July 15, 2025 • 37 mins
Today, Doug Pike interviews Al Kibbe of Cedar Cove RV Resort about his business.
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Ah, right, here we go. Welcome to Tuesday. First, mostly
sunshiny day I'm seeing in what a week and a
very welcome sight to many of us after everything we've
been through since fourth of July. Had a bit of
a scare over the past day or two. Back again
more rain on Sunday. Actually, I got a call over
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on the Doug Pike Show from my friend Scott Null,
who's been working on recovery up there in the hill
country since the water receded. He just felt called to go,
and even as he paced around his house down in
Port O'Connor with his wife Camille, she looked at him
and said, you want to go up there? Don't you. Yeah,
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And so she helped him pack, send him on his way,
and he's been up there ever since, actually overseeing now
more than one hundred volunteers of the I think it's
about a thousand who are up there, and they had
to just put everything on pause on Like I said
on Sunday, he called late in the show and said,
I'd love to spend more time with you, but we
just got word that we got to get everybody out
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of there. The river's going to rise again, nothing at
all like July the fourth, but it did bring the
level up enough to make it unsafe for anybody to
be in those bottoms. And so the stories just coming
out of that region. Eventually they're going to find their
way into a book. And if I could, I'd love
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to write it. If somebody asked me to do that,
I would take that task on. I'd need a lot
of help, there's no question about it, to continue doing
what I'm doing and try to shoulder that. But it
would be I would gain more from writing the book
than any amount of money I could ever earn from it.
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I just the stories fascinate me, and they're going to
be so many. I've already read and heard enough stories
of heroic effort during that time to fill volumes, and
I'm sure they are far more. People who do heroic
things tend not to go looking for attention. In fact,
most of them just try to get on with their
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lives and knowing that they did exact exactly what they
would do over and over again if put in that position.
That Independence Day flood is a part of Texas history now,
and new pages are going to be written every day
for the next I don't know, probably a year until
we come upon the anniversary of it next Independence Day.
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All most of us can do right now, and I
do it is just pray for the families who lost
people they love, who lost everything, and even those who
just lost anything in that horrible flood that can never
be recovered. There's so many memories in that flood, so
many homes along the way, so many mementos and keepsakes
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that maybe some of those children took with them to
camp to make them feel like they were still at home,
and it's just all gone. It's just gone. Actually, what
I take that back. Some of it is showing up
in places where people are gathering and then sharing on
line things that were found in the rubble, in the
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debris that are clearly personal objects that somebody somewhere might recognize.
And if you are in that situation where you might
need to go look for something like that, I would
encourage you to get online because there is a chance,
there's a decent chance that you would find something that
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would help you keep the memory of a lost loved
one alive. Looking ahead on the weather map, that low
pressure system in the western Gulf of would excuse me,
the eastern Gulf of Mexico actually the lowest pressure areas
moving across Florida today, moving westerly and going to hit
the actual Gulf of Mexico soon. Here's hoping that the
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forecasts and the models for this thing are correct, and
the short term accuracy I trust pretty well, and in
this one especially, I do hope that the longer term,
the next week of what it's supposed to do unfold
exactly as is being predicted, because if that happens, first
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of all, it probably won't even become a hurricane. At worst,
it shows as a tropical storm under most models that
I look at one of my pages that I really
really trust, and it's also predicted almost every effect, every
model I looked at predicts that by the time it
gets somewhere between Biloxi and New Orleans, it's going to
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take a hard rite and just turn north. And so
because it is probably not going to become a hurricane,
and because it's probably not going to affect us, I
just hope it doesn't tear anybody else up over east
of us. And if something like that happens somehow, it'll
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be a bunch of Texans going over to the help
to help them. A lot of those people in Louisiana
are just now getting home from being up in the
hill country for four or five days, six days, maybe
a week. So we all take care of each other
down here along the Gulf coast, and that's a good
thing around here. We're just looking for a pretty good
chance of rain, or a pretty good chance of nothing
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through Thursday, then a chance of rain not related to
the thing in in Florida, a chance for rain over
the weekend here, then more sunshine beyond that, and hopefully
nothing to look at in four or five days. A
brief look at the market's pretty flat overall, really oiled
down about four bits. For those of you who know
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what that means, and gold was down a few bucks,
but not many. All right, let's let's go ahead and
get teed up on this first break on time, which well,
I know that's gonna it's it, make it. It's gonna
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Yeah, they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them, check his
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is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Fifty plus. Thank you for listening in and sharing a
little bit of your lunch hour, your happy hour, whatever
hour it may be in your world. Just thanks for
being here, uh, stepping into the big world around us,
a sometimes frightening world. There's a story online and there
were several sources, so I feel pretty comfortable talking about
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it store online about a Colorado or Colorado if you're
from there.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
E R.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Nurse who went on social media recently to say that
that very proudly, by the way, say that she would
purposefully ignore patients rushed into her department if she believed
them to be supporters of our current president. Now to me,
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that sounds a little It's a special kind of evil
right there. The derangement syndrome so deeply seated in her
mind that she presents herself as being perfectly content to
watch a patient suffer, to watch a patient patient potentially die,
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as a means of expressing her political displeasure with the
way things are right now. And I find that, I
don't know, that's maybe one of the worst things I've
heard anybody who disagrees with the way things are in
this country right now. The way she's expressing herself, and
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what she would tend to do to somebody just for
disagreeing with her, just for taking a different position from her.
Almost equally disturbing from some of the folks in that arena,
comes word that a politician I believe, I want to
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say he's from California, but I may be wrong. But anyway,
this guy referenced MS thirteen gang members who are being
taken off the streets of his district. He called them
his neighbors in a friendly kind of backyard barbecue kind
of way. These are his neighbors. He's MS thirteen members,
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and he doesn't think that they should be bothered. They
should be left alone. I don't agree with that. It
was just a I think it was just yesterday. Actually,
an ICE agent who'd been docked by a different politician
down I believe at the lower local level was assaulted
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and ended up having to go to the hospital to
be tended to.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Somebody deliberately placed this guy in harm's way and is
doing and others are doing the same thing with federal
agents all over the country and putting them in their
in harm's way, and actually putting their families in harms
way as well, disclosing their identities in public. Somehow, this
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country's diversion from well, now I can't talk to her
right now, you know what, I bet well, I think
we might maybe we missed something. I'll find out later.
I'll talk to her in a little while. And if
you're listening, if that was, if that's who called UH,
call me. I'll call you back during the break there,
I can. I can do that for sure. So somehow
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this country's diversion for reality, it's muddling of right and wrong,
has put us some of us, but not all of us,
put us on a track that was poised to absolutely
destroy this country. People my age, most of us anyway,
been concerned for quite some time that maybe we wouldn't
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be able to reverse this at all, and that policy
that was in place for the last four years threw
us really behind the eight ball as far as getting
away from having so many unlawful immigrants in our country
ten million. And there are past presidents on both sides
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of the aisle who talk pretty strongly about how their predecessor.
These are presidents who have come into office and said
their predecessor let too many undocumented people into our country
and that they were going to do something about it.
By gosh, but now that it's Trump doing it, suddenly
I don't like it. And a lot of these people
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there are just too many I'm still entirely unknown, still
potential threats to our freedom and safety. It's very frustrating.
A lot of us was cared for a long time
to just to even voice an opinion about something like this.
We were afraid of mainstream media, we were afraid of
extremists on social media. For a time, you dissension meant cancelation,
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not physically, of course, but they did stop there at least.
But people were losing jobs simply for voicing opinions that
went contrary to what a very vocal minority deemed acceptable discussion.
I do know. I know a man who lost his
position because he spoke out something that wasn't considered mainstream
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at the time, and they just roasted the poor man
in social circles and ousted him from I don't know
what the guy's doing now, I really don't. This is
just common, honest discussion among people who don't see things
the same, but who can listen to each other. That's
what made this country what it is. If there had
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only been one acceptable position, one mindset that everybody had
to grab onto and follow two hundred and fifty years ago,
we'd probably be stoke, calling cookies biscuits and saying vitamin
instead of vitamin. And I learned that I was joking
with a friend I played golf with. He and I
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were riding in the car yesterday and I told him
about the poll. I think I may have mentioned it
at the end of last week. This poll that was
taking that claimed that something forty something percent of Americans
think that they could pull off faking being British. And
as soon as I said that, he started laughing. He said,
there's not a snowball's chance you could possibly do this.
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Maybe here may be speaking to Americans. You could possibly
fake a British accent of some sort, or Scottish or Irish,
and all three are very different, by the way, Cottney
accent very different than the other three. But to him,
he said, no, I know the first sentence you spoke,
I would know you were not you were not British.
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And it was one of the words he brought up
that we say differently, is vitamin here and vitamin in
Great Britain. Who knew? I didn't know. I would have
tripped up on that one, for sure. I would have
tripped on that one. I'll listen to anybody's thoughts on
a subject, I really will. I don't care. I don't
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care that someone disagrees with me, so long as they
want to present their case calmly and respectfully and then
allow me to present mine in equal time, calmly and respectably.
That's fine. Might even change my mind if the evidence
can me to do so. It's called an open mind,
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and it's a healthy thing to have in this world.
It really is, and there's a return to it. I'm
seeing more and more ideas that it's okay to voice
an opinion. Other title line is a very good example,
I allow. There are more and more young women taking
a stand against allowing boys in girls' bathrooms, allowing boys
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to compete in girls' sports, and they're being heard and
things are being done to fix that, and I'm kind
of glad for that. I really am. All Right, I'm
gonna jump into this break here and I'll run down
the hall to get something off the printer, wink in
a nod, and then I'll be back. On the way out,
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Speaker 3 (18:43):
Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Welcome back to fifty plus. Thank you for listening. I
certainly do appreciate it working our way kind of gingerly
through a nice summer day. In this segment, we're gonna
reintroduce one of my more recent shows, Al Kibby, the
man who, along with his wife Nancy, own Cedar Cove
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RB resort over on the east side, right on galvius
A Bay.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Welcome back, Al. All right, thank you Doug, my pleasure man. So,
by the way, please apologize to Nancy for me after
I mistakenly said more than once that you and your
wife Tracy owned Cedar Coat. Oh my god, a little miscommunication.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Okay, she's got a good sense of humor.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Thank goodness, Holy coal. They want to get you in
any trouble. So let's talk about RB parks in general
for a minute. Amenities, I guess are one of the
first questions you get from somebody who's thinking about rolling in.
What are folks looking for? These days in a quality
RV park.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Well, they're looking for for concrete, uh for the most part,
if they're especially if they're there for the for the weekend.
The simplicity with full hookups and uh electricity and water
and and all that as far as uh uh maybe showers, laundry,
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a convenience store, we have all that.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Yeah said, you're just reading down to your own list,
aren't you.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Yeah, yep, we're trying to what about.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Why how how important is WiFi now?
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Very important? We don't uh, we don't charge for it. Everybody,
everybody has access to to our WiFi.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Soast we've got.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Out here on the Bay, we've got uh we've got
fiber optics now, but we have the largest bandwidth we
can get out here. So we don't have many complaints.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Well, I would imagine not. I'm guessing that most parks
also would have a list of dos and don'ts and
kind of the the rules of that place, and everybody's
expected to play by the rules.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Right, Yeah. Yeah, we have quiet time from from ten
to six in the morning. Uh, and that way, uh,
you know, you don't have people uh you know, just
partying all night or anything. It's uh We've got a
lot of pretty normal people here, uh, and they pretty
much respect each other.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
So well, yeah, that's that's a very handy way to
put it, too, because if one bunch in an RV
park decides they're going to party till two o'clock in
the morning, everybody in the RV park is going to
be awake. And that's not right.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
It's it's tough.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Yeah, yeah, al kid, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Well, I was just going to say some of the
things that we've got going on at the park, We're
we're trying to do some uh, some interesting new things,
you know, like, uh, for instance, Uh, we have got
a we've got a weekend package if you want to
bring your RV out that includes everything from uh from
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ice to firewood and ten percent off anything in our store.
We even have a coupon that if you if you
bring a boat, you can launch it across the street
at Thompson's Fish Camp. Uh and they just as part
of the deal.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Dang, it's good. Go ahead.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Well, I just drive around a Houston area and see
all these RV's parked in in uh in lots and driveways,
and I wonder why people don't use them when they
can come here for a little or nothing. They don't
have to wait for the two weeks off a year
or whatever, you know, to take that long trip. They
can use it almost every weekend here.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Yeah, it's really a valuable space if they use it correctly,
and you don't. Just because you have an RV doesn't
mean you have to drive all the way to Delaware
or to southern California. Right right down the street, I
got a right place to go, hang out and do
a lot of fun stuff. What what sort of cost
is somebody looking at to uh to get in there
and stay for say a week?
Speaker 5 (22:51):
What does it cost about about three fifty okay for
a whole week, three to fifty for a whole week,
and uh, that would uh that'll cover everything.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Yes, that's way better than any of the little places
my son's been staying for baseball tournaments. I can promise
you that I might have to I might have to
sell his truck and buy him a little pop up
camp or something.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Oh, there you go.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Yeah, he can just stay on the side of the road,
come down there and stay with you. Ever have a
baseball tournament down there? Now, you and I I'll kivvy
from Cedar Cove RV park over on Galveston Bay here.
I've been talking a lot recently about the option that
seemed to make sense to me anyway of maybe renting
an RV and staying down there for a little while
rather than owning one. It's kind of like renting a
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boat to see if you like it and see how
it goes.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
And last week I believe you said that you might
be doing that soon.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Yeah, we are. That's that's one of the things that
one of the new things we're trying is, uh, we
have a we have an investor that has given us
an RV that that we're going to set up out
on the water and include this package deal with it,
so uh, you don't have to tow it. You just
come and stay. You stay right here on the bay,
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uh and have the package that I was talking about.
And also we have some kayaks and things like that
you can It's kind of an Airbnb sort of uh scenario.
But but for an RV, just waking feet wet.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Take an uber over there. You don't even have to
drive yourself. That's pretty good man. On a lighter note,
and I'm sure you've seen a lot of crazy stuff
over the years. Now, anything you can talk about on
the air that comes to mind is something like you
looked outside and then you had to close your eyes
and look again.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
Uh No, not not really, I mean uh not a
few things that that that people want to do when
they come here, you know, as far as uh uh
maybe they put everything outside and they don't realize they're
on the bay. The bay is uh is unpredictable, you know,
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it's uh uh sometimes uh you know they come back
in their lawn chairs are all blown over because the
wind can come up pretty fast out here, but it's
usually a constant breeze. Today it's it's like a pond
out there. But uh, the wind's starting to build a
little bit. They're just a little bit of breeze.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
But have you have been have your guests been catching
many fish lately?
Speaker 4 (25:23):
We uh, I was just looking at one this morning.
Here a lady sent me a picture of a of
a of a red that she caught uh yesterday evening,
So very good. Yeah, right right in the slot.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
What would you say is the most compelling reason for
someone who's never spent time in an RV to start
thinking about doing that?
Speaker 4 (25:47):
Economy and uh just it's it's a way to get
away from the hustle and bustle of uh of of
of of hotels and and just traveling. You can come
out here and kick back.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Yeah, you're self contained. You don't have to you don't
have to look look out every morning over a parking
lot or the back half of a Denny's or something
like that. Either. It's just a nice view all day long.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
Well, the good part about here is if you want
to cook, we've got grills at every spot if you
If you want to cook in the r V, you
just bring your own groceries and we're close enough to
town if you If you don't want to do any
of that, you.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Can dial up Uber Nice just about out of time
real quick. Al Do many people from the north still
come down here and stay most of the winter.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
Yes. As a matter of fact, we see more snowbirds
now that used to go down to the valley but
don't want to go there because of all the things
going on on the border. They don't want to go
any farther south in Houston.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Another perk, another another selling point for Cedar Cove RV report.
Thank you so much, al I appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
Man.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
All right, thank you, Doug Cedarcove rvpark dot com. Thanks.
I'll tell Nancy I said hello for me, will you
We'll do all right by Bay. All right, we got
to take a little break here on the way out.
Let me tell you all about berry Hill. This is
my favorite little Mexican food plays down in in Sugarland,
and I've known about it for years. There's a lot
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of there's a lot of other Mexican food places down there,
but berry Hill clearly my favorite, and it has been
mine and my wife for the better part of thirty
years now. Always something delicious going on in there. The
same two primary cooks had been in that kitchen for
more than a decade. Apiece a very consistent product in
some of the best fish tacos you'll ever put in
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your mouth. My wife is fond of the chicken. The
Baja chicken tacos gets that full combo play with the
rice and the beans. Very traditional stuff, but just with
a little special berry Hill kick to it. A little
special berry Hill differents that you'll notice as soon as
you start eating. Barryhillsugarland dot com is website. They cater
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anywhere and everywhere all over town. It's a very family
friendly restaurant. You'll see it when you pull up. It's
not elaborate. You go in there, just dress casually, sit
down on the left side with the family, sit down
on the right side in the sports bar, or go
sit outside, or go way back to the back of
the place. And there's some private rooms if you want
to hold some kind of a gathering either way. At
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the end of it all, grab some trace letches. They
do a chocolate and vanilla version and just get both
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What's life without a net? If I suggest you go
to bed, sleep it off.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Just wait until the show's over, sleepy. Back to Dougpike
as fifty plus continuesty.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Plus, thank you for listening, I certainly do appreciate it.
On a lighter note, By the way, today is financial
Awareness Day. I didn't know that. I am aware that
I could use a few more bucks, as are most
of us in this audience. Probably if you feel aware
that you have way more money than you could ever need,
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feel free to fill a Duffel bag with money and
send it down here to Will and me. That's a joke,
of course, but thumbs up or thumbs down.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Will.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
If somebody came in and dropped a Duffel bag of
money on us, would you take it? Thumbs up? Yeah, yeah,
no pressure anybody.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
You know.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
The funny thing about wealth, and I know a lot
of people who have I know many people, I'd say
many over the years who have extreme wealth. I know
even more than that who have significant wealth. And then
moving down, I know a lot of people who have
far less than the average person. And I consider all
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of them on equal footing with me, and I hope
they realize that if they have a lot of money,
I'm not hanging out with them because of that, And
if they don't have much money, I'd hang out with
them if they did. They're just good people and money
doesn't make anybody good. It just gives them the opportunity
to do stuff that other people can't do. That's about it.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
Really.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
You gotta have it. You certainly have to have it
to get through this life. But boy, if there were
some way that I could just wave a magic wand
and make everybody rich, I'd do it, and then everything
would go up in price, though, wouldn't it?
Speaker 5 (30:37):
Know?
Speaker 2 (30:38):
All right? Moving farther from there, and this is something
that just it's a personal fascination on my part. So
I hate to keep laying them on you. But I'm
going to do another shipwreck story. It's history. I like history,
and I like the ocean, and so that lends itself
very well to shipwreck discovery. A pirate's treasure that had
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been lost for three hundred years has been found off
the coast of Madagascar. You know, honestly, I'm not sure
thumbs up or thumbs down? Will could you point to
Madagascar on a world map? Good for you? I can't
remember exactly where it is. I want to think that
I know, but I'll ask you after the show and
(31:22):
any yeah, I think I do. But I'm not gonna
stick my neck out and get it chopped off because
you That was a very confident thumbs up from you, anyway.
A seven hundred ton Portuguese warship named in Portuguese Our
Lady of the Cape, was captured in seventeen and twenty
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one by pirates, according to historical documents, and ultimately sailed
into an area known to be kind of a burial
ground for vessels that had been looted and plundered and
then made to disappear, as the ocean tends to do
with things that get holes in them. Two pirate leaders
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believe responsible for taking this big old ship and all
of it's loot. This guy's got a cool one guy's
got a very cool pirate name. And one guy could
just be your neighbor. The cool pirate's name was or yeah, was, well,
his name still is Olivier. The buzzard levassour D is
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a cool pirate name. The other pirate equally responsible for
getting this task completed as pirates complete tasks. His name
John Taylor. That's it, John Taylor. That's not a pirate name.
That's some what is he? That's a that's a ninth
grade science teacher name, not even a college professor name.
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I don't say. I bet you there's thousands of John Taylor's,
but not many people whose nickname is the buzzard. Anyway,
there wasn't a whole lot left of the wreckage that
there was enough gold and other kind of time stamping
artifacts to confirm which ship had been found. Primetime television
I mentioned this a little bit ago, is placing a
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pretty big bet on the revival of more and more
no holds barrede sitcoms in which the writers and actors
are going to take shots at everybody, every stereotype, all
fair game, something not entirely unlike All in the Family was,
and it's heyday. We our generation come from a time
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when we watched and listened to some of the least
sensitive comics ever, Don Rickles, Rodney Dangerfield, more recently Ricky
Gervay's and Bill Burr and a lot of actually a
lot of the young comics now are hesitant if they'll
go at all onto college campuses because the kids there
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are so they're so nervous and afraid to laugh at
anything that's not politically corrected. It's it's just not any
fun for these people to work there. Those guys, the
old guys, they made fun of everybody. They were equal
opportunity offenders and proud of it, which meant they really
weren't offending by offending everybody, you you don't you don't
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isolate any one group so that it could blame you
for picking on it. Everybody, everybody gets their stuff, and
if you're not laughing, you don't have to stay, I
guess is the way they do their shows. In many ways,
it was. It's almost comedic genius. There's something quirky about
every one of us, really, and nobody's absolutely right. Nobody's
absolutely wrong every day, no way. There's all kinds of
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things that people could pick on me for and I'd laugh,
I really would. I'm not thin skinned at all, and
that's I think we've developed into a nation of very
thin skinned people and very loud who if they're offended,
they get loud immediately. They don't try to they don't
ask for an apology, they start screaming at you. Oh right,
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I'll lighten this thing up here, oh very quickly, the
enforcement safety desk first, before I lighten up the exchange
between borders. Are Tom Holman and Dashah Burns from Politico.
Burns questioned why ICE agents needed to be masked when, after,
well after police were being assaulted behind defunding efforts a
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few years back, they didn't put on masks. That was
Dashah Burns's stance. Why do these people need them if
the police didn't need them, And it's because Holman said
assaults on ICE officers have gone up seven hundred percent.
That didn't happen in a single police department in the country,
seven hundred percent worse. Holmer noted also that nobody on
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her side demanded that protesters who commit violent acts take
their masks off. They just they keep wearing them because
they don't want to be identified either, even enforcement personnel.
Family members are being risked. And that's that's what bothers me. Okay,
over to this other page I have here. Here's one.
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Do you play Uno? Will up or down? Uno? Yeah
in the middle. I haven't played in a while. When
my son was young, I did. That was kind of fun.
The Palms Casino Resort has recently opened its first ever
Uno social club in Vegas, and, according to Mattel, which
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just happens to sell the Uno cards, more temporary Uno
sweets will be opening across the U suite. Really, you're
gonna sit down and play Uno. It doesn't have to
be a sweet unless there's some way to gamble on it,
and I don't know what that would be. This is
This may be the card equivalent in sudden, fast and
fascination as pickleball was to the sports World Ball. Sport
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World No, that's not even fair. That's not fair to
pick a ball woman in Washington. I put gone to
pieces on this. I thought that was funny. Woodn't in
Washington earned a Guinness World Record, another useless world record,
for having four thousand and sixty jigsaw puzzles. We'll see tomorrow,
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Ah, right, here we go. Welcome to Tuesday. First, mostly
sunshiny day I'm seeing in what a week and a
very welcome sight to many of us after everything we've
been through since fourth of July. Had a bit of
a scare over the past day or two. Back again
more rain on Sunday. Actually, I got a call over
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on the Doug Pike Show from my friend Scott Null,
who's been working on recovery up there in the hill
country since the water receded. He just felt called to go,
and even as he paced around his house down in
Port O'Connor with his wife Camille, she looked at him
and said, you want to go up there? Don't you. Yeah,
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And so she helped him pack, send him on his way,
and he's been up there ever since, actually overseeing now
more than one hundred volunteers of the I think it's
about a thousand who are up there, and they had
to just put everything on pause on Like I said
on Sunday, he called late in the show and said,
I'd love to spend more time with you, but we
just got word that we got to get everybody out
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of there. The river's going to rise again, nothing at
all like July the fourth, but it did bring the
level up enough to make it unsafe for anybody to
be in those bottoms. And so the stories just coming
out of that region. Eventually they're going to find their
way into a book. And if I could, I'd love
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to write it. If somebody asked me to do that,
I would take that task on. I'd need a lot
of help, there's no question about it, to continue doing
what I'm doing and try to shoulder that. But it
would be I would gain more from writing the book
than any amount of money I could ever earn from it.
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I just the stories fascinate me, and they're going to
be so many. I've already read and heard enough stories
of heroic effort during that time to fill volumes, and
I'm sure they are far more. People who do heroic
things tend not to go looking for attention. In fact,
most of them just try to get on with their
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lives and knowing that they did exact exactly what they
would do over and over again if put in that position.
That Independence Day flood is a part of Texas history now,
and new pages are going to be written every day
for the next I don't know, probably a year until
we come upon the anniversary of it next Independence Day.
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All most of us can do right now, and I
do it is just pray for the families who lost
people they love, who lost everything, and even those who
just lost anything in that horrible flood that can never
be recovered. There's so many memories in that flood, so
many homes along the way, so many mementos and keepsakes
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that maybe some of those children took with them to
camp to make them feel like they were still at home,
and it's just all gone. It's just gone. Actually, what
I take that back. Some of it is showing up
in places where people are gathering and then sharing on
line things that were found in the rubble, in the
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debris that are clearly personal objects that somebody somewhere might recognize.
And if you are in that situation where you might
need to go look for something like that, I would
encourage you to get online because there is a chance,
there's a decent chance that you would find something that
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would help you keep the memory of a lost loved
one alive. Looking ahead on the weather map, that low
pressure system in the western Gulf of would excuse me,
the eastern Gulf of Mexico actually the lowest pressure areas
moving across Florida today, moving westerly and going to hit
the actual Gulf of Mexico soon. Here's hoping that the
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forecasts and the models for this thing are correct, and
the short term accuracy I trust pretty well, and in
this one especially, I do hope that the longer term,
the next week of what it's supposed to do unfold
exactly as is being predicted, because if that happens, first
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of all, it probably won't even become a hurricane. At worst,
it shows as a tropical storm under most models that
I look at one of my pages that I really
really trust, and it's also predicted almost every effect, every
model I looked at predicts that by the time it
gets somewhere between Biloxi and New Orleans, it's going to
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take a hard rite and just turn north. And so
because it is probably not going to become a hurricane,
and because it's probably not going to affect us, I
just hope it doesn't tear anybody else up over east
of us. And if something like that happens somehow, it'll
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be a bunch of Texans going over to the help
to help them. A lot of those people in Louisiana
are just now getting home from being up in the
hill country for four or five days, six days, maybe
a week. So we all take care of each other
down here along the Gulf coast, and that's a good
thing around here. We're just looking for a pretty good
chance of rain, or a pretty good chance of nothing
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through Thursday, then a chance of rain not related to
the thing in in Florida, a chance for rain over
the weekend here, then more sunshine beyond that, and hopefully
nothing to look at in four or five days. A
brief look at the market's pretty flat overall, really oiled
down about four bits. For those of you who know
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what that means, and gold was down a few bucks,
but not many. All right, let's let's go ahead and
get teed up on this first break on time, which well,
I know that's gonna it's it, make it. It's gonna
confuse me, certainly, I won't know which way to turn,
but we are gonna get that done. Champions Tree Preservation
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up there in Champions where you might suspect a place
with that name would be. But they'll come to your
house wherever you live around the greater Houston area and
assess the health and well being of your trees. An
arborist will come to your house, look them all over
and then make recommendations either to have a nice day
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because everything looks great, or maybe they need some feeding,
maybe they needed some pruning, Maybe maybe a tree has
to come out. If that's the case, you're in luck.
This is number one. They own all the equipment they
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They've got bucket lifts to get their guys up there
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Speaker 3 (08:13):
Yeah, they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them, check his
fluids and spring on a fresh cod o wax. This
is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Fifty plus. Thank you for listening in and sharing a
little bit of your lunch hour, your happy hour, whatever
hour it may be in your world. Just thanks for
being here, uh, stepping into the big world around us,
a sometimes frightening world. There's a story online and there
were several sources, so I feel pretty comfortable talking about
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it store online about a Colorado or Colorado if you're
from there.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
E R.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Nurse who went on social media recently to say that
that very proudly, by the way, say that she would
purposefully ignore patients rushed into her department if she believed
them to be supporters of our current president. Now to me,
(09:17):
that sounds a little It's a special kind of evil
right there. The derangement syndrome so deeply seated in her
mind that she presents herself as being perfectly content to
watch a patient suffer, to watch a patient patient potentially die,
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as a means of expressing her political displeasure with the
way things are right now. And I find that, I
don't know, that's maybe one of the worst things I've
heard anybody who disagrees with the way things are in
this country right now. The way she's expressing herself, and
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what she would tend to do to somebody just for
disagreeing with her, just for taking a different position from her.
Almost equally disturbing from some of the folks in that arena,
comes word that a politician I believe, I want to
(10:26):
say he's from California, but I may be wrong. But anyway,
this guy referenced MS thirteen gang members who are being
taken off the streets of his district. He called them
his neighbors in a friendly kind of backyard barbecue kind
of way. These are his neighbors. He's MS thirteen members,
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and he doesn't think that they should be bothered. They
should be left alone. I don't agree with that. It
was just a I think it was just yesterday. Actually,
an ICE agent who'd been docked by a different politician
down I believe at the lower local level was assaulted
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and ended up having to go to the hospital to
be tended to.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Somebody deliberately placed this guy in harm's way and is
doing and others are doing the same thing with federal
agents all over the country and putting them in their
in harm's way, and actually putting their families in harms
way as well, disclosing their identities in public. Somehow, this
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country's diversion from well, now I can't talk to her
right now, you know what, I bet well, I think
we might maybe we missed something. I'll find out later.
I'll talk to her in a little while. And if
you're listening, if that was, if that's who called UH,
call me. I'll call you back during the break there,
I can. I can do that for sure. So somehow
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this country's diversion for reality, it's muddling of right and wrong,
has put us some of us, but not all of us,
put us on a track that was poised to absolutely
destroy this country. People my age, most of us anyway,
been concerned for quite some time that maybe we wouldn't
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be able to reverse this at all, and that policy
that was in place for the last four years threw
us really behind the eight ball as far as getting
away from having so many unlawful immigrants in our country
ten million. And there are past presidents on both sides
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of the aisle who talk pretty strongly about how their predecessor.
These are presidents who have come into office and said
their predecessor let too many undocumented people into our country
and that they were going to do something about it.
By gosh, but now that it's Trump doing it, suddenly
I don't like it. And a lot of these people
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there are just too many I'm still entirely unknown, still
potential threats to our freedom and safety. It's very frustrating.
A lot of us was cared for a long time
to just to even voice an opinion about something like this.
We were afraid of mainstream media, we were afraid of
extremists on social media. For a time, you dissension meant cancelation,
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not physically, of course, but they did stop there at least.
But people were losing jobs simply for voicing opinions that
went contrary to what a very vocal minority deemed acceptable discussion.
I do know. I know a man who lost his
position because he spoke out something that wasn't considered mainstream
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at the time, and they just roasted the poor man
in social circles and ousted him from I don't know
what the guy's doing now, I really don't. This is
just common, honest discussion among people who don't see things
the same, but who can listen to each other. That's
what made this country what it is. If there had
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only been one acceptable position, one mindset that everybody had
to grab onto and follow two hundred and fifty years ago,
we'd probably be stoke, calling cookies biscuits and saying vitamin
instead of vitamin. And I learned that I was joking
with a friend I played golf with. He and I
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were riding in the car yesterday and I told him
about the poll. I think I may have mentioned it
at the end of last week. This poll that was
taking that claimed that something forty something percent of Americans
think that they could pull off faking being British. And
as soon as I said that, he started laughing. He said,
there's not a snowball's chance you could possibly do this.
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Maybe here may be speaking to Americans. You could possibly
fake a British accent of some sort, or Scottish or Irish,
and all three are very different, by the way, Cottney
accent very different than the other three. But to him,
he said, no, I know the first sentence you spoke,
I would know you were not you were not British.
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And it was one of the words he brought up
that we say differently, is vitamin here and vitamin in
Great Britain. Who knew? I didn't know. I would have
tripped up on that one, for sure. I would have
tripped on that one. I'll listen to anybody's thoughts on
a subject, I really will. I don't care. I don't
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care that someone disagrees with me, so long as they
want to present their case calmly and respectfully and then
allow me to present mine in equal time, calmly and respectably.
That's fine. Might even change my mind if the evidence
can me to do so. It's called an open mind,
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and it's a healthy thing to have in this world.
It really is, and there's a return to it. I'm
seeing more and more ideas that it's okay to voice
an opinion. Other title line is a very good example,
I allow. There are more and more young women taking
a stand against allowing boys in girls' bathrooms, allowing boys
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to compete in girls' sports, and they're being heard and
things are being done to fix that, and I'm kind
of glad for that. I really am. All Right, I'm
gonna jump into this break here and I'll run down
the hall to get something off the printer, wink in
a nod, and then I'll be back. On the way out,
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Aged to Perfection. This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Welcome back to fifty plus. Thank you for listening. I
certainly do appreciate it working our way kind of gingerly
through a nice summer day. In this segment, we're gonna
reintroduce one of my more recent shows, Al Kibby, the
man who, along with his wife Nancy, own Cedar Cove
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RB resort over on the east side, right on galvius
A Bay.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Welcome back, Al. All right, thank you Doug, my pleasure man. So,
by the way, please apologize to Nancy for me after
I mistakenly said more than once that you and your
wife Tracy owned Cedar Coat. Oh my god, a little miscommunication.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
Okay, she's got a good sense of humor.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Thank goodness, Holy coal. They want to get you in
any trouble. So let's talk about RB parks in general
for a minute. Amenities, I guess are one of the
first questions you get from somebody who's thinking about rolling in.
What are folks looking for? These days in a quality
RV park.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
Well, they're looking for for concrete, uh for the most part,
if they're especially if they're there for the for the weekend.
The simplicity with full hookups and uh electricity and water
and and all that as far as uh uh maybe showers, laundry,
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a convenience store, we have all that.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Yeah said, you're just reading down to your own list,
aren't you.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Yeah, yep, we're trying to what about.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Why how how important is WiFi now?
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Very important? We don't uh, we don't charge for it. Everybody,
everybody has access to to our WiFi.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Soast we've got.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Out here on the Bay, we've got uh we've got
fiber optics now, but we have the largest bandwidth we
can get out here. So we don't have many complaints.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
Well, I would imagine not. I'm guessing that most parks
also would have a list of dos and don'ts and
kind of the the rules of that place, and everybody's
expected to play by the rules.
Speaker 4 (20:51):
Right, Yeah. Yeah, we have quiet time from from ten
to six in the morning. Uh, and that way, uh,
you know, you don't have people uh you know, just
partying all night or anything. It's uh We've got a
lot of pretty normal people here, uh, and they pretty
much respect each other.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
So well, yeah, that's that's a very handy way to
put it, too, because if one bunch in an RV
park decides they're going to party till two o'clock in
the morning, everybody in the RV park is going to
be awake. And that's not right.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
It's it's tough.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Yeah, yeah, al kid, go ahead.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Well, I was just going to say some of the
things that we've got going on at the park, We're
we're trying to do some uh, some interesting new things,
you know, like, uh, for instance, Uh, we have got
a we've got a weekend package if you want to
bring your RV out that includes everything from uh from
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ice to firewood and ten percent off anything in our store.
We even have a coupon that if you if you
bring a boat, you can launch it across the street
at Thompson's Fish Camp. Uh and they just as part
of the deal.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Dang, it's good. Go ahead.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Well, I just drive around a Houston area and see
all these RV's parked in in uh in lots and driveways,
and I wonder why people don't use them when they
can come here for a little or nothing. They don't
have to wait for the two weeks off a year
or whatever, you know, to take that long trip. They
can use it almost every weekend here.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Yeah, it's really a valuable space if they use it correctly,
and you don't. Just because you have an RV doesn't
mean you have to drive all the way to Delaware
or to southern California. Right right down the street, I
got a right place to go, hang out and do
a lot of fun stuff. What what sort of cost
is somebody looking at to uh to get in there
and stay for say a week?
Speaker 5 (22:51):
What does it cost about about three fifty okay for
a whole week, three to fifty for a whole week,
and uh, that would uh that'll cover everything.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Yes, that's way better than any of the little places
my son's been staying for baseball tournaments. I can promise
you that I might have to I might have to
sell his truck and buy him a little pop up
camp or something.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
Oh, there you go.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Yeah, he can just stay on the side of the road,
come down there and stay with you. Ever have a
baseball tournament down there? Now, you and I I'll kivvy
from Cedar Cove RV park over on Galveston Bay here.
I've been talking a lot recently about the option that
seemed to make sense to me anyway of maybe renting
an RV and staying down there for a little while
rather than owning one. It's kind of like renting a
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boat to see if you like it and see how
it goes.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
And last week I believe you said that you might
be doing that soon.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Yeah, we are. That's that's one of the things that
one of the new things we're trying is, uh, we
have a we have an investor that has given us
an RV that that we're going to set up out
on the water and include this package deal with it,
so uh, you don't have to tow it. You just
come and stay. You stay right here on the bay,
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uh and have the package that I was talking about.
And also we have some kayaks and things like that
you can It's kind of an Airbnb sort of uh scenario.
But but for an RV, just waking feet wet.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Take an uber over there. You don't even have to
drive yourself. That's pretty good man. On a lighter note,
and I'm sure you've seen a lot of crazy stuff
over the years. Now, anything you can talk about on
the air that comes to mind is something like you
looked outside and then you had to close your eyes
and look again.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
Uh No, not not really, I mean uh not a
few things that that that people want to do when
they come here, you know, as far as uh uh
maybe they put everything outside and they don't realize they're
on the bay. The bay is uh is unpredictable, you know,
(24:59):
it's uh uh sometimes uh you know they come back
in their lawn chairs are all blown over because the
wind can come up pretty fast out here, but it's
usually a constant breeze. Today it's it's like a pond
out there. But uh, the wind's starting to build a
little bit. They're just a little bit of breeze.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
But have you have been have your guests been catching
many fish lately?
Speaker 4 (25:23):
We uh, I was just looking at one this morning.
Here a lady sent me a picture of a of
a of a red that she caught uh yesterday evening,
So very good. Yeah, right right in the slot.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
What would you say is the most compelling reason for
someone who's never spent time in an RV to start
thinking about doing that?
Speaker 4 (25:47):
Economy and uh just it's it's a way to get
away from the hustle and bustle of uh of of
of of hotels and and just traveling. You can come
out here and kick back.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Yeah, you're self contained. You don't have to you don't
have to look look out every morning over a parking
lot or the back half of a Denny's or something
like that. Either. It's just a nice view all day long.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
Well, the good part about here is if you want
to cook, we've got grills at every spot if you
If you want to cook in the r V, you
just bring your own groceries and we're close enough to
town if you If you don't want to do any
of that, you.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Can dial up Uber Nice just about out of time
real quick. Al Do many people from the north still
come down here and stay most of the winter.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
Yes. As a matter of fact, we see more snowbirds
now that used to go down to the valley but
don't want to go there because of all the things
going on on the border. They don't want to go
any farther south in Houston.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Another perk, another another selling point for Cedar Cove RV report.
Thank you so much, al I appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
Man.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
All right, thank you, Doug Cedarcove rvpark dot com. Thanks.
I'll tell Nancy I said hello for me, will you
We'll do all right by Bay. All right, we got
to take a little break here on the way out.
Let me tell you all about berry Hill. This is
my favorite little Mexican food plays down in in Sugarland,
and I've known about it for years. There's a lot
(27:22):
of there's a lot of other Mexican food places down there,
but berry Hill clearly my favorite, and it has been
mine and my wife for the better part of thirty
years now. Always something delicious going on in there. The
same two primary cooks had been in that kitchen for
more than a decade. Apiece a very consistent product in
some of the best fish tacos you'll ever put in
(27:44):
your mouth. My wife is fond of the chicken. The
Baja chicken tacos gets that full combo play with the
rice and the beans. Very traditional stuff, but just with
a little special berry Hill kick to it. A little
special berry Hill differents that you'll notice as soon as
you start eating. Barryhillsugarland dot com is website. They cater
(28:06):
anywhere and everywhere all over town. It's a very family
friendly restaurant. You'll see it when you pull up. It's
not elaborate. You go in there, just dress casually, sit
down on the left side with the family, sit down
on the right side in the sports bar, or go
sit outside, or go way back to the back of
the place. And there's some private rooms if you want
to hold some kind of a gathering either way. At
(28:29):
the end of it all, grab some trace letches. They
do a chocolate and vanilla version and just get both
and then you decide which one you like best. Berryhillsugarland
dot com familyerun family operated since it opened Burryhillsugarland dot com.
What's life without a net? If I suggest you go
to bed, sleep it off.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Just wait until the show's over, sleepy. Back to Dougpike
as fifty plus continuesty.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Plus, thank you for listening, I certainly do appreciate it.
On a lighter note, By the way, today is financial
Awareness Day. I didn't know that. I am aware that
I could use a few more bucks, as are most
of us in this audience. Probably if you feel aware
that you have way more money than you could ever need,
(29:17):
feel free to fill a Duffel bag with money and
send it down here to Will and me. That's a joke,
of course, but thumbs up or thumbs down.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Will.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
If somebody came in and dropped a Duffel bag of
money on us, would you take it? Thumbs up? Yeah, yeah,
no pressure anybody.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
You know.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
The funny thing about wealth, and I know a lot
of people who have I know many people, I'd say
many over the years who have extreme wealth. I know
even more than that who have significant wealth. And then
moving down, I know a lot of people who have
far less than the average person. And I consider all
(29:59):
of them on equal footing with me, and I hope
they realize that if they have a lot of money,
I'm not hanging out with them because of that, And
if they don't have much money, I'd hang out with
them if they did. They're just good people and money
doesn't make anybody good. It just gives them the opportunity
to do stuff that other people can't do. That's about it.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
Really.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
You gotta have it. You certainly have to have it
to get through this life. But boy, if there were
some way that I could just wave a magic wand
and make everybody rich, I'd do it, and then everything
would go up in price, though, wouldn't it?
Speaker 5 (30:37):
Know?
Speaker 2 (30:38):
All right? Moving farther from there, and this is something
that just it's a personal fascination on my part. So
I hate to keep laying them on you. But I'm
going to do another shipwreck story. It's history. I like history,
and I like the ocean, and so that lends itself
very well to shipwreck discovery. A pirate's treasure that had
(31:00):
been lost for three hundred years has been found off
the coast of Madagascar. You know, honestly, I'm not sure
thumbs up or thumbs down? Will could you point to
Madagascar on a world map? Good for you? I can't
remember exactly where it is. I want to think that
I know, but I'll ask you after the show and
(31:22):
any yeah, I think I do. But I'm not gonna
stick my neck out and get it chopped off because
you That was a very confident thumbs up from you, anyway.
A seven hundred ton Portuguese warship named in Portuguese Our
Lady of the Cape, was captured in seventeen and twenty
(31:43):
one by pirates, according to historical documents, and ultimately sailed
into an area known to be kind of a burial
ground for vessels that had been looted and plundered and
then made to disappear, as the ocean tends to do
with things that get holes in them. Two pirate leaders
(32:05):
believe responsible for taking this big old ship and all
of it's loot. This guy's got a cool one guy's
got a very cool pirate name. And one guy could
just be your neighbor. The cool pirate's name was or yeah, was, well,
his name still is Olivier. The buzzard levassour D is
(32:27):
a cool pirate name. The other pirate equally responsible for
getting this task completed as pirates complete tasks. His name
John Taylor. That's it, John Taylor. That's not a pirate name.
That's some what is he? That's a that's a ninth
grade science teacher name, not even a college professor name.
(32:51):
I don't say. I bet you there's thousands of John Taylor's,
but not many people whose nickname is the buzzard. Anyway,
there wasn't a whole lot left of the wreckage that
there was enough gold and other kind of time stamping
artifacts to confirm which ship had been found. Primetime television
I mentioned this a little bit ago, is placing a
(33:13):
pretty big bet on the revival of more and more
no holds barrede sitcoms in which the writers and actors
are going to take shots at everybody, every stereotype, all
fair game, something not entirely unlike All in the Family was,
and it's heyday. We our generation come from a time
(33:35):
when we watched and listened to some of the least
sensitive comics ever, Don Rickles, Rodney Dangerfield, more recently Ricky
Gervay's and Bill Burr and a lot of actually a
lot of the young comics now are hesitant if they'll
go at all onto college campuses because the kids there
(33:56):
are so they're so nervous and afraid to laugh at
anything that's not politically corrected. It's it's just not any
fun for these people to work there. Those guys, the
old guys, they made fun of everybody. They were equal
opportunity offenders and proud of it, which meant they really
weren't offending by offending everybody, you you don't you don't
(34:21):
isolate any one group so that it could blame you
for picking on it. Everybody, everybody gets their stuff, and
if you're not laughing, you don't have to stay, I
guess is the way they do their shows. In many ways,
it was. It's almost comedic genius. There's something quirky about
every one of us, really, and nobody's absolutely right. Nobody's
absolutely wrong every day, no way. There's all kinds of
(34:46):
things that people could pick on me for and I'd laugh,
I really would. I'm not thin skinned at all, and
that's I think we've developed into a nation of very
thin skinned people and very loud who if they're offended,
they get loud immediately. They don't try to they don't
ask for an apology, they start screaming at you. Oh right,
(35:06):
I'll lighten this thing up here, oh very quickly, the
enforcement safety desk first, before I lighten up the exchange
between borders. Are Tom Holman and Dashah Burns from Politico.
Burns questioned why ICE agents needed to be masked when, after,
well after police were being assaulted behind defunding efforts a
(35:30):
few years back, they didn't put on masks. That was
Dashah Burns's stance. Why do these people need them if
the police didn't need them, And it's because Holman said
assaults on ICE officers have gone up seven hundred percent.
That didn't happen in a single police department in the country,
seven hundred percent worse. Holmer noted also that nobody on
(35:54):
her side demanded that protesters who commit violent acts take
their masks off. They just they keep wearing them because
they don't want to be identified either, even enforcement personnel.
Family members are being risked. And that's that's what bothers me. Okay,
over to this other page I have here. Here's one.
(36:15):
Do you play Uno? Will up or down? Uno? Yeah
in the middle. I haven't played in a while. When
my son was young, I did. That was kind of fun.
The Palms Casino Resort has recently opened its first ever
Uno social club in Vegas, and, according to Mattel, which
(36:35):
just happens to sell the Uno cards, more temporary Uno
sweets will be opening across the U suite. Really, you're
gonna sit down and play Uno. It doesn't have to
be a sweet unless there's some way to gamble on it,
and I don't know what that would be. This is
This may be the card equivalent in sudden, fast and
fascination as pickleball was to the sports World Ball. Sport
(37:00):
World No, that's not even fair. That's not fair to
pick a ball woman in Washington. I put gone to
pieces on this. I thought that was funny. Woodn't in
Washington earned a Guinness World Record, another useless world record,
for having four thousand and sixty jigsaw puzzles. We'll see tomorrow,
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