June 11, 2025 • 39 mins
Today, Doug Pike discusses corn on the cob, potholes, and spatulas.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 1 (00:24):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike, Helpful information on
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Speaker 3 (00:42):
And now fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, welcome
yet again. I don't know for about the several thousandth time, huh.
Will to fifty plus. The show opens doors and minds
to all things possible, no matter what age you happen
to be. I'm always opening new ideas for interviews too,
By the way, So if you want to hear about
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something you don't think we've talked about, first of all,
we probably have and you might be able to find
it in the podcast. The trouble with the podcast is
Will doesn't have enough character room in the descriptions to
really go over everything we've talked about. So, in any event,
if you don't think you've heard about something and you'd
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like to hear about it, Just shoot me an email,
tell me what you want to have discussed, and I'll
find an expert in that field, and I will bring
that person onto the show and we'll discuss it at length.
Same for anybody who's interested in using fifty plus or
my outdoor show over on KB and me to promote
your business too. And you don't have to deal with
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anyone but me, which I think, I think is a
good way to go at it. There's nothing wrong with
the people we have over there, but it's just another
moving part and with me, you just deal exclusively with
me and we get the deal cut and we care
of business. I take care of you, you take care
of me, and it'll work same way. Quick email and
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I'll answer as soon as I can. There is a
special event that I want to mention today, and I'm
only getting to it today. I'm a little late, honestly,
because I just found out about it this morning after
I believe at least two previous emails about it vanished
somehow from my inbox. There's an outside chance they may
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have landed in junk mail, but I'm not I'm not
even gonna consider that I think they were in the inbox.
But I was in Dallas for a baseball tournament through Sunday,
and then yesterday was my only day off, and I
had a lot of things I had to do then,
and so I may flat have just missed them. When
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I came in yesterday, I had right at four thousand
emails that I needed to deal with.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
And I'm not through them yet.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Believe me, I'm not, although I stayed here last night
until about six fifteen, six point thirty trying to whittle
on that stack. In any event, the event is far
more important than that story. And what it is is
the Houston Veterans Job Fair, and that's set for eleven
am to three pm tomorrow at the Windom Houston Over
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near NRG Stadium. I believe that's where they have that
event annually at the same hotel there, the Wyndham Houston
Over near NRG. Presented by the Disabled American Veterans Group
and Recruit Military. They put these events on all over
the country, I'm pretty sure, to help returning veterans find
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their way back into civilian life.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
And it's absolutely free.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
You can register in advance or recommend to someone you
know that they register in advance at my dot recruit
military dot com. I know it's late, I know it's
short notice, but I can't ignore this. It's just too good.
The people who who where the uniform, the people who
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serve our country, deserve far more than this country has
ever been able to give them. And this is an
opportunity where the private sector can step in and say,
you know what, we'll hire you.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
We know you're going to.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Be a good worker, we know you'll you'll work hard
to improve our company. Tomorrow eleven to three Wyndham, Houston
over by NRG. Totally free. If you know somebody who
needs that boost, let them know about this and maybe
give them a ride over there.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Why not. Totally free, not.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Gonna cost you anything but little gas. These people sometimes
have trouble find an honest work and good pay, and
they deserve way better than that.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Every one of them does.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
This fair gives them a good shot at landing a
job that'll get them onto a solid track to at
my dot recruit military dot com.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Or if you can't, if.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
You don't remember that in ten minutes, twenty minutes, whatever,
email me and I'll send you a copy of the innnouncement.
I got about it, and that'll take care of that.
You'll have hard copy you can print out and find
your way over there from the Good Financial News desk.
Inflation rose last month less than expected, and the price
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of gasoline happens to be forty cents lower across the
country than it was just a year ago. I wonder
why I'm betting you won't find much online or on
TV about either of those uplifting facts. Lower inflation means
our dollars are going to stretch a little farther, and
lower gas prices mean transportation costs for everything that moves
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around this country comes down, or at worst, at worst
it stays flat. So we are headed in a good direction.
We are finding our way out of the weeds that
we were left in. It's like walking back onto the
putting green. It's a golf reference here. It's like walking
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back on on to the putting green after spending four
years in US Open rough. And anybody who's watched any
part of the prelude to the US Open this week
will know what I'm talking about. The rough for this
tournament is the thickest that I've ever seen it, the
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thickest that almost anybody has ever seen rough on any
golf course, probably except for maybe one that was abandoned
and then looked at about a month later. It's a
remarkable challenge these guys are going to face. And in fact,
I'm gonna make a note to myself Saturday am at
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US Venue. The reason I'm making that little note is
because I saw several of the pros up there who
have now played a practice round or two in that
rof they were asked approximately what shot or what school
or an eighteen handicap player would shoot on that layout
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as it's set up right now, and the numbers ranged
from one hundred and twenty to one hundred and fifty.
And based on what I've seen of the golf course
and what they were talking about, with the way the
greens are in the green complexes, one point fifty might be.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
A little low.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
And that's presuming that they bring enough golf balls to finish,
because the average amateur player isn't gonna have spotters.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
They're gonna have to have spotters.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Every twenty yards, every twenty yards on both sides of
every hole, or these guys are going to lose golf balls.
And if they lose golf balls in the rough, not
into a creek or not into the woods. If they
lose golf balls into the rough, they're gonna be hot.
They are not gonna like that. But I'll bet you
it happens. I'll bet you it happens. At some point
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this week, a ball might bounce off a tree and
go in an odd direction and come back into the rough,
And when everybody's looking in the woods for it to fall,
who knows what it might be. But it's gonna be
tough on these guys, and you're gonna see them get frustrated.
It'll be fun to watch. I can't wait. Honestly, I
love watching the US Open for that very reason. And
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I'm not trying to make these guys look bad. I'm
just interested to see how they handle the what we
deal with almost on a day to day basis. Most
people aren't strong enough to get that ball out of
the rough at all, and most eighteen handicaps certainly would
fall into that category. I don't know that they can
move the club strongly enough through all that grass to
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then force the ball up onto the face of the
club and out of the grass. We'll see, We'll see
who knows from the nothing desk, we're late Champions Tree Preservation.
Champion Tree Preservation been around a long time, and they
have been around long enough and are successful enough that
they have their own fleet of trucks that will well.
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First of all, and Arbust is going to come to
the house and do an assessment of all your trees,
see what's going on with them. See if they're healthy
enough to get through storm season without falling on your house,
a neighbor's house, on your garage, on your cars, wherever
it might lean, depending on which way the wind's blowing.
You got to think about that. These trees have been
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through a lot in the past couple of years with
drought and flood, and drought and flood and the wet
and dry. Wet and dry causes those roots to become
weakened and sometimes damaged to the point where the trees
hanging on it looks pretty good, but under the surface
it's not terribly strong. Well, Champion Tree Preservation can take care.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Of that for you.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
And when they come out there, if they see an issue,
they'll tell you whether or not it can be dealt with.
If it can be they'll they'll feed the tree they
might prove the tree. They might suggest taking off some
big limbs. They might suggest, unfortunately, that you get this
one out of here before the storms come, because a
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big tree like that can do an awful lot of
damage and it's a very hard, long process to fix it.
If you take a tree.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
To the house.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Ask one of the women I work with here at
iHeart that happened to her and her husband a couple
of years ago with that direcho or whatever it was,
and their house got smashed by a tree that wasn't
as strong as they thought. Champion Tree Preservation, they'll come out,
they'll make that diagnosis for free, and then they'll sort
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out a plan to make sure that you're ready for
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bring out to take care of whatever tree issue you have.
You can see it all right there. Championstree dot com.
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Championstree dot com.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
That's why every few months we wash him, check his
fluids and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This
is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Welcome to fifty plus again. Thank you will for that
musical interlude. Uh, not my favorite? Not my favorite. Honestly,
you like Bob Dylan?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
I do. I like Bob Dylan a lot, big fan.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Yeah, okay, now I know what to get you for
your birthday next year.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
My dad got me some Bob Dylan shirts for my birthday.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Do you hear? Do you have to hear Jose and
me talking on Friday when you were out for your birthday?
Speaker 2 (11:45):
I have to listen to the show. Who's Jose talking
about Alejandro? Alejandro?
Speaker 3 (11:49):
I'm sorry, Yeah, I did not listen. Jose is the
guy that another guy I work with elsewhere. It doesn't matter,
but yeah, I'm missnounced or I misspoke. Alejandro and I
talked about how we had plans to take you to
a very nice steakhouse if you.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Had shown up.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Really, yeah, we were gonna take you. That's what we
were going to do. But you had you had other plans,
and we understood, we respected that, and we didn't want
to bother you and tell you all about our planet.
Was kind of a surprise. I feel like you could
have just not told me about it at all. Now
you would probably felt better, wouldn't you. Yeah, yeah, you
missed out.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Will.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Sorry for Alejandro Le Guy Lee Good Mary.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Jose is a guy I work with with ut Health.
He's the guy who sends me. And they look nothing alike.
Jose like six foot two, big strapping dude, and Alejandro
more of an average size, average height and weight and everything. Uh,
both of whom all in fact, all three of you,
I think could add your ages and not hit mine.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I bet we'd be close. I bet we'd be close
on that one. Youar what what are you? Twenty twenty eight,
twenty eight?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
And Alejandro you think is what maybe I think is
twenty seven twenty seven, So that's fifty five and no, maybe, no,
maybe we couldn't quite make all three of you. I'm
not battld for God's sakes, I'm not eighty not even
near eighty yet. So anyway, it doesn't matter. Let's get
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back to where I was. By the way, I got
that taking care of oh from the boys we'll be
boys desk. And I saw a story last night on
the news. You see this yet, Will, about some teenagers
who allegedly broke into the astronome and shot some video
and some pictures outside too, and then I tailed it
out of there when they realized they were busted. No,
you see that they got they got arrested. If I remember,
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right as they were they were running away from the
facility and trying to get over a fence, and that
that's all that, This is all at edge. They're innocent
until proven guilty. Of course, kids are stupid, even eighteen
year olds, despite their coming of legal age, for a
lot of things, including the law. And it takes some
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teenagers longer than others to learn that if you play
stupid games, you win stupid prizes, and that should be
the end of that too. Really, the boys will get
their hands slapped and probably have to do some community
service and stay out of trouble for the next couple
of years if any of them is convicted of any wrongdoing.
But one of the moms, if I heard her correctly,
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pretty much was ignoring the side of law enforcement and
the evidence that her that was there, that her son
had done what they said he had done, and was
trying to defend what he and his boys did when
they entered the property when they went past that first fence,
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they'd messed up. And that's true, whether they actually went
inside the place or not. To be hones when we
grew up, when you and I grew up, most of
this audience and I grew up, parents didn't try to
dismiss some of the bonehead things we did so quickly.
They loved their kids, but they wouldn't automatically believe our
stories over what they were hearing from officials, people who
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wear badges. I did stupid stuff as a kid, and
I got punished for it, too, and not harshly, not violently.
What they did was they took away things I enjoyed,
toys when I was little, then the car keys when
I was a little older. And I didn't do those
stupid things twice. And that's not even that's not even
tough love. That's just good parenting. I hear so away
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from this particular case, I hear so many parents defending
some of the things their kids do. When even at
baseball games, I see it sometimes these parents go full
on defense mode when they're little boy or little girl
does clearly does something in front of one hundred witnesses,
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and they said no, no, no, that's not how it happened. No, no, no,
So keep that in mind, and maybe for this audience
at least remind your children that they're the parents and
not their children's best friends or or support group or whatever.
I don't want to go to the stuff going on
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in LA, but I'm gonna have to at some point.
They you what, We'll hold back for a little while,
uh and maybe go to Oh this one I thought
was uplifting from Jacksonville, the Jacksonville News desk. I guess
I'll have to sense I have that propensity to put
everything behind a desk. City council there passed a bill
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I believe yesterday that's gonna prevent any more taxpayer money
from being used to fund anything having to do with
illegal immigrants. What concerns me is that it takes a
new law to stop any government entity from funding things
to which low income Americans don't have equal access, if
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not only access. We have for the past four years
been shelling out billions upon billions of dollars to fund
people who who don't have a legal right to be
in this country. Everybody's case is different, and I respect that,
and I recognize that, but to continue to fund their
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medical care, their housing, their food, their transportation, their cell phones,
while we have Americans in this country who are desperately
trying to better themselves, who really are trying a lot.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Of people, a lot of people on the dole.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
With US programs, who have no intention of ever going
back to work. And that's that's a mess we made
for ourselves, and someday maybe we can address that. The
bottom line is Americans come first. They should.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
This is our country.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
And I think that anybody who who doesn't want to
become a citizen. That's something that hadn't been talked about
much either, is a lot of these people have been
in the country for years and not made any effort
to assimilate and become citizens of our country. It's just
I don't want to get too far into this, I
really don't. I'm just going to leave that. I'm going
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to leave that there for now and go to something
a little bit lighter. Well, it's national what day? It's
a food product?
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Oh, let me see if it's up here. It's a
food product. Yes, it is food. It is food. It's
natural food. It's a National banana Day.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
You know, you're warmer than you think that's a very
big hint. You're closer than you think.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
It's a fruit.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
No, no, it's not a fruit. It's a vegetable. And
by choosing, you are closer than you think. No, no, no, no, no,
you go in the wrong direction, wrong direction, wrong direction.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Is it similar in shape or color?
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
And yes? Oh National Squashed Day? Close?
Speaker 3 (19:20):
But no, very close? You understand the program? Now, Lord,
will we got ten seconds? I don't know National Corn
on the Cob Day? Six percent of Americans don't like
corn on the cob. That's so sad for them, but
it does leave more for us. Get stuck in my teeth?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
And what's your point? I don't like that? What's your point?
Speaker 3 (19:44):
You know? So you don't eat jerky either, do you? No,
God will expand your horizons, will yeah, your culinary horizons.
You tea house Institute on Aging where you will not
get corn stuck in your teeth, although you might get
a lot of help for any and every possible medical
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issue you can drum up.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
And boy at our age, can we drum up a
bunch of them? Huh ut.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Heals Institute on Aging has been around for the better
part of ten or eleven years now. And have They've
continued to provide seniors with specialized care. Everybody who's a
member of the Institute on Aging has gone back and
gott an additional training so that they can they can
approach us and treat us through the eyes of someone
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who knows us, probably better than we know ourselves. You
got a pain, you got an ache, you got an issue,
you got a condition, whatever it is. If you go
to the website, you will find not only probably a
ton of information on that pain or ache or condition
or whatever has drawn you into the medical world, but
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you will also find access to providers who are part
of this, and they're all over the place. Really mostly
at the medical Center. I talk about that all the time.
Mostly there, but many, if well not all of them,
but most of them also spend a little time in
outlying areas. All the way up to the Woodlands, all
the way down to Friendswood, all the way to Paarland,
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all the way to Sugarland, Katie where wherever, Kingwood, just
anywhere and everywhere that you would need to see somebody
in the medical field, there's probably an Institute on Aging
person there to help you. Go to the website start there,
Utch dot Edu slash aging, utch dot edu slash aging.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
What's life without a net? If I suggest you go
to bed, sleep it off.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Just wait until the show's over, Sleepy. Back to Doug
Pike as fifty plus continues, Hie, Welcome back to fifty plus.
Thanks for listening. Certain to appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Back to National Corner the cob day, will I can't
believe you won't eat corn on the cop So what
do you do if somebody serves it?
Speaker 2 (21:58):
You just cut it off of the knife?
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Sure? Do you feel compelled to do that? Don't?
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Doesn't it still get stuck in your teeth? No?
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Really, yes, because it's it's it's all about how you
eat it.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
And when you're eating it off of the cob, you're
having to scrape it off of that cob. So whereas
if you when you shovel it in with a fork,
you know, you can go straight to the molers.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
You know what, boy, if you don't, if you cut
it off with a knife, you to you tend to
leave a good portion of the meat from within that
kernel on the cob. You can't get it all. Maybe
if you're bad with a knife, you have a special
you know, there's actually a device. I've seen them advertised,
I don't remember where, probably online of something that you
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can just kind of it's a circular blade and you
just hold it on either side. It's got handles on it,
and you just rake it straight down the cob and
just cut it all off at once. I've never seen
that it's a frightening device, depending on how you look
at it, but it would work perfectly for that.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
That's what it's for. That's how it's designed. You should
try it out well.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
The problem, though, will, is that it's just easier to
eat it off the cob. You just dip it in
melted butter, and you slather all that butter all over
there and it drips down your chin and you have
that corn with melted butter taste in your mouth not
nearly long enough. I do like corn on the cob,
I really do. And you know, and especially at a
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crawfish boil, when it comes out with just a little
bit of the seasoning.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Now, I don't like it.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
If I pick it up and it looks like it
was it was dipped in cherry kool aid, I know
I'm not gonna like it. It's gonna be too spicy.
For me, But just a little bit on there really
gives it a little punch, would you agree? Oh no,
you don't know. You don't eat it off the cob
snooty thing that you are. It's a little up and
he will. I didn't expect that from you, little because
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I eat it differently because I just like to, not
because it's different, because it just seems so it's an
unnecessary step toward nutrition, let's put it that way.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
But it's just how I prefer to eat.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
It's okay, I'm just messing with you. I am. You
know you know I am. I'm just messing with you.
So I'm gonna do one more and then we'll do
something else. When is it our turn? This one raises
eyebrows or a life hack worth of knowing?
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Give me the life hack?
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Of course, everybody wants a good life hack. Storing a
spatula will in your bedroom will help you don't be
thinking what you're thinking either, don't. Okay, storing a spatula
in your bedroom can and this is more for seniors really,
and all of you don't go there because what you're
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gonna use that spatula floor for is to when you
make your bed you use it to shove the sheets
under the mattress, between the mattress and the box spring,
so that you don't have to try to lift up
that heavy mattress.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Why are you laughing? It's just ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Well, for a young, strapping, strong young man as yourself,
yeah maybe so. But to a lot of us, you
get a little get a little over a certain age
and you lose some of your strength. You're all, well,
you're not quite already losing muscle mass, but in a
couple of years you'll start losing muscle mass.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
If you don't do something about it.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Oh yeah, yeah me, Oh yeah, I haven't. I haven't
felt the effects of aging ever. Well, you haven't aged
long enough.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Then.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
I've been here for twenty eight years. It's not long enough.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
I'm still going, still going strong. I don't think that
I'm going to age like everybody else does.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
With you, that's hilarious. Guess who.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Guess who didn't think they were going to age either,
everybody who come before you. No, not like me. I've
really put some time and thought into it, and I just.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Find a way around it. Yeah, I don't see it happen.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Find a work around, Okay, you go with that, Well,
you go with that, all right. I'm gonna go back
over to this other page for a couple of minutes.
Here we've got Los Angeles and the violence out there
going on, mainstream media having a field day with ice
operations around LA and the violence it's broken out over
the rest there for several days now, days and nights
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until the mayor finally put a curfew on that city.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
California Governor Gavin Newsom even filed he filed a suit
over President Trump's deployment of National Guard troops and marines
to defend his state. Is it's pretty clear he's willing
to let the whole state of California burn rather than
stop the violence there against law enforcement. Uh. That plea,
by the way, was struck down, So the troops stay
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and thank goodness for that, or it just be worse.
I still think, by the way, that Houston's demonstrations over
the weekend are going to go off peacefully, probably not quietly,
and that's okay. Bullhorns and tambourines and drums and whatever
you want to bring out to make noise to get
your point across. I still think it's more, it's more
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helpful just to have conversations with the media when they
show up, because you know they will. And by the way,
anybody who causes damage or injury I think needs to
be hauled off and prosecuted. And that's where the left
and the right disagree from California. California's response to what's
going on in LA. It seems like Newsom's okay with
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burning people's vehicles and throwing rocks and bottles at people
and smashing windows. And oh, I saw a video this
morning was almost kind of funny drone footage of a
man hitting the rear window of the law enforcement van
that was trying to get out of an area. He
was hitting it with his skateboard. He was using his
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skateboard as a weapon, which actually is a pretty potent weapon.
When you think about the edges of a skateboard maybe
hitting somebody or something, or the wheels or any part
of that thing. Really a lot of it'd be stopped
pretty quickly. I think if a demonstrators were not allowed
to wear masks. Saw a video this morning this guy
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wearing a mask and a hoodie, a coward basically who
spotted or not spotted. He was suspected of throwing molotov
cocktails at law enforcement. And then just a little while
later I found the story of someone who looked just
like that guy who had been arrested for throwing molotov
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cocktails at the police.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
What do you know?
Speaker 3 (28:58):
He was a Mexican national arrested in charge with attempted
murder for throwing molotov cocktails at law enforcement. From the
stupid excuse desk, I can do this in thirty six,
No I can't. I'm gonna hold this. I'm gonna come
back to it when we come back, because it's really telling.
It's a telling piece on how the media has reacted
(29:19):
to all of this and what they think of what's
going on out there, with all the effort that's underway
to stop the violence, to stop the looting. Now that
is part of peaceful protest. Apparently, just break into stores
and take what you want and that's okay because you
know you're not doing anything wrong.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
It's insanity.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Wrong is right and right is wrong, and that's kind
of a serious thing if you look at religion and history.
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Speaker 1 (31:22):
Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike. All right,
welcome back to fifty plus on this. It was pretty
dismal a while ago.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
I haven't seen the outside in what will forty five
fifty minutes whatever it's been since I've.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Been in here, hopefully, and it's it's supposed to.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Clear off in if it's not clear where you are now,
it should be within an hour or so moving across,
and then there's a little bit more trying to get here.
But I don't I don't think it's gonna do much, honestly. Um, okay,
I'll check that off.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
I'll check this off.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Oh the stupid excuse desk, that's where I was going
to start. ABC News wins this prize hands down for
the most ridiculous justification of violence in Los Angeles that's
yet to be heard.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
And although I'm sure something else is going to pop up, it.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
Won't take long anyway. For now, the front runner. At
what we've learned was that protesters were hiring Weaimo rides.
You know what those are, will the self driving cars?
Speaker 2 (32:30):
I believe?
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Yeah, so WEIMO out there in LA. The protesters were
hiring those Weimo rides and then setting the cars on
fire just to watch them burn. A reporter on ABC said,
and there was a quote from him or her in
the story, and it goes like this quote, there's a
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large group of people. It could turn very volatile if
you move law enforcement in there in the wrong way
and turn what is just a bun bunch of people
having fun watching cars burn into a massive confrontation and
altercation between officers.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
End quote.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
So it's okay to destroy a business's assets, that's okay,
But don't have law enforcement go in there and put
a stop to it. Oh no, not while they're having
fun watching cars burn. We truly are at a point
where wrong is being portrayed is right?
Speaker 2 (33:33):
And I pray that we can turn this around.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
How can you know if it were that reporter's car
out there in the street burning, maybe he or she
might have a different opinion. I suspect he or she
would have a different opinion someday, someday, we'll fix this. Meanwhile,
there's been quite a bit of talk recently about men
(33:57):
competing in women's sport too. Riley Gaines back in front
of microphones recently to express her disgust over USA today
colonists Dancy Armor's defensive rules that pretty much, in Riley's words,
forced women to strip down naked in front of men
who were allowed in locker rooms simply because they identify
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as a woman and their schools allow those men to
compete on women's teams, and they don't have to be
made to walk anywhere else but the women's locker room.
They don't have to go off in a room by themselves,
which is what some of these in the early incidents,
some of the women's teams were forced to go into
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other places so that a boy pretending to be a
girl could have access to the girl's locker room. If
they wanted to be away from that person, they had
to leave, and that other person.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Couldn't just couldn't be inconvenienced at all.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
That's another example of what's kind of messed up.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
From the.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
I definitely want to get to this from the agriculture desk,
comes News that at least two Chinese nationals at a
Midwest university have been arrested after being caught with a
fungus pathogen that if it were leaked into American agriculture.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Bear in mind, they were at an.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
Ag school working on crops and whatnot, and they're bringing
this into that arena to do God knows well. We
know what they were going to do with it. They're
not going to now, but if this stuff were leaked
into American agriculture, it would and could could and would
pretty much man It reduced crop yields. I was listening
(35:41):
to a story about it this morning. It reduces crop yields,
and it also has potential to cause serious illness and
potentially even death to anybody who's around it. They were
smuggling it in with their electronic devices. It was hidden
inside these students electronics. You don't have to have a
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whole lot of that stuff. It's gonna multiply on its
own if you get it in the right environment. There
was actually stuff a very similar case back in twenty
twenty two of agro terrorism.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
That's what they're calling it. It's a bio weapon.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Clearly, remember all that stuff about taking over this country
without a shot being fired. You're kind of watching it happen.
Stuff like this. It's very, very frightening. It could destroy
our entire nation's production of wheat and rice and several
other grain crops. That's what it attacks. And it's not
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the first time. And you can bet, you can bet
that over the last four years some of that stuff
made it in here as well. That's what's really frightening.
We don't know what happened in the past four years,
and may never we may never figure this out. I
took care of that. I took care of this. We've
got a couple of minutes. Let's go back to the
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fun stuff.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Will okay?
Speaker 3 (37:03):
And well I'll leave you alone on the corner on
the cob. Everybody can eat corn however they want to. Uh,
Houston needs this. When is it our turn? Or this
one raises eyebrows?
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Houston needs this? Thank you will.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
A town in Pennsylvania called Millersburg has launched a new
pothole fixing program and it's it's tongue in cheek name.
You want to take a you want to take a guest,
will what fill my hole? And if you're wondering if
that's intentionally tongue in cheek pretty much.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Yeah uh.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
This one also arrived on the desk with a at
least a dozen other suggestions, not one of which I
found was tasteful or funny. So consider yourselves spared, and
trust me they were. They're pretty rough. And whoever wrote them?
(37:59):
I wonder who comes up with these things, because on
every day's edition of this site, I use to get
some of this stuff. There's one item that has and
here's some other things to think about are here's some
other hot takes or lines funny, funny, funny, and they're
usually not. A family in France found out that a
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small sculpture they thought was worthless was worth a million bucks.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
Will a million bucks now?
Speaker 3 (38:30):
Okay, real quickly, because I want to get to I
might be able to get both of these. First of all,
this one raises his eyebrows. Cancer survivor in Canada has
hit his third lottery jackpot in less than a year.
He won a half a million in August, to have
a million in November and another million last month. Hmm,
(38:52):
I think that's on the up and up? Is he
just lucky?
Speaker 2 (38:54):
Will? I think he's got the numbers down?
Speaker 3 (38:59):
Yeah? So we gotta bounce off of that to get
to this something called boil in a bag funerals. You
know what that is, well boil and it's starting to
become a thing in the UK. It's already legal in
some places. They put you in a bucket, they dump
a bunch of chemicals in there, your body dissolves and
they flush you down the drain. I hope not here
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and I hope not me. Ever, thanks for listening. We'll
be back tomorrow. Audios
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And now fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, welcome
yet again. I don't know for about the several thousandth time, huh.
Will to fifty plus. The show opens doors and minds
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By the way, So if you want to hear about
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Same for anybody who's interested in using fifty plus or
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the people we have over there, but it's just another
moving part and with me, you just deal exclusively with
me and we get the deal cut and we care
of business. I take care of you, you take care
of me, and it'll work same way. Quick email and
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I'll answer as soon as I can. There is a
special event that I want to mention today, and I'm
only getting to it today. I'm a little late, honestly,
because I just found out about it this morning after
I believe at least two previous emails about it vanished
somehow from my inbox. There's an outside chance they may
(02:25):
have landed in junk mail, but I'm not I'm not
even gonna consider that I think they were in the inbox.
But I was in Dallas for a baseball tournament through Sunday,
and then yesterday was my only day off, and I
had a lot of things I had to do then,
and so I may flat have just missed them. When
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I came in yesterday, I had right at four thousand
emails that I needed to deal with.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
And I'm not through them yet.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Believe me, I'm not, although I stayed here last night
until about six fifteen, six point thirty trying to whittle
on that stack. In any event, the event is far
more important than that story. And what it is is
the Houston Veterans Job Fair, and that's set for eleven
am to three pm tomorrow at the Windom Houston Over
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near NRG Stadium. I believe that's where they have that
event annually at the same hotel there, the Wyndham Houston
Over near NRG. Presented by the Disabled American Veterans Group
and Recruit Military. They put these events on all over
the country, I'm pretty sure, to help returning veterans find
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their way back into civilian life.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
And it's absolutely free.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
You can register in advance or recommend to someone you
know that they register in advance at my dot recruit
military dot com. I know it's late, I know it's
short notice, but I can't ignore this. It's just too good.
The people who who where the uniform, the people who
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serve our country, deserve far more than this country has
ever been able to give them. And this is an
opportunity where the private sector can step in and say,
you know what, we'll hire you.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
We know you're going to.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Be a good worker, we know you'll you'll work hard
to improve our company. Tomorrow eleven to three Wyndham, Houston
over by NRG. Totally free. If you know somebody who
needs that boost, let them know about this and maybe
give them a ride over there.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Why not. Totally free, not.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Gonna cost you anything but little gas. These people sometimes
have trouble find an honest work and good pay, and
they deserve way better than that.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Every one of them does.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
This fair gives them a good shot at landing a
job that'll get them onto a solid track to at
my dot recruit military dot com.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Or if you can't, if.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
You don't remember that in ten minutes, twenty minutes, whatever,
email me and I'll send you a copy of the innnouncement.
I got about it, and that'll take care of that.
You'll have hard copy you can print out and find
your way over there from the Good Financial News desk.
Inflation rose last month less than expected, and the price
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of gasoline happens to be forty cents lower across the
country than it was just a year ago. I wonder
why I'm betting you won't find much online or on
TV about either of those uplifting facts. Lower inflation means
our dollars are going to stretch a little farther, and
lower gas prices mean transportation costs for everything that moves
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around this country comes down, or at worst, at worst
it stays flat. So we are headed in a good direction.
We are finding our way out of the weeds that
we were left in. It's like walking back onto the
putting green. It's a golf reference here. It's like walking
(05:59):
back on on to the putting green after spending four
years in US Open rough. And anybody who's watched any
part of the prelude to the US Open this week
will know what I'm talking about. The rough for this
tournament is the thickest that I've ever seen it, the
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thickest that almost anybody has ever seen rough on any
golf course, probably except for maybe one that was abandoned
and then looked at about a month later. It's a
remarkable challenge these guys are going to face. And in fact,
I'm gonna make a note to myself Saturday am at
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US Venue. The reason I'm making that little note is
because I saw several of the pros up there who
have now played a practice round or two in that
rof they were asked approximately what shot or what school
or an eighteen handicap player would shoot on that layout
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as it's set up right now, and the numbers ranged
from one hundred and twenty to one hundred and fifty.
And based on what I've seen of the golf course
and what they were talking about, with the way the
greens are in the green complexes, one point fifty might be.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
A little low.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
And that's presuming that they bring enough golf balls to finish,
because the average amateur player isn't gonna have spotters.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
They're gonna have to have spotters.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Every twenty yards, every twenty yards on both sides of
every hole, or these guys are going to lose golf balls.
And if they lose golf balls in the rough, not
into a creek or not into the woods. If they
lose golf balls into the rough, they're gonna be hot.
They are not gonna like that. But I'll bet you
it happens. I'll bet you it happens. At some point
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this week, a ball might bounce off a tree and
go in an odd direction and come back into the rough,
And when everybody's looking in the woods for it to fall,
who knows what it might be. But it's gonna be
tough on these guys, and you're gonna see them get frustrated.
It'll be fun to watch. I can't wait. Honestly, I
love watching the US Open for that very reason. And
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I'm not trying to make these guys look bad. I'm
just interested to see how they handle the what we
deal with almost on a day to day basis. Most
people aren't strong enough to get that ball out of
the rough at all, and most eighteen handicaps certainly would
fall into that category. I don't know that they can
move the club strongly enough through all that grass to
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then force the ball up onto the face of the
club and out of the grass. We'll see, We'll see
who knows from the nothing desk, we're late Champions Tree Preservation.
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see what's going on with them. See if they're healthy
enough to get through storm season without falling on your house,
a neighbor's house, on your garage, on your cars, wherever
it might lean, depending on which way the wind's blowing.
You got to think about that. These trees have been
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through a lot in the past couple of years with
drought and flood, and drought and flood and the wet
and dry. Wet and dry causes those roots to become
weakened and sometimes damaged to the point where the trees
hanging on it looks pretty good, but under the surface
it's not terribly strong. Well, Champion Tree Preservation can take care.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Of that for you.
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And when they come out there, if they see an issue,
they'll tell you whether or not it can be dealt with.
If it can be they'll they'll feed the tree they
might prove the tree. They might suggest taking off some
big limbs. They might suggest, unfortunately, that you get this
one out of here before the storms come, because a
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big tree like that can do an awful lot of
damage and it's a very hard, long process to fix it.
If you take a tree.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
To the house.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Ask one of the women I work with here at
iHeart that happened to her and her husband a couple
of years ago with that direcho or whatever it was,
and their house got smashed by a tree that wasn't
as strong as they thought. Champion Tree Preservation, they'll come out,
they'll make that diagnosis for free, and then they'll sort
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Championstree dot com.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
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That's why every few months we wash him, check his
fluids and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This
is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Welcome to fifty plus again. Thank you will for that
musical interlude. Uh, not my favorite? Not my favorite. Honestly,
you like Bob Dylan?
Speaker 2 (11:28):
I do. I like Bob Dylan a lot, big fan.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Yeah, okay, now I know what to get you for
your birthday next year.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
My dad got me some Bob Dylan shirts for my birthday.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Do you hear? Do you have to hear Jose and
me talking on Friday when you were out for your birthday?
Speaker 2 (11:45):
I have to listen to the show. Who's Jose talking
about Alejandro? Alejandro?
Speaker 3 (11:49):
I'm sorry, Yeah, I did not listen. Jose is the
guy that another guy I work with elsewhere. It doesn't matter,
but yeah, I'm missnounced or I misspoke. Alejandro and I
talked about how we had plans to take you to
a very nice steakhouse if you.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Had shown up.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Really, yeah, we were gonna take you. That's what we
were going to do. But you had you had other plans,
and we understood, we respected that, and we didn't want
to bother you and tell you all about our planet.
Was kind of a surprise. I feel like you could
have just not told me about it at all. Now
you would probably felt better, wouldn't you. Yeah, yeah, you
missed out.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Will.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Sorry for Alejandro Le Guy Lee Good Mary.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Jose is a guy I work with with ut Health.
He's the guy who sends me. And they look nothing alike.
Jose like six foot two, big strapping dude, and Alejandro
more of an average size, average height and weight and everything. Uh,
both of whom all in fact, all three of you,
I think could add your ages and not hit mine.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I bet we'd be close. I bet we'd be close
on that one. Youar what what are you? Twenty twenty eight,
twenty eight?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
And Alejandro you think is what maybe I think is
twenty seven twenty seven, So that's fifty five and no, maybe, no,
maybe we couldn't quite make all three of you. I'm
not battld for God's sakes, I'm not eighty not even
near eighty yet. So anyway, it doesn't matter. Let's get
(13:28):
back to where I was. By the way, I got
that taking care of oh from the boys we'll be
boys desk. And I saw a story last night on
the news. You see this yet, Will, about some teenagers
who allegedly broke into the astronome and shot some video
and some pictures outside too, and then I tailed it
out of there when they realized they were busted. No,
you see that they got they got arrested. If I remember,
(13:50):
right as they were they were running away from the
facility and trying to get over a fence, and that
that's all that, This is all at edge. They're innocent
until proven guilty. Of course, kids are stupid, even eighteen
year olds, despite their coming of legal age, for a
lot of things, including the law. And it takes some
(14:12):
teenagers longer than others to learn that if you play
stupid games, you win stupid prizes, and that should be
the end of that too. Really, the boys will get
their hands slapped and probably have to do some community
service and stay out of trouble for the next couple
of years if any of them is convicted of any wrongdoing.
But one of the moms, if I heard her correctly,
(14:32):
pretty much was ignoring the side of law enforcement and
the evidence that her that was there, that her son
had done what they said he had done, and was
trying to defend what he and his boys did when
they entered the property when they went past that first fence,
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they'd messed up. And that's true, whether they actually went
inside the place or not. To be hones when we
grew up, when you and I grew up, most of
this audience and I grew up, parents didn't try to
dismiss some of the bonehead things we did so quickly.
They loved their kids, but they wouldn't automatically believe our
stories over what they were hearing from officials, people who
(15:18):
wear badges. I did stupid stuff as a kid, and
I got punished for it, too, and not harshly, not violently.
What they did was they took away things I enjoyed,
toys when I was little, then the car keys when
I was a little older. And I didn't do those
stupid things twice. And that's not even that's not even
tough love. That's just good parenting. I hear so away
(15:43):
from this particular case, I hear so many parents defending
some of the things their kids do. When even at
baseball games, I see it sometimes these parents go full
on defense mode when they're little boy or little girl
does clearly does something in front of one hundred witnesses,
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and they said no, no, no, that's not how it happened. No, no, no,
So keep that in mind, and maybe for this audience
at least remind your children that they're the parents and
not their children's best friends or or support group or whatever.
I don't want to go to the stuff going on
(16:24):
in LA, but I'm gonna have to at some point.
They you what, We'll hold back for a little while,
uh and maybe go to Oh this one I thought
was uplifting from Jacksonville, the Jacksonville News desk. I guess
I'll have to sense I have that propensity to put
everything behind a desk. City council there passed a bill
(16:45):
I believe yesterday that's gonna prevent any more taxpayer money
from being used to fund anything having to do with
illegal immigrants. What concerns me is that it takes a
new law to stop any government entity from funding things
to which low income Americans don't have equal access, if
(17:06):
not only access. We have for the past four years
been shelling out billions upon billions of dollars to fund
people who who don't have a legal right to be
in this country. Everybody's case is different, and I respect that,
and I recognize that, but to continue to fund their
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medical care, their housing, their food, their transportation, their cell phones,
while we have Americans in this country who are desperately
trying to better themselves, who really are trying a lot.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Of people, a lot of people on the dole.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
With US programs, who have no intention of ever going
back to work. And that's that's a mess we made
for ourselves, and someday maybe we can address that. The
bottom line is Americans come first. They should.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
This is our country.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
And I think that anybody who who doesn't want to
become a citizen. That's something that hadn't been talked about
much either, is a lot of these people have been
in the country for years and not made any effort
to assimilate and become citizens of our country. It's just
I don't want to get too far into this, I
really don't. I'm just going to leave that. I'm going
(18:28):
to leave that there for now and go to something
a little bit lighter. Well, it's national what day? It's
a food product?
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Oh, let me see if it's up here. It's a
food product. Yes, it is food. It is food. It's
natural food. It's a National banana Day.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
You know, you're warmer than you think that's a very
big hint. You're closer than you think.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
It's a fruit.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
No, no, it's not a fruit. It's a vegetable. And
by choosing, you are closer than you think. No, no, no, no, no,
you go in the wrong direction, wrong direction, wrong direction.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Is it similar in shape or color?
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (19:13):
And yes? Oh National Squashed Day? Close?
Speaker 3 (19:20):
But no, very close? You understand the program? Now, Lord,
will we got ten seconds? I don't know National Corn
on the Cob Day? Six percent of Americans don't like
corn on the cob. That's so sad for them, but
it does leave more for us. Get stuck in my teeth?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
And what's your point? I don't like that? What's your point?
Speaker 3 (19:44):
You know? So you don't eat jerky either, do you? No,
God will expand your horizons, will yeah, your culinary horizons.
You tea house Institute on Aging where you will not
get corn stuck in your teeth, although you might get
a lot of help for any and every possible medical
(20:07):
issue you can drum up.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
And boy at our age, can we drum up a
bunch of them? Huh ut.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Heals Institute on Aging has been around for the better
part of ten or eleven years now. And have They've
continued to provide seniors with specialized care. Everybody who's a
member of the Institute on Aging has gone back and
gott an additional training so that they can they can
approach us and treat us through the eyes of someone
(20:36):
who knows us, probably better than we know ourselves. You
got a pain, you got an ache, you got an issue,
you got a condition, whatever it is. If you go
to the website, you will find not only probably a
ton of information on that pain or ache or condition
or whatever has drawn you into the medical world, but
(20:56):
you will also find access to providers who are part
of this, and they're all over the place. Really mostly
at the medical Center. I talk about that all the time.
Mostly there, but many, if well not all of them,
but most of them also spend a little time in
outlying areas. All the way up to the Woodlands, all
the way down to Friendswood, all the way to Paarland,
(21:18):
all the way to Sugarland, Katie where wherever, Kingwood, just
anywhere and everywhere that you would need to see somebody
in the medical field, there's probably an Institute on Aging
person there to help you. Go to the website start there,
Utch dot Edu slash aging, utch dot edu slash aging.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
What's life without a net? If I suggest you go
to bed, sleep it off.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Just wait until the show's over, Sleepy. Back to Doug
Pike as fifty plus continues, Hie, Welcome back to fifty plus.
Thanks for listening. Certain to appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Back to National Corner the cob day, will I can't
believe you won't eat corn on the cop So what
do you do if somebody serves it?
Speaker 2 (21:58):
You just cut it off of the knife?
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Sure? Do you feel compelled to do that? Don't?
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Doesn't it still get stuck in your teeth? No?
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Really, yes, because it's it's it's all about how you
eat it.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
And when you're eating it off of the cob, you're
having to scrape it off of that cob. So whereas
if you when you shovel it in with a fork,
you know, you can go straight to the molers.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
You know what, boy, if you don't, if you cut
it off with a knife, you to you tend to
leave a good portion of the meat from within that
kernel on the cob. You can't get it all. Maybe
if you're bad with a knife, you have a special
you know, there's actually a device. I've seen them advertised,
I don't remember where, probably online of something that you
(22:50):
can just kind of it's a circular blade and you
just hold it on either side. It's got handles on it,
and you just rake it straight down the cob and
just cut it all off at once. I've never seen
that it's a frightening device, depending on how you look
at it, but it would work perfectly for that.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
That's what it's for. That's how it's designed. You should
try it out well.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
The problem, though, will, is that it's just easier to
eat it off the cob. You just dip it in
melted butter, and you slather all that butter all over
there and it drips down your chin and you have
that corn with melted butter taste in your mouth not
nearly long enough. I do like corn on the cob,
I really do. And you know, and especially at a
(23:36):
crawfish boil, when it comes out with just a little
bit of the seasoning.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Now, I don't like it.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
If I pick it up and it looks like it
was it was dipped in cherry kool aid, I know
I'm not gonna like it. It's gonna be too spicy.
For me, But just a little bit on there really
gives it a little punch, would you agree? Oh no,
you don't know. You don't eat it off the cob
snooty thing that you are. It's a little up and
he will. I didn't expect that from you, little because
(24:04):
I eat it differently because I just like to, not
because it's different, because it just seems so it's an
unnecessary step toward nutrition, let's put it that way.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
But it's just how I prefer to eat.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
It's okay, I'm just messing with you. I am. You
know you know I am. I'm just messing with you.
So I'm gonna do one more and then we'll do
something else. When is it our turn? This one raises
eyebrows or a life hack worth of knowing?
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Give me the life hack?
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Of course, everybody wants a good life hack. Storing a
spatula will in your bedroom will help you don't be
thinking what you're thinking either, don't. Okay, storing a spatula
in your bedroom can and this is more for seniors really,
and all of you don't go there because what you're
(24:54):
gonna use that spatula floor for is to when you
make your bed you use it to shove the sheets
under the mattress, between the mattress and the box spring,
so that you don't have to try to lift up
that heavy mattress.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Why are you laughing? It's just ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Well, for a young, strapping, strong young man as yourself,
yeah maybe so. But to a lot of us, you
get a little get a little over a certain age
and you lose some of your strength. You're all, well,
you're not quite already losing muscle mass, but in a
couple of years you'll start losing muscle mass.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
If you don't do something about it.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Oh yeah, yeah me, Oh yeah, I haven't. I haven't
felt the effects of aging ever. Well, you haven't aged
long enough.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Then.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
I've been here for twenty eight years. It's not long enough.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
I'm still going, still going strong. I don't think that
I'm going to age like everybody else does.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
With you, that's hilarious. Guess who.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Guess who didn't think they were going to age either,
everybody who come before you. No, not like me. I've
really put some time and thought into it, and I just.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Find a way around it. Yeah, I don't see it happen.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Find a work around, Okay, you go with that, Well,
you go with that, all right. I'm gonna go back
over to this other page for a couple of minutes.
Here we've got Los Angeles and the violence out there
going on, mainstream media having a field day with ice
operations around LA and the violence it's broken out over
the rest there for several days now, days and nights
(26:34):
until the mayor finally put a curfew on that city.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
California Governor Gavin Newsom even filed he filed a suit
over President Trump's deployment of National Guard troops and marines
to defend his state. Is it's pretty clear he's willing
to let the whole state of California burn rather than
stop the violence there against law enforcement. Uh. That plea,
by the way, was struck down, So the troops stay
(27:03):
and thank goodness for that, or it just be worse.
I still think, by the way, that Houston's demonstrations over
the weekend are going to go off peacefully, probably not quietly,
and that's okay. Bullhorns and tambourines and drums and whatever
you want to bring out to make noise to get
your point across. I still think it's more, it's more
(27:26):
helpful just to have conversations with the media when they
show up, because you know they will. And by the way,
anybody who causes damage or injury I think needs to
be hauled off and prosecuted. And that's where the left
and the right disagree from California. California's response to what's
going on in LA. It seems like Newsom's okay with
(27:47):
burning people's vehicles and throwing rocks and bottles at people
and smashing windows. And oh, I saw a video this
morning was almost kind of funny drone footage of a
man hitting the rear window of the law enforcement van
that was trying to get out of an area. He
was hitting it with his skateboard. He was using his
(28:09):
skateboard as a weapon, which actually is a pretty potent weapon.
When you think about the edges of a skateboard maybe
hitting somebody or something, or the wheels or any part
of that thing. Really a lot of it'd be stopped
pretty quickly. I think if a demonstrators were not allowed
to wear masks. Saw a video this morning this guy
(28:30):
wearing a mask and a hoodie, a coward basically who
spotted or not spotted. He was suspected of throwing molotov
cocktails at law enforcement. And then just a little while
later I found the story of someone who looked just
like that guy who had been arrested for throwing molotov
(28:55):
cocktails at the police.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
What do you know?
Speaker 3 (28:58):
He was a Mexican national arrested in charge with attempted
murder for throwing molotov cocktails at law enforcement. From the
stupid excuse desk, I can do this in thirty six,
No I can't. I'm gonna hold this. I'm gonna come
back to it when we come back, because it's really telling.
It's a telling piece on how the media has reacted
(29:19):
to all of this and what they think of what's
going on out there, with all the effort that's underway
to stop the violence, to stop the looting. Now that
is part of peaceful protest. Apparently, just break into stores
and take what you want and that's okay because you
know you're not doing anything wrong.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
It's insanity.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
Wrong is right and right is wrong, and that's kind
of a serious thing if you look at religion and history.
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Speaker 1 (31:22):
Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike. All right,
welcome back to fifty plus on this. It was pretty
dismal a while ago.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
I haven't seen the outside in what will forty five
fifty minutes whatever it's been since I've.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Been in here, hopefully, and it's it's supposed to.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Clear off in if it's not clear where you are now,
it should be within an hour or so moving across,
and then there's a little bit more trying to get here.
But I don't I don't think it's gonna do much, honestly. Um, okay,
I'll check that off.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
I'll check this off.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Oh the stupid excuse desk, that's where I was going
to start. ABC News wins this prize hands down for
the most ridiculous justification of violence in Los Angeles that's
yet to be heard.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
And although I'm sure something else is going to pop up, it.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
Won't take long anyway. For now, the front runner. At
what we've learned was that protesters were hiring Weaimo rides.
You know what those are, will the self driving cars?
Speaker 2 (32:30):
I believe?
Speaker 3 (32:31):
Yeah, so WEIMO out there in LA. The protesters were
hiring those Weimo rides and then setting the cars on
fire just to watch them burn. A reporter on ABC said,
and there was a quote from him or her in
the story, and it goes like this quote, there's a
(32:51):
large group of people. It could turn very volatile if
you move law enforcement in there in the wrong way
and turn what is just a bun bunch of people
having fun watching cars burn into a massive confrontation and
altercation between officers.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
End quote.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
So it's okay to destroy a business's assets, that's okay,
But don't have law enforcement go in there and put
a stop to it. Oh no, not while they're having
fun watching cars burn. We truly are at a point
where wrong is being portrayed is right?
Speaker 2 (33:33):
And I pray that we can turn this around.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
How can you know if it were that reporter's car
out there in the street burning, maybe he or she
might have a different opinion. I suspect he or she
would have a different opinion someday, someday, we'll fix this. Meanwhile,
there's been quite a bit of talk recently about men
(33:57):
competing in women's sport too. Riley Gaines back in front
of microphones recently to express her disgust over USA today
colonists Dancy Armor's defensive rules that pretty much, in Riley's words,
forced women to strip down naked in front of men
who were allowed in locker rooms simply because they identify
(34:18):
as a woman and their schools allow those men to
compete on women's teams, and they don't have to be
made to walk anywhere else but the women's locker room.
They don't have to go off in a room by themselves,
which is what some of these in the early incidents,
some of the women's teams were forced to go into
(34:38):
other places so that a boy pretending to be a
girl could have access to the girl's locker room. If
they wanted to be away from that person, they had
to leave, and that other person.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Couldn't just couldn't be inconvenienced at all.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
That's another example of what's kind of messed up.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
From the.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
I definitely want to get to this from the agriculture desk,
comes News that at least two Chinese nationals at a
Midwest university have been arrested after being caught with a
fungus pathogen that if it were leaked into American agriculture.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Bear in mind, they were at an.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
Ag school working on crops and whatnot, and they're bringing
this into that arena to do God knows well. We
know what they were going to do with it. They're
not going to now, but if this stuff were leaked
into American agriculture, it would and could could and would
pretty much man It reduced crop yields. I was listening
(35:41):
to a story about it this morning. It reduces crop yields,
and it also has potential to cause serious illness and
potentially even death to anybody who's around it. They were
smuggling it in with their electronic devices. It was hidden
inside these students electronics. You don't have to have a
(36:02):
whole lot of that stuff. It's gonna multiply on its
own if you get it in the right environment. There
was actually stuff a very similar case back in twenty
twenty two of agro terrorism.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
That's what they're calling it. It's a bio weapon.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Clearly, remember all that stuff about taking over this country
without a shot being fired. You're kind of watching it happen.
Stuff like this. It's very, very frightening. It could destroy
our entire nation's production of wheat and rice and several
other grain crops. That's what it attacks. And it's not
(36:39):
the first time. And you can bet, you can bet
that over the last four years some of that stuff
made it in here as well. That's what's really frightening.
We don't know what happened in the past four years,
and may never we may never figure this out. I
took care of that. I took care of this. We've
got a couple of minutes. Let's go back to the
(37:02):
fun stuff.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Will okay?
Speaker 3 (37:03):
And well I'll leave you alone on the corner on
the cob. Everybody can eat corn however they want to. Uh,
Houston needs this. When is it our turn? Or this
one raises eyebrows?
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Houston needs this? Thank you will.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
A town in Pennsylvania called Millersburg has launched a new
pothole fixing program and it's it's tongue in cheek name.
You want to take a you want to take a guest,
will what fill my hole? And if you're wondering if
that's intentionally tongue in cheek pretty much.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Yeah uh.
Speaker 3 (37:39):
This one also arrived on the desk with a at
least a dozen other suggestions, not one of which I
found was tasteful or funny. So consider yourselves spared, and
trust me they were. They're pretty rough. And whoever wrote them?
(37:59):
I wonder who comes up with these things, because on
every day's edition of this site, I use to get
some of this stuff. There's one item that has and
here's some other things to think about are here's some
other hot takes or lines funny, funny, funny, and they're
usually not. A family in France found out that a
(38:21):
small sculpture they thought was worthless was worth a million bucks.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
Will a million bucks now?
Speaker 3 (38:30):
Okay, real quickly, because I want to get to I
might be able to get both of these. First of all,
this one raises his eyebrows. Cancer survivor in Canada has
hit his third lottery jackpot in less than a year.
He won a half a million in August, to have
a million in November and another million last month. Hmm,
(38:52):
I think that's on the up and up? Is he
just lucky?
Speaker 2 (38:54):
Will? I think he's got the numbers down?
Speaker 3 (38:59):
Yeah? So we gotta bounce off of that to get
to this something called boil in a bag funerals. You
know what that is, well boil and it's starting to
become a thing in the UK. It's already legal in
some places. They put you in a bucket, they dump
a bunch of chemicals in there, your body dissolves and
they flush you down the drain. I hope not here
(39:20):
and I hope not me. Ever, thanks for listening. We'll
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