May 23, 2025 • 39 mins
Today, Doug Pike discusses sales, cooking meats, and speed limits.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Remember when it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
because you were the TV remote. Remember when music sounded
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
It? Remember when social media was truly social? Hey John,
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Speaker 1 (00:20):
This show is all about you die. This is fifty
plus with Doug Pike. Helpful information on your finances, good health,
and what to do for fun. Fifty plus brought to
you by the UT Health Houston Institute on Aging, Informed
Decisions for a healthier, happier life, and now fifty plus
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with Doug Pike.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
All right, here we go yet another edition of fifty plus,
and thank you all for listening. I really appreciate it.
Star Spangled Edition. I guess as we acknowledge Memorial Day,
we're going to reflect on the sacrifices of ten of
thousands of Americans. I don't know what the exact number
is who've given their lives so that you and I
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could do whatever we want to do for an entire
long weekend. Just do me a favor. I talked about
this a while back, and I'm gonna do it again.
Whatever you do with the time off from work you
got coming up here, stop for at least a couple
of minutes to recognize that sacrifice, and don't be embarrassed
to ask the people around you maybe to join you,
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and just stop for a minute and just stand there
in silence and think about how many men and women
shed blood and died for us so that we can
do whatever it is we dog on want to do
in this country of ours.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
This isn't a birthday party.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
It's not the fourth of July, it's not Halloween, it's
not Columbus Day.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
It's Memorial Day. One.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
We only give these people one day a year, which
I don't think is enough, frankly, on which we recognize
the sacrifices of these truly brave Americans. Worth noting, by
the way, fifty two percent of Americans think now that
Memorial Days kind of lost its meaning. Only sixty percent
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say that remembering our fallen troops is the first thing
they associate with the day. Now, how quickly they forget right,
And only forty eight percent of gen z thinks first
about the sacrifices made for what the past two hundred
and fifty years, so they could skip work on Memorial
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Day and go do whatever they feel like doing, go
take advantage of all the retail sales. This is becoming
like Black Friday. Their deals. It's Columbus Day, Black Friday,
Memorial Day. Now there'll be Labor Day sales, back to
school sales. There's always a sale going on. My wife
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and I fell into that trap yesterday out looking for
a new washer and dryer, and I had I had
a price range in mind, and we haven't bought anything yet,
but at present, the the leader of the pack in
the pair that we're gonna replace, they're just gonna replace
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the whole laundry room, washer and dryer, and so far
was sitting at about my budget will was x and
so far what's been selected is.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
About two X. So yeah, and guy made a good pitch.
I'll give him that.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
But we're gonna go to a couple of more places
and look around. All these Memorial Day sales on appliances
are they're good. But one of the things that I
found interesting is that in one of the places we
were was that all of this pricing, the prices you
see there, they look like an old time an old
school paper, piece of paper with printing and writing on
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it and and all that stuff. But they're just tiny
little screens actually, and those screens can be changed in
an instant to a different price, so it doesn't look
like you're really getting any discount. But oh yeah, no, no,
yesterday that price was three hundred dollars higher. That price
was four hundred dollars higher. Like, man, it sure looks
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like the picture I took when I was in here
a week ago. I may have to go back and
check the check the screen shots or not screenshots, but
the photos that I took of some of those prices
on some of those washing machines where we were yesterday,
and just see what's up. See if I'm getting bamboozled.
I don't think I am. I really don't. But then again,
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you know, I want to make sure that I'm getting
full value. Moving on from the Cruise Shenan Against desk
by way of Facebook, this is Cruise c are u Ze.
This is just some old Cajun who make observations about
the world around him. And it's pretty interesting what I
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observed that he observed today.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Well here's how it went.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
And he does all kinds of subject matter, but this
one I think really hit home. It will hit home
for a lot of you, and it's on the subject
of climate change.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
And the environment and whatnot.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
And he points out that most of us in the
fifty plus age group, at least fifty and maybe maybe
sixty plus for sure, we remember we were alive, and
we remember when scientists that's always believed the science right.
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Wasn't that long ago that scientists were telling us that
those paper bags that we used in the grocery store
were going to kill all the trees on Earth and
destroy the planet, because you know, we need trees, they
rate oxygen. And to replace those paper bags that we
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needed to get rid of so the planet would survive,
plastic that's what science said was the answer to not
killing all the trees was to use plastic bags. Come
a long way since then, haven't we. It's just remarkable
how if you, if you live long enough, you'll see
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people saying things that just make absolutely no sense.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
There was one I'm.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Gonna check out too, and it may be it may
be some AI shenanigans that may it may not, And
I'm gonna look and see. There were two different clips
of Anthony Fauci, one of which said or showed him say,
and again, if they're AI, I'll point it out when
I find out. But if they're if they're accurate, and
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actually what he said it really makes you scratch your head.
One of them, he's talking about how if you you
get vaccinated, you're protected, you're done, you don't have to
worry about it. We're talking about COVID back then if
you if you're vaccinated, you're okay. And then in the
other clip he says, I've had it three times, and
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I've been vaccinated and boosted six times altogether, and that's
why I'm not dying. Well, it can't be both, so
I'll do the researcher. If any of you already knows
whether that's real or not, I'd be happy to hear
from you. You can either email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia
dot com, or you can click that talkback button on
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your on your iHeartRadio app and just shoot a quick
message to me and I'll get it.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
I don't receive many of those, and that's fine. I
appreciate you just driving along listening. You don't want to
have to look away from the road to push a
button or look up from your soup or whatever.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
That's fine. I get that.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
But when you have a minute, you shoot me in email,
same as if you're trying to become an advertiser here,
which I've gotten another one too. I'll tell you a
little bit more about that when we get back on
the way out. I'll tell you about late late health alate,
not late health, late health, where vascular procedures are done
every day that make people who don't feel great, either
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physically or maybe about their appearance even are made to
feel great again.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
It's as simple as that.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
It's not that simple, but that's what they do there
every day. They fix things that are broken and can
be fixed with vascular procedures rather than more invasive surgeries.
These procedures, for example, prostrate artory embolization for people for
men who have enlarged non cancerous prostates, the symptoms of
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which are pretty off putting, pretty annoying, pretty bothersome on
so many levels. But what they do is they go
in there and they shut off the blood supply of
that thing. And I don't know what they use to
plug up the veins.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
I don't care.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
It just it works. And that's the procedure they do
most at a late health That's why I'm mentioning it.
They also work on fibroids for women, ugly veins. Some
head pains even can be alleviated by plugging up a
tiny little capill area that's feeding blood to a place
in your brain that just doesn't like you and starts
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pain now and then. And regenerative medicine too. They do
that as well. They'll never send you to the hospital.
Everything they do they do right there in their clinic,
in their office. Be out of there in a couple
of hours. You'll be recuperating as soon as you can
get somebody to drive you home. Al at e a
latehealth dot com. Most of what they do is covered
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by Medicare and Medicaid too. Give them a call see
what they can do for you. Seven to one, three
five eight eight thirty eight eighty eight. Seven to one,
three five eight, eight thirty eight eighty eight.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Yew.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
They sure don't make them like they used to. That's
why every few two months we wash them, check us fluids,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, welcome back, fifty plus.
Thank you for listening, certainly to appreciate it. On this
that's pretty good day out son. Sometimes it rains. Sometimes
it doesn't the only thing we know right now is
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that it's just going to keep getting hotter. So if
you walk outside and it doesn't feel like you're melting
right away, just thank your lucky stars and move on.
I mentioned on the way out that I would tell
you a little bit more about becoming involved with the program,
and they're asking all of us who are on air
to share with all of you who listen to.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Us that we would love to work with you. We
would love to have you on and help you grow
your business. That's what we do. And I don't take
that lightly either. I don't take on clients that I
don't know something about. I do my research. I try
to spend as much time as possible making sure that
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anyone I tell you will do something for you will
do it, and they'll do it well, and if there's
any disagreement, they'll sort it out with you.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Now that.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
The customer is always right, it has to be amended
these days because some people just can't be pleased to
The customers almost always right, and that's kind of the
way I look at my shopping experiences. I go in
there and I know that the person who's helping me.
For example, last night with the person who was helping
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us with washers and dryers, I know that person's trying
to sell me something, and I don't have a problem
with that, because that's why I'm in there, and don't
I don't argue with them. I don't haggle much over price.
I might say one time, is that the best you
can do for me? And then if you're listening and
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I show up at your place wanting to buy something
from you, just know it. I'm not going to try
to beat you up, and I'm not gonna try to
haggle and just take away all the profit you need
to make to keep your business open.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Anyway, that's the way I shop.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
I feel like people need to make some money or
they can't stay in business. And if they don't stay
in business, then if you do have a problem, they're
not going to be there to come back and fix
it for you. In any event, if you are interested
in working with any of us here, all you got
to do just email me.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
I can I can kind of point.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
I can run point for you, and you don't have
to deal with anybody else, even if you're using somebody
else's voice on somebody on one of the other stations.
If you want to work with me, we can. We
can work together and I'll make it work for you.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Seven. Now, I was gonna say something else, but I'm
not going to.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Say that now from the kids say the darnedest things clip.
This is something that I've got a couple of things
in here that you can just use as conversation starters
over the weekend and right through the week or anytime really.
So this woman named Taylor Watson saw her on Facebook
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and she says she's just looking into the camera and
she does a lot of these things, kind of like
the guy Cruise Shenanigans does about the planet in the
paper bags and whatnot. Anyway, Taylor says, I took my
eight year old daughter to work because you know, it
was take your child to work day.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Soon as we walked in, she started crying. So I
asked her what was wrong, and she said, in front of.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Everyone, Mommy, where are all the clowns you work with?
So now she said, I have a meeting with HR. Yeah,
I bet you do. I shared that with several people
in the office. Well, the only people who are here
today in the office out there in the main area
away from where will sits back here in the What
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would you call this will phone booth?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Is it bigger that it's not much bigger than a
phone booth. I think it's way bigger than a phone
booth in New York.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
You'd probably pay about two grand a month for this.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
I would call this the I think it's the asylum.
You know, I have padded walls.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
You have a Billie Eilish poster, A drain on the floor. No,
there's not a drain on the floor. Whell yeah, no,
we don't have that. They keep me locked in here, folks. Yeah,
I've noticed that I had to get somebody to let
me in every time and make sure when I leave that.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
I'm the only one who gets out. A little slit
in the door where they move and they close it up.
Stop it will stop it.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Somebody might actually believe that at some point there's no
way this is. This came as a well, I want
to say it's a surprise, and then it's not a surprise,
and this may be something else that I have to
look into and make sure it's true.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
And the question I'm gonna ask is how will we know?
Speaker 3 (15:03):
And what I saw was a story about somewhere in
Texas on one of our highways will be a test
of turning it into something autobond, like where there are
no speed limits, And I kind of laughed as soon
as I've read it, because I'm not really sure we
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even have speed limits anymore. The signs are there, there's
a sign everywhere in your car. Since your smart cars
are out there now, they're geniuses. It'll show you in
your dash what the speed limit is where you are.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Now.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
There's one place that I've found where the speed limit
actually is something like fifty and for whatever reasons, it
shows up on the dashboard very briefly, only for about
a quarter mile stretch, maybe as ninety as ninety miles
an hour. But it's not so anyway back to the
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speed limits that they just it's almost like they're non existent,
because every time I come into work, especially on weekends,
I get my doors blown off by people doing ninety
one hundred miles an hour.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
And I'm not.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Really sure we should I don't what do we do.
Why do we have speed limits if nobody's gonna follow them?
Signs are there? Law enforcement just so strapped with other responsibilities,
like I don't know robberies and assaults and shoplifting and
murders shoplifting at least, I guess in the stories that
try to stop it, you got all that on the
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plates of all these law enforcement people, and it would
be I think frustrating to them to be a sign
to just sit on the side of the road while
they know there's more important stuff going on. Sit on
side of Beltway eight and watch for speeders. At least
that's at least the county puts officers on that little
mini auto bond now and then will where have you
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found traffic could be fastest? And I'm gonna give you
a four choices. I feel like choices first, Oh to
ninety okay, ten, forty five, fifty nine or ninety nine.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Have you even been on ninety nine? No? I don't
think so. Okay, it's kind of like belt weigh eight,
but bigger. I think that fifty nine is probably where
I find some of the more reckless strikers. Yeah, forty
five sometimes you can have something, but I think forty five.
Really the problem is just there's so much traffic, because
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everything tapers into one once you get about north of Conro.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
I think it mellows out a little bit as far
as as far as density of traffic goes the number
of cars, but they don't slow down. And on the
way to Dallas, I think the speed limit gets up
just about eighty five something like that. Eighty eighty five.
I know it's at least eight.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Yeah, I know, at least from when I used to
drive to San Antonio for school. It's an ONN ten.
I mean that was I think the top speed was
seventy five, or supposed to be seventy. Yeah, you wrap
that in their quotes.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Yeah, might as well. Sometimes.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
I know I definitely did some I did some speed.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Right at that seventy five mark where you right, Maybe No,
I don't want you to incriminate yourself, will It was
a good boy. I was driving at seventy five just
for giggles.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
One day.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Come out to sugar Land overnight, spend the night out
there at a hotel or something, and then get on
the freeway on a Saturday morning, not Sunday, because Sunday
traffic is super light, but on a Saturday morning.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
There it's a it is.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
It's already in Autumba, people are doing one hundred hundred
and twenty, and then you got the random guy and
an old pickup truck doing forty five, or some somebody
in a miniature doing forty seven, and when you got
one hundred and ten passing forty seven. Every now and
then I have to look at things I can never
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unsee on the freeway, and it saddens me that somebody
I don't know, Maybe they're vampires trying to get home
before the sun catches them. Who knows that might before
the sun just cracks over the horizon and turns of
what would What happened to vampires when they get hit
by the light?
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Will they burn? They burn? Well, so do we?
Speaker 3 (19:30):
They call her sun burn? They burst into flames. Oh no,
that doesn't happen to us. No, we gotta go, Yeah,
we gotta go. Let's do that on the way out.
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Speaker 1 (21:13):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Fifty plus. Thanks for listening.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
I'm Doug.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
He's will and we know it's your lunch hour or
we know you're driving across town to try to get
to a meeting maybe whatever.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
By the way, I was just telling Will.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
As we came back on I got a text message
from a company. It doesn't matter what company, but it
it just said, Hey, I'm so and so, and I
saw it from a builder. I saw that you inquired
about a roofing project a while back.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
That's pretty vague. That's pretty vague.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
I think that would pretty pretty much cover a lot
of people who live around here. It might have might
have inquired about a roofing project a while back. Turns
out her company is looking for five families to do
before and after videos of their project in exchange for
a discount.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Well, I have a new roof on my house. I'm okay.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
I haven't inquired about a roofing project in quite some time,
But as soon as the show's over, I'm gonna let
her know that, Hey, if she's looking to get more
families to inquire about roofs, maybe I can help her.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
But I'm gonna have to talk to them about.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
That strategy before I would take the endorsement, because that
I don't think is one hundred percent accurate. I could
be proven wrong when I make that phone call, but
I bet I won't be all right. Moving on, we
talked about law enforcement not being out there checking people's
speed and the other thing that I see a lot.
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Will and correct me if I'm wrong. I wonder if
you see it as well. You know, there are laws
against how darkly your windows can be tinted, and specifically
windshields and then the side window, all of the windows.
There's a level of tent that's acceptable and not acceptable.
There's a line that a lot of this crosses. And
I'm seeing more and more and more cars where even
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at high noon, you can't see anything inside those cars.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Do you see that? No, really, I'm not looking in
people's cars.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
I'm trying to look in I'm just I'm just noticing
that their window tents exceed the percentage of tent allowed
by law. And I wonder if anybody's ever gonna have
the time to pull them over. I saw somebody with
a paper tag on their plate or on the back
of their car the other day.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Will And almost took a picture.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Of it because it expired in August of twenty twenty two,
a little late getting that real tax fine.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
You think that's okay too. I don't. I know, that
doesn't bother me at all.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
So if the guy who robbed your house, he comes
and there's video of his car on the driveway has
a paper tag that expired in twenty twenty two, you're
still okay with it.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Sure, that's not what I'm upset about. I'm upset about
the fact that somebody robbed my house. Well there's that too. Yeah,
the likelihood that they'll catch them is well, slim likelihood
of capture is a lot higher if they have an
accurate license plate. I mean, that's if they get the
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license plate. You know, everybody's got cameras. Now, you can't.
You can't nut on somebody. Somebody somebody, somebody smashed my
window a few weeks ago and there's no cameras, no
cameras on my street.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Really no sounds to me like you should get a couple.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
That means it doesn't matter. I have fake cameras. I
have that we're from the Leftover you know who are
from leftover? Ten cameras. Yeah, cameras that were installed that
I don't have access to, that don't work anymore. But
they're pointed towards the streets. So if somebody saw them.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
It ever dawn on you that maybe there's a couple
of them in the house too, and that the prior
owners are keeping an eye on you.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Yeah, I really doubt that. But but yeah, I think
that no matter what, Like, if people are going to
rob you, a camera's not going to stop them.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
That's true. Maybe I don't know it would it would?
It would make me pick a different house if I
saw a bunch of If I was a bad guy
and I was gonna rob a house or break into
somebody's car or whatever, and there were cameras all over
the house, I'd go to the next house, wouldn't you? Honestly,
you wouldn't care. They're gonna get you. Will Yeah, you'll
never be a thief anyway. Speaking of robbers, I saw
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a story on last night's Channel two News about five
little punks robbing convenience stores in a restaurant out in
Katie off Mason Road and Kingsland Boulevard. These kids, and
that's what they are there. They're pulling guns, they're assaulting
their victims. They've been caught now and are facing twenty
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seven charges altogether for the five of them, five of
them will how old's the oldest one.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
You want to take a shot at that. He said,
they're teenagers.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
They're teenagers, and they're throwing guns around, pulling guns, they're
physically assaulting.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
They're victims.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Nineteen now, the oldest one, fifteen years old, the other four,
and I'm guessing the fifteen was the ring leader. If not,
there are all kinds of questions to ask the other
four all thirteen years old, will thirteen years old in
committing armed robberies. That's there's something tragically wrong with that.
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Worth noting, by the way, in that story that I
saw again this morning about the same incident, and I
meant to I didn't get a chance to look at
more detail than was on TV.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Last night, but I did this morning.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
And they make note in the story that this is
not the same group that's accused of doing the same
thing recently on the north side of town. So we've
got these little bands of bad teenagers running around and
doing really bad things, and they had to be sure
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to let everybody know in this story that it's not
the same ones who were on the north side, which
is not very comforting to the people on the north
side actually, because now they know that they might be
next because those kids hadn't been caught yet. This is
a big, hot train wreck mess in Harris County.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
I looked it up.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Okay, I had to get some statistics for this. Already,
in twenty twenty five, justin Harris County, law enforcement is
investigating more than ninety robberies committed by juveniles. My guess
is that adults are recruiting these teenagers to do their
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dirty work because those young people, the teenagers, are far
more likely to be released than would be some eighteen, nineteen,
twenty twenty one year old thugs. They're going to jail
and maybe even to prison, But the youngsters, because they'll
get it. They'll get good legal representation, and they'll they'll
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tell the judge that they just made a horrible mistake
and they'll never do it again, and the judge will
let them out of there and they'll go right back
to doing what they were doing. But they'll know a
little bit more. It'd be a little harder to catch.
Very frustrating, by the way, speaking of Harris County, commissioners
voted no for a second time now to County Judge
Lena Hidalgo's trip to Paris along with three of her
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co workers.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Set Une moves e day.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
You know what that means, will now set um mave's
e day. That means that was an awful idea in French.
That's how they'd say it in Paris if she showed up. Uh,
we gotta go.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Don't we? Yes man? Every time I turn around, we'll
take a little break here.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
We'll be right back more fifty plus on AM nine
fifty KPRC.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
What's life without a neck? I suggest to go to bed,
sleep it off.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Just wait until the show's over. Sleepy Back to Doug
Pike as fifty plus continues, Welcome back.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Final segment of the program.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Start right now, let's you know, will this show has
lacked you. I think we need more view Okay, so
let's go to the little snippets and tidbits that will
carry us on to tomorrow and more days to come.
Where we now with podcasts by the way, like eight
(30:03):
twenty five or so, I can check.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
I'm curious.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
And you know what else I'd like to check is
how many different countries we have represented now? And you
check that as well, because we are international after all,
to a degree. I think some of some of the
some of the one shot, one time wonder podcasts listens
are just from people trying to sell us something and
(30:29):
trying to figure out how we how they can break
into the show.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
We have eight hundred and twenty four listenable episodes.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Yeah, and then tons more, obviously because we didn't start
this this podcast thing for quite some time. When the
show got kicked off, all right, well let's go, and
then you got more.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Well we have let's see this is are you counting countries? Yes? Okay,
what do you got?
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Do I need to say something over all this while we.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Wait twenty wow? But it says around ninety four percent
of listeners come from one country. That would be this one,
that would be the United States of them. Now that's
a pretty safe pet, all right? Today is will? Well? No,
I don't never mind that we didn't get to end
(31:20):
of the basket yesterday? Did we? Oh? Yeah we did, Yes,
we did.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
We talked about that. Oh that's in France. That's more
French stuff. I don't know how to say guillotine and French.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
I think I just did. Uh. Where's the beef? Will?
Is that that dirty? Or circle of life? Where is
the beef?
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Instacart looked at Memorial Day meet, each state buys more
than other states.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Steak is popular. It says you're out west. Wherever that's
out west. Really, that's somewhat vague.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Ribs are the top choice in the South, and I think, honestly,
at any backyard barbecue around here, it's going to be
ribs and steaks and brisket and chicken and hot dogs
and a whole lot more, because that's how Texans do things.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
I guess what's big time in the Midwest for the weekend?
Speaker 2 (32:16):
What think about it? Big time in the Midwest?
Speaker 3 (32:20):
So well, no, but they don't call it that bronx
there you go, brought Yeah, that's the big time.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
What what is that? Really?
Speaker 3 (32:28):
How hard can they be a cook a bront Yeah,
you just throw it on the grill and then when
it sizzles, you take it off. Right, Let's see, you
don't have to You don't have to cook bros for
twelve hours like you do a good brisket.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
I don't think I take a I need a good
brot right now. I bet you a dollar. They don't
have brought cookoffs up north time. Maybe they do, I
bet they do because.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
They don't know how to barbecue. That's why, hm, circle
of life. Will I'll leave that one in there. Another
great use for drones or safer than driving.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Safer than driving?
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Eh, they say that flying is safer than driving. Will
but which you still think that if you had been
on the airplane on the airliner in India that had
kind of a rough flight on Wednesday. Here's the deal. First,
the plane gets hit by really bad turbulence. Okay, so
now everybody's bouncing around and things are falling and it's
(33:33):
just a chaotic mess. People are grabbing for the barf bags.
And then the plane gets bombarded by hail. And so
now if you're thinking that turbulence was bad, throwing a
little hailstorm and wonder when the windows are gonna break
and the wings are gonna fall off. And then when
they finally get out of all that, they're trying to
(33:56):
get down and land the plane safely. A bird strike.
They take a bird strike. Yeah, I just you know what.
It's time to take the bus, man, that's time to
take the bus. Here's another one. Okay, this is another
example of when it's time to take the bus. Passengers
list of allergy demands it says here is trending. After this,
(34:20):
one woman said she was definitely allergic to the smell
of coffee and therefore ask them not to serve coffee
to anyone on board the entire airplane.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
What is definitely allergic to the smell of coffee?
Speaker 3 (34:37):
Yeah, well, it is what it says here, and I
would have to challenge that. You know, here's a nose clip.
Enjoy your flight.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
You mean allergic to the smell of something. I don't
know that you can be allergic to a smell. I
think you might fear it. There could be a phobia
of coffee. I don't know what it would be called,
and don't say coffee phobia.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
Will where to now we took care of the little
teenage robbers.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
We will.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
Oh, this was very interesting and this is just something amusing.
How much time do I have, because I don't know
you have for men. I can relax and just take
it easy through these.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
I saw a video this morning.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
I was looking around for interesting and unusual things and
there are four or five high school students from England
who are over here in the South trying traditional South food,
not southern, not South American food, South food, Southern food.
Things we take for granted biscuits, okay, which in Great
(35:43):
Britain refers to more of something we'd call a wafer
or maybe a thin cookie. You're aware of stuff like that, right, yes, yes, okay,
I figured you'd know. And then once they tried and
absolutely loved Southern biscuits. They had all kinds of different
descriptions for them, but every one of them, They all
four of these kids were just amazed at the taste
(36:05):
of Southern biscuits. And then their host added warm gravy
to the biscuits, which they said looked horrible, looked like
looked like had somebody'd eaten too much and just couldn't
hold it down. But as soon as they put a
fork in it, scooped up a little gravy on that
(36:27):
biscuit and put it in their mouths, they all start
smiling again. They all start smiling. And then to even
make it better for them and give them more reason
to want to move here, laid the fried chicken out,
and Southern fried chicken was a taste they'd never experienced.
And then finally, good old Southern iced tea, and the
(36:49):
first thing they looked they looked at a glass of
iced tea and the first words out of anyone's mouth.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
It's not warm. Why is it not warm?
Speaker 3 (36:58):
This can't be any good. This is gonna be horrible.
And then as soon as the straws hit the lips,
it's like, oh, this is the best stuff I've ever had.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
I'm not a huge fan of biscuits and gravy. I'm
not a huge fan, but I'm not gonna turn down
a biscuit either. I mean, I'll take a biscuit and
put some jam on it, some butter and butter. Honey, yeah,
honey and butter. Oh my god. I mean that gravy's
gotta be good, and it's gonna have that sausage and gravy.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
That gravy belongs on a chicken fried steak is where
it belongs. And that's you know, I haven't eaten one
of those in a long time because I'm such a
health nut. Yeah, I'm sure you can see that. And
but this is making me want to go get one.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Yeah, go get one right now. Well not right now.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
Will we have a couple of minutes, but I may
eat a chicken fried I'll eat a half one. I'll
go to Louvis and get the senior portion. The leu
Ann platter or the Senior lou Anne platter, which is
still enough food. I'm not a pig, and that's plenty
for me. It's kind of a half portion of an entree,
two vegetables in a roll.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
And so it's not bad.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
And in lieu of getting a drink, I just I
tip the server whoever comes by my table if they
do come by. Sometimes they don't, and I like, why
should I leave something for you if you didn't even
offer me more water or anything like that. But usually
where I'm going they know I tip them pretty good,
so they they hang around make sure I'm taken care
of because I'm a big spender at Louby's. All right,
(38:33):
we got forty five seconds, Okay, well then okay, I'm
calling baloney sandwich over involved or sand in your.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Shoes, baloney sandwich, baloney sandwich. It is.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
Researchers in China are working on listening very closely to
this night vision contact lenses that let you see in
the dark. Here's the kicker. Will even when your eyes
are closed, do they lose you with the eyes closed thing?
Speaker 2 (39:05):
I'll see it when I believe it.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
We'll believe it when you see it. You tried to
trick me.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
It didn't work, did it. You tried, you tried.
Speaker 3 (39:18):
Oh my god, we're out of here, all right, See
you later. Thank you for listening.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
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It? Remember when social media was truly social? Hey John,
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Speaker 1 (00:20):
This show is all about you die. This is fifty
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Speaker 3 (00:45):
All right, here we go yet another edition of fifty plus,
and thank you all for listening. I really appreciate it.
Star Spangled Edition. I guess as we acknowledge Memorial Day,
we're going to reflect on the sacrifices of ten of
thousands of Americans. I don't know what the exact number
is who've given their lives so that you and I
(01:05):
could do whatever we want to do for an entire
long weekend. Just do me a favor. I talked about
this a while back, and I'm gonna do it again.
Whatever you do with the time off from work you
got coming up here, stop for at least a couple
of minutes to recognize that sacrifice, and don't be embarrassed
to ask the people around you maybe to join you,
(01:27):
and just stop for a minute and just stand there
in silence and think about how many men and women
shed blood and died for us so that we can
do whatever it is we dog on want to do
in this country of ours.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
This isn't a birthday party.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
It's not the fourth of July, it's not Halloween, it's
not Columbus Day.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
It's Memorial Day. One.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
We only give these people one day a year, which
I don't think is enough, frankly, on which we recognize
the sacrifices of these truly brave Americans. Worth noting, by
the way, fifty two percent of Americans think now that
Memorial Days kind of lost its meaning. Only sixty percent
(02:16):
say that remembering our fallen troops is the first thing
they associate with the day. Now, how quickly they forget right,
And only forty eight percent of gen z thinks first
about the sacrifices made for what the past two hundred
and fifty years, so they could skip work on Memorial
(02:37):
Day and go do whatever they feel like doing, go
take advantage of all the retail sales. This is becoming
like Black Friday. Their deals. It's Columbus Day, Black Friday,
Memorial Day. Now there'll be Labor Day sales, back to
school sales. There's always a sale going on. My wife
(02:57):
and I fell into that trap yesterday out looking for
a new washer and dryer, and I had I had
a price range in mind, and we haven't bought anything yet,
but at present, the the leader of the pack in
the pair that we're gonna replace, they're just gonna replace
(03:19):
the whole laundry room, washer and dryer, and so far
was sitting at about my budget will was x and
so far what's been selected is.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
About two X. So yeah, and guy made a good pitch.
I'll give him that.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
But we're gonna go to a couple of more places
and look around. All these Memorial Day sales on appliances
are they're good. But one of the things that I
found interesting is that in one of the places we
were was that all of this pricing, the prices you
see there, they look like an old time an old
school paper, piece of paper with printing and writing on
(03:59):
it and and all that stuff. But they're just tiny
little screens actually, and those screens can be changed in
an instant to a different price, so it doesn't look
like you're really getting any discount. But oh yeah, no, no,
yesterday that price was three hundred dollars higher. That price
was four hundred dollars higher. Like, man, it sure looks
(04:21):
like the picture I took when I was in here
a week ago. I may have to go back and
check the check the screen shots or not screenshots, but
the photos that I took of some of those prices
on some of those washing machines where we were yesterday,
and just see what's up. See if I'm getting bamboozled.
I don't think I am. I really don't. But then again,
(04:43):
you know, I want to make sure that I'm getting
full value. Moving on from the Cruise Shenan Against desk
by way of Facebook, this is Cruise c are u Ze.
This is just some old Cajun who make observations about
the world around him. And it's pretty interesting what I
(05:04):
observed that he observed today.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Well here's how it went.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
And he does all kinds of subject matter, but this
one I think really hit home. It will hit home
for a lot of you, and it's on the subject
of climate change.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
And the environment and whatnot.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
And he points out that most of us in the
fifty plus age group, at least fifty and maybe maybe
sixty plus for sure, we remember we were alive, and
we remember when scientists that's always believed the science right.
(05:44):
Wasn't that long ago that scientists were telling us that
those paper bags that we used in the grocery store
were going to kill all the trees on Earth and
destroy the planet, because you know, we need trees, they
rate oxygen. And to replace those paper bags that we
(06:05):
needed to get rid of so the planet would survive,
plastic that's what science said was the answer to not
killing all the trees was to use plastic bags. Come
a long way since then, haven't we. It's just remarkable
how if you, if you live long enough, you'll see
(06:28):
people saying things that just make absolutely no sense.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
There was one I'm.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Gonna check out too, and it may be it may
be some AI shenanigans that may it may not, And
I'm gonna look and see. There were two different clips
of Anthony Fauci, one of which said or showed him say,
and again, if they're AI, I'll point it out when
I find out. But if they're if they're accurate, and
(06:54):
actually what he said it really makes you scratch your head.
One of them, he's talking about how if you you
get vaccinated, you're protected, you're done, you don't have to
worry about it. We're talking about COVID back then if
you if you're vaccinated, you're okay. And then in the
other clip he says, I've had it three times, and
(07:15):
I've been vaccinated and boosted six times altogether, and that's
why I'm not dying. Well, it can't be both, so
I'll do the researcher. If any of you already knows
whether that's real or not, I'd be happy to hear
from you. You can either email me Dougpike at iHeartMedia
dot com, or you can click that talkback button on
(07:38):
your on your iHeartRadio app and just shoot a quick
message to me and I'll get it.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
I don't receive many of those, and that's fine. I
appreciate you just driving along listening. You don't want to
have to look away from the road to push a
button or look up from your soup or whatever.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
That's fine. I get that.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
But when you have a minute, you shoot me in email,
same as if you're trying to become an advertiser here,
which I've gotten another one too. I'll tell you a
little bit more about that when we get back on
the way out. I'll tell you about late late health alate,
not late health, late health, where vascular procedures are done
every day that make people who don't feel great, either
(08:20):
physically or maybe about their appearance even are made to
feel great again.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
It's as simple as that.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
It's not that simple, but that's what they do there
every day. They fix things that are broken and can
be fixed with vascular procedures rather than more invasive surgeries.
These procedures, for example, prostrate artory embolization for people for
men who have enlarged non cancerous prostates, the symptoms of
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which are pretty off putting, pretty annoying, pretty bothersome on
so many levels. But what they do is they go
in there and they shut off the blood supply of
that thing. And I don't know what they use to
plug up the veins.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
I don't care.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
It just it works. And that's the procedure they do
most at a late health That's why I'm mentioning it.
They also work on fibroids for women, ugly veins. Some
head pains even can be alleviated by plugging up a
tiny little capill area that's feeding blood to a place
in your brain that just doesn't like you and starts
(09:24):
pain now and then. And regenerative medicine too. They do
that as well. They'll never send you to the hospital.
Everything they do they do right there in their clinic,
in their office. Be out of there in a couple
of hours. You'll be recuperating as soon as you can
get somebody to drive you home. Al at e a
latehealth dot com. Most of what they do is covered
(09:45):
by Medicare and Medicaid too. Give them a call see
what they can do for you. Seven to one, three
five eight eight thirty eight eighty eight. Seven to one,
three five eight, eight thirty eight eighty eight.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Yew.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
They sure don't make them like they used to. That's
why every few two months we wash them, check us fluids,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, welcome back, fifty plus.
Thank you for listening, certainly to appreciate it. On this
that's pretty good day out son. Sometimes it rains. Sometimes
it doesn't the only thing we know right now is
(10:17):
that it's just going to keep getting hotter. So if
you walk outside and it doesn't feel like you're melting
right away, just thank your lucky stars and move on.
I mentioned on the way out that I would tell
you a little bit more about becoming involved with the program,
and they're asking all of us who are on air
to share with all of you who listen to.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Us that we would love to work with you. We
would love to have you on and help you grow
your business. That's what we do. And I don't take
that lightly either. I don't take on clients that I
don't know something about. I do my research. I try
to spend as much time as possible making sure that
(10:58):
anyone I tell you will do something for you will
do it, and they'll do it well, and if there's
any disagreement, they'll sort it out with you.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Now that.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
The customer is always right, it has to be amended
these days because some people just can't be pleased to
The customers almost always right, and that's kind of the
way I look at my shopping experiences. I go in
there and I know that the person who's helping me.
For example, last night with the person who was helping
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us with washers and dryers, I know that person's trying
to sell me something, and I don't have a problem
with that, because that's why I'm in there, and don't
I don't argue with them. I don't haggle much over price.
I might say one time, is that the best you
can do for me? And then if you're listening and
(11:52):
I show up at your place wanting to buy something
from you, just know it. I'm not going to try
to beat you up, and I'm not gonna try to
haggle and just take away all the profit you need
to make to keep your business open.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Anyway, that's the way I shop.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
I feel like people need to make some money or
they can't stay in business. And if they don't stay
in business, then if you do have a problem, they're
not going to be there to come back and fix
it for you. In any event, if you are interested
in working with any of us here, all you got
to do just email me.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
I can I can kind of point.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
I can run point for you, and you don't have
to deal with anybody else, even if you're using somebody
else's voice on somebody on one of the other stations.
If you want to work with me, we can. We
can work together and I'll make it work for you.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Seven. Now, I was gonna say something else, but I'm
not going to.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Say that now from the kids say the darnedest things clip.
This is something that I've got a couple of things
in here that you can just use as conversation starters
over the weekend and right through the week or anytime really.
So this woman named Taylor Watson saw her on Facebook
(13:02):
and she says she's just looking into the camera and
she does a lot of these things, kind of like
the guy Cruise Shenanigans does about the planet in the
paper bags and whatnot. Anyway, Taylor says, I took my
eight year old daughter to work because you know, it
was take your child to work day.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Soon as we walked in, she started crying. So I
asked her what was wrong, and she said, in front of.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Everyone, Mommy, where are all the clowns you work with?
So now she said, I have a meeting with HR. Yeah,
I bet you do. I shared that with several people
in the office. Well, the only people who are here
today in the office out there in the main area
away from where will sits back here in the What
(13:51):
would you call this will phone booth?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Is it bigger that it's not much bigger than a
phone booth. I think it's way bigger than a phone
booth in New York.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
You'd probably pay about two grand a month for this.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
I would call this the I think it's the asylum.
You know, I have padded walls.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
You have a Billie Eilish poster, A drain on the floor. No,
there's not a drain on the floor. Whell yeah, no,
we don't have that. They keep me locked in here, folks. Yeah,
I've noticed that I had to get somebody to let
me in every time and make sure when I leave that.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
I'm the only one who gets out. A little slit
in the door where they move and they close it up.
Stop it will stop it.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Somebody might actually believe that at some point there's no
way this is. This came as a well, I want
to say it's a surprise, and then it's not a surprise,
and this may be something else that I have to
look into and make sure it's true.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
And the question I'm gonna ask is how will we know?
Speaker 3 (15:03):
And what I saw was a story about somewhere in
Texas on one of our highways will be a test
of turning it into something autobond, like where there are
no speed limits, And I kind of laughed as soon
as I've read it, because I'm not really sure we
(15:23):
even have speed limits anymore. The signs are there, there's
a sign everywhere in your car. Since your smart cars
are out there now, they're geniuses. It'll show you in
your dash what the speed limit is where you are.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Now.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
There's one place that I've found where the speed limit
actually is something like fifty and for whatever reasons, it
shows up on the dashboard very briefly, only for about
a quarter mile stretch, maybe as ninety as ninety miles
an hour. But it's not so anyway back to the
(16:00):
speed limits that they just it's almost like they're non existent,
because every time I come into work, especially on weekends,
I get my doors blown off by people doing ninety
one hundred miles an hour.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
And I'm not.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Really sure we should I don't what do we do.
Why do we have speed limits if nobody's gonna follow them?
Signs are there? Law enforcement just so strapped with other responsibilities,
like I don't know robberies and assaults and shoplifting and
murders shoplifting at least, I guess in the stories that
try to stop it, you got all that on the
(16:34):
plates of all these law enforcement people, and it would
be I think frustrating to them to be a sign
to just sit on the side of the road while
they know there's more important stuff going on. Sit on
side of Beltway eight and watch for speeders. At least
that's at least the county puts officers on that little
mini auto bond now and then will where have you
(16:56):
found traffic could be fastest? And I'm gonna give you
a four choices. I feel like choices first, Oh to
ninety okay, ten, forty five, fifty nine or ninety nine.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Have you even been on ninety nine? No? I don't
think so. Okay, it's kind of like belt weigh eight,
but bigger. I think that fifty nine is probably where
I find some of the more reckless strikers. Yeah, forty
five sometimes you can have something, but I think forty five.
Really the problem is just there's so much traffic, because
(17:39):
everything tapers into one once you get about north of Conro.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
I think it mellows out a little bit as far
as as far as density of traffic goes the number
of cars, but they don't slow down. And on the
way to Dallas, I think the speed limit gets up
just about eighty five something like that. Eighty eighty five.
I know it's at least eight.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Yeah, I know, at least from when I used to
drive to San Antonio for school. It's an ONN ten.
I mean that was I think the top speed was
seventy five, or supposed to be seventy. Yeah, you wrap
that in their quotes.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Yeah, might as well. Sometimes.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
I know I definitely did some I did some speed.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Right at that seventy five mark where you right, Maybe No,
I don't want you to incriminate yourself, will It was
a good boy. I was driving at seventy five just
for giggles.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
One day.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Come out to sugar Land overnight, spend the night out
there at a hotel or something, and then get on
the freeway on a Saturday morning, not Sunday, because Sunday
traffic is super light, but on a Saturday morning.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
There it's a it is.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
It's already in Autumba, people are doing one hundred hundred
and twenty, and then you got the random guy and
an old pickup truck doing forty five, or some somebody
in a miniature doing forty seven, and when you got
one hundred and ten passing forty seven. Every now and
then I have to look at things I can never
(19:10):
unsee on the freeway, and it saddens me that somebody
I don't know, Maybe they're vampires trying to get home
before the sun catches them. Who knows that might before
the sun just cracks over the horizon and turns of
what would What happened to vampires when they get hit
by the light?
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Will they burn? They burn? Well, so do we?
Speaker 3 (19:30):
They call her sun burn? They burst into flames. Oh no,
that doesn't happen to us. No, we gotta go, Yeah,
we gotta go. Let's do that on the way out.
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from every medical discipline who have taken it upon themselves
to help us help seniors, specifically by getting additional training
(19:55):
from people who already know a ton about seniors, so
that they can apply their area of expertise the knowledge
they gained through all the years of school. They went
to and apply that knowledge specifically to us. That's kind
of a big deal. It's a really big deal, honestly.
And they're right here in Houston, the greater metropolitan Houston area,
(20:18):
mostly in the med center, as you might imagine, among
the best providers in all of the South basically, but
a lot of these people actually go out and work
in outlying clinics and hospitals and offices routinely every week.
They spend a day or two or three out that way,
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center also can be seen by people who are best
(20:41):
equipped to help them. Whatever's ailing you, whatever's bothering you,
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productive life utch dot edu slash aging, ut h dot
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Speaker 2 (21:10):
Aged to Perfection.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Fifty plus. Thanks for listening.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
I'm Doug.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
He's will and we know it's your lunch hour or
we know you're driving across town to try to get
to a meeting maybe whatever.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
By the way, I was just telling Will.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
As we came back on I got a text message
from a company. It doesn't matter what company, but it
it just said, Hey, I'm so and so, and I
saw it from a builder. I saw that you inquired
about a roofing project a while back.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
That's pretty vague. That's pretty vague.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
I think that would pretty pretty much cover a lot
of people who live around here. It might have might
have inquired about a roofing project a while back. Turns
out her company is looking for five families to do
before and after videos of their project in exchange for
a discount.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Well, I have a new roof on my house. I'm okay.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
I haven't inquired about a roofing project in quite some time,
But as soon as the show's over, I'm gonna let
her know that, Hey, if she's looking to get more
families to inquire about roofs, maybe I can help her.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
But I'm gonna have to talk to them about.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
That strategy before I would take the endorsement, because that
I don't think is one hundred percent accurate. I could
be proven wrong when I make that phone call, but
I bet I won't be all right. Moving on, we
talked about law enforcement not being out there checking people's
speed and the other thing that I see a lot.
(22:49):
Will and correct me if I'm wrong. I wonder if
you see it as well. You know, there are laws
against how darkly your windows can be tinted, and specifically
windshields and then the side window, all of the windows.
There's a level of tent that's acceptable and not acceptable.
There's a line that a lot of this crosses. And
I'm seeing more and more and more cars where even
(23:12):
at high noon, you can't see anything inside those cars.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Do you see that? No, really, I'm not looking in
people's cars.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
I'm trying to look in I'm just I'm just noticing
that their window tents exceed the percentage of tent allowed
by law. And I wonder if anybody's ever gonna have
the time to pull them over. I saw somebody with
a paper tag on their plate or on the back
of their car the other day.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Will And almost took a picture.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Of it because it expired in August of twenty twenty two,
a little late getting that real tax fine.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
You think that's okay too. I don't. I know, that
doesn't bother me at all.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
So if the guy who robbed your house, he comes
and there's video of his car on the driveway has
a paper tag that expired in twenty twenty two, you're
still okay with it.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Sure, that's not what I'm upset about. I'm upset about
the fact that somebody robbed my house. Well there's that too. Yeah,
the likelihood that they'll catch them is well, slim likelihood
of capture is a lot higher if they have an
accurate license plate. I mean, that's if they get the
(24:28):
license plate. You know, everybody's got cameras. Now, you can't.
You can't nut on somebody. Somebody somebody, somebody smashed my
window a few weeks ago and there's no cameras, no
cameras on my street.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Really no sounds to me like you should get a couple.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
That means it doesn't matter. I have fake cameras. I
have that we're from the Leftover you know who are
from leftover? Ten cameras. Yeah, cameras that were installed that
I don't have access to, that don't work anymore. But
they're pointed towards the streets. So if somebody saw them.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
It ever dawn on you that maybe there's a couple
of them in the house too, and that the prior
owners are keeping an eye on you.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Yeah, I really doubt that. But but yeah, I think
that no matter what, Like, if people are going to
rob you, a camera's not going to stop them.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
That's true. Maybe I don't know it would it would?
It would make me pick a different house if I
saw a bunch of If I was a bad guy
and I was gonna rob a house or break into
somebody's car or whatever, and there were cameras all over
the house, I'd go to the next house, wouldn't you? Honestly,
you wouldn't care. They're gonna get you. Will Yeah, you'll
never be a thief anyway. Speaking of robbers, I saw
(25:45):
a story on last night's Channel two News about five
little punks robbing convenience stores in a restaurant out in
Katie off Mason Road and Kingsland Boulevard. These kids, and
that's what they are there. They're pulling guns, they're assaulting
their victims. They've been caught now and are facing twenty
(26:08):
seven charges altogether for the five of them, five of
them will how old's the oldest one.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
You want to take a shot at that. He said,
they're teenagers.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
They're teenagers, and they're throwing guns around, pulling guns, they're
physically assaulting.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
They're victims.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Nineteen now, the oldest one, fifteen years old, the other four,
and I'm guessing the fifteen was the ring leader. If not,
there are all kinds of questions to ask the other
four all thirteen years old, will thirteen years old in
committing armed robberies. That's there's something tragically wrong with that.
(26:53):
Worth noting, by the way, in that story that I
saw again this morning about the same incident, and I
meant to I didn't get a chance to look at
more detail than was on TV.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Last night, but I did this morning.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
And they make note in the story that this is
not the same group that's accused of doing the same
thing recently on the north side of town. So we've
got these little bands of bad teenagers running around and
doing really bad things, and they had to be sure
(27:29):
to let everybody know in this story that it's not
the same ones who were on the north side, which
is not very comforting to the people on the north
side actually, because now they know that they might be
next because those kids hadn't been caught yet. This is
a big, hot train wreck mess in Harris County.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
I looked it up.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Okay, I had to get some statistics for this. Already,
in twenty twenty five, justin Harris County, law enforcement is
investigating more than ninety robberies committed by juveniles. My guess
is that adults are recruiting these teenagers to do their
(28:15):
dirty work because those young people, the teenagers, are far
more likely to be released than would be some eighteen, nineteen,
twenty twenty one year old thugs. They're going to jail
and maybe even to prison, But the youngsters, because they'll
get it. They'll get good legal representation, and they'll they'll
(28:37):
tell the judge that they just made a horrible mistake
and they'll never do it again, and the judge will
let them out of there and they'll go right back
to doing what they were doing. But they'll know a
little bit more. It'd be a little harder to catch.
Very frustrating, by the way, speaking of Harris County, commissioners
voted no for a second time now to County Judge
Lena Hidalgo's trip to Paris along with three of her
(29:00):
co workers.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Set Une moves e day.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
You know what that means, will now set um mave's
e day. That means that was an awful idea in French.
That's how they'd say it in Paris if she showed up. Uh,
we gotta go.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Don't we? Yes man? Every time I turn around, we'll
take a little break here.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
We'll be right back more fifty plus on AM nine
fifty KPRC.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
What's life without a neck? I suggest to go to bed,
sleep it off.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Just wait until the show's over. Sleepy Back to Doug
Pike as fifty plus continues, Welcome back.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Final segment of the program.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Start right now, let's you know, will this show has
lacked you. I think we need more view Okay, so
let's go to the little snippets and tidbits that will
carry us on to tomorrow and more days to come.
Where we now with podcasts by the way, like eight
(30:03):
twenty five or so, I can check.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
I'm curious.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
And you know what else I'd like to check is
how many different countries we have represented now? And you
check that as well, because we are international after all,
to a degree. I think some of some of the
some of the one shot, one time wonder podcasts listens
are just from people trying to sell us something and
(30:29):
trying to figure out how we how they can break
into the show.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
We have eight hundred and twenty four listenable episodes.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Yeah, and then tons more, obviously because we didn't start
this this podcast thing for quite some time. When the
show got kicked off, all right, well let's go, and
then you got more.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Well we have let's see this is are you counting countries? Yes? Okay,
what do you got?
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Do I need to say something over all this while we.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Wait twenty wow? But it says around ninety four percent
of listeners come from one country. That would be this one,
that would be the United States of them. Now that's
a pretty safe pet, all right? Today is will? Well? No,
I don't never mind that we didn't get to end
(31:20):
of the basket yesterday? Did we? Oh? Yeah we did, Yes,
we did.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
We talked about that. Oh that's in France. That's more
French stuff. I don't know how to say guillotine and French.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
I think I just did. Uh. Where's the beef? Will?
Is that that dirty? Or circle of life? Where is
the beef?
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Instacart looked at Memorial Day meet, each state buys more
than other states.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Steak is popular. It says you're out west. Wherever that's
out west. Really, that's somewhat vague.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Ribs are the top choice in the South, and I think, honestly,
at any backyard barbecue around here, it's going to be
ribs and steaks and brisket and chicken and hot dogs
and a whole lot more, because that's how Texans do things.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
I guess what's big time in the Midwest for the weekend?
Speaker 2 (32:16):
What think about it? Big time in the Midwest?
Speaker 3 (32:20):
So well, no, but they don't call it that bronx
there you go, brought Yeah, that's the big time.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
What what is that? Really?
Speaker 3 (32:28):
How hard can they be a cook a bront Yeah,
you just throw it on the grill and then when
it sizzles, you take it off. Right, Let's see, you
don't have to You don't have to cook bros for
twelve hours like you do a good brisket.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
I don't think I take a I need a good
brot right now. I bet you a dollar. They don't
have brought cookoffs up north time. Maybe they do, I
bet they do because.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
They don't know how to barbecue. That's why, hm, circle
of life. Will I'll leave that one in there. Another
great use for drones or safer than driving.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Safer than driving?
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Eh, they say that flying is safer than driving. Will
but which you still think that if you had been
on the airplane on the airliner in India that had
kind of a rough flight on Wednesday. Here's the deal. First,
the plane gets hit by really bad turbulence. Okay, so
now everybody's bouncing around and things are falling and it's
(33:33):
just a chaotic mess. People are grabbing for the barf bags.
And then the plane gets bombarded by hail. And so
now if you're thinking that turbulence was bad, throwing a
little hailstorm and wonder when the windows are gonna break
and the wings are gonna fall off. And then when
they finally get out of all that, they're trying to
(33:56):
get down and land the plane safely. A bird strike.
They take a bird strike. Yeah, I just you know what.
It's time to take the bus, man, that's time to
take the bus. Here's another one. Okay, this is another
example of when it's time to take the bus. Passengers
list of allergy demands it says here is trending. After this,
(34:20):
one woman said she was definitely allergic to the smell
of coffee and therefore ask them not to serve coffee
to anyone on board the entire airplane.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
What is definitely allergic to the smell of coffee?
Speaker 3 (34:37):
Yeah, well, it is what it says here, and I
would have to challenge that. You know, here's a nose clip.
Enjoy your flight.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
You mean allergic to the smell of something. I don't
know that you can be allergic to a smell. I
think you might fear it. There could be a phobia
of coffee. I don't know what it would be called,
and don't say coffee phobia.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
Will where to now we took care of the little
teenage robbers.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
We will.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
Oh, this was very interesting and this is just something amusing.
How much time do I have, because I don't know
you have for men. I can relax and just take
it easy through these.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
I saw a video this morning.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
I was looking around for interesting and unusual things and
there are four or five high school students from England
who are over here in the South trying traditional South food,
not southern, not South American food, South food, Southern food.
Things we take for granted biscuits, okay, which in Great
(35:43):
Britain refers to more of something we'd call a wafer
or maybe a thin cookie. You're aware of stuff like that, right, yes, yes, okay,
I figured you'd know. And then once they tried and
absolutely loved Southern biscuits. They had all kinds of different
descriptions for them, but every one of them, They all
four of these kids were just amazed at the taste
(36:05):
of Southern biscuits. And then their host added warm gravy
to the biscuits, which they said looked horrible, looked like
looked like had somebody'd eaten too much and just couldn't
hold it down. But as soon as they put a
fork in it, scooped up a little gravy on that
(36:27):
biscuit and put it in their mouths, they all start
smiling again. They all start smiling. And then to even
make it better for them and give them more reason
to want to move here, laid the fried chicken out,
and Southern fried chicken was a taste they'd never experienced.
And then finally, good old Southern iced tea, and the
(36:49):
first thing they looked they looked at a glass of
iced tea and the first words out of anyone's mouth.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
It's not warm. Why is it not warm?
Speaker 3 (36:58):
This can't be any good. This is gonna be horrible.
And then as soon as the straws hit the lips,
it's like, oh, this is the best stuff I've ever had.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
I'm not a huge fan of biscuits and gravy. I'm
not a huge fan, but I'm not gonna turn down
a biscuit either. I mean, I'll take a biscuit and
put some jam on it, some butter and butter. Honey, yeah,
honey and butter. Oh my god. I mean that gravy's
gotta be good, and it's gonna have that sausage and gravy.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
That gravy belongs on a chicken fried steak is where
it belongs. And that's you know, I haven't eaten one
of those in a long time because I'm such a
health nut. Yeah, I'm sure you can see that. And
but this is making me want to go get one.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Yeah, go get one right now. Well not right now.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
Will we have a couple of minutes, but I may
eat a chicken fried I'll eat a half one. I'll
go to Louvis and get the senior portion. The leu
Ann platter or the Senior lou Anne platter, which is
still enough food. I'm not a pig, and that's plenty
for me. It's kind of a half portion of an entree,
two vegetables in a roll.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
And so it's not bad.
Speaker 3 (38:10):
And in lieu of getting a drink, I just I
tip the server whoever comes by my table if they
do come by. Sometimes they don't, and I like, why
should I leave something for you if you didn't even
offer me more water or anything like that. But usually
where I'm going they know I tip them pretty good,
so they they hang around make sure I'm taken care
of because I'm a big spender at Louby's. All right,
(38:33):
we got forty five seconds, Okay, well then okay, I'm
calling baloney sandwich over involved or sand in your.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Shoes, baloney sandwich, baloney sandwich. It is.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
Researchers in China are working on listening very closely to
this night vision contact lenses that let you see in
the dark. Here's the kicker. Will even when your eyes
are closed, do they lose you with the eyes closed thing?
Speaker 2 (39:05):
I'll see it when I believe it.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
We'll believe it when you see it. You tried to
trick me.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
It didn't work, did it. You tried, you tried.
Speaker 3 (39:18):
Oh my god, we're out of here, all right, See
you later. Thank you for listening.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
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