Friday Facts

Today, Doug Pike discusses ice breakers, Fall weather, and items that are forgotten while packing a suitcase.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Remember when it was impossible to misplace the TV remote
because you were the TV remote. Remember when music sounded
like this? Remember when social media was truly social?

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hey, John, how's it going today? Well, this show is
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happier life.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
And now fifty plus with Doug Pike. All right, here
we go. Welcome to fifty plus again, and thanks as
always for the chance to entertain you, maybe share a
few things you didn't know already? Who knows that usually happens,
by the way, in interviews with really smart people, which
I've done, I don't know well in excess of a

(01:04):
thousand of over the course of this show. In any event,
appears now that we're kind of transitioning really and legitimately
from summer to fall. Still a little early to dig
out the windbreakers, and way too early for hats and
coats and gloves and handwarmers. I actually use handwarmers for
more than just that. And when we get a free

(01:27):
I don't know how I got off on this quick sidebar,
but I will. So during a freeze, everybody's got those
little covers over their spigots outside. Sometimes if it's really
really cold, that styrofoam cap you put on the thing
doesn't really do its job, and things have frozen at

(01:47):
the house, but maybe not all the way up into
the house where it could be a problem with the pipe.
So what I do, and when one of those gets
stuck somehow is take a handwarmer, shake it up for
a minute or two, and then walk out and rubber
band it to where it's riding beneath, kind of like
a saddle for that exposed pipe. And then I'll go

(02:11):
ahead and go ahead and open the faucet. There's ice
behind it not letting water flow out, but I'll open
that faucet and not put the cap back on it.
That's kind of important because if you do, what's gonna
happen is when that water starts flowing, it's just gonna
be making one heck of a racket, well worse than
it worse than it will if you don't cover it.

(02:33):
But in any event, it it usually takes maybe five
to six or seven minutes tops for everything to be
humming along again. I've actually used that inside as well,
when a little quarter inch toilet line froze inside the
house and I just covered it with one of those
and magic happened and we got out of there without

(02:54):
having to call a plumber. So, yeah, it's coming. It's
still way too early, like I said, to pull out
the mittens and all of that stuff, but at least
you might it just just at the very least. It'll
be welcome too. You'll start to feel a slight difference
in the temperatures, especially at dawn and even at dusk

(03:14):
if it's not raining. We're going to have some of
that coming up here as well, as we always do
this time of year. It's been a little bit dry.
It'll all balance out though, if you just give it time.
Even droughts have been remedied by floods, and it just
it's a back and forth. It's a give and take,
and it all comes out in the wash. That's an
old saying. Well you've heard that expression before, correct it

(03:37):
all comes Yeah, Okay, I figured as much, So I'll
tell you where we'll realize it most probably as the
transition occurs and that's in our electricity bills. I've seen
some complaints lately on that neighborhood app about high electric
bills and somebody was paying X number of dollars which
was twice as much as what they were paying for

(03:58):
the how they'll just gribe their house. And the people
who who publish the square footage of their house, I
always I think are trying to brag a little bit
because it's usually a fairly a little bit bigger than
average home, and they're whining about their electricity bills, and
I just can't help but think that they haven't shot

(04:20):
their rates and might be paying more than the rest
of us per kilawatt hour. Just check your bill. If
you think your rate's too high, check your bill, then
go online and shop for a better deal. And I'm
not this isn't a commercial for anybody. It's just it's
so easy in this state of ours to switch electric providers.
Just call the new company, go online, find the one

(04:42):
that seems to be the best deal for you. Some
of them offer one year rates, some of them two years,
maybe three years guaranteed, and then make sure there's no
extra charges that you don't want to have to deal with.
With you don't want sticker shock when the first bill
shows up, then call the that company and say, hey,
I want to switch over to your company. And that's

(05:04):
pretty much all you have to do. They just just
tell them what you want and then they'll handle changing
you over from the former provider to the new provider.
Marcus pretty quiet this morning after yesterday's decent jump, and
that's just what the last jump it had. Anyway, it
was a while back I was kind of thinking there

(05:27):
would be some profit grabbing going on this and for days,
really some of what I expected really didn't happen. We've
got that interest rate drop. That's gonna help. I think
in the long run, there'll be another one before the
end of the year. Moving forward here, let me you know,
I'm going to kind of bounce back and forth between

(05:49):
the tough stuff and the easy stuff. There's something I
didn't get to a while back, and I'm getting to
it now though. There's video of a guy in the
Delta Sky Club in an airport in Palm Beach who
is absolutely melting down because it's hilarious. This guy's just

(06:11):
such a whiny baby. He didn't have proper membership and
was refusing to follow the rules, which pretty much got
him thrown out. And I just don't understand why people
are so intense, why they snap for such petty little things,

(06:32):
not a big deal if you're not supposed to be
in the Delta Delta Sky Club in Palm Beach. I've
bit of that airport. By the way, it's small. I
think there are probably there are probably lounges for major
airliners or major airlines that are not a whole lot
smaller than the Palm Beach Airport. But he was whining,

(06:56):
and then he got boosted into the news from Boston.
Two people arrested during a Thursday night visual for Charlie
Clerk for Charlie Kirk, and hundreds of people there gathered
in his honor. Two idiot dudes, one thirty eight, the
other a juvenile, actually stir the pot to a point
that handcuffs became necessary to finish the dish. There were

(07:16):
more protesters on hands, separated from conservatives by a metal
barrier and a strong police presence, and they were noisy,
but to their credit, they didn't start throwing things. They
didn't try to breach the barricades. Now that said, it
may have changed, had there been no barricades and had
there been no law enforcement. But again, to their credit,

(07:40):
they just shouted a little bit and said their side
and let the vigil go on. Maybe there is some
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(09:04):
go to bed, sleep it off.

Speaker 1 (09:06):
Just wait until the show's over, sleepy. Back to Doug
Pike as fifty plus continues.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
All right, welcome back, fifty plus second segment starts. Now,
thank you all for allowing us this intrusion into your
lunch hour. I do have one I may issue a
warning will when I get to this one story about
about it being lunch hour and this being a sensitive

(09:33):
story that might upset I may even not do this story.
I might just go that way. In any event, well,
let's move forward, shall we. By the way, country music
star Bratley Gilbert, he's a guy of very strong faith,
as was Charlie Kirk. He said that he actually said
this week what a lot of people are probably feeling
silently when he shared that he's wrestling now with his faith,

(09:55):
wrestling with trying to show grace after Kirk's murder, and
the at his anger level is still really high. And
I've heard lots of people express anger over these recently
politically motivated killings. It's hard sometimes to shake that deep
seated anger over something so senseless and so inhuman. And

(10:18):
a lot of people are just finding themselves really close
to a point at which that anger is not going
to stay dormant inside them for much longer. And well,
Gilbert said this, and I quote, I know my belief
in Christianity encourages me to show love and show that
to my brothers and sisters. And I'm having a hard
time with that right now. And quote, a lot of

(10:42):
people are. It's going to take some time. It's going
to take a lot of time to reconcile this somehow.
His funeral, By the way, Charlie Kirk's funeral sept for
Sunday at State Farm Stadium up or out in not
up in Glendale, Arizona. President Trump, Vice President vans Erica,
and a whole lot of other people are scheduled to

(11:03):
speak at that service. Something to consider through all of this,
lots of people were outwardly excited that a young family
man was executed in front of thousands of people just
for trying to bring together people who think differently, trying
to get them to exchange ideas, to have a conversation.

(11:25):
But they're outraged that a TV host whose audience had
disappeared and was costing his network about forty million dollars
or so a year. They're outraged that he was fired
over a justifiable business decision. The end for him, the

(11:47):
sudden shut down of his show came after he said
some insensitive stuff, but he was already on the way out.
Don't forget that that decision was made months ago and
he just had a few months left. I guess to
write out maybe a current agreement or whatever, but it's
not going to make it to that. Speaking of country music,

(12:08):
Alexis Wilkins, I'm not familiar with her work, but says
she's a country music star and I believe it. Recently
refused to remove the American flag from her Instagram bio.
That from a Fox News story today, and her refusal
inspired her, she said, to speak out about her conservative values,
which has been something a lot of conservatives have had

(12:31):
quite a bit of trouble doing over the past four
or five years, for fear of retribution, for fear of cancellation,
for fear that somebody at work would be offended. And
it's just a viewpoint and it's no more or less
right or wrong than someone else's viewpoint in this country

(12:52):
with freedom of speech and whatnot. In anyway, she said
she wasn't terribly outspoken about politics before or college, but
an experience there actually changed her. She was given an
F she said in a class that for years she'd
only gotten a's in and it was all because of
her politics. Because the professor's way of telling her that

(13:17):
she should accept his indoctrination, and there were details about
what the class involved and what she was asked to
do that pretty much say as much, and she just refused,
So he decided to give her an F after being
told that she also needed to remove the American flag,
the American flag from her Instagram bio to move her

(13:41):
career forward. That's what she was told she had to do.
That was just a line of the sand that we
all have to face in life. I guess industry people
told her that was partisan to have that flag there. Again,
just she even told him it was ridiculous. The American
flag represents all Americans. That's what far left I think
has kind of come to forget. They're trying desperately to

(14:04):
reinvent our country and eliminate any traces of it. Our
flags got. It's kind of really irritate them. I can't
understand any other reason why that type of thing would
be so offensive. If it's the country, is the country.
And for now, at least, we're hoping that maybe some

(14:25):
of this tragedy will bring upon it, bring a little
bit more, a little wider eyes, a little more opportunity
for some people to close their mouths and listen, and
that that happens on both sides. The exchanges between liberals
and conservatives sometimes get pretty loud, but if you look

(14:48):
at all the videos, you'll see that there's room to
quiet down sometimes on both sides. The violence part, I
can't remember the last time anybody on the left was
beat up or worse by somebody on the right just

(15:09):
because of their viewpoints. I've disagreed with a lot of people.
Will and I disagree on a lot of things. But
he's never threatened me, and I've never threatened him, and
I never will. That's just not my way, and I'm
pretty sure Will would not wish me harm, even though
we don't think alike on everything? Is that true? Will
you don't? You don't? You don't have some plot against me?
Do you? What's with the shaky hand? Dude? What's that?

(15:33):
That's a didn't? I'm not sure I trust that? Smile?
Will holy cow man, can you try to tell me something?
I hope not. Okay, we'll just go on with that.
We'll go on with it. Our flag, though it inspires
a lot more people than a noise, and that's encouraging.
It really is, it, really is. I came in here

(15:55):
again without a pen. Wait a minute, let me see
if the one I stashed in here? Oh no, but
he got to this one. Will I've been trying to
figure out who steals my pens out of here, because
I'll bring them in and leave them in a specific place.
I had one good hiding place, one very good hiding place,
and somebody found it and I lost two pens from

(16:15):
the same hiding place. So I changed it, and so
far it worked. I'll put this one right back where
it was today and see if it makes it through
the weekend. For anybody keeping score at home. By the way,
on either side of the aisle, the four Republican representatives
who voted alongside all of the Democrats to not formally
since your Representative Ilhan Omar for her insensitive remarks this

(16:38):
past week. They were Mike Flood from Nebraska, Jeff Heard
from Colorado, Tim mcclintalk of California, and Corey Mills of Florida.
By the way, I've got a good California story coming
up in a little while, and I'm pretty sure I'll
have room for it. In fact, i'll make room for
it before the end of the program, and it will
be quite interesting what gas Newsome in his crowd suddenly

(17:02):
have decided to do to try to hold onto. However,
many people still live in that state, that mess hole
that it is. It it is a hot mess too,
or you could. You can't count the you can't count
all the reasons California is a hot mess on one hand,
or even two. It's gonna take fingers and toes, I
think to even come close there is Let's see, who

(17:25):
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Speaker 1 (19:27):
This is fifty plus with Doug Pike.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
Come back to fifty plus. Thank you for listening. Certainly,
do appreciate it. Uh man. I promised, I promised, will something,
and I'm gonna deliver it right now. Will. This is
a conversation starter for you. If you're watching you, well,
you're not going to be at a football party this weekend?
Are you? Are you going to be at any sort
of social gathering? So just you and your girlfriend just

(19:52):
chilling on the couch, watching television or scrolling social media.
Watching TV. Okay, you have shows that you guys like
binge watch and all that, like young people do. Yeah,
if you get behind you binge watch to catch up.
I understand that Grant, our guy over there on the

(20:14):
on the sales side, does the same thing. And there
are other people y'all's age who do the same. I'm
just kind of I'm stuck in a rough. My son
doesn't watch TV at all, almost almost none, almost no
TV for him, almost none for my wife. Uh. But
so I'm just sitting up there watching Astros and Texans

(20:35):
and Rockets and golf Ryder Cup next week by the way,
up at Bethpage Black. I have a friend who lives
probably within about seven iron distance of that golf course,
and he said it gets kind of crazy up there
when that's going on, kind of crazy. So anyway, this
this ice breaker I have for you. You just throw it,

(20:56):
throw it onto your throw it at your girlfriend and
see what she thinks of it. It's a pre interesting
fact about the calendar, and that fact is this April
the fourth, June, the sixth, August the eighth, October the tenth,

(21:18):
and December the twelfth will all fall on the same
day of the week always hright brows up. That means
that is somewhat impressive. Would you say, I would think so,
that's a pretty I would never have guessed that. I
would never maybe one or two days a year, but

(21:40):
for those five dates to always fall on the same
day of the year or the same day of the week,
that's pretty impressive. It's pretty impressive. Back to the rough
and tumble stuff our former vice president back in the
New sort of kind of I guess and I'm not
sure why, but in that book of hers one hundred
and seven Days, former VP Kala Harris wrote that, quote,

(22:04):
I had no idea. I just pulled the pen on
a hand grenade. End quote. When if you don't know why.
She was on the View one day talking back and
forth and she was asked if she would have done
things differently than President Biden and what those things would be,

(22:26):
and her response was, quote, nothing comes to mind. And
I actually when I saw that, when I heard it,
I thought, oh my goodness, Really she wouldn't have changed
the thing. And in fact, she doubled down on the
blunder by saying that she'd been part of most of
that administration's impactful decisions In the book, she reveals that

(22:52):
her staff just shuddered at what they called pretty much
a gift handed to now President again Trump. In local
news from Clique to Houston, when a bad guy gets
caught and gets in trouble and goes to jail, I
think that's how that all should happen. And has proven guilty,

(23:16):
of course, at a court of law. Twenty one year
old guy pleaded guilty recently to two counts of aiding
and a betting robbery, two counts of aiding and a betting,
the brandishing of a firearm, and he has been sentenced
now to twenty years almost twenty years, not quite, it's
about two hundred and thirty something months, which is by

(23:38):
the time he gets anywhere near there, if he does,
if he stays in that long, it won't make much difference.
He and three former classmates, high school classmates, these guys
only twenty one. He hadn't been out of high school
that long. But he and three of his classmates, two
of whom already have been sentenced also connection to those robberies.

(24:01):
We're stealing from smoke shops and liquor stores, and man,
if that's just and I've talked to my buddy who
used to be an HPD homicide detective enough times to
know that that's just a drop in the bucket. This
goes on every day. He told me when I asked
him a while back, a half a minute or a

(24:22):
minute and a half, half a minute. He told me
a long time ago when I asked him how many
how often criminals get away with stuff when they get
let's say they've been caught five times, how many crimes
they committee? He said, it's just astronomical. That's their job.
When they get When I get up, I come in
here and work. When Will gets up, he comes in
here and works. When they get up, they go to stealing.

(24:45):
And Robin, that's their work, champions. Tree Preservation's work is
to make sure, if at all possible, that they saved
the beautiful trees in your yard. They're arborists. That would
be the father and son team of the Costellanos boys.
Let's just call them that. Robin and Man, I'm gonna

(25:07):
get in such trouble with Will or with rob Logan.
Oh god right, I'll remember it in a second. Irwin, Oh,
thank god. Erwin Castellanos and Robin Castalanos they'll come to
your house one at a time, or one or the other,
both of them highly qualified to tell you what's wrong
with your trees. I couldn't I couldn't stop. I couldn't

(25:27):
keep going without remembering Irwin's name. I felt so terrible.
It happens when you're old. In any event. What they
will do is come out there and diagnose your trees,
make sure that they're healthy, and let you know how
to keep them healthy. And then if they need feeding,
if they need pruning, if they need big limbs lopped
off or whatever, or when a robin, will send a

(25:50):
crew to your house to make sure that job gets
done right. They own all their equipment. It's all up
on the north side of town, up there in the
Champions area, all up there, and the crews start from there.
Every morning they come pick up the trucks, the cranes,
the lifts, whatever it is they need to take care
of a tree removal. That's where they really need the

(26:12):
big stuff, and they'll come to your house and do
that as well. If they can't save that tree. The
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it through storm season, but they can make it through
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Speaker 1 (27:03):
That's why every few months we wash him, check his fluids,
and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This is
fifty plus with Doug Pike. Fifty plus. Fourth and final
segments starts right now. Got rid of the groundhog days
saying I thought that was very interesting and it actually
got a raised pair of eyebrows and a brief but

(27:25):
visible smile from producer Will Melbourne. Let's see, let's go
over here, see what's going on. That's okay, that's okay.

Speaker 2 (27:34):
By the way, I found this very interesting. I saw
a story this morning. There's a theory being circulated now
by researchers at the University of Maine that humanity, the
human race, is undergoing a first ever shift in evolution
from an historically genetic base to one also influenced quite

(27:58):
heavily actually by culture. Not just genetics shaping our future,
but culture. The study suggests that the introduction of modern technologies,
some simple things like eyeglasses, caesarean section, deliveries, fertility treatments,

(28:19):
all of those enable more people to override conditions that
once kept them from reproduction or with glasses, just the
ability to survive. People who had poor eyesight tended to
be easier targets for predators way way way back in

(28:39):
humanities past, and research shows that this cultural evolution is
far outpacing any chance of genetic evolution keeping up. It's
really interesting to think about that as humans, we're becoming
more group oriented, more dependent on each other, and the

(29:01):
same thing has happened historically with much smaller species than ours,
and even some that are more or less the same
size but with much smaller brains. What came to mind
first for me were ants and bees. Ants live in
huge colonies. They work together to protect their queen, to

(29:23):
bring back food to the ants that are taking care
of building their mounds and underground tunnels and safe refuge
from the elements and any predators. I'm not sure how
many predators fire ants have. I wish they had more.
I can tell you that though. The bottom line is
they and the bees bees bees communicate remarkably well on

(29:47):
a level that really is fascinating considering their tiny size.
But nonetheless, all of this is now believed to be
possible with humans and occurring right before our very eyes.
Stop and think about it. Not a whole lot of
people live alone off the grid. Not a whole lot

(30:10):
of people can survive that way. More and more we're
relying on other people for pretty much everything. We have.
Everything we have, and there are very few animals really
live otherwise when you stop and think about it. Flocks
of birds, schools of fish, those are all those are
all genetic imprints because they still don't have the thought

(30:38):
power to do some of the things we do. Okay,
I'm gonna leave off the one that I thought might
bother people during the lunch hour. I'll just you know what,
I'm going to put a big axe through that I
don't even want to talk about that. It's pretty nasty
out in California. I found this pretty predictable. Governor Gavin

(30:58):
Newsom scrambling to stop more oil companies from saying enough's
enough and bailing out of his state. He is burdened
with trying to find a way to keep these people
there and trying to reduce the restrictions that they have
dealt with for so many years now that cause them

(31:19):
to leave. With a state government that continues to push
green energy or an enormous state debt, and California seeing
its population plummet, seeing its property values go down, and
all of that means less and less revenue for the
great state of California to carry on its business. And

(31:42):
lots of the people who are leaving are in the
oil and gas industry. So Newsom, who by the way,
in the likely affront runner for Democrats in the next
presidential election, he is all but groveling at the feet
of oil producers to stop this exodus. State legislators actually
have they introduced a bill that they hope will keep
these folks around, and it would open up a big deal.

(32:06):
It's going to open up as many as three thousand
drilling permits annually through the next decade. But that may
be too little, too late. It's pretty clear that Newsom
and his crew are just trying to bribe the industry
into hanging around and continuing to fund a state in
which after the election, they'll probably go right back to
being made These oil and gas people, they'll go right

(32:29):
back to being made to feel unwelcome, made to feel
like they have to do all the changing to I
don't know what reason Newsom has for wanting to be
remembered as the guy who destroyed California, but he's working
toward it. A whole lot of all the majority, well
not all of the major cities. I won't say that.

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Many of the big cities in California now have been
pretty much handed over to the homeless and to drug
addicts and people who aren't contributing. There are regulations in
some cities where if somebody puts a ten up in
your front yard, you can't tell them to leave. It's
just outrageous. Gasoline four dollars and sixty six cents a gallon,

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four sixty six that's the highest average in the country,
and the cost of living's just through the roof. Oil
executives are just they're too smart to get lured into
this trap. There's no way that all of those those
gifts he's trying to hand them will be long term
and especially well, he's just trying to feather his own nests.

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That's all he's doing, and it's not gonna work. That
ness is so messed up now, I don't think anybody
will stick around there much longer. True confession time, and
I'm gonna have to raise my hand. After I finished
reading this little list, it's very short. Top things we
forget when packing for a trip include medication phone chargers
or laptop chargers or whatever, just chargers, contact lenses, I

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wear context there's no way I'm leaving home without them.
And underwear. How could you pack for a trip and
not pack underwear. That's what's first. I packed that first
could be a lot easill, just for just for all
the obvious reasons. Packed that my toilet trees. I packed
socks and underwear first, Then come shirts and shorts, then

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pants if I'm gonna need them, then any kind of
overwear that I might need. Most recently, during my little
staycation two weeks ago, when I went to spend the
night one one night down in Freeport to do a
lot of fishing in an afternoon and an early morning,
I forgot the charger for my phone. Now I had,

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I actually had a charger cord in the car, but
I didn't have an adapter. And I was kind of
joking with my friend Faux Pro, who was down there
fishing with me, said man, I need one of those.
Don't want to pay eight bucks. And that's exactly what
I ended paying for it. That's it for us. Thank
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