February 18, 2026 • 34 mins
Today, Doug Pike discusses condoms at the Olympic Village, car crashes, and being vigilant.
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And now fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
All right, here we go. Welcome to Wednesday. Huh looks
a lot like Tuesday. Did Slight chance of rain tomorrow
and I think that's going to be later in the
day anyway, and then right through Saturday chance of rain.
Then back to beautiful and cooler for several days. Not
a bad pattern lately, Ashley, although we are running a
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little dry starting. Really any time of year, you know
you got to be careful how much rain you wish
for because if you if you overdo it, well, live
here enough summers and you'll figure out what happens.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Then.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
In market news, from a little bit before ten am,
it was pretty much all systems green and a very
healthy shade of that color as well. Dow was up
three hundred or so. NASDAK about the same, but for
the Nasdaq's it was a much bigger gain overall, because
the NASDAK starts at about I don't know what half
the half the Dow is, I think, so it.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Was up more than a full point.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Gold bounced back from yesterday's sell off or for whatever
reason it had gone down then, and once again sitting
north of five thousand dollars pretty comfortably. And oil there's
always a party pooper, right, Oil up almost two dollars
a barrel at sixty four dollars twenty cents last I looked,
but still not gonna really be that bad. As long
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as it stays inside of sixty five dollars a barrel,
we'll be able to afford gas. Lean like, like nobody's business,
not people in California. Maybe I think there was some
issue they had out there the other day. I can't
remember what it was, but gas was four hundred four
dollars and twenty nine cents or four forty nine something
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like that at Gallon. I I'm surprised there's anybody left
in California. If you, like me, were coming up the
Southwest Freeway this morning around seven o'clock and ran into
a sea of break lights just well for me. It
hit around the fountains, and before I could even get
much farther up the road, I heard that it was
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backed up almost all the way to Highway six. And
here's what happened, And I'm kind of glad I wasn't
there when it did happen. There there was an accident
in the HOV lane and I heard sky Mike talking
about it on KTRH, and I thought that may have
been what caused this, because maybe there were just that
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many people slowing down to look at what had to
be a terrible accident for the entire freeway to shut down.
But we kept creeping forward and crawling forward. And then
I heard him talk about a wreck on fifty nine
in addition to the one on the HOV Lane. Well,
the bottom line is, when I got there, there was
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no wrecked car anywhere on fifty nine.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
What it was and.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
All I saw was chunks of concrete anywhere from the
size of your fist up to the size of maybe
a soft ball, maybe a few bigger ones. And what
had happened? I thought, And I discussed it with a
couple of people at work. We thought something may have
fallen off a truck. We had some concrete. They were
(04:01):
moving trash concrete. Somebody chiseled out a piece of roadway
or something, a big old dump truck and they lost
part of their load. Was it turns out that stuff
had fallen from overhead, directly over the main lanes of
fifty nine and came slamming down. And thank god, if
anybody had gotten hit by that stuff, the car would
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have still been there. The whole freeway would have been
blocked off because somebody would have died if any of
those chunks of concrete hit. I saw the story at
click to Houston just a little while ago, actually, and
there was still even while I and everybody else was
navigating around the chunks of concrete in the freeway and
(04:47):
trying to get onto work, there were still some big
chunks I mean loaf of bread and bigger chunks of
concrete up there, just dangling, holding on for all they
could by little strands of rebar from falling onto the
street and whacking one of us.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
That was pretty frightening. Easing into the news.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
American figure skater Amber Glenn, who describes herself as a
woke bi Can I say that word, will, I won't
say it anyway, woke something anyway. She finished thirteenth after
the short program, and after she forgot to perform a
critical and required in that discipline triple Luke, not a
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Luke triple loop during her skate.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
I don't know why she forgot it.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
I'm sure it was built in maybe and I see
it happens all the time with these figure skaters. They
come off of one jump a little bit wobbly and
just neglect the next one, and usually they make it
up at some point.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
But she forgot that happens.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
The A mission cost her seven points, which is going
to be a really tall hill to climates.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
She wants a shot at a middle tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Glenn made early news in Milan for claiming that the
LGBTQ community in our country was losing rights under President Trump.
I don't believe that to be true, and I'd be
curious to know what right has been taken away since
he took office. Her claims actually generated so much disagreement online,
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some of it pretty forceful, that she just suspended her
social media account, and probably the best when you're over
there trying to compete and win a medal, to not
be distracted by stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
I think that the athletes on our.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Team who are using the Olympics as a platform to
promote their political ideology, or they just don't know what
the They just don't know what the Olympics are about.
Also from Milan, on a much lighter note, Olympic overseers
said they grossly underestimated just how many condoms they need
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to get all those athletes through all those nights in
the Olympic village, and they've ordered more, lots more, they said,
no secret at nighttime is a really really busy time
in the Olympic villages. During winter games, during summer games,
you've got all these fit, very robust people, some older
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than others. Granted, the woman who won the mono bob yesterday,
I believe it was. I believe she's forty one and
the oldest person ever to win gold in Olympic competition,
in winter Olympic competition, So hats off to her.
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on the way out.
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Back to Dougpike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
I got to make a grocery store trip this afternoon
and replace the water bottle I bought recently. I have
a bunch of those metal ones, but sometimes I like
to put hot drinks in them, and I've read that
little micro particles of metal. Of course, anything if you
read the Internet long enough, you'll come up with something
that says that anything you can think of that you
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might eat or drink is either really really good for
you or really really bad for you. And so I'm
going to try to stop looking at all that stuff
as much as I can and just use the portal
that connects me to my primary care physician, who whom
I trust explicitly, implicitly, explicitly all of those things.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Let's go back to the sports deal.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
By by the way, a really disturbing story, not about
the Olympics, but about the World Cup, and specifically about
Morocco's preparations for the World Cup where some of the
games are going to be played, apparently to keep from
offending any of the Muslims from that region who might
attend the events, particularly in that part of the world,
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dogs by that faith are considered kind of filthy and
disgusting for some reason, I don't know why. Anyway, to
appease its guest, Morocco has been systematically killing stray dogs
that people who are monitoring this effort said could number
in the millions. Poison, shooting, burning.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Just horrific.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
They're they're just street sweep and getting every dog, every
dog out of there, according to these reports that I saw.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
My big question.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
There is, how does Morocco have millions of stray dogs
running loose in the streets.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
How could that happen?
Speaker 3 (11:20):
It doesn't happen here so much because people will take
the dogs in, people will take them to a shelter.
But I guess in some parts of the world, especially
in countries where dogs aren't really considered any value at all,
they just let them run free. And I doubt that
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they go to any effort to spay or newter any
of those dogs. And the bottom line is it best
estimates right now that three million dogs might be killed
before they ever kick a ball in the first match
on the same subject, by the way, or similar at
least in parts of Mamdani's New York City now, long
time residents are being told where and when they can
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walk their dogs so as not to disturb the growing
number of New Yorkers who don't like dogs. Sounds pretty
That sounds pretty free and free speech and free expression
and just doesn't sound good at all to me, a
pro Hamas activist. They're actually a woman named Nerdine Kisswani
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wrote this on X and I quote finally and YC
is coming to Islam. Dogs definitely have a place in society,
just not as indoor pets. Like we've said all along,
they are unclean. Well, you have a dog, right, your
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dog clean? Come in the house. No ever, even when
it's one hundred and twenty degrees too stinky well, bathe
the dog?
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Will will you do that?
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Oh man, you're making it really hard to make my
case over here.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
That's all right, We'll move on.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
And if you think she's offer a rocker, just know
that Mom Donnie also has embraced five times a day
in many parts of New York City now where it's
never happened before, and beginning often at around five am
in those areas, the Islamic call to prayer, which we've
all heard on the internet or on television or somewhere,
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but probably not so much in our country. We currently
still do have freedom of religion as we've had since
our nation's inception, and freedom of speech, at least for now,
but if we don't speak up soon, those rights are
very well may disappear. We've got to really keep an
eye on New York City. I think it's being looked
at kind of as a test market, if you will,
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by people who would like to install communism all over
the country. I don't think Mom Donnie will get that
far in his term, but he is certainly he is
certainly sowing the seeds of it, and speaking of zorhand
or Zora on Mom Donnie, lead U slow your mouth,
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Let your brain, let your brain drive. He is strong
arming New York Governor Kathy Hockel to tax the rich
pretty much out of New York City, or if she
won't get on board and let him do that, he's
looking at nine or ten percent boosting overall property taxes
that would impact about three million homes and the people
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who own them, which will cause them probably to flee
that city once and for all. Either way, it's it's
looking more and more to men. I thought about this
a long time ago. It's looking like his long term
goal is a plan to just boot whatever fools voted
him and as many native New Yorkers as he can
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out of the city and then just replace them with foreigners,
Just replace them with foreigners who thinks like he thinks.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
And yeah, once the.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Power of the people has been removed, he'll turn it
full communist and everybody.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Can sit back and watch it fail.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
I was told by a guy who lives in New York,
very close to the city. He worked in the city
and lived outside of it, and wouldn't have worked in
it for a million dollars. In the last few years.
He's got adult children that he tells absolutely positively never
to go into the city again. And that's so sad,
it really is. But he told me as soon as
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that election was over that put mom Donnie in and
he said, you watch that city's gonna just dissolve. And
there's all kinds of they've installed these new dissuasions for
the people who used to jump through the turnstiles and
hop on the subway for no money, and the bad
guys have already figured out how to get around that,
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and without even covering their faces anything, they're showing videos
online so that other people who want to jump the
turnstiles can do that and not pay. It's all they
got to do now is replace the police with social
workers and that'll pretty much be the end.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
What do you think of this?
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Missouri Congressman Eric Berlson says he's heard just credible reports
of a crash UFO, not in the US, but a
craft that crashed somewhere and is so big it can
never be moved, and has actually had a building built
around it. First of all, somebody who built that building
would have said something, I think. But still he's not
(16:41):
going to reveal what countries involved, for fear of losing
his security clearance, at least for now. He also said
that if he were ever to get definitive proof of
alien life, he would share it immediately.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
That's a little grand standing there.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
I think I'm not sure how smart that would be, honestly,
or that it wouldn't start an international panic. I think
that would be a problem that we don't write. I've
got more on this, and i'll tell you when we
get back from a break.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
On the way out, I'll.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Tell you what if I if I was going to
have to fly what a year, year and a half
to get to Mars, and I had to sit in
one of those little bitty seats those astronauts sit in,
I don't think I could do it. I could do it, though,
probably in one of those z Cliner sleep chairs from
Gallery Furniture, Adjustable for everybody type, every comfort goal. It's
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a soothing experience that is just better than any I've
ever thought about jumping into. It's a recliner, it's a bed,
it's a heated massage chair. It's whatever you want it
to be for that ultimate relaxation, and you can get
it today. By the way, every one of those things
comes also available with a power lift option. As though
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you would need that. Really, it'd be harder to be
harder to get me out of.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
It than to get me in.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
If that's for sure, I might need that power option
and forced me to get out of it to go
get something to eat or whatever. Z Cliner sleep chairs.
Nothing like them anywhere else. Z Cliner sheep God, Doug
z Cliner sleep chairs from Gallery furniture, Go get one.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Old guys rule.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
And of course women never get old if you want
to avoid sleeping on the couch.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
I think that sounds like okay.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Plan fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug. Hey, welcome
back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening. Certainly do appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
This water bottle is as soon as I empty it,
I'm gonna take it to the house.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I'm not even gonna take it to the house. I'm
gonna throw it away. Here it wobbles. Can you see that.
It's not it's no longer a water bottle. It's kind
of a water bottle. It used to be. It was
a few days ago, and then the dishwasher, uh didn't
eat it.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
It's not like it. It's not like a missing sock
or anything like that. Coming out of the washing machine.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
But it's just deformed and sadly isn't able to function
as a water bottle anymore.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
So out he goes. I invested five hole dollars in
that thing, too, will five dollars in a cup that
couldn't make it through the dishwasher one time I'll find well,
I'll find a better one. I've got a lot of
them at the house.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Actually, I may go back to one of those, not
those big what are they called, the ones that all
the women carry? You recall the name? What is it? Stanley?
Thank you very much?
Speaker 3 (19:30):
The Stanley cup or I think it's or is it
Stanley the tool company?
Speaker 2 (19:35):
I'm not sure. It doesn't matter, So let's go back
to the UFO thing.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
First of all, I'm very comfortable, both as a religious
person and as a practical person, in thinking that there
is other life than ours out there somewhere, really far away,
I'm sure, but out there somewhere. And there's a story
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that I saw this morning. A British writer and director
says that he's been told by very reliable sources that
President Trump, and he's been kind of hinting at this lately,
is some big deal. President Trump has been given authority
by other global leaders to issue a statement to the
world about UFOs supposedly, but I can't help but believe it.
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And when that speech error is made, if it's made,
it's going to include confirmation, according to this writer, that
off world vehicles and non human biologics that's what they're
calling them now, that's space man is what that is.
A non human biologic have been recovered more than once
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over the past five or six decades. It's remarkable to
me that something that profound, that something that incredible, would
be kept secret by all of the people. Now who
would have witnessed it, who would have been part of
examinations all of those things. Maybe somebody on their deathbed,
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their dying statement would be I saw the UFO and
here's where it is, and then hopefully get the words out.
It's kind of it's difficult for me to believe that
that many people can keep their mouths shut, especially with
social media, and especially with all the notoriety you would
get if you were the one who leaked that story,
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What are they going to do to you once it's leaked?
At best, if you've signed an NDA or something like that,
they might be able to hold you accountable, but the
interviews you would do would make you more than enough
money to cover your legal expenses, and then some by
yourself a little island somewhere and just go watch the
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sunrises and sunsets for the rest of your life.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Anyway, we'll see.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Rumors are in that world old of UFOs that the disclosure,
if there is one forthcoming, will be set to July eighth,
which happens to be the seventy ninth anniversary of the incident.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
We'll call it at roswell. Who knows, we'll see.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
I thought I saw a story about the Nancy Guthrie
case this morning, but then I actually I got suckered
in and read for about a minute and a half
and realized that all it was it wasn't news at all.
It was just a reshuffling of the same deck that
the news people have been reading from for days now.
In weeks, I think we're into our third week. I
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feel truly sorry for that family. Yeah, not knowing where
your elderly mother is has got to be one of
the hardest things I could imagine. There was somebody who
sent yet another note that this person who thinks he
knows or claims to know where she is and who's
got her somewhere down in Mexico, they say.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
And I could see that.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
As close as they were in the beginning to Mexico,
I could see her being whisked out of the country,
perhaps given something to make her groggy enough not to
be able to say anything when they crossed the border.
But I just hope that's not the case. I hope
she's still alive and praying for every day, just praying
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every day in the What have I got?
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Will? Three? Is that a good guess? Two thirty? Thank you?
Gonna learn those science, Frankie. That's the way we talk
around here, Okay, yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Uh, it actually works very well in the Middle East.
By the way, Iran has blockaded a crucial shipping lane
for the first time in forty years, the Straits of
Horror moves, okay, first time in forty years. And on
top of that, they claimed that they were doing it
to do some live fire drills naval drills this week,
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and so pretty much said everybody, stay out now this
if you're unfamiliar with that straight this is the pathway
down which I think it's twenty percent, yeah, twenty percent
of the world's oil twenty one million barrels daily passed
(24:21):
through that waterway, and Iran said, pump the brakes. Everybody,
just get in line and wait, kind of like waiting
for those rocks to get off the freeway. This morning,
for some reason, Iran wanted to go out there and
do live fire drills. I just just flexing, I guess,
and posing and trying to scare the US Navy, which probably.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Won't work out well for him. We'll have to see.
We've already got one carrier and.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
A bushel basket full of support vessels in that region,
and where there's a second accompanied carrier on its way
there as well, not far out, so they might want
to hurry up and finish their live fire drills and
get on back into port and reopen the stretch before
moves and get.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
That oil moving again.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Maybe that's what pushed that price up this morning, in hindsight,
a couple of bucks of barrel almost. In the crazy
world of indoctrination over education, Nashville elementary school teacher been
threatened with termination after he refused to read a book
about same sex marriage to his first graders before they
can be read. Some of these books that are on
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the list of must read to your little kids in
the class. Some of those things require prior notification to parents.
And in this case, the legal group First Liberty, which
is representing that teacher, said that to to its knowledge,
that notification didn't happen, so that school they might want
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to rethink their position on this guy and his termination.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
And whatnot may not work out so well for him.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
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Speaker 1 (27:43):
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 code O wax. This
is fifty plus with Doug Pike. Welcome back to fifty plus.
Fourth and final segment starts now. Thank you for listening.
I certainly do appreciate that on this beautiful day to
be outside. I'm gonna spend some time outside in a
little while, drive down to the George AR. Brown Convention
(28:06):
Center and go check out that fishing show, is what
I'm gonna do. In a terrifying video from Italy, and
this is I shared this story earlier with a woman
in our office here who's got a young baby at home.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
He's I think he's toddling now, he might be. I
don't think he's walking yet. He's still pretty young. But
in any event, I wanted her to hear this so
that it would just remind her, and it will remind
all of you to be just one hundred percent vigilant
wherever you go, and no matter how comfortable you start
to feel, Actually the more comfortable you start to feel
(28:41):
being out and around people, that probably the easier target
you become. You need to be watching. Here's what happened.
A woman is on video walking into a store with
what appears to be about a three year old. He's
old enough to raise his hand up and put it
in hers to walk a lot alongside her.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
She's not having to carry him anymore.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
And as they go in, there's a man walking out
of the store, and just in the blink of an eye,
when they get right next to each other, he reaches down,
grabs that little boy with both hands, yanks him away
from the mother and is trying to get away. She's
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on his heels, and fortunately, in that incident, so were
a bunch of grown men who tracked him down, stopped
him and held him wherever he was then until police arrived.
It's it's sad, it really is, but at least for now,
none of us is ever really safe anymore. Watch where
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you're walking, put down your phone, keep your keys firmly
in your hand in case you have to rip somebody's face,
and just know that it could happen. Pray that it doesn't,
but know that it could. Sometimes we get too comfortable outside.
Sometimes it's our nature to think that everybody's nice, and
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truly everybody most people are very nice. Most people don't
mean you any harm. But the bad guys know that
and they take advantage of that. So just be very careful.
Holy cow, don't ever man. That video really shook me up.
It did, had that woman not reacted as quickly as
she did, had there not been others around who were
willing to help her. That guy would have been halfway
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down the block and jumping into a getaway car with
her child, with her child, and for this audience, I'll
I'll change one word with her grandchild.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Just think about that.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
You're in charge of the grandson, you're in charge of
the granddaughter, and you're you're shopping in the mall, or
you're at a park somewhere, and you see somebody walking
towards you.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
And you don't think anything of it. He's just a
guy looking at his phone, right, He's nobody, and then
all of a sudden, boom snatches that child. So scary,
so scary. Uh.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
By the way, I'm gonna I'm gonna call this one
exactly as I saw at A big headline this week
said that Whoope Goldberg's name came up in a bunch
of times, a bunch of times in the Epstein files.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Did I mention this yesterday? Well? I didn't think so.
I'm glad I didn't too. I wanted to. I wanted
to bring it up for a good reason too.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
It caught my attention, so I read about it, and
what I found out was that while her name was
there many times, Just like the headline said, that's all
there was to the story. Her name appeared. There was
nothing of interest in or around those mentions, no accusations
of wrongdoing, just an I grabbing headline to get a
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cheap click. Now the left does that often. They They
will say anything to get you to read their story.
They want to smear of President Trump anybody who supports him,
and so they use I grabbing, attention grabbing headlines. I
thought we were above that, but and apparently not, because
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whoever wrote that story.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
If I were that.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
Person's editor, first of all, I would have gotten to
write the headline and I would not have written something
like that. I prefer to use truth to get the
story read. And it would have said something like Goldberg
mentioned in Epstein Files Comma, but no hint of wrongdoing.
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And that's exactly what that story was about. Oh, by
the way, we have one more for the books. Just
I think it was yesterday, maybe from over in Georgia.
Illegal alien trying to elude Ice agents in a car
slammed into a car and I mean ripped it in half,
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driven by an elementary school special ed teacher, a woman
named Linda Davis died right then and there for no
good reason. You still want to keep these people on
our streets. They have no respect for life, especially ours.
Her car don't go look at it because it'll just
upset you. But her car was obliterated, and pretty notably
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mainstream media not covering this story at all, because Hey,
what's the life of a elementary school special ed teacher
against that of some thug, some bad person who's trying
to escape ice And probably I'm going to just go
out on a limb and bet he's got a pretty
(33:29):
hefty rap sheet. That's why he was running so hard
and trying so desperately to get away. He didn't want
to go again because he knew he was going to
be gone for good.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
That's horrible.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
I'm going to use this last minute to talk about
a good news story because I like to do that
to balance out all this garbage I have to read
and talk about. Right place, at the right time, is
what I headlined this. A good Samaritan said he thanked
God that he was where he was when he was there.
He's driving down the street and a woman in front
of him, driving with her three kids in the car,
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suffered a seizure, went off the road, the car flipped
landed upside down in a canal. Casey Curtis dials nine
to one one as he's jumping out of his car,
racing to the one in the canal. The kids at
one's eight, there's a two year old and a four
month old, all screaming and crying. He got all of
them safely on shore, then went back out for the mother,
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who was underwater. When he found her, lifted her head,
saw she wasn't breathing, grabbed her, got her to the shoreline,
gave her a breath, and thanked God.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
She started breathing again. Huh. No other cars on the
road that day, No way for anybody else to have
seen her car behind some dense trees. God had a
hand in that one, for sure. We'll be back tomorrow, Audios.
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And now fifty plus with Doug Pike.
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All right, here we go. Welcome to Wednesday. Huh looks
a lot like Tuesday. Did Slight chance of rain tomorrow
and I think that's going to be later in the
day anyway, and then right through Saturday chance of rain.
Then back to beautiful and cooler for several days. Not
a bad pattern lately, Ashley, although we are running a
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little dry starting. Really any time of year, you know
you got to be careful how much rain you wish
for because if you if you overdo it, well, live
here enough summers and you'll figure out what happens.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Then.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
In market news, from a little bit before ten am,
it was pretty much all systems green and a very
healthy shade of that color as well. Dow was up
three hundred or so. NASDAK about the same, but for
the Nasdaq's it was a much bigger gain overall, because
the NASDAK starts at about I don't know what half
the half the Dow is, I think, so it.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Was up more than a full point.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Gold bounced back from yesterday's sell off or for whatever
reason it had gone down then, and once again sitting
north of five thousand dollars pretty comfortably. And oil there's
always a party pooper, right, Oil up almost two dollars
a barrel at sixty four dollars twenty cents last I looked,
but still not gonna really be that bad. As long
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as it stays inside of sixty five dollars a barrel,
we'll be able to afford gas. Lean like, like nobody's business,
not people in California. Maybe I think there was some
issue they had out there the other day. I can't
remember what it was, but gas was four hundred four
dollars and twenty nine cents or four forty nine something
(02:29):
like that at Gallon. I I'm surprised there's anybody left
in California. If you, like me, were coming up the
Southwest Freeway this morning around seven o'clock and ran into
a sea of break lights just well for me. It
hit around the fountains, and before I could even get
much farther up the road, I heard that it was
(02:51):
backed up almost all the way to Highway six. And
here's what happened, And I'm kind of glad I wasn't
there when it did happen. There there was an accident
in the HOV lane and I heard sky Mike talking
about it on KTRH, and I thought that may have
been what caused this, because maybe there were just that
(03:12):
many people slowing down to look at what had to
be a terrible accident for the entire freeway to shut down.
But we kept creeping forward and crawling forward. And then
I heard him talk about a wreck on fifty nine
in addition to the one on the HOV Lane. Well,
the bottom line is, when I got there, there was
(03:35):
no wrecked car anywhere on fifty nine.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
What it was and.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
All I saw was chunks of concrete anywhere from the
size of your fist up to the size of maybe
a soft ball, maybe a few bigger ones. And what
had happened? I thought, And I discussed it with a
couple of people at work. We thought something may have
fallen off a truck. We had some concrete. They were
(04:01):
moving trash concrete. Somebody chiseled out a piece of roadway
or something, a big old dump truck and they lost
part of their load. Was it turns out that stuff
had fallen from overhead, directly over the main lanes of
fifty nine and came slamming down. And thank god, if
anybody had gotten hit by that stuff, the car would
(04:24):
have still been there. The whole freeway would have been
blocked off because somebody would have died if any of
those chunks of concrete hit. I saw the story at
click to Houston just a little while ago, actually, and
there was still even while I and everybody else was
navigating around the chunks of concrete in the freeway and
(04:47):
trying to get onto work, there were still some big
chunks I mean loaf of bread and bigger chunks of
concrete up there, just dangling, holding on for all they
could by little strands of rebar from falling onto the
street and whacking one of us.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
That was pretty frightening. Easing into the news.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
American figure skater Amber Glenn, who describes herself as a
woke bi Can I say that word, will, I won't
say it anyway, woke something anyway. She finished thirteenth after
the short program, and after she forgot to perform a
critical and required in that discipline triple Luke, not a
(05:28):
Luke triple loop during her skate.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
I don't know why she forgot it.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
I'm sure it was built in maybe and I see
it happens all the time with these figure skaters. They
come off of one jump a little bit wobbly and
just neglect the next one, and usually they make it
up at some point.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
But she forgot that happens.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
The A mission cost her seven points, which is going
to be a really tall hill to climates.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
She wants a shot at a middle tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Glenn made early news in Milan for claiming that the
LGBTQ community in our country was losing rights under President Trump.
I don't believe that to be true, and I'd be
curious to know what right has been taken away since
he took office. Her claims actually generated so much disagreement online,
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some of it pretty forceful, that she just suspended her
social media account, and probably the best when you're over
there trying to compete and win a medal, to not
be distracted by stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
I think that the athletes on our.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Team who are using the Olympics as a platform to
promote their political ideology, or they just don't know what
the They just don't know what the Olympics are about.
Also from Milan, on a much lighter note, Olympic overseers
said they grossly underestimated just how many condoms they need
(06:53):
to get all those athletes through all those nights in
the Olympic village, and they've ordered more, lots more, they said,
no secret at nighttime is a really really busy time
in the Olympic villages. During winter games, during summer games,
you've got all these fit, very robust people, some older
(07:16):
than others. Granted, the woman who won the mono bob yesterday,
I believe it was. I believe she's forty one and
the oldest person ever to win gold in Olympic competition,
in winter Olympic competition, So hats off to her.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
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on the way out.
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Back to Dougpike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
I got to make a grocery store trip this afternoon
and replace the water bottle I bought recently. I have
a bunch of those metal ones, but sometimes I like
to put hot drinks in them, and I've read that
little micro particles of metal. Of course, anything if you
read the Internet long enough, you'll come up with something
that says that anything you can think of that you
(09:43):
might eat or drink is either really really good for
you or really really bad for you. And so I'm
going to try to stop looking at all that stuff
as much as I can and just use the portal
that connects me to my primary care physician, who whom
I trust explicitly, implicitly, explicitly all of those things.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Let's go back to the sports deal.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
By by the way, a really disturbing story, not about
the Olympics, but about the World Cup, and specifically about
Morocco's preparations for the World Cup where some of the
games are going to be played, apparently to keep from
offending any of the Muslims from that region who might
attend the events, particularly in that part of the world,
(10:34):
dogs by that faith are considered kind of filthy and
disgusting for some reason, I don't know why. Anyway, to
appease its guest, Morocco has been systematically killing stray dogs
that people who are monitoring this effort said could number
in the millions. Poison, shooting, burning.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Just horrific.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
They're they're just street sweep and getting every dog, every
dog out of there, according to these reports that I saw.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
My big question.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
There is, how does Morocco have millions of stray dogs
running loose in the streets.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
How could that happen?
Speaker 3 (11:20):
It doesn't happen here so much because people will take
the dogs in, people will take them to a shelter.
But I guess in some parts of the world, especially
in countries where dogs aren't really considered any value at all,
they just let them run free. And I doubt that
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they go to any effort to spay or newter any
of those dogs. And the bottom line is it best
estimates right now that three million dogs might be killed
before they ever kick a ball in the first match
on the same subject, by the way, or similar at
least in parts of Mamdani's New York City now, long
time residents are being told where and when they can
(12:02):
walk their dogs so as not to disturb the growing
number of New Yorkers who don't like dogs. Sounds pretty
That sounds pretty free and free speech and free expression
and just doesn't sound good at all to me, a
pro Hamas activist. They're actually a woman named Nerdine Kisswani
(12:25):
wrote this on X and I quote finally and YC
is coming to Islam. Dogs definitely have a place in society,
just not as indoor pets. Like we've said all along,
they are unclean. Well, you have a dog, right, your
(12:46):
dog clean? Come in the house. No ever, even when
it's one hundred and twenty degrees too stinky well, bathe
the dog?
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Will will you do that?
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Oh man, you're making it really hard to make my
case over here.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
That's all right, We'll move on.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
And if you think she's offer a rocker, just know
that Mom Donnie also has embraced five times a day
in many parts of New York City now where it's
never happened before, and beginning often at around five am
in those areas, the Islamic call to prayer, which we've
all heard on the internet or on television or somewhere,
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but probably not so much in our country. We currently
still do have freedom of religion as we've had since
our nation's inception, and freedom of speech, at least for now,
but if we don't speak up soon, those rights are
very well may disappear. We've got to really keep an
eye on New York City. I think it's being looked
at kind of as a test market, if you will,
(13:53):
by people who would like to install communism all over
the country. I don't think Mom Donnie will get that
far in his term, but he is certainly he is
certainly sowing the seeds of it, and speaking of zorhand
or Zora on Mom Donnie, lead U slow your mouth,
(14:16):
Let your brain, let your brain drive. He is strong
arming New York Governor Kathy Hockel to tax the rich
pretty much out of New York City, or if she
won't get on board and let him do that, he's
looking at nine or ten percent boosting overall property taxes
that would impact about three million homes and the people
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who own them, which will cause them probably to flee
that city once and for all. Either way, it's it's
looking more and more to men. I thought about this
a long time ago. It's looking like his long term
goal is a plan to just boot whatever fools voted
him and as many native New Yorkers as he can
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out of the city and then just replace them with foreigners,
Just replace them with foreigners who thinks like he thinks.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
And yeah, once the.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Power of the people has been removed, he'll turn it
full communist and everybody.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Can sit back and watch it fail.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
I was told by a guy who lives in New York,
very close to the city. He worked in the city
and lived outside of it, and wouldn't have worked in
it for a million dollars. In the last few years.
He's got adult children that he tells absolutely positively never
to go into the city again. And that's so sad,
it really is. But he told me as soon as
(15:39):
that election was over that put mom Donnie in and
he said, you watch that city's gonna just dissolve. And
there's all kinds of they've installed these new dissuasions for
the people who used to jump through the turnstiles and
hop on the subway for no money, and the bad
guys have already figured out how to get around that,
(16:01):
and without even covering their faces anything, they're showing videos
online so that other people who want to jump the
turnstiles can do that and not pay. It's all they
got to do now is replace the police with social
workers and that'll pretty much be the end.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
What do you think of this?
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Missouri Congressman Eric Berlson says he's heard just credible reports
of a crash UFO, not in the US, but a
craft that crashed somewhere and is so big it can
never be moved, and has actually had a building built
around it. First of all, somebody who built that building
would have said something, I think. But still he's not
(16:41):
going to reveal what countries involved, for fear of losing
his security clearance, at least for now. He also said
that if he were ever to get definitive proof of
alien life, he would share it immediately.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
That's a little grand standing there.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
I think I'm not sure how smart that would be, honestly,
or that it wouldn't start an international panic. I think
that would be a problem that we don't write. I've
got more on this, and i'll tell you when we
get back from a break.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
On the way out, I'll.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Tell you what if I if I was going to
have to fly what a year, year and a half
to get to Mars, and I had to sit in
one of those little bitty seats those astronauts sit in,
I don't think I could do it. I could do it, though,
probably in one of those z Cliner sleep chairs from
Gallery Furniture, Adjustable for everybody type, every comfort goal. It's
(17:29):
a soothing experience that is just better than any I've
ever thought about jumping into. It's a recliner, it's a bed,
it's a heated massage chair. It's whatever you want it
to be for that ultimate relaxation, and you can get
it today. By the way, every one of those things
comes also available with a power lift option. As though
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you would need that. Really, it'd be harder to be
harder to get me out of.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
It than to get me in.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
If that's for sure, I might need that power option
and forced me to get out of it to go
get something to eat or whatever. Z Cliner sleep chairs.
Nothing like them anywhere else. Z Cliner sheep God, Doug
z Cliner sleep chairs from Gallery furniture, Go get one.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Old guys rule.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
And of course women never get old if you want
to avoid sleeping on the couch.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
I think that sounds like okay.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Plan fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug. Hey, welcome
back to fifty plus. Thanks for listening. Certainly do appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
This water bottle is as soon as I empty it,
I'm gonna take it to the house.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I'm not even gonna take it to the house. I'm
gonna throw it away. Here it wobbles. Can you see that.
It's not it's no longer a water bottle. It's kind
of a water bottle. It used to be. It was
a few days ago, and then the dishwasher, uh didn't
eat it.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
It's not like it. It's not like a missing sock
or anything like that. Coming out of the washing machine.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
But it's just deformed and sadly isn't able to function
as a water bottle anymore.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
So out he goes. I invested five hole dollars in
that thing, too, will five dollars in a cup that
couldn't make it through the dishwasher one time I'll find well,
I'll find a better one. I've got a lot of
them at the house.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Actually, I may go back to one of those, not
those big what are they called, the ones that all
the women carry? You recall the name? What is it? Stanley?
Thank you very much?
Speaker 3 (19:30):
The Stanley cup or I think it's or is it
Stanley the tool company?
Speaker 2 (19:35):
I'm not sure. It doesn't matter, So let's go back
to the UFO thing.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
First of all, I'm very comfortable, both as a religious
person and as a practical person, in thinking that there
is other life than ours out there somewhere, really far away,
I'm sure, but out there somewhere. And there's a story
(20:00):
that I saw this morning. A British writer and director
says that he's been told by very reliable sources that
President Trump, and he's been kind of hinting at this lately,
is some big deal. President Trump has been given authority
by other global leaders to issue a statement to the
world about UFOs supposedly, but I can't help but believe it.
(20:27):
And when that speech error is made, if it's made,
it's going to include confirmation, according to this writer, that
off world vehicles and non human biologics that's what they're
calling them now, that's space man is what that is.
A non human biologic have been recovered more than once
(20:49):
over the past five or six decades. It's remarkable to
me that something that profound, that something that incredible, would
be kept secret by all of the people. Now who
would have witnessed it, who would have been part of
examinations all of those things. Maybe somebody on their deathbed,
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their dying statement would be I saw the UFO and
here's where it is, and then hopefully get the words out.
It's kind of it's difficult for me to believe that
that many people can keep their mouths shut, especially with
social media, and especially with all the notoriety you would
get if you were the one who leaked that story,
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What are they going to do to you once it's leaked?
At best, if you've signed an NDA or something like that,
they might be able to hold you accountable, but the
interviews you would do would make you more than enough
money to cover your legal expenses, and then some by
yourself a little island somewhere and just go watch the
(21:54):
sunrises and sunsets for the rest of your life.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Anyway, we'll see.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Rumors are in that world old of UFOs that the disclosure,
if there is one forthcoming, will be set to July eighth,
which happens to be the seventy ninth anniversary of the incident.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
We'll call it at roswell. Who knows, we'll see.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
I thought I saw a story about the Nancy Guthrie
case this morning, but then I actually I got suckered
in and read for about a minute and a half
and realized that all it was it wasn't news at all.
It was just a reshuffling of the same deck that
the news people have been reading from for days now.
In weeks, I think we're into our third week. I
(22:38):
feel truly sorry for that family. Yeah, not knowing where
your elderly mother is has got to be one of
the hardest things I could imagine. There was somebody who
sent yet another note that this person who thinks he
knows or claims to know where she is and who's
got her somewhere down in Mexico, they say.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
And I could see that.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
As close as they were in the beginning to Mexico,
I could see her being whisked out of the country,
perhaps given something to make her groggy enough not to
be able to say anything when they crossed the border.
But I just hope that's not the case. I hope
she's still alive and praying for every day, just praying
(23:22):
every day in the What have I got?
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Will? Three? Is that a good guess? Two thirty? Thank you?
Gonna learn those science, Frankie. That's the way we talk
around here, Okay, yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Uh, it actually works very well in the Middle East.
By the way, Iran has blockaded a crucial shipping lane
for the first time in forty years, the Straits of
Horror moves, okay, first time in forty years. And on
top of that, they claimed that they were doing it
to do some live fire drills naval drills this week,
(23:59):
and so pretty much said everybody, stay out now this
if you're unfamiliar with that straight this is the pathway
down which I think it's twenty percent, yeah, twenty percent
of the world's oil twenty one million barrels daily passed
(24:21):
through that waterway, and Iran said, pump the brakes. Everybody,
just get in line and wait, kind of like waiting
for those rocks to get off the freeway. This morning,
for some reason, Iran wanted to go out there and
do live fire drills. I just just flexing, I guess,
and posing and trying to scare the US Navy, which probably.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Won't work out well for him. We'll have to see.
We've already got one carrier and.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
A bushel basket full of support vessels in that region,
and where there's a second accompanied carrier on its way
there as well, not far out, so they might want
to hurry up and finish their live fire drills and
get on back into port and reopen the stretch before
moves and get.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
That oil moving again.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Maybe that's what pushed that price up this morning, in hindsight,
a couple of bucks of barrel almost. In the crazy
world of indoctrination over education, Nashville elementary school teacher been
threatened with termination after he refused to read a book
about same sex marriage to his first graders before they
can be read. Some of these books that are on
(25:29):
the list of must read to your little kids in
the class. Some of those things require prior notification to parents.
And in this case, the legal group First Liberty, which
is representing that teacher, said that to to its knowledge,
that notification didn't happen, so that school they might want
(25:50):
to rethink their position on this guy and his termination.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
And whatnot may not work out so well for him.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
All right, Medical, I said, we talked to doctor Ali
yesterday from Medical Aesthetics by Angelica about the different peptides,
and I can't remember all the names of them, but
the bottom line is Medical Aesthetics by Angelica either of
its locations one on Highway six in sugar Land and
one in Cypress on Cypress Creek Parkway. Either one of
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those places you can go and get a diagnostic. Well,
they'll draw a little blood and then take a really
good look at what's in it and what's not in it,
and then come back with a map that will take
you down a sixteen week path to feeling better, to
looking better, losing weight if you want to lose weight,
(26:40):
adding take it out fat if you want to lose
some fat. Somewhere they do micro needling. They do dermabrasion stuff,
all kinds of procedures and special work with hormones and
metabolism is all these different things to boost your body
and make you feel better. If you're a guy and
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you got trouble with metabolic dysfunction, they can help you.
If you're a woman and you want to just feel
better and maybe get some energy back, get some confidence back,
and they can help you too. If you and your spouse,
your partner, your whatever you want to call that person,
want to go together, they would work with you together.
Different plans for each of you, but they will work
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with you together. That'd be perfectly fine with them. Call
now for an appointment, Go talk to them, Go get
comfortable with it, and then start your way back to
feeling better, looking better, and just glowing absolutely glowing. Eight
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Speaker 1 (27:43):
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 code O wax. This
is fifty plus with Doug Pike. Welcome back to fifty plus.
Fourth and final segment starts now. Thank you for listening.
I certainly do appreciate that on this beautiful day to
be outside. I'm gonna spend some time outside in a
little while, drive down to the George AR. Brown Convention
(28:06):
Center and go check out that fishing show, is what
I'm gonna do. In a terrifying video from Italy, and
this is I shared this story earlier with a woman
in our office here who's got a young baby at home.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
He's I think he's toddling now, he might be. I
don't think he's walking yet. He's still pretty young. But
in any event, I wanted her to hear this so
that it would just remind her, and it will remind
all of you to be just one hundred percent vigilant
wherever you go, and no matter how comfortable you start
to feel, Actually the more comfortable you start to feel
(28:41):
being out and around people, that probably the easier target
you become. You need to be watching. Here's what happened.
A woman is on video walking into a store with
what appears to be about a three year old. He's
old enough to raise his hand up and put it
in hers to walk a lot alongside her.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
She's not having to carry him anymore.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
And as they go in, there's a man walking out
of the store, and just in the blink of an eye,
when they get right next to each other, he reaches down,
grabs that little boy with both hands, yanks him away
from the mother and is trying to get away. She's
(29:24):
on his heels, and fortunately, in that incident, so were
a bunch of grown men who tracked him down, stopped
him and held him wherever he was then until police arrived.
It's it's sad, it really is, but at least for now,
none of us is ever really safe anymore. Watch where
(29:45):
you're walking, put down your phone, keep your keys firmly
in your hand in case you have to rip somebody's face,
and just know that it could happen. Pray that it doesn't,
but know that it could. Sometimes we get too comfortable outside.
Sometimes it's our nature to think that everybody's nice, and
(30:06):
truly everybody most people are very nice. Most people don't
mean you any harm. But the bad guys know that
and they take advantage of that. So just be very careful.
Holy cow, don't ever man. That video really shook me up.
It did, had that woman not reacted as quickly as
she did, had there not been others around who were
willing to help her. That guy would have been halfway
(30:28):
down the block and jumping into a getaway car with
her child, with her child, and for this audience, I'll
I'll change one word with her grandchild.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Just think about that.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
You're in charge of the grandson, you're in charge of
the granddaughter, and you're you're shopping in the mall, or
you're at a park somewhere, and you see somebody walking
towards you.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
And you don't think anything of it. He's just a
guy looking at his phone, right, He's nobody, and then
all of a sudden, boom snatches that child. So scary,
so scary. Uh.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
By the way, I'm gonna I'm gonna call this one
exactly as I saw at A big headline this week
said that Whoope Goldberg's name came up in a bunch
of times, a bunch of times in the Epstein files.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Did I mention this yesterday? Well? I didn't think so.
I'm glad I didn't too. I wanted to. I wanted
to bring it up for a good reason too.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
It caught my attention, so I read about it, and
what I found out was that while her name was
there many times, Just like the headline said, that's all
there was to the story. Her name appeared. There was
nothing of interest in or around those mentions, no accusations
of wrongdoing, just an I grabbing headline to get a
(31:40):
cheap click. Now the left does that often. They They
will say anything to get you to read their story.
They want to smear of President Trump anybody who supports him,
and so they use I grabbing, attention grabbing headlines. I
thought we were above that, but and apparently not, because
(32:01):
whoever wrote that story.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
If I were that.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
Person's editor, first of all, I would have gotten to
write the headline and I would not have written something
like that. I prefer to use truth to get the
story read. And it would have said something like Goldberg
mentioned in Epstein Files Comma, but no hint of wrongdoing.
(32:25):
And that's exactly what that story was about. Oh, by
the way, we have one more for the books. Just
I think it was yesterday, maybe from over in Georgia.
Illegal alien trying to elude Ice agents in a car
slammed into a car and I mean ripped it in half,
(32:45):
driven by an elementary school special ed teacher, a woman
named Linda Davis died right then and there for no
good reason. You still want to keep these people on
our streets. They have no respect for life, especially ours.
Her car don't go look at it because it'll just
upset you. But her car was obliterated, and pretty notably
(33:09):
mainstream media not covering this story at all, because Hey,
what's the life of a elementary school special ed teacher
against that of some thug, some bad person who's trying
to escape ice And probably I'm going to just go
out on a limb and bet he's got a pretty
(33:29):
hefty rap sheet. That's why he was running so hard
and trying so desperately to get away. He didn't want
to go again because he knew he was going to
be gone for good.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
That's horrible.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
I'm going to use this last minute to talk about
a good news story because I like to do that
to balance out all this garbage I have to read
and talk about. Right place, at the right time, is
what I headlined this. A good Samaritan said he thanked
God that he was where he was when he was there.
He's driving down the street and a woman in front
of him, driving with her three kids in the car,
(34:03):
suffered a seizure, went off the road, the car flipped
landed upside down in a canal. Casey Curtis dials nine
to one one as he's jumping out of his car,
racing to the one in the canal. The kids at
one's eight, there's a two year old and a four
month old, all screaming and crying. He got all of
them safely on shore, then went back out for the mother,
(34:26):
who was underwater. When he found her, lifted her head,
saw she wasn't breathing, grabbed her, got her to the shoreline,
gave her a breath, and thanked God.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
She started breathing again. Huh. No other cars on the
road that day, No way for anybody else to have
seen her car behind some dense trees. God had a
hand in that one, for sure. We'll be back tomorrow, Audios.
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