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And now fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, here
we go. I am back in the saddle.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
I took a week off to recharge my batteries, and
I have no doubt in my mind that we'll put
together some good best doves that I hope you enjoyed.
I heard from many of you. Actually, Walt, I was
out that you knew they were repeats, but you learned
something else when you even heard the same segment again.
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So thanks for giving me a listen. Even though I
wasn't here, I did manage in this week to burn
the candle at both ends all week long. Really Monday Monday,
I'll give you a brief description. Monday was Cartpath Golf,
which if you play golf. You understand how much walking
you're gonna do if you're used to riding in a cart.
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And I did Tuesday more cartpath golf. Wednesday golf again
off the pass though this time so I had a
little bit of a break. Then Wednesday afternoon I get
a call from my buddy Forrest Wilkinson up in East Texas.
He said he's on his way to Freeport. He's going
to spend the night down there and fish all afternoon
and the next morning.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
It took me about.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
About three minutes to say, yeah, okay, I'll meet you
down there. Because I hadn't been in a while, I
wanted to get a look at it again. I wanted
to see if I could still cast a lure and
catch a fish down there at the beach. And we
had a good time, We really did. I that afternoon
fishing wasn't so good. We were probably in the wrong
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place in hindsight. We spent the night. There was a
hotel down there, he had already gotten the room. I
grabbed a room down the hall from his, and we
were out before dawn the next morning. Oh and to
just add insult to injury, when I was so tired anyway,
we get to the last set of train tracks we
have to cross to go where.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
We want to go. Ding ding ding ding ding. There's
a train stopped on the tracks.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
We're there twelve fourteen, fifteen minutes, I don't know, twenty minutes,
and still we're still in good shape time wise. But
the bottom line is he calls me says, hey, man,
I found a workaround. We could just go make a
U turn here and we're gonna go a couple of
miles out of the way, but all that traffic we
can see through the train. We'll be over there in
about five minutes. Lead the way, so we get on
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the rocks. Fishing was not great, but it wasn't bad either,
So it was just it was just a way to
fill the morning and kind of get get back into
the rhythm of going down there and realize that even
when I'm tired, I can still make a drive to
the beach. I was a little concerned because I was
pretty exhausted, but nonetheless, we got that done. I came
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on back to the house, dragged in basically, and just
tripped over a nap.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
For about hour and a half two hours.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Woke up feeling kind of sporty too, right back to
the golf course like a dufus to try to do
more range work, and my poor legs were just shot.
I'd been carrying about twenty pounds of unnecessary fishing tackle,
it turned out in a backpack all the way out
to the ends of both the Quintana Jetty and the
Surfside jetty, and if you know how long those are
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as a pretty good hike after three days of golf.
Before that wake up Friday, I go to the Katie
Prairie early because that's where I used to hang out
fourteen years of guiding waterfowl hunts out there in the
prime of that prairie. I wanted to see what it
looked like. I did not see a single duck, by
the way, not any. There were none on top of
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the warehouses, there were none in the neighborhoods. There were
none in any of the buildings out there. And that's
most of what that prairie is now, unfortunately, as warehouses
and holes in the ground dug for water remediation because
of the floodplaine. It's kind of sad, honestly, to see
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what that place looks like. The only reason I actually
went out there Friday morning early, was to have time
to make a little tour around there and then go
shoot sporting clays with Jim Levell invited me to join
one of his a team that he had bought for
a big event benefiting Victory Ahead, a really fine organization
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that helps kids quite literally all over the world, just
kids that need a little help in hand. And there
are some specific projects that the director really likes and
when they get completed, he goes on to another project,
really a good cause though.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
And I didn't shoot too badly.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Steve Frunterhouse, I guess, was kind of our anchorman, and
then Brianna and Derek.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Derek shot well as well.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Brianna ends up winning high overall woman in the competition,
So I had a pretty good team. I just I
wish I could have carried a little more water than
I did. I didn't shoot badly. I hadn't shoot sporting
clays in a while, and I've never even dreamed of
being a great sporting clay shooter. I'm a much better
hunter than I am a sporting clay shooter, and that's
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just the way it is. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
But once I got through the first station, I calmed
down a little bit, and then about halfway through I
felt pretty good about where I was. I was becoming
more comfortable again. It's been a while since I shot,
but I held my own. I felt pretty good about it.
Then the weekend actually was pretty light. I was exhausted,
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got a few chores done that had been hanging over
my head for I don't know months. I made one
more range session out to the club and then slept
in both mornings.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Then another round of golf yesterday. Why not?
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Huh? First trip around the reworked gus Wortham course at
the invitation of Mike Bailey, a guy, a golf writer,
good friend of mine. I've known him for twenty something
maybe thirty years. He and I were both at the
newspaper for quite a while, and then he went off
on his own and I came into broadcast and there
we were. But we played golf. We played golf pretty
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often at media events. We run into each other, so
it was fun. A quick golf sidebar for those of
you who play and maybe haven't been over to gus Wortham.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
It was.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
It was better than I expected it to be, and
I expected it to be pretty good. It's had time. Now,
it's gone through, gone through one iteration when when it
got taken over by the city, and then it kind
of fell apart a little bit. I was told by
Mike and the guy I rode with, Doug Johnson, I
believe it was his name. And now because there's a
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tournament coming up, especially, it is in really good shape,
as good a course as I have played in a
long time. The green complexes are pretty pretty complex, but
once you figure out where you are and make sure
you keep the ball below the hole on your approach shots,
it's gettable.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
At least. I played the first few holes pretty well.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Then I got distracted by something, some business stuff that
came up on my phone.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
I should have just left the phone in the car, honestly,
but I held my own. It was fun.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
It was a really good time and a very good
golf course, very good golf course. We're gonna stop right
there so I don't get behind with a bunch of stuff,
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Speaker 1 (09:29):
Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike very quick.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Look at the markets and whatnot, that there was a
pretty sharp jobs decline in the revised Bureau of Labor
and Stats numbers. The markets didn't really seem particularly concerned though.
Those current numbers, by the way, are from a while
back and actually included mostly by NERA changes, and the
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only only the first couple of months of President Trump's
second term, gold was creeping up on. It was about
thirty six hundred and seventy dollars an ounce, I think
creeping up on thirty seven. And I've seen a couple
of predictions now of gold hitting four thousand dollars an
ounce by year's end.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
That's a that's a scary buy.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
I think for me anyway, I don't I don't want
to pay thirty seven hundred dollars and have it just
sit there for six months or a year or whatever,
and or Heaven forbid, go down, but I can tell
you that in about the last two years it's gone
up right about fifty percent, So that's not a bad
return for the people who bought it two years ago
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at twenty five hundred oil up a few ticks. I
think it was around sixty three dollars and thirty cents
something like that, but nothing nothing to write home about.
Kind of like the markets all for the indicators were
just blase, as they say, in regard to what was
going on in current news. A recent story in USA
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Today takes a direct shot at Christianity and the notion
of returning to more traditional roles for men and women.
I have no trouble with women in the workforce. There
are plenty of them around here that all do great jobs,
and women who want or need to go to work
in any capacity to fine with me. What I question
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to know is why the left seems just hell bent
on supporting the demise of traditional masculinity and what it brings.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
To the table.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
There are a lot of jobs in this world where
strength is really critical to the task at hand, and
most women not all of them, but most just simply
aren't as strong as men's.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
That's just the way it is, and.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Again there are all there are always exceptions to the rule,
but the rule is that men get the muscles and
women get the common sense to take care of an
entire family. I admire any woman who can do that
and work. That's especially generous contribution to the world. But
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it's just it's frustrating that you look back to the
last election the left trotted out Tim Wallas, tried to
present him as a man's man, and every time he
opened his mouth, he didn't really connect with that group
of people.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Current birth rates.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
In decline overall, and men being criticized for acting like men.
And I'm not talking about the ones who abuse women.
I'm not talking about the ones who disrespect women. They're despicable,
all of them. I'm talking about men who sue themselves
as protectors and providers. And there's nothing wrong with that.
And if we turn those traits into negatives, which is
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what's subtly being suggested on the left, we're pretty much
slowly but surely writing ourselves out of the future.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
We're just flat. It's just not gonna work.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
To the state of Chicago, or to the state of
Illinois by way of Chicago, where these folks have just
they've chosen illegal immigrants over Americans again, and I'm not surprised.
That's kind of period into story. Really, there's really no
other way to interpret the moves by that city's mayor,
the state's governor to just continue to refuse help that
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might reduce the murders, might reduce the other violent crimes
against the people who live there. They just they've got
blinders on, they've got security details. They don't know what
it's like to live on the streets of Chicago, especially
the South Side. I'd be scared to death to walk
out of my house if I lived on the South
Side of Chicago. It's just unbelievable. They're unbelievably disconnected. I
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guess from the reality of what's going on in that city.
Chicago's murder rate is through the roof. I'd be glad
to receive the help if it were offered that the
Democrats refused to provide their people. There's just no reason
for that. Speaking of violent crime, by the way, let's
take a look at the death of the Ukrainian immigrant
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Arena Zarutzka, twenty three years old, young woman who fled
a war torn country to seek refuge and start a
new life here, only to be stabbed to death on
a light rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina, this past week.
According to Newsmax, the guy accused of that crime, thirty
four year old guy. He's alleged to have done this crime,
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and he's been arrested to Carlos Brown Junior, arrested fourteen
times and most recently released by a Democrat judge on
a no cash bail in January. Back on the streets,
ends up killing a woman who wanted desperately to get
away from violence. This guy's a career criminal, Okay, friend
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of mine who spent an entire career with HPD and
retired as a longtime homicide detective with HPD. I called
him last week and talked to him about it. I
think I mentioned it on the program. How he explained
these violent criminals and the number of times they commit
violent crimes was pretty simple and made a lot of sense.
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Crime is their occupation, just like mine is broadcast radio.
Wills is technical support to keep these shows on the air.
Everybody around here has got a job, and we get
up and go to work every day. This guy's job
was violent crime. His specialization violent crime, and when he
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wakes up every morning, he goes to work at violent crime,
and for every time he's been arrested, this is what
my buddy told me, likely gotten away with just an
exponential number of more offenses. That's that's just unacceptable. It's
just unacceptable, and it should never be the norm. That's
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not gonna help anybody out.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Where do I want to go? Let's just take a
little lighter, a little pause in the heavy stuff and
go light. Uh.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
In something I titled on the Road again, a new
study found and I don't know, well, have you ever
experienced car sickness?
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Oh no, okay, no, nor have I really? Uh, But
a new study found that if you have the way
that might you might try to alleviate it is gentle,
joyful and cheerful music, they say, like uh, Pharrell his
song Happy or Hakuna Matata from The Lion King. I
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don't know how many times I could listen to Hakuna Matata, uh,
but if that works, whatever it did, Pick your favorite song,
something upbeat, something light and lilty, if if you will,
and maybe that'll get you through the ride without having
to reach for the bag or.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
To stuff the car stuffed the car. Now one of those.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Kind of sort of staying in that same thing. I
title this one stay in your Lane, only it's from
Kentucky Fried Chicken, which is releasing an official line of
jelly beans. Would you buy your jelly beans from KFC? Well, no, another,
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no at nor would I.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
We're in total.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Agreement on these and these now these are special. They
won't be available until Easter. But when you get them,
each bag is going to have three flavors, and you
can probably guess, oh man, this is just so nasty
fried chicken flavored jelly beans. You ready for those? Or
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sweet corn? Now, the sweet corn maybe, if it really
tastes like sweetcorn. But then the third flavor they're going
to offer, which I don't want any part of, thank
you very much, as gravy. Maybe if you eat the
chicken and gravy together, that might do something for you,
but I don't see any of that doing anything for me.
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I love jelly beans, I really do. And my wife,
bless her heart, makes a habit of She's put together
Easter baskets and little Christmas piles for my son, even
though he's seventeen, almost eighteen.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Now. Ever since he was born.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
He's had one and there's always either a box or
a bag of jelly beans, those assorted flavors in there,
and that's there more for me. He liked jelly beans
a little bit when he was younger, but he kind
of gave up on him as his taste buds matured
a little bit. But I still like him, and there's
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always a bag of them there for me. Greatly appreciate
all the flavors, and there are don't know the kind.
I guess you'd call them premium jelly beans.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
No, I get.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
I don't want to get in trouble with Will. It's
my first day back. I got to stay on track.
I love jelly beans. Period into story Berry Hill Restaurant.
That's another place I love. My wife and I had
dinner from there just a few nights ago. As a
matter of fact, during my vacation on the way home
from the golf club, made a stop there on fifty
nine at Sugar Creek Boulevard. It's been around for thirty
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something years, and honestly, has I got the fish tacos.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
I couldn't help myself. I love those things. Now.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
I started out with a steady diet of the seafood enchiladas,
which I still like, but now I kind of go
back and forth between those and the fish tacos. We
found them about well as long as we've been in
sugar Land, that's thirty something years, and now it's your turn.
Tried this casual, very family friendly restaurant had the same
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two chefs in the kitchen for decades, each putting out
a delicious, consistent, very variety or kind of text mech's
favorites if you will, with their own special twist though,
and they are good. If you're new to sugar Land,
somebody in the bar is probably going to ask you
to join them if you go up there and just
raise your hand. I did see this happen once, I
really had. Somebody was in there and was just staring
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up at the menu. It's like, I don't know what
I want. I'm really not sure, and the hostess said,
have you ever been here before? And the guy go, no,
I've really never been in the restaurant before, but I
heard about it and I wanted to try it. And
somebody over in the sports bar area said, hey, come
over and join us. We'll tell you all about it.
And I'm presuming he's been going back there ever since.
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Family dining to the left, sports bar on the right,
outdoor dining as you walk in berryhillsugar Land dot com.
If you've got a big group, they'll cater anything pretty
much anywhere in town too, Berryhillsugarland dot Com.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
That's why every few months we wash him, check his words,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, welcome back to
fifty plus. Thank you for listening. Certainly do appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
I have a story here from the Texas Scorecard that
shares Texas A and M universities pretty much looking at
a federal investigation behind the removal of a student from
class over objections to discussion about exposing children as young
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as three years old to transgender ideology. Allegedly, in an
undercover recording, said the story, the student and a very
high ranking official in the school had a conversation in
which that high ranking official defended that type of study
in the school, and then later that evening, after a
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lot of that came out, that same high ranking official
said in a statement that because the course con was
not consistent with its published description. That's a fancy way
of saying, well, we'll do something, but we're gonna just
make it a little technicality. It wasn't consistent with the
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published description. He directed the provost to remove the dean
and the head of that department from their administrative posts.
And what that to me sounds like it wasn't taken
all that seriously. But maybe if there is a more
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deliberate and detailed investigation, something will come of that to
maybe keep things like that from happening. I don't agree
that it's okay to teach three year olds that there
are two dozen genders when they don't even they barely
even understand any biology whatsoever. I think it's leading them,
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it's coaxing them down a road that they don't even
need to be on yet. I think that's just not
age appropriate to do that to toddlers. Basically, a three
year old has no business learning anything about.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
That from Breitbart.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
I'm gonna probably come back to that at some point
in the middle of the week, and I guess or
maybe I'll just address it right now. I think what's
going on with higher education in this country is that
we have for so long been told that your children
need to go to college. They have to go to
college because that's where they're going to learn what they
need to know to be successful in life.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
And what's happened, and that used to be the case.
What happened in.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
College was that kids learned to become adults, and they
learned to become responsible adults. They learn to become skilled adults.
They learned a lot of things about how life works
and how to choose a career path and how to
get on that path and be successful in it. But
now there's there's an overwhelming amount of education and I'm
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wrapping that in quotes that has very little, if anything
to do with the actual living of life and earning
of a living and being a.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Contributing member to society. It's a lot more.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
In doctrination and introduction to things that really aren't going
to help anybody be a better contributor to society. It
just it just fills their heads with things that don't
necessarily need to be there. Not not if I'm paying
money for my son to go to school, I don't
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want him to learn some of the things that they're
going to teach in some of those classes if they
want to, if they want to offer that as a
sideline for free, then the kids who want to be
involved if that can, can get involved with it. But otherwise,
like no, I don't think that's I don't think that
should be part of every universe. Well it's not part
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of every university's collection of classes, but it's in enough
of them. And these courses are leading kids in a
specific direction and telling them this is okay, this is
how it is, this is how it has to be,
and that's just not I think they're eliminating the opportunity
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to allow free thinking, especially when this kid got kicked
out of the class just for saying he.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Didn't want to be there. He or she I don't remember.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
I don't even know if it names the student or
says whether it was a young man or a young woman,
But one way or the other, that person has the
right to at least speak up. And when he or
she did, they were escorted at were not escorted, but
they were told to leave the classroom. And that's really
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that against everything that Texas A and M would have
stood for twenty thirty years ago, and what even some
of the more liberal schools I think would would how
they would handle it. I hope we can get a
rain on, a tighter rein on this at least and
make sure that the people who are teaching this sort
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of class are very explicit about what they're going to
be teaching, and if that's not going to be the case,
give the kids an opportunity to either accept or decline
some of these courses where they're being they're not being taught,
they're not being taught to think on their own. They're
just taught that this is the way that the new
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world has to be, and I disagree with that strongly.
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Speaker 3 (27:54):
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Speaker 1 (28:30):
Old guys rule, And of course women never get old.
If you want to avoid sleeping on the couch.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Okay, well, I think that sounds like a good three
fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
All Right, welcome back, final segment of this first show
I've done in what a week. Good heavens, It's been
a long time, seems like, and I'm glad to be
back in. I really am.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Where do I want to go? This one? This one
got me.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
This is one of those little shorty things that I
want to bring up and kind of wonder how you
feel about it, and maybe if you would use the
talkback button to give me your opinion on whether or
not you agree with. Well, I'm not gonna I'm not
gonna tell you how to think. I'm not even gonna
tell you how I think. I'm just gonna tell you
what I think might happen, and then we'll go from there.
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Use the talkback button. Go to the iHeartRadio app, Go
to KPRC, click on the I click on the talkback button.
You'll see a little You'll see it there easy to find.
So here's the scenario. Four year old boy North Carolina
sent to the hospital after a copperhead bid him at
his daycare facility while he was playing near a sandbox.
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It sounds like the kid will be okay, period. That's
the story. That's all they sent out. My question is
should the daycare center be held responsible for the bike?
I cannot imagine that any outdoor daycare area is immune
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from the intrusion of snakes, because snakes are they're pretty crafty,
and they're kind of a rule in the snake world.
If you're trying to identify a snake and you see
it in a place where you would never believe there
would be a snake, it's probably a rat snake. They
love to climb, They love to do all this stuff.
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Copperheads also climb, by the way. They eat cicadas as
fast as they can get to them, and so you
might find one up a tree, be very careful. I've
actually seen two going up the sides of trees out
where I play golf, and quite a few of them
on the ground. They try to keep them out of there.
But snakes or snakes, Like I said, so, so, should
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this family get legally involved against the daycare center for
the child being bitten by a copperhead? And or do
they do they need to install uh closer scrutiny, like
do a sweep of the entire playground before the kids
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go out, or is this just one of those freak
accidents that really doesn't require any more action than to
just be a little bit more diligent each time they
take the kids out. That's what I'd like to hear
from you, guys.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
I'm kind of.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
Curious to see how a Texas audience will will respond.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Do they do they find them?
Speaker 3 (31:37):
I'm sure lawyers have found them by now, but do
they seek out legal advice and perhaps bankrupt the daycare facility,
or especially since the child's gonna be okay, do they
just say, okay, everybody be more careful next time.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
I'll be curious to see how you go on that one.
Back to the news from Breitbart.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Actually, the White House Spokesparis spokesperson Caroline Levitt said recently
that a Wall Street Journal story about a birthday card
allegedly sent by President Trump to Jeffrey Epstein was an
outright hoax. The reporter who published this thing, said Levitt
waited until the same minute he published a story to
(32:24):
reach out to her office for comment. That is not journalism.
That's slimy at best, but it's not journalism. If you're
gonna try to get a comment from someone you give
them time to respond so that you can include their
response in the story. Once that story breaks, that's the
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one that's the version that the average person is going
to remember. And if they do end up at some
point publishing some sort of retraction or some sort of
response from the White House, you can bet it won't.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Be on the same page that that story was. Bill Bill.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
A little bit deeper, you'll have to look a little
bit harder to find that. That's just the way that's
worked since the printing press was invented. Or an interesting
summer yesterday to the Biden administration's use of the auto
pen to sign hundreds, maybe more thousands. I don't know
any number of documents that should have been signed by
the president himself. The first use of the machine, according
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to what I heard, was on him, I believe, his
fourth day in office, and it just continued signing off
a broad range of documents that most of which should
have required a legitimate signature for the president himself. Traditionally
autopen it's just something it's been used for thank you
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letters from supporters and other such politically insignificant pages. But
Biden's signature was sprinkled pretty generously really onto documents that
should have been penned by his own hand. So the
question is who authorized so many signatures on behalf of Biden?
And I guess there's a follow up and how many
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of them were made without his knowledge? And why? What
were they hiding? Why were they doing this? What all
these people who got pardoned into the future for crimes
they may or may not have committed. That's a pretty
broad brushstroke really to take somebody.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Off the hook.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
And I can't imagine that any sitting president would have
done that so many times on his way out the door.
I would like to think it's not that way anyway,
m oh I'll give you some good news, and so
this is something it's just going to be a little
bit of a tease because I want to follow up
with somebody from UTA Health and get the right person
(34:55):
on the line. I read this morning a story about
a tiny protein that's been found to dismantle the toxic
clumps in the brain linked to Alzheimer's disease. Now, I
don't want to go, Like I said, I don't want
to go too deep on this without running it by
my friends at UT Health. But from what I read,
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this could be a major breakthrough in the treatment of Alzheimer's.
If that stuff can go in there, and I say
that stuff because I don't really know a better term
to describe it. But whatever that tiny little protein is,
if it can get in there and untie the knots
that Alzheimer's ties, this is gonna be just a tremendous,
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tremendous help on the way to at least a remedy
to or maybe a tremendous slowing down of the progression,
and who knows, potentially even a cure. We're gonna get
one of their great doctors over here or over there
to weigh in hope fully this week, I'll send the
(36:02):
I'll send the email out as soon as we finish
the show here and I'll try to get you more
information on that thirty seconds left to go. I can't
do a lot, but i'll do this. Twenty twenty five
on track to be the year of the most product
recalls ever. They've risen forty percent over the fat for
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last five years. I've got a couple of them on
my vehicle right now, and I guess.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
I'll go get them done. Uh maybe on my next vacation.
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And now fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, here
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I took a week off to recharge my batteries, and
I have no doubt in my mind that we'll put
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I heard from many of you. Actually, Walt, I was
out that you knew they were repeats, but you learned
something else when you even heard the same segment again.
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So thanks for giving me a listen. Even though I
wasn't here, I did manage in this week to burn
the candle at both ends all week long. Really Monday Monday,
I'll give you a brief description. Monday was Cartpath Golf,
which if you play golf. You understand how much walking
you're gonna do if you're used to riding in a cart.
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And I did Tuesday more cartpath golf. Wednesday golf again
off the pass though this time so I had a
little bit of a break. Then Wednesday afternoon I get
a call from my buddy Forrest Wilkinson up in East Texas.
He said he's on his way to Freeport. He's going
to spend the night down there and fish all afternoon
and the next morning.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
It took me about.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
About three minutes to say, yeah, okay, I'll meet you
down there. Because I hadn't been in a while, I
wanted to get a look at it again. I wanted
to see if I could still cast a lure and
catch a fish down there at the beach. And we
had a good time, We really did. I that afternoon
fishing wasn't so good. We were probably in the wrong
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place in hindsight. We spent the night. There was a
hotel down there, he had already gotten the room. I
grabbed a room down the hall from his, and we
were out before dawn the next morning. Oh and to
just add insult to injury, when I was so tired anyway,
we get to the last set of train tracks we
have to cross to go where.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
We want to go. Ding ding ding ding ding. There's
a train stopped on the tracks.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
We're there twelve fourteen, fifteen minutes, I don't know, twenty minutes,
and still we're still in good shape time wise. But
the bottom line is he calls me says, hey, man,
I found a workaround. We could just go make a
U turn here and we're gonna go a couple of
miles out of the way, but all that traffic we
can see through the train. We'll be over there in
about five minutes. Lead the way, so we get on
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the rocks. Fishing was not great, but it wasn't bad either,
So it was just it was just a way to
fill the morning and kind of get get back into
the rhythm of going down there and realize that even
when I'm tired, I can still make a drive to
the beach. I was a little concerned because I was
pretty exhausted, but nonetheless, we got that done. I came
(03:32):
on back to the house, dragged in basically, and just
tripped over a nap.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
For about hour and a half two hours.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Woke up feeling kind of sporty too, right back to
the golf course like a dufus to try to do
more range work, and my poor legs were just shot.
I'd been carrying about twenty pounds of unnecessary fishing tackle,
it turned out in a backpack all the way out
to the ends of both the Quintana Jetty and the
Surfside jetty, and if you know how long those are
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as a pretty good hike after three days of golf.
Before that wake up Friday, I go to the Katie
Prairie early because that's where I used to hang out
fourteen years of guiding waterfowl hunts out there in the
prime of that prairie. I wanted to see what it
looked like. I did not see a single duck, by
the way, not any. There were none on top of
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the warehouses, there were none in the neighborhoods. There were
none in any of the buildings out there. And that's
most of what that prairie is now, unfortunately, as warehouses
and holes in the ground dug for water remediation because
of the floodplaine. It's kind of sad, honestly, to see
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what that place looks like. The only reason I actually
went out there Friday morning early, was to have time
to make a little tour around there and then go
shoot sporting clays with Jim Levell invited me to join
one of his a team that he had bought for
a big event benefiting Victory Ahead, a really fine organization
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that helps kids quite literally all over the world, just
kids that need a little help in hand. And there
are some specific projects that the director really likes and
when they get completed, he goes on to another project,
really a good cause though.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
And I didn't shoot too badly.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Steve Frunterhouse, I guess, was kind of our anchorman, and
then Brianna and Derek.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Derek shot well as well.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Brianna ends up winning high overall woman in the competition,
So I had a pretty good team. I just I
wish I could have carried a little more water than
I did. I didn't shoot badly. I hadn't shoot sporting
clays in a while, and I've never even dreamed of
being a great sporting clay shooter. I'm a much better
hunter than I am a sporting clay shooter, and that's
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just the way it is. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
But once I got through the first station, I calmed
down a little bit, and then about halfway through I
felt pretty good about where I was. I was becoming
more comfortable again. It's been a while since I shot,
but I held my own. I felt pretty good about it.
Then the weekend actually was pretty light. I was exhausted,
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got a few chores done that had been hanging over
my head for I don't know months. I made one
more range session out to the club and then slept
in both mornings.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Then another round of golf yesterday. Why not?
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Huh? First trip around the reworked gus Wortham course at
the invitation of Mike Bailey, a guy, a golf writer,
good friend of mine. I've known him for twenty something
maybe thirty years. He and I were both at the
newspaper for quite a while, and then he went off
on his own and I came into broadcast and there
we were. But we played golf. We played golf pretty
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often at media events. We run into each other, so
it was fun. A quick golf sidebar for those of
you who play and maybe haven't been over to gus Wortham.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
It was.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
It was better than I expected it to be, and
I expected it to be pretty good. It's had time. Now,
it's gone through, gone through one iteration when when it
got taken over by the city, and then it kind
of fell apart a little bit. I was told by
Mike and the guy I rode with, Doug Johnson, I
believe it was his name. And now because there's a
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tournament coming up, especially, it is in really good shape,
as good a course as I have played in a
long time. The green complexes are pretty pretty complex, but
once you figure out where you are and make sure
you keep the ball below the hole on your approach shots,
it's gettable.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
At least. I played the first few holes pretty well.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Then I got distracted by something, some business stuff that
came up on my phone.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
I should have just left the phone in the car, honestly,
but I held my own. It was fun.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
It was a really good time and a very good
golf course, very good golf course. We're gonna stop right
there so I don't get behind with a bunch of stuff,
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Speaker 3 (09:35):
Look at the markets and whatnot, that there was a
pretty sharp jobs decline in the revised Bureau of Labor
and Stats numbers. The markets didn't really seem particularly concerned though.
Those current numbers, by the way, are from a while
back and actually included mostly by NERA changes, and the
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only only the first couple of months of President Trump's
second term, gold was creeping up on. It was about
thirty six hundred and seventy dollars an ounce, I think
creeping up on thirty seven. And I've seen a couple
of predictions now of gold hitting four thousand dollars an
ounce by year's end.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
That's a that's a scary buy.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
I think for me anyway, I don't I don't want
to pay thirty seven hundred dollars and have it just
sit there for six months or a year or whatever,
and or Heaven forbid, go down, but I can tell
you that in about the last two years it's gone
up right about fifty percent, So that's not a bad
return for the people who bought it two years ago
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at twenty five hundred oil up a few ticks. I
think it was around sixty three dollars and thirty cents
something like that, but nothing nothing to write home about.
Kind of like the markets all for the indicators were
just blase, as they say, in regard to what was
going on in current news. A recent story in USA
(11:03):
Today takes a direct shot at Christianity and the notion
of returning to more traditional roles for men and women.
I have no trouble with women in the workforce. There
are plenty of them around here that all do great jobs,
and women who want or need to go to work
in any capacity to fine with me. What I question
(11:24):
to know is why the left seems just hell bent
on supporting the demise of traditional masculinity and what it brings.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
To the table.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
There are a lot of jobs in this world where
strength is really critical to the task at hand, and
most women not all of them, but most just simply
aren't as strong as men's.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
That's just the way it is, and.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Again there are all there are always exceptions to the rule,
but the rule is that men get the muscles and
women get the common sense to take care of an
entire family. I admire any woman who can do that
and work. That's especially generous contribution to the world. But
(12:13):
it's just it's frustrating that you look back to the
last election the left trotted out Tim Wallas, tried to
present him as a man's man, and every time he
opened his mouth, he didn't really connect with that group
of people.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Current birth rates.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
In decline overall, and men being criticized for acting like men.
And I'm not talking about the ones who abuse women.
I'm not talking about the ones who disrespect women. They're despicable,
all of them. I'm talking about men who sue themselves
as protectors and providers. And there's nothing wrong with that.
And if we turn those traits into negatives, which is
(12:50):
what's subtly being suggested on the left, we're pretty much
slowly but surely writing ourselves out of the future.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
We're just flat. It's just not gonna work.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
To the state of Chicago, or to the state of
Illinois by way of Chicago, where these folks have just
they've chosen illegal immigrants over Americans again, and I'm not surprised.
That's kind of period into story. Really, there's really no
other way to interpret the moves by that city's mayor,
the state's governor to just continue to refuse help that
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might reduce the murders, might reduce the other violent crimes
against the people who live there. They just they've got
blinders on, they've got security details. They don't know what
it's like to live on the streets of Chicago, especially
the South Side. I'd be scared to death to walk
out of my house if I lived on the South
Side of Chicago. It's just unbelievable. They're unbelievably disconnected. I
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guess from the reality of what's going on in that city.
Chicago's murder rate is through the roof. I'd be glad
to receive the help if it were offered that the
Democrats refused to provide their people. There's just no reason
for that. Speaking of violent crime, by the way, let's
take a look at the death of the Ukrainian immigrant
(14:11):
Arena Zarutzka, twenty three years old, young woman who fled
a war torn country to seek refuge and start a
new life here, only to be stabbed to death on
a light rail train in Charlotte, North Carolina, this past week.
According to Newsmax, the guy accused of that crime, thirty
four year old guy. He's alleged to have done this crime,
(14:36):
and he's been arrested to Carlos Brown Junior, arrested fourteen
times and most recently released by a Democrat judge on
a no cash bail in January. Back on the streets,
ends up killing a woman who wanted desperately to get
away from violence. This guy's a career criminal, Okay, friend
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of mine who spent an entire career with HPD and
retired as a longtime homicide detective with HPD. I called
him last week and talked to him about it. I
think I mentioned it on the program. How he explained
these violent criminals and the number of times they commit
violent crimes was pretty simple and made a lot of sense.
(15:25):
Crime is their occupation, just like mine is broadcast radio.
Wills is technical support to keep these shows on the air.
Everybody around here has got a job, and we get
up and go to work every day. This guy's job
was violent crime. His specialization violent crime, and when he
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wakes up every morning, he goes to work at violent crime,
and for every time he's been arrested, this is what
my buddy told me, likely gotten away with just an
exponential number of more offenses. That's that's just unacceptable. It's
just unacceptable, and it should never be the norm. That's
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not gonna help anybody out.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Where do I want to go? Let's just take a
little lighter, a little pause in the heavy stuff and
go light. Uh.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
In something I titled on the Road again, a new
study found and I don't know, well, have you ever
experienced car sickness?
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Oh no, okay, no, nor have I really? Uh, But
a new study found that if you have the way
that might you might try to alleviate it is gentle,
joyful and cheerful music, they say, like uh, Pharrell his
song Happy or Hakuna Matata from The Lion King. I
(16:48):
don't know how many times I could listen to Hakuna Matata, uh,
but if that works, whatever it did, Pick your favorite song,
something upbeat, something light and lilty, if if you will,
and maybe that'll get you through the ride without having
to reach for the bag or.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
To stuff the car stuffed the car. Now one of those.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Kind of sort of staying in that same thing. I
title this one stay in your Lane, only it's from
Kentucky Fried Chicken, which is releasing an official line of
jelly beans. Would you buy your jelly beans from KFC? Well, no, another,
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no at nor would I.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
We're in total.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Agreement on these and these now these are special. They
won't be available until Easter. But when you get them,
each bag is going to have three flavors, and you
can probably guess, oh man, this is just so nasty
fried chicken flavored jelly beans. You ready for those? Or
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sweet corn? Now, the sweet corn maybe, if it really
tastes like sweetcorn. But then the third flavor they're going
to offer, which I don't want any part of, thank
you very much, as gravy. Maybe if you eat the
chicken and gravy together, that might do something for you,
but I don't see any of that doing anything for me.
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I love jelly beans, I really do. And my wife,
bless her heart, makes a habit of She's put together
Easter baskets and little Christmas piles for my son, even
though he's seventeen, almost eighteen.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Now. Ever since he was born.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
He's had one and there's always either a box or
a bag of jelly beans, those assorted flavors in there,
and that's there more for me. He liked jelly beans
a little bit when he was younger, but he kind
of gave up on him as his taste buds matured
a little bit. But I still like him, and there's
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always a bag of them there for me. Greatly appreciate
all the flavors, and there are don't know the kind.
I guess you'd call them premium jelly beans.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
No, I get.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
I don't want to get in trouble with Will. It's
my first day back. I got to stay on track.
I love jelly beans. Period into story Berry Hill Restaurant.
That's another place I love. My wife and I had
dinner from there just a few nights ago. As a
matter of fact, during my vacation on the way home
from the golf club, made a stop there on fifty
nine at Sugar Creek Boulevard. It's been around for thirty
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something years, and honestly, has I got the fish tacos.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
I couldn't help myself. I love those things. Now.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
I started out with a steady diet of the seafood enchiladas,
which I still like, but now I kind of go
back and forth between those and the fish tacos. We
found them about well as long as we've been in
sugar Land, that's thirty something years, and now it's your turn.
Tried this casual, very family friendly restaurant had the same
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two chefs in the kitchen for decades, each putting out
a delicious, consistent, very variety or kind of text mech's
favorites if you will, with their own special twist though,
and they are good. If you're new to sugar Land,
somebody in the bar is probably going to ask you
to join them if you go up there and just
raise your hand. I did see this happen once, I
really had. Somebody was in there and was just staring
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up at the menu. It's like, I don't know what
I want. I'm really not sure, and the hostess said,
have you ever been here before? And the guy go, no,
I've really never been in the restaurant before, but I
heard about it and I wanted to try it. And
somebody over in the sports bar area said, hey, come
over and join us. We'll tell you all about it.
And I'm presuming he's been going back there ever since.
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Speaker 2 (20:51):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
That's why every few months we wash him, check his words,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, welcome back to
fifty plus. Thank you for listening. Certainly do appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
I have a story here from the Texas Scorecard that
shares Texas A and M universities pretty much looking at
a federal investigation behind the removal of a student from
class over objections to discussion about exposing children as young
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as three years old to transgender ideology. Allegedly, in an
undercover recording, said the story, the student and a very
high ranking official in the school had a conversation in
which that high ranking official defended that type of study
in the school, and then later that evening, after a
(21:53):
lot of that came out, that same high ranking official
said in a statement that because the course con was
not consistent with its published description. That's a fancy way
of saying, well, we'll do something, but we're gonna just
make it a little technicality. It wasn't consistent with the
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published description. He directed the provost to remove the dean
and the head of that department from their administrative posts.
And what that to me sounds like it wasn't taken
all that seriously. But maybe if there is a more
(22:36):
deliberate and detailed investigation, something will come of that to
maybe keep things like that from happening. I don't agree
that it's okay to teach three year olds that there
are two dozen genders when they don't even they barely
even understand any biology whatsoever. I think it's leading them,
(23:02):
it's coaxing them down a road that they don't even
need to be on yet. I think that's just not
age appropriate to do that to toddlers. Basically, a three
year old has no business learning anything about.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
That from Breitbart.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
I'm gonna probably come back to that at some point
in the middle of the week, and I guess or
maybe I'll just address it right now. I think what's
going on with higher education in this country is that
we have for so long been told that your children
need to go to college. They have to go to
college because that's where they're going to learn what they
need to know to be successful in life.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
And what's happened, and that used to be the case.
What happened in.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
College was that kids learned to become adults, and they
learned to become responsible adults. They learn to become skilled adults.
They learned a lot of things about how life works
and how to choose a career path and how to
get on that path and be successful in it. But
now there's there's an overwhelming amount of education and I'm
(24:11):
wrapping that in quotes that has very little, if anything
to do with the actual living of life and earning
of a living and being a.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Contributing member to society. It's a lot more.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
In doctrination and introduction to things that really aren't going
to help anybody be a better contributor to society. It
just it just fills their heads with things that don't
necessarily need to be there. Not not if I'm paying
money for my son to go to school, I don't
(24:46):
want him to learn some of the things that they're
going to teach in some of those classes if they
want to, if they want to offer that as a
sideline for free, then the kids who want to be
involved if that can, can get involved with it. But otherwise,
like no, I don't think that's I don't think that
should be part of every universe. Well it's not part
(25:09):
of every university's collection of classes, but it's in enough
of them. And these courses are leading kids in a
specific direction and telling them this is okay, this is
how it is, this is how it has to be,
and that's just not I think they're eliminating the opportunity
(25:30):
to allow free thinking, especially when this kid got kicked
out of the class just for saying he.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
Didn't want to be there. He or she I don't remember.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
I don't even know if it names the student or
says whether it was a young man or a young woman,
But one way or the other, that person has the
right to at least speak up. And when he or
she did, they were escorted at were not escorted, but
they were told to leave the classroom. And that's really
(25:59):
that against everything that Texas A and M would have
stood for twenty thirty years ago, and what even some
of the more liberal schools I think would would how
they would handle it. I hope we can get a
rain on, a tighter rein on this at least and
make sure that the people who are teaching this sort
(26:21):
of class are very explicit about what they're going to
be teaching, and if that's not going to be the case,
give the kids an opportunity to either accept or decline
some of these courses where they're being they're not being taught,
they're not being taught to think on their own. They're
just taught that this is the way that the new
(26:42):
world has to be, and I disagree with that strongly.
Let's get another one on time, will what do you
think Champions Tree Preservation. If you don't remember Beryl, or
maybe you weren't here for Beryl last year, lucky you,
because there were trees down all over the place, and
(27:03):
almost all of those trees that succumbed to Hurricane Barrel
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you get Champions Tree Preservation to your house, they will
diagnose your trees to make sure that they can withstand
such a blow, whatever it takes, whether it's just a
deep feeding, whether it's a little bit of pruning, and
(27:25):
I learned a lot about pruning from listening to to
Erwin Costellanos. Believe me, when he came to my house,
he taught me that most people trim their trees all
wrong to be healthy. It's an amazing experience to stand
there with an arborist and have that person point to
limbs and point to branches and all the different parts
(27:47):
of this tree, point to the root system and how
it goes all around your yard.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
They know what they're doing. If they have to take a.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
Tree out, which is Champions Tree Preservation, they don't want
to do that, but if they have to. They also
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Speaker 1 (28:30):
Old guys rule, And of course women never get old.
If you want to avoid sleeping on the couch.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Okay, well, I think that sounds like a good three
fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
All Right, welcome back, final segment of this first show
I've done in what a week. Good heavens, It's been
a long time, seems like, and I'm glad to be
back in. I really am.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Where do I want to go? This one? This one
got me.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
This is one of those little shorty things that I
want to bring up and kind of wonder how you
feel about it, and maybe if you would use the
talkback button to give me your opinion on whether or
not you agree with. Well, I'm not gonna I'm not
gonna tell you how to think. I'm not even gonna
tell you how I think. I'm just gonna tell you
what I think might happen, and then we'll go from there.
(29:20):
Use the talkback button. Go to the iHeartRadio app, Go
to KPRC, click on the I click on the talkback button.
You'll see a little You'll see it there easy to find.
So here's the scenario. Four year old boy North Carolina
sent to the hospital after a copperhead bid him at
his daycare facility while he was playing near a sandbox.
(29:45):
It sounds like the kid will be okay, period. That's
the story. That's all they sent out. My question is
should the daycare center be held responsible for the bike?
I cannot imagine that any outdoor daycare area is immune
(30:10):
from the intrusion of snakes, because snakes are they're pretty crafty,
and they're kind of a rule in the snake world.
If you're trying to identify a snake and you see
it in a place where you would never believe there
would be a snake, it's probably a rat snake. They
love to climb, They love to do all this stuff.
(30:31):
Copperheads also climb, by the way. They eat cicadas as
fast as they can get to them, and so you
might find one up a tree, be very careful. I've
actually seen two going up the sides of trees out
where I play golf, and quite a few of them
on the ground. They try to keep them out of there.
But snakes or snakes, Like I said, so, so, should
(30:53):
this family get legally involved against the daycare center for
the child being bitten by a copperhead? And or do
they do they need to install uh closer scrutiny, like
do a sweep of the entire playground before the kids
(31:14):
go out, or is this just one of those freak
accidents that really doesn't require any more action than to
just be a little bit more diligent each time they
take the kids out. That's what I'd like to hear
from you, guys.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
I'm kind of.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
Curious to see how a Texas audience will will respond.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Do they do they find them?
Speaker 3 (31:37):
I'm sure lawyers have found them by now, but do
they seek out legal advice and perhaps bankrupt the daycare facility,
or especially since the child's gonna be okay, do they
just say, okay, everybody be more careful next time.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
I'll be curious to see how you go on that one.
Back to the news from Breitbart.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Actually, the White House Spokesparis spokesperson Caroline Levitt said recently
that a Wall Street Journal story about a birthday card
allegedly sent by President Trump to Jeffrey Epstein was an
outright hoax. The reporter who published this thing, said Levitt
waited until the same minute he published a story to
(32:24):
reach out to her office for comment. That is not journalism.
That's slimy at best, but it's not journalism. If you're
gonna try to get a comment from someone you give
them time to respond so that you can include their
response in the story. Once that story breaks, that's the
(32:45):
one that's the version that the average person is going
to remember. And if they do end up at some
point publishing some sort of retraction or some sort of
response from the White House, you can bet it won't.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Be on the same page that that story was. Bill Bill.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
A little bit deeper, you'll have to look a little
bit harder to find that. That's just the way that's
worked since the printing press was invented. Or an interesting
summer yesterday to the Biden administration's use of the auto
pen to sign hundreds, maybe more thousands. I don't know
any number of documents that should have been signed by
the president himself. The first use of the machine, according
(33:27):
to what I heard, was on him, I believe, his
fourth day in office, and it just continued signing off
a broad range of documents that most of which should
have required a legitimate signature for the president himself. Traditionally
autopen it's just something it's been used for thank you
(33:50):
letters from supporters and other such politically insignificant pages. But
Biden's signature was sprinkled pretty generously really onto documents that
should have been penned by his own hand. So the
question is who authorized so many signatures on behalf of Biden?
And I guess there's a follow up and how many
(34:11):
of them were made without his knowledge? And why? What
were they hiding? Why were they doing this? What all
these people who got pardoned into the future for crimes
they may or may not have committed. That's a pretty
broad brushstroke really to take somebody.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Off the hook.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
And I can't imagine that any sitting president would have
done that so many times on his way out the door.
I would like to think it's not that way anyway,
m oh I'll give you some good news, and so
this is something it's just going to be a little
bit of a tease because I want to follow up
with somebody from UTA Health and get the right person
(34:55):
on the line. I read this morning a story about
a tiny protein that's been found to dismantle the toxic
clumps in the brain linked to Alzheimer's disease. Now, I
don't want to go, Like I said, I don't want
to go too deep on this without running it by
my friends at UT Health. But from what I read,
(35:16):
this could be a major breakthrough in the treatment of Alzheimer's.
If that stuff can go in there, and I say
that stuff because I don't really know a better term
to describe it. But whatever that tiny little protein is,
if it can get in there and untie the knots
that Alzheimer's ties, this is gonna be just a tremendous,
(35:41):
tremendous help on the way to at least a remedy
to or maybe a tremendous slowing down of the progression,
and who knows, potentially even a cure. We're gonna get
one of their great doctors over here or over there
to weigh in hope fully this week, I'll send the
(36:02):
I'll send the email out as soon as we finish
the show here and I'll try to get you more
information on that thirty seconds left to go. I can't
do a lot, but i'll do this. Twenty twenty five
on track to be the year of the most product
recalls ever. They've risen forty percent over the fat for
(36:23):
last five years. I've got a couple of them on
my vehicle right now, and I guess.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
I'll go get them done. Uh maybe on my next vacation.
That's it. For today, we'll see tomorrow. Audios
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