Doug is on the Mend

Today, Doug Pike discusses his throat issues, St. Judes, and a veteran story.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Remember when it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
because you were the TV remote. Remember when music sounded
like this? Remember when social media was truly social? Hey, John,
how's it going today? Well, this show is all about you.

(00:24):
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Speaker 2 (00:45):
All Right, I'm back, well almost back voice wise. This
has been kind of a running joke all week long.
Unfortunately for me, this this whole laryngitis thing, I don't
like it. Hold on, I'm gonna think one step. I'm
getting so close to having a real voice again, and
I would love for it to materialize right during this hour.

(01:09):
The medications are working their magic, slowly but surely. I'm
getting closer and closer to being a real radio guy again,
but I'm not quite there yet. To get to kind
of where we need to be and the way we
usually do it around here. A first, a quick look
at this weather. There's there's a good there's the same

(01:30):
chance for rain today as there was yesterday. We got
a pretty good amount out in sugar Land. Pardon me,
I don't know if I could even call it a
quarter of an inch, but it seemed to seem to
stay wet for quite a while. A lot of time
it was just more missed than rain, but at least
it was something, and we desperately needed it for our
yards out there and throughout Southeast Texas. Really we could

(01:53):
still use some more rain. We'll get a little bit more.
The good news on that side, though, is that we
are going to be up pretty well for sunshine come Monday,
when the Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital Tournament goes off
up at Golf Club of Houston. We're gonna just about
fill up both courses once again and raise a ton

(02:13):
of money, I hope for those kids over there. I
don't know if you're familiar with the hospital or how
it works, but I'll kind of break it down for you.
And I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna beg anybody to
come join the tournament late. Although we do have room
for maybe six or eight more teams, I think that's
about all, and I'm not gonna I'm not gonna pitch
you on it. I'm just gonna tell you about the hospital,

(02:34):
and it'll you kind of make your own decisions on
whether you'd like to participate maybe next year or maybe
just dive in this year. If you've got nothing going
on Monday and you don't mind playing in a little
bit chili water or weather, it is gonna be kind
of cool. Actually, I'm in the literal sense cool in
that the I think the low overnight Sunday is like
in the forties. In the high I want to say,

(02:56):
is about fifty nine for Monday tournament day. But what's
a good news is there's in the little tiny graphic
that shows Monday, there's just a big old ball of
bright red sunshine and no not even a partly cloud anywhere.
So back to Memphis. I got to go over there
about eight years ago. And forgive me if I've told

(03:16):
this story and all these stories before, but I just
there were so many things that I didn't know about
that hospital that and every every time we turned the corner.
I was there for about a two and a half
day tour, and every time we turned a corner there
was just something else that made you go, Wow, this
is people have really thought this out. It's been open
since the sixties. Danny Thomas opened it up or got

(03:39):
the idea. That's a longer story than the story of
the hospital, so I want to kind of stick with that.
But he he was an innovator. He was someone who
recognized a need, and it was a universal need to
take care of these very sick children, children that all
over the world now are being told by doctors, their

(04:01):
parents are being told by doctors that there's just nothing
left that they can do. And Saint Jude brings in
these people and their entire families for no cost at all.
There's not a patient building department in that hospital, which
I found very unique and amazing. There are red I
believe they're red telephones. They may be a different color.

(04:23):
I don't recall exactly, but there are telephones, just old
fashioned handset telephones unless they've changed them out now. I
was out there eight years ago and just regular old
telephones like you and I and everybody else in our
generation grew up with, where you can pick it up
and speak in whatever language is your native language, and

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they will find you a translator who can then connect
you with the doctor that you're dealing with, and that
translator will make sure that whatever you need to tell
them about the condition of your child in that hospital
will be translated, and then you'll get the answers from
the doctor on what to do and where to go
and whether everything's okay or we need to see them again.

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And that's just little things. They've got entire apartment buildings
over there for all their patients to stay in and
their families. They have only one. This is These are
just little things that I found very fascinating. They only
have one main dining area, one well, one dining area,
and it's a big one, as you might imagine. With

(05:30):
all the people who work there and all the people
who are patients there, and there are it's like going
to a food court on steroids. The food is, first
of all, it's all nutritious and delicious. There's very little
snacking food or very little non nutritious food around there,

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and the patients especially get to pretty much order whatever
they want. And the other thing that makes that eating area,
that dining area somewhat unique to most hospitals is that
there's only that one dining area. I don't care whether
you're a cardiologist I don't care care whether you're a

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pediatric neurosurgeon, whatever you are, whatever your credentials, You're going
to be sitting there next to somebody who who might
drive a truck for a living in the middle of
the country somewhere or in another country somewhere, whose child
is in there, and it's very It makes it a
very intimate atmosphere in a very caring area. You can

(06:39):
just sense how relaxed these parents are, knowing that their
children are extremely ill, and still feeling confident that they're
going to be taken care of. The cure rate on
these pediatric cancers right now is not one hundred percent
yet that's the goal, plain and simple, one hundred percent
cures at some point in whatever future it takes. But

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for now, the numbers are far far better than they've
ever been. And there was one particular cancer I can't recall,
which that the cure rate when that hospital opened was
only like twelve to fifteen percent something like that, and
now it's more like eighty percent. They get these kids
patched up and get them on back where they can
enjoy their lives and be kids again and enjoy their

(07:26):
families again. It's a fascinating thing. I didn't mean to
burn up the entire segment with that. Stock market's doing
its usual up and down thing. Not anything really to
see or talk about there, up and down, gold and
gold and oil both up a little bit, but not
enough to write home about. So basically it's just another

(07:46):
day on Wall Street, I guess for those guys and
the computers that run most of the trades. Anyway, let's
take a break, shall we. Let's start with Uth's Institute
on Aging. This is fantastic collaborative of providers from every
metal discipline, as we've talked about for so many years.
I've speaking for them for about ten years, maybe eleven,
I'm not sure which. This is what they do is

(08:09):
all of the people who want to be part of
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and then they learn how to apply their skills that
they got in med school or training school or therapy
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seniors and our specific needs. It's a fantastic resource, and

(08:33):
I encourage you go to the website and look at
all the things that they provide. There for absolutely no charge,
and then work your way to a provider who can
really understand what's ticking in you and how to make
it better. Ut dot edu slash aging, utch dot edu
slash aging.

Speaker 1 (08:52):
Once life without a NEP, I suggest you go to bed,
sleep it off, just wait until the show's over. Sleepy.
Back to Doug, as fifty plus continues.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
Thanks for listening. Certainly do appreciate it. We should have
had some sort of competition will and over under on
when I would get all of my voice back. I
think the most important thing for me is to recover
it fully by Monday, so that I can scream a
curse word if I missed like a four foot pot
or something like that. I don't really do that on

(09:24):
the golf course. I got over that so long ago.
Holy cow, man. I have no intention of yelling or
screaming over a golf shot ever again. And I really never.
I've never been loud about it. Every now and then,
if I just really mess it up, I might I
might slap the club, not slam the club, but just
kind of slap the clubhead down onto the ground in disgust.

(09:47):
But by and large I knew a long time ago
that I wasn't going to be a great golfer. I'm okay,
I'm not bad, but I'm I had to tell one
of our big bosses here actually a long time ago.
He got very upset over a drive he hit one
time and threw his driver almost to the top of

(10:09):
a big pine tree where we were playing. Pardon me,
And I had to just let him know to just
take it easy, relax a little bit. Carry your business
card with you every time you play golf, and anytime
you hit a shot like that, before you do anything else,
just reach in your pocket, grab that card and look
under your name, and if it doesn't say PGA Tour Professional,

(10:30):
then just let it go because it's not going to
impact your life at all. And so I'm one of
the most competitive people you'll ever meet, but I don't really,
I don't really. I know I'm competing with the golf
course and not with my buddies, and the little nickel
and dimes wagers that we place on stuff aren't going
to crumble the empire. So it's all for fun. And

(10:54):
at the end of the year with this group I
joined regularly, it would be just the same because it's
all fairly done, which is a very important thing to
learn in golf if you're ever going to try to
try to compete seriously at all. It's done with handicapping,
and handicapping levels the playing field in golf. It really does.

(11:19):
It does a good job of it too. And it
would be the same by the time we end of
the year. We could just sit down at a table
each time we play and just pass the dollar bill
from your hand to my hand, my hand to the
next hand. Just everybody just pass the dollar bill and
we would all win, and we would all lose, and
it comes out even pretty much at the end. It's

(11:40):
a fun game, it really is. I enjoy it anyway.
Stepping into the news, Well, oh, by the way, yeah,
I talked about that. I never mind. I talked about
that it's gonna be chilly on Monday. I have all
the golf stuff I need now to play in cold weather.
It's not bad. And it used to be you had
to bundle up so heavily that it was hard to
stay flexible and make a golf swing. Now the garments

(12:04):
are so much better made, it's not a problem. Uh.
There's still a long way to go, but just this week,
another Afghan man tied to ISIS was arrested on Wednesday.
It was a bad guy among frankly thousands just like
him who were ushered into our country under the Biden
administration and more and more clearly not vetted anywhere near

(12:28):
closely enough to realize their links to some pretty bad
terrorist organizations around the world. They got this one, though,
and they're getting more of them every day, one by one.
I think it's kind of like looking for dirty needles
in a haystack, a very big haystack in which the

(12:48):
needles can move around, mind you. So far, and we've
heard stories about some of the things that the our
security in this nation have thwarted, and I would suspect
that for everyone that's leaked to the media or presented
to the media for publication or airing or whatever, there

(13:12):
are several others that they just keep quiet about because
they don't know. They don't want the bad guys to
know how much they know about the bad guys. So
so far, we've stayed a step ahead and whatever they're
plotting wherever they're plotting it, and I really hope it
remains the same case until we get this whole mess

(13:32):
cleaned up once and for all. Ah Texas Rep. Jasmine
Crockett back in the News, she is uncertain, although she
claims that there are surveys that say she'd have a
good shot at winning. She's thinking about making a run
in the twenty twenty six midterms against Texas Senator John Cornyn.

(13:59):
I hope I'm right and thinking that Texans overall are
smart enough to realize what a threat she posts to
star state and that voters outside her district will want
better representation than she could provide. And this isn't about raise,
It's not about anything but policies and politics that potentially

(14:19):
could go long into the future. And she's pretty outspoken
about how she feels about national politics and how she'd
like to change our path. And despite well despite the
path we're on now, even including consideration for the first
time in a very long time, of abolishment of federal

(14:40):
income tax. That's one of the things that President Trump
is looking at. He he hasn't said he's gonna do
it yet, but at least he's taking a look in
using tariff money to offset some of that, using new
investment in this country to offset some of that to
where who knows even what if he were able to

(15:01):
cut all everybody's income tax in half, that would be
a pretty marvelous adjustment. As well. She's it's probably one
of the loosest cannons among Democrats to come down the
street in a long time, and it really concerns me.
She's kind of like a I don't know whether to

(15:22):
say she's AOC on steroids or the love child of
AOC and Adam Schiff, or well, no, he's not really
as progressive as they are. He just kind of kind
of lets AOC push him in different directions. Very frustrated.
One thing I did read about her as well is

(15:43):
that she's she doesn't make good friends among her staffers.
Apparently she is very hard to work for. And what
I read the descriptions I read were a little more
harsh than that, but I don't doubt it. I could
have guessed that just by listening to how she speaks

(16:03):
to her peers up in Austin, and how she talks
about our president sometimes. Remember climate change will Climate change
was going to man, it was going to kill the
world a while back, and I read about this and
I thought, I read this story this morning, and I thought,

(16:25):
you know, I haven't heard anybody talk about climate change
in a long time. It's been mostly the news has
been dominated by politics more than anything else for quite
some time now. And what I found out was that
one of the reasons, aside from politics being such a
hot topic anyway, is that one of the main studies

(16:45):
that was being used by mainstream media to paint this
doom and gloom picture of how the world was going
to just implode if we didn't start building more windmills
and solar panels and driving electric cars and doing all
of that stuff. Well, that study was quite flawed. There

(17:07):
was talk about it costing this country tens of trillions
of dollars in loss if we didn't change the way
we were helping the world. But that study was flawed,
quite flawed in fact, and it's being called implausible and
worse in a good number of publications and other outlets now.
Doom and Gloom cells that's one of the reasons they

(17:30):
stuck with it so long. Everybody wanted to tune in
to hear about the doom and gloom and how fast
we were going to destroy the world, and then there'd
be a commercial to sell you something, and then we'd
go back to talking about that. Most of that stuff, though,
it just kind of most of the money that was
made off of climate change stuff wound up in private

(17:51):
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Speaker 1 (18:41):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them, check us
fluids and spring on a fresh code O wax. This
is fifty plus with Doug Pike, all right, welcome back
to fifty plus.

Speaker 2 (18:55):
A little hurdle there, I'll jump over it. My voice
can jump that little low hurdle. I have to there's
a register about writing here somewhere where it still it
still breaks up some, but it's not horrible. I hope
you'll all forgive me. But I didn't want to just
bail out on you. Been out for a week and change,
and it just it was time to come back in

(19:16):
and time to get back to work. Talked about that.
I'm across a big old X through there. I don't
even care about that anymore. That's taken care of from
Fox News, by the way. Speaking of President Trump on Minutigan,
he's announced an about face on several former President Biden's
fuel restrictions and standards, things that were driving us in

(19:37):
some cases toward electric vehicles when we didn't really want
or need them. And what he's done and what he's
going to do is believe we'll save Americans about one
hundred and nine billion dollars, which is it's a drop
in the bucket compared to what this country spends every year.

(19:59):
I understand that, but it's still a drop that won't
have to come out of the bucket for something that's
not going to benefit us. And that's I think what
he's working very hard to do is get rid of
the waste and get rid of the unnecessary hurdles put
up by that former administration. We've got. For example, one

(20:21):
of Biden's many things that he laid in is going
to affect the air conditioning industry. And my guys told
me that if I wanted, I'm contemplating. I've been talking
about getting a new unit for upstairs or for downstairs
for quite some time. I replaced my upstairs unit last year,

(20:42):
and I really wanted to get this done, and they
let me know about a month ago, and I still
haven't pulled the trigger yet, but I may before the
end of the year, because at the end of the year,
a new set of rules gets put in place that
will cost everybody who wants to buy a new AC
unit next year. What I'm told is it going to

(21:05):
be anywhere from about three to six thousand dollars more,
depending on the size of the unit. And there's just
not a darn thing we can do about it. There's
no guarantee that's gonna last longer than the one you
would buy this year, no guarantee it's going to be better.
But just all these hurdles in the name of climate change,
in the name of green whatever, that just cost us

(21:28):
money when we really don't need to be spending. I'm
so glad I'm not hearing anything more lately about getting
rid of gas appliances. That's something else that doesn't make sense,
and it just costs us more money. And the less
electricity we use to warm homes and warm water, the

(21:49):
more there's going to be for the increasing load on
this grid of hours that's happening because of so many people.
That's happening because of these giant data banks, these huge
warehouses full of computers that require a ton of electricity
that I'm not sure we can absorb in any state,

(22:11):
let alone Texas. We got a piece of mail my
wife and I did a couple of days ago from Centerpoint,
talking about how what it was it really was. In fact,
I don't think it was from Center Point. I take
that back. I take that back because I don't believe
it was. It was from a company that wants to
sell us a battery backup generate. They call it a generator.

(22:35):
It would just be a battery backup for the house.
And I'm not so sure how good those are because
they're not like a gas power generator in that when
the electricity goes out, the gas power generator can run
for as long as it needs to a battery backup.
If there's no power being supplied to it to recharge,

(22:57):
it only has a certain amount of life in it.

Speaker 1 (23:01):
Now.

Speaker 2 (23:01):
If it's a short term outage and a battery backup
would work, that'd be great. I just don't know how
much how much you can draw off of one of those.
I'm gonna do some research into it, because there's clearly
a huge difference in the price you pay from one
for one or the other. But I just want to
make sure that would be worth it, and that would
be it would be active and running long enough to

(23:25):
maybe save a refrigerator full of food. That windstorm we
had a couple of weeks ago, our power trickled off
four times. I talked about it on the show. I'm
sure I did. And every time it went off we thought,
oh man, and then it would come back on and
it went off then off, And the last time it

(23:46):
went off it stayed off for about an hour and
a half, almost two hours something like that, and that
I think it's at three hours maybe four that the
CDC says refrigerated food. I'd have to be let go
if it just sits in there for that long, depending
on the temperature and your refrigerator. It's it's something I'm

(24:07):
gonna look at certainly, Okay to care that? Oh from
the good news pages that got a minute or so, Okay,
I'll start here. There's a new device available that actually
helps stroke victims regain much or most of their movement
and speech much faster than traditional protocols. And what it is.

(24:30):
You wear this little collar around your neck and you're
gonna look silly if you wear it out in public.
I don't know how often you have to use it.
I don't know the standard way that this device is used.

Speaker 1 (24:42):
But what it does is.

Speaker 2 (24:43):
Has a little thing that goes in your mouth, it's
on that collar, and it delivers little tiny specific call
them micro shocks to your tongue. And what it does somehow,
I don't know how who figures this stuff out? And
now there's another story kind of like about that too.
I'll get to in a minute. What the bottom line is.

(25:05):
It helps your your brain re reconnect new pathways for
existing skills and greatly expedites recovery from this somehow, some way,
I'm so glad they are very smart people in this
world who can do that. I really am I'm not
among them. Will are you one of those? Like a

(25:26):
point one percenter? Could you figure out? Okay, here's a
task for you, because somebody figured this out? How about
this one? There was a headline at the Good News
Network It said, scorpion venom may provide the next breast
cancer breakthrough. Who makes that up? Who can put those

(25:47):
two together and say? You know, I think that if
we would just study this scorpion venom a little bit longer,
we might be able to help women survive or prevent
breast cancer. How I don't, I don't understand that. I'm
just glad we're in this world of independent thinkers and
people willing to turn over just every soon, every stone,

(26:10):
just to see what might be under it. Every time
you turn around. Nowadays, there's some and it's interesting that
these cures are all original, originating in nature. Most of
this stuff isn't something that we created in a lab.
Some diseases are, some diseases aren't. But most of these

(26:30):
cures are derived from animal products. It's out there. The
Earth has provided that stuff for us. We've just it's
taken us thousands of years to get smart enough to
go figure it out and put it all together. Tell
you what, when we get back from his next break,
I'm gonna have a little something to say about vaccines too,
and see where you guys fall on all of these.

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The last time I was in a drug store pharmacy,
I guess we call them now. The last time I
was in a drug store, I noticed a sign that
proudly proclaimed that this particular pharmacy offers something like twenty
or thirty different vaccinations. And I couldn't even think of
twenty or third. I couldn't think of ten things that

(27:12):
the average person would need to be vaccinated for. Maybe
some of it's for foreign travel, I'm sure it is,
but that's an awful lot of things to have back
there in a refrigerator somewhere. I wouldn't want to get
an expired when I wonder how that would work. I
got some more good news too. I'll get to that
when we get back. Let me tell you about Cedar
Cove RV and Resort. I got an email from Al Kibbi,

(27:32):
the guy who owns the place. I got it yesterday,
I believe, y'all. And he was talking about an event
down at Thompson's Bay Camp, which is across the street
from them, on this Saturday, as a matter of fact,
and he's offering a special for anybody who wants to
come down and bring their RV. Fifteen percent off the
stay and fifteen percent off whatever ice you need for

(27:54):
your fishing expedition. And here's his personal kicker. He said,
if this guest places top five in the tournament, you'll
give them another ten percent off so long as it
says here, so long as they let me brag with
pictures of their catch on Facebook and my web page.
So that's a pretty good deal. And I did find
out about that RV that he has down there. It

(28:18):
sleeps for got a queen size bed and a sofa bed.
Will you know how you make a regular sofa into
sofa bed? You tell your wife to calm down. That's
how you do that. I thought that yesterday. I thought
that was pretty funny. Do you agree, you have to agree?
You're smiling, I know you, Yeah, that's pretty funny. Or

(28:38):
your fiance do you tell have you ever told her
to calm down? That's just don't okay, that's a little
pro tip. Thirty five years of marriage. That's a pro tip.
Don't do that. They're gonna have the fire pit going
down there at Cedar Cove. They're gonna be serving wastle
and hot chocolate and gonna have marshmallows out there. It
might turn into smores. Who know, weather's gonna be pretty ni.

(29:00):
I know that that's gonna be pretty fun. Uh. By
the way he said, I asked him about bait too,
because I didn't. I talked about maybe having bait in
the bait in the convenience store there. But what he
said specifically is it's frozen what they have. If you
want fresh, you're live. You can go across the street
to Thompson's. But right there at Cedar Cove, he's got
shrimp and squid and finger mullet and chad, all that

(29:20):
good stuff. And it's a good time to be fishing
down there. Cedar Cove Rvresort dot com is a website
Cedar Cove Rvresort dot com.

Speaker 1 (29:30):
Aged to perfection. This is fifty plus with Dougpike.

Speaker 2 (29:46):
What's upon a time you've been so fine through the
bills of time in your prime. Then you people call
say if you web doll you'll buying a fall.

Speaker 1 (29:59):
You ca there off.

Speaker 2 (30:02):
Hopefully the simple water I just took w get us
to the end here, I think it will. I did
find some really good news, not for me or for you,
but for a man who certainly is deserving of it.
And you know, the trouble with with good people who

(30:23):
are down on their luck is that there are lots
of them. All of them deserve uh some fortuitous gain,
somehow to help get them back on their feet or
get them in a better place than where they are now,
and we can't. We just can't get to all of them.
And it's frustrating. And if I had the resources, I

(30:46):
would I would give so much of my money to
people who need it, who desperately need it. Now, I'm
not talking about people who feel like they're entitled to handouts.
That's I draw the line there pretty quickly. But somebody
who's just had a rough stretch. And there was a guy, well,
this is the guy I'm talking about. Pardon me, hold on,

(31:09):
he's eighty eight years old, he's working forty hours a week,
an army veteran eighty eight year old guy. You can
imagine what wars he probably fought in working forty hours
a week at a grocery store in Detroit, and somehow
he caught the attention of an Australian social media influencer,

(31:30):
some TikToker guy. This man, the guy at the grocery store,
lost his wife a few years ago and he just
kind of barely making ends me, not really feeling good
about whatever he's got left in the world. And then
this Samuel Weedenhoffer started a go Fundme page for this

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guy and raised one point five million dollars for him,
every dollar of which is going to that veteran, and
every veteran in this country earn earned more than they
got paid to do what they did in serving this country,
whether they went to war or not. When you sign

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up for the military, you sign up for the possibility
that you may have to go shoot at people who
are shooting at you. No matter what. I don't care
what branch you're in, I don't care what your job is.
There's a chance you might end up in a predicament
like that, and that takes a special kind of personally.
I really respect and appreciate anybody who does that for us.

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So all of that money's going through this eighty eight
year old got well, except for what he's got to
pay an income tax. I guess the kindness of strangers
is just really remarkable. And even that influencer noted that Americans,
as the world goes, this is a guy halfway around
the world. It's like a twenty six hour flight to Brisbane.

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I think, I don't know. It's very far and maybe
not that far. I don't know. I really don't remember.
I have a few friends who have gone down there
and talked about the flight. I've never been that far.
I'd like to go see it someday. In any event,
he pointed out specifically that Americans have very generous hearts,

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and we do have as a country enough money to
support whatever donations it took to get that retired army
vet up to a million and a half so he
can quit working at the grocery store and just enjoy
the rest of his life however he wants to. And
my gut says that, in line with the kindness of

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strangers theme, I just planted on this thing. My gut says,
he's gonna leave that money, whatever's left when he gets done,
he'll leave that to some good causes in which he
believes I'm about to go into discussion speaking of good causes.

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I'm about to go into discussion on doing a golf tournament.
And Lee I'm gonna talk to. We've got a couple
of charities in mind, a couple of things that really
mattered to us, and I've been wanting to do this
for a very long time. I just haven't yet because
it's it's I know, I know what it takes to
run a tournament. I've been helping with this Saint Jude

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tournament now since it started, and it it it takes
a lot of time to do something like this right.
And if I can get the right people in place
and get some help and get it done right, I will.
And when I figure out what we're gonna do exactly,
it'll either be it'll either be golfer sporting clays, and
I think I'm leaning toward golf. I don't know why,

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because I like both. I got to participate in a
sporting clay tournament not that long ago, at the invitation
of my buddy Jim Level from Done and Corpus Christy.
The tournament was up here, the sheet was up here.
In any event, I'll let you know more about it
that as we get a little closer to it, I
found something interesting about poaching and that kind of ties

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into my outdoor show. I'll probably go into it in
more detail this Saturday or Sunday voice, permitting that Heavens,
I think I'm gonna be all right anyway. The over
in Central Africa, wildlife poachers are decimating and just that
they've torn up the rhino population. There's some places in

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Africa where there are more elephants than there are cows
in Texas. But there are other places where poachers have
virtually wiped out entire herds of elephants and just will
almost wipe them off the map. And poaching does nothing
to help the communities where it happens to the well,
they're not communities. They're big, wide open spaces really, with

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very small villages in between. But the recovery of these
species is quite important because when there is when there
are enough animals for managed hunting to go on, that
managed hunting supports entire villages of people and feeds entire
villages of people, and it's a very powerful tool, in

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a very uplifting tool for the communities in which it
goes on. But poachers are getting in there and taking
them out, and what they're doing now is putting up
You remember the the there was some sort of listening
device that recognized gun shots amongst all the other noise
that's going on around it, and then relays it back

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and between coordinated tower signals and whatnot. They can tell
about where the gunshots came from. And they were using
those in big cities to get law enforcement on the
scenes of potential shootings faster. Well, they've taken that technology
over there into Africa and put it up all throughout
these rainforests and hopefully they can get rid of all

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these poachers. And we never get rid of all all
of them. Probably. I don't like people who kill animals
just for money. I don't like people who take shark
fins off of them just for money. That's just really, really,
really messed up and it. Yeah, poaching is something that
it affects us all in Texas here, we still have

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problems with poaching. There was a different regions have different issues,
but poachers are very sophisticated because there's a lot of
profit to be made. They're very hard to catch and
our Parks and Waife Department here is fantastic. But even
they can't keep up because they're just understaffed. They do
a remarkable job really, speaking of hunting, how much time

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to have to have? Thirty twenty Oh, don't do it,
don't do it? No, no, oh, okay twenty. This guy
in Sumatra a flower hunting biology. He's been looking for
this one super rare flower called rough raffle easia for
thirteen years and he finally found one. It smells like

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rotting flesh, which attracts flies and serves as a cross pollinator.
He found it. Now what