May 29, 2025 • 40 mins
Today, Doug Pike discusses food in the fridge, AI blackmail, and dumping cold water on pets.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Hey John, how's it going today?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
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This is fifty plus with Doug Pike. Helpful information on
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Fifty plus brought to you by the ut Health Houston
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and now fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
All right, welcome to Thursday's edition of the program. Thank
you all for listening. I am very happy to report
that this Thursday edition of fifty plus comes with only
the slightest little chance of pop up showers all day.
I'm not sure who caught the braun of what was
supposed to be a line of showers and thunderstorms around
midnight to one o'clock last night. But it wasn't me.
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Wasn't it my house? Did you get any rain last night?
Will not last night? Yeah, other times earlier in the day,
and then night before last we got hammered pretty good.
I had that one lightning bolt that I swear it
sounded like it was just in the kitchen. I thought
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something had blown up, and I had other people tell
me that they had kind of a similar experience people
in my neighborhood. So it was a big one that
hit somewhere close to us. But it didn't knock the
power out, and that's a first for our neighborhood. Holy cow.
It used to be that if you just heard thunder somewhere,
it powered go out for about four hours. Not anymore, though,
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knock on wood. Nothing exciting in the markets this morning,
three green and one red on the four indicators I watch,
and none by much, and Nasdaq was up more than
half a point then, but otherwise pretty kind of a yawner.
Oil was down a buck, So feel free to drive
about the country or fly. Speaking of flying, in case
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you haven't heard yet, and it's been in the news,
Southwest Airlines teed up baggage fees that better come with
bigger bags of peanuts or something a something like thirty
five bucks I think for the first check bag in
forty five if you dare to bring stuff that won't
fit in one bag, which for any decent vacation means
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pretty much another seventy dollars each way just to have
clean underwear and socks for a week. It might it
might be cheaper just to use the hotel washing machine
once or twice while you're out, or just rents out
your delicates in the sink and hang them over the
shower rod to dry. You won't be the first person
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to do that in a hotel room. I can guarantee
you tickets. The tickets for Southwest are still very reasonable.
I think Texas based airline and they kind of had
that reputation. You can get where you want to go
for not a lot of money, so maybe you just
travel lighter. There were years ago a friend of mine
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and I when we had we were stupid and thought
we had money to burn. I wish i'd put that
money away now. But every now and then we would
go out to inter Continental Airport and go up to
the Southwest corner and just get tickets to the next
on the next flight out and did round trip ticket,
go out, stay a couple of days and just hang
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out in whatever town it was, and then come back.
It was interesting. I don't remember all the places we went,
but we, like I said, we thought we had money
to burn. We thought we were cool, and we thought
we'd go find dates to take out and all that stuff.
At that part almost never panned out, but at least
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we got to see some cool towns and learn more
about them when we had time to kill and burn
and whatnot. From the what are You Thinking Desk, I'm
gonna lead off with this one because it's kind of
and for this audience. Anything even remotely like this probably
in the rearview mirror, but nonetheless, this woman deserves some attention.
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This she's a new mom. Okay, she's only six months
after her baby was born. She stopped. Have you read
or seen this? Will? I have not, so tell me
whether she's crazy or not. Six months after her baby
is born, she's running a sixty mile ultra marathon and
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stops along the way. I don't know whether it was
a ten, twenty, thirty, forty fifty or whatever mile marker
to breastfeed and pause. I got to stop running for
a minute. Here, baby's hungry. That's an amazing feat, amazing
dedication to her own fit. But I'm pretty sure nobody
would fault her if she just gave her body a
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break and maybe worked in a nap or something like that.
It's pretty awesome that she could do it. I'm not
sure I've ever been right to run sixty miles baby
or no baby. So you think she's crazy, will or
you think she's a devoted mom or a devoted or
a fitness fanatic or all of the above. I think
that's all right. Yeah, I think it's okay, it's not.
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She certainly did the right thing by her child, and
I guess maybe six months is all it took her.
She was in good enough shape to run sixty miles
before giving birth. She probably was good enough in good
enough shape afterward to do it again. Maybe I don't know,
a month after she gave birth. Maybe she waited. Maybe
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she waited six months just to make sure she'd be
ready to go. Anyway, more power to her. That's a
pretty special kind of fitness right there. These ultra marathons.
I'm in conversation now with a potential news sponsor whose
brothers and he will be riding. I want to say
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from I don't know, it's about an it's an eighty
day bike ride for charity, okay. And they've been doing
this for several years and made some remarkable East to
west north to south here to there, and they have
the time and they have the resources to afford to
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do this. And what I'm trying to do is get
the guy on board so that we can do either
daily or at least weekly updates as he and his
I think they're all brothers. Pedal bicycles across the country
again and across I mean a lot of ground. They're
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going to cover this one, and it's gonna be pretty special,
all right, well from yesterday, I'm not gonna that one's wrong.
Better think twice. Guess what I'm doing or not that hard,
Better think twice. Consumer Reports will create a list of
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the most dangerous foods in your refrigerator based on food
poisoning statistics. You ever had food poisoning like really bad,
like hospitalization bad? No? I haven't either, knock on wood
once again, I don't want it. I've recognized that I
ate something that might have been wrong more than once
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in my life, as most of us have. But not
that bad anyway. The top ten, this one right off
the top, kind of surprised me. Deli meat, Now, I
get it if there's stuff growing on that meat, or
if you open the package and get a whiff and
it just like knocks you backward. You probably don't want
to put that between two slce is of bread. However,
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Deli meat, I wouldn't think caused that many food poisoning issues.
You know what second on the list cucumbers. Cucumbers, Yeah,
that's what I said, with a question mark at the end. Cucumbers. Yeah,
something something happens to them. I guess in the refrigerator
that makes them better. It says here. Raw milk is
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what does the guy these raw milk? You got a
cow in the backyard or what? Unpasteurized milk? I guess
can you buy that? I don't know. I don't think so.
I hope not. I would think that we're able to
pasteurize all of our milk. Now, eggs, eggs. According to
one of the guys here who's chickens lay the eggs
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that he brings to work and distributes among co workers,
he doesn't even refrigerate them. They're just cool. They just
they just they just eat them up, eat them up.
I want to say it's like a week or something.
They're good. You could do that, do some research during
the break wheel and see how long eggs last without refrigeration.
You won't be able to get to that. Oh no,
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we have to go now, don't we. Yes, Okay. The
other things on the list onions, leafy greens, and anything
with pre cooked meat in it. That's because you don't
cook it enough to get it fully cooked. And a
lot of those things come almost cooked because they know
you have to warm them up. Utls on aging. That'll
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warm you up. It'll warm your heart to know that
you're being being treated at the UT. Well, it's not
at the place. It's a collaboration, a collaborative effort among
more than a thousand providers all over this region. Many
of them, most of them probably work in the med center,
where you would expect to find the best providers in
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And what they have done is gone back and got
an additional training to what ever they got that earned
them the diploma on the wall, so that they would
know how to apply their expertise to seniors. I've talked
about them for quite some time, and I'll continue so
long as they'll let me. They do amazing things. The
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website alone would be amazing enough, but they've recruited all
these hundreds upon hundreds of providers in every facet of medicine,
so that you and I and anybody else in our
age category can be seen by someone who understands us,
probably better than we understand ourselves. Go to the website,
look at all the resources. Find contacts for the people
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you need to see to handle something that's bothering you.
As a senior Utch dot edu slash aging, utch dot
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Speaker 1 (10:52):
Just wait until the show's over. Sleepy Back to Dougpike
as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
All right, welcome back to fifty plus. Thank you for listening.
I truly do appreciate it. Will let's kind of stick
with where we are for a minute, because the next
thing I do is going to be pretty long, and
I want to get to a couple of these, two
of which are from a day or two ago. First
of all, it was kind of something I wanted to
do to make people aware that there's this crazy ice
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bucket challenge you've all heard of, but some knucklehead somewhere
decided and threw it on TikTok, and now too many
people are doing this to their dogs will their ice bucket,
challenging their dogs and just running up to the dog
and dumping a big bucket of cold water on them,
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and that's not good for the dogs. A bunch of
veterinarians have kind of come out and said, look, this
is going to traumatize that dog. It's going to make
them trust you less. So how about we skip that one.
I can't even imagine anybody doing that to their dog,
can you. No, you have to be pretty stupid just
to do it to someone, you know, with their permission.
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I'm not so sure that TikTok has been terribly good
thing for the world, and it's amazing. If you do
some research, you'll find that a lot of the goofy
things that we do over here that are on TikTok
aren't on TikTok in China. A whole lot of that
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stuff doesn't ever make it doesn't ever make it to
the internet in China because they know better and they're
taking care of their own. But letting us be what
we are sometimes a little bit goofy in a win
for karma, thirteen year old girl in California, Now I
talk about this on the area. I don't think I did.
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I don't think so, told some people in the office here.
I was thrilled to see that she beat the snot
out of a grown man who tried to attack her.
Just so happens. She's been taking jiu jitsu for three
years and is very good at it, and pretty much
he picked the wrong person to mess with and she
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walloped him. As they say, I found this story on AI.
If you think that AI is going to be an
easy transformation for everybody and it's not going to be
that big a deal. Actually there were two stories. This
one an AI model threatened to blackmail its creators and
actually showed an ability to act deceptively. It says here,
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when it believed it was going to be replaced. So
we've created a machine now that will blackmail you into
not turning it off. We'll threaten to expose something in
your past somewhere if you pull the plug on it.
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What do you think of that will wow? To'll concern
you in the least. I don't use AI, so now
it does me. It really does. It's being used very commonly,
very readily, and for a lot of good and for
a little bit of bad. I think I did talk
about that, talk about those two robots that got in
a boxing match. That was sad. Yeah, it was really
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talked about.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Yeah, I know it's it wasn't interesting at all, believe
it or not. Well, yeah, I know you'd believe that.
Talked about that yesterday. Let me get back into some
of this other stuff too. By the way, from the
Alternative Broadcasting Desk, excuse me, NPR suing the Trump administer
administration because it plans to turn off public funding for
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public radio and despite mp are producing nothing but left
wing stories for the past I don't know, twenty thirty years,
they somehow feel like they're entitled to tax dollars in
the name of free speech. Well, NPR is confusing free
speech with a free lunch to the tune of millions
upon millions of dollars that it uses to spread its
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mostly radical ideas and propaganda around the country. And the
Constitution assures all of us that we can say what
we want to say, but it doesn't say that taxpayers
have to foot the bill.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
I don't care what they say. They have a right
to say it. But just like being where I am
and having a right to say what I want to say,
I'm not getting paid by the government. I'm not getting
paid by taxpayers. This is self supporting here, and I'm
glad I have the opportunity to share that kind of
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stuff with you. MPR ar says it doesn't want to
waste listeners or viewers' time on stories that aren't true
or just distractions, But it conveniently doesn't say who gets
to decide what's real and what's not. And I'm pretty
sure MPR decided Hunter's laptop wasn't real and guess what. Well, unfortunately,
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we've already funded NPR for the next two and a
half years. I think it is something like that, and
I mean a boatload of money too. But we don't
have to keep doing it, and it's time for that
left wing intended to pay its own way if it
wants to keep cherry picking its stories. Very quick examples
of what NPR put out. It claimed at one point
back in twenty twenty that park police up in Washington
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tear gas peaceful protesters to clear the way for a
photo op with President Trump that didn't happen. NPR also
said the Declaration of Independence is offensive, and it said
that more than once and that's not what free speech
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is about it. They can say it, I just don't
want to pay them to say it. And I think
most of America that feels kind of the same way.
Speaking of the left all the way from the Sacramento
b desk comes new use more of it. I guess
that Democrats have lost favor with a substantial majority of Americans.
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Mostly these Americans are just weary of the Left and
it's continuous criticism of our president without any offerings of
solutions to what they perceive to be problems. They just
want to criticize him and think that's enough to gain support. Well,
a whole lot more people about what six seven, eight
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months ago. A whole lot more people got to listening
to our president and realized that he actually had ideas
that actually are working, and the left is falling. ABC
Washington Post poll found that sixty nine percent of Americans
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don't really like what's going on with the Democrat Party.
They don't trust them, they don't believe in them, and
their eyes are open. Now there's a great if you
look it up. Ronald Reagan told a great joke about
little kids selling kittens outside of a political convention years ago.
And look it up. It's pretty cute. It takes a
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little time, and I don't want to. I don't want
to mess it up because he delivered it so perfectly.
But yeah, if you can find it, it'll be worth
it'll be worth listening to it, and it shouldn't be hard.
What would the search be? Will President Reagan? Kittens? That
would probably do it? What did I ask you to
look up a second ago? And did you?
Speaker 1 (18:31):
No?
Speaker 2 (18:31):
I didn't? Will why not? Pray? Tell? Tell I didn't
want to? Will you do it during the break? If
I remember what it was, I'll try to remember as well.
It may it must not have been terribly important, real quickly.
Will we're going we're gonna need more candles or police?
Say it ain't, so please say it ain't. Oh say
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it twice? Will, Because you know what the new summer
trend is supposed to be. But you go to the
beach much, No, you go to swimming pools much, Well,
you're gonna you'll probably be spared from this. The new
summer trend could be straight guys in speedos. I think
anybody in a speedo either better be swimming in the
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Olympics or some sort of a swim meet or wear
something over them that's I know, no, let's just not
do that. We'll take a little break here on the
way out. I'll tell you about a late health. A
late health is a vascular clinic where procedures are done
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that alleviate problems that are caused by something that is
hurting us because it still has a blood supply, and
what they do essentially is shut it off. Now they
can either open or close vessels and veins and capillaries
and everything down to as fine a process as the
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diameter of a human hair and even smaller and the cases.
The procedure they do most often is called prostate embolization
for the guys in the audience, and what that does
is alleviate the symptoms of an enlarged, noncancerous prostate, which
are if you have those symptoms, if you're fifty five, sixty,
seventy eighty years old, you probably know what I'm talking about,
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and it's not pleasant. But this procedure can stop that
by shutting off the blood site supply to the prostate,
and with as it shrinks, then the symptoms go away.
With that, same with firebirds and women, same with some headpains.
Same with ugly veins and other things. Many other things
they do there, which I actually interviewed doctor Doe about
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a while back, and I learned a ton about so
much more that they do than what I just mentioned.
Go to the website look around. They also do regenerative
medicine too, and everything they do they do in house.
You don't get shipped off to a hospital somewhere where
you might drag something home you didn't have yesterday. A
late health Ala t e a layhealth dot com seven
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to one three five eight eight thirty eight eighty eight
seven one three five eight eight thirty eight eighty eight.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Yew.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
They sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
That's why every few months we wash them, check us fluids,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike fifty plus.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Thanks for listening. I'm dougies Will and uh we're here
pretty much every day. It seemed like I will not
every day. Well speak for yourself, I'm well, yeah, I'm here.
I'm in this building six days a week. And uh, man,
if I didn't like what I do, if I didn't
like talking to all of you guys and hearing back
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from you and emails and talkbacks and whatnot. By the way,
that's the easiest thing. That's the easiest way to get
to me is either email or talk back. I don't like,
I don't want to get my cell phone number out
over the air, because that then there's going to be
somebody out there who who just wants to bother me,
And that just goes with the territory. I've been blessed
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to not have too many people do that to me
because I don't get crazy in here. But I just
anyway Dug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. And that goes
for whether you want to suggest a story idea, an
interview idea, whether you want to become a part of
the family either of My Outdoor Show or fifty plus.
I can handle that for you as well. You don't
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have to deal with anybody else but in me. And
I'm really happy to have Al Kibbi on. I believe
he's gonna come on tomorrow. Will you got that email right? Yes, Yeah,
we're gonna talk to him tomorrow. He's the guy who
owns Cedar Cove RV Resort and I'm going to talk
to him tomorrow. Just to introduce him to you guys,
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so you'll understand when I tell you more about what
they do over there, how it all happened, and what
he's trying to accomplish over there. I think that's important
when I get new clients, to kind of get him
on the air and talk to him and let all
of you know a little bit more about them. From
the Summertime, Oh, the callback thing. The button is on
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the iHeartRadio app. You'll see it if you open the app,
and it will give you the opportunity to leave me
a message and I'll get it and I'll respond to it.
And if you've ever done that and not gotten a response,
let me know, because that means somebody in between hither
and Yon has not conveyed the message, and that's no good.
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From the Summertime Safety Desk comes the tragic story of
a nineteen year old man boy really a college aged kid.
I don't know what he did for a living or
whether he was still a student, but anyway, that young
man is presumed to have drowned Monday off Surfside Beach.
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I'm kind of a safety sally. If you listen to
my outdoor show on the weekend, know that when we
talk boating safety and hunter safety and just outdoor safety
in general, and this time of year, it's important to
talk about being in the water anywhere along the coast,
anywhere really, lakes, rivers, bay, canal, pond, gulf, ocean, whatever.
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Water will kill you as fast as anything. It doesn't
care how old you are, it doesn't care how fit
you are, it doesn't care how many people are going
to mourn your loss. But it's up to you to
know your own limitations, especially those of us who were
once incredible swimmers or surfers or whatever we spent. I
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spent an in oordon amount of time in or near
the water all the way through early adulthood and even
into the middle of my adulthood. I love being around
the water. I like to fish in it. I surfed
in it every chance I got when I was younger,
and would still like to get back into that again.
Actually you name it. I was there, water, skin, all
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of it, frozen water. I love snowboarding still. But you
have to know your limitations, and that's got to be
a part of every activity you plan, whether you're gonna
be in charge of younger people or not, especially for grandparents.
If you're gonna be in charge of kids around the water,
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don't let them get out any farther than you can
stand and walk out to them. Otherwise you may have
a hard time getting yourselves in them back. You got
to remind your kids and grandkids never to swim alone either.
Just go with at least one other person and steer clear, riptide,
steer clear rocks, resist temptation. For this is something you
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kind of need to tell the younger adults like this
young man's nineteen year old. Don't find yourself becoming a
victim of some monkey sea monkey do challenge from the peers.
I was a very strong swimmer at one time, and
my friends and I used to challenge ourselves underwater, trying
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to swim underwater, trying to stay underwater, all these things
that we did and got away with it, and jumping
off high things into the water. I was virtually fearless
and did a lot of things that in hindsight weren't
all that smart. But I was just lucky enough, and
just fit enough, and just capable enough to get it done.
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I'm none of that anymore, and I know it. I
recognize that I still love the water I still love
everything that comes with it, but I'm also a realist,
and I know better to try stuff that I once
found really easy. And I'll be the first one to holler,
you kids get out of that pool if they're in
a big pool somewhere in eight or nine or ten
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feet of water, because I know that I can't go
get them. I know that I can't go get them,
not safely anyway, not with the confidence I wanted lifeguarded
for several summers, and I had a lot of confidence
back then. Didn't bother me at all to think that
I might have to jump in and save somebody who
weighed more than me or was thrashing around or whatever.
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And I was very fortunate not to have to do that.
But I was ready then. I'm not anymore. From the
Hit and Run Desk via MSN and multiple other sources,
now comes news that arrests were made in the tragic
death of an eighteen year old kayaker able More up
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on Lake Grapevine this past weekend. Arrested were daykerln Alejandra
Gonzales Gonzales and Michael Coweyo Perozo, both said by an
Immigration and Customs Enforcement official to be illegal immigrants. Able
Moore was a candidate for entry into the US Air
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Force Academy until she was allegedly run over in her
kayak by dakerln Alejandra Gonzales. Gonzales, both suspects crossed into
our country. This is what we know about them, at
least crossed in illegally during the past two years. That's
from a field director for ICE. They were arrested upon entry,
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processed on a notice to appear, and then released freeze
birds like millions more who chose to enter our country
that way. They were arrested by the way in Dallas,
which is pretty close to Lake Grapevine. And apparently, hopefully, well,
I'd be a fool to think this will be the
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last time that someone, some American who is on a
really good path dies at the hands of somebody who
shouldn't even be in our country. There's a lot of
talk right now about exactly who who was running the show,
and and even President Trump has come out and said
that it wasn't Biden who was letting all these people in.
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He he didn't he wasn't aware of what was going on,
and and but somebody was, and somebody was pushing all
that stuff that that fell on him. There was a
lot of the responsibility and blame falls on him. Oh
already will Okay, we'll shut this one down. There's more
than enough information on the on the internet to find
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on that if you're interested. And I have much to
cover when we get back on the way out, speaking
of al Kibbi, Cedar Cove RV resort over there in
Baytown down Tri City Beach Road, near Thompson's Bay Camp,
if you know where that is, and right there on
Galveston Bay where if you go over there and park
your camper, park your RV, bring your fishing rods with
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you and just walk over the water and sling a
line and maybe catch fish. Who knows great place to
part your RV for a night, a week, or all
summer long. He's got a lot of people stay over
there when they come into town to do jobs where
they're going to be here for two weeks, three weeks,
six weeks whatever. They get an RV or if if
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they don't have one, and then they come down and
park it over at Cedar Cove, so that instead of
having to swim in a hotel pool or instead of
having to to wake up and outlook out your window
at a parking lot, you can overlook Galveston Bay, which
is a way better deal. Cedar Cove's got concrete roads
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and slabs. They've got electric water and sewer at every
site Wi Fi. They got a bathhouse for showers where
you can clean up without having to use up all
your water in your RV. All that plus some pretty
good fishing, like I mentioned when the tide in the
window right finally settling into some nice summer weather patterns too.
It's going to be really really fun to be over there.
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I'm grab a fishing rod or two and head over
there myself sometime soon. It's a little ways out from
sugar Land, but man if I could stay there for
two weeks, that'd certainly be a good place to be.
Cedarcove Rvresort dot com. Go check it out Cedar Cove
Rvresort dot com.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Old Guy's rule, And of course, women never get old
if you want to avoid sleeping on the couch.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Okay, well, I think that sounds like a good plan.
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug. We'll wrap it
up in this segment, segment four of the program. Those
of you keeping score at Home. From the I found
this interesting. It's from yesterday, but I didn't get to it,
so I'm going to get to it now. From the
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government credit card desk. Well, you've heard that the government
has all these credit cards out there for all these
people who are doing crazy things with them. Correct, surely
know about that by now, my, oh my god. The America,
the US government has four point six million active credit cards,
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and the charges that are being racked up on those
cards probably not anymore. But up until Doge started digging in,
were these things were being used for all kinds of
things that probably didn't fall under the umbrella of acceptable expenses.
And in fact, when Doze told some of these people
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who have these cards that they could still be used
for certain things, certain acceptable things, these people only had
to show the receipts for the charges for them to
be paid, and suddenly they stopped making those charges. Among
the things that you and I have paid for that
(32:57):
were charged onto government credit cards New Year's Eve, tabs,
clubs and bars, and god knows what other establishments pay
per views sports events. We paid for that. Somebody sitting
around thinking, God, I'd love to watch that fight. I'd
(33:17):
love to watch that race or something. I'd love to
get the MLB package in my market. Well, you and
I footed the bill for that, and even cash withdraws
at casinos. What possible government purpose could be served by
making cash withdraws at casinos. That's where we were. It's
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not where we are, but it's where we were, and
I'm glad we are not there any longer now. Cleaning house.
Cleaning a house that dirty is going to take a
lot of time, and it's underway. The cleaning crew have
shown up and they are sweeping out the trash as
fast as they can. It's just gonna take a little while.
(34:06):
From the education or in doctrination desk. By a Newsmax
comes word that President Trump's contemplated shifting some three billion
dollars in Harvard grant money to US trade schools, which
I don't think is a bad idea. Really. That university
runs pretty strongly on its own on something like a
sixty billion dollar endowment, and the President talks about holding
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back those three billion because the university, in his opinion,
it continues to push initiatives and that are against the
way this country is headed right now and against the
executive order also and the fact that they still are
okay with on campus anti Israel protests. They're also thinking
(34:51):
about hiking taxes on that endowment and looking into potential
discrimination that the school against Asian, white may and straight employees.
That's kind of a twist, now, isn't it all? Right?
Enough of that, I'll move on. How much time I
had five minutes? Right, Well, we're in great shape from
(35:13):
the this is a good one. This is good news
from the anti viral research desk, which doesn't normally have
paper on it. Comes news at a nineteen year old
in small town Slovakia has won the world's largest pre
college science and engineering competition and the one hundred thousand
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dollars it comes with first place. Adam Kvalcik invented a
means of producing galadesevere. The medical professionals in the audience
may know what that is. He's found a way to
produce it from corn husks, which normally just farm waste.
You shuck the corn. The machinery, the plowing or the
(35:57):
harvesting machinery shucks then and the ears go in one
ben and the shucks just fly out to the ground. Well,
galadesaveras used to treat RNA. It's used to treat ebola
and SARS and other very potent viruses. And his method
reduces the cost per gram to produce that key ingredient
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from seventy five bucks per gram to twelve dollars per gram,
and it shortens production time from nine days to only five.
His presentation to the judges in this competition, it was
held here, I can't remember in what state, but it
was held in the United States. His presentation of the
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judges was described by them as bulletproof. He had dotted
every eye, he had crossed every tee, He did his research,
and everything he presented to them was factual. Everything presented
was testable and lived up to the tests. And hats
off to him and anybody who needs Galadesevir got RNA,
(37:06):
you got well who hopefully this country of ours won't
see e bullet again anytime soon, all these other different
viruses that ingredient can treat and get you better faster.
I like that from the golf desk because it is
after all US Women's Open Week, that's the big story
in the golf war today. It kicked off this morning
(37:27):
at Aaron Hill's up in Wisconsin, I've actually played that
golf course. I've actually spent the night, spent a weekend
actually in the apartment over the pro shop there, and
even broadcasts live a couple of shows from up there
several years ago. It's an amazing golf course that was
in the middle of nowhere when it opened. Like so
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many of our courses here, Aaron Hills is a special track,
though it's absolutely one hundred percent Links style, just on
an open praier. I don't know that there are half
a dozen trees, at least there weren't when I played
it so long long ago. Now maybe some of the
ones that were a little bitty then are bigger now,
and I'm sure that's the case. But mostly what you
have is fair way and then a second cut and
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then waist high grass and if you hit it into
that stuff, you might be there a while. Even if
you find your ball, it might take you more than
one shot to try to get it out. I'm really
curious to see how the best women in the world,
the best golfers in the world, handle it. And it's short.
It'll be very challenging, as a US Open for anybody
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should be. But man, it's gonna be tough, and it's
very short little history it's hosted. It hosted the two
thousand and eight US Women's Amateur Public Links. It hosted
the twenty eleven US Amateur Competition. It hosted the twenty
seventeen US Open, which brooks Kopka won, the twenty twenty
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two US Mid Am, and now the Women's US Open,
which was one in twenty twenty four, by the way
by Ucusaso, who also won in twenty twenty one. And
they have I think four or five more major competitions
already scheduled for play on that golf course. I like it.
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I haven't played Bandon Dunes, but I've seen it and
looked at it closely enough that I feel like I
can have an opinion on which I like best, and
it's it's Aaron Hills for me. It really is that
same trip we played a tournament, or not a tournament,
but around the golf and at two other courses actually
up there in Wisconsin, and by far and away, Aaron
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Hills the best. We're gonna need more candles, will how
about this? If you could only die in sudden accidents
and not from disease or old age, it just took
a sudden accident to kill you. Guess what the average
age would be that we'd live to. Will twenty two
eight nine. In thirty eight years, we're gonna need more candles.
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We're out of here. Thank you, Audios.
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All right, welcome to Thursday's edition of the program. Thank
you all for listening. I am very happy to report
that this Thursday edition of fifty plus comes with only
the slightest little chance of pop up showers all day.
I'm not sure who caught the braun of what was
supposed to be a line of showers and thunderstorms around
midnight to one o'clock last night. But it wasn't me.
(01:07):
Wasn't it my house? Did you get any rain last night?
Will not last night? Yeah, other times earlier in the day,
and then night before last we got hammered pretty good.
I had that one lightning bolt that I swear it
sounded like it was just in the kitchen. I thought
(01:29):
something had blown up, and I had other people tell
me that they had kind of a similar experience people
in my neighborhood. So it was a big one that
hit somewhere close to us. But it didn't knock the
power out, and that's a first for our neighborhood. Holy cow.
It used to be that if you just heard thunder somewhere,
it powered go out for about four hours. Not anymore, though,
(01:50):
knock on wood. Nothing exciting in the markets this morning,
three green and one red on the four indicators I watch,
and none by much, and Nasdaq was up more than
half a point then, but otherwise pretty kind of a yawner.
Oil was down a buck, So feel free to drive
about the country or fly. Speaking of flying, in case
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you haven't heard yet, and it's been in the news,
Southwest Airlines teed up baggage fees that better come with
bigger bags of peanuts or something a something like thirty
five bucks I think for the first check bag in
forty five if you dare to bring stuff that won't
fit in one bag, which for any decent vacation means
(02:33):
pretty much another seventy dollars each way just to have
clean underwear and socks for a week. It might it
might be cheaper just to use the hotel washing machine
once or twice while you're out, or just rents out
your delicates in the sink and hang them over the
shower rod to dry. You won't be the first person
(02:54):
to do that in a hotel room. I can guarantee
you tickets. The tickets for Southwest are still very reasonable.
I think Texas based airline and they kind of had
that reputation. You can get where you want to go
for not a lot of money, so maybe you just
travel lighter. There were years ago a friend of mine
(03:15):
and I when we had we were stupid and thought
we had money to burn. I wish i'd put that
money away now. But every now and then we would
go out to inter Continental Airport and go up to
the Southwest corner and just get tickets to the next
on the next flight out and did round trip ticket,
go out, stay a couple of days and just hang
(03:35):
out in whatever town it was, and then come back.
It was interesting. I don't remember all the places we went,
but we, like I said, we thought we had money
to burn. We thought we were cool, and we thought
we'd go find dates to take out and all that stuff.
At that part almost never panned out, but at least
(03:56):
we got to see some cool towns and learn more
about them when we had time to kill and burn
and whatnot. From the what are You Thinking Desk, I'm
gonna lead off with this one because it's kind of
and for this audience. Anything even remotely like this probably
in the rearview mirror, but nonetheless, this woman deserves some attention.
(04:20):
This she's a new mom. Okay, she's only six months
after her baby was born. She stopped. Have you read
or seen this? Will? I have not, so tell me
whether she's crazy or not. Six months after her baby
is born, she's running a sixty mile ultra marathon and
(04:43):
stops along the way. I don't know whether it was
a ten, twenty, thirty, forty fifty or whatever mile marker
to breastfeed and pause. I got to stop running for
a minute. Here, baby's hungry. That's an amazing feat, amazing
dedication to her own fit. But I'm pretty sure nobody
would fault her if she just gave her body a
(05:05):
break and maybe worked in a nap or something like that.
It's pretty awesome that she could do it. I'm not
sure I've ever been right to run sixty miles baby
or no baby. So you think she's crazy, will or
you think she's a devoted mom or a devoted or
a fitness fanatic or all of the above. I think
that's all right. Yeah, I think it's okay, it's not.
(05:29):
She certainly did the right thing by her child, and
I guess maybe six months is all it took her.
She was in good enough shape to run sixty miles
before giving birth. She probably was good enough in good
enough shape afterward to do it again. Maybe I don't know,
a month after she gave birth. Maybe she waited. Maybe
(05:51):
she waited six months just to make sure she'd be
ready to go. Anyway, more power to her. That's a
pretty special kind of fitness right there. These ultra marathons.
I'm in conversation now with a potential news sponsor whose
brothers and he will be riding. I want to say
(06:12):
from I don't know, it's about an it's an eighty
day bike ride for charity, okay. And they've been doing
this for several years and made some remarkable East to
west north to south here to there, and they have
the time and they have the resources to afford to
(06:33):
do this. And what I'm trying to do is get
the guy on board so that we can do either
daily or at least weekly updates as he and his
I think they're all brothers. Pedal bicycles across the country
again and across I mean a lot of ground. They're
(06:53):
going to cover this one, and it's gonna be pretty special,
all right, well from yesterday, I'm not gonna that one's wrong.
Better think twice. Guess what I'm doing or not that hard,
Better think twice. Consumer Reports will create a list of
(07:16):
the most dangerous foods in your refrigerator based on food
poisoning statistics. You ever had food poisoning like really bad,
like hospitalization bad? No? I haven't either, knock on wood
once again, I don't want it. I've recognized that I
ate something that might have been wrong more than once
(07:40):
in my life, as most of us have. But not
that bad anyway. The top ten, this one right off
the top, kind of surprised me. Deli meat, Now, I
get it if there's stuff growing on that meat, or
if you open the package and get a whiff and
it just like knocks you backward. You probably don't want
to put that between two slce is of bread. However,
(08:05):
Deli meat, I wouldn't think caused that many food poisoning issues.
You know what second on the list cucumbers. Cucumbers, Yeah,
that's what I said, with a question mark at the end. Cucumbers. Yeah,
something something happens to them. I guess in the refrigerator
that makes them better. It says here. Raw milk is
(08:26):
what does the guy these raw milk? You got a
cow in the backyard or what? Unpasteurized milk? I guess
can you buy that? I don't know. I don't think so.
I hope not. I would think that we're able to
pasteurize all of our milk. Now, eggs, eggs. According to
one of the guys here who's chickens lay the eggs
(08:48):
that he brings to work and distributes among co workers,
he doesn't even refrigerate them. They're just cool. They just
they just they just eat them up, eat them up.
I want to say it's like a week or something.
They're good. You could do that, do some research during
the break wheel and see how long eggs last without refrigeration.
You won't be able to get to that. Oh no,
(09:09):
we have to go now, don't we. Yes, Okay. The
other things on the list onions, leafy greens, and anything
with pre cooked meat in it. That's because you don't
cook it enough to get it fully cooked. And a
lot of those things come almost cooked because they know
you have to warm them up. Utls on aging. That'll
(09:30):
warm you up. It'll warm your heart to know that
you're being being treated at the UT. Well, it's not
at the place. It's a collaboration, a collaborative effort among
more than a thousand providers all over this region. Many
of them, most of them probably work in the med center,
where you would expect to find the best providers in
(09:51):
this region. They also work in outlying areas as well.
And what they have done is gone back and got
an additional training to what ever they got that earned
them the diploma on the wall, so that they would
know how to apply their expertise to seniors. I've talked
about them for quite some time, and I'll continue so
long as they'll let me. They do amazing things. The
(10:13):
website alone would be amazing enough, but they've recruited all
these hundreds upon hundreds of providers in every facet of medicine,
so that you and I and anybody else in our
age category can be seen by someone who understands us,
probably better than we understand ourselves. Go to the website,
look at all the resources. Find contacts for the people
(10:36):
you need to see to handle something that's bothering you.
As a senior Utch dot edu slash aging, utch dot
edu slash aging. What's life without a net? If I
suggest you to go to bed, leave it off.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Just wait until the show's over. Sleepy Back to Dougpike
as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
All right, welcome back to fifty plus. Thank you for listening.
I truly do appreciate it. Will let's kind of stick
with where we are for a minute, because the next
thing I do is going to be pretty long, and
I want to get to a couple of these, two
of which are from a day or two ago. First
of all, it was kind of something I wanted to
do to make people aware that there's this crazy ice
(11:21):
bucket challenge you've all heard of, but some knucklehead somewhere
decided and threw it on TikTok, and now too many
people are doing this to their dogs will their ice bucket,
challenging their dogs and just running up to the dog
and dumping a big bucket of cold water on them,
(11:43):
and that's not good for the dogs. A bunch of
veterinarians have kind of come out and said, look, this
is going to traumatize that dog. It's going to make
them trust you less. So how about we skip that one.
I can't even imagine anybody doing that to their dog,
can you. No, you have to be pretty stupid just
to do it to someone, you know, with their permission.
(12:04):
I'm not so sure that TikTok has been terribly good
thing for the world, and it's amazing. If you do
some research, you'll find that a lot of the goofy
things that we do over here that are on TikTok
aren't on TikTok in China. A whole lot of that
(12:27):
stuff doesn't ever make it doesn't ever make it to
the internet in China because they know better and they're
taking care of their own. But letting us be what
we are sometimes a little bit goofy in a win
for karma, thirteen year old girl in California, Now I
talk about this on the area. I don't think I did.
(12:48):
I don't think so, told some people in the office here.
I was thrilled to see that she beat the snot
out of a grown man who tried to attack her.
Just so happens. She's been taking jiu jitsu for three
years and is very good at it, and pretty much
he picked the wrong person to mess with and she
(13:10):
walloped him. As they say, I found this story on AI.
If you think that AI is going to be an
easy transformation for everybody and it's not going to be
that big a deal. Actually there were two stories. This
one an AI model threatened to blackmail its creators and
actually showed an ability to act deceptively. It says here,
(13:33):
when it believed it was going to be replaced. So
we've created a machine now that will blackmail you into
not turning it off. We'll threaten to expose something in
your past somewhere if you pull the plug on it.
(13:54):
What do you think of that will wow? To'll concern
you in the least. I don't use AI, so now
it does me. It really does. It's being used very commonly,
very readily, and for a lot of good and for
a little bit of bad. I think I did talk
about that, talk about those two robots that got in
a boxing match. That was sad. Yeah, it was really
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talked about.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Yeah, I know it's it wasn't interesting at all, believe
it or not. Well, yeah, I know you'd believe that.
Talked about that yesterday. Let me get back into some
of this other stuff too. By the way, from the
Alternative Broadcasting Desk, excuse me, NPR suing the Trump administer
administration because it plans to turn off public funding for
(14:38):
public radio and despite mp are producing nothing but left
wing stories for the past I don't know, twenty thirty years,
they somehow feel like they're entitled to tax dollars in
the name of free speech. Well, NPR is confusing free
speech with a free lunch to the tune of millions
upon millions of dollars that it uses to spread its
(15:03):
mostly radical ideas and propaganda around the country. And the
Constitution assures all of us that we can say what
we want to say, but it doesn't say that taxpayers
have to foot the bill.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
I don't care what they say. They have a right
to say it. But just like being where I am
and having a right to say what I want to say,
I'm not getting paid by the government. I'm not getting
paid by taxpayers. This is self supporting here, and I'm
glad I have the opportunity to share that kind of
(15:36):
stuff with you. MPR ar says it doesn't want to
waste listeners or viewers' time on stories that aren't true
or just distractions, But it conveniently doesn't say who gets
to decide what's real and what's not. And I'm pretty
sure MPR decided Hunter's laptop wasn't real and guess what. Well, unfortunately,
(15:57):
we've already funded NPR for the next two and a
half years. I think it is something like that, and
I mean a boatload of money too. But we don't
have to keep doing it, and it's time for that
left wing intended to pay its own way if it
wants to keep cherry picking its stories. Very quick examples
of what NPR put out. It claimed at one point
back in twenty twenty that park police up in Washington
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tear gas peaceful protesters to clear the way for a
photo op with President Trump that didn't happen. NPR also
said the Declaration of Independence is offensive, and it said
that more than once and that's not what free speech
(16:45):
is about it. They can say it, I just don't
want to pay them to say it. And I think
most of America that feels kind of the same way.
Speaking of the left all the way from the Sacramento
b desk comes new use more of it. I guess
that Democrats have lost favor with a substantial majority of Americans.
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Mostly these Americans are just weary of the Left and
it's continuous criticism of our president without any offerings of
solutions to what they perceive to be problems. They just
want to criticize him and think that's enough to gain support. Well,
a whole lot more people about what six seven, eight
(17:27):
months ago. A whole lot more people got to listening
to our president and realized that he actually had ideas
that actually are working, and the left is falling. ABC
Washington Post poll found that sixty nine percent of Americans
(17:48):
don't really like what's going on with the Democrat Party.
They don't trust them, they don't believe in them, and
their eyes are open. Now there's a great if you
look it up. Ronald Reagan told a great joke about
little kids selling kittens outside of a political convention years ago.
And look it up. It's pretty cute. It takes a
(18:08):
little time, and I don't want to. I don't want
to mess it up because he delivered it so perfectly.
But yeah, if you can find it, it'll be worth
it'll be worth listening to it, and it shouldn't be hard.
What would the search be? Will President Reagan? Kittens? That
would probably do it? What did I ask you to
look up a second ago? And did you?
Speaker 1 (18:31):
No?
Speaker 2 (18:31):
I didn't? Will why not? Pray? Tell? Tell I didn't
want to? Will you do it during the break? If
I remember what it was, I'll try to remember as well.
It may it must not have been terribly important, real quickly.
Will we're going we're gonna need more candles or police?
Say it ain't, so please say it ain't. Oh say
(18:54):
it twice? Will, Because you know what the new summer
trend is supposed to be. But you go to the
beach much, No, you go to swimming pools much, Well,
you're gonna you'll probably be spared from this. The new
summer trend could be straight guys in speedos. I think
anybody in a speedo either better be swimming in the
(19:16):
Olympics or some sort of a swim meet or wear
something over them that's I know, no, let's just not
do that. We'll take a little break here on the
way out. I'll tell you about a late health. A
late health is a vascular clinic where procedures are done
(19:36):
that alleviate problems that are caused by something that is
hurting us because it still has a blood supply, and
what they do essentially is shut it off. Now they
can either open or close vessels and veins and capillaries
and everything down to as fine a process as the
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diameter of a human hair and even smaller and the cases.
The procedure they do most often is called prostate embolization
for the guys in the audience, and what that does
is alleviate the symptoms of an enlarged, noncancerous prostate, which
are if you have those symptoms, if you're fifty five, sixty,
seventy eighty years old, you probably know what I'm talking about,
(20:20):
and it's not pleasant. But this procedure can stop that
by shutting off the blood site supply to the prostate,
and with as it shrinks, then the symptoms go away.
With that, same with firebirds and women, same with some headpains.
Same with ugly veins and other things. Many other things
they do there, which I actually interviewed doctor Doe about
(20:41):
a while back, and I learned a ton about so
much more that they do than what I just mentioned.
Go to the website look around. They also do regenerative
medicine too, and everything they do they do in house.
You don't get shipped off to a hospital somewhere where
you might drag something home you didn't have yesterday. A
late health Ala t e a layhealth dot com seven
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to one three five eight eight thirty eight eighty eight
seven one three five eight eight thirty eight eighty eight.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Yew.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
They sure don't make them like they used to.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
That's why every few months we wash them, check us fluids,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike fifty plus.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Thanks for listening. I'm dougies Will and uh we're here
pretty much every day. It seemed like I will not
every day. Well speak for yourself, I'm well, yeah, I'm here.
I'm in this building six days a week. And uh, man,
if I didn't like what I do, if I didn't
like talking to all of you guys and hearing back
(21:43):
from you and emails and talkbacks and whatnot. By the way,
that's the easiest thing. That's the easiest way to get
to me is either email or talk back. I don't like,
I don't want to get my cell phone number out
over the air, because that then there's going to be
somebody out there who who just wants to bother me,
And that just goes with the territory. I've been blessed
(22:05):
to not have too many people do that to me
because I don't get crazy in here. But I just
anyway Dug Pike at iHeartMedia dot com. And that goes
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interview idea, whether you want to become a part of
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I can handle that for you as well. You don't
(22:27):
have to deal with anybody else but in me. And
I'm really happy to have Al Kibbi on. I believe
he's gonna come on tomorrow. Will you got that email right? Yes, Yeah,
we're gonna talk to him tomorrow. He's the guy who
owns Cedar Cove RV Resort and I'm going to talk
to him tomorrow. Just to introduce him to you guys,
(22:48):
so you'll understand when I tell you more about what
they do over there, how it all happened, and what
he's trying to accomplish over there. I think that's important
when I get new clients, to kind of get him
on the air and talk to him and let all
of you know a little bit more about them. From
the Summertime, Oh, the callback thing. The button is on
(23:10):
the iHeartRadio app. You'll see it if you open the app,
and it will give you the opportunity to leave me
a message and I'll get it and I'll respond to it.
And if you've ever done that and not gotten a response,
let me know, because that means somebody in between hither
and Yon has not conveyed the message, and that's no good.
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From the Summertime Safety Desk comes the tragic story of
a nineteen year old man boy really a college aged kid.
I don't know what he did for a living or
whether he was still a student, but anyway, that young
man is presumed to have drowned Monday off Surfside Beach.
(23:56):
I'm kind of a safety sally. If you listen to
my outdoor show on the weekend, know that when we
talk boating safety and hunter safety and just outdoor safety
in general, and this time of year, it's important to
talk about being in the water anywhere along the coast,
anywhere really, lakes, rivers, bay, canal, pond, gulf, ocean, whatever.
(24:19):
Water will kill you as fast as anything. It doesn't
care how old you are, it doesn't care how fit
you are, it doesn't care how many people are going
to mourn your loss. But it's up to you to
know your own limitations, especially those of us who were
once incredible swimmers or surfers or whatever we spent. I
(24:39):
spent an in oordon amount of time in or near
the water all the way through early adulthood and even
into the middle of my adulthood. I love being around
the water. I like to fish in it. I surfed
in it every chance I got when I was younger,
and would still like to get back into that again.
Actually you name it. I was there, water, skin, all
(25:03):
of it, frozen water. I love snowboarding still. But you
have to know your limitations, and that's got to be
a part of every activity you plan, whether you're gonna
be in charge of younger people or not, especially for grandparents.
If you're gonna be in charge of kids around the water,
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don't let them get out any farther than you can
stand and walk out to them. Otherwise you may have
a hard time getting yourselves in them back. You got
to remind your kids and grandkids never to swim alone either.
Just go with at least one other person and steer clear, riptide,
steer clear rocks, resist temptation. For this is something you
(25:49):
kind of need to tell the younger adults like this
young man's nineteen year old. Don't find yourself becoming a
victim of some monkey sea monkey do challenge from the peers.
I was a very strong swimmer at one time, and
my friends and I used to challenge ourselves underwater, trying
(26:10):
to swim underwater, trying to stay underwater, all these things
that we did and got away with it, and jumping
off high things into the water. I was virtually fearless
and did a lot of things that in hindsight weren't
all that smart. But I was just lucky enough, and
just fit enough, and just capable enough to get it done.
(26:33):
I'm none of that anymore, and I know it. I
recognize that I still love the water I still love
everything that comes with it, but I'm also a realist,
and I know better to try stuff that I once
found really easy. And I'll be the first one to holler,
you kids get out of that pool if they're in
a big pool somewhere in eight or nine or ten
(26:57):
feet of water, because I know that I can't go
get them. I know that I can't go get them,
not safely anyway, not with the confidence I wanted lifeguarded
for several summers, and I had a lot of confidence
back then. Didn't bother me at all to think that
I might have to jump in and save somebody who
weighed more than me or was thrashing around or whatever.
(27:19):
And I was very fortunate not to have to do that.
But I was ready then. I'm not anymore. From the
Hit and Run Desk via MSN and multiple other sources,
now comes news that arrests were made in the tragic
death of an eighteen year old kayaker able More up
(27:41):
on Lake Grapevine this past weekend. Arrested were daykerln Alejandra
Gonzales Gonzales and Michael Coweyo Perozo, both said by an
Immigration and Customs Enforcement official to be illegal immigrants. Able
Moore was a candidate for entry into the US Air
(28:04):
Force Academy until she was allegedly run over in her
kayak by dakerln Alejandra Gonzales. Gonzales, both suspects crossed into
our country. This is what we know about them, at
least crossed in illegally during the past two years. That's
from a field director for ICE. They were arrested upon entry,
(28:27):
processed on a notice to appear, and then released freeze
birds like millions more who chose to enter our country
that way. They were arrested by the way in Dallas,
which is pretty close to Lake Grapevine. And apparently, hopefully, well,
I'd be a fool to think this will be the
(28:48):
last time that someone, some American who is on a
really good path dies at the hands of somebody who
shouldn't even be in our country. There's a lot of
talk right now about exactly who who was running the show,
and and even President Trump has come out and said
that it wasn't Biden who was letting all these people in.
(29:10):
He he didn't he wasn't aware of what was going on,
and and but somebody was, and somebody was pushing all
that stuff that that fell on him. There was a
lot of the responsibility and blame falls on him. Oh
already will Okay, we'll shut this one down. There's more
than enough information on the on the internet to find
(29:32):
on that if you're interested. And I have much to
cover when we get back on the way out, speaking
of al Kibbi, Cedar Cove RV resort over there in
Baytown down Tri City Beach Road, near Thompson's Bay Camp,
if you know where that is, and right there on
Galveston Bay where if you go over there and park
your camper, park your RV, bring your fishing rods with
(29:54):
you and just walk over the water and sling a
line and maybe catch fish. Who knows great place to
part your RV for a night, a week, or all
summer long. He's got a lot of people stay over
there when they come into town to do jobs where
they're going to be here for two weeks, three weeks,
six weeks whatever. They get an RV or if if
(30:16):
they don't have one, and then they come down and
park it over at Cedar Cove, so that instead of
having to swim in a hotel pool or instead of
having to to wake up and outlook out your window
at a parking lot, you can overlook Galveston Bay, which
is a way better deal. Cedar Cove's got concrete roads
(30:38):
and slabs. They've got electric water and sewer at every
site Wi Fi. They got a bathhouse for showers where
you can clean up without having to use up all
your water in your RV. All that plus some pretty
good fishing, like I mentioned when the tide in the
window right finally settling into some nice summer weather patterns too.
It's going to be really really fun to be over there.
(30:59):
I'm grab a fishing rod or two and head over
there myself sometime soon. It's a little ways out from
sugar Land, but man if I could stay there for
two weeks, that'd certainly be a good place to be.
Cedarcove Rvresort dot com. Go check it out Cedar Cove
Rvresort dot com.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Old Guy's rule, And of course, women never get old
if you want to avoid sleeping on the couch.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Okay, well, I think that sounds like a good plan.
Fifty plus continues. Here's more with Doug. We'll wrap it
up in this segment, segment four of the program. Those
of you keeping score at Home. From the I found
this interesting. It's from yesterday, but I didn't get to it,
so I'm going to get to it now. From the
(31:46):
government credit card desk. Well, you've heard that the government
has all these credit cards out there for all these
people who are doing crazy things with them. Correct, surely
know about that by now, my, oh my god. The America,
the US government has four point six million active credit cards,
(32:10):
and the charges that are being racked up on those
cards probably not anymore. But up until Doge started digging in,
were these things were being used for all kinds of
things that probably didn't fall under the umbrella of acceptable expenses.
And in fact, when Doze told some of these people
(32:34):
who have these cards that they could still be used
for certain things, certain acceptable things, these people only had
to show the receipts for the charges for them to
be paid, and suddenly they stopped making those charges. Among
the things that you and I have paid for that
(32:57):
were charged onto government credit cards New Year's Eve, tabs,
clubs and bars, and god knows what other establishments pay
per views sports events. We paid for that. Somebody sitting
around thinking, God, I'd love to watch that fight. I'd
(33:17):
love to watch that race or something. I'd love to
get the MLB package in my market. Well, you and
I footed the bill for that, and even cash withdraws
at casinos. What possible government purpose could be served by
making cash withdraws at casinos. That's where we were. It's
(33:45):
not where we are, but it's where we were, and
I'm glad we are not there any longer now. Cleaning house.
Cleaning a house that dirty is going to take a
lot of time, and it's underway. The cleaning crew have
shown up and they are sweeping out the trash as
fast as they can. It's just gonna take a little while.
(34:06):
From the education or in doctrination desk. By a Newsmax
comes word that President Trump's contemplated shifting some three billion
dollars in Harvard grant money to US trade schools, which
I don't think is a bad idea. Really. That university
runs pretty strongly on its own on something like a
sixty billion dollar endowment, and the President talks about holding
(34:29):
back those three billion because the university, in his opinion,
it continues to push initiatives and that are against the
way this country is headed right now and against the
executive order also and the fact that they still are
okay with on campus anti Israel protests. They're also thinking
(34:51):
about hiking taxes on that endowment and looking into potential
discrimination that the school against Asian, white may and straight employees.
That's kind of a twist, now, isn't it all? Right?
Enough of that, I'll move on. How much time I
had five minutes? Right, Well, we're in great shape from
(35:13):
the this is a good one. This is good news
from the anti viral research desk, which doesn't normally have
paper on it. Comes news at a nineteen year old
in small town Slovakia has won the world's largest pre
college science and engineering competition and the one hundred thousand
(35:34):
dollars it comes with first place. Adam Kvalcik invented a
means of producing galadesevere. The medical professionals in the audience
may know what that is. He's found a way to
produce it from corn husks, which normally just farm waste.
You shuck the corn. The machinery, the plowing or the
(35:57):
harvesting machinery shucks then and the ears go in one
ben and the shucks just fly out to the ground. Well,
galadesaveras used to treat RNA. It's used to treat ebola
and SARS and other very potent viruses. And his method
reduces the cost per gram to produce that key ingredient
(36:21):
from seventy five bucks per gram to twelve dollars per gram,
and it shortens production time from nine days to only five.
His presentation to the judges in this competition, it was
held here, I can't remember in what state, but it
was held in the United States. His presentation of the
(36:42):
judges was described by them as bulletproof. He had dotted
every eye, he had crossed every tee, He did his research,
and everything he presented to them was factual. Everything presented
was testable and lived up to the tests. And hats
off to him and anybody who needs Galadesevir got RNA,
(37:06):
you got well who hopefully this country of ours won't
see e bullet again anytime soon, all these other different
viruses that ingredient can treat and get you better faster.
I like that from the golf desk because it is
after all US Women's Open Week, that's the big story
in the golf war today. It kicked off this morning
(37:27):
at Aaron Hill's up in Wisconsin, I've actually played that
golf course. I've actually spent the night, spent a weekend
actually in the apartment over the pro shop there, and
even broadcasts live a couple of shows from up there
several years ago. It's an amazing golf course that was
in the middle of nowhere when it opened. Like so
(37:47):
many of our courses here, Aaron Hills is a special track,
though it's absolutely one hundred percent Links style, just on
an open praier. I don't know that there are half
a dozen trees, at least there weren't when I played
it so long long ago. Now maybe some of the
ones that were a little bitty then are bigger now,
and I'm sure that's the case. But mostly what you
have is fair way and then a second cut and
(38:10):
then waist high grass and if you hit it into
that stuff, you might be there a while. Even if
you find your ball, it might take you more than
one shot to try to get it out. I'm really
curious to see how the best women in the world,
the best golfers in the world, handle it. And it's short.
It'll be very challenging, as a US Open for anybody
(38:32):
should be. But man, it's gonna be tough, and it's
very short little history it's hosted. It hosted the two
thousand and eight US Women's Amateur Public Links. It hosted
the twenty eleven US Amateur Competition. It hosted the twenty
seventeen US Open, which brooks Kopka won, the twenty twenty
(38:54):
two US Mid Am, and now the Women's US Open,
which was one in twenty twenty four, by the way
by Ucusaso, who also won in twenty twenty one. And
they have I think four or five more major competitions
already scheduled for play on that golf course. I like it.
(39:14):
I haven't played Bandon Dunes, but I've seen it and
looked at it closely enough that I feel like I
can have an opinion on which I like best, and
it's it's Aaron Hills for me. It really is that
same trip we played a tournament, or not a tournament,
but around the golf and at two other courses actually
up there in Wisconsin, and by far and away, Aaron
(39:40):
Hills the best. We're gonna need more candles, will how
about this? If you could only die in sudden accidents
and not from disease or old age, it just took
a sudden accident to kill you. Guess what the average
age would be that we'd live to. Will twenty two
eight nine. In thirty eight years, we're gonna need more candles.
(40:02):
We're out of here. Thank you, Audios.
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