June 3, 2025 • 39 mins
Today, Doug Pike discusses eggs, good fortune, and bringing back extinct animals.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Remember when it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
because you were the TV remote. Remember when music sounded
like this, Remember when social media was truly social?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey John, how's it going today?
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Well?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
This show is all about you, only the good die.
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike. Helpful information on
your finances, good health, and what to do for fun.
Fifty plus brought to you by the UT Health Houston
Institute on Aging Informed Decisions for a healthier, happier life,
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And now fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
All right, two day editions of the program starts now
this what is it?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Five?
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Almost six minutes after the top of the hour, and
it's a dog one good looking Tuesday, I might say,
especially if you like being outdoors. Well, we've talked about
this before. If you had to do something outdoors today,
I'm kind of twisting it around a little bit to
just kind of I'm picking your brain a little bit.
So if you had to do something outdoors this afternoon,
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what would it be fun? Not a chore, but something
you want to do outdoors?
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Something I want to do outdoors today.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Because it's such a wonderful day to be outside.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
I would try and go for a walk where it's shady.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
That's a good idea. I like that, Yesterda. I played
golf yesterday, and when we were used to be I
didn't have to worry much about shade because I missed
a lot of my drives left or right into the woods.
So I spent more time in shade than I did
in sunshine. Actually, but now I'm playing a little bit better,
and I'm spending more time in the fairways, and I've
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actually got a look at this. Can you see this?
Look up here? Can you see that? That's sunburn? My friend?
I think it's you know what, that might not be
some burn. That might be something from a plant that
I walked into the woods and rubbed against my ankle too.
You know, in hindsight, that looks more like like a
plant than it does sunburn, doesn't it. Yeah, I should
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have looked more closely this morning.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
I was certain.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Yeah, And you know what, I don't have it on
the other ankle, So never mind. That's some And that's
just from going in there looking for golf balls that
have gone astray. Most of the group I play with,
we'd actually I don't think we hit many, if any
balls into the woods yesterday A couple of them found
the water, a couple of mine. Actually it was very
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disturbing after starting off really well, but I digress. Never mind,
So anyway, we got light wind, we got puffy clouds,
and if you like me, are interested in this kind
of a thing, the Gulf of Mexico actually looks pretty
dog one good. It's a little bumpy, it's it's better
suited to surfing than to fishing from that angle. But man,
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maybe a uh, if I can break away from here,
I might just slide on down to the surfside.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
Jetty.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
I gotta check the tide, make sure there's an incoming
tide this evening, and I might take a run down there.
It wouldn't certainly wouldn't be the first afternoon breaking run
I've ever done. Uh And by the way, I was
so disappointed. Will we're what three days in the hurricane season.
And I opened up the map because yesterday and the
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day before it was pretty pretty quiet. There was nothing
near to see, and it said nothing's expected in seven days.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Nothing.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Open up the map today and what's there that? The
bad news is? There was a blip on there, but
it was something yellow, and I thought, Okay, well that
doesn't really mean a whole lot, but let's see what
it is. It was a tropical disturbance because it made
my heart skip a beat before I actually read it,
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and really that it's nothing. A tropical disturbance along the
Georgia and Carolina coast that has a ten percent chance
of becoming anything at any time in our lifetimes. It's not,
it's not gonna be anything. But and I'm wondering, since
when do we need to post rainy weather on the
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National Hurricane Center page. I really, I really hope they're
not going the way of television news people and television
weather people trying to scare everybody into doomsday mode with
these scenarios, worst case scenarios. You just can't if a cloud,
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if there's a cloud in the sky, I'm gonna get
a notification sometime during that day on television. If I
watch enough weather forecasts, there might be a flood advisory.
There's a cloud could make a flood, who knows. It's
gonna have to get bigger, real could generate a lightning bolt,
who knows. I'm so frustrated by all that. It's not
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none of that is necessary, and all it does is
generate fear among people, and that's really unnecessary. It just
it serves no purpose. All you gotta do to get
ready for hurricane season until one of them is knocking
at our door basically is make sure you've got a
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few weeks of meds on hand. That's all summer long,
all summer long, because you could get displaced by a hurricane,
and God forbid, your medications better be with you if
you have to bail out of the house. Don't forget them.
You might lose them otherwise. And maybe one, maybe two
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cases of water bottles, not twenty, like I've seen people
in the Great as soon as the first tropical storm
forms in the Gulf of Mexico, you won't be able
to find a bottle of water forty eight hours later.
It's sad, but it's true. Here's something else that you
need to have on hand, well, other than something to eat.
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Also that doesn't really have to be cooked, just something
you can peel the lid off of or unscrew a
jar or whatever and just eat it. That'll get you
through in an emergency. Hopefully the power will be on
and everything will be back to normal quickly. But what
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else you need to have is a little bit of cash. Now,
I'm not talking about ten grand in twenties. You don't
need a shoe box full of paper money, but you
should have on hand enough so that you could buy
a few groceries, maybe some gas and a pinch somehow,
or who knows what you might need cash for. But
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when there's no electricity, now a lot of the gas
stations you're saying, oh, well, that doesn't work because the
pumps will be out too. A lot of those pumps
are on generators, and then they figure out ways to
get paid. And if you've got cash and that generator's
running at the gas station, you will get some gasoline
in any event. Center Point actually they tell us they're
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better prepared this year, and I sure hope they're right.
I don't want to go through another week of scattering
my family all over town, which is what I had
to do last year for a week trying to get
power back. I happen to be on one of the
smaller clusters of homes on a single grid. With Centerpoint,
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we're almost always the last ones to get power back,
only because there are so few of us, and that's
not our fault. We didn't ask for that when those
homes were built. How about maybe they incorporate our little
grid into a much larger one around there somewhere, so
for the first time in thirty something years, we get
power back first rather than last. That would be nice.
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I really would Center point. You're in the spotlight from
now over the next several years. Get it right, Please
get it right. All right, we gotta take a little
break here. I'll welcome somebody new to the family, somebody
I'm gonna have on the air to talk to at
length about the company they have, and that's Champion Tree Preservation.
Remember all that damage from Hurricane Barrel last year, I
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certainly do. It's that time of year again, and your
trees need to be ready, either ready or take it
out before we get some big, powerful blow, which I
hope we don't get it all. They can really be
a danger. They can't whether it's to your house, to
somebody else's house, to cars, to fences, and Champions Tree
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Preservation will come out and assess all of your trees
to make sure they're healthy and strong enough to go
through this. I had a good conversation just this past
week with them about how the cycle that we've been
in from drought to flood to drought. It has caused
some real severe weakness in the root systems of a
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lot of trees. They can explain it much better than
I and you can get them out there. Actually, you
can get a free consultation. All you have to do
is call them two eight one three two zero eighty
two zero one or go to championstree dot com. They'll
come out there. They'll make sure that your trees are
healthy enough to get through storm season, not just healthy
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enough to grow a few leaves either. There's a big difference.
And I'm gonna get them on as soon as I
can and talk about this and explain it so that
we all understand it better. If they can fix your tree,
if they can make your tree fully healthy again before
any problems arrive, then they'll do that for you. If
they need to prune it or take off, take out
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the whole tree, whether whatever's wrong with it, it's that's
your fault.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
It is your fault.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Whatever. They're gonna get that dangerous tree out of your
yard for you. Don't wait. Don't wait until it falls
and have to call your insurance company. It's a lot
easier and a lot less expensive in the long run
to just call them and get them out there for
you two eight one three two zero eighty two zero
one or championstree dot com. That's Championstree dot com.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
You know, they sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
That's why every few months we wash them, check us words,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike and welcome.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Back fifty plus. Thank you so very very much for
listening on this beautiful Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
It really is.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
If you can get outside, get outside. If you can't
get outside on your own, tap somebody on the shoulder,
tell them to wheel you out there, walk you out there,
take you out there. Soak up a little sunshines maybe
you know, maybe stay in the shade. It's a little
cooler in the shade. It's not going to be unbearably
warm or hot. Well, I don't use the word hot
until it gets to one hundred, and it's not going
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to do that for the next several days at least.
Who knows how that, So I'll reserve that word for later,
same as I do the freeze word in the wintertime.
I reserve that for temperatures of thirty two degrees and below.
So it's going to be warm to very warm to
downright toasty for the next week or so, and then
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who knows what happens after that. It doesn't matter. Today's
a good day, and if you can find some shade,
maybe someplace with a little breeze blowing through it, you
should probably come out well ahead and enjoy the time
you're out there. From the Biden area, desk area era
desk era era, comes word that closer scrutiny is being
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paid now, and I'm glad it is really to the
final six or eight months of his term, when he
was said to be in grave shape, had all his faculties,
one of the sharpest tax on the block, although everyone
in the country saw that he was not. And I
genuinely feel sorry for the man because I think a
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lot of people took advantage of him in that state,
said to be in really great shape. We knew better.
Even President Trump said that President Biden almost certainly wasn't
in favor of the wide open border that occurred on
his watch. Democrats were running the show. It's pretty clear,
but Biden wasn't leading the parade He was not the
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band leader here, not the what's the guy's name will
the guy who the drum major. He wasn't the guy
holding the six foot baton and marching high stepping across
the field. He was just doing the best he could
with the tools he still had. And other people were
doing things he probably wouldn't have done.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
Do.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
OJ's looking into it now, really and even more closely
than ever, trying to figure out who was in charge
and who authorized the auto penning of hundreds of pardons
which could quite possibly be declared nollen void by the way,
if they were indeed five without his knowledge, that I
don't believe to be lawful, and I'm very confident that
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that's not that that's correct. I kind of feel like
the Left thought they'd leave Biden at the helm able
or not until just the right time to pull him
aside and anoint Kamala Harris, which they did, only they
did it too late. They did, but they did it
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too late for her to have a chance, And they
had a grand plan I'm convinced at this point to
pretty much dismantle the country and send it to chaos.
And if she had won, if she had won, that
would have started, that process would have started ultimately to
get us into such a state that we would just
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we would do anything. Only she lost partly because she
got to the party two late. And that wasn't her fault.
That was who. Again, we don't know who was making
all these decisions. There are a lot of theories and
whatnot around around who who actually was running the show,
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And I really don't know which one's right yet, but
I'm pretty like one hundred percent confident it wasn't Joe Biden.
He just he just wasn't there anymore. And that's not
his fault. That's that's the fault of a medical condition,
and that should have been brought to the four long before.
It was Also partly Aris lost because she just had
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a hard time putting sentences together that formed any sort
of political platform or plan or way out or whatever
for this country. Would wouldn't have done anything about the border,
wouldn't have done anything about crime, would have done anything
pretty much about anything, as far as I could see.
Had they none of the bad things they did ever
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would have seen the light of day. If she had won,
either would have been just swept away. They would have
been lost to a continually obedient mainstream media, if you will,
and even mainstream media now is starting to cover some
of the stuff that was going on back then that
you and me and most of this audience would have
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known what was going on, but you couldn't find it
on mainstream news anywhere. And some of them are finally
having to just throw in the towel and say, you know,
we got we gotta play along here and we're gonna
tell the truth. And that's that's what we need. That's
what we need. Grab some popcorn, pop your feet up.
Watch the next couple of years as our country gets
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a very much needed makeover and some of these people
who've been taking from us will be called onto the
carpet for that. Speaking of I heard Jimmy Barrett talking
on k t r H this morning about the salaries
at the Texas Scorecard. I believe it was put in
a Freedom of Information Act request to find out just
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how much some of these administrators in the county are
being paid and how some of them have gotten raises
of anywhere from thirty to one hundred and something percent
year over year in recent years to keep doing what
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they're doing, and they're being paid in many cases, five, ten, fifteen,
even more times what they're peers what the job equivalents
in other cities and counties in the country are being paid.
So we're not going to get rid of them. They're
not going to leave, They're not going to be bought
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out by somebody else with They're.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Not going to We're not going to get wallet whipped.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
In other words, Harris County's not going to get wallat whipped,
wallet whipped out of a person who is running anything.
Because they're making so much here, why would they leave?
Speaker 5 (16:59):
And to her.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Credit, I heard Jimmy say, and he agrees with me.
She when all these raises were being approved most recently,
she was the only no vote on the whole council.
And these people in these positions are making far more
than the county commissioners are making, which why they would
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continue to throw money at these people. I really don't know.
I don't care how hard your job is. It's not
harder than the President of the United States, and he
only get well. I don't even think Donald Trump takes it.
But he the president, is salaried at four hundred thousand
dollars a year, and there are a whole lot of
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people in Harris County making a whole lot more than that.
That's just I don't understand how that can work out
well for us, if at all for the county. And
city's not going to hire them away they don't have
that kind of money.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
I correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Harris
County is operating at a budget deficit. I may be wrong.
Maybe that's just the city and I haven't looked, so
if I'm wrong, I certainly apologize to Lena Hidalgo and
anybody else in the council and all of them. If
they've got a balanced budget and they got that kind
of money to throw around, more power to them.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
But I don't.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Think that's the case. I don't think that's the case. Will.
Let's go to you because you are the man. Got
a minute in a quarter? What is today?
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Will? National?
Speaker 4 (18:31):
What Day? Let me see if it's on the screen.
No it's not. Oh it says World Bicycle Day. I
got one better than that. This is a food product
and it's been in the news a lot.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
And it's been in the news.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
A lot, Yeah, like since January. It's January. For its cost,
Well that if you don't have it a neet. Yes,
today is National egg Day and that's no yoke. All right,
we got to go to break No we don't, sorry, folks,
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we got to go to break for dinner. That is
what I'm thinking. Yeah, that was Oh man, it's it's
only one of the oldest jokes on the planet. Will
if you surely you've heard that one hundred times before?
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Oh, I know, I don't think I've ever heard it,
but I'm glad that this will be the last time.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Yeah, well I will. I'll give you fifteen seconds on this.
I didn't realize anybody had never heard that. That's pretty
That's amazing to me. Ut Hell's Institute on Aging also
amazing to me. As a matter of fact, this is
the collaborative of about a thousand and change providers here
there and everywhere around the greater Houston area, who all
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have gotten special training above and beyond what it took
them to get the diploma on the wall in the office,
so that they know what makes seniors tick. They know
how to apply their knowledge specifically to seniors to get
us kicking again, to get us moving around, feeling better,
living longer, happier, healthier, more robust. I don't use that
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word often more robust lives than we do. Now. If
anything's bothering you go to the website utch dot edu
slash aging. Look at all the resources that well, look
at some. You won't have time to look at all
of them. I promise you. There's so much there to see.
Most of these providers, by the way, most of them
are based in the medical center, which you might expect,
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but they also work in outlying areas and hospitals and
clinics all around town, so that if you don't want
to or don't have to go to the med center,
whether it's inconvenient for you, you don't like the traffic,
you don't like the parking, whatever, you can probably be
seen somewhere out close to where you live. Uth dot
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edu slash aging. I'm meeting with them tomorrow to really
hammer out some great new stuff for fifty plus in
the coming year too. This is going to be a
wonderful meeting and I cannot wait. Ut dot edu slash
aging Aged to perfection.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
This is fifty plus with Dougpike.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
I just shared a one liner that I wrote with
Will and he didn't appreciate it at all. Did you
not appreciate it? Just I know it's not appropriate and
I'm not going to talk about it, but so and
it's not you know, this is one of the ones
that would be okay. But I try my darness to
keep both of my shows, actually not just this one,
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but my outdoor show over on KBMS, well try to
keep them very g rated and not gross, not vulgar,
none of that stuff, because it I know that even
in this show there are a few kids in the audience,
and even in this show there I'm talking in great
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numbers to a generation of people who didn't grow up
spouting curse words every other word out of their mouth.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Else.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
I've talked about this before, and I'll briefly touch on it.
I'm very disappointed when I see videos shot by the
parents of children who are just spouting off explotives. And
I'm being kind there, letting there be an opportunity for
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them not to be really vulgar. But yeah, they think
it's funny when their children are saying these words. And
I don't believe that I'm out of touch by disagreeing
with that. I don't believe that I'm in the wrong
because little kids who don't even know what those words mean.
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Shouldn't be saying I don't think they should. I think
they should. They should be and can be brought up
better than that. I do so anyway, I don't want to.
I don't want to stray too far off the course.
But yeah, I don't like that when I see it,
and I never will and I'll never like anything like
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that that pops up on Facebook. I think it's disturbing
really that parents, some parents, not all, some parents don't
think any don't think twice about that. So from back
to the where we were with kind of craziness a
little bit. We'll go back to Boulder, Colorado, from that
desk where terrorists burned twelve people recently said he kind
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of chickened out before he hurt more people, or maybe
he had second thoughts. Whatever. But this is just a
frightening reality after that past administration of ours letting millions
have unvetted anybodies into our country, and it's probably gonna
take years. It's going to take years to purge our nation,
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not just of gang bangers and cartel members. They've run
in groups typically and identify themselves with tattoos and other
outward symbols to let people know that's who they are.
It's an intimidation tactic. And now with increasing frequency, we've
got rogue nut jobs plotting and planning these isolated attacks
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with the intention of hurting or killing a dozen, two dozen,
two hundred people or more in a single event. People
driving cars into crowds people what this guy did in
Boulder with a molotov cocktails and kind of a homemade flamethrower.
To what I've read, innocent until proven guilty, but there's
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plenty of video evidence that somebody who looks like him
did that. Will let the court system run it through.
But it's just more and more often these things are happening,
and you have to take that number, whatever number it is,
of these events actually occurring, and then multiply it by
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about a thousand, because at least that many people with
similar intention are walking and living among us now, and
nobody slowed them down at the border if they did.
All they could do by law then was just check
them in and check them out. Oh, this is who
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you say you are. Okay, that's fine. Here's your free phone.
Keep an eye on it for a text message in
the next six years that you've got your coret of
pen appearance for asylum not gonna work out well for us.
It's gonna take a long time, it really is. It's
gonna take a long time to get all these people
out of this country. And the ones who who want
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to be here, the ones who want to assimilate and
become Americans. I got no problem with them. I have
no problem with them. I really don't. But we again,
out of ten, twelve, fourteen million people, depending on what
number you look at, Uh, there's some bad eggs. There's
some bad eggs in that basket, and they gotta go.
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They have to go, or they will. They will knock
us off a few at a time and scare the
rest of us into not going anywhere and not doing anything.
That's the issue. The fear factor they impart on us
is just horrific, absolutely horrific.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
From the where am I going? Let's go back to
the fun stuff for a little bit, will I've I
had some really good ones on here, and I don't
want to miss one of them today. I've never gone
through that entire sheet that I put together. These things too,
By the way, maybe today will be the day we'll
see what do you want will two for one? What's
in a name or the price of companionship?
Speaker 5 (26:42):
Two for one?
Speaker 4 (26:43):
Two for one? How do you always get the shortest one?
You have a knack for that, and it's not good
or bad. It's just a knack that you have two
for one. Will You don't qualify for this, most of
my audience does.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
If you're more than.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
Fifty years old in the air, okay, if you're more
than fifty, the world population has doubled in your lifetime.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
To what is it now?
Speaker 4 (27:09):
Eight billion, nine billion? Can you look it up? World population?
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Enter eight billion, two hundred and thirteen million, two hundred
and sixty nine thousand, five hundred.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
Okay, give me a favor. We'll write that number down
and then check it again tomorrow, and let's see if
they're really keeping up. Let's fact check them, just to
make sure, because it needs to go up tomorrow unless
something really weird happens. There was a an eruption of
Mount Etna. Did you see that? Now? All I saw
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was the headline, and I think it displaced a whole
lot of people. I don't know if anybody got hurt,
but apparently it was a pretty big rumble spit from
the old Etna volcano. I'll have to look into that
after the show today and maybe talk about it tomorrow.
The price of companionship will as a dog owner and
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a dog napper. Well, no, technically they let you have
that dog, didn't they to hold on to it for them?
Speaker 5 (28:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (28:15):
Okay, so I'm sorry I accuse you of something you
didn't do. Over the course of a dog or cat's
life beginning now. In twenty twenty five study chose a
fifteen year lifespan, people think that it costs about fifty
seven hundred dollars to own a cat and about eighty
two hundred dollars for a dog. Okay, over that lifetime, you.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Know what the real numbers are.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
But take a guess. For the cat, I don't know,
twenty grand. Now for the dog twenty two grand because
they eat more, and you also have to buy those
little bags that you carry when you take them for
a walk.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
That's a lot of money.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
But I would venture to guess that anybody who has
a dog or a cat, most dog or cat owners
would agree with me that at any price, right, you
got to take care of your pet. Well, yeah, if
you draw the line somewhere. Where's the line, will I
mean thirty grand keeping the dog? Thirty Yeah, forty grand keeping.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
The dog forty? How long is this dog? Fifteen years?
Speaker 4 (29:23):
Fifteen years? I mean fifty grand?
Speaker 5 (29:26):
Will.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
I've spent a lot of money on my dog because
my dog has certain health issues.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
Okayquired, Yeah, people are the same way. That happens.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
But I'm happy that we found a solution.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
So far hadn't gone over the top just yet. Yeah,
there's some comm I think it's Dusty Sleigh, the comedian,
talks about when pets, you know, go, when they just go,
and his dad would They would come home one day
and he would say that their dog ran away. Their
dog ran away. He's so good, he said, y, that's fine.
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We just wait till something else shows up on the porch.
All right, we gotta take a little break here. Finding
one of the program Berry Hill restaurant, berry Hill Baja Grill,
down there in Sugarland on fifty nine at Sugar Creek Boulevard.
My footprints have been in that restaurant for the better
part of twenty five years pretty much. However long they've
been there, I think it's crowding. Thirty anyway, and I've
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been there longer than that. Been going to that restaurant
since my wife and I first found it. We've taken
our son in there numerous times.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
Now.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
He doesn't go as often as we do, or actually
we bring it home more often than not now, and
he's always off with somebody running around with his buddies,
going and getting dinner. We get Berry Hill, and I'm
so glad we do. She a very big fan of
the Baja chicken tacos. I a big fan of the
seafood enchiladas, which are absolutely to die for. They do
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a seafood burrito too, by the way, but unless you've
unless you you've got a huge appetite. I tried once.
I couldn't make it through without really struggling. It was
so good I had to keep eating, but at some
point I had to slow down because it was just
such such a giant dish. Their claim to fame has been,
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and probably always will be their fish tacos. I've had
fish tacos probably at I don't know, one hundred places
over the years, everywhere from Central America all the way
up through here. I wouldn't dare eat a fish taco
much north of here, but Berry Hill the best I've had.
Everything on that menu is prepared by primarily anyway, by
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two people who have been in that kitchen for the
better part of ten or twelve fifteen years each. They's
been the same great crew back there, churning out great, consistent,
delicious text mex food. Very friendly place if you're alone,
if you got your family with you, as long as
you're you don't even you don't have to dress up.
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There are no white linen tablecloths or anything. It's just
a comfortable, fun place to either go sit in the
kind of the restaurant side with tables and booths, or
go over to the sports bar side and get to
see all the TVs and maybe make some new friends there,
or go outside, bring a friend and dine on the patio.
Once that sun gets a little lower, it gets kind
of comfortable out there. Berryhillsugarland dot com. They also, by
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the way, do great catering all over town. Wherever you
want them, they'll bring it to you, and they are
darn good at doing that. We have them doing that
for us here at iHeart and I'm so glad they're
on board. Berryhillsugarland dot com, family owned family operated for
a long long time Berryhillsugarland dot com once life.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Without a Net. If I suggest you go to bed,
sleep it off, just wait until the show's over. Sleepy.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Back to Dougpike as fifty plus continues, All right, welcome back.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
Will and I were debate. Well, we weren't debating. We
were just discussing really this ongoing scientific study into reviving long, long,
long gone species. I'm talking about bringing back dinosaurs and mastodons,
and Will brings up the notion of, well, what they're
(33:20):
doing trying to do this is using surrogacy some long
lost relative and farther farther, farther down the evolutionary chain.
For example, he brought up chickens as being relatives of
t rex and probably all you'd be able to do
at this point would make chickens with teeth. And that's
(33:42):
the last thing we need. Will, I'm not I've seen
videos of hundreds of people being chased by roosters. Now
imagine that rooster having teeth.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
But also these animals that they read are they are
not They are not happy animals like they they There's
usually a lot of different kind of complications that they're
not happy. They don't go to parties or what. No,
they are just in pain. I mean a lot of
this stuff is also just not there. There are just
(34:19):
ethical concerns, one also being that a lot of these animals,
if you brought them back, the environment has changed so
much since they were gone, they would be Yeah.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
I'm not terribly in favor of it. I wouldn't say
I would have to say that. I'm really not. I
think all of those animals had their time. We're having
our time now, and too suddenly unleash all these different
species into a world that they're not.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Built to deal with.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
I think it's it's almost cruel really, because they're I
think you're right, they're not gonna They're not gonna be content.
I don't know if animals can be happy necessarily. Oh yeah,
a wagging dogs tail. Yeah, that's happiness, I think. But
now we're not gonna do that. All right, will let's
go back. How about some good news? Would you like
some of that?
Speaker 5 (35:15):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (35:16):
I have, I have quite a few here, and I'm
just gonna get one and then maybe one more.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
This one I loved.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
Okay, teenager over in Georgia high school graduation Hey, everybody's there.
They're in the auditorium or the arena, or the theater
or where or the or the assembly room, wherever they are.
And they're all there to graduate from high school. And
after graduation, most of them go where will they go
(35:44):
to a party? Right?
Speaker 5 (35:47):
All but this guy.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
They might be going somewhere with their parents, they might
be going somewhere with their friends, whatever, wherever, whenever. Most
of them are just going to do something fun. This
kid jumps in his car drive straight to Burger King.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
You want to know.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
Why, because he works there, and he was so committed
to making his shift because he was put on the
schedule by the manager to work that shift. And by gosh,
he was going to be there flipping whoppers or doing
whatever he's doing at Burger King. And here's how it
turned out for him. Somebody, well somebody was first. I
(36:27):
guess at the Great Good News Network. That's where I
find a lot of these stories, says here Genn. Readers
loved his story so much that a Go funded Me
campaign was started in hopes of raising twenty grand for
a kid. His name's Michael Baker. Michael Baker. You know
what that fund's at now?
Speaker 5 (36:47):
Oh you asking me.
Speaker 4 (36:48):
No, Well, I'm just asking my cup of water here.
Speaker 5 (36:51):
I don't know what's it at.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
One hundred and eighty seven thousand dollars And Burger King
threw in ten early on scholarship ten dollars, No, ten grand,
another ten grand for the Burger King Foundation threw that in. Yeah,
they're just trying to get twenty grand for the kid
because he's a good, hardworking, dedicated, loyal person to his job,
which is something that's lacking in an overwhelming number of
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young people these days. By gosh, he agreed to work
that shift, and he just virtually ran off the stage,
jumped in and took off for Burger King. Pretty good.
He's got enough money now he's going to be able
to take a little break from wearing that paper crown,
you know. Good for him, Good for him, Well done,
Michael Baker. Good choices get rewarded, they really do good people.
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Sometimes you might have to wait a little while for
the reward for doing something really nice. But in Michael
Baker's case, he did the right thing straight up and
people greatly rewarded him for it. I have some medical
good news too, will, and I can do it in
a minute and fifteen. The world's at home cervical cancer
(38:02):
screening device was approved recently by the FDA and will
be available later this year. It's very similar, I found
if you think about how these things work, it's very
similar to like a coli guard test, okay, only different.
The patient is going to perform a very simple swab
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at home on her own time, and then send that
sample off to a lab where it's going to be tested.
When you find out, it's either good or bad news.
And at least you will know and you won't have
to go into your guynecologist office to get this test done.
It's already covered by a couple of major health insurance companies,
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and I'm guessing the rest of them will come on
board by the time this thing is out there. After all,
it's only a potentially life saving test that's not comfortable
or fun for women who have it, I would imagine,
And now at least they can do it at home
and just try to relax and get that knocked out.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
We're about done, aren't we will?
Speaker 5 (39:07):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (39:08):
All right, Well, thank you all for listening.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
We'll be back tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (39:11):
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Almost six minutes after the top of the hour, and
it's a dog one good looking Tuesday, I might say,
especially if you like being outdoors. Well, we've talked about
this before. If you had to do something outdoors today,
I'm kind of twisting it around a little bit to
just kind of I'm picking your brain a little bit.
So if you had to do something outdoors this afternoon,
(01:11):
what would it be fun? Not a chore, but something
you want to do outdoors?
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Something I want to do outdoors today.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Because it's such a wonderful day to be outside.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
I would try and go for a walk where it's shady.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
That's a good idea. I like that, Yesterda. I played
golf yesterday, and when we were used to be I
didn't have to worry much about shade because I missed
a lot of my drives left or right into the woods.
So I spent more time in shade than I did
in sunshine. Actually, but now I'm playing a little bit better,
and I'm spending more time in the fairways, and I've
(01:49):
actually got a look at this. Can you see this?
Look up here? Can you see that? That's sunburn? My friend?
I think it's you know what, that might not be
some burn. That might be something from a plant that
I walked into the woods and rubbed against my ankle too.
You know, in hindsight, that looks more like like a
plant than it does sunburn, doesn't it. Yeah, I should
(02:12):
have looked more closely this morning.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
I was certain.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Yeah, And you know what, I don't have it on
the other ankle, So never mind. That's some And that's
just from going in there looking for golf balls that
have gone astray. Most of the group I play with,
we'd actually I don't think we hit many, if any
balls into the woods yesterday A couple of them found
the water, a couple of mine. Actually it was very
(02:37):
disturbing after starting off really well, but I digress. Never mind,
So anyway, we got light wind, we got puffy clouds,
and if you like me, are interested in this kind
of a thing, the Gulf of Mexico actually looks pretty
dog one good. It's a little bumpy, it's it's better
suited to surfing than to fishing from that angle. But man,
(03:02):
maybe a uh, if I can break away from here,
I might just slide on down to the surfside.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
Jetty.
Speaker 4 (03:09):
I gotta check the tide, make sure there's an incoming
tide this evening, and I might take a run down there.
It wouldn't certainly wouldn't be the first afternoon breaking run
I've ever done. Uh And by the way, I was
so disappointed. Will we're what three days in the hurricane season.
And I opened up the map because yesterday and the
(03:31):
day before it was pretty pretty quiet. There was nothing
near to see, and it said nothing's expected in seven days.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
Nothing.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Open up the map today and what's there that? The
bad news is? There was a blip on there, but
it was something yellow, and I thought, Okay, well that
doesn't really mean a whole lot, but let's see what
it is. It was a tropical disturbance because it made
my heart skip a beat before I actually read it,
(03:59):
and really that it's nothing. A tropical disturbance along the
Georgia and Carolina coast that has a ten percent chance
of becoming anything at any time in our lifetimes. It's not,
it's not gonna be anything. But and I'm wondering, since
when do we need to post rainy weather on the
(04:21):
National Hurricane Center page. I really, I really hope they're
not going the way of television news people and television
weather people trying to scare everybody into doomsday mode with
these scenarios, worst case scenarios. You just can't if a cloud,
(04:43):
if there's a cloud in the sky, I'm gonna get
a notification sometime during that day on television. If I
watch enough weather forecasts, there might be a flood advisory.
There's a cloud could make a flood, who knows. It's
gonna have to get bigger, real could generate a lightning bolt,
who knows. I'm so frustrated by all that. It's not
(05:08):
none of that is necessary, and all it does is
generate fear among people, and that's really unnecessary. It just
it serves no purpose. All you gotta do to get
ready for hurricane season until one of them is knocking
at our door basically is make sure you've got a
(05:29):
few weeks of meds on hand. That's all summer long,
all summer long, because you could get displaced by a hurricane,
and God forbid, your medications better be with you if
you have to bail out of the house. Don't forget them.
You might lose them otherwise. And maybe one, maybe two
(05:50):
cases of water bottles, not twenty, like I've seen people
in the Great as soon as the first tropical storm
forms in the Gulf of Mexico, you won't be able
to find a bottle of water forty eight hours later.
It's sad, but it's true. Here's something else that you
need to have on hand, well, other than something to eat.
(06:11):
Also that doesn't really have to be cooked, just something
you can peel the lid off of or unscrew a
jar or whatever and just eat it. That'll get you
through in an emergency. Hopefully the power will be on
and everything will be back to normal quickly. But what
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else you need to have is a little bit of cash. Now,
I'm not talking about ten grand in twenties. You don't
need a shoe box full of paper money, but you
should have on hand enough so that you could buy
a few groceries, maybe some gas and a pinch somehow,
or who knows what you might need cash for. But
(06:54):
when there's no electricity, now a lot of the gas
stations you're saying, oh, well, that doesn't work because the
pumps will be out too. A lot of those pumps
are on generators, and then they figure out ways to
get paid. And if you've got cash and that generator's
running at the gas station, you will get some gasoline
in any event. Center Point actually they tell us they're
(07:17):
better prepared this year, and I sure hope they're right.
I don't want to go through another week of scattering
my family all over town, which is what I had
to do last year for a week trying to get
power back. I happen to be on one of the
smaller clusters of homes on a single grid. With Centerpoint,
(07:38):
we're almost always the last ones to get power back,
only because there are so few of us, and that's
not our fault. We didn't ask for that when those
homes were built. How about maybe they incorporate our little
grid into a much larger one around there somewhere, so
for the first time in thirty something years, we get
power back first rather than last. That would be nice.
(08:01):
I really would Center point. You're in the spotlight from
now over the next several years. Get it right, Please
get it right. All right, we gotta take a little
break here. I'll welcome somebody new to the family, somebody
I'm gonna have on the air to talk to at
length about the company they have, and that's Champion Tree Preservation.
Remember all that damage from Hurricane Barrel last year, I
(08:23):
certainly do. It's that time of year again, and your
trees need to be ready, either ready or take it
out before we get some big, powerful blow, which I
hope we don't get it all. They can really be
a danger. They can't whether it's to your house, to
somebody else's house, to cars, to fences, and Champions Tree
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Preservation will come out and assess all of your trees
to make sure they're healthy and strong enough to go
through this. I had a good conversation just this past
week with them about how the cycle that we've been
in from drought to flood to drought. It has caused
some real severe weakness in the root systems of a
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lot of trees. They can explain it much better than
I and you can get them out there. Actually, you
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come out there. They'll make sure that your trees are
healthy enough to get through storm season, not just healthy
(09:26):
enough to grow a few leaves either. There's a big difference.
And I'm gonna get them on as soon as I
can and talk about this and explain it so that
we all understand it better. If they can fix your tree,
if they can make your tree fully healthy again before
any problems arrive, then they'll do that for you. If
they need to prune it or take off, take out
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the whole tree, whether whatever's wrong with it, it's that's
your fault.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
It is your fault.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Whatever. They're gonna get that dangerous tree out of your
yard for you. Don't wait. Don't wait until it falls
and have to call your insurance company. It's a lot
easier and a lot less expensive in the long run
to just call them and get them out there for
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Speaker 2 (10:17):
You know, they sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
That's why every few months we wash them, check us words,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike and welcome.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Back fifty plus. Thank you so very very much for
listening on this beautiful Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
It really is.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
If you can get outside, get outside. If you can't
get outside on your own, tap somebody on the shoulder,
tell them to wheel you out there, walk you out there,
take you out there. Soak up a little sunshines maybe
you know, maybe stay in the shade. It's a little
cooler in the shade. It's not going to be unbearably
warm or hot. Well, I don't use the word hot
until it gets to one hundred, and it's not going
(10:56):
to do that for the next several days at least.
Who knows how that, So I'll reserve that word for later,
same as I do the freeze word in the wintertime.
I reserve that for temperatures of thirty two degrees and below.
So it's going to be warm to very warm to
downright toasty for the next week or so, and then
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who knows what happens after that. It doesn't matter. Today's
a good day, and if you can find some shade,
maybe someplace with a little breeze blowing through it, you
should probably come out well ahead and enjoy the time
you're out there. From the Biden area, desk area era
desk era era, comes word that closer scrutiny is being
(11:42):
paid now, and I'm glad it is really to the
final six or eight months of his term, when he
was said to be in grave shape, had all his faculties,
one of the sharpest tax on the block, although everyone
in the country saw that he was not. And I
genuinely feel sorry for the man because I think a
(12:03):
lot of people took advantage of him in that state,
said to be in really great shape. We knew better.
Even President Trump said that President Biden almost certainly wasn't
in favor of the wide open border that occurred on
his watch. Democrats were running the show. It's pretty clear,
but Biden wasn't leading the parade He was not the
(12:24):
band leader here, not the what's the guy's name will
the guy who the drum major. He wasn't the guy
holding the six foot baton and marching high stepping across
the field. He was just doing the best he could
with the tools he still had. And other people were
doing things he probably wouldn't have done.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
Do.
Speaker 4 (12:46):
OJ's looking into it now, really and even more closely
than ever, trying to figure out who was in charge
and who authorized the auto penning of hundreds of pardons
which could quite possibly be declared nollen void by the way,
if they were indeed five without his knowledge, that I
don't believe to be lawful, and I'm very confident that
(13:08):
that's not that that's correct. I kind of feel like
the Left thought they'd leave Biden at the helm able
or not until just the right time to pull him
aside and anoint Kamala Harris, which they did, only they
did it too late. They did, but they did it
(13:30):
too late for her to have a chance, And they
had a grand plan I'm convinced at this point to
pretty much dismantle the country and send it to chaos.
And if she had won, if she had won, that
would have started, that process would have started ultimately to
get us into such a state that we would just
(13:53):
we would do anything. Only she lost partly because she
got to the party two late. And that wasn't her fault.
That was who. Again, we don't know who was making
all these decisions. There are a lot of theories and
whatnot around around who who actually was running the show,
(14:13):
And I really don't know which one's right yet, but
I'm pretty like one hundred percent confident it wasn't Joe Biden.
He just he just wasn't there anymore. And that's not
his fault. That's that's the fault of a medical condition,
and that should have been brought to the four long before.
It was Also partly Aris lost because she just had
(14:36):
a hard time putting sentences together that formed any sort
of political platform or plan or way out or whatever
for this country. Would wouldn't have done anything about the border,
wouldn't have done anything about crime, would have done anything
pretty much about anything, as far as I could see.
Had they none of the bad things they did ever
(14:57):
would have seen the light of day. If she had won,
either would have been just swept away. They would have
been lost to a continually obedient mainstream media, if you will,
and even mainstream media now is starting to cover some
of the stuff that was going on back then that
you and me and most of this audience would have
(15:18):
known what was going on, but you couldn't find it
on mainstream news anywhere. And some of them are finally
having to just throw in the towel and say, you know,
we got we gotta play along here and we're gonna
tell the truth. And that's that's what we need. That's
what we need. Grab some popcorn, pop your feet up.
Watch the next couple of years as our country gets
(15:39):
a very much needed makeover and some of these people
who've been taking from us will be called onto the
carpet for that. Speaking of I heard Jimmy Barrett talking
on k t r H this morning about the salaries
at the Texas Scorecard. I believe it was put in
a Freedom of Information Act request to find out just
(16:00):
how much some of these administrators in the county are
being paid and how some of them have gotten raises
of anywhere from thirty to one hundred and something percent
year over year in recent years to keep doing what
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they're doing, and they're being paid in many cases, five, ten, fifteen,
even more times what they're peers what the job equivalents
in other cities and counties in the country are being paid.
So we're not going to get rid of them. They're
not going to leave, They're not going to be bought
(16:42):
out by somebody else with They're.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Not going to We're not going to get wallet whipped.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
In other words, Harris County's not going to get wallat whipped,
wallet whipped out of a person who is running anything.
Because they're making so much here, why would they leave?
Speaker 5 (16:59):
And to her.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Credit, I heard Jimmy say, and he agrees with me.
She when all these raises were being approved most recently,
she was the only no vote on the whole council.
And these people in these positions are making far more
than the county commissioners are making, which why they would
(17:21):
continue to throw money at these people. I really don't know.
I don't care how hard your job is. It's not
harder than the President of the United States, and he
only get well. I don't even think Donald Trump takes it.
But he the president, is salaried at four hundred thousand
dollars a year, and there are a whole lot of
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people in Harris County making a whole lot more than that.
That's just I don't understand how that can work out
well for us, if at all for the county. And
city's not going to hire them away they don't have
that kind of money.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
I'm not sure.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
I correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Harris
County is operating at a budget deficit. I may be wrong.
Maybe that's just the city and I haven't looked, so
if I'm wrong, I certainly apologize to Lena Hidalgo and
anybody else in the council and all of them. If
they've got a balanced budget and they got that kind
of money to throw around, more power to them.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
But I don't.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Think that's the case. I don't think that's the case. Will.
Let's go to you because you are the man. Got
a minute in a quarter? What is today?
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Will? National?
Speaker 4 (18:31):
What Day? Let me see if it's on the screen.
No it's not. Oh it says World Bicycle Day. I
got one better than that. This is a food product
and it's been in the news a lot.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
And it's been in the news.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
A lot, Yeah, like since January. It's January. For its cost,
Well that if you don't have it a neet. Yes,
today is National egg Day and that's no yoke. All right,
we got to go to break No we don't, sorry, folks,
(19:03):
we got to go to break for dinner. That is
what I'm thinking. Yeah, that was Oh man, it's it's
only one of the oldest jokes on the planet. Will
if you surely you've heard that one hundred times before?
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Oh, I know, I don't think I've ever heard it,
but I'm glad that this will be the last time.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Yeah, well I will. I'll give you fifteen seconds on this.
I didn't realize anybody had never heard that. That's pretty
That's amazing to me. Ut Hell's Institute on Aging also
amazing to me. As a matter of fact, this is
the collaborative of about a thousand and change providers here
there and everywhere around the greater Houston area, who all
(19:45):
have gotten special training above and beyond what it took
them to get the diploma on the wall in the office,
so that they know what makes seniors tick. They know
how to apply their knowledge specifically to seniors to get
us kicking again, to get us moving around, feeling better,
living longer, happier, healthier, more robust. I don't use that
(20:06):
word often more robust lives than we do. Now. If
anything's bothering you go to the website utch dot edu
slash aging. Look at all the resources that well, look
at some. You won't have time to look at all
of them. I promise you. There's so much there to see.
Most of these providers, by the way, most of them
are based in the medical center, which you might expect,
(20:28):
but they also work in outlying areas and hospitals and
clinics all around town, so that if you don't want
to or don't have to go to the med center,
whether it's inconvenient for you, you don't like the traffic,
you don't like the parking, whatever, you can probably be
seen somewhere out close to where you live. Uth dot
(20:48):
edu slash aging. I'm meeting with them tomorrow to really
hammer out some great new stuff for fifty plus in
the coming year too. This is going to be a
wonderful meeting and I cannot wait. Ut dot edu slash
aging Aged to perfection.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
This is fifty plus with Dougpike.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
I just shared a one liner that I wrote with
Will and he didn't appreciate it at all. Did you
not appreciate it? Just I know it's not appropriate and
I'm not going to talk about it, but so and
it's not you know, this is one of the ones
that would be okay. But I try my darness to
keep both of my shows, actually not just this one,
(21:30):
but my outdoor show over on KBMS, well try to
keep them very g rated and not gross, not vulgar,
none of that stuff, because it I know that even
in this show there are a few kids in the audience,
and even in this show there I'm talking in great
(21:51):
numbers to a generation of people who didn't grow up
spouting curse words every other word out of their mouth.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Else.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
I've talked about this before, and I'll briefly touch on it.
I'm very disappointed when I see videos shot by the
parents of children who are just spouting off explotives. And
I'm being kind there, letting there be an opportunity for
(22:21):
them not to be really vulgar. But yeah, they think
it's funny when their children are saying these words. And
I don't believe that I'm out of touch by disagreeing
with that. I don't believe that I'm in the wrong
because little kids who don't even know what those words mean.
(22:45):
Shouldn't be saying I don't think they should. I think
they should. They should be and can be brought up
better than that. I do so anyway, I don't want to.
I don't want to stray too far off the course.
But yeah, I don't like that when I see it,
and I never will and I'll never like anything like
(23:06):
that that pops up on Facebook. I think it's disturbing
really that parents, some parents, not all, some parents don't
think any don't think twice about that. So from back
to the where we were with kind of craziness a
little bit. We'll go back to Boulder, Colorado, from that
desk where terrorists burned twelve people recently said he kind
(23:29):
of chickened out before he hurt more people, or maybe
he had second thoughts. Whatever. But this is just a
frightening reality after that past administration of ours letting millions
have unvetted anybodies into our country, and it's probably gonna
take years. It's going to take years to purge our nation,
(23:51):
not just of gang bangers and cartel members. They've run
in groups typically and identify themselves with tattoos and other
outward symbols to let people know that's who they are.
It's an intimidation tactic. And now with increasing frequency, we've
got rogue nut jobs plotting and planning these isolated attacks
(24:13):
with the intention of hurting or killing a dozen, two dozen,
two hundred people or more in a single event. People
driving cars into crowds people what this guy did in
Boulder with a molotov cocktails and kind of a homemade flamethrower.
To what I've read, innocent until proven guilty, but there's
(24:35):
plenty of video evidence that somebody who looks like him
did that. Will let the court system run it through.
But it's just more and more often these things are happening,
and you have to take that number, whatever number it is,
of these events actually occurring, and then multiply it by
(24:56):
about a thousand, because at least that many people with
similar intention are walking and living among us now, and
nobody slowed them down at the border if they did.
All they could do by law then was just check
them in and check them out. Oh, this is who
(25:17):
you say you are. Okay, that's fine. Here's your free phone.
Keep an eye on it for a text message in
the next six years that you've got your coret of
pen appearance for asylum not gonna work out well for us.
It's gonna take a long time, it really is. It's
gonna take a long time to get all these people
out of this country. And the ones who who want
(25:41):
to be here, the ones who want to assimilate and
become Americans. I got no problem with them. I have
no problem with them. I really don't. But we again,
out of ten, twelve, fourteen million people, depending on what
number you look at, Uh, there's some bad eggs. There's
some bad eggs in that basket, and they gotta go.
(26:03):
They have to go, or they will. They will knock
us off a few at a time and scare the
rest of us into not going anywhere and not doing anything.
That's the issue. The fear factor they impart on us
is just horrific, absolutely horrific.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
From the where am I going? Let's go back to
the fun stuff for a little bit, will I've I
had some really good ones on here, and I don't
want to miss one of them today. I've never gone
through that entire sheet that I put together. These things too,
By the way, maybe today will be the day we'll
see what do you want will two for one? What's
in a name or the price of companionship?
Speaker 5 (26:42):
Two for one?
Speaker 4 (26:43):
Two for one? How do you always get the shortest one?
You have a knack for that, and it's not good
or bad. It's just a knack that you have two
for one. Will You don't qualify for this, most of
my audience does.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
If you're more than.
Speaker 4 (26:57):
Fifty years old in the air, okay, if you're more
than fifty, the world population has doubled in your lifetime.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
To what is it now?
Speaker 4 (27:09):
Eight billion, nine billion? Can you look it up? World population?
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Enter eight billion, two hundred and thirteen million, two hundred
and sixty nine thousand, five hundred.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
Okay, give me a favor. We'll write that number down
and then check it again tomorrow, and let's see if
they're really keeping up. Let's fact check them, just to
make sure, because it needs to go up tomorrow unless
something really weird happens. There was a an eruption of
Mount Etna. Did you see that? Now? All I saw
(27:47):
was the headline, and I think it displaced a whole
lot of people. I don't know if anybody got hurt,
but apparently it was a pretty big rumble spit from
the old Etna volcano. I'll have to look into that
after the show today and maybe talk about it tomorrow.
The price of companionship will as a dog owner and
(28:08):
a dog napper. Well, no, technically they let you have
that dog, didn't they to hold on to it for them?
Speaker 5 (28:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (28:15):
Okay, so I'm sorry I accuse you of something you
didn't do. Over the course of a dog or cat's
life beginning now. In twenty twenty five study chose a
fifteen year lifespan, people think that it costs about fifty
seven hundred dollars to own a cat and about eighty
two hundred dollars for a dog. Okay, over that lifetime, you.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Know what the real numbers are.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
But take a guess. For the cat, I don't know,
twenty grand. Now for the dog twenty two grand because
they eat more, and you also have to buy those
little bags that you carry when you take them for
a walk.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
That's a lot of money.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
But I would venture to guess that anybody who has
a dog or a cat, most dog or cat owners
would agree with me that at any price, right, you
got to take care of your pet. Well, yeah, if
you draw the line somewhere. Where's the line, will I
mean thirty grand keeping the dog? Thirty Yeah, forty grand keeping.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
The dog forty? How long is this dog? Fifteen years?
Speaker 4 (29:23):
Fifteen years? I mean fifty grand?
Speaker 5 (29:26):
Will.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
I've spent a lot of money on my dog because
my dog has certain health issues.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
Okayquired, Yeah, people are the same way. That happens.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
But I'm happy that we found a solution.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
So far hadn't gone over the top just yet. Yeah,
there's some comm I think it's Dusty Sleigh, the comedian,
talks about when pets, you know, go, when they just go,
and his dad would They would come home one day
and he would say that their dog ran away. Their
dog ran away. He's so good, he said, y, that's fine.
(30:02):
We just wait till something else shows up on the porch.
All right, we gotta take a little break here. Finding
one of the program Berry Hill restaurant, berry Hill Baja Grill,
down there in Sugarland on fifty nine at Sugar Creek Boulevard.
My footprints have been in that restaurant for the better
part of twenty five years pretty much. However long they've
been there, I think it's crowding. Thirty anyway, and I've
(30:24):
been there longer than that. Been going to that restaurant
since my wife and I first found it. We've taken
our son in there numerous times.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
Now.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
He doesn't go as often as we do, or actually
we bring it home more often than not now, and
he's always off with somebody running around with his buddies,
going and getting dinner. We get Berry Hill, and I'm
so glad we do. She a very big fan of
the Baja chicken tacos. I a big fan of the
seafood enchiladas, which are absolutely to die for. They do
(30:55):
a seafood burrito too, by the way, but unless you've
unless you you've got a huge appetite. I tried once.
I couldn't make it through without really struggling. It was
so good I had to keep eating, but at some
point I had to slow down because it was just
such such a giant dish. Their claim to fame has been,
(31:18):
and probably always will be their fish tacos. I've had
fish tacos probably at I don't know, one hundred places
over the years, everywhere from Central America all the way
up through here. I wouldn't dare eat a fish taco
much north of here, but Berry Hill the best I've had.
Everything on that menu is prepared by primarily anyway, by
(31:41):
two people who have been in that kitchen for the
better part of ten or twelve fifteen years each. They's
been the same great crew back there, churning out great, consistent,
delicious text mex food. Very friendly place if you're alone,
if you got your family with you, as long as
you're you don't even you don't have to dress up.
(32:03):
There are no white linen tablecloths or anything. It's just
a comfortable, fun place to either go sit in the
kind of the restaurant side with tables and booths, or
go over to the sports bar side and get to
see all the TVs and maybe make some new friends there,
or go outside, bring a friend and dine on the patio.
Once that sun gets a little lower, it gets kind
of comfortable out there. Berryhillsugarland dot com. They also, by
(32:27):
the way, do great catering all over town. Wherever you
want them, they'll bring it to you, and they are
darn good at doing that. We have them doing that
for us here at iHeart and I'm so glad they're
on board. Berryhillsugarland dot com, family owned family operated for
a long long time Berryhillsugarland dot com once life.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Without a Net. If I suggest you go to bed,
sleep it off, just wait until the show's over. Sleepy.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Back to Dougpike as fifty plus continues, All right, welcome back.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
Will and I were debate. Well, we weren't debating. We
were just discussing really this ongoing scientific study into reviving long, long,
long gone species. I'm talking about bringing back dinosaurs and mastodons,
and Will brings up the notion of, well, what they're
(33:20):
doing trying to do this is using surrogacy some long
lost relative and farther farther, farther down the evolutionary chain.
For example, he brought up chickens as being relatives of
t rex and probably all you'd be able to do
at this point would make chickens with teeth. And that's
(33:42):
the last thing we need. Will, I'm not I've seen
videos of hundreds of people being chased by roosters. Now
imagine that rooster having teeth.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
But also these animals that they read are they are
not They are not happy animals like they they There's
usually a lot of different kind of complications that they're
not happy. They don't go to parties or what. No,
they are just in pain. I mean a lot of
this stuff is also just not there. There are just
(34:19):
ethical concerns, one also being that a lot of these animals,
if you brought them back, the environment has changed so
much since they were gone, they would be Yeah.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
I'm not terribly in favor of it. I wouldn't say
I would have to say that. I'm really not. I
think all of those animals had their time. We're having
our time now, and too suddenly unleash all these different
species into a world that they're not.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Built to deal with.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
I think it's it's almost cruel really, because they're I
think you're right, they're not gonna They're not gonna be content.
I don't know if animals can be happy necessarily. Oh yeah,
a wagging dogs tail. Yeah, that's happiness, I think. But
now we're not gonna do that. All right, will let's
go back. How about some good news? Would you like
some of that?
Speaker 5 (35:15):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (35:16):
I have, I have quite a few here, and I'm
just gonna get one and then maybe one more.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
This one I loved.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
Okay, teenager over in Georgia high school graduation Hey, everybody's there.
They're in the auditorium or the arena, or the theater
or where or the or the assembly room, wherever they are.
And they're all there to graduate from high school. And
after graduation, most of them go where will they go
(35:44):
to a party? Right?
Speaker 5 (35:47):
All but this guy.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
They might be going somewhere with their parents, they might
be going somewhere with their friends, whatever, wherever, whenever. Most
of them are just going to do something fun. This
kid jumps in his car drive straight to Burger King.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
You want to know.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
Why, because he works there, and he was so committed
to making his shift because he was put on the
schedule by the manager to work that shift. And by gosh,
he was going to be there flipping whoppers or doing
whatever he's doing at Burger King. And here's how it
turned out for him. Somebody, well somebody was first. I
(36:27):
guess at the Great Good News Network. That's where I
find a lot of these stories, says here Genn. Readers
loved his story so much that a Go funded Me
campaign was started in hopes of raising twenty grand for
a kid. His name's Michael Baker. Michael Baker. You know
what that fund's at now?
Speaker 5 (36:47):
Oh you asking me.
Speaker 4 (36:48):
No, Well, I'm just asking my cup of water here.
Speaker 5 (36:51):
I don't know what's it at.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
One hundred and eighty seven thousand dollars And Burger King
threw in ten early on scholarship ten dollars, No, ten grand,
another ten grand for the Burger King Foundation threw that in. Yeah,
they're just trying to get twenty grand for the kid
because he's a good, hardworking, dedicated, loyal person to his job,
which is something that's lacking in an overwhelming number of
(37:18):
young people these days. By gosh, he agreed to work
that shift, and he just virtually ran off the stage,
jumped in and took off for Burger King. Pretty good.
He's got enough money now he's going to be able
to take a little break from wearing that paper crown,
you know. Good for him, Good for him, Well done,
Michael Baker. Good choices get rewarded, they really do good people.
(37:41):
Sometimes you might have to wait a little while for
the reward for doing something really nice. But in Michael
Baker's case, he did the right thing straight up and
people greatly rewarded him for it. I have some medical
good news too, will, and I can do it in
a minute and fifteen. The world's at home cervical cancer
(38:02):
screening device was approved recently by the FDA and will
be available later this year. It's very similar, I found
if you think about how these things work, it's very
similar to like a coli guard test, okay, only different.
The patient is going to perform a very simple swab
(38:22):
at home on her own time, and then send that
sample off to a lab where it's going to be tested.
When you find out, it's either good or bad news.
And at least you will know and you won't have
to go into your guynecologist office to get this test done.
It's already covered by a couple of major health insurance companies,
(38:46):
and I'm guessing the rest of them will come on
board by the time this thing is out there. After all,
it's only a potentially life saving test that's not comfortable
or fun for women who have it, I would imagine,
And now at least they can do it at home
and just try to relax and get that knocked out.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
We're about done, aren't we will?
Speaker 5 (39:07):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (39:08):
All right, Well, thank you all for listening.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
We'll be back tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (39:11):
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