September 26, 2025 • 34 mins
Today, Doug Pike discusses Fall weather, the Ryder's Cup, and his time as a collegiate athelete.
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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 1 (00:20):
Well, this show is all about you. This is fifty
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Speaker 2 (00:42):
And now fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, let's
tee it up again.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Huh fifty plus under yet a very yet another very nice,
very fall like day, with more to come. I'm really
hoping to stretch indoors, and I'm pretty confident that it
will probably give all our air conditioners a little break,
which I'm sure they could use about this time of year.
This summer's been a little bit quirky. Honestly, it wasn't
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as hot generally as the two that preceded it. And
I'm talking about it like it's in the past tense.
It's still September until about the middle of October. I'm
not falling for anything that's going on.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Anyways. It's sort of felt that way.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I think because we haven't caught any real breaks from
the humidity. The temperatures would fall down into the mid nineties,
low nineties. I think we got a few tickles of
the eighties maybe, I don't know. Three four or five
weeks ago, somewhere in there, that first little semi faux cool,
faux fall weather came around. But it's still been just
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sticky and hot and nasty, and I'm ready for it to.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Go in the oh.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
By the way, the tropics can't ignore them when there's
three big things over there off the east coast, two
of which are expected to do nothing to impact us,
the third of which which hasn't quite formed yet, but
it's supposed to quite quickly.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
It looks like it's headed for the.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Carolinas, and I hope not, because my niece lives over
there with her family, and I wouldn't wish hurricane on
anybody anywhere, especially my own family. They've endured many of them,
just as have we, so fingers crossed, and I'll double
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check and make sure they're all buttoned up over there.
There's really not much I could do, and I presume
that they have a nice, nice list of things that
they have to do to prepare for a storm, just
like we do at my house.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I've got a new flashlight.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
By the way, I participated in a sport Enclay's event
two fridays ago. I think it was maybe three now
has it been that long? Could have been a couple
of fridays ago. In this Sporting Clay's event, and one
of the thanks for Coming prizes was an incredible rechargeable flashlight.
I made the mistake with a former rechargeable flashlight that
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I got long time ago, one of the first that
ever came out. I made the mistake of losing the
power cord and never could find it around the house.
So essentially what I have in that one is a paperweight.
But this one, the next fact, I'll do it this weekend.
I guarantee it. I might do it this afternoon when
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I get home. I'm gonna take that cord and I'm
going to put a piece of duct tape on the
cord that says flashlight charger, and I'm gonna put it
in that big drawer of cords and chargers and plugs
and whatnot. The next thing I want to do, actually
is because we had a little blackout at the house
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a while back, a little electricity problem thanks to it
set an equipment malfunction, which could have been anything. Maybe
somebody just walked by and kicked the plug out of
the wall or something.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
The bottom line is, I'm gonna go find all of.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Our portable chargers and get them portably charged up, just
in case something stupid happens. I'm not sure exactly where
they all are now. Probably half of them are up
in my son's room somewhere. He'll use them and then
just put them away and not recharge them, which is
obviously a problem. The markets, three out of four were
back in the green this morning, a little bit earlier,
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a couple of hours ago, a nice change from earlier
in the week when they were all kind of sagging.
Gold and oil also up, so half a smiley face
for each and half a frown. Silver worth noting at
more than forty six dollars an ounce now that is
roughly it's about a third. It's about thirty three percent
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higher than it was just five months ago. Did I
buy silver five months ago?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Heck no, because I.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
I didn't know whether it was going to go up
or down. Do I feel foolish. Heck no, because I
didn't know whether it was going to go up or down.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Same with gold. Same with gold.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
If you'd have bought or if you'd have sold gold
a couple of years ago, you'd got about two thousand
dollars an ounce for it something like that, maybe a
little bit more. Now it's at thirty eight hundred dollars
an ounce. And why it's that high, I really don't
have a clue, but it is. And if you've got
something laying around the house that you're not playing with anymore,
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that has some gold in it some way, shape or form,
and you could use an extra sack of groceries, maybe
an extra tank of gas, and go sell it. Uh
For my golfers, by the way, who haven't looked yet,
The Ryder Cup is ongoing up there at Bethpage Black
and at Bethpage Black, the morning matches produced three losses
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for the American team and one win for the American team.
We're down three to one after the first round, which
is not that's nothing to be afraid of. It's not
a slam dunk that we're gonna lose. But we've got
a pretty big hill to climb and I think what,
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as much as anything else we gave the Europeans in
these morning matches is a real boost to their morale,
a real incentive for them to continue playing well, because
not one of the matches that we lost ever even
saw the sixteenth t. In match play, each team scores
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count as just one score for the hole. It's not
stroke play, it's match play. And if you don't understand,
in match play, you make a five and I make
a twelve, you just get one point. You're up one hole.
If I make a two on the next hole and
you make a four, I get credit for that one,
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so we're tied at that point. Is that the stroke
play is totally different, and the Europeans grow up playing
match play. They play matches with their families, they play
matches with their friends all the way through. They don't
do near as much stroke play as we do. And
I don't know how much of an advantage that would
really be, But the bottom line is, we got our
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tails whipped this morning, Absolutely got our tails whipped this morning.
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Speaker 2 (09:49):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pikey plus, thanks for listening.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
I certainly do appreciate that. Moving on as far as
we can get from the Ryder Cup at this point,
nothing good to see there. Unfortunately, so far, the mistakes
of Harris County Judge Lena Hidalgo continue to pile up
as she finishes out her limp duck.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
No is that right? No?
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Oh, lamee duck, lame duck tournament office under her watch.
According to an op ed piece in the Houston Chronicle
by way of MSN this morning, she spent seventeen million
dollars on a COVID medical center that never treated a patient.
This is all from an op ed, so take it
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or leave it. There was that eleven million on a
COVID vaccination outreach contract that the story called politically connected,
wrapped that in quotes, and despite actually having a lower
bid from the UT Health Science Center, which probably could
have done that quite effectively, spent one hundred million dollars
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on bike trails and all sorts of initiatives that were
supposed to help the city but really didn't do much.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
You know, you get what you vote for.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
There's a to get what you pay for thing is
similar and you know, in some political arenas both might
be true for the same stuff one by one. The
latest coming from California, misuse of power and corruption being
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brought into the daylight.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
And the people.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Involved in it are, in this case, for sure, scattering
like roaches at midnight when the lights come on. That's
a harsh and insensitive statement, really to the roaches anyway.
Nearly the entire board of directors whose charge it was
to watch over Highlands Community Charter and Technical Schools, Sacramento, California,
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they either quit or were booted within weeks of a
report that exposed, oh, you know, just little tiny things
improper hiring, nepotism, improper receipt of funds, and on and
on and on, told them more than one hundred and
eighty million dollars over just two fiscal years. Free members
were allowed to stay on, which is all that enabled
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the schools to actually continue to function, and something else
the incoming board members will have to handle, which may
limit the number of people who raise their hands and
say I'll take a swing at this, try to clean
it up. The California Department of Education, looking to get
all that money back from the Highlands District fat chance
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on that money's gone, money spent, Money's in bank accounts
that are going to be really hard to trace too.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
I bet.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
In the story that broke this morning of former FBI
Director James Comy being indicted, the people who are claiming
most loudly that President Trump indicted James Comy on charges
of lying to Congress have it dead wrong. He wasn't
indicted by President Trump. He was indicted by a grand
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jury of his peers, based on facts presented by federal prosecutors.
Toming was everything too. The statute limitations would have expired
at the end of this month, on September thirty, which
is five years to the day on which the testimony
was given by Comy. There's no love lost between those two,
not at all. Innocent until proven guilty though, and he's
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going to have his day in court and that he's
absolutely entitled to that. And I wouldn't want anything to
get in the way of that. I really wouldn't. That's
just that's how most of us on this side think.
I don't want any shenanigans. I want everything to be
done in broad daylight. I want everything to be done
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on the up and up, and let the chips fall
where they may. Comy lost me when he said, and
I quote, we will not live on our knees end quote. Seriously,
Comy knows what he said back then, and he knows
what he knew when he said it back then. And
a grand jury decided he should be prosecuted, and like
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I said, innocent until proven guilty, and he will have
his day in court. And I'm I'm one hundred percent,
one hundred and a million percent fine with that. Uh,
let's get to some of these little things in the
don't tell me, will let me let me look it up.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Almost four minutes that we have. Is that about rain? Yeah? Three? Okay?
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Oh yet my clock or my phone is set a
little well actually a little bit slow against this one,
because I showed four minutes left in any event.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
According to JD.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Power, traveler's favorite North American airports are Minneapolis, Saint Paul,
John Wayne out there in Orange County, California, and Indianapolis
International Airport.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
I've been to two of those, not three, and I
can I get it.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
I get it, they're great, but I don't it doesn't
say how they were raided and ranked and what amenities
had to be there or not be there. In another
recent poll, Actually International Airport Houston i a H is
said to have the worst food service in Texas and
second worst in the country, all after Papa's, the big
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restaurant chain was tossed out and replaced by Areas a
food service company. H that if I if I heard
my friend Michael Berry correctly yesterday morning, Arius has a
new has a new executive that it just happens to
be the person in our city government that bump pop
us out of I A H. I'm pretty sure that's
what I heard, and that you know, more power to
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or she she her he. I'm not sure whoever.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Made that made that move.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
But hey, if it's time for a career change, it's
time for a career change. You know how that works.
Just a stupid criminals. I love stories about stupid criminals. Uh,
this one leads off with you probably shouldn't door down
your murder supplies delivery driver in Texas called police after
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getting a suspicious order. That's all it tells you about
what was in the bag that was supposed to go
to a hotel. The police later found a suspect at
that hotel in that hotel room with a hostage inside.
That is, that was a life saving mistake done by
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that door dash driver. Thank goodness. Huh oh, I don't
care about that. This one concerns me for the people
in North Korea, they have stepped up. You talk about
freedom of speech being just wiped out in North Korea.
They have condemned the phrase I love you, the phrase
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I love you as being a sign of a decadent
lifestyle at I know, North Korea. Just once again they're
following a crazy person, kind of like will following me
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Speaker 2 (18:34):
What's life without a neat? If I suggest you go
to bed, leave it off, just wait until the show's over. Sleepy.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
All right, welcome back to fifty plus. Thank you for listening.
I truly do appreciate it. What a beautiful day.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Huh, What a beautiful day. And it's gonna stay like
that even for a few more. I have new stuff,
and I have some stuff from yesterday that merits attention.
I'm gonna go with ice agents right now because the
violence against them. Is just it's ramped up something like
one thousand percent since not very long ago, whatever date
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it was when the Left really ramped up its hatred
and insinuations that it's far left imbalanced minority, and it
is just a few, it's a handful of really demented people.
But they've ramped up and basically interpreted these poorly veiled
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suggestions from politicians and media as a green light to
commit acts of violence up to an including shooting people
like happened in Dallas to people who are just doing
their jobs. Politicians who have yet to reverse this powder
keg rhetoric garbage need to do it, and they need
to do it now. They need to look into a
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camera somewhere until every other Democrat in the country that
our differences should be decided peacefully and if necessary, through
the court system. That's how civilized people handle their differences
these days. You don't just start shooting up facilities where
ICE agents might be. You don't follow them around, you
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don't use radios to figure out where all the ice
activity is. Now that's going on, and it's essentially just
providing these lunatics a road map that will lead them
directly to the people they've been told over and over
and over should be hated and should be God forbid
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hurt in any way, shape or form. And no, I
don't believe that federal agents should not mask themselves. They
need that mask, they really do, because there's at least
not so long as it you can't take the mass
off so long as their attacks being promoted by a
Democrat politicans who just truly have turned their back on
our nation as it was founded and as it is
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endured for a very long time as the most powerful
country in the world. We were a laughingstock for the
last four years under President Biden. And don't tell me otherwise,
because I watch a lot of international news and Biden
was just soft as cheese and unwilling to stand up
to anybody. And then President Trump was put back in office,
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a job I doubt he really wanted, but I'm sure
he felt compelled to seek after seeing what was going on.
I kind of pity all the Democrats, young and old,
who continue to believe the words of people who who
just hate the man who's done more good than nine
months and Biden did in four years. It really is,
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it really is. It's concerning to me that there are
so many people who still think that way, and I
don't fault them for thinking that way. Everybody is entitled
to their own apea. I just wish that they would
take a step back, and as many, many, many, many
many of them are doing now and looking at.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Kind of where we are, where we were, what the policies.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Coming in are and what they were, and just a
whole lot of things will maybe turn them the other way.
Financial aid employee at Iowa State University fired this week
for comments she made about the killing of Charlie Kirk.
She represents the university, and the university didn't like what
she said, and interestingly, students who were polled later mostly
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agreed with the school's decision just for that reason, because
she was speaking as a representative of the school, and
the one one or two students who disagreed, they just
said she should have kept those feelings to herself, which
is and she's once again, she's perfectly she's perfectly able
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in this in this country of ours, to say whatever
she wants to say. But as has happened more than
once lately, saying what you want to say might get
you fired, might get you fired, which is what conservatives
have had to do. We've had to keep our mouth
shut for the last four years and even more really
if you go back far enough, because the people in
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power then were very quick that if you open your
mouth and said anybody anything that upset somebody, hurt somebody's feelings,
or challenged a left leaning policy, you were going to
be canceled, you were going to be just shut down,
that you had to be fired, or your company would
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face a boycott. All kinds of things that we've had
to deal with over the last recent years. And honestly,
the left just kind of getting a dose of its
own medicine. And I'm glad conferred conservatives are just finally
regaining their voices in all of this. There's just no
reason for that to have been the way it was
for as long as it was. We got we came
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very close to becoming Great Britain, where if you hurt
somebody's feelings you can go to prison. If you say
something that hurts somebody else's feelings, they can that's a
crime over there and you can be sent to prison.
Let's lighten it up again, Let's go back that way
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and go to trying to look for something that I
highlighted because that would mean it was a little more
worthy than the rest.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Oh, there's video.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
I don't know if I talked about this or not
earlier in the week, the guy who had the meltdown
when he was asked to leave Delta Sky Club in
Palm Beach. Did I talk about that? Will Okay, I'll
scratch that one out. Sometimes I forget when I don't
scratch through them immediately. Sometimes I forget.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Here's what I know.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
I didn't talk about. High fat diets make the brain
forget faster, which explains a lot really if you just
stop and kind of smile and think about that statement.
High fat diets make the brain forget faster. And there's
a dot here says but it might be reversible. So
if you want to look at that story, you can
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look it up and figure it out. Just high fat
diets brain forget faster, and it'll pop something up on AI.
It should say dot dot dot, which explains why you know.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
I'm gonna move on from that too. This kind of
an interesting little twist.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Two flying cars in China crashed into each other while
rehearsing for an air show. Both pilots are okay, which
tells me they weren't flying very fast or very high.
But one of the cars burst into flames, which would
be a little bit scary. That's that electric motor stuff.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Probably that's got to be the first crash involving multiple
flying cars. There have been some prototypes that just fell
out of the sky and the flyers, the drivers whatever
you want call pilots, walked away unhurt. Well, this is
the first, and you know, you know, let's fast forward
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to twenty thirty five flying cars everywhere and billboards everywhere
saying if you got rear ended at one hundred feet
on your way to work, call us. We'll get you
the money you reserve, you deserve. Next thing, you know,
it'll be what's the guy's name, the Texas Hammer will
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I can't remember his name, Jim Adler. Right, he'll be
standing on an airplane wing, standing on the wing of
a flying car, letting you know that he's gonna take
care of you.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Let's take a little break here.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
That guy, man, that guy's done great deals for people
who got hurt. Do not let agent sneak up on you,
old men. And my head's in the air too, okay,
I'm not young anymore. I'm past the age where I
need to be worried about in lar noncancerous prostate, and
probably ought to be thinking about it too, because some
of those little symptoms that I've been talking about and
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hearing about for so long, I'm going, hmmm, that might
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Speaker 1 (28:46):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them, check us words,
and spray on a fresh code O wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Done.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Lay only to rest. Don't you cry?
Speaker 1 (29:11):
No?
Speaker 2 (29:16):
All right? Welcome back to fifty plus false alarm.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
I didn't have the red button pushed my bad will,
but we got it, We got it worked out. That
was a quick move on your part, dude, to rescue
me and not make me look foolish.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Thank you for that. Hm, Where do I want to
go here?
Speaker 3 (29:32):
I'll lead off with something very interesting I thought, and
maybe some of you could back it up with an
email or a talkback through the iHeartRadio app. Changing times
is what I wrote here. What's something kids used to
deal with that would just emotionally destroy them today? The
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top answers. I think I talked about this earlier in
the week. I'll tell it real, real fast. It might
have been way back. It might have even been last week.
I don't date these pages, but dodgeball I have such
fond memories. I'm not even gonna mess with this. Dodgeball
in high school was one of my favorite things because
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I could throw a ball. That was one of the
things that got me a chance to play college baseball.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
I could throw and I could run.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
But I was a skinny little dude, and I didn't
have a whole lot of power in my back.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
I just I could.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
I could hit for a whole lot of a whole
lot of singles. I wasn't a bad hitter, but I
just I never threatened the the lumber that was used
to make the the wall of the field out there,
and right I'm left handed, so I was I was
trying like crazy to get one out right down the
right field line, the short porch as they called it
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at my stadium, but never did.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
I had a couple of dough I popped some stuff
all the way to the would roll to the wall.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
And maybe bounce up a foot or so when it
hit it on days when the infield or the outfield
had been mowed very very short, because we had a
power advantage over the other team. But on rare, rare occasions,
if our coach decided that the other team had a
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power hitting advantage and could get more extra base hits
than we might in that game, which like I said,
is very rare, he'd have the grounds crew let that
grass grow for a few days leading into that series.
And it's a brilliant man. His gust name was Eddie Stanky.
And if you've ever watched the movie about Jackie Robinson,
the guy who came out of the dugout when Robinson
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was up for his first at bat when the other
team was was hollering horrible things at him.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
That was Eddie.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Stanky came out to his defense and pretty much told
that guy on the other side that if he said
another word, he's going to give his face pot And
knowing Stinky the way I did when I played for him,
he meant it.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
He meant every word of that. He was a good guy.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
He was a hard coach to work with, but he
was very fair. And one of my favorite memories from
back then my freshman year, we were practicing inside because
it was either raining or super cold or something. No,
it had to have been rain. Cold wouldn't have gotten
has brought inside at all, so it must have been
just pouring down rain and we're inside in the gym
with all the gymnastics equipment sitting there, and toward the
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end of the practice, he said, look if if somebody,
if one of you can walk the balance beam from
one end to the other, turn around and walk all
the way back, you guys don't have to run after practice,
And like four or five of them looked at me,
and I was the littlest one. Probably looking back, I
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may have been the smallest guy on the team, and
they looked at me, and Stanky looked at me, and
he said Pike on the beam climbed up there, and
I just I hoped for the best, because as a freshman,
if I had messed that up, the seniors on the team,
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they wouldn't have beat me up, but they would have
given me grief. The whole team would have given me grief.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Frankly.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
And for the record, I made it. I made it
all the way down, I turned around, made it all
the way back, hopped off. I don't remember coming off
with a half flip or a double twist or anything.
I think I just kind of jumped off and nobody
had to run that day, and the world.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Was a better place. It really was. Oh my goodness,
how much time do I have?
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Will just one? Okay, let me find a good one.
Let me find a really good one. No, I've already
talked about that.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
I need to go back to the other stuff here.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
In ecological history news, I like this one, and this
will be just about right for the time.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
I have.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
A one hundred and twelve million year old piece of
amber has been found and it contained a variety of
organisms from beetles to flies, to ants and wasps, all
from so so long ago. There's even a spider and
these scientists have determined that within that piece of it's
a pretty big chunk of amber. Now it's not just
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a this isn't something size of a nickel. And you
could buy amber with creatures with insects in it online
for not a whole lot of money. It's really kind
of a cool thing to have. Anyway, They detected strands
of that spider's web in that piece amber just freezes time,
so to speak. The organisms in it, they just they're
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an almost nearly perfect, absolutely perfect biological condition.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Look them up. They're really cool. We'll be back. Thank
you so much for listening. I really appreciate it. Audios
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And now fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, let's
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Speaker 3 (00:47):
Huh fifty plus under yet a very yet another very nice,
very fall like day, with more to come. I'm really
hoping to stretch indoors, and I'm pretty confident that it
will probably give all our air conditioners a little break,
which I'm sure they could use about this time of year.
This summer's been a little bit quirky. Honestly, it wasn't
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as hot generally as the two that preceded it. And
I'm talking about it like it's in the past tense.
It's still September until about the middle of October. I'm
not falling for anything that's going on.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Anyways. It's sort of felt that way.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I think because we haven't caught any real breaks from
the humidity. The temperatures would fall down into the mid nineties,
low nineties. I think we got a few tickles of
the eighties maybe, I don't know. Three four or five
weeks ago, somewhere in there, that first little semi faux cool,
faux fall weather came around. But it's still been just
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sticky and hot and nasty, and I'm ready for it to.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Go in the oh.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
By the way, the tropics can't ignore them when there's
three big things over there off the east coast, two
of which are expected to do nothing to impact us,
the third of which which hasn't quite formed yet, but
it's supposed to quite quickly.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
It looks like it's headed for the.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Carolinas, and I hope not, because my niece lives over
there with her family, and I wouldn't wish hurricane on
anybody anywhere, especially my own family. They've endured many of them,
just as have we, so fingers crossed, and I'll double
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check and make sure they're all buttoned up over there.
There's really not much I could do, and I presume
that they have a nice, nice list of things that
they have to do to prepare for a storm, just
like we do at my house.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I've got a new flashlight.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
By the way, I participated in a sport Enclay's event
two fridays ago. I think it was maybe three now
has it been that long? Could have been a couple
of fridays ago. In this Sporting Clay's event, and one
of the thanks for Coming prizes was an incredible rechargeable flashlight.
I made the mistake with a former rechargeable flashlight that
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I got long time ago, one of the first that
ever came out. I made the mistake of losing the
power cord and never could find it around the house.
So essentially what I have in that one is a paperweight.
But this one, the next fact, I'll do it this weekend.
I guarantee it. I might do it this afternoon when
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I get home. I'm gonna take that cord and I'm
going to put a piece of duct tape on the
cord that says flashlight charger, and I'm gonna put it
in that big drawer of cords and chargers and plugs
and whatnot. The next thing I want to do, actually
is because we had a little blackout at the house
(03:56):
a while back, a little electricity problem thanks to it
set an equipment malfunction, which could have been anything. Maybe
somebody just walked by and kicked the plug out of
the wall or something.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
The bottom line is, I'm gonna go find all of.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Our portable chargers and get them portably charged up, just
in case something stupid happens. I'm not sure exactly where
they all are now. Probably half of them are up
in my son's room somewhere. He'll use them and then
just put them away and not recharge them, which is
obviously a problem. The markets, three out of four were
back in the green this morning, a little bit earlier,
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a couple of hours ago, a nice change from earlier
in the week when they were all kind of sagging.
Gold and oil also up, so half a smiley face
for each and half a frown. Silver worth noting at
more than forty six dollars an ounce now that is
roughly it's about a third. It's about thirty three percent
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higher than it was just five months ago. Did I
buy silver five months ago?
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Heck no, because I.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
I didn't know whether it was going to go up
or down. Do I feel foolish. Heck no, because I
didn't know whether it was going to go up or down.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Same with gold. Same with gold.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
If you'd have bought or if you'd have sold gold
a couple of years ago, you'd got about two thousand
dollars an ounce for it something like that, maybe a
little bit more. Now it's at thirty eight hundred dollars
an ounce. And why it's that high, I really don't
have a clue, but it is. And if you've got
something laying around the house that you're not playing with anymore,
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that has some gold in it some way, shape or form,
and you could use an extra sack of groceries, maybe
an extra tank of gas, and go sell it. Uh
For my golfers, by the way, who haven't looked yet,
The Ryder Cup is ongoing up there at Bethpage Black
and at Bethpage Black, the morning matches produced three losses
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for the American team and one win for the American team.
We're down three to one after the first round, which
is not that's nothing to be afraid of. It's not
a slam dunk that we're gonna lose. But we've got
a pretty big hill to climb and I think what,
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as much as anything else we gave the Europeans in
these morning matches is a real boost to their morale,
a real incentive for them to continue playing well, because
not one of the matches that we lost ever even
saw the sixteenth t. In match play, each team scores
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count as just one score for the hole. It's not
stroke play, it's match play. And if you don't understand,
in match play, you make a five and I make
a twelve, you just get one point. You're up one hole.
If I make a two on the next hole and
you make a four, I get credit for that one,
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so we're tied at that point. Is that the stroke
play is totally different, and the Europeans grow up playing
match play. They play matches with their families, they play
matches with their friends all the way through. They don't
do near as much stroke play as we do. And
I don't know how much of an advantage that would
really be, But the bottom line is, we got our
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tails whipped this morning, Absolutely got our tails whipped this morning.
Oh mercy, let's get this one out on time, will
because I know I typically run long on these on
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a commercial, it's an endorsement because only people I really
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It's gonna happen sooner or later.
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Speaker 2 (09:49):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pikey plus, thanks for listening.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
I certainly do appreciate that. Moving on as far as
we can get from the Ryder Cup at this point,
nothing good to see there. Unfortunately, so far, the mistakes
of Harris County Judge Lena Hidalgo continue to pile up
as she finishes out her limp duck.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
No is that right? No?
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Oh, lamee duck, lame duck tournament office under her watch.
According to an op ed piece in the Houston Chronicle
by way of MSN this morning, she spent seventeen million
dollars on a COVID medical center that never treated a patient.
This is all from an op ed, so take it
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or leave it. There was that eleven million on a
COVID vaccination outreach contract that the story called politically connected,
wrapped that in quotes, and despite actually having a lower
bid from the UT Health Science Center, which probably could
have done that quite effectively, spent one hundred million dollars
(10:54):
on bike trails and all sorts of initiatives that were
supposed to help the city but really didn't do much.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
You know, you get what you vote for.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
There's a to get what you pay for thing is
similar and you know, in some political arenas both might
be true for the same stuff one by one. The
latest coming from California, misuse of power and corruption being
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brought into the daylight.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
And the people.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Involved in it are, in this case, for sure, scattering
like roaches at midnight when the lights come on. That's
a harsh and insensitive statement, really to the roaches anyway.
Nearly the entire board of directors whose charge it was
to watch over Highlands Community Charter and Technical Schools, Sacramento, California,
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they either quit or were booted within weeks of a
report that exposed, oh, you know, just little tiny things
improper hiring, nepotism, improper receipt of funds, and on and
on and on, told them more than one hundred and
eighty million dollars over just two fiscal years. Free members
were allowed to stay on, which is all that enabled
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the schools to actually continue to function, and something else
the incoming board members will have to handle, which may
limit the number of people who raise their hands and
say I'll take a swing at this, try to clean
it up. The California Department of Education, looking to get
all that money back from the Highlands District fat chance
(12:34):
on that money's gone, money spent, Money's in bank accounts
that are going to be really hard to trace too.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
I bet.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
In the story that broke this morning of former FBI
Director James Comy being indicted, the people who are claiming
most loudly that President Trump indicted James Comy on charges
of lying to Congress have it dead wrong. He wasn't
indicted by President Trump. He was indicted by a grand
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jury of his peers, based on facts presented by federal prosecutors.
Toming was everything too. The statute limitations would have expired
at the end of this month, on September thirty, which
is five years to the day on which the testimony
was given by Comy. There's no love lost between those two,
not at all. Innocent until proven guilty though, and he's
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going to have his day in court and that he's
absolutely entitled to that. And I wouldn't want anything to
get in the way of that. I really wouldn't. That's
just that's how most of us on this side think.
I don't want any shenanigans. I want everything to be
done in broad daylight. I want everything to be done
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on the up and up, and let the chips fall
where they may. Comy lost me when he said, and
I quote, we will not live on our knees end quote. Seriously,
Comy knows what he said back then, and he knows
what he knew when he said it back then. And
a grand jury decided he should be prosecuted, and like
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I said, innocent until proven guilty, and he will have
his day in court. And I'm I'm one hundred percent,
one hundred and a million percent fine with that. Uh,
let's get to some of these little things in the
don't tell me, will let me let me look it up.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Almost four minutes that we have. Is that about rain? Yeah? Three? Okay?
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Oh yet my clock or my phone is set a
little well actually a little bit slow against this one,
because I showed four minutes left in any event.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
According to JD.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Power, traveler's favorite North American airports are Minneapolis, Saint Paul,
John Wayne out there in Orange County, California, and Indianapolis
International Airport.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
I've been to two of those, not three, and I
can I get it.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
I get it, they're great, but I don't it doesn't
say how they were raided and ranked and what amenities
had to be there or not be there. In another
recent poll, Actually International Airport Houston i a H is
said to have the worst food service in Texas and
second worst in the country, all after Papa's, the big
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restaurant chain was tossed out and replaced by Areas a
food service company. H that if I if I heard
my friend Michael Berry correctly yesterday morning, Arius has a
new has a new executive that it just happens to
be the person in our city government that bump pop
us out of I A H. I'm pretty sure that's
what I heard, and that you know, more power to
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or she she her he. I'm not sure whoever.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Made that made that move.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
But hey, if it's time for a career change, it's
time for a career change. You know how that works.
Just a stupid criminals. I love stories about stupid criminals. Uh,
this one leads off with you probably shouldn't door down
your murder supplies delivery driver in Texas called police after
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getting a suspicious order. That's all it tells you about
what was in the bag that was supposed to go
to a hotel. The police later found a suspect at
that hotel in that hotel room with a hostage inside.
That is, that was a life saving mistake done by
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that door dash driver. Thank goodness. Huh oh, I don't
care about that. This one concerns me for the people
in North Korea, they have stepped up. You talk about
freedom of speech being just wiped out in North Korea.
They have condemned the phrase I love you, the phrase
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I love you as being a sign of a decadent
lifestyle at I know, North Korea. Just once again they're
following a crazy person, kind of like will following me
around the studio sometimes. Ut Heals Institute on Aging an
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Speaker 2 (17:41):
For a lot of people. Our age. If you need
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Look at all the resources there, look at all the
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Speaker 2 (18:34):
What's life without a neat? If I suggest you go
to bed, leave it off, just wait until the show's over. Sleepy.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
All right, welcome back to fifty plus. Thank you for listening.
I truly do appreciate it. What a beautiful day.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Huh, What a beautiful day. And it's gonna stay like
that even for a few more. I have new stuff,
and I have some stuff from yesterday that merits attention.
I'm gonna go with ice agents right now because the
violence against them. Is just it's ramped up something like
one thousand percent since not very long ago, whatever date
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it was when the Left really ramped up its hatred
and insinuations that it's far left imbalanced minority, and it
is just a few, it's a handful of really demented people.
But they've ramped up and basically interpreted these poorly veiled
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suggestions from politicians and media as a green light to
commit acts of violence up to an including shooting people
like happened in Dallas to people who are just doing
their jobs. Politicians who have yet to reverse this powder
keg rhetoric garbage need to do it, and they need
to do it now. They need to look into a
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camera somewhere until every other Democrat in the country that
our differences should be decided peacefully and if necessary, through
the court system. That's how civilized people handle their differences
these days. You don't just start shooting up facilities where
ICE agents might be. You don't follow them around, you
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don't use radios to figure out where all the ice
activity is. Now that's going on, and it's essentially just
providing these lunatics a road map that will lead them
directly to the people they've been told over and over
and over should be hated and should be God forbid
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hurt in any way, shape or form. And no, I
don't believe that federal agents should not mask themselves. They
need that mask, they really do, because there's at least
not so long as it you can't take the mass
off so long as their attacks being promoted by a
Democrat politicans who just truly have turned their back on
our nation as it was founded and as it is
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endured for a very long time as the most powerful
country in the world. We were a laughingstock for the
last four years under President Biden. And don't tell me otherwise,
because I watch a lot of international news and Biden
was just soft as cheese and unwilling to stand up
to anybody. And then President Trump was put back in office,
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a job I doubt he really wanted, but I'm sure
he felt compelled to seek after seeing what was going on.
I kind of pity all the Democrats, young and old,
who continue to believe the words of people who who
just hate the man who's done more good than nine
months and Biden did in four years. It really is,
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it really is. It's concerning to me that there are
so many people who still think that way, and I
don't fault them for thinking that way. Everybody is entitled
to their own apea. I just wish that they would
take a step back, and as many, many, many, many
many of them are doing now and looking at.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Kind of where we are, where we were, what the policies.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Coming in are and what they were, and just a
whole lot of things will maybe turn them the other way.
Financial aid employee at Iowa State University fired this week
for comments she made about the killing of Charlie Kirk.
She represents the university, and the university didn't like what
she said, and interestingly, students who were polled later mostly
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agreed with the school's decision just for that reason, because
she was speaking as a representative of the school, and
the one one or two students who disagreed, they just
said she should have kept those feelings to herself, which
is and she's once again, she's perfectly she's perfectly able
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in this in this country of ours, to say whatever
she wants to say. But as has happened more than
once lately, saying what you want to say might get
you fired, might get you fired, which is what conservatives
have had to do. We've had to keep our mouth
shut for the last four years and even more really
if you go back far enough, because the people in
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power then were very quick that if you open your
mouth and said anybody anything that upset somebody, hurt somebody's feelings,
or challenged a left leaning policy, you were going to
be canceled, you were going to be just shut down,
that you had to be fired, or your company would
(23:37):
face a boycott. All kinds of things that we've had
to deal with over the last recent years. And honestly,
the left just kind of getting a dose of its
own medicine. And I'm glad conferred conservatives are just finally
regaining their voices in all of this. There's just no
reason for that to have been the way it was
for as long as it was. We got we came
(23:57):
very close to becoming Great Britain, where if you hurt
somebody's feelings you can go to prison. If you say
something that hurts somebody else's feelings, they can that's a
crime over there and you can be sent to prison.
Let's lighten it up again, Let's go back that way
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and go to trying to look for something that I
highlighted because that would mean it was a little more
worthy than the rest.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Oh, there's video.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
I don't know if I talked about this or not
earlier in the week, the guy who had the meltdown
when he was asked to leave Delta Sky Club in
Palm Beach. Did I talk about that? Will Okay, I'll
scratch that one out. Sometimes I forget when I don't
scratch through them immediately. Sometimes I forget.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Here's what I know.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
I didn't talk about. High fat diets make the brain
forget faster, which explains a lot really if you just
stop and kind of smile and think about that statement.
High fat diets make the brain forget faster. And there's
a dot here says but it might be reversible. So
if you want to look at that story, you can
(25:04):
look it up and figure it out. Just high fat
diets brain forget faster, and it'll pop something up on AI.
It should say dot dot dot, which explains why you know.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
I'm gonna move on from that too. This kind of
an interesting little twist.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Two flying cars in China crashed into each other while
rehearsing for an air show. Both pilots are okay, which
tells me they weren't flying very fast or very high.
But one of the cars burst into flames, which would
be a little bit scary. That's that electric motor stuff.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Probably that's got to be the first crash involving multiple
flying cars. There have been some prototypes that just fell
out of the sky and the flyers, the drivers whatever
you want call pilots, walked away unhurt. Well, this is
the first, and you know, you know, let's fast forward
(26:10):
to twenty thirty five flying cars everywhere and billboards everywhere
saying if you got rear ended at one hundred feet
on your way to work, call us. We'll get you
the money you reserve, you deserve. Next thing, you know,
it'll be what's the guy's name, the Texas Hammer will
(26:32):
I can't remember his name, Jim Adler. Right, he'll be
standing on an airplane wing, standing on the wing of
a flying car, letting you know that he's gonna take
care of you.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Let's take a little break here.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
That guy, man, that guy's done great deals for people
who got hurt. Do not let agent sneak up on you,
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of those little symptoms that I've been talking about and
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hearing about for so long, I'm going, hmmm, that might
be me. About a quarter of men in our age
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which is prostate artery embolization, the procedure they perform most
(27:30):
often at a late health. What it does is shuts
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To give them a call and see if what you
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Speaker 1 (28:46):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them, check us words,
and spray on a fresh code O wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Done.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Lay only to rest. Don't you cry?
Speaker 1 (29:11):
No?
Speaker 2 (29:16):
All right? Welcome back to fifty plus false alarm.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
I didn't have the red button pushed my bad will,
but we got it, We got it worked out. That
was a quick move on your part, dude, to rescue
me and not make me look foolish.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Thank you for that. Hm, Where do I want to
go here?
Speaker 3 (29:32):
I'll lead off with something very interesting I thought, and
maybe some of you could back it up with an
email or a talkback through the iHeartRadio app. Changing times
is what I wrote here. What's something kids used to
deal with that would just emotionally destroy them today? The
(29:54):
top answers. I think I talked about this earlier in
the week. I'll tell it real, real fast. It might
have been way back. It might have even been last week.
I don't date these pages, but dodgeball I have such
fond memories. I'm not even gonna mess with this. Dodgeball
in high school was one of my favorite things because
(30:14):
I could throw a ball. That was one of the
things that got me a chance to play college baseball.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
I could throw and I could run.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
But I was a skinny little dude, and I didn't
have a whole lot of power in my back.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
I just I could.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
I could hit for a whole lot of a whole
lot of singles. I wasn't a bad hitter, but I
just I never threatened the the lumber that was used
to make the the wall of the field out there,
and right I'm left handed, so I was I was
trying like crazy to get one out right down the
right field line, the short porch as they called it
(30:52):
at my stadium, but never did.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
I had a couple of dough I popped some stuff
all the way to the would roll to the wall.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
And maybe bounce up a foot or so when it
hit it on days when the infield or the outfield
had been mowed very very short, because we had a
power advantage over the other team. But on rare, rare occasions,
if our coach decided that the other team had a
(31:22):
power hitting advantage and could get more extra base hits
than we might in that game, which like I said,
is very rare, he'd have the grounds crew let that
grass grow for a few days leading into that series.
And it's a brilliant man. His gust name was Eddie Stanky.
And if you've ever watched the movie about Jackie Robinson,
the guy who came out of the dugout when Robinson
(31:44):
was up for his first at bat when the other
team was was hollering horrible things at him.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
That was Eddie.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Stanky came out to his defense and pretty much told
that guy on the other side that if he said
another word, he's going to give his face pot And
knowing Stinky the way I did when I played for him,
he meant it.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
He meant every word of that. He was a good guy.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
He was a hard coach to work with, but he
was very fair. And one of my favorite memories from
back then my freshman year, we were practicing inside because
it was either raining or super cold or something. No,
it had to have been rain. Cold wouldn't have gotten
has brought inside at all, so it must have been
just pouring down rain and we're inside in the gym
with all the gymnastics equipment sitting there, and toward the
(32:32):
end of the practice, he said, look if if somebody,
if one of you can walk the balance beam from
one end to the other, turn around and walk all
the way back, you guys don't have to run after practice,
And like four or five of them looked at me,
and I was the littlest one. Probably looking back, I
(32:54):
may have been the smallest guy on the team, and
they looked at me, and Stanky looked at me, and
he said Pike on the beam climbed up there, and
I just I hoped for the best, because as a freshman,
if I had messed that up, the seniors on the team,
(33:15):
they wouldn't have beat me up, but they would have
given me grief. The whole team would have given me grief.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Frankly.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
And for the record, I made it. I made it
all the way down, I turned around, made it all
the way back, hopped off. I don't remember coming off
with a half flip or a double twist or anything.
I think I just kind of jumped off and nobody
had to run that day, and the world.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Was a better place. It really was. Oh my goodness,
how much time do I have?
Speaker 3 (33:43):
Will just one? Okay, let me find a good one.
Let me find a really good one. No, I've already
talked about that.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
I need to go back to the other stuff here.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
In ecological history news, I like this one, and this
will be just about right for the time.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
I have.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
A one hundred and twelve million year old piece of
amber has been found and it contained a variety of
organisms from beetles to flies, to ants and wasps, all
from so so long ago. There's even a spider and
these scientists have determined that within that piece of it's
a pretty big chunk of amber. Now it's not just
(34:23):
a this isn't something size of a nickel. And you
could buy amber with creatures with insects in it online
for not a whole lot of money. It's really kind
of a cool thing to have. Anyway, They detected strands
of that spider's web in that piece amber just freezes time,
so to speak. The organisms in it, they just they're
(34:44):
an almost nearly perfect, absolutely perfect biological condition.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Look them up. They're really cool. We'll be back. Thank
you so much for listening. I really appreciate it. Audios
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