet, not until,
not until it's more than more than a couple of
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months between every major data break breach that comes along.
Almost said break, and I almost said breach, and I
mixed them up. So anyway, watch out for that. Please.
I'll tell you what. I am not going to get
into this second one here, second one yet, Just be
really careful when you're out there streaming along and scrolling
along and looking for something cool to look at in
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the middle of the night, don't in your near sleep
state make a mistake and tap into a box that
you shouldn't tap into. I've had issues with identity theft,
and it's no fun trying to get rid of it,
and it just it makes you so leery, and so
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you feel so violated when somebody does that, and it's
really it's just horrible. I wish there was some way
we could remove those people from halfway around the world wherever.
They are very few of them here, because it would
be much easier to track them down and catch them
halfway around the world. They know that there's probably not
going to be anything that happens to them for stealing
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from you and just laughing about it all right on
the way out. Berry Hill, Sugarland. This is the tex
mex restaurant that my wife and I found more than
thirty years ago now or right at thirty years ago,
I don't know. We've been in the house a long time,
and I can remember very early on kind of tripping
over burial.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
What's that.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Let's go in there and see if the food's any good.
Well it was then and it still is absolutely delicious.
Berry Hill Baja Grill. They are at the corner of
Sugar Creek Boulevard and fifty nine on the inbound side.
Very easy to find. It's the closest thing to the street. Really,
you can't miss it. It looks like a Mexican restaurant,
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and inside you're gonna find family style dining. There are
booths and tables where you can go sit the whole
family down. There's kind of a sports bar vibe a
little bit to the right as you go in, and
then before you walk in you'll see the outdoor dining
that's available on nights, cooler than the next few might be.
Barry Hill's been there, like I said, a long time,
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and they have had the same two primary people running
their kitchen for more than a decade apiece. So you
know you're going to get a good quality product. It's
going to be consistent. They're fish tacos, absolutely exquisite, as
good as I've ever had, and I've had my share
of fish tacos, for sure. They also do a seafood
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enchilada that I'm fond of. My wife likes the Baja
chicken tacos corn tortillas, and she has a special way
she likes them. That's what we have to get when
I go up there and get those for her Tres lechez.
I highly recommend they do a vanilla and a chocolate
version of tresh letches and both are outstanding. Berryhillsugarland dot com.
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By the way, they also cater all over town. If
you've got a lot of people you need to feed
fantastic Mexican food, start with Berryhill. They'll do you right.
Berryhillsugarland dot com family owned and operator for more than
thirty years. Berryhillsugarland dot com.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Yeah, they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash him, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike. Hi, welcome back to fifty plus.
Thank you all for listening.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
As promised, I'm gonna go straight into this second public
safety announcement. You know, I was talking to Will between
or during the break about how the bad guys anytime
we come up with a solution for something, the bad
guys have to come up with a new method to
beat the solution so that they can still be bad.
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And this is for the worst of the bad people,
the ones who run around trying to kidnap children. And
here's what's going on a site hosted by a woman
by the way, who posts all kinds of things, just
reminders and techniques to keep you safe, whether you're in
parking lots, at the shopping center, at the grocery store,
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wherever you are, anytime you're outside of your own comfort
zone in your house, she's dropping tips. If I could
remember her name, i'd tell you, And if I find
it this afternoon, maybe I'll tell you tomorrow. But here's
what she said. This is something to share with your
adult children, if you're closer to my age, and your
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grandchildren for sure, and make sure that everybody's kind of
on board. It's a new twist on an old kidnapping
scheme that most kids probably are aware of and know
what they're supposed to do. So here's how it works.
So the bad guy is driving around and he spots
a kid either walking, maybe riding a bike home from
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school or from a friend's house or whatever. And the
guy pulls up in his car says, hey, man, your
mom or your dad asked me to pick you up.
There's been a terrible thing's happening back at the house. Well,
the kid backs up, right, he knows he knows better
than to believe that story, because because the parents have
already talked to him about it. Right. Well, then a
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second car stops and a woman gets out and comes
marching in there and gets right between him and says,
do you know this man? The kid says, no, I
don't know this guy. Well, woman said, well, don't go
with him, for sure, I'm safe. Jump in the car
with me and I'll take you home. Well, the kid
whose guard he has been dropped by a woman who
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assures him that she's the safe haven. The kid gets
in the woman's car, only to find out a very
short time later that the two of them were working
as a team, and just like that, that kid has
vanished into a creepy, creepy world. What's important, she said,
And this, My wife and I and my son have
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a code word. And anytime there's any kind of an
emergency where one of us is aware enough to need
someone else to go pick him up from somewhere or
interact with him at all, that person is going to
have that code word so that my son knows what's up,
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whether this is a real emergency or whether somebody is
trying to do him harm. He's seventeen now, and he
thinks he knows everything, but what he doesn't realize. And
in many ways, it's good that kids don't have to
be exposed to all this stuff when they're little, because
it would scare the pants off of them. It really would.
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There's just no reason for that. There's no reason to
do anything but just let them know that if there's
ever an emergency where they really need to be escorted
back home or to a safe place or whatever, that
the person who's going to talk to them is going
to know that code word. Now there are I guess
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there's different ways you've got to deal with with first responders,
with police officers or fire or firemen or whatever. But
bottom line is, if that person doesn't have a badge,
if that person doesn't isn't carrying a fire hose and
an axe over his shoulder and had a helmet on
and a big old' heavy jacket, don't trust them unless
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they know the code word, and even with the code word,
be very cautious. It's hard, it's really hard to raise
kids these days. I think my wife and I kind
of got in on the tail end of it, being
not so scary, but the rapid developments that have been
done with AI, the rapid development of schemes that take
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advantage of AI, to voices, to mimic videos, to mimic
mimic photographs, everything make it just even more difficult to
keep our kids safe. So do what you can look online.
I don't know. I wish you could think of a
woman's name. I really do. I would share it with
everybody because it's pretty important stuff, and I will. I'll
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try to find it maybe after the show, or at
least before tomorrow's show, if I can fight and remember.
Moving on on a plus side, I guess Representative or
Republican Senator Josh Hawley has introduced legislation that, if passed,
would dole out some of the money we're collecting in
tariffs on other nations, and that doling would be done
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to working class Americans. Working class Americans get a little
something back for I guess maybe in celebration of hitting
a balanced budget this path for June. A balanced budget
for June, which is the first time I don't want
to say, I want to say it was fifteen or
twenty years that that had been done, and in great
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part because we got a bunch of money coming in
in tariffs from countries that have been just working us
over on these things until President Trump got in office
and said, you know what, I got a lot of
work to do. I've only got four years to do it,
and I'm going to get started now. At present, by
Holly's estimations and calculations, the number would be about six
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hundred dollars for every adult and every dependent child all.
He said, we deserve those checks after suffering through four
years of bidnomics, and I would have to agree, I
really would. We got checks, but they were just borrowed money.
That's a lot of people said, well, Biden sent everybody
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a check. Well, but he didn't pay for it. We
just borrowed somebody else's money to give people in this
country a feeling a sense of well being. But this
time it's being done with money that we generated by
raising putting the well not raising even in some cases,
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just putting fair and balanced tariffs on a lot of
these countries. Jasmine crocket raise your hand if Jasmine Crockett
is not somebody you would vote for. She's an emerging
star though among Democrats, and at a time when they're
making one bad move after another, honestly in who they're
marching out to represent them. By the way, quick aside
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AOC has been ordered by the I believe it's the
Oversight Committee to pay a fine actually for using her
influence to I think somehow maybe get some sort of
a discount on a very nice dress. And also she's
been ordered to pay back the money that would have
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been I think she's got to do it in donation
form somewhere, the money that was used to buy her
ticket to an event that she went to where she
wasn't supposed to accept a free ticket. I think that's
what the details are. I'm not one hundred percent sure.
Back to Jasmine Crockett, though she's actually pushing really hard
or she did. She pushed until she lost, pushed hard
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to become minority top gun on the House Oversite Committee.
And she based her assertion. She based her case on
deserving that position on the party's need for somebody who's
unafraid to speak out. Well that certainly she certainly is that,
but also occurring to according to her, the person who
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has the largest social media following, the largest social media
following is what she thinks qualifies her to lead the
House Oversite Committee on behalf of Democrats. Not so much.
She lost, by the way, thank goodness to we would
had to just hear more from her. She lost to
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Representative Robert Garcia from California, and whoever he may be,
the Democrats made the right choice behind that. Now, you
know what, I'm gonna pause here and go to these breaks.
I'm gonna try and stay on time for Will and
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Doug Pike. All right, welcome back to fifty plus. Thanks
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for listening. Certainly do appreciate it. Moving on, moving forward
amongst all these man bits and pieces and little things.
I have a lot of short things to get to today,
and I'm going to get to as many as I can.
Like I said in the very beginning, behind that deadly
Manhattan shooting by a mentally ild man from Las Vegas,
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New York City mayoral candidate Mondani got absolutely hammered on
social bimedia or social media. They came at him pretty
much anybody and everybody who is concerned and should be
concerned by his promise to defund NYPD and let the
city go feral, except for a few social workers who
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are going to be charged with talking maniacs out of
killing people all over that once great city. Four civilians
and one police officer who was himself a migrant actually
an immigrant dead and others wounded and without NYPD, that
guy probably kills many times more New Yorkers than he did, because,
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in conjunction with their very strict concealed carry policy, it
may have been a while before anybody who could have
stopped him at all would have gotten close enough to
him to do anything about it. Whereas the police do
what the police did. What the police do, and that
is go toward the problem and not run away from it.
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On a positive note, another one of those, the Wall
Street Journal's most recent poll, noted an eleven percent increase
recently in the number of Americans who rate our current
economy as either good or excellent. I would be counted
among those right now. I like the way the country's going.
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I like the way our economy is responding to the
changes that are being made. And still though half the
country's registered voters think there's something wrong with our current economy,
which I don't know what data they're looking at, I
don't know what stories they're believing, but I actually I
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intentionally watched some network news coverage last night, and true
to form, there was absolutely nothing, absolutely nothing about what's
going on with the Russian dossier. There was all the
hue and cry that's been going on for a couple
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of months now, about Epstein, when in fact, the Left
had access to all of those files, every word of
every line of every paragraph of every file related to
that case. They had them, and they had they took
on a kind of nothing to see here attitude, I
guess because you never heard about it. They did nothing
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with that. And what I'm wondering at this point is
that the people who have seen it and who are
still in power are looking at the list of names
and saying, you know what, that guy's in pretty deep
with Epstein, but he's no longer relevant to the party.
That woman's yeah, she's got she made a few visits,
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but she's no longer relevant to the party. And I'm
sure there are a lot of names who could that
could be put in those blanks, of people who so
long ago were doing things that whether they regret them
now or not, who knows. But if they were, they
were down there doing what Epstein was accused of, and
doing what Julane Maxwell is in prison for facilitating. Man
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oh man. They've got a lot to worry about personally,
but the party, the party could almost put them up
as sacrificial lambs. You know, we wanted to see all
these names, and here they are, and these people, we
don't like what they did, so we're we're not We're
not taking them, we're not calling them our own anymore.
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Shame on them. The new, the new and improved Democrat
Party is gonna be more like us. Whoever they are,
whether that's AOC and Jasmine Crockett, or whether it's Chuck
Schumer in some new version, or whoever else they want
to drag out. But I think they've They've got maybe
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potentially some people who could be who could be handed
off as as the bad people in this scandal, and
then that would allow that the incomers, the ones who
want to be the new heads of the party, to
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step up and say we're better than that. It would
be a terrible slap in the face to the people
who laid the foundation. If only Joe Biden could have
gotten another term, there was no way Kamala Harris is
going to be elected president. I just didn't see it.
And in fairness to her, even though I don't agree
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with her policies, even though I don't agree with the
way she handled anything, she didn't handle much at all
when she was in office, but very little of what
she did made any sense. To me. But nonetheless, she
just didn't have a chance. There was no time, there
was no real effort to groom her to be out
there on the campaign trail for that position, and what
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happened happened, And Frank, I'm kind of glad it did
go the way it did, because we certainly wouldn't have
the same status in the world that we have now
had it been that way. There's no possible way we
could have. On another very quick positive note, because I
know I'm getting close to the break, I just checked
the clock. Will I thumbs up? I know where I am.
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The Wall Street Journal's most recent poll. Well, no, I
don't want to do that one. That's a different poll,
and it's irrelevant. I'm gonna leave that one alone. I've
got that checked off. I think I've got that checked off.
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Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
All right, last segment starts right now. Holy cow, well
you got about seven minutes left. That back to New
York if I might for just a minute. Outside CBS
broadcast headquarters. I think it was yesterday, maybe day before,
there was a protest organized, uh in support of Stephen
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Colbert's Late night show, his Trump bashing show. This protest
organized against Paramount for canceling Stephen Colbert's Late night Trump
Bashing show, which, by the way, was was leaving Paramount
about forty million in a hole for several years to
pay for the two hundred person crew that it took
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to produce that show. My gut says, that's that's a
lot of There were a lot of extra people on
there that probably really weren't needed, and I'd be curious
to know who some of those people were. It just
had forty million dollars. I think he was making about
half of that. Well, you got two hundred people making
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twenty million dollars, that's a that's a nice little subsidy
for most of them. I'm sure. The protests, by the way,
very well publicized, but apparently to no avail because it
drew fewer than two dozen people and pretty much fizzled
(31:46):
and went away after a One report said less than
fifteen minutes. One report said about fifteen minutes, but it
was it was done before it started. Really, you can't
base a successful television program that's delivered to the entire
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nation on a one sided presentation. Nobody really knew how
Johnny Carson voted. Nobody really knew how a lot of
those early talk show hosts leaned politically, because it wasn't
in the best interest of the show for that to
be a recurring theme. The ones who poked fun at
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both sides are the ones who lasted the longest. And
I think even even Saturday Night Live, for as left
leaning as it has been throughout much of its history,
or it's much of its recent history anyway, has kind
of maybe taken note of this. I'll be curious to
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see how SNL handles politics in the coming years. They
beat up President Trump pretty bad before he got re elected,
and they've they've soft peddled it a little bit since then,
but they still they still get a kick out of
making fun of him, and despite the fact that he's
done more in the past six months than his predecessor
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did in four years. Oh well, that's not true. They
did a lot in four years. It was just all bad.
It was just all bad. Kamala Harris I mentioned a
little while ago, had visions of becoming governor California for
some reason. And she's faced now with falling I won't
say plummeting, because it's not going down that fast, but
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falling approval ratings even among California voters. Most of the
most of the middle of the road or conservative Californians
are gone. I was talking to Ethan Brighten from back
in the KTRH newsroom about this a couple of weeks ago.
I asked him if you know how he thought California
was going to go, and he said, it's never going
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to change now because all the conservatives have left. They
got tired of the state income tax. They got tired
of the crazy programs and the crazy fees and taxes
and all these things that they had to do, tired
of the jumping through hard left leaning policy changes in hoops.
It just didn't work out. And so's she's smart, she'll
(34:20):
get out while she can't. I'm not, honestly, I don't
consider her capable of running that state. In either direction.
Even if she were to just go in there and
try to maintain what's going on, I don't think she's
that good a leader. That's just me though. President Trump
signed an executive order this week that is intended to
put a stop to homelessness in America, kind of one
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person at a time, really, by offering these people options
they've never really had under previous leadership. And that's going
back many, many years, not just for Democrat programs of
late have failed miserably and at a great cost to
the rest of us. By the way, what the present
foresees is getting these people off the street, getting them
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into legitimate rehab programs and housing, and just helping them
regain respect for themselves, helping them see their way out
of some really dark places. And before anybody on the
left says that can't work, they need to go ahead
to look at what they've done in the last whatever
number of years they've attempted to do anything about homelessness.
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I think it's California. It's spent some California. Maybe might
have been Minnesota, might have been I don't know, it
might have been Michigan, but spent a million dollars per
homeless person over the last year or two on stopping
homelessness or reducing it and made no headway. The numbers
stayed the same, a million dollars a person. And god
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knows where that money went, but it certainly didn't go
to getting those people off the street, because it didn't.
From the Oh, this is the good news desk. Let's
get off this ugly stuff. From the good news desk.
There is a German well a company originally in Germany,
and now it's kind of spread all over the world.
It was bought in as being the product is being
(36:15):
promoted and sold around the world. Now there's a chemical
probe that protects healthy sales from DNA. No, that's hold on,
got that one, and I got that one, and I
got to pick one in the next minute. I'm gonna
stick with the product. Product stronger than steel. It's a
wood product. Now I see where I am. A wood
product originally made in twenty eighteen. It turns wood scraps
(36:38):
into a material that is stronger than steel. It is lightweighted, fireproof,
and seven years later now it's being sold by a
company called invent Wood that used fifty million dollars in
department of energy, grants and private funding to bring this
product to market. It's being used now all over the
world and has potential, it says here, to replace concrete, steel,
(36:59):
and even carbon fiber in the can. I put here
in the last twenty seconds. New list of canned foods
that were popular fifty years ago, which means most of
us will remember them, but nobody eats anymore. Canned mac
and cheese. I don't know that I ever ate that
it sounds gross. Canned hold chicken, and for you South Carolinians,
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And now fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, here
we go. Twoday edition of the show starts now. Welcome
to fifty plus. I'm Doug Pike, your host on this
crazy ride for the next hour or so. Will Melbourne
on the other side of two big monitors, all I
can see is the very tippy top of your head. Will.
That's it, and that's all right. I know you're here
(01:02):
and I know you're taking care of He had to
come around the corner to drag me away from the desk.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
I was.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I had just gotten an email from a client that
I had to address, and it made me just a
teensy bit late to get into the chair in here.
But we're good I was here on time. We'll tee
it up with a brief look at the weather. It's August. Okay,
another really warm and potentially hot day today, and you
know what that means. In my vernacular, warm is anything
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up to ninety nine point nine degrees. When it eclipses
this century mark, it becomes a hot day. We have
potential for a hot day today, then afterward, thankfully increasing
chances of rain toward the weekend, which should pull those
highs back into the low nineties, which is actually okay
(01:52):
when you consider the potential alternatives for August around here.
High pressure system is gonna move out. That's what's been
bakeding us basically here and pretty much up north through
most of the continent and back toward the east. Across
most of the eastern half of the continent. There're a
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lot more people than us suffering under severe heat. The
difference up north is that they're not accustomed to it,
and it's probably causing some real discomfort up there for
people who say they wouldn't want to live here because
it's too hot. There have been several days recently where
it's been hotter five hundred or one thousand miles north
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of here than it has been here, and that's okay.
We've got enough to go around, good Heavens. I just
don't I don't dare wish for anything else. We've got
some disorganized low pressure that's going to the front. Is
the high pressure system is moving northward and eventually going
to just kind of disappear off the map. But behind
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it is going to be this disorgani band of low
pressure that doesn't appear like it's gonna become anything to
worry about. It's gonna generate some pop up afternoon showers,
I'm sure, for several days, And for heaven's sakes, don't
wish for rain right now. You know the adage be
careful what you wish for right especially until about what
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mid November. If you want to wish for something, wish
for more saharan dust, because even though it'll talk you
into getting your car washed a little bit more often
than you do right now, saharan dust keeps that keeps
that Atlantic Ocean calm. And I don't know how that works.
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I don't care how it works. Will that is a
very fancy clock you found, by the way, I'm impressed.
I'm entirely impressed. It's not even just minutes, it's seconds.
So that puts me on the hot seat, though, because
that means I have no excuse at all for being
late for anything in market news four for four in
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the red this morning a little while ago, but not
by nearly enough anywhere to trigger some algorithmic trading, panic buying,
panic selling any of that. It's just kind of a
whole hum day on Wall Street. Really. Oil was up
a bit, as was gold, but both still at solid
levels and likely to stay pretty quiet for a while.
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I don't I don't see anything. I didn't see anything
in the headlines and stories I read about financial news
this morning to make me think that we're in anything
but a really good, solid position right now. To lead
the day, a couple of public safety thoughts, one an
internet scam and the other far more sinister than just
(04:44):
trying to take people's money. If I can get to
them both before the break, I will, If not, I'll
lead the second segment with the other one. There's an
internet scam out there, pretty new, and I saw it
for the first time yesterday while I was scrolling through things.
And this one apparently is a lot of unsuspecting people,
people who tend to be trusting of the things they
(05:07):
see on the internet, which is that's a bad move.
It is just for your own safety and your own
financial security. Don't trust anything that you don't really recognize
as coming from a trusted source. And even if you
think it's a trusted source, close the site, hang up
whatever it is, depending on whether you're on the phone
(05:28):
or on the internet, and call that company's main number
and ask them if whatever you're looking at is real.
Here's what's going on. You go to some site, something
pops up on your screen as an ad for maybe
something you'd like to purchase or at least get more
information about, and up pops one of those capture boxes
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that's either got kind of squiggly scrambled looking letters and numbers,
or and you're supposed to type what you see into
another box. Or there's a series of photographs and it
says click on the photographs that have bridges or buses
or motorcycles or whatever in them, And so you do that,
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you hit the right buttons, or you copy the text
and numbers correctly and then hit enter, and another box
pops up that says, uh, oh, something's going wrong. Please
go ahead. We can fix this very easily if you'll
just go ahead and tap this box. And that's where
the problem starts. When you pop that one, you open
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the gateway into your phone or laptop or PC or
tablet or whatever it is, you give them access to
everything in there. And unless you have the wherewithal to
absolutely immediately turn that thing off or somehow shut it
down and back it out of there, pretty much anything
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and everything you've got on that device is going to
be sucked out of it by the scammers. They don't
have access to everything you don't want them to have
access to. That's one of the reasons my wife and
I just don't do any online banking. It just makes
no sense. It really, not yet, not yet, not until,
not until it's more than more than a couple of
(07:23):
months between every major data break breach that comes along.
Almost said break, and I almost said breach, and I
mixed them up. So anyway, watch out for that. Please.
I'll tell you what. I am not going to get
into this second one here, second one yet, Just be
really careful when you're out there streaming along and scrolling
along and looking for something cool to look at in
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the middle of the night, don't in your near sleep
state make a mistake and tap into a box that
you shouldn't tap into. I've had issues with identity theft,
and it's no fun trying to get rid of it,
and it just it makes you so leery, and so
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you feel so violated when somebody does that, and it's
really it's just horrible. I wish there was some way
we could remove those people from halfway around the world wherever.
They are very few of them here, because it would
be much easier to track them down and catch them
halfway around the world. They know that there's probably not
going to be anything that happens to them for stealing
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from you and just laughing about it all right on
the way out. Berry Hill, Sugarland. This is the tex
mex restaurant that my wife and I found more than
thirty years ago now or right at thirty years ago,
I don't know. We've been in the house a long time,
and I can remember very early on kind of tripping
over burial.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
What's that.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Let's go in there and see if the food's any good.
Well it was then and it still is absolutely delicious.
Berry Hill Baja Grill. They are at the corner of
Sugar Creek Boulevard and fifty nine on the inbound side.
Very easy to find. It's the closest thing to the street. Really,
you can't miss it. It looks like a Mexican restaurant,
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and inside you're gonna find family style dining. There are
booths and tables where you can go sit the whole
family down. There's kind of a sports bar vibe a
little bit to the right as you go in, and
then before you walk in you'll see the outdoor dining
that's available on nights, cooler than the next few might be.
Barry Hill's been there, like I said, a long time,
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and they have had the same two primary people running
their kitchen for more than a decade apiece. So you
know you're going to get a good quality product. It's
going to be consistent. They're fish tacos, absolutely exquisite, as
good as I've ever had, and I've had my share
of fish tacos, for sure. They also do a seafood
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enchilada that I'm fond of. My wife likes the Baja
chicken tacos corn tortillas, and she has a special way
she likes them. That's what we have to get when
I go up there and get those for her Tres lechez.
I highly recommend they do a vanilla and a chocolate
version of tresh letches and both are outstanding. Berryhillsugarland dot com.
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By the way, they also cater all over town. If
you've got a lot of people you need to feed
fantastic Mexican food, start with Berryhill. They'll do you right.
Berryhillsugarland dot com family owned and operator for more than
thirty years. Berryhillsugarland dot com.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Yeah, they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash him, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike. Hi, welcome back to fifty plus.
Thank you all for listening.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
As promised, I'm gonna go straight into this second public
safety announcement. You know, I was talking to Will between
or during the break about how the bad guys anytime
we come up with a solution for something, the bad
guys have to come up with a new method to
beat the solution so that they can still be bad.
(11:02):
And this is for the worst of the bad people,
the ones who run around trying to kidnap children. And
here's what's going on a site hosted by a woman
by the way, who posts all kinds of things, just
reminders and techniques to keep you safe, whether you're in
parking lots, at the shopping center, at the grocery store,
(11:24):
wherever you are, anytime you're outside of your own comfort
zone in your house, she's dropping tips. If I could
remember her name, i'd tell you, And if I find
it this afternoon, maybe I'll tell you tomorrow. But here's
what she said. This is something to share with your
adult children, if you're closer to my age, and your
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grandchildren for sure, and make sure that everybody's kind of
on board. It's a new twist on an old kidnapping
scheme that most kids probably are aware of and know
what they're supposed to do. So here's how it works.
So the bad guy is driving around and he spots
a kid either walking, maybe riding a bike home from
(12:06):
school or from a friend's house or whatever. And the
guy pulls up in his car says, hey, man, your
mom or your dad asked me to pick you up.
There's been a terrible thing's happening back at the house. Well,
the kid backs up, right, he knows he knows better
than to believe that story, because because the parents have
already talked to him about it. Right. Well, then a
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second car stops and a woman gets out and comes
marching in there and gets right between him and says,
do you know this man? The kid says, no, I
don't know this guy. Well, woman said, well, don't go
with him, for sure, I'm safe. Jump in the car
with me and I'll take you home. Well, the kid
whose guard he has been dropped by a woman who
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assures him that she's the safe haven. The kid gets
in the woman's car, only to find out a very
short time later that the two of them were working
as a team, and just like that, that kid has
vanished into a creepy, creepy world. What's important, she said,
And this, My wife and I and my son have
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a code word. And anytime there's any kind of an
emergency where one of us is aware enough to need
someone else to go pick him up from somewhere or
interact with him at all, that person is going to
have that code word so that my son knows what's up,
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whether this is a real emergency or whether somebody is
trying to do him harm. He's seventeen now, and he
thinks he knows everything, but what he doesn't realize. And
in many ways, it's good that kids don't have to
be exposed to all this stuff when they're little, because
it would scare the pants off of them. It really would.
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There's just no reason for that. There's no reason to
do anything but just let them know that if there's
ever an emergency where they really need to be escorted
back home or to a safe place or whatever, that
the person who's going to talk to them is going
to know that code word. Now there are I guess
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there's different ways you've got to deal with with first responders,
with police officers or fire or firemen or whatever. But
bottom line is, if that person doesn't have a badge,
if that person doesn't isn't carrying a fire hose and
an axe over his shoulder and had a helmet on
and a big old' heavy jacket, don't trust them unless
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they know the code word, and even with the code word,
be very cautious. It's hard, it's really hard to raise
kids these days. I think my wife and I kind
of got in on the tail end of it, being
not so scary, but the rapid developments that have been
done with AI, the rapid development of schemes that take
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advantage of AI, to voices, to mimic videos, to mimic
mimic photographs, everything make it just even more difficult to
keep our kids safe. So do what you can look online.
I don't know. I wish you could think of a
woman's name. I really do. I would share it with
everybody because it's pretty important stuff, and I will. I'll
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try to find it maybe after the show, or at
least before tomorrow's show, if I can fight and remember.
Moving on on a plus side, I guess Representative or
Republican Senator Josh Hawley has introduced legislation that, if passed,
would dole out some of the money we're collecting in
tariffs on other nations, and that doling would be done
(15:44):
to working class Americans. Working class Americans get a little
something back for I guess maybe in celebration of hitting
a balanced budget this path for June. A balanced budget
for June, which is the first time I don't want
to say, I want to say it was fifteen or
twenty years that that had been done, and in great
(16:05):
part because we got a bunch of money coming in
in tariffs from countries that have been just working us
over on these things until President Trump got in office
and said, you know what, I got a lot of
work to do. I've only got four years to do it,
and I'm going to get started now. At present, by
Holly's estimations and calculations, the number would be about six
(16:28):
hundred dollars for every adult and every dependent child all.
He said, we deserve those checks after suffering through four
years of bidnomics, and I would have to agree, I
really would. We got checks, but they were just borrowed money.
That's a lot of people said, well, Biden sent everybody
(16:49):
a check. Well, but he didn't pay for it. We
just borrowed somebody else's money to give people in this
country a feeling a sense of well being. But this
time it's being done with money that we generated by
raising putting the well not raising even in some cases,
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just putting fair and balanced tariffs on a lot of
these countries. Jasmine crocket raise your hand if Jasmine Crockett
is not somebody you would vote for. She's an emerging
star though among Democrats, and at a time when they're
making one bad move after another, honestly in who they're
marching out to represent them. By the way, quick aside
(17:33):
AOC has been ordered by the I believe it's the
Oversight Committee to pay a fine actually for using her
influence to I think somehow maybe get some sort of
a discount on a very nice dress. And also she's
been ordered to pay back the money that would have
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been I think she's got to do it in donation
form somewhere, the money that was used to buy her
ticket to an event that she went to where she
wasn't supposed to accept a free ticket. I think that's
what the details are. I'm not one hundred percent sure.
Back to Jasmine Crockett, though she's actually pushing really hard
or she did. She pushed until she lost, pushed hard
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to become minority top gun on the House Oversite Committee.
And she based her assertion. She based her case on
deserving that position on the party's need for somebody who's
unafraid to speak out. Well that certainly she certainly is that,
but also occurring to according to her, the person who
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has the largest social media following, the largest social media
following is what she thinks qualifies her to lead the
House Oversite Committee on behalf of Democrats. Not so much.
She lost, by the way, thank goodness to we would
had to just hear more from her. She lost to
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Representative Robert Garcia from California, and whoever he may be,
the Democrats made the right choice behind that. Now, you
know what, I'm gonna pause here and go to these breaks.
I'm gonna try and stay on time for Will and
for me and for our sponsors, because i want to
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for listening. Certainly do appreciate it. Moving on, moving forward
amongst all these man bits and pieces and little things.
I have a lot of short things to get to today,
and I'm going to get to as many as I can.
Like I said in the very beginning, behind that deadly
Manhattan shooting by a mentally ild man from Las Vegas,
(21:56):
New York City mayoral candidate Mondani got absolutely hammered on
social bimedia or social media. They came at him pretty
much anybody and everybody who is concerned and should be
concerned by his promise to defund NYPD and let the
city go feral, except for a few social workers who
(22:20):
are going to be charged with talking maniacs out of
killing people all over that once great city. Four civilians
and one police officer who was himself a migrant actually
an immigrant dead and others wounded and without NYPD, that
guy probably kills many times more New Yorkers than he did, because,
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in conjunction with their very strict concealed carry policy, it
may have been a while before anybody who could have
stopped him at all would have gotten close enough to
him to do anything about it. Whereas the police do
what the police did. What the police do, and that
is go toward the problem and not run away from it.
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On a positive note, another one of those, the Wall
Street Journal's most recent poll, noted an eleven percent increase
recently in the number of Americans who rate our current
economy as either good or excellent. I would be counted
among those right now. I like the way the country's going.
(23:26):
I like the way our economy is responding to the
changes that are being made. And still though half the
country's registered voters think there's something wrong with our current economy,
which I don't know what data they're looking at, I
don't know what stories they're believing, but I actually I
(23:47):
intentionally watched some network news coverage last night, and true
to form, there was absolutely nothing, absolutely nothing about what's
going on with the Russian dossier. There was all the
hue and cry that's been going on for a couple
(24:07):
of months now, about Epstein, when in fact, the Left
had access to all of those files, every word of
every line of every paragraph of every file related to
that case. They had them, and they had they took
on a kind of nothing to see here attitude, I
guess because you never heard about it. They did nothing
(24:29):
with that. And what I'm wondering at this point is
that the people who have seen it and who are
still in power are looking at the list of names
and saying, you know what, that guy's in pretty deep
with Epstein, but he's no longer relevant to the party.
That woman's yeah, she's got she made a few visits,
(24:54):
but she's no longer relevant to the party. And I'm
sure there are a lot of names who could that
could be put in those blanks, of people who so
long ago were doing things that whether they regret them
now or not, who knows. But if they were, they
were down there doing what Epstein was accused of, and
doing what Julane Maxwell is in prison for facilitating. Man
(25:19):
oh man. They've got a lot to worry about personally,
but the party, the party could almost put them up
as sacrificial lambs. You know, we wanted to see all
these names, and here they are, and these people, we
don't like what they did, so we're we're not We're
not taking them, we're not calling them our own anymore.
(25:41):
Shame on them. The new, the new and improved Democrat
Party is gonna be more like us. Whoever they are,
whether that's AOC and Jasmine Crockett, or whether it's Chuck
Schumer in some new version, or whoever else they want
to drag out. But I think they've They've got maybe
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potentially some people who could be who could be handed
off as as the bad people in this scandal, and
then that would allow that the incomers, the ones who
want to be the new heads of the party, to
(26:25):
step up and say we're better than that. It would
be a terrible slap in the face to the people
who laid the foundation. If only Joe Biden could have
gotten another term, there was no way Kamala Harris is
going to be elected president. I just didn't see it.
And in fairness to her, even though I don't agree
(26:46):
with her policies, even though I don't agree with the
way she handled anything, she didn't handle much at all
when she was in office, but very little of what
she did made any sense. To me. But nonetheless, she
just didn't have a chance. There was no time, there
was no real effort to groom her to be out
there on the campaign trail for that position, and what
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happened happened, And Frank, I'm kind of glad it did
go the way it did, because we certainly wouldn't have
the same status in the world that we have now
had it been that way. There's no possible way we
could have. On another very quick positive note, because I
know I'm getting close to the break, I just checked
the clock. Will I thumbs up? I know where I am.
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The Wall Street Journal's most recent poll. Well, no, I
don't want to do that one. That's a different poll,
and it's irrelevant. I'm gonna leave that one alone. I've
got that checked off. I think I've got that checked off.
I'll tell you what. I'm going to go ahead and
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Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.
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All right, last segment starts right now. Holy cow, well
you got about seven minutes left. That back to New
York if I might for just a minute. Outside CBS
broadcast headquarters. I think it was yesterday, maybe day before,
there was a protest organized, uh in support of Stephen
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Colbert's Late night show, his Trump bashing show. This protest
organized against Paramount for canceling Stephen Colbert's Late night Trump
Bashing show, which, by the way, was was leaving Paramount
about forty million in a hole for several years to
pay for the two hundred person crew that it took
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to produce that show. My gut says, that's that's a
lot of There were a lot of extra people on
there that probably really weren't needed, and I'd be curious
to know who some of those people were. It just
had forty million dollars. I think he was making about
half of that. Well, you got two hundred people making
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twenty million dollars, that's a that's a nice little subsidy
for most of them. I'm sure. The protests, by the way,
very well publicized, but apparently to no avail because it
drew fewer than two dozen people and pretty much fizzled
(31:46):
and went away after a One report said less than
fifteen minutes. One report said about fifteen minutes, but it
was it was done before it started. Really, you can't
base a successful television program that's delivered to the entire
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nation on a one sided presentation. Nobody really knew how
Johnny Carson voted. Nobody really knew how a lot of
those early talk show hosts leaned politically, because it wasn't
in the best interest of the show for that to
be a recurring theme. The ones who poked fun at
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both sides are the ones who lasted the longest. And
I think even even Saturday Night Live, for as left
leaning as it has been throughout much of its history,
or it's much of its recent history anyway, has kind
of maybe taken note of this. I'll be curious to
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see how SNL handles politics in the coming years. They
beat up President Trump pretty bad before he got re elected,
and they've they've soft peddled it a little bit since then,
but they still they still get a kick out of
making fun of him, and despite the fact that he's
done more in the past six months than his predecessor
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did in four years. Oh well, that's not true. They
did a lot in four years. It was just all bad.
It was just all bad. Kamala Harris I mentioned a
little while ago, had visions of becoming governor California for
some reason. And she's faced now with falling I won't
say plummeting, because it's not going down that fast, but
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falling approval ratings even among California voters. Most of the
most of the middle of the road or conservative Californians
are gone. I was talking to Ethan Brighten from back
in the KTRH newsroom about this a couple of weeks ago.
I asked him if you know how he thought California
was going to go, and he said, it's never going
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to change now because all the conservatives have left. They
got tired of the state income tax. They got tired
of the crazy programs and the crazy fees and taxes
and all these things that they had to do, tired
of the jumping through hard left leaning policy changes in hoops.
It just didn't work out. And so's she's smart, she'll
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get out while she can't. I'm not, honestly, I don't
consider her capable of running that state. In either direction.
Even if she were to just go in there and
try to maintain what's going on, I don't think she's
that good a leader. That's just me though. President Trump
signed an executive order this week that is intended to
put a stop to homelessness in America, kind of one
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person at a time, really, by offering these people options
they've never really had under previous leadership. And that's going
back many, many years, not just for Democrat programs of
late have failed miserably and at a great cost to
the rest of us. By the way, what the present
foresees is getting these people off the street, getting them
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into legitimate rehab programs and housing, and just helping them
regain respect for themselves, helping them see their way out
of some really dark places. And before anybody on the
left says that can't work, they need to go ahead
to look at what they've done in the last whatever
number of years they've attempted to do anything about homelessness.
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I think it's California. It's spent some California. Maybe might
have been Minnesota, might have been I don't know, it
might have been Michigan, but spent a million dollars per
homeless person over the last year or two on stopping
homelessness or reducing it and made no headway. The numbers
stayed the same, a million dollars a person. And god
(35:52):
knows where that money went, but it certainly didn't go
to getting those people off the street, because it didn't.
From the Oh, this is the good news desk. Let's
get off this ugly stuff. From the good news desk.
There is a German well a company originally in Germany,
and now it's kind of spread all over the world.
It was bought in as being the product is being
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promoted and sold around the world. Now there's a chemical
probe that protects healthy sales from DNA. No, that's hold on,
got that one, and I got that one, and I
got to pick one in the next minute. I'm gonna
stick with the product. Product stronger than steel. It's a
wood product. Now I see where I am. A wood
product originally made in twenty eighteen. It turns wood scraps
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into a material that is stronger than steel. It is lightweighted, fireproof,
and seven years later now it's being sold by a
company called invent Wood that used fifty million dollars in
department of energy, grants and private funding to bring this
product to market. It's being used now all over the
world and has potential, it says here, to replace concrete, steel,
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and even carbon fiber in the can. I put here
in the last twenty seconds. New list of canned foods
that were popular fifty years ago, which means most of
us will remember them, but nobody eats anymore. Canned mac
and cheese. I don't know that I ever ate that
it sounds gross. Canned hold chicken, and for you South Carolinians,
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boiled peanuts. That's it for now see tomorrow, Audios.
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